The New Paper, 2 June 2000

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  • 20 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2000 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) 058/04/2000 60 CENTS
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 541 2 ACEH LEADER SHOT DEAD IN KL AFP. A KEY leader of a movement which wants to break free the region of Aceh from Jakarta was shot dead yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. The shooting took place at around 2.30 pm at a restaurant in the Malaysian capital just
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    • 126 2 Wire services. THE Japanese cabinet has agreed to dissolve Parliament. It will pave the way for national elections on June 25. Labour Minister Takamori Makino told reporters Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori made the decision this morning. Support for Mr Mori has plunged since his remark last
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    • 184 2 ON May 12 this year, the Indonesian government signed a secret deal in Geneva over Aceh. It was to allow for a three-month state of peace, starting today, for the territory which is an hour's boat-ride from Penang. The deal was signed by the Indonesian government and Aceh
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    • 613 3  -  Gunman was the odd man in family Believed to have left Singapore A Singaporean gunman is on the run after being involved in two robberies on Sunday and Monday. TANYA FONG pieces together a report on the man while CEL GULAPA and MONTY bring you the Monday robbery
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 365 4  -  By Amy Chiew THIRTY-TWO Post Office Savings Bank (POSBank) branches all over the island are believed to have closed in recent months. Another two are expected to shut their doors soon. A DBS spokesman said: "Customers want better banking service with 24-hour availability and easy accessibility. "DBS
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    • 362 4 SINCE May 22, life has not been easy for Mr Easy Tan. In fact, he is one angry man. On that day, the POSBank branch at West Plaza shopping centre in Pasir Ris closed its doors. Said the 45-year-old West Plaza shop tenant: "My shop was opposite
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    • 39 4 "Customers want better banking service with 24-hour availability and easy accessibility. "DBS has undertaken various initiatives to transform its branch and electronic banking channels to ensure that these channels will continue to meet customers' changing banking patterns."
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 217 6 m Lecturers at the Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore are free to keep all consultancy fees they earn, including gains from stock options or shares given to them as pay for work done. In the past, consulting fees for work outside the
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    • 69 6 Pigure This THESE animals could have drowned after a canal containment wall broke yesterday In Valle de Chalco, 30 km from Mexico City. Heavy rains had swelled the canal, causing the wall to collapse and flooding the area. The animals were rescued by the town's residents.
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    • News Break
      • 59 6 |__WEATHERB THE hot weather spell is expected to continue for two more weeks. So, hang in there as things aren't going to get wetter soon, said the Meteorological Service. May was one of Singapore's driest months, with only 10 days of rain recorded for the whole month. The
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      • 55 6 B SHARES "EXCHANGE-traded funds" (ETFs) programmed to mirror movements in the major US stock indices with almost 100 per cent accuracy, will soon be available here. Called "diamonds", "spiders" and "QQQs", they are basically index-linked funds that can be traded like a share they can be bought and
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      • 61 6 CRIME I A 12-YEAR-OLD has become the youngest to be caught in a drug bust. She was among 13 arrested at a Pasir Ris holiday chalet on Wednesday. Those arrested were between 14 and 21 years old. Three of them were students. Six sachets of ketamine, one packet
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      • 56 6 POISONING 1 TWO expatriate engineers were struck down with suspected food poisoning after drinking a bottle of Tiger Beer. They fell ill after drinking the beer in the coffee house of an Orchard Road hotel on Saturday. The manufacturer, Asia Pacific Breweries, said it believed the contamination occurred
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      • 71 7 MEDISAVE TAXI drivers can now get Medisave top-ups as they buy diesel for their cabs. Caltex's new loyalty programme will deposit 2 per cent of a cab driver's purchase amount into the scheme if he spends a minimum of $250 a month on diesel at its pumps.
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      • 67 7 MEDISAVE THE inquiry into the nine deaths in a small Canadian town in Ontario has led to fears of water pollution by E. coli bacteria. Low levels of E. coli 2 were detected in the main well of a trailer park near Ottawa. People have been warned not
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      • 58 7 THAILAND AFTER land mines and motor vehicles, sex is the next biggest threat to the elephant population in Thailand. That's because more people there are eating elephant meat in the hope of boosting sexual performance. As a result, demand is increasing and more traders approach down-and-out elephant owners
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      • 58 7 E-BANK CMG First State Investments has withdrawn its unit trusts from finatiQ, OCBC's e-bank. This follows its refusal to cut its 5 per cent sales charge by 50 per cent. "That created some confusion among our customers," said finatiQ's chief of strategy and alliance Elena Chong. Rather than
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 6 Quote worthy svelte...'hard like Naomi Campbell's (right) loins. With mountains, the same thing happens as does with women, that the desire they provoke is inversely proportional to the number of times you've got on top of them. These lines found in a travel guide published by the Spanish
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    • 55 6 New Straits Times: Hopes for end to rebellion International Herald Tribune: Appeals court deals a blow to Elian's Miami relatives Asian Wall Street Journal: Japan's parliament set to be dissolved BBC news: Police in Luxembourg have stormed a nursery school where a gunman held more than 20
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    • 144 7 in FPSus IT'S called Project O and it's Yayasan Mendaki's scheme to improve the performance of O level students. The Malay-Muslim self-help group will provide comprehensive tuition, and selected students will be given counselling and career guidance. Parents and teachers will also be involved. Mr Sumardi
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    • 107 7 US STOCKS STOCKS on Wall Street rallied again, with hopes that the Federal Reserve can start to slow its campaign of interest-rate increases. But if today's jobs data report shows wage pressures in the economy, the buying spree could end abruptly. The Nasdaq composite ended up 181.59 points
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    • 67 7 The Straits Times: Varsity staff can keep all they get for consultancy The Business Times: SGX strikes deal to list Amex's index shares Lianhe Zaobao: (Beijing corresp) Kim Jong II hints that Korea will emulate China's reform liberalisation Berita Harian: Indonesian rupiah's biggest rally in two weeks
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  • 521 10  -  attitude You talk, your peers answer, we listen By Sheela Narayanan IF you want to get the stones, you must sniff them out. And home is the first place you put your nose to work. Talk to family members Parents Ask them about their childhood.
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    • 75 10 GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? HAVE a hobby you would like to share with us? (Talking on the telephone and watching television does not count!) Just send in a photograph of yourself at your hobby, and tips on how to get started. Send your contributions to: "Attitude" The New Paper 390
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  • 176 12 FRIDAY WEEKLY SINGAPORETODAY ZHIXIU, 18, is a regular at discos. Not only to dance but to pick up girls. "You look so cool, you'll have no trouble with girls!" a friend had told him. This remark boosted Zhixiu's confidence. For the past two years, Zhixiu
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 435 14  -  By Hong Xinyi IT IS time for some good old-fashioned family fun. We're talking about the Singapore International Dragon Boat Festival at the Marina Promenade. In fact, Mr Joseph Kong (right), 55, finds it so fun, that he has been involved in the festival for
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    • 133 14 BOATS DUMPLINGS WHY this big hoo-ha over dragon boats and dumplings? Here's a quick history lesson: Place: China, 250 AD. Who: Poet and statesman Qu Yuan from the state of Chu. The event: Ousted from court by scheming politicians, Qu Yuan took his own life by jumping into the Mi
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    • 336 16 Fourteen youngsters were arrested and drugs and uncensored VCDs seized when Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers raided a Pasirßis chalet on Wednesday. It is believed the youngsters made contact at a games arcade in Bedok. EUGENE ANTHONY checks out the place HEY, this is not
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    • 148 16 IT was a teen drug-cum-video party. With 14 people in a one-room chalet, sleeping on two beds and two mattresses. The youngest was a girl of 12, a school dropout. Except for one who was 21, they were all in their teens, most unemployed dropouts. On Wednesday, just
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 574 18  -  TAXI WOES PART TWO Yesterday, we reported taxi woes from a customer's point of view. Today, woes from the driver's seat Picture and report Desmond Ng HE WORKS a staggering 18 hours a day, 7 am to 1 am. Six days a week He
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    • 98 18 WE compared Mr Sim's frantic schedule to that of a personal driver, who puts in almost the same hours as Mr Sim, and draws double the salary. Mr Philip Tham, 52, was once a taxi-driver, for six months He swore never to return. As personal driver to a
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    • 214 20  -  TAXI WOES PART TWO By Desmond Ng IT'S a profession he wouldn't wish his two sons to go into. Mr Tay Hay Leng, 52, has been at it for 20 years. "It is not easy," smiled the Comfort taxi-driver. "I would
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    • 181 20 QUESTIONS you have always wanted to ask your taxi-driver we fired them at taxi driver Tony Sim. Whwt do taxis disappear to at 11 pm in the city? To magically roappaar at midnight? Some taxis would be waiting at the airport for passengers from arriving flights.
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  • 60 22 LEGAL LIBRARY SINGAPORETODA Y CALL our Legal Library (1900-912-0905) to find the answers to the following questions: What is a court summons? What if the person who is asked to attend court is not involved in the litigation? B Will he or she be compensated for the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 243 25  -  By Chua Wei Yng BUT, youi honour, I got married only last week, he said. And, your honour, my wife is expecting a baby in December Too bad, these "honourable" sentiments only came out in court. However, the bottom line remained NABBED Sim Kok Keong, 27, did
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    • 38 25 Sim Kok Keong was jailed five and a half years for trafficking in Ecstasy and Ketamine tablets. For trafficking these drags, he could have been jailed up to 20 years and given 15 strokes of the cane.
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  • 593 26  -  A WALKING" with by Ivan Lim MEET the T'ang Quartet, Singapore's most famous classical ensemble and easily the trendiest musicians in this country. They're cool, hip, famous and successful. Wait. Says violinist Ang Chek Meng, who has a two-month-old son and is the only
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  • 84 27 SINGAPORETODAY REMEMBER the gravity-defying stunt that Tom Cruise did to get into a highly-secured room in Mission Impossible? Can the sequel match the high standard that has been set? Interested in finding out more about the Summer blockbuster, M:I-2, produced by Tom Cruise and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 418 33  -  By 1 Wu Shangyuan DID you know that in ancient times a Chinese bride would cry all day long for two weeks before hopping into the bridal sedan? The tradition was meant to show her sadness at leaving her parental home. And why do some Indian
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    • 361 34  -  'Fall guy' is jailed 9 months By Chua Wei Yng HE was prepared to go to jail. For someone else, that is. Ng Meng Seng is paying for it. He was jailed nine months and ordered to pay $10,500 for taking bribes. Ng,
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    • 30 34 Ng Meng Seng was jailed nine months and ordered to pay a penalty of $10,500 for taking bribes. He could have been jailed up to five years and fined.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 334 36  -  By Ambiga Raju THEIR Prime Minister is being held hostage by one of their countrymen. Their President has fled. It's nail-biting time in Fyi. Yet, people get on with their lives, as difficult as that may seem to the outside world. Said the Chief of
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    • 152 36 Source: Reuters. REBEL leader Mr George Speight expects the hostages to be freed by Monday. "I am confident that this whole crisis or crusade will come to an end in the next two or three days, certainly by Monday next week, when the Great Council of Chiefs meets,"
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    • 150 38 ITALIAN DOCTORS' WOES ITALIAN doctors are feeling threatened. The sexy underwear that their women patients wear are proving too much for them. They have appealed to Italian women to stop trying to lead them astray by dressing "provocatively". Quoting Turin's La Stampa, a report in The
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    • 119 38 AFP. ALL British balloonist David Hempleman-Adams, 43, wanted after his trip to the North Pole yesterday was a cup of tea. He became the first person to make the flight. His balloon, The Britannic Challenge, with a traditional open wicker basket, made
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  • 204 40 Principal collapses due to 'over-excitement' WORLDTODAY AP IT was meant to be a day of organised fun and laughter. But Senior Prank Day at Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, New Jersey, turned out to be quite the opposite. Things went so wrong at the
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    • 358 43 Source: Reuters AGREE to a hostage taker's demands Get him out into the open. Gun him down. This was the plan the Luxembourg police hatched, in a bid to rescue the 25 children and three adults held hostage by a gunman
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    • 595 44 Friends in scandal, student riots, falling rupiah Close aides of the Indonesian President have been accused off being involved in a scandal involving the National Logistics Agency (Bulog). The State Secretary has quit. Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab has denied involvement. What does it mean for the
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    • 218 44 BULOG is the National Logistics Agency of Indonesia It monitors the price of basic commodities such as rice and sugar and tops up when there is a shortage in production. Long dogged by claims of corruption, the agency lost about US$9OO million ($1 5 trillion) in five
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    • 117 45 ITS all a plot to bring down the President. Indonesian Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab said the Bulog scandal is an attempt to discredit President Abdurrahman Wahid and those close to him. Mr Alwi called a news conference yesterday to deny any involvement in the National Logistics Agency (Bulog) case,
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    • 288 87 ANDY COLE SQUASHES RUMOURS THAT HE WALKED OUT ON ENGLAND ITS my foot and nothing else. Manchester United star striker Andy Cole reaffirmed this morning that he did not walk out of England's Euro 2000 championship squad. There were rumours that an argument with manager Kevin
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    • 150 89 SINGAPORE'S senior team (The Lions) will feature tonight (Bpm) at the Bishan Stadium. It's playing a friendly against the Gulf state Qatar. The side is hampered by injuries, though. Regulars Aide Iskandar (fractured nose), Hasrin Jailani (ankle) and Azhar Baksin and Zulkarnaen Zainal (groin) will
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    • 309 89  -  BY Wang Meng Meng Tactically, they are fine. Technically, they are fine. Physically, they are fine too. But mentally? That's one doubt hovering over Singapore's Under-16 team (Young Lions) playing in the 17th Lion City Cup. Twice, against Ghana's Olympia Athletic FC (0-3) and
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    • 501 93 HE ALSO FACES $17,000 FINE FOR IGNORING THE MEDIA TENNIS: FRENCH OPEN IN PARIS AFP. Karol Kucera bt Andre Agassi 2-6,7-5,6-1,6-0 ITS becoming a real problem. An embarrassment. A public relations nightmare. If the dramatic fall of the top seeds continues, the second week of the
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    • 182 93 AFP. WHILE Andre Agassi was making his exit, third-seeded Magnus Norman of Sweden and Cedric Pioline of France, the sixth seed, had no such problems. Norman, coming off a hot run in the French Open build-up tournaments on clay, raced to a 6-1, 6-4,6-2 win over France's
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    • 379 98 THE QUEENSTOWN STADIUM PUNCH-UP Tanjong Pagar's Senegalese striker Nicodeme Boucher was given the longest ban in S-League history after he was found guilty of punching SAF Warriors' Tan Kim Leng. PETER SIOW applauds the tough Football Association of Singapore action ITS the LONGEST ban in the
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    • 82 98 FAS disciplinary committee chairman Mohd Muzammil Mohd: My committee takes a serious view of violent conduct by players, professional or amateur, foreign or local, on or off the field. Those guilty of such conduct...must be dealt with severely. This is to ensure that soccer is
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