Streats, 4 April 2001

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEONfcSPAT 4 April 3001 j Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings •:<•, E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 432 1  -  For a week a woman lay dead behind this am Kef, no one knew or bothered by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER A MERE 6.5 m separates Madam Kok Fong Lin’s flat from her neighbours’. Yet none of them knew that she lay dead on her bed for a
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  • morning rush
    • 87 1 THE official economic growth forecast of 5 to 7 per cent this year will be revised downwards next Tuesday probably by one point due to the global slowdown. The Ministry of Trade and Industry will issue the new forecast along with preliminary or “flash” estimates
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    • 77 1 THE National Council of Social Service (NCSS) said that about 300,000 people will benefit from its 118 social programmes this financial year, an increase of 60,000, or 24 per cent, on last year. This is despite an increase of only 7.2 per cent or $3 million
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    • 60 1 This a file photo of Chong Boon Secondary student Low Siew Tong trying on a mini oxygen mask last year as a haze-survival kit as schoolmate Tong Wei Cai grins. But a quick burst of oxygen before a maths test can make you smarter while doing it, new research in
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 494 2  -  by STEPHANIE GOH SAY “hello” to good English, not “eh how?”. In one of four 30-second trailers which were screened at the media conference announcing details of this year’s Speak Good English Movement (SGEM), comedian Gurmit Singh cheekily talks
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    • 203 2 HOUSEHOLDS are having a hard time planning their budgets. Barely a month ago the prices of caixin and lettuce were so low that Malaysian farmers were dumping these greens by the truckload because they were not going to make a profit selling them at the market. Now
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    • 377 3  -  Volunteer spirit 1 by SONNY PHUA AT a time when most nine-year-olds were busy with their books or playing with their toys, these four girls were already doing volunteer work. They would troop to an old folks’ home to keep the elderly residents company. Today, four
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    • 168 3  -  Volunteer spirit #2 by KHUSHWANT SINGH WHILE her junior prison officers wield batons, Assistant Superintendent of Prison (ASP) Angie Khoo wields a paintbrush. This petite 26-year-old conducts art classes after office hours for 10 prisoners aged between 18 and 22. ASP Khoo was among the 17
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    • Just a minute
      • 64 3 From this month Military personnel, from NSmen to those waiting to enlist, can check out Mindef's Internet portal at www.miw.com.sg. Users can apply for exit permits, book fitness test dates or register for National Service. An upcoming service is an e-mart from which servicemen can order personal equipment online. For
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      • 49 3 Remember The last day for submitting your income tax returns is April 15. You can file your returns electronically via the Internet or the telephone. For help, turn to efile.iras.gov.sg or call!800-252 5011. Failure to file your returns is an offence which carries a fine of up to $l,OOO.
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    • 80 3 Our weather girl says.. It going to be hard to keep your feet dry today as there 1 will be showers f with thunder over I most areas in the afternoon and early evening. Temperature will hit 33°C and the tide will be at 2.4 m Jf at 9.45 pm.
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    • 383 4  -  by I DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM ChiaFook Kun was yesterday found guilty of outraging the modesty of his maid, 18 and sentenced to 15 months jail THIS is a modern-day version of throwing a bottle with a message into the ocean and hoping somebody finds
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    • 265 4 A HUMAN smuggler was dealt some swift and heavy justice yesterday. Raup bin Omar, 32, was jailed for four years and ordered to be given 15 strokes of the cane for trying to bring five illegal immigrants from Myanmar in his vehicle into Singapore
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    • news scan
      • 136 4  -  -DeepaVijiyasingam A 34-YEAR-OLD unemployed man lay in wait for his mother and snatched her purse at a bus stop along Bedok Reservoir Road on Feb 16. Knowing his mother would take the bus to work from that stop, Abdul Jalil Haniffa, waited for her there at
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      • 106 4  -  Sarah Ng A 28-YEAR-OLD woman found a man peeping at her while she was changing in the bedroom of her flat in Ang Mo Kio. Investigations revealed that on Jan 13 last year, at 7.30 pm, the victim, after removing her blouse, saw a shadow outside
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      • 143 4  -  Sarah Ng HE had a quarrel with his mother and a friend. And to vent his anger, he threw a fish tank from his flat. Karang guni man Ng Seh Keong, 34, was jailed for two months for endangering the safety of others with his
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    • 165 5  -  by /ZUBAIDAH NAZEER TWO cyclists were knocked down by trucks over the weekend, just as Traffic Police statistics showed fewer were involved in road accidents last year. At 4.54 pm on Saturday, a 58-year-old woman was knocked down by a lorry while
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    • 219 5 HE HOPED his five-month term would be overturned, but will now spend a year in jail. Spurned lover Lim Siong Khee, 29, was in September sentenced to five months in jail for bombarding his exgirlfriend with pornographic messages and hijacking her e-mail account. When
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    • 102 5 onekindact. Madam Audrey Ang I HAVE only praise for all the wonderful young medical staff members at Naval Medicine Hyperaric Centre, where I recently received treatment for an eye ailment They all displayed such a fine attitude to their work, and such kindness and understanding towards their
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 519 6 WHEN I pulled from the foreign wires a story on Dutch gay couples being allowed to legally marry, my colleague doubted its suitability for the pages of Streats. It promotes wrong values, she said. Splash it too big, and I agree, our
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 149 8 Reute JAKARTA Mr Abdurrahman Wahid doubts his vice-president could manage Indonesia any better. Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri is touted by the president’s opponents as the best choice to lead the country out of prolonged crises. Some have suggested she take over government, leaving
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    • 278 8 -AFI KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday a 10-year development plan to find ways to giv Malays a bigger stake in the economy. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Malay must learn to help themselves. “If the bumiputeras immediately sell back th
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    • web cites
      • 41 8 Thousands of chain e-mails float around in cyberspace daily. One hoax claimed that heart-attack victims can apply "self-CPR"to ease the discomfort It is fatal. Check out American Heart Association for the proper methods ofCPR at CPR-ecc.org.
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      • 39 8 Spam refers to unwanted Internet advertisements received without consent. And if you get accused of spam, you may find your website added to the e-mail blacklist atMailAbuse.org. Victims of spam can also report instances here.
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    • 246 9 AP this plane is sovereign US territory, how did it land in China? MrZhu Bangzao, Chinese spokesman BEIJING -China said yesterday it has the right to inspect the US spy plane down in Hainan, despite a claim that the plane is US territory. “Based
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    • 156 9 AP BEIJING Chinese President Jiang Zemin said yesterday the US must “bear full responsibility” for the collision between a Chinese fighter and a US spy plane. “We have sufficient evidence,” he was quoted as telling visiting Qatari Prime Minister Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani. Mr Jiang
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    • 167 9 -AFP TAIPEI The US EP-3 plane was spying on China’s most advanced destroyer when it hit a Chinese fighter, reports said yesterday. “Taiwan’s military radar detected the EP-3 flying in circles in the vicinity of a Russian-built Sovremenny destroyer at a low altitude and
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    • 139 9 PRESIDENT Bush said he was “troubled” by China’s response to the incident and called for “immediate access” to the crew. According to CNN, twice within an hour on Monday, he called for a release of the plane “without any further tampering”. He said the Chinese response had been
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 284 11 Oxygen glucose; ginkgo make you smarter: Study Fuel for thought A QUICK burst of oxygen or glucose makes people smarter for a while, British scientists have found. In laboratory experiments, volunteers given shots of pure oxygen and glucose drinks did better in tough mental tests. Dr Andrew Scholey, director of
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    • 240 11 Reuters NEW DELHI Police fired in the air yesterday at angry Delhi commuters who torched six buses to protest against a lack of public transport. The shortage follows a court order forcing all buses, taxis and motor rickshaws to convert to compressed natural gas or
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    • news scan
      • 120 11 Reuters LONDON Britain’s defence ministry has said the £15.28 ($3B) stainless steel bowls used to feed the armed forces’ 2,000 dogs are far too dear and will be replaced by ordinary £l.BO pet bowls. “The last order placed was for 250 of these bowls, so it
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      • 146 11 Reuters COLOMBO A red-faced Sri Lanka Customs Department said it had shut down its website after hackers replaced the home page with a picture of a bleeding skull to protest the recent killing of a customs officer. Visitors to the normally staid website www.slcustoms.gov.lk were shocked by
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      • 132 11 -AP NEW YORK Longtime activist and teacher Bob Moses believes he has the key to economic success in the age of technology: Encourage students to become maths literate. “You’re talking about the ability to handle technical language,” Mr Moses said. “If they don’t get it, they’re
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 312 12 -AP BANGKOK Thailand’s interior minister wants to field a new weapon in the fight against corrupt politicians: Their wives. The minister, Mr Purachai Piemsomboon, suggested yesterday that the wives ferret out the financial details of their husbands’ mistresses and illegal wives
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    • 251 12 Reuters f MIAMI Tennis star Martina Hingis came face to face in court on Monday with the man who allegedly stalked her, testifying that she had felt nervous about his obsession. The 20-year-old Swiss player, the world’s No 1 woman
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    • 190 12 AP SYDNEY A lawmaker who angered animal-rights groups by publishing a recipe for poached koala bear is encouraging Europeans to consume another Australian icon the kangaroo. New South Wales state parliamentarian Peter Black said yesterday that foot-and-mouth and mad-cow disease crises in Europe are
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  • easy STREATS
    • Article, Illustration
      441 13  -  She may not have an instantly recognisable name, out she's one ofTVß's hottest stars by f YVONNE KWOK THE name is not instantly recognisable, but the face is. When Hongkong actress Flora Chan, dressed in purple leather, waltzed into the room, you couldn’t help the flashback moments to
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    • Article, Illustration
      561 14  -  There's a blanket of secrecy around Singapore's latest local film, Avatar, which begins production next Monday by YVONNE KWOK A BIG question mark hangs over the latest film A to be made in Singapore, Avatar. A What’s the plot real-1 ly about? 9 What role is one of
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    • 411 15  -  The highly-anticipated Christian Dior fashion gala that aimed to shock fails to cause a riot r mmtch's hour by Cara van Miriah ABOUT 340 enthusiasts turned up last Saturday for a fashion gala at Fullerton Hotel, eagerly hoping to catch unconventional and bold works
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    • 248 16 SHARON Au’s 48-year-old mother, Madam Irene Ong, revealed a lot more than she wanted to on television, and she can blame that on Sharon. Sharon was invited on Monday’s Channel B’s variety programme Top Fun to participate in a segment a la Candid Camera. She had
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    • 108 16 IT'S official. Actress Jodie Foster is pregnant with baby No 2. The two-time Oscar-winner, 38, is already the mother of a son, Charlie, who will be three in July. She is due in November. “My sisters and I are all Scorpios so we have
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    • 182 16 AP IT'S no more Mr Nice Guy for Hugh Grant. The actor said he was happy to play a character he describes as a ‘cad, liar, cheat, philanderer’ in the upcoming film adaptation of the best-selling novel, Bridget Jones’s Diary. “It’s a huge relief to
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 56 16 6.30 pm, Channel 5 Catch Will Smith in this comedy series that showed he could not only rap with the best of them, but also act with the best of them. A visit from Will’s taskmaster mother puts a hold on conspicuous consumption and sets the
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        • 54 16 11pm, Channel 5 A gunman in the city is targetting gay men and, believing the cops don’t care, some gays form their own vigilante group. Meanwhile, Faith arrests her husband for drink driving and makes sure he spends time in the cells. Kim tells Bobby their fling may
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        • 64 16 10pm, Central This atmospheric movie, written by Spike Lee, features Bleek Gilliam as a child who has to have trumpet lessons when his friends want him to come out and play. Bleek grows up and forms the Bleek Gilliam Quartet. A friendly rivalry on stage spills over and
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        • 49 16 7.30 pm, MTV SEA (SCV 11) For those of you who are crazy enough fans, you won’t want to miss MTV’s Lo-down on the girl with Hollywood’s most famous posterior. She’s the channel’s Artist of the Month, so expect lots of videos and interviews.
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        • 45 16 10PM, DISCOVERY (SCV 12) Using cutting edge computer graphics, medical imaging and visual documentary techniques, The Human Body series shows how the body works and what it’s like to be inside this incredible combination of tissue, bone, brain and blood.
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    • 314 19 James Gomez's Think Centre pulled an April Fool's Day stunt announcing the group's intention to contest in the upcoming general elections. It had the I media in a frenzy r Just one aquestion People should not be too
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 166 21 -AFP LONDON Teddy Sheringham’s agent said yesterday that the onus was on Manchester United in the ongoing negotiations over a *new contract for the England striker Sheringham’s agent Barry Nevill was somewhat surprised by the news on Monday that United had
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      • 209 21 •GOLF Reuters AUGUSTA, Georgia Arnold Palmer, who led golf’s boom more than 40 years ago, says that even if Tiger Woods wins the US Masters this week, he will not have completed the Grand Slam. “I don’t know if what we’re
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      • 59 21 •SOCCER -AP LONDON Striker Marcus Stewart, with England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson watching in the stands, scored a hat-trick on Monday as Ipswich defeated Southampton 3-0 in the Premier League. It is now third, behind Manchester United and Arsenal. Stewart, who has 20 goals in 18 matches,
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      • 413 22 -AFP This match will be different from the previous ones, insists Wenger r CHAMPIONS 11-ACM L Arsenal v Valencia A J&i LONDON Arsene Wenger admits that he is ashamed of the way Arsenal has crawled, tail between legs, into the quarter-finals of the Champions League. But the French
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      • 168 22 -AFP T CHAMPIONS LEAGUE L Leeds vDeportivo A ■k. idM LONDON Deportivo La Coruna may not command the instant respect accorded here to fellow Spanish clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona, but Leeds United manager David O’Leary is taking nothing for granted. The two sides
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      • 517 23  -  by TAN KIM HAN Not all Prime League footballers can step into S-League PRIME League players must be able to step into their seniors’ boots anytime. That is one way of ensuring that the S-League retains its quality, said Football Association of Singapore
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    • 195 16 Streatscrosswords From April 2-7, we have specially created a simple crossword puzzle for you to have fun and win Limited Edition Streats Watches and Badges. Hurry, we need 10 winners every day! Winners will be announced on Thursday (April 12) for readers to take part, have fun and win. Down
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 316 18 d^WEDNESDAY Q 4 April 2001 The story is about. Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargains for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything,from girl problems to gang fights; from baseball matches to flower arrangement classes. Most of
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 322 19 The story today... While Xiao Yuer and the gang whisper in a corner, one of the elders roars at them to shut them up. His shouts are so powerful that the group take a few steps back to keep their balance. The man turns out to be Xiao Yun Scholar,
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 504 20 tCJCI m m Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com GEMINI MAY 21 JUN 21 Try something completely different for a change. The best way to alter your output is to find a new source of input. You could be making a big mistake, but
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 54 21 Inthelivingroom BASKETBALL: NBA: Utah Jazz v LA Lakers (ESPN Ch23,Bam). SOCCER: Champions League: Arsenal v Valencia (Sports City, tomorrow, 2.35 am. Repeat: 10.30 pm). Leeds United v Deportivo La Coruna (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 2.30 am. Repeat: Bpm). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: Champions League: Arsenal v Valencia (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow,
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