The New Paper, 2 May 2004

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  • 35 1 the new paper MAY 2, 2004 on sunda/ W Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia1.com sgj Email: >np®sprt.com.sg Email: tnp@spfr.com.sg 80 CENTS Hotline: 1800- 733 44 55 III ill! 8"*****1 *****9"> the new paper on sunoay
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    • 62 1 Polyclinic queue cry Why are we waiting? Worksite deaths Touched by a tragedy m *51* V^r Ts^%iLV"ttnm iJ e newspaper •MAY Jim Website: newpaper.asia1.com sg Singapore Press Holdings on sunda 80 CENTS Hotline: 1800- 733 44 55 After 13 years, suspicious dad makes shocking discovery m S'pore family torn apart
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  • NEWS
    • The painful polyclinic Queue
      • 951 2  -  Peak-hour peeve at government polyclinics THE PROBLEM Waiting times and super quick consultations are routine at government clinics. Yet, thousands show up to wait patiently in line every day some even before the doors open. What makes them do it and what can be done? REPORTS
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      • 432 2 THE PRESCRIPTION MOST of the polyclinics' patients are walk-in cases and want to be seen first. So patients queue up early. It's the same with many other services in Singapore, said a National Healthcare Group Polyclinic (NHGP) spokesman. Wherever possible, they try and provide chairs for
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      • 631 3  -  By Ng Wan ching tnp@sph.com.sg HE was sick and in pain, but he still had to wait. After almost l'/a hours of waiting to see the doctor at the polyclinic with a high fever, Mr Rahmanyani Rahmat, almost delirious with the exhaustion of waiting, left.
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      • 306 3  -  Comment by Ng Wan Ching tnp@sph.com.sg TOO many patients queueing for hours for mere minutes of a doctor's time. This seems an obvious case of demand exceeding supply. So why aren't there more doctors assigned to each polyclinic? The replies are
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    • 56 2 Long Wait NHG (Average waiting time) Peak AM: 72 mins Off-peak AM: 50 mins Off-peak PM: 35 mins SINGHEALTH (Average waiting time) Peak (mornings): 90 mins Off-peak (afternoons): 30 mins WORTH THE WAIT? Consultation fee (polyclinic): $4 for children, $8 for adults Medication (polyclinic): About $2 Consultation and medication (private):
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  • NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      1086 5  -  DNA test leads to bitter break-up, divorce He is fair. I am dark. He is cool. I am hot. He is hers. REPORTS DAWN CHIA dmncfta&pfußnuf FOR 13 years, Mr Tan's family was a picture of bliss. He had a stable job, a loving wife* and two
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    • 481 5 SHE didn't know. That's why she did not tell her husband that the boy wasn't his son. Ms Lim (not her real name) said that the DNA result was as much of a shock to her as it was to her husband. All these years,
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    • 400 6  -  By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph.com.sg DADDY is not coming home anymore? Never mind. We are not affected. We don't feel anything. That is the cold reaction, a reflection of how the children feel towards their father and the divorce. They told The New Paper on
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    • 186 6 EVEN if James is not Mr Tan's biological son, he might have to provide for the boy. One cannot argue that he doesn't have a responsibility to a child if they are not biologically related. Lawyer Amolat Singh said: "The Women's Charter not
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    • 174 6 MOTHER'S DAY (8 9 May 2004) 'Tis the season to pay a tribute to all MOMS! INTERNATIONAL BUFFET Lunch $18.80 (adult) $13.80 (child) Dinner $23.80 (adult) $13.80 (child) DIVER CARLOl (1^ m T2. I UNLIMITED A-LA-CARTE' MENU Celebrate the occasion with our ever-popular 'Unlimited A-La-Carte' menu which includes a buffet
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  • NEWS
    • 1009 8  -  Grief. One reporter saw more grief in two weeks than she has for the past year. Another experienced it first-hand, growing up. JOYCELYN WONG was at the centre of the pain from the two construction-site tragedies. JOYCE LIM lived a hard life when her father died
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    • 627 8  -  COMMENT JOYCE LIM joycel@eph.com.sg FOR 10 years, I believed my dad had been killed in a road accident while On his way to buy chocolates for me, One day, however, my curiosity got the better of me. And I started to question that story. My
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    • 861 9  -  The couple flies guests, chefs, priests, journalists and loads of luggage to $450,000 wedding By Seto Nu-Wen seto@sph.com.sg THEY travelled by the plane-load from western India to the wedding in Malaysia. There were about 200 people in all guests, chefs, priests, plus a tonne
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    • 239 9 WEDDING packages, which are already a big tourist draw in places like Phuket and Bali, have been gaining in popularity in Malaysia in the last few years. "Last month, we had a couple from the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police. They
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    • 981 10  -  Couples go all out to make their fantasies come true from getting a Rivendell forest to using five credit cards to pay the bills By] Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg IF this couple had their way, they'd tie the knot in Rivendell. Unfortunately for them, the
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    • 464 10 HE had $500 in his bank account. She had almost no savings. But that did not stop Ben and Amy (not their real names) from throwing a garden wedding party for 200 guests at the five-star Raffles Hotel. The couple, who had been in a relationship for
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    • 260 10 And the dream merchants who made it happen EXOTIC islands. Movie settings. Customised invitation cards and gifts. Not content with the standard wedding shoots at the Botanic Gardens and hotel ballroom banquets, more couples are saying "I do" in unique ways. But unconventional weddings can be costly usually no less
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    • 976 11  -  They're regular HDB-dwellers, but their void deck weddings are nothing short of a fairytale dream By Fawziah Selamat fiawziahs@sph.com.sg THEY live in Housing Board flats, so they want a void-deck wedding. But they're also rich, with a budget that can easily cover a
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    • 366 11 SHE'S a primary school teacher and so is her 29-year-old fiance. They are splurging almost $200,000 on their wedding, to be held later this year. Of the total, $140,000 will go to the wedding planner she hired to design the wedding, plan the day and
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    • Article, Illustration
      834 12  -  Bold postcards push safe sex but... No, say those put off by pictures, blunt advice Yes, say others who believe they're effective By Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph.com.sg THE issue: Are salacious pictures and explicit text the way to promote safe sex? Take these postcards targeting gay men,
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    • 293 12 SOME find the cards disgusting and offensive. But there are others who think they're as useful. The New Paper on Sunday showed some readers the AFA postcards and asked for their opinions. One was the mother of a 17-year-old boy, who wanted to be known only as
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    • 544 13 PM's May Day rally: Three reasons to appreciate the... 1 We're good at solving problems 2 We have good industrial relations O We have good people IF you are thinking of migrating, think again, says Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The grass may seem greener
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    • at a glance
      • 261 13 Snapshots of the main news to save you time ENVIRONMENT Minister Lim Swee Say (right) will be groomed to be the next labour chief. He will join NTUC as deputy secretary general and will take over from labour chief Lim Boon Heng in two to three years.
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      • 168 13 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong is "astounded" by Workers' Party chief Sylvia Lim's attack on tripartite relations between the workers, employers and the Government. Ms Lim in a May Day statement claimed the workers were at a disadvantage. They were the first to be asked to make
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      • 246 14  -  Snapshots of the main news to save you time By Tan May Ping mayping@sph.com.sg A MAN strolled into a sports shop in West Mall, Bukit Batok, and stabbed a worker there yesterday in front of his colleagues. Mr Kelvin Yang, 17, who worked at
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      • 57 14 NANYANG Technological University says no answers were leaked to the students who sat for an accounting paper on Wednesday. So no-one will have to retake the paper. What the students saw online was "a very preliminary draft guide for marking answers to intended examination questions". These were
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      • 56 14 FORMER Singapore Airlines (SLA) pilot Ryan Goh, whose permanent resident status was revoked by the Government, yesterday left Singapore for his new home, Perth. He was seen off by his former colleagues. The Government had accused the 43-year-old Malaysian of being the "instigator" behind last year's
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    • 160 14 Suspected terrorists attack petrochem plant GUNMEN opened fire at a Saudi petrochemical pltfnt yesterday, killing six Westerners and a Saudi and wounding at least four other foreigners, company officials and diplomats said. Three of the victims were American, two British and one Australian. Interior Ministry
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    • 125 14 THE photos showed naked, hooded Iraqi men stacked in a pyramid or forced into sexual poses. American soldiers were seen laughing and posing near the prisoners held at the Abu Ghraib prison, once the centre for torture during the Saddam Hussein regime. The images, shown
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    • 849 15 He says... Rebecca's ludicrous Sex-obsessed, flirtatious, outrageous, Miss Loos' verdict on Becks: SHE has already noticed men avoiding her. Miss Rebecca Loos is 1.7m tall, with smooth, tanned skin, a swanlike neck, large, expressive eyes and a flashing white smile. And men are turning away. "I
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  • NEWS
    • 397 17 Daughter is shopping in Wal-Mart when passers-by find decaying body in car AP. A FEW weeks ago, avid travellers Alicia Doshier and her mother left their Oklahoma home to cross the US in a car. Nothing unusual, except that the mother had been
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    • 200 18 TAKE a good look at the picture on the right. The boy crammed in the suitcase is not a stowaway. Instead, he was part of an ingenious ploy to cash in on the Labour Day peak travelling season in China. His father had allegedly
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  • 315 21 PORN E-MAIL: TECH Wire services. Employers in Europe may soon find themselves facing a new class of lawsuits failure to stop unsolicited porn e-mail from reaching staff. According to a Dutch researcher, this can be viewed as a form of sexual harrassment because the porn e-mail can
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  • 782 29 Blair Witch Project spawns trend of hoax websites that promote upcoming Hollywood movies TECH WP. A few weeks ago, a website for an outfit called the Godsend Institute quietly popped up on the Internet. It purports to describe the breakthrough medical procedures of one Professor Richard
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  • Hey! SUNDAY your magazine for the weeked
    • 678 30 David Beckham first made the metatarsal bone famous. Now, he brings fame to a new form of flirting—the Short Message System (SMS). What of Singapore's SMS flirts? JOYCE L1M reports WRITER Benny Teo has two things in common with David Rprk n^iTi They both play
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    • 156 30 II Hey XXXXX, seems like we can never get enough of each other. Thinking of 5 you just makes me melt like chocolate, j hmmm.. let's do this again. I miss the way you smile and how 1 your eyes smiles together.. I'd like to
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  • HEY!
    • 566 31  -  THE FEMALE SMS FLIRT By Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg THIS self-confessed beach bum receives suggestive SMSes from guys almost every day. Her SMS flirting gets more intense as the weekend approaches. "If I like the guy, I would reply to his SMSes. If not, I won't be
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    • 1166 32 Who's the finest of them all? The airlines they work for might be budget. But there's nothing cheap about this group of pretty, spontaneous stewardesses with Valuair and Air Asia. CELINE LIM (cellsf@sph.com.sg) takes a closer look at how the budget compare with our iconic
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      309 32  -  It's the smile that counts COMMENT SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO ep THEIR I 24-carat smiles j promise it all. Value-added "Coffee, tea or me?" from Valuair's cabin crew. At budget airline's prices for example, $138 Singapore-Bangkok return don't be expecting "coffee, tea or mee pok?" from the line-up
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    • 153 33 I am a woman in my late twenties. I got married two years ago. My husband is wonderful and dotes on me. Recently, I got to know a guy, A, through my best friend, B. A and I became friends and we go
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    • 102 33 WHAT do you think this writer should do? Have you ever been in a similar situation? Do you have any advice? We are inviting YOU to act as counsellor to our Dear Aggie advice-seekers. E-mail us your advice to them before Tuesday to tnp@sph.com.sg or
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    • 554 34 MISERABLE Girl is 16 and has been seeing her boyfriend, X, since last May. They were together for 10 months but broke up recently. She still loves X, so she has not found a new boyfriend. But X has a new girlfriend who is
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    • 278 34 HOW many people in Singapore have Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) or are HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) positive? I heard that the virus is fragile compared to others. What are the chances of the Aids virus in a drop of semen? I also found out from
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    • 129 34 I'M a Secondary Four girl. Will one get pregnant when receiving oral sex or performing it? And will I get pregnant if my boyfriend rubs my vagina and inserts his finger? What if we are just touching and kissing, will I get pregnant? What does "heavy
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    • 597 35  -  EDWIN YEO tnp@sph.com.sg THIS week, I'm going to make fun of my four-year-old princess, mostly because (unlike other hyper-sensitive types whom I shall not mention because they are so hyper-sensitive) if she complains I can threaten to lock up all her Disney DVDs. It strikes me
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    • Article, Illustration
      567 36  -  JANICE SEAH tnp@sf>h.com.sg Birthday parties for 8-year-old girls are tricky things. There are many considerations, paramount among them being the chances of the mother retaining her sanity once it's all over. First, the guest list. There is much twisted and tangled negotiating over who we must and who
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
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  • RACING
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      338 41 TOPTIPS RACING Marc Tan Racing Editor Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee /I Lucky Pioneer 10 Speedy Dragon 7 Asia Star 5 Joker Shanhou 10 Speedy Dragon 11 Tin-Ran Alley 10 Speedy Dragon 2ZapNLari 5 Joker Shanhou 12 Summer
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    • 71 41 Porcupine (Race 7 No. 2) The 1,700 m trip this afternoon looks ideal for the Stephen Cooktrained Porcupine, who seems to want more ground after garnering two thirds and as many fourths over sprints in five previous runs. He should account for his seven rivals in the Maidens'
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    • 373 41  -  By Michael Lee manyan@sph. com.sg LAST Sunday's Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong had at least three beaten horses who pulled up with more than just wounded pride. After taking a few knocks during the World Series' first leg, Elegant
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      • 375 57 TEAM UPDATE PA Sport. LIVERPOOL v MIDDLESBROUGH Boro boss Steve McClaren is facing a major selection headache. On top of long-term absentees Gareth Southgate (knee), Malcolm Christie and Andrew Davies (both broken leg), Doriva (groin) and Stuart Parnaby (knee), the newly-injured list include Juninho (thigh),
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      • 437 60  -  Chelsea ......................4 Southampton..............!) Crainie (59 og) Lampard (75,83), Johnson (85) Chelsea: Cudicini, Bridge. Terry, Huth, Melchiot, Cole (Veron 79), Lampard (Makelele 86), Geremi, Gronkjaer (Johnson 78), Hasselbaink, Gudjohnsen Subs (not used): Ambrosio, Crespo. Southampton: Niemi. Cranie (Fernandas 63), Lundekvam, Higginbotham, Telfer, Folly, Kenton (Hall 78),
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      • 209 60  -  By] Buck Rogers SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WOLVES were relegated to Division One, despite a brave 2-1 win at Molineux against Everton. Leon Osman had marked a dream Premiership debut by heading home James McFadden's cross after two minutes to end Everton's 258-minute goal drought. Tomas Radzinski
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