Streats, 4 December 2000

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MONDAY 4 December 2000 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Technical training
      59 1 STARTING next year, there will be an Industry Training Award programme to supply technicians for the wafer fab, chemicals, life sciences and precision engineering industries. Students will be sponsored under the ITA to pursue the relevant courses in these industries. They will receive monthly allowances and will join
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      Lock icon Phone in for results
      67 1 STUDENTS and staff of the National University of Singapore can soon use their mobile phones to log onto the campus’ computer system to check examination results, renew library books and receive e-mail. Called m-NUS, the new service will start on Dec 15, giving the entire 34,000
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      Lock icon Open debate
      68 1 ON Friday, Young PAP (YP) will launch a programme to get young Singaporeans to debate issues of the day, work with the community, and foster a pro-Singapore mindset that will shape them to be future political leaders. Mr Lim Swee Say, who took over the reins of the
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    Lock icon Do your half
    361 1 Prime Minister suggests setting up Half Per Cent Clubs to promote philanthropic culture SINGAPORE has the software and the hardware. But what the country needs is heartware. *A philanthropic culture. And compassion. And commitment to care for one another. “Only then can we bond as one people,”
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    Lock icon Is life is Sydney or San Francisco?
    175 1  -  by CARAVAN MIRIAH NO, this is happening right here in Singapore. Last Friday, about 300 people, almost all of them men, gathered for a party at Mt Faber. Described as Singapore’s most outrageous party, bare-bodied men in tight-fit-ting jeans were seen kissing, holding
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      Lock icon Here's what you moan about
      578 2  -  PM Gob Chok Tong said in an interview with the Asian Wall Street Journal published last Friday that Singapore is 'a nation of moaners and groaners'but in the end, 'very sensible people Streats asked 50 Singaporeans what their top five grouses are by. JOYCELYN WONG
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      Lock icon Woman in ambulance-bus crash dies
      144 2 HIS father died en route to hospital in an ambulance-SBS bus crash last Tuesday at Buona Vista Road Flyover. The death dealt Mr Toh Chee Kiong a cruel blow, but his life darkened further yesterday when his wife, Madam Tan Joo See, 37, succumbed to
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      Lock icon Neglected dog in shocking state
      261 2 AN experienced staff member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals described the condition of a dog that was handed over to the society on Saturday as one of the worst he had ever seem. Mr Michael Stephen, 33, a kennel keeper
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      122 2 onekindact. Sharon Sim, 45, administrative assistant The last MPH Bookstore Sale was held at the Tagore Industrial Building. After buying some books just when we were on our way out, there was a heavy downpour. We were stuck at the security guard house for about twenty minutes.
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      Lock icon Man steals cash from Shell stations as... Toddler, woman distract victims
      240 3 A COUPLE accompanied by a toddler stole cash from the tills of two petrol stations before making their escape by taxi. In both incidents, at Shell kiosks in Guillemard Road and Dunman Road, the woman and a little girl,
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      Lock icon Boy falls to his death
      154 3 A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy fell to his death from an HDB block on Saturday night. The police received a call at 9.50 pm that a child had fallen from Block 230, Pasir Ris Street 21. They arrived to find Muhammad Irfaan Bin Saemon, lying at the
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        158 3 Quarantine them I REFER to the Streats Dec 1 front-page story headlined 'A mother's dilemma' about the HIV-positive girl who attends regular pre-school without knowing about her condition. I strongly believe that she should be quarantined or be supervised closely by her relatives. What would happen if others
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        167 3 IN the Nov 25 Streats report on page 7 headlined "He drank, drove and got away", the penultimate paragraph said that a driver who passes a breath test can still be charged if involved in an accident. This gave the wrong impression that only parties to an accident
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      Lock icon Boy, 12, helps nab snatch thief
      447 5  -  by JOYCELYN WONG THE 12-year-old boy knew he couldn’t confront the thief on his own. So he enlisted the help of passers-by to finish the job. Muhammad Heilham Kamaruddin returned home from school at about Ipm on Nov 2. The plump boy had just
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      72 5 Our weather girl says Put on a sweater today 'cos it's going to be a cold and wet day. There'll be showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening over most parts of Singapore. Temperature will hit 32° C. High tide will reach 2.4 m at 3.45 pm.
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        47 5 Want to experience a white Christmas? Now you can atTanglin Mall. Keep your kids busy and happy by having them slide down an avalanche of snow on Santa's Foam Slide from 7.15 pm to 7.30 pm and 8.45 pm to 9pm daily. Free admission.
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        49 5 Singapore Pools and Singapore Turf Club (STC) will both sell 4-D tickets, Toto, Singapore Sweep and Score tickets. Pools and STC winners can make their claims at any outlet, regardless of whether the ticket was bought from a Pools or STC outlet. For more information, call 216-8168.
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        64 5 If you're a government pensioner under the FAW (Fixed Amount of Ward Charges Scheme), CPW (Co-Payment on Ward Scheme) and CCS (Comprehensive Co-payment Scheme), you'll receive the two years'basic MediShield premium rebate in the form ofMedisave top-ups if you have a CPF account. So if you want to enjoy
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      Lock icon Variety – the spice of media life
      609 6 Variety the spice of media life A CONVERSATION between two Singaporeans in the year 2005. A: Quack quack quack! 8: Cheep cheep cheep! A: Quack quack? B: Cheep cheep? A: What about the weather forecast? We can’t go wrong on that one. Yours says that it’s sunny today right? B:
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      Lock icon Men in Japan shun housework
      255 8 TOKYO Most Japanese adults fee! men should do more around the house but fewer than 2 per cent of husbands will lift a finger to help regularly with household chores, a government survey published yesterday said. Reuters news agency reported that a national survey on
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      Lock icon Japanese murdered in Sabah: report
      147 8 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A 40-year-old Japanese businessman was slashed to death by at least three attackers near Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, a report said yesterday. Police are trying to verify whether the murder was the result of a robbery or related to a personal matter,
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      56 8 webcites The next generation of Internet viewing may not be the same again with www.AlternateTV.com. It has a net-only programming with a strong Asian focus, giving viewers a unique experience that incorporates video, audio, text, graphics and animation. It also has a monthly mobile speakers'corner where people can
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      Lock icon Vision Schools: Dr M to clear air
      281 9 Wire services Chinese discontent said to have cost coalition Kedah by-election KUALA LUMPUR From fighting for Vision 2020, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is now battling for public support among the Chinese for Vision Schools. Their anger is said to have cost his
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      70 9 knowornot Did you know that half of the Hollywood movies do not get a public viewing? Fifty per cent of Hollywood movies do not get a cinema release. Those that do make five times more from video sales than cinema takings. The biggest movie promotion deal is
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      Lock icon Thai military sets up boot camp for tourists
      233 10 -AFP LOPBURI, Thailand Instead of putting young cadets through their paces, Thai military trainers are now in charge of fee-paying tourists. Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy’s latest accolade is an award from the Tourism Authority of Thailand for its successful “boot camp for
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        Lock icon Bullet-proof vests order
        85 10 AP BANGKOK With national elections due on Jan 6, Thai police searching for weapons and hired guns have been told to wear bullet-proof vests, a newspaper reported yesterday. The protection was needed after year-long politically related violence in which nearly 50 canvassers were killed or wounded, the
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        Lock icon 4 held over mall collapse
        87 10 Reuters BEIJING Chinese police detained four people yesterday as they launched a probe into the collapse of a popular shopping mall in Dongguan. Police had detained the owner of the shopping mall, its designer and contractor, and the head of Chiling village where it was
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        Lock icon Sarawak tattoo fest
        66 10 Bernama KUCHING, Malaysia Sarawak is to host the First International Tattoo Convention in May 2002. The event, hosted by the Sarawak Tourism Board is organised by the Borneo Head Hunters Tattoo and Piercing Studio (BHHTPS). Secretariat chairman Ernesto Kalum Umpie, of BHHTPS, said 25 tattoo experts from
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        94 10 -AFP MELBOURNE Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Melbourne yesterday in support of reconciliation between black and white Australia. Tens of thousands joined a similar event in Perth. “This is a very peaceful and joyous occasion,” Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation deputy chairman and Australian of the
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      Lock icon Passenger jet and US fighter in near miss
      197 11 -AFP LONDON A passenger jet with 234 people on board came within 30m of a midair collision with a US fighter plane, Britain’s Sunday Telegraph reported. The Britannia Airways Boeing 757 was en route to Cyprus from Birmingham, central England, when it
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      Lock icon On the go in Singapore
      58 11 gofigure Singapore Infomap The total number of vehicles in Singapore this year is 688,811 of which 38S,136arecars. There are 48 MRT stations and 85 trains serving 1,082,800 passengers daily. Two bus companies operate 258 routes with a fleet 0f3,354 buses. There are five groups of
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      Lock icon Rare Sunday for lawyers
      240 13 Reuters TALLAHASSEE Attorneys for Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W Bush were due to return to a Florida court for a rare Sunday session to continue a legal battle over whether disputed ballots that could change the outcome of the US presidential election should be
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      Lock icon Three arrested after 10-year-old stabbed to death
      113 13 AP LONDON Police arrested three people on Saturday in connection with the stabbing of a 10-year-old London schoolboy. Two youths, both 13, and a 39-year-old woman were arrested in south London, near where Damilola Taylor died, police Detective Superintendent David Dillnutt said. Damilola
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      Lock icon Russia: Anthem row deepens
      200 13 -AFP MOSCOW The old Soviet hymn is unacceptable for today’s Russia, a prominent reformist leader and lawmaker has warned. His remark has deepened the controversy over Russia’s future anthem. “Russia is a very different state now, based on different principles and traditions, and it’s wrong to
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      Lock icon Bid to combat homosexuality among Kuwait prisoners... They get conjugal rights
      189 14 -AFP KUWAIT CITY Married inmates in Kuwait’s prison will soon be allowed conjugal rights once every four months after the Islamic Affairs Ministry gave its nod to the scheme, a newspaper reported yesterday. The ministry’s Fatwa (religious ruling) department
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      Lock icon Found: Bond actor's stolen car
      88 14 ROME Italian police recovered on Saturday a car stolen last week in Monaco from British actor Roger Moore, best known for portraying James Bond on the big screen. The luxury Mercedes sedan, with an estimated value of 100,000 euros (*****,800), was found overnight in perfect
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      Lock icon Jurassic find
      82 14 justbelieveit Reuters QUETTA, Pakistan Dinosaur fossils have been found in Pakistan for the first time. Geologists said they are hopeful that it could explain why the species became extinct suddenly. The 70 million-year old fossilised legs and spine are believed to be from the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous
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        83 14 AP NEW DELHI Railway workers clearing the crash wreckage of two trains in India’s Punjab state, found six more bodies yesterday, taking the death toll to 46, news reports said. The work was continuing a day after the Amritsar-bound Howrah Mail Express collided with a freight
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        91 14 -AFP BAGHDAD Iraq is free to set the price of its own oil, Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said yesterday after Baghdad halted crude exports in a pricing row with the United Nations. “Iraq is free to set crude prices according to its own interests,”
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        Lock icon Maria Callas' relics sold
        114 14 Reuters PARIS A lock of Maria Callas’ hair and a cherished painting were among hundreds of personal relics of the legendary opera diva snapped up by fans late on Saturday at an auction held 23 years after her death. The sale, which was continuing yesterday in
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      Lock icon US civil rights icon honoured
      204 15 MONTOGOMERY, Alabama Rosa Parks, the black woman who triggered the US civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat in a bus to a white passenger, was back at the scene to witness the launch of a library and a museum in her
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      Lock icon Anti-smoking activist Turlington has lung disease
      116 15 AP LONDON Model Christy Turlington, who has starred in a series of anti-smoking commercials on American and British television, has sobering news for her fans she has emphysema. The 31-year-old model told The Times newspaper that she was diagnosed with early-stage emphysema after undergoing
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      Lock icon Death Diary author's book goes on sale
      181 15 BEIJING Cancer victim Lu Youqing, who broke taboos by posting a diary of his last days on the Internet, has pulled his accounts into a book that went on sale yesterday. The former property agent turned to writing after his doctors gave him
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      Lock icon Aaron proves heist no slouch
      135 15 HONGKONG Labelled as “has-beens” and “over the hill” by the mainland Chinese media, Aaron Kwok and other top Hongkong artistes have rebutted reports by listing how much they earn per year. Hongkong tabloid magazine Xinde Yule carried a listing of the 10 highest-paid Hongkong artistes
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      Lock icon So much fun, but where were the safety measures?
      472 17  -  by ARTI MULCHAND and CARA VAN MIRIAH 120 security guards, 23 medics and four lifeguards. Were they enough for 10,000 party-goers? Probably not, as Zouk-Out, the 13-hour dance music festival, has been marred by a drowning. Just after 8.30 pm, three
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      Lock icon Rare rojak
      265 18  -  jP BB^ V agg&r two shoes by Judi Low TWENTY plus years ago, Mr Noor Mohamad’s father was one of the four or five hawkers on Waterloo Street famous for their Indian rojak. I remember heading there late at night for this yummy supper treat after a movie
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      103 18 How to use a napkin(Part II): When you have finished your meal, place your napkin loosely next to your plate. It should not be crumpled or twisted, which would reveal untidiness or nervousness. The napkin must not be left on the chair. There is a European superstition that
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      40 18 Student Yuling suggests you try: Hainanese Curry Rice at Blk 49, Sim's Place, #Ol-52 open:sam-2pm Yuling says: "My friends and I eat here almost every day. The food's cheap and good. Try the cabbage, pork chop andsotong."
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      Lock icon Golden Horse Awards Maggie's dying thoughts
      467 21 SHE should have been basking in a glow of triumph. But Hongkong actress Maggie Cheung, after winning the Taiwan version of an Oscar, turned her thoughts to death instead. “I don’t know when I will die,” she ottered to stunned reporters, after bagQing the
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          Lock icon CONGO
          101 21 7.30pm, TCS 5 When a team sent to < locate a mine of dia- I monds is killed by an I unknown creature, the sponsor sends in projnnf o i irvArwior>r l/orn ect supervisor Karen i Ross (Laura Linney) to investigate. Meanwhile, prima- tologist Peter Elliot (Dylan Walsh) decides
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          Lock icon LONG VACATION
          67 21 10.30 pm, TCS 8 Zhen-er moves in with Nan after breaking up with Liumei. Laiming breaks up a fight between them when Liumei shows up. Meanwhile, Laiming and Nan become pre-occupied with their kiss. So much so that Nan loses a roll of important film while on the
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          Lock icon THE THREE TENORS CHRISTMAS
          47 21 10pm, Central Strictly for fans of the Three Tenors only. Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti team up again to capture the festive season with their first ever Christmas concert. They are accompanied by the Vienna Symphony and Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children’s Choir
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          Lock icon STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT
          49 21 10.30 pm, HBO (SCV 60) Meddling mum Tutti stum- bles on a massive insurance fraud, with murder and arms-dealing thrown in, and nags her son (Sylvester Stallone) into joining her on the case. Not exactly a cerebral comedy, but it has its moments.
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      Lock icon Should we bother to send anyone for the Miss World competition?
      317 22 r Just one Why should we give up even before the competition? We should launch a proper competition to select Miss Singapore. If we start nurturing young beauties now, maybe in five years, we may see Miss Singapore winning
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        Lock icon $250,000 a week for Becks
        316 27 $250, 000 a week for Becks LONDON David Beckham is all set to become Britain’s wealthiest player ever. His new contract will be worth £lOO,OOO ($250,000) a rweek with a total of staggering I £52 million spread over 10 years, reports Soccernet. The 25-year-old England captain and Manchester United star
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        Lock icon Venables responds to Robson SOS
        283 27 LONDON It needed an SOS from Middlesbrough manager Bryan Robson in a dramatic meeting in London to change Terry Venables’ mind. In what is termed as an “emotional change of heart”, the former England manager agreed to help out his close friend whose team is
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        Lock icon Parma hands Atalanta its first league defeat of the season
        664 29 Reuters MILAN Parma defeated Atalanta 2-0 on Saturday to end the Bergamo side’s proud record as the last unbeaten team in the Italian Serie A. Sabri Lamouchi’s early strike and Sergio Conceicao’s late solo effort settled the encounter on a
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        Lock icon Man U wins, but Ferdinand loses
        459 29 Reuters LONDON Manchester United kept up its charge towards a third successive English Premiership title with a 2-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday. Paul Scholes scored the first goal in the 40th minute and substitute Ole Gunnar Solskjaer added the second in the
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        Lock icon Kuerten sends Sampras packing
        591 30 -AP LISBON Gustavo Kuerten rallied to oust defending champion Pete Sampras and will finish the year as No. 1 in the world if he can beat Andre Agassi in the final of the Masters Cup. In a thrilling, seesawing semifinal, Kuerten fought back to win 6-7,6-3,6-4,
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        Lock icon Australians claim golf crown as Swedes falter
        230 31 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Australia emerged as the inaugural winners of the Women’s World Cup Golf yesterday as it upstaged overnight leaders Sweden in the final day of competition. The favourites, who started the final round at the Mines Resort and Golf Club three
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        Lock icon Easy win for Nkodima in S'pore marathon
        349 31 TEN minutes after he ran 42 km, South Africa’s Nixon Nkodima was happily talking about it. Nkodima was chatting about how he had won the Singapore International Marathon and how he had romped to victory at the National Stadium easily too. Considered the
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