Streats, 25 March 2004

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    • 57 1 Streat St A RS C£,I f J sn,s £0 004 P THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg •mita(p) 196/03/2004 SHARE YOUR PAPER Advertisement ENJOY 15% OFF EKEND TICKETS TO' SELENA TAN'S SAUCY STAND-UP COMEDY Wanton Me! CHECK www.tangs.com FOR MORE DETAILS m 1 I t 'S'l A fc sm 'W
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  • 9 3 Streats THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita 196/03/2004
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  • 487 3 PM Abdullah needs to give Islamists voice in parliament, say observers -ap KUALA LUMPUR The massive election defeat suffered by Malaysia’s Islamic fundamentalists risks sending hardliners underground to join extremists unless Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi allows them a continued voice, analysts and diplomats said
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    • 77 3 uii vaia THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg *mita<p) 196/03/2004 V' mg? Streats I P» i jjj 1y I TOUGH LOVE Artist Ong Kim Seng pays tribute to a mum from the old school PAGE 6 PAIN IN SPAIN if SHARE YOUR PAGE 21 India seeks arrest of US professor
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    • 179 3 VkiurWamr,, (Qkur ifumm Introducing new Olympus cameras. To meet the challenge of your digital lifestyle. From adrenaline pumping adventures to intimate moments with friends and family. Whatever your idea of fun is, Olympus introduces a range of cameras with a newly developed TruePic TURBO™ Image Processor for enhanced image clarity.
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  • Morning Rush
    • 303 4 Exiled chief Khalid Meshaal survived Israeli assassination attempt in 1997 Wire services GAZA Palestinian militant leader Khalid Meshaal, who survived an Israeli assassination attempt in 1997, has been named Hamas’ overall chief on Tuesday, replacing the group’s slain founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Hamas source said.
      – Wire services; Reuters  -  303 words
    • 144 4 A MOTHER and her two toddlers, each bound to her wrists by red string, were found dead at the foot of block of flats in Chin Swee Road yesterday morning. The woman did not live in the area, stunned residents told The Straits Times.
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    • 500 5  -  Archbishop admits during priest’s trial that other churches have invested hinds By_ Khushwant Singh THERE was a low murmur from the crowded public gallery in a Subordinate Court yesterday when Archbishop Nicholas Chia admitted that church regulations were quite lax until 2001. Under cross-examination by Mr
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    • Article, Illustration
      89 5 -AFP BANGKOK -Thai customs agents said on Tuesday that they had seized a huge haul of antique Buddha images destined for export to Germany. No arrests had been made in connection with the 118 images, including large statues and Buddha heads sealed in 226 cases weighing more than
      -AFP; AFP  -  89 words
    • 371 6  -  All 130 similar vehicles in London recalled after series of fires Janice Wong ALL 130 of London’s bendy buses were recalled yesterday after three new vehicles caught fire in the last three months. The Mercedes-Benz vehicles are “ticking time bombs” and should be taken
      Shin Min Dally News  -  371 words
    • 593 6  -  By Ho Lian-Yi SHE was just 29 years old when her husband died from tuberculosis. Illiterate and widowed, she turned to washing clothes to eke out a living to support a young son and an aged mother. Her luckless lot so early in life saw her
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    • 359 8 AFP His book casts doubts on Hindu hero’s parentage MUMBAI Indian authorities are to seek the arrest of a US academic whose book on King Shivaji has enraged Hindu nationalists who see the 17th century warrior as a hero, a state
      – AFP; AP  -  359 words
    • 215 8  -  Teat and photo by fAshleighSim ASSISTANT Professor Park Moonseo, 37, of the School of Design and Architecture in the National University of Singapore, chose to work here because he said his children will benefit from the high standard of education. Mr Pae Kwang Se
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    • 132 12 BUZZSTOP THOSE who forget their Central Provident Fund passwords can now head to a self-service counter at the CPF Board’s Robinson Road main office that is testing out fingerprint scanning technology. By matching the scan of the thumbprint image on a person’s identity
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    • Article, Illustration
      65 12 Ms Karin Mueller, an employee of Swiss company Swissbit, presenting to the press a Swiss army knife with an integrated 128 MB USB memory stick at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover, Germany, on Tuesday. The knife, which is expected to be priced at 59 euros (Ssl23), also
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    • 135 12 Hotel body celebrates 21st birthday Ho Lian-Yi THE Singapore Hotel Association (SHA) yesterday marked its 21st anniversary by launching the College of Culinary Arts Shatec. The college’s new kitchen, on the campus at Bukit Batok, will cover a floor area of 2,500 sq ft and cost
      – Ho Lian-Yi  -  135 words
    • 139 12 Opera’s new browser -AP WEB surfers may be able to talk to their computers one day using a browser unveiled in Norway on Tuesday by Opera Software. The new browser incorporates IBM’s Via Voice technology, enabling the computer to ask what the user wants
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    • 127 12 Song downloads at $1.50 each AFP RETAIL powerhouse Wal-Mart said on Tuesday that it was officially launching its music download service at its stores, offering songs at 88 US cents (551.50). The world’s biggest retailer cited “a successful test launch” last December, saying it made some
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    • 86 12 THE National Environment Agency (NEA) will take over the management of HDB markets and hawker centres from April 1. With this consolidation, 15,000 hawkers and the public will only need to approach one agency for all hawker matters. Stallholders’ rentals will not be increased because of
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    • 74 12 -AFP SOUTH Korea and Singapore held a second round of talks on a free trade agreement yesterday, amid business concerns in Seoul about its impact on petrochemical products. The Federation of Korean Industries said yesterday that cheaper products from Singapore may hurt South Korea’s petroleum industry. The
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    • 106 12 Reuters VIETNAM will send its first-ever group of tourists to the Spratly Islands next month in a move aimed at reaffirming sovereignty over the disputed archipelago in the South China Sea, a local official said yesterday. The Spratlys, a cluster of dozens of submerged islets, rocks and
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    • 102 12 -AFP A SOUTH KOREAN court ruled yesterday that, a newspaper advertising boss who died after years of excessive drinking had been compelled to drink as part of his job, making his family eligible for compensation. The man, identified only by his surname Jo, had to drink alcohol
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  • Financial
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      680 14  -  With Am Systems’entry into China, MD Wong Chew Mingfinds that banks there run very differently from those inAsean Focus! By Choong Choon Yee AXIS Systems Holdings managing director Wong Chew Ming, 53, is in an enviable position. His company, a regional developer of customised ffont-end software solutions for
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    • 95 14 Reuters SINGAPORE Shipping firm Jaya Holdings yesterday said that some of its shareholders had received an unsolicited offer from an unnamed external party to buy their stakes. Jaya Holdings shares surged 2.4 per cent to 85 cents on market talk that a Malaysian company was keen to
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    • 71 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Tiger Airways, the low-cost carrier being started up by Singapore Airlines, will lease four new Airbus SAS A-320 aircraft and take delivery of the planes in the second half of the year. The planes will seat 180 passengers, the company said. “With new aircraft, we
      – Bloomberg  -  71 words
    • 55 14 Reuters SINGAPORE Mr Francis Heng Hang Song has been appointed chief financial officer of defence conglomerate Singapore Technologies Engineering. The appointment will take effect from June 21. Mr Heng, 44, is currently chief financial officer of Hong Kong Land Holdings, part of the Jardines group, which
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    • 97 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Sing Tel yesterday said that it had appointed Australian national Graham Bradley, 55, to its board. Mr Bradley last year resigned after eight years as chief executive of Sydneybased Perpetual Trustees Australia, which manages the equivalent of about US$l4 billion (5523.6 billion) of investments.
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    • 466 16  -  Sales expected to cross s2om at travel fair’s biggest edition since 9/11 By_ Choong Choon Yee FOR one travel agent, the Natas fair resulted in a massive upsurge in sales. For another, there was disappointment. Ananda Travel registered close to $4 million in sales a three-fold
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    • 24 16 *AS AT MARCH 24 US$: 551,689 553.118 EURO: 552.076 Ss: 63.20 YEN Ss: RM2.250 Ss: HK54.616 Ss: 23.38 BAHT Ss: 5,080 RUPIAH
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    • 241 16 MAYBANK is hoping to draw working adults hoping to upgrade themselves with part-time studies with an education loan that comes with free retrenchment insurance coverage for the first six months. Aimed at the estimated 33,000 students currently enrolled in part-time tertiary courses here, the
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    • 293 16  -  STI: 1,835.29 16.88 ■gv Janice Wong THE new Sushi Tei outlet at Serangoon Gardens has been bustling with customers, an indication of the attraction of niche locations where people flock to as much for the outlet’s unique flavours. Shop space is also taken up
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    • 515 18 Rivals DBS, UOB want to expand in Indonesia Bloomberg SINGAPORE OCBC Bank’s first foreign purchase of a fifth of PT Bank NISP gives it an advantage in Indonesia over two larger Singaporean rivals, which are both trying to expand in South-east Asia’s most populous
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    • 198 18 Bloomberg LONDON Virgin Atlantic Airways plans to recruit 1,400 workers this year, add two Airbus SAS A 340-600 planes to its fleet and open new routes to the Caribbean and Australia as it competes with carriers such as British Airways. The expansion will
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    • 391 20 They hope to emulate Korean, Japanese big names Reuters HONG KONG Haier, Huawei, TCL and ZTE. The names sound more like obscure crossword puzzle clues than major brands, showing that China’s pre-eminent technology firms have a long way to go to getting recognition from
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  • Comment
    • 1055 21  -  By JOSE MARIA AZNAR The following are excerpts of a commentary from outgoing Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar contributed to the Asian Wall Street Journal yesterday. ON March 11 Spain suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history and one of
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  • Vocal
    • 344 22 I AM an expatriate, although these days I am ashamed to admit it, especially after reading the letters of Mr Jonathan Lloyd and Mr Christopher Cheney in Streats recently. I find it ironic that Mr Cheney responded to a letter about there being little
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    • 141 22 I REFER to Mr Conrad Raj’s commentary, “Casino: Leave it to private sector” (Streats, March 23), and share his strong support of the Government’s move to set up a casino here. However, letting the private sector establish and operate it has the following disadvantages: Profit
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    • 226 22 I REFER to the report, “More builders will fold” (Streats, March 23). The Singapore Contractors Association was cited as saying that the soaring price of steel will be a key cause of more builders being forced to shut down. According to the association, many contractors
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    • 150 22 WE refer to Mr Christopher Teo’s feedback, “No one cleared up the mess” (Streats, March 22). As part of the Singapore Sports Council’s (SSC) service to lessees of our facilities, we provide post-event cleaning services. Pending unforeseen delays, cleaning will normally be completed before
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    • 93 22 AS a move to control the rodent population in Singapore gets under way, I notice that many animal lovers who leave food in the open to feed cats may be contributing to the rat problem. If cats are natural hunters of rats, then how efficient
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    • 55 22 THE article, “One Wi-Fi session with fries, please” (Streats, March 24), said that only the McDonald’s outlet at East Coast Park has been equipped with Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) service. This is incorrect. More than 90 per cent of the McDonald’s outlets in Singapore have already been wired up. We
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    • 85 22 HAVE YOUR SAY E-mail us at StreatS@Sph.COI11.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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  • Global
    • 453 25 Daughter of Indonesia’s former dictator wages high-profile election campaign with Suharto lackey -AFP JAKARTA The smiling daughter of Indonesia’s former dictator, Mr Suharto, is waging a high-profile electoral campaign less than six years after her father was forced to resign amid massive civil unrest. Ms
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    • 213 25 Reuters SEOUL South Korea’s new opposition leader began her first day in the post yesterday as her rival demanded an apology for impeaching the president and newspapers said her image alone would not save her unpopular party. Ms Park Geun Hye, the
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 25 Dinky the dingo performing at a pub in Stuart's Well, about 90km south of Alice Springs, Australia. Three-year-old Dinky, who sings, dances and plays the piano, beat hundreds of potential icons to be voted the country's top trivia item. Among those he beat was a man who could
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    • 207 25 JAKARTA A power struggle between Suharto loyalists is likely to be highlighted as campaigning intensifies in the run-up to the Indonesian election, according to a news report. Though some of the old guard have now left the Golkar party, there is
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    • 423 26 PARIS From a poor village girl to successful author and community benefactor all in the space of just four years and without really trying. This is the story of Ms Ma Yan, 16, author of Ma Yan’s Diary: The Daily Life of
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    • 417 26 Opposition wants courts to oversee recount, but govt says KMT blocking process Wire services TAIPEI The deal over a recount for Taiwan’s disputed presidential election fell apart yesterday after the leader of the opposition Nationalist Party (KMT) overruled the party’s negotiator, a KMT spokesman said.
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    • 255 26 Wire services BEIJING In what could be a blow to corporate travel, China yesterday rejected plans by the US to fingerprint its citizens applying for nonimmigrant visas. It called the requirement a discriminatory move that infringed on human rights. “This measure has
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  • Medical
    • 280 28 Reuters NEW YORK Not all fruits and vegetables are created equal in terms of preventing disease, experts say, and people consistently opt for relatively nutrient-poor choices, such as com, potatoes, iceberg lettuce, apples and bananas. Research suggests that people get the most
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    • 146 28 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO Asking pregnant and breastfeeding women to avoid foods such as milk, eggs and nuts does not prevent the development of allergy to those foods in their children. That’s according to new research presented at the annual meeting of
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  • Thursday Tech
    • 592 30  -  More women are playing computer games today, but the gaming industry is still focussed on the bbod-and-guts genre j By STEVEN NG Computer Times GAMING was a predominantly male pastime in years gone by. So blood, weapons, thuggery and trashtalking are staples in
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  • EasyStreats weekender
    • 1104 32  -  Lim Kay Tong, Kumar, Jeffrey Tan and Aaron Khek list the challenges involved inputting up a show worthy of a hallowed venue Gregory Leow THE Arts House At The Old Parliament opens its doors tomorrow and its star attraction, the parliament chambers, is likely to draw
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    • going out
      • 391 34  -  By SHARLENE TAN UNTOLD SCANDAL Starring Bae Yong Jun, Lee Mi Sook and Jeon Do Yeon Directed by E J Yong ooo©® KOREAN actor Bae Yong Jun does an about-turn with his film debut in this period drama. Known for his gentlemanly roles in popular Korean
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      • 232 34  -  B y Sharlene Tan BID a fond farewell to the National Library at Stamford Road at its closing ceremony next Wednesday. The ceremony, which starts at 7pm, will feature the National Library Board’s efforts to preserve the memories of the National Library. One of them is
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    • eating out
      • 572 37  -  I\LA i By iAmy Van RAKESH Khetrapal and his wife Vandana moved from India to Singapore about eight years ago. And hankering for real North Indian flavours, which they couldn’t seem to find here, the couple decided to open a semi-fine dining restaurant. Launched in November, Heritage
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      • 144 38 ENJOY the flavours of Bordeaux, France, at Meritus Mandarin’s Top of the M from now until April 4. Visiting chef Nicole et Philippe Guaffre, who has a Michelin star to his name, whips up specialties such as pan-fried duck liver escalope with confit lemon peel, fricassee
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      • 77 38 THE Penang Hawkers’ Fare is back at York Hotel from now until March 28. The buffet includes traditional favourites such as lor bak, Penang laksa, char kway teow, Penang prawn mee, Penang rojak, cuttlefish kangkong, oh luak, and desserts such as ice kachang and chendol. Available at the
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      • 78 38 PIZZA Hut introduces a double ring crust, with two rings of delicious ingredients on the crust juicy chicken sausage and soft melted string mozzarella cheese. This means that the pizza is full of taste right up to the crust which is liberally sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and
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    • staying in
      • 441 40  -  f The T vdR fH 'ipW J I seriesj By Sharlene Tan YOU might not have heard of the Popeil Brothers or Ronco, but these two American companies have helped shape the advertising phenomena known as the infomercial. But Wait! There’s More! No, seriously.
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      • 200 40  -  DVDs by Zubaidah Nazeer SCENT OF A WOMAN OOGO^ IT’S easy to dismiss Scent of A Woman as another Hollywood feel-good flick, the kind with a saccharine-sweet ending. But what lifts the simple storyline is undoubtedly A 1 Pacino’s great acting, for which he won an
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    • 118 41 Commuters in Beijing will now be able to get the latest weather information on the city. More than jjjjl 2,300 buses j in the city ■f are equipped with an electronic f screen that provides weather updates every two minutes, Xinhua reported yesterday. In Singapore, it’ll
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 42 41 10.30 pm, Central Take a walk down memory lane with archive footage of the very first Opening of Singapore Parliament, the swearing in of Singapore’s first president Yusof bin Ishak and the old National Day parades at the Padang.
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      • 54 41 Bpm, Channel U For the first time in the history of Japan’s famous Monkey Acrobatic Show, a foreigner is taken in as a disciple and has to learn how to train the monkeys. SPH Mediaworks artiste Adam Chan faces a language barrier and unfamiliar ground to become a
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    • Happenin’
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        67 41 CONTEMPORARY! Tomorrow till April 10, 11.30am~7.30 pm Monday to Friday, 11.30am~7pm on Saturday Sunjin Galleries (43, Jalan Merah Saga, 03-62 Work Loft Chip Bee, tel 6738-2317) The gallery has made a point of introducing a range of art styles and genres and has put together this group exhibition by
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      • 53 41 PAT CHAN FRIENDS Tomorrow, 10pm Esplanade Recital Studio Tickets at s26from Sistic You might know her as a champion swimmer or as sister to local composer/singer Mark Chan, Now comes the surprise she sings, too. This late-night performance of jazz favourites showcases her smoky voice and her talent as
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