The New Paper, 4 May 2001

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  • NEWS
    • 570 2 Wire services. IT came like a bolt out of the blue. Since 1947, the US has been a member of the Geneva-based Human Rights Commission. Yesterday, it lost that seat. In a surprise result, France, Austria and Sweden were elected to the three
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    • 40 2 IdorCtknow if I'll ever be a candidate. I need more time and distance from the last experience. Former US Vice President Al Gore told his students when teaching his final journalism class at Columbia University. Picture/ Ap
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    • 344 2 A SINGAPOREAN has been arrested in Manila. He is being held on charges of attempting to kidnap two Singaporean men and demanding a ransom for their release. The chief of Philippines National Investigation Bureau said his officers arrested William Qi Hongliang on
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    • 497 3  -  By Seto Nu-wen MOST of them had ridden down this stretch of expressway umpteen times. Without so much as a second th9Ught. Or a second plan of action. But yesterday, the uneventful stretch of the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) became every motorcyclist's nightmare. It was
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    • 59 2 Sorry In the report, Violent teen brought to his knees, published in The New Paper yesterday, we reported that an 18-year-old boy was sentenced to 14 years'jail and three strokes of the cane for rioting. He was actually sentenced to 14 months' jail and three strokes of the cane. Leisure
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 814 4  -  By Low Ching Ling HE is homeless despite the roof over his head. He sleeps in an HDB void deck. That can't be a home. Yet, it is, for this man. Mr Ho Ah Kau, 53, has been sleeping at the void deck of Block
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    • 159 4 WHEN The New Paper called Mr Ho's family with the number he gave us, a man who answered identified himself as Mr Ho's father. He claimed his son had left home on his own. He didn't know why. Calling him a "good-for-nothing", he added
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 176 6 HOT STORY CPF UNIT TRUSTS ITS been a year of bad news for Central Provident Fund (CPF) members who put their money into approved unit trusts. Most of the unit trusts lost money, hit by weak global equity markets. For the first quarter of this year,
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    • 83 6 US stocks fell sharply and bonds rallied yesterday after a rise in jobless claims and record corporate layoffs revived fears about a recession. The Nasdaq composite index fell 74.40 points, or 3.35 per cent, to end at 2,146.20. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 80.03 points, or 0.74
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    • 77 6 Quote Wworthy JHk Therefore, please lay off from attempting to flirt or entice a married man or woman from his or her spouse. Judicial Commissioner V T Singam, saying those who entered into an adulterous relationship would have to pay if it were proven that they caused
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    • 61 6 The Straits Times: Fury over Pentagon mix-up on China The Business Times: Bad 12 months for CPF investment funds Lianhe Zaobao: US reviews Sino-US military contacts Berita Harian: Order to suspend US-China military ties a mistake RCS morning news: US may scrap some military ties with China
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    • News Break
      • 73 6 PETROL TOP-UP A PERSONAL key tag will let motorists top up petrol at Mobil stations and drive off, paying later via credit card. There is no need to queue at the counter to pay after topping up. All Esso stations will also offer this service by the end
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      • 59 6 GARDENS EFFORTS are being made to revive the Chinese and Japanese gardens. A new company will manage the adjacent parks and hands-on and interactive attractions could be added, while admission fees may be waived. About 250,000 people visit the 14-ha grounds each year. Yet, more than half do
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      • 61 6 KIDNEYS KIDNEY-FAILURE patients could halve dialysis costs if they use a newer do-it-yourself method of cleansing the blood. Peritoneal dialysis can be done at home and suits those with heart problems or high blood pressure. Traditional haemodialysis suits people who are obese or have had an operation in
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      • 55 6 ELECTIONS SINGAPORE'S electoral map, defining ward boundaries, may need to be redrawn to cope with the explosive growth of new north-eastern and western towns. The changes will depend on a group of civil servants, yet to be appointed to the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee. Parliament will decide whether
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      • 64 7 FOREIGN MINISTRY THE Foreign Affairs Ministry will move out of its premises at the Raffles City Tower on Tuesday. After operating out of offices in City Hall and Raffles City Tower for 36 years, it'll be resited in a quiet area off Napier Road, near the Botanic Gardens.
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      • 57 7 MALAYSIA MALAYSIA has lifted all curbs on foreigners owning property between RM250,000 ($119,500) and RM2omillion. However, the moves may not be enough to clear a RM3O billion property overhang, analysts said. Foreigners can borrow from local banks, while foreign manufacturers need no exemption to own industrial lots or
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      • 52 7 CONSUMER STUDENTS from Singapore Management University and Temasek Polytechnic have started groups to fight for consumer rights. The focus will be on students and campus issues. The Consumers Association of Singapore welcomes the groups even though it's not clear if they will have any lasting impact on unfair
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      • 53 7 EDUCATION MALAYSIA has more than 7,000 vacant spots in public universities, yet many top-scoring non-Malay students are not admitted. The education ministry said the shortfall was because there were not enough students for science-based courses. The news could fuel debate over the quota system and heighten disappointment
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    • 46 7 New Straits Times: Property market boost International Herald Tribune: Arroyo vows to find troublemakers Asian Wall Street Journal: Ananda purchases 46 percent stake in Maxis BBC news: Friction between China and the US is worsening with the Chinese government sharply criticising President Bush
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    • 51 7 PiQwe this Snake-catchers putting snakes onto the statue of St Domenico yesterday at the beginning of St Domenico's procession in Cocullo, central Italy. They do this to pay homage to the saint who, as the legend goes, had saved them from the bites of snakes. Picture/
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    • 213 7 in FOCUS GOOD news, retirees. You will soon be able to stay abroad, using the rental money from your HDB flats or private properties. This is part of a new lifestyle programme by NTUC Income. It's expected to be launched at the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 36 6 Dilbert /Scott Adams WHY ARE OUR SOFT- f FO THF M AN HOUR LATER WARE EXPENSES I that HIGHER THAN 1 SvS'T t DOES IT INVOLVE ("MARKETINGS SOFT- i kar f* FUR IN ANY WARE EXPENSES?
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 701 8  -  By Amy Chiew IT was a call he wishes he had never received. A call that any parent would dread. At 2.30 pm last Saturday, the streets of Mongkok in Hongkong were very busy. Standing in the middle of a jostling crowd, all Mr K O
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    • 148 8 LAWYER Ng Wee Jin said: "An unnatural death is anything that doesn't occur in the course of nature. This could be due to a terminal disease, or past medical problems. "A sudden or unexpected death can be considered an unnatural death." An ex-police officer who
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    • 200 8 CAN FLU turn fatal? Yes, says Dr T S Tong, 57, a family friend of the Thams, who rushed to the Tham's house when he received news of Tyrone's death. "A cause of this would be viral myocarditis. This is actually a viral infection of
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  • 605 10 SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM DR JOSEPH OZAWA, consultant psychologist I refer to your report, Angels in Schools, Terrors Outside, on April 21. The report was based on on a study I did on independent schools (IS) versus neighbourhood schools (NS) and an interview with me.
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  • Article, Illustration
    179 12 SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM Ven Sobhita Thero Bodhiraja Buddhist Society I am writing this with reference to the article Is This Cruel? (TNP April 27) on 200 Vesak birds being kept in one small cage. First of all, I thank the writer for bringing to our attention
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    • 252 13 > ~> < 7.30pm Sunday, 6 May 2001 on Channel U. Don't miss it. It's the biggest, most spectacular show in the history of Singapore TV! And the most glittering night in Ul I CHANNEL u Singapore's broadcast history with a record number of more than 50 stars such as
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 437 14 HANG on to your student identification passes (SIPs), kids. And no matter how dated or uncool your mug shot on the pass, don't change your photo just to look good. Because every time your pass has to be replaced, you pay more. The first
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    • 181 15 THE fees were raised in April last year, said Transit Link. A Transit Link spokesman told The New Paper:"The fee was revised to discourage repeat loss of passes. The adjustment of fee helps to cover cost, but more importantly, it serves to deter frivolous replacements." "Frivolous replacements"? That's
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  • 373 17  -  SINGAPORE By Melvin Singh THEY had a "buffet" going. Only, it was a deadly '"buffet". Mind-altering drugs like 'Ice', Ketamine, cannabis, heroin, Yaba tablets, Ecstasy, Erimin B tablets, and LSD. On Wednesday, acting on a tip-off, officers of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) raided a
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 107 19 IN our Speak Good English Movement contest, we asked you what the correct English equivalent of "Wah! Your England so powerderful one!" was. The answer: You have a powerful command of the English language. Of the 1,058 calls we received, 696 answered the question correctly. Eleven winners
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    • 64 20 muifmui* Life! this weekend writer Tommy Wee is convinced that selling chicken rice is probably one the sarest ways to make that million. He said: jjjj j (j j] I C'mon. You can't go wrong with Singapore's favourite dish. After all, when
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 394 23  -  By Jesslyn Chia SHE knows whose wallet it is. And there's $800 in cool crisp cash inside. But the owner must come forward to get it back. For there's no way she can hand it back to the owner. Miss Sheri Ffah, 25, had to give
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    • 453 24  -  BY Yong Siew Fern HERMAN Latib, 19, loves sports. But, like one-third of Singapore's population, the polytechnic student doesn't have cable TV at home. So he gets his sports fix from Sports City, MediaCorp's sports channel. The avid sports fan stays up late at night
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    • 172 25 AFTER May 14, say goodbye to Sports City, MediaCorp's sports channel. City TV will take over. The new channel targets "young adults who are cosmopolitan and bilingual and who enjoy an active lifestyle". But Sports Night, the nightly sports news programme, will continue. It
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    • 242 25  -  By Chang May Choon COME Tuesday, MediaCorp's Eightdays On 5 will end its six-week run. This makes it one of the shortest-lived entertainment shows in Singapore. Its host, Class 95 DJ Petrina Kow (right), confirmed the news. She said: "I was shocked when
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  • 700 26  -  NEWS By Serene Foo NO, this was no mistake. She drank the wine with mice immersed in it purposely. No, this was no episode from Survivor. But like the Survivor participants, this young woman, as well 36 others like her, were in
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  • 414 28 WORLD SHE is her commander-in-chief. But she still got scared during the attack by thousands of demonstrators on Tuesday. "Maybe for a split second," the Philippines' "iron lady" said. Then she gathered her wits and focused on how to quell the rebellion, President Gloria Arroyo
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  • 379 29 MALAYSIA SHE went to the hospital for treatment after giving birth at home. The young mother was accompanied by her husband but the newborn baby was nowhere to be seen. The 20-year-old mother told the doctor at the Kuala Terengganu Hospital that
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  • 364 31 WORLD SOME tests for cervical cancer, called pap smears, have shown the wrong findings, leading to the deaths of 14 women in Britain. The inaccurate tests have led to many more women suffering, a review this week has found. As the cancer was
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  • WORLD
    • 300 33 Wire services. HOW utterly helpless this mother must have felt. Divorcee Mary Jean Pearle was on the phone with her ex-husband, when she heard one of her daughters scream: "No, Daddy, no, Daddy, no!". Then gunshots. And silence. Hours later
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    • 195 34 Cat lives after 6-week trip by licking water from walls of container Iglobe^rottin^eljx AFP. THIS plucky cat survived a six-week journey from Hongkong to Britain inside a shipping container by lapping condensation from the walls. The bedraggled grey cat was discovered on Tuesday inside a container packed with sandpits and
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    • 117 34 WILD CITY AN injured deer, three sick spoonbills and a runaway monkey kept the Hongkong police busy yesterday. Six new-born spoonbills were found in a garbage dump. However, only three of the birds survived sifter they were rescued, reported iMail. Meanwhile, a security guard called the police after
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    • 124 34 MONKEY IN THE AIR AP. A YEMENI smuggler's dreams of making thousands of dollars from baby monkeys collapsed when one of the creatures escaped during a flight from San'a to Damascus, Syria. About 90 minutes into a flight, the olive-coloured monkey one of six that the smuggle** had
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    • 94 35 The ex-Chief Secretary of Hongkong, Mrs Anson Chan, spoke of her admiration for China's advances in a speech to the Asia Society: Take the standard of English as one small but important example. I've lost count of the times I have been told by foreign
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    • 372 35 Wire services. STEM cells in the bone marrow of adult mice will transform themselves into almost any organ of the body, US researchers said yesterday. This could mean the human adult bone marrow stem cells will do the same, helping us to repair
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    • 194 36 ONE gunman pointed his weapon at the driver while another entered the security van from the rear and stole close to RM4 million (about $2m) in bank collections. Or so the driver claimed, reports the New Straits Times. An armoured van belonging to
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    • 293 36 Wire services. THEY were considered "distinguished members" of Lucent Technologies' technical staff. But trusted Lucent employees Hai Lin, 30, and Kai Xu, 33 and another Chinese man, Yong-Qing Cheng, 37 were caught stealing software from the company's New Jersey headquarters. They are alleged to
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    • 71 43 SO what if Daniel Chan (above) hasn't set foot in Malaysia for ages? His legions of Malaysian fans still give him their full-hearted support. They voted him this year's new Heavenly King, reported Apple Daily. Even the newly-crowned King was taken aback. Said Daniel: "I seldom
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