Streats, 4 October 2002

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  • 12 1 Streats FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 654 1  -  Do you know you can’t change your life insurance beneficiaries if they’re your wife or kids? By t Deepa Vijiyasingam FEW people here know this: If they name their spouse or children as the beneficiary in their life insurance policy, they cannot change their minds ever. Not
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  • MORNING RUSH
    • 43 1 TEAM Singapore delivered its first gold medal at the Busan Asian Games yesterday, thanks to bowler Remy Ong. He mastered the lanes superbly to claim the men’s singles championship and the $250,000 reward from his country. SEE PAGE 34 ST]
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    • 157 1 BUSINESSMAN Peter Kwee has bought the exclusive Pinetree Town Country Club for $lOl million. He will add it to his other assets, which include golf resorts in Singapore and Australia, and motor distributor Group Exklusiv. The sale comes after the Stevens Road club’s proprietor, Mr Chng
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  • STREATS local
    • 305 2  -  Iras extends deadline for bosses to declare company loans they took By Wendy Tan MADAM Leong (not her real name) and her auditors have a headache. The director of a mediumsized engineering firm didn’t know that loans she took from her company over the past four years
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    • 292 2  -  By_ Yong Hui Mien STUDENT Su Jia Xian, 17, has caught the attention of Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. All because of his passion for pricey timepieces. Mr Lee cited Jia Xian as an example of enterprising youth during a speech to
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    • 185 2  -  By ChuaKongHo RED tape only partially explains why entrepreneurs are a rare breed in Singapore. The truth is, most prefer to play it safe because it is comfortable to do so. This was the observation Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made when he spoke at
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    • 469 3  -  Fruit wars: Part II ?y_ YongHuiMien IT was a day that little David took a potshot at Goliath. Although the giant hardly winced, the action showed that even tiny players can sometimes thumb their noses at the big boys. It all started when enthusiastic Ang Mo
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    • 289 4  -  Beneficiary restriction doesn’t deter couples By, By Deepa Vijiyasingam YOUNG couples, aglow with love, said they would still nominate each other as beneficiaries in their life insurance policies even if this cannot be changed later. They see this as an act of faith. All five young
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    • 366 4  -  By_ Julie Sim AN 80-year-old man is desperately seeking two brides one for himself and the other for his shy 40-year-old son. Mr Huang Shi Quan was among more than 20 applicants who responded to Shin Min Daily News’ report on Tuesday
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    • 134 4  -  By Wendy Tan SCORES of commuters were late for work yesterday when problems with the ez-link system caused 120 SBS Transit buses to hit the roads late. The card readers on the buses were incorrectly set, said a spokesman for the bus company. Of these, 75
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  • STREATS financial
    • 438 6 Blow for exporters as US ports stay closed Wire services SINGAPORE Exporters have had a rough two years. And now, when they are just about inching back into positive territory (see table), comes another blow. The shutdown of 29 ports on the US West Coast, the key
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    • 213 6 Wire services NEW YORK-It was just one letter, but it got a clerk here into hot water on Wednesday. A Bear Steams sell order was mistakenly keyed in as US$4 billion (557.15 billion) instead of US$4 million, fuelling an already tumbling market. The
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    • 24 6 *AS AT OCTOBER 3 US$: $51,786 552.805 EURO: 551.766 Ss: 68.74 YEN Ss: RM2.127 Ss: HK54.366 Ss: 24.39 BAHT Ss: 5,044 RUPIAH
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    • 415 6 STI: 1,351.98 3.45 Reuters SHARES finished lower yesterday, yet again on war fears and uncertainty over US corporate earnings. Volumes were down to the lowest levels since July. The Straits Times Index closed down 3.45 points, or 0.25 per cent, at 1,351.98 after barely scraping
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    • 288 6 NATSTEEL president Ang Kong Hua now faces a contender for the steel miller. The man on the other end of the tussle is property tycoon Ong Beng Seng, and he has the backing of Temasek Holdings. Mr Ong’s consortium, 98 Holdings, yesterday offered
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    • 170 9 Jf A MB CHARTERS TO EXOTIC NORTHERN The princely city ofjaipur, former imperial capital of Delhi and home of the Taj Mahal in Agra, combine to provide some of India's finest attractions known as The GolcJfcn Triangle. 'iff as*? m OB m Brai Si 1 i n— fg J§llj|j 5
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 149 10 I HAVE been placing my children in childcare centres and before- and after-care centres for the past seven years. I know that one rule of the centres is that they do not serve meat dining meals. But as a Muslim parent, I am
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    • 208 10 MANY modern-day couples are already defying convention: Some men do stay at home to be either part-time or full-time homemakers and most women have either parttime or full-time jobs. Minister of State Chan Soo Sen was wrong to tell male homemakers here that they should
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    • 285 10 IN response to the report “Stop whining” (Streats, Oct 2) and readers’ letters on the same issue, I would like to clarify that neither Aware nor I have anything against men, marriage or family life. What the Association of Women for Action and
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    • 194 10 I REFER to “Undervalued in Hougang” (Streats, Sept 27), a letter by Mr Chan Kong Leong. He raised a few issues that concern him which, as the valuer of his property, we would like to address. The subject property is a five-room improved flat which was
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    • 215 10 I REFER to “Undervalued in Hougang” (Streats, Sept 27), a letter by Mr Chan Kong Leong. He stated that the valuation of HDB flats is usually just a formality and that his flat in Hougang was undervalued by the private valuer. We would like to clarify
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    • 72 10 Have Your Say E-mail us at streats@sph.comsg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that
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  • STREATS medical
    • 97 12 Q What could be the cause of sweaty palms and feet? A Sweating is a natural phenomenon necessary for the regulation of a person’s body temperature. The secretion of sweat is mediated by the sympathetic nervous system. In some people (approximately 1 per cent of the population), this
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    • 321 12 It’s breast cancer month and doctors urge women... BETTER some help than none at all. That’s how the Breast Cancer Foundation (BCF) feels about breast self-examination (BSE). The foundation was responding to research findings released on Tuesday which indicated that BSE had no effect on breast
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  • STREATS regional
    • 244 15 -AFP Zamboanga The Philippine military yesterday blamed the notorious Abu Sayyaf group for Wednesday’s bomb attack in southern Philippines, which killed three People including a US soldier. The attack was staged by a four-man “urban terrorist group” of the Abu Sayyaf, According to a
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    • 102 15 -afp BEIJING A suicide bomb blast in one of China’s top tourist destinations left one man dead and 18 people injured, Xinhua reported yesterday. The explosion rocked the central square in Guilin at 9.35 pm on Wednesday. Police said that it was caused by “an
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    • 204 16 MALACCA A two-year-old boy is at the centre of tussle between his estranged parents because of a belief among the Chinese that males bom in the Year of the Dragon bring fortune to their families. On Wednesday, at a press conference, clerk Lee Chia Ser,
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    • Article, Illustration
      35 16 Contestants of the Miss Earth pageant planting tree saplings in Manila yesterday. About 45 contestants from afferent countries are vying in the competition devoted to promoting the protection and preservation of Mother Earth
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    • 216 16 Mahathir wants to use oil as weapon AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that Muslim countries should unite in using their vast oil resources as a “weapon” against oppression. “We are now seeing worldwide (that) Muslims are being exploited,” he said at
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    • 126 16 JAKARTA Indonesians can see no figure who is suitable to lead the country following the 2004 elections, according to the results of a survey. The survey, conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Education and Information, revealed that most Indonesians considered the
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  • STREATS global
    • 179 20 IRAQ UPDATE ap BAGHDAD US President George W Bush versus Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein with pistols at dawn. That was the challenge laid down yesterday by Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan, with possibly himself up against US VicePresident Dick Cheney in a second showdown. Mr
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    • 240 20 Court accepts mitigation by e-mail ATLANTA If you get a traffic ticket and you’re peeved, just e-mail the judge. Washington State’s Yakima County Court is believed to be the first to introduce such a system, CNN reported yesterday. By allowing defendants to plead their
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    • 47 20 British Environment Minister Michael Meacher took a dip in the freezing waters off Blackpool yesterday after promising earlier to do so if the water met European cleanliness standards. His reward? A warm greetingfrom two tabloid newspaper models as he emerged wet and cold Reuters
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    • 102 20 Reuters BOSTON Accused shoe-bomber Richard Reid on Wednesday offered to plead guilty to all criminal charges against him if the US government withdraws accusations that he received training from A 1 Qaeda. Prosecutors immediately rejected the request and said that they had reached no plea
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    • 366 23 Inside Iraq: After. sanctions BAGHDAD Iraq may be a pariah state, but its fairer sex has always enjoyed liberties rarely found in the Arab world. Consider the facts: Iraqi women hold senior positions at work; They serve in non-combat positions in the army; Men and women can
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    • 368 23 Inside Iraq: Before sanctions BAGHDAD Iraq was a Middle Eastern country soaked in prosperity prior to sanctions |t imposed by the UN in 1991. Before 1980, when President Saddam Hussein launched a costly eight-year war with Iran, k the country was deemed by the UN
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    • 841 23 Inside Iraq: Before sanctions Inside Iraq: After, sanctions Cheap tigs, cars, almost-free petrol... BAGHDAD Iraq was a Middle Eastern country soaked in prosperity prior to sanctions imposed by the UN in 1991. Before 1980, when President Saddam Hussein launched a costly eight-year war with Iran, the country was deemed by
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  • easy STREATS
    • 472 24  -  Laxiies, here are my thoughts Adam About Town By i ADAM HASHTDY WANTED: A wife. Must be able to cook, sew and do the laundry. Must be submissive and do cartwheels when requested. Sounds ridiculous? Perhaps. But if you think I want my future wife to
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    • 316 24 Wire services GUILTY, but the fans and media still love him. Hongkong singer Nicholas Tse was found guilty on Wednesday for getting his chauffeur to take the blame for his car crash, but an Apple Daily poll of some 460 people found that more than
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    • 166 24  - Kym the action star not Yvonne Kwok HAS Kym Ng turned into Channel U’s action babe? In your dreams. She plays pugilist Zhou Qi in an upcoming series of Louis Cha’s first novel, Romance of The Book and Sword, Channel U’s latest collabration with Hongkong production house, Chinese Entertainment International.
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    • 84 24 MORGAN Freeman’s next role is Nelson Mandela, for a film about the South African freedom fighter who spent much of his life in prison. It will be based on the former South African president’s autobiography Walk to Freedom, reported The Guardian earlier this week. Director
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    • 103 24 Reuters THE Napster story is to become a fulllength film. MTV said on Wednesday said that it has reached a deal for the exclusive rights to the life story of Shawn Fanning, who dropped out of university at 19 to create the wildly popular
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    • 430 26  -  Stylish eating on a shoestring B 'J jura low Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? Judi Low s recipes for stylish, nutritious, yummy meals that are easy to make and cost $lO or lessfor four servings unßsee you through these tough times PADANG dishes
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    • Hair Affair brought to you by Dove Hair Care
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      • 126 29 YOU’LL find the following in just one fine strand of hair: 60-90 per cent keratin, a complex protein consisting of over 20 amino acids; 10 per cent (optimal level) of water is a fundamental component of hair which determines its physical and cosmetic properties; 2 per
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    • 140 30 HERE’S a smile for this rainy day. A preacher painting the outside of his poor rural church was running out of paint. He drought: “It’s water-based paint; just thin it down arid carry on.” So he did. The church jfk looked a mess. When he finished,
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    • Just a minute
      • 105 30 Relax, the weekend is in sight. You can start by taking in some classical music at lunchtime, together with some ragtime, flamenco and blues Duo Jackson plays them all. And for free. Today, at City Square, Raffles City level one, lpm-1.45pm. Celebrate World Animal Day with animal
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        52 30 3D DIVAS.DJS.DANCE Siloso Beach, Sentosa Nov 30,9pm-6am Tickets at $36, $46 from Sistic The nine-hour party will feature live performances by Ultra Nate, Barbara Tucker, Thea Austin (SNAP, Soulsearcher), Pepper Mashay, Janice Robinson (Livin’ Joy), DJ Bert Bevans and more. All proceeds from this event will go to Action
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        59 30 CELEBRITY APPEARANCE Guardian, Compass Point Today, 11.30 am Media Corp celebrity Huang Biren will be at the official opening of the Guardian store at Compass Point the health and beauty chain’s 100th store. There will be freebies and free health checks for customers at Compass Point. At other branches,
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      • 41 30 DOUBLE TAKES DBS Arts Centre Oct 15-19, 2.30 pm and Bpm Tickets at $l6 from Sistic Double Takes is a week of short plays and double bills showcasing a selection of exciting works from Brecht, Mamet and other well-known playwrights.
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        102 30 PREMIUM LIFE PARTY Two Rooms, UE Square Tomorrow, from 9pm No cover charge Tel: 6735-9819 A great deal for the thirsty the first 100 guests will receive free Premium Life shooters. All premium bottles will go at a 20 per cent discount. You will also get two housepour drinks
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 57 32 10pm, Channel i In 1943 when the ranks of professional male baseball players were thinning because of the war, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League kept baseball alive for a grateful nation. Stars Madonna, Lori Petty and Geena Davis as the team’s most gifted player.
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      • 58 32 7pm, Channel U Believing in the rumours that Lisheng is seeing somebody else and thinking that Hui is the one, Shengxiao slams her for being the third party. The stall is robbed when Shengmen helps Dasheng and Muchuan look after it. Instead of defending him, May jumps
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      • 145 32 AP WRESTLING star and actor The Rock has received permission to film in Kapena Falls outside downtown Honolulu, a sacred bathing area for Hawaiian royalty in ancient times. But the state Board of Land and Natural Resource has imposed stringent conditions on a stunt that
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    • 96 32 Jupiter THIS local songbird has shown her versatility in various music genres. She is accomplished both as a performer and composer, and her original compositions have been used by established regional artistes such as Valen Hsu and Annie Yi Neng Jin. Now she has yet again
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 456 32 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Observe employees and contractors. Learning the methods of your associates can only increase your overall understanding. Move by degrees instead of making a sudden change. *4 PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Your opinions are valuable, but time is limited. Make a
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  • STREATS sports
    • 593 34  -  Gold-medal winner Remy Ong’s birthday present to minister UM HAN MING reports from South Korea BUSAN- It was his 47th birthday yesterday. And, naturally, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Acting Minister for Community Development and Sports, had harboured hopes of an unforgettable present. Like a gold medal from
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    • 297 34  -  SINGAPORE pgfyg By i ADAMHASHIDY SINGAPORE finally touched gold, courtesy of Remy Ong. For coming in first in the men’s bowling singles, Ong is now $250,000 richer, thanks to the Singapore Pools Multi-Million Dollar Award Programme. I have a suggestion. Perhaps Ong could spare some
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    • 14th Asian Games BUSAN 2002
      • 487 36  -  Afghanistan’s makeshift football team rises from dust to take step in right direction By Lim Han Ming THEY come from a country where, not too long ago, sport was considered unIslamic. Where football stadiums became killing fields with public executions a regular fare. And where professionalism
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      • 150 36 AP CHINA’S Liu Xia (right) broke the women’s 63 kg weightlifting world record by one-half kg yesterday in the clean and jerk. Liu, 21, lifted 135.5 kg, beating the record of 135.0 set by Nataliya Skakun of Ukraine on April 24. She then missed a
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      • 122 38 -AFP YOUTH triumphed in a battle of gymnastics generations yesterday as China’s teen sensation Zhang Nan came from behind to beat Oksana Chusovitina from Uzbekistan for the women’s individual all-around title. For Zhang, a 16-year-old from Beijing, it was the second victory in two days.
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      • 500 38  -  Indonesian’s shapely legs and curvaceous body turn many heads By Lim Han Ming BUSAN Most tennis players in South-east Asia would swoon if they defeated Anna Koumikova. Not so Angelique Widjaja (right). The Indonesian starlet thought nothing of her recent US Open straight sets victory over the Russian
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      • 130 38 G s B Tot China 58 25 15 98 Japan 20 26 22 68 South Korea 15 17 27 59 Kazakhstan 4 4 5 13 North Korea 3 7 7 17 Thailand 1 6 3 10 Chinese Taipei 1 4 6 11 Uzbekistan 1 4 6 11 Hongkong
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      • 203 38 BILLIARDS SNOOKER Snooker singles Keith E, Lim Chun Kiat; 9 ball pool singles: Tan Tiong Boon, Bernard Tey (9am, Dong Ju College Gymnasium) BODYBUILDING Bantam Weight Nor Perwira Jaya (9am); Welter Weight Abdul Halim Haron (10.30 am); Middle Weight Chua Ling Fung (12.30 pm); Heavy Weight
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