Streats, 30 April 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MONDAY 30 April 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-maii: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 74 1 MRT services between Boon Lay and Lakeside stations were delayed early yesterday. The tracks at Boon Lay station were affected by lightning, resulting in a point machine failure at 6.07 am. Point machines are used to switch the tracks to enable the trains to move
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    • 74 1 STARTING tomorrow, Muslims can apply online to perform the Haj. Applicants can go to the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore’s (Muis) website at www.muis.gov.sg, key in their NRIC number and find out immediately their Haj registration number, and the year they have been approved to perform
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  • 154 1 JAKARTA braced itself yesterday for a violent showdown between supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid and government troops on the eve of a move by parliament to decide on a second censure motion against the president. Over 20,000 supporters gathered in central Jakarta to pray for
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  • 468 1  -  PM: Constraint, Continuous skills upgrading and Cohesion key to overcoming downturn by SONNYPHUA BRACE yourself for a slowdown, with unemployment edging up, fewer jobs and retrenchment, particularly in the electronics industry. This was the sobering May Day message for workers from Prime
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 397 2  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH THE people in Pasir Ris are a privileged lot. They asked for and will receive a slew of upgrading features catering to young and old. Residents interviewed were excited by the plans, unveiled yesterday
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      • 87 2 THE temporary Sengkang Bus Interchange opened on Saturday morning. The permanent bus interchange will open in the latter half of next year. By then, Sengkang residents will have a fully integrated transport system incorporating MRT, LRT and buses. Mr Zainul Abidin Rasheed, Mayor of Ang Mo Kio-Cheng
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      • 61 2 THE monthly tender for vehicle entitlements open from 9am on Wednesday, and will close at noon on Saturday. The total quota available for this tender will be 7,262. The breakdown by vehicle category are 2,935 cars (1,600 cc and below) and taxis, 1,088 cars (1,600 cc and above),
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      • 115 2 A 15-YEAR-OLD boy was found dead at his home in King’s Close on Saturday. His maid found him lying motionless on his bed that afternoon. She notified his two brothers when she could not wake him. One of them called the police. The boy, clad
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    • 31 2 ON Saturday, we reported that Eureka wrested the Best Film award from Yi Yi at the Silver Screen Awards. Yi Yi was not in competition for the Silver Screen Awards.
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    • 236 3 GOOD value for money. That’s what Singaporeans feel they’re getting when they buy top brand products. They like BMWs, fly Singapore Airlines, watch television on a Sony, drink Coke and Tiger beer and talk on Nokia handphones,
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    • 214 3 THROUGH the publication of a Malaylanguage edition of the first volume of his memoirs, The Singa- pore Story, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew wants Malays to have a better understanding of Singapore’s recent history. SM Lee said he wants Kisah Singapura, which will
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    • 65 4  -  onekindact. Claris Shihua ON March 31,1 went to submit my admission application forms at the National University of Singapore. I was in a rush and the queue was long. A stranger, Shufen from Temasek Junior College commerce stream, agreed to submit my papers. She even
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    • 252 4 SINGAPOREANS generated 2,500 tonnes of waste daily 20 years ago, 5,700 tonnes 10 years ago and 7,600 tonnes a day last year. These figures weigh heavily in Minister for the Environment and Minister of State for Communication and
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    • 88 4 morningsmile. tom was so excited about his promotion to vice-president and kept bragging about it to his wife for weeks on end. Finally she couldn't take it any longer, and told him, "Listen, it means nothing, they even have a vice-president of peas at the grocery store!" "Really?"
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    • 284 5  -  by DIANA SER THE new kid on the broadcasting block, SPH Media Works, went to town yesterday and attracted close to 100,000 people to its roadshow, TV Land: The Carnival. Suntec City was all decked out in colourful booths showcasing programme
      Pics: Wu Lifen  -  284 words
    • 64 5 If rainy days and Mondays always make you cry, get your tissues ready. Thunderstorms are expected over many areas in the pre-dawn hours and morning. Temperatures will range from 24-31 °C. High tide will reach 2.7 m at 2.41 am. Our weather girl is Streats reader
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    • Just a minute
      • 88 5 The Singapore Red Cross Society is organising the "Great Walk for Humanity" to raise funds for their humanitarian services. It will be held on Sunday at 8.15 am at Sentosa. Participants, after walking 2.4 km from the causeway bridge to the football field, will attempt to form
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  • Streatsmart Interchange
    • 280 6  -  ■PJoshi I HAVE been living in Singapore for a few years now and have been pleasantly amazed at the customer service in my opinion, some of the best in the world. I am proud of this country, even though I am not a Singaporean, but I
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    • 153 6  -  -Michael Chua TAXI drivers have always come in for a lot of criticism. As with any occupation, there will always be a few bad apples that spoil its image. Most cabbies are out there just trying to make an honest living. They don’t like trouble, much
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    • 246 6  -  Li Shu Yi I WOULD to make an appeal on behalf of the SPCA, which is a private organisation that does not enjoy government support. I sincerely hope that more can be done to encourage people to donate to the SPCA. This would help it to expand
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 241 8 Reuters Parliament to vote today on second censure against president JAKARTA Over 20,000 supporters prayed for Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday, a day before parliament is due to decide on a second censure motion. The supporters from the 40million strong
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    • 208 8 Reuters Early survey gives new Japanese PM backing of 87.1 percent of votes TOKYO As Golden Week holidays began yesterday in Japan, new Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was enjoying soaring popularity. The hopes of the country for a return to prosperity hang on Mr
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    • 106 8 ReuteP KUALA LUMPUR Mr Mokhzani Mahathir yesterday denied he was making money through favours granted by his father, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. He also dismissed a comparison between his business record and that of Hutomo ‘Tommy’ Mandalaputra, the son of former Indonesian president Suharto.
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      • 97 8 PORT MORESBY A teacher was shot dead by his Grade 5 student in Papua New Guinea after he questioned the student about his absences from the Catholic school. The National newspaper reported that Mr Ignatius Ayale was interviewing the student when he pulled out a bushknife from
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      • 79 8 BANGKOK -Thai prostitutes are observing this Labour Day in style with the launch of their own fortnightly tabloid Bad Girls. Editor Chantawipa Apisuk told the Nation newspaper the tabloid would be a forum for male and female prostitutes. Ms Chantawipa said her team would adopt
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      • 58 8 -AFP WELLINGTON Ms Georgina Beyer, the world’s first transsexual Member of Parliament, will quit politics. The popular MP told a party conference on Saturday she would leave at next year’s general election, the Sunday Star-Times said. The 43-year-old wants to focus on developing links with her Maori
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 307 9 -AP WASHINGTON Emphasising the personal rapport among the officials from the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial countries, US Treasury Secretary Paul H O’Neill said “there was a sense of real optimism” on the part of every participant in the talks on
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    • 157 9 -AFP WASHINGTON At a press dinner late on Saturday, US President George W Bush poked fun at his own foibles. “In college I did a lot of independent reading,”he said at one point, with a photo showing him reading a copy of Playboy magazine. Another
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    • 59 9 knowornot If housework is a chore, get a *friendly local Aunty to do your chores'for you. With auntyonline.com, you can idle the weekend away and let this 'aunty' sweep, mop, vacuum the house and clean the toilet. She will even wash your laundry and iron your clothes. It will
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      • 88 9 -AP TAMPA, Florida A jogger carrying a pistol during his morning run shot an attacking dog in the leg. Mr Shane Powers, 33, told police on Thursday that the seven-year-old rottweiler named Sasha ran across the street and “almost took my hand off”. He pulled out a
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      • 76 9 Left at the altar twice BUCHAREST An unlucky Romanian has been dumped by his bride-to-be after she fell for the man who designed the wedding invitation cards, the Daily Record reported. Mr Sorin Archiudean is used to being a loser in love his first wife ran off with the wedding
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      • 89 9 -AFP MURCIA, Spain Five robbers held up a Spanish supermarket making off with two bags full of rubbish, police here said yesterday. The crooks stole in through a service entrance at the back of the Carrefour supermarket. After gaining access to the building they fired a shot
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    • 173 9 LONDON The British army has been accused of being the source of the foot and mouth epidemic after it said it supplied untreated waste food to the farm where the disease broke out. The Sunday Telegraph reported that slops including waste meat imported from
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 556 10  -  by STEPHANIE GOH WOMEN are unaware that they are being manipulated and plundered by advertisers and their marketing. But not feminist icon Germaine Greer, who was in town last Thursday to give a talk on The Gendered Advertising Lecture. Author of 1970 s
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    • 197 10 r Just one k i question SPH Media Works will launch two TV stations Channel U and TV Works on Sunday. Streats approached TV viewers who attended the roadshow at SunTec City yesterday and asked them: I'd like to see more
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  • Streats
    • 477 11  -  His role as the aloof outlaw in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has given him a taste oftinseltown by way of the Oscars Now Chang Chen aims to work hard to reach his destination Hollywood by STEPHANIE GOH HE might look withdrawn at first glance his face
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    • 320 12  -  two shoes by Judi Low IF you’re looking for a throw-back to 1960 s restaurant ambience, complete with food served on lacy paper linings or doilies, ketchup dips and the absence of air-condi-tioning, look no further than ZiYean Restaurant in Stirling Road. A recommendation by
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 66 12 10pm, Central From the night in 1934 when she wowed the crowd at Amateur Night at the Harlem Opera House, Ella Fitzgerald has continued to bring audiences to their feet with the belllike clarity of her voice and her musicianship. This is a portrait
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        • 35 12 12 midnight, Central A black comedy about Gabriela, a beautiful young woman with a morbid curiosity about murders which leads her into the path of a serial killer. Stars Angela Jones and William Baldwin.
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        • 56 12 10pm,V V Entertainment (SCV 56) The Asian financial crisis sees two families fall from their wealthy status, forcing them to sell their properties and move to HDB flats. Only determination and family ties overcome the difficulties. Made by the producer of Money No Enough, starring Edmund Chen,
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        • 54 12 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) An art-house auctioneer finds him-self in deeper with the mob after learning that his teacher girlfriend is the daughter of a major mobster. Things get worse when a godfather decides to launder his no-talent son’s gory paintings through the art-house. Stars Hugh
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        • 57 12 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) Arthur Bradley is a small-town doc-tor whose wife is expecting their first child. His neighbours have an 18-year-old daughter and her par-ents ask Arthur to keep an eye on her while they are away. An attrac-tion develops that Arthur will live to
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    • Streatsmart regional
      • 536 18  -  by' TAN KIM HAN HE was down with a raging fever. YetTanjong Pagar midfielder Djamel Achouri (above) did not want to miss the S-League match against visiting Gombak United last Thursday. So he kept his running temperature to himself and did not
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      • 299 19 Reuters ORLANDO Tracy McGrady grabbed 42 points as the Orlando Magic wasted a 14-point lead in the last five minutes of regulation, but rallied to avoid playoff elimination with a *****6 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday. “It was either do or die,’’said McGrady,
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      • 129 19 Wire services TABLE TENNIS OSAKA, Japan China bagged the men’s world team table tennis championships yesterday, crushing Belgium 3-0 for a seventh title in 11 tournaments. China’s Ma Lin, Liu Guozheng and Kong Linghui, all ranked among the world’s top five players, had no problems against
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      • 160 20 -AFP BARCELONA Reigning world champion Michael Schumacher of Ferrari bagged a dramatic victory in the Spanish Grand Prix here yesterday after race leader Mika Hakkinen of McLaren-Mercedes limped out with engine problems on the final lap. Flying Finn Hakkinen had looked to be cruising to his
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      • 687 20 COVENTRY boss Gordon Strachan refused to write off his side’s survival hopes despite the 2-0 home defeat at the hands of Gary McAllister and Liverpool. The Sky Blues must win their last two games to stand any chance of keeping their 34-year
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 309 14 z> MONDAY Q 30 April 2001 11 #a Vs m 11 The story is about. Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargains for when he enrols at Zhong RenPre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything, from girl problems to gang fights; from baseball matches
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 222 15 VMS ■H %#lt liiigi# Il II itl# :r ll# E mm w ekshse s The story today ’%t ”i A R K > ifi M SIS!? A-hiftM K Hg SW m frightened Zhang is dose to tears. i n k m a S faint mumble:"Xiao Yuer, please spare my life..."
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    • 28 19 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: EPL: Charlton Athletic v Ipswich Town (FC Ch 22, May 1,2.55 am). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: PGA Tour: Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic, final rd (Star Sports Ch24,llpm).
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