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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>Everitt Road spat returns?
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Jamie Ee Wen Wei
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->The infamous Everitt Road spat could be back.
This time, one of the seven families engaged in a dispute with their Chan neighbours (see story, below), said they had a run-in with the Chans last month.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>THE SAGA
The dispute reportedly started in 1993 over issues such as parking, littering and verbal abuse.
The quarrel made headlines in 2002 when seven families asked their MP for help. However, his mediation efforts failed to resolve the conflict.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Madam Tan Sim Boey, 68, a housewife, told Chinese newspaper Lianhe Wanbao last week that the Chans' daughter - Ms Chan Soo Yin, 45, a teacher - had hit the car of Madam Tan's daughter with a bag of cat faeces.
Madam Tan filmed the incident and the police were informed.
In another report in Lianhe Zaobao, Ms Chan was quoted as saying she might take her neighbours to court for harassing her between 2003 and 2004.
She claimed that they tailed her to church, scolded and filmed her.
She took eight of her neighbours to court in 2007.
Despite several mediation sessions, she said the parties could not put aside their differences.
Ms Chan added that she had applied to the courts to stop the mediation as the harassment had not stopped.
The Sunday Times tried to verify this with the Community Mediation Centre, but a spokesman said she could not reveal details.
When a visit was made to Everitt Road on Thursday evening, some of the families declined to comment or were not at home.
Madam Tan said her daughter was upset that she had spoken to the media.
When The Sunday Times approached Mr Chan Cheng Khoon, 74, who was reading the papers on the porch, Ms Chan came out of their three-storey terrace house and said: 'Dad, no comments.' A neighbour, who is not involved in the dispute, said the area had quietened much since the Chans were summoned to court.
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Jamie Ee Wen Wei
</TD></TR><!-- show image if available --></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->The infamous Everitt Road spat could be back.
This time, one of the seven families engaged in a dispute with their Chan neighbours (see story, below), said they had a run-in with the Chans last month.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>THE SAGA
The dispute reportedly started in 1993 over issues such as parking, littering and verbal abuse.
The quarrel made headlines in 2002 when seven families asked their MP for help. However, his mediation efforts failed to resolve the conflict.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Madam Tan Sim Boey, 68, a housewife, told Chinese newspaper Lianhe Wanbao last week that the Chans' daughter - Ms Chan Soo Yin, 45, a teacher - had hit the car of Madam Tan's daughter with a bag of cat faeces.
Madam Tan filmed the incident and the police were informed.
In another report in Lianhe Zaobao, Ms Chan was quoted as saying she might take her neighbours to court for harassing her between 2003 and 2004.
She claimed that they tailed her to church, scolded and filmed her.
She took eight of her neighbours to court in 2007.
Despite several mediation sessions, she said the parties could not put aside their differences.
Ms Chan added that she had applied to the courts to stop the mediation as the harassment had not stopped.
The Sunday Times tried to verify this with the Community Mediation Centre, but a spokesman said she could not reveal details.
When a visit was made to Everitt Road on Thursday evening, some of the families declined to comment or were not at home.
Madam Tan said her daughter was upset that she had spoken to the media.
When The Sunday Times approached Mr Chan Cheng Khoon, 74, who was reading the papers on the porch, Ms Chan came out of their three-storey terrace house and said: 'Dad, no comments.' A neighbour, who is not involved in the dispute, said the area had quietened much since the Chans were summoned to court.
