The New Paper, 3 April 1999

Microfilm: NL21490
Total Pages: 57
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Will US lose its nerve after all?
      559 2 TV brings war to living room You are not bullshitting us, are you? was the reply from one of the Humvees. No we are under fire. We are totally surrounded. And then the radio dies. Source: Wire services. Television turned Americans against the
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      Carter's fall
      74 2 IN 1979, a group of Muslim militants stormed the US embassy in Iran and held a group of 52 people hostage. The hostages were held for 444 days in an event that is till today considered the most embarrassing period in US history. The 52 people included US
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      12 2 M Check The New Paper's Big Walk entry forms on Page 25
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      91 2 < Sorry THE New Paper had reported on The Princess later hosted BG Lee, Mrs Wednesday that Deputy Prime Minister Lee and selected guests to dinner at her Lee Hsien Loong's scheduled call on residence. Thailand's Crown Princess Maha Chakri The New Paper had also mentioned that Sirindhorn had been
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Handling grief in school
      127 3 A student keeps annoying his teacher by not doing his homework. Then, the teacher dies in an accident. The student is filled with guilt. He asks: "Did I have a hand in my teacher's death?" A student dies and his classmate refuses to go to the
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      Lock icon Enter the tragedy aunties
      803 3  -  REPORTS TOH LI LIN THEY speak softly. You feel they understand you. And they will be around whenever someone in school needs them. When tragedy strikes and teachers and students don't know how to cope, Miss Au Na-Chuang and Ms Ko Chai Peng will be there.
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      TRAINED TEACHERS
      95 4 THE Emergency Behaviour System has been in place since 1996. Besides the emergency behaviour officers (EBOs) from the ministry, every school will have two teachers who are trained as school EBOs by July. These teachers will be equipped with the skills needed to help and support those affected
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lower fees
      277 5 m CHILD-CARE CENTRES CUT FEES BY $5: Milk Honey Day Care Centre Care Corner (Yishun) CUT FEES BY $10: Bethany Child Care Centre Young Woman's Christian Association (12 centres) Bethlehem Educare (Yishun) Care Corner (St George* s) DaystarCDC Eternal Life Good Shepherd Child Care Tendertots CDC Experiential Learning
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    • News Break
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        Smile workers
        70 5 DENTISTS IF your teeth need special treatment, such as to help your smile, help is at hand. A register of specialist dentists is to be set up. This is official recognition that a number of dental practices here limit their work to special services such as orthodontics. Basic
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        Cash for condo
        68 5 PRIZE STOREKEEPER Vtfaya Kumar K Dhamotharan Cleft), 36, hit the jackpot yesterday when he won a unit in the Regent Heights condominium in a lucky draw held by Courts. His prize in Bukit Batok East Avenue 5 is worth $500,000. But Mr Vyaya has decided to take
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        Back-door ploy
        71 5 RETAIL TWO doors are better than one when it comes to attracting more customers. That's why two Clementi shopowners are trying to get others to open up the back of their shops in Block 354, Clementi Avenue 2. They are also proposing that a pedestrian mall be built
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        Top rating
        62 5 BUSINESS SINGAPORE is the cleanest place to do business in Asia, a survey of regional expatriate businessmen found. Hongkong and Japan are good, too, while Indonesia, India and China are the most corrupt. A think tank said the only cloud is if Indonesia tries to pursue its "corrupt"
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        Illegal exports
        53 5 PORK JOHOR Customs officers will step up checks on all lorries carrying vegetables to Singapore through the Causeway following an attempt to smuggle frozen pork into Singapore on Tuesday. Johor Customs director Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid said: "Under our law, taking out items for export without declaring them
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        Why COE cap
        68 5 TRANSPORT THE Land Transport Authority has explained that, if the vehicle population is allowed to grow at 3 per cent a year and Electronic Road Pricing charges remain as they were before April 1, the average speed on expressways and main roads will drop by the year
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        Foreign buyers
        61 5 PROPERTY FOREIGN buyers could be making a strong comeback in the mid-to-high end condominium market, reports The Business Times. And prices of such properties may also have stabilised. In a sample of five condominium projects, 42 of the 110 buyers from July 1998 to end February this year
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        Resort cut off
        65 5 MALAYSIA THE worst landslides in 10 years have blocked roads in Selangor. Torrential rain caused more than 45 landslides on roads leading to Eraser's Hill and Pahang on Thursday. Eraser's Hill was cut off for more than a day. Road construction teams cleared the roads using five
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      The computer knows
      138 6 in FSKSus NOW the computer can tell official phone calls from personal ones. A Canadian inventor has patented software that can identify personal long-distance calls made from telephones in the workplace, reports The New York Times. This could save companies thousands of dollars. "Long-distance charges total about
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      world Head liners
      43 6 International Herald Tribune: Third of Kosovars now forced out, Nato says CNN Interactive: Nato missiles strike central Belgrade New Straits Times: EU certain Malaysia will bounce back soon BBC news: Experts say the Kosovo refugee crisis is reaching nightmare proportions
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      PRIDE IN CLUSTERS
      102 6 Quote It was gratifying to hear Majulah Singapura being sung with great feeling. And there was this fantastic sense of pride coming from the children. They wanted to do their best. Miss Ho Peng, a deputy director in the Education Ministry's schools division, on a joint concert
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      Lock icon First dugongs, now a dolphin
      49 6 a- DEAD DOLPHIN: This 2.1-m dolphin, found partially buried at Kampung Kuala Tunjang near Alor Star died before Malaysian Fisheries Department officers had a chance to save it. Several dead dugongs have been found lately in waters in that region. Picture/ New Straits Times
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      local Head liners
      53 6 The Straits Times: Nato planes strike key Kosovo town The Business Times: Signs of revival of foreign interest in top-end condos Lianhe Zaobao: Nato stages heaviest bombardment against Yugoslavia Berita Harian: Issue of US hostages worsens crisis RCS morning news: Kosovo refugee situation is growing into a
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      41 6 Tongue Cll ft k WHAT'S HUP I HATE YOU! f!•*** 1 °P m H rS, he 1 I HATE YOUR GUTS! y MC^° Wln9 J "MT I do that? J I WISH I HADN'T \r\ MET YOU!, p I CJfr T
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    Lock icon Ha, ha! Did they fool you?
    256 7  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Carol Leong YOU should have known After all, it was April 1. Did you really think actors James Lye and Robin Leong had a public spat? "April Fool!" they want to tell you. In Thursday's paper, we reported that James and Robin
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon WOW, Such a big chair for me!
      294 9  -  Finally, a chance to listen to what the DPM had to say about his visit to Myanmar and Thailand. But first there was the small business of a chair to sort out... REPORT YVONNE LIM IN BANGKOK THE Deputy Prime Minister was in
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      PARTNER, NOT RIVAL
      58 9 BG LEE said that Thailand now sees Singapore more as a partner than a competitor. When the region was booming, the Thais felt they were better-placed than Singapore was to take advantage of Indochina the new frontier of great opportunity. There should be many areas of cooperation
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      ICE-CREAM DREAMS
      94 9 BG Lee cited Singaporean businessmen he had met in Bangkok: One working on a $550 m Singapore Telecom project, another a matchmaker for companies. A third "makes exotic-flavoured ice-cream. He's doing well, trying to sell it in Singapore, (but) the school teachers have told him "No, this ice
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      SELL THE FAMILY HEIRLOOM
      88 9 WHEN things get tough, it's tempting to say: The problem comes from outside, let's protect ourselves. But it is important for Asean to press on with liberalisation. "Don't slow down, don't back track, don't give up," said BG Lee. It is not easy getting ordinary people
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      LESSONS FROM CRISIS
      87 9 BG LEE said Singapore had been less affected than Indonesia and Malaysia by the regional economic crisis and uncertainty. This was because, he said, "we have been careful and sound and not exposed ourselves". But the crisis will also have taught young Singaporeans to see the world
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      42 9 V i fll Ikf 1 jtfi Hk^l t& —-»-> *w^-— Hb kI j. im.M KiNHMHiM^^ttra^ h v^Mflfllfl Two teenagers, played by Toby Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, are mysteriously transported into the black and white world of the 1950s to a town called Pleasantville.
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      WILL YOU DO IT?
      659 11 IF you were Jack and Rose and in THAT car on THAT ship, would you have sex? (In the movie, the two make love in a car in the hold just before the Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks.) It depends on whether you are a
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      Fake money not funny
      63 12 muiftnui* Koh Kai MoNg, 17, was sent to a reformative training centrs for printing fake $50 notes at home. Ma lawyer, Mr Hee Tlaang Fong, said Me client committed the crime out of "fun", and was not out to make a profit Chief Justice Yong Pang
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      Oh dear, how to pay the bills?
      89 12 FRIDAY WEEKLY XIAO Ying (not her real name) started helping out at her brother's hawker stall after her O-level exams. But because of the Japanese encephalitis scare, sales are down at their stall, which serves pork. Friday Weekly tells you how her father's
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    Lock icon Clipping Sentosa to Woodlands
    429 14  -  SINGAPORETODAY ByJ Joyce Lim IMAGINE using paperclips to make a chain stretching from the southernmost tip of Sentosa to Woodlands. That is more than 26km. And it would take more than one million paperclips, weighing over 600 kg (as heavy as a car) to do it.
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    Virus creator arrested
    293 16 What does Bart Simpson have to do with e-mail virus? world today Melissa appeared on March 26 and spread rapidly around the world like a chain letter, swamping e-mail systems. Melissa infects computers when users receive a particular e-mail and open a Microsoft Word document attached to
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      247 16 PUBLIC AUCTION Under The Pawnbrokers Act (Chapter 222) Itcma to be sold conaiating of unredeemed pledgea from all the pawnshops In Singapore including watches, gold chains, bracelets, diamonds and other semi-precious stones, etc. pawned up to the month of September 1998. Auction Dates 9th &10th April 1999 (Friday Saturday) Auction
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        Lock icon Kosovo crisis... are S'poreans bothered?
        513 18  -  wh BRIAN MILLER THE taxi driver had the radio on and some bloke was reading the news. As it is these days, the air strikes against Kosovo dominate everything else. The cabby wasn't having any of it. He switched stations and some Mandarin songbird came
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        Lock icon Storm sinks ferry in Nigeria 250 DEAD
        261 19 AFP. THEY all crowded into the ferry boat to get home for Easter. But after it sank in a tropical storm, 250 people are missing, feared dead, off the south-east coast of Nigeria. By nightfall yesterday, 15 bodies had been found and 25
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        More lost than found
        78 19 mui<mui* Japan's number of unemployed dbtibed to 3.13 million in Febniaqr. Mr Naruo Taguchi, 66, who lost his Job in a securer gMMtI company recently, said: The last time I was here it took only a day to And a job but now it has been
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        Lock icon WORLDTODAY The man ...turns hunted up for this... on TV
        416 20 The police say Dara Singh has evaded arrest so far because he is being protected by locals They also say the interview may not be genuine THE man, who is currently the subject of a massive nationwide police manhunt in
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        STRIP SEARCH IN SCHOOL
        480 21 Teacher makes eight-year-old boys and girls strip in class She later realises she may have sent missing beads to craft class SOME glass beads went missing during a lesson in a London school. So the teacher made her class of eight-year-old boys and girls strip. The
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      219 18 ESOK DALAM GEMPARi^Sjt Wanita geiapkan wang $18 juta miiik beberapa ejen pelancongan dan karyawan Melayu yang hendak drtukar ke mata wang asing. Appetiser Dolphin's Special Lobster 'N' Chicken Whole Lobster Baked Willi Cream Cheese 'n'Honey Stung Chicken Served With Wedged Potatoes A Seasonal Vegetables Tandoorl Lobster 'N' Steak Grilled Coashed
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      232 20 21", 22" a 23" April 1999 Art THE party for all working executives! Not restricted to only secretaries, bosses, executives and managers are all invited to this fun-filled event! A glitzy fashion show, an unforgettable dining experience, stage entertainment and attractive lucky draw prizes await everyone! All will receive a
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      327 22 ■r^p^f ■k jlep on it and register for Singapore s Liggett H^BBpp walking event. WfBBK/r^ Entry form is on the facing page. 2t a iP^ v L VV "w W ,<■ M V 4 ,>,, jH V LUCKY DRAW «JHIh^H Grand Prize I NISSAN SUNNY Vxß A jMAP IB PSION
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    Lock icon MADAM NOBODY
    441 23 Found by the police 40 years ago, she still has no idea about the whereabouts of her family MALAYSIATODAY FORTY years ago, police found Madam Chew Kiew (pictured above, when she was found and now) wandering aimlessly in the streets of Kuala Lumpur. All she had with her
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      446 23 P this form is for fun walkers nly I OCCUPATION CODE: 1. Student 2 Housewife 3. Office-worker 4. Blue-collar 5 Professional/ Executive 6. Retiree 7 Others 1 j{M" J'A Please note that all information given MUST BE ACCURATE AND CLEARLY WRITTEN IN BLOCK LETTERS I i BIGWMK'99 i I SEX
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    A taste of Nepal
    334 24 EAT'S A SUNDAY This was the case again recently, when my friends and I chanced upon a Nepalese eatery right to the heart of Chinatown during an "expedition". Gorkha Grill, at 21 Smith Street, is a cosy little place. Tucked away from the hustle and bustle
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      79 24 Time to win j Check out our I "Watch Win" A I contest inside and you couid be B one of three winners of an Classified dual- 4 I time watch. A I Scale greater heights... in your business I I by attracting I more patrons! Advertise your food outlet
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      204 32 Positions An published Co. requires Salts/ Projtct Engineer Diploma in Elect./ Instrumentation Engrg Familiar programming, Scada Development Mature. hardworking and result oriented A Conversant in English and own car interested pis. write-,n with lull resume 4 expected salary to: EONS Technologies Pte Ltd 48 Mactaggart Road #09-04 Singapore *****8 E-mail:
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      228 34 DAVIS CUP BRITAIN 0 UNITED STATES 2 Jim Courier (US) bt Tim Henman (UK) 7-6 (7/2), 2-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (10/12), 7-5 Todd Martin (US) bt Greg Rusedski (UK) 6-4,6-4,6-2 ZIMBABWE 1 AUSTRALIA 1 Byron Black (Zim) bt Mark Philippoussis (Aus) 6-3,36,4-6, 6-3,7-5 Patrick Rafter (Aus) bt
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      505 34  -  Preview By Marc Tan LAST-START winner Southern World can complete a back-to-back double when he takes on a Class 4 lot over the Bukit Timah 1,400 m in Race 5 today. The Ifrad gelding gave his backers some nail-biting moments when he was asked by champion
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      78 34 8-BALL CHALLENGE OFF Quay Bar won the 2nd Leisuretron 8-Ball Challenge '98/99. The team comprised Robin Chan, Alicia Ng, Fredrick Lim and Roger Eng. The tournament started last October. It was organised in aid of The Bone Marrow Donor Programme, The New Paper's adopted charity loaf
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      17 34 POWER FOOTBALL > The season s almost over. f but the game's just about to kick off r
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      529 35 Communications Minister and Football Association of Singapore president Mah Bow Tan has one. So does ex-S-League chairman Kwek Lengjoo. Now, it's ex-national waterpolo goalkeeper Robert Kwan. What do they have in common? Sons who excel in sports that are different from the ones their fathers
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      233 35 INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FESTIVAL OF RUGBY OUR national U-14 rugby team is the only Asian team playing at the International Youth Festival of Rugby in Scotland. And coach Mark James is confident his boys will do well. Send the Welshman: "We have the ability to come back
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      64 35 WAREHOUSE SALE UP TO 80% OFF 4 APRIL -11 APRIL 1999 10.00 am 6.00pm (Daily) ALL MUST CLEAR AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES! ■PPT PShirts, Boston Bags, Golf Bags, Shoes, Socks, Shorts and many more Items to clear Bus No: J*Mk. 608,64,51,166 A&T3+L j~p ML--1&£T1 A/V W 554 HAVELOCK ROAD, (next
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      Killing them softly
      458 36 Back to the Premiership grind and all attention is focused on Arsenal trying to catch up on Manchester United as the title race reaches the home turn. Can the Gunners do it? JEFFREY LOW previews the two "live"games this weekend SOUTHAMPTON v ARSENAL (9.55pm, live on Channel
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      Get on with it, guys
      187 36 WIMBLEDON v MAN UNITED (4.25 am tomorrow on SCVs Football Channel 22) ITS all happening off the pitch. David Beckham is being "crucified" by country, church and colleagues for his front-page "crucifixion" photo in a London magazine. Jaap Stam is undergoing intensive treatment for an
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      163 36 BROUGHT TO YOU BY see, what, .Vo.u re J IH 1 ft. jj ICall: 873 3333 I O o i a 1 i o n s i 4 h o j r j daily Panasonic this week onthe Panasonic football channel English Premier League Southampton vs Arsenal LIVE' 9 55
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      256 37 ARSENAL RISKS SANCTION IN WRANGLE WITH NIGERIA AFP. ARSENAL is taking a gamble in blocking N wank wo Kanu's international comeback for Nigeria. The Gunners are even prepared to risk sanctions from Fifa, the world soccer controlling body. The reason: The Premiership club is worried that
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      'Play Macca to beat Everton'
      265 37 MERSEYSIDE DERBY: LIVERPOOL vEVERTON LIVERPOOL can end Everton's five-year domination of the Merseyside derby, says former Liverpool captain Emelyn Hughes. How? Keep faith with "the best player". His name: Steve McManaman. "If McManaman is fit, Gerard Houllier (Liverpool manager) has got to play him because
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      121 37 I WORLD YOUTH CUP AFP. BANK your money on host Nigeria taking top honours in the Fifa Under 20 soccer championship. The tournament starts today with Nigeria taking (m Costa Rica. Nigeria is expected to use its home ground advantage to the hilt. It will play its
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      156 37 VILLA 0 WEST HAM 0 Reuters. ONCE Premiership leader Aston Villa and West Ham fought out a drab goalless draw. And with that both failed to enhance their claims to represent the Premiership in next year's Uefa Cup. To make matters worse for the Hammers, they
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      WEEKEND FIXTURES
      32 37 TODAY: Blackburn v Middlesbrough Charlton v Chelsea Derby v Newcastle Leeds v Forest Liverpool v Everton Sheff Wed v Coventry Southampton v Arsenal Tottenham v Leicester Wimbledon v Man United
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      GOMBAK v GEYLANG
      157 38  -  (Bukit Gombak Stadium) LIVE MATCH: Tampines v TanjongPagar (Premiere 12, 7.25pm, today) SCORE: It's SAFFC 6 Marine 1 not Jurong FC 6 as reported in Thursday's paper. We apologise for the error. By Peter Siow THE Eagles of Geylang United cannot wait to spread their wings. They
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      TAMPINES v TANJONG PAGAR
      127 38 (Tampines Stadium) DO not rub your eyes. What you are about to read is correct. Double Cup champion Taiyong Pagar will be going into today's S-League away match as an underdog against Tampines Rovers. Even though Tanjong Pagar, which clinched the Singapore Cup and FA Cup
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      25 37 CALL INFOUNE 1900-*****13 Call The New Paper Infoline after 12.15am tomorrow for results of today's English Premier League matches. Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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      30 37 TV ACTION TODAY: Southampton v Arsenal: Live on Football Channel, 9.55pm Wimbledon v Man United: Live on Premiere 12,10pm TOMORROW: Wimbledon v Man United: Delayed telecast on Football Channel; 4.25am
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      122 38 gfJisng v mur g?K v tarSSgpagar 1x2:2 (Geylang) Ix 2: X (Draw) 1/2 Koal: Geylang 1/2 goal: Tanjong Total goals; Four Pagar Total goals: Two i'||T|jiiii <— Ix 2: TOTAL GOALS: (1) Gombak: $6.50 0 Goals: $11.00 (x) Draw: $5.50 1 Goal: $6.75 (2) Geylang: $1.25 2 Goals: $4.80 3
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      152 41 TODAY: (selected programmes): 3pm: Asian Football Show (Premiere 12) 6.30pm: Swimming: World Championship (Live, STAR Sports Channel 24) 7.30pm: Aston Villa v West Ham (Football Channel 22) Bpm: NBA: Los Angeles Lakers v Phoenix Suns (ESPN Channels 23&25) 9.30pm: The Masters Official Films 1994 (STAR Sports Channel 24) 10.30pm: Golf:
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      Why I want to help
      873 45 MISS Leila Abdul Rahman is a single "mother" of two young children. Here's the complication: She has been retrenched from her job as a lawyer. And the children's parents have died of Aids. She'd "adopted" or sponsored the children, from Chiangmai, eight months before she
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      422 45 IN August last year, Miss Leila lost her job as a conveyancing lawyer due to "the drastic drop in conveyancing work at her office". Then, working as a relief teacher, she went on to sponsor a third child eight year-old Oraya in October.
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      Forgotten children
      523 46 THERE are more than 4,000 Aids orphans living in the six provinces around Chiangmai, according to the Sem Pringpuangkeo Foundation. This is the worst Aids-hit area in all of Thailand. Worse, these children are shunned by their own people as w Dek Aids" or "Aids children" in Thai,
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      241 47 The Ml Sunny is the 100,000 available till 4 April '99*, exclusively for Ml customers. C) Specially created for Ml, each Sunny Meal is a small way of thanking our »js r I customers, and celebrating two wonderful years. All you have to do is come SSp «RSS:- down to
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      Useless dad only wants money
      190 48 lAM 16 years old and will be sitting for my N levels this year. My brother, who has been blind since birth, is 12 years old. He is going to a school for the blind. My mother works as a cleaner to make ends meet.
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      438 48 A reader's advice... SEX education. It can be sensitive. It can bring on the blushes. It can leave parents dumbfounded. Parents find it hard to broach the subject at home. And teens are sometimes left to rely on books, gossip or old wives' tales to answer their
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      523 48 LOCAL writer Catherine Lim was pleasantly surprised when a foreign film company expressed interest in her most recent novel, The Teardrop Story Woman. "But I rejected their offer in the end as they couldn't even match the advance that I got for the book," said
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      44 48 CAN YOU HELP? If you think you can help with soma useful advice, write or fox 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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      260 48 I Srj r 1 i k( R y t SA |A fyi I I I pi m ft IVj^H THEY can sound frightfully dated at times, but oddly, Blur has never sounded more relevant than now. Just when you thought the UK darlings could not do better than the woo-hoo
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      38 49 THE MOVIE Based on a true story, this movie traces the life of renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pre and her relationship with her sister, Hilary. Emily Watson as British cellist Jacqueline du Pre (or Jackie).
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      Compelling tale of sisterly love and rivalry
      315 49 YONG SHU HOONG THERE are different types of actresses in the celluloid world. Some leave you weak in the presence of their beauty, while others consume you with the full intensity of their acting. Plain-looking yet luminous British actress Emily Watson falls under
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      Darker side of an intense relationship
      285 49 CHAN SEET FUN WHAT'S the story? Depends on who's telling it. That's how Hilary and Jackie unfolds as two versions of one story. And a touching story it is. The du Pre sisters were exceedingly close as children but events, and their perception of
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      Age Difference
      170 49 In times of desperate financial need, who would you turn to for help? "I'd turn to a trusted friend who has been through thick and thin with me. "I won't approach my family because I already know them too well. Your son or daughter, if they're married, will
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      124 49 Some of the magazines that you wouldn't want to be caught reading in the MRT are... "Any home ir decoration magazine. It 5 has no relation 11 jJBBP J to me and 111 I* look stupid I reading it." Sheikh Haikel, 24, comedian "I'd read anything. Fm not ashamed to
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      158 49 0 oviciuoio. ui De niiary. penormances. (u; watch it! Top grossing movies last week. And our ratings. h'.jj IMMptM p tct,Adam< OOO OOO J**-* OOOC i oooo OOO Stars: Robin Williams Stars: Adam Sandler itafii Mel Gibson and Lucy Liu Stars: Qwyreth Paftnow and Joseph Stars: Robert CaHyle and Guy
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      Useless dad only wants money
      190 50 lAM 16 years old and will be sitting for my N levels this year. My brother, who has been blind since birth, is 12 years old. He is going to a school for the blind. My mother works as a cleaner to make ends meet.
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      Things to consider
      433 50 A reader's advice... SEX education. It can be sensitive. It can bring on the blushes. It can leave parents dumbfounded. Parents find it hard to broach the subject at home. And teens are sometimes left to rely on books, gossip or old wives' tales to answer their
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      There's hope for local writers
      523 50 LOCAL writer Catherine Lim was pleasantly surprised when a foreign film company expressed interest in her most recent novel, The Teardrop Story Woman. "But I rejected their offer in the end as they couldn't even match the advance that I got for the book," said
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      44 50 CAN YOU HELP? If 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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      241 50 THEY can sound frightfully dated at times, but oddly, Blur has never sounded more relevant than now. Just when you thought the UK darlings could not do better than the woo-hoo genius of Song 2 (from the self-titled last album), Tender shows up. What, no screaming guitars? What the devil
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      868 51 YCo—> Saturday Sunday ~py channel channel channel Q channel Q 6.00 AM Sport Diver —The Emerald Sea 600 AM Muka Huka X Ad J^li™ na Anlmal 630 2 1st Century ls No Dream 630 Living Asia Kyoto New vs Old 6.30 Bow 630 Adventure Rio 700 Military Strategy of Sun
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        198 52 WE all know that there Is money floating around the Net. just look at the sky-high stock prices of Internet companies In the US. But what's in It for the ordinary Net surfers like you and me? Is there money to be made? Try
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        Spin me again
        194 52 THERE is a saying: What goes around, comes around. The website, Second Spin, gives this statement a new twist. "What goes around" Is any disk in your CD collection that you are tired of listening to. Talk about recycled music, now you can sell off all your
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        Father's wisdom
        159 52 A YOUNG woman brought her fiance home to meet her parents. After dinner, her mother told her father to find out about the young man, so the father invited him to his study for a drink. "So what are your plans?" the father asked the young man. "I
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        Give me a (commercial) break
        106 52 x w LISTED in an e-mail were five TV commercials aired during the recent Monica Lewinsky interview with Barbara Walters. "And yes, these realty did air during the interview," claimed the anonymous sender of the message. I .Victoria's Secret lingerie 2. Burger King, featuring the
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        304 52 WHO says film buffs are a quiet lot? On the online message board on Singapore International Film Festival's website, movie lovers have been particularly "talkative" as they air their views on movie choices and ticket availability. One Net surfer was disappointed that a Taiwanese film.The Personals,
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    Alas, it's time to move...
    666 54 large with KenJallehJr THOUSANDS of curious Singaporeans, thrust into a knowledge-based mindset, are this minute grappling with these pertinent questions: Who is Slobodan Milosevic and what was it like growing up with a name bearing such a slovenly first syllable? Will the war in Yugoslavia
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      256 55 I AM 18 years old. A couple of months back, my girlfriend left me for another guy. I'm not sure why, but I guess it could be because I'm from a poor family. Recently, I met another girl. This time, this girl left me because I'm thin.
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      I keep rejecting guys
      276 55 I'M so confused about my life. I have broken up with my steady for almost a year. Nowadays, most of my friends have their own partner. Even my two best friends have theirs. I want to have a partner but when guys want to be with
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      187 55 I Here's something jf 1 special for all NSmen If and Families... I a Adult:$6.00 Child 3-12 years o age) $3.00 I I X r~> II I «~T7 I I M A ottrocf/V^I TT prizes in the 0 0** ON^GUMD! 1T1 1 See the fu Y integrated 5AF at for
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    The write stuff pays
    756 56 There is money for writers when their novels or short stories are adapted for the big screen. YONG SHU HOONG speaks to Nicholas Sparks, the author of Message in a Bottle, which has been made into a Hollywood movie. Is there similar scope for local writers?
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