Streats, 26 October 2001

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY ?6 October 2001 Another quality publication of mSf Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon It's the jobs, stupid
    670 1  -  %/if for remaining 2 *4 vital to PM comment KEN JALLEH Jr WHAT faint flicker of a 51-seat fight by the opposition withered and died like a damp squib on Nomination Day yesterday. And so the morning ended in the typical, predictable tradition of Singapore politics:
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  • GE 2001
    • Hot Seats
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        Lock icon Chee's bold challenge
        620 2  -  SDP chief only opposition boss to fight a GRC by r PETER SIOW PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that voters would be mad not to give their vote to the Group Representative Constituencies (GRC). Not least because they are anchored by heavyweight ministers. Not least
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        79 2 JURONCGRC Number of voters: 115,052 SDP: Chee Soon Juan, 39, H psychologist W Gandhi Karuppiah Ambalan, research associate Vincent Yeo Boon Keng, 48, managing director Mohamed Isa, businessman Chee Siok Chin, manager PAP: Lim Boon Heng, 53, cabinet minister Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, 51, CDC mayor Ong Chit Chung,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Birthday battle at Chua Chu Kang
        171 2  -  by t KHUSHWANT SINGH and ZUBAIDAH NAZEER CHUA Chu Kang is turning into one hot seat this election. SDA’s Mr Steve Chia, 31, is taking PAP’s Assoc Prof Low Seow Chay, 52, fof the single-seat ward. And yesterday, Mr Chia arrived full of fight
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    • Hot Talk
      • The gist
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          Lock icon Pay cut better than job cut
          165 3 HAVING repeated the refrain, “jobs today, jobs tomorrow” earlier, PM Goh shared with reporters at the PAP headquarters in the afternoon how he would help people hold on to their jobs, using SI A as an example. “If I were in charge of SIA,
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          Lock icon Chips and old blocks
          106 3 IT was a family affair for some at the nomination centres yesterday with fathers and sons filing their forms. There was SM Lee Kuan Yew and DPM Lee Hsien Loong leading the Tanjong Pagar and Ang Mo Kio GRCs respectively. Both emerged uncontested. Then there was
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        • Article
          Lock icon PM's last stand
          119 3 MR GOH CHOK TONG himself has taken a number in the queue of retiring ministers and politicians. Yesterday, he told reporters that this would be the last election he’ll be leading as PM. But he declined to say when. “The timing depends on how soon the newer
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          Lock icon Humour in the heat
          199 3 HUMOUR despite the heat of the hustings that’s what PM Goh displayed yesterday when he fielded reporters’ questions at the PAP’s post-nomination press conference. PM Goh drew laughter when he summoned the ghost of Mr James Gomez’s April Fool’s joke, saying: “In Aljunied, I did not
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      • Article
        Lock icon cut & thrust
        62 3 cut thrust At where we are being contested!, my message is: Your future is at stake. You lose your job, we have a plan to help you. The opposition has hot air balloons... Better stick to the PAP that will find you a matching job, and would find you also
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        Lock icon The weather for rallies...
        73 3 The weather for rallies Take your raincoat along if you are going to a rally tonight. But watch where you step as the field may be muddy from the thunderstorms in the afternoon over many areas. But the rain will lower the temperature from a high of32°C. The tide will
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        Lock icon The guide cut & keep
        213 3 The guide cut keep JURONGGRC 7pm-10pm* Jurong East Stadium, at 21 Jurong East St 31 Take SBS bus service 335 j or Tibs service 180 i from Chinese Garden 1 MRTstation. Alight at Blk 350 at Boon Lay Way. NEE SOON EAST SMC 7pm-10pm Open field at Yishun Avell and
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    • Hot Topics
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        Lock icon WP disqualified in Aljunied GRC Serious slip-up
        321 4  -  by 'SONNYPHUA ALJUNIED GRC was expected to be a hot spot as it was the only GRC the Workers’ Party (WP) was contesting. But all that fizzled out when the five WP candidates were disqualified. Nomination papers for WP chairman Tan Bin Seng,
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        Lock icon Richard Hu stepping down
        212 4 DR RICHARD HU is still the Finance Minister. But not for long. He has decided to retire and will not be contesting this Election. At a press conference yesterday, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong stressed that Dr Hu is still the Finance Minis- ter until a
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    • Writer's Corner
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        Lock icon PM Goh meets old friend at nomination centre Touching moment
        336 5  -  by Diana Ser AT 11.30 am yesterday, the street outside nomination centre Ngee Ann Primary was suddenly awash with white. The People’s Action Party’s Marine Parade contingent had just arrived with Prime Minister Goh ChokTong. “PAP! Goh ChokTong!” chanted the
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      115 6 eWORLDofSPORTS.coM APPEALS TO ALL SINGAPOREANS Retail sales have been plummeting month after month. Retailers are suffering. We are against closing or “dumbsizing”, but we cannot continue to bleed incessandy. To convince vou, our dear customers, that you are getting value for money, and to out our money where our mouth
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  • WAR defiance
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      Lock icon Pentagon: Taleban ready for long battle Tough nut to crack
      368 7 Wire services WASHINGTON -The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that the Taleban is proving to be a tenacious opponent. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told USA Today that the militia is hunkering down for a long fight
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    • war diary
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        Lock icon Arming villagers
        43 7 THE Taleban said yesterday that it was arming villagers to resist US ground attacks. “Now our decision is to form armed groups in villages and all provinces of Afghanistan to confront the US,” Education Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi told Reuters.
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      • Article
        Lock icon No Ramadan let-up
        40 7 BRITAIN'S Chief of the Defence Staff, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, said that the attacks on Afghanistan would continue during Ramadan. “We’re not aware Ramadan stops terrorists claiming to be good Muslims,” he told the Financial Times yesterday.
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        Lock icon Tunnels targeted
        35 7 US warplanes attacked Afghanistan’s Khost province, striking tunnels where Taleban fighters can hide. Witnesses said US planes also attacked Gora Tangi in Paktia province, where the militia has built a maze of tunnels.
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      67 7 The Sept 11 terrorist attacks stoked the anger of the Americans in a fashion not seen since President John F Kennedy's assassination in 1963. A study by the University of Chicago revealed that the terror attacks were far less damaging to the national psyche than Kennedy's shooting. It
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Powell has 'quickie' in Congress
      232 9 -AFP WASHINGTON Sexually charged banter with US Secretary of State Colin Powell brought hysterics to Congress on Wednesday. Mr Powell and two lawmakers engaged in a hot frenzy of sexual innuendo. With time about to expire in Mr Powell’s televised testimony before the House of
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      111 9 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian police pointed guns at refugees who wanted to get off a boat that sank, killing 350 people, reports said yesterday. The Sydney Morning Herald quoted a survivor who said that police protect- ed people smugglers who organised the trip. “When most of
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  • Your pocket-size Streats guide to GE 2001
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      Lock icon Your MPs read & remember
      209 11 Your MPs read remember MARINE PARADE 6-MEMBER GRC ■O o U O H >3-C'->r _Q_O D Ci C CrQ. 35 a Cr'J a i Othman Haron Eusofe I Im liwOO Mila Andy Gan d Ravin dran ANG MO KIO 6-MEMBER GRC Indeijit Singh S«» 9 «a» Thong Dr Tan Boon
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    Lock icon Your Choice fold & keep
    62 12 Your Choice fold keep HONGKAHGRC 129,073 voters CHUACHU KANG SMC 24,863 voters NEE SOON CENTRAL SMC 22,975 voters NEE SOON EAST SMC 28,465 voters HOUGANG SMC 23,320 voters TAMPINESGRC 125,432 voters JURONGGRC 115,113 voters AYER RAJAH SMC 18,475 voters BUKITTIMAHSMC 26,951 voters POTONG PASIR SMC 16,616 voters MACPHERSON SMC 22,010
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  • Your Heart what they stand for
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      Lock icon People's Action Party
      257 14 New social compact Sharing the country’s wealth with all Singaporeans: New Singapore Shares and CPF top-ups for everyone most for lower-income Singaporeans; Upgrading of HDB and private estates; Affordable healthcare, especially for elderly through ElderCare and ElderShield, and through MediSave Top-up and Medifund; Edusave for school children
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      Lock icon Singapore Democratic Alliance
      171 14 Strong, united opposition team to check the PAP; Unemployment and medical benefit schemes for Singaporean workers; Suspension of ERP charges outside the CBD area during recession; Suspension of GST for at least one year; Reduction of HDB, JTC and governmentowned shop rentals and all government charges by
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      Lock icon Singapore Democratic Party
      126 14 An opposition that cares for the people, especially the disenfranchised; Minimum wage of $5 per hour; Retrenchment benefits: Full lastdrawn salary for six months, then progressively reduced for the next one year; A “Singaporeans first” policy: Singaporeans should be laid off only as a last resort; Privatise
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      Lock icon Harajuku in Singapore
      409 15  -  by KAREN CHEN KAKKOII! Kawaii! You may find yourself saying these words (“cool” and “cute” respectively) if you hang around Takeshita-dori (Takeshita Street) in Harajuku, Tokyo, on a Sunday. That’s when schoolgirls and office workers out to make a fashion statement throng the 400 m street, which
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    • Fair weather girls
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        395 16  -  by CARA van MIRIAH These familiar faces are going places While 2 will vie in The New Paper's New Face of the Year tonight, another 2 are making forays into TV TV Works artistes Adrian Pang and Cynthia Lee will host The New Paper New Face2ool at Suntec
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        314 17  -  by' YVONNE KWOK YOU'VE seen her as a rebellious student who gets slapped by a teacher on Channel 5 drama series E Moulmein High. Now, get ready for more of Streats weather girl Evelyn Ng as she weathers relationship blues in Channel U’s Sex And The City drama, Touched.
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon Thompson praises fine away display Reds almost there
        384 22 Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Boavista 7 Liverpool 1 CHPORTO, Portugal Liverpool’s stand-in boss Phil Thompson rated Liverpool’s battling display to get a point against Boavista as “right up there alongside our very best away displays in Europe”. Thompson witnessed a display of
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        Lock icon Gunners finally there
        348 22 Wire services ms WcHAMPIONS LEAGUE I ~Arsenal 3 k flea/ Mallorca 1 A LONDON Thierry Henry felt Arsenal proved a point tonight as it moved into the second stage of the tournament. Henry’s injury-time strike sealed its place as it beat Spain’s Real Mallorca 3-1 at Highbury.
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        127 22 Group A Real Madrid (Spa) 1 (Figo 75-pen) AS Roma (Ita) 1 (Totti 36); Anderlecht (Bel) 7 (Hie 2) Sennikov 28, Pimenov 57, Buznikin 62,68) Groupß Liverpool 5 2 3 0 5 3 9 Boavista 5 2 2 1 8 6 8 Borussia 5 2 2 1 6
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        Lock icon Ranieri: West Ham had Midas touch
        416 23 Wire services ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE West Ham 2 Chelsea 1 LONDON Claudio Ranieri said he thought that West Ham had the “Midas touch” after his side’s 1-2 defeat at Upton Park. Tvo goals in seven minutes from Michael Carrick and Frederic Kanoute set up
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      203 18 The story today. Li Di, an elder from the gang, gets up and waves a punch at Xiao Yuer to stop him from hitting Jiang Yuiang. Li says: "You imp, don't you go overboard!" Replies Xiao Yuer:"You want to be my punching bag? Good!" But Li is no match for
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