Streats, 29 August 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 29 August 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • morning rush
    • 93 1 THE consumer price index (CPI) for general households rose by 1.7 per cent in the first half of this year, compared with the same period last year. The rise was due to higher electricity tariffs and more expensive package tours, cooked food, cigarettes and petrol. The inflation
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    • 62 1 LATE-NIGHT motorists will soon get cheaper and more flexible parking with the extension of half-hourly parking in HDB and UR A carparks. From Sunday, motorists will be able to use half-hour coupons at HDB and Urban Redevelopment Authority car parks with nightparking schemes as late as lam.
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    • 49 1 -AFP TOKYO Japan and Singapore will agree on details of a free trade agreement (FTA) next month when the two hold a three-day meeting in Singapore, a Japanese daily said yesterday. The trade pact would eliminate almost all tariffs except those on agricultural products, the daily said.
      -AFP  -  49 words
  • Article, Illustration
    412 1 Wire services KUALA LUMPUR She has always been measured in her language. But yesterday, speaking before her countrymen in Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia’s President Megawati Sukarnoputri poured her heart out. She admitted that she was “ashamed” to have inherited a poverty-stricken nation begging help from its neighbours. “If I
    – Wire services  -  412 words
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 430 2  -  Co-op expects downturn to continue by. ZUBAIDAH NAZEER THE economic downturn is continuing, but help is on the way. The National Trades Union Congress has announced a $28.9 million package to help workers cope with the slowdown. The “National Day Package”, an extension
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    • 235 2  -  by SARAH NG PLEASE help us venture forth into the world. That’s the message participants at the fourth dialogue session on Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s National Day Rally speech put across to chairman Seng Han Thong yesterday night. PM Goh had outlined five key
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    • 58 2 momingsmile. A LITTLE boy at a wedding looks at his mom and says: "Mommy, why does the girl wear white?" His mother replies:"The bride is in white because she's happy and this is the happiest day of her life." The boy thinks about this, and then asks:
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    • 319 3  -  by SONNYPHUA TOUCH wood, but should you happen to suffer sudden heart failure on your way to work this morning, your chances of survival are very slim less than 5 per cent to be precise. So said Dr Charles
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    • 52 3  -  onekindact Nancy Ng I fainted in a stuffy, crowded MRT train on Aug 23, at about 9am. Thank you to the people who gave me help and medication at Orchard MRT station, and to the auntie who offered to make sure that I got to my
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    • 117 3 COMING soon to a cellphone near you... fuller ring tones. Today’s squeaky monotones are doomed to be flattened by a wave of sound like that from a stereo. Ringtones now play one musical note at a time monotones whereas the new ones polyphonic ringtones
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    • 87 3 Our weather girl says If you are late for work today, you know who you can blame the rain gods. Just point to the sky when your boss confronts you. Maybe you can summon up a small sneeze for good measure, but promise him you will wake up earlier next
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    • Just a minute
      • 71 3 From today The numbers game just got simpler. There is no need now to remember the phone numbers of each police division or the CID if you need to contact them. People with information on crimes should call the 24-hour police toll-free number of 1800 255 0000. It replaces the
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      • 104 3 Check this out Preview Womad the festival of world music, arts and dance before it starts tomorrow, with dances by Zimbabwe's Bhundu Boys and their unique jit jive. Today Bpm, Chijmes lawn. It's free. For a while the Singapore History Museum will be the Singapore mystery museum. Take a guided
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    • 315 4 Express-stream student, 15, got pills at disco A 15-YEAR-OLD expressstream student who plans to become a doctor took illegal drugs to relieve her stress, a report given to a juvenile court indicates. A teacher found Ecstasy and Erimin-5 pills when she searched the Secondary 3 girl’s bag
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    • 134 4 A 63-YEAR-OLD woman drowned in bizarre circumstances on Monday. Madam Zhang Rong was found by her husband with her head submerged in a water-filled plastic pail when he returned to their 13th-storey flat at Blk 932 Jurong West Street 91 at 12.10 pm. The
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    • 206 4 TWO people died and one was seriously injured when they fell from buildings in three separate incidents within a period of 24 hours. In the first incident, a 21-year-old maid fell from the third storey of Blk 604 Bedok Reservoir Road. She was found semi-conscious
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    • No leniency from appeals court
      • 111 4 THE corrective training sentence of Jaberali Abbas, 30, was increased from eight to 12 years yesterday. Twelve strokes of the cane in his original sentence, for robbery with hurt and having oral sex with a man, will still apply. Chief Justice Yong Pung How described Jaberali as a
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      • 89 4 A TEENAGER whose mother is in jail for drugs offences failed in a bid to have her own drugpossession sentence reduced yesterday. Chief Justice Yong Pung How said Reena Abdul Rahim, 17, would be “looked after” in jail during her two-year sentence. “It would be cruel to reduce
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      • 82 4 A SENTENCE of seven years’jail and 24 strokes of the cane for 21-year-old Tan Ah Kiat was upheld by Chief Justice Yong Pung How yesterday. C J Yong said serial burglar Tan was lucky to have escaped preventive detention, a sentence reserved for hardened criminals which must be
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 218 5 Reuters CANBERRA Australia is regaining its old reputation as a bastion of whites. The government on Monday turned back a Norwegian ship carrying more than 400 would-be refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, saying Australia would not become a soft touch for
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    • 143 5 Wire services JAKARTA Both Indonesia and Australia have refused to take in the 438 asylum seekers stranded in the Indian Ocean somewhere between Java and Christmas Island. “We already have experience with these refugees who are illegal migrants. Our law will not allow this,” said
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    • 127 5 -AFP A SUSPECT ordered by a judge to sing the national anthem to prove he was a Malaysian wowed the court with his heartfelt rendition of Negara Ku (My Country), a report said yesterday. Fauzi Hamid, 35, who was arrested for not having his IC, not
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    • 120 5 -AFP Move designed to improve cross-strait trade ties TAIPEI Taiwan plans to drastically ease restrictions on investment in China, the United Daily News reported yesterday. It will relax rules on 1,400 of 1,917 products which require either special approval for investment or are totally
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    • 220 7 Wire services 700,000 more who lost jobs not in govt figure: analyst TOKYO Japan announced yesterday a record-setting 5 per cent jobless rate for last month, but that’s only half the story, according to analysts. Despite the record 3.3 million
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    • 136 7 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand’s Interior Minister Purachai Piumsombun is all for the no-drinks-after-mid-night rule for Bangkok. He rejected arguments that it would drive away tourists. “Tourists are here because they want to see natural beauty. They don’t want to see exotic dancers or take drugs.
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    • weird world
      • 90 7 BRA-MAKERS in a Thai village have made a giant pink bra to help boost sales of their gear, reported Ananova yesterday. The huge bra, measuring 3m long and a metre high, was made by women from Ban Klong Teang Mo, which translates as Watermelon Canal Village. One
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      • 82 7 -AFP SWAZI prostitutes said at the weekend that they would offer credit facilities to “esteemed customers”. The new Organisation of Manzini Prostitutes (Omapro), based in Manzini, some 45km east of Swaziland’s capital Mbabane, said its decision was based on economic factors. “Our esteemed customers sometimes find
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      • 75 7 A TEEN who tried to rob a bus didn’t know his mother was sitting on it. When she saw the driver threatened with knives and a baseball bat, she shouted at her son to behave himself and get off, Ananova reported yesterday. The driver and an off-duty
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    • 30 7 gofigure. The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), weighing in at up to 12kg, is the world's heaviest bird. Despite its weight, it can fly high in strong winds.
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 298 8 -AP WASHINGTON Chief executives of big US corporations were getting huge pay raises last year as thousands of workers were being laid off, a new study has revealed. In fact some bosses were rewarded for making job cuts.
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    • 132 8 Wire services BEIT JALA West Bank -These two men are afraid to show their faces. They were among seven arrested in Palestinian ruled Hebron yesterday, accused of passing on information to Israel. Israel has been pounding the Palestinians claiming that it wanted to cripple terrorists out to organise
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    • 148 8 LONDON Scientists here claim they know why some children are better at mathematics than others. More grey matter on the left side on the brain makes for better mathematicians, they claim. Researchers at the Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London,
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    • 101 8 -AP SEATTLE A boy accused of killing four family members after he got caught videotaping his teenage sister in the shower has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. William Lembcke, 16, was convicted on Monday of four counts of aggravated
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    • 181 8 -ap SEATTLE Microsoft has announced that its new version of the Internet Explorer browser does not support Netscape-style plug-ins, drawing severe criticism. The move means many websites that use popular programs like Apple’s Quick Time won’t work right with Windows unless developers change the code to
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    • 898 8 %T7\i Li 1a CZ> Chicken dance theme Everybody dance now Get ready for this Get your freak on Ghetto superstar Glory glory If ya getting down If you are gone It'S the way you make me feel Just can't get enough Kim Surfin USA Tearing up my heart The sign
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 228 9 -AP GENEVA Actress Angelina Jolie has new frontiers to explore. She was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday. Jolie, 26, who played heroine Lara Croft in the movie Tomb Raider, cried as she talked about Afghan
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    • 223 9 -AFP DILI East Timor’s president-in-waiting |L Xanana Gusmao IhL said yesterday that the country should not close the door on amnesties for some of those f who led the deadly violence sur- rounding the territory’s independence vote two years ago. “We must not say ‘No, Never’
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    • 130 9 -AFP NEW DELHI Author Arundhati Roy has been ordered by India’s Supreme Court to say why she should not be held in contempt of court over her opposition to a controversial dam project. This means Ms Roy could face a fine or even be jailed
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    • 156 9 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Former US President Bill Clinton played volleyball on Ipanema beach on Monday and walked down the famous promenade (above), where he bought some women’s beachwear. A gaggle of photographers, beachgoers and security men followed him and British actor Sir Anthony Hopkins as
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  • easy STREATS
    • 405 11  -  ihfwitih's hour by Cara van Miriah Club operators, stung by the economic downturn, are travelling overseas THE economic slowdown is hurting Singapore’s club owners. And they’re going overseas to weather the storm. Times are bad in clubland. People are watching their wallets even on weekends. Monthly
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    • 421 12  -  An MTV music awards, that is. Brace yourself as international and regional stars hit town for what is touted as 'the biggest music event of the year' by DIANA SER YOU can’t be too blond. Or have too many award shows, as pop princess Mandy Moore
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 34 12 10pm, Central A laid-off banker enjoys his new leisurely life, thanks to the successful career of his wife. Then he finds out about her intimate relationship with her college sweetheart.
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        • 23 12 10.30 pm, Channel 8 Catch zany hosts Harlem Yu, Pu Xueliang and Huang Zijiao and guests Zeng Baoyi and Nicholas Tse.
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        • 25 12 10.30 pm, Channel U Will Cheng choose love Jk or family? Find out in this final I episode. I
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        • Article, Illustration
          17 12 10pm, TV j Works George is" forced to resign, vice-president Dick Cheney in power.
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          32 12 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) A commit-ment-phobic bachelor (Chris O’Donnell) has to mend his ways if he wants to receive a multimillion inheritance from his recent-ly-deceased grandfather. Also stars Renee Zellweger,
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 329 14  -  by- Tan Kim Han HONGKONG It was a moment to remember 20 minutes of court-time with NBA star Tim Thomas. Singaporean Lee WeeThye and five other basketballers from Hongkong, Malaysia and Korea were hand-picked for a friendly contest with Thomas during last weekend’s adidas streetball
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      • 403 16  -  if jfSfc > -fr 4 1 *v V,- m 119 ■lll Hlr p ll m M m -|g '1 1 [by PETER SIOW IT is a defining moment in local athletics. From 10.75 seconds in April to 10.37 this month and the national 100 metres
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      • 479 16  -  by ADAM HASHIDY UK SHYAM, the new owner of the national 100 metres record at 10.37 seconds, can run faster. So said the sprinter’s Chilean coach Pedro Acuna (left) yesterday. But he declined to say how much faster. He said:
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      • 405 17 Racial issue sparks stormy start It's not just black and white -AFP NEW YORK Critical comments aimed at Venus and Serena Williams (left) and their controversial father Richard arose here on Monday as the US Open began with a focus on racial issues. Comments by World No 1 Martina i
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      • 553 17 Wire services PREMIER LEAGUE Bolton 2 Liverpool 1 BOLTON Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier has admitted that his team was “let down” by goalkeeper Sander Westerveld’s last-minute mistake which ,gave Bolton a 2-1 victory. But he declined to condemn his Dutch ’keeper, saying: “It cost
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      • SOCCER
        • 100 17 -AFP LONDON The groin injury to Manchester United midfielder David Beckham is not as bad as first thought, and he had intensive treatment on Monday in a bid to be fit for the crucial World Cup qualifier in Germany on Saturday. Football Association spokesman Paul
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        • 98 17 MANCHESTER Mikael Silvestre could follow Jaap Stam out of Old Trafford after Manchester United’s poor start to the season, BBC online reported quoting newspaper reports. The French international is set to lose his place in United’s first team after his performance in the 1-1 draw
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        • 108 17 MANCHESTER Argentina’s skipper Fabien Ayala and Dutch wonder Kevin Hofland are the two men Alex Ferguson wants to replace Jaap Stam. The Manchester United boss will speak to both players soon, the Mirror reported. He is prepared to spend up to £22 million ($55 million) on
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      • 567 19  -  by LIM HAN MING SHE describes herself as an antique and says her knee is older than her mum’s! Not surprisingly, veteran national squash player Della Lee plans to call it quits after next month’s South-east Asia Games. The 32-year-old stalwart, who
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      • 257 19  -  by, ADAM HASHIDY NTUC Income Singapore Cup semi-final, Ist Leg SAFFC 0 Geylang United 1 JUST how do you stop Mirko Grabovac, the tormentor of S-League defences all fseason and leading top scor- er with 33 goals? Fortunately, Geylang’s captain Winston Yap had the
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 269 13 5® S 3 The story today... Xuan Yuan San Guang's attack is so fierce that it sends Sun Tiannan crashing through the tempie wails on to the pavement outside. Then he grabs Wang Yizhua and throws him against another wail. The impact is so great that Wang cannot stand on
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 492 14 Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20- FEB 18 Discipline remains a necessary evil to a scofflaw like Aquarius. Not everybody can handle the degree of freedom that’s ideal for you. Wait until you’re alone or with close friends before pulling out all the stops. PISCES
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 34 17 Inthelivingroom Goodwill Games, Day 1: 1st session (10am). 2nd session (spm) Super Sports Ch 22. TENNIS: US Open, Men's Ist rd and Women's 2nd rd (10.30 pm and tomorrow, 7am) Star Sports Ch 24.
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