Streats, 28 July 2003

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  • 11 1 Streats MONDAY, JULY 28, 2003 E-mail; streats@sph.com .sg mita <p> Ixl/03/260»
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  • 708 1  -  Friends use k CBF fiionpvif) nIT > BRfR jfW****' ’ll _1 1 Dusmess st^Kes !*”♦<'» jt, By Khushwant Singh LIKE most small businessmen here, Mr Victor Ang, 36, is not sure how well things will turn out for him in a couple of years it all
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    • 55 1 PAGE 21 RECOGNISE THEM, SIA Not fair bad for image to deny cabin crew full gratuity, says CONRAD RAJ 1 li ■AJ 4**'. PAGE 14 MANILA COUP Rebellion highlights Arroyo’s rocky relationship with the military page is ‘BAD BOr BELLAMY? Not this season, says Newcastle star in exclusive interview with
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  • Morning Rush
    • 486 2  -  DPM Lee: Grassroots leaders must do more to appeal to young people By Khushwant Singh MS Joewin Han (pictured), 26, and Ms Shuhadad Suleiman, 24, both became interested in serving the community because they attended sports activities and festive celebrations organised by their community
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    • 221 2 A MALAY MP has called on Singapore Malays not to blame discrimination as a reason why some of them were retrenched, or had difficulty landing jobs. This perception must not be allowed to colour the minds of the Malays as it will hinder them
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    • 215 3 In Ipoh jail: Ex-model entrepreneur who cheated many A 10-YEAR police manhunt for a Singaporean conman ended last week when the Malaysian authorities sentenced him to nine months’jail and one stroke of the cane for illegal entry. Mohd Al-Faisal alias Kow Eng Seng, 46, is wanted by
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    • 266 3  -  By Godfrey Robert IT IS hard to imagine Wilfred Skinner (pictured), one of the greatest sportsmen Singapore has produced, being laid up. Today, Mr Skinner, 69, lies in a coma in the Vancouver General Hospital. On a trip here from
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    • 290 4  -  Can.com.sg users to help pick winners By Shervin Seah REMEMBER watching a beauty pageant and never quite seeing eye to eye with the judges’ choices? Well, now’s there’s a contest where you can play a key role in picking the winners. Can.com.sg, a location-based lifestyle
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    • Article, Illustration
      138 4  -  By Khushwant Singh AFTER university student Sheena Kaur (right) managed to get two tickets for Saturday’s National Day Parade preview, she and best friend Stephanie Brehm decided to pretend it was the real Aug 9 show. They dressed up in red and even coloured their faces in red
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    • 109 6 BUZZSTOP PROVING that women can hold their own in the battlefield, Second Lieutenant Adeline Kuah made history yesterday by being the first woman to win the Sword of Honour for topping her class in Navy officer training. Along with 390 other officers, she
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    • 141 6 US entry requirement SINGAPOREANS may soon have to include a biometric identifier, such as a fingerprint or eye scan, on their passports. The US, as part of its anti-terror efforts, will from October next year require passports from the 27 countries under its Visa Waiver Programme
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    • 157 6 The ST School Pocket Money Fund THE qualifying criteria for beneficiaries of The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund have been adjusted. The beneficiary cannot be older than 16 and the applicant’s maximum household income has been reduced from $1,500 to a per capita income of $3OO.
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    • 76 6 On Saturday, about 30 toddlers from Little Hands Montessori Kindergarten, aged between three and six, helped make brooches, fridge magnets and other souvenirs for a charity sale. Ms Sol Foo, the kindergarten manager, said that they hoped to raise at least $2,500 for the Singapore Children’s
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    • 153 6 THE Indian national who escaped from police custody at Changi General Hospital on Friday night was arrested yesterday when he walked into an ambush in Marsiling Drive. Police spokesman Karen Chen said that police believed that he went there to see someone he knew, The
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    • 88 6 -AP MALAYSIA warned Myanmar’s military junta yesterday that other countries and the UN might intervene in Myanmar’s political future if prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains detained much longer. Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar told reporters at a Malaysian-Thai business summit here that Asean was
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    • 97 6 AP INDONESIAN authorities are investigating reports that a senior Aceh rebel leader has escaped a massive offensive in the province and is now in Malaysia. Last Saturday, Sofyan Daud, the chief spokesman for the Free Aceh movement, told the online edition of Kompas newspaper that he
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    • 78 6 AP ISRAEL’S Cabinet yesterday voted to release up to 100 Islamic militants, a goodwill gesture towards the Palestinians ahead of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s trip to Washington this week. Ministers voted 14-9 to authorise the release in an exercise intended to bolster Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud
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    • 89 6 A GERMAN brothel keeper has turned to .parliament for help because job centres won’t help him find staff for his business. Ananova.com reported yesterday that Mr Ulrich Kueperkoch, 45, wants to create 12 full-time jobs when he opens a brothel in the small town of Goerlitz in September.
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  • Financial
    • 393 8  -  Business group to encourage Indian companies to set up shop here By Chua Kong Ho INDIAN companies can create jobs for Singaporeans, even as they take away low-level white-collar jobs. But this will happen only by strengthening bilateral business ties, said a top visiting Indian business
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    • 24 8 *AS AT JULY 25 US$: 551,748 552.830 EURO: 552.009 Ss: 68.04 YEN Ss: RM2.174 Ss: HK54.461 Ss: 23.98 BAHT Ss: 4,882 RUPIAH
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    • 180 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines (SIA), which has been profitable since going public in 1985, will probably report its first-ever loss, after cancelling about half its flights because of a slump in demand caused by Sars. The company, Asia’s largest carrier by market value, may
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    • 283 10 Reuters HONG KONG Big is not necessarily more beautiful or lucrative when it comes to stock-picking. Asia’s small-capitalised stocks are attracting some fund managers scouring the region’s markets for higher profits and dividends rather than benchmarkhugging returns. Small firms from South Korea to Indonesia
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    • 426 10 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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    • 414 12 US in recovery maybe Experts stay guarded on outlook even as strong data point to 2H upswing AFP WASHINGTON Is the world’s largest economy set to break out of its torpor of the past 2% years, or is it another false start leading to disappointment? Data over the past week
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  • Comment
    • 804 14  -  By CONRAD RAJ SHAME on you, Singapore Airlines. Shame on you for depriving some cabin crew of their contractual bonuses. According to The Sunday Times yesterday, stewardess Nooraini Abdul Hamid lost out on her $25,000 gratuity when she was retrenched last week. This was
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  • Vocal
    • 511 16 WE refer to Mr Yap Eng Hok’s letter, “After dialysis treatment, patient needs rest” (Streats, July 25). Mr Yap wrongly stated that $3,000 is his wife’s monthly dialysis fee. This amount includes the medication charges for the costly drug Eprex to treat her anaemia and
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    • 142 16 IN his letter, “NKF letting patients down” (Streats, July 23), Mr Teo Cher Teck expressed disappointment at the way NKF handled his father’s application for dialysis treatment. I am a current dialysis patient with the NKF. On July 8,1 applied to the NKF to receive dialysis
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    • 169 16 I REFER to Mr Philip Lee’s commentary, “English as she is spoke” (Streats, July 25). The piece which Mr Lee quotes, “We’ll begin with a b0x...” all the way to the end, “If dad is pop, how come mom isn’t mop?”, was taken from the
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    • 137 16 I CAUGHT the telecast of the miniconcert by the present batch of PSC scholars on Channel i news on Saturday. In one sketch, the scholars sang a popular Hokkien song. I was dismayed because I thought that speaking, and therefore singing, in Hokkien was discouraged by the
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    • 55 16 THE investment amount in the headline of our report, “Sentosa likely to sign sBb deal with hotel investor next month” (Streats, July 25), is incorrect. The hotel deal, as correctly stated in the first paragraph, is part of Sentosa’s $8 billion 10-year master plan to revitalise the island. We
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    • 84 16 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at 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 deemed
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  • Global
    • 293 17 Husseins expected Baghdad defence plan to work: report BAGHDAD A former bodyguard to Uday Hussein, the slain son of the deposed Iraqi leader, has revealed the astonishing way in which the country’s former first family moved around freely after the occupation by US forces,
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    • 181 17 WASHINGTON Watching Private Jessica Lynch’s homecoming on television last week was emotional for Mrs Arlene Walters. And that is because the publicity surrounding Pte Lynch contrasted with the treatment that her dead son received. Sgt Donald Walters, 33, was a military cook who fought in the
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    • 26 17 Some 12,000 visitors taking to the water yesterday to keep cool and beat the summer heat at Tokyo's Toshimaen amusement park AFP 1
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    • 108 17 HAMBURG An underweight woman is appealing against a German court decision which said that it was right for police to confiscate her driving licence, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday. The 22-year-old student from Buxtehude near here lost the licence following an accident last year
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    • 330 18 Rebellion highlights Philippine president’s rocky relationship with security forces AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, catapulted to power in 2001 in a military-backed revolt, is a US-educated economist and moderniser who has become increasingly dependent on the security forces for her position. The petite
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    • 51 18 A bomb disposal team probing a suspicious bag after grenades were found outside the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh yesterday. Earlier, a grenade exploded outside the royalist Funcinpec party office. No one was injured in the attack which marred an otherwise peaceful parliamentary election AP
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    • 194 18 JAKARTA Mr Adnan Buyung Nasution, the Indonesian lawyer who has made a name for himself by defending the country’s less privileged, is in the news again. After courting controversy for defending generals accused of human rights violation in East Timor, the grey-haired lawyer will
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  • Medical
    • 228 19 Reuters NEW YORK If you’re wondering why your child is suffering from breathing problems around the house, fungi that thrive in damp locations could be the culprit. New research suggests that high fungus levels in the home can cause breathing problems, even pneumonia, for
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    • 223 19 AP WASHINGTON A sundae can have as much fat and calories as a T-bone steak dinner, says a US health advocacy group. The finding is part of a study commissioned by the Center for Science in the Public Interest that looked at saturated
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    • 134 19 Qls durian high in cholesterol and hence had for those suffering from hypertension? A Cholesterol is found only in food of animal origin, such as meat, seafood and dairy products. Although durian does not contain cholesterol, it contains more fat, and hence more calories, than most other fruit.
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  • EasyStreats
    • Article, Illustration
      548 20 is difficult GARYUM pull it off l GRACE Wan isn’t worried. The theatre newcomer believes she can act, and she’s working hard to prove it. The 2 8-year-old part-time actress has landed a difficult role that of the title character in award-winning play Agnes of God. It is
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    • 106 20 Renee’s fat and she wants it that way WHILE most women want to lose weight, Renee Zellweger is desperate to slap it on. The Bridget Jones star has been eating 20 doughnuts, and a lot else, a day to get ready for the sequel. She is putting away 4,000 calories
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    • 98 20 THE kiss seemed to last forever, but the marriage didn’t make it beyond the 16 th month. Singer-actress Liza Minnelli is separated from her fourth husband, producer David Gest, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday. At the wedding, the couple raised eyebrows and, some complained,
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    • 77 20 REESE Witherspoon’s not so squeaky clean after all. The Legally Blonde star appeared naked in a raunchy video before she became famous, The Sun reported yesterday. The surprising revelation was made in The Sun yesterday, with an accompanying still of the 1998 film.
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    • journeys
      • Article, Illustration
        496 21  - C ruise Control From the moment you step on board the Super Star Virgo, a pleasure-filled sojourn is guaranteed By Pradeep Rajan A few years ago I saw a line in an advertisement that read: “You haven’t lived until you have cruised.” It sounded ridiculous then. But, that was before
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    • 515 22 -AFP TOP Indian directors, famed for thenflorid song and dance films, are turning their backs on popcorn romance fantasies to explore darker reality with a slew of projects focusing on serial bombings, traumatic rapes and hard-hitting cops. Noted screenplay-writer-tumed director Anurag Kashyap is directing a film on
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    • 108 23 Malaysian national marathon swimmer Abdul Malik Mydin is cooling his heels in Dover, wanting to try to be the first Malaysian to swim the English Channel to France. He has been waiting almost a week. The British weatherman sees heavy cloud and rain and strong winds
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • Article, Illustration
        59 23 10pm, Channel i Using themselves as guinea pigs, a group of medical students decide to experiment with life after death and find out what’s really awaiting them on the “other side”. They take turns to “flatline” stopping their hearts and brains to create a condition of clinical death. Starring
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      • 72 23 7.30 pm, Channel 5 This action adventure centres on freelance bodyguard and former US Marshal Jack Devlin (Dolph Lundgren) and his attempts to protect a young woman from vicious gangsters. Unfortunately, Devlin’s ability to do his job is severely restricted after an explosion temporarily blinds him. Suddenly faced with
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        70 23 THE APPEAL OF THE BRUSH Till tomorrow, llam-Bpm Tanjong Pagar Community Club Art Gallery (101, Cantonment Road, tel: 6221-9898). Free A display of more than 60 Chinese brush paintings ranging widely in subject matter such as fauna, birds, fish, fruit, scenery and landscape. These are works from artist Lin
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      • 40 23 LUNCHBOX SERIES Tomorrow, 12.45 pm Concert Hall, The Esplanade Free Singaporean organist Joanna Paul performs on the Esplanade’s pipe organ, while the Goldner String Quartet, Australia’s leading string quartet, plays works by Mozart, Schumann, Borodin and contemporary Australian composers.
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    • 195 22 m 's-' m A EUROPEAN HOLIDAY JUST MINUTES AWAY FROM HOME You don’t have to travel for miles to relish the old-world grandeur of Europe. Built by Germans a century ago, the regal architechture, luxurious furnishings and delectable cuisines of Goodwood Park Hotel beckon from bustling Orchard Road. Come experience
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    • 212 23 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. M FOR A LIMITED PERIOD, ENJOY 30% OFF W GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL’S DURIAN PASTRIES. I m 2 8 JULY 3 AUGUST 200 3 i
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 479 23 Yourdailyhoroscope aquarius JAN2O-FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com PISCES FEB 19 -MAR 20 Nothing humbles you faster than the realisation that your own laundry could use a good wash. Focus on what can be done instead of what should or shouldn’t. Work together to make a difference. Bury the
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Sports
    • 777 25  -  Newcastle striker determined to keep clean record this season R?l; Tan Kim Han CRAIG BELLAMY is on a mission this season: to shed his bad boy image. A tall order for a striker known for his tinderbox temperament. When Streats met him for an exclusive chat
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    • Article, Illustration
      458 26 lan Crocker grabs limelight with record-breaking win over Phelps Wire services BARCELONA US swimmer lan Crocker (below) was stunned by his upset of Michael Phelps in the 100 m butterfly after winning in a world record time at the world championships. The 20-year-old University of Texas swimmer ended
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    • 271 26 Wire services KUNMING, China Real Madrid free-kick specialist Roberto Carlos says he will share the dead ball duties with David Beckham. “Beckham is going to take free-kicks closer to the goal and I’m going to take them a little bit farther out,” the Brazilian
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    • SOCCER
      • 99 26 -AFP HONG KONG Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier was pleased after watching his side wrap up their two-match Asian tour with a 6-0 thrashing of Hong Kong here yesterday. Goals from Vladimir Smicer, Milan Baros (2), Emile Heskey (2) and promising French teenager Anthony Le Tallec handed the
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      • 110 26 -AFP GLASGOW Wayne Rooney could miss the start of the new season for both Everton and England after being stretchered off during a friendly 3-2 win over Rangers here on Saturday. The 17-year-old was sent for an X-ray after suffering an ankle ligament injury from a
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    • 117 26 SWIMMING -AFP BARCELONA Two-time defending champion Australia was disqualified in the heats of the men’s 4xloom medley relay here yesterday for a false start in between an exchange. The bad exchange came between the backstroke and breaststroke legs of Joshua Watson and Jim Piper, with the team also
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    • 515 27  -  McNamara predicts brighter things for Singapore tennis By Lim Han Ming PETER MCNAMARA (below), the former coach of Wimbledon finalist Mark Philippoussis, gave local tennis a shot in the arm during a short visit to Singapore last week. After a two-hour clinic with 32 top junior
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    • 400 27 -AFP LONDON Former Wimbledon striker John Fashanu has denied fresh allegations that that he was involved in attempting to fix football matches. The News of the World reported yesterday that its undercover journalists, posing as Arab businessmen, had slipped Fashanu a £5,000 (S$
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 30 26 IN THE LIVING ROOM DELAYED TELECAST CYCLING: Tour de France highlights, Stage 20 (Delayed, Ch 23, 7.30 pm) MOTOR RACING: NASCAR Winston Cup highlights: Pennsylvania 500 (Delayed, Ch 22, 9pm).
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