Streats, 16 April 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MONDAY 16 April 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 667 1 expect more job losses this year. Expect lower wage increases this year. Expect the current CPF rate to continue till the end of the year. These are the sobering messages given by two ministers yesterday as they told Singaporeans to
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  • 129 1 They were set on fire, run over by a truck and pulled apart by motorcycles all in the name of charity. But it was worth it because local Media Corp artistes raised 4.2 million for the NKF Charity Show2ool last night. More than 850,000 calls and
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 346 2  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM IN an all-too-familiar story, Madam Peah Mohd Dom, a 55-year-old hawker, became the latest victim of an old con trick last Tbesday. At about 11.30 am, she had just finished renewing her passport at Singapore Immigration and
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    • 134 2 Deepa Vijiyasingam A 64-YEAR-OLD man became the latest fatality among motorcyclists on Saturday after he was knocked down by a car on Sixth Avenue. Mr Siak Kon Leng was travelling towards Bukit Timah Road at 12.15 pm when a car pulled out in front
      – Deepa Vijiyasingam  -  134 words
    • 213 2 -AFP TRADE with New Zealand has jumped by 35 cent after a bilateral free trade agreement (Fl 7 came into effect early this year, the Ministry c Trade and Industry said yesterday The ministry said in a statement: “The strofl trade growth
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    • 54 2 Till death do us part AN insurance salesman was trying to persuade a housewife that she should take out life insurance. "Suppose your husband were to die,"he said, "what would you get?" The housewife thought fora while, and then said: "Oh, a parrot, I think. "Then the house
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    • 42 3 Minister for Health Um Hng Kiang demonstrating his culinary skill of the 'Lets Cook Together' men's cooking competition yesterday of the Telok Blangah Community Club by adding o dash of balsamic vinegar to lightly fried cod Pic: ST
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    • 481 3  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER WHAT would it take to persuade motorists to give up their cars forever? Thursday is Car-Free Day, so Streats sought the answer to that question by asking 10 drivers to name their price. All 10 of
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    • 90 3 The weather might have dampened spirits over the weekend and, sorry to say, today, the beginning of the work week, will be pretty much the same. There will be showers with thunder over most areas in the afternoon, and cloudy skies afterwards. Temperature will nonetheless reach
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    • 153 3 Just a minute Two new bus services have been launched. No 969 plies between Tampines Interchange and the Woodlands Regional Interchange. It takes only to get to Tampines from Yishun and less than an hour from Woodlands to Tampines. The service passes through Yishun Avenue 2, Sembawang Road
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  • Streatsmart Interchange
    • 187 4 I WOULD like to bring to your readers’ attention the actions of certain “bold” people who eat and drink in MRT trains. Recently, I have observed: A girl aged about eight eating a packet of snacks while her mother just talked to her but
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    • 128 4 AFTER reading Umno information chief Datuk Mustapa Mohamad’s comment about “a fate similar to Malays in Singapore” (Streats, April 9), which he used to impress upon his audience how important Umno is to Malaysia, it is disheartening to note that some politicians in
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    • 123 4 I REFER to the One Kind Act article headlined “Patient taxi driver”(Streats, April 7), submitted by Ms Cho K M. Ms Cho commended the driver of City Cab taxi No SHB 3264 E, Mr Lek MengYang, for excellent service rendered on March 20. We are happy
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    • 83 4  -  onekindact. Rosmawati J Nani I WOULD like to thank MrJumari, a Toa Payoh MRT station staff member, and a considerate classmate of my son for helping him to return home to Woodlands when he lost his farecard in late March. The classmate lent my son some money
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 677 6 Clean up your loos and your English IT IS a good thing I’m not really the house-proud sort, or I’d regret ever walking past the Newton Circus hawker centre toilet. You see, it makes all 500 sq ft of my flat look like a 100 in the sky. Surrounded by
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    • 230 6 SENTO A mk Sentosa Ferry Terminal 21 Apr 2001 (Sat) 6pm 2am J It's the clash of the line-dancing titans! Put on those rodeo boots as Sentosa "lassos" you onto a Country Western joyride! It’s so hot you'll need to 'get in line' to dance with international country line dance
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 296 7 jfhe foreign media will bash at us. They have never said anything good about us even if we are very nice. They can go and fry their faces. Dr Mahathir Wire services, The Sunday Star Rally in KL over the weekend
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    • 113 7 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific has been accused of scouring Malaysia for cheap labour. The Hong Kong Airline Officers’Association warned that relations with the airline were heading for turbulence after Cathay advertised for new pilots. The airline insisted the scheme was “exploratory”.
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    • 173 8 -AFP She caught son, 11, trying to kill himself because he missed friends TOKYO An 11-year-old boy stabbed his mother to death after she scolded him for trying to commit suicide, police said yesterday. The schoolboy, whose name was withheld, turned himself in to
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    • 170 8 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia’s largest Islamic movement, the Nahdlatul Ulama, will stage a mass rally in Jakarta to pray for peace. Four-hundred death squad members will also attend. Tens of thousands of President Abdurrahman Wahid’s supporters have signed up to
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    • 184 9 Wire services I THE scene at Whidbey Island, where the 24 crew members of a US spy plane landed yesterday, was an emotional one. Fathers looked into their babies’ eyes with new meaning, couples embraced while the crowd cheered. All 24 crew members, held
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    • 26 7 Your lunchtime reading Keep those calls coming... e-mail us at tnp@sph.com.sg These 2 kids spent a night Sm id 111 ID jail,.. April 4 April 11
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 138 10 -AFP BERLIN At the specialised nightclub, the clientele shake their funky stuff, even if... we 11... maybe they do have a tad too much of the ‘stuff. Ms Gitty Hinz, otherwise known as the Mother Theresa of the Fat, has opened a disco aimed at chubby nightclubbers.
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    • 322 11 Washington -A new nuclear bomb being considered by the Pentagon would have the capability to strike Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the heart of Baghdad without causing massive collateral damage, the Washington Post reported yesterday. If developed, the bomb will
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    • Over the top
      • 139 11 HOW to solve your protracted dishwasher problem: Take the service engineer hostage. It worked for Briton Diane Plant, 36, who finally snapped after waiting for 15 months when the fifth engineer to call at her house couldn’t fix the problem machine, according to
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      • 89 11 -AP BRISBANE-A store was held up with a bloodfilled syringe by a luckless gambler a woman in her 70s police said yesterday. The unidentified woman was arrested shortly after she allegedly robbed the shop late on Saturday. Police said she took money, cigarettes
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 267 12 Reuters LONDON He may be dying and in pain, but he’s lost none of his zest for life. Archbishop Desmond TUtu, South Africa’s charismatic anti-apartheid campaigner, said having potentially terminal cancer had given intensity to his life, a newspaper reported yesterday. “When you have a potentially terminal
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    • 205 12 Reuters CRAWFORD, TEXAS She is one the most powerful women in the US, but it’s a title she shuns. Meet the real Karen Hughes. “I cringe; I honestly cringe,” the US presidential adviser Karen Hughes said as she headed to Texas for Easter, her first trip
      – Reuters; Pic:AP  -  205 words
    • 249 12 -AFP MIAMI Francisco Arce Montes might have gotten away. After all it was a five-year-old murder case we are talking about here. But for some people whose minds work even while on holiday. Shrewd detective work by an inquisitive US immigration inspector helped to
      -AFP; Pic: AFP  -  249 words
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  • easy STREATS
    • 520 13  -  by YVONNE KWOK ANGGUN shoots straight from the “Prove it to me,” the 26-year-old Indonesian fired back over the line after we told her people have said that her latest album, Chrysalis, was not as exciting as her previous offering, 1998’s Snow On The Sahara. “If a
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    • 232 16  -  two shoes by Judi Low TEOCHEWFISH PORRIDGE ADDRESS: Bedok Interchange Hawker Centre, #Ol-26,207 Upper Changi Road OPEN: Warn 9pm MRT: Bedok BUS: All services to Bedok Interchange AGAINST an aquamarine background, the sign on the stall-front reads “Teochew Porridge” in Chinese characters. Three huge hanging fish
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 56 16 10pm,V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Ringo Lam directs this movie which was nominated for four awards in this year’s Hongkong Film Awards. The film comes with two endings and is worth watching again and again because you never know which ending you are watching. Stars Lau Ching Wan, Amy
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          66 16 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Don’t expect much in the way of a plot in this action vehicle. Wesley Snipes stars as an undercover agent who must fight a bunch of skydiving crooks. John Badham fuels this feds-against-computer-mobsters-and-druglords flick on high-pow- ered testosterone alone, and it works, as long
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    • 325 19 Would you approve if your widowed mother decides to remarry A Malaysian widow's decision to remarry and her advertisement for a husband in the newspapers have sparked a family row. Just Yes, if remarrying pleases her, it pleases us, the children. Of course I will only approve of the marriage
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 505 21  -  That's the only way Lee Man Hon can hope to get back into spotlight by TAN KIM HAN HE was handed the captain’s armband. But so far, Lee Man Hon (right) has been substituted in almost every game. In the last match against Woodlands Wellington on Saturday,
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      • 846 22 His record can be compared to the best in the game Man U the champion Reuters LONDON Alex Ferguson (left) confirmed his place as the greatest manager in the history of British football on Saturday when Manchester United won the Premier League
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      • 549 23 -AFP LONDON Manchester United defender Jaap Stam wants to be part of the best side OldTrafford has ever seen following its seventh English title in nine years. He admits the thirst for trophies is not quenched yet. He said: “People try to compare
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      • 279 23 LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger (left) bemoaned his side’s lack of luck after losing 0-3 at home to Middlesbrough, reports football unlimited.com. He said: “Everything seemed to go against us but that can happen when your concentration is not right. “We had two own goals
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      • 87 23 BASKETBALL SAN ANTONIO David Robinson had 25 points and 12 rebounds and Derek Anderson added 20 and seven assists to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 111-95 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday to clinch home-court advantage throughout the NBA playoffs. Robinson made 9-of-15
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      • 123 23 RACING -AFP IMOLA, Italy Ralf Schumacher (left) upstaged brother Michael to secure Williams’ first Formula One win for four years with a brilliant victory in the San Marino Grand Prix here yesterday. Coulthard was second while Ferrari’s Rubens Barrichello finished third. The win was Schumacher’s first
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 325 18 MONDAY Q 16 April 2001 m TP' I| O I i I The story is about. Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargains for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. < Shut up! Who’s that Ist year kid over there? I wasn t talking to you! r
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    • 225 19 T£ iSi BP The story today... Tension in the crypt thickens as the a *s* Zhao Quannai suffers a deep slash on his back and he fights back with all his might, crushing a few Er Mei disciples psljjjj; ffntMS m ifn. T iitiM the violence. He pretends to divulge
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    • 466 20 O* Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20-FEB 18 You could have fun just breathing and watching the clouds, but the Aquarius moon has bigger things in store. Break a few rules without the fear of setting a bad example. Associates will be too dazzled to notice.
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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