The New Paper, 7 December 2004

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  • 16 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2004 Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 the new paper
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1092 3  -  Dec 5: The New Paper On Sunday's readers blast MediaCorp's silence over vote figures Yesterday: MediaCorp releases The Final Score: Taufik 682,000 Slv 418,000 Believe it, says Doug 0 Sly was... Sly Sim Big loser? Taufik Batisah Big winner? By Fawziah Selamat fa wziahs@sph. com.sg WHAT an unexpected
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    • 879 4  -  Broke from failed business venture, she now wants to downgrade By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg SHE had waited six years for her new five-room HDB flat in Punggol. But when it was finally ready, in 2001, she didn't want it. Her business venture had
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    • 203 4 IF you buy private property and find that you don't want it, you can sell at any time. But if you back out of a deal to buy a new condo, you can be sued by the developer or the bank
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  • 438 5  -  NEWS By, Joycelyn Wong tnp@sph.com.sg SHE loved her 400 cc Honda bike (above) and would think nothing of heading 40km to Kulai, Johor, for supper once a month. The restaurant Miss Linda Wee (above, right), 20, went to is about half an hour
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 249 6 Firms expect to hire more Confidence, optimism up Business is looking up for companies here. They expect to hire more staff over the next year and are confident about their exports, sales and profits. They also plan to invest more in plant and machinery. Singapore
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    • 57 6 companies onnaspa q p CIOSe m 7 f han f el Pacific Internet 7.69/-0.07 Creative Technology 14.69/-0.97 Flextronics 14.25/-0.11 Chartered Semiconductor 6.54/+ O.OB Stats 6.25/-0.22 Yesterday's Percentage action change Close Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 0.43% (45.15 pts) Up 0.15% (3.29 pts) Down 0.04% (0.46 pts) Down
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    • 68 6 MOTHER of eight Rodelyn Cagas, 31, whose home was crushed by flood water, salvages wood from a coast in Quezon province. The Singapore Government is working with the Singapore Red Cross Society to give US$5O,OOO ($81,700) in humanitarian aid. About 1,400 people are
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    • 84 6 NEWER CT scanners will soon replace the conventional angiogram for spotting clogged arteries and heart disease because they are better, faster, cheaper and less invasive. These machines use X-rays to construct a detailed image of the heart. And in response to British authorities' plan to
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    • 74 6 A PANEL of top university dons and international scientists, has proposed a high-level research foundation here with government funding of $142 million a year. This will draw the most promising young research scientists and talented graduate students, and give select researchers more leeway to decide what they
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    • 83 6 AN informal group of about 10 professionals, including a financial consultant and two doctors, is quietly making it known that it will take in unwanted babies. It was formed last year by parents concerned about cases of abandoned babies. It aims to prevent spur-of-the-moment decisions from
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    • 76 6 THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) finally revealed yesterday that it sold HDB Corp to Temasek Holdings for $117 million. HDB says this amount was a price which both HDB and Temasek regarded as "fair". Since the sale was announced last week, there have been a
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    • 87 6 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) is responding more strictly to requests for sheltered walkways as there is an "overwhelming" demand for such links. In the late *****, they were built to join public places, such as town centres and MRT stations. But since then, there have
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    • 82 6 THREE alleged drug traffickers who were arrested as part of a cocaine ring in October will not face execution after charges against them were reduced yesterday. Singaporeans Marx Oh Chee Wee and Mariana Abdullah, and Tunisian Guiga Lyes Ben Laroussi, instead could face between 20 years'jail
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 627 8  -  SINGAPORE By Benson Ang (bang@sph.com.sg) IN the darkness, the taxi-driver saw what looked like a bit of electrical wire. It was sticking out from under the dashboard in front of the passenger seat. But when he reached for it, he was shocked
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  • ASK DR MONEY
    • 800 9  -  DR MONEY LARRY HAVERKAMP Mail@AskDrMoney.com THE hottest topics of the day are gambling and derivatives markets. I confess to both. I used to place big bets in the derivatives markets. Derivatives include futures and options markets. More money trades here than all the casinos in
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    • 338 9 ANOTHER high-flying company China Aviation Oil (CAO) has crashed to earth. Why? Because it incurred huge losses in derivatives markets, including oil futures and options. It works like this: If you buy an oil futures contract, you don't get oil. Instead, you make a promise to buy
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 746 10  -  By Tay Shi'an shian@sph. com.sg HOW do you build character and self-confidence among students? Temasek Secondary School is trying something new for its Normal Technical students. It will be integrating Scouting and Guiding into the curriculum from January, as part of its character development programme. It's
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    • 171 11 WHY does the school want to integrate a CCA into the curriculum? Because it noticed that many Normal Technical students were not going for any CCA. A big reason for this is lack of self-esteem. Mr Ng Kok Wei, head of the department for discipline
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  • 368 12 S'PORE CHEAPSKATES IN JOHOR MALAYSIA FUEL prices are cheaper in Malaysia than in Singapore. So, most Singapore drivers will top up their fuel tanks in Johor before driving back. There is also the three-quarter tank rule imposed here to prevent Singaporeans from
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  • WORLD
    • 493 14 HIS abrupt manner gave him away. Malaysian Teoh Wee Heong, 44, was buying expensive bottles of scotch and imported beer at a liquor store in Melbourne The store's owner, Mr Woodgate, 52, because suspicious after he asked Teoh for identification Teoh allegedly
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    • 342 14 THE Japanese city of Ota is forcing all male city workers to stay at home for six weeks during their child's first year. And when they return to work, each father will have to submit a report, telling their colleagues the lessons
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    • 618 15 DEADLY DILEMMA IT is a choice that no mother would ever want to make. And the need to do so is tearing Mrs Melanie Campbell, 35, of Newport, South Wales, in two. Luke and Ashley Campbell, both 14, suffer from cysts on their
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    • 355 15 IT was not easy waiting for his first child to be born. Then the dad got a fright. He was told his newborn had to be sent 180 km away so that he could be placed in
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    • 291 16  -  Showtime&Lifestyle IN NEW YORK Blade: Trinity opens in cinemas on Thursday. REPORTS JOYCE LIM joycct@sph.com.sg WHILE most men prefer to be known by
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    • 532 17 Reynolds added that wedding bells will be ringing soon. "We're talking about figures now, but we don't know when we'll get married. As soon as we get a little time off (work)," he said. "We want to get married in Los Angeles." But even if the
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    • 514 17 IN Blade: Trinity, Wesley Snipes returns as iconic vampire hunter Blade. In the film, the vampires frame Blade, putting him on the FBl's wanted list. The fugitive is then forced to accept the help of the Nightstalkers Abigail Whistler and Hannibal King
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    • 488 18  - I I Life's a beach and we like it 3% ZOUK OUT 2004 By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg IT was back to the beach for ZoukOut last Saturday and maybe for good, too. Last year's Marina Bayfront venue may have boasted the city skyline and wide open spaces, but it will
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    • 481 19  -  By, Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph. com.sg After the first two successful instalments of the Blade franchise drew so much blood, you really don't expect Blade: Trinity to be anaemic. But it is. For those not up to speed with the mythos of Marvel Comics' taciturn leather-clad superhero,
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    • 147 19 Writer-director David S Goyer's early idea for the film was to set it many years after Blade 11, where vampires are finally the world's dominant force and have made all humans slaves. Blade was to have been the last hope for humanity. But the storyline was considered too
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    • 228 19 NATIONAL Treasure is not, by any stretch, a dazzling find.. Like all the rest before it that bears the larger-than-life stamp of star producer Jerry Bruckheimer, it's a treasure trove of wham-bam action, none-too-subtle acting and a barely stitched-together storyline with plot holes larger than those found
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    • 267 19 MUCH of the slapstick in Christmas With The Kranks won't exactly ring your bell, but it still has enough ho-ho-ho moments. And it's all thanks to Tim Allen (in his third Christmas movie after The Santa Clause and its sequel) and Jamie Lee Curtis (who
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    • 602 20 Page 24 PRIME" TIME TV THE NEW PAPER/Tuesday, December 7,2004 PnPkPfl Highlights QpiTl jMp r w A puppeteer discovers a portal _JB_B ft <£* Jt i that leads literally into the head m of movie star John Malkovich. WW I I Stars John Cusack, Cameron 1 Phua Chu Kang Pte
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    • 702 21 THE NEW PAPER/Tuesday, December 7,2004 PRIME'TIME TV Pa B eZs 6.00: Masked 6.00: American 6.30: News 6.30: Singapore 6.oo:Pokemon 6.00: Kl4 6.02: Infusion 6.00: Rave 6.00: The 6 Rider Ryuki Idol lII— Today (News) (Preschool) (Children) 6.32: Amazing (Episodes 46 47) Simpsons (Animation) Audition (Variety) 6 30: Geo Junior 6.3o:Selera
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      573 42 BOWLING: WORLD CUP TODAY TO SUNDAY One's Egyptian and the other a Vietnamese from Vanuatu. Love blossomed as the ten pins fell. KOR KIANBENG reports. THEY are a bowling couple on the international bowling circuit. And playing Cupid was none other than the AMF Bowling World Cup. The
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    • 193 42 SINGAPORE bowler Remy Ong (left) remains very much in the hunt for the 2004 AMF Bowling World Cup title. He's in 14th place after six games with 1,342 pinfalls and a 223.67 average yesterday. But it was a less cheery opening day for Singapore's woman bowler Valerie
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    • 608 43 GOLF WORLD No 1 Vijay Singh (above), the game's hottest player over the last 18 months, was named the 2004 PGA Tour Player of the Year yesterday, ending Tiger Woods' five-year hold on the honour. The 41-year-old Fijian, who became the first
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    • Tiger Cup 2004
      • 803 44  -  IN HO CHI MINH CITY REPORTS ERNEST LUIS npiportsQsphcom.sg VIETNAM will beat Singapore at home tonight in the opening game of the 2004 Tiger Cup. That's the overall expectation from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh, right down to Malaysia, and even in Singapore where Singapore Pools'
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      • 334 44 WHO would be crazy enough to back a Singapore win? Well none other than the fast-talking, colourful chairman of S-League champions Tampines Rovers Teo Hock Seng. In Ho Chi Minh to watch Singapore's opening Tiger Cup game against co-hosts Vietnam tonight, Teo said: "Singapore
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    • 1150 45 scon WILSON, a former sports sub-editor with The New Paper, is now the sports editor off The Sunday Express. He brings you the stones mar they dent want you to mad!!! Manchester City's incredible sulk Nicolas Anelka (right) was offically left out
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      • 674 46 MIDDLESBROUGH 3 Mark Viduka 9,54, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 65 MAN CITY 2 Robbie Fowler 39, Bradley Wright-Phillips 80 PA Sport. MIDDLESBROUGH'S goal-shy hit men chose the perfect moment to re-discover their shooting boots early this morning. Neither of the men Steve McClaren recruited had hit the back
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        298 47 MIDDLESBROUGH 3 MWOTY2 Wire services. FOOTBALL talent runs deep in the Wright family. Manchester City substitute Bradley Wright-Phillips, 19, showed that his brother Shaun and adopted father lan, a former Arsenal player, are not the only footballing talents in the family. He reduced City's deficit to 3-2
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    • 546 48 P W D L F A Pt» 1PSV 5 3 1 1 5 3 10 2 Arsenal 5 1 4 0 6 5 7 3 Pnaikos 5 13 17 7 6 4 Rosenborg 5 0 2 3 5 8 2 Arsenal v Rosenborg Panathinaikos v PSV ARSENAL U-Tj
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    • 333 48 Wire services. PANATHINAIKOS v PSV EINDHOVEN: Several PSV players are doubtful for the Athens encounter after picking up knocks. Defenders Young-Pyo Lee and Andre Ooijer have upper leg and ankle problems respectively, while American forward DaMarcus Beasley has a leg injury. All three have made the journey to
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    • 422 49  -  GROUP E: ARSENAL v ROSENBORG By CESC FABREQAS ARSENAL I v. Ifc- '1; OUR recent bad patch has not affected the team-spirit ahead of our Champions League game with Rosenborg. We know we're not in the best form right now, but we still believe in our
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    • 213 49  -  GROUP F: CELTIC v AC MILAN m MAP STAM AC MILAN EVEN though AC Milan have already qualified for the next stage of the Champions League I am pretty sure we will be fielding our strongest possible side at Celtic Park. Knowing how
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (Group E) ARSENAL v ROSENBORG
      • 804 50 IT is now time for Arsenal to get back to the basics. The Gunners have two massive games ahead of them, starting with this do-or-die Champions League game against Rosenborg followed by the Premiership's match of the season against Chelsea. When Arsene Wenger dropped Jens Lehmann for
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      • 226 50 PA Sport. THIERRY HENRY (left) has told fans to forget last season's fantasy football as his Arsenal side embark on a week that will make or break their campaign. Arsene Wenger's side launch themselves into tomorrow's (S'pore time) Champions League showdown against Rosenborg knowing
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      • 430 51 VIEIRA LAUREN, CYGAN, EDU GILBERTO OUT IN PA Sport. ARSENE Wenger admitted the pressure is on the most inexperienced central midfield duo he has ever selected for a key game to keep Arsenal's Champions League dream alive against Rosenborg. However, he has backed Mathieu Flamini, 20, and Cesc Fabregas, 17,
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      • 246 51  -  By JOAR HANSEN ROSENBORG COACH I THINK it is a good time to play Arsenal. We saw Arsenal against Birmingham and, of course, they are a strong team. They were very good at times. But I think that we have a decent chance
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    • 90 51 Dn TIGER CUP 2004 LAOS v INDONESIA Ch 24, 5.55pm, today VIETNAM v SINGAPORE Ch 24,8.30pm, today VIETNAM v CAMBODIA Ch 24, 5.55pm, Thursday INDONESIA v SINGAPORE Ch 24, 8.25pm, Thursday CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ARSENAL v ROSENBORG Ch 23,3.30 am, tomorrow VALENCIA vW BREMEN Ch 24, 3.30 am, tomorrow CELTIC v
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