The New Paper, 28 March 2004

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  • 21 1 the new paper MARCH 28, 2004 MIDF Singapore Press Holdings on sunda/ Email: tnpi9sph.com.8fl S Hotline: 1800-^7^3AA 55 Hill 8 '*****1M***** >
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    • 41 1 ID evils' Henry headache: ARSENAL Special surprise tipster: Who will stop this menace? V Who does he pick? MAN U Picture/HEDY KHOO wmmmmmmmmmmM JaV| AV/#] y| Jj g S'pore men are not picky Plump, flat-chested, plain? No problem Pa r 12
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  • NEWS
    • 155 2 Yellow or brown outside, white inside QUESTION FOR YOUNG S'POREANS Chinese, Malay and Tamil is taught in schools to ensure that we remain grounded in our Asian culture and values. But how do the young view their cultural identity? CELINE LIM and TAN MAE LYNN find
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    • 117 3 Ong Li Ting, 15, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School, said: "I feel rooted because I learn the history of China in Chinese class. "Also when I can communicate with those in my ethnic group, I feel a certain sense of belonging." Cindy Yap, 15, from Outram Secondary School,
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    • 101 3 Some dismiss the role of second language in school. Like Hui Ting, 18, from Singapore Polytechnic, who said: "From young to now, even though I've been learning second language, I don't feel more rooted in my culture. "It doesn't have anything to do with culture. It's just
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    • 273 3 For 16-year-old Nuraishah Saip, the language she learnt in school has determined the culture to which she feels more rooted in. Nuraishah said her father is Malay and her mother is Chinese, so her IC states her race as Malay. But because she had studied Chinese, she feels
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    • 166 3 Language is an important aspect of culture, but it's not the only thing that defines it, academics and politicians told The New Paper on Sunday. Dr Liu Hong, a National University of Singapore (NUS) researcher on the Chinese diaspora, said: "Language is not the only component of cultural
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    • 70 3 Language does not always play a big part in appreciating culture, noted some observers. As Mr Chong noted: "Peranakans don't speak (Mandarin) but they still practise many of the rituals inherited from their forefathers." Similarly, many Singaporean Indians might not speak their mother tongue well but
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      64 3 American-born Chinese THEY'RE ethnic Chinese born in the US, usually to parents with professional or academic backgrounds. ABCs are absorbed into English-speaking environment of the US from the moment they start schooling. Although many first-generation ABCs can still speak Chinese, many of them are not able to read
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      67 3 S'pore-born Chinese THEY'RE Singapore citizens who are ethnically Chinese, but whose main language of communication is English or Singlish. SBCs have to study Mandarin as a mother tongue in school, but many do not speak or write the language outside of the classroom. They may pick up some
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    • 569 4  -  Mind your tongue COMMENT/ Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg REGRETS I've had a few, and then again too few to mention that's how I feel about being almost monolingual. I grew up in an English-speaking household, and do not know how to write my name in
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    • 749 6  -  FATHER OF GIRL, 12, CHANGES HIS SEX AND MARRIES A MAN REPORTS JOYCE LIM joycd@sph.com.sg SHE was once the husband of a woman. Now, she is the wife of a man. Confused? Even her 12-year-old daughter from her first marriage has yet to figure
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    • 388 6 MS ZHANG and Mr Yang are planning to hold their customary wedding ceremony in May. And they are inviting anyone in China who has undergone a sex-change operation, reported Huaxi Daily. On a specially-prepared red invitation card, Ms Zhang wrote: "Hello
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    • 66 7 He doesn't like other men staring at girlfriend's breasts, which are almost as big as Ann Poh's He offered to pay for wife's breast enhancement but was upset when she spent $4,000 HEADTURNER: Channel U artiste Ann Pohla well-known for being well-endowed. FILE PICTURE
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    • 366 8  -  REPORT LOW CHING LING lowd@*ph.com.sf HIS girlfriend is constantly the target of lascivious stares and wolf-whistles. And It irks him sometimes. Mr P H Koh's girlfriend of eight years, Miss Laura Cheng, 27, is rather well-endowed. The petite woman, who stands at 1.52 m, has a
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    • 123 8 FIGURES from the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) showed that last year there were 553 complaints about beauty treatments and products, though very few cases were related to breast enhancement. In 2000, there was a case of breast enhancement which went for mediation. MrThevanathan Pillay, Case's assistant director
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    • 664 8  -  REPORT KAREN WONG kmtnQtph.eoaisg TRICIA is pretty, slim and leggy. But she wanted more. Specifically, she wanted bigger breasts than her current A cup. In January, with about six months before her customary wedding ceremony for which she is wearing a gown with a bustier she
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    • 523 9 o 'Women can be so mean' HELPLESS MAN Last month, a doctor went on trial for corruption after his angry wife reported him to the police following a contentious divorce. LOW CHING LING (lowd@sph.com.sg) takes a look at how more men have become the targets of
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    • 659 9 False allegations vicious e-mail More scorned women turning nasty IT'S usually the women who are the vindictive ones in divorce cases, lawyers noted. Statistics show that out of 23,198 marriages last year, a record number of them failed with 5,825 i divorces and annulk ments filed meaning A one in
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    • 532 9 HIS kids cry when they see him. He's convinced his ex-wife has turned his children against him. They even think he tries to poison their food. A few times, his wife set the police on him. All because she wanted custody of their children and
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    • 1093 10  -  L NEW) j O ■kjl Why are they so desperate? SEX-STARVED MAN Undergrad is plain, plump and walks with a limp. Yet, 20 men paid 100 each to sleep with her COMMENT TAN MAE LYNN fhndkf ARE Singapore men discerning when it comes
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    • 582 12  -  0 Intn# j WIJM Why are they so like that? SEX-STARVED MAN By Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg SHE sent out 32,000 flyers looking for her missing pet dog and what she received was obscene messages and requests for sex. Miss Eve Chan, 29, distributed
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    • 138 12 HERE'S a contrary view of Singapore men from one who deals with them nightly. Singapore men are not desperate, she said. On the contrary, they are a choosy lot, said a 40-year-old mamasan who wants to be known only as Rina. She works in
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    • 842 16  -  S'PORE WOMAN ON HER THREE ABORTIONS REPORTS NG WAN CHING djdhf AS a teen and young adult, Ms Ong had always thought she wanted babies. It was her plan
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      700 17 S'PORE WOMAN ON ABORTIONS FOR most of her adult life, lawyer Kang Bee Leng, 43, viewed kids with some disdain. She disliked their whining, the way they pressed all the buttons in the lifts, and most of all their constant demands for attention. Then in 1997, her sister
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    • 377 18  -  Here comes the publicity By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph. com.sg YOU can get a lot out of other people's weddings especially celebrity unions because riding on the bliss could work wonders for a company's bottomline. The Evelyn Tan/Darren Lim afterglow has done wonders for
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    • 478 19  -  PICTURES HEDY KHOO tnp@sph.com.sg THEY are as different as night and day, so it seemed appropriate that Evelyn Tan and Darren Lim exchanged their wedding vows in the early evening. At spm yesterday, by the beach at Sentosa, under a windless
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    • 174 19 THE sponsored wedding is not a new fad. Here are some of the more memorable ones: Nov 11,1994: Yang Libing and Li Nanxing Nearly everything was sponsored when Nanxing got married even their Australian honeymoon. And they returned to a home with sponsored lights and furniture. Dec 30,1997:
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    • 733 20 TITAN IN THE '80S, FAILURE IN THE'9OS, GEN-X ICON IN 2004 HE was so famous in the '80s for the feud between his flamboyant ex-wife and model mistress I that his remarkable achievements in i business were 1 largely overshadW owed. B Now, despite a H hairstyle
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    • 442 20 1. Dress for your culture I used to pride myself on buying inexpensive suits and other clothing. Over the years, I've learned this is wrong. I now buy very high-quality shoes and they seem to last forever, whereas the cheapos used to wear out
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    • 223 22 Row, false imprisonment, foul language among claims THE lead singer of Irish band Cranberries is being sued by her child's nanny for being allegedly falsely imprisoned following a furious row with the family. Dolores O'Riordan (left), front woman for one of Ireland's best-selling bands, and
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    • 420 23 SADDAM'S CAPTURE SADDAM Hussein managed to evade capture by the US despite a concerted effort by its armed forces but ultimately he fell into its hands thanks to betrayal by a relative who was also one of his closest bodyguards. This will be revealed on Panorama, a
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  • 481 25 Desperate Asians involved in scams to stay in NZ NEWS SHE responded to a newspaper ad that offered to help people get job offers. Instead, what she got was a proposal to get her a fake job offer for a cool
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  • NEWS
    • 246 30 HE is the second youngest person to have called the emergency number in Queensland, Australia. Aiden McDonald is only 3. But that call saved his mother's life. His mother Jeanine McDonald, 29, collapsed on Thursday night during an epileptic seizure reported the Australian
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    • 274 31 A 6-YEAR-OLD boy was killed in Tokyo when his head was crushed in a revolving door at the Mori Tower building in the Roppongi Hills complex. TVo girls were reportedly injured by the same door last year. Little Ryo Mizokawa and his mother were on a
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    • 227 33 M'sian PM's cabinet PRIME Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi kept most of his predecessor's top aides in place when he announced his Cabinet yesterday. Opposition critics had challenged him to leave out some of the top officials from Dr Mahathir Mohamad's 22-year rule because of corruption allegations,
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    • 216 33 Young PAP school to teach values A "Young PAP school" is to be set up for members to learn about the party's values, culture and history. "If we don't have old values as a reference point, we will get lost and... bring this country to ruin,"
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    • at a glance
      • 128 33 Snapshots of the main news to save you time MILITANTS linked to Al-Qaeda have executed eight Pakistani soldiers taken hostage in fighting near the Afghan border, officials said. President Pervez Musharraf said his government was determined to act strongly against Al-Qaeda fighters, blaming them for a spate of
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      • 125 33 A BOMB hidden in a motorcycle has wounded about 30 people in southern Thailand, a police spokesman said. The bomb exploded outside a bar and hotel in Narathiwat province, which has been under martial law since armed raiders stole weapons from an army camp in January, killing
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      • 114 33 WOMEN have been arrested for wearing the veil in largely Muslim southern Somalia's Middle Shabbelle region. "Seventeen women have been arrested for defying a decree that banned women from wearing the Muslim veil," said a spokesman for the region, controlled by warlord Mohamed Omar Habeb. Independent sources
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      • 133 33 HALF a million people swarmed into Taipei yesterday to protest against the results of last weekend's presidential poll, despite hints from China that the turmoil might give it a reason to take control of Taiwan. They listened to losing candidate Lien Chan repeating
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    • 856 36  -  SUNDAY# YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND o M MACHO MAN Be still, our hearts. After Takeshi Kaneshiro last year and Jerry Yan in January, Korean dreamboat Bae Yong Jun is the latest star to stir up a storm with his arrival in Singapore. But why do
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    • 271 37 Fiona Xie, 22 FHM Ranking: Fourth "Pierre Png. He's the whole package deal. He has boy-next-door good looks and also a very self-sacrificing scar on his stomach. And Zhang Yaodong too, he has the height and he will stand
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    • 841 38 o M MACHO MAN Do you think you are a stud? "I don't think I am. (chuckles nervously) This is a question that maybe you should ask fans and not me. It's a bit awkward for me to answer! Maybe (Li) Nanxing is more like a
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    • 296 38 THERE are a few local male celebs who could qualify as heart-throbs. MediaCorp actor Christopher Lee's name came up most often. Both Mr Darien Choong and David Gan believe Christopher has the potential to make it big, if he were to be managed by the Taiwanese
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    • 746 39  -  EDWIN YEO tnp@sph.com.sg SOMEONE told me recently that there are only two kinds of news in the newspaper bad and worse. Rubbish. I flipped through our local papers this week and found plenty of good news. For instance, you know how we are all so concerned
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    • 629 40  -  SIVA CHOY MERVYN'S biggest complaint about the upgrading of his flat some years ago has nothing to do with his creaking window. He just wishes the upgraders had also divided his bathroom into two sections so that he could have one separate from
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    • 319 41  -  AGGIE tnp@tphcom.tg I AM a 45-year-old mother. My husband deserted me and our son a year ago. But before he left, he infected me with chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease. Then he left me to fend for myself and seek treatment for
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    • 496 42 Confused Girl is in Secondary 4 this year and will be graduating soon. She thinks three of her group of five friends are hypocrites. Things were fine when they were in Secondary 2. In Secondary 3, Confused Girl and two of her friends went
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  • RACING
    • 392 48  -  By Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg RACE-GOERS who had their eyes peeled for Kranji-based jockey Din Azis yesterday came away with more than just small change. The 31-year-old, making his first foray up north, had five rides in the card of eight races at Kuala Lumpur. After
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    • 530 52 SINGAPORE is virtually a lightning conductor. Because it lies near the Equator, the hot and humid weather favours lightning producing thunderstorm clouds. Records on deaths caused by lightning strikes from the National Environment Agency show an average of 1.7 deaths per million population as
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    • 191 52 THE safety of our facility users is of prime importance to the Singapore Sports Council (SSC). Our stadiums are fitted with lightning arrestors. These are located at each floodlight tower the highest points in the stadium. The stadium's grandstand is similarly protected against lightning strikes. SSC continually searches
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    • 590 53 SPORT: THE LIGHTNING THREAT Sinchi footballer Jiang Tao was struck by lightning three weeks ago. What was he like and how did he end up in Singapore? ADRIAN CHAN finds out HE sat proudly representing Sinchi FC at an S-League sponsorship announcement late last month. Jiang
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    • 367 54  -  By Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph. com.sg ITS the hottest show in Singapore but fret not if you don't have a ticket to catch Singapore's World Cup Qualifier against Japan. The match, to be played on March 31, is a complete sell-out but to cater to the
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      • 414 55 PA Sport. MIKAEL Forssell sympathised with Bryan Hughes after denying his Birmingham team-mate a hat-trick in the 4-1 mauling of Leeds. Hughes had netted twice and Forssell had also hit the target as Birmingham led 3-1 when they were awarded a penalty following
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      • 1276 58  -  Manchester City 0 Fulham 0 MAN CITY: James, Jihai, Dunne, Distin, Tarnat, Wright-Phillips, Bosvelt, Reyna, Sibierski (Sinclair 80), Anelka (Wanchope 64), Fowler (Macken 64). Subs (not used): Arason, Barton. Booked: Distin. FULHAM: Van der Sar, Volz, Knight, Goma, Bocanegra, Djetou, Malbranque, Davis, Pembridge, Boa Morte, Hayles
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      • 278 58  -  Southampton 1 Tottenham 0 Delap (64) SOUTHAMPTON: Ntemi, Dodd, Lundekvam, Higginbotham, Telfer, Femandes (Ormerod 76), Delap, Prutton, Folly, Phillips (Svensson 76), Beattie. Subs (not used): Smith, Hall, Pahars. TOTTENHAM: Keller, Carr, Doherty, Gardner, Jackson (Redknapp 45), Brown (Dalmat 77), King, Keane, Ziege
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        618 59  -  CHELSEA 5 (Mario Melchiot 4th min, Frank Lampard 70, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 78,87,90) WOLVES 2 (Henri Camara 23, Jody Craddock 58) Crowd: 41,215 By Alvin Chua npsports@sph.com.sg PEOPLE often say the Premiership is the most competitive league in the world. It's a league when bottom can best
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      • 223 59 PA Sport. HOW THE MATCH WENT: JIMMY Floyd Hasselbaink celebrated his 32nd birthday by coming off the bench and blasting a 12-minute hat-trick, including his 100th Premiership goal. The Dutchman's treble saved manager Claudio Ranieri from coming under even more pressure as Chelsea
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        80 60 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's three goals last night, which brought his personal tally to 102 goals in the Premiership, may not only have his stay at Stamford Bridge but also that of his boss Claudio Ranieri as well THE CENTURY MAN HEAD 14 RIGHT 70 LEFT 18 INSIDE 63 OUTSIDE
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      • 904 67 SIR Alex Ferguson came out swinging at deadly rival Arsene Wenger last night. He claimed Wenger's cocky Arsenal stars were "taught some manners" last season by Manchester United's dramatic league win. And in a defiant response to Arsenal's magnificent season, pumped-up Ferguson confessed his pioneering players
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      • 734 69 ITS a simple question: How do you stop Thierry Henry? Arsenal's hit-man is having a phenomenal season, leaving behind a trail of destruction in the Premiership and Champions League. Tonight, it's Manchester United's turn to face the magical Frenchman. But can the Red Devils keep the
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