Today, 8 July 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Tuesday July 8, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 165 1 -Reuters NEW YORK Stocks soared in late afternoon yesterday, pushing the Nasdaq to a 13-month high, as bullish comments from Wall Street's biggest brokerages and an anticipated economic recovery fuelled buying in technology stocks. The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 55.13 points, or
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    • 425 1  -  Shibu Itty Kuttickal and Tan Hui Leng Surgery to separate twin brains at crucial stage NEARLY 16 hours into the painstaking effort to separate the brains of conjoined twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani, neurosurgeons have dissected part of the twins' brains, according to the latest reports
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    • 180 1 JAKARTA has given six months for a highlevel panel to decide whether the entire Batam island should be turned into a free trade zone (FTZ) or to turn it into enclaves that will enjoy the same status, it is reported. Citing Government sources, The
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      • 678 2 News Feature/Val Chua A public relations disaster, says MP of SBS Transit's last-minute act to THE unused escalators are blocked. The metal gates are locked. A lone bicycle parked in a corner hinted at some activity. A grass-cutter at work provided the only buzz on
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      • 231 2 -AFP NEW YORK A judge approved yesterday a US$75O million ($1.3 billion) settlement between bankrupt telecom giant World Com and market regulators, marking a major step in the company's rehabilitation after an US$ll billion accounting fraud. "The court is convinced... that the proposed settlement is not
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      • 124 2 Reuters LOS ANGELES Buddy Ebsen, the lanky, folksy actor best known for TV roles as millionaire Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies and as a canny elder sleuth on Barnaby Jones, has died at a Los Angeles-area hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday. He was
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    • 465 3 inform of station's non-opening 37 hectares of vacant state land which used to be agricultural land surrounding the station is reserved for high-rise residential projects. "The government has no immediate plans to develop it," it said. Currently, there is a lack of commercial activities in the area Apart from
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    • 162 3  -  Kim-Kyna Tan WHEELING and dealing in China comes with its share of risks and liabilities. The Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) has become embroiled in an investigation over a joint-venture company in which it has a 50 per cent stake. Mr Kiew Hock Thiam, general manager
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    • 182 3  -  -Jasmine Yin HONG KONG was taken off the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Sars list on June 23. The government has earmarked nearly HK$l billion ($225 million) to revive its economy, with HK $417 million being allocated to tourism-related programmes. The Hong Kong Economic
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 183 4  -  Lim Wei Vi IT has been 38 days since the World Health Organisation (WHO) took Singapore off its list of Sars-affected countries. Saturday saw the removal of Taiwan, the last country on the list With these events, the Sars Channel will cease transmission at midnight
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    • IN THE NEWS
      • 61 4 NINE local writers have been awarded Golden Pen Awards worth a combined total of $16,000 in the Media Development Authority's National Scriptwriting Competition, and some of the winning entries will soon be made into a TV series by MediaCorp TV. Viewers can expect to
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      • 72 4 MORE than 3,700 Sinaaporeans have bid for HDB flats under the board's latest balloting exercise. This is about three times more than the number of flats on the market. About 1,286 four- and five-room flats in Ang Mo Kio, Bukit Merah and Queenstown are for
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    • 576 4  -  Joy Frances by Actor says Rayson offered treatment for Andrea ioy@newstoday.com.s IN A surprising revelation, MediaCorp artiste Pierre Png told the High Court that his colleague Rayson Tan was willing to take Andrea De Cruz to China for treatment if Singapore doctors were unable to help her. Mr
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    • 403 4 SARS AND THE EMPLOYERS' DUTY DO employers have a duty to their workers to ensure that the workplace is safe from Sars? It could be argued that employers have an implied contractual duty to take reasonable steps to ensure their employees' safety and not to expose
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    • 344 6  -  Grace Tay Eli Lilly coughs up $122m to fight tuberculosi by grace@newstoday.com.sg INADEQUATE funding and treatment, coupled with ignorance have led to a steady rise in tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). MDR-TB is as infectious as TB and seen as an international health threat, particularly
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    • 141 6 DESPITE the bleak economy, Singaporeans have shown that they can spare a thought for the under privileged. Indonesia-based sports apparel distributor, Hardaya Equipment, raised more than $17,000 for the Down's Syndrome Association last month by pledging five per cent of the proceeds from its warehouse sale last
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    • 526 8  -  Razali Abdullah Customer satisfaction is contractor's calling card by razali@newstoday.com.sg IT LISTS Johnson Johnson and SIS Sugar among some of its clients. It undertakes $100,000 worth of major renovation works of landed property regularly. But for Earnest Interiors and Renovation Company, it
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    • 335 8 HAVING a maid makes life easy. Hiring one, or renewing their contracts, though, can prove quite a chore. In fact, most of us find ourselves having to apply for leave from work just to settle the administrative matters pertaining to our foreign maid. Now, you
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  • LETTERS
    • 341 10  -  Gerald Giam Sin-factor events may boost tourism, but at what cost? I REFER to the commentary "The tourism S-factor" (Today, July 7). The writer is of the opinion that the "sin" factor in events held here will "put some oomph into the tourism industry" and thus the
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    • 223 10  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong I REFER to the article "Local gays, foreign gays" (Weekend Today, July 6 and 7). Over the last decade or two, we have been taught words such as "regionalisation", "globalisation" and "knowledge-based economy". The advent of the Internet and IT age has inevitably
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 187 12 Bloomberg Occupancy doubles at hotels RAFFLES Holdings Ltd doubled occupancy at its four Singapore hotels since April, analysts said, erasing concern about the effect of Sars and pushing its stock to a one-year high. Raffles is filling more than 60 per cent of its hotels' rooms, analysts said,
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    • Market Watch
      • 96 12 AFP SINGAPORE shares surged past the crucial 1,500 resistance level yesterday amid expectations of strong gains on Wall Street, dealers said. The STI rose 29.85 points or 2.01 per cent to 1,516.09, while the broader All-Singapore Equities Index was up 8.62 points to 408.63. This was the fifth straight
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      • 61 12 Index Value Change Pts Nikkei 225 9795.16 247.43 2.59% Hang Seng _CI 9892.40 730.40 255.59 +5.29 2.65% +0.73% Sydney All Ords laiwan Weighted 3005.40 5322.26 4.60 170.41 0.15% 3.31% Korea Composite [hai SET Index 704.29 489.33 +11.04 -6.39 +1.59% -1.29% lakarta Composite Philippines Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai 511.378
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      • 36 12 US$ 0.***** UK£ 0.***** Yen 67.3152 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.***** Rupiah 4,665.35 Baht 23.7542 Peso 30.4450 A$ 0.***** Indian Rs 26.4447 Won 674.812 C$ 0.***** Yuan 4.***** NZ$ 0.***** NTS 19.6152
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      • 21 12 Gold uss/oi 349.676 Silver uss/oi 4.***** Platinum uss/oz 670.000 Rubber cents/kg 174.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1417 Brent crude uss/borrel 27.37
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    • 92 14 OUT of the six Singapore companies that made it to "The Global 1000 The World's Most Valuable Companies" list of the Asian edition of the Business Week, only one rose up the chart from the previous year. The company is SingTel, which moved up from 268th
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    • 539 14  -  Val Chua to mediate rising complaints against banks by val@newstoday.com.sg THERE is now a seven-day "free-look" period for you to cancel your unit trust investments, but one consumer who invested $40,000 based on poor advice in 1999 got a full refund, said Consumers Association of Singapore (Case).
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    • 186 16 Agencies BRUSSELS The European Union (EU) is ready to negotiate a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) once the current round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks is completed, the European Commission said. The commission will formally agree
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    • 118 16 PSA handled 2.33 million 20-foot equivalent units, a standard container size, in June, compared with 2.14 million units a year earlier, it said on its website. The Singapore Governmentowned port operator moved 8.5 per cent more containers at its terminal here last month, or a
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    • 620 16 Business Comment/Vasu Menon LOCAL investors may not have made a lot of money from the stock market over the last two years, but if they had placed their money in an Australian dollar fixed deposit, they would have enjoyed gains of more than 40 per cent
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    • 167 17 AFX-Asia KUALA LUMPUR Media Prima is finalising its purchase of private television company Sistem Televisyen Malaysia (TV3), the New Straits Times quoted an industry source as saying. The newspaper also quoted the source as saying that Media Prima is now in
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    • 254 18 Bloomberg What's next for $24.6b defaulter? SINGAPORE investigators have completed an 18-month investigation into Asia Pulp Paper Co (APP) and are now weighing their next move against the company that defaulted on US$l4 billion ($24.6 billion) of debts two years ago, a police spokeswoman said. "The Commercial
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    • 104 18 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia Bloomberg SNP Corp will spend HK$5OO million ($1 12.3 million) on new acquisitions, particularly in Hong Kong. Crest Petroleum Bhd's independent and non-execu-tive chairman Badri Masri and managing director Razman Ariffin resigned last Friday. No reasons were given.— Nat Steel Ltd will hold an extraordinary
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 165 19 Agencies LONDON A parliamentary committee yesterday cleared the British government of misleading the country in the run-up to the Iraq war but criticised Prime Minister Tony Blair for publishing an unreliable intelligence dossier. A report by the House of Commons Foreign
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    • 238 19 Families of Sars victims seek more money from govt TAIPEI Angered by the government's handling of the Sarsoutbreak, families of victims are demanding compensation from the authorities with the help of a consumer watchdog, a local newspaper said yesterday. The Consumer Foundation said on Sunday it plans to
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    • AROUND THE WORLD
      • 80 19 -AFP THE Philippines has indicted Asia's most wanted man, Hambali, and seven other people for the bombing of Manila's overhead railway that killed 22 people in 2000, the justice department said. Hambali and Faiz Abubakar Bafana, two alleged leaders of the Jemaah Islamiyah group, were indicted along with
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      • 87 19 -AFP A WEEKEND hacker contest in Washington resulted in "the messiest day in the whole Internet history", as it disabled hundreds of websites from Brazil to the Netherlands, said Zone H, a site that monitors cyber attacks. The site said it was targeted even though it
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      • 74 19 -AFP LIBERIAN President Charles Taylor (picture) has accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria to end a civil war but gave no indication when he would leave and stressed the need for an orderly depar- ture. Mr Taylor also urged Washington to intervene quickly to ensure
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      • 93 19 AFP A SHOPPER in southern France determined the price of his purchases at several supermarkets near Montpellier. According to police, the 22-year-old suspect made barcode labels on his home computer and replace the originals with them to buy goods for a fraction of their real
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    • 221 20 Reuters Russia's richest man investigated for theft MOSCOW Mr Mikhail Khodorkovsky (picture), Russia's richest man, said he and a key business ally, who has been charged with theft of state property, were pawns in a power struggle between competing Kremlin factions. The head of oil giant, Yukos, said
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    • 118 20 -AFP LONDON A Boeing 727 plane, which disappeared suddenly in Angola in May and unnerved US intelligence agencies, reappeared last week in the Guinean capital of Conakry before vanishing again, The Guardian reported yesterday. Washington has been working with African governments in the past month
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 983 22  -  Yeo Lay Hwee Affairs. The world does not stop if you lose and Singapore needs a soul to survive by news@newstoday.com.sg THE year 2002 was an interesting one for me. I was working in Denmark and closely observing the discussions there about necessary reforms in
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    • 45 22 INSTITUTE OF TheSllAis°T* INTERNATIONAL ™-9°™< ***■'<■ AFFAIRS Through different programmes for its members and Singaporeans, it is helping to make Singapore a B i more cosmopolitan and global S society with a people who know ti and care mare about the region www.siiaonline.org and Wider world.
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  • WATZUP?
    • 486 23  -  Janice Lee Collaborating with Warren G is all in a day's work for Malaysian rap group,Too Phat IT SEEMS to be in the nature of hiphop artists to be completely nonchalant about their music, "keeping it real" even during interviews designed to promote
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    • 348 24  -  Teng Qian Xi make Canadian singer Michael Buble's debut album a big seller by AMONG the many young vocalists who have reinterpreted classic songs is 25-year-old Michael Buble qianxi@newstoday.com.s; (picture), whose self-titled debut album was released here in April. Although he is an experienced song-writer, Buble
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    • 70 24 THE Theatre Practice presents Moving Gods, a new play about urban redevelopment and its impact, tomorrow at Bpm at Jubilee Hall. Written by Lim Jen Erh and Wu Xi, who also directs, the story uses the demolition of an old temple as the jumping-off point for
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    • HEALTH
      • 599 26  -  Genevieve Woo You have a choice between anti-ageing treatments and a change in diet, lifestyle by genevieve@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE is the second fastest greying nation in Asia, after Japan. By the year 2050, 29 per cent of the population, or nearly one in three persons,
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    • BUSY COOK
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        243 27  -  Pauline DLoh L A colourful revamp of a classic Chinese banquet appetiser ONE of the main motivators in helping the Health Promotion Board create its Guidelines to Healthier Chinese Cooking was Chef Huang Qingbiao, one of Singapore's most respected chefs and food and beverage consultant. His creations summed
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      • 228 27 FRESH FRUITS AND JELLYFISH SALAD Ingredients (Serves 8 10): I kiwi fruit 1/2 mango 4 strawberries 1/2 nashi pear 120 g honeydew melon 50 g jellyfish 120 g cooked chicken 120 g cooked shrimp, peeled 8 g sesame seeds, toasted 4 tablespoons plum sauce 2 tablespoons apple sauce Method:
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      • 151 27 Chef Huang Qingbiao was the founding chef at Charming Garden, one of Singapore's first and most successful restaurants featuring Hunan cuisine of which the Vegetarian Mock Duck and Minced Pigeon Soup in Bamboo Tube are signature dishes. After a long stint there, the chef moved to Cherry Garden
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 777 28  -  Yong Shu Chiang For now, Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-*! Hughes just wants to be an ordinary teen SOME actors don't care much for riding off into the sunset. If you ask veterans such as Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood or Judi Dench, they may tell you that
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        237 30 Celebs prove an occupational hazard for five-star hotel staff THINK it's glamorous working in a swanky hotel frequented by celebrities? Think again. Two missteps by staff of the Carlyle Hotel infuriated Jack Nicholson and Nicole Kidman and resulted in firings. Nicholson complained about how a CD and a cassette
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      • 172 30 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES Two things are very popular right now: Blockbuster movies and personalising computers. MSN.com is bringing the two phenomena together in a campaign it calls "Summer Movie Mania". MSN product manager Christine Andrews said the idea is to provide "a one-stop shop
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      • 183 30 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter NEW YORK Countering television's bicoastal bias, a former Echo Star and CNN executive is aiming to launch a new cable channel that reflects the America heartland. The America Channel will feature original programming that emphasises community and storytelling, two attributes of interest
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      • 557 45 Zola warns new Chelsea boss LONDON Money can't buy you everything. And for all the millions Chelsea's new owner Roman Abramovic has, it certainly can't buy him Gianfranco Zola. As he bids farewell to the club he served with distinction and style for seven years,
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      • 433 45 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro beat industrial powerhouse Sao Paulo yesterday to become Brazil's candidate to host the 2012 Olympics. The picture-postcard tourist mecca of Rio, which made a failed bid to host the 2004 Olympics, will
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    • 69 47 SEOUL South Korea's World Cup star Lee Chun Soo, Asia's young player of the year, joined Spanish first division runnersup Real Sociedad yesterday on a three-year contract. The 21-year-old midfielder who plays for Korean side Ulsan Hyundai signed a contract worth around US$5 million ($B.B million), his
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    • 46 47 ROME Saadi Gadaffi, son of Libyan leader Muammar, made an impressive start for new club Perugia at the weekend, scoring twice in a 36 minute run-out as a substitute. The Italian Serie A club romped to a 12-0 win over the Italian amateur side.
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    • 64 47 JOHANNESBURG Rwanda's president Paul Kagame led celebrations after his impoverished country's shock qualification for the African Nations Cup finals by treating the players to a night on the town. The tiny east African nation caused arguably the biggest upset in Nations Cup history by beating four-time winner Ghana
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    • 49 47 LONDON McLaren has effectively ruled out racing its new Formula 1 car at the British Grand Prix on July 20. Team boss Ron Dennis said it might be some time before drivers Kimi Raikkonen and David Coulthard got to race the MP4-18, if at all this season.
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