The New Paper, 10 October 2004

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      1014 2  -  S'pore parents go gaga over new technology that makes colour videos, DVDs of foetuses. But what price pride? Fawziah Selamat fawziahs@sph.com.sg BABY Chia is a star of a video show even before emerging into life's limelight. He rests his chin on his tiny hands. He looks thoughtful. And
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    • 617 4 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Pictures like these helped convince mum to shelve M- *-9 1 abortion DiaM.m "Once I saw the by I a moving, it was somudimore difficult to go through an abortion/' SHE was on the verge of aborting her baby. Then she saw the foetus on
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    • 215 4 IN the US, 3D/4D technology has led to brisk business, prompting the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to scrutinise the practice closely. With cutesy names like "Womb with a View" and "Peek-a-Boo", US companies operating in small offices or shopping malls are offering themselves
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    • 1416 5  - CAN SDU SD S BECOME Us? MIX MATCH: MARRY UP™ OR DOWN YES Never mind that she's cfotagood job and degree, and hPs a drop-out and ex-convict YES Never mind that she has a masters andhehasa diploma DawnChia dawnchia@ sph.com.sg SHE'S attractive, well-spoken and educated. She has a second upper
      pictures / Kua Chee Siong, Dominic Ying  -  1,416 words
    • 499 6 MIX MATCH: MARRY UPOH DOWN From previous page SDS has more candidates than SDU, but the latter has more funding. If the two are merged, economies of scale as well as a bigger pool of potential spouses could be shared, argues MP Penny Low. The MP
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    • 361 7 THE possibility of marrying government matchmaking agencies SDU and SDS is currently under review, says Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS). She said in Parliament on Sep 2: "We are reviewing it. But we
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    • Article, Illustration
      1296 8  -  He's dirty and brings strange women home, says one. Hes picky and unreasonable, says the other MIX MATCH: THE OLD AND ALONE Under HDB rules, elderly singles who need a place to live in must pair up to rent a one-room flat. But what can you expect when
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    • 999 10 Mix match: the old and alone After bad times, two elderly men care for each other like brothers THEIRS is a story of how adversity turned two strangers into inseparable friends. And how friends, eventually, became family. Mr T P Abdullah, 76, and Mr Kunju Mohamed, 92,
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    • 371 11 One's diabetic half-deaf, the other's feeble half-blind THEY lead a quiet life in a spartan one-room flat with only each other for company. Mr Loh Choon Mock, 65, is diabetic and deaf in one ear. Yet, he takes care of his flatmate, Mr Abdul Jalil Idris, 69, who struggles to
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    • 198 11 UNDER HDB's Joint Singles Scheme, two single people, aged 35 and above, can rent a one-room flat together. Usually, applicants find their own flatmates. But if they cannot find a flatmate, they can approach HDB for help. In an e-mail reply to The New Paper
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    • 546 12  -  S'PORE COCAINE BUST Andre Yeo andrey@sph.com.sg THE son of a former High Court judge was one of those arrested in the cocaine bust this week. Central Narcotics Bureau spokesman Dawn Sim confirmed with The New Paper yesterday that Mr Dinesh Singh Bhatia, 34, was
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    • 1132 13  -  THEY'RE PROFESSIONALS WITH MONEY, YET THEY RISK IT ALL BY TAKING DEADLY DRUG KorKianBeng kianbeng@sph.com.sg THEY live a lie. They are people on the move by day young, urban and upwardly mobile professionals. But at night, they drive flashy cars and hit the expensive fancy restaurants.
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    • 238 13 SOCCER great Diego Maradona, goalkeeper Mark Bosnich, '90s chart-topper Courtney Love and supermodel Sophie Anderton. They have all admitted to seeking treatment for cocaine addiction. In fact, in the *****, cocaine was the social drug of choice in the West. Rock stars, socialites
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    • 330 14  -  SLICE OF SINGAPORE LIFE DominicYing #domying@sph.com.sg THE distance was just I.6km, but he said it was tougher than running the marathon. That's because Mr Jaime Ng had to get down on all fours and push an orange with his nose. The 26-year-old customer service officer
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    • 443 15 HIS NICKNAME WAS MR GOODY FOUR men attacked a school bus driver right outside his house in Johor Baru on Thursday afternoon and hacked him to death. His wife, Madam Lim Boey Lam, 38, was cooking at the back of the house
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    • 373 15 THE 36-year-old man claimed to be a datuk. He wore expensive clothes and partied all night at expensive nightclubs in Kuala Lumpur chalking up RM66,000 ($29,000) in bills. But, his partying days came to an end when officers from the city
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    • Article, Illustration
      367 16 IT STARTED WITH A HEADACHE, PARENTS THOUGHT IT WAS JUST FLU. NOW, GIRL, 12, MAY BE A... SHE was a healthy 12-year-old girl who So, when He Lishan woke up with a splitting headache on Friday morning, no-one expected it to be anything r serious. But an hour later,
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    • 413 16 STENCH FROM THE MATTRESS? CONTAMINATED fibres, cardboard boxes, discarded nylon bags, grass and rusty coils. No, it's not a list of what you would find in a garbage dump. It's a list of what was found in 41 mattresses seized by Hong Kong customs officials. The mattresses were
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    • 155 17 A CARTOONISH painting of President George W Bush in the nude has been taken down from the wall at the City Museum of Washington. The picture, called Man of Leisure, King George, adopts the pose of a famous Impressionist painting, Edouard Manet's Olympia. The painting by local
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    • 314 17 THAI MONASTERY OFFERS ITS claim that it can cure drug addiction in a matter of days has drawn 100,000 addicts from around the world to a monastery in Thailand over the years. But its purported cure is certain to leave a sour taste in their mouths.
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 18 IN HEBREW, THE WORD 'INTEREST' MEANS THE SERPENT'S BITE. WHY SHOULD I LET THE SERPENT TAKE A BIG BITE OF MY INCOME? Mr George Lim, who ran up a mountain of credit card debts, before slowly clearing it and swearing off the cards for life.
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    • 127 18 NOT Mr John Kerry's, but US President George W Bush's. The Internet was abuzz with speculation that Mr Bush had some kind of a wireless prompting device strapped to his back during his first debate with Mr Kerry in Miami. Many thought they could
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    • 77 18 AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard, a key US ally and supporter of the Iraq war, resoundingly beat the centre-left opposition Labor to win a fourth straight term in office yesterday. Mr Howard was returned with what seemed like an increased majority and in December will become
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    • 158 18 CHIN PENG in s pore CHIN Peng, 80, former secretary-general of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), who led the communist insurgency in Malaya and Singapore, was given permission to visit Singapore last week. It was his first trip here since the Malayan
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    • 102 18 AFP. MINISTERS from 10 south-east Asian nations have agreed to form a taskforce to help co-ordinate efforts to tackle bird flu that has killed at least 30 people in the region since December. Six Asian nations have reported a resurgence of the virus that has killed
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    • 170 18 Reuters. AFGHANISTAN'S historic presidential election closed yesterday without any of the feared large-scale violence. But the vote was thrown into turmoil when all 15 of President Hamid Karzai's rivals said they would boycott the election because systems to prevent illegal multiple voting had gone
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    • 59 18 A BULGARIAN hunter fought off an attack by a 320 kg bear, then almost killed himself when he tripped over his gun, grazing his head with a bullet. When Marin Cogev, 55, was attacked by the bear he hit the animal on the head with the butt of his
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    • 49 19 Because they're real i§t" The newly-crowned Miss S'pore World is also the face of breast enhancement ads. But Miss Lisa Huang would have you know that everything you see has not been touched up, cut-up or enhanced. This is me. This is natural. I am real
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      729 20 She's modelled for a breast-firming ad, but insists she's never gone for a boob job Yes, I am HER face, if you're looking at it, might seem familiar. Ah, you think, haven't I seen her in some breast-firming ad? Yes, it's true. But Lisa Huang's more recent claim to
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    • 377 21 from Temasek Polytechnic, said earnestly: 1 believe it will be difficult for me to get anywhere with a poly diploma, so I furthered my studies and got a degree in business management from the University of Manchester. "My dream is to become a lecturer
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    • 321 22 Ivory-Merchant movie to show city before communist era AP. SHANGHAI, the *****. Vibrant, cosmopolitan and just the right setting for a period drama film from the Merchant-Ivory stables. And that's exactly what you will be seeing in White Countess the 47th film from the producing-directing duo
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    • 707 23  -  SOME PEOPLE CALL TO RANT AND RAVE, AND THEY'RE FORCED TO LISTEN. BUT THEY DRAW THE LINE AT FOUL-MOUTHED CALLERS. THEY WILL HANG UP EstherAuYong estheray@ sph.com.sg IF you've got the gift of the gab and love to talk, getting paid to speak on
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    • 525 25 WITH rising divorce rates, it is increasingly rare to meet a couple like Brandon and Stephanie, who have been married for 22 years. Their three children are grown up and have their own social circles, so the couple now find they have more time
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    • 241 26 THIS guy in my school asked me for my number early this year in the school canteen. Over time, we became more than friends. He once told me that he likes me and I don't deny
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    • 495 26  -  ADVICE EstherAuYong estheray@ sph.com.sg It takes two to keep a love pact. Obviously, the guy has moved on and you should too. Of course it hurts for now but trust me, time heals all wounds. Perhaps you lack closure. One way is to pluck up
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    • 394 27 1A DATE IN THE LIFE 0F... AFTER half a day, I realised that Robin Goh, perhaps more than any other man, cannot be tied down. He has to be free to soar, to fly like a bird. One indication: Currently a "full-time freelance"
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    • 411 27  -  About last night RachelRaeburn tn p@sph.com.sg A FRIEND once likened handling a relationship to flying a kite pull too hard, it'll snap and fly away. Loosen your grip, and it'll fly away too. It's when you've mastered the art of tugging and letting go gently,
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    • 521 30  -  EdwinYeo tnp@sph.com.sg BY now, you'll have read about Taiwanese foreign minister Mark Chen's comparison of Singapore to pi sai (Hokkien for snot, or dried nasal mucus, if you're The Straits Times, or booger, if you're my 4-year-old). This is not necessarily a
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    • 444 30  -  Scribble pad JonathanLim tnp@sph.com.sg FOR this week, a snappy intro to three of our lovely female SGX team members. ESPLANAYDE One of the newer additions to the SGX team, Esplanayde has made her presence felt with her unusually designed chest-armor a lethal weapon in
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  • 450 33  -  IOOKMG UP down under J H-yl JaniceSeah tnp@sph.com.sg IT all began innocently enough, with a conversation about the price of eggs in Singapore. It's a subject which has spawned more shock among Singaporeans here than the discovery that koalas are not
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  • 513 37 DEBATE OVER CHALK DUST RAGES IN US COLLEGES AP. IT offers a glimpse into the latest split between tradition and technology on campus. Take Professor Tom Walsh of the University of Minnesota. He illustrates his lecture with a jumbo piece of chalk on a blackboard while
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  • 206 41 /-tech- TODAY'S young people do not need the technology education they are receiving to be successful in the 21st century. Not only that, there are growing indications that the high-tech lifestyle promoted by governments and businesses may be harmful to them, according to a controversial
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  • 320 43 JUST PLUG IN, CHARGE AND GO 7-tech^ AP. OIL prices at a record high may seem like bad news for those in the car industry. But a European car-maker is not crying over it. Luxembourg-based Moteur Developpement International (MDI) is gearing up for the launch
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  • racing
    • 508 45 DannyKhoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg A LITTLE past 5.37pm this afternoon, race-goers will know who is the best weight-for-age galloper over 1,800m at Kranji. The much-awaited clash i between Dreyfuss, Superior Star and Exaggerate in the $350,000 Raffles Cup would have been settled and, with it, the
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    • 66 45 Savttsky (Race 5 No. 9) This American-bred has hit a bright patch, with a win and a second at his last two starts. His win oivSep 10 was impressive. He overcame barrier No. 11 to lead throughout and clocked a splendid lmin 10.3 sec for 1,20 dm. Today,
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    • 1599 47 Smart coup: Azhar Ismail driving home $292 winner Smart Way in Race 2 at Kranji yesterday. pictures kenneth koh Finding the mark, at last: An ecstatic Loh Kin Kuen breaking out into a broad smile after winning on
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    • 1717 48 6 MAGNA FLIGHT 58 (25-9) SJohn (6) 4 1 1 (495) 11 EMBODY 56.5 (16-8) JGeroudis (1) 1 4 2 (454) 0.75L 4 DOUBLE TAP 58 c 55 (273-56) *KSara (8) 10 7 3 (512) ns 9 GUTSY STAR 57 (52-14)
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    • 262 48  -  TanThean Loon loon@sph.com.sg WELCOME BACK! Indeed, the greeting was meant for apprentice Mohd Zaki on the aptly-named Daniel Murphy-trained six-year-old in Race 6 at Kranji yesterday. It was his first winner this year. "I feel very, very happy," said the elated 24-year-old, quickly
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    • 1565 49 RACE 1: SWIFTY was scratched when found to be lame near-fore. S John replaced P Gatt (certified unwell) on MAGNA FLIGHT. M Razali was allowed to ride SWIFT VICTORY, an emergency acceptor. MAN OF VISION was fractious in the barriers, reared, got his
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    • 695 50 Renault technical director Pat Symonds believes today's tight schedule for the Japanese Grand Prix will give teams an interesting challenge after typhoon conditions skirted here yesterday. Qualifying for the season's penultimate race was postponed after concerns that typhoon Ma-on would hit the circuit and
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      18 51 \hl Today's Formula One battles are won not only on the track, but in the stops
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    • 493 52 WHEN Ferrari and Michael Schumacher shocked everyone at the French Grand Prix on July 4 with a perfectly-executed four pit-stop strategy, they demonstrated just how important pit-stops have become in Formula One. It's often described over TV as Eitlane-poker, but winning the attle of
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    • 107 53 I V A lu I WKM I wJb l j8 ■*"j*^ir jifiSflgS First woman president of the Singapore Hockey Federation (SHF) Singapore's first woman Chef de Mission to this year's Olympic Games in Athens In 1963, she of Singapore's Combined Schools hockey team, Her father, Police Inspector Percy Pennefather, captained
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    • 1397 54 THE ILLS THE CURE HOCKEY SINGAPORE hockey has long been plagued by battles, especially off the field. Rivalries, backbiting, arguments and self interest have caused the majority of fans to disappear. Only recently, the Division One title-deciding match between Singapore Recreation Club and Chenab Hockey Club ended with red faces
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    • 598 55 EPL is good for the local football scene. Why? An EPL Youth Cup in England with Asian teams? Why not? ERNEST LUIS talks to EPL Chief Executive Officer Richard Scudamore LOVE it or hate it, English football is converting more and more around the world.
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    • 377 55 EPL PHENOMENON: As hard it may be for us, the idea is not to do too much. And that's really the secret behind the phenomenon Consistency. The EPL is a consistent League. There are 380 games evdry season. The promotion and relegation rules stay the same. It's the
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      626 56  -  DOWN MEMORY LANE: KINGPINS OF SINGAPORE SOCCER JeffreyLow npsports@sph.com.sg Blessed with the pace, acceleration and ball control of a Cristiano Ronaldo, Quah Kim Song was Singapore's biggest football icon of the Seventies and early Eighties. Except for today's step-over trend, he was just as swift, just as
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    • 1017 57  -  Tampines Rovers will be celebrating their 53rd birthday this month. If today's Rovers, called the Stags, think they have achieved greatness by capturing their first S-League and Singapore Cup Double recently, look back to the real glorious era of the 1970s and 80s, says
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    • 137 57 THE national players produced by the "old" Tampines Rovers: Early 1970s to 1976: Goalkeepers: E Ellumalai, Ahmad Wartam, Edmund Wee. Defenders: Quah Kim Siak, Freddy Chew, Lim Teng Sai, Rahmat Mawar, Abu Sujak, Bernard Norbert. Midfielders: Suresh Anandan, M Kumar, S Manoharan, New Nam Tha, R Suriamurthi,
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      689 58 SCOTLAND 0 NORWAY 1 sa,,. min pen) WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS PA Sport. BERTI Vogts'job was once more on the line after his unbeaten home record in competitive matches was brought to an unhappy end by Norway. Steffen Iversen's 54th-minute penalty was enough to hand Norway their first win
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    • 803 59 ENGLAND 2 WALES 0 PA Sport. MICHAEL Owen (above) claimed England's first goal against Wales in the World Cup Qualifier at Old Trafford and admitted: "After you've gone a while without a goal, you often get one that comes off your backside!" The opening goal in
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      44 60 ENGLAND 2 WALES 0 Sheer genius, sheer heinous. Yesterday, in the 2-0 win over Wales, England skipper David Beckham demonstrated his dass with a stupendous goal and his crassness with a stupid foul that forces him to miss the next Qualifier. Graphics/fab
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    • 567 61  -  ENGLAND 2 WALES 0 THE VERDICT ON DAVID BECKHAM FEFFREY LOW PAINFUL though it may be, but here's the oft-repeated question facing David Beckham: When will he ever learn, when will he ever change? Hero one minute, villain the next. A class act one moment, then crass
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    • 99 61 England captain David Beckham was been taken to hospital for X-rays on his ribs. The Real Madrid midfielder left the pitch before the end of the match. Beckham was hurt in a challenge with Wales defender Ben Thatcher when both players clashed jumping for a ball.
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    • 792 62  -  ENGLAND 2 (Frank Lampard 4th min, David Beckham 76) WALES 0 Crowd: 65,244 ENGLAND 2 WALES 0 WANG MENG MENG HE'S been labelled a Romeo, a Casanova and Don Juan. And Sven-Goran Eriksson's latest fetish with threesomes is looking like an experiment gone
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    • 650 62 BEFORE this game, I was reading the book Sven-Goran Eriksson On Football, the sports psychology book written by the England manager. In it, he talked about the two main focus of his footballing philosophy. To pick the right group of players. To create
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    • 142 62 AFP. DAVID Beckham celebrated his return to Old Trafford with one of his finest goals in an England shirt. And SvervGoran Eriksson's side imperiously brushed Wales aside with a composed 2-0 win. After going ahead through Frank Lampard inside four minutes, England never gave the slightest indication of
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