The New Paper, 1 January 2006

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    • 1150 2  -  PM's greetings Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wishes all Singaporeans a Happy New Year New Year message/ Page 19 Herstorywill break your heart She was taken from them last year after her foster mother became depressed, cut herself and was hospitalised. At 5, Jasmine (not
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    • 681 4  -  Separated from wife who accuses him of having affair and with Jasmine gone, foster dad is so depressed he quits job TayShi'an shian@s ph.com.sg HE says he is confused and on the verge of a mental breakdown. So much so that he said he even
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    • 453 5  -  Foster mum who has bid farewell to 5 kids says: Yes, ifs sad to see them go TayShi'an shian@sph.com.sg THIS foster mother has had to let go of five children under her care. Susan, 50, a housewife, has been a foster mum under the Ministry
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    • 448 5 MINISTRY WHEN placing a child with a foster family, the best interests of the child are of "paramount importance", says the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports' (MCYS). "The primary considerations are the welfare needs of the child and the ability of the foster parents
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    • 1173 6  -  Some S'pore Muslim men prefer Vietnam Muslim brides to local women DawnChia dawnchia @sph.com.sg WHAT'S a man to do if marriage is on his mind but the dowry is too high? Why, look for cheaper alternatives. So that's what Mr Ahmad did. The 25-year-old
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    • 611 8  -  She's looking for S'pore Muslim husband DawnChia dawTKhia@sph.com.sg MISS Dong Thi Hue is hearing-impaired. But that has not stopped the 19-year-old Vietnamese from looking for her dream guy. Her only criterion: He must also be hearing-impaired. This way, both can
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    • 643 9  -  Reports and pictures ZaihanMohamedYusof zaihan@sph.com.sg AS the Red Rhino, with sirens blaring, drove up the street, many residents peered out of their flats wondering where the fire was. But there was no fire. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) vehicle was on its way to
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    • 1196 10  -  Money aside, V I iight things' plus J EstherAuYong estheray@ sph.com.sg YOU would think that tai tais, being wives or mistresses of well-heeled husbands, would bond naturally in their pampered lives of luxury. j* Think again. These women often sniff haughtily at, or ignore, some
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    • Boon Lay blues
      • 983 12  -  Life is far from cheery for the Angs. They struggle to cope on $800 a month but they can now look forward to medical help AndreYeo andrey@sph.com.sg THEIR daughter may be named Cheery. But in truth, there is little cheer in the lives of the
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      • 82 13 UNDER MyHealth@BoonLay, a pilot project was launched yesterday, adult residents would be offered two health screenings at nominal rates. Details of how much this will be are still being finalised. This is to allow the CCC to identify health problems and introduce preventive measures. The
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      • 601 14  -  AndreYeo and rey@sph.com.sg DOCTORS are a privileged bunch, said Dr Goh Jin Hian, 37, executive director of Parkway Shenton. Medicine is one of the most expensive courses in any university and many here have had their education hugely subsidised, he added. To make them
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      • 230 14 THE MyHealth@BoonLay scheme will help doctors—who work in companies serving corporations get out of their comfortable office surroundings to meet the layman, said DrTan Cheng Bock. Said the MP for Ayer Rajah: "Doctors should never lose
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      • 482 15 Maid assumes missing M'sian boy fled over tiff, but is there more to it? "Y A "THEN she found Malaysian boy Amos \l\i Foong Dean Chang's bed empty and V V the bathroom light on on Christmas Eve, Indonesian maid Rusmiyati Wiji assumed he was
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    • 902 16 U You can live with a ghost who likes chocolate bars But there's a catch f£ You are willing to host weddings, conferences and fashion shoots alt year DO you suspect you might have British genes? Now would be a good time to find
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    • 365 17 JASPER'S (left) is a true rags-to-riches story. Abandoned and left to die, he now has a £130,000 ($373,000) fortune and leads a life of luxury on a 500-hectare estate with his own stretch limo to ferry him around. He is a doberman-labrador cross
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    • 590 18 US teen's awfully big adventure AP. HE wanted to go the extra mile for a school project. So 16-year-old Farris Hassan (above, with Baghdad behind him), from Florida, went a long way—he hopped on a plane that took him to Iraq. And neither his school
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    • SnapShot
      • 64 19 I am not saying there is no corruption. But I think the government has done a lot to deal with the issue. They have charged ministers, sacked people thrown them in jail for taking bribes. Generally, as longasitisa non-political issue, you can depend on the courts to be
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      • 128 19 HE started early yesterday and was set to welcome the New Year with a record number of jumps from a height of3oom. In 24 hours, Australian base jumper Gary Cunningham was aiming to jump 120 times from the open deck of the KL Tower.
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      • 306 19 GOODIES UKELY FOR ALU MORE FOR THE NEEDY YES, it's time to bring out the bubbly, set off" the fireworks and celebrate the good times. There's plenty to cheer about in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's New Year message. The economy has turned
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      • 71 19 A BOMB tore through a market stall selling pork in Indonesia early yesterday, leaving eight people dead and 48 injured. Mostly Christian shoppers had thronged the stall in Palu, Central Sulawesi, to buy pork for New Year's Eve celebrations. A bomb squad unit later defused
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      • 80 19 A PHILIPPINE judge who ruled against the government in a legal battle over a Manila airport terminal was shot dead yesterday. Two motorcycle-riding gunmen attacked ludge Henrick Gingoyon as he was walking home in the town of Bacoor. He had ordered the government to pay three
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      • 80 19 MORE than 2 million people were expected to gather on Copacabana Beach as Brazil prepared one of the world's largest New Year parties. Rio de Janeiro officials planned to blast nearly 25 tons of fireworks, with some of the city's most famous landmarks, including Sugarloaf
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      • 57 19 A woman who won £15 million (s43m) in a lottery says she plans to buy a new iron. Gabrielle Nash from Stevenage in the UK said: "I haven't made any plans... but we need a new iron." She and her husband Darren won the jackpot after using the same
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • Show sunday your
    • 63 21 WHAT'S in store 9K£J for us in the RS New Year? Will Jack Neo make a movie about casinos?lu Will Paris Hilton move H to Singapore? \y ill Zhang Ziyi stop trying to speak English? We don't have any answersV But since ifs the first day
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    • Article, Illustration
      309 22 m AdnLlM Singapore Ho. eunuch the gang produce a bottle containing the Admiral's vital organs. The insemination was conducted by a North' Korean geneticist. (Copyright: I have sold this scenario to Ang Lee.) V Pxl Not Scared IRs (Ace) K The Mark's Brothers (Jack Neo, Henry Thia, fc
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    • 192 23 1. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky Ah, those were the good old days when the world could still be a comedy. No tsunami, no Sars, no Bin Laden. When the consuming worry was how to get rid of a stain from a GAP
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    • 112 23 1. Temasek Holdings Buys Manchester United 2. Singapore lumps To 4th Place In Latest Durez Sex Survey (We've cottoned on how/when to answer "yes" to questionnaire.) 3. Hong Kong Leaps To 3rd Place In Latest Durez Sex Survey (Not content to lag behind,
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    • 213 24 1. Gondolas with singing oarsmen plying the more scenic parts of the Singapore River. 2. After reclaiming land for the new downtown Singapore, a wreck of a giant junk is unearthed. The 300 m floater is a relic from Admiral Zheng Ho's
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    • 111 24 1. Gurmit Singh's bald spot first sighted, unwittingly, on an episode of Lifelines, and now a sore point of debate online. 2. Humourless judges making sensible rather than entertaining comments about contestants. Or trying to out-Simon Mr Cowell, if you
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    • 114 24 We'd like to hear from: 1. The well-known mime artist Monsieur Marcel Marceau as we haven't heard from him in such a long time. 2. Elvis Presley, whom we last had a quote from in the late 70s. Many
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    • 541 25  -  EdwinYeo tn p@sph.com.sg I DON'T know about you, but I hate New Year's resolutions. I mean, I really don't see the point. We make them, we break them the next day. So why make them in the first place? The reason for
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    • 461 26  -  And other things I learnt this year HowardLo tnp@sph.com.sg I AM feeling quite pleased at having won that Flame Awards tide. Everyone else in that category had some discernible talent Kelvin Tan is known for his singing ability, Leon Williams for his acting, and David Gan
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    • 363 27  -  JaniceSeah tn p@sph.com.sg AS IF it isn't enough that we women have to contend with being garbage bins for our children's leftovers, and with prime-time Housewives (albeit Desperate) looking better than I did on my wedding day, we now have to contend with
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    • 488 28  -  But how I will miss afternoons with Oprah AnnetteTan tnp@sph.com.sg WHENEVER people hear that I am a home-based freelance writer, they invariably think I live like Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City. Alas, nothing could be further from the
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  • 563 30  -  She can make things uncomfortable for unreasonable customers Show CrystalChan crystalc ©sph.com.sg AS a part-time manicurist, private student Yvonne, 20, admits she is not wild about the job. She hates the smells of nail varnish and polish remover and can't stand customers who are rude or
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  • guide sunday
    • Article, Illustration
      328 35  -  By Hadi An hadiaj@sph.com.sg THIS is something I know a man's complexion can make or break him. The problem is most men don't know how to take care of their skin. So they develop various skin problems, including acne. Being ignorant myself, I decided to go for my
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    • 290 36 Nissan concept car gives you... THE latest Nissan concept car will take gaming and driving to a whole new level when it is unveiled at a Detroit car show later this month. Not only does the car, called the Urge, come with the latest Microsoft
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      125 37 Cheese, chocolate, cuckoo clocks, spell Switzerland, yes. But pop music? Yah, right! Perhaps that's why the event was called Energy Stars For Free. Not exactly top of the pops, but they gamely came out to perform in wintry Zurich last week. Huh? She also forgot her skirt ah? Australian
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      145 38 Definitely DcraM The tagline is. "They never saw it coming." Who? What? Are we talking about Jennifer Aniston (Derailed) and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? (Off-railed)? About married not to each other people having an affair? Real life imitating art imitating real life? Mummee! Tb« Dark Set in Wales,
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  • 462 40  -  Watercooler whispers Guide JeanmaneTan jeanm@s ph.com.sg HAPPY New Year or will it be for us TV buffs? After sitting through 12 months of tube treasures and trash, an armchair critic sure deserves a top 10 wish list for 2006. 10) I WISH for good
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
    • 467 41 1 Tview Based on the'ufe and times of Indian KSSPBI| lKl (SurtluhCh 58), VVhen a boy is forced to leave his tribal home sepoy Mangal Pandey, the leader of the t-k ind enrol in an international school, he 1857 mutinyand his fight against the H Tlie population of begins his
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  • racing sunday
    • 539 42  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg THE final classic of the year on the local circuit will see 16 top-class gallopers vying for honours in the RM1.35 million ($607,500) Yang Di-Pertua Negeri Gold Cup over
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    • 98 43 IN THE BOTTLE (Race 7 No. 3) This Johann van Breukelen-trained gelding resumed from a nine-month spell on 11 Dec looking ripe as a cherry but found one to beat in West The Best over the Kuala Lumpur 1,200 m in yielding going. He fought tooth and nail
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    • 140 43 RACE 1: Flying Warrior, Ninetynine Action, Epitome, King Of Durban, World Cruises, Midnight Run, Cizen Galaxy. RACE 2: Golden Energy, Caldecott Vision, Moon Town. RACE 3: Speedy Wong Choy, Sparkling Dragon, Babe Classic, Martingale, leram Rainbow, Supreme Echo. RACE 4: Spielberg, Wednesday Runner, Classy Desean, Minnale Magic, Solar Istana.
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    • 462 44  -  MarcTan marc@sph.com.sg IT'S not just another day at the office for jockey Sofhan Latif and trainer Lee Yoke Bill when the eight-race programme at Penang kicks off at 1.45pm this afternoon. Sofhan, who booted home Force Majeure for trainer Prakhash Pereira in the ninth and
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  • sports
    • MAD ABOUT GOLF
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        791 46  -  LimHanMing npsports® sph.com.sg Eight out of 10. That is Singapore Ladies Golf Association (SLGA) vice-president Janice Khoo's personal assessment of women's golf in Singapore for 2005. Reflecting on the year that has gone by, she told The New Paper: "It has been a satisfying year for us. "We
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      • 185 47 MELISSA LOH (above): Made the professional cut at the Samsung Ladies Masters. Won the A Division title at ÜBS Junior Tournament. Won the Sembawang Ladies Open and Johore Ladies Open. HENG SU-ANN:Wonthe SICC Junior Invitational. Top Singapore golfer at SLGA Amateur Open Championships. CHRISTABELGOH:Won Keppel Ladies
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      • 136 47 FROM a meagre 200 in 1998, the Organisation of Asian Amateur Golfers (OAAG) has increased its membership to an astounding 3.7 million members. "This will make OAAG the largest golf club in the world," said its chief executive officer Nicklaus D'Cruz (above) as he opened the
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      • 799 48  -  GodfreyRobert npsports© sph.com.sg HE has been a spectator to many major tournaments, even some Majors. He has played in many pro-am tournaments, oftentimes in the company of leading golfers. And he has helped many local players, supported many domestic tournaments and lent his weight to corporate
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