Today, 17 February 2001

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  • 8 1 TODAY tS^tUrCIJIV Februar y 17,2001 MITA (PI 138/11/2000
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  • 560 1  -  Shazalina Salim And he's starting a school for debt collectors by shaz aim a newstoday. com. sg MANY companies expect business to slow down this year, but Mr Simon Lee expects to be very, very busy. It goes with the territory. Mr Lee, 52, collects
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  • 210 1 SHOULD lawyers and doctors get their training at the postgraduate level instead of the undergraduate level? Coming in the wake of reports that many doctors regretted ever joining the profession, this new idea may change the higher education sector as we know it. Deputy Prime Minister
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  • 49 1 HANNIBAL, the long-awaited sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, has had its rating increased from PG to NC-16 only days before its release. The Film Advisory Panel felt that the film's theme and content might disturb younger children. The movie will be released next Thursday.
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 362 2  -  Elaine Quek Friends rally around one of the defendants in the underage-sex case by elame(S>ne wsto aay.com.sg EACH case, by itself, might seem insignificant, but taken together, we have the makings of one of the strangest sex scandals in Singapore's history. Over the past 10
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    • 226 2 AFP EAST Timor leader Xanana Gusmao met with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the Istana yesterday to discuss the progress of rebuilding the new country from the ashes left by pro-Indonesia militia groups two years ago. Mr Gusmao checked in at an undisclosed hospital
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    • 164 2 THE factual findings from the probe into the Singapore Airlines crash in Taiwan on Oct 31 last year will be released next Friday. But a draft report has already been received by the Ministry for Communications and Information Technology, which is now studying it.
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    • 287 2 FORGET about "goodies" like tax or utility rebates at the 21st Budget Speech. Workers should think instead about where the next best job for them will be, said National Trades Union Congress secretary general Mr Lim Boon Heng. Mr Lim, who is also
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    • 222 3  -  Danny Er Outdoor rehab programme for youths a success by reporter@newstoday.com.sg A LOCAL programme takes young offenders on trekking and biking trips. And it seems to cure them of their itch to revert to crime. The six-month programme, organised by Ling Kwang Youth
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    • 197 3  -  Maurice Png by ma urice (atoewstod ay.com. s g IT'S the pinnacle of human endurance. And it's coming on March 31, so watch for it. The AXN Challenge is Singapore's only one-day multidiscipline endurance team race. Three-man teams will run, trail-bike, kayak,
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    • 251 3  -  David Ngiau by davituff newstoa ay.com. sg IT WAS high drama at the clos-est-ever tribal council yet yesterday in the latest episode of reality TV "gameshow" Survivor 2. Ogakor tribe, in their third straight appearance at the council, dramatically split their vote not
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    • 147 3 SEVERAL men are queuing up to get their hair removed. The National Skin Centre's medical director, Dr Goh Chee Leok, said that more than one third of its clients are men, who are prepared to pay between $200 and $600 for laser treatment. Said Dr
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    • 145 3 FOR a day of fun, games, prizes and entertainment, go to Ngee Ann City today. That is because the provider of the latest TV broadcast service that is made just for bus commuters, will host its TVMobile Carnival. And if you are at the TVMobile event at
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    • 132 3 THE Agri-food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) fined 901 dog owners last year for not having a licence for their animals. The AVA stressed the importance of dog licensing, saying that it was the main means through which rabies is controlled. Singapore has been rabies-free for
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    • 55 3 -AFP. JAKARTA Thousands of students took to the streets of three Indonesian cities yesterday, calling on President Abdurrahman Wahid to resign. Another 500 protestors rallied outside the Jakarta branch of former ruling party Golkar. In Yogyakarta, some 1,000 students protested outside the Gajah Mada University, forcing the President
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  • LETTERS
    • 187 4  -  Yeo Kok Seng Allow account holders to nominate own inheritor ONE of my wife's relative passed away recently. After the funeral, the immediate family of the deceased went to the bank to close the dead person's account. They were told by the bank that they could
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    • 117 4 I REFER to the letter "Bus drivers should know route well" by Mr Tay Heng Lai {Today, Feb 5). We apologise to passengers of Service 371 who may have been inconvenienced on Feb 2. Sengkang is a new estate and due to road works,
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    • 131 4  -  G LBoey I REFER to the letter by Ms Esther Lee Bee Peng asking for retirement at 55 (Today, Feb 15). I do not agree with what she said. I think the retirement age of 62 is quite reasonable. If I am single and healthy
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    • 184 4  -  Linda Z. I REFER to the letters "Focus on helping students" and "Mediocre teachers not wanted" by Joshua Tan and Andy Chen respectively (Today, Feb 13). Mr Tan needs to understand that, although loans can be readily available, they need to be repaid. How does one
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    • 81 4 Q: How do I know if I have immunity against Hepatitis B? A: The blood screening test can tell if you have Hepatitis B, are immune or a carrier. If you have had Hepatitis B and have recovered from it, you would be immune and
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 122 4 READ 0N... Marc who? He's Rich, Clinton's pal on the run/9 Shop till you drop Time-tested strategy may not help US economc slide any more/1 1 A new breed of beer drinkers The latest brew in town is all set to change the culture of beer drinking/13 The elegant Mr
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 119 6 Bloomberg THE Trade Development Board will likely announce later today that Singapore's exports have rebounded in January, analysts predict January's expected rebound reflects weak exports a year earlier, when there were widespread worries over the millennium computer bug. Those worldwide fears probably depressed
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    • 410 6 AFP Japanese govt downgrades recovery TOKYO Japan downgraded its key economic assessment in its February report, saying the pace of recovery had slowed further although the economy was still on a path towards a self-sus-taining recovery, "The pace of economic recovery has become more moderate," the
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    • 231 6 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO High-tech giant HewlettPackard reported quarterly earnings of US$32B million, or 37 cents per share a drop of 58 per cent from 1999, but in line with analysts' forecasts. Revenues were US$ll.9 billion (5520.7 billion) for the first quarter of the fiscal year, a
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    • 63 6 IN yesterday's article, Popular Holdings does e-music, the intended purchase price of eNet Digital Pacific is $300,000 and not $30,000 as published. The company's turnover growth of 25 per cent and profit before tax growth of 19 per cent were half-year financial statements on consolidated results
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    • 47 6  -  Eernama-Kyodo TOKYO World shipments of handphones in 2000 rose 45.5 per cent from 1999 to 412.7 million units, said consulting firm GartnerGroup Inc. Nokia led market share with 126.37 million units (30.6 per cent), followed by Motorola Inc with 60.09 million units (14.6 per cent)
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    • 173 6 Bloomberg LONDON European stocks fell after Nortel Networks Corp halved its 2001 sales forecast. Alcatel SA, Nokia Oyj and Marconi Pic fell 5.5 per cent or more. Nortel said the US economic slowdown is prompting customers to delay spending for even longer than before. The company
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Techs get a lift
      • 507 8 NASDAQ'S overnight rise and lingering talk of mergers and acquisitions boosted tech buying here. However, traders were cautious as some tech counters in the US slumped in after-hours trading following Nortel's warning and mixed results from Dell and Hewlett-Packard,
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      • 428 8 KUALA LUMPUR After falling the last three days, the Malaysian stock market closed higher yesterday, lifted by bargain hunting and better sentiment, partly due to better US stock market performance, in particular, the 2.5 per cent rise in the Nasdaq Composite. The Kuala
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      288 9 Agencies He's Rich, Clinton's pal on the run WASHINGTON Just who is Marc Rich (in picture), the fugitive billionaire who has given ex-president Bill Clinton his latest bout of legal headaches? Mr Clinton had granted Rich on the run from the law since 1983 over questionable business practices
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    • 95 9 KUALA LUMPUR Forty-four Malaysian couples will appear in the country's Islamic court after being too cuddly on Valentine's Day. They will be charged with "close proximity" or "khalwat", a crime for non-married Muslims in Malaysia, local papers reported yesterday. Religious officers, on Wednesday and Thursday, found couples
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    • 57 9 -AFP SYDNEY A Qantas Airways jumbo jet was forced to return to Bangkok after a warning light mistakenly indicated an engine was on fire, an official said. Flight QFI from Sydney to London, with 287 passengers left Bangkok late on Thursday after a scheduled stopover. It had to
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    • 387 10 US official confident despite anger in Japan TOKYO Anti-American sentiment is brewing in Japan following the sinking of a Japanese trawler by a US submarine. But a senior US official said Washington does not think that its ties with Tokyo has been damaged by the
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    • 57 10 AFP JAKARTA One of the suspects in last year's fatal bombing of the Jakarta stock exchange escaped from Indonesia's high-security Cipinang prison yesterday. Ibrahim Abdul Wahab escaped from the penitentiary in east Jakarta by climbing a wall with a rope, police said. The blast in September
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    • 99 10 -AFP BRISBANE A Japanese woman was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for dismembering her retired gangster husband. Akiko Kitayama allegedly cut up her 62-year-old husband with an electric saw in the bathroom of their home. She dumped plastic bags containing the body parts in the
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    • 175 10 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Foreign Minister has accused unspecified foreign groups of trying to topple the government through biased Western media reporting. Datuk Syed Hamid Albar also criticised former US ambassador John Malott for what he called "baseless accusations" against Malaysia, reported the New
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    • 132 10 -AFP JAKARTA The eldest daughter of former President Suharto failed to appear for questioning over a business scandal yesterday, saying she was ill. The Attorney-General's Office had summoned Ms Siti "Tutut" Hardiyanti Rukmana, a wealthy businesswoman, over her alleged involvement in a US$ll3 million <Ssl92
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    • 106 10 AFP MANAMA Bahrain delivered an overwhelming "yes" vote in a referendum on transforming the Gulf archipelago into a constitutional monarchy. The vote means that Parliament will be restored 26 years after it was dissolved, said the Justice Ministry yesterday. Some 98 per cent of the
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 856 11  -  Patrick Smith Bloomberg. Time-tested strategy may not help US economic slide any more by in Washington ALL right. We've already had an interest rate cut of a full percentage point, and we hope there's more coming, don't we? President George W. Bush wants his US$l.6 trillion
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    • 180 11  -  Neville Stack by nstack@esatclear.ie THE reassuring words "Trust me, I'm a doctor" have a hollow ring in Britain these days. For a series of appalling medical blunders have dramatically undermined the credibility of the medical profession in a country which is acknowledged
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    • 204 11 if, just after their child's death, they are requested, however tactfully, to sign a consent form. "Better to just do it," a veteran pathologist said. "It hurts nobody, no one is caused further distress and countless others might benefit." Pathologist and medical school lecturer Dr Edward Lynch
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  • RELAX
    • 493 13  -  David Ngiau The latest brew in town is all set to change the culture of beer drinking by da vid® tie wstoday. c o m. sg Fans of craft beers and microbreweries have a new reason to celebrate. Asia Pacific Breweries (APB), which brews
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    • 1464 14  -  Philip Berk -IPS Anthony Hopkins talks shop about the film that paid him more than US$lO million to play the suave doctor with a fondness for human sweetbreads by The eighties were not kind to Anthony Hopkins. Roles were few and far between, so he left
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    • 450 15 LOS ANGELES Start flexing those pecs and pumping those abs. The producers of Survivor, the smash CBS reality series, began their official search for the cast of the show's third instalment on Thursday by posting application forms on the CBS Web site.
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    • Article, Illustration
      1063 25  -  Lim Sek DABBLER'S DAY They have a big reputation and a singing style to match by limsek@musicmovement.com. sg Diva what a wonderful word! Technically, it means prima donna, the leading lady in an opera. These days, the term has taken on a slightly exaggerated definition. It usually
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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    • 694 17 Z«M« to K§MR|[^^^S ArtS Ceittrtl1 B'3o Pm MORNING (AetV sow 's relationsh ip wiih Julia -J^^KB^ Profiles the late actor Henry Fonda, 6.00 am Graphic Headlines because of their age difference. w^^K^ >*^Bj^ Bk best known for his Oscar-winning 6.02 Virginity-Price or Prize? (r) Julia is muck older than Harry.
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    • 1038 19 TOMORROW'S LISTINGS The Juror Whose Line is it /A Arts Central, 9pm When Annie Laird is selected as a HB juror in a big Mafia trial, she is *\j It is the original improvised comedy forced by someone known as "The jF i^^/^^^^t ft*J show. Four performers act out hilar-
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    • 1167 20 PQ Yes 93.3 FM Perfect 10 (98.7) FM Sports Zone Yes 933 AM Club Club Beats 11 am Noon 8~10 am 11 Pm -1 am The only sports talkshow on radio! Catch the Wake up in the morning to DJ Kenneth Lim's Feel like hitting the clubs on a Saturday
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    • 776 21 R^ -/^B Blfy&\V»>.*-'. life but faced with social prejudices and kitchen create more mischief than good performed at the White House and on SIC-DCctt life's ups and downs. food. Not forgetting the deadline the many television shows including the Dates: Today, 7.30 pm chefs have precisely one hour to produce
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    • 1259 22 II €3XI" CD Celt is a one-woman show that requires the actress to The Jonathan Larson's rock musical is about play 16 different characters from physicists and being young in New York, being brave, scared, in Tales From Jambi generals to uranium smugglers and canteen lady. love and in trouble.
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1442 23 •—*6HOWhNG TODAY" --~-SNEAK -PREVIEWS—• M^l Hannibal: Anthony Hopkins (above, left) stars as the elegant cannibal. ■L Aashiq (Hindi) (PG): Ipm. 4, 8.30 Another life (PG): 445pm, 9.30, 1145 Blair Wtah 2 (PG): 11.45 am, 2.15pm Bounce (PG): 12.30pm, 3, 5.15, 7.30, 9.45, MN Cast Away (PG): 12.30pm, 6.15, 9.15, 12.15
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 860 24 Cftudc Noiand, a FedEx systems engineer whose persona! and professional life is ruled by the ~f dock. His fastpaced career takes him, often at a moment's notice, to far-Hung locales and away from bis girlfriend Ketty. Chuck's manic existence abruptly ends when, offer a plane crash, he £jgS becomes isolated
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    • 773 30 appointments! Saturday February 17, 2001 T^VO Nanyang IVIt Polytechnic I TEMASEK Nanyang Polytechnic invites applicants for the positions of: GERMAN LANGUAGE LECTURER I HOLDINGS Responsibilities: y* s-^ •To teach German language as a foreign language and carry out related academic duties such fS I II I O YCM JR V
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  • SORTS
    • 416 35 Cricket India v Australia NEW DELHI Steve Waugh is unlikely to find his Indian counterpart, Sourav Ganguly, short on words. Ganguly rarely "ducks" a verbal bouncer and offers, in cricketing parlance, the full face of his mouth. But words alone don't win battles. And if
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    • Article, Illustration
      701 36 Hakeem Olajuwon is determined to show he is no has-been HOUSTON Where has the Dream gone? Nowhere, apparently. Watch Hakeem Olajuwon block a shot and start the break, and watch him find the open man, first teammate Steve Francis, then Cuttino Mobley, reported ESPN.com. See him against the
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    • 355 36 Reuters MILAN -Jaguar's Formula One driver Eddie Irvine said on Thursday his car was a bit too slow, his technical team was understaffed and he believed the introduction of traction control was bad for the sport. Irvine said there
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    • 366 37 Reuters MELBOURNE Australian Adam Scott sank a 10 foot putt for birdie on the 18th hole to take a one-stroke lead in the A 5530,000 (*****,000) Australian Masters but his Spanish playing partner Sergio Garcia missed the cut. Garcia, 21,
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    • 517 37 Reuters Spore's Mardan Mamat in chasing pack with second 70 KUALA LUMPUR New Zealander Michael Campbell surged to the top of the Malaysian Open leaderboard yesterday after sinking his second eagle in consecutive days. A round of 67 gave him an eight-under-par halfway total of
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    • 292 37 Reuters LA QUINTA, California -Joe Durant tied a course record and bettered his career-best score when he shot an 11--under-par 61 in the second round of the Bob Hope Classic to take a three-stroke lead over Chris Smith on Thursday. Durant
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    • 686 38 Star of France '98 showing signs of returning to his best ROME Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Michael Owen, 1.75m-tall and with hamstrings that seemingly give way every time he breaks into a sprint, may seem an unlikely gladiator. But his stunning performance in the
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    • 350 38 BRUSSELS Football was plunged into disarray again last night on the eve of the summit meeting with the European Commission (EC) when the players refused to agree with proposals aimed at reforming the transfer system, reported The Times. Gordon Taylor, the
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    • 287 39 Arsene Wenger has four key players out for FA Cup clash with Chelsea LONDON Arsenal is faced with a central defensive crisis as it prepares for Sunday's FA Cup clash with Chelsea at Highbury, reported Soccernet.com. Captain Tony Adams is out because of suspension and he
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    • 438 39 LONDON Carlo Cudicini has just one word to sum up what it is like to face Arsenal's inform striker Thierry Henry 'nightmare', reported Soccernet.com. The Italian will be in Chelsea's goal for the FA Cup fifth-round tie against Arsenal at Highbury
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    • 138 40 LIVERPOOL The number of Liverpool fans stabbed in Rome has risen to 14, reported Football36s.com. Eleven fans were taken to hospital in Rome last night, mainly with stab or slash wounds. And three more needed medical treatment after being assaulted on the morning of the game.
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    • 488 40  -  Kelvin Phang At least, according to coach Fandi by kelvin@news today, com.ag CONTRARY to popular opinion, Singapore Armed Forces FC coach Fandi Ahmad believes that his side is weaker than last year. This, despite its signing of Thai ace Kiatisuk Senamuang. Said Fandi,
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    • 418 40  -  Kelvin Phang NOVEMBER 5, 2000 is one day that defender Sharifuddin Mahmood will never forget. One moment, he was relishing his international debut for Singapore in the Tiger Cup. The next moment) he became stricken with heat cramps so severe that he
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