The New Paper, 1 December 2002

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    • 460 3 / 4 US ECONOMIC SURPRISE HE'S making his (price) list and checking it twice. Santa Claus and the holiday shopping season is coming to town. And US retailers, pressured by a year of sinking sales, ushered in the season on Friday by offering price cuts to consumers
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    • 300 3 / 4 WHY saddle your loved ones with the usual run-of-the-mill, mass-produced, store-bought gifts? This Christmas, let them have gifts that showcase their identity literally by using their DNA patterns as designs for rugs, jewellery, engraved ornaments, stained glass screens and many
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  • I NEWS 1
    • 767 7 / 8 Vigorous Sembawang hot spring massage has one girl screaming in surprise SHE watched him closely as he dipped the face towel into the pail of hot water. In a flash, he whipped up the towel, flipped it like a roti prata and slapped it on her face,
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    • 785 11 / 12  -  Reports/ Dawn Chia SOME married men are "making friends" at virtual lonely hearts club. But although they declare their marital status openly on the Internet, they keep their activity hush-hush from their wives. A search on the MSN Personals website
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    • 145 13 / 14 SPOUSES who go online to chat with the opposite sex are often in unfulfilling marriages, say two marriage counsellors. According to Mr David Kan, executive director of the Family Life Centre, such an act of escapism can hurt the marital relationship. Said Mr Kan: "The breakdown
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    • 98 13 / 14 THE MSN Personals Singapore website has been active since Sept 2001. Soulmates Technology, based in Sydney, Australia, maintains and runs the Personals site. The company, which has nearly 200 sites internationally, is part of Match.com, a leading international online dating network. Ms Pam Grevler, account manager at Soulmates
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  • [NEWS]
    • 851 19 / 20  -  Only 8 people but $52m turnover BY Lee Tee Jong Appearances can be deceptive. Sineurope is a 21-year-old premium seafood trading company which sees an annual turnover of $52 million. Yet, you'd never suspect it if you walk into its office. The
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      154 21 / 22 unuGual First in a series on companies SINEUROPE started in 1981 selling wood-preserving chemicals and hardware to Indonesian firms which export raw wood. Along the way, a business contact recommended that Mr Foo diversify into selling seafood products. In the mid-1980s, the Indonesian government prohibited the export of
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    • 95 21 / 22 THE annual Enterprise 50 (E5O) list, now in its eighth year, ranks 50 of Singapore's most enterprising, privately-held companies. Sineurope came in at the 24th position. The rankings, compiled by Accenture a management consultancy and The Business Times, was released last Monday. Accenture's country managing director Willie Cheng
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    • 641 23 / 24  -  Reports and picture/. Lee Tee Jong SHE went to China in March with a group of Singaporean investors. By September, she was principal of a top-end private school in Ganzhou county in Jiangxi province with 20 staff and 500 students. Miss
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    • 564 25 / 26 MANAGING these students is not easy but after a while, Miss Ong learned the trick. She said: 'These students are rich, intelligent and vocal. You cannot sway them with authority alone. You win their hearts by showing them care and then they
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    • 400 27 / 28  -  Reports and picture/ Teh Jen Lee WANT to know how to make kindergarten kids wash their hands before they eat? Have them rub their unwashed hands onto a clear agar plate. Then, after a few days, show them how spots of germs emerge. Hands-on experiments like
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    • 165 29 / 30 1 If poly students' proposal is accepted THE Central Singapore CDC will have three roadshows to engage as many of its 830,000 residents as possible before their annual district meeting next January. Mr Heng Chee How, mayor of the Central Singapore District, said: "These roadshows are
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    • 119 29 / 30 HERE are just some of what you might catch at the Central Singapore CDC's roadshow today: "Chatshows" with panelists speaking on topics such as voluntarism and national identity, A virtual video tour of the CDC's famous landmarks, such as the Parliament House and Sultan Masjid, ■An exhibition explaining
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    • 294 31 / 32 HONG KONG'S PROPERTY GLOOM ITS time to get the sputtering engine chugging along again, Hong Kong developers must be thinking. The territory's property market has been sluggish since 1998 with prices falling at least 65 per cent compared to the boom times.
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    • 157 35 / 36 HERE'S a once-in-a-lifetime chance for those keen on adventure travel. A US space tourism company is offering 10 free tickets for travel into space. The free deal from Interorbital Space Systems includes astronaut training and a space walk, reported The Independent. The lucky guests on
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    • 258 37 / 38 REMEMBER THESE? IT'S back to to the past for Hollywood. Thanks to computer technology and its ability to create special effects and an Os-car-winning gladiator, reported USA Today. Out go the gangsters and wars fought in outer space. The flavour of the month is the historical epic.
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    • 77 37 / 38 Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) is working on Alexander The Great with hopes of nabbing Leonardo DiCapriofor the title role. Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm) takes on The Iliad —the story of rivalry between Achilles (Pitt) and Hector (Eric Bana) against the backdrop of the Trojan War. In
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    • 495 39 / 40 warns the Bush girls on turning 21 HAPPY Birthday! Now be prepared for things to get worse. This is the advice that US first daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush, who turned 21 last Monday, got from someone who should know Patti Davis, youngest daughter of
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    • 114 39 / 40 JENNA and Barbara Bush are finally old enough to drink legally, that is. America's first twins called *TwinMe and Turquoise* by the Secret Service and "Jenna and Tonic" by the press celebrated their 21st birthday on Monday with a bonfire at the Bush ranch
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  • 150 43 / 44 NEWS LAGAAN, the Bollywood blockbuster that has made waves among Indian cinema-goers, has wowed movie buffs in China as well. Dubbed in Mandarin, it drew a crowd of 1,200 at its premiere in Shanghai, with many turning up well ahead of the evening screening. They were
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    • 869 47 / 48  -  CHANG MAY CHOON BY DAY, Shinjuku is a bustling business district thronging with smartly-dressed office workers. But when night falls, hordes of grubby-faced, grey-haired men prowl the streets instead. Known as the "homuresu" (translated directly from the word "homeless"), they sleep in coffin-like boxes that line the
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    • 437 49 / 50 THE Japanese government has passed a bill to help the number of growing homeless who roam the streets. Effective since July, the bill promises housing, medical facilities and job training for thousands of poor and homeless. The official number of homeless reported in October
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    • 376 51 / 52 YOU usually ring up the fire department to get them to put out a fire. But one family in Oregon, US, actually called their local fire department to burn their U*****,000 ($794,400) home to the ground. The reason? They had found black mould inside. Panicked, families
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    • 282 57 / 58 ANYONE who's ever played Monopoly would know that chance is part and parcel of the game of buying and selling. But that seems to be a lesson that Hasbro the maker of Monopoly and other popular games like Pictionary and Cluedo failed to
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    • 927 59 / 60  - Fashion head Biz brain Label success pats Ldard European clothes in a tropical setting? It's what's Putting local label Lucie Oscar on the regional fashion map. And its fame seems to be spreading... REPORTS GLORIA CHANDY BOTH Britons had been in Singapore for about eight years. And had known each
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  • ATA GLANCE
    • 75 63 / 64 It is not exactly the same as watching a phoenix rise from the ashes, but the Chinese are still eager to behold this spectacle at Baiyuan International Airport in Guangzhou, China on Friday: Two subway train carriages being unloaded from a cargo transport plane.
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    • 339 63 / 64 JUST a few months ago, you would most certainly have had to queue for a table at the more popular Holland Village joints. These days however, it's a different story. Business has thinned out ever since the police began barricading parts of Lorong Mambong and Lorong
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    • 456 63 / 64  -  GLOBAL WATCH A LOOK AT WORLD EVENTS ABMIftT NAG WHAT is the difference between Al-Qaeda and a multinational? One does business openly (mostly) while the other lurks in the shadows and strikes out of the blue. But both operate globally. In the wake of the
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 162 65 / 66 THAILAND'S top militaiy commander has finally admitted that suspected terrorists have sneaked into the country over the past 12 months to avoid a clamp-down in neighbouring Malaysia. But General Surayud Chulanont said that those who sought refuge were not involved in the Bali bombings, reported the
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      • 93 65 / 66 MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Aibar said that Malaysia is calling off water talks with Singapore as it is preparing for legal action. He said Kuala Lumpur would w&igh a number of options, including international arbitration, to resolve the water dispute. The 1961 and I962water agreements
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      • 90 65 / 66 A WOMAN in labour at the Taiwan hospital where newborns were given the wrong injection, went into a coma and died while the staff were frantically trying to save the babies. The dead woman's baby, delivered by caesarian section, survived. Ms Huang Ling-yi's family charged the Pei Cheng
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      • 85 65 / 66 THE Housing Board will hold a fair at the HDB Hub from Dec 10 to 16 to help home buyers who do not qualify for concessionary loans from the HDB from next year. Those affected include permanent residents, private-property owners, those whose monthly household income exceeds $8,000,
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      • 81 65 / 66 FROM next year, Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, co-chairman of Singapore's biomedical sciences International Advisory Council, will exchange duties with A*Star chairman Philip Yeo. Dr Brenner, 75, who is widely regarded as the father of molecular genetics, is taking on Mr Yeo's post as chairman of the Biomedical Sciences
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      • 97 65 / 66 UNITED Airlines (UA), the world's second-biggest airline, may go bankrupt after its mechanics rejected wage cuts intended to help gain a US loan guarantee before US$375 million (s66om) in debt is due tomorrow. U A now has a 10-day grace period to repay the debt and
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      • 96 65 / 66 ONE in 10 cars sold in Singapore today is a parallel import, from virtually none five years ago. In the first 10 months of this year, about 5,200 parallel-imported cars were registered. Buying a parallel import especially bigger cars can mean saving as much as $10,000 on
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  • Page 65 / 66 Miscellaneous
    • 53 65 / 66 TONGUE Changi's Hopea sangal tree (150 years old) Survived Japanese occupation .t. Witnessed S'pore Independence Day Survived thunderstorm m vV 1? mml Witnessed Changi International Airport opening Felled by ignorance w ■nimiiiKii" 1 c i m r\ n inn WEATHER TODAY Showers with j^M thunder in the morning over JB
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    • 747 67 / 68 Unlike stomach stapling or gastric bypass surgery, Lap-Band surgery (right) is reversible. THERE'S overweight, and then there's morbidly obese. This year, a Chinese man died of heart failure because he was so fat he weighed 175 kg. He was only 29. What happened to
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    • 133 67 / 68 THE last National Health Survey (NHS) done in 1998 shows that obesity rates here are on the rise. Obesity was 6 per cent (6.7 per cent for females, 5.3 per cent for males), up from 5.1 per cent in a similar 1992 survey. Obesity was most
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    • 377 69 / 70 THE stomach is shaped somewhat like a crescent moon. A normal stomach can hold about 1 litre. Obese people literally have bigger stomachs, which is why they need a lot more food to feel "full". The biggest Dr T Ravi ever
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    • 403 71 / 72  -  POSH NOSH EATINGOUT TAN DAWN WEI WHAT: In July, Gaetano made way for Las Pampas El Restaur ante y la Barra, in that pale yellow house that has come to represent the quaintness of Club Street. Latin American is the key word this time,
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    • 292 71 / 72 CHEAP CHOW GEYLANG is probably better known for its rundown kopitiams with some of the best food this island has to offer. But tucked in one of the lanes is a quaint little coffeeshop that's a blast from the past. Whirling ceiling fans, late Chinese songbird Zhou
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    • 134 71 / 72 NEW BUYS WHAT'S NEW: After 20 years of running a string of successful restaurants, the Tung Lok Group has finally launched a cookbook, New Chinese Cuisine, showcasing Tung Lok's classic meets contemporary culinary style. In fact, there's a whole chapter devoted to "modern Chinese", where Chef
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    • 870 73 / 74  -  CAROL LEONG DO what's the difference between an ordinary and extraordinary person? According to Mr Ameerali Abdeali, it's about $6.50. Mr Ameerali, 52, is the general manager of the Occupational Safety and Heath Centre at the Ministry of Manpower. We were talking about how people can
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    • 1285 75 / 76 To spice things i up... And to add that local flavour... WHEN a Singaporean walked into a McDonald's in Toronto and ordered some fries, almost by second nature, he asked the server for chilli sauce. "What sauce?" asked the bewildered blonde cashier. Singaporeans have a taste
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    • 708 77 / 78  -  FEATURE SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO TAKE a good look at the good-looking man (far right). Now for the good news. You and I, we're related to him! Yesss! You and your girlfriend, my former school principal and I, we are all blood cousins
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    • 404 77 / 78 EVERYTHING you believe in flies in the face of everything you know. So says Dr Spencer Wells, time traveller, history detective, author and presenter of his book Journey of Man, now a documentary for National Geographic Channel. "Blood is
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    • 260 81 / 82 F1 FANTASY How about zipping around in an F1 formula racing car? Well, of course it's not the real McCoy, but there's no harm having some fun in a simulator at the Raffles City atrium from now till Dec 30.
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    • 509 81 / 82 HERE'S JOHNNY... Visit Tinseltoon X'mas at Downtown East. Loads of fun guaranteed with the first ever appearance of nine popular Cartoon Network characters under one roof like The Powerpuff Girls (below) and Mojo Jojo. There's Cow and Chicken, Dexter and Dee Dee, and Johnny Bravo,
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      229 83 / 84 GET A JOB For students who are 16 years old and above, this is one holiday activity where you will be earning money instead of spending it. Sign up with recruitment companies like Adecco Personnel Pte Ltd or Business Trends for temporary jobs that are events-related such as
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    • 410 83 / 84 I HOT PARTIES f Have a BBQ. I The stretch of seaside on the East I Coast is a perennial favourite with J? the young and young-at-heart. 21 Hold your own outdoor barbecue ■L parties. W/m There are 62 single and 18 double pits to choose from along
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    • 212 83 / 84 YOUNG ones can get to feed livestock such as goats in Farmart Centre. See bees (right) in the bee farm there. There is even a touch pool where visitors can get up close to baby sharks, star fish and sea urchins. Also, you
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    • 364 85 / 86 TAKE 5 PRONOUNCE it "jai mon hoon soo", the actor Djimon Hounsou (right) on how to say his name in west African. The tall, dark and handsome Hounsou left his native country at 13 to try his luck in France. He settled first in Lyon
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    • 344 115 / 116 YESTERDAY'S KUALA LUMPUR (LONG COURSE) RACE RESULTS GOING; YIELDING IN THE NICK OF TIME: Jockey Benny Woodworth pilots Little Emperor to a last-stride victory in Race 11. 6 PENCHANT 55 (24-8) SMarzuki (12) 4 3 1 (486) 1 FRENCHPARK EXPRESS 55 (106-25) KWLeong (11) 5 4 2 (475) 4 JIMMY
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    • 455 117 / 118 Humphrey (Race 11 No. 6) There's definitely some class in this Hydrocarbon Stable-owned galloper, judging by the way he has been racing. The way he left his rivals behind in a Class 4 Div 3 1,700 m affair at Penang last start makes him a top prospect here
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    • 1307 119 / 120 RACE 2: Timberlain, Millennium Prince, Another Chapter, Magical Star. RACE 3: Yellow Submarine, Chevochelle, Knight Rex, Golden Ranger, Dragon Of Jeram, Victory Wang. RACE 4: Super City, Rainier, Persian Tycoon. RACE 5: Natural Classic, Strong Character, Abjar 'D' Great,
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      • 414 129 / 130  -  NEWCASTLE v EVERTON By l Wang Meng Meng IT seems so unreal that Everton is now fourth in the table in hot pursuit of the leaders. But it's true. The Toffees are right up there amongst the Arsenals, Manchester Uniteds and Liverpools. The question now is: How
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