Streats, 3 July 2001

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  • 18 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets rmsiem Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Desperate times
    • 406 1 IN May and June alone, the global IT a nd electronics industry has shed about 55,000 jobs. This includes leading multinationals hke Solectron (which shed 11,500 jobs 0r 14 per cent of its workforce), Nortel (10,000 jobs, 10 per cent) and Dell (4,000 jobs,
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    • 313 1  -  Old rag-and-bone couple clash over cardboard box by WINSTON CHONG N A sad sign of desperate times, two senior citizens quarrelled and clawed oVer a cardboard box yesterday. The karang guni (rag-and-bone) Ah To is in her 60s.The karang guni Ah Peh 92. The cardboard box is worth
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  • morning rush
    • 114 1 CUSTOMERS using Ml’s CDMA network can finally SMS by the end of next month. Ml’s CDMA network will be shut down soon and subscribers will be transferred to the GSM Smart Dualband network four months ahead of schedule. Currently, more than 50,000 customers on
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    • 140 1 SOME British students are being taught the meaning of swear words in the hope they will stop using them. The scheme at a Cornwall college involves 11-16-year-olds writing down every swear word they know, reports The Sun newspaper. Mr Phil Gibson, who heads the scheme
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    • 35 1 v I rr 2001 lx 'y' :&A TO v. u IS Singapore is almost guaranteed a shot put gold at September's SEA Games after China-born thrower Dong Enxin, 20, was granted citizenship yesterday. PAGE 22
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 283 2 AFP, Reuters LAWYERS representing the families of six people who died in the 1997 Silk Air plane crash gave evidence yesterday, laying the blame on pilot error. In his opening statement in the High Court, Senior Counsel Michael Khoo
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    • 181 2  -  by f SARAH NG THE income gap can be narrowed by raising the earning capacity of those in the lower socio-economic end through training and retraining. And no matter how low your income, the government will try its best to ensure that you are
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    • 199 2 SINGAPORE faces new security challenges in the wake of the economic and political uncertainties in the region, warned Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Tony Tan yesterday. These challenges, he said, include threats such as terrorism, subversion and conflicts, which could undermine Singapore’s social
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    • 82 2 morningsmile. Mary Sue passed away in the middle of the night, so her husband, Bubba, called the ambulance service. The operator answering the call said help would be sent help right away. "Where do you live?" asked the operator. Bubba answered, "At Eucalyptus Lane." Then
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    • 346 3  -  by KAREN CHEN DID the 22-year-old Indonesian maid who nearly fell to her death on Saturday morning try to jump, or did she lose her grip while hanging out laundry? That is the question which residents in Blocks 340 and
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    • 67 3 onekindact. Rani NEEDED a taxi to take my son, who had a high fever, to hospital. After waiting for 20 minutes, a City Cab taxi with a passenger on board stopped when I waved. When I explained my predicament, he let us sit in the back,
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    • 120 3 SAK Kwok Wah, 23, pulled a knife on his father and threatened to burn down his house. He wanted to know where his mother was so he could borrow money to pay off loansharks. On June 12, at about 9.30 pm, at their flat
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    • 215 3  -  Drink trouble #1 reports by 1 DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM A DRUNK told three US Navy officers at a food centre that their ship, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, would be bombed at Changi Naval Base. The alcohol-induced threat from unemployed Ajab Singh
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    • 115 3 Drink trouble #2 ONLY a couple of weeks after his jail sentence for theft ended, SungYing Chow, 51, was sentenced to go back behind bars for a similar offence. On July 1 at about 4.50 pm, Sung was arrested for stealing six bottles of wine
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    • 415 5  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER for the first time on Sentosa, a mass wedding will be held and about 500 couples are expected to say “I do”. To be jointly organised by Times Periodicals, the Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS)
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    • 130 5  -  by SONNYPHUA THE Gender Identity Clinic at the National University Hospital (NUH) that was closed in late March will re-open in about a month, said an NUH spokesperson yesterday. This is because NUH has managed to fill a vacancy created when the previous obstetrics and gynaecology
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    • 68 5 Our weather girl says Hooray! It will be a dry day today, no showers to worry about at lunchtime. But the sky will be partly cloudy and warm, with temperatures going up to 33°C. The tide will reach 2.6 m at 9.31 pm, while the PSI stands at a healthy
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    • Just a minute
      • 72 5 The CPF minimum sum has been raised from $65,000 to $70,000. The minimum sum is the amount that members have to set aside before withdrawing their CPF savings when they turn 55. Members may pledge up to $40,000 in property but the remaining $30,000 has to be
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      • 88 5 Novena Furniture Centre is offering savings on their packages. You can save more than $3,000 on its 17-piece Perfect Living package, which is now going for $2,688. This includes fullfabric sofa, tempered glass coffee table, TV sideboard, dining set, two-piece cushion with coloured cover,
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 92 6 -AFP BEIJING Officials in the south-west Chinese city of Chengdu face new strict requirements to speak standard Mandarin rather than the local dialect. Rules taking effect this month force officials of the city, capital of Sichuan province, to speak “Emperor’s Mandarin” and avoid local expressions that other
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    • 217 6 Wire agencies JAKARTA Indonesia’s suspended national police chief General Suroyo Bimantoro yesterday rejected President Abdurrahman Wahid’s offer to appoint him as ambassador to Malaysia. “I personally and my family offer a million thanks for the respect and appreciation shown by the
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    • 146 6 -AFP TOKYO A US airman in Okinawa denied raping a local woman, but admitted having sex with her, reports said yesterday. “A 24-year-old US Air Force sergeant, being questioned in connection with the rape... has told Okinawa police: ‘I had sex with the woman, but
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    • 104 9 -AFP HONGKONG Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd (PCCW) will lay off about 200 staff of a loss-mak-ing Internet information service, a newspaper said yesterday. PCCW, headed by tycoon Li Ka-shing’s son Richard Li, is expected to announce the sackings from Netvigator editorial content and design
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    • 226 9 Reuters Alliance not formed to meet targets of one party, says Kit Siang KUALA LUMPUR Drop the push for an Islamic state or lose an ally, Democratic Action Party (DAP) Chairman Lim Kit Siang yesterday warned the leading Malaysian opposition party. “Any
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    • 29 9 Malaysia's Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad shaking hands with a Japanese-designed robot at the Expo Science Technology 2001 in Kuala Lumpur yesterday Pic: ap PicAP
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 76 10 MS J Jayalalitha’s political future is hanging in the balance. The federal cabinet will decide today whether to dismiss her government over the arrest of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi and two federal ministers. India’s ruling coalition, of which Mr Karunanidhi’s DMK party is
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    • 148 10 FORMER Singapore journalist Kanimozhi Aravinthan lost her grandmother on the day her father, former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi was arrested. Her grandmother, Mrs Sivapakiam, 80, died of shock on hearing the news on Friday night,Tamil Murasu reported yesterday. Mrs Aravinthan, 33, former features editor of Tamil
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    • weird world
      • 81 11 MELBOURNE An Australian lawyer has patented the wheel. The Age newspaper reported that lawyer John Keogh took out the patent to prove a new patent system is flawed. Mr Keogh said the new system made it possible to patent anything. “The patent office would be required to
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      • 88 11 -AFP COLOMBO An elephant pushed aside a bus after the driver rudely obstructed the r oad, a report said yesterday. The elephant was ambling along a main highway in central Sri Lanka recently when a private bus overtook it and came to an abrupt halt in its path,
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      • 91 11 ROME Four in 10 Italian office workers admitted to having “intimate relations” at work, and 56 per cent said office romances also make them more productive, reports Ananova. The findings are part of a poll of 2,500 employees at 50 companies conducted by the Women and Quality of
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      • 61 11 BRISTOL A gliding club for the over 90s has been set up, reports Ananova. Irene Hale, 91, Brenig Owen, 93, and P e §gy Barrett, 96, have set up the Gliding Nonagenarians. The trio plan to take to the Gloucestershire skies on July 10. The club’s over-90 rule
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      • 87 11 LAT-WP MEXICO CITY Widow Celia Reyes, 82, could end up as rich as Bill Gates. Her lawyer says her original U 5524,000 ($44,000) bank deposit in 1988 is now worth more than US$46 billion ($B3 billion). Lawyers for Banco del Atlantico put the claim at about
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    • 133 11 -AP NEW YORK A teenage couple say they’ve become the target of abuse ever since their parents announced they would be wed. Jesse Murcko, 17, and Kati Bungert, 15, have been dating since May last year. All was well until Kati’s mother,
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 242 12 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR For 30 days, Ms Malena Hassan will eat and sleep in a cubicle with 2,000 poisonous scorpions crawling all around her. She aims to be listed in the Malaysia Book of Records as the first woman to stay in
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    • 204 12 Reuters LONDON A British pensioner has decided to sail round the world permanently on a luxury cruise ship because it costs not much more than staying in an old people’s home. Ms Beatrice Muller, 82, only pays 55 per cent of the official brochure price for making
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    • 240 12 -AFP LONDON The family of one of the two young killers of British toddler James Bulger has been forced into hiding after a revenge attack, according to a BBC report. The torture killing of two-year-old Bulger in the north-west English city of Liverpool 1993
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  • easy STREATS
    • 154 13 30 minutes between Heaven Hell Home away from home for the three babes in TV Works'Paradise is a 10-room bungalow with a swimming pool and an ocean view. But the girls spend much of their working hours on a beach 30 minutes away by car. Here; conditions are less than
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    • 146 14 IS love just a game for J-pop princess Ayumi Hamasaki? The 23-year-old recently made a wager with a friend to see who can become the “buddy” and soul mate of Tomoya Nagase, the leader of popular group Tokio, reported Hongkong’s The Sun. The winner would
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 63 14 Bpm, Channel U Caihua is behaving abnormally as his results plummet and even misses his best friend Funny’s birthday party. It’s when Caihua shows suicidal inclinations that Zhong realises that it is due to the recent divorce of his parents. They manage to persuade him to give up
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        • 35 14 10pm, Channel 5 Larry defends Elaine on charges of sexual harassment; the firm participates in a charity auction that doesn’t go as Richard expects, while John gives Kimmy an ultimatum regarding her mother.
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        • 57 14 10pm, Central The classic tale of an ancient Egyptian whose tomb is uncovered by an archaeological expedition. Through magic, he is brought to life, and then starts an endless search to find his lost love an Egyptian princess. This is the original 1932 version that spawned many remakes
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        • 99 14 10pm, VV Entertainment (SCV 56) The shiri is a slippery freshwater fish that swims freely up and down the Dong Gang River across the demilitarised zone of a divided Korea. It is also a metaphor for a beautiful North Korean terrorist, Hee, who is out to steal South Korea’s
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    • 561 15  -  mm, tubby by Yvonne Kwok so, you’ve watched The Making of Paradise and read newspaper reports about how the poor babes, Nadya Hutagalung, Lum May Yee and Michelle Chong, are suffering. The infamous sanitary conditions, the terrible food they have to endure, blah blah blah. My first
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 319 21 -Wire services WIMBLEDON Serena Wiliams (left) entered the Wimbledon quarterfinals yesterday and declared the “imposter” who took her place in the French Open had been banished. The fifth seed overwhelmed Magdalena Maleeva 6-2,6-1. She will now play fellow American Jennifer Capriati, who
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      • 126 21 -AFP JERUSALEM The coach of Israeli European champion Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team was under fire yesterday after reportedly denouncing his black players from the US as “dummies” and “slaves,” reports said. Pini Gershon, who has coached a number of African-American players at MaccabiTel Aviv, delivered
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      • 326 22  -  by\ LIM HAN MING THE wait is finally over. China-bom shot-putter Dong Enxin (below) is now a Singapore citizen. Yesterday, the 20-year-old was informed by the immigration authorities that his application has been approved. The news could
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      • 218 22 Reuters JOHANNESBURG Cameroon became the first countiy to qualify for next year’s World Cup on Sunday, before being closely followed into the finals by South Africa. Both teams went into their penultimate qualifiers needing just one point to reach the tournament in Japan and
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      • 181 23 Team P W D L F A Pts 1. Argentina 13 10 2 1 33 11 32 2. Paraguay 13 8 2 3 21 11 26 3. Ecuador 13 8 1 4 17 16 25 4. Brazil 13 6 3 3 22 12 21 5. Uruguay 13
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      • 436 23 -AFP r WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Uruguay 7 Brazil 0 MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay New Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari insisted that the South American giant would still qualify for the 2002 World Cup after his side crashed 1-0 away at Uruguay on Sunday. Brazil’s
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      • 119 23 -AP BUENOS AIRES, Argentina In a stunning quarter-final victory, an extra-time golden goal by Ghana’s John Mensah ousted Brazil 2-1 from the under-20 World Youth Championship on Sunday, as Argentina eliminated France 3-1 to reach the semi-finals. The Brazilians took the lead in the 44th minute of
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    • 1236 16 LiUa. ***** ***** Up all night By your side Californication Could I have this kiss forever Mambo italiano Ain’t no mountain high enough Everything that you do Feel the beat Theme from friend’s Funky ***** I will survive In the navy Its raining man Everything that we do Love don’t
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 476 16 Kt on uu mm Jf: for Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Your group reconvenes, refreshed after a break, or maybe elegantly hung over It’s time to think big, unconventional thoughts. A casual remark triggers a stroke of brilliance. The odds are with you this time. PISCES FEB 19-MAR
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 532 18 i 1 /Hey, do you mean to say you’d be willing to lend a hand if I was interested?^ Fine! Grrr! You had me waiting out in the cold last night! I’ll teach you a !\lesson today! Let mon W Hey! Didn’t >6 f you say you weren't gonna create
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 391 19 The story today... Jiang Yulang had spent a year digging the tunnel every time he used the latrine. He ate very little so he could stock up his food in the hiding place. He now resents having to share his secret with Xiao Yuer. "You have done nothing! And now
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