Streats, 20 April 2001

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 20 April 2001 I Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon e-voting: Why the rush? Vote of concern
    324 1  -  by SONNY PHUA A RUSH of questions and concern greeted the Government’s move towards electronic voting in the coming elections, due before June 2002. Mr Wong Kan Seng, Minister of Home Affairs told Parliament yesterday that electronic voting, or Direct Recording Electronic Voting
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    Lock icon Car-Free Day: Where's the rush? Tibs, SBS: More buses, but for one day only
    317 1  -  by STEPHANIE GOH CAR-FREE Day passed by yesterday. Did you notice? SBS said 52 extra buses were in service. Tibs, which put about 30 more buses on the roads, made around 140 extra trips. Question is:
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    Lock icon Fool's Gold Rush: S'porean held in Thai treasure scam
    250 1 -AFP BANGKOK A Singaporean was yesterday detained in connection with a fake bond and gold treasure scandal following a tip-off from Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, police said. Mr Thaksin, who has been deeply embarrassed by the scam, told police of
    -AFP  -  250 words
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        Lock icon Private estates upgraded
        77 2 THREE to five private residential estates will be selected for upgrading each year as part of the Estate Upgrading Programme. In addition, public roads, walkways and drains in these estates are regularly maintained by the Land Transport Authority and the Environment Ministry said Assoc Prof Koo Tsai
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      • Article
        Lock icon 11 ex-cons joined public sector
        72 2 A TOTAL of 11 persons with criminal records have been employed by eight public sector organisations since last August when employment restrictions were eased, said BG Lee, responding to a question from Nominated MP Zukifli Baharudin. But government-linked corporations and companies will not be asked
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      Lock icon 'Aid will be focused'
      234 2  -  BG Lee on S'pore slowdown: External influence by SARAH NG FOCUSED aid is more effective than across-the-board measures in helping businesses ride out these difficult times. The government will help specific sectors upgrade and retrain their workers to help them cope with the restructuring of the
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      Lock icon SBA Act to check foreign broadcasters
      270 2  -  by SONNY PHUA SINGAPOREANS alone should decide the fate of Singapore and not foreigners, stressed Mr Lee Yock Suan, Minister for Information and the Arts in Parliament yesterday. And with 15 satellite stations and 84 production companies based in Singapore, it is important to
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      Lock icon Asian bank upbeat
      254 3 ADB on S'pore slowdown: Internal strength AP Investments in education, telecoms should prop up economy THE Asian Development Bank yesterday came out against the majority of analysts’ downbeat view of the Singapore economy. While this year’s economic growth is likely to slow from that of last year,
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      Lock icon Teen fined $30,000 for underage sex
      176 3  -  by WINSTON CHONG A 17-YEAR-OLD boy came to know the 15-year-old girl over the Net and proceeded to have a sexual relationship with her. He was charged in court yesterday for having sex with a minor and was fined $30,000. Jason Wong Yiming got
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      Lock icon Rescue party
      81 3 onekindacL S P Wong I WOULD like to thank all the people who came to the aid of my wife when she fell on an escalator and injured herself in Change Alley near Caltex Building at about 730 am on April 11. Special thanks to the lady who
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        Lock icon Medical benefit changes
        106 3 STAFF who don’t use medical benefits provided by their employers should be able to save and use these perks to meet their needs when they change jobs or retire. A move to ensure continuity of medical coverage is among three key principles of the proposed portable medical
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        Lock icon Lightning kills fish farmer
        121 3 LIGHTNING killed a fish farmer at sea near Pulau Übin on Wednesday. Mr Wong Tuck Long, 37, was caught in a storm and was making for his kelong, at about 3pm, said another fish farmer, who witnessed the tragedy. Mr Lim Chor Choo told Shin Min
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        Lock icon 2 phones and a gold ring
        56 3 CANTEEN operator Ong Tian Chee was so soundly asleep on Tuesday night he did not realise someone had lifted his two handphones and a gold ring from his kitchen. Mr Ong, 40, had left the articles on a tray near an open window in
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      Lock icon So, what do we care?
      394 4  -  Car-Free Day by STEPHANIE GOH Publicity didn't work ...It was just like any other day, say commuters DID it work? Did Singaporeans leave their cars behind yesterday, our first Car-Free Day? Well, the coordinating agency’s director didn’t. He drove to the inauguration. “We Singaporeans love
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      Lock icon Car-free Day
      127 5  -  Stephanie Goh TREATS FROM STREATS: Hurry, hurry, hurry! Present your coupons and grab these goodies! Eager Streats readers had been doing just that for the past four days, rushing enthusiastically to the Buzz kiosk at Orchard Paragon. To mark Car-Free Day, Streats has been giving these lucky readers
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      Lock icon Safra Yishun a hot attraction Club draws 6,000 new members
      274 5 MULTI-PURPOSE landscaped pools. An upmarket wellness spa. A national rock-climbing centre and an indoor air-weapons range. Cool Now, who can resist such magnetic attractions? And where is this haven? Safra Yishun Country Club, folks. Little wonder then that this $2B-million
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        Lock icon From this month...
        57 5 CPF members can now top up their parents' Minimum Sums using their CPF without any time limit. Previously, there was a 10-year time limit. The time limit for top-up using cash was removed in December last year. For more information, you can call the CPF Call Centre
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        Lock icon Remember...
        114 5 The HDB's site at www.hdb.gov.sg now boasts some new features: You can access information on the lease commencement date of the block you are interested in. You can find out the level of your chosen flat by height segments. For example, a flat on the sixth storey will be
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      88 5 Let's hope that the planned underground malls in Orchard Road get built soon so we can keep our feet dry while shopping V on days like today, when there will be showers with thunder over many areas in the afternoon. Temperatures will range between 24°C and
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      Lock icon Down the aisle on a power trip
      633 6 FOR the longest time, I have felt that gaining my calories from desserts and sweets is far more ‘worth it’ than alcohol. At least you don’t get stopped on the road for drinking too much cheng tng. But next weekend, I shall let
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      Lock icon China trumpets human rights victory at UN
      158 9 -Reuters BEIJING China revelled yesterday in what it hailed as a victory over the US on human rights issues. A US resolution censuring China at the UN Commission on Human Rights Was blocked on Wednesday after Beijing used a controversial “no action”motion. “Although
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        Lock icon Scalpel, swab, handphone
        91 9 Reuters HONGKONG People are mad at the Medical Council here for going back on a ban on the use of handphones during surgery. Breaking an earlier promise, the council said on Wednesday that doctors could use phones while operating if calls were justified and did not compromise
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        Lock icon Murdered in their cots
        60 9 -AFP SYDNEY An Australian woman was charged yesterday for murdering her four infant children. The woman, 33, was said to have killed her 19-day-old and eight-month-old sons and 11-month-old and 18-month-old daughters between 1989 and 1999. The children’s deaths in a town north of here had
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        Lock icon Those unsexy MPs
        75 9 -AP SYDNEY Australia’s politicians lack sex appeal and are rarely involved in sex scandals because of a missing chunk in their offices, a feng shui expert said yesterday. Hongkong-based author Nury Vittachi said he studied the floor plan and compass readings of Australia’s Parliament House and found
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        Lock icon Thais pray for Taleban
        73 9 -AP BANGKOK A Thai Buddhist group has said it will hold a mass prayer to seek forgiveness for the ruling Taleban of Afghanistan for destroying ancient Buddha images last month. About 400 Thais are expected to attend the half-day ceremony tomorrow at a temple on the
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      Lock icon More hours in day care make kids aggressive: study Day care danger
      300 13 -Reuters WASHINGTON The more hours children spend in day care, the more likely they are to be aggressive and defiant when they reach kindergarten, according to media reports on a new child development study. Researchers said the findings
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      Lock icon Cook slams pure British race idea
      194 13 Reuters LONDON British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said < yesterday that “Britishness” cannot be defined in terms of race or ethnic background, the BBC reported. Mr Cook dismissed the idea of a pure British race as“fantasy”, the BBC said. He said that immigration was
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      Lock icon Rev it up
      62 13 webcites Motoring fans can now cruise to the local version of Australian online magazine Auto Speed at Autospeed.asiaone.com.sg. The site will feature stories like new car tests, product reviews, technology features and an online shop for motoring accessories. Some of the content will be free while feature
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      Lock icon UK to ban human cloning: paper
      105 13 Reuters LONDON Britain will become the first European country to ban human cloning, The Independent reported yesterday. The government was trying to ease public fears about genetic technology, the newspaper added. It said Health Secretary Alan Milburn would announce London’s decision within months, bringing
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      Lock icon 'Perfect orbit' achieved after textbook launch India seeks share of US$3b pie after satellite success
      293 15 -AFP But much needs to be done before the cash rolls in BANGALORE India has successfully launched a new satel-lite-carrying rocket. On Wednesday, India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) flew a textbook mission, placing a
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      Lock icon 10,000 homeless amid border clashes
      175 15 Wire services GUWAHATI, India Fighting along the India-Bangladesh border has resulted in a human exodus of around 10,000 people from villages in Bangladesh. “The situation is very tense,” said Mr Suruzzaman Bakul, chairman of a union council in Bangladesh. The fighting is the worse between
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      Lock icon WORTH HIS WEIGHT IN CHOCOLATE:
      26 15 Tamil actor Prasanth is weighed against chocolates by a fan during filming in Madras, India Pic: Tamil Murasu Pic: Tamil Murasu
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        Lock icon Psycho beats 4 to death
        94 15 -AP MIAMI A mental patient beat a nurse to death as he was being checked into a hospital here, then killed three old men in bed. Murder charges are being filed against Alberto Serrano, 33. On April 10, Serrano was left alone with nurse Alda
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        Lock icon Dogs rule at White House
        100 15 -Reuters WASHINGTON A dog dynasty is in the making at the White House. First lady Laura Bush has revealed that Barney, her Scottish terrier, might be the subject of a book. Her mother-in-law, former first lady Barbara Bush, who wrote Millie’s Book from the point
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        Lock icon Wild West relic closes
        90 15 Reuters SAN ANTONIO A relic of frontier times in Texas closed on Wednesday when Union Stock Yards, the state’s last large cattle market, held its final auction. Hard-scrabble Texas cowboys wept as the final gavel fell at the facility which opened in 1889 but has fallen
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        Lock icon Elton's cars to be sold
        50 15 Reuters LONDON Shopaholic Elton John will sell 20 of his classic luxury cars, auctioneers Christie’s announced. He has just lost a multi-million pound court battle against his former accountant and ex-manager, but Christie’s insisted he is selling them as he is away so much. Reuters
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    • WOMEN bite back
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        Lock icon Five gang-raped me, says man
        155 10 -AFP BANGKOK Five Thai women agreed to pay 400 baht ($l6) each as compensation to a man they allegedly gang-raped, police said yesterday. Police said the women, aged between 20 and 40, admitted to plying the 47-year-old man from north-eastern Si Sa Ket province with
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        Lock icon Harassed, transferred – she fights
        245 10 Harassed, transferred she fights SEREMBAN A sexual harassment victim here has found herself in the midst of a controvery since the press highlighted her case a month ago. The Malay paper Utusan Malaysia reported last month that Madam Rubiyah Togi, 38, a data processing operator, had made a police report
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        Lock icon She made 12,000 silent phone calls
        174 10 -AP TOKYO A jobless Japanese woman who made about 12,000 silent phone calls to another woman out of jealousy was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday. The Toyama District Court in northwestern Japan sentenced Rie Ito, 26, to two years in prison, suspended for
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      Lock icon Did ancient Egyptians speak hieroglyphics?
      81 10 knowornot There is a popular notion that hieroglyphics, the famous picture writing of ancient Egypt, was simply a written language. But surprise! it did phonetically "spell out" their spoken language, combining alphabet-like symbols withthe pictures. Unfortunately, the symbols appear to have represented only consonants, not
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      Lock icon Gus Dur offers island to Philippine insurgents Hideaway for rebels
      230 12 -AP JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday offered refuge to the leaders of a Philippine Muslim insurgent group a gesture that surprised many, including the rebel organisation. At a conference of business leaders, analysts and diplomats, Mr Abdurrahman said: “I
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      Lock icon Planes circle as tower controller rests
      104 12 -AP AUCKLAND Just keep flying around up there while I take a break. That’s what the pilots of 10 commercial aircraft coming in to land at Auckland airport were told on Wednesday. Airport officials said yesterday that two aircraft controllers were off sick and
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      Lock icon ME AND MY PET:
      36 12 A Cambodian girl playing with her nine-year-old Burmese python in her flat in Phnom Penh yesterday. Cambodia's government is struggling to preserve wild species from illegal trading and trafficking Pic:AFP Pic: AFP
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      Lock icon Diabetes could swamp Aussie health system
      226 12 -AP SYDNEY The Aussie way of life has given the nation one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world a ticking time bomb for the country’s health system, experts warn. “This problem goes beyond medicine,” said Professor Robert Zimmet, director of the
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      Lock icon Okinawa's school of fame
      498 17  -  Their dark complexions betray their roots Stars like Namie Amuro, Speed and Da Pump all hail from the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. How did this this sleepy fishing island produce such J-pop mega stars by JAY MING SOMEWHERE in the heart of Okinawa exists a
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      Lock icon Reno cuts through the mumble
      330 18  -  Stephanie at thre movies by Stephanie Goh The Crimson Rivers Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz Starring: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Fares JEAN “The Professional” Reno is back, with broody mien and subtly honed acting skills, thankfully, intact. But before you celebrate Reno’s return to French
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      Lock icon In the mood for Cannes
      286 20 Reuters HONGKONG'S film industry, revitalised by the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and last year’s In the Mood for Love, is set to descend on Cannes hoping to cash in on growing demand for Asian films. “The movie industry has reached the end of
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      Lock icon Meat pies on tap
      198 21  -  iwoshoes by Wileen Chang IT WASN'T that long ago when the only meat pies available were found in the refrigerators at supermarkets. Even then, there was still the hassle of having to warm them in the oven or microwave, and most of the time the pies
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      Lock icon DURIAN DELIGHTS
      115 21 It's raining durians at the Goodwood Park Hotel. Baked daily using only the freshest of ingredients, these durian delectables are, in one word, "yummilicious". Start your feast with the durian mousse cake ($39 for I.3kg or $6 a slice) which is filled with thick layers of durian pulp
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      Lock icon where to go
      151 21 Anand Krishnasamy recommends you try Indian delicacies at Garu Restaurant: Anand says: "If you want a memory that remains not only in your mind but also one that leaves a craving in your tastebuds, look no further than Garu restaurant. It is on Bukit Timah Road, just
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      Lock icon Which way would you pick to win that $1m and why?
      365 23 Demi Moore's character chose to sleep with a tycoon in the movie Indecent Proposal. Sixteen people chose to slug it out in Survivor and thousands of Singaporeans have tried to get on the game show Who Wants to be
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      Lock icon Move over pop stars, Here comes Mr Versatile
      515 24  - Move over pop stars, Here comes Mr Versatil e By CARA van MIRIAH HE'S a Snag (sensitive-new-age-guy) with a wicked sense of humour. Charming and multi-talented, he posesses an impeccable fashion sense and appreciates the fine cut of an Armani or a Paul Smith suit. He shops at The Link
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      Lock icon HK media takes another bashing
      174 25 HONGKONG comedian Eric Tsang launched into a diatribe against the media, in particular the ones in his home country. He was infuriated by the latest mediagenerated rumours about a purported affair between his good friend Jackie Chan and Chinese babe Zhang Ziyi during the filming
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      Lock icon Faye takes it to a higher level
      119 25 FANS of Hongkong diva Faye Wong think she is divine. They are right, at least where her latest album is concerned. It has gone onto a higher plane, with eight Buddhist mantras on it. It was recorded to raise funds to build the
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          Lock icon GROSSE POINTE BLANK
          105 25 7.30 pm, Channel 5 The “blank” in question is Martin Blank (John Cusack, who co-wrote and produced), a killer-for-hire who bounces through his hometown in -Michigan to execute an assignment and ends up marooned at his 10thyear high school reunion. The one person Martin wants to see
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          Lock icon THE ESCORT IN ANCIENT CHINA
          67 25 3.30 pm, V V Drama (SCV 55) Hao runs an armed security escort group in addition to raising three daughters. However, he is vehemently opposed to his youngest girl, Ling, studying martial arts. Trouble arises when Ping arrives to challenge Hao to a duel and
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        Lock icon Baby or ball... it's all about life
        494 26 LIFE is more important than a gold medal. That was my response when told last week that one of my key defenders was pregnant and would not be available for September’s South-east Asia Games. From the tone of the young reporter, I sense
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        Lock icon A Real success
        336 27 Reuters Spanish team is favourite to win thetitle r CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINAL Real Madrid 3 Galatasaray 0, Real wins 5-3 on aggregate J mi mi ■“"■iiiiiiil MADRID Real Madrid coach Vicente del Bosque praised his players for their speed and skill in completing a commanding 5-3 aggregate
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        Lock icon Pacers ends season with OT win
        147 30 •BASKETBALL Reuters CLEVELAND, Ohio The Indiana Pacers wrapped up the regular season with a 105-101 overtime victory against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Championship. Other results: Denver Nuggets 110 Sacramento Kings 100; New York Knicks 94 Detroit Pistons 88; Toronto Raptors 98 Washington
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        Lock icon Lewis to feel the heat
        100 30 •BOXING Reuters JOHANNESBURG World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has made a mistake by giving himself only two weeks to acclimatise to the high altitude before his fight against Hasim Rahman, experts said yesterday. Briton Lewis, who faces American challenger Rahman in the early hours of
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