Streats, 8 June 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 8 June 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 Maker of Marlboro cigarettes ordered to pay record compensation to cancer patient $5b award
    515 1 Wire services FIVE billion dollars. That is roughly what it cost the Singapore government to build the MRT you are travelling on. And that is roughly the amount $5.4 billion a Los Angeles jury has ordered
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    Lock icon Afghan-inspired militant gang busted, says KL
    259 1 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have arrested nine suspected criminals believed to be members of an Afghan-inspired militant gang trying to create a "purist"lslamic society in Malaysia. The gang is suspected of having committed crimes that include: bank robberies; the murder of politician Joe
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      Lock icon For ex-drug addicts... Fewer relapses, more help
      430 2  -  by SONNYPHUA EIGHT out of 10 ex-drug addicts returned to drug-taking 10 years ago. Today, only about one in two suffer relapses. The good news was announced by Minister of State for Home Affairs, Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee at the launch of
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      Lock icon Hit and run, then driver surrenders
      323 2  -  by WINSTON CHONG WHAT started out as a typical evening of TV and dinner for a young couple ended tragically and with a bizarre twist, when they were involved in a hit-and-run accident in which the culprit left behind his car while escaping. Mr
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      Lock icon Nine jailed over fatal fight sparked by petty issue Insult led to man's death
      377 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH Omega Sar LawKaw groups in full-scale battle at park GANG rivalry first manifested itself as a row over which group would be served its beer first. Then it regressed into taunts and culminated
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      Lock icon Excellent service
      79 3 onekindact- Sujati Idris I TOOK a cab from Jurong East MRT station to the IMM Building to have birthday dinnei with friends on May 25, but I left my bag in the car. Many thanks to Mr Yusri, the driver of Comfort taxi No SHA 7882 A for
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      Lock icon Oversight cost him laptop
      144 3  -  by 'WINSTON CHONG HE'D heard and heeded the warnings about not leaving laptop computers in cars, but he forgot just once and it cost $2,000. Mr Lim Tze Yen, 38, left the less-than-a-year-old Gateway laptop on his rear car seat when he went for lunch at
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        Lock icon Slower MRT trains
        86 3 SERVICES at Clementi and Buona Vista MRT stations will be delayed for two days while modifications are carried out at the new Dover station. On June 9 and 10, eastbound trains will run at lower speeds between Clementi and Buona Vista. The westbound train from Buona Vista
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        Lock icon Beat the bloodsuckers
        89 3 THE Ministry of Environment (ENV) is appealing to families to prevent mosquitoes breeding at their homes when they go overseas during school holidays. Householders are asked to cover or empty all water containers where the insects, including the Aedes mosquito which causes dengue fever, can breed. Flower-pot
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        Lock icon 27 SPH scholarships
        69 3 SINGAPORE Press Holdings has awarded journalism scholarships to 21 female and six male students this year. The awards will enable them to pursue a discipline of their choice in a loca; or foreign university. They will receive tuition fees, compulsory expenses and a maintenance allowance. Upon completion
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      Lock icon Baby, this party's for you
      226 5  -  by NATALIE KUAN HONG Xing, a cute baby orang utan, has some caring friends from the Singapore Management University (SMU). The eight students, who adopted the seven-month-old baby in February, are now trying to raise $5,000 for its upkeep this year. The Project Primate team
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      Lock icon Old clothes for Papua New Guinea Cross-faith deeds that really Metta
      227 5  -  by EDWIN KOO A CHARITY which is Buddhist-affiliated is working with a Christian organisation to benefit people in Papua New Guinea. If this example of inter-reli-gious harmony is surprising to you, the organisers want you to hear their message:
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      78 5 Our weather girl says After the showers over many areas in the morning and early afternoon, try to look out for rainbows that may appear. Hopefully that will bring a smile to your face. Temperatures will range between 25°C and 32°C, and the tide will reach 2.5 m at 1.30
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        47 5 In conjunction with the Arts Festival, French duo George and Lucienne serves up a delicious spread of magic, parody and physical comedy in their Cafe of Illusion where service is a question of style. On daily till Sunday at Admiralty MRT at 6.30 pm.
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        Lock icon Check this out Great S’pore Bargain...
        84 5 Check this out Great S’pore Bargain Head on down to Orchard Road to get yourself outfitted top to toe: Over your head: two-fold lightweight umbrella in pink, purple or yellow 16 (usual $30); To pretty up your neck: De Fimox crystal choker in assorted colours $39 (usual $139); On your
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      Lock icon The power of good service
      682 6 THERE is something about truly good service that maybe because it is so rare here makes me buy irrationally. I know. You’re thinking that any purchasing act involving (1) a woman, and (2) anything more than facial soap and socks IS irrational. But a tub
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      Lock icon Widening Gus Dur-Mega rift Megawati snubs reshuffled cabinet
      273 8 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian VicePresident Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday snubbed the first meeting of President Abdurrahman Wahid’s reshuffled cabinet in a new twist to the country’s political impasse. Instead of chairing the routine cabinet meeting held every second Thursday as she has for the
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      Lock icon M'sian negotiator or we'll kill US hostages: rebels
      211 8 Reuters MANILA Muslim rebels holding US and Filipino hostages yesterday threatened to behead American captives “within 72 hours” if the Philippines rejected their demand for a Malaysian negotiator to end the crisis. The demand was swiftly rejected. “We should not allow these
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      Lock icon Court promises speedy verdict on PM case
      141 8 Reuters BANGKOK -The chief judge of Thailand’s Constitutional Court vowed yesterday to make a ruling on Prime Minister Thaksin j Shinawatra’s graft case by September, brushing aside mounting public pressure to delay the case by a year. The 14-member court is deliberating whether
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      Lock icon Unemployment up in Australia but full-time jobs booming More good news than bad
      198 9 CANBERRA Australia’s jobless rate rose to a two-year high last month, but it’s not all bad news. For one, jobs lost were far fewer than analysts expected. And there was a strong growth in full-time jobs. The
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      Lock icon Enter baby, exit dad in drama of perfect timing
      165 9 Reuters WELLINGTON A New Zealand actor stole the show by dashing off to witness the birth of his daughter in between scenes of Shakespeare’s Othello returning in time to end the play. Jeff Knight, playing Montano, left the stage of Christchurch’s
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      Lock icon Phuket and Viagra a dangerous mix
      210 9 -AFP BANGKOK A roaring illegal trade in Viagra in the Thai holiday island of Phuket is posing a major health risk to older male visitors who buy the impotence pills, a report said yesterday. “This is a serious concern. Demand from tourists has raised
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      Lock icon Textbook sours relations 'Thais are lazy, opportunists'
      310 11 Reuters BANGKOK Thai-Myanmar relations soured further on Wednesday with the distribution of a compulsory Myanmar school textbook which describes Thais as lazy, opportunistic and pleas-ure-seeking. “They have little desire to depend on themselves and very little interest in violence or hard work,” a
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      Lock icon Cop who beat Anwar may be freed soon
      119 11 PUTRAJAYA Former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor is expected to be released early for good conduct. Prisons Department director-general Datuk Omar Mohamed Dan said Abdul Rahim might be released tomorrow if there was no order from the courts to
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    • Burning issues
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        Lock icon Finnish court rejects smoker's claim
        334 13 -AP HELSINKI The Supreme Court yesterday rejected demands for damages from a smoker who later died of cancer in an important test of the nation’s laws. In the first Finnish case for compensation from cigarette makers, the court ruled that the late Pentti Aho had
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        Lock icon Fatwa against smoking
        220 13 -AP BEIRUT A senior Shiite Muslim cleric saying he is motivated by love and concern for the health of his followers has issued a religious edict ordering them to stop smoking. The ruling, or fatwa, of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah has ventured into territory that many
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        Lock icon Obesity more dangerous: survey
        159 13 -AP LOS ANGELES Addicted to smoking, skinny? It could be worse your health might be at greater risk if you were fat. Obese adults have more chronic health problems than smokers, heavy drinkers or the poor, the results of a study released Wednesday indicate. The study
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      Lock icon Blair aims to set record
      277 13 LONDON As Britain went to the polls yesterday, Prime Minister Tony Blair was hoping to achieve what no Labour premier has managed before two full successive terms in power. The late Sir Harold Wilson twice pulled off the feat of winning successive elections, but on
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      Lock icon Indian city shuts down Most lawmakers held for graft
      189 15 -AFP BOMBAY Two-thirds of lawmakers in the western Indian city of Nagpur were arrested on Wednesday on allegations of graft. The acting mayor, two former mayors and 73 other members of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation were arrested and put into police
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      Lock icon Give us the funny money, film-makers told
      205 15 -AP LOS ANGELES The Secret Service wants movie-makers to return bogus money that looks so genuine some people are spending it. Bills with phony face values totalling about US$l billion ($l.B billion) were blown up during recent filming of the action movie Rush
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Vaccine for flatulence
        113 15 Reuters SYDNEY Australian farmers are signing up their sheep and cattle in droves to take part in a vaccine programme aimed at reducing harmful methane gas emissions. Australian scientists said yesterday early results meant they expect to reduce methane emissions per animal by about 20 per cent
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      • Article
        Lock icon Snakes in the mail
        102 15 -AP CANBERRA Mail screening aimed at keeping foot-and-mouth disease out of Australia has turned up some surprise packages including snakes. Australia dramatically increased quarantine checks following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom earlier this year and now X-rays all mail arriving from overseas,
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      Lock icon What is Suharto up to now? Thank goodness for TV
      266 17 -AP JAKARTA Somewhere in central Jakarta, a sick, old man is watching football. Either that or he’s reading papers to keep himself occupied and kill time. The slow, lazy days are a far cry from the busy schedule he once
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      Lock icon What do expect from a shop with a Case Trust logo?
      295 17 Case Trust is a retail accreditation scheme to promote good business practices of honesty, integrity and transparency through good sales and after-sales service Just one w,, Firstly, good service. I think that the fact that retailers should provide good
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      Lock icon Narrow escape for Hague
      170 17 Reuters LONDON Britain’s opposition Conservative leader, Mr William Hague, was nearly killed while campaigning for yes-1 terday’s general elec- tion, a newspaper reported. Only the quick reflexes of the pilot of Mr Hague’s Sikorsky S-76 helicopter prevented a mid-air collision on Tuesday with another helicopter believed
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  • easy STREATS
    • Stephanie @ the movies
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        Lock icon Beauty and the Beast, with a twist
        480 19 Shrek Directed by: Andrew Adamson and Victoria Jenson Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Vincent Cassel SOME ogres have all the luck. While most lumbering monsters are mired in self-pity and misanthropic tendencies, Shrek the green-faced ogre moves beyond that
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        204 19 Are audiences shrieking with delight, or shredding the movie apart? Reviewers' takes This gutsy, rollicking affair remakes animated flicks for the jaded MTV generation. Disney has had many pretenders to its animation throne over the years. But 2001 could well be remembered as the year that Shrek happened.
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      Lock icon Banking on guys
      515 20  -  Media Corp Studios has formed a new music subsidiary to groom local music talent We find the guys more impressive than the gals Can the boys finally give Stefanie Sun; Kit Chan and Tanya Chua a run for their money? by DIANA SER THIS may come as
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      Lock icon No-flap chicken rice
      227 22  -  two shoes by Wileen Chang REMEMBER when you used to get requests from friends/relatives overseas to bring the oh-so-famous Hainanese chicken rice all the way from Singapore when you went visit them. Well, now you won’t have to lug chicken rice overseas, you can bring bottles of
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      Lock icon where to go
      134 22 Jess Lim recommends you try Western food at Old Airport Road She says: "There is this Western food stall that I would like to recommend to the readers of Streats. The stall's name is simply Western Barbeque. It is at Old Airport Road (opposite Mountbatten Primary School).
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      Lock icon Stone throws MGM a lawsuit
      172 24 Reuters MGM has dropped plans for a sequel to Basic Instinct, and actress Sharon Stone is not pleased. The star (left) is suing the producers, saying that they reneged on a US$14 million ($25.2 million) commitment, Daily Variety reported on Thursday. The decision to scrap
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      Lock icon Stephen and Karen an item?
      121 24 FANS of Stephen Fung, read this and weep. Rumour has it that he and fellow Hongkong actress Karen Mok are now an item, according to Lianhe Wanbao yesterday. He and Karen are said to have been introduced by Sandra Ng (host of the gut-wrenching Super
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      Lock icon Apple is latest Media Works ingredient
      281 26  -  by KAREN CHEN HE may have had her showbiz break when she bagged the first runner-up prize in Media-Corp’s Star Search 1999. She may have been touted as the next “Ah Jie” of Caldecott Hill. But Malaysia-born Apple Hong Yiping has decided to hone
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon THRILL SEEKER
          57 26 8pm, TV Works Tom Merrick (Casper Van Dien) must write a story on disasters of the 20th century. He notices that in many photos of the disasters there is the same man lurking. Tom has to find out about this man and their leader (Martin Sheen), who are
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          Lock icon ROOTS OF MY ORIGIN
          40 26 8.30pm, Channel U Wang Yanqing goes to Chao i Shan to find I out more about the Teochew people and their lifestyle. Highlights include a look at the well-known Teochew Gung Fu tea and Teochew opera.
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        Lock icon Home United striker nets four goals to hit century mark Egmar destroys Warriors
        533 32  -  by LIM HAN MING NTUC Income S-League Home United 4 SAFFC 0 LAST night’s S-League match between Home United and Singapore Armed Forces FC will be remembered for many reasons. Home United striker Egmar Goncalves (right) hit
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        Lock icon Sixers spoils Lakers 'clean 'sweep' Beating the odds
        621 33 -AFP NBA FINALS (Game One)- 1 LA Lakers 101 Philadelphia 76ers 107 < LOS ANGELES So much for playoff perfection. The broom boom has gone bust. There will be no more sweeps by the Los Angeles Lakers. Allen Iverson scored 48 points
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        Lock icon Klochkova sets world record
        88 33 SWIMMING ■AFP CANET-EN-ROUSSILLON Ukraine’s Olympic champion Yana Klochkova registered the year’s best 400 m medley time on the second day of a star-studded Canet International championships dominated by the 100 m clash between Alexander Popov and lan Thorpe on Wednesday. Klochkova has set a new world
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        Lock icon Jordan to return if he's fit
        116 33 BASKETBALL -AFP LOS ANGELES National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern said he expects to see Michael Jordan return to the NBA if the retired superstar meets his fitness goals. Said Stern: “He is on a certain course. If he thinks he can do it,
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        Lock icon Liu Zhen loses in third round
        103 33 BADMINTON -AFP SEVILLE Singapore’s Liu Zhen lost to Japan’s 12th seed Kanako Yonekura 3-11, 8-11 in the third round of the World Badminton Championships. But eighth seed Zhang Ning of China cruised into the women’s quarter-finals, defeating Judith Meulendijks 11-2, 11-9. In the men’s
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        Lock icon Brazil outclassed by world champion France to meet Japan
        415 34 -Wire services CONFEDERATIONS CUP SEMI-FINALS France 2 Brazil 1 SUWON, South Korea It was no revenge match. For world champion France will meet Japan in the Confederations Cup final on Sunday after its 2-1 win over Brazil yesterday. With the world
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        Lock icon Belgian Clijsters in women's final
        222 34 FRENCH OPEN TENNIS AFP PARIS Kim Clijsters became the first Belgian to reach a Grand Slam final yesterday when she beat compatriot Justine Henin 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 at the French Open. The 12th-seeded Clijsters lost the first set in just 28 minutes, but recovered to
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        Lock icon Eriksson drums new war cry after England win Germany here we come
        554 35 WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Greece 0 England 2 ATHENS Coach Sven-Gora Eriksson looked forward to England’s crunch clash in Germany after his side defeated Greece 2-0 on Wednesday night (yesterday, Singapore time). “Anything could happen now in Germany and
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        Lock icon world cup qualifiers
        686 35 Group 1: Faroe Islands 0 Yugoslavia 6 (Stankovk 20, Kezman 29,87,90, Stankovic 55, Milosevic 68); Luxembourg 1 (Sacha Schneider 48) Russia 2 (Dmitry Alenichev 16, Sergei Semak 76);Switzerland0 -Slovenia 1 (CinirogkB3) P W D L F A Pts Russia 7 5 2 0 10 3 17 Slovenia
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