Streats, 11 July 2001

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 11 July 2001 Another quality publication of off Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 603 1  -  By SARAH NG, SONNY PHUA and SAMANTHA CROY HELP US. That’s the plea as Singaporeans look to the Government as the latest report card on the economy is released. It is red with worry and the threat of recession. As Parliament
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  • 304 1  -  by DIANA SER COME ON, bosses. You can show us how to ride out these tough times by taking a pay cut as well. This, in a nutshell, was what the deputy secretary general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), Mr Heng
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    • 77 1 Ah Long San's tail term raised I must congratulate him on his ability to evade the law but I am not surprised as he has been bribing the police and is able to retain medical personnel to give medical reports stating that he is suffering from stress. Chief Justice Yong
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 372 2 IF the economic slowdown has given you sleepless nights, your worries are legitimate. Singapore faces the daunting prospect of a full-blown recession after yesterday’s depressing growth figures, say economists. The Government forecasts the economy to grow only between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent this
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    • 207 2 [THE United States one of Singapore’s main lengines of growth may not be in danger of a Irecession this year. I Positive signals this week came from a survey lOf US economists, the International Monetary IfFund and the White House. I Only 2
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    • 92 2 THERE will be no knee-jerk reaction to disappointing GDP figures, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. The growth figures represent a cyclical downturn and not because Singapore has become less competitive, Brigadier General (NS) Lee told CNBC. The downturn may not be a
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    • 495 3  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER HE sat huddled in a corner of the courtroom glaring back menacingly at anyone who cared to look his way. The curious and the concerned who filled the public gallery of the High
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    • 165 3  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM AN innovation coming your way promises to make your fingers do the working a new SMS service that allows you to check work permit status of prospective tenants. This was just some of the 50 innovations from the public sector that were showcased
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    • 230 3 -AP US INVESTIGATORS have been wrong about plane crashes and could be mistaken again in thinking that the Silk Air crash was caused by pilot suicide, defence lawyers said yesterday. MacArthur Job, an Australian aviation expert and witness for people suing the airline, said that
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    • 87 3 onekindact. Daisy Sng I SOLD food at a road safety for the elderly event at East Coast Park on June 17. Afterwards, I had a lot to carry and I couldn't get a cab. Thanks to a kind lady who solved my problem by offering me a
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    • 326 5  -  by ADAM HASHIDY SHE was found draped in a pink towel, abandoned by her parents and left in a cardboard box at the backyard of a terrace house. The one-week-old baby was discovered on Sunday morning by the maid of the house located
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    • 141 5  -  by KAREN CHEN HAVE baby drop-off points outside hospitals. So said Mr Allein G Moore, an online counsellor and a volunteer with the Singapore Planned Parenthood Association. If only to ensure that the babies receive adequate care fast. “Maybe a red light can go off at the
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    • 85 5 Our weather girl says You need not worry too much about the haze from Indonesia as the PSI today is at a healthy 46. There will be passing showers in the late morning mainly over the northern, central and western regions. The rest of the day looks fine with temperatures
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    • 175 5 Just a minute Prices rose for all categories of next month's Certificate of Entitlement. The biggest increase was in those for small cars. Category A COEs for cars under I6olcc rose $2,751 to $28,990, while category B COEs for cars from 1601 cc upwards inched up by
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 180 6 -AP, >AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has imposed a three-month total ban on open burning amid rising health fears over air pollution. The ban covers everything from households burning waste or dry leaves to companies with permits for open burning, officials said. The
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    • 66 6 GET OUT OF OUR SIGHT: Blindfolded Thai protesters wearing T-shirts emblazoned with letters spelling out "No GMO"express their opposition to genetically modified organisms. The demonstration, outside the United Nations office in Bangkok yesterday, was against the International Conference on Biotechnologies Modernes, organised by the United
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    • 146 6 -AP WELLINGTON -Reports of drunks as young as 11 on New Zealand’s streets have prompted the government to ponder an about-face on dropping the legal drinking age. Drunkenness and fighting among teenagers have become regular weekend events in some cities since a 1999 law change
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    • 99 6 -AP JAKARTA Foundering Indonesian President Abdurrahman played musical chairs again yesterday as he ordered his third cabinet shake-up this year. Impeachment proceedings are scheduled to open against the president on Aug 1. One of Mr Abdurrahman’s closest aides, Current Minister Marsillam Simandjuntak, was
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    • 284 7 Wire services Estrada's team try to get court to put off the hearing MANILA Lawyers for ousted President Joseph Estrada asked the Supreme Court to cancel his court appearance scheduled for yesterday, in a last-minute effort to have the case dropped. The Sandiganbayan
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    • 168 7 -AFP HONGKONG Cathay Pacific Airways announced yesterday it was hiring more planes and trimming its schedule to try to cut delays in its ongoing pilots dispute. After sacking 49 pilots and imposing a new pay and benefits package on Monday, the airline said it had cancelled
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    • 139 7 Reuters TOKYO A Japanese parliamentary committee resolved yesterday to debate a pact on US forces in Japan. Washington’s foot-dragging in handing over a US airman suspected of raping a Japanese woman on Okinawa island has revived debate here over the Status of Forces Agreement. Under
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 208 9 Wire services JERUSALEM -Tap water in the Tel Aviv region may be drunk again, Israeli national water company Mekorot said yesterday after an Israeli health ministry official had said it was unfit to drink. But Mekorot added that consumers should boil the water before
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    • 217 9 Men want features suchasa6og steam-shot boost, 'upweighted' steam emission, bell vents and larger hand grips in their irons LONDON Forget about mobile phones, fast cars and bodybuilding. The latest gadgets hip men are really into these days are irons. Young British men
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    • 103 9 Reuters SANTIAGO, Chile Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was declared mentally unfit on Monday to stand trial, likely ending efforts to prosecute him. The Appeals Court ruled that Mr Pinochet, 85, suffers from such severe dementia that he cannot be prosecuted for death squad killings
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    • 106 9 Reuters PRAGUE Czech police said they may charge a woman who used her handphone on a Czech Airlines flight after being told not to and disrupted the plane’s communication with ground control. A police spokeswoman said the incident happened on a June 22 domestic flight
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    • 331 10 -AFP ISLAMABAD A Pakistani audience was in uproar when a local singer dared to sing an Indian pop song, a report said yesterday. With just days to go before Sunday’s crucial summit meeting between the Indian and Pakistani leaders, singer Zille Huma
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    • 150 10 Reuters RESEARCHERS said yesterday they may be able to produce babies without men. The researchers said they may have found a way to fertilise an egg with cells from any part of the body, rather than sperm. The study offers hope to infertile men. Australian scientist
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    • 59 10 Pic: AFP FIRST LOOK AT BABY: The image of a baby inside the womb using a Voluscan 730 scanner, a revolutionary ultrasound scanner developed in Austria and unveiled for the first time in the UK last week. Using this, parents can see the unborn baby scratching
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    • 168 10 Reuters NEW DELHI Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf is due to visit India this weekend for talks with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Pakistan wants the talks to focus on the dispute over Kashmir an issue which has triggered two of three wars between the
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    • 270 10 LONDON Motorists will be charged £5 ($l3) a day to take their cars into central London under plans unveiled by mayor Ken Livingstone, BBC News Online reported yesterday. The charge, to be introduced by 2003, is the centrepiece of the mayor’s 10-year
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    • weird world
      • 82 11 -AFP THE HAGUE A Dutch Internet company is offering a free vibrator with every mobile phone subscription. Tring advertises the offer on its website (www.tring.nl) under the heading “a penetrating conversation” and promises that both devices have a “vibrating mode”. Tring said it would continue offering free
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      • 87 11 -Reuters DUBAI -The Arab emirate of Ras al-Khaimah has retracted a decision allowing women to give massages to men at massage parlours, a local newspaper reported on Monday. Last week, the city decreed that women over the age of 30 were allowed to massage men, but on
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      • 106 11 Reuters LISBON Every Sunday for the last three years, Preta the dog has walked out of her owner’s home in the Portuguese town of Sobrado at sam, the newspaper Correio da Manha reported. A reformed stray, Preta walks alone to a church 26km away in a
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      • 80 11 BERKELEY, California Republicans have scarier and more frequent nightmares than Democrats concludes one prominent dream researcher. “Republicans are nearly three times as likely as Democrats to experience nightmares when they dream,”Ms Kelly Bulkeley, who teaches in Berkeley, California claims in findings to be released soon. “Half of the
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    • 197 11 NEWCASTLE Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson smashed his car at a race meeting over the weekend, Sky News reports. He crashed his Aston Martin V 8 Zagato when its brakes failed and ploughed into a barrier. Luckily, he was unhurt. But
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    • 132 11 BERLIN German soldiers are losing another war this time against weight. A report by Germany’s armed forces says 40 per cent of soldiers over 40 are overweight and one in 10 is obese, The Australian reported yesterday. Generous pay, nine-to-five timetables, access to good
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    • 217 11 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Brazil’s twentysomething evangelicals don’t drink, don’t smoke and many don’t dance not the kind of people one usually finds in a nightclub. But Rio’s pleasure culture doesn’t leave anyone behind. The Espaco Gospel House, or Gospel House Space, opened this weekend as the
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 278 12 PENSACOLA, Florida Eight-year-old Jessie Arbogast escaped death despite los- f ing an arm to a shark on Friday. i His arm had been reat-1 tached after it was pulled I out of the shark’s mouth 1 and delivered
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    • 116 12 Reuters TOKYO Japan’s Imperial Household Agency held an ancient ritual yesterday to pray that Crown Princess Masako will give birth safely later this year. At the ceremony in Togu Palace, the residence of Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito in central Tokyo, a long
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    • 211 12 HONGKONG Okay, who whacked my buddy? That is what singer Alan Tam (left) wants to know. He is determined to help identify the louts who attacked his friend, comedian Eric Tsang, last Friday at a pub in Hongkong. And Alan is going to let
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    • 265 13  -  by WINSTON CHONG IF you happen to catch the latest Stephen Chow action-come-dy Shaolin Soccer opening tomorrow, you might just get glimpses of the martial arts legend Bruce Lee in the movie. No, the movie company did not resurrect the Fist of Fury through the
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        • 55 14 10pm, TV Works Imagine the creators of South Park making a comedy set in the Bush White House, making the West Wing the “Jest” Wing. This one is based loosely on the life and ongoing political times of US President George W. Bush and is also a
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        • 43 14 8.30 pm, Channel U Managing director Pang’s wife promises her friends a free ad and Pang appoints staff to handle his project. But Peter is rushing a big job at the same time and feels Pang’s project is an unnecessary distraction.
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        • 44 14 10pm, Central The top box office earner in Czechoslovakia in 2000 and a favourite at the recent Singapore International Film Festival, this is a fast-paced film about a group of twenty-somethings who try to simplify their lives but instead blunder into a mess.
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    • 470 14  -  by STEPHANIE GOH MONEY talks. Or at least it does when it comes to Stephen Chow’s definition of a good movie. “The best yishu (art) films are those that the majority of the audience enjoys watching,” a haggard-looking Stephen, in town to promote his new
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    • 480 15  -  t m witch hour by 'Cara van Miriah YOU can drink up but you can’t light up. Not at Ascapadz pub on Mondays. You won’t be able to buy cigarettes there on Mondays either. And if you give in to the urge to smoke, the pub’s 23-year-old manager,
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 499 20 WIMBLEDON Goran Ivanisevic rewrote the book of sporting fables on Monday with a victory the like of which Wimbledon has never seen. Emotions pent up over the nine years since his first failure against Andre Agassi in 1992 spilled
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      • 200 21 Reuters MOSCOW China is in line for a billion-dollar pay day if Beijing wins the right to stage the 2008 Summer Olympics. The city that wins Friday’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) vote will be guaranteed at least US$l.2 billion ($2.2 billion) from the sale of
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      • 80 22 •SOCCER -AFP MANCHESTER Manager Alex Ferguson has told new signing Ruud van Nistelrooy that he will be Manchester United’s No 1 striker next season. Van Nistelrooy joined the English Premier League champion from PSV Eindhoven in a £19.5 million ($5O million) English record
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      • 100 22 •ATHLETICS -AFP NICE, France Poland’s Justyna Bak was the star of the lAAF Grand Prix meet here on Monday night when she smashed the world record in the women’s 3000 m steeplechase in 9:25.3 lsec. She broke away from Kenyan Irene Linika with 600
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      • 97 22 •cycling -AFP ANTWERP, Belgium Belgium’s Marc Wauters claimed a home victory in the second stage of the Tour de France here on Monday to take the overall leader’s yellow jersey as he led a break into Antwerp. The Rabobank rider outsprinted Frenchman Arnaud Pretot and South
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      • 373 22  -  by TAN KIM HAN T LYCOS CHALLENGE CUP 1 Singapore 0 Saudi Arabia 3 ■BBiillii THE gulf in football standard between Singapore and Saudi Arabia is as wide as the ocean separating the two countries. This was clearly evident at Kallang last
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 478 15 Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20 -FEB 18 Yes, you’re important, but not in the ways that you believe. Be a general presence instead of trying to play a specific role. You have the luxury of wearing as many hats as required. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 N K N You
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 283 18 The story is about.. Yuan Jian Ping who gets mote 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 dasses. Most of all, he never expected
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    • 208 19 easy The story today Xiao Yuer decides to use his deadly kicks, since Jiang Yuiang declares war on him. Jiang is taken aback by Xiao Yuert speedy attacks. His kicks are so fast that Jiang has no time to react. He crashes into the wine urns several times. And Xiao
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  • 465 23  -  by LIM HAN MING HE marches into the swimming arena, removes his robe and mounts the platform. The horn goes off and he plunges into the water. A few fast and furious kicks later, another world record bites the dust.
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