Streats, 26 November 2001

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets HOW&AT 26 November 2001 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 658 1  -  New MPs question old ways in new economy In politics, a call to ease control In economics, a call to re-make Singapore by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM THE People’s Action Party has long attracted compliments. It has been praised for Singapore’s success, for its efficiency, vision, zeal, integrity and purpose. That
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  • morning rush
    • 77 1 WASHINGTON The official declaration of the US’ first recession in a decade could be made today. The six-member businesscycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) discussed the issue in a conference call on Saturday. The decision will be announced on NBER’s website. NBER
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    • 85 1 Reuters KABUL After teetering on the brink for over 10 days, the Taleban’s northern stronghold of Kunduz finally fell to the opposition yesterday. Northern Alliance troops have entered the city and now control 70 per cent of it, the Afghan Islamic Press reported. The net is also closing
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 225 2 Jobs abandoned by contractors THE Renovation and Decoration Advisory Centre (Radac) will help see your renovation through if your contractor has abandoned work. However, the industry volunteer watchdog can step in only if the contractor is Radac-accredit-ed. Radac honorary adviser Mr Lim Ah Bah
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    • 209 2 RADAC received only 34 complaints from homeowners against their members, between January and October this year. This figure, which is six more than the same period last year, translates to only one per cent of Radac members. Radac has a membership of 330,
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    • news scan
      • 185 2 A 21-YEAR-OLD off-duty police officer died in a motorcycle accident along Bedok Reservoir Road early yesterday morning. At 1.45 am, Mr Suzaimie Sunaidi lost control of his motorcycle, hit the central divider, and was flung to the opposite side of the road where a Comfort taxi hit
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      • 60 2 A 49-YEAR-OLD administrator lost currency worth $5,300 when her car was broken into on Saturday afternoon. She parked her car at the Golden Mile Complex in Beach Road. When she returned after 20 minutes, her front passenger window was smashed and an envelope containing 120,000 Thai
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    • Article, Illustration
      148 2 Pay it Forward is a project by the Central Singapore CDC. It hopes to inspire residents to do kind acts and encourage recipients of these acts to "pay it forward" Isabel Yang, Bendemeer Rd: As I am in the retail line, it pays to see people smiling
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    • 381 3  -  by I KAREN CHEN and EIKTHA MURLI KHEMLANI ON Saturday, Dr Teo Ho Pin, Mr Heng Chee How and Mr Othman Haron Eusofe took on their new appointments as mayors of Northwest, Central, and Southeast Community Development Coucils (CDCs)
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    • 337 3  -  by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER WHILE other schoolmates spent their precious weekends mugging for their year-end exams, five Temasek Junior College students devoted a few hours each weekend for two months to transcribe 77-year-old Mervyn Gabriel’s life story. All five were members of Leo Club, their school’s
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    • 228 3 NORTHWEST CDC which serves most of the Sembawang and Holland-Bukit Panjang GRCs, Nee Soon Central and Nee Soon East will decentralise its services as it is so large. Mayor Teo Ho Pin also plans to set up a branch CDC office in Ulu
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    • 137 3 NO matter who you are rich or poor, young or old you’ll always have someone looking out for you to make your life better. The five Community Development Councils (CDCs) do just that by planning and conducting programmes that encourage and maintain social cohesion and bonding within
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    • 133 5 IT'S the little things that mean a lot, says businessman Peter Ngo, who has been married for 39 years to Madam Lim Wee Yang. Showing every day that you care is what keeps a marriage alive, they said. And it’s not
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    • 327 5 doctors will get a little more help soon on how to spot Singapore’s No 2 killer. The Health Ministry has issued clinical guidelines to help them better manage patients with high blood cholesterol, a condition which could lead to heart disease.
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    • Just a minute
      • 48 5 There are free eye checkups for the next 18 months for those over 65, at Hougang Polyclinic, 89 Hougang Ave 4, on Tuesdays 2-4.30 pm. The free screenings will be extended to the other eight National Healthcare Group polyclinics from next month. Call 489-8083 for an appointment.
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      • 81 5 Would you like to own a Liverpool jersey autographed by the soccer team and be kind to animals at the same time? The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has two jerseys to auction off. The minimum bid is 1,000 for each jersey. Write or
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    • 100 5 Our weather girl says For those who had-a wild time at ZoukOut on Saturday, I hope you are not still zonked out. A thunderstorm island-wide in the early morning 1 is not going to help because it might make you lazy. So drink coffee, suck on a strong mint or
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 565 6 OVER the weekend, I read that even as President George W Bush rained bombs on Afghanistan and the terrorists parcel out envelopes of death in the US, Americans have to shop. Never mind that with fears of further terrorist attacks, the phrase “shop till
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  • WAR
    • ...turncoats
      • 185 7 Reuters KABUL Northern Alliance unveiled their prized defector on Saturday the former Taleban deputy interior minister Mullah Khaksar (right). He appeared at a packed news conference, flanked by aides also sporting turbans typical of the Taleban (black), under the watchful gaze of Northern
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      • 154 7 Kandahar Clashes between Taleban forces and opposing Pashtun tribal fighters are being reported in the southern Taleban stronghold of Kandahar. If these reports of clashes are confirmed, they could signal a significant change in the military situation around Kandahar. Forces loyal to tribal leader Gul Afga Sherzai
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      • 84 7 Three Pakistani militants, just returned from Afghanistan, say that Taleban zealots and their foreign comrades had detained the wives and children of many Afghan fighters in Kandahar to prevent the men from surrendering. The three said that the fighters'families were held in three heavily guarded residential compounds
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    • ...endgame
      • 76 9 -AFP The Italian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Torquato Cardeilli, has converted to Islam. Mr Cardeilli, an Arabic speaker, is the first ambassador to convert to Islam in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, according to an office which handles Muslim conversions. Sheikh
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      • 253 9 Those who don't surrender will face a massive attack, says opposition KUNDUZ After being on the edge for more than a week, the Taleban’s last northern stronghold reportedly fell to the opposition yesterday. The first Northern Alliance troops entered the city led
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      • 242 9 -AP JALALABAD The US is closing in on Osama bin Laden. He was spotted at an A 1 Qaeda and Taleban mountain base called Tora Bora, near here, on Wednesday, an anti-Taleban commander said. Another former commander, Mohammed Akhbar Khan, yesterday claimed he had seen Taleban
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      • war diary
        • 55 9 -AFP NORTHERN ALLIANCE fighters quelled a revolt by foreign prisoners in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif yesterday, killing several of them. “They have been overcome. Those who surrendered have been taken prisoner and the others have been killed,” said Northern Alliance commander Ustad Attah. He did not say how
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        • 65 9 THE war on terrorism is to be extended to three new countries. Targets linked to Osama bin Laden in Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be at the top of the hit list. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush have agreed that the
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      • 59 9 Relatives of crew aboard the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force minesweeper Uraga waving flags in farewell as the vessel leaves Yokosuka naval base south of Tokyo yesterday. Two Japanese ships set sail for the Indian Ocean from Japan to support the US-led war in Afghanistan the country's first war
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 287 10 Arroyo's wish: KL keeps him until Muslim polls over -AP KOTA KINABALU Malaysia is ready and willing to deport fugitive rebel leader Philippine governor Nur Misuari, but Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said that she would be pleased to see him serve time in a Malaysian jail
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    • 239 10 -AFP SINGAPORE Deteriorating global economic conditions will worsen the debt woes of emerging economies in Asia and other regions, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in a report over the weekend. The EIU predicted that the global economy will remain weak into next year
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    • 93 10 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong authorities will take a two-stage approach to bolstering the territory’s anti-terrorism laws, security secretary Regina Ip said yesterday. “Hongkong has very rudimentary anti-terror-ist defences at present,” said Ms Ip. “So I’m giving consideration to going about it in two stages. “That is
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    • 76 10 -AFP BANGKOK A farmer in northern Thailand said a herbal anti-impotence brew he concocted was selling faster than he could make it. Mee Saenoo, 68, said the brew was a big hit among men in Saw Kaew province, the Sunday Nation reported yesterday. He said
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 299 11 WASHINGTON It’s almost official: the economy is in recession, ending the longest uninterrupted expansion in American history. The official dating of the recession the 10th since World War II is expected to come today from the National Bureau of Economic
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    • 192 11 Reuters LONDON Traffic jams are a way of life, opening a bank account is a nightmare, and the food and weather can be atrocious. Life in London can indeed be tough, according to foreign diplomats posted to Britain who were surveyed by the London-based Diplomat
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    • 161 11 Reuters JERUSALEM Israel’s killing of a Hamas military leader could provoke the Islamic group to end a freeze on suicide attacks and undermine efforts by Yasser Arafat to rein in militants, political analysts said on Saturday. Israeli and Palestinian analysts said Friday’s helicopter missile strike on Mahmoud
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  • Streatsmart people
    • Article, Illustration
      655 12  -  I S'porean among first journalists in Kabul after its fall by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM BEHIND every great story is a journalist. And in front of every great TV journalist is a dedicated cameraman. BBC Singapore’s Joe Phua is one such. After dodging bullets, grenades and rockets, in Afghanistan, Mr Phua,
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    • 129 12 Joe Phua, who went into his field immediately after his National Service, says being a guardsman in the elite infantry unit certainly helped. Tm more aware of certain things like weaponry and warfare. And being an active soldier keeps me fit. "I know what different rifles
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    • 697 13  -  Why KWOK SHE'S famous for her imotor-mouth that delivers phe gossip on Hongkong pnd Taiwanese artistes on per former TV programme, TVBS’ Entertainment News. But believe it or not, there is a way to shut Taiwanese singer- compere Matilda Tao up. Simply j|i ntroduce y her
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    • 431 14  -  1 mosnom by. Judi Low Picky foodies are even pickier about where and what they eat these days-no thanks to the economic slowdown. Since March, food shops have seen slower business all round, as Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng has pointed out. But this
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    • 573 15  -  fe understandings,, slave-driver being canned by Chanel-CoCo te addresses some hot issues Diana ser r S get one thing straight: CoCo Lee as not “dropped” by French couture Puse Chanel, as some newspaper Ports had previously suggested. I If anything, the singer’s side had imitated
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    • 498 16  -  In an attempt to attract price-conscious party-goers; almost every nightspot is offering incredible drink promotions. But sometimes an overdose of cheap alcohol may not go down well even during hard times by CARA van MIRIAH CHEAP booze seems to be the answer to keep party-goers happy
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    • 238 17 -AFP LOS ANGELES Box-office idol Tom Cruise kept his fleet of planes and country retreat in his divorce settlement with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, who won mansions in California and Australia, People magazine said. Details of the couple’s secret divorce settlement, which was
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 80 17 10pm, TV Works A barbarian named Kull unexpectedly becomes king after an old one gives him his crown and dies after Kull slays him. But the dead king’s direct heirs try to topple Kull and regain the throne by bringing old witch queen Akivasha back to life.
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        • 49 17 7pm, Channel U Yan has to go for an important kidney operation to save her life. However, she’s worried that her children will be burdened by the huge medical bills and decides to join a China medical tour. While trying to find Yan, Hao is kidnapped.
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        • Article, Illustration
          73 17 7.30 pm, Channel 5 Mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) is^ still bent on creating their peti project, Delta I City, to replace the rotting» Detroit.! Unfortunately, the inhabitants have no intention of abandoning their homes. So OCP employs a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 355 21  -  by 'LIM HAN MING Whether it is 11-a-side football or five-a-side futsal, Brazil has been struggling of late. It only qualified for the 2002 World Cup finals after beating Venezuela in its last qualifying match. In futsal, the three-time samba king abdicated
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      • SOCCER
        • 67 22 Reuters PELE will visit Singapore from Dec 3-4 as part of an Asian trip that will also include his involvement in the World Cup draw in South Korea, sponsor Master Card International said. Singapore will be his second and final destination on his trip to Asia
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        • 101 22 Reuters MADRID Barcelona slumped to a 1-2 Spanish league defeat on Saturday against an inspired Athletic Bilbao side at home, which pulled off a deserved win despite playing the last 15 minutes with 10 men. Bilbao, beaten 0-7 in this fixture last season, appeared determined to
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        • 90 22 AFP ROME Lazio beat Juventus 1-0 in the Serie A on Saturday night, thanks to a goal by Fabio Liverani to bring it up to fourth spot in the table. It was Lazio’s third win in a row, which helped it leapfrog over the Turin giant.
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        • 152 22 Reuters LONDON Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier should be fit enough to return to work in January following emergency heart surgery, the club’s chief executive Rick Parry said yesterday. He told BBC radio: “Sometime around the New Year is the likely time. He is getting better day
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      • 346 22 LONDON Dwight Yorke (right) for Liverpool? Unimaginable, but it could happen. The Anfield bosses are believed to be preparing a daring £8 million ($2l million) move for Manchester United’s disillusioned striker. Secret talks are thought to have taken place within the Anfield
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      • 119 22 LONDON Arsenal striker Thierry Henry says that his French team-mate Zinedine Zidane is “on another planet” compared to Manchester United’s David Beckham. He said: “I think Zidane is on another planet. He can run with the ball, give assists and score. “Beckham can cross a
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      • 339 22 -AFP NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS Washington Wizards 88 Boston Celtics 84 WASHINGTON Michael Jordan’s team-mates helped him end the longest losing streak of his career. Christian Laettner hit the tiebreaking jumper with 8.6 sec left in overtime, and Richard Hamilton followed with good defensive play
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      • 830 23  -  BUBM B ill I iM by TAN KIM HAN IT was a fantasy assignment: Put yourself in England manager Sven Goran Erik-sson’s shoes and rate the young En-gland hopefuls David Dunn, Matt Jansen, John Curtis, John Terry and Frank Lampard. Wow! So, with pen and paper
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 465 18 A If JdMmj/nfffn da mskk smart as 211 'A Tina Turn Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20 FEB 18 You may find a sympathetic ally in the most unlikely place. Maybe there is something to what you’re saying after all. Be more responsive and responsible to
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 248 19 MUiNUAYy z<o iNovemoer zuin The story today, Xiao Yuer concludes that Xuan Yuan San Guang is a good man, the best he has ever met since he ventured out of the Valley of Villains. Xuan's chivalrous behaviour is never for show. Xiao Yuer is so touched that he.finds himself nearly
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