Today, 28 January 2004

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    35 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com We d 11 c S d ay January 28, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 TODAY INFOTECH todayonline.com A fortnightly supplement by Today Jan 28 Feb 10,2004 Vol 3 No 2
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    Thaksin braces for attack of sick birds
    803 1  -  Tor Ching Li Amid allegations of cover-up, Thai leader faces his worst-ever crisis JUST nine months ago, Asia mobilised a united front against the Sars outbreak following an emergency summit in Bangkok. Today, representatives of nine affected Asian countries Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos,
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      6 1 /A=diaCorp (class SHARE YOUR FREE NEWSPAPER
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      39 1 NEWSJW/TEWS Michelle moves Rising star Michelle Chong chooses MediaCorp/2 M'sian link Osama's biochem project run by Malaysian/16 Choo Ai Leng Low-carb dieting might not be all goocf/26 MEET FERGIE'S FOE The Irish don who wants Man Utd's manager out/38^^^^J
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Michelle goes to MediaCorp
      239 2 MICHELLE Chong has become the latest addition to the MediaCorp talent roster. The 26-year-old actress chose not renew her contract with rival broadcaster SPH Media Works and made the switch yesterday. "We have given her an offer and she has chosen to come over," confirmed Mr
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      Return of the King leads Oscar field
      285 2 But it was a cold morning for Cold Mountain IT WAS a cold morning for the Civil War epic, Cold Mountain, yesterday in Los Angeles when the nominees for this year's Oscars were announced. Going into Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, considered the closest
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      Charity to be more transparent
      300 3  -  Loh Chee Kong YOU will soon have a better picture of what happens to your donations to charities. A watchdog has been set up to help ensure that Singapore's 900 or so charities are run transparently and observe minimum standards of governance. The Council on
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      Progress made in 'dead man´ investigation
      364 3  -  Jose Raymond Photographs taken of suspect in insurance hoax SIX months ago, Today broke a story about a possible insurance hoax involving a Singaporean man who declared himself dead to claim more than $400,000 from three insurance companies here. This newspaper now understands that
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      Rejected asylum seeker burns himself
      49 3 An Iranian asylum seeker known only as Hassan screaming after setting himself on fire yesterday outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kuala Lumpur. He torched himself after failing to obtain political asylum. The man was sent to hoshMMCImmlm
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      Bankruptcies hit all-time high
      134 3 Channel News Asia DATA released yesterday showed that personal bankruptcies hit an all-time high last year even worse than the 1985-86 recession. The latest figures from the Insolvency Public Trustee's Office revealed that 4,317 people became bankrupt last year, up 25 per cent from the previous
      – Channel News Asia; REUTERS  -  134 words
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      New email virus clogs Internet
      243 4 My doom attachment infects PCs worldwide through mass-mailing A HANDFUL of Singapore companies started the day yesterday with doom all over their email systems. However, by late afternoon, the fastspreading email worm, Mydoom or Novarg, was brought under control, according to Network Associates, the producer
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      Legal suit against local teachers' union settled
      310 4  -  A LEGAL scuffle between a local teachers' union and its former president was put to rest yesterday with barely a whimper after a closed-door High Court hearing. Mr Lawrence Sia, a former MP and deputy secretary-general with the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC),
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    • SINGAPORE snipets
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        Bird flu discussion in Bangkok
        49 4 Minister of State for National Development, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, is heading to Bangkok today for talks on the bird flu outbreak. He will join public health and agriculture ministers from Asian countries, the European Union and the US to discuss the poultry disease situation.
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        Poultry farm trips cancelled
        133 4 Newsßadio 93.8 Community clubs and schools have cancelled their plans to visit poultry farms here, just hours after the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) warned Singaporeans to stay away. Quail farm Lian Wah Hang has seen cancellations from NTUC Recreation Club and a primary school. Since
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        M'sian poultry get AVA checks
        153 4 Channel News Asia Live chickens arriving from Malaysia are undergoing stepped-up checks as soon as they enter Singapore at the Tuas Checkpoint. Each day, about 50 to 60 trucks carrying some 120,000 live chickens come into Singapore from Malaysia. This is almost all of the
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      234 2 AN AIRFARE MADE FOR TWO (WHO YOU TAKE IS UP TO YOU) In true Valentine spirit, you can now fly to your choice of six delightful destinations. En route, enjoy KrisWorld" 1", our inflight entertainment system, in every seat, in every class, and of course, the inflight service even other
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      116 3 Mi*llM>lll>lfM The liver is our largest internal organ. th@ITISOri Carbohydrates, fats and proteins are TradidonaUyusai as I™* tonic metabolised in the liver. 3 The liver aids in the digestion of fats. The liver removes metabolic waste -^jfiKfe products and old red blood cells. Milk thistle has been used traditionally Livrin
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  • HOME NEWS
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      A sea of opportunity
      513 6  -  Tor Ching Li Amanda Foods reaps the riches of a seafood industry worth $204b AQUACULTURE seafood farming and processing is the future of feeding the world, said Amanda Foods' newly-appointed executive chairman, Mr Graham Bell, as he sat in his office overlooking the Singapore River. He
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      Milk targets students for help
      124 6  -  Haryani Othman STUDENTS and commuters are being urged today to help other less fortunate children by donating what they would spend on a meal $3 perhaps. Donations will go to the Share-a-Meal Program, which is part of Milk (Mainly I Love Kids), an organisation that
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      Death row guard loses appeal
      65 6 Channel News Asia THE sacked Cisco guard who was sentenced to death for shooting his colleague lost his appeal yesterday when the judges dismissed his case. Ismail Abdul Rahman, 37, had been given the mandatory death sentence for firing three shots at 47-year-old Cisco officer
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  • my PLACE
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      HDB resale purchases made easy
      552 7 SELLING or buying an HDB flat from the open market is easy. Advertising and promotions manager Alex Tan can vouch for this after handling his own resale transaction successfully. "It's not as daunting as you might think. A friend of mine recommended that I check
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      SAFETY IN HDB TOWNS/ESTATES
      181 7 WITH about 84 per cent of Singapore's population living in high-rise flats, being considerate and taking the trouble to do simple checks regularly can go a long way. It is the responsibility of all HDB flat owners to maintain and take good care of their homes.
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      A case for free healthcare
      384 8  -  James Chi It should be viewed as incentive for workers who contribute to the economy AS A student of law in the UK in 1996, I fractured my left wrist in an accident and was sent to a hospital in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. The
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      Sorry for the leaky buses, preventive steps will be taken
      84 8 WE REFER to the letter, "Leaky buses are a hazard" (Today, Jan 21). We apologise to the writer and all on board buses *****37 and *****01 who were inconvenienced by the incident The buses have since been sent to our
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      Use serving spoons for better hygiene
      115 8 I REFER to the letter "The hassle over serving spoons" (Today, Jan 20). It is prudent to practice good hygiene through habits such as the use of serving spoons. The National Environment Agency (NEA) has asked all food establishments to provide spoons for dishes
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Accelerating to the frontline of IT in India
      423 10  -  Suresh Mark Kumar Frontline takes 42% stake in Indian IT company Accel ICIM INDIA has proven too attractive to resist A strong domestic market, low-cost labour and a booming economy were some of the compelling factors behind Frontline's decision to acquire a
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    • Market WATCH
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        ST Index 1,904.55 +4.57
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        World markets
        54 10 Index Nikkei 225 Value Change Pis *****.03 -44.57 -0.41 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.45 +34.18 +0.25 3324.70 -21.50 -0.64 6384.63 +114.92 +1.83 Korea Comp 863.03 -6.01 -0.69 KLCI 821.78 -6.09 -0.74 SET Index 738.81 +13.25 +1.83 lakarta Comp 769.45 -17.42 -2.21 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1565.00 +17.30
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        SGX most active
        60 10 fy volume ixcelpoint ipeedy-Tech Notary Celestial iBI E2-Cap Wee Poh UtionAsia >ac Cent inerSave )eauty China Close 0.420 0.820 0.730 0.515 0.710 0.015 0.500 0.335 0.250 0.555 Change '000 +0.020 +5.0 116,818 +0.015 +1.9 86,273 +0.025 +3.5 68,311 +0.010 +2.0 57,298 +0.055 +8.4 47,717 39,444 +0.005 +1.0
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        SGX top rises
        72 10 By$ DBS 16.200 +0.300 DBS Bk 6% NCPS *****.000+0.300 GreatEast 11.300 +0.200 SIA 11.500 +0.200 1AC200USS 2.850 +0.150 ISH 500USS 5.200 +0.100 SIA 200 11.500 +0.100 OOB 14.400 +0.100 HL Fin 2.770 +0.090 JurEng 2.600 +0.070 fy percentage (oh Bros W*****60.020 +33.3 3loba 0.025 +25.0 ihining 0.135
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        SGX top falls
        73 10 /enture 23.200 -0.601 iPH 100 19.200 -0.501 F&N 13.400 -0.301 iPH 19.300 -0.201 fhai Prime200USSl 0.400 -0.201 \?i Breweries 7.400 -0.151 DUE 7.000 -0.151 >TI ETF 100 18.880 -0.121 IMH 400USS 9.400 -0.101 KepCorp 6.900 -0.101 By percentage L&M 0.010 -33.3 Hiap Hoe 0.020 2ndChance 0.210 -20.0
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        Singapore
        124 10 Dow Jones SINGAPORE shares closed mixed yesterday, with the broad market ending lower on bird-flu concerns. The ST Index closed up 4.57 points, or 0.24 per cent, at 1 ,904.55 on buying of select blue chips and banks but bird-flu worries saw it closing off its intraday high of
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5895 UK£ 0.3248 Yen 62.717 HK$ 4.579 RM 2.2398 Euro 0.4731 Rupiah 4993.1 Baht 23.199 Peso 32.879 A$ 0.7666 Indian Rs 26.719 Won 695.99 C$ 0.7754 Yuan 4.8795 NZ$ 0.8814 NTS 19.857
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        Commodities
        26 10 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 404.000 Silver uss/oz 6.255 Platinum uss/.i 844.500 Rubber centsAg 214.75 Palm Oil RM/t.nn. 1783 Brent crude uss/borrei 31.15 Information provided by
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      Keppel wins $34m contract for flue gas treatment plant
      104 10 Dow Jones KEPPEL Integrated Engineering, a unit of Keppel Corp, has secured a $34 million environmental engineering contract The contract, from the National Environment Agency, involves the construction of a flue gas treatment plant at Tuas and the provision of technologies
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      CORPORATE briefs
      173 12 Bloomberg Bloomberg Dow Jones Dow Jones Keppel Telecommunications Transportation's net profit fell to $18.1 million, or 3.3 cents a share, from $86.1 million, or 15.8 cents. Sales fell 19 per cent to $242.4 million from $297.6 million. Fortune REIT's net income rose 51 per cent to HK$57 million
      — Bloomberg; — Dow Jones  -  173 words
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      New rules at SGX a setback
      402 12 -Dow Jones Analysts say changes to disclosure rules hinder retail investors TWO changes in disclosure requirements for substantial shareholders of listed firms are a setback for Singapore's efforts to promote greater transparency, analysts said. As of Jan 1, existing substantial shareholders those who own
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      Jakarta stocks down 1.8% as bird flu triggers profit taking
      161 12 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesian shares slumped yesterday as concerns over the outbreak of bird flu in the country prompted investors to take profit after recent sharp gains. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 14.38 points, or 1.8 per cent, to
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      Aussie bank reports $472m loss from rogue trading
      323 14 -AFP Amount is twice bank's original estimate SYDNEY The National Australia Bank (NAB) announced yesterday that total pretax losses from months of rogue currency trading were more than double its original estimate amounting to about As36o million ($471.6 million). The NAB, Australia's
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      Mitsubishi plans to sell cars in Iraq
      194 14 -AFP TOKYO Mitsubishi Motors plans to start selling vehicles in Iraq soon. It will be the first Japanese car maker to enter the post-war Iraqi auto market, the company said yesterday. To kick off the business, the company that ranks fourth in the
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      83 14 There's still life after singlehood. v www.peugeot.com Family life doesn't mean a life without style. Peugeot family cars combine surprising spaciousness with awesome good looks. From the zippy 5-door 206, to the technology-filled 307 and the spacious 307 SW with its panoramic Cielo glass roof, which All-l-nFKOn^P (A division of
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Chartered to slash Q4 losses
      530 15 Dow Jones Improvement in orders for microchips is not merely seasonal, analysts say CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's thirdlargest contract chip manufacturer, is expected to more than halve its fourth-quarter losses from the same period a year ago as orders rise for microchips used in
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      STOCK call
      147 15 DBS Vickers Cerebos Pacific ($3.40) HOLD We are cutting our earning; forecasts for the food manufacturer because of the bird flu crisis in Thailand. Thailand accounts for 20 per cent of Cerebos' sales. The Thai government has ordered a mass culling of chickens to prevent the spread of
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      M'sian ran Osama's biochem project
      331 16 -AP But Iraq war cut short its development: investigators KUALA LUMPUR An Al Qaeda programme to develop chemical and biological weapons was in the early "conceptual stages" when it was cut short by the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the United States and Malaysian security officials
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      UN will send elections mission to Iraq
      184 16 Agencies UNITED NATIONS Ending months of hesitancy about the UN's return to Iraq, Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday agreed to a US and Iraqi request to quickly send a mission to Iraq. The team of UN election experts would evaluate whether fair and
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Cigarettes behind bars?
        41 16 AFP Police in China's Sichuan province have uncovered an underground cigarette factory disguised as a prison, possibly in an attempt to avoid unwelcome outside attention. Apparently, the workers not real prisoners were not treated much better than inmates.
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      • Article
        Stranded on Tioman
        57 16 Over 200 holidaymakers, including Singaporeans, have been stranded on the Malaysian resort island of Pulau Tioman for the past few days due to problems with ferry services, The Star reported yesterday. The Malaysian Maritime Department earlier warned ferry operators not to ply the Mersing-Tioman route between Jan
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    • JOBS HOT SPOT
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        Staying on top of the competition
        646 19 Singapore's marine industry still a world leader after all these years WHEN Captain William Cloughton built the first graving dock in Singapore in 1859 to service ships on the India-China trading route, little did he know that he would be laying the foundation for
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        Goodbye spanners, hello laptops
        450 20 JAYVEN See joined the marine industry 24 years ago as an electrical apprentice. Today, the 41-year-old is the managing director of Saab Marine Electronics, a foreign multinational corporation which provides tank radar gauging equipment for marine vessels. Jayven manages the company's operations and charts its business
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        This industy's come a long way
        724 20 A passion for new solutions LIM Wei Tat's job often requires that he come up with new solutions to the problems that ship owners face. And such challenges are what this engineer thrives on. Wei Tat, 29, is a two-time scholarship recipient of the
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        An industry that knows the value of upgrading
        359 20 PROMISING job prospects and the many opportunities for skills upgrading have kept Twoon Kok Yam in the marine industry for more than 20 years. After graduating with a diploma in mechanical engineering in 1980, he joined Singapore Technologies Marine (ST Marine) as
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        Learning new skills and leadership
        378 21 HE IS one firm believer in lifelong learning. After all, Tey Chee Koon is where he is today with the help of the many training courses that he had attended. When he joined the marine industry in 1996, he had only secondary school education and
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        The springboard to an exciting career at sea
        439 21 JUST six months into his job as a trainee fitter, and Christopher Barker believes that he can make his mark in the marine industry if he works hard. The 29-year-old works at Keppel Shipyard, a world leader in conversion, construction and repair
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        Independents could hold the key
        386 24 New Hampshire's fickle electorate lends greater uncertainty to US primary elections MANCHESTER As voters began casting their votes yesterday to choose a Democrat to take on US President George W Bush in November, pundits have predicted that independent and undecided voters will determine who wins.
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Fighting flab or tempting fate?
      805 26  -  Choo Ai Leng Low-carb dieting has taken off in the US but some experts warn of weighty consequences ALMOST overnight, the low-carbohydrate concept has become a heavyweight in the multibillion-dollar diet industry in the US, changing the way people eat and how food companies and
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      An anatomy of RAPE
      825 28  -  Felix Cheong MB|HBiijßl| THE devil is always in the details. And when it comes to depicting rape on the big screen, the devil looms especially large. In the case of Irreversible, which apparently caused 250 people to walk out at the 2002 Cannes Festival, the devil
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      Mars-visit exhibition comes to town
      201 28  -  Elisa Chia NASA exploration rovers have been dutifully sending images from Mars, following their sevenmonth journey to the Red Planet The two rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed on Jan 4 and 25, respectively, and will continue searching for life on Mars for at least the
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      Sigmund Freud meets ancient Chinese opera
      318 29  -  Yong Shu Chiang THE classic Kun opera, The Peony Pavilion, is about a young lady who has a love affair in her dreams. So vivid is this dreamy liaison that the woman, Dv Liniang, becomes sick and eventually dies, grieving that the love is
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      Warwick rides that train
      372 29  -  Janice Lee DIONNE Warwick (picture), who has won the hearts of millions around the world with her golden hits, is in town for a concert at Suntec City tomorrow night. Yesterday, the 63-year-old singer received an award at the American Embassy on Napier Road in recognition
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        Torque stars in town
        82 30  -  Yong Shu Chiang Stars Monet Mazur and Martin Henderson were at the Fullerton Hotel on yesterday for the Singapore press junket for the new high-speed thriller, Torque. Henderson co-starred with Naomi Watts in The Ring, while Mazur was in the comedy, Just Married. Torque, from the
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        Nemo-boost for aquariums
        119 30 Reuters LOS ANGELES California's Aquarium of the Pacific and Monterey Bay Aquarium among others have benefited from the popularity of the animated film Finding Nemo. "Finding Nemo was great for us," said Hank Armstrong of California's Monterey Bay Aquarium. "We did get a lot of interest and
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  • SPORTS
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      Texas two-step
      387 36 Agencies Houston in party mode; Pats, Cats set to rumble SUPER BOWL XXXVIII Patriots v Panthers HOUSTON Houston, we have a party. After a week on the launch pad, Super Bowl XXXVIII entered its final countdown this week as football fans, media, celebrities and corporate America poured into
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      After grilling, Korean sports chief charged
      213 36 -AFP SEOUL Prosecutors pressed charges against South Korean sports czar Kirn Un Yong (picture), accused of widespread corruption, asking a court to issue a warrant for his arrest, officials said yesterday. The move followed a 15-hour interrogation of Kirn, who was suspended by the
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      Safin downs the Rocket
      518 37 Agencies Russian stuns Roddick in five-set thriller TENNIS Australian Open, quarter-finals MELBOURNE Russian birthday boy Marat Safin knocked out world No 1 Andy Roddick in five enthralling sets last night to set up a semi-final with defending champion Andre Agassi at the Australian Open. Safin, unseeded
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      Mauresmo breaks down as Henin strolls through
      315 37 AFP MELBOURNE It all ended in tears for injury-jinxed Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo at the Australian Open yesterday as world No 1 Justine Henin-Hardenne steamed into the semi-finals. Fourth seed Mauresmo wept as she announced her withdrawal from the tournament after failing a fitness
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      THE IRISH DON
      523 38 Agencies He may be shy, but Magnier's profile suggests Fergie faces a potent foe LONDON John Magnier (picture) has emerged from less than promising origins to master his trade. He is ruthless in pursuit of his aims. In Ireland, he is the chief of the Coolmore Stud
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    • Article
      Fergie set to sign new deal?
      89 38 IT WAS reported in the Daily Telegraph yesterday that Alex Ferguson will this week sign a rolling contract worth around £4 million ($12.3 million) a year after Manchester United tried to appease major shareholders John Magnier and J P McManus yesterday by announcing an
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      Uefa to hear Wales' Euro 2004 appeal
      342 38 LONDON Uefa have agreed to hear Wales' appeal to overturn their Euro 2004 play-off result following a failed drugs test by Russia's Egor Titov. The midfielder tested positive for bromantan after the 0-0 first-leg draw on Nov 15 and the Welsh believe he
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      Raddy's honeymoon over
      682 39  -  KOHWEILING Norway friendly the first step towards Tiger Cup goal in December HE HAS had six months with the national team. Now, the comfortable, bedding down period that every new coach goes through with a football team is over for Singapore's Radojko Avramovic. When the Lions take
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      Bowling bug bites former Asian champion Fang
      296 39  -  TAN YO-HINN ANDREW Fang been conspicuous by his absence on the bowling lanes for more than 18 months. But the competitive juices are flowing once again for the 2000 Asian FIQ Masters champion. Fang has signed up for the national team selection trials
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    • DATELINE
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        Big loss for Netball Singapore
        108 39 MRS Daisy Tan, Netball Singapore's longest serving president, passed away on Monday. She was 78. She played a key role in setting up the Singapore Women's Netball Association (SWNA) the forerunner to NS in 1962. During her tenure as SWNA honorary secretary (1962-1965) and later
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        Withe for Indonesia
        117 39 JAKARTA Former Thailand national coach Peter Withe arrived in Jakarta last week and is expected to sign a four-year contract to coach the Indonesian national team. Withe coached Thailand for five years but was sacked in September after failing to lead them to this year's Olympic Games.
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        A lifeline for bankrupt Leeds?
        106 39 LEEDS Leeds United's nopes of staving off financial collapse rose yesterday when a consortium bidding to take over the cash-strapped club said they were in "serious" negotiations with creditors owed more than £80 million ($246 million). Gerald Krasner, a corporate recovery specialist acting for the
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        Spain flooded with creatine?
        77 39 BARCELONA Players with Spanish clubs routinely take the muscle growth supplement creatine, Barcelona club doctors revealed yesterday. "All the Barca players take it, but not all the time," said Dr Jordi Ardevol, the Barcelona medical chief. Joan Carles Gonzalez, the Espanyol first team doctor, told La
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      112 38 Home Team Away Team p Match Kick Off Sales Period (Singapore date/time) Singapore Norway Wed, 28/1/04 7.30pm yj^ 28/1/04 Check the current odds at any Singapore Pools or Singapore Turf Club outlet, or at www.singaporepools.com.sg Sales start at Bam the day before the match and close 15 minutes before kick-off
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      25 38 SPORT ON TV Football Carling Cup Semi-final 2nd leg Tomorrow: Middlesbrough v Arsenal, 3.55 am, Ch 22 Tennis Australian Open Today: Quarter-finals, Bam, Ch 22
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      The girl with the Ixus factor
      261 44 I IS THERE a sweet I young thing out there who has substance and style? Canon organised a promotional campaign, the Ixus Factor Search, to look for such a person. "It is easy to find good-look-ing people in Singapore. However, it can be a
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      SAVED BY SEMEL
      308 44 -AP Former boss of Warner Bros turns Yahoo! around YAHOO'S turnaround I and profitability can be attributed to one man, 60-year-old Terry Semel, former head of Warner Bros and a former Hollywood executive. Initially, he did not seem like a logical choice to run the fun-loving company
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      Intel XScale powers portable media players
      202 44 CREATIVE Labs, ißiver America and I Samsung are developing a new category of portable media players (PMPs) based on the Intel XScale technology that offers long battery life and high-quality video and audio. These products provide consumers with the ability to have anytime, anywhere
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      HARD DRIVES GO PLACES
      466 45 Reuters More consumer electronic devices are using these storage discs HARD disk drives, best-known as the I collection of whirring, spinning platters that store data in personal computers, are getting smaller and storing more data than ever. And this business is becoming bigger. Innovation by disk
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      Porn industry boosted by the Net
      271 45 -AFP THE Internet and increasingly sophisticated mobile phones are among media helping the global sex industry, including hardcore pornography, to enter our daily lives, experts in Europe lamented. Speaking recently at a conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, a lawmaker called for tough
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      Collect and transmit data on the field
      162 45 I OUTDOOR techniI dans, sales and inventory personnel and engineers can now collect and transmit data quickly and easily using a full-featured handheld device and wireless connection to their company's servers. This e-business solution from Intermec Technologies uses its popular 700 Series radio-enabled
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  • UP CLOSE
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      Search word advertising pays
      280 46 TEXT listing of advertisements that pop up during a search result listing has become an important revenue earner over the past three years on websites such as Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft MSN. The sites earn almost one-third of their income from search word advertising, according to
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      THE NET AS A MARKETING TOOL
      837 46  -  Francis Chin Yahoo! GM gives tips on promoting your website effectively to attract customers I THE dot-corn crash is over. I This is the emphatic message from Yahoo! Singapore and South-east Asia general manager Niren Hiro. By way of illustration, Mr Hiro pointed out
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      An ethnic Indian born and bred in Japan
      100 46 MR NIREN Hiro, 35, is of ethnic Indian origin. His parents moved to Japan and he was born and brought up in that country. Thus, he has a Japanese name. He was educated in Japan and the US and is equally fluent
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  • FOCUS: WEB SERVICES
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      Web services: Terms to remember
      217 47 What is XML? Extensible mark-up language is a World Wide Web Consortium standard that lets you create your own tags. It simplifies business-to-business transactions on the Web. What is IBM Web Sphere? Web Sphere is a Web services platform based on Java. It enables companies
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      AID INTEGRATION WITH WEB SERVICES
      499 47  -  Goh Beng Yeow A simpler and less expensive approach to EAI WITH the downturn in I today's economy, businesses are undergoing constant changes to keep pace with market demands and competition. Web services are deemed as a beacon of hope for organisations looking to reduce
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  • FOCUS: USED IT GOODS
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      TUNGSTEN FOR $299?
      485 48  -  Francis Chin Buy second-hand IT products at great prices and sell your unwanted gadgets WHAT do you do with electronic prodI ucts that are DOA (dead on arrival)? These are new devices or gizmos that cannot work when the customer opens the box. Usually, the customer gets
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      As good as new
      167 48 REFURBISHED IT products work as well as new ones. A used PC at the TradelT store may not have all the bells and whistles of the latest P4 model, but as long as it serves your office computing needs, it is as suitable as a new
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      Sell just about anything @ eßay Spore
      406 48 Sell just about anything eßay Spore I WHAT do you do with that 386 PC I in the store room, other than converting it into a giant doorstop? Have you bought yourself a new mobile phone, only to find that your wife has got you the same thing for Christmas?
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  • MYOB
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      ONE-MAN CONSULTANCY
      613 49  -  Michele Soon This 32-year-old entrepreneur provides a wide range of Internet connectivity services for SMBs I FOR small and medium I businesses (SMBs) looking to reap the benefits of connectivity provided by the Web, one-man consultancy Roxlab Technologies and Services promises a wide range of cost-effective solutions. Fronted
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      Is your company website effective?
      448 49 I THE start of the new year is a good I time to start minding your own business online. Mr Eric Low, former Web manager of the Lycos Asia portal and now director of Internet strategies at Miro Asia, said that for a start, companies
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      Simplify data management with Datacraft
      443 49 FROM a one-year waiting period to a I four-month period between an order and final delivery this is the dramatic reduction gained by Paxar Far East, using a new data storage system from system integrator Datacraft Paxar serves about 250,000 retailers, garment manufacturers and clothing
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  • LEGAL SPEAK
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      SOME RIGHTS RESERVED
      1020 50  -  Tan Min-Liang The Creative Commons project promotes innovation without derogating the rights of creators I COPYRIGHT law governs I the protection of expression of ideas. Virtually everything that is created be it an abstract drawing or a snippet of music comes under the overarching umbrella of copyright
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      Microsoft pledges to make it easier for rivals to license server protocols
      489 50 Reuters MICROSOFT has agreed to do more I to help rivals compete after anti-trust enforcers in the United States complained that a key piece of their landmark settlement with the company has "fallen short". The world's largest software
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  • SCIENCE & TECH
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      LASER-SHARP VISION IN SIGHT
      455 51  -  Ariel Tarn CustomVue allows for greater precision and corrects night blindness and presbyopia I FOR $2,800, you can have a more precise way to reshape your cornea at Asia Medic, a local healthcare provider. The laser vision correction procedure, CustomVue, developed by US company VISX, promises
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      An electronic travel interpreter to help you in Japan
      273 51 I YOU do not worry if you get I lost in Tokyo's cavernous Narita Airport and are unable to speak a word of Japanese if you have NEC's newly-developed automatic speech-to-speech Travel Interpreter. This nifty device translates Japanese to English and
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    • Article
      IBM breaks patent milestone
      134 51 IBM earned 3,415 I US patents last year, breaking the record for patents received in a single year and extending its run as the world's most innovative company to 11 consecutive years. Led by growth in patents that fuelled the company's on-demand computing and services offerings,
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      One Superdome, multiple OSes
      320 51 HEWLETT-PACKARD'S I 9000 Superdome, now being built in Singapore, is the industry's most powerful server system. Based on the PA-RISC processors, this super server is now joined by another model, the Integrity Superdome, powered by the Intel Itanium 2 processor. The Integrity is the world's first
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  • WHAT'S NEW
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      ALL ABOUT DSLRS
      491 52  -  David Ng Popularity of digital Single Lens Reflex cameras rises as prices continue to fall I THESE are exciting times for I photographers, with digital cameras available for everyone, from simple point-and-shoot compacts and advance compacts to digital SLRs (DSLRs). But why go for a DSLR, which
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      Five-megapixel, pocket-sized gem
      111 52 WITH BenQ's high-end fiveI megapixel C5O digital camera, you can shoot like a pro minus the fuss. With the mode dial, for instance, you can glide through the different camera options easily. You can also customise your photos by adjusting the lens aperture and shutter speed with
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      10X zoom lets you get close to the action
      205 52 KODAK'S four-megapixel Easy Share I DX6490 boasts a 10X optical zoom, compared with the standard 3X for most digital compact cameras. It has a Schneider-Kreuz-nach Variogon zoom lens (38-380 mm equivalent) with a f/2.8-f/3.7 maximum aperture, a new image-processing chip for
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      Recharge power-hungry devices quickly
      200 52 GOOD news for powerI hungry folks who cannot get by without their digital camera, MP3 player, PDA and laptop. They can ensure that their rechargeable batteries are always on full charge with GP Batteries' GP2200 AA NiMH rechargeable batteries and Powerßank U-Smart The GP2200 provides a
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      Cheap and good
      171 52 FOR budget-conscious consumers I who do not want to compromise on the quality and functions of a digital camera, try the AM3540 from Amconics. The five-megapixel AM3540 has a 4X digital zoom and is equipped with auto and manual modes. The manual mode allows users to control
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      Burn a 4.7GB disc in 10 min
      184 53 THE DVBOOA DVD I writer from BenQ helps you create a 4.7G8 DVD disc in less than 10 minutes with simultaneous capturing and burning techniques. It provides 8x DVD+R and 4x DVD+RW with 12x DVD reading and a series of applications helps you
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      SGI targets mid-range market
      201 53 I SILICON Graphics (SGI) I has released the Altix 350, an Intel Itanium 2 and 64-bit Linux OS-based server that reportedly delivers up to 50 per cent price and up to 75 per cent performance advantages over proprietary Unix SMP servers from Sun, IBM and HP.
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