The New Paper, 6 August 1998

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  • 164 2 Tomorrow, lunch at Raffles Hotel for 10 TODAY'S offer Is a Doughboys lunch special. It's one of the 10 exclusive offers lined up for you as part of The New Paper's 10th Anniversary and Raffles Singapore hotel's 111 th anniversary celebrations. At Doughboys (Raffles City Shopping Centre, #81-03), you can
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  • 464 2 LOOK at the two products. Small in size. Light in weight. But very high in value. This sums up the future that is the 21st-century economy. It is a "weightless world" where consumers pay more for products that
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  • 230 2 IN this knowledge-based world, says Dr Tan, Singaporeans must pick up more than just information. It is not the information itself that creates value but j the processing, dissemination and use of the information that creates business opportunities. "We must pick up more complex skills such as managing
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    • 26 2 jjt '< Leisure ■,■1 i Showtime: Pages 28 31 Comics: Pages 32 34 TV: Page 51 it 1 I: 1 |)!li;|iUi!i i' j i'' ji'l j I
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    • 42 2 Sorry j* IN our Quick News page on Monday, we reported that Infoseek Communications was licensed to offer callback services. The Telecommunication Authority of Singapore says it does not license callback services, but allows Infoseek to operate in Singapore under certain conditions.
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  • Article, Illustration
    133 3 -NEWS HANGING OUT: He's known only as The Prince of Pain. And he certainly lives up to his title. The Kamikaze Freak Show performer is captured right (and below, from a different angle) creating a new world record —for suspending his body in mid-air from hooks imbedded in his
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 362 4 CHEAPER From today, prices of 33 essential items at NTUC Fair Price will be cut by up to 13 per cent to help lower the cost of living of workers in tjtis economic downturn. IRENE KEWfinds out how one consumer gains SHE saves 90 cents on the
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    • 33 4 lean buy one more [fack qfrice with the IVs good thatthey think about people like us. Madam Tan Bee Eng, who expects to save $22.20 in the next four months.
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    • 57 4 If the situation turns out that we have to do more than we are doing now, we will consider taking action. Mr ChongKwen Sam, Deputy General Manager of Prime Supermarket We try to be competitive and we try td react as promptly as we can to market situations.
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    • 96 5 Pager nth every 2 cartons IMMEDIATE ACTIVATIDN at Hutchison Countar at selected Cold Storage Supermarket •Bugis Junction Centrepoint Holland \RDagi JoKta King Alb art Park Korthpoint Katong T^kashnnaya Tampines Tiong Bahru Woodlands World Trade Centre 2 cartons of 'Coca-Cola', 'Diet Coke', 'Sprite', F&N assorted flavours (24 cans x 330 ml)
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 191 6 m PROPERTY PRICES FALL EXECUTIVE condominium prices have gone below $400 per square foot. And this is expected to push down prices of other ECs as well as HDB resale flats and low-end 99-year-leasehold private condominiums. Pidemco Land's Woodsvale project in Woodlands is going at $378
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    • 47 6 Average price i Launch EC Jan Yew Mei Green April Summerdale 410 May Riverdtle 450 r June Florida July North Oaks 412 Aug Woodsvale 37S r f |T Of Mi f'' w Ww In all cases, the developers absorbed the stamp duty, w I i
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    • 135 6 News makers AFP. NICK Leeson, the former rogue trader, is reportedly facing a battle against colon cancer. The Daily Mail said Leeson had been moved to the hospital wing of Changi prison. Leeson is serving a six-and-a-half year sentence for fraud. He was jailed in December 1995
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    • News Break
      • 66 6 JOBS PARKWAY Holdings Ltd, Singapore's biggest private hospital operator, yesterday asked its 2,000 employees to take two days unpaid leave each month for a year to cut costs, eight employees said. This is equivalent to an 8 per cent pay cut. Occupancy rates at Parkway's hospitals are estimated
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      • 64 6 I busPness CATHAY Pacific Airways lost HK$l75 million ($38.7 million) in the first half of 1998. It made HK$l.O7 billion in the same period last year. It's the first loss in the company's 50-year history. Reason: Weak currencies and slowing regional growth. It joins a string of others,
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      • 68 6 COURT TEENAGER Chin Chee Kin has pleaded guilty to using a computer, printer and scanner to make three fake $50 notes and passing one of them off as real. Chin, 17, who made the notes in May with the help of two youths, used one note to
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      • 60 6 COURT KHONQ Guan Flour Mills general manager and director Robert Ang Chun Ti, who was charged with criminal breach of trust, failed to turn up in court yesterday. Ang, 67, who allegedly misappropriated $3 million from Khong Guan, was out on a $100,000 bail. His lawyer said
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    • 45 6 South China Morning Post: Cathay records HKsl7sm loss New Straits Times: Chance for retrenched workers to enhance skills CNN Interactive: Saddam Hussein freezes cooperation with UN inspectors BBC news: Indonesia and Portugal are to hold talks about wide-ranging autonomy to East Timor
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    • 158 7 in F©€us The non-stamping of passports by Malaysian immigration, of rail passengers entering Malaysia from Singapore, is causing problems. Some Singaporeans faced difficulties on their return. Customs and immigration officials atjohor Baru said their passports didn't have a stamp to show they had entered Malaysia legally. I
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    • 62 7 WEATHER SINGAPORE'S coral reefs fringing the Southern Islands are dying. The corals, normally dark brown, green or yellow, are becoming white because warmer water from the El Nino weather pattern earlier this year is destroying the life-giving algae on them. Marine biologists, working to revive the corals, will
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    • 64 7 MEDIA U THE operations director of Malaysian private TV station TV3 has quit. Mr Yunus Said "told us Tuesday was his last day", a senior TV3 newsman said. He was the third Malaysian newsman to quit in a month. Opposition leaders and press-freedom groups say this is
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    • 60 7 1 STOCKS M THE New York stock market may have reached the bottom of its current sell-off. So said market analysts commenting on the plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average on Tuesday. Analysts said the market's performance would be supported by the health of the US economy
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    • 54 7 SOCIAL MORE elderly Singaporeans tried to kill themselves last year, reports Berita Harian. According to the Samaritans of Singapore's annual report, attempted suicides among those aged 50 and above rose 15 per cent for the year ending March 1998. But overall attempted suicides fell from 628 cases the
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    • 26 7 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 59.47 points to close at 8,546.78 yesterday. Volume was the secondheaviest ever with 856 million shares changing hands.
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    • 62 7 The Straits Times: Fair Price cuts prices to ease burden The Business Times: Wall St bull still intact despite Tuesday's scare: analysts Lianhe Zaobao: Singaporeans have absolute confidence in the judiciary Berita Harian: Fair Price cuts prices up to 13 per cent RCS morning news: Dr Mahathir
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    • 63 7 We cannot merely appeal to nationalism to persuade Singaporeans to buy locally, or to legislate that they do. We have to make it worth their while to do so. It means prices here should be more competitive. NTUC chief and Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng on how
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 474 8  -  He is 15. He tried to drive a van and crashed into a car. In juvenile court, judge tells him: We cannot nam* the boy because, as a juvenile -i-ti— a u A OtMlilCJUClllj lllv identity must be We are naming his because they are
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    • 190 8 TERRIFIED that he would get into trouble after banging the van into a parked car on April 11 this year, Peng asked the colleague who was with him to keep quiet about it. But the driver of the car was at the scene and made a police report
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    • 45 8 Anyone und6f 16 caught driving can be fined up to $1,000 or sent to prison for up to three months. Repeat offenders can be fined $2,000 and sentenced to up to six months. The minimum age for getting a driver's licence is 18.
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    • 554 8 HE looked very dirty, his clothes were soiled, his hair was so long. He looked like a gangster. This was how Peng appeared to two strangers when some hawkers approached them to take the boy under their wing. "I was quite
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    • 412 9  -  NAME IN COURT By' Teo Hwee Nak THE alleged murderer of Bulgarian student lordanka Apostolova was called a liar on his second day on the witness stand. Mr Peter Fernando, the lawyer for his alleged accomplice, Norishyam Mohamed Ali, tried to expose him as a liar on no
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    • 86 10 mui'mui* Tb> StnH» Th—ll ulwmiiil PwM Knwi on mijiili nw lim. They love their durian you love your belacan. So there. To each his own. The acceptance t hat all men are not the same in likes and dislikes, in modes and manners, in
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    • 155 10 El Eillll DID 1811 A mainstay on the British and Guropean club scene and constantly demanded by promoters all over the world Disciple boasts a global reputation for being able to regularly send dance floors into a frtn/y through slyly utilising his wicked turntable skills i Disciple has just completed
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  • ON WHERE TO LOOK THE WHAT TO ASK FOR JOB HOW TO COPE
    • 519 11 Remember Andy, the general manager who was sacked after a job move and pay cut? Several former middle managers wrote in after reading his story. Their worry: Without union protection, and not covered by the Employment Act, how can they make sure they don't get
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    • 278 11 THERE is little sacked middle managers can do to claim compensation under present laws, say lawyers. Said Mr Soh's lawyer: "For management staff, even if you terminate five or six of them at one shot, you can't call it retrenchment. "There is no collective agreement for them
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      385 12 QI recently quit a publishing company and am desperately seeking a job. What tires me is not flipping through the ads, but trying to get accepted as normal, with above-average intelligence. I am hearing-impaired. Many people think they need to know sign language to communicate with the deaf. I have
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    • 45 12 Let us know. Write in with your particulars, and questions on any job-related problems for our job counsellor who will reply eveiy Thursday. Write to: The New Paper, 390, Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 E-mail: tnp@asial.com.sg Fax: 737-5375
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    • 376 12 stopi Watch For These Warning Signs Before It's Too Late. Don't accept your hair loss as a natural occurrence lnc °7 o^ Sc l r Certain scalp conditions You could be losing more and watch your hair go down the drain. Hair and scalp such as flaky skin or hair
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  • 346 13  -  Same time, same place, same victim. But... SINGAPORETODAY BY Jason Tan HE got away for outraging a woman's modesty in a HDB lift. But he went back to same place, at the same time, and tried to rob the same victim a year later. Yesterday, Kanna Superamaniam, 26,
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  • SPEAKUP
    • SPEAK BP YOUR FORUM
      • 182 14 ON INDONESIA ROWS BETWEEN NEIGHBOURS Kelvin Koh I WAS filled with shock and disbelief at Indonesian President B J Habibie's remarks that Singapore was not a true friend, as, he said, the US, Australia and Europe had been. The Singapore Red Cross Society
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        47 14 In his Et cetera piece, "So close yet so far apart" (TNP, Aug 4), Herbert Fernandez urged the Malaysian and Singaporean governments to settle their dispute like friends —since he, like many Singaporeans, have strong family bonds across the Causeway. Readers respond... TNP, Aug 4
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      • 88 14 Low Hock Leong I AM not a journalist and don't need to read between the lines to realise that we are being bullied by Malaysia. All their problems are attributed to Singapore. They are testing the capabilities of our current leaders. How many of their ministers or
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      • 77 14 Jason Lew Tet Shin I LOVE my country, Singapore, and I have always believed we have a good Government. But I also treasure friendships very deeply. In this financial crisis, why don't Malaysia and Singapore spend more time helping each other, rather than on the Customs, Immigration
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    • 120 14 I Limited Edition Of "THE STORM RIDERS" COLLECTIBLE CARD Available Now Selling HOTat he Hong Kong Bookfair II lif 'V\ l aSfii Other limited merchandises like original large movie posters, swords, paperbags and many more re <7 so available. ■M" v' i nil il ''-i l-|. tip "vv 7^'' I*
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 217 15 PRIMARY 1 REGISTRATION Balloting for Phase 2C took place at 68 primary schools yesterday. TEOYUNYUN checks out Pioneer Primary in Jurong West LITTLE Lim Shu Wen stood alone in a corner, her head hung low. Asked if she got in, Shu Wen, six, pursed her
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    • 131 15 THE Primary 1 registration is into Phase 2C Supplementary. Registration for this phase is on Aug 12. This phase is open to any child who could not get admission in the earlier phases. And if you are still unsuccessful, the Ministry of Education will post your
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 387 15 The long awaited exhibition by Singaporeans, is now back for the 10th time with more exhibitors (250 booths) and more merchandises (1000 over items) We are proud, we are prestigious, because we are made in Indonesia NATIONAL PRODUCT. NATIONAL PRIDE. NATIONAL PRESTIGE Hall 3, World Trade Centre Singapore 6-10 August
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    • 63 16 I vS« ■K- ep* tj&. jfl I I ft HB H HE H v I H| M JM ■/> v V/ F m\ w A VI l\ ■HHI I Jf (10 winners) 6th Prize. Kodak Advantix Fm Co 6r 2 M wi a^ Get your entry forms from all Kodak
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  • 223 17 WOMTODAY 19 injured in incident at South Korean airport Source: AFP. A PLANE skidded while landing in bad weather at Seoul's Kimpo airport yesterday. At least 19 passengers were injured as the Korean Air jet careened off the wet tarmac and spun around twice before
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    • 127 17 yßy 5525.00 ONLY I Room -f Breakfast ACROSS MALAYSIA Choose to stay at any of our Grand Hotels within Malaysia at a reduced rate from now till 31st August 1998. fINMMIIIiMM (ML' /51£2 Rates quoted is based on per person per day on twin sharing basis. Rates quoted is inclusive
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    • 138 18 LOSE TUMMY FAT FA£T FOR A SHAPE THAT WILL LAST! I fjrnFtummy and W slim shape always! Get rid of tummy fat with a MARIE FRANCE I BODYLINE Tummy Firming Speed Shaping EBEEy _programme and get a new slim shape that ilßllßi BBBSI will last. The MARIE FRANCE No-Hunger, TRIAL
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  • Article, Illustration
    179 19 FOOD, MEDICINE FROM SINGAPORE TO INDONESIA THBNEWSTODAY Source: The Straits Times, The Business Times. ABOUT 10,000 metric tonnes of rice and a planeload of medicine arrived in Jakarta yesterday. They form part of the first batch of a $12 million humanitarian aid package from Singapore to Jakarta.
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    • 75 19 AUTOGLYM ADDS A NEW SHINE WITH ISO 9002! FTi AUTOGLYM CENTRE Endorsed by Rolls Royce, Jaguar and Aston Martin cars, Autoglym has been awarded ISO 9001 9002. At Autoglym Car Grooming Centre we don't just polish cars but renovate them to showroom condition. Application of sealant ensures the shine outlasts
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 206 20  -  He ordered return of two Kenyans being deported By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY A COURTROOM tussle in Australia nearly forced a Singapore Airlines flight from Melbourne to Singapore to land in Darwin on Monday. Two Kenyan teen stowaways were being deported as illegal
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    • 137 20 THE lawyer for the stowaways says the youths were deported even though the 28-day appeal process had not expired. On that basis, she sought a judicial review. Ms Carolyn Graydon says the youths are seeking refugee status because they fear persecution due to their ethnic background, religious beliefs
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    • 145 20 PRETTY j^BIG wMmen ONLY Every woman who shops at BIG IDEAS looks and feels like the clothes were specially tailored just for her. Which is exactly how fashionable, oversized clothing should fit. Imported from Australia, our collection with sizes ranging from 12 to 24 features classy and smart choices for
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    • 351 20 Kf Our Heartiest Congratulations H to the of I pf the Raffles Hotel A cade y Smiles of Summer Sale Lucky Draw. I I TOP 3 PRIZE WINNERS I Ist HoeSeokFoon *****22 F 1 2nd Ong Ming Yeow *****88 F 1 3rd TayWhyeUrn *****07 H I CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNERS 1
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  • MALAYSIA TODAY
    • 311 21 PORT KLANG ISSUE Bernama. SO said Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Sen Dr Ling Liong Sik yesterday. He scud laws requiring local shippers to send their goods through local ports will only be used as a last resort. Such laws would not be drafted if the government's
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    • 183 21 SINGAPORE leaders were once reminded that the Republic must emerge tops in any competition with Malaysia, reported Berita Harian Malaysia today. The reminder was made in a secret memo that was sent to PAP Members of Parliament in April last year. It was signed by the Singapore
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    • 54 21 mui<muit oath*pmnrtafem tIM racoat coataMfafltad watar crWa hi Sydney, and tho now Id pvMlte Tatatra, tfca Aaatralaa vorrioa off Singapore Telecom: Has competition, cost-cutting and downsizing struck again? The rich get richer and the kids get diarrhoea. I hope the phone system performs if I need
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 547 21 1114-Cost Management Control Techniques B The key to a successful pro|ect is to be able to deliver It H within specification, on lime and within budget. This course H equip construction professional with the latest tools and H techniques in cost planning and control for building projects I to meet
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    • 121 21 Rock Records Welcomes PEACH (aka Peach Union in u.s.) H| H H H j HH Latest album Audiopeach features their billboard hit single 'On My Own', 'Made In Vain', 'Sorrow Town', and many more. Peach is one of the best pop groups of the 90's you just don't know it
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  • WORLD TODAY
    • 226 22 As guns boom in Kashmir... Source: Wire services. FOR the people living in the disputed border region of Kashmir, it is war yet again. Indian and Pakistani troops have been blasting away at each other like never before in the past week. In the heavy exchange of
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    • 51 22 Kashmir is claimed by both India and Pakistan. The dispute started after the Hindu prince who ruled Kashmir decided to join India soon after both countries got independence in 1947. Pakistan controls one-third of Kashmir while India controls the rest. The two sides have gone to war twice over
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    • 10 22 Lunch Cuide Your weekly qulde to good food fastaas jj
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    • 158 23 f THE MOB IS IN TOWN! CATCH IT WITH TONG GARDEN BEFORE IT'S GONE! Y iji The Mob Card Gets You Everywhere (Almost!) Get a Limited Edition "Andy Lau A True Mob Story" Transit Link m Card* with any purchase of Tong Garden Cashew {Z-V* Nuts Pistachios (180g) if \|v
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  • 210 24 sports The race for the Tiger Beer S-League title was a close-run affair with the Warriors ofSAFFCjust pipping the Tanjong Pagar Jaguars on goal difference last Saturday. But the S-League is not just about goalmouth action, fierce free-kicks and worried coaches stomping up and down the
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  • Showtime
    • 482 25  -  By Hazel Tan ANDY Lau is wearing a girdle these days. If not, he is busy observing women on other days, especially the way they walk. And soon, the Hongkong Heavenly King will wear make-up, shave off his eyebrows and draw them
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    • 449 26  -  By Chan Seet Fun For the Masses is available in record shops. DEPECHE Mode fans, rejoice. A new album with Depeche Mode songs has come out. But hang on, you fans none of the songs are sung by the British pop group. In fact, some
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    • 153 27 TODAY, it's Denver. Tomorrow, he's off to Las Vegas. What is it like going places for a 10-year-old, performing at one concert after another with his famous big brother? Ask Aaron Carter. He knows best. The baby brother of Nick Carter is currently busy touring the US
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    • 373 28  -  A LESSON FROM THE STORMRIDERS FOR TCS: COMMENT IVAN LIM LAST weekend, I had the pleasure of watching the much-touted Mandarin swordfighting drama The Stormßiders. I wasn't disappointed. The special effects weren't particularly impressive, but they were very effective. They made the fighting scenes
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    • 57 27 I J! I III! ||W| I It s Not The Time To Get Tongue Tied. The SIA JC Debates 1998 kickstarts tomorrow night. Watch 14 junior colleges battle it out in a war of words. Only on Premiere 12. SIA JC Debates 1998 Starting tomorrow night JB/tj.> Every Fri* B*3oDm
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    • 61 28 ISTOMP I SEE WHAT All THE NOISE IS ABOUT SPONSORED BY H "STOMP is a II crowd-pleaser with a rock I p* I The Kallang Theatre 1 to 10 October 1998 SISTIC Booking Hotline II 348 b 5555 I Ticket Prices: SllO, 85, 60, 40 Family packages and student tickets
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  • Article, Illustration
    475 29  -  ET CETERA WITH T JEYATHESAN OOOH! Wow! Some children were visiting the zoo. One bright eight-year-old observer asked this question: "Teacher, why do tigers have stripes and male lions, a mane?" Well, explained the teacher, nature made them that way. The child, who was expecting a more
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    • 77 31 Standard Room $45.00 nett $65.00 nett Superior Room $50.00 nctt $70.00 nett Dclme Room $55.00 nett $75.00 nett Twin Room $60/65 nett $80/85 nett~ Family Room* $75.00 nett $95.00 nett~ FRAGRANCE HOTEL FRAGRANCE HOTEL FRAGRANCE HOTEL EMERALD* RUBY SAPPHIRE* No. 20 Loroog No. 10 Uroi* 20 No. 1 Loroof 10
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
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  • CAREER CHOICE
    • 368 32  -  BY Irene Kew HIS colleagues call him "the thorn among the roses". Mr Mohamad Kaspari, 57, doesn't mind. In fact, he enjoys being the odd one out. He was a male secretary for 30 years and retired only three years ago while serving as
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    • 56 32 Get wet I Be a I swimming 1 teacher and m make good j money. Find Jl out more on Page 39. Work north A US Cafe in Sembawang seeks a responsible supervisor with experience in the hotel or restaurant Wf line. Turn to I Page 38.
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    • 315 37 Has? Marketing/ Eg **7 Market*^ A n i■■ i mn m BAMlalajmi Comma Powtioni Cocnms roiltions Holiday company has vacancies for M I FULL/PART TIME I L PROMOTIONS OFFICERS I I (OUTDOORS) 3 Attractive weekly remuneration j 3 Flexible working hours V 3 Lively character enjoying interacting IK with people
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    • 124 37 An exclusive Japanese lounge requires: 1) BAR STEWARDESS 2) PART/FULL TIME WAITERS 3) PART/FULL TIME HOSTESSES ($3OOO-***** incl. commission) Transport provided Interested, call or walk-in for interview at: *****27 177 River Valley Rd. •04/ *04-06 Liang Court Singapore *****0 after 7pm We are "Cleopatra Restaurant" a small Middle Eastern establishment
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    • 269 38 ggj Security Positions Security Positions Security Positions As a CISCO Police Officer, you will serve corporations where top security is critical to their survival. To ensure your effectiveness, you will be well trained by Singapore's premier security and loss prevention organisation. Do you have what it takes to meet the
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  • ENGLISHPREMJERSHIP'98
    • the big fere feoff: august 15
      • 245 40 LAN BROWN today looks at two clubs which aren't going to do much better than they did last season WIMBLEDON WHO'S NEW: No new signings. PRE-SEASON: It's a "Daley" grind. The Dons hired decathlete Daley Thompson, a triple Olympic champion, to take the 32-man squad for two
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      • 306 40 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR WHO'S NEW: Paolo Tramezzani, £1.35 million ($3.65 m) from Piacenza of Italy; Hans Segers, free, from Wimbledon, (player/goalkeeper coach). PRC-SEASON: Long and disappointing. The longest build-up of any side but the string of poor results remained unimproved after the weekend's goalless draw at Loftus Road.
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 189 42 FUROPEAN SOCCER'S SI IPER LEAGUE Wire services. THATS perhaps the reason why Manchester United, Arsenal and Ajax Amsterdam said yesterday they were involved in talks about forming a European Super League. In a statement issued through the London Stock Exchange, the Old Trafford club
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    • 208 42 Wire services. Reports suggest clubs could earn as much as £20 million (ss4m) per season from the league. This is double what a club would reap from a successful run in the existing European Cup competition. Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid, Italian champion Juventus plus
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    • 166 42 Reuters. UEFA, European soccer's governing body, has admitted it is working on its own plans for a new competition. It said yesterday it would make the plans public shortly. Although Uefa and the clubs have not been talking to each other, the implication from all parties
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS'98
    • 410 43 THEY'VE BAGGED FOUR NATIONAL SCHOOLS TITLES IN THREE MONTHS All for one and one for all. Remember that famous war-cry? It came from the French swashbuckling team ofAthos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan also known as the Three Musketeers (d'Artagnan was not an original Musketeer). Well, it seems
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    • 75 43 They're very easy to coach. You teach them a tactic and straight away they can apply it perfectly on the field. Or teach them how to flick or pass a certain way. Andfor the rest of training, they'll just keep at it until they've mastered it. Hockey
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    • 328 44 THEY may be the driving force behind their school's hockey and football teams. But don't be deceived by the four boys' great teamwork and understanding on the pitch. Behind that united show lies a very fierce and intense team-mate rivalry, said coaches Hector Gomez and K
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    • 80 44 FACTFILES Age: 10 Standard: Primary Rve Birthday: Oct 4 Height, weight 1.38 m; 26kg Position in football: Right midfielder No. of goals scored in football this year (National Inter-Primary Schools 11-a-side and seven-a-side): 7 Position in hockey: Right winger No. of goals scored in hockey this year
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    • 63 44 Age: 10 Standard: Primary Rve Birthday: Nov 15 Height, weight: 1.32 m; 25kg Position in footbal: Left winger No. of goals scored in football this year: 25 Position in hockey: Left winger No. of goals scored in hockey this year: 4 Favourite club: Man U Favourite player Robbie
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    • 30 44 Age: 10 Standard: Primary Five Birthday: Sept 15 Height, weight 1.38 m; 25kg Position in football: Right wing No. of goals scored in football this year: 35
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    • 194 44 THE four students all played major roles in helping Xishan Primary to capture its four titles this year: They all scored when Xishan beat Beng Wan Primary 6-1 in the final of the National Inter-Primary Schools Junior Division Football Championships in May. Last month, Ridhwan
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    • 61 44 Age: 10 Standard: Primary Five Birthday: Aug 24 Height, weight 1.34 m; 26kg Position in football: Sweeper No. of goals scored in football this year: 10 Position in hockey: Right midfielder No. of goals scored in hockey this year: 4 Favourite dub: Liverpool Favourite player: Robbie Fowler
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  • TIGER BEERS-LEAGUE'98
    • 326 45  -  When former national coach Robin Chan took over Tampines Rovers midway through the S-League season, it was in a mess. Technical director Victor Stanculescu had quit. Coach Chiang Boon Seng had been sacked. The club had just one win in eight games and lay ninth in
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    • 407 46  -  Stories/l Ernest Luis CHANGED TACTICS ROBIN Chan felt the defence was too flat when he arrived at Tampines. The midfield also held back and passed the ball around too much. "So I changed the 3-5-2 formation to a 4-4-2 formation and emphasised on more penetration.
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    • 249 46 SINGAPORE CUP The draw yesterday brought out another Tanjong Pagar United-Balestier Central confrontation. The two clubs ended their Tiger Beer S-League match under controversial circumstances three weeks ago. Tanjong Pagar claimed a throw-in Balestier scored the equaliser following that—and angry words were exchanged. How will it
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    • 131 46 HIS NAME: Do you know Robin is just a nickname? It's not even in my identity card. My actual name is Chan Kwong Wing. When I was a teen, I played ft for a team called Windsor Rovers. Because my shots were so hard and accurate, they
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    • 244 46  -  By S Gulam HOME United has lodged a protest against Woodlands Wellington. The Protectors (Home) claim the Rams (Woodlands) had fielded an ineligible player against them. The player concerned is S Dinakaran. As such, they want the match and the three points to be awarded
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 285 47 CHARtTY SHIELD: CURTAIN-RAISER TO THE FNGLISH PRFMIFRSHIP KEEPER'S BIG MATCH BLAST: MANCHESTER United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel has unleashed his Devil of a tongue by whacking Arsenal. His incredible blast belittled Arsenal's achievement in winning the Double (Premiership and FA Cup), reports The Mirror (Internet edition).
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    • 204 47 The Mirror (Internet edition). Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmelchel had tome harsh words for Double champion Arsenal hist days before the Charity PLi-U rhnurH WrmKi/rv SiX/WvlOWli 411 IfPfTilm?j. 1U have a lot of respect for what Arsenal have done," he said, "but when a club brings in a continental manager,
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    • 31 47 European soccer's Super League Page 45 "B' H gJ W "m x &> HHHfIMPjIHr K I ROBINI Success story Tampines flies with Robin Chan Pages 48,49 Awesome foursome, Xishan's heroes Pages 46,47
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  • Page 48 Miscellaneous
    • 1140 48 TVTODAY t Turn noon News 5 Today/Home Shopping IS ISELm UIN Gurmit Singh 2.00 NmSTKD nf thp Hav PhuaChu Kane Pto Ud 2.05 L AHaat —Day Bombar( Drama) U H,C U *"J Channel 5,8 pm •IS SCJ2?.-—-0.1—« It may be a re-rerun, but this Avenue: A determined and highly funny
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