The New Paper, 22 December 2000

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  • 7 1 the new paper FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22 2000
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    • 75 2 BIGGEST This 100x70cm version of the Koran, Islam's holy book, takes two years to complete. Its creator, Mr Hassan Zayat, 24, of Lebanon, hopes the 604-page book will break the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest Koran. SMALLEST And this almost thumb-sized, 572-page version
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    • 332 2 THAILAND'S powerful anti-corruption body dropped a political bombshell yesterday. It recommended that the front runner to become Thailand's next prime minister be charged for violating the Constitution. The National Counter j Corruption Commission (NCCC) said Thai Rak Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra broke the law
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    • 121 2 A JEWELLER was entombed in his own walk-in safe for four days with only a packet of biscuits for food. But Mr William Joyce, 70, was none the worse for the experience. He even mended a clock during his ordeal, to pass
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    • 316 3 AP. ALL eyes were on baby Rocco Ritchie yesterday and not on his pop diva mama. The four-month-old upstaged Madonna on the eve of her wedding, as she and husband-to-be Guy Ritchie took the baby to church to be baptised. Looking demure in a long,
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    • 712 4  -  No more weight-loss drugs for him By Michelle Choh HE had heard all about the possible side effeots linked to the fat-busting drug, Xenioal. Stories of oil leaking from the anus without any warning. He wasn't terribly overweight, either. Yet, he decided to try
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    • 503 5 SHE wanted to shed 10kg. To do so, Mr Tan's friend, Ms Jasmine Tan (not her real name), 34, a sales manager, was prepared to face any of the side effects of Xenical she had heard about. Mr Tan might have given it
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    • 252 5 HOW can you eat, drink and be merry this festive season without piling on the calories? Some people think they can do it by popping the fat-busting drug, Xenical, before indulging in turkey and log-cake. According to Dr Koh Yang Huang, head of Tan Tock Seng Hospital's
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    • 57 5 XENICAL has been one of the five top-selling drugs in Singapore since its official launch last year, according to figures from the industry here. Roche Singapore, which distributes Xenical, cannot give details of their sale volume, but a spokesman from NTUC Healthcare Pharmacy said more
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 257 6 Hf STORY CUSTOMERS want hot food to break the fast. So some stallholders have been cooking up a storm at the Geylang Serai bazaar. And they have been fined for this. Under Ministry of Environment rules, stallholders are not to prepare food at the
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    • News Break
      • 54 6 oo^^M THE three Singapore Airlines pilots held by Taiwanese authorities for more than seven weeks since the SQ 006 crash returned home last night. But reporters at the airport missed them. SIA spokesman Rick Clements declined to confirm their return last night. He said that the airline would
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      • 55 6 M crim^^^B FOUR members of a gang which barged into Singapore General Hospital and savagely bashed a man in the carpark, have been arrested. The suspects, aged between 22 and 26, were flushed out by the police after a two-week investigation into the gangland-style attack on Dec 7.
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      • 66 6 CPF EIGHTY, alone, and ill, Madam Lee Ah Kow couldn't afford a taxi to the Central Provident Fund Board to top up her account. So, she wrote to the board for help. Three days later, employer-services executive Allan Tan, stood at her door. The board tries to go
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      • 61 6 I EDUCATION SEVEN out of 10 small pre-schools told The Straits Times that there may be a hike in their school fees. That's to absorb the cost of training once teachers upgrade their skills under the Ministry of Education's Pre-school Education Teacher-Training and Accreditation Framework, to start in
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    • 46 6 New Straits Times: Accident rate keeps rising International Herald Tribune: Conservatives press Bush over Cabinet Asian Wall Street Journal: Weakened Japanese economy could stumble into recession BBC news: Israel's election of PM would be a two-way battle between Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres
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    • 68 7 I SCIENCE IT is a sexual scent. And it can make a woman spend more money shopping. A new Australian study has found that the male pheromone can influence a woman's spending habits and purchasing decisions. A study of female nursing students in Rockhampton, Queensland, found that
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    • 56 7 I ROADS SINGAPORE'S roads will be kept clean by private companies from January. German solid waste management company Altvater has won a four-year, $36-million contract to clean 1,500 km of roads in western and eastern Singapore. The remaining roads, in the central sector, are under Semac, which started
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    • 57 7 FASHION M SINGAPORE'S best fashion designers can now show off their latest creations in Paris, at the invitation of the Deputy Mayor of Paris, Mr Patrick Olivier Picourt. In return, he hopes to learn more about the architecture of roofs here. The invitation follows the signing of an
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    • 57 7 M AVIATION M AMERICAN aviation experts want aircraft makers to re-design black boxes so that pilots can't switch them off in mid-flight. They also want improved cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in three to five years. These recommendations follow the probe into the 1997 Silk Air
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      53 7 We do not recommend it, but we accept it if our staff react when assaulted. We will defend our staff in court. Swissair spokesman Erwin Schaerer on how Swissair/light attendants will be allowed to slap sex pests and retaliate against other unruly passengers by tying them up
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    • 87 7 US STOCKS ended a volatile session yesterday with modest gains, as the tech-heavy Nasdaq edged up slightly after hitting a 21-month low the previous day. The Nasdaq composite rose 7.34 points to 2,340.12 and the Dow Jones industrials rallied 148.64 points to close at 10,487.29. Blue-chip stocks posted
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    • 62 7 Hie Straits Times: Pilots allowed to leave Taiwan The Business Times: New accounting rules could jolt earnings Lianhe Zaobao: Three SIA pilots back in Singapore last night Berita Harian: SQ 006 pilots allowed to return home PCS morning news: The SQ 006 pilots returned home after seven
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 620 11  -  By Desmond Ng THEY URINATE openly into the drain downstairs, just below his bedroom. They stay up until lam, cooking their supper. Clad in only their towels, some even bathe out in the open. For over 60 years, Mr Chia Teck Sian has been living in
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    • 163 11 HIS BIGGEST worry is that the workers are illegal. And he will be responsible. According to a Project Eyeball report yesterday, Mr Chia alerted both the Minstry of Manpower and the Tanglin Police Division. And he was advised that as co-owner of the place,
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    • 130 12 Graphic snapshot of changes in I Singapore workforce TAKE a closer look at those who are contributing to our economy and you might be surprised. Because the Department of Statistics, in its latest instalment of the advance data from Census 2000, tells us that
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    • 380 14  -  By Jason Tan THEIRS was an American dream of a different kind. Koh Chin Hoe, 31, and Soh Cheng Ghee, 26, wanted to see the bright lights of Los Angeles. So when a fake passport syndicate offered them tickets to LA and
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    • 34 14 Koh Chin Hoe, 31, and Soh Cheng Ghee, 26, was each jailed six months for helping to cheat by impersonation. They could have been jailed up to three years, or fined or both.
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    • 289 16  -  IBy Andre Yeo HE went for a house-warming party but there was nothing warm about the people he met. A few days later, one of their friends stabbed his brother in the back with a pair of scissors. On Sept 9, Shahrul
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      77 16 On Dec 21, Mohammad Hajral Aswad AdzharSah, Saiful Jani, Mohamad Razali Kamis and Azlan Abdul Malek were convicted of rioting and each sentenced to three years'jail and six strokes of the cane. They could have been jailed up to five years. Deputy Public Prosecutor Benjamin Yim said Mohamed Farik
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    • 247 20 IF Mum's "on strike" this holiday season, and you're looking for a good place to eat out at, without burning a crater in your pocket, here's a short list that might help you out. Breeks Restaurant (Western food, traditional
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    • 494 21 m J:: IV 4 E M And May All Your SjE Christmases Be Bright... JP^m^Pf |jjg% It's going to be a celebration of song, dance and feasting at The Pan Pacific Singapore this festive season. R We've lined up an exciting array of yuletide goodies that is sure to please.
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    • 307 25  -  I Mum wants boy to stay home to look after younger brothers But teen goes out and steals bikes and computer game By Jason Tan Thirteen-year-old James did not go to school for six months. Because his mother told him not to. His
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    • 254 26 With Christmas, Hari Raya and New Year's Day strung so close together next week, will businesses and attractions take a break? A Hotline caller wants to know. DAWN CHIA checks it out Major shopping centres which will be open throughout this holiday period include:
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    • 302 29  -  By Lee Tee Jong ITS a sobering thought for the festive days ahead. Taking a walk when you i are drunk may not land you in court, but it can land you in hospital or worse. Those who drink shouldn't be driving, of
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      79 29 ON Monday, Tan Wei Leng, 23, was charged with causing the death of Mr Ooi Yew Beng due to a negligent act. He pleaded guilty. Tan's lawyer said in his mitigation plea that the road was poorly lit and that Mr Ooi had failed to look out for oncoming
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  • 53 31 muifmui* SINGAPORETODAY Actor Hossan Leo<% on the strangest phone call that The Necessary Stage (TNS) received on the theatre production, Asian Boys Vol 1: This old man calls up TNS: 'Hah-row, one ticket... Can I have the phone number of this actor, the one who never
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    • 325 33  -  She doesn't wet her panties any more By Rosalyn Lim UNTIL June last year, life wasn't exactly a song and dance for Madam Seah who loves to cha cha and rock and roll. Said the 45-year-old housewife in Mandarin: "I couldn't jump, laugh or even cough.
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    • 132 33 IT is embarrassing but it can be treated. Stress Urinaiy Incontinence (SUI) leaking of small amounts of urine when you cough, sneeze, laugh or lift something heavy afflicts more Singaporean women. Between 1997 and 1999 alone, KK Women's and Children's Hospital saw a 40 per cent increase.
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  • 72 35 muifmui* WORLDTODAY A British man has filed lor divorce from his wife of 38 years on the grounds that he could no longer tolerate her habit of constantly adjusting the furniture. Retired chemical worker John Turner said: There was not a day when she was
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  • 289 37 Indonesia's former ruling party reviews the year Golkar to Gus Dur: WORLDTODAY PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid's government is "starting to lose its legitimacy" despite having been democratically elected. This is what Indonesia's second largest political party, the Golkar Party, said in its year-end review yesterday, reported
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    • 275 39 AT the age of 75, it was terrible enough for Mr Hsu Jui-nien to be involved in a motorcycle accident. He received serious injuries and had to be rushed to hospital in Chiayi County on Sunday. After battling for over two hours,
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    • 300 40 Wire services. THE marriage may be falling apart. But the death and kidnapping threats made to former tennis star Boris Becker and his family continue. To the extent where Becker has asked for closed court proceedings during his wife's alimony and child support
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    • 301 42 A HONGKONG playboy tycoon who wines and dines movie stars is fighting for his life after collapsing aboard his luxury yacht in an apparent suicide attempt. Louis Lo Siu-Fai, a close friend of Singaporean actress Pauline Suen, was rushed from his HK$2O million ($4.46 million)
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    • 153 42 MR Lo was once known as "Genius Fai" because of his rapid rise up the business ladder. Active in stock investment, he was hit by the 1997 financial crisis. In January, Jade Point International sued Mr Lo for more than HK$77 million in allegedly unpaid loans used to
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      376 112  -  Locals only policy for NFL Div 2 3 By Peter Siow FOREIGN players have been barred from playing in Divisions Two and Three of the National Football League from next season. The idea is to give local youngsters more opportunities to compete in the lower divisions. Last season,
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