Streats, 6 February 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 6 February 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 102 1 Mobile phone revenues in Singapore are projected to surge by 49 per cent to $2.3 billion in the next five years, according to a forecast released yesterday by a US market research firm. Nine out of 10 Singaporeans will be carrying mobile phones in 2005, op from 75
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    • 130 1 ABOUT 60 per cent of adult Singaporeans have no immunity to Hepatitis B, a liver inflammation caused by a virus. It can be spread through infected blood or body fluids. It can also be transmitted from mother to baby at birth. Most adults recover from
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    • 50 1 A $3 million scholarship scheme is being launched to train a pool of R&D experts for local manufacturing industries. The scheme, called the Research Manpower Development Programme, is a joint initiative by Gintic Institute of Manufacturing I Technology, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.
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  • 473 1  -  by CLAIRE HILLS IF reports by British newspapers, news agencies and TV are to be believed, at least one Singaporean could be walking around with the human form of mad cow disease. He would have been treated with blood products from donations
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    • 144 1 dents and those in their first year of junior college will be tested when they are in their second year. Tertiary students can also take advantage of the scheme in July s3m for better skills A $3 million scholarship scheme is being launched to train a pool of R&D experts
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 260 2 EACH time a bank raises its service charges, it’s a gentle push to get you to use their Internet banking services. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that electronic banking is up to scratch. A survey commissioned by The Business Times found that many transactions are
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    • 234 2 SINGAPOREANS are going for e-entertainment and not e-com-merce when they surf the Net. Internet ratings research group Nielson/Netßatings said in a statement yesterday that many used the Internet to send Christmas greetings and to download music during the festive period. Web traffic to greeting card
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    • 204 2 ONE computer glitch and DBS Bank’s 900 automated teller machines (ATMs) and Internet banking system went down. The 45-minute breakdown hit the bank’s system during its busiest period at 12.47 pm. This is the second time in six months that the ATMs have stalled.
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    • 404 3  -  by CLAIRE HILLS the man who threw Molotov cocktails at a seven-year-old boy just to get even with his mother has been sentenced to nine years’ jail and 18 strokes of the cane. The explosives blew up in the schoolboy’s face, forcing him to
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    • 290 3  -  by f CLAIRE HILLS THE boss of a high-profile modelling agency was desperate. He was caught in a swimming pool committing an act of gross indecency with two men. So first he bolted, with a lifeguard in hot pursuit. Then he tried to bribe
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    • news scan
      • 137 3 TRADITIONAL Chingay processions will take place this year on Pasir Ris Drive 1, in the North-east district, and three locations in the Central district. The Pasir Ris Drive 1 procession will take place on Sunday and the Central district events on Feb 18. The organisers of
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      • 114 3 THE good working relationship of staff at a barber shop backfired by making a burglar’s work simpler. There was no obvious sign of a break-in when Abdul Kadir and his colleagues opened the Bugs Bunny Barber Shop at 9am on Saturday. But then he noticed that
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      • 72 3 AN elderly man who liked to go on long solo walks was found dead on Sunday evening on a staircase at the Westin Stamford Hotel. The body of May Thye Cheng, a 79-year-old retired sailor, was discovered by a security guard at about 9.40 pm
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      • 77 3 THE Development Bank of Singapore Ltd (DBS) has named the two non-profit community projects that will benefit from the bank’s $lOO,OOO grants, known as DBS Singapore Hong Bao. The recipients will be The Riding for the Disabled Association and the Autistic Association (Singapore). This is the second
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    • 252 4  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH GOOD news is on the horizon for house hunters and sellers, though not for conveyancing lawyers. From Feb 1, 2003, the scaled legal fees for property transactions will be abolished, announced Mr Liew Heng San, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Law
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    • 78 4 Singapore remains one of the last countries practicing this conveyancing fee system, which was introduced in England in 1881 and then abolished in 1972. Conveyancing fees went down 17 per cent in New South Wales, Australia in the three years after they were abolished.
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    • 124 4 onekindact Colin Yeo My sister lost her handphone while on her way to meet my mother. When she called me in the office to tell me about it, I tried to call her mobile. I was pleasantly surprised to hear a friendly voice telling me that he
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    • 407 5  -  by CARRIE HO THE criminal career of a 65-year-old robber, who specialised in mugging grannies in lifts, came to an abrupt end on Sunday when he was caught trying to rob yet another old lady in a lift. In Saturday’s edition of Streats,
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    • 77 5 Our weather girl says i Have a little Gene Kelly spirit in'- i you today. Remember that jolly J i guy who sang and tap-dancedjmy the horrid weather? There'll be J showers with thunder over areas in the afternoon. "sippP Temperatures will reach a high i of 31 °C. High
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    • Just a minute
      • 60 5 The power bill of households increases by 1.41 cents per kilowatt-hour to 19.87 cents. The rise in cost in to offset rising electricity costs. This price increase will be effective until April when rates will be reviewed. However, prices for industrial users will be lowered by between
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      • 46 5 For those of you who take SBS bus 136, be reminded that the service no longer calls at bus stops along Hougang Avenues 8,6 and 10. The route has been amended to loop at Upper Serangoon Road to create a link to Serangoon Secondary School.
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      • 59 5 If you have queries about hepatitis, call Health Line at 1800-223-0313. This is part of the "Doctor on Call" programme, organised in conjunction with the Ministry of I Health's Hepatitis B 1 Immunisation J Programme. Health Line operates tomorrow from 8.30 am i to I.oopm, and f
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 857 6 IT had to happen again. On Jan 26, a 55kg Canary Island mastiff killed a neighbour as she was about to enter her apartment in San Francisco. The bloodbath in the corridor was so horrific that police officers at the scene had to receive trauma counselling. Flashback
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 257 7 Wire services JAKARTA Protests in the capital and an increasingly weakened President are frightening the business community in Indonesia. They have asked the government for greater security for their factories and distribution networks. Business leaders, who met President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday with
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    • 266 7 Reuters BANGKOK A quarter of Thai men have more than one wife, according to a study by Thai doctors. “I would say that around 25 to 30 per cent of married Thai men maintain another wife, in another house”, said Nongphanga Limsuwan, a doctor
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    • Web cites
      • 68 7 V w Listen.com is a dream come true for MP3 fans. It has a beginner's guide to setting up your computer for MP3 playback. There is also a neat library of songs for you to download. Type in the name of the ortiste you are looking for
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      • 38 7 Britain's largest music network is Dotmusic.com. There are no less than 14 chart-topping charts, from Top 75 Singles to Top 75 albums. You can also use stream-ing-video to watch live webcasts of gigs and interviews.
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    • 262 7 -AFP TOKYO Hospital patients in Japan could start carrying coded microchips on their fingernails to help doctors and nurses avoid making medical mistakes. A research team at Toho University’s Omori Hospital in Tokyo has developed a microchip on which the patient’s details including
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      • 119 7 Wire services JAKARTA Former Indonesian president Suharto is now a free man. The Supreme Court has ruled that he is no longer under city arrest, which means he can move about freely in and out of the city. He is also not to be retried for
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      • 78 7 -AFP MANILA President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday that her government intended to have “good relations” with Chinese-Filipino businessmen and protect its members from kidnappers. “Just before I became president of the Philippines there was black propaganda going around Chinatown that I’m antiChinese,” she said. “Now that I
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      • 67 7 Bernama ALOR STAR The police are offering a reward of RMIOO,OOO ($45,000) to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of four men who attacked the Guar Chempedak police station, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Norian Mai in Alor Star said yesterday. He commended
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      • 63 7 -AFP TOKYO Japan’s biggest consumer electronics company Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd said yesterday it was developing the first Japanese-Chinese voice translation technology for mobile devices. Translation technology already exists for personal computers but the heavy-duty memory needed had precluded its transfer to mobile telephones or personal digital
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    • 104 8 ap TAIPEI More than 100 workers scooped up spilled oil yesterday, hoping to clean up leakage from a 35,000-tonne sunken tanker that officials say threatens a coral reef natural reserve. More than 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil poured out of Amargos near a maritime national
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    • 271 8 -AP 18 blood-clot deaths reported after long-haul flights to Australia SYDNEY Major airlines will attend a summit to discuss the “economy class syndrome” amid reports that 18 people died in Australia from blood clots after long flights. Records show 14 of the deep vein thrombosis
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    • 207 8 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia, keen to spread the benefits of the Internet to its villages, has embarked on an ambitious project to plug the countryside into the Net. But critics say the project must focus more on selling the dream to the people.
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    • 110 8 -AP SYDNEY Australia yesterday lectured all its soldiers and sailors on mutual respect and being good mates. About 50,000 Australian military personnel, some on warships, had a two-hour lecture warning against intimidation and harassment. All normal military activity was cancelled. The crackdowns come after
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    • 89 8 justbelieveit. -AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka banned the use of air-conditioners and flood lighting yesterday. President Chandrika Kumaratunga used tough emergency laws to prohibit the drawing of electricity from the national grid to work aircons, neon signs and carnivals. Ms Kumaratunga also ordered local municipal authorities to switch off
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 165 9 AP London commuters Loft stranded os train drivers strike for one day LONDON -A one-day strike by train drivers seriously disrupted services on the London Underground yesterday. Tens of thousands of customers were left to find alternative means of transport. Several lines were running no services yesterday
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    • 150 9 -AFP RIYADH Three Western suspects in anti-British bombings in Riyadh will be tried under Islamic laws which dictate the death penalty for murder. The Islamic laws of “Sharia are the only legislation applied in the kingdom,” Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz told the
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      • 49 9 AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka gave a gift of sight to the blind in Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. Sri Lanka’s eye donation society sent corneas to the countries as part of celebrations to coincide with the island’s 53rd anniversary of independence from Britain yesterday. afp
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      • 59 9 AFP GAZA CITY The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad vowed yesterday to strike at Israel within the next few days. “We will carry out the most painful blows against the criminal entity,” it said, adding that such attacks would be to avenge the death of its militant, Shadi
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      • 74 9 Reuters WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday he viewed Aids as a national security problem. Former president Bill Clinton’s administration first termed the spread of Aids a threat to national security last April. Mr Powell agreed on the ABC programme This Week
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 307 10 -ap JERUSALEM Ariel Sharon’s loyal supporters call him one of Israel’s great war heroes, a natural leader in times of crisis. His critics describe him as headstrong and reckless, a man who has embroiled Israel in wars and political strife. After a
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    • 223 10 AP JERUSALEM During his long, distinguished military career, Ehud Barak was used to having his orders obeyed. During his turbulent 19 months as Israel’s prime minister; he has found it much harder to call the shots. The 58-year-old Mr Barak, who trounced Benjamin Netanyahu at the
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  • easy STREATS
    • 348 11  -  by YVONNE KWOK Junita Simon hates being forever associated with the magazine programme that made her a TV star IT made her TV career. But enough is enough, is the message coming from model and TV host Junita Simon. “I’ve done shows like Wine
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    • 184 11 FOUR other new artistes will join a team of hosts on The Big Buffet, TV Works’ flagship programme, which is a variety-cum-infotainment show. WENDY JACOBS, 26 Best known for being Mrs Fandi Ahmad, this model and mother of three will host outdoor segments on
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    • 275 12  -  Cool response till Destination Unknown was known by CARA VAN MIRIAH HAVE you ever organised a party and then wondered how many would show up? Many thought that the Destination Unknown 002 party held last Friday would flop. The organisers, Renovation Productions, were optimistic, expecting the
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    • 303 13  -  By KAREN CHEN HE was stripped to his undies. There’s a fully naked woman right in front of him. They’re doing a raunchy scene and he’s very, very hot. But not because he was in close contact with the sexy and alluring Hongkonger Perry
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    • 220 15 Just one question I would like more CPF top-ups. I More income tax deductions for I wife and children would be good. And also lower tax on cigarettes. -Mr Siva Nathan, 42, security guard More monetary support should I be given
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 502 17  -  by PETER SIOW IT IS tempting for most coaches to want to blanket their defence when confronting stronger teams. The reason is to avoid being humiliated. That, and the barbed comments of the unforgiving media. Already, the swishing of knives can be heard following Singapore’s
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      • 110 17 LOS ANGELES Kobe Bryant, his shooting touch off, still scored 26 points and added 11 rebounds on Sunday as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Sacramento Kings 100-94 in their National Basketball Association game. Winning for the third time in five games since Shaquille
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      • 104 17 PEBBLE BEACH, California Davis Love 111 (above) won the Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament by one stroke for his 14th career United States PGA Tour victory, but first in more than two years. Love, who began the day seven strokes behind third-round leaders Phil
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      • 362 18 LONDON England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson is confident his team can still qualify for the 2002 World Cup Finals. The Swede, who has had to deal with strong opinion about his own appointment because he is notan Englishman, also cited the influx of foreigners into
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      • 148 18 -AFP SEOUL South Korean football fans staged a demonstration outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul yesterday, demanding the 2002 World Cup final be taken away from Japan because of a dispute about the name. But despite a warning from South Korean soccer chiefs that
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      • 248 19 -AP SOUTHAMPTON Former England coach Glenn Hoddle hopes to get back into international soccer management and fancies being in charge of the United States team one day. Fired by England over his religious view that disabled people were being punished for sins of a previous
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 489 12 If it's your birth you sh Masaharu effljr "today, Ji wish jkuyawci Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20- FEB 18 Familiarity breeds stagnation. A story that you’ve repeated too many times begins to weaken your defence. Feelings change over time recognise that and move on from here. PISCES FEB 19-MAR
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 282 14 TUESDAY 0 6 February 2001 n n jiii m ,«II: w i u 8 \w l f That s him standing by the window So pale, jH smooth HI and dainty Yuan Jianping The story is about i m 0» <Qk cr? A natural busybody, he suddenly finds What a
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    • 398 15 i Wr v m ti m 1! M «■r The story today... Zhang Jing's assault is calculated to kill. Her Thunderous Palms sends Xiao Yuer crashing through four trees. But Xiao Yuer is far from hurt. Ho matter how ferocious Zhang's moves are, he can feel only heat caused by
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