Streats, 10 February 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.coni.sg mita (ps 240/03/2002
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  • 745 1  -  lien Beng Thong was a pioneer in SAF and in property giant’s China foray Choong Ckoon Yee ONE of Singapore’s pioneering executives in China, Capita Land China general manager Lien Beng Thong, collapsed and died while jogging in Bishan Park last week. Mr Lien,
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    • 44 1 ij k Breathtaking view from your home? Nothing can stop you from losing it, reports DEEPA VMYASINGAM ii ST Automotive Repair looking at franchising small workshops, reports CHUA KONG HO I ill liß mm Why must solving the taxi problem involve even more money?
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  • Morning Rush
    • 552 2  -  Motor repair chain may farm out successful tenders to franchisees By Chua Kong Ho A LEADING motor repair workshop chain is planning to rope in small workshops under a franchise system to expand its business. ST Automotive Repair (Star), an ISO-certified workshop chain that operates
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    • 665 3  -  Banks still hiring tellers but mainly on contract basis to cover peak periods By Choong Choon Yee BANKS, now leaner after waves of retrenchments and mergers, are hiring more part-timers for positions such as bank tellers during the busy months. One reason is that some customers still
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    • 864 4  -  New high-rise projects are wiping out once-stunning vistas for homeowners Reports by t Deepa Vijiyasingam FOR five years, one of Mrs SL Tan’s delights in living in a 22nd-storey unit at The Bayshore was the sweeping view of the east coast shoreline. But that scenery,
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    • 235 4 THERE are some things you can look out for to make a more informed decision when buying property if you are particular about the view. First, alarm bells should ring if there are plots of vacant land nearby. To help you predict the kinds
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    • 142 6 BUZZ STOP THE baby bonus isn’t enough. What is really needed to spur Singapore’s dismal birthrate is free medical care for mother and child. This is what 70 per cent of those who took part in an Internet poll of 317 people
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    • Article, Illustration
      39 6 A protester dressed as Uncle Sam was among 100,000 Indonesians who yesterday protested against a US-led attack on Iraq. Philippine and Malaysian authorities have pulled embassy staff out of Baghdad in anticipation of an attack AP 1
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    • 149 6 HDB home loans SOME 2,000 Housing Board flat owners have applied for an estimated total of $3OO million in home loans from DBS Bank, Hong Leong Finance and Maybank in a month. Other banks, such aS'OCBC, United Overseas Bank and ABN Amro, declined to give
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    • 137 6 Bio-terror threat THE Health Ministry has sent out a circular to about 6,000 doctors here to put them on alert for a biological agent that can kill within two days. Ricin, a plant toxin, shows flu-like symptoms and breathing difficulties within hours of someone swallowing
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    • 135 6 Aceh peace deal -AP THE peace process in Indonesia’s Aceh province took a step forward yesterday when rebels said that they have begun laying down their arms. This raises hopes that talks by Swiss-based mediators could end the 27-year separatist war here that has killed more
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    • 99 6 MALAYSIAN Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said yesterday that Malaysia would continue to patrol the waters off Pedra Branca, and that it had the right to place “assets” there from time to time. This was despite the special agreement signed between Singapore and Malaysia last
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    • 87 6 -AP ISRAEL has offered the Palestinians a gradual ceasefire, a senior government official said yesterday, while suggesting that efforts to remove Mr Yasser Arafat as Palestinian leader will intensify after the US-Iraq conflict is resolved. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon offered the limited truce in secret talks last
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    • 88 6 -AFP THE Thai Cabinet shake-up will not affect economic policy, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday. Mr Somkid Jatusriptak was one of five ministers who was redesignated, moving from the role of finance minister to that of deputy premier overseeing the economy, with his deputy
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    • 87 6 FIVE campers were attacked by a swarm of bees yesterday morning on the beach at Sembawang Park. The Straits Times reports today that one of them, Mr Ahmad Shairul, 17, suffered more than 100 stings. The youth was there with his two younger brothers and two friends.
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  • Financial
    • 462 8  -  Finding tenants difficult during economic downturn, say analysts Janice Wong INVESTORS had last year flocked to Singapore’s first Reits Capita Land’s retail Capita Mall Trust (CMT) and Ascendas’ industrial A-Reit such that demand for both issues were oversubscribed five times. The obvious investor interest was
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    • 360 8 AFP PARIS The legal woes of Mr Jean-Claude Trichet, who has long been tipped to be the next European Central Bank president, may force the French government to search for another candidate. Mr Trichet, currently Bank of France governor, is accused of overlooking falsified financial
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    • 102 8 AFP SINGAPORE -Asian companies are willing to spend more on information technology (IT) this year despite economic challenges, global political risks and reduced confidence in the industry, according to a research firm. The International Data Corp (IDC) cited results of a recent survey showing
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    • 97 8 Reuters HONGKONG PCCW Ltd yesterday declined comment on a report that it was in talks to buy Japan Telecom Holdings. Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper quoted unidentified sources connected with Japan Telecom on Saturday as saying that PCCW had “surfaced as a strong candidate” in talks to
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    • 57 8 Reuters FRANKFURT Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker is bidding to buy German sports TV channel DSF from insolvent media rights firm KirchMedia, a German magazine said yesterday. Mr Becker part of a consortium including media rights firm EM.TV and retailer KarstadtQuelle has offered 24 million
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    • 481 11 Microsoft faces tough anti-trust case in Europe The Washington Post PARIS Mr Mario Monti has already brought down one corporate giant. Now he has his sights set on another Microsoft boss Bill Gates. The silver-haired Italian economist is the competition commissioner for the European
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    • 482 13 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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    • 24 13 *AS AT FEBRUARY 7 US$: 551.744 552.838 EURO: 551.879 Ss: 68.92 YEN Ss: RM2.179 Ss: HK54.472 Ss: 24.60 BAHT Ss: 5,086 RUPIAH
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    • 612 13 Buying paintings by unknown artists was money manager’s mission Bloomberg NEW YORK Mr Roy Neuberger, 99, paid US$BOO in 1950 for a canvas a struggling artist had splattered with paint. The artist was Jackson Pollock. The I.Bm by 0.9 m painting, Number 8, 1949, is
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  • Medical
    • 355 14 Reuters LONDON Scientists have their eyes wide shut over melatonin, the jet lag medication. They know that it works to relieve the effects on the body of moving too swiftly across time zones. They just don’t know how. But it is used so widely that they are
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    • 75 14 HEALTH FACT THE spleen is a gland located on the left side of the body below and under the stomach. It is part of a system concerned with defence against infections and the removal of worn-out blood cells from the bloodstream. It also
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    • 454 15 3fe Q Of TO Queen Margaret University College HEAR IT FIRST-HAND FROM OUR GUEST SPEAKER, PROFESSOR DAVID KIRK, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL STRATEGY, QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (QMUC) 96% Get Jobs within 6 months! 9th out of 111 Universities for Graduate Destinations! Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, an associate member of
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  • Vocal
    • 199 16 IT comes as a surprise that a local school project growing aquaponic lettuce is supported by a foreign enterprise, Carrefour, and not by one of our local supermarkets. Your report “Carrefour buys school’s lettuce” (Streats, Feb 7) mentioned that this project helped to develop the students’ entrepreneurial
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    • 57 16 IN “A road will run through it” (Streats, Feb 5), the last paragraph of the article read: “The Land Transport Authority said that the shopkeepers, being there on a Temporary Occupation Licence, were not entitled to any compensation.” The Land Transport Authority has clarified that the quote should be
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    • 269 16 I TURNED 40 last year, a year ahead of Ms Magdalene Phang, who wrote about her significant event in “Give an auntie a bad name and hang her” (Streats, Feb 6). On my birthday on June 21 last year, while waiting at
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    • 164 16 I REFER to the on-going debate about whether a Junior College Year 1 (JCI) student is better or worse off by staying back for one year. Some parents may be under extra financial strain if thenchildren have to repeat JCI, particularly in the current economic
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    • 311 16 WE refer to the letter “Why am I an outsider?” (Streats, Jan 29), by Mr Steven Tan PH, with regard to the issue of attendance at meetings of listed companies by CPF share investors. Agent banks facilitate the return of funds to members’
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    • 169 16 mm mi E-mail us at 3tl*©atS@Sptl.e®fll..S|£ 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 us, it shall be deemed
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  • Comment
    • 861 18  -  By CONRAD RAJ WHY is it that almost every time government bodies or regulators are asked to deal with a problem, the solution proposed frequently appears to involve money? Take, for instance, the numerous calls over the years for better taxi service. The
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  • Global
    • 272 19 LONDON Secret talks between Beijing and the Dalai Lama will resume next month amid growing signs that Tibet’s spiritual leader is preparing to cut a deal allowing him to return to Tibet after almost half a century in exile. Several of his envoys
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    • 506 19 Govts prepare contingency plans as war fear grows -AP NEW DELHI In late 1990, as the Gulf war crept close, one of the largest airlifts in history was launched, with hundreds of thousands of Asians then working in the Middle East ferried to safety. Nearly
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    • 129 19 LONDON US President George Bush and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein have one thing in common: Both wear the same brand of handmade Italian shoes. The two leaders have placed orders for three similar designs with Italian shoemakers Vito Artioli, reported Asian News International, quoting
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  • Easy Streats
    • Article, Illustration
      586 20 lwy>j Ptm^mWmktei .mi num- M TOP Spanish flamenco dancer Maria Pages will perform in Singapore for the first time next weekend, and she is looking forward to the new experience. Said the Seville-born dancer in strongly-accented English during a phone interview with Streats: “Every culture has a different
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    • Article, Illustration
      417 21  -  Streats Sampler By. JANICE WONG MENTION Killiney Road and melt-in-the-mouth kaya toast comes to mind. But the street is also home to Rialto Italian Restaurant. Tucked at the comer of Killiney and Lloyd roads and headed by chef Charlie Chan, the former executive chef of Europa Holdings, it
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    • 107 23 I RESIDENTS evacuated from Stromboli after a 10m tidal wave hit it on Dec 30, have returned over the weekend to an island transformed by whizzbang hardware into a seismic listening post. The island off Sicily now has sensors in the sea and near the crater
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 43 23 9pm., HBO (SCV 60) Days after returning disappointed because of a fruitless fishing trip, Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney) decides to take his boat out one last time before the season ends, only to be caught in a terrifying storm.
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      • 63 23 7pm, Channel U Mei Juan promises to give her inheritance to Cheng Ming if he sues Lu Jiu for killing Cheng Sheng and Cheng Feng. An Qiao thinks that Cheng Ming is money-minded and breaks up with him again. Lu Jiu asks Zhi Xuan to accompany him
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    • Happenin’
      • 76 23 A CHASE TO SUNSET Feb 16,12.30pm-9pm Meeting point at Tampines North CC s4ofor SDS, SDU and PAYM members, $5O for non members This cruise is for singles aged 20 to 40 and is held in conjunction with Romancing Singapore 2003. It includes fun, games and a buffet dinner. Register
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      • Article, Illustration
        53 23 KING LEAR Tonight, 7.30 pm Concert Hall, Esplanade Tickets at $56, $46, $36 and s26from Sistic In this adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, Taiwanese actor and director Wu Hsing-Kuo presents a solo performance that combines the hallmarks of qingju tradition and various elements of Chinese theatre with a story
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    • 69 20 Streats is proud to be the presenting sponsor of Flamenco Republico Venue: Esplanade Theatres on the Bay When: Feb 22 and 23 at Bpm Tickets: $35, $45, $55, $7O and $B5 from Sistic (hotline: 6348-5555; website: www.sistic.com.sg) Special for Streats readers Look out for the special coupon in advertisements running
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    • 137 22 7 00, S* *<!> %>, Cn >ly, XT/ 'CW <$ Streats proudly presents t r f«8 X «1C 2 NIGHTS ONLY 22 23 Feb, Bpm, Theatre, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay Choreographed by multi-award winning Maria Pages, Flamenco Repubiico is a dazzling dance show. Contrasting emotions replace the conventional narrative.
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    • 55 23 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191 ft Li anhe Zaobao Weired •art works" For Subscription, call 6388 3838 Zoe Tay’s expecting quadruplets Relax, it’s for her new serial, Baby Boom But in real life, how? Hotline: isoo-7 33 44
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 445 23 Yourdailyhoroscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Delicious personal distractions make it hard to keep your mind on the job. Who is this celestial being who has suddenly invaded your space? You pursue a burning question with characteristic vigour. FEB 19-MAR2O Everyone needs time to recharge, even you. Reschedule appointments, If others
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  • Sports
    • 683 24  -  Family of four shares a common passion sailing By. Adam Hashidy MOST parents use dinner time to catch up on their children’s studies. Not the Chan family. “That’s so boring”, said Diana, a 43-year-old accountant who makes up a quarter of the Chan sailing family. Her husband,
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    • 384 24 -AP AUCKLAND New Zealand will announce today which of its two black boats will race in its America’s Cup match against Switzerland’s Alinghi, starting on Saturday. Skipper Dean Barker’s preference during training for NZL-82, the latter of the two boats, suggests New Zealand
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    • 526 25  -  By TAN KIM HAN WHEN the S-League witnessed a spate of high-scoring matches last year, Streats asked the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) if it suspected any wrongdoing. The FAS assured that the S-League was clean. It said it did not see any hanky-panky over
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    • 326 25 Reuters ATLANTA Golden State Warriors’ guard Jason Richardson (above) earned another NBA All-Star award by successfully defending his Slam Dunk title with a rim-rattling, between the legs throw-down on Saturday. Richardson’s gravity-defying dunk brought the near-sellout crowd at Philips Arena to its feet and a
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    • 516 26  -  Manchester United’s winning streak comes to a halt at home By Lim Han Ming ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Man United 1 Man City 1 YOU can trust someone with the name Shaun Goater to do well in the Year of the Goat. The Manchester City substitute snatched
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    • 123 26 -AFP BIRMINGHAM Manager Claudio Ranieri hailed Carlo Cudicini as the hero of a 3-1 win over Birmingham that has given Chelsea’s Champions League ambitions a major boost. Ranieri, who last week urged the Italian goalkeeper to opt to play for England, was left in awe
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    • 261 26 Birmingham 1 (Savage 87 pen) Cheisea 3 (Zola 44, Gudjohnsen 49, Hasselbaink 69-pen) k Blackburn 1 (Thompson 26) Southampton 0 Chariton 2 (Kishishev 19, Lisbie 83) Everton 1 (Mcßride 69) L Fulham 2 (Malbranque 14-pen, Harley 36) Aston Villa 1 (Barry 3) Leeds 1 (Johnson 20) West Ham
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    • 663 27 England manager wants friendlies to be held after domestic season Wire services LONDON England manager Sven Goran Eriksson has proposed to stop all international matches during the domestic season to solve the “impossible” situation of club-versus-country rows around friendlies. Eriksson believes all internationals, whether competitive games or
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    • SOCCER
      • 80 27 Reuters MADRID Real Madrid’s big guns produced an impressive display to come from a goal behind and earn an emphatic 4-1 home win over Real Betis as it claimed its first win in four league matches on Saturday. Goals from Raul, Luis Figo, Ronaldo and a
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      • 91 27 Wire services LIVERPOOL Steven Gerrard sought police protection after receiving a string of death threats, according to The Sunday Miror. The 22-year-old midfielder was so terrified that he hired round-the-clock minders when the threats began, more than two years ago. According to the paper, he had
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