The New Paper, 18 March 2002

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  • 27 1 the new paper MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2002 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I comsg Email tnp@sph.com sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 044/03/2002 60 CENTS
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  • NEWS
    • 157 2 WOMEN taking the contraceptive pill are changing the sex of male fish and could also be making men less fertile. Research by Britain's Environment Agency showed that half of all the male fish in low-lying English rivers are changing sex because of water pollution, the Independent
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    • 417 2 AS a young man, US President George Bush visited China in 1975. He pedalled around Beijing and was amazed at the sea of workers on cycles. He saw hardly any private cars. Last month, Mr Bush saw a change. Beijing's streets were crammed with cars many of
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    • 285 3 Make Your Future Happen Here Top-Ranked Australian Universities The universities below are members of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). The Degree programmes are suitable for all Polytechnic Diploma, GCE 'A' level and Advanced f Diploma holders or those who aspire to make a difference in their career and future.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 730 4 WOON WUITEK visits a boatyard that's doing very well in these hard times THE worldwide recession has hurt many Singapore firms. But not GB Holdings: It is pulling in profits by the millions. The name may bring to mind solid, no-fuss industries oil, housing,
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    • 300 5 ITS not something the average Singaporean even thinks about. But the worldwide pleasure craft industry is a huge one. Locally, tycoon Ong Beng Seng is a client, GB Holdings affirms as are other privacy-seeking financiers. The biggest market, of course, is the US
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 170 6 IS the worst over for job-hunters? The number of job ads in The Straits Times is on the rise. Last Saturday saw 296 executive job ads, up from 285 the previous Saturday. And on March 2, ads hit 351, the highest number in six
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    • 164 6 Jobless rate might not come down figures for some time. The jobless rate could even go as high as 5.5 or 6 per cent before things get better. The commentary also predicted that Singapore may just have to get used to a permanent 3 to 4 per cent unemployment rate.
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    • 65 6 SINGAPORE'S reclamation activities have crossed into Malaysian territory in Tuas, a Malaysian newspaper has claimed. Malay-language Berita Minggu quoted a Marine Department official as saying satellite images and border buoys in the straits showed that the works encroached into Johor waters. It also published the above
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    • 66 6 IN what is seen as a move to distance itself from the troubled Andersen brand, local law firm Rajah Tann has dropped the "Andersen Legal" name. Andersen is embroiled in accounting scandals following the collapse of Enron in the US. Rajah Tann has swopped the brand for top
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    • 63 6 NOW that they can't work in Malaysia, 76,000 Indonesians are turning to Brunei for jobs. East Java is getting ready to send them to the sultanate this year, according to an Indonesian newspaper. They want jobs as nurses, maids, shopkeepers, drivers, cleaners, painters and mining workers. However,
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    • 61 6 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has cancelled an "air-sharo" agreement with Air New Zealand. The agreement had allowed the airlines to share the revenue from a daily flight between Christchurch and Singapore. The termination appears to indicate a strain in ties between the carriers. An SIA spokesman said it
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    • 64 6 TALKS about establishing a Free Trade Agreement were held recently between Taiwan's board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) and its Singaporean counterpart. While still at the preliminary stage, BOFT director Wayne Wu said he hoped significant progress would be made by the end of the year. A Free
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    • 71 6 CARS are lined up in queues outside Singapore Petroleum Company's (SPC) eight petrol stations. The other oil companies raised their pump prices by between 5 and 10 per cent, but SPC hasn't followed suit. It is selling 98-per-cent octane fuel at $1,234 and 92-per-cent octane fuel at $1,168.
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    • 54 6 SINGAPORE Press Holding now offers advertisers an innovative new way to reach readers: Free standing inserts. These are separate flyers which will be distributed with the newspapers. Another new offering is "stick-ons". These allow advertisers to attach sample products or peel-off stickers to front pages, a strategy
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    • 137 7 My claughters would spend hour upon hour at the site to earn enough NeoPoints to buy rare items for their pets... Every time they do well, we reward the child with a small gift, so I thought why not use his fascination with the NeoPets to encourage him to
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    • 266 7 INFOCUS THE Environment Ministry (ENV) has taken several brands of crackers and instant noodles off the shelves. They were found to contain sugar substitute stevia, which is not approved for consumption here. The substance is said to be 200 times sweeter than sugar. The products containing
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    • 237 7 OH THE RACK THIRTY-FIVE years ago, artist Chen Yifei painted some of the most inspiring propaganda canvases glorifying the socialist dream of the Cultural Revolution. Today, the 56-year-old is disobeying all the slogans of his youth. Mr Chen has become one of China's boldest entrepreneurs, energetically building
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    • 77 7 The Straits Times: Five killed in Pakistan church attack The Business Times: Taiwan, Singapore start talks on FTA Lianhe Zaobao: More Chinese nationals coming here to study; New impetus for education sector Berita Harian: Grenade attack on church in Pakistan killed five NewsRadio 93.8FM: The Minister of State
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    • 54 7 International Herald Tribune: Violence undercuts US envoy in Mid-east Asian Wall Street Journal: Andersen partners in Asia weigh exit, merger plans New Straits Times: Reclamation affects Johor ports BBC news: Palestinian and Israeli military commanders have met to discuss controlling violence in the West Bank and removing Israeli
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    • 40 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams CAROL, PUT TOGETHER l SURVEY?!! YOU COULD 1 (OO N£J FLINGA A SURVEY TO FIND *SK ANY ttONKEY AT THAT. I OUT WHY NO RALE THE ZOO WHAT THE REPEAT. I IS SO LOW. I PROBLEM IS.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 507 8 Last week, a China-watcher said Singaporean businessmen were like easy-target "rabbits" in China. WOON WUITEK asks local entrepreneurs if they agree and what could be done SUMfcTIMfcS, businessmen here expect one set of laws to apply across the whole of China. We don't
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    • 387 9 Tortoise rabbit THERE'S no denying many Singaporeans have lost a lot of money in China. But to many on the mainland, our entrepreneurs are best known for being careful, methodical and efficient. In short, more steady tortoise than reckless rabbit. This sentiment occasionally came through in the interviews conducted by
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    • 114 9 INTERESTED in doing business in China but there's no-one to advise you? You might consider Network China, a business networking platform jointly initiated by the private and government sectors. Launched in November, it organises seminars, networking sessions and forums. In January, Network China and the Trade Development
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    • 804 10 Two businessmen have been convicted of manipulating the market after Mid-Continental share prices rocketed. They face three months' jail. TANYA FONG and YONG SIEW FERN explain their offence SUPPOSE you're an investor and you see the share price of a company call it Stock
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    • 479 11 THE RISE AND FALL July 8,1998: Mid-Continent Equipment Group launches an IPO of 18 million shares at 15 cents apiece. Set up in 1978, it is owned by managing director Mr Ong Eng Kee and mainboard-listed Ipco International. July 15,1998 Placement tranche of TAN Hong Pheng and
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    • 425 12  -  It is championship material, for which someone had offered $2,000 By Low Ching Ling LAST Thursday, his betta (Siamese fighting fish) had swum away with the grand championship at the First National Betta and Fifth National Discus Competition. Yesterday, however, Mr Steven Tan,
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    • 513 13  -  I By Arul John SURE, he admitted, he was angry with his brother for locking him out of their flat. Aziz Taib, 37, said he had scolded Mr Junaidi Taib. But in court last week, he firmly denied then slashing Mr Junaidi's left hand at
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    • 152 14 LAST WEEK: Commenting on last week's market action, one stock trader said, "Don't expect the market to go up in a straight line. It never has and never will." After a spectacular 4.5 per cent gain two weeks ago, the STI made a slight retreat
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  • Article, Illustration
    396 15  -  SINGAPORE I By Low Ching Ling THE ground was littered with potatoes and onions that had rolled out of their gunny sacks. Water was ankle-high and mangled steel hung precariously from the roof. This was the scene after a fire swept a three-storey warehouse storing canned drinks,
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  • WORLD
    • 302 17 JAPAN is waiting with bated breath for the soccer World Cup this summer. It's also getting ready to meet what inevitably comes along with football hooligans or "fooligans" as they are called in Japanese. Sapporo, on the island of Hokkaido, has been rehearsing for a week
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    • 162 17 AFP. SVEN-GORAN Eriksson has turned down a string of lucrative offers to write a World Cup diary of England's campaign in Japan and South Korea this summer. He said he was not interested in following in Glenn Hoddle's footsteps, reported newspapers yesterday.
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    • 386 18 THEY might as well enjoy it while it lasts a two-hour lunch break that is. Because soon their long lunch, which starts at 12.30pm and ends at 2.30pm, will be over for Hongkong floor traders (members of the exchange who execute orders
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    • 151 18 AP. MR Jeffrey Himmel of the US makes his millions by reviving neglected and downtrodden products. Ovaltine. Gold Bond Medicated Powder. And soon, Breck shampoo. Mr Himmel, 48, said: "I look for brands that are well-known, but mistaken for dead. And we bring
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    • 244 19 NEARLY 300 men may have lost their chance at fatherhood due to a hospital's fault, reported Ananova. Samples of sperm were taken from 296 patients before cancer treatment at Edinburgh's Western General Infirmary so that they could use them to conceive should the treatment damage their fertility. But
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      408 20 MALAYSIA'S NO 2 CIGARETTE 'COMPANY': CIGARETTE smuggling is so rampant in Malaysia that smugglers would come in second in terms of profits among the four cigarette importers and distributors there if they were to form a company. For, combined together, the number of cigarettes they sell would make
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    • 275 20 FOR the past two weeks, thousands of workers have surrounded a government building in the heart of China's oil country, protesting the restructuring of one of its biggest listed companies. The demonstrations at the Daqing Oil Management Bureau in the northern city have ranged
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    • 178 21 AP. THEY barged into an apartment, then molested and robbed two women of the contents of their refrigerator. But here's the real shocker the youngest of the culprits is only eight years old. At least seven of them, between eight and 12, terrorised the two women in
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    • 860 22 Showtime&Lifestyle Wheel of Fortune made Vawwa White a household name in the US. And these girls are hoping for the same in the new Singapore version. JEANMAR1E TAN looks at the shortlisted five YEP, this familiar face belongs to Miss Singapore Universe 2000. The Arts graduate from the
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    • 377 24  -  BY Yeoh Wee Teck FROM out of nowhere, Singapore airwaves got hit by another dose of Latin pop. Columbian singer Shakira, 26, has been dominating the local airwaves with the first single from her debut English album, Laundry Services. Whenever, Wherever topped the Perfect 10 and Power
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    • 431 25  -  By Chang May Choon THE media call Taiwanese popster Kiki Ting a slayer of teenage boys. But it's not just hordes of schoolboys who swoon over her doe eyes, pouting lips and cutie-pie image. Even male idols have openly declared their admiration for her. Boyband
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    • 586 29 THE NEW PAPER/Monday, March 18.2002 PRIME TIME TV Page 29 6 6.00: Cue 6.30: Wheel Of 6.30: News 6.30: Singapore 6.00: Roswell 6.00: Masak Mini 6.02: 6.00: News At 6 6.00: Fracasse (News) Fortune (Variety) Today (News) Conspiracies (Cooking) Correspondent's 6.30: An-Nur 6.30: News In |t|ll 6.30: Hello Kitty (School
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    • 197 34 SSS 2642 Hotel 'Lounge Restaurant Positions Pub in Chanqi Village requires: KJ SERVICE STAFF Interested call *****042 requires urgently at lOA Duxton Hill Only locals need apply Interested pis 9797 9981 for Yin fnr»*rn rMrr» r» »i WAITRESS/ WAITER required Age above 21 yrs old Chinese speaking Interested call H/p:
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    • 278 35 355 mm Other Positions Laundry shop requires PERMANENT PART-TIME COUNTER STAFF at Simei Saturday alternate public holiday. Tel: 9590-6620 Bridal Shop setting up new portfolios FEMALE/ MALE MODELS needed Students welcome No Fees Required I2pm-Bpm Please call 6323-*****M1 SES 2700 Education ILine Cewrcitl Centre Registered training centre for: He I
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  • RACING
    • 310 36  -  By Lionel Lee THE RM70,000 ($32,200) Windsor Park Stud Trophy at Penang yesterday ended in an exciting finish when Century Of Stars survived a late challenge by Blade Runner Ahjar to grab honours by a neck. Raced by Terry Lee of Fairdeal
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    • 367 37 FORMER seven-time Malayan Racing Association champion trainer Ivan Allan (left) has done it again in Hongkong. The 61-year-old yesterday captured his third Hong Kong Derby with his rising star Olympic Express in the HK$l4 million ($2.9 million) Group 1 event over the Sha
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    • 1084 37 RACE 1: Jockey SH Oh replaced jockey KL Oo on WELCOME BACK. EMPEROR'S DIAMOND dipped on jumping and shortly after that, was brushed by THE COMEBACK KING, who jumped awkwardly out, resulting in the gelding being slow into stride. WELCOME BACK raced fiercely
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    • 30 36 4-D DRAW SUNDAY March 17,2002 FIRST SECOND THIRD STARTERS 8698 2136 8586 4578 7452 9827 4872 9615 9655 1127 CONSOLATION 5343 4386 9771 3719 2048 4688 6175 6211 6198 7072
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  • SPORTS
    • 344 38 FORMULA ONE: MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX CRASH AT THE FIRST CORNER SPARKS CONTROVERSY AFP. Michael Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya pointed the finger at each other for their first corner collision in yesterday Malaysian Grand Prix, but played down the incident as part of racing. The
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    • 695 38  -  By Brian Miller IF you thought you were never going to witness the "changing of the guard" at least not at the Malaysian Grand Prix you were wrong. On a hot and horribly humid afternoon which saw temperatures soar into the 40s,
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    • 494 39 MORE ON MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX AP. RALF Schumacher broke his elder brother's two-time winning streak in Malaysia to end Ferrari's recent grip on Formula One. It was the fourth career Grand Prix win for Ralf, who started from fourth and finished the 56 laps in
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    • 420 40 EURO KICKOFF: SCOTLAND, ITALY, GERMANY SPAIN SCOTLAND Reuters. CLAUDIO Caniggia scored two goals and set up another in Rangers' 4-0 Scottish League Cup final victory over Ayr United yesterday. These help his club to its first domestic silverware in two years. But the 35-year-old Argentine hopes
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    • 186 40 GERMANY AP. BORUSSLA Dortmund exploded for four goals in seven minutes yesterday to thrash SC Freiburg 5-1 and close to a point of the Bundesliga lead. Dortmund's highest season victory came after the 16th-placed side played it even until the half, after shocking the favoured guest with
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    • 153 40 SPAIN AFP. REAL Betis threw away the chance to close the gap on the leading trio in the Spanish First Division when it could only draw 1-1 at Real Zaragoza yesterday. Dani Martin scored his fifth goal in seven games since being called up from the reserves in
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    • 292 40 ITALY AFP. A LATE header from substitute Massimo Ambrosini gave beleaguered AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti a precious 2-1 victory over Serie A opponent Torino at the San Siro yesterday. Italian international Ambrosini, back in action after a long spell out, headed home the winner to
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    • WORLD CUP WATCH
      • 270 42 IROMARIO: (Brazil) Wire services. BRAZIL striker Romario's World Cup dreams came crashing as he pulled out of a league match for his club Vasco with dengue fever. Romario is ill with high fever and pains, Vasco's team doctor Fernando Mattar said. Mattar prohibited the 1994 World Cup
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      • 220 42 ALESSANPRO PEL PIERO: (Italy) Reuters. JUVENTUS coach Marcello Lippi believes the return from injury of Italy forward Alessandro Del Piero may prove decisive in the Serie A title race. Del Piero, who is expected to spearhead Italy's campaign in the World Cup in Japan and Korea,
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      • 207 42 RONALDINHO (Brazil) Reuters. HE wants to stay in France despite attention from the world's soccer giants. Brazilian Ronaldinho (above), scored twice in Paris St Germain's 3-1 home win over Troyes on Saturday, and made his long-awaited announcement. "Paris is a city where my family have adapted well,
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    • 701 43 LEEDS 3 BLACKBURN 1 Robbie Fowler sth min,B; Harry Kewell 71 Matt Jansen49 Crowd: 39,857 Reuters. AFP. LEEDS United gave its Irish manager David O'Leary an ideal St Patrick's Day present with a 3-1 English Premiership win over Blackburn at Elland Road yesterday. A first-half double
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    • 274 43 ROBBIE Fowler (left), technically sharp as a goalscorer, is also blunt when it comes to assessing his dream of booking a part in England's World Cup adventure this summer. His conclusion is simple: When it comes to Sven Goran Eriksson's 23-strong
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    • 864 44  -  ...MORE ON ASTON VILLA 1 ARSENAL 2 By Edwin Yeo MANU March 23: v Boro (h) March 30: v Leeds (a) April 6: v Leicester (a) April 13: v Arsenal (h) April 20: v Chelsea (a) April 27: v Ipswich (a)
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    • 436 45 ..MORE ON ASTON VILLA 1 ARSENAU 2 Six minutes after David Seaman stops Aston Villa by saving a penalty, comes a sublime moment that ultimately proves decisive. Villa is continuing to press when J Lloyd Samuel sloppily gives the ball away to Frederik Ljungberg.
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    • 541 46 Fortunately, Seaman saves See facing page ASTON VILLA 1 ARSENAL 2 Dion Dublin (69th min) Edu (15), Robert Pires (60) Crowd: 41,520 A WONDER goal from Robert Pires and a superb penalty save by David Seaman enabled Arsenal to keep the heat on leader Man United.
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    • 325 47 ...MORE ON ASTON VILLA 1 ARSENAL 2 of looking at the player's run-up and a kidflying one way or the other and fflbj;/ Wm>t one hand on it. revealing he knew little about England Under-21 player Garetk Barry's penalty technique. /MHHfca penalty —it was very
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