Streats, 2 February 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the* sts} FRIDAY 2 February 2001] Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com,sg ft/UTA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 487 1 Wire services. JAKARTA His “sister” Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, three major political parties and even the powerful Indonesian military abandoned President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday. Inside parliament, a report accusing him of involvement in two financial scandals won support
    – Wire services.; Pic: AFP  -  487 words
  • morning rush
    • 67 1 WITHIN six months, you can breathe easier in airconditioned spaces and around fountains. The Environmental Public Health (Cooling Towers and Water Fountains) Regulations came into effect yesterday. This would strengthen the control of Legionnaire’s Disease. Under the new regulations, building owners/occupiers will have to clean and disinfect all
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    • 50 1 SINGAPORE looked set to retain its title as the world’s busiest port in terms of tonnage, after posting a record 910.10 million gross tonnes last year, the Maritime Port Authority said yesterday. The tonnage was up 3.8 per cent from the 877 million tonnes recorded in 1999.
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    • 58 1 THE business outlook for the commercial sector for the next five months is mixed. Catering firms and hotel operators are optimistic about their business. But retailers, especially car dealers, expect business to slow down. Electronics, telecoms and industrial machinery dealers expect lower sales while those involved in computers,
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 396 2 FEWER than 47,000 little dragons were born last year, though a baby bonanza had been expected since it was the Year of the Dragon, which the Chinese regard as an auspicious year to have babies. Yes, there were about 3,300 more babies born last
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    • 126 2 -AFP SYDNEY A Singapore Airlines jumbo jet was damaged yesterday when an aerobridge collapsed, ripping the aircraft’s main door from its hinges, airline officials said. No passengers or crew were aboard the Boeing 747-400 aircraft at the time, having already disembarked from the Singapore
      -AFP  -  126 words
    • 189 2 HE was the accredited checker for a Geylang mosque project and a condominium project at Dover Crescent, but he got his employee to do the calculations, an offence under the Building Control Act. For that, engineer Ong Kah Chuan got de-registered by the Commissioner
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    • 240 3  -  by SARAH NG EIGHT puppies were temporarily separated from their owner when they were stolen in an act of vengeance. They were kept in a flat at Tampines Street 83 while a buyer was sought. The eight pups, all French mastiffs, were taken
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    • 302 3  -  by /SARAH NG HE claimed to be a fish-lover to save his own skin in a court of law. But Soh Han Seong dumped a dozen live Discus fish in a bin and left them to die. Soh, 24, and his accomplice had stolen
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    • news scan
      • 99 3 HOLDERS of three Toto tickets each became $3,333,959 richer yesterday. The three tickets shared equally the Group 1 bonanza of more than $lO million in the Singapore Pools’ Toto Hongbao Draw last night. Another 22 tickets each won $84,462 in Group 2 which had $1,858,163
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      • 110 3 A MAN who threatened to burn a petrol kiosk has been jailed for two weeks. Early on Wednesday, Amaran Jayakumar, 19, dashed into a Caltex Star Mart, a petrol kiosk-cum-mini mart, at Jalan Bul<it Merah. The accused asked for a knife,/claiming that he was being
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      • 120 3 A FIGHT with swords has earned a gang member four and a half years and 12 strokes of the cane, for rioting with a deadly weapon. Ang Kah Huat, 34, and seven members of his Sio Kun Tong gang, attacked Mr Mohd Salleh Bin Mohd
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    • 552 4  - SAT stress? by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM IT would “not be as stressful as the A levels”. So said Professor Shih Choon Fong in 1999, when the vice-chancellor of the National University of Singapore and his admission system team pushed for the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) to be part of the admissions
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    • 108 4 onekindact_ Gill, On Jan 17, my Primary 5 daughter took SBS bus no 76 to the Ang MoKio MRT station. Upon alighting, she realised that she had left her school bag on board. She was so frantic and called me at home. Immediately I contacted
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    • 39 4 IN the report At Home In S’pore yesterday, we said that there were about 260,000 resident households more than a decade ago. This is incorrect. There were 661,700 resident households in 1990 ana 472,700 resident households in 1980.
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    • 135 5 THERE is no intention to phase out budget hotels in the Bencoolen Street area. Stressing this yesterday, the Urban Redevelopment Authority said: “Planning guidelines do not restrict new budget hotels from being developed in commercial areas.” The URA said this in a letter
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    • 420 5 THE Singapore International Foundation (SIF) will send a medical relief team tonight to help India’s quake-hit sate of Gujarat. The team of 11 doctors and nurses, led by Dr Mark Leong, will be posted to Rajkot, one of the worst-hit regions. Among the volunteers
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    • 78 5 The good news is: our reservoirs are filling up. The bad news is: there is still no respite for that soggy umbrella. Expect showers in the late afternoon over many J areas. Temperature will reach I a high of3l°C.High tide will hit I 2.2 m at
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    • Just a minute
      • 36 5 You no longer need to pay an additional $5 when you deposit huge amount of cash over the counter at OverseaChinese Banking Corporation (OCBC). The levy has been scrapped after protests from customers.
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      • 41 5 You can now invest your Special Account (SA) savings under CPFIS-SA. The existing use of Ordinary Account (OA) savings for Investment will be known as CPFIS-OA. To know more about CPF Investment Scheme, call 1800-227-1188 code 4 or email lnvestment@cpf.gov.sg.
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      • 75 5 Witness an attempt to enter the Guiness Book of Records today at the Kolam Ayer Community Club! Singaporean Indian Percussion group, Rhythm Masala, will play their drums for 25 hours from 6pm today to Bpm tomorrow. It hopes to be recorded as the longest I drumming marathon
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 208 6 betweenthelines days ofthe US economy not too hot r not too cold but just right-are long gone. Instead, the US Federal Reserve is seeking a monetary policy that is not too loose, not too tight but just enough to avoid a big recession without
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    • 563 6 1 COULDN'T believe my eyes when I saw it. She had actually called herself “8”. She could have bid crazy amounts of money for that “golden” phone number or lucky car number like other Chinese people the world over, but no. Jennifer 8 Lee, Harvard graduate and
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 282 8 Body parts theft from kids the Aussie sequel Wire services Body parts have been stockpiled since the turn of the century SYDNEY First it was Britain that shocked the world when news of organ theft from children was reported. Yesterday, Australian health officials reported that the horrific crime had also
      – Wire services  -  282 words
    • 115 8 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has boosted patrols along its borders with Indonesia and the Philippines, a newspaper reported yesterday. Malaysian deputy Defence Minister Mohamad Shafie Apdal said military forces along the coast and in border areas had been placed on alert in response to unrest in
      -AP  -  115 words
    • 122 8 Reuters BANGKOK The official results of the Jan 6 Thai elections is finally in. It still gives tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra the biggest win. But he did not as earlier thought win an absolute majority, the Election Commission said yesterday. Re-votes in several constituencies suspected to have
      – Reuters  -  122 words
    • 91 8 justbelieveit A 50-year-old Taiwanese man has been given emergency hospital treatment after going stiff while playing a Chinese gambling game for two and a halfdays. Back pain forced him to give up after 60 hours playing Mah Jong during the Lunar New Year holiday. He was
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    • 181 8 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malay nationalists are planning a major rally this Sunday. The theme: Malays Will Never Perish From The Face of This Earth. The Malay Unity Front (MUF), a lobby group set up by former Malay politicians, said 10,000 people are expected at the
      – Reuters  -  181 words
    • Article, Illustration
      45 8 Linda Bouffard of Canada yesterday jumping backwards off the Kuala Lumpur Tower during a parachute jumping session. Fifty of the top Base (Buildings, Antennas, Spans Earth) jumpers participated in a KL International Tower Jump, held in conjunction with City Day Pic: AFP
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    • 81 8 -AFP TOKYO Police in Japan yesterday arrested a man, 73, who set fire to his granddaughter, 14, because he was angry at her long telephone calls. She was seriously injured in the attack. She was rescued by a fireman after their neighbours called the fire
      -AFP  -  81 words

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  • Streatsmart global
    • 270 11 -AFP WASHINGTON The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday slashed short-term interest rates by another half a point in a fresh bid to breathe new life into an economy gasping for air. Warning of continued
      -AFP  -  270 words
    • 96 11 AP NEW YORK Levi Strauss Co has upset some television viewers with its edgy Super Bowl commercial showing medics rushing a pair of jeans from their fallen owner to a sickly recipient. The company owes an apology to people waiting an organ transplant
      – AP  -  96 words
    • 26 11 A boy yesterday wait his turn to receive food being served by a social organisation to earthquake victims in Ahmedabad Pic: AFP
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    • 158 11 AP WASHINGTON President George W Bush convened his first Cabinet meeting, instructing hand-picked officials to keep “the highest of ethical standards” and lowest of budgets. With Secretary of State Colin Powell on his right and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on his left at
      – AP  -  158 words
    • news scan
      • 81 11 Reuters LONDON Virtual robots could soon be roaming the Internet to track down the source of rumours and smut. Whether it’s a speculator starting a rumour to move share prices or a paedophile supplying illegal images, Rumorßot software will trawl through search engines and databases to find
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      • 83 11 AP UNITED NATIONS A Scottish court’s ruling that a high-ranking Libyan intelligence agent was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing has bolstered claims that Tripoli authorities bear responsibility for the attack. United States and British officials say that a link to terrorism could have implications on when United
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      • 71 11 -AFP NEW DELHI An Indian court rejected yesterday a request by the three British-based Hinduja brothers, accused in the 1986 Bofors kickbacks scandal, that they be allowed to leave India. Judge Ajit Bharioke made clear his concern that if the brothers left India, they would not
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      • 69 11 -AFP BRUSSELS The European Commission said yesterday it wanted European Union member states to submit monthly reports to Brussels to guarantee they were fully implementing EU measures to combat mad cow disease. EU Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner David Byrne said bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
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      • 61 11 AP ROME Two United Nations agencies said yesterday that about 30 per cent of the pesticides sold in developing countries contain toxic substances which threaten human health and the environment. Poor production, improper labelling and inadequate selection of chemicals are possible causes, said the Food and Agriculture
        – AP  -  61 words

  • Streatsmart people
    • 260 12 Bernama PUTRAJAYA Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad accused Asiaweek yesterday of deliberately using a photograph that made him look “an idiot” in its Jan 26 issue. He said that he had been taken in by the interviewers’ friendliness. They managed
      – Bernama  -  260 words
    • 165 12 Reuters WASHINGTON World Bank staff have blamed president James Wolfensohn for low morale at the institution and say he is “isolated from reality”. The assessment made in an internal memo, was prepared by staff at the bank’s Middle East and North Africa department at the
      – Reuters  -  165 words
    • 194 12 Reuters ATHENS Father Nektarios, who produced Greece’s chartstorming rocking monks’ group, has quit as abbot after a row with the conservative Holy Synod. The huge success of the blackrobed monks of the Saints Augustine and Serafim Sarof monastery in central Greece has ruffled the
      – Reuters  -  194 words
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  • easy STREATS
    • 496 13  -  by KAREN CHEN LOOKS like Media Corp variety show City Beat is set for another shake-up. One of its hosts, Lynn Poh, who joined the show just three months ago, will be taking off to join rival company SPH Media Works. The 24-year-old recently inked
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    • 245 19 j The ABC network is I planning to screen an unprecedented live broadcast of child birth on Good Morning I America next week. Just one question. Sure. Giving birth is a natural process, so why not? In the first place, I don't see
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 426 18 FRIDAY p 2 February 2001 easyStreats mm II The story is about Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargained for when he enrols at Zhong A natural busybody, he suddenly finds Most of all, he has never expected to make two bosom friends. Plus a bevy of girlfriends
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 317 19 The story today, Xiao Yuer realises that the naked person is Murong Jiu.To save her from embarrassment, he closes his eyes and wonders aloud about her whereabouts. As Xiao Yuer leaves the secret room, he comes across a set of paintings which outlines the nine steps of the Stone Powers.
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  • easyStreats sports
    • 313 20 Reuters LONDON Andy Cole fired Manchester United 15 points clear at the top of the English Premier League on Wednesday with a 1 -0 victory at Sunderland. In a stormy game at the Stadium of Light, referee Graham Poll ejected three players early
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    • 293 22 -ChanTau Chou LOCAL Chelsea fans have good reason for cheer following Emirates Airlines’ announcement that it will take over from Autoglass as the club’s official sponsor next season. And the airline plans to fly the London club down to play in Singapore next year.
      -ChanTau Chou; Pic: AP  -  293 words
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 29 22 Inthelivingroom BASKETBALL College: Miami v Seton Hall (Bam), Duke v North Carolina (10am) Ch 23. NBA: New York v Philadelphia (Ch 24, 9am). GOLF Heineken Classic, Day 2 (Ch24,1.30pm).
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  • 485 23 -AP INDIANAPOLIS -The Boston Celtics are learning their lesson. Antoine Walker scored 22 points and Vitaly Potapenko added 15 as they managed just four points in the final 6min 42sec of regulation, but regrouped in overtime to beat the Indiana Pacers 102-96 on Wednesday night.
    -AP; Pics: AFP, Reuters  -  485 words
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