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  • 12 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday May 20,2004 > MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • 738 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Ministers promise review, institute immediate changes SAFE was simply not safe enough for some MPs as Parliament convened for the first time since the Nicoll Highway and Ayer Rajah accidents. The statistics that the Government usually brandishes as proof of
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  • 592 1  -  Jose Raymond KRISHNASAMY NAIDU, who allegedly hacked his wife to death with a parang on Monday, was charged in the Subordinate Court yesterday with murder. But, rather than signalling closure, the brutal murder of 39-year-old Chitrabathy Narayanasamy has raised a series of
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 25 1 ATHENS 2004 /tiEDIACORP NEWSX^/lEWS The next PM Manmohan Singh invited to take India's top job/4 Another six Coach Raddy identifies more foreign talent/52 jyp-i,.-.-:;-' JdSl
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 227 2 28 SCDF officers also get medals THE foreman who has been hailed as a hero by his workers during the Nicoll Highway collapse will be awarded a posthumous Medal of Valour by the State. Mr Heng Yeow Pheow, 40, had remained in the 30m
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    • NEWScomment
      • 589 3  -  Francis Kan, But UOB, UOL minority investors may lose out FROM corporate boardrooms to neighbourhood coffee shops, a question consuming market watchers is what will be Mr Wee Cho Yaw's next move in the tussle for United Overseas Land (UOL). The options have been
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    • 838 4  -  Shanoo Maharaj Ex-finance minister is brilliant economist and is not known to play political games HE IS India's most famous academiccivil servant turned politician and is widely regarded as the architect of the country's economic reforms. The first Sikh who will lead
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    • 453 4 BAGHDAD The first of a series of trials against American soldiers over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was held yesterday. United States military policeman Specialist Jeremy Sivits, 24, was sentenced in a court martial to the maximum term of one year in
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  • GLOBALroundup
    • 74 4 AFP Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi has denied allegations that Islamic militants detained here have been subjected to abuses similar to those meted out to Iraqi prisoners by US troops Mr Abdullah said he has "never heard anything specific about such atrocities",
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    • 56 4 Malaysia nas rormea a special police battalion to guard embassies, ambassadors' homes and dignitaries following recent attacks on embassy buildings, Deputy Internal Security Minister Noh Omar said yesterday. The Diplomatic Security Service, formed of more than 1,000 armed personnel, would be deployed round-the-clock from
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    • 70 4 Reuters British Krime Minister lony blair and members of parliament were evacuated from fhe House of Commons chamber yesterday after a powder paint ball, aimed at fhe premier, hit him between the shoulder blades. Witnesses said a young man entered fhe
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  • HOME NEWS
    • PARLIAMENTbriefs
      • 68 6 MPs yesterday voiced privacy concerns with a Bill that will allow the Department of Statistics to access individual taxation data for economic and policy analysis. Minister of State for Trade and Industry Raymond Lim explained that the administrative data was more accurate than survey
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      • 88 6 The Singapore Armed Forces' court martial system was changed with an amendment to the SAF Act yesterday. The change will enable the appointment of a permanent court martial panel, from which single judges could be drawn to hear court martial cases a change from the
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      • 61 6 The Societies Act was amended to allow automatic registration for new societies, but there will be 1 1 categories that will not be eligible. Examples of societies that do not fall under this category are religious societies, societies that engage in politics or even
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      • 67 6 There were 29 cases of teachers inflicting corporal punishment on students outside of Ministry of Education guidelines in the past two years, Acting Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday. The teachers were issued written warnings, but none were dismissed. On the other hand,
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    • 462 6  -  Ng Shing Vi THEY complain about the loud colours and signboards, the traffic jams, the noisy activities and, worse, that the presence of these businesses will drive down property prices. Unsavoury nightspots? Hardly. What has got a handful of private estate residents griping are childcare centres.
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    • 291 8  -  Wong Fei Wan Kidnap suspect said he went to Cotswold to get his money THE man accused of kidnapping a woman for ransom in her Cotswold Close home last year said he gave her father $50,000 six years ago to invest in a property business. The
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    • 214 8  -  Wong Fei Wan AN UNDERGRADUATE who used a Trojan Horse program to steal the passwords and user IDs of fellow students was yesterday jailed 20 months. Nguyen Van Phi Hung, a third-year computer engineering student at the National University of Singapore (NUS), is the first
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    • 153 8  -  Liew Mci Van MORE than a hundred schools will send their staff and students home for dinner at spm on May 28, with some willing to even shut down the school servers. Studies have shown that teenagers who eat with their parents generally
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  • LETTERS
    • 428 10  -  Sudeep Kumar But Backman's claim of democracy's failure there not supported by facts I REFER to Mr Michael Backman's commentary, "The flip side of democracy" (Today, May 18). I beg to differ with Mr Backman on several counts. He cites the example of India in
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    • 172 10  -  Vijay Srinivasan THE Indian electorate has proved in every election that it is not illiterate in its exercise of adult franchise. For example, voting patterns are different when electing a state government as opposed to federal members of parliament. If the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • Market WATCH
      • 70 12 Share prices ended higher for a second straight day, boosted by overnight gains on Wall Street and a drop in global oil prices. The ST Index closed up 42.46 points, or 2.5 per cent, at 1,765.26. Gainers outnumbered losers 299 to 48 as 859.1 million shares were traded. Singapore
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      • 44 12 on selected flights will help it combat rising fuel costs. Datacraft Asia closed US$l.O5 ($1.81), up 4 US cents, or 4 per cent, on hopes that its capital reduction plans will pave the way for future dividends and share buybacks. Dow Jones
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      • 61 12 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.74 C Pis +256.65 Change +2.40 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.41 3390.80 5860.58 +397.02 +19.00 +302.90 +3.59 +0.56 +5.45 Korea Comp KLCI 777.95 793.83 +35.96 +10.56 +4.85 +1.35 SET Index Jakarta Comp 614.99 706.79 +32.48 +30.64 +5.58 +4.53 Phils Comp Shenzhen B
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      • 26 12 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 380.000 Silver uss/oi 5.720 Platinum uss/oz 805.600 Information provided by Rubber cents/kg 256 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1708 Brent crude uss/barrel 36.95
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      • 36 12 US$ 0.579 UK£ 0.3276 Yen 66.181 HK$ 4.5159 RM 2.2002 Euro 0.4845 Rupiah 5239.9 Baht 23.643 Peso 32.325 A$ 0.8423 Indian Rs 26.332 Won 684.31 C$ 0.8051 Yuan 4.7924 NZ$ 0.9659 NTS 19.502
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      • 57 12 By volume Teledata SingTel ChinaCast Wee Poh Bio-Treat UnitedTAC Informatics NOL CapitaComm Ellipsiz Close 0.100 2.210 0.390 0.015 0.835 0.770 0.360 2.030 0.960 0.400 Change +0.010 +0.080 -0.010 +0.045 +0.030 +0.010 +0.020 -0.050 +0.040 +11.1 +3.8 -2.5 +5.7 +4.1 +2.9 +1.0 -5.0 +11.1 '000 206,24 30,950 26,321
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      • 74 12 )y Close Changi ilA 10.500 +0.701 iPH 21.000 +0.701 iPH 100 20.900 +0.701 :reative 50 16.900 +0.601 >IA 200 10.400 +0.601 Venture 17.000 +0.601 IBS 13.900 +0.501 (epCorp 6.550 +0.351 JCBC 4.59SMCPS 100 102.800 +0.301 fy percentage Close < Change 3eneMedix 0.550 +32.5 \ulron R333 0.075 +25.0
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      • 88 12 jrealEasI Close 11.700 Changi -0.301 HTL Inl 1.020 -0.211 IMH 400USS 10.000 -0.101 2otnforlDelGro 1.090 -0.061 >TI DB ePW*****1 0.310 -0.05^ jpilaComm 0.960 -0.051 jpilaComm 100 0.960 -0.051 ihang Asia 2kHKS 7.350 -0.051 PanU Mar 0.270 -0.031 SATSvcs 2.170 -0.031 )y percentage 1TL Inl Close 1.020 Change
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    • 301 12  -  Chan Chao Peh But CEO says the carrier can cut rates if it has to THAI Air Asia, the Bangkok-based budget carrier, said that it would not ignite any price war among competing airlines plying the same routes. "We can slash prices
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    • 1040 13  -  Tan Kin Lian Enjoy stable returns of 4% to 6% per annum* from large, low cost 'pension-type f funds by CEO, NTUC Income Introduction Many members have substantial savings in the Central Provident Fund. They earn an interest rate of 2.5% for the ordinary account and
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    • 114 14 Bloomberg Global Crossing has secured a US$lOO million ($172 million) bridging loan from its major shareholder, ST Telemedia. The agreement allows Global Crossing to borrow in phases over the next several months. Global Crossing's shares are in danger of being delisted from the Nasdaq after the company's former accountant
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    • 260 14 Agencies MAS chairman can have other positions in Government THE Government said yesterday there was no immediate need to change the management structure of the central bank so that its chairman does not wear other hats in Government "Ideally, the chairman of the Monetary Authority
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    • 208 14  -  Kevin Tan CITIBANK upped the ante in the intensely competitive market for credit cards with its announcement of a new range of benefits for its Citibank Gold Card customers. Mr Yuen Kum Fai, Citibank's business director of credit payment products, said yesterday the
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    • 48 16 MAPLETREE CORPORATE WEBSITE After the launch of its 1-billion property trust, Mapletree may also list the Harbour Front development as a Reit. The $2-billion development (artist's impression above} will be a business and lifestyle destination and have facilities to support cruise ships and entertainment venues.
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    • 340 16 Bloomberg Temasek's property unit eyeing more acquisitions MAPLETREE Investments, a property developer owned by investment company Temasek Holdings, plans to set up a Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) that will be backed by $1 billion in assets. The trust is expected to go
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    • 211 16 Bloomberg ST Assembly Test Services (Stats), Singapore's biggest provider of computer chiptesting services, plans to add staff to its accounting department after its auditor said the lack of resources is a material weakness. The auditor, KPMG International, recommended that Stats "significantly enhance"the staffing
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    • 366 18 Bush nominates Greenspan to stay on as Fed chief for fifth term PRESIDENT George W Bush has nominated Mr Alan Greenspan to a fifth term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, saying that the central banker has done a "superb job" in guiding the American
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
    • 668 20 Dow Jones Rig builder still a buy after strong rally; expected to exceed its order target easily this year DESPITE chalking up strong gains over the last 12 months in the stock market, shares in Government-linked marine conglomerate Keppel Corp will likely rise
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 363 22 The lifting of martial law doesn't spell end of insurgency JAKARTA The year-old martial law in Indonesia's Aceh province may have been lifted on Tuesday, but it did not spell the end of the decades old insurgency. On the other hand, it will be
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    • 145 22 Agencies TAIPEI Taiwan's two biggest opposition parties, which ran a joint presidential ticket in March elections, yesterday announced a merger plan. The merger was in response to public calls to consolidate opposition forces and help stabilise Taiwan politics, said Mr Lien Chan, chairman of the Nationalist
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    • 225 22 Agencies GAZA CITY Israeli tanks, bulldozers and helicopter gunships continued their sweeping operations in the Gaza Strip yesterday despite the threat of a damning UN Security Council resolution. In the second day of Israel's heaviest raid into the Gaza Strip
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 55 22 AFP An Iraqi source yesterday said four people were arrested over the beheading of American civilian Nicholas Berg but he declined to elaborate on the identity of the four. But coalition deputy director of operations Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said the coalition had no information
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      • 48 22 -AFP Hong Kong's graftbusting agency, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, was urged to investigate whether up to HK$l 3 million ($2.86 million) was mis-spent on Harbour Fest, a flopped month-long music festival designed to re-launch the city after the Sars crisis.
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      • 53 22 The Malaysian Chinese Association said it is cleaning up its membership roll and removing the "phantom members" fictitious, or illegallyobtained, names which are approved as members the New Straits Times reported yesterday. The exercise is to ensure that MCA's triennial party elections next year are conducted fairly,
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      • 58 22 -AFP The United Nations handed over the responsibility for policing East Timor to government forces yesterday despite persistent security fears that have prevented a full UN withdrawal. At a ceremony in Dili, the UN's departing East Timor head, Kamalesh Sharma, signed
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      • 57 22 -AFP Turkey received a tip-off from the CIA over an alleged Al Qaeda plan to attack the June 28-29 Nato summit in Istanbul ahead of the arrest of 25 suspected militants this month, the Milliyet newspaper reported yesterday. US President George W
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    • 701 25  -  Yap Mun Ching Women's groups battle gender bias in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR Exhausted and at her wit's end, Rosnah (not her real name) was unable to hold back her tears as she related her horrid experiences of the past three months. After moving week after week
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 882 26  -  Silva Kandiah ONE of the major effects of the 911 attacks was the call to the moderate majorities to control extremism and resist attempts by deviant groups to hijack the values of their religions, or beliefs. The focus, of course, was on Islam, but the
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    • 838 30  -  Yong Shu Chiang BEHIND a sturdy door guarded by two felines, there are muffled sounds of a musician at work. Inside Mark Chan's bedroom-cum-stu-dio is the mess one usually associates with frenzied artistic activity. Clothes are strewn everywhere, stacked papers and books occupy every flat surface, and
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    • 190 32 Reuters LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles nurse found a stolen US$3.5 million ($6.04 million) Stradivarius cello next to a dumpster and was going to have it turned into a CD cabinet until she learned it was an instrument the whole town was searching for. The
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    • 403 33 Reuters Viewers get more time to call, SMS after next week's show LOS ANGELES The organisers of American Idol plan to double the amount of phone voting time for next week's finale to counter the problem of jammed lines as millions of callers try to get through.
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    • 273 33 Reuters CANNES Tom Hanks has earned two Oscars and grossed close to $3 billion ($5.2 billion) at the box office in a career spanning almost 25 years but the actor says he rates his own performances a paltry "C". "I would give myself
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    • 498 34  -  Koh Chieng Mun HEALTHY LIVING Read food labels and be aware of what you're consuming food@newstoday.com.sg EATING low-fat food does not mean going on a bland diet Rather, it's a change in eating habits. Being aware of the contents of the food you buy and how
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      388 36  -  Liyana Othman Annabelle Francis proves she's not an average mum ANNABELLE Francis, host of Arts Central's new food show, Soul Food, is one hot dish. On the street, she still elicits dou-ble-takes from the passers-by even though she's five-and-a-half months pregnant Maybe happiness does do wonders for one's
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    • 216 36  -  Serene Foo TAIWANESE R B King Jay Chou is set to star in racing flick Initial D an Asian version of The Fast and the Furious along with heart-throbs Edison Chen and Shawn Yue as well as veterans Anthony Wong, Jordan Chan and Chapman
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    • 360 37  -  Pauline D Loh Melt-in-the-mouth eggplant stuffed with a savoury pork and ham filling AUBERGINE, eggplant or brinjal. Whatever name you call this rose, it must be one of the most misunderstood vegetables of modern times. You either love it or hate it. Up until I was much
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    • 232 37 Life's Good Ingredients (serves four): I large aubergine (eggplant) 300g minced pork IOOg Chinese Jinhua ham I large bunch spring onions 6 large tomatoes (300g) 75g young ginger I tablespoon Chinese wine I tablespoon sesame oil I tablespoon corn flour Salt and black pepper to taste Prepare filling: 1.
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    • 418 51  -  ALVIN CHUA GREATEST MOMENTS Home's Azhar Baksin is not easily intimidated news@newstoday.com.sg f ONE of my most memorable W moments was playing for Singapore against Japan in 2000. It was the Asian Cup qualifiers and we were in a three-team group with Macau and the Japanese. It
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    • 463 54  -  TAN YO-HINN Dispute between Saro FC and Swen to be settled privately THE standoff between visiting Nigerian Division 1 club Saro FC and Singapore-based Liberian football agent Ricky B Swen Jr appears to be coming to an end. Yesterday, the Nigerian High Commissioner to
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