Streats, 24 August 2001

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    18 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets Another quality publication of am Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • morning rush
    • Article
      Lock icon More JC, poly places
      75 1 THERE'LL be more junior college places by 2005. With junior college enrolment expected to jump by up to a third to more than 30,000 by 2005, four new junior colleges and a fifth polytechnic are to be built. The first of the four new junior colleges,
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      Lock icon Optus OK for SingTel
      78 1 TWO key obstacles to SingTel’s takeover of Cable and Wireless Optus was cleared yesterday. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation confirmed that national security would not be at risk even though Optus shares satellites with the military. The US State Department, which has to be consulted because
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      Lock icon FDI: S'pore No 2
      61 1 SINGAPORE has fallen to No 2 in Asia in foreign direct investments (FDI) by US companies, according to a consulting firm. Deloitte Consulting based its conclusions mainly on US Department of Commerce data. After winning Asia’s highest level of FDI in 1999, Singapore fell to No
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    Lock icon China eye-opener
    487 1  -  Chinese students more competitive, say poly students after 43-day stint by KHUSHWANT SINGH Dear PM, Here’s a story of three young Singaporeans who have grown up and grown up fast (43 days to be exact) to the reality of China’s challenge. The 43 days were spent in Beijing,
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      Lock icon Retrenchment stigma
      321 2  -  None, say employers It exists, say employees by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM CHRISTOPHER, 27, was axed from his job as an engineering assistant at the height of the financial crisis in September 1997 and took three years to get another job. He declined to reveal his full name as he did
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      Lock icon Cholesterol drug warning
      120 2 STATIN drugs, prescribed for people with high cholesterol, may cause complications in some patients. If the patients suffer from muscle aches while using the drugs, they should see a doctor, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has warned. The five statin drugs available here are: Lipitor (atorvastatin), Mevacor
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    • Article
      Lock icon SIA launches US$1 Singapore stopover
      129 2 Reuters SPEND a night in Singapore, it’ll only cost you US$l ($1.75). Singapore Airlines yesterday launched a stopover promotion to woo more passengers in the face of tough economic times by offering hotel rooms from US$l a night. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to boost and
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      Lock icon Reporter Khushwant Singh marvels at his fellow Sikh's Mandarin ability Amarpreet's a hit in China
      325 3 HE bowled over the mainland Chinese with his command of Mandarin. Yet he doesn’t even have a school grade to account for his ability. And to top it off, he’s a Sikh. No wonder, wherever
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      Lock icon Mum confident scholar will return
      285 3 YES, Prime Minister. “I am confident my daughter will return to Singapore”, said the mother of Ms Fazeela Abdul Rashid, one of the two young scholars the Prime Minister spoke of in his National Day Rally speech. Mr Goh Chok Tong cited the chemical engineering
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    • news scan
      • Article
        Lock icon Fined for punch-up
        69 3  -  -Zubaidah Nazeer GOLFER Gopal Maganathan, 31, was fined the maximum $l,OOO for punching another man in China Jump discotheque last month. On July 13, Maganathan was bothered by talk that Mr Lim Soon Siang, 34, had harrassed some female patrons. When Mr Lim denied his accusations, he
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      • Article
        Lock icon Holiday of crime
        99 3  -  -Zubaidah Nazeer THREE Colombians spent their holiday here with crime on their minds. On June 2, Escalante Ismael, 66, Forero Zipa Alvaro, 42 and Valeriano Parra Luis Antonio, 49, waited outside a Citibank booth at Orchard Road. When Ms Mary Mathew, 26, approached, Ismael and Alvaro dropped
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        Lock icon Tutor robbed in lift
        83 3 A 21-YEAR-OLD student on her way to give a tuition lesson was robbed in a lift on Tuesday evening. Ms Ho Koh Him entered a lift at Blk 478 Pasir Ris Drive 4 at about Bpm.Two men followed her in. Once the door closed, one man
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      Lock icon Ghosts made me do it
      230 4  -  He burst into flat armed with cleaver by f ZUBAIDAH NAZEER HE'D broken the law 15 times already. On July 29, he did so again. This time, he blamed it on ghosts. At about 3.45 am that night, Lim Cheng Siah, 37, was rudely awakened
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      Lock icon Capacitor cheats strike again
      149 4  -  by /ADAM HASHIDY SHE thought she was buying high-prof-it electrical components. Instead she was duped of $l,BOO the second victim of such a scam. Madam Lim Poh Tin, 53, was approached by a man at Toa Payoh Central on Monday. He said he’d dropped some capacitors
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      Lock icon Oops
      111 4 In yesterday’s Streats (“Execs can join unions’), we incorrectly stated that executives were unable to join a trades union. In fact executives can join rank-and-file unions as general branch members. The law to be amended would allow executives to be represented by rank-and-file unions in retrenchment, unfair dismissal, victimisation
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      Lock icon SDP rally off
      100 4 -Aft THE Singapore Democratic Party (SDP has called off a planned political ralty saying yesterday that a permit from th< police came too late. Approval from the police licensing division came only four days before th< planned rally on Sunday, SDP assistan secretary general Wong Hong Toy
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      Lock icon $26,000 reward for laptop left on plane
      150 5 Reuters HAVE you found a notebook computer on a Singapore Airlines flight from Hongkong? There’s a US$l5,OOO ($26,296) reward for its safe return, no questions asked. The unusual appeal appeared in four-column advertisements in The Business Times and The Straits Times yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      94 5 Our weather girl says In the movie Sleepless in Seattle, Tom Hanks said it rains there nine months in a year. Does that make the city of Starbucks and Microsoft like Singapore? With a thunderstorm looming in the morning over the northern, western and southern regions (again) today, it sure
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      Lock icon Thai PM in Singapore Small business the new priority
      254 5 THE days when the Thai economy was driven by cheap labour, exports and multinational corporations are over. Hence, as part of its “dualtrack” development plan, the new Thai government is planning to make the small man its top priority, Thai Prime
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      Lock icon AH, EYE KNOW YOU:
      62 5 AH, EYE KNOW YOU: Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association patients can look forward to faster registration with the Iris Recognition Technology shown here. A computer will match the iris the coloured part of the eye with his medical records. Once he has been identified, he will get a
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon Remember...
        73 5 Singaporeans who missed out on the CPF top-up scheme the last time are getting a second chance. To qualify, they should put at least 100 into their CPF accounts by Oct 31. The top-up of between $5OO and 1,700 goes to those above 21 who contributed at least $lOO
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        91 5 All who missed Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's National Day Rally speech, can now log on to www.gov.sg/SGIP/NDR to read the speeches, which he delivered in English, h Mandarin and Malay. The Mandarin and Malay I speeches will be 1 translated into English. I The site also
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  • Streatsmart column
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      Lock icon Service standards – let's be good, but different
      554 6 Service standards let's be good, but different I DON'T usually eavesdrop on other people’s conversations, especially if they are strangers. But if they occupy the entire walkway and amble along at the speed of an ailing tortoise, one doesn’t really have a choice. That was how I found out last
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      253 7 We want 50gora people; Female magazine is going on an island wide hunt for 50 Gorgeous People. If you have what it takes to be on our hit list, we’d like to meet you. eous Date 25 August 2001, Saturday. Time 12pm to 7pm. Venue Shaw House (facing escalators leading
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  • Streatsmart interchange
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      Lock icon Set rules and save maids
      207 9 I REFER to the article “Another maid falls to her death” (Streats, Aug 22). I have had two maids over a period of four years. When I instructed them to do household chores, I always told them the do’s and don’ts. Never assume that the
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    • Article
      Lock icon No room for the average student
      175 9 I WOULD like to comment on the article “Education system drives talent out” (Streats, Aug 20). The education system is rather rigid. There is too much emphasis on the elite, leaving little or no room for the mediocre. My sentiments are shared by my
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    • Article
      Lock icon Let us export local talent
      111 9 I REFER to the article The young and the rootless (Streats, Aug 16). With the Government bringing foreign talent into the country, many potential job positions are being “robbed” by these foreigners. Fresh graduates inevitably feel threatened. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Amien Rais will hold his tongue for now Mega 'has 6 months'
      258 10 -afp JAKARTA Indonesia’s parliamentary speaker Amien Rais has given President Megawati Sukarnoputri six months to improve the economy. “I give three to six months for Mega to work. If within that period there is no improvement (in the
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    • Article
      Lock icon M'sia escapes recession for now
      169 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia escaped recession in the three months to June with gross domestic product (GDP) growing one per cent from the first quarter. The economy grew 0.5 per cent year-on-year in the quarter to June, hit by a sharper-than-expected 6.7 per cent slump
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      Lock icon Hanson: Learn from Singapore
      205 10 SYDNEY Politician Pauline Hanson resurfaced yesterday to back the flogging of rapists and Singapore-style laws to deliver harsh justice. She talked to the press in Gunnedah, in north-west New South Wales, after almost two weeks out of contact from her party, the Sydney Morning Herald reported
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      Lock icon Cold killed young climber
      121 10 -AP KOTA KINABALU A lost girl died of hypothermia in high winds and near-freezing temperatures on Mt Kinabalu, police said yesterday. The body of British teenager Ellie James (left), 17, was autopsied on Wednesday after a daylong struggle to bring it down from the mountain. Police
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      Lock icon Hi Games, bye Old Beijing
      305 11 Century-old buildings being destroyed before 2008 Olympics -afp BEIJING Century-old houses are being torn down in Old Beijing to “spruce up” the city for the 2008 Olympics. The plan to ‘beautify’ Beijing before the Games has seen vast funds being allocated to redevelop old districts.
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    • Article
      Lock icon 'Pentagon' taking hostages
      198 11 -AFP Philippines rebel group calls itself The Pentagon butkidnaps forransom MANILA A new Muslim kid-nap-for-ransom group bearing the title of the US defence department is flexing its muscles in the southern Philippines. “The Pentagon”, a bandit group of renegade members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, executed
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    • Article
      Lock icon S Korea pays off IMF, ends nightmare
      134 11 -AFP SEOUL South Korea’s central bank chief signed a final cheque for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday, ending the country’s financial crisis nightmare. Finance and Economy Minister Jin Nyum said that clearing the IMF rescue package was a “historic” event. Bank of
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Fastest Pentium to be launched amid price war Intel to cut chip prices by 50%
      209 13 -AP SANTA CLARA You can expect cheaper computers soon. Semiconductor giant Intel is expected to slash prices of its processors as it releases its fastest chip to date a Pentium 4 that runs at a
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon 'Girl', 71, pestered
        80 13 A PHONE sex pest harassed a woman for weeks without knowing she was 71. James Robertson, 25, rang Mrs Joyce Severn scores of times, thinking she was in her 20s, the Daily Record reported. He asked what she was wearing and whether she would be undressing to
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        Lock icon 'Bodies' of evidence
        93 13 -AP A HORROR story turned into a comedy after police found a torso in a bin. A dark red trail led them to Eric Stanze’s door. When Mr Stanze, 29, let them inside on Saturday, they found a home full of headless bodies, disembowelled corpses and other
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        Lock icon Smashing bouquet
        75 13 A BRIDE'S bouquet caused a four-car pileup and $82,000 damage. The flowers, which had been fixed to the bonnet of the car taking the newlyweds to the reception, flew off right into the path of the following cavalcade, The Mirror reported yesterday. The driver behind hit his brakes,
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      Lock icon Tower to pilot: Go to hell!
      175 13 -AFP AMMAN An Israeli pilot was told to “go to hell” by the control tower as he took off from Amman airport earlier this month, an Israeli embassy spokesman said yesterday. “The pilot of an Arkia airlines flight was preparing to take off from
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      Lock icon 90-year old Golly retrenched
      146 13 LONDON Golly is to vanish from British jam jars. After 90 years, jam-maker Robertson’s has decided that the little black man in a suit and bow-tie is passe, British newspapers reported yesterday. He will be replaced by some of children’s author Roald Dahl’s creations, including Willy
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      Lock icon No winner for $340m lottery
      152 13 -Reuters DES MOINES, lowa Americans went on a ticket-buying spree hoping to win the U *****.5 million ($340 million) Powerball lottery. But nobody was lucky to win the lottery, which is the third largest in US history. The “Powerball” number combination was drawn at 11pm
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      Lock icon TV channel exclusively for gays
      71 13 -AFP TORONTO Pride Vision TV world’s first television channel catering to homesexual, bisexual and transexual viewers will go on air from Sep 7. The network announced yesterday that its 24-hour channel will target primarily to gay and lesbian viewers with news, travel, sports, finance, music
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Archer an editor's nightmare?
      271 14 Reuters LONDON British novelist Jeffrey Archer may be a best-selling author but he sure has a problem with certain words. And punctuations, too. A former editor of the jailed novelist said on Wednesday that he would have to make hundreds of pages of revisions to the
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      Lock icon Crown Princess-to-be regrets'wild past'
      231 14 Wire services OSLO, Norway All I brides tend to cry. But the woman set to marry Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon lis emotional, even before she takes her vows tomorrow. Fighting back tears, Ms Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby said on Wednesday that she regretted her “wild past” that
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  • easy STREATS
    • Stephanie @ the movies
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        Lock icon Tailormade to thrill
        301 15 Inspired performances by glittering ensemble shores up this spy drama The Tailor of Panama Directed by: John Boorman Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffery Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis WHO says low-lifers can’t be debonair? The immaculately dressed tailor to the elite of Panama is one such life form. Ex-con
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        Lock icon take 5
        138 15 Reviewers'takes The Tailor of Panama teeters from drama to farce to thriller to delicious black comedy, and delivers on all fronts. CNN Showbiz reviewer Paul Clinton No rating available It felt like I was watching a good play without mindless theatrics, and a light touch of wit. TN
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      Lock icon Oppposites attract
      437 16  -  by DIANA SER THEY are black. And very tight. Every night, they sit on actor Edwin Lai’s butt. “They’re from Bods,” he said happily of the skimpy shorts that transform him into Thai massage boyTid. As a result of his debut role in Action Theatre’s Autumn Tomyam, the
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      Lock icon Take your pick
      343 17  -  foodie two shoes by Wileen Chang SET out like a bustling Japanese food square, Kuishin-Bo (pronounced Kweeshin-80, meaning gourmet) has colourful food, drinks and dessert stalls spread over a 200seat restaurant. Foodies who have dined at Marche will be familiar with the concept. When you enter, you
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      • Today's must-see TV
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          Lock icon WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
          44 17 7.30 pm, TV Works Chris Nielsen dies but cannot rest k until he finds l his wife in the J afterlife with the help of f Albert, a friendly spirit. Stars r Robin Williams, Cuba Goodin Jr and Annabella Sciorra.
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          Lock icon MAN’S BEST FRIEND
          24 17 9pm, Channel U Shek distributes free movie tickets to all his colleagues except Man, thinking that Man will not be interested.
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          Lock icon MARILYN MONROE: THE ULTIMATE INVESTIGATION
          53 17 11pm, Central Marilyn did not commit suicide, and she died the day before the official time noted by the coroner. What happened in these precious hours? Learn in astonishing detail crucial elements in the cause of her death and understand why it had to be
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          Lock icon STAR TREK INSURRECTION
          40 17 9pm, Cinemax (SCV 59) The federation itself becomes involved in a plot with the Son’a allies to extricate 600 members of the Ba’ku race from their home planet. Stars Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and F Murray Abraham.
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon KL beckons, for free
        475 24  -  Send in your entries by Aug 31, to 82 Genting Lane, News Centre, Singapore *****7 by Peter Siow MAKE your doctor happy. Take a break, get some sunshine and fresh air. Go to Kuala Lumpur for a couple of days. Watch the merry-making during the opening
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        Lock icon Reds on trophy trail again
        103 26 SOCCER -AFP MONACO Resurgent Liverpool aims to celebrate its return to Europe’s footballing elite by winning its fifth piece of silverware in six months against Bayern Munich in the European Super Cup here today (tomorrow, Singapore time). Victory over Bayern would also give Houllier’s men
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        Lock icon Venus-Serena final possible
        89 26 TENNIS -Reuters NEW YORK The first “prime time” night Grand Slam final history could turn out to be a family affair after Venus and Serena Williams landed in opposite halves of the US Open draw. The women’s final this year will be played at night rather than
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        Lock icon Blackburn cries foul over free-kick Great escape
        692 26 -Wire services LEAGUE Blackburn 2 MAn United 2 BLACKBURN Red cards, below-par refereeing, and the heat generated around free-kicks have made the first Premiership week quite controversial. In the Manchester United-Blackburn Rovers match yesterday, it was a hastily-taken free kick by David Beckham
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      • Article
        Lock icon Tampines comes alive in second half
        418 26  -  by ADAM HASHIDY NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE Tampines 3 Tanjong Pagar 1 HE sat expressionless, and seemingly deep in thought for much of the firsthalf proceedings. Zakir Djalilov, Kyrgyzstan’s No 1 goalkeeper and latest signing for Tampines Rovers, must be wondering just what he had
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        Lock icon Roll, baby, roll
        635 27  -  by Lim Han Ming AT 27, she’s considered the “baby” of the team. That hardly raises an eyebrow as lawn bowling is often played by grey-haired men and women. Wendy Chua was probably still learning her ABCs when her older compatriots, who average 49 years, took to
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