Streats, 5 November 2001

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  • 20 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets fmmmm aooi Another quality publication of «as Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • Article, Illustration
    378 1 In US last month: 415,000 laid off -AP NEW YORK Last month the US lost 415,000 jobs, the highest number since 1980. The US jobless rate jumped from 4.9 Per cent in September to 5.4 per cent last fiionth the highest rate since December 1996, the US Labour
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  • 77 1 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Retrenchments are on the rise here but there are “pockets of cheer”, a minister said yesterday. Human Resources Minister Fong Chan Onn said job vacancies in the country still exceeded the number of workers given the boot. From January to
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    • 72 1 8-0 Home crushes Geylang in final of Singapore Cup HOME United crushed S-League champion Geylang United 8-0 in the Singapore Cup soccer final at the National Stadium last night It was Home's biggest victory margin this season, thanks to an in-form Indra Sahdan who spearheaded the slaughter. Said Geylang coach
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  • Streatsmart local
    • Article, Illustration
      473 2  -  Sitoh working on upgrading promise by /SARAH NG HE knew he was up against one of Singapore’s most experienced opposition veterans, yet he took on the challenge. PAP candidate Sitoh Yih Pin never saw himself as the “sacrificial lamb” when he was asked about a year ago to
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    • news scan
      • 98 2  -  Karen Chen A NEWSPAPER vendor died after he fell from his motorcycle at the weekend. Mr Badrul Hasham, 39, suffered fatal chest injuries in the accident on BukitTimah Road at 9.05 am on Saturday. He was pronounced dead about one-and-a-half hours later at National University Hospital. He
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      • 94 2  -  Karen Chen A 41 -YEAR-OLD bird and aquarium fish shop owner lost a fish worth $3,000 to thieves. He had placed the tank containing his two Golden Buddha fish near the entrance to the shop, at Blk 2 Jalan Bukit Merah, when he went for a nap
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      • 136 2 CARING Singapore Bus Service (SBS) drivers are giving up their free time for a good cause. Some of them have set up a stall at Boon Lay bus interchange to sell adoption tickets for The Straits Times Million Dollar Duck Race. SBS staff at Ang
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    • 88 2 onekindact. OR Nicholas AROUND mid-October, struggling with bags of shopping, I boarded a bus No 103 for Jalan Kay. I dropped one of my coins and lost it, but the bus captain just smiled, signalled for me to move into the bus and gave me my ticket. As
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    • 152 3 THE winners came out in force yesterday as victory parades rolled through the heartlands. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was with his team at Ang Mo Kio GRC and National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan was at Tampines GRC. Workers’ Party chief Low Thia
      Pic: ST; Pic: Shin Min Daily News; Pic: Lianhe Wanbao  -  152 words
    • 78 3 I certainly hope you have made a habit of taking your brollies out with you by now. Today there'll be showers with thunder in the late morning and afternoon, mainly over northern, eastern and central Singapore. The temperature will range between 25°C and 32°C. Not wet
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    • Just a minute
      • 84 3 The Ministry of Manpower's Singapore Learning Festival, from Nov 2-18, offers a variety of activities. Learn mini-tennis at a free Mandarin workshop at Braddell Heights Community Club, 587 Upper Serangoon Road tomorrow 9-11 am. Call Ruby Wee at 288-1235. Try Chinese tea-making at the Tea Art Appreciation
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      • 70 3 More than 800,000 taxpayers will receive their revised notice of assessment. This will be followed by their rebate by the end of next month. Under the off-Budget measures, you will receive an additional 5 per cent rebate on top of the 10 per cent given for the
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  • Streatsmart asiaone CAREERS SUPPLEMENT
    • 441 4  - Good leader good communicator by KHUSHWANT SINGH WHEN a leader talks, people listen. And Dr Lau Waun Kei fits the bill. As president of Hospice Care Association, Dr Lau, 54, has to motivate about 120 volunteers, and he does this by his attentive manner and the way he tailors what
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  • GE 2001
    • Writer's Corner
      • 497 5  -  by PETER SIOW ELECTIONS 2001 had fire and brimstone. Delight and despair. But for me, memories of the lighter side of the elections will linger longer than the heavy stuff. And there were quite a few of them to make even those who face the terrifying prospect
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  • WAR
    • worry
      • war diary
        • 88 6 THE Northern Alliance yesterday opened a new airstrip that could provide key support for any ground offensive against the Taleban by an international force. US military advisors helped with the construction of the Sherkat airstrip, about 80km north of Kabul. An Antonov twin-prop light transport plane landed there
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        • 60 6 US planes returned to bomb Taleban front lines yesterday where foreign aid workers say at least 300 Taleban fighters were wounded in the last week. As the US campaign entered its fifth week, Taleban officials reported major gains on the ground near Aq Kupruk, 70km south of the
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        • 29 6 US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Pakistan yesterday from Tashkent. Speaking to reporters, he said the US campaign against the Taleban was making “measurable progress”.
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      • 313 6 ■AFP DUBAI In his latest acerbic message to the world, Osama bin Laden seeks to set Muslims against their “infidel” governments. He also singled out the United Nations and its secretary-general Kofi Annan, branding them as “hypocrites”, in a videotape broadcast on Sunday
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      • 244 6 WASHINGTON Four weeks after the US began its military campaign against Afghanistan, pressure is mounting on the Pentagon to send combat troops there. Experts say that its strategy of relying on the Northern Alliance, around the clock bombing and sporadic commando raids is unlikely to guarantee
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      • 84 6 Four out of 10 British Muslims believe that Osama Bin Laden is justified in waging his war against the US. More than one in 10 say that the attacks on the World Trade Center were justified, a Sunday Times poll showed yesterday. It was the first large-scale
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      • 188 6 TERRORIST mastermind Osama bin Laden’s Arab bodyguards have begun marrying off their daughters and sisters to Afghan men around Kandahar. The Electronic Telegraph reported that this is a sign that the war is not going well for the Taleban and that the men don’t
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      • Article, Illustration
        372 7 WE all know that truth is the first casualty of war. But which side in this conflict is the bigger liar? The Taleban say only what they choose to say. The Pentagon is forced to account for its activities in daily briefings, making it much the easier party
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      • 74 7 Reuters Twelve elite US Delta Force commandos were wounded, three of them seriously, by Taleban troops in an Oct 20 raid in southern Afghanistan. The latest edition of the the New Yorker magazine reported that the Taleban surprised the Americans with a fierce firefight, forcing them to
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  • Streatsmart interchange
    • 158 8 THE PAP’s Ms Irene Ng said that there is no need for opposition parties (Streats, Oct 29). Ms Ng was quoted as saying that new PAP candidates were assured they could disagree with the party leadership, so there was no need for an opposition presence in
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    • 74 8 WHY aren’t full-time poly students entitled to the students’ concession rate for bus and MRT fares like junior colleges and ITE students? The concession applies only if a poly student buys a monthly bus stamp, but not for travel on the MRT. Poly
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    • 123 8 SINGAPORE'S public transportation system has a reputation for being one of the fastest and most efficient in Asia. We think this is deserved in the case of the top bus companies, but not in the case of the MRT system. MRT commuters
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    • 178 8 WITH or without foreign talent, Singaporeans would not escape retrenchment during a recession. But the presence of foreign workers has made more Singaporeans jobless. Especially badly hit are Singaporeans in middle management/executive positions in multi-nationals, where it is not uncommon to find foreign workers holding
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    • 129 8 BOTH the Singapore Democratic Alliance and Singapore Democratic Party advocated a “Singaporeans First”employment policy in their election campaigns. In these tough times this policy might seem appealing, but what would its long-term implications be? It would surely send the wrong signal to foreign
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    • 49 8 hgyeyoursgy Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, e-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. You should include your name, address and contact number. mm mmv buzzllS if you know something we don't! 1800-844-5566 Srmrs Every weekday morning
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 237 9 Low marks for Economic policies to end slump -18 per cent satisfied Law enforcement 30 per cent satisfied High marks for General leadership qualities 60 per cent satisfied Reuters JAKARTA Indonesians are unhappy with the performance of President
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    • 111 9 -AFP SEOUL -A rich septuagenarian Belgian seeking a Korean bride has been inundated with offers. Seoul-based matchmaking agency, Bien-Aller (www.bien.co.kr), which carried the 71-year-old’s a Ppeal, said the man had become the company’s fading lonely heart, attracting unprecedented interest. “Some 2,000 Korean women hit the
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    • 72 9 -AFP SEOUL Korean Air has stopped serving caviar on its flights as part of an international campaign to prevent sturgeon poaching. The airline served 1,375 kg of the delicacy last year to its first- class passengers. “We decided to stop serving caviar to join
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  • Streatsmart global
    • weird world
      • 106 10 AN American teenager dressed as female genitalia won first place at a Halloween school costume party, ABC News Online reported. Christian Silbereis, 17, told Michigan’s Ann Arbor News: “It’s just another body part. They teach us about it in school.” His midwife mother, Rosalyn TUlip, who
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      • 65 10 BRITISH officials are withdrawing teacher recruitment posters because they have a punctuation mistake. The advertisements read: “No other profession makes a difference to so many young peoples lives.” A staff member at the Teacher Training Agency noticed the mistake on a poster on the London Underground. A
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      • 84 10 A DOG who witnessed the arrest of a thief was asked to make a statement. Police dog Simba was at the scene when its handler, PC Michele Innes, arrested a suspected thief in Brighton, south of London. Prosecuting officials who asked for a witness statement from“Mr
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      • 82 10 A BRITISH backpacker has been dumped by his girlfriend after he got married in Las Vegas to a woman he had just met, Ananova reported. After downing more than a few shots, university student James Cripps thought he would finish off his American holiday with every footloose romantic’s
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      • 65 10 A POLISH man faces a huge fine after dodging a taxi fare, climbing a tree and hurling bananas at a crowd, reported Ananova. He climbed the tree after the irate cabby chased him around the port city of Szczecin in north-western Poland. Firefighters spread an air bag
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    • 307 10 Women now the dominant sex, says professor VIENNA Men risk going the way of the dinosaurs unless their approach to health care changes. So said Vienna University’s Professor Siegfried Meryn in the British Medical Journal, BBC News Online reported yesterday. He thinks that women have become the
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    • 147 10 -Reuters LONDON A car bomb shook the centre of Birmingham on Saturday. Police believe the so-called Real IRA, a renegade splinter group, were responsible. There were no serious injuries from the blast, in an area crowded with night clubs and cinemas. Police spokeswoman Ellie
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    • 134 10 Reuters TOKYO Middle Eastern cotton scarves have joined army-surplus gear and neo-punk to become the latest hot look here. The fad-crazed teens in the hip Harajuku district in downtown Tokyo are sporting what they call Arab scarves, but there’s nothing political or religious in it.
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    • 117 10 -AFP LONDON Britain has ordered an inquiry into whether parents should be allowed to choose the sex of their children using a new fertility technique, a report said yesterday. The Observer said that the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority had been asked to probe
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  • easy STREATS
    • 430 11  - Die -hard dancers The Prologue last Friday gave more than 1,000 eager revellers a taste ofwhatisZoukOut later this month by CARA VAN MIRAH therhythmn Nation came alive last Friday for Streats readers who streamed into Zouk for an extravaganza of sounds and sights from 7pm. The Prologue a prelude to
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    • 398 12  -  M rfounHC* mo shoes by 'Judi Low Picky foodies are even pickier about where and what they eat these days-no thanks to the economic slowdown. Since March, food shops have seen slower business all round, as Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng has pointed out. But this doesn't
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    • 201 13 actress Gwyneth Paltrow is furious with Harper’s Bazaar °ver a photo of her bum. This month’s issue has a profile and pictorial feature of the Great Expectations star, with two black-and-white shots of Paltrow in her birthday suit. But she claimed that the w omen’s fashion magazine
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    • 163 13 SONY music chief Tommy Mottola has been reaching out to help ex-wife Mariah Carey cope with her recent troubles, a close friend of Carey’s told People magazine. “She and Tommy are talking... They’re friends. He has been really, really supportive,” said the singer’s makeup artist pal
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    • 85 13 -AP New york It took superiPiodel Christy Hirlington s even years “and many fries” before she finally smoking. How did she do it? “I kept thinking positively,” she tells Glamour maga2ine in its November issue. The 32-year-old also gave U P alcohol and coffee. “I knew they’d make
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    • 111 13 JULIANNE Moore accidentally poisoned herself with sugar on the set of her new movie, Far From Heaven, last week. “Julianne is very allergic to sugar,” said a source. “On Monday morning, some- one handed her a drink that had sugar in it and she had such a
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 55 13 7pm, TV Works Must watch, if just to snigger at the storyline of this new drama series. Jose Manuel Valladares is a flamboyant widower who comes home to take over the family bank. He falls for Eugenia, the long-suffering wife of his cousin, but she in turn loves
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        • Article, Illustration
          50 13 10pm, TV Works Connor MacLeod, born in the Scottish highlands in 1518, is immortal. He meets another like himself, Ramirez, who teaches him the secret ways. Modern-day New i York is where the few remaining i immortals gather. I Starring! Christopherl Lambert, Sean Connery, Roxanne Hart and Clancy Brown.
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        • 75 13 9pm, Channel U It’s the debut of this 45-episode HK TVB period drama based on the gongfu novel by Louis Cha. The star is a quick-witted young man who becomes friends with Emperor Kang Xi. But as a student A of the Sky Earth Sect, i
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        • 49 13 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) A backwoods youth with supernatural powers goes to live with his streetwise cousin in Hongkong, where rival gang leaders force him into a gambling competition. Stephen Chow’s hilarious performance here shot him to fame as Hongkong’s king of comedy.
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    • 128 16 -AP BANGKOK A film about students struggling for democracy in Thailand three decades ago will be the country’s entry in Hollywood’s Oscars next year, a newspaper said yesterday. The Thai Film Federation voted last week to submit the recently released The Moonhunter in the best foreign
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 489 17 -AP NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS Washington Wizards 90 Philadelphia 76ers 76 WASHINGTON The Washington Wizards discovered something during Saturday night’s regular-season home opener against the Philadelphia 76ers that it can win without Michael Jordan being his legendary self. In a third-quarter
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      • 483 18 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Liverpool 3 Manchester United 1 LIVERPOOL Michael Owen scored twice as Liverpool shot to the top of the English Premiership here yesterday with a 3-1 victory over fierce rival Manchester United at Anfield. England star Owen scored goals in each
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      • 315 18 Wire services LONDON Newcastle boss Bobby Robson is experienced enough not to get carried away by his team’s latest Premiership victory. The 3-0 win over Aston Villa, courtesy of two goals from Crdig Bellamy and a superb volley by Alan Shearer, lifted Newcastle to third in the
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      • 337 19  -  by TAN KIM HAN NTUC INCOME SINGAPORE CUP FINAL~Home United 8 Geylang United 0 DESARU may well be a popular destination with S-League clubs wishing to reverse their fortune. Home spent a few days there to recharge itself after the rigours of the S-League.
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      • 58 19 FOOTBALL aside, the 12,000 crowd were kept in stitches by sleek entertainers before the Singapore Cup final. A total of 20 buskers, clowns, jugglers and stilt-walkers from eventmagic.com.sg went round the track and the concourse to raise the laughter by several decibels. Based on the crowd’s enthusiastic
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      • SOCCER
        • 92 19 -AFP LONDON Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has dampened speculation that he wants to take over at Manchester United when Alex Ferguson retires at the end of the season. Wenger’s future at Highbury has been shrouded in speculation with the Frenchman yet to agree terms for
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        • 88 19 Reuters MILAN Twice World Player of the Year Ronaldo returned to Serie A action with Inter Milan yesterday, but lasted only 14 minutes before going off injured. The game against Lecce was Ronaldo’s first Serie A appearance for almost two years. The Brazilian striker limped off and
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        • 85 19 -AFP VENICE Surprise Italian first division leader Chievo was held to a 0-0 draw by bottom club Venezia in a dour Serie A match on Saturday night. In what was Chievo’s least impressive performance in a remarkable season to date, Venezia battled hard for its third point
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 306 14 easy’:. T£ Jim II I 1 Yuan iian 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
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 249 15 The story today... As tiles rain onto the street, no winner emerges from the duel. Xuan Yuan San Guang springs from the roof to rescue Xiao Yuer from the menacing gang. But as he reaches one of the attackers, a clawing hand intercepts him. It's Jiang Biehe."Why such cruelty towards
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 476 16 w Uf 3f)C an Your Daily Horoscope JAN 20 -FEB 18 The situation that you’ve so carefully set up no longer seems fun. A private matter ought to stay that way until you work it out. The moment that you voice your doubts, others will begin to worry. FEB 19-MAR
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 38 19 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: Worthington Cup, rd 4: Arsenal v Manchester United (Super Sports Ch 22, tomorrow, 3.40 am). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: PGA Tour: The Tour Championship, final rd (Star Sports Ch24,2pm). TENNIS: Masters Series, Paris: Final (Star Sports Ch24,Bpm).
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