Streats, 6 May 2003

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  • 11 1 Streats TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com. sg MITA (P) 111/03/2003
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  • 697 1  -  Health supplements industry hit by Pan recall scandal but gains from Sars scare By Choong Choon Yee Sarah Ng SINGAPOREANS are popping vitamin pills with greater diligence than they have ever done, thanks to the Sars scare. Most of the vitamins and other health products snapped up in
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  • Morning Rush
    • 505 2  -  An oasis on Siloso Beach for marine activity enthusiasts By_ Khushwant Singh WITH his tanned complexion, broad shoulders, and commanding presence, businessman Johnny Tan, 40, looks made for the beach. Indeed, this former water-polo player and his company, Showboats and Resorts Pte Ltd,
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    • 415 3  -  Exxon Mobil publishes ad in 3 newspapers ‘to keep trade on front-burner’ By. Janice Wong AS Singapore and the US get ready to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) today, advertisements have started to appear in the international media highlighting the benefits of this pact.
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    • 129 8 BUZZSTOP OWNERS of Housing Board flats are now free to upgrade to private property without written clearance from the HDB, if they have met the 5-year rule. The board yesterday said that owners who have lived in their flats for
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    • Article, Illustration
      28 8 A young Indonesian boy watching the rain through the back window of the bus he is travelling on during a rainstorm in downtown Jakarta yesterday AP
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    • 136 8 Critical illness guidelines EFFORTS by some insurance agents to scare clients into upgrading or signing up for new policies unnecessarily have attracted the attention of industry bodies. They have acted swiftly to stamp out the new sales tactic used by some nine agents when selling policies
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    • 147 8 Focus on lifestyle business IN a move to focus its resources on its core healthy lifestyle business, Osim International Ltd intends to sell its headquarters at Übi Avenue 1. Yesterday it entered into a conditional Put and Call option agreement with Bermuda Trust (Singapore)
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    • 145 8 New maritime security code SHIPPING lines here have a year to tighten ship security according to new measures laid down by the International Maritime Organisation. Failure to do so could result in the ship being barred from entering the port or delays
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    • 103 8 BUSINESSMAN Oei Hong Leong yesterday paid $15.3 million for 26 million BIL International shares, raising his stake in the hotels and property investment firm to 6.7 per cent, or 91.38 million shares, from 4.8 per cent or 65.3 million shares. It has prompted BIL shares to
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    • 102 8 A RUBBISH disposal system for flats that lets garbage go straight down the chute and into trucks bypassing workers should be installed in HDB estates, say SembCorp Environmental Management and Envac Singapore. They are currently running the system in 12 blocks in Kim Keat and Choa
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    • 105 8 MOHAMED Raffiq Mohamed Aslam, 42, yesterday stood trial for the murder of Madam Saratha Sangeo, 50, on Aug 7 last year. Madam Saratha’s husband, Jaganathan Subrayan, 48, was at first charged with her murder a week after her decomposing body was found in their Yishun flat.
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    • 94 8 MEN think they can steer a trolley down a supermarket aisle better than women can, according to a survey published by Britain’s biggest largest food retailer, Tesco. More than seven out of 10 men quizzed by Tesco in a poll of 800 shoppers rated themselves to
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  • SARS UPDATE
    • 427 4 Telcos hope to raise slm for healthcare workers TELECOMMUNICATIONS companies have joined the growing band of supporters for healthcare workers and others involved in the fight against Sars. Their efforts range from providing free use of phones and SIM cards for Sars patients to
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    • 37 4 TREATED AND DISCHARGED 149 IN HOSPITAL 28 (IN CRITICAL CONDITION 13) DEAD 27* TOTAL NO OF CASES 204 INDEX CASES 7 SUSPECT CASES 12 UNDER HOME QUARANTINE 952 (INCLUDES ONE WHO DIED FROM NON-SARS CAUSE)
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    • 363 6 20% of patients not responding to Western medicines Reuters HONGKONG With doctors here unable to stop an alarming rise in the death rate of Sars patients using a cocktail of Western drugs, authorities here are turning to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Two TCM experts from
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    • 143 6 -AFP BEIJING Farmers and villagers in remote areas of China rioted and destroyed buildings being prepared as Sars quarantine centres to try to block the disease from their areas, local officials said yesterday. More than 100 enraged farmers attacked a government office in Yuhuan county in eastern
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    • 93 4 HEALTH ALERT If you feel unwell and have symptoms such as fever, cough, muscle aches and chills, stay at home. Do not go to work or school, says the Ministry of Health. Call the MOH Special Ambulance Hotline (24 hours) at 993. An ambulance will take you to Tan Tock
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  • Financial
    • 684 10  -  Colin Chow is a finance and economics graduate from a US university. But he makes a living repairing old Beetles, and loves it Jbmjt Entrepreneurs By. Janice Wong AS a toddler, before ’’%l§||| he could string words together, Colin Chow was identifying car makes on the
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    • 480 12 Berkshire boss charms 10,000 shareholders Bloomberg OMAHA, Nebraska Billionaire Warren Buffett’s annual meeting started off with a stampede and almost ended with a tornado, adding adventure to an event that drew more than 10,000 shareholders and Buffett devotees. The Berkshire Hathaway Inc chief
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    • 121 12 THE Singapore Exchange will lay off 67 employees as part of a restructuring exercise to become more customer-centric. While SGX’s current structure is built around its product groups, the new organisation will be developed around its principal customers institutions, intermediaries, issuers and the
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    • 206 13  -  By CkuaKongHo THE Uzans, a publicity-shy Turkish business family, last Friday took out full-page advertisements in the Asian Wall Street Journal and International Herald Tribune, slamming US telecoms equipment giant Motorola. The family’s cellphone services operator, Telsim, is currently embroiled in a multi-billion
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    • 24 13 *AS AT MAY 5 US$: 551.765 552.828 EURO: 551.978 Ss: 67.45 YEN Ss: RM2.153 Ss: HK54.419 Ss: 24.18 BAHT Ss: 4,883 RUPIAH
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    • 301 13 STI: 1,325.19 25.97 Reuters SHARES leapt to their highest levels in a month yesterday amid hefty volume, making Singapore the second best performing market in Asia after Jakarta for the day, as a dearth of new Sars cases raised hopes the disease was contained. Positive
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  • Global
    • 69 15 Women in Jakarta (above) performing the ‘drilling dance at the city’s main roundabout last Friday in support of Indonesian singer Inul Daratista (left). Hundreds of people rallied for the singer, who was famous for her ‘drilling’ revolving her body at ever-increasing speeds, a dance style which Islamic
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    • 323 15 Bashir’s stand-in named as Bali suspect JAKARTA They both have the same first name “Abu” and are Muslim clerics. But the similarity between Abu Rusdan, the man who is alleged to be heading the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network currently, and his predecessor, Abu
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    • 257 15 LONDON A British businessman has offered a man US$l.5 million (552.65 million) if he lets his wife spend the rest of her life with him, London’s Sunday Times reported. But Mr Brian Maccaba, director of a computer firm, who made the offer which resembles the
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  • AFTER SADDAM
    • 243 16 Reuters MOSUL In the first vote in Iraq since Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was ousted last month, rival ethnic groups in Mosul are to elect an interim council in a step towards rebuilding the country’s local administration. US troops established a
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    • 291 16 Memory crucial to building war crimes case: official Wire services NEW YORK -Rescued prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has lost her memory and can’t remember anything about being held prisoner in Iraq. “She basically has amnesia and has mentally blocked out the horrible things we strongly
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    • 91 16 Wire services BAGHDAD -The US yesterday said it has captured one of Mr Saddam Hussein’s most senior biological weapons scientists, Dr Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash. Dr Ammash, 49, was number 53 on the US’ list of 55 most wanted Iraqi leaders and was one of the
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  • Comment
    • 581 18  -  By CHITRA RAJA RAM Tamil Murasu WHAT is it about Khaw Boon Wan and Tharman Shanmugaratnam that sets them apart from many of our politicians? It is not about IQ (intelligence quotient), EQ (emotional quotient), academic achievements or accomplishments. They are people who have what
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    • 440 18 !Relaxed LUCKY DRAW RESULTS DRAW DATE: FRI2 MAY 2003 1st Prize One night stay in Garden Villa for two persons (with breakfast at The Terrace) 3-course dinner for two persons at The Cliff Signature Spa Treatment (Singapore Flower Ritual; 3 hours). Total value: $2,230 $2,574 nett Rochwam Kaul S*****05B 2nd
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  • Vocal
    • 121 20 THE findings by the World Health Organisation (WHO) about the nature of the Sars virus, in particular, its ability to survive washing by a detergent is startling and alarming. Though we do not know what kind of detergent the WHO experts used, it
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    • 68 20 IT is good that the National University Hospital is taking preventive steps to screen people for Sars. However, by taking temperatures orally, the thermometers have to be in the mouth for at least three minutes, thus creating a crowd. This is when people then sit
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    • 43 20 I REFER to the man who flagrantly flouted the Sars home quarantine order (HQO) and went out drinking in a coffeeshop. Can he be charged for manslaughter if he subsequently infects another person who dies later? CKFoo
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    • 222 20 I CHANCED upon the S-l 1 Coffee Shop’s re-opening in Serangoon Central on May 1, after a closure of 10 days due to the Sars suspect’s family who went there from a nearby clinic while waiting for the ambulance. The coffeeshop’s re-opening was like a carnival,
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    • 133 20 I WAS at the bus stop opposite the new Outram MRT station on April 30 at 6.40 pm, waiting for a bus to go Orchard. As I was in a hurry for an appointment, I was rather relieved to see service 124 coming after only one
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    • 271 20 I HAVE experienced trouble with three different Nokia phones over the past few months. In all cases, the phones developed some kind of non-terminal defect like automatically switching off or sudden loss of signal. As a consumer, with confidence in Nokia, I took the phones each
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    • 130 20 I WAS visiting my sister’s new unoccupied flat recently after she had collected her keys. Just as we were leaving, I had this very urgent need to use the toilet. As the estate is new, there wasn’t any public toilets around. I had to walk 15
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    • 210 21 I I Pc University of Wollongong Ranked the nation's top university for the past three years by Australia's Good Universities Guide for students' "educational experience" and "graduate outcomes". Joint winner of the year 1999/2000 2000/2001. The only University to be awarded the prestige for 2 consecutive years. Ranked Top 10
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  • Medical
    • 128 22 SCIENTISTS may have found a genetic mutation which could explain why people get motor neurone disease (MND) a fatal condition that often appears during middle age. While there is a treatment that can slow this process, there is no cure. But researchers from the UK
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    • 267 22 Regular medication key to managing disease: expert THE asthma situation among children here seems to have stabilised, with only a one-point increase in asthma diagnosis from 1994 to 2001, bringing the proportion of affected children to 21.2 per cent. This was one of the findings
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    • 149 22 Q Brightly-coloured fruits and vegetables have been recommended as better choices. What about pale-coloured ones? A Brightly-coloured fruits and vegetables are generally considered to be more beneficial due to their higher phytochemical content, which often occur as pigment substances. However, pale-coloured fruits have their nutritional values as well.
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  • Easy Streats
    • Article, Illustration
      635 24  -  Tellytubby By YVONNE KWOK Sars may be a deadly serious disease, but TV producers have proved that educating the public about Sars doesn’t have to be a deadly bore I NEVER knew Tay Ping Hui was so rich. Come to think of it, I never wondered how
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    • 302 24 IMAGINE leaving a concert clutching a live recording CD of what you just heard on stage and screamed yourself hoarse over. That’s what could happen if the American radio broadcasting and concert promotion giant, Clear Channel Communications, has its way.
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    • 419 26  -  The second Streats Culinary Masterclass workshop on Saturday at Viet Lang Restaurant in Chijmes attracted many participants, including two hr others whose intentions were poles apart By_ Gary Lim FOOD, as they say, is the way to a man’s heart. But whoever said that certainly
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    • 131 26 THE fun just doesn’t stop. British channel ITV is to do a onehour special of a show that is already a ratings hit in the US, called Man Versus Beast, in which human contestants are pitted against animals, reported Ananova.com yesterday. The challenges include a
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    • 95 26 TAIWANESE actorstuntmaster Blacky Ko Shou-liang, famous for his daredevil flight over the Great Wall of China in a car in 1992, has been going to even greater lengths to avoid the Sars virus. He and his family have moved from Shenzhen to Beijing, and from
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    • 89 27 IT’S Wizard of Oz M weather in the US. At least four black 1 funnel clouds ripped through the central states of Kansas and Missouri on Sunday, tearing apart hundreds of homes and offices and killing at least 13 people, authorities said. Numerous buildings also collapsed,
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        42 27 9pm, Channel 5 A new student, Bobby Chan (Willy Low), arrives on campus and the girls swoon over him. It turns out that he is a Taiwanese singer who has decided to quit the entertainment industry to study in Singapore.
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      • 59 27 8.30 pm, Channel i A new drama series revolving around Sue Thomas (Deanne Bray), a hearing-impaired woman who gets a job at the FBI. She starts off by analysing fingerprints, but that changes when Agent Jack Hudson (Yannick Bisson) realises the potential value of her lip-reading
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    • Happenin’
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        62 27 FAITH ON CANVAS Kinokuniya, (Ngee Ann City level 3) Tomorrow till May 19 Free A display of recent works by Singapore artist Irene Hong celebrating faith. “My art seeks to provide one with a source of harmony and an uplifting of the spirit through the predominating element of transcendence,”
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      • 57 27 THE RIVALS Tomorrow till Saturday, Bpm DBS Arts Centre (20 Merbau Road, Robertson Quay) Tickets at $36 and s26from Sistic (call 6348-5555) Director Daniel Toyne breathes new life into Richard Sheridan’s play as he frees its odd assortment of quirky characters from their 18th century constraints and sets them
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 422 27 Yourdailyhoroscope P AQUARIUS* PISCES JAN2O FEB 18 N FEB 19- MAR 20 Figure out a way to turn a tricky situation into an opportunity. Appreciate those who depend on you even if they are making some heavy demands. In your own way, you have the power to grant wishes. Address
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 93 28 ft Wm T JVI S ow H ***QNTI the -H The Ho in Sing« AAWiSi# f* EVERYONE’S TALKING Exposing Singapore’s Top 10 li of best kept secrets f* TOP TEN I Singapore’s IstTerrorist Drama by acclaimed film director Kelvin Tong M&rnyi (f THE FRONTLINE Stay At Home forTHE NEXT. 7
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  • Sports
    • 635 29 Arsenals Wenger made to eat his words in battle of Premiership managers -AFP LONDON France 0 Scotland 1 is not a result that is likely to be seen any time soon on a football pitch. But it does sum up the outcome of a Premiership title
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    • 352 29 AFP AUGUST: Arsenal installed as favourites after a string of scintillating performances. It goes top of the table with a 5-2 thrashing of West Brom at the end of the month. SEPTEMBER: A home defeat by Bolton leaves Manchester United languishing in mid-table. It has just
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    • Article, Illustration
      571 30 Champion Real Madrid will have to be at its best to beat Juventus Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINAL (IST LEG) Real Madrid v Juventus MADRID Zinedine Zidane says Real Madrid’s worst home defeat in four years in the Spanish league to Real Mallorca it crashed 1-5 could not
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    • 266 30 Wire services MADRID Juventus coach Marcello Lippi is brimming with confidence ahead of the semi-final first leg against Real Madrid. Remarked Lippi after Real’s big loss last Saturday: “I’m not worried about Real Madrid. No real champion loses 1-5 at home to a middle-of-the-table
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    • Article, Illustration
      497 31  -  Sengkang eyes former Man United reserve in bid to improve standing By Tan Kim Han NO more bargain hunting. No more basement sales. Sengkang Marine is planning to go up-market in a bid to improve its standing in the S-League. It has already cast its eye on former
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    • 265 31 AFP NBA PLAY-OFFS Western Conference Dallas 107 Portland 95 (Dallas wins series 4-3) DALLAS Dirk Nowitzki scored 31 points to help Dallas avoid the worst choke in National Basketball Association history. It defeated Portland 107-95 on Sunday to capture its first-round play-off series.
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    • SOCCER
      • 137 31 -AFP LONDON Leeds United’s temporary manager Peter Reid hopes the win over Arsenal, which kept the club in the Premiership, will also keep him in the manager’s job. Leeds spectacularly ended Arsenal’s title hopes with a 3-2 win at Highbury and Reid wasted no time in
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      • 81 31 HOME United will lodge a complaint with the Football Association of Singapore following an alleged assault on its under--18 goalkeeper Mohd Zakariah Nerani. The incident was believed to have taken place after a friendly match between Home’s under-18 team and Sembawang Rangers last Saturday. Zakariah and Sembawang
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    • 84 31 BASKETBALL -AP CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Michael Jordan is interested in a possible role with the Charlotte expansion team and has talked recently with owner Robert Johnson about buying in as a partner. Johnson and Jordan have a publicly acknowledged friendship and have spoken frequently in recent years.
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 46 31 IN THE LIVING ROOM SOCCER: Football Focus (ESPN Ch 23, 10.30 am). Champions League semifinal, Ist leg: Real Madrid v Juventus (tomorrow ESPN Ch 23 and RTMI, 2.30 am and Chs, 2.35 am). TENNIS: Masters Series, Telecom Italia Masters, Ist rd (Star Sports Ch 24, 9pm).
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