Streats, 29 November 2001

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    18 1 STREATS ij THURSDAY 29 November 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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    Lock icon 911 impact? It's all in the mind
    289 1 -AFP THE Straits Times Index is down, unemployment is up, you fear losing your job, and one expert is now saying it’s not as bad as it seems. It’s psychological, said Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, of
    -AFP  -  289 words
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    Lock icon Gotcha
    270 1 Tommy ,Suharto nabbed after year-long hunt Wire services JAKARTA Police yesterday arrested the fugitive son of former dictator Suharto for allegedly ordering the murder of a judge who had convicted him for corruption. Jakarta police spokesman Col Anton Bachrul Alam said “Tommy” Mandala Putra, 39, had been arrested for
    – Wire services; PicAP  -  270 words
  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Hostages freed
      95 1 -AFP ZAMBOANGA Seven army trucks took 217 heavily armed followers of Muslim leader Nur Misuari to a Moro National Liberation Front enclave near this southern port city yesterday as a day-old hostage crisis ended in the Philippines. Eighty-nine hostages walked free as the government agreed on terms to
      -AFP  -  95 words
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      Lock icon ST raises $1 million
      74 1 ALL 100,000 adoption certificates have been sold and $1 million raised for The Straits Times Million Dollar Duck Race 2001. For the second year running, the race holds the world record for the biggest rubber duck race with 100,000 ducks taking to the water on Sunday
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      Lock icon ITE's dental course
      76 1 A TRAINEESHIP programme conducted by the National Dental Centre (NDC) and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) will teach N level school leavers to make dentures, braces, crowns and other dental appliances. They will be matched to a potential employer who will pay their course fees, give
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      98 1 V Star Awards I do NOT wish to thank, He is the stylist to the stars. David Gan's name has been on their lips at every Star Awards acceptance speech except last Sunday's ceremony. "I've been sincere towards Media Corp for 10 years. I've done Star Awards so many times...
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon IMH help for addicts Camp for gamblers
      420 2 by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER IN April, polytechnic student Ng Kok Peng, 21, chalked up huge debts betting on soccer. With no way of repaying the money, he took his own life. Edwin Tan (not his real name), 18, another poly student addicted to foreign
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      Lock icon Robbed of $55,O00 in stink ruse
      198 2  -  by EIKTHA MURLI KHEMLANI HE didn’t smell a rat when two men told him he stank of faeces. It was a ruse to rob despatch clerk Miskon Haji Taib, 71, of $54,900. Around noon on Tuesday, he had changed US$3O,OOO at the OCBC Bank
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      Lock icon Sweet awakening
      56 2 onekindact. Allison C Francis would like to thank a kind, sweet lady who woke me up on the morning of Nov 22, and then wished me a nice day before she walked away. I had fallen asleep on the MRT train and would have missed my stop, Raffles
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      Lock icon Midnight murder: Boy testifies 'I was lured by sex with models'
      418 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH THE lure of sex with models, as owner of a modelling agency. That was the carrot that Anthony Ler, in desperation, dangled at a 15-year-old boy. And when that failed, he threatened the boy with a
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      Lock icon Judge probes deeper
      117 3 WHY didn’t you follow your wife upstairs, asked Judicial Commissioner TayYong Kwang. Ler replied that he was not allowed to enter his mother-in-law’s house in Hougang. So on May 14, he had remained with his daughter downstairs while his wife went upstairs to get a pen. Ler’s
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      Lock icon 13 complaints against Radac contractors: Case
      100 3 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) said it has on its records 13 contractors from the Renovation and Decoration Advisory Centre (Radac) who have had formal complaints made against them in the past two months. In a statement released yesterday, Case objected to Radac’s
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      Lock icon Hitachi axes 430
      253 3 O Retrenchment grief THE blow came with no warning. Yesterday Hitachi Nippon Steel Semiconductor (HNS) sacked 430 of its staff members. They were from the production and administrative departments. There was no notice. The company, in Tampines, said it had to retrench because of the downturn in
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      Lock icon 40 posts to fill at Silk Air
      207 3 Q Retrenchment relief CABIN crew trainees recently retrenched by Singapore Airlines (SIA) could find a new home with its regional airline SiikAir. A SiikAir spokesman said yesterday that it had 40 vacancies for them. She said all 114 staff members who had been
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      Lock icon Congrats
      32 3 morningsmile. A card you will probably never see: "Congratulations on your promotion. Before you go, would you like to take this knife out of my back? You might need it again."
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      Lock icon Public transport costs Fares still fair: Yeo
      329 5  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM DON'T budget for a cut in bus fares anytime soon. Transport Minister Yeo 4 Cheow Tong explained that bus fares had risen slowly over the last 10 years. “In fact, bus fares have increased at a rate which is far lower
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      Lock icon SBS shows its new colours
      105 5 SINGAPORE Bus Service (SBS) will undergo a corporate name change to SBS Transit and an identity change. Over the next two years, all 2,800 buses in its fleet will change colour from red-and-white to purple-and-orange. Signs will also be changed to the new colours, as
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      64 5 If you are meeting clients for lunch or tea, choose an eatery in the south or east so you d on't show up at your meeting drenched. Temperatures will range between 24°C and 32°C with the tide reaching 2.7 m at 10.56 pm. November's weather girl
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      Lock icon Mother of void deck baby dies
      252 5  -  by /EIKTHA MURLI KHEMLANI AFTER three miscarriages, Madam Siti Rahamat, 22, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in unusual fashion at a void deck (reported in Streats on Nov 10). But her joy was short-lived. On Ibesday, just three weeks after giving birth,
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        128 5 To improve your pre-schooler's language skills, go to Pasir Ris Community Library at 3pm on Saturday and learn how exposing the kids to good literature at a young age is essential.. Ms Liu Yun, a teacher from Creative O Preschoolers'Bay will conduct a workshop in Mandarin. It's
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        Lock icon Remember...
        65 5 If you are over 65, with a personal income of under $7OO, you can be treated at private clinics for ailments such as coughs and colds, and pay only $4 for each visit and 70 cents for each medi- cation, as in a government polyclinic. But you must have
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  • Streatsmart interchange
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      Lock icon Give us more choice
      190 6 I READ with interest the comments of Mr David Lim, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, in Streats on Nov 22. He was quoted as saying: “The PAP has a large victory, a strong victory because the people voted for the team... not because
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      Lock icon Don't wait, cancel cards
      119 6 THE experience of Case chairman Mr Stephen Loke that you described as a “card booboo” (Streats, Nov 27) is a common one. What intrigued me more was that Mr Loke planned to wait for an explanation from the credit card company. When I have been in
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      Lock icon Expo link will improve service
      214 6 I REFER to “Expo? What about other MRT riders?”, by Binson Chua (Streats, Nov 28). In preparation for the opening of Changi Airport station, SMRT, working with the Land Transport Authority (LTA), has considered various options for the operation of the train services. A through
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      119 6 havevoursav Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, email 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. GET MORE WITH Ist1 st 2 nd Dec 01 Sat Sun 11am Bpm **Subscribers will
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  • WAR
    • ...endgame
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        Lock icon 'Warplanes reach too late' Mullah Omar eludes US raid
        381 7 Wire services KABUL The US thought it had finally eliminated Mullah Mohammed Omar on Tuesday. Combat jets launched a hastily arranged airstrike on a compound near Kandahar after an informer said the Taleban chief was holding a meeting there. The jets
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      • war diary
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          Lock icon UK commandos land
          68 7 -AFP OVER 40 Royal Marine commandos have been flown in from the Gulf to join British forces guarding Bagram airport near Kabul, the Defence Ministry confirmed yesterday. They will take over guard of the airfield from marine special forces of the elite Special Boat Service (SBS), who
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          Lock icon Power deal 'assured'
          58 7 -AFP UN-LED talks in Bonn on Afghanistan’s political future, entering their third day, have frozen out the Taleban. But the opposition groups said they were on track to strike a historic deal within three to five days. The Northern Alliance promised it would not monopolise the power
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        Lock icon Two Indonesians 'key link'to hijacker
        233 7 WASHINGTON Two Indo nesian men have emerged as a vital link to suspected Sept 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. They are believed to be either key players in the FBl’s stalled investigation or innocent victims of their friendship with Atta.
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        Lock icon False-claim couple
        92 7 -AP A couple accused of falsely claiming the wife was killed in the Sept 7 7 attack were charged with insurance fraud. Charles Allen Gavett, 44, and his wife, Cynthia, 40, were arrested on Monday, California Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said. Charles filed a death claim with Minnesota
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        Lock icon 'Chemical arms sites found'
        154 7 WASHINGTON -The US has identified 40 places in Afghanistan, most of which are now under Northern Alliance control, that “represent the potential for WMD (weapons of mass destruction) research,” General Tommy Franks said yesterday. Testing is underway to determine if the Taleban and A 1 Qaeda
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon 'light' cigarettes no safer for smokers
      120 9 Reuters WASHINGTON Cigarettes marketed as “light” or “low-tar” offered smokers only an illusion of reduced health risks while leaving unabated the death toll caused by smoking, according to a report by the US National Cancer Institute. While the design of cigarettes has changed over
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Drinks on him
        84 9 Reuters A BUSINESSMAN who offered to pay for drinks all round in a nightclub in Covent Garden, London, on Saturday night ended up with a bill for more than £42,000 ($109,090). The 39-year-old German-born fruit importer, who chose to remain anonymous, strolled into Brown’s nightclub and insisted
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        Lock icon Camp fights closure
        94 9 Reuters A US retreat that caters to witches and pagan rituals is fighting for survival amid community talk that naked witches may be weaving magical spells in the moonlight. The owners of the Gaea Retreat Center, a 68-hectare camp west of Kansas City that is home to
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        Lock icon Robbery by note
        100 9 -AP A ROBBER armed with a note which mentioned a gun made off with RM16,000 ($7,717) from a bank in Kemanan, northern Terengganu. Posing as a customer, the robber approached a cashier and handed over a note on which said “robbery... There’s a gun”. The cashier showed
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        Lock icon Santa ads not sexist
        99 9 -AP ADVERTISEMENTS inviting men to apply for a job as Father Christmas do not discriminate against women, the UK government has confirmed. Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Williams of Mostyn told peers on Tuesday that ads requiring a male Santa Claus did not break
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      Lock icon Misuari's links under probe
      69 10 -AP KOTA KINABALU Malaysian authorities holding a renegade Philippines official are investigating whether he was connected to Muslim extremists linked to the A 1 Qaeda terrorist group. Inspector-general Norian Mai said police would question Nur Misuari, a former Muslim rebel leader and governor in the southern
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      Lock icon 89 remaining hostages freed in deal Rebels given safe passage
      273 10 -AP ZAMBOANGA Heavily armed Muslim rebels released 89 hostages yesterday in exchange for safe passage. Philippine military forces had besieged them for more than 24 hours. The rebels freed a group of 21 hostages earlier. Then, after enduring a series
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      Lock icon China, India, Indonesia heading for Aids epidemic Asian time bomb
      289 11 -AFP PARIS -The big-population countries of Asia are facing an epidemic of Aids, driven by unsafe sex, intravenous drug use and dirty blood transfusions, a UN report warned yesterday. Until now, HIV and Aids in Asia had mainly hit Cambodia,
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      Lock icon M'sian schools urged to introduce sex education
      164 11 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The birds and the bees may enter Malaysian schools soon, driven in by a new law. The law was passed by the Johor government recently, requiring intending Muslim brides and grooms to be tested for the Aids virus. This has
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      Lock icon Hubble sees signs of new planet
      90 11 -AFP WASHINGTON Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, directly detected the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system, Nasa said yesterday. The planet labelled HD *****8 is roughly Jupiter-sized and orbits a star similar to our Sun. It’s
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      454 11 NANY A N G m HELP FIGHT MYOPIA OPTICAL SOFTWARE MAY REPLACE THE EYE CHART ON THE WALL "Vision testing has taken a leap into the digital world. A few vision tests are already online, like those at WWW.EYEFLAMT.fMET (from Nonyong Optical) which are designed for parents who want to
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  • easy STREATS
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      470 13  -  That was hairstylist BmM t£m% rmctkm when we asked him about being excluded from the stars'thank-you fist during Sunday's StarAwmds, YVON N E KWOK IT was as if a big black hole had opened up during Sunday’s ceremony. At every Star Awards since 1994, a name that
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      Lock icon Box-office action for kick-boxer
      109 14 Reuters BANGKOK Singapore ’s Action Theatre’s Ekachai Uekrong- tham (left) will make a movie here about a trans- sexual Thai kickboxer. The film, Beautiful Boxer, will be shot in Singapore, Thailand and Japan, in mid--2002, with Thai, English and Japanese dialogue. Thai record firm GMM Grammy
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        Lock icon EXCESS BAGGAGE
        102 14 10pm, TV Works Emily T Hope (Alicia Silverstone) is a teenager looking for love and identity. Unfortunately she is emotionally neglected by her father. To win his approval she resorts to dangerous stunts to get his attention. She plots to make it look as if she has been
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        Lock icon DUKE OF MOUNT DEER
        44 14 9pm, Channel U Shunzhi gives Bao a book from the 42 sutras to pass to Kangxi. Bao meets Tuo and is forced to hand over the books, but is saved by monks from Shaolin who escort him to the capital.
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        Lock icon LOVE REVOLUTION
        55 14 10.30 pm, Channel 8 It’s the debut of this hit Japanese drama about a young surgeon who has to decide between rushing into an arranged marriage or remaining single. She yearns for love, but is unprepared for it when a dashing reporter enters her life. Stars Esumi Makiko,
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        Lock icon ESCAPE UNDER PRESSURE
        67 14 7.30 pm, HBO (SCV 60) The Argo Thetis is a cruise ship, but it carries in its hold an ancient Greek artifact, the Icon of Artemis. When evil ones attack the ship, engineer John A Roman and his archaeol- k ogist wife Ĕ Chloe must I protect
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      Lock icon Screaming success
      444 15 S creaming success (EbttiZnMs KIDS have known it all along. And now Disney’s Pixar Studios (Toy Story, A Bug’s Life) are out to prove that the little ones are right. There are monsters in the closet. Only they aren’t the kind who turn you into a squeamish puddle of jelly.
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      Lock icon take 5
      177 15 Is this a monstrous hit or just plain monstrous? Reviewers'takes So much talent, so much fun, and yet there's an "andyet..."This is a film to watch, to enjoy, but not to remember with warmth. Sulley and 800 remain two potentially charming characters waiting for a movie that will
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Wenger to look for goalkeeper?
        139 20 Wire services LONDON England and Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman will be out of action for a further six weeks following an operation on his injured shoulder. Seaman has been sidelined since September, and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted that he may be forced into the
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        Lock icon Perfect farewell for coach Alberts Home in goal rush
        295 21  -  by' TAN KIM HAN r ASIAN CUP-WINNERS'CUP 2nd Round (2nd Leg) 1 [.Home United 5 Royal Thai Air Force 0 (Home wins 5-1 on aggregate) 1 IT was Robert Alberts’last game as Home United coach. And his team ensured that he
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        Lock icon Defending champion in awesome form Samba show
        457 22  -  by LIM HAN MING TIGER 5s Brazil 9 Egypt 0 J DEFENDING champion Brazil started the 2001 Tiger 5s campaign the same way it finished the last one winning. There was a look of familiarity about the samba boys as they cruised past
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        Lock icon Pro futsal league in Iran next year
        258 22  -  by\ LIM HAN MING THE first professional futsal league in Asia could make its debut in Iran next year. This was revealed by Mohd Deroudgar (left), president of the Iranian futsal federation in an interview with Streats on Thesday. He said: “In Iran,
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        Lock icon England misses out on World Cup seeding
        177 23 -AFP PUSAN, South Korea Spain beat off competition from England and Mexico to be named as one of eight seeds for next year’s World Cup finals, Fifa announced yesterday. As expected, heavyweights Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Italy were also named as seeds. The
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        Lock icon Fowler may finally get a regular first-team place 'Time to move on'
        676 23 Wire services LONDON Liverpool’s decision to accept Leeds United’s £ll million ($2B million) bid for Robbie Fowler (right) is a calculated risk that will reverberate along every inch of the highway between Anfield and Elland Road. And in
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        Lock icon Bryant stars in Lakers'victory
        109 23 •BASKETBALL LOS ANGELES Kobe Bryant scored 23 of his 33 points in the second-half, 13 in the fourth quarter, as the Los Angeles Lakers rallied to defeat the Milwaukee Bucks 104-85 on Tuesday in a battle of the NBA’s top two teams. Bryant had eight rebounds
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        Lock icon Shearer reaches 100 goals
        170 23 •SOCCER -AFP LONDON Alan Shearer admitted that he was disappointed not to have scored a hat-trick as Newcastle hammered Ipswich 41 in the Worthington Cup fourth round. The former England captain scored twice in the first half reaching 100 goals for Newcastle in the process but
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      196 16 w V. m m 5. fJJ The story today Xuan Yuan San Guang smashes the porcelain cup onto his chest in protest against Jiang Biehe's benevolent decision. With bloodied chest, Xuan says: "From this day on, I don't owe you anything." Turning to Xiao Yuer, he says:"My young brother, you
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