Streats, 3 May 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats MONDAY, MAY 3, 2004 E-mail: streats@sphxom.sg mita (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 407 1  -  Cathay Pacific joins other traditional players in fight against budget airlines By Chug Kong Ho HONG KONG-BASED carrier Cathay Pacific showed over the weekend that it can defend its turf against would-be budget competitors by unveiling a $389 free-and-easy travel package that includes two nights accommodation
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  • Morning Rush
    • 274 2  -  By Edwin Koo NUS researchers get s3ook high-tech assistant WITH her perfectly moulded features, passers-by might see her as just another of the many plastic mannequins that can be seen in countless shop-window displays. But this one is different: She breathes and feels
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    • 196 2 -AFP YANGON The stage appears set for Myanmar’s junta to launch a national constitutional convention on May 17 as scheduled, with Ms Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy opposition taking part, analysts said. The military regime’s refusal to release Ms Suu Kyi from house arrest,
      -AFP  -  196 words
    • 485 3  -  Unionist selves company as well as his colleagues By Sarah Ng THE letter “t” is key to the way May Day Award winner Michael Marshall approaches his work at the Singapore Zoo. He gives TLC, or tender loving care, to the animals he handles. And
      Edwin Koo  -  485 words
    • 385 4 Thaksin lambasts foreigners for criticising last week’s crackdown against militants Wire services BANGKOK In a combative speech on Saturday, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra warned foreigners not to criticise his government’s crackdown on suspected Islamic militants last week that left more than 100 people
      – Wire services  -  385 words
    • 282 4 -AFP RIYADH A Westerner’s body was stripped naked and dragged behind a car as suspected Islamic militants made their getaway after a deadly attack in the north-west Saudi city of Yanbu, a newspaper reported yesterday. Five Westerners two Americans, two Britons and an Australian
      -AFP  -  282 words
    • 395 6  -  Support group, Swensen’s bring cheer to mums By HoLian-Yi IT was a Mother’s Day celebration that Madam Arbaiyah Hairoman, a single mother of four, could never have afforded. She had an early celebration at Swensen’s restaurant in Funan Centre with 14 other families, thanks to
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    • 315 6 MELBOURNE Osama bin Laden’s A 1 Qaeda network is financing its global terror operations by investing in bluechip Australian and Singapore stocks allegedly with the help of China’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), according to a report in Melbourne’s Sunday Herald newspaper. Quoting sources
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    • 128 8 BUZZSTOP THE Health Ministry, in an unprecedented move, is to allow transplant recipients of livers from living donors to pay public hospital rates even if the operation is carried out in a private hospital. Until now, the surgery has been
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    • 137 8 No terror attack planned THE widely-publicised terror plot to blow up Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium appears to have ended in a farce. In anti-terrorist raids last month, during which 10 people were arrested, tickets to a Manchester United game were found, sparking fears of
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    • 132 8 Beijing feels ‘severe’ demand pressure Bloomberg CHINA is facing “severe” pressure to meet demand for oil products because of rapid consumption growth and production-capacity constraints, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the State Development and Reform Commission. China’s diesel consumption is rising because electricity
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    • 57 8 Divers working on a 30m-long painting underwater near Lang Tengah island on the north-east coast of Malaysia on April 24. The 40 divers, including seven professional painters, took five hours to paint the work, in conjunction with Earth Day on April 22, to create awareness of the importance
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    • 150 8 -AP THE death toll from a capsized tourist boat off the southern coast of Vietnam rose yesterday to 39, most of whom were high school students on a holiday trip, police said. Searchers have recovered the bodies of the 39 victims, including two young children,
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    • 109 8 A MOTORCYCLIST who tried to evade the traffic police on Saturday was nabbed with the help of a witness. The 30-year-old man was speeding near the 9km mark of the PIE, towards the direction of the airport, at 3.10 pm when police tried to pull
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    • 91 8 ABOUT 400 British schoolgirls as young as 14 have asked for and received implants that make them infertile for three years. The British government admitted that many of these temporary sterilisations were done by the National Health Service, reports The Straits Times today. Another 2,500 girls aged
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    • 95 8 -AFP MALAYSIA’S status as a car manufacturer will be in jeopardy if national car firm Proton is surrendered to foreign control, Proton adviser and ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad warned in remarks published yesterday. In an interview with The Edge weekly, Tun Dr Mahathir, who created Proton in 1983,
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    • 87 8 -AP SUSPECTED terrorists have poisoned three girls in eastern Afghanistan for going to school, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday. The incident occurred five or six days ago outside Khost city’s only girls’ school. Mr Karzai said that the girls were in critical condition after being poisoned by
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    • 1381 5 As you grow, your investment should change with you Start aggressively i Gradually lower risk m Preserve your earnings (GrowthPath The core investment that adjusts as you grow Now is the JEANNIE took out her pay slip and smiled. It was the third one she had received now but it
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  • Financial
    • 461 10  -  Experts at Streats seminar give attendees lessons in investing By Chua Kong Ho “THERE are three ways to lose money. On horses, on women and on the advice of experts.” This tongue-in-cheek view, espoused by SBI E 2 Capital managing director Choo Chee Kong,
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    • 24 10 *AS AT APRIL 30 US$: S$1.705 S$3.013 EURO: S$2.035 S$: 64.79 YEN S$: RM2.229 S$: HK$4.575 S$: 23.48 BAHT S$: 5,109 RUPIAH
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    • 493 11 Oracle of Omaha says Fed too slow to raise rates as inflation risk rises, sees hedge funds as a risky fad Wire services OMAHA, Nebraska Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has increased his bet against the US dollar on concern that the country’s trade deficit will
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    • 354 12 US must prepare world markets for hike: analysts AFP WASHINGTON US Federal Reserve policymakers, pondering a hotter economy and early price pressures, must brace the world for a U-tum on three years of rate cuts, analysts said. Action is unlikely until summer, at the
      – AFP  -  354 words
    • 481 12 The recommendations are an average of those submitted by 29 brokers. Note that not every stock is followed by all 29 brokers. Their recommendations for each stock are placed on a 1 to 5 points scale and averaged to produce a mean recommendation. COMPANY NAME RECOMMEND PE* ACTION
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    • 474 15 Japanese ‘working-class’ dish now a favourite with Prada-toting set, who queue for hours for a slurp AP TOKYO Customers with Prada handbags and Gucci sunglasses sometimes stand in line for hours and gaze hungrily at what’s on offer inside a bowl of Japanese ramen. The humble
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    • 105 15 Chua Kong Ho SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services, the catering and ground-handling arm of Singapore Airlines, has won a silver award at the recent Food and Hotel Asia 2004 competition. It is the only non-national and non-hotel team to do so in a field of contestants
      – Chua Kong Ho  -  105 words
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  • Comment
    • 674 16  -  By I ROBIN GANGULY THE revelation of inhumane treatment of Iraqi prisoners couldn’t have come at a worse time for the US-led coalition in Iraq. The country is in turmoil, with rebel forces coming together to put up sustained resistance. Fallujah and
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    • 345 17 V Promotion ends 30 June 2004 Grand Prize x 1 7DSN Melbourne Winter Holiday A pair worth $3,500 (include 2 nights stay at snowy Mt. Buller) Consolation Prizes x 25 Haagen-Dazs Ice-Cream Cake worth $6O each Weekly Draw xlO Haagen-Dazs Pint Ice-Cream 8 weeks worth $12.90 each How to participate:
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  • Vocal
    • 551 18 WE thank you for the views raised in the commentary, “PUB fumbled in the SICC affair” (Streats, April 19), by Mr Conrad Raj, and the letter, “Why does PUB keep changing its mind?” (April 16), by Mr Leong Sze Hian. PUB accepts
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    • 171 18 I REFER to the comments by Mr Philip Lee “Are our students becoming spoilt brats?”, (Streats, April 30) on the voluntary stepping down of Nan Chiau High’s principal, Mr Ng Lee Huat, for hitting a student with a soft-cover book. The Ministry of Education accepted his
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    • 118 18 AS someone who was once a kindergarten relief teacher, I have come across parents who would not even tolerate the teacher raising her voice at their precious ones. I have witnessed a child getting away with slapping her mother in full view of the class. And another mother
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    • 86 18 AS a parent, I believe there are ways other than using the cane to bring children into line and that parents should act as mature examples against violence. I would scream bloody h*** if any teacher were to hurt my child, no matter what the
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    • 229 18 E-mail us at StfeatS#SpfL€€l®*S|f 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 clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that you
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    • 120 19 Ms Aileen Tan Media Corp Artiste ADONIS Spokesperson V. ■B'" a» j m wmmmm m mam r m mm m m is p Revive your skin with ICO 2 Therapy ADONIS ICO 2 Therapy Specialise in solving: Pigmentation, freckles, acne scars and ageing spots etc. Ms Linda Ho 25 years
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  • Global
    • 191 20 AP JAKARTA Police have arrested the wife and daughter of Mr Alex Manuputty, an exiled Christian leader seeking self-determination for Indonesia’s troubled Maluku archipelago, media reports and police said yesterday. Mrs Oly Manuputty and her daughter, Christina, didn’t resist when officers came on Saturday
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    • 116 20 LONDON If global warming remains unchecked, Antarctica could be the only habitable continent by the end of this century, the Independent reported yesterday. The British government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are now
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    • 471 20 Disgraced US general says she was sickened by photos Reuters NEW YORK The US Army Reserve general whose soldiers were photographed mistreating Iraqi prisoners said she was “sickened” by the pictures and suspected that those involved acted with the encouragement of intelligence units that ran
      – Reuters; AFP  -  471 words
    • 227 20 -AFP SINGAPORE China’s efforts to rein in its high-flying economy could slow down Asia’s economic growth momentum, but fears that they would spark another Asian financial crisis or a recession are unfounded, economists said. The South Korean government last Friday convened an emergency meeting
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  • Prettislim Beauty
    • 502 21  -  Advertising Feature "PrettiSlim success stories have been widely featured in newspapers and on TV” Written by Suzanne Toh "I used to envy women with attention-grabbing bustlines. They can carry off low-cut tops and the confidence they exude make them the center of attention," said
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  • Medical
    • 232 22 LONDON Blame the rise in asthma, dermatitis and other allergies over the past century on the sterile, modem environments that have developed. It has led to the immune systems of babies not being exposed to enough microbes. Some solutions? Having older siblings or keeping a pet at
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    • 117 22 Reuters NEW YORK Children with even a mild head injury may be at risk of longterm complications, including personality changes and behavioural and learning problems, according to a new UK study. “Many children with mild injury do not receive routine follow-up after discharge from hospital,
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  • EasyStreats
    • 583 24 Singapore s most famous drag queen is ditching his make-up and sequinned gowns to introduce the real man behind the stage act, reports YVONNE KWOK AFTER almost a decade of letting us assume that there’s something not quite straight about him, Kumar, the Queen of Boom Boom
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    • journeys
      • 469 25 From trekking and kayaking to viewing rare copies of the Quran, Mahathir’s Putrajaya offers tourists much to do -AP PUTRAJAYA Inside the official residence of Malaysia’s prime minister, is a room with a view. The west wing lounge of this mansion on a terraced hillside offers glimpses of
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    • 321 26 DIRECTOR Richard Ledes has made his bigscreen debut with a most unusual topic: lobotomy. That’s the chief subject of his film, A Hole In One, which premiered at New York’s TrißeCa Film Festival yesterday. While the story is fictional, the screenplay, also written by Ledes,
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    • 217 26  -  By Ho Lian-Yi PUBLIC relations officer April Kian considers acting only her hobby and not her dream. Otherwise, she would be in despair, she told Streats. “I have been doing it for so many years, yet nothing has come out of it,” said the
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    • 123 27 Hi, I’m Nadira, your weather girl for May. In traffic-congested New York City, spring signals the start of bicycle season. And in an annual ritual, the Cathedral °f St John the Divine carried out the Blessing of Bicycles on Saturday, reports wnbc.com. Said Mr Herb Rider,
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 49 27 9pm, Channel U Dier and Qitong try to bring home the photos of Sandy and her lover which were found in her trash bin. But Sergeant Zhou Yaozu takes them to the police station. Qitong suspects that Guochang is kidnapped, but Yaozu doesn’t agree.
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      • 57 27 9pm, Star Chinese Movies (Star Hub Ch 62) Award-winning director Marco Mak once again shows that a low budget need not be a hindrance to imaginative filmmaking. The movie begins with a 1 coin. Emma (Athena Chu) thinks that it will bring her luck but later finds that
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    • Happenin’
      • 62 27 NAFA CHOIR Tomorrow, Bpm Academy Theatre, Nafa School of Performing Arts Building (151, Bencoolen Street) Free, call 6331-0386f0r tickets The Nafa Choir, conducted by Jennifer Tham and Goh Toh Chai, performs music ranging from Renaissance, Romantic and folk music to contemporary pop and jazz. Songs include Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus,
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      • Article, Illustration
        52 27 TO CATCH THE WIND Wednesday till May 16; 11.30am-Bpm, Monday to Saturday; 12pm-5.30pm on Sunday Utterly Art (208, South Bridge Road, #O2-01, tel 6226-2605) Sculptor Chua Boon Kee translates the time-honoured practice of calligraphy into sculpture. This exhibition, his first solo display, captures the essential spirit of calligraphy in
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    • 191 27 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. SET MENU A: s7B< ideal to be shared by 2 to 3 persons Two glasses of Mommy Dearest An Appetizer Sampler A choice of. the
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 470 27 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 PISCES FEB 19 -MAR 20 by Kelli Fox at Astrobgy.com All kinds of communications you’ve been waiting impatiently for will finally, suddenly turn up in your mailbox the one outside your door and the one on your desk. Don’t ignore the answering machine, either. vc&smm Ml?
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  • Sports
    • 546 28  - ‘Win-win situation China-bom throwers to use Sports School as base to make use of facilities By Lim Han Ming THEY are too old to enrol in the Singapore Sports School. But later this month, the five Chinabom throwers under the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association (SAAA) will call the Woodlands-based school
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    • 207 28 -AFP LONDON Leeds United’s hopes of Premier League survival disappeared in eight awful second-half minutes yesterday as a 1-0 lead turned into a 1-4 defeat at Bolton Wanderers. That loss, barring a miracle, will send Leeds down to the First Division. Leeds led through a
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    • 171 28 -AFP LONDON Brazil’s Rivaldo, back home thinking over a deal with Bolton, said that he was very impressed with the Premiership side, the News of the World f reported yesterday. The 1999 Fifa World Player of the Year and 2002 World Cup winner said discussions with
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    • 265 29 Wire services BUENOS AIRES Diego Maradona hit some golf balls here early on Saturday as he continued his recovery from severe heart and lung problems which brought him close to death. The Argentine football legend, who checked out of hospital without the full support of
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    • 356 29  -  Cosmopolitan Selection hope to try their luck in National Football League By Tan Kim Han THEY may have been thrashed 0-6 by Tampines Rovers in the Singapore Cup on Saturday, but you have not seen the last of Cosmopolitan Selection. The amateur side hope to take
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    • 451 31 Real Madrid could finish trophy-less after crashing to second-string Deportivo Wire services MADRID Real Madrid crashed to a potentially crucial 2-0 defeat against a second-string Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday to leave the way clear for Valencia to win the Spanish title. Real’s rapidly deteriorating season got
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    • GOLF
      • 163 31 BEIJING Singapore’s Mardan Mamat finished joint ninth in US$3OO,OOO (*****,140) Volkswagen Masters Open yesterday. India’s Rahil Gangjee, 25, won the title after defeating Mo Joong Kyung of South Korea in a play-off". Gangjee and Mo finished tied on 15-under-par 273 after rounds of 68 and 66 respectively
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      • 110 31 -AFP STOCKBRIDGE, Georgia Thailand’s Aree Song celebrated her 18th birthday by firing a two-under par 70 here on Saturday to seize a one-stroke lead over South Korea’s Kim Mi Hyun after the third round of a US$l.6 million (552.72 million) LPGA tournament. A birdie on both the
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    • 203 31 -AFP MANCHESTER England defender Jonathan Woodgate has been ruled out of Euro 2004 after it was confirmed that a tom thigh muscle will keep him out of action for at least two months. Woodgate will be unable to resume light training until early July, by
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    • 185 31 -AFP LONDON Claudio Ranieri hailed Chelsea’s 4-0 win over Southampton which virtually guarantees his side second place in the Premiership as the perfect confidence-booster for Wednesday’s difficult Champions League appointment with Monaco. The Italian admits that Chelsea will need a near miracle to overturn a
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