Streats, 10 April 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY m April 2Bm Another quality publication of .Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 422 1  -  by WINSTON CHONG THEY'RE not celebrities who sing or do brave acts on TV to raise funds for kidney patients. But it didn’t stop them from “raising funds” for the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) to the tune of more than $20,000. All in just
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  • 332 1  -  by SARAH NG YOU need a cab, urgently. But the prospect of having to listen to muzak when you are put on hold while calling for one is a pain. Before, you had no choice. But starting this morning, you can use SMS (Short
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  • morning rush
    • 93 1 WANTED: Healthy, three-month-old babies who have not suffered from rotavirus infection the most common cause of diarrhoea in infants for a free trial of a vaccine. The Ministry of Health has approved eight centres to administer the Rotavirus vaccine: KK Hospital, NUH and polyclinics in Choa Chu Kang,
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    • 84 1 THE marathon operation to separate Nepalese Siamese twins Ganga and Jamuna Shreshta has run into a fifth day. There are no complications, but the surgery is taking much longer than expected, the medical team said yesterday. “The operation is still going on. They are still in the theatre,”
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    • 71 1 An NKF spokesperson told Streats that e family had agreed to pay the balance instalments. They will also be answer>le to NKF’s lawyers, who will make sure at payments are made promptly every anth. SHE came. She sang. She conquered. Never mind if Hongkong veteran actress LiXiangqin came on crutches.
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 280 2 CUTTING red tape. That’s precisely what the Zero-In-Process (ZIP) is all about and Lead Agencies have been identified to spearhead this Public Service Division initiative. Their mission: To reduce the number of instances when you have to go separately to
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    • 172 2 Parks Management Department (1800 471 7300): For maintenance of trees and grass in public areas Planning and Transportation Division (1800 375 7300): Maintenance of roads, footpaths, street lighting and street furniture Ministry of the Environment (1800 731 9222, during office hours, 1800 453 2222 afterwards): Maintenance of
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    • 262 2 SINGAPORE has refuted statements made by Malaysian politicians including Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad that, in attending an opposition briefing, it has interfered in the internal affairs of Malaysia. The statement came after comments from Malaysian leaders that diplomats from Singapore and
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    • 343 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH FROM the road, it looked more like a car graveyard. There is no gate and the wire fence is broken in several places. Old cars are strewn everywhere. But the ramshackle premises at 68 MacKenzie Road
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    • 195 3  -  by KAREN CHEN CLOSE to a year after a Malay firefighter was stabbed to death at Clarke Quay, two Malay men were assaulted in the same place. At 2am on May 21 last year, 21-year-old firefighter Zulkifly Mahmud was found dead with two stab
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    • 199 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH PIRATED CD-ROMs are likely to be a much rarer commodity at a night market following a raid on eight stalls by 40 police officers. Police say a major syndicate was dealt a blow when the officers raided the stalls atTampines Central, Tampines Avenue
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    • 250 4  -  by 'WINSTON CHONG THE glitter of 7kg of gold was too much for Chew Siang Hai to resist. But nine years on the run seem to have taken the shine off the loot somewhat. He stole the gold,
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    • 108 4 onekindact Esther I BOARDED a crowded train with my toddler and three-month-old baby, who instantly started to cry. I picked her up and fed her, but it seemed that no one would offer me a seat. Then an Indian man got up and offered me his
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    • 183 4  -  by SONNY PHUA THREE former Motorola material handlers were yesterday convicted of stealing company property. The three, all Malaysians, were found guilty on separate counts of stealing peripherals for handphones. Ng Yoon Hee, 18, of Ipoh: He was charged with four counts of theft of VBOBB
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    • 180 5  -  by SARAH NG THE year 2001 is indeed the Year of the Snake for the Singapore Zoo. One of its three anacondas from South America gave birth to 23 babies on Sunday. The 15-year-old snake, DaShe, took four hours to deliver her newborns.
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    • 76 5 Going shopping in the afternoon? Then have an umbrella handy as there will be showers with thunder in parts of Singapore. It may be a wet day, but temperatures will still hit a high of 33°C. The tide will reach 3.0 m at 12.50 pm. The
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    • Just a minute
      • 85 5 From this month Customers affected by Power Supply's delay in billing will get four months to pay each delayed bill. They can pay in interest-free instalments. Power Supply will deploy staff to 40 community clubs and centres from the middle of this month over the next few months to help
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      • 53 5 Find out whether you are paying a reasonable price for your new car. Information on car prices provided by the Motor Traders Association is now available online at the Land Transport Authority's www.onemotoring.com.sg. The information includes the open-market value of the car, customs duty, additional registration fee
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 270 6 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR The newly formed Puteri youth wing of the United Malays National Organisation is using star power to help attract women to its ranks. At a news conference yesterday, popular singer-actress Erra Fazira was introduced as a
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    • 252 6 Reuters, AFP BEIJING -The extent of the military’s influence in generating the political signals currently emanating from China is a mystery even to veteran sinologists. Blurring any reading of China’s thinking in its standoff with the United States over a recent military aviation
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    • 187 7 -AFP SUVA A handphone was yesterday used to help rescue 30 people stranded in cold seas after their boat struck a reef off Fiji and capsized. “No one would have known of the accident if I didn’t have the mobile
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    • 108 7 -AP CANBERRA Australia may slip into recession this year, an economic forecaster has said. Access Economics noted in its quarterly economic report released yesterday that the jobless rate was rising and the gov- ernment budget slipping into the red as tax revenues dropped. Other financial institutions
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    • 303 8 -AP JAKARTA Vice -President Megawati Sukarnoputri will take on the top job, but only if it is a “safe” seat. Senior officials from the two largest parties in Indonesia’s parliament agreed yesterday to three conditions for her to replace president Abdurrahman Wahid. They
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    • 234 8 Wire services JAKARTA Indonesia needs a strong and effective but not an authoritarian government, Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri said yesterday. “Our government is expected to have clear visions and programmes, and to win political support,” Ms Megawati said in a written speech read out for her by Coordinating
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    • 168 8 IF Ms Megawati wanted, she could have reached out and had the presidency earlier, pundits familiar with the intricate politics of Indonesia say. She has popular support from the people and is a member of the “kyai”, the elite class respected for their lineage. Ms Megawati, who is
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 291 9 NEW YORK More American teenagers want to have plastic surgery and some surgeons are blaming parents for this. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, nearly 171,000 Americans under the age of 18 had plastic surgery last
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    • 163 9 AP PESHAWAR Hundreds of thousands of men, most of them with beards, started gathering here yesterday for a three-day conference on Islam. They are the followers of the 143-year-old Deoband Dar-ul-Uloom or Centre of Learning in Deoband, India, a seminary that keeps to a rigid interpretation of
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    • 58 9 webcites With the advent of shopping robots; or 'bots'websites, shoppers no longer need to surf the net for the best price. Mysimon.com is capable of logging on to as many as seven websites at a time, in search of the item that the shopper desires, and sends
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    • 106 10 -AFP JERUSALEM Erase Arabs from the face of the earth. That was the gist of a sermon given yesterday by the outspoken spiritual leader of Israel’s ultraOrthodox Jewish Shas party. “It is forbidden to be merciful to them, you must give them missiles, with relish
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      • 118 10 Reuters DAR-ES-SALAAM An elderly man allegedly admitted he had cast a fatal spell and was beaten to death by villagers in southern Tanazania. The man, who was not named, had been collecting body parts of victims from a crash scene near Mbeya, said regional police commander
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      • 88 10 Reuters BERLIN Drive too fast, you get penalised. Run a red light, expect the same. What happens when you obey all the rules? Nothing. It’s about time you received some reward for considerate driving and good conduct on the roads. This concept has finally sunk in at
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      • 101 10 -AFP RIO DE JANEIRO Proving that we still have things to learn about our own planet, a previously unknown tribe has been found in the south-west Amazon jungle. The people, however, already knew of urban people’s existence because they had received some goods in trade with other
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 321 11 Oh, Sophie what has your partner done? LONDON A lot of damage, it seems. To himself, to their firm, R-JH Public Relations, and to Sophie Rhys-Jones, the Countess of Wessex. The “R-J” has stepped down as chairman, relinquishing her day-to-day control. And the “H” has resigned to take a break
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    • 198 11 SLEEPING baby, crouching tiger and hidden dragon don’t mix. Not in a cinema anyway. So said staff at Theatr Mwldan in Cardigan, West Wales who told the parents of a five-week-old baby to leave the cinema because the little girl was too young to see a
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    • 280 11 EDINBURGH Greengrocer Steven Thoburn is in trouble. All because he was selling fruits and vegetables in pounds and ounces, rather than kilos and grammes, the European Union’s official weights and measures. And for that, Britain’s “Metric Martyr” will have to wait for the court to
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  • easy STREATS
    • 440 13  -  Stage actor-director Ivan Heng gives his take on the slew of gender-bender acts in local theatre by Stephanie Goh SINGAPORE'S theatrical wonder boy Ivan Heng wants his latest gender-bender production to reach a wider, younger audience. But, alas, it has been given an R(A) rating.
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    • 291 14  -  Charity fund-raiser was a rousing success; but HK singer was at bottom of list based on number of calls that came in during her performance by KAREN CHEN BACK home in Hongkong up-and-coming singer Rain Lee pulls in more advertising bucks than dethroned advertising queen Kelly
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      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 50 14 7pm, Channel 8 Yue is unaware of Qun’s condition as Tianyou does not want to frighten her with the news. All this while, Biyao stays by his side and gives him support. Meanwhile, Qun’s eyesight is affected adversely. Xin asks Qun and learns that Tianyou is his son.
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        • 89 14 10pm, Central Based on Daniel Dafoe’s 18th century novel, this movie tells the tale of the original Survivor, Robinson Crusoe. Shipwrecked, he remains alone until the first full-moon when a band of head-hunting natives from another island arrive for a ritual. When Crusoe goes to investigate, he finds
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        • 46 14 7pm, Discovery (SCV 12) This episode deals with the food revolution. It is time to get acquainted with intelligent foods, pharma-foods, nutraceuticals and functional foods. They can possibly protect people from cancer, polio or hepatitis. This isn’t a fantasy the edible vaccine has arrived.
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    • Article, Illustration
      396 17  -  Singapore's Sophisticated Lady perks up Thursday nights with her new talk show tubby by Yvonne Kwok Anita, Speak of the Diva airs every Thursday night at 9pm on Channel 5 THANK heavens for Anita Sarawak. Just when you thought local English programming was dead, along comes the
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    • 259 19 Scientists are looking for ways to prolong life, perhaps even leading to immortality Just 1 one question Absolutely not. It's all fated, our birth and death. It would be unnatural to prolong life beyond that time you're due. Rachel Wong, 31,
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 592 20  -  by TAN KIM HAN HE is the only National Football League (NFL) player in the South-east Asia Games under-23 squad. Yet Mohd Irzaq Imran does not feel uncomfortable in the presence of his more illustrious team-mates, who are mostly from the higher
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      • 430 21 afp Few will bet against Woods winning all four majors this year AUGUSTA, Georgia First there was the Grand Siam winning all four majors in a calendar year and everyone agreed it was all but impossible. Now there is the Tiger Slam winning all
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      • 206 22 -AFP PREMIER LEAGUE Everton 3 Man City 7 LONDON Manchester City’s battle to avoid relegation from the English Premiership suffered a setback on Sunday after it went down 1-3 to Everton at Goodison Park. Jeff Whitley opened the scoring for City early on but
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      • 446 23 Reuters The team's success has surprised even manager Houllier LONDON At the beginning of the season, Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier reckoned it would take his young team three years to reach its potential, but after Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final win over Wycombe Wanderers he is revising
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      • 100 23 BASKETBALL Reuters SACRAMENTO, California Portland’s late season slide showed no sign of letting up as the Trail Blazers suffered a 98-89 loss to the Sacramento Kings in the NBA Championships on Sunday. The Blazers, loser of 11 of its last 17 games, has dropped from first
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      • 96 23 BOXING AFP SYDNEY Australian Health Minister Michael Wooldridge yesterday joined renewed calls for a ban on boxing after a fighter died from head injuries sustained in a weekend bout. Afghanistan-born Ahmad Popal (right), 29, was fatally injured in the sixth round of his fight against
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      • 64 23 •SOCCER -AFP COFFS HARBOUR, Australia Australia scored the most comprehensive victory in the history of soccer internationals yesterday when it beat Tonga 22-0 in Oceania’s first round of qualifying for the 2002 World Cup finals. A Fifa spokesman said the previous record victory in an international
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 491 15 «mm, f mm ft m Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20- FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com GEMINI MAY 21 JUN 21 Making excuses is a cheap form of creativity. People are more impressed by something that will last for ages. Take your skills out of the closet and
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 327 18 TUESDAYOIOApriI2OOI The story is about. Yuan iian 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 all, he never
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 196 19 lyii lk Irmlk ill II llli. M m 4 The story today... To stop the chaos, Xiao Yuer yells: "What's the hurry? We don't even know if the treasure is in there. Can't you wait until you see the treasure?" To Xiao Yuer's surprise, everyone obeys his request. Huang Ji
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