Streats, 26 November 2004

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  • 12 1 Streats FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2004 website: www.streats.com.sg* e-mail: streats@sph.coltl.sg MICA (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 473 1  -  Terrorist strike on port like S’pore’s will lead to massive global trade loss, says defence expert By Khushwant Singh A TERRORIST attack on a hub sea port or a major sea route would have global repercussions. To illustrate this, Mr Barry Desker, director of the
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    • 165 1 Streat FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2004 website: www.streats.com.sg» e-mail: streats@sph.com 3g miCA (P)196/03/2004 V V C X FIGHT WITH SIA IN SEVEN C A' TRAIL XX:X-; x V /X. o x: 4. 3r S* M VS back in the EX-TALENTIMERS CCCRUSH CASH IN ON IDOL CRAZE page 40 -^WTUC Singapore’s very
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  • Morning Rush
    • 446 2 2m-7m deaths from billions of infections estimated: expert Reuters BANGKOK The bird flu virus that rampaged across much of Asia this year is most likely to cause the next human flu pandemic, which could hit up to 30 per cent of the world’s
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    • 214 2 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian judges yesterday rejected a plea to drop terrorism charges against hardline Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir and ordered him to stand trial for his alleged involvement in attacks including the Bali bombings. Defence lawyers had asked the court to drop
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    • 144 2 -AFP LONDON “Mother” is the most beautiful word in the English language, followed by passion”, “smile”, “love” and “eternity”, according to a worldwide survey released yesterday. The British Council quizzed more than 40,000 people in 102 non-English speaking countries on their favourite words. “Fantastic”,
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    • 490 3  -  CAAS’ biometric system, with face and fingerprint scans, being tested By_ Chita Kong Ho JUST 90 seconds. That’s how long it takes to check in for a flight, choose a seat and breeze through immigration at Changi Airport. Already brisk by global standards,
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    • 211 3 ‘Parents, choose Chinese or English?’ MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, the man who started Singapore on the road to bilingualism 40 years ago, had this message yesterday: Chinese parents must choose which language they want their children to master English or Chinese. He said: “You make up your mind... But
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    • 332 3 AP WASHINGTON Citing reports of fraud and abuse, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday that the US cannot accept the results of presidential elections in Ukraine. Mr Powell said that there would be consequences for US-Ukraine relations if the government there did
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    • 457 4  -  By Khushwant Singh IF the 8,000-strong Sindhi community is among the most active group of blood donors, with an average 400 donations a year, it has the late Mr Rupchand Jashanmal Bhojwani to thank. Mr Bhojwani, better known as JB Rupa, worked tirelessly over
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    • 258 4  -  By Christopher Lim SINGAPORE’S labour movement yesterday launched a volunteers’ club, comprising National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Fair Price staff members, to help in worthy social causes such as raising funds for the needy. Club V now has 30 volunteers, a number
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    • 281 6 Tracks ferry commuters as bus, jeepney drivers protest oil prices Bloomberg MANILA The Philippine government deployed trucks and vans to carry thousands of stranded commuters to work as bus and jeepney drivers went on strike to protest rising fuel prices, crippling Manila and other parts of
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    • 248 6  -  By Sarah Ng SHY, quiet and sweet. These are hardly the words that one would associate with the formidable-looking rhinoceros. Yet, that was exactly how rhino expert Nan Schaffer described the Sumatran rhinos, the smallest of five species. The founder and president of SOS
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    • 134 8 BUZZSTOP Wire services IRAQI troops searching suspected terrorist hideouts in Fallujah discovered a laboratory with manuals for manufacturing explosives and toxins including anthrax, Iraqi national security adviser Qassem Dawoud said yesterday. “Soldiers from the Iraqi National Guard found a chemical laboratory
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    • 85 8  -  Text and picture by Edwin Koo Singaporean batik artist Sarkasi Said, 65, has just made it into the Guinness Book of Records with the world's longest batik fabric measuring 100 m. The batik bale weighs 200 kg and took the artist five days to finish. During
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    • 132 8 Estate administration incomplete FORMER opposition politician JB Jeyaretnam lost his appeal to be discharged from bankruptcy on Wednesday when Singapore’s highest court upheld a High Court refixsal to grant him the discharge earlier this year. The main reason reason Justice Choo Han Teck gave
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    • 143 8 21,047 declared insolvencies Bloomberg SINGAPORE’S bankruptcies rose to a record, with 21,047 declared insolvencies as at the end of October, according to figures released by the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office. Last month, Singapore’s High Court declared 407 individual bankruptcies and discharged 118, the office, a
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    • 144 8 Casino hot topic on ST Forum page RELIGIOUS and other conservative groups have been lobbying the Government against the building of a casino here, The Straits Times reports today. Since the casino idea was mooted in March, they have argued their case at open forums, wrote
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    • 110 8 THE High Court yesterday ruled that Singapore Airlines cannot pursue legal action here against Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) in cases over the crash of Flight SQ 006 four years ago. SLA had last year named CAA as the third party to bear the claims in
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    • 101 8 NICOLL HIGHWAY is due to reopen next month after its closure was forced in April by the collapse of excavation works for an MRT tunnel. Repair work on the highway started in late August, and the Land Transport Authority said then that it would be done
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    • 77 8 THE first tourists to head for space from Asian soil could blast off from Malaysia, a newspaper reported yesterday. Plans are afoot to construct a space tourism centre in Perak state by 2010, The Star daily said. The federal government is now pondering a RM4BO million
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    • 98 8 -afp HALF a million Malaysians in neighbourhood security groups have been told to gather information about illegal immigrants ahead of a crackdown next year, official media reported yesterday. The civilians have already been given the power to arrest illegal migrants once the sweep against them gets
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  • Financial
    • 463 10  -  Music retailer to use proceeds to open more stores, boost own music label By Yvonne Kwok PLANS for more stores and an expansion of its own music label have prompted local music retailer Sembawang Music Holdings Limited to launch its initial public offering (IPO) today.
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    • 374 10  -  By ChuaKongHo THE rivalry between Singapore Airlines and Qantas Airways is set to spill over into the budget airline arena next month when the latter’s associate Jetstar Asia takes to the skies. Jetstar Asia said yesterday that it will
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    • 69 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE The Government said that it may lift certain restrictions on Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, the nation’s largest phone company, because competition has increased. Sing Tel may be free, among other things, to set prices and offer packages of services for international private phone lines delivered through
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    • 107 10 AP SHANGHAI The US dollar sank to its lowest rate in years against several Asian currencies yesterday on renewed concerns over the massive US current account and budget deficits. The US dollar was trading at a fouryear, 10 month low against the Japanese yen of 102.54
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    • 87 10 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR The Government of Singapore Investment Corp will buy 48 per cent of Sunway City Bhd’s hotel group in a deal worth RM 170.1 million (5573.53 million), the property company said yesterday. Under the agreement, GIC unit Reco Resort Hotel will buy 9.6 million
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    • 88 10 AFP HONG KONG An American casino company spearheading new growth in Macau’s 150-year-old gambling industry plans to open the biggest gaming hall the southern Chinese enclave has ever seen. The Las Vegas Sands Group has told US authorities that it plans to spend US$l.B billion (Ss3
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    • 265 12 ap SHANGHAI Sony Pictures has set up a joint venture television and film coproduction unit in China, taking advantage of a loosening of restrictions on the tightly controlled industry in the communist country. Sony and majority-stake holder Hua Long Film Digital Production,
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    • 40 12 Packs of instant noodles introduced by Japan's Nissin Food Products Co since 1958 on display yesterday on a wall at the refurbished Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka. The museum will be open to the public from today AFP
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    • 224 14 -AP HONG KONG Twenty-six airlines, including Air France and British Airways, have been cleared to extend and raise levies charged to passengers flying into or out of Hong Kong due to high global oil prices, the territory’s Civil Aviation Department said yesterday. The
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    • 450 14 Shanghai mortgagor sees growing demand in China Reuters HONG KONG Getting a loan to buy one of the new homes mushrooming across China’s richest cities is a straightforward process as the bank that finances construction typically assumes the role of mortgage lender. Financing a home on
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    • 176 17 HONG KONG Air China has decided to accelerate its US$l.l billion (S$ 1.8 billion) IPO schedule by one day to avoid clashing with the US$3 billion listing of a Hong Kong property trust that is expected to draw massive investor demand. Hong Kong
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    • 346 17 AFP NEW DELHI India’s largest private airline, Jet Airways, said yesterday that it plans an initial public offering to fund a fleet expansion amid a projected big rise in air travel in the country. “Jet Airways will be floating an IPO. Maybe by the end
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    • 445 19 Taikong Corp sees huge market potential for hybrid in China AFP WUKU, Taiwan A Taiwanese company, which has earned global fame with its transgenic fish (pictured above), has updated its product line with a new species which glows fluorescent gold in the dark,
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    • 27 19 STI: 2,034.88 5.31 *AS AT NOV 25 US$: 551.639 Ss: RM2.318 553.087 Ss: HK54.741 EURO: $52,161 Ss: 24.11 BAHT Ss: 62.54 YEN Ss: 5,464 RUPIAH
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  • Comment
    • 867 21  -  By PHILIP LEE NEWS of the death of American author Iris Chang by a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Nov 9, filled me with profound sadness. Yet, the only tenuous link I had with her was to have read her celebrated 1997 book, The
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  • Vocal
    • 494 22 THE extension of the smoking ban that the National Environment Agency (NEA) is considering would be a godsend for non-smokers such as I, but I question whether such a ban could be effectively enforced. In a world where smoking is still considered a socially
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    • 82 22 SMOKE is irritating, but I feel that smokers have already been confined to very limited areas. The majority of pub and nightspot customers are smokers, and if a ban were to be imposed, many, including foreigners and tourists, might not patronise these places. In any
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    • 281 23 I REFER to the recent letters on flat ownership for single permanent residents (SPRs). I have been advised by an HDB officer that in the event one joint-owner of an HDB flat purchased/mortgaged under the sibling scheme gets married, there are still options open to
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    • 296 23 IN the letter, “What’s good for workers is good for business” (Streats, Nov 24), Mr Teo Kueh Liang said: “Naturally, the loyalty and resultant improved productivity of happy employees will help the company to improve its services significantly and, in turn, its revenues will rise.”
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    • 39 23 IN the report, “Making inmates smile” (Streats, Nov 25), we said that Mark Clinton Galistan was an Assistant Superintendent of Police. This is incorrect. He is actually an Assistant Superintendent of Prisons. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 85 23 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
    • 579 24 Asean, China to ink deals in Laos, paving way for free market of 1.7 b people -AFP BEIJING China and Asean will sign a series of agreements in Laos this week, taking the two sides one step closer to the goal of setting
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    • 186 24 Wire services BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday said that he will walk out of an upcoming Asean meeting if he is asked about the deaths of 85 Muslims in a southern Thai province. The Asean meeting, to be held in Vientiane, Laos, from
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    • 122 24 AP KUALA LUMPUR Thailand’s military briefly detained three Malaysian TV journalists and confiscated their camera and footage of interviews they had conducted with villagers who criticised the Thai government over its handling of a rebellion in the country’s south. The journalists from Malaysia’s privately-owned NTV
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    • 148 24 SHANGHAI To please a man they believed to be a senior newspaper editor, a Shanghai hotel allowed the swindler to stay for the night in the hope of getting positive news coverage. Claiming to know the manager of the hotel who was on vacation, the
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    • 243 28 Compilation covers offspring of politicians HONG KONG A Hong Kong newspaper has drawn up a list that could be a must-read for those doing or planning to do business in China. The list, published by the newspaper Ching Chi Jih Pao on Nov
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    • 60 28 People walking past a 2.9 sq m cemetery plot in Shanghai that carries a price tag of 36,180 yuan (557,200). The Chinese capital is expected to run out of land for burial in five years. Experts at the Shanghai International Funeral Forum, which ended on Tuesday, suggested solutions
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    • 186 28 -AP CANBERRA Ageing baby boomers who retire younger and live longer will cost Australia A 52.2 trillion (552.86 trillion) by 2045, a government commissioned report warned yesterday. People living longer, having smaller families and retiring early are expected to halve economic growth to about
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  • Medical
    • 451 31  -  By Sarah Ng IT usually starts as an intense, throbbing or pounding pain on one side of the head. Often, the sensation is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, facial pallor, cold hands and feet, and sensitivity to light and sound. Yes, we are talking about migraine, the
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    • 272 33  -  By Sarah Ng IF you are what you eat, then what you are is only as good as the efficiency of your digestion. A digestive system that is hardly in the pink of health may not immediately threaten the life of its owner, but it
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  • my HOME YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO HOME-OWNING
    • 734 34  -  If the smell of paint worries you hope is at hand. New technology ensures that the paint smells as good as it looks By Zubaidah Nazeer PAINT manufacturers have long known the power of evocation. That’s why you have a hard time finding “blue” or “yellow” paint. Nowadays,
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    • 489 36 As electronics makers battle it out over new DVD formats, consumers might do well to hold off on buying expensive players until the dust i has settled j AFP TOKYO As video cassettes fade into history, a full-fledged battle is on to establish the next standard of
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      1093 38 Just as orangutans and other cousins of the human race groom one another, the practice of beauty can bind families together. Susan Foo, who offers DIY facial classes for families, tells Karon Ng how her skin care business has drawn her family closer THIS IS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR
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  • EasyStreats
    • 646 40 After alrrwst a year out of the public eye, CCCrush has resurfaced and are holding their first concert tonight They also tell ZUBAIDAHNAZEER about their upcoming debut album FIRST CCCrush, an event at the Esplanade tonight, is not a play about an old flame or your
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    • 388 40  -  By JillLim BACK in the *****, local band The Trailers played all types of music. “We did Motown, pop, Letterman numbers, Beatles, Rolling Stones, even big band numbers,” said Trailers founder and lead guitarist Victor Woo, who also played the saxophone then. These days, though,
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      273 42  -  Lee Choo Kiong TAIWANESE music prodigy Jay Chou is setting his sights on the stage in the West. “My next target is to receive a Western music award, but I know it’s hard because my English is poor,” he said yesterday at the Grand Hyatt, speaking in
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    • 508 44  -  By Sharlene Tan WHILE many arts performances start off with a script or some sort of narrative idea, alternative arts group Kill Your Television (KYTV) prefers to kickstart their work with the conceptualisation of visual art. “The basis of it is visual art, then we add sound
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        496 46 IT'S THE FASHION-FRIENDLY COLOUR FOR NOW. CAN ASIANS WEAR IT? OF COURSE! -IPS FASHION pundits have decreed that green is the hot colour for this season. It was spotted in the Julien Macdonald, Antoni Alison and Pringle Autumn-Winter catwalk shows at London Fashion Week, and even on celebrities
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