Streats, 19 September 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets Hm «HapSssDSOf «4P5? %sa Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 550 1 Wire services THE Taleban in Afghanistan yesterday raised the stakes to dangerous proportions by declaring a holy war or jihad against the Americans. This is their response to nearly a week of wartalk by President George W Bush and Washington following the terror
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  • morning rush
    • 91 1 NEW YORK- US share prices were were moderately higher last night as Wall Street attempted to stabilise the day after fearful investors put shares in a freefall. After one hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 42.97 at 8,963.67. On Monday, the index suffered its
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    • 81 1 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Several suspects in last week’s terror attacks in the US had earlier visited Malaysia, carrying valid travel documents and looking like tourists, police said yesterday “As far as we are concerned... they were bona fide travellers, but we are aware of their presence,” police
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    • 83 1 -AP KUALA LUMPUR PAS leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat said that the terrorist attacks in the US were God’s will and that Osama bin Laden should be protected until proven guilty. Nik Aziz, spiritual leader of the panMalaysia Islamic party, said President George W Bush would
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  • WAR PATH
    • The Neighbours
      • 526 2 THETaleban is talking of war. Pakistan is bracing for it. The US is threatening to wage it. Caught between Washington and Kabul, Islamabad’s envoys were yesterday still trying to persuade the Islamic movement to give up terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden. But after the Taleban
        Pic: AFP  -  526 words
      • 88 2 -AFP An Indian pilot sparked an alert when he left a joke SMS message for a friend, a pilot with a private airline, offering him a job with Osama bin Laden's camp, the Hindu daily said yesterday. Unfortunately he dialled the wrong number, and the receiver alerted the
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    • The Fear
      • 299 3 Thousands evacuated from hotels skyscrapers -AFP TOKYO Thousands of Japanese were, evacuated yesterday as hotels and highrise buildings received bomb threats. There were growing fears that Muslim extremists were operating inside Japan. Among those who received the threats were workers in a 30-storey building housing foreign
        -AFP; Pics: Reuters  -  299 words
      • 275 3 Reuters NEW YORK The US is unprepared for an attack with a biological weapon using deadly germs or a chemical weapon that ravages the human nervous system, experts said. “A biological attack (by terrorists) could be the most horrible of all,” said Mr Leonard Cole
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      • 85 3 New York mega-developer Donald Trump has some ideas about the World Trade Center site. "The current mindset is to put up new towers, and I agree with that,"he told the New York Times. But they should not be replicas of the downed buildings but "a form of memorial
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    • The Victims
      • 70 5 CLEAR Channel, a giant 1,100station US radio network, has issued a list of 150 songs it suggested should not be played now. Most stations played the songs anyway. The list includes John Lennon's Imagine, Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, New York, New York and songs mentioning planes, such
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      • 381 5  -  by i ADAM HASHIDY He was called 'white *****' and his friend 'a bloody Arab'as they were attacked by whites in San Francisco A CAUCASIAN Singaporean man suffered a near-fatal stab wound in a racially motivated attack in San Francisco on Friday. The incident
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      • 236 5 Reuters WASHINGTON US President George W Bush visited the Islamic Center of Washington on Monday in a bid to quell anti-Muslim feeling among Americans. A rash of incidents targeting Muslims have been reported since last devastating terrorist attacks on the US. “The face of terror is
        – Reuters; Pic: AFP  -  236 words
      • 192 5 Wire services LOS ANGELES A California store owner’s murder is believed to have been motivated by revenge for last week’s terrorist attacks on the US. Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman Matt McLaughlin said on Monday that the death of Mr Adel Karas, 48, will be
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    • The Warlord
      • 420 6 Wire services KABUL -It is not just Islamic ideology that binds Taleban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar and Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden. The bond between the two became a family one, when the Taleban leader married Osama’s eldest daughter in 1998. According to
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      • 83 6 A group of online writers has voted to carry on with a play they were writing collectively. It's plot urban devastation. The day it was launched: Tuesday, Sept 7 7. London Vanishes is based on the disappearance of a capital city. "The timing could not have been worse,"organiser
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      • 274 6 THE Arabic word “jihad” is often translated as “holy war”, but the correct translation is “holy struggle”. In the linguistic sense, jihad means struggling or striving. In a religious sense, as described by the Quran and teachings of the Prophet Mohammed, jihad means striving for the benefit
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      • 178 6 Reuters Jihad is not a violent concept. Jihad is not a declaration of war against other religions. The Quran specifically refers to Jews and Christians as “people of the book” who should be protected and respected. Allah is just the Arabic word for God, and is used
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  • EDUCATION TREATS
    • 501 8 Your entry into the real world of business begins at the doorstep of Southern Cross University. PLANNING TO DO A business degree? Head for Southern Cross University (SCU). Its Bachelor of Business Administration (International Business) will put you in the lead of what’s going on
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    • 266 8 THE UNIVERSITY GREW OUT of the North Rivers College of Advanced Education, founded in 1977. Proudly claiming a 25-year tradition of academic excellence, it is being recognised for delivering courses that jumpstart careers and helping them grow. The university was established in 1994,
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 238 9 Wire services After 15 long Years of Wrangling, China finally dears all hurdles for WTO entry BEIJING Foreign firms, Japanese ministers and Chinese advocates of reform have all hailed China’s impending entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The giant nation’s economy has been
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    • 136 9 -Wire services The imminent entry of China into the WTO is going to be a win-win situation, said analysts. Timing could not have been better, they add. With the US, the world’s No 1 economy weakened by last Tuesday's attacks, the World can look forward to
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    • 169 9 -AFP *Aipei Taiwan is suffering a double Already bracing for the disruption to the US economy by last peek’s terror strikes, it has been hit by he biggest floods in a century. At least 36 people have died and 21 missing in the wake of
      -AFP  -  169 words
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 322 11  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH A POLICEMAN overstepped his bounds when he kicked a drunk in the groin. On July 4 last year, at about 8.45 pm, John Doray, 22, a corporal with Joo Phiat Neighbourhood Police Post, went to investigate a disturbance at IV KTV
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    • Mad at being fired
      • 205 11  -  Sports by KHUSHWANT SINGH A CHILDCARE teacher pointed a knife at her principal. Angry at being fired the day before, Chinese immigrant Du Hong, 33, tried to speak to the owner of Creative Child development Centre at Lorong dhuan on June 15. When she
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      • 79 11 Also angry at being fired, a s hop assistant armed herself a 30cm metal ruler and looking for the co-worker s he held responsible for her Peking. When Angela Mildthryth, 35, frund the colleague, she started slapping him with the ruler. Luckily, other colleagues intervened
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    • 92 11  -  Sonny Phua PROFESSOR Ronald E Frank has taken over the presidency of the Singapore Management University (SMU) from Professor Janice Bellace, who is retiring for personal reasons. Prof Frank, 68, a member of the university’s board of trustees, describes himself as an agent of change. The
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    • 256 12  -  by SONNY PHUA IF Singapore wants to develop creativity in students, the education system should be made more flexible and open so that students have the freedom to study anything that they are interested in, said Dr Patrick Tan, 32, winner of this
      Pic: Choo Chwee Hua  -  256 words
    • 74 12 onekindact. Gary THANK you to taxi driver Mr How Beng San, who helped me catch a bus. We drove from West Coast to Bedok in pursuit of the bus so that I could get my wallet back that I had left inside. If you wish to highlight
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    • 74 12 There will be showers in the north and west in the late afternoon with temperatures ranging from 25°C to 32°C. On cable TV, you may get grainy pictures or none at all due to a "sun outage" when the sun's energy overpowers satellite signals. The tide
      Pic: Francis Lee  -  74 words
    • Just a minute
      • 95 12 Need help to find a job? Head down to the Ministry of Manpower's CareerLink@mom between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm (weekdays) and 8.30 am and Ipm on Saturdays. Go to the MOM building at 18 Havelock Road, Level 1. No appointment is needed. The Employment Town website is www.employmenttown.gov.sg.
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      • 38 12 The Chinese Creative Storytelling Competition for Children, organised by the National Library Board, is on. Forms and details are available at all k libraries except Library@ I Orchard. I The deadline I is Sept 29.
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  • easy STREATS
    • 501 13  -  hour by Cara van Miriah ZOUK will compete with 10 others for this year’s Nightspot of the Year Award, part of the larger annual Tourism Awards. Zouk, which has won the title thrice in five years, will be facing a tough fight from Liquid Room,
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    • 193 14 MANY Taiwanese scrambled for their lives on Monday as tropical storm Nari’s torrential rains caused mudslides and flash floods in northern Taiwan. Taiwanese stars Jimmy Lin and actor Ma Jingtao were also scrambling but not for their lives. They wanted to save their computers and cars.
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    • 138 14 AS all of Hongkong fretted over the fates of actress Rosamund Kwan and her boyfriend Jimmy Wong, the couple arrived in the territory on Monday. It turned out that they were stuck in France due to a shortage of seats on flights back to Hongkong.
      Pic: Apple Daily  -  138 words
    • 149 14 HEAVENLY king Andy Lau is set to lose $500,000 ($111,325) for cancelling j a concert in Melbourne. S “The equipment could i not be shipped to the venue on time because of flight delays (due to the US terrorist attacks),” said Andy. “However, the place had been
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    • 137 14 SINGER Courtney Love is ready to help Wall Street back on its feet and save the world economy, reported PeopleNews.com yesterday. The widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain said over the weekend that she would pump US$2OO,OOO ($350,000) into American businesses. Better known more for
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    • 171 20  -  by CARA van MIRIAH BELIEVE it or not, Euro-disco band Boney M is coming to Singapore. If its name doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps its hits like Brown Girl In the Ring, Daddy Cool, Rasputin, Ma Baker and Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday will. Disco house,
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV
        • 68 20 10.30 pm, Channel U Sophia tries to please Bi Juan and her family. She also fusses over Andrew, making him uncomfortable. Jacky is secretly in love with Sophia and is determined to find out who her secret lover is. Bingquan (Gallen Lo, below) discovers that Sardonna is not
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        • Article, Illustration
          71 20 10pm, Central Toshiro Mifune plays an old warrior who is dirty and disrespectful on the surface, but whose deeds L show him to be a man of hon- our. He meets a group of I men seeking I to expose their corrupt superintend- j f ent, but they themselves
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        • Article, Illustration
          40 20 10pm, Channel 5 Mulder returns i and wrangles his way back i to an X-file. I However, he I gets in over his head trying to find evidence of 1 colonisation. The fight for the future has began.
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        • 46 20 7.30 pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Romantic story of the promise made by two five-year-olds to meet again when they grow up. Urashima Keitarou remembers the promise but not the girl’s name. He finds work in a women’s hostel, full of beautiful girlas.
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 269 21  -  by ADAM HASHIDY HIS European dreams ended in disaster. Now you can add Hongkong to the list. Local bad-boy Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin (above) will not be playing for Hongkong First Division champion Happy Valley. No, it has 1 nothing to do with ill-discipline. The former Singapore
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      • SOCCER
        • 129 21 NATIONAL Football League (NFL) Division One champion Andrews Avenue FC made it a double last night by winning the Singapore Pools NFL FA Cup. It demolished Tessensohn Khalsa Rovers 5-0 in the final at the Choa Chu Kang Stadium. Hafed Rashid opened scoring on the stroke
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        • 153 21 Reuters LEICESTER Goals in the last five minutes by Paul Ince and Jonathan Greening gave Middlesbrough a 2-1 comeback victory over Leicester City in a scrappy Premier League clash on Monday. Leicester went into the lead through Matthew Jones’ ninth-minute goal. Middlesbrough, which lost its
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      • 690 22 Gunners tired of being second best LEAGUE v Schalke 04 LONDON Thierry Henry admits that he and his Arsenal team-mates are getting fed up with coming second. If Arsenal does so again tonight (tomorrow, Singapore time) it may have to forget about the Champions League for another
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      • 210 22 Reuters LONDON Arsene Wenger has decided to allow Arsenal’s French internationals to play in a friendly against Australia in November. The manager will now release Patrick Vieira, Sylvain Wiltord, Robert Pires and Thierry Henry for the match in Australia if French coach Roger Lemerre
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      • 591 23 Munich drubbing haunts German side CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Borussia Dortmund v Liverpooll DORTMUND, Germany If Michael Owen is still unsure about the effect of his pace and finishing on opposing defenders, a glance at the haunted features of Christian Woerns in Dortmund tonight (tomorrow, Singapore time) ought to
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 471 16 If it's your birthday today, you share it with a Michelle Chia Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20- FEB 18 The self that you present to the world is an instant hit. Now that you’ve discovered this new light, shed some of it on your darker side. Savour the luck
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 239 18 A 51 V The story today... The 'secret weapons'turn out to be two lotus seeds Jiang Yuiang's suspicions turn to the elderly boat owner and his granddaughter, Shi Shuyun. Jiang checks out Elderly Shi and Shuyun the next morning. He concludes that they are incapable of turning the lotus seeds
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 40 21 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: EPU Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur (Star Sports Ch 24, tomorrow, 2.50 am). Champions League: Borussia Dortmund v Liverpool (City TV and Ch 23, tomorrow, 2.30 am). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: Champions League: ArsenaFv Schalke 04 (Ch 23, tomorrow, sam).
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