The New Paper, 11 December 1999

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 433 2 FOR months, the fate of Taiwanese-born scientist looked uncertain. Lee Wen Ho (left) has been accused by the US government of leaking US nuclear secrets to China. But for nine months, he was left alone. It was only yesterday, almost a year since
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    • 367 3  -  The Asian TV awards will be telecast on Channel 5 tonight at 8 pm. By Hazel Tan THERE were no cows or horses in sight. But Zoe Tay (above) seemed bent on making a statement. A fashion statement. So she turned up at Thursday night's Asian
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    • 54 3 was taken aback at first. I didn y t think that anyone would wear an outfit like that to such an event. But it's a nice change, trendy and refreshing. It suits her well. She's pretty. No matter what she wears, she still looks good. IVs a fun
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    • 35 3 I thought it was unique. The hat stands out and that's what makes the entire outfit unique. The colours are eye-catching. I wouldn't mind taking on such a look. Actress Huang Biren, 30
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    • 49 2 Sorry Leave K to PCK (TNP, Dec 10): We reported that Gurmit Singh's name was called at the Star Awards held on Thursday night. This is incorrect. Gurmit was at the Asian Television Awards. Leisure flinnitlw i wfiowuWie# Pages 32-35, 39 and 40 Comics: Page 43 TV: Page 71
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 545 4  -  The police have classified the case as mischief by fire. Anyone with information can callTanglin Police Division on 733-0000. By Chua Wei Yng FIRST, it was red paint splashed on the signboard of a shop facing his. Then it was black paint on
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    • 29 4 Mr Chan's stall has the cheapest vegetables. I buy from all three stalls f and I always compare the prices before I buy. Mrs Babani, 41, housewife
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    • 47 4 I am an old customer of Mr Chen's, so I will buy from him without asking the price. But some people say that although Mr Chan's vegetables are cheap, they don't last as long. Madam Long, 60s, who has lived in Bishan for 13 years
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    • 20 4 The prices are all about the same. IbuyJYom whoever has the freshest vegetables. Madam Shun, 45, housewife
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 272 6 m PACIFIC Internet wants you so badly that it is willing to pay you to use it. That's what sources have told The Straits Times. Internet newcomer Star Hub fired the first salvo in pricing wars last week, when it offered a surf-for-free plan.
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    • 48 6 h]Z!| ■olt This MAKING TRACKS: The biggest ferris wheel In the world was lit up early this morning at the Concorde Square in Paris. The 60 m-high wheel is Paris' main millennium attraction and will continue to turn till the end of2ooo. Picture/ Afp
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    • News Break
      • 61 6 LRT SOME of the Light Rapid Transit's (LRT) teething problems have been ironed out, and commuters in Bukit Panjang are enjoying a smoother ride. There are still some hiccups, though. Trains stopped for two minutes at a station, or on the tracks for three minutes. Singapore LRT said
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      • 56 6 CHINA THE Falungong sect and its founder Li Hongzhi have been fined $1.9 million for tax evasion. China's Taxation Offices investigated him, Falun Dafa Research Society, 549 Falungong organisations, 142 manufacturers and 338 retailers, and found that they had acquired millions of yuan from the sale of books
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      • 62 6 JAPAN JAPAN'S Crown Princess Masako, 36, is reported to be five weeks pregnant. The news has the nation cheering. The Princess is as idolised in Japan as Princess Diana was in Britain. Miss Masako Owada wed Crown Prince Hiro in 1993 and Japan has been "expecting" babies since.
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      • 66 6 Ml I lIM A HUMAN rights court will be set up next month to try soldiers who committed human rights abuses in Aceh over the past 10 years. It is hoped that this court will dampen the province's demands for independence and quell the violence there. The court
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      • 58 7 JOBS MORE shipyard workers could lose their jobs in the coming months, said Mr Hawazi Daipi, the National Trades Union Congress' director for its employment assistance programme yesterday. Last week, more than 400 workers were laid off. Another 400 are expected to be laid off because of
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      • 63 7 CRIME IN the first nine months of this year, 554 laptops, palmtops and notebooks were stolen, mostly from vehicles a 70 per cent jump from last year. One analyst said that the stolen computers were sold to the region. Another said that the increase in the number
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      • 58 7 NET STOCKS IN a blink, a loss-making California computer firm became a US$lO-billion ($16.8-billion) concern. Its boss, Larry Augustin, 37, yesterday became a multi-billionaire when VA Linux made its US share market debut and US$3O shares soared to U*****.25. It's the biggest overnight gain in high-tech history. VA
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      • 57 7 MALAYSIA CYBERCAFES in Johor are being used as a front for computer-based gambling. The cybercafes look like any other, but on closer examination, the computers have no web browsers or Internet access. Instead, popular casino games such as blackjack, roulette and jackpot are splashed across the screens. The
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    • 27 6 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 89.91 points to close at 11,224.70 yesterday. About 987 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 45 6 International Herald Tribune: Conditional EU bid to Turkey New Straits Times: Mix of new, old faces in Cabinet BBC news: The Russian leadership has responded to growing international pressure by indicating that it is prepared to talk to the rebels in Chechnya.
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    • 64 7 The Straits Times: This is my last term in office, says Dr M The Business Times: Economists see 5-6% GDP growth in 2000 Lianhe Zaobao: Mobile phone price war coming soon Berita Harian: Nine new ministers in Mahathir's cabinet PCS morning news: Malaysia's Prime Minister has for
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    • 153 7 in FSHSus FORGET the millennium bug. Finding a New Year's babysitter could turn out to be the real Y2K crisis. New York City's Hunter College freshman Lisa Sam was one person who turned down a US$3OO ($510) offer to babysit two children on New Year's Eve.
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    • 65 7 Quote Wworthy I admit that those events occurred as a result of the spread of the Melissa virus. But Idid not at all expect or anticipate the amount of damage that took place... In fact j I included features designed to prevent substantial damage. Computer programmer David Smith,
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    • 72 7 THE Committee of Management, 25th Anniversary Endowment Fund is inviting organisations to apply for funding for programmes which help the needy. Programmes include the Rent and Utilities Assistance Scheme, child care subsidies and community care support for the elderly sick. Only organisations need apply. Write to: Mrs
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • 376 8  -  SINGAPORE WAY By Sheela Narayanan JUST look at little Chua Xiu Fang (right). The five-year-old is bursting with excitement. She wondered when the celebrations would start. And when she was going to get her present from the "aunties". The aunties from the Singapore Oil
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 286 10 THE good times are returning. And so are the tourists. With the region recovering from the economic crisis, tourist arrivals are going up. In the one year up to November, arrivals were up by 12 per cent, says Mr Lim Swee Say, Minister of State for
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    • 211 10 IT is not enough to be brilliant. If your talents are not to be wasted, you need something more. "However brilliant you are in your own field, you will also need the basic skills of communication and working with people either as a leader or member
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 157 13 ACHING for a nifty Christmas present for yourself How does the Palm Ille (above), a state-of-the-art personal organiser, sound? Well, here's your chance to win yourself this high-tech and oh-so-cool gadget. Until Dec 14, well be asking 21 questions of topical interests (therell be
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    • 105 13 Each correct answer gets you two points: 1) Which political party does Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad belong to? a) Barisan Nasional (BN) b) Parti Islam (PAS) c) Democratic Action Party (DAP) 2) An Asian country joined the US and Russia in the exclusive "space club" when
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    • 118 14 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 the different senses. For this final month, we focus on the sense of touch. What sensation do you think would best represent
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    • 360 14  -  But to some children in Thailand, it means getting to school on time By Irene Kew HAVE you got a bicycle collecting dust in a comer of your storeroom? Or have you seen a discarded bike somewhere? Here's a chance to turn that piece of scrap
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 776 16  -  THE BRAVE NUDE By Ng Hwee Koon SHE strips in front of a group of strangers. She sits there, buck naked, while the eyes of everyone in the room are fixed on her anatomy. She is staled at from head to toe. Every inch of
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    • Article, Illustration
      347 17 ISSHEA'CHINAGIRLr POSING in the nude has provoked some comments against Ms Shen. Only a "China girl" without friends and relatives here would dare to do such thingß, some readers were quoted as saying in the Shin Min Daily News. To which Ms Shen said: "I have a
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    • 271 17 NUDE painting is a very basic part of an artist's training. Said Mr Lim Poh Teck, 37, an artist and lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts: The human figure is very difficult to draw. It is very challenging for the artist." And the
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 322 19  -  FROM PAGE 17 By Lee Hup Kheng Hey, it couldn't be. It couldn't be that gorgeous blonde girl who was parading around the art studio a while ago, I thought. Gone were the clothes that hugged her body. What's left was Lady Godiva (minus the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 64 23 mutfmu* Malaysian Prim Minister Data* Sari Dr Mahathir Mohamad says fm mm* MmcMbiaM thing and the nso off the rod wfcon ho was a child hoiped Mm succeed: I hope freedom will bring us a lot of benefits, although at times I feel it's also good if
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    • 488 23  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY SHE couldn't help it. She coughed hard... like a fat, old sick man. But she was in the wrong place to cough and she killed. Ms Choo Choy Lain, 44, was driving her four-wheel-drive car through the prosperous Sydney suburb
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    • 194 23 THE truth is down too deep. It's now official. The thing that splashed into Guyra's water supply dam this week is a meteorite a rock from space. At Armidale, 30km away, its thump shook the Australian Geological Survey's earthquake-measuring seismograph at 8.12
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    • 344 24 That's Miss Singapore, and she wants to be Miss International Source: AFP. EVER tried walking down London's Oxford Street at Christmas, laden with shopping bags and children in tow? Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro can be less stressful. More often than not, the
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  • 438 26 WORLDTODAY GLORIA CHANDY, always fascinated by her mystique, reflects on the woman who was Indira Twenty-five years ago, when I was a reporter on the now defunct New Nation, thia organisation's School of Journalism gave students
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  • MALAYSIATODAY
    • 531 29 DEPUTY PM ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI WHEN Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced his new Cabinet yesterday, he also had a surprise for Malaysians. For the first time, the Prime Minister, who has been in power for 18 years, confirmed that he would not seek re-election
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    • 36 29 DEMOTED?: Umno stalwart Najib Tun Razak has been moved from the Education to the Defence Ministry. OUT: Kelantan Umno chief Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is not In the new Cabinet.
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    • 329 29 Apart from the succession issue, the new Cabinet line-up also suggests that Dr Mahathir prefers continuity to making radical changes. SURESH KUMAR gives a quick guide to the new Cabinet HOW MW is ttl6 MW cabinet? There're 28 new faces in the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 373 30 Source: Wire services. THIS is it folks. The Ariane-5 has been tested a third time and it really flies. After two earlier launches, the European Space Agency's Ariane-5 rocket finally blasted off yesterday from the northern coast of South Amercia, placing the world's most
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    • 76 30 Talk about knocking off a few pounds!! Ms Vannesa Collingridge has shed all her weight... with zero effort. The English television correspondent is experiencing zero gravity when people start floating on a training plane as it flies above Star city in the Moscow region. The IL-76
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    • 605 31  -  with YVONNE LIM ETS make nudity an option at I the next Olympics. hb Off with the sports tops and leotards. In with skin. We're nearly there anyway. I mean, have you really taken a good look at athletic fashion over the years? Briefs
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    • 686 32  -  1 SHOW INFO WHAT: Buang Suay WHERE: Drama Centre WHEN: Tomorrow, 8 pm TICKETS: $10. at The Substation, Nrityalaya Aesthetics Society and at the door, one hour before the show. Note: It has an R(A) rating. By Seto Nu-wen FOR three months he walked the
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    • 503 33  -  Watch 10 bands try to outplay each other tomorrow for the top prize ofslo,ooo worth of musical instruments in the Yamaha Band Alert 1999. The top two bands will represent Singapore in the Asia Grand Finals in January, against competition from Taiwan, the Philippines,
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      999 34  -  BY Yong Siew Fern ELVA HSIAO WILL newcomer Elva Hsiao be another Coco Lee? The similarities: She speaks American English and loves dancing. And check out her love for R&B, hip hop and soul. Her inspiration has come from Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, Whitney Houston and TLC, her
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  • 304 35 s h w T j m e This was a concert with a difference. None of the performers is well-known. And practically all the guests were invited. Photographer DOMINIC ONG was at the folksy event, which also captured the attention of a little girl, it
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    758 37 Here's a simple guide to good music on CDs. Some you must have (BUY IT), others you may like (TRY IT) and some may take getting used to (BORROW IT). Today's guest critic: Abdul Razak, Promotions Executive/Producer Presenter of RIA 89.7 FM. ALBUM: Clapton Chronicles ARTISTE: Eric Clapton RAZAK
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  • 405 38  -  P»flw|l|E By! Seto Nu-wen HE stopped spinning for Venom club-goers six months ago. But DJ Cher is still putting a spin in the dance club scene. He is now running The Asian Collective Tour, a club tour which showcases three well-known DJs from Malaysia, Japan
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