The New Paper, 29 October 1998

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  • 7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1998
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    • 67 1 Crisis hits S-League too About I U RECEIVED Y\ footballer may lose jo®S23^ /Page 48 Choa Chu Kang horror crash Bus made wrong turn, says SBS J /Page 17 H ByjfFaTil^v^Mi W HVMrT^B^^MH^B m A I ■tTtijT'l I I HI ■VliF;lflif4liflH &V I: MITA(P) 151/04/98 60CENTS AM Mi Ml http://newpaper.asial.com.sg
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  • 1043 2  -  So, let's bite the bullet now, says PM Goh THENEWSTODAY BY Yvonne Lim TIME to bite the bullet. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong wants the employers' CPF contributions to be cut by 10 percentage points. Why: To send a "strong and decisive signal to
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  • 387 3 SINGAPORETODAY The crisis is worsening. Here's the Government's action plan to deal with it. Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang outlines both the immediate steps and the long-term solutions in a speech he is due to give this morning. YVONNE UM retorts Action stations Cost-cutting Severe
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 595 4  -  By Michelle Ang PAY bonuses every month. This is National Trades Union Congress Secretary-General Lim Boon Hong's idea to help companies deal with the cashflow crunch when times are tough. And it will make it possible to
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    • 83 4 FLEXIBLE wage components in the civil service pay structure include a mid-year bonus payable around June. This year, the mid-year bonus was cut from three-quarters of a month to half a month's salary, based on the recommendation of the National Wages Council. Civil servants normally enjoy a
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    • 181 4 TCS News interviewed Mr Lim Boon Heng on Oct 23. Here are parts of the interview carried in the evening news on Tuesday: NTUC faces two challenges in extending the retirement age beyond 60. To get employers to change prejudicial attitudes about the hiring of older
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    • 72 4 THOSE who have been retrenched want to find another job quickly. NTUC is providing job assistance and job-matching services. It is also helping as many workers as possible to retrain and upgrade themselves so that it will help them get new jobs, not just for now, but for
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 185 6 ifflr YOU could be paying less for petrol soon, thanks to two moves the Government is now thinking about. The moves: CUT DUTIES: The Government is "looking seriously" at cutting petrol duties says Mr Ho Meng Kit, deputy secretary of the Trade and Industry Ministry. This would lower
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    • 54 6 GET YOUR MAIL ON THE ROAD: This fully functional computer fits In a car armrest. It not only guides you to your destination, but also lets you play games, sing karaoke, surf the Net, send e-mail and do word processing. Searcherl is developed locally by GPS Technologies.
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        49 6 DONATIONS CHARITIES have been hit hard by plummeting donations. Some have collected less than half last year's amounts. Said the chief executive officer of the National Council of Social Service, Mr Benedict Cheong: "Companies have become more prudent... Many have no or less money for (charitable) causes."
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        58 6 EDUCATION AN OLD boy of Raffles Institution will lead Singapore's top boys' school into the next millennium. Mr Wong Siew Hoong, 39, (left) deputy director of the Education Ministry's National Education branch, will be headmaster from Dec 1. He called his appointment a "homecoming" as he had
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      • 71 6 I INDONESIA M INDONESIA'S largest Muslim group has issued an ultimatum to the military: If the murders do not stop by the end of next month, it will allow its members to take the law into their own hands. The threat was issued by the secretary-general of
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      • 60 6 COURT 1 HE set fire to 56 cars causing more than $700,000 worth of damage in all. Kee Keng Seng, 65, was jailed 7 Yi years by a district court yesterday. Among the cars he torched were 21 Mercedes-Benzes, nine BMWs, seven Hondas, three Toyotas, two Hyundais, a
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    • 55 6 Quote Ihere were women who would ask me the price of the products if they were buying them for their husbands f but wouldn f t blink an eye if they were getting them for their dogs, Dentist Harold Katz who has invented a range of
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    • 135 7 in Fmus MEET your new remisier, and clinic assistant the Internet. Now you can buy shares online. Yesterday stockbrokers Lim and Tan Securities and Vickers Ballas Holdings launched their online systems. You can place orders directly on the Exchange, via the Internet. Cyber-traders will continue to
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    • 67 7 M JOBS 1 THE public sector has laid off 49 people since last year reports Berita Harian. They were laid-ofT under a scheme launched in 1996. That year, only one worker was affected. However, last year, more were affected, as workers redeployed to cut costs, were found to
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    • 63 7 causeway A SINGAPOREAN held by Malaysian police for 10 days for allegedly being rude to an immigration officer was freed yesterday morning. Johor police said Mr Zaili Rapan, 25, was taken from the station by two Malaysian immigration officers. The officer would not say whether Mr Zaili had
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    • 59 7 The Straits Times: Petrol duties may be cut The Business Times: NTUC chief calls for variable monthly wage component Lianhe Zaobao: Dangerous to play up Anwar stories, Mahathir tells Malaysian Chinese Press Berita Harian: Public Sector also laid off staff RCS morning news: Labour unionists meet later
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    • 65 7 I HONGKONG 1 HONGKONG Chief Secretary Anson Chan has rapped two tycoons. They were kidnapped and paid ransom of more than US$2OO million ($340 million) but didn't inform police. The press named them as Sun Hung Kai boss Walter Kwok anmd Mr Victor Li, son of billionaire Li
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    • 59 7 MALAYSIA ANWAR Ibrahim will not be freed before his corruption trial on Monday. The Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday rejected the former deputy premier's application to be freed from detention under the Internal Security Act, which was lifted on Oct 14. Anwar is now under custody on
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      4 7 Tongue Clfeek
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    • 59 7 South China Morning Post: I sympathise with Tung, says Patten The New Straits Times: More funds for low-cost houses TV 2: High Court rejects Anwar's habeas corpus application BBC news: The top-level European Union delegation is due in China today, at the start of a five-day visit
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    • 27 7 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 5.93 points to close at 8,371.97 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 675 million shares.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 392 8 INDIA BANS ONION EXPORTS India has just announced a ban on all onion exports because of a shortage there. India accounted for 73 per cent of onions imported into Singapore last year. How will the ban affect onion lovers in Singapore? IRENE KEWfinds out ONE thing
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    • 437 9  -  Byl Tanya Fong OH good! It's recess. There goes the sign. That's right. Students at the Sctaftsl for the Deaf no longer nead someone else to hear the bells for them. They know when they can go for makan, thanks to a display system
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    • 498 10  -  MURDER OF MAKEUP ARTIST: TRIAL BEGjNS__ By Riana Zakir NO crumpled prison-issued T-shirt or blue cotton shorts for a murder suspect in the High Court yesterday. Instead, it was a black tailored jacket with the collar of a Malay baju and gold cufflinks for Tengku
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    • 118 10 JONARIS had allegedly called Madam Poh, 42, for a filming project. So she went to the Marina South bus-stop, opposite the Superbowl Golf and Country Club, just before 6.30 am on April 20. Jonaris allegedly struck her head with a hammer before dragging her by her armpits to
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    • 559 11 Doctors recently received a letter informing them that the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) was holding elections for two more members. Then there were reports that those who did not vote risked losing their practising certificates. That, it turns out, wasn't quite right, but there
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      509 12 A gang of robbers cracked baseball bats on the heads of their victims before robbing them. They were caught by a Volunteer Special Constable (VSC) and his men. J RAJENDRAN speaks to the VSC officer and reports on the case, which will be aired on Crime
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    • 257 12 BUSINESSMAN Chew Phit Seng was driving along the Ayer Rajah Expressway on May 3 last year when another car hit his from behind. It was no accident. The three men in the other car were out to rob him. After stopping on the road shoulder, Mr Chew
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    • 533 14  -  By Yvonne Lim OUT of a job? Turn your hobby into one. That's the tip Mr Jeffrey Law (right) has to share with fellow job-hunters. When he lost his job last October, a childhood interest came in handy for the former human resource
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    • 243 14 Q: I have a friend who was a beautician for two years. She now has a hard time getting a suitable desk job. She has only finished Secondary 3. Please help. Zacfc A: How long ago was your friend a beautician? llie more recent your friend's
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  • SPEAKUP
    • 200 15 Mr Roy Um (e-mail) I HAD an awful experience recently with a young lady driver. I saw her parking her car in a handicap lot. So, I walked up to her and gently reminded her she shouldn't be doing that. She then claimed that there weren't any
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    • 104 15 Mr David Soh (e-mail) THERE seem to be many companies promoting "fast bucks" schemes during this ecomomic downturn. They have lawyers' letters saying their schemes are neither "pyramid" nor "network marketing" illegal in Singapore. Could the relevant authorities (if any) advise on the following: Can a marketing
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    • 117 15 [speak B p YOUR FORUM ECONOMIC DOWNTURN 4 0% Off I YOU COULD LOWER YOUR BUDGET YET NOT COMPROMISE ON STANDARD Yes, you can at Hair'em! With our prices slashed down by 40% across the board, you can still sport a trendsetting style, without burning a hole in your pocket!
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      53 16 muj*mu]rf Government tchoiflr Bernard TanTongKhoo,43,isservf«tga year in Jail for conspiring to cheat and using forced document! Said a romiiior who claimed that Tan stiil owes Mm $400: He got away with cheating me. But Singapore is so small, you can run but you can't hide. It was one
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    • 348 16 I ACCIDENT THAT LEFT FAMILY TRAPPED IN CAR THE bus driver was supposed to turn right, but he turned left instead. Yesterday, the Singapore Bus Service (SBS) said the bus driver in the Choa Chu Kang accident that left a family trapped in their
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 114 17 FEAR is written all over this woman's face. Madam Jumaidi of Jember, East Java, is taking part in a "sumpah pocong" to clear her name. The swearing ceremony takes place in a mosque with religious men chanting prayers. Madam Jumaidi is accused
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    • 144 17 STUDENT PROTESTS Source: Wire services. Around 8,000 students gathered outside Indonesia's parliament yesterday to protest against the five-month-old government of President B J Habibie.. Students marched to parliament on foot and in buses to mark the country's Youth Day. It was the largest protest since the
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      56 19 muimui Thirteen-year-old Erica Kaplan, on why she spent her school break sweating it out at a US "fat camp" for kids, losing 9 kg: It was hard for me to wear the right clothes. People are attracted by what they see on the outside; it's only afterwards
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    • 269 19 AUSTRALIA COLD SHOULDERS INDONESIA Australia has dropped two megor military exercises and cut back contacts with Indonesia's elite special forces, Kopassus. The exercises were to take place next month. The decision amounts to a virtual freeze in contacts between the Australian Defence Force and the Indonesian
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    • 300 20 Reuters. HE rests most of the time, walks and reads, and sometimes gets papers from the Kremlin. But it's clear that President Boris Yeltsin no longer has day-to-day control of Russia. He underwent a second day of treatment for exhaustion yesterday at a Moscow medical centre.
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    • 414 20  -  He's only 14, but he's not alone By I Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY HE is a 14-year-old boy who dreamed of saving to buy a surfboard. He earned Ass (about $5) an hour by helping clean up in a Melbourne butcher's shop after school each day.
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    • 177 20 AS many as 70,000 children are working at home in the garment industry, union officials estimate. Many are recently arrived migrants from Asia who are working beside their parents. The work is poorly paid but it is the only source of income many can find. Middle men have
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    • 548 21  -  By! Soutik Biswas REPORTING FROM CALCUTTA HE has completed more than 3,500 paintings, held an exhibition of his work recently, and even has a book written about him. And he is just five years old. Agni Basu, a boy from Agarpara on the
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    • 319 21 AGNI was born on May 1,1993, in a one-room home that was stacked with canvases done by his artist parents, Mr Ganesh Chandra Basu, 35, and Mrs Bidula Basu, 34. "He's been messing with colours since he was one," said Mr Basu.
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    • 371 22 Fears over Israeli PM's safety keep these security men busy Source: Wire services ISRAEL'S secret service is afraid for the Prime Minister's life. It has advised Mr Benjamin Netanyahu to appear less in public. Shin Beth, the internal security agency, also urged him to cut
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    • 152 22 Wire services. HE has been accused of killing and torturing Spanish citizens while he was Chile's military ruler from 1973-1990. Yesterday, General Augusto Pinochet (left), won the first round of a court battle against his arrest on those charges. The London High Court
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  • 502 23  -  K&uHHI WITH IVAN LIM I ATTENDED my first funeral when I was 10. My uncle was only 51. It was a slow and painful death, so I gather it was cancer. But although his death resulted in the first funeral I went to, it
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • Showtime
    • 480 26 Kenneth Tsang Kong has made headlines again and again with his acid tongue. Is the actor from Hongkong such a hard nut to crack? HAZEL TAN caught him in action while filming in Bintan recently, and brings you the other side of the man HE may
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    • 621 27  -  Say goodbye to the old REM and hello to the new By Saw Tek Meng YOUR drummer suddenly quits just as you are about to record a new album. What do you do? If you are REM, you first contemplate calling it a day. It
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    • 413 28  -  By Saw Tek Meng UPS first single, Daysleeper, could be an out-take from 1992's Automatic for the People Don't be fooled. The rest of Up sounds nothing like what we would expect of REM. Said guitarist Peter Buck of Up: "I think it
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    • 385 29  -  By Jason Lee IF Concave Scream seems to be marching to a new beat these days, that's probably because they are. Fans of local music will recognise drummer Ren, 25, from his stint with The Padres, the Joe Ng-fronted outfit that called it quits earlier this
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    • 152 29 IT was Concave Scream, all right. And yet, something was different. Watching the band preview its new songs at Moods last Tuesday, I wondered what it was. All the trademark Scream-isms were there: Sean and Pann's soaring vocal harmonies, their
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    • 344 30 |Iw<hJMJ "> wSp needles your back, each 15 cm long, \!T~_y sticking This no scene from a Stephen /t?- v King movie, but a common sight pP^if^HsjjB^^Hn?=i iff jzr--^ in Dr Siow Yung CKing's m W C^.^ acupuncture clinic. I' Dr Siow, 52, who has been acupuncturist for 20 years,
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  • 344 32 FROM PAGE 33 CAREER CHOICE How does acupuncture work? The needles placed on different parts of the body muscle open the "acupoints", which are like gateways to the organs. These needles activate the nerves to heal the body. What's the biggest misconception about your
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        290 41 Hp selects himself... The result: CHELSEA 4 Gianluca Vialli 32,67,85; Tore Andre Flo 71 ASTON VILLA 1 Mark Draper 10 Hatf-thne: 1-1 Crowd: 26,790 Red card: Dennis Wise (Chelsea) 88 ITALIAN player-manager Gianluca Vialli grabbed a hat-trick. And holder Chelsea knocked previously unbeaten Premier League leader Aston Villa
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    • 269 42 Reuters. ITALIAN CUP Third round, Ist leg: Yesterday: Atalanta IAS Roma 1 BarilParma2 Fiorentina 1 Lecce 0 Inter-Milan 1 Castel Di Sangro 0 Sampdoria 0 Bologna 0 Udinese 0 Vicenza 0 Tuesday: Juventus 1 Venezia 1 Today: Laziov AC Milan SPANISH CUP Third round, Ist
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    • 217 42 Reuters. COLOMBIAN Faustino Asprilla scored twice in the last 15 minutes to give Parma a 2-1 win at Bari. Asprilla, the former Newcastle striker, has failed to hold down a first team place in Parma's league side. But he put it ahead on 75 minutes with
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      239 44 Give him a good partner IT is wrong to expect Shearer to shoulder the blame for his lack of goals. It is the lack of passes and he needs a good striking partner. Shearer cannot find an appropriate partner in Stephane GuivarcTi. As a result, he has to carry
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    • 504 45 Now: 25 players per club. 5 can be foreigners. Next year?: 15 players per club. 4 can be foreigners This means... Each club can release nine players. As there are 11 clubs in S-League,this equals a total of 99 players Nearly 100 s-League footballers could soon
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    • 189 46 GEYLANG United's left-footed raw diamond Razali Johari is among 28 players named in the National Pre-Olympic squad. Razali is considered the best young talent in the country by a number of local coaches, including Vincent Subramaniam and P N Sivaji. Vincent once descibed Razali as "a
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    • 42 46 S-League club Jurong FC is in big trouble and may even fold up. The New Paper, together with the club, has launched a campaign to raise $500,000 to help keep Jurong afloat. You can also help...
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    • 449 46  -  By Irene Kew LITTLE Shamini and Yongendran are going without their Deepavali hongbao (red packet) money this year. The two primary school students have donated their collection of $100 to the Save Jurong Campaign. All because they want to help Jurong's star striker, V Sundramoorthy.
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    • 516 47 What happens next?... Reuters. DUTCH striker Pierre van Hooijdonk (left) is to finally end his self-enforced exile and will return to English club Nottingham Forest. But he is likely to feel as conspicuous as a Dutchman in clogs bursting into a ballet class when he returns this
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