The New Paper, 10 January 1998

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  • 7 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1998
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    • 105 1 i Snapshots of Indonesia, o coMWio 1 atthebrink w *****1 a I^BhHHBki^mE^P m m going /Page Another ua publication of Singapore Press Holdings I 8 887 181'******1 RAFFLES CITY (OUTSIDE MRT) JAN 10 A 11 mjL Get beautiful nail colour fast and free. fSMLjj^g^^. One one minute. (GUARASTEED) Our beauty
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  • INDONESIATODAY
    • 699 2 Reports: JILL UM and RACHEL TAN ONLY four months ago, Indonesia was seen to be saying and doing the right things. As the rupiah came under attack, the government said it would lower interest rates, postpone some big projects and force weak banks,
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    • 171 2 A CALL from Air Force One sent the Indonesian rupiah bouncing back into four figures against the US dollar yesterday. President Bill Clinton, flying from New York to Texas, spoke to President Suharto for 25 minutes, assuring support at this time of financial crisis,
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    • 532 2 RUMOUR is king in Jakarta and two housewives are shopping like there is no tomorrow. The rumour says prices will go up and things will run out. So they buy and buy until things really run out. Ajid fresh rumours start. One housewife, Mrs Tjoa
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    • 245 2 NINE out of 10 listed companies are technically broke. In the heady boom time of the last few years, many companies mortgaged themselves and borrowed beyond their means. Now, according to Jakarta Poet, only 22 of the 282 listed on the Indonesian stock exchange are
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    • 393 3 Snapshot. lam not changing because the US dollar is now high. It is not a question of low or high. Even if the US dollar fallsj I will still want to change. FIRST, it was foreign investors who were dumping the rupiah for US
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    • 153 3 Snapshot fc>) PRESIDENT Suharto yesterday announced measures to restore confidence in his government. They include naming two key persons to monitor the implementation of the economic reforms demanded by the IMF. The two are Industry Trade Minister Tunky Ariwibowo and the government's economic adviser Widjojo Nitisastro, The Business
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    • 210 3 INDONESIA has long enjoyed political stability under President Suharto's rule. But as the economic crisis worsens, the rumour mill began to work overtime in Jakarta. One rumour said the military (Abri) might stage a coup. Minister of Information Hartono yesterday assured Indonesians that Abri would never stage
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 30 5 HOT iSTORIES k The Dow Jones Industrial average fell 220.20 points to close at 7,580.42 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 750 million shares.
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      151 5 SINGAPORE dived yesterday amidst panic -selling. The Straits Times Industrials Index sank by 94.35 points, or 7.43 per cent, to a seven-year low of 1,176.35. The Singapore dollar closed at $1.7725 to the US dollar. The confidence crisis in the stock market was triggered by the current
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    • 100 5 LAST May, former Government of Singapore Investment Corporation manager Eddie Taw Cheng Kong (left) was convicted of taking bribes of nearly $2.4 million. But Taw, 45, made history yesterday when the High Court acquitted him. Justice M Karthigesu said a section of the Prevention of Corruption Act under
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    • 64 5 Tlm Straits Timet: Clinton, IMF act to put Jakarta on track Tlm Bnfoess Hmw: Clinton's support pulls Indonesia from brink UdhlZMblO! Clinton phones PM Goh and Suharto, expressing support to Asian economic reform Bvtta Harlan: Jakarta pledges to follow IMF programme RCS morwiag mwk Minister calls on S'poreans to
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 52 5 THE Singapore Police Force is easing up on licensing practices. Now, those renewing driving licences within a month of expiry no longer need to produce renewal slips for verification at post offices. Restaurants wishing to play recorded music and organisers of pet shows or exhibitions need not apply
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      • 68 5 How many times have I resigned, how many times have I fainted and how many times have been on the verge qf reshuffling the Cabinet? Apparently, my son has committed suicide. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad scolding his countrymen for believing rumours, including one
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      • 48 5 STUDENTS at Maris Stella Secondary School are taking the smart route to paying for canteen food. Since last September, 1,300 students at the school have been using $12 cash cards (with a deposit of $2), thanks to a tie-up between the canteen management andaervfce provider Nets.
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      • 61 5 THE open and luxury Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) now cost more than that for mid-sized models. COE prices for these cars is now $43,880. The prices for medium cars is $37,576. A dealer said some traders are sourcing open certificates on the secondary market for mid-sized cars. Previously,
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      • Article, Illustration
        52 5 POLICE in Manila are suspending all 177 moneychanging kiosks in the Philippine capital. They said the moneychangers are hoarding US dollars because of the dropping value of the peso. The anti-crime office said this helps the peso lose value, because it stops the US dollar circulating and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 369 7 DrNoeleen Heyzer (left), the Singaporean director of the United Nations Development Fundfor Women (Unifem), is here to kick off the first symposium organised by Project Access —a group set up to help women get ahead. TEO YUN YUNfinds out what she
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    • 85 7 The one-day symposium today is organised by Project Access, a company set up to organise workshops for young women aged 15 to 24, to help them develop leadership skills. The person behind this is a Harvard graduate, Ms Melissa Kwee, whose aim is to train and start a network
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 451 9 Stopping cancer in mice men Cancer research received its biggest boost recently with a $2.5 million donation. A fellowship has been set up at the National University of Singapore and a 33-year-old doctor has been appointed its first fellow. JILL LlMfinds out more Fellowship DR Kong, who topped his medical
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    • 110 9 RECALLED Dr Kong, whose wife resigned from her job as an accountant to go with him: "The best thing there was the community, being able to talk about science all the time, in the washroom, on the street." The worst? Experiencing New York's worst blizzard in 46
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    • 124 9 DR Kong is doing research in gene therapy (reprogramming cells by changing their DNA, the material which carries genetic information) and anti-angio-genesis (preventing the growth of blood vessels). This is how it works: Cancer cells need blood vessels to survive, much more than normal cells. Dr
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    • 130 10 "GRIEF* is the word that readers picked as the one that captured the essence of 1997. No word can describe the grief that Singaporeans shared with the Silk Air crash families last month. The Silk Air Flight MI 185 that crashed into the Musi River near
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    • 101 10 ZOE Tay may be the Babe of the Year, but Nadya Hutagalung was the Showtime Personality last year. Twenty per cent of the voters to our contest line last week picked her. HOW ABOUT ZOE? Wong Li-lin is second with 17 per cent, while Fann Wong
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    • 404 11 80-ft REPORTS SAY THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which is investigating the crash, of Silk Air crash, discovered bolts missing from the tail end of the wreck, reported Bloomberg News on Thursday. The FAA immediately ordered inspections of the tail sections of all 211 late-model
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    • 31 11 What do they DO? Both the stabiliser and elevator control the up-and-down movement of the plane. Without them, the pilot will have no control over the plane's altitude.
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    • 446 12  -  By Hazel Tan FOR about two hours, Mr Lin Zeng Qi had a 10 cm metal pole pierced into his head. And he remained conscious throughout the ordeal. "No, I did not cry out, although the pain was killing," Mr Lin, 27, told The
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    • 333 13  -  DIALOGUE WITH MR LIM HNG KIANG By Teo Yun Yun THEY had money on their minds. And fears about their future. Many people who attended last night's dialogue session with Mr Lim Hng Kiang, National Development Minister and Chairman of the National Youth Council, wanted
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      460 15 'HERO' WHO WENT The former golf captain of the Seletar Country Club was fined, $30,000 yesterday after being convicted for corruption. WOON WUITEK talks to his friends and neighbours BACK then, the grateful Ngs dubbed him the "Brave One". Thick smoke had started coming out of the Ng family's
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    • 154 15 AT around midnight on Jan 2,1996, Yap had kept going in his Mercedes Benz after hitting a motorcyclist in Yishun. But two cab drivers pursued him, as did a woman hawker, on foot. At the Yishun bus interchange, Yap offered one cabby, Mr Ng Geok Hock, 40, and
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    259 16 Cher weeps and jokes in speech at ex-husband Sonny Bono's funeral WORLDTODAY WHEN they took centrestage in the '60s and '70s, Sonny and Cher brought joy to countless fans with their humour and music. Yesterday, as Cher, took centrestage alone at Sonny Bono's funeral, humour always a big
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    • 1170 17 m /•> i Institute of Technical Education Improve your English and Mathematics to broaden your training and career choices. Make a WISE move today! he Institute of Technical Education CITE) is the national aothprity for Interested? You can either apply at any of the Centres listed below or check X
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 281 18 Source: Bernama. STATE governments in Malaysia were still financially strong, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday. They did not register budget deficits and were in a better position than before, he said, after chairing the annual meeting of the National Finance Council
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    • 188 19 Reuters. HE wanted to spell out his love for her clearly. So, he gave her all the clues. In the New York Times crossword puzzle. Knowing his girlfriend did the crossword every day, Mr Bill Gottlieb asked The New York Times crossword editor to devise
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    • 308 19 Now anyone can get a lover —virtually Source: BBC, Reuters. THIS lover demands to be wooed with phone calls, letters and presents. But save for an initial "investment", it won't cost the pursuer much more. For the lover comes from virtual land. The electronic game, My Lover, made a hit
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    • 594 19 n*jET] Diploma In Mother Toogoe Lanjiuse Education For GCE *0* Letel Holders 4&2&t/ me a^ove f or^e nese < Malay or Tamil language and would like to develop the same love m others for the language, the Ministry of Education invites you to join the teachmg profession specialising in Mother
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    • 63 20 !'V n t'f r, wooWirW WIAJSWHIKI The will bring stability |ind All trades Set to prosper." the f% The Malaysian ijag£it is S the favoured* 5 t> w 4, The Philippines peso and the Korean won are currencies thafcwill rise in prominence in 1997." tm g v What it should
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  • weekender
    • COVERSTORY
      • 479 21  -  THE SEERS... REPORTS CALVIN LOW IT WAS the year of fire. Of harvests. And of bulls. Or bullshit! as those who looked to soothsayers for guidance last year might angrily surmise. Much to the chagrin of fortune-seekers, and the embarrassment of the seers themselves, some of their readings
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      • 543 21 THE ANALYSTS... SO you've made a new resolution this year. You'd rather sit at the feet of your investment guru rather than kow-tow before his more mystical astrologer cousin. Well, think again. Feng-shui masters weren't the only ones who learnt that second-guessing fate is, at best, a
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      • 604 22 TUNISIAN seer Hassen Charni "saw" Princess Diana's death nine months before she perished in the tragic Paris car crash in September. His prediction that she would die in 1997 was published in Tunisia's Essarih newspaper on the last day of 1996. Charni was spot on about Diana.
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      • 56 22 "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society in England, in 1895 "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Irving Fisher, Yale professor of economics, in 1929 "I think there is a world market for about five computers." —Thomas J
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    • 787 24  -  KEN JALLEH JR at larf^^ CALL me courageous, call me kiasu, call me handsome, but a few days ago I came face to face with a live chicken. Never let it be said that the people in this office do not risk their lives
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    • 298 25  -  BRIAN MILLER at ni gw WELCOME to the Serangoon Garden Cowboy Club! But hold your horses. Don't go rushing out for membership forms. There aren't any. But if you have a stetson, cowboy boots and a friend who is a member of the Serangoon Garden Country Club,
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    • 118 25 ALTHOUGH Matthew Tan is over at Serangoon Garden, the country scene in the city is alive. In fact, a new country-music pub has just opened at Orchard Towers. Called Country Jamboree, it plays well country music. Although still very new, it is slowly attracting Singapore's urban cowboys.
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    • 163 25 HAD the "King" been alive on Thursday, he would have been a rockin' 63. But, we all know that he died 21 years ago. However, though gone, Elvis Presley is not forgotten. On Wednesday night, Elvis' Place that pub in The Concourse along Beach
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  • SPOTLIGHT
    • 360 26 FORTUNE-tellers are having it a little easier this year. For hot on the heels of a disastrous year for fortune-hunters and tellers alike, comes the Year of the Tiger which, to the traditional Chinese mind, is associated with disasters. So it comes as no surprise
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    • 651 26 ITS going to be a tough year for the average investor. Tougher than ever if he's not careful. But that doesn't mean there won't be opportunities for profit-making, say investment gurus in town. Predicted Mr Hugh Young, the managing director of Aberdeen
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 232 30 Guilty of child abuse THE mother of a girl who weighed 308 kg when she died was found guilty of misdemeanour child abuse. Misdemeanour in legal terms is a less serious crime. Christina Corrigan (above left) was 13 when she was found dead in November
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    • 114 30 CHRISTINA had been fat most of her life. She weighed a normal 3.5 kg when born in March 1983. But by age five, she had ballooned to 52kg a woman's average weight. Thyroid tests, to find out whether glands caused her condition, came back negative. At seven, she
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  • Article, Illustration
    291 32 Men bail out as round-the-world balloon bid fails WORLDTODAY Reuters TWO American adventurers were forced to abandon their leaking balloon in mid-air yesterday. Mr Dick Rutan and Mr Dave Melton parachuted back to earth just 40 minutes after taking off from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a bid to be
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 816 33 I 1 A /f Q He Isn't Heavy, He's My Father (Channel 8, 10.30 pm) Comedy about a father and son who do not exactly see eye to eye. When the son meets with an accident, he is transported to the '60s where he runs into his father and discovers
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 896 34 sundaytvpage_ r Q shjjeb 5 H Crazy Woman (Channel 8, 2 pm) Hilarious movie about Mao Gugu, j to^Side a wh^hare nmel something in common the same husband. Stars Teresa Mo and Sandra Ng (left). NOON Baywatch —Last Wave (Drama) M LOO PM Sunday Matinee—TC 2000: Set in —Crazy Woman:
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  • 453 35  -  ET WITH IVAN FERNANDEZ "FEW months ago, everything okay. Now worse than hell." Taxi Driver was in top gear about the money crisis. "Why worse? "Hell got many speculators but here got speculators plus slowdown. "Hell very hot. "Markets here also got heat but
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    • 446 47 AROUND 20 minutes before kickoff, Spurs defender Colin Calderwood launches into his own personal pre-match ritual. "It took me a bit by surprise the first time I saw it," says Scotland international boss Craig Brown. "He just goes into a corner, it's his own little war
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    • 210 48 ACCORDING to magazine France Football, David Ginola deserves to suck lemons. And that's why it has awarded him its annual Le Prix Citron (The Lemon Prize) for being the French player most unhelpful with the sports media. The award goes to the most unhelpful player, coach
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    • 123 48 It's easy. Just call 1900-*****01 before midnight on Monday and indicate the match you think we should feature (see list below). Matches include only those played at the weekend. The match with the highest vote will make it to our Match of the Week pages
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    • 691 49 FAHQLE Name: Will Carting Boric Dec 12,1965 in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire I Milestones: 1984 Captains England at 18-group level 1967 Plays for England B 1988 Graduates from Durham University, where on Army scholarship, with degree in psychology. Buys his way out of Army. Becomes youngest English captain
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    • 212 49 WILL Carling is now happily settled down in a home near Eton with partner Ali and baby son Henry. He is understandably fiercely protective of their privacy and more careful than ever about his choice of friends, reports The Evening Standard. Former England soccer captain Gary
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    • 52 51 WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS: PERTH (Until Jan 18 Think she might get thirsty while training? Well, German swimmer Dagmar Hase is not taking anychances. Actually, the 1992 Olympics 200 m freestyle gold-medallist is using the tea cup to make sure her head stays steady above water.
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    • 207 52 THE scandal surrounding the Chinese swimming team has taken the pressure off the Australian team as it prepares for the world championships in Perth, "I think it's taken a lot of pressure off us because you guys are leaving us alone," Samantha Riley told the assembled
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