The New Paper, 14 August 2005

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    • 827 2  -  SILENT KILLER: ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM Ng Wan Ching tnp@s ph.com.sg INSIDE all of us is a potential ticking time bomb. Mr Yong Kit Fooi knows it firsthand. He has been to hell and back. When an artery in his body burst, he was rushed to
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    • 542 3 Previously used in elective op, now TRADITIONALLY, repair of an aortic aneurysm has been surgical. The surgery consists of opening the abdomen, cutting off the aneurysm, and sewing a synthetic tube in its place. More recendy, "minimally invasive" procedures have been devised using stent
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    • 689 4 Her allergy means that even MANY of us would not hesitate to pop a few pills when we're down with the fever, common cold or cough. Not Miss Mah Lay Choon. She's severely allergic to paracetamol and has been hospitalised a few times after consuming medicine
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    • 112 4 SEVERE allergies can cause death. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) is a rare and potentially fatal illness which can be brought on by a severe allergic reaction to drugs. It can also be caused by viral or bacterial infections, and the illness is characterised by painful, blistery lesions on
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    • 916 6  - U E A D I■ t^^hH PLANE SEATS, -J V FLIGHT r ATTENDANTS I ABUSED Joyce Lim joycel@ sph.com.sg MEET the horror budget passengers. They push their way through the boarding gate hoping to "chope" the best plane seats because of the first-come-first-served system. They rant and rave when someone
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    • 194 6 THEY SPIT THROW FITS Budget-flight horror stories: There are airline passengers who spit into the seat pockets in front of them. Others like to carry with them tropical fruits such as lychees, rambutans and longans to eat during the flight. Some spit the seeds on to the floor. Passengers are
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    • 1005 7  -  EXCLUSIVE: THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY TRACKS DOWN MYSTERY CANDIDATE Report and picture Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg AT the age of 78, the former storekeeper was feeling bored with life. So he decided he would run for President. After all, the Government did ask for people
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    • 124 7 THE Government-appointed elections committee approved Mr S R Nathan's application to run for re-election as President. The 81-year-old former civil servant, who has also served as ambassador in the US and Malaysia, will return unopposed for a second six-year term. Mr Nathan was described as having all
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    • 866 8  -  By Crystal Chan crystalc@sph.com.sg DRESSED in a blue long-sleeved shirt, black trousers and a black tie, accountant John (not his real name), 32, looks like any stable white-collared professional. But he bears deep emotional scars from a failed relationship. He became obsessive, unable to accept that
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    • 204 8 March 10,2003 Businessman Harith Gary Lee (left), 39, threw his ex-girlfriend, Madam Diana Teo Siew Peng, 32, from her housing block in Choa Chu Kang. Madam Teo, an administrative secretary, wanted a break-up but Lee would not accept this. Lee was found guilty of murder
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    • 382 8 THERE are several ways to get over a failed relationship, say counsellors and psychiatrists who spoke to The New Paper. Mr Harry Low, a senior counsellor at Tampines Family Service Centre, said that one way is to change one's perspective of love. He said: "Love isn't about
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    • Article, Illustration
      975 9  -  After 4 days on oxygen tank, baby can breathe easy again M'sia to help Jakarta with cloud-seeding Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph.com.sg j IN KUALA LUMPUR^ Pictures Kelvin Chng kchng@s ph.com.sg IN KUALA LUMPUR FOR five days, Madam Kahsiyama Palasingam, 32, made the Tanjung Karang Hospital in Selangor her home.
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    • 1347 10 MARIA KORP SHED HER DIGNITY TO SAVE HER MARRIAGE BUT WAS ATTACKED, DUMPED IN A CAR BOOT AND LEFT TO DIE INSTEAD SHE was an unassuming working mother who was known to be deeply religious. But when Mrs Maria Korp discovered that her second husband was having
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    • 195 11 MRS Maria Korp was choked with a bag strap by her husband's mistress and then dumped In her car boot on 9 Feb this year. She was found four days later In a coma. Tanla Herman pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was sentenced to
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    • Snap Shot
      • 52 12 I like this country, I saw my first US dollar here. Arabic-speaking Chinese trader Chen Xianzhong quoted in The New York Times, on why he remains in Iraq even after he was wounded in an attempted kidnapping and a restaurant he opened in Baghdad was wrecked by a
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      • 73 12 US President George Bush said yesterday he would use force as a last resort to make Iran give up its nuclear programme. "All options are on the table," he said. Iran resumed uranium conversion on Monday after rejecting a European Union offer of political and economic incentives.
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      • 58 12 THROW red paint to make the sad face happy. That was one of the activities at Paint The Town Red at the Youth Park yesterday. The event was organised by the Singapore Red Cross, as part of the Singapore Press Holdings Red Challenge blood donation
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      • 69 12 MALAYSIAN Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz says she wants a controversial car import permit scheme abolished a surprising about-face after defending it stoutly amid allegations that the policy was misused to benefit a few well-connected businesses. "It goes against the World Trade Organisation agreement," she said on Friday.
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      • 174 12 EMERGENCY IN LANKA, CEASEFIRE UNDER THREAT SRI Lanka declared a state of emergency yesterday after a sniper shot dead Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, raising the spectre of a return to civil war. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was blamed by the police, but
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      • 119 12 NTUC Income has won the tender to manage the MediShield Plus health insurance plans. Three insurers the other two were Aviva and Great Eastern Life had taken part in the CPF Board's tender to privatise the portfolio. MediShield Plus, a policy for those who want
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      • 193 12 THIS time the attraction stopped short of being fatal going by the charges against a 42-year-old man and three teenagers. Chua Beng Hin, who works at an aquarium, allegedly conspired with Tan Hock Meng, 16, and two 15-year-old boys, to murder
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      • 54 12 Police detained two men in connection with Brazil's biggest bank robbery after stopping a truck loaded with cars they believe were bought with the loot. The robbers had escaped with the equivalent of about $113 million after digging an 80m tunnel from a rented house to the vault of
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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    • 729 14 LARRY Neo, 33, is big-sized and has a shaven head. And yes, he's one of Singapore's regular drinkers. But he objects to the idea that men like him are the model of unattractiveness that a British watchdog seems to want featured in alcohol ads as
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    • 114 14 The new ruling by Britain's Committee of Advertising Practice bans companies from linking alcohol and sexiness. It has also issued a list of undesirable male characteristics that advertisers must abide by, reported The Times of London last month. Desirable-looking women are also now considered taboo. One company in
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    • 504 14  -  ADVERTISING AGENCIES ON UNKING SEX AND BOOZE- Zubaitah Naseer zubaktahOsph.com.sg NO link between boozing and sex? No problem, say advertising agencies here. They say that alcoholic drinks are already promoted without a direct link to sexual prowess or attractiveness. Said Ms Dana Ho, 22, account executive
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    • 428 14 WHAT OUR PUB OWNERS SAY: NO link between boozing and sex? No hope for ads, then, say pub owners here. Ugly people would not make a product have any appeal, said Mr Dennis Foo, owner of Devils Bar at Orchard Parade Hotel. "If you want to
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    • 450 15  -  Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg EH, botak! Yes, you there, old man with the big stomach! Do you know that you are unattractive? It's confirmed, the Committee of Advertising Practice in London has declared that now, drink ads must feature "unattractive overweight, middle-aged, balding men", to meet
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    • 640 17  -  Janice Wong #tnp@sph.com.sg BEING an agnostic someone who believes it is impossible to know if God exists and living in Singapore where 86 per cent of the population have a religion, I feel a little lost. I accept that I am an agnostic, but
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    • 471 18  -  Trudy Lim trudy@sph.com.sg 1 DON'T want to be the family chauffeur. The greatest draw of getting my driving licence (slowly, slowly I am getting there) and then my own car, is the convenience. But my family has plans too. My husband is looking forward to the
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    • 421 18  -  Wendy Teo teowyw@sph.com.sg I WONDER why just seeing fireworks should be such an inaccessible and difficult thing. Last year, my friends and I were at the Esplanade for all three shows. We walked from City Hall MRT to the Esplanade, which is a pretty long
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    • 757 19  -  PERSONAL TRAINERS LIKE GEORGE GET TO MIX BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE. HIS CUSTOMERS, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG AND ATTRACTIVE ONES, ARE PUTTY IN HIS HANDS 'fess up! ...What really goes on in 9-to-S jobs? E-mail tnp@sph.com.sg Crystal Chan crystalc@sph. com. sg AS a personal trainer in one
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  • 426 21  -  Show Siva Choy tnp@sph.com.sg IMUST have been a vampire in my previous life I come alive at night and I find it hard to focus on anything in the day. According to one world expert (neighbour) I must have been born at night;
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  • 642 23  -  Show Johnson Ong tnp@sph.com.sg Finalists for Arts Central's Project Pilot were announced recently. Does anyone really care? Project Pilot is just the latest ho-hum Media Development Authority-supported competition to help develop Singapore's puerile TV production industry, find new creative talent and ideas,
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
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  • 515 36  -  Guide Jeanmarie Tan jeanrrK§>sph.com.sg IT'S really annoying when a basic law of nature is repeatedly broken. And by this I mean the sacrosanct Law of Fame, or the Three Strikes Law. I can't remember who came up with it but it goes something
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 86 36 HI 1 CATBERT EVIL DIRECTOR 111 —>. I I > Of HUMAN RESOURCES fWHAT I WITH DARKNESS <. I PI ARE YOU DOING > —N I I TWO UEEKB LATER PERHAPS I OVER- IT IS EVIDENT FROn I I fl LOVE THE k REACTED. IDONT THESE QUESTIONS pVor WHERE >
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    • 567 37 /-Guided THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY. 14 Aug 2005 Page 43 TView r!? 05 H9 After a teen singer and her band mates check into Channel 5,7.30pm Room 409 of a hotel, they discover that a former A family living on a farm finds mysterious occupant had been murdered there,
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  • racing
    • 252 38  -  ROOKIE HAIRIN AND VICTORY JIMMIE CAN END DROUGHT Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg Battling apprentice Mohd Hairin (right) may get his long-awaited comeback win aboard Victory Jimmie in Race 4 at Ipoh today. The Johann van Breukelen-trained six-year-old mare looks due for a comeback win herself, having
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      236 38 'J t,y 11 Fm A Star 1 Simba General 6 Ban Soon 1 Simba General 4 Titan Bliss 11 Fm A Star S First Prince 1 Simba General 11 Fm A Star 2 7 Wild Queen S She's Dashing 8 Distinctive Choice 4 Regal General 8 Distinctive
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    • 70 38 SNEEZE IN THE CITY (Race 7 No. 2) Ultra-consistent, good form and a top jockey. These call for attention. Sneeze In The City, who has never been out of the first three in his last seven starts, has been primed for today's task. The Citidancer gelding did a
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    • 82 38 RACE I: Simba General, Tmst N Sincere. RACE 2: Hit The Spot, Strive, Distinctive Choice, Lord Arena. RACE 3: Golden Ranger, Wonderful Day, Truly Serious, Try The Best. RACE 4: Victory Jimmie. RACE 5: Tiger In The Woods, Martingale, Be Aware, Enemy Fire, Supreme Echo. RACE 6: Nice Plan,
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    • 287 39  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg THERE was a lot to like about newcomer Totoral's win in Race 2 at Kranji last Friday night. The three-year-old Argentinian-bred gelding by Roy, stepping out for owner Alfredo Crabbia and trainer Patrick Shaw for the first time since arriving in
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    • 142 39  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg YESTERDAY'S eight-race programme at the Perak Turf Club (PRTC) was cancelled due to poor visibility and concern for the health of riders and horses caused by haze. The smoke from Indonesian forest fires, which affected Kuala Lumpur badly in recent
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    • 542 39 POST-RACE urine-blood tests, 16 Jul meeting: Further to the stipendiary stewards' report dated 6 Aug, it was established that the sample coded *****89, which was pending, contained no prohibited substance. 6 Aug, Race 3: Last Thursday, jockey J Saimee, when questioned
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  • sports
    • MAD ABOUT GOLF
      • 669 40 AFP. GARY Player is going to have a tough time deciding upon his two captain's choices for the International team at the Presidents Cup because of the way things are going at the PGA Championship. The South African legend and US captain Jack Nicklaus are set
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      • 352 40  -  Lim Han Mng npspofts@sph.com.sg IT'S been 16 years since a Singaporean golfer last won the Singapore Open Amateur Championship. That honour belonged to former Singapore No 1 Samson Gimson, when he emerged tops in 1989. Since then, Singapore golfers have
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      • 1142 41 AP. THINGS happen when Phil Mickelson is on a golf course. It's noisy. Dust rises from the trampled ground. Human throngs form along the gallery ropes, and they whistle, slap him on the back, and speak to him as if they are on
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      • 812 41 AP. THIS is what the world must look like in Tiger Woods' nightmares. He is grinding in the stifling heat just to make the cut, his best shots unrewarded, his worst ones punished doubly. Giant tree limbs are falling out of nowhere at his feet. Arch
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      • 334 42 Reuters. UNITED States PGA Championship officials defused a Tiger Woods controversy on Friday, dismissing suggestions the world No l's caddie, Steve Williams, had stepped on his ball the previous day. Woods, who carded an opening five-over-par 75, could have faced disqualification for signing an improper
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      • 369 42 PA Sport, Wire Services. TIGER Woods said he needed two great rounds to have any chance of getting back into the contention for the final Major of the season. But "great" would not be a description of how he played the first of his 36 remaining
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    • 755 43 £PL I THINK we need to get something straight. Especially because the long Premiership season has just kicked off. Here it is. I like money. Am I in the majority? Seems not. The past week highlighted events which saw money sending the world of English
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