The New Paper, 23 December 1999

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  • 23 1 the new P Er e THURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1999 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1 .com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 134 2 AP. THE Chicago Sun-Times has cancelled The Simpsons strip from its comics pages, calling it "tasteless and excessively violent". The paper's editor-in-chief Nigel Wade said several readers complained after the newspaper ran the strip on the front of its Sunday comics section. Some panels showed a
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    • 297 2 Source: Bernama, New Straits Times. THREE passengers were killed when an express bus skidded and plunged into a ravine before bursting into flames near Gua Musang in Kelantan yesterday. Seven others were also seriously injured in the fatal accident. Police said it is believed
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 919 4 A six-year old boy was viciously abused by his father's live-in girlfriend with whatever she could lay her hands on cane, belt buckle, feather duster, mop, plastic container for scooping water —all because he had soiled the carpet. TANYA FONG reports Razilah Wakijan was jailed for
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    • 246 4 HE wanted the best for his children. So when he split from his first wife and she did not want to look after their two kids, he went wife-hunting because he wanted a mother for his kids. And he found a divorcee with three kids
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 201 5 m WORRY 1 HELP my foreign relatives. That's the most popular request when people meet their Members of Parliament. Such requests have overtaken housing as the top concern at meet-the-people sessions. They made up 22 per cent of the 54,760 cases
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 5 CAUGHT: a spurned Internet Romeo being led away after he held a housewife hostage In Hongkong. The Malaysian, 24, had held the mother of a girl he had met on the Internet hostage for three hours after the girl refused to see him. Picture/ Apple Daily
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    • News Break
      • 61 5 I CURRENCY SINGAPORE'S new currency notes have not been withdrawn said the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore. It denied speculation that the new notes featuring Singapore's first President, Mr Yusof Ishak, were withdrawn because there were no dollar signs next to the numbers. The Board said
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      • 55 5 LAND THE Government is expected to resume the sale of 99-year residential sites on Jan 5, reports The Business Times. Sources said the Urban Redevelopment Authority will kick off the state land sales programme by launching three sites at Jalan Pari Dedap in Bedok, Woodlands Avenue 1 and
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      • 71 5 U NEW YEAR WANT a table at a restaurant for New Year's Eve? Then pay a deposit first. That is what upmarket restaurants and hotels are asking diners for. Some outlets even ask diners to pay in full first. Some diners have put down as much as
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      • 54 5 HONGKONG FOREIGN maids can now drive when carrying out errands in Hongkong. The Hongkong authorities have lifted the ban. But employers must first apply for an exemption. A report sent to Manila by Philippine Consul-General in Hongkong Zeneida Angara Collinson said that Hongkong's Executive Council had made the
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      • 52 6 CHINA CHINA has sentenced a dozen Chinese pirates and their Indonesian co-ringleader to death. The 13, were also involved in the hijacking of a Singapore-based tanker, the Luisa. They were given the death sentence for murdering 23 Chinese crewmen of the Hongkong-based Changsheng cargo vessel in November
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      • 56 6 MALAYSIA MALAYSIAN Cabinet ministers have been asked to switch to local cars. A directive, believed to be from the Prime Minister's Office, has been issued to ministers, their deputies, parliamentary secretaries and political secretaries. They will now have to use the locally-made Proton Perdana instead of foreign luxury
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      • 65 6 BRITAIN BRITAIN has written off all its Third World debts, totalling some £5 billion ($13.5 billion). The country had already committed itself to cancelling the lion's share of the debts, and said it would now waive the £640 million of debt still outstanding. The Treasury will
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      • 64 6 ALAND PLANES were grounded for about 20 minutes in New Zealand yesterday because of an unidentified computer glitch in radar systems. Controllers spent more than three hours using a backup system to guide the planes to their destinations as the system remained out of operation. There were no
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    • 27 5 The Dow Jones industrial average rose 3.06 points to close at 11,203.60 yesterday. About 844 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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    • 56 5 International Herald Tribune: War nearly over, Putin declares The New Straits Times: Cleaner air and rivers Asian Wall Street Journal: US group may reconsider plan to buy stake in Astra BBC news: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is being given sweeping powers by the country's constitutional assembly to
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    • 54 6 The Straits Times: 13 pirates sentenced to death The Business Times: Far East poised to make its presence felt Uanhe Zaobao: Scandal goes out of hand: John Chang resigns Berita Harian: Kumaratunga remains as Sri Lanka's leader RCS morning news: East Timor refugees continue to be intimidated
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    • 124 6 in F®€us UNIVERSITY lecturers' pay will be pegged to market forces. The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is the latest to come forward to say this. NTU president Cham Tao Soon said yesterday that he wants a more flexible salary range to replace existing salary scales which
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    • 99 6 Quote The youth of today are moreJYank and when thty have a certain opinion f they will say it out loud. These young people are still searching for their own identities. Give them 10 years and they may come to a different conclusion. Parliamentary Secretary Chan Soo Sen
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 37 6 WHAT'S HUP f I used to be I bored with life So I took up some part-time courses. I studied ell the way.. ...till I got three PhDsl Now I have nothing else to do. rm boredl
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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    • Article, Illustration
      57 7 Toawsok Polytechnic graduate Roystoa Taa, 23, oaa of tfco thin mmU —atari tuMad IfinnT r wrmd prt» la a Hoa«fcoa« tuwptMUea: We had made Senses for this year's Tiger Beer New Directors Showcase but it did not win a prize. So, in a fit of anger, we submitted
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  • 414 9  -  SINGAPORETODAY By! Sheela Narayanan HE donated his bone marrow on Dec 15 this year to save a Norwegian boy's life. Two days later, he was up and running, raising funds for the Family Life Centre. Ivm though his doctor had advised Mr Llm
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  • 497 11  -  SINGAPORETODAY THE SCHOOL THE Spastic Children's Association of Singapore is a member of the Children's Charities Association (CCA). Started in the *****, CCA and its member charities work to help disabled children and give them hope for the future. They educate, train and
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  • 225 15  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Denyse Yeo YOU could almost hear the pounding of hearts over the roar of the wind. The canvas roof of the temporary market between Blocks 9 and 11, Eunos Crescent, once again gave problems yesterday afternoon. And it happened at the tarns time
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 257 17  -  By< Genevieve Jiang THEY are packing up a bit of today, to be dug up 50 years later. Eight officers from the Singapore History Museum have been preparing some 50 items to be placed in the Millennium Time Capsule.
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    • 55 17 THE public was asked to vote TOruM ulrN most SignlnCairi ,i,,.i. a I lei ACTS. Some 2,385 people voted. The top three items ere: (1) The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kaon Yew (257 votes) (2) Selection off Presidential notes, ship series currency end coins (207 votes)
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  • 310 19  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Leong May Ling HE left a strange message on a women's chat line. Yes, Tan Kian Peng, 31, was looking for women. But he had a lot more than chat on his mind. In fact, a lot more than sex. Money. This
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 241 22 This mother-andson team (right) won $1,000 in The New Paper's Prudential Number Challenge published two Sundays ago. What's the secret of their success? GENEVIEVE JIANG finds out MOHD Raimi Rahmat has a passion for numbers. The 11-year-old has never scored below 90 in a
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    • 80 22 THE contest, which started on Nov 7, will run for 13 weeks in The New Paper on Sunday. Each week, one winner who can crack the number game will walk away with $1,000 in cash. If there are no correct entries, the prize money will be
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 343 25 IT was bigger. It was brighter. But it was also more potentially destructive, wrecking havoc on the tides. So while you may be looking into the night skies and marvelling at what you think is an incredibly bright moon for the next few nights, the real importance
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    • 72 25 BRACE yourself, If you are living in a low-lying area in Singapore such as Chinatown, Changi Road Lor 101 and 106 and Langsat Road. A Ministry of Environment officer told Lianhe Zaobao that the probability of these low-lying areas to flood over the next few days is very
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  • 773 27  -  IHkNkWSIOUAY The bad moon rising had several families here in deep water yesterday. Some even hadfish swimming around in their flats, on the living room f100r... By Irene Kew Sleepless. Residents of the two-storey blocks at Dakota Crescent, off Old Airport Road, had trouble going to bed last
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 125 29 A TICKING time-bomb, they called the superstar's heart. Arnold Schwarzenegger was "living in fear that his heart will suddenly quit", US newspaper the Globe had said in a report it printed in August last year, 16 months after he had undergone successful heart surgery. Well, the
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    • 185 29 GOLDEN GLOBE STORM CNN Interactive. SHARON Stone's Best Actress (Comedy) nomination for the Golden Globes almost came at a very high price, it seems. The actress had allegedly sent out pricey Coach watches to all 82 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association before
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  • 235 30 WORLDTObAY Source: AFP THE Yugoslav gunman who held three people hostage in a three-day standoff at a bank in Aachen, Germany, has been shot dead by police. Minutes earlier he had released two of the hostages, both of whom were injured. On Tuesday r
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    • 337 33 INDONESIAN PRESIDENT ON EAST TIMOR: WE'LL do it our way when it comes to dealing with soldiers found guilty of human rights abuses in East Timor. That was President Abdurrahman Wahid's message to the United Nations yesterday, reported The Jakarta Post. He said Indonesia would not
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    • 687 35 Imagine you're living in a big family... IMAGINE you live in an extended family occupying a large condo. Everybody contributes their salary to the head of the family who manages the household money. You earn a big salary. You give all of this
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    • 275 35 OPINION is divided on the issue. The Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P), led by Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri, is against turning Indonesia into a federation. M A unitary state is an unnegotiable price," said PDI-Fs secretary-general Alex Litaay. The military, which remains a political force in the
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    • 251 39 Wire services. SOME called Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga Sri Lanka's daughter of destiny. Yesterday, the President, 54, lived up to that title by winning a second term in office after a closely-fought election. Mrs Kumaratunga (right), who survived a suicide bomb attack at a campaign rally on Saturday,
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    • 596 42  -  Report*/ Yong Siew Fern HE is expected to have relationships with six different women in the new Channel 8 series S.N.A.G. But popular Hongkong TV actor Wong Hei would not need both his hands to count those he had in real life. "In real life?
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    • 367 42 ON another day, Wong Hei is filming a ballroom dancing scene. He is obviously master of the party, hustling the cast along, calling out his discontent when there are too many takes, cracking jokes, and chasing Channel 8 actress Cassandra See around. He
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    • 292 42 IT all started as a "joke" on the S.N.A.G. set Sensitive New Age Gay... What next? Suddenly, everyone wants to know if Wong Hei prefers men to women. Suddenly, it is an "open secret" that he has "come out" in Hongkong. Wong Hei laughed and tried
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  • 452 45 AMERICAN BEAUTY'S SIX NOMINATIONS FOR GOLDEN GLOBE S A STEAMING hot cup of coffee. That was the first thing Annette Bening, months pregnant with her fourth child, treated herself to after winning a Golden Globe nomination for best actress for the film American
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    444 46  -  MaaiE By Zaihan Mohamed Yusof MEET motorcyclist Joseph Lee. At 42, Mr Lee claims he has never worked a single day of his life ever since he joined Minerva Motor Pte Ltd in 1995. Yet, many motorcycle race enthusiasts envy his post as sales manager at Minerva.
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    • 544 60 NST. STRIKE VICTORIOUS geared up for his third success in the Class 3 Div 2 1,200 m event on Sunday with a sizzling workout in Penang yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Statoblest sprinted smartly in semi-darkness to cover die
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    • 146 61 WESTERN Australian Turf Club (WATC) handicapper Paul Bloodworth may only be 28. But he is certainly no newcomer to the racing game. 1 have been in racing for more than 11 years," said the boyish-looking handicapper. M I started out as a junior clerk with the Victorian
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 432 62  -  SINGAPORE SPORTS COUNCIL FOR THE DISABLED ANNUAL AWARDS BY Wang Meng Meng TRUE grit from a true patriot. That is the story behind Lim Jieh Kiang, the Singapore Sports Council for the Disabled (SSCD) Sportsman of the Year. Jieh Kiang, 31, has cerebral palsy,
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    • 130 62 THE SSCD unveiled Disability Sports 2000 at the awards ceremony yesterday. This new programme is geared towards providing welfare through sports to disabled men, women and children of all ages. Henry Tan, the assistant director of the Extracurricular Activities Council, said in his speech: "With Disability Sports 2000,
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    • 603 63  -  There's still no clear-cut evidence MARDANICASE COMMENT S GULAM GUILTY or not guilty? It seems simple enough. Especially since it's a doping case where both urine tests have proven positive. But three months, three more tests and three enquiries later, Woodlands Wellington's Mohd Mardani still doesn't
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    • 318 63  -  By, Adam Hashidy NERVOUS? If he was, Noh Alam Shah certainly didn't show it on the field. He was quite impressive, actually. His passes were telling and his shots loaded with power. Yet, the striker later confessed: "Despite having trained with the team for two days already, I
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    • 465 64  -  He’s as soft-spoken as Subramaniam is vocal SPORTSTODAY BY Wang Meng Meng HE HAD a stable job as a PE teacher. Which he gave up for soccer. Meet M S Arasu, 39, the new assistant coach of the national team. Arasu was the head of the
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    • 118 65 BLACKBURN 2 Damien Duff 94 Lee Carsley 114 penalty WEST BROMWICH 0 (after extra tow) LEICESTER CITY 2 Matthew Elliott 78 Muzzy Izzet 104 HEREFORD 1 Paul Fewings 40 (after artntfcM) NEWCASTLE 6 Gary Speed 4 Nikos Oabizas 27 Duncan Ferguson 44 Kieron Dyer 72 AJan
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    • 416 65 [SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME Reuters. BEFORE this game nobody could predict what would happen in this titanic FA Cup replay between Newcastle and Tottenham. Sure to go to extra time. Or even a penalty shootout after the first-leg at White Hart Lane a fortnight
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      256 66 FA CUP THIRD ROUND REPLAYS 2 Elliott 78 Izzet 104 HEREFORD l Fewings 40 ■.T WAS only an extra-time I strike from Muzzy Izzet I that put paid to Hereford's stout resistance in a nail-shredding Cup battle at Filbert Street early this morning. Little was seen of Leicester
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    • 64 66 BLACKBURN 2 WEST BROMO AP. BLACKBURN Rovers eased its boardroom troubles with a closely-fought win over West Bromwich Albion early this morning. Since the departure of coach Brian Kidd, Rovers has shown inconsistent form in the First Division. So this hard-fought victory with goals from
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    • 132 66 m Sometimes you get a freak result like this. BiU we were outplayed most parts of the match, especially in the second half. I just don't know why the players just caved in after putting up a courageous fight when 2-0 down in the
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      222 67 Spurs suffers worst defeat in 71 years SHAME Every touch he took, every move he made, they were booing him. And the ultimate humiliation for David Ginola came when the referee, Graham Poll, told the fallen Frenchman (right) to stop faking and get off his bottom. To complete his
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