Streats, 27 October 2003

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  • 605 3  -  Tablet PCs used in pilot scheme cut class disruption, make lecture notes available online for students §y_ Sarah Ng THESE days, university student Lim Kong Wee goes to class without a pen Ind notebook. All he takes is a tablet PC and loads of enthusiasm. The final-year
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  • Morning Rush
    • 383 4  - Her first win from Nets Shopper wins $l,OOO in time for X’mas By Sarah Ng THIS Christmas, homemaker Annie Wong and her family will go on a shopping spree at Tangs department store, thanks to Nets. Ms Wong, 49, as one of 10 winners in the first monthly draw of
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    • 192 4 GUANGDONG The Guangdong Provincial Centre of Disease Prevention and Control has issued an alert for the respiratory synctial virus (RSV), which has struck Hong Kong. On Friday, Mr Guo Runing, an official from the centre, said that Guangdong is still free from the virus,
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    • 416 5 Aussie general says US claim based on ‘innocuous’ aluminium tubes WASHINGTON An Australian general who was responsible for collecting Iraqi military technology has slammed the US claim that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons programme, the Washington Post reported yesterday. The weapons programme was a key
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    • 142 5 FOLLOWING a slump, Singapore’s No 2 golfer Mardan Mamat, 35, pulled off an ace. His prize: a massive $26,000 cheque. Mardan, who missed the cut in three of his past four tournaments, fired a sensational seven-under 65 on the last day of the
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    • 356 6  - Singapore’s public sector world-class almost More focused on service, but still tied up by red tape: poll By Choong Choon Yee SINGAPORE’S public sector today is world class in setting direction, developing talent and sharpening customer focus, but there are signs it is still mired in bureaucracy and slow to
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    • 247 6  -  By Shervin Seah SOME paints are washable, others are stain-resistant and still others are anti-bacterial. But Ms Pamela Chua (pictured), 35, was asked two years ago to create a paint which had all these characteristics and more an all-in-one product. The
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    • 125 8 BUZZSTOP SINGAPOREANS know that they must name a person to receive their Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings when they die. But many don’t know that they need to make a separate nomination for their New Singapore
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    • 42 8 Mr Ho Choon Phak, 60, yesterday taking part in the ‘Beer Stein Race a part of the Oktobeer Fest celebrations at Parco Bugis Junction where participants raced to fill up bottles at the other end. Francis Lee Francis Lee
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    • 139 8 Overseas postings A STUDY by business school Insead has warned that Singaporeans’ distaste for overseas postings and the lack of an extensive network of them abroad may be detrimental in a globalised world. The study sponsored by the Economic Development Board polled the views of
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    • 150 8 Health economics LOCAL researchers have to latch onto an emerging global trend of studying the cost effectiveness of a drug in addition to its curative powers if Singapore is serious about becoming a regional medical hub, says a local health economist. Associate Professor Phua
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    • 141 8 Dr M slams Jewish lobby group AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said that a call by a US-based Jewish lobby group for an economic boycott against Malaysia may hurt economically but the country would not give in to “blackmail”. The influential Simon Wiesenthal Centre
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    • 98 8 NINETY-FOUR pedestrians were killed on the road in the first nine months of this year, The Straits Times reports today. In the same period last year, 35 road deaths were recorded. The paper quotes the Traffic Police as saying that victims aged 60 and older accounted for
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    • 98 8 Reuters A PICTURE of an Afghan woman in a red bikini at a beauty pageant has outraged many in her nation, with some even calling for her to be stripped of her nationality. Twenty five-year-old Vida Samadzai the first Afghan entrant in an international beauty contest for
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    • 110 8 -AFP AN Italian court order to remove crucifixes from an infant school at the request of a Muslim activist has caused shock waves in the traditionally Roman Catholic country. “You cannot eliminate a symbol of a nation’s religious and cultural values simply because it offends someone,” the
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    • 105 8 AFP JAPANESE police have arrested a 45-year-old man for the theft of 440 women’s left shoes found in his home. “I have been interested in women’s feet,” Ichiro Irie told the police. He was arrested on Saturday for stealing the left shoes of two women
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  • Financial
    • 377 10  -  Farm chief wants to lift Taiwan’s share of fruit and vegetable market here By Choong Choon Yee HIS mission is to put more fruits and vegetables from Taiwan on Singaporean tables. As the trade division chief of the Taiwan Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan (COA), Dr
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    • 400 10 MOSCOW Russia’s top tycoon spent his first night in jail yesterday following an arrest that rocked the country’s business and political elite and sparked fears for the country’s fragile investment climate. Most agreed that Yukos oil chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky (pictured) was no
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    • 24 10 *AS AT OCTOBER 23 US$: 551,742 552.949 EURO: 552.059 Ss: 62.90 YEN Ss: RM2.181 Ss: HK54.450 Ss: 22.92 BAHT Ss: 4,866 RUPIAH
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    • 531 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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    • 447 12 Golf course boom in country with growing pool of rich AFP HANOI What do you do if you’ve already got the BMW with the obligatory dark windows parked behind the iron gates of your substantial villa, and overseas business trips are no longer impressing the
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    • 230 14 -AFP WASHINGTON The head of Halliburton has pleaded with his employees to help orchestrate a media campaign in defence of the oil and gas service company against accusations of overcharging US taxpayers. In an internal memorandum sent out on Oct 17, Halliburton chairman and chief
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    • 476 14 Some managers may be aware of illegal workers -AFP SAN FRANCISCO Arrests of illegal immigrant workers, a spate of supermarket strikes and city bans against its superstores have put a harsh spotlight on the employment policies of Wal-Mart, America’s biggest private employer and largest retailing chain.
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  • Comment
    • 652 16  -  By CONRAD RAJ COMPUTERS may be God’s gift to the modem world, but they are beginning to be the bane of many users, no thanks to hackers and others whose misdeeds have made access to software systems more difficult. It is because of these
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    • 704 18  -  By PHILIP LEE A VISIT I made to the now-defunct Dragon Lotus Home for the Aged in Woodlands as a volunteer social worker many years ago left me with an indelible impression. It hit me how desperately desolate old age can be. When
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  • Vocal
    • 575 20 WE refer to Mr Lim Cheow Beng’s letter, “Star Hub upgrade: Company should give free filters” (Streats, Oct 23), with regard to Star Hub’s upgrading and testing works. We wish to state that Mr Lim’s comment, “...StarHub will earn hundreds of thousands or even
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    • 237 20 I REFER to Mr Simon Koh’s letter, “Act against loan sharks’ customers” (Streats, Oct 22). The Moneylenders Act makes it an offence to carry on the business of moneylending without a licence. It also prescribes punishments for both unlicensed moneylending and harassment. The
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    • 224 22 I REFER to the report, “EZ-Link’s financial drain” (Streats, Oct 22), about a purportedly huge number of unused ez-link cards in circulation. I think EZ-Link senior vice-president Nicholas Lee should take a lesson from Hong Kong, where the equivalent is the Octopus card. The difference
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    • 203 22 EZ-LINK is losing money and wants customers to pay more for a stale business model. Should we support this? Perhaps EZ-Link should find out why this is not a problem in nearby Hong Kong, where the Octopus card has been in use for
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    • 90 22 IT should not come as a surprise to EZ-Link that there is such a large number of ez-link cards sold compared to usage. I, for one, own a card but hardly use it, maybe once or twice a year, because I drive most of the time. The
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  • Global
    • 243 24 LONDON When the Lahore-Delhi Bus crosses into India today, it will do more than breed goodwill among two warring nations. The bus link the only legitimate means of travel between India and Pakistan will help bring together a couple in the first “crossborder” wedding ceremony in nearly
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    • 135 24 LONDON An Indian Sikh girl falls in love with a Pakistani Muslim boy and their love triumphs over all including the objections of their families. This is the kind of happy-ever-after tale that would be a hit with almost any audience. But the one
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    • 60 24 An exhibition of biometrics technology in Beijing on Saturday displaying devices which can identify people by their biological traits, such as a lock which recognises fingerprints (left), an iris recognition system (above, left) and a cellphone that can scan faces (above, right). The exhibits were part of the
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    • 447 24 Canberra gags dissidents, hecklers during Hu’s address CANBERRA After US President George W Bush was heckled during his address to the Australian Parliament on Thursday, his reaction was: “I love free speech.” The word was that the president had been warned in
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    • 395 26 KGB colleague says he sat around reading Western mail order catalogues BERLIN Russian president Vladimir Putin was an obedient and ineffective employee during his time with the Russian secret police, not a sinister and dangerous operative, a former colleague has said in a new
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    • 317 26 -AFP WASHINGTON The man seen as the main architect of the US-led war on Iraq got a taste of it early yesterday when he narrowly escaped a rocket attack on a Baghdad hotel. One US soldier was killed and 15 others were wounded
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    • 144 26 WASHINGTON In a move away from the Cold War view of nuclear arms as weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon wants to develop low-yield nuclear weapons, so-called mini-nukes, which are small-scale missiles whose explosive impact would be easier to control. The Defence Science Board has prepared a
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  • Medical
    • 270 28 Mums-to-be can drink but not too much Reuters NEW YORK At least in terms of pre-term delivery, it seems harmless for pregnant women to have a drink or two a day, new research indicates. However, women who have three or more alcoholic drinks a day while pregnant are more likely
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    • 275 28 I I What are the side-effects of taking two evening v S primrose oil capsules daily? A Different brands of evening primrose oil (EPO) capsules contain different amount of linoleic acid (LA) and gamma linolenic acid (GLA), the two main fatty acids in EPO. Not all products containing
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    • 402 28 Advertisement BioCaith Green Barley THE COLON CLEANER %1 ifpspfppliMMiMl BioCaith 5 Green Barley I|4 Dietary lIJ Suppiemei»% k i 1 m mm The main cause for constipation is the lack of dietary fibre in our body. Dietary Fibre is known to be the “7th basic nutrient” needed by our body.
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  • EasyStreats
    • 575 29 There’s more to the Indian Association than just cricket and hockey, as documented in its new coffee-table book. KHUSHWANT SINGH j reports jr MR Premkumar Raghavan, 45, had always thought of the Singapore Indian Association (IA) as a recreation club with a strong hockey
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    • 141 29 THERE may be a fifth Alien film if only to kill off Sigourney Weaver’s character once and for all, revealed director Ridley Scott. The 65-year-old, who directed the first Alien film in 1979, told a German newspaper: “About six months ago Sigourney Weaver said to
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    • 84 29 Wire agencies MICHELLE Williams of Destiny’s Child will be the new Aida for Broadway, replacing Toni Braxton. Her 10-week stint starts next month. The musical, with a score by Elton John and Tim Rice, is about a Nubian princess in love with an Egyptian soldier. It
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    • 112 29 ACCORDING to reports, actress Sandra Bullock is “smitten” with American cycling star and five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, said ITVcom yesterday. The reports claim that two have been inseparable since Armstrong, 31, split from his wife, Kristin, last month. Armstrong, who was diagnosed
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    • journeys
      • 751 30 ASHLEIGH SIM climbs steps for six hours to reach the peak of China’s Mount Taishan. The view at the top? Worth it. And the people along the way warmed her heart DESPITE hearing that Mount Taishan has 6,666 steps to its summit, I was undaunted. The uninspired
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      • 381 32 Reuters SYDNEY Move over, Survivor and The Bachelor. Australiancreated reality TV show The Block is starting to hit small screens internationally. The series, which is essentially a renovation contest between couples, topped TV ratings in Australia in August, when it ended, it became the country’s
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      • 163 32 WHEN Michiyo Hata founded Kikunokai 31 years ago, she was not confident that it would succeed. But the Japanese troupe, which combines kabuki and folk dance, has since grown to become a 400-member-strong outfit, and has also won numerous awards and performed in many
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    • 92 33 The seven-nation African Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, which began a summit in Kampala last Friday, must find time to talk about the weather, The Kampala Monitor said. f Global warming “could turn the world economy upside down” and even if rich countries continued to pollute, East
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        58 33 10.45 pm, Channel U Yayu and gang are worried that Yuli will get into trouble and drive her out of Ximen Ding. Frustrated with Yayu, Yuli scolds and beats him every time they meet. However, she starts to feel something for him when she realises that he is
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      • 54 33 10pm, Channel i Jack Forrester is the prime suspect in the vicious murder of his wife, a wealthy newspaper heiress. His defence attorney, Teddy Barnes, disregards legal ethics by having an affair with the charming and manipulative Jack and later finds herself pitted against Jack’s former adversary, ruthless
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    • Happenin’
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        57 33 ASIAN ART REVISITED Till Nov 15,10am-7pm daily Wetterling Teo Gallery (3, Kim Yam Road tel 6738-2872); Free Eight renowned Asian artists from Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia who are diverse in style yet homogenous in culture hold a group exhibition of their paintings. Discover the evolution of Asian art,
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      • 71 33 JAPANESE DANCE TRADITION AND CREATIVITY Today and tomorrow Bpm (2.30 pm matinee tomorrow) Victoria Theatre Tickets from $2l to $76 at Sistic Founded by Michiyo Hata in 1972, the Kikunokai dance troupe combine the best of Japanese classical and folk traditions to produce masterpieces of the new age. Their
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    • 86 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. 4 5~**~ 1 Ls&l] Designs that make local buildings handicap-friendly Don't miss today's esign 1 @zaobao For Subscription of ftf, call 6388 3838 RSENAL
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 5 33 Muslims’ break-fast time: 6.52 pm.
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    • 474 33 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology .com mm FEB 19 -MAR 20 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Take another look at a forgotten or overdue piece of work. A shift in cosmic currents fills your brain with fresh ideas. Forget about being finished on time now you’re really getting started. Pisces
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  • Sports
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      558 34 Two late tries help England squeeze past Samoa \RUGBY WORLD CUP 2003 England 35 Samoa 22 Ireland 16 Argentina 15 Live: Japan v USA (Today 4.30 pm, Star Sports Ch 24) Wire services SYDNEY England scrambled into the quarter-finals yesterday after narrowly escaping probably the biggest upset in the
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    • 243 34 Reuters SYDNEY- Australia’s 142-0 thumping of Namibia on Saturday has reopened the debate on whether weaker teams should be allowed to play at the World Cup. The tournament has already been criticised for producing a series of lopsided matches. The traditional rugby-playing nations have been mercilessly
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    • 638 35  -  The woman behind FI Powerboat champ turns out for the Grand Prix By- Lim Han Ming SPECTACULAR accidents are plentiful in FI powerboat racing. That’s the warning Simona Breazu (right) got when she met her new boyfriend and reigning world champion Guido Cappellini a couple of
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    • 107 35 ATHLETICS Reuters RALEIGH, North Carolina Calvin Harrison has tested positive for the banned stimulant modafinil, the US Olympic 4x400m relay gold medallist told Reuters on Saturday. “Yes, I tested positive for modafinil at the US nationals,” Harrison said in a telephone interview from his home here. “I
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    • GOLF
      • 147 35 -AFP LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida Tiger Woods, trying to cling to his slim lead on co-leader Vij ay Singh in the US PGA money list, slumped six strokes off the pace here on Saturday at the US$4 million (556.9 million) Disney Classic. Woods struggled to a one-under par
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      • 116 35 AFP SEOUL South Korean golfer Se Ri Pak failed in her bid to become the first female in history to win a men’s event, but her one-under-par 71 was good enough to break the top 10 at the SBS Super Tournament yesterday. Pak, the first woman to
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    • 328 36 MANCHESTER United manager Alex Ferguson used a task force of Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers to spy on players such as David Beckham. The startling disclosure is made in the book, Manchester United: The Untold Story, written by the former chief
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    • Article, Illustration
      451 36 Ranieri happy to bounce back from last week’s loss to Arsenal Wire services LONDON Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri was relaxed after his multinational superstars took top spot, temporarily, in the Premiership with a 1-0 win over Manchester City, saying that leading the table was not vital yet. He
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    • 421 36 -AFP MADRID Real Madrid kept up the pressure on league leaders Valencia thanks to Raul Gonzalez, who scored twice in the last 12 minutes to give Real Madrid a hard fought 3-1 victory over Racing Santander on Saturday. Said Real coach Carlos Queiroz: “You
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    • Article, Illustration
      336 37 Billionaire Potanin considering buying into Arsenal Wire services LONDON Three-and-a-half months after billionaire Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea, another Russian tycoon is planning to buy into London rivals Arsenal, a British newspaper reported yesterday. The Independent on Sunday said Vladimir Potanin (left), an oil and mining magnate, was considering
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 30 35 IN THE LIVING ROOM RUGB.Y: World Cup: Japan v USA (Star Sports, Ch 24, 4.30 pm). TENNIS: Masters Series, France: Ist rd (Star Sports Ch 24, 6.30 pm and 12mn).
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