Streats, 10 February 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 10 February 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 605 1  -  by SARAH NG COMPLETE the sentence and you get a quick snapshot of the situation in Singapore households last year. Yes, the cynical adage about the rich becoming richer and the poor poorer has come to reflect the situation
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  • morning rush
    • 95 1 BANGKOK Billionaire tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra crossed one more hurdle yesterday to becoming the Prime Minister of Thailand. Parliment voted him in with a vote of 340 to 127. “The responsibility has been passed on to me. We have to solve the economic problems first,” he said. The
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    • 106 1 IF you have a second or third child born after April 1 this year, you will automatically receive a notice from the Ministry of Community Development and Sports to take part in the “baby bonus” scheme. Each year, the government will put $5OO in the Child Development Account
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    • 124 1 8 M! WĔiĔiM V' mm 'i Theyoung and the poor Today's young adults have n up in an age of peace, and sustained economic They do not have a understanding of whether working the poor, being poor, or ring a bus seat someone poor, uffeured by parents :ed after by
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 420 2 IMAGINE boatloads of people landing on our shores from troubled nations. It’s a possibility, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, yesterday. Speaking at a public lecture on the third and final day of his visit, he
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    • 103 2 HAVE you ever pored over supermarket ads in the newspapers, sussing out the week’s bargains that will help you cut your grocery bills? The blind can’t ever read about such special offers. But now they can hear all about them. A speech-enabled information service
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    • 244 2 HALF per cent clubs where members pledge to donate 0.5 per cent of their annual income to charity have caught on. The National Council of Social Services and the Community Chest are forming their own half per cent clubs, said Prime Minister Goh Chok
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    • news scan
      • 85 2 A SINGAPOREAN man has been charged with the murder of an Australian who was stabbed to death at the Newton Food Centre last month. Nah Chee Khonn, 28, is suspected of being one of five men involved in a fatal attack on 39-year-old James Patch Alyn at
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      • 46 2 A 32-YEAR-OLD Malaysian motorcyclist suffered multiple injuries in an accident yesterday. He was travelling along Woodlands Road towards Upper Bukit Timah Road when a car hit his motorcycle at 1.40 am. The motorcyclist suffered lacerations on his neck and leg and suspected fractures.
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      • 69 2 A COMPUTER, vacuum cleaner, shoes and cash were included in a $5,380 haul stolen from Nisshin Tuition Centre. The 30-year-old managing director of the centre at Block 306 A Woodlands Street 31, had locked up on Wednesday night at 10.30 pm. When he returned to work
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      • 98 2 FORTY-SEVEN Singaporeans and nine Malaysians have been arrested over a onemonth period in five different drug-busting operations. Of the 47 Singaporeans, 12 have been charged with drug trafficking and 15 tested positive for consumption. Drugs and cash were seized from seven local networks in various parts of
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    • 102 2 onekindact Fang Guo Ying On a rainy morning a few days ago, I went to Serangoon area to meet a friend. As it was my first time there, I approached a lady, in her 30s, for direction. She offered me some suggestions. Then, because it
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    • 371 3 But women still prefer husbands who are breadwinners NOW hear this: More Singapore men are warming up to the idea of being househusbands and allowing their wives to bring home the bacon. But the women still want their men to play the traditional role
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    • 114 3 Don't worry if you see rain in the afternoon today; they should just be passing showed The temperature will go up iM to 30°C. High tide at 12.18 pm will reach 3.3 m, among the highest for the year. Some low-lying regions may get flash floods
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    • Article, Illustration
      25 3 With bells, whistles and other assorted musical instruments, these Russian folk dancers added Foreign flavour to the annual Chingay parade Pic: Francis Lee
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    • Just a minute
      • 47 3 Employees who stay in the pink of health can help your companies gain grants of up to $5,000 from the government. The grants will go into developing programmes that promote a healthy workplace. So, get your company to join the Workplace Health promotion scheme.
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      • 61 3 With Valentine's Day around the corner, get yourself in the mood for love with roses, roses and more roses! Check out Unfolding Moments an exhibition of artworks I on the flower by y pastor-turned-artist Samuel Teo. Ground i Floor Exhibition Space, G@llery Evason Hotel, i 76 Robertson
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      • 55 3 It's the annual Chingay parade today! Some roads will be closed to vehicles: From 7.00 pm to 11.00 pm: St Andrew's Road, Coleman Street, Parliament Place, Old Parliament Lane, Fullerton Road and Connaught Drive. From 7.30 pm to 11.00 pm: Stamford Road, Nicoll Highway, Suntec City driveway and the
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    • 274 4  - Don't do it if you've got flu by SARAH NG YOU'VE read time and again, doctors saying that masturbation does not cause health problems: Not weak knees, not pimples, not diminished athletic stamina. It does not even reduce the prowess of the sex organ. And then someone who is still
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    • 185 4  -  by CLAIRE HILLS WHEN cleaner Chang San Fong went into the toilets at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre at Suntec City to change toilet paper, she got a little more than she bargained for a lurid sideshow. As she bent down to
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    • 141 4 OVER 10 months, a man sold obscene VCDs, acted as a gambling lookout, and tried to bring in firecrackers and was caught each time. Each time he admitted guilt. A subordinate court heard yesterday that Yeo Seng Yong Yeo, 41, had set up a makeshift stall
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    • 199 5 Residents with poor social habits to blame, saysSCDF IF you think that most household fires are caused by unattended pots boiling over in the kitchen, think again. Of the 3,560 residential fires that the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) responded to last
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    • 261 5  -  by YVONNE KWOK A 60-YEAR-OLD woman was robbed of a $3,500 gold necklace and pendant by a snatch thief on Wednesday. Madam Flo Kim Geok was climbing the stairs to her FIDB flat at Block 75, Telok Blangah Drive when she was stopped
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    • 325 7 Wire services Probe panel not legitimate says president so he's preparing an l answer that will kill' SURABAYA It was a bolder and stronger Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid who faced his loyal supporters in East Java yesterday. One who spoke in strong language to make it
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      • 63 7 Bernama ALOR STAR, Malaysia Deputy Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung yesterday appealed for an end to speculation about an attack on a police station on Sunday. Mr Chor said rumours could jeopardise an investigation into the Guar Chempedak station incident, which involved four attackers. “The public
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      • 71 7 -AFP BUTTERWORTH, Malaysia A former senior opposition official, Ms Marina Yusoff, escaped jail yesterday and was fined RM5,000 (552,280) for sedition over a speech she made in 1999. Ms Marina had accused the ruling United Malays National Organisation of provoking bloody anti-Chinese riots in 1969. She is
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      • 58 7 -AFP HONGKONG Three men pleaded guilty to abducting the son of Taiwanese film star and director Sylvia Chang Ai-chia last year. Her son Oscar, 9, was taken in Kowloon Tong last July. Leung Man-kwon, 21, Tsang Yiu-tung, 20, and Yuen Lee-man, 20, pleaded guilty in
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      • 71 7 -AFP BEIJING A Chinese mother and daughter were arrested in a marriage and murder scam that led to the murders of four husbands, the Legal Daily reported on Thursday. Li Huijie and her mother Tian Xuejin were arrested by police in Tangyin county of central Henan
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    • 215 7 AP SYDNEY A university student who had his grades raised offered his college a As 2 million (Ssl.9 million) donation, a newspaper reported yesterday. The gift was to pay for the establishment of a research center along with high-paying consultancies for some of his
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    • 158 7 Reuters TOKYO A soft drink containing an ingredient of the impotence drug Viagra has been banned by Japanese officials. The drink, touted as “the solution to your nighttime problems”, appeared in men’s magazines and on the Internet. About 47,000 bottles of the non-prescription drink were
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 355 9 Wire services JERUSALEM Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has spoken over the telephone to the man known as the Israeli hawk, Israel’s new Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon. A source from Mr Sharon’s office said Mr Arafat congratulated the Likud leader for his recent victory
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    • 176 9 Reuters LOS ANGELES If you still haven’t mailed your sweetheart a Valentine’s card, you still have time because the original holiday for lovers was on May 3. What’s more, there’s a commemoration of a St Valentine somewhere in the world every other week. “We easily
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    • 145 9 Reuters NEW YORK Jane Fonda, whose workout videos helped spark the fitness craze of the 80s and 90s, has given up her famed exercise regimen. She has largely given up exercise because it interferes with her writing, she said in an interview with Barbara Walters for
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  • STREATS
    • 347 11  -  by /CARA van MIRIAH HE calls his Fender “anok” (child) and hardly leaves home without it. The guitar means the world to him. Little wonder, since it has been instrumental (pun intended) in helping 25-year-old Addey Rasidi trail-blaze his way into the local music scene. Call
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    • Take 5
      • 272 13  -  By YVONNE KWOK IXSHEN is returning to his roots. The former photographer for Weekend East (1992-1994) is playing a journalist in his very first role for SPH Media Works. Tentatively titled Making Headlines, this 13-parter is a drama that revolves around the lives of reporters in
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      • channel scan
        • 101 13 Saturday, 7pm, Channel 5 Marisa Tomei plays a woman named Faith, a hopeless romantic who, as a child, was told by a fortune teller that the man for her is named Damort Bradley. At 28, she gets engaged to a podiatrist, but a few days before the wedding,
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          73 13 Saturday, 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) Adam Sandler plays a slacker, Sonny, who wants to con- vince his girlfriend that he’s mature by adopting a five-year-old boy. But i Sonny loses her anyway 1 The catch now is that he 1 must keep the boy. A carefree life takes
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          69 13 Saturday, 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) It’s 1999, and Carrie’s telekinetic half-sister, Rachel, is just about to go to her prom. No one has any idea about her powers except Sue, who is now the school’s counsellor, k Sue fears that Rachel’s powers I might rage out
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    • Go play
      • 185 17 -AFP LONDON Runaway leader Manchester United goes to Chelsea today with revenge in mind after suffering a humiliating G-5 defeat there last season. Chelsea’s joy was understandable given that United thumped the Londoners 4-0 in the 1994 FA Cup final and two years later denied the
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      • 104 17 LONDON Police are investigating the cash-for-passports scandal in English football as Europe continued to be rocked by allegations of clubs fielding illegal players, reported Soccernet. As Italian giant Inter Milan steeled itself for a nine-point penalty after being found guilty of knowingly fielding Uruguayan
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      • 182 19  -  by TAN KIM HAN KUWAIT confirmed its status as the group favourite by finishing top of the pre-World Cup Asia Group Four qualifiers. Yesterday, the Middle East giant shrugged off its early lethargy to beat a defiant Kyrgyzstan 3-0. The goals came from
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      • 512 19  -  by PETER SIOW WHEN Singapore promises the most, it often delivers the least. Such was the case yesterday when its high hopes were dragged down to hell instead of being lifted to heaven. After the heroic draw against Kuwait in the pre-World Cup qualifiers four
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    • 219 16 SATURDAY Q 10 February 2001 H§| Wmlim 1 ji I, l »J j; (f The story so far... The burfy man asks Wei Xiaobao to help him out of the room: He has to escape. Wei agrees and starts to treat him as a bosom friend. They staggers onto the
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