Streats, 2 May 2003

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  • Morning Rush
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      Lock icon Meat-eating plants taking over home
      709 2  -  Student thrives as carnivorous plant supplier By Gary Lim IF there was ever a place that bugs should avoid, this is it. Call it Pasir Panjang’s little house of horrors, after the musical comedy about a man-eating plant, Little Shop of Horrors. It is also
      Pics: Jonathan Wee  -  709 words
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      Lock icon Retailers calling up new profit strategy
      515 3  -  Shops launch phone-delivery service to boost takings in depressed times Choong Choon Yee HOUSEHOLD retail giant Courts has started a phone link with customers to keep its business humming, even as people stay away from crowded places because of Sars. The retail chain reckons
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      Lock icon Unions praised for acting quickly to save jobs
      131 10 BUZZSTOP NTUC secretary-general Lim Boon Heng yesterday said that trade unions have reacted swiftly to the Sars crisis by acting to save jobs without waiting for official direction from the National Trades Union Congress. The Straits Times reports today that Mr Lim
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      Lock icon BOARDED LOOK
      73 10 She’s not one of those on the US list of wanted Iraqis listed in order of notoriety based on a deck of playing cards. It’s supermodel Iman, the wife of rock star David Bowie, who is the face of South African diamond mining giant De Beers. On Wednesday,
      AP  -  73 words
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      Lock icon Malay Village law firms stay put
      133 10 Good walk-in business THREE law firms that have offices in the Malay Village in Geylang Serai intend to stay put, The Straits Times reports today. Although they can find cheaper offices elsewhere, two of the law firms said they have renewed their two-year leases
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    • Article
      Lock icon $100k grant for director’s son
      143 10 SGX queries HTL A $104,168 scholarship to do a leather technology degree in Britain was awarded to a director’s son by a subsidiary of mainboard-listed sofa maker and leather tanner HTL International Holdings, reports The Straits Times today. The news was revealed on Tuesday, after
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      Lock icon Stadium Cove market reopens
      136 10 Theme: Pets day out THE Stadium Cove lifestyle market is re-opening this weekend after being closed for four weeks. The Straits Times reports today that the theme will be “pets’ day out” with competitions, races and a fashion show for pooches. According to d 2 R
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      Lock icon Haze: KL firm pays $1.8m
      108 10 AFP A MALAYSIAN-OWNED plantation company, PT Adei Plantation, whose director was ordered jailed for causing smoke haze on Sumatra island, has agreed to pay more than US$l million (551.77 million) in compensation, Mr Nixon Silalahi, an environment ministry official said yesterday. He said the government
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      Lock icon ‘Couple-busters’ are hot
      96 10 AFP “COUPLE-BUSTERS”, who specialise in wrecking relationships, are in hot demand in Japan, even at a cost of two million yen (5529,900). They are retained by clients mostly women who wish to wreck the illicit happiness of their straying ex-loved one. “Operatives” start a relationship with the
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      Lock icon US’ M-E roadmap
      106 10 Reuters INTERNATIONAL mediators launched a US-led Middle East peace initiative on Wednesday, undeterred by a suicide bombing that killed three Israelis in a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. US President George W Bush directed the release of the road map, which calls for a Palestinian state by 2005,
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      Lock icon Forest fires hit China
      87 10 -AFP MORE than 12,000 firefighters were yesterday battling to bring under control a number of fierce forest fires in China that have so far razed 60 homes. The fires, fuelled by strong winds, were raging in north-east China’s Heilongjiang province and Yunnan province in the south-west,
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  • SARS UPDATE
    • DPM Lee’s May Day Rally speech focuses on fighting virus’ effects
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        514 4  -  Reports by Cnoong Ch oon Yee DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has hinted at a ministerial pay cut to show that the Government is willing to take “bitter medicine” together with companies and employees hit by the Sars outbreak. Speaking at the
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        Lock icon NO ROOM FOR RUMOURS
        287 4 DO not believe rumours such as “Indians are immune to Sars”. They are not. Or that smoking and drinking prevent the virus from infecting you. And do not spread such false information, too, because you could be fined up to $lO,OOO and jailed for up to
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        Lock icon Prescribing the best medicine
        273 4 SARS ENTREPRENEURS PRAISED FOUR young Singaporeans featured in Streats were singled out for mention by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. While tourism and travelrelated businesses are hit by Sars, some companies are doing well even in these difficult times, said Mr Lee during yesterday’s
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      Lock icon Sars test kit out soon
      425 6 GIS has developed one and is now testing it ■AFP SINGAPORE’S battle against the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or Sars, was injected with two doses of good news yesterday. First, there were no new probable cases, said the Health Ministry in a statement last night.
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE SITUATION
      32 6 TREATED AND DISCHARGED 143 IN HOSPITAL 38 (IN CRITICAL CONDITION 15) DEAD 24+1* (PENDING POST-MORTEM) TOTAL NO OF CASES 201 INDEX CASES 7 SUSPECT CASES 83 UNDER HOME QUARANTINE 3,078
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      Lock icon Help the tourism sector: Take a discounted S’pore tour
      299 6  -  By Janice Wong DO you know the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd at Queen Street is Singapore’s oldest Catholic Church? Or that the Night Safari is home to 1,200 nocturnal animals. Now is a good time to find out such juicy
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      Lock icon Laid off pilots wanted
      90 6 AFP BOMBAY Air-India (AI) is planning to recruit pilots laid off by foreign airlines, including Singapore Airlines, in an attempt to get flight operations running normally and break a strike by its own pilots over Sars. “We are shortly putting out an advertisement to this effect,”
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      Lock icon India ‘Sars free'
      81 6 Reuters NEW DELHI The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that India had no cases of Sars fitting its definition of the virus. “India has no cases that fit the Sars definition,” Dr SJ Habayeb, the WHO representative to India, told reporters. But the Indian government said
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      Lock icon Quarantine cancelled
      81 6 Reuters SHANGHAI The city has cancelled a harsh quarantine order it had imposed on several districts to protect China’s commercial hub from an outbreak of the deadly Sars virus, an official said yesterday. The order had only recently been put in place but took many, including the World
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      Lock icon Treatment questioned
      133 6 -AP HONGKONG The family of a dead six-year-boy has raised questions about his treatment in a hospital here, amid confusion over whether he had Sars, reports said yesterday. James Lakandri, from Nepal, died on April 24 at Queen Mary Hospital, where he had been classified as a “clinical
      -AP  -  133 words
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      Lock icon 12 patients suffer relapse in Hongkong
      465 8 Concern rises that survivors may carry virus Wire services HONGKONG A dozen people in Hongkong who had recovered from Sars have suffered relapses, medical authorities said yesterday. The illness in some cases has returned more than two weeks after the patients were discharged from
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      Lock icon UNWELCOME MAT
      70 8 Women putting up a sign in the street on Wednesday to block access to their village outside the temporary hospital being built for Sars patients at Xiaotangshan, north of Beijing. The sign reads: \Forbidden to enter: People from outside the village and people from outside the area! Villages
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      Lock icon Beijing’s May Day celebrations muted
      296 8 Wire services BEIJING As millions of Chinese workers celebrated Labour Day cooped up at home, more than 11,000 people were under quarantine in the Chinese capital as it battles the Sars crisis. And it was mayhem on May Day as villagers around China’s capital blocked
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      90 8 Help Needy Sars Patients and Their Families The Courage Fund $6,176,315.24 TO DONATE BY CHEQUE A crossed cheque made out to “The Courage Fund" should be sent to The Courage Fund, c/o National Healthcare Group, 6, Commonwealth Lane, Level 6, GMTI Building, Singapore *****7 BY PHONE From May 1, members
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  • Financial
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      Lock icon Hospital gets makeover
      386 12  -  Ascendas to redevelop Adam Road psychiatric centre into rehab clinic By Chua Kong Ho ADAM Road Hospital, the private 49-bed psychiatric hospital founded by respected psychiatrist Dr Wong Yip Chong, will be redeveloped and modelled after rehabilitation or “wellness” clinics in the US. “There’s a demand for
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      Lock icon Imitation the cheaper form of flattery
      376 12 Bloomberg SHANGHAI Mr Zhang Jiaxian, who sells cars at China Geely Group’s showroom in Shanghai’s Lujiazui business district, says the Chinese carmaker’s newest model has two crucial advantages. “ft looks like a Benz and it drives like a Toyota,” he said of the Merrie
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      Lock icon BIL offer ‘final’
      113 12 Reuters INVESTMENT group BIL International Ltd said yesterday that it controls more than half of Britain’s Thistle Hotels shares, adding that its sweetened offer was now final and would not be increased. “BIL Group now either owns, or has received valid acceptances in respect of, a total
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      Lock icon Southern Cross loan
      121 12 Bloomberg SOUTHERN Cross Cable, an undersea cable business owned by Telecom Corp and Sing Tel, got its banks to extend a US$l5l million (Ss26B million) loan because it has sold less-than-expected capacity. As part of the accord, New Zealand’s Telecom, which owns half of Southern Cross, will
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      Lock icon Rupiah rate cut
      125 12 Bloomberg INDONESIA’S central bank cut its intervention rate for rupiah deposited overnight by 0.25 percentage point to 11 per cent, the lowest in 28 months, helped by slowing inflation. Bank Indonesia expects the rupiah to trade between 8,800 and 9,200 against the US dollar this year. The
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      Lock icon Giordano boss’ paper shakes up Taiwan media
      367 14 AP TAIPEI Mr Jimmy Lai (pictured) looks more like a taxi driver than a media boss shaking up Taiwan’s newspaper business. But don’t be fooled by his faded jeans, suspenders, a blue check shirt with rolled-up sleeves and white Adidas basketball shoes. The
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      Lock icon Aussie brothel makes a rousing debut
      403 14 Shares double as Daily Planet is world’s first listed bordello Reuters MELBOURNE Australian investors plunged enthusiastically into the world’s oldest profession yesterday when a Melbourne company became the globe’s first listed brothel. Shares of the bordello enterprise, which hired Hollywood madam Ms Heidi Fleiss
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      Lock icon Raise the bar for listed firms to stay listed
      525 16  -  Market DIY By R SIYAMTHY The Business Times RARELY has an issue stirred as much controversy in the local market as the subject of quarterly reporting. Those in favour of it believe that more information will enable shareholders and investors to
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  • Comment
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      Lock icon Why so slow, transport firms?
      787 18  -  By LEE HAN SHIH The Business Times THERE is an old joke about what two men and a woman would do if they are stranded on an island. The French would form a threesome, the Spanish men would fight over the woman, the Russians would
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • Global
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      Lock icon USS Cole attack suspect nabbed
      464 21 Two A 1 Qaeda terrorists caught, one who visited M’sia in 2000 Wire services Washington a man who was at an A 1 Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January 2000 that may have planned the Sept 11 attacks has been arrested in Pakistan. Mr Walid
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      Lock icon JUMBO JOY
      50 21 -Yfs Nongnuch Paynguleaom, 25, (centre) smiling with her runners-up after she won the Miss Jumbo Queen Contest 2003 at Thailand's Nakhon Prathom province yesterday. The contest aims to select the contestant who best exhibits the characteristics of an elephant, to promote the elephant conservation cause in Thailand AFP
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      Lock icon Pan Pharma boss takes fall over recall
      411 23 Company had fallen foul of the law before SYDNEY The founder of Pan Pharmaceuticals, Mr Jim Selim (pictured), has given up his executive positions in the company. Mr Selim, who made it to the list of Australia’s 200 richest people last year with
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      Lock icon Seeking: Barbara Bush in the buff
      182 23 PSST, got a video showing US President George Push’s daughter Barbara in the nude? If you do, Hustler magazine creator Larry Flynt wants it, and he’s even offered US$l million (S$ 1.77 million) to someone thought to have it, reported The New York Post
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  • AFTER SADDAM
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      Lock icon Baghdad sees a new Rumsfeld
      626 25 Impressions of arrogance persist as Pentagon boss is seen as ‘insufferable winner’ Wire services BAGHDAD The last time US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld was in the Iraqi capital, he toured palaces, shook hands with deposed president Saddam Hussein and pitched the Ronald Reagan administration
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      Lock icon Iraqi oil workers paid
      146 25 Reuters THOUSANDS of Iraqi oil-sector workers got their long-overdue wages at a bank in Kirkuk after US soldiers drilled into the vaults of the fire-gutted compound. After the wave of looting that plagued the key oil centre when Iraqi troops fled, oil company officials said the
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      Lock icon UK embassy to open
      130 25 AP BRITAIN will establish its first diplomatic presence in Iraq in 12 years when a team of officials travels to Baghdad this weekend, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday. The four-member mission will open an office in Baghdad to prepare for reestablishing an embassy once a
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      Lock icon Antiques seized
      137 25 AP JORDANIAN customs officers searching travellers leaving Iraq have confiscated archaeological items, artworks and other items that may have been stolen from the National Museum in Baghdad. Mr Khalaf A 1 Hazaymeh, deputy director of the customs department, said the objects were found with travellers arriving at the
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      Lock icon It’s a laughing matter
      366 27 War is generally a grim, humourless affair for those on the frontline, but late night TV comedians in the United States found enough going °n in the Iraq war to use as fodder for their shows. Here is a sampling of their patter and the latest
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      Lock icon Tensions rise as troops shoot civilians
      549 28 Grenade attack injures seven American troops Wire services WASHINGTON US attempts to win the hearts of Iraqis after the triumph over dictator Saddam Hussein have been set back by the killing of civilians by US troops. US leaders have insisted that US troops have
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      Lock icon State Dept wins in tug of war
      387 30 Bush likely to appoint Powell man to run Iraq Wire services WASHINGTON The US may have taken control of Iraq but the question of who rules the roost continues. Is it the Pentagon or the State Department? From all accounts, it seems that
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  • my HOME YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO BUYING AND SELLING
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      Lock icon StorHub adds more SPACE
      646 33  - Stor Hub adds more SPACE Boon for mine lovers and others who need to store temperature-sensitive items Choong Choon Yee With cost and convenience in mind, some small businesses are going to StorHub Self Storage to house anything from office documents to electric scooters. Previously, businessmen had to rent warehouse
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      276 45 1 %off any second item OFFER ENDS 11 May 2003 Riverdale Sofa Set was $1,499 Brown Grey Yellow NEW Harvard Computer Desk Amherst Brown Cinnamon was $499 Vineyard w/ Ottoman Available in different fabrics was $1799 FREE! Mission Chair with every Harvard Computer Desk purchased V'j Chelsea Coffee Table Amherst
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      487 46  -  By Janice Wong DESIGNING rooms for children is no child’s play. A child’s taste, lifestyle and physique change more rapidly than an adult’s, thus the decor has to be changeable and economical. Ms Catherine Woo, an interior designer from Classic Ideas Design And Build (Tel: 6274-1511),
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      154 48 TWO property developments have suspended pools to die for. Both the Arris, a 10-storey condominium in Yan Kit Road, and a bungalow at 492 Holland Road, boast of pools thqt will give you the feeling of floating in mid-air. The 63-unit condominium has a 25m-long, 3.2
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      359 50 I REFER to the commentary, “Why not ‘NTUC HQ’?” by Mr Lee Han Shih (Streats, 23 April). The Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF) is proud to be associated with NTUC. As the developer of NTUC’s new home at the New Downtown, the SLF secured 1 Marina
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      138 50 THE current voluntary cleaning up of the wet markets and hawkers centres all over Singapore is one of the effective steps in our battle against Sars. To intensify our concerted effort here, perhaps it will do well for such an exercise to be extended to
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      57 50 MR Chiam Yeow Khong, Head Environmental Health Department of the NEA has called on the public to wash their hands with soap after each toilet visit. However, I have noticed that soap solution dispensers are not provided in the toilet of many coffee shops and
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      118 50 SHOULD Sars become widespread in the community contact tracing will become almost impossibile. I propose that Singaporeans inculcate the habit of keeping a diary to record the places they visit and the people they see to help in such a tracing exercise. The recent Pasir
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      89 50 WITH taxis suffering poor takings these days, perhaps taxi companies could revise the taxi rental charges from the daily fixed rates to a variable charge pegged to a percentage of daily takings just for this period. This option would enable taxi drivers to continue their
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      Lock icon The case of a 366-litre fridge
      147 50 ON March 15, in response to a Courts advertisement in the press, I rushed to its Centrepoint showroom to buy a refrigerator on offer. The ad had said it was selling only 10 sets of a 3-door branded 366-litre refrigerator at $499. Soon after
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      116 50 THERE was an article on homeopathy remedy for Sars in the Malaysia Tamil daily, Tamil Nesan on April 15. The report said a homeopathy practitioner, Dr Prasath Baneijee from Calcutta, India, had claimed that there is cure for Sars. It was reported that he
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      195 52 MUCH has been said about the bravery and dedication of the hospital healthcare workers including doctors, nurses and all other assistants. However, little has been said or done for another important sector of the healthcare system our general practitioners. Despite the risks they face in
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      84 52 SOME among the people who arrive from Sars-hit countries like Hongkong, China, and Taiwan and pass the airport fever screening test might well have the early stages of the disease but show no symptoms yet. Some of them work in Singapore. What if the symptoms develop later?
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      73 52 THIS happens every day at the Tanjong Pagar MRT station whenever the train stops there, very little time is allotted to allow passengers to alight or board. Regular commuters, aware of this by now, often push their way out quickly. And some passengers waiting to
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      320 52 MAY I add to Mr Nelson Quah’s comments about English literature, “Smart, but are they well-rounded?” (Streats, April 16)? I wonder if there is a decline in interest in reading beyond prescribed text and in the standard of English grammar in some quarters. Could the absence
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      151 52 I REFER to media reports that bad debts written off by credit card companies in Singapore hit a record high in the first quarter, and credit card billings rolled over climbed 13 per cent to $2.4 billion. The interest rate for credit card rolled over
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      107 52 SINCE more housing and the sports school will be built at Woodlands, isn’t it time the SMRT provided better transport service residents in the North? At present, the interval between trains from Woodlands to the city is 5 or 6 minutes even at peak hours
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      138 52 EARLY last month, I registered my son in The Lighthouse Playschool in Tampines St 82. I paid $130 $100 as deposit and $30 as registration fee. Since the Sars outbreak, this playschool was closed as it was not licensed, although it has been operating for more
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      80 52 OUR report, “Easier loans for small firms’ (Streats, April 30), attributed the comments made on this subject to Mr Raymond Lim, Minister of State (Trade and Industry, and Foreign Affairs) at an Ampro Business Club breakfast dialogue on April 29. In fact, comments about the need for a bank
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      514 53 > 'm. m MERCHANT IF YOU COU l D BE GOD FOR ONE WEEK, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? i v- BRUCE ALMIGHTY MORGAN FREEMAN JENNIFER ANISTON 2003 IN CINEMAS 29 MAY Rating to be advised M69VI ERR E VIEW Bruce Almighty, a comdey starring Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a
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      171 54 Are salt substitutes a good replacement for salt? A Salt substitutes have some of the sodium chloride replaced with potassium chloride. The various brands may have different amounts of sodium replaced with potassium. On average, salt substitutes contain approximately half the amount of sodium compared to table salt
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      296 54 Gene finding I: autoimmune diseases Reuters NEW YORK Scientists have identified a gene that may be involved in the development of several auto-immune diseases, including Type 1 diabetes, according to a new report. Mutations in the gene, dubbed CTLA4, may increase susceptibility to a
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      175 54 AFP PARIS -A new discovery about a gene in the ear may spell good news for those trying to find a cure for deafness. Researchers experimenting on mice looked at the gene called Ink4d, which plays a role in the sensory hair cells
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      728 56  -  Just last week, we reported on the Flying Dutchmans events management business. Now, a trio of entertainment celebrities has joined hands with a joint venture company to set up a musk and media school By ChuaKongHo Yvonne Kwok UNLIKELY as it seems, golfing buddies James
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      120 56 ONE of the major shareholders, SAE, runs an international chain of music schools, while the Parmon Group, although a newcomer to the Singapore business scene, has a board of directors that reads like a Who’s Who of nextgeneration Philippine business. The scions of the Palanca group. Leviste
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      765 58 Local film 15 received the Netpac/Fipresd Award at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards on Wednesday. But some Singaporeans who watched it were less enchanted. GREGORY LEOW reports IT was a full house for Royston Tan’s 15, shown for the Singapore Film Festival on
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      170 58 FORGET snow-white skin. A rosy tinge gives you a healthy glow and is what snagged Mr Eric Tan Ee the top prize in cosmetics company SK-ll’s photography competition, The Art Of Whitening. Said the 32-year-old lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa): “White may
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      164 58 THE organisers of Russian pop duo Tatu’s UK concerts have sued the group’s management for £300,000 (*****,784), and said that “numerous obstacles” had been put in the way of the shows. The group’s concerts in London today and Manchester on Sunday were scrapped on Wednesday, and it
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      652 60  -  Adam About Town ADAM lIASHIDY DIAMONDS are a girl’s best friend, right? Wrong. What about a no-limit credit card or a make-up artist who can transform old witches into young fairies? Wrong again. The answer should be depilatory products. Yes, you read that right. If a
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      344 62 v J Natural beauty products, made from herbal concoctions and used by China’s imperial concubines, are still around. DAWN WONG susses out some of them BEAUTY-CARE formulas concocted by Chinese imperial physicians thousands of years ago are still in use today, adapted for face and eye
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      62 62 FEELING lethargic after a long-haul flight? Try Cortry’s easy-to-use eye mask, said to relax tired eyes. Simply wash your face with water and place the mask on your eyes for about 20 minutes. Do the same for the facial mask. Apply it once a day when
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      65 62 CHINESE herbs are not the only uncommon ingredients used to make facial products. At Yue Hwa department store in Eu Tong Sen Street, you can find one that contains papaya and another that uses goat’s placenta. The Softto Papaya More Whitening Facial Milk and the
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      690 64 i1TT3 iTrTf-T 1 V IPS Well-groomed nails say a lot about you. Here’s how to get them looking great WHEN you see models with beautiful hands and nails, do you look at your own chewed, misshapen specimens and sigh in despair? Don’t panic. There’s no secret
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      92 66 AT least seven people were killed and 50 injured in lightning strikes during a storm in Bangladesh. |l| Lightning killed six If people while a house r which collapsed in the f Chapainawabganj district killed one, the Prothom jy Alo daily reported yesterday. This is tropical
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        53 66 10pm, Channel 5 Matthew makes an incredible sacrifice so that others can be given the opportunity of a lifetime. But the newfound respect Matthew enjoys makes Rob rethink his new alliance. Still stung by Rob’s betrayal of the alliance, an enraged Jenna tells the entire tribe about
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        57 66 10pm, Channel i A sunken US supply ship off a Caribbean island resort is the centre of a series of mysterious piranha attacks. Investigating the death of one of her son’s companions after a scubadiving trip, Anne Kimbrough breaks into the morgue, only to discover that
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        56 66 PULSE VERSION CLUB Tomorrow, 10.30 pm The Black Box, Fort Canning Centre Tickets at $5 Jazzkammer’s music is not noise but “northern electronica-glitch-lowercase-noise music”. Focusing on sound texturing, colouring and tensions, the sources they use come from practically anything a guitar, the sound of a jackhammer and even the
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        69 66 DEBUSSY DAY Sunday, 11.30 am, 2pm, spm and Bpm The Esplanade, Concert Hall Tickets from $ll to $5l at Sistic (tel 6348-5555) French pianist Philippe Cassard will perform all 82 of Debussy’s piano works in one day in four recitals over five-and-a-half hours. Each recital includes the works of
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      84 65 It was through love you made me With tenderness you cradle me With my Embrace I cherish you My mother and friend fts if m ft umw Sill JBt t I II W H -T a mother's love with your heart MOTHER'S DAY 11 MAY RISIS M #Ol-084 Suntec City
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      152 66 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191. Please check with organisers for latest status of events. ■’■m M m md -J Uk«-£» .4a[ m A What do deposed dictators Saddam Hussein, Ferdinand Marcos and Slobodan Milosevic have in common? We
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      442 66 Yourdailyhoroscope' by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JjP AQUARIUS JAN2O-FEB 18 PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 ARIES MAR2I-APR 19 Others may have created a bad situation, but your job is showing it the door. A pal brings the patience and measured step that you lack. Tomorrow will show that this confusion was
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      600 67 Hg§fc v r M mm |ngfrpt(CC^cr 1 j a winrwin, aiiĕtaMitHn, Daily Departure Religious Harmony «1 <■> Departure Time(s): 9.30 am 2.30 pm 5 2 Multi-racial Singapore is home to numerous temples, mosques and churches with gloriously fine architecture steeped in history. Includes visit to Thien Hock Keng Temple, Cathedral
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      629 68  -  54 Tan Kim Han Life without football is tough for Noor Ali, who faces mounting debts HE used to earn $5,000 a month as an attacking midfielder for S-League club Geylang United. And a few hundred dollars more as win bonuses if the team did well. Then, life
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      646 70  -  Vroom Vroom By ADAM HASHIDY FERRARI’ S F-2002 car is in a class of its own. It has speed and outstanding reliability. Often, it leaves its rivals behind in a cloud of dust. Just a fortnight ago at Imola, San Marino, Michael Schumacher steered the F-2002 to
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      585 73 Wenger gets boost as midfielder Ljungberg shmgs off leg injury Wire services LONDON Fredrik Ljungberg has set his sights on returning to action for the final two games of Arsenal’s title run-in. His return will provide Arsene Wenger’s side with a much-needed injury boost. Manager Wenger is
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      304 73 Wire services LONDON Sven Goran Eriksson hinted yesterday that he is set to ignore the pleas of Everton boss David Moyes for Wayne Rooney (right) to be rested. The England manager is kean to have Roonie when the national team travels
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      622 74  -  Soccer smart By ADAM HASHIDY LEEDS United’s Paul Robinson (above) will not need anyone to remind him of the importance of this Sunday’s clash against Arsenal Not when Leeds is fighting for its Premiership survival, and the goalkeeper for his future. A solid performance against Arsenal
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      413 74 TOMORROW Man Utd v Charlton..... Head to head: Man U won 29, Charlton 10. Draws 11. Last meeting: Sep 28, 2002 Charlton 1 Man U 3 Last six EPL matches: Man U WWWDWW; Charlton DLLLLW Team news: Man U Veron doubtful. Charlton Todd, Pahars, Delgado out. Niemi doubtful.
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      504 77 Five-time champion Brazil still searching for first win after World Cup Reuters GUADALAJARA, Mexico World champion Brazil was still looking for its first win under coach Carlos Alberto Parreira on Wednesday after being held to a goalless draw in Mexico in a friendly. Eighteen-year-old Santos midfielder Diego came
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      317 77 Reuters PARIS Striker Thierry Henry netted a first-half double as France, deprived of several key players, eased to a 5-0 demolition of Egypt in a friendly on Wednesday. Henry, named Premier League Players’ Player of the Year this week, opened the scoring in the 26th
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      340 79  -  Coach Fandi Ahmad blasts Warriors for showing no enterprise By Tan Kim Han NTUC Income S-League SAFFCI Woodlands 2 THE listless look on Fandi Ahmad’s face said it all. The Singapore Armed Forces FC coach could barely smile after seeing his Warriors surrender 1-2 to Woodlands Wellington at
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      283 79 NBA PLAY-OFFS New Orleans 93 Philadelphia 91 (Philadelphia leads series 3-2) PHILADELPHIA Thanks to Jamal Mashbum and George Lynch, the New Orleans Hornets are still hanging on to the NBA play-offs. Mashbum returned from a finger injury to score 21 points and Lynch victimised
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      108 79 SOCCER AFP NYON, Switzerland Uefa yesterday fined Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson 10,000 Swiss francs (S$ 13,186) for suggesting that the Champions League quarter-final draw was fixed. European football’s governing body said in a statement that its disciplinary body had found that Ferguson made “improper statements to the
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      69 79 BADMINTON AP LONDON Badminton’s world championships have been called off because of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) vims. The tournament, scheduled for May 12-18 in Birmingham, serves as the main qualifying event for next year’s Athens Olympics. This is the first significant sports event outside Asia
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      62 79 NETBALL MALAYSIAN team Northside Arowanas will make its debut in the NTUC Fair Price Netball Super League tomorrow. It will take on last year’s runner up Southside Sharks at the Kallang Netball centre at 6.30 pm in the second match of the day. Western Vipers will face Northern
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