Streats, 17 October 2001

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  • 24 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets U. m j WEDNESDAY IT October 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 274 1  -  $2.7 billion bonus for 2.1 million Singaporeans by KHUSHWANT SINGH CITIZENSHIP has its privileges. From Nov 1, you will be among the 2.1 million Singaporeans to receive New Singapore Shares (NSS), a novel Way of acknowledging your contribution mooted by Prime Minister Goh ChokTong. Each NSS is
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  • money rush
    • 83 1 YES, an extra effort will be made to ensure you receive your NSS. You fall into this category if you’ve missed out on the last CPF top-up scheme, perhaps because of age or ignorance. Volunteers from the Community Development Councils (CDCs) will seek you out.
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    • 82 1 YES, there’s more if you continue to do your share towards Singapore’s progress. Finance Minister Dr Richard Hu said that in future, when the government has accumulated sufficient funds to redistribute to Singaporeans, new NSS will be issued. “The idea being that if the government
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    • 30 1 YES, you’ll receive NSS. How many? This will depend on the size of your house. More shares will be given to those who live in smaller houses.
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    • 28 1 YES, you’re not left out. You’ll be assessed based on the size of your house or income level, whichever gives the lower number of shares.
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  • Streatsmart local
    • Article, Illustration
      403 2 New Singapore Shares and off-Budget MP r About 2.1 million Singaporeans above 21 old will be richer by at least $2OO from next month The New Singapore Shares (NSS) f each worth 1, is part of your slice of the Singapore success story. It is both a
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    • 102 3 Q: What of active NSmen who are below 21? A: Dr Hu: Hopefully, in the next five years (after the current NSS matures), there will be other schemes, if the economy improves. Q; Why is it that active NSmen get 200 shares, while inactive NSmen
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    • 236 4 SINGAPORE company bosses prefer pay and hiring freezes to axing staff. It’s not just because they follow the “Asian way” and feel bad about taking away your livelihood. It’s also because they recognise your worth and they know it makes financial sense to
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    • 196 4 SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) yesterday said that it would implement a wage freeze and cut as it announced that full-year net profit fell 18.7 per cent. Net profit in the financial year ending Aug 31 fell to $340.8 million from $419.4 million the previous year.
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    • 226 4  -  by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM THE career of the burglar who became known as the Hougang Spiderman was squashed like a bug yesterday when a court sentenced him to eight years of corrective training. Johari Ahmad (left), 25, had pleaded guilty to six charges of housebreaking and one
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    • 366 5  -  >y 'DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM Lay Bee, wife of convicted embezTeo Cheng Kiat, will join her husin jail. She was convicted yesterday on one charge of hiding more than 40 items of e Wellery, gold coins and watches from he authorities. She was sentenced to 18
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    • 390 5  -  by WINSTON CHONG A BURGLAR was in the middle of ransacking a flat when the owner woke up. The burglar begged for understanding, and the owner, Mr Chew Yow Koon, thought better of trying to catch the man, who was holding
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    • 85 5 Many will be cooped up in the office by the V thunderstorms all around *fj Singapore this morning. Brave ones may venture out in the rain for their favourite chicken rice, but for me, it will be muesli bars, instant noodles, cookies and 1 tea bags.
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    • Just a minute
      • 74 5 This year's pilgrimage to Kusu Island will go on until Nov 14. During the season, ferries for the island will leave Clifford Pier from 6.30 am on Sundays and public holidays and 7am Mondays to Saturdays. The last ferry will leave Clifford Pier at spm and Kusu Island
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      • 111 5 One of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month events will be video screenings and breast self-examination demonstrations for women at the Health Promotion Board's Health Studio 2 at 3 Second Hospital Avenue from 12.30-1.30 pm (Tel: 435-3954). For more information on breast cancer and mammography screening call Health
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  • WAR
    • anthrax anxiety
      • 269 6 WASHINGTON US authorities are now probing the possibility that Osama bin Laden’s followers were behind the anthrax attacks in the US, The New York Times reported. This line of investigation is based on circumstantial information drawn from cases diagnosed in recent days, like the postmarks on the
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      • 71 6 Singapore Post said yesterday it was on alert after anthrax scares in the US triggered fears of possible bio-terrorist attacks worldwide. "We have heightened security measures since the US incidents but we cannot comment on the actual measures we are taking, "a Sing Post spokeswom < said.
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      • war diary
        • 42 6 FIGHTERS loyal to Afghan warlord IsmJ Khan were battling with Taleban forces yeste day around the northwestern town of Qala Na on a key supply route for the Taleban to the troops in the north, Khan’s spokesman said.
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        • 62 6 INDIAN and Pakistani troops exchanged sp< radic fire across their border in dispute Kashmir for a second day yesterday as tensic escalated despite a visit to the region by E Secretary of State Colin Powell. A senior mil tary official that mortar and heavy machir gun fire
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        • 41 6 NORTHERN alliance troops are approachid Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, wit] some units as close as 7km away from the ke! city, Abdul Vadud, the military attache of tn opposition-controlled Afghan Embassy in t# Tajik capital Dushanbe said yesterday.
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      • 191 9 Dubbed the "silent epidemic"osteoporosis is often painless and has no symptoms. To detect osteoporosis before your bones fracture, you should have a Bone Strength Assessment scan (ie Bone Mineral Density, Bone Elasticity, Micro-Architectural and Critical Thickness scans) done, especially if you are in the high risk group. You
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      • 249 9 -AFP SYDNEY Osama bin Laden could have been wrongly accused. Mr Clive Williams, Australia’s leading authority on terrorism, said yesterday that Washington should look closer to home for those deliberately spreading anthrax in the US. The specialist in terrorism at the Australian National University in Canberra believes
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      • 72 9 Reuters LONDON If we don’t colonise space, we’ll all be wiped out by a disease. Cambridge University Professor Stephen Hawking warned that he believes it could happen this millennium. “I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years unless we spread into space,”
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    • propaganda
      • 287 10 US must win information battle; too WASHINGTON America has made progress in its military campaign against terrorism but it must wage an aggressive propaganda war to counter harmful Arab opinions, media and foreign policy analysts said. While the military campaign had been an important tool since the Sept
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  • Streatsmart global
    • Off-budget moves
      • 136 12 Reuters TOKYO Japan ’s Economics Minister Heizo Takenaka said yesterday Tokyo would publish a revised economic forecast for the current fiscal year when it compiles an extra budget by the end of the month. “In principle, if we were to compile an extra budget, it would be our responsibility
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      • 128 12 SEOUL The South Korean govern' ment has decided to implement a 2-tril' lion-won ($2.8 billion) supplementary budget to bail out the airline industry and stimulate investment in housing and infrastructure projects, the Korea Herald reported. Under the special budget, Seoul will also provide 250 billion won in soft loar*
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    • 203 12 -AP MANILA Former first lady Imelda Marcos surrendered to the Philippines’ main anti-graft court yesterday. The judge had issued a warrant for her arrest on four counts of corruption involving transactions of US$352 million ($640 million). The 72-year-old widow of Ferdinand Marcos stayed at the
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  • easy STREATS
    • Article, Illustration
      621 13  -  Kate Reyes took a year off to reflect on life and mend a broken heart. Now she’s back to hit the airwaves on the latest radio station in town, WKRZ9I.3FM by YVONNE KWOK IT'S been a year less ordinary for ex-Perfect 10 deejay, Kate Reyes. Having left
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    • 424 14 He came in second last when he took part in the Malay Talentime in 1983. Now, he's back on the show-as its creative director. DIANA SER talks to the real star behind Channel s's Talentime WITH its fast pace, strong (but raw) talents and dose of
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    • 207 16 TOP-NOTCH Hongkong stars are taking a pay cut not because of the deteriorating economy, but because they want to work with Chinese director Zhang Yimou (left). Jet Li, fresh from the success of Kiss of the Dragon, willingly shaved US$6 million ($ll million) off his usual US$9
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    • 212 16 WHAT happens when you try to please everyone? You end up pleasing very few that's what Faye Wong’s record company, EMI, found out. In a bid to make Taiwan and Flongkong fans feel special during the promotion of Faye’s new album, they ended up stepping on
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    • 408 17  -  nour by /Cara van Miriah YOU may come in your beach gear, but swimming is a no-no at the second ZoukOut at Sentosa on Nov 24. Last year, 21-year-old Malaysian web designer Wong Wee Chieh and his two friends partying at ZoukOut on Siloso Beach ignored the
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV
        • 52 17 9pm, TV Works Trying to impress Robert when they visit the Baseball Hall of Fame, Ray uses his clout as a sports writer to jump to the front of the line during a “meet members of the ’69 Miracle New York Mets” session. Of course things go
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        • 76 17 OLD TIME BUDDY TO CATCH A THIEF 10.30 pm, Channel U r Fans of Gallen Lo are in for a treat. After Feminine Mascu- linity, here comes another comedy series boasting a strong cast. This time Lo is Li Qi, a detective investigating the case of the mysterious Lady Black
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        • 45 17 9pm, Channel 8 Stars Louis Koo, Chen Jinhong, Hsuan Jessica Hester, Su Zhiwei and Li Sansan. This fourth installment of the popular series is about two CID policemen. Xu Fei is aloof and anti-social and Jiang Zisan is his soft-spoken superior.
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 465 20 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Man United v Deportivo Alex Ferguson, delighted with the performance of several reserves in the 3-1 victory on Saturday, will look to his star-studded first-choice side when the Spaniards visit Old Trafford. PARIS After unleashing
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      • 288 20 LONDON From £28,000 a week ($73,700) to £lOO,OOO a week. That’s the new pay packet for superstar David Beckham. Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon yesterday admitted that the club will have to pay £lOO,OOO a week to keep David Beckham at
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      • 617 21 Russia Phil Thompson (right) is e ady to jettison his aggressive image in p 1 attempt to fill the void created by 6r ard Houllier’s illness. The Liverpool assistant manager has ptty detractors and a
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      • 378 22  -  by TAN KIM HAN JOSEPHAT NDETI, a former world junior championships 10-kilometre silver medallist, will be dashing through the streets of Singapore in this year’s Exxon Mobil international marathon. The 29-year-old also won the first Griesham half-marathon earlier this year
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      • 143 22 LONDON Sexy Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova is hoping to become a Bond girl. The tennis starlet is said to be in talks with producers about appearing in Pierce Brosnan’s fourth 007 movie Bond 20 reported PeopleNews.com yesterday. Kournikova, who is not popular among her fellow
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      • 84 22 BADMINTON -Xinhut JAKARTA Indonesian sta 1 Taufik Hidayat has decided t quit badminton to further histudies, the Jakarta Post report ed yesterday. The 20-year-old world No 5 shuttler said his disappointment with coach Agus Dwi Santoso’t decision to pull him out of th f
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      • 96 22 •SOCCER -AFP PARIS Football legend Mi' chel Platini has hit out at Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s stance over the controversial friendly international between France and Australia next month. Wenger has voiced his unhappiness at having to release four of his key players Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Sylvain
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      • 85 22 tennis -AFP STUTTGART Mark Philippoussis is back on the ATP circuit after six months and three knee injuries with a new commitment. Once a fixture on the pages of glossy magazines, the 24-year-old Australian says he missed tennis so much. “I didn’t really realise how much I
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      • Heartache on the bench
        • 356 23 -AFP LONDON Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier has been taken off a ventilator after undergoing 11 hours of open heart surgery at the weekend, the English Premiership club confirmed. Houllier spent a comfortable night on Monday at a cardiothoracic unit in Liverpool and is now conscious and
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        • 490 23  -  by' TAN KIM HAN THREE months ago during Liverpool’s visit to Singapore, Reds manager Gerard Houllier advised S-League coaches to take care of themselves. Today, the 54-year-old Frenchman is lying on his back in hospital following chest pains during last weekend’s Liver-pool-Leeds match. It is believed
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 489 16 A day today, ejtwith m Your Daily Horoscope JAN 20-FEB 18 Your feelings interfere with the smooth flow of your day. Maybe it’s a sense of inadequacy, or maybe it’s an attack of conscience. For others, your situation isn’t real until you drag them into it. FEB 19-MAR 20 N
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 324 18 easy •I I ft p 1 tSMiil m The story is about. Yuan Jian Ping who gets more than he bargains for when he enrols at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly finds himself involved in everything,from girl problems to gang fights, from baseball matches to flower arrangement
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 363 19 The story today. Xuan Yuan San Guang backs into Jiang Biehe with such great force that anyone else would have died of internal injuries. But Jiang remains standing firm, apparently not hurt by the sudden attack. Impressed by Jiang's skill, Xuan agrees to a gamble. "We will keep on fighting,"
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 43 22 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: Uefa Champions League: Manchester United v Deportivo La Coruna (ESPN Ch 23 and City TV, Oct 18,2.30 am). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: Uefa Champions League: FC Barcelona v Bayer 04 Leverkusen (ESPN Ch 23, Oct 18,5 am). EPL Highlights (TV Works, 10pm).
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