The New Paper, 16 January 1999

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  • 20 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1999 MITA (P) 151/04/98 60 CENTS http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings
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    • 132 1 And how do you think FAS is reacting? /p age 38 >-' I ■|R ||J H| I j j jgjC* I W %A Garang criminal handcuffed H^fl il 112 IT to teen thief. How do they behave? And how do you think FAS is reacting? in t is Rupiah in
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  • 33 1 /Page 2 Balek kampung: n Indonesian n Jakarta trying to move from one train to another to r get back to his kampung for the Hari Raya holiday. Picture/AFP
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 122 2 WHAT a c-r-u-s-h. The most sought-after thing at Jakarta's main railway station yesterday must have been a space on the train. Passengers tried to get in whichever way they could, including climbing in through the windows (above and on Page One). The people were returning to their
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    • 369 2 MARKET FEARS ANALYSTS fear that the market may weaken further if: Parliament fails to push reform laws in time June's planned general election is delayed Students carry out threats to turn violent again Brazil's currency woes worsen INDONESIA'S currency weakened further yesterday, falling to a two-month
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    • 144 2 but Dow rises Source: Wire services. BRAZIL decided yesterday to stop defending its battered currency, a move which made Wall Street happy. The key Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.4 per cent by the closing bell, gaining 219.62 points to 9,340.55. The rise nearly erased a 224-point drop in the
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    • 385 3  - Baju kurung Anwar Ibrahim Ummi Hafilda flowers THIS HARI RAYA, CHECK OUT THE... By. Jill Lim THE Geylang Serai Hari Raya bazaar has often brought out the creative in people. Last year, there were boys dressed up in girls' clothes (purely for marketing purposes, of course). This year, there's the
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    • 283 4 IN May 1997, Faheem U1 Islam took his daughter to Pakistan, returned to Singapore alone and filed for divorce. Ms Aya Sasaki then applied to the Family Court for custody of their daughter, Khadija Faheem, but no ruling was made as the girl was not
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    • War of the Faheems
      • 434 4 It was a love story spanning three countries. But when that love soured, it became a horrible battle in which the worst victim was the couple's child. Her parents have fought for her custody in three courts over three years. FONG FOONG MEI tells you how their love
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      • 506 4 BUT THEY DIDN'T LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE child did not bring them closer. Instead, they started quarrelling over her, almost as soon as she was born. To begin with, they couldn't even agree on her name. Faheem objected to his wife
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 302 5 HOT STORY A NEW elected President could be swearing in new Cabinet ministers as new Nominated MPs enter a new Parliament House, writes Chua Mui Hoong in The Straits Times today. Here's a rundown on what could happen: NEW PRESIDENT? THE election of a new 4 president is
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    • 65 5 HOT SPOT: A blazing BMW rolling back into a Singapore Civil Defence Force car, whose passing driver had stopped to help. The car burst into flames while travelling along the Central Expressway yesterday. Driver Chee Guan Chye managed to pull over and leap out, but the
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    • News Break
      • 62 5 PACT SINGAPORE will be able to buy gas from Indonesia by June 15, 2001 if the pipeline can be ready by then and the quality of gas is ensured. A 22-year-agreement was signed between Singapore and Indonesia yesterday. Singapore will import 325 million standard cubic feet of
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      • 73 5 I BUSINESS I TAXIS have been queuing steadily for cheap diesel at a makeshift station operating at 5 Pasir Panjang Road. Drivers said it cost 27 cents a litre compared to the usual price of about 40 cents. The authorities are checking to see if the operation is
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      • 62 5 I BRIBERY POLICE staff sergeant Suen Kok Weng, 42, took a total of $4,481 from a man being held in the Ang Mo Kio police station. In return, he promised to help Heng Jong Cheng who was detained there for cheating offences last May. Suen pleaded guilty on
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      • 64 5 LIQUIDATION ABOUT $25,000 was spent on the first day of the Official Receiver's liquidator sale at Colombo Court yesterday. There were bathroom accessories at 60 per cent discount and half-price leather products and watches. The goods were taken from two companies which had been wound up. The sale
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      • 57 6 I EDUCATION! MORE students will now be able to study Chinese at a higher level. The Chinese language elective programme has been introduced to Nanyang Junior College, which follows pioneers Hwa Chong and Temasek JCs. This is to encourage more students to be steeped in Chinese language and
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      • 55 6 [HONGKONG! CIVIL servants in Hongkong will soon be paid salary increases according to their performance. The move is part of a major overhaul of the Hongkong administration, newspaper reports said yesterday. Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa said a fundamental improvement was needed to boost efficiency and help
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      • 53 6 THAILAND THE offices of Thailand's ruling Democratic Party was bombed yesterday. No one was injured. Police suspect the blast could have been aimed at increasing political tension ahead of a no-confidence vote against key ministers in Parliament. The attack happened hours before the start of a big police
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      • 61 6 MEDICINE VIAGRA may soon be available in the convenient form of a nasal spray. And it promises to hit the spot within five minutes, up to 12 times faster than the average pill form of the anti-impotence drug by Pfizer. The researchers, from the US, hope to persuade
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    • 59 5 International Herald Tribune: Two Kosovo monitors wounded in new outbreak of fighting New Straits Times: Pay boost for 62,000 plantation workers Berita Harian Malaysia: Tolls to rise after Chinese New Year BBC news: World financial markets are rebounding strongly after days of sharp falls, putting pay to
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    • 176 6 in F@<4US THE Chief Justice has seized nearly $8.9 million from an Indian businessman and awarded it to the State. Permanent resident Haresh Naraindas Chotirmall, 49, bought a bungalow here for $245,000 in 1979. But he did not tell the authorities he was holding it in
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    • 62 6 The Straits Times: Landmark Natuna gas deal signed The Business Times: Brazilian jitters again fail to rock Eastern market calm Lianhe Zaobao: Nanyang Junior College to offer Higher Chinese classes Berita Harian: Indonesia to supply natural gas to Singapore from 2001 RCS morning news: Brazil gives up
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    • 73 6 BGJ^^THERE'^^NTERES^^HE^^^^ I'm not surprised that Singaporeans are not showing very great interest in Dr Chee Soon Juan. They have seen him before. They have heard him before. They heard him in extenso in the last elections. Information and the Arts Minister George Yeo, on why the local media
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    • 47 6 Tongue CHiek WHAT'S HUP Wow, this music U The speakers The tuner and the CD deck Next door They're my neighbour's. sounds great! j~l are invisible are hidden. So, where i J wwi i r—i >w is the hi-fi system? 1 l~ fT7 7T i5 fl 1;
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  • 496 7  -  The Zorro of Bollywood opens theatre in Ang Mo Kio SINGAPORETODAY By Yong Siew Fern THEY call him a "Superhero". Not quite Zorro, but Indian movie star Vijayakanth (left) also helps the poor in his country. But as the 800-odd crowd, of mostly male Indian foreign
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 535 9  -  By Riana Zakir THEY were strangers one young, the other middle-aged strangely handcuffed to each other in court. They had just been sentenced for different crimes on Thursday. But watch their chalk-and-cheese reactions! Seasoned robber Tay Thian Song, 43, flashed a toothless grin
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    • 181 9 HIS life of crime started at 15, when he was slapped with 18 months' probation for vandalism. For the next 25 years, Tay weaved in and out of jail. Isn't he sick of life behind bars? "Ya lah. But what to do, I have
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    • 192 11 MEG Ryan (left) and Tom Hanks may have mail, but you can get free tickets. Yes, starting today, readers of The New Paper can get free tickets to the first exclusive preview of movies being released this year. And we are
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    • 422 12 A couple with a four-year-old son faces the death penalty after being arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) for drug-trafficking. They are two of the more than 600 traffickers, pushers and abusers arrested in three operations over the last four weeks. TEO HWEE NAK
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    • 112 12 IN the last 48 hours, CNB conducted two major operations codenamed Labyrinth and Dragnet. Eleven people were arrested in the Labyrinth operation, and another 167 arrested all over the island in the Dragnet operation. One man fell to his death from his seventh-storey
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    • 87 13 muifmuif The Straits Times columinst Ow Wei Mei on what her friend related as a common habit practised by Singaporeans on buses: You are seated in a public place when the person next to you gets up, and along comes another person to replace him. But instead
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    • 186 13 SHOW INFO WHAT: Underwater Walk WHERE: Underwater World. Sentosa WHEN: Today and tomorrow COST: $120 for a walk with a celebrity; $80 without a celebrity. PRIZES: Omega Seamaster GMT and Seamaster Pro. For advance booking, call 275-0030. TAKE an underwater walk among stars and starfishes without
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      323 14  -  Got some memos to write? BY Carol Leong MR Tan Bah Bah will never add a "we" to an "is". When the ex-journalist was a little boy, he made this mistake and his English teacher, a very stern grammarian, gave him an unforgettable punishment. "I had to
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    • 545 15 HOLY MOUNT SABARI THAT ATTRACTS THOUSANDS EACH YEAR Two Singaporeans were killed in a road accident on their way to a holy shrine in South India. Three days later, a stampede took place. (See report at right.) What is the fascination that Sabarimalai or Mount Sabari
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    • 222 15 LATEST THE hill was just too crowded. Then, when a little boy fell off the side, the crowd panicked and stampeded. An eyewitness to the Sabarimalai shrine tragedy told AFP news agency. Then a restraining rope, meant to control the crowds, broke. People were crushed to
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    • 184 16 WHERE will you go after O-levels? To help you make up your mind, sign up for the free Beyond O Level Seminar, organised by Temasek Polytechnic and The New Paper, and co-hosted by American International Assurance Company Limited. The annual seminar will be on Feb
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    • 245 16 I MICK S LOVES Marianne Faithful: They were THE swinging pair of the 60s. Drugs and free sex killed the romance. BancaJagger Mick's first wife, the marriage in the 70s lasted eight years. While with Jerry Hall, Jaggerhas been linked to: Carta Brwii: Model Jana
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      73 17 murmur WHY would model Rachel Hunter, 30, leave rock star Rod Stewart? A friend quoted in reports on their split suggests: Rod's slowing down and in his mid-50s now. He wants to stay at home more, watch TV a lot and play with his train set
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    • 514 17  -  By BRIAN MILLER IT made terrifying reading. I'm talking about the recent interviews given by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the "Prince of Terror" himself, Osama bin Laden. The interviews, given to private news magazines, were laced with threats. It preached violence of the highest
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      370 18 Anwar Ibrahim's mattress. Is DNA better than fingerprints to identify What (sDNA? It is short for Deoxyribonucleic Acid —a very long chain-like molecule that stores the genetic information (like the colour of skin, shape of the nose and type of eyes) of living things. This code makes each of us
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    • 304 18 Reuters, AFP. IRAQI President Saddam Hussein may just get relief from the detested weapons snoops from the United Nations. His old friend, Russia, proposed dumping the UN special commission in charge of Iraqi disarmament (or Unscom) yesterday. It called for a looser arms control
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    • 319 20 BRAZIL'S CURRENCY WOES Wire Services. BRAZIL yesterday abandoned "Mission Impossible": Trying to prop up the value of its currency against the US dollar at a time when few wanted to hold on to it. And stock markets around the world and Brazil's neighbours greeted the news
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    • 192 20 UNTIL yesterday, the real was allowed to fluctuate within certain limits defined by the central bank. When the real's value fell below these limits, the central bank would start selling US dollars and buying up the real in order to maintain the currency's value at the desired level.
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    • 167 20 Reuters. CANADA'S Toronto has been hit with the snowstorm of the century. The city has been buried in a sea of snow, amid bone-chilling temperatures and high winds. Residents were warned that they risk frostbite by simply stepping outside. Americans living further
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    • 385 21 CONTROVERSY OVER WHETHER DR M'S SECRET MEETING TOOK PLACE On Wednesday, The Business Times published an article about a secret meeting that Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had with senior Umno leaders on Nov sat his residence. The article, excerpts of which were
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    • 134 21 Reuters. THE United States this week offered to help settle the dispute over a chain of islands in the South China Sea. But Malaysia said it should stay out of the row. "There is no need for the US to interfere in the
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    • 201 21 AFP, Reuters. SACKED Malaysian deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim's speech writer will be freed from jail next week. Munawar Ahmad Anees was jailed for six months for having sex with Anwar. Munawar's defence counsel, Balwant Singh Sidhu, said his client will be freed on Monday, two months early.
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  • RACINGTODAY
    • 624 31  -  Preview By Marc Tan A CERTAINTY beaten. That was how race-goers felt when Royal Classic went down by a head to Storm Legend over the Ipoh 1,400 m on Jan 2. Jockey Woon Kwok Cheng rode a beautiful race till the top of the straight.
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    • 130 31 FESPIC GAMES FOR DISABLED By Jason Lee IT was a day of near misses for Singapore's disabled athletes at the seventh Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled (Fespic) in Bangkok. On Thursday, visually-impaired sprinter Zaimoonisha Yussoff came closest to a medal when she clocked
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    • 151 31 AFP. THE Chicago Bulls made one of the few certain moves in an uncertain future, naming Tim Floyd coach of the six time NBA champion. The Bulls hired the former lowa State coach as director of basketball operations last July. And Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf said
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    • 355 32 Tiger Pick of the Week SPORTS ODAY fName < Club Position Remarks f r* a o Tops chart In his second week. 1 Darren Huckerby Coventry S second hat-trick in eight days. 2. Gianluca Vialli Chelsea S 3. Dwight Yorke Man Utd S j 4. Ryan Giggs Man Utd. S
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    • 176 33 PICK OF THE WEEK: FANS RESPOND JEFFREY LOW ranks his Top 20 players of the English Premiership every Saturday, making his selection after studying the players' form over the previous week. Here were his choices last week: 1 Ryan Giggs 2 Michael Owen 3 Emmanuel Petit
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    • 69 33 ROBBIE Fowler should be in the list. It does not mean the more goals, the better a player he is. It is the way he plays. I feel he is getting sharper with his skills. He is much better this time round. I would place him in
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    • 142 33 TODAY: Chelsea v Coventry Derby v Blackburn Leeds v Middlesbrough Leicester v Manchester United Liverpool v Southampton Nottingham Forest v Arsenal Tottenham v Wimbledon West Ham v Sheffield W TOMORROW: Charlton v Newcastle MONDAY: Aston Villa v Everton TV ACTION TODAY: Leeds vßoro:Live on SCV Channel 22
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    • 300 33 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR v WIMBLEDON (TODAY) Reuters. THE players of Tottenham Hotspur and Wimbledon will get to know each other very well over the next month. The two London sides will face each other four times in the Premiership, Worthington Cup semi-final (two legs) and the FA
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    • 251 33 ITALIAN SERIE A AFP LAZIO'S Chilean striker Marcelo Salas celebrates goals like a Spanish bullfighter, dropping on one knee and saluting the crowd. But if he scores against Parma tomorrow, it would be no surprise if he finds old rival Argentine Hernan
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    • 559 34 DUNHILL CUP IN VIETNAM: STARTS JAN 29 Within a week of joining the national soccer squad as goalkeeper-trainer, former Lion Lee Bee Seng (below), is already making an impact on the boys, not least of whom is the'Lions'No 1 goalkeeper Rezal Hassan. JASON LEE
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    • 292 34 GROUP ONE Vietnam Myanmar China Iran GROUP TWO Malaysia Singapore South Korea Russia Jan 30 Malaysia v Singapore Feb 1 Singapore v Russia Feb 3 Singapore v South Korea STILL reeling from its premature exit at the Asian Games against host nation Thailand, South Korea
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    • 514 35 He was sacked as coach of Tampines FC during last season's S-League campaign, only to burst back onto the local football scene some months later as coach of the national pre-Olympic squad. Sweet revenge, perhaps for Chiang Boon Seng? Not that this mild-mannered coach sees
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    • 231 35 NO problems at all. That's pre-olympic coach Chiang Boon Seng's assessment of his squad. While the Lions' coach Vincent Subramaniam struggles with problems in discipline, performance and attendance, Chiang appears to have no such worries. Said Chiang: "I'm extremely pleased with the boys so far. They've
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    • 407 36  -  By S Gulam HOW would you react when you are told that the world's most popular soccer club wants to play in Singapore on July 29? Jump for joy, I suppose. But not the Football Association of Singapore's top civil servant, Tan Eng
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    • 429 36 FACTFILE Bom: Aug 1,1976 Track record: 1991: Joins Fed Works of Nigerian First FivisiOn". 1992: Moves to Iwuanyanwu Owerri. 1993: Makes name as Nigeria wins World Under-17 Cup in Japan 1993: Joins Ajax 1994: Ajax wins Dutch League title. 1995: Ajax wins European
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    • 93 37 Reuters. FORMER England manager Terry Venables has stood down as coach of English First Division team Crystal Palace. BBC radio reported that Venables quit as coach yesterday and would be employed by Palace as a part-time consultant. Former team manager Steve Coppell would take charge temporarily.
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    • 171 37 AFP. SOUTH African heavyweight boxer Francois Botha got a big boost from President Nelson Mandela yesterday. "Having watched your previous fight, I'm confident you are in the class of world champions," said Mr Mandela on the eve of Botha's 10-round fight with former world champion Mike
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    • 489 37  -  40TH ANNUAL MEETING OF SINGAPORE SCHOOLS SPORTS COUNCIL BY Gerard Wong SCHOOLS should not only encourage mass participation and physical fitness. They should also provide opportunities and encouragement to student athletes to excel in sports. Have our schools been doing this? Yes, says Education
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      671 40 Fusion cuisine. Fancy rojak or epicurean ecstasy? It aims to combine the best flavours of the East and the West. It made a strong presence on the local food scene in 1998. New restaurants, like House of Mao II and Forbidden City, hopped enthusiastically onto the fusion wagon.
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    • 305 40 FUSION chef Susur Lee thinks that there is a statement to be made through food. He said: "Westerners tend to think of Chinese restaurants as cheap and cheerful places where you can wear T-shirts and jeans. You might even find some customers sitting around, playing with
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    • 130 40 "To me, real fusion food is not planned but one that evolves naturally from the intermingling of cultures. "One good example is nonya food. "Taste is also very important. You may not know this, but delicious local dishes like black pepper crabs and butter prawns are actually fusion
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    • 125 41 My husband is a drinker. I have lost my love for him. This has been going on for three years. What can I do? Julie AGGIE replies: Have you told your husband how concerned you are about his drinking habit? Is he aware of how you
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      229 43 I will make a movie about... "A love story with a happy ending and that has commercial value. Something that's of Hollywood standards and will be well-received by viewers." Guo Liang, late 20s, compere "Xiang Yun and I have drafted the first copy of a movie script based on
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      27 43 THE MOVIE It is the late 16th century. In an England torn by religious strife and political intrigue, young Queen Elizabeth faces a range of dangers
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    • 241 43 watch it! Top grossing movies last week. And our racings. I Still Know What Ron,n w You Did Last Psycho QGQ Practical Magic Prince of Egypt qqqq Stars: Robert De Niro and Jean Reno Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt and Bpndy Stars: Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche Stars: Nicole Kidman and
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  • Page 44 Miscellaneous
    • 795 44 THE NEW PAPER Saturday. January 16.1999 "> (CD TV Saturday Sunday channel |M ctannsL channel channel 600 A!-" Underwater Encounter! 6.00 AMMukaMuka 6.00 AME*tr«»l«. 600 AWT*. Dragon Emerges £> 10 Travel Travel 6 30 Bow 6.30 Adventure Rio 630 21 st Century Is No Dream 700 AM Saturday 700 Good
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  • 885 45 'N m tuzzwalker@yahoo.com with Suzanne Wa ker THERE were many in Singapore who wished they were staying at Boon Lay last week. Why? Because they had a bird's eye view of two golden-haired monkeys on the loose. The primates were two of four endangered
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  • yougsh @sph.comsg @ a Click with Yong Shu Hoong
    • 481 46 Love's a mouse click away... In the movie You've Got Mail, a romantic comedy hitting Singapore cinemas this month, an unlikely couple finds true love over the Internet. In real life, the Net has helped modern-day singles make contact, fall in love and even get married. There
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    • 438 46 CLICK, click... In the Information Age, even the mating call-has taken on a different sound. More singles are now looking for love within the vast expanse of cyberspace with the help of e-mail, online chat rooms and dating websites. Their motivation: Mr or Miss Right could
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      • 132 47 FOR Net surfers at a loss for where to begin, a good starting point would be dating websites. SDU members can find out more about the I-Pal service on the official SDU website (www.sdu.gov.sg). To take part in I-Pal, members need to pay a one-time registration fee
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      • 110 47 'Sweet sour talk' While some dating websites provide built-in chat rooms, more experienced Net surfers can hop straight into IRC (Internet Relay Chat). This is a multi-user chat system on the Net where people can meet in "channels" (virtual rooms that are usually labelled with a certain topic of conversation)
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      • 105 47 ANOTHER useful software to install on your PC is ICQ, pronounced as "I seek you". You can configure this software to activate whenever you are signed on to the Internet. It will let you know which of the people in your contact list are also logged on
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      • 96 47 YOU can try your charm at online chatting by joining the "You've got a d@te!" dating game. This will be held at Wisma Atria at 1 pm, 3 pm and 6 pm on Jan 23, 24, 30, 31 and Feb 6 and 7. Contestants will attempt
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      • 194 47 THEY plunged into a volcano hand-in-hand, in Joe Versus The Volcano. They then fell in love through a radio programme, in Sleepless In Seattle. Now, after two onscreen pairings, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan team up once again in the new romantic comedy, You've Got
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