Streats, 11 December 2001

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  • 16 1 STREATS TUESDAY 11 December 2001 quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 521 1  -  by SARAH NG THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) wants you to make the Singapore River a part of your daily life. Once thronging with tongkangs and other cargo vessels, tourist traffic now accounts for 90 per cent of the activities on the river.
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  • morning rush
    • 135 1 PAY close attention to the sell-by dates on chocolate and fresh milk. That advice comes from the Consumer’s Association of Singapore (Case). Case is calling for a change in the laws on expiry dates of perishable goods. It said that some companies are still
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    • 64 1 COE prices have risen for all categories in this month’s closed bidding. The biggest jump was in the open category, which rose by about $4,000 to end at $31,878. For small cars, the COE price rose about $3,000 to $30,000. For large cars, the COE price went
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  • Streatssmart local
    • 248 2 LIKE children? Do you want to work with them? Yes? Then check this out. A three-month part-time course in basic childcare has just been launched in Kallang. The certificate-level course is being taught by the Association of Early
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    • 184 2 ~AP KEPPEL Land is planning a housing project in Kunming. The 380-ha project is the company’s second foray into the city in south-west China. Keppel Land, Singapore’s third largest property developer in terms of assets, also said yesterday that it will be opening
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    • news scan
      • 105 2 THREE women were robbed in a spree ofi thefts at shopping centres on Saturday and Sunday. The first lady, 44, was robbed of her $5OO cellphone on Saturday at Jurong Point Shopping Centre. It was taken from her haversack, which was unzipped. A 71-year old Chinese
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      • 87 2 JOB seekers will tonight party and look for work at the same time at the Marine Parade Family Service Centre in Marine Terrace. And they needn’t be alone they can bring their wives and children with them. The relaxed family setting will help retrenched workers feel less pressure,
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      • 112 2 GUO BINGXIONG, 35, fell to his death at Blk 766, Choa Chu Kang North 5, on Sunday night. A resident, Mrs Liu, told Lianhe Wanbao that a thud was heard at around 10.40 pm. Her son returned home to say he had seen a man lying
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      • 69 2 A YOUNG motorcyclist and his friend were in intensive care last night after suffering head injuries in a crash on Sunday. Alan ChuaYee Wee, 21, was driving Jerry Tham, 16, home when he lost control of his motorcycle along Sembawang Road, skidded and crashed into a concrete
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      • 63 2 THREE Myanmar nationals were arrested on Sunday for entering Singapore illegally. At 8.13 pm, the Police Coast Guard spotted them jumping off a motorised sampan 50m from Tanjong Irau and swimming towards shore. The boat sped off towards Johor. The police launched a search and arrested the
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    • 361 3  -  reports by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM Two girls, 6, Molested by PR father of two who is Married to a Singaporean A BRITISH private tutor was yesterday sentenced to two years’jail and six strokes of the cane for molesting two six-year-old girls who were his
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    • 237 3 JUST one month after a businessman started managing a petrol station at Bukit Batok, he began pilfering cash. Indebted gambler Hong Heng Choong (above), 37, was the sole proprietor of Nexzen Management Services. The company had signed a contract with Shell Eastern Petroleum
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    • 241 3 ONLY one day before, she was to return home to Indonesia, a 22-year-old maid fell six floors to her death from a Geylang condominium. The coroner’s court heard yesterday that her employer, Madam Joanna Teo, 31, thought of Ms Tarsinem Darmo Swito as
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    • 189 3 AN international table tennis umpire fell and died shortly after taking his monthly physical fitness test. Mr Matthew Lee, 62, took running, bowling, and the monthly check-ups in his stride, his wife was quoted as saying in Shin Min Daily News
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    • 86 3 onekindact Kenny Lim would like to thank Constable Daren Lau and his colleague for the help they gave us after my friend's son fell from his bicycle and hurt his head. They drove the boy, along with his bicycle, in their patrol van to receive attention
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    • 311 5  -  by SONNY PHUA «T IS reason to celebrate. There are fewer crows in Singapore. The birds have flown. Surveys of 30 sites islandwide between February last year and September this Vear show that their number has dropped from 173,000 to about 98,000, a
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    • 148 5 Volunteers are set to play a bigger role in healthcare. TWo Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs) the Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society and the Chee Hoon Kog Moral Promotion Society will manage the 200-bed Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital (AMKH) from April. VWOs are already managing
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    • 85 5 The sun will be gentle and the weather cool. If you can, snuggle up in bed with a romance novel while it pours outside. Or run a hot bath and melt your tensions away. Showers with thunder are expected in the late afternoon and early evening
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    • 106 5 Just a minute Can't seem to catch up with all that's happening around? If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Learn how to approach changes positively in Managing Yourself and Others in Challenging Times, a talk by Dr Effendy Rajab of the Singapore Scout Association. 7pm, at
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 142 6 -A SYDNEY Patrick Stevedores, a shipping company involved in a 1998 dispute, was ordered to pay a former dock supervisor A 5600,000 ($570,000) for psychological injuries he suffered after crossing the picket line. Mr Francis Vaughan, 53, was subjected to “quite terrifying conduct” by
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    • 86 6 -AP HONGKONG -The number of) personal bankruptcies in Hongkong will set a record oft more than 10,000 this year. i Official Receiver Eammon O’Connell said yesterday that! 9,705 petitions of bankruptcy have been filed up to October and the figure for year 2001 would “clearly” exceed
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    • 73 6 -AP HONGKONG Universal Studios might build a theme park in southern China, providing competition to a Disneyland set to open in Hongkong in 2005. Officials in the city of Shenzhen have been in talks with Universal Studios for months, said Mr Zhang Yuhua, an
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    • 177 7 -AFP SYDNEY The Roman Catholic Church yesterday accused the Australian government and opposition of stirring up xenophobia to suit their political ends. A church said some of Australia’s actions in its crackdown against illegal immigration were simply racism
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    • 110 7 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have arrested more than 400 suspected illegal immigrants in a swoop on a market near the capital. More than 800 police officers took part in the raid, which included dogs and was backed by helicopters. As part of
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    • 188 7 -AFP TOKYO A Japanese woman who died of exposure in the US was apparently searching for buried ransom money that existed only in the hit movie Fargo. The 1996 movie, set in Minnesota, is the fictional story of a faked kidnap that goes
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    • 65 6 /1 Streats Daily Clue i 11 The Online Search has ended, but the excitement is just heating up in the Location Search. Streats readers will get a bonus clue plus a photo hint of the location where one of the silver cans are hidden. Login to can.com.sg to check when
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    • 489 7 Advertisement IT Industrial Certification creates better job opportunities As a cloud of economic uncertainty looms in on Singapore’s tight job market, more people are improving their skills and knowledge to increase their marketability. In fact, Informatics Computer School has seen an increased enrolment intake since the economic situation worsened and
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  • WAR
    • 78 8 New Al Qaeda training camps are being set up in Indonesia, Somalia and Yemen and Osama bin Laden and his aides may try to escape to these countries, Pentagon sources told the New York Post yesterday. Amid heightened fears that they might have already fled,
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    • 254 8 OSAMA BIN LADEN dead will be more dangerous than Osama alive, his estranged wife said yesterday. He has planned a TV suicide that he hopes will trigger terrorist attacks in London, Paris and the US, The Mirror report said
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    • Article, Illustration
      85 8 Reuters KANDAHAR Anti-Taleban tribal fighters launched a threepronged attack on Al Qaeda forces around the Tora Bora region yesterday. The attackers had made some advances, “but Arab fighters are putting up intense resistance”, the Afghan Islamic Press said. Commander Hazrat Ali said Osama’s men, had been forced
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    • 68 9 Reuters A US-based Al Qaeda cell nearly succeeded in launching a post-Sept 11 attack on a major target in Washington before going underground or fleeing the country, Newsweek reported on Sunday. It cited intelligence sources as saying an Al Qaeda "sleeper cell" was poised to launch the
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    • 201 9 SEVERAL “report cards” signed by Osama bin Laden have revealed some of the darkest secrets of the A 1 Qaeda network. He singled out fanatics willing to sacrifice their lives as future A 1 Qaeda stars, The Sun reported yesterday. Forty of the reports
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    • 97 9 mdiary Reuters WARLORD General Abdul Rashid Dostum is not playing the spoiler anymore, the US said yesterday. Gen Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek, dominates most of northern Afghanistan. He had said he would boycott the new Afghan regime because he wasn’t given the foreign minister’s portfolio. “Dostum
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 209 11 -AFP Gaza Four militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have decided to suspend suicide attacks in Israel until the end of the Ramadan, according to a statement. “We are giving our enemy the chance vk> stop its assassinations, its
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    • Weird world
      • 107 11 Reuters A BARE room with a light that switches on and off every five seconds, has won this year’s Rimer Prize. Martin Creed, who received the art prize from Madonna on Sunday, said “I don’t think of myself as an artist”. Those who saw his
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      • 73 11 PARENTS have taken over the teaching at a Dutch primary school, Ananova.com reported. Half the teachers called in sick at the school in Laren after falling out with school directors. The school asked the parents for help and found mothers who were willing to step into
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      • 98 11 A TURKEY has made a cross-country escape from a fattening-up farm and found its way to a bird sanctuary. Terry theßirkey was found outside an owl sanctuary in Hampshire. His skm escape route crossed fields, streams and busy roads. Owner Bruce Berry told the Daily Telegraph:
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    • 193 11 LONDON Most young Britons think it’s normal to have 10 sex partners before marriage, according to a survey carried out by Brook, a youth sex advisory service. The survey also found that three in 10 believe it’s perfectly acceptable for a girl
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    • 191 12 -AP CAIRO Egyptian doctors are seeking international medical help to separate twins joined at the head. Such a procedure was carried out in Singapore this year, when a team of doctors separated Siamese twin girls from Nepal, Ganga and Jamuna, also joined at the head,
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    • 417 12 -AP JERUSALEM Nearly 20 years ago, Ariel Sharon tried to deal a knockout punch to Yasser Arafat and the PLO by driving them out of neighbouring Lebanon, and into distant exile in TUnisia. Now Israelis are debating whether Mr Sharon, then defence minister and now
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  • easy STREATS
    • 610 13  -  Scrap the name Talentime. This year's contest should have been re-named to reflect what it really is-a Survivor meets The Fame Awards )by by Yvonne Kwok BEFORE MediaCorp organises Talentime 2002, let me propose that the name of the contest be changed instead to
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    • 491 15 Comedian Irene Ang was missing from the host line up on Sunday's Talentime. Was her spoken English not good enough? DIANA SER finds out HERE'S a $15,000 question: Who was missing from Sunday night’s line up on Channel s’s Talentime? Hint: Her “significant other”, Gurmit Singh, made
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV
        • 40 15 10pm, TV Works Would-be mystery writer V (Danny DeVito) wants to get rid of his abui sive mother (Anne I Ramsey) and gets his I creative writing tea- cher (Billy Crystal) to bump her off.
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        • 39 15 9pm, Channel U Jiunan and Bao force the Empress Dowager to reveal the secret behind the 42 sutras. Jiunan finds a scrap of a map hidden in a book and has to find the rest.
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        • 53 15 10pm, Central A man is arrested and accused of a crime which is not revealed to him. He is accused by everyone, friends and enemies, until worn down, he doubts his own innocence. This movie, based on Kafka’s novel, stars Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli
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        • Article, Illustration
          49 15 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) The true story of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, jailed for a murder he did not commit. He writes an auto- biography which, years later, a boy becomes a inspired by and mounts a A campaign to get Carter released. Stars Denzel 1« Washington.
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    • 298 16 Reuters THE first film in the much hyped Lord of the Rings trilogy had its world premiere in London yesterday, culminating in one of the most ambitious film projects ever undertaken. Director Peter Jackson and his 2,400-strong cast
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    • 266 16 Reuters SEOUL French actress-turned-activist Brigitte Bardot is upset with South Koreans protesting against her criticism of their dog-eating habit. Yesterday, she had a letter published in a Seoul newspaper saying her animal protection foundation had received “nearly a thousand insulting and threatening messages I.
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    • Article, Illustration
      168 18 WHEN it comes to losing weight, celebrities sure have weird ways. Hongkong actress Carina Lau for example, has been eating potatoes four times a week for six months now. And she said that you have to visit the toilet by 5.30 am. Carina avoids meat too. She plays
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 448 20 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Toronto Raptors 90 Phoenix Suns 91 TORONTO Jerome Williams left the back door open, and Penny Hardaway went right through it. Hardaway’s reverse layup off an inbounds play at the buzzer gave Phoenix Suns a 91-90 victory over the
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      • 411 21 -AFP LAGOS Nigeria, drawn against England in the first round of the 2002 World Cup, has sent top officials to London to study the English League and help it re-model the Nigerian game. Organised currently by the Nigerian Football
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      • 538 22 LONDON -TWo-goal hero Thierry Henry put it down to his club’s new-found toughness, as Arsenal narrowed the gap at the top of the Premiership table after the win over Aston Villa. The 3-2 victory follows superb Highbury wins over champion Manchester United
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      • 241 22 Reuters LEEDS Leeds United’s Olivier Dacourt has been ruled out for weeks after suffering a major shoulder injury. The French midfielder picked up the injury during the win over Blackburn Rovers, and joins a growing injury list. Danny Mills collected his fifth booking of the season,
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      • 464 23  -  by ADAM HASHIDY THE death of Harry Chau has not put off X-Games devotees or their parents. The 14-year-old died while attempting a bicycle stunt at the practice session of the Singapore Asian Xtour which also involves inline skating and skateboarding, at Ngee Ann
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      • SOCCER
        • 144 23 Wire services LONDON Manchester United’s faltering form will be put to a severe test in the third round of the FA Cup when it travels to Aston Mila. Alex Ferguson’s men have been handed an all-Premiership clash on the first weekend of the New
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        • 115 23 -AFP LONDON Alex Ferguson may not think an awful lot of David Beckham at the moment, but on Sunday people power showed its might as he was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The 26-year-old, who has been dropped by Ferguson for the last
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        • 115 23 -AFP MILAN Ronaldo scored his first goal in over two years, and Christian Vieri his seventh inside a week as Inter Milan won 3-1 at Brescia to stay top of Italy’s Serie A. Inter coach Hector Cuper chose to play the “dream pair”, who cost
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 482 18 id mm mi Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20- FEB 18 Hindsight is blinding in its clarity. Instead of dwelling on what you missed, consider the chances that still lie ahead of you. Ignore the Scorpio moon’s lure towards misguided dreaming. Reality has much to offer
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 260 19 c easvMreac *4 m ««a «5* The story today... Xiao Yuer concludes that Jiang Biehe is the person who creates all the fake treasure maps to pit the pugilist masters against one another. Xiao Yuer thinks:"What a hypocrite! I knew you have a dirty secret." Meanwhile, Jiang and his son,
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 21 23 Inthelivingroom GENERAL: Sportscenter Asia (Bpm). Football Focus (8.30 pm) ESPN Ch 23. DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: Italian SerieA highlights (Super Sports Ch22,9pm).
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