The New Paper, 1 May 2004

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  • 31 1 the new paper SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2004 Singapore Press Holdings I Website: newpaperasia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 ItoH ugH
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    • 1108 2  -  No age limit, no dress code, no minimum income. HDB casino breaks all the rules By! Tan May Ping mayping@sph. com.sg THERE'S a place in the heartlands where HDB void decks sometimes double as casinos. And where the gamblers turn up in singlets and slippers. People refer to
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    • 543 4  -  FROM PAGE 2 By Tan May Ping mayping@sph.com.sg SOME residents at Block 17 are not pleased with the gambling that goes on at their void deck. And they doat want a casino to be built in their HDB estate. The New Paper reported on Apr
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    • 177 4 THE police are aware of .the gatherings at the void deck of Block 17 Hougang Avenue 3. They have responded to calls from the public, said police spokesman Karen Chen. The police have checked out the group and told them not to cause any disturbance. "On
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 602 6  -  By Rachel Cheng xinhui@sph. com.sg HER daughter had a "reputation" even before the "soft-cover book" incident involving ex-Nan Chiau High principal Ng Lee Huat. And the mother of the Secondary 2 student who made the police report believes that may have had something to do with
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    • 127 6 MR TAN SOON YONO, Principal off Mdt Batok Secondary He was the one who offered to step down and MOE accepted his offer. I don't want to question his judgement. But if you ask me whether it is a waste for him to step down, I would say
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    • 120 6 MIWI KELVIN SAY, 38, financial adMoor I think he shouldn't step down. To me this is i a small incident. He hit a child, so what? He was trying to discipline th%students. I don't > think it was right of the girl to call the police, WITAY
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    • 77 6 iWIiyqWOMO, M, tum—lt—chf, I think the principal was right to step down at this stage, but if the matter wasn't blown up, he could have just apologised. I don't think thethe girl should have made a police report, since there was no serious injury. BMH MXAHYKO, 46) Cftrtivt
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    • 198 6 ONQ SHIXINQ, 16, Sm 5 student at Guangyang Secondary School It's not the principal's fault, why should he resign? The students were in the wrong but the teachers did not handle the matter well. Perhaps they should have used other methods of disciplining the students. The students shouldn't
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    • 614 6  -  By: Santokh Singh santokh@sph. com.sg THERE seems to be more bad behaviour in schools these days. And it has become common for students to challenge the authority of teachers, principals feel. Students spout vulgarities and pick fights, not only among themselves, but also with teachers. They
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    • 91 6 PRINCIPALS received firm backing from Acting Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who said in Parliament that they would continue HAave the autonomy to decide on issues such as discipline. The ministry will intervene only if the decisions are "quite unreasonable", he said. "The ministry is not in
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 345 7 We hit a rough patch but things are looking up PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong paid tribute to workers and unionists for helping Singapore rough out the turbulence of recent years in his annual May Day message yesterday. He said that thanks to their efforts, growth
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    • 335 7 They will testify about his role in Bali bombings MILITANT Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (left) has been betrayed by Jemaah Islamiah operatives who will testify to his role in the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, reported Australian Associated Press. A senior Indonesian police
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    • 75 7 CHINA reported its first death from Sars in nine months yesterday. The dead woman, surnamed Wei, was the mother of a researcher who became the first person to be confirmed as a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) patient in this latest outbreak. The confirmation that
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    • 75 7 NATIONAL serviceman Andrew Chew, 20, who collapsed and died during a 2.4 km run last year had a rare heart condition which can strike without warning and is difficult to detect, said forensic pathologist, Dr Clarence Tan who testified at an inquest. Investigations after his death also showed
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    • 82 7 THE body of 49-year-old Mr Loy Thuan Sai, who is unemployed, was found floating in the sea off Bedok jetty on Thursday morning. A fisherman interviewed by Lianhe Wanbao said the dead man often went to the jetty alone. Mr Loy was clad only in red
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    • 74 7 THE former chairman of the Pasir Ris Residents' Committee Zone 1, Samuel Ong Bor Hwee, 48, was jailed for six months for criminal breach of trust and cheating. He embezzled $6,000 by issuing cash cheques from the Residents' Committee bank account and cashing them himself, pocketed $4,800
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    • 74 7 BLINDNESS due to diabetes will rise if the condition known as diabetic retinopathy is not detected early enough. That's because diabetes affects 9 per cent of all adults here, one of the highest rates in the world. Diabetic retinopathy, which can be treated with medication and surgery, accounts
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    • 82 7 NEWTON Food Centre will close for eight months for a facelift, probably in December. The makeover of the 33-year-old landmark eating place and tourist attraction is part of the ongoing effort to improve hawker centres. There are no firm plans on its final look and the amount
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  • 954 9  -  Aver Raiah flf3lKttS worksite collapse By Faith Teo wenli@sph.com.sg HE loved his family so much that nothing was too much trouble for the Ayer Rajah Avenue construction foreman. Mr Lee Chee elder son, 21-year-old NSman Yan De, spoke to The New Paper yesterday about
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    • 267 10 Shameless liar or whistle-blower? We put footballer David Beckham's "other woman", Rebecca Loos, through the lie-detector. Well, sort of. Check out pages 40 and 41 for the results. <a T a 18 **»OI »ac»pr 'Tsra-r r a i .;k •%|T» un »i*JlC3 NOKIA 3200 NOKIA 3100 $198' $98 ■4SB raj
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    • 126 10 SINGAPORE Alter II years, daddy discovers... MY IS NOT W MY SON^^F DNA test reveals shocking truth of wife's one-night fling. His bitterness, her comeback, the boy's courage... All in The New Paper on Sunday. the newspaper on Sunday We c«apUt« your ««*k Get a copy throughout the da? at
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 630 12  -  Union leader takes up cause of late member's struggling family A May Day carnival will be held at the Esplanade's Waterfront Bay today. For those interested in finding out more about union membership, NTUC will have a booth at the carnival from 3pm
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    • 92 12 MEMBERSHIP has its benefits. And fortunately for Madam Noor and her children, they experienced this first hand. An NTUC spokesman told The New Paper it is common to find blue-collar workers who cannot afford insurance coverage because of its cost. OWLYSSAMOIffW She
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    473 15  -  Thai militants say stay away from tourist spots in south, but S'poreans are... NEWS By Azhar Ghani and Loh Wanyun tnp@sph.com.sg CANCEL that trip to Phuket and Hat Yai? That's what foreigners are being advised to do by militant separatist groups in southern Thailand. But Singaporeans seem to
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  • WORLD
    • 556 16 CHINA LOTTERY CONTROVERSY FIRST, they gave him a spanking new car and 120,000 yuan in cash ($24,690). The lottery organisers even let the teenage peasant take his new set of wheels out for a spin. He posed happily with the car for photographs for
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    • 317 17 Management makes pointed mention of maternity leave THE editor-in-chief of women's lifestyle bible Cosmopolitan, has jumped ship to run the rival women's title Elle. Ms Lorraine Candy attacked the owners of Cosmopolitan over their attitude to maternity leave. Ms Candy, has edited Cosmo for the
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    • 330 18 Wire services Reality tv seems to be going further and farther. It's been used to find dates, spouses, and now parents. A segment for the TV show 20/20, scheduled to be broadcast today, Singapore time, features five couples competing to adopt a child
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    • 504 19 INCREDIBLE JOURNEY: SHE was only 9 at the time, but little Erika Cruz-Romero's determination has won her many admirers in the US. She walked all the way from her home in El Salvador to the US to find her father whom she
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  • WORLD
    • 281 21 AP. A US toddler survived a near-freezing night beside her father's dead body after their car crashed and fell into a creek. Raylynn Scott, only 22 months old, had survived up to 30 hours outdoors. She suffered two broken ribs, a bruised lung, lacerated spleen,
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    • 542 22 Dying woman wants cure for genetic disease to save sons DENEANE Chiplock knows exactly how she will die. She even knows when before the year is over. The 39-year-old has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease*— and she knows what
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    • 483 23 TWO lawyers fighting viciously in the High Court is nothing unusual. But Mr Lawrence Jones and Miss Kerry Cox made headlines for doing that on Wednesday. That's because they are ex-lovers accusing each other of drunken rampages, sexual indiscretions and fraud, reported The
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  • TECH
    • 398 27 WHO says high-tech gadgets are meant only for geeks and the not-so-trendy? Judging from the way these models strut their stuff, the next hottest gadget could well be a fashion statement. For the past four years, some of these gadgets have found their way into fashion events,
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    • 891 35 Showtime&Ufestyle ERIAKBAR (eriOsph.com.sg) puts Rebecca Loos to the test (well, sort of) HE looks up in the air and ~7!j moves her eyeballs from side to side. Rebecca Loos is spilling intimate details about her tryst with David Beckham. It's a sign that
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    • 301 35 LOOS may have bared her soul to all who paid her. But in another documentary, The Real Beckhams, Beckham and his wife, Posh, 30, seam just as determined to show their real selves. The documentary filmed last year in Madrid before news of Beckham's
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    • 679 37  -  By Wendy Teo teowyw@sph. com.sg HE has been said to have links with the triads. He's also played triad bosses to great effect in movies like Infernal Affairs. But apart from using the triads as subject matter in his movies, Eric Tsang
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    • 191 37 IRONICALLY, Eric Tsang's latest movie, Blood Brothers (Mandarin title: Jiang Hu), sees him playing a triad boss again. The movie is about a pair of sworn triad brothers, who find their loyalties being tested when other triad leaders gang up to eliminate them.
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    • 345 52  -  $125,000 KRANJI SPRINT: S'PORE GROUP 3 —1.200 M BY Danny Kho dkhoo@sph. com.sg JOCKEY V Sivan carried over his success from last Sunday's Perak Derby to grab the Kranji Sprint on the unfancied Kronos last night. And just like his narrow win aboard Humphrey in
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    • 736 53 Reuters. WITH 20 horses ready to race, today's 130 th Run for the Roses is poised to produce one of the most wide-open Kentucky Derbies in history. For the first time since 1984 when the 20-horse limit was introduced
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        • 219 64 Arsenal captain Patrick Viera and Tottenham's Mauricio Taricco clash in last Sunday's match at White Hart Lane. I TOTAL ATTEMPTS RANK PLAYER NAME TEAM TOTAL NAME SHOTS 1 Ttl»«ny Hanry Arsenal 151 Z Louis Saha Man Utdffiilhani 94 3 Juan Pablo Antal Aston Villa 81 4 Nicolas AMlka
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        • 364 64 OPTA PLAYER RANKING INDEX HAN 1 PLAYER TEAM OPT A NAME NAME INDEX 1 Thierry Hwiry Arven.il 1538 2 Roy Rum Manchester United 135? 3 PmiI Senate* Manchester United 1332 4 Rated Rirw Animal 1266 5 Fraafc Lampard CM**» 1263 Slav*fl (iarranj Lrverpool 1226 7 f tfwin Van
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      • 719 65 THE FINK TANK— a new way to beat others Getting knocked out of three cups shouldn't obscure the size of Arsenal's extraordinary achievement this season. Remaining undefeated in 34 games this season is fantastically improbable, even more improbable than winning the Quadruple.
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      • 69 65 DANIEL RNKELSTEIN (below) is Associate Editor of The Times in London. He writes a weekly soccer column as well as being a leader writer. Before joining The Times, Finkelstein was Secretary to the Shadow Cabinet and adviser to the Leader of the Opposition (William Hague MP) and
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      • 963 67 UK TIPSTER: DAVE TINDALL PA Sport. ARSENAL v BIRMINGHAM: With the title sewn up, punters face that age-old dilemma. Will the Gunners take their foot off the gas or go out and celebrate in style. For anyone in any doubt, Arsenal's home record shows 14
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      • 829 69  -  BRIAN MILLER SO, it's done. Written in stone. Nothing can change it. Arsenal are Premiership champions. So, I asked a couple of friends: "How? Do you get a feeling of closure? Like, okay, that's done. What now?" Especially with Euro 2004 just about six weeks away.
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      • 519 70  -  EDWIN YEO A FRIEND of mine who is a passionate Manchester United fan has this theory: Don't back Manchester United for the rest of the season. While logic dictates that Man U still has a good chance of clinching second spot and automatic Champions
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      • 496 71 LET your hair down, lads, but watch your step as you celebrate. These will almost certainly be Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's party-popping words, prior to kick-off tonight, as the Gunners get set to open the champagne bottles at Highbury tonight. He is keen to ensure the
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      • 482 71 BLACKBURN v MAN U: Blackburn's Lorenzo Amoruso is out for the rest of the season after suffering a hamstring injury. But Andy Todd should return and Nils-Eric Johansson is set to start at the back. Man U striker Ruud van Nistelrooy is expected to play, and Roy
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      • 616 72 ARSENE WENGER: A PROFILE Reuters. ARSENE Wenger neither rants, raves or chews gum. Nor does he feel a compulsion to leap to his feet at every adverse refereeing decision. Instead the Arsenal manager's primary concession to the gnawing tension endemic to his trade is to loosen his tie
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      • 164 72 ARSENE Wenger (right) boasts a secret he has yet to share with Arsenal. He has already gone through an entire season unbeaten as a player, reported The Sun Online. The Gunners have not lost in 34 League games this season and their manager wants
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      • 618 73 f HERE is a way out of Qld V I Trafford for out-of-favour I striker Ruud van Nistelrooy. It emerged last night that the Manchester United's widely-reported £30million switch to Real Madrid may move a step closer with a clause in his contract allowing him to
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      • 136 73 United lose Ruud van Nistelrooy to Real Madrid, they might as well w run a white flag up the pole at Old Trafford and have done with it. There would be no greater indication that United's power base in the game is
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      • 122 73 •ALAN Smith (right) is the man Sir Alex Ferguson wants to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy. The London Evening Standard reported that the Manchester United manager has already made contact with Leeds and is preparing a £5 million (slsm) offer for the England hit-man. Smith, 23, will be seen
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      • 349 73 ii i n SILENCE is not golden definitely not at Old Trafford with the Ruud van Nistelrooy controversy brewing with every passing day. In the latest twist, former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke believes van Nistelrooy's future at Old Trafford looks bleak if there
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      • 184 73 THROWING the book at Ruud van Nistelrooy may well be the last straw. The Daily Mail reported that his disillusionment with life at Manchester United had intensified after disciplinary action was taken against him by Sir Alex Ferguson. The management at Old Trafford have tried to keep mum
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