Streats, 28 April 2001

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 28 April 2001 Another quality publication of w Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 205 1 Bush upsets Beijing again first, the spy plane incident. Then the weapons sales to Taiwan. Then the threat to do whatever it takes to defend Taiwan. Now a possible visit by Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian to the US, a move which underscores US President George W Bush’s hardball stand against
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    • 66 1 Reuters THE US economy gained surprising momentum in the first quarter, boosted by stronger consumer spending as the country completed a record 10th straight year of unbroken expansion, the government reported yesterday. The Commerce Department said gross domestic product increased at a stronger-than-expected 2
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    • 157 1 THE Labour Movement has given its highest May Day honour to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong for his contributions to the workers of Singapore. Mr Goh will receive the Distinguished Comrade of Labour from the National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) at its May Day Dinner at
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  • 414 1  -  Unit to push for more pre-policy consultation by' WINSTON CHONG YOUR opinion matters. Yes, you. And you. And even you. What’s more, your views and suggestions will, where feasible, be sought and weighed before the government implements certain policies. Singaporeans are encouraged to talk and debate about policies
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 310 2 NTUC Fair Price could cut prices of some goods, if the economy slows further. The supermarket chain’s chairman S Chandra Das, said that unlike profit-driven rivals, NTUC Fair Price has a social obligation to help workers stretch their dollars. “If the
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    • 145 2 SHE made history as the only woman at the helm of a major bank. Mrs Theresa Foo, Standard Chartered Singapore’s chief executive will retire at the end of June, after a 35-year career. At 57, Mrs Foo feels it’s about time she retires from banking
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    • 69 2 -AP THE government yesterday surrendered its so-called “golden share” in Singapore Telecommunications, which gave it veto power over decisions made. Last month, the government said it would forfeit the golden share to help local companies expand abroad. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last
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    • news scan
      • 101 2  -  -Deepa Vijiyasingam ADANGER was yesterday fined $l,OOO for taking off her top and baring her breasts at Venom discotheque. On Nov 18, Khairani Abdul Khalik (right), 22, a freelance dancer, was en- gaged as a model to perform for a body-art show. During the five-minute performance, she
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      • 107 2  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam A MECHANIC stabbed his colleague with a pair of scissors in a drunken brawl. On June 15 last year, Kong Chung Hing, 45, and Tan Poh Huat, 31, returned to the Singapore Power workshop at Übi Road 3 after a few beers at a nearby
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      • 56 2  -  Khushwant Singh A $5,000 laptop left in the back seat of a car was stolen on Thursday. The 26-year-old owner had parked his car at about 10am in Basement 1 of Mount Alvernia Hospital. When he returned at 11.30 am, he found the right rear window smashed
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    • 375 3  -  by WINSTON CHONG TWO young children from a playschool turned in positive results in the Mantoux skin test an indication of the presence of the tuberculosis (TB) bacteria Tubercle bacillus. But the Health Ministry told Streats that “none of the children were
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    • 205 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH EVERY working day around noon, sales executive Ayyakannu Ramalingam, 59, walked from his office at High Street Plaza to deposit large amounts of cash at the Overseas Union Bank at Coleman Street. He could have taken High Street and North Bridge Road but
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    • 84 3 Our weather girl says The weekend is here again, but you can forget about spending a sunny day at the beach. There'll be showers with thunder over many j areas in the morning and early afternoon. After an overnight low of 24°C, the mercury J will climb to 30°C in
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    • Just a minute
      • 62 3 Singapore's biggest library the Woodlands Regional Library opens its doors from noon to 9pm every day. Library assistants armed with wireless pocket PCs can help users locate books or check their accounts. There are also 54 multi-media stations. The library is at the Woodlands Civic Centre, which is
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      • 68 3 Get to know the T'ang Quartet, Singapore's professional string ensemble. Meet them at Scotts Shopping Centre, atrium level 1, at spm today. The foursome will perform a special free preview of their concert, 4 Plus East Meets West, featuring guest cellist Carter Enyeart, a professor of cello
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    • Sick, sick minds
      • 325 4  -  12 weeks jail for businessman by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM DIAGNOSED with voyeurism, a psychological disorder, Pua Thiam Guan got sexual thrills from secretly video-taping women in various stages of undress in the fitting rooms of department stores and clothing shops. He did this for three years,
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      • 235 4 51-year-old pleads guilty; court awaits psychiatric report AN UNEMPLOYED man pleaded guilty yesterday to three charges of raping his 12-year-old daughter at home last year. Sixteen other charges 11 for rape, one for attempted rape, four for molest will be considered when he is sentenced.
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      • 232 4 $2,000 fine, psychiatric treatment for woman, 42 ON Christmas Day, she stabbed her three children with a kitchen knife. Yesterday she was fined $2,000 in the High Court. Last Christmas, Kee Hwee Lun, 42, a customer service officer at air-freight company ST KEW Logistics, brought
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    • 79 5 lUquj CL i'^ cited. I m o n V* o 0 IBs w IP* sgir« SgSf® Soon, Media Works will launch two new free TV channels in Singapore, Channel U on 6 May and TV Works on 20 May. Our programming will not only entertain, but will probe, challenge and
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 294 6 TENSIONS between the US and China could be played out in cyberspace next week, US authorities have warned. The dates to watch out for: April 30 to May 7, when hackers from China are likely to take out their anger
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    • 224 6 -AFP MANILA Security forces were on alert yesterday after a huge crowd demanded the release of jailed former leader Joseph Estrada. “We’ll give them two days to think. If not, we’ll spring our beloved Erap,” proEstrada senator Miriam Santiago told the rally late on Thursday. Police
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    • 152 6 -AP WELLINGTON Air New Zealand yesterday announced a new no-frills domestic service. Using its low-price subsidiary Freedom Air to provide the new service, the company said it will target what it calls “price-conscious and time-flex-ible” travellers. It announced reductions of 17-31 per cent on
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    • 253 7 INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid adopted a conciliatory tone in his address to the nation last night. Mr Abdurrahman came across as “resigned” to the idea that the end of his political tenure is near and asked all to. stop violence
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    • 100 7 Reuters BANGKOK Thailand plans to fight Aids by subsidising condoms and selling them through vending machines. Mr Somsong Rakpao, head of the Department of Communicable Disease Control, said the agency would launch subsidised condoms at five baht (20 cents) for a pack of two, compared
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    • news scan
      • 62 7 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong’s financial secretary didn’t pay his chef for working overtime, a labour tribunal was told yesterday. Mr Donald Tsang was taken to the tribunal on Thursday by his former cook Yu Yin-ping. Mr Yu alleged Mr Tsang owed him HK$7O,OOO ($15,553) for 1,120 hours of
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      • 62 7 WASHINGTON One of America’s highly decorated politicians has admitted to leading a combat mission during the Vietnam war which shot dead more than a dozen unarmed women and children. Former Democrat senator Bob Kerrey claims the killings were an accident, The Guardian website reported yesterday. But
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      • 79 7 -AFP HONGKONG The fourth wife of imperial China’s last emperor has died. She was 73. LiYuqin, once married to late emperor Pu Yi, died at her home in the north-eastern city of Changchun in Jilin province on Sunday. Her funeral took place on Thursday, the Ta
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    • 130 8 w w Aoi UoA^ Co-organised by: National j i Council m s m m aI- is® n I m i^iiiaß^pi s ->- WMa f Whassup? It’s Philips X’pression. So get down to Youth Park (across Orchard Cineleisure) on April 28 for some serious fun. You’ll catch some of Singapore’s finest
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 221 9 -AP SAN FRANCISCO Last week 73-year-old Ge Zhenfu lost her daughter to cancer. And because of her death, Ms Ge also lost her legal right to stay in America. If her daughter, Wang Yanyu, had survived until Thursday, Ms Ge
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    • 114 9 -AP WASHINGTON A woman has been charged with stalking White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. Lin Mei Ling, 31, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was arrested outside Mr Fleischer’s Washington home on Tuesday and charged with unlawful trespassing and stalking, a Secret Service official said on Thursday
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    • GM, gene and gee!
      • 85 10 AFP SEOUL Scientists say the solution to world hunger is genetically modified (GM) food, but they have to convince the public it is safe to eat. The issue is being hotly debated at the 11th World Congress of Food Science and Technology here this week. The US,
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      • 55 10 -AFP PARIS Women who suffer from infertility may have a particular too-short gene that prevents eggs from lodging in the lining of the womb Doctors at Imperial College School of Medicine in London say that among the women they investigated, a key section of the gene was more
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      • Article, Illustration
        49 10 French Ambassador to India Bernard de Montferrand confers the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres award on Indian writer and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy in the French Embassy in New Delhi. She won the prize for her book God of Small Things. Pic: afp Pic: AFP
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  • easy STREATS
    • 670 11  -  Media Works'latest addition to its stable of stars is a hot Filipino actor who wants to make it big in the region by YVONNE KWOK HIS name appears regularly in the entertainment sections of the Philippines’ biggest newspapers like the Manila Bulletin and the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Walking
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    • 401 12  -  by STEPHANIE GOH EUREKA! That must surely encapsulate director Aoyama Shinji’s elation after wresting the Best Film prize at the Silver Screen Awards last night from hot audience favourite Yi Yi (A One and a TWo) by the masterful Edward Yang. After all,
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    • channel scan
      • Must-see TV...
        • 64 12 Saturday, 10.45 pm, VV Entertainment (SCV 56) Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung star as W neighbours whose spouses are cheating on them. In time they fall for each other, but are too careful of appearances to fulfil their love. Wong Kar Wai successfully uses mood
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        • 89 12 Sunday, 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) As conflict brews between the powerful Trade Federation and the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, travel to the planet to warn the Queen of the galactic fallout. Eventually, Naboo is invaded, forc- ing
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    • easyStreats pick & choose
      • Article, Illustration
        315 17 Reuters LOS ANGELES Attention women of the world who have problems finding casual wear to properly hug their curves: Jennifer Lopez wants to dress you in her favourite styles and make you look unashamedly sexy. “It’s time for the world to wear my look,” Lopez told
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 243 19 -AFP PREMIER LEAGUE Leeds v Chelsea LONDON Leeds, the only English team left in the Champions League, entertains bitter rival Chelsea today, looking to secure a top three Premiership position. That will guaranteee a place in next season’s elite European competition. Although David O’Leaiy’s youngsters
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      • 83 19 ATHLETICS Reuters DALLAS World 200 and 400 m record holder Michael Johnson is to end his illustrious career this year with a relays-only farewell tour. The five-time Olympic gold medallist will compete in 4x400 and 4x200m relays in the US and Europe before bowing out
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      • 265 19 -AFP MANCHESTER Man Chester United record signing Ruud van Nistelrooy said comparing him to Dutch legend Marco van Basten was unfair. He was talking to the media at the official unveiling ceremony. He said that he felt “fantastic” about joining Alex Ferguson’s all-con-quering
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      • 274 20 -AFP NEWYORK In its biggest game of the year, the most expensive lineup in the National Basketball Association was a disgrace. Shaquille O’Neal (below) scored 32 points and Kobe Biyant added 25 as the reigning champion Los Angeles Lakers humbled Portland Trail Blazers 106-88 on Thursday in
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      • 363 20  -  by TAN KIM HAN Woodlands 1 Jurong FCI "1 HE had promised to defeat his former club. So Jurong player-coach V Sundramoorthy was on his feet for the entire 90 minutes when his Cobras slithered dangerously at Woodlands Stadium last
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      • 240 20 r S-LEAGUE- Marine Castle 2 Balestier f] BALESTIER Central carved out a deserving victory yesterday to tie Marine Castle firmly to the foot of the table. The future now looks bleak for Marine Castle, which is the only winless club after seven matches. Despite the support
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 280 14 ft. flf it il" it 1! i I: I, ■'lf:, Ig i||ii:|;gii "1 ...,Jf 11. II If if ,1* i|. I ilffi ;i? What s wrong with her? Her expression is the same in every photograph! How can she become an air stewardess? The story is about May's Dream is
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 235 15 The story today. Upon arrival in Beijing, Wei Xiaobao rushes Mao to look for his enemy, but Mao changes his mind as he is too powerful to deal with. Instead, they stop at a restaurant. There, they see an elderly man and a boy, both decked out in oTTiciai garo.
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 469 17 Your Daily Horoscope JAN 20- FEB 18 You feel disorganised and out of sync. This may be just a phase, but you can’t help wondering if it’s really a trend. Ignore all advice that doesn’t matter. You’ll know the right answer when you hear it. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Begin
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 170 19 Inthelivingroom BASKETBALL NBA Play-offs, Ist rd Game 3: Charlotte Hornets v Miami Heat (Bam), Indiana Pacers v Philadelphia 76ers (tomorrow, 12.30am)-ESPN Ch 23. MOTOR RACING: Formula One: Spanish Grand Prix, qualifying round (Star Sports Ch24,7pm) SOCCER: NTUC Income S-League: dementi Khalsa v SAFFC (Sports City, 7pm). EPL: Leeds United v
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