The New Paper, 24 July 2004

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  • 33 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JULY 24, 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 I 70 CENTS 8 M the new paper
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    • 107 1 S 'porean flat smasher He destroys windows door out of anger but mum stillyws'l will look after him fa^jSr's^ a \v* l I V B r A m i if J 6' ■&3P !V^ 8 i.; 3& LJ.' <f.y. I ft f: T* M Ai ft S* 8 M ■r.'
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 953 2  -  By Angeline Song asong@sph.com. sg HE has a problem controlling his temper and smashes things at times. Last Sunday when his mother visited him, he smashed the door and windows of his rented flat because he was angry with her. For more than
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    • 184 2 FIRST, learn to recognise the warning signs when you're angry your body becomes hotter, your hands tremble or your heart rate increases. Then follow these steps: S: Stop. Imagine a big stop sign when you feel yourself getting angry. And stop. T: Think. Identify what is
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    • 376 2 MADAM Lee had visited her son around 11.35am last Sunday, with a packet of rice and coffee, reported Lianhe Wanbao. Suddenly, there was a commotion. A man yelled a string of vulgarities in Hokkien. And Madam Lee was heard yelling back.
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    • 474 3 Business slowdown expected THE party is over. Last year's exuberance is almost dead. Feeling the squeeze of a global slowdown, Singapore companies are less optimistic about business conditions in the next six months. Sales, profits and new business have levelled off in the second quarter
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    • 11 2 News IQ: Page 8 Hey!: Pages 42-4 7 TV: Pages 4849
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 755 5  -  Source: All value of coins in circulation taken from respective country's central bank websites, and the United States German embassy website. Population figures from World Bank website. Conversions done on Universal Currency converter: http://www.xe.com/ ucc on Jul 12. By Tay Shi'an shiart@sph.com.sg
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    • 132 6 ITS commonly known that Bruneian currency can be used in Singapore and vice versa. But did you know that Malaysia was actually part of the same arrangement as well? According, to MAS, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore actually adopted a system
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    • 277 6 DO Singaporeans still use coins The New Paper spoke to 50 Singaporeans aged 16 to 67. Our findings: Most of them do. Out of our 50 respondents, 42 said they still carried coins around when they went out. Reasons given ranged from
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    • 72 6 'Batman" teams up with Robben New Chelsea signing Mateja Kezman is in a bullish mood. The Serbo-Montenegrin marksman is ready to fire the Blues to Premiership glory. He's also looking to hook up with fellow ex-Eindhoven hotshot pal Arjen Robben. So the man who inspires the crowd to sing his
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 206 7 BOSS WORKER LABOUR CHIEF CALLS FOR: BOSSES must help workers strengthen their employability by developing their skills, and workers need to cooperate and adopt a mindset that learning is a lifelong process. It's the "new compact" between bosses and workers that will help workers remain engaged
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    • 57 7 Amid the cloudy skies, a sunflower in afield in Nyon, Switzerland, appears to be moaning about the lack of sunlight. Its sad face the result of its seeds having been picked out. Probably to protest at the heavy rains and thunderstorms that have plagued Switzerland
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    • 55 7 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 7.01/-0.4 Creative Technology 9.74/-0.07 Flextronics 12.5/-0.83 Chartered Semiconductor 5.8/-0.92 Stats 6.48/-0.55 Yesterday's Percentage n„ co i V/I0S6 action change Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 0.88% (88.11 pts) Down 2.12% (39.97 pts) Down 0.97% (10.64 pts) Down 0.68% (12.71
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    • 81 7 THE prices of Housing Board resale flats continue to rise. And maVket watchers believe the prices of three- and four-room flats will rise further towards year-end. Yesterday, the second-quarter HDB resale flat index showed a 1.25 per cent increase over the first three months of the
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    • 69 7 THEY have priority in getting The Pinnacle@Duxton flats. But only two out of 191 households in Blocks 1 and 2 Cantonment Road who qualify opted for it, reported Lianhe Zaobao. Most of the residents are elderly folk who depend on welfare assistance or a small income, and
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    • 77 7 THE Muslim community will spend $1.5 million this year to free needy Muslim families from the poverty trap. Much of it will go to an Empowerment Partnership Scheme to help 200 needy families. This will be overseen by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore. The aid will
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    • 75 7 AT least seven schools will ballot the applications from parents under Phase 2B of their Primary One registration. The phase, which ended yesterday, is for school volunteers, community leaders, and members of churches and clan associations. The schools are ACS (Junior), ACS (Primary), Catholic High, Methodist
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    • 80 7 YOU can now find computers at your nearest NTUC FairPrice supermarket. The range of entry-level machines called ePC, priced from $588 to $928, was launched at the chain's Jurong Point outlet yesterday. Two desktop models with a minimum of 40 GB of storage space are being
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    • 67 7 FURNITURE exporters here want a furniture street to showcase their designs. On the Singapore Furniture Industry Council's wishlist: A village for young designers with a design library, prototyping centres and low-cost office space. And a home for the Furniture Learning Institute. The council, which represents 238 retailers and
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 913 9 Take a walk with SYLVIA TOH PAIKCHOO, and let her show you S'pore her way THE attention span of the average Singapore shopper can be measured in mall minutes. As soon as a new one springs up across the road, you and I
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    • 747 10  -  By Zaihan Mohd Yusof and Wan Chang Chin tnp@sph.com. sg ITS the kind of thing you would expect in an episode of the science detective series -CSI. A man is wrongly accused of a crime, but thanks to DNA, the experts clear his name and
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    • 341 10 IF DNA can help solve crimes quickly, why not a national DNA database containing the DNA profiles of all Singaporeans? Dr Henry Lee thinks that a national DNA database is not possible, mainly due to privacy issues. One country with such a
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    • 666 11  -  By Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg FOR Madam Foo Choo it was one bit of bad luck after another until the Tan Tock Seng Endowment Fund stepped in to help. Her husband died of a heart condition four years
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    • 319 12 MR Roney Tan (above) is the honorary consul of Spain, by virtue of his business dealings with that country. He runs a shop here which imports many products from Spain. He is also Tan Tock Seng's great-great grandson, a direct male
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    • 110 12 TAN Tock Seng Hospital will be 160 years old tomorrow. Today, the hospital's senior management, staff and friends, will be bringing cheer through song, touch therapy, befriending, entertainment and gifts to the patients of Ren Ci Hospital, Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital, Singapore Christian Home for
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    • 135 12 THE Tan Tock Seng Endowment Fund was started in 1995 and aims to help: Needy patients who may not qualify for subsidies or those who have medical needs not subsidised by the Government; Patients for whom established avenues of financial help are not available or have
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  • WORLD
    • 119 14 Wire services. IT'S the highest price paid at auction for a Bentley, Christie's said. The 1930 Bentley Speed Six (left), described as an "exceptional racing Titan", won the Double Twelve race and came second in the Le Mans 24-hour contest that year. The car
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    • 265 14 THIS is not the first time the Singaporean company has faced such complaints. Now, Thailand's National Human Rights Commission has voiced concern over the lay-offs. RacMitly, It laid off 200 workers —11 of them pregnant womon. The Singaporean-owned electronics plant MMI Precision
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    • 402 15 Japan workers squeezed for value China job market squeezed dry THE labour cost savings are tempting for many. So Japan firms are headed down the temping and part-timing path. According to a Japan government survey, more firms there are replacing full-time employees
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    • 240 15 Quit looking for work be your own boss, says govt IN CHINA... TURN the big headache of finding a job into the reality of becoming small-business owners. That's what the Chinese goverment wants to help its citizens to do. The government in China has launched a three-year programme to help
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    • 249 16 IN their latest bid to get victims, hackers are using people's appetite for news on terrorism to lure them. They are putting messages in Internet chat rooms and message boards suggesting netizens visit a website to view photographs showing terrorist chief Osama bin
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    • 61 16 Osama birtLaden was found hanged by two CNN journalists. s As evidence they took several photos, some of which have been included here (name of bogus website is given). As yet, this information has not hit the headlines due tfrPresident Bush wanting confirmation of his iderHity
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    • 162 16 Reuters. 1 -S* fj N T c v.- V*. w NEXT time you go shopping for spectacle frames, try and see if the frame arms can double as chopsticks. A German firm has begun offering sunglasses and prescription spectacles with detachable frame arms that can
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    • 362 17 NZ BOYS INVENT CHEAP GADGET IT is a device for modern times. A group of boys in New Zealand have developed a cheap gadget to stop people cheating in exams. The six teens from St Thomas of Canterbury College in New Zealand designed
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    • 526 18 Jogger goes missing, husband found running naked outside hotel AP. HIS wife went on a morning jog and disappeared. That was what Mark Hacking said when he called the police on Monday to report that his 27-year-old pregnant wife, Lori (right), had gone missing. The next day,
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    • 294 18 AN Indonesian maid was found dead with 14 stab wounds at her employer's house in Taman Sri Skudai, Johor Baru, on Wednesday. The police have detained a 16-year-old student, her employer's nephew. The 38-year-old Indonesian maid, a mother of one, was
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    • 552 19 8-STOREY MANILA BUILDING COLLAPSES SECURITY guard at Insular bank Ernesto Ozaeta knew that something was amiss. He had felt "pounding" on the ground floor of the building and quickly told the bank manger about it. He told reporters: "As early as 10:30 am
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    • Article, Illustration
      810 20 ENGLAND MANAGER REPORTEDLY SPLITS WITH GIRLFRIEND OF SIX YEARS Her friends say: She dumped him for cheating His friends say: He dumped her for chattering THEY were second only to Posh and Becks as the most talked-about couple in British football. But the six-year affair between ice-cool England
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  • TECH
    • 283 28 AFP. A NEW breed of computer worms and viruses, modified by hackers to avoid detection, is spreading at an alarming rate across the Internet, security experts warned. Most of the bugs appear to be new versions of old viruses and worms, some of which may
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    • 384 29 Freshmen showing up at Duke university in the US will get one to double as a learning tool Wire services. HOWS this for a welcome gift. Freshmen showing up at Duke University in North Carolina this year will get their own Apple iPod,
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  • TECH
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    • 469 49 WORKOUTS, on a good track, by horses engaged this afternoon: RACE 1: Slow work: Mister Sunshine (K Sara), Raikkonen, Brooksy, First Knight, Golden Lakshmi, Ashgrove. RACE 2: Slow work: Brandy Dry, Lemurian (E Wilkinson), both fitter. RACE 3: Slow work: Kato (A Ng), Popular
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    • 159 49 BEST BET With a proud record of five wins and eight placings in 18 starts, this emerging sprinter has been a wonderful advertisement for Queensland-based sire Sequalo and his breeder-owner Lyndhurst Stud Farm. He normally races with the speed but came from a long
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    • 1026 50 GOING FORECAST: GOOD TO YIELDING HEAVY DUTY: Jockey Benny Woodworth (right) may Just give Irish trainer Danny Murphy his first Krsnjl success when ha lags up on tOrwanHooklng newcomer Baileys Cream In Race 4 thla afternoon. No. Last 6 raw HORSE Wt Rating
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    • 1120 52 COMMENTS FOR RAGES 6-9 BY TAN TMEAN LOON VALUE PACK: Jockey Din Azls Is worth supporting as his four mounts for the day— Optimum Note (Race 5), Starring (Race 6), Road House (Race 7) and Octavo (Race 9)—
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        29 59 THE ONLY ONE: Skipper Roy Keane shows the FA Cup In tho backdrop of celebrating team-mates OleGunnar Solskjaer (left) and Was Brown (second from left) Picture/ Reuters
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    • 99 60 THE result of all the transfer activity over the last few weeks is that Mourinho now has almost the full complement of two internationals for every position which he feels is necessary to make an assault on both thftPtemiership and Champions League. "Clubs likes Real Madrid and
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