The New Paper, 14 December 2004

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  • 31 1 the new paper TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2004 flfw I Website: newpaper.asial.com.se "'Hfijjiftf I I •m Singapore Press Holdings Emjil;tnp@jpllcon 1| nBWffBW!WjfrJtfcg E »-V m.ca <p> 025/03/2004 70 cents 8 *****1 *****1
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    • 35 1 MORNING LATEST: FULHAM 1 MAN U 1 What do you think? V* Fergie's response after missed chances jj M and late wonder goal foil Devils' hopes 4 up in EPL title race 0 y» V<»'\
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1194 2 S'POREAN TEACHERS ON HONEYMOON KILLED IN WZ CRASH REPORTS: Karen Wong, Seto Nu-Wen 5: HEY lived life together. Then, they died I together. -i I Such an untimely death for a couple who were meant to be, who were like soul mates. This is
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    • 539 3  -  MM LEE ON SPEAKING MANDARIN 1 By Josephine Chew juchew@sph.com.sg IVE your children a m fighting chance at being bilingual by giving them a strong foundation in Mandarin at a I young age. That was the gist of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's message
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    • 323 3 COOL SMS from MM Lee I < HUA YU (Mandarin) Cool, Use it, Don't lose it. That's the line for this year's Speak Mandarin Campaign. And the 550-strong crowd at the NTUC auditorium appreciated the pop culture slant. Driving home the point were popular group Chou Pi Jiang and singer
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  • SINGAPORE
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      690 5  -  That's how many Case received from January to October. Most filed by local students PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN THE SPOTLIGHT BY Veena Bharwani veenab@sph.com.sg COMPLAINTS against private schools are on the rise. From January to October this year, Case got 419 complaints 70 per cent of these were filed
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    • 522 6 WE, too, had similar problems. That is what many readers told us after The New Paper ran a report on Dec 3 about how some former students had to wait almost 11 months to get their degrees from Auston. One student who e-mailed us,
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 298 7 SM GOH MEETS M'SIAN PM SOME OUTSTANDING ISSUES Water supply from Johor, which revolves around price and how it is arrived at Relocation of Customs, immigration and quarantine facilities from Tanjong Pagar Malaysia's proposal to replace the Causeway with a straight bridge, unlike the idea
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    • 51 7 S'PORECOMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 7.33/+0.07 Creative Technology 15.08/-0.23 Flextronics 13.75/+0.06 Chartered Semiconductor 6.17/+O.Ol Stats 5.851/-0.149 Yesterday's action Percentage change Close Dow Up 0.9% (95.1 pts) 10,638.32 Nasdaq Up 0.96% (20.43 pts) 2,148.5 S+P 500 Up 0.85% (10.1 pts) 1,198.1 STI Up 0.05% (0.96 pts)
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    • 102 7 MOST Singaporeans know less than six people in their neighbourhood. And for half of the people here, a neighbourly chat once a week is their limit of community contact. But Singaporeans will lend a hand if approached. More than half have asked or
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    • 79 7 SEVEN in 10 Singapore bosses do not plan to hire new staff in the first quarter of next year, says a survey of 724 employers here by Manpower Inc. The survey shows that 10 per cent expect to hire more staff during the first quarter
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    • 79 7 A GROUP called Families Against The Casino Threat In Singapore (Facts) has started an online petition to President S R Nathan, asking him to advise the Government not to allow a casino here. More than 150 have signed the petition since Saturday. An SMS campaign is planned
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    • 73 7 SINGAPORE'S tax rules are discouraging the rich from setting up charity trusts here. Currently, a tax exemption can be given only to charitable institutions which retain at least 80 per cent of their funds here. But financial experts say restricting wealthy families to the geographical areas
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    • 73 7 STUDENTS in the US taught with mathematics textbooks from Singapore perform better, says a study by Stanford University's Hoover Institution. About 200 schools throughout the US have adopted the Singapore method of teaching mathematics with positive results, and more schools are catching on. The US curricula
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    • 86 7 INVESTORS burnt in the China Aviation Oil (CAO) debacle have asked the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) to explore options for legal recourse. Their chances should become clearer at a Sias members' forum next Monday, where a lawyer and other relevant professionals will be
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    • 86 7 INDONESIA is planning mandatory military service for its citizens to beef up its defence forces. Under a controversial Bill, submitted to Parliament last week, all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 45 will have to join the military reservists for a period of at least
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  • ASK DR MONEY
    • 689 8  -  DR MONEY LARRY HAVERKAMP Mai@AskDrMoney.com IF you were hoping for a casino, then too bad for you. There is "no case for casinos". Why? Because "from an economic standpoint a casino will have an adverse impact on Singapore in the long term." These are the headlines
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    • 175 8 YOU can also apply the scientific method to your personal life. Here's how. Let's say your girlfriend wants to see the wonderfully entertaining movie, The Incredibles. You do not share her good taste and want to see the movie, Saw, about a mad killer who
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  • 760 9  -  Forget waitressing. These Russian teens have jobs in the circus SINGAPORE I By! Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg THEY twist their bodies into strange shapes, dangling 5m above the ground. They do somersaults while being tossed about by another performer's feet. Such stunts are all in a
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    • 924 10 The 'real' Star Awards Kffis 0/} y SHARON Au (centre) said it best when she announced at the Star Awards that she cherishes her trophy, because it could well be her last D|| given that Media Works and MediaCorp are merging. Never mind next year. If Media Works were in
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 398 11 Tortured day night with pliers MAID ALLEGES ABUSE BY JB EMPLOYER FORGIVE me ma'am. That was all Indonesian maid Sri Wijayanti, 20, could say each time she was abused. The maid, who has been working for a family in Johor for four months, alleged that her employer's wife used pliers
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    • 322 11 THE neighbours bravely rushed into the burning house to save the little boy they spotted in the hall. But, tragically, the smoke was so thick that they did not realise his brother was inside a room. On Sunday at 2.45pm, H'ng Kok
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  • WORLD
    • 304 13 Planned tax break could boost economy, create more jobs Most big us multinational companies don't bring their offshore earnings home, where taxes are steep. Instead they hoard them in, among other places, Singapore and the Irish Republic, where corporate tax rates are lower.
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    • 353 14 HE says he sees only darkness. Yet the 52-year-old British man was able to recognise pictures of human faces showing emotions such as anger, happiness or fear, researchers said. The man, a doctor whose name is being kept confidential, is blind. News
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    • 558 15 GERMAN LEADER'S MISERABLE CHILDHOOD REVEALED: AS a child, he lived in an old sheep barn with no running water or toilet. Today, he is the Chancellor of Germany, one of the most powerful men in the world. Former neighbours revealed the full
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    • 275 15 AP. DOCTORS told injured Marine Lance-Corporal David Battle they would have to either cut off his wedding band or cut of his finger. He chose the finger. The 19-year-old former high school football star suffered serious hand and
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    • 529 16 USsll3m lottery win turns his life upside down. Arrested twice, granddaughter missing AP. JUST two years ago, he was a boisterous, easy going guy in a big cowboy hat. As Jack Whittaker celebrated winning the richest undivided lottery jackpot in
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    • 283 16 Reuters. DEADLY floods, a bomb blast reports on these were no match for news of this movie legend's illness and death in the Philippines. Philippine star Fernando Poe Jr (left), who came close to unseating President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in May's Presidential
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    • 767 17  -  REPORTING FROM MUMBAI Showtime&Lifestyle The absence of Bollywood's A-list and reticence of some who turned up—left an ang moh to steal the show at India's MTV music awards REPORTS SHEELA NARAYANAN shedo@sph.com.tg THE usual cavalcade of heavyweight Bollywood stars were sorely missed
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    • 480 17 ALANIS Morissette must have been channelling the Dalai Lama. Morissette, 30, who made female rage the hottest accessory in 1995, was so tranquil at the Immies press conference at the JW Marriott Hotel, she could have led the media in a meditation session.
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    • 910 18 THE 'OTHER' STAR AWARDS By Chang May Choon and Wendy Teo changmc@sph. com.sg teowyw@sph. com. sg ALL that glitter might have settled from Sunday's Star Awards but the reverie, buzz and speculation are not over yet. From now on, the Star Awards will see
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    • 603 19  -  Ocean's Twelve Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts Director: Steven Soderbergh Rating:/// I By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg Everyone loves watching an all-star display, but none more so than director Steven Soderbergh. In 2001, he assembled a team of Hollywood's glitterati
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    • 317 20 WOlld WltnOUt TIIIGVGS Starring: Andy Lau, Rene Liu, ppVou Director. Feng Xiaogang Rating.*//// THIS movie is simply heaven with its stellar cast. Most of the actors are multiple award-winners, and its leading man is the new Golden Horse Awards' Best Actor Andy Lau.
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    • Article, Illustration
      266 20 Love, So Divine Starring: Kwon Sang Woo, Ha Ji Won Director: Huh In Moo Rating: DIVINE is the word to describe, not this movie, but its gorgeous male lead, Kwon Sang Woo. Though clad in a formal ecclesiastical robe and playing a prim-and-proper seminary student in this romantic
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    • 88 17 THE WINNERS Best Performance in a Song Male (Film): Hrithik Roshan Best Performance in a Song Female (Film): Sushmita Sen Best Singer Male (Film): Sonu Nigam Best Singer Female (Film): Sunidhi Chauhan Best Film Album: Main Hoon Na Best Choreographer Prabhudeva Best Composer Pritam Best Male Pop Act International: Enrique
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    • 522 21 Page 24 THE NEW PAPER/Tuesday, December 14, 2004 Highlights Three Idols, two a treat Channel U, Bpm Qingxiang, who has information that ■< could see him charged with embezzlement if it fell into Weide's C 1 hands, is worried that his crimes will be -m, exposed. Jf TN My Mighty
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    • 683 22 mtNtw paper/ i uesaay, December 14,2004 PRIME T/ME TV Page 25 lII.— 6.00: Masked 5.30: American 6.30: News 6.30: Singapore 6.00: Pokemon 6.00: Aroma 6.02: Infusion 6.00: 6.00: The 6Riderßyuki Idol 111 Group 2 Today (News) (Preschool) (Children) 6.32: Amazing Gensomaden Simpsons (Animation) Performance 6.30: Geo Junior 6.3o:Selera Asia Saiyuki
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  • Tech
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    • 543 25 Romantic tourists' love notes on walls of Juliet's home force authorities to go high tech Reuters. SCRIBBLED love notes cover the walls around the tiny marble balcony where the mythical Juliet is said to have pined for Romeo, but the city of Verona wants amorous
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  • SPORTS
    • 881 42 EUROPEAN FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR 2004 PA Sport. AFP. AC MILAN'S Ukrainian striker Andrei Shevchenko was named the 2004 European Footballer of the Year yesterday. France Football magazine's prestigious Ballon D'Or (Golden Ball) award, which is voted for by journalists from 52 European countries, saw Shevchenko top
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    • 1483 43  - AGU ITIMI RESPOND LIKE LIONS SINGAPORE 6 (Hasrin 7th min, Indra Sahdan 19, 74, Thongpachan, 41 own goal, Agu Casmir, 45,90 pen) LAOS 2 (Leupvisay, 22, Luang-Amath, 72 pen) as M Tiger Cup 2004 TODAY: Philippines v Timor Leste Malaysia v Thailand TOMORROW: Vietnam v Laos Cambodia v Singapore THURSDAY:
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    • 306 44 SCOTT WILSON, a former sports sub-editor with The New Paper, is now the sports editor of The Sunday Express. He brings you the stories that they don't want you to read! ENGLAND'S Daily Mail newspaper says income from Manchester United's sale of merchandise is
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    • 239 44 IVORY Coast sensation Marco Ne is so desperate to move to his dream club Arsenal that he is even ready to marry to realise his ambition. Ne, who plays for the Gunners' feeder club Beverenis in Belgium, is considering a marriage of convenience to achieve his
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    • 338 44 WE can reveal the latest star name poised to join the ranks of the new regime at Portsmouth is... Manchester United all-time great George Best. The former United star, reckoned by many to be their greatest-ever player, is close friends with Pompey owner Milan Mandaric.
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      460 45 PELE graced world football with his elegance and style and made himself a fortune in the process. But his earnings as a player actually dwarf what he can currently earn as a football ambassador roaming the world endorsing his sponsors and attending functions. The Brazilian magician will make
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    • 108 45 PA Sport. NEWCASTLE boss Graeme Souness has been banned from the touchline for one game and fined £10,000 ($31,621). This follows his furious tirade at referee Howard Webb last month. The Scot will have to watch from the stands when his side takes on struggling West
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    • EPL
      • 375 46 LIVERPOOL v PORTSMOUTH PA Sport. Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard backs the idea of a January move for Manchester City's controversial forward Nicolas Anelka. The French striker was a big hit with the Anfield club during his spell on loan during 2002. Therefore, it was a huge surprise
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      • 453 46 PA Sport. RAFAEL Benitez (right) believes Liverpool need to bounce back quickly from the painful derby defeat and says his players are still confident and raring to go against Portsmouth at Anfield tomorrow (Singapore time). Benitez believes there are many positives to
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      • 135 46 GOALKEEPER Jerzy Dudek returns to the Liverpool side against Portsmouth after Chris Krrkland was ruled out with a back injury. Local teenager Paul Harrison will be on the bench as cover. Manager Rafael Benitez could recall striker Milan Baros and Xabi Alonso might also start instead of Salif
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    • 395 47 BORO WINGER SET TO MAKE ENGLAND DEBUT PA Sport. WITH these inspiring words, England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has given the clearest indication he will give Stewart Downing an international debut. The Middlesbrough winger has impressed this season
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    • 184 47  -  THE STAR By GEORGE BOATENG MIDDLESBROUGH STEWART Downing's a young guy with bags of talent and he's got a great future ahead of him. He's learning so fast, every match he's progressing and, by then, he will have come on even more. In every game, he is
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    • EPL 2 SHOWDOWN 2 THE AFTERMATH
      • 492 48 PA Sport. CHELSEA captain John Terry is confident Jose Mourinho's side now have the "edge" in the title race and he sees no need to make any investment in the transfer window. Terry has had enough of Chelsea flattering to deceive during his time at
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      • 207 48 PA Sport CHELSEA and his quick free-kicks. Still, Chelsea 'keeper Petr Cech (above) was caught out by the sneaky Frenchman on Sunday. That lapse of concentration earned him a stern rebuke from team-mate and captain John Terry. He said: "I just said to Petr that
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      • 196 48 PA Sport. ARSENAL midfielder Freddie Ljungberg (below) is set to miss this weekend's game at Portsmouth as he continues to suffer from an acute migraine. Ljungberg is scheduled to see a neurologist this week for scans after being sidelined for the second time in five days. He
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    • EPL
      • 368 49 FULHAM 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 1 PA Sport. MAN United boss Sir Alex Ferguson was left to regret a string of near misses. Asked for his verdict on the match, Ferguson said: "What do you think? "That was an absolute giveaway. A good performance, some of
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      • 239 49 PA Sport. AFTER the 1-1 draw with Man United, Fulham boss Chris Coleman backed neighbours Chelsea to be crowned Premiership champions. Said Coleman: "As the game went on, maybe they got a little bit nervous. Obviously it was a fantastic strike which got us the point in the
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      • 163 49 PA Sport. THE first match in the Premiership is a tough assignment for any player let alone a 20-year-old who was assigned the task of marking Ryan Giggs. But Liam Rosenior (right) came through with flying colours. Said Fulham boss Chris Coleman: "It was a big
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      • 139 50 FULHAM 1 (Papa Bouba Diop 87th min) MANCHESTER UNITED 1 (Alan Smith 33) Crowd: 21,940 After charging up the Premiership table, picking up points like crazy, the Red Devils were supposed to crush Fulham for another three points. Then a man called Papa
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      • 323 50 Dec 1& v Norwich (h) Dec 26: v Aston Villa (h) Dec 2& v Portsmouth (a) Jan 1: v Liverpool (a) Jan4:vßoro(h) Jan 15: v Tottenham (a) Jan 22: v Portsmouth (h) Feb 2: v Blackburn (a) Feb 5: v Man City (h) Feb 12: v Everton (a)
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        816 51 FULHAM 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 1 PA Sport. PAPA Bouba Diop grabbed a sensational equaliser for Fulham in the dying minutes. And left Manchester United further behind in the title race. The Red Devils are now nine points adrift of Premiership leaders Chelsea. Alan Smith's first-half goal looked to have kept
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      372 52 FULHAMI MAN UTOI Wire services. i IR Alex Ferguson j turned red this I morning. I What could have been i heaven for Man United turned out to be a fiery hell. The cantankerous Man t United manager had said before this morning's match 1 against Fulham that
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