Streats, 14 April 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 14 April 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 510 1  -  by SARAH NG DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM OLD people tend to be the most forgotten. So I will visit an old folks’ home to take presents and spend time with the lonely elderly.” That is what designer Eileen Koh, 30, would write on her
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  • 98 1 China's decision to prevent the return of our crew for 11 days is inconsistent with the kind of relationship we have both said we wish to have... Reconnaissance flights are part of a comprehensive national security strategy that helps maintain peace and stability in our world.
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  • 185 1 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition groups said they would go ahead with today’s gathering in support of jailed ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim despite a police ban and fears of violence. Anwar’s wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said she would lead a delegation of about 20
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 301 2 HELP for ailing neighbourhood shops is on the way. Three task forces will work towards reviving neighbourhood shops and improving customers' shopping experience. For the first time, workers will be trained to earn academic degrees in the retail trade. The taskforces were formed after
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    • 177 2 GANGA and Jamuna Shresta are running a fever but are in a stable condition, doctors said yesterday. “They’re stable. Nothing dramatic happened the last 24 hours,” said Keith Goh, the paediatric neurosurgeon who led the operation to separate the twins. Dr Goh had said previously said
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      • 68 2 THE redeveloped Masjid Mydin in Kembangan was officially opened yesterday. Rebuilt at a cost of $2.7 million, the mosque can hold 1,000 worshippers, more than twice as many as before. Yesterday, the Mufti of Singapore, Syed Isa Mohammad Semait, made the declaration of wakaf declaring the mosque
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      • 83 2  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam A RETIREE died on Thursday after he was hit by a lorry while crossing the road. The lorry was travelling along Ang Mo Kio Street 51 and making a right turn into a service road leading to a carpark in front of Block 584 at
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      • 82 2  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam A MAN was robbed after a late-night supper on Thursday. Mr Lin Kok Soon, 49, a storekeeper, was walking along a footpath outside Rivervale Plaza at lam, when he felt a sharp object pressed against his lower back. A foreign-accented voice told him: “Don’t move,
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      • 65 2 THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will launch a campaign to attract more tourists from the Middle East. A new TV advertising campaign will begin next month the first ever attempted by Singapore specifically for the Gulf and Middle East. STB will also set up its first
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    • 127 2 morningsmile It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know
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    • 267 3 'OU know the song? I’m getting married in the morning Ding, dong, the bells are gonna chime... But get me to the church on time Well, how about “get me to the zoo on irtie?” Yes, the zoo. Or the
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    • 61 3 Hamster, hamster, big and small, which one is the fairest of all? Must have been quite a task for the judges, who had to assess more than 100 hamsters in the Second Hamster Society Championship at Tanglin Mall yesterday. The contest continues today. The little fellas were judged
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    • 67 3 Our weather girl says Need to catch up on your much needed beauty sleep? With thundery showers in the afternoon, there is no better time to snooze-in this weekend. Temperatures will range from a high of33°C to a cool 24°C. The tide will reach 2m at 5.15 pm. Our Either
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    • Just a minute
      • 113 3 Tired of the bureaucratic runaround? The government's new programme called ZIP or Zero-In Process aims to deliver swifter and more integrated service to the public. Nine lead agencies will handle issues raised by the public. They are: Parks Management Department 1800-471 7300 Planning and Transportation Division 1800-375 7300
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 607 4 Miss being kind and live to regret it SO the Kindness Week will soon come to an end. Go up to any person and ask if that means an end to his kind ways and you’ll probably earn yourself the “are you a moron?” stare. “Of course not,” he’ll likely
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 301 5 -AP BANGKOK Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday returned empty-handed from a remote jungle cave where he had gone to see a vast treasure reported to have been found inside. However, he was shown pictures of the purported treasure
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    • 249 5 -AP SEOUL South Korea’s medical association has drafted a code that would allow doctors to end the treatment of incurable patients on their own judgment or at the request of the patients’ families. Mercy killings would remain illegal, but the new code by
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    • 65 5 webcites Consult this free virtual legal adviser at JuzLaw.com, which picks a law firm for anyone who needs a lawyer. The surfer submits questions through an online form. These get channelled to a partner firm which invites suitable law firms, local and overseas, to bid for the casef
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      • 78 5 -ap BEIJING A guard on a bus carrying detained migrant workers set off a suicide bomb, killing himself and the other 24 people. The bus was on a highway near the city of Huidong, in Guangdong, when one of the two guards detonated a homemade explosive.
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      • 101 5 -AP TOKYO A 54-year-old man was jailed for 14 years for fatally stabbing his father who, he claimed, gave him a “girlie” name. Kaname Yoshida hated his father for never seriously listening to a complaint about his name, which has a phonetically feminine ending. Yoshida
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      • 63 5 -afp HANOI Four Vietnamese addicts each cut a finger off to seal their pact to give up drugs, press reports said yesterday. The youths, from the northern province of Ha Tay, all had to be hospitalised with horrific injuries after getting drunk on rice wine
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      • 87 5 -afp SEOUL South Korean officials said yesterday that China had threatened to ban South Korean handphones and polyethylene goods in retaliation if South Korea does not buy China’s garlic. Beijing has complained about Seoul’s failure to honour a promise to import 32,000 tonnes of Chinese garlic
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      • 91 5 -afp KUALA LUMPUR An opposition group accused Malaysia’s human rights body of discriminating against ethnic Indians after it refused to hold an inquiry into last month’s clashes between Indians and Malays. The Parti Reformasi Insan Malaysia has urged the government-appointed National Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) to
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    • 305 6 Reuters BEIJING China’s cabinet has raised President Jiang Zemin’s pay to an estimated 27,000 yuan ($3,262) a year, excluding a one-month bonus. An angry public response flooded Internet forums after the announcement by state media of a
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    • 201 6 Reuters TOKYO Nationalist Japanese academics who helped write a controversial history textbook that has ignited protests in China and South Korea shot back at their Asian neighbours yesterday, telling them to mind their own business. Nobukatsu Fujioka, one of 10 authors of the textbook
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    • 134 6 -AFP SYDNEY -They hunted a protected species and were hunted down and trapped themselves after a 4,000 km pursuit. A fishing boat carrying U *****,000 ($1.35 million) worth of Patagonian toothfish was being escorted to Australia yesterday after a 10-day chase from the Southern
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 268 7 Money meant for cancer research -AP Columbus, Ohio A former American Cancer Society executive was to 13 years in prison on Thursday for stealing nearly US$B mil(Ssl4 million) from the charity’s c napter here. Daniel Wiant, 36, pleaded guilty in u gust to bank
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    • 171 7 Money meant for Special Olympics -AP [Boston A father and daughter have e en accused of stealing up to US$l million IS$l.B million) from the Special Olympics Using a fake telemarketing campaign. Prosecutors said Gerald Tenglund, the former manager of one of the offices of
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    • 218 7 Money meant for UN fund -AP NEW YORK A woman was sentenced on Thursday to two years’ jail for spending U *****,000 (*****,000) out of US$7OO,OOO accidentally transferred into her bank account and trying to keep the rest. Susan Rouse Madakor, 41, also was
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    • Gloves off as crew returns home
      • 266 9 -AFP Washington us president George W Bush was singing a different tune yesterday. Ditching his conciliatory tone, hours after the 24 servicemen a nd women arrived back on US s oil, he firmly rebuked China for detaining the crew of the downed GS spy plane for 11
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      • 172 9 -AP BEIJING -The Chinese media yesterday stepped up a shrill campaign painting Washington as the aggressor in US spy plane incident. The official China Daily newspaper reported Premier Zhu Rongji as saying: “The US reconnaissance plane had intruded into China’s airspace and rammed a Chinese fighter.
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    • 187 9 -AFP Riyadh Saudi Arabia’s the highest religious authority in the conservative Muslim state, recommended Muslims boycott Internet search engine Yahoo! for its role as a pom online middleman. “I advise Muslims browsing fhe Internet to be wary of suspect sites that seek material interest at the
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    • 266 9 Reuters WASHINGTON -A new way to treat marijuana abuse may also hold out hope for the obese. Chemically blocking receptors in the brain that respond to a key compound in marijuana squelches the “high” caused by the drug, US scientists said. Cannabinoid
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 315 10 -AP POOR Kim Beazley. After riding high for months in polls, the Labor leader was brought swiftly back to earth with a thud this week by a senior Labor lawmaker. Ms Cheryl Kernot thrust the proberbial knife into the image of
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    • 292 10 -AP NEW YORK She may be a supermodel, with a super face and super body to match. But beneath all that glamour, Cindy Crawford, 35, is just like any other working mum taking pride in the daily accomplishments of her 21-month-old son, Presley. She also
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    • 142 10 -AFP LONDON A British man who sent a tape of songs by foulmouthed US rapper Eminem to his girlfriend, was convicted on Thursday of harassing her. Adam Dougen, 31, from Norfolk in eastern England, sent the tape to his girlfriend, Ms Lynn Coleman, after
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  • easySTREATS
    • 558 11  -  oy by Yvonne Kwok They've kissed cobras and tangoed with fire. Tomorrow night Media Corp artistes will grapple with sharp blades and jump from bone-breaking heights to raise funds for the National Kidney Foundation, What do the stars do for charity beyond their TV commitments? THERE is
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    • 307 12 SHOWBIZ fame comes with a price tag. China’s rising star, Zhang Ziyi, finally learnt that when she was linked with Rush Hour 2 co-star Jackie Chan and his teenaged son, Chen Zuming. Troubled by the rumours, Zhang, who is now in Beijing, told Hongkong’s
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    • channel scan
      • 46 12 Saturday, 7pm, Channel 5 Catch Arnold Schwarzenegger in a more innocent time before allegations about his sexual misconduct became media fodder. Here, he is a cop who must pose as a teacher to catch some crooks. Typically, its the kids who steal the show.
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      • 58 12 Saturday, 11am, Central When the budding X- Men first recognise their uniqueness, brought about by a rogue element in their genes, their awesome but undisciplined talents seem more burdensome than beneficial. Under their mutant mentor, Professor Charles Xavier, they attend school, play sports and date just like everyone
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 646 17  -  by TAN KIM HAN Goncalves is finding it hard to reach the 100-goal mark HE wants to score his 100th SLeague goal this season. But for Home United’s Egmar Goncalves, the two “zeros” in “100” are increasingly looking like a bad omen. The 31-year-old prolific marksman has
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      • 248 18 Reuters i LONDON World Footballer of the Year LZinedine Zidane (right) has urged Manchester mjnited’s England captain David Beckham to I consider playing in Italy’s Serie A. Zidane, who plays for Juventus, was quoted in the Sun newspaper yesterday as saying that he thought
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      • 268 18 LONDON Michael Owen will break the heart of Lazio and a host of continental suitors by committing himself to Liverpool for a further five years providing it pays him £60,000 (S$150,000) a week, reports soccemet.com. The return to form of the
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      • 238 19  -  by LIM HAN MING uverp-jci Leeds 2 SO what if Liverpool is on course to clinch a cup treble this season? Chances are, they will miss out on the coveted Champions League next year. Once again, the Reds failed to keep up with the chasing pack
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      • 288 19 -AFP Van United i Coventry LONDON Manchester United takes on perennial straggler Coventry today at Old Trafford where a win will leave the reigning champion needing just three more points to retain its Premiership crown. The Red Devils beat Charlton 2-1 on Tliesday
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      • 78 19 BASKETBALL -AP SAN ANTONIO The Sacramento Kings’ Peja Stojakovic hit a basket with just two seconds left in overtime to beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-105 as it clinched home court advantage for the entire NBA playoffs on Thursday. Other Results Charlotte Hornets 88 New Jersey
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      • 56 19 TENNIS -AP MIAMI A man who claimed that he and Martina Hingis were in love was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday for stalking the Swiss tennis star. Dubravko Rajcevic, a Croatian-born naval architect from Australia, was found guilty last week of stalking and trespassing
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      • 61 19 SOCCER -AFP JOHANNESBURG South African President Thabo Mbeki named a distinguished judge on Thursday to head a commission of inquiry into a stampede at a football match which left 43 dead and 160 injured. Heading the judicial commission will be Transvaal judge-pres-ident Bernard Ngoepe, who is also
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 172 14 The story is about... A doe-eyed schoolgirl teaches a bunch of school bullies a lesson after she sees them terrorising other kids. Out of vengeance, the bullies follow her home one afternoon. They have hatched a sinister plan to scare the petite girl. They want her to stay out of
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 250 15 edby EI it’ 1 1 i I 11 11 II 9 f 6 The gang rushes out of the Inn to escape the ferocious counter attacks. Meanwhile, Wei Xiaobao has his eye on the Then Mao scolds Wei for embarrassing him by attacking the gang from under a table.., Set
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    • 56 17 Three years ago, we reported on these children at the Aids Babies Centre (ABC) in Thailand. Since then six of them have died and one is dying. But there is hope. Fon, the fourth child from the left, is HIV free. As it turns out, she never had the disease.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 105 19 Inthelivingroom BASKETBALL NBA: Portland Trail blazers v Houston Rockets (ESPN Ch23,loam). MOTOR RACING: Formula One: San Marino Grand Prix qualifying (Star Sports Ch24,7pm). SOCCER: NTUC Income S-League: Marine Castle vJurong (Sports City, 7pm). EPL Manchester United v Coventry City (FC Ch22,6.55pm), Arsenal v Middlesbrough (Sports City, 9.30 pm and Ch23,9.55pm).
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