Streats, 7 December 2001

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    16 1 STREATS FRIDAY 7 December 2001 quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon 7-year itch
    455 1  -  Marriages most at risk in first 5-9 years More divorces initiated by women by s arah ng the “seven-year itch”? According to latest Singapore lv orce statistics, the most “dangerous” E er iod of your marriage are the first Ve to nine years or an average of ev
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    Lock icon Taleban to quit Kandahar
    280 1 Wire services ISLAMABAD The Afghan war looked to be nearing its end last night with Mullah Mohammed Omar negotiating the surrender of Kandahar the Taleban’s last stronghold. He will hand over control of the province to former anti-Soviet fighter Mullah Naqibullah, the Afghan Islamic Press reported.
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      Lock icon Banking on new image
      263 2  -  POSB to reward customers by SONNYPHUA DBS yesterday unveiled a new-look POSB branch at Yishun Central part of the 127-year-old bank’s plan to revise the POSB brand. To be distinct from DBS, the POSB brand will concentrate on providing the “most efficient and convenient” savings accounts,
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      Lock icon Service to improve
      150 2 ON average, you are served in five to 25 minutes when you visit a POSB branch the longer waits ocurring on certain peak days. “We are not proud of that, but we are definitely trying our best to reduce it,” said DBS consumer banking managing director Edmund
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      Lock icon Woman robbed in changing room
      192 2  -  by EIKTHA MURLI KHEMLANI A WOMAN was threatened with a choppe robbed in a wading pool changing Wednesday. She was in the Eastpoint Mall ladies’ L with her sister, mother and son when a^ rushed in, brandishing a chopper and derL ing that they stay
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      Lock icon '$25,000 tyre puncture
      81 2 HE stepped out of his van to inspect a punctuj tyre, but lost $25,000. i, The man, 37, withdrew the money at afoj 10.30 am from DBS Bank, Bukit Batok and was on his way to his company when) suspected the left rear tyre had a puncture.
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      Lock icon Bitter pill
      441 3  -  ■ar bile and gall bladders sold illegally in Singapore %s by KHUSHWANT SINGH IKEE volunteers of the Animal ,kcerns, Research and Edu/°n Society (Acres) went upping for bear bile and gall j l kders with a hidden camera, they caught on tape 50 of the 68 Chinese medicine
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      Lock icon Acres of ground to cover
      122 3 IN May, undergrad Louis Ng, 24, and nine friends, started the Animal Concerns, Research and Education Society, Acres. They were concerned about the illtreatment of animals, and formed this non-profit society to educate Singaporeans on animal cruelty. In a telephone interview with Streats, Mr Ng
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      155 3 Just a minute The Ministry of Manpower and North-east CDC will hold a career expo tomorrow from 11am-6pm at Pasir Ris East Community Club (Tel: 581-1861) at 1 Paris Ris Dr 4. There will be more than 20 companies there looking to fill 1,000 vacancies for engineers,
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      69 3 Don't expect a brilliant sunrise, because thunderstorms are expected in the East, North and Central areas. Partly cloudy weather i in the West will provide you with a brilliant J sunset instead. Temperatures will range between 24°C and 32°C with high tide reaching 2.8 m at
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      Lock icon Extortionist leaves victim his cellphone number Pay or suffer! Ca11...
      269 4  -  reports by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER AN extortionist left an anonymous note to frighten his victim into handing over money. But he included his cellphone number. Police arrested unemployed Toh Swee Huat, 37, three days after he left his first threatening message
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      Lock icon A smash, a tiff, a fib and a cell
      271 4 MANAGING director Chor Wai Kong, 29, tried to get back at another motorist by telling the police that the man had smashed his van’s windscreen. Chor discovered the windscreen was smashed when he returned to his van on Jan 21 after
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      Lock icon Elderly man 'bombed' kids
      195 4 A 59-YEAR-OLD man hurled water-filled bj cans from his eighth-floor flat at children pi ing on skateboards below. At about spm on July 1, Mr Yearn Chong 37, was walking past the playground at BK 347 dementi Avenue 3 when a beer c dropped right in
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      Lock icon Service with a smile
      69 4 onekindact. Monica Thank you to Mr Long Tien Feng, of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, who transported me from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 1 at the airport and did it with a smile. I arrived at the airport on Nov 29 after the skytrain
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      Lock icon Work starts on biomedical hub 10,000 jobs over 10 years
      256 6 TEN thousand jobs could be created in the new biomedical hub over the next 10 years. So said National Science and Technology Board head Philip Yeo yesterday at the groundbreaking ceremony of the $3OO million Biopolis on North Buona Vista
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      Lock icon Ler's daughter: My father is naughty
      194 6 "MY father is naughty, people say that my father is naughty.” This is what young Avelyn said of her father, Anthony Ler, 33, who was sentenced to the gallows on Wednesday for masterminding the killing of his wife, Madam Annie Leong, 30. The four-year-old
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      Lock icon Creative way to push innovation
      233 6  -  by l DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM EVERYONE is creative, you just have to harness it. That’s the premise behind the tie-up between PSB Corporation and top USbased Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL), to unleash Singapore’s creativity. Called “Unleashing your creativity’, it is a skill development programme targeted at
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      Lock icon I won't be full-time NCMP: Chia
      138 6 MR Steve Chia of the Singapore Democratic Alliance won’t be a fulltime non-constituency member of Parliament (NCMP) after all. The 31-year-old remisier told Shin Min Daily News that there was no need for him to become one because NCMPs don’t serve specific areas. This
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      Lock icon We want to deport him, but they won't take him' KL's dilemma over Misuari
      228 9 -AP LUMPUR Malaysia would have f “rethink the status” of jailed Filipino ihbel leader Nur Misuari if Manila doesn’t Irant him, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. Dr Mahathir said he hoped he
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        Lock icon 1 in 6 homes empty in Taiwan
        158 9 -AFP Taipei More than one in six Taiwanese homes is empty, according to the island’s latest housing census. Taiwan’s property slump pushed its housing vacancy rate to a record high of per cent last year, census results Pleased yesterday showed. Some 1.23 million
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        Lock icon More people without homes in Tokyo
        193 9 Reuters Tokyo The number of homeless in Japan has leapt and activists said yesterday that the problem is far worse than shown in government data. Japan’s homeless population rose to at least 24,090 this year, up from 20,451 in 1999 when the last survey
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        Lock icon Home prices set to rise in HK
        114 9 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong’s property prices are expected to rise by 10 per cent next year, a developer said yesterday. “Property prices are fully bottoming out,” said New World Development chairman Henry Cheng ahead of the annual general meeting of the company, one of
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      Lock icon China's big appetite threatens snakes
      97 9 AFP BEIJING Several species of snake could vanish from China due to too much hunting, state media reported yesterday. Fea’s pit viper and the king cobra could be wiped out, according to the a survey of snake stocks, the China Daily reported. More than 10,000
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      Lock icon Palestinian cops clash with Hamas Militants prevent chief's arrest
      206 11 -AFP GAZA “The police want to arrest Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.” The news carried quickly through the ranks of Hamas militants on Wednesday night. Thousands turned up on the streets outside the Gaza home of the crippled founder of Hamas by car
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    • weird world
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        72 11 Reuters A SNOWBOARDER who failed to secure a sponsor for her gear this season has decided to compete in just her underwear. “Without a sponsor there is nothing else I can do,” the one-time World Cup winner Sabrina Blassnig told Austrian sports website expeditionzone.com. Ms Blassnig said she
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        Lock icon Rubbish tipped to win
        58 11 Reuters A DUSTY storeroom is favourite to land one of the world’s most famous art prizes. Favourite to win this year’s Thrner Prize is Cosmic Legend of the Uroboros Serpent a storeroom piled high with junk. Second favourite is Julien Isaac for his video of gay
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        Lock icon A time for learning
        94 11 TEENAGE tantrums are a relatively modern invention, BBC News Online reported. Early man did not go through a period of adolescence, according to new evidence published in the journal Natpre. Scientists believe that ond of our ancestors, Homo erectus, may have missed out on adolescence which
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      Lock icon Fold-up TV comes a step closer
      176 11 -AFP EINDHOVEN, Holland A TV that you can watch on the train or bus then roll up and put in your pocket is a step closer. Scientists at Philips and the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research said yesterday that they have overcome one
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      Lock icon Bobbies to share duties with civilians
      162 11 -AP LONDON Civilians will take over some police duties in Britain under a programme of police reform announced this week. Home Secretary David Blunkett said the “community support officers” will be given the power to use “reasonable force” to detain suspects. The civilians would
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  • WAR
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      Lock icon Dissent hits new regime
      101 12 Wire services KABUL Afghanistan’s new government is in danger of collapsing even before it takes power. Powerful ethnic Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum had wanted the foreign ministry, but was given the portfolios of agriculture and mining and industry. He threatened to deny officials of
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      Lock icon Australia knew of threat
      74 12 Ren International intelligence agencies knew that a terrorist group was training to carry out attacks in Britain, India and Australia before the confession of a man arrested in India last month, Australia said yesterday. The revelation came after India sal a man arrested in Bombay on
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      Lock icon Sustained attacks force Mullah Omar to surrender Kandahar Pressure tells
      342 12 Sustained attacks force Mullah Omar to surrender Kandaha r Pressure tells Wire servid KABUL Mullah Mohammed Omar’s reported decision to surrender Kandahar has come after immense pressure from Pashtun tribal fighters, US special forces and sustained airstrikes. American B-52 bombers pounded the road between Kandahar and Spin Boldak, bordering Pakistan,
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      Lock icon Bomb blunder won't affect tactics
      132 12 -AFP WASHINGTON The deaths of three US soldiers in Wednesday’s airstrike blunder will not alter the bombing campaign, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday. “In every conflict there are unexpected, unintended deaths. And it is a shame, but it happens,” he told CNN. At least
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      Lock icon 'Reporters locked up'
      70 13 US military officials in Afghanistan prevented journalists from witnessing the transfer of soldiers injured in Wednesday's B-52 bomb blunder. Journalists who were at a Marine base near Kandahar were confined to a warehouse as the injured US and Afghan soldiers began arriving, the Las Vegas Sun reported
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      Lock icon Osama's popularity sinks with Taleban's collapse Hero no longer...
      350 13 -AFP KARACHI Osama bin Laden may still be a hero for extremists, but since theTaleban’s collapse, the “craze” has worn off for ordinary Pakistanis. Mr Jamil Ahmed, who runs a kiosk in downtown Karachi, said he used to sell hundreds of
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    • War diary
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        Lock icon 'Osama's son dead'
        70 13 Reuters INTELLIGENCE reports yesterday claimed that US airstrikes have killed a son or son-in-law of Osama bin Laden. “There are reports that perhaps a son or son-in-law might have been killed, can’t confirm either,” a US official said. The highest-level A 1 Qaeda member known to have
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        Lock icon Troops on way
        69 13 -AFP CANADIAN special forces are getting into the act in Afghanistan. Elements of the elite Joint Task Force Tvo “are moving to an undisclosed location in the Middle East in anticipation of joining other special operation forces of the coalition,” Defence Ministry spokeswoman Renee Filiatrault said yesterday.
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      444 14 Israel's PM is known for never backing off Reuters JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is known as a fighter. He is now fighting a twofront battle retaliating after Palestinian suicide bombings and struggling to keep his coalition government intact. Nicknamed “Bulldozer” for ploughing through political and
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      Lock icon Tomboy tales
      506 15  -  Who wears the pants on Channel U by DIANA SER HERE is one thing you cannot tell just by looking at them: 4 these two Channel U actresses of the alluring smiles and glossy hair are experts in playing boys. Who can forget Lina Ng’s gawky Little Trumpet
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      Lock icon Family business
      704 17 Forget sibling rivalry That is so passe. Nowadays, brothers are banding up at least they are in Hollywood -(cbtioMs BROTHERHOOD has never been so hip. Just take a look at the surnames behind some of the upcoming flicks. There are the Farrellys with their controversial Shallow Hal, showing
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      Lock icon SM recounts war days in new documetary Remembering Pearl Harbor
      516 18 -AFP WASHINGTON Sixty years ago saw that horrific attack on Pearl Harbor. For some of us a recent movie brought the story to a cinema near us. For others, including Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, reflecting on that period and
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      Lock icon Click, pay and catch a movie
      408 19  -  by CARA van MIRIAH THE number of movie tickets being sold on-line is rising steadily. Last year, Golden Village cinemas sold 110,000 tickets via the Internet 4 per cent of its business. Shaw, on the other hand, clocked up 15 per cent of online
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      Lock icon Cutting edge role for Song
      125 20 KOREAN heart-throb Song Seung-Hun may next appear on the silver screen as a Chinese swordsman. He is one of eight Korean actors who will audition for the role in Hongkong director Tsui Hark’s upcoming movie San Shao Ye De Jian (Third Young Master’s Sword). The
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      Lock icon High tea at the airport Changi cuppa
      317 21  -  two shoes by Wileen Chang DO you love a good Saturday afternoon high tea but have already been to all the places in the downtown hotels and restaurants? Make a departure from your usual haunts, then, and go to Coffee Club at Changi
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        Lock icon Lisbie strike shuts Chelsea
        178 23 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE-Chelsea 0 Charlton 1 LONDON Chelsea fans could, of course, have told us this would happen. That after its fine two-match away run it defeated Manchester United last Saturday and Leeds a few days earlier the club known for its inconsistency was bound to
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        Lock icon Lewis sues Tyson
        107 23 BOXING -Xinhua WASHINGTON Lennox Lewis has filed a suit against Mike Tyson in New York, seeking to prevent Tyson from fighting on Jan 19 as he claimed that it would hurt him financially. In the suit filed onThesday, Lewis also named the World Boxing Council (WBC) as
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        Lock icon Sampras' coach leaves
        91 23 'TENNIS Reuters NEW YORK Paul Annacone, who was put in charge of a programme to develop future US champions on Wednesday, said his new job would be a good thing for both himself and for Pete Sampras. Annacone ended a seven-year spell as Sampras’s coach to become
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        30 24 San Antonio 120 Atlanta 112 Detroit 95 Seattle 91 Orlando 102 Chicago 74 New Jersey 106 Phoenix 87 Golden State 93 Philadelphia 87 LA Lakers 98 Dallas 94
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        Lock icon Celtics sinks Nuggets
        212 24 Five-in-a-row win for Boston -'AP BOSTON Paul Pierce scored 35 points and Antoine Walker added 28 to lead the Boston Celtics to its fifth straight win. It won 95-80 over the Denver Nuggets without having to raise much sweat. Pierce was in outstanding form as the game
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        Lock icon Resolute Reds
        340 25 Liverpool earns precious away point Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Roma 0 Liverpool 0 MESL M ROME They played non-stop Beatles songs to set the scene in Rome’s famous Olympic Stadium. And when the action started in the Champions League, it proved a hard day’s night for the latest
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        Lock icon Man U hunts German goalie
        224 25 LONDON Manchester United is lining up a shock raid for German keeper Robert Enke (left). And that has raised question marks over the future of Old Trafford’s under-fire stopper Fabian Barthez. Enke, 24, is out of contract with Benfica on June 22 and would be
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        Lock icon Wenger signs $6.6m contract
        197 25 Wire services LONDON Arsene Wenger (left) finally ended his contract saga by signing a new £2.5 million ($6.6 million) deal to stay at Arsenal. Delighted Highbury directors are celebrating after their sought-after French boss ended months of speculation about his future. Wenger, 52, had just six
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        45 26 Man United 3 (Ruud Van Nistelrooy 31, 62, Laurent Blanc 55) Boavista 0 k Nantes 0 Bayern Munich 1 (Paulo Sergio 65) Group B Barcelona 2 (Javier Saviola 49,66) Galatasaray 2 (Umit Karan 5, Andres Fleurquin 41) AS Roma 0 Liverpool 0
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        70 26 P W D L F A Pts Group A Barcelona 2 1 1 0 5 3 4 Roma 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 Galatasaray 2 0 2 0 3 3 2 Liverpool 2 0 1113 1 Groupß ••••••♦•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••a Manchester Utd 2 110 4 1 4 Bayern
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        Lock icon Man U stands up
        611 26 England captain Beckham made to sit out Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Man United 3 Boavista 0 I OLD TRAFFORD Sir Alex f Ferguson may have made some questionable decisions as Manchester United has struggled this season but perhaps the bravest of all paid off in spectacular
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        Lock icon Recession hits S-League
        385 27  -  Clubs can expect cut in financial aid by TAN KIM HAN S-LEAGUE clubs will have to brace themselves for tough times next year. For it is believed that they will receive less subsidies from the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) because of the recession. The 12 S-League
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        Lock icon Beckham is Britain's Sportsman of the Year
        211 27 The England captain's performances have helped England move up from last to first in its World Cup qualifying group -AP LONDON David Beckham (left),whose injury time freekick against Greece fired England into the World Cup finals, was named Sportsman of the Year by
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