The New Paper, 10 July 2003

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  • 33 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2003 I Website: newpaper.asial.com.se •V Singapore Press Holdings EmlU:tnl)@s( h coms8 Hotline: 1800- 733 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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    • 66 1 Barcelona may steal Ronaldhino from Man U page 72 FLASH ESTIMATES ON Q2 GDP n i t? l. Lt£fln uuv ai It's bad bid: economy will recover, say experts page 2 v md .J Is HK sin William S marriag Spore ont roc US SURGEON WHO OPERATED ON IRANIAN TWiNS:
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  • 597 2  -  GDP COMPARED TO JAN-MAR PERIOD: DOWN 11.8% MEBK9 BY Dawn Chia SINGAPORE'S economy has contracted by 11.8 per cent in the second quarter. This is when compared to the 1.2 per cent growth in the previous quarter. Advance Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates released by
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    • 10 2 What's on TV? Pgs 46 47 News IQ: Page 37
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      674 4  -  FROM MAIDS TO BUDDHIST MONK TO CATHOLIC NUNS, THEY CAME TO BID TWINS... By Low Ching Ling And Seto Nu-Wen IT was a time when they should have been at home doing the chores. Yet, Ms Naly Nalundasan and Ms Roda Ramos, both Filipino maids, were at the
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    • 928 5  -  By Ng Wan Ching IT was a huge risk to take. Raffles Hospital's (RH) decision to go ahead with the surgery to separate the 29-year-old Iranian twins has for better or for worse, "put them on the world map". The big question
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    • 929 6  -  IRANIAN TWINS' DOC REVEALS IN BOOK: By Faith Teo KNIVES have always featured significantly in Dr Ben Carson's life. As an inner-city hooligan with a violent temper, he once used a knife to stab a teenage friend in a
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    • 76 6 DR Carson has co-authored two other books besides Gifted Hands. Think Big describes his personal formula for success, both in personal relationships and professionally. The Big Picture gives the reader an intimate insight into Dr Carson's life as a medical professional, and his perspectives on issues like race,
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  • 540 7  - Full steam ahead for twist turn Causeway New bridge works bustling at Johor Baru SINGAPORE By Karen Wong JUST behind the Caltex petrol station near the Johor Baru checkpoint at the Causeway, is a plateau of earth with a cluster of busy cranes on top. It towers above a vast
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  • 613 9 SINGAPORE WHENEVER there was Chinese opera on TV, Fa'izah Samsudin, 15, would change the channel. "I hated it. The music is eerie, then there are these people wearing thick makeup moving slowly around the stage, singing in high-pitched voices," she said, wrinkling
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    • 766 11 NOTHING ventured, nothing gained. Like a proper entrepreneur, Mr Jonathan Chee is taking his problems of money in his stride. "I'm struggling with my debts and I hope that my book can help me," he said, declining to reveal how much he owes. Even
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    • 154 12 HE spent a lot of time on the book. Having finished writing the book last November, he was still waking up at 4am in the last few weeks to get ready for his book's first launch. He also tried to get friends
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    • 598 13  -  Study says a company's value decreases when it has more than five directors By Alvin Chiang LIKE too many cooks, too many directors may not be a good thing. This is the finding of two National University of Singapore (NUS) academics who have been
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    • 225 13 NEXT Career Consulting's Mr Heng and Watson Wyatt Singapore's Mr Speirs caution against a one-size-fits-all approach. Said Mr Heng: "There is no 'ideal' size. Each company should its needs based on the industry it isin, its current stage of growth, the key personalities of the top management
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    • 464 14  -  Jurong West terror strikes again By Lee Sze Yong CARS and taxis continue to be under clear and present danger as they stop outside a block in Jurong West. The stone thrower has struck again. The victim this time: A woman who stopped her car near Block
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    • 371 14 TECHINICIAN Mohamad Hizam, 31, is now the proud owner of the Samsung Matrix Reloaded limited edition handphone. He deserved it, being so concerned for the safety of his neighbours. Someone has been throwing rocks at vehicles stopping near his home at Block 621, Jurong West
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      78 14 ON Wednesday, in the TNP/Xiao Xiao Contest, we asked readers to vote for their favourite image of Xiao Xiao. We received 212 calls. Picture 3 Hip Hop (left) received the most votes 75 votes. Three winners will receive Xiao Xiao hampers each comprising an autographe< CD, an
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  • 442 16 Iraq's ambassador to China recalled. He says WORLD Reuters. FOR the moment, at least, Beijing has been reduced to a spectator. It is keeping a close watch as a bizarre drama is unfolding in the Iraqi embassy based in the Chinese capital. Diplomatic sources say
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  • 239 19 WORLD UP to 50,000 people took to the streets of Hong Kong last night in the second mass protest against Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa in less than a fortnight. Waving torches and light sticks and dressed in white with yellow ribbons, they converged in a
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    • 162 21 Reuters. ACTOR Robert Wagner has sued Sony Pictures Entertainment, claiming he is entitled to half the profits from the two Charlie's Angels movies. The first self-titled movie was released in 2000 and its sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, is now showing in cinemas.
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    • 238 21 THE inspectors and passengers on the city-bound train watched in horror as the 15-year-old boy pulled open the doors and threw himself out. This happened at about 2pm yesterday as the train was travelling at about 80kmh between Bittern and Hastings
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    • 439 24 POPULARJIiroWR TOM ClAMCY BESTSELLING author Tom Clancy is being sued by his former wife. Ms Wanda King, 53, wants to boot Mr Clancy out Of the profitable paperback book series, known as Tom Clancy's Op-Centre, which they own together. She claims that
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    • 53 27 THE wedding ceremony, named "Kiss of en Angel" was held In Befllng. It featured 10 couples from 10 hospitals designated in the fight against Sars. These medical workers had postponed their weddings which were originally tchodulod to be held on May
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    • 223 27 Manchester United the next takeover target? Reuters. Manchester United's biggest shareholders, Irish racecourse magnates John Paul McManus and John Magnier, have increased their stake in the premier league champions to 11.4 per cent, the club said yesterday. Last week United's shares fell nearly 4 per cent after a newspaper report
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    • 371 29 End to ambitious project to have 1,280km-long magnetic levitation train system plying between Beijing and Shanghai FIRST phase: A magnetic levitation train linking Shanghai airport to the city centre. It would be the world's first such train in commercial use. Next, a 1,280km-long
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    191 33 WORLD AP. MEET Dzhambulat Khotokhov, said to be the world's largest 4 year old. The I.lBm Russian boy (above) weighs 56kg. Yesterday, he met his match in Georgy Bibilauri, in a wrestling contest in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. Georgy, a native of Georgia, (wearing a T-shirt in the
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    • 280 34 SINGAPORE: SINGAPORE is the 21st richest population in the world. But as a people, Singaporeans are not quite as "developed" as the relatively "less prosperous" Kiwis, Spaniards, Israelis, Portuguese or Greeks. That is what a study by the United Nations says. The 2003 Human Development
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    • 337 34 OH THE RACK Edited extract from The Independent: This is a story about people who are trying to alter the course of human behaviour. It is also about human beings' most primitive attitudes to the matter we are all descended from: The mud,
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    • 53 34 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 14.577/+2.561 Creative Technology 8.37/-0.04, Flextronics 11.83/+0.26 Chartered Semiconductor 6.5/+0.48 Stats 11.64/+0.14 Yesterday's Percentage r action change uose Dow Nasdaq Down 0.73% (66.88 pts) Up 0.06% (1.00 pts) 9,156.21 1,747.46 S+P 500 STI Down 0.56% (5.63 pts) Up 0.28% (4.2
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    • 72 34 TIRED of waiting for SingTel and StarHub to settle the dispute that has delayed cable television access to thousands of homes, some condominium developers have forked out between $20,000 and $65,000 to provide the access themselves. They have, in recent months, hired contractors to dig new
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    • 76 34 VICTORIA School moved to Siglap Link last month, but some students' parents are not happy with the new premises. Among other things, they think the school's $200,000 eco-garden is a waste of money, and are unhappy with the increase in canteen prices and having to raise
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    • 63 34 WEALTHY Indonesians have been quietly transferring their money in countries abroad like Singapore and Switzerland back home, a Standard Chartered Bank report revealed yesterday. They have been doing so since 2001, or after political stability returned under President Megawati's leadership. These "high net-worth" Indonesians have an
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    • 73 34 THE deadline for collecting National Day Parade (NDP) tickets came and went yesterday with less than 4,000 tickets still not collected. So collection has been extended to 9pm on Sunday to allow people to pick them up at The Pavilion at Far East Square. One reason for
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    • 62 34 The US and Singapore have resolved their free trade agreement's last sticking point: Chewing gum. At the insistence of US gum-maker Wrigley, Singapore has agreed to a "modest" easing of the ban on the sale of chewing gum. The Government's health officials agreed to Wrigley's Orbit
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    • 78 34 PASIR Ris-Punggol GRC MP Charles Chong and 24 grassroots leaders met a team of senior SBS Transit executives on Tuesday to discuss opening the Buangkok MRT station on the North-East Line (NEL). SBS Transit said that it would need about 5,000 passengers a day for the
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous

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    • 884 35  -  HONG KONG SINGER WILLIAM SO ON HIS MARRIAGE: By Wendy Teo HE IS mourning the death of his Singaporean father-in-law here. But, back in Hong Kong, the bigger buzz is that popular singer William So's four-year-old marriage is on the rocks. The
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    • 149 35 HIS late father-in-law enjoyed reading celebrity gossip and would ask him whether the reports were true, William So said. "The first thing he would talk to me about is the news. He would tell me what are the bizarre news reports he read in the
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    • 517 36  - Too far apart for an y sparks By Eri Akbar IN reel life, they are inseparable. But off screen, Lu Rui En and Howard Cheung, the main actors in Channel 5's current English drama, Chemistiy, lead separate lives in different countries. Rui En, 22, a Singaporean, is busy with her
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    • 145 36 HIS good looks have earned him some farifl among female Malay viewers here too. Howard Cheung has even scored as a pin-Up in the upcoming issue of The Eurasian said that he is aware of having Malay fans, but has not spent enough time here
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    • 564 37  -  By Eri Akbar IT'S not just fashion models who can sashay down the runway with long, flowy tresses today and even longer, trailing locks tomorrow. With hair extensions, the latest Japanese trend to hit town, anybody can enter a salon
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    • 274 54 GUIDE TO PENANG TRACKWORK GOING: GOOD NST. FIRST-UP winner Rioli drew attention to his chances in Sunday's Class 4 Div 1 1,200 m event with an impressive gallop yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the three-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Bellotto sprinted smartly over the final 600 m in 37.55ec.
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    • 216 59  -  By PAUL WARHURST Ex-BOLTON FORGET the rumours circulating that suggest I've retired. A Mend of mine told me earlier this week that a story announcing my retirement had been on Sky Sports but I honestly have no idea where it came from. I may be 33
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    • 672 60 EURO TRANSFER TALES AFP. HE knows how hot he can get with one of the world's most success-oriented club. But he is not worried. Attack will be Barcelona's philosophy under new coach Frank Rijkaard. But the Dutchman said he could not promise that he could end the Catalan
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    • 262 61 ...MORE EURO TRANSFER TRAIL AP. FRANK Rykaard is a fighter. He fears no pressure. So when the it came to accepting Barcelona's offer, he has no worries. "When a club like Barcelona offers you a job, it's not very difficult to answer. Barcelona is one
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    • 452 61 AFP. AFP. INTER-MILAN are thinking big. They've grabbed a number of big-name signings, the latest being Senegalese international midfielder Khalilou Fadiga from French Cup winners Auxerre. Fadiga, 28, was inspirational in midfield for Senegal at last year's World Cup Finals scoring one goal where they reached the
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    • 419 62 yj ABRAMOVICH'S CHELSKI CHELSEA are favourites to sign Real Madrid's Cameroon star Geremi. Real sporting director Jorge Valdano confirmed the mega-rich Blues have tabled a £9 million ($25.9 m) bid for the midfielder, the highest offer from an English side. Geremi spent last season on
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      204 62 Wire Services JIMMY FLOYD HASSELBAINK has been offered £3.smillioii ($lO million) to quit Chelsea before the start of the new season. According to The Sun, Chelsea have also withdrawn Eidur Gudjohnsen's new contract just hour before he was to sign it. New owner Roman Abramovich wants to
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      218 62 Wire Services CLAUDIO Ranieri will remain as Chelsea's manager. He was given the vote of confidence by Chelsea's new owner Roman Abramovich. Ranieri met the Russian billionaire for the first time yesterday and was told he will remain as manager. "Roman is a polite man," Ranieri said. It
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    • 354 63 TRANSFER TRAIL WOLVES: Reuters NEWLY promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers unveiled their third foreign signing of the week. And there's promise of at least three more. Portuguese international midfielder Silas Feraandes, 26, signed from Portugal's Uniao De Leiria for a fee rising to £1.5 million ($4.3 m)
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    • 292 63 ARSENAL: PA Sport. THE Gufiners' bid to add more ammunition to their attack has been scuppered. Spanish club Sevilla's president, Jose Maria Del Nido, said they have rejected a bid from Arsenal for their highly-rated striker Jose Antonio Reyes. Speaking at a press conference to unveil new
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    • 230 63 LEEDS UNITED: Wire services. HAVING lost Harry Kewell, Leeds United are adamant that they will not be losing any more players. And that means their other player in demand Mark Viduka is not for sale, chairman Professor John McKenzie emphasised. Viduka is cash-strapped Leeds'
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    • 161 63 Wire Services FRENCH teenager Leandre Griffit has signed for Southampton. Griffit hails from French second division club Amiens. The 19-year-old attacking midfielder is a free agent. But the Saints have had to pay some compensation to the northern French club. No details of
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    • 468 64 HARRY KEWELL'S TRANSFER TO LIVERPOOL PA Sport. HARRY Kewell has admitted Gerard Houllier's powers of persuasion were a clinching factor in his decision to swap Leeds for Liverpool. Kewell, who will officially be unveiled to the press later today,
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    • 243 64 Hfcwell is a Liverpool fan. I can remember him asking me for a Liverpool shirt when I was at Leeds. I'm certainly very happy to see a player of that calibre now in a Liverpool shirt. Forget his form from last season that was not the real
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    • 242 64 Wire services, PA Sport. HARRY Kewell will wear the No 7 shirt at Anfield, the shirt worn by players like Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan in the past. A Liverpool spokesman said: "Harry Kewell will wear No 7 for Liverpool and Vladimir Smicer (the previous number
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    • 365 65 ...MORE ON HARRY KEWELL'S TRANSFER TO LIVERPOOL Wire Services. LEEDS chairman John McKenzie has accused Harry Kewell of "stabbing fans in the back." Kewell revealed his intentions to join Liverpool on Australian television, a move which left McKenzie "flabbergasted." "My second (thought)
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    • 309 68  -  EXHIBITION MATCH: SINGAPORE LIONS v S-LEAGUE ALL-STARS TUESDAY By Edwin Yeo IN his lifetime, lawyer R Palakrishnan (left) was devoted to the development of football here in Singapore. It is perhaps apt then that as Singapore football begins a new chapter under new coach Raddy Avramovic (right),
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    • 555 70  -  S/ITUROM SHP l, nn W\ BY Alvin Chua WHEN the team with the best defence in the league also starts scoring goals by the hatful, the rest had better sit up and take notice. While maintaining the meanest defensive record with just 14 goals conceded in
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  • 654 77  -  THE BACK PAGE WmtSlnchl coach Om Paogang star By Alvin Chua HE is the man who has brought traditional Chinese football values backtoSinchi. It has helped the previously lost Chilins to rediscover their identity. He is the engineer behind their recent revival, uniting
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