Streats, 15 July 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com,sg mita (p> 111/03/2003
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  • 715 1  -  Hot on heels of PM’s announcement, NZ company to launch reverse bungee ride at Clarke Quay in Sept By Chug Kong Ho TOURISTS and Singaporeans who take cruises along the Singapore River may soon be greeted with the unlikely sight, and screams, of people strapped
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    • 40 1 PAGE 8 CHECK THE COMPETITION ...says young entrepreneur Lauren Li to those who want to do business in China TRUST YOURSELF That’s the advice of TERRY DENHAM to investors as the bulls rush back into the stock market PAGE 15
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  • Morning Rush
    • 430 2  -  Debit-card holders can now get cash at Watsons, Shaw cinemas after making small purchase By Conrad Raj CITIBANK’S debit-card holders can now get cash of up to $2OO, not only from the company’s head office and branches, but also from 60 Watsons outlets and six
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    • 344 3 Despite NEL launch, retailers hit after Sentosa ferry service stopped MORALE among retailers at the HarbourFront Centre (formerly the World Trade Centre) and Singapore Cruise Centre, rose after the opening of the North-East MRT line on June 20. But that has proven to be short-lived. Business fell days
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    • 184 3 Reuters HONG KONG A visiting Chinese official, speaking in the wake of mass Hong Kong street protests, yesterday said that the demonstrators deserved to be taken seriously. Mr Long Yongtu, a former top trade negotiator, indicated that Beijing had registered the shows of “people
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    • 336 4  -  Experts here dispute US psychologists’ claims By Sarah Ng CAN the popular jasmine tea drunk by people as a soothing beverage cause hallucinations, as claimed by three American psychologists? No, says the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA). There have been no scientific studies
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    • 185 4 Reuters SYDNEY An Australian woman has ripped her way into the record books by giving bikini waxes to 130 people in four hours without any apparent mishap. Ms Lareesa Guttery (pictured at right with a client), a beauty therapist in the western city of Perth, claimed
      – Reuters; Reuters  -  185 words
    • 255 4 -AFP BEIJING Chinese-Dutch tycoon Yang Bin, picked by North Korea to run a short-lived free trade zone, was yesterday sentenced to 18 years in jail for fraud, his lawyers and family members said. “Yes, he has been sentenced to 18 years,” one of his
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    • 124 6 BUZZSTOP SINGAPORE senior managers are the seventh-highest paid in the world but slide to 17th place in terms of the buying power of their salaries, according to a global survey. The survey, by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, also found that Hong
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    • 58 6 A couple getting cosy on the steps leading to the Singapore River at Clarke Quay. The pavement there had been closed during construction of the North East Line, which took nearly seven years to complete. But, the reopening of the walkway there has already attracted
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    • 129 6 Looking East THE National University of Singapore (NUS) is introducing a course on working in China, the China studies course. It will be open to NUS students starting their lessons in January. Students will learn about China’s culture, history and recent developments in politics and economics,
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    • 145 6 Myopia blues WITH kids here reading and using computers from when they are two years old, it is no wonder that myopia is striking children here even before they enter primary school. A new survey found out that one in five second-year pre-schoolers
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    • 133 6 Unprecedented move THE US is on a manhunt and the person at the centre of it is Saddam Hussein. American intelligence organisations and military forces, once forbidden from attempts to assassinate foreign leaders by the executive orders of two recent presidents, have now embarked
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    • 89 6 Bloomberg HEALTH Minister Lim Hng Kiang will leave the ministry on Aug 1. He will be a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, and continue as Second Minister for Finance. In his capacity in the Prime Minister’s Office, he will focus on policies dealing
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    • 101 6 -AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday said during a visit to Ukraine that his country was looking at military purchases from this ex-Soviet republic, in particular anti-aircraft systems. “We are studying closely the possibility of satisfying our needs from Ukraine. We have already had
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    • 80 6 Reuters INDIA said yesterday that it would not send peacekeeping troops to Iraq without a UN mandate, rejecting a request from Washington for help in the war-tom nation. New Delhi had earlier opposed the US-led war against Iraq. However, Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said that India was
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    • 85 6 -AP MALAYSIA’S Turtle and Marine Ecosystem Centre yesterday launched a programme that allows people to “adopt” a turtle for RM2O (559.25), said the sanctuary’s director, Mr Kamarmddin Ibrahim. Each participant will be considered a sponsor for one of scores of turtles that are tagged when they come
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  • Financial
    • 724 8  -  Lauren Li quit a steady job in a top legalfirm to become a guide to Singapore companies which want to do business in China ffoi 1 jtrepreneurs By_ CfwtmgChoonYee FOR China business consultant Lauren Li, 26, to be young is to be bold. She quit her job as
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    • 461 10 Bangkok project being delayed by contractors watching their backs -AFP BANGKOK Building work at the much-delayed new international airport here is being hampered by mistrust between the contractor, developer and designer who are fearful of legal action, a report said yesterday. The Bangok Post quoted Transport
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    • 440 10 -AFP MANILA A court ruling stripping tycoon Eduardo Cojuangco (pictured) of control of United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) could also lead to the Philippine government’s possible takeover of brewer San Miguel Corp, an official said on Sunday. The anti-graft Sandiganbayan court
      -AFP; AFP  -  440 words
    • 71 10 SINGAPORE SembCorp Industries has made a $16.6 million gain from open-market sale of 1,000,000 shares in Pacific Internet. At $2 a share, the sale, which ended last Saturday, netted the company gross proceeds of US$ll.5 million (5520.2 million). SembCorp Industries’ stake in PacNet has now reduced from
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    • 87 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Shares in beverage group Fraser Neave (F&N) hit a near six-year high yesterday as investors snapped up what some analysts described as an “undervalued” stock. The index-linked stock closed 4.2 per cent higher at $9.85 after hitting a high of $lO.lO earlier. Volume was 1.448
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    • 93 10 Reuters SINGAPORE South-east Asia’s biggest property group, Capita Land, said yesterday that it was in talks with Dubai’s Emaar Properties and several other groups interested in investing in its US$lOO million (Ssl76 million) China property fund. Last July, Capita Land announced plans for a China property fund, which
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    • 132 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR German luxury car maker BMW will take over the distribution of its vehicles in Malaysia ahead of market liberalisation here in 2005, a report said yesterday. BMW will sign a pact today with local franchise Sime Darby to set up a joint venture company,
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    • 160 12 -AFP SHANGHAI Three major US film studios have reportedly filed suit for alleged copyright violations against three Chinese companies. In the first action of its kind in Shanghai, Fox Entertainment’s Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp, Walt Disney Co, and French-owned Vivendi Universal’s Universal Studios
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    • 506 12 After a decade of reforms, India enjoying fruits of labour -AFP NEW DELHI As one of the six fastest-growing economies in the world, India is beginning to reap the benefits of ffee-market reforms launched over a decade ago, analysts and government officials say. Mr Sunil Kant Munjal,
      -AFP; AFP  -  506 words
    • 410 14 STI: 1,574.46 A 29.62 Reuters SHARES rose to their best levels in a year in the heaviest volume in four years yesterday as strength in global equity markets and hopes of an economic rebound lifted blue chips such as Singapore Airlines and banks. “We believe low
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    • 24 14 *AS AT JULY 14 US$: 551.755 552.852 EURO: 551.977 Ss: 66.99 YEN Ss: RM2.166 Ss: HK54.445 Ss: 23.66 BAHT Ss: 4,688 RUPIAH
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  • Comment
    • 629 15  -  By TERRY DENHAM NO one with the slightest interest in the world economy could have failed to notice the tantalisingly encouraging rally in the stock indexes. This uptrend finally looks like one that has the X-factor essential for sustainability: bullish sentiment
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  • Vocal
    • 272 16 AS a retrenched worker, I answered the Government’s call to upgrade my skills by applying to take advantage of various job-training incentives and subsidised courses funded by government bodies. But I was rejected. In April, I applied to the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) to
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    • 244 16 MY friends and I, like many keen soccer players in Singapore, find it tough to get a pitch to play on at the weekends. To our dismay and frustration, many school soccer pitches are closed. The Singapore Sports Council may claim that pitches are open for
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    • 224 17 MR Philip Lee made some pertinent points in his commentary, “Fix the grammar, then talk...” (Streats, July 11). His observation of the fractured English inundating street interviews aired on television is a case in point. It does seem to me that grammar is indeed
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    • 397 17 I REFER to “Is it OK for your kids to be openly gay?” (Streats, July 11), Mr Peter Wong’s letter of response to Ms Adeline Woon’s commentary, “Get this straight: Bigotry is not a family value” (Streats, July 10, above). Firstly, it is obviously erroneous
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    • 295 17 ON July 9 at 10.10 pm, I queued for a taxi at the stand in front of DBS Bank at Raffles City. There were about 15 people in the queue, and after 20 minutes had passed, not one of us had
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  • Global
    • 153 18 Wire services JAKARTA -A bomb jolted Indonesia’s parliament yesterday, police said, causing only minor damage. The explosion, in the basement of a building that is the symbolic heart of Indonesia’s fledgling democracy, was the latest blow to a country grappling with Muslim militant groups and ethnic rebellions.
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    • 233 18 Escape a ‘major breach of security’ Wire services MANILA Indonesian militant Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi (pictured), who was part of a plot to bomb targets in Singapore, escaped from a high-security police jail at the national police headquarters in Manila yesterday after serving just one year
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    • 175 18 SYDNEY North Korea has enough plutonium to build a dozen atomic bombs, some within months, a key South Korean intelligence figure warned on Sunday. This was revealed as reports said that Pyongyang had finished reprocessing 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant late last
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    • 176 20 PITTSBURGH -A US judge annulled a woman’s two-month marriage after she said she didn’t remember the ceremony because she was hospitalised in critical condition on a respirator, and taking powerful drugs for pneumonia and depression at the time her attorney said. Ms Alma Tremmel was taking
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    • 67 20 Doctors in Indonesia are studying the possibility of separating these twins, born on Saturday in the west Javanese town of Bandung. They have separate heads and chests, but are fused at the stomach. This announcement comes soon after the operation to separate adult Iranian twins Ladan and
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    • 330 20 Claim that Iraq was seeking uranium based on data from Paris: reports LONDON The French were a thorn in Britain’s side when they led the anti-war campaign, and now they appear to have sparked a chain of events that threatens to discredit the case for
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    • 143 20 SYDNEY Mainland Chinese students in Australia are increasingly getting involved in violent crime, a community leader has said. The claim was made as four Chinese students, two from Wollongong University, were due to be charged yesterday with the kidnapping of Sydney restaurant
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  • Medical
    • 353 22 40% of hepatitis C patients don’t benefit: study Reuters CHICAGO People with hepatitis C whose livers remain healthy may be better off not undergoing drug treatment, researchers said last week. The recommended 48-week course of treatment for the blood-borne virus, which costs in excess of
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  • EasyStreats
    • 694 24  -  Chinese dramas have thrived on stock characters for too long. It’s time to shake up the formula Tellytubby B, YVONNE KWOK LET’S say you are a girl who looks an awful lot like Evelyn Tan and you’ve just been stood up by your boyfriend, would you: a)
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    • 339 24  -  By. Ashleigh Sim IF the thought of finding an 1862 marmalade jar at Fort Canning Hill excites you, join an archaeology workshop this weekend. And if you believe that archaeology is only for white bearded professors stomping around Egyptian pyramids, think again. Archaeologist-guide Lim
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    • 452 26 It was an afternoon of giddy pleasure as YVONNE KWOK watched Streats readers sampling six Italian wines at the second Streats Wine Masterclass IT was only 4pm last Saturday, but there were already ruddy faces in the room something that you would usually associate with a night
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    • 576 28  -  ***** m By Sharon Soh WHEN Shiro opened three years ago, it created a buzz on the fine dining scene with its exclusivity. The 30-seater restaurant is set in an upscale residential area, has high prices, a radical interior and polished Japanese dishes, i Entry is by
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    • 105 29 The building of a rainwater harvesting system has run into rough weather in Chennai, with police called in to calm two citizens’ k groups each claiming to be the ones authorised to perform the works. The tank is at the Parasurameswarar temple, The Hindu reported. Most
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 74 29 10pm, Channel 5 Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) is a 10th grader who has never gone on a date, as her parents have a rule where she isn’t allowed to go out with boys until her older sister gets a boyfriend. The problem is, while
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      • 66 29 9pm, Channel U Zhiming hints to Yingtong that she should honour her word and resign. However, the chief tries to keep her. Yingtong knows that Yaodong was helping her secretly and is unhappy. She tells her family that she intends to quit. Yingyi is worried
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    • Happenin’
      • 71 29 TOGETHER WITH TATSUMI HUIKATA Today and tomorrow, Bpm Theatre Studio, The Esplanade Tickets at s26from Sistic Akiko Motofuji met her husband Tatsumi Hijikata, the co-founder of Butoh in 1956. Since Hijikata’s death in 1986, Motofuji has endeavoured to keep the sprit of Butoh alive. This performance by her and
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      • Article, Illustration
        66 29 ATOMIC JAYA Till Thursday, Bpm DBS Arts Centre (20, Merhau Road) Tickets from $29 to $39 at Sistic (call 6348-5555) Wickedly funny and deliciously politically incorrect, Atomic Jay a is playwright Huzir Sulaiman’s take on what would happen if Malaysia decided to build an atomic bomb, and the consequent
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    • 85 29 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. ■Ss 11 Perke 12 Ter 13 Ikan 14 Sam 15 Sa ap ng J #j§ Ikan 16 19 Otak Tahu 20 17 Ayam Goreng
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 436 29 Yourdailyhoroscope nr P AQUARIUS pms JAN2O-FEB 18 J W FEB 19-MAR2O Right now you defy categorisation. Show the world what you are and dare it to come up with a name. Independent thinkers follow their passions further than ever. You have potential, but make sure you’re on the right path.
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  • Sports
    • 518 31  -  Avramovic will field two teams to give every player a chance By Tan Kim Han NATIONAL football coach Raddy Avramovic (right) will reveal his team of the future at the R Palakrishnan memorial match against the S-League All-Stars at Jalan Besar Stadium tonight. Yesterday, he split the Lions
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    • 470 33 Armstrong’s Tour rivals go on the offensive Wire services L’ALPE D’HUEZ, France Lance Armstrong’s (above) main rivals in the Tour de France showed they were a force to be reckoned with as they tested the four-time winner’s dominance. Armstrong took over as leader after a third-placed finish
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    • 99 33 CYCLING -AFP GAP, France Kazakh rider Alexandre Vinokourov won the ninth stage of the Tour de France, a 184.5 km ride from Bourg d’Oisans to here, yesterday. Lance Armstrong of the US Postal held on to the race leader’s yellow jersey. He received a huge boost to his
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    • 122 33 BASKETBALL -AFP ATLANTIC BEACH, North Carolina Washington Wizards guard Jerry Stackhouse was arrested on Sunday on a misdemeanour assault charge brought by a woman, police said. The incident allegedly occurred in a dispute over a beach house, according to Chris Fuller of the Atlantic Beach Police Department. Stackhouse,
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    • 92 33 SOCCER -Reuters MEXICO CITY An 80th-minute glancing header by striker Jared Borgetti handed Mexico a 1-0 win over Brazil in the Concacaf Gold Cup on Sunday, saving the home side from an embarrassing result against Brazil’s under-23 side. After rounding Brazilian defender Maicon on the left flank, substitute
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    • 383 35 -AFP LOCH LOMOND, Scotland Ernie Els (right) heads to the British Open armed with the belief that he has the mental strength to cope with anything Tiger Woods can throw at him. The defending champion will arrive at Royal St George’s in buoyant mood after
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    • 557 35 Batistuta is latest ageing superstar bound for Qatar, the destination of choice for those nearing retirement Bloomberg DOHA Pele, soccer’s greatest player, decamped to New York 28 years ago to help launch a US professional league in America and boost his pension. Today’s ageing
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 34 33 IN THE LIVING ROOM POOL World Championships, Day 4 Ist session (9pm). 2nd session (tomorrow, 2am) Star Sports Ch 24. DELAYED TELECAST CYCLING: Tour de France highlights, Stage 9 (ESPN Ch 23, 7.30 pm).
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    • 462 34 a i 1 few: i I ImMMM m m m 1 K site A NEW SCHOOL OF THOUGHT Allow yourself to look at things differently. After all, life is about broadening horizons and seeing new possibilities. As the leader in open learning, SIM Open University Centre (SIM-OUC) primes you for
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