Streats, 23 June 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p> 111/03/2003
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  • 599 1  -  Former SIA veterans roped in as Lim Chin Beng&J ValuAir plans get serious Mr By ChuaKongHo SENIOR retired Singapore Airlines employees have been roped in by their former boss Lim Chin Beng to help set up the no-frills ValuAir, which, if it takes off, will be
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  • Morning Rush
    • 700 2  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer MR SIMON Lane looks after a $5 billion project. So you would expect him to be zipping around in a car to check on things. But the 42-year-old prefers
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    • 370 3  -  Retailers note boost in takings in first two weeks of Great Singapore Sale Shervin Seah THE Great Singapore Sale has shown early signs of being a Great Singapore Success. Visa, a leading payment brand in Singapore, noted a spurt in domestic credit card transactions in
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    • 541 4  -  Oracle, People Soft take out axis in game of one-upmanship, and AWSJ benefits By Choong Choon Yee THE fiery takeover battle between American software giants People Soft and Oracle has found its way into the print media, making The Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ) an
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    • 137 6 BUZZSTOP PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday called on religious institutions to not only remain relevant to the times but also to the societies in which they function. “Their work must take into account the national situation,” he said at the
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    • 174 6 Negative growth likely in Q 2 SECOND quarter growth is likely to be negative, but look to the second half of the year for an economic upturn driven by improvement in the United States. This message was delivered by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 138 6 Indian PM in China AP STICKY issues will be put on hold on Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s first official visit to China. Instead, Mr Vajpayee, who arrived in Beijing yesterday, said he hopes to build trust and trade ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours. His
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    • Article, Illustration
      49 6 Fireworks illuminating the sky over the Olympic torch after the opening ceremony of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Dublin on Saturday. Singapore sent 44 athletes 15 coaches and two delegates the largest contingent since it began taking part in the Games in 1983 Reuters
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    • 162 6 IN the first civil action over Slim 10, the High Court will today hear evidence on how the pills led to Media Corp artiste Andrea De Cruz suffering liver failure, The Straits Times reports today. Previous cases involving the diet pill were limited
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    • 97 6 SOME 800 people have applied to run a business from the comfort of their homes in just over a week since the Home Office scheme was launched by the Housing Board. Speaking to reporters at a grassroots events yesterday, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan
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    • 99 6 GROUPS of armed fighters from the security agencies of ousted president Saddam Hussein have organised a loose network, called the Return, to harass US occupation forces, US and Iraqi officials said yesterday. The group is partially responsible for a string of fatal attacks on American soldiers
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    • 86 6 RECENT college graduates in China are facing unemployment as they compete for a limited number of entry-level professional jobs, reports UPI. This glut in the professional workforce is an unintended effect of Beijing’s four-year-old policy to expand enrolment at colleges and universities by lowering the scholastic
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    • 96 6 TEO Way Yong and Sons is making sure that Singapore stays ahead as the world’s leading exporter of ornamental fish by coming up with vaccines and new breeds of guppies. Last year, the company produced an oral vaccine to prevent fin-rot and ulcers diseases that are
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  • Financial
    • 518 8  -  Beauty business in Singapore still booming despite lean times By Janice Wong EVEN as the forecast for the economy looks bad, women still want to look good, keeping the beauty business booming. For instance, even though air travel is in a tailspin, air stewardess Annis
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    • 457 8 Reuters HONG KONG Global investors are looking to Asian equities once more, with stocks in the US and Europe viewed as overvalued while Asia looks cheap. Foreign funds have been flowing into regional stock markets, with Taiwan in particular a favoured destination and
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    • 24 8 AS AT JUNE 20 US$: S$1.736 S$2.913 EURO: S$2.030 S$: 68.19 YEN S$: RM2.189 S$: HKS4.493 S$: 23.96 BAHT S$: 4,744 RUPIAH
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    • 274 8 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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    • 755 10  -  By Janice Wong SHISEIDO MR Takafiimi Oba says he stumbled upon leading Japanese brand Shiseido. He candidly admits that he had no interest in beauty products initially and hardly uses any now, preferring to let his
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    • 483 12 UAL boss gives advice to business graduates EVANSTON, Illinois UAL Corp chief executive Glenn Tilton took time off on Saturday from dealing with the largest bankruptcy in US airline history, to offer some advice to graduating business school students. Speaking at the convocation ceremony for Northwestern University’s
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    • 473 14 Iraqi Pepsi under siege after sanctions on Baghdad ended -AFP BAGHDAD With Saddam Hussein’s regime gone, an influx of foreign-made cola brands has poured into Baghdad, sparking a cut-throat soft drinks war against the dominant Iraqi Pepsi Cola. Pepsi Cola had been the only cola in
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    • 94 16 Wire services CHIANG MAI The Asia Cooperation Dialogue yesterday launched a US$l billion (S$ 1.73 billion) Asian Bond Fund drawn from their huge central bank reserves to speed development of a regional bond market. Founding countries of the Thai initiative said it will act as
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    • 96 16 SINGAPORE The private placement for new units in Capita Mall Trust (CMT) was 29 times subscribed, CMT said in a statement issued yesterday. CMT said that there was a total of 455.5 million applications for the 15.9 million new units originally offered under the placement.
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    • 487 16 Beckham deal puts focus on irregularities AFP LONDON While David Beckham’s transfer from Manchester United has shown the huge sums that still flow through football, experts say it has also highlighted something else how badly much of this money is sometimes managed. Manchester United, which
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  • Comment
    • 762 18  -  By CONRAD RAJ THE recent announcement by Singapore Airlines that it is considering setting up a separate no-frills carrier is perplexing. Many are asking whether it is a serious business consideration or a defensive move on the part of the national carrier to stave off potential
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    • 705 20  -  By JANICE WONG HIS jokes, once funny, now nauseate you. When he kisses you, you wish he’d hurry up so you can get home in time to watch Friends. Whatever the definitive moment is, you know the relationship is over. In an ideal world,
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  • Global
    • 549 22 A 1 Qaeda man was recruited as FBI spy Wire services WASHINGTON Ohio trucker Iyman Faris, who has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, led a secret double life while plotting with A 1 Qaeda leaders, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. Faris, 34, a naturalised
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    • 353 24 City will be taken off WHO Sars list today, barring new cases Wire services HONG KONG Hong Kong, the world’s second-most Sars-affected city after Beijing, will receive an all-clear from the World Health Organisation today “if there’s no last-minute problem”, WHO spokesman Peter Cordingley said on
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    • 256 24 TEHERAN Iranian student leader Abdollah Momeni is on the run. He is a target of the country’s clerical regime, which is trying to round up student leaders in the wake of days of violent unrest, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. Teheran’s hard-line Revolutionary
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    • 325 26 Homing pigeon headed for UK from France ended up in New York LONDON A homing pigeon has become a star in the US after completing a marathon journey across the Atlantic. The Irish Examiner reported on Saturday that Billy, from the town of Bootle in
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    • 265 27 In Conjunction With 10th Anniversary Great Singapore Sale you get a Slimming Kit (worth $6B) Applicable for new female customers exceeding ideal weight I lost 35kg in a month! ~Ms Tracy Tan 66 Before slimming I weighed 85kg! They called me 'Fat Girt at school! 99 Quick /easY Hurry! Last!
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  • Vocal
    • 237 28 I HAVE seen television advertisements which say that if we spend a minimum of $5O on our Visa cards, we could win $20,000 in the Great Singapore Sale lucky draw. To enter, we must SMS the name of the issuing bank and the amount
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    • 95 28 MUCH has been made of how Singapore Airlines (SIA) is bleeding and how it is imperative that the airline cut costs to stay alive, so there must be retrenchments and salary cuts. However, has anyone asked the management what happened to the 20 years of
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    • 129 28 IN normal circumstances, a company facing financial difficulties will first lay off probationers and contract workers, then cut the pay of existing staff. Retrenchment is only a last resort. It seems that SIA chose the last option first. On the one hand, the company is
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    • 261 28 I REFER to the reply, “DBS exercised early termination option” (Streats, June 18), by Ms Alicia Chua, vice-president, service quality, Consumer Banking Group Singapore, DBS Bank. In Ms Chua’s reply, there was a disturbing redolence of beating about the bush, which appears to be a syndrome
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    • 216 30 THE many complaints about bad or rude service from taxi drivers have prompted taxi operators to introduce a demerit system for them. But an area which has been overlooked is the way many cabbies interact with other road users. Motorists know that many cabbies
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    • 106 30 I REFER to Ms Elise Ho’s letter, “Ml could be more sympathetic to jobless” (Streats, June 13). Ms Ho was told that she had to pay a penalty charge for premature termination of contract as she had signed one with us for the purchase of
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    • 190 30 WE refer to Mr Lim Wui Heng’s letter, “Why is car transfer fee so high?” (Streats, June 19). The transfer fee, levied when a vehicle is transferred from one owner to another, comprises two components. The first component is an administrative fee, which is
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    • 75 30 WE humans should examine our actions instead of blaming animals for the spread of disease. We encroach upon their habitats and we kill wildlife for its exotic meat. The culling of animals not only brings distress to many animal lovers but also makes me
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    • 89 28 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 be
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    • 387 30 Would you condemn your own child for life or invest 4 hours learning to improve his fiIIJ33S3 A Natural Vision Improvement approach to Z C F 4 AVMJLK YTWSHNXUZ ILJKNFTrHSPN Short-sightedness Long-sightedness Middle or Old Age Astigmatism 93.8 Harry Quek had been wearing glasses since 1962. He was myopic, had
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  • Medical
    • 142 32 Q What are the side effects of taking acne treatment medication such as antibiotics for more than 30 years? A Antibiotics work on acne because they reduce the propionibacterium population of the skin and some of the inflammatory changes. For a systematic and proper management of acne, antibiotics
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    • 249 32 Trait marked in brain: study Shyness it may be hardwired EmpText WASHINGTON A tendency to be shy may be an inherited characteristic that is marked by a specific reaction in the brain to the presence of strangers or novel objects, a study suggests. And although people may learn to be
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  • EasyStreats
    • 618 34 A 37-year-old man playing with yo-yos is an uncommon sight. GARYLIM finds out what drove Adrian Lim to set up one of Singapore's most popular yo-yo groups FIVE years ago, Mr Adrian Lim saw his first yo-yo performance, at a shopping mall. He was fascinated. His
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    • 385 34 -ap IN his political satire 1984, British author and socialist Geoige Orwell, who would have been 100 years old on Wednesday, coined the term “Big Brother” to represent an oppressive all-knowing state force. Now, more than 50 years after the writer’s
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    • journeys
      • 926 36 Lulled by pretty flowers and sunshine, PAUL JANSEN wanders into Dachau, only to discover the lingering stench of death. It reminds him of the depravity that J man is capable of THE flowers are brilliant in hell. The ones I saw as I walked past the gates
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    • 566 37  -  By Gary Lim SINCE the Hulk first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1962, the not-so-jolly green giant has undergone several changes in a not-so-smooth journey. Created by artist Jack Kirby and writer-editor Stan Lee, the Hulk was originally a smart, grey, nocturnal character unlike most superhero transformations.
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    • 358 38 PRINCE William achieved a coup of sorts on Saturday. He got the British royal family to dress in African costume for his 21 st birthday bash. Prince William, who is teaching himself Swahili at university in Scotland and loves safari trips to Africa, picked the African
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    • 98 39 WHAT do people learn in weather school? The US National Weather Service announced over the weekend a summer weather-spotter-training class. Subjects include the basics of thunderstorm I development, when severe weather warnings t are issued and summer weather safety tips. The class will also be a
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • Article, Illustration
        41 39 10.30 pm, Channel 5 Ryan becomes a test subject at the Summerholt Research Facility in Metropolis. When Clark finds out about this, he goes there to rescue Ryan, at the risk of placing himself and his family under intense scrutiny.
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      • 47 39 10pm, Channel i When Xinia (Jennifer Beals), a professional thief, discovers that her “chance” meeting with an undercover detective was an investigative set-up, she is forced to seduce him into a passionate trap of her own and make him an unknowing accomplice in a robbery.
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        48 39 THANK GUINNESS IS FUNNY Thursday, 7pm Chijmes Fountain Court If Monday blues are getting you down, start looking forward to great mid-week laughs with Singapore’s well-loved comedians such as Kumar and Irene Ang (right). They entertain with side-splitting standup routines between interludes of live music and games.
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      • 54 39 INNOVATING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE RECESSION Tomorrow, 7pm National Reference Library, General Reference Centre, level 1 (tel: 6332-3255) Free When opportunities come knocking, how do you turn them into viable results? Mr John Seah, the managing director of Everest Innovation, shares practical and easy to apply methods to
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 444 39 Yourdailyhoroscope p AQUARIUS PBCES ARIES JAN 20-FEB 18 FEB 19-MAR 20 XJS V Z MAR21-Y The stars direct your efforts along useful channels. Production secrets are handy in unintended ways. The only people with the power to stop you are those that would never dream of doing so. Dissatisfied Pisces
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  • Sports
    • 568 40 T 1 *1 AJA oor u o u Wire services WIMBLEDON The men’s singles at Wimbledon, beginning today, is shaping up as a battle of the ages with young guns Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick bidding to block Andre Agassi’s drive for a second All England
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    • 123 41 SWIMMING -AFP SYDNEY lan Thorpe yesterday warned about the health risks confronting toplevel swimmers in pursuit of medal glory. The multi world-record holder is in the final stages of preparing for next month’s world championships in Barcelona, and went through his paces at a local grand prix meet
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    • 107 41 ATHLETICS Reuters PALO ALTO, California Maurice Greene eased through his 200 m heats and world indoor champion Tyree Washington ran the fastest 400 m in two years, at a windswept US championships on Saturday. Greene clocked 21.10 sec into a strong headwind of 5.3 m per
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    • 97 41 SOCCER -AFP MADRID European Golden Shoe winner Roy Makaay notched up 100 goals in the Spanish First Division with Deportivo La Coruna’s opener in their 2-1 win over Ijspanyol on Saturday. Roger Garcia opened the scoring for Espanyol after just 12 minutes, but Makaay brought Deportivo
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    • Article, Illustration
      619 41  -  Singapore to bid for 2010 IMF World Cup as showpiece event for sports hub By Lim Han Ming SINGAPORE is set to bid for the athletics World Cup in 2010. It is one of the biggest events in the sport’s calendar after the World Championships. The cream of
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    • Article, Illustration
      300 42 Klitschko ‘destroyed’ by referee’s decision to stop fight Wire services LOS ANGELES Vitali Klitschko reintroduced himself to US fight fans on Saturday, not as the man who quit against Chris Byrd but as a fighter incensed by being forced to quit. “I’m destroyed with this decision,” Klitschko said
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    • 396 43 True colours show US players angry over booing of national anthem Reuters LYON, France For the second straight game, fans at the Confederations Cup booed when the American national anthem was played before the US took the field. The whistling during the “The Star-Spangled Banner” sounded louder at Saturday night’s
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