Streats, 6 September 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 6 September 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 587 1 -Wire services SO, did Singapore give away too much in trying to iron out all outstanding diplomatic issues with Malaysia? Yes, said Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in a news conference in the Malaysian capital yesterday. He
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  • morning rush
    • 85 1 SINGAPORE has been rated as Asia’s top city for business and tourism by a Time magazine survey released yesterday. Singapore topped the region as the best business city in Asia 76 per cent of respondents said Changi airport was the finest in Asia 60 per cent
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    • 59 1 -AFP SINGTEL is to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on Monday, after its bid for Optus. A listing on ASX would make investing in Sing Tel easier and more convenient for Australian investors, many of whom had a “high level of interest” in the
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 464 2  -  by SARAH NG THE Indoor Stadium turned into a huge “examination” hall yesterday as about 8,000 people gathered for the world’s largest brainstorming session Thinkathon. The challenge: To come up with half a million ideas in one hour to improve the quality
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    • 268 3  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER REAR-Admiral (retired) Kwek Siew Jin (left), SMRT’s managing director was on the prowl yesterday at City Hall MRT Station from about 4-7 pm. But he was not there to catch you eating or drinking on the trains or scold those blocking the
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    • 392 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH. Ypu want to join the best company. But which company is the best? An expert showed the inside track yesterday when he named Singapore’s top 10 Best Employers. They all have strong corporate cultures which nurture relationships and open
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    • 49 3 There will be showers in the afternoon mainly over eastern, western and southern areas, with temperatures between 25°C and 32°C. The tide will reach 2.6 m at I.llpm. September's weather girl Streats reader Eliza Choo Outfit eWorld ofSports.com Make-up Angeline Choo @*****422 Pic: Francis Lee
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    • Just a minute
      • 140 3 Animal welfare education officer Sherry Lee will talk on Responsible Pet Ownership, 4-spm tomorrow at Choa Chu Kang Community Library (Tel: 765 8616). It's for parents, and children aged seven to 14. Admission free. There will be a talk, in Mandarin, by Rev James Lee from Eden
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      • 21 3 There will be mineral water dispensers at Ang Mo Kio and City Hall MRT stations, on a three-month trial.
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    • 406 4 They partied after the murder THE three men who killed cabby Koh Ngiap Yong on Aug 8 last year partied after the murder. They used his taxi to catch a movie. They even had the stomach to drink Guinness Stout. Yesterday, Wan Kamil Mohamed
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    • 158 4 A 41-YEAR-OLD Singaporean businessman died in Phnom Penh of a gunshot wound in suspicious circumstances. A man who claimed to be a friend of the dead man, Mr Wang Jilian, told his brother that he had shot himself in the chest with a handgun
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    • 135 4 -AP LAWYERS for Silk Air yesterday began final arguments in lawsuits filed by relatives of victims of the 1997 plane crash. The case has been dogged by allegations that Singaporean pilot Tsu Way Ming deliberately crashed the Boeing 737 into a river on Indonesia’s Sumatra
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    • 46 4 onekindact Kwan Shau Chun I WAS shivering because it was so cold in the Indoor Stadium when I attended a rally there on Sept 1. I want to thank the lady sitting nearby who saw my discomfort and offered me a jacket to wear.
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  • Streatsmart interchange
    • 97 5 I AGREE with Margaret Han MT’s comments in her letter,“Give us credit for talent, too”(Streats, v Aug 31). As a junior college student, I am aware of the pressure of having foreign students competing alongside us. Foreigners are selected to represent the school in competitions
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    • 77 5 A MONTH ago, a friend and I spoke about how it would be a dream for singles to be able to own an HDB flat. Now our dream may come true. But the trouble is that most three-room flats are more than 10 years old,
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    • 87 5 I WOULD like to point out to all guys that they can get a higher starting salary than girls for an equivalent job. I assume that the reason for this is to compensate for raises they might have missed out on while doing national service. So they
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    • 63 5 I REFER to Ms Adeline Wong’s letter, “NS nothing to complain about” (Streats, Sept 3). Guys aren’t complaining about tough training. The issue is two-and-a-half years of missed studies or career development. Perhaps the government should introduce a mandatory two-and-a-half years in nursing for women. I
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 214 7 -AP KUALA LUMPUR If anyone in the Malaysian civil service criticises the government, they may face the sack. They will soon have to sign an agreement that binds them, the Star reported yesterday. Law minister Seri Dr Datuk Rais Yatim said
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    • 88 7 -AFP BOTOLAN, Philippines Thousands of people, fearing volcanic mudflows, began evacuating their homes yesterday as experts prepared to drain a massive crater lake in Pinatubo volcano. Up to 40,000 people will be evacuated from Botolan town in case the controlled release of crater lake water triggers
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    • 115 7 -AFP BEIJING China has ordered a nationwide inspection of “mooncakes” after local media reported that companies were using old fillings to put into this year’s cakes. A mooncake maker, Nanjing Guanshengyuan, froze leftover mooncakes from last year worth several million yuan and allegedly reused
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    • 238 8 -Reuters In Singapore, women of all levels of qualification are delaying marriage. Singles, both women and men, form about 30 per cent of the population, or about 760,000 Singaporeans. HONGKONG Bad news for men here: Hongkong’s women prefer
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    • 109 8 Deposed PM's party wins 22 of 44 declared seats -AFP SUVA Fiji was braced for trouble last night as partial results from last week’s elections left deposed prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry on track for a return to power. With 44 of the 71 seats in
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    • 52 8 -AFP BEIJING China is set to allow News Corporation and AOLTime Warner to broadcast directly to Chinese television audiences. But the deal would depend on whether the firms agree to distribute a Chinese governmentrun channel, CCTV-9, in the US. The stations will broadcast entertainment and cultural
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    • weird world
      • 53 8 -AP EDWIN Gaynor applied for work with the police, but found himself on the wrong side of the law. When asked if he had ever committed a crime, Edwin Gaynor said yes. He told officers in Killeen, Texas, that he had carjacked a woman and robbed
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      • 60 8 Reuters SADDENED by a documentary on Brazil’s homeless going hungry, 800 inmates at a maximum security prison have decided to donate their lunches once a month to a food bank, the prison director said. “They decided to donate their lunches on the last Friday of every
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      • 39 8 -AP BOLIVIANS have been told to stay at home. It’s the census, you see. Residents fought over bread and emptied shelves in video stores in preparation for yesterday, when 125,000 census-takers went door-to-door, collecting new data. -ap
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 183 9 Reuters BELFAST For three days, this girl and her classmates have been going to school in fear. Rioting Protestants, who hate them for being Catholic, have been taunting them. Yesterday, their worst fears came true. A home-made bomb 'exploded near the Holy Cross School. One policeman
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    • 114 9 Animal rights activists to go ahead with campaign aimed at kids LONDON Animal rights campaigners will go ahead with an anti-milk campaign targeted at children, despite an Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling against them, reported BBC online. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (handed out cards
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    • 269 9 LONDON Now you’ve another excuse not to finish that book. Most European children master basic literacy in 12 months, but British youngsters take 30 months, New Scientist reported. In a cross-national study, Dr Philip Seymour of Dundee University
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    • 189 9 -Reuters The new wording 'provided an acceptable basis for negotiation' DURBAN Hosts South Africa presented compromise wording of a draft declaration on the Middle East on Tuesday in a bid to save a UN conference against racism from failure. The US and Israel have
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    • 136 9 LONDON People who used cellphones for two hours a day in the 1980 s and early 1990 s when analogue phones were in use have a “significantly raised” risk of developing a brain tumour, reported The Independent online yesterday. A study by
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 341 10 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO Hewlett-Packard’s CEO Carly Fiorina zigged when everyone else was advising a zag, buying PC maker Compaq even as analysts advised HP to dump its computerbuilding business. The manoeuvre further cements her postion as a Silicon Valley power player, but also risks
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    • 82 10 CARLETON S (CARLY) FIORINA joined HP in 1999. Before that she spent nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she led its initial public offering and spin-off from AT&T. Ms Fiorina has a bachelor's degree in mediaeval history and philosophy from Stanford University,
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  • easy STREATS
    • Stephanie @ the movies
      • Article, Illustration
        334 11 A. 1.: Artificial Intelligence Directed by: Steven Spielberg Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor A MIXED bag is probably how one may accurately describe A.I. what with Steven Spielberg’s everyman sensibilities and Stanley Kubrick’s chilly intellect. Just as you feel the legendary Kubrick’s imprint seeping through,
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      • 136 11 Artificial or intelligent? What do reviewers think 0fA.1.? Reviewers' takes Ttiis is Spielberg's loving tribute to Stanley Kubrick and a bloated tribute to himself. Films In Review reviewer Victoria Alexander No rating available Even when A.I. meanders or stumbles, it is fascinating as a wedding of two disparate
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    • 422 12  -  Winning the 1997 Asian Model Search gave top Mongolian model Bolormaa Davaardorj international recognition by KAREN CHEN GALLOPING on horseback in endless fields of grass. Tossing her long black locks in the wind under clear, sapphire blue skies. That was all to
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    • 250 12 HONGKONG -The number 10 seems to be lucky for both actor-singer Ekin Cheng, 34, and Cecilia Cheung, 21. Hongkong’s The Sun has reported that Ekin earned HK$lO million (s2.2million) in just four days for splashing water on his face and looking squeaky clean for a
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    • TAKE ANOTHER LOOK! TV WORKS
      • 45 12 I 7-Bpm This is strictly for sci-fi adventure fans. In First Wave, alien life forms pose as humans to prepare for their invasion of earth. Our hero, Cade Foster (Sebastian Spencer from X-Files), is the last man standing to fight the alien conspiracy.
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      • 55 12 8-9 pm Also called The Sabo King (Queen),this brand new reality series puts 10 contestants to the test in a tough environment. The catch: one among them is a saboteur. Those clueless about the identity or habits of The Mole get cast out first. By the way, the
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      • 33 12 Qomm j 9-9.30 pm This award-winning series needs no introduction. Four aliens are on a mission to learn about what they consider the least important of planets: Earth.
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      • 24 12 gsmem j 9.30-10 pm Find out about the issues of the day and what ST TV’s reporters and correspondents think of them.
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      • 40 12 EBTHRILL 10-11 pm Based on the movie of the same title, this sci-fi drama follows the adventures of a top secret air force team as they travel through a portal called Stargate. Starring Richard Dean Anderson of MacGyver fame.
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      • 21 12 HSCHILL I Midnight-lam One hour of chill out music to take you one step closer to the weekend.
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    • Article, Illustration
      357 15  -  by DIANA SER HONGKONG comedi an Karl Mak is not a revolutionary. In fact, this 80s movie icon, who made his name playing the wacky Bald Detective with Sam Hui, prefers to do things the conventional way. That is to say: stick to comedy. In town to promote
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV
        • 16 15 10pm, Channel 5 Piper has to attend her high school reunion, which freaks her out.
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        • 37 15 10.30 pm, Channel 8 In this last episode, while Onizuka is recuperating in hospital, a local politician the father of the student who stabbed Onizuka conspires with the deputy headmaster to force the chairwoman to resign.
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        • 25 15 Bpm, Channel U Ming thinks Chong should not interfere with him dating Xue since he is already separated from her.
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        • 43 15 7.15 pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) Catch Haley Joel Osment in the role that catapulted him to stardom. Some feel the twist at the end is one major cinematic shocker, others claim they saw it coming. Also stars Bruce Willis.
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 457 17  -  by ADAM HASHIDY Letter says Vengahas committed a serious breach of 5-League rules WOODLANDS Wellington manager R Vengadasalam (right) is in a spot over a column he wrote in a newspaper last week. Venga received a strongly worded letter from
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      • 454 17  -  by ADAM HASHIDY FORMER Southampton and Newcastle United defender John Beresford is in town. Not to play, of course, but to give his views on Premier League on ESPN Star Sports. He is is the sports channel’s guest commentator for this month. With England
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      • 140 18 SOCCER -AP LIMA, Peru Uruguay beat Peru 2-0 on Tuesday to keep alive its hopes of a World Cup spot next year, and virtually finished off Peru’s chances of reaching the finals. The win gives Uruguay 24 points, and moves to a fourth-place tie with
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      • 542 18 -AFP NEW YORK Serena Williams moved within one victory of a possible US Open final showdown against her sister Venus, but World No 1 Martina Hingis made herself a formidable roadblock to that sibling rivalry. Tenth seed Williams, who beat Hingis here
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      • 87 19 L SEA GAMES SOCCER Singapore 5 Cambodia 0 A SINGAPORE notched its second victory of the South-east Asia Games soccer competition when it whipped Cambodia 5-0 yesterday. Captain Indra Sahdan scored two goals (7th, 59th) to add to his hat-trick against Laos last Saturday. Fadzuhasny Juraimi added
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      • 453 19  -  by Lim Han Ming KUALA LUMPUR Rainy days always make people sleepy. Perhaps so. Not to mention that I haven’t slept a wink prior to my arrival in rainy Kuala Lumpur. But can somebody wake me up to the fact that I’m here to cover the
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 452 13 IK w i m w > ml m m Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20 FEB 18 Yes, you may have had more exciting days than this one. In the absence of fast action, make a thorough study of your subject. Once the pace picks up,
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 262 16 Q L asy: <*# W 9 The story today... Master Shen Xi feels Insulted by Xuan Yuan San Guang's offer, but takes It up anyway. He entrusts Xiao Yuer with his sect's plaque while he fights Xuan. "I have total trust in him. He would never run away with the
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 66 18 Goodwill Games (SuperSports Ch22,8am and 5pm). SOCCER: World Cup qualifiers: Colombia v Ecuador (9.30am) SuperSports Plus Ch20. TENNIS: Men's 4th rd/Women's q-finals (7am). Men's quarter-finals (1 0.30pm). Men's quarter-finals, Mixed doubles final (tomorrow, 7am) Star Sports Ch24. DELAYED TELECAST: SOCCER: World Cup qualifiers: Yugoslavia v Slovenia (6pm), Belarus v Poland
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