The New Paper, 14 January 1999

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  • 21 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1999 MITA(P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asiai .com.sg Another ual "y P ubhca,ion °«Singapore Press Holdings
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 257 2 TWO Umno politicians denied yesterday that they had attended a secret meeting chaired by Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Nov 15. Datuk Ibrahim Ali, the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, and Tan Sri Rahim Thamby Chik, the former Malacca Chief
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    • 204 2 ELEVEN elderly people died as fierce cold waves hit Hongkong. Temperatures plunged to its lowest level this winter from Monday's 17 deg C to 10 deg C the following day in the urban areas. In the rural parts of the New Territories, it
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    • 85 2 AFP. THE health authorities have called for immediate precautionary measures against the cold as well as flu. A spokesman said the cold wave could trigger diseases especially among the elderly with heart, respiratory or chronic diseases. More than 150 people, mostly homeless, have gone to temporary
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      863 3 How should the US do it? The United States faces a major dilemma when it comes to dealing with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Occupying Iraq seems to be the best solution but in today's modern world, that's easier said than done, writes KIRK MEIGHOO THE "Iraq problem" is,
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    • 549 4 TWO SINGAPORE PILGRIMS KILLED IN CRASH IN INDIA Five other Singaporean pilgrims survived the horrible early morning accident in a small town in Tamil Nadu. CRISPIN A ROBERT spoke to one of the survivors THEY decided to travel at night to avoid
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    • 220 4 WHEN they heard of the accident through a relative, Mr V Pathmanathan's family hoped against hope that their eldest son would have somehow survived the accident. But when his aunt, Mrs T Chandra, 53, called the hospital in India, all their hopes were dashed. "We kept praying
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    • 371 4  - Their goal to to visit temple By Danny Lim THE seven Singaporeans had been on their way to pray to Lord Ayyappan, a Hindu deity who, according to believers, protects all who visit his temple. The men are likely to have wanted just that. But tragedy struck before they could
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 269 5 m THE use of a US reasoning test as part of university admission here from 2002 has some students worried. The head of the panel that proposed the change, Professor Shih Choon Fong, addressed some of their concerns in The Straits Times today: What if my
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    • 62 5 "Sr Engineer Viju Chakarapany proposing to conference organisers Sreedevy, 26, in an attap house display at the Singapore History Museum yesterday. The couple met at the museum four years ago and Mr Viju spent weeks arranging his novel proposal, including placing a $1,000 diamond ring in the
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    • News Break
      • 67 5 SCHOOL ABOUT 30 Catholic Junior College students, who failed their first year exams, have been told to either shape up, or leave. Principal Sister Maria Lau said the students would be taken back only if they write in promising to work hard. The action, she said, was to
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      • Article, Illustration
        54 5 BUSINESS SINGAPORE Airlines chief executive officer Cheong Choong Kong, 57, has been named Asia's Businessman of the Year for 1998 by Fortune magazine (left). The respected financial journal gave Dr Cheong much of the credit for ensuring that the airline maintained its unbroken 27-year record of profitability
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      • 57 5 UNIVERSITIES SINGAPORE'S two universities have been urged to pay top salaries. It's the way to attract high-calibre teachers and attain excellence, international advisers say. "If you get scholars who are superb teachers and superb at research, they will attract to them talented students hungry for knowledge
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      • 56 5 FINANCE NERVOUS investors drove the rupiah down to a two-month low yesterday. It fell 6 per cent to 8,500 to US$l, reports The Business Times. Investors were jittery because the Indonesian parliament is pressuring the government to revise next year's budget. The market was also spooked by talk
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      • 58 6 BOOKS SM LEE'S memoirs was the best read for former British Prime Minister Edward Heath last year. He picked the book, saying it was "one of the most significant publications of the year". Mr Heath said this in the British newspaper, Guardian, which had asked 49 politicians, poets
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      • 58 6 MOVIES THE second legal attempt to stop the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, The Beach, from being filmed in Thailand has failed. The bid was thrown out by a Thai civil court. Villagers from the southern Phi Phi island national park didn't want the movie made there as they believe
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      • 60 6 TAX TAXES collected in the first 11 months last year was down $1.14 billion, compared to the same period two years ago. The sharpest drops were in stamp duty and property tax, revealed the latest figures from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. Their declines were a result
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      • 50 6 PAKISTAN PAKISTAN'S former cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan has denied allegations by Customs officials that his wealthy British wife, Jemima, had tried to smuggle 400 antique tiles out of the country. Mr Khan said the tiles, bought for 30,320 rupees (551,090), didn't appear to be more than 50 years old.
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    • 47 5 International Herald Tribune: Brazil sets off panic in the markets New Straits Times: RM3b properties snapped up Berita Harian Malaysia: Land plan for the poor BBC news: Share prices around the world tumble as the financial crisis in Brazil, Latin America's largest economy, deepens
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    • 172 6 in F0€us COULD there ever be a single currency across Asia, like the new euro in Europe? It's unlikely, writes Government of Singapore Ihvestment Corporation economist Shantanu Lodh in a personal column in The Business Times. It would require the strong support of regional powers like Japan
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    • 49 6 The Straits Times: Varsities asked to reward top staff The Business Times: World Markets panic after Brazil devalues currency Lianhe Zaobao: Plunge in Brazil's stockmarket echoed in Europe and US Berita Harian: Charges against Anwar amended RCS morning news: Markets worldwide come down with Brazilian flu
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    • 82 6 Quote worthy I trust that the right thing will be done and I think in the meanwhile I need to work on the business of the people. My opinion is not important here. My opinion is that I should be doing my job for the country.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 267 7  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Jill Lim YOU know what they say: Let your fingers do the talking, think small, and keep your money in your pocket. Okay, I made that up but it's a good saying to remember when it comes to Internet auctions. Especially the one
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    • 195 8 W@nted! Are you charming, fun good with words? r Have you ever wished you could chat online with a celebrity? J k Do you think you can convince another person to on 3 ate w y° u 3j3|| i over the internet? 4B If youve answered to any of B
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    • 166 10 ON THE JOB WHERE TO LOOK WHAT TO ASK FOR HOW TO COPE Got the job blues? OR you have questions about job-hunting. Write in and we'll try to get counsellors to help. You can even help someone else by sharing your own experience. WRITE TO: On The Job, The
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    • 219 10 f 1 I cr@am Cream Singapore Zouk Saturday 16th January (3 hour set) DJ Steve Lawler resident V Cream Liverpool) "Comparisons with Sasha are not easy to live up to But Steve Lawler Cream resident and man about Europe needn't worry He s all that and more Muzik Sep 98
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 342 11  - By Danny Lim ONE-LEGGEDJfraiI, ill, half-deaf Tan Cheng HockM|, in his wheelchair, cut a pitiful figurafb court on Monday. Your heart would have gone out to the diabetic until you hilard the charges. This man turned his wheelchair into a weapon. He tried to run down his wife of 21
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    • 111 11 MADAM Tan had told the court that Tan had visited the coffeeshop around noon on Dec 2 last year. He accused her of having affairs and abused her. Madam Tan then called the police, who told Tan to leave. But he returned
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    • 88 11 Tan was fined a total of $2,OCX) for breaching the PPO on two occasions. Mr Koh said he had meted out the relatively light sentence on account of"the mitigating factors, his age and physical disability". But Tan, who stopped work after his leg was amputated, told Mr Koh he
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    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
      • 73 12 m 11 I'm 111< Soccer player Lai Khai Ylp f 26, has been attending trials with S-League newcomer Khalsa Rovers. If registered as a olaver. Lai will be the first deaf-mute to play Hi Singapore. He wronL You can call me deaf, and you can
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      • 257 12 We ran a Murmur (right) on the Ministry of Information and the Arts' Conversational Mandarin CD-Rom recently, based on a letter in The Straits Times. Here's the response from the ministry published in ST on Jan 8: Mrs Teo Choon Mee for Secretary, Promote Mandarin
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 363 13 Source: Reuters. SHE has invented a faster way of keeping messages on the Internet secret. It will help millions of people bank and shop on the Net safely. And it will eventually involve billions of dollars of transactions around the world. But 16-year-old
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    • 406 13  -  TWO former associates of drag boss killed in the 1980s. George died of a heroin overdose in Sydney's Kings Cms after teMngthe National Crime iidii ii iiiii jJ Autnomy or TfiL ronce iiiipcct he wot m lll|vvlvw "»Ul the fatal dose. Mario Meerolwas
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    • 103 14 AFP. AMERICAN or Dutch citizen, r matter, ethnic Indians will soon be able visit their country of origi without a visa. The Indian government yesterday approved a scheme to provide visa-free entry to ethnic Indians who are citizens of other countries, officials
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    • 391 14 Sources: Wire services, NYT. FRANCE, one of the Big Five in the UN Security Council, has come up with a plan which it hopes will end the Iraqi crisis. France wants the oil embargo against Iraq lifted, and a scaled-down weapons inspection regime. It gave
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    • 128 14 FRANCE wants: A long-term monitoring programme to make sure Iraq does not use its remaining weapons stocks or acquire new ones. In practice, this would mean there would be no accounting or intrusive inspections of past weapons programmes, such as those done by the UN special weapons
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    • 58 14 murmur Malaysian Immigration Department Director-General DatukAsab Che Mat is concerned that a large number of women in the country are married to irresponsible mm. He says: Parents must vet their daughters' prospective husbands carefully, as we have many cases of women being married off to mad
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    • 381 15 PR M 1 TO JAPAN: Source: AFP. ABOUT a month ago, the Malaysian Premier said his country would not be accepting a US$4 billion ($6.6 billion) loan from Singapore because it could get the money it needed from Japan. However, the expected aid from Japan has
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    • 144 15 MALAYSIA needs about RM60 billion ($27.23 billion) to finance its economic recovery. The money will be used, among other things, to help Malaysian banks which are saddled with bad loans. The government had initially planned to borrow US$4 billion from Singapore. But, last month, Dr
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    • 297 15 Wire services. THE Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 250 points in the first 30 minutes of trading yesterday. But it managed to recover and finished the day 125.12 points lower than the previous day's closing at 9,349.56. Reason for the plunge: The devaluation of the Brazilian
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  • Anwar on trial Day 45
    • 454 16 But Judge says it's FINE Foul. WM So cried Anwar Ibrahim. So, too, his wife, Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. Unfair. So fumed the lawyers of the sacked former Malaysian deputy prime HI minister. Fine. So ruled trial Judge Augustine Paul, who been hearing evidence
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    • 183 16 Judge Augustine Paul asks Anwar's lawyer, Mr Christopher Fernando, which witnesses he intends to call after the prosecution closed its case and offered its list of 47 witnesses to the defence. Judge Paid: Can you decide now? Mr Fernando: Yes. The first witness, in the event
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    • 119 16 THERE was mixed reaction to the news that the prosecution was amending the charges against Anwar. A lawyer said that the prosecution had the right to amend the charges, "but still, people are wondering why they chose to do it at this late stage." Others asked why the
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  • Showtime
    • 470 17 The men seem to make the big bucks in Hollywood. Top actors such as Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise get paid about US$2O million ($33.4 million) a movie. But actresses earn less—about three-quarters of what the men take home and that's
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    • 257 18 POPULARITY can be a double-edged sword for an actor. Said Ekachai Uekrongtham, president and artistic director of Action Theatre: "Sometimes, when you cast famous people, you have to think twice... Some of them have to work against their image." He pointed out that in theatre, fame
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  • spotlight
    • 505 19  -  By Joyce Lim Ceilings painted like the sky, drawings of cheery zoo animals on the wall, chairs with flower motifs and brightly-coloured doors with pictures sketched 0n... Yes. Colour has come to the Laotion capital of Vientiane. At least, inside one building the Mother and Child
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    • 159 19 Peephole delivery A male student had a lesson in delivering babies. While painting a wall, he saw through a hole an operation going on in the delivery room next door. Too bright The volunteers had actually painted the entrance to the building purple and yellow.
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 334 20  -  By Hazel Tan HER recent mini-concert in Hongkong was so hot that it made the noses of members of the audience bleed. Or so reported the Hongkong media. But actress-singer Athena Chu Yan laughed it off. 'The phrase nose-bleeding sounds a little disgusting," said Athena, giggling away in
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    • 351 21 despite marriage woes HER marriage is on the rocks. But Malaysian actress/singer Raja Ema is not letting this get her down. She will be strong for herself and her children. She is not going to let herself be too unhappy. Raja Ema is coping because
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    • 58 21 56th Annual Golden Globe Nominations I Best Supporting Actress Sharon Stone Best Original Song Music by Sting Lyrics by Sting Trevor Jones miaa v i i i iii «ii I I H > ill noblt'ji on use of nil, \Ju Vk I (Courage comes in all sizes. I u iVV
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  • 500 22  -  ET CETERA WITH T JEYATHESAN I HAD been waiting for a cab for about 20 minutes. Then, round the corner, came the answer to my prayers. As his vehicle moved closer, I noticed the cab driver peering very closely at me. The next thing I knew,
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Article, Illustration
    450 23  -  By Tanya Fong HE is like a walking wine dictionary. He can rattle off the histories of more than 400 different types of French and Italian wine like a mantra. Mr Aby Tan, 24, (above) a cellar master at the Raffles Grill at Raffles Hotel, can tell you
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    • 51 23 JOB AOS What's cooking? A restaurant bythe riverside A needs cooks and sales executives. See page 26. Condojob To work at a prestigious condominium along Scotts Road as a security officer, you need to have w some experience 1 and good I communica- m tion skills. C See page 26.
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    • 238 24 Came/Choice Attractive remuneration package for Exec. Secretary ro one of Singopore's leading professionals holding mulriple positions locally and internationally. The candidate should preferably hove a good "A* level certificate and seaeroriol competence. Proficiency in spoken and written English is essential. Good communication skill is expected. Spoken Mandarin ond Maloy an
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  • 396 25 FROM PAGE 25 CAREER CHOICE From your experience, what kind of wine do Singaporeans like? Why? Most prefer red wine. I think it's because red wines have more body, and have more complex flavours. It's also because red wines are reputed to have health benefits. What's your
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    • 468 29 Sales Positions Sales Positions Saies Positions F 1 Singapore Press Holdings publishes 12 newspapers in addition to 8 popular periodicals, making us Singapore's foremost publisher as well as one of the leading publishers in the region. Our Newspaper Circulation Department, which manages the marketing and distribution of newspapers and magazines
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