Streats, 12 October 2001

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 12 October 2001 A Mother quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • Get out
    • 305 1 THE backlash against Westerners in Indonesia the world’s largest Muslim nation intensified yesterday. A radical group Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) said yesterday that it Would hunt down Americans and Tritons to drive them out of the country. The warning came after the government ignored
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    • 255 1 Reuters the backlash against the US-led bombing on Afghanistan has consumed its first Western victim. Alarm rippled through the expatriate community yesterday in the Gulf after a Canadian aircraft technician was shot dead in Kuwait. His Filipina wife was badly injured in
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  • 217 1 GETTING through these tough times is what’s uppermost on your minds and you’re looking to the off-Budget measures, to be announced by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Parliament today for a breather. Nine out of 10 people of a group of 700 polled
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  • war diary
    • 70 1 KABUL Fighter-bombers struck Kabul and Kandahar yesterday in the heaviest day of air raids yet. The airport in Kabul was hit again. Kandahar was shaken by more than 30 explosions in a two-hour period. Taleban fuel depots, barracks, and heavy armour were targeted.
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    • 57 1 ISLAMABAD More than 100 civilians were killed in a botched US airstrike yesterday, the Taleban said. The attack, on the eastern Afghan village of Kadam, was aimed at a former Osama bin Laden camp in the area. The reported casualties bring to nearly 200 the number of
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  • WAR
    • get out
      • 87 2 ,J An Indian woman got married to a Pakistani man via telephone after the groom was denied a visa to attend his wedding. Farhana, a resident of the Indian town of Meerut, was engaged to Vaseemuddin, who is from the Pakistani city of Karachi. The wedding was set
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      • 310 2 US forces have landed in Pakistan. But they’re being told to get out. President Pervez Musharraf’s government yesterday confirmed that American military personnel had arrived in the country. Immediately, the radical Jamaat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI) group called for a protest rally. The
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      • war diary
        • 49 2 THE real war is yet to begin, Talebfl Ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said yesterday “When Americans enter Afghanistan, then will start the rea war,” he said. The death toll is rising rapidly, J? said. “America is thirsty for more bloodshed in Afghanistan.”
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        • 39 2 THE military campaign against the Taleban could last until next summer or beyond, Britain’s defence chief in London yesterday. Admiral Sir Michael Boyce said >' was difficult to predict how long rtfi* itary operations would last.
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        • 43 2 ALLIED pilots have no targets left i> Afghanistan, military sources said yesterday. In a clear signal that a ground offensive was imminent, they revealed that bombing was almost complete because the attacks have had an 80 per cent strike rate.
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        • 46 2 FIERCE fighting is going on as opposition forces, led by General Abdurrashid Dostum, try to seize Afghanistan’s north-central region from the Taleban. Gen Dostum’s fighters are 45 km from the key city of Mazar-e-Sharif and struggling to capture the road that leads there.
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    • stay out
      • 84 3 A third publishing company employee in Florida tested positive for anthrax, which has killed one man. "We have an additional employee that has been found to have anthrax present,"Fßl special agent Hector Pesquera said yesterday. Acting US Attorney Guy Lewis said the investigation was now considered a
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      • 363 3 Wire services &ÜBAI Stay out. You are unwelcome ln Saudi Arabia. That was the message British Prime Minister Tony Blair got from the kingdom Mien he tried to visit on Wednesday. Earlier, a UK-based Muslim outfit A 1
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      • 329 3 Wire services Singapore -US military action in South-east Asia a region officials say has links to Osama bin Laden’s A 1 Qaeda terrorist network is unlikely, the US Ambassador to Singapore said yesterday. He was commenting on a New York iimes report on
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    • black out
      • 481 5 Wire services Washington -The White House has convinced US television networks to clip broadcasts of videotaped statements by Osama bin Laden to stop coded orders being passed to terrorist allies. An official who spoke on condition of anonymity also revealed
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      • 84 5 French journalist Michel Peyrard, charged with spying by the Taleban, was stoned by people as he was paraded through the streets of Jalalabad. He was arrested after he entered Afghanistan disguised as a woman. Radio reports said two Pakistanis, arrested with Mr Peyrard, were also paraded through
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      • 98 5 Reuters ADELAIDE Media mogul Rupert Murdoch said yesterday that his television networks would not screen footage of Osama bin Laden or his Al Qaeda organisation if it was suspected to contain secret messages. “We’ll do whatever is our patriotic duty,” Australia-born Mr Murdoch said after
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 340 6  -  by ADAM HASHIDY GIVE something back. That’s why sponsors of this year’s The Straits Times Million Dollar Duck Race are doing their bit in supporting the annual fundraiser for needy children the gloomy economic outlook notwithstanding.
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    • 146 6 THE Singapore Government will contribute US$lOO,OOO ($180,000), through the Singapore Red Cross Society (SRCS) campaign to raise funds for the Afghan people. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday that it hoped this would encourage Singaporeans to donate to the Red Cross
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    • 58 6 The rain will come down hard in the late morning and afternoon mainly over north- ern, eastern and western areas. Temperatures will be between 24°C and 32°C, with the tide reaching 2.4 m j at 6.39 pm. October's weather girl Streats reader Carol Ong Outfit Top
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    • Just a minute
      • 84 6 In conjunction with the National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign 2001, the Singapore National Heart Association is organising a Mandarin talk on stress and stroke prevention at Kim Seng Community Centre, 570 Havelock Road, tomorrow from 3pm to 4.30 pm. Call Ms Ho Soo Luan at 272-3878 to register.
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      • 62 6 You can put your small-change coins back into circulation through the Singapore Mint's free community service to help you swap them for crisp dollar bills. You can also exchange past series and damaged notes for the current "portrait"ones. Tomorrow and Sunday the service is at Kampong Übi Community Club,
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    • 319 8  -  by DEEPA VIJIYA^INGAM Latest estimate puts job losses at 29,000 this year IF you’ve not been successful so far in finding a job at the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) job bank, you might want to try again. From today, there will be
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    • 138 8 ASEAN should strive to cooperate more closely to fight terrorism, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in welcoming delegates of the Third Asean Ministerial Meeting on TranS' national Crime held here yesterday. “We must signal clearly that... we condemn the brutal acts of terrorism on
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    • 75 8 PASSPORT holders from Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan now need to produce visas to enter Singapore. In a statement, the Singapore Immigration and Registration (SIR) said visa requirements “are regularly reviewed and updated based oh the global security situation”. Iran and Sudan are both on the
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    • 332 9  -  Q Tried to run over cop in car chase Q Hauled kicking to police station C)Bit an officer, refused alcohol tests by KHUSHWANT SINGH 4T could have been an episode straight °ut of the World’s Greatest Police Chases. Three police cars in hot pursuit. A woman bent
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    • 196 9  -  -Khushwant Singh TWO undergraduates decided to take a walk at 3am on Dec 28 around the NUS campus. They ended up stealing cameras and photographic equipment worth $7,300. Yesterday, Haw Kuo Liang, 24, was jailed three months for his role in the theft. Earlier,
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    • 148 9  -  Winston Chong TWO Colombians here on social visit passes weren’t busy taking in the sights and sounds of Singapore. Instead, they broke into a 27-year-old woman’s Tanjong Katong flat in Rose Lane on Tuesday night and stole more than $22,000 worth of jewellery and cash. Yesterday,
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    • 59 9 onekindact. LOng MY sandal strap broke as I shopped at Takashimaya recently. But a kind staff member kept me mobile by stapling and taping the broken strap together. If you wish to highlight a kind act, no matter how small, write in to Streats, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 240 10 Reuters $3.5b package 'no help' to poor, say papers HONGKONG Hongkongers are unimpressed with a HK$l5 billion ($3.5 billion) relief package announced this week, newspapers said yesterday. Hongkong chief Hmg Chee-hwa unveiled proposals on Wednesday to ease the burden on taxpayers and
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    • 133 10 Reuters STOCKHOLM -VS Naipaul has won the Nobel prize for literature. Mr Naipaul, long tipped for the prestigious award, won the US$l million ($l.B million) prize for combining existing genres into a style that compels readers “to see the presence of suppressed histories”, the Swedish
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    • 125 10 Reuters LONDON -Thousands of British Star Wars fans have claimed Jedi as their religion and forced it onto the next census. An e-mail campaign convinced more than 10,000 fans to list Jedi as their religion on Britain’s census this year, the Daily
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  • easy STREATS
    • Stephanie @ the movies
      • 302 11 LISTENING to bubbly Charlene Choi you would think the film she was in town to promote was a comedy. “We seemed to be playing every day (during filming),” the fresh-faced 18-Vear-old chirped. The movie in question: the gloomilytitled Funeral March where the singeractress (one half of Hongkong singing
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      • 141 11 HAPPY-GO-LUCKY Eason Chan counts himself as one lucky chap. ‘l’ve always thought of myself as a lucky person. Nothing will really get me down. Like rumours... I’m used to them,” he told Streats. The most ridiculous rumour he’s heard about himself? “That I was naked with
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    • Article, Illustration
      250 13  -  two shoes by Wileen Chang I HAD quite forgotten what “real” niang doufu (stuffed doufu) tasted like, having been seduced by stalls with an any-thing-also-can-throw-in display, all dunked in soup sweetened none-too-subtly with monosodium glutamate. If you are searching for some good Hakka niang doufu, then Goldhill Hak-
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      353 13  -  by YVONNE KWOK WHEN WKRZ 91.3 FM blasts off in two weeks’ time, don’t be surprised if you catch some familiar voices on air. Heading the charge is former Perfect 10 deejay LimYee Hao, better known to radio regulars as Howie. The 28-year-old has returned to the airwaves
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 49 17 home united Tomorrow: v Geylang (home) Oct 18: SAFFC (home) Oct 26: v Gombak (away) geylang united Tomorrow: v Home (away) Oct 19: v Balestier (away) Oct 26: x vJurong (home) SAFFC Tonight: v Marine Castle (away) Oct 18: v Home (away) Oct 26: v Woodlands Jhome)
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      • 409 17  -  by /TAN KIM HAN ASK any S-League fan who will claim the crown this season, and the answer will almost always be either Home United or Geylang United. The picture will become clearer once the dust settles tomorrow when the
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      • 303 17  -  by TAN KIM HAN NTUC INCOME S-LEAGUE Tampines 3 Gombak 1 COACH Jita Singh’s absence was hardly felt last night when Tampines Rovers extended its unbeaten run to six matches. Jita, also the technical director, is away in Myanmar for an Asian Football Confederation coaching assignment.
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      • SOCCER
        • 98 17 LONDON JDennis Bergkamp believes that he is being forced out of Arsenal, according to his agent. Rob Jansen, who represents the 32-year-old Holland striker, told a Dutch magazine that “things were not going well”, and added that Bergkamp feared he would not be able to finish
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        • 93 17 Reuters LONDON Darren. Huckerby scored four times as Manchester City crushed Birmingham City 6-0, while Fulham roared back to beat Derby County 5-2 in the English League Cup third round on Wednesday. Aston Mila settled for a 1-0 win over Second Division giant killer Reading,
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      • 68 17 BASKETBALL -AFP WASHINGTON Michael Jordan, anxious to satisfy eager basketball fans, will play “limited minutes” in the Washington Wizards’ first two pre-season games, rather than sitting them out entirely, the club said on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Jordan said he intented to stay on the
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      • 305 18  -  by LIM HAN MING NATIONAL bowling coach Ron Hoppe (left) is on the lookout for another job. The 62-year-old American was sacked the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC) after its monthly general council meeting on Wednesday. A press statement released yesterday
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      • 476 19 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE-Olympiads 0 Man United 2 -Wire services ATHENS In the city where the ancient Athenians used to worship the gods, David Beckham underlined his status as Manchester United and England’s new footballing deity. Fresh from earning England qualification for the
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      • Article, Illustration
        50 19 Starting tomorrow, Streats will launch Soccer Smart, a weekly column which looks at the English Premiership's match of the week and the betting odds both local and overseas. LIM HAN MING will kick off with the sizzler between Liverpool and Leeds. Look out for some really hot tips!
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      • 228 19 Reuters ATHENS Manager Alex Ferguson saluted his side’s slick passing game. He said: “It was a good performance and we exerted a lot of control at key points in the game. “We played a very good passing game, and played with great patience and
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      • 230 19 -AFP Croup E: Celtic (Sco) 1 (Thompson 21) Rosenborg (Nor) 0; Porto (Por) OJuventus (Ita)O P W D L F A Pts Celtic 3 2 0 1 4 3 6 Juventus 3 1 2 0 4 3 5 Porto 3 1112 2 4 Rosenborg 3 0 1 2
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    • 496 14 si If] WM am m am mu Your Daily Horoscope &s.'ll in-siif i ii JAN 20-FEB 18 Aquarius’ friends always depend on them to draw the wild card from the deck. Watch for the signals that people transmit unconsciously through their behaviour. You’re especially good at guessing games today. FEB
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 27 17 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: Asian World Cup qualifier: Iran v Iraq (Star Sports Ch24,8.30pm). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: European PGA Tour: Cisco World Matchplay Championship, Day 2 (Super Sports Ch22,lopm).
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