The New Paper, 30 January 1999

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  • 7 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1999
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    • 50 1 1st Copy J Bulgarian woman's murder: You won't believe of the things killer's wife told our reporter/Page 12 Lf B ■Bfmn m m f JM Pa?2' /Page4 f m m -Mk Mi am H ■■■■■I kWHH^ CENTS Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings J| j I 8 "***** V*****1
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 340 2 Education Minister Teo CheeHean (left) addressed some concerns raised by the Malay community on the teaching of the Chinese language last night. He was featured in a Prime 12 programme, Akhir Kata (Last Word). We focus on two issues Special Assistance Plan and the promotion
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    • 147 2 MENDAKI will set up a centre to help the Malay community meet the demands of a knowledge-based economy. The centre, at the community self-help group's premises in Kee Sun Avenue, aims to reach out to and train 27,000 Malay-Muslim workers in five years, reports The Straits Times.
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    • 141 2 MORE and more, computers and technology are making their presence felt in the workplace. Workers who cannot cope will be left behind. Worse, they stand to lose their jobs. To help overcome this problem, a national conference will be held this year to help the Malay/Muslim community
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    • 531 3  -  By Fong Foong Mei TOUGH bikers blinking away tears. A sweeping column of motorcycles thundering down Bukit Timah Road. It was a fitting farewell to Harley "King" Henry Lee Liang Huat, 62, killed in an accident on Monday. Mr Lee, the head foreman at the
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  • 598 4 SINGAPORETODAY Yesterday, we asked four Members of Parliament whether bosses were being biased. Today, we find out from the employers why they put out ads that specify sex, age and race. CRISPINA ROBERT reports YES, employers need to be educated. On
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • Home trends
      • 183 6 ifflr PRIVATE home prices fell by more than a third last year. It was the biggest plunge in 20 years to almost half what it was when the market peaked just 2Vz years ago. But the worst seems to be over, said market-watchers in TTie Straits Times
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      • 169 6 A RECORD number of applications to sell Housing Board flats on the resale market were lodged last year. The number of applications leapt 64 per cent to 64,761. However, prices plunged 18 per cent back to 1995 levels with the average valuations for executive and three-room flats
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    • 82 6 NOT CHILD'S PLAY: A robber stole a gold bangle from a four-year-old boy playing outalde his grandmother's Marine Terrace flat on Thursday. Muhamad Halqal Sa abani ran crying back into the flat atßlocksl and toldhia mother, housewife Sanah Pagl, 25, "bangle no more". The Malay-speaking man
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    • News Break
      • 71 6 PHONES MOBILE phone users will gain as Sing Tel Mobile and Ml dish out $190 million in savings in a price war. The two engaged in a tit-for-tat session last evening, with both offering free 12 sec blocks. Sing Tel cut subscription rates by 40 per cent and
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      • 62 6 TRIBUNAL LEAVE Dr Chee Soon Juan's case to the courts. That's the message from President Ong Teng Cheong to lawyer J B Jeyaretnam, who wanted a tribunal to examine if the Public Entertainments Act, under which Dr Chee has been charged, violates the Constitution. His client
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      • 54 6 millennium! SINGAPORE will usher in the new millennium with no fewer than five parties on New Year's Eve. Besides street parties at Orchard Road and Sun tec City, there will be merry-making at Marina South, the Singapore Indoor Stadium and NTUC Pasir Ris Resort. More than 500,000 people
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      • 61 6 FAMILY VOLUNTEER doctors will man a free clinic in Singapore for victims of domestic violence. The Family Court has set up the clinic in the Family Protection Unit at the Paterson Road courts complex. Injuries recorded by the doctors can be used to help the victim get a
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      • 57 7 airport CHANGI Airports Terminal Three will be delayed by a year because of slower passenger traffic. It will be ready only in 2006, said Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday. But Singapore could see 1 to 2 per cent growth in traffic this year, if the slight pick-up
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      • 58 7 IHONGKONG ABOUT 80 Chinese children defeated the Hongkong government yesterday and also made legal history. The Court of Final Appeal gave them the right to stay in Hongkong, overturning Hongkong's last-minute immigration-law changes. It also ruled that local courts could interpret the Basic Law, which sets down
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      • 62 7 CABS CITYCAB is axing its $1 peak-period surcharge from March. It will also trim booking charges by 20 cents, but raise the levy for those sharing cabs an extra charge of $1 for each stop. City Cab said the aim was to give the company an edge over
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      • 64 7 COURTS LAWYERS will have to speak a new language in British courts from April. Out will go legal jargon such as ex parte, inter partes, and in camera. In will come plain English: without notice, with notice and in private. Court procedures will also change. Judges will manage
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    • 27 6 THE Dow Jones industrial average rose 77.50 points to close at 9,358.83 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 909 million shares.
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    • 56 6 International Herald Tribune: 6 nations issue ultimatum to Serbia and Kosovo rebels Berita Harian Malaysia: Expel leaders who support speculators: PM New Straits Times: PM: We're bouncing back from the brink BBC news: President Clinton has warned both sides in the Kosovo conflict that they must end
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    • 166 7 in rmus THE Certificate of Entitlement (COE) system is here to stay, it seems. But changes are afoot. Scrapping it was one of the more radical ideas mooted when a review of the system was announced last October, following the introduction of Electronic Road Pricing. But review
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    • 63 7 The Straits Times: Sing Tel, Ml slug it out in price war The Business Times: Private homes a third cheaper than in 1997 Lianhe Zaobao: Fostering of Chinese elite does not threaten racial harmony, Teo Chee Hean assures Malay community Berita Harian: National conference on Malay vision
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    • 101 7 Quote Wworthy Singapore Power's Y2K readiness is a critical factor that can have afar-reaching impact on the economy and society as a whole... The lights must remain on, come Jan 1,2000. Singapore Power president and CEO Brigadier-General (NS) Boey Tak Hap on why
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    • 36 7 Tongue Clflfk WHAT'S HUP My restaurant business is bad, What js Cholesterol- I I even though I am offering customers 1 th ift? reducing a free gift for every $20 they spend. J t tablets J
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  • 407 8 Some 400 parents attended a seminar last weekend to listen to Associate Professor Billy Wolfe talk about bringing up junior. The Nanyang Technological University lecturer shares his ideas here with TOH LI LIN SINGAPORETODAY HE doesn't care if his son gets Cs in school. Associate Professor
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  • 419 10  -  SINGAPORETODAY BY Jill Lim HOLY smoke, there's no beer! And no smoke either, at this minimart. This neighbourhood shop turns its back on a lot of business by refusing to sell beer or cigarettes. Because it wants to promote a healthy lifestyle. And because the owner's
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    • 750 12 JAILED SIX YEARS FOR HER ROLE IN BULGARIAN BEAUTY'S MURDER The wife of the man who murdered Bulgarian lordanka Apostolova was jailed yesterday for her role in the murder. TEO HWEE NAK, who has met the woman and spoken to her many times over the past
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    • 221 13 SHAIFUL Edham Adam, 22, and Norishyam Mohamed Ali, 26, were sentenced to death on Aug 14 last year for the murder of Miss Apostolova. They had slashed and chopped her several times in a Depot Road flat on Jan 11. CLEANING the bloodstains on the
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    • 448 14  -  By Michelle Ang HE will be remembered as the old man who sat by his wife's body for three days. Five years ago, Mr Ramasamy Kalayana Sundram's wife died in their Toa Payoh flat. Mr Ramasamy, then 80, was so shattered that he sat by
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    • 72 14 ON Feb 14,1994, Madam Samykanoo Rasammal sat on the sofa, and died. Mr Ramasamy told The New Paper then: M I kept shaking her, calling her nameasking her to wake up. But she did not. "I held her hand, hugged her and cried, hoping she would wake
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    • 76 17 mui<mui< Mr Abdullah Tarmugl, Community Development Minister, mM that tchoolf t tfw* I*l.. II V. iLH.n -1 lla Singapore Tacnnng Association ana ns I fflW 1J Ml |tU B amnaies snoura promoic sailing, n is a healthy sport that buida character, perseverance, independence and sharpens ■ianlaln.. m-
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    • 188 17 THE last time he bought jewellery for his wife was 38 years ago, when he proposed. And he had to save $400 for it. So retired security guard Maurice Nurris (above with his wife) was delighted to win a 0.05 carat diamond pendant in The
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    • 335 18  -  So NTUC takes him to the interview By Ng Wan Ching IT sounded like the same old story. A man lost his job and asked NTUC to help. He was given phone numbers of several potential employers. But a few weeks later,
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    • 127 18 AN NTUC scheme to help workers find new jobs is becoming more successful. Now it can help one in seven workers who approach it to find new jobs. When the scheme started in October, its success rate was only half as much. The
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    • 321 21  -  TRAGEDY ON THEIR SECOND HONEYMOON By Fong Foong Mei A QUIET holiday for Mr Yuji Miyamoto and his wife ended in tragedy. The head of Hitachi Singapore, 54, and four others drowned when a Russian-made helicopter plunged into a three-metre-deep lagoon in the Maldives
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    • 162 21 A KEEN player of shogi, or Japanese chess, Mr Miyamoto was one of the first to teach Singaporeans the game. His first Singaporean pupil, Mr Lawrence Chai Mee Joon, 29, is now set to be the Republic's representative in the first International Amateur Shogi tournament,
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  • 247 22 WORLDTODAY AFP. BUT the film version may give epileptics a fit. This was the warning given by the British Epilepsy Association (BEA) after footage of Prince Charles and long-time companion Camilla Parker-Bowles's first public appearance together was shown on TV.
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    • 27 26 mui<mui* RftAlinuwi Cmm If a|2 fl m PaimKKlLft mournecj. Mys naiiw newspaper ui vftptiDonca: America would willingly take Clinton's retfSßKent in exchange for Jordan's.
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    • 118 26 Reuters. FRENCH judges have wrapped up their probe into the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana, the Paris prosecutor's office said yesterday. Its statement hinted at the final finding by referring to the matter as the Aug 31, 1997 "accident" that killed Diana, Dodi
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    • NEWS IN BRIEF
      • 72 26 AFP. KING Hussein of Jordan, 63, is to have a new bone marrow transplant, medical sources said yesterday. The King thought he was cured of cancer of the lymph glands but suffered a relapse this week. The transplant will be done at the Mayo Clinic in
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      • 77 26 Wires. FORMER British nanny Louise Woodward (left), who killed an eight-month-old baby in the US, cannot sell her story. This was one condition of a settlement reached in a US civil lawsuit in yesterday. It was brought by baby Matthew's parents, Dr Sunil and Deborah Eappen, after
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      314 28 Looters raid relief centres after Colombian quake Wire services. A MOB of Colombian earthquake victims seeking food attacked Red Cross headquarters in the battered provincial capital of Armenia yesterday with machetes and sticks. "We are hungry," shouted the crowd, days after a quake killed some 1,500 people and
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    • 102 28 AFP COLOMBIA'S worst earthquake in decades struck on Monday, killing at least 1,500 people. A powerful aftershock rocked Armenia before dawn yesterday. No damage or injuries were reported from the tremor, but a tide of refugees has flooded out of the city. Some left aboard military transport planes
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    • 691 29 SM Lee answers these and more at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland Source: The Straits Times. What is the real situation in China? I am in no position to know what goes
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    • 151 29 Bernama THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) used its "Malaysian cronies" to force interest rates up and squeeze credit in Malaysia. This happened, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, when the ringgit was devalued by 80 per cent at certain times during the
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      494 30 MmammmmmmmmmM. Car thieves opened doors with digital watches in Britain Later, watch is used to send infrared signal to sensor inside car. This de-activates car alarmaiid locking system THE idea was so simple it was literally criminal. Take a watch that was designed as a remote controller for
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    • 39 30 The code transmitted by the key or watch is a stream of digital numbers, like an electronic morse code along the infra-red wavelength. It sends eight or more numbers, enough to give millions of different combinations
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    • 102 30 AFP. HEY, got a 1996 911 Carrera? If so, Porsche wants it back. The German sportscar maker said yesterday it was recalling 5,383 cars from its 1996 911 Carrera and 911 Turbo lines around the world. Reason: There's a problem with the airbags. The airbags on these
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      695 31  -  By Brian Miller I READ a pretty interesting article recently. It was written by John Kennedy Jr son of the late American president. He said: The last few months have made vivid that enduring paradox of American politics: It brings out the very worst and best in
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  • RACINGTODAY
    • 632 41  -  Preview By Marc Tan IT HAS been almost a year since Fresh Start, who raced formerly as Esbern, broke the duck. And the nose victory was achieved over today's course and distance in a Class 5 Div 5 affair. Since then, the Patrick Chua-trained
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    • 231 41 Reuters. Bari (9th position) v Lazio (2) Motivation will not be lacking for either side. Bari was beaten 2-1 by Venezia last Sunday in controversial circumstances that have since led to an inquiry into alleged match fixing. Lazio was eliminated from the Italian Cup in
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    • 136 41 AS the Second Leisuretron Eight-Ball Challenge '98/99, proceeds Into Its 16th week, the following pubs are leading in their respective groups: Group A: Matahari (23 pts); Group fc Club Makati (16); Group C:Keno (30); Group lh Ice Cold Beer II (13) Next week's fixture (home team first): Monday:
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    • 498 42 ...but it'snot a guy, it's her mum AFP. ANNA, Martina, Venus and the gang are barely old enough to legally drink or drive. Yet they are already millionaire jet-setters. Most of the new drawcards in women's tennis are very, very rich teenagers. They're sassy, sexy and
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    • 450 43 aiICTMLIftN OPEN TENNIS: MELBOURNE WOMEN'S FINAL: MARTINA HINGIS (SWI) V AMELIE MAURESMO IFRA) She is the iHtt UnICCOrO finalist at a Grand Slam event since Venus Williams made it to the US Open in 1997 Reuters. IT certainly wasn't a lady-like remark. The world's top two women's
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    • 90 43 AFP. INDIA'S Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are confident of Grand Slam glory. "We've worked really hard for the last three years and we really believe a Grand Slam is within us," said Paes. "We know what we are capable of and if we play the best
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    • 81 43 Reuters. PETR Korda welcomed yesterday's British High Court victory, which blocked the International Tennis Federation from suspending him following a positive dope test at Wimbledon. A statement released by lawyers for the Czech player said: "Petr hopes that everyone will respect both the decision of the
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    • 30 43 Today's main matches: MEN Doubles final 1 Mahesh Bhupathi/Leander Paes (Ind) v 5 Jonas Bjorkman (SweVPat Rafter (Aus) WOMEN final 2 Martina Hingis (Swi) v Amelie Mauresmo (Fra)
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    • 40 43 How the main matches went (seeding* in bold): MEN It-final)* 10 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus) bt Tommy Haas (Ger) 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 WOMEN (Double* —final) 3 Martina Hingis (SwiVAnna Kournikova (Rus) bt 1 Lindsay Davenport (USyNatasha Zvereva (Blr) 7-5,6-3
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    • 249 44 SPORTSTODAY i UE9 Name Club Position Remarks Dwight Yorke Man Utd S 2. Roy Keane Man Utd M 5X 3. Benito Carbone Sheff Wed S f 4. Michael Owen Liverpool S Jr ii!id?i!uJu eo d 5. Ryan Glggs Man Utd S 200 0 6. Temurl Ketsbaia Newcastle M WATTS 7.
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    • 253 45 MATCH OF THE WEEKEND; ARSENAL v CHELSEA (Tomorrow AFP. FRENCH Striker Kaba Diawara could go straight into the Arsenal team for tomorrow's crucial game against leader Chelsea. Diawara, 23, joined the English champion for an estimated £2.5 million (s7m) from Bordeaux yesterday and could take his
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    • 210 45 NEWCASTLE ASTON VILLA (Today) AFP. NEWCASTLE manager Ruud Gullit has dismissed talk of a rift with his players. This comes amid claims that several big-name stars are losing patience with his managerial style. The Dutchman played down the rumours after a week in which star
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    • 130 45 MORNING LATEST: Wire services. ENGLAND midfielder Steve McManaman has signed a five-year contract with European Cup holder Real Madrid. The deal will reportedly net him £15.6 million ($43 million). He will join Real on July 1 the day after his current contract with Liverpool expires.
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    • 127 45 TODAY: Blackburn v Tottenham Coventry v Liverpool Everton v Forest Middlesborough v Leicester Newcastle v Aston Villa Sheffield Wed v Derby Southampton v Leeds Wimbledon v West Ham TOMORROW Arsenal v Chelsea Chariton v Manchester United TV ACTION TOMY: Newcastle v Villa: Live on SCV Channel 22 and
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    • 497 46  -  DUNHILL CUP: Vietnam 1 (Van Sy Hung 55) Singapore 0 By: S GulaM Reporting from Ho Chi Minh City I WONDER what Barry Whitbread would think when he sees this result. For sure the former national coach would be asking: How could the Lions lose
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    • 253 46 NATIONAL coach Vincent Subramaniam didn't seem too worried about last night's defeat. "It's okay to lose 1-0 to a better opponent. It could have been worse, right? "We could have lost by three or four goals. That would have been shameful. So I
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  • @ home With Calvin Low
    • Miss, Ms or Mrs?
      • 418 50 Address a wedded woman as a "Mrs" these days and there's a chance, you'll hit a Miss. More married women are now keeping their maiden names after marriage. CALVIN LOW asks women why this tradition of marriage is being given the miss SHE won't be known as
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        554 50 PROMINENT Singapore businessman Ho Kwon Ping has been called Mr Chiang many times before. Yes, it is because he is married to Nominated Member of Parliament Claire Chiang. But, no that doesn't imply he is henpecked. Indeed, if anything's to blame, it must be society's tendency
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      • 162 50 "I know a teacher who married an Indian but continues to Introduce herself as 'Madam Lee' instead of her married name 'Mrs Kumar*. "I asked her if she wasn't proud of her marriage and she replied: 'What if a student has been told to go
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      • 130 50 "I think she went overboard ,j putting in the advertisement. She should be proud that she's married to her husband. She should respect her husband's veciings. Mrs Dhammika Rina Ang-Tay "It's an aspiration for her own individualism. I think one should respect that.
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    • 668 51 Double-barrelled names Confusing for women? A FLIP through the government directory will attest to the popularity of the double-barrelled name among career women. It allows for a woman's pre-marriage identity to be retained through her maiden name, while indicating
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  • @ a Click with Yong Shu Hoong
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      • 249 52 www.stylesurfers.com.sg GEEKS have got no style? This preconceived notion may not always ring true. Especially not If Net surfers had made a bee-line to this website chock-full of tips on how to stay trendy and, you guessed it, stylish. Here's a sample of what Style Surfers, a
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      • 90 52 www-us.diesel.com/home_pfw DO you feel hot, warm or cold? This Is the theme adopted by fashion label Diesel's Fall/Winter collection 1998. Watch the fabrics unfold on Diesel's official website, complete with top-notch photography of models encased in ice or seemingly set ablaze in spontaneous combustion.
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    • 420 52 |IK» M MOVE over Kenny Here's alist of 3m worst (or should I say "innovative"?) B *Mj country-western song tides for the die-hard country music f n >».. !S. Jal. I r iccomm to cm §*9Tiw message uur came with tine list. n 'M I.
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    • 313 53 TWO years ago, my best friend and I got married at about the same time. However, while she went on to have a happy and blissful life, my husband and I were hit by calamities such as retrenchment, long-term illness, etc. Whenever we
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    • 113 53 ANNA'S boyfriend, who is one year older than her, seems to be over-protective. He doesn't like her to talk to guys. She feels that there's no harm in just chit-chatting with other guys. And he doesn't like her dancing. But she loves dancing. Anna has been dancing
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    • 120 53 A reader's advice... IT'S good to know that someone values you so much. All relationships must be based on trust. I believe your boyfriend feels very insecure. If you truly love him and know that he's the right one for you, assure him of your faithfulness to
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    • 361 53 lAM 18 years old, while my boyfriend is IVi years older than me. We have been together IV2 years. But his mother doesn't like me. When I call him at home and if she happens to answer the telephone, she will just slam it down once
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    • 140 53 I AM a mother of two. I think my son is pretending to be handicapped. He says that he is in pain and walks as though one leg is shorter than the other. I am afraid that he might forget how to walk normally. What should
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    • 51 53 HELP? If you need advice on matters of the heart, or wish to offer a solution to our Problem of the Week, write to @heart The New Paper Times House 390 Kim Seng Road Singapore *****9 Fax: 737-5375 E-mail: npops@sph.com.sg (Please mark: ©heart) Call: 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a
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    • 44 53 CAN YOU HELP? K you think you can help with some useful advice, write or fax to @heart by Wednesday. The best letter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply will receive a special @T-shirt and a New Paper cap.
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      26 54 THE MOVIE Death decides to take a holiday among the living, picks a tycoon for a tour guide and falls for his daughter.
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    • 269 54 WOON WUI TEK Sometimes, you see a film because you like the star; other times, because you like the actor. Confused? Brad Pitt is a star: He is drop-dead handsome (which is vital) and isn't too wooden (which is enough). In this
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    • 271 54 JESSICA LEOW LETS not beat around the bush here. It's living hell watching Brad Pitt playing Death. So what if he has glorious hair, a gorgeous body and a wardrobe to maim for? Pitt will make you jelak (sick of having a
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    • 184 54 Which would you prefer A $500 voucher at a boutique or a supermarket? "Between clothes and food, Pll definitely pick food. Even if it's just for $2. "In 1997,1 won a $2,000 clothes voucher and spent it mainly on one expensive winter jacket and some blouses. But when
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    • 187 54 Once, in the dressing room, I saw... sometime ago, after filming an explosion scene, one of my co-stars P started digging his nose. He 'you-know-what' on the table Good thing is, least he cleared it away WmdPgfA jn actor "The dressing room itself is a weird place. It's a place
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    • 195 54 watch it! Top porfn, movies last M*. And our I Still KIMW What Mighty jM YtMing M~t|-Stack tacky N«m.b«r Q j Did U« 4 QOC Stars: Charlize Theron and Bill Paxton Stars: Brad Prts. oops, Pitt The rest do Stars: Law Kar Ying, Lin Yisheng and Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt
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    • 832 55 NEW WW Saturday. January 30.1999 Ccu > v.ease TV <\ Saturday Sunday channel channel channel i channel 6.00 AM Underwater Encounters 6.00 AM Muka MuKa 6.00 AN, Extremists 6.00 AM The Dragon Emerges (Last episode) 6.30 Living Asia—Shaolin Monastery 6.30 Bow 6.30 Adventure Rio 6.30 21 st Century Is No
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  • 819 56 ease with Suzanne Walker THE first movie I caught this year reinforced what I always suspected movie-going was all about: Fantasy that banks entirely on hormones. The guys get car crashes and guns, while the girls get a good-looking dude. I know I
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  • @ ease with Jessica Leow
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      150 57 The New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too (MCA Records) CHECK out the flavour of the moment. Not as in-your-face as Richard Ashcroft, not as nauseating as jimmy Ray. Gregg Alexander the man behind The New Radicals has the new retro guitar sound but thank goodness, he doesn't overdo
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      69 57 Tune to people are James Tan VV 'j^m 23, unemployed What are you listening to at the moment? Immortality by Celine Dion and the Bee Gees Which performer would you like to meet onstage at a concert? Celine Dion Who is the best local act? Kit Chan If
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      531 57 IF you're a star, tough times can't hurt you. Indeed, the big brand names will still flock to you, even more than ever. Instead of counting your pennies and queueing at sales, you can still walk into a big-name boutique, pick out what you fancy, and stride out
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    • 184 57 FOR the lesser lights of Caldecott Hill, sponsorships are seriously swoon-worthy. Gushed a beaming Yvonne Lim who was given an 0.Z.0.C. deal: "Of course, it's a perk!" 'The economy is very bad these days, so every bit helps. It works out very well for me." Yvonne's makeup
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    • 79 57 EVEN casual cool does not come cheap. This studio shot of Yvonne Lim shows a chic ensemble with a price tag of $588, even outpricing the dress Zoe wore for the ceremony. Yellow knit T-shirt, $139 Red woven sleeveless jacket, $95 Red woven pedal-pushers, 125 Black leather lace-up
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  • 545 58 night with Brian Miller YOU won't find any Honky Tonk Women twiddling their stilettoes from the top of their bar stools. And Jumpin' Jack Flash won't pop up from behind the bar. But, fret not. You'll get your Satisfaction. That's a promise provided, of course, you're
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    753 59 Issue with Mike Chua IT is said that the least spoken word in the English language is sorry. Which doesn't make sense, because it is easier to pronounce than Tm-not-guilty\ Or 4 don't-impeach-me\ both of which, are a mouthful. Since the First Sorry was heard last August,
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