Streats, 18 October 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY in Oi tohm Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 423 1  -  reports by KHUSHWANT SINGH FIVE anthrax false alarms in two days you could say that the threat has got under some Singaporeans’ skin. But the Home Affairs Ministry and the police say: Don’t overreact. Don’t panic. Said a ministry spokeswoman yesterday: “We’re advising people
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  • 130 1 SINGAPORE Airlines flight 5Q325 was delayed by four hours at Frankfurt airport on Tuesday because of an anthrax scare. Said an SIA spokesperson: “While the aircraft was being prepared for the flight in Frankfurt, a small amount of white substance was found in the cargo
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  • 237 1 NEW electoral boundaries for Singapore were gazetted yesterday, signalling that a General Election can be called anytime now. With the revised boundaries, there 84 seats in nine single-member constituencies and 34 Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs). Of these GRCs, nine are 5- GRCs and five are 6-
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  • 65 1 RULES .on GE advertising now I cover e-mail and SMS messages, reported ST TV yesterday. Under the new rules, political parties, candidates and GEI agents who send out messages containing GE advertising must indicate who the messages are sent by and on whose behalf. The e-mail messages
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 269 2 Reuters SINGAPORE is no longer among the safest countries in the region, according to executives polled by the Political Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc). The Perc survey found confidence in Singapore has fallen sharply since Sept 11. Ninety executives
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    • 115 2  -  byi SONNYPHUA KIDNEY dialysis machines here are safe, say dialysis service providers. This assurance comes in the wake of 23 reported deaths of kidney patients in Croatia last week. The deaths have been linked to a dialyser made by Baxter Healthcare. Baxter Healthcare (Asia) said
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    • 204 2  -  by i ADAM HASHIDY THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has satf that its words on cellphone usage being safe have been taken out of context. It’s unhappy that it has been quoted in the press as saying “mobile phone emissions are safe”. Last week WHO
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    • 73 2 -AP NON-OIL domestic exports a key indicator of the republic’s economy plummeted a record 3l per cent last month, the government said yesterday. The sharp year-on-year fall, to $7.1 billion, was due to slack global demand for electronics and air traffic disruptions caused by the Sept
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    • 97 2 IN the report “Here’s your Share”yesterday, Streats reported that after the first year, the New Singapore Shares’ (NSS) owner could either cash in the shares in lots of 200 or keep them and earn dividends over five years. The Finance Ministry clarified that when an NSS owner has less
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    • 285 3 TWO Taiwanese tourists were robbed by bogus plain-clothed policeman on Singapore’s streets, where they felt safe. Taiwanese businessman Lin Hongzhang, 51, and his elder sister finished having dinner at Newton Hawker Centre at about 9pm on Sunday. They were walking back
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    • 205 3  -  Supervisor went on dragon fish theft spree after tiff with shop owner Deepa Vijiyasingam THERE was something fishy about the regular customer’s telephone call to his wife. Mr Sim Soon Kiat, 32, the owner of the Friendship Aquarium Centre at Hougang, was alerted to a
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    • 101 3 TWO cousins awoke to the sound of explosions early on Monday. At 3.12 am, the two men, aged 22 and 25, rushed down from their flat at Blk 574 Hougang Street 51 and saw that their three motorcycles parked at the void deck were in
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    • 222 3  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM TWO hundred and twenty-five pairs of panties, 14 bras and five camisoles. That’s what police found at 33-year-old Tey Seng Kok’s Choa Chu Kang flat after detaining him for a snatchtheft. A court heard yesterday that Tey, who is married with two young children,
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    • 143 5  -  Winston Chong MR CHUNG Kok Lum does more than drive Tibs bus service 172 which Ms Christina Phillips takes to work. He also keeps a copy of Streats for her. Mr Chung, 31, has been doing that for her every work day for the past year.
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    • 264 5  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH they were known as a happy and loving family, so neighbours were shocked to hear the husband and wife quarrelling loudly one evening. Their young children could be heard sobbing. A few days later, the wife confided in a
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    • 82 5 onekindact Kin Kok I was very impressed by the patience and thoughtfulness of the driver of Singapore Bus Services bus No 143, registration number SBS 308 P, on Oct 3. Travelling towards Toa Payoh at about 8.30 pm, he realised that an elderly passenger might need
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    • 63 5 Even though it is raining i heavily in most areas this morning, it should stop by the time you get to work. However, the temperatures will range between a humid 25°C and 33°C. High tide will reach 3m at 11.41 am. October's weather girl Streats reader
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    • Just a minute
      • 55 5 Dover MRT station will open. Singapore Mass Rapid Transit said there would be no fare changes with the 50th station, which is situated between dementi station and Buona Vista station. And, to keep arrival intervals at two minutes for peak hours, and six minutes for off-peak hours, an
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      • 48 5 Remember if you are so inclined, you can be a relief teacher. A minimum of five O-level passes and a pass in English are needed to qualify. The job pays between $65-$2OO per day. Those interested in becoming relief teachers should call the Ministry of Education at 872-2220.
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  • WAR
    • anthrax anxiety
      • 252 6 Reuters WASHINGTON Fighting bioterrorism is the main focus for the US now and in the weeks ahead, Mr Tom Ridge (above), director of the White House Office of Homeland Security, said on Tuesday. There is not yet “credible evidence” to tie the present anthrax panic
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      • 257 6 Reuters WASHINGTON -There are similarities in the handwriting and postmarks for two anthrax-containing letters, but US law-enforcement officials have yet to uncover a direct connection with terrorists. “While organised terrorism has not been ruled out, so far we have found no direct
        Reuters; Pic.AP  -  257 words
      • 81 7 People who feel panicky about opening their mail amid the anthrax scare can use a hot steam iron and a moist layer of fabric to kill germs. Ken Alibek, a top former Soviet germ warfare scientist who is now a US-based author and researcher, told a Congressional briefing
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      • 277 7 -AFP Washington Anthrax-tainted letters are delivering economic aftershocks in the wake of the Sept 11 devastation brought by suicide plane attacks. The ongoing anthrax scare may delay a recovery in crucial US consumer confidence after the terrorist onslaught, analysts said. People’s feelings are critical to the US
        -AFP; Pic:AP  -  277 words
      • 82 7 -AP FALLON, Nevada A 59-year-old man became worried that he was infected with anthrax after he received an anonymous letter containing black, lacy panties, which he sniffed “to detect odour”. But after storing the garment in a biohazard barrel, Churchill County Sheriff Bill Lawry said
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      • 106 7 -AFP WASHINGTON Snowed under by bioterror hoaxes, US authorities have cracked down in several states. “Terrorism hoaxes are not victimless crimes but are the destructive acts of cowards,” US AttorneyGeneral John Ashcroft said on Tuesday. “We will prosecute the offenders, and we will punish the
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    • tactics
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        101 8 AC-130 H/U GUNSHIP MISSION Air support, protection of ground troops, urban attacks, defence of airbases and facilities FEATURES Side-firing weapons with sensor, navigation and fire control systems to provide surgical firepower or area saturation WEAPONS AC-130H/U, 40mm cannon and 105 mm cannon; AC-130U, 25 mm gun RANGE Approximately
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      • 294 8 I think the intent and purpose... is to convince the Taleban leadership that they have made an error (in defying the US). Gregory Newbold, chief of operations of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff WASHINGTON Two AC-130 Spectre gunships attacked Kandahar on Tuesday
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      • war diary
        • 61 8 LOW-FLYING US aircraft attacked Taleban troop concentrations yesterday, hitting a fuel dump in Kabul. In Kabul, bombs triggered five or si* powerful explosions near a road leading south out of the city. Several Taleban tanks raced out of the fuel dump, fleeing for cover. US jets also
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        • 47 8 AUSTRALIA is sending 1,550 military personnel, including 1-50 elite Special Air Services troops to join the US-led campaign in Afghanistan, Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday. He warned that casualties were expected because the SAS commandos would be in the thick of battle.
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        • 44 8 PAKISTAN put its forces on high alert yesterday and accused nuclear rival India of moving troops after several days of crossborder clashes in Kashmir. In New Delhi, Indian Army spokesman Colonel Shruti Kant said the movements were a routine troop rotation.
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      • 81 8 Credit cards belonging to the suicide hijackers were used after Sept 11 indicating that associates of the terrorists remained in the US weeks after the strikes, authorities told the New York Post. The most recent charge on one of the cards cant two weeks ago a full
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  • Streatssmart global
    • Economic blues
      • 169 9 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines (MAS) may ground at least 10 planes and cut staff by 3,000. The Business Times, quoting an unnamed source, said yesterday that MAS is being forced to idle the planes, while honouring purchases made before global slump in
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      • 158 9 -AFP HONGKONG Cathay Pacific has asked 5,000 flight attendants to take unpaid leave due to the global slowdown, a spokeswoman for the airline said yesterday. “It is common practice for a company to offer unpaid leave in accordance with operational changes,” said spokeswoman Lisa
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      • 167 9 -AFP MANILA Asia’s slump will last well into next year due to the terrorist attacks, the World Bank said yesterday. The attacks, at a time when the region was already suffering from the sudden end of the technology boom, will slow investment decisions, dampen
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    • 80 9 Reuters JERUSALEM Israel’s rightwing, anti-Arab cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi was shot dead by suspected Palestinian gunmen in Jerusalem yesterday. He is the first Israeli leader killed since the start of a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation a year ago. Police said Mr Zeevi’s wife found him
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  • easy STREATS
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      527 11 si mmI LUthp mnvfPK SENSELESS killings get to me. After being bombarded with the nth way of killing another human being, my eyes were getting teary. This battle was lulling me to sleep. As one tasty-looking Jap schoolkid swung her handy sickle into another perfect-com-plexioned classmate, the
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    • 183 12 HONGKONG From now on, Hongkong babe Cecilia Cheung will not lock lips with her male co-stars. That should make her father happy. The 21-year-old actress told Oriental Daily: “My Dad feels very uncomfortable whenever there are kissing scenes in the script. He asked me
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      210 12 IF the story of a group of amateur footballers coming together against all fl||j odds to play in a fictional league sounds like a Hongkong production you have seen recently, well you haven’t. One Leg Kicking is a local movie written by Eric Khoo and has not even
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV
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          111 12 10pm, TV Works Trigger Effect is a tense, nerve-wracking psy- i chological thriller star-1 ring Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue and Der- 1 mot Mulroney. When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Mat- thew and Annie learn the hard way that man is “by
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        • 52 12 10.30 pm, Channel U WhenYoumei realises that Junxi is in love with Enxi, she pleads with Enxi to leave him. Taixi declares his love for Enxi and Enxi decides to accept him as a boyfriend. However, this does not stop the love between Enxi and Junxi
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        • 67 12 10.30 pm, Channel 8 A loan shark is accused of killing a young police office who had a squabble with him over a parking lot. The accused says that he was in another town when the crime took place. Kuryu, the public prosecutor, has to prove that the accused
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    • easyStreats sports
      • English rule the roost
        • 441 17 Wire Services Champions League (Group B) Dynamo Kiev 1 Liverpool 2 yKIEV Liverpool gave ailing Gerard Houllier the perfect get-well present with a battling Cham- pions League victory against Dynamo Kiev yesterday. Not only did the club avoid defeat, it gallantly took the lead twice and held it
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          353 17 Wire Services!. r (Group C) Arsenal 2 Panathinaikos I'l LONDON Thierry Henry savoured revenge against Panathinaikos, scoring twice in a 2-1 victory which edged Arsenal closer to the second group stage of the Champions League. Henry was involved in furious scenes after Arsenal’s Group C defeat in Athens
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      • 230 17 Group A Lokomotiv Moscow 0 AS Roma 7 (Cherevchenko 78, own goal), Anderlecht 0 Real Madrid 2 (Raul 18, McManaman 35) Team P W D L F A Pts Real Madrid 4 4 0 0 12 2 12 Roma 4 2 1 1 4 3 7 Anderlecht 4
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      • 526 18  -  “1C- K by I PETER SIOW I EARLY this week, the S-League revealed plans to give prizemoney to the top eight clubs next year instead of the usual three. The reason: To encourage lower-ranked clubs to fight for a higher placing. In the absence of a
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      • 86 18 BASKETBALL WASHINGTON On a night heroes, Michael Jordan was reduced a cameo role by a foot injury. The 38-year-old superstar revealed t first major setback since his return to t National Basketball Association here Tuesday, a strained left foot suffered thi days earlier in
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      • 85 18 SOCCER LONDON Chelsea will travel to Isrn for tomorrow’s Uefa Cup tie wi l Hapoel Tel Aviv without six first-teal players. Skipper Marcel Desailly, EmmanU 1 Petit, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Graeme k Saux, William Gallas and Albert Ferh have all taken up the option of
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      • 100 18 TENNIS -Xinhua GENEVA Anna Kournikova has d missed reports that Melanie Molitol mother of Martina Hingis, is coaching her to help lift her out of a slump 0 lowing her foot injury. ‘T heard the reports that she (Moliton is my coach, which is not
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      • 242 19  -  by I LIM HAN MING TWO words got Jurong FC player-coach V Sundramoorthy a $5OO fine from the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) disciplinary committee yesterday. During a two-hour long hearing, Sundramoorthy admitted to calling Home United coach Robert Alberts “You *****” during
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      • 399 19  -  Home United keeper Adi is no bench warmer by LIM HAN MING HE warmed the bench for long periods with Singapore Armed Forces FC in last year’s SLeague, featuring in only a handful of matches. That prompted national team goalkeeper Adi Salleh to pack up
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 462 13 'd na Juan Van Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20- FEB 18 The permanent is a lot more appealing than the temporary. If you have trouble making a commitment, know that others will be ahead of you in line. There’s a role for everyone. Serve if
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 326 14 fir l I iui>uun I w id uuiuuci 4uu i JB8& The story today Xuan Yuan San Guang launches a round of attacks on Jiang Biehe, who is more focused on defending himself. Xuan then reminds Jiang of his impending loss if he continues to defend "In that case, pardon
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 74 18 Inthelivingroom LIVE ON TV SOCCER: Uefa Cup 2nd rd, Ist leg: Leeds United v Troyes (Super Sports Ch 22, Oct 19,2.55 am). Ipswich Town v Helsingborgs (Super Sports Plus Ch2o, Oct 19,3 am). GOLF: European PGA Tour: Dunhill Links Championship, Day 1 (Super Sports Ch22,7.30pm). DELAYED TELECAST TENNIS: Stuttgart Masters
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