Streats, 24 May 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats MONDAY, MAY 24, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph,Com.sg mita (p> 196/03/2004
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  • 582 1  -  Stint in Singapore helps foreign healthcare workers move to ‘greener pastures’ By_ Yeo Ghim Lay DESPITE the recruitment blitz by hospitals all over the world for healthcare workers, Singaporean nurses prefer to remain in their jobs here even when offered higher pay overseas. But this
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    • 206 1 Streat MONDAY, MAY 24, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph,com.sg mita <p) 196/03/2004 SHARE YOUR PAPER P mm if-Z turnaround gloomy resul A 9S e? RECEIVED 3 i DAY 200 ft A i 1972 Olympics runner P C Suppiah sees some good from recent blasts in Athens, reports GODFREY ROBERT PAGE 4 1
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  • Morning Rush
    • 447 2 Lt-Gen Sanchez blamed by jail commander Wire services WASHINGTON The commander of the military police company assigned to the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad has said he will testify that the top US general in Iraq was present during some interrogations at the prison and witnessed
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    • 119 2 -AP CRAWFORD, Texas US President George W Bush suffered cuts and bruises when he fell while mountain biking on his ranch, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said. He said that Mr Bush was riding on Saturday with a military aide, members of the Secret Service and
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    • 119 2 Bloomberg WACO, Texas The US ambassador to Germany, Mr Daniel Coats, is not in discussions with the George W Bush administration on who would succeed Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, an embassy aide said in response to a German magazine report. “There is no truth whatsoever to reports”
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    • 469 3  -  Recruitment for PROs, service staff, drivers, presenters comes just months after 103 employees were laid off By Chua Kong Ho THE Singapore Zoo, Night Safari and Jurong Bird Park are looking for workers, two months after retrenching 103 staff to streamline their operations. The zoo and
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    • 585 4  -  Recent blasts will only serve to tighten security at the Olympics, says ’72 veteran By_ Godfrey Robert IF there is a silver lining to the May 5 bombings in Athens which have raised concerns about safety at the Olympic Games this August, it is
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    • 419 6  -  Ship with Hyundai, Kia vehicles sinks, but was not Singapore-bound By Chua Kong Ho HYUNDAI Motor and Kia Motors, South Korea’s two biggest auto makers, lost more than 4,000 cars in the sea after a freighter carrying them sank off Singapore yesterday morning following a collision
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    • 343 6  -  By Sharlene Tan MR Darren Deßoia is one of the many Australians who have been appalled by the abuse meted out to a litter of three-week-old kittens by six Australian Army soldiers in Townsville, Queensland. “There has been a huge public response to it,
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    • 125 8 BUZZSTOP MORE complaints were received against private schools last year than the year before, causing some to call for better regulation of the industry. The Consumers Association of Singapore received 486 complaints against private schools last year, up from 460 in
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    • 59 8 The penultimate piece of the Rio-Antirio bridge, connecting the Peloponnese region to mainland Greece, being put into place near Patras, Greece, recently. The final piece of the 2,900 m bridge will be set today, ahead of Aug 8, when the Olympic flame is due to cross the
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    • 153 8 Teens to bear flags at Euro 2004 Christopher Lim MOHD Shazlee Humzah, Alwyn Kok and Matthew Abraham, all 13, and Mohd Shafiq Noh, 14, rose above their peers to win the Coca-Cola Euro 2004 Flag Bearers Challenge yesterday. The win will take the four to
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    • 148 8 Teens pick up new skills A TEENAGER who was caught spraypainting graffiti is now painting murals as part of his community service. Mark (not his real name), 17, is one of more than 1,800 youths on probation, The Straits Times reports today. The Ministry of Community
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    • 144 8 M’sian cleric refuses to stop patients -AFP A MALAYSIAN cleric has refused to bar some 3,000 Muslims suffering from Aids from marrying, despite fears that the disease could spread to their children. The Malay-language Berita Minggu said yesterday that a health department officer in the
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    • 103 8 HOSPITALS here, especially those in the private sector, are being urged to embrace technology in a bid to give the local health care industry an edge in Asia. Making the call yesterday, at Gleneagles Hospital’s sixth annual seminar, was Minister of State (Health and Transport) Balaji Sadasivan, The
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    • 95 8 Reuters A RIVER ferry carrying up to 300 people capsized during a storm in Bangladesh early yesterday and many of the passengers were feared trapped inside, police said. Fifty people were rescued from the double-decker MV Lighting Sun, the state news agency BSS said. Seven were plucked
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    • 107 8 AFP THAI premier Thaksin Shinawatra has welcomed an offer to start a dialogue with a prominent separatist leader aimed at bringing peace to the restive Muslimmajority south, a report said yesterday. Dr Thaksin told the Bangkok Post that he hoped discussions with Bersatu leader Wan Abdul
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    • 91 8 AN aide to a US senator who kept a blog of her sex life has been fired, The Independent reported yesterday. Ms Jessica Cutler, 24, an aide to Ohio Senator Mike DeWine, was sacked for the “unacceptable use of Senate computers”. She used the moniker Washingtonienne
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    • 445 7 OF THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY THE EXHIBITION 13 March to 4 June 2004 www.scl en ce.ed u .sg lotr Relive the fantasy of Middle-earth! The Singapore Science Centre is proud to be the only venue in Asia to host The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy The Exhibition. Besides
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  • Financial
    • 479 10  -  Total Automation’s joint venture to help it consolidate business in China By Choong Choon Yee AFTER having grown conservatively for 14 years, local company Total Automation has been taking a more adventurous route with recent acquisitions. The mainboard-listed engineering control and instrumentation specialist’s recent
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    • 204 10 -AFP CAIRO Saudi Oil Minister Ali A 1 Naimi insists that a crude oil price of US$35 a barrel will satisfy world markets and has reiterated his call for an increase in Opec oil production in June, a report said yesterday. “We have said all
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    • 24 10 *AS AT MAY 21 US$: 551.713 553.059 EURO: 552.059 Ss: 65.34 YEN Ss: RM2.218 Ss: HK54.548 Ss: 23.79 BAHT Ss: 5,291 RUPIAH
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    • 428 10 The stock recommendation is the average of ail 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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    • 393 12 Garments industry looks to labour-friendly image -AFP PHNOM PENH Cambodia’s crucial garment sector is bracing for the end of a 30-year-old global textile quota system in December, hoping to position itself as a labour-friendly alternative to China. The garment manufacturing industry contributes more than
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    • 127 12 Bloomberg NEW DELHI India’s business confidence in April was at an eight-year high, rising to 142.8 from 138.1 in January as the economy was estimated to have grown at its fastest in 15 years in the first quarter of this year, said the New Delhi-based National
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    • 412 15 L AFP PARIS Telecoms firms across Europe, already battling high debt levels, are facing a new threat to their already-ffagile revenues the growing success of companies offering phone calls through the Internet. Several Internet providers are now offering “Internet Voice” services, also known as Voice over
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  • Comment
    • 707 16  -  B i CONRAD RAJ NOW that talk of a further consolidation in the local banking scene has been revived, it’s time to review the last few mergers that have taken place in the financial scene here. The last round of consolidation saw the number of
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  • Vocal
    • 362 20 GOING by Mr Philip Lee’s commentary “Our effete youths real cause for worry” (Streats, May 21), I guess I would be considered an effete youth. I rarely read the newspapers, and the only time I browse through them is when I am looking for a job.
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    • 186 20 I REFER to the letter “Make transfer rebate possible” (Streats, May 11), by Mr Corry Sutandi, and would like to thank him for his feedback. The scheduled headway for service 33 at the bus stop opposite Tiong Bahru Plaza ranges from 11 to 14 minutes on
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    • 139 20 I REFER to Ms Sachiko Yamashita’s letter “Istana: Where is that?” (Streats, May 21), and would like to apologise for her unfortunate experience. City Cab takes a serious view of such lapses in service quality. We have been trying to identify the driver and the
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    • 87 20 I HAVE frequently noticed that lorry and van drivers blatantly exceed the 60kmh speed limit imposed on them. You see them on expressways hurtling down the right-hand lanes at speeds of 80kmh to lOOkmh. What has happened to the traffic police mobile patrols? There seem to
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    • 91 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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  • Global
    • 429 22 Rescue workers still searching for survivors feared trapped under rubble; terror attack ruled out Wire services PARIS At least five people were killed when part of a roof collapsed at a new terminal at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle international airport near Paris yesterday,
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    • 208 22 -AP BEIJING Chinese scientists have begun testing a Sars vaccine on four volunteers at a Beijing hospital, state media said yesterday, in what appears to be the first such experiment on humans. The volunteers, all in their 20s, were injected with the vaccine on
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    • 258 22 Wire services JAKARTA An Indonesian appeal court has acquitted three suspected members of the Jemaah Islamiah terror network, overruling jail sentences of up to five years issued by lower courts, a report said yesterday. The Central Sulawesi province Court of Appeal on Friday quashed
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    • 148 22 Reuters BEIJING A sanitation crew in Guangzhou had to haul off 20 tonnes of garbage collected by an elderly woman after neighbours got fed up with the stench wafting from her home, the Guangzhou Daily said yesterday. Waste collectors dispatched to the apartment in
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  • Medical
    • 258 24 Forum to discuss how lifestyle changes can help SEXUAL problems are a topic not easily discussed, but they are far from rare, for both men and women. For example, erectile dysfunction, the most common male sexual problem, affects about four in 10 men aged 40 and above. Men
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    • 136 24 Reuters WASHINGTON Carbonated drinks may raise the risk of oesophageal cancer, said Indian researchers last week at a meeting of cancer and gastrointestinal experts in New Orleans. They found a strong correlation between the rise in per capita consumption of carbonated soft drinks in
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  • EasyStreats
    • Article, Illustration
      783 26 Sandakan Threnody, being performedfor the Singapore Arts Festival, isn’t just apiece of music, but also involves deep personal emotion, its composer tells GREGORYLEOW AUSTRALIAN composer Jonathan Mills (pictured) had a personal inspiration for Sandakan Threnody, his three-part symphony for tenor, chorus and orchestra. His father, now in his
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    • 137 26 -AFP ASIAN films missed out on the top prize at Cannes, the Palme D’Or won by Michael Moore’s anti-Bush documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11 but they scooped up several other big awards at the film festival. The violent South Korean film, Old Boy, was named runnerup, while the
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    • 147 26 IT was a moment for Bachchan family bonding at the Indian International Film Awards (UFA) held here over the weekend. At the launch of the reprint of the biography of Amitabh Bachchan, “godfather” of Indian cinema, his wife, Jaya, who won the best supporting actress award,
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    • journeys
      • 748 28 Brave new dining spots, shopping haunts and chill-out zones. SHARON SOH traipses between the zen and dazzle of a city that never sleeps IN just four days, I walked the path of the stars as the entire skyline flowered with fireworks, dined from an avant-garde menu (foie
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    • 126 32 Warm weather heralds the start of dog-bite season in the US. With more kids and canines enjoying the weather outdoors, dog bite statistics go through the roof. Dogs bite 4.7 million Americans each year, 70 per cent of whom are under 12 years old. Every 40
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 56 32 9pm, Channel i When a high-tech terrorist has a bullet lodged in his brain that renders him totally impervious to pain and launches a scheme to seize control of the global oil supply, Agent 007 is the only one who can stop him. Stars Pierce
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      • 40 32 llpm, Central Actress Julianne Moore talks about experiences that have changed her life and her critically acclaimed roles in movies such as Far From Heaven, Boogie Night, Magnolia, The Hours and The End of the Affair.
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        54 32 THE FASCINATING WORLD OF OPERA Today, 11am Anglo-Chinese School auditorium (60, Barker Road) Tickets at $25 (call 6336-1929) Western opera is not that unintelligible. Not when this concert is specially tailored to promote a keener appreciation and understanding of Western opera among the young and to cultivate a new
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      • 53 32 PASSION.LOVE Wednesday and Thursday, Bpm Jubilee Hall (Raffles Hotel) Tickets at $2B from Sistic Odyssey Dance Theatre’s full-length work, choreographed to music by Ennio Morricone and Miklos Rozsa, returns after its successful premiere last August. It was performed outdoors then, and will now be heightened by a theatrical setting
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    • 241 32 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. Overseas Property Refinancing Bank of your choice Our company has a strategic tie up with nine banks in Singapore to provide refinancing services Saving
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 400 32 PISCES Mill FEB 19-MAR 20 jP AQUARIUS JAN2O-FEB 18 Stay on your toes for the next couple of days. Someone will be happy to make you feel like royalty. All you have to do is practise your posture. Your dinner plans may turn out to be a bit more challenging
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  • Sports
    • 437 33  -  Thai international Pitipong wants to play in S-League again Tan Kim Han THAI international Pitipong Kuldilog, an aggressive striker with a hefty kick, is keen to return to the S-League. The 23-year-old footballer, who was Sembawang Rangers’ top marksman last year, left to play for
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    • 220 33  -  By Gary Lim COORDINATION was a big problem for the Toys R Us team (left) at The New Paper Big Walk, which drew almost 70,000 competitors yesterday. But the team certainly drew cheers from the judges and crowd as they stumbled their
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    • 480 34 All eyes on Switzerland’s world No las he targets tennis’ Grand Slam Wire services PARIS Peals of laughter, plus an offer of a thermometer, usually follow when these suggestive words are used about men’s tennis: “A calendar Grand Slam.” Doubters rule on this topic, for good reason. Only
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    • 384 34 -AFP CARDIFF Beware, Arsenal. Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson and captain Roy Keane believe that the 3-0 triumph over Millwall in the FA Cup on Saturday will be the springboard for a full-blooded challenge for Arsenal’s Premiership crown next season. Ferguson admitted
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    • 229 34 AFP MONACO Italian Jamo Trulli led from start to finish to claim his first Formula One victory and end world champion Michael Schumacher’s winning run in a thrilling and actionpacked Monaco Grand Prix yesterday. Trulli, who started from pole for the first time in his 117-race career,
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    • 379 35  -  Duo meet B qualifying mark to join Joscelin Yeo in Athens By Lim Han Ming NATIONAL swimmers Mark Chay (above) and Nicolette Teo will join Joscelin Yeo on the plane to Athens for the 2004 Olympic Games in August. The two US-based swimmers met the Olympic
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    • 250 35 -AFP NBA PLAYOFFS EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Indiana 78 Detroit 74 (Indiana lead best-of-seven series l-O) INDIANAPOLIS Reggie Miller drilled a tiebreaking three-pointer with 31 seconds left to help Indiana to a 78-74 victory over Detroit in Game One of the National Basketball Association Eastern Conference finals
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous

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