Today, 22 January 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 7 1 TODAY Monday January 22, 2001 < MITA(P) miunooQ
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 535 1 Reuters. US fares OK, says senior official WASHINGTON The inaugural celebrations are over, and the fast-sinking US economy could end the party for President George W. Bush just as he settles into the Oval Office. Economists say the economy, in its record 10th year of expansion, is
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    • 267 1 Bloomberg I News THE man who was handpicked to lead Singapore's banking revolution is leaving the scene soon and another foreigner will replace him. DBS Group Holdings Ltd has named Mr Philippe Paillart as chief executive of Southeast Asia's biggest bank to replace Mr John
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    • 217 1 No Crystal Ball, No Tarot Cards, No Tea Leaves. >stec«<fSSL Just lns'9htful Analysis. »i!^^S^^«^w^ Seven months ago, the consensus was for even stronger U.S. growth and more rate hikes. We disagreed. We Liked healthcare t^ wTm^^l^^^^^ and Financials, but not technology. We were right. 1-0^ Financial planning isn't about smoke-and-mirror
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  • HOT NEWS
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      463 2  -  Ng Boon Yian Be ready for Singapore's uncertain economic prospects, they say by and Elaine Quek bo o nyian ©newstoday. com. sg WHILE one was in an Ang Mo Kio market pumping hands with stallholders and the other slipping angpaws into elderly people's hands in a Yishun old
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    • 110 2 BEIJING China's communist authorities announced yesterday an increased crackdown on the Falungong sect in an attempt to avoid further demonstrations by the banned group in Beijing's Tiananmen Square during the Chinese New Year period. Mr Luo Gan, the Chinese Communist Party's official in charge of the maintenance
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    • 178 2 THE Government is studying the possibility of making fire insurance compulsory for stallholders at markets, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who visited a temporary market in his Teck Ghee constituency yesterday morning. The market at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 was burnt down
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    • 115 2 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A group of Malaysian parents have not given up the fight against the closure of a primary school here. Mr Ronnie Liu, a representative of the residents' action committee said about 400 supporters would march before the Education Ministry on Jan 29 to demand
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    • 472 3  -  Leong Phei Phei Child could be schizophrenic by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg YOUR child's inattentiveness and disinterest in class could signal something more than meets the eye. This is what two doctors from the Psychological Medical Branch at the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) found in a study. One
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    • 236 3 IT'S the highest rated local production on Kids Central, with more than 22,000 in viewership every week. The children's science programme, The Big Q, is also a big winner overseas. It earned itself a Gold World Medal (Youth Programmes category) at the New
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    • 136 3 THE People's Association (PA) Indian Dance Group presenting this gigantic "cobra" float. The float is one of the most unique and colourful attractions at Saturday's Chingay parade preview which will be held at the PA Headquarters. This year, the parade will take place
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    • 463 4  -  David Ngiau Singapore's first Indian judge turned 90 last week by david@newstod ay.com .sg DURING his time as a Supreme Court Justice, Dr Choor Singh came to be known as "the hanging judge". He was the first judge to send a woman to the gallows. Even
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    • 107 4 A TOTAL of $7,740 was stolen from a restaurant at Sembawang Drive's Sun Plaza on Saturday. Mr Liu Chi Pang, 37, the restaurant's cook, had locked up the place as he left on Jan 19. He arrived the next day at 8.10 am to find two rear exit
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    • 112 4 A WOMAN was found dead at the ground floor of Blk 959, Hougang St 91, more than a week ago, but no one has come forward to identify her body. The police received a call about woman who had fallen from an unknown height at the
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    • 244 4 NEARLY 75 per cent of the key recommendations proposed by the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on the Ageing Population have already seen significant progress in implementation. These include a fiveyear 593 million Eldercare Masterplan on integrated eldercare programmes within the community, and the establishment of
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    • 156 4 SINGAPORE'S roads are becoming safer as more vehicles pass their roadworthiness inspections at the first attempt, Dr John Chen told the Vicom 20th anniversary dinner last night The Minister of State for Communications, Information Technology and National Development, said that 80 per cent of vehicles
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    • 33 2 P* Got a I story to tell us? y Just dial: L 1800-236-4888 I Or fax: 1 534-4217 Ore-mail: news@newstodayxom,sg Can new Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo live up to expectations? Page 10
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 114 4 READ 0N... Vulnerable market Stock market fall caused by domestic economic woes/8 Did Tommy order bombs? Woman tells police that Tommy made sabotage plans/9 Slowdown may force a trade rethink Bush will have to deal with a more protectionist Congress/1 1 Butterfly lovers They had rehearsed only twice, but their
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  • LETTERS
    • 603 6  -  Narayana Narayana I WOULD like to put forth my views on issues that Mr Ananda Perera mentioned in his letter (Today, Jan 19). "Reserves" are commonly defined as what is saved or set aside as a sort of insurance for future emergency. In a
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    • 148 6  -  Eleanor Ang C.G. EVERY morning, I walk through a sheltered walkway to get to the bus stop outside Ang Mo Kio ITE. I have named this walkway "Death Passage". Excluding Sundays and the mornings of public holidays, students are puffing away at the
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    • 364 6  -  Ms Han Liang Yuan WE refer to Dr Bob Batzinger's feedback on the traffic lights in front of Excelsior Hotel (TODAY, Jan 19). We thank him for this opportunity to explain why there are two sets of traffic lights in the area. The first set
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    • 260 6  -  Annelise Rosen I WOULD like to highlight a really unhealthy habit which is still being practised by some people here in Singapore. While washing ray hands at the toilet at Jurong East Interchange, I observed an elderly lady carrying a child, aged about four,
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 265 7 Bloomberg News Confidence will be restored in Philippines' economy, observers say MANILA The change of leadership in the Philippines should create a surge of Filipino stocks this week, according to observers. Ms Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's inauguration of as president following the resignation of Mr
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    • 375 7 Reuters NEW YORK Wall Street is cautiously falling in love again with the New Economy, as investors start having some good, though not great days. Amidst some talk that the market has reached the bottom, the technology-dominated Nasdaq is slowly rising. About
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    • 251 7 -AFP TOKYO Two years after a government bailout, major Japanese banks are in trouble again as the stock market slump there erodes unrealised gains. The banks use these gains as key money sources to fund their debt disposals. Last week the Bank of Japan held
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    • 175 7 -AFP LONDON British-based oil giant BP will sell off 5,000 petrol filling stations worldwide, a spokesman for the group confirmed yesterday. The closure programme will take up to three years and is expected to raise up to one billion pounds ($2.54 billion), reported the
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Vulnerable market
    • 362 9 -AFP Woman tells police that Tommy made sabotage plans JAKARTA In a startling turn of events, a woman arrested for leaving three bombs in a Jakarta park has told police the explosives were given to her by Tommy Suharto, now on the run from the law.
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    • 159 9 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's transsexuals have urged the government to recognise them as women. The Sunday Star newspaper said a group of transsexuals had made representations to the newly-created Women's Affairs ministry. Dara Othman, 37, a spokesman for the popular "Paper Doll" entertainment
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    • 36 9 RgfflEHS photo. Indian troops from the Border Security Force position themselves outside the presidential palace in New Delhi on Saturday during a rekersal ceremony to mark the end of Republic Day
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    • 154 9 -AFP LONDON One of the rich Hinduja brothers currently facing corruption charges in India won a British passport after a large donation to Britain's troubled Millennium Dome. Srichand Hinduja's first application had failed, after Mr Peter Mandelson, who was then the minister in charge of the
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    • 182 9 Reuters. SHENYANG In this northeastern city, almost everyone who is someone has links to the mob. From mayors down, gangs are suspected to have infiltrated most parts of the government, an investigation into Shenyang's underworld revealed. A Chinese journalist said: "I call it Feudal Fascism
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    • 146 9 AFP HONG KONG Many Filipino and Thai women recruited to work in Hong Kong as bar hostesses are imprisoned in tiny flats and released only at night to provide sex for customers. The Sunday Morning Post said women recruited in Thailand and the Philippines come to
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 465 10  -  Roulee Jane F Calayag Big plans and a daunting task lie ahead for the new President b y roulee ja tie @news tod ay. com. sg SHE wants to improve moral standards within the government and society. She hopes to end poverty within a decade. And to
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    • 253 10 Agencies WASHINGTON Barely sworn-in as 43rd President of the United States on Saturday, Mr George W Bush moved to block a series of llth-hour executive orders by former President Bill Clinton. In a memorandum addressed to all federal service department heads, Mr Bush's
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    • 195 10 TOKYO Women in Japan who want children now have more choices than ever before over when to give birth. With recent advances in reproductive medicine, the benefits of totally planned pregnancy can be extended well into a woman's middle age, reports Asahi
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    • 105 10 -AFP LONDON The bank behind a British drug-testing firm brought to the edge of bankruptcy by animal rights activists wrote off half its huge debts in order to sever its links. Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) announced on Saturday that it had found a new backer to
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    • 96 10 Reuters. ECUADOR A boat carrying fuel to Ecuador's Galapagos Islands that ran aground four days ago is leaking oil into the ecologically sensitive waters near the famous islands. The spill has already affected animals including sea lions and pelicans, and volunteers are on standby to
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 468 11  -  Art Pine Getting Congress' blessings on free trade may not be easy for Bush by in Washington THE burgeoning US economic slowdown is beginning to spread to America's allies and trading partners a situation that may pose serious problems for the incoming Bush administration at
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    • 518 11 OSAKA Malaysia has good reason to doubt the "new Western recipe of the world", said Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad in a speech he gave in Japan last Thursday. Here are excerpts from his speech at the symposium organised by
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  • RELAX
    • 456 13  -  Hazel Tan Cynthia Koh takes on a new role by hazei^newstoaay.com.sg CYNTHIA Koh's character in Growing Up may have been murdered on television last night. But this is certainly not the last you are going to see of her. In fact, the effectively bilingual Channel 8
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    • 538 14  -  Hazel Tan They had rehearsed only twice, but their chemistry was sizzling by hazel@newstoday.cora.sg TAY Ping Hui has his hands on her face, gently touching it. Then, slowly, his hands moved down, to Perry Chili's chest, then her breasts. She tries to kiss him. He dodges and takes
      WONG KHING CHONG  -  538 words
    • 641 15  -  Dr Sigmund Fraud MY subject for this week, Mr Shayn Phua, is a talented individual who excels in sports and music. It was only three years ago that he made the decision to sacrifice his sporting pursuits in favour of music. That decision paid off nicely last
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    • 146 21 the best Malay artistes in S'pore, M'sia and Indon These were the winners of the Anugerah Planet Muzik 2001 on Saturday night, held at the Harbour Pavilion. The show honours the best Malay artistes in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. The winners were: Best local artist:
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    • 148 21 MediaCorp Radio has raised over $560,000 from its 65-hour charity drive, exceeding its target of $500,000. This is the largest amount raised by MediaCorp Radio to date. President S R Nathan graced Saturday evening's closing, praising the 11 stations and the generous pub- lie.
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    • 1132 22  -  Yap Yok Foo How the most notorious terrorist of Selangor lived and died by.. AMONG the more colourful characters of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) during its armed insurgency in the Federation of Malaya in the early 50s was Liew Kon Kim. He was known
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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    • 1 19 Showcase
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    • 833 19 Put your talent to the test... and be rewarded Compiled by Rosalind Png attractive prizes. 10 am-9 pm rosa 1 ind@newstoday.com.sg You can use both conventional print photo- Snow City, next to Science Centre's Omni Theatre graphs and digital camera entries. You get to Christmas without snow? Not anymore. Women
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1 23 Horoscope
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    • 900 23 Your weekly forecast today art by yen yoke JyJ*Kr CAPRICORN Uatfif TAURUS *»W"^7W&- VIRGO ■T (Dec 21-Jan 19) -^SS^Tif) (Apr 20"May 19) PfiKii*!^ (Aug 23_Sept 21> If you thought that last week's developments Oince what is least expected could ultimately TTThile this may not be the most straightforwere exciting, the
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  • SPORTS
    • 433 25 -AFP Faxon's smooth stroke has major rivals worried HONOLULU He is known to have the smoothest putting stroke on tour. And Brad Faxon put the blade to good use at the Sony Open, carding a three-under-par 67 to lead for the third straight day. His 54-hole
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    • 498 25 Super Bowl XXXV BALTIMORE Every team that reaches its ultimate goal comes to a defining turning point in its journey. It either takes a turn that leads to promise or takes a turn that leads to demise. For the Super Bowl-bound
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    • 590 26 Trading Payton could be the solution SEATTLE It would be easy to chastise Seattle SuperSonics point guard Gary "The Glove" Payton as a selfish, immature egoist characteristic of today's NBA player. But, really, even though most of his teammates don't like him, how can
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    • 319 26 NBA Portland 101 Sacramento 111 PORTLAND The Sacramento Kings have emphatically altered the debate about which team is best out West, reported ESPN.com. The Kings defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 111-101 yesterday in a showdown between the top teams in the
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    • 657 27  -  S. Gulam in Dubai Victory will do wonders for team's morale, says Poulsen Singapore 2 Al Ahli 1 by.. gn la m@ ne wstoday. co m. sg "YES. Very Good. Well done." Jan Poulsen jumped out of his chair, punched the air and let out this
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    • 348 27 ONE is a battle-hardened veteran back in the team after a long absence. The other is a complete newcomer with lots of potential. Both staked a claim for a place in the First XI for next month's World Cup qualifiers with
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    • 722 28 Gap widens to 14 points as old man Sheringham strikes again English Premiership Man Utd 2 Aston Villa 0 MANCHESTER The most revealing moment of the Man Utd v Aston Villa game came about an hour after the final whistle and midway through Sir
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    • 652 29 Owen and Fowler on the subs bench. Can this situation last? LONDON The perceived wisdom on Merseyside is that Robbie Fowler would readily die for Liverpool, while Michael Owen treats exclusion from Gerard Houllier's team as a personal tragedy. True or false, such street-inspired opinion comes
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    • 216 29 Spanish Primera Liga Valladolid 2 Real Madrid 2 MADRID Real Madrid's eight-match winning run came to an end this morning as the Spanish league leader was held to a surprise 2-2 draw at Valladolid. The home side took an early lead through Jose Luis Caminero
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    • 183 29 Reuters English Premier League Sunderland 0 Bradford 0 LONDON Sunderland missed the chance to tighten its grip on second place in the English premier league on Sunday when it was held 0-0 at home by bottom club Bradford City. Bradford had the clearer chances of a
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    • 910 30  -  Rohit Brijnath The heat of the Australian Open may have got to the players' heads EVER been through a car wash sitting outside your vehicle. It's what the players look like at the Australian Open after four sets. It's hot; hot enough to cook fried eggs
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    • Article, Illustration
      619 31 -AFP Safin and Sampras join Kuerten on casualty list MELBOURNE It was bloody Sunday at the Australian Open as two of the pre-tournament favourites, Pete Sampras and Marat Safin, were sent home early in major fourth round upsets. Sampras, bidding to extend his record-breaking haul of 13 Grand
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    • 366 31 Reuters MELBOURNE Monica Seles believes that her bid for a fifth Australian Open title is hanging by a thread. This, despite ending the 13--match winning streak of rising Belgian star Justine Henin to squeeze into the quarter-finals yesterday. Seles, who has now won 37 out
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 288 32 Italian Serie A AC Milan 3 Roma 2 MILAN AC Milan showed no sentiment for former coach Fabio Capello this morning by defeating his Italian first division leader AS Roma 3-2 at the San Siro to throw the race for the Scudetto wide open. Roma now leads
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