Streats, 26 March 2004

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  • 550 1 Beijing governs only stocks listed at home; foreign exchanges can’t rule on overseas firms on their markets Reuters HONG KONG Many Chinese firms listing on foreign exchanges are in a regulatory no-man’s land. And this would leave investors unprotected if fraud or accounting problems are
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  • Morning Rush
    • 329 2  -  By. Sarah Ng TWO classes of Primary 3 pupils at Henry Park Primary School were given an unlikely assignment last year: They were told to design furniture. The project was for a science lesson on materials: Design a bed for fairytale character Goldilocks. Tell us
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    • 388 2  -  Two invent first breach vending machine By Zubaidah Nazeer TWO Singaporean men have invented a vending machine that can dispense enough bread to feed an army. The Bread Pod, the brainchild of Mr Tan Suan Loke, 36, and Mr Cheo Meng Soon,
      Edwin Koo  -  388 words
    • 205 3  -  Ho Lian-Yi YOU can now connect to the Internet using Singapore’s best-selling plasma TV The eCrystALIS 55, a homegrown product launched by Hitachi at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday, is the world’s first plasma TV with embedded Webbrowsing capability, according to Hitachi senior technical
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    • 299 3 Affected firms to be compensated for ban expansion -AP CANBERRA A fishing ban that comes into effect on July 1 will make over onethird of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef the world’s best protected marine environment, the government said yesterday. “It is a quite
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    • 434 4  -  No church funds ever invested in priest’s name By. Khushwant Singh RETIRED Archbishop Gregory Yong said in a court statement yesterday that Father Kang Hock Chai’s alleged use of church funds to make investments in his name for the benefit of the church was something that has
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    • 129 4 Reuters LOS ANGELES American Idol judge Simon Cowell has denied that his on-air middlefinger stunt was an obscene gesture, insisting that it was an innocent posture. He was responding to suggestions that he was directing an insult to fellow judge Paula Abdul by putting
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    • 313 6 Ballot papers to some areas may not be ready in time JAKARTA Indonesian elections may be delayed in some areas, Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Hari Sabamo has hinted. This is despite repeated assurances from the country’s election commission that everything was on track
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    • 216 6 A VISIT to the website of The Inn Crowd Bunk Brekkie website reveals just how refreshingly different the operator’s approach is. For his fresh new style and pioneering efforts in building a vibrant hostel scene in Singapore, the owner, who only wants to be known
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    • 132 8 BUZZSTOP THE Euro 4 emission standard will be deployed here in 2006, driving up transport fares and business costs. All diesel vehicles such as buses, taxis, lorries, vans and trucks will be affected. An SMRT spokesman told The Straits Times
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    • 77 8 Mr Bryan Soo, 27, proposing to girlfriend Ms Susan Cheah, also 27, on Tuesday after surviving 168 hours of the Surviving the Sky cable car challenge together. The organisers have offered to sponsor a cable car wedding for Mr Soo and Ms Cheah. Although they think that it
      – Text and picture by Edwin Koo  -  77 words
    • 131 8 S Mother diagnosed with cancer POST-NATAL depression was yesterday cited as one possible explanation for a woman leaping to her death with her two children on Wednesday. Madam Yap Cheng Chu, 34, might have been under additional strain because she also had cancer of the uterus, Dr
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    • 133 8 Indian writer was first Asian laureate -AFP THE Nobel medal of Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, was stolen from a museum near Calcutta, police said yesterday. The medal and other belongings of late Tagore had vanished when the museum at
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    • 131 8 One false alarm, other under probe -AFP A BOMB alert in Amsterdam’s central train station yesterday turned out to be a false alarm but another bomb threat in Roosendaal, near the border with Belgium, is still under investigation, Dutch authorities said. “The bomb alert
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    • 118 8 -AP THREE Chinese women and two men from Myanmar were arrested as they tried to swim into Singapore, police said yesterday. The arrests of the five, whose names were not released, bring to 50 the total number caught trying to enter the citystate illegally by sea
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    • 86 8 AFP THE Thai government’s plan to lure well-heeled tourists by selling up to one million “privilege” cards within five years has bombed, with only 450 sold so far, officials admitted yesterday. The “Thailand Elite” card, which costs 1 million baht (5542,700), entitles holders to a
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    • 77 8 -AFP BRITAIN is trying to defuse a diplomatic row with Mexico over six British cave explorers of a team of 12 trapped in a cave for eight days, saying that they were in Mexico on a scientific mission. The row arose because nine members are from
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    • 108 8 SCUBA divers will be able to dive longer and deeper if scientists are correct in believing that they can develop a pill to prevent the bends. A report in the most recent issue of New Scientist magazine says that Norwegian scientists are confident that a drug
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    • 47 2 Qffaofc HOTLINE 1800 844 5566 FAX 6319 8191 i E-MAIL streats@sph.com.sg ADDRESS News Centre, 1000 jjllvalS Toa Payoh North, Podium Block, Level 1 5(*****4) circulation Customer Service 6388 3838 marketing kwokkk@sph.com.sg, Juanita: 6319 2072, Adeline: 6319 1627 a«fc~. V TI jHßfe it CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS CatS@S JL JL
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    • 456 4 A SPECIAL SERIES ON ORGAN DONATION Lucky and proud Phil gets a new heart and wins gold in golf. “THE HEART transplant was the most frightening experience I had ever gone through in my life. But giving up would have been the worst thing I could have done,” says Phil
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  • Financial
    • 431 10  -  Ron Sim is Businessman of the Year; Sing Tel, Hyf lux bosses winners, too By_ Janice Wong LIFESTYLE product company Osim CEO Ron Sim looked radiant yesterday. That possibly was the result of taking the oral health supplements that Osim just launched or the fact
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    • 311 10  -  b*l CkuaKongHo UNITED Overseas Bank, Singapore’s largest credit card issuer, announced yesterday that it will spend $l2 million over three years to replace its credit cards with ones that contain embedded security microchips and to upgrade its merchant payment terminals. UOB will replace
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    • 120 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Port operator PSA Corp is in talks to invest in two more Chinese ports to tap China’s export growth. PSA may bid to take a stake or help manage a proposed 2.65 billion yuan (***** million) container terminal in the Nansha
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    • 95 10 SINGAPORE Citibank is now targeting the wealth of middle-income Singaporeans with a new personalised money management service. Starting from next Monday, the bank will have a new money management tool called Citipro Financial Check to help middle-income people assess their cashflow positions throughout their
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    • 126 10 Reuters BRUSSELS European regulators on Wednesday fined Microsoft Corp a record 497 million euros (551.02 billion) for breaking antitrust law and ordered it to strip its Windows Media Player from the Windows operating system. That move, together with an order to open its
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    • 378 12 Firm mum on Korean watchdog’s remark Reuters SEOUL Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings is keen on buying a stake in South Korea’s fourth-biggest lender, Hana Bank, as it looks to expand in Asia’s financial sector, a regulator said yesterday. “No other investors have shown such
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    • 180 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Mobile One (Ml) yesterday won the approval of shareholders to buy back as much as 10 per cent of its outstanding shares, as it looks for ways to spend its cash. Ml, which raised its dividend in January, has said that it sees
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    • 373 14 Reuters Region has I.Bm people with $9.6 trillion SINGAPORE About 70 wealthy Asians gathered in United Overseas Bank’s private banking centre recently, but money did not figure in the discussions. Instead, the buzz was about traditional Chinese medicine and feng shui, the 4,000-year old Chinese art
      – Reuters; AFP  -  373 words
    • 260 16 -AFP MANILA The makers of Napoleon Quince brandy are hitting out against a campaign criticising their advertising campaign. “Have you tried a 15-year-old?” asks one ad on a huge billboard looming over the Philippine capital. The suggestive slogan for the 15-year-old brandy has predictably sparked a
      -AFP; AFP  -  260 words
    • 206 16 RISES Ranked by Stocks Closing (0) Mediastream 5c 2.5 25.0 ChipEngS W*****1 3 20.0 Yongnam 1c 3 20.0 LC Dev 10 17.6 Liang Huat 10c 7 16.7 PM Data 10c 14 16.7 Rowsley W*****7 5 11.1 Shining 15c 10 11.1 Twinwood 5c 5 11.1 Giken S 25c
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    • 24 16 *AS AT MARCH 25 US$: 551.692 553.076 EURO: 552.051 Ss: 62.64 YEN Ss: RM2.246 Ss: HK54.607 Ss: 23.38 BAHT Ss: 5,099 RUPIAH
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  • Comment
    • 730 18  - Local men, don’t just rant act By PHILIP LEE THE Singapore men who sounded mightily piqued the past few weeks, when they bemoaned the fact that more local women were dating Caucasian men, had better come to terms with this. Fact is, this trend will escalate in the coming years.
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    • 414 21 WHAT CAN YOU BUY WITH s3*oo? A bowl of Singapore Laksa at the hawker centre One hour parking in CBD One small goldfish in your aquarium An opportunity for r can.com.sg’s new Lifestyle Classifieds service allows you to do just tha two simple steps, for only $3.00! in •j* 4
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  • Vocal
    • 438 22 STREATS editor Paul Jansen’s commentary, “Spain pullout won’t bring peace” (Streats, March 22), opens with the controversial opinion, “The terrorists have won”. If, as I believe, he is an ardent supporter of US President George W Bush and his pre-emptive strike policy,
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    • 145 22 I APPRECIATE Mr Chew Hock Yong’s reply, “Iras income data protected by law” (Streats, March 24), which puts things in a clearer perspective. However, I still cannot understand the logic of the Finance Ministry’s decision to ditch CPF income-linked data, which is a closer
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    • 213 22 I REFER to the commentary, “Singlish can, but it’s not lah-di-da” (Streats, March 24). Singlish might be more suitable for use in the following situations: In private gatherings such as birthday parties, weddings, hawker centres and at family gatherings. It makes events lively and
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    • 143 22 I AM a Eurasian whose mother tongue is English and only English. My son is entering Primary 1 next year. I am wondering what mother tongue he should take, as we do not speak Chinese, Malay or Tamil at home. Currently, he is taking Chinese.
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    • 62 22 THE letter, “Rats eating food for cats?” (Streats, March 25), mentions the situation that we have daily at blocks 311 to 314 Ang Mo Kio, under the covered walkway and in the plaza area between these blocks. Several telephone calls were made to the Town Council
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    • 85 22 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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  • Global
    • 177 24 -AP NABLUS, West Bank A Palestinian teenager approached a crowded West Bank checkpoint wearing a suicide bomb vest on Wednesday in what Israel said was an effort to kill soldiers. The soldiers, who had been warned of a possible attack, jumped behind concrete barricades and sent a yellow
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    • 387 24 Ex-aide-tumed-author says pre-9/11 A 1 Qaeda threat not taken seriously enough WASHINGTON Though US President George W Bush picked a man with an impressive resume to take a leading role in the country’s fight against terrorism, he will likely be regretting it now. Former US cyber-security
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    • 127 24 -ap SHANGHAI China’s most populous city already short on housing, electricity and water is now running out of land for graves, reports said yesterday. Land set aside for graves will be exhausted in five years, but appeals to citizens to place their loved ones’ remains in
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    • 205 24 Wire services TAIPEI Taiwan’s lawmakers will today discuss legislation authorising a recount in a presidential election that almost evenly split voters and triggered five days of street demonstrations. Yesterday, President Chen Shui-bian met business leaders and tried to focus attention on domestic policies, amid
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    • 45 28 Filipino transvestites at a Manila employment agency on Wednesday waiting to audition for jobs as singers and dancers in Japan. They are eager to work in Japan, where they can earn up to US$l,OOO (551,689) a month in the entertainment industry Reuters
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    • 379 28 Japanese flock to anime studios only to get poor salaries, dismal conditions Los Angeles Times TOKYO The starting pay can be less than US$5OO (SsB4s) a month in this, the world’s most expensive city, but becoming an illustrator in Japan’s famed anime industry remains the
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    • 138 28 ADELAIDE MPs have “more balls than brains” was a remark made by the Speaker of South Australia’s Parliament while suffering the effects of an illness, he reportedly has claimed. Mr Peter Lewis made the remark in Parliament on Wednesday while talking about MPs who do not
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  • Medical
    • 269 30 LONDON If working out in the gym doesn’t appeal, middle-aged men and women wanting to boost their overall fitness should try martial arts training. Researchers at the Institute of Technology in Westbury, New York, found that 40-to--60-year-olds who practised soo bahk do, an ancient Korean
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  • my HOME YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME-OWNING
    • 469 32  -  Singapore Poly is offering the first diploma in landscape architecture to supply professionals for the industry By_ Ho Lian-Yi GREATER exposure to developments overseas through travel, reading and TV have resulted in Singaporeans who are more knowledgeable about different landscapes and more demanding when asking
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  • INTERIOR
    • Article, Illustration
      370 34 A few tips on how you can give your home that 60s look IF you like the retro look homeowners Dave and Michelle Yeo went for, their story might offer you a few ideas on what to do if you want to get there. Their quest started with
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  • EasyStreats
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      498 36 Local performance group In Source Theatre is planning to take its latest work overseas, says SHARLENE TAN IF all goes well, Obsessive Repulsive Madness will be hitting Nepal and Poland later this year. It’s not the name of some new strain of animal virus, but rather the latest
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    • 188 36 HUGS, champagne toasts and snippets of poetry marked the filming for the last episode of NBC’s Frasier after an 11-year mn. As the cast gathered on stage for the final bow, series star Kelsey Grammer, who plays radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane, hugged each
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    • instyle
      • 889 38 Thefourth Singapore Fashion Festival opens next Friday and for the first time in its history there is a strong showing of Singapore designers. This week MARYLIM highlights five of the nine young designers featured at the Blueprint 04/Singapore Design Showcase i FOR the first time, Singapore designers take
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    • 420 42  -  Stylish eating on a shoestring By JUDI LOW Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? Judi Lows recipes for stylish, nutritious, yummy meals that are easy to do and cost $lO or less forfour servings, will see you through these tough times QUICK to
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    • 125 44 Charity organisation 1 London Wildcare is asking a bird-lovers to help, their feathered friends Survive <1 the cold nights this season. It is advising people to put out nut and seed supplies, and household titbits to help birds, which tend to lose up to 30 per
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        60 44 10pm, Channel i New York cop Frank Keller is on the trail of a serial killer who murders men answering personal ads in the classifieds. Those who answer the ads, written in poetic couplets, end up dead in their own apartments with a ’sos single Sea of
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      • 48 44 10pm, Central Catch this definitive guide to this year’s Singapore film festival (SIFF) and discover the hottest and most sought-after flicks for this year. Take your cue from the biggest film buffs around as the crew from the SIFF tells you what they will be watching.
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    • Happenin’
      • 84 44 ROMANCE RHYTHM Tomorrow, 2pm to Bpm Cha Xuan KTV (next to Outram MRT) Tickets at s2sfrom Tampines North CC at Tampines St 41 “If music be the food of love, play on” said William Shakespeare. Well, singles will have the opportunity to do just that in this event
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      • 50 44 MAKING FISH LAUGH Today and tomorrow, 10pm Jubilee Hall Tickets from $3O to $4O at Sistic Award-winning Brit Alex Home and his henchman Tim Key in a whacky exposition t and experiment on what makes us laugh. A funny and unusual late-night special _J)iat is Ik by Streats.
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