Streats, 4 January 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 4 Jarmarjf »1 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 587 1  -  Return of HFMD? Return of recession? by SARAH NG Just four days into 2001 and we are in an alphabet soup of trouble... R is for— WHAT a difference a day makes. Or a year, for that matter. Yesterday, the news was good: Strong GDP growth. CPF
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  • 134 1 morningrws/r SINGAPORE Management University (SMU) now offers a double degree in Business Management and Accountancy. Both the Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) and the Bachelor of Accountancy (BAcc) programmes require undergraduates to take similar courses, including those from a University core, a Business core, General Education
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 321 2 A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy died yesterday, apparently of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), according to a Ministry of Environment (ENV) and Ministry of Health (MOH) press release. The boy became ill on Dec 31. Madam Ho Xiuli, his distraught 34-year-old mother, told
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    • 188 2 "AND We (Allah) have made you (Muslims) the moderate of followers. Do not go beyond the limits, for verily, Allah does not like people who are extremists.” So is it written in the Quran (2:143). The verse was quoted in a statement from the
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    • 302 2 NOW that you have access to more CPF money to invest, give this a thought: Last year, about three in five people who took advantage of the CPF investment scheme made less than the 2.5 per cent interest they would have got. Starting
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    • 45 2 IN the report, “Jailed for cheating employer” yesterday, we said a former general manager of Ken-Air Tours pocketed about $7,700 in tour payments. This is incorrect. The culprit, Ng Kok Kim, 27, was employed as a tour consultant. We are sorry for the error
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    • 432 3 DRUG abuse the tragedy of wasted lives and the triumph of reformed addicts. All these are recorded in Broken Mirror, a collection of true stories from drug addicts, their families, law enforcement officers and counsellors. In one story, the father of a heroin addict retraces his
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    • 165 3 A 39-YEAR-OLD Caucasian man met his friends in the wee hours of the yesterday morning for a bite at the Newton Hawker Centre. As he was chatting with his friends at around 4am, a group of men rushed up for no apparent reason and attacked
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      • 81 3 A MAN died yesterday after he was allegedly beaten by a group of gamblers on Dec 27. Mr Goh Thian Soon, 51, encountered the group at the void deck of Block 751 Yishun Street 71. The beating is alleged to have taken place after an exchange
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      • 85 3 A DEALER in secondhand cars forged a customer’s signature to obtain a hire-purchase loan and caused the customer’s van to be repossessed. Cheng Ah Tee fraudulently took a loan of $40,000 from Hong Leong Finance Ltd to shore up his ailing business. But in January, after
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      • 54 3 A LIVELY seven-month-old baby girl died in her cradle at her home in Block 706 Bedok Reservoir Road on Tuesday, Shin Min Daily News reported yesterday. She was found to be pale and unconscious after she was put to bed. Despite efforts to revive her, she
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      • 68 3 JUST one day after arriving in Singapore, a 30-year-old man from Peru was arrested on suspicion of snatching $6OO from a housewife. The incident is alleged to have occurred as the woman was about to deposit the cash at a Citibank ATM in Orchard Road at about
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    • 390 5 they gave hair cuts and clipped nails. They gave emotional support when neede d. Some even arranged funerals because there was nobody else to do it. For befriending, helping and caring, outstanding volunteers received the Good Samaritan Award from the Rotary Club
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    • 179 5 AN INDONESIAN maid who fell six storeys said before she died that her employer was not to blame. Sunarsih, 17, was cleaning the kitchen windows of her employer’s flat at Block 862, Jurong West Street 81, on Sept 11,1999 when she slipped. She was
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    • 75 5 Try not to venture outdoors too much today. But if you must, remember to bring an umbrella along. There'll be showers with thunder over most areas in the afternoon. The temperature will reach 32°C. High tide will reach 2.2 m at 5.52 pm. Your weather girl
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    • Just a minute
      • 36 5 From this month You no longer have to set aside your CPF Minimum Sum before investing your savings in your Ordinary Account. And CPF savings can no longer be used to buy regular premium insurance plans.
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      • 49 5 Remember You can take SBS Nite Owl 36M if you're out late at night and want to head down to Changi Airport. This service plies between Tomlinson Road and Changi Airport via Orchard Road. From midnight to 4am (from the city) on Fridays, Saturdays and eve of public holidays.
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      • 60 5 i If you've always wanted L to discover more about B the Peranakan K heritage, then P§L headdown to the Asian Civilisations Museum where an exhibition called The Peranakan Legacy is on. Learn about its renowned batik, embroidery and beadwork collection. From 9am to 6pm (Tue-Sun) $1.50
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 588 6 LIKE many of the salivating, self-licking, anything-consuming members of my species, I am not good at understanding the behaviour of human-kind. I’d always believed the rumour that they are civilised. That is why I was darn worried when I overheard a conversation in the household
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    • 201 6 Do You Know Why WHY-Series #OO9 your skin craves moisture For all the sweat and sebum naturally secreted in the course of a body’s regular activities, you may think that your skin has all the moisture it needs. But actually, your skin is probably drier than you think, exposed as
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      • 149 7 Reuters SYDNEY Three boats carrying 306 suspected illegal immigrants have been intercepted off Australia’s remote northwest coast and are being escorted to the mainland. “Three vessels carrying a total of 306 unauthorised entrants have been detected in the past five days,” said Justice and Customs Minister
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      • 109 7 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s annual population growth has dipped to an average 2.6 per cent in the 90s, down slightly from 2.64 percent between 1981 and 1990. A preliminary report on the population and housing census carried out in July said the nation’s population stood at 22.2
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      • 79 7 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan’s parliament has passed a bill banning the use of mobile phones in vehicles for safety reasons. Those using cellular phones while driving cars would be fined NT$3,OOO ($158) while motorcyclists caught on the phone would be subject to a NT$l,OOO fine, a parliament official said
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      • 106 7 Reuters MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada has refused to answer prosecution questions about his links to a top banker allegedly involved in an attempt to cover up his supposed multi-million-dollar secret bank account. Lawyers of Mr Estrada in his Senate impeachment trial on corruption and bribery charges
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    • 257 7 -AFP JAKARTA The main manufacturer of monosodium glutamate (MSG) in Indonesia has pulled its products off the shelves amid an uproar over its use of pig byproducts. Officials from PT Ajinomoto Indonesia said they were temporarily withdrawing the tasteenhancing product pending halal certification by
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    • 147 7 Ryaas Rasyid told to await Megawati's return from abroad -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday ordered his state administrative reform minister to stay on until Vice-President Megawati Sukanoputri returns from a trip abroad. The minister, Ryaas Rasyid, tendered his resignation from the
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    • 159 7 Reuters HONGKONG A 13-year-old Hongkong girl lost her mother, father and brother in a family tragedy that has shocked the territory. The girl returned to her Kowloon home on Tuesday evening to find her mother, brother and a woman family friend lying in
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    • 291 8 Reuters SYDNEY Perched on the southern edge of the world and thousands of miles from anywhere, Australia has long fretted over the brain drain. But now so-called corporate drain has some local commentators in a fizz as major Australian firms decide they need to be where
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    • 163 8 AP CANBERRA “Eat the national symbol,” is the call going out to Australians from the kangaroo industry. The Kangaroo Industry Association wants domestic consumers to match foreign appetite for kangaroo meat. Kangaroo meat exports are about three times greater than domestic consumption, with the main
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    • web cites
      • 50 8 Bringing the world to the Asia Pacific is the theme here and the site offers deals to places like Pangkor Island and Angkor Wat Oettinghere.com has an interesting "reading room" with an archive of travel stories and allows you to get a feel of places around this region.
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      • 30 8 Banyan Tree at Banyantravel.com promotes exotic tours. The site also offers accommodation in South Africa, Seycelles and the Caribbean. You can book flights, cars and shows.
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 296 9 -AP Second such suit against software giant in three months WASHINGTON Seven current and former Microsoft employees are planning to sue the computer software maker for racial discrimination, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said. The suit, to have been filed in US District Court for the District
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    • 163 9 Reuters CHICAGO Hair analysis is an unreliable tool to diagnose health and nutrition and should be viewed with scepticism by the public and ignored by physicians, researchers said on Tuesday A pair of US researchers provided hair samples from a single healthy volunteer to
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    • 240 9 Reuters DALLAS DotComGuy has clicked offline after a year of relying on the Internet for every necessity. The cyber-hermit left his Dallas townhouse on Monday at 12.01 am local time (2pm Singapore time), ending an exile during which he never ventured past his small backyard
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    • 192 9 Reuters AUSTIN, Texas US Presidentelect George W Bush yesterday turned his attention to signs of a slowing economy. Mr Bush is to meet US corporate leaders in what aides describe as a chance for him to hear views on the economy and say how
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      • 92 9 Reuters MADRID -At least 11 people were killed in a rural area of Spain yesterday when a train crushed a van on a level crossing, a local government spokesman said. The victims were all immigrants from Ecuador who were travelling to work on farms near
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      • 102 9 Reuters SALT LAKE CITY A judge on Tuesday ordered self-professed polygamist Thomas Green, who has five wives and 25 children, to stand trial on May 14 on four counts of bigamy. For years Mr Green, a Mormon, openly discussed his lifestyle and last year he was
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      • 80 9 Reuters ZURICH The Zurich office of Israeli airline El Al was slightly damaged overnight by a small explosion, police said yesterday. A group calling itself “For A Revolutionary Perspective” claimed responsibility for the blast, which caused no deaths or injuries, according to a fax received by Swiss
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      • 60 9 -AFP PARIS US scientists have tested on rats a possible alternative to Viagra, the monthly Nature Medicine reported on Tuesday. Viagra is a drug for men who experience difficulty in obtaining an erection. The treatment, an enzyme called Y-*****, is “a potential alternative avenue for the treatment
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      • 103 9 Reuters ALEXANDRIA, Egypt An Egyptian sheep destined for sacrificial slaughter forestalled its owner’s plans by pushing him to his death from a three-storey building in Alexandria, police said. Mr Waheeb Hamoudah, 56, who worked in the police tax evasion department, had been feeding the sheep he had
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 278 11 -AFP WASHINGTON In an apparent attempt to reflect his move from the burly world of military might to that of subtle diplomatic tact, incoming US Secretary of State Colin Powell has instructed his new charges at the State Department not to refer to him as
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    • 170 11 Bemama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian businessman Yusof Hamdan, who helped negotiate the release of nine Malaysians held by Abu Sayyaf rebels in southern Philippines last year, said he will reveal everything about the negotiations to end the hostage crisis in an upcoming
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    • 188 11 Reuters INDIANAPOLIS Sandy k Allen, the world’s tallest woman who is bedridden and broke, has pleaded with singer Michael Jackson for help. Allen, 45 and listed in f the Guinness Book of World Records at 232 cm tall, sought Jackson’s help in paying for physical
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  • easy STREATS
    • 373 13  -  by KAREN CHEN I DIANA SER Hitomi is set to turn up the heat in record stores here FROM tomorrow, Singapore record stores will have a new poster girl. And boy, will she grab your attention. On her album cover, she is clad in just a pair of
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    • 351 14 Stephanie at tne movies You can reach Stephanie Goh at gohcys@sph.com.sg Wonder Boys Directed by: Curtis Hanson Starring: Michael Douglas, To bey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey, Jr, Katie Holmes YOU'VE written a much-laud-ed novella, won awards and basically reached the peak of your career way
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          93 14 9pm, Channel 8 Zoe Tay dons a power suit for this drama j serial set in the y world of finance. She plays Kaishuang, a manager at Le Group, who’s so single- minded about her job that her boyfriend calls off their relation- ship (the sucker). On top
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        • 33 14 Bpm, CN A k Get a look at Indonesiar diva Anggun, who’s currently promoting her latest album, Chrysalis. The 26- y year-old stunner talks T about life, love and her career.
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        • 57 14 10pm, AXN (SCVI9) John Malkovich, William Dafoe and Cary Elwes star in this film about the making of a German silent horror-movie from 1922 called Nosferatu A Symphony of Horror. Many strange things happen during the production of this film crew members either die or disappear
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        • 62 14 Bpm, Disney Channel (SCV 33) This delightful tale that delves into the strange past of Golden House, an ancient stone mansion situated at the centre of the Golden Valley, where three kids discover a world where sorcerers travel through time and animals can talk. Aimed at families,
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          66 14 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Pyrotechnics-filled movie about a terrorist who plans to unleash a deadly gas on a the world. Hot on his heels j are the Hong- i kong Police I Force who I must use their one secret weapon against the maniac the terrorist’s
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    • 161 15 LOCAL singing sensation Stefanie Sun has beaten Taiwanese diva Chang Huei Mei hands down. Not only is her new album growing in demand in Taiwan, her songs are also more frequently requested at karaoke lounges. Stefanie, together with Ah-Mei,-had released their new albums in early December, fighting
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    • 131 15 MANY women worry about giving birth after 35 years old. But veteran actress Lin Ching Hsia is not one of them. She gave birth to her daughter, Xing Ailing, when she was 41. Now, five years later, Ching Hsia is pregnant again. Ching Hsia’s
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    • 326 15 Just one, question I'm afraid I won't be able to get a suitable new job. Despite what some people seem to think, companies are still retrenching their staff and the economy is not all that good. Mr Ramalingam, 49, who has
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 252 20 LONDON A scintillating goal from Sergei Rebrov was the highlight as Tottenham ended its shocking run with a 4-2 win in the process extending Newcastle’s London nightmare. But the only man who really mattered at White Hart Lane on Tuesday night was referee Steve Bennett, reported
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      • 334 22 -AFP ORLANDO, Florida-Stephon Marbury scored 30 points as the New Jersey Nets snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 120-110 victory over the Orlando Magic on Tuesday. New Jersey beat Orlando for the first time in three meetings this season and for just the 10th time
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      • 172 22 Bloomberg NEW YORK Lakers’ guard Kobe Bryant was named NBA Player of the Month while Philadelphia’s Aaron McKie was named Player of the Week and Golden State’s Marc Jackson was honoured as Rookie of the Month. Bryant, who
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      • 335 23 -AP ORLANDO, Florida-It turned out to be an easy day for Ernie Els, and anything but for Hal Sutton in golf’s Match Play Championship. Els, the top seed and a late arrival, showed up at Metropolitan Golf Club at 7.30 am on Wednesday for
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      • 239 23 -REUTERS SYDNEY -Cricket’s wackiest character-Australian Colin Miller- lived up to his zany reputation by sporting a bright-blue hairstyle in the fifth Test against West Indies yesterday. While the likes of Dennis Rodman and Paul Gascoigne may have turned out on basketball courts and
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 476 15 ’eTiUi an ilkt Your Daily Horoscope mmmm JAN 20-FEB 18 Window shopping is all that you can afford these days. The current budget has no room for novelties and luxuries. Stay focus-ed on honouring the wishes of another person. FEB 19-MAR 20 K >1 N You’re an artist, a magician
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 289 18 THURSDAY 0 4 January 2001 m W v XL Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargained for when he enrols at Zhong A natural busybody,hesuddenlyfinds problems to gang fights; from baseball matches to flower arrangement classes. Most of all, he never expected to make two bosom friends. Plus
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