Today, 19 February 2005

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    14 1 weekendTODAY February 19 20 2005 mica(P) 105/07/2004 incorporating jtrCmS we set you thinking todayonline.com
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    THE CASINO DEBATE
    91 1 OVER the past week, the Government has begun receiving proposals for the building of an integrated resort complete with a casino in Singapore. On Friday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that a decision would be made within six weeks. Many views have already been offered on
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    Aren't we ready for the road to maturity?
    1024 1  -  S Murali murali@newstoday.com.sg REALLY people, it is time to grow up. Singapore is 40 this year. We should be going through our first mid-life crisis. Instead, here we are bickering about whether Mummy should buy a mahjong table and invite guests over
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    Stop with the theory and show me the money
    1173 1  -  Teo Hwee Nak hweenak@newstoday.com.sg NOW, let me get this over and done with: I'm a Christian and I do oppose the proposed casino on moral grounds. But that's the only reference to morality I'm going to make. For far too long,
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      Lock icon Budget for the people
      828 2  -  Val Chua Govt gives $1.3b in aid but Budget could have been bolder, say some val@newstoday.com.se IT WAS an inclusive Budget that aimed to take care of the little voice in society, with help shown towards the elderly, families and smaller businesses that have been left
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      KEY BUDGET INITIATIVES
      389 2 FOR INDIVIDUALS Top personal income tax rate lowered from 22% to 21 with effect from Year of Assessment 2006 and further reduced to 20% in Year of Assessment 2007. Marginal tax rates of all other brackets also reduced. Edusave top-ups of $100 for all primary and secondary
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      Budget's aim: Ensure no one is left behind
      540 3  -  Francis Kan |\IEWS£S!S!S£BL ONE message came through very clearly in Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Budget statement on Friday: No one gets left behind. He uttered these words several times during his 90-minute speech and backed them up with a slew of
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      HDB resale levy, cashback schemes questioned
      467 3  -  Derrick A Paulo SOME residents had approached him when they could not afford to buy a second subsidised Housing Development Board flat, as it meant incurring a resale levy. The resale price of their first flat did not offset its initial cost with the
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      Tsunami relief fund to hit $150m
      247 3  -  Derrick A Paulo SINGAPORE'S total contribution to tsunami relief and rebuilding efforts is likely to reach $150 million, including the $77 million donated by the public to the Singapore Red Cross Society (SRCS) said Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Zainul Abidin Rasheed. On
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Kang ordered to return $1.5 million
      431 4  -  Ansley Ng Previous admission of guilt taken into account in judgment ansley@newstoday.com.sg CONVICTED Catholic priest Joachim Kang, in jail for embezzling about $5 million from his church coffers, has been ordered to return about $1.5 million worth of cash, unit trusts and shares to
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      Double diploma option for 40 poly students
      206 4  -  Lee U-Wen MEDIA and engineering students at Singapore Polytechnic (SP) now have greater incentive to do well in their first year. Under an initiative to be launched in May, 40 students currently in the first year of their media and communication or mechanical
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      Lock icon YES, there is help for young Singaporeans in coping with employment matters
      390 6  -  Sheralyn Tay YOUTH unemployment may not be as apparent here as elsewhere in the world, where it has reached crisis levels of 88 million jobless youth worldwide but it remains a concern. And that is why a new
      TREVOR TAN  -  390 words
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      Entrepreneurship esteem is lacking
      482 6  -  Tor Ching Li Survey: Singapore short on cultural support for entrepreneurial ventures chingli@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE the plethora of top-down help schemes for business start-ups, ground-up esteem for entrepreneurship is still lacking in Singapore. Findings from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2004 survey released on Friday showed that
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        Alexandra project adds partners
        119 6  -  Tan Hni lenn Alexandra Hospital has managed to halve waiting times for A&E patients since launching phase one of its Healthcare.Net IT initiative last November. This was done by moving doctors outside the consultation room to not just examine but also register patients on the spot
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        Lock icon Accountant jailed for tax offences
        78 6 Newsßadio 93.8 A certified accountant has been jailed six months for 20 tax offences. Ong Ping Lan was also fined $500,000 three times the taxable amount he should have declared. Ong designed a scheme where his associates paid audit fees in cash, making detection of
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        Lock icon Jail sentence over drug charges
        38 6 Channel News Asia Company director Andy Nq, 26, arrested following last October's high-pro-file drug bust, has been jailed 17 months. He pleaded guilty to three drugrelated charges with three more taken intn rnr-KJrlgrntinn
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      197 7 LOEWE. Loewe Articos 55. I Tne ultimate I in home cinema. I II SS3 I II Visual stunner. I Fascinating colours and breathtaking sound define the Loewe Articos 55. i 9; P The Straits Times 19Oct'04 Digital Life I^^^^^^^~" High-resolution projection television features excellent picture quality X and impressive 55"
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  • world news
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      Probe finds UN envoy guilty of sex harassment
      395 8 LONDON Former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers is expected to face renewed pressure to resign from his post as the United Nations' envoy for refugees after a leaked report revealed that an internal probe had found him guilty of sexual harassment, reported
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      Lock icon Rule of the bomb or rule of the ballot?
      651 8  -  Trudy Rubin -KRT Arab political reform back at crossroads with murder of Lebanon's ex-PM BEIRUT The bomb that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has sent aftershocks rippling around the region. "This bomb was about something much bigger than Lebanon,"
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      Lock icon Six suspects left on Australia-bound plane
      107 8 -AFP BEIRUT Lebanon said on Friday it was hunting for six people who flew from Beirut for Australia, leaving traces of explosives on aircraft seats, hours after a powerful bomb killed former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. "Six people left for Australia from Beirut airport
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      Lock icon First car bomb rips Thai town
      215 10 Agencies Scale, organisation of blast hints at militants' link with foreign groups BANGKOK Separatist militants set off a car bomb in a busy street in the Muslim-dominated province of southern Thailand, triggering fears that foreign influence was involved. The car bomb, believed to be
      – Agencies; AFP  -  215 words
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      Jakarta most corrupt? Bullsh*t
      193 10 JAKARTA Indonesia's Finance Minister dismissed the findings of an independent panel which rank Jakarta and the customs office as most corrupt institutions saying that it was "bullsh*t". "Just let it go. I don't care. All I care about are the improvements in governance and oversight that
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Mum sues KFC for rat attack on son
        62 10 AFP A mother is seeking HK$5O,OOO ($10,514) compensation from fast-food giant KFC after a rat in one of its outlets in the New Territories scratched and hurt her two-year-old son. The rat fell from the ceiling and landed on the boy's head.
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        Lock icon I love NY, so don't steal it
        64 10 AFP Immigrant-rich New York wants to be known as "The World's Second Home" and is applying for trademark protection to ensure that no other city tries to steal the idea. The city wants the exclusive right to use the slogan on a list
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        Lock icon Land of plenty of cosmetic procedures
        65 10 AFP Americans underwent close to 12 million surgical or non-surgical cosmetic procedures last year, a rise of 44 per cent from 2003, with liposuction and botox treatment leading the surge. Women made up 90 per cent of the figures. The most popular procedure was
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      83 10 Stand a chance to win an iPod mini! 10 individuals were chosen to take home a Mac and put it through its paces for three weeks. Log on to www.todayonline.com to read their journals and I you decide who gets to take home a Mac! Vote For Your Favourite Mac
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      Lock icon Call our hotline, NOW!
      763 12  -  Neil Humphreys If you have any news on leaking ceilings, wild crocodiles or clever monkeys, then THE travel guides often make Singapore sound about as exciting as a Toto queue in Toa Payoh. But they'd be wrong. Singapore has discovered wild crocodiles, swarms of dead bees,
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      SGX monitors Web needs
      129 12  -  CHENG LEE CHING Letter from Senior vice-president head of Corporate Communications, Singapore Exchange Limited WE REFER to the letter "SGX website slowing to a crawl" (Feb 16) by Mr Michael Chua Kheng Hwee. As Mr Chua rightly pointed out, this is the season for listed companies
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      Address unequal pay issue among sexes
      254 12  -  BIRGIT HOLLAND Letter from I READ with interest the article, "The widening CPF gender gap" (Feb 15), and the letters in response to it I agree with Braema Mathi and Mary-Ann Tsao that there are no quick fixes to a very complex problem. However,
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  • Businesstoday
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      SembCorp annual profit up 39% at $39m
      222 14  -  Dow Jones MARINE and utilities conglomerate SembCorp Industries reported a 39-per-cent rise in net profit last year due to a one-off investment gain. SembCorp reaped a windfall after its 61 per cent-owned unit SembCorp Logistics sold off its 20-per-cent stake in Swiss sea
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      CORPORATEbriefs
      131 14  -  Dow Jones Jardine Cycle Carriage, which distributes Mercedes Benz and Mitsubishi motor vehicles in Singapore, said its net profit almost doubled last year to U*****.4 million ($573 million), or 99.4 US cents per share, due to higher car sales in Indonesia through its 48 per cent-owned associate Astra International.
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      ACCS shares tank on loss of Nokia deal
      409 14  -  Tor Ching Li But CEOTan says impact of cessation immaterial chingli@newstoday.com.se IT was a day of mixed news and rumours, contracts lost and won and a whopping 315.2 million shares bought and sold for mainboard-listed Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) just three
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      M1's pre-paid card offers free incoming calls
      166 14 MOBILEONE (Ml), Singapore's secondlargest mobile phone operator, launched on Friday a pre-paid phone card that offers free incoming calls, a feature that had been exclusive to post-paid plans. Customers of the new "M Card" will be able to enjoy unlimited free incoming calls
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      Personal loans available at post offices
      128 14 SINGAPORE Post (Sing Post) and GE Money have entered a partnership under which Sing Post will distribute GE Moneys personal loans at its post offices. Known as ezyCash, the service will enable customers to obtain personal loans underwritten by GE Money at Sing Post's
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  • Business news
    • MarketWATCH
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        ST Index — 2,168.86 +4.66
        4 16 ST Index 2,168.86 +4.66
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        World markets
        60 16 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp 11,660.12 14,087.87 4,151.70 6,115.43 984.10 +77.4 +0.67 +120.05 +0.86 -3.30 -0.08 +43.27 +0.71 +11.54 +1.19 KLCI 907.75 -4.87 -0.53 SET Index 737.50 +2.82 +0.38 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 1,092.49 2,085.93
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        SGX most active
        53 16 By volume Close ACCS 0.670 Chartered 1.190 Olam 0.830 ACCSeCW*****5 0.120 UniFiber 0.350 STATSChP 1.060 Aztech 0.175 Radiance 0.280 UTAC 0.700 GlobalVoice 0.075 Change -0.180 +0.070 -0.020 -0.070 +0.010 +0.010 +0.025 Pts '000 -21.2 315,234 +6.3 44,301 -2.4 37,080 -36.8 34,654 +2.9 32,537 +1.0 31,302 +16.7 23,608
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        Lock icon Singapore
        117 16 SHARES closed mixed amid active dealings on Friday. The ST Index gained 4.66 points, or 0.2 per cent, to close at 2,168.86. In the broad market, losers outpaced gainers 242 to 172. Traded volume totalled 1.15 billion shares worth $947.9 million. The 2005 Budget did not spark much buying
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        SGX top rises
        75 16 By$ F&N 15.700 +0.500 SingamasC 2kHKS 5.300 +0.300 Jardine C&C 11.200 +0.200 Sp Land W*****3 3.360 +0.160 Sp Land 5.550 +0.150 Iselan(S) 2.990 +0.110 APB Breweries 8.150 +0.100 JMH400USS 18.000 +0.100 OCBC4.55SNCPS100 102.200 +0.100 Thai Prime200USS 11.700 +0.100 By percentage Semite* 0.105 +50.0 Unidux 0.060 +33.3 CharteredeCW*****
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        SGX top falls
        69 16 By$ Creative 50 21.400 -0.200 DBS 16.000 -0.200 ShangAsia2kHKS 11.000 -0.200 SIA 12.400 -0.200 ACCS 0.670 -0.180 SNFCorp 0.450 -0.110 GrealEasI ***** -0.100 OCBC 13.800 -0.100 SPHDBePW*****0 0515 -0.095 HSI*****ePW*****0 0.675 -0.080 By percentage PSL 0.050 -50.0 KepCorpePW*****2 0.030 ACCSeCW*****5 0.120 -40.0 -36.8 SPHePW*****0 0.215 -30.6 GenlnlUSS
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 16 US$ 0.6102 UK£ 0.3218 Yen 64.305 HK$ 4.7590 RM 2.3185 Euro 0.4674 Rupiah 5,649.8 Baht 23.548 Peso 33.383 A$ 0.7761 Indian Rs 26.739 Won 624.83 C$ 0.7517 Yuan 5.0515 NZ$ 0.8480 NTS 19.238
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 16 SGX, Bloomberg Gold ussm 428.40 Silver uss/oz 7.34 Platinum uss/oz 863.80 Rubber ™tsAg 208.75 Palm oil rim™ 1,320.50 Brent crude uss/barrei 45.93 Information provided by
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      Lock icon DBS annual profit tops $2b
      378 16 Dow Jones Gets boost from one-time gain of $497 m from sale of stakes in regional banks DBS GROUP HOLDINGS said on Friday its full-year net profit doubled following an increase in lending and fee income and a onetime gain of $497 million in the
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      Lock icon Frank Wong named COO of DBS Group
      122 16 Dow Jones MR FRANK WONG (picture), who is currently vice-chairman of DBS Bank and chairman of DBS Hong Kong, has been given the additional title of chief operating officer of DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank, Singapore's largest banking group said on Friday.
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      Lock icon Chen Jiulin blames CAO parent for size of losses
      161 16 Dow Jones BEIJING China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp's (CAO) trading losses could have been contained at US$lOO million ($164 million) if the parent company had acted earlier to liquidate its positions, Xinhua reported on Friday, citing the former chief executive of
      — Dow Jones  -  161 words
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      162 16 UiWriNel Vote now! Stand a chance to win an iPod mini 10 individuals were chosen to take home a Mac and put it through its paces for three weeks. at Log on to www.todayonline.com to read their journals and you decide who wins a Mac! Journal l_ Journal Joshua San,
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    • style
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        PLAYBOY, SOUL QUEEN
        396 18  -  Pearlyn Tham MAC's latest collections offer sexy shades pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg EASTER may not be here yet but a famous bunny is already hopping its way into the make-up purses of beauty pundits. We are, of course, talking about the Playboy Bunny mascot featured in a limited edition make-up
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        Pure Pop Fun
        139 18 The Estee Lewder Pure Pops Brush-On Color is available in 1 0 shades Berry Twist, Mellow Yello, Sweet Nectar, Pink Cupcake, Blackberry, Peppermint, Fizzy Pear, Watermelon, Granny Apple and Sugar Pie and comes in a handy tube with a brush tip. Simply answer the three following questions
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        Immerse in a home spa
        185 18  -  Pearlyn Tham IF you can't go to the spa, let the spa come to you. To recreate the spa experience at home, line your bathroom shelves with the pampering products from Dermalogica's Spa Body Therapy range. Designed for those who want to turn bath time
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        Swiss rings and the wedding pillow
        135 18  -  Pearlyn Tham LOVEBIRDS planning to exchange their vows can check out the jewellery from Jorn Rainer, one of the latest brands to join the wedding market. Made from precious materials such as yellow gold, white gold and platinum with a choice of diamonds, Jorn
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        Lock icon Saltwater delights
        456 20  -  CMLim Head to Changi for young chef Ong's creations food@newstoday.com.sg FOR the most part, Saltwater Cafe at the Changi Village Hotel does not blaze new culinary trails. It treads familiar ground, marrying Asian ingredients with basic Western cooking techniques. Saltwater's all-day dining menu features sandwiches, soups and local
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    • gadget
      • SHOPPING GUIDE
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          Samsung SGH-E810C Camera Mobile Phone
          92 22 IF you like small phones, try the SGH-EBIOC from Samsung. The 86g handset with a semi-automatic slideup design measures 88x44x23mm a perfect party accessory that will not take up too much space in your handbag. The phone boasts a 300K-pixel VGA rotating camera that lets
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          Creative DiVi Cam 316 Digital Camcorder
          122 22 CREATIVE'SDiViCam3I6 is an all-in-one machine that incorporates a digital camera, a Web cam, an MP3 player and a voice recorder. It comes with a 3.1-megapixel CMOS sensor that can record audio-visual clips of up to 640x480 resolution in MPEG-4 format. The camera captures still
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          Sennheiser PXC 300 NoiseGard Head Phones
          115 22 ENJOY music in style with Sennheiser's PXC 300 NoiseGard Advance mini head phones. Boasting brushed aluminum trim rings and high-attenuation ear pads, the head phones are built with a clever flip-and-fold design for easy storage. An active noise compensation system eliminates background noise on
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          Linksys WCF54G Wireless-G CF Card
          83 22 THE latest addition to Linksys' Wireless-G line, the WCFS4G Compact Flash (CF) card offers users wireless networking on a handheld. The 802.1 Igcard installs directly onto your Pocket PC using a CF Type II slot and lets you share data, printers or high-speed Internet access
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        Communicator on a diet
        577 22  -  Ariel Tarn Smart Phone Review Nokia's business smart phone has become slimmer but so has its features ariel@newstoday.com.sg THOSE seeking a power-packed smart phone minus the ungainly bulk will love the Nokia Communicator 9300. This classy-looking silver smart phone weighs 167g, about 60g less than its
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        Notebooks with that extra security oomph
        287 22  -  Seah Slew Hua DESIGNED for business users, HP's new line of notebooks and tablet PCs incorporate Intel Centrino Mobile technology based on the Mobile Intel 915 Express chipset Available in four series the HP Compaq 8200, 6200, 6100 and 4200 these thin and lightweight
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        Soccer realism at the tip of your fingers
        537 23  -  Trevor Tan Xbox Game Review I HAVE never owned a Playstation and have always heard rave reviews about the Playstationonly Winning Eleven series as the soccer simulation game to own. So does its first Xbox incarnation live up to its reputation? I
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        Replacement power cords for Xbox consoles
        174 23 TO protect consumers and their Xbox consoles from electrical component failures that can pose fire hazards, Microsoft is replacing the power cords on 14.1 million Xbox consoles worldwide. So far, there has been 30 reports worldwide of electrical component failures in the consoles that
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    • car
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        Love and 6
        606 24  -  Colin Yong Taking the top off BMW's already sexy 6 Series makes it more alluring colin@newstoday.com.sg FIRST off, let me apologise to the couples whose Valentine's Day I wrecked by driving the BMW 645 Ci Convertible around, roof down, on Monday night. Cruising past the countless lovey-dovey
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        MPV for BMW
        382 24 A BMW multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) will be produced within the next three years, according to the company's chairman, Helmut Panke (picture). MPVs were once thought to be incompatible with the German manufacturer's core brand value of building driver-oriented cars. But as its four-wheel drive X 5 showed,
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    • property
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        When baby arrives, will there be enough space?
        502 26  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newstoday.com.sg AN interesting development is taking place in the housing scene here. Even as the Government is encouraging larger families with its baby bonus scheme and various other baby making incentives, dwellings are getting smaller, say experts. It is
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        Costa Del Sol units to be sold at much lower prices
        375 26  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla HONG KONG-based Cheung Kong Group is releasing new units at its luxury condominium, Costa Del Sol, at much lower prices than during its launch in May 2000. They will be sold at an average of $630
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        80% of The Eastside sold
        145 26  -  Ted Chen ABOUT 80 per cent of Hoi Hup J V Development's The Eastside has been sold since the project was launched about one-and-a-half months ago. The developer attributes the good sales to The Eastside's convenient location and the reasonable pricing of its units. Located
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        APARTNBtTS/CONDOMNUMS
        654 26 MediaCorp Press Ltd makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the information and hereby disclaims all liabilities in respect of any claims, loss or damages, whether directly or indirectly, arising from or in relation to any use of the information howsoever occurring, including any
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