Streats, 2 December 2000

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 2 December 2000 1 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 593 1  -  by J< lOYCELYN WONG THREE-AND-A-HALF months after she was first charged, former TV presenter Zahara Abdul Lateef has admitted abusing her maid. In a surprise turnaround, she pleaded guilty to one charge of
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  • 111 1 In fact, if somebody wants to edge me out, I would dig in my heels. I'm not going to just be pushed over.... I do not have an exact date as to when I leave, but I want to achieve that goal
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  • morning rush
    • 48 1 WORKERS who have lost their jobs should consider switching to the building and maintenance industry, where 6,000 training places will be available over the next three years under a new Skills Redevelopment Programme. Dr John Chen, Minister of State for National Development, made this call yesterday.
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    • 62 1 THE INFOCOMM Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has again been ranked as the best regulatory authority in the Asia Pacific. In the Telecom Asia Users survey which covered 12 Asia Pacific markets, the IDA scored for its move to fully free up Singapore’s telecommunication market in April
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 362 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has described Singapore as “a nation of moaners and groaners, unfortunately.” Singaporeans complain, “hoping to get more out of the government,” he told the Asian Wall Street Journal in an interview which was published yesterday. But, he added, they are
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    • 53 2 Pasir Ris town council is planning a cycling trackcum footpath, or a community mall, to help residents get around town. Chairman Charles Chong (right) and Cheng San Town Council chairman Heng Chiang Meng give a preview of what the community mall would be like Pic:
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    • 240 2 -AFP BOMBAY There is no reason why trade between Singapore and India should not grow in double digits every year. That was what Minister for Trade and Industry BrigadierGeneral George Yeo (NS) told Indian business leaders in Bombay
      -AFP  -  240 words
    • 226 2 On Nov 7, Faridah Abdul Fatah, 42, a tour guide, was fined $1,500 and jailed three weeks for clipping eight clothes pegs to her maid’s ears and then yanking them off one by one. She also pulled Miss Sugiarti Sugino’s hair and pushed her
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    • 339 3 MADAM Seah Lin See’s friends envy her for having two grandchildren. But she can’t pronounce their English names and they don’t know how to speak dialect to her. More children speak English at home than youths and adults, especially among the Chinese and the
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    • 121 3 morningsmile A seaman talks to a pirate in a bar. The pirate has a peg-leg, a hook and an eye-patch. The seaman asks: "So how did you end up with a peg-leg?" The pirate replies: "We were in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard. Just
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    • 339 3  -  by JOYCELYN WONG HE must have been over the moon when he realised the 4D lottery tickets had the winning numbers for the first prize. Not only that, there were two tickets. That meant a total of $254,000 in prize money. But
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    • 336 4  -  by STEPHANIE GOH THE people at an HDB flat in Hougang could supply you with almost any document you wanted. Work permits, employment passes, safety orientation certificates and even blue identity cards. No problem. But there was one major problem all the documents were
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    • 106 4 onekindact Michelle Jay, executive, 23. I WOULD like to thank a TIBS bus driver who was driving along Railway Mall on Saturday Nov 18, around 1.30 pm. I understand that TIBS does allow pets on buses if they are in a proper carrier. However, my sister
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      • 86 4 ATOA Payoh shop owner lost her handbag to a thief she didn’t suspect, it was learned yesterday. A customer in her 60s asked for a closer look at some clothes that were on display in the shop on Wednesday. Miss Ng Chiw Hoe, 55, the shop owner,
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      • 92 4 A TOTAL of 164 suspected drug offenders were arrested in a 17-hour islandwide operation that ended yesterday. Operation Dragnet started at noon on Thursday and ended yesterday at sam. Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers seized 13 sachets and 61 straws of heroin weighing 103 g,
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      • 81 4 A MALAYSIAN taxi driver who was paid $4O for illegally bringing two Chinese nationals into Singapore has been jailed for 12 months and had his four-month-old car confiscated. Khoo Keh Beng, 43, pleaded guilty to two counts of immigration law violation. On Aug 21, Khoo drove
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      • 47 4 FIRE swept through the second-storey of a timber factory warehouse at Defu Lane 4 on Thursday afternoon. More than 50 workers evacuated the warehouse after the fire started at about 4pm. No one was injured and the fire was put out after 40 minutes.
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    • 404 5 don't think people will stand here and keep drinking. I hope not! ~DFS region president SawPhaikHwa IF you are leaving from Changi Airport, you don’t have to take off before you get that free drink. They’re all for free at the bar which duty-free
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    • 83 5 Our weather girl says Going shopping today? Hope you have your umbrellas with you. There'll be showers with thunder over many areas in the morning and the skies will be partly cloudy thereafter. Temperatures will reach a high of 32° C. Catch the high tide, which will reach 2.5 m
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    • Just a minute
      • 58 5 You can help the less fortunate by dropping off food donations at charity gift boxes which will be placed islandwide until Dec 20. The boxes will be at the UR A carpark opposite Centrepoint Shopping Centre, Suntec City, Tampines Mall, Orchard MRT and other locations. Call 1800-*****62
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      • 51 5 Now, you have all the more reason to send greetings cards to your loved ones overseas. Sing Post has introduced special overseas postage rates for four main festivals: Christmas, Deepavali, Hari Raya Puasa and Chinese New Year. Until Jan 23 next year. For more information, call 1605 or visit
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      • 58 5 k Want to know which budding singer will win the music r trophy at the NUS Songs 2000 finals? Then be at the National Youth Park today I from Ipm to Bpm. You'll also get to enjoy a Band Jam which will feature the hottest band music
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 259 6 Reuters Opinion sharply dividedon Philippine Presidents chances of acquittal in impeachment trial MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada pleaded not guilty yesterday to corruption charges for which he faces an impeachment trial. The formal plea was entered by the President’s team of lawyers. A week-long series of
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    • 61 6 Left pic: Pasay City councillor Justo C Justo and a model pose beside the angel of death during the celebration of World Aids Day in the Philippine city yesterday. Right pic: The model bares flesh and the angel of death is transformed into
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    • 203 6 AP SEOUL Lee Suk Kyun, a 71-year-old North Korean, carefully unfolded a letter yesterday and found a lock of hair belonging to his late South Korean mother, whom he last saw 50 years ago. In the letter, his mother had written: This is Mom’s white
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    • 84 6 Reuters JAKARTA Thousands packed the Irian Jaya capital of Jayapura and other towns yesterday in peaceful rallies to mark the anniversary of a unilateral declaration of freedom from Indonesia. But 3,700 km away in Jakarta, police dispersed 300 Irianese protesters at the US embassy after they
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      • 84 6 Bernama IPOH, Malaysia A police chief inspector from Johor was yesterday charged in the Magistrate’s Court here with trafficking in 3.14 kg of cannabis at the Jelapang toll plaza last month. Che Saufi Kadir, 35, of the Pontian district police headquarters, is alleged to have
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      • 100 6 -AFP HANOI A Vietnamese businessman with huge debts has been sentenced to death for killing his two children as part of a suicide pact with his wife. Le Cao Tan, 37, was convicted of giving his children, aged three and 10, a sleeping draught and then
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      • 83 6 -AFP SYDNEY Australia will donate to East Timor’s fledgling fishing industry nets seized from illegal fishing operations. The nets were used during the Sydney Olympics to stop weeds from fouling rowers, officials said yesterday. The New South Wales government, which hosted the Olympics here in September, will
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      • 85 6 Reuters TOKYO Japan’s parliament on Thursday enacted legislation that would make human cloning a crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail. The bill bans such cloning, which it says is an act that “could have a serious impact on human dignity, the biological safety
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    • 58 6 webcites. So you popped the question The switch from single to married can be traumatic. Get help at Wedding-travel.com.sg, where banquet, make-up, photography and honeymoon are presented. More for the marrying kind Drop bySingaporebrides.com and learn from the experts'feature articles on marriage. Another site at Mywedding.com.sg
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    • 227 9 Reuters TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was dealt a critical blow yesterday. His top lieutenant and secre-tary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Mr Hiromu Nonaka, resigned at a time when a cabinet reshuffle was expected. The resignation politically weakens Mr Mori.
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    • 189 9 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has hit back at lawmakers who are investigating him over two money scandals. He said their investigations were “illegal”. “The DPR (House of Representatives) has formed illegal special commissions,” Mr Abdurrahman told a Muslim congregation after Friday
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    • 35 9 gofigure There are now one million dwelling units in Singapore spread over 10,000 ha. These homes comprise 78 percent highdensity housing, 13 per cent medium-density housing and 9 per cent low density housing.
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 247 11 Reuters TOKYO Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori has said that he will not return to Peru even if his presence is demanded by investigators in the country. There is a “calculated campaign” against him in Peru, Mr Fujimori said. During an interview yesterday with Kyodo news
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    • 203 11 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO American youth spend the most time surfing the Web while British kids have the most restrictions on their time spent online and Swedish households are the most concerned about the amount of time spent online, says a new study
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    • 129 11 justbelieveit -AFP NEW YORK -Fora mere US$lO ($l7) dollars on the eßay auction site, one can buy a stack of punch card ballots that the Florida voters struggled with to decide their next president "Find out for yourself if these ballots are as difficult to punch
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    • 78 11 -w AFP TABUK, SAUDI ARABIA A passenger who answered an incoming call on his mobile phone during a flight will be flogged. The verdict was handed down by the Islamic court in Tabuk, in north-western Saudi Arabia, reported Al-Medina. The passenger was arrested there
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      • 81 11 -AFP WASHINGTON A fire swept through a Minuteman nuclear missile facility in North Dakota on Thursday, destroying a building above ground but not reaching a launch control bunker 30m below ground, Pentagon officials said. The officials said the fire posed no danger to the 10 intercontinental
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      • 111 11 -AFP LOS ANGELES A distraught man contemplating suicide was told by police officers to go ahead and do it, according to a former cop co-operating with investigators probing police wrongdoing. “If you’re going to commit suicide, hurry up and do it, so we can get out of here,”
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      • 113 11 -AFP BUENOS AIRES A woman taken from her natural parents by the former Argentine military regime has sued her adoptive mother for concealing her origins, a human rights group said on Thursday. Andrea Viviana Hernandez Hobbas is seeking damages from Nelida Fontana for making a false statement
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      • 102 11 Reuters WASHINGTON Bone marrow might provide an easy source of new brain cells, offering treatments for a range of diseases from stroke to Alzheimer’s, researchers said on Thursday. They said tests on mice suggested that stem cells from bone marrow, which are a kind of master
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      • 105 11 Reueters NEW YORK President Bill Clinton, singer Michael Jackson and Jordan’s Queen Noor were honoured on Thursday for their work to fight cancer at a star-studded black-tie dinner to raise US$4 million ($7 million) for a cancer foundation. The president and wife, Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton, received an
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  • STREATS
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      191 13 Reuters, AFP S f *||jb ftV ||i#giiog'ceremo-p ny m Loitdon on Thursday Prmnka Chopra, 18, lived up to her reputation as the bookies’ favourite by beating 94 other contestants to take the crown and the $176,000 prize. She seemed close to tears as she collected the title from
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      • Article, Illustration
        481 15  -  by Diana Ser IT IS 3 a.m in the morning, London time. Miss Singapore World Chariyn Ding is finally back in her hotel room after the finals of Miss World 2000 at London’s Millenium Dome last night. “I was expecting to do quite well,” the bubbly 19-year-old
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    • Go havoc
    • Go play
      • 376 21 -AP LONDON Can anyone catch Manchester United? Probably not. The Red Devils, nearing the halfway point of the season, have already moved eight points ahead of slumping Arsenal. Talk of an unprecedented haul of all four major titles ended when United, fielding a second team
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      • 332 21 NATIONAL football coach Vincent Subramaniam will no longer take charge of the Lions, the Football Association of Singapore announced at a press conference yesterday morning. He will be replaced by Goal 2010 technical director Jan Poulsen, who will be caretaker national coach until
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      • 210 21 SHANGHAI China skipper Sun Wen is set to be named the female Footballer of the Century by Fifa, reported the Shanghai Morning Post on Thursday. Sun, who captained the Chinese side in the Sydney Olympics, learned of the award shortly before
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      • 397 22 -AP PORTLAND Even without two key players, the Portland Trail Blazers slowed the Dallas Mavericks’ fast start to triumph 95-84 on Thursday night. The home team won with a strong defence and contributions from role players along with another terrific game from Rasheed Wallace. He scored
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      • 195 22 AFP LISBON Lleyton Hewitt said he banished all thoughts of a Davis Cup victory from his mind as he tackled Spanish final opponent Alex Corretja at the Masters Cup on Thursday. But the knowledge that the Spaniard won their dress rehearsal for Barcelona next
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      • 392 23 Reuters PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida Tiger Woods, who captured three of golf’s four Major championships in 2000, was named the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year on Thursday. He earned the Jack Nicklaus Award, selected by a vote of PGA Tour members, for the third time in four
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      • 304 23 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Sweden’s Sorenstam sisters, Annika and Charlotta, overcame the hot sun and rain yesterday and fired a five-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead over Australia on the opening day of the inaugural Women’s World Cup Golf. The sisters sizzled on the
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 474 14 today, th Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com mmim MAY 21 JUN 21 Adventures blossom from the marriage of talent and luck. You like to keep others guessing about your erratic, last minute decisions. Your personality fills a room even when you say nothing.
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    • 317 16 RTERi .rf Hrnnnn SATURDAY Q 2 December 2000 pie Last Dragon Scout The story is about Scout, Protector of the 9th Column. But he finds himself in all manner of conflict, and has to stay one step ahead of alien bounty hunters who are out to strip himofhis'PowerViscos'. Being young,
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1478 17 x i; #1*1 Illi {NORTH) r t :ToRi«M Giordano Stop Giordano Junior Stop £7 Bugis UA Bugis Junction 337-9655 102 Dalmatians 12.50pm, 2.50, 4.50, 7 Red Planet 10.30am, 2.45pm, 7.15, 9.30,11.45 Charlie’s Angels 11.45am, 2pm, 4.30, 6.45, 9,11.15 Chicken Run 10.45am, 12.45pm, 9.15 The Grinch 5prn, 11.30 UA Beach Road
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 187 18 I AH!? PIP' <3 The story is about... A group of teenage basketball players who took on the challenge of an elderly spectator. He used to be a national basketball player until he was injured in a motorcycle accident While he was watching the teenagers play, a fairy visited him
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    • 363 20 Every week photographers from Streats will wander all over Singapore to catch you reading the paper. The reader's picture will be published each Saturday. And if it is your picture, you will win a limited edition Streats watch. But you must call 1-800-844-5566 and give us your name, l/C number
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    • 26 21 OnthePlayground— ICE SKATING Skate Singapore: Fuji tee Palace, 12pm SOCCER Fila Under-12 tournament: Ghim Moh Secondary, 9.30 am VOLLEYBALL Youth Tournament: Tiong Bahru CC, 8.30 am
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 112 23 Inthelivingroom BASKETBALL NBA: LA Lakers v San Antonio Spurs (Ch 23, 11.30 am). GOLF Women's World Cup: Day 2 (Sportscity and Ch2o, 11am). Nedbank Challenge: Day 3 (Ch 24, 5.30 pm). RUGBY UNION England v South Africa: (Ch 24, 10.30 pm). SOCCER Premier league: Man Utd v Tottenham (Ch 22
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