Streats, 6 February 2004

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  • 11 1 Streats FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p> m/03/2003 j
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  • 550 1  -  Club suspends talks on lease extension fees, will rethink use of S3oom 1 By* Janice Wong SINGAPORE Island Country Club (SICC) president David Wong has resigned and accepted “full responsibility” for the recent controversy over who should pay for the premier club’s lease extension. The discussions on
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    • 3 1 SHARE YOUR PAPER
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    • 32 1 PAGE 3 POLY POWER Poor ex-student is multimillionaire now PAGE 48 WIDE Rock band Toto hits it with young and old PAGE 55 SOCCER National player just makes it to a dub
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  • Morning Rush
    • 432 2 slom Toto draw, Chap Goh Meh and Thaipusam coincide IT IS not often that three significant events occur on a single day in Singapore. But yesterday was such a day. For Singaporeans, it was the day for Toto’s $lO million Hongbao Draw. Before
      ST; Ashlelgh Sim; Francis Lee  -  432 words
    • 414 3  -  As S’pore Poly marks 50th anniversary, Crescendas boss credits alma mater for his success today By_ HoLian-Yi HIS family was so poor when he was a boy that when his father died, his mother had to borrovv money from relatives for the burial. Today, Mr
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    • 481 4  -  Improve market regulations, legal framework, advises Citigroup boss By Chita Kong Ho ASIAN countries need to improve their market regulations and legal infrastructure if they are to develop their bond markets, said Citigroup chief executive Charles Prince yesterday. Regional growth may be hampered
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    • 479 6  -  Underwater World misinforming the public: activist By Sharlene Tan ANIMAL welfare activist Louis Ng, 25, reiterated yesterday his call to set free the pink dolphins at Sentosa’s Underwater World. The president of Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) first made the call
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    • 142 8 BUZZSTOP FOURTEEN thousand Singaporeans have had to either return $lOO each to the Government, or fill in more forms, following a computer error by the Central Provident Fund Board, The Straits Times reports today. The error meant that the money
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    • Article, Illustration
      75 8 A man taking a closer look at a display at the Salvador Dali exhibition ‘Mass Culture as part of special events in honour of the Catalan artists 100th birthday at CaixaForum in Barcelona on Wednesday. The exhibition, consisting of more than 400 works by the artist, is to
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    • 137 8 Infocoms media leading the way INVESTMENT in infocommunications media (ICM) here fell 26.4 per cent last year to $623 million, but the cluster is still generating new jobs. The spending will create 2,163 professional and skilled jobs, just short of the 2,172 generated in 2002,
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    • 132 8 M’sian link in Libya’s N-plan ■AP MALAYSIA’S Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday said that he has ordered authorities to investigate “without fear or favour” links between a company that his son controls and Libya’s nuclear programmes. Police yesterday said that they were probing
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    • 127 8 China bird flu crisis -AP DEFENCES against bird flu are “weak and vulnerable” in parts of China because of the country’s size and its developing surveillance systems, a top agriculture official yesterday. Deputy Agriculture Minister Liu Jian has promised to boost communication between the Beijing central
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    • 90 8 -AP PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf yesterday pardoned the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme for giving away technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea, accepting Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s plea for mercy after he admitted the leaks in a televised apology. “There’s a written appeal from his side
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    • 107 8 -AP DESPITE opposing the US-led war, France wants to help Iraq train a new army and its police forces, French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said in an interview yesterday. She replied “yes” when asked by newspaper Le Monde whether France might offer military cooperation to the
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    • 105 8 -AP MURDER, rape and other violent crimes linked to online dating in Japan hit a record high last year, with a 37 per cent increase in the number of cases reported from 2002. Japan has tried to crack down on dating sites and implemented legislation
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    • 98 8 AP AN international incident has been sparked after Miss Peru was allegedly mistaken for a prostitute by Gabon’s President Omar Bongo. Miss Ivette Santa Maria said she had been offered an all-expenses-paid trip to Gabon, lucrative sponsorship deals and a chance to be the
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    • 211 9 The Lover s Gwde to Roses a Puppy Love Lo v e a t Fir s Sig h t CP ra z v Lo v e t; ter n a Lo v 0 (And a romantic cutaway at the inter Co nt i n enter I S i nga poi
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  • Financial
    • 488 10  -  The bravado of youth got Serene Tan the GNC Singapore franchise By Choong Choon Yee MS Serene Tan is one lady with chutzpah. In 1995, at the age of 26, she flew to Florida alone, armed with only a business plan and a lot of
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    • 285 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Powered by South-east Asia’s economic recovery, quarterly earnings at Singapore’s big three banks probably rose 13 per cent as lending swelled and bad loan provisioning fell, analysts said yesterday. Earnings momentum was expected to gather pace in 2004, underpinned by strong
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    • 261 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA), the world’s second-biggest carrier by market value, said its third-quarter profit more than doubled after it cut costs and traffic recovered from last year’s Sars outbreak. Net income for the three months ended Dec 31 rose to $378 million,
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    • 128 10 AFP SINGAPORE Sing Tel announced yesterday a 188 per cent annual rise in net profits for the third quarter to December of $854 million, well above market expectations. The performance of its wholly-owned Australian unit, Optus, its regional mobile associates, foreign exchange gains
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    • 419 12 -AFP TOKYO Top financial policymakers from the world’s seven richest nations will meet this weekend in Florida only to confirm that US, Japanese and European priorities on foreign exchange remain divided, analysts said. G-7 watchers said that the finance ministers and central bank governors from
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    • 367 14 Don’t let farm issue kill deal, says US business lobby AFP The powerful US business, lobby flexed its political muscle on Wednesday, urging President George W Bush not to let narrow demands of special interest groups in the US scupper a landmark tfS-Australia trade deal. Top
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    • 27 14 STI: 1,828.66 5.98 *AS AT FEBRUARY 5 US$: 551.693 553.103 EURO: 552.124 Ss: 62.28 YEN Ss: RM2.245 Ss: HK54.593 Ss: 23.07 BAHT Ss: 4,989 RUPIAH
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    • 155 14 AFP BEIJING Convenience store chain 711 will open 150 shops here by the end of the year, and will have a total of 500 in five years, state media said yesterday. The China Daily said that the stores will sell daily-use items
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    • 562 18 Romance thrives in battle-weary Baghdad -AFP BAGHDAD Car bombs may explode, rockets may strike and fear may overwhelm, but romance remains in Baghdad, where businesses renting out wedding dresses are thriving. “It is a way of attachment to life,” said husband-to-be Firass, as he watched his
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  • Comment
    • 764 22  -  By PHILIP LEE I HAVE always wondered, every time I read articles about the impact childhood experiences have on a person’s character and personality in adulthood, why I have not grown up more wonky. For mine is a childhood tale which many over-protective Singaporean
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  • Vocal
    • 263 24 AS the debate about emphasis on Chinese language continues, I marvel at how the learning of one’s mother tongue can evoke such strong reactions among Singaporeans. I was astonished to read Mr Rick Lim Say Kiong’s letter, “Give students language choice” (Streats, Feb 5), in
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    • 144 24 IN reply to Mr Robin Lange’s letter, “What about Eurasians?” (Streats, Feb 5), I would like to say that I was particularly annoyed by the suggestion that making one’s language choice based on race seems racist. This is an irresponsible suggestion and displays ignorance of
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    • 368 24 I REFER to Mr Yak Chin Hua’s letter, “Bugs in variable wage system” (Streats, Feb 5, inset). I do not think that a variable wage system will encourage job-hopping, and I do not agree with Mr Yak’s belief that employers which implement it would
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    • 98 24 I REFER to Ms Jaime Lim’s letter “Nice bag, wrong baby” (Streats, Feb 5). I am surprised that Ms Lim would criticise a free gift generously provided by NTUC Fair Price. It is extremely impolite for her to complain about something given to her
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    • 122 24 I WOULD like to ask the Land Transport Authority (LTA) why the green man displayed at pedestrian crossings does not automatically illuminate when traffic is at a standstill, instead of having to wait for someone to press a button. This confuses pedestrians, especially young
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    • 92 24 I REFER to Mr Michael Loh Yik Ming’s letter “Post offices could get more crowded” (Streats, Feb 5). We would like to assure Mr Loh that Sing Post will ensure that our service standards at post office counters will not be compromised with the introduction of
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    • 129 26 AS a resident in Punggol, I am paying about $l5O every month for parking, conservancy charges and miscellaneous charges. My sister pays about $2OO a month in conservancy charges for her condominium apartment in Palm Gardens at Choa Chu Kang. The difference is not great,
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    • 75 26 I FOLLOWED the Land Transport Authority’s guidelines for rejecting a randomly allocated vehicle registration number that I could not accept. So, effectively, the registration was not being processed. But the LTA still insists that I must pay a $315 administration fee. On top of that, to
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  • Global
    • 404 28 West’s concern at Bali anti-terror meet Wire services BALI While Inspector General I Made Pastika, the man who netted the culprits of Bali’s horrific 2002 bombings, urged Asian nations to identify the root causes of terrorism, certain Western capitals are concerned that some countries
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    • 218 28 KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian university student who claimed that a need to fund her education drove her into prostitution in Penang is actually on a government scholarship, a newspaper reported yesterday. The student, after her arrest in a Bukit Mertajam hotel by State Religious Department
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    • 194 28 KAJANG The Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) state government has been slammed for not allowing a Chinese New Year gathering to take place at a school in Kuala Terengganu. Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) president Ong Ka Ting said that the PAS was
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    • Article, Illustration
      41 28 Russian policewomen dancing and parading during a Miss Security contest in Moscow on Wednesday. The informal contest, staged to liven up a security trade show, saw the women bare their legs, navels and a bit of cleavage Pics: AFP
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    • 370 30 Japanese youth now drawn to steady military jobs Reuters TOKYO Mr Fumihiko, a Japanese law student, wants to join the army. “I love my country,” said the slender 21-year-old, sporting a baseball cap worn sideways and shoulder-length hair. “It’s where my friends
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  • Medical
    • 341 32 -AFP TOKYO A 19-year health study has shown that men who eat fish regularly have a better chance of living longer despite fears of contamination with mercury or other toxins, a Japanese physician said on Wednesday. Dr Yasuyuki Nakamura, associate professor of internal medicine at
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    • 130 32 QMy daughter is 1.7 m tall and laves to drink fresh milk. Should she stop drinking, as she doesn’t want to grow too tall? A Height is determined by a combination of factors such as diet and genetics. Taking milk and dairy products is important as these will
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  • my HOME YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME-OWNING
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      513 34  -  Architect Chan Soo Khian has made Singapore stand out with his distinctive modem take on tropical design, and the world stage is beckoning By Janice Wong THE architect who made Singapore stand out on the global landscape is assertive. He strides in, telling you the interview can be
      Ashlelgh Sim  -  513 words

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  • INTERIOR
    • 483 36 Inspired by his client's collection of Renaissance art designer Johnston Kor turned the Loyang condo unit into an elegant home DESIGNER Johnston Kor worked with what he had when he turned a client’s new Loyang condominium into a classy retreat. He drew from his client’s vast collection
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  • EasyStreats
    • 831 38 Playwright Alfian Sa’at tells GREGORYLEOW how his new play about homosexuals in Singapore is differentfrom AsianßoysVoll IT has been four years since the staging of Asian Boys Vol 1 (ABV1) by The Necessary Stage (TNS). Now, its playwright, Alfian Sa’at, has come up with
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      • 853 40 What better way to surround yourself with the aura of love this Valentine’s than with a gorgeous scent? JASMINE MILLER sniffs out what’s in store IF you’d rather be treated to perfume than flowers and candy this Valentine’s Day, check out some of the great
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        368 42 Still on the lookout for something specialfor someone special? Check out these his-and-hers gift ideas that will go straight to the heart FOR HIM Sterling silver heartshaped key ring. Sleek and stylish, this contemporary and graphic key ring design makes a practical gift that will remind him
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    • 227 44 THREE days after the “Nipplegate” scandal shook America, Justin Timberlake finally spoke up, reported AFP. “When what happened, happened, I was completely shocked and appalled,” the 23-year-old singer told Los Angeles’ CBS 2 News on Wednesday. He said that, according to a plan devised by Janet
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    • 492 46  -  Stylish eating on a shoestring By JUDI LOW Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? Judi Low’s recipes for stylish, nutritious, yummy meals that are easy to make and cost $lO or less forfour servings will see you through these tough times YEARS ago, I passed
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    • 516 48 Grammy Award-winning rock band Toto will wow fans with famous hits and deliver some surprises 9 at a concert here next week, founder and guitarist Steve Lukather tells SUJIN THOMAS FOR a former high school band to weather difficulties and stick it through four albums before
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    • 231 48  -  By- Zubmdah Nazeer NEXT to wrinkles, cellulite is a woman’s worst nightmare. And even young, skinny and even sporty women can get it. And this problem is irreversible. According to German medical sociologist Rudolf Weyergans, otherwise known as the “Cellulite Pope” for his 20
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    • 103 49 Forecasting is ljj| going Hollywood. There’s to be a movie starring a TV weatherman, played by Nicolas Cage, andl Michael Caine has jus! signed up to co-star. The Weather Man, 1 from Paramount, starts f filming in Chicago this month, Ananova.com j reported. Cage is a
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 44 49 9pm, Channel U Fa takes on the job of relief teacher on an island and meets a fellow teacher, Le, who is blind. He encourages her to be more independent. New drama starring Jessica Hsuan, Bowie Lam, Michael Tong and Joyce Tang.
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      • 57 49 10pm, Channel i Zack Mayo is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. At Navy Flight School, Sgt Foley finds him wanting. When Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family, he must decide what he wants to do with his
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    • Happenin’
      • 66 49 NO WORMS FOR DINNER! Tomorrow, 3pm Woodlands Regional Library. Free Explore the creatures found at Chek Jawa in a picturebook about a little horseshoe crab, written and illustrated by Anna Lai, a student of Raffles Girls’ Secondary School. There will be a reading of the book, a video screening
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      • Article, Illustration
        42 49 CUISINE UNPLUGGED Tomorrow, 2pm Kinokuniya, NgeeAnn City. Free Emmanuel Stroobant, owner of Saint Pierre, a contemporary restaurant renowned for its modem European cuisine, gives i a cooking demonstration j of some of his 60 original recipes A featured in his cookbook.
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    • 372 52 LONDON Chelsea midfielder Calude Makelele has predicted that more Real Madrid stars will follow him to West London. The 30-year-old Frenchman feels that Real striker Ronaldo already fancies a place in Russian owner Roman Abramovich’s gravy train. Makelele told The Sun: “It’s a
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