Streats, 18 September 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 18 September 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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    Lock icon Wall Street plunges as market wait ends America back at work
    429 1 The world waited for a week. With Wall Street shut since last Tuesday’s terror attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, global markets floundered, waiting for direction from the world’s biggest bourse. And when it did open
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Talks deadlocked
      78 1 Reuters ISLAMABAD Senior Pakistani officials yesterday failed to persuade the Taleban to hand over Osama bin Laden. The Pakistani team has extended their visit by another day to try and convince the Taleban of the danger of US strikes if they don’t give him up. “The delegation is
      – Reuters  -  78 words
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      Lock icon Taleban moves Scuds
      71 1 KHYBER PASS, Pakistan Afghanistan’s Taleban rulers have moved up to 25,000 troops and a large arsenal of weapons, including Russian Scud missiles, to positions near the border with Pakistan. A Pakistani army officer said: “We are already prepared, we are ready to defend the motherland.” Captain Abid
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      Lock icon SIA bomb threat
      75 1 -AFP A SINGAPORE Airlines flight from Frankfurt which turned back due to a bomb threat after takeoff was scheduled to leave yesterday. Flight SQ2S arrived in Frankfurt on Sunday morning and took off about an hour later for Singapore. “About two hours after departure, a passenger informed
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    Lock icon Exports down 30% in August
    148 1 -AFP SINGAPORE'S key non-oil exoorts plunged nearly 30 per cent last month from a year earlier due to the deteriorating global economy and slump in electronics demand. The economy, which is already in technical recession, looked set to worsen further as the fallout from the
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    Lock icon Global depression looms: DBS
    118 1 -AFP THE global economy faces the spectre of the much-dreaded “d” word, a depression, DBS Bank said yesterday in a weekly report. The grim picture arose in its assessment of what’s to come amid US threats to punish those responsible for the attacks on New York
    -AFP  -  118 words
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  • WAIT & WATCH
    • ...Osama
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        Lock icon 'Have patience... we'll get them'
        309 2 Reuters WASHINGTON President George W Bush said on Saturday that the war against terrorism “will not be short... and I ask patience of the American people”. The Central Intelligence Agency has been trying to get Osama for a long time already. The CIA has had
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        Lock icon Get him!
        70 2 President Bill Clinton signed a secret directive in 1998 authorising US efforts to capture or "take out" Osama bin Laden and disrupt his network, a source said on Sunday. Non-Americans in Afghanistan were promised a bounty if they succeeded The source said there were "several attempts." CBS TV
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        Lock icon Osama prime suspect: UK
        201 2 -AFP LONDON Britain identified Osama bin Laden for the first time yesterday as the“prime suspect” responsible for the bloody attacks in the US. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw (left) said it was clear from intelligence reports that Osama was the main suspect. It’s the first time Britain
        -AFP  -  201 words
    • ... Taleban
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        Lock icon Guitarists freed
        63 3 Two Indian nationals detained at Changi airport on Saturday after a passenger on SQB6O thought he heard one of them say they were terrorists have been released and were free to carry on with their journey to Hongkong, Singapore police said yesterday. The American passenger had heard "Bosnian
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        Lock icon All eyes on Pakistan
        541 3 I j THE world is waiting and watching Pakistan. 5 To see if it is willing to put pressure on Afghanistan’s ruling Taleban to hand I over Osama bin Laden. 1 President Pervez Musharraf denies i he has any influence over the Taleban, although the movement
        1 Pics:AP  -  541 words
    • ...US
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        Lock icon 40,000 leads
        32 5 Investigators have pursued more than 40,000 leads in what has become the largest criminal probe in US history. The FBI has questioned more than 150 people over last Tuesday's attacks.
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        Lock icon It'll take a while
        435 5 Wire services WASHINGTON The US is playing the waiting game after having identified Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect of last Tuesday’s carnage. Washington is on an imminent war footing, but President George W Bush is still trying to enlist more international support for action
        – Wire services; PicAP  -  435 words
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      Lock icon Hard-hit S'poreans turn to flea marts
      484 6  -  by CARA van MIRIAH SUNGEI Road is undisputedly Singapore’s most famous junkyard. One can buy second-hand items such as home appliances, clothes, antiques, cellphones,TV sets, radios and furniture for a fraction of the original price. Usually, it’s the karang guni men who bring the
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    • Just a minute
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        58 6 The SAP Central Band will give the second in its series of Chamber Repertory concerts at 7.30 pm on Thursday at the Singapore Power auditorium at Somerset. A brass quintet, clarinet choir, tuba choir, marimba ensemble and saxo-phone quartet witt play music from Mozart to modern jazz.
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        86 6 NTUC will extend their National Day discounts to the end of June next year to help workers hit by the downturn. NTUC Childcare will give retrenched parents rebates for up to three months. NTUC m. Thrift and Loan will allow retrenched workers > v to defer repayments r for
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      86 6 Our weather girl says You can run, but you can't hide... from the rain that is, and you will be needing an umbrella no matter where you are in Singapore in the late morning and early afternoon. Me, I'll be asking my wet colleagues to pack lunch back for me.
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      Lock icon Maid put dead foetus in shoe box 9 months'jail for home abortion couple
      161 7  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM A YOUNG maid was yesterday jailed nine months for having an abortion and hiding the dead foetus in a shoe box. On July 7, the Indonesian maid’s employer, Madam Toh Lee Hong, discovered the dead
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        Lock icon Woman, 35, dies in crash
        105 7 A WOMAN car-passenger died in an accident along Tampines Road on Sunday evening. A maroon Honda driven by a 37-year-old man, with two passengers a woman and a man, both 35 was travelling towards Hougang at 5.55 pm. As the car turned right into Fish
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        Lock icon Laptop stolen from car
        63 7 A SHIPPING executive parked his car along Jalan Klapa near North Bridge Road on Friday evening, leaving his laptop computer inside. When the 28-year-old returned at 3am the next day, he noticed that the rear right passenger window of his Mitsubishi Galant was smashed and his
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        Lock icon Snatch theft in lift
        73 7 A HOUSEWIFE was returning home to her flat at Blk 125 Bukit MerahView on Sunday afternoon when a man in his 30s followed the 55-year-old woman into a lift. Speaking in Hokkien, the slightly-built man at first spoke to her. He then snatched her $650 gold
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      Lock icon No sex from wife, so he fondled maid
      222 7  -  by I DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM A HAWKER said that he molested his 21-year-old maid in his Tampines flat because he wasn’t getting any love and sex from his wife. At about 8.20 pm on March 17, Chew Boon Leong, 46, stood at the doorway
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      Lock icon NTUC to workers: Go for heath checks
      217 9 You only have to pay $lO for NTUC's screening package A TOTAL of 35,000 workers went through the health screenings organised by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) in the past 18 months. But that’s not enough. NTUC director and MP for Cheng
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      126 9 onekindact Jane Recently, I booked a cab by phone and took it from Ang Mo Kio to Kallang but I left a big box of product samples in the boot They were needed for an important meeting. I called NTUC Comfort's lost and found and they said
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      Lock icon Robber fired gun to scare victim
      178 9 A ROBBER fired a gun to frighten his victim before robbing him. Lim Peck Hui, 24, also nicknamed Pai Kia Hui (“bad boy Hui” in Hokkien) bought the pistol for RM$7,OOO ($3,196) in Kuala Lumpur and brought it to Singapore last May. On May
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      Lock icon Depression survey to be conducted next year
      144 9 IN a bid to lower the suicide rate, the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) will conduct a survey early next year to study the symptoms of depression and suicidal inclination. Patients’ data will be compiled from various hospitals and 5,000 Singaporeans working adults,
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      Lock icon Skills upgrading
      37 9 morningsmile Filling in the product registration form for her newly-acquired computerised touch-typing course, one buyer came to the query: "What made you choose Type Quick?" Her response:"l am 90 so I need to learn fast
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon US attacks make TV history
      698 11  -  mmy by Yvonne Kwok LAST Tuesday was a momentous day. Momentous for the sheer number of lives lost in a coordinated terrorist attack. Momentous for its scale and audacity. Momentous for having made television history. Scenes from digitally doctored movies like Independence Day and Star
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      Lock icon Americans escape to the movies
      192 14 IN the aftermath of a tragedy that shook Americans physically and emotionally, escapism was the theme at the US box i office over the weekend. Hardball, a heartfelt dramedy about little league baseball, topped American cinema takings with an estimated US$lO.l million ($17.3 million), said
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          51 14 Bpm, TV Works It’s blind date time as Maggie fixes Neena A and Peggy up. It’s i chaos when they i find out they’re! meeting the samel guy. Daddy is stuck when Mrs Fernan- dez asks him to the cha-cha a fate worse than death for this rock
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          Lock icon NAVY SEALS
          52 14 10pm, TV Works The commander of a Seals team discovers that an Arab terror-, ist is holding M American stinger Ĕ: missiles. The! Pentagon orders I him to retrieve! the missiles andll to stop the terror- ist, who knows secret is out. Stars Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn and
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          29 14 8.30 pm, Channel U Teams led by Yuhua and Takeshi battle to come up with a concept to win a deal in this last episode of the dramedy.
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          Lock icon AGATHA CHRISTIES'S POIROT: LORD EDGEWARE DIES
          66 14 10pm, Central Poirot is smitten by actress Jane Wilkinson and agrees to visit her estranged husband Lord Edgeware to urge him to reconsider -p ß (pp request for a divorce. Within 24 hours of his visit, k the wealthy old iman is found murdered
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      Lock icon Lovebirds missing
      309 15 THERE may be two more persons to add to New York’s missing people list. Hongkong celebrity Rosamund Kwan and boyfriend Jimmy Wong, who supposedly arrived in New York last Tuesday, when the attacks took place, have apparently“disappeared”from the face of the earth. Family and friends are in a
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      Lock icon Most HK stars play it safe
      322 15 HONGKONG director k John Woo’s new 4 movie, Bulletproof '9im Monk, is not bullet|Sj proof after all. Jp Plans to shoot the ■r ChowYun Fatt movie W in Brooklyn next year were be shelved after SBB@ the horrific terrorist attacks on the US last
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Man United faces French test
        298 17 •CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PARIS The huge coffers of the Champions League may give the impression of being a bottomless pit, but this year’s favourite Manchester United is finding out the hard way that however much money flows in it is still no guarantee for success. Manchester
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        Lock icon Woods supports postponement
        92 17 ►GOLF -AP LONDON Tiger Woods has described the postponement of the Ryder Cup until September next year 2002 as “definitely the right decision”. Woods was among those players who had questioned whether the Belfry event should go ahead at the end of the month following the terrorist
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        Lock icon Leeds surges to the top O'Leary fires warning
        669 17 Wire services ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE LONDON Leeds United manager David O’Leary warned Manchester United and Arsenal that Leeds has reached the top of the Premiership without firing on all cylinders. Leeds beat 10-man Charlton 2-0 on Sunday. Ex-Addicks defender Danny Mills thumped
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      • AT A GLANCE Closing Day SEA GAMES 2001
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          Lock icon It's time to look ahead, not behind
          380 18 MMiM ■MMMI S£ Ul SINGAPORE has sat out the last dance for too long. As before, it ended up a wallflower once more at the just-ended SEA Games party. Unloved and unwanted. There were enough discomforting signs. Lack of preparation. Lack of ability.
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          Lock icon Why badly S'pore did so Malaysia boleh
          564 18  -  hy LIM HAN MING A HUMBLING experience. That was how Team Singapore chef de mission Kwan Yue Yeong summed up the shoddy show put up by Singapore’s athletes at the South-east Asia Games. The Singapore contingent of 400 athletes chalked up 22 gold,
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          Lock icon Golden Athletes
          206 18 470 Men Tan Wearn Haw, Chung Wei Ming SHOOT A Men's trap individual Kwa Eng Cheong A Team Kwa, Lee Wung Yew, Chng Seng Mok A Double trap Lee, Chng, Tan Chee Keong SILAT A Tending Class C MohdZulfakar Ramli SWIM A Women's 100 m butterfly Joscelin Yeo
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          Lock icon Kwan Yue Yeong's report card
          342 19 t Selected sports): ATHLETICS: (2001:1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze, ’99: 1-1-0) Kwan: U K Shyam is a fantastic talent who can go very far. And the relay team did reasonably well. BADMINTON: (2001:0-0-1,1999: 0-0-1) There’s nothing to say. We expected it to be tough,
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          Lock icon New coach for bowling
          147 19 FORMER national bowling coach Goran Bergendorff iS set for a return to Singapore. Hie 59-year-old Swede is said to be he most likely replacement for the mcumbent Ron Hoppe following Sing-apore’s disma showing at the SEA Games, Lianhe Zaobao reported yesterday. Hie 61-year-old Hoppe’s future is
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      276 12 1 i 1 ?>:■ 1. f The story is about Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargains for when he enrols at Zhong RenPre-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
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      23 17 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: Uefa Champions League: Juventus v Celtic (City TV, tomorrow, 2.45 am). Manchester United v Lille (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 2.30 am).
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      397 20 w More Training in Hard Times an advertising feature 250,000 Infocomm People Needed For Singapore By 2010 Source: IDA, 1999 Manpower needs of the Infocomm industry in Singapore is projected to grow at 10 12% per year. The industry will need 250,000 Infocomm people by 2010 which is more than
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