The New Paper, 11 March 2003

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  • 35 1 the new paper TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2003 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotlinf;: I 00- 7 33 44 55 MITA(P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS inn 8 *****1 1 *****1 the new paper
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  • 383 1 MURDER SUSPECT GOES WILD AFTER DEATH FALL OF DIVORCED WOMAN By Angeline Song E BANGED his head repeatedly against the window, as he sat inside the police car, trying to attract the attention of the police officers. The 39-year-old operations manager
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  • 532 2 ONCETHE ECONOMIC GATEWAY TO CHINA.. NEWS- SINGAPORE is reinventing itself to keep up with the competition facing the country. Various cost-cutting measures are in place from restructuring jobs and reducing staff benefits to outsourcing and relocating operations. Rival Hong Kong, too, is trying to take a
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    • 34 2 Sorry Teachers who are stressed out (TNP, Mar 2): The report referred to Dr Tan Chue Tin as a psychiatrist from the Institute of Mental Health. This js incorrect. He is in private practice.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 718 4  -  Son killed instantly in bike accident in Changi. Mother mourns By Joycelyn Wong THE motorcycle had made her son happy. But it had filled her with worry. Suppose he had cm accident... Early yesterday there was a call from one of his friends. And it was
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    • 618 5  -  By Angeline Song YOU COULD see it in his face. A mixture of sadness, bewilderment, and of innocence lost. The teenager, believed to be the son of a 33-year-old divorcee, Madam Teo Siew Peng, who fell to her death at
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    • 662 6  -  By Andrew Duffy TALK about taking a risk. At stake was a $100,000 grant to travel to Japan and study for three years. With that kind of prize, most people would not want to ruin their chances. So what did graphic
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 518 8  -  MP HALIMAH YACOB: Lower taxes for older workers? OLD GREY IN S'PORE MP LIM HWEE HUA: By Denyse Yeo ONE resounding plea was heard clearly on the first day of the Budget debate in Parliament yesterday. Amid calls to help local businessmen, retrenched
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    • 127 8 REBIRTH and karma. Hardly political by nature but Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Senior Minister of State (Transport and Information, Communication and the Arts) based his speech on these two concepts. He said: "The ERC (Economic Review Committee) is a reincarnation of the 1985 Economic Committee, but
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    • 122 8 Dr Warren Lee (Sembawang GRC) had an unusual suggestion, to help people who have power and water supplies cut off because they've not paid the bill. He warned that this could lead to "squalor" and the lack of modern sanitation. He asked:
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 387 11  -  REMEMBER THESE SHIPS? By Fawziah Selamat AFTER more than a week of being stuck together, the MT Gas Roman and the MV Springbok have finally been separated. The two salvage companies, Semco Salvage and Marine Pte Ltd, and SMIT Salvage BV, successfully separated the two vessels on
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    • 617 12  -  By Ng Wan Ching HE has always had bad eyesight. And by the time he was 52, Mr Tansil Tan's myopia was downright severe. His short-sightedness measured 2,100 degrees in each eye. He was practically blind. But with just one operation at
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    • 358 13 ALTHOUGH the results were very dramatic for Mr Tan (above, who now has noroeed for his glasses), this operation is not for everyone especially those under 40 years of age and those whose myopia is not so severe. Dr Low said: "Lasik is still the way
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    • 704 14  -  By Desmond Ng WE should always save for a rainy day. Yet, as war clouds gather and the stock market sinks again a strange message is being heard. To save is sin, to spend divine. That's right, we shouldn't just
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    • 203 15 WE know that the Japanese save a lot and do not spend much. Presently, Japan exports far more than it imports. However, even though it has an annual trade surplus of over $100 billion, the Japanese economy is considered weak. On the other side
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  • 502 20 COMMENT- THERE'S nothing quite like a difficult moment to define real friends from the fair-weathered version. I was involved in an accident and my insurance company is not a friend. Friends don't demand more money from you every year just because they're making
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  • WORLD
    • 254 21 THAI officials are worried about a growing trend which is taking place in Internet cafes. Youngsters, mostly primary and secondary school students, are flocking there for five to eight hours a day. Many spend up to 300 baht (sl2) a day playing violent and pornographic games.
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    • 228 22 A NEW battlefield has emerged in China. It's a battle for survival between man and wild animals. The protection of certain animal species in the world's most populous nation has led to a population explosion, reported China Daily. And it is causing their human counterparts
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  • 437 26 That's media's description of Bush's chief spokesman WORLD HE is the much-seen, much-quoted mouthpiece of the White House. US cartoonist Garry Trudeau draws 42-year-old Mr Ari Fleischer as a slightly sinister silhouette in his Doonesbury strip. GQ magazine once called him the "flack out
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 504 28 Six robbers hit 2 KL goldsmith shops armed with M-16s, pistols, hammer FOUR months ago, the Malaysian police said they had busted the infamous M-16 gang. Now, it looks like the gang may be back in action. And this time, with greater firepower
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    • 119 28 ON Dec 28 last year, Federal CID director Datuk Salleh Mat Som announced that the file on the M-16 gang was closed after its leader and two of his cohorts were killed in shootouts with police. The gang leader, Sum Wing Chai Sunny Chai Fei Chai, 40,
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  • WORLD
    • 231 30 A STRING of crimes recently, particularly those involving tourists at popular spots like the Tsim Sha Tsui area in Hong Kong, is raising concern. The head of its tourism board, Ms Selina Chow, has called on the police to take action for fear
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    • 408 30 DO the time and reap mega rewards later. Hong Kong pop star Nicholas Tse found that his popularity has soared and is relaunching his career. Last year, the 22-year-old was convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Nicholas even spent a fortnight in
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  • WORLD
    • 349 32 700,000 on dole must give particulars so they can be registered at job placement firms Australians on the dole will find it harder to apply for welfare. The Federal Government will be calling in more than 700,000 welfare recipients and they will be asked to
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    • 236 32 A PENSIONER ended up RM14,000 ($6,400) poorer after seeking the help of two traditional medicine men to cure his impotence. The 62-year-old Malaysian who wished to be identified only as Mr Chan, received treatment over the past three weeks from a 60-year-old
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    • 248 33 Wire services. WITH war looming, Baghdad's residents are making a beeline for the bird market. For canaries. Why? The bird is the only chemical weapons detector available to them, reported the Financial Times. "It's been the best day of the year," said a smiling
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  • WORLD
    • 522 35 HURT IN HONG KONG THE woman was visiting a friend at a two-storey house in Yuen Long yesterday afternoon. At about 3.30pm, she was cooking in a kitchen block outside the house when she was surrounded by 10 Rottweilers, part of
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    • 270 35 HURT IN HONG KONG THE woman was doing some banking yesterday for the audio-video shop she works for in Hong Kong. Having set out with HK$lBO,OOO ($40,000) in her bag, she deposited about HK526,000 in one bank before going to another bank to deposit the
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 361 37 GET out of this class and get yourself a job somewhere else. No, that's not what Chinese High School is saying to failing students. That's what it is saying to its teachers. It is offering them a chance to reduce their teaching load so they can
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    • 301 37 Of THE RACK Extract from The San Francisco Examiner: A recent University of Chicago study of middle class workers found that 80 per cent of women wanted to quit their jobs or cut back to part time. A quarter of men surveyed wanted the same. Blue-collar
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    • 52 37 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 3.991/-0.091 Creative Technology 5.78/-0.31 Flextronics 8.348/-0.262 Chartered Semiconductor 3.75/-0.19 Stats 6.2/-0.45 Yesterday's Percentage Close action change Dow Down 2.22% (171.85 pts) 7,568.18 Nasdaq Down 2.06% (26.92 pts) 1,278.37 S+P 500 Down 2.58% (21.41 pts) 807.48 STI Down 1% (12.33
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    • 64 37 10m art for new MRT ALMOST $10 million in specially commissioned artwork will adorn,the 16 stations on the $5 billion north-east MRT line, due to open next month. Nineteen renowned and mostly local artists were involved in the project. Artwork for each station will be thematic to its locale. A
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    • 69 37 A LOCAL firm has won a multi-million dollar deal to retrofit India's movie theatres with digital projectors. GDC Technology will also convert Indian-made feature .films into a digital format that will save thousands of dollars per movie in distribution costs. GDC will retrofit 400 movie
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    • 60 37 AMERICAN water facilities are so impressed by the quality of Singapore's reclaimed water that some are considering using the same methods. The quality of the water refined from sewage by the Newater plant surpasses world drinking standards. The treatment technology combination Singapore uses is a three-stage
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    • 75 37 OFFICE rentals in Singapore have slumped to a 14-year low. Oversupply and war jitters are to blame, said property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle in a report. Offices in Raffles Place plunged 20.7 per cent last year to $5.45 per square foot per month around what they
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    • 65 37 INDIA has warned Malaysia that bilateral ties could be affected by a raid for illegal workers in Kuala Lumpur that rounded up 270 mainly IT professionals. Indian media reports alleged that some of the men were kicked and slapped, had their passports defaced, handphones confiscated and
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    • 70 37 MALAYSIA'S King says he supports the government's decision to stop funding public religious schools. The Malay Rulers Conference will today discuss a request to have the sultans lobby for the decision to be overturned. This now seems unlikely. The King added that he was pleased the
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous

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    • 229 39 FANS don't have to wait till May for their Matrix fix. That's because an explosive prelude to the sequels, The Final Flight Of The Osiris, will hurtle our way next month. The nine-minute CGI-meets-anime short film will accompany the supernatural movie Dreamcatcher, opening here on
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    • 611 56  -  S-LEAGUE 2003: WRAP-UP OF WEEK TWO By, Alvin Chua CAST as the no-hopers of the new S-League season, the Young Lions will be underestimated no longer. Not after a courageous come-from-behind win against Woodlands Wellington last week. Despite going a goal down early in the first
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    • 460 58 Reuters. HISTORY could be made on Apr 13 if Division One clubs Sheffield United and Watford trounce their opponents in the FA Cup semi-finals. Since the Football League was founded in 1888-89, the final has been contested by at least one team from the
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    • 202 58 AFP. IF it were left to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, FA Cup replays would become a wing of the past. The studious Frenchman said doing away with it would cut down on fixture congestion. Because of their quarter-final replay with Chelsea on March 25, Wenger gave
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    • 109 58 Reuters. FIRST Division Sheffield United are quoted at 14-1 to win the FA Cup, after being drawn against either holders Arsenal or Chelsea in the semi-finals. Arsenal are 6-4 favourites and Chelsea are quoted at 9-4. The two teams drew 2-2 in Saturday's quarter-finals, and
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      • 367 59  -  GUNNERS'CAMP: (From left) Toure and Keown. By Gio Van Bronckhorst ARSENAL Perhaps it is time to consider letting matches at this stage of the FA Cup to be decided on the day. Mr Wenger has said that he would welcome a change. As a
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      • 287 59  - Arsenal or Chelsea tough draw either way By Michael Tonge SHEFFIELD UNITED TO be honest, I was hoping to draw Watford out of the hat for the FA Cup semi-finals. They are the only other non-Premiership side left in the competition, and we would have fancied our chances of beating
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
      • 225 60 (ROUNDS) GROUPS A, B, C ■AIAX v VALENCIA Reuters. VALENCIA will be treating tonight's Champions League group clash against Ajax as if it were a final, the club's Spanish striker Mista said. "We are aware of what is at stake in Amsterdam," he said. "It is
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      • 279 60 BARCELONA v LEVERKUSEN Reuters. BAYER Leverkusen will play Barcelona tonight only because they have to. The troubled German club have other worries than the Champions League and would have rather stayed at home to concentrate on their battle against relegation. Leverkusen, who made the final of
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      • 329 60 Reuters. REAL Madrid striker Ronaldo (left) is doubtful for his side's Champions League match at home to AC Milan tomorrow after suffering a minor thigh strain. The Brazilian was substituted at halftime of Saturday's 4-1 league win against Racing Santander in an attempt to rest him
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      • 93 60 AFP. PROMOTION chasers Nottingham Forest snatched an equaliser in injury time to force a 2-2 draw and dash Grimsby's hopes of a crucial victory in their bid for First Division survival. Gareth Williams knocked in Marlon Harewood's cross just as bottom club Grimsby thought they
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        424 61 ONS (ROUND (GROUP A) INTER-MILAN v NEWCASTLE SHEARER BEARS... AGAINST CANNAVARO Reuters. NEWCASTLE United captain Alan Shearer says he will not hold any grudges when he faces Inter-Milan defender Fabio Cannavaro in their Champions League Group A match tonight. Shearer was handed a two-match Champions League ban after
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      • 310 61 PA Sport, AFP INTER-MILAN coach Hector Cuper (left) has identified Newcastle winger Laurent Robert as the man he fears most before his side's clash with the English club tonight. "If Robert plays on the left wing, we'll have to be careful. He's got a great
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      • 954 62  -  GROUPS (ROUND 2) A, B lP*r*'-vl ON THE BALL EDWIN YEO ANY seasoned journalist will tell you that one must be an instant expert in whatever one writes about. That's why a typical job interview with our newspaper goes something like this. htaiinr. So,
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      • 704 63 (R0UND2) gT BARCELONA v LEVERKUSEN BARCELONA coach Radomir Antic (left) has a series of injury worries as his side look to clinch their place in the last eight against Bayer Leverkusen. Versatile midfielder Luis Enrique, only just returned from a four-month lay off, is the latest
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        367 63 ARSENAL v ROMA ARSENAL striker Thierry Henry (left), on course to become the Premier League's top scorer for the second consecutive season, is doubtful after sustaining a calf injury in Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final 2-2 draw with Chelsea. Fellow-striker Dennis Bergkamp was rested for the Cup tie to
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        1002 64 (ROUNDS) THE ENGLISH TEAMS INTER-MILAN v NEWCASTLE What does Inter and Newcastle have in common? Both teams are in a run of good form at the moment. Both have great strikers like Christian Vieri, Alan Shearer (left), Alvaro Recoba and Craig Bellamy. But in what ways are they different? Just
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    • 930 65 ARSENAL EARLY spring means award ceremonies. And, this season, award ceremonies must mean Thierry Henry. The Player of the Year will be announced next month and, barring a ridiculous change in fortunes, the Frenchman will be crowned. It tells you everything about the season Henry has had
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    • 66 65 ARSENAL midfielder Robert Pires has been named the Player of the Month for February. The Frenchman netted both goals as the champions began the month with a 2-1 victory over Fulham. He was also on target in the 5-1 hammering of Manchester City and featured in their
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    • 450 66 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: ARSENAL v ROMA ARSENAL'S PA Sport. IT is now or never. Arsene Wenger is telling his troops that the moment of truth in their quest to prove they are among Europe's finest has finally arrived. The Frenchman insisted it is time the Gunners reached beyond
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    • 112 66 FRENCH striker Thierry Henry looks set for the Gunners' Champions League clash with Roma at Highbury after recovering from a calf injury, Arsenal said yesterday. Henry was substituted during Saturday's 2-2 FA Cup draw with Chelsea, but he had a full training session yesterday along with co-striker Dennis
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    • 226 66 ROMA'S PA Sport. ONLY a victory will do for Roma. The Italian side are just two points adrift of Valencia and a win over Arsenal would see them draw level on points with the Premiership champions. Following their disastrous January campaign, Fabio Capello's side have shown that when
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    • 307 66  -  BY Dennis Bergkamp ARSENAL AFTER an intense FA Cup game against Chelsea, we are now straight back into Champions League action. The calf injury that kept me out of Saturday's game has improved and hopefully I will play against Roma tonight. We have left
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    • 700 67 Wire services. SOME may say it was inevitable. After just two league victories in his 20-game reign, English Premiership strugglers Sunderland gave manager Howard Wilkinson the boot yesterday.. Sunderland, who are bottom of the Premiership table, announced via their website that Wilkinson and his assistant Steve Cotterill had
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    • 240 67 Wire services. IT'S Christian Vieri against Alan Shearer as Newcastle seek to j complete their escape act in the Champions League against Inter-Milan tonight. The two strikers hold the key to the tie which neither side can afford to lose if they want to reach
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