Streats, 21 August 2001

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  • 23 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 21 August 2001 Another quality publication of B 9 Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 440 1 WORKERS already dumped by employers could be in for another whammy discrimination. This is because retrenchment may be seen by future employers as an indictment of their skills or attitude. Thus the call, a first by a leading unionist, to employers: Don’t discriminate
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  • morning rush
    • 84 1 COMPUTER and printer maker Hewlett-Packard will this week start cutting jobs at its South-East Asia headquarters in Singapore. This is part of a global exercise to reduce its workforce by 6,000 jobs to trim expenses. Industry sources told The Business Times yesterday that HP’s 6,500-strong
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    • 92 1 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong’s unemployment rate rose to 4.7 per cent in July from 4.6 per cent in June. Government figures showed that the total labour force grew by 1,300 to 3.444 million in the three months to July, while the number of employed fell to 3.279
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 334 2  -  by' WINSTON CHONG THEY form just 10 per cent of the more than 12,000-strong student population at Temasek Polytechnic (TP). But foreign students walked away with half of the special awards conferred at TP’s graduation ceremony yesterday.
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    • 243 2  -  by KAREN CHEN HE was an officer cadet with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), was on the verge of a bright future. He had just graduated from the Temasek Polytechnic, and i last month, had received an SAF scholarship to study electrical engineering at
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    • 211 3 MUM'S not cooking? Then maybe you’d like to eat out, just like many Singaporeans do. Times are bad but that is precisely why you can get good value for money. Food outlets hit by the recession are cutting prices and offering special deals. Some operators
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    • 356 3  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM CHIA Ah Kow, 74, was so frail and sickly that he had to be helped by family members as he shuffled to the dock using an umbrella as a walking stick. The craggy, bespectacled man could barely stand upright in the
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    • 85 3 Today may be one of the few days that I actually welcome the thunderstorms in the afternoon in various areas. Besides bringing temperatures down, the rain also cleanses the sky of the sooty haze from the Indonesian fires. Temperatures will range between 25 °C and 32°
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    • 180 3 Just a minute In these bad times, you can turn to these organisations for help. CDCs: Job-matching services and skills-training programmes; financial aid to help families tide over a short period of time. Helpline *****44 1234. Self-help groups: These sponsor workers for the Skill Redevelopment Programme and run tuition
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    • 307 6  -  by SARAH NG THINK Centre yesterday set itself apart from other non-gov-ernment organisations (NGOs) saying that, unlike them, it does not fear reprisals. It was rebutting Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong who, in his National Day Rally speech on Sunday,
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    • 279 6 MAIDS are falling in love, and their employers are upset. Maid agencies and employers are working together to prevent Indonesian maids from getting involved in romance, the Berita Harian (BH) reported yesterday. Several employers now ask neighbours to keep an eye on their maids. They also
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    • 85 6 onekindact Commuter on bus No 74 COMPLIMENTS to the driver of Singapore Bus Services bus No 74, registration SBS 7223. On Aug 7, at about 10.30 pm, when passengers boarded at the stop in front of Singapore Polytechnic, the driver greeted everyone in English and Mandarin. It was
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    • 166 6 FORMER Think Centre directors James Gomez and Yaw Shin Leong have joined the Workers’ Party (WP). The party, gearing up for elections, is trying to inject new blood into the party. Mr Gomez, 36, and Mr Yaw, 25, are two of the many new names in
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    • news scan
      • 94 6  -  -Adam Hashidy AN 81-year-old woman was robbed of her gold necklace at the void deck of her home at Bukit Batok St 33 on Sunday. At about 2pm, Ms Gercke Lavan nee Sae Kow was returning home after delivering lunch to her friend’s place two blocks away
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      • 108 6  -  Deepa Vijiyasingam STRESS made Catholic Junior College student Ho Yuan Seng shoplift over $2OO worth of items from a supermarket on May 12, he claimed yesterday. His teachers at Chinese High School and his college have described him as intelligent, responsible and of“excellent moral fibre”. But there
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      • 73 6  -  Adam Hashidy A 52-YEAR-OLD woman’s wallet was stolen on Sunday in a Waterloo Street temple. It was the first day of the Hungry Ghost month, and the temple was packed. At about 1.40 pm, she placed her handbag at her side when she knelt down to
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  • Streatsmart interchange
    • 219 4 I REFER to “Cut Noise on MRT Trains”, a letter by Chen Jinjuang (Streats, July 23). Our MRT trains meet the strict specifications determined by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). The brushes at the doors’ edge that the writer refers to cover rubber
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    • 186 4 THANKS to Kimberley and Mrs Lee for their feedback about night cabbies like me (Streats, Aug 20). We are earning less mainly because of the economic downturn and the Nightßider buses. Everyone does their best to take a bus or an MRT train including me.
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    • 137 4 I REFER to “Maid levy cut won’t help poor”, a response by Ms Jean Tan of the Ministry of Manpower (Streats, Aug 13) to Lionel Ng’s suggestion. She mentioned double tax relief on the levy paid by working women who employ foreign domestic
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    • 58 4 MY regards for providing an informative and interesting newspaper, but I wish people would have more courtesy, and not push it in my face and the faces of others in the MRT trains. Most of your readers who travel in the MRT during
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    • 58 4 IN Streatsmart Interchange yesterday, we ran “Are we paying to school foreigners?” by a writer who signed off as Captain Goh Tok Sek. Master mariner Captain Goh Toh Sek clarified that he didn’t write the letter. To prevent recurrences of this, we ask letter writers toi give
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    • 47 4 hgyeyoursgy_ Streats is pleased to publish your views. To be heard, email us atstreats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. You should include your name, address and contact number. If 11 LL j buzzus if you know something we don't! 1800-844-5566 SrntTS
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 225 7 -AFP MANILA China has demanded an explanation from Manila over the deaths of two kidnapped Chinese during a rescue bid by the Philippine military. Ambassador Wang Chungui made an “urgent” visit to the Philippine Foreign Ministry yesterday to “express deep concern”
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    • 251 7 -AP HONGKONG Warships arrived in Hongkong yesterday in the biggest port call by the US military since a fatal air incident strained ties between Beijing and Washington. The commander of the aircraft carrier USS Constellation, Admiral Terrance Etnyre, assured that there was “no big
      -AP; Pic: AFP  -  251 words
    • 74 7 Wire services Engineer Mr Zhang Zongquiang was abducted on June 20. His brother, Mr Zhang Zhongyi, colleagues Mr Xue Xin and Mr Wang Shengli, and local businessman Mr Edwin Lim were snatched on Aug 12 when they tried to pay a five million peso ($170,000) ransom.
      – Wire services  -  74 words
    • 165 7 Reuters MANILA Fire exits in the Manila hotel where 78 people in a fire last weekend were padlocked or obstructed. The five-storey Manor Hotel in the suburb of Quezon City had no smoke detectors and its fire alarm system wasn’t working, a report by
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    • 145 7 .-AFP BEIJING Four Chinese students have been arrested in northern China after they allegedly helped a teacher kill her husband, the official Life Times newspaper reported yesterday. Wang Xiaoling, an engineering professor at Qinghuangdao Polytechnic in Hebei province, at first asked four male
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    • weird world
      • 79 7 Reuters DEDICATED bakers from the Italian town of Orentano showed their love for Ferrari when they unveiled an entire racing car that’s ready to eat. Made of 40,000 cream pies and decorated with almond paste, custard cream and chocolate, the sm-long confectionery version of Michael Schumacher’s
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      • 82 7 -AP A CHOCOLATE bar buried 60 years ago in a metre of South Pole ice by Admiral Richard Byrd’s third expedition is headed back to its manufacturer for display. The Hershey Chocolate Corp 1937 Field Ration Bar was buried by Adm Byrd’s team between 1939
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      • 124 7 Cost of peace stolen art -AFP NEW YORK A letter received by New York’s Jewish Museum has set peace in the Middle East as the price for the return of a stolen Marc Chagall painting, The New York Times reported yesterday. The museum has received a letter from someone claiming
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      • 88 7 -AFP FLAT dwellers in Dubai are barred from drying clothes on balconies to preserve the city’s “public cleanliness and good image”. Dubai’s municipal council said it spoils “the good image and beauty of the city as well as the facades and balconies of its buildings,” the Gulf
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    • 256 8 Not part of'go-slow'action, says union chief -AP HONGKONG Cathay Pacific cancelled six flights early yesterday, saying several pilots have called in sick. The pilots’ action is reportedly part of a go-slow agitation, which they have been staging since July. Cathay scrapped flights from
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    • 145 8 Reuters JAKARTA A high-level International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation met President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday at the start of a visit that could lead to the resumption of funds for the country. The international lending institution is hoping to reach agreement with Indonesia on the number
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    • 181 8 GUANGDONG, China A Chinese couple kept their child’s dead body in a freezer for 20 months as evidence in a legal suit they are filing against the hospital where he was delivered. Baby Xingliang’s parents claim the child was delivered improperly causing
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    • 149 8 Reuters TOKYO Mr Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to the Yakusuni shrine has raised international hackles, but his people support him. Two in three Japanese think he did the right thing in visiting the shrine to the country’s war dead on Aug 13 instead of two
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 334 9 Growth rates in leading economies retreating fasterthan eversince 1973 oil shock: Paper WASHINGTON The global economy is experiencing a rare simultaneous slump, reported The New York Times yesterday. The latest indices for world economic growth show that regional economic powers Singapore and Japan,
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    • Article, Illustration
      59 9 A British woman being electronically scanned at the London College of Fashion in central London yesterday. Ten thousand Britons are being manually and electronically measured in a month-long joint government and retail survey to assess the size of the male and female form in Britain. The survey
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    • 93 9 -AFP CAPE TOWN, South Africa Primary school children here are being offered a class project that requires them to plan and “execute” an armed robbery. The teaching module is the brainchild of SkoolCor, a Cape Town-based publishing company. The teaching aid, titled“ Guilty or Not
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    • 167 9 -Reuters NEW YORK When the Daily News asked readers to suggest a title for former President Bill Clinton’s memoirs, the ideas ranged from the sexy “Crouching Intern, Hidden Cigar”to the serious,“My Journey to the Presidency”. On Sunday the newspaper published readers’ picks for Mr
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    • 131 9 Woman, 71, hits 1.9m jackpot Reuters LISBON, Portugal A 71-year-old Portuguese woman has hit a $l.l million ($1.9 million) slot-machine jackpot, an amount thought to be a European record, a casino spokesman said. The woman won the money at the Casino Estoril in seaside suburbs west of Lisbon, casino spokesman
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 333 10 Reuters LONDON Now who is this man so close to Madonna? Think Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard. Oops. We’ve given the answer away. The man pictured with the Material Girl is Mr Alf Weaver who spent 35 years as bodyguard to the stars. He stood guard
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    • 169 10 LONDON Mr Donald Woods, the crusading l South African antiapartheid newspa- per editor immorI talised in the film, I Cry Freedom, died fon Sunday in England. Mr Woods, 67, V who had been ill with cancer for the past two years, died in a hospi- tal south
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    • 308 10 On Sunday night Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong delivered his 11th National Day Rally address where he talked about a New Strategy for a New Singapore Just 1 one question What struck me the most was that although Singapore has advanced tremendously
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  • easy STREATS
    • Take another look TV WORKS
      • 453 11  -  With distinct time blocks, TV Works hopes to make it easier for viewers to rememember what's on when by DIANA SER from next month, TV Works invites you to Take Another Look. Yes, the three-month-old English-lan-guage station will undergo yet another metamorphosis. A new look, new
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      • 317 12  -  Don't ask what the Mole is. Catch its local debut on TV Works next month, and the question on your lips will be'Who is the Mole?' by STEPHANIE GOH GET ready to find the Mole. But if visions of Phua Chu Kang’s quivering trademark are, by
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      • 622 13  -  So says TV Works senior vice-president Andrea Teo. With Paradise and Big Buffet coming to premature ends, does this spell the beginning of the end for local programming on the 3-month-old channel? by Diana Ser Tellytubby Yvonne Kwok is on leave Q: Do you
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      • channel scan
        • Today's must-see TV
          • Article, Illustration
            41 13 8.30 pm, TV Works Tonight, Karen takes a walk over water on a kelong, visits a mediaeval sword boutique and a tortoise museum, and learns how an open-air chapel brought peace of mind to thousands of WW2 k POWs.
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          • 37 13 10.30 pm, Channel U Zu, Dong and Ji find the best doctors to treat Hai. Yao sends his henchmen kill Lin and forces Li to take the blame for Lin’s murder.
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          • 40 13 10.30 pm, Channel 8 After Ren Ying Ying saves Ding’s life, they become good friends. Meanwhile, Linghu Chong has been strongly recommended to lead the troops to Shaolin to save Ren’s life. Unfortunately, Ren is caught.
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          • 45 13 10pm, Central It centres around two showgirls a gold-digging blonde and a good-hearted brunette. The blonde hopes to marry her wealthy fiance, and when the two girls go to Paris, the fiance’s father hires a detective. Stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe.
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 508 17  -  Swimmer Joscelin Yeo and discus thrower James Wong are almost certain to bag gold medals at the South-east Asia Games at Kuala Lumpur next month. But what about the minnows? For sure, they are not going there to make up the numbers. Streats continues its SEA Games countdown
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      • 292 17 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR -The 50 for eign coaches in Malaysia would be sacked if their proteges fail to deliver at the South-east Asia (SEA) Games next month. Their paymasters the National Sports Council (NSC) has read the riot act, and their contracts will be
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      • 164 17 Armed Forces FC goalkeeper Hassan has been advised rest for two 6e ks after spraining his shoulder in the c h against Tampines Rovers last Saturday, ri 26-year-old national custodian looks ü btful for next Tuesday’s Singapore Cup against Geylang United, and will lSs the
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      • Article, Illustration
        542 19 Man U shows little awareness at the back BBC online, wire services ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE MANCHESTER Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson may be taking a hard look at his slipshod defence, but he was quick to give credit to Premier League newcomer Fulham, especially striker Louis Saha. Fulham’s
        – BBC online, wire services; Pic: AFP  -  542 words
      • 376 19 -AP PGA CHAMPIONSHIP DULUTH, Georgia A vocal minority was chanting “Go Tiger, Go Tiger”, from the swelling galleries all around the Atlanta Athletic Club on Sunday. The object of their affection was not Tiger Woods, but a Louisiana State University Tiger of a different stripe.
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      • SOCCER
        • 131 19 -ap MILAN Ronaldo returned to action for Inter Milan in a friendly match on Sunday, scoring and setting up a goal to raise hopes for his Serie A comeback this season. The Brazilian striker started the charity game against Nigerian champion Enyimba, his first appearance since rupturing
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        • 77 19 -AP LONDON Former Manchester United and Coventry goalkeeper Les Sealey has died of a heart attack aged 43. Sealey, who left his position as West Ham goalkeeping coach at the end of last season, died on Sunday. He had spent Saturday watching his two sons, George
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous

  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 479 12 Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 mmmi MAY 21 JUN 21 imm SEP 23 OCT 22 Choose your team from the best available candidates. The Libra moon feeds you all relevant data in easily digestible bites. If your local culture is somehow lacking, expand
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    • 131 13 Here's what Cynthia Lee, star of Ah Girl, has to say: I don't usually wear a lot of make-up... But I'd probably go for non-dumpy mascara that curls your eyelashes. It will make your eyes look bigger and more appealing. Using an eyelash curler might pull your eyelashes out. I
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 277 14 I m v 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 of all,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 28 19 SOCCER Intertoto Cup final, 2nd leg: Newcastle United v Troyes (Super Sports Ch 22, tomorrow, 2.40 am). EPL: Arsenal v Leeds United (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 2.50 am)
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