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  • 12 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Monday January 19,2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • 839 1  -  Jose Raymond Today Exclusive SNOC studying various proposals to amend athletes' cash awards scheme FOURTEEN months after this newspaper called for a rethink of the Multi-Million Dollar Award Programme (MAP), it has been revealed that changes are afoot The MAP, launched in the early 90s, hands out
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  • 291 1 Ng Shing Vi VIETNAM Experts from the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization spent Sunday hunting for cases of humans infected by bird flu in southern Vietnam, after four people died in the country's north. Eight northern and seven southern provinces
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  • 52 1 REUTERS A wounded Iraqi man, who was waiting to go to work inside the "Green Zone" headquarters of the US-led administration, lies in hospital after the blast, a hard-hitting reminder that the war is far from over. See
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    • 876 2  -  Joy Frances NEWS coment A tale of how two men managed to rev up Singaporeans into fever-pitch debates I SAT through Vidya Shankar Aiyar's trial with a slightly sick feeling in my stomach. Sick, not so much for sordid details of how the woman
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    • 183 3 Newsßadio 93.8 Channel News Asia AS a fire raged and thick and black smoke filled the house, Mr Joseph Yap was splashing buckets of water everywhere, trying desperately to put out the fire outside his elder brother's bedroom. But the blaze was too strong
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    • 469 3 Channel News Asia Be nimble and seize opportunities to stay competitive A HOSPITAL run like a hotel was what impressed Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan during his recent visit to Bangkok. "I went to their international reception centre. It's run not by
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    • 540 4  -  Lee Ching Wern Help centre provides all-round assistance to the unemployed WHEN she lost her mother a single mum to cancer two years ago, 19-year-old Tan Kin Van found herself crumbling under a mountain of problems. Not only did she have to take on the role
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    • 198 4  -  Tan Hut Leng THE public healthcare sector has snagged a bigger share of local patients from its private sector competitors in the last few years, due to the economic slowdown. According to a report published by the Ministry of Health (MOH), the shift started after the Asian
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 186 4 years Newsßadio 93.8 Two foreigners were caught in the act yesterday as they picked the pockets of unsuspecting shoppers in Bugis. While the police was carrying out an anti-crime operation yesterday afternoon, officers noticed a woman behaving suspiciously, eyeing handbags carried by shoppers. The Filipino was seen
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      • 61 4 Newsßadio 93.8 NTUC Income is setting up a service office for budding business consultants, starting from March. It's providing them office space and services such as call centre support and the use of workstations at a monthly fee of only $200, which will be adjusted after
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    • 634 6  -  Ng Shing Vi QueenieTan put the grief of her son's death behind her to focus on the less fortunate A DEATH in the family usually means a period of prolonged grief and domestic suffering. When Mrs Queenie Tan's eldest son, Jonathan, died from leukaemia at
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  • Letters
    • 153 8 I REFER to Steven Tay Yong How's letter, "Children at risk outside this school" (Today, Jan 14). Mr Tay has quite rightly pointed out the irresponsible driving behaviour of some parents, whose actions put the lives of youngsters at risk of injury
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    • 283 8  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong SPH price hikes reinforce wisdom of choosing Today I REFER to your report, "Case: SPH price hikes 'not justifiable'" and Mr Michael Chua Kheng Hwee's letter, "Why should the jobless pay 80 cents to read ads?" (Weekend Today, Jan 17-18). Like many
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    • 122 8  -  YL Soon I WAS perplexed by SPH's decision to raise the prices of its newspapers. On Jan 11, a few days before the announcement, it ran fullpage colour advertisements in the Straits Times highlighting its $21.8 million in charitable donations last year. It later announced
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  • Business News
    • 143 10 AFP BEIJING A booming tourism demand has convinced China Airlines to launch a service connecting Hangzhou, the capital of eastern China's Zhejiang province, with Singapore, state media said last Saturday. Travellers from Hangzhou can now fly to Singapore every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, with the return
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    • 411 10 Reuters Two key policy makers set ambitious self-imposed deadline My sense is that this is perfectly 'doable' by March or by April. Mr Pascal Lamy, the EU Trade Commissioner, challenging governments to make up for lost time and come up
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    • Market WATCH
      • 132 10 AFP SINGAPORE share prices are forecast to ease this week as investors take a breather ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays, dealers said last Friday. The ST Index finished at 1,836.87 on Friday, down 15.66 points or 0.85 per cent from the previous week. A dealer with a
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      • 36 10 us$ 0.589 Peso 32.70 UK£ 0.322 A$ 0.761 Yen 62.57 Indian Rs 26.74 HK$ 4.575 Won 698.8 RM 2.239 C$ 0.759 Euro 0.466 Yuan 4.877 Rupiah Baht 4926 22.98 NZ$ NTS 0.870 19.84
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      • 26 10 Gold us$/oi 407 Silver us$/oi 6.33 Platinum us$/oi 851.90 Rubber centsAg 231.50 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,776 Brent crude us$/barrel 31.38 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg
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    • 324 12 Reuters The move will increase its workforce by nearly 5 per cent NEW YORK IBM will hire 15,000 new employees 50 per cent more than planned originally in areas like software and services, because of a rebound in the economy, a top
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    • 150 12 AFP LONDON A financial trader for American investment bank Goldman Sachs has earned Britain's record bonus worth at least £30 million ($92 million), The Sunday Times newspaper said. Mr Driss Ben-Brahim, who personally generated hundreds of millions in profits for the bank last year, will
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    • 128 12 Bloomberg News LONDON British Airways, Europe's No 1 airline, will cut thousands of jobs as part of its plans to reduce costs by £300 million ($924 million) a year, the London-based The Sunday Times said, citing unidentified people at the company. The job losses
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    • 484 14  -  Jaime Koh The once-favoured tycoon is seeing his projects derailed one after another Ministry, Sarawak Hidro and GIIG Capital had lapsed because some conditions were not met within the stipulated timeframe. This was the second blow dealt to the reclusive tycoon, whose key assets include
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    • 194 16 Dow Jones JAKARTA Indonesia Satellite Corp, or Indosat, expects annual revenue growth to average 20 per cent over the next four years due to robust cellular growth and after a business reorganisation. The nation's second largest telecom company successfully merged its
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    • 243 16 Bloomberg News Analysts think so ECONOMIC growth in the United States will exceed 4 per cent this year and stocks, interest rates and corporate profits will rise, money managers told Barron's in its 2004 Roundtabk article. Chief strategist Abby Joseph Cohen, of Goldman, Sachs Co, said
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    • 59 16 Bloomberg CHINA spent US$lBB,OOO ($319,000) on kimchi from South Korea last year, almost five times more than the figure a year earlier after rumours it helped to prevent Sars spread, the Mainichi newspaper said. South Korea exported 31,890 tonnes of kimchi between January and November. The total
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  • World News
    • 193 27 -AFP DES MOINES (Iowa) lowa today becomes the first US state to give a verdict on the eight rivals hoping to be the Democratic candidate against President George W Bush in this year's presidential election. A big turnout has been predicted. But after an
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    • 256 27 AFP Huge truck bomb explodes at main gate of US military HQ BAGHDAD A massive truck bomb blew up at the main gate to the US-led coalition headquarters yesterday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 130 as Iraqis lined up for work inside the
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    • 189 27 AFP AFP Girl, 10, dies after rape in Johor A 1 0-year-old girl died after she was gang raped by three men as she was cycling to a grocery shop in Johor, a report said yesterday. Police found schoolgirl Nurulhuda Ghani barely alive and naked on the floor
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    • 371 29 AFP Those who commit fraud often believe they won't get caught LONDON A recent spate of corporate scandals has turned the spotlight on the psychology of fraudsters and what motivates such people to risk all by cooking the company books. The profile that emerges
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    • 123 29 -AFP LONDON Britain's anti-ter-rorism policy is "uncoordinated, condescending and outdated" according to a confidential report by security analysts, a newspaper said yesterday. "The present policy such as it is is no longer plausible," said the report, according to The Sunday Telegraph, which claimed to
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    • 205 29 ISLAMABAD Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf took his campaign against extremism and terrorism to a new level on Saturday, calling for a jihad (holy war) against the menace in his first address to a stormy session of the parliament. The opposition booed Mr Musharraf continuously,
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    • 150 29 0. i To Kelp a <JjsS?qfj \c(J m If u^ il v it «H1 Andrew is all excited about taking part in Share A Meal on 28 January. You can join him too by donating your lunch money. (Nope, we're not asking for your life savings.) And you can be
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  • Commentary
    • 877 30  -  Koh Buck Song The way forward for Singapore is to nurture an active and, eventually, self-reliant citizenry IN HIS speech at a Harvard Club event earlier this month, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong sketched a scenario for the future of Singapore. And it looks
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      528 32  -  Zul Othman HIM AGAINST I THE MUSIC Local musician Razali Abdullah eschews a band for a laptop WITH the deadline to Channel NewsAsia's first Get Real songwriting competition now closed, 40 songwriters have been shortlisted for the opportunity to win the grand prize of a trip to Bali as
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    • 81 30 congratulations to our Sentosa Mega Saver Winner: Ms Wee Toon Juat (NRIC:S*****12E) for winning the 1.6-litre Chevrolet Optra* in our Sentosa Mega Saver lucky draw! After enjoying herself on Sentosa with a Sentosa Mega Saver package at only $25, lucky Ms Wee found herself the proud owner of the Optra,
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    • 439 31 OFF FREE Jumpers T-shirt with every ride Catch the Chinese Orchestra Performance on on the GMAXBungy during the Lunar New Year! the Ist, 2nd 7th day Of LNY at Bpm 9pm at »fl ease present *'s a vertlsement t0 rece^ d t o e n|y 0 2 2n 23ejan 04.'
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  • livinglearning
    • 752 33  -  Gurmeet Singh At Canossian School, hearing-impaired children learn to communicate orally EXCITED chatter and laughter float along the corridors and in the yard. The scene is typical of any kindergarten and primary school. But there is one big difference here. The sound of
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  • incinemas
    • 215 34 BRITNEY Spears has blamed the magic of Las Vegas for prompting her to marry her best pal, Jason Alexander, because she was dumbfounded at how well they "hit it off" in the vibrant city. According to the World Entertainment News Network, the pop superstar spoke about
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    • 357 34  - 'Big boom' at Suntec City? Nah Serene Foo A BOMB "exploded" at Suntec City yesterday, sending people scattering in all directions. Fortunately, it was neither a terrorist attack nor a real bomb that went off. Instead, it was a scene being filmed for the upcoming MediaCorp TV Channel 8 co-production
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    • 249 36 Reuters Leading indie film festival reflects growing appetite for documentaries PAEK CITY (Utah) Surf's up at the Sundance Film Festival, which opened recently with the big wave surf documentary, Riding Giants. The warmly-received film stoked the crowds for a tide of new independent movies such as Napoleon
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    • 468 38  -  Gurmeet Singh Lounge on a cosy sofa and sip a freshly-brewed cup of coffee atTCC for the ultimate indulgence A comfortable, stylish atmosphere with -Tiavant-garde lighting greets you as you step into TCC. The next thing that warms you up is the sweet, seductive aroma
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  • Page 40 Miscellaneous
    • 1619 40 Broken Arrow I Friends i Light of a Million Hopes I Asian Snapshots Channel 5,7.30pm I The One With The Channel B,7pm j Channel 5, 8.02pm Vie Deakins (John Travolta) is an >w^"iG LOiOynOi j HHUP^ 7 Ijb^L^ 'US!! Monkey Cups and Buddha's fingers Air Force pilot on what is
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  • Sports
    • 385 41 Agencies LONDON The great David Beckham is not perfect after all. The England captain has one leg shorter than the other. Beckham said he was unaware of the problem until he underwent a medical before his transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid
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    • 593 41 -AFP Excitement wanes as top pros lament the absence of the 'Big Wiesy' GOLF Sony Open, third round HONOLULU, Hawaii The "Big Easy" was back in contention, but without the "Big Wiesy", the third round of the Sony Open seemed just a little flat. Who would have thought
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    • 265 41 Reuters STOCKHOLM World No 1 Annika Sorenstam will play a reduced schedule on this year's LPGA Tour in a bid to win all four Majors in a single season. The 33-year-old Swede, who won two of last year's Majors, has targeted just
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    • 323 42 SAILING Singapore Straits Regatta LIKE many athletes, sailors are a superstitious lot. And for Ray Ordoveza skipper of ClaridenKarakoa the insistence on avoiding the number 13 paid handsome dividends. The decision contributed to a perfect score of seven points from seven consecutive first-placed finishes.
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    • 502 42  -  TAN YO-HINN Kegler shuns the bolognaise, completes Filipino clean sweep BOWLING ABT Grand Slam finals SPAGHETTI bolognaise is usually the one must-have item before a day's work on the bowling lanes for Purvis Granger. But on the day of the 2003 Aviva Asian Bowling
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    • 126 42 Reuters MELBOURNE Vangipurappu Laxman struck an unbeaten 103 to lead India to a 19-run victory over world champions Australia in a one-day match yesterday, despite a brutal hundred by Australia opener Matthew Hayden. India inflicted Australia's first loss in the tri-series also involving Zimbabwe.
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    • 563 43 Agencies Top seed rarely walks off with Australian Open crown TENNIS Australian Open, day 1 MELBOURNE Andy Roddick must defeat the curse of top seed status to land back-to-back Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open, which begins here today. The exciting 21-year-old American broke
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