Streats, 24 March 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 513 1 Israel PM makes pledge as Arabs erupt in anger over Yassin’s assassination Wire services TEL AVIV A day after killing Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in a missile attack, Israel said yesterday that all Palestinian militant leaders were “in its sights”. Israeli Prime Minister
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    • 333 1 Father Joachim Kang, who is charged with breach of trust of $5.1 million, bought a property here for $835,000 and made his goddaughter, Ms Mabel Chia, a joint owner. On the opening day of his trial yesterday, his superior, Archbishop Nicholas Chia, said: ‘This is totally unacceptable... it’ll give rise
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  • Morning Rush
    • 460 2  -  By f Sarah Ng NEA launches ‘Rat Attack’ to cut vermin population WAR has been declared on an estimated 13,000 rats infesting Housing Board estates. In “Rat Attack”, an operation which will run for eight months, the National Environment Agency (NEA) plans to
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    • 245 2  -  By Zubaidah Nazeer AFTER scouring the world for a year to find a top educationist to steer its development, the Singapore Management University has at last got its man. Professor Howard Hunter, 57, a Yale-trained lawyer, has been picked to be SMU’s new
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    • 495 3  -  Archbishop testifies against Father Kang in cheating case By Khushwant Singh TWO men of the cloth sat ramrod straight in a hushed courtroom in the Subordinate Courts yesterday, each appearing uncomfortable with the other’s presence. One faced accusations of misappropriating church funds and the
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    • Article, Illustration
      50 3 British soldiers (top), standing behind a plastic shield, were at the receiving end during a violent protest by job seekers in the Iraqi city of Basra on Monday. One of the soldiers (above) trying to douse the flames after a petrol bomb was thrown at him Pics: AFP
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    • 436 4  -  Ho Peng Kee tipped to take over, with Vivian Balakrishnan as deputy By_ Tan Kim Han LONG-SERVING Football Association of Singapore (FAS) president Mah Bow Tan is almost certain to step down from his post soon. The news will not surprise the football
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    • 188 4  -  By Sharlene Tan SOON you can get a serving of Wi-Fi with a purchase at McDonald’s outlets. For now, only its East Coast Park outlet has been equipped with Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity), a wireless Internet service. Launched yesterday, its use will be free until
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    • 342 6  -  239 of4oo-plus members vote for plan, but some fret over reserves shortfall By Conrad Raj THE majority of Tanglin Club members present at Monday night’s special general meeting voted in favour of giving a face-lift to the 130-year old clubhouse in Stevens Road.
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    • 165 6 Xinhua BEIJING A professional bargaining company, the .first of its kind in China, has begun operating in north-eastern China’s Liaoning province. Mr Zou Chengzhi, from the Liaoning capital city of Shengyang, is China’s first “professional bargainer” after being granted an operating permit
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    • 123 8 BUZZSTOP Bloomberg SINGAPORE’S consumer prices rose 1.5 per cent last month from a year earlier the fastest pace in almost three years. “The main factor driving inflation at a headline line is the GST,” said Mr Prasenjit Basu, managing director of Singapore-based Robust
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    • Article, Illustration
      87 8  -  Khushwant Singh Dheepan Lachumanen, 8, cutting a cake on his birthday earlier this month. Dheepan, who is wheelchair-bound because of a muscular disorder called arthrogyposis, said he was surprised to know that he was the first to receive a Rainbow birthday cake from Swensen’s. The company will present
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    • 138 8 JCs mix cultural, language studies TO maintain interest in studying mother tongue, junior colleges are now combining it with cultural studies. At least five of the 16 JCs contacted by The Straits Times have started or will start such courses either as an elective subject or
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    • 129 8 I Woman injured in Thailand attack Reuters A BOMB yesterday exploded across the street from two senior government ministers who were holding a meeting in Thailand’s largely Muslim south to discuss steps to deal with a surge of violence in the region. Another explosive device was
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    • 138 8 69 had opted to be let go A TOTAL of 103 employees or a fifth of the staff from Singapore Zoo, Night Safari and Jurong Bird Park were retrenched by their parent company, Wildlife Reserves Singapore, yesterday. Of these, 34 were asked to leave, while 69
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    • 85 8 FROM April 1 motorists can settle their Malaysian traffic fines and check for any outstanding summonses at the High Commission of Malaysia here. The High Commission yesterday said that the service will be available for three months, The Straits Times reports today. It also “strongly advised”
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    • 93 8 HDB contractor Neo Corporation is facing a petition for judicial management over unpaid debts of at least $1.7 million. But unlike the three construction companies that went bust last year and stalled upgrading works in Marine Terrace, the company sqid that it is confident it can finish
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    • 95 8 NINETEEN couples yesterday emerged from the cable cars where they had lived for a week in hopes of winning an ocean cruise and $20,000. Organisers of the Surviving the Sky challenge said that they had not expected so many of the 36 original teams to withstand
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    • 105 8 AFP THE maker of Pedigree dog food apologised yesterday for its contaminated products, blaming toxins caused by mould at its Thai factory. Effem Foods, a US-based multinational, earlier this month recalled Pedigree and Whiskas dry cat food from 10 Asian nations after pet owners and vets
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  • Financial
    • 649 10  -  As platinum prices surge to 24-year highs, S’poreanstumto t cheaper alternatives i By CkuaKongHo BANK officer Susan Ho, 25, went shopping for a pair of platinum rings recently. But the price tags put her off. So she settled for one platinum ring, which she intends
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    • 304 10  -  By Chxxmg Choon Yee DESPITE optimism about revenue growth here, Singapore’s medium-sized companies have been looking at moving out of the country to cut costs. A significant number of firms have either already shifted operations to countries such as China, or are planning
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    • 216 10 OCBC Bank’s appeal against an earlier court ruling was thrown out of court yesterday. OCBC, Singapore’s smallest bank, had sought to overturn a court decision which last October found it at fault in a long-running legal dispute involving information technology firm Just Login, The Straits
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    • 124 10  -  Chua Kong Ho KEEPING track of credit card spending just got more convenient with Citibank’s new online statement features. After logging onto Citibank’s website, credit card holders can now view their spending details and sort transactions into three categories. Citibank is the first bank
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    • 348 12 A first in 30-year history, move part of transparency bid Wire services SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings Pte, a Singapore government investment company with about $lOO billion in assets, plans to make public its annual report, for the first time in its 30-year history, before a sale
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    • 216 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Mr Richard Seow, Citigroup’s top investment banker for South-east Asia, has resigned after almost five years with the firm. His resignation comes less than a month after two colleagues quit, people who worked with him said. He plans to pursue opportunities
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    • 726 13  -  TODAY’SFOCUS 1 How do futures help retail investors cope with market volatility? 2 What are the advantages of index futures? />3» Excnangfl By ChuaKongHo Futures are exchange-traded contracts that require delivery of a commodity, bond, currency, or stock index, at a specified price, cm a specified future date
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    • 140 14 AP TOKYO A popular actress who starred in a government advertisement campaign encouraging Japanese to pay into the national pension system had been skipping out on the premiums herself, officials acknowledged yesterday. Japan has been struggling to find a way to A cope with ballooning
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    • 238 14 AP SHANGHAI Judges here have been making pre-dawn house calls and detaining people for up to two weeks in a drive aimed at beefing up enforcement of orders to pay debts and other court decisions, an official said yesterday. All courts in Shanghai have
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    • 908 17  -  By ANDYMUKHERJEE Bloomberg TONY Teo was recently given a diamond-studded gold watch by a grateful client. All that the Singapore-based investment consultant had to do to earn the $23,000 timepiece was to introduce the client to a new automated currency trading system.
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    • 27 17 STI: 1,818.41 6.25 *AS AT MARCH 23 US$: 551.689 553.116 EURO: 552.085 Ss: 63.24 YEN Ss: RM2.251 Ss: HK54.616 Ss: 23.39 BAHT ss: 5,086 RUPIAH
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  • Comment
    • 799 19  -  By HO LIAN-YI DURING some of my less sane moments, which are frequent, I’ve considered becoming a teacher of English. I’ve always enjoyed reading and writing, after all. Plus, my often dour demeanour and my love of nitpicking makes me the perfect man for
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  • Vocal
    • 327 20 I REFER to Mr Yak Chin Hua’s letter, “Iras income data adequate” (Streats, March 18). Mr Yak expressed the view that Iras’ income data would be a better gauge of a person’s need for government handouts than the Annual Value (AV) of property and
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    • 224 20 IT’S clear from recent letters in Streats that the subject of relationships between Caucasian men and local women has really raised the hackles of some folks. In the UK, we would call such people “fuddy-duddies”. I fully agree with letter writer Mr Dudley
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    • 232 22 THE writers of recent letters to Streats who support opening a casino here have said that it would be good for our economy. They point out that it would boost tourism and enable local gamblers to spend their money here, thereby keeping it in
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    • 235 22 WE refer to Mr Leong Sze Hian’s letter, “CPF investors have been overcharged” (Streats, March 15). The CPF Board agrees with Mr Leong that centralising CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS) backroom processing could reduce the cost of investing for members. Although the board currently handles the backroom
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    • 101 22 I REFER to the recent incident in which three robbery suspects fled to Singapore from Johor. I would like to praise the army and police for their coordinated effort that led to the capture of the three intruders, who entered Pulau Tekong. But at the back
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    • 36 22 WE published a picture of a remittance agency with the AFP report, “Illegal money transfers thrive” (Streats, March 22). The picture, which was supplied by AFP to accompany its report, features a licensed remittance agency.
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    • 76 22 MUCH has been said about selfish, inconsiderate people who do not give up train and bus seats allocated to those in greater need, but still the message has not got through. Do we need a blitz in schools, polytechnics and other
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    • 362 20 A SPECIAL SERIES ON ORGAN DONATION Giving the gift of life IN SINGAPORE, one organ failure patient dies each day because there are not enough organs donated. The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) amendments to the Human Organ Transplant Act will mean that more organs can be made available for those
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    • 85 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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    • 504 23 We Are What We Eat For generations, rice, bread and noodles have been the Asian dietary staple. Old habits run in the family: Our kids adore carbohydrates-laden spaghetti and fries. While "starchy" food is a boon to the palate, its high carbo-content is a bane to the body. Weight Management
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  • Global
    • 438 24 AFP President vows to hasten recount, but KMT sceptical TAIPEI Taiwan was yesterday heading for an election recount despite President Chen Shui-bian angrily rejecting allegations of vote-rigging and insisting that the attempt to assassinate him was genuine. As tempers frayed over the
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    • 176 24 KUALA TERENGGANU More than 2,000 pro-Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) demonstrators gathered here yesterday in the hope of intercepting purported “phantom voters” returning home, according to a news report. “We believe the demonstration was planned by some irresponsible people who had spread rumours that a
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    • 279 26 Wire services SACRAMENTO -The highest figure in Chinese Zen Buddhism and a group of his monks attended California assembly’s session on Monday during the monks’ first visit to the US. But former actor and state Governor Arnold Schwarznegger wasn’t present to greet them. The group of Shaolin
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    • 192 26 afp BEIJING China said yesterday that it has nearly 60 million people living in abject poverty, twice the figure usually cited in government statements. Last year, 56.17 million Chinese were living on 869 yuan (SSI7B) or less a year, according to Mr Liu Jian,
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    • 386 28 US Muslim chaplain was accused of helping A 1 Qaeda with sketches of Guantanamo prison Reuters ARLINGTON, Virginia The US military, after dropping criminal charges against a Muslim army chaplain, who ministered to terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, pressed ahead with a disciplinary hearing.
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    • 165 28 LONDON Oxford University will reintroduce entrance tests in history and English, The Guardian reported yesterday. Students are expected to sit for the history test in November. The English test will be introduced next year. They wil be given a text to analyse, in order
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    • 141 28 MELBOURNE An Australian academic has recommended that schools study the Harry Potter series of books as an illustration of the importance of family, friends and community. Professor Glenn Bowes, head of paediatrics at Melbourne University, said that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the
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  • Medical
    • 327 30 Reuters NEW YORK Elderly people who smoke show a fivefold faster rate of age-related mental decline than people who have never smoked, according to new study findings released on Monday. Among former smokers, mental decline occurred around twice as fast as in those who said they
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  • EasyStreats
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      683 31 Many Singaporeans have already expressed their regret at the closure of a familiar red building on Stamford Road. Finding it even harder to leave the library behind are staff who have worked there for years. SHARLENE TAN reports AZIZAH Sidek has been spending the past few weekends at
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    • 420 32 THE 2002 Brazilian film City of God, about rival drug gangsters, became a hit around the world, made millions and received four Oscar nominations. But life in the Cidade de Deus City of God the poor urban area of Rio de Janeiro featured in
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    • 275 33  -  By_ Janice Wong ENJOYING wine is not the preserve of the trendy and sophisticated. Sixty Streats readers found that out during the Streats Wine Masterclass at M Hotel last Saturday. Riter Tham, 27, a buyer, had no regrets signing up for the class with five friends
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    • 130 33 -AFP ONCE the world’s most popular read for UFO fanatics, UFO Magazine is calling it quits with its March issue. Launched in England in 1981, the magazine initially saw its circulation rise as fast as a flying saucer, peaking at 35,000 copies per issue. But
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    • 383 34 WITH Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ still creating a box-office buzz, the real scramble now on in Hollywood is for the next “film of faith”, reported The Telegraph of London. Studios are trying to cash in on the genre of the moment religion. A former
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    • 69 34 THERE was a time when artistes simply re-invented themselves. Madonna, though, will go on a four-month “re-invention Tour”. She starts in Los Angeles in May and will perform mainly in the US, with performances in Toronto, London and Paris. She will also make a stop
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    • 164 34 COMPOSER Michael Nyman is best known for his film work. But he sometimes wishes it were otherwise. The London-born Nyman, who turned 90 yesterday, said in an interview with BBC News online: “It’s been good for reaching out to a larger audience, and good
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    • 119 35 Now you can even insure yourself against the weather. Sompo Japan Insurance has just launched a weather derivative product that is intended for corporations involved in fishing, tourism and marine entertainment. Clients will get pF financial compensation if waves above a certain level are observed during
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 51 35 10pm, Central This Thai box-office hit by leading Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang is set in contemporary up-country rural Thailand. Pan is a lovable, naive, dimwit who loves to sing. When he wins the second place in a contest, he decides to run away from army to join a
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      • Article, Illustration
        59 35 Bpm, Channel U Hosted by Channel U News anchor Chew Huoy Miin, Samuel Ng, UFM DJ Huang Wen Hong and Lianhe Zaobao forum editor Cai Shenjiang, today’s topic is on the Government’s recent change in mother tongue policy for schools. Minister of State for Education Chan Soo
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    • Happenin’
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        62 35 SECRETS FROM MY ROOM Tomorrow till Saturday, 3pm and Bpm TNS Black Box Tickets at $l5 from The Necessary Stage (tel 6440-8115 or e-mail ticketing@necessary.org Put together and performed by youths, this play is about teenagers caught in the awkward place between childhood and adulthood, puberty and maturity, the
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      • 69 35 ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL Tomorrow till March 31, times vary Golden Village Marina Square Tickets at $9 from GVMarina Square box office and AXS stations Showcasing eight of the best films from Italy, including I’m Not Scared directed by Gabriele Salvatores Italy’s official submission for consideration by the Academy Awards
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