Streats, 3 March 2001

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 3 March 2001 Another quality publication of S Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 365 1  -  by YVONNE KWOK LESS sex talk on radio and fewer shows about singles. And please, more familyoriented programmes. In its report card on the standard of broadcasting, the Programme Advisory Committee cautioned
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  • morning rush
    • 59 1 A FOUR-YEAR honours degree course in Malay language and literature will be offered this year by the National Institute of Education (NIE) to boost the number of trained Malay language teachers and to raise the standard of Malay teaching. Polytechnic diploma and A-level holders who pass the Education
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    • 58 1 TRANS-ISLAND Bus Services (Tibs) will use satellite technology to improve its service to commuters. Over the next three years, Tibs will equip its entire fleet of buses with onboard computers armed with Global Positioning System devices to keep track of its vehicles. It has awarded a contract
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    • 51 1 THE Philippines Supreme Court yesterday unanimously voted to affirm the legitimacy of the rule of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, ABS-CBN television reported. Quoting unnamed sources, the TV station said the court voted 13-0 that deposed leader Joseph Estrada effectively resigned when he left the presidential palace on Jan
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    • 80 1 '< t&murU&t: f Uprwur as Taleban prepares to blast away Buddi mono PAGE 9 can’t stop the fun The fun and excitement never stop at Singapore's newest ice-skating rink, Super Ice World, now open at Kallang Leisure Park. For our opening special, skate at. only ss* and you can skate
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 356 2  -  by YVONNE KWOK KEEP calm. There is no hand, foot and mouth disease epidemic. The Ministries of Health and Environment said this following Wednesday’s death of an infant from an Enterovirus 71 (EV7I) infection. Another baby died from an infection of the heart on the same
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    • 330 2  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH SHE is petite, soft-spoken, and looks kind and gentle. Why, you might even think she’s a librarian. But don’t judge a book by its cover. Thirty-year-old Nazeera Ebrahim is actually a dedicated senior officer with Singapore Immigration and Registration (SIR). She
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    • 151 2 ALL four sons gladly followed their parents to the nearby market at about 11am on March 1. Tengku Ismail, 41, a technician, was enjoying a day off with his family and never expected it to end badly. They were only gone for 40 minutes
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    • 94 2 morningsmile. In a tiny village lived an old maid. In spite of her old age > she was still a virgin and was very proud of that fact She knew her last days were approaching, so she told the local undertaker that she wanted the following inscription on
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    • 458 3  -  by DIANA SER MEN made up nearly half of the 500 invited guests who attended an intimate apparel show yesterday, throwing some models completely off guard. Speaking backstage after Triumph’s Spring/Summer 2001 intimate apparel fashion show at the the Ritz Carlton, two local
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    • 77 3 Oh, what I would give for a weekend with sunny skies! i Still, the weather will be fair in the afternoon, unless you j are in the northern or western part of Singapore. The temperature will hit a high of 33°C, and high tide will reach
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    • Just a minute
      • 74 3 From this month Look out for a 22-page publication on financial planning in your mailbox in the next few weeks. Some 330,000 HDB households will be the first to receive the booklet, courtesy of the Financial Planning Association of Singapore, Ministry of Community Development and Sports and the Central Provident
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      • 77 3 File your tax returns electronically before March 15 and get a chance to win up to $20,000 in cash. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore is encouraging taxpayers to file their returns via the telephone or Internet. The second and third lucky draw prize-winners will win 10,000 and $5,000
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      • 71 3 Interested in wildlife and conservation issues? Be a volunteer at the Singapore Zoological Gardens! To find out more, go to zoo's Learning Centre on March 25 at 9am for a talk on Save The Animals What You Can Do! For more information, check out the website of
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    • 145 4 onekindact TAChiam: would like to express my deep appreciation to Senin bin Moumin, the driver of yellow-top taxi no SH6II7H for his honesty. Recently I dropped my wallet in his vehicle after getting off at Katong. Mr Senin turned it over intact to the Bedok South Neighbourhood
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    • 386 4  -  Reports by CLAIRE HILLS IT could have been a script from a sitcom. A man goes to his girlfriend’s flat, finds her naked in bed with another and a fight breaks out, spilling into the street. But the court heard yesterday that this
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    • 211 4 A THAI woman dressed up as a Buddhist nun to con Singaporeans out of donations. The court heard yesterday that Sudarat Kromthaisong pretended to be a nun and prowled Bendemeer Road, collecting alms. But her disguise was uncovered and she was exposed
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    • 193 4 A SUPERMARKET butcher got a $5OO hongbao from a manager for ordering from his food company and ended up paying 10 times that amount in fine. Chia Kee Kng was working at the NTUC supermarket at Simei Street’s Eastpoint Mall in July 1999 when he
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 307 5 -AFP But fears of aDayak backlash keep Kalimantan tense JAKARTA Madurese refugees fleeing the violence in Kalimantan can return once peace is restored, the Indonesian government said yesterday. “In principle, every Indonesian citizen has the right to live anywhere in the republic’s territory,”
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    • news scan
      • 72 5 Reuters SUVA There were no reports of violence and the army withdrew from around Fiji’s parliament yesterday a day after the country’s highest court declared the military-backed interim government illegal. President Ratu Josefa Iloilo will consult the Great Council of Chiefs next Thursday on the ruling. Interim
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      • 76 5 -AFP HONGKONG An unidentified man set himself on fire inside Hongkong’s legislature building yesterday, reportedly to protest against high government sewage charges. He poured alcohol on his head and then set himself alight, a government spokesman said, adding that the man was rushed to hospital,
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      • 83 5 -AFP TOKYO Japan yesterday announced a ban on blood donations from people who have lived in Europe for more than six months since 1980, in an attempt to prevent the spread of the human variant of mad cow disease. The Health Ministry said blood donations
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      • 84 5 Reuters TRENTON, New Jersey A leading manufacturer of metal binder clips for documents has become the first Chinese company to be convicted under US law,of using forced prison labour, officials said yesterday. Allied International Manufacturing Stationery Company, of Nanjing, China, was fined US$5O,OOO ($87,000) after pleading guilty
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    • 51 5 Hongkong lawyer Paul Tse protesting in his underwear in the central business district. His near-naked protest was against the "high-handed attitude" of the Hongkong Law Society in handling a disciplinary hearing into complaints about his nude appearance on a magazine cover more than two years ago Pic:
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    • web cites
      • 39 5 Miss Lee Soh Hong lost her mother in 1999 to cancer and a year later, she launched CancerStory.com as a nonprofit website giving support to patients and their families. Visitors can share stories and get information.
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      • 32 5 If you are looking to insure anything other than your own dear life, head to CLliCKnsure.com. They hope to remove the hassles of collecting quotations separately and comparing them.
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    • 186 5 Xinhua sl4million plan to renovate Boxer Rebellion military sites QINHUANGDAO, China Military camps left behind by the Allies near the Great Wall in the year 1900 will receive a makeover to attract more tourists. Qinhuangdao, a coastal city close to Beijing in
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    • 343 7 Reuters BEIJING “If you don’t beat your wife every three days, she’ll start tearing up roof tiles.” Or so an old Chinese saying goes meaning a wife not beaten is a wife out of control. “It means there’s nothing wrong with beating your wife and
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    • 60 7 Play has no age limit: A elderly woman learning how to swing at a playground in Beijing yesterday. An expert on demography, Prof Wu Cangping, has said that China will be affected by ageing of population. By 2050, the number of people over the age of 80 will be more
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    • 290 7 -AFP BEIJING -Thirty -seven members of the banned Falungong movement have received jail terms of between three and 10 years each in the latest trials aimed at wiping out the spiritual group, China’s official press said yesterday. The sentences for alleged minor crimes come ahead
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    • 258 7 TOKYO Japan’s opposition agreed to submit a no-confidence motion against Yoshiro Mori on Monday, a move expected to electrify the ruling coalition’s own campaign to unseat the deeply unpopular prime minister even if voted down. Lawmakers in the three-way ruling camp are themselves keen to
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    • 338 6 o SATURDAY 03 March 2001 KIDS INTERNATIONAL COSTUME AND TAtENTSEARCH l I 1 a m H CAUJNO Skips' 7 T N si Q t i Win ATTRACTIVE PRIZES SY SHOWING US YOUR TALENT! Calling all parents of kids between the ages of 3 to 12. If you want your child
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 109 8 Reuters WASHINGTON Nasa has aborted the experimental space plane programme that was the centrepiece of its effort to develop a new generation of space travel vehicles, the Washington Post reported yesterday. Nasa had invested five years and US$l.3 billion (s2.3billion) in the X-33, an
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    • news scan
      • 83 8 -AFP SEATTLE President George W Bush declared Washington state a disaster area yesterday, a day after the state’s worst earthquake in 52 years. The announcement triggers the release of federal relief funds. The 6.8 magnitude earthquake injured hundreds from Oregon to the Canadian border and caused
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      • 96 8 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO Elderly elephants may never forget, but at least they’ll soon be able to retire in style. Under a legal settlement reached between Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus and the Performing Animal Welfare Society (Paws), old performing elephants will head to a new sanctuary
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      • 97 8 Reuters BOSTON He has braved rain, sleet and the gloom of night but was done in by a turkey. “He’s a big one, bigger than any dog that’s chased me,” said US postal carrier Tim Hoban, who has been delivering mail in the Boston suburb for
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      • 66 8 Reuters LONDON The bets are off on British horse races, cancelled until March 7 because of a foot-and-mouth outbreak so gambling addicts are turning to wackier things. Bookmaker William Hill said people were queuing up to place off-beat wagers on their life spans, their weight,
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      • 67 8 Reuters MANILA Sixty-one convicts, many of them in jail for rape and murder, escaped from a prison in the southern Philippines after boring a tunnel from their cell block, officials said. Of those who escaped from the district jail in the province of Agusan del Sur
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    • 38 8 gofigure. The fax process was patented in 1843 by Alexander Bain, but fax machines went into service only in 1964. In 1888, Frank Sprague completed an electric railway, but locomotives were introduced in 1885. -didyouknow.com
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    • 304 9 Reuters KABUL Afghanistan’s radical Taleban rulers, who have begun smashing relics from the country’s rich cultural past, gathered explosives yesterday to blow up two priceless, rock-hewn Buddhas, an Afghan news agency said. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted Taleban sources as saying explosives
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    • 342 9 Reuters AFGHANISTAN'S Taleban rulers faced a huge international outcry on Friday over their destruction of statues from its rich cultural past, with the UN urging Muslim nations to persuade them to think again. It scandalised Buddhists, Christians and Muslims around the world and prompted calls from nations for
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    • 76 8 N THE SUNDAY TIMES TOMORROW t $20,000 This famous piece by the late Chinese brush painter Xu Beihong cost less than $l,OOO, some 40 years ago. Now, it is worth nearly $20,000. Collectors here are cashing in, with one gallery forking out $2 million for some pieces, which are back
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 165 10 Reuters HANOI Russian President Vladimir Putin (below) was given a rousing reception yesterday by thousands of Vietnamese who studied in the former Soviet Union. Mr Putin, the first Kremlin leader ever to visit Vietnam despite close Cold War ties between Moscow and Hanoi, was greeted
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    • 361 10 Reuters She is no longer reluctant. She believes that the situation has grown so acute that she needs to step forward. -Agnita Singedekane Irsal, deputy secretarygeneral of Ms Megawati's Indonesia's Democratic Party JAKARTA Amid Indonesia’s political turbulence, Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri (above right) remains as enigmatic
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    • 136 10 AP NEW YORK A man conducted target practice in a city park by shooting at pictures of his mother-in-law and struggled with an off-duty detective who tried to arrest him, police said. Michael Kneitel, 38, of Brooklyn, was arrested on Wednesday in the
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  • STREATS
    • 529 11  -  The last original City Beater will leave the show to host a new TV programme. Meanwhile; she will seal her big-screen debut with a kiss by KAREN CHEN DIANA SER CITY BEAT fans, brace yourselves! Changes are about to rock the Channel 8 magazine programme yet
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    • buzz Stop
      • 318 12  - Mel C spicing it up by DIANA SER "HOMO-EROTIC", that’s how one fan described Madison Avenue’s opening gig for Spice Girl Melanie C’s concert on Wednesday night. The Australian dance act was missing one half of its two members only the sexy Cheyne Coates was here so four, statuesque and
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    • Go havoc
      • Article, Illustration
        349 16  -  by CARAVAN MIRIAH SUGAR, the hippest joint along Mohamed Sultan Road, hopes to woo the smart set with a loyalty card called sugartwink! The card for university undergraduates was launched last Friday to coincide with the club’s new theme, Drowning in Sugar, ironically, “inspired by Singapore’s enthusiastic pursuit
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      • channel scan
        • Today's must-see TV...
          • 48 16 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Watch 20 beauty queen wannabes strut their stuff in this problem-plagued line-up. Besides lots of pretty girls, long naked limbs and toothsome smiles, you can also expect to see Fei Xiang and A 1 heat up the proceedings. Must watch.
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          • 60 16 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) On the 13th floor of a corporate office block, computer scientist Hannon Fuller, pushes the boundaries of virtual reality when he discovers a virtual world set in Los Angeles 1937. However, his joy is short-lived when he’s killed and his colleague, Douglas Hall,
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          • Article, Illustration
            56 16 10pm, Channel 5 Jodie Foster stars as an astronomer who spends half her time listening for signals from space. When she does get one, she must deal with worldwide scepticism. Her other challenge. She must decipher the mathematical code that the aliens send and build the transport pod that
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    • Go play
      • 370 17 Reuters MANCHESTER Manchester United may be on a relentless march towards a seventh league title in nine seasons, but Leeds aims to be a spolier today. The reigning champion has lost just once on the road in the English Premiership, but Leeds skipper Lucas Radebe
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      • 233 17 -AFP ROME -AS Roma has broken all records in its exploits this season in the Italian First Division, but tomorrow it must break its Milan jinx if it is to keep rivals for the Scudetto, Juventus, at arm’s length. Fabio Capello’s side has lost only
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      • 158 17 -AFP Madrid Real Madrid star Luis Figo will be gunning for revenge when the Spanish le ague leader takes on Barcelona in a crural Primera Liga clash here this weekend. Figo was idolised at Barcelona for five seasons until he moved to Real Madrid. IH-feeling aroused
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      • Soccer
        • 106 17 -AFP HONGKONG Against all the odds, a team representing the violence-wracked Palestinian territories will make its debut on the world stage here this weekend. From tomorrow, a Palestine squad made up mostly of amateurs from the West Bank and Gaza will fight it out with Qatar,
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        • 98 17 -Xinhua ROME Italian soccer star Roberto Baggio, 34, hasn’t given up hope of a recall to the Italy squad for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Speaking to a press conference on Thursday, the veteran playmaker who has been showing signs of his old
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      • 76 17 Motorsport -AP MELBOURNE Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello was the fastest in yesterday’s practice session for Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix while team-mate and world champion Michael Schumacher provided most of the excitement on and off the track. Schumacher who walked away from a serious-looking double flip in his car
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      • 93 17 Basketball -AP NEW YORK Marcus Camby scored a season-high 27 points and grabbed 17 rebounds to help Jeff Van Gundy become the third most successful coach in Knicks history as New York outlasted Boston 95-88. With 224 career coaching victories, Van Gundy moved past Pat Riley
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      • 532 19  -  by Peter Siow WANTED: Singapore soccer coach. Must be able to elevate sport to the cutting edge and bring back the Kallang roar. Qualification: Top coaching licence. Salary: In the region of $lO,OOO. Before you send in your application, let me stress that the Football Association
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    • 70 12 aWatch Every week photographers from Streats will wander all over Singapore to catch you reading the paper. The reader's picture will be published each Saturday. And if it is your picture, you will win a limited edition Streats watch. But you must call 1-800-844-5566 and give us your name, l/C
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 489 12 Mn wm JI Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 You have so many advantages that people are beginning to talk. No, you haven’t made any kind of deal with supernatural forces. This is just how the Gemini moon gives all Aquarians a little pat on the back. PISCES FEB
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 82 13 Out of vengeance, the butties follow her home one afternoon. They have hatched a want her to stay out of their business. But little do they know that they are about to stumble upon a revelation that will The author... Art and story: Zaki Age: 27 Occupation: Games Illustrator Assistant
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 28 17 In the living room SOCCER EPU Leeds UnitedvMan United (Sports City, 7pm and FC Ch22,7.25pm). Spanish League: Real Madrid v Barcelona (Star Sports Ch 24, March 4, 4am).
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