Streats, 6 June 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WCOfMESOAT km* MGI Another quality publication of mmg Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon No fare hike If you use your farecard If you transfer from feeder to trunk services
    660 1  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM your voice has been heard: Yesterday the Public Transport Council (PTC) rejected proposals for fare hikes by SMRT, Tibs and SBS, announcing that there would be no increases in trunk bus services,
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    Lock icon Relief, but not for all
    331 1  -  by EDWIN KOO COMMUTERS heaved a collective sigh of relief yesterday when the Public Transport Council (PTC) announced its decision to raise feeder bus prices by 10 cents and leave other fares unaffected. Both the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) and National Trades Union Congress
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Arroyo allies win poll
      93 1 -AP MANILA Allies of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo scored a slim election victory that will hand her administration control of the Senate, according to official results released yesterday. But new opposition senators-elect include two men she accuses of trying to overthrow her. They also include Loi
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      Lock icon Australia-S'pore FTA
      73 1 Wire agencies AUSTRALIA and Singapore began a third round of talks about a proposed free trade agreement yesterday. Australia wants the “rules of origin” to specify that products with less than 50 per cent Singaporean content will not get preferential access to the Australian market. The last round
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      Lock icon Fewer new homes
      69 1 AFP THE government has further slashed land sales targets for the year because of the economic downturn. Land for residential units has been cut more than a third to 4,000 units from an initial 6,000-7,000 units. Plans to sell land for 180,000 sq m of commercial space
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      38 1 V Your chance toget up close and personal with David Beckham when the Man U star flies in on July 24. Who knows, you might even beat him at his game of golf, that is. PAGE 15 Pic.AP
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      Lock icon Expert: Develop kids'creativity while they're... Young and receptive
      347 2  -  reports by SARAH NG PARENTS, if you want to equip your children with lifelong creativity skills, start encouraging them before they reach puberty. That’s the advice of physicist and educator James Wynne. Dr Wynne told Streats: “At adolescence, they are more self-conscious
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      Lock icon Gems start as wild ideas
      201 2 NEVER reject ideas that may seem wild or crazy. It may turn out to be an innovative breakthrough. Such as the 1981 turkey bone experiment which laid the foundation for Lasik, a new laser eye surgery technology. Out of curiosity, Dr James Wynne and two
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      Lock icon Free briyani for 5,000 at Eunos MRT
      334 2  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER A MOSQUE is inviting you to have some briyani for free. There are 5,000 servings going. You just have to turn up at the open area facing Eunos MRT Station from 12.30 pm on Saturday. The event will also feature
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      Lock icon Taxi driver dupes couple with hocus pocus Mystic molester jailed
      411 3  -  reports by I KHUSHWANT SINGH A TAXI driver molested a man’s wife and made him pay for it by convincing the couple he was a spiritual medium. A court heard yesterday that Lim Poh Huat, 47, of Block 239 Hougang
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      Lock icon Fined for unauthorised surfing
      137 3 HE used a company user ID and password to access an Internet account he wasn’t supposed to. For that he was fined $9,000 in court on Monday. In July 1999 Travis De Souza, then 18, was working as a sales promoter for Kenwood Electronics. He was
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      Lock icon Returned anonymously
      46 3  -  onekindact Noor Karmilah Sauji I WAS rushing for an important appointment on May 15 when I dropped an envelope containing personal and important documents. A kind individual who found it deposited it into my letterbox. A big thank you to you, whoever you are.
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      Lock icon Thai offered cop $ 1,000 to let her go
      203 3  - Thai offered cop 1,000 to let her go -by 'Khushwant Singh SHE arrived here on Feb 10 on a bus. She got a five-day social visit visa stamped in her passport. Her visa expired. But she liked Singapore so much she stayed on. On May 3, Nilobon Amphut, 38, was
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      Lock icon Off to Myanmar with hearing aids
      349 5  -  by KAREN CHEN THEY'VE just finished those gruelling examinations at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Their long-awaited break has finally arrived. But, instead of taking a dream vacation, or just taking it easy at home, 25 undergraduates from NUS, half of whom are
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      57 5 Our weather girl says Be sure to keep your little ones indoors. There'll be rain in the late morning and early afternoon. Temperature will range from 25-33°C, with the tide reaching 2.8 m at 7 1.07 pm. PSI stands at a healthy 37. June’s weather girl Streats reader Isabelle Phua
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      Lock icon Check it out Great S'pore Bargain...
      56 5 Check it out Great S'pore Bargain Just a minute Ladies, grab these before stocks run out. Elizabeth Arden Eye-shadow Duo Colour (selected colours) $12.90 (usual $45) Revlon Top Speed Nail Polisher (selected colours) Two for $6.90 (usual $21.80) Revlon Super Lustrous lipstick $5.90 (usual $16.50) Only at OG Great World
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      Lock icon Conman poses as HDB officer Retiree, 76, breaks his stick on robber
      405 6  -  by WINSTON CHONG A 76-YEAR-OLD retiree with a walking stick. Helpless, right? Wrong. And a robber posing as an HDB officer found out just how much. Mr Tang KoongYue, a kidney patient, gave the man such a hard
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      Lock icon S'poreans online chat kings
      226 6  -  by I NG HUI HUI SINGAPOREANS love to chat. And if they have no one to chat to in real life, they’ll make do with chatting on the Net. Research by Net Value, a global Internet measurement company, revealed that Singaporeans spend 8 per cent of
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Sacked police chief stays away from ceremony Indon servicemen stage defiant show of force
      259 8 Wire services JAKARTA About 8,000 police and several hundred soldiers and marines staged a defiant show of force in front of the presidential palace yesterday. They marched in a 10minute ceremony in a park about 500
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      Lock icon Abu Sayyaf demand for secession rejected
      222 8 Wire agencies LAMITAN The Philippine government yesterday rejected Abu Sayyaf demands for an independent Islamic state and pledged to fight on to rescue up to 59 hostages being held by the rebels. “Any political demand against the constitution, the break-up of our territory, is
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      Lock icon Analysts, markets expected decision Dr M takes over as finance minister
      245 9 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he will take over as the country’s finance minister, replacing Urn Daim Zainuddin, who resigned at the weekend. Dr Mahathir also said he will assume the
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      Lock icon Criminal kin a bar to promotion
      143 9 HONGKONG A police sergeant, barred from promotion because his in-laws were outlaws, will take the matter to court. The Hong Kong iMail reported yesterday that Chan Takkeung, who has been with the force since 1983, claims it is unfair for the commissioner to prevent
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      196 9 Li Shan is now pursuing her second year of the degree at London School of Economics on a full scholarship. Li Shan utinchon Student m Diploma in Economics Awarded Full Scholarship for 2nd Year Decree at for 2nd Year Degree at London School of Econom When Li Shan joined Stansfield
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      Lock icon Riot-hit Nepal seeks answers as wounded royals recover
      199 11 Wire services KATHMANDU Four members of Nepal’s royal family, injured in Friday’s shooting at the palace, are recovering, state radio said yesterday. The station, citing palace sources, reported a steady improvement in the condition of new Queen Komal Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah,
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        Lock icon What'd you say, my lord?
        78 11 LONDON A partly deaf robber attacked a judge because he “misheard” his sentence and thought he was being locked up for 30 years. The judge had actually said three years, The Times reported yesterday. The confusion was revealed yesterday when Damien Small, 18, returned to
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        Lock icon Blondes fight 'dumb' tag
        66 11 LONDON Are blondes really dumb? Fair-haired lawyers in the US don’t think so. They’ve declared a National Blonde Day to dispel the myth. They are fed up with people ignoring their law degrees and seeing their hair as a “stupidity signal”. The Blonde Legal Defence Club
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        Lock icon Deadly rubber glove
        54 11 CARDIFF, Wales Talk about biting off more than one can chew. A retired sailor died when he ate a rubber glove, thinking it was a pancake, according to the Daily Record. William “Jock” Roseburgh, 70, was tucking into pancakes made by a neighbour when he swallowed the
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        Lock icon Here's your gift – in dung
        60 11 Here's your gift in dung -AP BANGKOK -A souvenir wrapped in dung? Disgusting? Not really, it’s a scientific achievement. Researchers at the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre in Lampang yesterday said they have devised a way to turn elephant excrement into a clean, odourless and colourless decorative paper. The paper can
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        Lock icon Vodka woes rock Russia
        63 11 MOSCOW Russia is in crisis as vodka stocks fell fast on Monday, with people warning of riots if supply wasn’t restored. Regulations introducing a regional excise duty came into force on Friday. But no one has seen the new stamps which must be stuck to bottles.
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      Lock icon UK Labour Party 'sure election winners' Blair fears onset of voter apathy
      331 12 Wire services LONDON Held aloft as a certain election winner by the pollsters, British Prime Minister Tony Blair now fears that voters, convinced they are witnessing a one-horse race, may not turn out to cast their ballots. Mr
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      Lock icon Pets good... err... bad for asthma
      169 12 SAN FRANCISCO Researchers are blowing hot and cold over the boon or bane of pets in relation to allergies. The Washington Post yesterday reported a study by the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit which found that exposure to cats and dogs can help
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      Lock icon What do you think of the Sexuality Education?
      228 13 Just nno CJifff Since last October, nine secondary schools have taken part in MOE's revamped Sexuality Education programme. We ask some teens: We'll know more about it (sex). We won't do the wrong stuff, like make a girl pregnant or something. -MarkLim,
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      Lock icon While waiting for crucial court verdict... Thaksin tightens hold on power
      296 13 Reuters BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is beefing up his grip on parliament and canvassing for wider public support while awaiting a court verdict that will decide his political future. He wants his popular Thai Rak Thai (Thais
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      Lock icon Blair vs the jailbird
      99 13 Reuters LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair (above) is facing a bid with a difference to unseat him in his Sedgefield constituency in elections tomorrow. He is being challenged from jail by Helen John, an antinuclear campaigner with a proud history of 32 convictions for actions against
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      Lock icon Devils to paint town red
      400 15  -  by DIANA SER AS THEY say in sports, when you get the ball, run with it. TV Works looks set to do just that with its exclusive rights to telecast Manchester United’s three tour matches in Asia next month. Not only can you catch the
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      Lock icon TV Works tweaks its programming, but its testosterone-charged shows beg the question... What about the women viewers?
      421 16  -  by Diana Ser AS a female viewer, yesterday’s press conference for TV Works’ new programme grid produced one burning question: Don’t women matter anymore? The two-week-old English-language station has wisely decided to tweak
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          Lock icon GREAT START
          94 16 9.30 pm, TV Works Bubbly magazine editor Jane Fitzgerald is taking a break from her busy schedule to visit friends in far-off lands. First stop, Singapore. It’s Jane’s first visit to Asia. Follow the London girl as she races against time to experience as many of the new
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          Lock icon LIFE'S LITTLE TRIALS
          63 16 12.30 pm, Channel U How do people cope with their problems, fulfill their dreams and face their fears. Find out what these “ordinary” people have learnt in their bid to fly in an airplane built by themselves, allow someone else to be their eyes when they become
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          Lock icon CELEBRITY TRAVELLERS
          29 16 Bpm, Channel U Celia Teh is our latest Celebrity Traveller. Watch her transformation from glamorous model to rugged traveller in her adventure trip to Papua New Guinea.
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          Lock icon X-FILES
          44 16 10pm, Channel 5 Start of a new season without Mulder, aka David Duchovny. Scully and Skinner look for Mulder, who went missing after searching for a UFO last season. But the new agent (played by Terminator 2‘s Robert Patrick) interferes with the investigation.
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          Lock icon MARRIAGE AT TWENTY
          50 16 10.30 pm, V V Drama (SCV 55) Renko meets a special person on her 20th birthday and starts to think about marriage. But her family and friends have different opinions about the guy. All this adds to the experience of her first love. Stars Yuka andYonekura Ryoko.
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      Lock icon Does Knight's tale need phony review?
      307 18 -AP LOS ANGELES The revelation that Sony Pictures promoted several movies with accolades from a critic who didn’t exist raises the question: Why would the studio even bother? “That’s the question we’ve got, too,” Sony spokeswoman Susan Tick said on Monday, adding that an
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      Lock icon Victor loses freedom for fame
      233 21 HONGKONG pop princess Kelly Chen’s younger brother, Victor Chen, may have just launched his showbiz career, but he may also have signed away his freedom. The 23-year-old’s contract with record company EMI apparently has three clauses inked in: He is not allowed to have girlfriends,
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      Lock icon No pre-marital sex for me, says Dicky
      132 21 HONGKONG actor-singer Dicky Cheung Wai Kin appears to be one of the few good men. At a charity concert recently, heavenly king Andy Lau teased him on stage, saying that he should work hard to produce babies with his girlfriend, actress Zhang Qian.
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      Lock icon Vicki does a quick change
      129 21 CHINESE actress-singer Vicki Zhao wants you to forget that she was ever cute. The gal who shot to fame playing the hyper-active Little Swallow in Qiong Yao’s My Fair Princess is pulling out all the stops to revamp her image. Not only has she traded
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        Lock icon France favoured to beat Brazil again
        486 24 -AP SEOUL -The French already beat Brazil for the World Cup in 1998 and pushed it off its No. 1 pedestal in the world rankings last month. Now they are favoured to beat it again in the Confederations Cup. But a loss in the
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        Lock icon Tall task for Sixers
        306 25 Reuters LOS ANGELES -The giant awaiting the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA finals starting on Wednesday (tomorrow Singapore time) is a Los Angeles Lakers team personified by a literal giant, Shaquille O’Neal, in league with a bold young knight in shining armour, Kobe Bryant, and the
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      • SOCCER
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          Lock icon Asia is football's future: Blatter
          100 26 -AFP PHNOM PENH The future of football lies in Asia with its vast population and fast improving national teams, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said at the end of a regional tour. The Fifa chief said top Asian teams, like Japan, had proven themselves and were
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          Lock icon Robson dismissed
          80 26 -AP MIDDLESBROUGH Middle sbrough has dismissed manager Bryan Robson ending the seven-year tenure of the former Manchester United star at the English Premier League team. Robson was pushed aside at mid-season when former England manager Terry Venables stepped in to coach the side and saved it from relegation.
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        Lock icon Strip club owner provided girls
        101 26 'BASKETBALL -AP ATLANTA-The owner of a top Atlanta strip club regularly set up sex shows and paid dancers to have sex with professional athletes, a former club manager testified at a federal trial. Gold Club owner Steve Kaplan played host to members of the New
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        Lock icon Teen Henin in first Grand Slam semis
        264 26 Reuters PARIS Belgian Justine Henin breezed into the French Open women’s semifinals yesterday, demolishing Russia’s Lina Krasnoroutskaya 6-1, 6-2 to reach the last four of a Grand Slam for the first time. Henin, who celebrated her 19th birthday last week, needed just 50
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        Lock icon Vimon waiting for big break
        364 26  -  by LIM HAN MING SINGAPORE Armed Forces FC has a new under-23 foreigner in Thai midfielder Vimon Juncum. The 21-year-old will replace Goran Galov. The 20-year-old Croatian will be re-registered as a Prime League player. Warriors team manager Kok Wai Leong said yesterday: “Vimon’s here
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        Lock icon S-League stars have a ball
        162 26 THEY were told from young that handball is a serious offence in football. But last Sunday, five S-League footballers had to use their hands to win a match. That’s because they were playing basketball instead of football. Geylang United’s trio of Mohd Noor Ali, Zulkarnaen
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        Lock icon Owen denies England rift
        344 27 ATHENS Michael Owen (left) has played down allegations that a rift between Liverpool and Manchester United players had cast a shadow over England’s World Cup campaign. The claim that players from the two clubs at either end of the East Lan-cashire Road were at odds dogged
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        Lock icon Gerrard boost for coach Eriksson
        322 27 ATHENS England received a boost before today’s World Cup Group Nine qualifier with Greece after Steven Gerrard (right) confirmed his fitness by playing a full part in a training session yesterday. The Liverpool midfielder had been a concern for the Greece clash after sitting out
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        Lock icon TODAY'S FIXTURES
        98 27 Group 1 Switzerland v Slovenia Luxembourg v Russia Faroe Islands v Yugoslavia Group 2 Estonia v Ireland Portugal v Cyprus Group 3 Czech Republic v N Ireland (Live, FC 22,11 pm, tonight) Denmark v Malta Iceland v Bulgaria Group 4 Turkey v Macedonia Sweden v Moldova Azerbaijan v
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