The New Paper, 17 February 2004

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    30 1 the new paper TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2004 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 70 CENTS 8 $tw 1
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Rwandan mum yearns for 'a better place'
      1091 2  -  Sought visas for Australia, India. Now in S'pore By Michael Lee and Sim Chi Yin tnp@sph.com.sg THEIR glorious-sounding names evoke joy and heaven. But it is doubtful Madam Magnifique Nyiramihanda and her three-year-old daughter Paradis have come close to such emotions of late.
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      Lock icon Singapore's stand on refugees
      175 2 SINGAPORE does not offer asylum ChSkJ^ta 1 f I|*|| reiterated the Republic's stance when it told The New Paper: "Singapore welcomes law-abiding. foreigners who come here through' legal channels for business, study or leisure. We do not determine a person's stay based on his daims'to be
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    • Article
      Lock icon Her fate at home?
      122 2 MAGNIFIQUE Nyiramihanda will return to an uncertain situation in Rwanda. That's the take of Ms Alison Des Forges of Human Rights Watch, after interviewing Ma'dam Magnifique Nyiramihanda twice on the line from New York last week. Ms Des Forges a historian and senior adviser (Africa Division)
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      Lock icon Trouble in Rwanda
      200 2 IT WAS the fastest u Rwandans Tutsis and moderate Hutus wire killed in 100 d*ys between April and June 1994, according to the BBC. A long-running ethnic tension between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis who i make up about 10 per cent of Rwanda's 8-million population
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon He drives me crazy, with or without a car
    771 3  -  SINGAPORE B> Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg WITH Romancing Singapore 2004 in full swing, and the fact that more young people are driving cars, you could be forgiven for thinking a car is essential for that X-factor. But whatever mode of travel you
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  • HEWS
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      Lock icon 'We fired so much our guns became hot'
      523 4  -  Indon navy sinks boat hiiacfcad bv rah*!* 151 Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg WHEN the Indonesian navy ships saw 11 fishermen jump off their boat in the middle of the sea, they knew something was wrong. Soon they were trading fire with armed hijackers,
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    • Article
      Lock icon They wanted to buy fish?
      219 4 THE hijackers may have pretended to buy fish but in fact they wanted to buy weapons. Mr Noel Choong, regional manager of the International Maritime Bureau's (1MB) Piracy Reporting Centre, said the hijackers may have boarded the boat on the pretext of wanting to buy
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    Lock icon Shop manager is just 17
    422 6  -  SINGAPORE By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg r t# 1 litH, HE'S only 17, but he hWs been juggling his studies and a job managing his father's clothing store for months. That's a lot of work for this N-level dropout from St Andrew's Secondary School. But it's
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      257 6 ■2004 intake LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts introduces a new academic structure that allows you to progress seamlessly from Foundation up to BA (Hons). You may choose to graduate at Level 2 with a Diploma or continue to Level 3 and earn a BA (Hons). To develop your ideas, your
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  • MALAYSIA'S 'HARMONY NS'
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      Lock icon When girls go off to camp... ... Mum just can't let go
      214 7 When girls go off to camp... Mum just can't let go TEARS pouring down cheeks. Fond hugs. Frayed nerves. And in some cases, just an emotionless hand wave. Scenes like these were aplenty yesterday in different parts of Malaysia. All 26,000 teenage trainees left for their camps on the first
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      Lock icon But girls just want to have fun
      350 8 SOME are worried. Others are looking forward to the outdoor activities at the camp. And given the facilities* the girls are definitely going to have fun. Ms Kwa Bee Kee of Cheras told The Star: "I am a bit sad to part with
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      Lock icon Boy's mum gels anxious
      574 9  -  When girls go off to camp, mum just can't let go. While... By. Joycelyn Wong and Azhar Ghani tnp@sph.com. sg ITS a coming-of-age ritual that Singaporean parents have got used to. With national service an established part of life here, they're used to seeing their boys
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  • ASK DR MONEY
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      650 13  -  DR MONEY LARRY HAVERKAMP Mail@AskDr Money.com PART II: UNIT TRUSTS AND FUNDS PICKING THE BEST FUNDS LAST week, I showed you how experts are no more successful at picking stocks than the rest of us. Mr Roger Ng from Tampines comments: "Last week,
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      60 13 If past performance is out, what is in? Answer: Costs. It is the only variable under your control that will drastically affect long-run returns. Based on this criteria, the chart above is my selection of the 10 best funds from the 400 approved by CPF for.
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Sedated, put on wheelchair, and sent home
      474 14 SRI LANKAN REFUGEE IN NEW ZEALAND Girl, 16, flees home because of alleged sex abuse Seeks asylum in NZ, but asylum refused after 2 years THE Sri Lankan girl and her grandmother were desperate to flee what they described as persecution and abuse
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      Lock icon Fence up border with Malaysia
      366 15 forswAj^M^ THE order to put up fences came after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra had a three-hour meeting with top security officials yesterday. He hopes that by doing so it will prevent separatists hiding out there crossing back to cause trouble in the deep South, the
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon US politician wants to be president of Romania
      320 19 Reuters. THE bright lights of Las Vegas are going to Romania and US Republican Lia Roberts (right) is promising to take them there. The 54-year-old, who left Romania more than 20 years ago, burst onto the Balkan country's political scene yesterday, declaring
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    • Article
      Lock icon Teen finds out on Net mum kidnapped him 14 years ago
      231 20 HE was trawling the Internet in school. Then the 17-year-old stumbled upon his photograph on a website and onto a greater shock. He learned he might have been abducted from his father 14 years ago, reported the Edmonton Sim.
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Gandhi V Gandhi
      318 22 India's politicaljy elite Gandhi family splits as late Indian PM's grandson joins rival BJP party HE said he would not like to speak against his politically-active cousins. But Mr Varun Gandhi may just have to do that as he joins India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It's
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      Lock icon FEEL-GOOD FACTOR
      83 22 TRADITIONALLY, elections in India deal with issues that stir the emotions: Caste, religion, patriotism or Pakistan. But this year, the hot issue is the economy. Even as the BJP takes credit for the 8.1 per cent GDP growth estimated for this year, the main opposition the Congress argues
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      Lock icon 'It's not stealing since we put office data together'
      340 23 7 in 10 UK workers polled think e-mailing company information to personal accounts when they leave is justified THEY used to swipe just a pencil or two from the company as they left the office for the last time. But now,
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      Lock icon iPod designer beats Harry Potter author to top list
      333 24 TOP 50 CULTURAL MOVERS AND SHAKERS IN BRITAIN: WHEN it comes to having an impact on British culture, the creator of wizards seems to stand no chance against the wizard designer. Author J K Rowling and Golden Globe winning actor Ricky
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      Lock icon Boy falls 6 floors and lives
      236 25 No broken bones, minor injuries HE awoke and found himself alone. So the 4-year-old went looking for mum. He leaned out of a window... Said a neighbour: "I heard a big bang and found the boy sitting on the canopy outside. He was conscious
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      231 26 So stop selling Grey album of remixed Beatles tunes y v DJ told IT may be called The Grey Album, but it was no grey area for record company EMI. The company has clamped down hard on the deejay who remixed The Beatles' White Album and rapper
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  • Article
    Lock icon Senior state official in secretary-kissing outrage
    346 27 Police called in after Malacca official allegedly kisses married subordinate and promises 'more to come' MALAYSIA A SENIOR State official in Malacca allegedly kissed his secretary on the cheek on Thursday, then said he had more in store for her. The 24-year-old woman and
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon Shop till you drop? You will if upward trend continues
      290 28 RETAILERS are smiling all the way to the bank. December was a good month for them. And the upward trend in retail sales is likely to continue. Because consumers are in a good mood too. They rushed to beat the
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      Lock icon Model agency bankrupt
      178 28 AFP ELITE Model Management Corp of New York, the modelling agency that launched the careers of Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell (right) and Cindy Crawford, has filed for bankruptcy. Faced with a barrage of legal challenges, Elite filed for bankruptcy protection against its creditors last week, citing the
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      53 28 STORE COMPANIES ONNASPAQ (CloseinUSS/Change) pacific Internet 10.729/+0.339 Jn C D hn logy Rextronics 18.6/-0.38 Chartered Semiconductor 10.28/-0.09 Stats 11.58/+0.179 Yesterday s Percentage n Close action change Dow Down 0.62% (66.22 pts) 10,627.85 Nasdaq Down 0.97% (20.05 pts) 2,053.56 S+P 500 Down 0.55% (6.3 pts) 1,145.81 sti Down 0.14%
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      Lock icon New taxi perks
      79 28 WET towels, a choice of music and clean, ionised air those are the free perks that new player Premier Taxi is hoping will make it stand out against the growing fleet of taxis on the road. Its fleet of metallic silver taxis, which it has nicknamed Silvercabs,
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      Lock icon Asthma on global rise
      71 28 THREE hundred million people now have asthma and a worldwide study expects 100 million more sufferers in 20 years' time. A rapidly-urbanising Asia will be the most badly affected. In Singapore, one in five children 16 years and younger is asthmatic, a dramatic rise in just
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      Lock icon Bird flu compensation
      59 28 EMPLOYEES working with chickens whether in farms or in labs who contract bird flu while on the job now qualify for compensation. This follows amendments to the Workmen's Compensation Act which took effect yesterday. Compensation is payable to manual labourers regardless of their salary, and to non-manual
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      Lock icon Association to boost ties
      59 28 MALAYSIANS who are Singapore permanent residents have formed the Malaysia Association (Singapore). The objective of the non-political, non-religious and non-ethnic association is to work closely with Singaporeans to improve bilateral ties. It will recruit members among the 200,000 to 500,000 Malaysians who work here to promote
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      Lock icon Star Hub IPO pitch
      73 28 STARHUB has asked five investment banks to draw up proposals for handling an initial public offering that may raise $700 million, the largest here this year. ING, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston and ÜBS Warburg were reportedly invited for a pitch. Sources say
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      Lock icon Banks assess flexi-wage
      66 28 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore is leaving it to the banks to see how recent flexiwage recommendations affect their credit assessments for credit cards and home loans. Banks say they will still look at borrowers' regular income to determine cash flow, affordability and ability to repay before
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  • Hey!
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      Lock icon Not afraid to be sexy, naughty, bitchy
      903 29  -  Sbowtimt&Lifestyiel THAI SINGER TATA YOUNG: By Yeoh Wee Teck u>eeteck@sph. com.sg THE gossip and public backlash would easily crush a lesser star, but Thai singer Tata Young is still smiling and living it up. In November, Thailand was gripped by news that she
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      Lock icon She's excited about English album
      231 29 I BELIEVE will be the first of Tata's albums to be released in Singapore, even though she has sold at least 12 million albums at home (and this is in a country that used to be a pirated goods haven!). A singer since 14, she's
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      Lock icon Blue: Bread and butter
      480 30  -  By Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg BLUE hasn't been feeling all that blue about the bad press that has plagued the group. Even the fact that it was glaringly omitted from this year's Brit Awards doesn't upset the members, or so Duncan James and Lee Ryan claim at
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      Lock icon Babes: Suga and spice
      468 31  -  By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg Sugababes. often seen cavorting in skimpy clothes in music videos and live performances, the British girl band sells big on sex appeal. Its mission seems to be to spice up the pop scene, now that Atomic Kitten has announced its split. But
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      843 43 LAST SUNDAY RACE 1: MAGIC WIND and FULLCHAMP raced poorly. IMPERIAL DECREE cast his near-fore plate and SHANGHAI KNIGHT cast his off-hind plate. RACE 2: HK Lim replaced Y Aify (certified unwell) on BULLET EXPRESS. A Cavallo was fined RM2OO ($9O) for failing
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      847 44 GOLF: CALTEX SINGAPORE MASTERS WHEN it was announced at a .media conference that Colin Montgomerie and Michael Campbell were going to headline next month's Caltex Masters Presented by Carlsberg, there was a murmur through the room. It wasn't a buzz of appreciation. It was, on the
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      547 45 GOLF: BUICK INVITATIONAL WINNER JOHN DALY Wire Services. THE night before John Daly went out to play the final round of the Buick Invitational, he received an important telephone call. His 11-year-old daughter, Shynah, was on the line from Florida and she said to
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      740 46  -  By Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph. com.sg HOLD your horses. There is a possibility of Malaysia Cup fever returning, but it will not happen in the immediate future. Several important questions have been raised and these need to be answered before any real deal
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      745 47  -  COMMENT B\ Ernest 1 -r is Ernest Luis ii ()s ports f sf)h. com. s# THE fever will not be the same. And even if the bug bites, the temperature will not reach those dizzy heights. But. overtime. It could catch
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      388 47 ERNEST LUIS asks those who were 10 or younger when Singapore won the Malaysia Cup in 1994 Nursflah Dahlan, 19, Real Madrid lan: I remember that final of 1994.1 was glued to the TV set. After that, I watched Geylang Utd for a while before losing
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      827 48  -  LAST WEEKEND'S TOP TIPS: A REVIEW By Brian Miller npsports@sph.com.sg ON Saturday, a bull-headed Man U player almost dug a grave for the followers of the English game. And on Sunday, a Spanish matador danced in a London bullring to bring cheers from that same group
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        448 49 PA Sport. JOHN Terry (above) maintained Chelsea would not suffer a costly hangover from their latest FA Cup defeat by Arsenal. And he has vowed to keep the Blues' title bid on track in next weekend's Premiership rematch. Chelsea's pain at having been eliminated from
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        155 49 PA Sport. MANCHESTER United defender Gary Neville has admitted he "made a mistake" when he head-butted Steve McManaman a bad-tempered FA Cup fifth-round tie against Manchester City at Old Traffbrd on Saturday. Neville, who had a penalty appeal turned down, clashed with the City
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        580 50 ARSENAL S IT AFP, PA Sport. DENNIS Bergkamp insisted that Arsenal remain undaunted by another all-Premiership encounter as they go in pursuit of a record fourth consecutive FA Cup final appearance. The Gunners have been drawn away to face either Portsmouth or
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        449 50 PA Sport. LIVERPOOL'S FA Cup draw against Portsmouth has left Gerard Houllier searching desperately for positives and in Steven Gerrard (below), they are not difficult to find. Pompey boss Harry Redknapp described the Anfield skipper as "an amazing player." Sadly, Liverpool do not have enough like
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      301 51 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES AUSTRALIA PA Sport. FOR backing out of Australia's friendly clash with Venezuela on Thursday, Socceroo Mark Viduka is to be banned from playing for Leeds against Man United on Saturday as a Fifa-sanctioned reprisal. Leeds are now in talks with the Australian
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      104 51 AFP. GERMAN national coach Rudi Voeller and England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson have forged an alliance to oppose Fifa's plan to restrict the number of substitutes allowed in friendly matches. Fifa believe the use of mass substitutions in warm-up games is unfair on the paying spectators and devalues
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      371 51 GERMANY: Bayern Munich playmaker Michael Ballack has pulled out of Germany's friendly match against Croatia tomorrow because of bronchitis. But three other midfielders are making their comeback to the squad after long-term injuries Liverpool's Dietmar Hamann, Dortmund's Torsten Frings and Bochum's Paul Freier. German coach Rudi Voeller also
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        694 52 Wire Services, PA Sport. ENGLAND captain David Beckham (left) believes his team have put behind them last year's selection rows between the players and the Football Association and are fully focused on Euro 2004. "We are on the right road now to getting things
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        618 52 FRANK MALLEY: PA Sport. IT was in the frantic aftermath of England's World Cup defeat against Brazil in Shizuoka that the dignity and poise of David Beckham shone like a beacon of hope for English football. While David Seaman was blubbing his
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        531 52 AFP, PA Sport. JOHN Terry set his sights on emerging from the friendly in Portugal as the central defensive rock upon which Sven-Goran Eriksson can place his Euro 2004 trust. Eriksson has been hit by a swathe of central defensive withdrawals, with Rio Ferdinand suspended, while
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        480 53 EXCLUSIVE DAVID BECKHAM WARNS OF PORTUGAL'S KEY MEN: ENGLAND have to be on their toes when they handle Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo. The warning comes from David Beckham as he heaped praise on the two playmakers ahead of England's friendly international against Portugal. Ironically, Figo was overheard,
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        249 53 THE big question: Where will Beckham play? On the right or in the centre of midfield? "It is a different job playing in the middle than on the right wing because you get more touches of the ball and you can look for it all over
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      442 54 Wire Services. A SECOND Yorkshire-based consortium are "not far off' from making a bid for debt-ridden Leeds. The group have spent the last few weeks working with corporate finance experts Zeus Capital to put together a rescue package and are almost in position to
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      531 54 Wire Services. MANCHESTER United supporters have accused Malcolm Glazer of drawing up a statement "as clear the new offside rule". begins to grow, fans fjpftah adamant that a takeover tanft&roe aljgwed to happen. Billionaire American businessman Glazer has refused to rule out a bid
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      533 55 JIBRIL Cisse cannot wait to forge II a strike partnership with Michael Owen at Liverpool next season. The 22-year-old striker, now with Auxerre, has been fingered as a Reds target. He believes he and Owen could be a deadly team assuming, of course, the England striker is
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