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    11 1 TODAY /V\=L>JACORP incorporating utfCiitS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Friday March 25,2005 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Asean turns up heat on Myanmar regime
    609 1 Agencies Failure to reform puts regional chair at risk: Analysts MYANMAR'S military regime is coming under pressure to implement long-promised democratic reforms or risk losing its chance to assume leadership of Asean, analysts and diplomats said yesterday. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian
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    Talk in S'pore to debunk The Da Vinci Code
    537 1  -  Mervin Tay mervin@newtoday.com.sg WORLDWIDE bestseller The Da Vinci Code, which has caused Shockwaves around the globe with its theories on Christianity, has fuelled a similar debate in Singapore, prompting a local church organisation to hold a talk to debunk some of
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      Civil Service head steps down
      447 2  -  Tan Hui Leng Lim Siong Guan to be succeeded by Perm Sec Peter Ho from April huileng@newstoday.com.sg AFTER heading the Civil Service for the last five years, Mr Lim Siong Guan will step down from April 1. With his request to step down, Mr Lim
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        The bells have begun to toll for Yangon
        686 3  -  Verghese Mathews Will Myanmar recognise the Asean initiative and pass the chairmanship to the next in line? THERE may well be many like me who will say syabas (congratulations in Malay) to Mr Nazri Abdul Aziz, the Malaysian Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
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      Day when 'snow fell from the skies' in Bukit Merah
      111 4 AN ODD sight met motorists and pedestrians at Jalan Bukit Merah yesterday morning. At about 11am, thousands of pieces of paper were scattered all over sidewalks, drains and on the roads. These papers were mainly government documents and ranged from
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      Lock icon Texas refinery blast kills 14
      175 4 -AP TEXAS CITY (Texas) A fiery blast rocked a sprawling oil refinery south of Houston on Wednesday, killing at least 14 workers, injuring more than 100 others and rattling windows as far as five miles away. The blast at BP's 485-hectare plant shot flames high
      -AP  -  175 words
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      Ban on N & N eggs 'no cause for alarm'
      454 4  - Ban on N N eggs 'no cause for alarm' Patricia Yap AVA probing source of banned compound found in eggs, says Minister Lim Swee Say patricia@newstoday.com.sg SECOND Minister for National Development Lim Swee Say yesterday assured Singaporeans not to be alarmed by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority's (AVA) decision to
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      Lock icon Scholars shine in PSD
      337 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Newly-promoted administrative officers talk about what drives them huileng(gnewstoday.com.sg IF YOU hang out at nightspots, you might have seen Miss Phua Mci Pin having animated discussions with the people who frequent these places on of all things government policies. Newly promoted in the
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      Lock icon Ex-JI leader will help crush terror group
      372 8 -AFP But refuses to apologise to victims KOTA BARU (Malaysia) A former leader of extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah 01), which has been held responsible for the Bali bombing, said yesterday that he was prepared to help crush the group but refused to offer
      -AFP; AFP  -  372 words
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      HIV scare at military base: A wake-up call?
      217 8 TORONTO Troops at a Canadian base are worried after a HlVpositive woman was charged with having unprotected sex with a soldier on the facility. Jennifer Murphy, 31, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault after allegedly engaging in unprotected sex with
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon Pope absent at Easter celebrations for the 1st time
        61 8 -AFP Pope John Paul 11, confined to his apartments after throat surgery, watched the Holy Thursday Easter celebrations on television, sending a message to his flock that he was with them in spirit. It was the first time that the pope,
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        Lock icon Fischer leaves for Iceland
        62 8 AP Sporting a long beard, chess legend Bobby Fischer walked free yesterday from a Japanese detention centre and immediately headed to the airport to fly to his new home, Iceland, following a nine-month standoff with Tokyo officials trying to deport him to the United States. "I
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        Lock icon Botanist survives in jungle
        68 8 -AFP British botanist John Gillatt, who went for a walk in a Malaysian jungle, has been rescued after being lost for five days, the New Straits Times said. Mr Gillatt, 55, set off for a five-km hike in the jungle at the Fraser's Hill resort alone.
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      Lock icon Blair to face the music about Iraq again with new proof
      276 8 Agencies LONDON The needle of suspicion is once again pointing at the political machinations of the Tony Blair government in its justification of the war against Iraq. British media yesterday reported that documentary evidence had emerged to show that
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      Lock icon S Korean star's suicide sparks copycat deaths
      355 10 -AFP Sensational media coverage blamed for phenomenon SEOUL The suicide of a 24-year-old movie star has triggered a wave of copycat suicides in South Korea in the past month, with sensational media coverage blamed for the phenomenon. The number of suicides jumped 2.5
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Clay pot stands in for missing bridegroom
        75 10 An Indian bride was married off to a pot by her relatives after her groom failed to turn up for the ceremony. Savita took her vows with a clay pot when her fiance Chaman Singh, an officer with the IndoTibetan Border Police, got
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        Twin frauds
        79 10 Twin brothers from Brazil who had been convicted of different crimes and were in the same prison cell changed places in secret. The twins were convicted of drug trafficking on different occasions but were sent to the Lavinia prison in Aracatuba and ended up in the same cell
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      Lock icon Pill can lower breast cancer risk
      139 10 -AFP SYDNEY New research shows that young women with a family history of breast cancer could substantially reduce their risk of developing the disease by taking the contraceptive pill. The study of about 2,000 women with a genetic mutation placing them at high risk
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      Focus On The Family
      260 12  -  Dr James Dobson Tbnws by sfasl NO, NO, NO, YES! "No, you can't go out. No, you can't have a cookie. No, you can't use the telephone. And no, you can't go to Susie's house!" No, no, no, no. How many times each day do we
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      I'm too sexy for my blog
      843 12  -  mr brown Silly S'porean bloggers outnumber the sexy WE'VE been having some fun on the Net lately, in case you don't hang out in these parts. One of my friends, blogger Mr Miyagi (myveryownglob.blogspot.com), spotted the photo another popular blogger, Xiaxue (xiaxue.blogspot.com), on the
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      Let there be light... and there was light
      81 13  - Let there be light and there was light HAN LIANG YUAN (MS) mwmi MilMSipUil^ I WOULD like to thank Mr Russell Tee for bringing the lighting around the Fernvale LRT station to our attention (March 22). I am pleased to inform him that we will be installing more lights around
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      Unfair to say 3-months-trained counsellors are inept
      203 14  -  BENNY BONG I Letter from I REFER to the article, "Are youths getting mental help they need?" (March 17). I agree with psychiatrist Dr Tan Chue Tin that the best possible help should be given to students. But his comments that an individual
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      isay BEING GOOD, IS S'POREAN
      407 14 "THIS is typical of Singaporeans," my friend remarked while reading the March 16 issue of this newspaper. Referring to the letter from Michael Teo, he said: "How can the commuters ignore the cheerful greetings from the bus captain? Isn't it natural for you to return
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  • Business today
    • Market WATCH
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        World markets
        57 16 ndex Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries faiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex Value *****.97 *****.10 4136.40 6001.00 956.33 882.39 685.06 1114.55 260.21 6442.87 Change Pis +6.85 -6.51 -34.40 -18.49 -10.48 +1.14 -8.20 -27.59 -0.10 -11.59 +0.06 -0.05 -0.82
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 16 US$ 0.6102 UK£ 0.3265 Yen 64.646 HK$ 4.7591 RM 2.3187 Euro 0.4699 Rupiah 5736.3 Baht 23.617 Peso 33.057 A$ 0.7898 Indian Rs 26.712 Won 615.31 C$ 0.7416 Yuan 5.0502 NZ$ 0.8495 NTS 19.141
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        Commodities
        21 16 Gold uss/oz 426.40 Silver uss/oi 7.00 Platinum uss/oi 860.00 Rubber centsAg 218.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1402.00 Brent crude uss/barrel 53.90
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        Lock icon Singapore
        108 16 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed higher on bargain hunting after two straight sessions of losses, but volume sagged ahead of the long holiday. Market sentiment was also boosted by a fall in international oil prices overnight. The ST Index ended 6.35 points, or 0.3 per cent, higher at 2,151.45.
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        ST Index: 2,151.45 +6.35
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        Lock icon SGX most active
        60 16 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by i )y volume iunpower JTAC >ing Tel JniFiber .MA table Grp toon iGX iingPost Celestial Close 0.310 0.605 2.610 0.460 0.880 1.500 0.210 2.100 0.830 0.390 Change +0.025 +0.010 +0.005 -0.005 -0.010 +0.020 +0.040 +8.8 +0.4 +1.1 -0.6 -0.7 +10.5 +1.9 'OOO
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        SGX top rises
        72 16 By$ Creative 50 Close Change 16.900 +0.400 F&N 16.000 +0.300 3realEast Hyflux lardine C&C IMH 400USS KSTech XBC 13.700 +0.100 2.950 +0.100 12.000 +0.100 17.600 +0.100 1.660 +0.100 13.900 +0.100 DUE 8.400 +0.100 )y percentage Close :realive CAeCW*****6 0.015 5MG USS 0.030 Change +50.0 +50.0 luslon 0.090
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        SGX top falls
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      Celebrity status
      291 16 Big name architects roped in for casino project THREE weeks before the Government announces its decision on whether to have a casino here, the race between the bidders for the multi-billion project is heating up. Big names are being pulled in as gaming operators compete for the right
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      Greatronic's Max Huang resigns
      146 16  -  Sol E Solomon THE audit committee of Greatronic announced yesterday that Mr Huang Ming Lang Max Huang had resigned as director and non-executive chairman of the company. In his letter, Mr Huang cited pressure of work in relation to his other businesses as the reason for
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        Lock icon Fortune Rert to buy HK malls
        412 20 Bloomberg It will pay $715 m for six buildings HONG Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Fortune Reit, which owns shopping malls in the city, has agreed to buy six retail properties for about HK$3.4 billion ($715 million), almost doubling its assets. Singapore-listed Fortune Reit may
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        Phillip Capital launches 2 'gems'
        165 20  -  Arjuna Chandramohan PHILLIPCAPITAL, through its newlyformed Phillip Gems department, yesterday launched two new accounts to its existing series of discretionary managed accounts. The two new accounts, called Phillip Gems Asian Opportunities Equity Managed Accounts, and Phillip Gems Energy Commodities Equity Managed Accounts, will focus on
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      I'm not unreasonable'
      590 22  -  Clarence Lim American Chopper's tough-guy boss PaulTeutul speaks up softly, at that ETgSjiwSßiaiTA. ki oTi kVww i iWSE^B IT'S NOT often you feel physically threatened just by the thought of talking to someone over the phone, even if the person is halfway across the world and probably
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      Lock icon Idol foul-up 'not deliberate'
      206 22 -AT LOS ANGELES It's "rubbish" to suggest there was a deliberate effort to tinker with American Idol by putting wrong voting information on screen, a series producer said on Wednesday. During Fox's televised contest on Tuesday, incorrect call-in numbers were displayed for contestants Mikalah Gordon, Anwar
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      Lock icon Stephen Fung celebrates gong fu
      143 22  -  Mervin Tay AFTER paying homage to gangster movies in his directorial debut Enter the Phoenix last year, Stephen Fung celebrates gongfu movies in his second film as a director House of Fury which opens in cinemas here next Thursday. Fung was present with co-star Gillian
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      What a con!
      381 24  -  YONG SHU CHIANG Sequel to hit 2000 comedy is unoriginal, bland FILM REVIEW^ Miss Congeniality 2 CONGENIAL, adj. Word that describes having the same tastes, habits, or temperament; sympathetic. Or having a pleasant disposition; friendly and sociable. Miss Congeniality 2. noun. Name of an unashamedly money-grubbing sequel
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      Third Eye's vision is impaired
      278 24  -  MERVIN TAY FILM REVIEW by I The Eye 10 I THERE is a thin line between horror and humour. Directors Danny and Oxide Pang should know that, yet they straddle it dangerously in this third instalment of The Eye series. Titled The Eye 10 and
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        When a man loves (being) a woman
        370 25  -  JEANNE TAN I FILM REVIEW by. Stage Beauty THE questioning of sexual mores is the ambitious theme of the period film, Stage Beauty. Whether it succeeds or not isn't as important as the fact that the film dares to take on such a
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