Today, 8 March 2003

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    8 1 weekendTODAY March 8 9 2003 MITA (P) 009/03/2003
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    Lock icon VERDICT FROM A JOURNALIST WHO'S BEEN TO EVERY MANU GAME FOR EIGHT YEARS ...
    1576 1  - VERDICT FROM A JOURNALIST WHO'S BEEN TO EVERY MANU GAME FOR EIGHT YEARS Stuart Mathieson Stuart Mathieson I by weekend@newstoday.com.sg IN THE bowels of Bayern Munich's Olympic stadium on April 18,2001, with the TV arc lights trained on a dejected Roy Keane, Manchester United's captain delivered a dramatic assessment of
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    SEEKING GOD
    1131 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Religion at the crossroads by. boonyian@newstoday.com.sg aOD is dead, said Nietzsche. Then 3/11 came along. The microscope settled over Islam as experts mulled over why more women were wearing the tudung, what a madrasah education meant and how some Singaporeans were being lured by outfits
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      33 1 NEIL HUMPHREYS/6 DAVE BARRY/21 ROHIT BRIJNATH/40 Hails the man in the pyjamas Gets a hernia lifting bridal mags Wants us to lay off Schumi f Informal ion provided by Singapore T\irf Club ME^HM
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  • NEWS
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      Home-coming
      604 2  -  Tan Hui Leng Boss with the baby speaks of the biological clock by. huileng@newstoday.com.sg tus in Singapore was hard to come by. The two school-friends kept in touch and when Prof Ying launched her own start-up venture in the US three years ago, she roped in Ms Noreena. In
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      Lock icon Blix asks UN for more time
      322 3  -  Jaime Koh by. jaime@newstoday.com.sg UNITED NATIONS UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix's crucial report to the Security Council on Friday said inspectors needed more time, while International Atomic Agency chief Mohamad Elßaradei said his teams found no evidence that Iraq had revived its nuclear
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      Osama's sons held?
      126 3 QUETTA (Pakistan) Two of Osama bin Laden's sons have been wounded and captured in southeastern Afghanistan, the Home Minister of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, told reporters on Friday, according to AFP. There has been no independent confirmation of the arrests of the two, whose names
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      Lock icon Civil servants can be re-hired after early retirement
      182 3 Channel NewsAsia IT IS now easier for civil servants to choose to retire early with benefits and get re-hired on new contract terms. This is in line with changes the public sector has introduced to become a leaner organisation. The public sector
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      Killed with own gun
      269 4  -  Jose Raymond Cisco officer shot ex-colleague surrenders by. j ose@newstoday.com. s; A FORMER Cisco officer surrendered to police three hours after he fatally shot another Cisco officer early yesterday morning. The latter, Mr Rahim Othman, 47, was shot with his gun at about 6am at the
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      Lock icon Courts store moves into Centrepoint
      189 4  -  Tor Ching Li COURTS is moving upmarket, quite literally. The furniture and electronics retailer is relocating to Centrepoint, closer to the heart of Orchard Road. By giving up its threestorey, 53,000 sq ft premises in Plaza Singapura for a 19,700 sq ft store on the
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      82 2 OPTIQUEp ARIS MIKI SALE Now Till 23rd Mar 03' FRAMES SUNGLASSES LENSES ir Conditions Apply i Plaza Singapura #02-03 Ang Mo Kio Central Ave 8 Blk 704 #01-2551 ftWI (T Tiong Bahru Plaza #02-06 Takashimaya Dept. Store Level 4 Suntec City Mall #01-44/46 Holland Road Shopping Centre #02-19 AJL I
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      129 3 EkO/lilfmS BRITISH AIRWAYS Sale ends spm, 17 March 2003. Payment must be made within 48 hours of booking. Book online at www.qantas.com.sg or call your nearest NATAS travel agent now. Qantas Holidays (TA 85) *****818* Chan Brothers Travel (TA 109) *****880 New Shan Travel (TA 106) *****333 Sino-America (TA 611)
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      284 4 Th e liver's many «s££££* include the removal of waste, pro m*& from the blood stream and the storag of essential vitamins. ORGAN DONATION For more information, call 6351 5408 or visit www.thegift.org.sg 34 years of saving lives Nanyang Technological University NTU Undergraduate Programmes Admission Talks, Workshops S Career Advisory
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  • HUMOUR/NEWS
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      Say it with pyjamas
      743 6  -  Neil Humphreys Follow the lovemakingTask Force's instructions FOR a while there, it seemed like it would never end. No, I'm not referring to the budget speech but the recent Romancing Singapore campaign/celebration/festival. From what I understand, prostate examinations are quicker and less painful. If you recall
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      E-file taxes at PA clubs
      230 6 E-FILING your tax returns have been made easier, now that the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore has roped in the People's Association's eClubs. Taxpayers can e-file their returns for free until the closing date on Apr 15 at any of the 22 eClubs, located in
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  • LETTERS
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      Lock icon Life in Vietnam is not that bad
      198 8 TH Phan I REFER to the letter, "Food business in Vietnam requires patience" (Today, March 4). As a Vietnamese, I am very surprised to hear Mr Steve Ngo's views on the matter. While it is true that many people in my country are
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      Drivers are not stupid
      343 8  -  Philip Lee Seek Kay Such a distraction, all those road markings SINGAPORE has one of the most enviable road systems in the world. From expressways to access roads to private homes, the road surfaces are well-paved and there are adequate safety features for both day and
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  • SAVVYINVESTOR/Co-ORDINATED BY FRANCIS KAN
    • MONEY TALKS
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        Market a screaming "buy"?
        312 10 MOST of the companies listed on the Singapore Exchange have made December their financial year end, which means they have to get their results for the full year of 2002 out to shareholders and the investing public by the end of this month. Hence, this is
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        But many investors saying "bye"
        435 10 STRANGELY, though, the market is not paying enough attention to the emerging breed of wellmanaged companies with rising profitability and healthy dividend yields. It appears investors are overlooking individual company performance, in favour of macro or bigger issues, like the impending second Gulf War and
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        Banks face thinning margins
        275 10 BANK shares have been among the hardest hit in the current market downturn, and there is some justification for that. Results for 2002 of all three DBS, UOB and OCBC have not been inspiring. All the banks are facing a saturated local market with thinning margins
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        Interest rates set to stay low
        279 10 SOME of the funds could be quickly redeployed but one suspects the net effect will be to keep local interest rates very low, relative to our neighbours. That would be appropriate for a financial centre which is trying its best to get more companies
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  • BUSINESS
    • WEALTH MANAGEMENT
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        Lock icon Young, single and no $ sense
        643 11  - Young, single and no sense Lee Yew Meng Learn to chart your retirement plan from the day you become a working adult yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S young workers do not have a financial plan to chart their paths from the start of their employment to the day they want to retire. They
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      • WHAT THE EXPRETS SAY...
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          Lock icon City Developments – BUY
          123 11 City Developments BUY DBS Vickers Securities While millennium Copthornes (M&C) financial performance for FYO2 was in line with expectations, management's cautious outlook for the hotel business this year has caused us to^ scale back on our assumption of a recovery in FYO3. M&C has trimmed its cost base and maximised
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          Lock icon Haw Par Corp – HOLD
          89 11 Haw Par Corp HOLD OCBC Investment Research No catalyst for a re-rating. Haw Par is unlikely to outperform over the next 12 months given the absence of price catalysts such as a privatisation offer to crystallise the investment surplus. As such, we are ascribing a 30 per cent conglomerate discount
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          Lock icon Eastern Asia Technology – BUY
          131 11 Eastern Asia Technology BUY DBS Vickers Securities Eastern Asia Technology delivered record profit in FYO2, driven by strong demand for DVD-HTiB (DVD home theatre in a box) as well as stable demand for its core speaker business. Working capital management has improved for receivables and inventories, despite the 76 per
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          Lock icon Hyflux – OUTPERFORM
          103 11 Hyflux OUTPERFORM OCBC Investment Research Results beat expectations. FYO2 earnings k jumped 67 per cent to $12.2 million as revenue increased by 66 per cent to $45.3 million. With a strengthened order book, revenue is expected to at least double in FYO3, while earnings are projected to grow 50 per
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      Lock icon Prepare for downturn
      413 14 Reuters An Iraq war could hit the global economy: PM Goh STILL reeling from mass layoffs and the shock of its worst business downturn in four decades, Singapore's policymakers are bracing for more bad news as war approaches in Iraq. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong this week
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      Lock icon Enter Jennie
      240 15 Bloomberg Raffles' new CEO RAFFLES Holdings, which owns the 116-year-old Raffles Hotel in Singapore, said Ms Jennie Chua will replace Mr Richard Heifer as chief executive officer from April 2. Ms Chua is deputy chief executive of marketing and operations for the company, which has 12,000 rooms in
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      Lock icon UIC's surprise loss
      175 15 Reuters SINGAPORE-BASED conglomerate, United Industrial Corporation (UIC), reported a surprise 2002 loss on Friday due to a writedown of its office properties. UIC posted a net loss of $134.2 million compared with a net loss of $21.5 million in 2001 on turnover of $449.89 million, which was
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      Lock icon 137 million shares on offer to raise funds
      189 15 Reuters SINGAPORE-BASED Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS), a customer call centre provider for mobile phone makers, said on Friday it would offer 137 million shares at $0.27 each to raise funds for expansion. The company said net proceeds of $22.5 million the
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      Lock icon One sizzles, the other fizzles
      582 16 Bloomberg Keppel Land makes impressive comeback, while CapitaLand remains in deadlock KEPPEL Land and CapitaLand ended last year together as Singapore's worst-performing property stocks. Now, the city's biggest office landlords are poles apart Keppel Land is the world's top real-estate stock this year, with a
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      Lock icon Royal Nepal to fly to S'pore, M'sia
      104 16 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Royal Nepal Airlines plans to fly four times a week to Singapore and Malaysia starting at the end of the month. Royal Nepal Airlines will fly from Kathmandu to Singapore and then on to Kuala Lumpur International Airport before heading
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      Lock icon CapitaLand condos do well in China
      243 16 Reuters SINGAPORE'S CapitaLand, South-east Asia's largest property group, reported on Friday a strong take-up of its condominiums in Shanghai, fuelling hopes that China could help offset weak demand at home. "Summit Residences have been chalking up fast sales with new units sold as soon
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        112 16 SINGAPORE'S stocks declined for a fourth day, with the Straits Times Index closing at its lowest in almost four-and-a--half years. Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing led other chip-related shares lower after Intel Corp reduced its first-quarter sales forecast, raising concern about a recovery in the industry. The STI sank 17.67, or
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        World markets
        49 16 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 8144.12 -225.03 -2.69 HANG SENG 8907.10 -55.16 -0.62 ILL ORDINARIES 715.00 -32.00 -1.17 LAIWAN WTD 4350.59 -46.85 -1.07 KOREA COMP 546.02 -9.31 -1.68 SET 358.48 -0.48 -0.13 JAKARTA COMP 389.79 -4.19 -1.06 PHILIPPINES COMP 1014.79 -0.93 -0.09 SHENZHEN B 202.75 -0.62 -0.30
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        Your S$1 buys
        34 16 JK£ fen 1K$ <M iuro (upiah Saht 0.3590 67.4873 4.4919 2.1882 0.5223 5118.07 24.5162 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 31.5908 0.9344 27.4450 702.022 0.8471 4.7675 1.0165 19.9487
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        Commodities
        21 16 Sold us$/oi iilver us$/oi 'latinum us$/oz 356.85 4.67 691.5 illbber cents/kg 'aim oil RM/tonne iient crude US$/barrel 186.5 1557 37
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        Straits Times Index Intraday Chart
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        SGX most active
        52 16 March 7 Close Change '000 NOL Chartered DatacrftUSS UOB DBS TTInt Citiiaya LeongHin OCBC KepCoip 0.985 0.680 0.585 9.550 8.850 0.440 0.545 0.740 8.200 4.100 -0.020 -0.040 -0.200 -0.100 +0.005 -0.250 -0.100 -2.9 -6.4 -2.1 -1.1 +0.9 -3.0 -2.4 13,686 9,845 9,700 9,495 8,861 8,035 7,286 6,020
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        SGX top rises
        75 16 March 7 Close Change Venture 13.500 +0.100 Metalock 0.390 +0.070 Noble 1.700 +0.070 JMH400USS 5.850 +0.050 Transpac 1.200 +0.050 SATSvcs 1.730 +0.040 Informatics 1.050 +0.030 LungKeeBMU 0.470 +0.030 JTCn5%*****310k 1.180 +0.020 ITCn4.826%*****410k 1.200 +0.020 By percentage March 7 Goldtron Globa Close Change 0.015 +0.005 0.020 +0.005 Twinwood
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        SGX top falls
        79 16 ■larch 7 Close Change XBC 8.200 -0.250 jeative 50 10.700 -0.200 .hang Asia 2kHKS 5.350 -0.200 JOB 9.550 -0.200 :&N 7.850 -0.150 )UE 5.800 -0.150 IBS 8.850 -0.100 (epCoip 4.100 -0.100 (obinson 5.300 -0.100 ilA 9.500 -0.100 By percentage March 7 Close Change Koh Bios W*****6 0.015
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      Lock icon Digital sales boost
      216 17 Bloomberg EASTERN Asia Technology Ltd, which makes digital audio and video equipment, said its profit may rise more than 20 per cent this year as it cuts costs and boosts design-related manufacturing which provides higher margins. "Our goal is to grow the company without reducing net profit
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      Lock icon Hyflux has high hopes
      126 17 Bloomberg HYFLUX Ltd, Singapore's No 1 publicly traded water-treatment company, expects sales to hit $90 million this year, double that of its revenue last year, based on current orders and the new jobs it expects to win. Hyflux, which yesterday reported a 66 per cent jump
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      Lock icon More jobs shed
      103 17 Bloomberg TEMASEK Holdings, the Government's investment arm, fired workers in the last few months amid a restructuring in the organisation that began last year, according to The Business Times, citing the company. "We had some retrenchments last year, while other staff have been redeployed. We will continue
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      Lock icon C&C rights offer?
      182 17 Bloomberg CYCLE Carriage Ltd may sell its shares in a rights offer to repay $330 million of bonds it sold to finance the purchase of a stake in Indonesia's largest car-maker, PT Astra International, three years ago, according to The Business Times. Cycle Carriage issued bonds worth
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      213 11 Company Forecast EPS P/E Ratio PEG 1 2-Mth Price Target AUSSINO GROUP LIMITED 0.03 7.42 0.53 0.40 CAPITAMALL TRUST 0.07 14.06 0.82 1.21 CHUAN HUP HOLDINGS 0.05 7.83 3.00 0.48 CSE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 0.05 7.87 0.02 0.54 DARCO WATER TECHNOLOGIES LTD 0.02 20.31 3.50 0.65 EASTERN ASIA TECHNOLOGY LTD 0.04
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  • Property Watch
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      Shophouses hit the bad times
      1262 12  -  Lee Yew Meng More auctions as owners fail to service loans A RECORD 178 HDB shophouses were put up for auction last year and the figure looks set to rise. From a low of 12 in 1998, the figure surged 175 per cent to 33
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      195 17 MediaCorp Press Ltd, the publisher of Singapore's fastest growing newspaper, TCOGi', invites tenders for: The Provision of Newspaper Distribution Services COLLECTION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS Tender documents can be purchased from 10 March 2003 onwards during office hours between 9.30am to 5.00pm (Mondays to Fridays only) from: MediaCorp Press Ltd Circulation
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  • WORLD
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      Big, bloated, irrelevant
      1071 18  -  Oon Yeoh Has the Non-Aligned Movement reached the end of the road? by. news@newstoday.com.sg ANYBODY reading the local papers in Malaysia last week would no doubt have got the impression that the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a really big thing. It isn't Local media gave blanket coverage
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      Lock icon The rabble-rouser
      427 19 Reuters UK Foreign Minister was a trouble-making student LONDON The young ones shouldn't be afraid to live and love, so sang the Peter Pan of Pop, Sir Cliff Richard. And the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Jack Straw (picture), certainly did that Today, 56-year-old Mr Straw is a model
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      Lock icon Hey mate, it's my turn to view the Opera House
      107 19 Reuters The world's first floating apartment block, The World, began a turn yesterday, to provide all the apartment owners a fair share of the view of the Sydney Opera House. The harbour was brought to a standstill as ferries and
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      Lock icon Pragmatist picked for top job
      303 19 Agencies RAMALLAH (West Bank) A noted pragmatist and veteran of the Middle East peace process, Mr Mahmud Abbas (picture), has been nominated by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as his first Prime Minister. Mr Arafat, facing intense international pressure to reform his administration, offered Mr Abbas,
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    • SHORT TAKES
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        Graduates earn less than ...
        73 19 Graduates earn less than LONDON The standing of Arts degrees took a blow after a study showed that students who stop at the A levels tend to make more money than those who study the humanities at university. Academics at Warwick University found that those who graduate in English, history
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        Lock icon Cambodian King offers to abdicate
        65 19 Agencies PHNOM PENH Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk said yesterday that he is ready to abdicate if a majority of the members of Parliament vote in favour of it King Sihanouk, 80, who under a 1993 Constitution plays no part in politics officially, said he wants
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        Lock icon Osama supporter gets jail term
        86 19 Agencies LONDON A London-based Muslim cleric accused of supporting Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment yesterday, for urging his followers to kill non-believ-ers in a holy war. Formerly a devout Christian, Jamaican-born Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, 39, was also ordered to be deported
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        Lock icon Saudis ordered to pay up
        67 19 -AFP LOS ANGELES A US judge on Thursday ordered Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and members of his family to pay US$2OO million ($347.2 million) to the estranged wife of a dead Saudi royal. The court ordered the payment under a 1983 separation agreement between Sheik
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      Lock icon Border fence stolen
      196 19 Agencies KUWAIT Unidentified people have cut down part of a fence marking a demilitarised Iraq-Kuwait border zone, UN observers said on Friday, in a move analysts described as preparation for possible hostilities with Iraq. The UN Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission (Unikom), which monitors the 12-year-old demilitarised border zone
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon A KILLING IN CAMBODIA
      1032 20  -  Simon Tay I When will political murders stop and peace return? I by: weekend@newstoday.com.sg MY friend died in Cambodia last month. Rather, he was killed. Om Radsady, a former MP and an adviser to the royalist Funcinpec party, was shot by unknown assailants. He was a
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    All things bride and stressful
    779 21  -  Dave Barry EVERY year, as we enter the wedding season, I go to the bookstore and pick up a bridal magazine. Then, I crumple to the floor with lower-back spasms because during the wedding season, bridal magazines achieve roughly the same mass as Senator Ted
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  • weekend WATZUP?
    • Women's Day around the world
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        Chinese women have little say in male-dominated politics
        117 22 BEIJING A century after Chinese women stopped having their feet bound, their hands are still tied in the country's male-domi-nated political system. As International Women's Day is marked on Saturday, the National People's Congress in Beijing, or parliament, shows just how little
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        Sweden to tighten law to help women get equal pay
        119 22 STOCKHOLM The Swedish government will tighten the country's already strict laws on sexual equality if women's pay fails to match that of their male counterparts within three years, Prime Minister Goeran Persson said on Friday. The government also wants to
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        Speeches and tea with India PM
        106 22 NEW DELHI Rallies, speeches, seminars and, for the lucky few, afternoon tea with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, are some of the events planned to commemorate International Women's Day in India. But on the eve of the big day, Mr Vajpayee was still struggling
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        Afghan women still face strife
        116 22 KABUL The lives of women in Afghanistan have improved greatly since the fall of the hardline Taliban but the country has far to go in reversing the regime's harsh laws, a UN report released here on Thursday said. The United Nations study of the situation
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        Lock icon Russian women belong in the home: poll
        127 22 -AFP stories MOSCOW Most Russians believe that a woman's place is in the home, a far cry from the Soviet-era view that her place was on the factory floor or behind the wheel of a tractor, according to a poll released on Friday,
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      987 22  - dollar sense of marriage Serene Foo To commemorate International Women's Day, we look at women's views towards tying the knot TO be brutally honest, marriage these days comes with an attached price. We can always use the age-old themes of the "me-first" attitude and the rise of the "power woman"
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      142 23 Ms Lydia Law, 25 Research engineer at the Defence Science Technology Agency LYDIA wakeboards, dives and sails and doesn't see marriage happening soon, although she's currently in a steady relationship. "There are things I want to do before having a family," she says. "At the moment, I am quite happy
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      625 24  -  Nuraliza Osman Miss Singapore Universe 2002 writes about the one question that refuses to go away By. news@newstoday.com.sg IT'S uncanny how almost a year has passed since I was crowned Miss Singapore Universe. In conjunction with International Women's Day, I thought it would
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      292 24 Reuters LOS ANGELES After waging war against what they see as radical changes made by the Vatican, Catholic traditionalists have a new weapon: Star power, in the person of actor Mel Gibson (picture), according to an article by freelance writer Christopher Noxon that will appear
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      97 24 TALK about going that extra mile for your marriage. Sexy actress Halle Berry (picture, right) is helping to cure her husband Eric Benet (left) of his sex addiction by keeping other women away from him, according to the World Entertainment News Network. Benet had apparently sought
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      126 24 THE black eye Madonna (picture, left) had sported for days was not inflicted by her husband Guy Ritchie but by her two-year-old son Rocco (right), says the World Entertainment News Network. The pop diva has laughed off tabloid reports that she had suffered the bruise after
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        771 26  -  Jenny Kong by. j enny@newsto day, com. sg DOING housework is such a pain I'm sure most women and maybe some guys, too, will agree. After a long day or week at work, most people won't want to slave over grimy floors and unwashed laundry. But, housework
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        202 27  -  -Janice Lee AFTER 16 years, local rocker Douglas Olivero (picture) is shedding the old Energy for new vigour. But regulars of Bar None, the Marriott Hotel basement bar where his band jammed for three years, will be glad to know that Energy's new incarnation, Diplomatic
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        255 27 Reuters BEIJING The Rolling Stones will hold concerts in China next month for the first time in their 40-year history as part of its Forty Licks world tour, organisers said on Thursday. In the late *****, the Stones held high-level talks about touring China. But those
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        607 28  -  David Ngiau Nemesis FILM REVIEW I by david@newstoday.com.sg AS A sci-fi adventure, Nemesis is not bad. It is exciting and chilling, especially the part about the titular villain Shinzon, who is a clone of our hero, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). But, something is missing: The sense that
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        635 30 Recommended films About Schmidt: Warren Schmidt's life is falling apart with retirement, his wife's death, and his daughter's impending marriage to a loser.An incredibly moving and humourous portrait of Middle America, with Jack Nicholson showing us I the meaning of life and why he is going to win
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        810 32  -  Katrina Karim Good food aside, enjoy ambience and comfort, too by eatout@newstoday.com.sg THE Kopitiam at Jurong Point does not believe in being like any other food court In fact, it is riding ahead of the stiff food court competition to lead in raising the
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        497 33  -  Teo Si ok Kuan by. eatout@newstoday.com.sg TRADING has always been Singapore's lifeline. In earlier days, traders came in flocks to Boat Quay and Clarke Quay to do business. In the coming Central Singapore Food and Heritage Trail, the Central Singapore CDC has created
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        151 34 AMONG the significant new cars launched at the ongoing 2003 Geneva Motor Show is the second-generation Renault Scenic. More than two million units of the original Scenic were sold worldwide and it was the car that started the midsized MPV (multi-purpose vehicle) craze. Renault is hoping that
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        310 34 JUST a few weeks ago, car shoppers were swarming showrooms around the island after the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced in I late January that it was lifting its car loan guidelines that restricted the maximum financing for the purchase of a car to
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        221 35 DR QUEK made a routine house call to Mr Lim, one of his elderly patients. He asks: "And how are you doing today, Mr Lim?" Mr Lim replies: "I feel just fine, doc. But you know, it's the strangest thing. Every night when I get up to pang
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        220 35 Light bulbs Question: How many sub-editors does it take to screw in a light bulb? Sub-editors: We can't tell whether you mean "insert a new light bulb" or "have sexual relations inside a lightbulb". Can we reword it to remove the ambiguity? Q: How many art directors does it take
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      447 38 Agencies Kidd upstaged as San Antonio continues its fine run NBA San Antonio 92 New Jersey 78 Duncan scores 21 points SAN ANTONIO Both Tim Duncan and Tony Parker poured in 21 points for the San Antonio Spurs, which turned back a late charge to down the
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      105 38 -AFP MIAMI Australian Rod Pampling collected eight birdies on Thursday to grab a one-shot first-round lead over Bob Tway in the PGA Tour event at the Doral golf resort. Pampling did not drop a shot en route to an eight-under-par 64. He is one stroke ahead of Tway
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      794 39 AFP Gunner wants Cup glory against Chelsea English FA Cup Arsenal v Chelsea Live, Sunday morning, I.loam, Ch 22 LONDON A career-threatening knee injury robbed Giovanni van Bronckhorst (picture) of the chance to play in last year's FA Cup final. Now, the Dutch wingback wants
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      470 39 Reuters Six Nations rugby Ireland v France Live, Saturday, Ch 24, 10pm DUBLIN France goes into Saturday's match against Ireland at Lansdowne Road with its faint hopes of retaining the Six Nations title in the hands of one of
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      914 40  -  Rohit Brijnath GIVE There may be no such thing as perfect, but the German damn well comes close SAY what you want, but I'm not going red in the face with embarrassment Come Sunday, when those engines start to rage and tremors ripple through Melbourne, I'm going
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      432 41 Reuters Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix New rules receive mixed reviews MELBOURNE Rubens Barrichello (picture) was fastest on Friday as Formula l's new qualifying format turned world champion Michael Schumacher's red Ferrari into a roadsweeper at the Australian Grand Prix. The Brazilian, on pole in Melbourne
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      627 41 AFP Defending champ makes semi-final after destroying Sri Lanka Cricket World Cup Australia v Sri Lanka Aussies win by 96 runs CENTURION Reigning champion Australia booked its place in the World Cup semi-finals with a 96-run demolition of Sri Lanka in the opening match of the Super Sixes
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      198 41 CAPE TOWN Kenya scored 225-6 from 50 overs after electing to bat in the World Cup Super Sixes day-night match against India at Newlands here on Friday. Kenyan opener Kennedy Otieno survived three chances to score 79. Otieno and Ravindu Shah put on 75 for the
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      395 42  - Sivaji v Karathu 20-odd years on Stanley Ho NTUC Income S-League Spore U-23sv Woodlands Wellington Two good friends meet again THEY have crossed swords many times over the last 20 years. In the 1980s, P N Sivaji led the Singapore Indians against M Karathu's Perak Indians in the now defunct
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      694 42  -  Stanley Ho by. stanley@newstoday.com.sg JUST minutes after its shock 2-3 home defeat at the hands of Jurong FC on Thursday, the mood in the SAFFC dressing room was almost funereal. With the exception of furious skipper Nenad Bacina, no other player uttered a word. Bacina was heard thundering:
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      525 44  -  Stanley Ho Home wins again, Sinchi sees red again NTUC Income S-League Sinchi 1 Home United 2 Protectors doing the business By. stanley@newstoday.com.sg TWO games played, two losses, and worse of all, two consecutive red cards. Sinchi FC has earned itself the dubious honour of being the
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      300 44  -  Tan Yo-Hinn ONE of the terms used to describe Singapore is that it has an "instant noodle" culture. The hunger for instant results is also evident in the sports scene, which has implications for coaches in Singapore. This was raised by Australian Sports Commission High Performance
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      281 45  - Place Forecast An Exciting New Bet Type rJOHN BELL Horse Racing Written By COME Wednesday, 26 March 2003, racing enthusiasts can look forward to betting on a new bet type offered by the Singapore Turf Club. The PLACE FORECAST bet will add to the fun and variety of betting on
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      180 46 Reuters DUBAI Ernie Els made an uncharacteristic error at the last but stayed on track for his fifth title of the year on Friday, firing a four-under-par 68 in the Dubai Desert Classic's second round. The defending champion was one ahead of the field playing the
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