Streats, 1 July 2002

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      66 1 MONDAY, For your usual front page fold from the centre 2002 JULY v 8& 55^.3 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/200: World BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY PAGE 6 BEAUTIFUL (STEAM PAGE 8 BEAUTIFUL PLAYER PAGE 9 1» aP, Who won? m i w c o\\ VA w A, V s f
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    13 15 Streats MONDAY, JULY 1, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com. sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • Article
    Lock icon Water talks resume
    689 15 Jaya in KL for negotiations; M’sian leadership changes won’t get in the way Wire services HOW much should that drink of water cost you? This contentious issue between Singapore and Malaysia will be discussed when Foreign Minister S Jayakumarand Malaysian counterpart Syed Hamid Albar meet today and
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  • MORNING RUSH
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      Lock icon FARES, ELECTRICITY RATES GO UP TODAY
      202 15 YOUR bus and MRT rides will cost between three and 10 cents more from today. Adults using the ez-link card pay three and four cents more for bus and train fares, respectively. If you pay by magnetic farecards, which will be phased out by
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      54 15 a m A 4 There is no reason as yet to change the 2 to 4% growth rate... hut the possibility that the Singapore economy may not recover as fast or as substantially as we had expected at the beginning of the year are there.’ Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan
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      9 15 His dad says sorry for retracting resignation PAGE 25
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  • STREATS local
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      Lock icon Tony Tan: S’pore still on target for 2-4% growth but... US jitters may delay recovery
      391 16 WHILE it still looks as if Singapore will achieve its target level of growth this year, developments overseas could delay recovery, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan warned yesterday. The weak US dollar is a worry.
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      Lock icon Proposals on CPF due in two weeks: DPM Lee
      486 16  -  Bz Deepa Vijiyasingam THE Economic Review Committee (ERC) subcommittee on wages, land, tax and CPF system is likely to announce its recommendations within a fortnight. After opening the Teck Ghee Market and Food Centre yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong,
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      Lock icon Made for each other
      222 16  -  B y Yen Feng THEY met for the first time at a cafe on the last day of 2000, counting down to the New Year. Yesterday, just one-and-a-half-years into their relationship, Mr David Pang, 24, and Ms Vanessa Chen, 21, won the Couple of the Year
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      Lock icon S’porean killed in Australia car crash
      219 18 A CAR accident in Australia has claimed the life of a young Singaporean. Mr Chin Yao Ping, 21, died on Tuesday when the car he was driving collided with a truck. An ex-schoolmate of Mr Chin’s, 20-year-old Ng Kiat Han, who was a passenger
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      Lock icon Pupils line up fun for elderly
      276 18  -  S’pore Pools to give slm for scheme By Karen Chen SENIOR citizens living in three rental blocks in Toa Payoh can now look forward to more parties, health screenings, and social outings with students from five schools in the Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC. These blocks
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      Lock icon GST profiteering in check
      128 18  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer THERE are no problems with profiteering, if the less than 10 complaints received by the Committee to Combat Profiteering (CCP) since its formation nearly two months ago is anything to go by. The CCP was formed to deter any unscrupulous trading ahead of
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      Lock icon Cigarette prices cut
      69 18 PHILIP Morris Singapore, which has a 50 per cent market share of cigarette sales here, is slashing prices, raising concerns that this might encourage more people to smoke. From today, a 20-stick pack of Marlboro and Virginia Slims cigarettes cost a dollar less at $6.50, while the
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      281 19 If we hope to build for our children and ourselves a strong economy and a high standard of living, we must continue to ensure that Singapore remains safe and secure. Without peace and security as a foundation, we cannot hope to develop and progress as a nation. We would do
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  • STREATS financial
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      Lock icon 3 M’sian firms sue Anderson for irregularities
      159 20 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Three Malaysian firms have sued accounting giant Arthur Andersen for more than RM3SO million (S$ 162.5) for failing to detect irregularities in company accounts. In a statement of claim filed on Saturday, the companies alleged that audit reports in 1998
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      Lock icon FOREX RATES*
      26 20 •AS AT JUNE 28 US$: 551.762 552.695 EURO: $1,748 Ss: DM1.258 Ss: 67.68 YEN Ss: RM2.157 Ss: HK54.427 Ss: 23.56 BAHT Ss: 4,950 RUPIAH
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      Lock icon Govt will intervene in row, says DPM Abdullah Telekom can’t run TRI, says Tajudin
      305 20 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian tycoon Tajudin Ramli has questioned statecontrolled Telekom Malaysia’s ability to manage cellular firm Technology Resources Industries, a newspaper reported yesterday. He said he will quit TRI if Telekom made the right offer
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      272 20  -  By Deepa Vijiyasingam FINANCIAL markets are bouncing back from the global recession sparked by Sept 11. And if you’re like most investors, you’re wondering how to ride the tide of a global recovery. The answer lies in stocks, says Mr Tathaguta Guha Roy (right), senior
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      Lock icon BROKERS’ RECOMMENDATIONS
      550 20 The stock recommendation Is the average of all the recommendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not every stock is followed by all the 29 brokers. Their recommendations are placed on a 1 to 5 points scale and
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  • STREATS vocal
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      Lock icon Hungry for a bet
      127 22 I AM amazed by the naivety of your reader “Blame yourself” in his letter “Broke? But look how they bet” (Streats, June 28). I would be happy to skip a meal to place bets at Singapore Pools because it would give me a one-in-a-million chance of
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      Lock icon We're broke, that’s why we bet
      58 22 YOUR reader “Blame yourself” criticises Singaporeans for spending on bets and then moaning about fare increases. This is the irony. It is because they are facing financial problems that many resort to chasing dreams. And betting is the only way for them to nurse
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      Lock icon Gates of wrath
      90 22 Incident No 3 I AGREE with Francis Chan, “Unfriendly MRT entry barriers” (Streats, June 26), and Priscilla Tan, “Ouch, that hurts!” (Streats, June 27), about the unpredictable entry barriers at MRT stations. I have been hurt by the barriers a few times. On one occasion, it slammed
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      63 22 I SHARE the view of Priscilla Tan in her letter about dangerous MRT barriers. My dad was once a victim of these intimidating and temperamental MRT gates. The hard plastic arms slammed onto his hips as he was going through after inserting the farecard. He had bruises
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      Lock icon Flutter comes but once every four years
      80 22 SHAME, shame on the reader who said Singaporeans have themselves to blame for spending money on bets during this economic downturn while complaining about fare increases. Payments for transport is an everyday affair whereas this World Cup comes once every four years and
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      38 22 NO DOUBT there are long queues, but are they all buying bets? Anyway, the bettors form a minority of Singaporeans. Don’t condemn a carton of apples when you find a bad one in it. CHLee
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      Lock icon Paranoid over ez-link scanner
      186 22 HONESTLY, like so many commuters who have complained, I am simply fed up with the ez-link system. Frequent scanner failures and bus drivers not well trained to help out are causing distress to many passengers. But what have the authorities done about this? This is getting
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      42 22 Have Your Say Streats is pleased to publish your views. E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. Include your name, address and contact number. Letters sent to other publications will not be published.
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      316 23 JW "-.V. ii c/* mm *r■sw®* mm ii? ■"wksMe 'a&jji&Mii m MM *WWMiiiiiiii|i'iii A», IPS /h/Wfc LV<nrr*@ J<%/tw^ Wherever you go in the world, JCB is known for its excellent service that comes straight from the heart. But in order to truly experience it, we would like you to walk
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      816 24 COMMUNITY Once again, she's enjoying home cookea meals It will be a simple yet tasty meal of steamed fish, stir Us Jpt' fried vegetables and fried rice. A pleasure of eating home-cooked food that she had almost forgotten, since it became difficult to cook for herself. Now, like many other
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  • STREATS regional
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      Lock icon GIVE US RESPECT
      41 25 Transvestites riding on a truck as they take part in a gay and lesbian parade in the tourist district of Manila on Saturday. The homosexuals called for equality and respect in the largely Roman Catholic country AFP I
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      Lock icon Mahathir's rare apology to family ‘I’m sorry, but politics first’
      249 25 AP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has apologised to his family for staying on as Malaysia’s leader after attempting to step down, a news report said yesterday. Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir’s son, Mr Mokhzani, told the Mingguan Malaysia newspaper
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      Lock icon More confusion in Arroyo Cabinet
      108 25 Reuters MANILA Philippine VicePresident Teofisto Guingona, embroiled in policy differences with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has bowed to pressure and is definitely quitting as foreign minister, a newspaper said yesterday. Mr Guingona, a staunch nationalist, has long expressed his reservations about the presence of US
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      Lock icon Aussies set to top world
      89 25 -AFP SYDNEY Australia’s economy is tipped to continue to outperform the rest of the world over the next 12 months after it became the world’s strongest economy in the last 12 months. Analysts said yesterday that consumer spending may be the key to growth. “Consumption
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      Lock icon S Korean forces ‘held back’
      389 26 We wanted to avoid war, says general Wire services SEOUL South Korea’s armed forces held back in a gunbattle with the North Korean navy on Saturday to avoid sparking an all-out war, the South’s top military officer has said. But General Lee Nam Shin apologised
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      Lock icon US slams North’s ‘provocation’; China urges stability
      272 26 Wire service SEOUL Saturday’s sea battle could have “serious implications” for the Korean peninsula, the commander of US troops in South Korea said hours after the clash. “This provocative act by North Korea is a serious violation of the armistice agreement, and could
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    • REGIONAL DEBRIEF
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        84 26 AP SYDNEY commuters yesterday got a look at the first of the city’s new trains two years late. The so-called millennium trains were to have been delivered in time for the Olympics. State Transport Minister Carl Scully blamed the late arrival on problems with an electrical
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        Lock icon US TO AID INDON ARMY AGAIN
        61 26 L AFP THE US wants to resume military assistance to Indonesia in an effort to reestablish US influence there, The New York Times has reported. The push follows the arrest in Jakarta this month of a suspected A 1 Qaeda man, which has strengthened
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        Lock icon NICHOLAS TSE CHECKS OUT
        57 26 CANTO-POP singer Nicholas Tse has checked out of hospital, a day after he was admitted with head injuries in a car crash, a Hongkong government spokeswoman and his lawyer said yesterday. Tse was in stable condition when he left the hospital yesterday morning, the spokeswoman, who
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        Lock icon INDON HOOLIGANS BATTLE POLICE
        74 26 -AFP POLICE fired warning shots as they clashed with some 4,000 football supporters at a harbour on Sulawesi island yesterday. The Makassar supporters became agitated when a boat they intended to take to Jakarta to cheer their team in a national league match refused to dock
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  • STREATS global
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      Lock icon HizboUah alliance with A1 Qaeda worries US
      252 27 THE Lebanon-based Hizbollah organisation, one of the world’s most formidable terrorist groups, is increasingly teaming up with A 1 Qaeda on logistics and training for terrorist operations, the Washington Post reported yesterday. The new cooperation, which is ad hoc and tactical and involves
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      Lock icon Rogue settlements must go: Israel
      146 27 Wire services HEBRON, West Bank Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said that he would uproot 10 rogue Jewish outposts in the West Bank yesterday, setting the stage for Possible confrontations with militant settlers. The umbrella Yesha Council of Jewish settlements blasted Mr Ben-Eliezer’s decision as
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
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        Lock icon SINGER CLOONEY DIES
        40 27 AP SINGER Rosemary Clooney, who co-starred with Bing Crosby in White Christmas and staged a dramatic comeback after her career was nearly destroyed by drugs and alcohol, has died at 74. She was actor George Clooney’s aunt.
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        Lock icon ARIZONA FIRE ARREST
        47 27 Reuters AN unnamed man has been arrested in Arizona, charged with starting one of the two fires which have merged into the biggest blaze in state history, authorities have said. The suspect was due to appear before a federal magistrate in Flagstaff yesterday. Reuters
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        Lock icon U.S.: LETS KEEP GOD
        51 27 Reuters EIGHTY-SEVEN per cent of Americans say “under God” should remain part of the Pledge of Allegiance in the wake of a ruling that said the pledge is unconstitutional, a Newsweek poll said. It showed that 54 per cent wanted the government to avoid promoting religion.
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