The New Paper, 16 April 2002

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  • 33 1 the new paper TUESDAY. APRIL 16, 2002 II HI SingSpOrB PrGSS Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 MfTA (P) 044/03/2002 60 CENTS J 8******%0000r the new paper
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    • 116 1 APRIL 1*. 2002 0 m if «r/- «.v r m" -V >/K* Lv-f' I A < *i mmt-l 1 1 < 'T—• MISSING f 1 X 1 i" f TV Where are my wife f kids? jfly o bodies found after big search at Kranji /3k JH, i' > v
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  • NEWS
    • 427 2 Trapped for 8 days with 0n1y... THAT was all the couple had to live on in the dark. That and a dwindling supply of oxygen. They were trapped when an Israeli army bulldozer had demolished an adjacent apartment, reported The Washington Post.
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    • 113 2 AP. ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that troops will be out of all West Bank cities except Ram all ah and Bethlehem within a week. Israel had no desire to stay in "cities of terror", he told CNN. It would leave Ramallah and
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    • 438 3  -  By Denyse Yeo THIS coffee has got more than just a bitter after-taste. Much more. In fact, some might say it's just plain vile. To put it mildly, civet cats in Indonesia "make" this coffee, called kopi luwak. After eating ripe coffee
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    • 223 3 IF you think your stomach is strong enough and are curious about sampling some here, don't hold your breath. It's not available in Singapore. Spinelli's master coffee-roaster Ross Bright says that while he's heard of kopi luwak, he has never seen or tried
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    • 6 2 What's on TV? Pages 30 31
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 804 4  -  TWO bodies were found early this morning, a police spokesman told The New Paper. The search team found a woman's body at lam, and a boy's body at 2.20am. The bodies have not yet been positively identified, said the spokesman. It was not clear at
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    • 220 5 IT was the first time the family had gone to Tanjong Buloh. But what started off as a happy day out at the beach took a terrible, tragic turn. More than 24 hours later, the whereabouts of a woman and her two young children remain unknown.
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 321 6 UNDER Elder Shield, Singaporeans between 40 and 69 can receive up to $300 a month for five years, if they can't do any three of these activities without help eating, bathing, walking, dressing, getting out of bed or going to the toilet. The low-cost national insurance plan,
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    • 128 6 TWO new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries are being introduced along Dunearn Road to ease morning rush hour traffic. The gantries are located just before the junction where it meets Stevens Road/Whitley Road, and at the flyover which leads to Newton Circus. In
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    • 75 6 SINCE January, parents can go to school too to learn how to communicate better with their children, how to handle the stress of family and working life, and also interact more closely with teachers. They can also flip through books and pamphlets, watch a video or look at
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    • 69 6 MISS Teng Li Yeng, 21, has been awarded the Public Service Commission's most prestigious award the Overseas Merit Scholarship making her the first polytechnic graduate in 10 years to land a top government scholarship. Miss Teng studied banking and finance at Singapore Polytechnic and graduated last
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    • 73 6 TOURISTS visiting Europe this summer will pay more sometimes almost 50 per cent more as shops, restaurants and tourist attractions have used the changeover to the euro to hike prices. Sunday Times London newspaper reported the biggest rise was 88 per cent on a glass of beer
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    • 74 6 MOTORISTS who receive parking fines from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) can now pay them online. All they need is a credit card or an Internet banking account. The website to go to is http://www.ura.gov.sg Motorists who want to dispute their parking fines can also state their
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    • 66 6 MALAYSIA'S Berita Han an reported yesterday that Singapore's Marine Police had chased away local fishermen from Pedra Branca an island also claimed by Malaysia, which calls it Pulau Batu Putih. The Malay-language newspaper claimed the officers had pointed guns at the fishermen in incidents in 1997 and
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    • 74 6 MANY banks here have been phasing out the traditional unsecured overdraft facility in favour of personal credit lines that charge fixed interest rates of between 12 to 16 per cent a year. Standard Chartered Bank is the latest to make the switch. Now, only OCBC and HSBC banks
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    • 108 7 I wanted something that was safe and if I didn't like it, it was reversible. I put them in before Igo to bed at night. I take them out first thing in the morning when I get up, and that's it. They've corrected my —Ms Marsha Adkins, who is
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    • 219 7 MIXED earnings from Citigroup and drug maker Eli Lilly set off more selling on Wall Street yesterday as investors shied away from commitments to stocks. Trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange was light at 1.09 billion shares, a reflection of investors' unwillingness to participate until US
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    • 275 7 OH THE RACK AMID media reports that alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network is deeply entrenched in South-east Asia, the US has deployed troops in the Philippines, praised Singapore and Malaysia for jailing suspects and is pushing Indonesia to follow suit. But
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    • 62 7 The Straits Times: Disability cover for elders The Business Times: Jakarta stocks, rupiah enjoy huge rally Lianhe Zaobao: Singaporeans who are between 40 and 69 will automatically be covered under ElderShield unless they choose to opt out Berita Harian: Air crash in South Korea leaves 115 dead NewsRadio
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    • 62 7 International Herald Tribune: Powell asks Beirut to stop Hezbollah Asian Wall Street Journal: South Korea appoints new finance minister New Straits Times: Malaysia is a beacon of stability B8C news: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Israel will put on trial Marwan Barghouti, one of the main leaders
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 44 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams THE SENTENCE FINISHER hi T III "YOU'RE FINISHING T THTkiK I MEAN I SENTENCES I THINK IAONEY t uccn SACK. AND I.ITTM I SHOULD FROM 1 NEED AN ALIBI? WITH TAKE... ORPHANS? f I UNCANNY 8 m j I x// ACCURACY?
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 356 8  -  By Desmond Ng A WATER-BABIES' haunt and an idyllic resort. And both these properties have helped developer Far East Organisation (FEO) rise to a new high, Prof the Property Hunter discovered. FEO has won seven awards at the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Awards 2002.
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    • 145 9 THIRTY-NINE projects were nominated for the Construction Excellence Award and 21 for the Best Buildable Design award, a BCA spokesman said. Two other awards, Construction 21 Best Practice Awards and Energy Efficiency Awards* will be given out by BCA on April 26. The spokesman said: "Despite being in
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    • 702 10 Youth Challenge started as an organisation for the Centrepoint Kids (CPKids) but it has grown, as KOH TSIN ZHEN (right), who joined it on an international trip, finds out I EIXPECTED action. Lurid traces of wanton and bloody carnage; a wretched population begging piteously on dusty
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    • 60 10 YOUTH Challenge is a charitable, nongovernment organisation associated with the United Nations, Department of Public Information. There are three broad programmes for its volunteers, who are aged between 17 to 19: Participation in international UN conferences, in overseas humanitarian programmes, and a local home-alone programme, where volunteers
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    • 530 12 Finding out if your prospective maid can cook or change diapers is quite easy. But why is it so difficult to find out how she was with her past employers? MICHAEL LEE reports I find this rery puzzling. Hon can they
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    • 306 13 MR Gary Chin, director of maid agency Beauty World Employment, does store maids' employment records. However, these records are for the company's own reference. Mr Chin said that such confidential information was divulged only to the police when they are investigating a case involving
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    • 460 14 Oh yes, you can go mountain-biking too! 'M BUY fresh vegetables from farmers, go longkang fishing... And, no, this isn't a look into the past... In fact, you can spend this very weekend doing all these things. All you need to do is go
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  • 374 15 NKF SHOW SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM Ignatius Hua (e-mail from Australia) I HAVE read and seen some of these stunts that the MediaCorp actors and actresses have performed in aid of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and feel I have to
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  • WORLD
    • 451 16 Reuters. WHETHER he wants to lead the world's newest nation or not, East Timor's independence hero Xanana Gusmao looks set to get the job. A legend among the people, the bearded, ruggedly handsome Gusmao is the hot favourite to win the two-man presidential race which was held
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    • Hush now, baby. Or mummy will kill you..
      • 68 17 TWO mothers in Japan snapped last week when their babies wouldn't stop crying. In Hokkaido, the police arrested Emi Kozuka, 22, after she allegedly hurled her 2-month-old daughter onto a futon when she kept on wailing. Investigators say Kozuka became angry when she couldn't make
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      • 73 17 IN a separate incident in Osaka, the police arrested Yuka Shimuzu, 25. She was suspected of having murdered her 1-month-old son on April 9, by stuffing a towel into his mouth to stop his crying, reported Mainichi Shimbun. The baby died of suffocation. A 36-year-old man,
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    • 327 18 TWO security guards were injured after they were robbed outside a Jockey Club betting centre yesterday. The HK$l.9 million ($450,000) which was in their possession, was taken, reported South China Morning Post. The money was the earnings from the second-floor betting centre at Po Lam
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    • 268 18 JUST When US president George Bush (right) thought he could give himself a pat on the back for the way he has handled events following Sept 11, comes a new book whichcould put a dent to Stupid White Man, which portrays the president as a
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    • 247 19 Reuters. FRENCH driving students may soon have to wait 24 hours before finding out their test results. No, it's not an overload of tests. It's a matter of protecting examiners from candidates who didn't pass. For some learner drivers who fail their driving
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    • 369 20 AIR CHINA CRASH Wire services. THEY cheated death. Miraculously, it seemed, they were flipped from the plane into the pine tree field where they were rescued. Some of the 39 survivors out of the 166 people in the ill-fated Air China
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    • 119 20 THE site of the crash, atop the 700-metre Shineo mountain in South Korea, resembled a bomb crater. The aircraft was found in three neat pieces the head, middle and tail section. Witnesses and survivors said the plane appeared to lose altitude just before it smashed into the steep
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    • 236 21 Outgoing smarter toddlers adults THE next time you see a toddler displaying curiosity, don't scold him. His outgoing and adventurous behaviour earmarks him to display a substantially higher IQ by the time he reaches his pre-teens. This is according to a study of how personality shapes intelligence, reported the Los
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  • 566 22  -  MALAYSIA By Azhar Ghani THERE'S a certain consistency in media reports about Malaysian businessman Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary (right). Influential. Rising star. Businessman of the moment. Appropriate words to describe the man who's making waves on the Malaysian corporate scene.
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  • 455 23 Slice of life COMMENT WHEN the Queen Mother died, I managed to catch parts of the ceremony on television and like everyone else, admiringly thought: The Brits really do pomp better than anyone else. Human beings need rituals. We draw on them to give
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    • 952 24 Some may say they have no class. But these serial beauty contestants who admit to being addicted to pageants don 'tgive two hoots. They are rolling in money, free trips, prizes and modelling jobs. ERIAKBAR reports YOU are likely to be wrong if you think that
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      38 25 tfafftri doesn't win part not likely tof/fln the future. —Mr Errol Pang, managing director ofDerrol Stepenny Promotions which organises Miss Universe Singapore. But many contestants, tike Manju Rajandran (above), have taken part in multipU pageants.
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    • 136 25 A GIRL can join a beauty pageant as many times as she wants if it's not telecast on television. Said Mr Errol Pang, managing director of Derrol Ste penny Promotions: There can't be repeat contestants for TV shows because people will have seen
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    • 139 26 EMIL Chau wants to tell all loansharks in Hongkong that he no longer has an older brother. The Hongkong singer recently had his name, and the names of his two siblings, splashed on posters by loansharks. A frustrated Emil (right) told Hongkong reporters that he
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    • 127 26 DID Jay Chou cheat his way out of serving his national service? Last week, there was talk that Jay was exempted from national service because his mentor-manager, Jacky Wu, had paid a doctor to certify him medically-unfit, as he didn't want Jay's soaring career to be affected
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      63 26 THEY might not be together anymore, but Nicholas Tse and Faye Wong still think alike. After Nicholas' earlier announcement that he might be quitting showbiz, fresh rumours have surfaced that Faye (right) might be bowing out too. A Chinese magazine reported that Faye has cancelled recording sessions, citing
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      57 26 DONT be alarmed the next time you see Sammi Cheng (right) licking her lips. She isn't hungry, she's just moisturising them. The Hongkong singer revealed this beauty secret on the set of a Max Factor lipstick advertisement she was shooting. And she likes thick lips. She said: "I
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    • 317 27  -  By Joanna Hughes LOOKING for a place to chill out with friends, but tired of the same old places? Come to one of Singapore's best-kept secrets, the Sanliubar (right), part of Paddyfields Thai Restaurant at Anchorpoint. Outside on the deck or inside the Zen-like
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    • 74 27 Photography: Jonathan Choo Hair and makaup: Anuar Saran Clothes: Red top ($24) and khaki skirt ($28); Bossini #01-27/28/29. Blue striped men's polo shirt ($24), beige checked cropped pants ($36), light blue cardigan ($33), yellow tank top ($l4) and men's navy blue v-neck cotton knit ($33); Giordano, #01-10/11/12. Ladies' mules
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    • 96 28 CHINESE oolong tea is making waves in Japan, and who better to endorse it than Hongkong star Kelly Chen? She even wore a traditional Chinese dress to accentuate her Oriental looks in a TV commercial. Kelly, who has just released a Japanese album, Grace,
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    • 264 28 FIRST, the girl was whispering into J-pop queen Ayumi Hamasaki's ears. Then, tears rolled down Ayumi's doll-like face. It happened during her handshake session with fans in Taipei last Wednesday evening (above). The Taiwanese media quickly pounced on the girl who had made Ayumi cry. What did
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    • 89 29 NAMIE, Namie, let down your golden hair. But wait, when did Namie Amuro have such long tresses? It's thanks to the wonders of hair extension, of course. This is her image for her latest album, Love Enhanced Single Collection (out in stores here). Could it have been
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      119 29 Chihiro Onitsuka. First, she hurt her knees a motorbike accident. f Now, she's hospitalised for appendicitis. m She was rushed to k hospital last Monday, g' To think that she had ■barely gotten over her before the of her new album, jHFhis Armor, last month. She was apparently
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    • 168 29 ITS springtime in Japan, and love is in the air. Sexy singer hitomi (right) is now linked to the lead singer of hip-hop group Dragon Ash. Word has it that they have been dating since they were spotted behaving intimately in a school campus several months ago. To
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    • 332 30 PRIME-TIME TV WATCH IT Im WHETHER it's cheering or jeering youH be doing, Mr Kiasu and his slapstick antics are back. In the first *y\ e pi so d e > 2111 f assortment of chilli padis and curry powder abound when Kiasu (Chew Chor Meng) is
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    • 735 42 US MASTERS GOLF: THE AFTERMATH ...MORE ON THE US MASTERS GOLF: THE AFTERMATH Wire services. TIGER Woods, who won the seventh Major of his career at the US Masters on Sunday, is determined to play down speculation about how many more he will chalk up before
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    • 355 43 Reuters. THE aura of Tiger Woods was back in sharp focus at Augusta National on Sunday, but for most of his rivals it has always been there. The world No 1 cruised to a three-stroke victory in the 66th US Masters to secure the seventh Major
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    • 750 44 MATCH TAKE w it h EDWIN YEO FIXTURES SATURDAY Bolton v Tottenham Chelsea v Man U Leeds vFulham Leicester v Villa Liverpool v Derby Borov Blackburn Newcastle v Charlton Saints v Everton West Ham v Sunderland SUNDAY Arsenal v Ipswich CONTEST RESULTS: LAST week, we asked you to
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      309 45 MICHAEL Owen's well-taken 55th-minute goal was enough to earn Liverpool all three points on its trip to the Stadium of Light last Saturday. The win put the Reds a point behind leader Arsenal and secured them a Champions League spot for next season. Liverpool can consider itself lucky
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    • 206 45 STEVEN Gerrard has insisted that, despite what happened to David Beckham in the week, he won't shirk a single challenge for Liverpool between now and the end of the season. Beckham is a major doubt for at least the opening game of the World Cup
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    • 782 46 It's a showdown between South America and Europe in four critical World Cup Warm-ups tomorrow (Thursday morning, Singapore). There are 19 matches in all. But of all the games, the match-ups between soccer's two most powerful continents are the most attractive: Germany v Argentina, England v Paraguay,
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    • 641 48 WORLD CUP WARM-UPS PORTUGAL v BRAZIL (Tomorrow) AP, AFP. Reuters. AFTER scoring two goals in four minutes last Sunday, the verdict on Ronaldo (left) is out. The Brazilian star, nicknamed the "Phenomenon", is deemed to have returned to his pre-injury elevated status among the world's soccer
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    • 584 49 ...MORE ON THE WORLD CUP WARM-UPS KIERON Dyer thanked England coach Sven Goran Eriksson yesterday for inspiring his "perfectly-timed" bid for fitness ahead of the World Cup Finals. The Newcastle United midfielder has not appeared for England since November 2000 because of various
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    • 204 49 AFP. ZINEDINE Zidane (above) has banished thoughts of a World Cup-ending injury as he prepares to lead Real Madrid on a final tilt for honours. The French midfield maestro, speaking on the eve of tomorrow's friendly between France and Russia, said there was
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    • 529 50 The medical breakthroughs helping England skipper make it to World Cup ORLD CUP: BECKHAM'S BATTLE Crocked England captain David Beckham is using the latest developments in hi-tech sports medicine to ensure he is fit in time for the World Cup. Beckham's broken left foot is not encased
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      • 209 51 NIGERIA has sent a get well message to injured England skipper David Beckham with a sting in the tail! The Nigerians hope that Becks recovers from his broken foot but not until AFTER the World Cup Finals, reported The Sun. Nigeria takes on England in Group F
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      • 81 51 DAVID Beckham's wife Victoria has opened her heart over the injury that threatens to keep him out of the World Cup. Former Spice Girl Victoria (pictured left with David and baby Brooklyn) said: "David was gutted. "My heart went out to him when I saw him fall and
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