The New Paper, 13 April 2002

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  • 503 2 NEWS HALF a million dollars. That was what Mr Sheikh Nawaz claims he was offered to keep quiet. All Mr Sheikh Nawaz had to do was drop a case involving 20 victims of a loan shark housing agent, reported Berita Harian. Mr
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    • 63 2 Sorry NTUC: Delay GST Hike (TNP, April 11): The report may have given the impression that the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) was asking for a delay in the introduction of the 5 per cent GST. It actually called for the 5 per cent GST to be maintained for the
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    • 84 2 Triple challenges for our Triple Nine (TNP, April 11): Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng was reported as saying that the police must work undercover, hunting down secret cells like Jemaah Islamiyah. The minister did not say that. It was the Internal Security Department which cracked down on the group.
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    • 6 2 What's on TV? Pages 34 35
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 417 4 MINISTER MAH BOW TAN ON LAND RECLAMATION ISSUE: Malaysia has been voicing concerns about land reclamation work being carried out by Singapore close to the border between the two countries. Singapore says that the work is being carried out within its borders. In an
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    • 468 5 Couples get 'hot steamy' —in the kitchen FOR a few moments, the women ruled the world or at least the kitchen when they got to order their spouses around. After all, there are no rules against women having the upperhand, especially in a cooking class for couples. And the men
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 249 6 CPF-LINKED PROPOSALS Homeowners, don't fret. If you're waiting to see how changes in Central Provident Fund (CPF) rules may affect your properties, your wait may end sooner than expected. Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the Economic Review Committee (ERC) will release
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    • 75 6 PICTURE THIS Whee-e-e-e-e! US fireman Ken Drouse is trying out the new plastic spiral slide at the Mt Pleasant Safety Building in Michigan. It replaces the traditional fire pole to get from the bunk areas to fire truck bays. Officials hope it will reduce
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    • 77 6 THE new 30-day limit on US tourist and business visas will not apply to Singaporeans. According to the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS), Singaporeans can "automatically" stay for at least 90 days. Singapore has been on a select visa waiver list since 1999. The new visa
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    • 80 6 FROM today, you can use the ez-link card on all buses and MRT trains. Existing fare cards can still be used for another six months, while coins will be accepted on buses. By July, close to 630,000 free cards will be distributed to all primary and secondary school
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    • 73 6 NST. THE police were pelted with sticks, stones and rotten eggs in Alor Star, Kedah on Thursday night. The incident took place when they tried to disperse a crowd attending an illegal ceramah (political rally) at Pas headquarters. The police were forced to fire tear gas and
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    • 73 6 GOING to JB but not sure if you have outstanding traffic summonses? For a fee of $10, online car-auction company AutoHub2l.com allows car owners to check the status of fines in Malaysia. Add $20 more and they would even settle the fine for you. Since the service started
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    • 70 6 MALAYSIA Airports Holdings (MAH) said yesterday that the government might sell shares of its stake in the airport operator, instead of seeking a single strategic buyer. The government, who owns 70 per cent of shares, will conduct a book-building exercise to locate interested investors, and shares will
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    • 61 6 TODAY'S meeting between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been postponed. The US requested the postponement several hours after a Palestinian woman blew herself up in a crowded outdoor market in Jerusalem, killing six shoppers and wounding 84. Mr Powell learnt of the
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    • 98 7 We are buying weapons only for our defence. Those who want to attack us, we promise well give them a bloody nose. —Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, commenting yesterday on the country's recent defence purchases. On Thursday, Malaysia signed two contracts worth almost RMIII million ($53
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    • 169 7 US stocks edged higher yesterday as investors bought into the battered technology sector. Traders nibbled cautiously at tech, telecom and airline stocks, but the market's overall tone was guarded as investors waited for first-quarter earnings reports to begin in earnest next week. Analysts said Wall Street wanted to
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    • 286 7 OH THE RACK THE Haja Center, an experimental school in Seoul, is trying to put the fun back into learning, reported Time. With a million-dollar grant from the city government last year, the school has created a laid-back oasis in a country where a popular saying
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    • 67 7 The Straits Times: Blast setback for peace mission The Business Times: CPF-linked proposals to be out earlier Lianhe Zaobao: Government will avoid causing upheaval in the market when adjusting policy for using CPF to buy property Berita Harian: Powell begins talks to ease Mid-east crisis NewsRadio 93.8FM: US
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    • 32 7 International Herald Tribune: Sharon sees Powell but doesn't budge New Straits Times: PM to meet MCA factions BBC news: Meeting between Powell and Arafat postponed following suicide bombing in Jerusalem
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 640 8 Sec 3 0 levels -JC- National Junior College may offer upper secondary education. Well, how about girls at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent/? SAf JTQKH SITJGH looks at some of the ideas being tossed around by leading schools HERE is an idea worth considering. It comes from the Saint Andrew's family and
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    • Article, Illustration
      255 9 NATIONAL Junior College (NJC) was Singapore's first college when it was set up in 1969. And if its proposal to the Ministry of Education is approved, it may well become Singapore's first high school, where students join the college for their upper secondary education as well. It would mean
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    • 113 9 RAFFLES Institution (RI), Raffles Girls' School (RGS) and Raffles Junior College have proposed the Schools/JC cluster model. They will offer a six-year programme to prepare students for the university. RI headmaster Wong Siew Hoong told The Y Scene yesterday that it will depend on MOE's approval, but the
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    • 361 9 Which of these through-train models do you prefer? Or do you have suggestions for yet another approach? E-mail your views to tnp@sph.com.sg ANGLO-Chinese School (Independent), ranked 10th in Singapore, is all set to go on its own in the future all the way to pre-university. If
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    • 321 10  -  ByJ Jessica Cheam AS the sole breadwinner of her family, Madam Png needed her salary and needed it on time. Only she had to go to the Ministry of Manpower for it. A ministry spokesman said that the number of Singaporeans seeking help in
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    • 74 12 WE received quite an overwhelming response from our readers for the Robbie Williams contest in The New Paper on AprlL 10. Readers were asked over which SCV Channel Robbie Williams Live At The Albert is shown. Answer Channel 18 Five correct entries were picked to win a
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 899 14 THE couple on the right run their own business, work 12-hour days every single day of the week and earn more than $1,000 a month. Both are disabled. But that hasn't stopped them from finding creative ways to survive. They
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    • 374 15 THE couple first got to know each other through friends. "A bus driver friend was observing me when I worked at the interchange. She saw that I wasn't smoking and drinking. She told my wife's mum about me," said Mr Lin. "My wife and I first met
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    • 743 16  -  By Gloria Chandy MORE business opportunities are popping up as North Korea slowly opens up. Opportunities such as duty-free shops for tourists. But the Singaporean who's supposed to run some of these shops has a slight problem:
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    • 241 17 'No free easy destination' for tourists NORTH Korea, the last bastion of hard-line communism, is thought to be leaning towards tourism and trade. Mr B L Khoo, managing director of Universal Travel Corporation, the only agency here authorised by North Korea to organise tours there, said it is trying to
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      594 18  -  2 percentage-point GST hike won't hurt a lot, says tax expert By Gloria Chandy ABOUT two-thirds of the Singaporean workforce do not pay income tax. No wonder some people aren't sure about the tax trade-off proposed recently lower income tax but higher Goods and Services Tax (GST). The
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    • 335 18 In many countries, basic necessities like milk and sugar are exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Other countries have a tiered system where basic essentials have a reduced GST rate. Experts tell EUGENE WEE why these systems are not likely to
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  • WORLD
    • 248 19 WITH its rapidly expanding economy, China has begun to look intimidating to many countries. Many in Asia, especially Japan, are worried about China's growing economic clout. They fear that China's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in December will cost jobs when
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    • 308 20 IT was a long trip taken by a sacred relic of the Buddha (reputedly to be one of his fingers). It recently returned from Taiwan to its home in China. But first it went to Hongkong. Why? At the moment, there is no direct passenger access
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    • 321 21 HE has done it again. Been caught, if not with his trousers down, at least flirting with a glamorous blonde. And by no less than Newsweek. A magazine photo showed former US president Bill Clinton in an intimate pose with the Canadian
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    • 346 22 12-year-old 'smuggler' then travels alone from Nigeria to US THERE are some stories that shock even in a world where drug trafficking is an everyday crime like 12-year-old Prince Nnaedozie Umegbolu who was made to swallow 87 condoms filled with heroin and
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    • 449 23 County could hike oil production to solve financial woes and upset quota regime Wire services. HIS ouster could not have come at a better time for the US and maybe even for us. Yesterday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from his country's
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    • 84 23 Reuters. VENEZUELA'S interim government has dissolved the Congress and fired all Supreme Court members. It has also said it would hold presidential elections within a year. Mr Pedro Carmona, who was named transitional president with military backing, will not be allowed to stand in the election. The government
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    • 385 24 Nicholas Tse is in the headlines again. But this time, it has nothing to do with his rumoured break-up with singer Faye Wong or his romancing his supposed new squeeze, movie star Cecilia Cheung. The 21-year-old singer was arrested last night by the Independent
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      599 26 When Virgin Mobile decided to make spanking part of the fun on a Wednesday night, did Singaporeans swat away? Will anyone mind being flogged in public? YEOH WEE TECK checks out the event THE invitation was to spank and be spanked, but the reality of it was that
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    • 482 27  -  By Jessica Cheam Millionaire game host Cao Qitai made headlines in the Chinese papers on Monday. His mime performance which made the least money in Sunday's National Kidney Foundation charity show was the subject. Qitai's performance raked in 10,060 calls, while the "second lowest
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    • 202 28 MAYBE Allan Wu should be nicknamed The Incredible Hulk. For a fashion shoot in this month's Citta Bella, the designer I sample outfits were apparently too small and too tight for the hubba-hubba Chinese-American hunk. In fact, Allan is so brawny, his leather Louis Vuitton pants
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    • 271 29 AFTER all that hanging upside down during rehearsals, Jaime Teo (right) must have forgotten herself. Well, at least enough to blurt out that actor Vincent Ng (below right) was the first to get injured while rehearsing for their trapeze segment for tomorrow's National Kidney Foundation
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    • 187 28  -  Reporting by Jeanmarie Tan and Jessica Cheam ANNABELLE Francis and Sheikh Haikel seem to do everything together. Singing and hosting together, and now, turning into shutterbug wannabes together. They even share a Canon IXUS camera. The couple's amateur snapshots will be displayed at Shootout!,
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    • 445 30  -  He swims at public pools Shops at Temple Street Takes buses trains Goes downstairs mshorts& slippers Wears crumpled jeans for photo shoot BY Chang May Choon WONG Hei (left) was walking on the streets of Hongkong when someone called his name. He turned around to
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    • 106 41 1 v Reach out to all career-minded Singaporeans. Advertise in our upcoming special supplement Challenging Careers in the Public Sector in The Straits Times. Tl|p Publication Date Booking Deadline 27 April 2002 (Saturday) 23 April 2002 (Tuesday) 7 Readership Material Deadline Times 1 f 334 r ooo* 24 April 2002
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  • RACING
    • 978 42 TRAINER Charles Leek's duo of Classic Marco and Royal Envoy wound up preparations for their engagements with impressive workouts yesterday. The duo underlined their chances when they clocked 37sec and 37.6 respectively over the final 600 m on the fibresand track. The going was
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    • 43 42 BEST BET This Straight Strike four-year-old is on the comeback trail, following a nice second on the fibresand track last month. In that race, he was shouted the winner before Cosmic Commander started to make his charge.
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    • 204 42  -  By Danny Khoo TWO horses who fought out the finish in a race last month can come into their own in the second mixed meeting at Kranji this afternoon. Cosmic Commander and Immediate Effect, 1-2 finishers in a I,ooom race on the fibresand track last
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    • 192 43  -  By Lionel Lee SADDLE UP will bypass the HK$l4 million ($3.4 million) Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup to concentrate on the $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup. Since finishing a respectable sixth in last December's HK$lB million Hong Kong
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    • 1236 43 TODAY'S KRANJI (LONG COURSE, C; FIBRESAND TRACK) RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD No. List 6 runt Hor«e Wt Riling Jockey Barrier (AgafariginfreK, trainer-owner) 1 -0-442 ASEAN'S MAGIC 57 (48) RLim 11 (3ag Yeoh-fairdeal 4 Gold) 2 BIG WOODY 57 (0) 0 Chavez 2 (3nzg Thwaites-Eres Tu No. 2) 3 89
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  • SPORTS
    • 708 48 Ballamodou Conde (8, 34), Masrezwan Masturi (40) Nawfal Shahib (1, 32nd), Simon Clark (83) S-LEAGUE SHOWDOWN OF THE WEEK: SAF WARRIORS 3 WOODLANDS RAMS 3 It was by far the most exciting S-League match this season. Resurgent Woodlands Rams drew 3-3 with league leader SAF
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      • 721 49  -  By. Jeremy Au Yong WHEN Indra Sahdan's wife Nur Elfa Aisha first laid her eyes on him, she wasn't too impressed. Her first words about Indra were: "Oh my God. Why this guy? He's so normal." Nur Elfa, 21, was giving her valuable
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      • 223 49 BELIEVE it or not, this gentle beauty has a passion for fast bikes. "I like biking a lot while Indra is into cars," said Nur Elfa. Not surprisingly, her dangerous pastime met resistance in the form of her husband. "He is very much against my
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      • 151 50 NEXT UP: THE BORED HOUSEWIFE While Aide Iskandar is busy trying to prevent teams from scoring against his Home Protectors team, his wife is getting bored being a home "pcotector" herself. Find out why next Saturday. NURELFA ON FOOTBALL I just go to support
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    • 586 51  -  MICHAEL BALLACK GERMANY WORLD CUPWATCH WfTH i EDWIN YEO THE name that Liverpool fans will not forget for a long time is Michael Ballack. The Bayer Leverkusen and Germany attacking midfielder was responsible for Liverpool's exit from the Champions League, scoring two wonderful goals
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    • 212 50 g Catch the match between Gombak United and Home United live on Channel /at 7pm, tonight. CALL INFOLINE Call 1900-*****13 after 8.30pm tonight for the first-half result and after 9.30pm for the full-time score of tonight's matches. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. 1X2: Go for x, a draw 1/2
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      • 450 53 DERBY v NEWCASTLE KIERON Dyer does not believe that Newcastle's chances of featuring in the Champions League next season are over. The influential midfielder feels that the fourth spot is there for Newcastle's taking provided it does not drop any more points. The
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      • 564 54 SUNDERLAND v LIVERPOOL AFTER a lacklustre performance against Bayer Leverkusen which led to its exit from the Champions League, Liverpool travels to the Stadium of Light hoping to boost its spirits with an away victory to keep pace with League leaders Arsenal and Manchester
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      • 220 54 Reuters. LIVERPOOL assistant manager Phil Thompson has backed his side's defence despite it conceding four goals in losing 4-2 to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League. The former England defender insists Sami Hyypia and Stephane Henchoz are developing into the best back-line
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    • 474 55 FORMGUIDE CALL INFOUNE Call 1900-*****13 after 1.30am for results of today s matches. Call after 6.30am on Monday for result of tomorrow's matches. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. Home Team Away Team Last Comments time they Aston Villa Leeds 1-1 Leeds slogged to victory over Sunderland
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      • 699 56  -  But it's going to be RALF, not big brother Michael A woo •< I y eolutiift l>y Brian Miller AS the 2002 Formula One season accelerates to its first race in Europe, would anyone bet against Michael Schumacher winning tomorrow's San Marino Grand Prix? I
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      • 100 56 YES, it is Michael Schumacher taking time off the track to relax playing football and raising some cash for charity in the bargain. Schumi who will be back in the cockpit again tomorrow for the San Marino Grand Prix turned out to play for
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    • 72 57 AFP. ARNOLD Palmer, the undisputed' King' of golf, began the longest and most emotional Masters I farewell in history when he started his final round yesterday, j The 72-year-old, i playing in his 48th straight Masters began the long march i up the first fairway
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    • 469 57 PGA TOUR: US MASTERS morning latest Reuters. VIJAY Singh eagled the par-five 15th and birdied his last two holes for a flawless seven-under-par 65 and a four-shot clubhouse lead in the rain-affected second round of the US Masters this morning (Singapore time). The
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    • 241 58 AP. NOW, Romario (right) only has Pele to beat. The Brazilian striker, out of favour with his national coach, scored his 831 st goal on Wednesday for his club Vasco da Gama, matching the career total of retired star Zico. Only
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    • 173 58 PREMIERSHIP UPDATE CHELSEA'S Italian coach Claudio Ranieri has pledged his future to the west London club. He signed a new five-year contract yesterday that will keep him at Stamford Bridge until at least June 2007. Ranieri, 48, who had two years remaining on his previous
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    • 152 58 JEAN Tigana fears the chop if he fails to deliver the success craved by Fulham chairman Mohamed al Fayed. The Cottagers take on Chelsea in the semi-finals of the FA Cup tomorrow. But the clash is in the midst of the most testing spell of his managerial
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    • 417 59 AS England agonises over David Beckham's foot injury and prays for his quick recovery, at least one man is bucking the tide of popular opinion. L Forget about Beckham for the World Cup in June unless he proves his full match fitness, urges BBC Sport Online chief
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    • 275 59 Wire services. ONE of the most enduring images of Manchester United's all-conquering teams of the 1990s is that of giant goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel unleashing a torrent of abuse at one of his hapless defenders. The big Dane, showing a remarkable mastery of the English vernacular,
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