Streats, 8 April 2003

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  • 9 1 Streats TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p>
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  • Article, Illustration
    754 1  -  Sars hospital executive shunned at NTUC Denticare clinic By Khushwant Singh A DENTAL surgeon at the NTUC Denticare clinic in Choa Chu Kang Road refused to attend to a Tan Tock Seng Hospital executive, causing the stunned woman to burst into tears. She had gone there on Friday
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    • 100 1 GULF WAR II r mm i% k I IN THE HEART OF BAGHDAD In a bold daylight assault yesterday more than 100 American tanks and armoured vehicles rolled right into the heart of Baghdad. Meeting light resistance, the soldiers had time to enter Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s main palace and
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  • SARS UPDATE
    • 560 2  -  Companies plan for worst-case scenarios by Julie Sim THE chilling thought of one worker with Sars bringing the entire operation of a business to a standstill has pushed many firms to separate their key staff in different buildings or sections of a building. DBS
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    • 512 3 Diseases spread at the speed of international business, but can we treat them just as fast? AP BEIJING Before: Man catches cold in hometown. Spreads it to a few neighbours. Goes home, perhaps infects his wife and children. Climbs into bed until he’s well. Now: Man catches
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    • 368 4 Quarantine still being violated despite hefty fines WEBCAMS, which are Internetlinked cameras, may be installed in the homes of those quarantined for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) to monitor their movements. This comes amid reports that eight people, including a woman who was warded at
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    • 522 4  -  Reports by Zubaidah Nazeer FORTY-FOUR Singaporeans, mostly teachers, are so disappointed by the recent public discrimination against nurses and other staff" from Tan Tock Seng Hospital that they will place a newspaper advertisement to commend the medical workers for their
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    • 42 2 Qfmnfc HOTLINE 1800 844 5566 FAX 6319 8191 E-MAIL streats@sph.com.sg ullv3lS ADDRESS News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Block, Level 1 5(*****4) circulation Customer Service 6388 3838 marketing Nalini@sph.com.sg, Juanita: 6319 2072, Adeline: 6319 1627 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CatS@Sph.COm.Sg RECRUITMENT ADVERTISEMENTS reCmit@Sph.COm.Sg
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  • GULF WAR II
    • BATTLE CENTRAL
      • 750 6 Bold allied raid strikes blow to Iraqi symbols of power Wire services BAGHDAD “Saddam Hussein says he owns Baghdad. We own Baghdad. We own his palaces; we own downtown,” summed up a US army officer of the brigade that seized the Iraqi president’s main
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    • EXECUTIONER’S DEATH
      • 717 8 Saddam’s first cousin said to have been killed in Saturday attack on Basra -AP BASRA The man dubbed “Chemical Ali” by opponents of the Iraqi regime for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds, has been found dead, a British officer said yesterday.
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      • 152 8 LONDON Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, along with his two sons, fled Baghdad three days ago for his home town of Tikrit, 175 km to the north, media reports said. Mr Haitham Rashid Wihaib, Saddam’s former chief of protocol told the UK’s Daily Mail: “I have been
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      • 124 8 -AP BAGHDAD After bombing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s new presidential palace yesterday, the US army swept in and took inventory. Soldiers searched the vast complex by the river and marvelled at what they saw. The palace was built recently near Mr Saddam’s Baath Party headquarters. Now
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      • 116 8 -AFP BAGHDAD US Marines driving on towards Baghdad shed their chemical protection suits for the first time yesterday after being told the threat of a chemical or biological attack was no longer considered serious. “It’s great to have them off,” Lieutenant-Colonel Fred Padilla, commander of the Ist
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    • BACK TO BASICS
      • 320 10 LONDON The US is aiming to have Iraqi school textbooks rewritten, according to a British newspaper report. The Times of London said yesterday that the US government’s development arm has offered for tender a contract to help children return to education when the new school year begins
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      • 216 10 NEW YORK So far, humour some of it in poor taste has not become a casualty of the US war on Iraq. The Americans seem to be leading the way, especially their late-night talk show hosts, the Sunday Times of London reported. Mr Jay Leno, host
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    • MEDIA & MARKET
      • Article, Illustration
        43 13 Female fighters of the leftist Kurdish group Kadek lining up at their base in the mountains of northern Iraq on Sunday. Kadek, once known as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, fought a 16-year battle for autonomy in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish south-east Reuters
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      • 426 13 Iraq revokes order that booted out the Arab news network BAGHDAD Called the CNN of the Arab world, the Arabic A 1 Jazeera news network, like its American counterpart, has been thrown out of places many times for annoying officials. Although Iraqi President Saddam
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      • 396 13 STOCKS and the US dollar surged yesterday on expectations that the 20-day war against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq was coming to an end. But investors dumped safe-haven investments like gold and bonds as they moved money into stocks. Spot gold was trading
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    • 345 10 hmmm mm ■H rw.: m aa PruLink Super Account II A plan for those who plan to live happily ever after There is a popular notion that the CPF fund is a plan for the future. But what happens when the bulk of it is consumed by housing expenditure or
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  • Morning Rush
    • 677 14  -  No girlies in latest ABC stout ads Sarah Ng FORGET macho men sweating it out in a boxing ring or sexy girls prancing about in skimpy bikinis in the next ABC Extra Stout advertising blitz. Instead, the new poster personalities are four men who
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    • 128 16 BUZZSTOP AS part of a learning process which some adults claim has made their children more adventurous, toddlers and their parents at two education centres go to wet markets, walk in the drains to learn balance and greet each other in Tagalog, Arabic
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    • Article, Illustration
      58 16 Ya Ya, a two-year-old female panda, having her cage secured after being loaded onto the FedEx Panda Express MD-11 jet on the tarmac of Beijing's Capital Airport yesterday. The panda is on its way to Memphis for a 10-year stay at Memphis Zoo. Another panda, four-year-old Le Le,
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    • 139 16 Arrest of Indian workers in Msia Wire services MALAYSIAN national police chief said that six officers held responsible for the mistreatment and wrongful arrest of 165 Indian migrant workers, most of whom had valid immigration documents, during a raid on March 9 will be penalised.
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    • 128 16 New man for education group THE Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s executive director for 23 years, Mr George Abraham, will be moving on to the Stansfield educational group as its chief executive officer. Mr Abraham, 55, will also head its new Centre for
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    • 147 16 PM Goh in India PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong arrived in the Indian capital New Delhi yesterday on a two-day official visit. Accompanying Mr Goh on his visit are Foreign Affairs Minister S Jayakumar and Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo and a business delegation
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    • 95 16 ONLY 1,991 out of the 10,000 people who were given three extra months to qualify for Economic Restructuring Shares deposited the minimum $5O into their Central Provident Fund accounts by the March 31 deadline. Some will get their shares only because grassroots leaders put the money
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    • 94 16 Reuters A BRITISH army officer was found guilty yesterday of a swindle to win the jackpot on the hit TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Major Charles Ingram, 39, his wife, 38, and lecturer Tec wen Whittock, 53, tried to win the £1 million (552.75 million)
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    • 83 16 Wire services JAPAN is pressuring China to use its close ties with North Korea to help resolve a simmering crisis over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons ambitions. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, on a three-day visit to Beijing, called for China’s “cooperation and active participation”. A Japanese government
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    • 100 16 FORMER US First Lady Hillary Clinton’s failure to turn in a completed manuscript for her book, due out in August, has left executives at publishing powerhouse Simon and Schuster dismayed. The US senator has already received a US$2.B5 million (Sss million) cash advance on her memoirs, from
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  • Financial
    • 818 18  -  Filial son Gary Chua stops to smell the roses and is now poised to reclaim a place in the hearts of Singaporeans with his father’s old Rose Syrup brand ft* By Janice Wong SENTIMENTALITY and love were the unlikely feelings that brought out the hard-nosed
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  • Vocal
    • 203 20 I REFER to Mr Nawal Jaggi’s letter, “Comedy of errors not funny” (Streats, March 31), about his utility account. We sincerely apologise for the errors. SP Services is the billing agent for City Gas, which installed the free gas heater. It was SP Services which
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    • 376 20 IN his commentary, “Do not stamp out the first flickers of creativity” (Streats, April 7), Mr Conrad Raj highlights the frustrations people feel when doing things outside the norm. I was particularly interested to read his comments on the refusal of the authorities to allow
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    • 304 20 I REFER to Mr Yuen Ka Wei’s letter, “Gaps in Esplanade security check” (Streats, April 3). I thank Mr Yuen for alerting the usher and supervisor about a patron eating french fries inside the theatre on March 21. Our staff immediately stopped the
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    • 86 20 If HAVE YOUR 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 us, it shall
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  • Medical
    • 263 21 -AFP PARIS Textured insoles in sports shoes could prevent many ankle injuries, according to Australian research published in the latest issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Physiotherapists at the Canberra Hospital designed knobbly rubber insoles to fit the boots of 17 players from
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    • 158 21 QDoes high astigmatism lead to blindness? How do I prevent astigmatism? A Astigmatism becomes dangerous when it goes undetected and uncorrected in a young child. As the young child’s eye is still developing, the constant blur caused by astigmatism will result in lazy eye (amblyopia). It is a
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  • Easy Streats
    • Article, Illustration
      753 22  -  While TV channels are rushing to broadcast all their Leslie Cheung material, are they really showing the best of him? Less haste and more thought should go into *Ĕk packaging a retrospective of the singer-actors work m Tellytubby By YVONNE KWOK I’VE never thought of myself as
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    • 645 23 Is Oliver! the musical, now showing at the Esplanade, just another Cameron Mackintosh spectacle? Maybe, says, j GREGORYLEOW, but so what? 1 CAMERON Mackintosh musicals have taken over the world. Along with Andrew Lloyd Webber, the twin towers of success of the British musical are reaping the
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    • 110 24 ASTRONOMERS in Europe, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have discovered a planet so close to its sun that it is evaporating off into space. The star it orbits is 150 light years away from us in the constellation of Pegasus, the team told Nature magazine. I
      PicAshleigh Sim  -  110 words
    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 36 24 9pm, Channel U Aobai reprimands Kangxi for not concentrating on practising his martial arts skills. He demonstrates the Xuedizi skill, which is so powerful that Kangxi and Jianning are petrified.
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      • 51 24 10pm, Channel i When a college senior joins a secret fraternity to better his chances of getting into Harvard Law School, he doesn’t realise that he has entered a potentially life-threatening situation. Joshua Jackson stars as Luke McNamara, the unfortunate student who unknowingly stumbles into the dangerous underground
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    • Happenin’
      • 55 24 THE BA GRADED SHOW 2003 Till April 21; 10am-spm on weekdays, lOam-lpm on Saturday The Art Gallery, National Institute of Education Free How talented are tomorrow’s art educators? Find out at this exhibition where the graduating class in the National Institute of Education’s Bachelor of Arts with Diploma in
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      • Article, Illustration
        61 24 POPCORN Till Thursday, Bpm DBS Arts Centre i (20, Merhau Road, Robertson Quay) Tickets at $2B from Sistic When Bruce Delamitri a director known for his violent movies wins an Oscar, he and his family are held hostage by two killers who demand that hetakes responsibility for his films
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    • 81 24 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191 People used to throw away our bags because they felt so ashamed to shop here 5 Now, This Fashion is a retail giant. Its stoiy in... 111 the new paper Hotline: 1800- 733
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 431 24 Yourdailyhoroscope JjP AQUARIUS*" JAN2O-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Your lover’s flaws are especially endearing. Understanding words shouldn’t carry a condescending tone. Passion turns compassionate when you make room for something other than your own appetite. Afternoon finds you easing back into a comfortable situation.
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  • Sports
    • Article, Illustration
      641 25 Zidane, Makelele return to boosy Real Madrid, but United has... J Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINAL Real Madrid v Manchester United MADRID No club has won the European crown on its home ground since Inter Milan lifted the old European Cup at the San Siro in 1965. Real
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    • 135 25 MADRID Real Madrid has identified defenders Rio Ferdinand and Wes Brown as the weak links. Paco Jiminez, the club official Real sent to spy on United’s clash with Liverpool on Saturday, was full of praise for David Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy. But Jiminez poked
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    • 655 26 Raikkonen cautious about world championship prospects Wire services SAO PAULO McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen (above) refused to get carried away by talk of winning the world championship this year following his victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix here on Sunday. The rain-hit race was littered with crashes
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    • 312 29  -  By_ Lim Han Ming SPORTSMAN of the Year Remy Ong will have to wait longer to land his first world bowling title. Ong, a triple gold medallist at the Busan Asian Games last year, lost to Australian hotshot Andrew Frawley 400-442 in the semi-finals
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    • 394 29  -  Sembawang star Nakamura’s taste in food influenced at home and at work By Tan Kim Han HAVING Thai tomyam soup and Japanese sushi may not be everyone’s cup of tea. But Akihiro Nakamura loves them. The Japanese midfielder at Sembawang Rangers cultivated a taste for the spicy soup
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    • 76 29 SWIMMING AFP INDIANAPOLIS American Michael Phelps improved his own 400 m individual medley world record in the USA v Australia Duel in the Pool. The 17-year-old from Baltimore finished in 4min 10.735ec on Sunday, improving on the mark of 4:11.09 he set last year at the US
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    • 100 29 BASKETBALL Reuters BOSTON Michael Jordan scored 25 points and provided plenty of defence to lead the Washington Wizards to a muchneeded 99-98 overtime win over the Boston Celtics in National Basketball Association action on Sunday. “There’s something about this green,” Jordan said referring to the coloured court
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    • 95 29 GOLF AFP AUGUSTA, Georgia Tiger Woods, whose golf mastery has made the unthinkable commonplace, goes for another piece of history in the sport this week by shooting for an unprecedented third consecutive Masters title. The 27-year-old American would become the first man since 1956, and only the
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    • 580 31  -  As soccer’s Goal 2010 veers off course, Singapore has what it takes to be successful in golf Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT The Straits Times IF you have ever wondered why soccer’s Goal 2010 has veered offcourse, test this out. Ask every Football Association of
      The Straits Times  -  580 words


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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 57 29 IN THE LIVING ROOM SOCCER: Football Focus (ESPN Ch 23, 8.30 pm). Champions League q-finals, Ist leg: Ajax v AC Milan (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 2.30 am. Repeat: 5.30 pm), Real Madrid v Manchester United (Star Sports Ch 24 and Chs, tomorrow, 2.30 am). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: EPL: Fulham v
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