The New Paper, 17 May 2004

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  • 32 1 the new paper MONDAY, MAY 17, 2004 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 m the new paper
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 393 2 Q: What's your next move, Mr Wee? HE may be 75, but this banking patriarch is not yet ready to throw in the towel and retire. Mr Wee Cho Yaw (right), chairman and CEO of United Overseas Bank (UOB), told The Business
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    • 121 2 SINCE May 4, Mr Wee has been battling an unsolicited bid from Temasek Holdings for UOB's stake in UOL. Mr Wee has until May 28 to decide on the bid. Temasek Holdings' made its new $780-million bid on Thursday. It has offered to buy 48.9
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    • 252 2 A SHORT-TERM contract rather than full-time employment seems to be the way for more people here. Figures from the Manpower Ministry (MOM) show that some 81,760 people or 3.8 per cent of the workforce were in temporary or contract employment as of
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    • 669 3  -  MORNING LATEST: FIRST QUARTER REPORT Annual growth forecast revised upwards to 5.5-7.5 per cent GDP: Gross domestic product refers to the total value of goods and services produced by the Singaporebased economy. By Dawn Chia Eugene Wee dawnchia@sph.com.sg/tnp@sph.com.sg THE sterling growth figures has led the
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    • 860 4  -  V\ x Seized bfrtcustoms officers Over 145,000 pieces of pirated DVD/VCDs 7,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettesand 700 kg of undeclared tobacco products 17 vehicles used in smuggling activities jg Ecstasy pills 8 Protected animals like v star tortoises By Tan Ooi
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    • 266 4 DID you know you can apply to renew your passport at Lakeside MRT station, or even certain HDB estates in Punggol, Bukit Batok and Pasir Ris? Just go to FujiFilm booths at these places with your identity card and existing passport. The shop employee will
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    • 697 5  -  Anyone from trainers to jockeys could be suspects in rigging horse races By Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph. com.sg IF YOU want a soccer game to go a certain way, you can try to pay off the players. But how do you rig a horse race? You target
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    • 132 2 Aim For Succe 4* BA (Hons) Business Entrepreneurship University of Huddersfield (HUBS), UK UK Highest Climb University Times League Table 2003 Excellent record ot placing students with companies such as ICI. Hewlett Packard. Marks Spencer, ICL, IBM and British Airways Bachelor of Business (Marketing) Central Queensland University (CQU). Australia Completion
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    • 11 2 News IQ: Page 8 Hey!: Pages 28 33 TV:Pages 34 35
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    • 73 4 ISM I »1 J—M /..:**> Jr "Tk w Reality bites Joey would make a perfect Joey Millionaire; Phoebe the next American Idol; and Ross and Chandler would form the perfect tag team to shake up the next Amazing Race. And what about Monica and Rachel? We take a tongue-in-cheek look
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  • 537 6 CANNES GET EN0#GH NEWS SINGAPOREAN April Kian tangoed on deck for Kill Bill's David Carradine and he was floored. Enough to judge the 27-year-old one of the top three winners in Cannes. Ms Kian was one of seven finalists the only one from Asia
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 345 7 Individualistic Soft Not hungiy enough HARSH assessment? Not so, says Acting Education Minister Tharman Shanmugar atnam. His opinions were based on conversations with principals, he said at a dialogue session in Nee Soon South yesterday. What worries him is that these attitudes of Singaporean
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    • 194 7 GOOD news for Ang Mo Kio residents. Work on a new bus interchange on the empty plot of land opposite Ang Mo Kio MRT station will finally begin. For two years, residents have had to put up with a temporary interchange located
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    • 125 7 LAST WEEK: The Straits Times Index fell 4.8 per cent on concerns over high oil prices, a slowing China economy and lackluster US markets. On Friday, crude oil prices hit an all time high of $41.45 per barrel. In the US, markets were held in check by high
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    • 35 7 TWIN TOWER: Raffles City Shanghai, a US$35O million (Ss6oB million) replica of the Raffles City complex here, was officially opened by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. Picture/ Lianhe Zaobao
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    • 75 7 IN the first quarter of this year, 147 listed companies have reported upbeat business conditions, with 137 companies reporting profits and only 13 with losses. Their combined earnings shot up 72 per cent to $2.91 billion from $1.69 billion in the same period last year. Of
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    • 74 7 A TOTAL of 242 people were infected with HIV last year, the highest number of new infections since the disease appeared here in 1985. Four in 10 already had flill-blown acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or Aids, said the Health Ministry. To spread the message of Aids
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    • 75 7 FOR the first time, DBS Bank has been named the best retail bank in Singapore last year, says The Asian Banker, a financial publication. It says DBS has been able to "hold its own" in key segments of retail business, despite the "cut-throat competition". Standard Chartered
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    • 76 7 A MARRIED teacher is under investigation after a female student complained to the Education Ministry that he had shown pornographic videos during class. The teenaged student, who has since quit the school, said he showed the class clips. lasting for up to 45 minutes as a "treat"
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    • 81 7 FOREIGNERS seeking treatment in Malaysian government hospitals will soon have to pay more, says Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek. He said the current RM2 (550.91) imposed on foreigners was "way too low" and the revised fee would reflect the fees charged by private hospitals.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • SINGAPORE
    • 401 8  -  'Live art' session at Stamford Road REPORT AND PICTURES By Dominic Ylng Dominic Ying domying@sph. com.sg IT was a sizzling hot day yesterday, and a group of people were spotted staring at two semi-naked models. The models were posing for artists at a 'live art'
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    • 271 9  -  By Tan May Ping mayping@sph. com.sg HE wanted his family to do something exciting. So Mr Jamaludin Rahim (above, with his wife and child) signed up for The New Paper Big Walk yesterday. Never mind that his wife, Madam Siti Wasillah, is pregnant with
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    • 260 9 'This is a dynamic woetd meant only for dynamic people! If you are one. you ought to keep abreast with unc changes or you wit be left far behind! ACTNOW NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE THE SKY IS THE LIMIT TIME IS PRECIOUS DO NOT PROCRASTINA77 CERTIFICATE. DIPLOMA DEGREE PROGRAMMES FOR LOCAL
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 381 10 Fish only if you have certificate from pirates IT looks just like an official certificate. It bears an official-looking letterhead, a signature and a bright red stamp. But this certificate is issued by pirates. Malaysian fishermen have been paying protection money to pirates in the Straits of Malacca for these
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    • 483 10 Named the most powerful 28-year-old in Malaysia, but PM's son-in-law is caught in web of diplomatic obstacles HE is smart, intelligent and has excellent credentials. Yet, the man described by some as "Malaysia's most powerful 28-year-old" is struggling to cut a career in politics. The reason: He is
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  • WORLD
    • 347 11 UAIITIfAIir MUNUItUNu EXAM SCANDAL AT 16 or 17, she would still be in school, taking her O or A levels. But she was marking Hong Kong A-level examination scripts. She had been asked by a Hong Kong teacher to help her mark exam scripts, reported
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    • 480 11 CHINA IN A STRONG STATEMENT ON TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE MOVES Wire services. TAIWANESE President Chen Shui-bian has been given directions by Beijing days before he starts his second term. Taiwan can choose one of two roads, China said in a statement released some time after
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    • 459 12 US Secretary of State Golin Powell scolds aide for cutting short TV interview THE SCOLDING My Mm Mr rvWVII Wllv Vllw lidil He's still asking a question. AM* to TV moderator Ruinri: Tim, I'm sorry I lost you. Mr Huturti I don't know
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    632 13 Don't be in the dark about how to survive when the lights go off. These tips should help you see the light Tech WERE you bungling around in the dark during the one-hour blackout that hit northern and western Singapore last month? Did you cry when the air-conditioner
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  • 581 17 IN CHINA, OFFICIALS ARE... TECH Wire services. COMMUNIST officials sport the latest laptops under their arms. Chinese citizens go online to chat with lawmakers on the national legislature or post statements critical of the government on bulletin boards. The stodgy Chinese political world is easing into the
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  • 347 20 TECH Wire services. THE use of telemedicine, in which doctors practise from afar using everything from telephone consultations to remote-controlled surgical tools, is rapidly expanding as the military upgrades medical care. Army Colonel Ron Poropatich, a critical-care doctor who is also the telemedicine consultant for
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  • TECH
    • 468 22  -  By Oo Gin Lee tnp@sph.com.sg YOU'RE El Tejon, an impressionable and masterful gunslinger who has been left for dead by eight other members of your much-feared gang of criminals in the Wild Wild West. You had joined the Notorious Nine because
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  • Hey!
    • 741 26 FRIENDS FRENZY Showtime&Lifestyle 1 7-page special: Pages 28-34 The end of Friends after 10 years also marks the end of an era for TV sitcoms, which will give way to reality TV rage. With tongue firmly in cheek, JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) predicts which of our good friends
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    • 525 26 BREAKING up is hard to do, especially among Friends. It was an emotional day when the final episode was filmed in secret with no studio audience in January. Matthew Perry was close to tears as he walked onto the set with girlfriend Rachel Dunn one last time,
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    • 845 27  -  Sitcom fans bond over witty dialogues and hairstyles friends! FRENZYI By Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg EVER had a "Friends" moment? Or thought you might be a Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey, Ross and Rachel at some point in your life? Loh Li-Yen and her buddies of 10 years have had
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    • 575 29  - I WON’T MISS THESE FRIENDS BUT I WILL! ...says CHANG MAY CHOON (changmc@sph.com.sg) ...says YEOH WEE TICK (weeteck@sph .com .sg) ALL'S well and will end well in Friends. In the final 10th season, Ross, Rachel and Joey are set to resolve their love triangle, Monica and Chandler will continue trying
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    • 204 29 TOP FIVE BEST MOMENTS The one where Phoebe sees Monica and Chandler making out from Ross' to-be apartment and screams: "My eyes! My eyes!" The one with Ross and Monica performing the Routine a spastic dance which won them an honorable mention in an eighth-grade dance contest
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    • 467 30  -  FRIENDS FRENZY Never heard off this sitcom called Friends? But you're curious about the last season? No sweat. We bring you up to speed on what's happened in the last 10 years. By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph.com. sg Season 1 (1994): The One Where It All
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  • 305 31 there's just no saying goodbye FRIENDSI THE 10th and final season of Friends arrives tonight, but it's no laughing matter. Despite having had its share of both excessive hype and deserved backlash, this ensemble sitcom about six Manhattan pals who gather at each other's apartments won't
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 69 31 @<}\'/``(%@;:`*&>;||</`|?_@${{_ Highlights Bad Boys Channel i, 9pm Two hip detectives protect a murder witness while investigating a case of stolen heroin. Stars Will Smith, Martin Lawrence. Man At Forty Channel 8,9pm New drama about two feuding half-brothers who are severely tested as they struggle to take The Concrete Jungle/ ColinGoh.com
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    • 71 31 their father's food business back to its former glory. Stars Zoe Tay, Edmund Chen. CABLE Kim Possible Disney Channel (Ch 33), 5pm New season of action-packed adventures with sassy teen heroine Kim Possible who races against time to battle dastardly evil-doers of the world. COMICS UU OH SUE. CW\a: GET
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    • 286 42  -  By Michael Lee manyan@sph.com.sg LEADING jockey Craig Carmody must be wondering which was the lesser of the two evils. The pain of a broken nose sustained from last Saturday's race-fall or the agony of seeing three winners slipping out of his hands on
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    • 686 43  -  Speedy German raider leads all the way j SPECIAL :v. ifi;' i* i&aA i asvM :.cs By Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph. com. sg GERMAN raider Epalo led an all-overseas finish with an explosive display of front-running tactics in the $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup
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    • 341 43  -  By Michael Lee manyan@sph.com.sg > A MAGNIFICENT treble aside, trainer Don Baertschiger will probably treasure last night's memory with that of a horse who did not win. Though his Moon Shadow ran a distant fifth to SIA Cup winner Epalo, he came out tops
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    • 552 43 'The race went completely according to plan. He broke well and I was able to get across to the inside rail after 200 m and dictate the pace. He travelled really easily and I was able to give him a breather on the bend. I was
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    • 570 45 Reuters. GARY STEVENS had Rock Hard Ten on the heels of Smarty Jones at the top of the stretch in the Preakness Stakes last Saturday and said his colt was pulling into "another gear". Did that spell trouble for Smarty Jones?
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    • 1123 50 SULTAN OF SELANGOR'S CUP 2004 Journalist ERWIN WONG was 12 when the Kallang Roar was at its peak. Now 23, he looks back at the good 'ole days when he used to be glued to the radio or television set, listening or watching expectantly with
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    • 968 51 BECKHAM SEES RED AS REAL SEE THEIR SEASON TURN BLACK EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN AFP. REAL Madrid's spectacular end-of-season collapse continued this morn ing (Singapore time). They recorded their fourth straight loss, going down ignominiously 2-1 at already-relegated bottom club Murcia. Never, since the Spanish league started
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    • 481 52 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN, ITALY, PORTUGAL PA Sport. LUIS Enrique might have played his last match for Barcelona at the Nou Camp as Frank Rijkaard's men continued their bid to secure second place in the Primera Liga with victory over Racing Santander. A Ronaldinho
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    • 809 52 Reuters. AC MILAN'S Ukrainian striker Andrei Shevchenko finished the season as Serie A top scorer but almost lost the prize on the final day to Parma's Alberto Gilardino, who struck four goals in a 4-3 win over Udinese. Shevchenko's tap-in during Milan's 4-2 win
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      • 241 55 PA Sport. WHILE Sir Alex Ferguson may regret not playing Roy Keane jZ, enough, Man U's Ryan Giggs thinks jfr it is important team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo (left) is rested enough. The winger has even slapped a "handle with care" notice on the Portuguese
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      • 205 55 ENGLISH DIV ONE PLAY-OFFS SUNDERLAND v PALACE (2nd leg) PA Sport. SUNDERLAND will run out at home tonight knowing that they could be just 180 minutes away from a remarkable return to the Premiership. The Black Cats trail only by Andy Johnson's late strike, which earned Crystal
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      • 413 57 PA Sport. UNITY, loyalty and the love for Arsenal. Three of the many reasons why Arsenal have succeeded where others failed, according to captain Patrick Vieira (left). He said: "Everyone wants to stay together. There's not a single player who wants to leave.
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      • 713 58  -  ARSENAL: EPL CHAMPIONS 2003-2004 BY FRANK MALLEY PASporfs Chief Sports Writer SO Arsenal truly are the conquerors of the Premiership the first team in the modern English game to go unbeaten through an entire season. Forever more Arsene Wenger's side deservedly will be referred to as
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        382 59 UNBEAT|NiPLj|„ CHAMPIONS *****04k 4f ARSENEWENGER: The key for us was quality play and our attitude. I can't praise the players enough. In any job consistency is a sign of quality. I don't believe in miracles. I believe in good quality of work. A manager needs high motivation levels,
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      • 235 60 SAWADEE-KOP: LIVERPOOL THAILAND THE INSIDE STORY ITS the hottest news in Thailand right now. Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra wants to entrench himself in Liverpool Football Club by bidding £60 million (slB3m) for a 30 per cent stake in the Premiership giants. Siam Sport Daily correspondent
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      • 221 60 THE Thai politician's motives have been openly questioned. Why would a Prime Minister want to buy into a football club? Somlurk gets the answers from the man himself. "Thaksin wants Liverpool for three reasons. "Firstly, he hopes the Liverpool connection, with big-name
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      • 152 60 BEFORE the Reds can reinforce their squad with the £60 million ($183m) cash injection, there could be a surprise ending in store. Yesterday evening, it appeared that Thaksin was willing to pump his baht elsewhere in the Premiership should his Liverpool deal fail.
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      • 438 61 SAWfIDII-KOP: LIVERPOOL. <*>THAI LAND Absolutely correct, said Somlurk. In fact, he asked the Prime Minister about this embarrassing fact. "Thaksin laughed when I asked him if he supports Man U. "He told me that it's true and he even joked that after buying
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      • 173 61 ARE they really serious about this Thailand-Liverpool alliance? Somlurk reports that Thaksin had already started the ball rolling. "Last week, Thaksin sent the Minister of Sports to look for a suitable area to build Liverpool's football academy in Thailand. "The minister picked a hill in the countryside outside
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