Streats, 3 December 2001

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  • 17 1 STREATS MONDAY 3 December 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 143 1 A Singaporean is one of the Northern Alliance's prized captives in Kabul, says the Sunday Telegraph. Islamuddin, 35, is alleged to be an Al Qaeda member now jailed in the dungeons of the secret police headquarters in Kabul. He claims to have gone
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  • 467 1  -  by ROBIN GANGULY the war against terrorism is shifting to Singapore’s doorstep. The CIA has stepped up activity in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, the Los Angeles limes reported yesterday These countries, and four others, will be at the
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  • morning rush
    • 82 1 CHANGI Airport’s new Terminal 3 may not take off as fast as expected. Terminal 3 was planned to open in early 2006, but Transport Minister Mr Yeo CheowTong said yesterday that“in view of the downturn, we are looking to see if we should delay the building of
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    • 91 1 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has put its military on high alert for a possible flood of refugees from the Philippines, ministers said yesterday. “This is because we should not be caught unawares... as this will affect our position,” said Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi. Violence flared
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    • 43 1 This little ducky wentw to the race It was Yellow River. No, not the one in China but in Singapore with nearly 100,000 bobbing yellow ducks and a few red ones raising money for the Straits Times Million Dollar Duck Race PAGE 3
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  • Streatsmart local
    • Pay day for thieves
      • 129 2  -  reports by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER A THIEF snatched an envelope containing $B,OOO in cash from a woman, 52, as she was alighting from her husband’s car. The incident occurred at a carpark near Blk 4004, Depot Lane at 11.30 am. After snatching the money, the thief jumped
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      • 103 2 ALL it took was 10 minutes for a thief to become richer by nearly $16,000. At 10.10 am in Jurong, a director of a trading company put an envelope containing $15,600 in cash into the glove compartment of his van after leaving a bank. The money
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    • 134 2 A 39-YEAR-OLD Indonesian was caught at 2.10 pm on Saturday as he tried to flee from a parked taxi in the basement carpark of Tekka market. The 40-year-old cabby had parked the tax there at about lpm that day. Upon returning an
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    • news scan
      • 103 2 A CHEF having a quiet drink at the People’s Park food centre on Friday evening didn’t think anything was out of ordinary when he noticed two women in their late 40s eyeing him at about 6pm. At about 8.30 pm, the 56-year-old chef headed to
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      • 81 2 MORE than a hundred suspected prostitutes were arrested in a police raid over the weekend on notorious nightspot Orchard Towers. All the 106 women arrested in the Saturday night operation are Asian. They include Thais, Filipinas, Cambodians, Indonesians, Mongolians,^Vietnamese and Chinese. Police said the raid
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      • 76 2 A PEDESTRIAN suffered serious head injuries when a car hit him as he was crossing the junction of Commonwealth Ave West and North Buona Vista Road on Saturday morning. The car was travelling towards Dover Road when it hit the 51-year-old man at about 7.10 am. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      161 2 Pay it Forward is a project by the Central Singapore CDC. It hopes to inspire residents to do kind acts and encourage recipients of these acts to "pay it forward" Loke Sook Yee, Bishan St 12:1 helped a family whose mother and children were down with fever.
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    • 452 3  -  by STEPHANIE GOH Event raised Sim in proceeds 'for three children's charities SALES manager Leslie Yong does not particularly like ducks. But he thought that the sight of 100,000 ducks bobbing down the Singapore River would be “something”. So Mr Yong,
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    • 68 3 Remember to stash your brolly in your bag today as you'll need it when going home. There'll be showers with thunder over most areas in the afternoon and early evening. The temperature will range between 24°C and 32°C, and high tide will reach 3.1 m at
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    • 204 3 Just a minute The annual drive to collect Christmas gifts for the poor, the Boys'Brigade Sharity Gift Box Project, has gone online. Log on to www.bbsgb.org.sg or www.e-mart.com.sg to see the wish lists of children, the elderly, families and welfare agencies. People need schoolbags, books, pillows, electrical appliances, medical
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    • 549 4  -  by I KHUSHWANT SINGH EYEING the crowd queuing up for the Annie Leong murder trial, a lawyer was heard to say it was just like the Hello Kitty craze. “Only now, it’s Hello Anthony,” he added. Every morning, about
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    • 208 4 i YvwcU n deouujK t Cvn, with MDff. Southern Cross University Southern Cross University Southern Cross University has an international reputation for innovation and excellence in both teaching and research since 1970, with a student enrolment of over 10,000. SCU has achieved national and international academic recognition of its courses
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 168 5 -AP JERUSALEM Get rid of Yasser Arafat. This was the refrain in Israel yesterday. The voices began to rise after a bomb exploded in a bus in the northern Israeli city of Haifa yesterday, killing at least 15 people.
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    • 68 5 JAPAN ROYAL BABY: All smiles as well-wishers waved lanterns and Japanese national flags yesterday during a lantern festival to celebrate the long-awaited birth of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako's first baby in the Imperial Palace outer garden. More than 20,000 people thronged to the garden
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    • 227 5 -AFP Police bugged her mobile and messages between the two enabled police to find him JAKARTA Mobile phone messages from Tommy Suharto to a girlfriend helped police track him down, a report said yesterday. Police questioned Ms Lanny Banjararanti, a woman known to have
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    • Things looking up
      • 207 7 -AFP Taipei The decisive result of its general election will bring Welcome relief to Taiwan’s gloomy economy, analysts say. President Chen Shui-bian c an push through bills to revive Taiwan’s economy, they said. They predicted negotiation Would replace the squabbling Within a parliament controlled
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      • 245 7 -AFP Hongkong When Hongkong’s economy was booming Pre-1997, visitors from China Were looked down on by shop assistants who regarded them as poor peasants. Now the boot is on the other foot as Hongkong looks to China to help as it teeters on the brink of
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    • 208 7 Aussies told: Brace yourselves -AFP SYDNEY Treasurer Peter Costello Warned Australians yesterday to brace themselves for the impact of the global downturn. Mr Costello said even though the Australian economy apeared to be the stand-out performer among industrialised nations, it could not quarantine itself from the downturn
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  • WAR
    • 281 8 PASHTUN forces have failed to negotiate a peaceful Taleban surrender at Kandahar and fierce fighting has broken out. Tribal forces attacked the city’s outskirts yesterday, supported by US airstrikes. Ethnic Pashtun fighters attacked Kandahar airport overnight, meeting strong
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    • 308 8 EIGHTY Taleban prisoners have reportedly blown themselves up rather than surrender to the Northern Alliance, the Sunday Telegraph said yesterday. The fighters, captured after the fall of Kunduz, had been herded into a makeshift jail a freight container by soldiers loyal to General Rashid
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    • 109 8 -A% Seventy-two per cent of Americans back the restrictions President George W Bush is proposing to put on US civil liberties. In a telephone poll of 1,002 adults conducted on Nov 29-30 by Newsweek, only 11 percent of those surveyed believed the US had gone
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    • 156 8 -AFP LONDON British soldiers stormed one of Osama bin Laden’s mountain strongholds but missed him by just two hours.; Four soldiers from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) were wounded in the fierce battle in the caves of the Hada mountains, southeast
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    • war diary
      • 93 9 Wire services AFGHAN rival factions attending the Bonn talks are expected to strike a final deal today as intense talks on forming a post-Taleban government entered a sixth day yesterday. The Northern Alliance and three other Afghan groups have agreed to the outline of an interim
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      • 89 9 THOUSANDS of people fleeing the southern Afghan city of Kandahar have reached the border with Pakistan in recent days, the UN refugee agency said yesterday. By yesterday morning there were 6,000 people waiting outside a staging camp for refugees at Killi Faizo, in Pakistan, said Peter Kessler,
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      • 46 9 -AFP US SPECIAL FORCES soldiers were presented Purple Heart medals on Saturday at the Landstuhl US Regional Medical Center, western Germany. The five were all wounded by friendly fire during a US airstrike against aTaleban fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan on Nov 26. -afp
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    • 300 9 KABUL A reporter of The Sunday Telegraph found prisoners Al Qaeda members of many nationalities in a Kabul prison to which he was given exclusive access. In a row of filthy cells, smeared with graffiti and lit only by tiny,
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    • 70 9 -AFP A Malaysian association of Islamic clerics yesterday condemned the US bombing of Afghanistan, calling it an act of aggression against Islam and urging Muslims to wage holy war. Mr Abdul Ghani Samsudin, head of the Ulema Association of Malaysia, said waging a jihad was one
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    • 348 9 Is Life Like Walking On A Tight Rope? C ~&<rtLICAL success “If you are not defeated within, your external setbacks will have to turn around in line with the victory within.” Dr. John Lim Master essential principles for thriving in the recession without becoming mentally unbalanced. FREE ADMISSION sth5 th
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    • 515 10 -AP KOENIGSWINTER, Germany As a girl during what many Afghan exiles consider their country’s last golden era, Fatima Gailani dreamed of growing up to be a senator. In the *****, there was nothing to stop her. King Mohammad Zahir Shah
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    • 169 10 LONDON Former Beatle George Harrison was recording an album just before he died, according to British media reports. The Sunday Times said he played tracks from the album to his family at a Los Angeles hospital last Sunday, four days before his death from cancer at the
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    • 487 10 My StraitsTiines School Holidays Programme WHAT*S on mm -f a NOV 17 STAR ATTRACTION CHARLOTTE CHURCH EXCLUSIVE Learn how to be a music journalist Then practise your skills when you interview teenage singing sensation Charlotte Church LIVE!. WBt Sony Music goodie bags* phones by MI'S OK2I. Popular Bookstore vouch m
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  • easy STREATS
    • 497 11  -  Lillian Tao s boob have tried to pojt millions in the right by 'Yvonne Kwok MALAYSIAN author and fengshui practitioner Lillian Too is angling her body away from me. “When I face you, I’m not actually sitting in my best direction. My best direction is actually this way,”
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    • 387 12  -  I m a JUJjSU&j**** mosno& by. Judi Low Picky foodies are even pickier about where and what they eat these days-no thanks to the economic slowdown. Since March, food shops have seen slower business allround. But this doesn't mean you have to compromise. Judi Low shows you
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    • 232 12 LONDON The family of British fantasy writer JRR Tolkien is split over The Lord of the Rings films, according to a media report yesterday. The Independent on Sunday said the late author’s eldest son, Christopher, was refusing to speak to his son Simon in
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      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 37 12 5.30 pm, Channel U Xueru dies in a gunfight and Peishan j is wounded. I Xiaotian sees it is all part of Jiacheng s plan. Fusheng is injured when he tries to assassinate Jiacheng.
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        • 53 12 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Jack Cole is a New York cop transferred to Los Angeles to help solve a series of murders in which the victims are cruci- fied. Then the murderer kills Jack’s ex-wife and Jack’s prints are found on the body. Stars Steven Seagal and
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        • 54 12 12.30 am, Central In India, the ancient tradition of dedicating women to temples where they learn to sing, dance and serve men as sacred prostitutes still exists today. The Devadasis cult unites on the one hand, art, religion and sexuality, and on the other hand, the
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    • 194 13 -AP MANCHESTER, New Hampshire Fans cheered his music, but sighed in disappointment when rock legend Elton John announced that his newest CD, Songs From the West Coast, will be his last. “It’s the last record that I ever make,”he said on Friday from the stage at the
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 385 16  -  Comment by PETER SIOW PELE and George Harrison. Both are icons among baby boomers, the generation born shortly after the war. Both are equally outstanding in their own fields Pele, 60, in football and Harrison, 58, in music. Yet today’s computer generation is hardly aware
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      • 194 17  -  by LIM HAN MING amradu Cooray deserves a big hurrah for completing the Singapore Exxon Mobil international Marathon yesterday. The Sri Lankan runner had met with a. minor accident along Farrer Road at the 36-kilometre mark. An eye-witness said that Cooray, who Was told to
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      • 392 17 Wire services LONDON England captain David Beckham (right) cannot wait for the chance to “lay the ghost of ‘9B” when England tackles Argentina in the World Cup finals. “As a footballer you always want to
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      • 185 17 -Wireservices ACE striker Michael Owen (right) says he and his team-mates have no reason to fear any side in South Korea and Japan next summer. “It is going to be tough. I would even say you could not have picked a more difficult group
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      • 101 17 TENNIS Wire services MELBOURNE Nicolas Escude emerged as a French hero in France’s 3-2 win over Australia in the Davis Cup final. He defeated world’s topranked player, Lleyton Hewitt, on Friday and got a four-set win over Wayne Arthurs yesterday to help France pick its ninth
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      • 73 17 FOOTBALL LONDON Liverpool could now invest the £ll million ($3O million) reward from Robbie Fowler’s departure in Scotland on midfielder Barry Ferguson. Gerard Houllier has already declared his interest as part of a three-club Premiership pursuit for the Rangers star. Arsenal has already had a £7m
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      • 89 17 BASKETBALL -AP LOS ANGELES Shaquille O’Neal has learned that he doesn’t have to score a bunch of points every game for the Los Angeles Lakers to win. On Saturday night, O’Neal had 23 points, nine rebounds and five assists as the Lakers ran its record to
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      • 783 18  -  Soccer TALK by TAN KIM HAN THE Red Devils are going through hell now. From the usual summit, they have now slipped to an uncharacteristic seventh spot midway through the Premiership. If you ask me,
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      • 272 18 -Wire services LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson (above) has admitted that Manchester United is losing its Premiership title. Said Ferguson: “I don’t think we will win it now considering we’ve had five defeats. We can only afford to lose one more game all season.
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      • 428 19  -  by 'LIM HAN MING r TIGER 5s final Spain 7 Brazil 6 (Full-time score 3-3, Spain wins 4-3 on penalties) A HOW does one overturn a 0-3 deficit against Brazil and emerge victorious? Ask Spain. The reigning world champion
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      • 253 19  -  by LIM HAN MING r TIGER 5s Bowl final Singapore 1 Thailand 13 HIS grandmother died last week. But that did not prevent Yuttana Polsak from captaining Thailand to victory in the Tiger 5s Bowl final against Singapore yesterday. He overcame his grief to score four times
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    • 41 13 It s not what I expected '"•I Yeoh Wee Teck spends a day at a Geylang hotel 0 'm :'I ■< l mi 1 Hotline: 1800-7 33 44 &tk m debt Corporate issuance Singapore in new i mmMm J 73 For Subscri
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 466 13 ■d/sr Ifit's lour hirthdaymdau you share it w§b J 'lifers Brendan Fn Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Instead of nailing your competitor to the wall, consider joining forces with them. The Cancer moon advocates nonviolencee, cooperation and trust. Your darker emotions will betray
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 299 14 The story today... Just when the gang is leaving the restaurant, they hear a ghostly voice singing of Jiang Biehe's hypocrisy. The gang is about to look for the source when Jiang stops them. He says:"lt's alright for me to be called names. You are playing right into the hands
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 37 17 SOCCER: EPL Tottenham Hotspur v Bolton Wanderers (Star Sports Ch 24, Dec 4,3.50 am). AMERICAN FOOTBALL: NFL: San Francisco 49ers v Buffalo Bills (ESPN Ch23,9.30am). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: Golf Challenge Season: LPGA Tour Championships (City TV, 11pm).
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