The New Paper, 31 October 1998

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  • 7 1 the new paper SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1998
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    • 112 1 KS JL Anorexia? Blame my bOn^^AllyMcßeal v j. •%X t 2~'>'... <B8 £A^isf, A *0$ 1J r<. Q*<ls Ihgylil linn tnM bi i protest. So Mr Zalinan Zakaria, 28, came with cap and all to the National Mosque in Kuala ,u, i Lumpur yesterday. But the V demonstration never happened.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 872 2 BRENDAN PEREIRA looks at the political situation in Malaysia ahead of the trial of former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, which starts on Monday. Here are excerpts of his article published in The Straits Times today DISPLEASURE UNOFFICIAL surveys conducted
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      389 3  -  By Rahul Pathak IT'S Saturday again the last Saturday before Malaysia's former Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, is tried on charges of corruption and sodomy. Kuala Lumpur is bracing itself for another round of protests and demonstrations. Why? Simply because it is Saturday. And Saturdays in Kuala Lumpur
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    • 251 3 SATURDAY, SEPT 26 THE weekend protests begin. About 3,000 turn up at Merdeka Square after word goes out on the Internet that there will be a gathering to show support for Anwar. Police on horses quickly move in and let loose water cannons to break up
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  • 1097 4  -  SATURDAY FEVER FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By Melvin Singh and Fong Foong Mei WATER cannons have been used and hundreds have been arrested. But every weekend, in a city not known for its culture of protest, the demonstrators keep returning. What brings them back, like
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 364 5 HSff PRIVATE homes suffered their biggest price fall in 30 years in the three months to September, according to Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) figures released yesterday. The 13.1 per cent fall follows a 8.3 per cent fall in the April-June quarter. Prices are now 39.6 per cent
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    • 39 5 «c— This WALKING THE PLANK: Worshippers making their way to the famous Shrewsbury Abbey along elevated boards over floodwaters that have engulfed the central English town of Shrewsbury for several days. Picture/ Afp
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    • 26 5 THE Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 97.07 points to close at 8,592.10 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 772 million shares.
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    • News Break
      • 55 5 MANDARIN THE 20-year-old Speak Mandarin campaign will enter a new phase, promoting Chinese as a high language on par with English among the Chinese. It can do this by nurturing local Chinese intellectuals and attracting scholars, said Minister for Information and the Arts George Yeo. These intellectuals will
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      • 64 5 INTERNET THE Ang Soon Tong secret society has an active bilingual website. The US site features pictures of tattooed youths, young girls and secret society slogans. Its creator claims to be Lester Chang, 19, a Singaporean. The Ang Soon Tong of the '50s and '60s controlled almost all
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      • 58 5 JOBS RETRENCHED workers were hired to fill 210 of the 350 jobs at a new plant that opened yesterday. The US$7O-million ($ll4-million) plant in Changi is networking products maker 3Com Corp's largest worldwide and its Asia-Pacific head office. It expects to have up to 450 workers by March
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      • 68 5 'WAR GAME' ITS sort of a "war game", with players firing pellets that mark their "enemies" with food colouring. Paintball is coming here, with two arenas set to open on Nov 22 at Sentosa, and a third, in Pasir Ris, shooting for a Dec 1 opening. Two companies
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    • 184 6 in FOCus AFP. THIS catchphrase from The Simpsons is an example of how cartoon characters are making linguistic history. Some of this century's most famous catchphrases came from the mouths of celluloid characters. So says the prestigious Oxford Dictionary of 20th Century
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    • 92 6 South China Morning Post: G7 leaders spell out reforms to halt crisis The New Straits Times: PM: Moggie to head new Multimedia Ministry Berita Harian Malaysia: Don't blame the government TV 2: New ministry to deal with multimedia from next month TV 3: Dr Mahathir says Malaysians
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    • 68 6 The Straits Times: Unionists to back proposal on CPFcut The Business Times: Private home prices down 13% in Q3; values 40% off peak Lianhe Zaobao: Singapore agrees to extend for one and a half months the temporary arrangements at train customs Berita Harian: Union supports 10% CPFcut
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    • 56 6 EDUCATION GO for double degrees, says the Public Service Commission (PSC). Most of its scholars at American universities are studying for their first and master's degrees at the same time. Applications for PSC undergraduate scholarships open today. Get forms at the PSC, 3, St Andrews Road or apply
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    • 58 6 IMMIGRATION SINGAPORE will give Malaysia six more weeks to present legal arguments to support its claim that it has a right to maintain customs and immigrations facilities at Tanjong Pagar. The deadline was extended at the request of Malaysia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Singapore has moved its customs,
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    • 50 6 INDONESIA POISON-PEN letters which play up sensitive ethnic and religious issues are circulating in Java, Indonesia's most densely-populated island. Three different unsigned letters have appeared, touching on a spate of recent murders in East Java and sowing dissent between pribumis and the ethnic Chinese and between religious groups.
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    • 55 6 [SOUTH AFRICAI THE just released Truth Commission report does not appear to have brought black and white South Africans any closer. Its chairman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke out against apartheid but also slammed the black liberation movements for gross human-rights violations. He said ultimately all South Africans
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    • 11 6 Don't play by their rules /Page 26
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    • 225 7 Ms Sudha Nair was one of two veteran social workers given the Most Outstanding Social Worker award last night. Among Ms Nair's achievements: Expanding the FSC to two centres, and initiating child care and school services. The other winner is Mrs Winnie Phoon, a case manager with Sage (Singapore Action
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    • 382 10  -  By Crispina Robert MR J IRTHEYRAJU (above) is one worried man. The senior citizen is going to play Santa tonight. So what's wrong with that? Well, isn't it rather too early for that? Not at all. He's going to be a Deepavali Santa (or Thatha,
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  • JOB TALK
    • 443 11 Union leaders took the stage at the second day ofNTUC's Ordinary Delegates Conference, voicing concerns that were "from their hearts". MICHELLE ANG reports THE OLDER WORKER Pay should not be based on age Mohd Ma'mum Suheimi (Singapore Malay Teachers' Union): I would like to suggest that this
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    • 281 12 THERE was a loud and repeated plea from union leaders to look out for Singapore's older workers. Time and time again, the delegates at the National Trades Union Congress' Ordinary Delegates Conference brought up these workers' plight. Mr Lim Swee Say, NTUC's deputy secretary-general, said: 'Those
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    • 615 14  -  By Ng Wan Ching NO, Ms Gillian Kang is not a doctor, nor does she pretend to be one. She just believes there are more ways to getting rid of a headache than popping
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    • 277 15  -  By Danny Lim WHEN Huang Ziqiang, 16, went to court, he saw a familiar face. And oh-oh, that familiar face saw him too. District Judge Louis D' Souza frowned and asked Huang, as he stood up to face an extortion charge last week: "Do you
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      356 17  -  I MURDER OF MAKE-UP ARTIST: THE TRIAL hours after alleged murder By Riana Zakir ONLY his maid noticed anything unusual, the day he allegedly bashed a woman to death for her diamond-studded Rolex. Tengku Jonaris Badlishah, 23, returned home to wash up and have lunch. As usual,
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    • 159 17 JONARIS loved to boast. "He will talk big, as in brag about things like how much he has done, what he has done," said production manager Lonzo Lim yesterday. "But in actual fact, he has not done all those things... he boasts to bring himself up." Twice,
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    • 551 18  -  lifootbalTir usman acquitted BY Yvonne Lim FOR seven months, Nigerian footballer Usman Abdullah has been fighting to clear his name. Once, the defender and midfielder was dressed to play in a test match for an S-League club that hoped to sign him on. He was
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    • 37 17 ADVERTISEMENT ANWAR IBRAHIM Mahathir's Dilemma A blow-by blow account of the sacking of Anwar Ibrahim as Deputy Prime Minister, his dismissal from UMNO and the launch of his reform movement Available at all leading bookstores. RANjrr GILL
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 113 23 Fire swept through an overcrowded Halloween party in a Swedish disco on Thursday night. Only one of two fire exits was working and many of the teenage revellers could not get out fast enough People were screaming: Ourfriends are in there! Ourfriends are in there! 9 Some
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    • 404 24 Reuters. IT was a Halloween party in a disco crammed with about 300 to 400 teenagers partying the night away. But fire swept through the overcrowded disco in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, leaving 65 dead and 162 injured. Panicking youngsters
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    • 148 24 SWEDISH Prime Minister Goran Persson fought back tears. The horror of the tragedy had begun to sink in when he saw children's boots scattered around in the burnt-out disco. "It was all burned out, with only a skeleton left," Mr Persson said yesterday after visiting
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    • 390 25  -  'NINJA' TERROR IN JAVA BY JILL LIM TO me, the "ninja" situation in Indonesia just got scarier. It isn't the matter of the 150 or so "warlocks" and clerics said to have been killed by "ninjas" (people in black hoods), though that itself is frightening.
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    • 25 25 mui^muif AsfencanfedbyastiidMt protester In Paris during demonstrations for hotter school conditions: Enough with the blah-blah: When's the reform going to happen?
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    • 352 41 AFP. HE'S BACK CONTRACT rebel Pierre Van Hooijdonk returned to training with Nottingham Forest yesterday flanked by two Dutch security guards. This came after a behind-closed-doors showdown with manager Dave Bassett. Dutch international striker Van Hooijdonk, who walked out on the English Premiership club in pre-season claiming Forest
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    • 29 41 PUMPKIN PARTY: Chelsea's French defender Frank Lebouef shows off his pumpkin mask as families around the world prepare for today's festival of Halloween. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 226 41 AFP. UNSETTLED Coventry striker Dion Dublin is expected to sign for Premiership leader Aston Villa over the weekend. Villa is refusing to increase its £5.1 million ($13.7 m) bid for the England striker. Dublin's agent, Struan Marshall, claims that is all Villa needs to offer under the
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    • 297 41  -  By Irene Kew WANT to see Jurong's star striker V Sundramoorthy with a facial mask Or possibly watch while his black locks are trimmed? Hop down to Queen Classic's Save Jurong Fund Support Launch tomorrow. Jurong FC's players and officials will be having their faces scrubbed
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    • 370 42 TIGER BEER SINGAPORE CUP: 2nd leg semi-finals Tg Pagar v Home Utd (Queenstown Stadium, 7.30pm tonight) INFO-LINE WHO will qualify for the Tiger Beer Singapore Cup final? Tanjong Pagar and SAFFC are the favourites. But can Home United and Sembawang Rangers pull off an upset? For results
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