The Straits Times, 2 September 2005

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  • 764 1  -  Chua Mui Hoong At ceremony, PM says elected presidency has worked well, but it can be refined By Senior Political Correspondent NO BIG CHANGES, JUST TWEAKS "While we continue to improve the detailed workings of the elected presidency, we have not altered its fundamental
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  • 436 1 Thousands feared dead in Katrina' s wake DEVASTATION FAR WORSE THAN IN ASIAN TSUNAMI, SAYS UN OFFICIAL New Orleans THE United States yesterday struggled to come to grips with one of the most destructive natural disasters in history, as thousands were feared dead in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. New
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  • 1140 1 KLASJFIODYUIF By Peh Shing Huei IT WAS midnight. Most Singaporeans were already in bed, but Colonel Daniel Chua was at Changi Airport's Terminal 2 shopping with Queen Elizabeth 11. Britain's head of state was on transit here after a trip to
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  • IN A FLASH
    • 30 2 China reassures world China has released a paper playing down its military strength. PAGE 10 Revenge attacks Violence in Thai south revenge for death of Muslim leader. PAGE 16
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    • 38 2 Iraq united in grief Sectarian divides put aside as Iraq mourns 1,000 pilgrims crushed. PAGE 20 Braced for bird flu European nations are preparing for the deadly disease, amid warnings it is heading their way. PAGE 23
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    • 44 2 Dog owners' hot topic Animal lovers call for ban on arctic dogs in tropical Singapore. PAGE HI Uplifting news Residents of low-rise HDB blocks originally left out of the Lift Upgrading Programme won't have to keep using the stairs after all. PAGE H6
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    • 49 2 Dengue defence tips With the NEA losing the battle, it's time people protected themselves, a doctor writes. PAGE HlB We're good for you The letter which received the biggest response from readers last year was from a woman describing a TCM acne cure which worked for her. PAGEHI9
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    • 51 2 Double triumph Shot putter Zhang Guirong not only won Singapore's first Asian Athletic Championships medal in three decades yesterday, she broke her own national record too. PAGE H2O Mourinho's big plans Chelsea manager lays out an ambitious four-year plan to make his club one of the world's biggest. PAGE
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    • 21 2 Citiraya fights to survive In a last ditch bid to avoid liquidation, crippled Citiraya Industries opts for judicial management. PAGEH34
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    • 22 2 Blogged out of a job Blogging about life in the office may mean you won't have one for long. PAGE 29
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    • 41 2 In yesterday's report, "Family of thieves sisters at it again", we said that Yong Siew Yow was jailed for four-and-a-half months. This is wrong. She was jailed for four-and-a-half years. We are sorry for the error.
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  • PRIME
    • 815 3  -  Sandra Davie They will be moved to other private schools after AIT Academy fails to meet new standards By Education Correspondent About the award Number of private schools with foreign students about 300 Number which signed up for quality screening last year 209 Number
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    • 235 3 Sydney A QANTAS airliner carrying 68 passengers was forced to circle over the Australian capital Canberra because an air traffic controller overslept, a report said Thursday. The controller's alarm apparently failed to go off on Wednesday morning and the control tower
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    • 131 4  -  NG HUI HUI The fans came to Kelvin Tan's rescue. The 24-year-old blind busker won .Project SuperStar last night, beating his rival Kelly Poon, despite coming off sec-ond-best to her in four of the five rounds. He only fared better than Poon, 22, an air
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    • 726 4  -  Clarissa Oon CLARISSA OON By China Correspondent in Beijing INDONESIA and China have signed US$2O billion (Ss33 billion) worth of trade and investment deals, a further sign of warming relations between the two nations. The agreements will help develop numerous electricity, telecommunications, housing
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    • 49 4 CLUB TROUBLES One sports club is running the risk of insolvency. In another club, a group of members are campaigning to turn the money owed them into equity in the club. Don't miss today's BT if you are into clubs in Singapore. WEST COAST MIRACLE Find out what happened...
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  • ASIA
    • 874 6 First the China wave China moves Chinese firms take over foreign brands, make tneir products cheaply, and try to sell more of them. WW Their long-term strategy is to transfer production to low-cost Chinese factories while tapping US outlets. The result: A series of
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  • CHINA
    • 817 8 1 1 MONTHS OF DETENTION No court hearing slated for researcher accused of leaking state secrets to paper Beijing MR ZHAO Yan has spent more than 11 months in detention in China, accused by the Chinese authorities of having leaked state secrets to
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    • 651 10  -  Chua Chin Hon Policy paper seeking to play down China's military strength released ahead of HiTs US visit By China Bureau Chief In Beijing SEEKING to allay growing foreign concerns about its military strength, China yesterday said it has reduced the size of
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    • 260 10 Hong Kong HONG KONG'S top health official apologised yesterday for releasing a list of mainland Chinese fish farms deemed safe to export uncontaminated fish to the city after press investigations showed that many of them do not exist. "We have to apologise for the
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    • Article, Illustration
      63 10 Tibetan militiazuomen armed with automatic rifles parading outside Potala Palace in PHOTO: the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The parade was part of a celebration yesterday marking the 40th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Communist troops occupied Tibet in 1950. Tibetan spititual leader the Dalai Lama fled to
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    • 133 10 Beijing CHINESE police arrested some 50 people staging a hunger strike in southern China yesterday. They were protesting against a village chief's alleged corruption and land requisition. "At about five o'clock this morning, the Panyu district government mobilised military police and arrested the villagers who
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    • 563 11 Lack of agreement risks easting a shadow over Hu's US visit next week Washington THE United States cut back on imports of Chinese- made bras and synthetic filament fabric used to make high-end clothing after the two countries failed to reach a
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    • 184 11 HongKong AN AMERICAN housewife has been convicted of murdering her wealthy investment banker husband by drugging him with a milkshake laced with sedatives and then beating him to death at the couple's luxury apartment here. Nancy Kissel, 41. was expressionless as the seven-member
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    • 463 11  -  Vince Chong Bv Hong Kong Correspondent THE stepmother of a young boy who was slashed by two masked men last week is suspected of being involved in the vicious knife attack on him Hong Man Yi was among eight people arrested by police in
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    • 468 12 Warning of landslides and floods as 790,000 are evacuated Shanghai CHINA evacuated more than 790,000 people as powerful Typhoon Talim slammed into its east coast yesterday after barrelling across Taiwan, where it left three dead and dozens injured. Talim was forecast to be the strongest
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    • 62 12 Okinawa faces TCatrina' storm A TYPHOON as powerful as Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans this week, could be headed for Japan's Okinawa islands. Storm experts in London said yesterday Typhoon Nabi could be upgraded tomorrow to a Class Five storm, technically the same as Hurricane Katrina. But a Japanese
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    • 388 12 KMT's new leader keen to end split with mainland SMART CHANGE "Hu has learnt his lessons, which his predecessor did not. I think (he has) learnt not to get involved in Taiwanese politics." MR MA, Taipei mayor and Kuomintang leader, on the change in the mainland's strategy on Taiwan Taipei
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
    • 536 13 Israel, Pakistan historic Israeli Foreign Minister meets Pakistani counterpart, who hails Israel's pullout from Gaza Istanbul ISRAEL held its first public talks with Pakistan yesterday and Jordan s king is expected to visit the Jewish state soon in signs of a thaw with the Muslim world after the evacuation of
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    • 215 13 Local poll results strengthen Musharraf 's hand Islamabad ALLIES of Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, have scored major gains in the first two phases of local government elections over the past two weeks. The development is likely to further consolidate his grip on power before a general election in 2007,
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    • 76 13 PHOTO: An Afghan refugee girl wanders among the ruins of what used to be her home at a refugee camp in the Pakistani tribal region known as Kurram Agency. The Pakistan authorities have bulldozed hundreds of mud houses in several such camps after repatriating more than
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 707 15  -  Salim Osman Protesters fear the planned move will hurt the poor while economists say it's not enough By Indonesia Correspondent in Jakarta FOR about an hour around lunchtime yesterday, a group of 50 university students protested outside a university campus in Jalan Diponegoro.
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    • 95 15 THE subsidy set aside by the Indonesian government to keep fuel prices low is expected to double this year from the 76 trillion rupiah (5512.6 billion) allocated in the 2005 budget to 138.6 trillion rupiah. That is because of the rise in crude prices. But
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    • 182 15  - Indirectly elected MPs in Brunei's Parliament Bandar Seri Begawan PHOTO: BRUNEI yesterday unveiled a new Parliament which included five indirectly elected members a first for the kingdom. The 30-member Legislative Council will replace the old 21-member Parliament today, the government said. A source close to the palace said its priority
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    • 165 16 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN police have detained 131 Thai Muslims who illegally fled into Malaysia to escape the violence in southern Thailand, officials said yesterday. Villagers had informed the police that a large number of Thais had crossed the border into Kelantan late on Tuesday
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    • 531 16  - Thai attacks 'revenge for imam's murder' Nirmal Ghosh Wave of shootings and bomb blasts over last two days left 3 people dead By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok MUCH of the deadly violence which ripped through the southern Thai province of Narathiwat over the last two days has been in retaliation
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    • 299 16 Bangkok THAILAND'S research and development (R&D) institutions are to be consolidated into one entity, Science Minister Pravich Ratanapian said on Wednesday. The new agency will also cover related policymaking and services, the minister added. By putting all its state-backed research entities together, the government
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    • 231 16 Manila THE Philippine Supreme Court is expected to lift a freeze on a sales tax seen as crucial to improving the economy after a meeting yesterday. The move will pave the way for an annual boost of 84 billion pesos (552.5 billion) to government
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
    • 403 17 But opposition vows to haul her to court over vote-rigging allegations Manila PHILIPPINE President Gloria Arroyo yesterday urged the country to draw a line under three months of political turmoil after legislators rejected attempts to impeach her for vote- rigging. The call
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    • QUICKLY
      • 90 17 PARIS: The world's largest amount of the smog gas nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is hanging over Beijing and north-east China, according to images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) yesterday. Levels of NO2 a pollutant released by factories, power plants and vehicles have risen by
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      • 87 17 BEIJING: Beijing and the United Nations have signed a deal aimed at helping China to improve its human rights record, a move cautiously hailed by activists. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Wednesday inked a memorandum of understanding with Assistant
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  87 words
      • 80 17 BEIJING: China has signed border agreements with 12 neighbouring countries, demarcating 90 per cent of its land boundaries, according to an article posted on the Foreign Ministry's website. With 14 neighbouring countries and a total of 22,000km of land boundaries, China has the longest land
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      • 84 17 TAIPEI: Starbucks Coffee franchises and McDonald's restaurants have stopped using paper napkins with their logos after the Consumers' Foundation claimed to have found "fluorescent material" in them, the Taipei Times reported yesterday. They said they took action to ease consumer fears, but voiced reservations about
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    • 264 17 THE final judgment on the agreed terms of the case involving a dispute over land reclamation in the Johor Strait was handed over to representatives of Singapore and Malaysia yesterday. The judgment, known as an award, was presented at a ceremony in The Hague by
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    • 180 17 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIANS rushed to pay up their traffic fines yesterday after police offered a 50 per cent discount on 3.4 million unpaid summonses as part of efforts to clear a huge backlog. Police reported a good response to the discount
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  • WORLD
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      605 18 National guards called in as hungry New Orleans sinks deeper into anarchy New Orleans LOOTING overshadowed rescue efforts in New Orleans and national guards were called in to stem rising anarchy in the aftermath of what President George W. Bush called one of the worst natural disasters
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    • 656 19 People still stranded on rooftops in New Orleans area New Orleans THE US government was rushing money, troops and supplies to help parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and other states where thousands are feared dead in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. About 30,000 military
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    • 271 19 London HURRICANE Katrina is likely to be followed by more unusually fierce and potentially damaging hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have warned. Although the art of hurricane prediction is still subject to many uncertainties, weather scientists agree that the world is
      FINANCIAL TIMES  -  271 words
    • 527 20 The 1 ,000 deaths overshadow daily bloodshed in the strife-torn nation Baghdad CROWDS gathered for the funerals of some 1,000 Iraqis killed in a stampede during a religious festival as the nation grieved over a tragedy which has overshadowed the daily bloodshed of war.
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    • 272 20 PHOTO: AP PHOTO: PHOTO: Al-Baqlah (Egypt) AS PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak was swarmed by farmers during a campaign stop in this tiny village, shaking hands and pledging agriculture reforms, an elegant, tall man stood silently behind him, directing the scene. The man pointed out to Mr
      ASSOCIATED PRESS; AP; AFP  -  272 words
    • 491 22  -  Neo Hui Min Judges and police voice fears about binge drinking and booze-related crimes By Straits Times Europe Bureau In London IT IS just after 11pm on a weekday and groups ot young people are streaming out oi the pubs in a
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    • 410 22 BATTLE CRY "The society they want is cold, one in which people do not stick together and that is therefore inhumane." MR SCHROEDER, on Dr Merkel's Christian Democrats Berlin GERMAN Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder issued a defiant call to battle at a party congress
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    • 690 23  -  Neo Hui Min Countries along the migratory routes of wild birds are at risk By Straits Times Europe Bureau In London EUROPEAN nations are stepping up precautions against bird flu even as the United Nations food agency warns countries along the migratory routes
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 116 23 SYDNEY: The United States is sharing more intelligence secrets than ever with Australia, a Eartner in the invasion of Iraq, the Australian ►efence Minister was quoted as saying. "In recent years, we have obtained unprecedented access to US intelligence and tactical planning," Mr Robert Hill
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      • 98 23 BRUSSELS: The European Union head office, concerned about a spate of fatal plane crashes this summer, said yesterday that it wants the power to ban unsafe airlines from European airspace in emergency cases. The European Commission plans to strengthen EU rules on air safety
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      • 99 23 MOSCOW: A United Nations agency is carrying out an internal probe at its Moscow office into a US$l.2 million (Ss2 million) fraud, a spokesman for the organisation said yesterday. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) spokesman said staff were believed o have stolen the money
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      • 116 23 VIENNA: A report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog is expected to confirm Iran has resumed sensitive nuclear work, diplomats said. And European Union officials meeting yesterday were ready to take steps leading to possible sanctions. The International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) is expected to
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    • 181 23 PARIS A SCIENTIST in the United States has designed a robot dog that monitors your daily food intake and pleads with you to curb over-indulgence, the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue. The canine coach a souped-up version of Sony's Aibo
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    • 451 24 UN REFORMS United Nations SEVERAL UN diplomats are expressing annoyance at US negotiating tactics as Washington mounts a strong bid to try to shape the drafting of a UN reform package for the upcoming world summit. Already a key feature of the reform package
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    • 105 24 The sound of wailing filled the air as Russians marked the death of loved ones inside the gymnasium at Middle School No. 1 in Beslan town, North PHOTO: Ossetia, yesterday. Mourners were commemorating the first anniversary of a hostage siege that ended with more than 330 people
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    • 531 24 4 inmates on the US Case in California underlines threat of home-grown Islamic extremists, US authorities warn Washington THE indictment of 29-year-old American Kevin James and three others who plotted to wage war against the US government and Israeli supporters from their prison cell has raised fresh concerns about the
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      • 272 25 GRANDSONS of the three World War II leaders who divided post-war Europe into spheres of influence in 1945 are to hold meetings to discuss the continent. Mr Winston Churchill, grandson of the British wartime prime minister of the same name; Mr Curtis Roosevelt, descendant of
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      • 112 25 Tycoon to run for office from jail PRISON has done little to silence Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oil tycoon who is serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion. He has published jailhouse treatises, granted interviews and issued regular statements through his lawyers. Now, he plans to run
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      • 131 25 Clarke too old to be Tory leader? PHOTO: COULD a 65-year-old politician with a liking for beer, cigars and cricket along with business links to Big Tobacco become Britain's next prime minister? Mr Kenneth Clarke, who answers that description, says he can and he will. He ranks among the most
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      • 133 25 JAPAN'S Emperor Akihito will have a specially developed eight-seat limousine called Century Royal. The Imperial Household Agency has accepted a proposal from Toyota Motor, Japan's top carmaker, to supply the car, which has a price tag of U*****,000 (*****,000). The royal household will buy one
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    • 427 26 PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's announcement that cuts to fuel-price subsidies will come after October apparently failed to satisfy the currency market. Jakarta's plans have been criticised for failing to detail by how much and when prices would go up. Yet while cuts make sense, they
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    • 700 26 The Nantah spirit remains as relevant as ever PHOTO: The famed 'Nantah spirit* was richly lauded by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday when he was guest of honour at the 50th anniversary celebrations of Nanyang University, the precursor of today's Nanyang Technological University. His speech is reproduced below.
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      571 26 cesses that Singaporeans can aspire towards. IN THIS new ecosystem of post-sec-ondary educational institutions comprising the ITE colleges, polytechnics and universities, NTU will continue to play an important role. NTU currently has an enrolment of over 16,000 undergraduates. In a recent survey of the world's universities, it was
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    • 329 26 NOW we live in a different era. Singapore, and NTU, have been transformed beyond recognition. Our focus should be on the future of the university, on how we can upgrade it and make it part of tomorrow's Singapore. But we still need that faith that each
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    • 917 27  -  Lee Kuan Yew By BEYOND FAMILY MATTERS Demography is destiny. Governments will be forced to deal with delicate matters of personal choice hitherto considered outside the purview of the state. Can we afford to continue to treat sex, marriage and procreation as matters in the private
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    • 1310 28  -  A. Sheshabalaya As Bangalore overshadows Silicon Valley, the West must change its perspective accordingly in order to shine By In Bassily (Belgium) THE American IT industry is amid the throes of a profound structural shift as more companies increase their presence in India. Although this development
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    • 788 29  -  Jeremy Blachman By LAST month, Ms Nadine Haobsh, an associate beauty editor at Ladies' Home Journal, was about to resign and take a job at Seventeen, where she had been offered a similar position. Then the magazines discovered she was blogging about work, and
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    • 1549 30 people a POLITICS ASDHFJSDHFJK New Workforce Development Agency chief executive Ong Ye Kung wants to learn from Jackie Chan movies when it comes to training and raising service standards, he tells Sue-Ann Chia. MR ONG Ye Kung has a panoramic view of the swirling
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    • 1210 31  - Small state's big challenge to stay vital BILAHARI KAUSIKAN By WE ARE a small country with no illusions about ourselves. We get no pleasure from capering about on the international stage merely to cut a fine figure. Our key interests are simple: to survive because in international relations, survival is
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    • 773 31  -  Peh Shing Huei »THEPOST-65ERS By THE countries fighting for global tourist dollars can be divided into two: the lucky and the unlucky. The lucky ones like China (Great Wall), Egypt (The Pyramids) and Canada (Niagara Falls) are blessed with grand historical attractions
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    • 282 30 Success breeds success To be successful on the world stage, Singapore, as a small country, must be successful at home and that means daring to be different. PAGEW3I flM^^i<^3^ft«^^MUApJ^L^4UpJ mmm m\^ m^*mWA fljJpTjJ r.fflTyJ.l B^BTfl M^ii\'\ mmmaammi^^^^mLmmmmW I //////mJPAm*-- Panasonic iNNOVATEk tojfotfto^ IN DASH r DVD 2 Din 6.3" DVD
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    • 278 34 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY 1 Catch a lunch-time concert by the NUS Electronic Music Lab. NUS Forum, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge. Ipm. Free. Visit www.nus.edu.sg/cfa or call 6874-4041 for more information. 2 Listen to six homegrown bands pay tribute to Singapore music. The Substation, Garden, Armenian
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    • 8 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2005
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      809 1  -  Chong Chee Kin Case of arctic dog which died of heatstroke due to owner's neglect angers animal lovers, who wonder if such dogs should be allowed here By This arctic dog was saved ONE-YEAR-OLD Siberian husky Wiskey was ill and plagued by a skin condition (left) before the
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    • 312 1 "SHEER outrage" prompted broker Jill Hum to start an online petition urging the authorities to seek a jail term for Mr Lim Bee Leong, who neglected his Alaskan malamute to the point where the dog died. "He should be given a jail sentence as
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    • 392 2  -  SElina Lum BUKIT BATOK MURDER Expert says victim may have been surprised By THERE were three stab wounds on the dead man's back, just below a tattoo that said "it's fated" in Chinese characters. A trail of bloody shoe prints led
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    • 84 2 THESE Chinese characters were tattooed across the top of Mr Suthagar Rajaram Thomas' back. The phrase ming zhong zhu ding means "it's fated". The tattoo was revealed in photographs of the three stab wounds on the dead man's back and shown in court. In his autopsy report,
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      112 2 Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah (above, in white shirt) will star in the Singapore Police Band's fund-raiser for the Dover Park Hospice and Kidney Dialysis Foundation (KDF) tomorrow. The concert at the Esplanade marks the Singapore Police Band's 80th anniversary. PHOTO: Performing with the 60-strong Police Band will be
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    • 173 2 A RETIREE died in Changi General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, three days after hi:? motorcycle collided with a van at the T-junc-tion of Tampines Avenue 8 and Tampines Avenue 3. Mr Tong Yoon Choi, 65, was admitted with head injuries and multiple fractures after
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    • 303 2  - Two men in the soup over durian Chong Chee Kin By TWO men have landed in trouble with the law all because of durians. In the first incident, Oh Boon Leng, 50, was jailed for three months after admitting he threatened his wife when she failed to buy him durians.
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    • 682 3  -  Khushwant Singh Suggestion to raise experience prerequisite and make training in ethics, management mandatory By ALARMED by a recent spate of misconduct cases, a judge has proposed that lawyers who want to set up a solo practice be required to get more
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    • CASE FILE
      • 114 3 TWO men were charged in a district court yesterday for their roles in a break-in in Bukit Purmei. Lim Joo Ling, 27, unemployed, is accused of breaking into a flat in Block 104, Bukit Purmei Road, on Aug 16. Miswari Esa, 36, an odd-job labourer,
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      • 132 3 A BUSINESSMAN, 47, living in Jalan Ismail off Jalan Eunos, woke up on Tuesday morning to find a Louis Vuitton pouch missing from his bedside table. In the $1,000 pouch Was $3,500 in cash, a $20,000 Rolex King watch, a $2,000 diamondstudded gold ring and a
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      • 61 3 FIREMEN took two minutes to put out a fire in the living room of a flat in Block 328, Serangoon Avenue 3, on Wednesday night. They also rescued a 40-year-old unemployed man from the flat. He is now in Tan Tock Seng Hospital
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      • 42 3 A 73-YEAR-OLD man, who was recently hospitalised for a heart condition, suffered breathing difficulties before collapsing near the carpark at Block 209, Bedok North Street 1, yesterday morning. Singapore Civil Defence Force paramedics pronounced him dead at 7am.
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      • 158 3 CHECKPOINT officers at Woodlands uncovered some 579 cartons of cigarettes from a hidden compartment in a factory bus on Wednesday morning. The Malaysian-registered vehicle arrived at the checkpoint at about 4.20am with no passengers. Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers, who had been alerted by Customs that
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    • 122 6 East-west flyover link to open on Sept 1 1 MOTORISTS living in the east will get swifter access onto the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) towards Tuas when a new flyover opens on Sept 11. The Kallang Bahru Flyover, accessible via Sims Way, will allow those in the vicinity of Guiliemard Road,
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    • 625 6  - Lift work on 17 lowrise blocks year end Daryl Loo 800 similar HDB blocks await selection after expansion of Lift Upgrading Programme By RESIDENTS in 17 low-rise HDB blocks around the island will start getting lifts installed from the end of this year, with the decision to include them in
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    • 488 8  -  Aaron Low Investigation into cut-outs near Buangkok MRT surprises residents, community leaders By POLICE are investigating a complaint about "white elephant" cut-outs placed on a road divider outside the Buangkok MRT station last Sunday. The incident is being looked into under the Public Entertainment
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    • 335 8 SERVICES common to all government agencies are to be centralised at the Ministry of Finance (MOF), a move the civil service hopes will bring savings of about $4.5 million initially. The new Centre for Shared Services (CSS) will pool such human resource and
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    • 710 9  -  Zakir Hussain Self-help group seeks suggestions from all to tackle challenges facing community By Suggestions wanted FOUR issues Mendaki wants ideas on: Youth Teenage sexuality and teenage pregnancies are growing trends in the Malay-Muslim community. What more can be done to tackle
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    • PRESIDENTS SWEARING IN
      • 1337 10  -  Li Xueying "I will do whatever I can. ..to draw our various communities even closer together." PRESIDENTS R NATHAN He also plans to improve the mechanics of elected presidency By AS HE did six years ago, President S R Nathan last night
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      • 392 10 IT IS 6.30pm l 1 2 hours before the ceremony at the Istana that will swear in Singapore's second elected President for another sixyear term. On the plaza, uniformed officers forming the guard of honour run through a final rehearsal for the welcome parade. Inside the
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    • 546 11  -  Chang Ai-Lien Scheme lets firms have access to scientists for vital RftD work By Science Correspondent WHEN scientist Paul Glendenning switched from a research institute to small-time manufacturer Valen Technologies, little did he expect it would help propel the company into the big league,
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    • 384 11  -  Radha Basu By SINGAPORE must carve out a niche as a centre for cutting-edge, top-quality health care if it is to beat off competition for the foreign medical dollar, Senior Minister of State for Health Balaji Sadasivan said yesterday. As new entrants
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    • 124 11 KHU I U: The annual National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign returns with its focus this year on "Workplace Health .Promotion". It kicked off yesterday at Far East Square, with some 41 Planet Fitness personnel showing off the specially choreographed "Healthy Twist" to the lunchtime crowd there. With
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    • 650 12  -  Theresa Tan HELPING LOW- WAGE WORKERS High charges pose biggest challenge to new workfare approach, say social workers By FOR months, Madam Sabariah Lampu, 38, knocked on factory doors in search of a job. Her efforts last year got her nowhere. "I think
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    • 104 12 THE ministerial committee on low- wage workers welcomes public feedback on how best to help these workers through workfare. Those interested can read an e-consultation paper on workfare at the Manpower Ministry's website at http://www.mom.gov.sg and at the Feedback Unit's government consultation portal at http://www.feedback.gov.sg
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    • 746 14  -  Marimana Ismail Scaredy-cats need not sit out the newest thrill on Sentosa By SPEAKING ON HINDSIGHT "If I had had time (and confidence) to look around, I would have probably seen beautiful sights along the downward gradient." REPORTER MARDIANA ISMAIL (above), on
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    • 376 16  -  Serene Luo 9,000 visitors in first hour as four-day Comex opens; organisers expect sales to reach $3 1m By UNPRECEDENTED crowds of bargain hunters thronged the opening of the Comex 2005 consumer electronics show yesterday. Before the exhibition doors swung open at noon, crowds
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    • 401 17  -  Lim Wei Chean Up to 20 more letters uploaded daily on STs online site; access is free By If you are writing in TO WRITE to the Forum page, pick a topic of public interest, keep your letter to no more than
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    • 85 17 Putting poles in place, workers were hard at work yesterday setting up Cirque du SoleiVs Grand Chapiteau, or Big Top, for its upcoming produc- PHOTO tion Quidam. The renowned troupe is back in Singapore after a three-year absence. Quidam will run from Sept 8
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      • 606 18 1 REFER to the letter, "Preserve open space at Orchard MRT station" (ST, Aug 25), by Mr Michael Loh Yik Ming. Singapore has its own unique assets which we can capitalise on to differentiate ourselves from other cities. We are a modern
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      • 228 18 THE DENGUE SCOURGE WE ARE losing the battle of the mozzies and dengue virus. With more than 400 new cases a week and at least eight fatalities so far this year, a multi-ministry panel needs to be set up immediately to tackle the
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      • 176 18 WHEN I moved into my new Housing Board flat, I noticed that the narrow drain on the aircon ledge for draining condensed water from the aircon was so shoddily constructed, the water remained stagnant for days on end. Fearing that I might be prosecuted for
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      • 185 18 MORE blocks of flats along Hougang Avenue 1 have been hit by dengue, according to the National Environment Agency (NEA)'s denguealert website. This happened in spite of increased thermal fogging/anti-dengue campaigning over the past few weeks. This shows that the current measures are not effective. I
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      • 142 18 SINCE Sept 11, 2001, the spectre of terrorism is ever present. We have deployed air marshals, MRT marshals, armed patrols at the airport and, soon, we will have Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) checkpoints for certain types of cargo vehicles. I am deeply appreciative of
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      • 570 19 THE FORUM EDITOR WRITES ASDFHDBFHK No. of letters published Learning and speaking English/Chinese 36 Aftermath of tsunami disaster 35 NKF saga 34 Casinos in Singapore 23 Reaction to London bombings 14 Political freedom and diversity 14 Speed limits for roads 13 Plight of disabled
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      • 132 19 I REFER to the letter, "Referred to A&E for simple procedure" (ST, Aug 30), by Ms Anne Shum Yin Lee. Ms Shum was attended to by our doctors on three occasions last month for her finger infection. She was given topical cream as
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      • 62 19 WE RECEIVE up to 70 letters a day and publish up to 15 in the print edition of The Straits Times. To allow more views to be aired, we will be putting additional selected letters on the ST Online Forum http://straitstimes.asia 1 com sg/f or
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      • 231 19 SERVICE COMPLAINTS I THANK Mr Benjamin Teo for his letter, "Yahoo customer service virtually non-existent" (ST, Aug 27). Yahoo! Singapore understands the issues Mr Teo raised and would like to clarify the matter. Although we provide an online auction service. Yahoo! is not an auctioneer
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      • 126 19 I REFER to the letter by Ms Celeste Phua ("Hurled obscenities for questioning taxi route"; ST, Aug 27) and wish to apologise for her unpleasant encounter. Ms Phua filed a complaint with us on Aug 13. We have conducted a thorough investigation and appropriate disciplinary
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      • 213 19 Accident waiting to hannen WITH the opening of Singapore Management University (SMU) at Bras Basah, I see SMU students risking life and limb running across Bras Basah Road to and from school. The stretch of road I am referring to is that between Plaza by the Park and the SMU
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      • 431 20  -  Nicholas Fang >» ATHLETICS Shot putter bags silver and sets national mark at Asian Cships By SINGAPORE shot putter Zhang Guirong yesterday won the Republic's first medal at the Asian Athletic Championships in almost 30 years and broke her own national record to boot.
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      • 294 20  -  NICHOLAS FANG JUST seven days after being told that she would not be going to the South-east Asia Games in November, former national gymnasi Eileen Chai yesterday broke the 30-year-old national 100-metre hurdles record at the 16th Asian Athletics Championships. The 27-year-old clocked 14.81sec
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      • 670 21 I WANT MOUR: 3 English titles 2 Cups 1 European Cup SOCCER Chelsea manager lists targets in bid to make London club one of the biggest in the world London WATCH out Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson. Jose Mourinho has spelled out his four-year target to make Chelsea kings of
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      • 306 21 CYCLING Berlin SEVEN-TIME Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong used more than just one banned performance-enhanc-ing drug, a prominent antidoping campaigner believes. Armstrong has been on a major defensive since the French daily L'Equipe last week accused him of testing positive six times for the
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      • 64 21 The 18 men on duty this week: Cameroon: Geremi Czech Republic: Petr Cech England: Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Shaun Wright-Phillips France: William Gallas, Claude Makelele Ghana: Michael Essien Holland: Arjen Robben Iceland: Eidur Gudjohnsen Ireland: Damien Duff Ivory Coast: Didier Drogba Portugal: Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho Spain: Asier
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        • 107 22 SINGAPORE shuttler Li Li crashed out of the China Masters in Beijing yesterday, after a 6-11, 6-11 loss to China's Wang Lin in the women's singles second round. Jiang Yanmei and Li Yujia also bowed out of the women's doubles, after losing
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        • 32 22 SINCHI FC beat Paya Lebar Punggol 1-0 in an S-League match at the Hougang Stadium yesterday. Defender Wu Hao scored Sinchi's winner in the 78th minute.
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        • 64 22 OVER 1,800 competitors will take part in the Mizuno Wave Run at Kovan Hub in Hougang Street 21 on Sunday. They include television actors Allan Wu and Chen Tianwen, elite Japanese runners Hirokazu Nakafuji and Masanori Hashimoto, and defending champion Ben Pulham of New
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      • 479 22  -  Chan Yi Shen »GOLF Registration closes for HSBC Golf Challenge offering $500,000 prize for a hole-in-one By THE number of players clamouring for places in the HSBC Golf Challenge in Singapore was so overwhelming that the organisers had to shut down online registration only
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      • 356 22  -  Nicholas Fang By TWO sports bowling and sailing have been identified by the Singapore Sports Council as having the right stuff to be the pioneers under its new multi-year funding scheme. The scheme, part of SSC's new model to provide funding for national sports associations
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      • 665 24 SOCCER Meeting the deadline Michael Owen Real Madrid to Newcastle, £16m Jermaine Jenas Newcastle to Tottenham, £7m Nolberto Solano Aston Villa to Newcastle, £1.5m David Connolly Leicester to Wigan, £3m Lee Young Pyo PSV Eindhoven to Tottenham, £2m Andy van der
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      • 661 24 London WAYNE ROONEY may be carrying England's World Cup hopes on his 19-year-old shoulders but his knees are far from buckling. "I've heard a lot of people saying things like if I'm fit we can win, and if I'm not then we won't," he said. "It's
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      • 715 24 Heart of the new five -man rnidfield David Beckham is central to England's new formation for World Cup qualifier London FOR £4 million (Ssl2 million) a year, one should expect Sven Goran Eriksson to come up with a winning formation for England himself. But after meeting senior players David Beckham,
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        • 95 24 HOUSTON: Houston Rockets All-Star centre Yao Ming signed a five-year contract extension on Wednesday, according to media reports. The new pact, signed in Beijing, should keep the 24-year-old with the Rockets through the 2010-11 season, sources familiar with the negotiations told the Houston Chronicle.
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        • 85 24 BARCELONA: World Player of the Year Ronaldinho has agreed to extend his contract with Spanish champions Barcelona for another two years until 2010. The 25-year-old Brazilian joined Barcelona from Paris St Germain on a five-year deal for 25 million euros (Sss2 million) in 2003. The
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      • 535 25 TENNIS They cope better against strong winds to advance without trouble at US Open New York MARIA Sharapova was one strong gust away from getting knocked over at the US Open on Wednesday. "I'm really glad I had a piece of chocolate cake
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      • 337 25 »GOLF Beijing CHINA may be the new hotspot for golf, with five European-sanc-tioned events taking place this year, but journalists there are still woefully ignorant of course etiquette. US Open champion Michael Campbell battled to a five-under-par first- round 67 at the Volkswagen Masters-China golf yesterday
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      • 764 25 BASEBALL MLB: San Diego 9 Arizona 5, San Francisco 5 Colorado 3, Atlanta 5 Washington 3, Washington 4 Atlanta 3. Milwaukee 6 Pittsburgh 5. Texas 9 Chicago White Sox 2. Kansas City 1 Minnesota 0. LA Dodgers 7 Chicago Cubs 0. Boston 7 Tampa Bay 6, Detroit 4 Cleveland
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      • 725 28 KATRINA'S IMPACT ON OIL It produces third of nation's oil, fifth of its natural gas, and is home to key ports Washington HURRICANE Katrina may have more far-reaching and longer-lasting economic effects than previous storms because it struck a national hub for
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      • 319 28 NewYork ECONOMISTS have already cut their estimates for United States economic growth in the fourth quarter of this year based on the expected impact of Hurricane Katrina, according to a Reuters poll. Twelve out of 15 economists surveyed on Wednesday lowered their forecasts for fourthquarter gross
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      • 316 28 Jakarta INDONESIA will sign a currency swap agreement with China that will enable it to get US$2 billion (553.4 billion) to stem a decline in the rupiah. "This serves as a second line of defence," Bank Indonesia governor Burhanuddin Abdullah told reporters
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      • 44 28 ftSW"** IZ.DUbS/ (+93 37 points I The index hit a tour-year closing high, as steelmakers like Nippon Steel gained ahead of earnings updates next week and as oil prices fell from record peaks, easing worries over the global economic outlook REUTERS
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      • 38 28 MMte 15,143.75 (+240 DOints) t» Hong Kong stocks breached a key psychological level to rise 1 6 per cent, as investors digested a hefty share sale by China s largest wl wSpmpertVshares rebounded REUTERS
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      • 44 28 Yesterday's close: 1.184 93 (+22.14 points) Chinese share closed 1 9 per cent higher on strong follow through buying Property developers were boosted by hopes <or recovering sales and airlines were in demand due to an easing in oil prices AFP
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      • 42 28 Yesterday's close: 4.497.6 (+50.8 points) w Australian shares ended 114 percent up on broad-based support as investors cast aside concerns about high oil prices Turnover was 1 01 billion shares, worth A$3 98 billion (S$b 08 billion) t AFP
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      • 39 28 909.67 (-3.89 points) Malaysian stocks closed 0.43 per cent lower, led by a slump in national carmaker Proton and other blue chips Volume was 343 52 million shares worth RM7BI 31 million (Ss34B 5 million) AFP
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      • 29 28 ended 1 per cent down, after markets reacted coolly to economic measures whtch the Indonesian President unveiled the day before to rescue the ailing rupiah AFP
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      • 41 28 Yesterday's ClOSe: 710.28 (+12.43 points) TU Thai share prices closed 1.78 percent up in line w.th many regional markets. following an easing in thepr ice of oil Volume «as39b,\\wshares. worth 2 8 billion baht (Sslls 6 million) AFP
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      • 279 28 September 1 Stock Name Wt Close Change AllgreenSOc 0.31 1260 Ascendasreit 104 2.260 4-0.020 BlllntlUSttc 049 1210 +0010 Caprtaland 2.92 2.970 +0 050 CapitaMall 077 2.430 +0.020 Chart SemiCond 28c 0 75 1130 +0.030 CityDevMc 2.56 8.750 +0.250 ComfortDHGro 25c 1 1 .9 1460+0 020 Cosco
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      • 165 28 September 1 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS 10 ONI UNIT Of FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2610 1 2760 Can dollar ***** ***** Euro 2.0630 2 0860 Malaysian ringgit* 0 4456 0 4460 NZ dollar 1 1600 1.1850 Sterling pound 3 0150 3 0490 US dollar
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        • 725 30 Tough times for fuel sector as falling US supplies could lead to shortages elsewhere PETROL futures surged and crude prices rose yesterday, with plans by the United States to tap strategic reserves to counter Hurricane Katrina's destructive romp doing little to ease concern about
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        • 381 30  -  Goh Eng Yeow By FOR two Singapore-listed companies at least, there may be a silver lining to Katrina's cloud. As United States oil companies assess the damage done to their oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, investors here took a
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        • 10 30 SOURCE: BLOOMBERG GRAPHICS: TAY CHERN HUI
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      • 473 31  -  Lek Su Shyan Counter buoyed by news that troubled company is in talks with three possible investors By Conifxinies UtrresfHmden t THE merest hint of good news strategic investors possibly in the wings was enough to send Accord Customer Care Solutions shares rocketing almost 50
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      • 294 31  -  Lorna Tan By BH GLOBAL Marine, a home-grown supplier of marine electrical products and accessories, yesterday launched its initial public offer (IPO) of 70 million new shares at 20 cents a share. Of these shares about 25 per cent of its enlarged capital
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      • 382 31  -  Grace Ng By UPCOMING manufacturing activity is still in expansion mode, but a note of caution has crept in: new export orders are slowing. That is according the latest monthly edition of a closely watched survey, the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which
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      • 686 32  -  Kelvin Wong Its stakes, including $5b BOC deal, make it well-poised to ride the boom, say analysts By TEMASEK Holdings' mega-deal to spend US$3.l billion (Ssss.2 billion) buying 10 per cent of Bank of China (BOC) got the thumbs up from analysts
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      • 418 32  -  Lee Su Shyan By Companies Correspondent TWO old friends are setting up shop together in a move that will set the investment world talking. The founder of boutique fund management firm APS Asset Management, Mr Wong Kok Hoi, is forming a venture
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      • 486 33  - Tibs veteran resigns deputy president Christopher Tan Tan Hup Foi's quitting will leave just 2 senior former Tibs stalwarts in parent company By Senior Correspondent ANOTHER Trans-Island Bus Services (Tibs) veteran is leaving parent group SMRT Corp. Mr Tan Hup Foi, 55, who has been in Tibs since 1987, will
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      • 340 33  -  AZRIN ASMANI By TECHNOLOGY outsourcing firm Opus IT Services has emerged as the most likely candidate to rescue money-losing production company MediaStream. Opus, a privately held firm and former subsidiary of IBM Singapore, has struck a deal to effect
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      • 232 33  - DIRECTORS' TRADES COSCO DIRECTOR CONVERTS OPTIONS AN INDEPENDENT director of China-based shipping company Cosco Corp, Dr Wang Kai Yuen, has made good on his share options, having exercised them earlier this week. Dr Wang, who is also a Member of Parliament, converted 500,000 options, which gave him a 0.046 per
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      • 352 33  -  Joyce Teo By GIC Real Estate (RE) is investing US$6OO million (Ssl billion) in a new Japan property fund with USbased ProLogis, the world's largest owner and developer of warehouse and distribution facilities. The move by the property arm of the Government
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      • 394 33  -  Goh Eng Yeow TAKING STOCK By THE first trading day of September kicked off with the market in a sunny mood. Traders saw opportunities for local firms in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico.
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      • 864 34  -  AZRIN ASMANI Its action comes a day after being served a writ seeking $423m By Companies Reporter 3 potential investors One is a leading European financing and investment business, which is looking at opportunities to invest in distress debt situations in this region. The
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      • 210 34  -  NARENDRA AGGARWAL TIE-UP WITH 3 SHIPPING LINES AMID rapidly growing trade between Asia and Europe, Singapore port operator PSA has teamed up with three Asian shipping lines to operate berths at one of the world's busiest ports, Antwerp in Belgium. PSA's subsidiary PSA
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    • 926 2  -  Hong Xinyi 24 writers get boost of cash and recognition from Golden Point Award ARTS REPORTER TWO years ago, Timothy Yang sent in three short stories for the Golden Point Award. "I got three rejection letters," he recalls. This year, he sent in two entries.
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      • 480 3  -  Hong Xinyi bookmark THE audience at the Golden Point Award ceremony on Wednesday night watched with bated breath as Australian writer Doris Pilkington tottered onstage to read an extract from her 1991 novel Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter. When she finally sat down, the 68-year-old writer said she had
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      • 495 4 WHEN we heard about Screen Singapore 2005, we applauded the inauguration of a film festival devoted entirely to local cinema. Anticipating the Eric Khoo Marathon, we bought our tickets more than three weeks in advance. However, when we arrived at the Arts House on Aug 28
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      • 735 5 Singing for dinner NOT too long ago, we had Talentime contests where people from all walks of life would try their luck to hopefully make a name for themselves, or perhaps even make some money along the way as a singer. Today, we have Singapore Idol
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    • 370 6  -  The inaugural free Art Show will celebrate visual art by Singaporeans Clara Chow ARTS REPORTER THE inaugural Singapore Art Show, a month-long affair from Sept 23 to Oct 23. will showcase pieces "by Singaporeans for Singaporeans". Featuring some 400 works by 200 artists in 10 core exhibitions
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        334 13 The wildest, wettest fantasies are realised in Goldfrapp's latest album Supemature soundbites Yeow Kai Chai AS POP divas go, there is no one more intriguing than Alison Goldfrapp. We are not talking about the brash, power-lunged breed with their Louis Vuitton bagful of attentiongrabbing antics. Rather, it
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      • 186 13 ALL hail the anti-Singapore Idol, the bad girl who's having the last laugh while the rest of the meek sheep play sweetie-pies or boys-next-door. Her solo debut is fantastically titled: Emotionally Advised is a wrecking ball of attitude, pouty girliness and all-round pop sawiness. Thanks to
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      • 143 13 RONIN takes its name from the Japanese term for a lone-ranger samurai who pays no allegiance to any master and it shows in the hungry, lustful music. The debut album is a canister of heady hard rock and kerrang power metal filching from everywhere. Vocalist Levan
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      • 145 13 LOW Millions has great pop pedigree, though frontman Adam Cohen probably doesn't want you to judge his band based on that alone. When he half-sings and halfspeaks, the chap is a dead-ringer for his Daddy, the mumbty premier singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen who can intone the
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      • 781 14  -  LohKeng Fatt The winner in this reality singing show gets to record an album with INXS and do a 60-city tour instantreplay PHOTO: SHE cried. She had survived six rounds but now her chance at fame, and fortune, had run its course. Deanna Johnston was told
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        422 15 DEARLY LOVE YOU Nicholas Teo Play /Music Street •k-k-kw-Ct HAPPINESS Z-Chen HIM International It's clear skies ahead for Nicholas Teo, the lad with the sunshine smile asianpop Samuel Lee OF LATE, two men from Malaysia have been stoking up the Mandarin music scene; and they are not Michael
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      • 407 16 jazz S.Y Whang KNOWING YOU John Pizzarelli (Telarc) SINGER-GUITARIST John Pizzarelli (right) purveys songs with intelligent lyrics and high swing content. His trio, comprising pianist Ray Kennedy and brother Martin Pizzarelli on bass, have been together for over a decade. Quality material
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      473 17 The Venice Film Fest opened with an Asian focus, and a China-bom writer on its jury VENICE No Venice Film Festival of recent years has been quite complete without a display of outrage by the big noises of Rome's film industry on discovering that their productions have, yet
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        299 20 DISNEY PRINCESSES Mallt of CeiitiepoNit. tfutt le. Centrepoint, Cetieewey Polftt. i^—-^ m**^amA mkmmwMmaaaaaammk aamA k*aaawAaaama^mmkmmk T akaAa* v c m.— a MQ varying opening noufe, rive, iw mAAU wai Starry-eyed girls dreaming of Prince Charmings can live out their fantasies at malls about town for much of this month.
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      • 122 20 WOMEN'S DAY OUT 2005 Hgee Ann Civic Plaza, Orchard Road, Tomorrow Bt Sun: Sam 7pm, Foe: Pay $35 to register by Sept 18, Those who register will get a free goodie bag worth $350 which includes Hems like T-shirts, visors and more, Tel: $*****22 or vIsH www .amm ofltness.com
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      • 77 20 WOMEN'S HEALTH Hougang Community Centra, 35 Hougang Avenue 3. Tomorrow: 2 spm, Fee: $5, including a free goodie bag with Herns like babywoar and stdncare products worth more than $30, MIMMM How can you plan for a healthy pregnancy and what are the common myths and misconceptions about pregnancy?
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      • 111 20 TEOCHEW PORRIDGE Play D«n, Th* Arts Houa* at OM Parliament, Last day. Spm, Ticket*: $37 (show alone). $44 (show and supper), Tei: 6332-6919 This updated version of Teochew Porridge by Life! Theatre Award-winning playwright Desmond Sim gives audiences glimpses into the heart of an Asian father through the eyes
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      • 168 20 SYMPHONIC TREATS: BRUCKNER'S NINTH SYMPHONY Esplanade Concert Hall, Today: 7.30pm, Tickets: $12 $77, Tel: 6345-5555 Maria-Elizabeth Lott, an 18-year-old German violinist, will perform Mendelssohn's lushly sentimental Violin Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Finnish maestro Okko Kamu returns in the second half to conduct Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, which is
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      • 377 20 SECOND UNK Drama Centre, National Library, Victoria Street, Today: Bpm, Tomorrow: 3 A Bpm, Tickets: $22, Tel: 8348-5555 This Singapore-Malaysia doublebill by Wild Rice features Riding The Nice Bus and Tikam-Tikam: Malaysian Roulette. Directed by Ivan Heng, with inspirations from the late Malaysian playwright Krishen Jit, its
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