Streats, 25 February 2004

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  • 11 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com „sg mita <p> 111/03/2003
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  • 540 1 Students upset at varsities doing away with full-time lecturers to cut costs MS Samantha Yoon, a first-year student at the elite Columbia University in the US, is worried. Although she is studying in an Ivy League school, she is bothered about the quality of her tutors.
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  • 209 1 LONDON As universities here went on strike this week over pay, a molecular biologist whose research could help cancer and arthritis sufferers announced that he was quitting to become a plumber so that he could earn more money. Dr Karl Gensberg, 41,
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  • Morning Rush
    • 160 2 AP LAKELAND, Florida Tired of losing orange-juice drinkers to low-carb diets, US citrus growers are fighting back. The Florida state Department of Citrus last week changed its marketing strategy to convince consumers that orange juice can go with the Atkins diet as well as the popular
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    • 454 2  -  Lawyer’s death-row clients impressed by his commitment By Khushwant Singh HIGH-PROFILE criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan so impressed some clients who were found guilty and sentenced to hang that they offered to donate their organs to him. “They know of my three heart attacks and
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    • 561 3  -  CEO to join Thai team; Swee Chiow to climb without bottled oxygen g By Khushwant Singh ADVENTURER Khoo Swee Chiow is heading up Mount Everest again. But this time, he will be climbing without the aid of bottled oxygen. And all thanks to Mr
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    • 192 3 AFP SINGAPORE Regional aviation hubs such as Japan’s Narita and Singapore’s Changi airports may see diminished passenger traffic as the era of longrange aircraft dawns on Asia. Boeing executives attending Asian Aerospace yesterday said that their studies showed that more flights in the next
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    • 547 3  -  By ChuaKongHo SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC), the engineering arm of Singapore Airlines, expects to hire 800 engineers and technicians and invest $l2O million to build two new hangars. This is part of a move to position itself for servicing new-generation passenger jets
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    • 422 4 PAP Women’s Wing suggests some measures to tackle baby problem DON’T tell us how many babies to have. That’s the message from the Women’s Wing of the People’s Action Party to the Government. It was referring to Singapore’s “have three, or more if you can afford it” message,
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    • 358 4  -  By HoLian-Yi WOULD you pay more than $2,000 to watch your favourite football team play? “Why not?” said Manchester United fan Lee Choon Hou, 24. To cater to people such as Mr Lee, who are keen on watching English Premiership games really “live”,
      Reuters  -  358 words
    • 134 6 BUZZSTOP A SOLDIER suffered shrapnel wounds to his face and eyes when a bullet exploded during a live-firing exercise yesterday. The Straits Times reports today that the full-time national servicemen (NSF) had been operating a heavy machine
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    • Article, Illustration
      39 6 A man looking at busts of medical workers and doctors who died from Sars in Hong Kong, during an exhibition to honour them on Monday. The disease infected 1,755 people and killed 299 last year Reuters
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    • 153 6 SM Lee told of SIA situation AS the controversy over industrial relations in the SIA group rumbled on, a letter from labour chief Lim Boon Heng to Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew was made public yesterday. In his letter, he said that NTUC’s foremost approach
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    • 129 6 Wholesale trade index dips 3.4% SINGAPORE’S domestic wholesale trade index slipped 3.4 per cent in the final quarter of last year, due to lower sales of petroleum and petroleum products. But overall growth for 2003 was positive at 3.7 per cent, The Business Times reports today.
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    • 135 6 Poor roads hinder rescue efforts -ap A POWERFUL earthquake struck northern Morocco overnight yesterday, toppling houses and killing at least 150 people, the official Moroccan news agency reported. The quake shook rural areas near the coastal city of Al-Hoceima, officials said, and there were deep
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    • 99 6 THE JTC Corporation is just months away from giving the go-ahead to a $760 million project to build 32 underground oil storage caverns, The Straits Times reports today. If cleared, the construction of the 70m deep caverns covering an area of about 80 ha the size of
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    • 105 6 -AP THAILAND plans to embed identifying microchips in up to 200,000 fighting cocks and force their owners to bring them into clinics for regular health checks to help curb the spread of bird flu. Thai authorities have slaughtered more than 30 million chickens including some fighting cocks.
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    • 96 6 Reuters RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin dismissed Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov’s government yesterday, saying that he would appoint a fresh team after next month’s presidential election. Mr Putin, in what looked like a tacit acknowledgment that he is virtually certain of a second term after the March 14
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    • 99 6 Reuters A CHINESE woman unhappy with the trousers she had stolen from a shop may have erred when she took them back to be shortened. “The woman found the pair of trousers too long for her, and hearing from others that the store alters any clothes
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    • 17 4 PAGE 20 THE HIGH COST OF HAVING A BABY PAGE 24 SO FEW BABIES, SO MANY OBSTRUCTIONS
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  • Financial
    • 527 8  -  Matex chief gets early lesson in life when he switched to a better school in Pri 5 By_ Choong Choon Yee SOMETIMES, a sobering childhood experience can be the driving force behind a person’s success when he enters adulthood. Dr Alex Tan (pictured), 57, told Streats
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    • 267 8 Wire services SINGAPORE Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), the world’s sixth-largest container shipping group, yesterday reported a better-than-expected net profit in the fourth quarter, due to rising freight rates and strong volumes. NOL, which has a total market value of US$l.B billion (Ss3.l billion), said
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    • 210 8 Reuters SINGAPORE OCBC Bank Ltd, the smallest of Singapore’s three local banks, yesterday said that it will buy out minority shareholders in its insurance affiliate, Great Eastern Holdings Ltd, in a deal worth about $2.9 billion. Analysts said that the deal would value
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    • 87 8 Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore’s second largest conglomerate Keppel Corp Ltd yesterday said that its offshore and marine division had secured a total of $172 million worth of new shipbuilding contracts. Two units in the conglomerate, Keppel Singmarine Ltd and US-based Amfels, will build four tug and supply
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    • 84 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore, the world’s biggest ship-refuelling port, will double its fuelling anchorages from March 1 to meet increasing demand from vessels, the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore said in a statement. Two new bunkering ports will start operating next month at Sudong in western Singapore,
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    • 514 12 Cancellation of Comanche helicopter project won’t hurt us, says Boeing Wire services SINGAPORE US aircraft-maker Boeing yesterday said that the Pentagon’s cancellation of the US$3B billion (5564.5 billion) Comanche helicopter contract would not have a significant impact on the company. Boeing spokesman Mary Ann Brett
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    • 225 12 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia’s third-largest cellphone operator, Excelcomindo Pratama, confirmed yesterday that Australian telecommunications giant Telstra may be seeking a stake in the company. At the same time, it said the two groups had never been involved in any serious talks. “I don’t deny
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    • 24 12 *AS AT FEBRUARY 24 US$: $51.698 553.166 EURO: 552.131 Ss: 63.89 YEN Ss: RM2.238 Ss: HK54.581 Ss: 23.13 BAHT Ss: 4,984 RUPIAH
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    • 356 12 STI: 1,878.41 6.12 Reuters SHARES ended at a one-week low yesterday as a sharp fall on Nasdaq affected market sentiment and sparked selling in technology counters. Analysts and dealers blamed the lacklustre interest in blue chips on funds shifting their attention to regional
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    • 506 15 Personal branding is the latest marketing mantra that is being bandied about in Europe Reuters LONDON We are all personal brands and we’d better start getting used to it if we want to fulfil our dreams. If you want to be a star,
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    • 505 16 It may agree to plead guilty and pay a fine to end a 50-year-old anti-trust suit WASHINGTON South African diamond giant Deßeers SA is in talks to settle a criminal charge of price-fixing, so as to return to the US market after pulling
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    • 786 17 ODAY’SFOCUS Activities in the primary market IPOs Types of tranches: public, placement and what they are How to subscribe for IPO shares, eg via application forms, Electronic Share Application via ATMs, via brokers/banks for placement shares Hfreats mmm The world of finance and investment has
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  • Comment
    • 720 20  -  By PAULCHEONG The Straits Times SOME have said that it would be a baby-friendly Budget this year. On Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is expected to reveal the Government’s procreation policy and explain key factors in tackling Singapore’s baby blues. Singapore
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    • 111 20 “A Carmelite heritage, tradition devotion I waited and you came Now 6 6 Ask and you shall receive” li Exam Prayers (For University Students) 26 February ’O4 Thursday 5.30 pm Mass 6.00 pm The more you honour me, the more I will bless you Holy Infant Jesus Novena Every Thursday
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  • Vocal
    • 226 22 I REFER to Mr Conrad Raj’s commentary, “Equal pay for equal work” (Streats, Feb 23), whose key message is that there should be equal pay for equal work regardless of an employee’s age. The writer supported the position that all employers in Singapore should examine their
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    • 422 22 I REFER to Mr Conrad Raj’s commentary, “Equal pay for equal work” (Streats, Feb 23). Now that our Government and union leaders are pushing for the introduction of the variable wage system (VWS), I do not see why the VWS and CPF systems should be
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    • 547 24 I LOOK forward with anticipation to DPM Lee’s speech in Parliament on Friday, which, hopefully, will include bold new ideas and new moves to increase the birth rate here. I lend my support to calls to the Government to recognise that, in the modem
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    • 111 24 I DON’T know how many customers experience the same thing, but I can surely understand the frustration of Ms Shirley Toh, who wrote the letter, “I’m still waiting for Carreras show refund” (Streats, Feb 23). Like her, I was several times promised a refund by
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    • 103 24 I TRAVEL on the NorthEast Line MRT every day and have noticed that there are no seats at the Farrer Park MRT Station. People can sometimes be seen sitting on the floor or on the staircase while waiting for their friends, etc. Once I saw a whole
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    • 274 25 Toy Ping Hui Media Corp Artiste MEN'S EXPRESSIONS face body wellness w -4 m I®® I love a man who looks after himself.” It’s no wonder men of all ages and all walks of life are logging on to our website to register with Men’s Expressions. They know what a
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  • Global
    • 276 26 AFP BRUSSELS He has been dubbed the “monster of Charleroi” by the Belgian press, but psychiatrists said that Marc Dutroux (left) is less a paedophile than an icy-hearted predator with a murderous desire to control his victims. Dutroux, 47, will go on trial next Monday
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    • 403 26 Donations to his campaign kitty soar, closing gap with Bush’s s24om war chest Bloomberg NEW YORK As presidential hopeful John Kerry’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination soar, his funding problems seem to be going away. He raised U *****,275 (*****,700) from New York
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    • 349 26 WASHINGTON Two and a half years before the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the US, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was given the first name and telephone number of one of the hijackers, but did not pursue the lead. German intelligence officials gave
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    • 372 28 In rare outburst, Indian chief justice says he cannot curb rampant corruption in lower courts NEW DELHI The Supreme Court here on Monday witnessed the bizarre spectacle of the Chief Justice of India confessing that he did not have the power to curb the corruption
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    • 175 28 AFP JAKARTA The head of Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation has warned that the acquittal of parliament speaker Akbar Tanjung on graft charges may endanger the country. “Things like this are really incompatible with the people’s sense of justice. This embryo (of discontent) can later snowball into
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    • Article, Illustration
      40 28 Malaysians tucking into free fried chicken during a campaign to encourage poultry consumption in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. Malaysia is free from avian flu, which has swept through 10 Asian countries and killed 22 people so far AP
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    • 147 28 ap HONG KONG A pom star bared all by flashing open her silver raincoat in a movie shot secretly at Hong Kong’s airport. Red-faced Airport Authority officials have now stepped up security to make sure Chek Lap Kok airport doesn’t appear in
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    • 189 28 LONDON We all the know the cost of getting snapped by a dreaded speed camera. Penalty points and fines, right? Wrong, it’s a frown. At least that will be the case soon in some areas under the jurisdiction of Britain’s London Metropolitan and Sussex police
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    • 307 30 Most Malaysian undergraduates against armed struggle, support ISA KUALA LUMPUR More than two thirds of Malaysian university students surveyed feel that politicising Islam threatens the unity of the ummah (Islamic community). The survey of 2,567 students from seven universities was conducted by the Federation of Malay Students
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    • 210 30 PETALING JAYA Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) is having trouble finding suitable woman candidates to run in Johor in the coming general election, The Star reported yesterday. The state committee of the party has allocated one parliamentary and two state seats for its women’s
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  • Medical
    • 268 32 Reuters NEW YORK Exhaust fumes from cars and trucks may increase the risk of Childhood cancer, researchers in Italy report. In a 20-year study of childhood leukaemia cases in an Italian province, children living near busy roads had an increased risk of developing the
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    • 171 32 LONDON There’s another hidden danger in smoking tobacco gets trapped in household dust, exposing children to the equivalent of several hours of smoking, a new study shows. Infants can be exposed to contaminants months after smoking has occured, BBC News Online said yesterday. And
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  • EasyStreats
    • Article, Illustration
      757 34 It’s a tough market here for rappers, but Sheikh Haikel intends to continue struggling along in Singapore. He tells ZUBAIDAH NAZEER why HIS song, Witulah, hit No 1 in the Malaysian charts but don’t expect Sheikh Haikel to settle there permanently to make his name, as some
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    • 310 36 FORGET the movie-related mug, T-shirt and action figurine. What about a nail pendant, to wear when you watch Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ? Or a “witness card”, with prayers printed on it? Both are among the items being marketed to coincide with the film,
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    • 367 38 ON the one hand, cruising is slower than flying and it takes you longer to get to the same place. On the other, it’s infinitely more comfortable a bed, a room, a bathroom of your own and real meals anytime you want them, with variety.
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    • 277 38  -  HoLian-Yi FOR Dr Rudolf Weyergans, the problem that cellulite, or “orange peel skin”, poses is not merely cosmetic. “If cellulite is left untreated, it may actually lead to heart disease,” the German medical sociologist told Streats. “it is better to spend $1 to solve the problem
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    • 590 40 A book of letters written by young people to their elders produced by 77th Street’s Elim Chew and ex-UFMdeejay Danny Yeo has spun off a radio programme, theatre workshops and even a song.: YVONNE KWOK reports IT’S hard to ignore the anguish in the 77 voices that
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    • 107 43 How colourful other people’s weather reports look. A site maintained by the Hong Kong Observatory (www.worldweather.org/ wx_icon.htm) shows a range of 34 icons, including a beige one with curly lines for sandstorms; a blue one with curly lines and snowflakes for blowing snow; and a Chinese
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 43 43 9pm, Channel U Jiafa accidentally finds out that Tina has been using his name to send e-mail to Le-er and leaves Tina’s house in a fit of anger. After he sees Zhihao with Le-er, he encourages him to go after her.
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      • 58 43 10pm, Central John (Joaquin Phoenix) is about to divorce his wife, Elena (Claire Danes). But when he stumbles across a corporate conspiracy surrounding her, he kidnaps her and goes on the run. Set in the near future, this fantastical romance-thriller is directed by Thomas Vineterberg, one
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        63 43 THE ANDHRA PRADESH FESTIVAL Saturday and Sunday, llam-spm Asian Civilisations Museum, Empress Place Free ($1 admission into museum galleries) Craftsmen from Andhra Pradesh show off their skills in bidri the art of inlaying silver on black metal, silver filigree jewellery, pochampally textiles and cheriyal scroll paintings. You can also
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      • 64 43 WELCOMING SPRING Till March 8, llam-7pm daily Dynasties Antiques and Art Gallery (Liang Court level two concourse, tel 6738-3268) Free On display are 30 mega art pieces between six feet (1.8 m) to 12 feet in size. The works are of wide-ranging themes and styles, from Western oil to
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