The New Paper, 11 May 1996

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  • 14 1 the new paper weekend edition SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1996 MITA (P) 061/4/96 60 CENTS
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    • 125 1 The day TCS actor J Thomas One had x iiuuida u 6 ~<tu IttMb've ielfeJlllJadi _i j _i_ aloud —in class ,h 7, X\ °/Page 49 yjv [4^ WmA rr^, I x tf Cw »»in mm 3 f*™ ar y 4 o S^**. HA fIH CZ) MHH 11■■ v I
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 282 2 Source: Reuter. A WHITE stretch limousine, belonging to an Arab sheikh, was so long that it had to be ordered off the Californian road by police. Exactly how long? We wanted to show you. But we weren't able to fit the 36-seater into our pages.
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    • 460 2 TENSION EASES IN US-CHINA RELATIONS Source: Wire services. DISPUTE US alleges that China has sold over US$7O,OOO ($98,000) worth of ring magnets to Pakistan. They can be used in the production of nuclear bombs. Both China and Pakistan have denied any wrongdoing. The US
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    • 201 2 WOMEN are being fined for the loss of virginity before marriage in Wuhan, one of China's largest industrial cities. The "offence", if uncovered during a pre-marital check-up, can mean a fine of between 200 yuan ($35.75) and 2,000 yuan,
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    • 405 3 The National Wages Council (NWC) has asked employers to offer more part-time, flexi-hour jobs to women and older workers. NG WAN CHING meets a mother of two who is enjoying the best of both worlds I'M quitting my job. That's what Madam Chand Rita
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    • 167 3 FOR the year beginning July 1, the NWC has also recommended that companies and unions should: Keep the ratio between the top end of a pay scale and the bottom end to an average of 1.5 times. This means that for a pay scale that starts at $1,000, the
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    • 156 3 THE NWC notes that Singapore is relying more on foreign workers. There are 350,000 of them 10 per cent of the workforce. The NWC also notes that fewer women above 30 and older people work than do their counterparts in the developed countries. For instance, 58 per cent
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    • 91 2 Sorry IN our report Desperately seeking strikers (TNP, May 10), the wrong picture was used to show Geylang United secretary Syed Ahmad Alwee Alsree. llie man in the picture is actually Mr Syed Kadir Alsree, an executive committee member of Geylang United. Calllnfoune THE Ministry of Trade and Industry will
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    • 26 3 105 900 Average unemployment rate in 1995 was 2% yjPyjpNitlry of Trade I- M% SS2toM9^^@ GroWth7 Total number of new jobs Retrenchment Productivity Increase in wages
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • Keys to policy-making
      • 111 4 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong last night looked at parallels between good government and sound central banking. Mr Goh, who was speaking at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Monetary Authority of Singapore last night, identified three principles HOT STORY L i There is a saying in financial markets:
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      • 79 4 We sometimes take price stability for granted. Low inflation has preserved the real value of our CPF savings and protected our purchasing power. Our wages in real terms have grown, on average, by nearly 5% each year since 1971. Today, our purchasing power is about three times higher than
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      • 52 4 In Singapore, government has always looked beyond the short-term political costs of its policy actions and focused on the long-term good. This often means taking a pre-emptive approach, to anticipate and deal with problems before they arise. In the case of MAS, it means dealing with inflation before it
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    • 74 4 The Straits Timet: PM: Policy-making based on 3 principles The Business Times: World Bank seeks project tie-ups with S pore Uanhe Zaobao: PM Goh: An effective government is needed to safeguard the nation's financial system Berita Harlan: PM Goh: Inflation under control but many still unsatisfied RCS morning news:
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    • PROPERTY WATCH
      • 36 4 THE Government is probing property resale transactions for signs of speculative activity. National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang said last night the figures had to be checked before increasing supply or acting against speculation.
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      • 42 4 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has asked Real Estate Developers Association of Singapore committee members to consider increasing the percentage of units to be made available at public launches. Redas president Heng Chiang Meng had proposed 50 per cent.
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      • 75 4 The question is whether Singaporeans want to see their housing purchase as an investmentj or whether they see it as a consumption item. —Economist Soon Teck Wong, explaining why the consumer price index (CPI) does not reflect the rise in property prices. High property prices
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    • 13 4 The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 43.00 points to 5.518.14 yesterday.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 62 4 THE interest rate for your CPF savings will go down by 0.04 per cent to 3.48 per cent on July 1. At the same time, the. Housing Board's mortgage loan interest rate will also be reduced to 3.58 per cent. However, CPF savings in the Special and
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      • 47 4 THE World Bank wants Singapore and its private sector to partner it in billions of dollars worth of infrastructure and other development projects in the region. Its president, Mr James D. Wolfensohn, said goods and professional services could be sourced from Singapore for bank activities.
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      • 45 4 AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard yesterday forged a historic gun control deal with the police ministers of the country's six states and two territories. The deal will see a sweeping ban nationally on the sale or ownership of automatic and semiautomatic guns.
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      • 53 4 KUALA Lumpur wants to end its traffic jams. It has stopped approving new high-rise buildings in the city centre where there has been a skyscraper boom until the light rail transit system begins in 1998. City officials are urging people to share their cars and may impose penalties
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      • 50 4 THE Asean Regional Forum (ARF) will be coming out with a new membership criteria. Also, India and Myanmar will be invited to become members at its next ministerial meeting in July. The present 19-member forum was started by Asean countries in 1994 to foster regional peace and security.
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      • 56 4 MALAYSIA'S Parti Melayu Semangat 46 is to set up a joint-panel with Umno with the aim of eventually merging the parties. PMS46 President Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said the panel would be the first step in the move to see PMS46 reunite with Umno. He said: "We want to
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  • 524 5  -  THENEWSTODAY Fibre-optic lights State-of-the-art sound system Three-storey building which will include library and computer room I don't want to take the credit for this, says man behind the scenes BY Crispina Robert THE figurines in the temple are gleaming and its walls have come alive.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 111 8 NEWS FLASH AT the last count yesterday, 48,887 people have signed up for The New Paper Big Walk on May 19, making it the biggest mass-participation event in Singapore. The organisers are still processing entries sent in by
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    • 214 8 WHEN is a good time to walk? This last column on tips for walking focuses on the times of the day you can walk and the precautions you need to take. HOT WEATHER: walk either in the early morning or in the evening because it
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 249 10  -  By Julie Leong WANT to reproduce the new $25 note? Forget it. The new note has so many security features that the cost of forging the note will be more than using the genuine thing. You can't even photocopy it. If you try, previously
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    • 107 10 THE most recent reported case involving counterfeit Singapore notes was nearly sVfc years ago. The notes, valued at $169,600, were found at in a shophouse in Greenwood Avenue, ofTDunearn Road. They were fake $50, $100 and $1,000 notes. Some other recent fake money rackets uncovered: February 1986: Police
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    • 143 10 THE high-security $25 note in Singapore comes in the wake of a new US$lOO note, designed to combat the exceptionally high quality of fake notes. Features of the almost fake-proof US note include: A watermark, slightly larger than the portrait on the front. The watermark, which
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    • 625 12 BODY PARTS MURDER Body Parts —a book about British killer John Martin will be out in the shops tomorrow. ALETHEA LIM gets its author to talk about a killer's devious mind WHAT happened to Gerald George Lowe's head? It was never found, but it is
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    • 368 13  -  By. Alethea Lim A MAN was sent to jail yesterday after double-crossing his alleged partner in crime. Lim Meng Lee, 47, and his alleged accomplice extorted $4,000 from a chicken-rice seller. Then, when there was a police investigation, Lim took $2,000 from his partner, saying he
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    • 131 13 HOP on down to Forum The Shopping Mall this weekend and help the Children's Cancer Foundation. If you are one of the first 200 people to donate $10 to this charity adopted by The New Paper, you get a house plant. And if you
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    • 535 14 21M JBmmm dm MI W fe£ §m @m mmmMMm -mp NIGHTSPOTS CHECK ON DRUGS j DON'T drink too much water at Zouk. You may find the staff staring at you suspiciously. There is no big secret to this. Mr Andrew Ing, marketing
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    • 627 15 On Thursday, The New Paper reported that two actors had refused to play the role of killer Adrian Lim because he was evil Yesterday many hopefuls turned up for auditions to claim the part. Some had a secret weapon. LEE YIN LUEN reports "I WANT
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 197 16 HONGKONG police are keeping a close watch, from a safe distance, around and above a detention camp which went wild early yesterday. A manhunt is on for about 200 inmates who escaped from the prison-like refugee detention centre at Whitehead. The group had set fire to
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    • 163 17 TWO SURVIVE HELICOPTER CRASH I AFP. A HELICOPTER co-pilot escaped with relatively minor injuries after two US Marine helicopters hit each other yesterday over North Carolina. The pilot also survived but was hurt more seriously. At least 14 people died in the mid-air collision between an
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    • 358 17 JE TAIME/LIANHE WANBAO/SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS MOTHER'S DAY PROMOTION Si JKathers such What would we do without dear Y mum? She's always there when we need her. With a kind word a In other words, she's a gem. Now, you can make this Mothers Day A i'mmrmU more precious and
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 257 19 Two-year-old Blake Whitney's mother thought she was alone when she left home in her Land Rover. What she didn't know was that Blake had decided to come along for the 80 kmh ride...by holding on to the back of the vehicle MRS Penny Whitney thought
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    • 331 20 ME AS KEDAH MB? THE PMNDNT TELL ME. THIS AND MORE WORLD REPORTS/ From Page 34 ITALIAN fashion designer Giorgio Armani received a nine-month suspended sentence and was fined 100 million lire (S$86,800) yesterday after pleading guilty to bribing the tax man. The punishment came
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 531 22  -  REPORTS YONG SIEW FERN THOMAS Ong may respond to letters from his fans, but he is not writing another love letter for the rest of his life. Or so he declares. Bruised from an incident 17 years ago when he was only 10, the Channel 8
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      • 494 23 IF your name is Chou Dawei, hear this: You get a "sorry" from our home-grown singer, Kit Chan. "In kindergarten, I was beating up boys or gave them no recess. As the monitress, I was in charge of the food, so
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    • 34 22 ATTENTION! Calling Ms Low: If you are Thomas Ong's dream girl 17 years ago, we would like to hear from you. Call The New Paper Hotline Plus at 1800-733-4455 or fax us at 737-5375.
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    • 43 23 ATTENTION CHOU DAWEI Calling Chou Dawei: If you were the boy Kit Chan used to bully during your kindergarten days at St Matthew's, we would like to hear from you. Call The New Paper Hotline Plus at 1800-733-4455 or fax us at 737-5375.
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    • COVERSTORY
      • 589 25 Xie Shaoguang, given name: Cha Shao Kwong; also known as Cha Shao Bao (char slew bun), Angmoh Kia (Hokkien for Caucasian bov). CHANNEL 8 actor Xie Shaoguang has been dyslexic since he was a child. "It's not too serious now, but I always had problems writing
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      • 597 26 SHE peered down from the third storey of a block of flats in Circuit Road to look at someone who had committed suicide and has regretted it since. She was seven years old. Now 29, Channel 8 actress Aileen Tan told The New Paper: "It
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      • 466 27 ANDREW UM, given name Urn Meng Liang; also known as Ah Boy ANDREW Lim regrets not having a single picture of himself when he was 10 years old. "So I can actually prove to people that I did lose some of my baby fat," he
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    67 32 LOOK MA, NO HANDS: Spotted at a carnival at Pasir Ris Resort, this woman seems to be labouring to hold on to too many things while hurrying out of the rain. And one balloon, impatient to stay as dry as possible, has broken away from its brethren in a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 51 33 This phenomenon cf senior government officials paying (ministers) large amounts of money to get promoted will spread as fast as mad cow disease if we have no immediate and tough measures to stop it. Thai opposition leader Chuan Leekpai (right),saying that measures must be taken to halt
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    • 320 33 SANUSI SAYS HE READ IT IN PAPERS DATUK Seri Sanusi Junid said he only knew he was a potential candidate for the Mentfi Besar's post in Kedah after reading about it in newspapers. "I only read it in the newspapers. The
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    • 414 34 With no party having won the minimum 273seats needed to control Parliament on its own, Indian politicians are now looking for partners to share power in a new government HINDU wumr "Xki't <*Jr s Party: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Hindu-based party. Founded in 1980. Foley: Welcomes foreign
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    • 128 34 Wire services. ALL eyes are on Indian President Shankar Dayal Sharma because no single party would be close to gaining a majority. He will decide which o. r the three parties (see graphics) should be invited to govern the country. Mr Sharma normally has only a ceremonial role.
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    • 237 36 Red Son ja Dangerous Liaisons E! Feature Movie Magic The Tommyknockers (Channel 5,8.30 pm) (Premiere 12,9.30 pm) (Premiere 12,6.30 pm) (Premiere 12,6.30 pm) (Channel 5,11.00 pm) Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Gorgeous and engrossing This week's focus is on Jodie Meet the man behind films like Strange things happen to the Brigitte Nielson
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  • 505 37  -  eT CETERA WITH IVAN FERNANDEZ PAPER-CHASING parents want their children to wear creativity guru Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats. White Hat for facts, figures and information. Red Hat for feelings and intuitions and so on. Being Singaporean, all the six hats are likely to
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    673 47  -  Jerseys hot items SPORTS I played with Bruce I was with Bruce's son I know Schmeichel He's a nice man Stories/ Norenshah Sahari MANCHESTER United jerseys have always been in demand but have never been out of stock until this week. So said Mr Kadir Muhaideen, 45,
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    • 649 48  -  CUP FEVER A family that supports United together, stays together. Or so it seems with Muhamad Tahir's. The passion has even been passed down through three generations. ERNEST LUIS reports PICTURE JONATHAN CHOO LOCAL Manchester United fans, you have every reason to be jealous of Muhamad Tahir.
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    • 470 49 THE KEY MAN: ROY KEANE AFP. ROY Keane is aiming to bury the bitter memory of 12 months ago when Manchester United lost the FA Cup final to Everton by helping smother Liverpool's midfield artistry at Wembley today. The combative Irishman has been a
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    • 442 50 THE KEY MAN: STEVE MCMANAMAN AFP. STEVE McManaman will happily compromise his international prospects to play his part in Liverpool's attempt to spoil Manchester United's Wembley day out. The Liverpool forward is already a key part of Terry Venables' Euro 96 plans. But he
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