The New Paper, 18 May 2001

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  • 7 1 the new paper FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2001
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    • 89 1 Growth Another slows Umno a a 4 (URN Strangely, one S'porean did. And spends $70,000 family savings before he realises... no Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA (P) 106/03/2001 60 CENTS 8 B<:7'iil 4C !CC' "Wit •Presentcoupon Coupon be i£/\ K
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  • NEWS
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      471 2 Economic growth slows to 4.5 per cent BAD weather. So the sailing is slow and rough. That is the state of the Singapore economy in the first quarter of this year. Economic growth has slowed by quite a bit, according to figures released this morning. (See graphic at
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    • 85 2 THE Dow Jones industrials gained 32.66 points (0.3 per cent) to close at 11,254.89. The Nasdaq jumped 27.25 points (1.26 per cent) to 2,193.69. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners three to two on the New York Stock Exchange where volume was 1.34 billion shares, down from 1.35 billion at
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    • 547 3  -  By] Priscilla Foo JUST do it together. This is the Hassan family's motto. Eleven of them from little Muhd Noor Hamdani Hassan, six, to grandmother 61-year-old Madam Norliah Sam win will be walking together at The New Paper Big Walk this Sunday. In between are
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      102 3 Haven't registered for The Big Walk yet? Due to overwhelming public demand, the closing date for registration of The New Paper Big Walk has been extended at the following places. Participants can register at Ngee Ann City (basement 2) and Tampines Mall (information counter) today from noon to
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  • 558 4  -  SINGAPORE By Lee Tee Jong AT first, it seemed to pull at the heartstrings of all those present. A 15-year-old boy stood next to his parents, almost breaking down in tears. He pleaded for a chance to be placed on probation, so
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 209 6 HOT STORY MCDS' IN-YOUR-FACE ADS BE there for them now, or don't be shocked if your children grow up to become murderers, thieves or vandals. This is the stark message for parents behind the Ministry of Community Development and Sports' (MCDS) new advertising
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    • 42 6 "litis _LJ Picture/ RtUIW TnA&H ART: These life-sized sculptures—made from trash —are some of 1,000 "people"put by German artist HA Schuit on the Great Wall of China as part of his artwork entitled Great Wall People. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 54 6 International Herald Tribune: Bush proposes aid to oil exploration Asian Wall Street Journal: Nissan posts record net profit to signal strong comeback New Straits Times: Move to boost English BBC news: President Bush says US needs much more energy to deal with what he called the worst
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    • News Break
      • 68 6 ACCIDENT A TEENAGE bride-to-be is in coma after falling from her family's eighth-storey HDB flat in Toa Payoh on Wednesday. The girl had apparently tried to climb down the building using a makeshift rope of bedsheets and curtains, but it broke. She was supposed to get engaged
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      • 63 6 CARPARK THERE'S a reserved carpark lot in Singapore that draws a $1,000 fine, for charity, if you park in it. It's in the basement of Guthrie House, a shopping and office complex at the junction of Fifth and Sixth avenues, just steps from the lift lobby. The lot
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      • 61 6 POLAR ROUTE FLIGHTS between Asia and the US might get shorter and cheaper. Russia plans to cash in on the North Pole route with more English-speaking air-traffic controllers and proper equipment. It hopes to upgrade its four polar routes to handle up to 30 flights an hour from
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      • 55 6 BANKING FOREIGN banks with a retail presence in Singapore are unhappy with the possibility that they might have to provide basic banking services to small depositors. The authorities here are considering whether to require all retail banks including foreign ones like Citibank and Maybank to provide basic services
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      • 61 7 REPTILE PARK THE Jurong Town Council has told the Jurong Crocodile and Reptile Paradise to remove all items used for worship that have recently been installed around the place. This is because the park is not authorised to be a place for praying. The fate of the statues
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      • 57 7 UPGRADING DON'T take HDB upgrading for granted, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has reminded Singaporeans. They enjoy such benefits thanks to good governance, hardworking and competent people who back leaders, and a dose of luck, he said. Singaporeans should pull together, go for skills upgrading, and work with
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      • 54 7 BUCKET SHOPS A NEW Bill passed on Wednesday outlaws bucket shops unlicensed commodities-trading firms that have tricked many people into losing large sums of money. It amends the Commodity Futures Act to cover intangible commodities as well and requires all firms and individuals engaging in all forms of commodities
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      • 62 7 LRT The Light Rapid Transit services were disrupted for almost three hours yesterday because of a power failure between Bukit Panjang and Choa Chu Kang stations. A damaged signal rail at a switch near the Bukit Panjang station held up the trains between 1.18 and 4pm. During the
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    • 57 7 Quote Wworthy (MiMacGraw) had this •disease in the She said to me,'l hope you didn't catch it from me\ —Actor Ryan O'Neal, who is battling leukaemia, on what Love Story co-star Ali MacGraw (right, in the movie with O'Neal) told him when she called
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    • 83 7 The Straits Times: Gus Dur's party tells Mega to resign The Business Times: Key exports fall for second If month in April, down 1.2 percent Lianhe Zaobao: Up to 10,000 university students riot at Sulawesi province after failing to stop Gus Dur's visit Berita Harian: Gus Dur's
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    • 173 7 f6cus MORE school leavers with N-level and O-level certificates are using the ITE route to the polytechnics and doing well there. Nearly one in seven of the Institute of Technical Education's intake got into polytechnics last year. That's almost 1,200 students
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 395 9 The New Paper,Mayl6 a case of plagiarism by a iHr *SBt a- J. vsggs aiib y^Sff^s^ Singaporean Hfe student. Its findings were in- ,v MI released on Wednesday. But a student and a graduate of the university are unhappy. They tell JOYCELYN WONG why SOME
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    • 238 9 IN A telephone interview with The New Paper, Curtin's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lance Twomey, said the student wasn't named because the university had a duty to protect her. He said: "If her name got into the papers, she would be condemned and it would take a long time
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    • 713 10  -  By j Azhar Ghani YOU too got one of these letters sometime, right? Telling you you've won some money. Lt you threw it away as junk mail, right? Well, strangely, this man didn't. For, he thought he had really won the money. He
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    • 198 11 MR OLIVEIRO thought he had struck it lucky after years of problems. He had stopped working at 48 after an accident. The former storeman broke his right wrist when some oxygen tanks fell on him. He's not able to bend his right wrist even now. He said:
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    • 313 11 THE Reader's Digest Sweepstakes is an m A annual draw open w only to invited Reader's Digest customers. To enter, those invited have to return the entry form, filled according to the instructions on the invitation. According to a Reader's Digest press statement e-mailed to The New
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    • 118 11 ANYBODY who reads the Reader's Digest promotional letters would have no problems understanding its contents. That was what a lawyer told The New Paper. Added Mr S Balamurugan, 28,: "If you were to read the letters, words like 'if and 'might well be' are there. "Nowhere
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    • 333 12  -  By Amy Chiew LOOK AT the two coins above. Can you spot the difference in design? The lions on the coin on the left are positioned higher. And the banner bearing the words "Majulah Singapura" is curved upwards while on the coin on right, it
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  • 345 14  -  SINGAPORE BY Lingam Ponnampalam SHE always locks up her windows and doors. And carefully locks the front grille safe to her provision shop too. But that doesn't solve her problem: Thieves keep coming in through the roof. Madam NgTan Ming, 51, told The New Paper
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  • 289 15  -  NEWS By Lingam Ponnampalam A LEISURELY drive back to Singapore with friends. Possibly with some business lined up from a meeting back in Malacca. Neither Mr Peter Wong Chun Yu, 46, nor Mr Ivan Tan Chor Po, 41, could have anticipated what lay around the
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  • SPEAKUP
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      • 263 18 Amerlyn Teo (e-mail) The launch of Channel U on May 6 added more variety to my daily dosage of TV and some of Channel Us programmes deserve my thumbs up. However, there is one area which, needs improvement and that is the way the channel lines
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      • 216 19 Susan Luah (e-mail) I would like to express my concern regarding the change in content when MediaCorp's Sports City became City TV on May 14. From all sports, the channel now has a mix of drama, music and sports entertainment. Though there have been repeated
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  • 525 20  -  SINGAPORE By Amrit Kaur SIT in air-conditioned comfort overlooking a Koi pond at the bottom of a sculpted waterfall. Switch channels at any of the four big television sets, sit in stylish chrome seats with funky coloured lamps and bright plush sofas. No,
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  • 91 22 muifmui* SINGAPORE Local singer Stefanie Sun on her favourite fantasy: When I'm very tired or I j know I have to wake up I at 6am for recording, I I dream about getting into a cab, speeding to Changi Airport and running away to Hongkong, just
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 57 24 RESIDENTS scrambled for their lives when a row of wooden shophouses caught fire at 4.20 am in Parit Buntar, Perak, yesterday. A 10-year-old boy died and his parents and two other relatives were injured when they tried to escape from their house-cum-kerosene sliop. Three other houses
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    • 411 24 MONEY politics has reared its ugly head in Malaysia again. It comes just after the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) division elections held last month. Allegations have surfaced that some Malaysian leaders who were elected to key post have rewarded their supporters with
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    362 26 IRAN'S TRANSPORT MINISTER IN PLANE CRASH WORLD Wire services. THE four children of Mr Rahman Dadman (above), Iran's transport minister, want to know. There are still conflicting reports on the whereabouts of the Iranian plane that went missing since yesterday. While the Interior Ministry was quoted earlier
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  • WORLD
    • 196 28 THE e-commerce revolution is alive and kicking at death's door. Simply with the click of a mouse, individuals who cannot be physically present at a funeral service can now join in via cyberspace, Asahi Shimbun reports. The service, developed by the Polytech Company, of Mishima,
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    • 287 28 AFP. THE lights have dimmed for film-star candidates in recent polls in the Philippines. They seem to have bombed out compared with rivals from powerful political clans, according to newspaper reports and unofficial results. Action star Rudy Fernandez was trailing far behind a veteran politician in the
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  • WORLD
    • 54 30 muifmui* Japan's largest shipping company, Nippon Yusen K K, plans to offer a new funeral ash-scattering service. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said: Prices of graveyard plots have been soaring. So many want the ashes of their remains or those of their loved ones to be
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    • 395 30 WHEN the traffic police hands you a ticket, it's bad news... Or is it? In California, at least, it may not be a bad thing to get a ticket. If you like doughnuts. The Californian police are rewarding good drivers with traffic tickets so
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    • 82 31 CHARLES Schulz spent nearly half a century creating the comic strip Peanuts, which made him one of the richest men on earth. And yesterday, the US Postal Service honoured him by releasing stamps featuring his characters Snoopy (left), Charlie Brown, Schroeder, Linus and Lucy. Schulz
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    • 215 31 Reuters HONGKONG citizens have more meals outside their homes than anyone else. On the other hand, Russians choose to stay at home, a global survey said yesterday. 'There are all kinds of low-cost and high-quality restaurants in Hongkong. Chinese cuisine is one of the most
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    • 364 32 Thai police rescue Myanmar prostitutes Woman, 20, chained for tiying to escape Wire services. LIKE several other young women, captive Lhong was chained by her ankle. And that was how Thai police found her after they raided a three-storey house in northern Bangkok yesterday. The 20-year-old Myanmar national
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    • 349 33 SEEMS like lady luck will have to decide who gets to sit on first-class seats on a particular flight from Hongkong to China this Sunday. Why? Because there are more tycoons than first-class airplane seats. Over a hundred business big guns, including 71 founders
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  • WORLD
    • 309 35 AP. MORE than 140 rescue workers from Switzerland and France were working yesterday to save eight Swiss tourists stuck in a cave. But time and the weather were against them. The cave, 20km from the Swiss border, kept filling with water from days
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    • 672 36 THIS is the sad story of "the sweetest guy" and the spoilt loser. They lived on the same dorm floor for a while and even took a camping trip together. But fellow Hofstra university students Shaun Alexander, 23, and Max Kolb, 20, had little in common. Kolb
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    • 378 37 GIVE him to us, and we won't execute him, even if he's guilty. This is China's written offer to Canada on the fates of fugitive Lai Changxing, 42, and his wife, Tsang Mingna, 36. The offer comes as lawyers for both Lai, China's most wanted man,
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    • 498 68  -  By Lionel Lee LESLIE KHOO has ridden in more races than he can remember. But there is one upcoming event that the once glamour boy of Singapore racing is not likely to forget. Since being given a trainer's licence by the Malayan Racing
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    • 472 68 NST. WINNER POWER geared up for the Class 3 Div 1 event over 1,700 m on Sunday with a two-round workout in Penang yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the six-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding by Asti Bay cantered two rounds on the sand track and
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    • 334 69  -  By Danny Khoo SADDLE UP, the Indian-bred horse who created turf history when he won the Tunku Gold Cup last January, will race in Malaysia no more. And, if everything goes according to plan, Kranji race-goers should see him make his local debut
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    • 113 77 Odds as at 8.30 am CLEMENTI v BALESTIER Ix 2: (1) Clementi: $2.45 (x) Draw: $3.30 (2) Baiestier: $2.35 1/2 GOAL: Clementi:(+ll/2):51.20 Baiestier: (-11/2): $3.75 TOTAL GOALS: 0 Goal: $10.00 1 Goal: $5.50 2 Goals: $4.10 3 Goals: $4.10 4 Goals: $4.30 5 Goals: $6.20 6 Goals: $13.00
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    • 270 77  -  By Ernest Luis ESAD Sejdic will soon be the first PR player in the S-League to apply for Singapore citizenship. When asked by The New Paper last night, the 31-year-old Bosnian-born striker, who plays for the Woodlands Rams, confirmed the news. Sejdic has been a
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    • 242 77 WHILE one Ram wants to be a Singapore citizen, another wants to be a Permanent Resident (PR). Woodlands Rams defender Miroslav Kuljanac, 31, said after last night's match that he has applied for PR. Said the Croatian: "I've been told I have to wait
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    • 238 78 MATCH FLASHPOINTS Tanjong Pagar Scores! 3rd min: Tanjong Pagar's Rudy Khairon sends in a cross from the right flank and team-mate Haris Sumri evades two defenders to head the ball beyond the
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    • 283 78 VNARONGCHAI is blossoming with the Tanjong Pagar Jaguars. And the 19-year-old may just be the midfield dynamo the Jaguars need to fire up their S-League title ambitions once again. The Thai Under-23 player, hailed back home as Thailand's next "Tawan Sripan," showed why during last night's
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    • 738 79  -  By Brian Miller IN slightly less than a month, it will be upon us yet again. Another "major" on golfs calendar. This time, it's the US Open to be played at Southern Hills. And lie it has been since 1997 when a certain
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    • 48 79 FROM PRIVATE JET TO WAITING MASERATI HIGH-FLYER: Tiger at the Baden-Baden airport in Germany from Orlando, Florida, in his private jet and Is promptly whisked away inside a waiting Maserati. Woods is taking part in the Tournament Players' Championship of Europe which started in Heidelberg yesterday Picture/ Afp
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    • 119 79 AP. NEW Zealand's Michael Campbell took the spotlight from Tiger Woods, shooting a 10-under 62 in the rain-plagued event. Woods opened with a 69. "It was a great round, but I'm only seven shots in front of Tiger that's not much with three rounds to play," said
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    • 188 79 AP. TIGER Woods' schedule is carefully designed to make his sponsors happy. Woods is receiving a US$2 million ($3.4 m) appearance fee to play the European Tour event in Germany, which is reason enough. But Tiger is also making sponsor American Express happy by not
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    • PRESTON V BOLTON
      • 39 80 PLAYOFF FINAL: May 28, Cardiff GARDNER: The Jamaica international, scorer of the second goal for Bolton, is seen here in action against Mexico in a World Cup Qualifier earlier Picture/ Afp
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      • 283 80 Reuters. PRESTON North End scored a thrilling 4-2 penalty shootout victory over Birmingham in the First Division Playoff semi-final. Paul McKenna converted the decisive spotkick for David Moyes' side after the game finished 2-1 to
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      • 380 80 BOLTON thrashed West Bromwich Albion 3-0 at the Reebok Stadium to complete a 5-2 aggregate victory in the other Playoff semi-final. Gudni Bergsson, a scorer in the first leg when Bolton recovered from 2-0 down against West Brom to draw 2-2,
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      • 241 80 Reuters. TOTTENHAM manager Glenn Hoddle has urged his captain Sol Campbell to delay a move abroad for five years. England defender Campbell, 26, will be out of contract with Spurs at the end of the season and is being tracked by Barcelona, Real Madrid and Arsenal. Hoddle turned
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