The Straits Times, 1 August 2005

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    22 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 68 PACTMIITTOUR PARTS MICA (P) 093/03/2005 MONDAY, AUGUST 1 2005 Jt*A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon TOP OF THE ROCK
    109 1 SMILES of jubilation light up the faces of pop-punk band 3dashl as they are declared the winners of The Straits Times School Of Rock 2005 contest. The lead-up to the announcement resulted in a few tense tears from lead singer-guitarist Muhammad Ashik (right), 18, but the
    CAROLINE CHIA  -  109 words
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    Lock icon Smoking ban in hawker centres, coffee shops
    582 1  -  Lynn Lee Designated smoking areas to be set up by July next year; clubs, bars follow in 2007 By THE ban on smoking will extend to hawker centres and coffee shops in a year's time and to entertainment outlets in 2007. Patrons must
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    Lock icon Lottery winner bundled to safety
    347 1 Dublin ONE minute Dolores McNamara was sitting in an Irish pub, the next her friends had whisked her off to the police station for her own safety. In her hand she was clutching the ticket to Europe's biggest jackpot ever. It was worth £79,881,799 (*****
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon More cars, but ERP keeps lid on jams
      1174 1  -  Christopher Tan By SENGKANG resident Liew Kah Wai used to drive his wife to her office in the city. They would set off early, before 7.30am, to avoid that most distinctive of Singaporean motorway "obstacles": electronic road -pricing (ERP). "Surprisingly, we were
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      191 1 t Taiwan singer's Donors remain HHB' JL R^IHH New world the straits timin Will Fei Xiang's President's Star Charity I^ f^jirc^^H Wheelchair athlete L"^l*\ Iwa^l fans buy his album show nets over $3.75 million, Wb£llj^^^ ■Jri William Tan goes \^J of Broadway tunes? surpassing last year's donations HRS^- JHr I
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  • IN A FLASH
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      Lock icon ASIA
      41 2 Car permit controversy Malaysian Cabinet wants Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz to tell her side of the story. PAGE 6 Obey the Party A Chinese general has called on the army to obey the Communist Party at all times. PAGE 7
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      36 2 Sowing terror London bombing suspect says the failed attack was meant to grab attention, not kill. PAGE 12 Boost to free trade Approval of Cafta Bill gives Bush's free-trade agenda a huge boost. PAGE 14
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      21 2 Mind of a bomber What motivates a suicide bomber? Many say religion but some say it's also politics. PAGE 18
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      78 2 Robber stabs self An armed man fleeing a botched robbery attempt, stabs himself in the stomach when police moved in to nab him. PAGE HI Cautious home buyers Two weeks after the Government's rule change, the initial surge of excitement appears to have reached a peak as home buyers
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      37 2 Pricey Internet Reader questions the high Internet charges citing the economic benefits of low rates. PAGE H8 Highlight the good Handicaps Welfare Association asks the media to highlight the integrity and dedication of charities. PAGE H8
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      29 2 Funding athletic talent Student athletes may soon be able to pursue their academic dreams as the Singapore Sports Council looks at providing scholarships to top local athletes. PAGEH9
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      21 2 SME business target Banks are pulling out all stops to woo the high-margin low-risk group of mid-sized businesses. PAGE HlB
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      Lock icon WHAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
      43 2 In our story "Vantage CEO entices with improved all -cash offer" last Friday, we said that Mr Freddie Tan is the former publisher of The Peak magazine. He is still the publisher. We are sorry for the error.
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      302 2 SECTION ONE Prime 2-4 Asia 6-11 World 12-16 Review 17-19 FYI 20 SECTION TWO Home Hl-H7 Forum H8 Sports H9-Hl2 Obituaries Hl3 Money Hl4-HlB LIFE! People L2-L7.L10 Events L8 Horoscopes TV L9 1L jH l^jl Ai^^fc i>ia^^BHMHBE; m,M^^ JF Ml You can now arrest shortsightedness with more active eyecare management.
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Woman found dead in flat: Hubby gives himself up
      420 3  - Woman found dead in flat: Hubby gives himself up K. C. VIJAYAN Husband being probed for suspected murder; victim had bruises on face By HOURS after apparently killing his wife in their three-room flat, a man calmly called the police shortly after midnight on Saturday and told them what had
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      Lock icon Show raises record $3.75m for President's Challenge
      558 3  -  Theresa Tan By OVER $3.75 million was collected by the President's Star Charity show last night surpassing last year's figure by at least $850,000. The record amount was collected during a 2 V2 -hour show which featured no death-defying stunts, but song and
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      Lock icon Cellphone helps nail bomb suspect
      571 4 Police track him across Europe as he calls father and brother in Italy London CELLPHONE calls helped lead Italian police to the Rome lair of one of the suspects in the failed July 21 suicide bombings in London. Osman Hussain, 27, was arrested at his
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      Lock icon 243km in 24 hours — in a wheelchair
      372 4  - 243km in 24 hours in a wheelchair Chai Hung Yin By WHEELCHAIR athlete William Tan has propelled himself into the record books for the greatest distance covered in a wheelchair in 24 hours. When the clock ran down at spm yesterday, the exhausted marathoner had done 607 laps around the
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      181 4 Revaluation: Counting the cost Top corporate leaders assess the impact of yuan and ringgit revaluation on businesses NURSES DAY Lepers taught top nurse to love her job 1 Working from home? l^^^^^lW^ft^^^m Virtual Office !«^?^^^TJb Ba '^r*^| i ij Ikl ■k" ILfl I i;V H '^B wvTw' Mice*... From $100
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      285 6 Another deluge Mumbai residents are warned to stay home as heavy rains, which killed nearly 1,000, batter the area again. PAGE 9 BE A CERTIFIED STRESS MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT® An experiential workshop endorsed by International Association of Counselors and Therapists (lACT) US Eighty percent of people's thoughts are negative. Course Outline
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Cabinet wants Rafidah to tell her side of story
      614 6  -  Leslie Lau CAR IMPORT PERMITS UPROAR Mahathir likely to vent his unhappiness when he meets government backbenchers today By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur TELL US MORE "The Cabinet is studying the matter as the former prime minister has made a
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      Lock icon China bans media from covering cases of pig-borne disease
      645 6 Hong Kong WITH the pig-bome disease spreading, the Chinese authorities have banned local reporters from visiting the affected areas in the south-west-ern province of Sichuan. Newspapers have been ordered to use dispatches from Xinhua, the state news agency, a Hong Kong
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      Lock icon Suspected soil bacteria outbreak kills 7 in Taiwan
      250 6 A SUSPECTED outbreak of soil bacteria has killed seven people in Taiwan and left three others in critical condition, health officials said yesterday. The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) reported three more suspected cases yesterday, bringing to 19 the number of people
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  250 words
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      Lock icon North Korea repeats vow to rejoin N-treaty
      512 8  - North Korea repeats vow to rejoin N- treaty Clarissa Oon Ongoing six-way talks are upbeat but delegates labour over joint statement By China Correspondent In Beijing PYONGYANG has repeated its pledge to rejoin the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and accept UN inspections if the international stand-off to rid it of its
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
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        Lock icon $3B BOOST FOR GAMES INDUSTRY
        105 8 BEIJING: China will invest 15 billion yuan (Ss3 billion) to develop 100 online games with independent property rights in the next five years, reports said. The move seeks to bolster the country's nascent games industry. It will be spearheaded by the General Administration for Press
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        Lock icon HK LOSING MAINLAND TOURISTS
        89 8 HONG KONG: Hong Kong is losing its biggest single group of tourists mainland Chinese to other Asian cities despite its upcoming Disneyland theme park, according to a survey published on Saturday. Research company Market Insights said although most of the 600 mainland tourists it interviewed said
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        Lock icon TORNADO IN CHINA KILLS 15
        72 8 BEIJING: A tornado ripped through eastern China at the weekend and killed 15 people, including 11 schoolchildren, state press said yesterday. Another 206 people were injured as the tornado swept through Lingbi county, Anhui province, on Saturday. A factory was also flattened. Among the dead
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        Lock icon U.S. JETS BOUND FOR PAKISTAN
        96 8 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan expects to take delivery within months of two second-hand F-16 fighter jets from the United States after a wait of 15 years, reports said yesterday. Washington blocked sales of the planes in 1990 to protest against Islamabad's nuclear weapons programme, but has come
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        Lock icon 'TALEBAN JUSTICE' UNDER SCRUTINY
        114 8 ISLAMABAD: A move by hardline Islamists to introduce what critics say amounts to a Talebanstyle justice system in Pakistan's North West Frontier province will come under the scrutiny of the country's Supreme Court today. The controversy over the Hasba (accountability) Bill is the latest episode of
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        Lock icon 3 KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS TRUCK
        87 8 BANGKOK: A passenger train hit a truck yesterday in southern Thailand, leaving three people dead and three others injured, police said. The train, heading from Bangkok to the southern province of Yala, hit the truck in Songkhla province. The accident killed the driver of
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  • CHINA
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      Lock icon Chinese army must obey Communist Party: General
      482 7 Do not weaken or waver in the face of 'hostile forces', top military cadres told Beijing A CHINESE general has called on senior officers to obey the Communist Party at all times on the eve of China's Army Day. At the same time,
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      Lock icon FOODIES SAY GOODBYE
      75 7 Hong Kong residents savouring their last bowls of beef and pork trotters noodles at a well-fcnown "daipaidong", or street vendor, that closed at the weekend after 80 years in business. The operator of the Man Yuen noodle shop died in May and his licence could not be
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      Lock icon 'Taiwan' added to 'Republic of China' on website
      251 7 Taipei TAIWAN'S Presidential Office added the word "Taiwan" after the island's official title of "Republic of China" on its website yesterday. A similar move on Taiwanese passports in September 2003 triggered protests from Beijing that Taipei was lurching towards independence. Since Saturday,
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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      Lock icon Heavy rains Dound Mumbai again
      549 9 Residents told to stay home as fresh rains hamper clean-up efforts Mumbai THE authorities warned residents yesterday to remain at home after heavy rains began falling again across Mumbai and the surrounding state, which were hammered last week by devastating floods. Clean-up efforts and the
      ASSOCIATED PRESSE; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; REUTERS  -  549 words
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      Lock icon Muslims torch 'sinful' TV sets
      194 9 Peshawar HUNDREDS of Muslims in Pakistan's staunchly conservative north-west set ablaze dozens of television sets following a cleric's ruling that watching TV was a sin, police said on Saturday. The men congregated in a park after Friday prayers and piled up more than 20 TV
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      Lock icon Mass arrests bog down Pakistan courts
      197 9 Mass arrests bog down Pakistan courts Karachi STRUGGLING to cope with hundreds of AlQaeda and home-grown militant cases, Pakistan's courts risk being swamped by the latest mass detentions unless the authorities unclog the easily manipulated appeal system. A government crackdown in the past two weeks has netted up to 800
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Asean govts 'interested in clean-air partnership'
      458 10 Asean govts 'interested in clean- air partnership' Australian Foreign Minister describes his vision for Asia-Pae alliance Melbourne ASEAN countries have expressed interest in joining a new American-led partnership to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by developing technology and economic incentives, according to Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. The Asia Pacific Partnership on
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      Lock icon Jakarta leader calls for death penalty for graft
      133 10 Jakarta THE head of Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly has called for punishment including the death penalty to eradicate corruption. The government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono could learn something from the harsh measures taken by the Chinese government against those guilty of
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      Lock icon Arroyo denies using bribes to halt impeachment move
      467 10 Manila PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo denied in a TV interview yesterday that her allies were bribing lawmakers to kill an impeachment complaint against her. She also urged the public to regard her as innocent unless proven guilty of any crime and denied allegations
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      Lock icon AWARD-WINNING SHOT
      46 10 Indonesian children, kneedeep in a paddy field, trying to catch relief supplies tossed from an Australian helicopter in Banda Aceh on Jan 17. This post-tsunami picture was among those honoured in the annual staff awards of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association. PHOTO: AP
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Strait security: 'KL can work with US, others'
      386 11 Cooperation possible to find ways to patrol Malacca Strait Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA is open to cooperating with the United States, Australia and Japan to combat piracy in the Malacca Strait if territorial rights are retained, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said yesterday.
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      Lock icon George Yeo visits Batam
      86 11 FOREIGN Affairs Minister George Yeo will be in Batam today and tomorrow to discuss the safety and security of the Malacca and Singapore straits with his Malaysian and Indonesian counterparts. Mr Yeo will meet Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda and Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar.
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      Lock icon Malaysia downplays brush with Indonesia
      137 11 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA yesterday played down an incident in the Malacca Strait involving its navy and Indonesian marine police. On Wednesday, a Malaysian navy ship and helicopter stopped Indonesian marine police from detaining three Malaysians for allegedly fishing in Indonesian waters. Jakarta said its territorial
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      Lock icon LIFELINE FOR TRIBE
      59 11 Things are looking up for Ramlah and his fellow Kanaqs in Sungai Selangi in Sedili, Johor. The small, impoverished tribe of only 80 members has been allocated 24.7ha of oil palm land by the government, in a move to help them cope with the loss of their
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      Lock icon Malaysia raises fuel prices to cut subsidy costs
      182 11 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA raised the price of petrol by 6.6 per cent and diesel by 18.5 per cent from yesterday after saying it was committed to cutting fuel subsidies to free up funds for development projects. The price of a litre of
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      Lock icon Volkswagen and Hyundai 'eyeing Proton'
      324 11 Volkswagen and Hyundai 'eyeing Proton' Kuala Lumpur GERMAN car giant Volkswagen is seeking a controlling stake in Malaysia's national carmaker Proton, while South Korea's Hyundai is also interested in a tie-up, a report said yesterday. Volkswagen has proposed acquiring a 50 per cent plus one share in Proton, The Edge
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      Lock icon PACKING A PUNCH
      93 11 Ow, that hurts! Hong Kong action superstar Jackie Chan finds himself at the receiving end of a playful jab pom Malaysia's Youth Minister Azalina Othman during the official opening of the California Fitness Jackie Chan Sport Club at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Looking on
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Suspect admits to failed London bomb attacks
      719 12 UNDER SCRUTINY: An Italian forensic officer (above) inspecting the apartment in Rome where suspected London bomber Osman Hussain (right) was arrested on Friday. Hussain, one of four suspected bombers, told Italian investigators that his chief in London, Muktar Said Ibrahim (far right), taught
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      Lock icon Fears rise on report about third cell aiming for soft targets
      340 12 London FEARS have mounted that another wave of attacks is heading London's way, as British police try to pin down the network behind the previous bombers and the suspects already in custody begin to talk. Britain's Sunday Times reported
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      Lock icon Were the attacks linked?
      149 13 Detectives investigating the July 7 and July 21 London attacks are confronted with a fundamental mystery: Were they part of a terror campaign by an international network that cobbled together multi-ethnic cells from different cities and disparate backgrounds? Or was the second strike a copycat attack
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      320 13 Explosives, targets and modus operandi too similar to ignore London MOST investigators think there has to be a link. The explosives, targets and methods used were too remarkably similar for them to ignore. "Two attacks within two weeks with very similar modus operandi," said a British anti-terror official who
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      268 13 Bombers from different ethnic communities and backgrounds THREE of the July 7 bombers were British-born sons in a Pakistani immigrant community that has carved out a solid life in Leeds. In contrast, at least three of the July 21 suspects came to Britain hardened by youthful odysseys out of
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      Lock icon Hugh Grant movie rethink after bombings
      272 13 London THE script for the Hollywood film American Dreamz is being reconsidered after the London blasts, as it involves Pakistani suicide bombers out to kill the US president, a British newspaper reported yesterday. The July 7 attacks on London's transport system in which at
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      Lock icon Central American FTA boosts Bush's agenda
      554 14  -  Eugene Low Congress 1 approval of deal reaffirms US ties with region courted by China By US Correspondent In Washington THE hard-won victory of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta) in Congress has given President George W. Bush's free-trade agenda a huge fillip.
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      Lock icon All-clear expected for return by shuttle
      145 14 Houston THE space shuttle Discovery is expected to be given the all-clear for its return to Earth. The BBC reported shuttle managers as saying the heat-shield tiles and insulation blankets are in good shape for the fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere despite insulating foam
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon GUNMEN ATTACK CHALABI'S CONVOY
        73 14 BAGHDAD: Gunmen ambushed the convoy of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi in a town south of Baghdad yesterday, killing one of his guards, police in the capital said. A police source said initial reports indicated the convoy was carrying mainly his bodyguards and that Mr
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        Lock icon IRANIAN PRISONER'S LAWYER DETAINED
        88 14 TEHERAN: The row between Iran's highest-profile political prisoner, journalist Akbar Ganji, and the hardline judiciary escalated on Saturday on the 50th day of his hunger strike. There are fears that he may not live much longer. In a further sign of tension, Mr Abdolfattah Soltani, one
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        Lock icon ANTI-MUBARAK PROTESTERS ARRESTED
        87 14 CAIRO: Egyptian police charged demonstrators protesting against President Hosni Mubarak's re-election bid and detained dozens of them, including several prominent opposition leaders. The demonstration on Saturday was organised by movements such as Kefaya (Enough) and Youth of Change to protest against Mr Mubarak's announcement that he would
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        Lock icon RUSSIA, CHINA SIGN N-PLANT DEAL
        81 14 HONG KONG: Russia and China have signed an US$B6.5 million (Ssl4s million) deal to jointly build an offshore nuclear plant to supply electricity to remote coastal areas in northern Russia. Sources said the world's first offshore nuclear plant would be built in Russia's second-largest city,
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        Lock icon MAN ARRESTED OVER DEATH OF UK TEEN
        91 14 LONDON: British police arrested a man on suspicion of murder yesterday in their hunt for the killers of a black teenager left with an axe in his skull in a racist attack in Liverpool. Anthony Walker, 18, a local college student, was attacked
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Building named after Ray Charles
        90 15 RAY Charles has put his stamp on music. Now folks can buy stamps from the Ray Charles Post Office Building. Earlier this month, US President George W. Bush signed a Bill into law that will change the name of a building near downtown Los Angeles
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        Lock icon US President in good shape
        99 15 US PRESIDENT George W. Bush, 59, has been declared "in excellent health and fit for duty" after undergoing his annual medical check-up. Mr Bush, who exercises regularly, told reporters after his medical examination on Saturday: "I'm feeling pretty good." His medical report said: "The President
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        Lock icon Fans join Ong-bak star in action
        88 15 THAI action starVTony Jaa led hundreds of people in a group muay thai, or Thai kickboxing, session in Hong Kong yesterday to promote his new movie, Tom Yum Goong. He also helped to conduct a lucky draw for fans. Some fans held up signs
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        164 16 SOUTH-EAST ASIA WHATITIS THE foreign ministers of three Asean countries Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia will meet today and tomorrow on the Indonesian island of Batam to discuss security in the Strait of Malacca. Security in the busy strait has become a concern for the three littoral
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        127 16 SOUTH-EAST ASIA WHATITIS INDONESIA will host the Regional Ministerial Meeting on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Asia and the Pacific in Jakarta from Wednesday to Friday. The meeting is aimed at "preparing a common strategy in building partnership to achieve the MDGs in Asia and the
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        128 16 AUSTRALIA WHAT IT IS DELEGATES from 27 Indian Ocean countries will meet in Perth to work on a tsunami early warning system designed to prevent a repeat of the Dec 26 disaster. The three-day meeting, starting on Wednesday, will consider technical plans for a network of deep-sea
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        120 16 EAST ASIA WHATITIS CHINESE Vice-Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo and US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick will hold the first China-US strategic dialogue in Beijing today. The meeting is expected to cover the nuclear standoff with North Korea, bilateral trade, Taiwan, energy and the anti-terror fight.
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      774 17 Last Saturday, the Inter-Religious Organisation in Singapore held prayers for victims of recent bombings in London and elsewhere. Syed Hassan Al-Attas, imam of Ba'alwie Mosque, led the Muslim prayers, which are reproduced here ON JULY 7, 2005, London was hit by terrorists, leaving 56 dead and
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      1573 18 Religion: Cause of or answer to terror? "One of the great mistakes that have been made is to eall this a war against terror. It should have been a legal campaign against criminals." KAREN ARMSTRONG, author of Islam: A Short History and The Battle For God What motivates a suicide
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      197 17 Suicide bomber, why? Is it religion that drives people like Mohammad Sidique Khan to commit suicide bombings? PAGE 18 THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS, NEWS CENTRE. 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2, *****4 ST INTERACTIVE: http://straitstimes.asial.com.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice-President Alan Chan Heng Loon (Marketing) Editor-in-Chief
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      262 20 USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency lines Police 999 PoKce Hotline 1800-255-0000 Civil Defence (Fire and Emergency Ambulance) 995 Non-emergency ambulance 1777 Water Supply 1800-284-6600 SP PowerGrid (to report power failure) 1800-778-8888 6778-8888 City Gas (to report gas supply interruption, low pressure and leakage) 1800-752-1800 Transport lines City Cab 6552-2222 Comfort Cablink 6552-1111
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      276 20 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY 1 Volunteer with a youth service group which works with youngsters aged 12 to 18. Visit www.wowyouthservice.org or call 8128-4312 for more information. 2 Make an appointment with a doctor for a free Body Mass Index assessment. Dermclear Aesthetic and Laser Clinic, Blk 177,
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      8 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES MONDAY AUGUST 1, 2005
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      662 1  - Samurai sword DRAMA KC Vijayan Confronted by police after abandoning hijacked taxi, robbery suspect stabs himself in apparent suicide bid By FORTUNATE TO BE ALI V E "I could have lost my life. I was lucky he sat in front. If he sat at the back, I would have had
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      502 2  -  Joyce Teo Agents, developers say number of units sold this weekend same as a week ago By TWO weeks after the Government's July 19 property reforms generated a wave of enthusiasm for home buying, the initial surge of excitement appears to have reached a
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      413 2  - turnedpainter Theresa Tan By SELF-TAUGHT artist Lim Kan Lee, 68, who has spent nearly 60 years removed from mainstream society, paints to "kill the monotony". He has not seen his mother since he was a teen and has no idea if his siblings are alive. His friends are his housemates,
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      193 2 A SINGAPOREAN man who was re-arrested the moment he left a Johor Baru court after being cleared of drug smuggling, was convicted later that day of entering Malaysia illegally and having a fake identity card. Goh Keng Hoe, 45, was sentenced to a year and
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        141 2 A 21-YEAR-OLD pillion rider died on Saturday evening after the motorcycle she was on went out of control while trying to avoid a car along the Ayer Raj ato Expressway. Undergraduate Audrey Lee suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries and was taken to Singapore General
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        75 2 A 10-YEAR-OLD girl is in critical condition at the National University Hospital after she was knocked down by a car along Bukit Panjang Road at about 2.30pm on Saturday. The girl was crossing the road in front of Block 235 when the accident happened.
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      535 3  -  Jill Alphonso 3dashl wins Straits Times School of Rock contest in teary finish By Music Reporter SCHOOL OF H ROClfll 2005, j^P IT WAS down to the last two bands Audio Break'Out and 3dashl. The 10th- to 3rd-placed bands in the finals of The Straits Times School Of
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      329 3  -  Lynn Lee By MINISTER in charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim has assured the Muslim community that the strong and stable in-ter-racial ties here have not been threatened by any reactions to recent terror attacks overseas. Meeting residents on a visit to the
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      286 4  -  ARTHUR POON THE Singapore Management University's (SMU) flag was lowered for the last time at its Bukit Timah campus yesterday morning as students and staff bade farewell to their home of four years. In a symbolic move led by SMU chairman Ho Kwon Ping,
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      294 4 THE road less travelled turned out to be a pleasant ride when The Straits Times tried out two alternative routes to the Central Expressway (CTE) last Thursday and Friday. One entailed getting off the CTE heading towards Ang Mo Kio at the Pan-Island Expressway/Upper Serangoon Road exit.
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      558 4  -  Goh Chin Lian By Marcel Pereira SALES manager Peggy Low plans to knock off work by 5.30pm today and head straight home, to avoid paying the new toll on the Central Expressway (CTE). The evening toll is being levied on the highway for two
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      523 4  -  Christopher Tan It works even if CashCard is not inserted in in-vehicle unit By Senior Correspondent VARIABLE TOLLS "With a satellite system, we can vary the charges on each road." DRCHINKIANKEONG A NEW generation of electronic road pricing (ERP) invehicle units (lUs), that
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      320 5  -  Lim Wei Chean By A CIGARETTE was the first thing Jessica Koh reached for when she woke up every morning. The 34-year-old psychotherapist, who started smoking at 18, went through 20 cigarettes a day. "Most of my friends were smoking and I
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      692 5  - Irish pub clears the air it doesn't hurt to be smoke-free Arthur Poon Business is good at Shamus O'Donnell's now after initial drop By BLOWING AGAIN THE DANGEROUS SMOKE "The main reason for this gender-specific initiative is because even though the percentage of smokers aged between 18 and 69 has
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        446 6  -  Chew Xiang YOUNG RESTLESS Most of the youngsters in a survey prefer to date a non-smoker By WHO WANTS A SMELLY DATE! "I wouldn't date a smoker. It's unhealthy and I think they smell bad." JENNY THAM, one of those interviewed
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        449 6  -  Chen Wei Li By FANCY a foray into the world of ghouls, spirits and strange happenings? Then you need look no further than the Old Ford Factory, the Red House and Old Changi Hospital. They are growing in popularity among youths who enjoy touring
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        278 7  -  Izad Saleh Ali By WHAT if I were HIV-positive? How would my parents, friends and colleagues react? Would they kick me out of the house and heap abuse on me? More likely than not, they wouldn't want to come close to me. Have you ever
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        34 7 GROWING PAINS There's too much ignorance about it here and an attitude change towards sufferers is needed, but those at risk need to change their outlook too, say young people
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        287 7  - No sex, no drugs no danger of catching virus Elgin Toh By I AM not worried about catching Aids. Not now, not ever. Call me complacent, but I have good reason for thinking my chances of being infected with this terrible disease are remote: I neither have sex nor do
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        287 7  -  Alicia Zhuang By FIVE months ago, a gay bodybuilder friend revealed he had been HIV-positive for two years. He had decided to share this with the bodybuilding group we were both members of. His T-cell count was within the normal range, his viral load
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        246 7  -  Desmond Chan By GROWING up in a conservative family, my parents and I rarely talked about sexual issues such as HIV/ Aids. Most of my knowledge about Aids came from sex education in biology classes and conversations with friends. It is human
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        185 7 HIP AND HAPPENING Place: Moloko Cafe Bar Crowd: After-work types looking for a quiet place to unwind Where it's at: 76 Robertson Quay, The Gallery Hotel, #01-08 Word on the street: This boutique chill-out bar is the new place of choice for yuppies looking for a spot to relax away
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        489 8 NEW KIND OF CONNECTIVITY With lower pricing, ISPs will gain not only from new Internet subscribers but also from new usage such the one mentioned. Revenue from such mass consumption may even exceed the sum of price cuts. REPLIES by
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        539 8 I REFER to The Straits Times Special Report, "God and us" (ST, July 16). In the article, "Nation of believers", the question of the "place of religion in this modern city state" was raised. Answers given were rather commonsensical: that
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        265 8 THE notice at the entrance of the multi-storey carpark beside Junction 8 Shopping Centre (BE 23) and the one in the Empress Road Market and Food Centre carpark (FR3M) indicate respectively the number of parking spaces available as "Lots available..." and
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        593 8 FOR the past many weeks following the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) saga, almost all other voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs) in Singapore have come under close scrutiny by the media. The situation is aggravated by headlines such as "Shape up, charities told" (ST, July 28)
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        162 8 WE THANK Mr Patrick Tan Siong Kuan for his letter, "Give priority to S'porean students who qualify" (ST, July 28). Singaporean students with sporting potential are indeed given priority in admission to the Sports School. We assure Mr Tan and parents of future Sports
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        132 8 Act against football hooligans FOOTBALL hooliganism is on the rise in Singapore. It is discouraging to see players of the beautiful game subjected to the same treatment as in other countries. It is not only professional matches hooligans terrorise. Also under threat are amateur or Sunday footballers. I have witnessed
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        317 8 I APPLAUD the statement by Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen that "every worker, local and foreign, deserves to go home safe at the end of each work day" ("Group to boost worksite safety"; ST, July 22). However, in order to ensure
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        307 9 MOTOR RACING Budapest MCLAREN'S Kimi Raikkonen resurrected his Formula One title hopes yesterday by winning the Hungarian Grand Prix while Renault's championship leader Fernando Alonso failed to score. The Finn's fourth win of the year cut the Spaniard's advantage to 26 points and made up for
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        133 9 Hungarian GP: 1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) McLaren lhr 37min 25.5525ec 2 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari 35.581 3 Ralf Schumacher (Ger) Toyota 36.129 4 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 54.221 5 Jenson Button (Eng) BAR 58.832 6 Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Williams 1:08.375 7 Mark Webber (Aus) Williams 1 8 Takuma Sato
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        803 9  -  Chan Yi Shen SPORTS FORUM CEO Oon hopes to start something on par with President's Scholarship By PROMISE "There are some scholarships that are given today but I do admit that it is not good enough. I will commit in the next few
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        186 9 WHY BE showed great determination in a gutsy battle to beat Lim's Fighter in the $100,000 Juvenile Championship (1200m) on Friday night. The Laurie Laxon-trained gelding showed early speed and led all the way into the home straight but was challenged and overtaken by Lim's Fighter (Soo Khoon
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        205 9 SCHOLARSHIPS for local athletes may still be a rarity today but that has not prevented Singapore from producing its own breed of sports scholars. Over the years, swimmers Desmond Koh, Tan Thuan Heng and Thum Ping Tjin, Tan Eng Liang (water polo) and
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        463 10  -  Marc Lim SOCCER Alam Shah sparks fightbaek from 0-2 down to 4-2 win over Pahang in final By BE THE BEST "We should never be satisfied and keep striving for bigger, better things to increase Singapore's profile in world football/' STRIKER NOH ALAM SHAH (left, with the
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        536 10 Hong Kong VISITING European soccer clubs were rebuked for their lacklustre showings as well as their commercial ambition when making off-season tours in Asia. The Asian Football Confederation said the clubs should help develop the sport regionally rather than worry about the bottomline.
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        512 10 London MANCHESTER United want to rescue Michael Owen from Real Madrid. The England striker's future at the Spanish club is uncertain, now that he has been pushed further down the pecking order with his club signing their second forward
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        337 10 London LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez has set himself a sev-en-day transfer deadline to sign the final two players on his summer shopping list. He expects to learn this week whether Luis Figo will move from Real Madrid to Anfield. Should the Portuguese
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          94 10 ITALIAN world champions Domenico Soale and Giola Cerasoli won the IDSF Open Championships Standard title while Hungary's Maurizio Vescovo and Melinda Torokgyorgy took the Latin title at the Raffles City Convention Centre yesterday. Australians Arsen Kishishian and Alarna Donovan won the Latin event in the Asia-Pacific Dance
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          121 10 SINGAPORE'S first 21--hole charity golf event raised $200,000 for 18 charities yesterday. Over 600 golfers, including Speaker of Parliament and the event's guest of honour Abdullah Tarmugi Oeft), teed off at the Tanah Merah Country Club's Tampines Course. Each participant paid $250 while several well-wishers also
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          19 10 A STREETBALL competition, the ANDI 3-on-3 Mixtape Challenge will be held at D'Marquee, Downtown East, on Sunday.
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        645 11  -  MICHAEL PHELPS SWIMMING Cships has been a wake-up call for the American, who fails to reach his eight-medal target Montreal PHOTO: CALL TO ARMS "This year, this world championships has been a big wake-up call. I don't think this past year has been a normal year
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        354 12  -  Clement Tan CANOEING By CANOEIST Lim Ling Min is so intent on doing well in her sport that she has gone into full-time training. The Vietnam South-east Asia Games double bronze medallist took six months' no-pay leave from last month to prepare
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          85 12 DETROIT (Michigan): Former seven-time world champion Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns shook off the ring rust from a five-year layoff by registering a technical knockout over John Long on Saturday. Hearns posted a ninthround victory in the non-title cruiserweight fight at Cobo Arena. The 46-year-old got
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          83 12 LOS ANGELES: Andre Agassi reached his first final of the year at tennis' Los Angeles Open with an easy 6-4, 6-2 win over Argentinian Juan Ignacio Chela on Saturday. The top seed, playing again after two months out with a sciatic-nerve injury in his
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        429 15 IMF sees 3.5% US growth but warns about deficits Washington THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday that the US economy would grow a healthy 3.5 per cent this year and next, but raised concerns about deep deficits, rocketing house prices and an overvalued dollar. In an annual review
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        471 16  -  Erica Tay One don says yes but another says heavier global competition is the true cause By IS AN excessive supply of lowcost foreign labour depressing local wages? An academic at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) believes so, which prompted a swift rebuttal
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        192 16 STARTING this month, another six Chinese high-tech enterprises will set up operations in Singapore, thanks to the combined efforts of the Economic Development Board (EDB) and the China Torch Centre. This was announced last week by the China Torch Centre, which signed a
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        383 17  - Retail investors throng SGX open day Gabriel Chen Many get rare chance to query management on financial results By INSIDE LOOK "I also saw the character and personality of the people in charge. I have confidence in them." MR OU YANG, giving the exchange's management team the thumbs-up SOME 400
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        474 17 SINGAPORE port operator PSA International should wait and grow the company a little more before going for a public listing, said its chief executive officer Eddie Teh. And this couJd mean a wait of two to three years although PSA is
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          52 17 JAMES HONG GEE HO: Appointed executive director and chairman of Greatronic's board with effect from last Friday. Mr Lum Choong Wah ceased to be chairman on the same day, after completing his three-month stint. Mr Hong, 38, recently made a mandatory conditional cash offer to the
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          76 17 LUA CHENG ENG: Appointed as a board member of Singapore Shipping Corp with effect from last Thursday. Mr Lua, 66, was chief executive of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) from 1979 to 1999, and its chairman from 1999 to 2002. He is currently the non-resident
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          30 17 JAMES EDWARD FRIEL: Re signed as a director of Courts Singapore with effect from yesterday. Mr Friel's new appointment is managing director of Courts Mammoth Berhad.
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          68 17 MANISH SHARMA: Appointed regional director of California-based Wyse Technology in Singapore. Mr Sharma, 37, has 15 years' experience in the information technology and manufacturing industries. He was formerly the Asia-Pacific managing director of Domain Manufacturing and later the director of sales at Brooks Automation. He will
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          55 17 CHERYL TAN CHOO HUANG: Resigned as chief financial officer and company secretary of Rowsley. Mr Han Tsi Fung, 57, will take over her appointments from today, but she will continue to serve the company until her last day on Sept 14. He was formerly the
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        413 17  - No upfront GST payment for importers soon Narendra Aggarwal By Pro-business THE new scheme aims to: Improve firms' cash flow; Lower warehouse compliance costs; Cut GST-linked paperwork; and Enhance business opportunities with an expanded customer base. IN A big boost for the logistics sector, importers will not have to pay
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        142 18 THEY say that most bankers are risk-averse chaps, but OCBC senior vice-president and head of enterprise banking Sng Seow Wah (centre) does not seem to be the least bothered by sharp spikes, as he serves clients without gloves at a recent durian party to thank them. The king
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        512 18  -  Grace Ng Serving low-risk, high-margin group can earn them returns of over 20% By THE lucrative mid-sized enterprises market is now shaping up as the hot new battleground for banks, which are pulling out all the stops to woo this relatively high-margin,
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        308 18 POOLING OF LOANS LENDING to certain small and medium -sized enterprises (SMEs) may be lucrative, but it is also riskier. All too aware of the risks, banks are beginning to appreciate the merits of loan securitisation schemes in efforts to serve higher-risk
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        44 8 CAIQIN SPECIAL (MANDARIN) Esplanade Recital Studio, Today: 10.30am 3pm, Ticket*: $11, Including coffee or tea before the •how, Tel: 6348-5555 Indulge in the music and lyrics of Cai Qin performed by singer Jessica. Part of the Coffee Morning, Afternoon programme of The Esplanade.
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