Streats, 12 May 2003

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  • 9 1 Streats MONDAY, MAY 12, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p>
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  • 596 1  -  MRT commuters fail gallantry test miserably By_ Sarah Ng I WAS pregnant and Mother’s Day was just around the comer. A double joy. So, as I stepped out to take a ride on the MRT system, I was hopeful that gallant men and considerate women would give up
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    • 15 1 DON’T FORCE IT CONRAD RAJ says more consistency needed in Government’s competition policy PAGE IS
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    • 92 1 5 SELFISH GUISES Selfishness could prove devastating in this era of Sars. But those with this trait try to camouflage it in different ways. One of the guises is “The Newspaper Reader”, where the rider buries her nose in the pages of the paper and therefore purports to be unable
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  • Morning Rush
    • 530 2  -  Vocational institute student rises to become UPS managing director By Janice Wong GENDER, nationality and an absence of tertiary education are no barriers to succeeding in a multinational firm. Just ask Ms Mary Yeo. Against the odds, the vocational institute student became the managing director
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    • 611 3 Thai businesswoman seeks out war-tom countries to set up eateries WHEN the economy takes a beating, many Singaporeans start griping about how business is suffering. But a country in trouble is exactly what Thai businesswoman Lalita Thongngamkam looks out for when she wants to set up
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    • 617 4  -  By. Adam Hashidy A HEALTHY young man who remains glued to his train seat while a woman, heavy with child, stands in front of him, is not just being inconsiderate. He displays a lamentable lack of good manners, gallantry, kindness and social grace.
      Ashlelgh Sim  -  617 words
    • Readers say
      • 86 4 I AM in the second trimester of my pregnancy. Every morning, I definitely have to stand due to the morning rush hour. Last week, I took the MRT at 7.45 am for my 45-minute ride to work. I stood in front of a woman in
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      • 92 4 I COMMUTE to work by bus and when I was near foil term in my pregnancy, there were passengers who fought with me for a seat even though they alighted only after a few stops. This became so unbearable that my husband, on hearing of my many encounters,
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      • 89 4 WHEN i was five months’ pregnant with my second child two years ago, a welldressed woman in her mid-40s brazenly cut into my path and took the two-seater train seat. As I moved towards the empty seat next to her, she blocked me to let her friend
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      • 101 4 THERE are able-bodied train passengers who say they keep their seats instead of giving them up for pregnant women or the elderly because they are tired after a long day of work. How do they think the mothers-to-be who also work feel? We carry so much of an
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    • 143 8 BUZZSTOP MORE than 40 per cent of 200 people who took part in a Straits Times Interactive poll said they had no preference about their baby’s gender, contrary to popular belief that boys are much more popular. And for
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    • 38 8 One of a set of four stamps showing Britain's Prince William in this undated Royal Mail photograph released yesterday. The stamps will be released on June 17, four days before the prince's 21st birthday AP
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    • 164 8 AIA agent had to hit quota A HONGKONG-based woman has filed a police report here over an accident insurance policy that she says was fraudulently bought in her name. Ms Fiona lan, 29, an accounts manager, had previously bought two endowment policies from an
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    • 144 8 Paper criticised Syed Hamid MALAYSIA’S New Straits Times (NST) is facing a defamation suit by Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar. A commentary filed last month from Baghdad by assistant political editor Shamsul Akmar Musa Kamal criticised Datuk Seri Syed Hamid and his Ministry over reports that
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    • 236 8 NEW DELHI Recent suspicion of Indian expat IT workers is due to job insecurity in host countries, an industry association chief says. “The widely publicised success of the Indian IT industry, the substantial and visible presence of Indian professionals in some countries, stories about
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    • 99 8 PEOPLE living near industrial pig farms across the US are complaining of headaches that do not go away and trips to the emergency room with children whose lungs suddenly close up. The New York Times yesterday said that the people are blaming toxic gases from the
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    • 100 8 The Washington Post THE Mexican government has begun investigating the rape and killing of 90 women in Ciudad Juarez over the past 10 years, based on a claim that some of the victims may have been butchered by organ traffickers. The federal prosecutor in charge of organised
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    • 101 8 Reuters AUSTRALIA’S governor-general, its titular head of state, has stepped down while rape claims against him are resolved. He denies them, but his long-term future is uncertain, Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday. Dr Peter Hollingworth, 68, the British queen’s envoy to Australia and a former Anglican
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    • 105 8 -AP SYRIAN President Bashar Assad has yet to decide whether to restrict Palestinian militant groups operating on its soil. His comments are in contrast to US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s earlier statement after their meeting in Damascus on May 3. Mr Powell had said that Syria
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  • SARS UPDATE
    • 298 6  -  Orders coming in for thermal imaging devices after Changi airport debut By_ Zubaidah Nazeer THERMAL imaging scanners have been found to be so useful in instantly identifying someone with fever that they are being bought by an increasing number of organisations here and in 26 countries abroad.
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    • 180 6 BE it Sars or security threats, Singapore’s response to changing circumstances has to be fast, or it will risk being marginalised, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew believes. “The speed with which we can react to changed circumstances will decide whether we survive
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    • 38 6 TREATED AND DISCHARGED 155 IN HOSPITAL 21 (IN CRITICAL CONDITION 8) DEAD 28 TOTAL NO OF CASES 205* INDEX CASES 7 SUSPECT CASES. 7 UNDER HOME QUARANTINE 817 "includes one case who died from non-Sars causes
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    • 183 6 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. Call the MOH Special Ambulance Hotline (24 hours) at 993. An ambulance will take you to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for screening at
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    • 539 10 < /i ■sSE Ericia Lee SPH Mediaworks Arti, Being a celebrity, I have to work long and irregular hours. As a travel host, my work also brings me to different parts of the world. Often, I'm faced with harsh environmental conditions. This is bad for my skin. So how do
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  • Financial
    • 479 11 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 11 •AS AT MAY 9 US$: 551.741 £:552.797 EURO: 552.005 Ss: 67.40 YEN Ss: RM2.183 Ss: HK54.480 Ss: 24.45 BAHT Ss: 4.912 RUPIAH
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    • 470 11  -  Designer pins hopes on line of quirky lingerie By_ Julie Sim MS GOH LING LING, 29, is a graphic designer who loves a Fling. But not the kind you are thinking of. Fling is the label of her range of wacky lingerie. And the graduate from
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    • 339 13 Writer is the only analyst he reads: report Bloomberg NEW YORK Billionaire investment gum Warren Buffett has finally agreed to cooperate on a biography. It will be written by Morgan Stanley analyst Alice Schroeder, the only analyst whose work he says he reads. Ms Schroeder, 46,
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    • 93 13 -AFP LISBON The world travel industry will gather in Portugal later this week to discuss the Sars crisis which is pounding the sector. Over 60 speakers from around the world, including a number of presidents of major airlines and hotel chains, are expected to flock to the
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    • 62 13 BANGALORE, India Information technology giant Infosys yesterday said it had settled a high profile sexual harassment case for US$3 million (555.21 million). Infosys will pay Ms Reka Maximovitch US$l.5 million and the rest will be paid by the company’s insurers. Ms Maximovitch had accused Mr Phaneesh
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  • Global
    • 571 14 He stole material from other newspapers, invented quotes and even lied about his locations NEW YORK In an extraordinary admission of journalistic fraud, The New York Times (NYT) on Sunday recounted how a former reporter faked several stories. Mr Jayson Blair (pictured), 27, wrote reports “from”
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    • 209 16 MUNICH There’s an “Everitt Road” here too, with two feuding neighbours, high fences, cameras, court hearings and traded insults. The Bensch and the Kern families, who occupy the two halves of a semi-detached house, have been mad at each other for 14 years, Britain’s The Daily
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    • Article, Illustration
      58 16 Iraq’s top Shi’ite leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, addressing thousands at Celebration Square in Basra on Saturday, urging them to form an independent government and ‘stand together against imperialism -an indirect swipe at US and British military forces in Iraq. He crossed the border from Iran on Saturday,
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    • 286 16 US officials overseeing Iraq sacked for inaction WASHINGTON Top US officials have now become the latest casualties of the US war in Iraq. According to a report in yesterday’s issue of the Washington Post, some top American officials in charge of running post-war Iraq are being
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    • 207 17 AS SEEN IN TV NEWS NEWSPAPER PROTECTION'S THE REST PREVENTION m m v. Keeps your family safe Protects your kids everywhere a McKern r-v.. Disinfects hands and surface Improves indoor air quality f i ■>«« m 0* mm tm; ill iffi'd s, gndo Twtajß f *«d other Ur end on
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  • Comment
    • 769 18  -  By CONRAD RAJ THE higher fares charged by the operators of the North-East MRT line have generated some controversy, but has also confirmed why Singapore would be better off without forced competition in some sectors. It has never been clear to me why we needed competition in this
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    • 467 18 management learning Earn A. fteco§itised LUv Masters Now available in Singapore May Launch Master in Business Studies (MBS) hut 'Wj 4l JMU Liverpool John Moores University LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY Liverpool Business School, among the largest business schools in the UK, provides a wide range of high quality business courses
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  • Vocal
    • 194 19 I AM a 53-year-old marine engineer and a part-time taxi driver. We used to call the PAP the “pay and pay” party, but, over the past few years, the Government has started to pay and pay back the people. So please stop pressing the Government
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    • 149 19 FURTHER to what Mr Lee Han Shih said in his commentary, “Boost the economy” (Streats, May 8), many measures proposed by the Economic Review Committee such as CPF changes and the increase in goods and services tax (GST) were made in anticipation of an economic recovery in
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    • 78 19 AS I entered Funan The IT Mall carpark recently, the attendant handed me a slip of paper with my registration number on it. I then drove into a second part of the carpark, this time bypassing an automated cashcard deduction system. When I left,
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    • 807 19 Mr* an m 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,
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  • Medical
    • 277 21 QUITTING smoking can cut the risk that your child will end up a teen smoker, says new research released from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. But the parental habit has to be broken before the child is eight or nine. If parents do, then their
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  • EasyStreats
    • 610 22  -  OngSuMann, the creator of Ah Girl and former executive producer ofPhua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, shows that being jobless means you may be down, but you’re not out Pn Yvonne Kwok BY anyone’s reckoning, Ong Su Mann should be living the good life right now The
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    • 98 22 BEND It Like Beckham producers are working on a children’s film, and it might be a little scary, not least because it stars former footballer Vinnie Jones (right) as The Extractor, the villainous tooth extractor in the film Tooth. The story is about a tooth
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    • 119 22 -AP WHEN actress Cybill Shepherd was asked to play Martha Stewart for a TV movie, she said: “My first impulse was that it was like being offered the role of Marie Antoinette”. But she also expresses some sympathy for the home-and-hearth businesswoman, 61, who has not
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    • 112 22 SCENE: Bank of England, Berlin. Filming for Around the World in 80 Days, starring Steve Coogan as Phileas Fogg and Jackie Chan as Passepartout, is currently taking place, and none of it is in England. Ironic, considering the original story by Jules Verne, set in
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    • 554 23  -  ALA EBl a By_ Sharon Soh OPENED last October, Crystal Jade Golden Palace is fast becoming one of Orchard Road’s hottest fine-dining spots, with its competent Teochew cooking and swish interior. When I went there for lunch on a recent Monday, it was packed to the seams
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    • 102 24 RELIEF is in sight from the storms that battered the US Mid-west last week and killed at least 42 people. Winds will bring in cold, dry air, ending the violent weather, the product of a wave of four storm systems that swept south and east from
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • Article, Illustration
        52 24 7.30 pm, Channel 5 It’s the final sprint for the final four survivors as friends become foes and no one knows what to expect. With two immunity challenges, two tribal councils and one jury vote to go, this is the end to one of the most intriguing seasons of
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      • 42 24 10.45 pm, Channel U Boqiang finally decides to face up to his relationship with Jingyi even as the dejected Jingyi applies to attend university abroad. Gaoqiao suddenly postpones the wedding to allow Xingyao to concentrate on her work. Last episode.
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        58 24 POTRET SAYANG Last day today, 11.30am-Bpm Utterly Art (208, South Bridge Road, #O2-01, tel 6226-2605) Free Portraits of Love is a visually stunning documentation of artist Hong Sek Chem’s family in 8-feet (2.4 m) high images broken up into smaller pieces of paper, mostly 30 x 30 cm, and
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      • 61 24 DEVELOPING A BUSINESS MINDSET Tomorrow, 7pm National Reference Library, General Reference Centre (tel: 6332-3255) Free Mr Jerome Tan, entrepreneur and co-founder of Executive Directions, says that successful entrepreneurs see opportunities not just with their eyes, but with their minds. He draws from his experience in start-ups both failed and
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    • 272 24 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. f\ QicA Re***’*' Spatial' 'priiCeA' ICE Rebonding Cut Hair Care Ssl2B per person (Any length) Colour Cut Hair Care Ss6o Cristalli Programme Ss4o Eyelash
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 452 24 Yourdailyhoroscope Jp AQUARIUS* «fefe JAN2O-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com PISCES FEB 19-MAR2O No matter what you do, someone might get the wrong idea. Let them think you’re crazy it might even serve your purposes. You have the upper hand when no one else realises how you’ve outsmarted him
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  • Sports
    • 596 25 Wire services LONDON Who says Manchester United’s midfield star David Beckham is not for sale? The newly crowned Premiership champion has reportedly slapped a £35 million (5597.5 m) price tag on the England captain. United’s chief executive Peter Kenyon
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    • 321 25 AFP LONDON Blame it on the persistent injury problems. That’s the excuse Tottenham Hotspur manager Glenn Hoddle gave for the perennial under-achiever’s inability to make a bigger impact on the Premiership. Hoddle’s future as Tottenham coach has been put in doubt as Spurs wind
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    • 487 26 Pavel Nedved takes credit for Juventus’ 27th title Reuters TURIN, Italy It was no surprise that after Juventus won its 27th title on Saturday, Pavel Nedved (right) ran to the fans carrying a giant flag bearing the number 27, since the Czech midfielder has been central to his
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    • 472 27 -AP NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS Dallas 141 Sacramento 137 (in 2nd OT) (Dallas leads best-of-seven series 2-1) SACRAMENTO, California Life without Chris Webber began uneasily for the Sacramento Kings. They were more than game against the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night but ultimately could not keep
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    • 135 27 Reuters OSAKA, Japan World 100 metres record holder Tim Montgomery has dismissed claims made by British rival Dwain Chambers that he could run 9.65 seconds this season. He said: “If Chambers ran 9.655ec, they would have to carry him out in a wheelchair. “To do
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 31 25 IN THE LIVING ROOM TENNIS: Masters Series, Germany Ist rd (Ch24,lopm) DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: EPL: Birmingham City v West Ham United (Ch 24, 7am), Chelsea v Liverpool (Ch 23, 9.30 pm)
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