The New Paper, 5 May 2004

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  • 30 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2004 Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 M,TA < p > 70 CENTS 8 M the new paper
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    • 58 1 Porto elbow way into Champions League Final A iv'" x I v I ''dfedMfiiiS^-^l I i A I m Kkwll %?-t^J. V I 11 I l lMiWiim T m** IM.U- ..;.«.,-w fKI j§ r*^^M>AlS ■Jii II j fjj I k :< Picture/ DESMOND NG Teacher's hair H was culprit She
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  • NEWS
    • 1092 2  -  STUDENT SETS TEACHER'S HAIR ON FIRE IN CLASS By, Josephine Chew jochew@sph.com.sg RIGHT in the middle of the class, the girl sneaked up behind the teacher and held a burning lighter to her hair. The girl immediately tried to put out the fire with her
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    • 168 3 HERE'S the reply from the school principal: I confirm that the incident of a student burning one of my teachers' hair did happen on Mar 22 this year. After a thorough investigation, it was established that there was no conflict between the teacher and
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 648 4  -  SINGAPORE'S EDUCATION SYSTEM MOESAYS The Ministry of Education would have asked Mr Ng LeeHuatto step down as NanChiau High principal even if he had not done so on his own. The reason: Parents' and teachers' confidence in his ability to maintain discipline had been shaken. Mr
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    • 407 4 AN anonymous teacher wrote a poem highlighting why teachers today are having a hard time coping. The poem is published in the latest issue of the Singapore Teachers' Union (STU) magazine. Said Mr Swithun Lowe, general-secretary of the STU: 'Teaching is definitely more complicated today than it
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    • 289 5 IT S TIME TO BE SINGAPORE'S 1 !T FOOTBALL MILLIONAIRE! r n nrrgi lA\ DL'tK! v.; -A M **>■ rs* <1 KM? OF THE CHALLENGE WIN $500,000 Grab your Tiger Beer, and fill in the official entry form of the TNP Tiger Beer Football Millionaire Challenge. Together, with your completed
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 627 6 Mental health and you Over the past five years, children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) here have more than doubled. One mother tells GENEVIEVE JIANG (geneviev@sph.com.sg) of her son's daily battles ZULFADLI Tahar could hardly sit still ever since he
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    • 311 6 THE number of children diagnosed with ADHD here has more than doubled in the last five years. At IMH's child guidance clinic, the number of new cases diagnosed was 484 last year, up from 236 in 1999, said Dr Daniel Fung, deputy
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 271 7 GLOBAL SURVEY OF COMPETITIVE ECONOMIES IT IS a closely-watched annual study, ranking the most competitive economies in the the world. And Singapore has taken second placing after the US. The Republic's jump in the overall ranking from No 4 spot comes despite Sars and slower economic
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    • 288 7 FALSE ALARM IN US BUT... IT was high drama aboard a Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane yesterday. Armed US police officers stormed the airplane after it was escorted into Los Angeles Airport by a US Air Force F-16 fighter jet. But it turned out to be
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    • 71 7 THE Singapore Management University has received a record donation of $200 million. The gift was sparked by the Lee Foundation, which donated $50 million. The Government, which is giving $3 for every dollar donated, added another $150m into the university's endowment fund. It is the largest contribution
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    • 80 7 BEIJING is ready to accept that Taiwan has existed as a separate entity since 1949, a leading adviser to China's top leaders on Taiwan has said. But Mr Li Jiaquan emphasised that the recognition of the existence of the Republic of China (ROC) Taiwan's title given by
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    • 73 7 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has started his five-day visit to the US. He has since met with Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice. He will meet President George W Bush at the White House today. On Apr 28,
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    • 67 7 MALAYSIA is becoming Asia's capital for illegal syndicates betting on English Premier League football matches. Investigations show they accept bets worldwide, but mainly from Asia. These are channelled online to Malaysian bases operating out of houses. The racket was discovered during a recent series of raids. The
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    • 58 7 A LEADING software specialist has rapped the Economic Development Board (EDB) for not paying enough attention to building up the services sector. Mr Virender Aggarwal of Satyam Computer Services said EDB focuses more on investments for manufacturing, pharmaceutical and oil-refining companies. But other Indian software giants disagree, and
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    • 72 7 THEY used to be barred from parking in HDB carparks just because of their weight. Now, larger Jaguars, Mercedes-Benzes, BMWs and other vehicles weighing up to 2,000kg can park in the 670 HDB carparks. Last Saturday, the Housing Board amended a decades-old weight limit rule which
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    • 51 7 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 9.65/+1.05 Creative Technology 10.231/+0.181 Flextronics 16.28/-0.04 Chartered Semiconductor 8.73/+0.36 Stats 8.861/-0.109 Yesterday's Percentage action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Up 0.03% (3.20 pts) Up 0.61% (11.76 pts) Up 0.18% (2.02 pts) Up 1.42% (26.12 pts) 10,317.20 1,950.48 1,119.51
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 545 9  -  By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg WOULD you pay $6 million to live here? It looks like a property agent's nightmare there are overgrown weeds in every corner, the paint's peeling off the walls and there are unswept leaves piled up everywhere. Oh,
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    • 126 9 YOU'VE gone to countless house viewings. And, finally, you have found your dream house. The only drawback is that the house is old. So, should you tear it down and build a new house or just renovate? Well, contrary to popular belief, it might sometimes
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    • 489 10  -  By_ Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph. com.sg A STORAGE compartment for the flight crew where they can also tuck in a dead body? It might sound a bit like Cluedo. But, seriously, what if a passenger dies on a flight? Singapore Airlines (SLA) now has
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    • 82 11 ZOE'S RETIREMENT PLANS WHAT does the queen of local TV want to do when her acting days are over? Be a tai-tai and just enjoy life? No thanks. "Women become ugly if they don't work," Zoe Tay told The New Paper. Instead, she wants to be a
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    • 453 12 WHEN United Overseas Bank (UOB) decided to sell its stake in United Overseas Land (UOL) at a sharp discount to the bank's own shareholders, it angered many UOL minority shareholders. But, yesterday, Temasek Holdings made a bid for the bank's stake at a higher price. Will minority
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    • 296 12 THERE may be one unhappy man at UOB its chairman, Mr Wee Cho Yaw. One analyst told The Business Times this. "UOL shareholders should be happy with Temasek coming in with a higher offer," said the analyst. "There may be one unhappy man.
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  • 308 13 MALAYSIA Bernama. THE last thing that Mr Abu Mansor Hamzah expected to see as he stepped off the bus on the Kuantan-Maran road was his wife's car. The red Proton Iswara car had been involved in an
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  • WORLD
    • 522 14 WORLD'S NO 2 RICHEST MAN BUFFER'S TIPS Invest in industries you understand, stay away from the ones you don't Buy big share allotments, or the whole company Don't waver during downturns: Hold onto your shares from the long-term HIS investment strategy might be simple, but
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    • 303 14 IN 1978, a clerk bought his first stock in Berkshire Hathaway. He bought 10 shares and paid US$l75 for each. Today, the stock is trading at an astounding U5593,390 ($158,160). And Mr Bill Scargle, 65, is now a multi-millionaire. He sold
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    • 367 15 HE knew he had it all a rich family, a successful modelling career and good looks. To avoid being a kidnap victim, he kept a low profile off-camera. He was also careful with friends and mixed only with the high society crowd. But that
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    • 249 15 Reuters. A TEXAS male nurse is suspected of using a bubble bath by candlelight and soothing music as bait to set a date with death for his wife. The US police said on Monday that William Joseph Wolfe has been
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    • 304 16 EMI won't let London club Millwall use Dean Martin tune for FA Cup Final record PA Sport. IT'S a catchy chant about UK football player/manager Dennis Wise (left). And his football club, Millwall, hoped it would have caught on with more people when it
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  • 528 18 WORLD Reuters. ONCE upon a time, in Tasmania, there was a little Australian girl who loved dressing up as a princess. On May 14, that will become a reality for Ms Mary Donaldson when she marries Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik. The marketing executive
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  • WORLD
    • 418 20 Thailand invites M'sian Islamic teachers to preach moderation THAILAND, which is probing the clashes that killed 113 people last week, has asked Malaysia for help in preaching moderate Islam. By this, Thailand hopes to blunt the extremism and militancy that seem to to be
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    • 154 20 SEVEN of the 108 militants killed in south Thailand last week may have been Indonesians, a discovery that adds a troubling new dimension to the conflict. Fourth Army Commander Lt Gen Pisan Watanawongkiri said the seven, killed in clashes with soldiers at the
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  • TECH
    • 674 21  -  W»T£CH GUy OO GIN LEE tnp@spfi.com.sg THE rage and rave these days is about high-speed or broadband. Ask anyone who has used broadband access for one week, and chances are, he or she will never one to go back to crawling dial-up modems. But the
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    • 680 22  -  IAN TAN tonyhi@sph.comsg EVER since the late 19th century, people have been using the same old Pots (plain old telephone system) to communicate with others over telephone cables. But the past decade has seen the advent of calls being made over
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    • 489 23 It's one of first arrests connected to scam plaguing Web banking THE British police have made one of the first arrests related to an Internet scam known as "phishing". The crime is a plague to the fast-growing Web banking business. A 21-year-old man is now
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    • 970 33  -  Hey! MediaCorp's Zoe Tay says retiring from acting to be tai-tai will bore her Ugly role, but auntie fan still thinks she's pretty 1 Zoe's fast-food auntie dreams gjja By Wendy Teo teowyw@sph. com. sg ZOE Tay wants to be a fast-food auntie
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    • 187 34 CAN you imagine Amitabh Bachchan playing Marlon Brando's role in The Godfather? Well, director RamGopal Varma's next directorial effort will be a remake of the Francis Ford Coppola classic. Titled Sarkaar (Government), the director, confirmed that Amitabh will play the role of Vito Corleone (played
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    • 120 34 TAMIL cinema superstar Kamal Hassan (left) will star in a Tamil remake of Bollywood hit comedy, Munnabhai MBBS. Apparently, it took some persistent persuasion. RadioSargam.com, an online Indian cinema portal reported that Kamal initially refused the role. The story is about an ignorant villager
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    • Article, Illustration
      90 34 JUHI Chawla (above), who's been missing from the limelight recently, is making a comeback. Her film Jhankaar Beats, directed by Sujoy Ghosh, won the Special Jury Award at the Houston International Film Festival last week. The Hindi-English film about six Indian yuppies was one of the sleeper hits
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    • 189 35 Imran to build another hospital with star aid THE political thaw between India and Pakistan has resulted in a fan base expansion for Bollywood stars. Former Pakistan cricket captain and Pakistani member of parliament, Imran Khan has designs to bring the stars for two charity shows to Pakistan later this
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    • 148 35 THE dream balloon has popped. Andrew Lloyd Webber's London hit production, Bombay Dreams, has been savaged by American critics. The musical about a young man with dreams of being a Bollywood star opened on Broadway last week. The New York Times reviewer, Ben
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    • 447 36  -  By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg WHO needs to cool off with actor Aaron Aziz (left) around? On Sunday, close to 100 fans braved the afternoon heat and crammed into Amiran's Cafe at Liang Seah Street for the launch of Aaron's official fan club. The air-con was
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      • 160 52 CALL it pure coincidence if you like, but last weekend's 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket, England, went to identical 11-2 chances. Hot filly Attraction, ridden by jockey Kevin Dariey, made all the running in the 1,000 Guineas for fillies on Sunday, beating 16-1 shot
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      • 133 52 YOUNG John Sundradas is already making his mark on the international scene. The two-time Kranji champion apprentice won the annual Macau Apprentice Jockeys' Invitation Cup on Sunday. He was pitted against 13 other young riders from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Hong Kong among
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      • 79 52 JOCKEY Sainul Jumaat may not get as many opportunities as he would like. But he is certainly making full use of the few that come his way. From only a dozen mounts this season, the younger brother of champion Saimee Jumaat, has been able to boot
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    • 573 52 WORKOUTS by horses handicapped for Friday's mixed meeting (turf unless stated): PREMIER CLASS 3 1,200m: King Creole (C Carmody) disposed of600m in 42.3sec after cantering a lap. Iron Eyes Cody (J Taylor), Niigata (K Sara) and Danzel (L Beasley) canter/36.5, finishing in that order. Niigata and
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    • 199 55 PA Sport. THE champions have two games remaining away to Fulham and at home to relegated Leicester City to achieve the milestone of winning the championship without a defeeat. It has been achieved only once before, by Preston North End in the inaugural season
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      • 204 57 CHELSEA PA Sport William Gaiias has given Chelsea a League boost by declaring himself fit for tomorrow's semWinal, second leg against Monaco, The French defender has missed the last three matches with a hamstring strain but wiH return for the tie in which the Blues must overturn a
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      • 359 58 (S-FINALS, 2nd LEG THE TWO COACHES ON TONIGHT'S TACTICS: Reuters. Beleaguered Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri believes it would take his side's best performance of the season to overhaul Monaco's 3-1 lead. The Italian added Monaco would have to play their worst game of the season if
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      • 406 58 PA Sport. MONACO will not qualify for the Champions League final if they just defend, said the French side's coach Didier Deschamps (left). Monaco hold a 3-1 lead going into the return fixture. But Deschamps said it was important his players played in the
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      • 900 59 CHELSEAv MONACO FIRST LEG: 1-3 CHELSEA skipper John Terry; We have to stay calm, play our football and try and put them under pressure early in the match. It is very, very difficult but if we give our best performance, everything is possible. MONACO star striker
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      • 515 61 DEPORTIVO 0 PORTO 1 Porto win 1-0 on aggregate Reuters, PA Sport. PORTO'S Champions League semi-final victory over Deportivo La Coruna was down to meticulous planning and the character of match-winner Derlei Silva, coach Jose Mourinho said. "I think we were fantastic. We played really well from
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      • 345 61 PA Sport, Wire Services. JAVIER Irureta, the coach of defeated Deportivo La Coruna, said he believed fate had conspired against his side in the Champions League semi-final second leg against Porto. It wasn't fair. Fate was against us. We had Mauro Silva and Jorge Andrade
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      • 613 62 (S-FINALS, 2nd LEG) PA Sport. PORTO, the least favoured of all teams, enjoyed a glory night in Spain. They marched into the Champions League final against all odds. But in the process they showed one thing to the world: Win, even if it means playing
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      • 133 63 DEP0RTIV0 0 PORTO 1 Porto win 1-0 on aggregate Two incidents helped Porto reach the Champions League final. One got in, the other got away. Here's what happened... Porto's Deco charges into the penalty area and lures Deportivo's Cesar into
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      • 430 64 (S-FINALS, 2nd LEG) CLAUDIO RANIERI: Wire Services. CLAUDIO Ranieri says he knows who will be taking over his job. But, like the gentleman he is, he is not about to blab. Still, and if there's finger-pointing going on, most are being pointed at
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      • 168 64 Wire Services. PORTO coach Jose Mourinho has hailed his players as a team with "a great future, with or without me." That was after the Portuguese giants booked their ticket to the Champions League final. But even as he celebrates the win over Deportivo this morning, he continues
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      • 288 64 The Stamford Bridge over troubled water NOW, wouldn't that be ironic. The incoming boss planning the demolition of the team he is soon to handle. It's like playing with a double-edged sword. But with Porto in the final of the Champions League and their manager Jose
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