Streats, 11 January 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 11 January 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 246 1 THE dreaded hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is back in the news. In the first week of this month alone, there were 126 reported cases of the disease. This is an increase of 10 to 12 cases a
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  • 438 1  -  Son slapped and stole from her She shows her love despite it all by KAREN WONG YOU'RE a mother. You know what love is. You know what anguish is, too. But you may not know the same anguish as this mother Madam Harjit Kaur, 46, lost her
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 301 2 ALL the talk about an impending recession has got you worried. Is retrenchment looming in the horizon? Will you be able to find a new job? And if you are an executive, who do you turn to when you get axed? Take heart. The
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    • 240 2  -  by f KAREN WONG YESTERDAY saw the last episode of TV actress Vivian Lai Yi-Lin’s case before the traffic court. In the finale, the 24-year-old actress who hails from Taiwan and is a permanent resident here, was slapped with a $1,900 fine and a 15-month driving
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    • 128 2 YOUR salary increase last year should have been about average. A survey conducted by management consult' ants Hewitt Associates showed that Singapore’s salary increases were in the mid-range for the Asia Pacific region, averaging between 4.3 per cent and 5.3 per cent. Singapore
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    • 102 2 onekindact Rosiyn, 12, student On the Dec 31,1 was alighting from an MRT trainwhen someone pushed me as I was taking out my MRT card. The card then flew out of my hands and landed on the tracks. I went to the Station Control and told the
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    • 271 3 Desirable Singapore passports are carried by some traffickers who aren't Singaporean THE Central Narcotics Bureau is working more closely with antidrugs forces overseas. Speaking yesterday, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said that in recent years the CNB has been working more and
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    • 181 3 THE Mendaki Club is launching an initiative directed at MalayMuslim students, called Talent Development Programme, together with Nanyang Polytechnic. This is part of a larger programme called Start to Enhance Potential, or Step, introduced last July Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs, announced
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      • 147 3 AN NSman died just four days after his 20th birthday, when his motorcycle skidded and crashed. On Jan 9, at about 7.44 am, Benny Lim Chin Yee (right) was flung from his motorcycle and landed in a drain along the centre road divider on the Tampines
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      • 123 3 SIX motorcycles parked in a row were set alight on Tuesday. The bikes were parked in an open car park at Blk 119, Bedok North Road. An SCDF spokesman said that all six vehicles were on fire when they arrived at the car park at
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    • 357 5 to review Penalties for breach of derating c °ntract THE fine imposed on Singapore LRT was too light, Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterday at the opening of Expo MRT station. He called for a review of the penalty
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    • 79 5 Our weather girl says The sun will probably shine on those living in the central and eastern parts of j Singapore. As for i the other areas, it U will be occasionally 1 windy with showers in the late afternoon and early evening. Temperature will reach 32°C. High tide will
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    • Just a minute
      • 53 5 Companies can now file their tax returns via the Internet. Log on to the IRAS website at www.iras.gov/eci to file chargeable income (ECI). Those who wish to continue with the old-fashioned method of filing can get the forms via IRAS'fax express service on 1800-356-8677 or download them
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      • 31 5 If you're above 18, to volunteer to participate in research on cardiovascular diseases conducted by the National Heart Centre, cal the centre at 436-7874 from 8.30 am to 6pm (Mon-Fri).
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      • 73 5 With the Chinese New Year approaching, you would probably want to buy some traditional flowers. So head k down to Blk 461, Sims Avenue (oppsite Lorong 31 Geylang) where a m charity flower fair is Hi on. Charity vouchers are priced at $lO and all proceeds will
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    • 119 9 THE police have arrested a man suspected to be involved in an attack on an Australian man at Newton Hawker Centre in the early hours of Jan 3. The 39-year-old computer analyst was stabbed and hit on the head by five or six men. He died
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    • 204 9 Three-year diploma programme to start in July THE Singapore Polytechnic will offer a new course to meet the need for trained media professionals. The three-year diploma in Media and Communication will begin in July, said the polytechnic’s principal, Mr Low Wong Fook, on Tuesday. Students
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    • 140 9 IF YOUR boss has been looking sour lately, he may have reason to. Last year, the cost of occupying an office in Singapore’s prime business district was the 15th highest in the world, according to a survey by DTZ Research. This is
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 253 6 betweenthelines /posing money in a falling stock market is bad enough without burying yourself under a mountain of recriminations afterwards. Many investors are at risk of that compound error right now as they look back on 2000, the worst year for stocks in a
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    • 694 6 I WAS at the airport last Sunday waiting to welcome my mother home from a visit to Chiangmai when I noticed how many overweight people there were emerging from transit lounge. The parade of corpulent necks brought to mind a visit to a “Treasures of the
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 221 10 Wire services Soldiers for provinces to oversee chaotic counting BANGKOK -Thailand has called in the army to help oversee chaotic vote-counting and quell violent protests delaying final election results. National Police Chief General Pornsak Durongkavibulya said he was coordinating with the army to
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      • 91 10 Reuters SYDNEY Women may be quieter than men in hotel rooms, but make more noise during sex. A survey of staff at 27 hotels in Australasia found that in flirting, women were starting to catch up. Hotel managing firm Accor said that 14 per cent of
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      • 75 10 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesian Defence Minister Mahfud M D said yesterday that Acehnese rebels had agreed to drop their armed fight and said it amounted to a ceasefire. “This is a provisional agreement. The important thing is they will change from an armed movement into a
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      • 57 10 -AFP VIENNA A Malaysian Internet newspaper will receive an award for its efforts to provide objective news. Malaysiakini (Malaysia Now) is to be awarded the Free Media Pioneer Award by the Viennabased lobbying group the International Press Institute and the Freedom Forum at an IPI congress in New
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    • 316 13 Reuters SYDNEY Plans to distribute an information kit during Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock’s Middle East tour have been cancelled. The kit is part of an Australian campaign to deter illegal immigrants by warning them they face racial hatred, family disunity
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    • 159 13 Reuters SYDNEY About 100 people who came for the Olympics have overstayed their visas and remained illegally in Australia following the Sydney Games. Immigration authorities told the Olympic over-stayers including coaches, officials and journalists that they were breaking the law by staying on
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    • 157 13 -AFP JAKARTA PT Ajinomoto Indonesia has withdrawn two of its other food spices. “Although only the Ajinomoto MSG products have to be pulled out of the markets, we are, on our own initiative, also pulling out our two other food spice brands, Masako and
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    • 75 13 knowornot. Tea was said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water, British Standard 6008 and International Standard ISO 3103 say that tea is best made with water that is freshly
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    • 178 13 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia s aid yesterday that it hoped to hold more military exercises with the US and improve security relations between the two countries. “We want the new US leadership, under president-elect George Bush, to appreciate our sfforts to maintain a
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    • 195 13 -AFP MANILA A wave of deadly bombings in Manila just before the New Year could be linked to the Christmas eve bomb attacks on Indonesian churches, Philippine national police chief Panfilo Lacson said yesterday. “It appears that there is a link between
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 319 14 Reuters BOMBAY China’s parliament chief Li Peng says he hopes his visit to India will boost cooperation between the world’s two most populous states. “I am looking forward to having an extensive and candid exchange of views with the Indian leaders on
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    • 199 14 -AFP ALLAHABAD, India Inspired by the sight of tens of thousands of naked holy men, two female visitors took a nude dip in the Ganges yesterday, and were arrested. “There were two women, one of them from Mexico, and they both appeared to be drunk,”
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    • 229 14 Reuters WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Tuesday hit out at “hysteria” over health risks from depleted uranium in weapons used in Nato’s bombing of Serbia. “As far as I have been told there is no scientific evidence that would link (shells
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    • 173 14 Reuters ANCHORAGE, Alaska A drunk who shouted obscenities, tore a flight attendant’s phone from the wall and tussled with the crew of a Hongkongbound flight was arrested after the plane diverted to Alaska, the FBI said on Tuesday. “He had between four and six
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    • 198 16 Reuters HONGKONG A growing number of Chinese illegal immigrants are seeking political asylum in the United States claiming to be members of the banned Falungong spiritual group, US Immigration officials said yesterday. “Four years ago, they used reasons such as the one-child policy
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    • 191 16 AP RALEIGH, North Carolina A German woman who fell in love with a death row inmate she saw in a clothing company’s advertisement said yesterday she has called off wedding plans for now “I don’t want to be a widow,"said Dagmar Polzin, who moved
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    • 155 16 Reuters SEATTLE Call it Couch Potato 2.0. Microsoft and armchair maker La-Z-Boy on Tuesday launched a living room throne for the Internet age, complete with computer jacks and equipment for surfing the Web on a television set. Dubbed the Explorer, the seat comes with
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      • 95 16 ap EDMONTON, Canada Canada’s military can ban all forms of sexual activity on base, including flirting and hand-holding, a judge has ruled. “Sex could lead to feelings of jealousy, even violence, feelings of favouritism and disrupt cohesion and morale,” said Judge Guy Bra is yesterday. Master
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      • 78 16 -AP WASHINGTON Don’t pop too many vitamin A supplements, because large amounts can be dangerous, say new US government guidelines. Men need 900 microgrammes of vitamin A a day and women 700, says Tuesday’s report by the Institute of Medicine, which slightly lowers the recommended
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      • 94 16 AP MURPHYSBORO, Illinois A woman is suing a McDonald’s owner, Wal-Mart, a cup maker and her own mother over spilled coffee she says was too hot. Teresa Reed claims a cup of coffee she bought at the drive-through window in 1998 spilled and scalded her, leaving
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      • 64 16 AP BEVERLY HILLS This year’s Oscar nomination ballots were mailed with extra care to prevent a repeat of last year’s embarrassing disappearance, Academy Awards officials said. This time, Beverly Hills Postmaster Koulla Fuller monitored the transfer of ballots from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
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    • web cites
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      • 57 16 How we see ourselves may not be how others see us. Discover the impression you leave on others by taking this personality test at learner.org/exhibits/personality/activityl. There are 50 questions for you to answer. At the end, you'll be offered a detailed analysis, neatly categorised into how
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 195 17 Reuters SYDNEY Drunk, stoned and on walkabout? Australia’s Aborigines are fed up with the stereotypes dogging the vast island-continent’s original inhabitants and are taking on the white man where it hurts in the glamour stakes. Two young indigenous women have produced Australia’s first all-Aborigine pin-up calendar to show
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    • 148 17 AP BRISTOL Prime Minister Tony Blair was pelted with fruit when he arrived at City of Bristol College for an engagement on Tuesday. The hail came from a group of people protesting against sanctions imposed on Iraq. “Flow many Iraqi children have you killed?”
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    • 158 17 Reuters LONDON Andrew k Lloyd Webber’s music f\ has been chosen for the inaugural gala for US Presidentelect George W. Bush next Thursday. The British com- m poser said he had been invited to present the highlights of his musical, The Beautiful Game, at
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    • 102 17 AP KAPALUA, Hawaii First he sported black, hair Then he surprised everyone by turning blond. Now, golfing legend, Tiger Woods has decided to take it all off. His latest new look the bald look. Woods dyed his hair blond for fun recently, causing a
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  • easyStreats
    • 387 20 SwmmPM at tni movies You can reach Stephanie Goh at gohcys@sph.com.sg Twin Falls Idaho Directed by: Michael Polish Starring: Mark Polish; Michael Polish Michele Hicks, Lesley Ann Warren ATTEMPTING a David Lynch-type movie for your first feature film is never a good idea unless you share the same
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      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 44 20 9pm, Channel 5 Najip interviews three very different a women celebrities: Beatrice > Chia, Andrea De Cruz and Suzanne Walker. The topic: Being a sex symbol. Now why didn’t he 1 invite people like Celeste Chong and Zoe Tay on the show?
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          60 20 10pm, Channel 5 Rebecca and Eugene use Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to defend a young woman who murdered her mother after a birthday celebration allegedly triggered memories k of her father’s sexual abuse. Meanwhile, the honeymoon is I over before I it’s even I begun when Bobby insists that
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        • 84 20 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) Will Smith stars in this movie about a rogue government agent who tries to eliminate an innocent man with information implicating the agent in the death of a US congressman. The clever plot twist all the possi- ble ways in which
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        • 45 20 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) A charming fairy tale about a magical whale that wreaks havoc in a small Austrian village. This film, which depicts the ugliness of selfgreed in man, was Austria’s entry for the 1997 Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
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        • 45 20 10pm, AXN (SCV 19) A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man whose girlfriend was killed during an illegal abortion. Stars Michael York and Andrew Bowen.
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    • Streatsmart people
      • 471 21  -  by ARTI MULCHAND FIRST Faith Hill and Shania Twain stuck the sass into country. Now, the crossover string quartet called bond has put the pout into classical. There are generous displays of cleavage, lots of leg, bared midriffs and MTV marketing. The bond girls, Tania
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      • 392 21  -  by YVONNE KWOK SHE could have entered showbiz at the tender age of 18. But up-and-coming homegrown singer Joi Tsai held off fame and glamour for four years to finish her optometry course at the Singapore Polytechnic. Joi’s first song, You Xin Ren, You
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    • 481 22  -  by ARTI MULCHAND HE was a blues biker with a mission to create the ultimate blues bar for fellow Harley riders and blues fans. But now American Bernie Utchenik is a broken man. Last month, he went bust and was forced the sell Bernie Goes to Town,
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    • 272 24  -  by CARA van MIRIAH NOX DANCE CLUB the only platform for local jocks on Mohamed Sultan Road is relaunching on Jan 17 for three good reasons. First, Nox, a house-oriented dance club, will be celebrating its third anniversary. According to its 32-year-old owner,
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 500 32 Reuters LONDON Sven-Goran Eriksson will start his new £3 million (557.7 million) job as England coach today with Football Association boss Adam Crozier hailing him as the best in the world. Swede Eriksson, 52, quit as Lazio manager on Tuesday to become England’s first foreign
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      • 220 32 Reuters KAPALUA, Hawaii The World Golf Championships Matchplay event is likely to be held only in the US in the future, according to PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem. Finchem, who attended last week’s Accenture Matchplay Championship in Melbourne, noted that the absence of
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      • 437 34 -AP EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey Sometime soon, Theo Ratliff believes, he will get the triple-double that keeps eluding him. He had 14 points, 12 rebounds and eight blocks as Philadelphia beat the New Jersey Nets 104-87 to extend its winning streak to seven
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      • 490 35 MELBOURNE Pete Sampras insisted yesterday that there was no reason to doubt his chances at next week’s Australian Open despite suffering a straight-sets loss to Spain’s Juan Carlos Ferrero at the Kooyong Classic. The American world No. 3 appeared rusty as he struggled to adjust to
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      • 93 35 Reuters SYDNEY Martina Hingis was warned for coaching yesterday after her mother was caught screaming instructions at her from the sideline. The incident took place when the world No. 1 was struggling midway through her second-round match with Belgium’s Kim Clijsters at the Sydney International. But Hingis
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