Streats, 11 February 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2003 E-mail: streats@sphxom.sg ivhta <p> 240/03/2002
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  • 755 1  -  Some unhappy over general committee /Q expunging suspension records of four members By Conrad Raj ANOTHER controversy has broken out at the prestigious Tanglin Club after its general committee lifted the suspension on four members who were disciplined in February last year. More than 50
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  • Morning Rush
    • 518 2 Ossia chairman breaks media silence SHAREHOLDERS may soon be happy to hear more from the owners of four listed companies Ossia International, eWorldofSports.com (eWOS), Internet Technology Group (ITG) and Pertama because they can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. Mr George
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    • 653 3  -  Canada’s TD Bank issues ultimatum to loss-making brokerages which include DBS TD Waterhouse By Chua Kong Ho LAST year, DBS Bank entered into a joint venture with Canada’s TorontoDominion Bank (TD Bank) which hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The 50-50 venture between
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    • 277 4 BEIJING China’s burgeoning affluent urban population will spend more on housing, medical care and entertainment instead of food and clothing, according to a report by consultancy firm Asian Demographics Limited. Also estimated to go up is the annual disposable income of the
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    • 534 4 MUNICH A bitter verbal confrontation between US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a former wrestler and US Navy pilot, and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, a former student rebel, saw both the countries fiercely disagreeing over Iraq yesterday. With his voice rising and banging his fist on the
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    • 164 4 r. afp SINGAPORE has become the first Asian country to approve the sale of Cialis, a new drug against male impotence which will rival the phenomenally successful Viagra. Pharmaceutical group Eli Lilly yesterday said that Cialis will be available here as a
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    • 121 6 BUZZ STOP FAR East Organisation will soon launch Icon, Singapore’s highest condominium at 46 storeys. Rising along Gopeng Street in Tanjong Pagar, the 163 m high, 46-storey building will dwarf its neighbour, the 18-storey Amara Hotel, which stands at 67m. When completed in 2006, the
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    • 147 6 New surgery AN improved version of an existing heart surgery technique is putting cardiac patients’ hearts in better shape literally. The new method allows doctors to cut away only dead heart muscle, whereas its predecessor basically sliced away heart muscle regardless of whether it was healthy
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    • 137 6 Clarke Quay facelift BRITISH firm Alsop Architects, headed by famous architect Will Alsop, has been appointed to give Clarke Quay a new look. Capita Land Commercial, Clarke Quay’s landlord, declined to reveal details of the project or how much it would cost, saying the plan is
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    • Article, Illustration
      80 6 Disney a Shetland sheep dog, trotting on a treadmill made for pooches at Ken2l, a pet store, pet health food vendor and pet hotel. Japan's pampered dogs have had such a good life that obesity has become a problem. So doting human parents sign up their furry pups
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    • 166 6 TIBS Taxis is bringing its flagdown fare down to a standard $2.40, the same as that of its larger competitors Comfort and City Cab. The new fares start next Tuesday. Previously, Tibs charged three rates $2.10 for normal hours, $3.10 for peak hours and $3.20
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    • 84 6 THE Preservation of Monuments Board has listed the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Queen Street as a national monument to be conserved in its entirety. The church, 133 years old, started as a chapel on the site of what became St Joseph’s Institution in Bras
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    • 90 6 MAS Selamat Kastari is likely to be handed over to the Singapore authorities. Indonesian chief detective Syafrizal said that police have yet to find evidence to link the alleged chief of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiah (JI) branch to terrorist bombings and may have to settle for
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    • 95 6 THE representatives of at least 10 major religious bodies working on Singapore’s Code on Religious Harmony, which is expected to be ready at the end of this month, are likely to stay on as a committee. This was revealed by Mr Chan Soo Sen, Minister of
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    • 82 6 THE Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts has added a link to its website www.mita.gov.sg which will take users directly to information about the troubles between Singapore and Malaysia. It contains speeches, letters and copies of articles from the Singapore and Malaysia media on issues, including
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  • Financial
    • 909 8  -  This is part of a series on young Singaporean entrepreneurs k A By_ Chua Kong Ho Benjamin Lee has a talent for networking and a sharp eye for opportunities. Lee Han Tong is an operations analyst. Together they have launched themselves on Singaporeans’growing hunger for
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    • 578 10  -  Long considered a fashion statement, investors now give metal a second look Comment By TOM PETRUNO Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Gold is the answer to a riddle that might have been posed in the 1990 s if anyone had cared enough to bother: Name an
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    • 114 10 Reuters SINGAPORE SingTel’s submarine cable unit C2C will begin talks with its bankers after missing a key revenue target required under a $650 million (S$ 1.13 billion) secured financing facility. Sing Tel disclosed the missed target when it reported a 2 per cent rise in its
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    • 82 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Mr Mark Daniell, yesterday named as Kl Ventures’ president, said the company wants to invest as much as $350 million in the US and Asia. “We’re looking at larger investments, in North America and Asia, either in businesses which have a
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    • 81 10 SINGAPORE Fast-food chain McDonald’s has come up with a new recipe to whet the appetites of Singaporeans: nasi lemak. The all-time favourite local dish, priced at $3.50, comes in the wake of other offerings such as porridge and spaghetti from the US restaurant company. It will
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    • 412 13 Balanced budget delay may lead to ratings cut KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s plan to use a RMIO billion (554.59 billion) fund to buy stocks may pose a risk to the nation’s finances, Standard Poor’s (S&P) has said. Some investors fret that the government may channel
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    • 415 13 STI: 1,282.73 2.68 Reuters SHARES closed lower yesterday as banks were hurt by worries about the impact of any Gulf war on the export-driven economy, but the uncertainty drove investors to buy dividend paying stocks such as the SembCorp firms. “As growth is getting to be
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    • 24 13 *AS AT February 10 US$: SsdL7sl 552.859 EURO: 551.896 Ss: 68.71 YEN Ss: RM2.17 Ss: HK54.453 Ss: 24.54 BAHT Ss: 5,072 RUPIAH
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    • 236 13 Bloomberg Value Cap isn’t the first instance of Malaysia using state money to boost the stock market. The fund itself is jointly owned by Khazanah Nasional and Permodalan Nasional (Pemas), two state investment units, and Kumpulan Wang Amanah Pencen, the civil servants’ pension fund, which have
      – Bloomberg; Reuters  -  236 words
    • 533 15 Images of scowling cabin crew and rickety planes will be histoiy Reuters MOSCOW Mr Lev Koshliakov is struggling to change popular perceptions about his airline. The Aeroflot deputy general director is certain that, in a few years, costs will be cut and more importantly the airline’s poor
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    • 255 15 CORPORATE RESULTS Reuters SINGAPORE SembCorp Industries yesterday posted a 15.5 per cent rise in 2002 net profit after a big one-off gain from the sale of a food unit. Singapore’s fourth-biggest conglomerate said net profit rose to $200.86 million from $173.88 million in 2001,
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  • Medical
    • 320 16 NEVER mind the gym and the crash diet. Just sensible daily living and eating can help in controlling one’s weight, say two recent reports. A UK survey of 1,000 people has suggested that people take more exercise than they realise, said a BBC News Online
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    • 115 16 QWhat is the nutiitional value of preserved meat? A Preserved meat such as Chinese sausage is often high in fat and sodium. Chinese sausage can contain up to 50 per cent fat by weight. There are several lower-fat varieties of Chinese sausages in the market. Choose these lower-fat
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  • Vocal
    • 364 18 I REFER to the letter by Ms Siau Li Chao (“Is my debt partly MOE’s fault?”, Streats, Jan 31) and the letter by Mr Chua Soon Hock (“Termination was MOE’s decision, so debt should be waived”, Streats, Feb 4). In assigning teaching
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    • 574 18 SHAME on you Ms Janice Wong for your column “Want a girlfriend? Get a nice car” (Streats, Feb 7). You have just confirmed what many of us suspected for a long time that Singapore women are materialistic and just gold-diggers. No wonder many
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    • 75 18 IN our report “Capita Land China GM dies while jogging” (Streats, Feb 10), we said that Mr Lien Beng Thong was taken to Toa Payoh Hospital after collapsing at Bishan Park. Toa Payoh Hospital was closed in 1996 when Changi General Hospital was formed as a merger between Toa
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    • 67 18 or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and ciarity By your writing tc us. it shall be deemed that you have agreed to grant
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    • 225 19 rl# bhpbiliiton WĔm m Sm WKSSSSm w K ■k r y mm HMH SIS |f,J STianPo t \V I i 1 ft V 1 SSSMi illl Hi A S Iflll ilS^lli I SIMPLY LOVE AURIAS THE BRIGHTER DIAMOND Encompassing the hearts and arrows phenomena in the ideal cut diamond, the
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  • Comment
    • 764 20  -  By SARAH NG A YEAR ago, when my fiance and I went to visit relatives during Chinese New Year, we were asked this question When will we be invited to your wedding dinner? Now that we are married, we are being asked this question:
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  • Global
    • 576 22 Democracy in the region may highlight Saudi Arabia’s lack of freedom i. AP DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia In the past few months, Saudi Arabia has taken unprecedented steps to encourage debate and explore reforms, signs that the royal family senses change is the best
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    • 196 22 SYDNEY A 1 7-year-old Australian girl is to take a spot formerly held by Mozart in a Guinness Book of Records category for opera writing, a newspaper reported yesterday. By composing the libretto and orchestral score for an opera, Sophie Serese of Greensborough, Victoria, has
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    • 285 22 -AP BELGRADE, SerbiaMontenegro What do you call a citizen of a country called Serbia and Montenegro? A Serbonegrin? The question has been on the lips of many here since what used to be Yugoslavia converted this week into a state now called simply
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  • EasyStreats
    • 162 24 FOUR prominent American politicians are kicking up a stink over British rapper Ali G and his interviews with them for his upcoming HBO Show, Da Ali G Show. Newt Gingrich, Ralph Nader, Michael Dukakis and Ed Meese are claiming that the controversial rapper, Sacha Baron
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    • 72 24 IT sounds like a bad horror flick and it’s not quite Harry Potter, but The Godfather Returns is one of the more anticipated sequels in the book industry, and American author Mark Winegardner has been selected to write the continuation to Mari Puzo’s classic book,
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    • 63 24 FRENCH footballer David Ginola intends to follow in Eric Cantona’s shoes and become an actor, reported ITV.com. So far, he has done only shampoo and coffee commercials, but he has enrolled in London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. A spokesman said Ginola has been “inundated with
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    • 585 24  -  Tellytubby By' YVONNE KWOK Thanks to the SDU commissioned'programme The Love of Face to Fare, we can safely say that people who join SDU activities are single, but neither desperate nor ugly DESPITE having had no dates in Singapore for the past three years, I still have a
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    • 498 25  -  By i Jill Lim ACTOR and director Wong Kwang Han, who co-founded local arts group Aporia Society in 1997, is making a move to film. Why the switch? The cost of stage productions today is one big factor, he says in a frank interview with
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    • 97 26 AN earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale shook Taiwan on Sunday, seismologists said, but so far there have been no reports of casualties or j damage. The quake struck at lunchtime, with its epicentre just north of j Yuchih in central J Nantou county. In
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 61 26 10pm, Channel i Brad Pitt plays Heinrich Harrer, a self-centred Austrian mountaineer and Nazi sympathiser, who sets out to conquer the Himalayas. He would later be taken from the heights of conquest to the depths of a POW camp, then from a harrowing two-year trek through
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      • 65 26 10pm, Central Little Barbara Barry is sent off to school by her wealthy but busy family. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town and gets picked up by entertainers who make her part of their act. Barbara’s father hears the
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    • Happenin’
      • 54 26 F 4 FANTASY WORLD TOUR Tonight and tomorrow, Bpm Singapore Indoor Stadium Tickets at $159, $149, $129 and $79 from Sistic Now that they have wrapped filming for Meteor Garden 11, the boys will spend this year touring Asia. Watch out for dazzling special effects as the foursome do
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      • 73 26 WHEN I GROW UP Till March 2; 10am and 12pm, Tuesday to Friday, 12pm only on Saturday and Sunday, no shows on Monday DBS Arts Centre (20, Merbau Road, off Robertson Quay) Tickets at sl6from Sistic Targetted at two to six-year-olds, this story about a bear and chicken who
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      • Article, Illustration
        66 26 LOVE IN THE LION CITY Tonight, Bpm DBS Arts Centre (20, Merbau Road, Robertson Quay) Tickets at $76 from Sistic If Romancing Singapore doesn’t get you in the mood for Valentine’s, Dick Lee in concert might. Especially as he will be performing love songs from his musicals Beauty World,
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    • 121 25 Streats proudly presents Flamenco Republico dazzled with intensity, originality and humour El Pais “No ordinary flamenco” New York Times Compania Maria Pages 2002 Spanish National Dance Award Winner 2 NIGHTS ONLY 22 23 Feb, Bpm, Theatre, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay Choreographed by multi-award winning Maria Pagĕs, Flamenco Republico is
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    • 56 26 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191 Executive Produced by ADAM SANDLER MLI IP MmĔ iaj i m r i 1 Jt£ j She will BLOW you away! TO HOT CHICK §§f 1 by Buena Vista International Hari Raya Haji
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 420 26 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology .c AQUA 1! US JAN2O-FEB 18 A wonderful moment lasts all day. The stars guarantee you a generous quota of personal freedom that shouldn’t be wasted. Never forget how lucky you are. PISCES FEB 19 -MAR2O With you, there’s not much middle ground it’s
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    • 230 27 to SBs m ■V; I d apore s Island Resort This Valentine’s Day, say ‘yes’ to she can’t say ‘no’ to. At Sentosa, we’re passionate about romance because as we look around us, we can think of so many reasons why Valentine’s Day should be an everyday affair. Imagine strolling
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  • Sports
    • 561 28  -  Comment By PETER SIOW The S-Leagne has always lacked a player who could set pulses racing. Why not rope in Paul Gascoigne? Never mind thefact that he’s well past his prime. S-LEAGUE clubs have often been asked to think big. Like recruiting players who can hit
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    • 337 28  -  By_ Lim Han Ming AN Australian and an Englishman have been shortlisted for the post of technical director at the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA). They are Martin Roberts (below), Australia’s multi-medallist at the Commonwealth Games in 1990, and Mike Peyrebrune, a former England
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    • 383 29 Chelsea star Hasselbaink lost over $2 million on gambling -AFP LONDON Chelsea star Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (right) yesterday reopened the controversy over soccer millionaires throwing away fortunes in gambling. Former England and Arsenal skipper Tony Adams had warned last month that Premiership players have turned
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    • 188 29 AFP LONDON Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was left to regret a missed opportunity after watching 10-man Newcastle hold his team to a 1-1 draw. Frenchman Laurent Robert cancelled out Thierry Henry’s 24th goal of the season eight minutes after the break and then got himself sent
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    • Article, Illustration
      535 30 Former buddies to pit skills against each other in Americans Cup Wire services AUCKLAND Three years ago, fellow Kiwi skippers Russell Coutts and Dean Barker shared the glory of successfully defending the America’s Cup for Team New Zealand. New Zealanders were elated as the country’s team became
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    • 541 31 Jordan misses out on writing storybook finish in All-Star Game ATLANTA Michael Jordan made a surprise start, said a poignant goodbye, set an all-time scoring record and nearly wrote a fairy-tale finish to his final National Basketball Association All-Star Game yesterday. Even though Jordan (right) was robbed
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    • 137 31 BASKETBALL -AFP ATLANTA China’s Yao Ming enjoyed his first National Basketball Association All-Star Game, even though he spent all but 17 minutes of it as a spectator. The rookie centre for the Houston Rockets, Asia’s first NBA All-Star, managed only two points and two rebounds in limited action
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    • SOCCER
      • 96 31 Reuters MADRID Real Sociedad saw its lead at fee top of fee table cut to just two points as it was held to a 0-0 draw at home by a determined and organised Espanyol in the Spanish First Division on Sunday. Valencia and Deportivo Coruna failed to make
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      • 142 31 AFP ROME Inter Milan’s growing injury list threatens to undermine its chances of winning the Italian title for the first time in 14 years. Inter went top of Serie A on Sunday thanks to a handsome 3-0 home victory over struggling Reggina. But the win was overshadowed
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