The New Paper, 26 December 1998

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1 71 The New Paper
  • 7 1 the new paper SATUDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1998
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    • 195 2 OUR usual section takes on an unusual format today: A movie! Entitled Alamageddon, it features Ah Lam, the main character, in an intriguing plot set amidst a web of surreal events including the regional economic downturn and political upheavals. It's our way
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    • 413 2 THE MP AND THAT 'ANWAR PLOT' TAPE Source: Wire services. HE is a business partner of the prosecution's star witness, Miss Ummi Hafilda Ali. Now, Datuk Sng Chee Hua, a government MP from Sarawak, may end up becoming a star witness himself but for
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    • 282 2 THE recorded-in-London tape has been described as a bombshell in the Anwar case. It also made Miss Ummi "turn pale" when Anwar's lawyer read parts of it out in court on Wednesday. Miss Ummi is the woman behind charges of sexual misconduct against the former deputy
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    • 776 3 More than three machines in Europe will their coin slots changed it. European banks and spend billions adjusting to it. FONG FOONG MElfinds what the Euro will mean to the average Singaporean? THE Euro will leave its mark. Francly, we'll put our last
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    • 177 4 KEEN to party on the biggest dance floor in Singapore? Then join in the Countdown Party at Sentosa's Siloso Beach on New Year's eve next Thursday (Dec 31). The event will include a concert featuring Alex To, Kit Chan, Najib Ali, Panda Xiong and Shirley Yee, among others.
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    • 446 4  - They came for Xmas fun goodies! By Fong Foong Mei THEY came, all the TNP faithful. They were joyful. And with the gifts they carted off, many of them looked triumphant as well. As early as 4.30 pm, some of the 500 readers who had won tickets to The New
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    • 33 5 When planning for retirement, it isn't enough to just save religiously and have vague plans on what you want to do. One couple show CRISPIN A ROBERT how they handled retirement
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    • 600 5 FIFTEEN years ago, when they were newly married, Ivy Singh Lim and Lim Ho Seng decided that he would retire at 55. After working hard, Mr Lim, 55, who was the Chief Executive Officer of NTUC Fair Price, wanted to enjoy life, sleep late, go
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    • 47 5 Given my experience, I felt I could contribute that way. Besides, I would be in touch with business and keep my mind alert. Mr Lim, who decided that he wanted to be an independent board member of companies when he retired
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    • 45 5 Retirement is another phase of life. It's not preposition for us to die. I, for one, want to do so mMtfifhings still. I always feel I can still achieve something. Like being an actor or going into politics. Mrs Singh Lim
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    • 171 6 JUST one phone call can go a long way. Especially if it's to The New Paper's Hotline Plus. Your tip-offs can lead to stories that can: Help others such as two-year-old Mohd Azrin Mohd Asmawi, who fell seven storeys because his mother couldn't afford
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    • 24 6 In comparison with our 1997 product performance Win Advanced Prizes every time you purchase NEW Energizer Advanced Formula batteries, see entry forms for details.
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  • Boxing Day Special
    • 632 8 Singaporeans in Indonesia There are hundreds of Singaporeans working and living in Jakarta. CRISPINA ROBERT finds out how life has changedfor one man and his family after the violence in May THE pictures of looting and death constantly flashed on the TV screen will forever be
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    • 247 8 HE did not want to take a chance by staying on in Jakarta. So, immediately after the riots, on May 16, Mr Loo Kee San, 39, put his wife and children on a flight back to Singapore. Mr Loo, who works for the same company as
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    • 506 9  -  -SBy Michelie Ang Hp WO little old women hobbled up to I Mr Chan Keen Len's office one day. I A bus driver accompanied them. The two told Mr Chan (right), the manager of Singapore Bus Services Limited (SBS) Toa Payoh Route Group,
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    • 42 9 THERE are now 15 route groups for 16 interchanges (Eunos Route Group is in charge of two interchanges). Route Groups were implemented in April. These groups ensure the smooth running of bus services, driver-management, customer service and administration.
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    • 268 10 FROM yesterday until March 25 next year, Singapore Bus Services (SBS) is holding another contest for passengers during its 25th anniversary celebrations. Called the M SBS Service 25 Bus Ticket Bidding Contest", passengers collect as many tickets as possible from Service 25. All
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    • 81 10 mui<mui< ssasa Popular Hongkong actress Chan Chung Ling, 27, who was in Singapore recently for the TCS Star Awards ceremony, on her experience of being a newcomer in acting: I was very innocent. I didn't know how to explain myself to people sometimes I feel
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    • 351 11 Mention addiction and, in an instant, alcohol and drugs spring to mind. But there are other strange V things people get addicted to as IRENE KEW i finds out J HE needs coffee like a kid needs candy. Without it, his body will throw tantrums. Mr Daniel New,
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    • 365 11 HIDE your slabs of Cadbury chocolate, Snickers bars and M Ms. Every time Mr Azad Angullia (right), 31, sees chocolate in any form lying around, it won't be long before he gobbles it up. Said the food caterer whose addiction started in his school days: "If I
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    • 265 11 YOU would think only little children had imaginary friends. You would be wrong. Second-year Nanyang Technological University (NTU) computer engineering student Jake Chong, 22, has an entire clan of them. In fact, he runs his own little imaginary kingdom and meets his clan for at least
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    • 246 11 THE people featured here are not seriously addicted. But when a person becomes too dependent on the substance, then help is needed. Addiction includes abuse and dependence on a substance, says Dr Brian Yeo, a consultant psychiatrist at the National University Hospital (NUH). You are dependent on
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      875 12  -  S KOREA'S GOLF HEROINE By CHAN SEET FUN SHE'S the rookie who won four golf tournaments in her first year. South Korean Pak Se Ri is her country's heroine. She might have suffered from flu and fatigue last month but this never-say-die dynamo sounds far from burnt
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    • 217 12 THE PAK SE Rl FILE Date of Birth: Sept 28,1977 Height 1.67 m Weight 52kg PAK, 21 picked up a golf club for the first time when she was 11. Her father, an amateur golfer himself, became her coach. She won more than 30 tournaments in Korea
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    • 424 13  -  9 victims this year Reports/' Chan Seet Fun Red ALERT! Red alert! Young girls, be warned. There are perverts lurking out there, sex fiends who abuse dating services to set sex traps for unsuspecting young girls. They use the phone lines and Internet chat-rooms to get
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    • 426 13 SHE got to know him on the Internet. And found out he was a "date from Hell" when they met. This real-life tale of a Net date gone wrong is told by student Catherine Gan. "My friend got to know this guy on the Net. He
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  • Boxing Day Special
    • 48 15 mui*mui< Well-known British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber reveals that he doesn't like to Isten to music very much: I hate it (music) when it's in a restaurant or in a car or a taxi. My driver has instructions never to have the radio on.
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      • 293 15 That's how many jobs may be lost between October and December HUNG over from too much partying? Here is some news from The Business Times that may drive you back to drink. Retrenchment in Singapore is likely to hit 10,000 in the October to December period, said Mr Cyrille Tan,
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    • 179 16 Come H9H celebrate the new-look n Youth Park A with The M J W J Great MAX I J 1 Challenge 1A- Because YOU Join us for a AX-tacular night at the new-look Youth Park! There'll be screening of MTV music videos and lotsa goodie-giveaways with Ivan Rantung and Kate
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  • Boxing Day Special
    • 372 17  -  by JILL LIM Perhaps it's time for un weapons inspectors in Iraq to retire. Yes, the United Nations Special Commission (Unscom) has its achievements: dismantling a chemical plant in 1993, dismantling a germ warfare plant in 1996. But these are like oases of success in
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    • 145 18 The f < Onttie first day of f Xm as rr roue AFP. WORK. Work. Work. Philippines President Joseph Estrada said this on Friday in a stark Christmas day message. Filipinos should stop acting like beggars and put in a day's wofth of honest labour
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    • 122 18 ~7 Xinas— Reuters. MORE like the whole set, actually. This British grandmother was in such a hurry to post her Christmas cards, she did not notice that wedged between them were her new false teeth. Postal workers said the 74-year-old woman, who has not been named,
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    • 71 18 V martJ" Xmas— < Reuters. A CONFECTIONER has launched a brand of sweets called "Monica," on Thursday. Ms Oksana Kaduksaying, 23, from the former Soviet state of Ukraine said she wanted to commemorate US President Bill Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. One newspaper said
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    • 578 19 The Jarawas have lived 1,000 years away from the rest of the world. Now they are creeping out of the jungles in the Andaman islands. IT could be, says SOUTIK BISWAS, the first journalist to meet them. Or it could be the tales carried back by
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    • 184 19 THE Jarawas belong to one of the four nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes of Negfito origin living in the Andamans. Very little is known about them. Jarawa is a term neighbouring tribes use to describe them it literally means The Other People. The 1991 Indian census estimates that there are
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  • Boxing Day Special
    • 205 21 Reuters. THE bodies of three North Korean agents were washed up on the shores of central Japan yesterday. They were lashed to a wooden raft, a police spokesman said. The men, dressed in military uniforms bearing North Korean red-star signs, were found near Takahama in Fukui
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    • 248 21 GLOBAL BALLOON ATTEMPT Reuters. BRITISH tycoon Richard Branson has decided to abandon his round-the-world balloon attempt. He will now land near Hawaii after failing to outrun a Pacific low pressure system. "I'm afraid we're just about to bring to an end the attempt to circumnavigate the
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    • 351 22 f MX mcß j SztkasxgsgL ssarrjg*' CM HOME NEWS AT YOUR FIiyCERTIPS The Straits Times Weekly Edition brings you a crisp summary of the week's major news breaks reported in The Straits Times about Singapore and Asean. Covering news from social issues, politics, business, career opportunities and others, we bring
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  • 293 23 Boxing Day Special AFP. IT will create conflict between rich and poor in Hongkong. That is what critics say of billionaire businessman Li Ka-shing's recent remarks against the territory's "political environment". It has done Hongkong great harm, said Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee. "If I
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    • 91 48 Tiger JEFFREY LOW ranks his Top 20players of the Premiership every Saturday, making his selection after studying the players'form over the previous week. Here were his choices last week: 1: Gianfranco Zola 2: Dion Dublin 3: David Ginola 4: Sol Campbell 5: J FHasselbaink
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      459 51 THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE SOCCER PLAYER IS A 81G... HE arrived at Real Betis as the most expensive player in the world. More than 20,000 fans turned out to hail Denilson as the man who would bring the glory that had so long eluded this Spanish club. No matter
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    • 273 52 GIANLUIGILENTINI: £13 million (s3sm) from Torino to AC Milan in July 1992. Played 63 games, scored 13 goals. Car crash put him out for a year. Five years later, returned to Torino on a free transfer. ANDREA SILENZI: £I.Bm from Torino to Forest in August 1995. 12
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    • 198 57 International Business Development Division: Identifies potential investors in Singapore and promotes business consortiums. A StorMedia: In June 1995, US-based StorMedia opened its US$4O-milHon hard disk media manufacturing plant InTuas. O Disk media companies: On June 21,1995, EDB CEO Philip Yeo said that up to 10 foreign disk media companies were
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    352 59 1995, Singapore J Ah Lam catches up with his H puliw—hi«My*»iiiP»n>lraha B Wow, sounds like you're some big shot. You must be a scholar? I'm Cynthia. You can call me Cyn. 50... tell me about yourself. HI Cyn. My name's Leo. Nothing much to tell, really. I graduated
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  • 608 61  -  electric city SINGAPORETODAY Overseas scholarships use public funds to train young men and women for leadership or specialist roles in the public sector, said BG Lee. "So when a scholar breaks a bond,... K involves deeper issues... moral integrity, a sense of shame at breaking a solemn
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    626 63 Ah Lam breaks his bond: In February 1998, EDB said nine scholars had broken their bonds in the past two years, compared to almost none previously. a Foreign shares better than local, says @ngei: From May to November 1996, Taiwanese snack maker Want Want jumped from $2.10 to
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    • 136 64 DOW PLUNGES: When the Dow iones Industrial Average plunged 300 points overnight in August, Asian markets fell between one and two percent 5 TURMOIL IN INDONESIA: The 32-year rule of President Suharto ended in May. Since then, the country has been torn by student demonstrations, rapes of ethnic Chinese women,
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    565 65 Star Search: The then-Singapore Broadcasting Corporation started the biennial contest in 1988 to create homegrown celebrities. > The boy suffers from an inherited blood disorder called Fanconi's Anaemia, a non-cancerous condition which can lead to leukaemia. His blood marrow —the body's blood factory cannot dot or produce enough
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    852 67 O Flight to quality: Deputy Prime Minister BG Lee mentioned this term during the recent debate on the report off the Committee on Singapore's Competitiveness. He said that around the world, there has been a tremendous shrinking back off investors. They call it "flight to quality", meaning they
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  • 836 69 kenjr@*ph.com.sg e Ken Jalleh J r IN this, the season of mirth, materialism and festive escapism, allow me a word of sobriety to sum up the year: Alamak. The ink is dry. The revisions are over. With hindsight's hesitant eye, we now punctuate 1998 with an emphatic exclamation.
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