The Straits Times, 21 December 2004

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  • 26 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 1 16 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 048/03/2004 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21 2004 dP A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 743 1  -  Lydia Lim Azhar Ghani Outcome of Iraqi and M-E crises would decide if it's the best or worst of times By BUSH WIN A POSITIVE RESULT "I take heart from President Bush's re-election for one simple reason it is not in his nature to
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  • 677 1 RUSH-HOUR EXECUTION Sunday was a particularly gruesome day, even by Baghdad standards. On one of its most dangerous streets, about 30 gunmen, hurling grenades and firing weapons, ambushed a car carrying five election officials and killed three of them in broad daylight during
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  • UPFRONT
    • 1101 1  -  Goh Sui Noi By China Correspondent In Beijing WHEN Singaporean businessman Chong Huai Seng, 53, visited a Beijing art exhibition in October last year, little did he know that it would change his relationship with China. Up until then, he had visited
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  • IN A FLASH
    • 31 2 'End Thaksin rule' Thai main opposition party calls on voters to end Thaksin "dictatorship". PAGE 11 Toll hike protest Malaysian opposition plans protest against North-South Highway toll hike. PAGE 12
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    • 32 2 Arts ambition Two cities in north-east England count on new state-of-the-art concert hall. PAGE 14 M-E peace promise Bush promises peace between Israel and Palestine in his second term. PAGE 15
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    • 17 2 Why US$ has fallen Unpopularity of US foreign policy in Asia causes dollar decline. PAGE 19
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    • 64 2 Road carnage Four people nave died in road accidents in past two days, three of them motorcyclists. PAGE HI Unlucky twice in love Jailed man seems to have fallen for two women who married him for reasons other than love. PAGEH2 N oven a Court facelift Residents of 32-year-old
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    • 41 2 Safety in shipyards NTUC dismayed that safety shortcuts are not uncommon in shipyards, seeks details of training and appraisals. PAGEH7 Honesty comes first Reader says issue with fake-grad teacher is honesty and values imparted to students rather than ability. PAGEH7
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    • 46 2 Men behaving badly London hotel complained to Newcastle manager Graeme Souness about soccer players' bad behaviour at pre-Christmas party. PAGE H9 Scene of big events This year, Detroit's Palace arena was scene of third NBA victory in history and brawl between players and fans. PAGEHIO
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    • 35 2 Scared off by CAO China Aviation Oil scandal makes some China companies think twice about listing in Singapore. PAGEHI9 Superbrands defence Attacked by Marketing magazine, Superbrands publisher defends annual ranking, denies "pay-for-entry" system. PAGEH2O
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  • PRIME
    • 542 3  - Warning goes out: Fight bird flu together Alexis Hooi Health experts say coordinated approach needed to avert pandemic By Spread of vims continues 100 million fowl have been culled since the bird flu virus appeared in the region earlier this year Bird flu has killed 32 people in Thailand and
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    • 434 3 SIGNS OF COLD FEET "Everything was going well until last Monday when he began behaving differently and showed doubts about our marriage. At first, he said we might not be a match. But after we had a discussion, he was normal and we continued to
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    • 251 4 MRS Tomika Kondo walked into Changi Airport with her husband yesterday expecting to be just another visitor to Singapore. Instead, she walked out with prizes worth more than $30,000. The thrilled 62-year-old Japanese tourist became Singapore's record-breaking eight millionth visitor for the year,
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    • 643 4  -  Ching Cheong Speech cites Macau as a model but there is no mention of Taiwan By Chief China Correspondent In Macau CHINESE President Hu Jintao yesterday praised Macau on its success under the "one country, two systems" unification model, but separately chided Hong Kong's government,
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    • 155 4 S'pore chip industry Is the honey moon over? I I t( I Singapore's semiconductor consumption is poised to slow down sharply. We look at the implications for major industry players here. HU MAKES PUBLIC HIS UNHAPPINESS WITH TUNG'S GOVERNMENT, PAGE 8 Bangkok Phuket Chiang Mai Krabi CD fS Ja^NaaHE O
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  • ASIA
    • 596 6  -  Devi Asmarani By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta HE OUTLASTED a regime, turned around a backlash against his Golkar party and escaped a damning graft conviction. But time is running out for the ultimate political survivor, Mr Akbar Tandjung. Indonesia's most consummate politician
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    • 907 6  - Who is the most powerful man in Indonesia? Salim Osman Yudhoyono may be the President but his deputy Jusuf is the leader of the largest political party By In Nusa Dua (Bali) TWO CHIEFS "We will have two presidents leading Indonesia. One a de jure president in the form of
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    • 574 10  -  Ravi Velloor Malaysia is taking a Look West approach, says the Prime Minister By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, saying his government is increasingly looking westward to build new economic alliances and ensure future prosperity, yesterday suggested
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    • 444 10 New Delhi INDIA'S outsourcing industry is growing quickly in a flourishing economy despite threats from developed countries to halt job flight to the developing world, but millions of young workers just do not have the skills to join the boom. There are an
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    • 318 10 New Delhi PARENT company eßay and Indian industry officials have expressed anger and concern over the jailing of the CEO of eßay's Indian subsidiary in connection with the online sale of a sex video. The US State Department also has
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 91 10 TOKYO: A cancer patient, believing that he could not be cured, went on a stabbing spree yesterday at a Tokyo hospital, killing two elderly patients and seriously injuring a nurse, police and news reports said. The 59-year-old man, who was being treated for throat cancer
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      • 111 10 BEIJING: China's main coal-producing Shanxi province has tripled the amount that mine companies must pay families of miners killed on the job, in an effort to encourage management to spend more on safety. Mines in the northern province must now pay 200,000 yuan (5540,400) for
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      • 74 10 TOKYO: Sixty-four teachers and peace activists filed criminal complaints yesterday against Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and two other officials, arguing that he forced them to honour the national flag and anthem tainted with Japan's militarist past. They brought to 173 the number of people who
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      • 77 10 MANILA: Philippine authorities are seeking to verify an intelligence report that the leader of the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group has been killed in an air raid on Nov 19, a military official said yesterday. One of the military's informants had claimed that Khadaffy Janjalani's
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      • 75 10 COLOMBO: At least eight people died last week in southern Sri Lanka of a mysterious influenzalike virus, but it was not bird flu or Sars, the Health Ministry said yesterday. One of them appeared to have died from Influenza A, a particularly virulent strain of
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      • 69 10 ZAMBOANGA (Philippines): An army ordnance expert died yesterday while teaching students how to safely handle explosives, when the grenade he was holding accidentally detonated, the military said. Nine other people were wounded. Sergeant Samuel Casuga died while being brought to a hospital after the blast
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    • 201 10 Tokyo THE Tokyo subway system stepped up security yesterday as police investigated how a passenger was slightly burned by a chemical in a train. A woman told subway staff at Otemachi station in central Tokyo on Sunday evening that a chemical on
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    • 268 6 Outcry over visa Beijing protesters want Japan to rescind a visa granted to Taiwan's ex-president Lee Teng-hui. PAGE 8 ABDULLAH LOOKS WEST II Fl^^3 Malaysian Prime Minister calls for free trade agreement with India. Page 10 DUD BOMB AT HOTEL Hr 1 i Iflp *f I nf ii'^^^Ki 1 GL
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  • CHINA
    • 624 8  - Hu makes public his unhappiness with Tung's government Ching Cheong HK Chief Exec is told to learn from mistakes made in the last seven years By Chief China Correspondent In Macau CHINESE President Hu Jintao told Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa and his Cabinet yesterday to find out
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    • 797 8  -  Goh Sui Noi By China Correspondent In Beijing A GROUP of 30 protesters yesterday accused the Japanese government of interfering in China's internal affairs in its decision to grant a tourist visa to former Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui and demanded that it be rescinded. Carrying
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    • 557 8  -  Chua Chin Hon By China Correspondent In Beijing CHINA yesterday signalled that it will not cancel its Golden Week holidays just yet, officially dousing previous media speculation that a paid leave system would be introduced next year. Quoting a circular issued by the
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    • 226 8 Beijing BEIJING'S famous outdoor Silk Market, a popular haunt of tourists shopping for fake goods, will soon be demolished for safety reasons. An announcement from the market's administration released yesterday said it would finally be closed after months of speculation over its
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    • 188 8 Taipei SENIOR politician Huang Chu-wen yesterday resigned as head 01 the pro-indepen-dence Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) after the party suffered a setback in parliar mentary polls earlier this month. "They have agreed to my resignation," Mr Huang told reporters at the end of
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 651 11  -  Nirmal Ghosh He has ruined the country and abused his authority, says opposition By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok "He is prone to simplify issues in black and white to some single bottom-line number and ask people to go along with him. You are either
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    • 100 11 Terror suspect Rois, who is accused of being involved in the bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in September, revisiting the crime scene on Sunday. Heavily guarded, he was helping police re-enact the attack on Sept 9 which killed 10 people and injured others. Rois,
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    • 353 11  -  Devi Asmarani By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta A RUSTY and unexploded grenade was found at the Jakarta Hilton hotel yesterday morning, just days after warnings that militants might attack the hotel chain in Indonesia. The bomb squad rushed into the hotel compound after the
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    • 211 11 Bangkok PRIME Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday that the media had distorted remarks he made alleging Islamic separatists were using Malaysia as a training base to destabilise southern Thailand, the national news agency reported. "Our media and some foreign media like to cause people
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 570 12  -  Reme Ahmad Boxing Day move will put pressure on PM Abdullah to intervene By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur OPPOSITION parties and non-governmental organisations are planning the first street protests against the Abdullah administration. They want to protest on Boxing Day to
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    • 504 12 BLOCKAGE TO GROWTH "Water could flow on our side, but the British then were full of tricks in curbing the potential growth of southern Johor to ensure that Singapore developed into a hub." JOHOR MENTERI BESAR ABDUL GHANI OTHMAN, on the
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    • 292 12 Hanoi VIETNAM'S army celebrated yesterday the 60th anniversary of its founding by the late father of the nation, Ho Chi Minn, and highlighted its still prominent role in the communist regime. "If the people lose their trust in the army in particular, and
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    • 356 12 KL blasts Canberra's planned maritime anti-terror net Canberra MALAYSIA has warned Australia not to "bulldoze" through a maritime anti-terror plan that has already been criticised by neighbouring Indonesia as breaching international law and Jakarta's sovereignty over its own waters. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper yesterday quoted Malaysia's Deputy Defence Minister
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  • WORLD
    • 813 14  - British city woos visitors with new look Neo Hui Min Newcastle gets state-of-the-art r f concert hall in its bid for world fame By Straits Times Europe Bureau In London GAINING FROM CULTURAL BUZZ "There seems to be a brain gain from the south-east as a growing number of professionals
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    • 628 15 Bush vows to bring Deace to Mid-East He will invest a lot of time and creative thinking in Israel and the Palestinians in his new term Jerusalem PEACE PLEDGE "I want you to know that I am going to invest a lot of time and a lot of creative thinking
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    • 321 15 Bush speaks Rumsfeld's defence Washington PRESIDENT George W. Bush yesterday brushed aside criticism of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over his handling of the Iraq war and described him as a "caring fellow" who will win over doubters on Capitol Hill. "He's done a fine job and I look forward to
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    • 548 15 Washington THE White House is pressing Pentagon officials to cut tens of billions of dollars from their proposed budgets over the next several years, signalling that the massive defence buildup following the Sept 11 attacks is coming to an end. The move to rein in
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 199 16 FRANKFURT: A senior police official was found guilty yesterday of ordering an officer to threaten violence against a suspect in a frantic attempt to find a German banker's missing son. Wolfgang Daschner, the former Frankfurt deputy police chief, told the court he did so to
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      • 147 16 ASHG ABAT: Turkmenistan, where opposition is banned and state power is concentrated around autocratic President Saparmurat Niyazov, said yesterday its parliamentary election at the weekend conformed to international standards. It said 76.88 per cent of some 2.5 million votirs had taken part, a striking contrast
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      • 86 16 LONDON: Lawyers representing suspects detamed under Britain's anti-terrorism law are to fiesign in protest against the legislation, a few toys after Britain's highest court described it as megal, newspapers reported here yesterday. Mr lan Macdonald, one of the "Special Advoi ites" authorised by the authorities to
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      • 65 16 ftLABUL: Taleban fighters killed four Afghan poRemen and wounded four others in a drive-by shooting at a checkpoint in south Afghanistan. Police in Kandahar said yesterday the attack occurred on Sunday evening on the approach to a bazaar in Maywand district, 65km west of Kandahar
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    • 946 16  -  Roger Maynard Young Australians are leaving the sprawling suburbs for the social whirl of the inner cities. Only the very old and very young are now hitting the beaches for four weeks in the summer. By Australia Correspondent In Sydney THE city of the future could
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    • 497 16  -  Stephanie Gartelmann By For The Straits Times In Sydney THE backpackers are here and settling into what seems another typical summer Down Under. But while in the past Australians stopped work for weeks to hit the beaches, now only the very young and, more significantly,
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    • 254 16 Canberra AN ITALIAN tourist aboard a flight from Sydney to Vienna caused an international security alert after he sent a joke text message from his cellphone to his wife claiming his plane had been hijacked by terrorists. Mr Antonio Casale, 35,
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    • SPOTUGHT PEOPLE
      • 200 17 MR BARACK Obama, who will become the sole black US senator when he is sworn in next month, is set to sign a threebook deal two of which will be for adults and one for children for a reported US$l.9 million (Ss3 million)
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      • 153 17 A STAMPEDE on Sunday marred South African icon Nelson Mandela's annual children's Christmas party, which the veteran statesman did not attend due to the illness of his eldest son, police said. "There are no injuries, no deaths, but the incident happened because of overcrowding,"
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      • 216 17 MR ALEXANDER Downer became Australia's longest-serv-ing foreign minister yesterday, and listed his country's role in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in restoring peace in the former East Timor, among his tenure's top accomplishments. He also helped to consolidate Australia's ties with the United States.
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      • 163 17 Minister caught giving out money to voters CAUGHT by television cameras doling out cash ahead of state elections, Indian Railways Minister Laloo Yadav denied any wrongdoing and said the money was for poor people to buy sweets, a report said yesterday. However, his opponents have threatened to take the is-
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    • 247 14 Book deal America's sole black senator has been offered a $3 million advance for a three-book deal. PAGE 17 THE UNIVERSITY J^ PHP OF ADELAIDE Croup off Eight *S2r The University of Adelaide Degrees ©NgeeAnn Master of Business Administration (MBA) r An MBA for the Discerning Identical degree as awarded
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  • 364 18 TERRORISM and extremism in South-east Asia, as elsewhere, are pan-national movements. The degree of cooperation and coordination among a host of Muslimbased movements in the region varies with the circumstances, but what brings them together is a set of broad, shared goals. Within South-east Asia, there
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  • 913 18  -  Koh Buck Song By For The Straits Times THE way Fernando Botero's massive sculptures have transformed Singapore's waterfront landscape leads me to ponder: What is the relationship between art and leadership? The Colombian artist is known popularly for favouring fat women and over-sized animals as
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  • 972 18  -  Amity Shales By BOUND BY WORDS People born before 1 975 are people of convention mostly, the convention of the word. They like books. They like music often because of the lyrics. CAPTURED BY VISUALS People born after 1 975 are, however, people of
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    • 210 18 The wraps are off When personal business becomes part and parcel of the public domain. PAGE 21 THE STRATTS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS, NEWS CENTRE, 1 000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2, *****4 ST INTERACTIVE: http://stiaitstimes.asial.corn.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer Senior Executive ViceAlan Chan Heng Loon President (Marketing) Editor-in-Chief
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  • 1013 19  -  William Pesek Jr By GROWING PERCEPTION The "continuous human rights abuses" by the Bush administration in Iraq and elsewhere have made China's human rights record "look like Cinderella". That perception is increasingly worrying investors who wonder about Mr Bush's plans for the world during
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  • 1707 20  -  Paul Basken Demian McLean By EYE ON THE FUTURE In protecting Iran against sanctions, China may be enticed by "the short-term attractions of currying favour with a potential ally". HENRY HYDE, a Republican and chairman off the US House International Relations Committee. ACTION SPEAKS
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  • 1105 21  -  V.K. Raghunathan FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT: INDIA By India Correspondent In New Delhi TECHNOLOGY can be a bane as much as it is a boon, as two recent incidents here have shown. In the first case, a teenage boy at a prestigious New
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    • 8 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY DECEMBER 21, 2004
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    • 747 1  - CRASH 4 die in 24 hours Teh Joo Lin Four lives lost as a result of latest spate of motorcycle accidents here By FOUR motorcycle crashes, four deaths, in just 24 hours. In what is turning into a black December for motorcyclists, three riders and one road worker have become
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    • 503 1  - Caught on tape maid abusing boss' mum Chong Chee Kin Lee Hui Chieh By A WOMAN who installed four surveillance cameras in her home to keep an eye on her maid had her worst fears confirmed. When 57-year-old Lau Yeow Hoo reviewed footage from the cameras at her Stirling Road
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    • 613 2  - Jailed cabby unlucky in love twice Tracy Quek WIFE-STABBING INCIDENT First wife left him after business failed; second wife made use of him, says his relative By HE WAS unlucky in love, not once, but twice. Both times, Lim Son Thye, 40, appeared to have fallen for women who married
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    • 291 2 MURDER OF IBM EXECUTIVE MALAYSIAN police arrived in Singapore yesterday to meet the family and colleagues of IBM consultant Patricia Wong Bao Bao, 32, who was found murdered in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur last Friday. Malaysian news agency Bernama quoted KL's Chief Police
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    • 451 2  -  Ben Nadarajan By THEY may have been spared the gallows, but two suspected drug traffickers from the nigh-profile cocaine bust two months ago are now facing the prospect of longer jail terms after prosecutors piled on extra charges against them yesterday. Alleged ringleader Marx
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    • 304 2  -  Maria Almenoar By THE wake of prominent investment banker Sandy Eu, 53, was a quiet affair held at the Mount Vernon funeral parlour yesterday. It was attended by only his closest family members, many of whom had flown in from overseas. The grandson
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    • 416 2  - Myanmar man posed as stewardess to steal Elena Chong By A YOUNG Myanmar man, who passed himself off as an air stewardess and stole valuables from men he befriended at nightspots and through chatlines, was sentenced to four years' jail and six strokes of the cane yesterday. Calling himself Michelle,
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    • 74 2 A MAN went into a shop in Little India, asked to buy phone cards, then made off with them on Sunday. At about 10.50am, the bespectacled man, in jeans and a blue T-shirt, entered the shop and asked for 220 phone cards worth
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    • 513 3  -  Karamjit Kaur Airline's move to 'offer good value 1 undercuts budget carriers 1 prices By Transport Correspondent SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has slashed fares to Bangkok, Jakarta, Hong Kong and Taipei, in its strongest signal yet that it will not be outdone by budget carriers.
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    • 332 3  -  KARAMJIT KAUR STAR Cruises' investment in Valuair and the budget airline's plans to extend its flying range have spawned a new series of travel packages that could see Singapore develop into a centre for cruise holidays. From next year, Valuair and Malaysia-based Star Cruises
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    • 311 3 LIVE duck imports from Perak could resume next month, five months after they were banned, as the authorities work to establish buffer zones in the diseasefree Malaysian state to keep bird flu out. Should the ban be lifted, it would mean about
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    • 193 3 13 hawker centres to undergo facelift THIRTEEN hawker centres are slated to undergo upgrading in the next two years under the National Environment Agency (NEA)'s Hawker Centres Upgrading Programme. This will be the fourth batch of centres to receive a facelift under the programme, which started in 2000. Some centres
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    • 145 3 SINGAPORE-BORN Grace Chow made public a very personal event by keeping a weblog of her last days before her death. Digital Life reproduces excerpts of her blog that touched the hearts of those who read it. Also find out how blogs have made their presence felt
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    • 289 4 Hello, meet spiritual 'guardian' A MOAI sculpture, a replica of the famous and mysterious stone figures on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean, now greets visitors to the Asia-Pa-cific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Secretariat building in Heng Mui Keng Terrace, off Pasir Panjang Road. The 2m tall gift from Chilean President
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    • 412 4  -  Maria Almenoar It beats premier varsities like Harvard in global survey of faculty By THE National University of Singapore (NUS) is among the top 10 of the world's best engineering and IT universities. The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) placed NUS
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    • 520 4 On China ties, CAO issue and press freedom Following a 20-minute speech to the Foreign Correspondents' Association last night, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew fielded questions from 1 5 foreign journalists and diplomats. We produce edited extracts from the 90-minute question-and-answer session. HAVE Sino-Singapore relations deteriorated since Prime Minister Lee
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    • 415 4  -  Lynn Lee By SINGAPORE'S Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) will be taken abroad for the first time next year, when around 100 children in Jakarta sit for it in August. The exam, known as iPSLE, is the international version of PSLE, designed for pupils in
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    • 454 4  - O -level scholarship for top Normal (Tech) student Ho Ai Li By DAVID Hoe, one of the two top Normal (Technical) students in this year's N-level examinations, has one more reason to smile. The 16-year-old from Beatty Secondary has been offered a scholarship from St Francis Methodist to do his
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    • 460 6  - Novena Court gets a makeover Tan Hui Yee Owners pay $15,000 each for works instead of selling ageing units en bloc By OWNERS of ageing apartments usually dream of selling them en bloc as a lucrative way out of a run-down property, but not those at the 32-year-old Novena Court
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    • 254 6  -  IZAD SALEH ALI A SINGAPORE Polytechnic (SP) project to help improve Bintan villagers' eye problems earlier this year has sparked an islandwide drive to collect old sunglasses. The sunglasses will be distributed on SP's future trips to people in developing countries without access to
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    • 256 6 A ROW of six 19th-cen-tury warehouses, on the banks of the Singapore River, will get a new lease of life as part of the upcoming Watermark condominium project. Property firm Hong Leong Holdings plans to launch the freehold condominium in Saiboo Street,
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    • FORUM
      • 310 7 SHIPYARD SAFETY MAKE SAFETY PART OF COMPANY CULTURE Continuous vigilance on safety and care for human life must be part of the culture of companies. I REFER to the report, "Safety short cuts 'not uncommon' (ST, Dec 16). The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC)
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      • 227 7 IN ORDER to eliminate the practice of taking short cuts on safety procedures involving tankers, it would be worthwhile for shipyards to send their surveyors and safety assessors to oil refineries to learn how, despite their volatile environment, they are able to
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      • 463 7 I REFER to the letter, "Must we lose talent like 'fake grad' teacher?" (ST, Dec 20), by Mr Anthony Lee Mui Yu. Mr Lee takes issue with the recent dismissal of Chinese teacher Wen Xia, who lied that she had a degree,
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      • 398 7 Higher premiums help insurers remain viable I REFER to the letters, "Insurers' explanation inconsistent with reality" by Mr Allen Tan Peng Kim and "Charge should be lower with risk-fac-tor rating" by Mr Chen Chean Nan (ST, Dec 10). Mr Tan and Mr Chen expressed concern that their motor insurance premiums
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    • SPORTS
      • 373 8 London ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger cranked up the pressure on his rivals by insisting the busy Christmas period will go a long way to discovering who really has the stomach for a gruelling Premiership title race. The champions certainly showed their resilience by collecting all
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      • 1053 8  -  James Lawton THE LAWTON REVIEW It looks like Graeme Souness will not helm sinking ship Newcastle much longer By In London IF GRAEME Souness was a sea captain rather than master of the storm-tossed Premiership club Newcastle United, fixing
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      • 504 8 LONDON MANCHESTER United's board has been urged by a supporters group to have nothing to do with any fresh bid for the club by United States businessman Malcolm Glazer, after reports on Sunday suggested he was preparing to launch a new takeover bid for
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      • 572 8 OLYMPICS Paris INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge's crusade to rid the Olympics of drug cheats shows no signs of easing. The Belgian surgeon had vowed, when he replaced Juan Antonio Samaranch, to make the battle against doping one
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      • 485 9 >♦ SOCCER Liverpool NEWCASTLE manager Graeme Souness confirmed on Sunday that he had received a letter of complaint from the Ritz Hotel in London about the behaviour of some of his players. The Ritz, one of London's most expensive hotels, was reportedly the venue for a
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      • 288 9 Vulgar prime- time Cantona LONDON CONTROVERSIAL during his playing days, Eric Cantona is proving to be equally shocking even after retirement. The Manchester United great caused a furore on Sunday night when he used an obscenity during a live television interview. The Frenchman, who won four Premier League titles and
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      • 788 9 Darren Fletcher and Rio Ferdinand reportedly punched as things get out of hand London MANCHESTER United's Christmas party last Saturday turned out to be a real bash when the party twice erupted into mass brawls. According to reports, Darren Fletcher and Rio
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      • 65 9 ZURICH: World champions Brazil have topped Fifa's world rankings for the third year running. France remained in second place ahead of Argentina. England dropped to eighth, while Portugal moved up eight places to ninth. China also moved up a massive 32 places to 54th,
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      • 65 9 ZURICH: Racist soccer spectators should be identified and shamed in public, while the matches they have tarnished are suspended, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Sunday. He also said racist hooligans should be banned for life From attending matches. However, he does not
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      • 92 9 ZURICH: Fifa has instructed soccer leagues to end their schedules more than three weeks before the start of the 2006 World Cup Finals, to avoid player fatigue. The world soccer governing body set May 14, 2006 as the last day for league matches, 26 clays
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      • 57 9 ZURICH:Soccer players will be allowed to make two transfers in a single calendar year, Fifa announced. President Sepp Blatter said a player could be loaned to two different clubs in succession during a season, if he had only trained and not played in any matches
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      • 55 9 ZURlCH:Mexican football club Celaya have been refused permission by Fifa to field woman striker Maribel Dominguez. Celaya agreed terms last week with the 27-year-old, in a move which sparked debate. A Fifa statement on Sunday said that there must be a clear separation between
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      • 600 10 YEAR IN REVIEW: BASKETBALL Pistons' home saw two biggest events their title win and Pacers' brawl Los Angeles DETROIT'S Palace arena was the scene of the two most important events for the National Basketball Association this year. The first was a raucous affair of jubilation when
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      • 504 10 »GOLF NO DOUBT "No, never. Never. Not once." TIGER WOODS, when asked whether he had doubted over tweaking his swing Los Angeles IF TIGER Woods had a wish, he would ask for anonymity, so that he can be himself. But,
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      • SPORTS WORLD
        • 56 10 BEIJING China is considering lifting its long-time ban on professional boxing. The sport was outlawed by the communists soon after they took power in 1949. Amateur boxing is already legal and Zou Shiming claimed the country's first Olympic boxing medal in Athens this
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        • 50 10 LOS ANGELES The Memphis Grizzlies beat the Los Angeles Clippers 92-82 in a National Basketball Association game on Sunday night, with Jason Williams scoring 10 of his 17 points in the final six minutes. The Grizzlies defeated the Clippers for the sixth straight time. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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        • 47 10 BADEN-BADEN: Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher and Olympic kayaking gold medallist Birgit Fischer were chosen as Germany's Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year. Schumacher drove to his seventh Formula One world title, while Fischer, 42, captured her eighth gold medal in Athens. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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      • 182 10 Monty picks mother of two over model London HE MAY have been dating a stunning Spanish model, but golfer Colin Montgomerie has found love with a married mother-of-two. The Ryder Cup hero has fallen head over heels for Joanne Baldwin, an old friend of his ex-wife, reported The Sunday Mirror.
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      • 763 11  -  Marc Lim SOCCER For Bennett, Lions, Tiger Cups-finals take precedence over festive period By Tiger Cup Semi-finals Dec 28: Indonesia v Malaysia (Senayan Stadium, Jakarta) Dec 29: Myanmar v Singapore (Cheras Stadium, Kuala Lumpur) Jan 1: Malaysia v Indonesia (Bukit Jalil Stadium, Kuala
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      • 798 11  -  Lee Yulin SPORTS TECHNOLOGY By A MERE 0.01 of a second barely a blink of an eye separated gold from silver from bronze in the men's 100 metres final at the Athens Olympics last August. The race was over in 10
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      • HOME SPORTS
        • 73 11 SINGAPORE'S top golfer Mardan Mamat was one of 15 players elected as members of the Asian Tour's tournament players' committee. The committee will be chaired by India's Amandeep Johl. The Tour will also have former Philippines president Fidel Ramos and Richard Siemens, one of Hong
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        • 72 11 SINGAPORE permenent resident Xing Aiying marched into the semi-finals of badminton's Cheers Youth International Under-17 event after beating Taiwan's Hsieh Pei-chen 11-4, 11-4 yesterday. Xing, who won the United States Open in September, will play Indonesian Megawati today. In the other semi-final, fellow Singapore PR
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        • 76 11 SINGAPORE referee Shamsul Maidin (right), 38, will handle today's international friendly between Thailand and Germany at Bangkok's Rajamangala National Stadium. The match is part of Germany's threematch tour of Asia. Last week, the Germans defeated Japan 3-0 in Yokohama, but lost 1-3 to South
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        • 58 11 MILLENIA Institute won the schools national floorball boys' A Division championship at Victoria School when they beat six other schools last week. Millenia, which was formerly known as Outram Institute, scored 28 goals and conceded eight in the one-day tournament, edging out defending champions Raffles Junior
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        111 11 Sheikh Alauddin made a bet which he hoped to lose, and he was not disappointed. The former world champion had wagered with his national charges that if they won more than three gold medals at the World Silat Championships which ended here on Sunday, he would go bald.
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      • 319 11 AMERICAN FOOTBALL NFL: San Diego 21 Cleveland 0, Minnesota 28 Detroit 27, Buffalo 33 Cincinnati 17, Houston 24 Chicago 5, Kansas City 45 Denver 17, Philadelphia 12 Dallas 7, NY Jets 37 Seattle 14, Arizona 31 St Louis 7, New Orleans 21 Tampa Bay 17, Jacksonville 28 Green Bay
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    • OBITUARIES
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        172 13 ■HPPWF Vfo express our deepest sympathy to Alex, Miranda, Alexander 111, Elliot and the Eu family. Our thoughts ?lH I v" and prayers are with you. Sandy was a true gentleman, a pioneer in financial planning and a founder of the ipac Singapore business. Sandy was well regarded within ipac
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        26 13 We wish to express our Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to the family of the late „< r l oiii fef oStnjU^^K mat MB i V &i
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        106 12 QUAH KEAT AUN Age: 89 years passed away peacefully on 20 December 2004. Lovingly remembered by: Beloved wife: KhawKhengSen Daughters: Sons-in-law. Dr Quah Joo Ee William Liu Wei Hai Dr Quah-Smith Joo Im Gordon Quah-Smith Dr Quah-Shepherd Joo Meng David Shepherd Goddaughter Godson-in-law: lim Beng Im Andrew Yap Grandchildren: God
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        74 12 Our dearest mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, MDM SOO ONG KIT (Beloved wife of the late Mr Huang How Tee) incomparable in her abundant love and warmth, was called home to be with the Lord on 17 December 2004. We wish to express our sincerest gratitude to all friends, relatives, doctors
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        78 12 ARRIOLA LIBORIO ANTHONY Age: 75 was called home to be with the Lord on 20 Dec 04, leaving behind loved ones. Wife Rosalind Ong Arriola Children: Theodore Randolf Jacqueline E. Turner Spouses: Jennifer Eveland Paul Turner brother, sisters relatives. Wake is held at St. Joseph's Church Parlour (Queens St). Cortege
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        143 12 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 SEBASTIAN LOW TECK OON Age: 39 Was called home to be with the Lord on 19 December 2004. Dearly missed and fondly
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        86 12 TANYANHUA AgetSS passed away peacefully on 20 December 2004. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Father: Tan Teow Kee Mother Chua Hiang Peng Sisters: TanYan Khim Tan Yan Leng Brother: lan Kok Siong Sister-in-law: WongChaiYuh Nephew/Nieces: Tan Hui Khoon Tan Wei Ting TanWeiLun Nephew-in-law. Low Hock Lai (Hui
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        28 12 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to the family of the late MOHD ZAIMI BIN ZAKARIA Deputed: 17 Dec '04 From: The Commissioner Staff of Singapore Civil Defence Force
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        34 12 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences To The Family Of The Late JOE DAVID passed away peacefully on 18 Dec 2004. From: Chairman, Management Committee, Supervisory Board Staff of The S'pore Teachers' Co-operative Society Ltd
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        62 12 TTie Family of the Late TAY SONG CHUA departed on 12/12/2004 wish to express their heartfelt thanks appreciation to doctors nurses of SGH, all relatives, friends, colleagues business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, wreath and donations during their recent bereavement. The family would also like to convey a
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        28 12 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to the family of the late MUHAMMAD RIDHUAN BIN ROSLY Departed. 17 Dec '04 From: The Commissioner Staff of Singapore Civil Defence Force
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        18 12 In Loving Memory Of DR YAP BOH SENG Departed 21/12/1999 Sadly missed always remembered by all loved ones.
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        56 12 The Family Of The Late PATRICIA WONG BAO BAO Departed 17 Dec 2004 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, business associates and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, support, prayers, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. May God bless you all and keep
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        91 12 Sri Ramakrishna Smaranam DR MANI LAL GUPTA 1.5.1915- 19.12.2004 Aged: 89 (btloved husband of the late Bina Gupta) Passed away peacefully on 19 Dec 2004 Dearly missed by loved ones. Sons: Daughters-in-law: Mainak Gupta Soma Gupta Santanu Gupta Suhrita Gupta Daughters: Sons-In-Law: Sakuntala Gupta Mohit Gupta Arundhuti Krishnaswamy Ram Knshnaswamy
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        19 12 2th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of VADIVELU VEVAKANANTHAN Departed 21.12.2002 Deeply missed always fondly remembered by Family loved ones
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        28 12 In Loving Memory Of P. PACHAMMA Departed 21st Dec 1989 Sadly missed and lovingly remembered by beloved sons, daughter, son-in-law, daughters -in law, grandchildren n loved ones. (B
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        91 12 Dearly departed on this day, five years ago VICTOR YAP BOH SENG What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not,
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        40 12 We express our deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to Mr Jason Ho Tze Chuen family on the demise of their beloved Ms Karen Teo Hwee Peng Departed on 17 December 2004 From: The Management Staff of GlobeCast Asia Pte Ltd
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        38 12 We express our deepest sympathy heartfelt condolences to Mr Jason Ho Tze Chuen family on the demise of their beloved Ms Karen Teo Hwee Peng Departed on: 17 December 2004 From: The Management Staff of CapitaLand Retail limited
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        72 14 BHa|fl|Miii' i QOith J^Beepest <^§umpathu ans (jpteazVfoelt Condolences to the family o$ the late B EU YEE KUI ALEXANDER JR. SANDY EU I From: Board of Directors, Management and Staff of MULTI-CHEM LIMITED, SINGAPORE I MULTI-CHEM GROUP OF COMPANIES H MULTI-CHEM (SUZHOU) CO., LTD H H MULTI-CHEM ELECTRONICS (WUXI) CO.,
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        89 14 Departed on 18 Dec 2004 We express our deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to Zander, Elliot and family of the late Sandy Eu. Our dear friend who touched our lives, you will always live on in our hearts. Ashok and Manju Melwani Brian and Annie Chang Gay Chee Cheong and
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        39 14 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of the Late SANDY EU From: The ACS Board of Governors, Principals, Staff and Students of ACS (Primary), ACS (Junior), ACS (Barker Road), ACS (Independent), AC JC and ACS (International)
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        15 14 With heartfelt condolences to the family of the late Sandy Eu From Methodist Schools' Foundation
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        98 14 The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. Psalm 23:1 SAMINATHAN CECILIA Age: 81 was called home to be with the Lord on 19 Dec 04, leaving behind loved ones. Wake is held at Mount Vernon Parlour 2 (Upper
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    • MONEY
      • 690 20  -  Audrey Tan Rachel Chang Controversy is over whether firms pay to be designated a 'Superbrand 1 By WHATSFREE: Nomination as a "Superbrand", based on a survey of 1,000 consumers as well as an evaluation by a council of industry experts. WHAT'S NOT: Inclusion in
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      • 238 20  -  SS CHARGE FROM Jan 15, you can pick up a credit report on yourself for just $5 when you drop off your mail at any Singapore Post (SingPost) outlet, instead of traipsing all the way to the Credit Bureau Singapore (CBS) office. CBS,
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      • SGX SECURITIES
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      • 684 16 Some oil majors are big futures players Booming non-physical play DISCLOSURE FALLS SHORT i Investors searching for details on how much oil majors' trading units make or t on the nature of their trades are likely to j draw a blank. 1 Trading profits are hidden in the 1 overall
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      • 405 16 STILL POSITIVE "You're not getting stimulus from tax cuts and lower interest rates anymore. What this indicator suggests is the rate of growth will slow down a lot compared to 2004." MR LOGAN, on economic growth cooling next year Washington A KEY gauge
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      • 36 16 Yesterday's close: 11,103.42 (+25.1 points) Tokyo's Nikkei average closed slightly higher, as gains in liquid crystal display-related firms, such as Nitto Denko, and in metal and oil companies offset losses in drugmakers. REUTERS
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      • 49 16 Yesterday's close: 14,214.04 (+221 .6 points) Hong Kong share prices rose 1.6 per cent, as investors aggressively sought blue chips and Macau and China-related stocks, after the government's decision to shelve the listing of the city's first Reit removed a major source of uncertainty. AFP
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      • 39 16 Yesterday's close: 1,275.46 (-15.03 points) Chinese share prices closed 1.2 per cent lower, as petrochemical producers struggled on concerns over a rebound in oil prices, while agriculture stocks were hit by profit-taking after recent gains. AFP
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      • 40 16 Yesterday's close: 3,993.4 (+5.4 points) Australian stocks closed up 0.14 per cent, with News Corp and BHP dominating broadly mixed blue-chip trade, as investors started to square up their books ahead of the Christmas break. REUTERS
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        37 16 Yesterday's close: 909.61 (+6.61 points) Malaysian share prices closed 0.7 per cent higher, as interest in select blue chips offset profit-taking. Dealers said volume remained thin as the market wound down for the year-end holidays. AFP
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        36 16 Yesterday's close: 675.71 (+6.25 points) Thai shares closed 0.9 per cent higher for the fifth straight day of gains, as foreign investors continued to buy shares of larger companies ahead of the year-end holidays. AFP
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      • 144 16 Dec 20 Source: HSBC Bank USA, Spore Branch (*M'sian ringgit Interbank rate by OCBC) UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2470 1.2620 Can dollar 1.3310 1.3470 Euro 2.1750 2.2000 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4333
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      • 194 16 London ALMOST half of Britain's manufacturers will move production abroad in the next five years to avoid tighter regulations and higher taxes in the country, an industry survey showed. China and India will be the biggest beneficiaries as 48 per cent of British manufacturers transfer
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      • 632 17 Govt to relaunch issue once legal spat is settled, following the cancellation yesterday Hong Kong THE Hong Kong Housing Authority said its bankers will devise a new plan to sell a record US$2.7 billion (554.47 billion) real estate investment trust (Reit)
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      • 291 17 KEPPEL Land has entered a joint venture with an Indonesian developer to build a township near the centre of Jakarta that will be more than five times bigger than Singapore's Botanic Gardens. The mainboard-listed company and Modernland Realty said they will pay 944 billion
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      • 284 17 Tokyo JAPAN yesterday outlined plans to cut spending and new bond issuance in next year's budget, but the rising cost of caring for an ageing population may make it hard to improve state finances, especially as it forecast slower growth. The
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      • 418 17 ADB expects 7.6% growth in East Asian economies Manila HELPED along by a booming China, East Asian countries should grow 7.6 per cent this year, their best result since the region's 1997 financial crisis, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday. Barring an unlikely Chinese crash, an oil price spike
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        • 108 17 NEW YORK: Global Crossing, the fibre-optic network operator that emerged from bankruptcy a year ago, plans to sell US$35O million (*****.9 million) in highyield, high-risk debt this week at yields above the average for so-called junk 'bonds. It will issue 10-year notes in
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        • 63 17 LONDON: The London Stock Exchange has received an approach from European stock market Euronext, a week after rejecting a £1.3 billion (554.2 billion) proposed offer from Deutsche Boerse. "The approach is at an early stage and therefore does not require a response at this point.
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        • 66 17 SHANGHAI: At least seven executives at one of China's biggest dairy groups have been detained on suspicion of embezzlement and other economic crimes, state media reported yesterday. Prosecutors began investigating accounts at Yili Corp, a dairy group based in Inner Mongolia, following announcements last summer
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        • 99 17 LONDON: Reuters Group, the world's largest listed provider of financial information, agreed to buy Moneyline Telerate for US$l75 million (*****.5 million) in cash and stock to help it offer a bond trading system. It said yesterday that it expects to spend US$B2 million integrating
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      • 772 18  -  Erica Tay It is payings 1.4b for 45-storey Star Tower office building in Seoul, according to news report By THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp's (GlC's) real estate investment arm, GIC Real Estate (GIC RE), has reportedly agreed to buy a
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      • 494 18  -  Grace Ng MEDIA MARKETING By ADVERTISERS are always cooking up new ways of reaching customers but few will have dished up one as appetising as a new campaign featuring "makan" guru Violet Oon and The Sunday Times. Dubbed "Shiokalicious" shiok is
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      • 348 18  -  Bryan Lee By SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering (ST Engg) has agreed to swop its 50.8 per cent stake in United States vehicle engineering firm Solectria for a 10 per cent stake in Toronto-listed rival Azure Dynamics. The defence conglomerate said yesterday
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      • 348 18  -  Dennis Chan By Deputy Money Editor A SPECIAL audit of New Lakeside Holdings listed on the Singapore Exchange less than a year ago has uncovered several accounting irregularities that had the effect of inflating sales and stocks, and understating costs. The special audit, commissioned
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      • 260 18  -  Nicholas Fang By TBWAYTEQUILA Singapore was named "Office of the Year" at an awards ceremony organised by Media Magazine in Hong Kong two weeks ago. The award was one of three clinched by TBWA in the region. TBWAXAsia-Pacific was named "Agency of the
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      • 512 19  -  Lee Su Shyan Aspirants adopt a wait-and-see attitude in response to fallout from CAO debacle By Companies Correspondent GLIMMER OF HOPE: Sias' Mr Gerald (second from left) has asked that CAO's Mr Chen return last year's $4.6 million pay cheque to shareholders. The pay
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      • 292 19 STRUGGLING China Aviation Oil (CAO) said it would postpone until at least today a statement on the status of its new trading unit and about the delay in awarding an import tender. "We are still waiting for confirmation from end customers who will
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      • 374 19  -  LEE SU SHYAN ANGRY China Aviation Oil (CAO) shareholders hoping to get their money back learned yesterday that they will not get much help from the courts. About 500 investors were told at a forum organised by the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) that
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      • 252 19 SHIPBUILDER Keppel Offshore Marine and its smaller rival SembCorp Marine have clinched contracts worth more than $110 million, according to statements released yesterday. Mainboard-listed conglomerate Keppel Corporation said its unit Keppel Offshore has secured two deals worth $60 million through subsidiaries Keppel Verolme in the
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      • 493 19  -  Dennis Chan TAKING STOCK By Deputy Money Editor SINGAPORE shares weakened yesterday as trading thinned noticeably in the week before Christmas. With total turnover at just 476.4 million shares worth $412.3 million, sporadic trades in a few blue chips were enough
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      • 264 19  - DIRECTORS' TRADES DENNIS CHAN GOH BROTHERS SECURE FIRMER GRIP ON OSSIA THE Goh brothers have been nibbling the shares of Ossia International, a retail play that is rarely on the radar screen of investors. Stock exchange filings by the lifestyle products distributor showed that Mr George Goh Ching Wah, Mr
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    • 8 1 Life! THE STRAITS TIMES Tuesday December 21 2004
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        298 2 LOS ANGELES Survivor show host Jeff Probst has found love on the set of the show. Survivor: Vanuata contestant Julie Berry, 24, was fifth on the show, which wrapped up recently, but she got Probst, 43, as her prize. They reportedly started dating after filming on the show
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      • 116 2 100 years of Chinese films BEIJING Hollywood film bigwigs like Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie and Oliver Stone will be in Beijing and Shanghai for a rare meeting in celebration of the 100th anniversary of China's film industry. A spokesman for the China Film Association said negotiations are on to have
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        68 2 COMING FROM A CAVE NEAR YOU The Bat takes flight. Warner Bros has unveiled the teaser poster for the hotly anticipated Batman Begins. The movie, which opens in Singapore in June next year, stars Christian Bale as the broody Bat. Warner is counting on director Christopher Nolan of Memento and
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      • 115 2 HONG KONG Girl fan killers F4 are set for their new role next year as screen killers. Sing Tao Daily said Korean movie producers are trying to unite the Taiwanese boy band idols Jerry Yen, Vanness Wu (above), Ken Chu and Vic Chou in
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      • 147 2 LONDON The speculation is over. The angelic voice of the young orphan Oliver Twist in the hit 1 960s movie was dubbed by a girl, Britain's Mail On Sunday said. Speculation has swirled for years over the origin of the piping voice given that Mark
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      • 85 2 LOS ANGELES Here's another name to add to the scores of strange celebrity baby names Milo. Lord Of The Rings beauty Liv Tyler, 27, has named her newborn son Milo William Langdon. She had the child with British rocker husband Royston Langdon, 32. While
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      • 107 2 COLOMBO Indian Bollywood stars who escaped a grenade attack during a sell-out concert a week ago have run into trouble with tax collectors. Tax authorities have ordered banks not to repatriate proceeds of actor Shah Rukh Khan and his troupe pending proof that the organisers of the
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      • 103 2 MEW YORK Teen queen Jndsay Lohan and errorist leader Dsama bin Laden lave been voted 'Naughtiest People )f2oo4"inapoll .ponsored by the mtertainment mortal heavy.com. Nearly 800,000 Americans voted in the site's annual Naughty List, in which Lohan beat actress-socialite Paris Hilton (inset) by 56,000 votes, the New York
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        325 13 SHE might have put on some 15kg since she disappeared from the limelight eight years ago, but Gina Tan (right) still looks like the attractive model who used to appear on magazine covers in the late 1980s and early *****. Now 29 and the owner of Matters Inc,
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      • 93 13 PETALING JAY A Cantopop superstar Sam Hui is adding another show to his upcoming Malaysian concert. He was to have held one show in Kuala Lumpur on Feb 19. But after learning that more than 30,000 of the tickets were snapped up within two weeks
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      • 372 13  -  Sherwin Loh MEDIA REPORTER THE sound of digital music just got cheaper. Local digital music retailer Soundbuzz has slashed prices for the festive season and is offering tracks at 99 cents each. The company, which has a library of nearly 300,000 tracks from the five major music labels
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      • 81 13 LONDON The reworked Band Aid charity single, Do They Know It's Christmas?, has clinched the coveted Christmas No. 1 spot on the British pop charts, said the Official UK Charts Company on Sunday. Band Aid 20, a remake of the 1984 charity hit, beat off
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      • 250 13 SHANGHAI Has Rosamund Kwan rekindled an old romance? The Hong Kong actress was asked last Saturday about rumours that she has revived a romance with her former beau, a Hong Kong senior executive who recently split with his wife. She did not deny or confirm seeing
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      • 198 13 LONDON Actress Kate Beckinsale (below left, with co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett), who plays Ava Gardner in Martin Scorsese's blockbuster biopic The Aviator, wants to go back to university. The mother of one said: "If I had the opportunity, I'd love to go back to university.
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        123 13 TAIPEI Taiwan pop idol Jay Chou (above left) is the island's top-earning singer once again, according to a survey by Taiwan's Apple Daily. He nearly doubled his earnings to NT$297 million (5515.3 million) this year, said the newspaper, repeating his feat as the highest-paid singer last year. Endorsements
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      • 963 3  -  Hong Xinyi Hong Kong's King of Comedy prefers martial arts to making people laugh... serious MEDIA REPORTER To me, the spirit of gongfu represents everything that is positive about being human' Chow on his life-long passion HE HAS been tickling your funnybone as Hong Kong's comedian
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      • 382 3 YUEN WAH (Landlord) One of the original Seven Little Fortunes the famous Peking opera school performing group which included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Yuen has appeared in more than 100 movies, co-starring with the likes of Bruce Lee, Chan and Jet Li. YUEN QIU (Landlady) Also
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        675 4  -  Clara Chow This art show teases out modern themes in a coherent manner LOST CITY Utterly Art Last Saturday ARTS REPORTER IN THE hustle and bustle of everyday living, a group show made up of some 20 works tiny, especially when compared to the Botero blockbuster exhibition now
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        326 4  -  Kristina Tom DANCER Danny Tan has been stretching himself rather thin lately. "A lot of people think I'm really crazy," says the founder and artistic director of the five-year-old Odyssey Dance Theatre, a local professional contemporary dance company. He is referring to Odyssey's current DanzlNC residency festival, an
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      • 388 4 ROME Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi (right), considered one of the greatest divas in the post World War II era and a rival to Maria Callas, died last Sunday, her doctor said. The singer, who had been ill for some time, died overnight in her home in
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      • 923 6  -  Magdalene Lum malaysia holidays TAKE a one-day motoring trip on Sunday to the wilderness of Johor where you can enjoy nature. FootWorks Media, a motoring treasure-hunt and off-road excursion organiser, has teamed up with Spring Travel to organise a day trip to Lubuk Tapah and the
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      • 628 6  -  Magdalene Lum jalanjalan WHO: George Seet, 57, a retired ship cargo officer, who is a member of the Singapore Adventurers' Club. He visits Malaysia one to three times a month, mainly to trek and climb mountains. He also explores caves, snorkels, runs
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      • 105 1 I Everquest 2: 1 x f I B B I jBMIIW^W^ your Weekly Tech Magazine From THE STRAITS TIMES Tuesday December 21, 2004 MICA (P) 210/10/2004* I I Blogging^^ s*^m I i 1 m I I For three years, Grace battled an I I incurable tumour. She died two -^^J^^^^KM
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    • 305 2  -  Grace Chng Digital Life is about how you use information technology. Usually, it is a bright and cheerful magazine highlighting technology trends like the arrival of 3G mobile communications, new game genres and hacking activities. It features people using cool tech gear and reviews the latest cellphones and
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      • 1421 3 "Today I've found the resolve to start. I start with the modest hope that there will be many days of dying to come." Grace Chow Perhaps I can finally catch up on all that lost sleep and won't feel drowsy the whole day, 'cause there's nothing more
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      • 464 7 C C I shop online because of the convenience and special offers. And there are some special deals that we can only find online." Mr Neto Thong Simborios, Engineer ofAddValue Technologies CC I look ut for security and trust.. .especially a good merchant ewill deliver my goods
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      • 417 8 Starting a blog is easy with free tools and services from blogging websites. AARON TAN points the way SO, YOU are inspired to start a blog? You're in luck as there are several blogging tools. Mostly, people will save their online diaries on the bloggin sites.
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      • 413 9  -  BILLY TEO live IT Getting the thousands of digital photos, MP3 songs and even video files on your computer to entertain you in your living room is no longer a big problem By BROTHERS Edmund Koh, 15, and Edwin Koh, 13, used to have to
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        486 10 live IT There are many ways and means to make it easy to enjoy your computer's contents on a wide-screen TV while lounging in the living room The Living Room Computer YOU can set up an entertainment PC right smack in the middle of the living room,
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      • 99 10 FOR those who wish only to play their collection of MP3 tunes stored on their computer through their hi-fi speakers, there is a solution too. Apple Airport Express base station with Airtunes ($248) lets both Macintosh owners and Windows PC users send their favourite MP3 tunes
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        • 256 11 THE SOURCE: A computer that can connect to a wired (Ethernet) or wireless network. It can either be a desktop or notebook computer. THE PIPELINE: A home network, either wired or wireless. To get your home wired up, you can start with a package like the
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        217 12 live IT Missed the postal deadline to send Christmas cards? No time? Electronic greeting cards can help you save the day. CHUA HIAN HOU shows you how to send them IT'S EASIER than ever to send out greeting cards now, and you don't even need the postal
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      • 664 14 Packets of information play IT A virtual boy on an e-mail mission teaches kids and adults about the complex world of servers and routers. SHARON DE CASTRO reports IF YOU don't know what a router is or how a server works, ask Peter Packet. A flash game developed by Cisco
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      • 114 16 Peter Packet shows learners the key role the Internet plays in people's lives, in particular those in less developed countries, said Mr Scott Knell, interactive business development manager at Cisco Systems' and part of the team that created the game. Peter Packet was adopted by NetAid as
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      • 148 14 There are two levels of difficulty beginner and advanced and three missions. Mission: Provide clean drinking water A boy named Pierre e-mails an organisation called Life Is Clean Water, asking for a water filtration system to be installed in a village in Haiti. Zimbabwe Mission: Teach people about
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      • 313 17 In the beginning... ON CHRISTMAS Day, Sir Tim BernersLee, the inventor of the World Wide Web will mark the 14th anniversary of the world's first web browser. It was called the Worldwide Web, a browser and editor that had a graphical interface, so you could browse
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      • 445 20 »cool gear Gamers show LEUNG WAI-LENG how to have ra good time with controllers. It's like a LAN party without the hassle of configuring networks, finding the space for multiple monitors and the risk of overloading your apartment's power supply. With the newfound respect for the power
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        631 21 High-definition play Get an LCD TV as many games today can run in progressive scan mode, pointed out teacher J.L Lee, 26, who goes by the nickname JL on sgCamers. A high-definition TV gives a better gaming experience with better quality visuals. LCD TVs are popular, stylish, and light,
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      • 444 22 On Jan i, company directors and IT managers who knowingly allow pirated software programs to be used in their companies will be liable for up to $20,000 in fines and/or six months jail, as well as a criminal record that follows them for life. Subsequent
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      • 330 24 Legal aid Ten software vendors have come together to offer discounts of up to 40 per cent on their software under the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore's (Ipos) Software Licensing Programme. They include Adobe, Autodesk, Borland, Computer Associates, Macromedia, Microsoft, Novell, Siacad, a subsidiary
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      • 477 25  -  Chua Hian Hou apply IT Software asset management solution helps research firm regain control of its software assets SIX months ago IT manager Teo Shian Phan was a very worried man. "It was getting harder to track what software was being installed in the office computers, especially
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      • 727 26  -  NEBOJSA NOVAKOVIC apply IT Designing anything from buildings to aeroplanes can now be fully automated, minimising human error By A completely new generation of affordable software tools has arrived at the PC desktop, fully automating the design process from initial sketches to the finished building
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      • 260 27 Fast peer-to-peer applications Because every IPv6 device has a unique address, devices can talk to devices directly without having to go through intermediaries like a corporate router, greatly speeding up peer-to-peer applications. This is one reason why mobile communications companies and major software vendors are looking at
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      • 328 28 guest column The IT industry is beginning to get sexy again, says HOWIE LAU> who has worked for 12 years in the IT industry. Technology continues to change rapidly, so choosing a career in IT would mean choosing a lifestyle of rapid change. JUST a
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      • 549 29 You should spend some time understanding the industry dynamics and the ability of the organisation to adapt and grow. Only constant is change The rate of change in IT is arguably one of the highest. Backed by strong research and development, technology has seen rapid
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      • 477 30  -  H ELLEN TAN »digital edge By Don't shy away from embracing the digital world. And don't hesitate to ask for help A46-YEAR-old entrepreneur recently confessed to me that he doesn't quite know how to use the short messaging service or SMS. He had
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      • 282 31 A virulent e-mail worm has been successfully infecting computers as it is disguised as a multilingual electronic Christmas card. Analysts think that this worm will be destructive because of its timing and the fact that it comes in 15 different European languages. TTie virus, dubbed Zafi.D, is
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        104 31 geek notes PHOTO: A weekly round-up of information technology news around the world Asia and Russia By the end of the decade, the number of personal computers in use worldwide will reach almost 1.3 billion, up from 575 million today, according to a new report by Forrester
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      • 342 35 »games »need for speed underground 2 Need For Speed Underground 2 $4990 Available from Electronic Arts AsiaPacific. Call 6875-1788 This game is way cooler than sticking go faster stripes and stickers on your dad's Corolla PLOT THE follow-up to last year's immensely successful racing game, Need For
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      • 538 36 games »everquest 2 Once you start playing EverOuest 2, you just can't stop, says CHUA HIAN HOU EverQuest 2 $99 and a monthly subscription of US$l5 (about Ss2s) paid by credit card Available from retailers like GameScore and Software Boutique in Funan The IT Mall and Tec Drome
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        355 37 I spy with my TeleEye TheTeleEye SF3BB keeps a lookout for security breaches with its built-in varifocal infrared lens. It produces accurate colours in the day and black-and-white images in the dark for round-the-clock video surveillance. Other features include electronic shutters, white balance and it can also be
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      • 110 37 Slip a hard drive into a shirt pocket that's what the lomega 40GB Mini Hard Drive ($409) promises. At just 99g, it's lomega's first hard drive to receive all its power from a standard USB port. Based on 1.8-inch hard disk technology, the 4,200rpm drive is
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        374 39 »tech me Tiramisutra.com is a familiar with those who have a sweet tooth. But there is no shop to view the yummy Italian dessert, only a virtual one. HO KA WEI meets Julie Sim, the engineer-turned-cook, behind the click shop CLAIM TO FAME Hramisutra.com started as a hobby
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