Streats, 11 November 2000

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    23 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets Another quality publication of qjm 9 Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000 SATURDAY 11 November 2000
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Medicine withdrawn
      34 1 THE Ministry of Health has asked all pharmaceutical companies marketing products containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA) to withdraw and discontinue their distribution. PPA is a common decongestant found in many cough and cold medicines.
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      Lock icon Asean e-agreement
      42 1 SINGAPORE is keen to work with Asean states to take advantage of the e-economy, Minister of State (Communications and Information Technology) Lim Swee Say said yesterday. Asean is set to sign the e-Asean framework agreement at a Nov 24-25 summit.
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      Lock icon S'pore, India tie up
      52 1 SINGAPORE and India yesterday agreed to set up a task force to boost economic ties and promote trade and investment between the two countries. The signing of the memorandum of understanding on the new task force was witnessed by Indian President K R Narayanan, here on
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    Lock icon Food and the Singapore family Mum can't cook
    428 1  -  by SHEELA NARAYANAN THIS story is about YOU, the Singapore family. Your mum can’t cook. You or your kids eat more junk food. And the dinner table is no longer the place where family bonds are strengthened. But ironically, most Singaporeans think
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    Lock icon Give in, says Bush
    81 1 electionriKifc THERE'S one way to end the who- won-it. And that’s < for you to concede, Texas Governor George W Bush has told Vice-President Al Gore. The statement came after the Florida recount revealed that Mr Bush’s lead has now been whittled down to just over
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      112 1 SHMM Lad I Luc A POOR man's lottery that threatens a president. That is the game of jueteng (pronounced whereteng) that has led to a scandal involving Philippine President Joseph Estrada. He could, literally, be the biggest loser in a peso-pinching lottery. HOW IS JUETENG PLAYED? SEEPAGE 18 A PROFESSOR
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      Lock icon S'pore better educated, thanks mainly to PRs
      376 2 THANKS to well-educated permanent residents (PRs), Singapore’s population is much better educated than it was in 1990. One in three PRs today has a degree, a big change from 1990 when only 14 per cent were uni graduates. Improved academic facilities here have
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      Lock icon Thanks for trying, bus-driver
      151 2 onekindact Charlene Ooi, 11, student: I WOULD like to express my deepest gratitude to a helpful bus driver. The bus that my mother and I were waiting for was followed closely another bus. We got a bit confused and boarded the wrong bus. Suddenly, my mother
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      Lock icon Aussie takes title with shagadelic flair
      208 2  -  by ARTI MULCHAND GROOVY, baby, is all one could have said of Australian bartender Loy Catada’s flair for inbar entertainment, which clinched him top-spot at the first International “Flair-tending’ Competition at the Mandarin Hotel on Thursday. Decked in ruffles and a purple suit a
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      Lock icon Go public, if you drink
      281 3  -  by VIOLETTA WONG DRINK driving accidents and arrests have dipped in the past year. But the Traffic Police are pressing on with their anti-drink driving campaign this year with a twist in the message: If you drink, go public. In other words take a cab,
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      Lock icon Drug pushers executed
      140 3 TWO convicted drug traffickers were executed yesterday at Changi Prison. Wan Yu King, a 25-year-old Singaporean and Chin Siong Kian, 22-year-old Malaysian were caught on March 2 last year by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB). CNB was carrying out a sting operation which resulted in the seizure
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      Lock icon Choo bit off more than he could
      176 3 A SHIPPING clerk bought US$4O,OOO (5569,000) in counterfeit currency for $lO,OOO from a Filipino sailor. But when Jason Choo Soo Beng, 29, walked off the ship on Aug 21, he was caught by the police. A district court was told yesterday that he
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      113 3 morningsmile CLM Career Limiting Move. Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM. Flight risk Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon. 404 Someone who's
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      Lock icon Off to church ...to steal
      334 4  -  by KAREN WONG Thief gets his comeuppance thanks to vigilant bank staff OFF to church he went, but instead of putting money into the offering bag, he pinched from it. Simon Khor Hock Huat, 47, had pocketed a cheque of $20,000 that was made out
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      Lock icon Xmas light-up: All is bright despite cost-cut
      287 4 THE electricity bill for Singapore’s annual Christmas light-up can be as low as $l5O a night, the Singapore Tourism (STB) board said yesterday. According to the board, the entire display of twinkling fairy lights that span the length of Orchard Road translates into
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        148 4 AFP DHAKA A 20-year-old man caught hiding in a Singapore Airlines plane at Dhaka’s international airport was on Friday being quizzed by Bangladeshi police. “We have already questioned him at the station since Tuesday and today he will be questioned by a joint interrogation team to
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        Lock icon Jurong Island spill
        109 4 A CHEMICAL powder, perlite, leaked from a building in Pulau Sakra early yesterday morning. According to the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), the leak occured at around 4.04 am. The chemical had leaked inside the building of the Air Products Pte Ltd building. It was carried out
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        Lock icon Electrical shop break-in
        103 4 MR Chew Goh Hee, 45, knew something was amiss when he arrived at his shop on Nov 6 morning to find two chairs not in their usual spot. The chairs, which were usually by the rear exit of Huang Chay Electric Store in Ang Mo Kio Industrial
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        Lock icon Thief snatches cash
        112 4 MADAM Tan Bok Kor, 56, had withdrawn $2,000 from the bank only to have it snatched from her less than an hour later. She had gone on Nov 9 at 2.30 pm to an OCBC Bank branch in Tampines Central to withdraw the money. Less than an
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      Lock icon Rebates on open market value Easier ride for green cars
      336 5 Govt to give rebate of 20% of open-market value, plus 10-20% tax rebate for such cars FROM early next year, the government will give financial incentives to buyers and operators of environment-friendly vehicles. “One of the challenges is that demand
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    • Just a minute
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        54 5 Head on down to the Singapore River tomorrow to watch 100,000 rubber duckies vie for the top spot in The Straits Times' record-breaking Million Dollar Duck Race. There will be fun, games and food galore for young and old. Flag off is at 3 pm on Read
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        Lock icon From this week...
        60 5 If you hear screams and cries daily from your neighbour s flat, you need not feel helpless. You too can do something. That's the message of the month-long Family Violence Public Education Programme 2000 which aims to help victims of family violence by educating grassroots leaders so
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        48 5 The first Singapore study on menopause in Asian women is being carried out now. The survey is jointly conducted by the National University of Singapore and Ministry of Health. So if you're one of those selected for the survey, remember to give the interviewers your full cooperation.
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      84 5 Our weather girl says Hi! I'm Jennifer Banse, your new weather girl. I'm afraid I can't promise you sunny skies on my debut. It's going to be cloudy with showers in the afternoon and early morning over most areas. It might also get a little chilly with temperatures reaching a
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      Lock icon Running in the buff
      105 6 knowornot Did you know that athletes participated naked in the ancient Olympic Games? The first Olympics, starting in 7768 C and held every four years, had only one event: a race of 192 metres (210 yards) called the "stadion." By the end of the 7th century
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      Lock icon New charges against Estrada
      256 6 -ap The simple lottery game and the plucky woman Seepages 18 and 19 MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada yesterday faced new allegations that he received a US$2O million ($35 million) kickback from the sale of the country’s largest telephone company and pocketed more than US$l6 million
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      Lock icon Mahathir: 'Sayang' your rivers like lovers
      148 6 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has urged Malaysians to “sayang” or look after their rivers “as if they were their lovers”. “Make sure rivers are always beautiful,” the Prime Minister said. He was lamenting the fact that garbage
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        Lock icon Taiwan to ease media law
        72 6 AP TAIPEI Taiwan plans to allow Chinese media to station reporters on the island, a Taiwanese newspaper said yesterday. Government spokesman Su Cheng-ping said journalists from the mainland would be allowed to stay for up to a month, the United Daily News reported. Taiwanese law
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        Lock icon Anwar attacker appeals
        61 6 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s former police chief Rahim Noor attended court yesterday to appeal against his two-month jail term for assaulting ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim. But legal arguments delayed alreadystalled proceedings. He was sentenced in March after admitting assaulting Anwar in a police cell on Sept 20,
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        76 6 -AFP BANDA ACEH, Indonesia An estimated 388,000 people gathered yesterday in and around the capital of Indonesia’s Aceh Province for a two-day independence rally. The protesters assembled despite the deaths of at least 25 people in violence during the three-day run-up to the rally. Nine more civilians
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        Lock icon Vietnam tough on drugs
        82 6 1.-AFP HANOI Vietnamese courts condemned a record 86 people to death and 87 others to life in jail in the first three quarters of the year. Officials in Hanoi said yesterday that in the last nine months, the courts had heard 7,093 cases of drug trafficking
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        Lock icon Timor women 'abused'
        81 6 Reuters SYDNEY Abducted East Timorese women reportedly have been used as sex slaves by proJakarta militia now operating out of West Timor Ms Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, wife of independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao, said 33 abused and pregnant women recently returned. Ms Sword-Gusmao cited the case of one
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        Lock icon More woes for Mori
        89 6 Reuters TOKYO Japan ’s embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori suffered another blow yesterday when a leading rival from within his party issued a veiled threat to help the opposition to try to topple his government. Mr Koichi Kato was quoted as saying that he could stay
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        Lock icon Japan to slash aid
        101 8 -AFP TOKYO Japan, the world’s largest donor of overseas aid, is to slash its multi-billion-dollar budget for such assistance by up to 30 per cent next year, reports said yesterday. “We will aim for a 30 per cent cut,” in the next financial year starting in
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        Lock icon Foot reader gets the boot
        137 8 Bernama AKITA, Japan The Akita District Court today ordered the Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo foot-reading cult and its founder to pay 5.5 million yen ($89,000) in damages to a woman who claimed she was swindled out of millions of yen in 1994. Presiding Judge Masaki Sugimoto said
        – Bernama  -  137 words
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        Lock icon Umno 'will defeat' PAS
        139 8 Bernama KOTA BAHARU Kelantan Umno launched a campaign to recapture the state from PAS by holding a mammoth gathering here last night. State Umno liaison chief Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said the party wants to send a signal to PAS that Umno had awakened and would defeat
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        Lock icon One dies in trainer crash
        95 8 -AP BANGKOK A Thai air force jet on a practice run crashed in north eastern Thailand yesterday, killing the trainee and injuring the instructor, the air force said. The Czech-made L-39 jet crashed in Noansoong district, 210 km north east of Bangkok, said Colonel Prateep
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      257 7 -AP Critics say computers may not understand new languages without software upgrades NEW YORK The master keeper of dotcom names began accepting Asian characters yesterday. But some fear the move is premature. VeriSign Global Registry Services, the company in charge of domain names ending in .com,
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      Lock icon Food for thought
      62 7 For years, there had been reports of famine and starvation in North Korea. But this lush green field near Pyongyang where workers were yesterday picking cabbages seems to belie that. A 22-member delegation from South Korea began talks with their North Korean counterparts to open up the
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      Lock icon 'Irian poses serious threat'
      71 7 Reuters JAKARTA A senior Indonesian senior general has warned that the troubles in Irian Jaya poses a serious threat to the unity of Indonesia. “There has been a rapid escalation of separatist calls in Irian Jaya...the military has to be prepared,” said Lieutenant General Agus Widjojo.
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        Lock icon Keyboard friendship
        47 7 Gone are the days when you used to make pen pals through snail mail. Now, the fastest way to communicate is to chat on the Internet. Yak to Chat.msn.com, Chat.yahoo.com or Alamak.com where you can not only make friends, but improve your typing as well.
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        Lock icon Pen pals for 18 and above
        56 7 How's this for a change. Friendship sites are dime a dozen but there are a few where the pen pals you correspond to are behind bars. That's right. Welcome to penitentiary pen friends. With over 7,600 prisoners listed at Prisonpenpals.com, you can read their
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      Lock icon $3.6m found under house
      208 8 ADELAIDE Millions of dollars in cash was found by police under the floorboards of a house in Adelaide, a newspaper reported yesterday. The police are investigating what is alleged to be Australia’s biggest automated teller machine fraud. About As 4 million (553.6 million) was discovered in
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      Lock icon Twin slain in ID error
      103 8 Reuters BANGKOK A 19-year-old Thai man was murdered by a gang of attackers because he was mistaken for his twin brother, police said yesterday. Mr Udomporn Chaokongchak was attacked by four assailants and shot dead on Thursday in central Suphanburi Province. One of the attackers
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      Lock icon Missing HK boy: blackmailer jailed
      180 8 -AFP HONGKONG A jobless Hongkong man has been jailed for demanding cash to reveal the location of a missing autistic boy. The boy has been Awol for nearly three months in China. Tao Wai Hung, 30, was sentenced to six months after pleading guilty to
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      Lock icon An Acehnese youth wears a T-shirt with sign 'Referendum' during Friday prayers at the main mosque in the centre of Banda Aceh. Due to heavy police control, only a few thousand Acehnese gathered this year, mainly inside the mosque, whereas last year, about a million people protested in the centre of Banda Aceh demanding a referendum on secession of Aceh from Indonesia
      64 8 An Acehnese youth wears a T-shirt with sign 'Referendum' during Friday prayers at the main mosque in the centre of Banda Aceh. Due to heavy police control, only a few thousand Acehnese gathered this year, mainly inside the mosque, whereas last year, about a million people protested in the centre
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      201 6 Do You Know Your baby's skin, especially, needs gentle care You know that the skin of babies is so soft, young and fresh. As the amount of sebaceous excrete is extremely low, moisture evaporates from it quickly, making the babies’ skin dry. The skin is subject to chap easily, sometimes
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      Lock icon Concede defeat, Bush tells Gore
      536 10 Wire services FROM a vote difference of 1,784, the margin between the two men vying to be president of the US has narrowed to just 327 votes. That is enough and Vice-President Al Gore should concede defeat now, said the Bush team yesterday. Unofficial results
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      Lock icon Not the best, but it's our way, Americans say
      248 10 -AFP LOS ANGELES It may be a wacky way to chose a president, but it’s the only one we have. That seemed to be the reaction of many Americans in the aftermath of the cliffhanger that left this country with no
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      Lock icon Love is in the brain
      247 11 Scientist identifies parts of the brain stimulated by images of sweethearts -ap NEW ORLEANS When you’re in love, your eyes light up, your face lights up and so does your brain. “It’s the common denominator of romantic love,” said Mr Andreas Bartels, a doctoral student
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        Lock icon Boy, 8, shoots brother, 7
        75 11 AP NEWARK, New Jersey An 8-year-old boy shot dead his 7-year-old brother while playing with a gun in their bedroom, authorities said. When their 29-year-old stepbrother lan Forte who is also their legal guardian came home, he grabbed the 9mm gun and a stash of
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        Lock icon Carjack dad shot kids
        97 11 AP CHESTERTOWN, Maryland A man accused of shooting his two young kids as they sat in their car seats and then blaming it on a carjacker, has pleaded guilty to murder. Richard Spicknall, 28, was taking the children to his parents’ home in Ocean City, Maryland,
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        Lock icon Human trafficker held
        55 11 AP SAN FRANCISCO A Thai man has denied allegations that he helped smuggle 10 women and two girls from Thailand to be sold into prostitution in the US. US authorities said Ramruay Mangmee, 56, brought the women and girls to the US. The women owed Mangmee as
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      Lock icon S'pore-JB travellers
      35 11 gofigure How many Singaporeans cross the Causeway to Johor every month? An average ofBoo,oo. During the Mega Sales Carnival in August, a record 1.9 million tourists visited Johor and the majority were S'poreans.
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      Lock icon Stowaway caused jet to abort journey
      143 11 Romanian 'just wanted to fly' -AP MUNICH A stowaway was found to be preventing the pilot from retracting the undercarriage of a passenger jet. The discovery was made after the Berlin-bound Deutsche BA Boeing 737 was forced to return to Munich, police said Thursday.
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      Lock icon Israeli policeman hurt in blast
      96 11 JERUSALEM An Israeli policeman was slightly hurt yesterday in an explosion in east Jerusalem near the Old City. Police said initial inquiries indicated a Palestinian origin for the blast near the Herod’s Gate entrance to the walled Old City. Radical groups have called for the
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      Lock icon Super Dad lived 40,000 years ago
      108 11 justbelieveit -AP WASHINGTON Four out of five men in Europe share a male ancestor who lived 40,000 years ago. That's according to DNA tests on 1007 men from 25 different places in Europe, whose results were published in Science journal yesterday. Scientists examined the
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      Lock icon Bush family bushed by polls
      287 13 Reuters WASHINGTON Former President George Bush, who described the US election as “a roller coaster” ride for his family, praised his son, presidential candidate George W. for doing the “right thing and doing it with dignity. “I’m a father, a very proud father, proud of
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      Lock icon Malaysia's top judge Eusoff replaced
      123 13 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s top judge Eusoff Chin will be replaced by former journalist Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah. Eusoff, Chief Justice of the Federal Court since September 1994, is now 65, the compulsory age of retirement. He had his term extended by six months in June
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      Lock icon Gucci's jailed widow tries to kill herself
      163 13 Reuters MILAN Maurizio Gucci’s former wife tried to hang herself with a sheet in an Italian prison where she is serving a sentence for the fashion mogul’s murder. Patrizia Reggiani was dubbed the “Black Widow” after being convicted of ordering Gucci's gangland-style killing
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      Lock icon Men madder than cows, says Bardot
      122 13 -AFP NICE, FRANCE Animal rights activist and former actress Brigitte Bardot demanded Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany resign over the mad cow crisis engulfing the country. In an open letter entitled “Men madder than cows” on Thursday, she said the minister should step down “because
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      Lock icon Gus Dur rejects Tommy's plea
      255 15 -AFP JAKARTA Former President Suharto’s fugitive son won’t get a special cell or be allowed to keep bodyguards in jail, said Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. The President, who is also known as Gus Dur, said Hutomo “Tommy’ Mandala Putra, who is now on the run
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      Lock icon Crooner Wiranto begins 10-city tour
      188 15 AP JAKARTA Having been kicked out of office amid accusations of human rights abuses, Indonesia’s former security chief Gen Wiranto is set to take to the road to promote his new career as a singer of love songs. This weekend, he will begin a tour
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      Lock icon British team to bat for Imran Khan
      103 15 Reuters LAHORE, Pakistan Former cricket captain Imran Khan is organising a musical concert by the British Boney M band for his charity project. Funds raised at the event tomorrow will go towards his Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer hospital in Lahore, said sources close
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      Lock icon Rong Yiren still the richest man in China
      158 15 Reuters SHANGHAI China’s wealthiest denizens have got richer this year, but Rong Yiren, former Chinese Vice-President and former chairman of the country’s premier investment firm Citic, still tops the chart, according to Forbes magazine. Rong and his family have net holdings of
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      138 14 u*^Lo, f-/ ii \7 LUmim m Ui •4 Thank you for l Tvnr making DBS Internet Banking Asia’s Best. Since we began in 1997, thousands and thousands of Singaporeans have signed on to DBS Internet Banking to transfer funds, pay bills and cheek investments. And it was only with your
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      422 16 TheStmitsTrni^ 'MILLION miLAR ■BU4}IRMI| 'Wf PM IH wr. mximmwmmmmiismm Bring; the whole family down to the Singapore River tomorrow for a day of fun, games and activities! There'll be stage performances, fun rides, food and crafts stalls, cool games, contests and more! The highlight of the day? The massive sea
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      Lock icon AMP proposal: My family not consulted
      303 17 AS a Malay teenager, I have experienced for myself the freedom we enjoy between different races. I am able to communicate well with friends of different races. If not for Singapore’s withdrawal from Malaysia, we would have been a country where Malays would be
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      Lock icon That chilly phone call that left race open
      334 17 betweenthelines Were was no script Things kept happening that had never happened before. So it was simply the crowning weirdness on a wild and whiplashed night, one among many bizarre things, when Vice President Al Gore phoned the Texas Governor's Mansion to
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      Lock icon Gambling dream that almost toppled a president
      336 18  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH JUETENG (pronounced “whereteng”) is an illegal lottery that is hugely popular in the Philippines. And President Joseph Estrada could be the biggest loser in jueteng history. Mr Estrada stands accused of receiving bribes amounting to 414 million pesos ($15.1 million)
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      613 19 A former president's daughter is waiting, ready to become president in the Philippines. Before the US decides on its next president, the Philippines may well be ready to announce its own. Reuters STANDING ready to take over from Mr Joseph Estrada as the country’s next
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      80 20 More than mere pop stars, more than presidents and politicians, this Singapore Girl deserves pin-up status. She is Farzana Razak, flight attendant, loving daughter, heroine of doomed SQOO6. Farzana, who is being treated for burns at Singapore General Hospital, had her bandages removed on Tuesday. And her first
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      212 20 facesandphases PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong marks his 10th year as PM on Nov 28. He has come a long way since his entry in politics way back in 1976, when Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew described him as a "self-conscious new MP”. Here's a
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      248 21 NOW Faye Wong has no reason to complain that Nicholas Tse is unromantic. In a song, Writing Myself a Love Letter, Faye, 30, hinted that her beau never pens a love letter. The good-looking lad got the message, reported Apple Daily. But no, he didn’t
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        262 22 The Impostor Syndrome Yesterday Streats ran a quiz to test if you're a victim of the syndrome a person who seems to ooze with confidence, but may have hidden insecurities. Three local celebrities also took the test. Here are their results What it says about her: An
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        423 22 7. Speech and breathing When you feel anxious, slow down your speech, use a lower tone of voice and make eye contact with those you are speaking to. This will send the message to your brain that you are in control. 2. Posture
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        140 31 Bring It On Directed by: Peyton Reed Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford\ Gabrielle Union LIKE Clueless, this film is like so much candy floss lightweight, easily consumed, but satisfying while it lasts. Button-nosed actress Kirsten Dunst is Torrance, the newly elected, highly enthusiastic
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        55 31 Golaugh Directed by: Howard Deutch Starring: Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Jon Favreau, Brooke Langton A couple of scabs are hastily assembled to replace the US football team the Washington Sentinels, who have gone on strike. Keanu "I have only one facial expression" Reeves leads the pack of characters
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        55 31 Gocry Directed by: Hugh Hudson Starring: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Robert Loggia Sigourney Weaver had Gorillas In The Mist, Meryl Streep Out Of Africa. And Kim Basinger now gets to headline her own nature flick. Basinger is Italian Kuki Gallman, a real-life animal activist. Weep at
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        64 31 Goromance Directed by: Wong Kar Wai Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Set in Hong Kong in the *****, Tony Leung's journalist Chow Mo-wan falls for Maggie Cheung's Su Li-zhen after discovering their respective partners are having an affair. Sounds like the Harrison Ford
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        57 31 Gothrill Directed by: Tsui Hark Starring: Wu Bai, Nicholas Tse, Cathy Chui If you have a weak stomach for gore and violence, be warned. Chilling and graphic, the movie with the self-explanatory title shows life in the urban jungle through the eyes of a serial killer, where
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          54 31 Saturday, 7 pm, TCS 5 This movie was Michelle Pfeiffer’s first cinematic outing and you can’t help but be amused by her early ‘Bos get-up. She stars as a tough cookie who wants to defy all social codes to date a dork, played by Maxwell Caulfield, who is
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          62 31 Saturday, 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) This movie was an instant hit with its stylish martial arts jiOl choreography astounding visual effects and jPIBf surreal plot. Keanu fST Reeves stars as a pro- MH grammer who receives IT a shock when he realis- es that the world he lives in
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          45 31 Sunday, 4pm, TCS 5 This is only one of the popular dramas to hit the small screen. It’s a family drama starring Melina Kanakaredes (NYPD Blue) as an altruistic plastic surgeon who abandons her career to return to her hometown in Providence, Rhode Island.
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          79 31 Sunday, 10pm, TCS 5 Nicole Kidman stars in this Ik black comedy that Ilk showed the world she > could act She plays m Suzanne Maretto, I j|j who’s determined to r Jar 9 et on TV She starts JjF out as a secretary, and W then
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          52 31 Sunday, 9pm, Cinemax (SCV 59) Hot shot lawyer Jan Schlictmann (John Travolta), is hired to file a suit against two of America’s largest corporations J when children in a small I New England town die 1 from water contamination. An open-and-shut case worth millions soon becomes a
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        233 32 Rate the party animal do your bit for charity Hot or not? IN THIS week’s Hot seat is Malti Kripalani, 24, a marketing manager for a music-related televi- sion channel. |L She was spotted at Bar None, her regular haunt. Her charity of choice: the Breast Cancer Foundation. Malti is
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        157 33 YOU are what you eat. If cancer seems to run in your family, try consuming more of the following foods, which contain important elements that reduce the risk of cancer. Green vegetables not only contain lots of fibre, they are also rich in anti-oxi-dants.
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        278 34 Sharron Ng, 25, Project engineer HOT, hot and hot. That’s how I describe Death Valley National Park in Southern California. It has a desert climate, with temperatures in the day soaring to 48 degrees Celsius. Despite the heat, the trip was definitely worth it. I
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        288 34 Rating on a scale of one to five, with five black circles being the best LISTEN PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea Island •••CO PJ Harvey has come a long way. She is still intense but she taps the suffering of her angst-ridden soul
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        290 35 YOU'VE spent the past week slogging at work. Finally it’s Saturday. Time to wind down and calm those frazzled nerves. If you’re one of those who takes pleasure in spending your hard-earned money, here’s a thought. How about taking a break from the concrete jungle along Orchard
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        123 35 THE second method of proper breathing that will aid you in falling into a good sleep is Stroking Breathing with Humming. The method is the same as the method of stroking breathing which we ran in last week’s edition. However, this time, begin humming when your
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        136 35 1. Take time for leisure. In this busy world, it’s very easy to forget that you need a break. Consciously make time to do something that you enjoy, be it exercise or reading a book at home. 2. Do something for others. One kind act begets another
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        162 36 -AFP LONDON Manchester United cap- tain Roy Keane hit out at sections of Old Trafford supporters for not getting behind the team in its 1-0 life Champions League win over Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday. ‘Sometimes you wonder, do they understand the game of football?” said Keane, who
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        286 36 Reuters ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA US Open champion Marat Safin, in a tight race with Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten for the world No 1 ranking, is dreaming of winning the title, but also admits he is feeling the pressure. “I really want to be number
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        297 36 -AP SOTOGRANDE, SPAIN Tiger Woods stood his ground on Thursday in his criticism of the PGA Tour, saying his complaint is about getting control of his own marketing rights, not about more TV money. He also refused to rule out leaving the PGA Tour if the
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        454 37 -AFP LONDON -Freshfrom European success in Italy, Leeds travels south to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge tomorrow, looking for valuable points to close the gap on the Premiership pace-setters. The Yorkshire side currently lies eighth in the table, nine points behind leader Manchester United,
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        452 37 -AP LEICESTER David Beckham will lead England out as captain for the first time against Italy in Turin on Wednesday in one of the youngest-ever England squads. Peter Taylor, the Leicester City manager who has been put in charge for this game with full-time
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        591 38 -AP PORTLAND (Oregon) The Portland Trail Blazers emerged from their offensive slumber, getting coach Mike Dunleavy off their backs. Steve Smith, Bonzi Wells and Dale Davis each scored 17 points as Portland put together a complete game finally and defeated the weary Denver Nuggets 107-91
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        212 38 -Bloomberg NEW YORK An arbitrator ruled that National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern could void Joe Smith’s previous contracts, meaning the free-agent forward probably will not re-sign with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Stern voided Smith’s contract with Minnesota for this season, as well as his previous
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        294 39 -AFP MILAN Udinesemay be leading the Italian Serie A, but ailing giant Juventus and defending champion Lazio will take centre stage when they clash at the Stadio delle Alpi today. The Turin club will be determined to put its mid-week European
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        386 39 -AP SONGHKLA Vietnam will seek to avenge its Tiger Cup final defeat two years ago when it takes on Singapore today for a semi-final place. A victory would not only give Vietnam a place in the last four but possibly ensure it finishes as Group
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        172 39 SONGKHLA Laos and Cambodia have only pride to play for in their Tiger Cup soccer clash here today. Both are eager not to leave the tournament without a win and the battle ahead promises to be a fierce one. Not unlike the
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