The New Paper, 4 January 1999

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1 38 The New Paper
  • 7 1 the new paper MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1999
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      511 2 The woes off Dr IVTs son OVER-BOUGHT PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad's eldest son was one of the top businessmen in Malaysia before the Asian economic crisis. Now, Mr Mirzan Mahathir is in trouble reports the Asian Wall Street Journal. One reason, said 40-year-old Mr
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    • 71 2 AFP. THE school holidays continued for about 14,000 students in the low-lying areas of the Malaysian east coast The reason: Floods which have already killed two people. Students in Kelantan (like those in picture, right), were excused from the first day of the new school term
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    • 285 3 Source: Wire services. WITH euro being the I new buzzword in 1999, Italy's Giada Bertini (right) could not have asked for a more historic beauty title. The 25-year-old aspiring model was named Miss Euro in Rome on Saturday, making her
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    • 460 3  -  By YVONNE LIM IN a favourite skit, British comedian Rowan Atkinson (a.k.a Mr Bean) plays the devil doing a roll-call in Hell. "And the French, would you stand next to the Germans please?" he deadpans. If that joke flew right by
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    • 93 2 I rreif 4»1 viiwwunw* Pages 14 -17 Comics: Page 19 TV: Page 39 CALLUS FOR UPDATES The Anwar Ibrahim trial enters its 38th day today. Last Thursday, Lim Kong Boon, a government chemist, testified that stains found on the now infamous mattress, came from sexual intercourse involving Anwar, the wife
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      588 4 SPERM SHORTAGE: One donor's story WANTED: Sperm donors. The three sperm banks in Singapore are facing a shortage of donors. Only two donors a year turn up at each of the sperm banks, While doctors understand the reluctance, citing Singaporeans' conservative nature among the reasons, what drives the
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    • 222 4 A DRIVE for donors from the universities in 1996 met with little success. Now the National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and the National Sperm Bank are asking childless couples to get friends and relatives to donate. In return, these couples have priority when someone else
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    • 139 4 AS many as one in five men and women who fall within the reproductive age group between 18 and 45 years old have difficulties having children. Within this group, one in five are men who have fertility problems ranging from their inability to have sexual intercourse to poor
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    • 29 4 MEN aged between 18 and 40 years. Physically and mentally healthy, with no history of hereditary diseases. Free from sexually-transmitted diseases H Those who are not homosexuals.
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    • 44 4 WOMEN in stable marriages. Aged between 20 and 45 years (women between 40 and 45 are accepted only if they have fewer than three children, and are adequately counselled). Those who are fertile. In cases of infertility of at least three years.
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    • 43 4 SHE'S the kind of face that could make heads turn. Yet, she chooses to hide those looks behind a mask and suit everyday. She's a symbol of the future YOUR job future. Find out what she does, in Wednesday's paper.
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      92 4 DO you want this green frog savings bank (above)? Just take any two mastheads (front page logos) of The New Paper to the Giordano outlet at #82-40 Ngee Ann City today. The first 300 readers to do so will receive this Cash Prudent Frog (CPF) Saver free.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 190 5 HSBT WITH the economy in recession and businesses badly affected, bankruptcy is a word that has cropped up more frequently in Singapore these days. The Straits Times reported today that 2,372 individuals went bankrupt in the first 11 months of last year 54 per cent more
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    • 67 5 This TAKING A BREAK AFTER THE HARD WORK: Twenty-nine volunteers from Singapore spent three weeks in a Laos village digging trenches and laying water pipes. They were taking part in Project Saonum, in which they helped villagers to constructs fresh water supply system. The project, which
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    • News Break
      • 52 5 takeovers^! MALAYSIA'S Securities Commission (SC) has announced new laws on takeovers and mergers. Higher standards of disclosure aimed at enhancing transparency and protecting minority interest are now required. The SC said the new code seeks to make sure that minority shareholders are given a fair chance to consider
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      • 60 5 BUSINESS THE Great World Cafe Restaurant is to close. It seemed not even a 70-dish all-you-can-eat spread attracted enough customers, and it now has debts of $5 million. Great World Ventures, which runs the cafe, has filed a notice to liquidate the business. The cafe opened last
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      • 64 5 ESS MORE than 10,000 Singaporeans may lose their iobs this year, labour chief Lim Boon Heng has warned. He said workers should prepare for one or two tough years. They should use the time to learn new skills for when the economy picks up, he said. He praised
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      • 68 5 BUS BRITISH doctors to be subjected to secret checks every five years to see how they perform? This is one of the suggestions being considered by the British General Medical Council, which is the doctors' governing body. The proposal includes using "spying" monitors for random checks,
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    • 163 6 F©(tus PARENTS across the US treated their kids to a computer game for Christmas and on Boxing Day, they flooded helplines in a desperate bid to get it to work. Their cyber-sawy saviours: Teenagers. US corporation Nintendo recruited 150 Seattle high school students to boost its
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    • 81 6 B FINANCE M DBS Bank's prime lending rate is at 5 per cent from today. The 0.5 percentage point cut of the prime rate, which is the rate offered the best customers, kicks off the sixth round of cuts here since rates peaked last September. DBS Bank
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    • Article, Illustration
      79 6 CAMBODIA TWO ex-Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea have returned to a former rebel base in the town of Pailin. It is feared that this will make it harder for them to be brought to trial for war crimes. Meanwhile, following Prime Minister Hun Sen's
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    • 75 6 Quote Wworthy Economic progress is not like turning on a tap or switching on the lights, where you can get light by the/tick of a switch. There's a certain progress to it. We are at the bottom of the valley. think we get
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    • 55 6 International Herald Tribune: Euro opens strongly as traders spring into action Hongkong Standard: Tung tells of toughest test as crisis hit New Straits Times: Rise in car sales boost for economic recovery Berita Harian Malaysia: Roods: 22,000 can't go to school BBC news: Politics or economics? What's
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    • 49 6 The Straits Times: Euro may boost Asian currencies The Business Times: DBS cuts prime by another 0.5 point to 5% Lianhe Zaobao: Riots erupt in many places in Indonesia Berita Harian: Euro begins trading in Asia-Pacific PCS morning news: The euro has started its international debut
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    • 236 6 Are you handicapped by your English? Arc you content with the written, easy-to-understand way you speak and write? lessons. How to avoid errors. Are you sure that you are How to express your ideas not making mistakes that fluently. cause people to underrate The study requires only you.- You are
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  • SINGAPORETOOAY
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      • 516 7 By early last year, dark clouds had gathered on the economic front A storm was brewing. It defied thoughtful analysis and reason. As Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has said, no one was able to foresee the chain of events in 1998. Yet Ifs human to make
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      • 307 7 THEY GOT IT WRONG... IN the end, it seems, published prophets were more right than wrong. But there were predictions that did go dramatically wrong. For a start, even slight optimism in economic forecasts was crushed by the depth of the regional crisis. In
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    • 591 8 Since August a group of people, with no previous experience in handling intellectually disabled adults, has been running a home for them successfully. CRISPINA ROBERT pays a visit CAN you believe that
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    • 127 8 THE Bible Presbyterian Church was planning to run an old folks' home. Then the Government suggested they help run a home for intellectually disabled adults. They had no experience but learnt quickly. "We have learnt so much about IDs based on what we see, what the families
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    • 67 9 muiQmrf The Year of the Tiger last year, which the Chinese consider an inauspicious year, taw a drop in the number of babies borate Chines* fathers. BstwMfi January and there was a tafarf of 26*534 babies bora, dawn nearly 2,800 cawpwed to 1997. babft wjßpntttcal about K:
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    • Article, Illustration
      436 9  -  His deathbed wish BY Carol Leong TWO days before he died, Mr Tay Choon Huat, 76, told his eldest son that he wanted to build a dialysis centre for the National Kidney Foundation. That was in May 1997, before the economic crunch. His four sons and one
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 216 10 AFP. A MYSTERY woman may yet testify in the Senate impeachment trial of the US President. Known as Jane Doe (not her real name), she has allegedly said she wanted to take back a statement in which she wrote that she did not have sex
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    • 142 10 Reuters. Terrorists wanted the bomb blast to kill Mr Nawaz Sharif, the authorities said. "It was a pre-planned and pre-meditated act of terrorism," Information and Media Development Minister Mushahid Hussain said. But those who died were three men who happened to be passing by, police said. TTie
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      39 11 I muifmutf British stager Sir Cliff Richard, 58, say* he is ready to caN K a day in show business: If you look at it, I am probably about 40 years past my sell-by date anyway.
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    • 478 11 IT started with rumours. Talk that a Chinese shopowner had insulted a Muslim prayer mat. Rumours that a thief was tortured to death by the police. And once again, Indonesia was struck by widespread violence as mobs took to the streets over the weekend. Mostly because
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    • 183 11 Arose a day... still kept the bride away HE sent her 1,480 roses in all one for each day of the four years and more they were engaged. That was what one romantic Italian, Roberto, did in his attempt to win back the love of his ex-fiancee. The flowers were
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    • 30 11 TAKASHIMAYA SMART CARDHOLDERS' '&fps&cratrhf or£avr WEEKLY LUCKY DRAW RESULTS 13 NOVEMBER TO 25 DECEMBER 1998 I»Zi 1 L*7i^■ (§)Takaskimaya *91 Onfcarrf M 23M7] MTU 11U. Mm. Hmm 10am f ,40pm.
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  • DEARWIJEY
    • 177 12 QI TOOK my Os last year. I got B4 for English, A 1 for Chinese, literature and E maths, A 2 for geography, A maths and chemistry, and B3 for physics. I'm in a junior college, taking physics, chemistry, C maths and economics. But I
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    • 201 12 QI AM a Secondary 4 express student and have recently done O-level exams. I feel that I did quite badly in my E maths. For my prelims, I got an F9 for E maths while I got As for all my other subjects. I
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    • 142 12 QI AM taking my O levels this year. My ambition is to be a clinical psychologist. Please advise me on what subject combinations I should take in junior college, and which JC is best suited for my combination. I intend to take physics, maths, further maths
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    • 260 12 QI AM 15 and in Secondary 3. I'm in EMI and, therefore, taking higher Tamil. But because bad results in the Sec 2 end-of-year exams, I have offered combined science (physics/chemistry), which I'm not keen on. The subjects I'm taking are English, higher Tamil, A maths, E
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    • 42 12 Call 1900-*****03 and leave your questions for Mr Wijey. You can listen to his earlier advice, too. This week's Q&A: Designs on fashion Is N-5 right for my son? Will poly bo the right choice forme? Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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    • 55 12 Do you have any questions regarding education? Write or fax your questions to Pear Mr Wyey ■KTII The New Paper Mplßy I 390 Kim Seng Road I Singapore *****5. Fax: 737-5375 X "jjj Give us your name, address and telephone number. Call The New Paper Infoline, 1900-*****03. (Calls are charged
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      548 13  -  ■nevJbmgapore movie I I By Avis Wong Guess what... Michelle Goh is back from Canada after five months. She flew in two weeks ago to act in a local movie, Ghostories. But she's not playing the bimbo anymore. Her role this time will be a sweet, sophisticated
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      60 14 IT is a thriller that is scheduled for general release in the middle of this year. In it, Thomas Ong (left, with Michelle Goh) plays a cruel businessman who has a transfer of souls with good guy Edmund Chen. Michelle plays Thomas' wife. Edmond Wong has a brief role
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    • 327 15  -  Reports/i Avis Wong FOR Michelle Goh, life in Vancouver was sheer bliss. "It was a chance for me to realise all my dreams and do whatever I damn well please," she said. When her boyfriend, Edmond Wong (pictured with her, right), was not working, they'd
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    • 274 15 CANADIAN actor Edmond Wong flew 19 hours from Vancouver to Singapore, just for a cameo role. And it's not because he's paid M a million bucks", as he jokingly claimed, but because he wants to keep his girlfriend, Michelle Goh, company. Edmond, 24, plays
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    • 410 16  -  BY Avis Wong HE is one rock singer who doesn't have long hair to toss around while head-banging. In fact, Taiwanese musician Chang Chen-yue has no hair to speak of. Said the singer, 24: "I have no hair on top but lots at the bottom
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    • 102 16 CHANG Chen-Yue launched his singing career after winning a singing contest in 1991. He had an EP (Extended Play) and two albums before being called up for national service four years ago. Chen-yue has also written for singers like Tarcy Su and David Wu. His latest album, Secret
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    • 78 16 LISTEN to our celebrity buzz on 1900-*****04. Why did Nicole Kidman steal a Barbie doll when she was a kid? What did she do at her kindergarten Christmas play that got her into trouble? What was she expected to do at dinner with her parents? Find out more
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    • 127 14 I With the help of fasting, I prayer and faith, I pledge to live smoke-free. ffriijl The fasting month of Ramadan is a time for me to realise that I want to start a new life. If I can stop smoking for an entire day, why not quit for the
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  • 467 17  -  eT CETERA WITH JILL LIM OH no! Not another review of 1998! Oh yes... bwahhahah! What, you don't want another analysis of the highs and lows of the economy? A look at the ups and downs of the property situation? The hits and misses
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    • 470 19 Vintage stuff. Exotic formulas. Staying power. CAROL LEONG writes about falling in love with the scents of a bygone era THIS perfume (below) first saw the light of day in 1904. That was when China still had a dynasty, people rode horses instead of cars and
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    • 190 19 THE older, classic fragrances tend to have a very high percentage of natural essences, so they mingle chemically with the wearer's unique body oils. The result? A subtle "blooming", as the perfume molecules slowly evolve with the wearer's body chemistry throughout the day. So two people
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    • 377 19 SOME all-time favourite scents: Arpege: Made in 1927, this Lanvin classic is a floral symphony of more than 60 notes, settling into iris and vanilla. The perfume's creator, Jeanne Lanvin, called it Arpege, after the musical note arpeggio, in honour of her daughter, a musician. Chanel
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  • Article, Illustration
    381 20  -  WITH A VIEW By Michelle Ang SO, you thought the days of steamboat being served over hot coals with sparks flying and a rich broth simmering slowly are over? That they now come only on gas-burners, with the soup evaporating so quickly you can barely get two
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    • 154 33 Soccernet. SOUTHAMPTON 1 FULHAM 1 KEVIN Keegan's Second Division leader Fulham was denied a moment of Cup glory by a comical, injury-time equaliser from Egil Ostenstad. In a controversial contest, marred by the dismissal of Southampton defender Ken Monkou, the Premiership struggler, knocked out of the
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    • 406 33 SATURDAY'S FA CUP THIRD ROUND ACTION NEWCASTLE 2 CRYSTAL PALACE 1 TERRY Venables crashed out of the FA Cup and saluted the man responsible, England spearhead Alan Shearer. Former England coach Venables, now in charge at First Division Palace, was on the receiving end as
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      414 35  -  MANCHESTER UNITED 3 Cole 68, Irwin 82, Giggs 90 MIDDLESBROUGH 1 Townsend 52 mane Rosier unvivv« Schmelchel, Brown (Neville 75), Irwin, Stam, Berg, Giggs, Keane, Butt, Blomqvlst (Solskjaer 73), Cole (Sheringham 84), Yorke. I Middlesbrough: Schwarzer, Remlng, Gordon, Maddison, Pallister, Cooper, Mustoe (Stamp 61), Townsend, Gascoigne (Beck 75),
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