Streats, 12 September 2001

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  • 18 1 STREATS Another quality publication of ■r Singapore Press Holdings WEDNESDAY 12 September 2001 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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    • 231 1 It rains terror from the skies Thousands feared dead Two planes crash into World Trade Centre in New York City, both towers collapse American Airlines'two aircraft with 156 people lost Third plane crashes in Pennsylvania Pentagon headquarters attacked in Washington Loud explosion near Capitol Hill Experts blame billionaire Saudi terrorist
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  • PEARL HARBOR II
    • 336 2 Wire services AMERICA woke up to a nightmare yesterday as one after another, buildings symbolic of US power in two of its main cities became sites of apparent terrorist attacks. The twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC), New York’s landmark, collapsed about an
      – Wire services  -  336 words
    • 100 2 LONDON Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden warned three weeks ago that he and his followers would carry out an unprecedented attack on US interests for its support of Israel, an Arab journalist with access to him said yesterday. Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based A
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    • 62 2 THIRTEEN Overseas Union Bank employees who work in the World Trade Center’s North Tower are believed to have escaped injury in yesterday’s terrorist attack. The bank’s New York branch is located in the tower. Mrs Chong Wee Lian, vicepresident and head of OUB public relations, told Streats:
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    • 322 2  -  by i AMBIGA RAJU SINCE he came to power, President George W Bush has been touting a nuclear missile defence shield to protect his country from rogue missiles of unfriendly nations. Sophisticated stuff which even renowned scientists have had trouble understanding. But yesterday, the world’s most powerful
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    • 113 3 A terrible, terrible tragedy has befallen my nation... once again we see terrorism, we see terrorists, people who don't believe in democracy, people who believe that with the J destruction of buildings, J with the murder of people, they can somehow achieve a political purpose.
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    • 212 3 PRESIDENT George W Bush has vowed to hunt down and punish the authors of last night’s attacks. Middle Eastern terrorism is likely to be central to that hunt. But the man featuring high on the list of suspects is US public enemy No 1 Saudi
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    • 609 10 WALL Street, the financial centre of the world, is paralysed. The United States, the most powerful nation in the world, has been stabbed in the heart. All US interests in every corner of the world is on high
      PiaAP, Reuters  -  609 words
    • 161 11 THE Singapore Government is shocked and outraged by the senseless and tragic loss of innocent lives caused by the deliberate crash of two commercial aircraft into New York’s World Trade Centre, and a third aircraft into the Pentagon in Washington DC. We express our deepest
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    • 85 11 -AP LONDON The price of gold surged nearly US$ 20 ($34) yesterday after the attack, dealers said.Oilprices soared over US$ 30 ($52) per barrel. The US oil market was not yet open when news broke that two airplanes had crashed into the two towers, starting the
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 190 4 Khushwant Singh A MOTHER learned a bitter lesson about her son’s honesty. A lesson that was also extremely expensive for Madam Salmah Ahmat, 59, who lost almost $23,000. On July 21, Mohamed Sariff Abdul Rahman, 31, unemployed, visited his mother at
      – Khushwant Singh  -  190 words
    • 284 4  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH THE cook, his wife and her boss. This love triangle led to a punch up last year. Low Bee Huat, 35, a chef at Prima Food, suspected that his wife, Ms Soh Kim Ling, 29, an assistant operations
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    • 89 4 onekindact Michael Chan IT was pouring as we travelled by bus from Potong Pasir Avenue 1 to to Toa Pay oh Interchange on the morning of Sept 4. My thanks to the considerate driver who made the effort to position his bus close to an awning
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    • 155 5  -  by KAREN CHEN A MAN and his lover died after a fire in a flat off Mountbatten Road. At 11.30 am yesterday, smoke was seen coming out of their sixth-floor unit. Shortly after, residents heard a thud and saw the man, aged around
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    • 318 5 HER maid came back home with the shoe box still in her hands. When Ms Toh Lee Hong opened it, she found a dead foetus inside. Yesterday, a court heard that Dwi Astuti, 24, had caused her own miscarriage and had hidden her dead
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    • 81 5 A UNEMPLOYED 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with six cases of motorcycles being set ablaze in Ang Mo Kio. He was arrested on Monday morning at his Ang Mo Kio flat. Police who responded to a report of a motorcycle being set on fire last
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    • 101 6 Tunneling below the surface -AP SINGAPORE has banned Japanese beef imports after reports that a dairy cow in Japan may have had mad cow disease. Mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is believed to spread through recycled meat and bones from infected animals used
      -AP  -  101 words
    • 376 6 THIS plan puts the city in the shade. Soon, the URA says, we will walk underground even more, beneath the Central Business District (CBD). You could all toss away your umbrellas if you happen to work in the CBD. Underground
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      • 162 6 WHAT an excellent idea from Chris (Streats, Sept 11). An unofficial system for recycling free newspapers, such as he recommended in his letter, was in fact already in place at Tanjong Pagar MRT station yesterday. I saw lots of passengers handing in and taking the
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      • 74 6 I REFER to the letter “MRT recycling points for papers”, by Chris (Streats, Sept 11). We are pleased to inform him that SMRT is currently looking into providing recycling points for the free newspapers in MRT stations. However, we will have to cooperate with
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    • 84 6 My grandma always seems able to predict bad weather. Her knei ache in the morning and afternoon when it is about to rain. So I reckon that today, with thunderstorms to come mainly over the northern, eastern and western regions, I'll remind her to put on
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 201 8 -AFP HANOI Only 2 per cent of the residents of Vietnam’s largest city currently commute to work by public transport. But that will soon change, as a project to build Vietnam’s first metro in the commercial capital of Ho Chi
      -AFP  -  201 words
    • 263 8 Reuters TOKYO Japan has banned the sales of meat products from the farm which reported Asia’s first case of mad cow disease on Monday. But officials said that chances of a serious outbreak were low after a five-year-old
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    • 121 8 -AFP TOKYO It seems that more Japanese are hitting the century mark in terms of age more than any other nationality. The number of Japanese aged 100 years or more has reached a record 15,475, according to the Ministry of Health, Labour and
      -AFP  -  121 words
    • 345 9 Wire services MELBOURNE The government of Australian Prime Minister John Howard was dealt a blow yesterday when a court ordered that it reverse a decision to reject 433 Asian asylum seekers. The government announced that it would appeal, setting
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    • 190 9 KUALA LUMPUR -The Genting Highlands casino will definitely be closed if Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) wins Pahang state in the 2004 general election. But it will get a grace period of a year or two, party leader Nik Abdul Aziz Nik said. AP reported that
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    • 124 9 Reuters HONGKONG The Hongkong government yesterday issued a health warning after it identified three new cases of cholera. Twenty-six people in the territory have been infected this year. The new cases include a 28-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy who toured South-east Asia earlier this month.
      – Reuters  -  124 words
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          • 67 12 9am (Live), TV Works The celebration of the creative spirit, artistic achievement and diversity found in today’s Latin music. Presenters include Jennifer Lopez, Jon Secada, Celia Cruz and Lou Diamond Philips. Expect performances from Luis Miguel (four-time Grammy and three-time Latin Grammy winner), Alejandro Sanz (five
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          • 28 12 10pm, Central Warring political factions face off in a 19th century Japanese town. Enter Mifune, whom both sides want, who can take bids. Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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          • 42 12 9pm, Cinemax (SCV 59) Filipino foreign domestic worker Josie, back from Hongkong after 10 years working for an abusive couple, returns to Manila and her children. She finds her family fallen apart and her children harbouring a deep resentment towards her.
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    • 565 13  -  Hardlanders pub will dose it doors to make way for the first wine bar in Mohamed Sultan Road f hour by Cara van Miriah SAY goodbye to Hardlanders disco and pub at Mohamed bah Sultan Road. It closes this week and in its place next month is a
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    • 262 14  -  by 'YVONNE KWOK YOU all know Kym Ng the cute, bubbly, livewire host. But Kym Ng a “garang” (daring) soldier trained to kill? It could have happened. Kym considered a career in the army after secondary school. “I didn’t want to study after secondary school. I
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      • 300 16  - Ahmad Latiff's next stop Hongkong by, ADAM HASHIDY FIRST, it was Holland. Then, Indonesia. Now, Singapore’s wayward genius Ahmad Latiff Khamarudin has packed his bags and headed for Hongkong. The tempestuous striker was to turn out in the SEA Games for the Singapore U-23 squad, but was axed for indiscipline.
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      • 180 16 -AP CHICAGO Michael Jordan (above) gave more credence on Monday towards his return to the NBA. Speaking to reporters in Chicago, the game’s most accomplished player responded to a question about his potential comeback by simply saying: “I’m doing it for the love of
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      • 599 16 -Wire services r CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Olympiakos v Manchester United ATHENS Manchester United’s romantic quest to give boss Alex Ferguson (left) the perfect retirement present begins in earnest today (tomorrow, Singapore time) as it kicks off its Champions League campaign. The Old
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      • Day 4 SEA GAMES 2001
        • 307 17  -  SWIMMING by I LIM HAN MING TAKE a close look at the two pictures. Spot the difference? No? Well, let me enlighten you. One shows Singapore’s swim queen Joscelin Yeo (above) wearing team-mate Daniel Liew’s cap when she won the women’s 100 m freestyle on
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        • 344 17  -  by LIM HAN MING WHO will be South-east Asia’s fastest man in the pool? Will it be four-time defending champion Richard Sam Bera (right) of Indonesia? Or will Malaysian upstart Allen Ong finally announce his arrival on the big stage? What about Singapore’s Leslie Kwok,
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        • 392 17 ATHLETICS -AP KUALA LUMPUR In 1981, Soo Chong Peng just missed winning a bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles in the 11th South-east Asian Games. Three children and nine editions of the Games later, she’s back. The 39-year old Malaysian veteran competes this
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        • AT A GLANCE Day 4
          • 36 18 There's the lahs'that I pick up. I also learn not to jay-walk in Singapore. China-born table tennis star Li Jiawei, when asked if she feels more Singaporean now after her six-year stay.
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          • 134 19 SINGAPORE'S women table tennis team repeated its class act in the SEA Games when it retained its title in the team event yesterday with a match to spare. Jing Jun Hong, Li Jia Wei and Zhang Xue Ling defeated their Indonesian rivals 3-0 to finish top
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        • 186 18 Total tally: Gold 10 Silver 10 Bronze 17 COLD-4 Swimming Women's 100 m butterfly (Joscelin Yeo, 1:01.16), Men's 4xloom freestyle (Sng Ju Wei, Ernest Teo, Gary Tan, Mark Chay, New SEA Games Record, 3:27.48) Table Tennis Women's team (JingJunhong, Li Jia Wei, Tan Paey Fern, Zhang Xue
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        • 213 18 IT was a pretty, descent harvest for Singapore yesterday. There were four gold medals on day four of the SEA Games compared to Monday's solitary gold. The women's table tennis team delivered on its promise, capturing the first of many to come. With Jing Junhong and
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        • 444 18  -  ATHLETICS by LIM HAN MING THE 100-metre showdown had looked like a love-hate affair between two sprinters until a third party came into the picture. He’s Singapore sprint sensation U K Shyam (above), who poses the biggest threat to Thailand’s defending champion Reanchai Seeharwong and Malaysia’s
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        • 448 19  -  SWIMMING LIM HAN MING reports from KL TWO down, one to go. The last time Singapore made a clean sweep in the men’s swimming relays was at the 1989 South-east Games. Yesterday, the quartet of Sng Ju Wei, Ernest Teo, Gary Tan and Mark Chay completed
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        • HOT SHORTS
          • 116 19 SWIMMING -AP TWO South -east Asian Games records were set in the pool yesterday, by Thailand’s Chonlat-horn Vorathamrong and Malaysia’s Alex Lim, both in backstroke events. Chonlathom won gold in the women’s 100 m race in 1:03.93 seconds, shaving almost one second off the eight-year-old Games
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          • 107 19 SHOOTING Bernama IT IS not common to have two brothers in a three-member shooting team, but for them to get an identical score is even rarer. Filipino Carolino Gonzales and his younger brother Marcelo shot down an identical 568 in the Games men’s team air
            – Bernama  -  107 words
          • 61 19 Countries G S B Total Malaysia 37 26 32 95 Indonesia 25 20 26 71 Thailand 23 23 28 74 Vietnam 17 17 23 57 Philippines 12 24 23 59 Singapore 10 10 17 37 Myanmar 6 8 18 32 Brunei 0 0 3 3 Laos 0 0
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 486 14 -T! mi Your Daily Horoscope JAN 20-FEB 18 Thanks to the Cancer moon, your feelings run much closer to the surface. As Shawn Colvin sings, “It’s time for a few small repairs.” Get ready to lock the door behind you and greet tomorrow with relief. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 K
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    • 58 16 Inthelivingroom SEA GAMES Netball: Singapore v Malaysia (3pm). Squash finals (4.30 pm). Swimming/Athletics finals (6pm). Athletics finals (Bpm) City TV. SOCCER: Uefa Champions League: Feyenoord v Bayern Munich (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 2.30 am), Olympiakos v Manchester United (City TV, tomorrow, 2.30 am). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: Uefa Champions League: Olympiakos
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