The New Paper, 12 July 1997

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Total Pages: 62
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    Masthead
    11 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1997 MITA(P)O6VM/97 GO CENTS X
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      When the peso falls...
      416 2 Filipinos brace for some hard times WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PESO? I nc I vmippciw central MnK yesxeniay (MM to aßoir market forces of supply and demand determine the poso's value. v This caused the peso to Mahout It percefTtaartnsttheUSdofltf.Oiie US dollar could buy up to
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      Singapore investors stay cool
      252 2 ITS manageable, say some Singapore investors of the peso devaluation. Electronics companies, which make components such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards in the Philippines, did not feel the fall of the peso was cause for alarm, The Business Times said. Hewlett Packard Singapore's finance
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      Lock icon Superfluous Stylo-Milo
      375 3 In London, an advocate of plain English continues her 30-year war against incomprehensible and pretentious jargon that is causing unnecessary stumbling blocks. Here, our Glossorry columnist MIKE CHUA takes a lighthearted look at the Singaporean's use of English and samples the local flavour that has spiced it over
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      More freedom for schools
      132 4 HOT SOME schools no longer need to report directly to the Education Ministry. They are granted new freedom under a pilot project called cluster schools. Under the project, fechpols are grouped into clusters and placed charge of senior principals whcnbe experienced in school management. Education Minister
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      Not cheating, too harsh a sentence
      143 4 A remisier was sentenced to two weeks'jail for using the Area Licence Scheme label from his Rolls-Royce to drive his Mercedes-Benz. Two readers aired their views in the The Straits Times' Forum page Are we trying to cheat the law if we transfer the
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      HEADLINERS
      74 4 The Straits Timet: Budget charts steady course for economy The Bmkiess Times: Rnance sector budget miffs manufacturers UanheZaofcao: Rnance Minister proposes pro-people Budget, general disappointment for business circles Berita Harlan: Budget for citizens, family Richard Hu announces a budget with many goodies for the financial sector aimed at sharpening
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        More flats
        78 4 THE Housing Board will increase the supply of rental flats for families waiting for their new flats to be built. It will buy more three- and two-room flats from the open market to rent to applicants, and also offer one-room flats. And, to reduce the high demand, the
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        Not tallest
        54 4 KUALA Lumpur's Petronas Towers has been dethroned as the world's tallest building. Critics said Malaysian builders of Petronas Towers had cheated by topping the 88-storey towers with 47.2 m steel spires to reach a record-breaking height of 452 m. With that, Chicago's Sears Tower gains back its "tallest"
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        Beauty boos
        66 4 IN the Miss Italy contest this year only women with at least one native-born parent are allowed to enter. This new rule has led to the organisers being called racist, but they say it should be about Italian beauty. The change follows controversy over last year's winner, a
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        14 children die
        61 4 FOURTEEN children of foreigners died of measles in Sabah last month. The sickness and the deaths were not reported earlier, a Malaysian minister said. They were "children of foreign workers living at construction sites and at plantations who had not been immunised, n he said. The spread
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        Younger origin
        66 4 A NEW theory says humans are descended from ancestors who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago, and not from European ancestors who evolved between 500,000 and 600,000 years ago, as believed earlier. A study published in London yesterday said DNA extracted from the bones of a European
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      DOW JONES
      26 4 The Dow Jones industrial average was up 35.06 points to 7,921.82 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 503 million shares.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Family picnic? Not quite ...
      373 5  - Family picnic? Not quite These 'die-hard fans' are queueing for tickets By Rachel Tan LAST year, she started queueing two days before the tickets were released. This year, Madam Aisah Sitam, 38, got in line almost three days before the tickets were to be given out. With her son Mazlan
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      TICKET GUIDE
      121 5 Tickets for these four National Day events will be given out free tomorrow from 9 am: Aug 2: Preview parade, National Stadium Aug 9: National Day Parade (NDP '97), National Stadium Aug 9: Party at the Padang Aug 23: National Day Event, Padang You can get one of
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      British bands may play
      146 5  -  By Edwin Yeo IF all goes well, two popular British bands will be performing on Aug 23 as part of the National Day celebrations. Two rhythm-and-blues bands, Code Red and Damage, are slated to perform at the party at the Padang. Discussions are underway to bring
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    Lock icon Delightfully diluted
    370 6 SINGAPORETODAY Styled until almost unrecognisable, the orchid dress finally finds its niche in evening wear, says CAROL LEONG of what she saw a yesterday's President Charity Ball THE dress code was very specific for the President's Charity Ball. It said "orchid dress". So where were Mrs Jannie Tay's
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      206 7 w| ■IWWII wnBMnB at, IJj1Jj K^PI afy Every time you drink Magnolia UHT Milk, you can now win some very exciting prizes. And that includes a Rover 216. Plus, there are two draws, giving you two chances to win! So pick up a pack of Magnolia today! inclose in on
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Is he for REAL?
      775 8 Last Saturday, The New Paper reported that leaflets were dropped into letterboxes in Hougang asking for old clothes for "The Old Aged Home" which did not exist. Similar leaflets have appeared in Bedok North. On Thursday, FONG FOONG MEI found this man (right), claiming to have
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      Do'nt believe leaflets!
      102 9 doiVtknow him. And dont believe the VtiSoughMrTui claimed to have gone personally to donate r foodstuffs over a 10-year period, none of the homes 1 recognised him from the a,.' pictures we showed them, j Said Madam Lim Yin./ East Home for the Aged: "We have not
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      Lock icon Who's the copycat?
      270 9 TWO weeks ago, leaflets appealing for old clothes were dropped into mailboxes in Hougang. Instead a karang guni man turned up to collect the clothes. The man, who only wanted to be known as Mr Wong, said he didn't know about the leaflets and said he had
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      174 10 M Watch it at theatres near you. (Jl Blockbustin 1 Bat Deals Sign up for M 1 Paging from July 4 to 31 enjoy our Batmania deals: brtmrn exclusive Mi posihT watch worth $40* uJ 3 months subscription including registration fees for Mi Numeric Message Paging. r™f 3 months e-mail
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    What you wanted to know about...
    480 11 PARLIAMEMTTODAY There were burning questions in many people's minds when news broke of these issues. They were finally answered in Parliament yesterday. NG WAN CHING reports DR TSAKOK JWydM gg Hoipli!!l (S6H) I T£L i Tukok't 1 (right) services m MbMdoftfM m Obstetrics and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon If not for trouble with ATMs... ... she'd have lost more to conmen
      358 12  - If not for trouble with ATMs... she'd have lost more to conmen By Riana Zakir A WIDOW was determined to give her money to a conman. But the automated teller machines just wouldn't co-operate. One faulty machine spat out Madam Tan Kha Luang's card three times. Another one swallowed it
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      THE CON
      66 12 A MAN asked Madam Tan to look after a batch of capacitors. Another man turned tip and offered to buy the gadgets, installed in television srts and radios, for $30 each. B A third man appeared and offered $5d for each. Madam Tan thought she could make an
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      105 12 t •rf t > I Let's mind our I mobile manners! With the superb voice clarity on our GSM network, you don't have to shout when using the phone; your normal tone will do just fine. 1 fO I I I I Do The Rigtit Thing I I At The
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Don't be a turn-off TURN IT OFF
      325 14  -  By Khor Su Min DO you turn off your handphone when you are in the MKT and cinemas? If you don't, then you are a turn-off to many Singaporeans. A survey by Motorola, a telecommunications and electronics manufacturing company, revealed that many are
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      CAN'T DO WITHOUT IT ...
      64 14 CAN'T DO WITHOUT IT wfco got her hMdplioM two years agK "f *1 can't live without it now, because I'm always moving around. Ifs how my mum, my friends, and my colleagues manage to catch me." useful when I work. If we are 4 c short-handed and working at several
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      CAN DO WITHOUT THIS!
      94 14 Msgs* Low, 25, an aadftor, wfeeftfl»r MphomMrihipc Tm very irritated by people who leave it on during performances and shows. They should turn it off or put it on silent mode, and walk out if a call comes. But the best wsy is to just turn
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      He 'paid' — with forged vouchers
      353 17  - He 'paid' with forged vouchers By John Low FOR four years, the director of a seafood restaurant refused to pay what he owed his fresh seafood supplier. Koh Chwee Huat, 39, claimed he had payment vouchers to prove he had already paid up. But he had forged those vouchers. On
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      Dinner for 2 charities
      84 17 THE Soroptimist International of Singapore, a service-oriented women's association, is organising a dinner in aid of the Down Syndrome Association and Help Every Lone Parent (Help) Family Service Centre. It will be held on Aug 2 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Tickets are priced at $100
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      So near and yet so far
      319 18  -  PRIMARY 1 REGISTRATION By Fong Foong Mei AT first, she was thrilled. She thought her Primary 1 registration worries were over. Mrs Dorothy Phua had gone to Northland Primary School, to take a peek at the maps displayed there. Her face lit up. Her
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      Phase 2A register
      146 18 PHASE 2A of the registration exercise will be held on Monday. This phase is meant for children whose parent or sibling is an ex-student of the school. Have you picked a school for your child yet? If not, call The New Paper Infoline. You can find out
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      97 23 weds^der ■h| WmfflmimtSSmßßHm J JU I H^BB^BB. i" •JratPsSSL" ~'lfrjc -^^^^^nfflHßfi^BKKaK s ''*wßP'. v 'fIHHBi j% V A j£ I}*, ;|i|yifflHm^Mß^ SfcOrfoJ jk Meso-,Endo-,Ecto-morph—thafsthe brawny, the fat and the wiry, according to the Sheldon system of body-type classification. Inside, find out how you, the ordinary Tom, t Dick or Harry
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    • COVERSTORY
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        Lock icon The thick, the round, the wiry
        1488 24  -  [reports I CALVIN LOW NORMAN ONG (left) is your regular man in blue a police inspector who does shift-work like thousands of other Singaporeans. But for the past two straight years, he's reigned as Singapore's national lightweight bodybuilding champion. And Norman certainly wasn't born
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        The 4Rs of getting into shape
        409 25 Regimen PEAR-SHAPED or obese people should aim first to trim off excess fat by doing cardio-vascular exercises like jogging, cycling or swimming three to five times a week. More lean muscle would also increase the body's metabolic rate and burn off fat faster. They
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      171 26 MiffJ < babe l(n «Uma Thurman i *gtj| Dan MiaU Bfels tie »e* B:ri Kmilt ,Kii CLOONEV l.i Ai.iis 5 atto r -UMA THURMAN JOINS THE BIG BAI CIUB The Best tit The 60s n ST32SK*. g 4 Karen Mok Hongkunq s It Girl salad Sisier Hazel. Can anil oitier
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      149 27 r^r- r PPrr r r r— r r Trade-In ijole l cV >>We Valid till •V Get these cool pagers y at special prices. Only today and tomorrow. V cas.o P" lner I No** Motorola MeinoJaii 54Q0.00 N°w of w t I 152.44 rfJS <«V\ I f 1 EEII STUDENTS'
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      Tight squeeze to fit into HK life
      847 28  -  at la-rf^ KEN JALLEH JR HERE I am back home in the warmth and familiarity of Singapore, back in the office, back to work, and I have only one thing to say: SEND ME BACK TO HONGKONG! It is one of life's cruel
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      Cheers corner
      196 29  -  at nig(^ EDWIN YEO IF you haven't been to Charlie's, you haven't been to one of the most happening hangouts in Singapore. The uninitiated may scoff at this open-air joint lodged at one corner of the Changi Village food centre. Fair enough. After all, it's just chairs and
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      Velvety wedding
      68 29 ONE of the more interesting things at Velvet Underground this month is a wedding party. I happen to notice a wedding invite, superbly designed to look like a Zouk mailer, of a couple called Ben and Jane. It's happening tomorrow night, with dinner to be served at 7.30.
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      Decadent fashion at Zouk
      109 29 ANOTHER funky event at Zonk is The Smirnoff International Fashion Awards. The finals is happening next Friday, July 18, at 9.30pm. On display will be the products of student fashion designers who are all vying for a top prize of a bursary and placement at Britain's
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      100 28 get. m w JklHlryjl *^SBMl^^^^^^^B^lBBP Award-MHHMHgPw The Animals will rock their way to Hard Rock Cafe Sin^P< one-night performance. Fans of this legendary rock *n' roll band cJUHuHRard to classic hits such as House Of The Rising Sun and Don't Let Me Be flHpfrstood. Usual cover charge of S$ 18
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      69 29 PELIKAN'S NEW ROLLFIX: THE ULTIMATE GLUE DRIPPING! FINGERS The new Rollflx from Pelikan is the latest gluing concept you can use on anything. One smooth glide and it will make two surfaces stick. Absolutely no-fuss. Its wide range of applications will only mean you may discover a new A purpose
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      62 29 IS WRITING AN ESSAY REALLY A CHORE? Worry no more! Friday Weekly is launching a 6-week series on writing effectively to help you improve. Starting from 12 July '97 onwards, get a copy of Friday Weekly dndyou are on your way to an easy assignment! Whats more, $*****f BRANDS product
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      28 30 Based on a true-life Budget speech made yesterday by Dr Richard Hu Guest scriptwriters: ERIC KHOO, award-winning movie director BRIAN HONG, movie producer Starring cast of: 12 STOREYS
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    Lock icon $ story
    10 31 story GOODIES FOR THE FAMILY/ See next page Graphics/ HUP
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    Hu's goodies for the family
    272 32 THIS year's budget is a family-oriented one. You get a higher tax relief of $4,500 if you support and live with your aged parents. This is $1,000 more than the tax relief for taxpayers who don't live with their old folks. "We believe that the
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    FOREIGNERS
    26 32 The CPF contributions of foreigners working here, and that of their employers, will no longer be tax deductible. This comes into effect from January 1999.
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    Lock icon FIRE EXITS WERE LOCKED
    259 36 WORLDTODAY PATTAYA HOTEL CATCHES FIRE 79 DEAD, 46 IN HOSPITAL Source: AFP. DID the death-toll escalate because of poor fire-escape planning? That is the question haunting Thai officials now. "The fire alarm did not work," said Chonburi provincial governor, Sutcharit Pathchimanthe, who added that many fire
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      119 37 RALPH LAUREN POLO SPORT THE FITNESS FRAGRANCE FOR WOMEN A r s THE NEW SIZE 50ML POLO SPORT WOMAN FRAGRANCE X m Buy the new 50ml POLO SPORT WOMAN EDT Spray at only $48 and you J W will a 2.4 ml Vial Necklace FREE. 1 THE IDEAL gift for
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      251 38 2 ÜBm x m B U m[l M On top of greot shopping during this period, for every $5Q spent,, you con hove fun with the 'Great Buys' Contest a unique contest where you con buy your favourite items at a fraction of the original cost. For example, you may
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon 'Inflight service' on M'sian trains
      188 39 Bernama. GO by train but travel as if in a plane. This is the plan by Malaysia's KTM Berhad for its first-class and secondclass passengers. It will introduce an equivalent of inflight services for such passengers, KTM managing director Datuk Abdul Rahim Osman said yesterday
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      Lock icon Woof, it's a dog's life out here
      49 39 DQOMMR,R nhm&Adog trying to find hi* way to a dry place on a street in the townofUhenke Hradutt yesterday asflood waters roee in this south Moravian dty. I'' Floods in the Catch Republic and somm Poland claimed 65 liven yesterday Picture/ Reuter
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