The New Paper, 7 September 2004

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  • 41 1 the new paper TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2004 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com sg I Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 02S/03 2004 |70 CENTS 8 887 1 81 ***** 1 I M i A |^M!
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 830 2  -  Nails and barbed wire keep Tampines and Hougangvoid decks football-free By Tay Shi’an shian@sph.com.sg BARBED wire around beams. Rows of nails on walls, near the ceiling (left). That's what you'll find at some void decks and pavilions in Tampines and Hougang. The town councils
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    • 348 3 IF not in void decks, then where? Do Singapore kids have enough places where they can play soccer? No, said student Tan Wei Liang, 15, who plays with about 15 of his friends almost daily. Their "pitch" in Hougang is a less-than-perfect concrete space between
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    • 724 4  -  Is it sunset By Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph.com.sg HE used to own 16 stalls at a wet market in Bedok. Over the last 24 years, he has given up all but four of them. Leaving each of them was not easy for Mr Poom Hee Hai, but he
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    • 156 4 DEMAND for wet market stalls has waned because of the emergence of supermarkets, says the National Environment Agency (NEA). There are 920 vacant wet market stalls at present, out of a total of 9,694. Vacant stalls are demolished in the Hawker Centres Upgrading Programme, which was introduced
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    • 348 4 AIR-CONDITIONED. Wider range of products. Affordable prices. These are the top three reasons why shoppers prefer to go to supermarkets. Mrs Christine Wong, who was at Shing Song Supermarket in Bedok, said it was more convenient to shop at a supermarket as she could get all
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    • 1014 5  -  Believe or not, some mums will claim that their healthy children are sick, or deliberately hurt or poison them so that they do become sick By Andre Yeo andrey@sph. com.sg A MOTHER took her 15-month-old toddler to the National University Hospital
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 290 6 FOCUS ON THE ELDERLY THEY'VE spent the better part of their lives dedicated to the family. Now in their 50s to 80s, many elderly housewives are left without jobs, Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings or even education. What would become of these women if their children
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    • 113 6 POWDER paste and herbs adorned the bride-to-be. Draped in finery, Dayangku Sarah Pengiran Salleh Ab Rahaman (centre) sat in a golden throne as Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (right) performed the traditional Malay marriage custom. His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei and Her Majesty attended the colourful
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    • 178 6 A NEW outbreak of bird flu in Kelantan yesterday has led to an extension of the ban on Malaysian imports of poultry and eggs. The ban could have been lifted on Sunday, when Malaysia was free of bird flu for 21 days, the waiting period
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    • 90 6 BOTH Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew showed up in the High Court yesterday, but Dr Chee Soon Juan, against whom damages for defamation were to be to set, failed to show. Dr Chee, who had defamed Mr Goh and Mr
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    • 66 6 The Urban Redevelopment Authority has received two more applications from developers to turn CBD office blocks into apartments, as residential values there are higher than office values. Far East Organization has provisional permission to convert its Natwest Centre in McCallum Street into 280 apartments. City Development and
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    • 88 6 OCBC Bank yesterday fired a fresh salvo in the credit cards business in Singapore by announcing a tie-up with the NTUC Link to offer credit and debit cards to union members The bank, which has issued 500,000 credit cards here, is reaching out to the National Trades
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    • 82 6 SINGAPORE'S strong economic growth and high returns on investments has attracted more foreign investments. Foreign equity investment rose 8 per cent to hit a record $229 billion at the end of2002, new government data shows. About 96 per cent of the total was in direct equity
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  • 715 7  -  NEWS By Wan Chang Chin wancc@sph.com.sg STREAKERS at matches televised live: Diversion or nuisance? At the middle of the World Cup qualifier between Latvia and Portugal in Riga, a Latvian fan stripped off her shirt and ran topless onto the pitch (right). The cameras followed
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  • 727 9  -  ON HIS SIX YEARS IN PRISON MALAYSIA Anwar HE's never seen the iconic footage of the 9/11 terror attacks. For the six years he was in solitary confinement, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim learned about world events only from occasional chats with guards, or
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  • WORLD
    • 498 10 US presidential candidate John Kerry blasts rival for Iraq war AP. HE aimed squarely in the middle. At the middle initial of US President George W Bush's name, that is. Playing on the letter W, Democratic presidential candidate John
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    • 92 10 AP. IT was the deadliest day for US forces in four months of fighting in Iraq. Yesterday, a suicide attacker faced up to a US military convoy and blew up an explosives-packed car 15km north ofFallujah, killing seven Marines and three
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    • 248 11 JAPAN'S Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had an affair with a Tokyo geisha who is 27 years'younger, two Japanese publications (above) reported yesterday. It reportedly started eight years ago when she was 27 and he was 54. Described as being 1.6m tall, slim, and articulate, she works
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    • 491 12 ...then chases him down 14 storeys A TAIWANESE teenager saw her mother being shot in the head, point blank, by her boyfriend, according to an Apple Daily report. Despite her terror, plucky See Jing Ya, 15, threw caution to the wind to save
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    • 802 13 INTELLIGENCE agencies in the region have uncovered a web of over 100 marriages involving Jemaah Islamiah (JI) members and their operatives. It is a well-known fact that the terror group had made use of marriage ties to strengthen itself as a unit. But the extent
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    • 211 13 THE Abbas family is a classic case of marriage alliances involving JI members. And the most prominent member of this family is Mohamed Nasir Abbas, a former JI leader given the responsibility of running the group's operations in Sabah, Kalimantan, Brunei, Sulawesi and the Philippines. The Singapore-born
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    • 403 24 School of Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic ft Q Differentiation Here come the transcendental Mr Lim Ching Kwang Mr Lee Ching Kee f ~>V f In the previous few lessons on differentiation, the functions involved are all Example 4: polynomial functions or the products, quotients or powers of polynomial functions. Find
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    • 382 25 N Solution: Example 7: y 3.005in(0.75*/) The velocity of the object at any instant is ~j~ which is: Jf® Path of bullet =3.00 c05(0.75 (0.75 ft Bullet >L fired 2.25*c05(0.75*/) At/-5, R 1 *i4y/ ■>- 2.25 c05(0.75 x 5) dt A bullet is fired at an angle 6 with the
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    • Article, Illustration
      790 31  -  mm itdeble ■Sfc a jyi By Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg IT is truly a jinx of cosmic proportions. The Superman 5 project has spent 10 years on the Warner Brothers' drawing boards, chalked up between US$10 million and $20 million ($17m and $34m) in project development, saw 10
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    • 204 31 1993: Warner Brothers buys film rights frorti Alexander Salkind. It hires Jonathan Lemkin (The Devil's Advocate) to write the script. It Superman Reborn. GregPoirier (Rosewood) is hired to rewrrtetemkin's draft. 1996: Kevin Smith, producer/director ofDogma, Clerks and Jersey Girl, is htoßd to rewrite Roirier's script.
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  • HEY!
    • 182 32 TEEN soprano Charlotte Church (right) is devastated that unimpressed Sony chiefs have postponed the release of her debut pop album till early next year. This, after a string of music industry experts branded it "complete crap". The 18-year-old is desperate to shed her
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    • 110 32 FOLLOWING in the footsteps of Colin Farrell, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp (left) is the latest heart-throb rumoured to be puckering up for a same-sex smooch in an upcoming film, The Libertine, about 17th-century poet John Wilmot, also known as the Earl of Rochester.
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      88 32 SINGER-ACTRESS Jennifer Lopez (right, with actor Sean Hayes) should consider a career with the FBI, after flushing out a mole in her close circle. Seems Lopez suspected her long-term makeup artist, Scott Barnes, was blabbing intimate details of her life to the press, so she tested her
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    • 178 33 AS if the teenage drama portrayed on TV show The O.C. wasn't enough, now there's tension off-screen too. Actors Rachel Bilson, Adam Brody and Benjamin McKenzie are reportedly jealous of co-star Mischa Barton (left), whose star is outshining them all. A source said: "Rachel has issues
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    • 118 33 HOLLYWOOD superstar Tom Cruise (above) seems to have an easier time remaining friends with ex-girlfriend Penelope Cruz than ex-wife Nicole Kidman. When visiting Madrid for the Spanish premiere of his latest film Collateral, the 42-year-old actor spent a night dining and catching up with
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    • 69 33 IF you can't make out the lyrics to the Black Eyed Peas songs in the upcoming video game, The Urbz: Sims In The City, that's because it's in Simlish. Simlish is the gibberish-sounding fictional language spoken by the characters in the popular people-simulation game, The Sims.
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    • 540 34  -  S'PORE IDOL: GROUP 3 By, Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg WITH her tattoos, piercings and cleavage, Maia Lee (left) will easily win votes for being Singapore Idol's most controversial contestant. The 21-year-old club singer is edgy, shoots from the hip, and has far-from-traditional views about
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    • 437 35 WHO can forget the sorry sight of a teary-eyed Nur Hasanah (aka Nana) clutching her stomach in pain and being carried off on a stretcher? The 24-year-old freelance events coordinator was stricken with severe gastric pain and constipation on the second day
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    • 297 36 Three... Extremes Starring: Miriam Yeung, Lee Byung Hun, Kyoko Hasegawa Directors: Fruit Chan, Park Chan Wook, Takashi Miike Rating: DON'T expect extreme improvements in this sequel to the horror trilogy Three. Three... Extremes featuring contributions from Japan, Korea and Hong Kong this time, suffers the
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    • 653 36  -  WHAT THOSE TICKS MEAH: Don't waste your time Only if you have time to kill ✓✓✓sTake your time Make time for it No time to lose, watch now! By Sylvia Toh Paik Chop tnp@sph.com.sg Director Steven Spielberg, actor Tom'Hanks, together (again). It's a
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    • Article, Illustration
      315 36 Man On Fire Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Marc Anthony Director: Tony Scott Rating: YOU can always count on two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington to be the hottest thing in his movies. And it's his burning performance that fuels Man On Fire, the latest in a
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    • 575 37 Page 44 PRIME-TIME TV THE NEW PAPER/Tuesday, September 7,2004 Kids II fc #fM SS ffj An accountant enmeshed in 1 dad cnoose iSP smikskl W Depp, Christopher Walken. I •"■in 1 lln the second season, 17T Meredith Phillips who was rejected by Bachelor Bob —is now in the driver's seat
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    • 387 47 )TTENNIS: US OPEN ANDRE Agassi (above) set up a mouthwatering quarter-final showdown with world No 1 Roger Federer following a 6-3 6-2 6-2 win over Armenia's Sargis Sargsian at the US Open yesterday. Sargsian survived two five-set battles to reach the fourth round but
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    • 124 47 TOP seed Roger Federer went through to the quarter-finals without hitting a ball when Andrei Pavel pulled out with a back injury. The 16th-seeded Romanian withdrew with a herniated disc, allowing Federer to reach the quarter-finals of the tournament for the first time, where he
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    • 287 47 VENUS Williams was outslugged in the battle of the former champions when she lost 7-5 6-4 to fifth seed Lindasay Davenport. The 28-year-old Davenport grabbed one break in each set to extend her winning streak to 21 matches and set up a quarter-final with unseeded Shinobu Asagoe
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    • 378 47 Wire Services. TIM Henman reached his first US Open quarter-final yesterday when German opponent Nicolas Kiefer retired in the fifth set of their fourth- round match. The British No 5 seed, celebrating his 30th birthday, was 3-0 up in the decider when Kiefer walked towards the umpire's chair
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    • 529 48  -  LAST WEEKEND'S BETTING REVIEW WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS By Brian Miller npsports@sph. com.sg DAVID Beckham (right) told his players: "Don't blame anyone. When we win, we celebrate. When things go bad, we share the spoils." All that is fine rhetoric. But try using it
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      918 49 How Real Madrid plan to be the Lion King of football Reuters. AT first glance England football captain David Beckham and Simba, the cuddly cub from Disney's Lion King, do not have much in common but Real Madrid football club disagree. Beckham is a cornerstone of Real's strategy
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        377 50 WmiS WADDLE- Newcastle got... -mm 1 sr -v PA Sport. FORMER Newcastle favourite Chris Waddle backed the appointment of Graeme Souness (left), which came as a surprise to many. But Waddle believes Souness is the sort of disciplinarian very much needed in the wild Magpies dressing room
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      • 204 50  -  By KERIMOGLU TUGAY BLACKRUN I WAS very shocked when I heard from my agent that Graeme Souness had resigned from Blaickburn to become manager at Newcastle. I was surprised as there was no warning and we hadn't heard any rumours. I was due for training at 2pm, by
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      • 209 50 PA Sport. GRAEMJE Souness changed the landscape of Scottish football when he arrived in 1986 as the first player-manager of Rangers. Instead of Scottish players departing to England, he managed to recruit some big names from south of the border. Rangers won three championships before he left
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      • 187 50 I was just as surprised else when I got that text message saying that Souness is leaving. Blackburn's new signing Morten Gamst Pedersen on the man who brought him to Ewood Park. thinks ij(Souness) is a big, hard, man, but they won't see that up there (in
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    • 655 51 GROUP FOUR: FAROE ISLANDS v FRANCE Wire Services. French football boss Claude Simonet has admitted he is "worried" about France's chances of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup. Les Bleus, who are now without the retired Marcel Desailly, Lilian Thuram, Bixente Lizarazu and Zinedine Zidane, started their
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    • WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS
      • 941 52 Wire Services. SPAIN coach Luis Aragones has been surprised at just how badly his team have played in their two friendly matches under his charge. "Yes, we're a good deal worse than I first thought," said Aragones. "We've been bad in the first half in
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      • 668 52 KEANETO PLAY IN PAIN: Republic of Ireland boss Brian Kerr has revealed Roy Keane is to play through the pain barrier for club and country for what could be the next two months. A week ago, Kerr had resigned himself to being without Keane for the
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      • 719 53 POLAND v ENGLAND TOMORROW AFP. IT'S true: David Beckham isn't playing particularly well. He didn't in Portugal and he didn't against Austria on Saturday. Now, people are starting to take him to task, including former England captain Terry Butcher, who has launched a stinging attack on
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      • 274 53 PA Sport. SVEN-Goran Eriksson vowed to keep faith with his key players for tomorrow night as he rejected any concerns over the form or disciplinary record of David Beckham. Less than twoe months on from England's Euro 2004 exit, little seemed to have changed on
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      • 241 53 PA Sport. JOHN Terry has hailed the emergence free-sco goal in the last seven games in Saturday's disappointing 2-2 draw with Austria. Hie Chelsea star had been one of the few England players to emerge with UJheir reputation enhanced "c^s^sldp^^Terry fantastic. He is the backbone of Chelsea.
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      • 666 53 Wire Services. STEVEN Gerrard has said it like it is. Which is, when it comes to big tournaments, the sad truth is England are only "quarter-final material". The Liverpool and England midfielder has also claimed that England "need to move up to the next level" before
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      1482 54 ...after almost a five-year wait Si GOLF: DEUTSCHE CHAMPIONSHIP BOSTON Wire services. AP. AFP. Vijay shows steady hand The key to his success... VIJAY Singh's rise to the pinnacle of the game will have surprised none of his peers. He has been widely regarded as having one
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    • 559 55 Wire Services. AFTER five years and a month, the golf world has got a new No 1. As of this morning, Vijay Singh is the best player in the world a fact that even the great Tiger Woods will now have to acknowledge. The Fijian
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