Streats, 15 June 2004

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    10 1 Streats TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2004 E-mail: streats@sphxofn.sg mita <p) 196/03/2004
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    Lock icon Looming rate hike to hit S’poreans hard
    657 1  -  Worst affected will be those who have stretched budget to borrow on the cheap By Chua Kong Ho Reserve will raise its overnight funds rate as the US economy continues to expand and the first signs of inflation appear. Singapore interest rates generally
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      13 1 yummy switch Corporate lawyer Kelly Sng now enjoys selling Italian ice-cream PAGE 13
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      181 1 SHARE PAPER E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p> 196/03/2004 That’s the advice from PETER SIOW to England blunder-boy Steven Gerrard PAGE 31 kelong lah lose who have row on the cheap eserve will raise its femight funds rate as the S economy continues to cpand and the first signs inflation appear. Singapore
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  • Morning Rush
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      Lock icon Saudis under siege: Powell
      414 4 !A1 Qaeda trying to undermine kingdom’s govt’ Reuters WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday said that the killing of foreigners in Saudi Arabia was a direct attack on the Saudi regime, and that Washington would do all it could to help the kingdom
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      Lock icon Twelve killed by Baghdad car bomb
      118 4 AFP BAGHDAD A car bomb killed at least 12 people, including five foreigners, and wounded 50 other people in a busy Baghdad street yesterday, bringing down part of a building and bearing out the grim warning of Iraq’s president of a terrible time before
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      Lock icon ‘Croc Hunter’ in hot water over whale swim
      154 4 AFP SYDNEY Australian Steve Irwin, the star of wildlife TV show Crocodile Hunter who was widely criticised in January for hand-feeding a croc while holding his baby son, was in deep water again yesterday for getting too close to whales in Antarctica.
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      Lock icon IE plays matchmaker for Electrolux
      380 5  -  Buyers from abroad flown here to meet suppliers in reverse trade missions By Khushwant Singh make it very convenient to present our products and capabilities to the various Electrolux managers.” While this is the first sourcing forum here for Electrolux, Beyonics took part in a
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      Lock icon A*star helps put inventions on market
      244 5  -  By Christopher Lim MR Gan Cheok Chua (pictured), executive director of Singapore Safety Glass (SSG), knew that his company didn’t have the research and development capability to implement slip-resistant glass technology. So he turned to Exploit Technologies (EPTL), the commercialisation arm of the Agency
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      Lock icon Bizarre quizzes stump Oxbridge applicants
      200 6 LONDON Can you name Santa’s nine reindeers? That was a question posed to a teenager who applied to study medicine at Oxbridge this year. It is one of the many offbeat questions students applying to study at England’s premier universities faced at admission interviews, reported
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      Lock icon MNCs will get first dibs
      344 6 Shanghai sets priority in event of power failure Bloomberg BEIJING General Electric, Bayer AG and other multinational companies operating in Shanghai are being given top priority by city officials when it comes to power supply as the peak summer demand period threatens shortages. “This summer
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      Lock icon Start ’em young on healthy living
      338 8  -  By Sarah Ng FOUR-YEAR-OLD Megan Sng grabs the high bars, swings herself forward, tucks in her head and rolls down a ramp. In another corner, Ling Ying Xuan, two-and-a-half years old,'jumps enthusiastically on a trampoline. These energetic children are among those enrolled at MyGym@Woodlands
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      Lock icon Doctor gives away his innovation
      229 8  -  By Khushwant Singh DR Aldo Vacca created a very useful device that relieves trauma for women in maternity hospitals all over the world, but he never got a cent for it and doesn’t even consider himself an inventor. His device is called the Kiwi Omni
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      Lock icon Release of new Sengkang site raises hope for opening of Buangkok NEL station
      138 10 BUZZSTOP THERE was good news for Buangkok residents yesterday as the Singapore Land Authority announced the release of a residential site within a five-minute walk from the North-East Line (NEL) station there. The station is currently not
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      Lock icon GAME PLAN
      94 10  -  Text and picture by Edwin Koo Fashion design students Ha Xiaoyun (left) and Li Wenhui, both 22, all decked up in fantasy fashion inspired by the Canadian-developed role-playing computer game, Neverwinter Nights, at the Singapore Expo yesterday. As part of the CommunicAsia 2004 trade show, six players here
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      Lock icon More S’poreans using Internet
      132 10 IDA survey on infocomm usage Janice Wong MORE Singaporeans are getting connected online, according to last year’s survey of 1,500 households released by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) yesterday. Almost three in four households own one or more personal computers, up from 68 per
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      Lock icon NZ to change citizenship policy
      143 10 Bill to extend residency requirement -AFP NEW Zealand should reconsider its current policy of granting the right to automatic citizenship to anybody bom here, Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday. “There has been a tendency in recent years not only in New Zealand but also
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      Lock icon Real Networks to offer movies
      152 10 Unlimited service for $22 a month Bloomberg REALNETWORKS Inc will combine with Liberty Media Corp’s Starz Encore Group to sell the first monthly Internet movie service. The service will allow customers to download and view an unlimited number of movies such as Finding Nemo and
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      Lock icon Hottest tickets in town
      91 10 SOME 420,000 applications were received on Sunday when applications for tickets for this year’s National Day Parade and preview closed. Most of them were for tickets to the actual event on Aug 9. More than half were made through the NDP website. Balloting will be completed
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      Lock icon Duxton flats for booking
      92 10 DEMAND for the first 528 units in two blocks launched at The Pinnacle@Duxton has prompted the HDB to release the remaining 1,320 flats in the five other blocks. At the launch on May 29, only 528 flats in the seven-block development were available. The HDB would
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      Lock icon Soccer fan crashes truck
      92 10 AFP A THAI truck driver and five passengers were killed when he fell asleep at the wheel after watching late-night broadcasts of Euro 2004 football, police said yesterday. Two Buddhist monks were among the six people in the pick-up truck who were all killed when it
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      Lock icon Baby left in freezer
      97 10 -AFP POLICE in western Japan arrested a 37-year-old housewife last Friday after her 50-year-old husband found the corpse of a new-born baby in the family freezer. Ms Yukie Masuda admitted that she gave birth to the baby boy around September 2002 and left him in the
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      Lock icon Nokia unveils 5 new cellphones
      477 12  -  Design, features aimed at retaking lost market share By Yeo Ghim Lay CAMERA cellphones might be 10 a penny these days, but Nokia is attempting to break new ground with one of its latest model. Packing an array of features, the Nokia 6630 is touted
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      Lock icon Asia’s economy seen growing 6% a year
      297 12 Wire services SINGAPORE Asia’s economy may grow 6 per cent a year until 2010, or almost twice the world rate, Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said yesterday in a speech on behalf of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Economic growth may
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      Lock icon S’pore employers will hire: survey
      146 12 SINGAPORE Employers in Singapore are anticipating very strong year-over-year labour market growth, with third-quarter hiring intentions reaching record levels, said the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released today. This is in contrast to this time last year when the Sars outbreak restricted trade and travel, resulting
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      Lock icon Hyflux’s China plant
      95 12 Reuters SINGAPORE Water treatment company Hyflux Ltd yesterday said that it will spend US$9O million (S$ 154.4 million) to build a seawater desalination plant in Tianjin, China. The project, one of the biggest desalination facilities in China, will supply 100,000 cubic metres of industrial and city-grade water
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      Lock icon Flextronics seeks more
      105 12 Bloomberg NEW DELHI Flextronics International Ltd, the biggest maker of cellphones and computers for other companies, offered to buy an additional 20 per cent of India-based Hughes Software Systems Ltd for 548 rupees a share. Last week, Flextronics agreed to buy 5.5 per cent of Hughes Software
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      615 13  -  If you can’t imagine a corporate lawyer selling gelato, then meet Kelly Sng W R|repreneurs r i By Janice Wong THE saying “Never trust a thin chef” obviously does not apply to Ms Kelly Sng. In fact the svelte 29-year-old single-handedly whips up refreshingly yummy tubs of gelato,
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      Lock icon StarHub signs up millionth subscriber
      133 14 AFP SINGAPORE Star Hub Mobile announced yesterday that it had signed up more than one million subscribers as Singapore’s cellphone market nears saturation point. The island’s No 3 cellphone company has captured 27 per cent of the market in just four years of operation, making
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      Lock icon 3G may not spur sales till 2006: telcos
      343 14 Few takers as handsets seen limited, call quality still poor Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Telecom and Mobile One, the nation’s two largest cellphone operators, said that it may take more than a year before new high-speed services spur sales. The services, known as
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      Lock icon Yuan bets up on plan by Beijing
      310 16 Forex trading restrictions to be eased Bloomberg HONG KONG Traders raised bets that China will let its currency increase in value as the government said it will widen participation in the market and introduce derivative products as it moves to adopt a more
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      Lock icon WTO chief pushes for farm agreement
      217 16 -AFP SAO PAULO World Trade Organisation chief Supachai Panitchpakdi (above) urged developing countries and representatives from industrialised states to reach agreement on the divisive topic of agricultural subsidies and tariffs at a UN development summit here on Sunday. Speaking on the sidelines of the
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES
      27 16 STI: 1,814.06 9.08 *AS AT JUNE 14 US$: 551,722 Ss: RM2.207 553.111 Ss: HK54.529 EURO: 552.061 Ss: 23.74 BAHT Ss: 64.43 YEN Ss: 5,465 RUPIAH
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      722 18  -  By HO LIAN-YI FOOTBALL events such as Euro 2004 prove one thing: Deep inside, everyone is a conspiracy theorist. The paranoia gets on my nerves. Whenever I’m watching football with my dad and the team he fancies is not winning, he starts saying it’s
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      Lock icon Sports low in priority
      51 19 SPORTS tend to be bypassed when people in Singapore strive for success. I know two potentially excellent sportswomen who chose to further their studies instead. They felt that society does not tolerate sports “junkies” who devote their time whole-heartedly to sports and neglect their studies. Jocelyn
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      Lock icon Make players full-time pros
      205 19 IN his commentary, “We lack passion to be world-class” (Streats, June 11), Mr Philip Lee asked: “Why can’t Singapore, a rich nation of three million citizens with well-fed youths and sophisticated football training programmes, do the same?” He was referring to our poor performance in the
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      Lock icon Impatient bus driver
      121 19 I WAS about to board a bus No 165 at Macßitchie on June 10 at about 5.40 pm when the door suddenly shut in my face. Before I could recover from my surprise, the bus moved away. I was only an arm’s length from the entrance and
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      Lock icon Private-sector talent vital for progress
      180 20 I READ SM Lee Kuan Yew’s recent comments on the dearth of talented scholars in Singapore’s private sector. If this is the case, then our private sector will never be able to compete with our rivals in China, Taiwan, Korea or Hong Kong. It is
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      Lock icon Teachers always get the blame
      168 20 IN his letter, “Bicycle nuisance” (Streats, June 11), Mr Jeffrey Law highlighted the nuisance caused by youngsters riding their bicycles against the flow of traffic. I read with displeasure his suggestion that teachers should take the initiative to correct these errant youths. He implied that
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      218 19 E-mail us at streats@spti.eoni„sg 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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      Lock icon China ready to talk to HK democrats
      359 21 Beijing says it will do more to seek the views of the territoiy AFP HONG KONG China signalled its readiness to hold historic talks with Hong Kong democrats with whom it has been locked in a six-month tussle over democratic reforms. With relations
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      Lock icon China’s foreign investment up 11%
      280 21 Bloomberg BEIJING Foreign direct investment in China increased 11 per cent from a year earlier to U 5525.9 billion (5544.5 billion) in the five months through May after rising 10 per cent in the first four months of this year and 7.5 per cent in
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      Lock icon LEAP OF FAITH
      44 21 A man, called El Colacho for the event, jumping over babies during the El Salto Del Colacho festival in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, on Sunday. El Colacho, who represents the Devil, is supposed to rid the babies of original sin AP
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      Lock icon Lanka truce sparks rise in vice
      194 21 afp COLOMBO A truce between Tiger rebels and troops has helped Sri Lanka recover its reputation as a tourist paradise, but the halt in hostilities has triggered a battle against foreign prostitutes. Some of the karaoke bars, health clubs and Chinese acupuncture centres that
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      Lock icon Sinn Fein wins first Euro seat
      240 22 IRA political wing sees EU as platform for Irish reunification ■AFP LONDON Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, has won its first-ever seat in the European parliament with the election of Ms Mary Lou MacDonald in Ireland, Sky News reported
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      Lock icon More wealthy women than men in Britain
      218 23 LONDON There are now more wealthy women in Britain then their male counterparts, the Christian Science Monitor reported yesterday. According to the Monitor, there are 299,300 women in Britain with £200,000 (*****,860) or more in liquid assets cash, shares, and bonds compared with
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  • Medical
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      Lock icon Sinus trouble or migraine?
      270 24 Reuters NEW YORK If you think you have a sinus headache, think again. You may just have a migraine. In a new study, six out of 10 people who thought that they had sinus headaches actually had migraines, according to Dr Eric J Eross, an associate
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      Lock icon Ultrasound helps spot breast cancer
      165 24 LOS ANGELES Though regular mammograms are the most common method used to detect breast cancer in its early stages, ultrasound scans reportedly may soon play an increasing role in such tests for American women. Recent research conducted on the effectiveness of ultrasound in breast cancer
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  • EasyStreats
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      Lock icon One-man SHOW
      648 25 Lee Wong has written, produced, directed a 22-minute documentary film on Lim Poh Huat a security guard, a TV extra, an cj o 7 author and a nude model SHARLENE TAN reports ritLi BP M jjijj J «u Bp* B r nTp tlmT M..I.L* 11 1 j i
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      102 25 Reuters FRIENDS star Courteney Cox (right) and her husband, actor David Arquette, 32, became parents early on Sunday, after years of trying, People magazine reported. Cox, who turns 40 today, gave birth to a girl in an unidentified Los Angeles hospital, according to a report on
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      128 25 Wire services US SCREEN legend Meryl Streep (right) has signed up for a leading role in a Chinese film, China Radio International reported yesterday. The double Oscar- winner will star in the film depicting a Chinese student’s study and life experience in America. Both the director
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      Lock icon Britney in a bottle
      93 25 AP THIS is your chance to feel close to pop superstar Britney Spears (right). She will launch a new fragrance, Curious, this fall, as part of a licensing agreement with Elizabeth Arden, the company said last week. A blend of white flowers and vanillainfused musk, the
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      447 26  -  r ■L J By_ Sharon Soh IF your knowledge of Indonesian food is confined to what’s served at nasi padang stalls, or if you can’t name more than three true-blue Indonesian dishes (gado gado, tahu telor, gado gado), then get a yummy crash course at the ongoing Nongsa
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      102 28 TREAT daddy to a delicious meal this Father’s Day. Fostre’s Father’s Day menu features a 10-course buffet delivered to anywhere you wish for only $lB.BO a person. The all-Asian spread includes appetisers such as Beijing duck with Thai mango salad and Japanese sushi, seafood, mee siam,
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