Streats, 30 January 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 30 January 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 106 1 There are bound to be hiccups (in the relationship between Singapore and Malaysia) now and later. But what is important for us today is that we are ready to build the foundations for the future, notwithstanding the ups and downs in bilateral relations. Datuk Hishammuddin REPORT
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  • morning rush
    • 61 1 TREATED sewage water sold to industry will account for 20 per cent of water used over the next decade, said Acting Environment Minister Lim Swee Say. This will free up a similar amount for domestic consumption. He also said that Singapore’s water strategy is to have a
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    • 76 1 FINGERED in a report last week as being among the world’s 10 most polluting countries, Singapore has now moved up to position No 65 among 122 countries assessed. What’s more, the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) preliminary report which blackballed Singapore now ranks it as Asia’s third cleanest
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  • 449 1  -  by KAREN CHEN SATURDAY, 10.26 pm: They were driving happily towards the junction of Bukit Panjang Road and Gangsa Road when WHAM a lorry slammed into their car from the behind. As you can see, the impact was so great, it
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 420 2 WHAT'S a small hiccup between family members. Singapore’s Minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs, Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, was in Kuala Lumpur yesterday in a gesture that appears to have calmed the row between Singapore and Malaysia over the
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    • 212 2 SENGKANG residents tired of the jams along Punggol and Upper Serangoon Road will get more roads leading into their home town in a year’s time. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is working on several roadimprovement projects, aimed at easing congestion on northbound routes. Serving some 75,000
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    • 208 2 THE devastating earthquake in India’s Gujarat state has numbed and shocked the 3,000-strong community of Gujaratis here. Most of them about 2,000 are Singaporeans and the rest Indian nationals are in regular touch by telephone and e-mail with their families and relatives. Businessman Mahendra Shah,
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    • 356 3  -  by I SARAH NG Japanese heavy-smoker fined $,3000 for lighting up in plane HE was a successful psychiatrist from Japan who helped his patients rebuild their lives. But ironically, he himself was diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder which shattered his bright future and
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    • 123 3 onekindact A well-wisher I was at the Clementi bus interchange as usual by 7am on a rainy Jan 17. I saw an elderly SBS employee helping usher passengers at the service no 285 bus stop. What touched me was that he was holding a very big umbrella to
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    • 262 3 A REPEAT offender has attributed his theft of motorcycles to a desire to ride the vehicles. In his mitigation plea, the defense counsel for Jonathan Tey Wee Keong, 19, unemployed, said his “confused” client has a fascination with motorbikes. Tey was
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      • 112 3 A DRUG suspect fell four floors as he tried to escape from an apartment block after threatening Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers with two chopping knives. The 48-year-old man suffered multiple head, abdomen and leg injuries in the fall after he climbed out of a kitchen window.
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      • 86 3 THE coming of the Year of the Snake cost Sim Lian Construction Pte Ltd about $lB,OOO in equipment. Its construction site at Block 12 Tuas View Loop was left unguarded from Jan 23 to 28 while workers went off to celebrate the Lunar New Year holidays. A
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      • 108 3 A MISTAKE made while doing his supplementary job cost him dearly. Mr Goh Boon Hiang, 42, was distributing newspapers on Sunday morning when his lightgold Toyota Corona was stolen as he and an associate worked only 10m away. His car was worth about $120,000, and contained
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      • 100 3 A MAKE-UP artist’s fingers were too light. In addition to applying lipstick and mascara at a fashion show, she also helped herself to cash and boutique vouchers belonging to her clients. A district court heard yesterday that Dawn Nah Wai Murn, 21, stole $5O cash and
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    • 428 4 ANOTHER granny is going to jail for renting rooms to illegal immigrants. Ong Hock Sung, a 72-year-old illiterate widow, was yesterday sentenced to seven months in jail for harbouring illegal immigrants in a Geylang shophouse. She was the tenant of the shophouse and had sub-let it
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    • 260 4  -  by KAREN CHEN IT was supposed to be a lion dance performance to bring luck to a store-owner. But three men ended up being arrested instead. Two photographers, aged 29 and 25, hired to take photos of a Lion Dance performance at a store along
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    • 380 5 Space crunch as record 8m expected to visit Singapore this year HOTEL rooms are going to cost more this year. Some leading hotels have already increased their rates by between 12 and 15 per cent, and more are expected to follow suit. The
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    • 65 5 Don't forget those brollies and raincoats if you're going out for lunch as the skies will be partly cloudy with showers from late morning. Temperatures will hit a high of 29°C. High tide will reach 2.8 m at 2.16 pm. Your weather girl is Streats reader
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    • Just a minute
      • 47 5 From next month Your electricity bill will rise by 1.41 cents per kilowatt-hour. The price rise will be effective until April, after which the rates will be reviewed. But industrial users of electricity will enjoy a 0.1 to 0.17 cent per kWh rate cut from next month.
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      • 75 5 Climb 61 storeys to the top of the OUB centre! Sign up for the National Vertical Marathon 2001 to be held on Feb 11. The event is organised by the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and NTU Sports Club. Those interested can get registration forms from SSC regional sports and
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      • 60 5 For party animals who jj have made Mohammed Sultan Road their second home, the story of the once decrepit strip of shophouses unfolds through photographic v collage and video V projections by architect and urbanist William Lim. At LaSalle-SIA s College of the Arts Earl Lu Gallery,
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 521 6 I WILL never forget the first time I met Peter Mandelson. It was those eyes, you see. The piercing, staring, unblinking eyes. I was a rookie political reporter in London, sent to the launch of the now-defunct Millennium Dome. He was in charge. The
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 259 7 Reuters JAKARTA The biggest antiPresident Abdurrahman Wahid demonstration since his election 15 months ago, fizzled out yesterday in Jakarta, without any major mishap. No one was injured, though t.the day was not without its high drama. About 10,000 mainly
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    • 179 7 -ap Jakarta Indonesia’s ethnjc Chinese minority applauded President Abdurrahman Wahid for lifting a decades-old ban against Confucianism and Chinese names. Former dictator Suharto outlawed the teaching of Confucianist beliefs in 1967 after a bloody political transition in Which the Chinese minority was targeted
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    • 41 7 gofigure. In 1999, Singapore's aquaculture industry produced an estimated 3,100 tonnes of marine and 662 tonnes of freshwater food fish. There were 88 floating farms at various stretches of the Johor Straits, covering a combined 55.5 hectares of seawater.
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    • 227 8 -AFP It aims at creating wealth from scientific achievement SYDNEY Prime Minister John Howard yesterday unveiled an A 52.9 billion ($2.7 billion) plan to boost Australian research, development and innovation. The plan which includes increased funding of Aslsl million to create 21,000 additional university
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    • 231 8 AR afp CANBERRA Experts are to start work on measures to ensure that Australia’s huge beef industry is not infected by mad cow disease. A special committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council was to meet today to map out a strategy to
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    • news scan
      • 53 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR An independent research body forecast that Malaysia’s gross domestic product will grow 5 per cent this year, well below the government’s most recent estimate of 7 per cent. “A slower US economy will translate into lower exports for Malaysia,” the Malaysian Institute of Economic
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      • 64 8 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian customs officers who are fed up with being mistaken for parking attendants or security guards are to swap their unpopular yellow uniforms for blue ones. Customs department chief Abdul Halil Mutalib, quoted by the Star newspaper, said more than 10,000 officers would
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      • 49 8 -AFP BEIJING China will launch a crackdown on schools that overcharge their students. The education ministry will conduct regular checks of primary and middle schools, which are prohibited by law from charging fees as the education they provide is compulsory, the China Daily reported. -afp
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      • 100 8 -AFP BANGKOK As Thai voters went back to the ballot boxes yesterday in 62 constituencies, the Election Commission (EC) said corrupt politicians had been even more brazen this time around, and that complaints of vote-buy-ing and ballot box tampering had poured in to the official
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      • 83 8 -AFP HONGKONG Censors in Hongkong gave the thumbs down to a perfume advertisement, saying that a full length nude picture of a model in a glamorous pose was “too sexy”. Yves Saint Laurent’s original advertisement features model Sophie Dahl with her head tossed back and
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      • 64 8 -AFP BEIJING Chinese police closed nearly a million pubs, discos and karaoke centres during a nationwide crackdown on vice late last year. Law enforcers closed 947,000 entertainment centres during the campaign, which ran from July to September and was aimed at curbing drug use, prostitution and
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    • web cites
      • 37 8 Boldtype.com's online literary salon offers book reviews, novel excerpts, poems and essays by wellknown writers. There is a sizeable collection of audio recordings of novel excerpts read by authors like John Updike and Vikram Seth.
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      • 54 8 www.westegg.com/cliche is the place to go if you are looking for cliches. There are over 3,300 indexed cliches to search from. Just enter a word and it will list a number of cliches containing that word. If you are stuck for a few well-worn words, this site
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    • 193 8 -AFP AUCKLAND Police in Auckland have joined a call from doctors to ban a legal but dangerous drug abused by nightclubbers. Police believe the latest incident, in which three young men were taken unconscious to hospital at the weekend, has taken them one
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    • 123 8 AP TAIPEI An anti-nuclear protester set himself on fire outside Taiwan’s legislature yesterday, waving his arms and -cplling on the ground before witnesses extinguished the flames with bottled water Before torching himself, the man dressed in sneakers, a hooded jacket and black pants gave
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 306 9 Reuters BHUJ, India India was in talks with the World Bank and other agencies this week for a huge aid package to rebuild quake-hit western Gujarat state. The state bore the brunt of Friday’s earthquake, in which 20,000 are feared dead. Individual countries, including
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    • 89 9 justbelieveit BEIJING A "very cool"young Chinese man left his mother-in-law in hospital with a heart attack after he surprised her by wearing a wig, the Beijing Morning Post reported. The man had decided to give his parents-in-law "a surprise" during the Chinese New Year holiday. Thus he arrived
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    • 212 9 Reuters Scandal sparks row in Labour Party LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair was under pressure yesterday as a row wrecked his hopes for a smooth run to early elections. A scandal over the issuance of a British passport to an Indian-born billionaire has already cost
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      • 77 9 -AFP DAVOS, Switzerland Napster, the controversial but popular online file-sharing system, will charge a membership fee later this year. Bertelsmann, Napster’s parent company, said yesterday: “We have an idea of the price range, but it is too early to publicise it.” Bertelsmann was confident the
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      • 76 9 -AFP LONDON The Walt Disney Company is set to overhaul its loss-making Internet operations, a move likely to lead to job losses and abandonment of its Go.com portal, the Financial Times reported yesterday. “The advertising community has abandoned the Internet,” group chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner
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      • 97 9 AP JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ehud Barak has ruled out any meeting with Yasser Arafat before Israel’s Feb 6 election. The announcement was made in response to the Palestinian leader’s harsh criticism of Israel in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr Arafat
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      • 86 9 Reuters MOSCOW Russia has rejected a request from Canada to waive the diplomatic immunity of a diplomat who killed a Canadian in a road accident. On Sunday, Canada asked Moscow to lift the 45-year-old Russian’s immunity after the road accident, in which one woman was killed and
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      • 97 9 Reuters LONDON A ring given up for lost by its owner travelled 16,000 km round Egypt, the US and Costa Rica stuck to the bottom of her boyfriend’s hiking boot. The gold and sapphire ring worth about £3O (Ss76) was lost in Katie Smith and Dave Gould’s
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 305 10 Reuters WASHINGTON Despite being a Washington outsider, President George W Bush has made a good start with Congressional leaders. His down-home folksiness, from backslapping and shoulder clutching to nicknaming and plain talking, pleases Democrats and Republicans alike. Representative George Miller, the tall and burly
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    • 147 10 HONGKONG Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian was snubbed by top Hongkong officials when he arrived here yesterday to lecture at the Chinese University and City University. Chief executive Tung Chee-hwa turned down an invitation to a cocktail reception to be held by the Ming
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  • easy STREATS
    • 532 11  -  As has been the fate of many sequels, this second installation fails to throw up anything new by’ by Yvonne Kwok SURVIVOR is stale Forget the picture painted by reams of newsprint and Internet gossip that Survivor is the hottest thing on TV today. Because after yester-
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    • Article, Illustration
      314 12  - Key: amb a 9 t3 You've just ordered a Stolichnaya vodka with cranberry for Table 3 by CARA Van MIRIAH TWO crisp claps was the stylish way to bring on the drinks at least in movies of yesteryear. Today you SMS your drink order. Ridiculous? Well, maybe, considering that you’re
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 70 12 10.30pm, Channel 8 Feng releases Biao’s men after Mr He changes his testimony. Meanwhile, Fenghuang goes undercover as a sweeper in Hong Fa’s office and sees the latter’s men taking housewives out after receiving calls from k customers. Jiabi is abducted by Kun when she tries to
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          66 12 10pm, Central Ever thought of getting away with murder? How about starting with your own wife? After 15 years of loveless marriage, Timothy Wong has had enough. The last straw came when he discovers Marcia Chong, his overbearing wife, in an act of betrayal. But when the decisive
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    • 276 15 [Eight wealthy but childless British couples have picked American I surrogate mothers from catalogues to bear their babies. Many British career women who have put off having a child are now considering 'renting a womb' Just one, question I Yes,
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 566 18 Reuters NEW YORK Playing without big men Marcus Camby and Kurt Thomas, Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell combined for 61 points to give the New York Knicks a 91-81 win over the Los Angeles Lakers, which was missing Shaquille O’Neal. The star centre opted
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      • 260 18 -AFP SCOTTSDALE, Arizona Mark Calcavecchia captured his third Phoenix Open title on Sunday, establishing USPGA Tour records for lowest 72-hole score and most birdies in a 72-hole event. Winless since 1998, he ended his drought in spectacular fashion with a four-round total
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      • 268 19 Reuters LONDON West Ham striker Paolo Di Canio outwitted the Manchester United defence on Sunday with a memorable 75th-minute goal to send the favourite crashing out of the English FA Cup. The Italian beat the offside trap after a shrewd pass from Frederic Kanoute left
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      • 201 19 -AFP REAL Madrid and Roma kept their league title hopes firmly on track last weekend, notching good wins to keep their noses in front of the chasing packs. Real stretched its lead in the Primera Liga to seven points when Raul’s 83rd-minute strike led to
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      • 573 20 Los Angeles Times TAMPA Fla. The way the Baltimore Ravens talked all week, it would be foolish to think they would stop after winning Super Bowl XXXV. From the moment linebacker Ray Lewis struck a fierce, gyrating pose as he was announced before the
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 462 12 P/f Your Daily Horoscope aquarius JAN 20- FEB 18 Accept the reward that you have so obviously earned. A newcomer is amazed by your genius, while old-timers are struck with fresh appreciation. Aquarius delights in mixing up the regular pattern. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 is Validate your efforts before the
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