Streats, 30 May 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 30 May 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 466 1  -  More than a third of 100 commuters polled by Streats are OK with proposal to up fares. by NATALIE KUAN and NGHUI HUI THE five -cent question on some commuters’ lips: Why now? Two major public transport companies SMRT Corp andTlßs have submitted proposals for
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  • 174 1 -AP THIS die-hard supporter of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid would like to look at the world through rose-tinted glasses. But Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri seems to have set her sights on the country’s top job. Although she did not make any formal statement, Ms
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 338 2 -AFP GO bargain-hunting for business in the US and snap up opportunities as they emerge from the economic slowdown. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Dr Tony Tan offered this advice to Singapore companies who are facing
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    • 150 2 E-LEARNING is not just for ITskilled workers. The recent launch of City Cab’s web-based Service Excellence Training Programme dispels that misconception, said Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, Minister for Communications and Information Technology at the launch of Singapore IT Federation’s e-Leaming Chapter (eLC) yesterday. Over the next
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    • 199 2 -AFP NINE airlines operating from Singapore’s Changi Airport Terminal One are offering travellers the option of checking in via the Internet,) telephone or fax, their handling agent said yesterday. From June 1, passengers with confirmed bookings can call the airport or use the
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    • 77 2 Market terminology for dummies Bull market A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius. Bear market A six to 18-month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewellery and the husband gets no sex. Stock split When your
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    • 302 3  -  by WINSTON CHONG THE proposed bus and MRT fare hikes are nothing new to commuters. They’ve already faced four hikes in 1990, 1995, 1997 and last year. In October 1990, bus fares were raised by 10 cents more
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    • 92 3 onekindaet Jerome I WAS accompanying my wife and four-year-old daughter to church when we were trapped in a void deck by a sudden downpour. A kind neighbour who was passing left us his umbrella as he said our child needed the shelter more. Then he got wet
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    • 209 3  -  by I KHUSHWANT SINGH TEN minutes that’s all it took for a thief to reach in through a window, grab the flat keys, enter the house and make off with a wallet. At 7.10 am on Monday, a housewife was about to
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    • 173 3 THERE won’t be any more sexchange operations in Singapore. The National University Hospital closed the clinic that offers such procedures about two months ago, reports Project Eyeball today. With the closure of the Gender Identity Clinic at NUH, transexuals will now have to go abroad for
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    • news scan
      • 179 3 TAN Jing Shan thought he was getting handphones at bargain prices, but he ended up losing $2,000. The student, 17, was tricked by an advertisement for the sale of discounted Nokia 8850 handphones over the Internet in October last year. On Oct 18, he called the telephone
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      • 113 3 CHEONGHONKEONG was yesterday jailed for a year for forging the signature of his tenant’s business partner on a $l,OOO cheque. In early 1999, Mr Vincent Ramesh rented a room from Cheong, 27, at his flat at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10. In October, Cheong found an
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      • 88 3  -  reports by i Deepa Vijiyasingham AN assistant brand manager of The Hour Glass watch chain was yesterday sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for theft. Seet Hai Chwee pocketed 12 watches worth $467,270 over a period of seven months from August 1997. He sold them to
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    • 598 4  - He was called for murder investigation of his mentor His hands shook in shock by KHUSHWANT SINGH SENIOR Staff Sergeant (SSSgt) Erulandy Guruthevan will never forget the moment on April 21, 1999, when he was tasked to investigate a murder that had happened that morning because the victim was both
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    • 261 5 AT 8.15 am this morning, little Chen Shuyun, barely two years old, will be wheeled into an operating theatre in Kandang Kerbau Women’s and Children’s Hospital. There, a team of four surgeons operate on her head to reduce its size by
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    • 190 5 FIFTEEN illegal workers trying to leave Singapore learnt an important lesson on Monday night. You can hide but you can’t escape. Especially when there are obvious clues that give the game away. The result? The eight women and seven men were discovered by immigration
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    • 70 5 Those in the east and south may get some reprieve from the rain. Thundery showers in the late morning and early afternoon are expected in the north and west Temperatures will range from 25-32°C, with the tide reaching 2.3 m at 6.13pm. The PSI is at
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 310 6 Reuters ZAMBOANGA Muslim rebels holding 20 people, including three Americans, hostage in the southern Philippines yesterday threatened to kill their captives if the army attacked. The DXRZ radio station said it had received a fresh telephone call from
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    • 40 6 ARMED AND DANGEROUS ARMED AND DANGEROUS: Supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid carrying machetes yesterday in the town of Pasuruan in East Java. Witnesses said 5,000 of the president's supporters torched a church in the town Pic: Reuters Pic: Reuters
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    • 130 6 -AFP BANGKOK The Thai government has sacked the central bank governor after a week-long wrangle over interest rate policy. “This change is to enhance the efficiency of the government’s work,” said government spokesman YongyuthTiyapairat after the cabinet met to dismiss Bank ofThailand chief Chatumongkol Sonakul
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    • 160 7 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia, which has promised not to censor the Internet, is considering setting up a panel to “coordinate and supervise” its use. The National Internet Advisory Committee will act as the highest authority for drawing up policies and
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    • 39 7 Cure Net addiction Get a bask understanding of the illness at netaddietion.com and and place orders for books that offer advice on cyber-affairs and online gambling. Net junkies also can take an addiction survey at the site.
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    • 111 7 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Police are questioning a Malaysian restaurateur and his son after their Indonesian maid was found raped and strangled in their house. Misturoh, 30, was found partially naked and with her head partially submerged in a waterfilled plastic drum in her employer’s
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 571 8  -  by JEREMY RIFKIN -LAT- WP THE whole world is rushing to join the Information Age revolution. Everyone wants to be connected. Indeed, the only debate today is how to ensure that everyone has access to the world of cyberspace. But an equally important issue is beginning to
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 287 9 2 1 more arrested in Bristish race riots 'Evil racists' blamed LONDON With tension mounting in the English town of Oldham for the third consecutive as a result of race riots, the police and the council leaders in the area have blamed far right groups for stirring up violence. The
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    • 133 9 LONDON -The craze for using coloured sunglasses could result in unseen dangers, reports the BBC online news site citing a research paper. Wearing pink, blue, green and other varieties of lenses could distort the vision and blank out other colours such as red traffic
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    • weird world
      • 103 9 Reuters PARIS -A man who tried to extinguish the “eternal flame” burning under the Arc de Triomphe by sitting on it has been treated in hospital for burns to his bottom. The Paris daily Liberation said the unnamed prankster struck on Sunday night and was promptly pulled off
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      • 80 9 MANCHESTER A gang of comedy-bur-glars are on the prowl in the city, according to the Manchester Evening News. Not content with flicking money, jewels, cars and videos, the robbers are laying their hands on items such as Crazy Colour hairdye, iced buns and biscuits. In one incident the
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 172 10 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin showed his sense of humour yesterday when he jested with reporters about his future. “I’m still on leave,” he said on the sidelines of a Malaysian-South African investment seminar. “I’m asking
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    • 150 10 NORTHAMPTON, England Excuse me, miss. Your thong is showing. Please cover up or leave. That was the treatment that Ms Becky Dainton got at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Northampton, all because her underwear was peeping out of her jeans, reported the
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    • 277 10 Just 1 one question America's brightest women are selling their eggs to infertile couples for up to 180,000 to pay for their Ivy League education. Streats asks Singapore undergraduates: No, I won't The notion of procreation is very sacred. Selling my sperm for
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  • easy Streats
    • 692 11  -  Don't be too quick to write offMDO as the latest boyband. Not when they have almost 25 years of history behind them by YVONNE KWOK THERE are two words to describe MDO. Professional: Despite missing breakfast and lunch, the five guys of MDO Abel Talamantez, 22;
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    • 219 12  -  by KAREN CHEN MY Fair Princess Vicki Zhao just got her biggest role yet and it’s in real, not reel life. A young, cancer-stricken Singaporean fan who died recently has asked his family to send Vicki a bouquet of roses and his life savings of US$5O,OOO
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      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 52 12 9.30 pm, TV Works Mark Grigoroff was once a creative director for a well-known advertising company. But he gave it all up for the sake of two lifelong passions: Music and drama. Now a theatre director, we join Mark with just a week to go before his first
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        • Article, Illustration
          87 12 8.30 pm, Channel U Yuhua’s work is discredited by her client, MrToh.To add to the damage, Irene tells her off in public to please the client. Feeling humiliated, Yuhua k storms off. Though Irene I promises Mr Toh that she f would show him a new ad in three
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        • 76 12 11pm, Channel 5 Rushing to the scene of a fire, Doc and Carlos get trapped in an apartment on the 18th floor with a patient who cannot walk. Doherty and the fire crew come to their rescue. Davis is at the end of his probationary year and Faith
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        • 101 12 9pm, TCM (SCVI7) This moody, sumptuous Greta Garbo vehicle recreates Tolstoy’s tragic love story set in 19th century Russia. Anna is a pampered wife and devoted mother leading a proper life until she meets dashing army officer Vronsky, played by Frederic March. She falls deeply in love and
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 414 17 NBA Eastern Conference finals Philadelphia 76ers 89 Milwaukee Bucks 83 MILWAUKEE Allen Iverson wanted this win so badly that he swallowed his own blood while clinching it. Playing the final two minutes with a dislodged front tooth that caused heavy bleeding, Iverson scored 11 of
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      • 277 18 LONDON Bolton Wanderers clinched a £4O million ($lO2 million) jackpot on Monday when it reached the Premiership for the third time in six years. After two successive play-off failures, Bolton clinched a 3-0 victory over Lancashire rival Preston North End at
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      • 84 18 •TENNIS -AFP PARIS -Two of the biggest attractions in men’s tennis, 1999 titlist Andre Agassi and US Open champion Marat Safin, both moved into the second round of the French Open singles here yesterday. Agassi swatted Sweden’s Thomas Johansson 6-2,6-3,7-6 (5) while No 2
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      • 76 18 BADMINTON -Reuters SEVILLE, Spain China and Denmark both swept to 5-0 victories in Sudirman World Cup mixed team badminton tournament on Monday. China, bidding for a fourth title in succession, breezed past Sweden while the Danes proved too strong for England. The Chinese were set
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      • 57 18 SOCCER -AFP ISTANBUL Galatasaray’s Romanian star Gheorghe Hagi risks between 10 months and four years in jail for insulting a referee in a March game, Anatolia news agency reported. Hagi, 36, had already been punished with a six-match ban for the same outburst during a league
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      • 395 19  -  Yazidwas pumped up for the occasion, but there was little he could do about the two goals he conceded by LIM HAN MING NTUC INCOME SINGAPORE CUP Sembawang 0 Tanjong Pagar 2 HE was wearing the captain’s armband for the first time. But it
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      • 75 19 IN other matches, Home United became the first team to qualify for the semi-finals when it thrashed Marine Castle 6-0. Indra Sahdan’s scoring form continued as he scored four goals past Dolphins’‘keeper Amos Boon. Egmar Goncalves and Peres Oliveira were the other scorers. At Bedok Stadium, Geylang
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 483 13 11l aUi ol rtntrtyj uujncirfJCJ/CJ Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Your present course of action is doing you more harm than good. It’s not too late to back out of a deal that hasn’t yet been signed. This is a perfect moment to find the answers that you
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 306 14 The story is about Yuan iian Ping who gets more than he bargains for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything, from girl problems to gang fights; from baseball matches to flower arrangement classes. Most of all, he never expected
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 263 15 11 n I 1 S The story today. Hua Wuque and Tie Xin Lan rush to the edge of the cliff. Thick fog obscures their view. All they hear is Xiao Yuer's screams as he plunges into the deep valley. His heart-wrenching screams soon stop and silence hangs in the
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    • 1449 16 EJ Bugis TED UA Bugis Junction 337-9655 The Mummy Returns 10.30 am, 1.05 pm, 3.45, 6.30, 9.15 Spy Kids 11.15 am, 3.15 pm, 5.15, 7.15, 9.30 Someone Like You I. 4.45, 6.45 Enemy At The Gates 11. 2.10 pm Pearl Harbor 9pm ElOcont'd Spy Kids 11am, 11.35,1.05 pm, 1.30, 3,
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 21 18 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: Confederations Cup: France v Korea (3.30 pm), Mexico v Australia (6.20pm)-FCCh22. TENNIS: French Open, Day 3 (Super Sports Ch2o,spm).
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