Streats, 26 January 2004

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  • Morning Rush
    • 385 2  -  S’pore, M’sian leaders’ frequent Causeway crossings bode well for ties By_ Khushwant Singh A NEW and bright era in Singapore-Malaysia relations. That is how Singaporeans and Malaysians view the recent frequent meetings between the leaders of the two countries. As Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong
      Lianhe Zaobao  -  385 words
    • 176 2 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s agriculture ministry said yesterday that an outbreak of bird flu has infected millions of chickens, but no cases had been reported so far in humans. “The government will not cover it up that Indonesia has now been infected by the avian influenza
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    • 410 3  -  Former pageant winners tap on their experience and set up image consultancies By Sharlene Tan LOOKS. Poise. Just what do you do after a big beauty pageant confirms that you have it all? For many, the answer is to take a stab at the small screen.
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    • 268 4  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer AS an airline employee, Ms Sally Tan has enjoyed travelling, especially to Australia and the United States. But Ms Tan, 43, will soon be taking a different kind of trip as an emergency relief volunteer attending to casualties of the Dec
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    • 217 4 AFP PENANG A young Dutchwoman has beaten Malaysia’s savvy businessmen to a lucrative new business sending European clients home from hideaway holidays with bigger breasts or a facelift. Price and privacy are the big drawing cards, said Ms Marloes Giezenaar, 26, who
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    • 492 4  -  By Sujin Thomas TWELVE years ago, he was just spinning the discs. Today, Mr Christen Choo operates one of the best moneyspinning hits in the eventsorganising business here. Mr Choo, 32, is the managing director of Disc Jocks’ Crew (DJC) Event Producers, now
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    • 136 6 BUZZSTOP FOURTEEN town councils are sitting on sinking funds of about $lOO million each, and nearly $1.5 billion in total, The Straits Times reports today. The money is meant for long-term cyclical repairs. It is invested largely in fixed deposits and
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 6 Mr Ernesto Ramos being pulled into a chopper after members of the Philippine Air Force rescue team spotted him floating on the sea with Mr Aurello Marzo, IS nautical miles off Luna, La Union province, yesterday. The two fishermen survived in the open sea for three days without
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    • 134 6 SPH newspaper veteran to retire NEWSPAPER publishing veteran Chew Keng Juea will later this month retire from his post as senior executive vicepresident of Singapore Press Holdings’ Chinese Newspapers and Newspaper Services divisions. SPH will name his successor later this week to head the
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    • 157 6 Stress-related disorder UP to one in five of the American military personnel in Iraq will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, medical staff dealing with the psychiatric fallout of the war have said, London’s Observer reported yesterday. Captain Jennifer Berg, the chairman
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    • 142 6 More talks later AP ISRAEL and Hizbollah guerillas will exchange prisoners on Thursday and Friday, then discuss prospects for more Arab prisoners to be released as part of a recent German-mediated agreement. They will also look into the case of a long-missing Israeli airman Ron
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    • 93 6 THE Government will be reviewing the incentives and tax rebates it hands out in getting Singaporeans to get married earlier, and have more children. The falling birth rate is of serious concern, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who was speaking at a Lunar New Year
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    • 85 6 AP HEAVY rain flooded villages and triggered landslides in Sarawak, East Malaysia, killing a youth, news reports said yesterday. Storms lashed the state on Saturday, forcing at least 2,500 people to evacuate their homes, Bemama reported. Schoolboy Kavin Abu, 17, died after being struck by concrete slabs
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    • 101 6 AP NASA’S Opportunity rover zipped its first pictures of Mars to Earth early yesterday, just hours after the second unmanned spacecraft successfully landed on the Red Planet. The pictures showed a surface smooth and dark red in some places and strewn with fragmented slabs of light bedrock
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    • 90 6 Reuters MIKE Rowe, the 17-year-old Canadian who caught the attention of Microsoft Corp’s lawyers by registering www.mikerowesoft.com, agreed last Friday to give up his website. Microsoft will pay for Mr Rowe’s expenses, the cost of switching over to a new site, provide training for certification on
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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    • 480 5 Thebashini Jega Jeevan MDISI st Year Student BSc (Hons) in Pharmaceutical Management Wm mm It U Sherene Ng MDIS Ist Year Student BSc (Hons) in Pharmaceutical Management Nurturing Individuals in Real Laboratories Empowered by MDIS. The biomedical sciences industry will be the fourth pillar of Singapore economy with plans of
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • Financial
    • 625 8  -  Infocredit D&B director sees surge in demand for credit reports on companies By Choong Choon Yee CHINA’S emergence as an economic powerhouse has made Mr William Lim a busy man. His company doesn’t deal directly with Chinese firms but provides data to other companies that enables them
      Edwin Koo  -  625 words
    • 24 8 •AS AT JANUARY 21 US$: $51,705 553.095 EURO: 552.142 Ss: 62.92 YEN Ss: RM2.229 Ss: HK54.558 Ss: 22.90 BAHT Ss: 4,930 RUPIAH
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    • 480 8 The stock recommendation Is the average of all the recommendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There Is a total of 29 brokers submitting recommendations but not every stock is followed by all the 29 brokers. Their recommendations are placed on a 1 to 5 points scale and
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    • 463 11 Week-long New Year holiday spurs spending frenzy across China AFP BEIJING Ms Zhang Li, 22, is cruising Beijing’s department stores, determined to part with the 300 yuan (Ss62) hongbao her grandparents gave her during Chinese New Year. “Normally, I’m very cautious when buying clothes and make
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    • 179 11 AFP LONDON Associated Newspapers, one of Britain’s biggest press groups, is preparing a £5OO million (S$ 1.5 billion) bid for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, The Observer reported yesterday. Citing unidentified sources close to Associated, which publishes the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday,
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    • 285 11 Reuters CANNES, France Music downloads will render the übiquitous compact disc all but obsolete in the next five years, yet half of all companies that begin selling digital songs online will fail by yearend, a researcher warned on Saturday. By 2008, one third
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    • 507 13 Japanese stores are turning to attractive-looking men to boost sales TOKYO Good-looking men like Mr Katsushi Yamaguchi, 38, a model turned store receptionist, are fast becoming a new reason for Japanese women to go shopping. Stores in Ginza, Tokyo’s prestigious shopping district, are hiring ikemen, or
      Bloomberg  -  507 words
    • 188 13 Reuters DAVOS, Switzerland While the US food industry has recognised obesity as a problem and has pledged to develop healthier products, it is strongly opposed to laws that could make junk food more expensive. Food companies gained support from US Health Secretary
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 137 12 1 National Hero Khoo Swee Chiow I K I dare to dream... set ambitious goals, Persevere and ultimately, I achieve greater heights. Nothing beats being at the top. The thrill is to live each day to the fullest. I keep up the stride, knowing with every step I take, Pm
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  • Comment
    • 668 14  -  By CONRAD RAJ THESE days whenever companies here, especially the smaller ones, talk about their expansion plans, it almost invariably involves China. Increasingly India is beginning to figure, too. But hardly anybody discusses or even thinks about our Asean neighbours. Yet opportunities abound in the region,
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 348 14 if you know something we don’t Streats Who Reads Wins ADVERTISEMENT Would you condemn your own child for life or invest 4 hours Siaht without learning to improve his A Natural Vision Improvement approach to: 1 C F AYYLTH TIH YRDSA& Course Fee $150.00 Date 31 st JANUARY 2004 Time
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 281 15 F ■fee 1 ■r l A hr' y r y See results m weeks! Beijing 101 is proven to solve hair problems in weeks. Their 100% natural herbal products have brought new hope to millions in 45 countries over the last 30 years. I 1 s "...Not only has his
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  • Vocal
    • 232 16 I REFER to Mr James Chi’s letter “Carparks’ design damaging vehicles” (Streats, Jan 21). Being in the building design and building consultancy industry, I strongly agree with Mr Chi that such protruding steel barriers are not practical. Mr Chi has a van. But the barriers
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    • 249 16 I AM glad that the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will introduce an electronic system to track all vessels in the port. This is long overdue. It is a system that I had hoped would be put in place but was deferred for years as
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    • 248 16 MS Sarah Ng, in her commentary, “For dog’s sake, think before buying” (Streats, Jan 20), said that the number of abandoned pets is increasing here despite the efforts of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other organisations to educate the public on
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    • 179 16 MORE must be done to stop people buying pets on impulse. As Ms Sarah Ng pointed out in her commentary, “For dog’s sake, think before buying” (Streats, Jan 20), most people have no idea how much time and effort is required to care for a
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 285 17 i m t I toned up my arms and waist and flattened my abs in weeks with help from Pretti Focus™. What about PrettiSlim is that the therapists are friendly and helpful. Christina Gan Satisfied Client of PrettiSlim Burns off stubborn fat from the waist, tummy, hips, buttocks and thighs.
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  • Global
    • 41 18 A dragon float making its way behind participants carrying the banner of an association of Chinese residents in France. The float is part of a parade along the Champs Elysees marking Chinese New Year in Paris on Saturday Reuters
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    • 437 18 Asian tour destinations court them for their money, despite their manners BEIJING Chinese holidaymakers are on their way to becoming the “new Germans” of tourism, said British newspaper The Independent on Saturday. While they are making airlines and hotels happy after last year’s Sars slowdown, they are
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    • 154 18 AP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian taxman has barred 6,035 Malaysian tax evaders from leaving the country and frozen their assets, to try and recover nearly RM2SO million (S$ 112 million) in unpaid taxes, a news report said yesterday. The move is part of a
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    • 174 18 LONDON Part of Saddam Hussein’s secret weapons programme may be hidden in neighbouring Syria, former US weapons-search chief David Kay told the UK’s Sunday Telegraph. Mr Kay, who resigned last week, was quoted as saying in an exclusive interview that that he had uncovered
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  • Medical
    • 318 19 VIENNA A hospital here, has treated two heavy snorers for their condition, and a queue of people is already forming at the surgery door, desperate for some relief for themselves and their partners. The pioneering surgery, to treat chronic sleep apnoea, tethers the snorer’s tongue to
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 343 19 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF PANASONIC DREAM HOMES. Mfhn LIVING ROOM The next draw date will be on 16 Feb 2004. Look out for the winners announced on 23 Feb 2004 and you may be one of the next fifteen to win a Panasonic Dream Home! Just spend $lOO on
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  • EasyStreats
    • 735 20 Jazz on the heal airwaves would be a thing of the past, if it were notfor heal jazz-lover Eddie Chan. GREGORY LEOW reports J THE demise of Passion 99.5 FM at the end of last year should have represented the closure of the last bastion for
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    • journeys
      • 886 21 Beyond the northern tip of Britain lies a group of islands that has afforded PAUL JANSEN moments of contemplation and awe ORKNEY. That’s not a place your travel agent is likely to know about, much less recommend as a destination. Which is precisely why it’s such a great
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      • 251 22 Wire agencies UTAH The Sundance Film Festival has been known to tackle heavy issues, but never before has it served up two films that spotlight obsessions with food and the problem of obesity. Super Size Me is director Morgan Spurlock’s bid to find out why the
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    • 102 23 I By 2030 in Australia, r there will K be less rain, double the number of 35°C days, and less frost, a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation study forecasts. Planners are already looking at water recycling, heat-tolerant crops, adjusting cropping calendars to a longer frost-free
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        42 23 10pm, Channel i Small-time crook Bemie Laplante is having a rough time until he becomes an accidental hero by rescuing passengers from a crashed jet. But someone else claims credit for the rescue. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis and Andy Garcia.
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      • 38 23 10pm, Central The samurai, knights of medieval Japan, have left a legacy of martial artistry, ceremony, self-discipline and tenacity. Explore the history and mystery of this elite warrior class as present-day samurai demonstrate their ancient skills.
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    • Happenin'
      • 55 23 THE GRANDEUR OF TANG Friday, 7.30 pm Esplanade Concert Hall Tickets from $ll to s46from Sistic Savour poems written by famous Tang poets such as Li Bai, Tu Pu, Meng Hao Ren and Wang Zhi Huan. Shanghai actor Sun Dao Lin narrates to the Singapore Chinese Orchestra’s accompaniment led
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      • Article, Illustration
        84 23 THE ODD COUPLE Wednesday till Feb 21, Bpm (3pm matinee on weekends) DBS Arts Centre (20 Merbau Road) Tickets from $26 to $73 (dinner package) from Sistic The sloppy and newlydivorced Oscar Madison invites his neat-freak friend, Felix Ungar, to stay at his house until he recovers from the
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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    • 110 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. IS S VST Be branch i s J r 13 Ikari 15 Sat 11 Perke 14 Sam 12 Terd Jl >IM tm 19 20 Tahu
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 436 23 Yourdailyhoroscope jp AQUARIUS JAN2O-FEB 18 PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com ARIES MAR2I -APR 19 You gaze longingly on the past. If you stagger into the future backwards, you could miss what’s coming up and you really don’t want to do that. Face forward. s'g APR 20-MAY
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  • Sports
    • Article, Illustration
      504 24  -  420 pair Liu and Tam have established a near-telepathic understanding in just two months By Lira Han Ming THEIR partnership is barely two months old, but national 420 sailors Dawn Liu (right) and Siobhan Tam (left) are already going places. They were paired last November after Tam’s previous
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    • 314 24 LONDON Real Madrid superstar Roberto Carlos is closer to a summer switch to Chelsea. The Sunday Mirror reported that the Brazilian international has struck an agreement with Blues owner Roman Abramovich that he will move to Stamford Bridge in the summer. Carlos has
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    • Article, Illustration
      512 26 Houllier blasts midfielder’s critics after match-winning performance AFP LIVERPOOL Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier slammed Bruno Cheyrou’s (left) detractors after two goals from the fellow Frenchman saw the Reds secure a 2-1 FA Cup fourth round win over Newcastle at Anfield yesterday (Singapore time). Cheyrou, who has now i
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    • 228 26 AFP MADRID Ronaldo (below) passed a late fitness test to score a goal in Real Madrid’s 2-1 victory over Villarreal on Saturday. The Brazilian World Cup hero picked up a thigh strain in Wednesday’s 3-0 Spanish Cup win over Valencia, but he was still
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    • 227 26 Wire services LONDON David Bentley (below) the new Dennis Bergkamp? Why not, said Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger after watching the 18-year-old forward score with a delicate chip in their 4-1 win over Middlesbrough in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday. Said a delighted
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    • 393 27 Roddick feels Agassi’s the man to beat for Australian Open title AFP MELBOURNE Iron-man Andre Agassi says he’s ready to go to the next level in his pursuit of the fifth Australian Open title, and main rival Andy Roddick feels that his fellow American is still the
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    • 225 27 AFP NBA CHAMPIONSHIP Utah 86 Los Angeles 93 SALT LAKE CITY Gary Payton committed seven turnovers but nailed a clutch three-pointer with 13sec left to help the Los Angeles Lakers to a 93-86 triumph over the Utah Jazz. With the victory, the Lakers
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    • 113 27 GOLF AFP BANGKOK Singapore’s Mardan Mamat finished joint fourth in the US$3OO,OOO (S$508,000) Thailand Open yesterday. Veteran Thai golfer Boonchu Ruangkit, 47, became the oldest winner on the Asian circuit when he won the title with a two-stroke victory. Boonchu birdied the final hole for a final-round
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    • 148 27 CYCLING AFP SOLVANG, California Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has admitted that his aim to go for gold at the Athens Olympics could be doomed by his potentially historic bid for a sixth straight yellow jersey. He said: “My plan is to race in Athens, but
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    • 140 27 I SPA RESORT C7I ref real. 77 paradise Paradise by DAY....Fairyland by NIGHT expect a lot more in-between To usher in the New Year, we are offering a special pakage. Now 6Smin massage at $63 Savings of $l9 Full BODV SCRUB by our female masseuses EAR TICKLE SENSATION A Thai
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 54 27 IN THE LIVING ROOM TENNIS: Australian Open, Day 8 (Super Sports Ch 22, Bam). Highlights (Delayed, Ch 22, 9pm). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF: Dunhill Championship, final day (Super Sports Plus Ch2l, 9pm). FOOTBALL: FA Cup Round 4 highlights (Super Sports Ch 22, 12mn). Italian Serie A: AC Milan v Ancona (Super
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    • 868 28 Infocomm feature Brought to you by SecurityOne-* World's best regarded network security certification comes to Singapore, poised to elevate local IT staff to manage global security networks. Network Professionals Poised To Lead Cybersecurity Charge In Local Infocomm Sector Written By Agrin Varsad Just last year a new, rapidly propagating virus,
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