The New Paper, 23 January 2004

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  • 10 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2004 the new paper
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    • 84 1 BIRD FLU WARNING World health body's worst-case scenario 0] WE'RE SINGAPORE'S N0.1 TABLOID FRIDAY. JANUARY 23. 2004 m i m \v 0 IH11 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW /f-' xV MP Irf 41 •>* dfl r r > as* wm 16 Picture/ NEWS OF THE WORLD j Beckham's first I red card in
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    • 602 2 DPM Lee: Look at China t and India, like Sun Wu Kong THIS YEAR, KEY TO SUCCESS 15... This year is the beginning of anew 20-year "fortune cycle" in fengshul. tfs particularly appropriate for those s seeking a fresh start In IMW arm! KiiftinAftft 111 life 9Hu DUSMCSS.
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    • 265 2 US stocks opened slightly higher on the first day of the Chinese New Year, adding to long-time highs in the previous session, as investors welcomed strong profit reports and an unexpected fall in initial jobless claims. The Dow Jones industrial average opened up 15 points, or 0.16 per
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    389 3  -  Long weekend: S'poreans soak in sun, sand, sea SINGAPORE By Fawziah Selamat fau)ziahs@sph. com. sg THE tents may have been pitched a bit too close for comfort. And parking was a nightmare. While Singapore doesn't exactly boast of pristine beaches, such a concern was not high on the
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  • 462 5  -  CHINATOWN'S SINGAPORE BY FAITH TEO wenli@sph.com.sg IN one comer was Carlsberg and in the other was Tiger. Then they came out fighting in the hot, noisy, hawker centre on the second floor of Chinatown Complex. Both brands were out to grab attention on Tuesday evening.
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    • 155 6 m THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY And SHALLOW HAL HCATCH THE PREVIEW OF "STUCK ON YOU" CATHAY CINELEISURE ORCHARD, 28 JANUARY 2004, 9.30PM I It's twice the tun and double the laughs with Siamese duo Walt and Bob in the latest outrageous comedy, "Stuck on You For preview tickets, simply give
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 537 7  -  n. Econ Corp workers, especially foreign ones, worry about unpaid salaries By Michael Lee tnp@sph.com.sg THE sign on the closed gate read: "Barrier Ahead". It was a warning hitherto ignored by Econ Corporation workers as only visitors' vehicles were required to stop at the security checkpoint.
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    • 203 7 CREDITORS opposed the construction company's proposal to address its insolvency in May, and it was eventually rejected in court on Nov 24. The main players countering Econ are Believed to be claiming about a quarter of its $256 m debt. Econ then applied for provisional liquidation under KPMG.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 820 9  -  Life under the CTE for 76-year-old The Public Utilities Board advises the public not to enter drains or canals for safety reasons. REPORTS GENEVIEVE JIANG ge neve comsg IF this Chinese New Year has been a little less festive for you, try and
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    • 378 9 HELPING the homeless can mean months of fighting red tape and lots of paper work. In Mr Tan Chue's case, it took Mr Denis Tay three months. To rent a one-room flat, Mr Tan first had to get approval from the Housing Board
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    • 864 10  -  By Teh Jen Lee and Hajerah Kutus jenlee@sph.com.sg, tnp@sph.com.sg IMAGINE living in Singapore without an identity card for more than 36 years. To one woman, this meant not being able to visit the doctor, even in extreme pain, out of
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    • 645 12  -  By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg LAST year, Ratna Tiwary, 19, took part in a Bollywood Queen beauty contest organised by Thomson Community Club. Although she did not win, this beauty has another ace up her sleeve. Ms Ratna, a telemarketer at Manulife Financial, a Canadian-based insurer
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    • 308 13 RATNA is not the only Indian girl fluent in Mandarin here. The four Sarma siblings are also fluent in the language and even lived and studied in China. Mr Ravi Sarma, 49, and his sisters Roopa, 45, and Remya, 44, have degrees in Chinese language
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    • 1750 14  -  EXCLUSIVE STORY OF TEEN WHO HAD SEX WITH FOUR EPL SOCCER PLAYERS By Jane Atkinson Lewis Panther News Of The World THE teenage girl at the centre of the football "roasting" scandal has opened her heart to the News Of
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    • 400 15 Players frolic at Dubai resort during 4-day break WINE, women and song were the order of the day for Manchester United stars on a four-day break in a luxury Dubairesort. They were scoring all right, but no one was taking aim at goalposts.
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    • 409 16 US CIY IMPOSES TEMPORARY BAN Wire services. IF YOU want to sing, sing in public. That's what officials in San Mateo, California, are telling karaoke club customers. A temporary ban has been imposed on private rooms because people have been using the rooms for
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    • 364 17 BIRD FLU SCARE BIRD FLU HOT SPOTS S Korea I.Bm birds slaughtered. Japan 34,600 sick birds culled. Taiwan Some 50,000 birds killed. Vietnam 23 people suspected of bird flu infection. Five confirmed deaths. 2m chickens culled. ALL three people down with suspected bird flu
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    • 91 17 AFP. THE Thai stock market got a jolt yesterday. When news of Japan placing a ban on chicken imports from Thailand hit the market, stocks fell. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) composite index lost 6.55 points to close at 760.17 and the blue-chip SET 50 index was
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      571 17 WHO concerned bird flu could mutate into a far more lethal form It could cause widespread flu epidemic Wire services. THE warning is chilling. And it is comes at a time when bird flu fears are sweeping across Thailand. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it was deeply
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    • 497 17 What is bird flu? Also known as avian influenza, it's an infectious disease affecting birds, and is caused by type A strains of the influenza virus. The disease, first identified in Italy more than 100 years ago, occurs worldwide. All birds are thought to be
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  • 567 19 SHOCKING NEWS AFTER FAILED BANK RAID MALAYSIA FOUR days ago, two robbers tried to rob a bank in Segamat but ended up dead, both shot in the face. On Wednesday, Johor police revealed that one of i the dead robbers was a police inspector.
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    • 146 20 PRIME Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi defended Malaysia's judiciary yesterday after an attack by jailed former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar had accused three appeal court judges of being "under the thumb of the executive". Datuk Seri Abdullah said: "The judiciary is independent. I have given the
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      144 20 Tamil Tiger rebels still recruiting children Reuters. MORE than 700 children were recruited as soldiers by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels last year despite a ceasefire in the island's ethnic war, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef). In a progress report on an action plan drawn
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    • 252 21 Reuters. ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (right) said yesterday he had no intention of resigning as prosecutors considered indicting him over allegations a businessman friend bribed him. But an opinion poll suggested that if he was charged, he may have little choice but to bow
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    • 143 21 AP. N&rtel Networks is in talka to sell pearly all of its factories to Singapore electronics firm Flextronics in a US$5OO million (sBs2m) deal. The company said the negotiations would include manufacturing in Brazil, Northern Ireland and France. Nortel said the deal, if completed,
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    • 174 21 AP. TWO Singaporeans and six Chinese nationals have been arrested at Manila airport on suspicion of human trafficking and are expected to be deported soon. The two Singaporeans, who allegedly planned to smuggle the Chinese nationals into the US using fake Singapore passports, were arrested
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    • 461 22  -  By Oo Gen Lee tnp@sph.com.sg HER name is Jade. She has green lipstick, eyes and hair. She wields a Dai-Jo (stick) better than Shaolin monks and kills baddies without batting an eyelid. And her most powerful weapon? Her camera. Welcome to Beyond Good
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    • 312 24 Irritate Doraemon the robot it'll talk back Toymaker Bandai creates robot version of popular comics cat AFP. Knock it over and it will wail, "Help me". Hit it on the head and it will say, "It hurts". Doraemon a Japanese manga robot cat character is being turned into, well, a
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  • 235 35 Slimming secret: No secrets, says the mother of two boys, aged 4*/2 and 2. Lingling, 32, looking as radiant as ever, said: "I don't exercise unless you consider shopping and playing with my kids as exercise. "I also don't pay special attention
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  • 229 35 Slimming secret: It's a slim win for the actress who hardly wishes to be thin these days, especially after the Slim 10 fiasco. "I like to think I have no time to exercise but it's just an excuse for my laziness," said
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    • 390 38  -  By Wendy Teo teowyw@sph. com.sg COMING face to face with your idol is a treat. But having to play man in the mirror with not so, as Hong Kong actor Lau Ching Wan found out recently. In the movie Fantasia, which spoofs the Hui Brothers
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    • 89 38 FANTASIA, set in the '60s and based on Michael Hui's The Private Eyes, sees three investigators Wen (Lau Ching Wan), Jie (Louis Koo) and Ji Pao (Jordan Chan) releasing Harmy Bo Bo (Cecilia Cheung) from her lamp when they rub it by accident.
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    • 151 38 Fantasia's lead actors Lau Ching Wan and Cecilia Cheung (right) tell u5...: If you had three wishes, what would you wish for? Cecilia: That's too much! I just want a peaceful and simple life. Ching Wan: I'd probably use it for
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    • 317 41 PRIME-TIME TV NOBODY wants to be a fool. But getting people to laugh at a fool is a different thing. Everybody remembers Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World and Harry and Lloyd from Dumb And Dumber. They were classic nitwits who made us roll off
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
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    • 246 54 LAST Wednesday's workouts by horses engaged this afternoon: RACE 1: Slow work: The Duke, Soldier Of Fortune, Llm's Silver, Millennium Magic, Taj. RACE 2: Check N Verify did pace work. Slow work: Newcomer Top Enterprise, looking well, Transformation. RACE 3: Slow work: Really Good
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    • 1307 55 FAST AND FURIOUS: Rookie Alan Ng will try to steal the honours in Race 10, an Open class event over 1,200 m, by employing the usual front-running tactics on the Tan Hor Khoon-trained Ayotee. Open Benchmark 67 Div 1 Quartet/Double
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    • 63 55 NEXT Saturday's Kranji meeting will be Dudley Feldman's last as the Singapore Turf Club's Principal Chief Stipendiary Steward. The South African cited personal and family reasons for his decision to return home. He joined the club on a three-year contract last June.
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    • 155 56 DOPING SCAM: Reuters. Italian police have confiscated an English-bred racehorse and 400 small bottles of anabolic steroids In a crackdown on an elaborate doping scam. They seized the three-year-old mare, Imco Loves, after finding false veterinarian certificates relating to her. The horse Is being held Just outside Rome. Police said
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    • 497 57 EURO KICKOFF: ITALIAN CUP (QUARTER FINALS) INTER-MILAN 3 UDINESEI Kalian Cup quarter-final (second leg): Inter-Milan 3 Udinese 1 (Inter 3-1) Juventusl Perugia 0 (Juventus 3-1) Parma 1 Lazio 1 (Lazio 3-1) Tonight: AS Roma v AC Milan (First leg: 1-2) Reuters. INTER-MILAN can hold their heads high
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    • 314 57 Reuters. AS ROMA v AC MILAN ROMA may be sitting proudly on top of Serie A but they will be real wary when they do battle with an AC Milan team that has proved their nemesis in recent months. Milan have beaten Roma
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      434 58 THE SONY OPEN Michelle wie made her PGA Tour "debut" last week at the Sony Open In Honolulu. At 14, she played more like a nine-year Tour veteran than a ninth grader, shooting a two-over-par 72 in the opening round. That left her nine shots behind leader
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    • 254 58 ANNIKA SORENSTAM (No 1 women's {oiftr)! I've got utmost resepct for her game. She's young; she can only get better. She has a great future ahead of her and I think she is the sign of a new generation. CRAIG BOWDENfWIe's playing partner at the
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    • 1181 59  -  GOLF: MICHELLE WIE REPORTS BRIAN MILLER THEY are calling her names. Like the Big Wiesy. And because it does sound rather wimpy, any other teenage girl would loathe such a label. Not Michelle Wie. The nicknames sit easy with the gangling teenager. After all, she
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    • 965 60 EURO KICKOFF: SPANISH CUP ...MORE ON SPANISH CUP Wire Services. Reuters. REAL MADRID 3 VALENCIA 0 THE talking point was David Beckham, getting the marching orders for the first time in four years. But the late Beckham drama aside, manager Carlos Queiroz hailed the attitude of
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    • 92 60 Wire Services SEVILLA moved to the brink of a place in thejpng's Cup*-semi-finals with this fongoal smasher. SeviUjjHpd three tjme%in 10 minutesaWay through the first halt AnUft left Ailetico Madrid bereftrtMßl mountain to climb in next wtife&gSfecond-leg. Sevillajßario Silva opened the Burgos should have kept out. Jose
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    • 386 61  -  ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com. sg DAVID Beckham bends those beauties into goal with his right leg but now, the footballing world knows he does it balancing himself on a shorter left leg. Earlier in the week, he revealed that medical tests with Real Madrid before
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      186 61 Most people will go through not knowing they have one leg shorter than the other. I came across two footballers when I was with the Australian Institute of Sport. They were similar cases to Beckham's but they were females, when they were preparing for the 1995 World
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    • 2424 63 GONG XI FA CM! It's a time for celebration as we usher in the year of the Golden Monkey. But what does the new lunar year have in store for football's top personalities? WANG MENG MENG runs the rule over the 12 Chinese zodiac signs.
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    • 815 64 IN the past in England, footballers might have gobbled down a big, fried breakfast or even tucked into a roast dinner before a football match. But in the new era of professional football, the diet of modern players has been radically
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    • 484 66 HOW THE MATCH WENT: CARLING CUP (Semi Final, 1st leg) BOLTON 5 ASTON VILLA 2 PA Sport. JAY-JAY Okocha gave the Bolton supporters a farewell performance to remember before departing for the African Nations Cup. The Nigerian playmaker is expected to be away for a month
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    • 480 67 CARLING CUP (Semi Final, 1st leg) BOLTON 5 ASTONVILLA 2 PA Sport. BOLTON manager Sam Allardyce gave a rousing vote of thanks to Jay-Jay Okocha for putting club before country. The inspirational skipper scored twice one a wonder goal in the 5-2 victory against Aston Villa in
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    • 1237 68 WOLVES 1 LIVERPOOL 1 ...MORE ON WOLVES -LIVERPOOL PA Sport. KENNY Miller struck to boost Wolverhampton Wanderers' hopes of Premiership survival and dent Liverpool's Champions League hopes at Molineux. The Scot, whose goal beat Manchester United on Saturday, rifled in a last-minute equaliser
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      422 69 Wire Services. \'\i IK, been given the No 9 jersey made famous by Sir Bobby Charlton. That's how high Man United regard Louis Saha. And the Frenchman, who was signed for £10.5 million ($31 million) from Fulham, has vowed to emulate the Old Trafford heroes who have worn it.
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