Streats, 2 March 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 2 March 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
    • Article
      Lock icon Workforce survey
      57 1 THE Ministry of Manpower’s Research and Statistics Department is conducting a Labour Force Survey. A sample of 6,000 households have been selected. If your household has been chosen, you can be interviewed over the telephone or through a face-to-face interview, depending on your preference. The survey will collect
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    • Article
      Lock icon Helpline for parents
      67 1 MOUNT Elizabeth Hospital has set up a free 24-hour helpline for parents of children and teenagers who have behavioural problems. It is also open to children and teenagers who need help with emotional, psychological and behavioural issues. Trained counsellors will answer calls and provide free assessments to
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    • Article
      Lock icon A-level results
      50 1 THE GCE A level results will be released tomorrow. School candidates can collect their results from their schools at 11am. Private candidates will be informed by post. The results will also be accessible on the Internet after 11am. Log on to the Ministry of Education’s website at: http://www.moe.edu.sg/exams
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  • Article
    Lock icon Stop-smoking drug linked to 18 deaths in Britain Zyban Cure or killer?
    712 1  -  by SARAH NG YOU want to quit smoking, and the "•recent Budget hike in tobacco tariffs is yet another push factor. You’ve tried nicotine gums and patches and even cold turkey treatment but without success. Your doctor says
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Not by chance
    138 1 Singapore is more prosperous than many other countries in Asia. But this does not mean that Singaporeans are superior to people in the other countries. Person for person, the citizens of the countries around us, whether it is India or China, Vietnam or Indonesia, are no less
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon He had 14.9 kg of heroin in his car
      297 2  -  by 'SARAH NG A BURLY man panicked and bolted from Customs officers during a routine check at the Woodlands Checkpoint, leaving his car and passport behind. He ended up in a drain some 100 m away, crying for help as he
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    • Article
      Lock icon Zyban linked to deaths in UK, Australia
      255 2 SINCE the drug was launched in Britain last June, it has been prescribed to 270,000 smokers there. The Medicines Control Agency has received 3,457 complaints about side effects ranging from chest pains to fits, seizures and depression. Of the 18 deaths in Britain
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    • Article
      Lock icon 'Security fears' prompt Air-India aircraft search
      182 2 AN Air-lndia flight was searched because of a “security concern” when it arrived from Bombay yesterday, an airport official said. The plane landed safely at Changi Airport and all 211 passengers and crew aboard Flight A 1478 were fine, said Mr Albert Tjoeng, a
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      99 2 Hubby: You always carry my photo in your handbag to the office. Why? Wife: When there is a problem, l look at your picture and the problem disappears. Hubby: You see, how miraculous and powerful I am for you? Wife: Yes, I see your picture and say to
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      Lock icon HIV mum who dumped baby gets nine months
      376 3  -  reports by 'CLAIRE HILLS Immigration offender abandoned her new-born to avoid arrest AN HIV-positive mum dumped her newborn baby in a hotel room seconds after giving birth all because she feared she’d be arrested for overstaying. Arnai Khanitta, 30, went into labour
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    • Article
      Lock icon He kept failing test, so he cheated
      169 3 MOHAMAD Ali bin Mohamad Ibrahim was getting a little tired of failing his motorcycle licence test. Each time, he would turn up for the Riding Theory Test, do his best, and still receive a big, fat “failed”. Not only was it disheartening, embarrassing
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        Lock icon Man dies after fall
        105 3 A MAN died after rolling down the steps of an overhead bridge opposite Blk 301 Woodlands Ave 3, near Marsiling MRT station, on Monday night. At around 9.20 pm, the man, who is believed to be between 30 and 40 years old, was walking on the
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      • Article
        Lock icon The burglar with the key
        105 3 A 50-YEAR-OLD businessman, who had a habit of leaving keys in the car, found his house burgled. Mr Yeo Tee Siang, who lives in a two-storey terrace house at 11 Jalan Raya, came home at 10pm on Monday. After parking his car, he shut the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Handphone thief held
        120 3 HE asked his victims to let him use their mobile phones, on the pretext that the battery of his own handphone was flat. He even gave them an identity card as a surety. Then he fled with their phones. A Singaporean man, 25, was nabbed at Blk
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      Lock icon Shopping made safer for you
      367 5  -  by CARRIE HO HE was once stabbed in the abdomen while trying to nab a shoplifter. But did the 1985 incident at Isetan deter Mr Shiddik Surahman from continuing his work as a security officer? Not at all. It was, after all, part of the
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      Lock icon O-level student dies
      102 5 TWENTY-year-old Ansen Li Ho Kwang will never know how he fared in his O-level exams. On Feb 27, one day before the results were, the part-time student lost control of his motorcycle while negotiating a left bend along Braddell Road towards Lorong 6 Toa Payoh. The vehicle
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      71 5 If you have been feeling under the weather lately without the warm rays of the sun: Good news. Expect the j weather to be fair and i warm today with temperatures reaching a high of33°C. High tide will hit 2.4 m at 3.35 pm. Our weather
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this month...
        86 5 Home buyers can look forward to cheaper legal bills. As the first step towards liberalisation of conveyancing fees, the Ministry of Law announced that Singaporeans buying or selling private properties worth more than $2.5 million will be free to negotiate the fees with their lawyers. This is
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        Lock icon Remember...
        55 5 Remember Those who are thinking of joining the queue for new HDB flats will be happy to know that new flats will have striking designs that make them look like condominiums! Urban planners have also promised a resort feel to the landscape of your HDB heartlands, too. Such designs are
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        93 5 Check this out Mix a little business with the arts! The National Arts Council (NAC) is looking for individuals and organisations to set up craft and food stalls at an outdoor Festival Village at Fort Canning Park from May 31 to June 2 this year. The event, which will feature
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  • Streatsmart column
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      Lock icon There's something about J-pop
      596 6 JUST the other day, I ventured into HMV for my first J-pop brand name Hikaru Utada. I was three years late. The assistant, who looked like he was about 10, advised me to start with Utada’s first album from 1999. “She’s very good,” he said with
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Mega cries after seeing refugees
      249 8 -afp SAMPIT, Indonesia Indonesian VicePresident Megawati Sukarnoputri wept yesterday as she met some of the thousands of refugees jammed into squalid camps. Some of the refugees in the camp where she spent 25 minutes, walking among reeking piles of refuse and human waste, burst into
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    • Article
      Lock icon Cops, soldiers 'incompetent or deliberately passive'
      182 8 -AFP JAKARTA Scenes of Indonesian soldiers and police standing by as frenzied Dayak mobs terrorise migrant settlers on Borneo and loot and torch their homes are horrifying, but normal, say seasoned observers. Some say the security forces’ failure to prevent the savage ethnic cleansing
      -AFP  -  182 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Howard caves in on fuel taxes
      437 9 Reuters CANBERRA In a major policy backdown, Australian Prime Minister John Howard cut fuel taxes yesterday, admitting that he was “plainly wrong” in not responding earlier to voter anger which threatens to oust him at a year-end election. “We decided to act now because
      – Reuters  -  437 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Asians 'get slave pay'
      224 9 AP SYDNEY A five -star Sydney hotel was employing Indonesian and Hongkong workers as housekeepers and paying them “slave wages”, a union claimed yesterday. The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) said the housekeepers, employed on short-term work visas at the opulent Regent Hotel, were
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon New cellphones not just big talk
      248 10 ap Futuristic features promise to spark cellphone industry revival YOKOHAMA, Japan The new generation of cellphones will be much more than just talking devices, Matsushita executive Toshiro lizuka revealed at a design facility here. Of the protoypes displayed, one is worn like a wristwatch,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Military regime illegal, rules Fiji supreme court
      320 10 Reuters SUVA -Fiji s military-backed government is illegal and must return power to parliament within two weeks, the country’s highest court ruled yesterday. The government said it would comply, but warned the handover will take time. In a decision that many believe could
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    • web cites
      • Article
        Lock icon Don't slouch into trouble
        53 10 Early computer use poses a health risk to children as many of them are not taught good ergonomic habits. According to ergonomics researchers at Cornell University, children need to adhere to same ergonomic rules as adults. Visit Ergo.human.Cornell.edu for information on proper ergonomic practices for both
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        Lock icon Special travel packages
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Quake rocks Seattle
      279 13 -AFP Joe building felt like rolling jelly. -Lawyer Gail Draper who was in Columbia Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Seattle SEATTLE A strong earthquake rocked Seattle on Wednesday, leaving one dead and dozens injured, and collapsed historic buildings in the city’s central core. Washington state
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    • Article
      Lock icon Britain bans Tigers, 20 other groups
      268 13 -AFP LONDON Britain has banned 21 organisations from operating premises on its territory, using powers granted under a tough new law on groups considered as foreign “terrorists”. Groups banned under an announcement by Home Secretary Jack Straw on Wednesday included Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger
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    • Article
      Lock icon Taleban smashing up Buddha statues
      341 15 Wire'services Action on Mullah Omar's order to destroy statues began this morning. All statues will be destroyed -Mullah Oadradullah Jamal, taleban information minister KABUL The Taleban yesterday confirmed it had begun smashing Buddha statues around Afghanistan, obeying an order from its supreme leader Mullah Mohammad
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    • Article
      Lock icon Madonna and Child recovered
      150 15 AP Undercover cop poses as buyer to recover stolen painting by German master ROME Police have recovered a 16th-century painting by a German master that had been stolen 28 years ago from a monastery near Florence, Italy’s special anti-art theft squad said yesterday. The Madonna And
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    • Article
      Lock icon Britain's foot and mouth outbreak turns continent into... Fortress Europe
      340 16 Reuters LONDON Europe is turning into a fortress to protect itself against Britain’s rapidly spreading foot and mouth outbreak. A suspected case of the highly contagious livestock disease at a farm in the British province of Northern Ireland just 3.2
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    • Article
      Lock icon Foot-and-mouth outbreak could cost Aussies $9b
      213 16 Reuters SYDNEY If an outbreak of foot and mouth disease reaches Down Under, it would cost AsB-10 billion ($7-9 billion) in the first year alone and wipe out 25,000 jobs, Australian officials warned yesterday. Carson Creagh, a spokesman for Australia’s Quarantine and Inspection Service,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Kiwi student dies in trash bin prank
      110 16 justbelieveit. Reuters WELLINGTON A New Zealand university student died yesterday when she j careered down the world's steepest street in a rubbish bin and crashed into a parked trailer. Ana Louise North, 19, was killed instantly in the early morning crash in Baldwin
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    • news scan
      • Article
        Lock icon Breaking the sumo barrier
        101 16 Reuters TOKYO Japan’s first female governor said she wants to wrestle her way into the maledominated sumo ring to present the trophies. Fusae Ota, elected governor of Osaka in Feb 2000, has called on the Japan Sumo Association to allow her to present the trophy to
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      • Article
        Lock icon Bullet-proof technicians
        91 16 Reuters JERUSALEM Israel’s Electric Corporation has deployed armoured cars and stockpiled 800 bullet-proof vests to protect technicians from gunfire while they work in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The state-owned company that supplies the power needs of Israelis and Palestinians living under Israeli occupation bought five second-hand
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      • Article
        Lock icon Bear repellent recall
        66 16 Reuters OTTAWA Canadian backpackers were warned to return their Bearier Bear Repellent, a spray product designed to drive away menacing bears, because it could fail at the crucial moment. The Canadian government said the voluntary recall was issued after the device, which uses pungent pepper spray, developed
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      • Article
        Lock icon Net twins saga man jailed
        97 16 Reuters LOS ANGELES A California man, who sought the FBl’s help in a bitter battle for custody of eight-month-old twins sold twice over the Internet, was arrested on charges of molesting two teenage baby-sitters in his home. Richard Allen, who cared for the so-called Internet
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Human rights and democracy Thailand does about-face
      338 17 ap BANGKOK -Asia’s problems of human rights and democracy can be solved by ensuring that its leaders are not belittled in the process or forced to lose “face”, Thailand’s new Foreign Minister said yesterday. The comments signal a shift in Thailand’s foreign policy
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      Lock icon Up there among the top 20
      233 17 Reuters HONGKONG Hongkong’s outgoing deputy leader, Mrs Anson Chan, has been named one of the 20 most influential women of the century by a lifestyle magazine published by China’s official Xinhua news agency. Other names which appeared on the list include actress Sophia Loren,
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      Lock icon Osama bin Laden and the poem of doom
      234 17 Reuters DUBAI Saudi dissi- dent Osama bin Laden 1 described in a poem I how the USS Cole I destroyer slowly sailed 1 to its doom at Aden, 1 a newspaper reported yesterday. The Saudi-owned panArab al-Hayat said Osama read the poem
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon V6 They're bigger than Michael Jackson, Bakstreet Boys and N'Sync
      572 19  -  by JAY MING these six Japanese guys smashed King-of-Pop Michael Jackson’s decade-old record of concert attendance in Taiwan. This week, they toppled Singapore’s Sun Yanzi from the No 1 spot on the music charts. Not surprising at all, especially when
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon FIERCE CREATURES
          68 20 i 7.30 pm 1 British comedy group I Monty Python alumnus i John Cleese co-writes the script and plays a Hongkong TV station bureau- crat, who is despatched by his Australian media mogul boss to revamp a sleepy zoo in England. Vince tries to add pizazz to the
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        • Article
          Lock icon THE BEAUTY MERMAID
          57 20 Bpm, Channel 8 Xiaolian is on the verge of death after Jiang Yunfei takes away Priest Zhang’s magic pearl from her. Priest Zhang realises Jiang Yunfei’s true colours; but it is too late as he loses to Yunfei in a fight and is seriously wounded. Now only
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          Lock icon NANG NAK
          70 20 10.30 pm, Channel 8 This is a story of a woman who dies at f childbirth while her I husband is away at I war. Her ghost re- Xi turns and, determined 1 to keep her husband, uses magic to prevent him from discovering the truth. See graphic
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          Lock icon DEATHNET.COM
          45 20 10pm,V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Deathnet is a website where visitors share their unhappiness and express their suicidal tendencies. When visitors start committing suicide, Detective Chi enters the website and finds himself on the verge of being brainwashed into doing so. Stars Simon Yam.
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      Lock icon Cheap tricks and too many tears
      417 20 at the movies You can reach Stephanie Goh at gohcys@sph.com.sg PayitForward Directed by: Mimi Leder Starring: Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment WATCHING Pay it Forward has inspired me to do a good deed this week. So here’s a piece of advice give
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      Lock icon Shooting for the stars – on the sidelines
      288 22  - Shooting for the stars on the sidelines by DIANA SER When: 3rd March, Saturday Where: NgeeAnn Polytechnic What time: 9.30 am to 2pm HOW would you like to spend your Saturday under the hot sun, laughing, cheering and even jeering on cue, and not get paid for it? That, in
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    • Article
      Lock icon Do you think women tend to be more vengeful? Why?
      327 27 A survey in Britain found that not only are women more likely than men to seek revenge when betrayed by a partner, they are also more willing to turn nasty one question I don't think that women are more vengeful
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      Lock icon Grilled thrills
      464 28  -  two shoes by Wileen Chang HAVING a barbecue party at home is nearly always a disaster. Why? For one, the host always finds himself spending so much time tossing and turning meats over the open fire, while his ungrateful bunch of guests happily tucks in. Secondly, the meat
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Argentina in rousing form
        260 31 Reuters T WORLD CUP FRIENDLY "1 L Argentina 2 Italy 1 1 ROME Argentina produced a superb perp formance to come from behind and beat Italy 2-1 in a friendly on Wednesday and could easily have won by more against its timid host. Stefano Fiore put
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        Lock icon Results
        106 31 -AFP J At Luxembourg: Luxembourg 0 Finland 1 (Forssel 80) At Nicosia: Poland 4 (Olisadebe 21, Karwan 45, Hajto 60, Krzynowek 90) Switzerland 0 At Vaduz, Liechtenstein: Liechtenstein 0 Latvia 2 (Miholaps 63, Verpakovkids66) At Nicosia: Romania 3 (Ganea 12,40, Contrea 57) Lithuania 0 At Heraklion, Crete: Greece 3
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        Lock icon Figo misses hat-trick
        180 31 Reuters FUNCHAL, Madeira Luis Figo scored twice and narrowly missed a hat-trick in Portugal’s one-sided 3-0 win over Andorra in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday. Portugal coach Antonio Oliveira hinted he had expected more goals from a team which was back to full strength with three
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        Lock icon world cup qualifiers
        110 31 European Croup Two In Funchal, Madeira: Portugal 3 (Luis Figo 1,48, Pauleta 36) Andorra 0 European Group Six In Brussels: Belgium 10 (Yves Vanderhaeghe 10, SO, Emile Mpenza 13, Bart G00r26,60, Walter Baseggio 64, Marc Wilmots 72, Bob Peeters 76,84,88) S(tff Marino (Andy S&h/a) 90 CONCACAF final
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        Lock icon This super fun is always Home
        494 33  -  by TAN KIM HAN Reza Mohammadi is not prepared to be just a statistic at Home United. He wants to make a difference HE is Home United’s super supporter and he is not even a Singaporean! Iranian-born Dr Reza Mohammadi, now a British subject,
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        Lock icon Swede surprise
        455 35 Wire services WORLD CUP FRIENDLY England 3 Spain 0 fetnrn BIRMINGHAM England manager Sven Goran Eriksson admitted on Wednesday that England’s 3-0 win over Spain was a surprise even for him in his first match in charge. Goals from Nick Barmby (38), Liverpool team-mate Emile Heskey (56) and
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