Streats, 12 December 2001

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  • 17 1 STREATS WEDNESDAY 12 December 2001 Mother quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 123 1 momingfifjfc. NTUC Fair Price said yesterday that it will add another 200 items to its discount list from next month. For example, a 275 g pack of Kellogg’s cornflakes cost $3.05 in July, but now it’s $2.95 and by January, it will cost just $2.70.
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  • 548 1  -  EDB gives $2.5 million to 10 start-ups by SARAH NG HE won a Goh Keng Swee Scholarship to study electrical engineering at the National University of Singapore. He could have settled into a cushy corporate career with an established company upon graduation. But Mr Bob Ding Chenling,
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    • 472 2  -  by 'DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM ALL decked out with colourful balloons, the Marine Parade Family Service Centre at Marine Terrace took on a “party’ atmosphere last night. But the theme was a serious one jobs. More than 50 people, many with children in tow, attended
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    • 213 2 PAY freezes have hit Singapore especially hard tl year. Among Asian companies, businesses here and Malaysia were the hardest hit by wage freezi according to a nine-country survey of 726 firij employing close to 800,000 people. Of 71 Singapore companies polled by manaj
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    • 100 2 SMRT Corp yesterday announced the official takeover of Tibs for $194 million. From today, Tibs will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of SMRT after it is delisted from tht Singapore Exchange as part of the merger agree' ll ment. The merged entity will be Singapore’s largest public
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    • 283 3  -  reports by t KHUSHWANT SINGH BILLY Ng Chee Sing used to be a high-flying law enforcer, but he went badly astray. As a deputy superintendent in the police force, Ng (left) headed the Criminal Investigation Department’s Secret Societies Branch. He later
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    • 133 3 What started off as a minor traffic incident developed into a vicious armed attack. A court heard yesterday that Daniel Tan Kheen Fatt, 51, hit a 25-year-old motorist with a metal rod. The man needed hospital treatment for a lacerated scalp, and abrasions on his back and left
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    • 86 3 onekindact Cindy Lim I left my handbag on the seat of a bus, but I got it back thanks to an elderly gentleman, who preferred to remain anonymous, after he answered my cellphone that was inside the bag. Thanks to the gentleman who returned my bag to
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    • 170 3 NO one spotted Mohamed Zakaria swipe a cellphone from a handbag left on a shop counter, so he made a clean getaway. That’s what he thought. But he hadn’t counted on his sneak theft, on Sept 2, from the shop owner’s handbag being recorded by the
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    • 280 3 A FORMER employee of ex-Indonesian president Suharto’s daughter-in-law yesterday admitted that he had pawned four luxury watches he stole from her for little more than a fifth of their value. Tan Geok Hong, 37, is on trial for stealing the property of Madam Ratnawati
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    • 511 5  -  by SONNYPHUA «SITTING unmoving in his seat, Gervais Vam, 13, was blindfolded. A card with a Chinese character on it was handed to him. He moved his hand over its surface. Seconds later, his hand shot up and a teacher went over to him. Smiling,
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    • Just a minute
      • 64 5 We often do not give our eyes the care they need. If you can envision the importance of this, see that you make a beeline for Library@Orchard tonight and let Dr Lynn Yeo teach you how small changes to daily routine can help reduce eyestrain and keep
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 290 7 -AP SYDNEY While other airlines are downsizing and going bust, Qantas is Planning to launch a budget service that Will fly to Singapore and five other destinations. The no-frills service will be launched next year by a new company,
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    • weird world
      • 70 7 PUBLICANS who met to stop Christmas bar fights ended up in a mass brawl. Thirty-five English publicans got together for the summit, hosted by police sergeant Paul Whittey in a 16th-century inn near Oxford, to plan a crackdown on lager louts. But soon after the policeman left,
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      • 73 7 AN American who broke out of jail to get some beer was caught when he tried to sneak back in, Ananova.com reported. Mark Delude crawled under the fence at Vermont’s St Johnsbury work camp and walked 3km to the nearest convenience store. Police found him inside the fence
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      • 93 7 A DINER in New Zealand was asked to wash off her perfume because it made the chef sick. Chef Jonathan England of Wellington’s TWo Rooms restaurant won’t apologise. His maitre d’ asked Janet Hunt to wash off the perfume with a napkin. Mrs Hunt told The
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    • 139 7 -AP HONGKONG Northwest Airlines’ discriminates against Asian staff members, retrenched workers claimed. Twenty laid-off flight attendants protesting outside the US Consulate in Hongkong yesterday shouted “Shame on Northwest!” Protest organiser Sylvia Tse said Northwest had sacked Hongkong-based staff with more seniority than workers who got the
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    • 122 7 -AP JAKARTA Illegal loggers in Indonesia are evading arrest by forestry rangers when their wives strip naked to distract the lawmen. While the tough rangers are bashfully turning their red faces away, the loggers make a swift getaway with the valuable hardwood, the
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    • 177 7 -AP BEIJING China Telecom will be split into two smaller firms. Xinhua news agency said yesterday that the move had been approved by the cabinet. The announcement was made on the day that China officially joined the World Trade Organisation, and is part of efforts
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 204 9 London Races living apart was the main Ca use of riots which hit England this year, four a jor reports suggest. The reports published yesterday into riots in Radford, Oldham and Burnley describe “parallives” where races rarely mix, BBC News
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    • 179 9 LONDON English rail passengers are being given cue cards to help start conversations, Ananova.com reported. Central Trains is promoting the idea after polling showed that the English aren’t as reserved as thought. Nine out of 10 rail commuters said they’d talk to a stranger, and
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    • 92 9 -AP LONDON Young Britons are paying the price for binge drinking, a top official said this week. Britain’s chief medical officer, Professor Liam Donaldson, said that there had been a big growth in the number of young Britons dying of cirrhosis of the liver.
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  • WAR
    • 372 11 Wire services tora bora In a dramatic development here yesterday, tribal fighters declared a partial ceasefire when some retreating Al Qaeda forces offered to discuss a surrender. Mr Mohammed Zaman, defence chief for the tribal
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    • war diary
      • 78 11 US officers have secretly entered Somalia in the first indication of President George W Bush’s determination to extend the war against terrorism, the Daily Telegraph said yesterday. Five military personnel reached the heart of the country and met a rebel movement in Baidoa, 150 miles west
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      • 53 11 Reuters SOME diehard Taleban and Al Qaeda fighters were holed up in a Kandahar hospital yesterday, refusing to surrender, a tribal commander said. Hafiz Majid, a top aide to Taleban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar, is leading an unknown number of fighters barricaded in the city’s
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    • 51 11 HUNGER AND FEAR: The man in the centre is desperately hungry, but very afraid of the rifle. He joined others in crowding a food distribution centre at a Kabul school on Monday as a Northern Alliance soldier waved his rifle to keep them in control Pic: ap
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    • 112 11 KABUL Osama bin Laden may have abandoned his Al Qaeda followers, defecting fighters said yesterday. A split is emerging between hardcore Algerian fighters and other Arabs, including Egyptians, now defending the fortress of caves and tunnels in the White Mountains, the Christian Science Monitor reported. “The
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    • 217 11 -AFP KABUL -Ticked away in a building here, pockmarked with bullet holes is the remarkably well-pre-served royal limousine of former king Mohammed Zahir Shah. When the former monarch returns home from nearly 30 years in exile, he will find that his fleet of royal
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    • 75 11 -AFP The Taleban's top army official and a senior intelligence official are reported to have been captured by Afghan opposition forces, a US defence official said on Monday. The army chief had surrendered and was being held by the Northern Alliance. US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 464 12 Reuters UNITED NATIONS Soft-spoken Kofi Atta Annan of Ghana has negotiated political minefields relatively unscathed, becoming a diplomatic superstar along the way. The 63-year-old UN SecretaryGeneral, a career UN official, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Monday along with the UN. The
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    • 225 12 TOKYO Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee says he will go on a diet after he failed to fit into a jacket he was supposed to wear at a banquet hosted by the Japanese Prime Minister in his honour. Ananova reported that Mr Vajpayee, on a tour
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  • easy STREATS
    • 377 13 Reviewers can't stop raving Reuters LONDON The early reviews are in and it looks like Frodo the Hobbit will run rings around Harry Potter. After the world premiere of the ambitious and much-hyped film epic The Lord of the Rings, British critics yesterday proclaimed the boy wizard
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    • 125 14 WHAT do you do when you can’t find your ideal home? Ask J-pop star Takuya Kimura. The Smap member had been housei hunting for quite I some time now, land finally decidI ed to build a house near his parents’ gar place, which is a f
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    • 482 14  -  Their voices keep you company when you are on the road, at home or in the office. Stuck in a studio a lot of the time they may be, but these girls of WKRI 91.3 FM are also a bunch of
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    • 329 15 Reuters SYDNEY Five of Australia’s top ballerinas have thrown off their tutus for skimpy underwear and stilettos to pose provocatively in a men’s magazine. Headlined “Unleash the codpiece, it’s the Australian Ballet’s sexiest”, the photo spread is part of a strategy by the country’s
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    • 239 15  -  by 'WILEEN CHANG WE'VE been told that art can be anything. Like the work featuring an empty room with its light being switched on and off that won Martin Creed the Thmer Prize in Britain on Sunday. Here in Singapore munching on chocolates has taken on
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV
        • 51 15 7pm, TV Works Major Benson Payne, just out of the US Marines, gets a position leading cadets in a school, where his young recruits are thoroughly unprepared for a stem army person. Then he meets a sweet doctor who provides just the romantic touch he needs. Stars Damon
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        • 43 15 10.30 pm, Channel U Baoshi’s regard for Xue-er increases when they visit Fen at the nursing home. Xue-er tells him about her tragic childhood in Vietnam and America and they wind up in bed again, making Le jealous.
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        • 60 15 Bpm, City TV No, it’s not that movie. This one’s a new drama series with Qiu Xinzhi as Li Mubai and Huang Yi as Yu Xiulian. In the first episode, Xiulian’s parents are killed in order to eliminate the Xiongyuan Armed Escort Agency. Also stars Peter
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        • 52 15 10pm, V V Entertainment Francis Ng stars in and directs this movie about a teacher faced with a class of uninterested stu- dents. But just as the students finally ac- a cept him, they find out that his scholas- 1 tic achievements are fake. Stars
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 401 20 -AP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Utah 107 Dallas 98 SALT LAKE CITY The Utah Jazz got scoring and leadership down the stretch from John Stockton and v Karl Malone. It got great defence, too, from Russian fbokie Andrei Kirilenko, and this season’s mix of
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      • SOCCER
        • 89 20 -AFP LONDON Current Aston Villa and former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel was beaming on Monday after being appointed an honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to football. The Danish legend received the honorary award at a ceremony at the British
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        • 66 20 TAMPINES Rovers FC will be organising a kids-soccer camp for students between 6 and 16 years old from Dec 20-22 at Springfield Secondary School, Tampines Avenue 8. It will be conducted by Jita Singh, the club’s technical director and head coach, and Nazri Nasir, the
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      • 83 20 SWIMMING -Xinhua CANBERRA lan Thorpe, who swept six gold medals from the world championships in July in Fukuoka, was named Australian swimmer of the year on Monday. The 19-year-old tied Kieren Perkins’ record of three Australian swimmer of the year titles set between 1992 and
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      • Article, Illustration
        370 21 He tops world rankings for the fourth consecutive season Wire services LONDON -Tiger Woods kept his grip on the leading position in golf, ending the year at No.l in the world rankings for the fourth consecutive season. Woods, who won six PGA tournaments this year, including The
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      • 268 22 Wire services LONDON David Beckham (right) gave Manchester United some good news by declaring his intention to sign a new contract. With the Premiership champion struggling in midtable and Beckham relegated to the subs’ bench, there has been some concern that the England
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      • 488 22 Wire services LONDON Manchester United is close to completing the £3 million ($8 million) signing of Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly (left). The struggling champion hopes to have the deal done this week as Alex Ferguson bids to plug a defence that has
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      • Article, Illustration
        380 23  -  Nigerian players set to invade S-League by TAN KIM HAN SINGAPORE may see an invasion of African footballers next year. For several African companies are keen on bringing players to this region for trials. This was revealed yesterday by Mohamed Iqbal Maricar, vice-president of sports marketing and promotion
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      • 243 23  -  by' TAN KIM HAN CROATIAN coach Ivan Raznevich (above) may return to the S-League next season. The former Singapore Armed Forces FC and Woodlands Wellington coach is believed to have agreed terms with Gombak United, and is likely to sign soon. A source revealed
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 467 16 II im wyu JMM ci/m cum > Your Daily Horoscope mum ius JAN 20- FEB 18 Be ready to serve. The world around you has many needs, and you can fill more than you realise. At the same time, monitor your personal energy level. Fatigue could make you vulnerable. PISCES
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    • 148 17 I Clean Green Week 2001 »Uif r r, Pilt*iti JjM' Treats Streets m When I get recycled, I want to come back as a bestseller! When you've finished reading me, don't just throw me away! Put me aside for recycling and I can be used again and again! So it's
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 262 18 V, s ."*4 9 ĕ 9». mr The story today... Discovered by Jiang Biehe and his son, Yuiang, Xiao Yuer knows that he is no match for them. Jiang, however, is baffled by how Xiao Yuer discovers his secret. It was Yuiang who told Xiao Yuer that he had stolen
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 44 20 SOCCER: EPL: Liverpool v Fulham (ESPN Ch 23, Nov 13,3.50 am) BASKETBALL NBA: Atlanta Hawks v Philadelphia 76ers (ESPN Ch23,9am). GENERAL Sportscenter Asia (ESPN Ch23,Bpm). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: European Soccer Show (Super Sports Ch22,9pm). EPL Highlights (10pm). Italian Serie A Highlights (11pm) -TV Works.
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