The New Paper, 1 January 2001

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1 39 The New Paper

  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 276 2 NUCLEAR bombs were secretly kept in Singapore in the early *****. And they were stored at the RAF Tengah Air Base. Britain kept it so hush-hush that even the Government did not know about it. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan personally gave
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    • 179 2 IT was a good beginning for a gang of 15 robbers. They broke into a warehouse in Ipoh, Perak early yesterday morning and carted away alcoholic drinks worth RM450,000 ($208,000). The police said the gang made off with the goods in two lorries.
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    • Article, Illustration
      389 3  -  Singapore slips into the new millennium The real, true millennium happened last night, at the stroke of midnight. But although many Singaporeans partied hard and long to welcome in the New Year, the feeling just wasn't quite the same. Maybe it had something to do with the numbers.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 280 4  -  THE HOUR SINGAPORE SLIPPED INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM By Serene Foo LITTLE Lynette Lim, three, stood just behind the barricades. Wide-eyed, she watched Thailand's pop-charting duo China Dolls boogie on stage. They were at the millennium countdown party at Downtown East, Pasir Ris. But Lynette's mother Carine
      Picture/ Zaihan Mohd Yusof  -  280 words
    • 176 5  -  By Dawn Chia Di eagerly to leave the last millennium behind and welcome the new one. The final 10 seconds flashed on the large screen for all to see: Five, four, three, two... ONE! At the stroke of midnight, colourful pieces of confetti and hundreds
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 248 6 HH fIfIHHHH H :'^^H 'v ':-<'^H Singaporeans have made the e-world sit up and take notice of one of their favourite pastimes shopping. Singaporeans figure prominently among global online buyers, averaging US$l5O ($260) per order. That is the highest value per order anywhere in the cyberworld, reports Project
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 6 P Icicles hang from a sign at Fancy Farms, a strawberry farm in Florida, US. Temperatures dipped below freezing early on New Year's Eve, putting a chill on beach vacations and bowl games. Picture/ Ap
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    • News Break
      • 63 6 LEGAL SERVICES LOCAL law firm Colin Ng Partners is launching a joint venture with foreign firm White Case today to form White Case, Colin Ng Partners. The new firm will offer legal services to a worldwide clientele. Previously, foreign law firms were prohibited from involvement with local law
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      • 52 6 SUZHOU FROM today, a Chinese team will take over from Singapore management of the joint-venture China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park industrial township. At the helm is Suzhou vice-mayor Wang Jinhua, 50, who replaces Major-General (NS) Lim Neo Chian. The Chinese now have a 65 per cent stake; Singapore, 35
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      • 133 6 HEALTHCARE SINGAPORE General Hospital has increased its consultation charges at specialist-outpatient clinics by up to 70 per cent. Even subsidised patients will pay 7 per cent more in estimated average bills. A hospital spokesman said the increase was necessary to "reflect the progressively higher cost of outpatient care
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      • 60 7 MALAYSIA THE official website of Parliament has been hacked and, all its information wiped out. The hacker who called himself "topeira" removed the website at www.parlimen.gov.my and replaced it with some foreign words and a Brazilian address on the rock group, Garbage. This is the first time the
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      • 57 7 theuI^^B NON-SMOKERS buying British life insurance will get 40-per cent cheaper premiums if they take a new test to prove they do not smoke. The urine test kit, developed by medical scientist Dr Graham Cope, costs about £5 ($l3) each. Insurance companies say they are the first convenient,
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      • 56 7 WANTED COMMUNITY self-help groups are for more PCs for disadvantaged families. 'We'll be facing a shortage of donated computers when the new school year starts, as more needy families will be applying for a chance to own a second-hand PC," said Ms Gam Huey Yi, the Chinese Development
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      • 47 7 I A Malaysian homeopathy practitioner claims to have developed a formula to help childless couples conceive. Dr Nik Omar, with 23 years of experience in homeopathy, said the "Homeopathic Therapeutic of (HTIP2000) formula did not involve surgery or antibiotics, but relied instead on "natural herbs".
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    • 14 6 BBC news: US signs treaty establishing world's first permanent criminal court
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    • 155 7 in PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong wished Singaporeans a Happy New Year with a message that resonated for many: The economy beat all expectations last year, and most Singaporeans benefited as jobs were created. The economy grew at 10 per cent, well above
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    • 43 7 The Straits Times: Growth last year a strong 10.1% The Business Times: Indonesia makes landmark autonomy transition Berita Harian: Brave future uncertainties RCS morning news: S'pore's economy grew by 10.1% in the year 2000 Project Eyeball: Nuclear bombs in S'pore
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    • 73 7 Quote Wworthy w Governments will have less control over information, technology, diseases, migrants, arms, and financial transactions... Between now andZOls, terrorist tactics will become increasingly sophisticated and designed to achieve mass casualties. The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in its study, Global Trends 2015.
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    • 258 6 AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY Australian National University University of Canberra m University of New South Wales University of Technology, Sydney 1 information sessionsl I Ejrfplment is open for OC£ 'OVA' level Matriculation, foundation and Poly N No™^St y /Wmates February 2001 July 2001. l~ QUEENSLAND Date JJJedi nesday,3January2001at7pm Bond University Wednesday,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 496 8  -  First dav in school? By] Michelle Choh SO, your Primary 1 kid is going to school for the first time tomorrow. Worried that he or she will have first-day jitters? Well, over at East Coast Primary School, the school principal and teachers have
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    • 509 9 The New Paper recently reported on the case of a man and his family who had to live with foreign workers in their terrace house. Here's part two of the on-going saga. DESMOND NG reports ONE side claims it's pressure tactics. The other says it's good business
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    • 230 9 THE family patriarch, Mr Chia Pak Shoon, who died in 1972, divided his Wilkie Terrace bungalow between four of his sons and the youngest of his four wives. And, all lived happily in the bungalow, which was split into two semi-detached units. Mr Chia, his younger brother
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      353 10  -  By Rosalyn Lim THE FIRE was blazing just metres away, but Mrs Selena Ong was, in her own words, "sleeping like a baby". The bank executive, 29, slept through the sound of glass shattering, people vomiting and a raging fire spewing thick black smoke. The fire broke out at
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    • 337 11  -  BY Amrit Kaur GRANDMA'S going to school again! The children are six years old and she is over 60 but they cannot wait for her to come to class! For she never fails to bring with her exciting stories of fairies, goblins and beautiful princesses.
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    • 449 12  -  FALUNGONG STANDOFF AT MACRITCHIE REPORTS TANYA FONG THEY knew they had no permit to gather. Yet, Falungong members decided to gather at Macßitchie Reservoir last night. They had gathered on New Year's Eve for a memorial to more than 100 of their fellow
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    • 87 13 CHINA has banned the Falungong, labelling it a subversive group. The Falungong is registered as a legal organisation in Singapore. Rooted in traditional Chinese martial-arts exercises, the Falungong claims it commands a following of 70 million in China, many disillusioned by growing corruption and social problems, as well
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    • 224 14 SOME of his fellow Falungong members have been arrested. And he wanted to do something about it. As the police bus was leaving, one Falungong follower, who wanted to be known only as Mr Zhang, was seen trying to stop it but to no
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    • 307 15  -  WHILE YOU WERE OUT CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR.... BY Tanya Fong IT was a silent night at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department. The New Paper team staked out the place from 9pm yesterday till 2am this morning. As the final minutes of
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 251 16 THIS is the advice given by *N Sync singer Justin Timberlake to girlfriend Britney Spears. The hunky boy-band sensation who also proudly admitted he's a virgin said he was making the plea to the pop princess out of "concern" that she's setting a bad example for
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    • 270 16 s FORMER Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been 'legally advised" to appear in a Miami court this week. Otherwise he might have to suffer the embarrassment of having details published of his £70 million ($180.6 million) business empire, reported The Sunday Times, London. The
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    • 255 17 AP A FAMILY of four, including young children, were found brutally murdered yesterday in their Tokyo home, the latest in a series of violent crimes that have stunned this usually placid nation. All were repeatedly stabbed in the neck and on their faces, a
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    • 94 17 AP JAPAN has been struggling to make sense of a recent wave of violent crimes. Last week, two gunmen fired on a car transporting cash in Tokyo, killing one man and taking about 46 million yen (S$700,000). Hours later, in central Japan, two teens were arrested over the
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    • 62 17 mui*mui< Legendary film director Ingmar Bergman, 82, who directed classics such as The Seventh Seal, will keep himself busy staging plays but will not return to the movie business. In an interview with the tabloid, Expressen, he said: I have left the branch of butchery and whoring.
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    • 451 18 Millions of people around the world have begun festivities to ring in the New Year. In Australia, merrymakers kicked off what the government says will be the biggest party in the country's history to celebrate its 100 th birthday as a nation, the BBC reports. As festivities
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    • 323 19 THE upcoming elections in Thailand are not just stinking of corruption, but of rotting food too. Tonnes of eggs and fish sauce meant as bribes, were impounded by the Election Commission and stored at its headquarters in Bangkok. Officials had a rotten time
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    • 170 19 EVERY possible means of travel will be used to transport ballot boxes from polling booths to tally stations after Saturday's elections in Thailand. According to electoral laws in Thailand, ballot boxes must arrive at tally rooms within 12 hours of being sealed. Otherwise all ballots
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    • 475 19  -  Etcetera WITH DINAH LEE OUR poor teens. Life's no bed of roses for many. The teenage years are a time of pimples, crushes, misunderstandings, heartache and emotional instability. It's a time of trying to keep up with peers, meeting parents' expectations and trying to find
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  • ShowTime
    • 1308 21 It's been three months since Media Works star Lina Nggot hitched to prisons officer and former national bowler Mike Lam. And their bedroom secrets shocked each other. They tell TEO KUAN YEE more Is there something you didn't know
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    • 480 23  -  By' Yeoh Wee Teck IF NOT for radio, Class 95's Petrina Kow might be on stage this very moment in Florida, America. She would be singing Happy Talk from the musical South Pacific in a music theatre for a bunch of tourists. In August, she
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    • 418 24 So Channel 8 actress Chen Hui Hui won the Under-Rated, Talent Award at The New Paper Flame Awards. But she was left in the cold at the recent Star Awards despite being hotly tipped to win. But surprise, surprise, she is cool about
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  • RACINGTODAY
    • 363 31  -  Coronation Cup winner bags Governor's Gold Cup as well By Michael Lee ALL things considered, Ballistic was probably neither the best horse nor the most accomplished stayer in the RMI million ($450,000) Governor's Gold Cup field at Penang yesterday, but the underrated Legend Wind entire defied his
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    • 392 31  -  By Tan Thean Loon THE man with the Midas touch did it again. His mount Ballistic was deemed as a no-hoper, but champion jockey Saimee Jumaat went on to capture the RMI million ($450,000) Governor's Gold Cup all the same in Penang
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    • 1549 31 YESTERDAY'S PENANG RACE RESULTS —Going Yielding 5 HOGANS HILL 57 (9-6) KLOo (8) 2 2 1 (491) 4 GOLD HARP 57 (19-6) D Bradley (6) 1 1 2 (503) 1 BABY CHILLIES 57 (32-7) LSofhan (7) 4 4 3 (478) 2 -BEST WIN 57 (37-7)
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    • 1217 32 RACE 1: UNIT ONE was withdrawn by order of the stewards at 1.28pm acting on a report from the analyst that the colt had failed his pre-race blood test. UNIT ONE was impounded for further analytical and veterinary exam. BABY CHILLIES jumped
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 32 32 4-D DRAW SUNDAY: December 31, 2000 FIRST SECOND 1 THIRD STARTERS 6670 0119 3017 1694 3038 7959 9730 9303 1092 4647 CONSOLATION 3850 4374 0686 3538 2820 4716 9511 9225 5479 7168
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • MATCH TAKE: ROUND 18 SATURDAY'S ACTION
      • 538 33 Graham rages... but wants to stay on at White Hart Lane m IPSWICH 3 TOTTENHAM 0 Soccernet. Reuters IT was the mental anguish caused by humiliation, not physical pain, which lined the face of Tottenham boss George Graham. To be beaten by a team as superbly prepared, as tactically aware
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      • 125 33 BBC Sport Online. SPURS defender Sol Campbell will be offered a £15 million ($37.5 m) package to sign for Valencia before his contract at Tottenham ends this summer. The Spanish giants are ready to break the bank in a bid to beat off Manchester United, Real
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      • 464 34 ARSENAL 2 SUNDERLAND 2 SUNDERLAND manager Peter Reid said: "To come back from two down and take a point against a side of Arsenal's calibre is fantastic. But if we had not shown Arsenal so much respect in the first half, it could have been even better."
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      • 367 34 NEWCASTLE 1 MANCHESTER UTDI Soccernet. REFEREE Mike Riley finally gave a decision in favour of Manchester United. It helped Manchester United gain an advantage a hotly-contested spot-kick decision over Newcastle on Saturday, though in the end it fetched the leader only one point. David
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    • MANCHESTER UNITED v WEST HAM
      • 466 35  -  LIVE ON FC 22.3.55 am. TOMORROW mom EDWIN YEO HAPPY New Year to all of you out there who are awake and reading this after last night's wild celebrations. No matter which club you support, even if it is Liverpool, I wish on
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      • 249 35 MANCHESTER United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has admitted that he almost made a move for West Ham's Paolo di Canio to replace Eric Cantona. The controversial, yet sublime, di Canio was checked out by Sir Alex after Cantona retired, but the Manchester United boss
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    • 802 36 HOW EDWIN YEO RATES THE REST Of THE NEW YEAR'S PAY ACTION CHARLTON vs ARSENAL Arsenal really has to start winning away for Man U to take it seriously. Two wins in 10 away fixtures isn't the kind of form it needs. And the Valley wouldn't be an
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    • 449 37  -  It's that time of the year when one rumbles through the cupboard, looking for unwanted items to discard. For old, tired ideas to make room for new, refreshing ones. The S-League, too, should do a bit of cupboard-cleaning, says PETER 510W... COMMENT PETER
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 718 38 TVTOOAY Messengers Starship Troopers Maximum Risk TllCVl W Entertainment (Ch 56), Channel 5,7.30pm Channel 5,10pm O' 10pm High school kids are encouraged to An action packed drama about a I She is a woman used to a luxurious become 'citizens' by enlisting in the sniper who seeks revenge for the
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  • Article, Illustration
    286 39 BBC THIS must be the first time tennis megababe Anna Kournikova has been dumped by another woman, of all people. The Russian is on the lookout for a new partner after her doubles partnership was ended by Martina Hingis. Hingis claimed that the split was due to her
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  • 302 39 Bi PREVIEW OF TONIGHTS MATCHES/PASES 36 37 ARSENAL: SEAMAN OUT? DAVID Seaman's career could be in jeopardy if reports of Arsenal signing Polish international goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek are true. The Highbury side is rumoured to have agreed to a $11.25 million deal with Feyenoord to sign
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