The New Paper, 28 April 2000

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  • 7 1 the new paper FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2000
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 493 2 AIR PASSENGERS: 103 cases of ugly behaviour on SIA flights last year 22 sexual offence i cases, some targeting the Singapore Girl 50 cases of drunken/disorderly behaviour 27 cases of passengers attacking other passengers Wire services ITs a sight that normally makes one pause and stare.
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    • 191 2 Wire services. INTERNET, e-mail and television on a plane? Yes, it's coming soon. US-based Boeing has announced plans for a network, which will allow passengers to use the Internet, receive e-mail and watch TV while flying. Called Connexion, it will use satellite technology to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 557 4  -  Watch that repairman who comes knocking at your door By Chua Wei Yng THE next time someone comes to your house and says he's there to repair the air-con or the computer, make sure he's who he says he is. Ong Joo Wah, 26, knew how to take an
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    • 272 4 $16,000. That's how much he blew in just an evening out. But it was other people's money. He was using three stolen credit cards. Ong Joo Wah, the aircon conman, looked for easy pickings even when out shopping with his girlfriend. And it seems
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 276 6 It must have been like deja vu for Sing Tel. In February, Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) came in at the last minute to snatch a merger with Cable Wireless HKT (C&WHKT) away from it. Then yesterday, its plans were in the balance again when Malaysian telecommunications group
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      73 6 CRIME A STUDENT, 15, pleaded guilty yesterday to cashing a $1,200 cheque meant for someone else. The Juvenile Court here heard that it had been put in his letterbox by mistake last June at his block of flats. The boy's lawyer said his client felt bad after
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    • 59 6 UNIVERSE IT is a question that plagued Einstein and every astrophysicist in his wake: What is the shape of our universe? On Wednesday, stunned astronomers released images of the infant universe, proving that the universe is very nearly flat. The images were captured using a balloon-borne telescope
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      70 6 DEATH EMILY Tan Pei Wen (left) died because of her desperate need to look beautiful. She was only five years old. But her father, Mr Tan Chiam Chew, was grateful that she had died with her new, beautiful face. Complications arising during plastic surgery on Emily's nose, forehead
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    • 63 6 SIPAPAN FOR the first time yesterday, Philippine authorities contacted the gunmen holding 21 hostages in Sulu, south of the country. The authorities said they would not bow to any ransom demands but said the kidnappers from the Abu Sayyaf group would cling tightly to their hostages. The Philippine
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    • 52 6 The Jakarta Post: Amien warns Gus Durto keep Cabinet intact International Herald Tribune: European interest rate rise fails to halt new Euro slide Asian Wall Street Journal: AT&T Wireless has mildly bullish debut BBC news: Talks in London fail to make progress as Britain refuses anymore aid
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    • 56 7 YOUNGER CLONES: These five cloned cows show signs of being younger than their actual age, scientists said yesterday. This could mean that cloning technology offers a true fountain of youth. The findings are surprising because the most famous cloned animal, Dolly the sheep, is older
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    • 70 7 COURT THE son of a woman left paralysed after a car crash is 75 per cent responsible, a judge said yesterday. Mr Fang Heng Fong, then 18, was driving the Mercedes -Benz which crashed in 1996 with a Lotus Elan. Madam Chan Shook Yin named her son
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    • 60 7 AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN government employees dealing with unions now have an official guide to telling lies. The manual advises senior civil servants how to lie, and provide misleading information as negotiating tactics, The Sydney Morning Herald said. The unions, of course, are not amused. To them, it is proof
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    • 55 7 SURVEY SINGAPORE and South Korea have the healthiest pension schemes, said a United Nations report released on Wednesday. Most workers around the world are unlikely to enjoy any retirement benefits because of inadequate pensions, said the report. Even those with cover may not be better off as many
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    • 54 7 MEDIACORP MEDIACORP is giving a large number of its employees the golden handshake. These employees are mainly aged 40 and above and are from the technical, communications and production departments. A "reasonable package" taking into account the employee's pay scale and experience will be worked out, said
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    • 68 7 The Straits Times: DBS: We won't gain from new charges The Business Times: Latest US economic data set to rattle Fed Lianhe Zaobao: A fishbone and a credit card helped police crack kidnapping case Berita Harian: DBS Bank denies introducing new rules to make profit RCS morning
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    • 124 7 ABOUT 10 years ago, Singapore faced the problem of too few babies from the better-educated women. But now, more of them are having babies. More are also heeding the Government's call to have more than two. According to the Department of Statistics, 16,012
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    • 380 8 Cirtoon H*nm »nd Collect 1 X 08g bar) or 2 x (8g bar) to enter. j @£335) How to enter Rank the ten Cartoon Network characters here on a scale of one to ten. "Sfeffiai J KSaffiflS Put "1" in the box for the character you like most, and "10"
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    • 315 9 How many of you would go to your fathers first if you have a problem? According to a recent study done by the Ministry of Community Development and Sports, dads came in fifth. Mums were first on the list. Are Singaporean dads distant and cold? A
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    • 141 9 A STUDY done by Dr Joseph Ozawa, head of the Psychological Services Unit at the Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS), found that Singaporean fathers are usually indifferent and cold. The study involved 92 boys in the Singapore Boys' Home last December. Dr Ozawa also found
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    • 198 10 OUR ATTITUDE COUNSELLOR SAYS MY father is definitely not cold and authoritarian. We argue sometimes, but it's not like "I am correct because I am your father so, listen to me". I have very few arguments with him. In fact, I argue with my
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  • 67 12 SINGAPORETODAY CALL our Legal Library (1900-*****14) to find the answers to the following questions: Towards what may CPF monies be utilised in the process of financing the purchase of property? What is the nature of a CPF withdrawal from the CPF Board to purchase a property? After
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    • 209 14  -  By Andre Yeo HE was in debt and he needed money fast. But settling the debt was not enough. He wanted to live comfortably and so he stole from his employer. Koh Teck Sien (right), 27, was a store operator with 7 Eleven at Cold Storage.
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    • 392 15  -  By Hong Xinyi SUCH a typical young smoker's story. She hid in the school toilet during breaks, puffing away. Miss Marlini Mohammed Rahim, 19, started at just 14, in that oh-so-familiar way. M I was hanging out with a bunch of schoolmates after school, at a void deck,"
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    • 91 19 mutfmutf Clt2v4AU I/mam AM Miiiu tin hbimi nn f on how Sjimpormw ihorid chsn§[6 tiwir pMhw Md Followers, not thinkers...may have been perfect for a government of the "old economy", which needed the masses to conform, so that the powers-that-be could get on with their work without
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    • 608 20  -  A SINGAPORE KIDNAP STORY: By Chua Wei Yng ONE careless purchase, and the police had their man. Kidnapper Vincent Lee used a credit card, not cash, to buy a handphone. He bought the phone to let his 14-year-old victim speak to
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    • 120 20 "IT is not solely a CID operation. It involved officers from Police intelligence, Operations department and the seven police land divisions. Credit goes to all the officers involved," Dept Supt Hoong Wee Teck said. Also at the interview with TNP were Head of Special Investigations Section Lim Chin Tiak
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      11 20 JAILED: (from left) Kidnappers Lee, the mastermind, Zhou and Shi
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    • 31 20 Lee's accomplices Chinese nationals Zhou Jian Guang and Shi SongJing were sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday. Lee was given similar sentence on Monday. The maximum penalty for kidnapping is death.
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    • 252 20 DONT touch his baby. Mr Will Yong might fear the worst, as he admits: "Even when people come forward to pat my younger son and say he's cute, I jump back." His 14-year-old daughter was kidnapped for three days last September. And seven months later the nightmare still
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    • 457 21  -  THE SINGAPORE KIDNAP STORY: By Chua Wei Yng ONE minute it was a quiet neighbourhood. The next moment, the small estate in the Toh Tuck area was swarming with cops. Jolted out of his sleep, Mr Maran woke up early that
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  • 560 23  -  a WALKING" with t V By Ivan Lim AT the age of 32, Felix Tan had an ambition: To ride on the new information revolution that would carry him towards financial independence. That revolution is no longer new. Neither is his company, Silkßoute Ventures.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 382 24 DBS REPLIES TO CRITICISMS As the public outcry continues over DBS Bank's new service charges, DBS gives its response. LEONG MAY LING reports Mr Edmund Baker, executive director of the Consumers Association of Singapore: It looks like the charges are aimed at
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    • 43 24 If the lower income workers can transfer enough money from CPF into fixed deposits, the hanks should consider the combined sums attractive enough to waive the service charge on their savings accounts. NTUC deputy secretary-general Matthias Yao Chih in a fax
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    • 181 25 «I READ your comment (above) about the new DBS/POSBank charges with disappointment. You say, u Wake up and look around you. In countries like Australia and New Zealand, it is routine for banks to charge customers for the service it provides." We often fall into the
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    • 136 25 C SHANTHENI's main argument is that DBS has no choice but to follow a banking trend and can't be blamed. Just because there is a trend, it doesn't mean you have to join it. DBS certainly did have the option of NOT imposing the fees, so
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    • 57 25 C SHANTHENI says: "...it is routine for banks to charge customers for service." I have a current account with a bank in the UK (with chequebooks), a high-interest investment account, and pay no extra fees. I get interest on amounts left in the current account,
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    • 105 25 MY intention was never to compare Singapore with developed countries across the board. The comparisons were made in just one sector banking. But to set the record straight: If you work in Australia or the UK, you'll have much less in the bank as they pay higher
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    • 114 27 FRIDAY WEEKLY SHE is 18 years old, but only just starting her Secondary 1 studies. Better late than never. And she hopes to go to university and study psychology. Lin Ai Li suffers from athetosis, a condition that makes balancing and even walking, a painfully
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    • 288 28 Pergas, the association of Islamic scholars and religious teachers, turned down an invitation to appear on TV on Tuesday to discuss the compulsory education/madrasah issue. Here's why. AZHAR GHANI reports THE TV programme Akhir Kata was not the platform for the dialogue which Pergas had
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    • 701 31 WHAT I AM WHAT I'M NOT Last night, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong appeared live on Cable News Network's Q&A Asia programme. He outlined the social and economic challenges facing Singapore. He also gave viewers a glimpse of his personality. WOON WUI TEK reports WHAT I'M NOT: A SOLDIER
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    • 94 31 THE Yemen-born Riz Khan (below) is one of CNN's top anchormen. His Q &A Asia is a weekly interactive show that allows viewers to put live questions to newsmakers via telephone, fax and e-mail. Guests on his show have ranged from politicians and actors to sportsmen and businessmen.
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    73 32 murmur WOHLDTODAY Maybe I can have him sit in City Hall and you won't know the difference. This guy can go around campaigning. They might like him better... I think he looks better than me. New Yoifc City's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani unveiledll life-sized wax figure off himself
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  • 311 35 US ECONOMY SOARS... WORLDTODAY NASDAQ RISES The Nasdaq composite index rose 143.96 points (3.97 per cent) yesterday to 3,774.05. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 57.40 points (0.52 per cent) at 10,888.10. The Nasdaq shed 116 points early on, with the Dow initially also losing
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    • 402 35 I—i L L p mP* Bp- H Hr jp .jflr jflP' <w fe&to 1 'w*kM* P* Bk Hl w, -Jf"' SPP II NTUC Income, Singapore's only insurance coopera- Founded in 1970, NTUC Income is now one of the tive, is seeking a new logo to reflect its mission of largest
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  • 257 36 MALAYSIA A MALAYSIAN teenager allegedly planned his own kidnapping together with a friend, to get RM40.000 ($18,000) from his grandmother. A clever enough plan, but one which was just slightly suspicious. Soon after the ransom money was delivered, the police alerted to the fact that there
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  • 247 38 WORLD TODAY AFP. NEW York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has prostate cancer. He announced this at a press conference yesterday. This may require him to take "some time off' from his Senate campaign against First Lady Hillary Clinton. Mr Giuliani, 55, said the diagnosis followed a series of
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    • 489 41  -  BY Tanya Fong JUST before dawn last Friday, more than 50 men, armed with parang and guns, stormed the Penang Turf Club. They confronted tho stabiehands and demanded to see the stable supervisor. The Singaporean lawyer-turned-businessman was suspected of being the leader
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    • 453 42 3rd-generation phones 'set to thrill' HONGKONG tycoon Li Ka-shing is set to thrill the Western world. His company, Hutchison Whampoa, one of the largest in Hongkong, paid £4.38 billion ($ll.B billion) for a British "third-generation" mobile phone licence yesterday in a fiercely contested
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    • 491 43 AP IT gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "keeping an eye on someone". Every Friday, Ms Kimberly Sedlacek gets to watch her four-year-old daughter's dance performance at her day care centre. But Ms Sedlacek, a Boeing employee from Tacoma, Washington, isn't
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    • 383 84 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRfINJI TRACKWORK THE promising King Creole looks ready to return to his winning ways in Race 7, a 1,400 m event, at Kranji tomorrow. The three-year-old gelding by Deputy Governor, with regular partner Oo Khuang Liang up, showed good form when allotted
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    • 300 84  -  By Danny Khoo IT WAS better than expected. That was how Panamanian jockey Oscar Chavez described the result of his two-month riding stint at Aqueduct racecourse in the United States recently. Small wonder as he managed to chalk up an impressive 20 per cent winning
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    • 115 90 -ji' v m m sg.StarEastNeti,, Taiwanese heart throb Panda Shiung and local singing sensation Mavis H&& to engage in a live chat with all fans at Planet Hollywood. Date: Sat 29 April 2000 Time: 2pm > 4pm Venue: PLANET HOLLYWOOD To participate, sign u p 3t Speoaj thanks S StarEastNet.com
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  • 333 92 SPORTSTODAY LAST month, Jenson Button (above) tried to rent a car at Sydney airport. But he didn't get one. He was told that he is too young to drive in Australia. Not shocking, considering he's 20. And some countries require you to be 21 before you
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  • 297 94  -  BY V K Santosh Kumar A MIS-TIMED overhead kick can give you a knee injury. Like what happened to Ruud Van Nistelrooy. He either snapped his ligaments or fell awkwardly when he attempted the acrobatic kick in a friendly match six weeks ago. The resultant has hampered
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  • 297 94 A DAMAGED knee is a sure passport to an early football retirement. You must be mentally very tough to get back to competitive soccer after a major knee operation, say two former Singapore soccer stalwarts. "It is very difficult...very painful and your
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    • 238 95 j RUUD SHOCK AT OLD TRAFFORP TEARS welled in Ruud van Nistelrooy's eyes as he spoke of the botched transfer to Manchester United early this morning. "It was down to principle. I do not want to do what United want me to do," said the
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    • 82 95 Ten more goals to go. Three matches to play. Can Premiership champion Manchester United hit its 100-goal target? Tell us if you think so, and you may win attractive prizes Call 1900-*****01. Three callers who predict correctly will win a Swatch Aluminium Beat watch
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    • 116 95 A statement from Old Trafford this morning: Manchester United is very disappointed that the transfer of Ruud van Nistelrooy from PSV Eindhoven cannot proceed at the present time. As reported on Tuesday, further medical tests were necessary for Man U to proceed with the £18 million
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    • 142 95 PSV Eindhoven president Harry van Raay: There is, at this moment, a big difference of opinion which cannot be resolved. Maybe in the f uture but I don't really know. Tne question is whether the knee is stable or not and if it is not stable
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    • 56 95 PSV Eindhoven doctor Cees van den Hoogen: I had feared there would be a problem because the transfer had come too soon after Van Nistelrooy's knee operation. A player who has just come out of plaster and out of a brace cannot be passing a medical
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    • 119 96 BALANTA SINGH: THE SPIRIT A STORY OF SACRIFICE... When the S-League started, I wanted my club to be a part of It. But I was asked to put up a banker's guarantee. I didn't want
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    • 706 97  -  By S Gulam THIS is a story he didn't want told. But it's a story which MUST be told. This is a tale about Balanta Singh. A man who put club before everything else. It's a story of his passion, commitment and dedication to something he
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    • 202 97  -  OFF TO SYDNEY By Lim Han Ming THE waiting game is over. For some, that is. Yesterday, the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) announced the Republic's contingent for the Sydney Olympics this September. Ten athletes eight swimmers and two table-tennis players have been given
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    • 160 98 S-LEAGUE ACTION SAF WARRIORS 1 WOODLANDS WELLINGTON 0 WOODLANDS Wellington knew it did not stand a chance against top-of-the-table SAF Warriors at Jurong Stadium last night. So a 1-0 defeat was rather pleasing for team manager R Vengadasalam. But the talking point of the game was
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    • 450 98  -  TONIGHTS ACTION CLEMENTI v TANJONG PAGAR (Clementi Stadium) GEYLANG v MARINE CASTLE (Bedok Stadium) Both matches start at 7.30pm CALL INFOLINE Call 1900-*****13 after 8.30pm for the half-time score and after 9.30pm for full-time results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. Reports/ Wang Meng Meng BALESTIER
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    • 176 98 YOU deliver on the field. We will deliver off it. JVC has kept its side of the bargain. It has increased its sponsorship of Tanjong Pagar United from $120,000 to $250,000 this year. Said JVC (Asia) managing director Mamoru Otake yesterday: "The team needs more good players. Besides,
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