Streats, 2 July 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p> 111/03/2003
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  • 622 1 /TV Peter lim to marry woman at centre of his acrimonious divorce MILLIONAIRE businessman Peter Lim, the ex-remisier in the centre of the Raffles Town Club (RTC) legal tussle in 2001, is to wed former TV actress Cherie Lim, his girlfriend of eight years. She
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    • 41 1 LEE HAN SM HDB’s generosity with public funds raises an $84,000 question CHUA KONG HO Air Asia boss Tony Fernandes ADAM HASHIDY S-League club chairmen plan is seen as a one-man rock-and-roll act to blacklist 3 players penalised over football bets
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  • Morning Rush
    • 715 2  -  Tony Fernandes, who launched budget upstart Air Asia, is fast becoming media darling By Chita Kong Ho IT IS fashionable to describe founders of budget airlines as mavericks. Think Virgin Blue’s Richard Branson, billionaire adventurer and businessman, or Southwest Airline’s chain-smoking, whisky-chugging founder Herb Kelleher. Then there’s
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    • 634 3  - AirAsia boss flies into Singapore on MAS Chua Kong Ho MR TONY Fernandes, Malaysia’s wizard of budget travel, wants to fly you from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur for the price of two large pizzas. The Air Asia chief executive told reporters yesterday that the fare, $5O, was realistic if he
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    • 539 4  -  3 S-League club chairmen take tough line on footballers suspended for betting, leaking information Adam Haskidy BAR them from the S-League for life. The call to disallow suspended footballers Mohd Noor Ali, Ali Imran Lomri and Effendi Zainal from playing in the S-League was
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    • 115 6 BUZZSTOP PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf has caused an uproar after telling his mainly Muslim country to seriously consider recognising Israel. His remarks have raised tempers in Pakistan, where most people consider Israel an illegal occupier of Arab lands Said Gen Musharraf on Sunday: “The debate
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    • 32 6 US soldiers of the Ist Brigade Combat Team, Ist Armoured Division, standing to attention at the Iraqi Martyr’s Monument in Baghdad on Tuesday during the change of command ceremony AFP
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    • 140 6 Terror attacks feared Reuters THAI authorities have set up checkpoints at the US, Australian and British embassies in Bangkok as intelligence reports of attacks planned on foreign nationals sparked heightened security for the second time this week, Australian radio said yesterday. There was no immediate comment
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    • 123 6 Five-star toilets THE Government has extended its toilet renovation grant scheme to coffee shops in pre-war shophouses, after four in five failed to meet hygiene standards. The scheme, started last July, offers to pay half the cost of toilet renovation, up to $5,000. Already, 465
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    • 147 6 US super-weapons in the works THE Pentagon is planning a new generation of weapons, including hypersonic drones and bombs dropped from space, that will allow the US to strike its enemies at lightning speed from its own territory. Britain’s The Guardian said yesterday that over the
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    • 93 6 Reuters MAS Selamat Kastari, the alleged chief of Jemaah Islamiah’s (JI) Singapore cell, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison in Indonesia for immigration violations. Mr Mulianto, an official at the Dumai court in Riau province on Sumatra island, said that Mas Selamat was
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    • 101 6 THE attack on a 23-year-old woman jogger at Macßitchie Reservoir on Monday morning has been described by police as a case of “aggravated outrage of modesty”. That means that the attacker used violence or the threat of it while sexually molesting or groping the woman, The
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    • 92 6 AFP INDIAN Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said India will study the feasibility of starting a train from New Delhi to Hanoi, according to a report in The Indian Express newspaper yesterday. Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung had proposed the continental train service to Mr Sinha at
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    • 97 6 AN armed robber serving a six-year sentence in the UK got his wish when a Cambridge judge sentenced him to three more years behind bars. Gary Cowan, a career criminal with 184 previous convictions for theft, burglary and shoplifting, confessed to three other crimes so that he
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  • Financial
    • 559 8  -  Syscom boss hopes Stamford Road location will push up profit by 40% By Oh Boon Ping WHEN Mr Chew Choon How, 45, opened his first boarding house, called Syscom, in Ang Mo Kio 10 years ago, he had only one guest an Indonesian student. And the boarding
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    • 274 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Private residential property prices slipped to fresh four-year lows in the second quarter, according to data released yesterday. But prices appear to be hitting bottom, said analysts. New launches and home-buying activity picked up sharply in the quarter, following a
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    • 65 8 SINGAPORE Singapore Post has sold off its 36.8 per cent stake in S-Net Freight (Holdings) to the company’s shareholders. S-Net shareholders bought the 3.27 million shares for $3.68 million. Sing Post decided to divest its stake as it “no longer fits the long-term strategic objectives of the
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    • 131 8 SINGAPORE Singapore Exchange’s derivatives market recorded an all-time high volume of 3,733,596 contracts in June, surpassing the last record of 3,611,883 contracts, set in July last year. Another record was set when total trading volume for derivatives reached its highest for any January-June period, with 17,645,280
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    • 73 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Links Island Holdings Ltd, a dredging company based here, said its chairman, Windstedt Chong, has been charged with manipulating the price of its stock. Chong has appointed lawyers and denies the charges, Links Island said in a statement to the stock exchange. He was charged
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    • 74 8 Reuters PHILADELPHIA Bankrupt telephone network operator Global Crossing Ltd said on Monday that it posted a wider loss in May, compared with April, even as revenues rose. The company posted a net loss of US$B6 million (Sslsl million) in May, compared with a loss of US$75 million
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    • 346 11 ‘Stop tie-up and we’ll drop international routes’ Wire services WELLINGTON Air New Zealand yesterday rejected regulators’ concerns about soaring fares if its proposed alliance with Australian carrier Qantas goes ahead, and warned that it may ditch its international routes if the deal is blocked.
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    • 280 11 Reuters BERLIN A German hangar, designed to house the world’s largest airship, could end up housing the world’s largest indoor tropical rainforest instead. Malaysian entrepreneur Colin Au unveiled plans on Monday to turn the hangar near Berlin into a multi-million-euro tropical theme park in a joint
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    • 373 12 STI: 1,457.18 9.29 Reuters THE market kicked off the third quarter with gains yesterday as investors picked up blue chips such as DBS Group after its dip on the previous day, but analysts said that the market looks due for a correction. The Straits Times Index
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    • 24 12 *AS AT JULY 1 US$: 551.758 552.906 EURO: 552.029 Ss: 68.09 YEN Ss: RM2.161 Ss: HK54.435 Ss: 23.85 BAHT Ss: 4,686 RUPIAH
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    • 501 13 m hi Slim Queen! This Fairy Tale Is Real! Successful Slimming After Only 7 Vz Weeks! Ml Miss Asia Turns 'Big'! Miss Asia 1999 Befinda Hamnett has all the makings of a star. Tali, svelte, gorgeous, and with a charming smile that could melt hearts. It is little wonder then
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  • Comment
    • 1069 14  -  By LEE HAN SHIH ON Monday, the Housing Board showed itself to be the most generous of employers: It “retrenched” 2,630 staff, but gave them enough money to each buy a three-room flat for retirement. Its generosity is hurting Singapore badly. The restructuring of
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    • 159 15 I K When you carit wait that long Zro/> /V/ to Foodfare Express Start your day with a bang by making a dash to Foodfare Express. Here, you get what you want to I■ eQ t at the speed of light. in II Wmi. mm-Mm (ch*«r North: Admiralty MRT Ang
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  • Global
    • 525 17 Los Angeles Times ALBY, Sweden Free Aceh Movement (GAM) founder Hasan di Tiro has many titles. Prince. Sultan. Guardian of the State. He is the Tengku, the hereditary leader of the Acehnese people who, as he once wrgte, would
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    • 345 17 MADRID The belief that children can derive from human matter that has not itself been bom is from the realms of science fiction. But it has moved a step closer with research showing that it is possible to extract ovarian tissue from aborted foetuses
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    • 168 17 AFP BEIJING -A Chinese woman has become the first to launch a sexual harassment lawsuit in Beijing. The woman is suing her former supervisor in only the third such case in the country to go to trial. The case, filed in March and heard in
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    • 196 18 JAKARTA In what could be the beginning of a trend, a second Indonesian businessman has sued a news magazine for defamation. Property tycoon and banker Tomy Winata is seeking 200 billion rupiah (5542.6 million) in damages from Tempo news weekly. Its March 4 edition
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    • 341 18 China analysts see conflict between Hu and Jiang camps BEIJING China President and Communist Party leader Hu Jintao and his predecessor, Mr Jiang Zemin, have yet to openly disagree on any matter. In public, Mr Hu, 60, is cautious and deferential even obsequious to Mr Jiang,
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    • 141 18 PREPARATION COURSES GMAT afeMMM is. A,.. Starting 15 July 2003 (Tue) TOEFL Improve your test performance skills Small class size, with dedicated qualified instructors Includes computerized practice test (TOEFL) and mock exam (GMAT) For information, call Linda at Tel: 6223 4566 or Email: linda@cae.edu.sg Center for American Education Center for
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  • Vocal
    • 237 20 I WRITE to register my disappointment about the recent scheme in which $220 million of taxpayers’ money was spent on retrenching HDB staff, some of whom were promptly offered permanent full-time jobs again by its subsidiary. This golden handshake was a misuse of public funds
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    • 316 20 I REFER to reports about many retrenched HDB staff getting jobs at the new HDB Corp. I am staggered by the revelation that the $220 million reportedly paid out for the HDB golden handshake package will take the HDB 10 years to recoup in manpower
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    • 410 23 WE have been repeatedly told about the “benefits” brought about by the North-East Line (NEL), “the world’s first fully automated heavy rail system”. To me, however, the benefits have so far been intangible, and I have not experienced what was promised. Does ground-breaking
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    • 143 20 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@spllXOm.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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    • 536 23 Flat Rental for Foreigners Whole HDB Flats Low Rental Don’t Miss This Opportunity h/p: 9100 9203 6885 5325/6/7 6885 5315/6/7 A TALK ON "BUYING A HOUSE FENG SHUI" Topics covered include: Your personal feng-shui type Which floor is suitable? Orientation of the house Shape of Estate/ building Selection of suitable
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  • Medical
    • 247 25  -  By Oh Boon Ping ORAL thrush is caused by the Candida fungus, a type of yeast. This infection, which occurs on the moist surfaces of the tongue, palate, cheeks or lips, is fairly common among adults and may infect infants. Candida is usually present in our
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    • 339 25 Study: Elderly caregivers suffer Reuters NEW YORK Caregivers often neglect their own health, or, in the face of the other person’s illness, ignore the stress that they suffer. But they do so at the risk of their own health. Investigators have found that older people under
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    • 155 25 QWhat are the side effects of taking acne medication roaccutane for six years? What else, besides taking the drug, can Ido to treat my acne problem? A There should be no significant side effects if you are under the supervision of a doctor or dermatologist. There is no
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  • EasyStreats
    • 726 27 A M’sian iuo is making waves oif both sides of the Causeway, arid at least one of them ewes some of the credit to Mum and Dad. ZUBAIDAH NAZEER finds out THE last time Joe Flizzow (right) and Malique of Too Phat was here for the MTV
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    • 267 28 SEAN Connery’s would-be Irish accent in the A 1 Capone gangster movie, The Untouchables, has been voted the worst movie accent of all time, according to British entertainment magazine Empire. (Even beating the oft-mocked and exaggerated Cockney tones of Dick Van Dyke in Mary
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    • 132 28 BAD boy rapper Eminem has found support from an unexpected quarter esteemed 64-year-old Irish poet Seamus Heaney. The former professor of poetry at Oxford University and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature had been speaking before the start of the Prince of Wales’ Educational
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    • 661 30  -  With its first studio album in six years, a new bassist and lots of rehab, rock icon Metallica has climbed back from the edge ofextinction to the top of the music charts By Yvonne Kwok ONLY two years ago, thrash metal giant Metallica was bracing itself for
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    • 99 31 NOW for some udderly cool news. US dairy farmers are trying to keep their cows from getting too hot in the summer. The Kansas City Star reported yesterday that hot weather can cause a loss of 5 to 10kg of milk a day for each herd
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        68 31 10pm, Central This French movie is about the Yamakasi, a real-life group of daredevils who jump off, across and on buildings for fun. They find themselves using their unique physical talents to save the life of a boy who hurt himself copying them. He needs money for surgery, and
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      • 43 31 Bpm, Channel U An honest bank branch manager succumbs to a cousin’s drugs moneylaundering scheme when he learns that this might give him a way to rekindle his relationship with his first love Ah Yan. But the ICAC is watching.
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    • Happenin’
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        58 31 MUSUEM OF THE COLONIAL POST COLONIAL Saturday till July 20, llam-9pm The Substation Gallery Free An exhibition of digital photographic works that present multiple readings of the politics of representation and cultural difference. These fictional “archives” of historical and ethnographic photographs suggest alternatives to post-colonial histories and also offer
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      • 80 31 SING TO THE DAWN Friday and Saturday, 2.30 pm and 8.30 pm Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel Tickets from $l5 to $2O (e-mail stageitticketing@sa.smu.edu.sg or call 9451-2474) A musical adaptation of Minfong Ho’s original book with music by Dick Lee. Set in the heart of a small Thai village, it
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    • 276 29 can ONE HAIR CARE SESSION Just $1 for an exclusive Yun Nam Hair Care session. Why? Because research shows Singaporeans believe Yun Nam is the most effective hair care centre! Do you believe it? Want to prove it for yourself? The chance is here! During the Great Singapore Sale, we
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    • 103 31 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. \v\er 9 M c r* PNP V»V -Tj'*' -9 -|r IM. SSI 'ft 1 j C \o^ &v m A». C fe f <J«t(»»»
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 452 31 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Aquarius craves dense experiences. You’d prefer something pleasant, but you’ll take a physically demanding challenge if that’s what the universe gives you. Someone jeopardises your focus by asking questions. TAURUS Jr# APR 20-MAY 20 A bill comes due that you’d
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  • Sports
    • 263 32 Wire services WIMBLEDON Kim Clijsters (right) rallied to beat Italian Silvia Farina Elia 5-7, 6-0, 6-1 yesterday to reach her first Wimbledon semi-final. The second-seeded Belgian has now reached at least the semi-finals of all 11 events she has played this year, winning four
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    • Article, Illustration
      626 32 Despite agonising defeat, Agassi squashes retirement talk Wire services WIMBLEDON Andre Agassi (below) has not finished with Wimbledon yet. This year’s campaign ended with him being shot down in five sets by Australia’s Mark Philippoussis in the fourth round. Philippoussis won 6-3, 2-6, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-4.
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    • 408 33 -AFP LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson (below) has been exposed as a dressing room bully who rules Old Trafford by fear. Argentine star Juan Sebastien Veron says Fergie’s infamous “flying boot” incident with David Beckham last season was not a one-off. He
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    • 618 33  -  Tough-talking national coach Avramovic expects results all the time Tan Kim Han HE has the hottest seat in Singapore sport. Yet Radojko “Raddy” Avramovic, the newly appointed national football coach, is confident that he will not get burnt even though six coaches have been scalded since 1990. English
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    • 547 34  -  Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT The Straits Times SANTA CLAUS joined us for a drink last Friday. Beer flowed and tidbits occupied every available space on the table meant for four. Half an hour later, there were eight of us, then 12. At the end of
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    • SOCCER
      • 100 34 -AFP PARIS Manchester United chief executive Peter Kenyon has been told he can have Paris St Germain’s Brazil World Cup star Ronaldinho for 45 million euros (Ss9l million). Said PSG president Francis Graille: “If they come with an offer of 45 million euros, things can move very
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      • 108 34 LONDON Chelsea’s Italian star Gianfranco Zola was reported yesterday to have decided to leave London to finish his career on his island home of Sardinia with Cagliari. The Daily Mirror said Zola met his agent and lawyer, Fulvio Marmcco, in Sardinia on Monday to confirm the
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      • 104 34 AFP BANGKOK Arsenal, Chelsea and Inter Milan may have rebuffed Thailand’s invitation to play here. But the country’s sports minister says he’s set his sights on Real Madrid. The Nation yesterday quoted Tourism and Sports Minister Sontaya Kunplome as saying that the government is willing to spend
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 39 34 IN THE LIVING ROOM GOLF: US Women’s Open Championship, Preview (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, sam). TENNIS: Wimbledon Championships: Men's singles q-finals (Star Sports Ch 24, 7pm). DELAYED TELECAST TENNIS: Wimbledon Championships, day 8 highlights (Star Sports Ch 24, Bam).
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    • 280 36 In Conjunction With 7 Oth Anniversary Great Singapore Sale you get a Slimming Kit (worth $6B) In Conjunction With 7 '’ol i f,St v j. is Applicable for new female customers exceeding ideal weight Quick leasY I lost 35kg in a month! —Ms Tracy Tan 66 Before slimming I weighed
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