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Title Section22 2000-12-01 1 STREATS Treats for the* Strmm FRIDAY 1 December 2000 j Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/200022 words
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Article, Illustration650 2000-12-01 1 KAREN WONG - How HIV is transmitted Mainly through unprotected sex with carriers. Sharing needles for intravenous drug use. From mother to child during childbirth. Blood transfusion from an infected person. bi 'KAREN WONG HERE'S a poser for you this World Aids Day: How would you650 words
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Article34 2000-12-01 1 COME December, civil servants will get their 13-month bonus, a one-month Annual Variable Component (AVC), and a 0.25 month one-off Special Bonus. They have also received 0.75 month bonus in July.34 words
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Article37 2000-12-01 1 INSURANCE workers can now upgrade their skills to better face the challenges of the global marketplace under a new Skills Redevelopment Programme. Next year, 500 insurance staff will be sent for training under the scheme.37 words
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Article45 2000-12-01 1 A NEW training programme, e-Gen Education, can help small and medium enterprises get into e-commerce. The Productivity and Standards Board and Hewlett-Packard initiative announced yesterday aims to get one in three SMEs or 32,000 local enterprises to do business via the Internet by 2003.45 words
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Advertisement10 2000-12-01 1 Entire village of Aids victims left to die page 1310 words
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374 2000-12-01 2 THE A-level syllabus changes from 2002 and this has thrown students and parents into a pool of doubt and anxiety. According to a Nanyang Polytechnic survey of 200 students and an equal number of parents, six in 10 worry that374 words
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222 2000-12-01 2 Teachers should undergo special training WHAT if kids with sub-normal intelligence were allowed to go to school with normal kids? What if they could join them in sports, arts and music lessons? Would people accept them? Yes,222 words
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Article170 2000-12-01 2 The crisis has been a major setback for Asean and its member economies. Many external observers and investors still consider our economic prospectsdoubtful, and see Asean as an ineffective sunset organisation. These perceptions are political facts which can define political reality. If Asean economies do not170 words
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449 2000-12-01 3 KAREN CHEN - by KAREN CHEN jiff Imetherin Penang. When I decided to come to Singapore about 40 years ago, she said she wanted to come with me. She's been iiving with me since and we've taken care of her like family. Madam Fang449 words
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157 2000-12-01 3 A SINGAPORE Armed Forces member, who was absent without leave, was jailed for attempted theft from a parked vehicle. Nandakumar Kuppusamy, 21, accompanied his girlfriend on a hospital visit to a friend on Nov 13. While he was smoking in the carpark, he157 words
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Article227 2000-12-01 3 STEPHANIE GOH - by STEPHANIE GOH Victim conned at BugisMßT station LESS than a month after two Indonesian men were jailed for cheating nine women out of cash and valuables using ‘magic stones’ as bait, two other such conmen have struck. Ms Zuanah Ahmad, 42, was at Bugis MRT227 words
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406 2000-12-01 5 YVONNE KWOK - by YVONNE KWOK ONLY a year ago, Jason Easudas used to play football and go out with his friends every week. These days, the once-active 19-year-old spends most of his time in bed, watching TV, unable to participate in his favourite sport. Unable to406 words
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Article187 2000-12-01 5 A 19-YEAR-OLD man’s appeal against his sentence backfired yesterday when his jail term for rioting with a deadly weapon was doubled. Suresh Jiwa had asked for reformative training or probation. Chief Justice Yong Pung How decided he belonged behind bars. “I think you are a very187 words
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Article152 2000-12-01 5 ON July 14, Ch’ng Lei Meng, 18, and his pals quarrelled with another group at a pub on Tanjong Pagar Road. The following day Ch’ng arranged to meet Yeo Hong Leong, 18, at the pub. He told him to bring along a weapon, Lianhe Wanbao reported152 words
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Article89 2000-12-01 5 A WOMAN suffering from depression because of her inability to conceive stole from her employer to pay for her medical bills. Lee Phaik Lian, 31, a clerk with Klockner Haensel Far East, was in charge of payments to and from her company. On eight occasions between 199789 words
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Article71 2000-12-01 5 A 34-YEAR-OLD woman was driving along Yishun Avenue 1 on Wednesday morning when her car crashed into a mini-bus. She was trying to move into a left lane at about 8.40 am when she lost control and hit the mini-bus in the right lane. The71 words
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Article, Illustration352 2000-12-01 7 KHUSHWANT SINGH - by KHUSHWANT SINGH THIS week, 102 Dalmatians opened in theatres to the squeals of an adoring public. With their melting brown eyes and beautiful spotted coats, these dogs sure look cute and lovable. But ask Patrick and Karen Ee, owners of a Jack Russell terrier, andpic: AFP - 352 words
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Article, Illustration67 2000-12-01 7 Keep an umbrella handy when you're heading home after work today'cos showers with thunder can be expected islandwide in the late afternoon and early evening. Temperatures will hit a high of3l°C. High tide will reach 2.9 m at 1.28 pm. Weather girl Annie Yang from CarriePic: Francis Lee - 67 words
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Article47 2000-12-01 7 Special introductory fares for the Bukit Panjang LRT have ended and fares will go up by 10 cents. To make sure that you pay the correct fare, you may want to call the enquiry hotline at 893-6455 to find out what the new fares are.47 words
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Article54 2000-12-01 7 The West Coast Park, the biggest public playground in Singapore, is opened from 7am to 12midnight. So take the family there for a day of fun. And if you wish to book a barbecue pit, just fax your request to the National Parks Board at 292-9560. For more information,54 words
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Article43 2000-12-01 7 Get ready to jam as the National University of Singapore's Original Music Society presents the Pre-Stasis Showdown at the Music Atrium of Borders today at 7.30 pm. Go meet some of B the up-and-coming bands Wm in the local scene.43 words
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Miscellaneous10 2000-12-01 7 Break-fast time l for Muslims |k-, today: jp 6.56 pm10 words
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390 2000-12-01 8 Bernama f/he defeat signals one thing that the notion that all parliamentary and state seats contested under the NF are safe-is no longer true Bernama commentator Sivabalan KUALA LUMPUR Voting pat terns in Malaysia may be tilting towards racial lines and the– Bernama - 390 words
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Article71 2000-12-01 8 Oana- -TNA BANGKOK Acting Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan confirmed yesterday that he was selected by Asean to run for the post of UN secretary-general next year after Kofi Annan steps down. Former Singapore Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mabuhai is another Asean– Oana-; -TNA - 71 words
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Article57 2000-12-01 8 -AFP SYDNEY Australia’s Blue Mountains have joined the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canyon to become Australia’s 14th natural wonder to gain World Heritage status. The World Heritage Committee meeting in Cairns on Wednesday unanimously supported the addition of the million hectares of spectacular forest-AFP - 57 words
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Article65 2000-12-01 8 -AFP SHANGHAI Veggies grown from seeds sent into orbit will soon land in Chinese markets, the Shanghai Daily reported yesterday. Peppers and tomato seeds were spun in orbit for 15 days and bombarded with cosmic rays which produced mutations in the seed’s genes. After the satellite returned to-AFP - 65 words
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Article, Illustration214 2000-12-01 11 -AP #e violated constitution, say lawmakers JAKARTA A group of legislators urged parliament to declare President Abdurrahman Wahid guilty of violating the constitution. The move is considered the first possible step toward impeaching him, news reports and lawmakers said yesterday. “If Gus-AP - 214 words
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117 2000-12-01 11 -AFP Jakarta Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid left a routine cabinet meeting early yesterday, saying he had been advised to do so by his doctors. “I have a cold,” he told journalists as he left the meeting 80 Minutes after it started. “I had been advised-AFP - 117 words
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Article144 2000-12-01 11 Critics slam him for his attack on Singapore Bernama JAKARTA When Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid fired his salvo at Singapore over the weekend, it created more than just political shockwaves. In displaying poor temperament once again, he has provided fodder for critics to condemn his foreign policy.– Bernama - 144 words
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Article, Illustration485 2000-12-01 13 -AFP WENLOU, China In the past two years, 30 of the 800 residents in this village have died of Aids. At least 10 others are dying. A sample of 155 villagers tested found 95 were HIV-positive, a staggering 65 per cent. Nobody knows-AFP; Pic: Reuters - 485 words
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Article96 2000-12-01 13 -AFP The only help the villagers received was from two doctors, Dr Gui Xien and Dr Gao Yaojie, who heard aboutthe "mystery illness"and started coming to the village every few months with basic medicine, food and Aids information. The pair have often been driven out of Wenlou by-AFP - 96 words
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Article253 2000-12-01 15 -AFR Reuters Washington From the Polling room, the fight to find out Who will be the next US president moves to the court room. A US Supreme Court will sit later today to hear oral arguments from lawyers representing Republican George W Bush over-AFR; Reuters - 253 words
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Article188 2000-12-01 15 -AFP pago pago, American Samoa Ten people were injured in a hot in a clothing factory here amid claims that Samoans had been told they could beat up Asian workers, social workers said yesterday. v A Vietnamese woman in her e arly 20s lost an-AFP - 188 words
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138 2000-12-01 15 iustbelieveit LONDON It might be an award that makes people snigger and top writers shudder but Sean Thomas was thrilled at winning Britain's Bad Sex In Fiction literary prize. The award was created by The Literary Review Magazine eight years ago for the worst,138 words
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Article, Illustration258 2000-12-01 16 AFP LONDON Police were yesterday hunting three boys aged 11 to 15 who were spotted near the scene of a 10-year-old schoolboy’s stabbing to death. The murder has provoked shock and anger in Britain. Nigerian Damilola Taylor was attacked– AFP - 258 words
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Article100 2000-12-01 16 -AFP LONDON BBC radio is to clear its Christmas schedules for a unique, uninterrupted eighthour reading of a book about JK Rowling’s teenage wizard Harry Potter, it announced on Wednesday. The marathon version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will be read on Boxing Day,-AFP - 100 words
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Article75 2000-12-01 16 -AFP LOS ANGELES -A woman who allegedly ran over and killed a 65-year-old man with her car because he was Latino was found incompetent yesterday to stand trial. A judge agreed to send Marie Elise West, 35, to a psychiatric hospital after three psychiatrists concluded she was-AFP - 75 words
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Article94 2000-12-01 16 Reuters BOSTON A new study has confirmed that taking folic acid during pregnancy helps prevent a variety of birth defects, researchers said in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. The study built on a recent recommendation that pregnant women take folic acid to prevent spinal cord and– Reuters - 94 words
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Article51 2000-12-01 16 Reuters JOHANNESBURG South African agricultural authorities yesterday reported a new foot-and-mouth outbreak hundreds of kilometres from the scene of the country’s first infection in 44 years. The outbreak near Middelburg, east of Johannesburg in Mpumalanga province, comes weeks after thousands of animals were slaughtered in neighbouring KwaZulu-Natal.Reuters - 51 words
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Article, Illustration277 2000-12-01 19 Reuters LOS ANGELES Irish actor Phillip McQuillan, a relative unknown three months ago, is giving interviews, signing autographs and playing Beatles hits for a new generation of screaming fans. The reason for his new-found fame he plays John Lennon in a– Reuters; Pic: Reuters - 277 words
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Article, Illustration124 2000-12-01 19 GIGI LEUNG wants a change of image from the sweetk girl-next-door to sexy siren. k The singer, who has kjust joined Warner H Music, had volunteered Bto wear a low-cut dress to show off her “assets’ at her first MTV feature, jr reported Lianhe Wanbao124 words
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Article, Illustration193 2000-12-01 19 NEW YORK A plastic surgeon who killed his wife and tipped her corpse into the ocean from a small plane 15 years ago Was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. State Supreme Court Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder on Wednesday said trial193 words
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Article, Illustration207 2000-12-01 19 Reuter WASHINGTON Outgoing US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are trying to savour every minute they have left in the White House. “We’re trying to stay awake 24 hours a day so that we can relish every single minute,” Hillary told reporters on Wednesday– Reuter; Pic: AFP - 207 words
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Article, Illustration449 2000-12-01 21 CARA VAN MIRIAH - by CARA VAN MIRIAH WHEN 10,000 people descend on Sentosa’s Siloso beach for Singapore’s biggest beach party on Saturday night, one thing will be noticeably absent cameras and popping flashes. “Photography will be prohibited at Zouk-Out,” said Mr Andrew Ing, marketing manager of Zouk dance club, one449 words
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Article293 2000-12-01 21 RAVE is a filthy word in Singapore, often associated with drugs, illegal activities and, sadly, dance music. Crazed clubbers or “ravers” at rave parties “trip” on highly-emotional dance music using designer drugs like ecstasy and speed to get high. Raves are also known as dances of293 words
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Article, Illustration596 2000-12-01 22 Arti Mulchand - by Arti Mulchand New single will air on Power 95 next week. Meanwhile; the songwriter laments that his album's been buried amid media fracas MAD Chinaman Dick Lee will get his airtime on RCS after all. Bernard Lim, assistant vicepresident of programming at thePic-Francis Lee 1 - 596 words
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Article, Illustration107 2000-12-01 22 7.30 pm, TCS 5 On a good day, Harry (Jeff Daniels, with drippy nose) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey, with a bowl haircut) might be considered slackers. On a bad day they k are bums. Harry, who is a m dog beautician and |H drives a van that107 words
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Article, Illustration84 2000-12-01 22 10pm,TCS 5 Bette Midler is rich wife Brenda. Goldie Hawn is actress Elise, and Diane Keaton is housewife Annie. All are in their mid-40s, all have helped their spouses build up successful businesses and all have husbands who leave them for younger i women. Brought togeth- er84 words
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Article, Illustration68 2000-12-01 22 11pm,TCS8 He was recently voted the No 1 sex-ual fanta- sy of Taiwanese girls, and with good reason. A combination of boyish good looks and talent, this classically trained singer-songwrit- er-musician wrote and arranged all 11 tracks W on his seventh Mandarin album. It’s difficult not to68 words
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Article55 2000-12-01 22 Bpm, Disney (SCV 33) This classic cartoon is much smart-er than Dumb and Dumber and just as much fun. Dumbo is a baby ele-phant with huge ears who is ridi-culed by the rest of the circus performers. That is, until he learns to use his ears as wings to55 words
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Article65 2000-12-01 22 10pm, VV Entertainment (SCV 56) Cheng is an undercover cop work-ing in a secret society. He becomes boss Dragon’s right hand man. Despite Dragon’s withdrawal from the secret society, he is blacklisted by the police for a series of crimes. When he emerges from prison, he65 words
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417 2000-12-01 24 Just one, question It all depends. If the person is in a great deal of pain and in my heart, I feel that we've done everything we can, then I just might. But only if the person is an immediate family member.417 words
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Article, Illustration391 2000-12-01 24 ARTI MULCHAND - by ARTI MULCHAND IVAN Rantung wants to colour your world Orange. That’s the name of his upcoming club on Mohamed Sultan Road. The former Perfect 10 radio presenter has finally taken over failed club venture Honey, which j occupies a 7,000 sq ft singlestorey space. When he391 words
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Article, Illustration351 2000-12-01 26 Wileen Chang - two shoes by Wileen Chang TAIWANESE porridge, unlike its Teochew cousin, which looks and tastes like rice swimming in water, is smooth in texture and sweet, flavoured with pieces of sweet potato. Once used as a supplement to fill everyone’s bowl because there was not enough ricePic^Frjgdriflf - 351 words
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Article71 2000-12-01 26 How to use a napkin: As soon as you are seated, remove the napkin from your place setting, unfold it and put it on your lap At some very formal restaurants, the waiter may do this for you. If your napkin falls on the floor during a very71 words
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Article62 2000-12-01 26 Jeremy Wang, sales executive, recommends you try: LOR MEE at Stall 28, Tiong Bahru Market Jeremy says: "The most important aspect of lor mee must always be the gravy. The gravy here is very tasty and not too starchy. There are heaps of garlic, vinegar and plenty62 words
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Article, Illustration610 2000-12-01 31 Daredevil lasted 62 hours in frozen chamber Reuters This is by far the most painful thing I am ever going to go through physically, much more difficult than being buried alive -David Blaine on TV last week NEW YORK The Iceman cometh out. After– Reuters; Pic: Reuters - 610 words
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Article, Illustration168 2000-12-01 36 Reuters LIVERPOOL Liverpool manager Gerard Houll-, ier believes his team/ is not yet mature/ enough to win the! English PremierV League. The club’s title have been hit by a series of defensive mistakes in recent matches that have led to defeats at Leeds, Tottenham– Reuters; Pic: Reuters - 168 words
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Article, Illustration270 2000-12-01 36 AP HAMBURG Dad Boris Becker sees his son Noah Gabriel, 6, a potential tennis star. But he does not want his son to be like him. Dad prefers son to be a football or even a basketball star. The reason? Becker says his son– AP; Pic: Reuters - 270 words
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