The New Paper, 16 December 1998

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  • 7 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1998
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    • 126 1 J Ist Copy PUri KL's big^n Wsm slump Dr M: It's worse than we thou|nf/Pa g e 2 B M Jji- 'l»r I&3P I H K JBSt ~v V Jft H I If MBt l JBj jbHL '#9 <te B I I P w Jpf iOOKjL w I B Jk*
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 487 2 Sources: Wire services, New Straits Times. THE dreaded "R" will get bigger in Malaysia this year. The recession-hit economy would shrink far more this year than the government had anticipated, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. "In Malaysia, we
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    • 194 2 Source: Wire services. ASEAN leaders yesterday approved a plan to speed up free trade among the nine member countries. They agreed that six of the more developed members would cut tariffs by 2002, instead of 2003 as originally planned. The six are Singapore, Malaysia,
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    • 137 2 Source: Wire services. CAMBODIA is welcome to join Asean. But member countries cannot agree on the timing. Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines want to delay its entry into Asean due to the unsettled political situation in Cambodia. The three want Phnom Penh to make changes to the
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    • 527 3 Another tell-all Bonny Hicks book? FONGFOONGMEI talks to Harvardgrad Tal Ben-Shahar, the author of Heaven Can Wait: Conversations with Bonny Hicks SILKAIR TRAGEDY ONE YEAR ON ANOTHER BOOK YET another Bomty book is on the way: Thoughts, to be brought out by Angsana Books next month
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    • 166 3 FROM a letter Ms Hicks wrote to Mr Ben-Shahar and featured in his book: I have known from a very early age that money and material things didn't drive me. Money, in itself, means nothing to me. For me the only point in making money is so that
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    • 793 5  -  The first batch of the so-called "ninja killers" were sentenced in an East Java court yesterday. The four men were hauled up for trying to kill an 84-year-old man they believed was a black magician. The man recounts his terrible ordeal REPORTS CRISPINA
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    • 150 5 THE only court in Banyuwangi was packed. People were waiting to see what the verdict for the four "niiya killers" would be. But Mr Madeha was absent when the three judges passed sentence. All four, nephew Misadi, 40, Arbai, 31, Kachung, 59, and Mislani, 20, got
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    • 369 5 THEY used the violence. Some to make personal attacks, others were so desperate that they would kill for money. That is why there was a wave of killings that shook East Java in the last few months said one man, a respected figure in the area. "One,
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 209 6 m LOOKING for a job? The Civil Service is looking for about 2,700 graduates to work in 13 ministries and departments next year. THE CANDIDATES: The Civil Service is looking for both fresh graduates and those who have been-working in the private sector. THE JOBS:
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    • 84 6 ft ENTERING THE ZONE: Look out for the comunication zone, when approaching an Electronic Road Pricing gantry. Ms Toh Su Fen, Deputy Director, Corporate Communications, with the Land Transport Authority said in a reply in The Straits Times Forum page that there was no 11-second rule, but
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    • News Break
      • 54 6 FINANCE THE Monetary Authority of Singapore's new promotional wing is working on 120 new finance industry-related projects. MAS said it had identified five niche sectors to grow Singapore's financial sector: asset management, debt, equity, insurance and financial treasury centre. This is important for Singapore to grow into the
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      • 66 6 crTme FIVE women had money stolen at Parkway Parade basement level on Monday. A pickpocket took money, wallets and credit cards from their handbags. Mrs Mary Louise Welsh, a US citizen, lost $250. While reporting it to police, she met some of the other victims. One of them
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      • 27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 127.70 points to close at 8,823.30 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 779 million shares.
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      • 62 6 I BUILDINGS CHIJMES is changing. By next year's end the retail area will have nine outlets selling art and craft from Asia and the Middle East. There will also be a heritage gallery of the former Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus. The management said it wanted to
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      • 52 6 ASEAN SINGAPORE has set up a $12 million Singapore Cooperation Programme Undergraduate Scholarships for Asean. Under this programme, 30 undergraduate scholarships will be offered yearly for Asean students to study here, over the next three to' four years. The programme was announced by Prime Minster Goh Chok
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    • 42 6 International Herald Tribune: Key Republicans abandon Clinton New Straits Times: '13 stains found on mattress' Berita Harian Malaysia: Anwar's blood only for HIV test BBC news: President Clinton faces growing calls from the House of Representatives for his impeachment
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    • 161 7 Pmus IT is one of the Philippine film industry's greatest successes. The 1939 romantic musical Gilow Ko (My Dear) boasted techniques like lip-synching and fadeouts impressive for their time and captivated the nation, making a star out of village girl Mila de Sol. But by earlier this year,
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      63 7 Quote Wworthy case. We have never done an auction of club memberships before. It reflects the fact that people are still having trouble servicing their loans. Property specialist Knight Frank's Mary Sai, commenting on a bailiffs auction sale of a membership of the Singapore Island Country Club. The
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    • 64 7 CHINA CHINA will launch an "iron fist" crackdown on tax dodgers next year. Vice-Premier Li Lanqing said tax officials would have "an iron face, an iron heart and an iron hand" in enforcing regulations. "I can tell you that there are several scores of loopholes in our system and
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    • 64 7 I TRANSPORT| MORE than one million vehicles in Malaysia are uninsured. Some are no longer in use. But many of them are still on the road. Anyone knocked down by any of these vehicles would not get compensation. The Road Transport Department said it was considering de-registering vehicles
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    • 56 7 GAMES SEVERAL sponsors have still not paid money pledged to the organisers of the recent 16th Commonwealth Games in Malaysia. Some have asked Sukom '98 if they can stagger the payments. There is several million ringgit still unpaid. The company said it would take legal action if sponsors
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    • 55 7 )ONE: LEADING members of Indonesia's ruling Golkar party are breaking away to form a party. Retired general and former defence minister Edi Sudrajat announced in Jakarta yesterday he and scores of prominent Golkar members intended to form the Justice and Unity Party. Party members are expected to contest
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    • 52 7 The Straits Times: Top priority in Asean: Boost confidence The Business Times: Malaysia expects recession to deepen to -6% or more Lianhe Zaobao: Asean leaders call for unity among members Berita Harian: Asean committed in restoring confidence RCS morning news: Japan keeps its word to stay engaged
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  • HEALTHTODAY
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      522 8 From New York to Singapore. From Western medicine to its Eastern herbal counterpart. Dr Mary Ann Tsao tells CAROL LEONG how asthma and early menopause led heron a quest for alternative health options DR Mary Ann Tsao had a successful private practice as a paediatrician in New York's
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    • 260 9 LOOK EAST THREE core services offered at the Wellness Sanctuary are: acupuncture medical massage nutrition. People who are ill, stressed or want to enhance their health can go to the centre. Dr Tsao believes that while Western medicine is best when it comes to
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    • 242 9 A READER ASKS... I haven't had a good night's sleep for a kmc time. And even when I've slept well, I still yawn as If I lack rest Why is this so? I also snore. The quality of sleep can be influenced by many factors.
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    • 87 9 DO you have a health problem or query? We've arranged for a panel of doctors from the Parkway group (which runs Gleneagles, Mount □izabeth and East Shore hospitals) to answer your questions. And feel free to share any health experiences which you think would interest others. WRITE It's Your Health
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • ICS SAYS IT TOLD STARS ABOUT TAX
      • 410 10  -  REPORTS BY AVIS AVIS WONG AMD TOM LI LIN SOME Channel 8 artistes claim they did not know they could be taxed on sponsored goods. But Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) says they did. Recently, about 30 of them got a letter from the Inland
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      • 258 10 Lybrand. "The sponsorship would require the personality to make a public appearance. This represents an 'exchange of service'." Even if you use only two of the five sponsored watches, you will be taxed on all five. For you are taxed on the value of the sponsorship. Even
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • He slept with maid 'to celebrate son's birth'
      • 262 11 Yesterday, a foreign worker was cleared of raping a maid whom he had slept with earlier this year. He tells RIANAZAKIR why he picked her up in the first place IT was not lust. Neither was it love for the pretty 17-year-old maid. But barely two hours after they first
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    • 170 11 THE maid was untruthful in saying the bus ticket was not hers, said Judicial Commissioner Amaijeet Singh yesterday. It was from Service 185, which plies the route from her Bukit Batok flat to near Bukit Timah Plaza, where she had met Mr Shohag Mondal. Also the boarding time
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    • 209 11 cflk* a' "a j/mm a p 1.1. s 9' v n 9 awa y a specif treat with Singapore Zoo's admission tickets to our readers! Date 19 Dec 1998 Time 2pm onwards Venue: SPH Stop Press Kiosks at Woodlands Bus Interchange First 100 tickets can be redeemed with any 5
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    • 54 13 TEN readers won $50 POSBank vouchers in the Unforgettable Days contest on Dec 12. They are (IC numbers): *****97,*****82, *****75, *****84,*****21, *****39, *****95,*****37,*****07 and *****07. The answers are: The most recent year that Singapore won the Malaysia Cup was 1994. POSBank official website: www.posbank.com.sg SONGS OF
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    • 177 13 V Room Packa?e 15 November 1998 to 15 January 1999 Immerse yourself in the festive atmosphere at Orchard Hotel with our Rainbow Connection room package. Spend a tranquil time rejuvenating in one of our newly refurbished Superior rooms and take part in the exciting line-up of festive food promotions and
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 471 14  -  By Brian Miller ANWAR'S defence lawyers protested against the use of the mattress as evidence. They argued that the police went beyond the scope of the investigation allowed. Anwar had consented only to have his blood drawn and tested for the Aids virus. But police used the
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    • 130 15 (Prosecution witness SAC Musa Hassan said a blood sample given by Anwar for an Aids test was used for other purposes. Defence lawyer Christopher Fernando argued this was done without Anwar's consent:) FERNANDO: Did Anwar give his consent for a blood sample to be taken from
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    • 198 14 CALLUS FOB UPDATES The Anwar Ibrahim trial enters its 28th day today. The defence Is continuing Its cross-examination of SAC Musa Hassan. The New Paper infoline, 1900-*****02, will bring you updates from 1 pm. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. I i .xmsw Radisson The difference is genuine. SM RM"I
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  • 277 16 Source: Reuters. A FREAK tornado swept a south-eastern South African town while President Nelson Mandela was there. The twister killed 13 people and left scores injured. But Mr Mandela, who is 80, escaped unhurt thanks to his bodyguards. The bodyguards shielded the President," presidential spokesman Priscilla Naidoo
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  • 279 17 Key Republicans abandon him as voting day nears Wire services. ON Thursday or Friday, the American House of Representatives will vote whether to impeach President Clinton or not. Impeachment is charging a person for a crime thereby making him unfit for office. Up to now, he had
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  • Showtime
    • 355 18  -  By Chan Seet Fun JEWEL is back with her second album, Spirit. The Alaskan singer-songwriter hopes the album will "provoke thoughtfulness and spirituality". "I wanted to portray with the music the idea that we are all naturally spiritual and don't have to try; that there are
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    • 131 18 SHE'S famous now, but Jewel's life wasn't always easy. She grew up on an Alaskan farm with no running water and had to overcome dyslexia (reading difficulty). She sang with her parents in hotels when she was six. They divorced when she was eight. After
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    • 284 19 Ralph Fiennes (above, left) stars in The Prince of Egypt, which also features the voices of Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldbhim, Danny Glover and Patrick Stewart, opens tomorrow. RALPH Fiennes is so fine. Not only can he act, his it English Patient role got him
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  • 431 21 Firrf, c« orangutan from Singapore, Mitra, swung his way into Hollywood with his appearance in Babe, Pig in the City. Now, a martial arts expert may just follow in the primate's footsteps. HAZEL TAN has the details PICASSO Tan's the name. If all goes well, the
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  • 508 22  -  Etcetera WITH MATTHEW THOMMEN WHY can't the English teach their children how to speak? That was the lament of Henry Higgins, Bernard Shaw's character in My Fair Lady. Well, it wasn't only the children whom the English didn't teach to speak their language properly. They took the language
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 332 29 ASIAN FOOTBALL URGES FIFA... Reuters. ASIA turned world soccer's favourite slogan back at governing body Fifa and asked for "Fair Play, please." But the emphasis was on the word "Please" and doing it politely. A continent that has more than half of the world's population will only
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    • 188 29 Reuters. UNDER Brazilian Joao Havelange, Fifa increased the number of teams in the World Cup Finals from 16, then to 24 and to 32 for this year's tournament in France. The idea behind the increases was to give emerging soccer nations the chance to play with
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    • 99 29 Reuters. SHEIKH Ahmad al-Fahad al-Saber, the Kuwaiti soccer boss, feels Asian football has been cast aside by Fifa members. He said the Fifa allocations were the result of "very close cooperation" between African and European members of the Fifa executive that essentially shut Asia out of the picture.
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    • 51 29 ASIA boycotted the World Cup once before. Asia, along with Africa, boycotted the 1966 Finals in England when the two continents was given only one qualifying slot. North Korea was the only Asian country which ignored that boycott. It reached the Finals by beating Australia in a
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    • 555 30 Former Man U man goes for the Blues THE BIG MATCH MAN U vCHELSEA 4am tomorrow IT will be a victory for Chelsea tonight, according to Ray Wilkins. But the title race will remain wide open, feels the former Chelsea and Manchester United star, reports Internet site
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    • 381 30 THE BLUES FRENCHMAN Marcel Desailly has played in many big games in his illustrious career. And he knows tonight's clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford will be another one, reports Sky Sports (Internet Edition). At least Desailly, like several of his team-mates, will be
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      190 31 When strict disciplinarian George Graham took over at Spurs recently, many felt that flamboyant Frenchman David Ginola would be the first to leave. But Ginola, 31, is now having his best spell in England since the heady championship-chasing days at Newcastle United. And he says he wants to
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    • 174 31 TAMPINES TRIALS TAMPINES Rovers is holding youth trials this week, Trials for the Under-16s begin at spm this Friday while trials for the Under-14s and Under-12s commence at 3pm on Saturday. Call Ali at 78&0236. AFP. ENGLISH Premiership straggler, Blackburn Rovers, yesterday swooped to sign Keith Gillespie
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    • 283 31 Reuters. FORMER England captain David Piatt has been named the new coach of his former club Sampdoria. He replaces Luciano Spalletti who was fired on Monday, after four months with the Italian club. Sampdoria is now fifth from the bottom in the League and is just
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    • 294 31  -  THE NEW PAPER'S Save Jurong Campaign BY Jason Lee FANCY owning a T-shirt signed by Brazillian superstar Ronaldo? Or, If local soccer is more to your liking, how about adding star striker V Sundramoorthy's last international jersey to your collection? These are just a few of
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  • 507 32  -  19$eAamSnn GAMES K-PD ranbkm YESTERDAY: DAY 10 By Gerard Wong WE will go all out in the sepak takraw circle event to regain our lost pride. This was the promise made by Singapore Sepak Takraw Federation (Perses) secretary-general Abdul Halim Kader after Singapore crashed out of
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  • 1998 Asian GAMES Dec 6-20, BANGKOK TODAY DAY 11
    • 470 34 ERNEST LUIS puts his money on a Thailand win SEMI-FINAL 1 THAILAND v KUWAIT Thailand is one match away from the football final. And 60,000 screaming fans will be urging their team on against Kuwait. This thunderous fan support could be a crucial factor,
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    • 342 35 MORE than ever, Thailand needs a reason to smile. And only an Asian Games soccer medal can save it from probably the most humiliating year it has had. First, it will help to erase memories of its Tiger Cup disgrace in September. It was then
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    • 251 35 SEMI-FINAL 2: CHINA v IRAN NO, it's not red-hot striker Ali Daei, who scored a hat-trick in his previous match. And also scored in Iran's second-round 2-1 win over China. It's Karim Bagheri, the midfield star who ran the Chinese ragged in that earlier match.
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      322 36 'Live'TV coverage of the Asian Games from 2pm, SCV Channel 24. AFP. THAILAND team manager Thavatchai Sajakul has appealed to the country's football-mad fans to be on their best behaviour tonight no matter what the result against Kuwait. While he thanked them for supporting the team in full
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      428 37 ATHLETICS CHAMP COACHES OUTCLASSED RIVALS AFP DEFENDING Asian Games champion Igor Potapovich (above) carried out a masterclass yesterday as he retained his Asian Games pole vault title. He even found time to coach his rivals during the event. The Kazak world indoor champion passed 5.55 m to win
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    • 119 37 Bernama. THE Malaysian Amateur Athletics Union (MAAU) may take disciplinary action against race-walker G. Saravanan for pulling out of the Games here. But MAAU president Datuk Khalid Yunus said it would investigate first before making a decision. Saravanan, who was not awarded a Proton Perdana car
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    • 101 37 Bernama. ANOTHER Malaysian walker, China-born Yuan Yu Fang, has come under official criticism for failing to win a medal in the women's 10,000 km yesterday against all expectations. Fumed MAAU president Datuk Khalid Yunus: "If Yu Fang cannot walk, I will make her run." He said although
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    • 423 38 CASE QFTHE MISSING SPRINTER Wire services. SRI Lankan sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe denounced criticism that she pulled out of the Asian Games because of fears about losing to a Chinese rival. Susanthika insisted the only reason she pulled out was because of a hamstring injury. "Everybody
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