Streats, 1 December 2003

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  • 10 3 Streats MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p) 111/03/2003
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  • Article, Illustration
    698 3  -  A fortnight after Streats breaks news of ouster of Alpa-S committee, Govt moves to reduce confrontation between SIA and pilots’union Reports by Chua Kong Ho THE Air Line Pilots Association (Singapore) thought it was a good thing when it incorporated a rule in its constitution requiring the executive
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  • 196 3 CATHAY Pacific Airways, the Hong Kong flagship airline that suffered a record HKSI.24 billion (***** million) interim loss, announced last Friday that it was making a special payment to staff who voluntarily took unpaid leave during the Sars crisis earlier this year. The
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    • 28 3 GOOD NEIGHBOURS SIX MONTHS AFTER HIS OUTBURST ABOUT ARROGANT SINGAPOREANS, MALAYSIAN ENVOY NOW SAYS MOST LOCALS ARE GRACIOUS STRONGER CASE CONSUMER WATCHDOG TO OPEN CALL CENTRE PAGE 10
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  • Morning Rush
    • 400 4  -  Members to decide today on renovating the Jewel of the Padang By Godfrey Robert SINGAPORE Cricket Club members will decide today if the Grand Old Dame of sports clubs will get a facelift. A special general meeting (SGM) has been called for this evening to
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    • 273 4  -  B y Conrad Raj SOME disgruntled members of the Singapore Island Country Club want the club to use its reserves for the proposed extension of its lease. The unhappy members are urging the club to use its “very substantial reserves of more
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    • 214 5 SINGAPORE Airlines needs to improve the way it manages its staff. The Government made this clear yesterday in a statement on improving labour relations at SIA. Referring to the bickering between Alpa-S and the airline, it directed almost a fifth of its announcement
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    • 374 5  -  Stallholders keep tables at Newton and Ghim Moh messy to ‘chope’ for clients By Khushwant Singh SOME cleaners in Newton and Ghim Moh food centres have told Streats that certain stallholders instruct them not to clear tables nearest their stalls without their say-so. On
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    • 141 6 THE Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) has launched an interactive online book to warn young people about the possible downside in choices they may make, especially in personal relationships. The book, Choices, comprises four stories; one each on sexual harassment, premarital sex, rape, and
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    • 415 6  -  Kids hold court for a day at Stamford Law Corp Sarah Ng SCHOOLGIRL Yap Jia Rem (pictured), 11, knows that her father is a lawyer at Stamford Law Corporation, but she is hazy about what he does at work. But now, she
      Francis Lee  -  415 words
    • 122 8 BUZZSTOP AN Italian architecture company has broken away from the industry practice of hiring a main contractor for a building project, choosing instead to handle the job itself. The company, AMA Group, hired 27 sub-contractors to work on the seven-storey industrial building in
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    • 150 8 Cables in another MAS jet found cut Wire services MALAYSIA’S airport authority has been ordered to undertake stringent checks on all aircraft parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) after a second incident of suspected wire-tampering of a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) aircraft in two
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    • Article, Illustration
      86 8  -  Text and picture by Melissa Boey American jet-skier and 1995 World Cup Freestyle champion Tom Meany, 34, performing stunts on his jet-ski before leaping into the water to extinguish the flames. A group of five jet-skiers from the US, Australia and France is in town till Jan
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    • 125 8 Ambush in Iraq Reuters TWO Japanese diplomats were killed in an ambush in northern Iraq, Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said yesterday. The incident is certain to complicate Tokyo’s decision on when to send troops to help rebuild Iraq. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed not to
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    • 137 8 IMF loan repaid IN a show of confidence, Thailand has vowed to stop seeking foreign aid from next year, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday. “Thailand freed itself from the International Monetary Fund in 2003. From 2004, we must not take assistance from any
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    • 84 8 -AFP MR Mohamed A 1 Fayed, the Egyptianborn owner of London’s Harrods department store, is preparing a bid for the Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister edition, the Observer reported in London on Sunday. He is believed to have contacted Lazards, the investment bank appointed by Telegraph-owner
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    • 100 8 Reuters CHINA has sacked a vice-governor of corruption-plagued Liaoning province for taking bribes and sentenced a former vice-mayor in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen to 20 years for graft. Liu Ketian, vice-mayor of Liaoning’s capital Shenyang in the early 1990 s and vice-governor since 1995, was sacked
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    • 98 8 BHUTAN wants to become the world’s first tobacco-free nation. In the capital, Thimphu, nicotine addicts aren’t feeling the pinch yet, but elsewhere in the country, smokers are a vanishing breed, the Christian Science Monitor reported yesterday. It said that 19 of 20 districts have already banned
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    • 103 8 MORE prosecutions for incest reportedly are brought under federal law than under Syariah law in Malaysia because the former has stiffer penalties. “The maximum penalties for incest and any other offence in Syariah law is three years jail, RM5,000 (552,270) or six strokes of the
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    • 946 9 NTUC Income WHEN HE RETIRES in 2010, Mr Tan would have saved more than $56,000 in tax. There will be gains too on his investments using his SRS money. ►Article by Leong Chan Teik He’s saving j $6,300 a year in taxes FOR each of the past two years, Mr
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  • Financial
    • 524 10  -  Consumer watchdog beefing up as new law is set to take effect By Choong Choon Yee THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) is beefing up its resources in anticipation of more complaints. This follows the passing of a Bill in Parliament to protect consumers’ interests. As
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    • 225 10 Wire services SINGAPORE Singapore’s property sector is likely to remain soft in the next two to three years despite an economic rebound as a supply glut keeps rentals and prices down, Standard and Poor’s said. “Despite recent signs of a general economic recovery, any
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    • 24 10 •AS AT NOVEMBER 28 US$: 551.724 552.960 EURO: 552.057 Ss: 63.42 YEN Ss: RM2.204 Ss: HK54.504 Ss: 23.15 BAHT Ss: 4,933 RUPIAH
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    • 535 10 The stock recommendation Is the average of ail 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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    • 581 12  -  Martial arts grandmaster serves up chops of different kind By Khushwant Singh MR JACK Wang believes in applying his martial arts training in the business arena. He has been practising Korean hapkido for nearly 40 years and is one of the 200 grandmasters in the
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    • 493 15 Crowds return to malls in search of discounts Wire services PRINCETON, New York Ms Stephanie Perry, 33, started her Christmas shopping at 3.10 am last Friday. “I’m out for good deals,” she said, the first person in a line outside a Wal-Mart store in Greensboro,
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    • 393 16 LOTR-driven tourism becoming biggest export sector AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand is ringing up the dollars on the back of a booming “Frodo economy”, with a tourism and movie-making upsurge fuelled by the success of The Lord of the Rings films. As Hollywood descends on this city for
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  • Comment
    • 648 18  -  By WILLIAM PESEK Jr Bloomberg ASIA, seeking to draw more attention to it economies, is reaching for the sky. Literally. Take Taipei, which last month became home to the world’s tallest building. The hope, believe it or not, is that it will bring luck to
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    • 236 18 if you know something we don’t Streats Who Reads Wins A u/#lt W« j. eJeJ hh'< °t w crJ.^" k<h r‘ e f ..u ,„j/« J i-. r Ww#»*"4 r *L Mw* iffi 4* tie w#r*t u9V e w-i '-w v> r Unlit ~S.'.'/ Pristine Environment Auckland, City of Sails
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  • Vocal
    • 289 20 I READ with much interest Mr Philip Lee’s commentary, “We need to lighten up” (Streats, Nov 28). Being from Malaysia, so close to Singapore and not just in geographical proximity, the encounter that I had in July soon after my arrival here also really
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    • 195 20 IN response to Mr Philip Lee’s commentary, “We need to lighten up” (Streats, Nov 28), I would like to point out that our education system puts so much emphasis on economic skills that its neglect of social, inter-personal and etiquette skills is appalling. Worse,
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    • 156 20 BEING from a place close to Bhutan Daijeeling/Siliguri I understand exactly what Mr Gopilal Acharya was driving at in his commentary, “Dogs happier than owners here” (Streats, Nov 28). It’s a culture shock. He is lucky that he will be leaving soon. I still have two
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    • 145 20 WHAT a refreshing piece of writing at last (“Dogs happier than owners here”), Streats, Nov 28). The writer, Mr Gopilal Acharya, is someone who has not become trapped in this fast-paced world we live in. It seems that time is standing still in Bhutan,
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    • 259 20 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.com.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 shall be
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    • 217 21 New Branch Opening Soon at Plaza Singapura #O2-15 Solving Hair Problems Yun Nam is the Most Effective! AC Nielsen Singapore April 2003 66 It works! 99 M Yun Nam solved my hair problem!” John Tan, aged 32 66 It’s true 99 -«gLdift “Yun Nam is very effective!’ Mabel Lau, aged
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  • Global
    • 179 22 Reuters HONG KONG -The territory’s pro-China party has been licking its wounds after the recent election, in which it was trounced by prodemocracy parties, and reconsidering its loyalties. The leader of the party, the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), Mr Tsang Yok
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    • 384 22 No militant feminists or rioting public haunt pageant in China Wire services SANYA, China Beijing will take another step in its long march to commercialism this week when it hosts Miss World, with organisers hoping that the event will be anything but revolutionary after last year’s
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    • 75 22 Reuters HONG KONG China’s answer to “Crocodile Dundee” has joined the chase for a baby croc on the loose in Hong Kong, as an Australian hunter threw in the towel. Nicknamed “Crocodile Zhao”, Mr Zhao Zhan, 30, a crocodile farmer from southern China, searched in vain
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    • 326 23 Thai temple’s abbot uses grisly exhibits to drive home realities of Aids Reuters LOPBURI, Thailand Tucked in lush rural hills, Thailand’s “Aids temple” aims to shock people out of their complacency with a macabre display of withered corpses and bones of the rejected dead. Each day, scores of
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    • 76 23 LONDON The winner of the world’s biggest liar competition has been accused of cheating because he read from a script and used props while telling his tall tale. Spectators also accused South African Abrie Kruger, the first overseas winner of the event since it began in
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    • 157 23 -ap PYONGYANG North Korea, an isolated country known for its totalitarian control on information, has begun an international e-mail service that “guarantees the privacy of correspondence”, an official news report said. The new e-mail service is provided by Pyongyang’s International Communications Centre, according to its
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  • Medical
    • 184 24 Reuters NEW YORK Lowering blood pressure can extend life by more than two years in some patients, say researchers. Dr Howard D Sesso and colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston looked at prospective data from 57,573 people, identifying seven patient states: No cardiovascular
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    • 111 24 QWhat is the difference in nutritional value between fresh meat andfrozen meat that has been kept for a week? A There is no appreciable loss of nutrients when meat is frozen commercially in a blast freezer. Thus there is no appreciable difference in the nutritional value of fresh
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  • EasyStreats
    • 648 26 The Bollywood Extravaganza last night, starring Shah Rukh Khan, was certainly a night of spectacular sights and sounds. KHUSHWANT SINGH was there THE reigning king of Indian cinema, Shah Rukh Khan, promised his Singapore fans a magical evening and yesterday, he delivered. He was accompanied on stage
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    • 182 26 THE saga of the Carreras concert cancellation continues. The promoter of the Jose Carreras concert, initially scheduled for last Wednesday but unexpectedly cancelled on Monday, had said that the reason wasn’t to do with money. But over the weekend, a statement from IMG, which represents
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    • 138 26 THOSE with £250,000 (*****,665) to spare might be interested in the following bit of news: The sale of a box at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The red-carpeted five-seat Box 70, located on the second tier, towards the western side of the circular auditorium,
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    • journey
      • 823 28 On a visit to schools and universities in three Canadian cities, ROBIN GANGULY recalls opportunities missed and ambitions Imgforgotten THIS was a journey I had wanted to take as a college student in India. Books, pictures and friends’ accounts of Oxford and Harvard fascinated me. I worked hard,
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    • Article, Illustration
      461 32  -  By Sheruin Seah HE cooked his first dish an omelette at the tender age of six. Since then, Gerald Then, 28, has enjoyed a lifelong passion for cooking, which has seen him baking, cooking and designing culinary dishes in kitchens around Singapore and even for a restaurant in
      Pics: Francis Lee  -  461 words
    • 112 33 Hi. I’m Debbie Tan. I’m your December weather girl. Apparently, fake is fine with many Americans buying Christmas trees. In the US last year, 70 per cent of the 79.53 million trees sold were artificial, according to the National Christmas Tree Association, The Sun Herald of
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 61 33 9pm, HBO (SCV6O) David (Haley Joel Osment) is a “Media”, a robot designed to for adoption. Trouble is, his new parents already have a child in cryogenic deep freeze until a cure for his terminal illness can be found. Unfortunately for David, a cure emerges and now
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        54 33 10pm, Channel i A gay lawyer (Tom Hanks) stricken with Aids seeks assistance from a homophobic personal injury attorney (Denzel Washington) when a prestigious Philadelphia law firm fires him for incompetence. A sensitive and heartfelt look at the affect of Aids on family, friends and the people who interact
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        59 33 REFRESHING BRILLIANCE Till Sunday, llam-6pm daily ARTrium@Mita, Mita Building (140, Hill Street); Free Showcasing more than 100 brush paintings by Lin Lu Zai. The artist has integrated Western techniques into his works which harmonises the scenes and images in his paintings, achieving balance and completion. He paints the natural
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      • 62 33 LIM TZAY CHUEN Till tomorrow, Bpm The Black Box, Fort Canning Centre Tickets at $2l from Ticket Charge Singaporean artist Lim Tzay Chuen is the subject of a graduation project by the pioneer class of Theatre Training and Research Programme, a three-year, full time professional actor-training programme. The theatre
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    • 26 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.
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 474 33 Yourdailyhoroscope jP AQUARIUS ggm JAN 20 -FEB 18 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com You feel a little let down after a phenomenal few days. Disorder is the last thing that Aquarius needs at this crucial time. Muster some real enthusiasm instead of searching for over-the-counter remedies. GEMINI MAY2I-JUN2I It’s hard
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  • Sports
    • 22nd SEA GAMES VIETNAM 2003 COUNTDOWN FIN SWIMMING 4 DAYS TO GO
      • 168 34 AFP HANOI Plagued by matchfixing in its domestic football league, Vietnam has assured its South-east Asian neighbours that no medals will be bought at the upcoming SEA Games. “In order to prevent cheating, we will ask our referees to be fair, and ask referees from
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      • 92 34 FIN swimmers require two types of equipment the snorkel and the mono fin. The snorkel is mounted on a brace that secures the snorkel over the nose and forehead of the swimmer. The mono fin is a large single fibre glass or plastic blade attached to
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      • 474 34  -  Kwok is adding fin swimming to his pet event at Vietnam Lim Han Ming NATIONAL swimmer Leslie Kwok (below) has two bronze medals from three South-east Asia Games outings. If all goes well, he may double that tally in Vietnam this week. The 30-year-old is
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    • Article, Illustration
      463 36 Beckham survives fierce tackles, boos, missiles, but he has the... Wire services MADRID David Beckham (above) endured a fierce test of his composure and character on Saturday before an ankle injury put an end to his participation in Real Madrid’s 1-1 draw at Osasuna. The England skipper had
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    • 308 36 Reuters MILANBrazilian World Cup winner Rivaldo (right) is to leave European champions AC Milan, the Italian club’s vicepresident said on Saturday. Adriano Galliani told Radio Spazio Aperto: “It is with great sadness that I have to say that Rivaldo will leave Milan within a few days.”
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    • 250 36 -afp LONDON Premiership champions Manchester United found themselves on collision course with Fifa chief Sepp Blatter on Saturday over the Rio Ferdinand dope test row. Blatter said he will be writing to the the club demanding an explanation as to why the
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    • 245 37 ■AFP LA QUINTA, California Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam (left) just loves to take on the men. And she seems to have found a way to get the better of her male counterparts At the US$l million (S$ 1.7 million) Skins Game on Saturday, the LPGA star chipped in
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    • Article, Illustration
      421 37  -  Odds plunged for 9+ goals in Malaysia-Cambodia football match By_ Tan Kim Han THERE were goals galore in the opening Group B match of the 22nd South-east Asia Games football competition on Saturday. Malaysia, one of the tournament favourites, walloped minnow Cambodia 8-1 at Ho Chi Minh City’s
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 96 37 Reuters LISBON England was paired with champion France, Switzerland and Croatia in the group stages of the Euro 2004 finals in the draw made yesterday. While England and France will slug it out in Group B, Holland has been pitted against old foe Germany in Group D,
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      • 91 37 -AFP ROME The title race in Italy was thrown wide open on Saturday as Inter Milan bounced back from their Champions League humiliation to stun Serie A leaders Juventus 3-1. Argentine striker Julio Cruz scored twice and speedy Nigerian teenager Obafemi Martins added a third as Inter
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