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    23 1 TODAY TODAY //\3£)IJ\CORP incorporating utTC&tS Wednesday August 3,2005 todayonline.com MICA (P) 112/07/2005 /AehiaCofip incorporating utrCiitS Wednesday August 3,2005 todayonline.com I MICA (P) 112/07/2005
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    Lock icon Walk in space to fix shuttle
    832 1 Agencies Astronaut to pluck out dangling material that could spell disaster HOUSTON An astronaut will venture into space to fix two worrisome pieces of filler material protruding from the space shuttle Discovery's belly a high-stakes operation to repair a problem that could threaten the
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    Voices told her to put her sayings in others' mailboxes
    490 1  -  Dawn Quek dawn@newstoday.com.sg RESIDENTS of Block 728, Clementi West Street 2, were pleasantly surprised yesterday when they opened their letterboxes to find, among the usual bills, a $50 note. Some thought the money had come from the Government Others figured
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      49 1 NEWSWIEWS Tale of 2 cities Casino or not, Hong Kong is still one up on Spore/2 Turning point? NKF saga a new dawn for civil society, or a one-off?/3 mr miyagi B loggers battered by mainstream media/28 H M WHO'S BAD? I She's set for SEA I Games jl#"
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      HK still far ahead?
      430 2  -  Tor Ching Li Expert says Spore has much catching up to do cningingnewstoaay.com.sg CASINO or no casino, Hong Kong still remains a more significant global city than Singapore. So says an authority on global cities, Professor Saskia Sassen, at the start on Monday of a three-day
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        Lock icon Turning point for S'pore civil society or a one-off?
        948 3  -  Siew Kum Hong TENS of thousands of signatures on an online petition and 15,000 cancelled donations. Numerous letters to the newspapers. Blog entries ad nauseam, at one point pushing "NKF" to the position of most searched item on the Technorati website,
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      174 2 USQ Psychology DegreefljpP This programme is fully accredited by the 35 successful intakes since 1988 Australian Psychological Society (APS) Awarded the "Institutional Prize of Rated as the Australian University of the Excellence" by International Council for Open Year 2000-2001 by the Good Universities Distance Education (ICDE) Guide Supported by USQ
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      122 3 HHI GE Money $5,500 loan at $199 a month. ezK&g/i For every need, for everyone Call 6410 2988 Available at these Singapore Post offices: Ang Mo Kio Central Bedok Central Bukit Merah Central Choa Chu Kang Central Clementi Central Toa Payoh Central Woodlands Central Yishun Central Singapore Post Centre (Paya
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      Dead girl's dad asked: Did you hound ex-lover?
      827 5  -  Ansley Ng Karung guni man sent 'mushy' text messages ansley@newstoday.com.sg THE karung guni man whose four-year-old daughter died after falling down six floors down a block of flats was not the victim of a woman scorned by the abrupt end of an
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      Conflict of interest? You decide
      826 6  -  Tor Ching Li chingli@newstoday.com.sg IN THE heated public debate in recent weeks about the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), some have pointed to the differences between NKF and that other kidney dialysis charity, the low-profile and much poorer Kidney Dialysis Foundation (KDF). But the KDF may
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      Lock icon A well-designed scholarship
      705 8  -  Lee U-Wen No Government bond; Design Singapore recipients need only work locally for two years u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WHILE most overseas scholarships offered come tagged to a six-year bond, one Government Ministry has chosen to break away from that rigid requirement Recipients of the inaugural Design Singapore overseas scholarship
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        Lock icon Khoo Boon Hui bestowed with Tan Sri title
        70 8 938 Live Singapore's police commissioner Khoo Boon Hui has been conferred the title of Tan Sri by the Malaysian king in a ceremony at the Istana Negara in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Mr Khoo was awarded the Knight of the Most Distinguished Order
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        Religious groups join in killer litter awareness drive
        107 8 Three religious groups have issued a joint statement urging their devotees to be mindful of the dangers of killer litter. The Singapore Buddhist Federation, the Taiost Federation and the Wat Ananda Buddhist Temple want their followers to be careful with where they
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        Lock icon S'pore, Thailand to sign MoU
        106 9 938 Live Singapore and Thailand intend to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on educational cooperation next year. This was stated in a joint statement at the end of a twoday bilateral civil service exchange programme held here, where officials from both nations discussed a
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        Lock icon 5 arrested for Internet piracy
        111 9 938 Live Police have arrested five people for peddling pirated materials on the Internet. The four men and a woman, aged between 23 and 41, were rounded up at their homes. Officers from the Intellectual Property Rights Branch seized 1,600 optical discs along with computers
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        PM Lee to deliver National Day speech on Monday
        80 9 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will deliver his National Day Message next Monday, the eve of National Day. Mr Lee's English speech will be broadcast on MediaCorp TV Channel 5, Channel News Asia, TV Mobile and 938 Live at 7.30pm. It
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      Lock icon Man stabbed to death in Woodlands
      276 8 938 Live A MAN was found lying dead in a pool of blood outside his two-storey house in Woodlands early yesterday morning. This is the third murder in four days in the city. The victim is 42-year-old Hong Kongborn Permanent Resident Lav Shu San,
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      Former MP Harun Abdul Ghani dies
      283 9 FORMER MP Harun Abdul Ghani a People's Action Party stalwart died yesterday. He was 66. His family said he died from complications arising from lung cancer last night Mr Harun was first elected MP of Hong Kah GRC in 1991 and re-elected in 1996.
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      Smoking out the remaining havens
      598 9 Smoking to be confined to 20% of outdoor seats Loh Chee Kong cheek ong@newstoaay.com.sg SINGAPORE'S shrinking smokers' comer is going to get even smaller. Yesterday, the National Environment Council (NEA) announced details of how smoking bans in hawker centres and coffee shops would work when
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      Lock icon New citizens have a hand in National Day
      169 10 Channel News Asia SHU Shin La, 23, seems no different from any other Singaporean: He has served national service and is studying at the National University of Singapore. But he was born a Korean. For him and five other newly-sworn-in Singapore citizens,
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      Lock icon Zoo animals show their healing touch
      301 10  -  Dawn Quek PET therapy using dogs is not uncommon but therapy involving animals from the zoo? Now that's a little unusual. Staff at the Singapore Zoo are doing just that, allowing beneficiaries from Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs) such as the Metta Welfare Association and
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      Temasek names 2 new members to board
      178 11 TEMASEK Holdings yesterday named two new members to its board. Mr Simon Claude Israel, chairman (Asia Pacific) of Danone Asia, and Mr Goh Yew Lin, executive director of GK Goh Holdings, were appointed with effect from Aug 1. A New Zealander who is
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      Heartfelt creations earn $10,000 for charity
      252 11 LAST weekend, Singaporeans turned up in droves at Millenia Walk to support charities under Singtel's Touching Lives Fund. Responding to the call for folded hearts, a total of 5,000 hearts made from Singtel's Fold A Heart page that can be found in Today were
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      327 12 Sing Tel TOUCHING N. LIVES FUND H Show how much you care and make a difference to A J M A the lives of less privileged children and young people. H Be part of tne m°mentIt takes so little to bring so much hope and joy to their lives. Whether
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      Lock icon Surrender to police, footballer tells brother
      366 13 Joey Barton's sibling wanted for axe murder LONDON British bad-boy football star Joey Barton yesterday made a dramatic plea to his brother Michael to give himself up to the police investigating the racist murder of black teenager Anthony Walker, reported the BBC. In a
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      Lock icon Five months in, Thaksin reshuffles Cabinet
      289 13 BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, beset by an insurgency in the Muslim south, graft scandals and economic problems that have eroded support just five months into a second term, announced a major reshuffling of his Cabinet yesterday. Some key replacements included the portfolios
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      Lock icon Farewell to a king...
      49 15 A TV grab of the sons of the late Saudi King Fahd carrying his body during his funeral. Fahd's half-brother Abdullah was appointed his successor. Meanwhile, Singapore President S R Nathan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong congratulated King Abdullah's ascension to the throne. AP
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      Lock icon 'Eyes in the sky' for Malacca Strait
      252 15 Agencies Four nations agree to start joint air patrols KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, with new partner Thailand, will begin air patrols over the pirateinfested Malacca Strait by next month to quell foreign jitters about security in the key shipping lane. The
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      Lock icon MAS flight plunges 200m after take off
      193 15 -AP SYDNEY A Malaysia Airlines flight plunged 200 metres shortly after take off in western Australia, terrifying passengers on board and leading one flight attendant to pray as it made an emergency landing, a passenger and an airport spokeswoman said yesterday. On its
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        Lock icon Dog escapes from Alcatraz
        64 16 AFP Jake the golden retriever became the first canine to escape from the former prison island of Alcatraz and swim across successfully to San Francisco in a competition. The fluffy canine, fuelled by a hearty fried egg breakfast, finished the race 72nd overall with a time
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        Lock icon How did that get it in there?
        80 16 AFP A Taiwanese man is breathing easier after a surgeon removed a missing set of dentures from one of his bronchial tubes three years after he lost them in a fall. The man had no idea the missing denture was the culprit behind
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      Beauty trumps brains, say women
      174 16 LONDON More than 50 per cent of women believe that having a better body and better looks would enable them to climb the corporate ladder, putting paid to the "brains over beauty" theory. According to a Top Sante magazine survey, 51 per cent of the
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      Lock icon Rebels 'brainwash' young Thai Muslims
      257 16 AFP Youth urged to sacrifice their lives, says minister CHANTABURI (Thailand) Young Thai Muslims are being urged by extremists to sacrifice their lives for an independent Islamic state in Thailand's restive south, the country's Interior Minister said. Mr Chidchai Vanasathidya told officials at a government
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        Bickering elite ruining Philippines
        641 18  -  Eric Teo Chu Scow Is country's future in hands of clergy, military? THE Philippines has again been thrust into the limelight It will take over the chair of Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) from Myanmar next year while turmoil engulfs the country. This political crisis
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      Lock icon US$1b washed away
      291 20 -AFP Floods may bring down India's growth rate MUMBAI Economic growth estimates for India may be cut by a percentage point after record monsoon rains in the past week caused almost US$l billion ($1.65 billion) in damages to companies and farms in Maharashtra state, analysts said. The
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        Lock icon Sale of Sichuan pork banned
        54 20 -AFP Beijing has banned the sale of pork from Sichuan province to prevent a pig-borne killer disease from surfacing in the capital city. The death toll from the outbreak has reached 36. Experts say butchering and eating infected pork is the only way that humans
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        Lock icon Mass cull of poultry in Russia
        39 20 AFP Health authorities in neighbouring provinces of Russia and Kazakhstan set about slaughtering poultry yesterday, amid signs that the birdrlu virus was spreading from China. Mass culls took place in 1 3 villages.
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        Lock icon Busiest airport suspends flights
        25 20 -AFP Asia's busiest airport, Haneda in Tokyo, suspended all flights yesterday after a power problem at its air traffic control towers.
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        Lock icon Husband doused with acid
        35 20 -AFP A 50-year-old woman from Macang in eastern Malaysia was arrested for pouring acid on her husband after he said he wanted to marry a younger woman as his second wife.
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        Lock icon Man who introduced Dylan to Beatles dies
        64 20 -AFP Mr Al Aronowitz, a pioneer of rock journalism who introduced Bob Dylan to the Beatles, has died from cancer, aged 77. The 1 964 summit of the Beatles and Dylan came about as Mr Aronowitz covered the British band for the Saturday
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      Lock icon Top cloning experts in secret experiment
      161 20 -AFP SEOUL Top cloning experts from Britain, South Korea and the United States gathered in Seoul yesterday to kick off a week-long secret experiment They are engaged in stem cell research. One of them, Dr Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh School of
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        Can the BJP shed its Hindu character?
        608 24  -  Sanjay Kapoor Secularism makes sense but party risks political suicide FOR JUST over a month now, India's main opposition party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been in the throes of an existential crisis. No one epitomises this conundrum more than its President, Mr
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      Focus. On The Family
      281 28  -  James Dobson JVI byDr HOW DADS SHAPE KIDS Someone has said, "If you connect a boy to the right man, he seldom goes wrong." I fully believe that adage to be true. If a dad and a son or a daughter can develop some common interests
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      Bloggers: Faceless and vicious?
      635 28 Bloggers get a battering from mainstream media IF YOU read the local newspapers over the weekend, you'd have seen many column inches devoted to blogs how useless and inconsequential they are, and then how dangerous they are. A few bloggers' feathers were ruffled by one tabloid's
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      Inculcating value of humility
      139 28  -  TAN CHEK WEE Letter from DRHH I REFER to the letter, "A humbling lesson on charity from a Singapore street sweeper..." (Aug 1). Unfortunately, such exemplary parenting, I think, is not common. Last week, I was waiting at the lift lobby with three secondary schoolchildren and
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      3 strikes? Perhaps it's your pitch...
      637 30  -  JONATHAN CHEE LEE KUOK MING Jobless graduate Leena Sathiya's letter, "4,300 applications and still no job", in yesterday's paper lamenting the three strikes against her because she is Indian, female, and an arts graduate drew a few empathetic responses, some well-meaning advice from readers,
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      Why so quick to condemn owners of off-peak cars?
      233 31  -  |JIMMYHOKWOKHOONG I Letter from RECENT reports claim there was a sharp rise in the number of off-peak car offences. There were 270 offences related to the unauthorised use of off-peak cars in the first six months of this year a 10-per-cent
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      Hurdles on the way to the NDP
      240 31  -  JESSICA GOH~ Letter from THIS year's National Day Parade (NDP) is approaching and I would like to ask the organisers about issues that cropped up at last year's parade. Must we really enter the venue last year's parade was held at the National
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      ERP now on CTE? Riddle me this...
      254 31  -  |LIMBOONHEE what next, if the new measures lead to more congestion, longer peak hours? Letter from THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) says it needs at least a week to see if the evening congestion on the Central Expressway (CTE) will be diverted to
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      HID headlights a road hazard
      100 31  -  ALLAN TAN Letter from I HAVE noticed that more drivers have installed bright, highintensity discharge (HID) headlights and fog-lights on their cars. These drivers have their headlights at their brightest at night I find these lights very unfriendly to other drivers. Such lights can temporarily
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      Make schools melting pots
      342 33  -  LIM POH SENG Assign children to schools at birth, spare parents agony of balloting I Letter from IN our primary school system, where there is no common prequalifying national examination to help the authorities allocate places in schools based on merit, we should go for an
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      Two things the MAS could do to keep people off 'debt row'
      276 33  -  |MOHDROSLE AHMAD I Letter from IN a country where almost everyone is on one "debt row" or another, it should come as no surprise that retirement planning is hardly on the radar of most people ("Most Singaporeans clueless
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      162 33  -  JAMIE ONG Letter from The cases of murdered Chinese Nationals, Huang Na and Liv Hong Mci, showed how helpful and compassionate Singaporeans can be. Hundreds grieved and donated money to their families, offering to sponsor funeral arrangements and so on.
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      304 34  -  CELINE OREFICI Letter from I REFER to William Pfaff's news comment, "Oh Baby! Look what's in vogue in France" (Aug 1). I was quite amused by some of the cliches regarding French women, such as that they can "eat
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        291 34  -  SEAN LOH CHEE HONG I Letter from IT WAS with delight that I read that the smoking ban was going to be extended to more places in Singapore. I'm a Singaporean studying in Ireland, which became the the first country to completely ban smoking in
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        202 34  -  MATTHEW LEE I Letter from WHILE non-smokers rejoice at being able to breathe clean air and smokers lament the dwindling number of places to enjoy their smoke, let us remember that this law is not so much about pushing the smokers into a corner, but to
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      845 35 The Dependants' Protection Scheme provides low-cost basic insurance coverage which you can pay with your CPF FORMER storekeeper Mohd Shafiee bin Nafik is relieved he had enough foresight to remain on the Dependants' Protection Scheme (DPS) when it was introduced in 1989.
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      93 36 Dow Jones TEMASEK Holdings placed out "at least" 5 per cent of commuter rail and bus operator SMRT Corp's share capital. The investment company's shareholding in SMRT was 62.1 per cent before the placement, it said in a statement "The improved liquidity (following the placement)
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      163 36 Bloomberg CNOOC yesterday abandoned a US$lB.5-billion ($30.6-billion) bid for Unocal Corp after the largest attempted acquisition by a Chinese company ran into political opposition from US lawmakers. The decision leaves Chevron Corp as the sole bidder for the US oil and gas producer. The Chinese
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      390 36  -  Christie Loh But the telco's regional subscriber base is going strong christie@newstoday.com.sg AS SINGAPORE Telecommunications' regional forays pay off, its pole position on its home ground looks increasingly precarious as it loses mobile subscribers here especially in the prepaid segment. According
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      218 36 Centrepoint Properties, the property arm of conglomerate Fraser Neave, won the tender for two adjoining pieces of prime residential land with a bid of $210 million. The freehold land at St Thomas Walk, off the main Orchard Road shopping belt, has a total area of about 139,842 sq
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      366 37  -  Valeric Law Firms to face 'one set of regulators' when competition law kicks in valerie@newstoday.com.sg COMPANIES which are worried that the enforcement of the Competition Act next year could result in "double regulation" can be assured that this is unlikely to happen, said Mr Lam Chuan Leong,
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        70 37 SHARES rose yesterday as investors bought stocks like Creative Technology and Fraser Neave that have lagged the recent market rally. The ST Index rose 1 1.41 points, or 0.5 per cent, to close at a five-and-a-half-year high of 2,377.13. Gainers outnumbered losers 329 to 205. Traded volume totalled 1.19
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        54 37  - ST 1ndex 2,377.13 +11.41 Dow Jones advance to rotational interest following Nasdaq's firmer overnight close. F&N gained 2.5 per cent to $16.70 as investors focused on likely gains in the value of the conglomerate's property assets, which account for 72 per cent of revised net asset value, according to a
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        59 37 Index Value .hange Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI 11,940.20 15,137.08 4,343.40 6,343.54 1,118.83 941.33 Pis -6.72 +158.20 +5.80 +35.61 +2.85 +3.11 -0.06 +1.06 +0.13 +0.56 +0.26 +0.33 SET Index 683.16 +8.17 +1.21 lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 1,189.32 1,985.09 223.57
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        18 37 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg Bold us$/oi iilver us$/oz 137.40 7.255 Rubber centsAg Palm oil RM/tonne 1,356
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        36 37 US$ 0.6045 UK£ 0.3413 Yen 67.375 HK$ 4.7008 RM 2.2658 Euro 0.4946 Rupiah 5,896.9 Baht 25.024 Peso 33.884 A$ 0.7909 Indian Rs 26.329 Won 616.12 C$ 0.7323 Yuan 4.9005 NZ$ 0.8790 NTS 19.253
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        SGX top rises
        77 37 By$ jealive 50 Close Change 13.200 +0.900 By percentage Close Digiland 0.015 Changi +50.1 Bukit Sem 16.500 +0.500 Goldlron 0.015 +50.1 F&N 16.700 +0.400 SingTelMBLeCW*****6 0.060 +50.1 >hangAsia2kHKS 13.700 +0.300 CrealiveDBeCW*****6 0.155 +47.1 iembCorpMBLeCW***** 1.350 +0.250 SPH DBS eCW*****1 0.065 +44.' DBS 16.800 +0.200 CrealiveBNPeCW*****3 0.360 +41.;
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        SGX top falls
        80 37 By$ Close Change By percentage Close Changi ISH 500USS 11.300 -0.200 JKTech W*****4 0.035 -50.1 5IA2OO 11.500 -0.200 LHT 0.035 -4i.; HyfluxDBeCW*****7 2.810 -0.140 Nikkei225DBePW*****9 0.125 -37.: KepCorp 12.500 -0.100 Benefun 20k 0.010 -33.: >IA 11.600 -0.100 China Dairy W*****4 0.030 -33.: Mikkei225DBePW*****9 0.125 -0.075 NH Ceram
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          524 39  -  Chow Perm Nee These assets can bring gains in revenue, reputation pennnee@newstoday.com.Sj FOR a business owner who is just starting up, running the day-to-day operations and keeping the business afloat can sap up all of his or her money and energy. But it is
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          LexisNexis launches info tool for SMEs
          186 39 NEED information at your fingertips quickly and inexpensively? LexisNexis, a provider of legal news and business information services, has launched a service for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore to access the information they need at a price they can afford. Called LexisNexis
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        Union Steel to list
        177 40  -  Chow Perm Nee MAINBOARD aspirant Union Steel Holdings launches its initial public offering (IPO) today, offering 89 million shares at 20 cents each to raise $17.8 million. Of these, 4.2 million shares will be made available for public subscription, said the scrap metal recycling company. Based
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        Lock icon Microsoft not buying stake in Creative
        360 40 Agencies Meanwhile, the Spore firm expands battle on iPod MICROSOFT Corp is not looking to buy a stake in Singapore consumer electronics company Creative Technology, a spokesperson from the US software company said. The comment pours cold water on recent market speculation that Microsoft
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        Lock icon German firm suspends IPO plans here
        268 40 Agencies GERMAN musical equipment designer Behringer has suspended plans for an initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore and instead will seek a listing on Nasdaq where valuations are supposedly richer. The company's board met on Friday and decided at the weekend to suspend its
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      489 38 Union Steel Holdings Limited ftl-. unk>n steel holdings umited (Company Registration Number: *****0181W) v (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 12 August 2004) A > tftf ,*a Al J* art gjr >/• «ri «W "V>l f^ <(* KF*» «P* "*J j\ j^^ Founded in 1984, Union Steel Holdings Limited
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      1046 41  -  Jeanine Tan Not Sly- he's saving for marriage and afraid of walking around Hong Kong on his own SYLVESTER Sim recently added a new tattoo to the five he already has. But unlike I the others (such as the dragon I on his right arm and the Chinese
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      No Miami blues
      407 42 Cool Caruso loves CSl's boats, beaches and helicopters CSI: Miami often said to live in the shadow of the original Las Vegas-based CSI- returns for a third season tonight with lead actor David Caruso, who plays Horatio Crane, admitting he's finally made the character his own. How
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        Peter Pan works his magic
        379 43  -  David Chew Musical here will help sick kids david.chew@newstoday.com.sg HUNDREDS of sick children will benefit when the musical Peter Pan, opens at the Esplanade Theatre in October. In a unique copyright agreement that is rarely publicised, the late author J M Barrie gave the rights
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        Run away and join the circus!
        233 43 IT WAS a considerable risk, but 28-year-old Lynn Tan quit her full-time job so she could work for Cirque dv Soleil when it comes here again in September. "I heard rumours that Quidam will be coming to town soon. A contract job will give
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          SCO will bang its big drum
          44 43 The Singapore Chinese Orchestra will celebrate the nation's birthday by staging a percussion concert that will feature professional local and international percussion groups on Aug 5 and 6 at the Singapore Conference Hall. Tickets are available from Sistic.
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          The dregs of society?
          66 43 dregs society? These days he might be Sir Mick Jagger but back in 1 969, police reckoned the Rolling Stone's acquaintances to be "the dregs of society". Jagger was caught up in "the world of users of dangerous drugs", according to papers placed in Britain's National
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          Lightsabers aren't cheap
          45 43 It didn't come cheap but an anonymous bidder now owns a piece of Jedi history. A lightsaber used by Mark Hamill when he played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars sold for $332,140 on Friday in an auction of movie props and costumes.
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        Lock icon Bring Bollywood back
        281 44 AFP Pakistan's cinemas ask govt to lift ban on Indian flicks LAHORE (Pakistan) Struggling under an onslaught of Bollywood movies on black market DVDs, the owners of Pakistan's empty cinema halls are begging their government to lift a ban on India's wildly popular masala flicks. Movie houses
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        Lock icon Wedding Crashers takes top spot in 2nd week
        163 44 Agencies LOS ANGELES The comedy Wedding Crashers stormed to the top of the North American box office last weekend, raking in US$2O million ($33 million) in its second week on screens. The film, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson (picture) as a
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      950 48 The National Heritage Board (NHB), spearheads the PESJwSALLpJjiSfifII TA O appreciation and development of Singapore's cultural, artistic Vi^^^^^^y|^^CTi^H and national heritage. Our goal is to make heritage enriching, B f>^4W-vMl^»4^B-.M Ikll Wa^S bV%#N lM Ai —1| I I VVI I jj I If you share our vision of making heritage
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        Lock icon Babe's mark safe for another year
        300 50 AFP SAN FRANCISCO Embattled San Francisco Giants All-Star Barry Bond has revealed that he doesn't expect to play this season due to a right knee injury. Bonds has undergone three surgeries since Jan 31. He said a recent MRI showed fluid building up in
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        Lock icon Tiger primed for Major finish
        491 50 Agencies Woods confident after checking out Baltusrol course, as he begins bid for third PGA crown SPRINGFIELD, New Jersey World No 1 Tiger Woods got his first look at the course of next week's 87th PGA Championship yesterday and liked what he saw. "It's straightforward.
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        Lock icon Jones' Wallaby tenure in danger
        366 51 AFP SYDNEY Eddie Jones faced suggestions he had outlived his usefulness as Wallaby coach yesterday, when he arrived home from Australia's dismal tour of South Africa. Jones, who lost the 2003 World Cup Final to England, put a brave face on the Wallabies' twin losses
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        Lock icon No deal for Ballack
        504 51 Agencies LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson remarked recently that identifying a big signing "is no sweet thing". And getting them to sign for the Old Trafford side is the other hard part Just when the Scot thought he had found the successor to 34-year-old skipper
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        Lock icon Chelsea claim there's only one horse in Premiership race
        377 51 Agencies LONDON The new Premiership campaign may still be more than a week away, but defending champions Chelsea have already started counting their chickens. Club chief executive Peter Kenyon yesterday openly taunted title rivals Arsenal and Manchester United, insisting the Blues
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      Lock icon Tao Li set for Manila
      490 52  -  TAN YO-HINN China-born teen gets approval for Spore citizenship yohinn@newstoday.com. sg WITH less than four months to go before the start of the Manila SEA Games (Nov 27-Dec 5), Singapore's chances of a strong showing in the pool was significantly boosted with the addition of
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      Lock icon After Cup exit, Albirex pull off impressive away win
      236 52  -  Darren Lai ALBIREX Niigata put aside the disappointment of crashing out of the RHB Singapore Cup quarter-finals last week by inflicting a 3-1 defeat on Balestier Khalsa at the Toa Payoh Stadium last night, to leapfrog the Young Lions into fifth
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      Lock icon Avramovic insists Agu will be fine
      389 52  -  DARREN LAI darren@newstoday.com.sg HE HAD been expected to start for the Young Lions in Monday's match against Home United, having come on as a substitute in the last two matches. But Singapore star Agu Casmir's name was conspicuously missing from the Young Lions teamsheet
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      121 52  -  Tan Yo-Hinn HOSTS Singapore continued their good run of form at the Singapore Open Shooting Championship 2005 (July 31-Aug 6) yesterday. In the men's 50m rifle prone event at the National Shooting Centre in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore made a clean sweep of top honours, with
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