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  • 137 1 THE Government will pay for GST charges in healthcare indefinitely, but it will also be more selective when giving healthcare subsidies. Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang made this point to assure Singaporeans that they do not have to worry about a higher GST increasing their
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  • 657 1  -  Ng Boon Yian SMEs await next move as Budget offers little help CALL it pro-growth, big-picture, bold, compassionate or a mix of all. The clear thrust of last Friday's Budget which dramatically slashed corporate and personal income tax rates was to position Singapore more attractively in
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 81 2 STARTING tomorrow, Today will be counting down to the May 16 worldwide premiere of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. Look out for special collectible full-page posters of Episode II characters on Page 9 of our paper. There are nine to collect. Besides daily
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    • 99 2 Agencies TOKYO Japanese pop queen Hikaru Utadab (picture), whose debut album, First Love, set domestic sales records, has been hospitalised. The 19-year-old singer-song-writer underwent surgery last month to remove a benign ovarian tumour and has been suffering side-effects from the medication. Her father, Mr Teruzane Utada,
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    • 376 2  - So irksome Joy Francis Seniors wait 3 weeks for ez-link cards THE process that the senior citizen has to go through to get his ez-link card, which gives him public transport concessions, is a complicated one. It is a four-step process: Get a form from an MRT station or community
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    • 281 2 THREE of the National Trades Union Congress' (NTUC) cooperatives have come up with a $17.6 million relief package to help cushion the impact of next year's GST increase. NTUC FairPrice and NTUC Healthcare will absorb the two per cent increase
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    • 101 2 Channel NewsAsia OF the 21 Kawasaki trains withdrawn by the SMRT after faulty gear boxes were discovered, eight are back in service today. Engineers have certified the trains fit for service. With their return, the SMRT says service frequencies on the whole will be back to normal.
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    • 350 3 -AFP/Reuters Tapes wrangle in Indonesia JAKARTA An audio and a video tape, in which Muslim militant Jaffar Umar Thalib (picture) allegedly made calls for the killing of President Megawati Sukarnoputri, are now at the centre of investigations. While police are confident that the tapes contain
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    • 183 3 ■m_- m_r -m_- r _h_-i Reuters MANILA Philippine police are intensifying their efforts to track down more Muslim extremists following the capture of nine suspected members of a cell linked to the Al Qaeda network. Regional police chief BrigadierGeneral Reynaldo Berroya said interrogation of
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    • 167 3 -AFP WASHINGTON For the first time, the United States has openly cast doubts about the leadership of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, saying he is not doing enough to rein in terrorists. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said: "The Palestinian leadership that is there now
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    • 409 4  - Concrete to jungle Joy Frances Get your nature fix, Singapore-style THE United Nations has designated this year as the "International Year of Ecotourism". Later this month, the World Ecotourism Summit will take place in Canada. The concept is gaining ground in many parts of the world. And the Singapore Tourism
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    • 112 4 HERE'S one for durian lovers. From now till May 19, just pay $10 to this man (picture), and you will get to eat as much Thai durian as you want. But there's one catch you only have 30 minutes to stuff yourself with the King
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    • 112 4 Channel NewsAsia SINGAPORE'S Feedback Unit is conducting a straw poll to assess the impact of the economic downturn on marriage and procreation. Some 500 people are involved in the survey, which ends on Friday. Respondents will be asked if they had postponed the registration of their
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    • 218 4 A MAN was killed in a freak accident at Lorong 37 Geylang early yesterday morning. At 12.30am, two police officers on patrol spotted a car crossing double white lines, then turning into Lorong 37. They signalled the driver to stop. The driver, identified as
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  • LIFE IS GREAT
    • 675 5  -  Wong Khina Chong The Singapore School for the Deaf needs more trained professional audiologists and speech therapists A visitor to the Singapore School for the Deaf may find the relative silence rather unnerving. But peer into any classroom and you will see delighted faces and animated gestures. Such
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  • LETTERS
    • 272 6  -  Wong See Meng Vandalism will defeat our drive to create a gracious society I REFER to the letter, "Ugly side to dent in ray car" (Today, May 3). I sympathise with Madam Vijayarengan and feel strongly that we need to develop measures to contain hit-and-run problems.
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    • 153 6  -  Lee Kah Hui A RECENT survey showed that many employers still prefer to hire people who studied full-time rather than part-time. I believe that instead of urging Singaporeans to upgrade all the time, the Singapore Government should also work at changing the mindsets of employers. I
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    • 157 6  -  Kendra Jills CONGRATULATIONS to Today for its new weekend edition, Weekend Today. It has been a refreshing experience reading the columns of Weekend Today. Today is a break from newspapers which try to be different but cannot and try to be creative but cannot. I
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 81 7 THE Maybank Group posted a pre-tax profit of RMI.BB billion ($0.89 billion) for the nine months ending March 31 this year, up 39.8 per cent. Profit after tax for the period rose 53 per cent to RM1.33 billion. The improved results were attributed to better non-interest income,
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    • 234 7 AFP Fed rate unlikely to rise as recovery looks uncertain WASHINGTON -The United States is set to cling to 40-year low interest rates for months to come, as doubts linger over the second-stage ignition of the US recovery, economists said. Federal Reserve policy-makers, scheduled to review interest
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    • Market Watch
      • 124 7 LAST week was important for the Singapore market as it held the 1,700 level despite the sharp falls in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The STI managed to chalk up a rise of 12.7 points to 1,741, up 0.7 per cent. The rise in the STI was mainly from
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      • 51 7 Index Value Chonge Its Nikkei 225 Hung Seng ill Ordinaries FniwonVVtil *****.01 ***** 22 3314,50 5910.32 ■1.7B +17.11 +3.20 +42.49 ■0.02 +0.15 +0.10 +0.72 Karen Oiip SET Index 856.72 374.05 -3.14 +419 ■0.37 +1.13 Jakarta Comp Piiils Comp Shenzen E 544.08 1375.59 228.68 +4.38 +12.27 -0.98 +0.81 +0.90
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      • 36 7 US$ 0.5528 UK£ 0.3771 Yen *****3 HK$ 1.3152 RM 2.1003 Euro 0.6102 Rupiah 5128.2 Baht 23.843 Pro 27.7461 A$ 1.0296 Indian Rs 27.1205 Won 709.723 C$ 0.8637 Yuan 4.5758 Vls 1.235 NT$ 15.1332
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      • 20 7 Bloomberg Goltlwoi 312.500 Silver uss/b 4.615 Plntimimuss/cz 517.000 Rubher ois/kj 121.25 Palm oil M/Mie 1210 Brent [rude usUnnei 26.06
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      • 60 7 By volume Apr 29 to May 3 '000 QicnHij 205,196,000 Doyen 97,624,000 TtidiVillag 67,310,000 Ipco 66,384,000 UniFood 53,088,000 By value V29 to May 3 DBS 155,148,126 GkmHu 145,695,825 UOB 125,944,018 QCBC 120,282,329 Chartered 118,329,363 '000 KS Tech 42,729,000 lostyfood 41,839,000 SingTel 38,796,000 KLW 36,892,000 FocdEmptre 32,502,000
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      • 5 7 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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      • 80 7 By$ Apr 29 Id May 3 Close Change ChOOBeCWOSlOZtl USSIO2.3O0+1.SO0 yi:i:i;i Asia 2kHKS 7700 +0.700 GreoiEtist 11.500 +0.600 SPH 23.000 +0.500 5PH 100 25.900 +0.100 UOB 14.700 +0.300 QianHu 0.770 +0.275 KepCor 4.300 +0.220 S1IETF100 17.400 +0.190 liHiovalu 1.060 +0.1B5 By percentage Apr 29 to May
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      • 86 7 Ipt 29 lo May 3 Close Change DIAMONDS 1QUSS 0.400-101.600 j-ective 50 20.800 1.100 )BS Bk 6M NCPS *****.000 0.900 rfPH 0.235 -0.605 MitSem 12.300 -0.100 l.nv, Frn 4.200 -0.200 fenttire 17.000 -0.200 iTAssemb 2.730 -0.190 Jcrtaed 4.520 -0.160 hyen 0.545 -0.160 iy percentage Ipr 29
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    • 574 8  -  Chan Chao Peh SingTel Optus goes for the higher-value business mobile market SYDNEY After a long-drawn price war, SingTel Optus, the second-largest telecom company in Australia, now has one-third of the mobile market. While the fight for the consumer mobile segment is going on, the company
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    • 152 10 -AFP CHICAGO The criminal trial of Arthur Andersen gets under way today. Few observers expect the erstwhile accounting giant to survive, if and when prosecutors nail it for obstructing justice by destroying evidence related to the collapse of its former client, Enron. With Mr David Duncan,
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    • 627 10  -  Val Chua Brand's banks on health supplements FOR the first time in its 167-year history, Brand's new health products will not contain any essence of chicken the traditional health brew. They will instead contain the sesame seed. "It's always been a perception issue. Consumers like to link us
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    • 415 11  -  Vasu Menon Small Stock Watch Informatics on a roll on strong earnings growth THE share price of Informatics has outperformed the ST Index by more than 70 per cent in the last 12 months. Despite this, analysts expect more upside for the stock after it bucked the trend
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    • 262 11  -  Val Chua THE German chemical giant, BASF, said rising demand for polymer products is expected to improve business for its second quarter. Its net profit for the first quarter fell to 556 million euros ($9ll million) from 6.19 billion euros for the same period last year.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 269 12 Reuters TOKYO Japanese divers have found several bodies lashed to a sunken suspected North Korean spy ship, raising suspicion the crew attached themselves to the vessel to make recovery difficult. Japan is investigating the identity and mission of the ship, which
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    • 320 14 Sees possibility of Chinese PM CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister John Howard appears to have done a complete about-turn over his immigration policies. Speaking to the Weekend Australian, he said he saw no reason why the country, with its growing group of Asian immigrants, could not
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    • 152 14 -AFP TOKYO Nestle Japan Ltd yesterday admitted it was recycling unsold instant coffee and cream powder but said the new products were still of the highest quality. In response to a report in Asahi Shimbun highlighting concerns about the practice, the company said in a
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    • 110 14 Enterprising but it's still a crime -AFP HONG KONG Police have curtailed the "enterprising" spirit of a 15-year-old one-woman pirated CD business. The Hong Kong schoolgirl was arrested yesterday for her Internet-based business that appears to have been doing well. If the CDs she was selling had been legitimate, she
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 897 16  -  Mano Sabnani Stockbroking cannot do without remisiers for the time being, at least THEY were said to be doomed. Overtaken by technology. Unable to adapt to the new environment. And as an over-40 affected practitioner put it, they were thought to be destined to join
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  • UPFRONT
    • 541 18  -  Elaine Quek Speed-dating is Cupid's latest offering SEVEN minutes that's all the time you are given to turn on your charm and make intelligent conversation with each of the 11 dates you'll be having in a single sitting. No strings attached, just the potential for
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    • 150 18 Reuters/Variety LONDON Controversial rap star Eminem is up to his old tricks again, this time trying to shock fans by dressing up as Osama bin Laden in his new video. Aired on BBC's Top of the Pops for the first time in Britain last week, the video
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  • LIVINGLEARNING
    • 338 19 rAt Bradford, thinking and acting strategically is underscored by its philosophy of making knowledge work ONE thing which the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom is particularly proud of is the effort it takes in continually developing and enhancing the excellent quality of its teaching. All
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    • 647 20 Reuters Gujarat riots raise concerns about its ability to remain the top choice of students AHMEDABAD Under normal circumstances, it is a day parents in India would not miss to see their child graduate from the equivalent of Harvard. The Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad
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    • 157 20 Q UNIVERSITY f* OF LONDON Dr Michael Copt, M V V Vice Prssldenl BfeH^B^T 'C Open Talk: Friday, 10 May 2002 Lead College Colleee ll] LONDON SCHOOL mi n^M TH9 mi I FfF UiJ OF ECONOMICS GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE B.Sc Business B.Sc Computing and B.Sc Management Information Systems B.Sc Management with
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  • EATOUT
    • 638 21  -  Amy Van An inebriating menu to choose from and we're not referring to the drinks J OPENED in January, Sullivan's Bar and Restaurant is one the latest haunts along River Valley Road that serves well-executed and affordably priced American, Italian and Thai fare. This casual
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    • 452 21  -  Ariel Tarn THE first thing one notices at Shev Shev is the pebbled garden walkway leading to the restaurant. Some have called it a miniature obstacle course for women in heels, but the overall effect is aesthetically pleasing. The six-month-old eatery-cum-wine bar, co-owned by
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    • 449 22 Concorde Hotel Kin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant has cooked up four different ways for you to show Mum how much you love and care for her! Its new Executive Chef Lo Ka Cheung has drawn up four different menus for you to choose from. If you want to
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  • INCINEMAS
    • Article, Illustration
      609 24  -  David Ngiau Hearts is a coming-of-age story, Stephen King-style FILM REVIEW Hearts in Atlantis (Now showing) A N evocative mood piece about innocence lost, £\Hearts in Atlantis is far from your usual com-ing-of-age story. Mixed in with the nostalgia is a paranormal element, in the form of a
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    • 167 24 Reuters/Variety LONDON Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins ended his 29-year marriage in a London court last Friday. Hopkins and his wife, Jennifer, 57, were granted a "quickie" divorce by London's High Court on the uncontested grounds that they had lived apart for more than two years. The
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    • 551 25  -  Leong Phei Fhei Sossamon may be 'in' but she's not taken in by the Hollywood scene WHEN I walked into the room, Shaimyn Sossamon was already waiting. And it was she who fired off the first question. "Are you nice?" she asked, without battling an eyelid. It was
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    • 139 25 -AFP PARIS Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in the US) and Bridget Jones's Diary dominated European Union cinemas last year. The British-inspired features perched atop a list of the top 20 films in the EU's 15 countries last year, helping push
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 106 25 EU Top 20 Films for 2001 1. Horry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (US) 2. Bridget Jones's Diary (Britain-France) 3. The Lord of the Rings (US-New Zealand) 4. Shrek (US) 5. What Women Want (US) 6. Hannibal (US-Britain) 7. American Pie 2 (US) 8. The Mummy Returns (US) 9. Pearl
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 268 27  -  Kantian Tse THE 13th Golden Melody Awards, held at Kaoshiung on Saturday evening came and went, falling short of its hype as Taiwan's equivalent of the Grammys. Of the 24 awards given out, 13 honoured non-mainstream music and musicians unfamiliar to non-Taiwanese. The
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    • 324 27  -  JaniceLee 'T^HE works of William A Shakespeare are coming to town in a lightning-paced romp of 96 minutes covering all 37 of his works. The creator of the side-split-ting comedy is Adam Long, director of the British Reduced Shakespeare Company. In a telephone interview
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    • 499 28 Reuters Only an earthquake can stop me, he adds GENEVA Fifa president Sepp Blatter, accused of corruption by the general secretary of world soccer's governing body Michel Zen-Ruffinen, denied yesterday that he had committed any criminal offence. In an interview with Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung, Blatter said
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    • 259 28 SACRAMENTO Regular-sea-son champion Sacramento seized command of a National Basketball Association playoff showdown between the league's most international clubs thanks largely to its two Yugoslavian stars. Predrag Stojakovic had 26 points and 10 rebounds. Vlade Divac added 18 points and 16 rebounds to spark
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    • 515 29  -  Jose Raymond Covered court arena and additional floor on the cards NETBALL Singapore (NS) is preparing for more infrastructure developments. The association, which turns 40 next month, has revealed plans to turn Court 1 into a covered arena (see picture) and also to add another floor of
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    • 207 29 NIKE Marlins coach Vicki Woo expected a tough clash against table-toppers NTUC Income Stingrays last Saturday. And she was not disappointed. The Marlins, still without a win in the 2002 NTUC Income Netball Super League (NSL), had to battle extremely hard to earn a 38-38 draw
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    • 273 29 AFP NEW ORLEANS South Korea's K. J Choi moved to the brink of his first US PGA title following a career-best day with a one-under-par 71 to lead by a stroke after three rounds of the PGA Compaq Classic. Choi, never better than fourth
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    • 176 29 Reuters SEOUL Korean amateur Eddie Lee produced a stunning finish in his final round to record a shock victory in the Asian PGA Tour's Maekyung Open yesterday. The 18-year-old picked up birdies at the 14th and 15th holes, an eagle at the 16th and another
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    • 560 30 AFP In a dramatic finale, Inter suffers shock loss ROME Juventus was crowned the champion of Italy yesterday in the most dramatic of circumstances as long-time leader Inter Milan was beaten 4-2 by Lazio at the Olympic Stadium. Second-half goals from Diego Sim e one and Simone
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    • 270 30 Agencies BERLIN A true fighter in the great German tradition in his playing days, Matthias Sammer lost nothing of that spirit to guide his beloved Borussia Dortmund back to the top. The ex-Dortmund great tasted his first success as a coach when his team
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    • 247 30  -  Kelvin Phang AUSTRALIA-based bowler Andrew Fang ended an 18-month winless drought by clinching the Queensland Cup, the third event of the AMF Super Six Series on the Australian Bowling Circuit yesterday. On Saturday, Fang qualified fourth in a field of 87 with 2,737
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    • 395 31 Agencies LONDON Manchester United deserves to finish its "nightmare" season empty-handed, but it will not give up the title without a fight, according to winger Ryan Giggs. "United has got the strongest squad I have ever known but we have let ourselves, the manager and the
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