The New Paper, 25 January 2000

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  • 10 1 the new paper TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2000 the new paper
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    • 37 1 Myanmar rebels in Thai drama paper A a 9 rebels shot dead Hostages saved „^^MMfr aws IIJ" Another quality publication of Singapore Pry— Holding• http://newpaper.asial .com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS g|| JDI g flj 0 «> 0
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  • THENEWS TODAY
    • 584 2 Source: Wire services. NINE of the 16 hostage takers shot dead. Some escaped. All hostages saved. Two policemen seriously injured. The Thai hospital hostage drama came to a dramatic end this morning after 22 tense hours. The authorities said about 700 patients were held at gunpoint by
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    • 208 2 WHO: A ragtag army of about 16 rebel soldiers, between 14 and 19 years old. They are called God's Army and their leaders are two 11-year-old twins, who they believe have mystical powers. (See Page 4 for more details.) They are Karen rebels who are fighting the Myanmar
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    • 109 2 US markets took a hit yesterday. The Dow tumbled 243.54 points to close at 11,008.17. Nasdaq,which is known for high tech and internet stocks,was down 139.32 points to 4,096.08. It was the third largest point drop since the market opened in 1971. Reports says the market fell
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    • 404 3  -  GOD'S ARMY By Melvin Singh REPORTING FROM RATCHABURI, THAILAND AT an age when most teenagers worry about acne, a group of 15 teenagers in Thailand have gambled with death and lost. A Thai armed forces
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 125 5 m MEGA MERGERS SINGAPORE Telecom could merge with Cable Wireless HKT to form a 1 00-billion regional phone giant. Talks are now underway. If successful, this "merger of equals" will be the largest-ever in Asian history, outside of Japan. The resulting company would
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    • 124 5 MADONNA, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, the Spice Girls, the Beatles and Garth Brooks are now part of the same family. All because their music labels are merging. EMI Group and Time Warner's music units are merging to form the world's biggest music company and a new
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    • 38 5 Quote Many Indians think only a male child is a dependable investment. Couples get desperate enough to do anything, including stealing, to get a male child. Social scientist Manmohan Sharma commenting on baby-napping rackets in India
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    • 90 5 "St Thla harneaa and compreaalon spring have a special purpose. Together, they help better diatrlbute the weight of heavy school baga, to take some of the atraln off atudenta' shoulders,. The device, called the Streaa Reducer, was dealgned by a team of Ngee Ann Polytechnic atudenta.
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    • News Break
      • 73 5 TRANSPORT VOLUNTEERS are needed to test a special smart card on the MRT and LRT systems from March. You just flash the card at the cart! reader as you pass the gate, and your fare will be deducted. Only those who use the Mass Rapid Transit or Light
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      • 65 5 LOANS THE home loan war enters another stage. HSBC Singapore yesterday cut the second and third-yeai rates of its variable interest scheme on housing loans by 0.25 percentage point. This means borrowers pay only 4.5 per cent and 5 per cent respectively. And it is offering customers
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      • 52 5 BUSINESS THE Economic Development Board hopes to attract $8.5 billion in fresh investments to the manufacturing sector this year. Info-communications companies are being targetted in view of the freeing up of Singapore's telecommunications sector. Last year, Singapore attracted $8 billion in new investments and $1.6 billion in
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      • 62 5 COURT AN INDONESIAN maid told a court here yesterday that the mother of her employer regularly beat her. She said on Feb 14, Madam Tey Siew Choo even bit her. Madam Winarsih Suparman, 27, began work at the Veerasamy Road house on Oct 28,1998. She ran away
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    • 52 5 New Straits Times: Sharma goes to jail International Herald Tribune: Rebel group of Burmese seizes clinic in Thailand Asian Wall Street Journal: Cable Wireless may merge unit with Sing Tel BBC news: Thai security forces have stormed the hospital where Burmese rebels have been holding several hundred
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    • 153 6 in F@€us BRAS Basah Park and the National Library building don't have to go just to make way for the Singapore Management University (SMU) city campus. So said Mr Tay Kheng Soon, an architect in private practice. Instead, said Mr Tay, the park, which has been
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    • 71 6 ARRESTED A CAR insurance surveyor was arrested yesterday after allegedly running over a woman's foot at her car repair shop in Eunos. When Madam Angeline Yong*B husband gave chase in his car, the insurance man rammed into his car, it was said. Then when Madam Yong approached,
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    • 62 6 EMERGENCIES "REVERSE 911", an automated telephoning system for alerting crimes has taken off in the US over the past five years. Allowing the police to alert neighbourhoods quickly, it has helped them catch a teenage suspect on the run in Scarborough this month. It has also tracked down
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    • 60 6 EDUCATION UPPER-secondary Chinese High boys in a special development programme must earn $1,000 to pass the information technology course. This is not for the money, said the school, but to test the boys' computer skills in the real world. So far, $10,000 has been earned. The money will
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    • 56 6 AUSTRALIA A HEAT wave has killed 22 people in in eastern Australia in four days. The victims died from heat stress as Queensland sweltered in temperatures of up to 41 deg C. Most were elderly residents of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland state. Ambulance officers also treated 280
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    • 69 6 Hie Straits Times: Sing Tel in merger bid with HK phone giant The Business Times: Sing Tel may merge with HKTeI Lianhe Zaobao: Sing Tel may merge with Cable Wireless HKT Berita Harian: Plan to attract $8.5 b in investments to manufacturing sector RCS morning news: Thai
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    • 66 6 Quote Wworthy This (new divorce) law is rubbish because it gives women a right they shouldn't have. The man should be the one who dominates. He has the power of concentration, women are rash in everything. Mr Mohammed Mahmoud, 28, who runs a photography shop in Egypt.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

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    • 415 7 'ABHORRENT CRIME'... SHE flashed a smile, revealing a chipped tooth. Sweet as that smile is, it is a smile she is unlikely to see for some time. There are no mirrors in the room. Her family does not want her to have one, a source close
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    • 486 8 ...AND ONE OF HER ALLEGED TORMENTORS A 14-year-old was allegedly held captive and abused for 17 days. How has she been doing since reporter IRENE KEW saw her three weeks ago? SHE had cut her hair. Dressed in a white T-shirt and black pants, the accused, 14,
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    • 58 9 mm* mm* ReiderKsMo Ton view of tfco amber of haMoo Mag abaadoMd receqfej|U teaching of mx education in schools bo reviewed: I urge a study to be conducted on the cuflNHHwiing of sex education in Singapore schools, to Let us not use the excuse that
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    • 373 9 That's one answer to the question: Why would you recommend earth to aliens? The question was asked in the TNP-Heineken Millennium Contest. The other question: What would you ask them to bring to Earth? KOH ZONG FEN and HONG XINYI find some of the answers
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    • Article, Illustration
      291 9 HOMER Simpson may have inspired him. But it was his philosophical answer that won National Serviceman Stanley Chan Wai Ming, 22, the prize: A trip to the Kennedy Space Centre of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration in March. There, he will get a chance to compete
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  • 179 12  -  SINGAPORE IUUAY BY Azhar Ghani A DRIVER lost control of his car while travelling along the East Coast Parkway towards the city at 1.40 this morning. The car, a black Honda Accord, carrying four passengers, crashed into a railing, hitting a tree. The impact ripped off
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 110 13 THAT'S not what this board says. But that is what the cows would say. This farm in Taiwan has been hit by the foot-and-mouth disease. The board says the farm has been closed to control the disease. The movement of people and vehicles from the
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    • 218 13 GUESS who these weekend wives are? Young Malaysian college girls. And they may have been conned into being so, says the Cheras police chief. The culprits? Sweet-talking foreign workers. According to Mr Ali Hanafiah, the police chief, these foreign workers first get friendly with the girls. The couple
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    • 266 13 THEY kidnapped her, made her perform oral sex on one of them and then raped her. They even took photographs of her in the nude. The victim is a 26-year-old Malaysian. Three men and a woman had teamed up to kidnap her from outside her workplace
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 338 15 The idea is to make advertising money out of giving free newspapers to MRT users. And it may become reality in Singapore. But in the US, it has come under fire, even as a company began distributing the papers yesterday THE newspaper's first edition yesterday headlined
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    • 190 15 IT will take a long time for the wounds to heal. That is what Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid told Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer when they met yesterday in Jakarta. But Mr Abdurrahman said he was committed to restoring ties between Jakarta
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      181 17 nml*' INUOWMravruMday. January 25.2000 WORLDTODAY Get set...GO I The starter has sounded. The small US state of lowa has kickstarted the race which will end with a new man at the helm in the White House. The four main contenders from the two parties, the Democrats and the
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  • Showtime
    • 601 19  -  NOT ON TV If you're wondering whether you missed the live telecast of the 57th Annual Golden Globes yesterday morning, you didn't. There wasn't any: Ratings for the live telecast of the Golden Globes in previous years didn't justify showing it, said a TCS spokesman. It will
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    • 440 20 WANT to win a Golden Globe? Then, play a real person. This was the case at the Golden Globes this year, at which no fewer than four performers won major awards for portraying real people. Jim Carrey won best actor (comedy or musical) for playing
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    • 116 20 MOVES But Draw: American Beauty Bml Toy Story 2 But Director. Sam Mendes (American Beauty) Bml Ador (drama): Denzel Washington (The Hurricane) Best Actress (drama): Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) Bml Actor (mMiksl/comsdy): Jim Carrey (Man on the Moon) Bttl Adran (musfcsl/comedy): Janet McTeer (T umbleweeds)
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    • 392 21  -  Reports/ Seto Seto Nuwen THEIR styles are as different as chalk and cheese. But Neural Vibe and Dancing Nancies did Singaporeans proud by taking the first and third prizes, respectively, at the Yamaha Asian Band Alert Finals on Sunday night. Never mind that their styles were totally
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    • 86 21 A MIX of genres was what the contest served up on Sunday. My Pet Alien, from across the Causeway, fused Indian classical music with modern rock. Soundgraphy combined jazz and blues with traditional instruments. The bands were judged on criteria such as band potential, showmanship and originality. 1st prize:
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    • 206 22 INDIA'S entertainment world was having its night out, too, even as its counterpart in the US was doing the Golden Globes thing. The sixth Screen Videocon awards for excellence in cinema, TV and music were presented to a galaxy of stars, prominent personalities and others yesterday in
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    • 317 22  -  By Genevieve Jiang BOLLYWOOD producer-director Rakesh Roshan narrowly escaped death on Friday night. He was shot outside his office in Bombay. There were two gunmen. The bullet passed through his left arm and entered the left side of his chest, but missed his heart
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 27 38 ANDRE (US) PETE IAMTItAS (US) YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV (Russia) NtCOIAS KIEFER (Germany) mruiy nwrwn ARAB (Morocco) NORMAN (Sweden) YOUNES EL AYNAOUI (Morocco) CMOS WOODRUFF (US)
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    • 122 38 AP. WEATHER: A mild and sunny 21 degC. CROWD: 38,930 MEN: No 2 seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov, No 4 Nicolas Kiefer and No 12 Magnus Norman all advanced. WOMEN: No 1 seed Martina Hingis, No 10 Conchita Martinez, and No 13 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario advanced. No 3 Serena Williams lost.
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      401 38 The country doesn't even have a hard court But it has two players in q-finals AP Exhausted, but elated. That's how Younes El Aynaoui feels today as prepares for the quarter-finals of the Australian Open. Hopefully, by taking it easy. You see, three of the 28-year-old's four qualifying
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      314 39 IVORY COAST 1 TOGO 1 Group A Reuters. GHANA fans celebrated after unfancied Togo created one of the biggest upsets of the tournament early this morning. Togo held former champion Ivory Coast to an entertaining 1-1 draw, which drew loud cheers from the capacity 17,000 crowd at Accra
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    • 141 39 CONGO Q ALGERIA 0 Group B Reuters. ALGERIA and the Democratic Republic of Congo two past African champions played to a drab draw in a Group B match in Kumasi early this morning. The result puts 1996 champion South Africa clear at the top of the
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    • 95 39 IN our SCV/Serie A contest, we asked for the name of the Juventus midfielder. The answer. Alessio Tacchinardi. Five callers with the correct answer were picked to win a gym bag, T-shirt and water bottle, courtesy of ESPN, and also a T-shirt from the Football
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    • 33 39 11-4 Nigeria 3-1 Ghana 4-1 South Africa 5-1 Morocco 8-1 Egypt, Tunisia 12-1 Zambia 14-1 Ivory Coast 20-1 Cameroon 33-1 Burkina Faso 50-1 Gabon, Congo 66-1 Senegal 100-1 Algeria, Congo 200-1 Togo
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 126 38 WHAT'S G(P)NE I How the main matches (seeding! in bold): MEN (4th nl): 2 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus) bt Christophe Rochus (Bel) 6-1, 6-3,7-5 4 Nicolas Kiefer (Ger) bt Wayne Ferreira (SA) 6-3,6-4,6-2 12 Magnus Norman (Swe) bt Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) 6-3,6-1, 7-6(6) WOMEN (4«li rd): 1 Martina Hingis (Swit) bt
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  • MANCHESTER UNITED 1
    • 439 41 7th: Arsenal takes the game to United by coming close first, when Fredrick Ijunberg robs Gary Neville and crosses low. Thierry Henry darts in for a clipped shot, which Mark Bosnich deflects away with his fingertips. 19th: Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole combine
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    • 582 42  -  LIVEWATCH: JEFFREY LOW AND so, there you are... a homecoming that's as sorry and sour as it could be. Looking every bit a champion without a cause, Manchester United denied its home crowd the pleasure of a long-awaited victory with... dare we say it... a
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    • 478 43  -  Last year, Ken Chiang spent $400,000 to save Jurong. But now he says he's pulling out because of the way the club is treating him. But he's not giving up entirely on local soccer... BY Lim Han Ming W SALINES, the freight forwarding company that
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      • 54 43 Nope, he's not in a Wizards' jersey... yet. But former NBA superstar Michael Jordan now the new president of operations and part owner of the Washington Wizards —did get on court with his players yesterday. Later, as expected, he was hounded by the
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      • 72 43 IN 1991, he retired from the NBA after being diagnosed HIV-positive. A pity, because Magic Johnson still had plenty of basketball left in him. Now the former Los Angeles Lakers star is shooting hoops again... for his team Magic M7. It beat Stockholm's Alvik
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