The New Paper, 1 February 1999

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  • 13 1 the new paper MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1999 Ano,her qua,i publica,ion Singapore Press Holdings
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    • 49 1 ...if Indonesia fails to conduct a credible election process the potential for instability will be very great —Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer calling on the va Jakarta achieve political reform. PLUS: Ea*t Timor explained /Page -1 feb v. IJons captain speaks out&rz on attire, money and food /Page 44
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 291 2 Worst may be over for Singapore firms, says BT-NUS survey A THIN sliver of light has appeared amidst the gloomy economic storm clouds. The performance of Singapore companies continued to improve in the October to December period last year. This is what a survey by The Business
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    • 335 2 One in five firms may axe jobs this year DONT start the celebrations as yet. Jobs in Singapore could still be on the chopping block this year, reports The Business Times. Of the 156 firms surveyed by BT and the NUS' Centre for Business Research and
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    • 439 3 TOLL PROTESTS IN MALAYSIA Yesterday was a day of road demonstrations in Malaysia. Crowds gathered near several highway toll booths to protest a planned toll hike. WOON WUITEK played curious pedestrian at theAyerHitam Toll Plaza, and filed this report IF you drive or at least follow
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    • 132 3 TOLL charges on the country's longest expressway, the North-South Expressway, will be raised by 0.75 sen a km from mid-February. The rate now is 10.5 sen (about 4.5 cents) a km. The highway linking Singapore to Thailand is operated by Projek Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan, a unit of Renong Bhd.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 410 4  -  By Ng Wan Ching SICK (cough! cough!). Medicine (gulp, gulp). Work. Sick. Medicine. Feel worse. Work. That could be the average daily cycle of Singaporeans today. For though more are catching the flu epidemic, they
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    • 92 4 THE Ministry of Health noted on Wednesday that there was an increase in the number of patients going to government polyclinics with high fever, sore throat, cough and running nose. These symptoms associated with headache and general muscle aches suggest an upper respiratory tract infection or influenza. During
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    • 292 4 WHEN Mr Philip Yong (not his real name) felt himself coming down with something like the flu last August, he brushed it aside. He was desperate to meet deadlines. In the economic crisis, he did not feel he could slow down. He almost died as
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 163 6 m OF LANGUAGE AND RACE THE teaching of Tamil as a Mother Tongue is being reviewed. And a review of the teaching of Malay in schools may be considered. So said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He was commenting on suggestions raised following the
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    • 136 6 EMPLOYERS who favour one race over another are depriving themselves of talented people. So said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong commenting on the debate over prejudices of employers. Last week, The New Paper ran a two-part series on the issue focusing on jobs and
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    • 63 6 us- TAKING IT HOME: These participants of an Association of Muslim Professionals' training programme got to take home more than just knowledge. They took home the hardware too. Under AMP's easy computer ownership scheme, 11 participants paid Just $150 for used computers and got to attend a
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      • 70 6 MONEY It takes a debt of just $2,000 to be declared a bankrupt. MORE people are overspending, plunging themselves into debt and bankruptcy. Latest figures show that the number of people who have gone bankrupt because they overspent has doubled, from about 170 people in 1997 to 336 last
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      • 64 6 ANIMALS THINK carefully before you buy a rabbit as a pet just because the coming Chinese New Year is the Year of the Rabbit. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said rabbits are not toys and need care. The zoo will have a display on
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      • 58 6 YOUTH YOUTH groups have been urged to help make young Singaporeans "world ready" The National Youth Council outlined five core values it feit young people should aspire to: Daring to dream; a can-do spirit; a never-say-die attitude; to serve by doing; and to walk their talk being
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      • 53 6 I CAUSEWAY MALAYSIA'S Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said Singapore will be notified about a second bridge to replace the Causeway. But only after all domestic arrangements for the project have been completed. Once the details are finalised, the proposal will be submitted to Singapore for
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      • 70 7 INDIA U THEY break the law in India and think they can get away with it through family wealth and connections. A business student ran down and killed six people in New Delhi after a drunken party, then fled. A 19-year-old New Delhi woman drove into a policeman
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      • 64 7 HEALTH ITS war against smoking. The World Health Organisation is trying to get United Nations members to sign a public health treaty to ban tobacco advertising. It could even go as far as banning smoking in public, a London report said. With poorer nations and women being targetted
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      • 59 7 MILLENNIUM BRITISH Airways is to lead by example. Its board has told 16 top executives to fly on its planes into the new year to reassure passengers the planes are safe from millennium bug problems. Chairman Lord Marshall and four other board members will be in the air.
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      • 63 7 COURT THE Kuala Lumpur High Court on Saturday ordered ousted deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim to enter his defence on four charges of corrupt practice. Justice Datuk S Augustine Paul said the prosecution had established there was a case against Anwar. The defence will start on Feb 8.
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    • 56 6 The Straits Times: Cohesiveness at stake, warns SM The Business Times: Worst may be over for S'pore firms: survey Uanhe Zaobao: BG Lee: Policies on teaching of Chinese will be adjusted according to needs Berita Harian: Review of Malay Language programme if necessary RCS morning news: SM
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    • 164 7 Pmus Wire services. WANT to have a baby on Jan 1,2000? Then you should aim to conceive on April 9, says a New Zealand newspaper. But a Russian newspaper says March 27 is a better bet. NZ's Manukau Evening News quotes Making Babies co-author Richard Fisher
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    • 50 7 International Herald Tribune: Rebels wary of demand for talks on Kosovo Utusan Malaysia: I am prepared to be called as witness: PM Hongkong Standard: Cathay staff demand talks BBC news: The Brazilian government and the IMF are holding talks on how to restore confidence in.Brazil's sliding currency
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    • 58 7 Quote Wworthy I'm worried about that young man. He*s getting awfully bossy, Former British Premier Margaret Thatcher to a colleague on British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Britain's The Sunday Times reported that her comments were received with Si ne amusement because she het f had earned the nickname
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 490 8 drug_addictwho would rather die than go to prison The coroner's court recently returned a suicide verdict in the death of drug addict Anthony Tan Cheng Lock, 40. Tan shot himself to escape arrest. DANNY LIM pieces together the final moments of Tan's
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    • 263 8 A CRAVING for heroin sparked off the chain of events that led to Tan taking his own life. After his supply ran out, Tan contacted his friend, Nonis Royston Aloysius, who agreed to share his heroin with him. They went to a
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    • 44 8 *****1******1* Gavta Noh Ma Wee, learnt CMmm Ming EncMk He wrote in The Straits Times foram f* 1 never nUiriHii CfcteeHow could I be expected to understand the explanations given in Chinese when it was Chinese that was being explained?
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    • 852 9 •Illegal pick-upPffi?? Last week, we reported that some foreigners were doing jobs other than those allowed in their work permits. But these "Stealth Workers" are just part of the tale. Some employers, driven by greed or desperation, are resorting to shady means of using foreigners despite the Ministry
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    • 497 10 Believe it or not, some employers are desperate for workers —even in these job-scarce times. So desperate, in fact, that a growing number are resorting to illegal means. And it's not just because foreigners are cheaper, employers say. There are other reasons, they claim, why honest
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      486 11 Is this the name of: a) A musical instrument b) An island c) A freedom fighter If your answer is a) or b) you'd better read this YES, Xanana Gusmao is a man. He is a rebel leader from East Timor fighting for independence from Indonesia. Gusmao, 52, was
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    • 208 11 East Timor became a Portugese colony in 1749 1974: April: Armed forces coup in Lisbon leads to a new Portuguese government which begins decolonisation. 1975: November: After a brief civil war, left-wing Fretilin party declares East Timor independent. Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik signs
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    • 500 12  -  By YVONNE LIM HAS hell finally frozen over? Yes, if hell is East Timor. Like a pail of cold water on brimstone, Indonesia hinted last week that it was prepared to even consider independence for East Timor. That's stunning, when you
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    • 64 12 mui<mui< Mahatma Gandhi fought for India's independence with a policy of non-violence that inspired people the world over. Saturday was the 50th anniversary of his death at the hands of a gunman. The much-loved Indbn leader was also known for his keen wit When ashed
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    • 256 12 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 fluendv. cause people to underrate Thc study requ ires only you? You
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    • 137 13 I > < < 4 f* A* »v E K Temasek Polytechnic Open House 1999 Date: Thursday to Saturday, February 4 to 6,1999 Time: 9am to spm Highlights of Open House '99: 4 Find out how Flambe and cocktail are made! See lawyers in action in a talk show! Get
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 364 14 Look at this hugging couple at right Such scenes, once so unusual in public, are now part of the Singapore landscape, says Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He expresses his concern about the startling change in social norms THE Senior Minister's one big worry
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    • NEWS IN BRIEF
      • 108 14 Reuters. AMERICAN film star Johnny Depp has been arrested after a scuffle involving photographers outside a restaurant in London. The incident took place when the photographers tried to take his picture outside the Mirabelle restaurant in central London early on Sunday. He allegedly threatened
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      • 102 14 Reuters. FIGHTING broke out among passengers on board a holiday jet on its way from London to Jamaica yesterday. The incident forced the pilot to make an unscheduled landing in the US. "Diversion was the only option," said Mr David Parsons of Airtours International. "We
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        48 14 KRIS Aquino (above) has broken off with Philippines actor Phillip Salvador. The youngest daughter of former President Corazon Aquino walked out with her three-year-old son, Joshua, yesterday, reported the Philippines Inquirer. Mrs Aquino has not approved of her daughter's five-year relationship with the married actor.
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      • 153 14 Reuters. THE aerial attacks continued in northern and southern Iraq yesterday. A US F-16C-J jet (above), based at Incirlik in southern Turkey, fired a missile at an Iraqi radar site in the no-fly zone in north Iraq. Eight other US and British jets also attacked
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    • 214 15 QI AM a final year engineering student from a polytechnic and hopefully, will be graduating some time in July. I have decided to join the National Institute of Education (NIE) and become a teacher. The problem is, I am scared that there will be too many applicants
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    • 104 15 QI AM interested in doing A levels next year as a private candidate. I took English, maths D and combined science for my O levels in 1995, also as a private candidate. Where can I get information about this matter? I am thinking of English,
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    • 93 15 QIDID my GCE N levels and wish to further my education as a part-timer. AYogesh YOU should consider the Institute of Technical Eduation (ITE) sponsorship programmes, if you meet the entry requirements. These provide for one to learn and earn at the same time.
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    • 262 16 QMY son finishes O levels soon. He intends to do a computer design diploma course at a poly, then a degree at the university. However, someone said there are no such courses at the U. What courses should he take (in computer design) to go
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    • 251 16 QI HAVE just finished my O levels and I was in the express stream. This is how I think I did: English-84, maths-EB, Malay-83, literature-A2, art-84. My ECA point is 1. As you can see, my maths pulled me down. I do not want to go
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    • 77 16 QI QUIT school in Secondary 3. I now regret it and hope to study again. I wonder whether it would be better to first study for a certificate in an office skills course. April il TO qualify for the course, you must have a
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      752 17  -  By Danny Lim By Danny Lim Reporting from Taipei SHE'S now happily married with an eight-month-old daughter. So, will Hongkong singer Sandy Lam, 33, be calling it quits soon? She had, in early 1996, spoken of retiring But news of her marriage last February to I Taiwanese producer-songwriter
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    • 120 17 SANDY LAM would like to break away from singing. "I hope to devote more energy to behind-the-scenes work like composing and album production. I have found out that they can be a lot of fun, too," she said. She composed two songs, including the title
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    • 66 18 LISTEN to our celebrity buzz on ISBMI2-0004. What sort of pets does Meg Ryan have? How did she pay her way through college? Who did she used to date from ER? Find out more in 10 Things You Never Knew About Meg Ryan. Get the news
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    • 298 18  -  Aaron Kwok puzzled over Kuching ads By Hazel Tan IS Aaron Kwok performing in Malaysia later this month? Yes, according to advertisements in International Times, a Chinese newspaper in Sarawak, East Malaysia. No such thing, said Aaron's manager, Xiao Mei. The advertisements in International Times, one of
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    • 113 18 ABOUT 40,000 people rioted in China two weeks ago when an "Andy Lau concert" failed to take place. Free tickets had been given out with purchases of beer in a promotion by a beer company in Hubei, China. Then after waiting eight hours for
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    • 568 19 FILM technology has corne a long way. But you still can't do without a man in a monkey suit even if your screen gorilla is nearly 5 m tall. It took three different techniques to make Mighty Joe Young the gorilla in the
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  • 455 21  -  Etcetera WITH JASON TAN I RECENTLY attended the official opening of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Alumni Town Club at River Valley Road. It was a night when memories came flooding back. Memories of four eventful years I spent at NTU. I thought the mood would
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    410 24  -  VIEW By Rachel Tan TOM yam soups here are "lethal". They may look pale and insipid but they pack a wallop with fiery chilli padis. [What a twinge they give the salivary glands that's what makes Lemongrass's torn yam so shiok (delicious). The chef pulls no punches
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