Streats, 4 May 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRiOAV 4 May 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon Bus No 32 goes up in flames
    199 1  -  by YVONNE KWOK AN SBS bus was engulfed in flames soon after the bus driver detected smoke and asked his passengers to alight yesterday. Because of his prompt action, no one was injured in the blaze that gutted the bus, a No 32,
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    Lock icon Serial molester, 28, targeted youngsters in lifts Girl ends his terror
    516 1  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER Foo Khee, 28, had a weakness for Young girls. Not content with fantasising while Etching pornographic VCDs, the storekeeper took to acting out his fantasies by targeting young girls and outraging their modesty, not once, not
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      Lock icon Bye bye Sports City, hello City TV MediaCorp cuts airtime for sports
      387 2  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH MEDIACORP TV will be launching a new free-to-air TV channel. Called City TV, it will go on air on May 14 and will replace Sports City. Mr Ernest Wong, MediaCorp’s chief executive officer offered two
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        Lock icon Gambler cheated firm
        136 2  -  Sarah Ng HE was desperate after losing more than $30,000 on horse and football bets. To clear his debts, Low Lek Howe, 34, hatched a plan to pocket funds paid to his employer by Hi-Tech Fibreglass. In October 1999, he approached Hi-Tech Fibreglass and successfully solicited business
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        Lock icon Knife-wielder charged
        131 2  -  Sarah Ng A YOUTH armed with a knife who held police at bay for half an hour on Wednesday was charged in court yesterday with possession of an offensive weapon. Hoe Jun Hao, 18, allegedly threatened passersby with two knives, one with a 16cm blade and the other
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      Lock icon Not cheating
      28 2 morningsmile Teacher: Well, at least there's one thing I can say about your son. Father: What's thatl Teacher: With grades like these, he couldn't be cheating.
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      Lock icon Bodysearch for cigarettes offends student Boy punches teacher
      282 3  -  by SARAH NG Why the display of outright defiance... when you had nothing to hide? Magistrate May Mesenas IT was just a bus pass in his pocket, but the teacher suspected the Secondary 3 boy had cigarettes on him and asked him
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      Lock icon Uplifting honesty
      127 3 onekindact. Keith Chong I WOULD like to commend Tibs taxi driver Mr Tan for his honesty. I realised that my wallet was missing only the day after I boarded his taxi, No SHB 683, at Yishun Avenue 2, on April 6 at about 10.45 pm. Mr Tan had
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      Lock icon Rivalry got out of hand
      180 3  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER THINGS came to a head when two groups of contractors jostled for renovation contracts at the then newly built flats in Hougang Avenue 9 in March 1997. The rivalry climaxed in a showdown on April 5 that year. At about 3pm, Neo
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      Lock icon Burglar takes $6,000 hong bao & diamond ring
      290 3  - Burglar takes $6, 000 hong bao diamond ring by YVONNE KWOK THEY left the “hong bao” (red packet) money from their eldest son’s wedding at home, never dreaming that it would be stolen from them. Mr Yeo Cheng Chow, 49, lost about $6,000 cash and about $6,000 worth of jewellery
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      Lock icon Nails puncture 40 motorbikes' tyres
      214 5  -  by KAREN CHEN NAILS strewn across the Pan-Island Expressway early yesterday morning had punctured the tyres of 40 motorcycles and a car by 10am. If you were on the PIE then, you couldn’t have missed it. Motorcyclists lined the street near the Lornie Road exit.
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      Lock icon Birth believed to be in Sembawang Park Baby born to illegal dies
      173 5  -  by KAREN CHEN A 27-YEAR-OLD Sri Lankan woman’s baby believed to have been delivered in Sembawang Park died after she and her sister took the infant to Kandang Kerbau Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The baby, with its umbilical
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      Lock icon Pregnant and want to enter S'pore?
      154 5 WHAT should you do if you’re a foreigner, pregnant, and want to enter Singapore? A check on the Singapore Immigration and Registration website revealed that women who are six or mor e months’ pregnant should apply through the nearest Singapore overseas mission for a
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      71 5 Our weather girl says Wake up to a glorious morning and make the most of the sunshine. Thunderstorms are expected in the afternoon over many parts of Singapore. Temperatures will range between 24°C and 33°C, with high tides of 2.5 m at 8.35 am and 9.37 pm. The PS! will
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        70 5 The Mammobus will be at the Telok Blangah Community Club. It will be there until May 16. Women living in the Tanjong Pagar and West Coast GRCs who are aged 45 and above can hop onto the Mammobus for breast-cancer screening. Residents pay $25, while those under publicassistance
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        49 5 Jazz up your lunchtime at Ipm today and grab some food for your eyes at the Raffles City atrium. As part of the National Arts Council's Arts in the City programme you can listen to the traditional and unique sounds of Dixieland with The Singapore Stompers.
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      Lock icon To be or not to be -in TV Land
      584 6 I AM sick of people asking me if I intend to join SPH Media Works. It seems inconceivable to them why I’m letting myself miss out on the challenge of pioneering a new TV station, why I’m content to step out
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      Lock icon Arroyo meets Estrada in jail It's curtains for Erap
      315 7 Press photographs of his luxurious detention house have showed windows left bare for security reasons Manila After days of political strife, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo visited her ousted predecessor Joseph Estrada in jail yesterday. Officials said he won only one concession:
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      Lock icon 40 things Beijing teachers can't say
      182 7 They must no longer scold: "You ore a wood Post with two ears Got out" BEIJING New rules this year in a school district here have listed “40 forbiddens” sharp words that teachers may no longer fire off at their trembling charges. While teachers
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      Lock icon Kim's Jong II's son held in Tokyo
      190 8 Wire services TOKYO It’s unclear what gave him away. But it could have been his mop of hair, something North Korean leader Kim Jong II is well known for. A man was caught yesterday for trying to enter Tokyo with a fake passport.
      – Wire services; Pic: Reuters  -  190 words
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      Lock icon Undeclared assets case My wife hid my money: Thai MP
      253 8 A THAI MP asked a court to believe yesterday that he is hen-pecked and his wife had squirrelled away 400 million baht ($l6 million) without his knowledge. Prayuth Mahakijsiri, an MP from Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s Thai Rak Thai Party,
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      Lock icon Marriage wreckers must pay
      167 8 -AFP TAIPING, Malaysia -Wrecking a marriage carries a financial penalty, a Malaysian high court has ruled. The Taiping court ordered a woman who had an affair with a married welder to compensate his ex-wife to the tune of RM20,150 ($9,600), The Sun newspaper reported yesterday. Judicial
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      Lock icon UN, World Bank, IMF in need of change Time to reform the reformers
      238 10 ~AP TOKYO The UN, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are out of date and should be reformed, according to a study. The study said the UN bodies had failed to change despite the end
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      Lock icon BUSH BABY:
      42 10 Marti sen, a three-month-old orang-utan, is helped into his crib by a caretaker at Nyaru Menteng Orang-utan Refuge in Central Kalimantan. The apes' natural habitat is shrinking at an alarming rate due to logging, urban expansion and forest fires PicAP
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Sushi-eating Japanese have lower disease rate Fresh fish 'cuts lung-cancer risk'
      247 12 -Reuters LONDON Eating sushi may help smokers cut the risk of getting lung cancer. Scientists at the Aichi Cancer Centre in Nagoya, Japan, believe sushi and fresh fish are the reason lung cancer rates in Japan are markedly lower
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      Lock icon HIJACK DRAMA:
      51 12 One person was killed and seven injured when a bus, hijacked by a shooting incident suspect, struck several vehicles in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Above, a police officer checks the licence numbers of some of the vehicles damaged by the bus. The suspect was taken into custody. PicAP
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      Lock icon Bottled water 'no better than that from die tap'
      295 12 -AP GENEVA Despite perceptions that it’s healthier, there is little difference between bottled and tap water apart from the cost. “Bottled water may be no safer, or healthier, than tap water in many countries, while selling for up to 1,000 times
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      Lock icon Searching for cures
      48 12 webdtes. HELP a group of Stanford University researchers to stop incurable diseases like Alzheimer's and Mad Cow, by downloading the screensaver at www.Stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/Cosm, to understand how proteins builds up. Diseases are the result of wrong protein folding, so understanding the process has huge potential benefits.
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      Lock icon Brain cells grown from corpses 'will boost research'
      165 13 -AFP LONDON Scientists have isolated and cultivated brain cells from human corpses. The feat could provide a new source of stem cells for research and developing medical treatment. Professor Fred Gage and a team at California’s Salk Institute obtained brain cells that
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        Lock icon Free paper in Boston
        100 13 STOCKHOLM Boston commuters were treated to a free newspaper yesterday as Metro International launched its second US edition. The company said 175,000 copies of Metro were distributed outside train, subway and bus stations, as well as in office buildings and on 15 college campuses, the Boston
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        Lock icon Chatty couple's jail ordeal
        81 13 -AFP JOHANNESBURG-A South African magistrate ordered a young couple in the public gallery to be locked up “until the rising of the court” for chatting, but they were forgotten in their cell for four days, The Star newspaper reported yesterday. The couple, in their mid-twenties, were
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        Lock icon Bullets that save the earth
        78 13 -AP WASHINGTON Kill, but protect the environment while doing it. The US army has developed a new bullet said to be just as deadly as the old leadbased one, but cleaner for the earth. The tungsten composite slug in a copper casing cuts soil contamination
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        Lock icon Bloody protest over relief
        93 13 Reuters AHMEDABAD, India Angry earthquake survivors in India’s Gujarat state yesterday said they would write letters in blood to the president and prime minister to protest against “tardy” relief efforts. The protest is spearheaded by Group 2001, an association of survivors from Anjar, one of the
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      Lock icon Pentagon goof-up over US-China ties US: It's a mistake China: What a mess
      286 15 Wires, WASHINGTON An honest mistake, is how the Pentagon described it. An awful mess, said a Chinese newspaper. Both were referring to the embarrassing stumble the Pentagon made yesterday by announcing that it had suspended all military
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      Lock icon World joins in hackers' cyber war
      127 15 -AFP NEW YORK US and Chinese computer security experts braced for an escalation in the virtual war that has now drawn in hackers from other nations. US hackers are now being supported by hackers from Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Brazil and Argentina, said
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      Lock icon Laura Bush joins world's most beautiful people
      285 16 Reuters LOS ANGELES US First Lady Laura Bush was named one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world on Wednesday. Mrs Bush, 54, is the first wife of an American President to win a place on the People magazine coveted annual
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      Lock icon Great Train Robber on way home
      351 16 LONDON Great Train Ir o b b e r Ronnie Biggs fis returning to Britain to turn himself in, The Sun said yesterday. Biggs, 71 who has spent 35 years on the run said at his Brazilian bolthole in Rio: “I’ll face whatever punishment
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      Lock icon Fries: Vegetarian sues McDonald's
      184 16 -Reuters SEATTLE A vegetarian lawyer is claiming millions of dollars in damages from McDonald’s Corp, accusing the fast food company in a lawsuit of “secretly” lacing its french fries with beef fat. Citing an e-mail in which the Oak Brook, Illinois company discloses its suppliers use
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      Lock icon What will anchor you to Singapore?
      223 16 Just 1 one question Generation M are more mobile and less likely to remain here, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong recently. We asked some of them: Basically, the only thing that will hold me back in Singapore is my family. My family is
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      Lock icon Singapore's pop community dominated by women Mystery of the missing music men
      578 17  -  by KAREN CHEN THINK of Singapore’s pop sensations and names like Stephanie Sun, Kit Chan, Mavis Hee, Stella Ng, Tanya Chua and Fann Wong come up all pretty, and, yes, all girls. You might be tempted to ask:
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      Lock icon From sweetie pie to motormouth?
      243 19 BE KIND That is what Channel U star Evelyn Tan hopes viewers will be when they see her on Channel U’s mega launch show this Sunday. Better known for her sweetie pie role as Ivy in Beauty World three years ago, Evelyn is set for
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      Lock icon Don't miss Jacky's show
      323 19 f ANS of Jacky Cheung shouldn’t miss performance at the Media Works au nch this Sunday. For they may not get to see him sing r a while, as he’s taking a break from Sln ging to get a nose ailment treated. The heavenly king announced
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      Lock icon Lost cause
      450 20 at the movies You can reach Stephanie Goh at gohcys@sph.com.sg Enemy at the Gates Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud Starring: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz LET'S face it. World War II epics are money-churning enterprises. Why else would Steven Spielberg latch onto a certain Mr Schindler’s
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      Lock icon Don't call ne a rock chick
      414 21 Singer-songwriter Tanya Chua is back in f he limelight with a new Mandarin album and a song she penned specially for this Year's National Day celebrations Here, she talks to DIANA SER about why it's so tough being a rock chick, an 'unforgivable mistake'and
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      Lock icon Go soon hock
      407 22  -  ivj C two shoes by Wileen Chang MENTION seafood restaurants and this image usually comes to mind: a cosy eating place near the sea where you can enjoy the cool breeze and relish a freshly prepared feast. Well, tucked in between a row of old shophouses in
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      Lock icon where to go
      127 22 P Teo recommends you try the Teochew mince pork noodles of Ban Hin Mince Pork Noodles, located at the coffeeshop, 72 Redhill Road (there is only one coffeeshop). Teo says: 1 would like to recommend this coffeeshop stall selling Teochew mince pork noodles. It's $2 a bowl
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      Lock icon Tom Cruise sues porn actor over gay affair story
      277 26 Reuters LOS ANGELES Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise sued a porn actor for $lOO million ($lBl million) on Wednesday, charging that the man spread a false story that he and Cruise had a gay love affair that wrecked Cruise’s marriage to actress
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      Lock icon Kidman hopes to find love
      131 26 Reuters m LONDON Actress W Nicole Kidman says her pending divorce from heart-throb Tom Cruise has not put her off the idea of falling in love. The statuesque Australian redhead, whose latest film Moulin Rouge opens soon, told London’s Daily Mirror she still does not
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      Lock icon Andy keen to sign Alex
      197 26 EX-LITTLE TIGER Alex Su is hot property nowadays. Well, at least for Hongkong heavenly king Andy Lau. Andy is so keen to sign Alex on for his Hongkong entertainment company, Nova Multimedia Group (NMG), that he had no qualms about forking out more than half
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        Lock icon S'pore duo sinks in Osaka
        178 28 TABLE TENNIS OSAKA, Japan Singapore’s Li Jiawei and Jing Junhong were both bundled out of the fourth round of the World Table Tennis Championships here yesterday. Li was not even given a lookin by China’s rising star Zhang Yining. The world No 3 rushed past
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        Lock icon Wimbledon, QPR to merge
        78 28 •SOCCER BBC Online. LONDON Wimbledon and Queens Park Rangers have agreed a surprise merger, according to a newspaper report. An article in the Sun claims the Football League has no objections to the proposed merger and suggests the new club could start life in Division One
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        Lock icon O'Leary bullish about toppling Fortress Valencia
        388 28 LEEDS David O’Leary believes Leeds can score in Valencia and keep its Champions League dream alive. Lee Bowyer and Dominic Matteo both went close for Leeds in the 0-0 draw that saw Gaizka Mendieta come within inches of stealing a priceless away goal for
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        Lock icon 76ers shut out the Pacers
        349 29 -Reuters INDIANAPOLIS The Philadelphia 76ers beat the Indiana Pacers 88-85 on V Wednesday to eliminate the defending Eastern Conference champion from the NBA playoffs. Indiana, which had ousted the 76ers from the playoffs the past two years, stole the opening game of the series in
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        Lock icon Put back the smiles on their faces
        605 30 I WILL never forget the happy feeling that I felt when I had X’mas dinner at a friend’s home years ago. She always made sure there were small presents for all her guests. My friend is not rich and many of the presents
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        Lock icon Amazing Thailand in semi-finals
        398 31  -  by LIM HAN MING It upset Malaysia to prove that earlier win over favourite China was no fluke IT wasn’t even supposed to be here. Thailand knew only on Saturday that it was to replace India in the Asia Cup badminton tournament. Six days and two
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        Lock icon From rich pickings to... Poor day for Thai stars
        492 31  - From rich pickings to Poor day for Thai stars by' TAN KIM HAN r S-LEAGUE 1 Balestier Central 1 Sembawang Rangers 1 A THEY are on a hot streak. Both Thai strikers Balestier Central’s Daorueang Krongpol and Sembawang Rangers’ Bamrung Boonprom have been unstoppable lately. Daorueang scored four in his
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