Streats, 7 April 2001
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Title Section21 2001-04-07 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 7 April 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/200021 words
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Article, Illustration152 2001-04-07 1 RYUTARO Hashimoto is poised to take over from Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who finally resigned yesterday. Can this samurai shake Japan from its long and deep economic slumber? Mr Hashimoto, 63, tried once before, as Prime Minister from 1996-98. Then worries over Japan’s fragile financial systemPic: Reuters - 152 words
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Article, Illustration532 2001-04-07 1 SARAH NG - by SARAH NG WHEN his youngest, unmarried daughter left Singapore to work in an Indonesian village as an English teacher, he was upset. And puzzled. She’d studied hard. She was settled. She had a good career as an English teacher at Raffles Institution (Rl) for nearly532 words
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99 2001-04-07 1 Tm®Mk To me TVMobile is of no use. Why spend so much money when this money can be channelled back to the commuter as rebates? Likewise, the satellite system on buses which can provide information on when it will reach the next bus stop99 words
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Article59 2001-04-07 1 TVMobile is still a pilot project. Since there has been this response that TVMobile is not useful, we will submit this to the relevant authorities so they won't need to install it on the remaining buses of the 5,000 targeted for installation. MrAng Mong Seng, MP for Bukit59 words
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442 2001-04-07 2 WINSTON CHONG - Heartlanders' feedback: Does privatisation higher prices? by -WINSTON CHONG DON'T make life so complicated and costly. That was the chorus of feedback among a group representing the HDB heartland. About 40 of them, comprising merchants, clerks and housewives, among others, raised their fears over costs at a dialogue session on442 words
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Article, Illustration257 2001-04-07 2 GET used to the view of your favourite shopping street from one floor up. If proposals to make Orchard Road a “more happening place” come through, that’s the vantage point from which you will be able to watch the world go by from your257 words
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Article122 2001-04-07 2 onekindact. ChoKM I WOULD like to thank the driver of City cab taxi No 3264 who picked up an ailing staff member and myself from our Science Park II premises at 3.30 pm on March 20. He waited patiently while the staff member was checked by ambulance122 words
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359 2001-04-07 3 Many men take to liquor because they find it difficult to express themselves DEPRESSED and thinking of drowning your sorrows in alcohol? Many men hit the bottle to deal with their problems because they find it hard to express their feelings. And that is why depression359 words
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Article, Illustration254 2001-04-07 3 SONNYPHUA - by SONNYPHUA YOU might’ve seen him busking at Orchard or Tampines MRT station. But yesterday, the man who came to see Mr Jaafar Sidek bin Ahmad, 41, at the opening of Assistive Technology 2001 at Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza, was thePic: S Sugumaran - 254 words
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252 2001-04-07 3 ZUBAIDAH NAZEER - $l1,6 00 stolen while family slept by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER FOR two years the family would leave a window slightly ajar for ventilation, but on Wednesday it cost them dear.. It took only minutes for a thief to nip into their flat and swipe $11,600 as they slept. The theft took252 words
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Article106 2001-04-07 3 THE Land Transport Authority has invited proposals for a 40-year licence to operate the Marina Line (MRL) MRT. Those in the running are: Singapore MRT Ltd, Singapore Bus Services Ltd and TransIsland Bus Services Ltd. SMRT confirmed that it will bid for the licence. It106 words
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Article121 2001-04-07 3 scv MaxOnline now has 50,000 subscribers enough to fill the National Stadium. Ms Chong Fong Lin, the 15-month-old broadband provider’s 50,000 th subscriber, was yesterday given a laptop computer and other prizes worth $3,000. At the ceremony, SCV’s senior vice-presi-dent (sales and marketing) Ms Tham Loke121 words
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Article148 2001-04-07 3 Sarah Ng - By Sarah Ng LEONARD Wong Sie Choon was upset as his company had delayed his salary. So the 32-year-old supervisor plotted with company executive Alan Gan Yick Boon to pocket cash collected from customers. They defrauded the IT Family Retail Outlet, at Tampines Central, of $1,894.50148 words
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Article72 2001-04-07 3 morningsmile. Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles. Golf is a game in which the slowest people in the world are those in front of you, and the fastest are those behind. The secret of good golf is to hit the ball hard, straight and72 words
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Article, Illustration115 2001-04-07 5 ANASTASIA Gan (left), 43, yesterday signed up to become Silk Air’s first woman pilot. Silk Air chief executive Subhas Menon said: “Apart from being our first woman pilot, Major Gan has impressive credentials that more than meet our stringent requirements.” But in 1981, when she listedPic: ST - 115 words
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255 2001-04-07 5 YVONNE KWOK - by' YVONNE KWOK JOB hunting just got easier for graduates with an eye on career opportunities in the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI), thanks to a new human resources initiative that streamlines applications. Dubbed FIREfly, this initiative was launched today at the255 words
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Article158 2001-04-07 5 ZUBAIDAH NAZEER - by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER HER mornings just ain’t the same any more. Not since her two songbirds, worth $2,000, were stolen from her flat. Housewife Mdm Lee, 22, said she heard some noises coming from the kitchen at around 5.30 pm on Monday. She had left the backgate158 words
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Article, Illustration80 2001-04-07 5 Our weather girl says The weekend is finally here, and you can do what you want to do. But if you want to stay dry in the morning and early afternoon, it will be better if you are indoors. Temperatures will reach 32°C and the tide will hit 2.7 mPic: Francis Lee - 80 words
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Article53 2001-04-07 5 From this month Every household will be part of a national recycling effort by the end of this year. Starting with Jurong this month, each household will get plastic bags in different colours to hold paper, plastics and glass. The nine public waste contractors will pick up these special bags53 words
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Article81 2001-04-07 5 Check this out Fun With Food, part of the Singapore Food Festival, is on this weekend at Downtown East in Pasir Ris. It's Singapore's biggest outdoor barbecue event, with kebabs, satays and more grilled stuff. If you can't make it today, you can check out the fried rice contest hosted81 words
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Article, Illustration251 2001-04-07 6 Reuters, AFP SURGEONS at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday began a lengthy and delicate operation to separate twin baby girls from Nepal who are joined at the head. Ten-month-old Ganga and Jamuna Shrestha face opposite ways and have brains encased in the same skull. Doctors say– Reuters, AFP; Pic: AP - 251 words
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Article175 2001-04-07 6 DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM - by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM A LAUNDROMAT owner who ran foul of the law, lost his business and was reduced to working as a washer in another laundry company. Yesterday, Lim Eng Swee, 41, was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to two charges of employing and harbouring175 words
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Article223 2001-04-07 6 betweenthelines herein lies the irony of the sth C. It's this whole idea of working folks striving hard for the first four C's of cash, condo, car and credit card and think they've finally arrived only when they get that special car label that says: "I223 words
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Article, Illustration240 2001-04-07 7 Reuters, AP TOKYO Confirming what everyone already knew, unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said yesterday he had decided to resign. “I think it necessary to restore public trust in politics under a new government and deal– Reuters, AP; Pic: Reuters - 240 words
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203 2001-04-07 7 AP CANBERRA Australia is pursuing a free trade agreement (FTA) with Thailand and will push for FTAs with countries all over east Asia, Trade Minister Mr Mark Vaile said yesterday. The Thai talks are the second with an Asean member– AP - 203 words
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Article175 2001-04-07 7 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has set up a unit to counter teenage computer hackers who plague government websites and leave behind messages such as “government servants are lazy”. Mr Samsudin Osman, the government’s chief secretary, was quoted by newspapers yesterday as saying that hackers had– Reuters - 175 words
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Article120 2001-04-07 7 justbelieveit. AP MACCLESFIELD, North Carolina Some clean-shaven men could find themselves in a hairy situation in a couple of weeks. Beard-growing is now mandatory in Macclesfield, North Carolina. Any man without at least some stubble growing by April 15 will be subject to arrest and/or a US$25– AP - 120 words
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Article248 2001-04-07 8 Meeting held an hour late; US officials keeping cards close to chest Wire services BEIJING US officials were yesterday allowed to meet the 24 detained crew members of a US navy plane that landed in Hainan after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet on– Wire services - 248 words
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Article108 2001-04-07 8 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia’s President Abdurrahman Wahid is facing fresh accusations for allegedly receiving US$9O million ($l6O million) from several Arab nations. Reports said the money was meant as relief for Aceh, Newsßadio reported. An earlier alleged donation, also for Aceh from the Brunei Sultan, along-AFP - 108 words
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Article123 2001-04-07 8 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s former chief economics minister and top legislator Mr Ginandjar Kartasasmite has been arrested from a Jakarta hospital. “My status now is a political detainee...because there is political intervention,” he said, implying that his detention is a political move by President Abdurrahman Wahid. Mr Ginandjar,– Reuters - 123 words
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246 2001-04-07 9 -AFP PARIS Do more intelligent people live longer? There may be a link, according to a study of 2,800 children born in the northeastern Scottish city of Aberdeen, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports. The study looked at the intelligence quotient (IQ) of-AFP - 246 words
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263 2001-04-07 9 Reuters WASHINGTON In a sign that the US may be rethinking its “step-back” policy in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has moved to defuse tension after Israeli soldiers fired on a convoy of high-level Palestinian security officials. “We wanted– Reuters - 263 words
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Article, Illustration55 2001-04-07 9 NATIVE APPEAL: A security guard walking past warriors of the Fulnio Indian tribe outside the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia on Thursday. The tribesmen travelled from the northern state of Para in hopes of gaining an audience with Brazil's justice minister to demand funding for areas around theirPic: Reuters - 55 words
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Article, Illustration379 2001-04-07 10 Reuters TOKYO Just three months ago, former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said he was happy to be out of the hot seat as ruling party chief and premier. Now, in what some critics see as sign of the poverty of leadership of the long-ruling– Reuters - 379 words
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133 2001-04-07 10 -AP ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court yesterday ordered a new trial into corruption charges against former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, suspending an earlier conviction and jail sentence. Mr Bhutto was found guilty of corruption in April 1999 and sentenced to five years in jail-AP - 133 words
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Article, Illustration261 2001-04-07 10 m I MANILA Deposed president Joseph Estrada has challenged authorities to arrest him on corruption charges as a special court yesterday was set to study eight graft cases filed against him. “Go ahead, arrest me,” Mr Estrada told the local media, reacting to the government ombudsman’smI - 261 words
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Article, Illustration428 2001-04-07 11 DIANA SER - by DIANA SER For Wang Yanqing, best known for getting her TV interviewees to bare their souls, her new role as newscaster is a change in direction WANG YANQING is contradicting herself. Asked if reading the news for Mediaworks’ Chinese station, Channel U, is a desired428 words
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Article, Illustration197 2001-04-07 14 AP NEW YORK Charlize Theron made a bunch of movies that have come out in the past year. Then she went to the beach to chill. The actress says she needed time to hang out with her mother and her friends in Los Angeles and– AP; Pic: AFP - 197 words
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Article, Illustration153 2001-04-07 14 POP icon MADONNA, who has become a lover of all things English, has a new passion, reported PeopleNews.com. Her love object is the Gregorian chant. Apparently she is such a fan that she couldn’t stop herself from joining in the chorus one day much to the delightPic: AFP - 153 words
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Article, Illustration327 2001-04-07 16 CARA van MIRIAH - by CARA van MIRIAH HAVE “live” jamming joints become a thing of the past? Remember the glory days of Off Quay Bar at Boat Quay, Live at 5 at Emerald Hill or even Paisley Park at Marina Square? Today, those institutions are nothing more than fond327 words
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Article73 2001-04-07 16 Saturday, 9pm, Channel 8 This new sitcom is like Don’t Worry Be Happy except that the central character has magic powers. San Yow plays a computer programmer with a genie in a bottle who must help him fulfil his wish to become an ace novelist. However, she ends73 words
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Article, Illustration64 2001-04-07 16 Sunday, Bpm, Channel 8 Hongkong stars Daniel Chan, William So and a Alex To are among the foreign celebrities i singing their hearts J out in this year’s NKF I fund-raiser. The male 1 artistes will be pitted against the female artistes instead of the traditional local64 words
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Article, Illustration671 2001-04-07 17 -AP AUGUSTA With Tiger Woods off to a wobbly start in his attempt to win an unprecedented fourth straight major championship, much of the focus in the first round of the 65th Masters on Thurday zoomed in on two mostly unknown first-time starters.-AP - 671 words
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Article, Illustration397 2001-04-07 18 FA CUP SEMI-FINALS Arsenal v Tottenham LONDON Thierry Henry is adamant he has no time for the familiar tribal intensity that turns almost every confrontation between Arsenal and Tottenham into a war of jealousy and bitter acrimony The two north London heavyweights squarePic: AFP- - 397 words
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Article148 2001-04-07 18 FA CUP SEMI-FINALS Wycombe v Liverpool LAWRIE Sanchez maintains that the magic of the FA Cup is founded on glory and that he would not give up his winners’ medal for any amount of cash, reports Foot-ba*****.c0m. His argument could be seen in the148 words
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Article, Illustration296 2001-04-07 19 -AP DALLAS Showing confidence and poise under pressure, Chinese centre Wang Zhizhi impressed National Basketball Association veterans in his historic debut. The NBA’s first Asian player scored six points and pulled down three rebounds in eight minutes for Dallas Mavericks here on Thursday, becoming an-AP - 296 words
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Article, Illustration329 2001-04-07 19 Reuters UEFA CUP Barcelona 0 Liverpool 0 BARCELONA Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier refused to apologise for his tactics yesterday after an ultra-defensive display earned his side a 0-0 draw with Barcelona in the Uefa Cup semi-final first leg. Liverpool silenced the Nou Camp crowd as it– Reuters; Pic: AP - 329 words
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Article168 2001-04-07 19 AP MADRID, Spain Alaves is refusing to get carried away despite virtually ensuring its first European final in its 80year history. The humble Basque club, making its debut in a European competition this season, enjoyed an overwhelming 5-1 first-leg victory in the Uefa Cup semifinalAP - 168 words
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Article, Illustration517 2001-04-07 20 LIM HAN MING - by LIM HAN MING tieykwg United 4 Tanjong Pngm 2 A DEJECTED Daniel Bennett sat alone in the changing room. He was shocked. Furious would be a more suitable word to describe his feelings. Why me? Did I deserve the red card,Pic: Francis Lee - 517 words
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Article176 2001-04-07 20 mil PUT your money on Singapore Armed Forces FC to win the S-League. That was the advice several Warriors fans gave out freely last night as they watched the defending champion lead Gombak United 3-0 in the first half. But Gombak struck back after the interval,176 words
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Miscellaneous186 2001-04-07 13 under a table where a young lady sits. The rest of the gang then scramble to that table, startling the girl. Her brother, who is with her, hurls at the gang a bunch of chopsticks, which pierce the cheeks and hands of the men... The story is about Set in186 words
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Miscellaneous445 2001-04-07 14 ffiHS Your Daily Horoscope JAN 20- FEB 18 Charismatic figures assert tremendous power. A stunning exterior is no guarantee for what’s actually inside the package. Be sure to deliver all that you’ve promised. FEB 19-MAR 20 Is si N Uncertainty is a good excuse for a systems check. Accidental discovery445 words
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Miscellaneous72 2001-04-07 19 Inthelivingroom BASKETBALL NBA: Minnesota Timberwolves v Phoenix Suns (ESPN Ch23,Bam). GOLF Augusta Masters, Day 3 (Star Sports Ch 24, April B,3am). RUGBY Six Nations Championships: England v France (Star Sports Ch24,9pm). SOCCER NTUC Income S-League: Woodlands Wellington v Home United (Sports City, 7pm). English Premier League: Leeds United v Southampton72 words
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