Streats, 7 January 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph„com.sg mita (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 634 1  -  Big auditing firms seek review of changes to curb scandals r Conrad Raj ACCOUNTANTS practising here are not happy with some of the new rules introduced to keep their profession squeaky clean and clear of the type of scandals that have hit their counterparts in the
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  • Morning Rush
    • 80 2 ONE KIND ACT Ms Kaye OUR car, with me and a friend in it, was hit by a pick-up truck at 11.20 pm on East Coast Road. It did not stop. We chased it. The motorist behind us, Mr Kee, joined in, and we all ended up
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    • 377 2  -  Money changer’s kin contests seized assets’ ownership By Khushwant Singh THE 1,153 Chinese construction workers cheated in the Wen Long Money Changer remittance scam have hit a snag in their bid to recover more of the money they lost. Their bid to claim the personal
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    • 560 3  -  Cebu Pacific Air suspends S’pore-Manila flights By ChuaKongHo LOSING $2.2 million in the first two months of operations proved too much for Mr Lance Gokongwei, scion of the wealthy Filipino-Chinese Gokongwei family and chief executive of Cebu Pacific Air (CPA). He has suspended the
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    • 587 4  -  By Khushwant Singh THE pain in Ms Rachel Teo’s face is deep and heartwrenching. One could see the sorrow in her eyes as she spoke about the passing of her best friend. “We grew up together, so we were very close,” Ms Teo, 25, said of First
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    • 278 4  -  By Julie Sim WHEN Madam Theresa Lim, 47, saw on television that a Singapore navy ship was in an accident, she thought immediately of her former neighbours. She called her old friend Madam Ho Kum Yoke, whose daughter, First Sergeant Heng Sock Ling,
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    • 88 6 BUZZSTOP -AFP INFAMOUS Taiwan ex-politician Chu Mei-feng, whose secretly filmed sex romps with a married man were circulated on VCD by a magazine, has split with her boyfriend, a newspaper has reported. This happened after she decided to publish a “pictorial” photos of herself dressed
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    • 155 6 Water dispute SINGAPORE’S sale of water to Johor will no longer be needed from the middle of this year when the state’s own water treatment plant starts operating, Bemama reported yesterday. Johor Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman said the Semanggar plant will supply enough
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    • 147 6 HDB loan war THE HDB loan war has become so fierce that any HDB homeowner who currently has a concessionary loan of $lOO,OOO over 30 years could save about $360 in the first year by switching from HDB to POSB or OCBC banks. In the past week,
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    • 32 6 Japanese women traders turning up at the Tokyo foreign exchange market dressed in traditional kimonos as Japan's markets reopened for the year's first day of trading yesterday ap
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    • 143 6 THE Sengkang Light Rapid Transit (LRT) system’s trains made their maiden mns on Sunday after a month-long delay with about 250 grassroots representatives from the area on board. But the public will have to wait a few more weeks. However, before the official opening, hundreds
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    • 107 6 THE 11 -year-old girl whose wearing of an Islamic headscarf prevented her from attending classes did not turn up at her school yesterday. Last Thursday the start of the school year Mr Azhar Ali, 38, had vowed that his daughter, Nur Asikeen, would show up daily at
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    • 99 6 THE feuding neighbours of Everitt Road have laid down their arms. They emerged at 9pm last night after 10 hours of closed-door talks at the Subordinate Courts prepared to give peace a chance. The Chan family said sorry. The Loh, Gan and Tay families accepted. Mr Chan
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    • 81 6 -AFP SOUTH-EAST Asian nations should work together to meet an increasingly strong business challenge from Northeast and South Asia, Mr Ong Keng Yong, the new Asean secretary-general warned, on Monday. He urged member states to examine their competitiveness in attracting foreign investment, and proposed joint efforts to
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    • 77 6 Wire services IRAQI President Saddam Hussein yesterday declared that his country is ready for war. He also made his first public criticism of UN weapons inspectors, saying that they were engaging in “pure intelligence work”. Ip a 25-minute televised message on Arrpy Day, he said
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  • Financial
    • 742 9  -  an occasional series on young Singaporean k entrepreneurs j A former banker and aformer IT analyst are frying the competition with their Japanese croquettes and cream puffs franchise By. Janice Wong BEFORE last July, best friends Christine Tan (left) and Tan Yep Nee knew only one
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    • 648 11  -  By Chug Kong Ho FINANCE company Sing Investments Finance (SIF) has rejoined the HDB home loan race with a revised package boasting a first-year fixed interest rate of 1.75 per cent for loans above $50,000. The revision
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    • 427 11 -AFP lIDA, Japan “Go away. Go away. Go away,” visitors chant as they bash and kick a log symbolising their misfortune at a shabby hut enshrining Japan’s god of poverty. New Year is traditionally a time for Japanese to visit their local shrine
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    • 142 11 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Neptune Orient Lines, the operator of the world’s seventh largest container fleet, has asked its chief executive officer Flemming Jacobs to quit. Mr Jacobs, a former partner of AP Moeller, the world’s largest shipping group, relinquished his positions as president and director as
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    • 99 11 Reuters SINGAPORE Asset trader Oei Hong Leong bought another one million shares in Singapore takeover target Nat Steel Ltd yesterday at 552.07 each, raising his stake in the company to 29.83 per cent. Mr Oei’s move comes just days before the expiry of a $2.06 a share
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    • 710 13 With Afta pact, Malaysia’s national car is looking at competition revving up just outside the gate Reuters KUALA LUMPUR It’s the car of choice for many in Malaysia and each year almost 200,000 people here buy a Proton. But with free trade the flavour
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    • 424 13 STI: 1,331.62 M 8.31 Reuters SHARES closed weaker yesterday as DBS Group and other banks, as well as property firms like City Developments, fell on stubborn worries about the economy. But water treatment firms bucked the trend, rising ahead of the award of a state
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    • 24 13 *AS AT JANUARY 6 US$: S$L73B 552.801 EURO: 551.817 Ss: 68.59 YEN Ss: RM2.187 Ss: HK54.488 Ss: 24.65 BAHT Ss: 5,140 RUPIAH
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    • 729 14  -  Comment By JOHN FWASIK Bloomberg CHICAGO It’s time to think about the rest of your life again, well, at least the new year, and what you can do to avoid the mayhem that plagued your portfolio last year. Although your year-end statement will be in your
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  • Vocal
    • 218 15 I WAS deeply saddened to learn from Tudung row revisited” (Streats, Jan 3) some Muslims still continue to Provoke debate on this issue even though Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs a nd Muis have given their opinions. Muslims should give priority to their children’s education. What would
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    • 218 15 I NOTE with very much regret that the tudung controversy has not abated. A student wearing a Muslim headscarf at Eunos Primary may have coloured Uon-Muslims’ views of Malay-Muslims the Republic at a time when efforts to °ster racial integration are still ongoing. In the
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    • 78 15 »f 1 a im HAVE imm SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 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
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  • Comment
    • 817 16  -  By Caroline Marcus I’VE got blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin. And I’m a Singaporean. No, my hair colour doesn’t come out of a box from L’Oreal. My eye colour doesn’t come from coloured contacts. And I’m not obsessed with the latest
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  • Medical
    • 312 17 Anti-bacterial agent better than soap and water: study Reuters CHICAGO Cleaning your newborn’s umbilical stump with soap and water instead of an anti-bacterial agent can increase the risk of infection, said a Canadian study published on Monday. Using simple soap and water has gained favour in
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    • 146 17 f I colour my hair every LJ six weeks to cover the grey hairs. I plan to have a child soon. Will hair colouring affect the pregnancy? If I have to stop colouring my hair during pregnancy when can I resume? Ain general, hair colouring is safe. The
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  • Global
    • 305 18 First insider account due out in US today THE first insider account of the George W Bush administration is set to roll out. Written by former Bush speechwriter David Frum credited with the phrase “Axis of Evil” the book The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of
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    • 62 18 Seventeen people, including two suicide bombers, died at the scenes of two rushhour blasts in Tel Aviv on Sunday. Another eight died in hospital, police said, and 68 injured were still hospitalised on Monday. Israel’s security cabinet gave the green light early on Monday to army proposals
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    • 136 18 -AP GRETNA, Louisiana Two assistant district attorneys, Mr Donnie Rowan and Mr Cameron Mary, were rebuked for wearing ties decorated with a hangman’s noose and the Grim Reaper at a hearing in a capital murder case. “They were a joke, although a poor joke,”
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    • 246 18 WASHINGTON US President George W Bush’s national security team has put together plans for administering Iraq after the expected ouster of Saddam Hussein. The plans called for a heavy American military presence in the country for at least 18 months, reported the New York
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    • 191 18 PARIS A French woman who made a rape complaint “in Dubai was charged with having “adulterous sexual relations”, a crime which carries a maximum 18-month jail term in the country. The woman, Touria Tiouli, 39, a Morocco-bom marketing executive who grew up in Limoges
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    • 297 19 Hillary’s most admired woman in the US -AFP Washington Two years after her tumultuous tenure as US first lady ended, Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton again finds herself under public scrutiny. A recent Gallup poll found that Mrs Clinton, now a Senate member, is the woman most admired
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    • 97 19 -AP BRISBANE A mother and her two young sons were thrown from their car after it veered off a road in Australia and hit a tree, allegedly with the youngest boy a five-year-old at the wheel. Police said yesterday that the other child,
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  • Easy Streats
    • 87 20 PUFF Daddy’s demands and rowdy friends are making him unpopular among nightclubs, reported peoplenews.com At Opoum, a Miami club, the rapper ordered 30 bottles of a drink, without expecting to pay for them, while the “scores” of VIP bracelets the club had given his friends for
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    • 106 20 DISNEY’S Lilo Stitch is leading the field in nominations for the 30th Annie awards for animation. The cartoon, about a Hawaiian girl and her extraterrestrial friend, had 10, while the Pixar-produced Monsters, Inc, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, from Dreamworks, each had eight, and Treasure
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    • 93 20 WONDERING who was the most annoying personality of 2002? Check out http ://annoy.info/2002/2002info ,aspx#how. The website has come up with a point system to rank the 100 Most and Least Annoying people in its database of more than 6,700 personalities. The results: Martha Stewart emerged as the most
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    • 561 20  -  Despite it’s unappetising camerawork and editing Channel If s reality TV cum talk show, Amazing Grace, scores, thanks to its winning humaninterest stories Tellytubby By YVONNE KWOK WARNING: This article is about to praise a Media Works programme. Anybody who believes in conspiracy theories for example,
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    • 215 21 GERI Halliwell’s first film project has fallen through, and it’s because no one wants to play her lover, said a Daily Mirror report on Sunday. David Green, who was to have directed the film called Therapy, said he couldn’t find someone willing to co-star with the
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    • 120 22 A SURGE in pollution in Teheran, the Iranian capital, one of the most smog-choked cities, has been blamed for 130 heart attacks over the New Year weekend, the city’s medical emergency centre said. AFP reported that few cars there have emission control devices, A and half
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 42 22 10pm, Central The court of King George 111 and Queen Charlotte isn’t as stable as it looks. The king has begun acting in a bizarre manner. Has the unthinkable happened? Has the King of England gone mad?
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      • 47 22 9pm, Channel i Doug decorates the house for Halloween. When Arthur sees a paper ghost, he suffers a minor heart attack. Doug makes it up to him by going to Gabe’s Pizzeria and surprising him with lemon ice. But Arthur gets another fright.
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    • Happenin’
      • 38 22 BATTLE OF THE BULGE Saturday, 10am-12pm (Mandarin), 2.30pm-4.30pm (English), The Rock auditorium (#O3-063/065 Suntec City Mall) Free Looking to lose some weight? Doctors and health professionals give advice on how to prepare healthy meals and exercise effectively.
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      • Article, Illustration
        86 22 [ETZAINTES] Wednesday, 7pm, GV Grand, Great World City Tickets at $6.50 from Roxy Records (Funan the IT Mall, #O3-36), Rastafari (Far East Plaza, #O2-70; Marina Square, #O3-117A/B), Excalibur Olde Englyshe Pub (Tanglin Shopping Centre, #Bl-06) Independent filmmakers Tzang Merwyn Tong, Lee Amizadai and Rizal Rahman wanted to see how
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 475 22 Yourdailyhoroseope jP AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20-FEB 18 There’s something familiar about your current exalted state. The Gemini moon brings you here on a regular basis. If you don’t already have it, love could become part of the picture at any moment. PISCES FEB
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  • Sports
    • 654 24  -  The changes FAS to separate the roles of national coach and Goal 2010 technical director. Jan Poulsen asked to focus on Goal 2010, but declined and resigned. He will serve six months notice. P N Sivaji
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    • Article, Illustration
      642 25  -  New director for sports management to make NSAs more professional rr By Lim Han Ming BEWARE, National Sports Associations. Step out of line and you will find the threatening shadow of Toh Kian Lam (above) hovering over you. Toh, who took over as the new director for
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    • SOCCER
      • 122 25 Reuters LEEDS Leeds United said it has agreed a transfer fee for the sale of England midfielder Lee Bowyer to Premier League rival West Ham United. In a statement on its official website yesterday, Leeds said Bowyer was due to hold contract talks with West Ham,
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      • 102 25 Wire services LONDON Roy Keane and Fabien Barthez could be ruled out of Manchester United’s League Cup semifinal first leg tie against Blackburn Rovers tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) at Old Trafford. Captain Keane, only recently back in action after four months out following hip surgery, was
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      • 117 25 Reuters MADRID A Real Madrid side in ruthless attacking form crushed 10-man Valencia 4-1 at the Bernabeu on Sunday to claim its fifth successive Spanish league win and close to within three points of leader Real Sociedad. Ronaldo got the opening goal in the 36th minute before defending
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    • 680 26  -  B y Lira Han Ming SINGAPORE’S basketball women players have hardly achieved anything to make them stand out. Often, they end up as doormats for regional teams to wipe their feet on. But the gloomy picture is about
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    • 377 26 AFP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP San Antonio 94 LA Clippers 86 LOS ANGELES Tony Parker and Emanuel Ginobili added a foreign flavour to the woes of the Los Angeles Clippers. Parker, a second-year point guard from France, scored 11 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter and
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    • 603 27 Robson feels some players not pulling their weight Wire services A FURIOUS Bobby Robson accused his Newcastle players of complacency and admitted the 2-3 FA Cup defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers had left him “sickened”. He said: “I think we completely wasted 45 minutes of football in the
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 35 25 IN THE LIVING ROOM SOCCER: Worthington Cup semi-final: Man United v Blackburn Rovers (Super Sports Ch 22, tomorrow, 4am). DELAYED TELECAST RALLYING: Rally Racing Telefonica Dakar 2003: Day 6 highlights (Star Sports Ch 24, Bpm).
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