The New Paper, 3 October 1998

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    7 1 the new paper 1 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3,1999
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon I challenge you to find me racist!
      653 2  -  Australian elections today will show the real support One Nation Party leader Pauline Hanson has. The woman, well known for her racist views, was in her heartland in Queensland this week. Our journalist was on her campaign trail and says the woman spells
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      FROM HANSON'S CAMPAIGN SONG
      159 2 You've all had it pretty good for the last 200 years (On country vs city) You crushed us, said Eureka and you never saw our tears... You have taken all our guns away (On strict new gun laws) To protect us from ourselves. Gave our jobs
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      'Good listener'
      333 2 ALMOST every one at Gatton had nice things to say about Ms Hanson. "SShe is very open, very honest," says Ms Broanwag Boag, an ardent supporter who wore the One Nation Party's T-shirt and hat. The 60-year-old said she knows Ms Hanson well. They have stayed over at
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      Vietnamese hostesses flown in for court case
      817 3 A dispute between the subsidiary of a Singapore hotel group and a businessman results in three Vietnamese nightclub dance hostesses being flown here to appear in court. They were flown here to testify in a civil suit that the businessman had taken them
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      ABOUT THE CASE
      227 3 HE was accused of taking 19 girls into his hotel suite over three months. This is against the law in Vietnam, and any hotel that allows this risks having its operating licence revoked. Mr George Mok (above) was the director of the four-star Amara Hotel Saigon in
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      67 2 LIAR? LIAR? Lies are all over the news these days from the Clinton-Lewinsky saga to the Mahathir-Anwar debacle. But what is truth? Can lie detectors separate the liar from the truthful? today. DO YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR FOOTBALL? Final part of Tan Eng Yoon interview/ Page 46 Mjk II
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Don't pay? We can sue
      248 4 PROPERTY DEVELOPERS WARNTI NOT ail lawyers agree with what Redas' lawyers say. Several lawyers maintain that the issue is still moot and there has been no legal precedent. These lawyers also say that once the developer terminates the contract he cannot sue because he has
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      Local Head liners
      53 4 The Straits Th.ies: G7 pressed to help calm shaky markets The Business Times: Financial houses reveal hedge fund exposure Uanhe Zaobao: S'pore to develop chemical weapon defence capability Berita Harian: Mindef: What exactly took place RCS morning news: New initiatives from the United States to address the
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      Nearly thrown away
      70 4 Picture This SHE NEARLY GOT RID OF THIS: Newly-published evidence compiled by the Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr, reveals that Miss Lewinsky gave the semen-stained dress (right) to her mother because she "did not want to have anything to do with it". "I imagine she threw it away,"
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        Paper runs out
        64 4 RUSSIA RUSSIA'S Duma, the Lower House of Parliament, has run out of paper, including the kind for toilets. The Parliament needs two tonnes of the material daily to function normally for all sorts of paperwork. But photocopiers and other machines in the Duma have become silent because
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        Sorry, no credit
        55 4 MALAYDSIA SOME retail outlets and shopping centres overseas are not accepting credit cards issued in Malaysia because of the currency-control measures. A few banks have received complaints that Visa and MasterCard cards from Malaysia are being rejected. Southern Bank card-centre manager Jean Yap said some retailers could
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        Faxed early
        58 4 RESCUE THE Defence Ministry yesterday said Singapore faxed a written request for permission to use Malaysian airspace in a rescue mission at 1.14 am on Sept 24. The Malaysian Foreign Ministry acknowledged receiving it at 1.20 am. Malaysia claimed that the written request was sent only at 3.44
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        New look PWD
        51 4 I DEVELOPMENT 1 THE Public Works Department (PWD) will be corporatised on April 1. The PWD Co will undertake the non-regulatory functions of the present PWD. A Building and Construction Authority will also be created by merging the Construction Industry Development Board and the PWD's Building Control
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      Lock icon Dress for charity
      188 5 in FSKSus Reuters. YOU'VE seen them on television. Those glamour gowns that grab the eye as actresses make their way on stage to accept their academy awards. Now the glamour-struck can own one of those outfits. At a sale in March, Christie's auction house will auction off
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      Drug returns
      67 5 MEDICINE A DRUG that caused severe birth defects in the '50s and '60s is on sale again in the US. Thalidomide is now used to treat a side-effect of leprosy. It is also being tested as a possible treatment for other diseases ranging from cancer to Aids. There
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      Details wanted
      69 5 mAm TELL us the name of your next of kin before you get on the plane -r in case it crashes. That's what US airlines are now asking passengers. It's a procedure aimed at speeding notification of families if a crash happens. Airlines had been reluctant to ask
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      High usage
      65 5 I ENVIRONMENT 1 WHO uses up the most food, water, materials and energy in the world? Norway, Taiwan and Chile. Singapore is fourth, says a report by the world's largest conservation group, The World Wide Fund. Singapore's ranking on this list is due to the country having the
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      Net weddings
      58 5 I LIFESTYLE ITS "I do" on the Internet, with 14 Singapore couples signed up for a Cyber-Wedding on Monday. The weddings will be on the HuaZong Wang website. They are part of the government's month-long Marriage Specials, which include a talk in Mandarin for parents to help them
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      DOW JONES
      15 5 The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 7,784.69, up by 152.16 points yesterday.
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      WHAT'S HUP
      4 5 Tongue CHeefk
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      World Head liners
      77 5 South China Morning Post: War games cancelled by Taiwan New Straits Times: Ahmad Zahld resigns as Umno Youth chief Berita Harlan Malaysia: Zahid resigns BBC news: United States has warned President Milosevic of Yugoslavia that NATO will take action within two weeks if he doesn't withdraw his
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    Go, catch her today
    269 6  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Yvonne Lim MISSED her? New Face finalist Madhu Peswani (above right) has been poxed out of sight recently. She came down with chicken pox three weeks ago, and missed the New Face live Internet "chat" session with readers, as well as an autograph session
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      Their passports are kept by the bosses
      231 8  -  Dispute between Indian professionals and their company By 1 Yvonne Lim ONE group of contract workers have their passports and documents kept by their company. They can't visit Malaysia for the weekend without first getting permission and coming up with a guarantor for
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      WHAT FIRM SAYS
      280 9 WHY retain their employees' passports? In a faxed reply to The New Paper, SI Consulting's deputy general manager, Ms Rita Trivedi, said: "We are unable to answer the questions as they relate to our company's internal policies." But this is what the company's Contract Staff Procedures Handbook
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      'Should not keep passports'
      458 9 Indian graduates, it is a dream chance to work here. "Today, the unemployment problem in India even for programmers is bad," said Mr Murugan. He had been earning $800 a month in India, and came here in 1996 for triple his pay. FUNERAL DELAYED But getting
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      S'pore boy in New York
      209 10 WHAT is life like for a Singaporean in the city that never sleeps? Freelance cartoonist and lawyer Colin Goh blabs all in The New Paper every Monday. His new full-page comic strip, Yankee Doodles, starting next week, is a cartoon diary of a Singaporean student
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon SUITE SURRENDER
      471 12 All that glitters in Mount Elizabeth Hospital's Royal Suite IS gold—and that goes for the doorknobs, doorstops, electric sockets, toilet paper hangers and even the little legs on the chairs. All this opulence designed for the Brunei royal family which used it for five years, till July is
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      FIVE STAR FOOD
      108 12 YOU'D hardly think it, but hospital food is so good, the Brunei royal family stopped ordering from Hyatt and Hilton hotels. This was said with much pride by Mr Philippe Cavory, director of food, nutrition and beverage. There's a daily menu but if the guests don't like
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      Free posters for fans
      86 13 HURRY to Tower Records Pacific Plaza or Tower Records Suntec City on any Saturday or Sunday this month and you could walk away with a free HBO Spawn poster. Be one of the first 100 fans to show up on the day at either outlet and
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      Lock icon Roof dented at car wash
      367 14  -  By Danny Lim THE roof of her car was dented after it surged forward suddenly in an automatic car-wash. Said Ms Gina Ong, an insurance agent: "I almost fainted when I saw the big dent with water in it it was like a pond!" "The
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      RARE AND UNUSUAL
      68 14 Mr Albert Tan, Shell's public affairs manager, described the incident as a "very rare and unusual accident". He explained that an emergency-stop was activated when the side brush was tilted more than 35 degrees from its vertical position after hitting the roof. "We are reviewing the case
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      Happy Tays
      99 15 m u i<rr> u K Mr Simon Tay, a senior law lecturer, Nominated MP and writer, has made chokes different from others of his juiwiaUon. He rants a piece at Seietar Air Base, drives a 1982 car and doe^jjUgf" l mwch at university": My wife and I feel
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      SHARE and share alike
      304 17 President Ong Teng Cheong will be giving out awards to 69 organisations which have helped the Community Chest raise money. IRENE KEW checks out one such company PART-TIME adminstrative assistant Madam Low Siew Yen, 50, brings home only $500 a month. But that does not stop
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      15 18 MUSIC MAN: Mr Tony Deßlois with his mother, Mrs Janice Deßlois. Picture/ Choo Chwee Hua
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      He has 7,000 music pieces in his head
      526 19  -  BY Yong Siew Fern HE is blind and suffers from autism. But when Mr Tony Deßlois sits in front of a piano, you know he's a genius. The 24-year-old has about 7,000 music pieces in his head and can play 13 musical
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      REACH-ME PROJECT
      126 19 MR Tony Deßlois performed at a charity ball last night, to raise $250,000 for the Autism Resource Centre's Reach-Me Project. The project was set up by a group of parents and professionals in May 1997. In collaboration with the National Autistic Society in Britain, it aims to develop
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Nerdy ambition
      56 20 Ml 111******1* Action hero Wesley Snipes admits that Ms latest film, Bades, bas more Mood than be Mies. The actor, who has a theatrical background, says he wouldn't mind trying out a different role. One day I'd like to play a nerd. If I could pull that off,
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      Howard's gamble
      379 20  -  Tax plan his uphill crusade AUSTRALIA GOES TO THE POLLS By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY ITS the election that should be easy for Prime Minister John Howard to win. He came in with a huge majority, the economy is still strong despite problems looming in the region
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      Lock icon Schiffer bids catwalk goodbye
      285 21 Reuters. GERMAN supermodel Claudia Schiffer took her last stroll down the catwalk in Milan yesterday. "I'm never going to model again, not even in Paris," she told reporters on the first day of the Milan womenswear spring/summer shows. But Ms Schiffer, 28, could not resist taking
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      109 22 Jtjj HNpfr I jf w ik :< v/ V They serve you with smiling faces. They give you advice on which item to buy. But do you know them? Share the stories of laughter, tears and day to day struggles of the employees at Isetan, as they juggle their careers
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
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      Lock icon 'I'm the real victim' says Dr M
      430 24 POLITICAL CONSPIRACY? PUTTING his men in control of as many Umno divisions as he could. Stashing materials containing "dirt" on his senior Umno colleagues overseas. These were some of the measures that sacked deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim had allegedly taken in his
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      Dr M: New deputy need not be 'sin-free' but...
      268 24 HIS next No 2 doesn't have to be very religious or sin-free, said Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. However, he or she must be of good character, Utusan Malaysia quoted the Prime Minister as saying. Merely appearing to be a good
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    Lock icon A 'lion' no more
    542 25  -  By Melvin Singh REMEMBER the placard-wielding Umno youth members who hurled insults at Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew in June last year? The defiant, fiery politician who led that demonstration was none other than Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, 45. This was the Datuk Zahid most Malaysians
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    Dates soon
    110 25 THE trial date for Anwar Ibrahim is likely to be fixed on Monday, his lawyer said, Anwar is expected to be produced to the Kuala Lumpur High Court. He will be facing charges of sodomy and corruption on that day, his lawyer said. "They will read the charges
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    House call
    94 25 TWO Malaysian specialist doctors will examine Anwar Ibrahim. They are both senior consultants with high credibility, said Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Jui Meng yesterday. The two doctors are Datuk Chew Siang Tong and consultant orthopaedist Datuk Dr Borhan Tan. Both are from Hospital Kuala Lumpur, the Health
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    No appeal
    97 25 ANWAR'S adopted brother will not appeal against his sodomy conviction. His lawyer cleared up a muddle which arose after three other lawyers filed notices of appeal on Sukma Darmawan Sasmitaat Madja's behalf. Sukma was jailed for six months for allowing Anwar to sodomise him. M I am still
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    We don't believe you, Mr Milosevic
    435 27  -  NO MORK ATTACKS ON KOSOVO? WORLDTODAY by JILL LIM SO Yugoslavia says it's not the bad guy. It says the West is being duped by separatists in Kosovo. It swears that its attacks on Kosovo are over. Well, I'm sorry, but why should the
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    Lock icon KL kidnap drama
    418 28 Politician's 1 1-year-old son kidnapped MALAYSIATODAY Source: Bernama. THE drama began on Monday morning. It took place as the 11-year-old boy was being driven to school by the politician's driver. Police declined to name the Selangor politician, saying only that he's a Tan Sri and a very
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    500 29  -  Story/ PEARLYN KOH Pictures Layout/Robson Ng I have always been intrigued by Vietnam, its culture, its people. The mention of this country brings to mind squares of green paddies tended by farmers wearing woven conical hats. But there's probably a lot more to Vietnam than
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      662 38  -  Preview By" The Three Musketeers MERLIN should have won last week. Actually, he looked like he had the race all wrapped up when he went to the front halfway down the straight. However, with the winning post in sight, he suffered a check and
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      259 38 INTER-PUB 8-BALL CHAMPIONSHIPS THEY'VE come from all parts of the island. From Pasir Panjang to Princep Street. From Emerald Hill to the East Coast. From Boat Quay to Bukit Timah. Right now, 40 have signed up which is a whopping jump from the nine teams
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      Moving home
      398 39 Netball Singapore used to have its office and courts situated at Petain Road, a 'red-light'area. Now operating out of a container next to the Kallang Squash Centre, it'll finally have a permanent one-storey home next April ERNEST LUIS jogs down memory lane with president Ivy Singh-Lim WHAT was
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      142 39 NETBALL Singapore's new home, which will be ready in April, will cost the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) $650,000. The one-storey building beside the Kallang Squash Centre will be called the Netball Family Centre. The association's new adviser, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, MP for Marine Parade GRC, has officially
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      482 40 FllPftPE KICKOFF: ITALY. GERMANY. FRANCE. SPAIN. HOLLAND WEEKEND FIXTURES ITALY Tomorrow: Bologna v Parma Fiorentina v Udinese Inter-Milan v Perugia Juventus v Piacenza LaziovCaglian Salernitana v Empoli Veneziav AC Milan Vicenzavßari Sampdoriav AS Roma (Delayed telecast on SCV Channel 22; Monday, 3:4oam) FRANCE Today: Nantes v Lyon
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      Lock icon Rijkaard reshuffles
      164 40 Reuters. DUTCH national coach Frank Rijkaard has reshuffled the pack for friendlies against Peru and Ghana. Holland faces Peru on Oct 10 and Ghana three days later. Rijkaard, appointed a month ago to succeed Guus Hiddink, scrapped 11 of the 22 players Hiddink took to the World Cup
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      CUP DRAWS
      131 40 UEFA CUP: SECOND ROUND Wisla Krakow (Pol) v Parma (Ita) Liverpool (Eng) v Valencia (Spa) Dynamo Moscow (Rus) v Real Sociedad (Spa) Crvena (Yug) v Olympique Lyon (Fra) Graz(Aut)v Monaco (Fra) Stuttgart (Ger)v Club Bruges (Bel) Willem II (Hoi) v Real Betis (Spa) Grasshoppers (Swi) v Fiorentina (Ita)
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      381 41 SOUTHAMPTON v MAN UNITED (Live. 9.55 pm: SCV 22 Pmmiftm 12) TODAY: Blackburn v West Ham Coventry v Villa Derby v Tottenham Leeds v Leicester Middlesbro v Sheff W Forest v Charlton Saints v Man United Wimbledon v Everton TOMORROW: Arsenal v Newcastle Liverpool v Chelsea TV
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      142 41 COVENTRY v ASTON VILLA (Tonight, delayed: SCV22 —11.55 pm) Promising midfielder Steve Froggatt, signed for £1.9 million ($5.4 million) from First Division Wolverhampton Wanderers will make his debut for Coventry. Coach Gordon Strachan is without defenders Marcus Hall (groin injury) and David Burrows (hamstring). Villa is on
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      197 41 AFP. ENGLAND striker Teddy Sheringham is a fighter. When the chips are down, he fights on even harder. That's what he has promised to do in order to get back to the starting line-up of the Red Devils. There is absolutely no chance of me leaving
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      141 41 AFP. NEWCASTLE striker Alan Shearer is truly on target. He was named yesterday as the Premiership's Player of the Month for September. Shearer's six league goals last month gave the England captain his first outright award although he was a joint winner with Chris Sutton
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      185 41 AFP. PAUL Ince will be on the sidelines. England coach Glenn Hoddle has decided not to use his fiery midfield general for the next two European championship qualifiers. The reason: Fearing Ince may be in trouble with European soccer
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      419 42  -  ASIAN CUP-WINNERS' CUP: Woodlands v Sinthana FC (Thai). Woodlands Stadium. 7.3Qpm ASIAN CLUB CUP: SELANGORv SAFFC (Shah Alam Stadium, Selangor) Selangor won the first-leg 4-1 at Jurong Stadium two weeks ago Stories/! S Gulam ITS SAID that he who dares wins. But in Woodlands Wellington's case, it
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      208 42 HE loves the media. The media loves him. It's a relationship based on the mutual understanding of "you help me, I help you". But yesterday, Rams caretaker coach R Vengadasalam, the darling of the media and the man dubbed the "Voice of the North", was fuming
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      166 42 AFP. CRAMPS forced favourite Martina Hingis to quit late in the third set of her semi-final against fellow Swiss Patty Schnyder in Munich yesterday. Hingis, troubled by an iiyury to her left thigh, called a halt to the agony after 2hr llmin on court, handing her rival
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      Lock icon MANY PEOPLE SAY YOU DON'T BELONG IN FOOTBALL
      224 43 i noy you f iro <\ i.ri<;k unci hold man..'. TAN ENG YOON: THE FINAL PART I AM a trained sports administrator. When I was studying at Loughborough, England, football was one of the four basic disciplines. Everything about football. Coaching, training...everything.
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      Some say you don't have a passion for football...
      130 43 WHO said so? When I was a young boy I lived in Geylang, Lorong 12 and my house was opposite the Geylang Stadium. I used to watch football matches in the evenings and played football with the kampong boys, one of
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      Eng Yoon: I've done a lot for Singapore soccer
      436 44 INTERVIEW: S GULAM I think I can proudly say I've done far more in the last sixyears than any other administrators. Since I was appointed general secretary of the association in 1993, Singapore has won: The M-League and Malaysia Cup in
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      528 44 There have been allegations that you bungled the attire sponsorship. Some local sportswear firms say they were not approached for sponsorship. So why did you go to Grand Sport (a Thai brand)? It is very easy to criticise especially when one has lost a deal.
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      390 44 Is Sundram banned, officially or unofficially? Barry (Whitbread) has found him unfit. He also has discipline problems. I remember in 1993, when I first came into FAS, Patrick Ang was in charge of the national team. One morning, Sundram came late. Patrick told him: 'Sundram,
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      79 46 Af i A the polygraph's AW on fire mmß Am. The news has mmm A W I. A been rife with mA ||ShH JgH m accusations and H| I II I J I counter-accusations 1 1 W A I among powerful |HHHEf' 0 people. How can we who the I
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      LIES but how can you tell?
      675 47 Lie-detector tests: Foolproof or fool's proof? Allegations. Denials. Proclamations of the truth. These appear in the media with marked frequency these days, thrown up by, among others, the Mahathir-Anwar crisis and the Clinton-Lewinsky investigations in the US. But what is the truth? Can it
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      182 47 NO trick questions are sprung on the examinee during the test. Each question to be asked will be read out and explained before the actual test is given. Experts say there are five phases to the test, which generally takes two to three hours: Introduction Phase The
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      166 47 Polygraph proponents say that anti-depressant medications such as Lithium, Prozac, Valium or Xanax do not allow a person to beat the test. They argue that these drugs have no effect at all on some people and that they produce skewed results that can be detected in
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      It's the truth when you believe it is
      359 47 THE truth, the whole truth and nothing but... But how can you tell the truth fro/ the lie? Science fiction may have us believe that when we have the technology to send out a space probe, we'll also have scientific access into
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      Unloved at home, she feels empty
      194 48 MY girlfriend is 16 years old. She once told me that life is meaningless because she doesn't feel the warmth in her family. She would like to be loved by her parents and her elder brother, but she isn't. Her brother seldom talks to
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      106 48 CONFUSED is married and has a one-year-old child. Her husband is aJways at camp and she's always aJone. She got to know a colleague who lives near her block and she often asked him out to keep her company. She fell in love with him. He told
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      248 48 A reader responds... DEAR Confused, I believe that it was only when you fell in love with your colleague did you see your husband's fault. This is very selfish. It sounds foolish, too. You complained that your husband is seldom at home. Have you tried
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      250 48 I HAVE been going out with my cousin. She is the daughter of my mother's sister. I do not know whether this is allowed or whether we can get married one day. Our parents are just finding out about us. They want us to go
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      234 48 I'M a 16-year-old girl. I am only 1.5m tall. People say that as my parents are short, I will be like them. But I don't wish to remain short and I wish to be taller. My friends have told me to play basketball and drink
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      41 48 CALL us..; Call 1900-*****07 and leave your questions for our counsellors. You can listen to their earlier advice, too. This week's topics: Too young for love? Overbearing father New love but I can't forget ex Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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    1176 49  -  Simon Lim, Class 95 FM's Captain of Your Heart, cajoles celebrities to reveal secrets of the heart every Thursday night Singer Kit Chan, comedian Moses Lim and actress Anna Belle Francis have all blabbed. It's sometimes romantic, sometimes cheeky, and most times funny. But how would he take
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      174 49 Various Artistes Now That's What I Call Love (EMI Music Asia/Polygram Records) SINGAPOREANS are suckers for ballads. That's why compilations like this one will find their way into car stereos everywhere. Never mind that many of the acts here are not groundbreaking names. It is chockful of every soppy twist
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      1008 50 After a hard day's work, I IjB look like this... < <0) BrSiHwatch it! 23 MTVVJ IflfcJ J Top grossing movits last week. And our ratings. /eSft i Rush Hour /MB ftV J|g. ?!Pf wpfcod —i- T r k Stars: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker I I daughter who W u
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      923 51 the NEW PAPER Saturday, October 3.1998 r rQJ r TV Saturday Sunday channel channel channel channel 6.00 AM Wild Guide 6.00 AMHukaMuka 6.00 AM Extremists 6.00 AM Chinese Culture of Tea 6.30 Travel Travel 6.30 Bow 6.30 Pathfinders 6.30 Sheng Tang Mountain 7.00 AH Saturday 7.00 Good Horning Singapore 7.00
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    Lost at sea and SINKING
    718 52 Original Love Goddess Suzanne gives her verdict on Simon Lim, Class 95FM's Captain of Your Heart (cb~ with Suzanne Walker M m THE Captain is bonkers and the show's lost in a sea of puke. It's late, the show's long over and I'm still numb
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    Jest-a-Mean-it, Part 3
    317 53 V I chuamc@sph.com.sg A with Mike Chua Hup attire: same old clothes. Eg: 'I'm attired of wearing the same old dress.' audition: job interview for the post of an auditor. auditorium: a big auditors' conference. augment: to prop up an argument, auspicious: a VIP who looks suspicious.
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    Lock icon Chic spot for a first date
    426 54 I brian 188@yahoo.com w fth Brian Miller THE name almost fooled me. I mean, Grill On Devonshire. Surely, that meant just another restaurant serving steaks. Right and wrong. Sure, the "Grill" along Devonshire Road did serve steaks. I can vouch for that I had
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      WEIRED
      164 55 Death delights www.sfdtcom www.c-cat.demon.co.uk/theatre "SICK, morbid and violent, but I love it!" That was what a Net surfer wrote in the online guest book after viewing the animated clips on the home page of Surrey Stick Figure Theatre of Death. It's probably hard to explain why people enjoy seeing
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      May the farce be with you
      44 55 M wwwJnfinityrealm.com/stickhtrnl CALLING all Star Wars fans. Here's a site that contains some well-known characters from a galaxy far, far away except that they are all drawn as stick figures. Can you identify who these figures are? 1
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      Bad communication
      243 55 Front: Managing Director To; Executive Director There will be a total eclipse of the tun at 9am tomorrow.This Is something we cannot see everyday. So let the work force line up outside in their best clothes to watch it. To mark the occasion of this rare occurrence, I
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      Search and rescue
      197 55 SHOULD Malaysia be blamed for the death of a British naval officer? That was the hot topic of discussion in the soc.culture.singapore newsgroup. The British officer went missing after his helicopter crashed into the South China Sea on Sept 23. As Malaysia did not give clearance in
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      NEW nation
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