The New Paper, 26 July 1998

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      226 2 WAX) lllistratlon 8 striking: A dragon facing off with a W1 is blunt and to the point: i|®*apore's motive?" M Yes, dßßore is the subject of a nine-page feature in the latest issue of Massa, an RixfiUential Malaysian weekly magazine I published by the Umno-controlled Utusan f Malaysia
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    • 94 2 Malaysia and Singapore are not siblings, their relations are based more on friction than friendship. One party likes to go on the offensive while the other is patient and gives in. From what we can see, Singapore always looks for issues that cause anger and strain
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    • 90 2 SOME commentators felt that Singapore was envious of the strides Malaysia has made in various fields, including technology and infrastructure. This was one of the reasons the Singapore media carried many negative reports on the problems at the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport, reported the magazine. It
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    • 165 2 THE Singapore media was not Jfj| the only culprit, said Massa. It asserted that the actions of "other quarters in Singapore" contributed significantly to the strained bilateral ties. It said that the National Education Exhibition, which highlighted the race riots in the '60s, and a book on events
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    • 97 2 ITS been fun and our loss of sleep was worth it. Your response to our Sunday Paper during the World Cup has been tremendous. But all good things must come to an end. This special 10th anniversary issue is our last Sunday edition. We can't
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    • 264 3 REMEMBER OUR GO-GOAL GIRLS? WELL, it's time to form them into a six-a-side team... like we've been talking about on the Page 3s of the last six Sunday Papers. Just call 1900-914 0801 and tell us who from this list should be strikers (two players
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    • 412 4 tar In an interview to be published in the July/August issue ofWorldLink magazine, Deputy Prime Minister BG (NS) Lee Hsien Loonggives his views on the fallout from Asia's turmoil. Here are excerpts How badly has Singapore been hurt by the crisis in Asia? In the short term,
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    • 185 4 THE decision to allow Malaysian immigration to set up desks at the Woodlands Train Checkpoint as a temporary measure was made because of a "specific request" from Malaysian officials. The Home Affairs Ministry yesterday released a detailed account of the meetings and official exchange of letters.
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      64 4 fh Getting ready: An Indonesian soldier prepares himself, as thousands of fully armed troops assembled at the Senayan sports centre in Jakarta yesterday. The city is expecting opposition figure Megawati Sukarnoputri's supporters to gather in the city to commemorate the protests of July 27,1996. The protests were triggered
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      • 60 4 SAF THE economic crisis could affect the security of the region, said Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tony Tan. "A key lesson which we can learn from the crisis is that the economic security of a country is bound up with the country's national security," Dr Tan
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      • 53 4 INDONESIA IDONT know about the kidnappings. That is the response of Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs, Mr Feisal Taiyung, on the kidnapping of more than 20 pro-reform activists just before Mr Suharto's fall on May 21. The ex-armed forces commander also denied former Indonesian president, Mr
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      • 62 4 CRIME DRUG abusers who refuse to kick the drug habit will now face long jail terms and be caned, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) announced yesterday. They will no longer be sent back to Drug Rehabilitation Centres (DRCs) or just fined. The new law took effect on July
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      • 48 4 AUSTRALIA SEVERAL thousand students walked out of schools across Australia on Friday to demonstrate against the rise of far-right MP Pauline Hanson. The teenagers called the nation-wide protest to oppose her One Nation Party's anti-immigration and anti-Aboriginal policies. One Nation representatives said the students were manipulated.
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    • 26 4 USA Today Montana man held in Capitol shooting Asahi Shim bun: Obuchi names key execs Indian Express: Union members clear Fema, money laundering-bills
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    • 59 4 You make money in good times, why don't you share it with us? Now times are bad, you want me to fork out more? KL Chan, 34, to her bank. She was asked to top up $100,000 in cash for a $500,000 loan, or pay 8.5 per cent
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      167 11 The winners They are 10 and so are we. If s been a while since these babies celebrated their birthdays with The New Paper when we turned one. TEO YUN YUN catches up with the 10-year-olds OUT of the 1,826 entries received, only 521 could match the
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      619 12 Leonard Kong, St Hilda's Primary He sails, runs and high jumps for his school. No wonder Lennard looks tanned and fit. What's more this active boy is also a regular The New Paper reader. Said Lennard, with a sheepish grin: "My father buvs a copy almost
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      175 13 Just as The New Paper has changed and grown in the past 10years, so have the anniversary babies. Here's looking at one of them —Andrea Leung, through the years 1989 Andrea is one! She learnt to walk that year. 1991 "My first yearln play schoobL was so
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    • 299 14 TNP 10TH ANNIVERSARY HUNT ARE you in the fun hunt? It's part of the TNP 10th anniversary celebrations and it started on Wednesday. But it's never too late to catch up. These are the items we have asked for so far: a bus ticket
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    • 109 14 The first 1,000 readers to go to Suntec City with today's The Sunday Paper will get TNP commemorative Privilege Cards and goodies. Just go to the TNP-Countdown booth, which opens at 5 pm, at the atrium facing Carrefour. The TNP privilege card is produced
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    • 156 14 COME and be entertained! Catch American funny man Buddy Loren impersonating Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Rod Stewart and even the Spice Girls. TNP's very own five-piece band, Pepper N Spice Gang, will also be there. *The celebration goes on after 7.30 pm at the fountain where
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    • 428 15 As part of our public service projects, we adopt a different charity every year and a secondary school every two years. The charities we've worked with include the Dyslexia Association of Singapore, Alzheimer's Disease Association, Children's Cancer Foundation, Down Syndrome Association and, currently, the Bone
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    • 362 16 THE New Paper's "Adopt a Charity" programme is noble and laudable. It shows not only The New Paper's "humane" side but also its maturity despite not having reached its teens. A very happy 10th birthday! Many of its resources and valuable space are used
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    • 410 17  -  BY Yong Siew Fern SHE found television fame together with Zoe Tay and Aileen Tan after they won the very first Star Search in 1988. While Zoe went on to become the Queen of Caldecott Hill, Jazreel Low walked away after three years. Fame didn't agree
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    • 414 17 JAZREEL is amazed at how her Star Search peers Zoe Tay and Aileen Tan have lasted so long. "When I see them on TV now, they look tired. It's a price you have to pay, I guess. I really admire Zoe
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    • 234 17 "NOBODY believed Eric and I when we became a couple. And when we broke up, no one believed us, too." This was Jazreel summing up how she thought the media had treated her most times. Her first brush with media frenzy was after posing nude
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    • 410 17 A WOMAN must have a family, look after her husband and children and live happily ever after. This was Jazreel Low's outlook on life. So, when long-time lover Eric Moo proposed in July 1995, it was like a fairy tale
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    • 614 18 Her waifishface stares at you so often from magazine covers. From a disastrous start nine years ago, Celia Teh has gone on to become one of the top models today. The '90s "Ifgirt talks to FONG FOONG MEI about her career and looks back at
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    • 195 18 LIKE a chameleon, Celia's look has mirrored the changing times. In the '80s the young model with the Maggi mee perm wore chunky earrings and tight spandex dresses. She sported thick shoulder pads that wouldn't look out-of-place on a quarterback. Orange-coloured make-up caked her young face.
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    • 495 19 THE PAST IS GONE... Remember Joan Yap? The 15-year-old student who lost her entire family in a horror tour-bus crash in Malaysia that killed 13 Singaporeans in December 1996. AUGUSTINE PANG, who wrote about Joan then, catches up with her THE cheeks seem to
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    • 100 19 THIRTEEN Singaporeans heading for a Genting Highlands holiday, died when their tour bus crashed into a stationary lorry along the North-South Highway near Seremban. 'Hie bus burst into flames. The dead included three children. Twelve others were injured. The tragedy happened at 4.40 am on Dec 3. The
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    • 249 19 THEY both lost their loved ones in the crash. Now Joan and Mr Oon Ee Chung, one of the other survivors, have become friends who rely on each other for support and encouragement. "We still talk about the accident when Ee Chung and I meet,"
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    • 433 20 CRISPIN A ROBERT explains why our reporters seem obsessed with an angle for a story I'LL never forget this story. A 17-year-old girl lost her mother in tragic circumstances. Suddenly this very regular teenager had to become mother, maid, sister and mentor to her
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    • 446 21  -  By Crispina Robert IF there were only one newspaper here, all news would be told in just one way. But readers have different interests and want to look at news from different angles. Hence The New Paper's obsession with angles, explains its editors. Surveys show that 86
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      32 22 Before each staff gathering, cartoonist Hup will generate interest by whipping up a wacky poster, like this one for our barbecue at a chalet at East Coast Parkway last October.
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    • 41 17 Anxious: Relatives of victims of the H Silk Air crush in M. Indonesia last year, hoping for news. mt i Fr FOUR HUACKERS IS, AU on board The hijack I m of an SIA plane Km A Singapore was MOHCgEI j"
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    554 23  -  BY Mike Chua actually IT is just another vending machine where we make our way for a cuppa. But this machine, on the sixth floor of Times House, is where sapping spirits are refreshed and hot tempers get cooled. It is, after all, the official lampoon centre of
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    • 301 24 CAPITOL SHOOTING THE suspect in the deadly shooting at the US Capitol in Washington was a mentally ill loner. Russell Weston Jr, 41, (picture above) was last seen at his family's home in Valmeyer, Illinois, on Thursday. Mr Russell Weston Sr, 66, told The
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    • 119 24 OFFICIALS said the incident began at 3.40 pm, just inside a ground-level Capitol entrance where people must walk through metal detectors. Weston entered the building from a rear parking lot. He tried to go around a magnetometer, and when that failed, began firing a handgun. Republican Bill Thomas
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    • 251 25 Reuters. THIS computer whiz kid has been appointed a government consultant in Jamaica. His job: To help civil servants keep up-to-date with the latest developments in computer technology. Makonnen Hannah (above, taken from The Jamaica Observer, Internet Edition), was named youth technology consultant
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    • 69 25 old ways of doing business must change, inefficient firms close and cosy relationships break up... reform is medicine. If refused, the illness only grows worse. If taken, recovery becomes only a matter of time. Ms Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, on the Asian economic
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    • 564 26 HE is the son of Philippine President Joseph Estrada. But he will not get to live in Malacanang, the presidential palace, which will be his father's official residence for the next six years. That's because Mr Joseph Victor Gomez Ejercito, called JV by
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    • 528 27 The 'other' First Lady and the President's other children MS GUIA Gomez (right) met then actor Joseph Estrada when they were paired in a movie in 1962. After that, she did only two other films, one with Mr Estrada as her leading man again. "I was supposed to make a
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    • 893 28  -  S/>orf is about winning. It's about superheroes who, through their achievements on the playing field, have given us reasons to cheer even in the bleakest of times. Sport is also about dreams. About what it could be. Or what we would like it to be.
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    • 350 29  -  I REPORTS ERNEST LUIS WHEN you talk to Vincent Subramaniam, you'll notice he likes using the word "Can". He'll outline his points and ask you "Can?", before continuing. But deep down inside, this man knows
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      1144 30 O Local coaches to coach Singapore mm n««i Trom now on I HOPE the person after me is also a local. I must succeed now because if I don't, it'll be a blow for local coaches. Then all the critics who say local coaches can't do it will be
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    • 657 31  -  REPORT IAN BROWN 1998 DENNIS BERCKAMP (Arsenal) He arrived as a relative failure from Inter-Milan (Italy) in 1996 but has turned out to be the classiest Gunner since Liam Brady. Last season he truly fognd his niche
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    • 154 32 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP WARM-UP WORLD-CUP WINNING TEAM-MATES POSE SECURITY THREAT Reuters. EMMANUEL Petit, member of France's World Cup-winning football team postponed his wedding yesterday. It was because local police feared the presence of his French team-mates among the guests would upset public order. Petit had been
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    • 505 33  -  S-LEAGUE: BALESTIER CENTRAL 1 (Marko Kralievic 38th min) GEYLANG UNITED 0 By Gerard Wong 1: Both clubs had a lot at stake. Geylang had to win to keep its title hopes alive. But Balestier, still smarting from last week's
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    • 88 33 Geylang United is out of the title hunt. But SAFFC is just one match away from being crowned champion. The Warriors (SAFFC) and Tanjong Pagar won their matches last night and are tied on 43 points. SAFFC beat Woodlands 3-0 while Tanjong Pagar dismissed Gombak United 3-1. But
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    • 27 33 Geylang v Jurong FC (Bedok Stadium) Marine Castle v Tampines (Hougang) Sembawang v Balestier (Yishun) SAFFC v Gombak (Jurong Town) Tanjong Pagar v Woodlands (Queenstown)
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