The New Paper, 13 May 2003

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  • 31 1 the new paper TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2003 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia1.com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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    • 56 1 V mm DrM hitkout 4 own part^tisgmbers t- lHB! Ho calls them... P22 MORNING LATEST Saudi capital 80 reported injured I Witness tells of gun in 4 explosions. I battles and huge Suicide bombers suspected.! fireball rising from city. P2 Are you a sticker cheater? P5 Teen with S'pore I
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  • 618 2 SAUDI SHOCK NEWS Wire services. THREE bombs exploded at residential compounds housing westerners in Riyadh causing an unspecified number of deaths and injuring many people. NBC News said up to 80 people were hurt. A fourth explosion targeted the headquarters of Siyanco a joint
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
    • 584 4  -  By Karen Wong IF you have Sars and deliberately cough or sneeze in someone's face intending to harm him, you could be jailed up to two years. That is what the Penal Code specifies under section 270. What's more, you could be sued for
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    • 77 4 Keep abreast of Sars developments and measures taken to prevent its spread; Follow the recommended Health Ministry and Environment Ministry guidelines; If the employer is aware of specific risks and dangers, he must inform his employees and take steps to safeguard them;
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    • 723 5  -  ARE YOU A STICKER-CHEATER? Visitors to Gleneagles need a sticker to show they're well. But anyone can just pick one up from the dustbins outside Cynthia Loh Report Picture IT'S a simple, round sticker, the size of a 20-cent coin, and available in a myriad of fluorescent
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    • 190 5  -  Zaihan Mohd Yusof Report Picture DO NT think Mr Mohamad Aidil Taib (below) is out to make a fashion statement. But those colourful stickers make him one cool dude, at least as far as security guards are concerned. One look at
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    • 463 6 A NUMBER of teachers are up in arms against the Ministry of Education over a circular sent out last week. Teachers were instructed not to visit Sars-affected countries during the June holidays. Nothing wrong with that, they say. It was
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    • 503 6  -  Students' travel histories sent to their schools By! Santokh Singh IF you're a student and you think that you can go overseas and keep mum about it, you have another thing coming. Your school principal would probably have a record of your travel dates
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  • 523 8  -  SARS OUTBREAK By Melissa Tan and Elysa Chen SHOPPING centres are fine but going overseas for a holiday is still a no-go for most. In fact, some Singaporeans are postponing next month's holiday plans to the December school holidays instead. Of the 100
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 479 10  -  He takes you from point Ato B By Wong Wenyi MIKE Tan Zhi Tian (right), the physically disabled and intellectually subnormal teenager who can memorise maps and remember calendar dates, is now working. He is now a part-time Customer Service Representative (CSR) for the Transit Link
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    • 369 10  -  By Tan Mae Lynn ITS the face behind the news. That's what makes some 800,000 people pick up Streats during the work week. Mr Paul Jansen, Streats' editor said: "We go behind the scenes and find key people in a news event. People
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  • 683 14  -  Could the Perth-based businessman be in Singapore? NEWS By Andre Yeo HE has been to Singapore several times and was collecting money from investors in Australia to invest in diamonds. He had Asl million ($1.12 m) with him when he suddenly vanished.
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 627 15  -  Mother of alleged abuse victim speaks up: By Seto Nu-Wen IN a surprising twist, the mother of alleged abuse victim Peh Hong Shawn has turned up. She appeared yesterday at the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) office in Johor Baru and said she had no idea
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    • 179 15 THE abuse Peh Hong Shawn suffered would move any grown man to tears. This is what the 8-year-old had to endure for a year before his plight was discovered: He was forced to eat faeces and drink dirty water. A lit candle was pushed into his
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  • 326 18 S'PORE-US FTA WORLD As of March this year, there were 22 new foreign investment companies on Batam, injecting some US$6O million (slo3m) worth of investment. The export value of the islands' output last year was over US$6.5 billion, or about 14 per cent of
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  • 242 20 MALAYSIA Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is known as a man who does not mince his words. Yesterday was no different. At a press conference during Umno's 57th anniversary celebration, he again came out with
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  • WORLD
    • 149 24 THIS elderly man had more than a bone to pick with his wife's pet Pekinese. Ma Cheung-chit, 66, was so consumed with jealousy over the dog that he beat up his wife, Wong Mei-ching, 53, in a fit of rage. He was sentenced by Hong Kong's
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    • 298 24 POLICE officers in Hong Kong are fed-up at the verbal abuse hurled at them by triad members still a force to be reckoned with in the territory. They want more power against them and the right to arrest gang members who antagonise
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    • 205 25 Tragedy struck a high school group on a visit to a museum on Sunday when a teenage girl fell to her death while sliding down a bannister. Katie Brooks, 17, was with an 80-member group of teens from her school at the Chicago Museum of
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  • WORLD
    • 200 28 Teabag made of new material promises 'best cuppa ever' IT took four years and £5 million ($13.9 m) to perfect under the tightest security. Now, tea-drinkers in the UK are being promised the best "cuppa" ever with the launch of a new tea bag. The new bags
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    • 304 29 New virus spreads across Internet via e-mail, file-sharing programmes Reuters. LIKE the Sars virus, its appearance was first reported in Asia and it's spreading around the world. But masks and thermometers won't be of any help. It's a new and complex computer
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    • 143 29 THE numbers of computers infected by viruses is stabilising, but the malicious programmes pose as big a problem as ever. A survey reveals that the disruption caused by virus infections soaked up more time and money than ever. Figures published as part of the annual virus
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    • 551 30 IN HONG KONG WHAT a downer. It seems that only about a third of married women in Hong Kong are interested in sex and enjoy a satisfying sex life compared with more than half of husbands, reported the South China Morning Post
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    • Article, Illustration
      354 32 US begins $28m security drill MOCK AFP. THIS exercise will involve a cast of thousands. The script reads like something written for a Hollywood blockbuster. The actors? Hundreds of residents of Chicago, Seattle and Washington. But this isn't a movie. The three US cities are bracing themselves for a
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 175 33 WELCOME to Aloha Resorts. Located at Pasir Ris, the chalets built for civil servants have been set aside as Sars quarantine facility. The 38 chalets provide alternative accommodation for quarantined people who fear infecting their family members. They are open to recovered Sars patients who
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    • 255 33 ON THE RACK Extract from Time: More and more men are taking up occupations traditionally dominated by females. Searching for more meaningful work or simply desperate for a pay cheque in a sluggish economy, they are applying in increasing numbers for jobs or
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    • 53 33 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 9.51/+0.29 Creative Technology 6.7/unchanged Flextronics 9.38/+0.186 Chartered Semiconductor 4.82/+0.08 Stats 7.7/+0.02 Yesterday's Percentage r action change Uose Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Up 1.42% (122.13 pts) Up 1.4% (21.25 pts) Up 1.25% (11.7 pts) Up 1.36% (17.82 pts) 8,726.73
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    • 65 33 WAR looks set to take place in Indonesia's Aceh province after separatist rebel leaders ignored a government deadline to lay down arms and dump their secessionist demands yesterday. Negotiators tried one last time to salvage a shattered peace pact while international monitors pulled out, expecting a military
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    • 66 33 NINE telecom companies have slammed SingTel's bid to exempt itself from its obligations as a dominant player in the international telephone services market in pricing and marketing calls. They warned the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore that if Sing Tel succeeded, smaller rivals may be driven
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    • 73 33 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has a new rule to improve the safety of people riding in pick-ups, trucks and lorries. A maximum passenger capacity label must be clearly displayed to determine how many people can be packed into these vehicles. It is an offence if
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    • 74 33 HOME buyers, no longer put off by Sars, are coming back as more flats were bought in new developments over the weekend, said analysts. Some 80 per cent of the first 161 flats released in Singapore's tallest condominium project, the 46-storey Icon in Tanjong Pagar, were snapped
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    • 80 33 OIL companies ExxonMobil and Caltex have cut their petrol prices by 6 per cent in the wake of Shell's 5 per cent discount on its pump prices to boost sales and raise $300,000 for The Courage Fund. Shell's deal at 74 stations and ExxonMobil's offer at 68
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    • 66 33 WITH one of the highest rates of shopping mall failures in Malaysia, Johor Baru was too dependent on the "Singapore factor", reported the Malaysian Business Times. Industry consultant Richard Chan Chee Keong said this marketing strategy is fundamentally flawed as Singapore customers are not enough
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  • Hey! showtime & Lifestyle
    • 676 35  -  By Wendy Teo HE said it's all in the stars. Mr Robert Chua (above) is convinced he was born to do TV. The media entrepreneur and founder-cum-chairman of satellite TV station China Entertainment Television (CETV) thinks so, because the major milestones in his life coincide
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    • 125 35 ON Mr Robert Chua's brainchild reality show You Be The Judge disgruntled individuals with an axe to grind can take their cases to the productioni team, which will interview both parties, and then let the TV audience vote on who they think is right. And
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    • 201 35 DESPITE his stature and reputation in the media business, Mr Robert Chua is a man without airs. For instance, he thinks nothing of personally calling up reporters from the various papers and inviting them to his Ritz Carlton suite, so that he can talk about his new programme
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    • 562 36 ITS all in the hair. Unlike most J-pop stars who tend to stick to a particular hairdo, Yosuke Kubozuka prefers to make jaws drop with his radical cuts. From looking sexy in unruly black curls to rebellious in bombastic blonde, nerdy in a mushroom cut, angst-ridden in a
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    • 151 38 GET this. Hong Kong singer-actor Leon Lai (above right with Andy Lau) does not like playing a baddie. And neither will he accept a low pay. It seems Leon has thrown a fit over the soon-to-be-filmed Infernal Affairs 111 because co-star Andy Lau gets
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    • 93 38 HAS Zhang Ziyi (above) lost her wattage? The Chinese actress, who is currently in the midst of filming Mo Li Hua Kai (The Blossoming Of Jasmine Flowers), apparently has her eyes on co-star Lu Yi. However, according to the production crew, all of
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    • 70 38 SPECULATION that William So's (right) marriage is in trouble has surfaced again. All because the Hong Kong singer's Singapore-born wife Jane, has been seen without a wedding ring. When asked, William denied the rumours, saying his wife has a tendency to lose her rings as they slip
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    • 283 51 Reuters. STEFFEN Effenberg launched his autobiography at a Berlin store, wearing a T-shirt with the motto "Be Nice." But he has hardly been nice with the German soccer fraternity. "I'm used to criticism from all my years as a professional footballer. The criticism
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    • 187 51 TENNIS Hamburg Open, men's singles, latnh Gustavo Kuerten (Bra) bt Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) 6-2,6-4; Arnaud Clement (Fra) bt Nicolas Lapentti (Ecu) 6-4,6-2 Marino Zabaleta (Arg) bt Karol Kucera (Slk) 7-5,6-4; Augustin Calleri (Arg) bt Hyung-Taik Lee (Kor) 3-6,7-6 (7/1), 7-5; Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt Paul Henri Mathieu
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      • 140 52 Tampines chairman Teo Hock Seng wants to raise the S-League salary cap, in an attempt to attract more big-name stars. The prospect of seeing the likes ofHristo Stoichkov and Romario, as Teo put it, has created quite a buzz among football fans here. Yes. If salary
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      • 49 52 Lifting the salary cap will definitely raise the league's standard. At the same time, I agree with Richard Woon. With bigger salary caps, local clubs will have to find a way to finance themselves. This will help the club and the league to mature. -JASON LOW
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      • 46 52 Just like the opening up of the telecoms and utilities companies, the S-League should be managed in an open and competitive environment according to market requirements. But the league's management must ensure that weaker clubs don't fall prey to 9-0 blowouts. LIMY P
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      • 67 52 The answer to this question is a big yes and a big no. Yes because, higher salary levels will attract better stars to the S-League. This may raise the standard of the S-League. No, because, as we have learnt from past experience, "big name" players
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      • 67 52 Singapore football often dreams of reaching the 2010 World Cup. Is it possible? Firstly if we want Singapore football to stand shoulder to shoulder with top clubs from Asia, we've got to expand the salary cap and get good coaches. This will help towards the development
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      • 62 52 Yes, why not bring some superstars to boost our very own league if the clubs can afford it. As the saying goes, no money no talk! For the interest of the S-League, and to win back fans, I believe that the presence of top quality superstar
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      • 85 52 I don't see how Teo Hock Seng's proposal to lift the cap on foreign players is a bad idea. Quality players cost money, and if getting them means an improvement in football standards here, then why not? Won't these changes benefit all clubs? Rules changes are also necessary
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      • 84 52 I am fully in favour of this move. Our professional league is nearly eight years old, but yet we, the fans, have seen little or no improvement in the quality of play, the players themselves, and the stadiums. If there are two or three clubs who can
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      136 55 DEFOE may not be the only West Ham player on the move. The Sunday Mirror reported that "Liverpool will sell striker Emile Heskey (below) and have lined up West Ham's French marksman Frederic Kanoute as his replacement". The paper claimed that Pool will let Heskey go for "£5.5
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    • 257 55 ONE Premiership season is just over and, already, the stench of fishy business and double deals concerning the summer transfers are already in the air. Barely a week ago, Leeds beat Arsenal at Highbury, a defeat which ended the title chances of the north London
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    • 96 55 THINGS are getting more interesting at Tottenham after a mediocre season and with the pressure growing on manager Glenn Hoddle. The former England boss is linked by the News of the World with a move for Sunderland's Northern Ireland left-back George McCartney. And the Daily Star Sunday
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    • 170 55 PA Sport. THEN there is Davies' Welsh team-mate Craig Bellamy (below). It seems Newcastle have had enough of his antics. The Sunday Express said the club are ready to sell him "in a shock move to try to tighten up discipline". The paper added that "the Newcastle
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      • 506 56  -  CHAMPIONSHIP JOY By RYAN GIGGS MANCHESTER UTD LOOKING back now, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when or where we turned the tide. Some people have suggested it was the 3-1 defeat against City at Maine Road in November or the back-to-back losses to Blackburn and then
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        418 56  -  RELEGATION SORROW By FREDDIE KANOUTE WEST HAM IT is difficult to describe how it feels now that we have been relegated. It hurts like hell, but I think it will get even worse over the next few days as it sinks in that we will be playing
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      • 682 57  -  CHAMPIONS LEAGUE BUZZ By MARIO MELCHIOT CHELSEA WE are all buzzing at the prospect of playing Champions League football next season! I'm not a nervous person and actually enjoy playing in crucial matches, but I don't mind admitting that even I felt it on
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      378 58 EXCLUSIVE TO some, this Premier League season was about Manchester United's incredible comeback. To others, it was about the emergence of England's brightest footballer since Paul Gascoigne, Everton's Wayne Rooney. To most, though, 2002-03 has been only about one thing: money. More than ever before, the colour
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    • 182 58 MONEY is tight and I think we can safely say that the football bubble has finally burst in England. Only one club seem to be as strong as ever. Manchester United have not looked better placed to continue their domination of English football since
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      • 608 60  -  (S-FINAL. 2nd LEG) FIRST LEG: CM) INTER-MILAN v AC MILAN By Edwin Yeo THE first time I heard anything about Milan was when, some 20 years ago, my veiy first date wanted me to take her to this place called Milano's Pizza. I know not if
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      • 906 61 INTER-MILAN v AC MILAN FIRST LEG: 0-0 (S-FINAL, 2nd LEG) THEY are four of the best paid strikers in the world. And when Inter and AC Milan renew their Champions League semi-final tomorrow morning (Singapore time), the pressure is on them to do what they
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    • 428 62 AFP, PA Sport. PORTUGUESE international defender Abel Xavier has been released by Liverpool, their manager Gerard Houllier revealed yesterday. Houllier said Xavier would be joined by injury-prone duo Patrik Berger and Vegard Heggem and French World Cup-winning midfielder Bernard Diomede. The Reds manager is seeking to
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