Today, 18 November 2000

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    13 1 TODAY IS 3. 111 T Cl 2i V November 18,2000 MiiA(Pii3s ii: in
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  • Article
    $6.9b deal slips away
    416 1  -  Steven Ooi So close yet so far for S'pore weapons firm L steven@newstoday.com.sg A SINGAPORE company came within a whisker of creating history yesterday, when it almost snared a $6.9 billion contract to supply lightweight combat vehicles to the US army. In the end, Singapore Technologies
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    Ex-Olympic star surfaces in S'pore – for the wrong reason
    244 1  - Ex-Olympic star surfaces in S'pore for the wrong reason Elaine Quek ......by elaine@newstoday.com.sg FOR the past three years, an Olympic goldmedallist has been living and working in Singapore, almost unknown to us. Yesterday, he stepped out of anonymity to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. The six-time word record-holder
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  • HOT NEWS
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      More going for Buddhism
      304 2 Survey also shows it is getting popular with university grads NOT only has Buddhism been the fastest growing religion in Singapore over the past 10 years, it is also rising very quickly among university graduates. An advance snapshot of Singapore's Census of Population 2000 shows that
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      Lock icon Tribute to Vietnamese dead
      128 2 -AFP HANOI In an historic visit to the site of the Vietnam War which he had opposed in his youth, President Bill Clinton paid tribute yesterday to the "three million brave soldiers and civilians" who perished in both Vietnamese armies, as well as to the 58,000
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      Lock icon Two blasts in Jakarta
      186 2 AFP JAKARTA An explosion blew out the windows of the fifth floor of a hotel in Jakarta's western commercial district yesterday. Police are investigating the blast at the Hotel 388-room Omni Batavia to determine whether it was caused by "a bomb, a grenade or a large
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      Lock icon KL doctor sues SIA
      113 2 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian doctor who broke a tooth while biting into a fish bone during a meal on an SIA flight, has sued the carrier for damages. Dr Jagdev Singh Ujagar Singh filed a suit at a magistrate's court, claiming SIA had negligently served
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      Lock icon Families of mad cow victims to sue
      175 2 AFP PARIS The families of two French victims of the human version of mad cow disease plan to sue the British and French governments and the European Union for "encouraging" the spread of the epidemic. The suit, the first of its kind in
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      Nyah, nyah, nee, nyah, nyah, says Sony rival
      197 3 THIS postcard (left) was sent out by Sega to the press, analysts and retail stores this week. The message refers to the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console, which was released last month in the United States with much fanfare. Due to
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      Lock icon quicksolve.sg
      224 3 Channel NewsAsia. S'pore panel to be set up to settle disputes over domain names THE Singapore Network Information Centre or SGNic is working out a scheme to allow .sg domain name disputes to be resolved through special fasttrack arbitration. Chief Justice Yong Pung How announced this latest initiative during
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      Lock icon Shark-alert sonar at Perth beach
      182 3 -AFP PERTH A multi-million dollar sonar system may be used to warn Western Australian beachgoers of approaching sharks. This follows a fatal attack at a popular Perth tourist beach last week when a 49-year-old father of three was killed by a fivemetre white shark. Mayor
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      Lock icon Chinese govt up in arms
      125 3 AFP BEIJING All because of this title of a play being shown in Paris: "Chinese and dogs not allowed". Beijing has demanded that the French government immediately put an end to "this insult to the Chinese people". The title of the play, being directed by
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      Do not open, this Christmas 'package' contains an e-mailing virus
      222 3  -  Solomon E Solomon ....by solomon@newstoday.com.sg A NEW mass e-mailing virus believed to have originated in South America has found its way into Singapore. Called "Navidad" which is Spanish for Christmas, it attacks if a user clicks on the attachment named
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      Hear me out
      505 4  -  Ng Boon Yian Tough to fight SM, PM for media coverage ....by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg GET the media's attention that is one of the first tasks facing Mr Zainul Abidin Rasheed when he takes over the chairmanship of Ang Mo KioCheng San Community Development Council (CDC) next week. But
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      Lock icon Frenchman gets life
      68 4 -AFP JAKARTA A court in Bali has given a Frenchman the life sentence for trying to smuggle 3.8 kilograms of hashish into the Indonesian island. Security officers found the drugs hidden in scuba diving tanks, when Michael Loic, 27, was at Ngurah Rai airport. A panel of
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      Lock icon Microsoft donates cash
      65 4 CNA. COMPUTER software giant Microsoft has donated more than $700,000 worth of software and cash to the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS) to help bridge the digital divide. The $600,000 of software and $100,000 cheque for IT infrastructure is part of Microsoft Foundation Campaign's
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      78 4 AFP PHOTO A Sotheby's handout photo showing a painting ofWinnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Pot was sold for £124,250 at an auction in London on Thursday. The only known oil painting of the bear was expected to fetch about £30,000 but Internet bidder David Loch was so determined to snare the
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      Cost-slashing ideas
      115 4 IF you think filling in those staff suggustion schemes forms is bothersome, think again. The Civil Service saved a whopping $263 million from work improvement suggestions by their workers in the fiscal year 1999. That is up 65 per cent from 1998 when savings were $160 million. A
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      S'pore kindness
      113 4 FOR the first time, Singapore is hosting the third World Kindness Movement Conference. An apt venue, since Singaporeans displayed great kindness during two recent national calls for help, said President S. R. Nathan, who launched the conference. One was the overwhelming public response to appeals for blood donations
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  • Home news
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      Not very SAT-isfactory
      445 5  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Local students weak in reasoning skills and time management ....by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREAN students have the range of vocabulary to tackle the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT). But they could slip up in reasoning skills and time management in the test that will become crucial to
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      Brush up your bahasa, urges Yaacob
      235 5 SOME Malay presenters need to brush up on their Malay. The chairman of the Malay Programme Advisory Committee on Radio and Television Programmes, Associate Professor Yaacob Ibrahim (right), said that presenters tended to be very fluent when they were reading from prepared scripts. But
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      Lonely woman found dead, relative under investigation for murder
      297 5 SHE was a lonely woman. Ms Lim Bee Tee, 49, lived on her own in her Tanglin Halt flat. No one, it seems, has visited her this year. And no one knew she was dead until a strong stench started to
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  • YOUR LETTER
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      Whither justice?
      444 6 WE reported on Thursday that cameras would soon be installed in the Supreme Court to videotape trials. Supreme Court Registrar, Mr Chiam Boon Keng told TODAY that the .move is aimed at helping judges make observations of the demeanour of the witnesses and enhance the deci-sion-making process. The
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      Kidney failure when he was eight-months old
      292 6  -  Leong Phei Phei ...by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg THIS 13-year-old has a height problem, weight problem and a kidney problem. Jonathan Koh has battled kidney disease all his life. Jonathon Koh is only 1.23 metres tall, weighs only 23.7 kg and had a kidney failure when
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      'Let SQ 006 pilots head back home'
      150 6 THAT'S what the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Association (IFALPA) had to say about the three Singapore pilots who are now detained in Taiwan to assist in investigations into the SQ 006 crash. The international association expressed their concern with the current status
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      3rd quarter GDP up by 10.4%
      488 7  -  Chan Chao Peh Singapore raises full-year growth forecast to 9.5 per cent ...by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S third quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose by 10.4 per cent, beating the earlier official estimate of 10.2 per cent. This has resulted in a nine-month average of 9.8
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      Lock icon Keppel raises stake in tower project
      197 7 Bloomberg News KEPPEL Corp said the group will pay $121 million to port operator PSA Corp to raise its stake in a joint tower development project. Keppel Corp and its property arm, Keppel Land teamed up last year with PSA to build new twin
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      35 7 AFP photo Frances Imwold stands next to a F4O Ferrari on display at the I 2000 Sydney Motor Show. Up to 600 cars from 42 manufacttir- j ers and over 190 motorcycles are on show.
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      Lock icon Malaysian developer to bid for S'pore land
      219 7 Bloomberg News KUALA LUMPUR 101 Properties, Malaysia's second-largest publicly traded developer, said it's considering bidding again for a parcel of downtown land in Singapore after its first offer was rejected. "We will have to re-evaluate, depending on the market situation," said Mr Yeo
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      Gloria's here!
      327 8  -  Lee Yew Meng North America's largest mall-based coffee chain to open 25 outlets ....by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg GLORIA Jean's Coffees, the largest mallbased coffee retail in North America, will invest $15 million to open 25 outlets here over the next five years. Its first outlet at One Fullerton in Collyer
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      Lock icon Vietnam signs $836 mil Boeing deal
      252 8 AFP HANOI State-run Vietnam Airlines signed a letter of intent yesterday for a Us4Bo million ($836 million) deal to buy three 777 passenger airplanes from American aviation giant Boeing, further raising the possibility of direct flights to the United States. Boeing's vice president of
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      Lock icon Sumitomo, Mitsui Chemicals in $12 billion merger
      199 8 Bloomberg News TOKYO Sumitomo Chemical has agreed to merge with Mitsui Chemicals in a transaction valued at about U56.9 billion ($l2 billion). The merger will take effect in October 2003 when the two form a holding company that would be Asia's biggest chemicals
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      Lock icon L&M to sell Indonesian pipeline projects
      275 8 Bloomberg News L&M Group Investments, a Singapore-based engineering company, said it will sell its pipeline projects in Indonesia to PT Siwani Trimitra for less than US$24 million ($42 million). In return, L&M will get a controlling stake in the Indonesian finance company. When the
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  • MARKET NEWS
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      Down and up
      411 9 Singapore market weakens Singapore shares took a beating yesterday, mirroring the broader trend on Wall Street. Brokers downgraded semiconductor, paper and auto stocks resulting in generally poor market sentiments. At its nadir, the STI index fell to 1948.45 before some short covering and light bargain hunting lifted
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      Late buying spurt lifts KL market
      383 9 KUALA LUMPUR -Late buying support from local institutions yesterday lifted the Malaysian market after a boring morning session. This helped to push the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite 5.1 points higher to close the week at 735.1. Some bargain hunting was also detected, particularly on
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Stress deaths jolt firms
      195 10 Japanese companies act after 33,000 die TOKYO Japanese companies are starting to realise that it is time to do something about the rising number of employee suicides due to work stress. But whether such efforts, based on the firms' desire to improve productivity, can really help
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      Lock icon Inside the tunnel of fiery horror
      54 10 Reuters AUSTRIA Nothing but twisted wreckage like this remains in the aftermath of the intense fire that destroyed a train packed with skiers last Saturday, killing about 155 people inside the Austrian Alps near Kaprun. The train, packed with skiers, was destroyed in the
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      Lock icon Don't be fooled by fertility cycle: Doctors
      129 10 -AFP LONDON Women who want to become pregnant or those who wish to avoid conception by timing intercourse according to the fertile period of their cycle may be fooling themselves. The "window of fertility" can be highly unpredictable, even among women whose menstrual
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      45 10 Revised axioms for i the new millennium: If you can't siand the heat, get a pool. Don't count your chickens, eat them. When in Rome, do Roman numerals in math. Too many cooks, so little meals. A fool and his money are my best friends.
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      British MPs red-faced over luxury spending
      253 10 LONDON After the furore over the cost over-runs of the Millennium Dome, members of parliament are blushing over the £1 million they voted to be spent on themselves. Portcullis House, opposite the Houses of Parliament, was completed this year at a cost of £231
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      Lock icon Mistresses to testify?
      277 11 AFP Estrada's trial may see his Magnificent Seven kissing and telling against him MANILA All seven mistresses of Philippines President Joseph Estrada may be called to give evidence about his wealth at his impeachment trial. The mistresses will be known in court only by code names, though
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      Lock icon Daring ambush by gang in Cambodia
      155 11 -AFP PHNOM PENH In typical movie-style, an armed Cambodian gang snatched two comrades outside a Phnom Penh court yesterday. This happened in a daring raid which left two people dead and five injured. About 10 men armed with assault rifles and hand grenades shot
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      Taiwanese VP on warpath threatens to sue
      181 11 TAIPEI Taiwanese VicePresident Annette Lu (above, right) has threatened to sue a magazine which claimed that she had spread rumours about an alleged affair betweeen President Chen Shui-bian (above, left) and his English translator. But the weekly magazine, The Journalist, is sticking to
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      Lock icon $18 million spent on casino prince's wedding
      145 11 AFP HONG KONG Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho has spent more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars (5513.5 million) on wedding celebrations for his only son. The two-day event was dubbed the "wedding of the century" by local media. It began with a
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      Lock icon Wife-beating justified?
      84 11 Reuters NEW DELHI More than half of Indian women believe that wife-beating can be justified, according to a health ministry survey of 90,000 women. Some of the reasons include neglecting the house or going out without informing their husbands, showing disrespect to in- laws and suspicion of infidelity.
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      Lock icon Saddam gets a Boeing gift
      71 11 Oana-Xinbua BAGHDAD A gift of love that's what the head of Qatar's national airline said when he presented a Boeing 747 passenger plane to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Sheikh Hamad bin Ali Al-Thani, who arrived in Iraq by the same plane on Thursday, said the
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  • SHOWCASE
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      Shopping spree with Spin cast
      700 13  -  Rosalind Png Compiled by rosalind@newstoday.com.sg Be A Spin Stylist for a Day Shop For Free Today, 2.30pm The Heeren Shops, The Annex, level 5 Go down to the Heeren this afternoon and meet the cast of Spin. You will also stand a chance to win
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon No home, and all alone
      1123 17  -  Ng Boon Yian ....by in Hongkong boonyian@newstoday.com.sg BEING young, poor and homeless in glitzy and prosperous Hong Kong, Peter Lau Pei Tak (above) must have felt the bitter irony of his predicament. While other 28-year-olds are cruising down trendy lanes in their posh convertibles, chasing
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      Music dabbler
      657 25  -  Lim Sek Chicken Rice War, the CD, features a whole crop of homegrown music talent. Lim Sek brings you behind the scenes... IT has been years since I started reviewing music for the papers that were around in the 80s. In case you are wondering, I started writing
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      Momo steers to Stamford
      405 28 It's a tyre-ring business, but someone has to do it TECHNOLOGY may affect engine producers of the future, as the Motorshow has already revealed, but there will always be a need for wheels and tyres. That must give Stamford Tyres, Singapore's biggest tyre stockist and wheel
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      Hawaii in China
      464 30  -  Leong Phei Phei Sanya City, a blend of sun, sea and sand with culture ...I pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg TOUTED as the Hawaii of the East, Sanya City in the southernmost part of Hainan Island, China, is a yet undiscovered tourist beach resort. It was only in the 1990s that
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      242 19 appointments! Today Saturday November 18,2000 2* ffl VVvr\n§ \.a\ev\te<A vwiwviuaVs. The newspaper that you are holding is the latest to hit the streets of Singapore. It aims to give readers all the news that matters and all the juices that are fresh! If you have what it takes to be
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      782 35  -  Harry Harris Don't be surprised, says our columnist Harry Harris LONDON While Peter Taylor's new-age squad was greeted with euphoria, the level of opposition to Sven Goran Eriksson, on the grounds that he is the first foreign boss of the England team, borders on
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      1070 36 Reuters The two Manchesters meet tonight at Maine Road, so expect some fireworks LONDON Tonight's Manchester derby, the first in four and a half years, is more than just another game for City. For the Maine Road Club, it is a symbolic sign of the club's
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      392 37 MANCHESTER It has finally been said. And by none other than a Manchester United player. New England captain David Beckham believes that the country's international future lies in the new generation of Anfield players emerging under Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier. Beckham is himself the jewel
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      426 38  -  Leonard Thomas The Tiger Man Series Surachai has bags of stamina ....w leonard@newstoday.com.sg photo GOMBAK United's midfield cog is the heartbeat of Thailand. On the surface, there was not much of a fuss when Surachai Jaturapattarapong announced his retirement from international football. The 31-year-old Thai captain cited fatigue
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      589 39  -  S. Murali ....by murali@newstoday.com.sg NO comment. The phrase that often gives journalists nightmares. Two words that essentially tell a reporter to go fly the proverbial kite. But sometimes, no comment says a lot. Take for instance.Nazri Nasir's verdict on his
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      42 38 to wait ninety minutes m I* I i©- -1 w I Tioerl pag-.-.vSS'"! Brace yourself tor the final showdown of the 'Live' Tiger Cup action on Sports City. -\nmnwna Temperature is suVe-to rfce r so keigp a fewlce-coM Tf^ers hajirfy. rr ~t-.-_
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