Streats, 8 December 2000

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 8 December 2000 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon PM has operation
      51 1 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong underwent a minor operation in Singapore General Hospital yesterday to repair a torn cartilage in his right knee. The tear was a sports injury. The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that Mr Goh is well and should be discharged by
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      Lock icon Tie-up on hold
      45 1 SINGTEL and Japan’s KDDI have put on hold their proposed $6lO million joint venture. Confirming this yesterday, Sing Tel dismissed talk that the postponement was because of a souring of relations. “We have a good working relationship,” said a Singtel spokesman yesterday
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    Lock icon Your kind of place
    373 1 New university in the heart of town wiii make you part of its life YOU may not be a student of the Singapore Management University (SMU). But its urban campus in the Bras BasahStamford Road area might as well have been built for you. Yes, you.
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Improve S'poreans' lives, councils told
      379 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has given town councils an order: Make life easier and better for Singaporeans. He gave a few suggestions: Work with Community Development Councils to provide a range of services. Learn from Hongkong estate managers who provide meal delivery services for
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      Lock icon Oz – S'pore FTA could start ball rolling
      205 2 Oz S'pore FTA could start ball rolling THE new free trade agreement between Singapore and Australia could be a catalyst in setting up a network of such pacts throughout the Asia-Pacific region, said Minister for Trade and Industry George Yeo yesterday. “It will help to create a closer economic partnership
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        Lock icon Crash driver succumbs
        82 2 TEO Cheong Poh, 43, died on Wednesday, five days after he was in an accident on Sembawang Road. Mr Teo was travelling along Sembawang Road towards Gombas Avenue last Friday when his lorry collided into the rear of another. Teo lost control of his lorry which mounted
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        Lock icon Couple hurt in crash
        93 2 A PREGNANT woman and her husband were in intensive care yesterday after a car hit their motorcycle. On Wednesday evening, draughtsman Eugene Lim, 37, and his wife, Joanne Ong, 30, seven months’ pregnant, were heading towards Sims Drive on Kallang Road when they collided with a
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        Lock icon Handphone shop robbed
        112 2 A PHONE shop on Yung Sheng Road was robbed on Tuesday. Shop owner Chang Teck Choi, 41, told Streats he only realised the shop had been robbed when he was about to get change for a customer the next day. “Everything looked normal when I came in.
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        Lock icon World's worst extortionist
        110 5 TEO Chai Boon, 24 tried to extort $lOO from a minirmart owner but he had a couple of drinks first to pluck up his courage. Having downed a few shots, Teo went to Shah Econ Mini-Mart in Serangoon Road on Aug 6 at 11.10 pm. He was
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        Lock icon He sold girlfriend for sex
        116 5 A 24-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced in court yesterday for pushing his girlfriend into prostitution. So they could pay the bills. Cheng Leng Kiong and his live-in girlfriend had been living in various hotels since March. When their money ran out in October, Cheng asked his
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      Lock icon $500 for 9 words
      144 5 "EVEN if you stripped naked, I wouldn’t want you.” Those words cost tour agency manager Lim Soh Hoon Guan, 53, $5OO. On the afternoon of Sept 30, 1998, a 26-year-old woman went to Lim Soh’s tour agency in Lucky Plaza to get a refund, Shin Min
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      Lock icon Here's Dr Lee
      139 5 -AFP HONGKONG Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew received an honorary doctorate yesterday from the Chinese University in Hongkong. He received the title doctor of laws. In his speech, Mr Lee stressed that the future of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) was in the hands of its people
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      73 2 IN our Just a Minute column on Nov 23, we said that owners of weekend cars can now convert their vehicles to normal cars and that the conversion will cost $BOO plus the unused portion of the $15,000 rebate given. Owners will also have to pay the savings in
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      Lock icon CNB officer jailed for fabricating evidence
      280 3  -  by SHEELA NARAYANAN She replaced the drugs that she lost with a substitute MAGESVARI Somasundaram was doing well at work. She was a corporal with the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) and received good reports from her supervisors during her five years there. Magesvari, 26,
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      Lock icon Thanks, anyway
      107 3 onekindact Tan Li Ling, 16, student I WAS at the DBS Bank at around 7.20 pm on Nov 15. My card got jammed in the ATM card slot I tried pulling the card out by force, but to no avail. Desperate, I asked a man behind me for
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      Lock icon 4 illegals nabbed
      134 3 IMMIGRATION officers who stopped a Malaysian car at Woodlands Checkpoint Departure Section on Wednesday night found four people hiding in the boot. The four were a 36-year-old male Indian national on a social visit pass and three Thai overstayers a 28-year-old man, and two women aged 28
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      Lock icon Third case of youth peddling drugs over Net
      316 3  -  by VIOLETTA WONG A 21-YEAR-OLD drug pusher thought that he had befriended a potential client through the Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Throughout last month, the man, a business studies student at a private school, chatted with an undercover officer from the Central
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      Lock icon Campus in the city
      60 7 In 2005, students will still be rushing about the site of the National Library. By then the Singapore Management University's phase 7 of construction will be completed and a new campus will arise in the heart of the Civic District. The drawing above is part of
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      73 7 Our weather girl says Today's not a good i day to dry your I clothes outside, r Expect showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening over the north, central and east. Temperature will reach 33° C. High tide will reach 2.7 m at 8.35 am. V Weather
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      Lock icon System to make water potable
      289 7  -  by KAREN WONG Local scientists develop new water purification system IN CASE of a chemical spill or an E-coli virus outbreak in our limited water reservoirs, you can still drink the water, thanks to a new water purification system developed by scientists here. The new
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this week...
        40 7 Help raise funds for underprivileged Muslims families and organisations by donating to the Tabung Amal Aidilfitri charity fund during Ramadan. Contributions of $lO and $5O can be made by calling, respectively, the following numbers: 1900-112-8814 and 1900-112-8815.
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        23 7 The third free flu vaccination exercise for senior citizens is on today from 10.30 am onwards at Blk 5, Beach Road, O2-4943.
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        37 7 Attention all hard-rock fans! Jump your way to the beat of alternative, ska and heavy metal music bands at the National Youth Council Youth Park this evening at 7pm. Admission is free. Call 874-2492.
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      Lock icon Do we really need a fourth university?
      371 6 Just one question In Singapore, you can't just stop after getting a polytechnic diploma. You have to get a degree at least. So this is a good way for us to upgrade ourselves. Cindy Liang, 19, a Singapore Polytechnic student It's not really
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Ramadan offenders to be shamed
      52 8 .-afp KUALA LUMPUR Islamic chiefs in Kedah will shame Muslims caught eating during Ramadan by announcing their names on the radio. Fadzil Hanafi, religious affairs committee chairman in Kedah, was quoted by the Star yesterday as saying names and addresses would also be published in
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      Lock icon Prosecutor says... Estrada acted like mob boss
      333 8 -AFP prosecution will show that not only did Joseph Ejercito Estrada not execute the laws; he was the first to violate them. Prosecutor Feliciano Belmonte MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada is a thief who has run his land like a gangland boss, said
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      Lock icon KL confirms new CJ
      142 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR The Malay sian government confirmed the appointment of a new chief justice yesterday. Legal experts hope the move will restore the integrity of a judiciary criticised at home and abroad. Tan Sri Mohamad Dzaiddin Abdullah, 63, a former journalist who has served as
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      115 8 webcites THE time has come when you don't have to flip a book. You can switch it on. Introducing Rocket eßook frocketbook.comj and the Softbook Reader (softbook.comj, where all you need to do is to download the text of your favourite novels and carry it to
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      Lock icon Romance blossoms in Internet chat room for over-35s Never met, ready to wed
      217 11 -AFP PERTH They ’ve never met but knew each other through an Internet chatroom. Yet, an Australian man and an American woman are ready to get married early next year. Mr Mike Wilson, a 37-year-old store manager
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      Lock icon Cyberpaper removes 'investigative' sex report
      125 11 Reuters HONGKONG An online newspaper in Hongkong has removed a video clip with a controversial “investigative” report on the local sex trade which included a reporter having sex with a prostitute. A statement published on the HKCyber website said that the leisure section which carried
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      Lock icon Aussie-Indon talks hit snag
      257 13 Reuters CANBERRA On-again, offagain talks to repair AustraliaIndonesia relations were postponed only minutes before they were to begin yesterday. Indonesia requested the postponement until later in the day, but gave no reason for the delay, said an Australian official. The talks, originally scheduled for October, are
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      Lock icon M'sia jails 6 arms heist cultists
      218 13 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Six members of a shadowy Malaysian cult were given 10 years in jail yesterday for preparing to wage war against the country’s king. The authorities had arrested 29 members of the Al-Ma’unah group after they launched an arms heist and hostage
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      Lock icon 3 airlines interested in MAS
      153 13 -AP KUALA LUMPUR The chair man of Malaysia Airline System has said that three foreign carriers Qantas, KLM and Swiss Air are interested in buying his 29.1 per cent stake, a newspaper reported yesterday. But Qantas said it has decided not to take a large
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Bush got help from official
      353 15 ap She helped Republicans fill in voter ID numbers on absentee ballots TALLAHASSEE, Florida Seminole County’s veteran elections supervisor on Wednesday admitted allowing Republican Party officials to fill in voter ID numbers on absentee ballots the first time she had done so for any party.
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      Lock icon Pee is for perfume
      190 15 -AFP LONDON Enforcement officials inspectors have seized a batch of eau de toilette which is, quite literally, eau de toilet, British newspapers reported yesterday. Tests on fake bottles of the Chanel No 5 brand of perfume on sale at an open-air market in Oxfordshire, north of
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      Lock icon Spy 'shadow' over US-Russia ties
      101 15 -AFP WASHINGTON The US said it would continue to pressure Russia to free Mr Edmond Pope, condemned on Wednesday to 20 years’ hard labour in a Russian prison camp, for espionage. “There’s no doubt this has cast a shadow over US-Russian relations,” said White House
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      Lock icon 20pc ready to do it for a promotion, says survey 28pc UK women had sex at work
      215 16 Reuters The most popular location for workplace sex was'his office' LONDON Twenty-eight per cent of British working women say they have had sex in the office and 65 per cent of them don’t
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      Lock icon Software to fool Net controls by March
      183 16 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO, California An international band of programmers are to release software to bypass World Wide Web restrictions imposed by various countries, including China, Cuba, and Iran, one member said. The programmers, known as “The Cult of the Dead Cow”, is a
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      Lock icon Twins' parents tell of pain and joy
      406 18 The parents did not want one twin to be sacrificed to save the other but the High Court overruled their objections Reuters LONDON The parents of Siamese twins separated in a controversial operation in Britain last month spoke yesterday of their anguish at
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      Lock icon California threatened with power outages
      197 18 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO California is teetering on the brink of widespread blackouts. About a third of the state’s power plants are out of service and there is little power to buy from neighbouring states. “We have a large number of plants off line. We haven’t
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Scott's over the top
      329 19 Reuters LOS ANGELES He scuba dives, sky dives, races cars and motorcycles, rides rodeo bulls, jumps between buildings and leaps on the backs of mechanical bulls. If it is risky and legal, actor Scott Glenn, 58, wants to do it and maybe already has. He played
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      Lock icon Fann and Chris pair up in Taiwan
      173 19 FANN and Chris will be playing lovers again in Taiwanese serial Green Snake and White Snake. Fann Wong and Christopher Lee will pair up on screen again. The two stars, who will play opposite each other in MediaCorp’s upcoming, serial Xing Suo, will
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      Lock icon Madonna to wed in Scottish Highlands
      327 19 Reuters DORNOCH, Scotland Pop superstar Madonna is to marry her film director boyfriend Guy Ritchie in the Scottish Highlands on December 22, it was confirmed yesterday. The banns signalling the forthcoming marriage were posted at the Dornoch registrar’s office in Sutherland for what will
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      Lock icon Music for Kim's ears
      150 19 -AFP SEOUL Lee Mi Ja, the favourite South Korean singer of North Korean leader Kim Jong 11, has agreed to do a series of concerts in the communist North. The concerts were organised following a request by the North’s reclusive leader this year. Kim Jong II
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      Lock icon Forever Adrian
      448 21  -  by YVONNE KWOK HE'S no pin-up boy like Christopher Lee. And he’s not even that famous locally. Yet, when Adrian Pang settled himself next to you, an unexpected frission of awareness shoots through you and you finally realised why Media Works signed him on. This guy just oozes
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      Lock icon They've got personality
      314 22 For TV Works'artistes looks aren't top priority it's brains and talent that count TV Works unveiled its full line-up of artistes so far on Tuesday night They include: Dick Lee, 44; Lum May Yee, 27; Norleena Salim, 27; Karen Tan, 33; Adrian Pang, 34, and Imran Bin
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      Lock icon Underaged... but they'll do anything for a smoke and tipple
      513 25  -  It's term break; and teens desperate for fun will do almost anything to get in on the nightlife action by ARTI MULCHAND LYNN Lim wanted a night out. But the 15-year-old too young to get into Sparks disco, so she
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        Lock icon Saucy secrets
        296 27  -  Twoshoes by Wileen Chang THE secret is in the sauce that’s what most chefs tell you when you ask what’s so special about their dishes. At Village Wok, a simple restaurant in Geylang, the recipes are definitely top secret. For over 100 years, Cantonese recipes have been recorded
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        Lock icon Beckham world's best: Beckenbauer
        264 34 IT'S not every day that a I German praises a English footballer. But the legend Franz Beckenbauer says his vote for the best footballer in the world goes to Manchester United’s David Beckham, reported soccernet.com. “David Beckham is simply the most exciting, talented footballer in the
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        Lock icon Pay trebled for Leeds hero
        204 34 FROM less than £4,000 ($10,000) a week, Leeds United has offered to raise striker Alan Smith’s salary to £12,000 a week. Smith was the hero of Leeds’ win over Lazio of Rome in the Champions League. He scored the match-winner. His ninth goal of the
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        Lock icon Becker blames fame, fortune
        351 36 Reuters BERLIN Boris Becker has blamed the pressure of being rich and famous for his separation from his wife Barbara after seven years of marriage. “On the one hand, my wife lived by my side like a queen,” the three-time Wimbledon champion told yesterday’s Bild newspaper.
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        Lock icon Man Utd, Milan on course for last eight
        391 38 Reuters LONDON Manchester United and AC Milan clinched away victories in the Champions League to leave Europe’s richest and most glamorous clubs well-placed to reach the quarter-finals. A first-half goal from Paul Scholes, set up by a clever flick from fellow-England international
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        Lock icon Paraguay's long shot at title
        370 39 -AFP BUENOS AIRES It would be the golfing equivalent of San Marino winning football’s World Cup. But for one experienced observer here, Paraguay winning the golf World Cup is a distinct possibility. The unorthodox view comes from former British Open winner and the greatest player
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