The New Paper, 1 April 2003

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  • 36 1 the new paper TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2003 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 I 60 CENTS 8 *****1 *****1 f r»,J the new paper
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    • 26 1 Picture/ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOf F Stratford Court's management council wants to keep condo free of Sars. Guards check if visitors have been to HK, China, Vietnam recently.
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
    • 734 2 Her party goes on, with fewer guests Text and Pictures/ZAIHAN Mohd YUSOF BIRTHDAY girl Lisa Nguyen Xuan Huong was concerned no-one would attend her party last night. Her condominium's management council had issued a ban yesterday. Stratford Court at
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    • 489 3 So filthy, she lasted just one night Already gripped by the fear of Sars, Singaporeans must be concerned by events in Hong Kong. One apartment block alone has accounted for 107 of the 213 Sars patients in Kowloon's Amoy Gardens. The authorities yesterday
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    • 157 3 A fourth person died yesterday atter contracting Sats in a hospital here and travelling to Malaysia. The 43-year-old Singaporean woman had travelled to Sarawak with her family from Mar IS to Mar 18. She had developed fever when she returned on Mar 18. said a statement on
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    • 301 3 The Ground Zero of Sars, The Metropole Hotel, is Sars-free now, washed clean by disinfectants. Ms Anita Kwan, the 31-year-old public relations manager of the hotel, says it's the second safest place after her home. Ms Kwan, who is three months' pregnant, would rather miss her
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    • 573 4  -  BY Angeline Song THE SMS message you see in the picture was behaving like a cyber-borne disease yesterday. It carried a rumour one of many going around since the Sars outbreak triggering unnecessary fear. Isetan management made a police report as soon as they heard the SMS
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    • 114 4 ANYONE who circulates rumours or statements intending to cause fear and alarm can be jailed for up to two years and fined under the law. Sociologist Tan Ern Ser said: "When people communicate or, in this case, misinform, they may have an agenda in mind. "Some could be blatantly
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    • 607 5  -  By Ng Wan Ching When does a Sars patient become contagious? A patient can infect others when the symptoms first appear high fever (more than 38 deg C) and dry cough. He is assumed to be infectious until he recovers. Before the symptoms appear, he is
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    • 364 5 SARSPOLL EVERYONE is taking precautions mothers are advising their children not to take cabs, schools are closed, and some have even started to wear masks. But how much of what we know about Sars is actually based on facts? In a recent telephone poll, The New Paper
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  • THE GULF
    • FOR OR FRIEND?
    • 395 6 LATEST THE van was driving towards ttie checkpoint on a highway near Najaf in southern Iraq when US troops signalled it to stop. But it didn't. So US troops fired warning shots. They were ignored. Then the soldiers shot into the vehicle's
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      821 7 Unity enmity Arab Muslims and Arab Christians study together in this 300-year-old building... ...they may worship differently, hut they share a common foe: The Jews IT was a lesson you wish no one would ever learn. Especially if they're young. And especially if they represent the future. But the group
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    • 179 7 IN Jerusalem, there's an invisible wall between the eastern Arab half and the western Jewish half. Even among the people, there is an invisible wall. The Arabs, both Muslims and Christians, stick largely to their own half. And the Jews, theirs. The only time members of either
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 554 8  -  By] Lee Tee Jong HE is only 26 years old but has already lost his right leg and his right lung. Now the cancerous cells have spread to his left lung. Doctors have told him to be prepared for the
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    • 145 8 WHEN contacted, SGH orthopaedic surgery senior consultant Dr Tan Mann Hong described soft-tissue sarcoma as cancer in muscles and nerve tissue. "If the sarcoma is diagnosed at an early stage, it can be effectively treated with radiation and chemotherapy." But if not detected early, the cancerous
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 933 10 DO scholars make the best employees? The five people at the Dome cafe at the Singapore Art Museum sure didn't think so. Kicking off this debate was Mr David Chee, a 24-year-old final-year law undergraduate, who wondered how far non-scholars could progress in their careers. KIASU MENTALITY
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    • 168 10 ACADEMIC grades may earn you a scholarship but they're not the best way to judge whether you are good at work. That's what a vast majority 28 out of 30 thought, according to a street poll done by The New Paper. Yet 17 people also felt scholars
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    • 466 10 ANOTHER discussion centred on politicians who must be cooled into politics. Mr David Chee had asked how a minister was "held accountable"; Mr Charles Chong chose to relate several anecdotes to show that many were reluctant politicians. Mr Chit: It seems that when the Government
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    • 213 10 GETTING GOOD MEN WOMEN TO SERVE ITS hard to find good people to serve as politicians in Singapore. That's a dilemma that Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has spoken about many times. The challenge is for Singapore to find talented and competent people to serve. For instance, at the National
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  • 825 11  -  SLIM 10 DEATH Reports and picture/ Ian Tan ONCE filled with much laughter and the joy of four women, the Rajas' living room now echoes with the woeful cries from one lonely soul. Miss Sharlin Raja (above) said: "There is so much pain in my
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  • 156 12 IN the Subordinate Courts yesterday, the coroner ruled that Slim 10 pills caused the death of Miss Selvarani Raja. And tftatimporter Health Biz was criminally negligent in causing her death. Last year, Health Biz was fined $45,000 for breaching licensing regulations and failing to keep import records,
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  • 281 13 SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM Ms MavyChan I WONDER how many people here understand the seriousness of the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). Several Government ministers have said that we should not panic but I disagree with our Health Minister who
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  • WORLD
    • 366 18 Study on mice finds^ Reuters. THE problem begins when hard plastic containers like bottles begin to look cracked. That's when the chemical bisphenol A a common ingredient used to make plastics such as baby bottles and food containers can start leaching into
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    • 145 18 Reuters. IT may not appear to be poisonous but they're still playing it safe. The New Zealand police said that the suspicious white powder found in a packet of loose tobacco did not appear to be cyanide, but the country's biggest tobacco supplier
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  • WORLD
    • 222 22 AP. A CORPORATE battle is on over this famous cartoon feline. Emerson Radio Corp in the US won a court order last Friday to block a former executive from selling any Hello Kitty products until the company has sold all
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    • 415 23 These are the health problems faced by former East German athletes who were doped AP. MS Birgit Boese (right) was once a junior national shot-putter champion in the the former East Germany an Olympic powerhouse in the '70s and '80s. She and many
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 328 26 THE 19 students were ordered by their teacher to sing a song in class. But when she was not happy with the way they sang, she punished them. By giving them a severe caning. The beating was so severe that the secondary school students, who
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    • 186 26 BABIES who are tiny at birth are likely to have lower scores in their GCSE exams, say researchers, who studied exam results of 334 sixteen-year-olds in Merseyside, England. Half the children in the study had weighed 1.5kg or less at birth. Normal birth weight is between
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  • 312 27 Number of such murders move into double figures in London WORLD ONE woman was murdered by her husband in front of their three kids. Another was a bride killed minutes before she was to marry a man against her family's wishes. The
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  • 232 30 WORLD LOS Angeles has had its fair share of incidents on the city's streets, involving cops who've been over-zealous in their duties. Here's a lesser known one that might rival the Rodney King case in terms of public angst. Twenty-three female cyclists complained that
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 266 32 CHEAP and good. Singaporeans' two favourite words describe the new basic bank accounts (BBAs) being offered by five foreign and three local banks from today. These accounts are for those earning less than $2,000 a month, provide a simple range of services and do not require a
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    • 390 32 OH THE RACK Extract from The Financial Timet: A decade from now, the world will likely be consuming 20 per cent more oil than today. What this means is that today's 77 million barrels a day will be over 90 million barrels a day
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    • 52 32 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 4.84/-0.03 Creative Technology 6.06/+0.20 Flextronics 8.72/-0.43 Chartered Semiconductor 3.48/-0.19 Stats 6.51/-0.33 Yesterday's action Percentage change Close Dow Down 1.89% (153.64 pts) 7,992.13 Nasdaq Down 2.08% (28.43 pts) 1,341.17 S+P 500 Down 1.77% (15.32 pts) 848.18 ST) Down 3.84% (50.61
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    • 67 32 THE motor insurance industry's losses rose 8 per cent last year to hit an all-time high of $124 million. Car owners may face higher premiums as insurers adjust their pricing strategy to boost their bottom line. Inflated repair claims have been blamed for skyrocketing motor claims,
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    • 62 32 PSA Corp has dramatically revamped its management structure in a bid to become to become a truly multinational player. Its global operations will now be divided along four geographical regions, as compared to the previous structure which was organised according to business functions. Deputy chairman Eddie
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    • 75 32 THE waiting time for cars passing through the Woodlands Checkpoint has returned to normal, two weeks after border checks were stepped up. The average peak-hour wait for cars and buses has eased to an hour down from two hours when the 100 per cent checks began
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    • 71 32 IN a bid to attract investors to its initial public offering just weeks away, Singapore Post (Sing Post) is dangling a dividend payout of $80 million for this and next financial year. This would translate into a net annual dividend of approximately 4.2 cents per share. Citing
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    • 76 32 THINGS are not all doom and gloom. There is something to cheer about: A 46 per cent rise in net profits across the 282 firms that reported financial results by the end of the latest reporting season. Companies that posted results for the full year to Dec
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    • 68 32 SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) has terminated the services of Media Works chief executive Mr Lee Cheok Yew with immediate effect. Mr Lee, 52, helped set up television stations Channel U and Channel i. An SPH spokesman said the parting of ways was due to "serious internal
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    • 641 34  -  stowmeumvi By Yeoh Wee Teck IF you had prata at Hotel Phoenix's Garden Cafe on Saturday night, some girls are very envious of you. You could well have been chewing on a piece of prata prepared with tender, loving care by popular Taiwanese boy band
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    • 293 35 WHEN the Comic Boyz put on the charm, they lay it on thick. They may have less than two years of showbiz experience, but they flirt like pros. Like how they would look you in the eye (Peter had such pretty peepers) while talking to you. Or
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