The New Paper, 14 November 1998

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  • 21 1 the new paper SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1998 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asia1 .com.sg Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings
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    • 73 1 .mi it be a replay of May I .WW Habibie have to go? Q E7 ll I mWhere is the country headed? NA. jt/ W DOIIESlAMiSl ERUPTS AGARI. ''"i* v.** *r r :>'Tr" -l V. ft; iS i -qf i| r j8 v; K Jl,\ M m; W iwl m.
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    • 172 2 APEC: LATEST Source: Wire Services. PRESIDENT Bill Clinton may not show up in Kuala Lumpur next week. The crisis in Iraq, where a US strike seems possible anytime soon, may keep him in Washington, MSNBC (Internet edition) reported. Mr Clinton was due to attend the
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    • 788 2 AT LEAST NINE DEAD AS RIOTING IN JAKARTA CONTINUES TODAY A MINI-BATTLE between police and protesters broke out again this morning in Jakarta. The clash came after a day of violent clashes that left at least nine people dead. For many, the sight
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    • 277 2 Reuters. THE tense standoff between the protesters and the police did not last long last night. The reason: The students promised to be back on Jakarta's main streets early this morning. To cut them off, security forces charged into a mob of hundreds as early as
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 506 3 He is a full-fledged royal who has emerged as one of Indonesia's leading pro-democracy figures. In fact, The Straits Times today mentioned Sultan Hamengkubuwono X (below), who is also Yogyakarta s governor, as a possible candidate to replace President B J Habibie should continuing protests force him
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    • 133 3 THE Sultan was among four opposition figures who jointly issued a list of demands to the special session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) on Tuesday. The other three were Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri, head of a splinter faction of the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI), and Muslim leaders
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      351 4 Four months ago, little MohdAzwan Harris went to Australia for an operation to correct his badly-deformed face. FONG FOONG MElfinds out how things have changed for the seven-year-old "MAMMA, now I have lips, I can kiss you." That was one of the first things Azwan, seven, told
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    • 99 4 AZWAN had previously been diagnosed as suffering from neurofibromatosis, a disease marked by abnormal tissue growth. But surgeon Mr David John David, from the Women and Children's Hospital in Adelaide, found Azwan has the same disease as "Elephant Man" John Merrick. Called the Proteus Syndrome, it is extremely
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    • 110 4 DURING our interview in a coffehouse at Pantai Medical Centre, a small boy sidled up shyly. "What is your name?" four-year-old Sean Tan asked Azwan. Azwan stared, surprised. He's used to parents pulling away their kids. Telling them things like: "Don't play with that boy, his disease
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 161 5 m RELIEF HOME owners, you can work with us to repay your housing loans, say two of Singapore's largest banks. DBS Bank and United Overseas Bank say they will help restructure the loans of those facing difficulty with the impending 10 percentage point
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    • 134 5 INVESTORS, there's no need for you to scramble to re-register your Malaysian shares with the Malaysian Central Depository. The depository is now allowing brokers to do so on your behalf. Yesterday, it allowed at least two Malaysian broking firms listed HLG Securities and Hwang-DBS Securities
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    • 59 5 Picture This NOW, DONT TRY THIS AT HOME: Mr Ma reelo De Ramos, 28, from Brazil, entertaining onlookers with a precision jump through a ring of knives. Mr De Ramos and his wife Anita, are performing at this year's Singapore River Buskers' Festival, which begins this
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    • News Break
      • 64 5 LABOUR THE Government is studying the National Wages Council's call to cut wage costs by 5 to 8 per cent. It will respond during the two-day Parliament debate from Nov 23 on the Committee on Singapore's Competitivenes report. The report urged a 10 percentage point Central Provident
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      • 64 5 PROPERTY PENTHOUSE buyers who have been slow in their progress payments are being taken to court. Marco Polo Developments has started suing buyers of Ardmore Park condos who didn't pay 10 per cent. It filed writs in the High Court against more than 30 buyers in a test
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      • 61 5 PEOPLE I ACTOR Sean Connery's wife, Micheline, was robbed of about US$1 million ($1.65 million) worth of jewellery yesterday. A thief took a bagload of diamonds, bracelets and brooches from her apartment while she was at dinner. Connery is best known for his recurring role as Agent 007
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      • 54 5 COURTS SOCIAL escort agency Tiffany Promotions'Ms Lim Soo Boon was in court again yesterday. Her debt, including legal costs, had grown to $120,000, her former lawyer said. She had not paid his firm after ex-model Hanis Saini Hussey won $30,000 damages and costs for using her picture. She
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    • 75 5 Quote Wworthy People who come here are typically worried sick about themselves or their loved ones. The hospital environment must do exactly the opposite bring the heart rate down through greenery. MrLiak TengLit, Changi General Hospital's chief executive officer. Yesterday, it became the first
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    • 144 6 in F®Sus AFP SOME US cities are getting tough on gun merchants. Chicago Mayor Richard Dalev has announced a US$433 million ($736 million) lawsuit against gun shops and gun manufacturers, saying they should help bear the cost of rampant violence. Under Chicago law, all guns
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    • 54 6 FINANCE MORE Government funds will go to private management. It's part of new strategies to make Singapore the premier fund management hub in Asia. The Monetary Authority of Singapore will place out $10 billion over the next three years, adding to $25 billion the Government earmarked as investment
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    • 60 6 I TECHNOLOGY I THE millenium bug could wreak havoc with nuclear weapons. The bug may result in the crash of computers controlling these weapons in the US on Jan 1, 2000, said a report by the British American Security Information Council. Missiles could shut down or incorrect data
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    • 61 6 Human cow? SCIENCE AMERICAN scientists have cloned an adult human cell by fusing human and cow cells in an attempt to grow organs for transplant in a laboratory dish. "This is the most extraordinary single development in the history of biotechnology because it now suggests that we can create new
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    • 54 6 ECONOMY TAIWAN will make at least NT$200 billion ($9.94 billion) available to buy shares. It's the fourth attempt in six months to bolster its battered financial markets. And it appears to be working already stocks have surged 2.6 per cent. "The stabilisation fund has entered the market," Finance
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    • 56 6 The Straits Times: 8 killed in Jakarta clashes The Business Times: DBS, UOB ready to help home owners hit by CPF cut Lianhe Zaobao: Govt to place $10b more for private fund managers Berita Harian: Police, students clash on final day of MPR RCS morning news: Clashes
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    • 65 6 South China Morning Post: 9 killed as troops fire on Jakarta student protests The New Straits Times: Anwar files suit against PM and the Government Berita Harian Malaysia: Anwar summons PM Utusan Malaysia: Azizan was not forced' BBC news: President Saddam Hussein says he's ready to respond
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    • 28 6 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 89.85 points to close at 8,919.59 points yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 604 million shares.
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    • 468 7 She is one of the slowly growing numbers of Indian women who are marrying outside their community. But why do it when you are subjected to curious stares and insensitive taunts? TOHU LIN finds out THIS couple is walking down the aisle today perhaps even as
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    • 65 7 MORE Indian women are marrying outside of their community. In 1997, there was a total of 105 marriages between Indian women and non-Indian men. There has been an increase compared with 96 such marriages in 1996, and 92 in 1995. The latest statistics also show that more are
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    • 83 9 THE New Paper's annual Primary One Seminar was held last night at the auditorium of the former PUB Building. The seminar saw three speakers providing expert advice for parents with children about to enter primary one. An array of concerns were also raised by
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    • 127 9 YUGOSLAVIA, US, Iraq, Hongkong, Thailand and South Jakarta these are just some of the countries mentioned in our World Today pages last Wednesday. But out of the 938 callers to our contest line, only 186 guessed that there were more than five countries mentioned. Fifteen correct callers
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    • 528 11  -  Six bags... two feet... another two feet and another... and another, and... PENALTY 1 Lai Chee Hoong, a car mechanic in iohorBani, was jailed 18 months last By Teo Hwee Nak IT is a brand new Mitsubishi Pajero. You would expect a big family
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    • 146 11 WORLD Cup 1998 played an indirect role in landing 18-year-old Lai Chee Hoong behind bars for the next 18 months. He had been betting heavily during the games in June and July. And he must have backed all the wrong teams, for he ended up owing loansharks
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    • 275 11 Hiding five people in the Pajero in this most recent case is no jaw-dropping feat if you consider more outrageous cases. In March, 64 immigration offenders were hidden under lined planks in a lorry. In September, 12 illegal DESPERATE illegal immigrants or overstayers would do anything
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    • 430 12  -  By Jason Lee Remember the meteor showers in the sci-fi epic, Armageddon? Well, brace yourselves, because you'll get a chance to see the real thing when the Leonid meteor shower comes around next week. Thankfully, though, these meteors will be burning up when they enter the
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    • 160 12 YOU had a terrific night all planned for you and your better half. A romantic night gazing at the Leonid meteor shower. Then, it hits you. Sentosa's Tanjong Beach, the experts' recommended shower-gazing site, probably won't be the same secluded lovers' haunt that it usually
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      73 14 mui<mui< Mr Mfte Govindan, 60, and Ms wife Radha, S3, are Volunteer Probation Officers with the Ministry of Community Development They often have to stake out probationers to make sure they are home by midnight But their surveillance tactics sometimes arouse suspicion. Said Mr Govindan: Some people
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  • 319 16 SINGAPORETODAY Yesterday, the No 1 man welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Today, the No 2 man is attending the opening of Canada House. Singapore and Canada are old friends, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. And Canada House will add depth and substance
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    • 405 20  -  Oh, oh! Thankful! Thankful! By Chan Seet Fun THE first time they met, they hugged each other for a full minute and jabbered away. "It's great to meet you! I can't see you, David, but I can feel you!" gushed blind Philip Lye. "Oh, oh!
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    • 176 20 PIANIST David Helfgott has a famous face. And it probably has quite a lot to do with the 1996 movie, Shine, which won actor Geoffrey Rush an Oscar. The touching movie recorded Helfgott's beginnings as a child prodigy, his turbulent relationship with his father, his breakdown
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  • Day 10
    • 116 21 YES, he forced a man to lie. But the police officer said he did not know he was doing something wrong. Assistant Commissioner of Police Mazlan Mohd Din said he had been ordered by Special Branch chief Mohamed Said Awang to "neutralise" Anwar's former driver, Mr Azizan
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    • 61 21 HEARING will resume on Nov 23 after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit next week. Justice Augustine Paul said hearing would then continue for three weeks. Asked by Anwar's lawyers how much longer the case would take, Judge Paul said he did not know, for it would depend
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    • 426 21  -  By Brian Miller IF the chief of the Special Branch ordered one of his men to force a "target" to lie, that officer would do it without question. So said prosecution witness Assistant Commissioner of Police Mazlan Mohd Din (right). The Special Branch
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    • 103 21 ACP Mazlan said he had to do as he was ordered even force a witness to lie under the Police Act. Anwar Ibrahim's lawyer, Mr Gurtachan Singh: "If Said Awang (Special Branch chief Mohamed Said Awang) ordered you to force Azizan to lie, you wouldn't follow
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    • 292 21 ANWAR Ibrahim is suing Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad for sacking him from the cabinet. Only the Malaysian king can dismiss a minister, says the former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. He claims Dr Mahathir violated the constitution by sacking him without the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 415 22 He is considered such a good spin doctor for British Prime Minister Tony Blair that US President Bill Clinton once wanted to hire him. But Mr Alastair Campbell prefers to stay in London. ALAN HUBBARD takes a look at the colourful personality of Mr Campbell,
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    • 290 22 IT was in 1994 when he was assistant editor for the Rupert Murdoch-owned Today newspaper, that he agreed to work for Mr Blair. Like his partner Fiona, who is the part-time assistant to Mr Blair's lawyer wife Cherie, he has had to moderate his political stance
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    • 50 23 muKmuK Outgoing US House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a few things in common with TV character Ally Mcßeal, say* Washington columnist Maureen Dowd: (Both) are famously nutty, adolescent, undisciplined, self-absorbed figures with eating problems, a habit of driving feminists crazy and a talent for tantrums.
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    • 186 23 A TODDLER in Britain loved to play with his mother's hair dryer but it proved to be a deadly game. Ben Plowman, 20 months, reached out from his cot to grab the hair dryer, which had been left plugged into a socket in his bedroom.
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    • 333 24 SADDAM BRACES FOR US AIR STRIKE Source: Wire services. IRAQI President Saddam Hussein (above) said he's ready. Ready, that is, to accept any new move that would guarantee Iraq's "legitimate" demands to end a standoff with the United Nations over weapons inspections. Iraq's decision to stop
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    • 175 24 Wire services. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright plans to meet Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail when she visits Kuala Lumpur next week. "I am planning to meet her," Ms Albright told reporters in Washington before leaving for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec)
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    • 174 23 WORLDTODAY I Wl But at least he's married... Mt) Outgoing US House Speaker Newt j A I Gingrich has a few things in IV vi/ common with TV character Ally fly *y columnist Maureen Dowd: self-absorbed figures 1 with a ifi fr il feminists crazy and a for tantrums. Baby
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    • 264 27 Reuters. THE cost for us President Bill Clinton: US$850,000 ($1.4 million). That's the sum he agreed to pay Ms Paula Jones to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit yesterday. The lawsuit has been a thorn in Mr Clinton's side for more than four years. It
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    • 144 27 AFP. A BRITISH rocker cursed the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson (right) during a live TV show on Thursday. The duchess, nicknamed Fergie, was all smiles as she prepared to hand over the prize for best video at the MTV Europe Music Awards. She offered to
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    • 410 39 MORE ON THE TIGER PICK OF THE WEEK Time to open the floodgates again for arguments, debates or just small talk, as JEFFREY LOW starts the ball rolling with his selection of the current Top 20 stars in the English Premiership. What's yours? Read 0n... SO who says
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    • 188 39 EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY AFP. JUVENTUS finally comes face to face with its tormentor this weekend when the Italian champion takes on AS Roma. Roma coach Zdenek Zeman became the most hated man in northern Italy earlier this year. He insinuated that Juventus had been using drugs
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    • 86 39 AFP. ITALIAN international Alessandro Del Piero is set to undergo surgery after damaging the cruciate ligaments in his left knee. The Juventus striker had a consultation at a hospital in Lyon, France, yesterday which confirmed the diagnosis of the Turin club's doctors. Del Piero, who turned
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    • 672 41  -  A LIVERPOOL FAN SAYS... By Meng FROM all accounts, he was a decent man. Too decent, some say, to survive in the harsh world of football management. And in the end, Roy Evans did the decent thing opting to cut all ties with his beloved Liverpool
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    • 328 42 AFP. ENGLAND v CZECH REPUBLIC ENGLAND coach Glenn Hoddle has decided to give three highly-promising Under-21 stars a chance to shine in his senior squad. Hoddle yesterday named Ipswich goalkeeper Richard Wright, Aston Villa midfielder Lee Hendrie and Leicester striker Emile Heskey in
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    • 83 42 Goalkeepers: David Seaman (Arsenal), Nigel Martyn (Leeds), Richard Wright (Ipswich) Defenders: Sol Campbell (Tottenham), Gary Neville (Man Utd), Martin Keown (Arsenal), Rio Ferdinand (West Ham), Andy Hinchcliffe (Sheff Wed), Darren Anderton (Tottenham), Graeme Le Saux (Chelsea) Midfielders: David Beckham (Man Utd), Nicky Butt (Man Utd), Paul Merson (Aston
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    • 122 42 TODAY: Arsenal v Spurs Charlton v Boro Chelsea v Wimbledon Liverpool v Leeds Man U v Blackburn Newcastle v Sheffield Wed Saints v Villa West Ham v Leicester TOMORROW: Coventry v Everton MONDAY: Forest v Derby CALL INFOLINE 1900-*****13 Call The New Paper Infoline after 1.15am tomorrow for results
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    • 89 42 AFP. ENGLAND midfielder Paul Ince was handed another three-match ban by Uefa yesterday for his sending-off in Liverpool's Uefa Cup second round win over Valencia. Last month Ince was banned for three international matches by Uefa after being sent off playing for England against Sweden in a Euro
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    • Article, Illustration
      298 42 ARSENAL v SPURS (Today) Reuters. Today's match between Arsenal and Spurs could well be decided by the outcome of the battle between Tottenham centre-back Sol Campbell and Arsenal striker Dennis Bergkamp. Or Campbell and Marc Overmars. Or Campbell and Nicolas Anelka. For one way or another, Arsenal's forwards
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    • Save Jurong Campaign
      • 190 43 Seeing the big picture WHATS $500 for a good cause? Television production company, The Right Angle Pte Ltd, whipped out the cheque-book when they read about the financial plight of Jurong FC. Said marketing and business development executive Lyn Lee: "It's part of a national effort to keep soccer alive.
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    • 330 43  -  U TIGER BEER SINGAPORE CUP FINAL: TONIGHT By Ernest Luis WANT free tickets to watch Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham? This call goes out to all Primary school children and younger ones, and today's your chance. Just make yourself free at 8pm
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    • 188 43 TANJONG Pagar United is organising its sixth Kids Soccer Day-Camp with the NTUC Club and National Health Education Department. When: Nov 23-Nov 26. Where: Queenstown Stadium. Time: 8.30am-5.30pm daily. Price: $150 each for Tanjong Pagar and NTUC Club members; $200 for non-members. Extras: You'll get
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    • 243 43 Who are the best? Your views count for us. Call 1900 *****01 before midnight on Nov 25 and key in your predictions for the following categories. Thirteen callers with all-correct entries will be picked electronically to win the following prizes. Each call costs 20 cents. Top prize: 1000
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      459 44  -  TIGER BEER SINGAPORE CUP FINAL: SAFFC vTaniong PagarfNational Stadium. 8 pm. tonight) lINFOLINE Will SAFFC coach Vincent Subramaniam bow out on a wining note? Or willTanjong Pagar coach Tohari Paijan be first time lucky? For the outcome of tonight's FA Cup final, call 1900-*****13 after 9 pm (half-time) and
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      761 45 TIGER BEER SINGAPORE CUP THIRD-PLACE MATCH: THIRD PLACE: Home United v Sembawane Rangers (Kallang, 4.45 pm) Two veteran coaches with different fortunes cross swords today. Up for grabs the less glamorous third spot in the Tiger Beer Singapore Cup competition. Butforjita Singh (Sembawang Rangers) and Robert Alberts
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    • 23 45 WHAT: Tiger Beer Singapore Cup third-place match (kickoff4.4s pm) WHERE; National Stadium, Kallang TICKETS: $5 adults and $1 students
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  • @home calvinlow@yahoo.com with Calvin Low
    • 739 48 The news is out there... but is it the truth? Governments that try to fight the new information technology will lose, said SM Lee Kuan Yew, at the Asian Media Conference in Los Angeles recently. The same can be said of newspapers. CALVIN LOW examines their dilemma
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    • 673 48 NOT every bit of news of what's happening in the world makes it to your daily newspaper. What is considered "newsworthy" by one paper may be considered unworthy by another. How do editors decide where to draw the line on what to publish? Media experts agree
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    • 487 49 'Respect the reader's intelligence CRITICS have charged the Malaysian media with too much self-censorship and a failure to reflect the real political picture. Thus many Malaysians are said to be turning to the Internet for the "real" picture. If Singapore were in
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    • 353 49 Alt.culture BALANCE is always a tricky proposition because reality can be crude, it can be ugly, it can be offensive. Should editors show or hide? Take, for example, a picture published in The New Paper recently, about a woman being used as a sushi platter.
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    • 211 49 SITUATION I: You know a certain company owes creditors lots of money. The company's management confirms that creditors are on their backs but plead with you not to publish their story because they are about to get financial backing. A press report would kill their
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    • 397 49 THE picture was of a woman on a table with sushi pieces strategically covering parts of her body, as diners looked on. It was carried by Reuters news agency and also discussed on the Internet. Should it have been hidden from newspaper readers? The
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    • 98 50 I AM a 30-year-old divorcee. I have a son. Recently, I met a 25-year-old guy through a chat-line. He seems OK and I really like him. We talk every day. If he doesn't call me, I feel that something is missing. He knows
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    • 119 50 It has been two years since Marissa and her husband got separated. She found out he is having an affair with a 19-year-old student. They have a five-year-old son. The last two years have been difficult for her. Her husband left her with a young child to
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    • 215 50 Counsellor's advice... Dear Marissa, It is indeed difficult to go through a separation with an impending divorce round the corner. You seem to still hold out some hope that there can be some reconciliation between your husband and you. You may need to satisfy yourself
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    • 142 50 MY parents have been quarrelling and I do not know what to do. It hurts me deeply to see them fighting with each other. Helpless child AGGIE replies: Your parents may have their reasons for being unhappy with each other, hence the quarrels.
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    • 304 50 I AM 21 years old. I'd like to know what is needed to become a guardian to a girl who turns 18 this year. I'd like to help her get out of the family that she's staying with now. She doesn't like this family, but
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    • 47 50 CALL US... Call 1900-*****07 and leave your questions for our counsellors. You can listen to their earlier advice, too. This week's topics: H Nephew is running away from home My pals want me to get married I Counsel me on counselling Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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      27 51 THE MOVIE A neurotic ant breaks free in this cartoon for grown-ups. GETTING-TO-KNOW-YOU DANCE: Ant Z and Princess Bala jiving it up at an insect watering-hole.
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    • 262 51 JESSICA LEOW FIRST things first: Man, the animated ants in Antz are ugly. No way are the product managers going to convince us these toys are more desirable than those from Toy Story and Teletubbies. Thank goodness then, that there is so much to Antz to
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    • 227 51 WOON WUITEK IT could have been so much more I'm not mimicking Z/ Woody Allen as he laments his suffocating insect existence. I'm sighing over this film. True, it packs a powerful visual punch but there it only marches down the trail blazed
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    • 241 51 How would you handle it if your parent/child discussed sex with you? My parents are conservative. They've never talked to me about sex so it would be rather pressurising if they suddenly brought up the topic. "Actually we watched the Clinton-Lewinsky thing (when sexual details of their affair
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    • 475 51 One thing I learnt from school was... "The importance of Asian values, respecting elders, courtesy and not to litter." Benedict Goh, 28, part-time actor "Sportsmanship. It is not only applicable in sports but also in your working life later. I have learnt to put team before self, concern for people
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  • @ease jassicaleow@yahoo.com with Jessica Leow
    • 957 52 The Lady has never been deemed more desirable. Pubs and clubs are bending over backwards, left, right and centre to WOO her with Ladies' Night goodies hoping the men and the drinking dollar would follow suit IF you're a lady who loves to drink and party, but
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    • 259 52 LADIES' night works by hooking the men via the women. Said Mr Calvin Tan of Venom disco: "It creates a magnet for men to come and see the women who visit a club. In Asia, ladies often expect the men to pay. This way, they can
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    • 238 52 asusml Mutations Beck Geffen Records BECK is back. But not the Beck we know. Not Beck of Odelay fame. Not the incredible mesh of hip-hop, punk, folk and pop that had all going "Whoa, what the...?" The title of his new album is fair warning that he has morphed musically
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    • 44 52 CLOSE TO HOME B Y JOHN MCPHERSON KEYS f HE POT 77/BM 1 111- L— I (/A/ THE CANDYLAHPBOX) K TH£ Rec ROcn I Thanks to Toddler-Cam, the Fergusons were able to track down virtually any object their 18-month old got his hands on.
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    • 840 53 THE NEW PAPER Saturday, November 14,1998 (ffl > TV Saturday Sunday channel channel channel channel 6.00 AM Wild Guide 600 AM Huka Huka £.00 AM Extremlsts 6.00 AM The Dragon Emerges 6 30 Travel Travel 630 Bow 6 30 Pathfinders 6 30 Leprosy Village 7.00 AH Saturday 700 Good Horning
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  • 796 54 This column will alternate with Ken Jalleh Jr's @large column weekly m suzzwalker@yahoo.com with Suzanne Wa ker r^ok ITS Clean and Green week and that perky frog is on TV again, telling us not to litter. I'm okay with the frog, but after all these
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    465 55 V m eddycurrents@hotmail.corri^ With EdwinYeo OFTEN, one of the biggest thrills about going to any night spot is being able to see stars there. No, I'm not talking about a nice open balcony for you to look out at the night sky. Nor am I talking about the
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  • 323 56 fqy=> with Mike Chua Hup contraband: banned musical group, contrite: a conman who's sorry (see convert). convert to give up a crooked practice (see convicted). convicted: those who didn't convert, copyright those who cheated successfully and passed the exam, corned beef: cows which were conned into
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