Streats, 13 August 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MONDAY 13 August 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 77 1 Pay cut and thrust Think Centre: ...ft isthe moral imperative that the ministers of the country also share in the plight of poor Singaporeans, not as a token gesture, but one based on solidarity and brotherhood. Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister without Portfolio and NTUC Secretary-General: It/s very simple. The
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  • morning rush
    • 105 1 A NUCLEAR bomb, 100 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, is lying 10km off the east coast of the US, the news.com.au website reported yesterday. Until now one of the most closely guarded secrets in US military history, its existence has been
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    • 103 1 -AP LONDON -The Worldwide Fund for Nature, best known for its efforts to protect the panda and other endangered animal species, has won a court battle against the World Wrestling Federation over the use of the initials WWF. Justice Robin Jacob ruled that the wrestling group
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  • 596 1  -  by SARAH NG AMID the chorus of calls for Singapore to ride the Chinese dragon, a word of rational caution from a man with extensive first-hand experience. Seize the opportunities of doing business in China, but do so for
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    • 65 1 Pic: Francis Lee -j mi i n by SAI AMU to ric ratio] exten Se B*W€4m HI China's business customs China's girls Q China's demands on commitment 0 China's demands on investment MY EGO-TRIP TO CHINA: SEE PEOPLE, PAGE 9 ness l son, Parlia Minis He still r< Chan as
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 423 2  -  by ADAM HASHIDY MINISTERS and top civil servants will take a pay cut just like everybody else when the economy goes down, said Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng yesterday. “It is very simple. The pay of ministers
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    • 134 2 THE Housing and Development Board’s (HDB) pilot Build-to-order (BTO) flats at four sites in Sembawang and Sengkang have been well-received by the public. At the end of May, the HDB received 3,300 applications for the 2,580 flats available. Most were for the premium flats
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    • Heartland upgrades
      • 136 2 MORE than 300 residents at Jurong East Street 21 attended a briefing yesterday to find out what their neighbourhood could look like. Besides covered linkways, there could be a basketball court with a spectator stand, a clock tower, a foot reflexology corner, pavilions, a fitness corner, anti-junk mailboxes
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      • 97 2 TWO more centres the market and food centre at Block 347, Jurong East Ave 1 and the Dunman Road Food Centre at Joo Chiat will be even more pleasant places to go to next year. Disruption to their business will be minimal. The hawkers will have temporary
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    • 314 3  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM BUSINESSMAN Tay Teng Joo, the youngest son of the founder and chairman of the SUTL group of companies, Tay Choon Hye, was the man kidnapped in Bukit Timah on Friday. Mr Tay Jr is himself a
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    • 221 3 BELIEVE elderly people when they say they’re in pain. Recent studies show that up to 80 per cent of elderly people suffer from chronic pain. That figure does not include those not reporting their pain, or those whose reports of pain were ignored by doctors.
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    • news scan
      • 113 3 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) still sees room for a further fall in petrol prices, following the latest round of price-cuts. Case urged consumers to continue using pumps with the best prices in spite of long queues. It praised motorists for heeding its call
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      • 96 3 AN 87-YEAR-OLD woman on her way home after a hospital visit returned to the hospital there after the car she was in ran into two other cars on the Ayer Rajah Expressway on Friday evening. Madam Leong Lai Soh had no visible injuries, but complained
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      • 83 3 ON Saturday evening, a 25-year-old cleaning company manager died after he was flung out of his car in Upper Paya Lebar Road. Mr Peh Kok Leong was on his way home when he lost control of his Honda on a bend. His car crashed into
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    • 170 5 A GAS deliveryman narrowly escaped being hit by a falling glass louvre panel at Blk 20 Lorong 7 Toa Payoh on Saturday morning. At 10.15 am, after completing his delivery to a shop on the ground floor, he was about to leave when he met the
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    • 186 5 THE Singapore Management University will start its third school the School of Economics and Social Sciences next year with a first intake of 50 students. This was announced by Minister for Education and Second Minister for Defence Rear-Adm (NS) Teo Chee Hean at SMU’S
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    • 96 5 onekindact Carol IT WAS a new car. My husband and I had just got it, and we drove it to Marina Square last Saturday. When we found parking space, my husband could not get the car into it. A man directed us into the parking lot. We
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    • 82 5 GO out and enjoy the day and leave your Monday blues at home. The skies will be slightly hazy with the PSI at a moderate 58. But otherwise, it'll be a warm, sunny day with temperatures reaching a maximum of 33°C. You can also take a
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    • Just a minute
      • 80 5 Check this out Do you have a great idea that will benefit the public and community? Why not share them with others and win some cash to boot. Between $5OO and $3,000 are up for graps in the Excellence in Public Suggestions Award. Send in your ideas to: PS2I Quality
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      • 57 5 Remember Those looking for a job can turn to the Ministry of Manpower's career centre at Havelock Road (tel 438 5122) or visit the website at www.employmenttown.gov.sg. There are 400 vacancies for sales assistants and customer service workers, security guards, food preparation and handling assistants in food courts and in
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  • Streatsmart interchange
    • 348 4 LIONEL Ng had suggested that the Ministry of Manpower classify foreign domestic workers (FDWs) as a separate sub-category from other foreign workers and reduce the FDW levy to lighten the burden on households (“Rethink Foreign Worker Levy”, Streats, July 30). The primary objective of
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 283 6 -AFP TAIPEI Authorities in Taiwan have vowed to prevent a panic run on the country’s banks amid moves to overhaul 36 troubled financial insritutions in the island’s biggest ever banking reform, officials and media reports said yesterday. In
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    • 205 6 -AFP JAKARTA Australian Prime Minister John Howard met new Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday after he flew in on a mission to strengthen fragile ties between the two neighbours. Mr Howard, the first foreign leader to meet Ms Megawati since she replaced the sacked Abdurrahman Wahid, held
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    • 89 6 -AP KUALA LUMPUR An official crackdown on pirated and pornographic videos has been extended to materials with political content, newspapers said yesterday. Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung said the government will target them in the same way as pornographic videos, the New Sunday Times reported.
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    • 147 6 -Reuters BANGKOK The death toll from flash floods that swept through three remote villages in northern Thailand on Saturday has risen to 73. Nearly 100 people were still missing, said rescue officials yesterday. Searching one damaged house, rescuers had found six bodies from
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    • 120 6 "SPECTACULAR MEGA-MUSICAL" The Straits Times CAMERON MACKINTOSH'S production of M?SS Saigon A MUSICAL BY ALAIN BOUBLIL AND CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Wb&sWM AN m 1 ft I fey 4 ATE 1 Au Limited t 17 August -Soft Id Out 18 August Sold Id Out 19 August Sold mmencing 21
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  • Streatsmart global
    • Middle East on short fuse
      • 133 8 -AFP JERUSALEM In its crack down against Islamic militants, Israel yesterday took over a Palestinian telecommunications centre in the district of Abu Dis near east Jerusalem. Earlier, Israel drew international condemnation from the Arab world when its security forces closed down Orient House, the unofficial
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      • 99 8 Reuters JERUSALEM Militant group, Hamas, said that Palestinian authorities had arrested four of its members yesterday. It said the arrests were made because the Israelis believed that one of them had dispatched the suicide bomber. Hassan Yousef, a Hamas official, said Palestinian forces arrested Abdallah
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      • 74 8 Reuters GAZA A Palestinian court sentenced a Palestinian to death by firing squad yesterday for providing Israel with information to kill a member of President Yasser Arafat’s elite security unit. After a four-hour trial held over three days, Khalid Okka was sentenced to death for helping Israel
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    • 127 8 LONDON Microsoft UK has launched a campaign to encourage staff to stop working very hard. Bosses will make a donation to local children’s charities whenever employees leave before 5.30 pm. Microsoft wants its Club 17.30 scheme to improve staff performance by reducing
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    • 92 8 -AFP BERLIN The German federal drugs agency yesterday confirmed reports that suspicions over the safety of the anti-cholesterol drug Lipobay/Baycol were first aroused in 1998. Its German manufacturer Bayer withdrew the drug from market on Wednesday. A report in Monday’s edition of the
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    • weird world
      • 82 8 THE Day My Bum Went Psycho, a children’s book, has been withdrawn from a literacy campaign in Australia, Ananova.com reported. Education chiefs say the book, which features the megalomaniac Great Unwiped Bum, is inappropriate. The book’s hero fights kamikaze bottoms, including one called the Stenchgantor. Its front
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      • 105 8 A 90-YEAR-OLD man was killed after a fight with a love rival, 93, an inquest heard last week. Mr Charles Knox was bowled over by a “nasty punch” at Firlands Sheltered Housing, north of London, in January and died 11 days later in hospital, the
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      • 96 8 A MONKEY attended an economics class in India and “read” a holy book. Students at Madanpur Mahabir college were stunned when the 1.3 m tall monkey walked into an economics lecture at noon yesterday, reported Sify News. Students say he went straight to a vacant bench,
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 629 9  -  by SARAH NG A STINT in China can do things to the ego, as Mr Chan Soo Sen will testify. The Senior Parliamentary Secretary in (Prime Minister’s Office and of Health) Ministry confessed that his ego has “become smaller” since his
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    • 768 10 eDucation Success AN ADVERTISING FEATURE Cool lecturer wins the dsy How an innovative lecturer at Informatics’ IGCOL helped her honours students shine! DRUM roll, please...! And the Innovative Private Lecturers 2001 award goes to Ms Ng Lee Cher, a lecturer at the Informatics Group Centre for Open Learning, or IGCOL.
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  • easy STREATS
    • 443 11  -  y' ,\Y 'V /> Jeanette Aw easily Hull ner reuow mxm mate°!but how soon can she, if ever, catch up with the likes of k KymNg w unci by YVONNE KWOK THINK of the big female stars of Channel U and the names that leap
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    • 177 11 j CASH Is King is the first of two serials in which Jeanette Aw will pair off with fellow Route To Glamour mate Adam Chen. The pair also play lovers on Touched, the serial touted I to be Channel U’s version of I the American series Sex And
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    • 376 12  -  wosnm by. Judi Low Picky foodies are even pickier about where and what they eat these days-no thanks to the economic slowdown. But does this mean you have to settle for less than tasty, nutritious fare until the economic storm clouds blow over? Not if you watch this
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    • 84 12 CHANNEL U artistes Evelyn I Tan, Irin Gan, Bernard Tan and f Bryan Wong are the stars of an educational documentary on conflict resolution through community mediation. The 13-part series, You’re OK, I’m OK, whose first half- hour episode was shown yesterday
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • Article, Illustration
          45 12 9.30 pm, TV Works K F Seetoh goes to the “Far East” our far east, that is East Coast, Pasir Ris, Bedok and Tampines. Besides a run- down on food, the series ofk fers inside- track and 1 off-beat I stories [about the area.
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        • 47 12 7pm, Channel 5 Dolph Lundgren, Francoise Robertson, Roc Lafortune star in this action tale of a key that is supposed to unleash the spirits of the ultimate evil. Dolph is a monk who must stop the key getting into the wrong hands.
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    • easyStreats sports
      • WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2001
        • 411 17 10 Yegorova ;Rus 15mins 03.39 secs O M Dominguez Spa yL 15:06.59 Q A Worku Eth O 15:10.17 Wire services EDMONTON, Canada Controversial Russian Olga 0 Yegorova was booed on her way h. to claiming the 5,000 m title on Saturday (yesterday, Singapore time).
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        • 90 17 -AP Marion Jones won her final race at the World Championships, anchoring the US women’s 400 m relay team to an impressive victory in 41.71 sec. Jones padded the lead built by Kelli White, Chryste Gaines and Inger Miller. Their time was the world’s best this
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        • 95 17 -AFP CUBA'S Ivan Pedroso got his timing just right to win his fourth consecutive world outdoor title. The Sydney Olympic champion jumped 8.40 m, followed by American Savante Stringfellow with 8.24 m. Portugal’s Carlos Calado won the bronze, but only on countback, as both
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      • 426 19  -  by' TAN KIM HAN SINGAPORE POOLS CHALLENGE CUP Singapore v Thailand (Bpm, National Stadium) HE was a late starter, having kicked a ball only at the age of 16. But Ong Leong Koen’s (below) flight to the top is no less
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      • 384 19  -  by TAN KIM HAN SEMBAWANG Rangers’ goalkeeper Yazid Yasin is out for two weeks following an operation to remove a chipped bone in his ankle. Because of this, the 22-year-old may miss the South-east Asia (SEA) Games because of lack of match practice. The
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      • SOCCER
        • 125 19 -Reuters CARDIFF A Gary McAllister penalty after just over a minute, and a typical poacher’s finish by Michael Owen in the 16th minute gave Liverpool a 2-1 victory over Manchester United in a hardfought Charity Shield yesterday. Ruud van Nistelrooy got United’s goal early in
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        • 67 19 ABOUT 200 fans swamped Golden Mile Complex yesterday afternoon at a pre-match roadshow by the Thai team. During the two-hour long session, Thai internationals Tawan Sripan and Niweat Siriwong, and even Thai coach Peter Withe, entertained fans with juggling acts. Complimentary tickets for tonight’s Singapore Pools
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      • 79 19 ►GOLF -AP KUALA LUMPUR Thailand’s Thaworn Wiratchant continued his superb run in the Asian PGA Tour by winning the Volvo Masters here yesterday. The 34-year-old Thaworn fired a final round score of four-under-par 68 to win by three strokes ahead of joint overnight leader American Scott
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 491 13 If it's your birthday today, you share it with a Sharon Au Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Who knew that the interaction of two Air signs could produce such Fire? The moon may be in Gemini, but the cosmic presence of Leo ensures a few fun days of
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    • 61 14 Tell us, what turns you on? The choice is yours. So far, we've brought you Young Guns, Impeccable Twins, Sour Pack, Duke of Mount Deer and May's Dreams. If you have to pick just one, which would it be? Or would you prefer to read more i entertainment news. i
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 474 14 easy: JL-, \tm3i s i The story is about... Yuan Jian Ping who gets more 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 classes. Most
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 232 15 The story today... Nothing wouid move Jiang Yuiang to save the drowning Xiao Mimi, not even her vows to haunt him for the rest of his life. After all, the martial arts manual will make Jiang the most powerful man in the pugilistic fraternity. But when Xiao Yuer disagrees, the
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    • 117 16 Giordano Planet Of The Apes 10.30 am, 2.45 pm, 5, 7.15, 9.30 The Legend Of Zu [Mandarin] 11.30 am, 1.30 pm, 3.30, 5.30, 7.30, 9.30 Para Para Sakura [Mandarin] 10.40 am, 12.50 pm, 3, 5.15, 7.30, 9.45 The Legend Of Zu [Mandarin] 10.10 am, 11,12.25 pm, 2.40, 4.55, 5.15, 7.15,
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1629 16 EWI2 Bugis UA Bugis Junction 337-9655 Planet Of The Apes 11am, 1.30 pm, 4, 6.30, 9 Kiss Of The Dragon 10.45 am, 12.45 pm, 5, 7.15, 9.15 Scary Movie R(A) 11.15 am, 1.15 pm, 5.15, 9.30 Bridget Jone’s Diary 2.45 pm, 7 Jurassic Park 3 3.15 pm EW3 cont'd The
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 25 19 Inthelivingroom DELAYED TELECAST: GOLF: PGA Tour: Buick Open, final rd (Star Sports Ch24,2pm and City TV, 11pm). TENNIS: Masters Series Cincinnati: Men's final (ESPN Ch23,8.30pm).
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