Streats, 8 February 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 8 February 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/200(
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  • 462 1  -  Ourcityis hotbed of sex, drugs and drag shows, says magazine by CARA van MIRIAH YOU are now travelling on the streets of what has been described as a City of Sin, “a surprising hotbed of sex, drugs and drag shows”. You are likely to encounter gays and drugs.
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  • morning rush
    • 104 1 MANY of us were stunned when tremors shook Singapore last year. Now, the SCDF has come out with a handy guide book on what to do when there’s a quake. You’ll be able to get one at the end of next week on Feb 17 and 18 as
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  • 111 1 THE three tainted vials of immunoglobulin made from the blood of a Briton who suffered from the human form of mad cow disease were shipped to Hongkong and not to Singapore, as reported earlier. The Health Ministry has been informed by JDH Pharmaceutical Division,
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    • 29 1 AS a record-breaking landslide swept Israeli hawk Ariel Sharon into office, Arabs are at a loss over how to talk peace with him. Some fear war. SEE PAGE 9
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 394 2 Finance Minister Richard Hu hinted last Saturday that this year's Budget would be 'a little more generous' Taking the cue, about 60 managers and executives, who attended a pre-Budget dialogue session jointly organised by the Feedback Unit and the Singapore Institute of Management yesterday, had their own
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    • 100 2 A FIRE broke out at a plastic factory at Blk 2002 Bukit Batok Industrial Park A on Tuesday evening. Fortunately, no one was injured. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) was alerted at 7.30 pm. They sent down five fire engines and arrived to
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    • 184 2  -  by SARAH NG SINGAPORE Malays are more confident of their standing, now that they have heard the Prime Minister’s report card. But at a Feedback session yesterday chaired by Parliamentary Secretary for Communications and Information Technology Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, they highlighted the following areas where
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    • 159 3  -  by r CLAIRE HILLS TWO bemused defendants were forced to stand up for themselves in court yesterday because their lawyer was in jail. When the judge asked sisters Tong Siew Lian and Tong Kim Yen where their lawyer was, they sheepishly replied: “Er,
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    • Woman under pressure
      • 208 3  -  Two women ended up in court, because they finally snapped because of their men fry CLAIRE HILLS TAN Suan Keow’s husband had been beating her even when she was pregnant with their child. Last May, things came to a head. Tan came home to her husband Seet
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      • 288 3 NORAZLINNA Kadir’s boyfriend Azli Salleh was getting nasty. A heroin user, he needed money for drugs. Norazlinna couldn’t help as she was unemployed. When he began to threaten her with violence she became frightened, rounded up two friends and devised a plan to snatch a
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      • 61 3 THE engine of an SIA 747-400 jet that made an emergency return to Melbourne on Tuesday did not catch fire as the crew had reported, according to engineers who inspected the aircraft. Sunlight reflecting on an orange seal attached to the exhaust of the engine
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      • 79 3 BURGLARS broke into two businesses on Tanjong Pagar Road on consecutive days. The first break-in, at Nexus Karaoke Pub, was discovered at 2.30 pm on Tuesday. More than $2,000 in notes and coins, cigarettes and wine were taken. Another break-in was discovered yesterday at about 10.15
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      • 47 3 SOH Seah Kin, 64, was killed in an accident after losing control of his motorcycle as he travelled towards Lentor Avenue on Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 on Tuesday. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident at 2.40 pm.
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      • 72 3 A WOMAN became hysterical after the taxi she was riding in hit a tree along the PanIsland Expressway early yesterday. The taxi was heading towards Changi Airport when the driver lost control, Lianhe Wanbao reported. The driver and passenger were not seriously injured, but the passenger shouted
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    • 66 3 IN our Feb 5 edition, the report “Man dies of fall injuries”, said that a brick-layer fell to his death at the Modena Condominium construction site in Simei Street 4 on Jan 29. We would like to clarify that no worker was injured or died at the Modena Condominum
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    • 57 3 WE refer to the article in Streats dated Feb 5, page 2, “Man dies of fall injuries” at the Modena Condominium construction site. We would like to clarify that the incident occurred at Tropical Spring condominium construction site and not as stated. ASP Chua Chee Wai, Media Relations
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    • 439 4 by YVONNE KWOK AN e-mail war is brewing in cyberspace and the spoils are looking better by the day The latest salvo: Sign up for a free email accountatwww.free.lycosasia.com and get a Siemens C3508i handphone retailing for $l5B in Hello! shops free. That’s what Lycos
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    • 154 4 onekindact Shima My dad had an asthma attack on Jan 16 at 6am. We called for a taxi to take us to the National University Hospital (NUH), but only two traffic lights after the Boon Lay Fire Station, my dad was totally out of breath. To our shock,
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    • 518 5  -  by DIANA SER THEY call her Irene “Cute” at The New Paper. Young Journalist of the Year 2001 Irene Kew looks like an average, pretty 24-year-old you’d see on the MRT. But this sweet young thing has spent days with a brain-damaged woman
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    • 54 5 Our weather girl says It's a wet Thursday as with thunder are expected ift the afternoon and early evening over many areas. will reach a high of32°C. Highm tide will hit 3.0 m at 10.43 timfm Our weather girl is Streats reader Sherryl Lim. Make-up by Vivian Kuit of Future
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    • Just a minute
      • 36 5 Your power bill increases by 1.41 cents per kilowatt-hour to 19.87 cents. The hike is to offset rising electricity costs. This price increase will be effective until April when rates will be reviewed.
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      • 41 5 If you have queries about hepatitis, call Health Line at 1800-2.73-0313. This is part of the "Doctor on Call" programme, organised in conjunction with the Hepatitis B Immunisation Programme. The Health Line is available today from 2.00 pm to SJJOpm.
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      • 53 5 Remember those halcyon childhood days where j you can slurp coffee from a saucer without rude stares from others? Relive those nostalgic moments with Mr Ong Slew Peng, a Hainanese coffee shop owner. Coffee £3Sflt': Understanding The Traditional Hainanese Coffee i Shop. Singapore History Museum, Saturday, 332-3558
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 298 8 Wire services President's supporters go on the rampage vowing mayhem if he is m unseated SURABAYA Police and troops fired warning shots and teargas when about 50,000 people choked the streets of Indonesia’s second-largest city yesterday to oppose attempts to impeach President Abdurrahman
      – Wire services  -  298 words
    • 93 8 Reuters MANILA Philippine central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura denied tipping off deposed Philippine president Joseph Estrada about the closure of a bank last year, allowing him to withdraw over US$2 million ($3.5 million). Congressmen Joker Arroyo and Oscar Moreno, members of the prosecution panel
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    • 63 8 webcites- Mojo Nation at Mojonation.net is a decentralised publishing and fileswopping zone. Users offer their storage space in exchange for files they want music, video or text Mojo must be earned by sharing unused hard-disk space, bandwidth and processing cycles. When content is drawn from your computer,
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      • 85 8 Xinhua GUANGZHOU A museum aimed at boosting sex education will be built in Shaoguan City, Guandong, which is famous for steep cliffs and rocks with bizarre shapes. Many of the rocks resemble human sex organs, but are much larger, and the Danxiashan tourism zone is thus often
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      • 97 8 Xinhua KUNMING, China Chinese scientists are collecting special chemical compounds from the body of the cockroach which they hope can be used as a treatment for Aids. A group led by Li Shunan, dean of Pharmacology Department of Yunnan Medical College, has extracted three chemical compounds
        – Xinhua  -  97 words
      • 89 8 AP BATU CAVES In a Thaipusam procession which started before dawn and continued all day, Malaysia’s Hindus climbed a limestone cliff to the Batu Caves north of Kuala Lumpur to offer penance, ask forgiveness and make wishes of the Hindu god Lord Muruga. The procession made
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      • 88 8 AP BANGKOK At least two people were killed and four others injured when tons of earth collapsed on thousands of villagers digging for gold near an illegal mine in central Thailand. More than 5,000 amateur prospectors had swarmed onto the site at Wang Saipoon
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      • 100 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR Police have detained a woman who allegedly chained her mentally disabled son in a wooden enclosure near their village home in northern Malaysia. Noh Che Pa, chief of the Criminal Investigations Department for the district, said that his officers found the nine-year-old, who
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 235 9 Reuters JERUSALEM Palestinian officials said on Wednesday their worst fears had come true with the landslide election victory of Ariel Sharon as Israeli Prime Minister Palestinian leaders say publicly that talks are possible with Mr Sharon, leaving the door open to diplomacy But his policies
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    • 196 9 Reuters CAIRO Across the Arab world, politicians, pundits and ordinary people yesterday met Ariel Sharon’s victory with a sense of fury, gloom and defiance. Many warned that the poll result would unleash a fresh wave of bloodshed which would choke peace efforts and spread
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    • 163 9 Reuters JERUSALEM Ariel Sharon won a landslide victory in Israeli elections on Tuesday, defeating Prime Minister Ehud Barak by an unprecedented margin. Mr Sharon, 72, received an overwhelming 62.5 per cent of the votes against his rival’s 37.4 per cent, with 99 per cent of
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    • 131 9 justbelieveit -AFP MONTREAL A young Canadian man high on drugs bit off part of a police officer's ear, chewed on it and spat it out, police here said. Mr Michael Collins, 20, was drugged and inebriated when police stopped him late on Sunday for
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    • 193 9 -AP WASHINGTON Los Angeles International Airport was the scene of a safety rules violation about 20 minutes before a ceremony to mark its improved runway safeguards. Two Boeing 737 s violated safety rules by coming too close to each other on Jan 24. No one
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      • 95 9 Reuters OKLAHOMA CITY About 250 people among the hundreds of surviving victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing have expressed interest in witnessing the scheduled execution of bomber Timothy McVeigh. The agency that runs US federal prisons is now weighing how to accommodate the large number,
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      • 78 9 Reuters PARIS Alfred Sirven, charged with using an oil company slush fund to influence government decisions, chewed up his mobile phone chip when he was arrested to prevent police from tracing his calls, French newspapers reported. Seized last Friday in the Philippines after three years
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      • 89 9 Reuters VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul is considering naming Saint Isidore of Seville, nominated two years ago, the patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers, Vatican sources said on Tuesday. Saint Isidore lived in the seventh century and was believed to have written the world’s
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      • 96 9 Reuters LONDON A British rabbit, so fat she couldn’t clean herself and could hardly move, has had an operation to give her a new lease of life and even help her find love. Tallulah, a two-year-old lop-eared doe, had a tummy tuck operation after her owner
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  • easy STREATS
    • 572 11 JUNITA SIMON TV host, fashion model and now, Streats columnist shares her agony of deciding between contractual obligations and her conscience on a Hongkong runway I HAVE always been an animal lover and grew up in a household of animal lovers. I still remember the times
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    • 253 12  -  By CARRIE HO Streats asks local celebrities: Who are better kissers women or men? Which is your most memorable on-screen or real-life kiss? I lx Shen, actor Women. I haven’t kissed any man before! It was with Emma Yong during the play, Swimming Instructor. I
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      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 80 12 11pm, Channel 5 Debut of a series that tackles complicated legal issues in the field of family law. After losing her husband and clients all in one day, attorney Lynn Holt sets out to rebuild her life. With some help from Danni Lipton, an ambitious almost junior partner,
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        • 83 12 11 pm, Central Winner of Prix Italia for Best Performance, as well as the winner of a Czech Crystal at the Golden Prague. This dance film tells the story of a woman stranded at a railway station after the last train has gone. Suitcase in hand, her fears and
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        • Article, Illustration
          81 12 3pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) One city, set in the freewheeling *****, is up A for grabs. The good side, led by Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty), squeaky clean cop, operates out of a police station that is named, 1 well, just that, Police Station. The bad side, managed
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    • 299 15 Our government made a US$5O,OOO ($87,000) donation to India's earthquake victims. Just one question A I $87,000 is not enough. So many j people died and there's so much rebuilding to do. Roads, the sewage system and housing all these need money.
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 224 17 LONDON English football’s disciplinary rule book is in tatters after a series of rulings delivered a slap in the face to FA chief executive Adam Crazier, reported Soccernet. Paul Taylor, who faced being removed from the referees list for allegedly making lewd and suggestive comments
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      • 387 17 -AP MIDDLESBROUGH, England Wimbledon held Middlesbrough to a dour 0-0 tie in their FA Cup fourth-round game and must replay at Selhurst Park, leaving Boro manager Terry Venables a disappointed man, reported Soccernet. “We are disappointed,” he said. “This is not what we wanted but
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      • 394 18 LONDON Beleaguered Tottenham manager George Graham has delivered a stinging rebuke to his critics, reported Soccernet. He made no excuses for Spurs’ recent four-game run, during which they have not scored a goal. Instead, he said: “I am the second-most successful manager in the country
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      • 399 19  -  by PETER SIOW BAD one day. Brilliant the next. That’s how the report card on the Lions looks so far in the pre-World Cup soccer qualifiers One red cross against Kyrgyzstan. And one blue tick against Kuwait. So how will the Lions perform against Bahrain
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      • 96 19 MILWAUKEE Milwaukee Bucks weathered a late rally by Sacramento Kings and prevailed in a game that paired the division leaders. Sam Cassell scored 29 points and Ray Allen 28 as Milwaukee survived Chris Webber’s 39 points and Predrag Stojakovic’s three-point attempt at the buzzer for a 112-109
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 481 13 i yrjTfJfjrj/Tfr y)j? f md< Notts i* Your Daily Horoscope kmmms JAN 20-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com mmm\ MAY 21 JUN 21 Life should be perfect, but somehow you want even more. Motivated Aquarians can always find room for improvement. Be especially cautious with the feelings of people
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 303 14 0 THURSDAY Q 8 February 2001 ■ssggg» A V i H }BBS 8 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 problems to gang fights;
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 245 15 The story today».. Zhang Jing is taken aback by Murong ,MS Dance, Zhang shows off her powers to U J Gaining her composure, Murong shows Zhang her Stone Powers Fist which can crush things mites away. But Murong soon toses her momentum. So she cocoons herself with metres of sash,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 43 19 In The Living Room BASKETBALL College: NC State v Virginia (Bam), Clemson v Duke (10am) Ch 23 SOCCER Coppa Italia semi-final, 2nd leg Fiorentina AC Milan (Sports City, tomorrow, 4am) DELAYED TELECAST ICE HOCKEY NHL: Pittsburgh v Philadelphia (Ch 23, tomorrow, 12.30 am)
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