The New Paper, 12 September 2000

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    • 139 2 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was in a fighter mood yesterday. He slammed Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) for degrading Prophet Muhammad in its latest book. Holding the book aloft, Dr Mahathir said they had referred to the prophet as the first
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    • 369 2 BE afraid, be very afraid. Circulating private e-mail over office computers may cost you your job. If you thought only porn was banned, you are wrong. Even just a chatty e-mail to a friend carrying office gossip could
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    • 266 2 SCHOOL children in Kelantan can't guzzle down water after a run in the playground their school taps have run dry. Five hundred primary and secondary school children are facing severe shortage of water, the state education department said yesterday. And all because the Air
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    • 388 3  -  By Wendy Teo THE talk from the blushing bride was a little suggestive. Then again, what do you expect when she's being grilled by madcap stars like Bryan Wong and Kym Ng? The occasion: Actress Lina Ng's wedding
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    • 717 4 A man in Singapore has received a letter which claims to be from the Tamil Tigers. That's a terrorist organisation waging war in Sri Lanka. MELVIN SINGH investigates BY the time he was done reading the letter, Mr Krishnan was worried. He said: M
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    • 535 4  -  The LTTE was founded on May 5,1976. The Tigers have been waging a war for independence from Sri Lanka for about two decades. Their leader, Velupillai Pirabakaran, rose to the top of the movement using terror tactics. Those who challenged him
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    • 351 4 C L TAN THEY work in cell groups. No member of one cell knows the others. They do not openly discuss or indicate that they are LTTE sympathisers. Each group has a leader who will be in touch with a handful of other cell leaders. And among the
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 260 5 If T $1.9B TELECOM PAYOUT: IMf? WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? THAT'S what the Government's big payout to two telephone companies means to you. After eight months of discussion, the Government has decided to make an $859 million payout to Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel).
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    • 48 5 WORKERS NOT PAID?! These foreign workers were st the Ministry of Manpower building yesterday to complain that they had not been paid for three months. They said they had not gone to work for the past five days In protest. Picture/ The Straits Times
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    • News Break
      • 64 5 COURT TWO dog shooters with the then Primary Production Department were fined $7,000 each for accidentally killing a jobless man when they fired at a pack of stray dogs. More than 60 pellets were found in the head and face of Mr Lim Cheng Choon, 59, who was
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      • 55 5 HELP SCHEMES THE Singapore International Foundation's overseas volunteer health scheme has been so successful that some requests for aid have to be rejected. SIF Executive Director Dr Tan Chi Chiu said SIF would evaluate all proposed medical projects, but will concentrate on those which provide basic health-care services
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      • 50 5 DRUGS TWO more drugs norephedrine and norpseudophedrine have been included in the list of controlled substances. Anyone caught with them will be committing an offence under the Misuse of Drug Act. These drugs are used in the illicit production of amphetamines, which are drugs used especially as stimulants.
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      • 57 5 SM lee's'memoirsl UMNO Youth leader Datuk Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the views of Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew on Malaysia, in his soon-to-be released memoirs, were his personal views and did not reflect the sentiments of Singapore's present leaders. The book, From Third World To First, will
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    • 47 5 New Straits Times: Three Malaysians kidnapped International Herald Tribune: Traders push Euro still lower Asian Wall Street Journal: China will merge its two exchanges BBC news: The President of Opec has warned that oil producers may not be able to meet rising world demands
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    • 75 6 Quote Wwortny > The crisis had set backAsean's economic dynamism and raised doubts about .Asean's credibility and relevance as a regional organisation... Now, even though the crisis has passed, we are still seen as weakened and drifting. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on how Asean must dispel the
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    • 62 6 LANGUAGE THE Speak Mandarin campaign goes to the movies. A Mandarin Film Festival organised by the Promote Mandarin Council, begins this Sunday, a day after the launch of the campaign by Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan. It will feature 12 movies from China, ranging from family
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    • 63 6 DEATH A TAXI driver is suspected to have died from hornet stings. Mr Zhuang Li Qing, 51, was found among the bushes at Marina South yesterday, reports Lianhe Zaobao. He died an hour later. He was believed to have been attacked by hornets while waiting for a
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    • 60 6 COURT A WOMAN has accused her ex-boyfriend of checking her e-mail messages so that he could find out her plans and stalk her. He also allegedly sent out lewd messages to her friends. Freelance computer technician, Lim Siong Khee, 29, is now on trial in the Subordinate Courts
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    • 55 6 MALAYSIA MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he would hand over more of his duties to Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and start the transition process in the leadership of his government. He would concentrate more on his duties as Umno president while the Deputy Prime Minister
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    • 71 6 The Straits Times: Star Hub, Sing Tel to get $1.9b payout The Business Times: Star Hub to get $I.oBb, Sing Tel $859 m Uanhe Zaobao: Government compensates Sing Tel and Star Hub over $1.9 billion for early liberalisation of telco industry Berita Harlan: Three Malaysians abducted from
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    • 116 6 m F§K§US EDUCATION can wait, the Internet cannot. That's what more students are saying as they put their studies on hold to take the plunge into Internet start-ups. Tins year, five National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduates from engineering, building and law did just that Professors
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    • 117 6 $"S* STOCKS closed lower yesterday, on worries of sagging corporate profits after an analyst adjusted his expectations for International Business Machines Corp downwards because of the strong US dollar. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 25.16 points to end the day at 11,195.49. The technology-laced Naodaq composite index
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    • 61 6 Quote Wworthy It's legal to cuckold your husband but a crime tojlee with your lover. Italian judge II Messaggero in upholding the coiimction by two lower courts of a 31-year-old woman on charges of abandoning the marital home. The judge said Italian wives should limit extramarital affairs
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    • 30 6 Tongue WHAT' Hey, wait a minute. You are charging me only $2.50? I had the same dish yesterday and it cost $4.50. Why? Oh, that's because I they weren't leftovers
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  • 396 7  -  SINGAPORETODA Y By Lee Tee Jong LITTLE Lum Rui Qi celebrated his second birthday only two weeks ago. A healthy and happy child. On Sunday, he was dead. Leaving his bewildered parents to try to make some sense of it. On Friday, he developed a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 505 11  -  By Andre Yeo THEY were going to watch a movie about a brutal serial killer who tortures his victims. Then they bumped into another group of young people. And what happened next was all too real. Angry looks and words were exchanged. A
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    • 251 11 WONG Yew Tien, Tan Tian Lai Celestine and Lim Chee Wei were charged in the High Court yesterday with culpable homicide not amounting to murder. They also faced two charges of voluntarily causing hurt with a weapon and another two of voluntarily causing hurt. They pleaded guilty to all
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    • 307 12 Stuck in heavy rain, with the entire road blocked by a thick fallefrbranch, and a line of angry drivers honkyi£K away behind you. Would you know what to do in a situation like that? These six SBS Superbus captains did, as TAN HS.EN CHONG report, ft This happened
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    • 146 12 Actually, I felt I was being very kaypoh (nosey), and rather silly —standing in the rain and doing something that wain't part of my job. All I could think cfwas that the bus routes were blocked, and our passengers would be delayed. How were we
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    • 85 13 THE New Paper readers had no difficulty finding Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in this group of world leaders gathered for the Millennium Summit in New York. Out of 1,659 calls received, 1,403 could identify him (circled above). Ten correct callers were picked to win
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    • 234 14  - ADDICT ADDICT DEATH Andre Yeo By SIM HOCK LAI THIS drug addict got irritated with the request of a fellow drug addict. His irritation grew when the other person kept hounding him. It reached the point where his patience snapped and he punched the second guy. The man fell— and
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    • 86 14 Sim pleaded guilty to three charges of causing grievous hurt, consuming a controlled drug and failing to report for a urine test. On Sept 6, he was jailed a total of seven years and given six strokes of the cane. He was sentenced to 18 months'jail for
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 140 16 AP. SURGEONS must improvise on a war front, as this TV image shows. Russian soldier Andrian Chebodayev's left leg had been hit by a grenade (above) fired from a launcher in Chechnya yesterday. The grenade broke his thigh bone but didn't explode
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    • 124 16  -  Phone line dead, mutilated body found By Melvin Singh HE told me his life was in danger. Now he is dead. The body of Mr Ismail Syahputra, spokesman for the Free Aceh Movement, was found on Sept 4, about 80km from Medan. I tried calling
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    • 230 16 EVEN prominent human rights activist Jafar Siddiq Hamzah, 35, was not safe. Mr Jafar disappeared from Medan in July. A month later, his body was found mutilated and with four other rotting corpses. All five had their limbs tied with barbed wire. Police described the area this
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    • 332 19 Women were raped says released Finn SIPADAN HOSTAGE CRISIS Wire Services. AT least one woman among the hostages recently released by the Abu Sayyaf group on the Philippine island of Jolo was raped by the rebels. This was revealed by a Finnish hostage, Mr Risto Vahanen, on Finnish television yesterday.
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    • 257 19  -  PANDANAN HOSTAGE CRISIS By C L TAN Reporting from Kuala Lumpur ALL 14 staff on duty at the resort in Pandanan Island off Sabah's east coast knew what they had to do in an emergency. They were supposed to alert the Malaysian Police General Operations Force in
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    • 271 19 colleagues missing. The three are: Resort manager, Mohd Noh Sulaiman, 43, divemaster Joseph Joe Jongkinoh, 40, and contractor Kan Vui Chung, 31. In a stran«« twist off fata, ona of the three hostages taken yastarday happens to ba a brother-in-law of an earlier hostage. "Why my family?"
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    • 126 19  -  WOONWUITEK pieces together what happened 4MHB Graphics by KELVIN Sunday, 7pm ■mi 4 Monday, 12.30pm MONDAY, 12.30 am: the staff members finally re-enter the resort and call for help from the nearby fishing town of Semporna. Helicopters and navy boats join the search. SUNDAY, 7 pm: Two
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    • 80 19 THE Pandanan Semporna Island Resort, on the tiny island of Pandanan, is ringed by sandy beaches and pristine offshore corals. Pandanan is 22.5 km off the Sabah fishing town of Semporna (a 30-minute speedboat ride away) and is only a kilometre in length. Sabahans are not surprised
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    • 91 19 WHEN the Abu Sayyaf raiders grabbed hostages on April 23, they targeted the Sipadan diving resort. Pandanan, if more obscure, is even closer to the Philippine island of Jolo. And the modus operandi in both raids was similar. Police public relations officer Barnabas Hokial told The New
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    • 92 19 MALAYSIA'S Deputy Premier has ordered the police to increase security in holiday resorts throughout Malaysia. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi also hinted yesterday that the government expected the kidnappers to ask for ransom, reported the Beraama news agency. Meanwhile, the Malaysian police said that the kidnappers (and
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    • 102 19 AFP. PHILIPPINE police have confirmed that Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremists have taken the three new hostages to their stronghold in the southern island of Jolo. Sulu provincial police chief Candido Casimio said five rebels took the Malaysians to Jolo at 1.30 pm yesterday. He said the abductors were led
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  • 352 21 WORLDTODAY IT was a rare call for the Pope. A call to calm down a teenager who was showing erratic behaviour. It happened in the heart of the Vatican. St Pttor's Square in Rome was packed for tha general audience with the Pope last Wednesday when
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    • 669 24 The 52nd Emmy Awards yesterday dumped lawyers and cops to embrace politicians, gays and one gangster boss. With a new voting system that finally honours other good shows, Emmy favourites Ally Mcßeal, The Practice, NYPD Blue, Frasier and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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    • 159 24 OUTSTANDING.... DRAMA SEMES The West Wing COMEDY SERIES Will Grace ACTOR MA DRAMA SEMES James Gandolfini, The Sopranos ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SEMES Sela Ward, Once and Again ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES Michael J. Fox, Spin City ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SEMES Patricia Heaton, Everybody Loves Raymond
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  • 480 28  -  I By Serene Foo THINK Hongkong rock band. No, not Beyond. It's Zen. Their Mandarin hit, I Remember You, is still frequently heard on the airwaves, five years after its "elease. The foursome actually came to Singapore in 1995 to record their debut
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    • 537 37  -  By Danny Khoo THE worst is finally over. What had looked like being a disastrous year for Australian trainer Don Baertschiger only a few months ago may well turn out to be one of his better seasons. All thanks to the fact that a
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    • 167 37 WORKOUTS by horses engaged tomorrow: RACE 1: Slow work: Ambassador Star, last-start winner Celebrity Look, looking well, Sweet Smile, Purple Knight. RACE 2: Slow work: Our Sandman displayed good form in 36.5. Last-start winner Prince Of Profit shaped well in 41.2. RACE 3: Hammett cantered a round,
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    • 242 37 Reuters MONTJEU enhanced his status as favourite for next month's Arc de Triomphe with a comfortable win in the Group Two Prix Foy at Longchamp on Sunday. British bookmakers Ladbrokes shortened the French star from 4-6 to 4-7 after the 1999 Arc
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      876 43 IT was a rivalry which simmered. Then boiled, before finally exploding in an Asian Stadium a world apart from where both had begun their careers. Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis didn't like each other. Never did. And they weren't afraid to make it known. The bad blood
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    • 277 45 Maurice Greene 'wins the 100 metres', the world watches on TV but not his home fans. Thev get to see the race half a dav later... I Singapore Is three hours beMod —a oyvncy USA Today. TO the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (faster, higher, stronger)
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      195 45 Protests mar preparations Reuters. THE US Olympic men's basketball squad made a pre-dawn exit from their hotel today. It came after they were trapped by a violent protest against a World Economic Forum meeting in the same building. The gold medal favourites missed practice and were restricted
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    • 114 45 THE (ALL) WEATHER GIRL SAYS... A PERFECT spring night, but there is an outside chance of rain and strong winds. That's the weather forecast for Friday's opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. That's according to computer models. Not this old girt who has
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      593 46 TOTTENHAM 1 (Sol Campbell 66th min) WEST HAM 0 WEEKEND FIXTURES SATURDAY Arsenal v Coventry Aston Villa v Bradford Charlton v Tottenham Everton v Man United Leeds v Ipswich Southampton v Newcastle Sunderland v Derby SUNDAY Chelsea v Leicester Man City v Middlesbrough West Ham v Liverpr ">1
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    • 67 46 IN our English Premier League contest last week, we asked you to guess if Michael Owen would score for Liverpool in the match against Manchester City. Answer: Ym, Im did. Two callers who guessed correctly were picked to win a Tissot PRS2OO watches endorsed by none other
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    • 558 46  -  By Edwin Yeo YOU would think that I would be beaming after Tottenham Hotspur's 1-0 win over fellow Londoners West Ham this morning. You might even want to turn this page as you would expect me to be gloating disgustingly, even as Spurs move to
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      396 47  -  Four Indian Association hockey players Umpire Mohd Hidir By Lim Han Ming THE verdict is out. Four Indian Association (IA) players have been suspended by the Singapore Hockey Federation for "bringing the game into disrepute". The disciplinary committee, headed by lawyer Ramesh Appoo, found K S Nathan, R Muralitharan,
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    • 71 47 THE fracas apparently took place after Combined Schools player Jeremy Leong got hit in the face by IA player Nathan's hockey stick. Umpire Mohd Hidir initially flashed a yellow card at Nathan. But, after conferring with second umpire Suklyit Singh, he changed it to red. Nathan got angry
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    • 115 47 IA team manager T Kartfeesan: Failing to control his players from threatening match umpire Mohd Hidir with violence; threatening the said umpire with violence. Verdict: Acquitted due to lack of evidence IA player K S Nathan: Hitting player Jeremy Leong with a hockey stick; assaulting
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    • 251 47 OLYMPICS AFP. AUSTRALIA'S men's hockey team is the best in the world, some commentators say. But they also add: That is to say, the kookaburras are the best players not to have won an Olympic gold. This label is something the "kookas" want to
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    • 441 48  -  TIGER BEER SINGAPORE CUP By Gary Lim THE build-up to this cracker of a game was anything but a smooth one for Home United. And here are four reasons why the game was initially predicted to be a walk-over for Gombak United: i:
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    • 207 48 ASIAN CUP-WINNERS' CUP WANG MENG MENG. DO NT miss the opening 20 minutes. Today's Asian Cup-Winners' Cup first-round second leg match (7.30pm, Jurong Stadium) between SAFFC and Vietnam's Saigon Port FC is primed for an explosive start. This was revealed by SAFFC coach Fandi Ahmad and team manager
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    • 662 49  -  Follow the Champions League with Edwin Yeo KICKOFF: World's biggest club soccer tournament COMMENT EDWIN YEO A LITTLE known fact about this time of year is that the people in the coffee-selling business in Singapore will be smiling. Because, for the next nine months or so,
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