Streats, 1 November 2001

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets THURSDAY 1 November 2001 Another quality publication of •r Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • Article, Illustration
    488 1  -  pM wants Potong Pasir back, offers upgrading y KHUSHWANT SINGH ’RIME Minister Goh ChokTong yesteray made a strong play for the hearts of oters in Potong Pasir, cutting in on Mr 'hiam See Tong’s courtship of the ward ,e has held for 17 years. Mr Goh did so
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  • GE 2OO1
    • Hot Seats
      • 373 2  - Chee sympathy by PETER SIOW don't think they're going to vote for him for mentioning his family: SM WHEN Dr Chee Soon Juan slammed his bedroom door shut last night, he would almost certainly have been nursing a king-sized headache. For his attempt to gain sympathy by mentioning his ailing
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      • 236 2  -  by DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM HIS political career weighed down by the prospect of two defamation suits, SDP chief Chee Soon Juan yesterday leaned on his family for support. First, sister and fellow candidate for Jurong GRC Chee Siok Chin, 35, took to the stage in his
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      • 263 4  -  PM grills Chiam over support for Chee by 'KHUSHWANT SINGH THE crowd watched with bated breath at the open area of Block 138 in Potong Pasir yesterday morning. Mr Chiam See Tong, the incumbent MP for Potong Pasir, was at the Jin Biao Coffee Shop, when Prime
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      • 307 4 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong sees the single-seat Chua Chu Kang, Nee Soon East and Potong Pasir as the three hot seats. Yesterday he upped the ante in Potong Pasir by announcing a 'grand departure'from the upgrading policy, making it an even hotter seat. Streats
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    • Hot Talk
      • The gist
        • 178 3  -  Peter Siow LAWYERS for Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday served a letter of demand on Dr Chee Soon Juan for alleged defamation. It follows a similar demand by Prime Minister Goh ChokTong, whose lawyers handed their letter to Dr Chee on Tuesday night.
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        • 163 3  -  Zubaidah Nazeer PUBLIC housing remains affordable, PAP candidate for Tampines GRC Mah Bow Tan said yesterday, in response to remarks by two opposition MPs. Mr Low Thia Khiang, the incumbent Worker’s Party candidate in Hougang, had said that HDB flat prices went up in
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        • 125 3  -  -AdamHashidy i SINCE Nomination Day, the Workers’ Party has shunned media attention. No press conferences. No alerts about walkabouts. Only “no comment” when WP candidates are approached at rallies. Is there a blanket ban on the media? “Not that we know of,” said council member James
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      • 194 3 cut thrust He (Ling How Doong) was in Bukit Gombak. Somehow...he managed to get elected in 1991, (and) represented Bukit Gombak (for) five years. Residents in Bukit Gombak (got) tired of him. (In the) 1997 election they kicked him out and replaced him with (RAP's) Ang Mong Seng. Now he's
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      • 226 3 The guides cut keep TAMPINES GRC 7pm-1 Opm Tampines Stadium at Tampines Ave 5 f Nearest MRT station: I Tampines. Go to Tampines 1 bus interchange and take bus service TO, 23,31,65, 292,293 0r294 and alight at Tampines Junction. POTONG PASIR SMC 7pm-10pm Open field bounded by Upper Serangoon Rd,
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      • 71 3 Hi! I'm Faith Quek, your new weather girl. There will be showers in the morning and early afternoon, but the skies will clear by the time the rallies start. Temperatures range between 24°C and 31 °C. Tide will reach 2.9 m at 10.56 am and 2.8
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  • Writer's Corner
    • Article, Illustration
      384 5  -  by 'SARAH NG CREATIVITY has become the hallmark of GE 2001. Just take a look at the campaign materials. The manifestos and publicity material are printed on glossy art paper and in full colour. They could be mistaken for magazines. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone out there
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 211 6 UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) will go ahead and slash 2,000 jobs from its workforce, expanded by the recent takeover of Overseas Union Bank. UOB chairman Mr Wee Cho Yaw said at a shareholders’ meeting yesterday that the 15 per cent cut in the two banks’
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    • 223 6 He drove bus after 4 hours'sleep A BUS driver who knocked down and killed two schoolgirls on Sept 2 had fallen asleep at the wheel after attending a ceremony the night before. Wong Gion Chin (right), 34, had slept for just four hours before his bus,
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    • 168 6 -AFP TAIPEI Singapore Airlines (SIA) held a private memorial service in Taipei yesterday for the 83 people killed in the crash of flight SQOO6. The service was organised exclusively for about 150 relatives of the victims and officials from the airline’s Singapore
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    • news scan
      • 87 6 A 40-YEAR-OLD contract worker was charged yesterday with raping and having unnatural sex with a 13-year-old girl. He is alleged to have raped the girl four times in the pump room of an Upper Bukit Timah condominium from March to June. The man is further accused
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      • 76 6 A LORRY driver who fled the scene of an accident was traced and arrested on suspicion of drink driving. The lorry collided with a car at the junction of Kallang Bahru and Geylang Bahru at about midnight on Monday. The 32-year-old driver of the car received outpatient
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    • 46 6 onekindact. Cheng Jie I rushed out of the house on Oct 16, leaving behind my cash and ATM cards. Uncle Huang, the gentleman who runs the newsstand in front of the entrance to Tampines MRT station, was kind enough to give me a loan.
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  • WAR
    • tactics
      • 71 8 -AFP The US has hijacked Taleban radio frequencies over Kandahar and is broadcasting messages and music, the Afghan Islamic Press reported yesterday. The broadcasts warn civilians to keep away from the Taleban and told Taleban soldiers to leave the militia because "they would risk death" But people
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      • 396 8 Child spies may have betrayed Afghan opposition leader FORMER anti-Soviet fighter Abdul Haq, executed by the Taleban, fell victim to an army of little children. He wasn’t betrayed by Pakistani agents, but by a spy network that employs hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens and small children, the
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      • 251 8 Manna and bombs from the sky -AP KABUL In these troubled times, Afghans are never sure what might fall from the skies: bombs, pamphlets or food. This week, when residents of a western neighbourhood of Kabul heard a jet engine and looked skyward, they were surprised to see thousands of
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    • danger
      • 368 9 -AP WASHINGTON Killing Osama bin Laden and destroying his A 1 Qaeda bases in Afghanistan may not stop terror attacks against Americans. More strikes have already been ordered and the terrorists may hit even if they get cut off from their bosses
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      • war diary
        • 61 9 Wire services MORE than 1,500 civilians have been killed in US-led airtrikes so far, the Taleban claimed yesterday. The US, dismissing the allegation, continued bombing Kabul, Kandahar and Taleban troops on the frontlines near Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif. A Kandahar doctor said 13 civilians died yesterday when a US
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        • 67 9 Reuters A PRE-DAWN US air raid hit a dispensary of the Red Crescent society in Kandahar yesterday, killing 11 people, said a doctor who was also injured. “The bombs fell at 4.30 this morning,” Dr Obaidullah told reporters escorted by the Taleban to the dispensary. Dr Obaidullah, his
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      • 75 9 Mikhail Gorbachev, the last world leader to fight a war in Afghanistan, has warned US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair: Get out or you will lose. Mr Gorbachev pulled Soviet troops out of Afghanistan in 1989 after 10 years andso,ooo Red Army
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 84 10 -AP MANILA Police searching for bombs have found suspected fake US government bonds with a face value of more than US$lOO billion ($175 billion). The bonds were found in the bags of two men at a bus station in Zamboanga, said Senior Inspector Juan
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    • 234 10 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia said yesterday that it would not detain any refugees found on boats in its waters and would feed refugees before they resumed their journey. The comments by navy spokesman First Admiral Franky Kayhatu could scupper
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    • 261 10 -AP LONDON One in nine Britons would not report a murder to the police, a survey published yesterday suggests. Three in five respondents surveyed by polling firm ICM said that they wouldn’t call the police if they heard screaming from their neighbours and
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    • 150 10 -AP HONGKONG A draw of lucky numbers in the Hongkong lottery created 28 winners so many that they all got small jackpots. Tuesday night’s winning numbers were 12,18,22,28, 32 and 38 all ending in either a 2, which sounds like “easy” in Cantonese,
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  • easy STREATS
    • Article, Illustration
      393 13 Reese Witherspoon is a conditioner that gives movie Legally Blonde that extra bounce Legally Blonde Directed by: Robert itfketic Starring: Reese Wmmpoon; Matthew Davis, Selma Blair, Luke Wilson [Cuthemmes THIS should have been just another overly-long dumb blonde joke. Which, sensibly, should fall flat. But when those flaxen
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    • 189 13 Smart or simply daft? Find out what reviewers and readers are saying about Legally Blonde, the latest brainy blonde chick flick to hit town. Reviewers'takes Witherspoon effortlessly animated this material with sunshine and quick wit. Chicago Sun-Times reviewer Roger Ebert Rating: 3 out of 4 Witherspoon is too
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    • 649 14  -  by CARA van MIRIAH WE'RE going to make you a star. Come to The Prologue tomorrow I for our party and you’ll be the talk of < the town. That’s right you, our Streats readers, could be the faces to launch Virgin Mobile’s hip and trendy cellphones.
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV
        • 32 16 10pm, TV Works A workaholic attorney and single father raising three rebellious teenagers takes them on a cruise to the Bahamas and stumbles upon the lost city of Atlantis.
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        • 26 16 7pm, Channel U Lan is unhappy when Yan tells other people that she is a maid. Their relationship worsens when Yan’s jewellery disappears.
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        • 31 16 10pm, Central Dom Joly takes to the streets of the big cities like London and Paris, bringing chaos and comedy to stunned tourists and little old ladies alike.
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    • 196 16 HONGKONG actress Christy Chung’s steamy pictorial book may just be too hot to handle for some. A 60-year-old man in Hongkong was reported to have had a heart attack after gawking at photos of Christy in sado-masochistic get-up in her pictorial, Feel...Christy Chung. There were also rumours that
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    • 199 16 VETERAN Hongkong star Carol Cheng certainly has no qualms about mowing down contestants on her game show, The Weakest Link, even if they have have celebrity connections. In a recent episode, the compere, better known as Dodo, asked a contestant who seemed familiar to her
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    • 512 19  -  by 'YVONNE KWOK at A time when the catchphrase for local singers is “let’s go Taiwan”, pop trio Dreamz FM is holding off a Taiwan release date. But, speaking at the launch of their third album, Dreamz FM 3, members Cavin Soh, Ric Loh I and Jim
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 159 20 WANT to watch the Singapore Cup soccer final on Nov 4 between Geylang and Home for free? Cosy. Just present a copy of Streats at the reception counter of the Football Association of Singapore, 15 Stadium Road, South Entrance, National Stadium from today to Friday. Be
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      • 496 20  -  Geylang star begins training by LIM HAN MING WILL Brian Bothwell (below) play in the Singapore Cup final? That’s the question Home United, Geylang United’s opponent in the final on Sunday, is probably asking. If Home had spied on Geylang’s training session at the National Stadium yesterday,
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      • Article, Illustration
        566 21 Jordan returns, but Wizards still loses -AP rVBA CHAMPIONSHIPS-New YorkKnicks Wizards 91 1 i i NEW YORK Michael Jordan returned to the NBA on Tuesday (yesterday, Singapore time) with an all-around game, but without the flair. He scored just 19 points, missing 14 of 21 shots and making
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      • 71 21 Boston Celtics 108 Cleveland Cavaliers 89; New Jersey Nets 103 Indiana Pacers 97; Orlando Magic 114 Toronto Raptors 85; Minnesota Timberwolves 83 Philadelphia 76ers 74; Dallas Mavericks 94 Detroit Pistons 87; Houston Rockets 89 Atlanta Hawks 84 (OT); San Antonio Spurs 109 LA Clippers 98; Utah Jazz 84
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      • 98 21 iSOCCER -AFP LONDON Chelsea has a tough test to kickstart its Uefa Cup adventure today, trailing by a 0-2 margin to Israel’s Hapoel TelAviv after several leading players refused to travel to the troubled region for the first leg. Hapoel has conceded only one goal in
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      • 69 21 -Reuters MADRID Real Madrid has written to the Brazilian soccer federation to warn it that its defender Roberto Carlos needs a rest of between 10 and 15 days, and should miss at least one of the country’s final two World Cup qualifiers. Roberto Carlos was named
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      • 97 21 •RUGBY THE Singapore Cricket Club Sevens Abiltt Cup will be held at the Padang this weekend. Defending champion Taradale from New Zealand will be gunning for a record fifth title. Durban Harlequins, which lost the previous two finals to Taradale, is also in the fray.
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      • 450 23 -Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Liverpool Borussia Dortmund 0 LIVERPOOL Liverpool is back where it belongs among the European elite. Stand-in manager Phil Thompson was understandably thrilled. He had tasted success in the tournament as a player with Liverpool, and ranked the achievement
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      • 266 23 Group A: Lokomotiv Moscow (Rus) 2 (Buznikin 30, Cherevchenko 50) Real Madrid (Spa) O;AS m Roma (Ita) 1 (Delvecchio S 3) Anderlecht (Bel) 1 (Mornar 11) P W D L F A Pts Real Madrid 6 4 1 1 13 5 13 lAS Roma 6 2 3 1
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      • 202 23 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Schalke 3 Arsenal 1 GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insisted that there were positives to take from his side’s fifth consecutive Champions League away defeat on Thesday night. Arsenal also had Oleg Luzhny sent off. But Wenger said that the players he had
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 474 17 '“TV: V' M Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20- FEB 18 Outcasts or fellow wrongdoers bond in their suffering. You should be learning humility, but you’re probably plotting your revenge. Keep this attitude a secret, or it will only make things worse for you. FEB 19-MAR
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 217 18 j:s r The story today... As the roof tiles shoot into the sky,Xuan Yuan San Guang yells:"The winner will emerge before the tiles land on the ground!" Jiang Biehe counter-attacks with his Jiang Shan Sabre but finds it slowed by Xuan's cloud of red smoke. Xuan then takes the opportunity
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 32 21 Inthelivingroom SOCCER: Uefa Cup 2nd rd, 2nd leg: CSKA Sofia v AC Milan (Super Sports Plus Ch2o, tomorrow, 12.40 am), Chelsea v Hapoel Tel Aviv (Super Sports Ch 22, tomorrow, 3.55 am).
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