Streats, 13 July 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 13 July 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 75 1 NATSTEEL has retrenched 125 of its 650 steel plant employees, as part of its restructuring. The plant will also reduce capacity by 35 per cent. Nat Steel said it will post a loss for the first half of the year because of continuing weakness in the
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    • 51 1 ALL sauces sold in Singapore, including Sinsin oyster sauce, are safe, said the Environment Ministry yesterday. The clarification follows the Malaysian health ministry’s recall of 22 seasoning products, including Singapore-made Sinsin oyster sauce, on Wednesday. The latest test showed Sinsin’s sauce to be free of 3-MCPD, a cancer-causing
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    • 65 1 NINETEEN hawker centres will undergo refurbishment at a total cost of $B5 million in the first phase of the Hawker Centres Upgrading Programme (HUP). About 2,320 stallholders will be affected. The 10-year $420 million HUP was announced this February by the Environment Ministry. Of the 19 centres, about
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  • 673 1  -  Former PI jailed, caned for hideous torture by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER THOSE are the blood-shot eyes of a man so savage that the six-year torture of his live-in lover left her blind, scarred and an unkempt shadow of a woman. He beat her blind. He tortured her by
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  • Streatsmart parliament
    • 357 2  -  by SARAH NG HOUSING and Development Board (HDB) rentals for commercial and industrial shops were raised to make them fairer and more responsive to market conditions, said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan. He was responding to concerns of increased
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    • 179 2 -AFP AN emergency descent which went out of control was the most plausible cause of the 1997 Silk Air jet crash which killed 104 people, an expert witness said yesterday. Mr Robert Galan, a French aeronautical expert, said: “I am of the view
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    • 249 2 THE pace of infocomm manpower development j needs to be stepped up, said Mr Lim Swee Say, j Acting Minister for the Environment and Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. This is because the infocomm industry is constantly driven by technology
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  • Streatsmart local
    • All work and no pay
      • 259 3 Anonymous donor gives 104,000 to labourers to'build bilateral ties' BARELY a week ago, 26 construction workers from China hadn’t even received their salaries for two months. But they are now flush with cash. They were paid their salaries earlier this week, and a mysterious philanthropist
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      • 215 3  -  by ADAM HASHIDY AT LEAST five former tutors of Parkway Educational Training Centre, a tuition house, say they haven’t been paid since last year. “The centre did not pay us for months of work. It has only given us excuses. Some luckier ones
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    • 79 3 onekindact. Yvonne Tay MY boyfriend and I recently had to change a wheel on our car in front of Khatib MRT station after a tyre went flat. Thanks to the Indian uncle who was jogging past and kindly offered to help us after we started changing it
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    • news scan
      • 159 3  -  -Adam Hashidy A SNEAKY thief tricked an 82-year-old woman on Tuesday, walking away with at least $5,250 worth of gold and jewellery. The man apparently noticed that Madam Chua Koh Tee was alone in her three-room Henderson Road flat. She had hung some clothes out to
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      • 66 3 FEWER Malays have been caught for serious offences over the last three years. But they still form more than twice the national average of serious crimes committed, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng told Parliament on Wednesday. Last year, 65 per 100,000 Singaporeans and permanent residents
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      • 53 3 LOW Check Niap, 86, was hit by a car on Wednesday while using a pedestrian crossing. The accident occurred near Phillips Avenue, along Yio Chu Kang Road at 6.47 am. Mr Low was brought to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he was declared dead due to head injuries
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    • 261 5  -  by WINSTON CHONG IF you were to meet them, you’d think they were a normal family. A mother and her two sons. But that’s where any mention of normal ends. The Lees, comprising a woman, 81, and her two sons
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    • 106 5 morningsmile A MAN enters a barber shop for a shave. While the barber is foaming him up, he mentions the problems he has getting a close shave around the cheeks. "I have just the thing," says the barber taking a small wooden ball from a nearby drawer. "Just
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    • 86 5 Just like yesterday, today will be slightly hazy and partly cloudy, with showers in the late morning and early afternoon in various parts of Singapore. The temperature will range between 26° C and 33° C. High tide of 2.3 m is at 4.37 pm. And for
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    • Just a minute
      • 135 5 You can pick up a few tips on how to take care of your elderly loved ones at NTUC Elder Care's free public education workshops. Tomorrow's workshop in English is on Falls Prevention in the Elderly. It's on at NTUC Elder Care Centre, Block 172, Woodlands Street
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 581 6 MY HEART was beating fast. My palms were sweaty and I felt this uncontrollable urge to bang my head against the wall. I was suffering from a “quarterlife crisis”: the shoes going for 50 per cent less at the Club 21 sale JUST
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 269 9 J apan election season kicks off Man cuts his throat at Koizumi rally Wire services r OKYO A middle-aged man cut his jhroat with a knife at a rally where Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi opened campaigning for a national election. Mr Naotake Sugimoto, 48, was taken to nearby hospital, but
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    • 141 9 -AFP Hongkong -The global slowdown is affectlPg Hongkong less than it is affecting Singapore, financial secretary Antony Leung s aid yesterday. His reason: Hongkong does not rely on the same as Singapore and is therefore less affected Py the slowdown in the technology sector.
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    • 94 9 -AP SEOUL Angered by Japan’s refusal to revise controversial history textbooks, South Korea yesterday froze all bilateral military exchanges and cancelled a planned visit to Tokyo by one of its top defense officials. South Korea also revoked permission for two Japanese navy drill ships to
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    • 48 10 webcites. After all, this is the Internet age. Hotfiles.com and Download.com will drown you with top-rated shareware, freeware and demos. The only thing that will stop you is your disk space. There are games, utility tools, screen savers, fonts, videos and desktop enhancements drivers.
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    • Marital matters
      • 204 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malay sian Muslims cannot divorce their wives through short message services (SMS) on mobile phones, a senior official has ruled. Hamid Othman, religious adviser to the prime minister, was quoted by the Star newspaper yesterday as saying that divorce declarations
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      • 156 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Addiction to cybersex is causing marital problems for some Malaysians, says an expert in reproductive studies. Citing a case of a husband being obsessed with pornographic websites, Mr Ismail Tambi, director of the Specialist Reproductive Research Centre, said these things are putting pressure
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    • 301 10 -AFP SYDNEY Killers scrawled a racist message in blood after knifing to death a Filipino family in their Sydney home. Local newspapers reported police as saying that the message was written in the blood of Philippines-born lawyer Teddy Gonzales, 46, who was
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    • 165 10 Reuters CHACHOENGSAO, Thailand Cricket curry, tom worm soup and pad fly may soon appear on the menus of Thai restaurants worldwide, if a new venture by farmer Thanapob Keitchavepan takes off. On a small farm in Chachoengsao province, 100 km east of Bangkok,
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    • 308 11 Wire services JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid’s order yesterday to have the national police chief arrested backfired in a pathetic way. Jakarta police chief General Sofyan Yacob, who was himself threatened with arrest by the president, refused to carry out
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    • 87 11 knowornot FROM felting a tree to making your furniture, most of what originally swayed in the wind ends up as waste. First the top is lopped off and the branches are removed. That's about half of the original volume. Another
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    • 104 11 -AFP HONGKONG China has converted a decommissioned Soviet aircraft carrier into a theme park in the north-eastern port of Qinhuangdao. The aircraft carrier Kiev used to head the former Soviet Union’s Pacific Fleet. Beginning its new role, the former military vessel was opened
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 329 13 Wire services President Bush is to decide soon if such research should receive funding NORFOLK, Virginia Is it a bad idea to grow special cells and keep them in storage to be regrown into some other type of tissue for
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    • 150 13 Reuters NAIROBI Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi has urged Kenyans to abstain from sex for at least two years to try to curb the spread of Aids, newspapers reported yesterday. Mr Moi was speaking after the government announced plans on Wednesday to import 300 million
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    • 200 13 -AFP PARIS Fertility treatment is leading to a glut of twins and triplets in developed countries, a phenomenon that is causing serious strains on medical care, the weekly New Scientist says. The “epidemic” is being caused by ovulation-inducing drugs, which often cause women to produce
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    • weird world
      • 80 13 —AP LONDON Circus colleagues accustomed to seeing a contortionist wrap his body into strange shapes at first refused to believe his pleas for help when he told them he’d gotten his right foot stuck on his left shoulder. Berkine, 21, a Netherlands National Circus performer, became
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      • 83 13 LONDON When your pet plays fetch, it’s rarely dangerous, unless the object is a hand grenade. And that’s what happened when Chris Murray’s dog Ben ran up to him with the grenade in his mouth. The horrified former Navy diver strolling along a beach immediately recognised
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      • 81 13 Reuters RABAT -The sight of a woman in denim jeans and a T-shirt interrupted a Moroccan parliamentary session on Wednesday when an Islamist MP branded her attire an invitation to debauchery, a parliament spokesman said. Amina Khabab, 32, a camera operator for state-run 2M television, was
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      • 62 13 STRASBOURG, France More than 100 garden gnomes and other gaudy statues were found on a roundabout in eastern France, some set up to spell out “Free the Gnomes”, a police spokesman said. No one claimed responsibility, but police said it bore all the hallmarks of the Garden Gnome
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    • 272 14 -AP SEATTLE Microsoft Corp on Wednesday made some major concessions that will benefit its competitors. Responding to a recent court ruling that said its competitive practices broke the law, Microsoft said it will change its licensing agreements with computer manufacturers, allowing
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    • 148 14 Reuters LONDON GRB news txt MSGS r now in the COD. Confused? Help is at hand. It means “Great news text messages are now in the Concise Oxford Dictionary”. In Britain alone, more than one million mobile phone text messages are sent every hour, so
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    • 114 14 -AP MONTREAL The family of a man who was crushed to death by a vending machine is suing Coca-Cola Co, two other companies and a Quebec university. Kevin Mackle, 21, was killed in 1998 when the machine at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec, tipped
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 218 15 Italian PM seeks 1.6m in damages Berlusconi sues The Economist Reuters ROME Silvio Berlusconi’s integrity has been questioned, yet again. But he’s not letting it go this time: He has taken The Economist to court. The Italian prime minister alleges in papers filed with Rome’s civil tribunal court on Wednesday
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    • 301 15 Florida police have installed 36 cameras in public areas to help identify wanted criminals. The move has been criticised as an invasion of privacy r Just one question Personally I'm against such a move. But if there's really
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    • 85 15 Reuters BERLIN Steffi Graf is pregnant and will give birth to a boy in November, the Bild newspaper reported yesterday. i Proud granny-to-be I Heidi Graf spilt the! beans to friends in V southern Germany, the l report said. Former tennis world number one Ms Graf,
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  • easy STREATS
    • Stephanie @the movies
      • 361 17 DON'T fix it if it ain’t broke. You know that a person abides by this mantra when he’s had a 10-year career in showbiz and nothing’s really changed. His screen persona that is. That impish 39-year-old known as Stephen Chow is back (in
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      • 192 17 It's time to Chow. So is Stephen Chow still King of all things Funny? Read on to find out what reviewers and readers think whether Shaolin Soccer is worth your money. Reviewers' takes You may love or hate his brand of crazy mo lei tau (nonsense) comedy, but
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      • 157 18 Reelity bites FOLLOWING the phenomenal success of Shrek, negotiations are underway for Shrek 2 to take off as soon as possible. According to enteraininment industry magazine, the trio of actors who provided the principal voices in Shrek could be set to earn U 5535,000 ($62,470)
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      • 130 18 MEDIAFORCE, an online company that offers a means for film companies to track pirated digital content, claimed on Tjesday that three current box office hits, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Shrek and Pearl Harbor were among the most bootlegged movies on the Internet in June, with
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      • 160 18 ROBERT de Niro seems to have found his funny bone. Since starring in Analyze This, the actor acclaimed for his serious roles has been taking to comedies. He is now considering starring in a new comedy where he will play an obsessive-compulsive agoraphobic forced to leave
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    • Article, Illustration
      345 20  -  two shoes by' Wileen Chang I'D been warned many times: “Do not eat too heavy a meal before you sleep or you will have nightmares.” So I usually skip roti prata, chilli crab, nasi lemak when a supper craving hits me. And porridge is a good bet. It’s
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    • 238 21 FOUR cast members of The West Wing failed to turn up on the first day of work on the show’s third season. John Spencer, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff and Bradley Whitford who all play White House aides wasn’t on the set on Monday, Page Six quoted a
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 86 21 7.30 pm, TV Works Hell-bent on avenging the near-death of his longtime friend and CIA associate, Felix Leiter, James Bond (Timothy Dalton’s turn as the agent) actually leaves Her Majesty’s Secret Service in this most violent and dark 007 instalment to date. With drug lords and televangelists
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        • 71 21 10pm, TV Works Several years ago, Hugh Young left England to start Aberdeen Asset Management in Singapore. He has since called this home. Married to a local lawyer, he has come to adopt much of the Singaporean way of life, including queuing up for fish soup
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        • 48 21 8.30 pm, Channel U This week, we explore the culture of the Hakkas. Why do they call themselves ‘Hakka’ (Guest)? Why did they come to Singapore and what sort of business are they mainly involved in? And what is so special about Hakka food?
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        • 58 21 10.30 pm, Channel 8 This is a classic already. Everyone who watches a mysterious videotape suffers the same fate death. A desperate mother, with help from her ex-husband, seeks to overturn the curse, when she finds out that her toddler has seen the tape. What is the secret
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    • 253 23  - The artiste formerly known as by YVONNE KWOK HE still hands out namecards that read “Artiste” for Fly Entertainment, the talent management company owned by Mrs PCK, Irene Ang. But in reality that name card should now read “Head of Training and Development /Actor’s Agency” for the very same company.
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    • 104 23 Reuters HONGKONG Eric Tsang’s colleagues are offering a large reward for information on his attackers. The popular comedian was attacked last weekend here and sustained head injuries. A spokeswoman for Star East Holdings, of which Tsang is the deputy chairman, said yesterday that
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    • 146 25 Reuters LOS ANGELES Mafia drama The Sopranos topped the list of nominees for the 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy awards yesterday with 22 nominations, including one for television’s top award, best drama. In a near repeat of last year, White House drama The West Wing was
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    • 180 25 Reuters JACKSON, Wyoming Harrison Ford is a hero in real life. Cody Clawson, a 13-year-old boy scout, had got lost on Monday near Yellowstone National Park. On Tuesday, after the boy had spent a rainy night dressed only in a T-shirt, shorts and sandals, Ford flew
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 239 28 -AFP MOSCOW Members of Beijing’s bid delegation for the 2008 Olympic Games on Wednesday blasted rising human rights accusations that have been mounting as the International Olympic Committee prepares to vote for a host city of the games. The angry Chinese reaction came as Moscow
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      • SOCCER
        • 73 28 -Reuters LONDON Aston Villa s gned former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel yesterday to replace David James, the club’s website reported. The 37-year-old Dane left Sporting Lisbon last month after declining an option to stay another year with the Portuguese side. He played his last game for
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        • 70 28 -AFP MANCHESTER Argentinian midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron has completed his £23.5 million ($6O million) move from Italian side Lazio to Manchester United, according to the BBC yesterday. The deal to bring the 26-year-old midfielder to Old Trafford sets a new British transfer record. United held the previous
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      • 68 28 •cycling -Reuters VERDUN, France Frenchman Laurent Jalabert outfoxed Belgian Ludo Dierckxsens in a tight head-to-head sprint into Verdun on Wednesday to take the 215-kilometre fourth stage of the Tour de France. Stuart O’Grady of Australia finished seven seconds away in eighth, but close enough to keep
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      • 51 28 •SEA GAMES SEVEN sports have appealed to the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) for inclusion to the South-east Asia Games in Kuala Lumpur in September. They are archery, fencing, women’s football, judo, shooting, women’s volleyball and weightlifting. The SNOC selection committee will consider the appeal on July
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      • 486 29  -  by LIM HAN MING BEWARE. lan “Thorpedo’ Thorpe (inset) is all set to explode at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, later this month. So said Doug Frost (right) Thorpe’s coach of 10 years, yesterday at the Changi Beach
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      • 451 30  -  by TAN KIM HAN r NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE^ L SAFFC4 dementi Khalsa 1 HE was called up by “Team Singapore” yesterday. And Croatian-born PR Mirko Grabovac responded with a masterly two-goal strike that helped Singapore Armed Forces FC to a 4-1
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      • Article, Illustration
        725 31  -  by TAN KIM HAN I AM a Liverpool fan. But unlike many others, I have not basked in the glorious years of the 70s or 80s. I became a Reds fan in 1991. Not long afterwards, Kenny Dalglish, one of its principal movers, resigned. Then trophy-barren
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