The New Paper, 21 March 1998

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 299 2 EDUCATION MINISTRY ON REFINING RANKING OF SCHOOLS FIRST, it was the parents. Now, it's a panel of education experts. Their common call: Scrap the school ranking system. The Education Ministry's response: No, we won't stop ranking schools. But we'll change the way they are ranked.
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    • 163 2 AMONG other changes suggested by the External Review Team (ERT): ERT: Reduce the syllabus. Ministry's response: Yes, the ministry plans syllabus cutbacks by 30 per cent at every level. ERT: Introduce more project work at secondary schools and JCs. Ministry: Yes, students will be assessed on project work
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    • 171 2 Our students must be learners, creators and communicators to meet the demands of the next century learners in that they must view education as a lifelong process and develop a passion for continuous learning; creators who... display independent and innovative thinking; and communicators who are effective team
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    • 184 3 TO be the girl on hot actor Leonardo DiCaprio's arm it was the dream date 20,000 screaming fans would have died for. But the beaming blonde the Titanic star escorted to the royal premiere of his new film in London last night had an even
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    • 66 3 I She's five. Two years ago, she was given two months to live. Today, this little battler prepares her own medicine j. \h flHfm and comforts her distraught mum. I 1 »f)' I v Another girl's 13. She asks: Why me?" When the pain gets to her, she i "Mummy,
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 168 4 HOT STORIES CHEAP, cheaper, cheapest. Private property is getting even more affordable. Today, First Capital Corporation will be slashing prices of its Westville houses by 22 to 28 per cent, reported The Business Times. This makes them even lower than Keppel Land's
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    • 43 4 SEMIDETACHED Westville (FCC) $930,000 Lakeside Grove (Dynasty) $1.4 m Villa Verde (Keppel Land) CORNER TERRACE $865,000 to $1.02 m $1.2 m to $1.3 m $980,000 to $1.07 m TERRACE $795,000 to $905,000 $880,000 to $1.15 m $845,000 to $900,000
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 59 4 HAZE may blanket the region again in May, if fires in Borneo keep spreading. Rain is not expected there until the end of the year. When the south-west monsoon comes, the change in winds might blow the smoke this way, said the Meteorological Service. How bad the haze
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      • 53 4 LETTERS of apology have been exchanged over the bond-breaking issue. MP Chng Hee Kok now agrees that bonds carry an obligation to serve. Economic Development Board chairman Philip Yeo apologised for his remarks during a meeting in which he asked Mr Chng and other MPs who shared his
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      • 57 4 SCHOOLS can raise miscellaneous fees next year, up to a limit. But parents need not pay more in cash. They can use their children's Edusave accounts, if they use Giro, as this saves on administrative costs. The limits: $10 a month in primary schools, $14 in
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      • 54 4 THE Pentagon paid US$76 (Ssl23) for a 57 cent screw, an audit has found. Other buys: $46 electrical sleeves for $714 and $24 actuator sleeves for $403. It showed the US military is paying too much for some spare parts. Pentagon's inspector-general said purchasing officials often did
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      56 4 Author, author: Ah Meng "autographing"' her newly-launched. children's storybook. The book, My Cousin Ah Meng, was written by Dr Peter Creamer, a manager, and his writer wife Kathy. Fifty autographed books wdl be sold for $50 each and their proceeds donated to the zoo's Wildlife Conservation Fund. Unautographed
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    • 65 4 The Straits Times: Jakarta scraps plans to set up currency board The Business Times: Jakarta shelves peg, imposes 5 per cent forex tax Uanhe Zaobao: Raids flushed 339 illegal immigrants from forested areas Berita Harlan: Female students' discipline under review RCS morning news: IMF likely to lower forecasts for
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 103.38 points to close at 8,906.43 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 715 million shares.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 437 5  -  BY Teo Yun Yun QUESTION: How to become a beauty queen? Miss Alice Lim's answer: Go on a crash diet. To prepare for the Miss Singapore Universe 1998 contest, the 22-year-old undergraduate went on a 20-day crash diet. The result- She lost 2 kg
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    • 126 5 MISS Alice Lim impressed judges with her confident reply in the final question-and-answer round. Asked what role she would like to play if made a TV offer after winning the pageant, she said: "I'd definitely love to play the lead r01e... which will allow me to be versatile
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    • 86 5 FOR the first time, the top five winners will represent Singapore in various international beauty pageants. They were chosen out of 16 contestants who made it into the finals. The event, jointly organised by Metromedia Promotions and Pageant Promotions, also raised about $180,000, which will be donated to
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
    • 285 6  -  COMMITTEE FORMED TO LOOK AT... By Rachel Tan MOST girls are good but there is need to check the growing number who are just plain bad. Senior Minister of State for Education Dr Aline Wong said the number of girls arrested had been falling over
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    • 65 6 In primary school, most disciplinary offences are not serious. But gangsterism rose from 11 cases in 1996 to 34 last year. At the secondary level, serious offences are infrequent but substance abuse and gangsterism have been on the rise. Substance abuse rose from 33 cases in 1995 to
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    • Article, Illustration
      111 6 Mr Shriniwas Rai (left) is on the panels of the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents and the Strata Title Board. He is also secretary of the Singapore Indian Development Association (Sinda) and a member of the Hindu Advisory Board. And between 1991 and 1996, he was on
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    • 426 6 IN two weeks, lawyer and Nominated Member of Parliament Shriniwas Rai has given feedback and raised queries on 29 subjects in Parliament. He would have made an even 30 if not for the lack of time. It's no mean feat even if most of his
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 377 8  -  By Woon Wui Tek WHEN Ganesan Pandiyan led his surprise attack on Kinta Road, he hid his warriors like the Greeks in the Trojan Horse. According to that legend, Greek troops hid in a hollow wooden horse to defeat the Trojans. (See report below.)
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    • 91 8 THE Trojan War of Greek legends may have been in the 12th or 13th century BC. It started when Paris, son of the TVojan king, ran off with Helen, wife of a Greek chieftain. The Greeks sent an army against Troy, beginning a 10-year war. Eventually, the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 511 10 So, how sexy is the man who has been voted Singapore's most eligible bachelor? FONG FOONG MEI visits national swimmer Leslie Kwok (right) in his room to find out THE first time I met Leslie Kwok he was nearly naked, dripping
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    • 277 11 WOULD you believe this? In junior college days Leslie was, in his own words, "grossly underweight" and "a wimp". In his room at NTU he showed me a highly unflattering picture a very skinny Leslie sporting a "durian" haircut, spectacles and baggy pink and yellow bermudas.
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    • 319 12  -  OF CHICKENS By Woon Wui Tek A CHICKEN rice hawker found this out the hard way after she lost more than 100 chickens in a series of early-bird thefts. She only called in the police last Saturday, after 50 birds vanished sometime between 5.30 am and
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    • 290 12  -  ..AND EGGS By Danny Lim CHRISTINE, 30, is avoiding lot 120 in her car park like the plague, or the bird flu. When parked in that lot, her BMW 318 becomes a target for someone who j throws eggs. Last Thursday, at around 7
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    • 286 15  -  By Hazel Tan BUSES made him sick. So for 35 years, the independent and active Mr Ngo Ching Poy always went about on his motorcycle. Until Thursday. When the 71-year-old died in a hit-and-run accident along Bedok Reservoir Road. Police said his
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    • 119 15 CAN the male strippers of The Full Monty, the corrupt cops of L.A. Confidential or the disturbed genius of Good Will Hunting prevent Titanic from sailing to Oscar success? Here's your chance to predict the Academy Award winners and win prizes. Just pick the winners of
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    • 236 15 Are you proficient in English? Arc you content with the way How to express your ideas you speak and write? Are you fluentiy. sure that you are not making The study requires only a little mistakes that cause people to time, and very moderate fees underrate you? You arc judged
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      244 17 conscious Even the young ones are spending less in these bad times TIMES are bad, and adults are not the only ones feeling the pinch. Even students are starting to watch their spending and shop around for bargains to save a bit. Said Secondary 1 student Felicia Neo, 13: "We
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      24 17 111U I*llllll* Sunday is family day, when T get to spend time with my decisions. Instead, my wife and children decide on what
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    • 192 17 The Great Sydney Escape Holidays for people who go their own way from only $998. The Great Sydney Escape is a holiday concept with a time... Sydney has it all, and you can choose exactly difference: package holidays you design yourself. You what you want to do while you're there.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 342 18 UK HEADMASTER ASKS: THATS the question a top school headmaster in Britain asked recently. Mr David Crawford was criticising the morality of Britain's leading politicians by making side references to them. (See what he said about some of Britain's leaders.) He was speaking at
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    • 252 19 'Servant told to kill' Japanese man in Paris goes missing He sends message he's in danger He's murdered Police question two women and servant AFP. EARLY this month, Japanese architect Akira Ojima went missing in Paris. On Thursday his body was found hidden in a meat freezer
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    • 318 20 In his first press conference as Prime Minister, MrZhu Rongji seems to have wowed the Western press with his wit and charm. MrZht thanked Time magazine for making him look good. Reports said his 1V2 -hour press conference in Beijing on Thursday was a 'rivetingperformance'. His frank,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 377 22 Actress Joan Collins is on a warpath against fashion designers. She says they are passing off ugly designs as the in-things. Designs have become nothing but "trendy hideosity", she wrote in Spectator magazine. "Shabby and frump fashion are being passed off as the way to
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    • 489 23 Indonesia's dispute with the IMF is blocking US$4O billion ($64 billion) aid money A I COMPROMISE IN INDONESIA-IMF DISPUTE? IMF mnwim controls Wants Indonesia to allow more people to enter certain businesses now controlled by a handful of people, such as in food distribution, cloves and
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    • 126 23 CURRENCY BASKET: Indonesia may consider adopting a currency basket to stabilise the rupiah's value, Vice-President B J Habibie was quoted as saying in Tokyo. In a currency basket system, the rupiah's value will be pegged to the foreign currencies in the basket, which may include the yen and
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    • 195 24 Dog finds drug on former NBA star Abdul-Jabbar Reuters. A DOU has finally floored basketball's-jne-time high-flyer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The US National Basketball Association's ill-time leading scorer was arrested on nar\juana charges by US Customs while eaving Canada at Pearson airport, mmigration officials said yesterday. A US pre-screening customs
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    • 70 24 mui<mui< I think it's time to give it a rest... I'm not going to be bouncing on stage and doing any concerts in memory of Princess Diana. albano Stager Ettoa John tuyt R b time to mm off oa the bUrntes to Km late Nm§ Mom.
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        1000 26  -  THE FULL MONTY: Gaz, an out of work steelman in need of alimony money, hatches a plan to make some quick cash by roping in his out-of-luck buddies Guy, Horse, Lomper, David and Gerald to do a strip show a-la-Chippendales, the famed male dance troupe. That in
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        406 27 "Meshayet," Siartiei Mikhaliuk bedowed. the drop of a hat, would Siarhei I Ul Mikhaliuk drop his pants? "Meshayet!" he bellowed, as his ice-blue eyes steadied on mine. For a moment, I felt a chill colder than the heavy air-conditioning of the photo studio. "Meshayet," he repeated, this time
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  • 192 29 SPOTLIGHT f/V 1 the stroke of I'\MJ midnight on July 26 this year, The New Paper will be 10. And we want to celebrate with you because we couldn't have come this far without our readers. We'd like to kick off the celebrations by inviting you
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  • 448 30  -  weefemder EDWIN YEO By Edwin Yeo at night any night club or bar, ask I the owner what he thinks of new nightspots opening up and they'll probably say "siao" (crazy). Too true, considering the current economic turmoil. Yet, while many clubs
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    • 70 33 (in case you don't already know, (a) stands for "at"). (Sb is a tease of things to come, (a), for us this week, also means "adieu", because the Weekender section as you know it today will be < a thing of the past from next Saturday. In its place, something
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  • 477 36  -  ET CETERA WITH IRENE NG SOME people can go through life even a lifetime in London without being victims of crime even once. I'm in the fifth month of my stay in this city and already I have a tidy list that would fascinate crime
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 649 47  -  Preview By The Three Musketeers GO SOLID on Ferrari Line in Race 9 at Ipoh this afternoon. The three-year-old Mercury gelding ran a smack-up third to Magic Abjar over the I,ooom straight course last Saturday. With an extra 200 m to travel today, the
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    • 372 47  -  SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS CHAMPS: TILL TOMORROW RESULTS BOYS (Q-ffnats): Jurgen Melzer (Aut) bt Jonas Froberg (Swe) 6-1,64 Richard Brooks (GBR) bt Jeroen Masson (SA) 1-6,7-6(7-3), 6-3 Mark Hilton (GBR) bt S Zaman (Ind) 6-1,60 Victor Hanescu (Rom) bt Raimonds Sproga (Lat) 6-3,7-6 (8-6) The
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    • 191 47 BADMINTON: SWISS OPEN Reuters. WORLD champion Ye Zhaoying of China stayed on course for her second major badminton title in a week by easing into the semi-finals of the Swiss Open. Ye, who secured her second straight All-England title last weekend without dropping a set,
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  • 686 51  -  ENGLAND Tuesday: W By S Gulam HISTORY shows that evsry gmt football Mm h»« h»d fwniue. Brazil had Pete. Holland had Johann CmfT. Germany had Frani Beckenbauer. England had Bobby Charlton. Argentina had Dwgo Maradeoa. Franc* had Michel Platini And Italy had
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  • 293 52 S-LEAGUE '98 UPDATE Ladies and gentlemen, presenting... the foreign legion. ERNEST LUIS introduces you to a representative from each of the 11 S-League clubs this year... PAUL RICHARDSON S-League Club: Woodlands Wellington Nationality: English Ago: 20 Height 1.77 m Weight: 74kg Former Chib: Middlesbrough FC (England) JOWGEN
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS '98
    • 600 53 SPH SCHOOLS RELAY CHAMPS: TODAY AND TOMORROW (SERANGOON STADIUM, 2pm) Cedar Girls Secondary had a mixed day at last year's SPH Schools Relay Championships. Its senior girls won three relays en route to the B crown. But the C Division team only managed a gold and a
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    • 172 53 B DIVISION FOR the Cedar Girls B Division team, familiarity could result in another successful outing at this year's SPH Championships. Sprints captain Pearl Chua is confident of at least three titles this weekend the 4xloom, 4x200m and the 4x400m relays. They are the same three titles the
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 423 54 FRANCE'S (new found) HOTSHOTS A SAD night for AJ Auxerre, which ended in Uefa Cup elimination by Lazio, was paradoxically a happy one for France's World Cup coach Aime Jacquet. The Italian club drew 2-2 away to the French team in the second leg of their
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    • 275 54  -  BY Ian Brown DAVID Trezeguet's wonder strike against Man United last Wednesday could be a foretaste of things to come in France '98. The 20-year old Monaco strikers shot was timed at 154 kph. "Age isn't important," says the young star reflecting on his World Cup
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    • 621 55 SINGAPORE 2 (Azhar Baksin 23rd min. 36th) GOMBAK UNITEDO Once again, national coach Barry Whitbread has been under fire after the Lions'dismal performances in the recent Pattaya training tour. ERNEST LUIS gets his response to the
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    • 433 55  -  Comment/ S Gulam JUST four days to go before the Tiger Cup qualifiers, and the national coach doesn't seem to have got his act right. Last night's match against Gombak United was his last opportunity to test his First X 1... To see if
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    • 227 55 PORthe last three yeArt, the FAS and Barry Whitbread have given Singapore soccer Tiger Cup humiliation, Dunhill Cup farce, two SEA Games debacles...and now Patheti< Pattaya. I can't say I'm looking forward to next week's Tiger Cup qualifiers what are we doing there in the first
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 412 56 WORLD CUP WARM-UP: SWITZERLAND v ENGLAND fWFDNESDAY) Reuters. GERMANY* BRAZIL GERMAN coach Berti Vogts has called up Schalke defender Yves Eigenrauch for Wednesday's World Cup warm-up against Brazil in Stuttgart. The 26-year-old Eigenrauch is the only newcomer in the 23-man squad. Tottenham's Jurgen Klinsmann is one of Four
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    • 123 56 TOMORROW Atalantav Empoli Bariv Sampdoria Fiorentinav Bologna Laziov Piacenza Napoliv Lecce Parma v Juventus Udinesev Brescia VicenzavAS Roma AC Milan v Inter-Milan AC and Inter-Milan, the sporting pride of Italy's commercial capital, play their fourth derby of the season at the San Siro tomorrow. It is
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    • 120 56 NEXT WEEKEND SATURDAY: 1: Arsenal v Sheff Wed 2: Barnsley v Liverpool 3: Bolton v Leicester 4: Coventry v Derby 5: Crystal Palace v Tottenham 6: Evertonv Aston Villa 7: Man Utdv Wimbledon 8: Southampton v Newcastle It's easy. Just call 1900-*****01 before midnight
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    • 172 56 EUROPEAN ACTION EUROPEAN CUP Semi-finals: Juventus(lta)v Monaco (Fra) Real Madrid (Spa) v Borussia Dortmund (Ger) lft leg on April 1; 2*4 leg April 15 UEFACUP Semi-finals: Atletico Madrid (Spa) v Lazio (Ra) Inter-Milan (Ita) v Spartak Moscow (Rus) Ist leg March 31; 2nd teg April 14 CUP-WINNERS'
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