The New Paper, 18 April 1998

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 304 2 DO NT worry if initial usage of the second link has not been up to expectations, says Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The bridge, linking Gelang Patah in Johor and Tuas, is a bridge to the future. "It is for our future needs," he says
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    • 90 2 PM Goh and Dr Mahathir were to meet at the spot where the Singapore side joins the Malaysian side at 9.30 am today. They were to jointly cut a ribbon to declare open the 1.9-km bridge and then sign a commemorative plaque. The Second Link was opened to
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    • 250 2 THE Chinese High, Nanyang Girls High and Nan Hua Primary are three schools that will be joining the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) next year. Dr Aline Wong, Senior Minister of State for Education, announces this in a speech she is to give
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    • 69 2 Catch a short talk on electronic road pricing after dinner tonight, if you're near Junction 8. Win prizes. The multimedia talk will be presented by The New Paper. Put questions to the senior managers of the Land Transport Authority. WHERE: Bishan Community Club, 51, Bishan St 13. WHEN:
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    • 412 3  -  Two lanes: On the T-shirt, modelled by last year's New Face finalist, Ms Sandy Guo (below), artist Adrian Gan shows people walking in two lanes. The reason: For the first time, fun walkers and competitive contestants will enjoy separate lanes. Mr Gan also
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 142 4 SOFTWARE pirates, beware. A licence is now needed to import the equipment needed to make master copies and copy optical discs compact discs and video CDs used for computer software and movies. Only manufacturers approved by the Economic Development Board can import such equipment. One of
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 90.93 points to close at 9,167.50 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 665.6 million shares.
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    • 61 4 Tlm Straits Times: New rules to stop software pirates The Business Times: Temasek eyes stake in Bangkok Bank Umhc Zaobao: EDB's International Advisory Council: S'pore can act as business information centre for Europe and US during crisis period Berita Harlan: Indonesian debt issue: Foreign banks agree RCS morning news:
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    • 207 4 No more leaded petrol from July PETROL companies will stop selling leaded petrol here from July 1. This move will affect about 30,000 old vehicles, designed to run on leaded petrol. The Environment Ministry (ENV) advises their owners to add a protective additive, available at petrol stations,
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 60 4 SCHOOLS will each fit at least one air-conditioned room with air filters because of the haze. The filters will be fitted within the next few weeks to help students from breathing problems caused by the haze. The filters cost about $14 each for window unit air-conditioners. They last
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      • 47 4 CHARITY group Bodhicherie Vegetarian Food is to supply eight NTUC Foodfair Cooperative-run food courts from July. NTUC Foodfair is one of its four investors. Bodhicherie has already set up a $3-m restaurant for charity. The group hopes to also supply frozen vegetarian food to supermarkets.
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      • 64 4 FROM April 19, MobileOne subscribers will be able to access some Net information on their handphones. Info On Demand will include stock prices, flight schedules and PSI readings You just key in certain codes to call them up. Information on the weather and auto-roaming will be free. The
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      • 64 4 A LAWYER who again failed to turn up for a hearing has been banned from practising. John Tan 32, jailed a week for not attending a case, did not appear to explain why he should not be struck off. The Law Society disciplinary committee had found him guilty
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      • 58 4 FOUR goldsmiths are revising prices upwards, after the jewellery association highlighted a "lower gold prices" gimmick, where more was charged for workmanship instead. The four shops reverted to the recommended $16 per gramme for the 916 grade. But at least 11 others in Ang Mo Kio, Toa
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 659 6 The New Paper, April 14 1 want to end up like me? On Tuesday, we published a story on a school dropout who said she felt like a "gone case" at 16. Now, she has fought with her mum and run away from home —again. The mother
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    • 95 6 SHE was bored in school. She thought happiness was throwing away her school books. So she dropped out. And it was shiok at first. No homework or exams. Free to go where she liked, do what she liked. But then, she found she was doing the same old things,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 469 8 A man convicted of murder may be saved by his skin: Judicial Commissioner Amarjeet Singh has found that his inheriteitskin condition made him mentally abnormal. WOON WUITEK reports WHILE riding his motorcycle, he once declared abruptly that life was without meaning. Ong Teng Siew then threatened
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    • Article, Illustration
      445 9  -  But not hamburgers, says Einstein, (no, no, not THAT Einstein). This one is a Norwegian cartoonist who champions pigs, hippos, rainforests and plans to save the earth with L his witty cartoons BY Carol Leong SURE cows matter. Cows release enough methane to make it the third biggest
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    • 654 10 SHE was 12 when she played mother to her eight-year-old sister. Home was a semi-detached house at Jurong Kechil, a place as foreign to them as Mars. Their guardian was a complete stranger, an acquaintance of their father's friend, and the principal of a
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      302 12  -  BY Tan Xeauwei GETTING pinched by curious strangers is a job hazard these silver-painted models have to live with. There they were keeping absolutely still in various athletic poses for more than half an hour at Raffles Place yesterday. Mr Neil Frediani, who posed as a cyclist, was
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 546 14  -  Stories/1 Danny Lim THIS is all he has left of his $147,000 Mercedes. A carpark receipt. And the spare key. Mr Randy Tan last saw his eight-month-old white beauty on April 3, when he left his Mercedes Benz C180 in the hands of a
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    • 47 14 A lawyer in private practice explained that the only course of action open to the driver is to claim from his insurance company for the t v theft of his vehicle. His insurance company can then sue the valet operator for negligence to recover costs.
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    • 419 14 THE car was stolen in less than a minute. The thief, almost an invisible man. Mr Leow Joon Pew, a businessman in his 30s, had just topped up the petrol tank in his friend's Nissan Sunny at a Shell petrol kiosk. When he came out about 30 seconds
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 319 16  -  By Lee Hui Chieh TWO men who snatched a woman's gold chain were chased up and down a block of flats, and fought with the police. They were arrested and the chain recovered, outside Block 12, Eunos Crescent. But a major role in the drama, on
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    • 138 17 ITS been eight years since The New Paper Big Walk started. That means eight different T-shirt designs since then. So you remember the one with the big footprints, but which Big Walk was it for? Try our memory teaser and win prizes. All you have to
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    • 291 16 P TWVk' JL THIS FORM IS FOR FUN WALKERS ONLY OCCUPATION CODE: 1 Student 2. Housewife 3. Office-worker 4. Blue-collar 5. Professional/ Executive 6 Retiree 7. Others I J A, Please note that all information givan MUST BE ACCURATE AND CLEARLY WRITTEN IN BLOCK LETTERS I BIG WALK 98 >
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 210 18 OT too long ago, it was II borrow money in Japan that real and wanna be tycoons, gangsters and salaried workers went on a huge shopping sprees' r They bought everything from high-priced Japanese stocks to Hollywood moyie studios to French paintings. Due to
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    • 441 19 STUDENT PROTESTS IN INDONESIA: SINCE February, many Indonesian university students have been skipping classes to take part in demonstrations on campuses. They are angry with the government's apparent inability to solve the country's economic woes, which have resulted in rising prices and unemployment. The protestors say
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 354 21 Pol Pot, who killed some two million in Cambodia, will be cremated today in a quiet ceremony in Sahook, a remote part of the country. His body lies "wrapped in a plastic bag and packed with ice to prevent rotting Only two people mourn his death—his
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    • 70 21 POL Pot's body is being poked and prodded to see if he died of natural causes. Thai military officers who went to inspect his body have taken photographs of his teeth and a lock of hair, the International Herald Tribune said. Thailand says it does not
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    • 372 22 Source: Reuters. NOTHING could have prepared the Myanmar woman for her 11-day nightmare. She was 31 and looking for a job in New York City. The man was 44 and offered her work as a cleaning lady, using it to lure her into
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    • 33 22 mui<mui< If books had been invented after tne computer, they would have been considjßfrd a big breakthrough. Books boot instu||Ll They run on very low power at a very low
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    • 271 23 US lottery winner shows... SHE won millions in a lottery. And she's giving it all away. Of the US$8.5 million ($13.5 million) that she had won, the devout Catholic signed over US$5.9 million to her parish. Charities, needy individuals and three nephews, her only close
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  • 554 24  -  THENEWSTODAY by JILL LIM FOR some, flood is probably the correct analogy for this Asian economic crisis. Those countries that have built solid boats can be secure in those boats, while those who made flashy but flimsy ones, or none at all, get battered and
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  • 197 25 WORLDTODAY IT was Malaysia's first sports car. But the ringgit's spin off track has taken this roadster with it. Now its maker, STI Corporation Sdn Bhd, has been served an order to wind up production. STI's chairman, Tunku Imran ibni Tuanku Ja'afar, is the second son of
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 583 38  -  Preview By The Three Musketeers SINGAPORE trainer Mohd Yusof, who saddled a good-priced double last Saturday, can continue his winning run today with Golden Medal. The four-year-old, who scored a convincing win over the mile last week, is down to contest the day's last event and he should
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    • 203 39 OP BOWLING CHALLENGE STEP-LADDER FINALS; TODAY (NOON). VICTOR'S SUPERBOWL AFTER playing bridesmaid to Steven Ang for two days, former World Cup champion Tom Hahl finally clinched the top spot on the leaderboard. He rolled a 1,805 for a 24-game total of 5,170 (average 215). Ang, who hogged
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    • 261 39  -  By Gerard Wong NATIONAL bowler Doreen Pang must be wondering whether she has been taking part in a bungee jump instead of a bowling tournament this whole week. For that's what her fortunes in the $120,000 OP Challenge at Victor's Superbowl are starting to resemble. After
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    336 41 TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE '98 Front row, from left SEP I Age: 25 PodMon. Midfielder Height 1.75 m Weight 70kg S-League dube Geylang United ftofhwo dub: Tam pines Rovers ('97) They are Singapore soccer's marksmen. They don't pull punches. Their job: To put the ball behind the net ERNEST
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    881 42  -  Tuesday: France' 98 ABOUT OWEN.. NO ALCOHOL They offered him beer, wine and champagne, but Michael Owen would not be tempted. "I want to take care of my body," he said, so the party went on around him to name the top players in the Premiership. NOVICES?:
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  • WORLD CUP '98 UPDATE
    • 321 43 JAMIE REDKNAPP Wf\' *<£ f i #7#/77im/ 1 Age: 24 Height 1.79m Weight 74kg Club: Liverpool Young and technically gifted. Excellent vision and distribution skills. One of the best playmakers in the English Premier League. He's tipped to be England's playmaker for the future. His chance could
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    • 351 44 WORLD CUP WARM-UP: ITALY v PARAGUAY (WEDNESDAYS WARM-UPS MONDAY: Iran v Hungary Jamaica v Ghana WEDNESDAY: Chile v Colombia Italy v Paraguay Germany v Nigeria England v Portugal Ireland v Argentina APRIL 25: Uruguay v Colombia APRIL 29: Brazil v Argentina Japan v Chile ATTHE WORLD CUP
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    • 127 44 AFP. MIDDLESBROUGH manager Bryan Robson is to ask England boss Glenn Hoddle to excuse his star players from international duty next week. England plays Portugal in a World Cup warm-up at Wembley on Wednesday. Both midfielder Paul Gascoigne and winger Paul Merson have been called up for the
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    • 227 44 Wire services. TRAVEL LEVY: Air travellers in Nigeria will start paying a levy to raise funds for the national soccer team's World Cup bid, a local newspaper reported. The independent Thisday newspaper quoted a statement by airline operators in the country as saying the levy—about US$2 ($3.20)
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    • 204 44 AFP. A FOOTBALL-MAD couple kicked off married life in front of thousands of fans yesterday. They had their blessing ceremony enacted in a replica of the new Stade de France in Paris. Kim Jenkinson and Ben Norman were at the BBC's Match of the Day Live exhibition
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      147 45 MAN UNITED v NEWCASTLE (Today) TODAY: Arsenal v Wimbledon Barnsley v Tottenham Bolton v Leeds Crystal Palace v Derby Everton v Leicester Man Utd v Newcastle Saints v Aston Villa West Ham v Blackburn TOMORROW: Chelsea v Sheff Wed Coventry v Liverpool ON TV TOOAY: Man U
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    • 410 45  -  NEWCASTLE By Lan Brown REPORTING FROM LONDON ITS fair to say that Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish was never the Toon Army's notion of their ideal general. But the foot soldiers have been stamping their feet as never before, and there's been talk of revolution in the
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    • 238 45 Excerpts at the press conference after the match against Arsenal. Reporter That was a bad result for you, Kenny. Kenny DalgHsh: Well that's a bit obvious isn't it? Reporter Does that result have any wider significance? KD: Not as wide a significance as what your waist is
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    • 126 45 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
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      386 46 Why do people hate Beckham? MATCH OF THE WEEK TOMY Man United v u ,t| newcasue IAN BROWN PREDICTS Today: ARSENALv WIMBLEDON 3-1 BARNSLEY v SPURS 2-3 BOLTONv LEEDS 1-1 PALACEv DERBY 2-1 EVERTONv LEICESTER 3-1 MAN UTD v NEWCASTLE 2-0 SAINTS v VILLA 1-1 WEST HAM v
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    • 365 46 THE stalking of Man United star David Beckham took another sinister twist on Tuesday night. He and fiancee Posh Spice, Victoria Adams, had to flee the player's luxury house in Salford after spotting a prowler in the garden. Earlier that day Emma Gardner, pregnant girlfriend
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  • 258 47 CLUES TO PUZZLE ACROSS 1. The club at Toa Payoh Stadium which is leading the Tlgfer Beer S-League table 2. Team that came from behind to win 3-2 last week 3. Balestier Central, 1998 and a popular beer. What animal symbol do these three have
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  • 137 47 YOU are young, you are talented and you are playing in the Tiger Beer S-League. Fit the bill? If you do, then you have a special place in The New Paper. Starting today, our reporters will be on the lookout for Singapore's best young soccer talents plying
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  • TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE '98
    • 690 48 Should rising footballers Indro Sakdan DaudandLatiffKhamarudin concentrate solely on the S-League instead of dividing their time every week with the national Under-19 team ERNEST LUIS reports SINCE March 1, both Indra Sahdan Daud and Latiff Khamarudin have spent their Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays training with the
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    • 294 48 MATCH OF THE MY: Geylang United v Woodlands Wellington (Bedok Stadium) Geytang coach cum team manager Douglas Moore: We're duty-bound to turn on a better performance after last week's draw. I'm demanding an improvement from every player. But whether that's good enough to beat Woodlands,
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    • 193 48  -  REZAL TUSSLE By: S Gulam REZAL Hassan's case has been referred to the Players' Status Committee (PSC). The national No 1 goalkeeper's current club, SAFFC, is involved in a dispute with his former club, Tai\jong Pagar United (formerly Tiong Bahru United). Tanjong Pagar claims Rezal
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    • 208 51 6.30am: I get up and make breakfast for my two kids and husband. He works in the family green grocery, so his time is flexible. 7.00am: Drop the kids at school. 7.30am: My husband and I take a jog at Bukit Timah. He thought he was fit until
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    235 55 GE NAUGHTY BOY: DiCaprio was thrown off the set of the pre-schoolers' TV show Romper Room when he was five for being disruptive. IN THE HABIT: Hungry for a glimpse of DiCaprio in the flesh? If you have the dough, you could try camping out at Moomba,
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      • 206 57 www.caus.org w ~a———FORGET about the X-Files.The ■■M truth is in here. The truth about (Vying saucers and little green men. Believe it or not, an organisation called Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (Caus) has daimed that Its wsb pages offer "the most reliable and
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    • 191 57 IBI Thinking of catching I some foreign films at X this year's Singapore International Film ■P Festival? You just might encounter some absurd subtitles, such as these spotted In Hongkong 1 L films: moB yi I am damn unsatisfied to be MB killed in this way.
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