The New Paper, 23 December 1998

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  • 7 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1998
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  • Anwar on trial Day 31
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      570 2 LOOK at your letter, the one you wrote to Anwar Ibrahim after his sacking, calling him a dog and an animal. Your handwritten note is filled with venom and hatred, the defence pointed out to Miss Ummi Hafilda Ali yesterday. But Miss Walking Wardrobe, again in a new
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    • 85 2 YOU used filthy and abusive language in the note. Defence lawyer Christopher Fernando shouted this at the woman who accused Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy and adultery, Miss Ummi HafildaAli. He also said the note, which she had written after Anwar's adopted brother Sukma Dermawan and friend Munawar
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      419 2 ME, disowned? Says who? Mr Fernando dug into Miss Ummi's family ties by posing the question: "Have you been disowned by your father?" When she replied no, he challenged her: "I put it to you that you have been disowned by your father. Her retort: "Did my father tell
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    • 158 2 Anwar's lawyer, Mr Christopher Fernando: Were you in love with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim? Witness Miss Ummi Hafilda Ali: No. Never. (Anwargrins. His wife, Wan Azizah, smiles). Mr Fernando: Did yOU write him love letters? Miss Ummi: I think I can sue you for making such
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    • 540 2  -  BRIAN MILLER WE waited with bated breath for Mr Christopher Fernando to wipe that confident smirk off her cherry-red lips. Miss Ummi Hafilda Ali, one of Anwar Ibrahim's main accusers, was about to be cross-examined by Anwar's lawyer yesterday. The lawyer who made former Malaysian
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 236 3 Insert Cash Cards... Just when we thought we had this ERP thing all figured out, a slew of letters invaded The Straits Times, from people saying they had been fined despite inserting Cash Cards before passing the gantries. Before? Do they mean less than a second before?
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    • 267 3 Q A What if I get a summons because the system is faulty? A malfunctioning system will only give an "error" reading. It will not produce a "violation" report which can get the motorist penalised. A violation will be recorded only if there is no lU, no Cash Card or
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    • 79 3 PISSAE\MCHRISIMAS SCtS! course Christmas dinner an 24/12/98 SMOKED NORWEGIAN SALMON on a bed or crispy greens FRESH MUSHROOM cream soup f traditional AMERICAN ROAST TURKEY oast potatoes and not vegetables OR herb butter OVEN BAKED SEABASS >aby potatoes and hot vegetables PETIT FOUR SEASONS tour fresh truits COFFEE or TEA
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    • 116 3 Wvwwwwwwwvww^^^^ AUTHENTIC ITALIAN FOOD Ct4* Ca$$e C*H C*Ui Christmas Eve Dinner Menu Appetizer Smoked salmon, prawns and baby octopus served with mixed fresh garden salad Soup Mixed selection of prawns, squids, clams and fish soup with diced tomatoes and herbs Pasta Potato gnocchi pasta topped with fresh wild mushroom sauce
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 131 5 m HELLO property slump, goodbye en bloc sales. Falling land values in areas suitable for en bloc redevelopment mean that we are not likely to see any en bloc sales for some time. Industry sources told The Business Times that the value of such
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    • 98 5 MARCO Polo Developments has successfully sued five defaulters for overdue payments on their luxury Ardmore Park apartments. All five cases involve companies. Summary judgments were granted in all the cases. Marco Polo has slapped 74 lawsuits on Ardmore Park buyers who had failed to make
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    • 26 5 In an en bloc or collective sale, All the units in a block or estate are sold as one, u9uallyto a developer for redevelopment.
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    • 81 5 «Sr BUST-ED: Take a closer look at this statue of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. Historian Kwa Chong Guan and neurosurgeon James Khoo believe the bulge above The founder of Singapore's right brow Is a tell-tale sign of an uncommon condition that led to him
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    • News Break
      • 61 5 MAIDS FOREIGN maids have been caught moonlighting as salesgirls in boutique and jewellery shops on weekends. Last Sunday, 14 did so in two Lucky Plaza shops, Jolene's Boutique Jewellery and GP Gold, the Ministry of Manpower said. Maids are not allowed to work at shops, factories or food stalls,
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      • 66 5 MALAYSIA! MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister is Time's Asian Newsmaker of the Year. It said: "No one drove the news with such ferocity this year as Dr M (Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad)." It called Dr Mahathir, 73, brisk, modern, quick to diagnose and even readier to prescribe
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      • 55 5 IRAQ THE lone Singaporean in Iraq in now in Baghdad. Malaysian Embassy officials moved Muhammad Abdul Ghani Taufiq Siraj, 21, and three Malaysian housemates 140 km from the university in Ramaldi on Saturday to escape air raids. Singapore does not have a diplomat there. Mr Muhammad is a
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      • 61 5 RETAIL RETAIL rents in Singapore's Orchard Road shopping belt are down. In the last three months of this year, average monthly rents dipped 5 per cent to $12.25 per sq ft. The rents had shrunk 9.8 per cent in the third quarter and 12.8 per cent in the
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    • 28 5 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 55.61 points to close at 9,044.46 points yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 678 million shares.
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    • 54 5 International Herald Tribune: China defends arrest of dissidents and lashes out at US criticism New Straits Times: Ummi denies being spurned Utusan Malaysia: 'I don't love Anwar' BBC news: The US says it is prepared to consider increasing amount of oil Iraq is permitted to sell to
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    • 204 6 FOSus RETAILERS are out vying for your Christmas dollars once again. So what toys are hot? Yes, the much talked-about electronic pet Furby is tops. Talking Teletuhbies are a big hit in the US, where the toy market is worth U5522.6 billion ($38.4 billion). In Britain,
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    • 59 6 BINTAN IT is business as usual for resort operators in Bintan despite a demonstration there on Saturday. Four resorts, Mayang Sari, Sol Elite, Bintan Lagoon Golf and Beach Resort and Banyan Tree, say their high occupancy rate has not been affected, apart from several calls they received to
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    • 71 6 ■msriM A SINGAPOREAN was beaten up and robbed near the Holiday Plaza shopping centre on Monday. Mr Thong Weng Yew, 42, a printer, suffered a 2 cm cut on his scalp and bruises. He said he was attacked by four men and was robbed of his handphone and
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    • 72 6 CHINA FUEL users are trying "every means they can think of' to hoard diesel and petrol, the Financial News reports. This is because of Beijing's plan to impose taxes of 1.5 yuan (27 cents) a litre of petrol and 0.95 yuan a litre of diesel to pay for
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    • 58 6 SHARES ALL Central Limit Order Book shares have been transferred into an interim account. But sources said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had told the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange not to complete transferring shares into the Malaysian Central Depository System as time is needed to look at how
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    • 59 6 The Straits Times: IMF predicts Thailand will recover first The Business Times: Li Ka-shing sees problem in HK climate Lianhe Zaobao: Li Ka-shing turns down $2 b investment Berita Harian: Mendaki training scheme participants to get allowance RCS morning news: Clinton's fight to stay in office has
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    • 76 6 DBS Bank will greet customers electronically via its automated teller machines, on its Internet website and in newsletters, among others. You and I can do it in person, over the telephone, or in an e-mail. And if we need a diary, we should go out and buy one.
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  • 305 7  -  I'm giving them to my grandson SINGAPORETODAY By Tanya FOng HER Christmas present came in a 15-kg hamper filled with rice, biscuits and other foodstuff. But when asked to pick out her favourite item, Madam Chin Toy Kheng, 86, picked up the cuddly, little soft toys
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  • 85 8 Boxing Day Special WHILE you rest after hectic Christmas Day celebrations, we'll be working. Just so we can bring you fresh news and lively features the morning after. Such as our own "movie", Alamageddon, and lots more. The New Paper Boxing Day Special will be the
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    • 284 8 rtsperience i at Riverside Point Decemljer's school holiday is coming to an end, thinking of somewhere fun and thrilling to bring your kids to ljefore the start of the new school term? Hop down to Riverside Point a stop filled with exciting line up of arts and crafts that will
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    • 109 8 9 9 i§ PARTY TILL 4AM CHRISTMAS EVE NEW TEAR S EVE AT ONLY *18 Nett INCL. 2 STD DRINKS rfK CHRISTMAS DAT NEW TEAR S DAT NO EXTRA CHARGE GMGOSTfttS WE GMPLEUfiIHIT PWMEU N FVFnV ,y r Appetizer Prawn cocktail Soup Clam chowder Ac)ult A? s+++ Choice of main
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  • HEALTHTODAY
    • 876 9  -  By Carol Leong MALARIA A MOSQUITO can make a man mean, give him the attention span of a baby and even kill him. Last week, Mr Alan Dwyer, 38 (right), was evacuated from Jakarta on a medical plane and taken to Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
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    • 173 9 I A READER ASKS... I'M a 33-year-old dental nurse. My job requires me to stand and walk a lot Lately, I have been feeling a sharp ache in the centre of my left foot. This pain happens a few times in the day. Is
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    • 2 9 your health
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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 Elizabeth and East Shore hospitals) to answer your questions. And feel free to share any health experiences which you think would interest others. "Si7\ WRITE It's Your
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 93 10 I mui<mui< Associate Professor Chew Sek Jin (left), 39, died of brain cancer last Saturday. He was the head of the Singapore Eye Research Institute's myopia unit Knowing he had only two years to live, he launched himself into Ms research work on short-sightedness.
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    • 88 10 Boxing Day Special MOVE over Tiger Woods, here's the latest sensation in golf South Korean Pak Se Ri (right). As a rookie in her first year, she stunned the sporting world by by winning four golf tournaments. But what does a cemetery have to do with
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    • 44 10 SlmW J'' J" r 1 f*!-) Lillys b«Mrtiftil magically romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock OT <\* Uiy i rt w-^P0!^c soa,,d| >^^co^ l'*<rZ' to be won from Glamour Shots for yon and your Mend or slsteri So log oo now as contest doses 30th Decemberi
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    • 87 10 I Christmas "Eve FjCX J iDinner jfl APPETISER ji Seafood Mousse Combination Black Chicken Consomme with Chinese Western herbs CHOICE OF MAIN COURSE Traditional Roast Turkey with Cranberry sauce Honey Glazed Ham W a Broiled Beef Tenderloin with r* morel mushroom sauce Lobster Termidor DESSERT X'mas Pudding or Tiramisu \\l
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    • 264 12 A baby's fallen from the 11th storey../ LALITHA Krishnan heard a commotion below her fourth-storey flat. She asked her neighbours what happened, and was told that someone had fallen from a block of flats near hers. "So, I decided to go down and check," said Lalitha, 15.
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    • 89 12 EIGHT-day-old Ahmad Hidhir Mohd Rashid fell to his death last Friday after his father, Mr Mohd Rashid Amat, left him outside the kitchen window. The baby had jaundice, and Mr Mohd Rashid, 36, an office assistant, wanted him to get the morning sunlight. He had placed a plank
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    • 176 13 (Celebrate (Christmas. At Le Meridien this Christ mas lnuc (>/ bonding ovu a eeleln/ito)\ dinner. (Jiristurns (aro/ling. Di e 22 24. I lilt in Lobby, 7. >0 S.t/U fnu Festwv Goodies I'hue your orders at C.afe leorges. Dei I II Christmas' Fve Buffet Dinner S^t).()() pn odnit inelusive o/ novelties
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    • 182 14  -  Inspector stabbed during raid BY Jason Tan AN anti-narcotics officer was stabbed while trying to nab a drug suspect yesterday morning. The 25-year-old inspector was warded with a 6-cm-deep wound on his arm. He is in stable condition. The stabbing took plgce at a flat in Block 184, Boon
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    • 67 14 Anyone found guilty of drug consumption and failure to provide a urine sample can be jailed up to seven years and caned. Anyone found guilty of attacking a public servant on duty can be jailed up to six years, or fined, or both jailed and fined. Anyone found guilty
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    • 131 14 This festive season will never be the same ap... nnnnDH| Stay with us this festive season, 24 27 Dec 98 (Christmas) and 31 Dec 98 3 Jan 99 (New Year's Day) for only SsBB+++. In conjunction with your stay, your family and you can enjoy a specially prepared menu including
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    • 452 16 Aids volunteer Alan John recently spoke against the treatment of Aids patients, even in death. In a Straits Times commentary, the journalist related his experience of seeing the body of a friend who had died of Aids being put in a bag and disposed off
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    • 320 16 WHEN undertaker Peter Loh went to the Communicable Disease Centre mortuary one morning, he did not know he was claiming the body of an Aids patient. He was told of it only much later, when he had to apply for a cremation spot
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    • 270 16 WHEN an Aids patient dies, the body must be buried or cremated within 24 hours. This Health Ministry rule, introduced in 1987, also prohibits embalming of the bodies of Aids victims. This is because the man performing the embalming risks being infected
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    • 69 17 Traffic slows to a crawl. That means trouble. For Mr John Tan and his family, i it means staying indoors. What's life like for this Singaporean living in strife-torn Jakarta? Find out in our Boxing Day Special, the only English newspaper on sale on Dec 26.
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    • 521 18 What would you ask him? Mr Paddy Chew is the first person in Singapore to say in public that he has the Aids virus. Some stare or nudge each other when they see him. A few shake his hand. Many look uncertain.
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  • 82 19 Boxing Day Special HE arrived at Spanish soccer club Real Betis as the most expensive player in the world. And when Brazilian wing wonder Denilson was asked which player would set the Spanish League alight, he had no hesitation in replying: "Denilson!" Today, after 19 matches, he
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 458 21  -  Father of three falls in bus, now... Eyewitnesses should call Staff Sergeant Santha of Traffic Police at *****33. By Melvin Singh THE once lively and jovial father of three now lies in his hospital bed, a broken man. All because he fell inside a bus.
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    • 65 21 MrNg was found sitting in the bus below the farecard machine. There was a 4-cm cut on thelqft side of his head and an abrasion on top of his skull. He was conscious. When asked, he said, the bus had braked suddenly and then he fell. Afterwards he
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 307 23 The territory's top property tycoon says it's not worth investing as much there now because of the political situation. Normally, says billionaire Li Ka-shing, he would invest to help out his country in a recession. Not this time. He is bearish or has a dim view
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    • 86 23 Hongkongers call him Superman. Mr U started outselling plastic flowers, then made a fortune in property. His son Victor was kidnapped in 1996 by Hongkong gangster Cheung Tze-keung. The Lis did not report the case. The government was attacked for allegedly failing to bring some of the gangsters to
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    • 407 24 Source: New York Times, Reuters and Kompas THE son-in-law of ex-Indonesian president Suharto, has turned down honorary Jordanian citizenship. Once the elite forces commander, former Lieutenant-General Prabowo Subianto, moved to the Jordanian capital of Amman four months ago.
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    • 208 25 Lottery winners plan holiday, strip show Reuters. ONE man wants a holiday in Cuba without his wife. Another woman plans to take her girlfriends to a male strip show. And it's all thanks to their luck in El Gordo (the fat one), Spain's nation-wide giant Christmas
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    • 60 25 THIS year, Spaniards spent at least 230 billion pesetas on the Christmas lottery, said a spokesman for the National Lottery Organisation. The 3,000 peseta "decimos", as the individual tickets are called, can win the bearer as much as 30 million pesetas tax-free. Tickets are often shared between family
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    • 46 26 mui<inui< As Australia's Supreme Court judges who wear white wigs and scarlet robes with white fur trimming filed out of a formal court ceremony this week in Sydney, a little boy was heard saying: Bye bye Santa, bye bye Santa, bye bye Santa...
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    • 115 27 AFP. THE head of a computer firm in Tehran was arrested by the police for allegedly torturing young women who applied for a secretarial position there. Police placed the office under observation after neighbours called to say they heard the sound of women screaming in the
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    • 259 28 Source: Reuters. THE fear: Chemical poisoning from Taiwanese industrial waste dumped in the southern Cambodian province of Sihanoukville. More than 10,000 have fled in panic from the area since the weekend. Police said four people had died and 13 hurt in car crashes on Monday
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    • 160 23 OkrUtvwos I 1 elebrot to w The only Chinese Language newspaper for students Friday Weekly publishes article* thai focus on all aspects of student 07 Hor 'OAk k life and news to keep students abreast with anient affairs TO V.OUI g* Christmas Carols Chinese Orchestra Exciting Games How to Simply
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    • 59 23 Everyone's a winner at Paddyfields Thai Restaurant this season! Sure-win lucky draw for every $50 spent from now till 31 Dec '98 y Prizes $100 restaurant vouchers Bottles of champagne, wine or sparkling fruit juice Open daily Lunch: 11.30 am 2.30 pm Dinner: 6pm -10 pm PiiilMt _V -71 368
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    • 469 27 WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SINGAPORE'S FAVOURITE WINING, DINING AND PARTY stretch this X'MAS SMOKE ON THE WATER For the first time ever, some of Singapore's best busking acts perform on traditional tonkang, floating on the Singapore River. See them perform magic, belly dance, juggle and eat fire as you enjoy dinner
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    1035 29 The 13th Asian Games finally ended on Sunday, after two weeks'worth of top-class sporting action. As we look to the next Asiad, what we are left with for now are the magical moments of the past fortnight. GERARD WONG brings you the top five success stories of the Asian Games...
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    • 546 30  -  by YVONNE LIM IT had been a bomb out of the blue. Pan Am Flight 103 ended amid clear skies over a small Scottish town on Dec 21,1988. The blast ripped apart not only 270 lives 11 of them on the ground but many
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    • 295 31 Exit tax may replace one-year freeze... THERE'S good news for those of you who have money locked up in investments in Malaysia. Malaysia is working on a plan to replace the one-year freeze on moving money out of the country. Two proposals are being studied, said
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  • 656 32 impeach Political power in the US is shared among three branches: The Executive (the president), the Legislature (the House of Representatives and the Senate) and the Judiciary (the Supreme Court). The three are independent of each other and act as checks against abuses by any
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  • 57 32 Reuters. MR CLINTON said he is reconciled to his impeachment. But, he is confident that history will prove him right and added that he has purged himself of the anger he felt toward his attackers, said The Los Angeles Times. He was speaking at a
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  • 461 33  -  ET CETERA WITH JOYCE LIM HAVE you met the "betweeners"? They are no longer teens but they are not yet full-fledged working adults. They have left university but they have yet to find a job. They are too old for allowances, especially when their
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    • 344 36  -  Call 1900-912-0903 and listen to the interview with Chang Huei Mei. in Mandarin. Calls cost 50 cents a minute. By Avis Wong IS Chang Huei Mei (above) losing her voice? She has powerful vocals but has been vulnerable to sore throats. "I woke up early
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      130 37 OUR local celebrities aren't the only ones burning a hole in their pockets paying tax. Hongkong's Next magazine recently carried out an investigation and came up with a list of the top 10 artistes who have to pay a lot of tax. Tony Leung Chiu Wai (left) headed
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    • 90 37 Tony Uung Chiu Wat AnnKok When the Comedy Night actors won Top 10 Popular Male Artistes. I kept laughing all the way. Huang Biren A-Mei. J really, really love her. Jacelyn Tay Cant say. I was backstage ha{f the time. ZoeTay M
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  • 468 43  -  TRAVEL WITH A TWIST By Jill Lim THERE isn't much of the Berlin Wall left and Checkpoint Charlie exists only as a tour site/museum, but Berlin is still as exciting as it sounds. Most of my sightseeing in Berlin was done on foot, which was tiring but
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      216 50 AFP. Newcastle boss Ruud Gullit was caught in a surprise crossfire yesterday. He came under attack from 350 club shareholders at the club's annual meeting. The reason: His "semi-detached" lifestyle in England. Fans questioned the way he shuttled between St James' Park (Newcastle's home ground) and Amsterdam (where
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    • 191 50 AFP. MARK Bosnich (right) may have played his last game for Aston Villa. Villa manager John Gregory said the star Australian goalkeeper might not get back into the team after he recovers from his shoulder injury. Gregory, who is resigned to losing Bosnich under the Bosman ruling next
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    • 595 51 The Asian Games may be over. But another group ofsportspeople are now ready to make their mark at another games the seventh Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled (FESPIC). JASON LEE reports HEY, don't turn your attention away from Bangkok just yet. The Thai
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  • 348 53 Pop star Elton John slams England manager SPORTSTODAY AFP. YOU handled two England soccer stars the wrong way, claims flamboyant pop star Sir Elton John. In an astonishing attack on England manager Glenn Hoddle, he hit out at the treatment given to midfielders David Beckham and Paul
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      297 55  -  That's Robert Lim. the Lions' new assistant coach By S Gulam ROBERT Lim is back with the Lions. New national coach Vincent Subramaniam has chosen the Geylang United youth development director to be his assistant. "He (Lim) is the best man for the job," said Vincent this morning. "He's
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      838 56  -  LOOKING BACK AT THE ASIAN GAMES IN BANGKOK YouVe read about the successes, here's... FLOP Is SUSANTHIKA JAYASINGHE Stories/ 1 Gerard Wong and Ernest Luis FLOP 3: JAMES WATTANA WHEN it comes to flops, they don't v come any bigger than Sri Lankan sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe. Sporting
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    • 260 57  -  By Jason Lee THE new year is almost upon us. And we're heading, as they say in baseball circles, into the home stretch of the Save Jurong Campaign. But the Save Jurong Campaign is not about baseball. It's about soccer, and a team in trouble
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    • 38 57 FC Barcelona's Brazilian player Rlvaldo signs an autograph in the plastered leg of a boy during a visit of Barcelona players to the San Juan de Dios Children's Hospital on Monday. Picture/ Afp
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    • 50 57 INSIDE TOP FIVE: NO. 2 MAN: ABUSED: SHAMEFUL: Who are the top Robert Lim is 350 shareholders Elton John slams five athletes new Lions angry over Hoddlefor of the Asian Games? assistant coach 'detached'Gullit jealous streak V~ aftl Pages 32-33 Page 60 Page 55 Pag* 58 BHi DAYS TO GO
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