Today, 25 February 2005, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 99 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks put on a closing spurt yesterday, ending the day in positive territory despite weathering weak economic news and searing oil prices which continued to trade above US$5l a barrel. Just after the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrials Average was
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    • 127 1 -AFP Surgery for breathing difficulties VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul II (picture) underwent a successful tracheotomy to relieve breathing difficulties late yesterday, hours after being readmitted to hospital with a relapse of the flu, a Vatican spokesman announced. The 84-year-old pontiff was spending the night in
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    • 440 1  -  Ansley Ng and Shobha Tsering Bhalla ansley@newstoday.com.sg JETSTAR Asia, which has been without a chief executive officer since it took off here in December last year, has finally appointed one. Sources familiar with the appointment told Today that Mr Ken Ryan, a
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      • 955 2  -  Mano Sabnani MUCH has been said about the casino project There are arguments for Singapore to go ahead and equally valid counter views. The business community seems positive on the idea and there has been some buying of shares in companies that might be
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    • 430 3 Clients of OCBC, ABN Amro, HSBC face 0.25-0.5% rise next month Val Chua val@newstoday.com.sg THREE banks OCBC, ABN Amro, and HSBC will increase their board rates by 0.25 to 0.5 per cent next month, signalling an official end to cheap housing loans. The three
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    • 260 3 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S factory production probably shrank last month as drug manufacturers, including the local units of Schering-Plough Corp and Merck Co, reduced output. Manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of the economy, probably fell a seasonally adjusted 9.8 per cent from December, according
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    • 249 4 Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S national carrier, Malaysian Airlines (MAS), signed an agreement with Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its subsidiary Silk Air yesterday, allowing the carriers to sell tickets on each other's flights to five destinations. The agreement, which starts on March 27, will increase the
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    • 305 4 Agencies Conditions include yearly price hikes on tobacco products MANILA Of the current 1.3 billion smokers worldwide, some 650 million people are expected to die prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses. To add muscle to the battle against smoking, the world's first treaty on reducing tobacco consumption
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    • 69 4 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (second from left) was the surprise guest at President S R Nathan's (centre) Istana dinner party held for the Tiger Cup-winning squad last night. Also there were Minister for National Development and Football Association of Singapore (FAS) advisor Mah Bow
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  • Singapore news
    • 448 6  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), one of the country's leading business schools, is opening a branch here, the first foreign offshoot for any of India's so-called Ivy League institutions The Bangalore-based school listed in the Wall Street
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    • 515 8  -  Patricia Yap 'Socially-responsible' education centre launched to help kids 'love learning' patricia@newstoday.com.sg A NEW institution is doing the unprecedented in the cut-throat local tuition industry: It tells parents when their children having improved to the point that they no longer need help with their schoolwork can
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    • 201 8 Newsßadio 93.8 IT'S not just smokers who are feeling the pinch of rising cigarettes prices. Small business owners have been hit as well. A pack of cigarettes is now priced at $10 or more, following last week's announcement of an increase in tobacco taxes in
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    • 462 10  -  Jasmine Yin S'poreans conscious of need to save, but end up with little for their golden years: Survey jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg COMPARED with other industrialised countries' citizens, Singaporeans want to retire the earliest and are most active in saving up for the future but still end up with one of
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 96 10 Channel News Asia Results of the 2004 GCE O level examinations will be released next Monday. School candidates may collect their results from their schools at 2pm, while private candidates will be informed of their results by post. Students hoping to go on to
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      • 118 10 Newsßadio 93.8 The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has called for a thorough review of the safety legislation in Singapore, following Wednesday's explosion at a Tuas warehouse which killed two workers. Calling the accident "totally unacceptable", NTUC's Assistant SecretaryGeneral Halimah Yacob said NTUC
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      • 68 10 Delegates from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and local research institutes and universities will meet at the UNSW Singapore Research workshop, held from Monday to Wednesday next week. The workshop, jointly organised by A*Star and UNSW, aims to identify potential leading UNSW research
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    • 740 10  -  Ted Chen THE battle for glory at the 19th Singapore Tourism Awards continues as 14 nominees compete to be named Tourism Host of the Year in the Transport (Taxi), Tour Guiding, Travel Agency and Leisure Attraction categories. Yellow-Top Cab taxi driver
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    • 735 12  -  Jasmine Yin Despite the flak, Youth Expedition Project is 'here for the long haul', says its director jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg IT has been criticised as a Government appendage that organises "guilt trips" for Singaporean youth to live among less developed regional communities a creative "soft-sell" on
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    • LIVING WELL
      • 831 13 Financial planning for old age does not start in one's senior years but in one's working years. In the last of this five-part series, we find out how prudent planning will help Mr David Lee retire comfortably. GROWING up in a household of humble background, Mr
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      • 108 13 Start early. Tap on the power of compounding. Avoid debts if you can help it, and pay up your mortgage as soon as you can. Make sure your loan is flexible so you can pay it off as soon as possible. Set future goals and formulate a
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  • world news
    • 199 16 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States gave a cautious welcome yesterday to reports that Syria was prepared to redeploy its troops in Lebanon towards their common border. Lebanese officials said earlier that Damascus, under mounting international pressure to release its tight grip on its neighbour,
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    • 237 16 RAMALLAH (West Bank) The Palestinian Parliament yesterday overwhelmingly approved a new Cabinet chosen by Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei after refusing to accept the premier's earlier decision to reappoint political cronies from the Arafat era. Fifty-four members of the legislative council voted in favour of the list,
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    • 147 16 -AFP MELBOURNE A 25-year-old mum has been charged with the murders of four of her five children over a five-year period. Carol Matthey was arrested at her home in Geelong, near Melbourne, following an investigation lasting more than a year into the deaths of the
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 46 16 Florida man Steven Denton faces charges of allegedly attempting to bribe a policeman with McDonald's cheeseburgers, reported Ananova.com. Denton was originally arrested following a fight at a local pub but tried to avoid being locked up by bribing the police officer.
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      • 61 16 Moscow Mayor Juri Luschkov has warned the city's weather forecasters that they would face heavy fines if they get the weather wrong, reported Ananova.com. The warning came after the head of the Romanian National Meteorology Agency, Mr lon Poiana, was firecTafter he predicted warm weather
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      • 84 16 -AFP A solid-gold, gem-encrusted U557.76 million ($12.6 mil- lion) toilet has been flushed from Hong Kong's tourism maps after staff at the jewellery store that made it were rude to customers, officials said. The move came after 41 people complained about the shop, 3D Gold, in
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      • 73 16 AFP Two boys and two girls were marriecf off to puppies of the opposite sex by tribal villagers in Kuluptang in the northern Indian state of Jharkhand to ward off evil, said the Press Trust of India. The mother of "groom" Durga, 1, said if the
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    • 184 18 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's National Higher Education Fund Corporation plans to send debt collectors or "credit counsellors" to homes of former students to collect payments from loan defaulters. Higher Education Minister Shafie Mohd Salleh said the corporation would soon decide on the number of people on
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    • 409 18 Agencies Leaders tackle issues despite souring ties BRATISLAVA US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin were set to hold a tightly-guarded summit even as strain over Moscow's autocratic reforms and nuclear cooperation with Tehran plagued bilateral ties. The two leaders could show
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    • 137 18 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian navy has made it clear that homosexuals will not be admitted into its fold. Commenting on a report yesterday on the British navy recruiting gays, Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) chief Mohd Anwar Mohd Nor said the country's laws were
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 48 20 dpa Two Indonesians and a Malaysian, suspected to be members of the regional Jemaah Islamiyah PI) group, have been arrested in the Philippines. Authorities seized bomb components, US$7,OOO ($11,400) and firearms from the suspects, who were allegedly plotting to attack key cities.
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      • 87 20 Agencies The army yesterday found some 250 detonators hidden in a warehouse in an abandoned stone quarry in Pattani district in southern Thailand. It is believed that the devices, which could be used in remotecontrolled bombs, belonged to the militants behind the ongoing violence
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    • 146 20 KUALA LUMPUR A new ruling on indoor air quality, aimed at protecting the health of workers at offices and entertainment outlets, will be introduced next month. It will require building operators to improve ventilation at the workplace and ensure that air quality is acceptable according
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    • 369 20 Agencies Defendants say they are scapegoats LONDON As many as 11 more British soldiers could face a court martial over the fatal beating of an Iraqi civilian and other instances of abuse, reported The Times. The report comes a day after two British soldiers
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    • 404 22 -AFP Former US marine will walk through Asia to raise money for tsunami victims MANILA Vietnam War veteran Danny Garcia's life is a classic Forrest Gump-style Hollywood script He has walked 36,000 km in the past eight years and met some 400 world leaders including Pope
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    • 167 22 The Guardian LONDON The global fight against Aids is being hampered by a massive shortage of condoms. Only about one-tenth of the 10.8 billion condoms needed were available in developing countries in 2003. The chances of meeting the target of 18.6
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    • 123 22 -AFP NEW YORK Four-year-old American Maria Olmstead, who has made a small fortune selling her famous artworks, may not be the prodigy her admirers believe her to be. An investigation by CBS network's 60 Minutes programme cast doubt on the child's artistic talents. Miss Olmstead's father,
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    • 267 23 Over-60s are far more content than over-30s LONDON It is supposedly your most dynamic decade, when you leap up the career ladder as older colleagues count the days to retirement. But a new study has found that angst-ridden 30-something employees are desperate to quit their
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 66 23 The Guardian Scientists at the Cajal Institute in Madrid claimed to have found evidence that cannabis helps prevent memory loss experienced by people suffering from Alzheimer's, which affects around nine million worldwide. The study seems to show that THC, the main active ingredi-
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      • 84 23 The Guardian The use of cartoon characters to sell unhealthy food is reportedly boosting Britain's childhood obesity. Which?, a consumers organisation, described the use of popular characters such as Scooby-Doo and Winnie the Pooh on some products as "manipulative marketing ploys", which made it more difficult
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    • 228 24  -  Dr James Dobson Tbiws byj PACHYDERMS AND TEENS I once watched a documentary showing how Indian elephants are trained to serve their human masters, and I was struck by the parallel between these beautiful creatures and our fragile teenagers. An elephant begins its training process shortly
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    • READERS'SHORT TAKES
    • 1003 24  - Now, the news mr brown news@newstoday.com.sg TODAY, I would like to share with you stuff that you do not read in the papers, whether online or in print The reason I decided to share this great resource is because I have come to realise that news and history about Singapore
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    • 334 26  -  JOHNTHURST Country too diverse to be affected by addition I Letter from THE establishment of a casino in Singapore will probably not increase the number of gamblers in Singapore except for the foreign tourists who will come. And while it may
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    • 160 26  -  MERRICKTEO Letter from IT'S an irony that, on the one hand, our Government is concerned about our aging citizens and their retirement plans. On the other, Singapore is considering a casino to allow people to gamble away their money, especially when we know that the
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    • 171 26  -  DANIEL KOH Letter from WERE I an American, and felt strongly that Las Vegas was not the place to bring up my family, I could move to Denver, Colorado Springs or El Paso to raise my family. And I would still be
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    • 177 28  -  PRPJJOHN Letter from I REFER to "More battered hubbies seek court protection" (Feb 24). I am glad you have highlighted this major social concern as many men are being victimised by women, some of them the higher-income earner in the family. Women moving
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    • 316 28  -  JASMINE SOH HUI TSAN JONATHAN CHEE Why complicate helping the needy? Letter from I REFER to Tan Sai Siong's news comment, "Persuade proud poor to accept aid" (Feb 24). There is another group of citizens that have sought help in one way or another, but have been
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    • 158 28  -  CHITRA DEVI V RAMIAH Letter from I AM a resident of Hougang Street 51. In recent months, residents of my block have endured dirty and smelly lifts. Would you believe that you even find wet droplets on the
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    • 247 30  -  TAN SIYU, JOLENE Workers don't even have nights to themselves Letter from earner among us, they do not even have nights to themselves to meet other people and visit places outside of the house. They clean homes full of consumer luxuries before
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    • 204 30  - No excuses enshrine their rights in law LIEW KAI KHIUN Letter from THE fact that such an appalling guideline giving foreign domestic workers (FDWs) one day off a month has to be suggested by the Association of Employment Agencies reflects on the working conditions FDWs are subject to. I know
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  • Businesstoday
    • 221 32 SPOOKED investors dumped the shares of Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) yesterday, causing the stock to plunge by 50 per cent to 36 cents, and wiping $346 million off of its total value, following news that the company had overstated revenues for last
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    • MarketWATCH
      • 44 32 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed higher on mild bar-gain-hunting, helped by Wall Street's strong rebound overnight. The ST Index ended 16.17 points up, or 1 percent, at 2,152.59. Gainers led losers 237 to 204 as 1.02 billion shares worth $980 million were traded.—
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