The New Paper, 9 July 1999

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  • 19 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1999 Another quality publication Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 211 2 MALAYSIAN MEDIA SAYS: In recent months, Malaysian media, namely Utusan Malaysia newspaper and TV3, have been running reports relating to the Singapore Government's plan to redevelop Istana Kampong Glam the historic home of Sultan Hussain Shah. He was the ruler who signed the treaty giving away
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    • 585 2 THERE is no need for the Malaysian media to make so much noise. The centre will allow Malays in Singapore to protect their heritage. That is how the Malay community here views the plan to redevelop Istana Kampong Glam into a Malay Heritage Centre.
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    • 263 3 THE New Paper's photographer, Mr Mohd Ishak, has always been fascinated by rainbows. In his childhood days, he was even frightened of this beautiful show put up by nature. He had heard stories told and re-told in his community about bad things that would happen to anyone who
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    • 391 4  -  MAID ABUSE CASE By- Tanya Fong SHE is a businesswoman, and she looks calm and sophisticated. When she walked into court yesterday in her two-piece navy blue suit, black pumps and a boyish crop, there was no hint of the drama to come. Until Kee Leong
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    • 62 4 Kee is charged with causing hurt. Earlier this month, Chief Justice Yong Pung How said the case could not be settled privately as it's a criminal case affecting the public. He also pointed that Parliament had recently increased the penalty for maid abuse—r it's now IV* times more than
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 135 6 m YOU will be seeing some unusual motorcycles in your neighbourhood soon. They belong to your neigbourhood firemen who will travel on special motorcycles equipped with powerful water guns. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) is posting its men to the neighbourhood police posts (NPPs) next
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    • 69 6 Nothing ever happens here. To them, even if something happens, the police are there, the SCDF is there, so there's no need for me. People are having these kinds of thoughts now. Mr James Tan, Singapore Civil Defence Force commissioner. His wish: Make everyone well-prepared to handle
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    • 66 6 OUCH!: m» young teen In Bangkok is wearing an A A A-sized battery as an ear-stud to start what he calls an "exploding-ear fashion". Theerin Mahanathitham, 15, first pierced his ear with a metal pen, then used the end of a paintbrush to enlarge the hole to fit
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    • News Break
      • 63 6 I ECONOMY SINGAPORE'S economy will grow by 4.3 per cent this year, say business professors from Nanyang Technological University. And next year it will speed up to 7.2 per cent, they say. This is nearly the same rate as before the economic crisis. The forecasters, Associate Professors Chen
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      • 64 6 DROWNING THE deaths of two Raffles Junior College students who drowned while rafting in a disused pond in Pulau Übin was an accident, State Coroner Shaiffudin Saruwan ruled yesterday. He said no one is criminally responsible for the Feb 7 deaths of Rachel Wu Sikorski and Sharon Lee
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      • 59 6 BANKING DBS Bank has repaid all those who had money wrongly deducted from their accounts. This happened in the past two weeks when failed Nets transactions were recorded as successful. DBS Bank said there had been no more problems so far. It said some mistakes happened during a
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      • 58 6 FRAUD A FORMER bank officer was jailed a year yesterday for unauthorised trading, in which he lost $3 million. Hew Keong Chan, 39, was assistant vice-president at Banque National de Paris in Singapore. From 1996 to last year, he used accounts in his wife's and brother-in-law's names, to
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    • 29 6 The Dow Jones closed down 60.47 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 11,126.89 yesterday. A volume of 820,023,100 shares was traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 58 6 International Herald Tribune: Megawati says vote was signal to govern CNN Interactive: Panel: US not prepared to combat weapons of mass destruction South China Morning Post: Doctors face tough curbs to prevent overcharging BBC news: India says there'll be more fierce fighting in Kashmir's border despite moves
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    • 188 7 in FSRSus CONVINCE Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and First Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin that the Clob proposal will not harm Malaysia's share market. That's what the Stock Exchange of Singapore has to do before its proposal, sent earlier this week, for a staggered release of the frozen
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    • 59 7 I DRUC^^B A NEW drug is making buttocks in Malaysia shake. The unnamed psychotropic drug causes users to shake their buttocks non-stop when high and "costs about RMIOO each ($45), but is equally damaging to the health," said a deputy minister. An adviser said the buttocks-shaking pill
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    • 63 7 M medTcine a A TEST project later this year will screen school children for kidney problems. The National Kidney Foundation wants to see how many have such problems. Screening involves a urine and blood pressure test. If enough children in the trial test positive, then routine screening for
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    • 57 7 B MILITARY M ASIAN and European companies will be allowed to buy major US defence firms, Washington has said. But only if sensitive technology is protected, the Pentagon added. Such sales will make it easier for allies to have compatible weapon systems, it said. The Pentagon now
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    • 63 7 dk I OVERSEAS Union Bank ATMs were shut for more than an hour yesterday, after a short circuit caused a small fire at a branch. Only deposits could be made at branches, although customers OUB knew had healthy balances could also make withdrawals. The fire at OUB Tampines
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    • 56 7 The Straits Times: Firemen to be stationed at NPPs The Business Times: Talk of SES investigations lifts stock prices UanheZaobao: BG Lee: Clob issue might have to be solved through legal channel Berita Harian: Kampong Glam project receives solid support RCS morning news: NTU posts an even
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    • 410 9 What to to do about my STUT STUTTER Strangers make him nervous. So nervous that he starts to stutter. Is there a cure for him? I AM a 15-year-old boy in Sec 3 (Express). I have a bad stutter when I talk to people, especially strangers. I know what to
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    • 88 9 STUTTERING is a real problem. It does not happen just because a person is lazy or trying to be funny. But it can be controlled. Speak to a sympathetic teacher or your parents so that they can help you seek help from a speech therapist. You may
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    • 172 10 They mean well when they care, but sometimes... Last week, a reader wrote about his frustrations with his over-protective parents. He feels that he gets no freedom from them. A reader responds AFTER reading your story, I feel that your parents are being over protective, especially
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 465 12  -  He lent jewellery to people raising bail-for a price By Eugene Wee IT WAS a novel business idea. Unfortunately, it was also illegal. Chen Chew Ang, 38, began his loan "service" two years ago. He would lend jewellery to people who needed money to bail out friends
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    • 60 12 CHEN pleaded guilty to six charges of cheating and abetment on Tuesday. In mitigation, his lawyer said he had lost his job two years ago and had an aged mother, two children and an unemployed wife to support. Chen is to be sentenced today. The penalty for cheating
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    • 217 12 What is bail? AN ACCUSED person is said to be admitted to bail when he is released from the custody of the police or court and entrusted to the custody ofhis surety. The surety, or bailor, is the person who puts up cash or property as
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  • 365 14  -  Transit centre will house all hawkers till temporary centre is ready EUNOS CRESCENT MARKET FIRE SINGAPORETODAY By Chua Wei Yng Fishmonger Tan Soo Kuang, 44, had trouble sleeping after his stall was destroyed in the Eunos Crescent market fire early on Monday. He thought he
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    • 372 17  -  BY Teh Jen Lee I FELL five times while riding a motorcycle but I walked away unhurt. No, I was not on a Daytona arcade ride. This was the real thing well, almost. A mean, noisy monster likely to crash any moment but painlessly.
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    • 439 18  -  Getting secondary students to mentor those failing maths is proving a success at Pioneer Primary School. Just ask Pei Ling. 12, about her 14-year-old mentor Precious BY Toh Li Lin LIN Pei Ling has failed her PSLE exams twice. She did not have much interest in her studies.
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    • 105 18 PHASE 1 of the Primary 1 registration exercise has ended. The New Paper Infoline gives you an update on the number of places available for Phase 2A (1), which starts today. Call 1900-914-0003 and key in the school's code listed in the directory published on Page
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    • 358 20  -  SILKAIR Ml 185 CRASH BY Carol Leong Dismayed by the slow progress of the investigation into the Silk Air MI 185 crash, some of victims' family members have formed a society. Two weeks ago, they got Government registration for their group, Families of Silk Air MI 185.
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    • 47 20 DrYaacobtold the families that the Government remained committed to the probe and had been giving its fullest support to the Indonesian investigators. He added that the Government also felt it was important to know the truth and that the ministry was working very hard on this.
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    • 84 22 muMui^ When the Commercial Affaire Department appealed against the acquittal of two ex-Amcol Holdings directors on insider-trading charges recently, Its lawyers came armad with thick fUes and took 3Vfe hours to make their case. Said Chief Justice Yong Pung WOW. I think the prosecution in this
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    • 286 24  -  By Florence Tan "MAYDAY! Mayday!" The distress call came from an aircraft canying 120 passengers. The pilot had sighted smoke in the cockpit But before he could make an emergency landing boom! bang! the aircraft crashed into the sea.
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    • 302 25 THE monkey clung to him, and followed him home. And he kept it for a month. It was so cute that he gave it the name he had thought of for the second son he wanted to have. And when he finally gave the monkey to the zoo,
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    • 81 25 TCS star Zoe Tay was happily taking a shower when the bathroom lights in her hotel room in Thailand went out. "I thought my roommate, sister Yin Zhu had returned, so I asked her to turn the lights back on," said Zoe who was filming there. But
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  • INDONESIATODAY
    • 332 26 INDONESIAN El FCTION COMMISSION NO. 2 SAYS: THE Indonesian General Elections Commission (KPU) deputy chairman Harun Alrasid is one frustrated man. So frustrated with the KPU and its delays in announcing the poll results that he resigned yesterday, reported The Jakarta Post (Internet version). He
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    • 52 26 MEGAWATI Sukarnoputri (left) has broken four weeks of silence to stake her claim to be Indonesia's next president Ms Megawati, who won the largest bloc of counted votes so faivalso rejected speculation she would agree to lead a formal coalition government. She heads the Indonesian Democratic
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    • 117 26 THE Suharto children and their business partners have been stripped of eight forest concessions 20 times the size of Singapore. Jakarta said they will lose the 1.17 million-hectare concession because they were allegedly granted through corruption, nepotism and collusion, reports Jakarta Post reports. Further investigations will be conducted
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 267 27  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY CROONER Bing Crosby is making a big comeback 22 years after his death. His golden oldie hits have been enlisted to fight crime in suburban Wollongong, 60 km south of Sydney. The songs that enthralled radio and film
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    • Article, Illustration
      34 28 mui'mui* Tlipol Mayor Ma Ylng Jtoti has bniMMthiMMM allv by Ms Itglon c>f»nl> mpportri. Bui mM Tslpd cHy He should stop acting like Prince Charming and get some serious work done.
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    • 394 28 THREE baby boys were said to have been murdered. The alleged reason: They would not stop crying. A couple were charged but during the trial, the judge stopped the case and asked the jury to set them free. The reason: Nobody knew which one had
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    • 484 29 Rapea New Gnhiean Prime Minister Bill Skate resigned yesterday, two days after China and Anstndto condemned Ids diplomatic recognition of Taiwan. Mr Skate allegedly put a price tag ef USS2JS billion on the deal. PEIER WILSON looks at the politician who rase ftom the slums PAPUA New
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    358 31 WORLDTODA» Cutt supposed to meet aliens' But are they just on retreat? Reuters. AT least 100 members of a religious cult are missing in northern Colombia after they went to rendezvous with an Unidentified Flying Object they believed would save them from "the end of the world". Ms
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    462 33 WORLDTODAY Fire breaks out in Norwegian feny's engine room at 2 am 20 ships and 10 helicopters to the rescue 1,339 people on board evacuated 73-year-old woman dies from heart complications AFP. A 73-YEAR-OLD Norwegian woman died from heart failure yesterday after escaping this ferry fire off the coast
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 184 34 Yesterday, Dr Mahathir opened. Cyberjaya, the centre of his brainchild, the Multimedia Super Corridor. Among some 225 companies there, are world-class players leading the field of information technology This is a bold scheme working qtUckly because of competition from neighbours and nothing helps more than
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    • 113 34 Reuters. SIZE km H LOCATION 30 km south of Kuala Lumpur (contains Putrajaya, Malaysia's new administrative capital MO OF COMPANIES 225 (108 Malaysian) TOTAL INVESTMENT (to date) RM 1.2 b ($540 m) GOVERNMENT RAD RM1 b ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION COST RM 10 b CYBERIAYA Heart of the MSC. contains
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    • 88 34 fN O W S H OWING "A heartwarming -4*— 'Jane Sam love story... Q is just JB Derek Yee has added Fann-tastic!" Sg f. a new feel texture 7*X to local films." ir\ y 'U I t.; j Jl** f 1 i FANN WONG BP PETER HO X THE TRUTH
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      463 35  - Fann games? BY Hazel Tan IS it just me or is someone playing a very clever game here? Over the past month, Fann Wong's love life has been dangled before the media like a bait. The media was promised that Fann (left) was finally ready to spill the beans on
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    • 242 36 YES, the "will she, won't she" saga could have been a public relations stunt. And the local press could have been taken for a ride. "It could have been a beautiful publicity stunt, a 'managed' event to gain publicity for the film," said a public
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    • 487 37 PLUNKETT AND MACLEANE PLUNKETT and Macleane's director, Jake Scott, is ignoring criticisms of the film. The ex-video director, who did ads and promos for Nike and U2, has been accused of making a feature-length "MTV-style" movie with no regard for history. He said he's "glad it
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    • 125 37 JAMES Macleane's real name was Maclaine. He was born in 1724 to a Scottish Presbyterian minister in Ireland. At 18, he moved to Dublin and used up his father's inheritance on gambling and prostitutes. After he moved to England, he married and became a grocer. But after
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    • 399 38  -  By Yong Siew Fern BEGBIE and Sick Boy from Trainspotting are back doing vile, dirty, immoral and hellish things again. This time, they go under the names of Plunkett (Robert Carlyle, who was Begbie) and Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller, who was Sick Boy). And they're terrorising
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    • 43 38 Title: Plunkett and Macleane Stars: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Liv Tyler Scenario: Two men team up to rob the rich to fulfill their own dreams. And that's it just like the movie poster slogan says. Screening Now showing Ratine: Spunky and unclean
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    • 790 39 THE TRUTH ABOUT JANE SAM PLUNKETT A MACLEANE 'MSTIMCT FORCES OF NATURE Who's acting: Fann Wong and Peter Ho Who's acting: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Who s acting: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Who's acting: Sandra Bullock, Ben What It's about A love story set in Miller and Liv Tyler Gooding Jr
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  • COVER STORY
    • 701 41  -  COMMENT HAZEL TAN SO, Fann, you want be left alone? You want to turn your back on the local media, the same media that helped make you what you are today. No big loss really. All we get from you anyway are bland-as-tap
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    • 78 75 All-Blacks winger Jonah Lomu answers a TNP reader's question: What do yon do before a match? Are there any pre-match rttuali that yon go through before yon ontor the pitch?— kwM Sahir. Jonah Loom: I usually try to sit by myself and listen to music. Anything that has
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    • 282 77 WOMEN'S WORLD CUP AFP. ITS a blockbuster finish to the surprise hit of the year: The Women's World Cup final between the United States and China on Saturday (Sunday Singapore time) couldn't have been scripted better by Hollywood. The Chinese, who dismantled reigning champion Norway
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    • 174 78 KADIR Yahaya says he is a softie off-the-pitch. "I may be a tough man on the field. But off it, I'm soft," he said. "I'm not strong enough mentally when it comes to handling personal problems. I must admit I'm weak." Having known him for five
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