Streats, 16 July 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2003 E-maii: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p> m/03/2003'
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  • 485 1  -  Despite upturn, SIA sees M-year loss By Conrad Raj THE seats and baggage holds of Singapore Airlines’ passenger jets are filling up nicely, now that Sars is gone, but the national carrier is still expected to post a loss for the current financial year which ends in March
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  • Article, Illustration
    148 1 -AFP MANILA South-east Asian governments yesterday mounted a massive manhunt for a top Jemaah Islamiah bomb expert who escaped from a Philippine jail, amid warnings he could launch fresh attacks in the region. A “general alarm” has been raised by the Philippine military and police forces as well
    -AFP  -  148 words
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  • Morning Rush
    • 326 2  -  So much from so many for so little By_ Shervin Seah FOR three days, from Aug 1 to 3, more than 40 local and international restaurants, bakeries, pubs, and food and beverage suppliers will showcase their specialty cuisines, desserts and beverages here. All the goodies will
      Ashleigh Sim  -  326 words
    • 294 2  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer FOUR days after British Petroleum (BP) raised its petrol prices by 5 cents, it has made a U-tum. This was mainly because it saw that its competitors had not followed suit. Mr Matthew Yap, BP’s regional manager, said: “We pulled
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    • 388 3 India applauds as Pakistan’s ‘bus baby has heart surgery -AFP BANGALORE A two-year-old Pakistani girl, who has come to symbolise the new thaw in ties between rivals India and Pakistan, underwent successful heart surgery yesterday amid a national outpouring of goodwill. Indian doctors operated to mend holes in
      -AFP; AFP  -  388 words
    • 362 4  -  By Gary Lim MINGLYANNA Gaku Surudoi might not be a Singaporean, but the 14-year-old Indonesian will still be in a festive mood as Singapore celebrates its 38th birthday at the National Stadium on Aug 9. Two of the 150 street-art pieces now decorating
      Gary Lim  -  362 words
    • 422 4  -  Zubaidah Nazeer IF you were to shut your eyes and listen to the rapid-fire sentences in Japanese that Ms Amutha Meyyappan (above right, with her father) utters, you would think she was Japanese. This former Raffles Junior College (RJC) student’s passion for the language is even
      Edwin Koo  -  422 words
    • 146 6 BUZZSTOP -AFP SINGAPORE’S Sars-buffeted economy will most likely pull itself out of negative growth and avoid a recession this year, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday as it released its annual report. MAS managing director Koh Yong Guan said that annual growth
      -AFP  -  146 words
    • 169 6 US terror suspect’s trial AP THE US Justice Department on Monday defied a judge in Alexandria, Virginia, and refused to make A 1 Qaeda witness Ramzi Binalshibh available to terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui even though the move could lead to a dismissal of the case.
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    • 137 6 Cars drive up numbers Reuters RETAIL sales here jumped a seasonally adjusted 10.9 per cent in May from April, fuelled by strong car sales and a post-Sars recovery at shopping malls. From a year earlier, retail sales surged 18.6 per cent six times most economists’ predictions
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    • 44 6 Spectators watching fireworks exploding near the Eiffel Tower as part of Bastille Day celebrations in Paris on Monday. Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille, a French prison, in 1789. This day marks the start of the French Revolution AP
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    • 137 6 RETRENCHMENT does not take place only as a last resort, when the “red ink” is flowing. This is an old perception which stems from what labour chief Lim Boon Heng called the lack of understanding of the changes in a highly competitive marketplace. While he does not
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    • 84 6 AN RSAF helicopter crash-landed during a training exercise in Australia yesterday, the Ministry of Defence said. All four people on board survived. One of the crew members suffered a broken leg and an injured back. All four are stable and in hospital, where the other three are
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    • 94 6 UNLIKE most Housing Board owners, permanent residents (PRs) are not enthusiastic about upgrading in their estates. They can pay up to 14 times more for upgrading work and are not entitled to vote during such exercises. As a result, they try to sell their flats early to
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    • 84 6 -AFP JAPANESE researchers have found that an anti-Aids medicine already sold commercially restrains an increase in the Sars virus. Researchers at Kyoto University and other Japanese medical institutes have found that the extinction ratio of cells infected with the Sars virus declines to some 10 per
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    • 101 6 -AFP CANADA is advising its citizens who were bom in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau not to include their country of birth on their passports over fears that they will be refused visas to China. Ms Janice Vogtle, vice-consul of public affairs at the Canadian consulate-general in
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    • 556 7 Ist ingapore Standin QUALITY CLASS for Private Education Organisations The External Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) congratulates Stansfield College on being awarded Singapore Quality Class award for Private Education Organisations. This is a wonderful achievement for all: staff and students, past, present and future.
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  • Financial
    • 397 8  -  Protiviti will also offer internal audit to listed companies By Chua Kong Ho ONE of the United States’ largest independent risk consulting and internal audit firms has set up shop here, with the acquisition of an eightmember practice made up of former Andersen consultants. Protiviti
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    • 489 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said that its move last week to adjust its currency target will be enough to pull the economy out of its biggest slump on record. MAS, which tries to keep its exchange rate
      – Bloomberg; AFP  -  489 words
    • 78 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Telecommunications Ltd said that it has saved $350 million by sharing resources and jointly developing new products with its Optus unit in Australia. The savings have come in areas including the management of phone networks, computer systems and satellite operations, the company said in
      – Bloomberg  -  78 words
    • 95 8 -AFP WASHINGTON The White House yesterday called a reported US$45O billion (Ss79o billion) shortfall for this fiscal year “manageable” and predicted that it would halve the US federal budget deficit “over the next few years.” “The deficit remains a concern, but it’s... manageable,” said spokesman Scott McClellan.
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    • 84 8 Bloomberg LONDON ÜBS AG, Europe’s biggest bank, was “careless” in drafting and valuing options on a bond for Tenaga Nasional Bhd, ÜBS’s lawyer told the High Court here. ÜBS is suing Tenaga, claiming that it is owed US$B6.9 million (S$ 152.5 million) from options it bought on
      – Bloomberg  -  84 words
    • 76 8 Bloomberg NEW YORK Morgan Stanley misled regulators investigating whether it pressured brokers to sell in-house mutual funds. New York Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer and the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Galvin are probing if Morgan Stanley “pressured brokers and branch managers” to sell its funds ahead
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    • 420 10 Other directors with similar backgrounds will be appointed Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte, a government-owned telecommunications company, plans to name former US Defence Undersecretary Pete Aldridge to the board of Global Crossing Ltd, the .bankrupt network operator that it wants to buy. Mr Aldridge, who
      – Bloomberg  -  420 words
    • 181 10 Bloomberg PRINCETON Wal-Mart Stores Inc chairman S Robson Walton, the seventhrichest person in the world according to Forbes magazine, sold about US$llO million (Ssl93 million) in Wal-Mart stock last week, his first sale in four years. Mr Walton, the son of Wal-Mart’s founder, Mr
      – Bloomberg  -  181 words
    • 536 12 Korean giant plans to pour in s3ob in seven years Bloomberg SEOUL Under chief executive Yun Jong Yong (right), Samsung Electronics has outspent rivals on improving its products, becoming the world’s top maker of flatpanel displays (main picture), No 2 in chips after Intel
      – Bloomberg; Pics: Bloomberg News  -  536 words
    • 24 14 *AS AT APRIL 3 US$: 551.756 EURO: 551.981 Ss: RM2.165 Ss: 23.66 BAHT 552.827 Ss: 66.98 YEN Ss: HK54.443 Ss: 4,685 RUPIAH
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    • 318 14 STI: 1,588.67 A 14.21 Reuters SHARES climbed for the third straight session yesterday, notching a fresh one-year high. “The truth is that money just has nowhere to go with such low interest rates. Where do you park your money apart from the stock market?” asked
      – Reuters  -  318 words

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    • 327 13 i k, r *7 S Y li 0' k W\ f\ a* TERMINATOR ~2 Rise OF THE MACHINE! m iNTERMi DIA HU* C IN THEATRES JULY 10 terminator3.coin «IJJ What is your mission? Find four wajf to The Heeren Shops to take on the T 3 challenge! Mission to be
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  • Comment
    • 962 17  -  By LEE HAN SHIH HAS Singapore become such a concrete jungle that its children can only learn about nature in artificial and expensive environments? What is wrong in taking them out for a walk in the open or hike through the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve? An
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  • Vocal
    • 306 19 MANY people argue that the Ministry of Education (MOE) should not have cut the school budgets. They are of the view that education is a long-term investment in our people and it is the highly skilled and educated population here which gives us
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    • 317 19 IN February this year, I signed up for a course with Informatics which entitled the student to a promotional gift, a digital camera worth $1,399, but I have yet to receive the item. Because Informatics is a reputable, established institution, I don’t expect that it
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    • 141 19 I BOUGHT an HP inkjet cartridge last year but didn’t need to install it until July 4. It didn’t work. Then, I noticed that in the fine print on the package, it said “Install before Jan 2003”. I phoned the company and was directed
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    • 273 20 I REFER to the report, “PA offers older employees early retirement deal” (Streats, July 11). Almost every week, there are media reports of organisations retrenching staff or offering early retirement. Even the People’s Association which I understand is not-for-profit and whose primary role is to
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    • 150 20 I HAVE been trying to apply for a Giro link to my ez-link card since last week, but was unable to do so using the general ticketing machines (GTM). I have tried many GTMs at Woodlands and Clementi MRT stations but have been always
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    • 95 19 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@spgi.covn.3g 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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  • Global
    • 370 22 Hu sends Pyongyang letter seeking urgent resumption of nuclear talks -AFP BEIJING China yesterday showed growing signs of impatience with North Korea over the impasse with the South and the United States concerning its nuclear weapons programme. China urged the swift resumption of talks on the
      -AFP; AP  -  370 words
    • 177 22 LONDON Lasagne, if the British are to be believed, was invented by them. The Daily Telegraph said yesterday that researchers have pointed to The Forme of Cury, a recipe book commissioned by King Richard II in 1390. It provides instructions on how to make loseyns
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    • 126 22 -ap WELLINGTON, New Zealand Farmers are mailing parcels of sheep and cow manure to lawmakers to protest a so-called “flatulence” tax on greenhouse gas emissions from their flocks and herds, the New Zealand’s postal service complained yesterday. The service said that about 20 reeking packages
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    • 374 24 Father blames British PM for soldier son’s death in Iraq Reuters LONDON The father of the youngest British soldier to die in Iraq launched a withering attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday, saying that he had sent his son to an unjustified death.
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    • 302 24 Wire services LONDON Police launched an international hunt yesterday for a 12-year-old British girl whom they believe ran away to France over the weekend with a former US marine she met on the Internet a year ago. Schoolgirl Shevaun Pennington left home on Saturday
      – Wire services; Reuters; AP  -  302 words
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    • 307 25 1 1 m ■m >: Feel sad about your bust? Perhaps your feelings have been hurt when your boyfriend praised a beautiful lady with a sexy bust in a film? Or when you were both out shopping he became suddenly attracted to a curvaceous, sexy woman and kept his eye
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  • Medical
    • 272 27 -LAT- WP DOES sunscreen really help prevent melanoma, the deadliest of skin cancers? Remarkably, scientists still aren’t sure. In the US, the numbers of people getting melanoma are climbing, despite decades of widespread sunscreen use, and, according to some researchers, one problem is that older sunscreens absorbed
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    • 133 27 nMy 18-month-old child has atopic dermatitis. Do I need a special detergent for his clothes? A SOME children with atopic dermatitis or eczema are allergic to certain soaps (especially biological soaps), detergents or softeners. If you suspect that a particular soap powder is causing itchiness, change it and
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  • EasyStreats
    • 548 28  -  By Gary Lim A good imagination wasn’t needed just for the many costumes of this dance performance the lack of music for rehearsals also posed a challenge REHEARSING for a dance performance without any music available wasn’t exactly what this contemporary dance group had in mind.
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    • 109 28 BRITISH actress Rachel Weisz has spoken out against successful actors being paid too much something that surely won’t go down to well with the rest of the acting fraternity. The 32-year old, who has acted in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns and About A
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    • 111 28 COLDPLAY singer Chris Martin famous now for being the boyfriend of American actress Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken about her for the first time, and (predictably!) says that she’s “like everyone else”. According to Ananova.com yesterday, Martin said on a UK radio documentary: “This is the only
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    • 86 28 JIM Carrey and Cameron Diaz will be teaming up again for the movie, Fun With Dick and Jane, a remake of the 1977 comedy of the same name, which starred Jane Fonda and George Segal. They first acted together in 1994’s The Mask. The movie,
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    • 445 30 THE military and conservatives are gunning for this film. Buffalo Soldiers, starring Joaquin Phoenix, is a dark comedy about the US military that is expected to raise a political storm, reported The Daily Telegraph yesterday. Set in Germany at the end of the Cold War, the
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    • 94 30 MAKERS of the movie Troy, starring Brad Pitt, have hired a body double because the hunky actor’s legs are too skinny, reported Ananova yesterday. He is playing Achilles in the epic film about the Trojan war, and has to wear a leather skirt and knee-high
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    • 109 30 -AP SHARON Osbourne says she’ll be watching her language on her new talk show. Osbourne and her husband, former rocker Ozzy Osbourne, are known for their salty language on their MTV reality show, The Osbournes. But, says Sharon: “People come into my home (on MTV) and
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    • 519 31 Astronomer tracks down the spot from where Dutch master painted Moonrise -AP DALLAS The vivid orange-red moon peeking behind a cliff in Vincent van Gogh’s Moonrise intrigued physicist Donald Olson (inset). It wasn’t just the art that interested the Southwest Texas State University professor. He
      -AP; Pics: AP  -  519 words
    • 73 31  -  -Ashleigh Sim MR Albert Yeoh, 24, and Ms Pamela Koh, 19, dared to bare while shopping at Stussy boutique in Pacific Plaza yesterday. Albert, a student, and Pamela, a dancer, had a blast despite some bewildered stares. They were taking advantage of a Pacific Plaza promotion which gives
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    • 100 33 Prisoners in a small town in Texas have reason to thank the weather. Some nonviolent and petty criminals have been released to clear a jail in the face of the approaching Hurricane Claudette. The jailhouse in Brownsville, the state’s southernmost town, op the Gulf of Mexicpf'was.
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 55 33 10pm, Channel i Danny (Rob Lowe) and Debbie (Demi Moore) meet at a baseball game and later link up at a singles bar. Debbie wants them to be a couple, while Danny, hiding behind the myth of the independent male, does not want to tie himself down.
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      • 42 33 Midnight, Channel 5 The Troika’s attempt to enslave Warren’s ex-girlfriend, Katrina, goes horribly wrong when she is accidentally killed. The trio use magical and demonic forces to make Bufly think that she has killed Katrina and it works.
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    • Happenin'
      • Article, Illustration
        69 33 A UNIVERSAL CONNECTION Till Saturday; llam-Bpm, Monday to Friday, 12pm~7pm on Saturday Art Seasons (5, Gemmill Lane, tel 6221-1800) Free Drawing from his interest in textiles, antiquities, mural and temple paintings, Myanmar abstract painter U Tin Win has developed a style which he describes as abstraction with a strong
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      • 67 33 HANOCH ROSENN PRINCE OF MIME Friday and Saturday, Bpm Theatre, The Esplanade Tickets from $2l to $83.25 at Sistic Back by popular demand, Israeli comic mime Hanoch Rosenn returns to Singapore for the fourth time since he first appeared here in 1994 at the Singapore Festival of Arts. He
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    • 45 33 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\ V( 6 C 3 vy«**** a. ’W K r Sm i seng chooh farm 1 Ppp^v: Vl.idrt Co«tme
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 432 33 Yourdailyhoroseope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Vague answers inspire you. Anyone passing snap judgments is missing a major piece of the picture. In your hands, improvisation is just another tool of genius at work. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Involvement is a tricky business. You want to do what’s right, but a
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  • Sports
    • 498 34  -  Avramovic has medicine ready after indifferent first outing by Singapore By Tan Kim Han R PALAKRISHNAN MEMORIAL MATCH Singapore 0 S-League All-Stars 1 THERE’S a lot of work ahead for the Lions. That’s the assessment of national football coach Raddy Avramovic, who watched them in action for
      Pics: Edwin Koo  -  498 words
    • 373 34 Reuters SANDWICH, England Greg Norman (above), at 48 one of the grand old men of golf, returned to the scene of his 1993 British Open triumph yesterday to bemoan the lack of characters in the modem game. The Australian has undergone hip, shoulder and
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    • 575 37  -  Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT The Straits Times THE difference between golf and soccer is as wide as the length of a par-five hole. Golf is basically about hand-eye coordination, while soccer is more skill, speed and style. Yet as far as some soccer players are
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    • 113 37 TENNIS Reuters OAKLAND, California Anna Koumikova will not be back on the WTA Tour before the middle of next month. She may miss the US Open because of a persistent back problem, her agent said on Monday. The US Open begins on Aug 25. The 22-year-old Russian
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    • 96 37 BASKETBALL BOSTON Leßron James scored 25 points and added two high-flying dunks, nine rebounds and five assists in 29 minutes, but Cleveland Cavaliers lost 87-84 to the Boston Celtics in a Boston summer pro league game on Monday. The top overall pick in last month’s National Basketball
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    • 98 37 WOMEN’S DAY LADIES, put on your sneakers and head to Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza this Saturday for Women’s Day Out. Organised by the Singapore Sports Council, there will be 35 different activities such as rock climbing, bouldering and inline skating from 1 lam-9pm. Taking centrestage will be
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    • 441 39 Ninth-stage winner Vinokourov grieves for best friend who was killed in Paris-Nice race Reuters GAP, France This year will remain the best and the worst for Alexander Vinokourov (right). The 29-year-old Kazakh has enjoyed by far his best season as a cyclist, winning a Tour de
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