Streats, 17 July 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2003 E-maii: streats@sphxom.sg mita (pj 111/03/2003
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  • 621 1  -  S’pore shipowner says port needs to relook price structure, individual deals By Conrad Raj A LEADING local shipowner said yesterday that the PSA Corporation risks losing customers to cheaper ports in the region if it does not provide more competitive and transparent tariffs for
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    • 79 1 Streats THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2003 STRANGE MIX Charles Ng is an engineering undergrad chasing a medical dream page 3 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg msta (p> 111/03/2003 m SOHUMA Richard Jeng is a member of two upmarket golf clubs, but he does general work in dirty overalls. Why? A m mi m w
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  • Morning Rush
    • 471 2  -  Engineering grad-to-be turns down job offers to open medical clinic By Sarah Ng EVEN before Mr Charles Ng graduates from the National University of Singapore (NUS) next week, he already has two job offers in Shanghai but he will turn both down. One offer is
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    • 428 3  -  Jack Neo’s new movie, Homerun, has scenes that appear to allude to S’pore-M’sia water dispute B y Yvonne Kwok r DOES Jack Neo’s new movie, Homerun, satirise Singapore and Malaysia’s water disputes? Mr Neo’s lips are tightly sealed. In local film company Raintree
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    • 343 4  -  By Zubaidah Ncizeer SINGAPORE’S last Sars patient, a 67-year-old Chinese woman, was discharged from Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s Sars ward four days ago and is now in a normal ward for other chronic medical problems. Streats reported last week
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    • 381 4 Move with care Crackdown on jaywalkers, errant motorists FOR some road users, old habits die hard. In two separate enforcement actions by the authorities, 424 pedestrians were nabbed for jaywalking at bus interchanges and terminals, while 10 motorists were booked for not giving way to ambulances. The problem of errant
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    • 123 6 BUZZSTOP Bloomberg SINGAPORE Technologies Telemedia’s proposed acquisition of Global Crossing is being formally opposed by the US Defence Department because of national security concerns, according to US officials. The Pentagon is concerned about foreign ownership of Global Crossing because it provides
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    • Article, Illustration
      34 6 Two children seen through the transparent water-slide of an open-air swimming pool on Tuesday in Unna, northern Germany, where the summer temperatures of over 30°C attract people to the pools aPp 1
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    • 143 6 Debt proposal rejected FORMER Nominated MP Chia Shi Teck will be made bankrupt by tomorrow. The Bank of China, which he owes about $4.4 million, yesterday vetoed a proposal that he submitted to creditor banks to repay part of his debts. Three other creditor banks
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    • 140 6 RJC video clip furore A STERN reprimand, that’s what the Raffles Junior College boy in the news for his “video skills” has received. That, and a warning not to do it again. RJC principal Winston Hodge said that he will be counselled, so that he understands
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    • 131 6 HK cabinet resignations AP HONG KONG Financial Secretary Antony Leung has resigned, officials announced yesterday as prosecutors pondered criminal charges against him for buying a luxury car just weeks before he raised car taxes. His departure was announced just hours after Security Secretary Regina Ip
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    • 84 6 SINGAPORE has overtaken Hong Kong as the best place to do business in the Asia-Pacific, a survey said yesterday. Singapore stands in seventh position on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) global ladder of places to do business over the next five years, with Hong Kong one notch
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    • 83 6 Reuters A SO-YEAR-OLD Thailand-born Australian resident was stabbed in the throat with a fork by a fellow passenger in an apparent dispute over seating on board a Thai Airways flight that landed in Sydney yesterday morning, police said. A 22-year-old Australian man was arrested. A
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    • 96 6 PRIME Minister Tony Blair, battered by accusations that he misled the nation on Iraq, suffered another blow when rebel Labour peers helped to defeat government plans to abolish costly jury trials. The Straits Times reports today that a dozen of them defied his personal pleas and voted
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    • 102 6 -AFP AN ISRAELI businesswoman living in a Jewish settlement said that a Palestinian car thief changed her car’s tyre after a puncture left her stranded at night on a West Bank road. When Ms Guishra Schwartz was standing by her car, a Palestinian offered to
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  • Financial
    • 467 8  -  Showy, a supplier of bathroom fittings for the quirky set to go public By Chug Kong Ho YOU’VE probably seen Saddam Hussein’s gold-plated bathroom taps on the news. But did you know that closer to home, some rich people gold-plate their shower rinsers? Or that
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    • 333 8 Bloomberg NEW YORK Mr Sanford Weill (pictured), 70, who built Citigroup Inc into the world’s biggest financial company, has stepped down as chief executive officer. Mr Weill will remain chairman and his top adviser, Mr Charles Prince, was named CEO. Mr
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    • 114 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Star Hub said that it had filed its legal defence against a lawsuit by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Sing Tel) over cable use, saying that the cables at issue belonged to Star Hub. Sing Tel said last month that it was suing Star Hub for
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    • 73 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Capita Mall Trust said that distributable income for unit holders in the first half was 4.3 per cent more than its forecast as it increased rents even as the Sars outbreak led to fewer shoppers in April. The owner of four Singapore malls said that
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    • 92 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Capita Land Ltd yesterday said that 161 units in a new 724-unit condominium project in Shanghai have been snapped up since its May launch. It has set a target of selling 1,000 homes in 2003 in China, one of its core markets. In the
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    • 91 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore-based water treatment firm Hyflux Ltd yesterday said that its subsidiary had secured orders for 20,000 units of its machine that makes water from air. The company, which requested a half-day suspension in the trading of its shares yesterday, confirmed a report in The Straits
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    • 512 10 Carmaker extending reach into South-east Asia Wire services SINGAPORE BMW, the world’s No 2 luxury carmaker, is considering starting design and research work here. “This move reflects a continuing extension of the BMW Group in Asia by setting up a new operation in
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    • 578 12 Japanese gum’s free software puts Microsoft’s reach in the shade Reuters TOKYO He could have been as rich as Microsoft boss Bill Gates, but Mr Ken Sakamura says he’s fine earning enough to lead an “ordinary life”. For, in the world of computers, the obscure Japanese
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    • 213 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR It is a good time now for Malaysia to lift its five-year-old ringgit peg of 3.80 to the US dollar because the currency is undervalued and in a position of strength, a private think-tank said yesterday. Mr Mohamed Ariff, executive director
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    • 348 14 STI: 1,595.92 7.25 Reuters SHARES climbed for a fourth straight session yesterday, hoisting the main index briefly above 1,600, as tech stocks such as Chartered Semiconductor rose. “We think the rally so far is not sustainable. So, it will correct because fundamentals have not changed much
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    • 24 14 *AS AT JULY 16 US$: 551.762 552.799 EURO: 551.961 Ss: 67.13 YEN Ss: RM2.157 Ss: HK54.426 Ss: 23.63 BAHT Ss: 4,674 RUPIAH
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  • Comment
    • 749 17  -  Soh what? By SOHWENLIN The Straits Times BAR-TOP dancing. All-night clubs. Satellite television. The return of chewing gum. Bungee jumps, two ways. Gays in the civil service. An international youth conference on democracy hosted by the Singapore Democratic Party. Here. In starched-white Singapore. It’s like reliving
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    • 792 20  -  B y SARAH NG IT’S been barely a year since my friend’s daughter started Primary 1, but this mother is already worried about her little girl’s future. No, she is not fretting over banding, streaming or ranking various yardsticks used to determine a child’s place
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    • 198 21 sBH .'S m ssss SBWI m mi m I w 1 ««Wife.. rm Mtt ißi WOiSKM > wm WĔĔU -c :r 'v'ts K ln||| 1 M k i B Romance is in the air with the new date movie Down With Love, To win, just purchase $5 worth of Eversoft
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  • Vocal
    • 325 22 WE refer to the report, “HarbourFront blues” (Streats, July 15). As landlords of HarbourFront Centre, we wish to address several points raised in the report. It quoted several retailers as saying that their business at HarbourFront Centre and Singapore Cruise Centre is about 30 per cent
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    • 177 22 WE refer to the report, “Options not abused here” (Streats, July 11), in which KPMG partner Tham Sai Choy is shown to have disagreed with Temasek Holdings’ position on the expensing of stock options. The report said: “Temasek Holdings had earlier expressed its opposition to
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    • 119 22 WE refer to the letter, “Construction outfit added insult to injury” (Streats, July 10), by Ms Jenny Tay. We wish to sincerely apologise to the aggrieved party in the letter. We are a member of the associated civil works industry and our work is always in close
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    • 238 24 I REFER to the report, “Pre-emptive layoffs ‘unavoidable’” (Streats, July 16). Labour chief Lim Boon Heng referred to a global trend among profitable companies of carrying out pre-emptive layoffs to make themselves more competitive. He feels helpless to do anything about it. Also, the Government
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    • 281 24 ONCE again, Mr Lee Han Shih is dead right with the points made in his commentary, “Victoria sending wrong signals” (Streats, July 16). Mr Lee focused on the school’s fanciful $200,000 eco-garden, but there is an even more fundamental issue affecting many Singaporeans as
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    • 102 24 I’M a frequent visitor to the Serangoon Park Connector, which gives a perfect view over Sungei Serangoon. I enjoy the quiet, peaceful serenity that the water body gives, accompanied by the occasional cry of a bird among the trees. However, of late there has been a
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    • 89 22 '■IAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us. at ritreats@splir,c»ifi ß 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
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  • Global
    • 480 26 US president feels it’s immoral to talk to Kim: ex-official WASHINGTON The US is heading for war with North Korea as early as this year because of mismanagement by the George W Bush administration, according to a former US defence secretary. Mr William
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    • 271 26 The Washington Post WASHINGTON The Bush administration is considering admitting thousands of North Korean refugees into the US in an effort to increase pressure on the government in Pyongyang as the standoff over its nuclear weapons programme continues, officials said on Tuesday. Officials
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    • 279 26 BAGHDAD US forces in Iraq will be offered a chance to mix freely with the Iraqi public as part of a series of measures to counter the effect on falling morale, London’s Guardian newspaper reported yesterday. However, a senior officer said that
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    • 348 29 US V-P accused of concocting Iraq case: report WASHINGTON US Vice-President Dick Cheney is being accused of using false evidence to build the case for the war on Iraq, London’s Independent newspaper reported yesterday. The allegation against Mr Cheney has come from a group of senior former intelligence
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    • 199 29 LONDON Proof that the Loch Ness monster is real may finally have surfaced. The fossilised remains of a longnecked, carnivorous sea reptile, which existed 150 million years ago, were discovered in the lake, The Daily Telegraph reported here yesterday. The find of four perfectly preserved
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  • Medical
    • 605 31  -  Mz'Zfc and milk products are rich sources of calcium, the building blocks of bones in our body. But you can find the mineral in other foods, too Shervin Seah MS Joyce Law, 29, makes it a point to drink a glass of milk every night
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    • 284 32 Study shows autism linked to rapid brain growth in babies Reuters NEW YORK Faster than normal brain growth in the first year of life may signal a risk of autism. “This dramatic brain growth in early life is the first active neurodevelopmental process to be
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    • 95 32 What is splenomegaly? THIS refers to the enlargement of the spleen, the organ that produces and stores blood cells, and removes worn-out blood cells from the body. Its functions relate to both the red and white blood cells, and it is a part of the lymph and immune
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  • Thursday Tech
    • 645 35  -  There is a mobile phone for your every need today, whether it is a rugged water-resistant model for those jungle treks, or an elegantly 7 O designed phone for formal dinners. Byi CHUAHIANHOU Computer Times MS Valerie Chen simply loves her Nokia 7650 camera phone. “It’s
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    • 93 35 If the current crop of phones fails to fire your interest, how about one that can do digital video recording or let you shoot virtual terrorists in the MRT? You will be able to do this in October this year when the Siemens
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    • Article, Illustration
      574 36  -  By > GEOFFREY PEREIRA The Straits Times ALMOST by definition, idiotproof cameras must do the technical brainwork for the idiots who use them. Think about it: Putting a camera into auto-everything mode is asking it to do a lot. It has to measure the amount of light and
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    • 212 39 PARENTS ARE MAKING THEIR KIDS SMARTER THIS WEEKEND! mlb HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH SCRABBLE* 18 to 20 July 2003 Suntec City Mall, Tropics Atrium (between Suntec Tower 1 2) FREE ADMISSION Inter-School Scrabble Championship 2003 In conjunction with the "Speak Good English Movement", 100 teams from Primary Secondary schools will vie for
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  • EasyStreats Weekender
    • Article, Illustration
      521 40  -  By Gary Lim WHEN you have a cast comprising dim sum lovers, it’s not hard to see why they call themselves the Dim Sum Dollies in the cabaret, Steaming! A trio of local comediennes Selena Tan, Pamela Oei and Emma Yong are showcasing their comic talents in this
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    • our PICKS
      • 72 40 CHILL out at the Esplanade Waterfront this weekend with Bay Beats 2003, a three-day music festival with live music from 30 bands, most of them local. Local bands include Mary Cherry and Steel City Skies, while international bands include Bandwagon from Japan, Malaysia’s This Body Broken, The Gloria
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        74 40 ENJOY family entertainment from mime Hanoch Rosenn, described in the press as “a cross between Marcel Marceau and Jim Carrey”. His show features video clips, sound effects and dramatic lighting, and has been played in almost every European city, and in the US, South America and most of
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      • 107 40 CHECK out Women’s Day Out this Saturday, 1 lam to 9pm, at the Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza. The event has been organised to promote sports as a lifestyle among women and provide a fun platform for women of all ages to try out various sports
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    • eating out
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        646 42  -  By. Amy Van IF I had to choose one international buffet spread from the many served at the hotels in town, then Shangri-La’s Coffee Garden would be on top of my list. The eclectic spread there never fails to amaze, beckoning each time with an extensive range of
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      • 432 43  -  B iL T7 JiULim BUFFETS have long been a popular choice for a festive meal out, but as diners here become more well-travelled and knowledgable, what’s on the menu hotels and F&B outlets find they have to adapt to patrons’ changing tastes to survive. Ms Carolyn Goh, the
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    • going out
      • 565 44  -  By YVONNE KWOK 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS 5 Starring Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson Directed by John Singleton OOOO® for red-blooded men GQ(&®® for the rest of us IF 2 Fast 2 Furious (2F2F) could be likened to a character from Friends, it would be Joey good-looking,
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      • Casting about for something to do this weekend? Head to a theatre and immerse yourself in the arts
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          92 46 BE enthralled by 11 -year-old Abigail Sin local musical prodigy performing a piano solo in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 13, one of the four pieces presented for the President’s Young Performers Series this Friday at the Esplanade Concert Hall at 7.30 pm. The Singapore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
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