The New Paper, 12 February 1999

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  • 7 1 the new paper FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1999
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    • 77 1 He works at Geylang... $600 and PIMP IS ONLY 15 We erred on Suharto: World Bank^46 ftj A "T*W_ I Mil j***< M ■Mri F V M i^fr a. < i/7wl ii 64 Kim- jgJBrV Dead RJC girl and an unselfish mum: Foster mum agrees to give ashes to real
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 597 2 Italy's highest court throws out case YOU were not raped at all. I come to this conclusion because you are wearing a pair of jeans. Does this sound stupid? There's nore. The reason I say this is because a pair of
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    • 320 3  -  By Tanya Fong THE furry one (on grandma's lap) in this picture is the pretender. All the others were born in the Year of the Rabbit which occurs once every 12 years in the Chinese zodiac. Grandma Pang Moi, 72, looks composed here but is hopping
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    • 563 4  -  Just 15, he's pimping girls in Geylang The boy was sent to the Singapore Boys' Home for 24 months. By' Teo Hwee Nak and Danny Lim THIS is a story of a boy who wanted money he didn't care how.
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    • 141 4 IT was a pager that gave him away. Shawn used to work for a prostitution ring run by a man known as "David". On Nov 22, the police arrested three Thai women who were prostituting themselves while visiting Singapore on a social visit pass.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 225 6 m BANKING OVERHAUL THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will probably stick to its five-year plan to open up the local banking sector. But will "take bolder steps" in the first few years, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Parliament yesterday, according to a report in
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    • 61 6 Picture This CRASH, THEN.. I Mr Bernard Chia in the living room of his Jalan Rindu terrace house after its false ceiling collapsed on Wednesday night. Luckily he, his wife and two children were all upstairs at the time. They had informed the developer about
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    • News Break
      • 62 6 CRIME WILSON Raj Perumal, accused of paying five S-League players to fix the outcome of three soccer matches, yesterday denied making any such payments, saying he has been a banknipt for the last six years. He said he was not rich enough to fork out the sums
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      • 67 6 I RETAIL CHINATOWN shopkeepers have cut the prices of their festive goods by up to 40 per cent this year for instance, a bunch of pussy willows costs from $12 to $15 this year down from around $25 last year. But people are still not tempted. The merchants
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      • 55 6 WEDIA A BENGALI-language newspaper, aimed at Bangladeshis working here, will hit the streets in March. The fortnightly newspaper, Probashi, which means "people working and living abroad", will cost $1. "It will be the first Bengali-language paper in South-east Asia," said Mr Munshi Shahiduzzaman Shahid, 45, a businessman and
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      • 58 6 STOCK MARKET SINGAPORE stocks roared back yesterday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index leaping 70.61 points or 5.5 per cent to 1,357.17. Dealers were surprised by the volume of buy orders and were generally unable to explain the surge. But, many market-watchers were cautious and noted that the
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    • 27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 186.15 points to close at 9,363.46 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 792 million shares.
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    • 46 6 International Herald Tribune: Clinton will win but by how much? CNN Interactive: Final impeachment vote will be Friday New Straits Times: Deadline for disbursing SMI loans BBC news: Thousands attend funeral of 40 ethnic Albanians killed by Serbian police in Kosovo last month
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    • 224 7 £©<Sus BUS operators are set to roar past car dealers in the profit fast lane this year. And it is the economic downturn, coupled with the fare increases introduced in June 1997, that is fuelling the surge, say analysts quoted in The Straits Times today.
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    • 70 7 I COURTS SHE sped past a police road block at 103 kmh without wearing her seatbelt or restraining her son, three. And when police stopped her after a chase on Jan 16, she seemed drunk but proved difficult to breath-test. Yesterday, Tan Lee Hua, 35, pleaded guilty to
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    • 59 7 UNIONS FEWER workers are switching jobs and more are joining unions in the face of the economic downturn, said Mr Cyrille Tan. He is secretary-general of Singapore's largest union, the United Workers of Electronic and Electrical Industries. Membership rose to a record 40,429 last year. Membership in
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    • 65 7 I PRESIDENT B J Habibie wants the problem of East Timor to be resolved by year's end and prefers that it gain independence. Jakarta would prefer to cut the former Portuguese colony loose to rid it of the burden. •Next year, Indonesia will focus on developing its 26
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    • 62 7 MORE Indonesian banks will close. Their names will be announced on Feb 27, said President B J Habibie. The banks to be shut would be those in the "C" category whose owners could not inject fresh funds. Indonesia has 38 categry "C" banks, which have a very low
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    • 54 7 The Straits Times: Life-long learning boost The Business Times: MAS to take bolder steps early in bank liberalisation Lianhe Zaobao: Govt planning life-long learning network Berita Harian: Encourage learning throughout career RCS morning news: The US and Germany agree on need to overhaul the global financial system
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    • 84 7 Quote worthy Everyone can contribute and we should give everyone a chance, regardless of age, gender or race. We should discard our stereotyped prejudices. We should recruit workers on the basis of merit, a person's potential contribution, his work attitude and the wage he asks for. Give
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    • 76 7 a Lee Kong Chye celebrates its i 55 th Jt Anniversary ?u Nett Gold Price for Pure Gold 24K $17.50 per gm (discounted price) W A, Nett Gold Price for 916 Gold $f6.00 per gm (discounted price) Lee Kong Chye Goldsmith (Pte) Ltd J v Blk 165 Bukit Merah Town
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 421 8 The Raffles Junior College student who drowned at Pulau jrÜbin on Sunday was k an adopted child. W> Her natural mother flew down from China on hearing of her death. JASON TAN reports ONE dead girl, but two mourning mothers. One tragedy, but twice the pain.
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    • 120 8 AFTER sitting for two hours beside her daughter's coffin, Madam Xu collapsed and had to be carried away by relatives. She was still unconscious when the coffin was taken away to the furnace. The 400-odd mourners were bathed in tears. The wreaths of lilies and chrysanthemum were
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  • attitude You talk, your peers answers we listen
    • 556 9 The plan to include Extra Curricular Activity (ECA) points in the university admission process from 2002 has some students worried. But is it as daunting as it seems? Two students, one a TNP reader and the other an Attitude counsellor, give their views l^l^i J£ or unWer^B^
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    • 86 10 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE THE committee on University Admission System proposed that bonus points be given for good performance in ECAs. These bonus points will add no more than five per cent to an applicant's total admission score. Why? The committee says ECAs should be included as
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    • 149 10 WE GET many letters and e-mails each week, some of them raising timely issues. But because some off the letters are written anonymously, we cannot ran them. We understand if you do not want your name published. If you let us know that you want
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    • 60 10 DO YOU have something to say about being a teenager? Or perhaps even a poem to share? You can write, e-mail or call us. WRITE: The Attitude Page, The New Paper 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 E-MAIL: npops@sph.com.sg (Mark: "For Attitude") CALL: 1900-913-0001 and leave your
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  • PARLIAMENTTODAY
    • 326 12  -  NO NEED, says BG Yeo INTERNET PALS FROM HELL: By Yvonne Lim ONE was only 11. The other, 13. And they were probably looking only for innocent fun on the Internet. Not the "friends" they met in the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) rooms. One child
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    • 39 12 The answer to the dangers posed by IRCs is not regulation but public education... parents, teachers and community leaders must also do their part. BG George Yeo (right), Minister for Information and the Arts
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    • 99 12 IN the TNP report, dated Dec 26,1998: Police reported that in 1998, nine women fell victim to sex fiends through dating services on phone lines and Internet chat-rooms. The victims were aged between 13 and 23 most of them students under 16. Three of the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 392 15  -  Fann fails to show up at Chinese New Year shoot NANXING'S CASE Last July, actor Li Nanxinggot into trouble for being absent or late while filming the series Files on the Edge. He cited personal reasons for not being on time. By Avis Wong SHE was supposed
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    • 137 16 FRIDAY WEEKLY JACK Neo is a really busy man busy acting in Comedy Night, busy filming, busy recording... And, his latest film Liang Po Po The Movie is scheduled for release during the Chinese New Year period. Jack and his disciple Mark Lee are now best
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 279 19  -  By Melvin Singh SCHOOLBOY Low Wei Zhong, 14, may have died from something he did to himself. However, sources said it is unlikely that he wanted to take his own life. A post-mortem standard procedure in unusual deaths was carried out. But what really
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    • 478 20  -  By Jill Lim HOW many of us can swim 50 metres in half a minute? Mr Wong Meng Ee does it as easily as most of us take a walk. He can do the length of the pool in 31.52 seconds. He represented his country at
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    • 50 22 ON Valentine's Day, how much does it take to make a woman feel treasured? Take her on a $5,000 dinner date? Or get down-to-earth with a $10 night out? Suzanne Walker (above) checks out both and announces her verdict In tomorrow. Picture/ Sam Yeo
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    • 84 22 DO you know how your Primary 4 child can take up Higher Chinese when he goes to Primary 5? Or do you think the new syllabus CL 'B' should be implemented immediately in Secondary 1 instead of Sec 3? What do you think about the
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  • 68 24 SINGAPORETODAY OUR Legal Library offers access to various topics. Call 1900-914-0014 with these codes: What are the provisions in the Employment Act that cover unfair dismissal and retrenchment? (*****4) What categories of employees are covered under the Employment Act? (*****1) What are the provisions in the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 319 26  -  BEAUTY TO BOY: WANT A KISS? By Ng Wan Ching SUPERMODEL Amber Valletta walked into the room on her impossibly long legs and asked a young male for a kiss. Nope, he said firmly. Perhaps a hug then? asked the face of Elizabeth
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    • 79 27 muifmui* Homegrown rock chick Tanya Chua f 23, who has Just returned from Taiwan after recording a Mandarin album, said that writing her own songs has helped pave the way for many bigger things, including a three-year contract with Polygram Taiwan: The music industry seems to
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    • 176 28 MONDAY is role-play day for secondary school students. Some will become housewives, others national servicemen. But it is not just ordinary role play at the school prize presentation day, for instance. It's part of the Total Defence Strategy Game to mark Total Defence Day on Monday.
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    • 93 28 Is about having pride, passion and patriotism for Singapore. Social Delw: Helps create an understanding of other races. Economic Defence: Means ensuring Singapore's economy will not break down in war or under the threat of war. Civil Defence: The safety and basic needs of the whole community
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    • 479 30 |llllp W-;. 7- 1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION The future will bring intense competition and changing values. Education LEARNING NAI lON. Wit would like to invite dynamic individuals I wMI frain/n are centra l to bow Singapore will fare in the new with a vision to be part of our teaching
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 359 31 Cambodian police suspect that flesh from body found at rubbish dump may have been used as meat Wire services. SHE may have been killed and eaten. That is what police in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh suspect. The young woman, some of whose
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    • 1071 32 THE CHANGING FACE OF JORDAN'S KING International Herald Tribune columnist THOMAS L FRIEDMAN, who is an expert in Middle-East politics, explains why King Hussein who recently died of cancer was so crucial to Jordan's role in that region
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    • 243 32 See Shaolin Heroes Kick-Start i A Prosperous New Year forget gongfu movies. These Shaolin heroes will IJj show you how it's done. Watch monks from the Shaolin Temple in Henan demonstrate the art of Shaolin Wusnu passed down from the pugilistic masters of ages past Dragon and Ttger Boxing up
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  • 191 34 WORLD TO DAY AFP A POPULAR custom in Egypt has just gained the official okay. The nation's leading religious leader of the Sunni Muslims has given his approval to casual, part-time 'passers-by* marriages. In passers-by marriages, the husband does not live with the wife and
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    225 36 She used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day. Till she got cancer. Now, she gets $87 million from tobacco company WORLDTODAY Wire services. A CALIFORNIA jury sent shock waves through the US tobacco industry yesterday. The biggest tobacco company in the US was ordered to pay a woman
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    • 255 38 Yeltsin in collision THE plane carrying the Russian leader clipped an aircraft bearing Italy's Prime Minister in a Moscow airport on Monday. But instead of getting Russians worried, the incident has got them laughing over their leader, President Boris Yeltsin. His Ilyushin 96 collided with Mr
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    • 59 39 muifmui* American stamp celebrating artist Jackson Pollocks' contribution to Abstract Expressionism will not show the artist with Ms trademark cigarette hanging from his mouth. Spokesman Don Smeraldi for the US Postal Service says: We're not honouring a smoker who happened to be an artist; we're honouring a
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