Streats, 3 October 2001

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  • 20 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 3 October 2001 quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 295 1 Wire agencies JAKARTA Indonesians who want to travel to Afghanistan to fight the war expected soon will lose their citizenship, Jakarta warned yesterday. In a strong sign that Indonesia meant business when it sided with the US in the fight against those responsible
    – Wire agencies; Pic: Reuters  -  295 words
  • 251 1 OSAMA bin Laden phoned his adoptive Mother on Sept 9 and said: “In two days you’re going to hear big news and you’re not going to hear from me for a while”. The call was intercepted and translated b y an unnamed, non-US
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  • morning rush
    • 75 1 SINGAPORE will be among key US allies who will be shown evidence that links Osama bin Laden to the Sept 11 terror attacks. Classified cables will be sent in 48 hours through US diplomatic post to the allies, CNN reported yesterday. The North Atlantic Treaty
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    • 67 1 ISLAMABAD Pakistan has yet to receive direct proof of Osama’s involvement, a foreign ministry official said yesterday. He confirmed however that talks took place between US ambassador Wendy Chamberlin and President Pervez Musharraf. “We have yet to receive any detailed evidence with regard to persons responsible for
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  • Britain's WARNING
    • 64 2 -Reuters Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport will be reopened in the next few days, US officials said on Monday. New security measures include more sky marshals on flights that use the airport Concerns over the airport's proximity to the White House, the Pentagon and other government
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    • 266 2 LONDON Military strikes against the Taleban are inevitable, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told his party yesterday. Speaking at the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton, Mr Blair said the Taleban had squandered its chance to hand over Osama bin Laden. “Surrender the terrorists or surrender
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    • From the frontline...
      • 74 2 THE Taleban were yesterday racing to prop up old alliances, woo new friends and retail their own men. With the world’s most modern military force gathering against a state modelled on a society that existed more than 1,300 yeaf s ago, the Taleban were scrambling to dig
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      • 100 2 THE USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier will serve as a “lily pad” in the Indian Ocean. The carrier will be used as a launching pad for sending special forces into Afghanistan. The US Navy did something similar i# 1994, when it used carriers
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      • 63 2 IRAN “will take action” against US warplanes which regularly violate its airspace in the event of a US strike on neighbouring Afghanistan. “Mistakes are mistakes,” said Defence Minister Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani.“But if they are repeated, it means they are planned and we will take
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  • India's WARNING
    • 399 3 -Wire services NEW DELHI -A seething Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told US President George W Bush yesterday that Pakistan was testing New Delhi’s patience after a suicide bomber killed 38 in Kashmir. “Pakistan must understand that there is a limit to the patience of
      -Wire services; Pic: AFP  -  399 words
    • 237 3 -AFP KABUL A massive pro-Taleban rally was held yesterday in the Islamic militia’s southern stronghold of Kandahar to denounce exiled king Mohammed Zahir Shah a key player in efforts to build a new, broad-based government for Afghanistan. “Thousands of civilians of Kandahar have flooded the 1
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    • 57 3 A baby boom could hit the US in nine months as Americans turn to "terror sex" to combat fears of war or terrorist attacks. Post-disaster sex, or" end-of-the-world sex" means a baby boom is likely in nine months'time, the Los Angeles Times reports. Americans are turning to sex to
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 292 4  -  by. ADAM HASHIDY MALAY MPs yesterday urged Muslim Singaporeans not to be swayed by events and trends outside the country. “We must not be influenced by those who encourage violent behaviour in the name of Islam/’said the MPs. They
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    • 275 4 DANIEL Lim, 15, never thought much about racial or religious differences. After all, his best friend, Mohammad Zulhairi, is Malay. Daniel’s relationship with him and his other Muslim schoolmates hasn’t changed since the US terror attacks. “We are still very close, and we discuss the issues
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    • 258 4 SOME school principals have taken the initiative to talk to their students about the Sept 11 terror attacks on the US. They did so even before the Ministry of Education (MOE) issued guidelines last Friday to help teachers and students see the disaster in the proper
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    • Article, Illustration
      192 6 We prefer to advertise in Streats because it targets students and the working population whom we want to reach out to. The paper reaches out to the masses, especially commuters, being easy to digest and manage on a short MRT train ride. Ms Lena Goh, marketing and communications
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    • 377 6 gfe/tfo 1 new daily in Singapore More than 400,000 readers by YVONNE KWOK WE'VE said it before, but it bears repeating: Thank you. Thank you for making us the most widely-read new newspaper in Singapore. Thank you for helping us reach almost double our readership in less
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    • 70 6 Wow! Finally a respite from the rain. Maybe today I'll have my lunch al fresco no raindrops falling on my head and, because it'll be partly cloudy islandwide, no nasty tan either. Temperatures will range between 24°C k and 32°C. The tide will reach 2.9 m
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    • Just a minute
      • 76 6 Women aged 40 and above living in one to three-room flats in Kim Seng, Queenstown, Radin Mas, Tampines Central and Yuhua need only pay $25 for breast-cancer tests. Under a pilot scheme which ends next June, they need to get vouchers from community clubs. The tests can
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      • 93 6 As part of the 31st Japanese Cultural Festival, the Japanese Cultural Society is holding a film festival at the Japanese association at 120 Adam Road. Tonight's feature at Bpm is Akira Kurosawa's 1949 drama, Quiet Duel, about a military doctor who contracts syphilis through a i careless
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    • 243 7 A BADLY burnt body found after a fire at a car workshop on Monday evening is believed to be that of the manager. The body, which was beyond recognition, was found in a corner of the office
      Pic: Lianhe Wanbao  -  243 words
    • 59 7 SIX hawker centres slated for upgrading will be fitted with removable chairs, non-slip toilet floors, wider passageways, ramps for wheelchairs and prams, wash basins for children and nappy-changing facilities. Three of the centres are in the Corporation Drive area. The others are at Blk 503 Jurong
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    • 95 7  -  onekindact KHoe I ASKED the driver of Singapore Bus Services bus No 54 or 55 on Sept 26 if Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 was on his route. He said "No" but he told me not to alight and gave me a free ride to the
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    • 253 8  -  reports by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM HANDS cuffed, Geylang loanshark Chua Tiong Tiong, 45, beamed as he walked into court yesterday. Once in the dock, a more sombre Chua, also known as Ah Long San, heard 28 charges of corruption,
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    • 250 8 A DRUNK hit his wife because she wouldn’t give him money for beer. Another drunk spat on his own mother. Now both men are going to jail. On Jan 28, RajendranVadivelu, 31, a tutor, went to his brother’s flat in Potong Pasir to borrow money
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    • news scan
      • 118 8 THREE Arab Street shophouses were broken into between Saturday night and Monday morning by burglars who came in through the roofs. At textile shop Basharahil Bros, thieves forced open a second-floor window and a door in the ground floor shop to steal $3OO from the petty cash box.
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      • 127 8 TWO brothers were tending to customers at their duck rice stall in a coffee-shop at Pereira Road near Upper Paya Lebar at 2.26 pm on Monday when they were attacked by 10 men. Some of the thugs picked up chairs and bottles and hit the two brothers,
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      • 63 8 A MOTORCYCLIST travelling along Central Expressway towards Seletar Expressway on Monday 7.26 am skidded and came off his bike. Two passing motorists tried to resuscitate the unconscious Mr Abdul Rahim Bin Dahnan, 52, who was later taken toTanTock Seng Hospital. Mr Abdul, a technician, couldn’t
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 230 9 Wire services JAKARTA A day after Indonesia’s top court quashed his jail term for graft, lawyers for Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra said he was ready to give himself up. Tommy, 39, has been on the run since the same Supreme Court sentenced him
      – Wire services; Pic: AFP  -  230 words
    • 250 9 -AFP DHAKA Ms Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) seemed to be headed for a big election win yesterday. Out of 183 seats declared, the BNP-led alliance of Islamic and other parties won 134, a huge lead over the 34 won by Sheikh Hasina Wajed’s
      -AFP; Pics:AP  -  250 words
    • 175 9 -AP BANGKOK A bomb exploded near a Buddhist temple in a Muslim town but caused no injuries, and police said yesterday the explosion was intended to make noise and cause confusion. A previously unknown group, the Malaya Muslim Army, claimed responsibility in a letter
      -AP  -  175 words
    • 226 9 -AFP WASHINGTON Former president Bill Clinton was barred from practising law in the US Supreme Court on Monday, in the latest and possibly final episode of the Monica Lewinsky scandal that dominated his second term in office. “Bill Clinton is suspended
      -AFP  -  226 words
    • weird world
      • 139 9 LONDON Underground (LU) chiefs are using Tokyo-style methods with platform staff wielding batons to force commuters to get on and off trains faster, under a trial scheme which began this week,ThisisLondon website reported. Since Monday, two station officers, each with a baton in one hand and
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      • 97 9 -AP MEXICAN businessmen in the border city of Tijuana have asked the government to change the new area code scheduled to be assigned to the city 666. “This will give our city a bad image,” the city’s Chamber of Commerce said, noting that Tijuana, located across the border
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      • 84 9 SCORES of German shoppers besieged a shop wearing nothing but their underwear, Ananova reported. The stampede in the town of Heide, north of Hamburg, came after the owner of the shop offered to give free jeans to the first 100 people who showed up without trousers or
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      • 121 9 A ROMANIAN villager has bought a grave and cross inscribed with the year he predicts he’ll die, Ananova reported. The 70-year-old claims to have had visions which allowed him to calculate his death in 2012. Priest Vasile Codreanu said the man has shocked the whole village
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  • easy STREATS
    • Article, Illustration
      587 11  -  by 'YVONNE KWOK She's bubbly and frank. Radio DJ Karina Soegarda promises to add zip on WKRZ's live request show, MTV Select WITHIN 15 minutes, you can already tell what kind of a radio disc jockey Karina Amanda Soegarda is. “Male chauvinists challenge me because I want to
      Pics: Francis Lee ’  -  587 words
    • 314 12  -  Catch top Taiwanese compere Matilda Tao on new local radio channel UFMIOO3 by I DIANA SER YOU have enjoyed her wit and wacky sense of fashion on Entertainment News, the popular Taiwanese celebrity showcase. Now, hear top Taiwanese compere Matilda Tao talk about life, social issues,
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    • Article, Illustration
      180 12 HAPPY NEW BEGINNING (WORKING TITLE) 7am-10am I Rush hour will never be the same with the smart and wacky trio of Danny Yeo, Huang Ik, Wenhong (left) and Lin ■K Baobao. News, music, traffic and weather updates and lots of bitchy chat, they promise. ANNA MAGDELENA spm-7pm Hosted
      Pics: Wu Lifen  -  180 words
    • 98 12 I OSCAR winner Kim f Basinger is rumoured to be M cast as foul-mouthed rapper W Eminem’s mother in a new r movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Curtis Hanson, who directed Basinger in LA Confidential, will helm the Untitled Detroit Project, as it’s being called
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    • 330 13  -  I w I n Ahour by Cara van Miriah Singapore have Ashing young men anymore? This was what I asked myself the Manhunt Singapore 2002 |5* e nt test held at Pleasure -°nie disco last Thursday. *he 16 finalists made a specac le of themselves before 150
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • Article, Illustration
          68 13 Bpm, TV Works Raphael Cain, a 17th century French boy who was shipwrecked in Japan, finds his wife murdered and his child, Kiyomi, stolen by evil demons Mallos and Vas- hista. Raphael forges an otherworldly sword and is cursed with immortality in his search for vengeance. He becomes
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        • 60 13 Bpm, Channel U When Ying realises that Xian the ghost still haunts her home, she asks a Taoist priestess to get rid of her. Xian is angered by this and possesses her family, creating much distress for Ying. Ran is upset by all talk about ‘ghosts’ and
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        • 35 13 10pm, Channel 5 Agents Mulder and Doggett are reluctantly thrown together to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig and Mulder becomes convinced that the rig is really carrying the black oil alien.
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    • 151 14 STEP aside Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong and Christy Chung. It’s Singapore’s Michelle Chia that has got FHM’s editors in the UK headquarters drooling. A special edition of the men’s magazine next month will showcase 14 cover girls from the world over. Taiwan FHM submitted four entries
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    • 118 14 Wire services ACTRESS Sharon Stone has been warded in an undisclosed San Francisco hospital for a small brain aneurysm. Her husband, San Francisco Chronicle executive editor Phil Bronstein, took her to the hospital on Saturday after she complained of “severe head pain”, Stone’s spokes- woman, Cindi
      – Wire services  -  118 words
    • easyStreats sports
      • 620 17 -AP Washington if he mils, Michael Jordan (above) won’t regret it. If he embarrasses himself, he’ll shrug it off. if he loses his final game, he’ll live with it. Jordan made it clear on Monday that his latest comeback
        -AP; Pic: Reuters  -  620 words
      • SOCCER
        • 120 17 Reuters BUENOS AIRES Gabriel Batistuta said on Monday that he never felt left out of the Argentinian team by coach Marcelo Bielsa despite last playing for his country a year ago. He said on arrival in Buenos Aires for the World Cup qualifier in Paraguay: “I never
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        • 131 17 Reuters MILAN Frenchman Zinedine Zidane has been named Serie A’s player of the season for 2000-2001. The World Cup and European Championship winner, who left Juventus for Real Madrid last July, was also the top foreign player in the poll known as the “soccer Oscars”. Carlo Ancelotti,
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      • 114 17 •TENNIS Reuters MOSCOW Anna Kournikova, sidelined for much of the year with a foot injury, was reunited with her long-time doubles partner Martina Hingis on Monday, the opening day of the Kremlin Cup tournament. Kournikova and Hingis, who were the world’s No 1 doubles team in 1999, and
        – Reuters  -  114 words
      • 273 18 The Dutch defender has already contacted a London solicitor LONDON Jaap Stam (right) is ready to take legal action against Manchester United following his shocking exit from Old Trafford. The Dutch defender has contacted a London solicitor because he is growing increasingly bitter about
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      • 598 18 MANCHESTER Captain Roy Keane (left) launched another pointed attack on his Manchester United team-mates on Monday, and claimed several members of Alex Ferguson’s squad are guilty of under-performing. Keane insists that the club’s more established stars should be doing more to
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      • 667 19  -  by 'TAN KIM HAN JURONG FC’s errant midfielder Itimi Dickson has been sacked. The club’s executive committee made the decision yesterday in the aftermath of his “assault” on Home United midfielder Harun Juma’at during their S-League match last Friday.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 494 14 2N& clay, Uh Ca/npbzJM^ Your Daily Horoscope JAN 20-FEB 18 Even in this season of drying and decay, Aquarius finds new, vibrant sources. Celebrate individuality by approaching everyone on their own level. Speak directly into the microphone so that your listeners will catch every word. FEB 19-MAR 20 K K
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 329 16 tei sSssrfs The story today. Jiang Yulang stuffs himself with food while Xiao Yuer starves. "Since we don't know you, we don't see the need to treat you to dinner," say Jiang's friends. Xiao Yuer fights back with humour: "Oh yes, if I want to eat, I'll have to chop
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 21 17 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: Spanish League: Barvelona v Mallorca(Star Sports Ch 24, tomorrow, 2.30 am). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: EPL Highlights (TV Works, 10pm).
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