Streats, 1 February 2001

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  • 19 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 1 February 2001 Another quality publication Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 644 1 IF you’re worried about not having enough savings to cover any eventualities in your old age, and find it hard to save for a rainy day, the government is set to give you that little nudge you need: With the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS).
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  • morning rush
    • 92 1 ALTHOUGH the number of homes here has increased, household sizes have shrunk. According to figures from the Department of Statistics’ 2000 census, there were 923,300 resident households last year compared to about 260,000 more than a decade ago. Last year, the average size of a household
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    • 67 1 SINGAPORE and Japan have started formal talks on a free trade agreement. Negotiations for the SingaporeJapan Economic Partnership Agreement began here yesterday and will go on today. Both sides hope to conclude negotiations by the end of the year. If the FTA goes ahead, Singapore will be the
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    • 88 1 YOUR prospects are much brighter if you are higher skilled and better educated. A survey carried out by the Ministry of Manpower found that 35 per cent of the total job openings (as at September 2000) were vacancies for professional, managerial and technical personnel. This was
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    • 76 1 WE'VE been spending more last year. Credit and charge card billings totalled $10.6 billion last year, 18 per cent higher than in 1999. Figures released by the Monetary Association of Singapore showed that the credit and charge card rollover balance in the final quarter of 2000 surged
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    • 399 2 age Singaporeans to have more children, to bilateral ties, to who will be the next prime minister. Here are excerpts from his answers: Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong fielded questions on Tuesday evening from Nanyang Technological University students on issues that
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    • 262 2 STAY healthy, and you can help your company get a grant that will continue to keep you in the pink of health. The Ministry of Health is inviting all 135 winners of last year’s Helping Employees Achieve Lifetime Health awards to apply for a grant of
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    • 472 3  -  by f SARAH NG A DISTRICT judge told off an errant lawyer for being a road bully. Justice Foo Chee Hock told Edmund Wong Sin Yee, 43: “It’s far from pleasurable for me to have to sentence you...a solicitor and an officer of
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    • 300 3  -  by SARAH NG CHNG Shwu Shyan, 31, went on a shopping spree in which she splashed out $12,899 and her boss paid unwittingly. Chng began her spree with purchases of designerwear by Anna Molinari Blumarine, Max Mara, Donna Karan, Issey Miyake and Club 21.
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      • 112 3 A YOUTH who committed a series of offences against his family was jailed foY six months yesterday. Jagdish Singh Dhillon, 18, was convicted of assaulting and cheating his mother, and stealing from his sister. He had grabbed and twisted his mother’s arm in October when she refused
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      • 78 3 A 27-YEAR-OLD man was yesterday locked inside a bus until police arrived to arrest him after a woman complained that he had molested her. The man, an Indian national, was allegedly also an immigration offender. A 22-year-old woman told the bus driver that she had been
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      • 61 3 A $3,000 laptop and a pair of bowling shoes worth $240 were stolen from a car parked at Block 322 Jurong East Street 31 on Monday. The owner left the laptop in the car when he parked it at about 9.30 pm. He found the car’s
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      • 103 3 A FAMILY row over an inherited house led Soh Kok Hua, 55, to threaten to stab his estranged son to death. Soh was jailed for three weeks yesterday for criminal intimidation and mischief, and fined $5OO for behaving in a disorderly manner. Soh had caused a
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    • 185 4 SINGAPOREAN generosity and fresh ideas helped this year’s Aidilfitri Charity Fund raise a record $1.4 million to help less fortunate Muslims. Since the fund was start-ed in 1992, the annual collection has not exceeded $1.3 million, even after a 30 per cent contribution from the government.
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    • 331 4 WANT to know which school your Dad went to? Or when rogue trader Nick Leeson went to jail and when he left? Soon, you can find out easily via the Internet. The National Archives of Singapore (NAS) has set up a website which will offer this information
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    • 132 4 onekindact. Seow Mun Chu, On Jan 10 at about 6pm, I boarded a westbound train for Jurong East. I was sick that day, but unfortunately all seats were occupied. So I stood through out the whole journey. Just as the train approached Jurong East MRT
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    • 353 5  -  by CARRIE HO THREE science teachers have a whole bag of tricks up their sleeves when it comes to motivating languid students. Like using threads and straws to demonstrate 3D trigonometrical concepts, making science interesting with “living” projects, organising learning camps and initiating problem-solving games.
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    • 70 5 Ladies, it's either umbrellas or waterproof mascara today as the skies will be cloudy with showers in the late morning and early afternoon. Umbrellas are a good idea for men, too. Temperature will reach a maximum of 30°C. High tide will hit 2.4 m at 3.52
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    • Just a minute
      • 55 5 The National University of Singapore's Centre for the Arts kicks off its month-long Rhythms and Rhapsodies festival with an evening of two-piano works by the NUS Piano Ensemble tonight at Bpm. The venue is the Hall at the University Cultural Centre. Tickets are at $9 and $l3.
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      • 65 5 You can sort out your disputes with neighbours, family, employers and friends kampung-style and online at the chatroom set up by the Law Ministry. This is part of government effort to take mediation into grassroots communitites and to create a gracious society. Users' identities will be kept confidential.
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      • 47 5 Civil servants will be happy to know that the red tape for reimbursement has been cut! You will no longer need to send forms to the claims office. You can now check your pay, file medical, dental, transport and other claims electronically via the PaC@Gov system.
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    • 273 6 betweenthelines Jyhere was the panel about the 2 Ht-century corporation, during which participants described this age of digital Darwinism in chilling terms: The key to winning in business today is adapt or die, get wired or get killed, work 24 hours a day from
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    • 443 6 SOMETIME soon, the new president of the United States is going to make it easier for a lot of old folks there to get drugs. Medicinal drugs, that is. A campaign promise is a campaign promise and read George W Bush’s lips,
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 298 7 -afp Reuters JAKARTA Embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said yesterday that he still had the key backing of VicePresident Megawati Sukarnoputri. Mr Abdurrahman was awaiting the release of results of an inquiry into two alleged financial scandals in which he has been implicated.
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    • 324 7 AR AFP MANILA Joseph Estrada claimed yesterday that he is still ‘the duly elected president’ of the Philippines and that his ouster has created a constitutional crisis. At a convention of about 2,000 backers at a convention, his first public appearance since he
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    • web cites
      • 35 7 If you need to consult a lawyer, LegalHelp.com.sg may well be the place to go for free legal advice. It also gives 0 low-down on hiring a lawyer, and the services they provide.
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      • 28 7 At www.PenParents.org and Groww.com, parents, widows and widowers can have the opportunity to talk about their loss through a network of people in similar situations
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    • 203 7 AFP His pre-poll pledge to give cash gifts to villages has sparked flood of applications BANGKOK Dr Thaksin Shinawatra has signed up a second coalition partner as results from a round of re-votes confirmed his Thai Rak Thai party would lead Thailand’s next government Dr Thaksin,
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      • 71 7 Reuters TAIPEI Taiwan’s opposition-dominated legislature yesterday voted down a cabinet decision to shelve a nuclear power plant. The Legislative Yuan voted 134-70 for a resolution calling for the cabinet to immediately reverse its October decision to halt construction of a USss.sbillion (559.5 billion) nuclear power plant. Six
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      • 92 7 -AP JAKARTA Hundreds of Christian refugees have been evacuated from a remote island in Indonesia’s troubled Maluku province amid reports yesterday that armed Muslim militias are forcing villagers to convert to Islam. “Both women and men were circumcised with razor blades in conversion ceremonies,” said Cornelius Bohm,
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      • 79 7 -AFP SEOUL South Korean health authorities said yesterday that a 30-year-old man may be suffering from the human variant of mad cow disease, believed to be the first such case recorded outside Europe. But they could not carry out tests on the man, who is suffering
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      • 103 7 -AFP TOKYO Sony Corp said it had lodged a preliminary application yesterday with Japanese financial watchdogs to launch an Internet bank this year. Sony filed for regulatory approval from the Financial Services Agency, and hoped to then file a formal application for a banking licence with
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      • 111 7 Reuters TOKYO At least 32 people on board a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 jumbo jet were injured yesterday when the pilot swerved to avoid a mid-air collision with another plane from South Korea. The six men and 26 women, including at least two crew members
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    • 299 8 Reuters CAMP ZEIST, Holland The long-drawn trial of two Libyans who were charged with the bombing of a Pan-Am jumbo over Lockerbie in Scotland is finally over. One of them was convicted of murder yesterday. While the other man walked out free
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    • 170 8 -AFP NEW DELHI Two babies have been named Bhukamp or Earthquake following the Gujarat quake, and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was not amused. During a tour of the districts worst affected by Friday morning’s quake, he asked Wing Commander GS Chawla, who
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    • 175 8 Reuters LOS ANGELES The ABC network is adding a new dimension to reality TV with plans for an unprecedented live broadcast of childbirth on Good Morning America next week. The morning talk show, hosted by Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer, has arranged
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      • 91 8 Reuters BOGOTA, Colombia A leftist guerrilla deserter who hijacked a Colombian aircraft carrying 32 people was overpowered by the pilot and a passenger on Tuesday. “All passenger and crew are safe and unhurt. The man has been arrested.He is a member of the Fare,” Air Force chief General
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      • 77 8 AP ANTWERP The world’s largest diamond trading centre said yesterday that Belgian diamond sales hit a record last year of US$25.B billion ($45.2 billion), nearly 9 per cent higher than 1999. The Diamond High Council said sales and exports of cut diamonds from Belgium were
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      • 118 8 -AFP PARIS Scientists have found a fern that sucks up arsenic, holding out the prospect of a fast, cheap and safe way of cleaning up contaminated mines and industrial sites. The plant, brake fern, could also help Bangladesh, facing a crisis due to arsenic in its
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      • 93 8 -AP ISLAMABAD In just one night 110 people most of them women and children with only plastic sheets to keep them warm died this week in refugee camps in western Afghanistan when temperatures plummeted to -25°C, the United Nations said yesterday. A UN appeal for US$3.5
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      • 75 8 -AFP ANKARA A Turkish MP died after suffering a heart attack during a debate in the Turkish parliament which saw deputies exchange blows, Anatolia news agency reported yesterday. Mr Fevzi Sihanlioglu, from the opposition centre-right True Path Party, suddenly collapsed in the parliament hall shortly after
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    • 190 9 Reuters WASHINGTON New York senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer ate humble pie after losing their bet when the home football team was defeated by the Ravens of Baltimore, Maryland. They were given cake with purple icing and asked to recite Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, The
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    • 99 9 AP KUALA LUMPUR Relations between Kelantan ruler Ismail Petra and Parti SeMalaysia Islam (PAS) deteriorated with the filing of a police report against the state’s ruling party for alleged seditious statements. The spat between Malaysia’s largest opposition party and the sul- tan was sparked by
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    • 125 9 Reuters BANGALORE A junior state minister quit yesterday after saying that the earthquake in Gujarat was divine retribution for the illtreatment of Christians there. “Whatever I said yesterday has embarrassed the government. I am resigning to avoid any further controversy,’ said Karnataka’s civil
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      487 11  -  Suria's New Personality's first love is music, but for now he's content with acting as it pays enough to support him «s .•‘•V >. 'M..." ..fM .v..* TL aw?. by by Yvonne Kwok HE'S a self-confessed “struggling” student from Nanyang Polytechnic who must earn enough to support himself.
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          71 13 10.30 pm, Channel 8 Long’s aunt, Beiyuan, a researcher based in New York, comes to Japan to take Long back with her Masheng pretends to be overjoyed, but is reluctant to lose him. Beiyuan is feminine and caring the opposite of k Masheng. Long is also reluctant to
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        • 56 13 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Eric Tsang and Nicholas Tse star i in this tale about a man, Pao Ge, who returns to Hongkong after hiding in Brazil from gangsters. His purpose to search for a girl he had a brief encounter with just to j remember
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    • 310 15 Just 1 one question. I Of course. We have a large I population of students above 21 I abroad, especially in Australia. 1 These people have a right to vote. Eventually they're going to contribute to our economy and I shape our country, so why
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    • 495 13 mM if it's ydufWfthday today, you shdrejf with Thomas Ong Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20- FEB 18 Forward-thinking Aquarius is dwelling too much on past insults. A friendly person snaps you out of an unpleasant reverie. Set aside your problems in favour of something fun. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20
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    • 418 14 o THURSDA>Mj^lFebruar^oot easy I ft B < i IV *1 I 1 1 I 111 i The story is about Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargained for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything, from girl Anyone
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    • 340 15 •v. •'f®r I m HI. Jill if H||;#tll IL* IP The story today... Murong Jiu leaves Xiao Yuer in her mansion while she retreats to a secret room to practise her martial arts. Alone and bored, Xiao Yuer eats the herbs and medication in the mansion. The herbs start working
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  • easyStreats sports
    • 209 18 Reuters LONDON First-half goals by Ray Parlour and Lauren helped Arsenal beat lowly Bradford City 2-0 at Highbury on Tuesday. Bradford, five points adrift at the bottom at the start of play, failed to take an early lead when Ashley Ward shot wide. England international
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    • 300 18 SINGAPORE National coach Jan Poulsen is remaining tight-lipped on his lineup for the Lions’ first pre-World Cup qualifier against Kyrgyzstan on Saturday. Last Saturday, the Lions edged out Thailand 5-3 on penalty kicks (1-1 full-time) in a friendly watched by 35,000 fans.
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    • 278 19 -AP TORONTO The Toronto Raptors did not need Vince Carter to end Philadelphia’s winning streak on the road and the Los Angeles Lakers won their game without Shaquille O’Neal. Carter played less than four minutes before aggravating a knee injury, but Morris Peterson gallantly
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    • 39 18 Inthelivingroom GOLF Heineken Open, Day 1 (Star Sports Ch 24, 1.30 pm), ICE HOCKEY NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins v Philadelphia Flyers (ESPN Ch 23 r 8.30 am). SOCCER Coppa Italia s-final, Ist leg: Udinese v Parma (Sports City, Friday, lam).
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