Streats, 17 July 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 1? July 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 580 1  -  by SARAH NG FAR better to freeze than fire. This is the strategy increasingly favoured by US companies and one that could be catching on in Singapore. What to freeze in these bad times? Recruitment, training and, possibly, wages. That,
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  • 199 1 Show of restraint: Team Singapore 0 Liverpool 2- IF you had expected the Reds of Liverpool to slam the accelerator and hit the heights in last night’s friendly international, you would probably have gone home disappointed. For the English Premiership side, which triumphed
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    • 109 1 Q Show of restraint: DrM%l@w4my mnkmmry I think I may have made some mistakes, but I can't regret the decisions that I have made although they may have been unpopular, because they lost support But I believe I did those things for the good of the country, and not for
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 406 2 IF private bus operators want the Public Transport Council (PTC) to consider their proposal to operate feeder services seriously, then they have to offer a “full service” and not “cherry pick”. “We have to see what they are proposing:
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    • 146 2  -  by SAMANTHA CROY OVERCROWDING, particu larly during peak hours, is still a prime concern for 45 out of 50 commuters polled: •“Two or three buses pass before I can get on one. Sometimes, I go all the way to the interchange just so I can get
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    • 166 2  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM A NEW breed of 15 SBS Superbuses rolled out last week holds the promise of friendlier, more comfortable rides for you. TWenty-seven out of 50 commuters polled gave the fancy seat counter devices, more comfortable seats and lowered floors the
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    • 286 3 SHOPS in Johor Baru which offer pirated VCDs are going the extra mile to serve their customers across the Causeway. They will deliver the illegal goods right to your doorstep. All you have to do is reach for your Phone or your fax
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    • 158 3 PIRATED syndicates will find it tougher to ply their illegal software to companies after they had undergone a successful software piracy education campaign. The campaign, which ran from April to last month, was organised by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Ipos), the Singapore Police Force’s Intellectual Property
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    • 81 3 Our weather girl says No need to reach for that face mask, just the umbrella. There will be thunderstorms in the late morning and early afternoon j mainly over the western, southern and eastern regions. The temperature ranges between 25°C and 32°C, with the tide reaching 2.5 m at B.olpm.
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    • Just a minute
      • 54 3 There are more than 12 free clinics in Singapore. The latest addition in Yishun is Nam Hong Siang Theon Free Medical Centre, which is located at the void deck of Block 111 Yishun Ring Road. Managed by a staff of 15, including four acupuncturists, patients only need to pay
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      • 118 3 If you are abroad during Singapore's 36th birthday celebration, you can plug into the fun and fireworks on Aug 9 by watching the webcast. It's accessible for the first time to surfers abroad. The site at www.ndpol.org.sg provides interesting parade trivia, as well as the latest updates.
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    • 294 4  -  by I KHUSHWANT SINGH TWO young women who plunged to their deaths from a 25-storey building at Toa Payoh in April were involved in a troubled lesbian relationship, a coroner’s court heard yesterday. A verdict of suicide was
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    • 207 4 WHEN MI 185 pilot Capt Tsu Way Ming was promoted in May 1997, Silk Air management did not know that he breached the rules on a flight to Manado, Indonesia two months before. Only when another pilot queried Capt Tsu’s promotion did management find
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      • 117 4 AN air stewardess returned to her home at Block 18 Marine Terrace from a flight on May 20 to find her bedrooms ransacked. Gold and diamond jewellery worth $7,000, $2,000 in cash and a Louis Vuitton key pouch were missing. Police were called in and the trail led
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      • 139 4  -  Khushwant Singh A DILIGENT immigration officer was told it was none of his business when he enquired about the two Indonesian passports handed to him by Mispar Sopah, 48, a Malaysian. The passports belonged to Mispar’s two passengers. When he questioned Mispar, the officer was told it
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      • 129 4  -  Winston Chong A MAN pretending to ask for directions robbed a girl in the lift on Thursday night. But the robber fled after the girl a foreign worker pretended to be dead. The thief, a dark skinned man in his 20s, asked the girl for directions as
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    • 91 4 onekindact. Ericai I BOUGHT a lot of groceries on July 6 at Tampines Mall. Then got a severe stomachache and needed to rush to the toilet I obviously didn't want to take my food into the toilet, so thanks to the helpful lady at the information
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 213 5 Reuters HONGKONG -Two Hongkong teenagers were ordered held without bail yesterday after being charged with conspiring to kidnap an 11-year-old boy who was found strangled after his family paid a ransom. The accused, aged 15 and 16,
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    • 165 5 -AP MANILA -The system of giving a reward for the capture of an Abu Sayyaf guerilla appears to be paying off. Seven Abu Sayyaf officers whose rewards ranged from 150,000 to one million pesos ($5,136 to $34,231) were among more than 40 people arrested in a
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    • 159 5 -AP Geckos are seen as perfect pets in flats as they need little room and less food than cats or dogs WELLINGTON Lizards are being smuggled out of New Zealand in growing numbers to be sold as pets to wealthy apartment dwellers in the US,
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    • 163 7 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) has launched its own version of Singapore’s Social Development Unit, hoping to raise the birthrate of the Chinese here. The club’s aim is to give singles over 25 a place to meet
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    • weird world
      • 75 7 AUCKLAND The same refrigerators are used to store food and dead bodies on New Zealand’s navy vessels, Ananova quoted officials as having admitted. And it is cold comfort to know that the two are not there at the same time. One ship carried the body of a
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      • 83 7 OSHKOSH Wisconsin It was just another day at work when two workers saw a US$2O ($37) bill in the rubble of the ceiling of a house that he and a mate were tearing out. Then the 19-year-olds noticed more bills in three tightly wrapped rolls, followed by
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      • 59 7 PORTLAND, Maine A pigeon that made its home under the mayor’s desk at City Hall has laid two tiny eggs and unseated the city’s leader. “People are always accusing me of hatching something,” said the mayor, who has abandoned her desk for a few days to avoid
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      • 62 7 -AP KINGSBURY PLANTATION, Maine There’s not much of a market for rap music or baggy jeans here, or for anything else for that matter. New census figures show this is the only town in the state with no children. The last school-aged kids lived there in the early
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      • 49 7 Reuters NICE Three men rammed a Range Rover through the windows of the Van Cleef Arpels luxury jewellers in Cannes, in broad daylight. They left the car wedged there and walked off with necklaces and earrings worth about 25 million francs ($6 million), police said. Reuters
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    • 84 6 HOT JULY The Biggest Showdown on Singapore TV. Uiil H Li m i fl 1 What's the BIG deal? Can she survive? She'll Vookthe house! That's my girl! Teahhh! Is she getting paid more far this? Kwh? Got fight, meh? Don t carer She'd belter not oall in x siok.
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 172 8 Wire services BUENOS AIRES The Argentinian economy in Latin America is in major trouble and President Fernando De la Rua has asked government workers to take a pay cut to help the country. It forms part of the “austerity measures”, which won
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    • 259 9 Wire services AGRA, India The officials have termed the talks between Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf as “positive”. But still there are no signs of a breakthrough in the frosty relations between the two arch foes. Yesterday, the Pakistan president
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    • 89 9 Reuters WASHINGTON Women who smoke inhale a toxin that can trigger ovarian failure, decreasing their reproductive years. Dr Jonathan Tilly of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said a chemical found in cigarette smoke triggers early menopause. Dr Tilly studied the effect of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 319 10 KUALA LUMPUR No pomp. No pageantry for his 20th yearin power. Just a simple party at Parliament House with some close Cabinet buddies, who clapped as he cut a cake. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, 75, has
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    • 197 10 NEW YORK Lovebirds David Leibowitz and Kimberley Miller have that sinking feeling their hearts will go on and on. The New York couple are getting married on the Titanic, which sank in 1912. For that, they will have to have to get to the wreck
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    • 273 10 Many old people are left in homes abandoned by their families Just one qumfon Your parents raised you, therefore it is immoral to leave them in an old folks' home and neglect them. I would house my ageing parents and employ a
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  • easy STREATS
    • Article, Illustration
      526 11  -  Is it really necessary for TV Works to carry two news slots? te Tubby by Yvonne Kwok I HONESTLY wish I could say that I rush home to catch the evening news. I would imagine that such a me would be erudite, informed, cultured, play golf every
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 46 12 9pm, TV Works A re-enactment of Sang Nila Utama’s landing; Miss Behave takes on posh restaurants and their bewildering array of cutlery; the 80s time-capsulers don skates to relive the Rex Cinema experience, and Special Singaporeans finds the strongest man on the island.
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          37 12 9.30 pm, TV Works k More antics from l the Ah Lian with a Ibig heart. Daddy [passes Ah Girl a present to give to Mrs Fernandez. Peggy believes her boss is sexually harassing her.
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        • 49 12 Bpm, Channel U Zhong is unhappy about the way her students spend money, so to help them learn about earning their own keep, she takes them to the vegetable farm. Lide is caught for stealing and Zhong is touched to see her students apologising on Lide’s behalf.
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          94 12 10pm, Central A case of first degree murder is being debated among the 12 jurors. A young boy has been accused of killing his father with a knife. The evidence, while circumstantial, seems conclusive and the jury appears certain to agree on a guilty verdict. However, Juror
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    • 247 12 HONGKONG has its first mil-lion-dollar winners in its version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 12 weeks after the quiz show was first screened by Asia Television, reported HK iMail yesterday. And they are none other than actress Fung 80-bo and songwriter James Wong. The
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    • 194 12 FANS of Channel 8 darling Phyllis Quek can soon catch her on the big screen. The 28-year-old singeractress has a small role in Wild Wolf, starring Hongkong heartthrobs Louis Koo and Daniel Wu. Phyllis has a grand total of three scenes and spouts
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    • 143 12 SPH Media Works has formed a joint venture with Jade Interactive, a China-focused investment consultancy firm, to develop programmes for the China market. Called Jade Media Works, the programmes will be shown on a free-to-air channel, China Central Television Station. The equal partners signed agreements in
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 369 16  -  by LIM HAN MING WILL national Under-23 soccer coach Flemming Nielsen (left) stay or go when his two-year contract expires in May next year? There is talk that the Dane wants to return to Denmark to be re-united with his wife
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      • 77 17 •SOCCER Reuters CALI, Colombia Brazil ended a run of four successive defeats and six games without a win by beating Peru 2-0 on another day of reserve team football at the Copa America on Sunday. An early goal by striker Guilherme and a late strike from
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      • 90 17 •CYCLING -AFP PONTARLIER, France Dutchman Erik Dekker of the Rabobank team held off Spain’s Aitor Gonzalez in a four-man sprint to win the eighth stage of the Tour de France on Sunday. The 30-year-old Dekker now has four Tour stage wins after winning the rain-soaked 222.5
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      • 418 17 -AFP MOSCOW Belgian surgeon Jacques Rogge stepped into the most powerful post in world sport here yesterday when he was elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The 59-year-old Rogge replaces Juan Antonio Samaranch who stands down after 21
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      • 58 17 -AP MOSCOW The son of outgoing lOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch was elected as a member of the committee yesterday despite concerns that the appointment might be seen as nepotism. Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr was elected on to the lOC by a majority of 71 votes in
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      • 537 18  -  by LIM HAN MING Carlsberg Challenge Team Singapore 0 Liverpool FC 2 THERE'S still one month and two days before Liverpool’s Premiership kickoff against West Ham United. But it seems that the Reds have plenty of work to do if they
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      • 316 19  -  by TAN KIM HAN MONEY is no problem, when it comes to watching Liverpool in action. Fans that Streats spoke to said that they would not mind paying $BO for the grandstand, or $4O for the gallery. Said Ayub Abdul Majid, a 30-year-old technician:
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      • 460 19  -  by /TAN KIM HAN DO YOU recognise him? You might if you’re a diehard Liverpool fan, but most Reds followers will struggle to put a name to his face. The “forgotten” man is Bernard Diomede (left). Yet, he
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 489 13 Mk uiifyjfu m Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Whether speaking at a rally or savouring quiet time with your beloved, all human interactions make profound sense. Aquarius tries to map dimensions that they don’t usually see. Magic floats freely, never to be contained. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 N
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    • 313 14 s The story today... They give the wooden board a hard kick and crash into another chamber. They fee! a breeze and are relieved that the new chamber is ventilated. Jiang is particularly glad that they escaped death. Xiao Yuer lights up a candle and discovers that the chamber consists
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    • 931 17 I 1 V# I Love don't cost a thing Kids Maria maria The way you make me feel Lady Ovedoad Around the world Rack DJ Sex bomb Singing in the rain Sweet child of mine A love before time Don't let me be the last to know Don't think I'm
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