Streats, 5 May 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets ♦SATURDAY 5 May 2001 Mother quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon You've got e-mail... from the minister Personal touch
    720 1  -  fay 'WINSTON CHONG PIRST, they set up a website for her to show that she was IT-sawy. Then, the Congress Party boasted that Sonia Gandhi, their party president and wife °f slain former Indian prime minister Gandhi, would respond to e-mail Queries
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    Lock icon Personal touch from principal
    88 1 THE principal thought it was a safe bet. I'll kiss a pig if you can do it, he said. After all, kids don't really read these days. They watch TV, play videogames, surf the Net. But they proved him wrong. The 440 students ofHarborview Elementary School
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      Lock icon Ministers agree to continue economic cooperation 'Huge potential' for Asean-NE Asia trade
      319 2 -AFP SIEM REAP, Cambodia Economic ministers from South-east Asia, China, Japan and South Korea agreed yesterday to continue to push economic cooperation, citing a “huge potential” for expanding investment flows. Ending a retreat in this northern Cambodian city,
      -AFP  -  319 words
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      Lock icon S'pore, Efta to sign pact by year-end
      179 2 -AFP SINGAPORE and Efta, a fournation European economic grouping, announced an agreement yesterday to negotiate a free trade pact before the end of the year. The first round of talks will be in Oslo from July 2 to 6, officials from Singapore and
      -AFP  -  179 words
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      Lock icon New rules to settle commercial disputes
      172 2 CAUGHT in a commercial conflict? Well, here’s some good news. Singapore-based businesses which want to settle such conflicts out of court can now start resolving their disputes even before an arbitrator is appointed. Under the new rules for settling domestic disputes, a company can
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        Lock icon Clean hair, broken nose
        148 2  -  -Sarah Ng MR Lim Buck Hiong went to a salon to get his hair washed, but ended up with a broken nose. On Feb 13, at about 2pm, a man came up to him in the salon and accused him of stealing his pagers and a
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        Lock icon Club worker took card fee
        82 2  -  Sarah Ng A FORMER Singapore Turf Club employee has been fined $4,000 for pocketing a customer’s card processing fee. Clerical supervisor Loh Kok Fei, 42, issued a fake privilege card to a customer in February and took the $824 processing fee. He pleaded guilty yesterday
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        Lock icon Top scientists on the way
        100 2 JUNIOR college students here will get a chance to hear with the world’s top scientists later this month. Twenty-four speakers from the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, China, Germany and Britain will conduct a series of public lectures on life sciences. Together with nine Singapore
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      70 2 IN yesterday’s paper, we reported that Hongkong singer Jacky Cheung would meet fans at Orchard Cineleisure at 4.30 pm on Monday (Vesak Day). Orchard Cineleisure has clarified that he will not appear. Also in yesterday’s paper, we reported that the SBS bus that caught fire along Eu Tong Sen
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      Lock icon Midnight caller
      69 2 morningsmile A HUSBAND and his wife were sound asleep when suddenly the phone rang. The husband picked up the phone and said: "Hello? How the heck do I know? What do I look like, a weatherman?" He then slammed the phone down and settled into bed. "Who was
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    • Driven to destruction
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        Lock icon Boy, 9, in coma after car crash
        310 3  -  by YVONNE KWOK IT was supposed to be a day like any other. A nine-year-old boy, his 12-year-old sister and the family maid were on their way to an aunt’s home on Wednesday for tuition. They were making their way across a pedestrian
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        Lock icon Mount E 'drive-in'
        162 3  -  by KAREN CHEN A DAUGHTER and her mother were just leaving Mount Elizabeth Hospital at around 11am yesterday after a consultation when they went rushing back in again, literally. The 30-year-old daughter was trying to reverse her Honda saloon out of its parking lot in front of
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        Lock icon Forget the car, food first
        237 3  -  by KAREN CHEN WHAT would you do if you were really hungry but your car happened to be involved in an accident? Would you go and fill your stomach first no matter what? That, apparently, was just what one of the car owners did when
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      Lock icon Thanks – for promoting S'pore
      244 5  - Thanks for promoting S'pore by KHUSHWANT SINGH HE left Singapore in 1968 to find his fortune in England and Canada. He ultimately landed in Silicon Valley in the US where he founded a highly successful company that assists high technology start-ups. Although he has been away for more than 30
      _^c- Franck Lee  -  244 words
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      Lock icon Terror on SIA plane Rowdy Aussie teen gets 2 months' jail
      449 5  -  6y: SARAH NG A PLANE had to make an emergency Ending after a drunk passenger started Peking the cabin wall and windows, an d fought with passengers. Garin Noel McGeough, 17, an Austrakan, pleaded guilty to a charge of
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      81 5 Our weather girl says Stay indoors if you can and remain cosy. Doing the laundry will also have to wait for another day. Thunderstorms are expected all over Singapore in the late morning and early afternoon. The temperature will be between 25°C and 33°C, and the tide will reach 2.7
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    • Just a minute
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        59 5 Households and industrial users pay less for electricity. To reflect the recent decline in fuel oil prices, Singapore Power has dropped electricity tariffs by up to 13.4 per cent. So, if a household runs up a monthly power bill of 100, it will save about $l3. This
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        119 5 To commemorate the Navy's 34th anniversary, the new Changi Naval Base is open to the public today from 12 noon to 10pm and tomorrow from 10am to 6pm. Hop aboard the RSS Endurance for a floating exhibition, cruise on highpowered missile corvettes, patrol vessels and jet-skis. There'll
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      44 4 SPGTig J a Organised by: Don’t miss your copy of Streats, starting [flay 8, for a chance to get up close with our weather girls and win 50 pairs of mouie tickets daily to a mouie of your choice at any Golden Uillage cinema.
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      852 7 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL! (On Friday, Saturday Sunday from 12mn-2am) A further 5% OFF all items No purchase required, FREE Parking after 11 pm Limitedto daimper FREE Drinks Biscuits customer while stocks last! Kalong <_ Shopping Centre g EAST COAST WE ARE HERE Bus No: TO, 12,14,16, 32,40 Our Lavender Katong 1
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      51 8 SMS HOT LIST Hottest LOGOS in Town! 1 WMII Hottest RING TONES in Town! 1900-912-2812 Disclaimer: Callers below 18 years old must seek parental consent. This service is only applicable to Nokia Phones with Ml and Singtel. Cost is fixed at only $3 per call per download. No per minute
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      Lock icon Man believed to be Kim Jong ll's son deported Out you go
      310 10 SEOUL-This is the man who is believed to be the son of North Korean leader Kim Jong 11. The man, who is believed to be 29-year-old Mr Kim Jong Nam, was detained on Tuesday for trying to enter
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      Lock icon Come and join the fun!
      149 10 Reuters LOS ANGELES While Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and his busty pals are having fun at his opulent Playboy Mansion, his neighbours are grumbling about the seemingly endless round of parties. All that noise and traffic congestion! Hefner has turned his home into a money-making
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      Lock icon Surrender? No way
      185 10 -AFP MANILA No, I will not surrender, declared Senator Gregorio Honasan. President Gloria Arroyo had earlier asked Mr Honasan, an amnestied coup plotter in the 1980 s, and ex-police chief Panfilo Lacson to “face the music” and surrender. The two are among 10 prominent allies and supporters
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      Lock icon Yes, I lie, but you can tell
      212 10 PAKISTAN'S military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, has a confession to make he lies. And when he is not telling the truth, it shows not in his nose like Pinocchio but in his face. But the man’s not as bad as you may think.
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      Lock icon Tomorrow, producers of the Channel U launch show aim to... Break the monotony
      483 11  -  by DIANA SER WHEN you tune into Channel U’s pre-show Star Walk tomorrow, you will see two people who look and talk like Bryan Wong and Lina Ng. But these two comperes whose job is to provide
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      Lock icon You Weekly snapped up
      296 11  -  by KAREN CHEN THERE'S a new magkazine, You Weekly, Ithat has hit the I news stands. I In case you didn’t that’s SPH f Media Works first Chinese magazine, f which was launched yesterday. And it sure looked like many of you have taken to it.
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      Lock icon Heavenly body Insured for $1 million
      237 12  -  by DIANA SER HOW much is a heavenly body worth? Not priceless, apparently. Hongkong’s Heavenly King of Cantopop, Jacky Cheung, has been insured for $1 million for an autograph session here on Monday. And he’s not even doing anything remotely dangerous like scaling the
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          Lock icon AND I HATE YOU SO
          90 12 Saturday, 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Aaron Kwok and Kelly Chen star in this film about a love-war relationship between a columnist, Wu, and a radio DJ, Zhang. Outraged by Zhang’s criticism of her love life on his radio show, Wu declares war and
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          Lock icon DOWNTOWN TORPEDOES
          64 12 Sunday, 2.30 pm, Channel 8 Three secret agents who provide hi-tech commercial espionage services are forced to work with the Hongkong Police Force. Their mis- sion to steal a set of printing plates for British currency. The place the British Secret SerI vice headI quarters in Hongkong. Starring
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          Lock icon RUN LOLA RUN
          72 12 Sunday, Bpm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Winner of several awards including Best German Film, Best tor/Actress/Cinematography/Editing. Lola must get hold of 100,000 marks and run around the city in 20 minutes to rescue her true love. This movie has three versions, with slight variations in each,
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          Lock icon AN IDEAL HUSBAND
          75 12 Sunday, 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Sir Robert is a successful minister, and has a loving wife. All this is threatened when one Mrs Chieveley appears with evidence of a past misdeed. Robert turns to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair
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        Lock icon Survivor II Tina gets to be a millionaire
        375 13 Reuters NEW YORK The tribe has spoken, and has chosen Tennessee nurse Tina Wesson as the winner of the US$l million ($l.B million) jackpot on Survivor: The Australian Outback. Wesson, a 40-year-old wife and mother of two, was picked as the final
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        Lock icon Mavericks back from the dead
        340 17 -wm SALT LAKE CITY, Utah In the final 10 minutes, the Dallas Mavericks grew up while the Utah Jazz grew old. In a stunning triumph of youth over experience, the Mavericks erased a 14point fourth-quarter deficit, and eliminated the Jazz from the playoffs with an
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        Lock icon O'Leary risks league points but... Eyes Europe
        709 18 r ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE L Arsenal v Leeds 1 Sfefeaw— LONDON Scarcely having time to draw breath, let alone reflect on its breathless draw with Valencia, Leeds United turns its sights south not to Spain but to today’s game with Arsenal. Currently pursuing
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        Lock icon Sheringham to return to Spurs
        274 18 MANCHESTER Teddy Sheringham, the season’s top player, is on the verge of bowing out of Manchester United with a third Premiership winner’s medal and returning to Tottenham Hotspur. After months of agonising over his next move, the former England striker, 35, has rejected a move
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        Lock icon Wanted: Top sparring partners
        436 19  -  by LIM HAN MING THE Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) has dreams of qualifying for the Thomas Cup by 2012. But that dream may go up in smoke unless it finds quality sparring partners for its shuttlers. That frailty was cruelly exposed in the Asia Cup, as
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        Lock icon Duric blasts hat-trick in... Geylang's goal-rush
        437 19  -  by TAN KIM HAN r S-LEA6UE II L Woodlands Wellington! Geylang 6 ■ii THE pre -match hype was on the “Michael Owen” of Woodlands Wellington Masalan Mahat. Woodlands team manager R Vengadasalam had urged the fans to look out for the small but speedy
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      1075 12 -no (Sub |PP isu mgcaias Fsatjrifig jcaaa naac Automatic Addicted to you Fly me to the m> Distance Sngurasu Dorama Eternally Keututobase Parody Kotabani Narana Konokimochi Artiste Utada Hitaru Amai Wana Wait and See-risk For you First Love Time will tell Can you keep a secret B C Another Chance
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      76 13 1’ r Ĕ Every week photographers from Streats will wander all over Singapore to catch you reading the paper. The reader's picture will be published each Saturday. And if it is your picture, you will win a limited edition Streats watch. But you must call 1-800-844-5566 and give us your
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      474 13 r Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Begin your weekend with a new adventure. Whether welcoming travellers or hitting the road yourself, Aquarius connects vibrantly with an outside influence. Assume the best even before the results are in. PISCES FEB 19 MAR 20 N >1 N The truth eludes
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      352 14 i m iTf “«a® t v._ The story is about May's Dream is adapted from a popular Japanese manga about a friendship that is so chummy that the guy treats the gal as one of the chaps. In the beginning, May starts to fantasise about becoming an air stewardess but
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      226 15 easy i®UI JWI t h The story today... The old man starts to cough incessantly and orders a pot of wine, which he mixes with his medication. But he starts to cough more violently after taking the medicine. His student the boy offers to give him another dose of the
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      86 17 'sra'iißiii There are differences between the pictures. Q Three Call 1900-911 -0005 by midnight tonight with your answer. Each call costs 20 cents. Then check Tuesday s paper to see if you are correct! Winners will be announced on Thursday (May 10) Organised by: Let us sweeten your day with
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      109 17 Inthelivingroom BADMINTON: Asia Cup: S-finals (Sports City, 2pm). BASKETBALL: NBA Istrd play-offs, Game 5: New York Knicks v Toronto Raptors (ESPN Ch23,Bam). SOCCER: NTUC S-League: Tampines Rovers v SAFFC (Sports City, 7pm). EPL: Arsenal v Leeds United (FC Ch22,9.55pm), Manchester United v Derby County (Super Sports Ch20,9.55pm and Sports City,
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      28 18 Lianhe Zaobao vtk Channel I ft m pSK wa±m Channel 8 begin opening round of competition u tomorrow ’with a variety of programmes For Subscription, call 388 3838
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      459 20 SATURDAY y 5 May 2001 iMilm There are plenty of reasons to tune in to Singapore’s 2 newest free channels. If the enticing spread and exciting entertainment on Channel U and TV Works isn’t enough, how about a chance to win $lO,OOO every week just by tuning-in. Just look out
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