The New Paper, 23 March 1996

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  • Title Section
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    12 1 the new paper SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1996 MITA (P) 024/04/95 60 CENTS
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    Lock icon What is this place?
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Make peace with China
      281 2 US URGES TAIWAN'S PRESIDENT LEE THE United States has urged President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan to make peace with China. Mr Lee is expected to be re-elected today in the presidential polls on the island. Clinton administration officials want him to launch a diplomatic overture aimed
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      Lock icon Historic polls open
      135 2 Wire services. POLLS opened this morning for Taiwan's first direct presidential election. "This is a historic day. This is the first time in the history of the Chinese people that we will vote for our president," said one elderly man outside a polling booth in central Taipei.
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      Win Toy Story watch
      78 2 ANSWER a simple question and you could be one of 20 readers to win a Swiss-made Toy Story watch. The film features the adventures of Woody the cowboy (featuring Tom Hanks' voice) and space ranger Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen's voice). The question: Who is the voice
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      193 2 Leisure index Weekender: Pages 23-35 TV: Pages 42 43 Comics: Pages 44 45 \Jt\ ft Call us. Hotline PliiW ""*****55 THE EXECUTIVE LOOK OF THE 90's HOW TO CULTIVATE THAT LOOK OF SUCCESS Working your way to the top can take its toll on your complexion. And show on your
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Teaching. Q: What does GPC(Education) Chairman Ong Chit chung think of changes? A: Teaching will be a top job.
      224 4 HOT STORY THE changes made to the teaching service will turn it into one of the top professions in Singapore, said Government Parliamentary Committee (Education) Chairman Ong Chit Chung. "I have
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      DOW JONES
      15 4 The Dow Jones industrial average gained 9.76 points to finish at 5,636.64 yesterday.
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      HEADLINERS
      71 4 The Straits Times: SS Candidates confident on eve of Taiwan poll Business Times: The going gets tough for forex dealers in S'pore Lianhe Zaobao: SM Lee leaves hospital yesterday and will shift to 'lower gear'. Berita Harian: SM Lee tries to change gear' for health sake RCS morning news:
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        Fewer drug addicts
        73 4 MALAY community organisations had played a large part in reducing the numbers of Malay drug addicts, President Ong Teng Cheong said last night. t Speaking at a Singapore Muslim Missionary Society (Jamiyah) dinner he noted that last year 521 addicts were caught compared to 822 in 1994.
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        Feedback unit
        69 4 OPPOSITION groups Singapore Democratic Party and Singapore Malay National Organisation have formed a research team together which will operate a feedback unit. Their aim, according to team head lawyer S. Kunalen, is to gather ideas from the public on housing, health, education etc, and to provide the public
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        Suharto's commitment
        62 4 INDONESIA will continue economic deregulation and cutting red tape to improve efficiency and competitiveness President Suharto said yesterday. Mr Suharto said there was a need to scrap unnecessary "bureaucratic obstacles". His statement came after analysts there said new rulings showed there was no commitment to deregulations and new
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        New Thai senate
        73 4 THE armed forces will have less influence in Thailand's government following the appointment of a new 260-member senate by Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa. The number of military officers in the Senate is reduced and the Prime Minister is now the first elected premier to control both the
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        Daim hits out at greed
        95 4 Views that are good should be accepted and those that are not, rejected. When corruption is mentioned, some people get angry, as if it is wrong to raise this matter... Corruption has spread so clearly in society and there are no signs yet that it
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon To catch a shooting star
      428 5 Comet Hyakutake was discovered on Jan 31 by a Japanese, Mr Yuji Hyakutake, who looks at stars for a hobby. CHAN SEET FUN speaks to a local star-gazer who captured the comet on film from his special rooftop hangout WHEN the sun goes down, Dr
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      WATCHING THE COMET GO BY
      105 5 THE Singapore Science Centre and the Astronomical Society of Singapore organised a Special Midnight Watch last night. Members of the public were invited to view the Comet Hyakutake through telescopes set up at the observatory grounds of the Omni-theatre in Jurong Town Hall Road. Hyakutake
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Hit with parang for kissing girl
      310 6  -  By Alethea Lim ANGRY at seeing a girlfriend kissed in a karaoke lounge, two men went to get a parang. They used it to attack a group of 10 and fractured the skull of Mr Chua Sze Beng, who had kissed the girl. He
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      WIN PRIZES IN OUR OSCAR CONTEST
      149 6 WILL it be a Babe-fest, or will The Postman deliver? If you can make Sense of the Oscars, predict the top winners and win fabulous prizes. Call The New Paper Infoline, 1900-914-0002, before midnight on Monday and record your tips for: Best Picture Best
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      221 6 AN INVESTMENT IN HuJbtf. I WALK FOR Km m I WHAT EVERY DIABETIC YOUR LIFE HTi &lt; SHOULD KNOW Z Whatever your activity booWeG 2 leve1,youcanfinda I 00^t0contro dabetes 'Wl I Programme with medication, exercise and \l e suitable f° r y° u 1 meal planning, and posters on LK
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      MPs who did not get their say
      92 8  -  By Yvonne Lim AND now, for the questions you never got to hear in the Budget debate. After a marathon 50 hours of debate spread over nine days, with a record 417 cuts (topics) raised, Parliament finally passed the 1996 Budget on Thursday.
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      TRAFFIC JAMS
      93 8 Mr Imram Mohamad, NMP: Proposed ways to ease traffic congestion on the PIE: Put up traffic lights at bottleneck eqtrypoints, such as the slip-roads from Aljunied and Paya Lebar. As in the United States, the lights could control traffic flow on to the expressway at peak hour for
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      CAUSE OF LEAKS IN CTE TUNNELS
      94 8 Mr Low Thia Khiang (Hougang): He had two cuts. What are the findings of the $1.3 million study into the cause of leaks in the CTG tunnels. Initial investigations were due to have been completed last month. He also wondered why the long- running
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      RESIDENTS ON THE MOVE
      82 8 Mr Goh Choon King (right, Braddell Heights): He wanted to know when the multitier traffic interchanges at two junctions along Upper Serangoon Road would be built. These were proposed in the LTA's White Paper. Some 40 of his constituents will have their properties acquired. Recently, their
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      MORE COE IDEAS
      145 8 Mr Cheo Chai Chen (right Nee Soon Central): Had three suggestions on COEs Allow owners to keep their cars for 20 years instead of 10, before having to pay a Prevailing Quota Premium (PQP, a 12-month moving average of COE prices). This will ease the burden on
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      That's more than enough
      168 8 "ORDER, it's guillotine time." These powerful words cut off even ministers in mid-sentence. They were wielded by Speaker Tan Soo Khoon and his deputy, Mr Eugene Yap, over the past two weeks to keep the debate within a strict timetable. Each ministry is allotted a certain
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      Good prospects but rising crime
      160 9 YOUNG SINGAPOREANS YOUNG Singaporeans are doing well in studies and getting good job opportunities. But crime among them, girls especially, is rising. That's why Minister for National Development Lim Hng Kiang is "cautiously optimistic" about the young. He says this in a speech he is
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      NATIONAL YOUTH COUNCIL
      43 9 It works with youth groups, educational institutions and government and private organisations for a better future for Singaporeans. It has: National Youth Centre in Somerset Road Youth Park being built next to the centre Both are open to youth groups.
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      Lock icon Chance to see places differently
      323 10  -  By Sandra Davie TRIPS to Malaysia that's what principal Koh Poh Kwang plans for his visually-disabled students once his school receives the new Edusave grant that the Government has promised (see other report). It may sound like an extravagant way to spend the $2,750 yearly
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      GRANTS AND FUNDS
      187 10 Aim of Edusave: To give children equal opportunity in school by helping them pay for enrichment programmes. On Thursday, the Government announced that the Edusave scheme would be extended to junior colleges, centralised institutes, institutes of technical education, independent and special education schools. Edusave grants: First given
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      Bus driver couldn't take girl to police
      271 11  -  Double-deckers can't use certain roads By Tan Chye Luan EVEN if you are in trouble on a double-decker SBS bus, the bus driver may not be able to take you to the nearest police post. That's because the height of double-decker buses prevents
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      Stranger snipped off her hair
      132 11 ON Wednesday, Temasek Polytechnic student SW Lee took a nap on the upper deck of SBS 22, only to wake up and find out that a lock of her hair had been cut off by a stranger. The man had moved from the back of
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      Lock icon Here's the hole he left
      373 12 A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) parachutist crashed through the roof of a computer schoohat Yishun Avenue 5 yesterday. JILL LIM speaks to the man who received this unexpected visitor OUT of the blue, a man falls from the sky. He smashes through the tiled roof,
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      MINDEF SAYS
      104 12 DURING a routine parachute jump this afternoon, a regular SAF serviceman encountered a partial malfunction of his parachute which caused him to drift 1.5 km from where he was scheduled to land. The serviceman landed on the roof of a four-storey HDB block at Yishun Avenue 5. No
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      DAMAGE TO THE CEILING
      124 12 MR Cheo said that SAF officials told him he would be compensated. He said the roof and ceiling would be repaired by HDB and the Town Council. The hole in the ceiling was boarded up by 7 pm. Said Mr Cheo: "After the officials left, at
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      The big jam at Bishan MRT
      448 14 The MRT services were disrupted yesterday morning. CRISPIN A ROBERT describes the chaos THE first sign of trouble was the unusually crowded south-bound platform (heading towards Orchard) at 9 am. At that time, the public address system at Bishan announced that that there was
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      WHAT WENT WRONG
      144 14 THE MRT train service was disrupted because of a point failure near the Bishan station. Points on railway tracks allow trains to be switched from one track to another. When a failure occurs, "the cross-over points have to be secured manually by the station staff, causing the
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      1182 15 The exciting world of the Air Force now offers you rewarding career opportunities as Air Defence Weapons Specialist (ADWS) You hold the special task an Officer or a Specialist. If you have the talent, the drive and the determination, then of protecting our national airspace. Of course, you'll be equipped
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Ban on beef from Britain
      356 16  -  The scientific name for Mad Cow Disease is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). BSE was first reported in Bhtain in the 80s. The fatal brain disease in humans linked to it is CreutzfekftJakob Disease (CJD). CJD destroys nerve cells in the brain causing dementia, incapacity and
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      SCOT BEEF OUT
      76 16 ONE company which im- ported beef from Scotland stopped doing so two weeks ago. But it is price, not fear of contaminated beef, that stopped Nor-Scan Marketing from bringing in prime Black Angus beef from Scotland. Its managing director, Ms Ng Poh Choo, 45, said: "Fewer and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon ADOPTION TRIANGLE
      468 19  -  When contacted yesterday, MCD declined to comment on yesterday's meeting. By Michelle Ang A LITTLE girl, three-year-old Esther, is caught in the middle of an adoption muddle involving three parties. They are: The girl's natural mother. A childless couple, Mr and Mrs Ivan Lim, who had been taking
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      IVAN LIM'S FAMILY SAYS
      289 19 RECALLING how they got Esther, Mr Ivan Lim said the baby's mother asked if they wanted her child. "We cannot have children, so we said yes," he said. Mr Lim, 40, a lorry driver, and his wife, 39, were both working then. Sc Mr Lim's mother
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      'It's a question of accepting the limitations of age, or ageing'
      636 20  -  SM OUT OF HOSPITAL: ADJUSTING TO PHYSICAL CHANGE Chances of artery re-narrowing after stent: 10 per cent. After six months, the chances fall to less than two per cent. By Irene Ng FOR the next two months, Senior Minister
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      Lock icon SM's medical diary
      347 20 JAN 20 GOES through balloon angioplasty to open up two blockages along an artery. (One is a7O per cent blockage, the other about 90 per cent. They are along Mr Lee Kuan Yew's left circumflex artery, one of three main blood vessels in the heart.) No complications.
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      'The imponderable is stress... I have to make a mental U-turn'
      471 21 AND MAKINR A MENTAL CHAMP,F HE wants to shift his mental gears to a "slightly easier pace", said Mr Lee Kuan Yew. But he will be sufficiently alert to pick up any signals of possible crises, he added. This
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      Wife worries a lot
      258 21 HIS wife tried to persuade him to put off making the speech last Thursday night at the Nanyang Technological University, revealed Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The speech was on the eve of his stent implantation. But Mr Lee went ahead because he knew his condition
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      Tycoon has yen for yen and dollars
      397 22 They're better than property: Ng SINGAPORE tycoon Ng Teng Fong thinks he can make more money from foreign currencies than from property these days. "It's better to watch the yen and US dollar these days," said Mr Ng, the founder of the Far
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    • COVERSTORY
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        Lock icon One style only — more or less
        413 24  - One style only more or less By Julie Leong COMB, snip. Lift, snip, snip. His hands moved slowly, but steadily over Mr We^s head. The only sounds are the Tamil music in the background, and the snip, snip of Mr N Selvarajan's scissors. Ah, moan the barber shop's occupants. Not
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        SOME TOOLS OF THE TRADE
        164 24 Scissors: "German ones are the best. They are expensive, at $60 to $75 and they last about six months." Razor: "I don't mind the ones from China, India and Japan, but the German ones are the sharpest." Combs: "Round, plastic ones. These come from China
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        A SESSION WITH MR RAJAN
        173 24 "I CUT the hair when it's dry. Bit by bit, starting from the right to the left, from the top to the bottom. "After the cut, I put hot water on the back of the customer's neck to soothe the skin; and then I'll put
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        Lock icon An "Oscar" for S'pore hairstylist
        423 25  -  By Teo Lian Huay SINGAPORE hairstylist Georgie Yam has been awarded the "Oscar" of the hairdressing industry by an international body of beauty and fashion professionals. Mr Yam, 40, managing director of THE Salon, was conferred the World Master of the Craft Award by the
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        SOME TOOLS OF THE TRADE
        102 25 Climazon: Emits heat to shorten processing time of hair perms and colourings by 15 to 20 mins. Heat rollers: For faster curling and setting of hair. Rollers are heated up so that hair curled round them, is made softer. When the rollers cool down, the
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        WHAT A CLIENT SAYS
        130 25 MRS Teresa Huang, 42, a manager and Mr Yam's client for 16 years, said he is able to build up rapport with his clients, and create styles that they are comfortable with. "At every point, he tries to give you a touch of freshness. "I have
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        Sassoon: Incredibly inventive
        202 25 HAIR guru Vidal Sassoon said it was wonderful that the award should go to Mr Yam. "He is incredibly inventive and he's got courage. He is the only person I know who has opened up (a salon) in Ho Chi Minh City.' "Partly because of his training
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      127 26 j^R 1 &lt; &gt;w liHfl &gt;J»g i^M inn J /2M!n¥^H[ :JMj|^^^^^^Hk *jOi j c^sSdP'T ■F-" u&'jstßt^U^^^A v P -M In changing perceptions, no one has done more than the Army. If you are a woman with the confidence to succeed, the Army has a place for you. As an Army
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    • COVERSTORY
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        Victor of the hair-volution
        408 27  -  VICTOR'S COMMENTS ABOUT HIS HAIR By Julie Leong THINK of Victor Khoo and what springs to mind? Curly locks and glasses. "That's my image," said Victor, 46, ventriloquist and entertainer. He's sported the look for 19 years and he's grown quite fond of it. He had
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        HEAD TURNERS
        328 28  -  Alice makes waves By Teo Lian Huay STRAIGHT today. Waves and movements tomorrow. Alice Gan, senior stylist of THE Salon, was given the challenge to create the look for the 21st century. She rooted for waves and movements. Lots of them. She spent four hours curling and blowing
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        HAIR TALK FROM THE EXPERTS
        231 28 Ms Jean Yip, 37, owner of Jean Yip Salons (18 years in the business): The Jackie Cheung look is very in now, for men. Remember the tight curls for men in the late Eighties? It was inspired by Hollywood stars such as Don Johnson and
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        CREDITS
        19 28 Photographs: David Tan Models: Sharon, Rachel and Patricia Hair: Alice Gan, THE Salon Makeup: Susan Ang, THE Salon
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      In a sweat about hot topic
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      191 36 CHINESE MINISTER S US TRIP Reuter. TENSIONS between the US and China over the Taiwan Strait heightened today, Taiwan's presidential election day, as a planned visit to Washington next month by Chinese Defence Minister Chi Haotian was cancelled. "Better not come at this point in time,"
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      344 37 Reuter. JUDGE SAYS HE'S "A CONTINUED DANGER" TO SOCIETY ROBERT Hoskins has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Who is Robert Hoskins? He's a homeless drifter who stalked Madonna and threatened to slash the pop star's throat. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline
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      80 37 ACCORDING to a recent report in an US magazine on celebrity stalking, Madonna gets scores of death threats every year. California lawmakers dramatically increased penalties for the crime after US television actress Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered by a fan in 1989. Several security firms cater
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      337 38 'MAD COW' SCARE Wire services. AUSTRALIA is considering the recall of all British beef products, including Marmite, Bovril and even chocolate. Like Singapore, Australia is taking no chances as fears of mad cow disease spread around the world. Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand have
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      89 38 THE World Health Organisation said there was no firm proof of a direct link between mad cow disease and CJD. But WHO doctors said 10 British cases of a new form of CJD were "probably due to an early contact" with mad cow disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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      244 39 DIANA IN CAR ACCIDENT Reuter. PRINCEJSS Diana was left shaken yesterday when the borrowed car she was driving was involved in an accident in central London, police said. Police were called and they took the princess, who was unhurt, back to her Kensington Palace apartment.
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      267 40 IT IS BELIEVED MlIM WAS DRIVING A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Malaysian girl was accidentally killed by a car allegedly being reversed by her mother. The girl was believed to be playing on the porch of the family home in Taman Tun Dr Ismail
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      200 40 Reuter. THE Secret Service has finally hit the campaign trail with Senate majority leader Bob Dole. As a major presidential candidate, he is entitled to such protection, as are fellow Republican candidate Pat Buchanan and Democratic President Bill Clinton. But Mr Dole has put
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    488 43  -  ET CETERA WITH IVAN FERNANDEZ LICK thumb, flip page, read. It's as easy as ABC. Reading off an electronic screen, however, can be a ***** for the first-timer. You know where you are when you're reading a book. But you're in limbo when you
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      361 45 2609 Engineering 2609 Engineering Positions Positions If you're looking for a job, here's good news ELECTIIHICIHMIH6 IECNICMI Fll TIE STUtTS TIMES nCTIIE lESK The Straits Times Picture Desk is cunently accepting applications for Electronic Imaging Technicians. This is an exciting job as you will be using state-of-the-art equipment and working
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      657 52  -  Stories/ Brian Miller THE LEADERS 135: Mike Cunning (US) 71, 64 136: Nico van Rensburg (SA) 70, 66; Peter Teravainen (US) 69, 67 137: Takao Nogami (Jpn) 65, 72; Poh Eing Chong (Sing) 71, 66 138: Lee Wen-Shing (Tai) 69, 69; Dino Kwek (Sing) 66,
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      226 52 THE LOCAL CHALLENGE AT the Singapore Open last November, local fans had a local hero in M Murugiah. He did the fraternity proud when he mixed it up with the best to finish fourth to Australian Steven Conran. Here at the Rolex Masters, the local gallery
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    508 53  -  SPORTS/RACING Preview By The Three Musketeers KING'S COMEDY, who finished sixth in his debut last month, looks ready to greet the judge when he tackles the I,Boom trip in Race 5 today. The New Zealand-bred gelding has been working with gusto and today's trip looks tailor-made
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      387 54 Reuter. MIKE Tyson, who has made well over US$5O million (s7om) from boxing in less than a year since leaving prison, says he is not making enough. "I think I deserve more money," said Tyson, who pocketed US$3O million and regained a share of the
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      131 54  -  By&lt; Clement Mesenas REPORTING FROM DUBAI SINGAPORE'S hope for glory in the Davis Cup tennis event was hampered yesterday not by any opponent, but by heavy rain. Chen Chee Yen was leading Kazakhstan's Yegor Shaldunov 5-2 in the opening singles match when the rain, which has been
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      64 54 AFP. WORLD squash champion Jansher Khan was beaten for the first time for two years yesterday. He went down to world No 6 Del Harris in the Super Series final. Jansher looked both lethargic and error-prone and was beaten 9-4, 8-10, 8-10. "You have to try and up
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      577 55 SPOTLIGHT Five years ago, he was struggling for recognition. Today, he's a familiar figure in soccer circles. Some even approach him for autographs. And he's not even a player. He '5 R Vengadasalam, the "duke" of Wellington, the man who has led the club from the obscurity
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