The Straits Times, 20 June 2006

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  • 499 1  -  K C Vijayan Teh Joo Lin By AN EXPATRIATE couple have tiled an injunction m the High Court seeking the return of some $16 million from lawyer David Rasif, who went missing two weeks ago. Mr Rasif, 45. had originally been reported to
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  • 678 1  - More warnings to N. Korea as fears of missile test grow Kwan Weng Kin US consulting UN Security Council on steps to take if rocket is launched By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo THE United States has begun consulting members of the United Nations Security Council on steps the global body
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  • 103 1 PHOTO: Last-minute preparations for Asia's largest infocomm show, which begins today at the Singapore Expo, went late into the night yesterday. More than 60,000 visitors are expected to turn up for the show and related events to be held this week. As the
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    • 1235 1  - Books keeping Nantah legacy alive Leong Weng Kam By Senior Correspondent PASSING ON A LEGACY "Nantah was a significant educational and cultural centre m South-east Asia m the 25 years that it existed. Many graduates like myself, have chosen to remember Nantah by writing about it to pass on the
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  • » IN A FLASH
    • 45 2 ASIA Enemy turned ally Booming Vietnam looks to former foe the United States as a counterweight to China's growing savvy m the region. PAGE 5 China chemical blast Factory death toll hits 16 as officials vow harsher punishments for breaches of workplace safety. PAGE 6
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    • 72 2 HOME Safety after hours Four in 10 workplace deaths happened at the weekend or after 6pm last year, leading to new safety checks beyond regular office hours. PAGE HI Binge boozer blues Pubs are behind a campaign to stop the growing trend of rowdy drunken patrons and vomit-strewn pavements. PAGEH2
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    • 21 2 FORUM Money well spent? Town councils explain so-called "wasteful" spending, after criticism over eco pond, pebbled path and other facilities. PAGEH6
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    • 25 2 WORLD Recognition for Israel? Hamas and rival Fatah make tangible progress on plan for a Palestinian state which it appears would recognise Israel. PAGE 12
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    • 24 2 MONEY JTC tenants' fears Plans by JTC to sell its industrial properties are facing opposition from tenants worried about possible rent hikes. PAGE H7
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    • 33 2 EDITORIAL Optimism pointless Talks m Oslo earlier this month to bring peace to Sri Lanka were a farce, and the prospect of a return to full-scale civil hostilities now looks real. PAGE 17
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    • 26 2 RE VIEW No winners There will be no victors when the dust settles on the Mahathir outburst just more poison and cynicism m politics. PAGE 19
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    • 28 2 SPORTS Mickelson chokes American golfer Phil Mickelson hands the 106 th US Open title to Aussie Geoff Ogilvy after fluffing the final hole by missing the fairway. PAGEHIS
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  • PRIME
    • 715 3  -  Lydia Lim PM urges them to settle for what can be done first, rather than aim for ideal pact By Senior Political Correspondent In Wellington SINGAPORE is eager to see Australia and New Zealand ink a free trade agreement with Asean
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    • 302 3  - PM Lee quizzed on free speech LYDIA LIM SOME members of the New Zealand media yesterday quizzed visiting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on the issue of free speech m Singapore. They cited charges faced by opposition politician Chee Soon Juan as an example of the limits on free expression.
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    • 436 4 Washington DEPUTY Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, the chief US diplomat m negotiations with China, announced his resignation yesterday. "I've accomplished what I set out to do, and it's time to step down," he said at a news briefing at the State Department. Secretary of
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    • 570 4  -  Chong Chee Kin Khushwant Singh Former directors succeed m getting 4 ex-board members named as third parties By i THE $12 million lawsuit against former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief T.T. Durai and three former directors will now involve the charity's entire former
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  • ASIA
    • 593 5 Hanoi is ideological partners with Beijing but wants Washington to counterbalance clout of Chinese Hanoi CHINA has started to take a close interest m rapid development that is happening m Vietnam, a fellow communist state m transition. But while welcoming its investments, Vietnam
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    • 410 5  -  P. Jayaram By India Correspondent In New Delhi INDIA and China have agreed to resume border trade next month through a Himalayan pass that has been closed since they fought a brief war m 1962. The opening of the Nathula Pass m
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  • CHINA
    • 553 6  -  Tracy Quek Beijing to take a harder line on work safety even as country is hit by three accidents m a week By China Correspondent In Beijing PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO: THE death toll from a chemical plant explosion m eastern Anhui province rose to 16
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    • 257 6  -  Chua Chin Hon By China Bureau Cnief In Beijing CHINESE Vice-Premier Huang Ju, signalling his full return to official duties since being stricken with an undisclosed illness, assured top financial executives advising the country yesterday that China would push ahead with painful economic reforms. State
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    • 252 7 Taipei TAIWANESE President Chen Shui-bian yesterday decided not to issue a written rebuttal to a demand for him to be ousted m a referendum, arguing that the recall campaign lacked legitimacy, an aide said. He will instead deliver a televised speech tonight that
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    • 459 7 College did not tell them about decision to stop issuing degrees from a more prestigious school Shanghai THOUSANDS of students m a central Chinese city rioted overnight to protest against the downgrading of degrees given by their college from next year onwards, students and school
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    • 138 7 Taipei signals it may ease cross-strait trade Taipei TAIPEI has indicated a willingness to liberalise cross-strait economic exchanges with China after putting two of the most onerous restrictions on the island's companies up for discussion at a key economic reform conference. Lawmakers, business leaders and scholars will seek consensus at
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 640 8 TEST LAUNCH OF BALLISTIC WEAPON Washington, Beijing, Tokyo working overtime to stop Pyongyang from launching first weapon since 1 998 Washington NORTH Korea appears to have completed fuelling a long-range ballistic missile, a move that greatly increases the probability that Pyongyang will go
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    • 380 8 Seoul SOUTH Korea's ruling Uri Party yesterday called on the North not to put its "friend m danger" by test-firing a long-range missile, while the opposition urged Seoul to take sterner measures against Pyongyang's provocative moves. "We stress that m this difficult situation, where South
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 95 8 TAIPEI: Taiwan and Nicaragua have signed a free trade agreement pledging to join forces to explore the North American market, the Board of Foreign Trade (Boft) said yesterday. There is a Central America Free Trade Agreement between Managua and Washington which offers preferential
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      • 92 8 BEIJING: China has set 2024 for its first moonwalk, cementing its position as a new space power, a Hong Kong newspaper reported yesterday. The mission would kick off m earnest next year, when China launches an unmanned lunar satellite m March or April to survey
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      • 101 8 COTABATO (Philippines): Gunmen yesterday shot dead a husband and wife who were involved m leftwing politics and journalism m the latest attack on activists m the southern Philippines, a police official said. Hooded men on motorcycles gunned down Mr George Vigo, 40, and his wife
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      • 102 8 DILI: Timor Leste President Xanana Gusmao may launch an inquiry into allegations that Prime Minister Man Alkatiri provided guns to a civilian hit squad during the country's recent turmoil, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has said. Mr Ramos-Horta, who is also Defence Minister, met former
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      • 95 8 LUCKNOW: Two girls were burned to death m sectarian rioting between Hindus and Muslims m India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, police said yesterday. "Over 100 houses were set ablaze m a Hindu-Mus-lim clash m which two girls were charred to death. said
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
    • 303 9 New Delhi SOME men m western India are renting out their wives, cashing m on a bride shortage, a news report said yesterday. Mr Atta Prajapati, a farm worker m Gujarat state, leases out his wife Laxmi to a wealthy landowner for 8,000
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    • 155 9 Dhaka A FORMER Bangladesh police chief who says that seven 19-month-old children living with him are septuplets has been ordered to send them for DNA tests after he was accused of trafficking children, lawyers said yesterday. Former deputy inspector-general of police Anisur Rahman said
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    • 599 9 Drawn-out conflict The Tamil Tigers are waging war for an ethnic homeland m the country's north and east. The insurgency has spanned two decades. The Tigers warned yesterday they would resort to any strategy including suicide bombers if all-out civil war was resumed.
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 568 10  -  Azhar Ghani BIRD FLU IN INDONESIA Lick of funds for compensation a big drawback, says government By Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta INDONESIA needs laws that would make it easier for the government to cull poultry m areas affected by the deadly bird
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    • 337 10 NO TIME TO WASTE 'The hungry cannot wait. Indonesia needs new policies that can weather strong external shocks." DR YUDHOYONO Manado (North Sulawesi) INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says South-east Asia's biggest economy needs a "new deal" to create employment because
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    • 92 10 Some of the 300 National League for Democracy members chanting "Free Suu Kyi" as they rally near My anmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's Yangon house yesterday to PHOTO: mark the Nobel Peace Prize laureate turning 61. Buddhist prayers were offered and doves were
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    • 145 10 Bangkok THE Thai Foreign Minister says there is no evidence linking Malaysia to a wave of bomb blasts m its insurgency-plagued and mainly Muslim south. "Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon... reaffirmed that there was no evidence point ing to Malaysia's involvement," the ministry said
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    • 278 10 East Java tries to stop hot mud gushing from earth Jakarta EXPERTS have been ordered to determine how to stop hot mud gushing from the earth which has forced some 4,000 people to flee their homes, an official said yesterday. The mud began seeping from several locations near a gas
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 75 11 Red from the effort, Malaysian students crammed into a Mini Cooper m Kuala Lumpur for a record-breaking feat. It took PHOTO; just four minutes for the 21 youths to pile into the car before the doors were shut for a stuffy 20 seconds. Two were
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    • 556 11  -  Reme Ahmad Supreme Council says there are no factions, but chooses not to chide former premier By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur UMNO'S leaders yesterday closed ranks behind Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, saying they support him m the stand-off with former party chief
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    • 207 11 Kampar (Perak) THE government has sufficient funds to implement projects allocated under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP). Putting to rest talk of the government not having enough money. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said allocations had been set aside. "We have the means to complete
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    • 206 11 Kuala Lumpur ONE of Malaysia's top lawyers has reacted with anger to a suggestion by a British newspaper that he helped to secure a lucrative job for British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife and Queen's Counsel Cherie Blair after being entertained at
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  • WORLD
    • 594 12 PHOTO Militant group and rival Fatah positive about talks for Palestinian nation existing alongside Jewish state Jerusalem HAMAS and its rival Fatah are reportedly moving closer to an agreement on implicitly recognising Israel. Negotiators say the two groups are discussing a document that calls
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    • 524 13 Rent and cost of living go up sharply, taking a toll on expats Dubai THE rising cost of living associated with Dubai's frenetic development is taking its toll on the hundreds of thousands of expatriates who have made the Persian Gulf city their home.
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    • 78 13 APAKISTANI-bom architect who bought maps of Australia's power grid, tried to buy ingredients that could be turned into explosives and had bomb-making notes was convicted yesterday of planning a terrorist attack. Faheem Khalid Lodhi, 36, became the third Australian convicted under post-9/11 antiterrorism laws after a
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    • 132 13 London THE chief inspector of prisons has warned that Britain's jails are becoming overcrowded and may soon have to refuse entry to new criminals. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Ms Anne Owers said there were fewer than 1,800 places left from a total of
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    • Article, Illustration
      77 13 Defiant Kuwaiti parliamentary candidate Fatima Abdali talking to journalists against a backdrop of her campaign poster, which PHOTO: was defaced by those who disagree with the country having female Members of Parliament. Ms Abdali, a government employee, is one of 32 women who will be standing for Parliament
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    • 512 13 New York A REPORTED plot by AlQaeda terrorists to kill thousands of New Yorkers by releasing cyanide gas m the subway underscores the folly of a Homeland Security fund reduction for major cities, a US lawmaker has said. "This is just more
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 116 14 AFTER three years of self-imposed exile, one of Hong Kong's most controversial government officials, Ms Regina Ip, could be making a comeback, the Standard Newspaper reported. The former security chief, best remembered for her outrageous hairdo and failure to push through an unpopular
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      • 214 14 PHOTO: FRENCH President Jacques Chirac will see his 11-year personal quest become reality when he inaugurates Europe's newest museum, dedicated to celebrating tribal arts and culture, today. The Musee dv Quai Branly, housed m a new building designed by architect Jean Nouvel on the banks
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      • 103 14 BOLLYWOOD celebrity Salman Khan and four fellow stars were charged yesterday with poaching endangered black buck, a court official said. Also charged m court m Jodhpur city, western India, were Indian stars Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Neelam Kothari and Tabu. Khan had already been
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      • 108 14 WHEN billionaire Michael Bloomberg became New York mayor shortly after the Sept 11 attacks, some mocked his dullness and lack of political savvy. Now, the Republican does not understand why he cannot quell talk he wants to be president. "I will not be running
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      • 452 14 Poll before Bush visit to EU reveals people remain suspicious of US foreign policy Paris EUROPEANS see the United States as a greater threat to global stability than either Iran or China, according to a Harris opinion poll conducted m association with
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    • 625 15 1 1 cousins opt to remove body part after being found to have gene that will lead to the disease Los Angeles MR MIKE Slabaugh does not have a stomach. Neither do his 10 cousins. Growing up, they watched helplessly as a rare hereditary
      ASSOCIATED PRESS; AP  -  625 words
    • 81 15 THE form of cancer that runs m the Bradfield family is extremely rare, with about 100 families diagnosed worldwide. It killed Ms Golda Bradfield m 1960. Six of her children died of the disease. Her 18 grandchildren learnt of the defective gene after one of them, Mr David
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    • 326 15 Baghdad IRAQ yesterday announced that its troops would take over from coalition forces m the southern province of Al-Muthanna, the first such move m the wartorn country, paving the way for Japanese troops to end a historic overseas mission. The southernmost province
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    • 431 15 Vienna IRAN has been told that world powers expect an answer by June 29 to their offer of nuclear talks, according to European diplomats. The news came as US President George \V. Bush warned Iran of ""progressively stronger political and economic sanctions" if Teheran refused
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    • 560 16  -  Roger Maynard Indonesia plays down pact which will be discussed when Aussie PM meets Yudhoyono By Australia Correspondent In Sydney AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard has made it clear he is m no hurry to sign a new security deal with
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    • 250 16 Sydney AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard says the United States is welcome to establish military bases Down Under. He was commenting on a report that two joint training and forward expeditionary bases would be built m the north of the country. "The notion
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    • 246 16 Geneva THE United Nations new Human Rights Council is a "great new chance" for the global body to renew its struggle for human rights, according to UN Sec-retary-General Kofi Annan. He told an opening session yesterday that the
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    • 292 16 OSLO IT SOUNDS like something from a science fiction film a doomsday vault, dug into a frozen mountainside deep m an Arctic island's permafrost that will serve as a Noah's Ark for seeds m case of a global catastrophe. But Norway's ambitious
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    • 396 17 THE past week's vicious killings m Sri Lanka have been blamed on the Tamil Tigers, who deny responsibility and are pointing the finger at Sinhala allies of President Mahinda Rajapakse's minority government for instigating a fresli bout of an ti -Tamil animus. It would be a wonder
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    • 865 17  -  Graham Allison By THE United States has broken with 27 years of official policy and agreed to join the Europeans m negotiating directly with Iran conditional on Teheran suspending uraniumenrichment activities that could lead to a bomb. The essence of the agreement
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    • 1358 18  -  John R. Bradley JUDICIARY IN EGYPT By Senior Writer In Cairo A GROUP of reformers drawn from the ranks of the usually loyal Egyptian Judges Club has emerged as an unlikely player m the struggle for freedom and transparency here, as the authoritarian regime continues
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    • 1600 19  -  Brendan Pereira POLITICS IN MALAYSIA By In Kuala Lumpur WHAT a couple of weeks. Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad letting rip against his successor, Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi, with the ferocity of a street fighter. The outburst had everything choice quotes, incendiary
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    • 7 H1 HOME THE STR AITS TIMES TUESDAY, JUNE2O2OO6-
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    • 649 H1  -  Daryl Loo 30% of fatal accidents happen on weekends and after hours, when less work is done By WORKERS are more likely to be killed m fatal workplace accidents over the weekends and after regular office hours. Last year, 13 out of 44 fatal
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    • 503 H2  -  Leong Su-Lin Feng Zeng Kun Boy, 1 1 put through school here, her husband lived m China By SHE came to Singapore to give her son a better life. Now the 11-year-old boy is motherless. On Sunday morning, Madam Yu Hong Jin,
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    • 231 H2 47 -year- old man charged with setting 21 fires A MIDDLE-AGED man has been charged with a series of arson attacks between May 4 and June 5. Yong Teck .Ho was charged yesterday morning with setting 21 fires. These involved 13 lifts, a lift landing, three rubbish bins, two toilets,
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    • 456 H2  -  KHUSHWANT SINGH WRONGFUL CONFINEMENT CASE THREE men who were charged with wrongfully confining and causing hurt to two Indonesian businessmen m March were set free yesterday, but they can be charged again with the same offence. They were granted a discharge not amounting
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    • 712 H2  -  Khushwant Singh By A GROUP of pub owners is mounting an advertising offensive against their most lucrative customers binge drinkers. They may be big spenders but there is a greater downside these patrons tend to be more rowdy, throw up and end up
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    • 185 H2 PHOTO: THE police officer who loaned her Heckler Koch pistol and 10 bullets to a friend, was back m court yesterday. Staff Sergeant Ervinna Kuan Sui Khuan, 32, tried to put on a brave face at a brief hearing m a district
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    • QUICK NEWS
      • 83 H2 THE Republic of Singapore Navy and the Indonesian Navy are holding a week-long joint exercise. The two navies are contributing two vessels each tor the bi-annual Exercise Joint Minex, which is the ninth m the series and practises their ability to hunt for and counter
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      • 144 H2 ORGANISERS of the third annual Inter-racial and In-ter-religious Harmony Nite invite songbirds to sing their way to harmony and prizes. They are now accepting entries for bands who can rap, serenade or simply croon from a list of community songs. The winners will get to perform
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      • 59 H2 THE ramp up to the Ayer Rajah Expressway at the junction with Keppel Road will be closed for maintenance today and tomorrow, from 11pm to sam on both days. Motorists on Keppel Road travelling towards the East Coast Parkway should use the alternative ramp
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    • 519 H4  -  Alfred Siew IMBX 2006 60,000 visitors, 2,400 exhibitors expected at tech showcase By .ASIA'S largest infocomm show opens m Singapore today amid industry optimism, a rising take-up of 3G cellphone services and the hottest competition broadband services have seen m years. As the
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    • 399 H4  -  Tham Yuen-C By FROM the world's slimmest phone to "affordable" 3G phones, major mobile players are expected to unveil their newest models at the CommunicAsia technology fair this week. In anticipation of 3G going mass market, Nokia has included an "affordable" 3G
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    • 338 H4  -  Serene Luo By READERS of Stamp's Digital Club can read breaking technology stories even before the journalists step into the office to file their reports. That is because the team of Straits Times' technology reporters are filing their stories on the go from
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    • 424 H4 SHE says she's "clueless" about technology. But Ms Corine Lee, a marketing manager, managed to understand the How-To section m Stomp s Digital Club section called Tech Chick. This feature, from The Straits Times' new interactive platform Stomp, gives step-by-step instructions on projects like setting
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    • 415 H4  -  Yeo Ghim Lay By SPEEDING UP RESEARCH "If you make researchers work together with normal means, you need 10 years. But due to this new technology, we have results m one month." MRS VIVIANE REDING, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media WHEN
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    • TECH TALK
      • 97 H4 MOBILEONE subscribers will get five minutes' free airtime when they make 3G video calls to Malaysia, or when they visit the country and call home with their cellphones from next month. After the first five minutes, users pay a discounted rate of
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      • 102 H4 STARHUB customers may soon be able to subscribe to individual pay-TV 7 channels instead of a group of them as it is upgrading the technology used to deliver programmes over its cable TV network. Star Hub said yesterday customers can also choose personalised
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    • 180 H4 COMPETITIVE gamers here are putting on their business suits to pursue their dreams of becoming full-time professional gamers. Several top gaming teams have already achieved some success as semi-pro gamers, whose gaming habit is sponsored by companies promoting their brands at international gaming tournaments. A top
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    • 647 H5  -  Tan Hui Yee RELIEF FOR HDB SHOPKEEPERS Changes will benefit 300 or so a year whose businesses are affected by works By SOME 300 Housing Board shopkeepers affected by estate upgrading work will pay 52.25 million less m rentals this year, as part of a move
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    • 224 H5 ANOTHER 56 primary and secondary schools will receive special-needs officers next year to help dyslexic and autistic students integrate better m mainstream schools. This is m addition to the 14 schools already chosen to have these officers. The officers, trained by the National
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    • 644 H5  -  Sue-Ann Chia By ONE is a secular state, the other is the central government of the Roman Catholic Church. But Singapore and the Holy See share the same spirit of promoting unity m diversity. This similarity was captured m an exchange of letters
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    • 71 H5 CHINESE OFFICIAL'S VISIT PHOTO: Party Secretary of China's Fujian province Lv Zhangong called on Foreign Minister George Yeo yesterday. They discussed developments m Fujian and Singapore over breakfast, a Foreign Affairs Ministry statement said. Mr Lv led a delegation here for a four-day visit, which ended yesterday, at the invitation
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    • FORUM
      • 392 H6 'WASTEFUL 1 PRACTICES BY TOWN COUNCILS I REFER to the letter, "Seniors' corner, pond gone to waste" (ST, June 15), by Mr Lew Sin Hoe. We thank Mr Lew for his feedback and would like to clarify some facts. The cosy corner
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      • 366 H6 I THANK Mdm Lav Hwai Eng for her letter, "Have panel examine use of public funds" (ST, June 15), on "wasteful" practices by town councils. With regard to the landscaping within the Block 207A to D Compassvale Lane precinct, we replaced the plants provided
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      • 288 H6 Insurance on mortgaged properties aimed at restoration I REFER to the letter, "Let mortgagors decide on fire insurance" (ST, June 7), by Mr Patrick Tan. Fire insurance is a mandatory requirement by banks granting housing loans secured by a legal mortgage of the property being financed. This is to ensure
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      • 227 H6 I REFER to the letter, "HDB hall should not be just for 'happy events'" (ST, June 12). We convey our deepest condolences to Mrs Tan- Wee Yin Ping on the demise of her beloved grandmother. As a general policy, our town
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      • 113 H6 I REFER to the letter, "Chatterbox says sorry" (ST, June 17), by Ms Pauline Tay, Marketing Communications Manager for Meritus Mandarin Singapore. The reply did not address fully the incident cited m the letter, "How about going the extra mile for locals?" (ST,
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      • 246 H6 No ICT notice, work projects affected ONE of my employees was to report for in-camp training (ICT) from June 13 to July 7 but he did not receive any notification. He knew about it only when he found a notice slipped under the door when he got home on June
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      • 359 H6 I THANK Mr Chrys Mendis for taking the time to share his knowledge on High-Definition TV or HDTV ("Very few HD-ready TV sets are top of the line"; ST, June 13). As Mr Mendis rightly pointed out, although HDTV was introduced to
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      • 266 H6 MY FAMILY and I had a bad experience while holidayingin A'Famosa, Malacca. I had walked to the carpark to collect my car and my mother, sister and children were waiting at the resort's lobby porch when a car sped along the porch and
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    • MONEY
      • 767 H7  -  Joyce Teo They fear that rents will rise should properties be sold via a Reit By Property,' Correspondent Portfolio divestment THE PLAN In November, JTC said it intended to sell part of its portfolio, including half of it* ready-built factories, to create a
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      • 23 H7 BUYING SELLING Australian dollar 1.1710 1.1850 Euro 2.0030 2.0260 Sterling pound 2.9330 2.9670 US dollar 1.5870 1.6040 Yen (100 units) 1.3748 1.3901
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      • 214 H7  -  ERICA TAY CIVIL SERVICE VETERAN INDUSTRIAL landlord JTC Corporation will soon have a new boss at its helm. Civil service high-flier Mrs Ow Foong Pheng has been appointed chief executive (CEO) designate of JTC, with effect from July 1. Mrs Ow, 42, who
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      • 642 H8  - Volatile markets spur trading in index warrants Goh Eng Yeow Dealers say investors want exposure to the entire bourse rather than individual stocks By Markets Correspondent jfljflsfjlsf A key attraction of an index warrant is that "they tend to be less risky, as they are not as volatile as covered
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      • 750 H8  -  TAKING STOCK By Gabriel Chen AFTER last Friday's dazzling rebound on the local stock market, when trading volume soared 56 per cent to 1.15 billion shares after upbeat news on inflation from the United States, yesterday was a complete anti-climax. "The market's awfully quiet,"
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      • 248 H8  -  Joyce Tan By FOR the third year m a row, Sing Tel has been named service provider of the year at the Frost and Sullivan's (F&S) Asia-Pacific Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Awards. The annual awards, m their third
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      • 217 H8 SINGAPORE and Peru have concluded a second round of talks for a free trade agreement (FTA) that will strengthen the trade and investment relations between the two countries. Singapore's chief negotiator, Ministry of Trade and Industry's (Mil's) deputy director for Apec and
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      • 237 H8  -  CHUA KONG HO WARRANT WATCH WARRANTS on regional indexes have been hot favourites among local traders during the six-week slide m global equity markets, and yesterday was no different. They have been popular as investors take to betting on the direction of markets rather than
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      • 351 H8  -  Goh Chin Lian By PROBLEMS over the development of Boeing's new 787 aircraft should not affect Singapore Airlines (SIA), which announced its order last week of 20 such aircraft for about US$4.5 billion (557.3 billion). Boeing and SIA said m separate statements
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      • 367 H9  -  Erica Tay Senior execs m Asia-Pac favour Republic after India and China: PwC poll By THE next time someone talks about back-office jobs m the West being "Bangalored" or moved to lower-cost Asian countries, there is a chance these jobs may
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      • 283 H9  -  Kelvin Han By A NEW residential site m the choice Novena district was launched for tender by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday. The i.2sha, 99-year leasehold site at Sinaran Drive, a mere stone's throw from the Novena MRT station, is expected to
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      • 353 H9  -  Bryan Lee By OCBC Bank is auctioning off three District 10 houses it has seized from a family that owes it about $23 million. The sale, scheduled for next Thursday, comes two months after Mr Moey Keng Weng, a former
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      • 301 H9  -  Fiona Chan By PRIME office rentals have risen at their fastest pace m 2Va years, with rents at Marina, City Hall and Raffles Place leading the climb. Rents of Grade A office space the highest quality available m the Marina and City Hall areas
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      • 401 H10  -  Joyce Tan MEDIA MARKETING By A CLEVER blend of out of the box thinking and specific audience targeting helped an all-fe-male team clinch the top prize at the Capita Land Retail Marketing Award held last Friday. The competition, which started m April,
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      • 474 H10  - The key to ads deliver Gabriel Chen It's not the advertising amount but how you spend it that counts, says McKinney's CEO By IN THE cut-throat world of advertising, it is not how much you spend but how you spend it that matters most. That advice comes from Mr Brad
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      • 423 H11 Thai broadcaster ITV fined $3. 2b in fee dispute ITV to wait for ruling on appeal against earlier court decision Bangkok THE Thai government said yesterday it would fine broadcaster ITV, owned indirectly by Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings, 76 billion baht (553.2 billion) following a licence fee dispute. ITV
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      • 202 H11 Jakarta GARUDA Indonesia, the nations biggest airline, suffered a second consecutive annual loss as cost cuts failed to make up for surging oil prices. The loss for last year shrank to 688 billion rupiah (*****.6 million), Garuda chairman Aries Mufti said yesterday. The loss the previous
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      • 356 H11 PHOTO: I Shanghai CHINA'S central bank said yesterday that it would take further steps to curb money supply and credit growth. The central bank, which issued a brief statement following a recent quarterly monetary policy meeting, said it would curb
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      • 418 H12 Nokia and Siemens said they expected to cut 10 to 15 percent of the merged units' 60,000 staff over the next four years. The 50:50 venture will be called Nokia Siemens Networks Tie-up had sales of $32b last year and will be a
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      • 423 H12 New York AS BILL Gates begins the two-year process of cleaning out his desk at Microsoft, the two men named to succeed him bring decidedly different experiences and personalities to the top technical jobs at the world's most powerful software company. The question:
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      • 37 H12 W] Yesterday's close: 15,768.86 (-73.79 points) Hong Kong stocks fell, snapping a three-day advance, after a United States Federal Reserve official signalled that interest rates may keep rising. HSBC Holdings declined. BLOOMBERG NEWS
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      • 39 H12 w Yesterday's close: 14,860.35 (-18.99 points) The Nikkei fell 0.13 per cent as exporters such as Advantest fell due to growing uncertainties about the global economy and Komatsu slipped on worries over demand from China. REUTERS
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      • 34 H12 W\ Yesterday's close: 4,901.2 (-67.8 points) Australian stocks finished 1.36 per cent tower on fresh US interest rate concerns, while China's move to tighten credit conditions further also unsettled investors. AFP
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      • 36 H12 E Yesterday's close: 1, 586.29 (+11.82 points) Chinese shares closed 0.76 per cent higher, as investors pushed the market up after sharp gains last Friday, with metal companies and carmakers m favour. AFP
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        36 H12 fsfsfsf Yesterday's close: 9,997.84 (+113.33 points) The Sensex, after a choppy day, ended m positive territory because of buying at lower levels. The benchmark index has gained 1,069 points m the last three days.
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      • 35 H12 ffsfsfsf Yesterday's close: 889.51 (-3.99 points) Malaysian stocks closed 0.45 per cent lower, as underlying sentiment remained cautious, finding no strong lead from overseas markets due to concerns over interest-rate hikes. AFP
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      • 35 H12 ~W] Yesterday's close: 135.05 (-14.47 points) Indonesian shares finished 1.11 per cent lower on profit-taking m thin trade after last week's two-day rally, mirroring falls m other markets m the region. AFP
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      • 36 H12 Yesterday's close: 659.68 (-5.71 points) >» Thai stocks closed 0.86 per cent down, pressured by sustained concern over rising US interest rates. Volume was 939 million shares, worth 7.6 billion baht (*****.2 million). AFP
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      • 248 H12 June 19 Stock Name Wt Close Change AltgreenSOc 0.30 1.300 -0.040 Ascendasreit 1.04 1.980 -0.060 BIL Intl US2OC 0.40 1.320 -0.010 Capita Land 4.20 4.360 -0.060 Capita Mall 0.74 2.130 +0.010 Chart SemiCond 26c 1.13 1.410 CityOevHc 269 9.350 -0.100 ComfortOelGro 25c .1.54 1.470 -0.03 b
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      • 68 H12 June 19 FHTK Hldgs 0.5 c 264,491,000 Sing Tel 15c 29,722,000 GuangzhaolFß 5c 20,527,000 Hengxin 18,929,000 China Sun HK25c 12,325,000 Global Voice 5c 12,198,000 Celestial US6c 11,673,000 SGX 1c 11,109,000 Gallant 10.440,000 Digiland 9,894,000 I UTAC USl5c 9,335,000 Luzhou 8,923,000 China Essen HKSOc 8,231,000 China Petro 4c 7,576,000
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      • 136 H12 June 19 Indian rupee 3.300 3.600 Indonesian rupiah 0.*****. ...0.***** Japanese yen 1.3748 1.3901 Korean won 0.1630 0.1700 N Taiwan dollar 4.730 4.970 Nor kroner 25.30 26.00 Pakistan rupee 2.500 2.800 Philippine peso 2.850 3.040 Saudi riyal 42.00 43.00 S African rand 20.80 23.50 Sri Lanka rupee 1.410 1.560
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      • 221 H12 London THE NYSE Group would consider creating a new London exchange to compete with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) if its acquisition of Par-is-based Euronext does not deliver the international share listings business it expects, chief executive John Thain said m an interview.
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      • 142 H12 Hong Kong HONG KONG telecoms carrier PCCW said yesterday that it has received a non-binding expression of interest from an independent third party to acquire nearly all of its core phone and media assets. The firm, controlled by tycoon Richard Li, did not name the
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    • SPORTS
      • 1114 H15 »GOLF One hole from winning US Open, he blows chance for 3rd straight Major and hands title to Geoff Ogilvy Mamaroneck (New York) ALL Phil Mickelson had to do was hit the fairway on the par-four finishing hole. Instead, he hit a tent. He
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      • 626 H15 BASKETBALL Miami DWYANE Wade scored 43 points, including two free throws with 1.9 seconds left m overtime, for Miami to beat Dallas 101-100 on Sunday. That allowed the Heat to grab a 3-2 lead m the National Basketball Association Finals. His free
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      • 244 H15 TENNIS LONDON AUSTRALIAN Lleyton Hewitt ended a 17-month title drought by beating American James Blake 6-4, 6-4 m the Stella Artois Championships on Sunday. But the talking point m the Wimbledon warm-up event remains his 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 semi-final win over
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      • HOME SPORTS
        • 47 H15 SINGAPORE Sports School triple jumper Stefan Tseng broke his own national junior record at the Swift Championships at the Gombak Stadium on Sunday. The 15-year-old jumped 15.05 metres to better the 14.92 m he set at the National Junior Athletic Championships m April.
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      • 803 H15 BADMINTON Malaysian Open m Kuching, Sarawak, finals Men's singles: Lee Chong Wei (Mas) bt Lin Dan (Chn) 21-18 18-21 23-21. Doubles: Ko Kien Keat/Chan Chong Ming (Mas) bt Lin Woon Fui/ Mohd Tazari Mohd Fairuzizuan (Mas) 14-21 21-11 21-17. Women's singles: Zhang Ning (Chn) bt Tracey Hallam (Gbr) 21-12
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      • WORLD CUP 2006
        • 421 H16  -  Christopher Ong Singapore referee is first to take charge of three games at World Cup Finals By SINGAPORE'S Shamsul Maidin has achieved yet another first m his refereeing career he will be the first referee to officiate a third match at the 2006 World Cup. The
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        • 268 H16 FIFA is pleased that its message getting tough on cynical fouls is getting across. After a slow start, World Cup referees dished out red cards to five players including three m Saturday's Italy-United States game. Eleven players received two yellows after the first half of the
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        • 765 H16  -  Nicholas Fang The Readers' World Cup SINGAPOREANS AT GERMANY 2006 »ST PANELLISTS By HAVE the vaunted Samba kings left their trademark spicy brand of football at home m this World Cup? The answer was a resounding "yes" when the question was posed to The Straits Times'
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        • 454 H16  -  Alvin Foo »POIX By YESTERDAY'S QUESTION Have the Asian teams disgraced the continent? YES 2% NO 98% EASY meat? Not really. Pathetic? Think again. Only one out of 50 Straits Times readers felt the Asian teams Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia and South Korea had disgraced the
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          • 112 H16 SINGAPOREANS need to be true football fans and not support a team because of their constant victories at the Worfd Cup. At the end of the day, once the team disappoint them, they will switch to another one. This all boils down to the betting culture m
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          • 135 H16 PERHAPS it is fairer to gauge the performances of Asian teams after the completion of the World Cup group stages. After all, Japan and Saudi Arabia can still qualify, and South Korea held "mi|ftty" France. Besides, with the exception of South Korea, none of the Asian
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          • 119 H16 THE Asian teams have certainly not disgraced the continent. In fact, they have put up valiant performances so far. Despite their players' smaller build, Japan and Korea have stood tall against their bigger opponents. They fought on m spite of the repeated hard knocks, and their skills are
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          • 121 H16 THE English squad are not ready for the next round of the World Cup. Considering the fact that the Three Lions have the most complete starting XI of any country, it would seem that their success is no longer dependent on individual talent but on their
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        • 853 H17  -  Rob Hughes Manager's caution and stifling style reduces team to mediocrity despite quality players By In Germany RESULT IS PARAMOUNT "Everybody wants their team to be more adventurous. But England have shown they know what it's about. They're winning games." SWEDEN COACH LARS LAGERBACK "ENGERLAND Swings
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        • 625 H17 Berlin GERMANY are playing Ecuador and are trying not to think about England. Already assured of a place m the second round, the Germans could be forgiven for looking ahead to one of their possible opponents. This is not what coach Jurgen
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        • 151 H17 JOHN Terry has set England's defence the target of going through the World Cup without conceding a goal. "Obviously, there are world-class strikers and great teams but the defensive lads are desperate not to concede goals. That's our main aim because if we
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        • 202 H17 Kaiserslautern TRINIDAD and Tobago are placing their dreams of an unexpected spot m the second round of the World Cup m the hands of Wayne Rooney. England would do the tiny Caribbean nation a big favour by beating Sweden today, and midfielder Chris Birchall believes the
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        • 927 H18  - Small, small world Jeffrey Low FINAL GROUP GAMES How globalisation has taken the romance out of World Cup by keeping fans informed By CONVERSATION overheard during lunch at Lagoon hawker centre yesterday, between unidentified son wearing England No 7 shirt and unidentified dad wearing Brazil No 10. Son: "Pa, what's
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        • 261 H18 Berlin AUSTRALIAN Harry Kewell needs to learn to watch his mouth. Fifa has charged him with insulting referee Markus Merk after Sunday's 0-2 loss to Brazil. The Liverpool winger has been reported by Merk for swearing at the German official several times. If found
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          • 78 H18 BADEN-BADEN: Victoria Beckham and the other England "WAGS" (wives and girlfriends) visited boutiques here at the weekend, spending 80,000 euros <S$160,000) m one hour. The daily Bild said six of the women, who joined the team m the upscale resort town, included the former Spice
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          • 62 H18 COLOGNE: Frank Lampard has called Alan Shearer as a peace gesture. The Chelsea star had lashed out over the weekend at former England players who have had harsh words about the team's performances Though Lampard did not name names, British newspapers said his rebuke was directed
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          • 55 H18 KOTA BAHRU: A contractor became a casualty of the World Cup when his house m Kampung Jelutong, Bachok, was broken into after he went over to his friend's house to watch Brazil play Australia yesterday morning. The burglar prised open a window and got away with RM7,000
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          • 49 H18 LEIPZIG: Street cleaners here got a pleasant surj esterday morning when they discovered South Korean fans had done their work for them. After celebrating the team's 1-1 draw with 1998 champions France, the fans cleared \x cups and waste paper into garbage bags. AGENCY FRANCE-PRESSE
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        • 316 H19 PHOTO: FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech blamed the referee after his team allowed South Korea to snatch a 1-1 draw on Sunday. "We scored a second time, but the referee didn't recognise that," he said, after television replays suggested that Patrick Vieira had headed
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        • 924 H19  -  Rob Hughes Zidane, Thuram, Vieira and Makelele gasp for breath as Koreans outlast them m draw By In Germany ENJOY THE MOMENT The first thing we must do is have a little celebration... Tomorrow, we will start to think about Switzerland." SOUTH KOREA COACH DICK
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          84 H20 logo 0 Switzerland 2 (Frei 16, Bametta 88) Topo: Kossi Agassa. Assimiou Toure, Massamasso Tchangai, Dare ?ombe, Richmond Forson, Thomas Dossevi (Yao Junior Senaya 69 Kuami Agboh (Moustapha Salifou 25), Aiaixys Romao, Cherif Tourc Robert Malm 87), Mohamed Kader, Emmanuel Adebayor. Switzerland: Pascal Zuberbuhler, Philipp Degen. Patrick Muller,
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        • 708 H20  -  Marc Lim Bickering on and off the field, they go down 0-2 to a precise Switzerland By Sports Correspondent In Germany KEEPING MUM "I shouldn't criticise a referee because you get into trouble." TOGO COACH OTTO PFISTER.ona first-half incident when Emmanuel Adebayor looked unlucky not
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        • 185 H20 THREE teams are still m the running for Group G's two qualifying spots. There is a possibility that France, South Korea and Switzerland may be tied on points after the last round of games. If there is a tie, Switzerland go through because they will have a
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        • 349 H20  -  Teo Cheng Wee By PHOTO: REPUTATIONS, as Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane and Francesco Totti will tell you, count for little m this World Cup. Too bad the Saudis forgot to tell Serhiy Rebrov and Andriy Shevchenko. After an ignominious performance m the 4-0 mauling by Spain, Rebrov
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    • 149 H15 TV times HOCKEY: Sultan Azlan Shah Cup: Netherlands v Argentina (3pm), Pakistan v New Zealand (spm) Live, Ch23. ICE HOCKEY: Stanley Cup Finals, Game 7: Edmonton v Carolina (Live, Ch22, Bam). SOCCER: World Cup Group A: Costa Rica v Poland (Live, Ch22, 10pm and Delayed, Ch27, tomorrow, 12.30 am), Ecuador
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    • 190 H17 Sweden have a 38-ytar unbeaten streak against England and will want to extend that run to 12 matches. But how England play may depend on who they prefer to meet m the next round: Germany or Ecuador. where: Rhem-Energfe-Sbdion (Color*) referee: Massimo Busacct (Switzerland) PROBABLE TEAMS 16 K. Kallstroro >
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    • 330 H19 Koreans tired but happy THOUSANDS of bleary-eyed South Koreans trooped to work yesterday, tired hI »Hj but happy after staying up all night to watch ■hgjjl their team draw 1-1 with France. fj^m "We have overcome.'" said the [^^^l2!l|l|0] 3.L^| ilsslLllZTjS^ JS.]? I»^ J °l 6^ »pl^colour n p e
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    • 41 1 Consumer Fair City Forget Orchard Road and the Great Singapore Sale. What's really attracting the Singaporean shopper are the consumer fairs m Singapore Expo and Suntec City. SANDRA LEONG reports Design: Photos JESSICA LIM (main), (top), (above JASTER NGUI REUTERS AFP
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      • 369 2 SYDNEY Actress Nicole Kidman and her country singer fiance Keith Urban said yesterday that they had returned to Australia to be married. "We are very happy to be back m Australia. We have come home to celebrate our wedding with our family and friends," they said m a
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      • 401 2 LONDON Paul McCartney finally turned 64, the age of potential baldness and financial insecurity he sang about m the famous Beatles song When I'm Six-ty-Four. On Sunday, the former Beatle celebrated reaching the age he immortalised on the 1967 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album
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      • 335 2  -  Lee Sze Yong FENG Zhu. Andrew Gordon. You may not have heard their names before, but you must have seen their works. Remember General Grievous, the four-armed villain m Revenge Of The Sith? He originated from Feng Zhu, an American graphic designer's drawing board. Edna, the superhero costume
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        462 10  -  Lee Sze Yong Hong Kong heart throb Ekin Cheng denies dating his former girlfriend Maggie Siu I've said so much about this already. The paparazzi are fabricating their own stories. There are so many versions of my love life now' Ekln Cheng on his current romances IF EKIN
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        174 10 BEIJING Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung are said to have resumed their on-off romance again. The new round of rumours came after the ani-mal-loving actress surprised the Hong Kong press last week by suddenly selling her six dogs. Chinese website Sina claimed yesterday that she did so because
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      • 125 10 HONG KONG Actor Andy Lav (right) may be about to make his Eng-lish-language movie debut m an Olivier Assayas film. Boarding Gate, Next magazine reported. Assayas. the ex-hus-band of actress Maggie Cheung, reportedly met with Lav last week at the Hong Kong actor's office. But Lav
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      • 372 3  -  Clara Chow Mr Khaw Boon Wan opens classical Indian concert with his performance ARTS CORRESPONDENT HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan made his tabla debut at the Victoria Theatre with a relaxed smile on Sunday. The minister's performance opened Taal Express, a classical Indian music concert by
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      • 377 3  -  Hong Xinyi ARTS REPORTER FOR those who consider the two hours it takes to watch a full-length play too much of a commitment, Australian stage director Mark Cleary is prepared to whet their artistic appetites with bite-sized 10-minute plays. Cleary, 40, is the artistic director of Australia's
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      • 169 3 FP, HAVING been thrust into the limelight as the authority on the arts festival, now understands, hand on heart, Greta Garbo's famously throbbing declaration to the media, "I want to be left alone." But there are those who, m FP's humble opinion, err too much on the side
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      • 619 4  -  Clara Chow Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo provides the inspiration for this stage thriller told through sound ARTS CORRESPONDENT THE inner workings of a sound studio are brought to life m this piece of theatre. Because Phobia, a tale told through sound, by Melbourne arts company Chamber Made Opera, is
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      • 305 4  -  Gladys Chung A GUZHENG is just a guzheng, right? Except when the zithers come from Indonesia and Mongolia. The Blue Ocean Guzheng Association left the audience mesmerised with melodious harmonies emanating from the stringed instruments. The concert took place under blue skies at the Shaw
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      1483 5  -  Sandra Leong Astute Singaporean shoppers are flocking to consumer fairs m Singapore Expo and Suntec City People are looking for exciting events to visit and occupy their time. There's more to life than just shopping' Singex's group general manager Matthew Meredith (right, with Chandran Nair, deputy general manager)
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    • 253 5 SINGAPORE got sale meh? The issue of just howgood or bad the ongoing Great Singapore Sale (GSS) is seems to have struck a chord with Singaporeans. The topic has garnered the highest number of eyeballs so far on the Talkback forum of Stomp, or the Straits
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      • 728 6  - Cheers to Munich Marc Lim There's more than just football and beer to raise a toast to m this German city IN MUNICH. GERMANY (Clockwise from main picture) The Neves Rathaus or New Town Hali boasts a gothic-style facade and the famous Glockenspiel bell tower; Shoppers stroll through Marienplatz, the
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      • 602 7 MUST EAT... Weisswurst, a white veal sausage usually eaten with a pretzel or bread and some sweet mustard. This is a typical Bavarian meal. The more adventurous can try the Ratskefler (Marianplatz 8) for hearty. meat-based meals. A three-course meal costs an average of 50 euros
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      • 668 7 PHOTOS: WHILE football may be the primary focus right now. World Cup fans can also get some sightseeing m the other host cities the World Cup like Berlin. Nuremberg. Hamburg and Frankfurt. Here are the leading attractions m these perennial travel favourites: > Berlin THE museums
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    • 500 2 \A/h^t cinciflo VVI ICIL D*****%1C i A WIN A TIGER HAMPER PAGE 28 4 DIGITAL LIVING Managing gamers Singapore's PC gamers get savvy. Al Ik Chic way to Club A I wL^M ml A m Check out the ST Digital Club. m i B A Waning entertainment value Mm Sales
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      • 374 18 A round-up of new products and services for consumers Wf* 3TVJC6S The Best Mobile Expense Mana- Windows Mobile platform, but w-| i« ger is a software application, which plans to introduce it to Symbian and VlbUdl idulu allows users to generate reports, Java platforms m future. 93.3FM can now tune
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      • 327 21  - Concert charity costly tix Yang Huiwen PHOTO: Fans are bidding for tickets up to over $1,000 for Coldplay's sellout concert on July 10 and the seller is record company EMI British band Coldplay's concert tickets are sold out. Where is the next best place for desperate fans to go hunt
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      • 644 21 The case of trainee doctor Adrian Yeo caught for drug possession has bloggers debating on the methods the authorities used to nab him. YANG HUI WEN reports Pause to analyse http://commentarysingapore.blogs-pot.com/2006/06/interesting-case.html Excerpt: "What is your own reaction to this case?... Pause now, and analyse. What would have been your
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      • 603 22 Abuzz with new ideas The CommunicAsia exhibition and conference which opens today will showcase new technologies and create business opportunities. Alvin Lai takes you on a quick tour. This year's CommunicAsia a premier global information and communication technologies (ICT) exhibition and conference which runs from today to Friday at the
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      • 58 22 Event info 2OOG ExMHtioit Date: Today to Friday Time: Today to Thursday: 10.30 am to 6pm, Friday: 10.30 am to spm Venue: Singapore Expo 2006 Summit Date: Today to Thursday Tune: 9am to 4.1 5pm Venue: Raffles City Convention Centre Admission is open to trade professionals onfy. For admission details,
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      • 367 24 jniMMtfftff 4ftM4tt£ mm tfßMtfßJfVAMfltfV EXIIIBITION I BrUaUuuSltlSlaZUUb 20 22 June 2006 1 30am 6pm I m^m^K^am m MMiM^H# Lbhhbi ■hh 23 June 2006, 10.30 am spm I The 1 1th International Digital Multimedia Entertainment Technology Exhibition Conference rI OommunicHsia2OOß nmmttmkmm I The 1 7th international Communications and Information Technology Exhibition
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      • 811 25 Let's talk shop /(oH^|HS|^^^^. Alvin Lai gives you a peek of the products and If-^^^— services on display at the Hjj|^HHH| HH CommunicAsia exhibition ■[H^HBh i Bhhl BDk.^ KB^Bt»»__^ By ujl Bjk BvBB Kifl WtSKM he Communic- H9 Hk II tlirtf^r Tif-^ 2 I Bk, liH V^mßl BPT Asia exhibition
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      • 577 26  -  CARL SKADIAN BY DIGITAL EDGE A ringtone that only kids can hear and a sport kit where a "coach" whispers "Well done" recent innovations from imaginative minds After a fairly lengthy period of yawn at new tech offerings, two recent developments have renewed my faith
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        866 27 PHOTO: Here is how to get the most out of the modes m your digital camera, writes M.K. WONG A myriad modes and just as many decisions to make with each shot. But do not fret. Here is how to get around for exposure, metering, focusing and
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      • 941 28 Bring the stadium into the living room The picture and sound are so vivid that you can feel the atmosphere of the stadium. It feels like I'm there m Germany!" Mr Lim Thiam Hock Watch your favourite soccer team play larger-than-life on the telly, hear every scuffle, and join m
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      • 249 30 BUM $68 VS fighting PS2 Street Fighter Alpha Anthology Taking place between the first and second Street Fighter tournaments, the Alpha trilogy of games not only shed light on our favourite world warriors' backstories, but also presented us with, at the time, revolutionary gameplay that still
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      • 569 32  - FIRST LOOKS Sony brings out the Alpha Serene Luo By FINAL SAY While most say to wait for the second version, I say this camera is worthy of the sacrifice of wallets from first-time DSLR buyers. Advanced users should start petitioning Sony for their own version. Sony Alpha 100 digital
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      • 345 33  -  Alfred Siew By FINAL SAY The P3OO will catch the eye of the fashion-conscious especially the snobbish set, given its high price. But users looking for more features and better ease of use may be disappointed. Samsung SGH-P3OO $988 Get it at phone retail shops
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      • 167 33 FINAL SAY A top-of-the-line DVD camcorder, the DZ-GX33OOE is easy to use and records good quality videos directly to DVD discs. Hitachi DVD Camcorder DZ-GX33OOE •$1,999 Available at authorised dealers Here comes Hitachi*s DZ-GX33OOE, which the manufacturer says is the world's first fastest multi-format DVD camcorder.
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      • 184 33 FINAL SAY A sweet sweet style of sound. Edifier iF33O $139 Get it from authorised dealers The Edifier iF33O is another one of many travel speakers made for the iPod except that it comes m black. Unlike the chunky iPod Hi-Fi, the iF33O requires no handles
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      • 456 34 Digital Life HELP DESK Have any questions you want answered? Want to know what's wrong with your PC? E-mail us at stdled@sph.com.sg Include your full name and contact numbers My Windows XP keeps restarting QMy Windows XP doesn't load normally and keeps restarting after I recently formatted my hard disk
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      • 91 28 WIN A TIGER HAMPER i Five hampers each with two cartons of beer up for grabs! Answer the questions below: j I 1. Mr Lim Thiam Hock owns a Samsung R7 32-inch LCD TV. I I D Yes D No I 2. Can you record matches on your computer? DYes
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      • 1190 29 r Cheatsheet- n ift O IVI L j^ $W^k VJ k Don't let go of your Ell w m I fvWTnfll sanity. That is probably -RrX/IPIA/Sj 1^ "nji H L2AI2J the most important thing B^fl a l^ to do m Cthulhu. ■■^^■1 rni^c. 949.9U jn some p Ort j ons
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      • 622 31 a J FOUR GAMING KEYBOARDS were put to the test. And J^^^RJ B^M £jßk PRODUCT! without a doubt the Logitech Gl 5 claims its rightful spot M;'-* )K^X^Ue9 M^M I at the top of the hill for this showdown. Truly a keyboard Hi^Pl |L pri/ir II designed with the habits
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      • 204 31 THIRD RUNNER-UP: Wolf Claw Devour Strangely shaped like a pan pizza, the Wolf Claw Devour is the latest m this series of keyboards. Interestingly, its makers decided to leave out the rest of the traditional keyboard's alphabets and symbols on this one, and go straight to the heart of first-person
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        • 126 35 Lenovo has launched the Lenovo 3000 VlOO notebook designed for professionals on the go. The ultra-portable notebook, weighing just I.Bkg, is powered by Intel Core Duo processors so you can work it doubly hard, running multiple programs simulBesides its 12.1-inch WXGA TFT screen, the VlOO also
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        • 75 35 Storage Gain without the pain Searching through 10 years' worth of data is no longer a pain with Hitachi Data Systems' new Content Archive Platform. The platform scales to over 300 terabytes and supports 350 million files per archive. At the same time, its tiered storage and integrated management system
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        • 112 35 IT managers looking to deploy new machines m a few easy steps can check out Acronis Snap Deploy. 2.o. The system and software deployment application will let you deploy a standard software configuration to many computers or servers simultaneously, even if they have different hardware configurations.
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        • 92 35 Hewlett-Packard and SAP have teamed up to give medium-sized enterprises the goodness from both companies m a single package. You buy a Hewlett-Packard server loaded up with SAP's pre-configured solutions. These include integrated software, systems and servers, which run on Intel architecture. The bundled offerings will
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        • 122 35 Sonic Wall has launched the SonicOS 3.2 Enhanced. The new release of its SonicOS Enhanced operating system now supports Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2), the latest authentication protocol for site-to-site virtual private networks (VPNs). Made to work with its hardware, the software upgrade promises to offer
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        • 115 35 INTERNET SEARCH LEADER Google is testing a system that aims to speed purchases online, but bears no resemblance to the popular Pay Pal payments service of Web auctioneer eßay, Google's chief executive said last week. Analysts had recently speculated whether Google would directly compete with
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        • 118 35 Ozzie takes top Microsoft job AFTER A TWO-DECADE courtship of Mr Ray Ozzie, Microsoft finally landed the soft-spoken industry visionary last year and now he will succeed company founder Bill Gates as its top technical guru. Standing at the forefront of Microsoft's push to integrate online services with its dominant
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        • 175 35 THE UNITED STATES government has joined forces with the entertainment industry to stop the freewheeling global bazaar m pirated movies and music pressuring foreign governments to crack down or risk incurring trade barriers. Last year, for instance, the movie industry lobby suggested that Sweden
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        • 129 35 BUSINESS SOFTWARE MAKER Oracle disclosed last week that its fiscal fourth-quarter results will be better than analysts anticipated, providing the strongest evidence yet that a nearly US$2O billion (5531 .7 billion) shopping spree is finally beginning to pay off. The news lifted Oracle's listless
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        • 107 35 USA VIDEO TECHNOLOGY Corp, a small technology firm that holds patents for the digital delivery of media, said last week it has filed a suit against top US cable operators over their video-on-demand services. The company said it sued Time Warner, Cox Communications, Charter
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      • 701 36 If every company innovates, no one would have come up with something special. The idea is not to have more of the same, but more, writes GRACE CHNG Before you take one step forward, take two steps back. Or so it would appear,
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      • 412 37 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GOES on all the time at ST Electronics. It spends about 5 per cent of its overall revenue $712 million for 2005 on research and development. Here are two products that its engineers developed recently. MINI-V It is the world's smallest portable Very
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      • 784 38 Keep your password and PIN safe and only to yourself. Be wary of unsolicited e-mails asking you to disclose any personal details or card numbers. No financial institution m Singapore would solicit personal details (such as PIN and password) over the Internet. World Cup season is
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      • 18 35 The Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 is available now at www.acronis.com.sg. The price for one copy is U5519.99 (Ss32).
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      • 47 35 Prices are not available. For more information on the solutions, e-mail raji.iyengar@hp.com t Customers with a TZ or PRO Series Internet security appliance under warranty or protected by Sonic Wall's support agreement can download SomcOS 3.2 Enhanced for free from www.mysonicwall.com Compiled by Tham Yuen-C (yuenc@sph.com. sg)
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      • 158 36 Page 37: ST Electronics innovations. (gpiffin) www.griffintechnology.com $98 $98 j— n, $55 $28 *&ffi~ "W J *ka If AVaVj m^H iFM PSP iTrip PSP Road Dock PSP Smart Share PSP Radio and Remote for PSP FM Transmitter for PSP Travel Dock for PSP Headphones Splitter for PSP Sole Distributor: (Mac
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