The New Paper, 13 March 2000

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  • 26 1 the new paper MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2000 II 111 Another quality publication of Singapore Pr— Holding* http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) 062/04/99 60 CENTS I 8"887 81 "*****1
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 468 2 By the world's greatest investor Wan-en Buffctt 4 pays the pri cc tor shunnji]<r r fccii slocks" J INVEST only in companies whose business he understands. That has long been the investment philosophy of Mr Warren Buffett, the world's best-known stock picker. So last year, Mr
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    • 216 2 Source: The Business Times TRUST women's instincts when it comes to investing in shares because the evidence is stark. A British study found them better share investors than men. Now a six-year study in the US has confirmed that. It found that women earned
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    • 252 3  -  BY 1 V K Santosh Kumar SHE'S one pop diva who has the body to match her voice. Have you seen her in the music video, Honey 7 The one that had repeat runs on Channel V and MTV because of viewer demand? Her
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    • 688 4  -  By, Andre Yeo MOST things in this family's three-room flat, from the sofa set to the electric fan, were donated by relatives and friends. They don't have a phone. And sometimes they have to skip dinner to save money. But Madam Rosanna,
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    • 313 4 OSMAN faces two charges of theft. He pleaded guilty and will be sentenced next month. In the meantime, he will be remanded at the Singapore Boy's Home, because his parents can't afford the $3,000 to bail him out. In court, Osman's parents were by his
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    • 82 4 We asked Ms Carol Balhetchet, senior counsellor and the Singapore Children's Society's head of youth development, to comment on the case: "Children become traumatised, feel jealous and remorseful when they see most of their friends having two parents but they have only one. More and more couples are divorcing
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    • 94 4 "Financially it is going to be hard as the mother is a single parent. She must face up to the reality that she cannot cope on her own or she might break down. Her kids have no one to guide them or confide in. And if their friends
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    • 48 4 "I'm sure she meant well but it is making the problem worse. She is living in denial. She can't afford it, so she should be teaching them to learn to live with less. The best way to keep the kids at home is to personally supervise them."'
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    • 48 4 "The children will feel neglected further and think that they can do anything they want. The parents have to take turns to monitor their schooling. The mother could get her neighbours' help or empower the older kids to be more responsible and supervise the younger ones."
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    • 53 4 "Single parents won't be as financially secure as dual-income parents. Parents have to teach their kids that they can't afford everything and to live with what they have. Kids are very adaptable and they can accept the situation and learn to cope with it if given the right information
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 238 5 HSff About 45,000 jobs will be created each year for the next five years if the economy grows steadily at 5 per cent a year. This is a marked drop from the pre-economic crisis days, when jobs were created at a rate of 83,000 a
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    • 36 5 MASS WORKOUT: Participants at the 32nd International Engadln Skiing Marathon, a 42.2 km race In Switzerland, yesterday formed geometric patterns on the slopes. Some 13,000 people are taking part in this event.
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    • News Break
      • 61 5 E-COMMERCE A NEW e-commerce degree course will be offered at the National University of Singapore. The four-year programme, run by the School of Computing aims to give students the technical and business know-how of setting up and running an e-commerce business. And instead of a thesis, the students
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      • 62 5 I INDIA NEXT stop: The moon. That is what India is considering, after the launch of a maiden satellite in 1983. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which is tinkering with a rocket engine for its glitch-ridden Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle project, says an unmanned lunar mission could
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      • 52 5 MALAYSIA MALAYSIA'S navy is planning a submarine base in East Malaysia. The base in Teluk Sepangar near Kota Kinabalu will have operational headquarters and living quarters above ground and a submarine base below for two submarines, Mingguan Malaysia reported yesterday, It would be the first such facility in
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      • 59 5 HANDPHONES SCHOOL bullies are taking to the latest in mobile phone technology, but there's a sting in the tail for them. The bullies are sending mobile-phone text message threats to victims. Anti-bullying campaigners told London's The Sunday Times more children calling helplines were complaining about "menace by mobile".
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      • 61 6 PARENTING GET your parenting tips at work, from family-life ambassadors. The ambassadors are actually colleagues who volunteer their services. The aim: To raise awareness of social trends and issues and help promote the right values. The programme will be implemented in two to three months, and will
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      • 51 6 FRANCHISE IT'S a new "quality mark" meant to identify franchises that meet standards. Calfarme Singapore, Cold Storage Singapore, Crestar Holdings, Informatics Holdings, Kinderland Educare Services, Melandas Casa Mobili, Nanyang Optical, Popular Book, Prime Food, Telepoint Distribution and V-KOOL International were the first to get the Singapore Franchise
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      • 53 6 RAID SIX young Thai women were nabbed during a two-hour raid at a Jurong condominium construction site on Saturday morning. Three of them had illegal passports The raid by Safe Technology was conducted as the site contractor was concerned about drug pushers, women engaged in vice, and immigration
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      • 56 6 I T-3 AIRPORT CHANGI Airport's Terminal 3 could get completed a year ahead of its scheduled late 2006 opening. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) is considering speeding up the project to take advantage of the prevailing low construction costs. It is currently considering the rising air
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    • 55 5 New Straits Times: 26 more for Dr M, Abdullah International Herald Tribune: A sweeping apology for church errors Asian Wall Street Journal: China relaxes stringent rules on Net privacy BBC news: The victims of the Vietnam war prepare to greet the first US Defence Secretary since the
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    • 142 6 in tmus LAH: a particle used with various kinds of pitch to convey the mood and attitude of the speaker. Examples are: "Come with us, lah", to emphasise persuasion; "Wrong, lah", demonstrating annoyance; and "No lah!", underlining strong objection. What lah you say. Well, the above
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    • 55 6 The Straits Times: Fewer new jobs in next 5 years The Business Times: S'pore set to be Ist with secure e-commerce Lianhe Zaobao: More non-graduates are remaining single Berita Harian: Commodity 'bucket shops' resurface RCS morning news: Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his preferred successor have
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    • 62 6 Quote Wworthy divisions among Christians y for the use of violence that some have committed in the service of truth, and for attitudes of mistrust and hostility assumed toward followers of other religions. Pope John Paul 11, in his homily yesterday, asking for forgiveness for the sins
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    • 169 6 I—^ BBSII Organised and conducted by SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC Commencement Date 31st March 2000 Schedule of Lectures Every Wednesday Friday Total number of lectures 19 inclusive of 3 intensive revision tutorials Venue Singapore Polytechnic Dover Road Campus Course Fee $1,100.00 (inclusive of textbook) Certificates of Attendance awarded by Singapore Polytechnic. Lectures
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  • 481 11  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Koh Zong Fen THE audience was in stitches. Their little eyes glued to the stage, they hung on to every word the actors said. And guess what they were watching an adaptation of Macbeth! Yes, the Shakespeare
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    • 59 13 n»ui*miii* Dr Robert Uew. dbvctor of Aits MmpMik ■PS iwvwt iiewp ww wmb M__ B m ai m ASMCMRKNI IDOtfl ulo Dot fIOVKI 99vm9 sprMQIRX weN ibwt the Third fflup in fcfrnwllMil Cowiiy I, jj rnuvin They are always interested in the fact that a fairly
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    • 339 13  -  By Andre Yeo SOMETHING strange, that smell. It was the last thing you would expect to come wafting out of a ladies' toilet. The security officer, who was on duty at night, must have rubbed his nose in disbelief and sniffed again. It
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  • 366 17 CHALLENGERS FOR NEW YORK MAYOR'S JOB MEET IN PUBLIC SHOW WORLDTODAY WHO says elections can't be fun. Look at New York where two heavyweights First Lady Hillary Clinton and current mayor Mr Rudolf Giuliani are battling to be the next mayor. The two met last night
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    • 266 17 I THE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS |fl I (IMIS-UK) NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY (UK) II I Almost anyone can hand out qualifications for fT courses. However, when it really 9 I matters these qualifications are barely worth the paper they are written on. 1 I At City School of Commerce,
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  • 300 18 IVIALAYSIA-S'PORE TIES MALAYSIATODAY YOU give in, then well talk. So said Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar yesterday. He was responding to Singapore Foreign Minister S Jayakumar's statement, on Thursday in Parliament, that the Malaysian government's immediate priority is
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    73 19 Says at least 10 per c«nt of the military is against Has not been able to gag unhappy army generals. Has not been able to reduce the influence of the < army at the province level*. Made civilian Juwono Sudarsono the defence minister. Reshuffled the military, replacing Lt-Gen Djadja
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    • 320 21 Pregnant American Beauty star on her role as lal-life mum ITS all about being a mum for Annette Bening these days. In the hit movie, American Beauty, she plays a real-estate mum who focuses more on her career as she fails to connect with her husband
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    • 478 21  -  ET CETERA WITH HEATHER MCKINNON MY optometrist should have prepared me for the shock. Surely, he has had women flinging their contact lenses back in his face, after, as I did for the first time in ages, seeing themselves clearly in their bathing
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • DEANWIJEY
    • 277 23 I AM good at A maths and E maths, average in science and Chinese but not good at English. I want to be an interior designer or an architect However, I know that only Temasek Polytechnic offers such courses. I live in Choa Chu Kang, and
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    • 189 23 I RESAT the O levels, taking maths, English, second language, history and English literature I'm keen on teaching. I plan to go to the National Institute of Education But before that, I'd like to do the A levels, which I don't mind
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    • 152 23 I HAVE just finished i taking my N levels. I wish to continue studying at the Informatic Computer School and do my diploma in computer studies, followed by the second-year advanced diploma in computer studies. However, I don't want to do
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    • 269 24 I TOOK my O levels MP in 1996 and my results were: English D 7, Chinese A 2, combined science (chemistry/physics) C 5 and maths 84. Due to my results, I was eligible only for limited courses such as engineering, nursing and courses at the Institute
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    • 167 24 I AM planning to do business adminstration or multi-media engineering at a polytechnic. As my family is not very wealthy, I'm afraid that I can't pay for my school fees. Is it true that fees can be paid using a parent's CPF? What is the average
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    • 226 24 m MY son sat his A-level exams last year and got four As chemistry, physics, C maths, F maths and a C 5 for his general paper. He applied to do chemical engineering at the National University of Singapore as his first choice but was unsuccessful.
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  • Show Time
    • 511 25  -  By Hazel Tan FANN Wong (above) has had it all. The glamour. The glitz. The fame. And the downside of showbusiness gossip, public scrutiny, bad press and all. That's one reason she is keeping her youngest sister, Fann Woon Jing, (right) to her textbooks. She
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    • 256 25  -  By Hazel Tan HER second sister may be the A-list actress here. But Woon Jing, who has Fann Wong's sunny smile and bright puppy eyes, is not about to give her sister a run for her money. Not even if she recently spent one Sunday
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    • 260 25 WOON Jing has what it takes to be a star. So says music producer Richard Wan. That was why he picked her to be one of the five child singers for the soundtrack for Cyberbob. The other four are Zheng Yi, Chen Zhilong, Chen Xue'er and
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    • 447 26  -  For men By Carol Leong MEN wearing sarongs as a fashion garment. Strange idea? Not at all if the sarong "clicks" with the wearer When I first saw 35-year-old Zaf Sha'ari wearing a silk sarong with a black shirt, I realised several things: Firstly, not every man
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    • 407 26 ZAF showed us his four favourite ways of tying a sarong. He uses the basics "it's amazing what black pants, a black shirt and a white tee-shirt can do". A: Black shirt sarong It's amazing what a black shirt can do. But it must be
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    • 527 27  -  BY Yong Siew Fern JIM Aitchison, author of The Offccal Guide to the Sarong Party Girl, is a risk-taker. In his words: "I'm one of the greatest risk-takers in town." To prove it, the former award-winning advertising guru is a morning show DJ on
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    • 67 27 Weekdays: 6- 10am: The Breakfast Show with Beauty and the Beast lOam-Noon: Easy-listening music Noon-4pm: Hubert Work (Hubert Tang) 4-spm: Easy-listening music 5-Dpm: Music on the Move (Audrey Ying) Bpm-Midnight NiteLine (Brian Richmond and Koh Chieng Mun) Weekends: 6am-2pm: Easy-listening music 2-spm: American Country Countdown with Bob
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    • 110 28 CALDECOTT babe Phyllis Quek (left) is going places after being Aaron Kwok's girl in 2000 AD. Record companies have been knocking on her door ever since. So what if she has never warbled in a recording studio before? Her asking price to cut a record is
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      138 28 PUDGY screen romeo Alex Man (above) is working up a princely appetite. He's the boss of King of Kings chicken rice stall in Rochor Centre. Alex checked out his stall on Thursday night and even rolled up his sleeves to chop up some chicken. The grease didn't turn him
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      152 28 EVEN gongfu pugilist Lu Xiao Feng can't win every battle. The TCS period drama has run into production problems in China. Adapted from Gu Long's swordfighting novels, the first half has been filmed. The other half is in limbo. Speculation is rife is it lack of money or
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    • 254 46 SPAIN: PBIMERA UGA AFP NICOLAS Anelka missed training at Real Madrid for the third successive day yesterday. But just as the club was about to call an emergency meeting over the surly Frenchman's conduct, he announced he was ready to call off his one-man protest. Spanish television reported
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    • 191 46 AFP. DEPORTIVO La Coruna maintained its four-point lead at the top of the table with a 2-0 win at home to Valencia yesterday. The win left It dear of modest Aleves, which stayed in touch after beating relegation-haunted Real Sociedad2-l. Despite its problems with the absent Nicolas
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    • 281 47 Wire Services. LEEDS manager David O'Leary was delighted with his two-goal hero Michael Bridges yesterday, but admitted that he was frustrated with him. Said O'Leary after the match: "He is a wonderful talent but he drives me mad sometimes. "He is still young but he has
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    • 231 47 Redknapp for sale $21m MORNING LATEST YOU can't afford to get injured at Liverpool these days. For if you do, then transfer speculation begins almost immediately. It has been going on for weeks regarding England striker Robbie Fowler. And now it is club captain Jamie Redknapp in the news, reports
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    • 407 48 Barrichello makes second pit-stop after taking lead FORMULA ONE: AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX Reuters. WITH 14 laps to go in this year's season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher was in the lead. But then, the 31-year-old German's Ferrari started slowing down... and
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    • 169 48 DFD RESULTS Atlanta 91 Vancouver 86 Portland 99 Detroit 94 Orlando 110 Denver 107 Dallas 104 Phoenix 99 Minnesota 100 Houston 86 AP. Miami Heat 105 Indiana Pacers 96 IT was a classic 1-2 punch combination And Miami's Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway knocked out
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    • 71 48 Former Detroit Pistons player Joe Dumars (left) is congratulated by his former team-mate Grant Hill during a ceremony where the Pistons retired his number at the weekend. The NBA announced that its annual Sportsmanship Award will bear Dumars' name. Dumars, who always put sporting play ahead
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    • 358 48 ALL-ENGLAND BADMINTON FINALS RESULTS tlndAC* IfwCfl 9 ""iJltS. XiaXuanze(Chn, seeded 11) bt Taufik Hidayat (Ina 4) 1^6,15-13 Women's singles: Gong Zhichao (Chn x4) bt Dai Yun (Chn x2) 11-5,8-11,11-5 women ooudmii. Ge Fei and Gu Jun (Chn 1) bt Chung Jae-Hee and Ra Kyung-Min (Kor 2) 15-5,15-3 Men's
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    • 249 49 ...but only after Roy Keane retires AP. DAVID B«ckham (left) has three wishes: To remain at Manchester United To become club captain To be acclaimed as the best player in the world. Reacting to speculation that he might be tempted away from
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