Streats, 10 June 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats TUESDAY, JUNE 10. 2003 E-mail: streatsĕsph.com.sg *wta(p m os/2col
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  • 630 1  -  Chinese High, Hwa Chong going big on science of atom manipulation to give students early advantage By Sarah Ng TWO schools with big reputations are aiming small. Very small. The Chinese High School and Hwa Chong Junior College plan to immerse their students in the science of manipulating
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    • 77 1 10» m r 1 K 5a int TUESDAY, JUNE 10. 2003 E-mail: streals@sph.com,sg wit* ?p in Sailing prodigy Griselda Khng, 11, leaves the pack in her wake, reports UM HAN MING PAGE 34 Hr! mm. ON PAR, OR NOT ATYPICAL GEEK GODFREY ROBERT says golf course rankings are at best
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  • Morning Rush
    • 319 2  -  Security consultant recalls days of communal living on St John’s in 1954 Khushwant Singh MR WILFRED D Anthony is probably one of the few Singaporeans still around who have been quarantined on St John’s Island. A security consultant and private investigator for nearly four decades, he told
      Francis Lee  -  319 words
    • Article, Illustration
      522 3  -  Staff deployed to other hospitals for the Sars battle return to SGH By Sarah Ng MEDICAL professionals from Singapore General Hospital who were deployed to other hospitals in the battle against Sars returned to an emotional welcome yesterday. Among the 180 staff members, who included doctors, nurses and
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    • 330 4  -  HP offers to exchange printer that cuts A 4 images short By_ Geoffrey Pereira IF you have a Hewlett-Packard PSC 1210 printer-copier-scanner, the company will exchange it for a new unit. The swop is being offered because the device’s default paper size is Letter, while the most common
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    • 139 4 STATEMENT FROM HP THE HP PSC 1210’s default paper-size setting is Letter, which may not be the preferred setting for customers in the Asia-Pacific However, this is not a printer defect but a defaultsetting problem that affects only the copying function. While this
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    • 176 4  -  Text picture byAshteigh Sim Ashleigh Sim FROM property sales highflier to poking around inside old Macintosh computers may seem like a long slide, but you wouldn’t know it when talking to Mr William Foo. The 40-year-old is enthusiastic about his hobby-turned-business that has made
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    • 141 6 BUZZSTOP SINGAPORE Airlines will apply to the Industrial Arbitration Court to settle its dispute with the pilots’ union. Despite mediation by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) at two meetings on June 6 and yesterday, the Airline Pilots Association of Singapore
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    • Article, Illustration
      52 6 Sicilian fishermen gripping the edge of their net during the traditional tuna mattanza. The tradition calls for the fishermen to pull the net when the captain of the operation, standing in a small boat in the centre amidst splashing fish, gives the command to heave in the live
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    • 138 6 New lie detectors -AP TO build a better lie detector, scientists are now going beyond the body’s indirect signals to the very seat of deceit: The brain. Dr Britton Chance, a biophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania, has built a headband that uses near-infrared light to
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    • 142 6 The final frontier THE United States plans to take control of parts of space, a British newspaper reported yesterday. The move, the Daily Telegraph said, is part of a revived Star Wars proposal for an American empire in space. US Air Force Secretary James Roche
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    • 131 6 Conflict in Indonesia AFP INDONESIAN President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday reiterated that she and her government have zero tolerance for separatism. “The life of the nation within the unitary state of the Republic of Indonesia is, for me, not bargainable or negotiable, and cannot be changed or
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    • 112 6 Bloomberg ABN Amro Holding NV offered to fix the rate on its mortgages in Singapore for the first four years, longer than any other bank here. It will charge homebuyers 1.98 per cent interest for the first four years. “There are many home owners who would
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    • 103 6 THE Australian government is considering paying an across-the-board allowance as an alternative to paid maternity leave. Under this scheme, all women who have babies will receive an allowance equivalent to three months’ pay at minimum wage level about A 55,000 (555,694). The scheme is designed to
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    • 96 6 AP, New Straits Times MALAYSIAN authorities see a need for drivers to go faster on their major highways, so they’re raising the speed limit. Motorists will be permitted to travel at 120kmh on at least three major highways around Kuala Lumpur, up from the current limit
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    • 82 6 -AP A BROOKLYN woman was charged with manslaughter when her exboyfriend died after she beat him with her high-heel shoe in a brawl. Mr Roosevelt Bonds, 51, died early on Sunday morning after the brawl outside a nightclub. Anna Rhinehart, 40, apparently knocked him down and
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  • Financial
    • 589 8  -  He turned his back on an engineering career to become the life of the party an all-in-one entertainer and event organiser < Irepreneurra By_ Janice Wong ENGINEERING students are not a bunch of inexpressive geeks. Just check out Mr Harry Foo, 31. A civil engineer by
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    • 401 10  -  Precision plastic parts manufacturer plans Sesdaq listing B y Chua Kong Ho PLASTIC component manufacturer K Plas Holdings Limited lodged its preliminary prospectus yesterday, with plans to list on the secondary board. K Plas designs and makes precision engineering plastic components, such as
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    • 122 10 HONG Kah GRC MP Dr John Chen Seow Phun (pictured) has joined the board of Provisions Suppliers Corporation Ltd as a non-executive director and deputy chairman. With his vast experience as an educator, consultant and businessman, Dr Chen will be assisting the mainboard listed company,
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    • 587 11 Reuters Former arts teacher now makes shoes for Nike, Reebok, Adidas TAIPEI Mr Tsai Chi-jui joined Taiwan’s top business ranks by making shoes for the world’s slickest athletic brands, but it would be tough to pick him out in a crowd. The low-key former
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  • Comment
    • 634 12  -  By r NG KING KANG Lianhe Zaobao I LIKE the feeling that I get when I drive in a foreign land, with a map in hand. I see it as a conquest. Recently, I cruised through Arizona, California, Utah and Nevada in the United States, covering
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  • Global
    • 485 14 Beheadings, amputations all in a days work, says father of seven RIYADH When he first started in his unusual line of work back in 1998, Mr Muhammad Saad A 1 Beshi suffered from “stage fright” because so many people were watching him. But the nervousness soon
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    • 327 14 -NYT BAGHDAD It was payday on Saturday at Iraq’s state-owned irrigation company. But there was not a hint of work in sight. “Nobody has asked us to do anything in weeks,” said Mr Mahmoud Hameed, a geologist who had come only to pick
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    • 335 17 Sri Lankan PM says he will amend constitution Wire services TOKYO First, it was the landmark visit by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last year to the war-tom Jaffna peninsula that paved the way for the peace process between the Tamil Tigers and Colombo. Yesterday,
      – Wire services; Reuters  -  335 words
    • 244 17 I. AP BARCELONA A record number of people have stripped for Mr Spencer Tunick, the photographer who has made a name for himself taking pictures of huge crowds of nude people in the most unlikely places. On Sunday, more than 7,000 people gathered at daybreak
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  • Vocal
    • 151 19 SMEs which pumped millions into the property market in the mid-1990s are now paying the price for excesses of the past. These firms are now buckling under the weight of property loans taken out during boom times and must fork out huge sums to maintain loans
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    • 221 19 VARIOUS newspaper reports have highlighted cases of individuals being hauled to court and fined for offences such as littering and spitting in public places. I am quite appalled by the extent to which penalties are being meted out over trivial matters such as discarding
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    • 116 22 WE refer to the letter, “Can’t I choose my taxi?” (Streats, June 5). The writer, Mr Mack Chiam, believes that there are differences in the flag-down rates between taxi companies. We wish to clarify that all the taxi companies are charging the same flag-down rate
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    • 80 22 AFTER reading the letter, “Can’t I choose my taxi” (Streats, June 5), I would like to recount my experience at the Changi airport taxi queue. Recently, while waiting in the queue, I told the queue organiser that I would like to board a Comfort
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    • 58 22 I REFER to the letter, “Can’t I choose my taxi?” (Streats, June 5). Commuters are allowed to choose a taxi at a taxi queue. We thank Mr Chiam for his preference for City Cab taxis. We will continue to provide good service to our customers. Rita
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    • 152 22 I REFER to the letter, “Follow Cathay and sack SIA pilots” (Streats, June 6). Cathay’s pilots are among the world’s highest paid. One of their first officers earns a salary equal to that of a Singapore Airlines (SIA) captain. A Cathay cadet earns slightly more
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    • 177 22 I REFER to Mr Albert Hooi’s letter, “Follow Cathay and sack SIA pilots” (Streats, June 6). Mr Hooi has clearly confused the reasons for Cathay’s 2000 dispute with its pilots which was about flight crew fatigue and other issues such as discriminatory employment
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    • 85 19 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, JStreats, 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 clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be
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    • 105 22 Jolly ducking good! 15% off dinner menu with this ad till end June. Pan-seared duck breast with tamarin Come experience North Indian cuisine wi{h 3 difference from our new dinner menu featuring p traditional and innovative contemporary dishes. iNorth Indian Bistro 50 Circular Road Cal! 6536 5025 for reservations! Acting
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    • 262 23 Theresa Great Singapore Sale Offer Pants' Giveaway EFFECTIVELY TRIM DOWN! Fat-prone tummy, buttocks and legs Himinate at least 3-scm in 2 weeks Top Seller Skeyndor 'Slimming Fibre Pants!' Reduce the look of cellulite! Flatten tummy bulge! Reshape body contour! Tone up loose skin! Slim trim extra bulge! Skeyndor ‘Slimming Fibre
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  • Medical
    • 349 24 Increased risk of heart disease, skin rash Reuters NEW YORK Feeling an itch around your earrings? It may be due to your smoking habit. In the first of two recent studies that spell bad news for smokers, Danish researchers studied more than 1,000 people and
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    • 89 24 HEALTH FACT BURSITIS refers to the inflammation of a bursa, a small fluid-filled sac found around the joints. It is a common problem, not least because bursa are common in the body 16 in the knee, for example and bursitis often occurs as part of osteoarthritis. Pain
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    • 213 24 1 wsm KIDS, WANNA iNAVE FUN? m m 0 M m m M ESCAPE THEME 7 29 JUNE 2003 It’s the June Fiesta, and Mervyn Goh is coming to Escape Theme Park. Yes! He’s here to joke, chat, rap with all of you and present some of your hot favourites!!!
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    • 213 25 m V M •*4 X. Ik University of Wollongong Ranked the nation's top university for the past three years by Australia's Good Universities Guide for students' "educational experience" and "graduate outcomes". Joint winner of the year 1999/2000 2000/2001. The only University to be awarded the prestige for 2 consecutive years.
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  • EasyStreats
    • 135 26 A FILM about communism in East Germany has won the German equivalent of the Oscars, the Lolas. Good Bye, Lenin!, directed by Wolfgang Becker, won seven Lolas matching the seven won by 1998’s Run Lola Run in 1999 including best film and best actor for
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    • 80 26 THE former keyboard player of the 60s group The Animals, Dave Rowberry, has died. Fellow band member, drummer John Steel, said that Rowberry, 62, was found dead in his London flat, where he lived alone, on Friday, possibly from a heart attack, reported Ananova.com. The
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    • 99 26 Reuters THE music you listen to may say more about you than you think, according to new research. Fans of blues, jazz, classical and folk music are likely to be intelligent, tolerant and politically liberal, researchers report in the June issue of the Journal of Personality
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    • 644 26  -  Tellytubby By YVONNE KWOK IT was 8pm last Friday night and I was having a hard time explaining the birds and the bees of modem life to my mum. “Why they must put down there, ‘virgins’? These two aren’t married right?” asked my perplexed mum
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    • 450 28  -  Streats today starts a new weekly column on everything and anything that tantalises the tastebuds, and where you can get it rucra By Janice Wong THERE are generally two kinds of Italian restaurants in Singapore: Family-friendly with mass-produced pizzas and free delivery, or fine dining that involves starched
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    • Article, Illustration
      499 30  -  fucw lir i Sharon Soh START making plans for this weekend to pay special tribute to dad, the man who gave you your first piggy-back ride, became your walking encyclopaedia and who can still amaze you with his plausible armchair theories on what’s happening in the world. What
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    • 92 31 STORMS and high winds at Cape Canaveral on Sunday forced Nasa to postpone the launch of the Delta 2 rocket. It carries the latest Mars Expedition Rovers that will search for evidence of water on the red planet. Water here will be in the north and east
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        53 31 10pm, Channel 5 Eric Draven and his fiancee are brutally murdered on Devil’s Night, a night when the henchmen of a crime-boss traditionally indulge in wanton acts of violence and arson. A crow brings Draven’s restless soul back from the dead and he sets out to wreak revenge
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      • 54 31 10pm, Channel i In 1959, an alien craft crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. The body was frozen for years but is now accidentally thawed out by two geeks. The corpse now goes on the rampage, infecting the campus with parasites that transform their
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    • Happenin’
      • 56 31 RED LANDSCAPE Today till June 28; llam-Bpm Monday to Friday; 12pm-7pm on Saturday Art Seasons (5, GemmillLane, tel: 6221-1800) Free Myanmar-born artist Min Zaw captures the serenity of the country of his birth in warm colours. As always, his interpretation and perception are depicted by his personal signatures of
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      • Article, Illustration
        37 31 KATHAKALI Today, 6pm Raffles City, level one Free Bhaskar’s Arts Academy performs Kathakali a traditional South Indian dance where a performer can take an incredible four hours just to put on the make-up for his character.
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    • 12 28 Start making plans for your Father’s Day feast this weekend. PAGE 30
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    • 170 31 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191-Please check with organisers for latest status of events. M i' MtifMtM j 5 X Ste BBS e® si» i* st f t*f»3Sw wismmrnm mm m emk psp*" P x: Aerobics Step Kickboxing Parco
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 444 31 Yourdailyhoroscope jp aquarius" JAN2O-FEB 18 PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com ARIES MAR2I-APR 19 New acquaintances notice similarities between their tastes and ideas. Shy away from a familiar pattern. Life is short, and your moments of freedom deserve to be met with an experimental spirit. ryttUKls APR2O-MAY2O
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  • Sports
    • Article, Illustration
      586 33 Gerrard tips Owen, Rooneyto be world-class strike pair Wire services JT REDWORTH, ■r England England midfielder Mr Steven Gerrard says f Michael Owen and teenager Wayne Rooney are destined to become a world-class strike partnership. The two men helped England to a vital 2-0 victory over Turkey in
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    • 195 33 -AFP LONDON England manager Sven Goran Eriksson increased the expectations of teenage sensation Wayne Rooney. Eriksson has said that he believes the Everton striker has the ability to become as big a star as Italian legend Roberto Baggio and Portuguese playmaker t Rui Costa.
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    • 252 34 Wire services MANCHESTER David Beckham (left) has told his friends that he is fed up with Manchester United. “He feels ostracised by Manchester United. All he has ever done is give his V best to the club. Now he believes he
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    • 607 34  -  By Lim Han Ming SHE may be only 11, but don’t be fooled by her cutesy looks and waif-like frame. Griselda Khng (right) is a fierce competitor with the heart of a lioness. On Sunday, the Primary Six student
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    • 452 36 -afp NBA FINALS New Jersey 79 San Antonio 84 (San Antonio leads series 2-1) EAST RUTHERFORD Tony Parker (above left) awakened a sluggish San Antonio offence as Spurs held off a late rally to beat New Jersey Nets 84-79 and reclaim the lead in the National
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    • 620 39  -  Questions abound when it comes to the ranking of golf courses Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT The Straits Times SINGAPORE’S Laguna National Golf and Country Club has received high praise from the Asian Golf Monthly in its latest issue. The course is ranked ahead of
      The Straits Times  -  620 words
    • SOCCER
      • 66 39 -AFP BANGKOK Host Thailand got the AFC Women’s Championship off to a flying start with a 3-0 defeat of Singapore in Group A here on Sunday. It scored through Kitiya Thiangtham (18th min), Saranya Kaewka (20th) and Anootsara Maijarem (65th). Thailand attacked non-stop for most of the match
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      • 53 39 SINGAPORE beat Thailand 2-1 in the Asian Federation Youth Under-18 Championships in Myanmar yesterday. Though Thailand grabbed the lead in the 11th minute, Singapore’s Firdaus Abdul Rahim levelled the score in the 52nd minute. Khairul Amri struck the winner in the 80th minute. Singapore drew 1-1 against
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      • 59 39 FORMER national captain Nazri Nasir and his Tampines Rovers team-mates will be conducting a youth development programme from June 16 to 18. Jointly organised by Northeast CDC and Tampines Rovers, the clinic will be held at the Tampines Stadium for kids 6-14. The cost is $5O inclusive of
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    • 238 36 Wage cuts... Forced leave... Impending retrenchments... ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! .“ysaKf k Mr r It's time to take charge of my own income! AM ough, challenging times can bring out the best in you. Are you going to settle for being a pawn or are you going to control your own
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 56 38 n r w \9 m. m r Afi ws r THIS JUNE. ONLY ON CHANNEL i. 'Rocky' Series. 'Rambo' COURTROOM DRAMA INTRIGUE Tom Cruise, Jafck Nicholson, Demi Moore in )las Cage in 'Moonstruck' INTENSE DRAMA, REVENGE MURDER BratfPitt, Robert DeNiro in 'Sleepers' EVERYDAY IS A MOVIE DAY! X d? W-
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