The New Paper, 23 January 2001

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1 43 The New Paper

  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      505 2 People power toppled Mr Joseph Estrada from the Philippine presidency. To them, it's now up to Mrs Gloria Arroyo to sort out the mess created by the former president. How wrong. The people will have to rise again and fast. If not, Mr Estrada will be laughing all the
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    • MARKET WATCH
      • 181 2 THE Philippines celebrated the peaceful transfer of power from Mr Joseph Estrada to President Gloria Arroyo. The key index soared by more than 17 per cent. Foreign funds led the buying binge of blue chips. 'This is euphoria. This is the moment we have all been
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      • 121 2 AND CAUTION IN THE US Wire services. WHILE the Manila market sizzled, US stocks struggled for direction on the first full working day of President George Bush. On Wall Street, investors continued to rotate among sectors. They snapped up retail shares and moved away from technology stocks. The key word
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    • 494 3 Report and Pictures/ Ann-marie Tan IT was one ride that brought a blush to the cheeks even of Ms Angela Lau, a veteran Nite Owl driver. The 44-year-old bus captain, who does the Singapore Bus Service midnight runs, thought the last
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    • 162 3 SBS Nite Owl services operate from midnight to 4am on Fridays, Saturdays and the eve of public holidays. There are six Nite Owl services. They charge $2.50 for farecard users and $3.00 for cash payers. Concessions and travel rebates are not applicable. SBS launched the Nite Owl
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 247 6 BT DRY PM'S new year message SPEND time with your family. Make your family the centre of your life. That's the crux of Prime Minister Goh Chok Chinese New Year message. He said that the pressures of an increasingly competitive economy would weaken family
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    • 50 6 wflHHftwi BIG BIRD: This could be the world's largest paper crane. Nearly a thousand people took two days to make this crane in Odate in northern Japan. The bird, with a wing span of 78.19m r isa contender for the Guinness Book of Records. Picture/ Afp
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    • News Break
      • 56 6 COURT AN Indonesian maid has been charged with grievously hurting a toddler through a negligent act. Jumiarsih Wardi, 22, was playing with See Yong Zhao, two, swinging him around and over her shoulders, when the child's hands allegedly slipped from her grasp. Yong Zhao is now in coma,
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      • 60 6 MEDICAL THE Siamese twins from Nepal, due to be separated this month, have had the operation put back. The eight-month-old girls have an infection. Ganga and Jamuna are joined at the head and face in opposite directions. Their brains are growing and pressing into each other in
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      • 133 6 PUBLIC TRANSPORT HOW do you get to work? Most workers take the bus or train to get to the office. That's according to the latest figures on transport released by the Department of Statistics. And of those who rely on public transport, more are
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    • 47 6 New Straits Times: Estrada to be charged International Herald Tribune: Warming of earth raises new alarm Asian Wall Street Journal: Manila still faces long road to regain investor confidence BBC news: President Bush says there'll be no more American money for international abortion agencies
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    • 127 7 in FOCus THE fight to protect digital music files from being copied illegally has been taken one step further. IBM said it had created beefed-up technology that lets record companies and others restrict who can play and copy digital music files. The technology, called the IBM
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    • 61 7 HEALTH WEARING tight surgical socks while flying should help prevent dangerous blood clots, said top British surgeon Stephen Barker. Passengers can get clots economy class syndrome from sitting still too long. The compression socks push blood from the ankles to the heart to maintain flow. Such socks
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    • 67 7 EDUCATION FOR the first time, the National University of Singapore's MBA programme is among The Financial Times' 100 top courses. It came in at 89th, with praise for staff quality. The top 10 were mostly US universities. Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School pipped Harvard for top spot.
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    • 63 7 MALAYSIA MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the current Umno leaders are "rather too old to be at the helm". They will have to make way for credible and efficient ones among the younger generation, he said. His comments come at a time when there
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    • 59 7 10m jackpot TOTO THIS year's Toto Hongbao draw is expected to have a jackpot of $10 million. The draw is next Thursday from 5.30 pm at the Singapore Pools office. Ticket sales start at 4.40pm this Thursday. The final jackpot will depend partly on how many tickets are sold. Last
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    • 82 7 The Straits Times: Tend to family bonds, says PM The Business Times: Asia operators all set to roll out 3G services Lianhe Zaobao: PM Goh: The Snake Year will not be as good as the Dragon Year but no need for pessimism Berita Harian: Arroyo appeals for
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    • 45 7 (juote Wworthy so much about Singapore and it has been my here. But it's been such a disappointment for me. Jr Disabled Scottish tourist Anna McCafferty, who depends on a battery-operated scooter to get around. She had trouble getting around Singapore
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      712 8  -  :s| I ■Kjl» mm "a, 1 ">i- r By Lim Han Ming THE empire struck back at Raffles Institution on Jan 13. It looked like Darth Vader taking on Hans Solo in a typical Star Wars scene. Laser swords and luminous bullets bouncing around a colourful starship. Which
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      391 9 1 OUR COUNSELLORS 1 Schools JC Eugene Wfjeysingha, education consultant Poiytsdnlc Theresa Chan, Temasek Polytechnic ITE Lucia Khoo, Institute of Technical Education University Amarjeet Bajwa, Inter-Asia Consulting Group rri lAM taking my O levels this 4 year and am wondering what next. I have three choices: To go
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    • 798 10  -  and this camera spots her on the Ayer Rajah Expressway BY Joycelyn Wong THE Chuas had been looking forward to their reunion dinner tonight, Chinese New Year's eve. They had bought the ingredients for a steamboat dinner a week ago
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    • 86 11 AFTER Madam Ng was discovered missing, a thorough search was immediately conducted within the ward and the hospital. Madam Ng's family was also notified, said a spokesman from Alexandra Hospital. A missing persons report was then lodged with the police. In addition, a photograph of
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    • 365 12 Want to give a visitor something in tune with the Chinese New Year festivities? And not something tawdry from a flashy souvenir shop? TEHJEN LEE revisitfd Chinatown to check amP handmade scrolls fjjjp produced by a dying w breed of street
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    • 52 13 muifmui* Mr Kenny Yap, executive chairman and managing director of newly-listed Qfam Hu Corporation, spends at least $30,000t0 $40,000 throwing an annual Chinese New Year barbecue-cum-iucky draw and awards ceremony. He explained why: e The year-end is the time to celebrate. It's time
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    • 215 13 YOU need not just brains and luck to play The New Paper Scrabble Rumble. You also need to follow the rules and regulations. Many of the entries in the first week's contest were disqualified because the contestants did not follow the instructions. Here's a list of
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    • 379 14  -  Then, you'll like me! PHOTO JOURNALIST FLORENCE TAN WHAT do you say when you see a snake? Possibly: EEEK! But, by the time you get to know these cute crawlers, you may well be saying: OOOH! Snakes are usually thought of as slimy and vicious.
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    • 34 15 The Colourful Snakes of the World exhibition is held in the Marina Square Shopping Centre exhibition area. It is on till Feb 10, but closed for Chinese New Year tomorrow and Thursday.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 408 16 New Internet game offered by the maker of Tamagotchi allows men to chat with one of its seven fantasy women GUYS, distressed that your Internet date has not been returning your e-mail? Fear not. Now, Bandai, the Japanese firm that gave the world the Tamagotchi
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    • 346 17 THERE'S R, N and D in this affair, but they surely don't stand for Research and Development. Unless you count RND of the sexually precocious kind. R, N and D are three minors implicated in a hot Thai sex-and-politics soup. R is 13, and claims to
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    • 321 18 WHAT'S the first thing you'd like done if your child falls down and knocks his or her head on the ground? A CT (or CAT, as it is called in some Asian countries) scan, right? It will quickly reveal the extent of her
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    • 221 18 HE has Aids. And he was believed to be tinder such great mental torture that he burnt down the house he was living in, in Kedah last Thursday. The 54-year-old man has been HIV-positive for the last two years. He allegedly set
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    • 204 18 Source: Wire services. POSH Spice Victoria Beckham was desperate. A picture frame with the above words written by her footballer-husband David Beckam was among the items stolen along with her baggage. She had lost costly designer clothing too but she considered this silver photo frame
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  • 407 20 Clothes at the 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards were almost as tame as the choices for the awards. But, hey, some were still quite funny, reports DENISE CHONG Eriq LaSalle with Lucy Liu: LaSalle may not have been nominated for any awards
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  • 533 22  -  Almost anything goes this Chinese New Year spotlight By Dawn Chia REMEMBER the days when red was the only colour for children to wear during Chinese New Year? From the red frilly dresses, matching lacy socks and shiny shoes for girls, to the red shirts or
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  • 587 23 Her ex-husband, the bad boy of rock, has done it again. Liam Gallagher, of the band Oasis, was accused of groping an air stewardess' butt last week. Obviously, Patsy Kensit's decision to leave Gallagher was a right one. And, boy, is she relieved that her marriage
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  • 108 23 jhjE^JNREUABL^^^^^I lean laugh about it now, but it's if W£S&M>t(ible when someone i&U&Mut the door and they tell be back at 10 o'clock but actually come home four days later —when you didn't know whether they were lying dead in the gutter or were with another
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 337 24  -  (who could ask for anything more) By Kor Kian Beng Lauretta Aiabons feels new and refreshed after giving birth to her baby, George Samuel Knudson, last November. But there are somegzz nixing (feminine in Hokkien) traits the former Showbuzz host still has. Lauretta, 30, wants
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    • 571 25 In his latest movie What Women Want, Mel Gibson's character gains the ability to read women's minds after an accident. And Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt (left) plays his love interest So in real life, WENDYTEOfinds out... A divorce from Hank Azaria The 38-year-old has filed for
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    • 517 26  -  By Kor Kian Beng DREAMS do come true after all. And singer Ibrahim Ferrer can vouch for that. The 73-year-old singer was polishing shoes and earning a mere $15 a month when he met American composer and slide-guitarist Ry Cooder in 1996. Cooder was
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  • 485 27  -  ET CETERA WITH CAROL LEONG WITH a new year, which will be the Golden Snake this time round, there's always hope that things will get better. In other words, change. Now, this can be a loaded word. Some people thrive on it, others
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  • the new paper RACING
    • 474 33  -  By Danny Khoo OVERSEAS assignments would figure high on Superb Effect's agenda from now on. Among the races that trainer Charles Leek has mapped out for his sensational charge are the US$2 million ($3.48 million) Dubai Golden Shaheen and the HK$6 million ($1.34 million)
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    • 197 33 TRAINERS Malcolm Thwaites and Michael Clements have each entered two unraced newcomers for Friday's Kranji meeting on the fibresand track. Four-year-old Danzarte, a dark bay or brown American-bred gelding by Danzatore out of Wild Bride, will make his debut in the Maidens' race over I,ooom for Thwaites,
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    • 986 33 -98-8 El Diablo 57 (70) (6ag SB Tan-Index Link) 0 Meadow Star 57 (70) (5nzg Hoy-Arlay) 1--3-5 Controlling Stake 56.5 (69) (3ag Yeo-Control Racing) ---017 Truly Serious 56.5 (69) (4ag SH Tan-Owner) -14-15 GayaEmas 56 (68) (3ag Velu-Gaya) -0- Yellow Bullet 56 (68) (4ag
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    • 208 34 KIWI trainer Patrick Busuttin's Class 3 newcomer Bedouin, a winner of two races in New Zealand, will make his Kranji debut on Saturday. The four-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding by Desert Sun out of Amelekian did not race at two. At three, he had a rather frustrating campaign.
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    • 368 34 GUIDE to yesterday's workouts on the fibresand track at Kranji by horses engaged on Friday: RACE 1: Slow work: Reserve Gold, King Of Kranji., RACE 2: Overall Champ (J Fortune), looking sharp, was allotted one round of pace work. Triumphant James also did pace work. RACE
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 420 35 AP. Sebastien Grosjean bt Magnus Norman 7-6 (7), 6-3,0-6,6-4 Sebastien Grosjean slammed an apparent ace and began to celebrate his fourth-round victory over Magnus Norman at the Australian Open. The fourth-seeded Swede walked to the net to offer congratulations to the 16th-ranked Frenchman. As the crowd cheered, umpire
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    • 74 35 "The net machine was on but Magnus told me that he had not heard any noise. I did not hear anything either. "He told the umpire and then said the match is over'. "That has never happened to me, certainly not on match point "I don't
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    • 152 35 AP. ANNA Kournikova was in the news again. For the wrong reasons again. The Russian, who has yet to win a tournament, was fined US$l,OOO ($1,700) after tournament organisers ruled that she had received coaching from the sidelines during her third round win over doubles
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    • 409 36 HAMMERS' CORNER CHARLTON 1 ■Shaun Bartlett 7th min WEST HAM 1 Paolo Di Canio 74 Crowd: 20,043 AFP. WEST Ham's Italian striker Paolo Di Canio came to the rescue yet again. His goal 16 minutes from time earned the Hammers a point in a fiercely-contested 1-1
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    • 69 36 AFP. BULGARIAN striker Svetoslav Todorov has clinched a £2.5 million ($4.35 m) move to West Ham from Lovech. The three-and-a-half year deal could increase to £3.5 m depending on Todorov's scoring exploits. Todorov scored 19 goals in 26 appearances for the northern Bulgarian side in season
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    • 291 36 AFP. FRENCHMAN Frederic Kanoute denied reports that he wanted to leave West Ham to further his international career. Kanoute's agent apologised for a newspaper article, which said the player wanted to leave the club. The article said that Kanoute, 23, was ready to make a move across
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    • 263 36 Reuters. SOUTH African captain Lucas Radebe, like many in the past, has decided to put his club before country. Radebe has told officials that he will play his last game for South Africa this weekend and then retire from international soccer to concentrate on his club career
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    • 179 36 AFP. THE world's "most hated footballer" has finally been told that some people still love him. Beleaguered French and Chelsea defender Franck Leboeuf has received the backing of French internet site www.football36s.fr after its English equivalent had launched a cheeky campaign to finance his
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    • 401 37 LIONS-THAILAND FRIENDLY jggg^ Guessing the Lions'strikeforce used to be one of the easiest tasks for any journalist. Two names come to mind almost immediately—lndra Sahdan and Ahmad LatiffKhamarudin. But both have ruled themselves out of national team selection, for personal reasons. So, the big question come this
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    • 208 37 ALAN SHEARER: The Newcastle striker is set to return against Premiership straggler Manchester City on Feb 24. He underwent a knee operation only three weeks ago. KIERON DYER: The Newcastle midfielder was told yesterday that he did not have a serious injury after undergoing stringent medical tests on
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    • 49 37 TODAY FA CUP THIRD-ROUND REPLAY: Scunthorpe v Burnley TOMORROW LEAGUE CUP SEMI 2nd LEG: Liverpool v Crystal Palace (LIVE, SCV 22,3.55 am, Thursday) PREMIER LEAGUE Aston Villa v Leeds INFOLINE: Call 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow and Thursday for the results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute.
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    • 658 39  -  Love-sick dasher wants to be top scorer Think Brazil. The countiy has given the world magical footballers such as Romano, Ronaldo and Rivaldo. Think Tampines Rovers. Think Renato Martins. The S-League club is about to unleash some samba magic. Renato's fond wish: To join
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    • 154 39 RENATO enjoyed a dream debut for Tampines Rovers. In a sparring match against Singapore International Airlines at Changi Field last Friday, the samba man bulged the net within two minutes of the start in a 7-2 win. Receiving the ball on the left flank, Renato drew back
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    • 640 41 BBC Football365. DAVEBEASANT: While with Southampton, he ruptured ankle ligaments after dropping a bottle of salad cream on his foot. He was trying to control the falling bottle he had accidentally knocked over, but only succeeded in sidelining himself for two months. FREDRIK NYBERG: The Swedish
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    • 136 35 WHAT'S GONE: How the main matches went (seedings in bold): MEN (fourth round): 5 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Rus) bt Andreas Vinciguerra (Swe) 7-5, 7-5,6-1 15 Arnaud Clement (Fra) bt Greg Rusedski (Brit) 6-3,6-2, 7-5 16 Sebastien Grosjean (Fra) bt 4 Magnus Norman (Swe) 7-6 (7), 6-3,0-6,6-4 WOMEN (fourth round): 1 Martina
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  • 194 43 Wire Services. Surprise, surprise. Soccer gets nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Hooligans? What hooligans? Riots, stampedes, deaths on soccer pitches around the globe? Who cares? Not least of all Swedish lawmaker Lars Gustafsson, who, while making his nomination yesterday, insisted that soccer helps
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  • 291 43 Too much of Man U? Here's news for Liverpool fans... and West Ham fans (pg 37) Planetfootball. CLOSING IN ON CHRISTIAN: Liverpool has jumped to the head of the queue to sign Brazilian forward Christian from Paris Saint Germain. Reports in France suggest that Anfield executives have met
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  • 136 43 Planetfootball. Liverpool striker Michael Owen (right) will miss tomorrow's League Cup semi-final against Crystal Palace and could be out for two weeks with a recurrence of a hamstring injury. He has been plagued by hamstring problems and is set to have a scan to determine
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