Streats, 10 December 2004

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  • 12 1 Streats FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2004 website: www.streats.com.sg e-mail: streats@sph.coog^sg MICA (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 597 1 Territory will lose out to S’pore, Shanghai if standards slip further: businessmen, educators -AFP HONG KONG Business leaders and educators fear that declining standards of spoken and written English in Hong Kong are jeopardising the territory’s future as an international commercial centre. Observers say that
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  • 174 1 Wire services LONDON Half the world’s population will be speaking or learning English by 2015, researchers say. Two billion people are expected to start learning English within a decade and three billion will speak it, the British Council, which, promotes English and British
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    • 62 1 1 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2004 website: www.streats.com.sg e-mail: streats* MICA (P) 196/03/2004 CAPITALAND’S 43-STOREY RIVERGATE IS FIRST RESIDENTIAL PROJECT TO GET URA’S LANDMARK STATUS what now s’pore? AFTER ANOTHER TIGER CUP DRAW, SOCC TAN KIM HAN ANALYSES LIONS' CHANCES now, theatre idol 4L_ VIEWERS CAN NOW VOTE BY SMS FOR
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  • Morning Rush
    • 305 2 No casualties reported as fourth bomb is intercepted Wire services BANGKOK Train services in three southern Thai provinces were temporarily halted yesterday following simultaneous bomb explosions on railway tracks in a region stalked by an escalating Muslim insurgency, officials said. Mr Chitsanti Dhanasobhon, head
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    • 154 2 AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian Islamic charity has been channeling funds to a Thai separatist group, a newspaper reported yesterday, citing a leader of Malaysia’s ruling party. The New Straits Times quoted senior Umno official Annuar Musa as saying that the Malaysian Muslim Welfare Organisation
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    • 417 3  -  $5O CPF deposit may come from due shares By Sarah Ng THE Government is helping some 5,000 inmates of Changi Prison to qualify for the third allocation of Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS) to be given out early next year. Instead of asking them to
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    • 133 3 AFP MALAYSIAN police have busted a brothel in an abandoned pigsty after housewives complained that their husbands spent a surprising amount of time there, police said yesterday. The pigsty, with 20 cubicles, had been furnished with tables, fans, a bar serving alcohol, neon lights
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    • 338 3  -  By Khushwant Singh THE business model of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has so impressed a foreign leading management institute that it intends to use it to develop a course of study at post-graduate level. The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (lIM-A)
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    • 168 3  -  Text picture byAshldgh Sim 'Ashleigh Sim IN the warm cottage setting of a wine bar, the wedded bliss of Mr Irvin Seah, 29, and his wife, Ms Yang Wen Sze, was apparent as they exchanged wedding vows before family and friends. Amid
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    • 270 4  -  By Gayathri Raghavan MORE than 100 former users and staff of the old National Library at Stamford Road shared their memories of the 44-year-old red-bricked building when invited to do so in May. Now, most of their feelings have been immortalised in a commemorative book,
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    • 587 4  -  Former colleagues remember former STgroup editor Khoo TengSoon for being soft-spoken and generous, andfor Jus amazingjournalistic skills. TS, as he was known, was a die-hard sports fan, too Streats By Philip Lee NEWSPAPER editors suffer this undeserved universal reputation: They are loud, flamboyant,
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    • 250 6  -  Arimidex works for post-menopausal women By Christopher Lim POST-MENOPAUSAL breast cancer patients were given new reasons yesterday to consider new drug Arimidex. Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced the results of a five-and-a-half year study of the drug, which examined its effects alongside that of mainstream breast
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    • 168 6 AP PARIS Continental Airlines Inc said on Wednesday it was “outraged” at reports that French authorities want to prosecute the carrier and several employees over the Concorde crash that killed 113 people in Paris four years ago. The airline issued a strongly worded statement
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    • 113 8 auzzsrop AFP POLITICAL parties in Latin America, India, Indonesia, and certain eastern European states are judged the most corrupt, according to a new survey released yesterday by the group Transparency International. In half the 64 countries surveyed, “political parties were rated by the
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    • 135 8 His Liaoning degree not recognised CHINESE national Yue Bao Sheng was yesterday fined $lO,OOO for practising Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) without having first registered with the TCM Practitioners Board, The Straits Times reports today. He is the first TCM practitioner to be charged for the offence.
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    • 134 8 Suspect remanded 3 more weeks A PSYCHIATRIST will spend three more weeks evaluating the mental condition of Malaysian Took Leng How, who is accused of murdering eight-year-old Chinese girl Huang Na last month. Deputy Public Prosecutor David Khoo told a district court yesterday that the psychiatrist
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 8  -  Text and Picture by Ashleigh Sim The world’s largest tankard standing at 1.987 m was brought to Singapore yesterday to mark the opening of the Clarke Quay branch Royal Selangor, one of the world’s largest pewter manufacturers. Weighing 1,557 kg, and with a capacity of 2,796 litres, the
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    • 132 8 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA), which is building a Circle Line MRT station outside Maris Stella High (Primary) School at Bartley Road, has been checking ground movements every day at the school. Two months ago, the school’s automatic main gate could not shut because
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    • 95 8 SRI Lankan drug suspect Jeremy Mahen Chanmugam, 40, did not turn up at the Australian specialist clinic where he was supposed to receive treatment. The Australian immigration authorities have no records of him entering the country either, The Straits Times reports today. Chanmugam had obtained leave from
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    • 92 8 Reuters NIKE has apologised for a footwear ad featuring an attack on a gongfu master which was banned by China, saying that it only intended to emulate the Hong Kong martial arts movie heroes of the *****. China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television on
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    • 93 8 A MEETING of global union and business leaders that was slated for next week in Beijing was scuttled by the Chinese government when it rescinded visas for participants, according to a news report yesterday. China said the cancellation of the meeting, arranged by the Organisation for
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    • 104 8 Reuters TWELVE men held in a Perak detention camp for links with the Jemaah Islamiah terror group were involved in a brawl with prison guards in which at least 32 people were injured, the Malaysian government said yesterday. Home-made knives, sharpened badminton rackets and wires were
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  • Financial
    • 456 12 Company sells 111m shares, raises slBsm from IPO Bloomberg SINGAPORE Shares of Yellow Pages Singapore, which publishes phone directories, rose 5.4 per cent in their debut after the company and its shareholders raised about $lB5 million in an initial share sale. The shares
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    • 342 12 Bloomberg HONG KONG Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise, one of the world’s largest plane lessors by fleet size, said rates for new aircraft may rise 20 per cent next year because of rising demand from low-cost airlines in South-east Asia. Leasing rates for
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    • 198 12 TALK about being behind your product all the way. British Airways (BA) guarantees that you will get a good night’s sleep in its Club World business class beds. If not, you get upgraded to first class on your return journey absolutely free. All you
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    • 103 12 Reuters HONG KONG Singapore developer Capita Land Ltd is planning to launch a fund that invests in Chinese shopping malls as it seeks to tap increasing investor interest for property in the fastest growing major economy. South-east Asia’s biggest developer, which has built offices and a shopping
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    • 83 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE PSA International Ltd, operator of the world’s second-busiest container port, handled 12 per cent more containers last month at its ports globally as demand for products made in Asia increased in Europe and North America. The government-owned port operator handled 2.74 million standard
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    • 354 17 Operator’s sl.9b deal will help it grow in Asia, S America Bloomberg HONG KONG Dubai Ports International will pay US$l.l5 billion (551.89 billion) to buy CSX Corp’s container terminals business to expand into Asia and South America, beating a bid from Singapore’s PSA
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    • 218 17 AFP BEIJING China may build two underwater tunnels to Macau, the former Portuguese colony, state media said yesterday, with ever larger numbers of gamblers expected to pour into the casino mecca. The two tunnels, which are still in the planning stage, are expected to reach
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    • 27 17 STI: 1.999.14 21.52 *AS AT DEC 9 US$: 551.646 Ss: RM2.309 553.171 Ss: HK54.724 EURO: 552.195 Ss: 23.96 BAHT Ss: 63.20 YEN Ss: 5,564 RUPIAH
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    • 317 19 Beijing’s restricted lending showing effect Bloomberg HONG KONG/SHANGHAI China’s industrial production grew at its slowest pace in 18 months in November as the government restricted lending in industries, including steel and autos to cool the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Production rose a slower-than-expected 14.8
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    • 215 19 Bloomberg TOKYO German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said that he is concerned about the euro’s strength against the US dollar. Mr Schroeder said this yesterday in a speech at a business symposium in Tokyo arranged by the Nihon Keizai newspaper. The US dollar rose for a
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    • 558 21 Analysts mixed on coffeehouse chain’s move to drive growth Bloomberg ATLANTA Mr Blaine Hein, a 34-year-old construction worker, switched to Starbucks’ bacon-and-egg English muffins for breakfast from Jack in the Box egg biscuits after the coffeehouse chain started selling its first oven-heated foods
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    • 352 22 Staff in US, China worry over jobs afters3b landmark sell-off The Washington Post RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina During an IBM employee meeting here on Wednesday, a worker asked a question that perhaps only 10 years ago would have been unthinkable: If he wanted to keep
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  • Comment
    • 885 24  -  By PHILIP LEE WHEN retired politician Harbans Singh died last Saturday at age 78, a victim of pneumonia, he shut the lid on one of the great mysteries of opposition politics in Singapore. With his death, I have to say, perhaps facetiously, that I have also
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  • Vocal
    • 97 26 I AGREE with points Ms Yvonne Kwok made in her article, “Idol lessons” (Streats, Dec 8). Although I voted six times for Sylvester Sim via SMS on the actual day, I received only one acknowledgement around midnight and another three the following morning around 10am
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    • 256 26 WITH the implementation of the Fire Safety Act in 1989, owners of high-rise buildings must employ a qualified firesafety manager to oversee the fire-safety equipment, formulate a fire-evacuation plan, conduct periodical fire-evacuation drills and arrange an annual building inspection. These tasks are usually undertaken by
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    • 102 26 COULD the relevant authorities look into putting up “no smoking” signs at taxi stands. I think some people are still not aware that lighting up while standing in a queue is banned. My friends and I have encountered this several times, especially when
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    • 274 28 I REFER to the letter, “Mongrels lose out from HDB policy” (Streats, Dec 8). The egotism of the human animal never fails to amaze me. There is no such thing in nature as “pedigree”, “mongrel”, or “pariah”, as denoted in the letter. All these terms are
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    • 123 28 I REFER to Mr Chua Kim Choo’s letter, “MRT escalator woes” (Streats, Dec 8). Mr Chua mentioned Yishun MRT station, but it seems that such problems are also persistent elsewhere, especially so at Orchard MRT station. As far as I can recall, the escalators
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    • 397 28 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.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
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  • Global
    • 43 29 Conservative MP Steven Fletcher, with the assistance of a new wheelchair, standing up to speak in Canada’s House of Commons on Parliament Hills in Ottawa on Wednesday. Mr Fletcher is the first quadriplegic to be elected to Canada’s parliament Reuters
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    • 185 29 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian accused China of making threats and intimidating the island as it prepared for this weekend’s legislative elections, which are expected to yield strong gains for pro-independence parties. “Communist China always intimidates us during our democratisation,
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    • 416 29 Jakarta to turn them into state firms: defence minister Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s military, undergoing phased reforms intended to bring it under civilian control, may soon lose all its major businesses, although legislators said yesterday that the move would not go far enough. Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono,
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    • 221 29 Los Angeles Times SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong II recently purged his brother-in-law from the government, removing a powerful party official who was thought to be a possible rival to Mr Kim and his sons, South Korean intelligence officials have reported. North
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    • 453 30 US defence chief‘not surprised’ by troops’ armour complaint -afp NEW DELHI US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday put a positive spin on critical comments from US troops about their safety in Iraq, saying it was the duty of the top brass to listen. Soldiers waiting in
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    • 133 30 AFP SYDNEY Australia’s government yesterday offered to supply a remote Aboriginal township with fuel if parents agreed to wash their children, under a controversial plan to end health problems plaguing indigenous communities. There is endemic poor health among Aborigines, who form Australia’s most disadvantaged community.
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  • Medical
    • 301 32 Reuters LONDON Teenagers and young men should keep their laptops off their laps because they could damage fertility, an expert said yesterday. Laptops, which reach high internal operating temperatures, can heat up the scrotum which could affect the quality and quantity of men’s sperm. “The
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    • 153 32 Reuters NEW YORK New research provides further evidence that antioxidants in green vegetables help protect ageing eyes from cataracts. In an experiment, investigators at Ohio State University in Columbus found that human eye cells treated with antioxidants showed less damage after being exposed to
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    • 313 35  -  By_ Sarah Ng TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine (TCM) believes that good health is a balance of yin and yang, which literally means dark and light respectively. Similarly, food can be yin (cooling) and yang (heaty). Food is considered “heaty” after it has been fried, baked or
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  • my HOME YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME-OWNING
    • 475 36  -  River Gate will rise 43 storeys above the water on Martin Road site, as the first residential project to win approval under the URAs plan to encourage outstanding city architecture By Janice Wong THE sedate Singapore River may not immediately conjure up the romanticism of the French Riviera,
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    • 437 38 What do you do with faulty or outdated electronic gadgets that are lying around the home? While Singaporeans have their karungguni men, Americans simply toss the techno trash along with the garbage -AP NEW YORK When Office Depot stores in the US ran an electronics recycling
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  • EasyStreats
    • 567 40 Forget about Singapore Idol; are you ready for Theatre Idol? Yes, YOU have a say in Action Theatre’s new play. SHARLENE TAN reports DAVID Fuhrmann-Lim is a little nervous about Saturday’s Theatre Idols, Action Theatre’s new show which gives the audience a chance to critique new scripts
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    • instyle
      • Article, Illustration
        474 42 It’s the colour of the year, say fashionistas. But how to wear it? Read on IPS EVERY year, there is a colour that’s fighting to be the new black. Last year, it was brown. The year before, it was grey. And a few years before, it was no
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    • 445 44  -  B y Sharlene Tan THEIR art is distinctly different and they don’t even speak the same language. Yet last night, Taiwanese Ju Ming and Colombian Fernando Botero connected, discussed and even entertained in a rare meeting of these two creative minds. The event, organised by
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    • 279 45  -  By Yvonne Kwok NEXT year’s Renci Charity Show promises to be an eyeopener, with Media Corp artistes working alongside former Channel U artistes at the Channel U fundraising event. Channel 8 star Chew Chor Meng will host the show alongside regular hosts Guo Liang and
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    • 173 45 MEDIACORP Studios CEO Chang Long Jong yesterday sketched out some plans for incomng Channel U artistes. “Many have established themselves as hosts and actors and I foresee lots of positive development for them,” he said. Taking Media Works artiste Adrian Pang, whom some see as
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    • 181 50 THE politically correct rewriting has begun for the movie version of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. The film’s director and scriptwriter, Chris Weitz, will remove references to God and the church, reported BBC News online yesterday. Weitz, who directed American Pie and
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    • 449 56  -  Singapore bowlers among those making the cut for second round By Gary Lim SINGAPORE’S Valerie Teo and Remy Ong (left) marched into the second round of the AMF Bowling World Cup at Superbowl Telok Blangah yesterday. Undergraduate Teo, who had stayed away from competitions for almost
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