Streats, 1 August 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 1 August 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    648 1  -  She gambled away $92,000 from flat stilt by WINSTON CHONG HERE is a story that fleshes out the news that more people are becoming hooked on gambling. The Sunday Times last week reported concern by the Community Addictions Management Programme (Camp) that more people are seeking psychiatric help
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  • morning rush
    • 105 1 IF you are between 50 and 54 and feel healthy, don’t be complacent. Almost half the people in the age group, who had subsidised health screenings, were suffering from serious conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, ST TV reported last night. All
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    • 76 1 THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has issued a warning on the “Code Red” Internet worm which is expected to re-emerge today. “From a technical standpoint,the Code Red worm can be quite serious,” IDA said yesterday. Code Red was first spotted in mid-July and appeared to spread
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    • 77 1 MORNING rush-hour commuters were stuck at Jurong East MRT station for 21 minutes from 8.37 am yesterday. The delay was caused by a faulty point machine which failed to switch moveable rails that allow trains to cross from one track to another. Just before 9am, MRT staff
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    • 105 2 firing the last recession in 1998, many wondered what shape the recovery would take. Would it be a Y, I'or V'shaped recovery? When the economy grew rapidly by about 10 per cent in the year2ooo, it appeared that the recovery was taking the shape ofY. However, as it
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    • 413 2  -  by SARAH NG YOU'RE waiting for your turn to be served, and meanwhile, Mr Bean is up to his antics on the TV monitor in the waiting room. You’ve seen that one, you tell yourself several times already. Then
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    • 315 3  - Holidays online fun Teenagers doubled surfing time in June by KHUSHWANT SINGH Games and music websites the biggest draw, shows study WHAT was your teenager doing during the June school holidays? He was probably surfing the Internet. A study of 4,000 Internet users in Singapore by Nielsen/Netßatings showed that teens
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    • 37 3 onekindact Jansen Norman Vincent ON July 26,1 attended a wedding dinner at the Merchant Court Hotel. No hot drinks were available. I would like to commend a waitress for bringing me a drink from outside.
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    • 87 3 THE Parents Advisory Group for the Internet (Pagi) said it understands the need to educate our children, especially teenagers, to be“Netwise”when surfing the Internet. Its parent volunteers have been actively playing a role in this process, Pagi said. Mrs Carmee Lim, Pagi’s chairperson, also
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    • news scan
      • 63 3 -AP SINGTEL yesterday announced net profit of $601.2 million for the first quarter ending June 30. This was down 4.8 per cent from the same period last year, but above the average forecast of $531 million by four analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires. Revenue for
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      • 113 3  -  Zubaidah Nazeer A SEX beast was yesterday sentenced to four years’ jail and six strokes of the cane for molesting his five-year-old niece. When the child told her mother that she felt a sharp pain in her private parts, she thought it was only an infection
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      • 65 3  -  Zubaidah Nazeer LILIK Sumani, 27, was yesterday jailed for four weeks for stealing $4OO. The Indonesian maid, working for Mr PongTeng Guan since Oct 23, found a set of keys in his Choa Chu Kang flat. She opened a drawer in a bedroom, took the money
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    • 142 4  -  by ADAM HASHIDY DESPITE seemingly taking all the precautions she could against being robbed, Ms Angie Teo still fell prey to a snatch thief. Ms Teo, 37, alighted from a bus near Bishan Park 1 at about 9pm on Thursday and noticed a youth
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    • 382 5  -  by. ZUBAIDAH NAZEER IN the past five years, all except one of the 16 President’s Scholars came from middle-income households or better, with professional parents or parents who have their own businesses. That should make XuYoufeng, 18, and
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    • 80 5 Our weather girl says Hi, I'm Holly Jean Aroozoo your new weather girl. Have a hot cuppa to warm you up during lunch jj time and keep the chill 1 from the thunderstorms, expected island-wide, at bay. Temperatures will range between 25°C and 32°C with the tide reaching 2.5 m
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    • Just a minute
      • 52 5 Today is the last day to view the Heritage Collection and personal memorabilia, dating back to 1942, donated by NUS alumni. See the collection and get an overview of the university's history, culture and traditions. Universal Cultural Centre (foyer) 10 Kent Ridge Cresent 9am-spm. It's free. Call
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      • 94 5 NTUC has launched its National Day package to help workers hit by the downturn. It includes a reduction of up to 20 per cent in the prices of about 200 essential items, such as sugar, cooking oil and rice, sold at NTUC Fair Price outlets. There will also
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 237 6 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that judges should withdraw from cases involving laws that they oppose. “If you disagree, disqualify yourself and allow someone else who is not prejudiced to be
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    • 91 6 -AP In May, the government lost a court battle to keep two opposition activists in jail without trial when a judge ruled their detention under the Internal Security Act was illegal and ordered them released. Judge Hishamudin Yunus urged the government to repeal the Internal Security Act,
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    • 155 6 CHINESE travellers are the flavour of the moment for thieves in Paris. A rash of thefts and a holdup last week in a Chinese firm on the Left Bank has prompted the Chinese media to warn tourists to delay visiting or avoid Paris, according
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    • 214 6 -AP JAKARTA -The decks are clear for the Golkar Party to join the government of Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri. This follows the dismissal of a case against the party in the Supreme Court. Citing lack of relevant evidence, a five-judge panel threw out the
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    • 184 8 Reuters HUALIEN, Taiwan Rescue workers were yesterday searching for survivors of Monday’s devastating typhoon which killed at least 52 people. The toll is likely to end up much higher, with 156 listed as missing. The typhoon, namedToraji, is already
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    • 123 8 Reuters CANBERRA Four phone calls finally convinced Australian Vince Harmer that US Secretary of State Colin Powell really did want to drive his car. The official calling him on behalf of Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was not a practical joker, so he handed
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    • 177 8 -AFP Action intended to inspire commitment to opposition unity TAIPEI An 83-year-old member of Taiwan’s key opposition party, Kuomintang, slashed his wrist on national television yesterday. Mr Hsia Kung-chuan (right) said his action was meant to inspire people who said they would kill themselves
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    • 304 9 -AP KATHMANDU -The birthplace of Lord Buddha Lumbini in Nepal may get submerged permanently. The culprit is a dam that India is building along its border with the Himalayan state, where Lord Buddha was born more than
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    • 165 9 -AP ISLAMABAD The Taleban, the sworn enemy of US, want to embrace Uncle Sam. This is the message the rulers of Afghanistan have for US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, Christina Rocca, when they meet her tommorow for their first
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    • 255 11 LEEDS A killer paused during a brutal murder to propose to his girlfriend, who was watching his orgy of violence, a court heard. Darren Rhodes, 23, went down on one knee to ask Debbie Andrews, 21, to marry
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    • weird world
      • 49 11 -AP THE co-ordinator of a drunken-driving prevention programme in New Mexico was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated (DWI) at a DWI awareness picnic last Wednesday. Fifty-three-year-old Linda Harris’ bloodalcohol level was above the legal limit when she was arrested, police said. -ap
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      • 69 11 -Reuters A NEW Jersey couple is suing the Kellogg for US$lOO,OOO ($180,151) in damages caused to their home when an unattended Pop-Tart allegedly burst into flames inside their toaster. Brenda Hurff put a Pop-Tart in the toaster and drove her children to school, reported The Philadelphia
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      • 75 11 A VANCOUVER woman was awarded C 5330,000 ($389,062) on Monday in a suit against Gap Inc filed after she was hit by a falling store mannequin. In September 1996, Ms Elizabeth Ball was shopping at a Gap Kids outlet in when a mannequin fell her on
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      • 66 11 Reuters ARGENTINE police got a surprise when they swooped in on a downtown Buenos Aires building on reports of a dozen employees being taken hostage last Friday. The “hostages” in the office turned out to be a group doing meditation exercises. The police received calls from neighbouring
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    • 190 11 -AP NEW YORK A six-year-old boy undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination was killed when the machine’s powerful magnet pulled a metal oxygen tank through the air, fracturing his skull. Officials at the Westchester Medical Center said the tank had been brought into the
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    • 300 11 "'«A £o»s u&O^ 5 FREE SEMINAR! BRING THIS INVITATION TO THE PREVIEW FOR A sioo GIFT THAT MAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Anthony Robbins, The World’s No. 1 Success Coach, will be in Singapore this August to conduct his worldfamous UNLEASH THE POWER WITHIN weekend for the first time. We invite
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    • 296 12 Spy expelled from China, nowin Hong Kong Reuters HONGKONG Last week, US academic Li Shaomin was expelled by China for spying. Then, on Monday, he was allowed to enter Hongkong, sparking a controversy. Mr Li, who has worked in Hongkong since 1996 as
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    • 180 12 -AP PHNOM PENH-Many i former leaders of the I Khmer Rouge who I once terrorised the 1 country have traded in their weapons for golf clubs, Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) told a group of teachers on Monday in Phnom Penh. The Premier boasted about
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    • 569 13  -  by KAREN CHEN AT the start, it looked like Hongkong diva Faye Wong’s promotional event for her Japanese serial, Love From a Lie, would turn out to be a fiasco. It was raining. Fans were getting drenched. And some of them could be heard muttering about the venue
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    • 154 17 HONGKONG Chin Han, the Taiwanese screen heartthrob of the 70s, is planning a comeback. But now his fans will have to watch him on TV. The veteran actor playing a flawed, hot-tempered programme host is to star in Cash is King, a Channel U
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 69 17 10pm, TV Works George gets frustrated when he can’t get a cable hookup, so he turns to Larry who gets him an illegal hookup. However the hookup is connected to the “SDI System” in the White House, which launches a missile at Austria. Meanwhile, Princess buys pills
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        • 56 17 10.30 pm, Channel U Akira’s plan to divorce I Faye fails. To make I things worse, Akira and Faye are spotted together by Emi. Akira wants to pay Faye separation fees but is instead insulted by her. Akira decides to investigate Faye to find out if
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        • 90 17 10pm, Channel 5 Nora Pearce is comforted by Curt Delario as she mourns the death of her husband Ray. As Curt drives away, a figure suddenly appears on the road, but instead of the person being knocked down, the car splits around him. Scully and Doggett arrive at the
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        • 67 17 10pm, Central This movie explores the mysterious disappearance of one of the two young women who live across the hall from each other in a modem apartment complex in Seoul, Korea. The women, referred to by their apartment numbers, each share common yet dissimilar obsessions: an eating disorder
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    • easyStreats sports
      • SOCCER
        • 67 20 Reuters VIENNA Sol Campbell made his first appearance in an Arsenal shirt on Monday night, as the Gunners beat Real Mallorca 2-0 in a friendly. The 26-year-old England defender came on as a substitute for the last 10 minutes. In a bad-tempered match, Fatih Akyel scored
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        • 72 20 Reuters MADRID Real Madrid president Florentino Perez pledged on Monday to set up an investigation into US$l.B4 million ($3.3 million) that went missing under the club’s previous administration. Highlighting the main findings of an audit into Real’s accounts, which he commissioned shortly after his election
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      • 398 20 -AP PALM DESERT, California In a made-for-TV event that allowed the best two women players to join Tiger Woods and David Duval in prime time, blustery wind made the quartet of major championship winners look like they were struggling to make the cut.
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      • 457 22  -  a m JĔSk UMI 4lfe S|| V (i <■'' -s*4111 i <^l by PETER SIOW THE year is 2010 and Singapore welcomes the Commonwealth Games to its shores. The spanking new National Stadium will open its doors for the first time to the 72 Commonwealth
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      • 339 23  -  by 'TAN KIM HAN COME home. That is the message Thailand wants to send to its national players playing in the S-League. This will make it easier for Thailand to assemble its national squad. So said Thai team manager
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      • 204 23  -  by 'TAN KIM HAN SINGAPORE CUP dementi 1 Sembawang 3 1 CLEMENTI Khalsa needed three goals to qualify for the Singapore Cup semi-finals. Instead, it allowed out-of-contention Sembawang Rangers to put three into its net. Sembawang triumphed despite resting Thai midfield dynamos Tawan Sripan and
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 196 18 The story is about... Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargains for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything, from girl problems to gang fights, from baseball matches to flower arrangement classes. Most of all, he never expected
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 289 19 easy: ii p* O V ,11 1 The story today... Xiao Vuer picks up a silk manual next to the corpse and flips through it. It's the woman's diary. The woman Fang Lingji came from an influential family. Her entire family was kilted in a fire when she was four.
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    • 30 20 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: Champions League 2nd rd, 2nd leg: Barry Town v FC Porto (FC Ch 22 tomorrow, 2.25 am). TENNIS: Masters Series, Montreal: Day 3 (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, lam).
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    • 492 21 Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20- FEB 18 It’s good to be the hungry one amidst a well-fed bunch. You have the edge over a competitor who may not fully understand your desire. Get ready to put in extra time if it means that much to you. PISCES FEB 19-MAR
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