Streats, 10 September 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets iKMMMAf 1# s€ss teer*s4tr Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 507 1  -  by SARAH NG IF you live in Tampines Town, there’s good reason to cheer. And if you don’t, you might wish you were there. Yesterday, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan unveiled a comprehensive development package for the 20-year-old town
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  • morning rush
    • 69 1 FROM next year, Nanyang Technological University will offer five-day crash courses in engineering and the life sciences. The courses are aimed at potential investors, small and medium-sized enterprises with little technical knowhow and those who want to sharpen their business skills. One course will combine engineering
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    • 85 1 THE Singapore business receipts index for the services sector rose by 4.8 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, but was down 1.6 per cent from the first quarter, the Department of Statistics said yesterday. Excluding financial and insurance services, the index increased by 4 per cent,
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    • 42 1 n 8 Ay A H RECEIVEO KM 1 0 SEP 2001 iMiSS rt -as I awHf.l >* Singer Stefanie Sun sweeps the prizes at Singapore Hit Awards/ AGE 11 Swimmer Joscelin Yeo pockets two golds at the SEA Games/ AGEI9 91 X m
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 291 2 Reuters SINGAPORE'S economic growth could fall short of the Government’s forecast of 0.5 to 1.5 per cent, Finance Minister Richard Hu said yesterday. But for now, he wants to stand by the forecast figures. Dr Hu
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    • 194 2 MEDICAL help will soon reach people faster, with paramedics equipped with motorcycles to beat traffic jams. By the end of next year, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) will implement the Fast Response Paramedic on Bike project at all 14 fire stations, Lianhe Zaobao reported yesterday.
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    • 242 2 -AFP THE opposition to SingTel’s takeover of Cable and Wireless Optus may put off Asian businesses planning to invest in Australia, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in Sydney yesterday. The mistrust of foreign companies is also evident in Singapore Airlines’
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    • 67 2 morningsmile A man takes his Rottweiler to the vet. "My dog's cross-eyed, is there anything you can do for him?" "Well,"says the vet "Let's have a look at him." So he picks the dog up and examines his eyes, then checks his teeth. Finally, he says: "I'm going
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    • 330 3  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH INVOLVE senior citizens in volunteer work, and the government will fund up to 80 per cent of the project. The government has set aside $1 million a year for the next five years towards this, said Mrs
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    • Views on grey matters
      • 154 3 On Saturday, Streats ran an article, 'Make our greys matter/Here are the views of a senior citizen, an official from the Singapore Action Group of Elders (Sage) and a human resource executive. IN JAPAN, the growing elderly population is seen as a lucrative market. But Mr Paul Dekretis,
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      • 131 3 AUSTRALIA values its older workers and is encouraging them to work until they turn 70. It calls them “gold-collar” workers. Mr Joseph Tan, a manager at Sage, said its Employment Service Centre finds jobs for about 20 senior citizens a month. “Employers come to us for a whole
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      • 109 3 MR DAVID Ang, executive director of the Singapore Human Resources Institute, said that older workers have a lot of experience and can offer specialised knowledge and expertise, which he called “intellectual capital”. While agreeing that older workers have a high level of expertise, Sage’s Mr Tan found that
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    • 77 3 It will be a good idea to lunch in. Or make sure you are equipped with an umbrella if you are heading outdoors. Showers are expected in the late morning and early afternoon over southern, eastern and western Singapore. Temperatures will range between 25 and 32°C,
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    • 170 3 Just a minute NTUC has extended its National Day aid package to the end of next June to help workers hit by the downturn. NTUC Fair Price up to 20 per cent discount on a basket of2oo essential items, such as sugar, salt and oil. NTUC Food fare 5
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    • 304 5  -  reports by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER ORGANISERS of an “Asian Harmony Day” would have been proud of the weekend spectacle: More than 240 people from at least eight countries played together peacefully. Then scores of police officers stormed in and arrested everyone on
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    • 33 5 onekindact. Imthiyaz Basheer THANK you to a man who put out his cigarette when he noticed the smoke was causing me discomfort as I ate my lunch at Tanjong Pagar recently.
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    • 125 5 A 55-YEAR-OLD man was conned into parting with $7OO cash and $4OO worth of jewellery near Senja LRT station on Saturday afternoon. At about 12.15 pm, Mr Marsiber bin Napis was approached by two men who asked for directions. They soon started chatting and getting
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 577 7 LAST Friday night, I wasn’t watching the young Lions being thrashed “live” on City TV by underdog Myanmar. Rather, my friends and I were enjoying something not totally unrelated to grown men and balls Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex and the City.
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 150 8 TOKYO The gesture known as “the finger” is legally an insult in Japan, a Tokyo District Court has decided. Judge Shu Shibata ruled on Friday that a man had incited a fight in a Tokyo bar on Dec 19, 1998, by making the
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    • 192 8 Reuters New laws to strengthen fight against narcotics MANILA President Gloria Arroyo’s campaign against drugs is “a fight to the finish”. The Philippines could become “Asia’s Colombia” if the drug menace is not curbed, she warned late
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    • 81 8 BANGKOK Two monks were shot dead near a village in north-eastern Buri Ram province’s Prakhon Chai district, in what were suspected to be drugs-related killings. Both the monks’ bodies were naked and had multiple gunshot wounds to the head when they were found on Saturday, the
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    • 283 9 -Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi marked Malaysia’s first human rights day yesterday by saying it is too soon to relax rules against political assemblies. The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, set up by the government
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    • weird world
      • 61 9 -AP THE head of New York’s school system said last week that yummier foods including ice cream will be served to New York’s pupils on Mondays and Fridays, the days with the highest truancy rate. Mr Harold Levy also said he would like to see
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      • 68 9 Reuters FRANCE'S Sorbonne university has launched a degree in professional letter writing because young people addicted to email and cellphone text messaging have forgotten how to pen their own. “People don’t write as well as they used to and modern technology has certainly taken its toll,” said
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      • 94 9 -AFP A LUXURY train which once belonged to maharajas was raided by police to pin down free-loaders among its well-heeled Western patrons, officials said yesterday. Police raided the Palace-on-Wheels train as it chugged through Rajasthan on Saturday after a tip-off that more than half its passengers were
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    • 124 9 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR-South -east Asia’s largest sitting Buddha was formally inaugurated yesterday in Kelantan amid a debate over Islamic extremism. Orange-robed monks chanted prayers and lit two giant candles to inaugurate the 30m-high, 47m-wide statue of Buddha sitting atop Wat Machimmaram temple inTumpat. The ceremony kicked
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    • 186 8 Singapore Institute «/’Commerce UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Law Degrees/Diploma BSc Degrees Lead College: London School of Economics Diploma in Economics 'BSc Management 'BSc Banking Finance BSc Accounting Finance/ BSc Management with Law/ BSc Accounting with Law INFO TALK This Thursday, 7pm Or Michael Cop*», Fp*Q Executive Director o ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 140 10 -AFP JERUSALEM -The Middle East conflict erupted again into a bloody Sunday with at least nine people killed in a wave of attacks including two Palestinian suicide bombings and a school bus shooting, casting a shadow over efforts to secure ceasefire talks. The Israeli
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    • 318 10 Wire agencies SRINAGAR, India A shadowy rebel group which sprayed acid on women in Kashmir for violating an Islamic dress code has asked minority Hindu and Sikh women to dress differently from Muslims. “For identification, the Hindu women should wear bindi (a coloured
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  • easy STREATS
    • 444 11 Local talent Stefanie Sun swept most of the prizes at Saturday's event WMmnmAWARDS YOU would be forgiven for mistaking Saturday’s Singapore Hit Awards at Suntec City as a mini Stefanie Sun concert. I The homegrown singing sensation went on stage five times to receive awards and
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    • 278 12  -  by DIANA SER SHE wept when the first player single father Manuel was eliminated at the end of the debut episode of The Mole. The realities series started airing over TV Works last Thrusday. She helped the team win US$5O,OOO ($85,000) in the
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    • 173 12 THE Mole is a reality TV show from ABC. Ten contestants (five men, five women) are taken to a secret location to take part in mental and physical tests. But among them is a saboteur known only as the Mole. This person’s goal is prevent the
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    • 280 12 Reuters PASADENA, California The West Wing got a head start in the annual race for television’s top awards on Saturday, winning four prizes at the technical portion of the Emmy Awards. In doing so, NBC’s acclaimed White House soap vanquished Mafia drama
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    • 184 13 On the rocks Guy cheated on Madonna: TV host POPULAR British TV host Tania Strecker claimes that she was romantically involved with Madonna’s (right) husband Guy Ritchie, while his wife was pregnant with their son, Rocco, the New York Post reported yesterday. The leggy blonde, 27, who hosts a high-rated
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    • 125 13 ACTRESS Kate Winslet’s estranged husband Jim Threapleton has ruled out a reconciliation with the Titanic star, reported London’s Mirror newspaper. “That’s not even worth talking about at the moment, to you or to Kate,” the film director said. “Kate is a spectacular mother. We are looking
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    • 404 15  -  two shoes by 'Judi Low Picky foodies are even pickier about where and what they eat these days-no thanks to the economic slowdown. Since March, food shops have seen slower business all round, as Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng has pointed out. But
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    • channel scan
      • 47 15 DIANA KRALL LIVE AND UNPLUGGED IN SINGAPORE 10pm, Central A one-hour special of Grammy 2000’s Best Jazz Vocal Performance winner, Diana Krall. Be one of the first in the world to savour songs from her latest album as she kicks off her promotional tour here in Singapore.
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      • 37 15 10.30 pm, Channel 8 Debut of a series revolving around the lives of four girls and how they change after they take part in a beauty contest. Starring Chen Farong and Simon Yam.
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      • 41 15 9pm, Channel U Woman power rules! A blockbuster period drama directed by famous director Li Guoli and boasting a huge cast comprising Hongkong, Taiwanese and local stars like Constance Song, Darren Lim and Michelle Chia.
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      • 44 15 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Keanu Reeves is Johnny Mnemonic, a courier who loads vital data straight into his brain for storage and safe transport. The directorial debut of conceptual artist Robert Longo, Mnemonic paints a bleak but eye-popping vision of the future.
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 608 16 Wire services LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson took a calculated gamble by resting half his first-choice players on Saturday, but his decision paid off handsomely with a 4-1 home victory over Everton. As well as the three
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      • 362 16 Reuters NEW YORK Venus Williams insisted that she was happy to have won the US Open on Saturday night, but it was obvious she took little pleasure in beating her sister and best friend. In fact, Venus’ subdued demeanour could have been mistaken for
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      • SEA GAMES 2001 Day 2
        • 275 17  -  SWIMMING by LIM HAN MING IF you think Singapore swimmers’ red heads are colourful and outragous, you haven’t seen anything yet. Singapore’s red-haired swimmers made the local headlines when they arrived in the Malaysian capital last week. But that was nothing compared to the Ultraman at the National
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        • 347 17  -  SHOOTING by ADAM HASHIDY STEELY nerves, icy-cool temperament. That’s the most apt description for shooter Kwa Eng Cheong, who helped Singapore to two gold medals in the team and individual trap events yesterday. The 49-year-old was the anchorman in the morning’s team event, also comprising Lee
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        • 255 18 mfmm W r\i, SINGAPORE took off on a see-saw ride on the second day of competition. As usual, it reached its zenith in swimming and trap shooting. Joscelin Yeo emerged from the pool yesterday dripping in gold. Not once, but twice. The Singapore swimmer who
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        • 94 18 GOLD Shooting Individual trap (Kwa Eng Cheong, 136 points), Team trap (Kwa Eng Cheong, Lee Wung Yew, Chng Seng Mok, 329 pts). Swimming 100 m free (Joscelin Yeo, 57.13 seconds), 200 m IM (Joscelin Yeo, 2:19.76), Men's 4x200m free (Gary Tan, Mark Chay, Fergus Kuek, Sng Ju
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        • AT A GLANCE Day 2
          • 72 18 What irks me most is that the horse's name was mentioned only once in the report. And to think that the horse does most of the work compared to the rider. A Hits.FM radio deejay reacting to a newspaper report which went to town with equestrian
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          • 136 19 IT WAS billed as the race of the day:Joscelin Yeo (left) versus Pilin Tachakittiranan. Defending champion versus top challenger. Queen of the pool versus Princess o f the pool. But the women's 100 m freestyle final turned out to be a wash-out. No neck-and-neck tussle. No
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        • 511 18  -  by LIM HAN MING MENTION Richard Sam Bera (right) and the picture of a man streaking through water comes to 1 mind. Now the Indonesian freestyle king who has ruled the pool as South-east Asia’s fastest man for the past decade is planning to retire.
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        • 473 19  -  SWIMMING LIM HAN MING reports from KL TEAM Singapore’s cheerleaders were screaming at the top of their voices. So, too, the officials, parents and journalists, who abandoned their laptops and joined in the cheering as Singapore men’s 4x200m relay was in progress. You guys and
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        • HOT SHORTS
          • KARATE
            • 108 19 -AP THE rest of South-east Asia can be grateful there are no more Pabillores studying karate. Eight years ago, Victoria Pabillore won a bronze medal for the Philippines at the women’s world karate championships, and became an inspiration to her younger sister Maria Marna and
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            • 112 19 -AP MALAYSIAN Rayner Kin Siong lost a tooth but that only got him more fired up. The karateka lost his tooth in a 75 kg division semi-final against Indonesia’s NovilusTediusYoku. The late foul punch cost Novilus the match, and Rayner went into the final with his
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          • 60 19 Countries G S B Total Malaysia 15 4 8 27 Singapore 5 3 1 9 Vietnam 4 3 8 15 Thailand 3 8 5 16 Indonesia 3 5 6 14 Philippines 2 6 8 16 Myanmar 2 4 5 11 Brunei 0 0 2 2 Cambodia 0 0
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 455 13 N '0 Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20- FEB 18 Strange and fortunate mutations are well under way. There’s no need to apologise when everyone gets something out of the deal. You find the greatest pleasure in the most shocking experiences. FEB 19-MAR 20 K XI
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 299 14 ur easy. ill: W P 8 P f\A Z 0 r fSP The story today... Master Shen Xi retreats in shock and drops his sword. He didn't expect Xuan Yuan San Guang to bit him. Xuan ask him\to hand over his Er Mei Sect, but Master Shen is not convinced.
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