Streats, 2 April 2001

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  • 20 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MONDAY 2 April 2001 Another quality publication of Press Holdings E-maik stfeats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 36 1 morningriisfl YOU can register online for national service and once in, apply for exit permits, jobs, scholarships and medical reports electronically. A new portal was launched yesterday miw.com.sg, which stands for “my internet world”.
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  • 307 1  -  reports by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM 60 killed walking on mads last year YOU'VE got off the MRT and you are in a hurry to get home. You see a lull in traffic and think of dashing across the road even when there is no pedestrian crossing. Well, don’t.
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  • 149 1 AN 80-YEAR-OLD accident victim whose condition had shown signs of improvement died on Saturday after almost two months in hospital. Madam Lim Ai Soon was hit by a lorry outside Commonwealth MRT station at 6.57 am on Feb 6. “She was transferred
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 105 3 MMMMM... breakfast at the zoo, with friendly orangutans for company. What? You’re feeling hungry? How about some fruits, a bit of nasi lemak and a bowl of ice kacang? CoolWell, eat your hearts out. The wonderful spread at the Singapore Zoological Gardens yesterday wasn’t
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    • Just a minute
      • 60 3 The government will provide eight weeks of paid maternity leave for working mothers after the birth of their third child. Instead of having the employers bear the expense, the government will pay the cost of the maternity leave for the third child, subject to a cap of $20,000.
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      • 50 3 If you are a troubled teenager, with no one to turn to, know that you are not alone. Log on to Counselling Online at wwwxounselling.org.sg. This 24 -hour service is manned by professionals who are trained in criminal and family law, psychology, psychiatry, social work and education.
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    • 77 3 Keep your suede shoes and handbags at home if you're going out today. You wouldn't want them damaged by rain. Temperature will reach 33°C before dipping to a cool 24°C with showers and thunder over many areas in the afternoon. Partly cloudy and slightly hazy. The
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    • 267 5 Singapore, Philippines 'desirable', but Expats head to North-east Asia MORE expatriates are heading to North-east Asia, where more jobs appear to be available now. There is a growing bias towards China, Hongkong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, a regional quality-of-life survey said yesterday. The trend follows North-east Asia’s strength in
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    • 452 5  -  by YVONNE KWOK PARLIAMENTARY Secretary (Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Health) and an MP for East Coast GRC Mr Chan Soo Sen wore a fake moustache on April Fool’s Day in a message to get Singaporeans to lighten up. Almost 400 members of the Joo
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    • 119 5 Silent laughter Open your mouth as wide as possible. Hold out your hands to a person, moving them slightly up and down as if asking a question. Laugh silently. This exercise is good for the cheeks. Humming laughter Put a finger in each ear. Puff out your
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 638 6 WHILE I harbour human ambitions for my dog learning Japanese, riding a scooter and owning a Big Bird water tumbler my preferences for her diet are somewhat more animalistic. Only dog food for her and strictly no handouts from the smorgasbord of heart-attack inducing
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  • Streatsmart Interchange
    • 311 7 I READ with disappointment your Telly Tubby column headlined “This is not a game” (Streats, March 27). My colleagues and I working on Dream Challengers are saddened by the accusation that we are taking “a person’s grief and another’s misfortune as entertainment”. Nothing
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    • 171 7 I REFER to the One Kind Act article headlined “Police helped rabbit” (Streats, March 24), in which the writer said she was dismayed and surprised to hear that SPCA staff members do not work on Sundays. The SPCA is sorry that it was unable to pick up
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    • 180 7 WE refer to Mr Aloyshire Ng’s letter headlined “Unsporting regulation” (Streats, Feb 28). We wish to clarify that the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) welcomes everyone to take part in our Sports For Life (SFL) activities. There are no restrictions as to the number of times one
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    • 121 7 onekindact. Grateful mum MY daughter suffers spinal muscular atrophy and is not so steady on her feet I would like to thank the school bus attendants who carry her to and from the bus. This happens when she alights at Block 852 Woodlands Ring Road PAP to
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    • 151 7 Organised and conducted by SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC 1 PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF LAND TITLES (STRATA) ACT Commencement Date Total Number of Lectures Venue Course Fees 24th April 2001 8 lectures (Tuesdays Fridays) Singapore Polytechnic Dover Road Campus $9OO 17th April 2001 Closing Date of Application To educate participants on: Major provisions of
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 230 8 AR Reuters BEIJING A Chinese fighter jet and a US navy spy plane “bumped into each other” over the South China Sea yesterday, US military officials have confirmed. The American craft, carrying 24 crew members, has made an emergency landing in China. The
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    • 140 8 -AP JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has rejected calls to give up much of his power to his deputy Some lawmakers have said he should assign the day-to-day running of Indonesia to VicePresident Megawati Sukarnoputri. The Jakarta Post quoted presidential spokesman Mr
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    • 144 8 Bernama, AP PETALING JAYA Three Malays, including two teenage boys, were charged with the murder of an Indian during the recent racial violence in Petaling Jaya. Muhammad Rizal Ishak, 23, and two school dropouts aged 16 and 17 were charged on Saturday with the
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    • 122 8 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s main political party, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), has appointed a leader for its new young wing. Puteri Umno, as it is called, will be led by lawyer and Umno Supreme Council member Azaiina Othman, 37. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir
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    • news scan
      • 104 8 AP BANGKOK Thailand launched a scheme yesterday to provide medical treatment to most Thais for 30 baht ($1.20) a hospital visit, officials said. It is one of the projects Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s party promised before a Jan 6 general election it won by an unprecedented margin.
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      • 75 8 AFP SEOUL President Kim Dae Jung named South Korea’s first woman vice-minister yesterday in a sweeping shake-up that axed half the number of vice-ministers. Ms Kim Song Ja, 56, became vice-labour minister and is the first woman to become a vice-minister in South Korea’s cabinet history. The
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      • 85 8 -AP TAIPEI Disregarding criticism from Beijing, thousands of Taiwanese Buddhists turned out yesterday to listen to the Dalai Lama lecture on spirituality and human values. Followers held hands in prayer or waved Tibet’s snow lion flag as the exiled spiritual leader addressed them from a five-tier
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      • 88 8 Reuters BEIJING Workers digging in an ancient graveyard in Nanjing have found the body of a 60-year-old, apparently a scholar buried about 500 years ago, state media said on Friday. Local experts believe the man, whose age was estimated from his wispy, white 30cm beard, to
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    • 236 9 ap SYDNEY The right-wing One Nation party singled out yesterday a new group it wants to ban from Australia: wealthy foreign investors. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said foreign takeovers of local businesses should be banned because of the low value of the Australian dollar.
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    • 126 9 Clinton most foolish again gofigure -AFP WASHINGTON The US suffers fools gladly, it seems, as Bill Clinton who served two presidential terms and left office with a 65 per cent approval rating was voted the Most Foolish American in an April Fool's Day survey. In the second annual telephone survey
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    • 93 9 -AP TOKYO South Koreans angered by a proposed Japanese history textbook that whitewashes wartime atrocities flooded the homepage of Japan’s Education Ministry in an apparent attempt to crash the site. The cyber protest made the website hard to access on Saturday morning but did
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 360 10 Wire services BELGRADE After the dramatic storming of his mansion and a tense stand-off with police, exYugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic is in jail. “Slobodan Milosevic has given himself up to justice,” a government spokesman said shortly before sam (11am Singapore time) yesterday. Radio reports said the
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    • 285 11 Reuters FLORENCE Women wore black and threw flowers on Saturday as Tuscans mourned the Florentine steak, illegal from yesterday. “Today will go down in history as the last day the Fiorentina was sold legally,” said Mr Dario Cecchini,
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    • 105 11 -AFP First-ever civil ceremony in the world AMSTERDAM Four homosexual couples exchanged marriage vows here yesterday in a landmark wedding ceremony under which gay couples could marry legally for the first time. The six men and two women were married at City Hall on
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      28 11 Palestinian Islamic Jihad activist children perform a play showing Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinians during a rally marking Land Day in Gaza City Pic: AP Pic: AP
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 400 12 -AFP BELGRADE The Yugoslav authorities arrested former president Slobodan Milosevic yesterday, marking another chap- ter in the fall from grace of the .man who ruled the country with an iron fist for 13 years. At 59, the politician, decried by
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    • 314 12 -AP TRIPOLI, Libya It begins as soon as a Libya-bound passenger buys a ticket. Emblazoned across the Libyan Arab Airlines ticket: “The committees are everywhere”, an Orwellian quotation from Mr Moammar Gaddafi, alluding to his unique brand of democracy. A
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    • 141 12 Reuters TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, his career in tatters after a series of gaffes and scandals, topped the list of his university’s most disgraceful graduates, a campus magazine reported. With 343 votes, or more than 90 per cent of the total, Mr
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  • easy STREATS
    • 599 13  -  by KAREN CHEN FROM the way J-pop princess Ayumi Hamasaki is marketing her albums, you might just conclude that she’s in great need of money. Hot on the heels of releasing 14 albums in a row (her last single, Never Ever, was released only six weeks
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    • 276 14  -  tbpT two shoes by f Judi Low dumplings. Instead of bread dough, dumpling pastry encases a tasty filling of minced chicken and shallots. The accompaniments are shredded ginger IF you like Satay Beehoon, you’ll probably enjoy Tan Tan Noodles ($2.80). Never heard of it? Well,
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      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 59 14 10pm, Channel 5 When Abby yet again objects, to being president of the educational co-op, she impulsively nominates Dharma to run against her, and Dharma is elected. Dharma makes changes, which 4 backfire, convincing her that Abby is sabotaging her. Meanwhile, k.d. lang asks Greg for a
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          75 14 11.30 pm, Central Intriguing title, but this British version is really a knock- off of Friends. Still k worth a look-see. It features six friends 1 involved, formerly m involved, or looking Ĕto become more f involved with each other. Their discus- W sions over coffee, between beers, in
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        • 64 14 Bpm, AXN (SCVI9) From the virgin jungles of Sabah, through cascading waterfalls, along remote winding rivers, across open seas and into the deep blue ocean the Eco-Challenge Sabah, the world’s toughest expedition race, is a survival course like no other. Denting the ego of the challenger, pushing humans
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    • 184 15 ACTION hero Jackie Chan may have some fast moves in his movies, k but he isn’t quite so fast in real life. The “big brother” of Hongkong action flicks suffered an unexpected punch on his nose while filming Rush Hour 2 in Las Vegas, reported Hongkong’s
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    • 306 15 THE cat is finally out of the bag. For three months, bad boy Nicholas Tse has been renting a luxurious apartment for himself and Faye Wong, said Hongkong’s Oriental Daily. Nicholas let the secret out himself during a publicity event for his film, Lao Fu Zi,
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    • 341 19 Recently, the Consumer Association of Singapore urged the Ministry of Health andlnfocomm Development of Singapore to take action on measuring the Specific Absorption Rates of handphones. This comes amidst rising global concerns of the link between handphone radiation and brain damage. Just one question.
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    • easyStreats sports
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        676 20  -  Injuries and poor luck mar Tampines'campaign by 'TAN KIM HAN THERE is a cruel joke going around the S-League. If the Singapore Pools were to allow bets on the first coach to be sacked this season, the money would be on Tampines Rovers’ V Sivalingam. Because the
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      • 555 21 Wire services PREMIER LEAGUE LONDON Chelsea striker Gianfranco Zola dedicated the goal that put the London club on course for a 2-1 win against Middlesbrough to former teammate David Rocastle who lost his fight against cancer. Former Arsenal and England midfielder Rocastle died on Friday
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      • 280 21 LONDON Glenn Hoddle will pick u D £500,000 I ($1.27 mil- lion) for 180 1 minutes’ work if Tottenham Hotspur wins the FA Cup. The new Spurs manager Will be paid the bonus set aside for George Graham, who was sacked
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      • 68 22 BASKETBALL Reuters WASHINGTON The Houston Rockets shook off its slumber in the fourth quarter, reeling off 15 consecutive points, on its way to a 96-86 victory over the Washington Wizards in the NBA Championships on Saturday Other results: Atlanta Hawks 99 Denver 88; Milwaukee Bucks
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      • 79 22 BOXING KUALA LUMPUR Mike Tyson has verbally agreed to fight Nigerian heavyweight David Izon in Kuala Lumpur in June, reports said yesterday The Sunday Star quoted a spokesman from event organiser Promote Classic as saying that a draft of the agreement had been given
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      • 102 22 RACING -AFP SAO PAULO Michael and Ralf Schumacher’s hopes of leading a historic 1-2 pole starting position on the grid at the Grand Prix yesterday were guaranteed after race commissioners gave the green light to Ralf after an earlier inspection of his fuel. Hopes were put
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      • 471 22  -  Kaneson has one month to prove he is the right fitness trainer for Tam pines by TAN KIM HAN BLOODY unfit. Those were the two words that Tampines Rovers chairman Teo Hock Seng chose to lambast his Stags when they laboured in their opening match a fortnight
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 475 16 ejeln\ A 1 Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20-FEB 18 Love is hard work. The people that you’ve invited into your world need care and feeding. You’re just experiencing ambivalent feelings about perfectly normal circumstances. This really ought to be fun. FEB 19-MAR 20 Pisces presides
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 252 18 MONDAY p 2 April 2001 m m I H The story is about. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything, from girl problems to gang fights;from baseball The author... Born in 1954 in Kaohsiuog,Taiwan, Lin Cheng Te is one of the country's most renowned professional comics artists.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 379 19 The story today. Zhao Quanhai and the rest rush Into the tree to find the two monsters dead. Xiao Then he asks the group to join him in searching for the treasure. After a long trek down several winding paths, they see a beam of light coming from an opening.
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