The Straits Times, 15 February 2005

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  • 481 1  -  Reme Ahmad Amnesty extended for two more weeks but from March 1, tough action will be taken By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala I.umpur FOREIGNERS found working illegally m Malaysia after the end of this month will be deported and barred from re-entering the country
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  • 114 1 It was smiles all round for these children (above) of Aceh's tsunami-hit Meulaboh town and y yes, also for the boy at the end of a queue (left) who could not contain his excitement as they toted away packs of goodies handed out
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  • 408 1 CHRYSANTHEMUM tea, a popular brew known for its cooling properties m traditional Chinese medicine, has been found to have a property that may interest Western medical specialists too it can fight cancer. Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) say the chrysanthemum
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  • 1128 1  -  Alfred Siew UPFRONT By ON A quiet stretch of the old Bu kit I miah not coursi ten' converge m the ni^h! Ihe dm ers, all men m their 2(K and M)s. park their cars neatly m u>w and wait for others
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  • »IN A FLASH
    • 45 2 >> ASIA High-tech espionage The US gets tough on alleged attempts by China to steal military and tech know-how. PAGE 6 Tool kit' of pressure The US has a plan to cut off all sources of funds to stall Noith Korea's nuclear weapons plans. PAGE 9
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    • 33 2 WORLD Mixed emotions Neo-Nazis provoke anger as Dresden marks WWII bombing anniversary. PAGE 15 love m the classroom Relationship classes are fast becoming a staple m the curriculum ot US universities. PAGE 16
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    • 19 2 REVIEW Creating a stir The two movers and shakers of Indonesian politics could well re-energise the country. PAGE 18
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    • 27 2 HOME Baby killer jailed Man killed lover's baby with overdose of medicated oil. PAGE HI iq a cut The gaming plan mt, Wynn Res< build here us
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    • 49 2 FORUM Give them credit n.i whi7 kkb should be lauded and thecoinprtition welcomed as 1 1 li.hh i Singaporeans to impt< themsok i I'UJI- H8 Seize the opportunity Instead of m Itluu menial work, into could speak to th supci isors about making better useoi iliri! skilU. i-.ulci PACFHK
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    • 46 2 SPORTS League clean-up i I"he I Mines,.- Super League is on tMe mend as the China tack-f-inancial woes and restores confidence among iponto PAGEHIO A racier Fl ahead Rule changes and politicking m Formula One aii set to take the yawn out ot the sport PAGEHII
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    • 48 2 MONEY Budget goodies Analysts don't up cut m corpora it.' ttm toi SMEs this Budget 200 S. but further tweaking of SME-friendly schemes PAGEHIB Earnings ride up ComfortDelGro posts a 50 per cent rise m net earnings for 2004, thanks to overseas operations and the post-Sars recovery. PAGEHI7
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    • 320 2 SECTION ONE Prime 3-4 Asia 6-12 World 13-17 Review 18-21 FYI 22 SECTION TWO Home Hl-H7 Forum H8 Sports H9-Hll Obituaries Hl2 Money Hl3-HlB LIFE! Life L2-L3 Arts L4-L5 Travel L6-L7 Events&TV LB-9 Buzz LlO Writing Covered Calls and Puts on US Blue-Chips are regarded as the most powerful wealth-creation
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  • PRIME
    • 543 3  - Road map on open skies by mid -year Roger Maynard Singapore, Australian ministers agree m Canberra to air talks moving forward \AFDS AF ASF ustralia Correspondent In Sydney THE Singapore Government's attempts to persuade Australia to sign a full open skies agreement edged forward yesterday, after crucial talks at Parliament
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    • 518 3  -  Theresa Tan By' PHOTO BOOST TRAINING FACILITIES "There are lots of young people here who are into extreme sports but can't find venues to practise. The first thing that should be done is to build proper training facilities for these enthusiasts." MR FA2ULY SUDARMAJI (above),
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    • 147 4 PHOTO: This man (left) m Beirut survived. Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri did not. He was assassinated m a DMMh c bomb M.i>l which killed nine others, some of them his bodyguards. About 100 people were injured m the blast which sent glass shards
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    • 616 4  -  Salma Khalik More leeway to promote disease awareness, but no hawking of drugs By Health Correspondent EXPECT more information on various diseases soon, with the authorities relaxing their hold on promotions by drug companies. After almost a year of discussions, the Health Sciences Authority
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  • 24 6 Ma to run for KMT post The mayor of Taipei declares his bid for the leadership of Taiwan's main opposition party. PAGE 8
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  • 539 6 Rising alarm over Chinese espionage in Silicon Valley "China is trying to develop a military that can compete with the US, and they are willing to steal to get it." A SENIOR FBI OFFICIAL, quoted m the Time magazine report FBI kept busy probing soaring number of eases of alleged
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    • 261 6 FISHING FOR TROUBLE Wr i. ~> JV -I Japan upsthe ante m its territorial dispute with China by announcing new fishing plan. Page 10 BOMBING IN PHILIPPINES Muslim rebels claim responsibility for three deadly blasts m Manila and the south. Page 11 BIOMETRIC TENCE 1 Malaysia will use a high-tech
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  • CHINA
    • 542 8 Taipei mayor to run for KMT 's top post He is popular m Taipei but lacks support m the island's south Taipei TAIPEI Mayor Ma Yingjeou, seen as a strong presidential challenger m 2008, declared his bid yesterday for the chairmanship of Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), which favours closer
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    • 279 8 Hong Kong SOUTH Chinas Guangdong province is facing a severe shortage of fresh water, a report here said yesterday. The water supplies of Zhuhai city, m particular, are expected to last just one month after local water became inundated with salt. The primary cause is the
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    • 415 8 Taipei TAIPEI'S frosty ties with China will be the focus of talks between President Chen Shui-bian and an opposition leader, Mr James Soong. The talks are aimed at building consensus on how to deal with the island's foe. "We are confident and we
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    • 329 8 I long Kong DOCTORS m Hong Kong have warned against a cheap breast enlargement procedure popular m China that they say could cause patients to lose their breasts and develop cancer, a media report said yesterday. Dozens of patients who had polyacrylamide,
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    • 46 8 A Chinese man surnamed Zhang has become the owner of the PHOTO one millionth credit card issued by the China Merchants Bank branch m Ini an, Shandong province. His rew .ird a 50g card minted from pure gold XNHUA
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    • 320 8 Taipei A MOTORIST involved m an accident m which a five-month-old boy died was dragged from his hospital room and beaten to death m what was probably an instance of vigilante justice, Taiwanese police said. Two of the attackers, who surrendered to the
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    • 548 9 Washington plan puts pressure on Pyongyang > NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR CRISIS US uses anti-terror tactics to cut off the isolated nations sources of funds Washington IN THE months before North Korea announced it possessed nuclear weapons, the Bush administration began developing new strategies to choke off its few remaining sources
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    • 472 9 Seoul SOUTH Korea said yesterday that its policy of engagement with North Korea was unshaken, stressing that Pyongyang's declaration that it possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear-weapons state. Last week. North Korea said explicitly, for the first time, that it possessed
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    • 131 9 Seoui A SOUTH Korean movie will be shot m North Korea for the first time since the division of the Korean peninsula, a film production company said yesterday. The last scene of the film, tentatively titled Brave Family, will be shot at
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    • 494 10 Japan to start tuna fishing near disputed isles Tokyo using islands to extend its economic zone, but Beijing disputes claims Tokyo JAPAN will start fishing expeditions near two East China Sea islands to strengthen its hand m a dispute with China over rights to natural resources m the area, officials
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    • 516 10 DNA links 'Baby 81' with true parents NO MORE 'BABY 81': "Baby 81", or Abilash Jeyarajah (top), will be reunited with his parents tomorrow after court-ordered DN A tests prove their claim to be his rightful parents. The happy couple, Mr and Mrs Jeyarajah (left and centre m picture on
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    • 259 10 Pakistan' s flood victims face danger of disease QIM I I A (PNKISI IH()[ s \\i)s gi south are vulnerable to di* dab Mid rams, which have killed ibout .150 people .1 MM ntinued to pOM The authorities tried tor fourth day Ul get medicine, shelter, food and dnnkm: ter
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    • 338 10 TOKYO A 17-YEAR-OLD youth armed with a knife burst into a public elementary school m western Japan yesterday, stabbing a teacher to death and seriously injuring two staff members, police said. The teenager used a 21cm kitchen knife to attack employees of Chuo Elementary
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    • 122 10 A JAPANESE man pulled a knife m a convenience store and threatened to kill himself unless he was given a meal ot the best sushi m the shop, a police spokesman said yesterday. The 68-year-old unemployed man barged into the store
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 532 11 Blasts in Manila and southern cities kill 1 1 Abu Sayyaf claims responsibility for the attacks, which also injure 130 Manila EXPLOSIONS m the business district of the Philippine capital and two southern cities yesterday killed at least 11 people and wounded nearly 130. Besieged Muslim rebels claimed responsibility for
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    • 120 11 Australian archaeologists Marc Oxenham and Kate Domett dusting the remains of an adult and a child m a burial site m Vietnam. The team of Australian and Japanese re- searchers also uncovered a child's remains next to two clay pots. The discovery of this burial site m
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    • 413 11 Bangkok THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday ordered security forces to become more pro-active m their efforts to restore peace m the largely Muslim south. Mr Thaksin, who won a second term by a landslide last week but could not secure even one seat m
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    • 253 11 582 more bodies found among debris in Aceh Jakarta INDONESIA said yesterday that recovery workers had pulled 582 more bodies from debris left after the Dec 26 earthquake and tsunami that hit Aceh province, bringing the death toll to 119,349. The missing tally dropped slightly from 114,922 to 114,897, the
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    • 270 11 Jakarta INDONESIA has embarked on a major review of 60 by-laws issued m recent years by local administrations that impede trade and discourage investments. In due course, the government hopes to discard the irrelevant bylaws after the review. The government will also likely take away some
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 465 12 KL to monitor illegal workers using biometrics But recent ease of stolen ID cards throws doubt on system's security Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA has said it plans to use the biometric system to prevent illegal Indonesian workers from entering the country, but there are concerns about whether the system will be
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    • 99 12 PHOTO. Manypeopl birds, but Mr Mir taffa Kamal Mahmud collects birds nests. Particularly wi.iver birds" nests With around 100 of them decorating Mi hew— m Xi gar m the northern st.r FVrhs. i In- tye-catching Collection hat d 1MB) admirers who hai buy some of
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    • 215 12 Port Dickson WHEN the groom went missing 13 hours after marriage, the bride's family and the imam went looking for him. They found him with a married woman m his rented home at 1.30 am on Sunday. The 25-year-old man and the 34-year-old mother
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 92 12 HONG KONG: Chinese President Hu Jint.ui pected to visit three South-east Asian countries m April, the pro-Beijing Wen Wei Po ne < reported yesterday. Mr Hu is likely to discuss energy' cooperation during his trip to Indonesia, the Philippines and Brunei, the Hong Kong
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      • 84 12 SEOUL: South Korea said yesterday that it will go ahead with a 1.8 trillion won (Ss2 8 billion) plan to purchase four surveillance jets to reduce its reliance on the US military and step up its aerial monitoring of the divided Korean Peninsula Seoul had
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      • 87 12 NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan are likely to sign an agreement on introducing a bus servu i tween Kashmir's Indian and Pakistani trolled portions during official talks this week The two countries have overcome differences on the type of travel documents the passenger-, must
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      • 71 12 HANOI: Vietnam has had no new human bird flu cases m the past two weeks and outbreaks among poultry have dropped, officials said. Twelve Vietnamese and a Cambodian died of bird flu m Vietnam since IKy 30. "No new (human) bird flu case has
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  • 552 13 PM and nine others killed, including country's former economy minister Beirut A MASSIVE car bomb killed former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri yesterday, witnesses and security sources said. Former economy minister Basil Fuleihan was also critically injured m the attack. Hospital sources said Mr Fuleihan, a
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    • 994 13 Neo-Nazis on the march A provocative Neo-Nazi 'funeral march' angers Germans mourning WWII bombing victims. PAGE 15 1 f^T^l HOI SINC.^t I HOUSING DEVELOPMENI DEVELOPMENT L"JJ bo\ri> m> ■LJ dovrh exhumation of bidadari cemetery v 7 M3X M M REGISTRATION FORM I Important Note S^fc. C I |W| I |O
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  • 51 14 IRAQ'S PITFALLS AHEAD After two weeks of counting, the results of Iraq's election are finally m. Clergy-backed Shi'ites and independence-minded Kurds swept to victory, forcing Sunnis to the margins for the first time m the country's modern history. The Straits Times' Middle East Correspondent Borzou Daragahi looks at the challenges
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    18 14 JUBILANT: Waving the Kurdish flag, Kurds m Kirkuk, northern Iraq, celebrating a strong electoral result for their party.
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  • 151 14 >> Islamic Iraq COALITIONS led by Shi'ite Muslims won about 147 of the 175 seats m the Parliament. Many fear that the Shi'ites will try to cram an Islamic agenda through the Parliament. One item m the platform of the United Iraqi Alliance, the triumphant Shi'ite coalition, is to kick
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  • 180 14 >> The Sunni problem THE vote results highlighted and possibly exacerbated Iraq's Sunni Arab problem. The Sunni minority was favoured by Saddam Hussein and is now fuelling a violent insurgency. The results show they generally heeded calls to boycott the vote, raising the daunting task of incorporating them into the
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  • 154 14 >> A weak mandate A COALITION topped by a Shi'ite cleric and endorsed by the country's most powerful religious leader will likely eke out a majority of seats m Iraq's 275-seat Parliament. This will give the coalition enough power to veto or approve any government. But even if the unwieldy
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  • 167 14 >> Leadership jostle UNDER Iraq's current rules, the presidency is largely ceremonial. The alliance leadership has long made it clear that they will demand the powerful prime minister post. Mr Shahrestani, as well as Finance Minister Adel Mahdi and Deputy President Ibrahim Jaffari are said to be front runners for
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  • 70 14 I ill [2 potiti il i m >> United Iraqi Alliance: 1 >> Kurdistan Alliance: >> Iraqi List: 40 (1,11 >> Iraqis: 5(150.< Turkomen Iraqi Front: 3 (93, >> National Independent Elites and Cadres Party: (69,938) >> Communist Parts (69,920) >> Islamic Kurdish Society: 2 (M). 592) >>
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  • 43 14 >> Mid February: National Assembly to convent.' >> Aug 1 5: Assembly to draft permanent Constitution. >>Oct 15: National referendum on draft Constitution >>Dec 15:11 Constitution approved, national election for permanent government Dec 31: Permanent government stated, it Constitution m place. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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  • 498 14 Cairo FOR years, opponents of free elections m the Arab world have whispered warnings that if democracy ever came to this region, Islamic fundamentalists would sweep to power. Now, with votes counted m Iraq and Saudi Arabia, it is clear that there
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  • 400 14 Baghdad HIS supporters may insist that Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani is just a frail, white-bearded cleric devoted solely to spiritual pursuits. But the country's most-revered holy man is also now a symbol of Shi'ite political power, wellpositioned to have a lasting impact on his
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  • 636 15  -  Derek Scally Battle of wills between ordinary citizens and extremists on WWII bombing anniversary By SIXTY years ago, this city was pulverised. On Sunday, residents were split m mourning and anger after thousands of neo-Nazis and skinheads marched to protest against Dresden's incendiary destruction by
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  • WORLD QUICKLY
    • 172 15 ROME: Italians took to the streets on foot and bicycles m seven major cities, including Rome, as the authorities banned cars and even scooters m an effort to lower smog levels. The stepped-up campaign came as many Italian cities fast approached their yearly
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    • 168 15 LISBON: Sister Lucia, the last survivor of the three shepherd children to whom the Virgin Mary is said to have made a series of apparitions m 1917, has died of old age. She was 97. She had lived m virtual isolation since 1948 m an
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    • 134 15 STRPCE (Serbia-Montenegro): Serbian President Boris Tadic became the first Serbian head of state to visit Kosovo on Sunday since the southern province became a UN protectorate at the end of the 1999 war, rejecting calls for its independence. In a heavily secured visit aimed at shedding
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    • 157 15 SYDNEY: The authonties are stepping up a sterilisation and relocation programme m a bid to curb a population explosion of koalas on a southern Australian island where the cuddly mammals are literally eating themselves out of house and home. South Australia state's Environment Minister John
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  • 603 16 Marriage-minded students flock to courses on relationship skills Muncie (Indiana) MR SCOTT Hall wants to spark a discussion, so he asks his students something bound to provoke a reaction: Do women want more out of marriage than men? It is just the sort of
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  • 227 16 DECLARATIONS OF LOVE A woman leaving a romantic note written on a heart-shaped piece of paper on a message board put up for Valentine's Day m a busy shopping district, m Shanghai, while 74-year-old Vichit Saekow and 72-year-old Sunan Konsuk show off their
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  • 353 16 Madrid THE Madrid authorities have warned that a 31-storey office building was at high risk of collapse after the biggest fire m the city's history engulfed one of the Spanish capital's landmarks, sending flaming chunks of debris plummeting to the street. The fire was
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  • 310 16 Washington SHARED moral values are less important than compatible personalities as a recipe for a good marriage, according to a study just released. Married couples often share the same attitudes about faith and other values, researchers at the University of lowa found. But those
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  • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
    • 231 17 From Oxford, UK, to Oxford, NZ, in a vintage Oxford TWO Britons driving a vintage Morris Oxford car on a journey from Oxford. England, to Oxford, New Zealand, completed their first leg on Sunday. Tim Nicholson and Joanne Bowlt are driving the trusty family sedan dubbed "Florence" on an odyssey
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    • 163 17 SENATOR for the state of New York and former first lady of the United States Hillary Clinton received the German media prize for 2004. "Hillary Clinton is a model politician for millions of women around the world" who "represents m an exemplary way women's rights",
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    • 107 17 THE wife of Denmai crown prince wants to b house m her native Australia, it was reported yester* day. "It would he ajondeiful to own a little pieoi mania," Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper quoted Princess Mary as saving. She and Crown
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    • 147 17 IN A rare display of personal grief, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the nation he still feels the pain of his eldest son's death m an m dental shooting almost four decades ago. "Nothing can relieve such pain," Mr Sharon, 76,
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  • 1208 18  -  John Mcßeth By Senior Writer FOR ALL the controversy surrounding them, Vice-Presi-dent Jusuf Kalla and Economic Coordinating Minister Aburizal Bakrie are fast becoming the movers and shakers of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's four-month-old administration. But it has taken the media unused to a shoot-from-the-hip vice-president
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  • 909 18  -  Simon Tay By For The Straits Times WITH his resounding election victory, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has confirmed his dominance over Thailand's politics. His Thai Rak Thai party dwarfs the opposition Democrats and can rule on its own m the new Parliament,
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  • 1015 19  -  Anthony Paul AHEAD IN ASIA By Senior Writer SINCE the Sept 11, 2001 attacks m the United States, Indian propagandists have tried to picture Bangladesh as another Afghanistan. It was easy at first to dismiss much of this as the work of anti-Muslim zealots like
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  • 763 20  -  Doug Bandow By For The Straits Times NORTH Korea recently reminded the world that it was still capable of causing trouble. We have nukes and we do not want to talk about it, said Pyongyang m effect. The announcement set off the usual hand-wringing
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  • 772 21 ROAR OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION YOUTH CONNECTION The current movement m society to nurture greater and deeper engagement from the young is a healthy one. ByKoii Buck Song lon IHr Straits Tno I THE signs arc unmistakable these days, all eyes are on the youth m
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    • 221 22 Singapore today Fair and warm, except for passing showers m the late afternoon mainly over southern and western Singapore. fair.- i^s i^qp vi '^jir i^mt^^^K jB S H 1 1 1 bbbbbbbl 9 aaC* I \1 a^^ 4H aar IV -v B»- T./T k«fl^l H^^B I W^K*-!j^£ztS&^A SaaW #i*affat ai^Ar
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    • 6 1 HOME fHESTRAITSTIMES TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15 ,200^
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    • 767 1  -  Selina Lum Woman hires PI for check on hubby; they become lovers He stands m 4D queue with her baby who starts bawling »He pours medicated oil into baby's mouth to hush her By FRUSTRATED by the incessant cries of his lover's
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    • 428 2  -  Tan Hui Yee No details yet, but tighter rein on HDB flat valuation is expected m April Bv r THE practice of falsely inflating the price of a flat to get the buyer a bigger loan than allowed must be stopped, said
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    • 558 2  -  TAN HUI YEE SINGAPORE'S second Botanic Gardens at Marina Bay will have an outdoor performance area that can accommodate an audience m the tens of thousands. The size of the area is still being worked out, but it will probably be bigger than
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    • 243 2 A CONTRACTING firm which caused the death of two workers m March last year by failing to properly maintain a gondola that plummeted nine storeys, was fined $100,000 by the court. The company, Hock Keng Heng, pleaded guilty. Investigations by the Manpower Ministry found the
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    • 796 4  -  Lynn Lee Women end up poorer than men m old age, point out two NGOs By HOUSEWIVES should be given a cut of their working spouses' Central Provident Fund (CPF) contribution so that they, too, can build up a nest egg
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    • 217 4 THERE will be three mega-float* at this Chingay parade, which organisers promise will be bigger and better than hi ton One of them will be a two -stoiey hi^h 001 k erel, to celebrate the Year of the Rooster About 90 performers dressed as chickens and
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    • 344 5  -  KRIST BOO WHEN war veteran Kalyan Ram Das talks about the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, which happened on Feb 15, 1942, it sounds like a bad dream. The 87-year-old, now living m Kuala Lumpur, spoke jokingly over the phone abovit how
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    • 113 5 Sirens to sound today SJKJ NS *'i land a by r include the A I. win which sounds like w i ti I Ins mean th.r r;ud or shelling is imnur, and the public ire to n n >\ c mi In a message to all toda\ H> Wong Kan
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    • 557 5  -  Glenys Sim Wynn Resorts eyeing Marina site; investment said to be around US$l b By LAS Vegas gaming entrepreneur Steve Wynn's Wynn Resorts is preparing to submit plans to build "Asia's best" casino resort m Singapore, a company official told The Straits Times
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    • 420 6  - Faulty food trolley caused death of hospital steward Khushwant Singh Court hears he died after electrocution by badiy maintained electric equipment By A PIECE of equipment that Mount Elizabeth Hospital failed to maintain properly caused the death of one of its workers two years ago, a Coroner's Court heard yesterday.
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    • 465 6  -  Teh joo Lin By SQUASHHD m the firemen's minuscule cabin with seven other muscle-bound men, Mr Mohd Rosk Hussain catapulted through the door the moment the fire engine pulled over at Ah Hood Road Grabbing two 2.4 m long metal suction pipes nicknamed 'coconut trunks",
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    • 162 7 Cartoon pays up to $15,000 a month THERE is more than one way to ensure your name is up among the credits m a blockbuster movie. Singaporean Nickson Fong did it by working on the Matrix films, doing the special effects. Now the 35-year-old special effects and animation expert has
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    • 322 7 THE Singapore haj mission's decision to set up a command post m Mina, Saudi Arabia for this year's haj, was a boon for Singaporean pilgrims affected by the flash floods there. The command post played a critical role m evacuating more than 400
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    • 424 7  -  Alfred Siew Star Hub's new digital TV system offers more channels too By PUB owners and other commercial subscribers of cable TV programmes will get a free upgrade to digital TV soon, with Star Hub switching from its current analogue system
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      • 430 8 I REFER to the report. "China whiz-kids: Spore feels the heat' (The Sunday Times, Feb 13), which quoted one parent as saying: "Of course, I'm worried about top places going to foreign students. If that happens, Singapore would lose face and have
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      • 257 8 I RECALL that some time back, the Land Transport Authority introduced countdown timers at selected road junctions. I understand that after a trial period, the authorities decided not to implement the system and the timers were removed subsequently. On a recent trip to Malaysia,
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      • 282 8 INVESTMENT-LINKED POLICIES I REFER to the articles, "Insurance 'time-bomb' set to explode" and "Wanted. More transparency m investmentlinked policies" (ST, Feb 12). There should be more transparency with regard to investment-linked policies (ILPs), so buyers are aware of the higher charges resulting from
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      • 680 8 I REFER to the article, "Insurance 'time-bomb' set to explode" (ST, Feb 12). Your correspondent quoted the example of an invest-ment-linked policy taken by Mr Kelvin Yee. This policy had insurance charges that increase with age, and these are projected to consume the entire premium
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      • 452 8 INTERNSHIP BLUES I REFER to the letter, "Learn new skills? Interns do menial tasks instead" (ST, Feb 8), by Ms Yvonne Yock Shu Hua. I am also a polytechnic student finishing the final semester of my business course this academic year.
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      • 257 8 I REFER to the letter, "Learn new skills? Interns do menial tasks instead" (ST, Feb 8), by Ms Yvonne Yock Shu Hua. The polytechnic internship programme has come a long way. As a third-year polytechnic student 30 years ago, I was put on
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      • 268 8 Taste of working world that's the idea I REFER to the letter, "Learn new skills? Interns do menial tasks instead" (ST, Feb 8), by Ms Yvonne Yock Shu Hua. I agree that companies which accept interns shoulder a responsibility to build a "platform for learning on the students' part". Ideally,
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    • 121 9 Gudjohnsen arrested for drink- driving London CHELSEA'S Eidur Gudjohnsen has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, it was confirmed yesterday. The Iceland striker was stopped m the early hours of Sunday morning on the southbound carriageway of the A3 near Esher m Surrey, south-west of London. Police officers stopped the
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    • 240 9 PHOTO EVERT! > s BMHHH David Moy< s mind about the sending olf of James Keattieduiinglasi S 0 1 Pkvmier League defeat X leaders helw Hrn stnkii I i vi eight minutes for headbutting William iallas initial!) said referee Mikr Kili\ "s ill i (ing
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    • 1219 9  -  James Lawton THE LAWTON REVIEW By In London THE UNCOMMON 'There's perhaps a hope: that Moyes' embarrassment does represent something of a departure from the usual pattern." THE SELF-CENTRED "Self-interest of the most egregious kind is routine m postgame statements of even the most
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    • 439 9 SOCCER Madrid REAL Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo booked himself a place m the annals of the club's history after their 2-1 victory at Osasuna on Sunday. No coach before Luxemburgo had won his first seven league games m charge of the Spanish giants
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    • 508 10  - Chinese Super League on the mend Tan Kim Han SOCCER FA takes steps to beat financial woes and restore confidence By UNPAID salaries. Match-fix-ing allegations. Abandoned games. These were some of the shortcomings that hurt the Chinese Super League last year. At one stage, cash-strapped clubs threatened to pull out
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    • 437 10 TENNIS Paris MORE commonly known as the little sister of two-time Grand Slam winner Marat Safin, Russian teenager Dinara Safina came of age on Sunday when she lifted her first major title at the expense of world No 4 Amelie Mauresmo at the
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    • 121 10 BELGIAN tennis star Kirn Clijsters has shrugged off former fiance Lleyton Hewitt's engagement to television actress Rebecca Cartwright with a bit of public canoodling of her own. Clijsters, who shocked Hewitt when she dumped him m October, has been pictured getting up close and personal with
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    • 450 10 >GOLF IM 881 E Hi ii (California) WHEN the 2005 coif season began, all the talk centred around the Big Three Vijay Singh. Tiger Woods and Ernie Els. But all the chatter of the last two weeks has boon about the
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    • 291 10 George (South Africa) SOUTH Korean teenager Song Bo Bae almost earned her winning form from Sin gapore to South Africa. The 18-year-old, who won the inaugural Samsung Ladies Masters at the Laguna National Golf and Country Club nine days ago, partnered compatriot Jang Jeong to
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      • 66 10 PRESIDENT S R Nathan will host a reception for Singapore's Tiger Cup-win-ning football squad at the Istana on Feb 24. The Lions, who beat Indonesia 5-2 on aggregate m last month's two-legged final, are also the biggest movers m the first Fifa/Coca-Cola
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      • 75 10 SINGAPORE Pools will introduce three more betting games on Feb 28 to coincide with the start of the S-League on March 1. Punters can now predict the final score of a match as well as the first and last scorers. The latter, however, will
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      • 76 10 OVER 50 cyclists and in-line skating enthusiasts will embark on a four-day, 420-km journey between Singapore and Desaru for charity on March 12 The event, which is to raise funds for St Andrew's Mission Hospital, will begin and end m Singapore. Organisers
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      • 101 10 A TOTAL of nine teams will compete m the Feb 13 to March 27 FAS Women's Challenge Cup. The football teams are divided into two groups, with the top two m each group qualifying for the CfO semi-finals On Sunday, ITH Women will Paya
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    • 329 11 > RUGBY London lit I tit, .lonny Wilkinson 1 If there is one game to tlisprove that teams are always bigger than the individual, then this is it. England missed six penalties and a drop goal on Sunday, throwing away a 17-6 lead
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    • 966 11  -  Richard Drew ►> MOTOR RACING Rule changes mean Ferrari won't have things all their own way By STANDING still m Formula One is a bit like stopping on a moving treadmill it is going to get messy. You might think that not much has been going
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    • 427 11 BASKETBALL Cleveland KOBE Bryant came back and looked good. But that did not help the Los Angeles Lakers. He returned after missing 14 games with an ankle injury but could not reverse the Lakers' slide as Leßron James scored 25 points 21 m
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    • 218 11 FANS of National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball m the United States are m for a treat: Star Hub will be showing 64 of this season's games live. But there is one catch it is pay per view. The pay-per-view (PPV) basketball on Star Hub's
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    • 668 11 ATHLETICS Tokyo Marathon: 1 Toshman Takaoka (Jpn) 2hr 7mm 41sec 2 Zebedayo Bayo (Tan) 2:10:51 3 Uladzimir Tsiamchyk (Ble) 2:14:24. BASKETBALL NBA: Miami 96 San Antonio 92, Cleveland 103 LA Lakers 89, Chicago 87 Minnesota 83, Sacramento 104 Boston 100, Indiana 76 Memphis 73, New Jersey 94 Denver 79,
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    • 209 14 111 KIN (llAl.Y) FIAT and General Motors (GM) on Sunday dissolved their five-year partnership, with the US car giant paying the Italian group 1.55 billion euros (553.3 billion) m cash to avoid having to buy money-losing Fiat Auto. The two groups had
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    • 414 14 MCI spurns Qwest to opt for Verizon s $llb oner Qwest's higher bid turned down as firm is smaller and debt laden, say insiders Washington MCI. the second-largest United States long-distance telephone company, has agreed to be bought by Verizon Communications for about US$6.7 billion (Ssll.l billion), rejecting a higher
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    • 316 14 Seoui SOUTH Korea's financial watchdog is putting pressure on Standard Chartered (Stanchart) to ensure South Koreans make up half the board of directors at Korea First Bank (KFB) when it completes its takeover m April. Following the Korean Financial Supervisory Service's
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    • 41 14 «n Yesterday's close: 11.632.2 (+78.64 points) Japanese share prices closed 0 68 per cent higher extending last week's rally after Wall Street continued to gain and chip company Tokyo Electron bucked the trend of recent profit warnings. AFP
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    • 43 14 *ASDFSADF SADF Yesterday's close: 14,017.23 (+171.6 points) Hong Kong blue chip stocks closed at their highest level m nearly six weeks as the market played catch-up to Wall Street after returning from the long Chinese New Year holiday. REUTERS
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    • 19 14 «n Feb4s: 1.269 (+26.7 points) Chinese stock markets are closed tor the Chinese New Year holidays.
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    • 42 14 Yesterday's close: 4,150.2 (-24.1 points) Australian share prices closed 0.58 per cent lower after investors ignored a lead from Wall Street and weakening financial stocks countered gains by resources shares and global media giant News Corp. AFP WSADFDSFADF SDF
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    • 37 14 AF SDF SDAF ADSFASD Yesterday's close: 920.31 (+5.4 points) Malaysian share prices closed 0.59 per cent higher on improved investor interest and expectations of better corporate earnings due over the next two weeks AFP
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    • 43 14 nn Yesterday's close: 1,050.73 (+4.86 points) Indonesian shares ended higher on a further rebound, helped by gains on most Asian markets and the firmer rupiah against the US dollar. Volume was 1.5 billion shares, worth 1.6 trillion rupiah (Ss2B7 million).
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    • 176 14 Feb 14 1 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS Indian rupee 3 500 3 900 Indonesian rupiah 0 01 755 0 01 796 Japanese yen ***** ***** Korean won 0 1570 0 1640 N Taiwan dollar 5.000 5 250 Nor kroner 24 80 25 50 Pakistan rupee 2 600
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      • 59 14 JAKARTA: liidoi redit upgrade by Internatimuil teh Fitch, over the upgraded its ratingi on eight maun lenders following if lcih upgrade ol tadonei reign rating, citing lnrgel\ positive changes within the banking system over the It raised to 88 -minus tiou. B-plus the long term
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      • 114 14 SHANGHAI: China pi. tailed purvey <>t its troubled brokerage mdus; dm dia said MtW da) amid reports that the stock market watchdog will he RNired an audit that could bnn^ more bad news and send stock prices into a deeper slump The China Securities Re^u
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    • 697 15  -  Audrey Tan Joyce Hool MEDIA MARKETING Advertisers will no longer know how many people the ads reach, say agencies AFDSFF\K ASDF SDF ADFS& IN A controversial move which lias become a talking point m the local advertising industry, MediaCorp Press has
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    • 274 15 Cannes (France) MICROSOFT announced a partnership with Singapore-based Flextronics International yesterday to market a new range of high-specification phones, running Windows Mobile, to handset makers and network operators worldwide. The deal between the world's No. 1 software company and the largest contract manufacturer of handsets
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    • 209 15 First rise in TSMC sales in four months Taipei TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest contract manufacturer of microchips, yesterday reported its first sequential rise m monthly sales m four months, defying an inventory glut m the industry. The company said that revenue for last month rose 4.6
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    • 386 15 I<> A/m\ \s\i \\i ENDING months of (peculation m i listed Chlian Hup Holdings that it will soil off its maun. to Malaysian oil and em Scomi Ciioup m a cash-aim ecjini\ d $570.6 million. In a statement to the Singapore
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    • 234 15 FORMER United States vice-president Al (lore will In m town next month to address bones on corporate governance. Mr Gore, who was deputy to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, will give his personal on aspects of US
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    • 165 15 PHOTO: JAPAN'S current account surplus m December rose sharply, surprising the markets with an unexpected jump of 35.1 percent as services and overseas investment returns improved dramatically, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. The current account surplus came m at 1.62 trillion yen (5525.5 billion),
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    • 416 15 Tokyo JAPANESE income taxes are not going up until next year, but alarm bells are already ringing for the world's second-largest economy. The increases, including the phasing out of an income-tax rebate and a possible sales-tax increase, are designed to reduce the
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    • 510 16  - OCBC sizzles with 22% profit rise to record 1 1 6 b Local lender credits strong performance to growth m fee income and net interest income 1^ AZRIN ASMANI DSFADSF SADFA F AFSD F& Lorna Tan OCBC Bank yesterday kicked oft the earnings season for the three local banks m
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    • 264 16 OCBC Bank will break into a fourth market next year three years after it unveiled a strategy to expand by going overseas. The new market, adding to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, will be China, chief executive David Conner said yesterday. At its results media
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    • 306 16  - 13m quarterly loss depletes Informatics capital By Bryan Lee BELEAGUERED education services provider Informatics Holdings continued to sink deeper into the red as it bled another $12.5 million m the quarter ended Dec 31. The company reported yesterday that with the latest thirdquarter loss, its capital has been wiped out
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    • 338 16  - No giving up now Malaysian wants UOB unit wound up By Rachel Chang A MALAYSIAN who has been fighting United Overseas Bank Malaysia (UOBM) for more than 30 years over a RM1.62 million compensation claim has now asked a court to wind up the bank. The subsidiary of UOB has
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    • 681 17  - ComfortDelGro full-year gains zoom 50% to $200 m Christopher Tan By Senior Correspondent UNLIKELY MERGER "It would be more and more difficult as each year Why must we sell? Maybe we will MR LIM, on when ComfortDelGro would hive off its rail operation to rival SMRT Corp TRANSPORT giant ComfortDelGro
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    • 481 17  - NOL to pay record dividend as it posts net profits of 1.6 b Lee Su Shyan Shipping line's total payout will be 43.38 c per share, or 4O°/o of last year's net gains By Companies Correspondent NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) announced its highest-ever full-year profits of US$943 million (551.56 billion)
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    • 466 17  -  AZHAR KHALID TAKING STOCK By ANOTHER day, another 4 1 year high and all down to the usual suspects: desirable blue chips and a buoyant Wall Street. The fact that there has already been a healthy showing m corporate profits so
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    • 833 4  -  How does it figure that Fernando Botero's fat women are seen as sensual but not sexual? culturevulture Hong Xinyi WHEN the exhibition of Fernando Botero's paintings and sculptures opened at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) m December last year, I checked it out. Towards the end of
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    • 711 22  -  CARL SKADIAN digital edge By Apple's Mini has caused quite a stir, possibly m ways its maker may not have imagined enthusiasts are turning the little machine into a digital lifestyle hub A FUNNY thing happened after Steve Jobs took the stage at the Mac World Expo
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    • 111 23 Microsoft's newly released anti-spyware software for Windows computers has been hit by a malicious program that attempts to turn it off. The program, known as Bankash-A Trojan, tries to disable or delete the spyware removal tool and suppress warning messages. It also may try to
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    • 159 23  -  Tham Yuen C Engineers from IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled details of a microprocessor they claim has the muscle of a supercomputer and can power everything from video game consoles to business computers. Code-named Cell, the chip is said to be able to deliver 10 times
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      115 24 Gotta have it! AARON TAN/Pick Of The Week AMD lovers will be thrilled with the world's first AMD-based motherboard, the Asus ABN-SLI Deluxe that supports SLI (Scalable Link Interface). SLI enables you to slot m two high-performace PCI Express graphics cards for stunning visuals. To combat heat
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      244 24 books The Digital Revolution London: Dorling Kindersley, C 2002. Available at NLB libraries This book is written for non-techno-gccks but for those wanting an overview of everything digital that's m the market. Digital products are here to stay and understanding just what is "digital" and where digital
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    • 346 28 games Console gaming is becoming more popular than PC games. LEUNG WAI-LENG finds out why UNTIL recently, console games lagged behind their PC counterparts m popularity. But the Playstation console played a big part m bringing console gaming to mainstream markets, selling more than 100 million
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