The New Paper, 30 November 1999

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  • 20 1 the new paper TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1999 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asial.com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS
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    • 144 1 pro -r II (l I fit 4 s Revenge of the Malay kampung Woon Wui Tek. who crisscrossed northern Malay heartlands, tells of purity of Islamic party's appeal /Page 21 Revenge of the Chinese Seto Nu-wen on why the Chinese turned their backs on DAP boss /Page 22 Revenge of
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 391 2  -  I By Eugene Wee FIVE years ago, an accident on board a Singapore Airlines flight left Miss Tan Shwu Leng, 36, with her wings clipped. Miss Tan, who was a leading stewardess at the time, fractured her arm after being thrown off her feet
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    • 254 2 AT 11 weeks, Katie Bruce looks like any normal, healthy baby girl. But her rare illness, dubbed Ondines Curse, means that the English girl stops breathing whenever she sleeps. Her parents can never leave her side. They must always be ready to give her
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 558 4  -  Keeps teeth in her for 2 minutes By Lan Tan THE little girl was quietly walking home from her nanny's place. But for three-year-old Kelly, the short walk turned into a nightmare when she was attacked by a dog. The Shih Tzu sank its
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    • 118 4 IT was not the first time that the five-year-old Shih Tzu, named Brownie, had bitten a young child. The owner's 14-year-old sister said she was with Brownie in a lift a few years ago when it bit another three-year-old girl. That victim's father was also in
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    • 66 4 APPLY first aid and seek medical attention if you are bitten by a dog. That's the advice of the Primary Production Department (PPD). Tlie victim should then send a copy of the medical report to the police or the PPD when reporting the incident. The veterinarian
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 202 6 m THE old Singapore River is taking on a new look and new life. Changes being mooted will make strolling by the river a very special experience. So, let's take a walk by the river. OUTDOOR KIOSKS: Feeling thirsty or hungry? Stop by a kiosk
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    • News Break
      • 53 6 TIES ECONOMIC Development Board (EDB) chairman Philip Yeo is in Jakarta to meet several ministers to forge economic ties with Indonesia. Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Finance Kwik Kian Gie spoke of enhanced cooperation in Batam and the Riau islands. Another area: debt-ridden firms under the Indonesian
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      • 48 6 U skTlls SINGAPORE won two gold medals and four merit awards in the International Youth Skill Olympics (IYSO) in Canada earlier this month. The biennial skills competition organised by Swiss-based International Vocational Training Organisation gathers young people to pit their industrial skills mainly through hands-on projects.
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      • 58 6 HEALTH ELEVEN babies in Singapore have cuaght the Aids virus from their mothers. The first such case in Singapore was reported in 1991. There were four cases each in 1997 and 1998. Then this year, another two cases were reported, bringing the total toll. The numbers reflect the
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      • 69 6 LIBRARY HAVE a research paper or speech to write but no time to look for information? Well, for a fee, national library officers will search its books, periodicals, electronic databases and the Net. They will then process the information and deliver it to your desktop or office. The
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      • 59 7 TOURISM THE number of visitors to Singapore peaked last month at 603,000. It was a 21.1 per cent rise over the same period last year. The largest groups of visitors were from Indonesia, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Britain and the US. There was a 29.5 per cent rise in
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      • 57 7 COMPUTERS VIRUS hoaxes have led to a "warning" overload, say computer groups here. E-mailers should check against hoax viruses listed on websites of anti-virus companies such as Symantec and Computer Associates before sending warnings. Otherwise, users might stop heeding warnings, and miss ones on real bugs such as
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      • 59 7 FRANCE SCHOOLGIRLS in France will be able to get the morning-after contraceptive pill at their schools next year. The decision was made to try and cut down on the rising number of teen pregnancies and abortions, but it is likely to outrage conservative church groups. The pill
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      • 60 7 I INDIA AREAS in Bhopal, India, the site of the world's worst industrial disaster are still contaminated after 15 years, Greenpeace has said. It was covered by a cloud of poison gas in 1984 from a Union Carbide plant, killing thousands. The site around the factory, the dirt
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    • 27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 40.99 points to close at 10,947.92 yesterday. About 868 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 43 6 International Herald Tribune: Mahathir out front, but Islamic Party gains Asian Wall Street Journal; Mahathir retains power despite setbacks Utusan Malaysia: Barisan Nasional forms the Government BBC news: Malaysia's PM and his National Front coalition trample opposition in parliamentary elections
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    • 130 7 in F®Sus SINGAPORE and China are reaching out to co-operate with each other in new areas. This hearty handshake between Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and visiting Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji (left) at the Istana yesterday, reflects the "problem-free" relations between the two countries. China has
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    • 58 7 The Straits Times: BN wins two-thirds but loses Terengganu The Business Times: Analysts ponder M'sian post-election scenarios Lianhe Zaobao: Barisan Nasional wins two-thirds but loses Terengganu; four ministers lose in elections Berita Harian: National Front wins but loses Terengganu RCS morning news: Malaysia's National Front wins the
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    • 76 7 Quote Wworthy rhe Palestinian leadership said afler Oslo that the agreement with Israel would create a state with Jerusalem as its capital... and lay the economic foundation for us to become the Singapore of the region. Now, afler six years of Oslo y we don f t
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 28 7 Tongue WHAT'S HUP As promised, v" let's all go to the dinner buffet! You all should have eaten something today instead of keeping your stomachs empty for dinner.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 433 8  -  By. Azhar Guani YOITVE heard of MPs going on walkabouts. Mr Yatiman Yusof has taken things a step further. He goes around his constituency on a bicycle. Mr Yatiman, 50, the Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Information and the Arts) and chairman of the Tampines Town
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    • 424 9  -  By Lingam Ponnampalam TEARS streamed down her cheeks as she stood in the dock. And when the court was adjourned, the floodgates burst open. As her family gathered around her, Rozanah Mohamad Yasin's stifled sobs turned into outright bawling. Clinging to her two young daughters, she
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 201 11 EACH month, Swatch runs a Five Senses of the Century contest. This is the fourth in our series. More than 50 of you wrote in to share your views and we've picked five to showcase. The writers each win a Cheesy Toast Swatch watch, courtesy of Swatch. Here
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    • 126 11 WATCH, listen, feel, taste, sniff and be part of Swatch's Five Senses of the Century contest. For the last three months, we've been highlighting one of the senses. For this final month, we focus on the sense of touch. What sensation do you think
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    • 409 12  -  No safety harness on him BY Yvonne Lim PERHAPS, as strong monsoon winds and rain lashed eastern Singapore yesterday, you huddled safely indoors. One man was not so lucky. Singaporean Foo Jong Hong, 40, fell to his death yesterday afternoon from a gondola used for
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    • 256 13 GET ready for ET (environmental technology). Singapore aims to be a regional centre for ET, says Mr Sidek Saniff, Senior Minister of State for the Environment. There are already more than 150 local ET companies. They do consultancy and engineering
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    • 367 13 Send your entries e-mail: npopsOsph com.sg write: The New Paper House Seng Singapore *****5 Please mark: 100 Faces of the Century Closing date: Dec 5 Name M Age: Occupation: M I Contact number: II Tell us the most memorable moment of your life (in not II more than 20 words):
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 464 15 COP KILLED IN ACCIDENT ByLjngamPonnampalam 1 MISS Lim Chiew Sia, 22, had it all planned. Sometime this week 1 she was going to walk down Orchard Road and view the Christmas light-up with her boyfriend. She was looking forward to I it it would be so
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    • 44 16 muifmuif F Show buzz presenter Vivien Tan, on her mixed heritage her father is a Malaysian Peranakan, while her Australian mother is Irish, Scottish, Cornish and Welsh: When you mix everything in a pot, you never know what you'll get.
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    • 155 16 HERE's another millennium idea with a difference: Phonecards in a metallic finish. Produced by Sing Tel, they come in a set of three: Gold, silver and rose gold. A set costs $20 and each card has a stored-value of $2. Only 2,800 sets are
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 45 18 mutfmutf IMii aliiimhii Iwm 1 In J warataf bamd by a pMfm afeM manufaeterarki Kab* Japao, raada: Please be careful when you run or go up and down the stairs. Be especially careful when you drink because you can be wobbly. I
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    • 325 18  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY SHE was supposed to survive on a 21-day diet of fresh air. No food. No water. Only air. The reason: to be "cleansed spiritually". But a week after she began her fast, she vomited black
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    • 237 18 Reuters. POLICE have charged a man with attempted murder following the samurai attack on London churchgoers on Sunday. Eden Strang, 26, allegedly slashed and stabbed members of the congregation with a ceremonial sword and a kitchen knife, injuring 12. One man, aged 55, is in a critical
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    • 261 19 STUDENTS in Japan are getting territorial. Female students especially are fencing in their desks with the likes of textbooks, notebooks and pencil stands, the Mainichi Shimbun reports. Deprived of their own personal space at home, many students claim that such self-created personal space
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    • 45 19 DOWN BUT NOT OUTr Storms battered the Swedish coast yesterday, and caused the oil tanker Slrlus to list. However, Its cargo has not leaked out and nine crew were rescued, uninjured, by helicopters. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 410 19 AFP. MOBILE phones are causing problems not only in cinemas and concert halls. They're a problem in some classrooms, too. In Cyprus, anyway. It's boom-time in the Cyprus stock market and teachers have allegedly taken to playing the stock market while in class.
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  • MALAYSIAN ELECTIONS THE AFTERMATH
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      872 20  -  Ruling National Front retains two-thirds majority But it loses in Terengganu and Kelantan to PAS Despite a none-too-resounding win, Or Mahathir still puts up a brave front. A brave smile. But was it forced? FINAL TALLY National Front 149 PAS: 27 DAP: 9 Keadilan: 5 Parti Bersatu Sabah:
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    • 640 21  - and the word is purity PAS wins 28 of Terengganu state assembly's 32 seats Replaces DAP as top opposition party in federal parliament REPORT WOON WUI TEK in Kelantan IT was the new computer that caught the eye. When The New Paper visited a Parti Islam (PAS) election base in
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      106 20 DRSHAHNON AHMAD: PAS member who wrote the controversial novel ***** won in his first election. TUN DAIM ZAINUDDIN: The Finance Minister was re-elected to his seat of Merbok in Kedah with a big majority of 15,376 votes. DATUK SERIS SAMY VELLU: The MIC President retained his Sungai Si put
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    • 611 22  -  DAP leader Lim Kit Siang and other top guns lose But DAP increases its number of seats in Parliament REPORTS SETO NU-WEN In Penang OPPOSITION leader Mr Lim Kit Siang sank in Penang. He lost both his parliamentary and state seats. The National Front's Chia
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    • 667 23 Pro-Anwar party wins five seats in Parliament But Anwar's wife is the only leader to make an impact YES, sentiment does matter. That was clear by Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah winning the seat of Permatang Pauh in Penang by 9,000 votes. In 1995, the
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      168 22 DATUK SERIMEGAT JUNID MEGAT AYOB The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister's loss in Perak to PAS candidate Ustaz Mat Basir Rahmat came as a shock to many. TAN SRI WAN MOKHTAR AHMAD It is the first time the Terengganu Mentri Besar has lost an election since 1969. He
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  • 748 24  -  spotlight By Ian Tan STANDING at the bus stop, she looks like any other housewife. But her life is not like many others'. Her husband is still behind bars, after seven years. His drug habit has robbed her of so much
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  • Show Time
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      873 25 No scandals, no affairs I'm a boring man Jackie Chan who admitted this month to having an affair with actress Elaine Ng is a world apart from fellow Hongkong star Chow Yun Fat when it comes to being a model husband. Hongkong's Apple Daily asked how he
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    • 167 25 THE HONQKONB MEDIA: Chow Yun Fat agrees with Jackie Chan's criticism of the Hongkong media for their relentless pursuit of stories. "You are like the Great White Shark. You see a wound and you attack and won't leave until you see the bones." Yet, he sympathises. "I
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    • 165 26 MARRIED TO: Former Taiwanese movie queen Un Fengjiao, who lives in Los Angeles. PAST LOVES: Elaine Ng (left), Teresa Teng and rumoured romances with Rosamund Kwan (right), Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung. EDUCATION: Never went to school. CAREER: Began in the '70s in Hongkong
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      86 27 IT could be a case of too many big parties, not enough people to fill them. E! Online reports that New York's Celebration 2000 Party of the Century has been cancelled due to low ticket sales. Apparently, even a line up of stars including Sting (right), Aretha Franklin,
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      18 27 Next to that kid we all look like onions. Dustin Hoffman (left) on Brad Pitt (right)
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      34 27 It's exhausting being considered a sex magnet for both men and women. That's why I have to spend so much time in bed. Rupert Everett, (right) currently starring in An Ideal Husband
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    • 49 27 I have decided to move on returning instead to my daily mission of tending to the dire needs of the country's ever-growing obese population. Fitness guru Richard Simmons (above, with Pamela Anderson Lee) on the cancellation of his new low-rated TV show Richard Simmons Dreammaker
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    • 511 28  -  By Michelle Choh UMMM... Richard Gere. Named recently by People magazine as the sexiest man alive, the suave actor also manages to combine brawn with brains. Says Susan Sarandon in People Magazine: "He's really a character actor trapped in a leading man's
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    • 394 38  -  By Tan Thean Loon ONE was expected, the other wasn't. In a pre-race interview, reigning champion jockey Saimee Jumaat sounded quite confident of victory in the RM500,000 (*****,000) Coronation Cup on Sunday on the fancied Golconda. After all, he ran a superb lead-up a week earlier
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    • 201 38 00 KHUANG LIANG, 39 1984 Penang Governor's Gold Cup (St Gallon) 1985 QuMn Elizabeth II Cup (Windu Karya) 1985 PoetaSukan Cup (Betsy's Pet II) 1986 Sultan's Gold Vase (American Soldier II) 1986 Coronation Cup (Deer Hunter) 1989 Singapore Gold Cup (Colonial Chief) 1989 Uon CKy Cup
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    • 191 38  -  By Danny Khoo HAN WOON TYCOON showed a return to form at Kranji this morning. Taken out by jockey P. Vellaikannu, the four-time winner cantered one round, then sped over 600 m in 40.6 sec stylishly. The going was good with give Other gallops: Celebrity Dreamer
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    • 124 38 Singapore Turf Club is an ISO 9002 certified organisation that provides high quality, competitive and entertaining horse racing and gaming services to the public. In the new millennium, the Club will play a major role in international racing with the opening of the new racecourse at Kranji. LUCKY DRAW RESULTS
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      532 39 NATIONWIDE ENGLISH DIVISION ONE LEAGUE WEEKEND RESULTS: Grimsby 2 Norwich 1 Birmingham 1 Swindon 1 Blackburn 2 Stockport 0 Chariton 2 Port Vale 2 Crystal Palace 2 Forest 0 Ipswich 2 Crewe 1 Man City 0 Huddersfield 1 Portsmouth 0 Bolton 0 QPR 2 Barnsley 2 Tranmere 1
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    • 179 39 PORTSMOUTH 0 BOLTON 0 PORTSMOUTH manager Alan Ball is in a fiery mood after this gutsy scoreless draw against promotion-chaser Bolton Wanderers. He admitted that he had been a "pain in the backside" as his club slipped down the table with only one point out
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    • 200 39 QPR 2 BARNSLEY 2 AMBITIOUS Queens Park Rangers manager Gerry Francis will go on a desperate search this week for a top Premiership defender on loan. He has hit a defensive crisis after seeing Steve Morrow suffer a dislocated shoulder in the 2-2 home draw
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    • 150 40 SUNDERLAND coach Peter Reid refuses to get carried away by his side's impressive start to the first season back in the Premiership. Instead he is happy to strengthen his team's position near the top of the League table, reports Football 365. Reid said: "The last time
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    • 354 42  -  TIGER 5S: PROFILE BY Adam Hashidy "THE King of kings." That is how the religious Manoel Tobias feels about God. But in a land where football is practically worshipped, Tobias himself has been conferred demi-God status. He is a highly popular figure in his country and Brazilians
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    • 388 43 TOYOTA INTER-CONTINENTAL CUP; MANCHESTER UNITED v PALMBRAS (Tokyo. Today) Wire services. SIR Alex Ferguson is worried. The Manchester United boss is worried that tonight's match against South American champion Palmeiras will affect the Treble-winners' hopes of European glory. After losing to Fiorentina in the Champions
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    • 276 43 Wire services. PALMEIRAS is the Brazilian Cup winner and champion club of South America. One possible advantage for it over Manchester United is that five of the squad have played in Japan's J-League in the last few seasons Zinho, Cesar Sampaio, Evair, Euller, and Edmilson.
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    • 317 43 SIR Alex Ferguson usually prowls the touchline during Man U games, chewing gum, glaring at the cameras and protesting to officials at every decision given. But today in Tokyo he will be given a lesson in surly management by Palmeiras boss Luis
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