Streats, 10 January 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 10 January 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 549 1 You are now travelling on the streets of a superlative city called Singapore. How superlative? Let us count the ways, based on just one day's news Most Globalised A survey focusing on the 20 most global nations rates Singapore as the most international city in the
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  • Streatsmart local
    • women in the news
      • 351 2  -  by KAREN WONG A DISTRICT judge yesterday accepted a lawyer’s contention that his client’s shoplifting offence was a cry for help caused by her eating disorder. Ecko Vonn Gansu, 25, a bulimia sufferer, appeared thin and gaunt as she stood in the dock yesterday to face
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      • 319 3 THE suggestion for a cabinet ministerial position reserved for women was shot down by woman MP Lim Hwee Hua (Marine Parade GRC) yesterday at a feedback session on the position of women in the new economy. “If you asked me, personally, as a
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      • 318 4 by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM THE library was located in an inconspicuous office unit in Peninsula Plaza. Its opening hours were from 4.30 pm to Bpm daily and it had an estimated membership of 1,800 people, mainly white-collar professionals. But this was no ordinary library. In fact, it
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    • 273 3  -  by RUTH KAM HE was a national boxing champion who owns three shops in Little India Arcade worth a total of about $300,000 and a $500,000 home furnishing business in New Delhi. But despite the fame and wealth, he turned to
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    • 200 2 Minister of State Lim Swee Say gives three reasons It's still early days INTERNET business has not had time to develop to its full potential and e-commerce is not just about setting up a website and waiting for the cash to roll in. Entrepreneurs should not
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    • news scan
      • 85 2 BOOZERS who buy two cans or bottles of Tiger beer from 7-Eleven will get a coupon that will get them $1 off SBS Nite Owl bus rides. The latest drive to get boozers to take public transport home was launched yesterday at the Grand
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      • 80 2 ON Monday night, motorcyclist Mr David Ross Newton hit a taxi at the junction of Pasir Ris Drive 1 and Pasir Ris Drive 10. Just before that, police in a patrol car had noticed that Mr Newton appeared to be riding erratically. When they saw
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      • 107 2 A THAI was yesterday sentenced to hang for killing a colleague. Welder Saeng-Un Udom, 22, bashed Weerasak Suebban to death with a metal rod while he slept on June 23 at North Shipyard at Tuas Crescent. The court heard that the night before the murder, at
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    • 271 3 betweenthelines Wo put it starkly, the permanent "condition of Singapore's economy is change. We are like a littie ferry boat that crosses a river between two fixed points. What we have is a sturdy boat with a good rudder and a strong sail connected by
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    • 222 4 OFFICER Rahman (not his real name) who heads an elite team of drug busters at the Central Narcotics Bureau regards his work as a response to a higher calling. “My uncle was a heroin addict, and he died from complications arising from
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    • 203 5 EDUCATIONAL institutions should treat their choice of information technology as make-or-break decisions, Education Minister Teo Chee Hean told educators and IT professionals yesterday. “Institutions may live or die, according to the strategy you adopt,” he said during a conference on e-education organised by
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    • 84 5 IF you’re travelling during the festive season, don’t bring back fish and meat items into Singapore without permission. The Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) says the import of such items requires a licence and permit from them. An exception is made for the import of fish
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    • 79 5 THE price of Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) for Category B cars (1,601 cc and above) plunged by half to $15,001 from $30,526 for February. Prices fell across the board despite the spate of promotions by car distributors. Category A COEs fell $524 to $27,885, while motorcycle COEs
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    • 70 5 Too bad, folks. Don't expect the skies to be blue today. Like yesterday, there'll be showers with thunder in the late afternoon f and early evening] over many areas, f Temperature wim reach 32°C. High tide will reach 3.1 m at 10.46 am. if Your weather
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    • Just a minute
      • 60 5 Now that the school holidays are over, the ERP rates have been revised. ERP rates which were lowered from Nov 20 last year for the school holidays have been restored to pre-holiday levels. But there is now no charge for going through the gantries in the Restricted
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      • 55 5 If you're a senior citizen and looking for job, remember that the Central Singapore Community Development Council (CDC) has set up the Golden Manpower Programme, a one-stop centre for training, counselling and job placement for older Singaporeans. Employers looking for experienced workers can also make use of the programme.
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      • 48 5 If you're interested in the k heritage of ethnic minorities living in China, you should head to the i Nanyang Academy of I Fine Arts where an exhibition of Chinese bridal costumes is being showcased. Until Friday. 9am to 5.30 pm. It's free. Call *****84.
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    • 49 5 Chinese New Year shoppers tired of the usual kumquat trees and pussy willows could go for these novelty potted plants instead. These coiling creepers spotted at a Queen's Street shop may be just the thing to usher in the Year of the Snake Pic: Francis Lee
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 545 6 WHAT did you do to break the monotony of uniform colours during your school days, to add a dash of something vibrant to those black and white afternoons in front of the dusty chalkboards? Stand up and be counted, those of you
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 297 7 AP Thai bookmakers behind trouble as they want a recount BANGKOK Dozens of people were injured in protests yesterday in southern Thailand over disputed vote counts following the general elections, police said. National police chief General Pornsak Durongkapibul said police reinforcements had been sent to
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    • 220 7 Reuters Community divided over howto respond to decline KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Chinese are worried that falling numbers may undermine their political clout. But the community is divided over how to respond to the decline. Some traditional Chinese groups suggest paying families to have more children.
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    • 160 7 Reuters KUALA. LUMPUR A Malaysian Muslim consumer group wants tests done on food products made by the local subsidiary of Japan’s Ajinomoto to prove Muslims can eat them. The call, reported in yesterday’s New Straits Times, came after officials in Indonesia shut down a factory
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    • 199 8 Reuters SYDNEY Around 800 Australians have signed up with a Melbourne law firm seeking to sue 20 global airlines over socalled Y-class syndrome. The syndrome afflicts passengers when blood clots form due to long periods of immobility, such as in aircraft cabins. Paul
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    • news scan
      • 97 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has confirmed that a cabinet reshuffle is imminent. Asked when an announcement will be made, Dr Mahathir said that he needed time to make a thorough study. “God willing, hopefully soon. These things we
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      • 113 8 AP ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania A ThaiAmerican couple accused of defrauding seven insurance companies by faking the man’s death was expected to return to the United States this week, officials said. Lee Likhit Kongsiri, 62, and his wife, Phatcha, 63, have been held in a Bangkok prison since
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      • 114 8 Reuters JAKARTA A special Indonesian parliamentary committee said yesterday it would question President Abdurrahman Wahid next week over two financial scandals linked to the palace involving some US$6 million ($10.4 million). “We have invited the president to come to the parliament on Jan 17. Let’s
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      • 73 8 -AFP TOKYO Tokyo University scientists have developed an experiment to prove that the universe will eventually cease to exist by showing that protons -the building blocks of matter decay. “If successful, the project would be the first of its kind to demonstrate proton decay,” the Yomiuri
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    • 24 8 gofigure. -ST Less than a third of 12,300 stall-renters in HDB wet markets and hawker centres have insurance to cover their goods.
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    • 334 9 They will be protected igainstthe hreatof rigilantes LONDON The family of murdered toddler James Bulger were enraged yesterday after his killers were given the full protection of the law against the threat of vigilantes, news agencies reported yesterday. There was outrage from James’s mother,
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    • 202 9 Reuters >ARIS Plagued by strikes, train delays and violence a its corridors, the Paris Metro has begun a campaign 3 cheer up passengers. To relieve their stress, they are treated to a free rtassage, and healthy snacks and drinks. “In this hectic life it’s good
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    • Article, Illustration
      36 9 MASS TRANSIT: An overcrowded train carries Muslim devotees on their journey home on Monday in Bangladesh after the end of a world congregation, the second largest after the Haj pilgrimage Pic: Af PiC: AFP
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    • 124 9 Reuters UNITED NATIONS The US Senate began hearings yesterday to decide whether Washington will pay a large chunk of the debt it owes the United Nations. UN member governments agreed last month to reduce US dues, a move that may end the standoff with US
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    • news scan
      • 109 9 Reuters LONDON The light in a men’s toilet in a British shop has finally gone out after nearly 70 years. Staff at the electrical shop in eastern England’s Ipswich town were wondering whether the unmarked 25-watt bulb had set a world record, the Daily Mail
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      • 67 9 Reuters JERUSALEM Stomach ulcer sufferers may be spared invasive tests through technology that checks their breath, not their entrails, for signs of the ailment. Israel’s Oridion Systems has developed a test which shows whether a person is developing ulcers by testing the patient’s breath for a variant
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      • 97 9 Reuters WASHINGTON People with diabetes and high blood pressure risk beginning to lose mental ability in middle age, researchers said on Monday. The study showed it was important to start treating the two conditions as early as possible, the researchers said. “Treatment of diabetes and hypertension is
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      • 77 9 Reuters DUBLIN Dislodged from their homes by a building boom, Dublin’s rats are running riot. “With all the building work and sewerage upgrades going on, they’re coming above ground and thriving on all the waste,” said Danny Proctor, managing director of Combat Pest Control Services,
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      • 98 9 Reuters LONDON A bride and groom who stole a wedding dress were caught after cheekily posing together for a photo in their local paper A shocked Linda Purdey recognised the dress as one stolen from her shop four months earlier and called the police. Joanne Dixon
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 221 10 MEDIACORP actress Cassandra See, proud mother of a two-and-a-half-month-old, has no qualms about breastfeeding in public. “Breastfeeding is perfectly natural and there’s nothing to be embarrassed,” she said. “To be able to suckle your children is a wonderful experience.” Cassandra, 30, got married in a hurry
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    • 192 10 AFP UNITED NATIONS James Bond’s next mission might be with the UN, if Pierce Brosnan’s visit to the chief of the world body bears fruit. The Irish-born actor, who plays the master spy, met UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan on Monday Mr Annan’s spokesman,
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    • 126 10 Reuters LOS ANGELES British author Christopher Wilson has put paid to another myth of royal romance. The tale of King Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936 to marry US divorcee Wallis Simpson has fascinated romantics and vexed royalists for decades. Demoted to the Duke of
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    • 170 10 Reuters LOS ANGELES Country singer Faith Hill won her first three American Music Awards on Monday, leading a field that included her husband, Tim McGraw, R&B siren Toni Braxton and rapper Dr Dre. Among the nominees to go home empty-handed was teen sensation Britney
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  • easy STREATS
    • Article, Illustration
      736 11  -  tfie nour by Cara van Miriah ZOUK, the disco, has hit the big 1-0. Yes, the club that put Singapore on the disco world map and continues to have a cult following will be a decade old this t March. And the reasons to be at No
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    • 369 12 Just one, question. People who choose to go for plastic surgery are obviously not happy about the way they look. So if by going for it, they're happier with themselves, then obviously they'll be more confident. Eric So, 29, IT
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    • easyStreats tv
      • Article, Illustration
        387 17  -  f< &y by Yvonne Kwok IT'S every parents’ nightmare. To see your son standing in court, his head bowed, waiting to be sentenced by the judge. This was exactly what the parents of a 14-year-old boy found guilty of molesting nine girls went through last week.
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      • channel scan
        • 48 17 10pm, Channel 5 More tension and human drama for people who like their TV high-octane. Mark clashes with new attending physician Gabriel Lawrence (Alan Alda), while Lucy tries to convince a woman that her husband is dangerous. Carter tries to be supportive as Elaine undergoes a mastectomy.
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        • 47 17 11pm, Channels Bosco gets into hot soup when he is caught on a security camera having a romp with the daughter of his precinct captain. In a side story, Doc and Carlos scour the city for the owner of a watch found in their ambulance.
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        • 89 17 10pm, Central sth Generation director Li Shaohong gets her inspiration from the Chinese cinema of the 1930 s and the 40s, painting a subtle, realistic portrait of the lives and relationships of women after the Cultural Revolution. Based on the novel, Red Powder by Su Tong, it charts the
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        • 47 17 7pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Based on a manga by the Japanese publisher, Clamp, this anime series tells the story of three junior high school girls who become Magic Knights to save a planet called Cephiro. Must watch for all Japanese cartoon lovers.
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          40 17 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58] Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this hard-hitting action-packed epic as a i former FBI agent who is I recruited by his ex-boss I to infiltrate the Chicago 1 mob as an act of vengeance.
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 334 18 AFP ROME Lazio’s Swedish coach Sven-Goran Eriksson resigned yesterday. The decision, reported by Italian news agency Ansa, clears the way for him to become coach of the England national team six months ahead of the scheduled date in July. England, which has
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      • 171 18 LONDON Hamilton Ricard’s wonderful 67thminute strike took Middlesbrough into the fourth round and ousted Bradford from the FA Cup, but before the action had even begun, the latter had all but admitted defeat in its battle for Premiership survival by
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      • 344 19 -AP BOSTON In college and the pros, from Hawaii to the Big East, Rick Pitino always won. Until he came to Boston. The master motivator with the magic touch resigned as coach and president of the Boston Celtics on Monday,
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      • 138 19 -AP WASHINGTON Washington Wizards point guard Rod Strickland was arrested early on Sunday and charged with drink driving on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia, marking the third time in three years that he has faced driving under-the-influence charges. Police
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 463 12 Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 GEMINI MAY 21 JUN 21 libra SEP 23 OCT 22 It may be hard to be positive, but it’s essential that you try. Judge people by their accomplishments rather than by factors over which they have no control.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 314 14 e> WEDNESDAY Q 10 January 2001 ‘Willi B 'jP 1 I t. l| a IS Hn^^r W m „?T > s The story is about. Yuan Jian Ping who gets more jfan he bargained for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved
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    • 167 15 WEDNESDAY Q 10 January 2001 i m mm m Si ts® n&w, M 7 *ntn MfiS The story so far f? if 7E 9k *B, i if JTfti s£jl JEM BJff I? her attempts to counter attack. Seizing his opportunity, Xiao forward to immobilise her. Onc< he taught her a
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    • 199 16 DA N O ID A N O GI O R China Strike Force [Mandarin] 11.15 am, 1.45 pm, 4.15, 6.45, 9.15 For Bad Boys Only [Mandarin] 12.30 pm, 2.40, 4.50, 7, 9.10 A Fighter’s Blue [Mandarin] 11.55 am, 2.10 pm, 4.25, 6.40, 9 Unbreakable 3.15 pm, 9.30 The 6th Day
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