Streats, 19 May 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 19 May 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 504 1  - Recession fears Triple whammy worry but there's a silver lining Weaker US economy Semiconductor downturn Poor state of Asean economies by CALVIN LOW and DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM BY now you would have heard that the Singapore economy isn’t doing so well. From growing 11 per cent in the last quarter of
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    • 205 1 SMLeeon Bush vs Clinton I think there's growing discomfort at the unilateralism that has been accentuated since the Bush administration came to power. It was already there with Clinton but Clinton was a master wordsmith and managed to disguise his real intentions. Bush is a straight talker who speaks what's
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 314 2 The Falungong I must admit I have a big question mark against the Falungong. For no rhyme or reason; they started demonstrating in Singapore. They started putting up banners to protest against arrests in China. They caused a public disturbance and we told them to disperse.
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    • 172 2 -AP.AFP SINGAPORE Airlines’ profits grew 33 per cent year-on-year to $1.55 billion, the company announced yesterday. The figures, beating most analysts’projections, were the result of an “exhilarating” first six months, which were strong enough to carry a very sober second half, SIA deputy chairman and chief
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    • 178 2 VETERAN unionist Mohd Hussain Kassim has squashed a challenge for leadership of the Singapore Airlines Staff Union (Siasu), the airline’s largest union. There had been talk that challenger R Doraisamy, 59, would unseat him to become the next general secretary. But Mr Hussain silenced all detractors
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    • 438 3  -  hitineStmts with Diana Ser ALL that recession talk is getting you down. Unemployment is expected to rise and somewhere at the back of your mind, you are hoping it never finds you. Still, the outlook
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    • 75 3 Our weather girl says There will be thundery showers over most areas in the late morning and early afternoon, but let's hope that New m Paper'Big Walkers'will enjoy a dry day tomorrow at Kallang. Temperatures will range from 25°C to 32°C and the tide will reach 2.4 m at 9.7
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    • Just a minute
      • 91 3 What: The New Paper Big Walk When: 7.30 am Where: National Stadium Fees: $4 (fun walkers), $5 (competition walkers) What: Bth Slam Dunk Wakeboard and Waterski Challenge When: Warn-spm Where: Kallang Riverside Park Fee: Free What: Singapore International Jazz Festival When: 1.30pm-11pm Where: Suntec City Fountain Fee: 4
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      • 127 3  -  by STEPHANIE GOH IF you’re thinking of watching The Mummy Returns when it opens next Thursday, you’ll have to dig deeper into your pockets. Sources revealed that ticket prices are expected to be raised by 50 cents across the board from Thursday. Currently, movie-goers have
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    • 244 4  -  reports by WINSTON CHONG A MAN who attacked his lover with an axe at Tan Tock Seng Hospital on Boxing Day last year was yesterday sentenced to seven and a half years’ jail and six stokes of the cane. Neo
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    • 155 4 A BABY girl was found suffocated to death on Thursday. The tragedy occurred at a unit at Canberra Road Block 3508 on Thursday at 12.46 pm. Shin Min Daily News reported that Yuki Chan’s maid came running out of her house, shouting for help. A neighbour,
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      • 78 4 A SNATCH thief robbed a 50-year-old woman and pushed her down a flight of stairs, causing a leg fracture. The woman rode the lift with the man as she returned to her flat in Block 18Toa Payoh Lorong 7 at about 12.40 pm on Thursday, Lianhe
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      • 53 4 A 24-HOUR coffeeshop at Block 160 A Jalan Teck Whye had to evacuate 50 diners on Thursday at 11.59 pm when a fire started in a roti prata stall. Stallholders failed to contain the fire and called emergency services. Lianhe Wanbao reported that $34,000 worth of
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      • 60 4  -  Winston Chong AT 5.35 pm yesterday, a gas stove at Han River Barbeque Restaurant on the fourth floor of Eastpoint shopping centre in Simei caught fire. Diners failed to put out the fire using a fire extinguisher. It tripped the sprinkler system. The mall was evacuated when
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    • 979 4 IF YOU!rs HOPPING m SPREE... Mother’s day song The perfect fan Mama Shi shang zhi you mama how Untukmu ibu You were meant for me Rainbow connection Bitter sweet Against all odds Eyes on you Enter Sandman Uptown girl Stan Sweet child of mine Lang hua yi duo duo Ni
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 165 5 HONGKONG Hongkong said yesterday it would slaughter all 1.2 million chickens and other poultry in the territory to prevent an outbreak of bird flu from spreading. It will also halt imports from mainland China. Secretary for the Environment and Food Lily Yam said that the slaughter
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    • 341 5 Handshakes that made history Will this happen with China Taiwan? Beijing: No TAIPEI In a televised address marking bis first year in office, Taiwan President f'hen Shui-bian recalled the historic handshake between leaders of North j* n d South Korea last year and said he has a “similar sense of
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    • 262 6 -Wire agencies JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday stepped up his campaign against those wanting to impeach him, saying Indonesians must “fight with all our might” against violations of the constitution. His presidency has been teetering since a parliamentary inquiry
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    • 245 6 PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid has betrayed me, says speaker of the Indonesian People’s Consultative Assembly, Dr Amien Rais. In an interview with The Business Times published yesterday, Dr Amien referred to Mr Abdurrahman as a “lame duck president”. He added that it was he who played the
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    • 183 6 -Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will import English language teachers from Britain and the US to stop a decline in English skills among Malaysians. It will also send teachers for overseas training, start testing primary school students’ skills yearly and introduce two new
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 6 A man with a battery on his back fishing in a rice field in the suburbs of Hanoi yesterday. Wires connected to the battery are touched to the water in the field, releasing electricity, which stuns the fish. This way of fishing has become very popular in the
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    • 155 6 FORMER Thai prime minister Suchinda Kraprayoon, blamed for a May 1992 bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, has promised to expose the “real culprit” in a book. He was declared prime minister in 1992, a year after taking part in a military coup
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 273 8 Reuters ENVIRONMENTALISTS saw a horror story in the making yesterday after US President George W Bush took the wraps off his plan to beat the country’s energy crisis. Patrina Dumaru, climate officer for the Fiji-based Pacific Concerns Resources Centre, said she would “like
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    • 153 8 -AP WASHINGTON Many Americans, amid an energy crisis, are trying to pare costs in a variety of ways. Public transport usage is up, fuel-thrifty cars are in, and some have even adjusted their eating habits and sacrificed comfort. “I used to pay (US) 100
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    • 284 8 Reuters NEW DELHI Police in India’s capital suspect that the mysterious “monkey man” who has bitten and clawed dozens of people, unleashing a wave of panic across the city, is the creation of a gang of trouble makers. “It’s definitely not one person,’’the Joint Commissioner
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    • 135 8 Reuters ATLANTA Police said on Thursday that they had arrested a “confidence man” who allegedly took money from Niki Taylor’s manager in exchange for keeping hospital pictures of the critically injured supermodel out of the press. Ms Taylor has been an inpatient at Grady
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    • 47 8 knowornot if all the blood vessel in your body were laid end to end they would span the globe. If surgeons removed one of your kidneys a lung, your spleen, much of your liver, and more than half your intestines, you could still live.
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    • weird world
      • 92 8 AFP LONDON Britain’s wild hedgehogs are turning into drunks, and adopting associated bad habits such as disregarding their safety and staying out all night. A British Hedgehog Preservation Society member said the drunks have been observed snoring in vegetable beds, forgetting to roll up in their protective
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      • 63 8 -AFP LONDON A thief has escaped with cash and jewellery worth £1.5 million ($3.87 million) from top designer store Versace here, the Sun reported yesterday. The newspaper said the thief was a security guard at the flagship store in the capital’s exclusive Old Bond Street and took
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      • 85 8 Reuters PARIS Oysters get stressed just like humans and secrete the same hormones under pressure, French marine biologist Arnaud Lacoste has found. The stress can occur when breeders wrest the succulent but sensitive shellfish from their beds using metal baskets and transport them on boats in
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      • 93 8 Reuters CHICAGO Chicago’s upcoming public art project featuring wildly decorated fibreglass living room furniture was previewed by unlikely critics: the city’s carriage horses. The horses were given a sniff of a few pieces from Suite Home Chicago, which opens in June across the city’s downtown
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      • 76 8 LONDON A householder complained to British Home Secretary Jack Straw and a county chief constable after a policeman climbed over her fence while she was out and took down her tinkling wind chimes. Josephine Grant, 37, of Woolsery village in North Devon was infuriated by the
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    • 265 9 Baby#l LONDON Dermot Anderson, 30, was not only a new dad but a daring one too. For he delivered his baby son in the bathroom after taking a crash course in midwifery over the telephone. As the birth proceeded, the daring dad shuttled between the
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    • 151 9 Bqby#2 -AFP LONDON An English woman gave birth to the world’s tiniest baby, small enough to hold in the palm of one hand, Britain’s Guardian daily reported. Christopher Williams is to be entered in the Guinness Book of Records after weighing in at just 604 g
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    • Article, Illustration
      23 9 STRIP STRIKE: Unemployed construction workers strip to demand employment outside Peru's Labour Miinistry in the capital Lima on Thursday PicAP PicAP
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    • 119 9 -AFP TRIPOLI The bodies of 93 Africans who apparently died of thirst as they tried to enter Libya have been found in the desert near the country’s southern border, said the official Jana news agency. A Niger-registered truck carrying residents from various African countries entered
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 288 10 Reuters, AFP JAKARTA One needed an eye check-up. Another needed urgent medical attention after a suspected minor heart attack. We’re talking about two key figures in Indonesian politics, Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Mr Wimar Witoelar (inset), the spokesman for Indonesia’s embattled
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    • 149 10 GERMAN Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping wants to marry again. But first, he must find his birth certificate. No birth certificate, no i marriage, no matter who you are, reported the Electronic Telegraph. The minister, who separated from his wife last year, has tried to solve
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  • STREATS
    • 616 11  -  By day; these hunks are adored by thousands of fans. But at night, they are home alone, pining for that elusive loved one by JAY MING HE'S good looking, successful and rich. And he’s sick of being alone. Beach Boy Yutaka Takenouchi is just one of the
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    • 198 12 MIRROR, mirror on the wall who’s the sexiest of them all? Well, the mirror has spoken, or rather more than two million FHM readers have voted. The verdict? Sultry Jennifer Lopez is still hot. She was the top choice last year. The 30-year-old actress-singer is the
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      • Must-see TV...
        • 25 12 Saturday, 4pm, Channel U Han-Ni is accepted by Huixing. However, instead of becoming a shoe designer, she is assigned to the shoe production department.
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        • 61 12 Saturday, 11 pm, Channel 8 Due to his outstanding performance in police cadet school, Sing is appointed by Sir Ko to infiltrate a powerful triad. After five years of arduous work, he advances to become a reliable righthand man to Hung Hing Triad boss Flying Dragon,
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        • Article, Illustration
          64 12 Saturday, 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) For the cast of the classic sci-fi j television series, Galaxy Quest playing heroes who saved the Earth week after week was just a means of paying the rent. But theThermians, a race of aliens, have a different plans for the TV heroes.
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        • 71 12 Sunday, 9pm, TV Works Time to tune into the Dick Lee’s newest musical with a twist a variety show was written into this. It follows the exploits of four Singaporeans, played by Imran Johri, Norleena Salim, Cynthia Lee and Karen Tan, and their quest for fame and fortune
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    • 316 13  -  by I KAREN CHEN BUSHY brows, stern demeanour, long hair they look very much like “Mat rockers”. But appearances can be deceiving. For one, even though they’re reputed for their powerful performances on stage, Power Station duo You Chiu-hsin and Yen Chih-lin will never
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    • 126 13 Reuters Hr FRENCH Canadian W pop diva Celine Dion, currently on a three-year sabbatical from show business as she takes care of her infant son, said on Thursday she would make a comeback in a theatrical musical in Las Vegas in 2003. Dion released a
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 267 18 Charlotte loses first tie at home in this year's playoffs -ReutersA CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Sam Cassell and Glenn Robinson combined for 62 points as the Milwaukee Bucks rallied to stave off elimination with a 104-97 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday. The Bucks erased a 15-point
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      • 97 18 Reuters TURIN, Italy Juventus midfielder Edgar Davids called on the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Thursday to relax the limit at which it considers an athlete to have failed a test for nandrolone. Davids, suspended by the Italian Football League earlier for testing positive for nandrolone, said
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      • 660 19  -  by TAN KIM HAN S-LEAGUE SAFFC 0 Marine Castle 2 THE look on their faces said it all. Nazri Nasir hung his head low, striker Fadzuhasny Juraimi shook his in disbelief and midfielder Rafi Ali simply stared blankly into the
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      • 712 20 -AFP Place in the Champions League will round off Reds' fabulous season LONDON -Treble-winner Liverpool can clinch its most coveted prize today when it travels to face Charlton on the final day of the Premiership season. With the Uefa
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      • 296 20 Football League rejects Birmingham 's protest -AFP LONDON The English Football League has rejected Birmingham City’s complaints about the conduct of the penalty shoot-out in Thursday night’s Division One play-off game at Preston. Preston qualified for the promotion final against Bolton on May 28. Bolton beat West Bromwich Albion 3-0.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 485 13 Ifit's Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 The offer is open, even if few would dream of accepting it, Slow down, make sense and savour this rare moment. Teach your heir apparent exactly what they would be inheriting. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 N Why must everything be a life
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 312 14 The story is about... May's Dream is adapted from a popular Japanese manga about a friendship that is so chummy that the guy treats the gal as one of the chaps. In the beginning, May starts to fantasise about becoming an air stewardess but Kodak scoffs at that idea. Played
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 206 15 The story today, Mao Shiba gets Wei Xiaobao out of his way before he fights the four burly men. Mao s '*ngle-handedly flicks, kicks and swings at his °Pponents who are much bigger than him "to the ground. Mao demolishes their assaults with much *ase, bringing them down one after
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    • 163 16 G lORDANO lu.auam. izaupm, z.m, 4.4 U, r.Zb, 9.2 b, 12.15 am Enemy At The Gates 1.25 pm, 9.30 Someone Like You 11am, 1.15 pm, 6.30, 8.45 Sugar Spice Noon, 2pm, 4.10, 6.50, 8.45,11.50 The Mummy Returns 4pm, 4.30,11.50, 12.20 am uriven 12.15 pm, 2.30, 4.45, 7, 9.15,11.45 Someone Like
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    • 68 18 on Sunday We complete your week I -~*S34ft- fife This young woman doesn’t have a lull-time job. She She stakes out the airport and hotels hoping to see her iavourite stars like Taiwanese singer Siva Hsiao. She works only when there are no ioreign showbiz stars in town. Luring those
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    • 519 18 JIEW ringtones featuring: Utada Hikaru Automatic Addicted to you Fly me to the moon Distance Sngurasu Dorama Eternally Keututobase Parody Kotabani Naranai Konokimochi Artiste Utada Hikaru Amai Wana Wait and See-risk For you First Love Time will tell Can you keep a secret B&C Another Chance Give me a reason
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 79 18 BASKETBALL: NBA Play-offs Eastern Conference s-finals, Game 6: Toronto v Philadelphia (Ch23,Bam). Western Conference Finals, Game 1: San Antonio v Los Angeles (Ch 23, tomorrow, 6.30 am). SOCCER NTUC Income S-League: Geylang v Home (City TV, 7pm). EPL: Charlton v Liverpool (City TV, 9.30 pm; Ch20,9.55pm), Leeds v Leicester (Ch22,9.55pm).
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