The New Paper, 5 May 2000

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  • 7 1 the new paper FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2000
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    • 73 1 hit include House, Pentagon J y J Parliament /Page 27 I f i n BKm ■I r /Page 2 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asial .com.sg MITA (P) 058/04/2000 60 CENTS 8 *****1 *****1 Can't decide which flavour to try? Fresh'n Fruity has the W answer with its
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 809 2  -  By Leong May Ling THEIR families holidayed together. Went swimming together, partied and had fun. For three years, married life seemed bliss for a brother and sister in Malacca. But on October 6 last year, their world came crashing down. The brother's wife and his sister's husband ran
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    • 508 3  -  By Carol Leong ITS nice to meet a tough man. No, seriously. Take another look at this guy. Do you know that, a year ago, he was climbing roofs, all sweaty and grimy, to check pipes for bacteria? And now? He wears
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    • 55 3 I POWDER, CONCEALER and UNTINTEP LIP GLOSS: ZULKIFLEE PAWOOP r\ALKT P 4T\ r\ ff" To I Locally taught international courses, 0U N rUR UEI Singap .'re correspondence, online and MBAs TO O P PO\A Distance Learning Suntec City Sat 6th/Sun 7th May 11-7 V/ IVI «\l\ V/ V w Fair
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    • She might not live past eighth birthday...But she will not let it get her down
      • 772 4  -  Plucky girl talks about her crippling disease of spine and her life By Genevieve Jiang WHEN Yi Ling was born, her parents noticed that she couldn't grip objects like normal babies could. Her mother, Mrs Brenda Ko, 43, said: "She had difficulty grabbing our fingers
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      • 698 4 Yl LING SAYS: I think I have a deep feeling of dying at a young age, seeing that I have muscular dystrophy. Doctors said I may not live past eight years old. I remember, when 1 was around nine, my doctor told my parents
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 208 5 tfflr WELCOME news for those hoping to strick it rich? You bet! Those who buy 4-D, Toto, Singapore Sweep and Score (football betting) lottery tickets can look forward to more outlets and shorter queues. These will come in the last three months of the year
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    • 56 5 Pi (jure This WE WANT THE TRUTH: Greenpeace protesters wearing white coveralls and faces painted with a big "X" demonstrated at a forum at Hongkong's Science Museum yesterday. The environmental protection group presented to government officials 18,000 signatures that urged a labelling system for genetically engineered
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    • News. Break
      • 62 5 U Police, anti-vice, immigration and fire safety officials carried out a raid on Little India on Wednesday. Of the 102 people arrested, 75 were for immigration offences, 14 for prostitution, two for public gaming and 10 for selling obscene and uncensored VCDs. One was arrested for fraudulent possession
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      • 55 5 SHARES SINGAPORE Airlines has launched initial public offerings of 110 million vendor shares. The shares are for Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) and SI A Engineering Company (SIAEC). They're being priced at $2.50 a share for Sats and $2.05 for SIAEC. SIA is expected to make just over
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      • 58 5 INTERNET A RESEARCH group has been tracking the Internet moves of over 3,000 Singaporeans since November. They are volunteers. The US-based AC Neilsen tracks 95,000 users worldwide and sells the data to companies. It found Singapore Net users are younger than most US surfers, and spend less time
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      • 53 5 SINGTEL-TIME SINGAPORE Telecom has extended by one week its $900 million exclusive negotiations with Time Engineering and Renong for a stake in Time dot Com. Meanwhile, things are hotting up in KL over the deal on the future of Time dot Com. The company presently controls a strategic
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    • 55 5 New Straits Times: Assurance by Estrada The Asian Wall Street Journal: Korean moves lack long-term focus International Herald Tribune: ILOVEYOU virus strikes worldwide BBC news: A new computer virus causing havoc in the US has surfaced in the Far East and spread around the world in the
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    • 146 6 in FOCus FROM top central banker to No 4 in the United Overseas Bank Group. Only three years ago, Mr Koh Beng Seng was the Monetary Authority of Singapore's deputy managing director He was known for his no-nonsense approach to the supervision of Singapore's financial
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    • 119 6 USSTOCK^^^l STOCKS drifted to a mixed finish yesterday after it was reported that the US' productivity rose at an annual rate of 2 4 per cent for the firs* three month? o f the year compared with 6.9 per cent ihe previous quarter This fuelled fears of an
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    • 50 6 1 EDUCATION HOW does the Malay Muslim community really feel about compulsory national schooling and madrasah (Islamic religious school) education? To find out, the Joint Committee of Madrasah, which represents the six full-time madrasahs here, has hired the Gallup Organisation to establish the community's views on the matter.
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    • 51 6 UNIVERSITIES NANYANG Technological University is linking up with US' Stanford University to do research in environmental engineering. The link-up involves an exchange of information, staff and students and joint research projects, Research projects identified so far include developing novel ways of treating water and improving indoor air
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    • 71 6 BANKS THE DBS Bank has bought an effective 6 per cent stake in the merged Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), said the Philippine Stock Exchange. DBS Bank paid a total price of 8.73 billion pesos '$364 4 million) Analysts said this latest purchase was part of the
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    • 69 6 MURDERS TAXI drivers in the US are the most likely to be killed on the job The murder rate for cabbies is 30 per 100,000 drivers. That is four times that for police, at 6.8 per 100,000. New York City last month formed o 300 man task
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    • 78 6 The Straits Times: 5 pore Poois to open 50 new outlets The Business Times: HKT profit down 90 per cent, but takeover is a done deal' Lianhe Zaobao: Tamil Tigers close in on Jaffna; Sri Lanka goes into battle mode Berita Harian: West concerned over fate of
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    • 156 5 WHY LEAVE MUM IN THE KITCHEN ON MOTHER'S DAY? 14 May (Sun) 12pm spm Even with her culinary skills, Mum deserves Apart from the good food, we also nave a good home-cooked meal away from attractive door gifts, a sportswear fashion her kitchenl At the Melting Pot Cafe, she'll show
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    • 330 8 Last week, two people wrote about their fathers and were asked to share their views about their dads. If anybody ever thought the state of fatherhood was in trouble, read on I HAD always regarded my dad as a discipline master. When I was
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    • 243 8 I AM puzzled by the recent articles about fathers' attitudes towards their children. I like my dad the way he is. He is not my best friend nor my human ATM machine. He is a mail of few words. When he
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      269 9 He is the one who consoles me whenever I am feeling low. He always jokes with me. I think that such a father is hard to come by. I will cherish him forever. Leo gal HE'S NOT AN ATM I think the beauty of the relationship that
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    • 78 10 mui*mui< Mr Jek Kian Jin, Silicon Valley-tesed columnist for The Straits Times: We can use satellites orbiting the earth to pinpoint our location to C within 100 m. We use Net technology to send information and chat with people across the I globe. We can watch
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    • 229 11 THREE OF THE BEST WHO WILL BE CROWNED? YOU've read about the top 10 maids in Singapore. They were featured in this paper and more than 2,806 readers cast their votes to pick The New Paper Maid of the Year last week. The three who got
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    • 488 16  -  BY Andre Yeo IT IS poetic justice, but he's the last person to appreciate it. Koh Chee Wah's criminal career came to end at the hands of the very people he claimed to know so well the Singapore Police Force. Koh, 43, was one smooth
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    • 77 16 THE deputy public prosecutor proceeded with two of the four cheating charges against Koh Chee Wah (left), and he was sentenced to 18 months' jail. The people Koh had promised to help did not escape punishment. In 1995, Ng Choo Pee was convicted for rape, jailed six years and
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    • 345 17 $6 million to move Merlion Is it worth it? WHAT READERS SAY Compared with the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower or the Taj Mahal, the Meriion does not have any real historical significance. It is just a symbol created by the Singapore Tourism Board in the 60s. Ms Quek l-Gek,
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  • 375 19 SINGAPORE The Big Walk is just weeks away. You might be in shape. But are your shoes? A shoe expert tells photojournalist KENNETH KOH why you should walk with correct shoes OH, my aching feet. Chances are, if you're a serious Big Walker, you'll be groaning
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  • 146 21  -  PUBLIC HEALTH SEMINAR SINGAPORETUDA» By Genevieve Jiang YOUR baby is sick. Plagued with a fever and skin spotted with rashes. You don't know what to do. How do you cope when your child falls sick? Great Eastern Life is organising a public health seminar
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    • 647 22 < —m p a« i«^Mwwwna*#«i^iMiPMHin9RßSVMßWi BE PART OF THE SINGAPORE POOLS RETAIL NETWORK Why new mmwrnM retail outlets? AoDlication for The demand for Singapore Pools products has Y_| a 06 19 34 47 63 grown over the years. New outlets are now B I If* I C 07 21 35
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    • 139 24 FRIDAY WEEKLY SWIMMER Cai Rong Jun is oveijoyed. The Anglo Chinese Junior College student is representing Singapore in the 2000 Sydney Olympics in September. "Taking part in the Olympics is the dream of every athlete, and I never imagined I would have this honour," he said.
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    • 166 25 ABOUT TO FALL, BUT: A 14-year old student put residents near Block 668 A, Jurong West Street 64, on tenterhooks yesterday. The Lianhe Zaobao reported that the boy tried to jump off the 15th storey ledge of his HDB flat, just outside his room. The high-rise drama
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  • 303 26 Cupid's deadly e-mail WORLD WHAT TO DO If you get it: Don't open the e-mail or attachment. Delete it. Download software: Computer Associates International and Symantec Corp, which makes Norton System Works have software available for download from their sites that can detect the 'love bug'
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    45 28 THENEWSTODAY •What a surprise, Ms VicePresident! So nice of you to drop by," Hongbao seems to be telling Indonesian VicePresident Megawati Sukarnoputri. The orang-utan's very important visitor, Ms Megawati, visited the Singapore Zoo last Saturday. Ms Megawati was with her daughter and granddaughter.
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    • 132 28 W MOTHER'S KAY SPECIAL A tribute to all our dearest mums 13 Of 14 May 2000 Liu Hsiang Lou Deluxe Set Lunch and Dinner Menus: $188.00 (4 persons) $258.00 (6 persons) $328.00 (8 persons) $398.00 (10 persons) $468.00 (10 persons) All set menu prices are inclusive of a 500g cake.
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  • 352 30 H/MLD THE mood is upbeat for the Family Gandhi. The stork is coming a-visiting. Ms Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, is expecting. And this piece of information comes from the mouth of papa-to-be Robert Vadra, the Delhi Times reported. "Yes, it's
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  • 233 32 Computer nerd confesses i to police WORLD AP THE security guards at the San Francisco shopping mall were puzzled by Vadim Mieseges' behaviour. When they approached him, he threatened them with a wooden stick. So they nabbed him. But they never expected him to confess
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  • 131 32 AFP. THE man saw that the van was left unattended and decided to steal it. It was only much later that he discovered the collection of modern artwork, worth about one million euros ($1.5 million), in the van. The theft took place in a street
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    • 219 34 AFP. WHATS in a name? Lots, if you're born in France and the authorities think your chosen name risks causing problems to you later in life. Officials can then ask the prosecutor to order your name changed. But 14-month-old Megane Renaud, whose first name
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    • 243 34 WHAT'S in a name (Part Two)? Lots again, if you have companies that use a top British bank's name. Never mind if you're just a child you can still be sued. So two children, company secretary Anuradha Gopee, 10, and director Motilal
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  • 379 36 WORLDTODAY THE wife of the US presidential wannabe, Mr George Bush Jr, has a dark secret from her youth. In 1963, when Mrs Laura Bush was 17 years old, she caused the death of a friend. She was driving
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  • 591 37  -  j Coming up next, the Vice-President talks 1 to a spokesman for the 1 terrorist group now holding I more than 27 hostages J L. in our country! By Suresh Kumar IT was noon on Wednesday. The hall in the Social Welfare Ministry was packed with
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    • 161 37 I LATEST Hostages still alive, says envoy HERE'S some good news for worried note was passed to him (Misuari), saying friends and families of the hostages. that the 21 have been accounted for and All the 21 people abducted from Sipadan all alive, contrary to reports that two had Island
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  • 52 38 muKmuK WORLD TODAY Some observers fear that the setting up of a Department of Information Technology would retard India's booming fT sector. Says Information Technology Minister Pramod Mahajan: I know, it's like people saying we won Miss World four times only because we have no Department
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    • 306 40 OLD WOMAN HACKED AND HAMMERED BY TEENAGER A BUS was hijacked and a woman killed. The teenaged hijacker laughed through it all. Japan took a deep breath and sent the boy to psychiatric care. But before the people could
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    • 158 40 WHAT is wrong with today's youth in Japan? While the country has one off the lowest crime rates in the industrialised world, a series off unexplained crimes in the recent past is sending shockwaves throughout the nation. Apart from the two incidents reported earlier this week, there have
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    • 1057 41 As a kid, Natalie Portman found stardom in Hollywood. But that didn't go to her head. With feet firmly on the ground, the actress now 19, is getting a degree at the prestigious Yale university WHEN Natalie Portman was just all of 13,
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    • 440 42  -  SAUSALITO BY Teo Kuan Yee WERE you smitten by Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung in Comrades, Almost A Love Story? Are you hoping for a repeat hit in Sausalito (above left, showing Maggie and Leon)? Forget it. A romantic comedy it's touted to be, but one
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    • 146 43 BOYBAND Westlife will be hotting up the stage when they breeze into Singapore for a concert next Friday. They will croon hits from their debut album such as Swear It Again and Seasons In The Sun. At their last showcase at Suntec City in November, the
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    • 548 43  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE By Teo Kuan Yee Murmurs and giggles erupted when the movie started. It's Fann Wong lighting up the screen, as usual. But It's James Lye who steals the thunder from her. as her boyfriend in a minor role. In one scene,
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    • 178 44 BEING one of Charlie's Angels is no guarantee of having a heavenly time. So what if Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore got the plum roles as three foxy crimefighters? Barrymore, a co-producer, is feeling the pressure. A source told US Weekly: "Drew bursts into
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      121 44 YOU'D think that Jennifer Lopez (above) has a state-of-the-art handphone. Not always She had an urgent call to make at San Francisco City Hall while filming her new movie The Wedding Planner. So she dashed into police headquarters, which is in the same building, saying she had an emergency,
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      165 44 AH, the curse of being famous. You work all your life for fame. And when you appear on stage people don't believe it's you. Ask Jerry Seinfeld (right). He has been doing surprise walk-ons at New York City comedy clubs to test-drive new comic material. A comedy club
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    • 159 67 EMIRATES SINGAPORE DERBY BARRIER DRAW THE barrier draw for the $700,000 Emirates Singapore Derby (Race 7) on Sunday was conducted at the Singapore Turf Club yesterday. 1 ALL THE WAY jockey D Holland (barrier No. 13) 2 BIG AND BOLD I Azhar(B) 3 CZECH BENONI KK Loh
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    • 206 73 PERTH RACES: Five races have been scheduled for tomorrow's Perth card at Ascot racecourse. The first race will start at 2.04pm. NST. TRAINER Alan Seow Wooi Kiang's Yvettas Star looks the pick of the 13 newcomers entered for the Perak Turf Club's Derby meeting starting in Ipoh tomorrow. The
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    • 539 73 GUIDE TO IPOH TRACKWORK NST. SUPER DRAGON wrapped up his preparations for the Class 1 1,400 m event in Race 6 on Sunday with a stylish workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by jockey Asogan Thangaraju, the five-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding by Take Your
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    • 290 73 RENEGE f a winner of three races in Australia with A 5109,120 ($117,849) in earnings, will make his debut at Kranji tomorrow. The four-year-old bay Australian-bred gelding by Night Shift out of Verscay is one of two Class 2 newcomers entered for
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    • 415 82  -  Was non-payment behind Marine Castle's 7-1 thrashing on April 15? Will the performance be the same today? By Peter Siow IS everything fine at Marine Castle? One wouldn't think so after its 7-1 loss to Geylang United last week. There's talk that the players performed under
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    • 439 84 THE RUUD BLOW: Ruud Van Nistelrooy, the PSV Eindhoven star striker, almost signed for Manchester United for a British record fee of£lBm last week. But the Red Devils turned him down after he refused to go for a keyhole surgery to find out the full extent
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    • 85 84 TOP Iranian striker Ali Daei is set to join Leeds United next season. Leeds, who is still chasing a place in the Champions League next season, may pay around £3.3 million ($6 million) for the 1999 Asian Footballer of the Year, reports Sky Sports. "I see my
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    • 40 85 FLASHPOINT TEMPERS FLARE AS TANJONG Foreign warfare... Geylang's goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel rushes up to Tanjong Pagar's Boubacher Seek in one of the many heated moments in last night's S-League thriller. And it didn't just end there...
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    • 101 86 PAGAR UPSETS HIGH-RIDING GEYLANG THEY almost exchanged blows in a very ugly manner. But quick intervention by Fifa referee Shamsul Maidin stopped the prolonged duel between Geylang's German goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel and Tanjong Pagar striker Boubacar Seek at Queenstown Stadium last night. Pfannenstiel pushed
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