Streats, 5 May 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2004 E-mail: streats@spfixom.sg mita <p> 196/03/2004
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  • 612 1  -  What Nan Chiau head did was not corporal punishment: MOE £y_ Sarah Ng THE fate of Mr Ng Lee Huat as principal of Nan Chiau High was sealed the moment he hit a 14-year-old student With a soft-cover book on April 15. The Ministry of
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  • 108 1 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A male teacher suffered bruises after he was caned by his headmistress for criticising her ideas on discipline, the New Straits Times (NST) reported yesterday. The headmistress, in her 50s, was upset that the teacher was against her proposals to improve discipline among students.
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    • 78 1 WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2004 E-mail: streats@sphxom.sg mita (p> 196/03/2004 mm. ft ¥0 rss 0A awns v-juanuy [juuii f t Wk angle® sntk m “Breakfast is the most important meal of my day. Especially once I took a look at the amazing breakfast spread at McDonald’s. It’s fun. it's yummy, and
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  • Morning Rush
    • 317 2  -  Royal Brothers co-founder’s corporation to bail out debt-ridden Nauru By Khushwant Singh ONE of the founders of the Royal Brothers will pay US$l72 million (***** million) in debts owed by tiny Pacific island nation Nauru to save it from bankruptcy. Mr Raj Kumar Hiranandani,
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    • 219 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong arrived to a warm greeting in Washington at the start a five-day visit to the United States. At the Pentagon yesterday morning, he was greeted by US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, reports The Straits Times today. After
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    • 491 3  -  I Boss of Indian IT company raps board, but other software giants say it’s doing a good job By_ Khushwant Singh THE Economic Development Board (EDB) has not paid enough attention to building up the services sector, says a leading software specialist. Mr
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    • 344 4  -  Pegasus asked by police to explain why licence should not be revoked By Lee Choo Kiong PUB Pegasus, the night spot in Paramount Shopping Centre in East Coast Road that was raided by the police on March 26, may be bowing out from the
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    • 399 6  -  Microsoft CFO offers business tips to SMU students By_ Ho Lian-Yi COMPANIES should be like sharks they have to be constantly moving, or they’ll die. This piece of business advice was given by Microsoft chief financial officer John Connors (pictured) to students at the
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    • 216 6 Reuters BEIJING Three suspected cases of Sars in Beijing were confirmed yesterday, taking the number of victims of the latest outbreak to nine, the Chinese Health Ministry said. The three new cases were linked to one viral disease laboratory in Beijing, the ministry said
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    • 117 8 BUZZSTOP SINGAPORE has been ranked as the second most competitive economy in the world, after the US. It jumped up two places despite a sharp setback caused by Sars and the wider economic slowdown last year, The Straits Times reports today.
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    • 20 8 Young Buddhist monks praying at a ceremony in Bangalore, India, yesterday to mark the birthday of Buddha AP
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    • 138 8 LA police storm plane SINGAPORE Airlines’ non-stop flight to Los Angeles was at the centre of a hijacking scare on Monday, with armed police storming the aircraft and hostage negotiators rushing to the scene. But concern turned to relief as officials determined that a transponder
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    • 145 8 R Only 100 firms signed up in two years SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) stayed away in droves when given the opportunity to register their financial data with a credit bureau. The bureau, founded by consulting firm DP Information Network, has signed up only 100 members
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    • 138 8 Rare talks likely in Jakarta -AP NORTH Korea will send its foreign minister to the Asean regional forum in July, where concern over the communist state’s nuclear weapons development will be a key topic, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said yesterday. He invited his North
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    • 93 8 CARS weighing up to 2,000 kg, such as Jaguars, Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs, can now park in HDB carparks, The Straits Times reports today. The Housing Board has amended its weight limit rule, which allowed only empty vehicles of up to 1,500 kg in its carparks.
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    • 86 8 SINGER Othman Hamzah was jailed for 16 months yesterday for misappropriating $50,000, which he took from two men as an investment in his proposed franchising programme Othman, 41, who sold more than 100,000 records in a career spanning 20 years, promised them returns of $l,OOO and $6OO
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    • 83 8 SINGAPORE’S new $lO polymer notes hit the streets yesterday without a snag. While the design and colour of the new notes are the same as the current paper ones, they last three to four times longer. Few people actually took notice of the new notes.
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    • 83 8 FAR from being laid-back beerguzzlers, Australians are apparently the hardest workers in the developed world. According to a new book, How Australia Compares, by Sydney academic Rodney Tiffen and economics journalist Ross Gittens, the average Australian worker clocks up 1,855 work hours a year, 20 hours
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    • 573 2 tw ADAM KHOO LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES GROUP How to Motivate Your Child to Score A f s in Life Adam Khoo shares his secrets on how any student can get from Cs to As From 'Unmotivated' to 'Super Achiever' Expelled in primary 3 and ending up in a neighbourhood school, Adam
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    • 149 3 IS C *js Jj if '> v, i v u v/ r It's our maiden flight to Bangkok today. If you're not onboard, don't worry because we now fly there daily! We look forward to having many smiles ahead with you on board! CELEBMTO&Y FA&ES! ALL SEATS... Hi IHf p
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  • Financial
    • 401 10  -  Li'S !fi Coinpany posts 4% drop in full-year net ChuaKongHo SINGPOST has received the nod to open pawnbroking outlets at its Bedok and Yishun post office branches. Renovations are currently underway and the two outlets are expected to open next month. Mr Victor Ow,
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    • 126 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore’s state investment agency Temasek Holdings yesterday made an unsolicited offer to buy United Overseas Bank’s entire stake in its property unit, United Overseas Land (UOL), for $726 million. Temasek unit Tazwell said that it will offer $2.06 cash for each UOL share held
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    • 476 12 Internet firm’s filing may prompt HK tycoon to sell Bloomberg HONG KONG Companies controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka Shing (pictured) could sell most of their shares in Priceline.com, using a filing made to US regulators by the seller of discount-travel services on the
      – Bloomberg  -  476 words
    • 95 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Three bids have been received for licences to offer catering and ground handling services at Changi airport. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore had asked companies to bid for the five-year and 20-year licences as part of a plan to lower operating costs and
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    • 97 12 Bloomberg BANGKOK Thai Air Asia, a budget airline venture of Thailand’s Shin Corp and Malaysia’s Air Asia, posted an operating profit for the first time in April, its chief executive said yesterday. Bookings on its flights haven’t been affected by violence in the country’s southern provinces,
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    • 382 14 Founders’ names live on in a brand that rulers choose -AFP LONDON One hundred years ago yesterday, in a hotel in north-west England, Mr Charles Rolls and Mr Henry Royce shook hands on an agreement to manufacture motor cars, launching a partnership that would immortalise their two
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    • 27 16 *AS AT MAY 4 STI: 1,865.35 26.12 US$: 551.698 Ss: 65.08 YEN Ss: 23.54 BAHT 553.025 Ss: RM2.238 Ss: 5,140 RUPIAH EURO: 552.033 Ss: HK54.593
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    • 300 16 Bloomberg HONG KONG Kerry Properties and ShangriLa Asia, which are controlled by the family of Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok, plan to invest a combined US$6OO million (Ssl billion) in a hotel, office, residential and retail complex in Shanghai. Kerry, which has about a
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  • Comment
    • 651 17  -  By S KJOHN EVER since I moved to the eastern part of the island last year, I have been a regular jogger at the East Coast Park. It is a wonderful place. Fresh air, swaying palm trees, bird sanctuaries and, of course,
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    • 324 17 Learn. Connect. Succeed. SMa c fo n SMa School of Management is a division of Singapore Manufacturers' Federation (SMa). SMa was founded in 1932 as a national body representing manufacturing companies. With a clientele and membership base of 2,500 corporations categorized into 11 industry groups, we have strong industry linkages
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  • Vocal
    • 165 18 I READ with amazement Mr Nathan Chua’s letter, “No need for the cane” (Streats, May 3). While he insisted vehemently that “there are ways other than using the cane to bring children into line”, he offered no alternative solutions to the delinquency problems in schools in
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    • 176 18 WHILE on a business trip to San Francisco in early March, I used auto-roaming with my cellphone extensively. Upon my return, I was surprised to learn that autoroaming charge rates vary significantly from company to company in the US. One call at 4.55 am on
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    • 117 18 I REFER to Mr Conrad Raj’s commentary, “Thanks for the breather, SMRT” (Streats, May 4). The SMRT Corporation has recognised that commuters are already facing all kinds of hardships, and some of us are struggling to make ends meet despite an emerging improving economy. SMRT
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    • 136 18 I THANK Mr Tan Boon Lee for his letter, “Dangerous turn” (Streats, April 29), about the turning from Stevens Road (towards Orchard Road) into Draycott Park. All vehicles, including heavy vehicles, are allowed to make right turns and U-tums here. Our observations show that the lanes
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    • 109 18 ON Saturday, just after noon, soon after my family and I boarded an airconditioned SBS doubledecker service 14 bus at Clementi Interchange, we realised it was very stuffy. After a journey of more than one hour, we were drowsy from the heat. We noticed two male
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    • 73 18 A STREATS reader recently wrote about stuffy rides on buses with faulty airconditioning. Well, some SBS and Tibs buses are also so cold that they are like mobile freezers especially in the evenings and on rainy nights. It is odd that in tropical Singapore, some of us carry
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    • 58 18 I REFER to the letter, “Potential hazard in taxi” (Streats, April 30). The writer commented about the possibility of being thrown forward into the LCD screen mounted on the rear of the front-seat headrests in some taxis in the event of hard braking or collision.
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  • Global
    • 402 20 Fran Townsend is Bush’s new counter terrorism chief ’-AP WASHINGTON Fourteen years ago, Ms Fran Townsend strode into a New York courtroom armed with tapes, photos and other government evidence to prosecute mobsters belonging to the Gambino crime family. The men seated at the
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    • 221 20 -AFP SHANGHAI China’s robust economic revival, combined with a desire for improved standards of living, has triggered a quiet revolution in its education system. Judged to be long on rigour and short on creativity, many Chinese schools are turning to Western methods once looked
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    • 332 21 8% GDP growth target in doubt as tourism taking a hit, says Thaksin Wire services BANGKOK Escalating violence in Thailand’s Muslim-dominated south could undermine the government’s efforts to meet a target of 8 per cent economic growth this year, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said
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    • 204 21 -AFP AMBON The police chief of Indonesia’s Maluku province has been replaced following weeklong Muslim-Christian battles in which 38 people were killed and hundreds of buildings torched, it was announced yesterday. Brigadier-General Bambang Sutrisno has been shifted to a new assignment at police headquarters in Jakarta,
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    • 194 21 -AFP VANCOUVER English language schools dotting Western Canada fear that a vicious attack on a South Korean student could kindle dormant safety fears and cut enrolment of Asian students. The 22-year-old woman who was not named, was trying to sublet an apartment in
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    • 126 21 JAKARTA Indonesian Vice-President Hamzah Haz has said that the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, led by Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, will name Mr Hasyim Muzadi, the head of the country’s largest Muslim organisation, as its vice-presidential candidate, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. The announcement
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  • Medical
    • 298 22 SINGAPORE has the third-highest number of asthma cases in the region, behind only Thailand and the Philippines. More worryingly, the mortality rate for the ailment here is higher than that of many other countries. Five per cent of Singaporeans suffer from asthma, according to
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    • 249 22 How I taught the class bully a lesson. HI m H'H I H mm mm r Always unable to concentrate in class. Always playing and distracting others. Always forcing classmates to let him copy their homework That’s so him. But 1 knew he was falling behind in his studies. So
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    • 279 23 Feast your eyes on two oriental beauties in one fabulous holiday j*.-- WEnjoy the breathtaking scenery of the Okinawa isles, as well as dazzling Taiwanese cityscapes on a unique Star Cruises’ holiday. Adding to the attraction of two beautiful locales are Super Star Gemini’s luxurious facilities, wind-swept decks and impeccable
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  • EasyStreats
    • 689 24 After painting his face blue for the I 2000 Arts Festival, Neil Thomas is back. This time to live in a glass capsule for j 15 days. ZUBAIDAH NAZEER reports NEIL THOMAS (above left) seems to have an addiction for two Ws weird acts and window displays. Four
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    • 422 26  -  Gregory Leow FROM the way it is going, Mamma Mia! is set to be the biggest commercial success in the history of musicals, surpassing even favourites like Les Miserables and Phantom Of The Opera. The tale, which takes place on a fictional Greek island,
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    • 678 28  -  While the votes cast in American Idol last week may not have been ‘fixed’by the producers, it is still the most obvious case of vote-rigging by a vindictive media in recent history Broadside By YVONNE KWOK FOR those of you who thought that justice was served
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    • 115 30 The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration! is planning to launch by the end of j the year the first satellites using “star trackers” instead of Earth sensors to monitor weather patterns more precisely. The “star trackers” use the positions of stars to estimate altitude and
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        51 30 9pm, HBO (Star Hub Ch 60) An accident leaves Hollywood screenwriter Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) stranded in a small town with amnesia. He happens to be a spitting image of the town’s missing hero and begins to live the life of another person because he can’t remember his
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      • 50 30 9pm, Channel i There is a murder at WEC. But things aren’t what they seem and Djin finds out more about his father’s past. Meanwhile, Djin and Zach bet to see who can get Geri out on a date. The loser has to walk down Orchard Road half naked.
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    • Happenin'
      • 59 30 ANNE AKIKO MEYERS PLAYS BARBER Friday, 7-30 pm Esplanade Concert Hall Tickets from $l2 to $74.75fr0m Sistic American violin virtuoso Anne Akiko Meyers performs Samuel Barber’s lyrical Violin Concerto, a work that has become one of the 20th century’s most loved and performed concertos. Also on the programme are
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        75 30 I EAST SIDE STORY I Tomorrow till June 6,730 pm (3pm weekend matinees) r Toy Factory At The Attic (21, Tanjong Pagar Road, Level 4) Tickets at $29 from Sistic An original production loosely based on the musical West Side Story. It incorporates dance, martial arts and drama in
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    • 375 26 Public Forum Living Your Golden Years Gracefully -Together! lip li m YIP i i# %mmm The above sessions will be delivered in English. Mandarin sessions on the same topics will be held from 3:30-s:3opm on the same day at the same venue. Date 8 May 2004, Saturday Venue SP Auditorium,
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    • 291 26 How You Can Be ftlGtl Happy Discover YOUR relationship with money and success in the Money You Mini Workshop Find out: Why so many people work hard but get little results What is really limiting your potential for achieving greater results How to think out-of-the-box and create your competitive edge
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    • 26 30 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.
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 497 30 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Your natural wit and way with words is about to come in pretty darned handy now. You’ll be able to stun and amaze not just the usual suspects, but a whole new array of admirers, who’ll soon be friends. by Kelli Fox at Astro!bgy.com PISCES FEB
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  • Sports
    • 567 32  -  Prime League player critical after rupturing spleen in collision By Tan Kim Han HIS dream has always been to play in the S-League. Now, Izzuddin Rajabally, 19, is not sure if he will kick a football again. The Sembawang Rangers midfielder suffered a ruptured spleen after colliding
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    • 291 32  -  By_ Gary Lim WOODLANDS Wellington chairman Tang Weng Fei (right) will step down this year. But he did not say when exactly he intends to leave the S-League football club. He said: “I can only say that I will be stepping down by
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    • 317 34 World No 2 displays form that could topple Tiger -AFP i NEW ORLEANS Fiji’s Vijay Singh (right) fired five birdies and an eagle over the final eight i holes to erase a six-stroke deficit and win the New Orleans Classic, his second PGA victory in as
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    • 109 34 Reuters NEW YORK Tayshaun Prince and Richard Hamilton notched 15 points apiece to steer the Detroit Pistons to a 78-56 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Monday in the opening game of their Eastern Conference semi-final play-off series. Game Two in the best-of-seven series is
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    • 647 36  -  Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT HE is about to hit the big 50 soon. But the slim and trim Oh Chee Eng (below), chief executive officer of Fort Canning Park, does not look a year beyond 40. He attributes his youthfulness and athleticism to his
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    • 438 38 Keeping Monaco at bay for 90 minutes could be a tall order for Chelsea -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE S-FINAL (2nd leg) Chelsea v Monaco (Ist leg 1-3) LONDON Claudio Ranieri’s (left) English may still be a work in progress, but he didn’t have any difficulty understanding why the
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    • 192 38 -AFP LONDON England coach Sven Goran Eriksson could be seated alongside former assistant Steve McClaren at Euro 2004 in Portugal next month if his present one, Brian Kidd, fails to recover in time from prostate cancer surgery. The Middlesbrough manager was with Eriksson when England reached
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    • 242 38 LONDON Real Madrid superstar Ronaldo is ready to join Chelsea at the end of the season, England’s The Daily Mail reported. The Brazilian ace has been dismayed at the way Real’s fans have turned on the team in recent weeks and would happily move
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    • 203 38 -AFP LEEDS Relegated Premiership outfit Leeds United will consider the latest in a long line of takeover bids. The most recent proposal to rescue the ailing club is headed by Steve Parkin, who has made his money from haulage and who had his first offer, put
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