Streats, 26 July 2001

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    21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 26 July 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon Cope & hope
    493 1  - Cope hope $2.2 billion package to help companies cut wage bill and keep workers by r CALVIN LOW TRY to keep your job. That should be your focus in these trying times, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently. Yesterday, the government unveiled a $2.2 billion off-Budget package largely
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    Lock icon How the $2.2b stack up
    233 1 Speeding up of infrastructure projects, including the development of Jurong Island, drainage and sewerage works, road and commuter facilities, and IT upgrading in polytechnics and universities. This will inject s2o4m this year and ssl2m in 2002. Freeze in employers’ CPF contribution rate for one year.
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    Lock icon 5 schools win PSB quality awards
    105 1 mmmqrush FIVE schools have graduated to the Productivity and Standards Board’s Singapore Quality Class (SQC). The Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), Dunman Secondary School, Raffles Institution, River Valley High School and Xinmin Secondary joined top public bodies and companies last night who are members of the
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      74 1 This package will help businesses cope with the crisis. It will also help workers, especially older and less-educated workers, to prepare themselves to retain their jobs or find newjobs. It will supplement the measures announced in the Budget in February, especially the corporate and personal income tax reductions, and the
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  • Streatsmart parliament
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      Lock icon BG Yeo spells out the next priority Turn focus to China
      454 2  -  by 'SONNY PHUA WITH the situation in China changing rapidly, Singapore has to continually “press the refresh button”every six months to make sure that we have an updated picture, said Minister of Trade and Industry, BG George Yeo. To
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    • Article
      Lock icon Why not...
      136 2 ideas answers Introduce retrenchment insurance for professionals and executives? Mr Ahmad Magad, MP for Pasir Ris GRC Mr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Manpower: Because they should save for a rainy day and such a scheme may affect our overall competitiveness in the future. Legislate against discrimination of
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      Lock icon JBJ loses seat
      78 2 THE lone Non-Constituency Member of Parliament, Mr J. B. Jeyaretnam, has lost his seat. Announcing this at the start of parliamentary proceedings yesterday, Speaker Tan Soo Khoon said he had sought the advice of the AttorneyGeneral in view of the court decision rejecting Mr Jeyaretnam’s bankruptcy appeal.
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      Lock icon Help for companies
      249 2 COMPANIES will be aided to keep you employed by: A freeze in the employers' CPF contribution rate. BG Yeo asured: "The Government would like to restore the remaining 4 percentage points as soon as possible since the CPF is essentially a retirement savings plan. Keeping the CPF
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Economy's recovery in sight, says NTU forecast 'The worst is over'
      359 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH Improved semiconductor .sales point to robust growth nextyear, says don DON'T despair, better times are ahead. The economic downturn levelled out in the second quarter and next year will see robust growth. That’s the forecast of
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      67 3 momingsmile A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received in the mail a ticket for $4O and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of
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      Lock icon Get fit: You'll get a bonus
      167 3 65 employers awarded for supporting National service YOU'D better be fit if you work for manufacturer Roland Chew. If you do well in your individual physical proficiency test (IPPT), you’ll get a $4OO bonus. But if you fail, you’ll be counselled and be made
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      Lock icon Women hold their own in IT
      250 3 THE perception that women are less techno-sawy does not apply in Singapore. More women here are holding top posts in information technology, as shown in Singapore’s second periodic report to the United Nations’ Committee for the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
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      Lock icon Another motorcycle crash Female student dies on AYE
      262 4  -  by ADAM HASHIDY SHE was found lying face down in the extreme right lane of the AYE, her journey to her tuition class on Wednesday afternoon never to be completed. Nanyang Technological University undergraduate Len Pei Yu, 21, died when she lost
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      Lock icon Fast-talking men con Indon maid
      181 4  -  -AdamHashidy AN Indonesian was promised a “lucky charm” would protect her and those close to her. It did not protect her from the two conmen who stole her bank cards and took $2,000 from her bank accounts. Last Sunday at about 2pm near Paragon Shopping
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      Lock icon Guardian angels
      65 4 onekindact Carmen Roberts-Ong MY sincere gratitude to motorcyclist Mr Ong and his girlfriend for helping my 68-year-old mother after she had a nasty fall on July 20 along Tanglin Halt Road. They were her guardian angels. If you wish to highlight a kind act, no matter how small,
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      Lock icon TTSH declared a historical institution
      151 5 TAN Tock Seng hospital was yesterday declared a historical institution. The award, for its contribution to health care here for more than 150 years, is a first for a medical facility in Singapore. “To be marked as an institution, and not a site, means that
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      Lock icon ST recruitment party a big hit From pink slips to pay slips
      282 5  -  by SAMANTHA CROY OUT of work? And looking for a job? Then come and join the party! Close to 800 professionals seeking IT and IT-related jobs did just that when they flocked to the trendy Newsroom Bar at
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      85 5 Hope those who went down to Sultan of Swing for the party had a wonderful time and no hangovers today. If not, shield your ears,because there will be thunderstorms over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon with temperatures ranging between 25°C and 32°C.
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    • Just a minute
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        88 5 NTUC has put together an aid package for workers hit by the downturn. With immediate effect, prices of about 200 essential items, such as sugar, cooking oil and rice, have been cut by up to 20 per cent at all NTUC Fair Price outlets. From next month, you
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        95 5 If you think stamp collecting is an outdated pursuit, then check out Singpex 2001 Singapore National Stamp Exhibition and find out why y people from all walks of life are crazy about this timeless I hobby. View rare collections from the Yuan dynasty, Ceylon and the Straits
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon PM denies report of death squads Thailand 'killing drug runners'
      168 7 -AP BANGKOK Special death squads have killed 350 drug traffickers in Thailand and plan to assassinate 1,000 more this year, a general was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The Nation daily yesterday quoted Lt-General Pichai Sunthornsajjabul as saying that policebacked
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      Lock icon Granny raped, left to die
      79 7 Emergency call was dismissed as a hoax SYDNEY A woman survived for eight days after an emergency call was dismissed as a hoax, finally dying of dehydration and suffocation, a Sydney court was told on Tuesday. The body of grandmother Mrs Joy Alehin, 70, was
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      Lock icon Obscene handphone covers seized
      78 7 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Handphone covers with pictures of naked celebrities which light up certain parts of their bodies when in use have been seized by police. The raids were part of a crackdown on pornography in Seremban, 60 km south of Kuala Lumpur, The Star newspaper
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      Lock icon Students protest VP line-up
      63 8 -AFP JAKARTA About 2,000 Indonesian students protested outside parliament early yesterday against the line-up of vice-presidential candidates. The angry students yelled their opposition to candidates two of whom are retired reformist generals, and one of whom is the head of the Golkar Party. Most of the
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      Lock icon Ex-Indon president leaving for US Gus Dur wishes Mega well, but...
      287 8 Wire services JAKARTA Mr Abdurrahman Wahid has wished new President Megawati Sukarnoputri well, an aide said yesterday. But, in an interview with AP, Mr Abdurrahman did not display that goodwill. He said his long friendship with her was over
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      Lock icon Taipei to cut foreign workers wages
      83 8 -AFP TAIPEI -Taiwan is going to make foreign labour cheaper for local industries, amid a domestic slowdown, by cutting their monthly wages by 16 per cent from September. “Foreign workers will have NT52,500 ($130) deducted from their monthly wages as payment for room and
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      Lock icon Scholar expelled
      69 8 Reuters BEIJING China expelled US academic Li Shaomin yesterday on charges of espionage. Mr Li’s deportation comes after two other US-based scholars were given 10-year sentences for spying. Beijing’s hurry in resolving the spy cases is seen as an attempt to improve relations with the US before the
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      303 8 London MBA, Degrees Diplomas OPEN TALK Friday 27 July 2001 at 7.00 pm Dr Stephen McKenna, B.A (Hons) Wales, M.A, Ph.D (Warwick) Director of Studies More choice. More attention. More dedication. Be taught by Dr. Stephen McKenna for Management or HRM, Dr Ellis Finkelstein (or Organisation Theory or our other
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Pilot asks passengers to pay for fuel
      110 9 A DESPERATE airline pilot asked passengers: “Can anyone help me pay for fuel?” Shocked travellers handed over their credit cards after the Air2ooo captain realised he didn’t have enough cash to refuel after a flight from hell, the Daily Record reported yesterday. On
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon 'Beckingham Palace' tour
        91 9 -AP POSH Spice Victoria Beckham and her soccer star husband David Beckham have set up a virtual tour of their rural home of “Beckingham Palace”. A virtual Victoria welcomes visitors to the mock-Georgian mansion north of London to see the “Throne Room”, their baby son Brooklyn’s bedroom,
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        Lock icon Citizen Cocoa, poodle
        63 9 -AP COCOA Fernandez is registered to vote. The problem is, Cocoa is a poodle. And the owner may be headed for the doghouse. Florida’s Palm Beach County Election Supervisor wants to know if someone did it to embarrass her office. The penalty could be five years’jail and
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        Lock icon Dirty money, little change
        73 9 SWEDISH dog owner Gunilla GononSabelstrom will have to do a bit of money laundering this week. Her dog, who swallowed two of her banknotes has deposited them, intact, Ananova reported yesterday. Six-year-old bull terrier Tassila swallowed the 500 kronor notes ($120) and deposited the first the
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      Lock icon President's Israel and missile policies criticised Carter slams Bush
      207 9 Wire services WASHINGTON It was a rare instance of a former US president criticising a current one. Former US President Jimmy Carter made a scathing attack on the policies of President George W Bush yesterday. He criticised Mr Bush for not
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      Lock icon Passive smoke blocks blood flow to heart
      87 9 -AP CHICAGO Just half an hour of passive smoke can impair normal blood flow to the heart, a Japanese study suggests. The study examined the effects of spending 30 minutes in a hospital’s smoking room on 15 non-smoking men and 15 smokers. The
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      Lock icon LTTE website had warned of attack
      115 9 Wire services COLOMBO The assault on Sri Lanka’s international airport yesterday came just days after the Tamil rebel group had threatened the government for its ongoing air strikes on the separatists. On July 2, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had carried a
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      Lock icon 'Bandit Queen' of India shot dead She was revered and feared
      336 10 Wire services NEW DELHI Phoolan Devi was revered and feared as India’s “Bandit Queen”. Yesterday, the 38-year-old former outlaw’s tumultuous innings came to a close when she was shot dead by gunmen allegedly hired by high-caste Hindus. Phoolan, a
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      Lock icon Murdoch's affair led to break-up, says ex-wife
      256 10 -AFP MEDIA tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife, Anna, has finally broi ken her silence about V their break-up and n openly blamed him for causing the split. “I think that Ru- pert’s affair with Wendy Deng it’s not ■Qr an original plot was the
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      Lock icon Should volunteering be a way for singles to meet?
      296 10 At a National Volunteer Centre's conference on Monday, Ms Susan Ellis, a frequent writer of articles on volunteer management, suggested a "singles shift" where singles can volunteer together and get to know each other m I mm uJ mM M m
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      Lock icon Red Devils show their true colours
      525 11  -  The players were 'tired', so they skip TV appearance. And fans feel let down by 'Yvonne Kwok FIRST, they kept reporters and Singapore’s two shivering, sweat-soaked star players, Indra Sahdan and Nazri Nasir, waiting for half an hour before deigning to turn up for
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    • 3-day STREATS
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        Lock icon Early birds turn up to grab the worm
        162 12  -  by CARA van MIRIAH THEY came, they saw and they waited patiently. It was two hours before the Streats party at Sultan of Swing/Shanghai Sally’s at Central Mall began at 6.30 pm, but queues had already started forming. More than 400 enthusiastic
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    • Stephanie @the movies
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        Lock icon Bridget Jone's Diary
        94 13 Stephie's Choice Oirected by Sharon Maguire Starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth If you think that neurotic chicks only come in emaciated sizes (read: Size A for Ally), Jones is out to prove you wrong. Squinty-eyed Renee drops Texan drawl and goes Brit (the accent's spot
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        85 13 Golaugh Directed by Stephen Chow and Lee Lik Chi Starring Stephen Chow, Vicki Zhao Wei, Ng Man Tat The Tricky Master is unrelentless. You know he means serious business when he assembles a motley crew of the quirkiest-looking creatures in Hongkong showbiz (to put it nicely) to chortle
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        Lock icon Para Para Sakura
        86 13 Goromance Directed by Jingle Ma Starring Aaron Kwok, Cecilia Don't be fooled by Philip's (Aaron Kwok) attractive veneer. The poor man hides a secret he has had to live with, gasp, colour-blindness since birth. Dancer in the Dark this is not, though leads in both films are
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        84 13 Gocry Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi Starring Ming-na Wen, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Donald Sutherland The breathtaking dreamscapes and stunning lifelike computer animations will make you weep. Leave all expectations of a logical plot at home, and the beautifully freckled Dr Aki Ross and gang will leave
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        Lock icon Jurassic Park III
        79 13 Gothrill Directed by Joe Johnston Starring Sam Neill, Tea Leoni William H Macy, Laura Dern It's lizardfest, again. Watch humans scurry as unfriendly dinos stomp the earth (or rather a dysfunctional theme park known as Isla Sorna), again. Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill) gets stranded on the
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      Lock icon TV Works' must-see Tuesday
      272 15  -  by YVONNE KWOK IT was TV Works’ biggest coup yet. An average 313,000 people switched on to watch Singapore’s Lions take on English Premier League giants Manchester United live on the fledgling channel. This was the channel’s best ratings since its debut in May, when it
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      • Today's mustsee TV...
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          Lock icon PARADISE
          40 15 9.30 pm, TV Works Tension mounts when an island child is kidnapped by mistake. Ramon leads Jasmine and Anna to a rendezvous. Will Jasmine finally meet Don Fernando? Will someone’s bikini top finally fall off? That’s the bigger question.
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          Lock icon YOUNG MASTER OF SHAOLIN
          38 15 9pm, Channel U Huiqian is disheartened by his failure to leave Shaolin. He tries to kill himself but falls into a hole instead and thus sneaks out. San De is sent to capture him.
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          Lock icon BEAUTIFUL LIFE
          53 15 10.30 pm, Channel 8 Kyoko’s brother rents a house for her and Shuji. When Kyoko learns that Shuji lost her job when the salon closed down, she urges Shuji to work in a fashion show. Will Kyoko’s frail health allow her to attend the show? Find out in
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Change of guard at Marine Castle Exit Vest, enter Morgan
        421 18  -  by LIM HAN MING DON'T be surprised if you see two coaches on the Marine Castle bench when the Dolphins take on league leader Geylang United this Saturday. Dolphins’ coach Alan Vest will be in charge for the last time
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        Lock icon Thorpe beats rival for third world mark
        289 18 -AFP FUKUOKA, Japan lan Thorpe (right) did it again yesterday, taking his fourth world swimming championship gold and setting his third world record in four days. The Australian teenager blitzed his 200 m world mark and beat arch-rival Pieter van den Hoogenband in
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        Lock icon The Barthez humiliation
        523 19  -  by PETER SIOW SO did the fans and Team Singapore benefit from Manchester United’s visit? First, the fans. They paid good money tickets went for a minimum of $6O and were rewarded with a good performance. Some disagreed. They claimed United was not quite the dazzling outfit
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        Lock icon Ziege's nightmare at Anfield
        226 19 LONDON Former Liverpool Christian Ziege has blasted manager Gerard Houllier for turning his career at Anfield into a nightmare. Ziege, Tottenham Hotspur’s £5 million ($12.8 million) signing, has spoken for the first time about his disastrous season, and how Houllier broke his heart when he told
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        Lock icon Verbrugghe takes 15th stage
        105 19 •CYCLING Reuters LAVAUR, France Belgium’s Rik Verbrugghe won a head-to-head sprint with the Italian Marco Pinotti to take Tuesday’s 15th stage of the Tour de France, as Lance Armstrong and the rest of the favourites made a guarded return to active duty. Armstrong retained the lead
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      293 14 r 4* 1 The story today, As Jiang Yulang and Xiao Yuer push open the tin door, a lion skeleton falls on Jiang. Though shocked, Jiang keeps moving to keep up with Xiao Yuer. They find themselves in a room lined with drawers filled with poisons. They also find another
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