Streats, 15 September 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 15 Septeutfeer 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • mornoing rush
    • 94 1 -AP FEDERAL agents have located black boxes from two of Tuesday’s hijacked planes. Investigators recovered the flight recorder from the hijacked plane that went down in Pennsylvania, and picked up a signal from the recorder in the jet that slammed into the Pentagon. The recorders could contain
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    • 102 1 Wire services WASHINGTON -Ten people were arrested at airports in New York on suspicion that they could be dangerous. But all of them were later released. US officials said the situation had been resolved. Passengers on a Los Angeles-bound flight out of Kennedy Airport said police
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  • 556 1  -  Race-hate sets in as Muslims are tarred with the same brush by KEN JALLEH Jr TERRORISM, already leaving an imprint of pain and fear on the world psyche, has Impawned insiduous tentacles of intolerance and racism. Pray that it does not get closer to home. Several attacks
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  • BACKLASH
    • Fears in South-east Asia
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      • 260 2 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Nine Malaysians were denied entry into the Philippines and sent back to Kuala Lumpur yesterday by customs officials suspicious that they could have undergone terrorism training. The men appeared to be ethnic Malay and ethnic Indian Muslims with Malaysian passports and were flown to
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      • 141 2 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A bomb hoax yesterday caused panic among the Friday prayers congregation at the National Mosque. The congregation had just finished their prayers when there was a phone call saying that a bomb would explode at 2pm. A bomb disposal unit from the
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      • 62 2 MALACCA Malay employees headed for training in the US have been advised by their American employer to shave off their goatees, fearing they may become targets of hate crimes. The move came after newspapers ran photographs of those allegedly involved in Tuesday’s attacks
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      • 274 2 -AP MANILA US and Philipp' authorities searched a hotel Manila in connection with the tert ist attacks in the US, President GK Arroyo said yesterday. Philippine officials were also qt> tioning a Saudi Airlines pilot V they said might be related to th| involved in Tuesday’s assaults. In
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      • 82 2 -AFP An Islamic school founded by Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, has been forced to close, administrators said yesterday. London's Islamia Primary School, founded in 1984, is Britain's first state-funded Islamic school. MrZafarAshras, chief administrator of the Islamia Schools Trust, said it was decided
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      • 77 3 Americans are rushing to gun shops and military surplus stores to reassure themselves with firepower. Merchants in Pennsylvania and New Jersey say handgun, ammunition and gas mask sales to have gone up by 50 per cent since hijacked passenger jets rammed the twin towers of the World Trade
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      • 288 3 The Muslim dilemma Wire services YES, the attacks in the US this week are a crime and Malaysia fully backs the US in its fight against terrorism. With these strong words, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad made his country’s stand clear on worldwide terrorism.
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      • 260 3 The singular honour -Wire services JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri will go ahead with a visit to the US this month despite the fact that President George W Bush will be having the terror attacks on his mind. Her spokesman said she considers
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    • Fears in Asia
      • 92 4 The work of counting the dead and missing drags on for co- workers of those lost in the devastating World Trade Center attack. Reuters said that at least 2,000 people were missing. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani put the figure at around 4,700 on Thursday. Perhaps hardest hit
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      • 650 4 Wire services WASHINGTON In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in the US, the action now shifts to Asia. And in all probability the continent, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, will be the new battle ground for the US’war against Islamic terrorism. Most Asian countries have
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      • 91 5 Mass e-mailing is being used to rally Americans after the terror attacks. From lighting candles to wearing the red, white and blue colours of the US flag, several e-mails swirled around the US on Thursday, urging readers to, in the words of one, "show those terrorists that
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      • 188 5 Wire services KABUL If it is still playing host to America’s most wanted man, Afghanistan’s Taleban is between a rock and a hard place. Bowing to the US demand to hand over “hero of Islam” Osama bin Laden would be a betrayal of the Taleban’s
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    • Fears in Singapore
      • 1156 6 WAR, economic insecurity and copycat attacks. These are main fears felt by 60 Singaporeans who were polled by Streats following Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on the United States. But there is another worry: That Muslims around the world will be viewed with the same
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      • 115 6 Scientists are rushing to devise new tools to help thwart would-be plane hijackers. The latest innovations include new detectors to sniff out explosives in luggage as well as software to recognise the face of a terrorist. The latest gadgets act like "electronic dogs" to sniff around for
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      • 127 7 Words of praise for the US spoken more than 30 years ago flew around the Internet this week, fooling many who thought it was penned after Tuesday's attacks. A version of the script, which was originally broadcast by the late Canadian journalist Gordon
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      • 395 7 A NEWSWEEK magazine tribute to New York Went something like this: “New York’s debt to immigrants has become almost a cliche. Since lsland was established as a centre for new arrivals in 1892, millions of people have sought the shelter of Lady Liberty, fleeing poverty, famine,
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 231 8 -AP CANBERRA Australia’s aviation industry was plunged into turmoil yesterday with the collapse of the nation’s second largest airline, Ansett, just days after its parent, Air New Zealand, failed to find a buyer for the debt-laden carrier. “Unfortunately, it
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    • 139 8 -AP SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Sell a gun to someone who plans suicide, and you could share responsibility for that person’s death, a US federal court jury ruled on Thursday. The court awarded US$l.5 million ($2.6 million) in punitive damages against Kmart for its
      -AP  -  139 words
    • 136 8 Reuters The city has issued blueprint foraCßDof skyscrapers BEIJING The Chinese capital has unveiled plans for a central business district of skyscrapers up to 350 m high and in which all commercial buildings would be more than 100 m, the Beijing Daily said yesterday. The
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    • 165 8 -AP LOUISVILLE, Kentucky A man here implanted with a self-contained artificial heart has become the world’s second patient to receive the experimental device. Mr Tom Christerson, 70, was resting comfortably at the Jewish Hospital, spokeswoman Barbara Mackovic said. The procedure on Mr Christerson, of Central
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    • 160 8 -AFP AUCKLAND New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark was “blocked” yesterday by the Ansett employees at Melbourne airport. This saw Acting Prime Minister Jim Anderton demanding that Australia free Ms Clark. He said that he had taken action “as a sovereign state to defend our
      -AFP; Pic: AFP  -  160 words
    • weird world
      • 77 8 Reuters A TEENAGER jumped from a fourth floor window after his mother refused to buy him a cellphone, a Ukrainian news agency reported. The 13-year-old boy was rushed to hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kiev with serious head injuries. His condition remains critical, Ukraine’s forUm Internet
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      • 87 8 Reuters CHINESE farmers have appealed for 5,000 snakes, 20,000 sparrows and 200,000 frogs to fight a swarm of locusts, the Xinhua news agency reported. It quoted Bi Fubin, who was seeking the locust eaters for farmers near Chongqing, as saying the numbers were calculated carefully to solve
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 317 9  -  by 'YVONNE KWOK IF you’re suffering from a specialised condition like cancer, you will no longer need to stay in a Class B 2 ward as your cheapest option. From this month, Class C beds will be available for patients in
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    • 202 9  -  Sports by KHUSHWANT SINGH SURESH Batumalai is a particularly brutal man. He beat his wife so severely that he broke her arm. She sought treatment at Singapore General Hospital and had to have an °peration to set the fracture. Yesterday, he was sentenced to
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    • 124 9 two Indonesian women were yesterday fined for operating a prostitution racket. Tjin Moy Men, 48 and Tjoa Paw Ik, 32, had been managing the brothel at Princeton Hotel along Lorong 15 in Geylang, over the past two months. They had six Indonesian prostitutes their
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    • 276 9 SPEAKING out about restrictions on freedom of speech disproves the argument, Mr David Lim, Minister of State (Defence and Information and the Arts), said yesterday. “Some groups here believe we don’t have the freedom to speak freely,” he told academics attending a two-day international
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    • 57 9 onekindact Mrs Joseph Marimuthu BUS-PLUS driver Mr Ang Yew Pang really did go the extra mile on Sept 6. His bus was still at Bishan MRT station at 5.55 pm when I boarded it. He told me the last bus had already gone, but he still drove
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    • 106 9 TWENTY-THREE passengers and a bus captain were injured yesterday when a Service 268 bus crashed into the rear of a Service 76 bus near the junction of Ang Mo Kio Avenues 3 and 6 at spm. Both buses were travelling towards Ang Mo Kio interchange,
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    • 168 10 THE Night Safari mahout who was gored by his elephant in July is set to leave hospital this afternoon. Mr Gopal Krishnan, 45, has had three major operations since the attack, but has been making a rapid recovery at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. On July
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    • 308 10  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH A MANAGER e-mailed Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Wednesday telling them that there was a bomb on Flight SQ 422. Only the day before, terrorists hijacked jetliners in the US, smashing two into the World Trade
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    • 56 10 Showers are expected in the afternoon over northern, western and eastern areas. Temperatures range between 25°C and 33°C. The tide will reach 2.8 m at 9.30 pm. September's weather girl Streats reader Eliza Choo i Outfit eWorld J of Sports.com a Make-up M Angeline Choo j
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    • Just a minute
      • 93 10 Some SBS bus services will be diverted tomorrow from 5.30-11 am because of the Sheares Bridge Run/Army Half-Marathon 2001. Service 11 will use Mountbatten Road and Stadium Boulevard. Service 16 will take Mountbatten Road and Nicoll Highway. Service 30 in the direction of Boon Lay will go by Mountbatten
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      • 77 10 Marine Parade bus terminal will be closed to make way for development. So SBS services 13,16,55,76,135 and 155 will be amended to loop at Siglap Link. Service 196, between Clementi interchange and Marine Parade terminal, will be extended to go to Bedok interchange via Bedok South Avenue 1
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  • easy STREATS
    • 413 11  -  Baby-faced Xiaohong and Michelle Chia became fast friends while the latter was filming in Zhe-jiang, China; from March to July by DIANA SER TALK about royal treatment. In Lady Warriors of the Yang Family, Channel U actress Michelle Chia plays Wang Jinlin, a Laotian princess
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    • 686 12 Hollywood execs scramble to pull out films, trailers and change plots of yet-to-be-released shows Reuters LOS ANGELES There were no explosions in Hollywood on Thursday and there may not be for a while. From movie studio executives to producers, agents and publicists, the town’s players switched into soul-searching
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    • 487 13 -AP LOS ANGELES Movies a’lone no longer satisfy some movie fans devout cinephiles want to know: What was it like on the set? How were the special effects created? Which scenes were cut? And why? How did the public respond when the film debuted? What
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    • 186 13 Reuters I POP singer J Whitney Hous- ton’s spokeswoman on Thursday denied rumours that the superstar had died of an overdose. “Whitney Houston is fine. This is a rumour and it’s not true. She thanks everyone for their concern. She is fine and at home with her
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    • channel ascan
      • Must-see TV
        • Article, Illustration
          74 13 Saturday, 10pm, TV Works The topic is refugees Can we help or do we A care? More than 430 lives were endan- k gered when a ferry Ĕ sank off Indone- f sia.Yet many were I unwilling to help those on board, mainly Afghans. Is helping refugees providing
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        • 79 13 Saturday, 10.30 pm, Channel U The all-female Heroic Trio in this 1993 movie are Tung, Chat and Ching. Initially, they’re on opposing sides the invisible Ching is kidnapping newborn boys for her evil master, Tung is trying to solve the crimes and Chat, formerly employed by Ching’s
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        • 42 13 Sunday, 6pm, Channel U Debut of this travel reality programme that took a group of young Singaporeans to China where they endured harsh conditions. Starts right from when they leave Changi Airport. Will this be even better than Celebrity Travellers?
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        • 59 13 Sunday, 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Fat professor Sherman Klump believes he can cure his low self-esteem and failure with women by devising a potion to shrink himself. Sure enough, the formula turns him into the svelte Buddy Love but it also changes his character. Buddy may be
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    • 270 15  -  by KAREN CHEN A COUPLE of years ago when she unveiled her eye- < brow with the well-known Nike tick, it caused a stir in the Chinese entertainment industry. In her latest incarnation, heavenly queen Sammi Cheng is seeing red, literally. Check out the dramatic red
      Pics: Apple Daily  -  270 words
    • easyStreats sports
      • SOCCER
        • 159 16 -AFP LONDON Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger’s problems over signing a new contract with the Premiership giant is not due to disagreement among the board, but down to complicated tax issues, the club chairman said yesterday. Peter Hill-Wood claimed that Wenger’s advisers are seeking a package that
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        • 97 16 HOME United was in a mean mood yesterday, easily sweeping aside Balestier Central 4-1 in the S-League at Bishan Stadium. Led by two-goal hero Paulo Sergio Morellato, Home’s emphatic win lifted it to the top of the table with 62 points. Geylang, which takes on dementi
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      • 473 16 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE LONDON Leeds striker Alan Smith has set his sights on a club-and-country comeback after being out for three weeks with an ankle ligament injury. He is poised to return to the Premiership two weeks
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      • 41 16 Wire services TODAY Bolton v Southampton, Derby v Leicester, Everton v Liverpool, Fulham v Arsenal, Middlesbrough v West Ham, Newcastle v Manchester United. TOMORROW Aston Villa v Sunderland, Charlton v Leeds, Ipswich v Blackburn, Tottenham v Chelsea. Wire services
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      • 214 16 -AP LONDON A full house at Craven Cottage for a game against visiting star-studded Arsenal. This is what Fulham fans have been waiting 33 years for. Back in the top flight for the first time since 1968, Jean Tigana’s Fulham welcomes the Gunners to its
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      • Day 7 SEA GAMES 2001
        • 185 17 FINALLY, after five days, the swimming C °Z%°»o™°* aki h ng P el9ht tHe morning> ecau **t%Tr dinner. No more cold burgers o^^^ top omoments beSid J th Z7and's Ravee Intporn-Udom. 1 she was the first swimming star I approached far an tanking meraccommodated m pave hidden
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        • 378 17  -  SWIMMING by LIM HAN MING THIS is a tale of two Thai swimmers: PilinTachakittiranan (below) and Ravee Intporn-Udom (above). Pilin, 18, came into the Kuala Lumpur South-east Asia Games as her country’s undisputed queen of the pool, having won six gold medals in Brunei two years
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        • AT A GLANCE day 7
          • 32 18 Singapore Amateur Athletic Association honorary secretary Sarvindar Singh said when asked about the chances of the men's 4x 100 m relay today. Singapore's best fsye tis i 6
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          • 148 19 IT was a case of half the battle won for Singapore's shooters even before a single shot was fired. For Singapore's trio were bubbling with confidence as they trooped to the firing stations yesterday for the men's double trap team event. Lee Wung Yew, Chng Seng
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        • 120 18 Total tally: Gold 17 Silver 21 Bronze 29 GOLDS Athletics Men's discus (James Wong, 56.98 m) Shooting Men's double trap team (Lee Wung Yew, Chng Seng Mok, Tan Chee Keong, 382) Table Tennis Women's doubles (Jing Jun Hong, Li Jia Wei), Mixed doubles (Zhang Tai Yong and
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        • 228 18 STRONG man James Wong has no weakness when it comes to the discus. It has been like that since 1993 when he claimed his first gold. Yesterday, the gentle giant grabbed his fifth gold in the event to become the only local to win gold
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        • 329 18  -  TABLE TENNIS by TAN KIM HAN TRAILING by one set. And trailing for almost the entire second set of the mixed doubles table tennis final yesterday. For a while it .looked as if Singapore would lose another gold medal. But Singapore’s Zhang Tai Yong and Jing
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        • 522 19  -  LtM HAN MING reports from KL JAMES WONG (below) could have won with his first throw of the discus, then pack up and head home for Singapore to be with his pregnant wife. For there was nobody capable of challenging the four-time South-east Asia Games
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        • HOT SHORTS
          • 138 19 EQUESTRIAN -AP THE STRONGEST rivalry in horse riding is of the sibling variety. Following in the footsteps of Australia’s three-time Olympic gold-winning Roycroft family, two Malaysian brothers and their sister are making equestrian events a family affair. Qabil Ambak won gold yesterday in the
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          • 60 19 NETBALL MALAYSIA won the South-East Asia Games’ first netball gold yesterday when it defeated bitter rival Singapore 53-42 in the final. The host country played at a fast and furious pace and never allowed Singapore to snatch the lead. The victory was sweet revenge for Malaysia, which
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          • 62 19 Countries G S B Total Malaysia 72 51 71 194 Thailand 70 60 68 198 Indonesia 49 48 61 158 Philippines 23 48 54 125 Vietnam 22 26 55 103 Singapore 17 21 29 67 Myanmar 14 12 42 68 Laos 1 1 7 9 Cambodia 1 0
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 514 14 i fit's your birthday tod w voushareWmm ay you share m Kit Chari Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 The bill is due for a socalled free lunch. Aquarius is sharp-minded but sometimes careless with details that seem unimportant at the time. Learn from
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    • 69 15 WinaWatch y Every week photographers from Streats will wander all over Singapore to catch you reading the paper. The reader's picture will be published each Saturday. And if it is your picture, you will win a limited edition Streats watch. But you must call 1-800-844-5566 and give us your name,
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 112 16 Inthelivingroom MOTOR RACING: Formula One: Italian Grand Prix, qualifying (Star Sports Ch24,7pm). SEA GAMES: Badminton, Men's/Women's Individual finals (2.30 pm). Soccer, 3rd placing: Indonesia v Myanmar (spm). Final: Malaysia v Thailand (9.30 pm. 2nd half live) City TV. SOCCER: Fifa U-17 World Championship: France v Nigeria (7.20 am), Argentina v
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