The New Paper, 21 April 2001

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  • 377 2 MALAYSIA BUS TRAGEDY HEWS THE passengers on the chartered bus were in a holiday mood. They had left the previous night on a trip to Langkawi from Kelantan to attend a seminar. Mr Azhar Ali, 25, an instructor with the Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia, was
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 409 3  -  By Low Ching Ling Holy cow! Actually, to put the record straight, it's a sea cow. And Media Works talent Nadya Hutagalung's latest co-star. All these while, Nadya had fans eating out of her hands. Now she has Gracie, the sea cow,
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    • 509 4  - This man talks with his knife He settles disputes with a knife and chopper. Both his'discussion partners' end up in hospital By Lee Tee Jong HE had a violent way of settling scores. He would ask the person against whom he had a grievance for a "settlement" dialogue. And Visvalingam
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 250 6 But most say they won't j THEY can now up their charges. But many say they won't. The Singapore Dental Association has introduced new guidelines on dental fees. It could mean a big increase in the cost of dental treatment here. But many dentists said they
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    • 113 6 STOCKS DOWN US stocks slipped yesterday, pausing for breath after a big rally spurred by a surprise Federal Reserve interest-rate cut. Spurred by profit taking, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 113.86 points, or 1.06 per cent, to end the week 10,579.85. The Nasdaq composite index fell 18.73
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    • News Break
      • 54 6 LAWSUIT REDIFF.COM India Ltd shareholders are suing India's only Nasdaq-listed website. They claimed they were misled about director Richard Li's education in share-offering documents. Rediff.com said he graduated from Stanford University and this wasn't true, the suit said, adding: "Rediff thereby falsely represented that it had put together
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      • 65 6 COURT AN Indonesian maid has been jailed for three months for causing a boy's death by a negligent act. Jumiarsih Wardi, 22, bounced her employer's son, two-year-old See Yong Zhao, on her shoulders because he loved it. But, on the morning of Jan 10, she lost her grip.
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      • 66 6 MEDICAL THE world's biggest drug companies have dropped their case against South Africa over cheap anti-Aids drugs. The 39 firms involved had refused to allow cheap copies of patented products to be made in poor countries. But they gave up in a South Africa high court after
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      • 60 6 MALAYSIA THE Terengganu state government is preparing a draft of an Islamic penal code. The code will introduce the death penalty and allow the authorities to cut off limbs for certain offences. The controversial law is likely to be tabled and passed by the state assembly. But the
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      • 64 7 Safer sweeter FOOD JAPANESE scientists claim that a new way of growing veggies and fruits could be safer and tastier than organic foods. They say organic foods use organic fertilisers from slaughterhouse by-products which could include the remains of diseased animals. Food grown the new way could soon be available
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      • 67 7 AIRPORT FROM May, KLIA will not charge foreign airlines for landing or parking new or additional flights that are at least 25 per cent full. The move is to encourage more airlines to use the airport. But airlines which stopped commercial services there said that services and charges
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      • 52 7 JOBS SENIOR managers at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing have opted for wage cuts. The group posted its first loss in six quarters yesterday. Senior management has taken the pay cuts, that ran as deep as double digits in percentage terms, to help the company cut costs, reports The
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      • 53 7 I HONGKONG TWO Singaporean men were arrested at Hongkong*s international airport on Thursday. They were caught with skg of methamphetamine hydrochloride, otherwise known as Ice. The men, aged 27 and 40, were on their way to Malaysia. A Customs official said they were carrying some HK$2 million ($466,000)
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    • 37 6 New Straits Times: 13 killed in Baling bus crash international Herald Tribune: California-to-Australia: Spy plane but no pilot BBC news: Violent clashes between police and protesters at the All-America Free Trade Summit in Quebec
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    • 74 7 Hie Straits Times: We'll block Gus Dur backers, say rival groups The Business Times: MAS and SGX beefing up enforcement arms Lianhe Zaobao: Parents have to take part in the process of rehabilitation if their children are charged in the juvenile courts. Berita Harian: Court order for
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    • Article, Illustration
      20 7 wwv VAS WHAT A BIRD: This four-legged chick was found on a farm in Lebanon. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 170 7 in FOCUS HOSPITALS YOU still have to keep your handphones out of hospital areas where there is sensitive medical equipment. This is despite a ruling in Hongkong allowing doctors to use handphones during surgery. Hongkong's Medical Council made the news when it announced its stand on
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 603 8  -  REPORTS ANDRE YEO YOUR children are in good schools and you think you know what they are doing. Do you? Really? At school, they may be scoring As. But outside? They may be accessing pornography, experimenting with alcohol, using chatlines. And even displaying suicidal tendencies. And you,
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    • 330 8  -  The YScene spoke; with a current student jj and an old bey from two independent schools about the findings.l Hefeare their reactions: REPORTS SANTOKH SINGH AN EMPTY home is the ideal playground for the devil. This is how Benedict, who is taking his O levels in
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    • 320 8 THESE are not new problems. So said Charles, 19, who also declined to be named. He is in national service now, having studied in one of Singapore's top boys' schools from 1995 to 1998. Said the younger of the two sons of a 50-year-old businessman and
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    • 122 9 WHAT TEACHERS AND PARENTS SAY... Sione any survey, but the i are a little surprising. These nces' that any teenager is commit. It does not matter (which school) he's from... —Ms Low Chee Moon, Principal of Northland Secondary School. Sirs ago, I would have said findings are not
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    • 608 10 Just how does (Big) walking benefit me? What should I do to prepare for the 10-km Walk? What should I eat and drink? To answer some of these frequently asked questions, CHUA YING-HONG speaks to Ms Diane Haslam, 51, Reebook's Master Trainer (right) QUESTION: What
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    • Article, Illustration
      225 11 If you're not sure how to safely warm up, here are several stretching positions—each to be maintained for at least 10 minutes, says Ms Haslam Head rotation Rotate your head, back and forth from side to side. Side stretch Extend your arm over your head to the opposite
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    • 146 11 THE New Paper Big Walk will be flagged off on May 20 at the National Stadium. To sign up, logon to www.Asiaone.com.sg or call 740-88-99 for more information. You can also sign up at the various registration booths. Fun walkers can register for the Big
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    • 765 12 FedEx staff has been appraising bosses for 20 years Imagine getting the chance to appraise your boss'performance or your colleagues'. Ngee Ann Polytechnic is going to try just thatfor their staff appraisal system. SHEELA NARAYANAN reports Said Mr Yin: "i have always heard that
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    • 283 14  -  By Arul John SAME time. Same place. A woman and her son are in court for allegedly molesting two people at the same place, at the same time. And, get this, their alleged victims happen to be related too. On Nov 24 last year, Tan
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    • 59 15 muifmui* The Straits Times Forum Page writer Aileen Tan on reports that suggest that stay-at-home mothers can do wonders to their children's grades: The problem of poor grades has nothing to do with stay-at-home mothers or working mothers. What parents really need to do is
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  • PARLIAMENT
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      144 16 New sentencing options for juvenile offenders 1 Ordering the offender to perform community I service, with or without a probation order. 1 Allowingjuveniles who have committed a fairly V serious offence, but come from a good home, to stay at home and continue their education but spend weekends
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    • 619 16  -  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSON'S ACT By Sheila Murugasu What if you're a parent who pushes your child to study very hard during exams by locking him up to study without any rest, food and drinks? Could you be hauled up by the authorities for emotional
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  • 413 18  -  Motorists caught in jam along Braddell Road SINGAPORE BY Joycelyn Wong Motorists were caught unawares yesterday evening when a stretch of road along Braddell Road was closed. The cause: A section of the road had sunk. The depression was about 20m long and 5m
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  • WORLD
    • 315 19 Kennedy nephew to be tried for murder 25 years later Reuters. BEING a member of the US equivalent of royalty has its privileges. But for a Kennedy family nephew, avoiding a murder trial isn't one of them. A judge ruled yesterday that there was enough evidence to put Michael Skakel
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    • 81 19 MARTHA Moxley was found beaten to death with a golf club on the lawn of her parents' Greenwich home on Oct 31,1975. The police first focused on Thomas Skakel, Michael's older brother, the last person to admit to seeing her alive on Oct 30. The probe stalled then.
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    • 386 20 IT. was one of the most severe incidences of civil strife in China in recent years. The shootings which were hushed up by the Chinese media were also the latest chapter in the struggle of 1,400 residents of Yuntang village against officials. Last Sunday, 600 policemen
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    • 150 20 They tried to help FIREMEN save lives. So, the firemen who rushed to this 16th-floor apartment in Johor Baru yesterday spent 90 minutes persuading a woman to get back into the flat. They had been called by a member of the public. A crowd of about 50 people had gathered
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    • 226 21 Reuters. THIS black statue of the late Diana, Princess of Wales of Britain (seen with designer Andrew Walsh), is on display in an English bus station. And it's not in an art gallery because some influential people don't approve of it Walsall town council in England
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    • 369 21 THE home-improvement workers were carrying out their tasks in the bathroom of a flat in Glasgow, Scotland. And they made a grisly discovery after they ripped up the floorboards on Wednesday. Underneath were the skeletal remains of three babies. The dead children were all
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    • 362 22 M D X I N L E EXPLAINED! It's a question that has baffled people for ages. Why do ships and aircraft disappear '-in the Bermuda Triangle? From ghosts to sea monsters, there has never been any shortage of theories. Now scientists have put down the cause to gas. Yes,
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  • WORLD
    • 427 23 YOU may have noticed such ads carried daily in this newspaper. You can have Eminem ringing your phone all day long. If that prospect is just too shocking, you might wind up listening to a tune from Mick Jagger. Or Mariah Carey, Mary
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  • Hey!
    • 470 24  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck MORE than half a million people watched the first programme in the Singapore version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on Wednesday, making it the highest-rated show on Channel 5 in two years. After watching, I wonder how many of
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    • 105 24 THE Flying Dutchman (above) says we under-estimate how nervous the contestants feel. "What you see on TV seems easy, and people say 1 think I can do this' but the contestants are playing for a million dollars. We spend a lot of time calming
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    • 371 25 They're the dreamy Beach Boys who have captured thousands of hearts. But in real life, Takashi Sorimachi has been slammed for his arrogance while Yutaka Takenouchi is known for his gentle and polite ways. We take a look SHE was so desperate to meet her favourite J-pop star
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      149 25 HE doesn't just have gbroodingtgood 1 v ipinky actor Kribakalpi V:* Takenouchi (above) has a any ofMstill: co-stars. Sweet-faced beauty Miki Nakatani, who played his love interest in the drama, Merry Christmas In Summer, gushed: "He's so handsome that I got really nervous when meeting him for the
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  • 755 26 Our columnist profiles two men for whom pens are a passion. And suddenly the simple act of writing isn't so simple anymore IRONICALLY, just when we are using pens less and less, there are some who treasure these writing instruments more and more. Fountain pens and inkwells
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  • HEY!
    • 506 28 FACED with each other's same old faces day in, day out, for over four years, the members of this boyband are forgiven for confessing they are bored with themselves. Cute quartet Da Pump's complaint seems to be that they're 'like twins who can't be separated
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    • 346 30  -  By Teo Kuan Yee HONGKONG funnyman Eric Tseng was afi smiles. Maybe he enjoyed the soccer he caught the night before, straight after arriving in Singapore. Or maybe it was the irony of the situation. On Thursday morning, Eric was filming Channel U's first drama serial,
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    • 423 31  -  Never fear, it's just a film scene but there was explosive shock in Paradise By Serene Foo GIVE the girl a prop gun and all hell breaks loose. Nadya Hutagalung recalled her experience eight years ago for a Korean mini-series. "They
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    • 190 32 Inspired by Car-free day to cycle to work more often? Or want a cheap and healthy way to whizz around your neighbourhood? PRISCILLA FOO does the homework for you THEY range in price from just $70 to tens of thousands of dollars. With so many bicycles
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    • 458 32 STEP OUT! TIPS Cheaper bikes may mean lower quality control. Said Mr Ramanathan: "You get what you pay for/' Added Mr B H Hong, 40, shopowner of Eng Hua Trading, a bicycle shop in Ang Mo Kio: "The prices are different because of the quality of the
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    • 194 32 Below $200 Good for: Whizzing around the neighbourhood. Features: "No-frills" bikes. Frames made mostly of steel. The down-side: These bikes usually rust after some time. Also, brakes may not work too well at high speeds and you may lose control if you go too
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  • 568 34  -  CETERA WITH ABHIJIT NAG IF anyone on The New Paper could write about former Law Minister E W Barker, it must be my colleagues Brian Miller and Suresh Nair, who wrote about his love of music and sports, and what a colourful figure he used
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    • 492 34 ffm Three strikes and (IfilL he's out... He is in Spain, fighting extradition to Russia, where he owes the gas monoply Gazprom millions of dollars. Vladimir Gusinsky also finds his media empire gone, prompting questions about the freedom of expression <Mi I FIRSTwentthe TV station. Then Mr Boris Yeltsin, is
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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    • 487 59  -  Liverpool Jersey No 21 Player to SingTgi# By Edwin Yeo WHEN Gerard Houllier first brought 36-year-old Gary McAllister (left) to Liverpool on a free transfer, fans questioned the wisdom of signing on a player who was "obviously" past his sell-by date. Sure, there was no doubt that the
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    • 908 60  -  By V K Santosh Kumar SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN SEVEN Premiership titles in nine years. The best managerial record in English football. A Treble in 1999. Manchester United is a class act, isn't it? It swept all before it two years ago. Last
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    • 364 61 MAN UNITED'S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE EXIT: THE AFTERMATH I think the nucleus is still there. We still have the togetherness that people so admire and that's why they kept going in the second half against Bayern Munich and even into the four minutes of injury-time. You can't
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    • 203 61 BBC Online, Wire services. THE striker believeSlMan United did not progress in Europe because of the lack of competition in the Premiership. Teddy Sheringham said his side's performances dropped because, unlike the Treble year in 1999, they rarely had to perform at their best. "We can't switch it
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    • 435 62  -  GOMBAK UNITED 2 CLEMENTI KHALSA 1 By Wang Meng Meng POP quiz: What colour angers a Bull? If your answer is "Red", give yourself a pat on the back. And it was proved last night at the Gombak Stadium that red does indeed bring the
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    • 134 63 THE TAN KIM LENG SAGA TAN Kim Leng (left) will not have to pay the medical fees for his hole-in-the-heart operation. Yesterday, NTUC Income and the Football Association of Singapore announced that it will cover Tan's fees for the operation on Monday, his doctors' fees and
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    • 337 63 For footballer Tan Kim Leng, the news that he had a hole in his heart was a shocker. But for British athlete Donna Maylor it was something else totally. BRITISH sprinting champion Donna Maylor survived a close call with death because she had
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    • 583 64 SPORTSMAN QFTHE YEAR 2000: ANDREW FANG National bowler and Asian FIQ champion Andrew Fang was voted the Sportsman of the Year 2000 during last night's Singapore Sports Awards ceremony at Suntec City. But what did it take to nurture a sports champion like him? ERNEST LUIS
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    • 169 66 Give me another... Reuters. FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman wants his greatest rival, Muhammad Ali, back in the ring. Foreman is 52 and Ali 59. Foreman wants Ali to step back into the ring with him for the first time since their classic Rumble
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