Today, 22 March 2005, Afternoon Edition

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  • 11 1 TODAY /AeoiaCorp incorporating utFCiitS Tuesday March 22,2005 todayonline.com MICA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 110 1 -AFP NEW YORK US shares slumped yesterday as investor jitters over oil prices and the coming Federal Reserve decision on interest rates took the spotlight away from positive news on mergers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 64.28 points to 10,565.39, its lowest level
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    • 759 1  -  Ansley Ng Today Exclusive Stores Online holds talks in Spore, faces lawsuits in US ansley(gnewstoday.com.sg THE offer was alluring. Have a free meal for two and get $309 worth of free gifts while attending a conference where you would learn to make money on
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    • 251 1  -  Francis Kan Deputy Business Editor francis@newstoday.com.sg IN A surprise revelation last night, Sing Post chairman Lim Ho Kee (picture) said he is involved in an investigation by the Commercial Affairs Department Mr Lim's disclosure was prompted by a statement from Sing Post earlier in
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 25 1 INDONESIA TO HAVE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT HOT NEWS 2 26 REBELS KILLED IN IRAQ HOT NEWS 4 VIEIRA EYES SECOND SPOT SPORTS 41 8 "*****6"*****9"
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  • hot news
    • 440 2 Agencies 12,000 Thai villages face immediate shortage due to El Nino-caused draught BANGKOK The water shortage in Thailand has reached a critical stage and more than 12,000 villages will run out of water within 10 days, according to an antidrought taskforce. Its findings
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    • 177 2 -AFP PARIS Indonesia is moving ahead with plans for a civilian nuclear power programme, Jakarta's Ambassador to the UN atomic agency, Mr Thomas Aquino Sriwidjaja, said here yesterday. Speaking at a conference on nuclear power, Mr Sriwidjaja said Indonesia was "preparing to operate a
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    • NEWS comment
      • 678 3  -  Tang Li Building a new relationship with the life-giving resource means nurturing a whole new mindset AS SINGAPORE marks World Water Day today, I am reminded of a story of how the founding father of the water-scarce Saudi Arabian kingdom, Ibn Saud, was
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    • 194 4 AFP Ex-UN man slams 'odious' regime BANGKOK By holding the Asean summit in Yangon, Myanmar next year, the 10-nation grouping runs a serious risk of having some countries not show up, former United States ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke (picture)
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    • 175 4 -AP BAGHDAD US soldiers, ambushed by dozens of Iraqi rebels on a dangerous road, responded by killing 26 of them in the largest single rebel death toll since last year's battle for Fallujah, the US military said yesterday. The high number of
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  • singapore news
    • 250 8  -  Ansley Ng Proceeds aimed at Action for Aids ansley(gnewstoday.com.sg A CHRISTIAN support group is negotiating with the Media Development Authority (MDA) to hold a concert to promote safe sex among Singapore's gay and lesbian community. About two weeks ago, Safehaven, which claims to be the only
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 95 8 Newsßadio 93.8 Singapore and Bangladesh reaffirmed their close ties and looked forward to developing this relationship further. This was highlighted after a meeting between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Bangladesh counterpart, Ms Begum Knaleda Zia, at the Istana. The leaders
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      • 74 8 Newsßadio 93.8 A deal worth close to $1 0 million has been signed between the Home Affairs Ministry and NEC Solutions Asia Pacific to produce Singapore's biometric passports. The new passports are expected to have state-of-the-art security features like fingerprint scanning technology.
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    • 1052 9 Ex-offender Glenn Lim has re-integrated successfully into society and now helps wayward teens through sharing his experiences and music A "T" 23, Glenn Lim was a cocky and r\ I rebellious youth with an attitude. He was a young star, the lead guitarist of his
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  • world news
    • 295 10 Tugboat owners refuse comment on ransom KUALA LUMPUR They were tired, suffered from scratches, but glad to be free. The three seamen two Japanese and one Filipino kidnapped a week ago in the Malacca Strait were released unhurt in Satun, Southern Thailand, by their pirate captors
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    • 77 10 Women protesters hold portraits of human rights activist Munir during a rally in Jakarta, after the fatal poisoning of the rights campaigner who provided legal counsel for victims of officially-sanc-tioned repression during formerpresident Suharto's 32-year rule. Indonesian police have named Garuda airline pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto as
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 65 10 Malaysia is considering a proposal to charge parents whose underage children are found to be drug addicts and involved in social ills, said the country's Prime Minister's Department. "We will consider it in light of the government's efforts to eradicate social ills brought about
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      • 64 10 AFP About 15,000 policemen will be deployed in malls, churches and vital installations across the Philippine capital of Manila to prevent terror attacks during the Easter break. Authorities have warned that members of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group may stage bomb attacks in Manila
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      • 68 10 AP Indonesia plans to formally outlaw the Al Qaeda-linked terror group, Jemaah Islamiyah, a move that will make it easier to arrest and prosecute militants, a top security official said yesterday. Banning the organisation will please the United States and other foreign governments, but risks
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    • 353 12 Agencies CALIFORNIA The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who is currently on trial for sexual molestation charges, has made a secret deal to mortgage his entire back catalogue of songs, including hits such as Billiejean and Beat It, for U5572.5 million ($118.2 million). Court
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    • 140 12 AFP TAMPA (Florida) A US judge yesterday refused to immediately issue a decision after a hearing to decide the fate of a brain-damaged Florida woman whose case has sparked an emotional national debate on the "right to die". Before ending the two-hour hearing on
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  • 273 14  -  Dr James Dobson Tbiws by A FATHER'S INFLUENCE How important is a father's role in the overall health and well-being of a son or daughter? Some years ago a greeting card company decided to do something special for Mother's Day. They set up a table in
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    • 266 14  -  RUSSELL TEE Poorly-lit area near LRT station ideal for criminals Letter from I WITH the new west loop of Sengkang LRT now in service, SBS has withdrawn Bus Service 371.1 do understand that the transport company does want the residents to use the LRT more than
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    • 137 14  -  CHRISTOPHER LOW Letter from! I REFER to the article, "Fair fares for all students" (Mar 21). I was a polytechnic student and I remembered I also resented the fact that I had to pay higher fares compared to my peers. Transit Link has mentioned that
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    • 191 14  -  PAUL ARMSTRONG Letter from I REFER to the response from Building and Construction Authority's Wong Wai Ching to "Not so disabled-friendly after all" (March 21). As a disabled driver, I am constantly frustrated to find cars that do not bear the official handicap label
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    • The contrary aspects of discipline
      • 423 15  -  HASLINDA SHAMSUDIN I Letter from A CHILD who talks too much in class makes things difficult for the teacher and could possibly be disrupting the class. A child who hands in his homework late, or who forgets to bring
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      • 195 15  -  NGWEIUNG Letter from I HAVE two brothers, with the youngest who is in Sec Two now being the naughtier. Let me cite an example of what he went through when he was back in Primary Five. Being active and playful, my brother would always meet his
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    • 149 15 H||| The faces behind healthy companies in Singapore. These CEOs put the health and well-being of their employees first through Workplace Health Promotion Programmes. Every year, the Health Promotion Board gives national recognition to companies that actively promote health, with the Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze HEALTH Award. For the
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    • 314 16  -  Chow Perm Nee DBS, Hong Leong Finance first to join scheme pennnee@newstoday.com.sg A NEW credit bureau for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is expected to ease the biggest obstacle faced by entrepreneurs here: The lack of access to financing. "At present, there is a
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    • 105 17 Dow Jones EDUCATION provider Auston International Group, which is being investigated by the Commercial Affairs Department for alleged accounting irregularities, said yesterday it had been given more time to hold its annual general meeting (AGM). Auston said it had received stock exchange approval to
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    • Market WATCH
      • 67 17 Index Value Chi Pis lange Nikkei 225 Closed Hang Seng 13,834.35 +5.98 I +0.04 All Ordinaries 4,255.80 +19.00 I +0.45 Taiwan Wtd 6,058.96 +15.01 +0.25 Korea Comp 979.27 -0.45 i -0.05 KLCI 885.62 -8.38 I -0.94 SET Index 705.03 -6.37 -0.90 Jakarta Comp 1,151.55 +3.68 I +0.32 Phils
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      • 57 17 By volume Close Change 'OOO UniFiber 0.475 +0.045 +10.5 38,603 Sunpower 0.300 +0.020 +7.1 34,417 LMA 0.915 -0.025 -2.7 32,468 ACCS 0.380 -0.015 -3.8 15,785 UTAC 0.630 -0.015 -2.3 14,504 SingTel 2.710 +0.010 +0.4 14,250 L&M 0.005 12,529 Celestial 0.385 -0.010 -2.5 12,232 PFood 1.150 -0.010 -0.9
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      • 74 17 By Close Change By percentage Close Chang! KepCorp 11.300 +0.400 Goldtron 0.015 +50.0 F&N 15.700 +0.200 UOBeCW*****6 0.210 +40.0 Jardine C&C 11.900 +0.200 STIePW*****5 0.095 +35.7 hrluneReil HKS 6.800 +0.100 FHTK 0.025 +25.0 OCBC 13.900 +0.100 Rolol 0.055 +22.2 Sp Land 5.900 +0.100 Nelwrk 0.060 +20.0 UOB
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      • 73 17 By Close Change By percentage Close Chang! &ea1ive 50 17.000 -0.900 Creative eCW*****6 0.005 -75.0 DBS6% NCPS10 107.800 -0.600 STUPW*****0 0.025 -50.0 HiaiPrime200USS 5.400 -0.350 CrealiveeCW*****9 0.020 -42.9 SIA 11.800 -0.200 CrealiveeCW*****0 0.065 -35.0 SIA200 11.900 -0.200 CrealiveeCW*****3 0.095 -34.5 Venture 14.000 -0.200 CrealiveeCW*****3 0.080 -33.3 GrandBanks
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      • 4 17 ST Index 2,177.52 +3.03
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      • 84 17 SHARES closed mixed yesterday in thin, rangebound trading. The ST Index closed 3.03 points, or 0.1 per cent, higher at 2,177.52. However, in the broader market, losers outnumbered gainers 303 to 143. Traded volume totalled 570.2 million shares worth $625 million. Among the stocks in play, Keppel Corp gained
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      • 36 17 us$ 0.6132 UK£ 0.3217 fen 64.555 HK$ 4.7837 RM 2.3311 Euro 0.4639 Rupiah Baht 5,770.2 23.671 Peso 33.227 4$ 0.7777 Indian Rs 26.822 Won 619.01 C$ 0.7433 fan 5.0751 NZ$ 0.8296 NTS 19.193
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      • 25 17 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Sold us$/oz 436.40 iilverus$/oz 7.31 'latinum us$/oz 874.50 iubber ontsAg 217.00 'aim Oil RM/tonne 1,451.50 irent crude us$/bami 55.35
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    • business news
      • 149 18 DBS Group Holdings, Singapore's largest banking group, has appointed Nat Steel's executive director, Mr Ang Kong Hua (left), to its board and that of its DBS Bank unit, Dow Jones reported. Mr Ang also serves on the boards of Neptune Orient Lines, Xl
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      • 277 18 -AFP Response to slowing revenue growth SYDNEY Australian telecoms provider Optus is planning a major corporate restructuring in response to slowing revenue growth and to prepare for a Asllo-million ($l4l-mil-lion) broadband network, a report said yesterday. Optus, a unit of Singapore Telecommunications (Sing
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      • market BUZZ
        • 136 18 Singer Ho Yeow Sun will make her first public appearance after giving birth to her first-born, as the guest of hon- our at a charity screening of Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous at Golden Village Grand, Great World City, on Tuesday. The screening
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    • savvy investor
      • 720 19 Investors throng OCBC seminar to discover investment vehicles to grow their wealth OCBC Bank's wealth management seminar last Saturday was a hit with the investors who turned up to discover new and unique investment opportunities to grow their wealth. Nearly 250 participants, eager to reap
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      • 246 19 Bloomberg SHARES of Creative Technology, whose products compete directly with Apple Computer's iPod, fell to their lowest in almost eight months on concerns that rising competition and a shortage of parts will reduce first-quarter earnings. Creative shares fell as much as
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      • 136 19 Valeric Law AUSGROUP, an engineering services provider to the oil and gas and mining industries, lodged its preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore yesterday for a listing on the Singapore Exchange. AusGroup will offer 52 million shares comprising 47 million new shares and 5
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    • the business of marketing
      • 351 20  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Local designers to create apparel inspired by Lancome products shobha@newstoday.com.sg IN AN unprecedented move for a cosmetics group anywhere, Lancome Singapore is collaborating with four local fashion labels to produce a range of clothes that will be showcased at the Singapore Fashion Festival (SFF)
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      • GRABbag
        • 118 20 SOME brands die hard or not at all. In the case of low-cost carrier (LCC) JetStar Asia, talk of its so-called impending "death" in the media was "highly exaggerated", as Mark Twain would have said. Not only is the young LCC Singapore's newest
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        • 90 20 A NEW form of therapy called Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) has helped to heal mentally stressed people around the world. Now Singaporeans too will have access to EMDR when trainers from the EMDR Institute in the United States come to conduct a training course
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    • Impact
      • 597 21  -  Greg Waldron New programme launched in Spore to bring out the leader in you news@newstoday.com.sg THE spate of high profile downfalls in the corporate world show that many executives with leadership responsibilities make blunders. Year n and year out, they are blissfully unaware that while
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      • 539 21  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla ALTHOUGH Australia is one of the most popular overseas destinations for Singaporeans, its marketing campaign in this part of the world is imbued with the missionary zeal of a converting crusader. The fervour with which that country has been promoting itself
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    • Infotech solutins for business
      • 707 23  -  Ariel Tarn Making it less risky for companies to go for open source solutions ari el@newsto day, com. sg I PROVIDING choice. That is what I Red Hat, a provider of open source Linux solutions, offers customers seeking an alternative enterprise computing platform. Mr Steve
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      • SHORTcuts
        • 63 23 InterActiveCorp (lAC) will acquire Ask Jeeves Inc, the fourth-largest search engine company in the US, for about US$2 billion ($3.25 billion), according to a report by the New York Times. lAC owns a number of Internet businesses, including Expedia, Ticketmaster and Match.com. Ask Jeeves incorporates
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        • 59 23 Microsoft has launched its next-genera-tion online advertising platform in Singapore, the MSN adCentre. The platform incorporates the MSN paid-search solution, which provides keyword buyers with in-depth audience intelligence, including geographic location, gender, age group and lifestyle segment. This would help advertisers plan strategic advertising
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        • 51 23 3Com's enterprise modular core network platform for rapid enterprise-wide application deployments, 3Com Switch 8800, is now available. The 1.44-terabit conver-gence-ready platform can deliver up to 24 1 OGB wire-speed ports. It can support a second-generation fabric and modules to double the switch's performance and
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        • 78 23 Tipping Point, a division of 3Com, has unveiled the 5000E Intrusion Prevention System that can perform total packet inspection and prevention at sGbps with real-world traffic. It comes with advanced denial-of-service capabilities and eight Gigabit Ethernet ports that are able to protect four network segments.
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        • 57 23 Pro Curve Networking by Hewlett-Packard has unveiled the Pro Curve Secure Router 7000 dl series, a branch office router that connects enterprise branch offices to a headquarter site at the wide area network edge. The platform restricts unauthorised access and offers wire-speed performance with integrated
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        • 53 23 Trend Micro and Netgear are teaming up to provide networking infrastructure devices with antivirus, antispyware and antispam security solutions for homes and small businesses. The first collaborative solution will be the integration of Trend Micro Home Network Security with Netgear's wireless and broadband firewall routers
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      • infotech focus: web services
        • 339 24 PCs in the network not on talking terms Q: I have two computers, both with dual operating systems, XP and Linux, i set the Linux computer as the mail server and enabled the POP service. The computer is assigned the IP address 192.168.0.1 and the host name is
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        • 557 24  -  Ross Altaian Companies risk building brittle Web services with changing standards infotech@newstoday.com.sg WEB services represent an I important advancement in application development and they can bring about a fundamental shift in the way applications are built, deployed, accessed and managed. While attention has been
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        • 361 24  -  Leon Enriquez WEB services promise to make I disparate, heterogeneous systems, software applications, languages and platforms communicate effectively. The basic idea of Web services is to use the Web to perform application-to-application integration. This reduces the need for costly systems integration work.
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    • 618 26  -  Mervin Tay Snow. Wo If. Lake star Chan plans to step out of the spotlight when the musical ends in May, but says 'never say never' KIT Chan is well aware of the unpredictability of her career. One minute she's on hiatus, the next she's back on
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    • incinemas
      • 239 28  -  Mervin Tay TREVOR TAN WANG Leehom (picture) was philosophical when asked what he'd most missed out on over his decade-long career. "I lost time and space. They were all given to my record company," said the 29-year-old Ameri-can-born, Taiwan-based singer. "I missed out on important
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      • 326 28  -  Mervin Tav Ricky Hui on his aspirations and the changing musical scene mervin@newstoday.com.sg IT'S been over a decade since Ricky Hui visited Singapore, but he still has fond memories of the country. "I remember visiting Lucky Plaza and Shaw Building. I used to buy cowboy
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    • 770 29  -  Recta Raman Revised levels not just about aesthetics, obesity and losing weight reeta@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU find that you're among the many Singaporeans who are now considered at moderate to high risk of developing a slew of obe-sity-related diseases because of a revision in the Body Mass
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    • 177 30  -  Elisa Yang THE apple is one of nature's most nutritious fruit Containing a wholesome amount of vitamins A and C that will help keep your cholesterol levels down, apples are also full of a fibre called pectin. Studies have shown that
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    • 649 30 -KRT 20-year study also finds happy couples live longer A GROWING body of evidence suggests that finding the right mate could boost your physical and mental health and help you live longer. "Marriage is good for both men and women," said Dr Janice Kiecolt-Glaser,
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      • 93 33 expectant Spore? Medical experts speak up on the worst fears of expectant mothers in Singapore at the first Mandarin forum by the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Singapore (OGSS). A Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) expert will also discuss the benefits
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      • 41 33 Health screening, medication review public forum Attend health screenings, seek personalised consultations with a pharmacist and learn more about various ailments in the public forum. Date: April 2 Time: From 1 Oam Venue: Tan Tock Seng Hospital Registration: Call 6357 8266
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      • 323 38 NBA Detroit 110 San Antonio 101 AUBURN HILLS, Michigan Despite losing Tim Duncan moments after the tip, the San Antonio Spurs put together a gritty performance against the Detroit Pistons in a possible preview of the NBA Finals. Chauncey Billups scored 25 points, including
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      • 483 38 -AFP Schumacher admits to huge gap to Renault, but wants to be judged after a few more races SEPANG, Malaysia Michael Schumacher and his Ferrari team stayed calm and denied they were in crisis, after being out-classed again by the in-form Renault team in Sunday's Malaysian Grand
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      • 656 39 American veteran hangs on for win, Fiji star grabs ranking consolation prize GOLF Bay Hill Invitational ORLANDO, Florida Vijay Singh launched a 7-iron into the air and over the water, then posed as it descended toward the flag on the 18th green Sunday
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      • 257 39 AFP GOLF Safeway International ARIZONA Lorena Ochoa, four strokes ahead with only three holes to play, still couldn't hold off superstar Annika Sorenstam (below), who eventually downed the Mexican in a playoff to win the US$l.4 million ($2.28 million) Safeway International on Sunday (yesterday morning,
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      • 244 39 Federer UNBELIEVABLE -AFP TENNIS Pacific Life Open INDIAN WELLS, California Roger Federer (below) is all alone at the top, by several notches. The world's top-ranked player, looking virtually unstoppable these days, rolled to a straight-set victory over Lleyton Hewitt on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to successfully defend his Pacific
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    • 472 40  -  JASMINE ZHAO Basketball silver medallist in 2003 SEA Games, Li now has different hoop dreams jasmine. zhao@newstoday. com. sg WHEN she was 12, the Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS) brought her here, in the hope of turning the youngster into a star. At 15, she helped
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    • 341 40  -  ERIC DING sports@newstoday.com.sg AFTER an impressive Tiger Cup triumph, RHB Bank genuinely felt Singapore football was on the march. Keen as they were to make their mark on the regional scene, it made perfect sense to align themselves with football in Singapore. When the opportunity arose
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      • 604 41 -AFP Arsenal skipper says finishing above United is important for club LONDON With the big-ticket trophies gone up in smoke, Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira believes finishing above Manchester United in the Premiership and winning the FA Cup will represent a successful season for the north
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      • 344 41 AFP LONDON Paris remains the favourite to host the 2012 Olympics, Ken Livingstone, the mayor of rival bidders London, said yesterday. "We've closed the gap on Paris, but the truth is, Paris is still ahead," Livingstone told LBC radio. "No
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      • 114 41 AFP PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida Some top international players will take a swing at qualifying for the Masters, with several fates to be decided here this week at the US PGA Players Championship. The only remaining way to qualify for the field in the year's first major
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      • 80 41 AFP NEWCASTLE Newcastle striker Patrick Kluivert all but ended his international career yesterday as he announced that even if he was called up to the Dutch national squad he would probably turn it down. The 28-year-old forward scorer of 40 goals in his 79 international appearances told the
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