Streats, 11 October 2001

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  • 23 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 11 October 2001 j Another quality publication of fjgg® Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • war diary
    • 61 1 -AFP Kabul -US warplanes mounted daytime raids on Kandahar and Kabul yesterday after a third straight night of bombings. > At least three residential areas Were hit and several civilians killed, theTaleban said. The US claim that all air defences were destroyed was proven wrong as anti-aircraft guns
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    • 64 1 Reuters Washington -The us yesterday released a list of 22 “most wanted terrorists”. They are wanted for the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in Beirut, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a 1995 plot to bomb jets, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and
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  • 285 1 SOUTH-EAST Asia could be the new front for the US’war against terrorism. Yesterday, US officials said terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden’s network and based in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia are among the likely targets of future actions. Giving no timetable, they said
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  • 604 1  -  fay DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM and ADAM HASHIDY SINGAPORE'S economy shrank a record 5.6 per cent in the third quarter and no hope of recovery is foreseeable this year, the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced yesterday. This is the second consecutive
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  • WAR
    • new fronts
      • 85 2 The US's CIA received 15,000job applications between Sept 11 and Oct 5, up from the pre-attack average of about 500 to 600 a week and about five times as many as it received in the same period a year ago, ABCNEWS.com reported yesterday. However, this surge 1 also
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      • 422 2 OSAMA bin Laden is under attack and wants to open a new front. He is demanding that Muslims launch terror attacks on Americans around the world. “Holy struggle is a religious duty for every Muslim,” said his spokesman on Qatar’s A 1 Jazeera television
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      • 193 2 Wire service DESPITE the rhetoric, Osama bin Laden’s call for a holy war hasn’t had much effect. About 300 students burned an effigy of US President George W Bush and American flags in Jakarta yesterday, but demonstrations in recent days have been relatively small. Malaysia’s PAS
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      • 28 2 The reduction in electricity charges r 0.75 cents per kWh and not 75 cents a-l reported in “Lower power bills froi 11 next month” in yesterday’s Streats.
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      • 92 4 Reuters The Taleban yesterday charged French reporter Michel Peyrard and his two Pakistani colleages guides with spying. "They have been formally charged with spying/'Taleban intelligence chief Mullah Taj Meer was quoted as saying by the Afghan Islamic Press. "We had warned all journalists that if they entered
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      • 386 4 DOHA The Islamic world has warned the US against opening new fronts in its war against terrorism. The foreign ministers of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) yesterday rejected any potential US strikes on Arab states “under the pretext of its
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      • 248 4 -AP UNITED NATIONS UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan said on Tuesday he was “disturbed” by a statement that the United States might attack other countries in addition to Afghanistan to root out terrorism. US officials have tried to downplay the prospect of an immediate expansion of the
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      • war diary
        • 65 5 THE opposition Northern Alliance (NA) has cut off the main north-south supply route forTaleban troops, the group said yesterday. US-led airstrikes have already cut off theTaleban air supply routes to the north. The NA took control of the route through the western Baghlan province when theTaleban fighters
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        • 54 5 IT was inappropriate of PAS secretary-general Nasharuddin Mat Isa to encourage people to fight alongside Taleban forces against the US, Malaysian Deputy Prime f Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday. “He should not have recommended it to Malaysians because we should not interfere in what’s happening in
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        • 66 5 THETaleban is targeting and beating local staffers from the UN Mine Action Programme and other non-governmental demining agencies, the UN said yesterday. “Demining staff in Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar were beaten by theTaleban,” said UN spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker. She added thatTaleban fighters broke into the premises of
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        • 56 5 THE 23,000 British troops taking part in an exercise in Oman will be available “should they be required” for a strike against terrorist targets, British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon has said. Yesterday, Prime Minister Tony Blair visited a desert encampment in Oman to review the British participating
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      • 96 5 An Indian Airlines employee who took a hoax call that triggered a massive hijack false alert last week has died from natural causes, an official said yesterday. The death of 24- year-old Shahnawaz Wani from suspected heart failure was the latest twist to the drama in
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      • 451 5 Wire services BEIJING China is opening a new front against global terrorism by launching a campaign against separatists in Urumqi, the capital of the Muslim majority Xinjiang region which borders Afghanistan. China News Service reported the plan to strike hard at
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    • 254 6 TWO ex-directors of the Raffles Town Club were fined yesterday for tax evasion. Lawrence Ang Yee Lim, 49, pleaded guilty to five charges of evading income tax and was ordered to pay a penalty of more than $1 million, on top of the $1
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    • 407 6 DESPITE the war that is raging in Afghanistan, life goes on for the man in the street here. He is more concerned with its effects on Singapore’s economy, the Berita Harian reported yesterday. A survey in the paper
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    • 74 6 Don't leave your brolly behind in the office after work today as there'll be showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening affecting most areas. Temperatures will range between 25°C and 32°C. The first high tide will reach 2.3 m at 8.05 am and
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    • 178 6 Just a minute year. But there is help the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) Mentorship programme for older workers to help them switch to new sectors. The < government will help companies pay older workers programme for up to three months. MOM is at 18 Havelock Road. (Te1:438-5122) There is
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    • 713 7 Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo took questions otter yesterday's briefing on the revised GDP estimates. Here's what BG Yeo said on: Q Upcoming off-Budget measures: Q: What's the focus of these measures? BG Yeo: This time round, competitiveness is not the major
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    • 79 7 BETWEEN January and August this year, almost 8,000 HDB flat owners received help from the Housing Board to pay their housing loans. Members of Parliament expect more people to seek help as more retrenchments are expected this year. In the past three months, more than
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    • 288 8  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH A FORMER employee of Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) helped an international human trafficking syndicate smuggle a total of 14 illegals into the US and Australia. A court heard yesterday that Madhavan Rajagopal played a part in smuggling eight Pakistanis
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    • 146 8  -  -Khushwant Singh HE didn’t have the stamina for a physical test, so he got a friend to take his place. A court heard yesterday that Yap Han Siang, 20, had to do a 2.4 km run for his National Physical Fitness Award test on June
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    • 188 8 A ROW has erupted in a counterfeit currency case. A 60-year-old Briton claims he was given fake British pounds by a Tanjong Pagar money changer more than two months ago. Not so, contends the money changer, who declined to give a name. The accuser, a
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    • 161 8  -  -Khushwant Singh A FORMER operations manager conspired with an airport cargo hand to steal thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. On May 24, Mohd Nasir Mohd Azam, 46, then an operations manager with Novo Logistics, approached cash-strapped Yusof Embi, 43. He told him that he could dispose
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    • 82 8 onekindact. Audrina Ng THANK you to the alert gentleman who prevented my daughter from being hit by a taxi on Sept 30, at 7pm. My daughter didn't notice the moving car because the green man was still lit as she used a pedestrian crossing on Bukit Panjang Ring
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      40 9 SHARK ATTACK: Natalia Slobodskaya, 23, and her fiance Sergei Zaloukaev, 28, were attacked by a shark in the Waters off the North Carolina coast last Wednesday. Her left foot was ripped off and her fiance was killed Pic:AP
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    • 206 9 AP FERN PARK, Florida Someone in Florida is a millionaire, but only if he claims his US$7 million ($12.6 million) prize soon. That person bought the winning ticket of the Florida Lottery jackpot on April 21 at a grocery store in Fern Park. But the
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    • 287 9 -AP HONGKONG The terror attacks in the US aggravated the global financial gloom and will make it even harder for Hongkong to reinvent its economy and recover from a worsening downturn, said Hongkong leader Tung Chee-hwa yesterday. “We have to prepare
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    • 117 9 KUALA LUMPUR The Prime Minister’s Office has demanded that an Associated Press (AP) journalist and the news organisation issue a public apology to Dr Mahathir Mohamad, reported the Utusan Express. Mr Sean Yoong stated in his report: “If they wanted to take action, they should pick the
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  • easy STREATS
    • 397 11 LOOKS like wonder boy Steven Soderbergh has a fan in director Gary Fleder. The latter’s latest offering tries its damdest to look Soderbergh (at least for the first 15 minutes or so, what with the use of different colours to mark different scenes think Traffic). It feels
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    • 191 12 Reviewers' takes What's the word on Michael Douglas'latest acting endeavour? Read on and find out whether critics have been panning or praising Don't Say A Word Jforit Say a Word quickly descends from a smart thinking drama to a witless, bad guys vs good guys, dime-a-dozen flick. Hollywood
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV
        • 57 12 10pm, 1 TV Works IA man is /wrongly I convicted for the murder of 'j/r his wife. In jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After he is freed he is framed again for two more murders. His former prison guard helps
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        • 31 12 10.30 pm, Channel U Junxi returns to Korea a successful artist. Enxi sees Junxi and the two are reunited, in this five-hankie weepie that had everyone talking.
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        • 31 12 10.30 pm, Central Bob and Margaret need to get their Canadian driving licences. Margaret passes the test but Bob fails and suffers a blow to his male ego.
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        • 63 12 Bpm, Star World (SCV 18) The rock mama’s final tour last October in which she bid her audiences farewell with hits including Fool In Love, Acid Queen, Ri- ver Deep Mountain High, We Don’t a Need Another Hero, Better Be i Good To Me, i
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    • 244 13  -  V Yvonne kwok and skirts with asymmetric e ms. Outfits with hemlines that double bandeaus... Welcome to Constance Song and Alfie Leong’s new boutique, a g, at Parco Bugis Junction. At the opening of the shop yesterday, Channel U star was seen explaining b
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    • 120 13 NICKY Wu is having a hard time filming the drama, Xiao ShiYi Lang. First, his palm was accidentally pierced by a nail during a shoot. I Then, on Tuesday, an explosion on the I China set blasted debris at him, and his 1 right hand was badly
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 400 17 Wire services LIVERPOOL Manager Gerard Houllier refused to blame his Anfield flops on Tuesday night after the Worthington Cup holder was humiliated by Grimsby 1-2. He said: “I congratulate them and wish them good luck in the rest of the competition. “But
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      • 357 17 Wire services London Leeds manager David O’Leary insisted that he will not treat the Worthington Cup with the “arrogance” of Manchester United and Arsenal. He said he would be delighted if the c ompetition was to give him his first trophy. He showed that
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      • 112 17 •SWIMMING -Reuters SYDNEY Olympic swimming champion lan Thorpe is chasing golfer Greg Norman’s title as Australia’s highest-earning sportsman after his manager announced yesterday that he has signed contracts worth a total of US$5 million ($8.9 million). Thorpe, 18, has signed a threeyear deal with Japanese
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      • 137 17 •MOTOR RACING -AFP TOKYO Jean Alesi said here yesterday that he would retire from F-l racing after his British team Jordan dumped him as one of its two drivers for the premier motorsport tour. The 37-year-old French-man told a news conference ahead of this weekend’s season-closing
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      • 70 17 •TABLE TENNIS THE Singapore Table Tennis Association will be organising an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Solidarity Coaching Course Level Two (Technical) from Nov 5-10. The guest lecturer will be Hua Zhende from China. Registration fee is $5O and the closing date is Oct 27. Interested applicants can
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      • 51 18 Home United 0 Draws: 5 Geylang 4 Police PC 0; 1997: Geylang 2 Home United 0; l 2001: Geylang 4 Home United 2; Home United 1 Geylang 1 Home United 1 Geylang 7 When Geylang beat Home 2-0 at Bedok in 1997, current coach Jang Jung scored the first
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      • 458 18  -  by Peter Siow TWO strikers, one mission. When forwards Indra Sahdan of Home United and Aleksander Duric of Geylang march stridently on to the pitch this Saturday, they will have only one purpose in mind: To score goals and prove
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      • 535 19  -  by LIM HAN MING TANJONG Pagar United defender Daniel Bennett (above) may be the first S-League foreign player to be given Singapore citizenship. A well-informed source said the 23-year-old Bennett, now a permanent resident, met Football Association of Singapore general secretary
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    • 279 16 easy 1 u3K g i I J p Ba»wsP HI t The story today... Pieces of the parapet wall dart across the room to hit anyone who is in the way, especially the youngsters who have launched an attack on Xuan Yuan San Guang. Li Ting could not bear seeing
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