Today, 8 January 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 6 1 TODAY Monday January 8, 2001 MITA(P)BB,'11/2000
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 128 1 Reuters WASHINGTON Two of President-elect George W. Bush's cabinet picks faced new challenges yesterday as opposition gathered steam to Mr John Ashcroft for attorney general and Ms Linda Chavez for labour secretary. Questions arose over Ms Chavez's payments of "spending money" to a Guatemalan woman,
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    • 472 1  -  Leone Phei Phei Chan Chao Peh by and MORE and more Singaporeans, who work on a computer eight hours a day, run a high risk of getting a splint around their arms as a result of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). Even as far back as 1994, when computers
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 654 2  -  Kim-Kyna Tan These high-flyers aren't always a serious lot, as they recently showed by ldm@ne wsto day. co m. sg THE year 1972. The year Singapore banned firecrackers for causing the loss of life, limb and property. The year of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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    • 129 2 HEALTH Minister Lim Hng Kiang said that Singaporeans should not view the CPF top-up as an automatic entitlement. He explained: "We have many Singaporeans who have been living overseas for many years. "They are still Singapore citizens but they did not work in Singapore
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    • 291 2 -AFP BANGKOK The release of Thailand's election results have been indefinitely delayed due to a host of technical errors, mishaps and complaints over the counting process, the official Election Commission (EC) said. Vote count estimates released by media groups said Mr Thaksin Shinawatra and
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    • 345 3 Anti-pregnancy pill being given without UK parents' knowledge LONDON Even as Singapore grapples with its own problems of teen pregnancies, Britain has decided that practical considerations on the topic are more important than a high moral ground. Nurses in state schools will dispense the morning-after pill to
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    • 291 3 A DEVASTATING fire gutted a wet market along Ang Mo Kio Avenue One yesterday, prompting Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to urge stallholders to buy fire insurance. The entire complex, about the area of a soccer field, caught fire and by the time the
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    • 57 3 LONDON The London-based Jane's Defence Weekly said China had offered to provide Singapore with military facilities on Hainan Island but details of the proposed arrangement were not clear. It said the offer, the first to a foreign country by China, coincided with the first exchange
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    • 271 4 Bemama It might hurt unity meetings, says Malaysia's DPM KEPALA BATAS It's the mostawaited debate in Malaysia. Umno Youth chief versus the PAS Youth chief on issues concerning the Malays. But there is a new twist. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Umno deputy president, has
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    • 183 4 Bemama KUALA LUMPUR It was Megawati Soekarnoputri's first official visit to Malaysia since she was elected Indonesia's Vice President. But it led to speculation that she was in XL to drum up support for herself. But the host, Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk
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    • 238 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim by zack a ria@ne wstoday. co m. sg THIS beeper may look like some new gizmo that's going to get the young scrambling for it. But, certainly, far from targetting the young, this beeper is made for senior citizens particularly those who are
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    • 153 4 SURVEILLANCE cameras will be coming up soon at 100 traffic junctions along main roads leading to the city as well along the inner and outer ring road system and selected expressway exits. The Land Transport Authority says it has awarded a $6.4m contract to C.E.T Technologies Private
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    • 118 4 AFP TOKYO Could he be another serial killer in white clothes like Dr Harold Shipman? The indications are he might be. A 29-year-old Japanese male nurse was arrested for allegedly attempting to kill an 11-year-old patient with a potentially-fatal intravenous drip, police said on Sunday. Daisuke Mori was
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 93 4 READ 0N... Pork-tainted MSG A reader feels that it is not just the Muslims who suffer/6 Not yet clear Market remains volatile, but there is room for optimism/8 Indonesian Ajinomoto firm in more hot soup MSG producer in deeper trouble/9 Aceh violence rages on 10 killed as jarkata government and
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 395 6  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim They ferry needy passengers for free and even donate to charity by zacka ria@ oe wsto day. c o m. sg SOMEWHERE in Singapore, there is a young girl with a brain tumour whose parents cannot afford the $20 taxi fare that is required each
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    • 183 6 RESIDENTS in the Tanjong Pagar Community Development Council and students living on campus at the National University of Singapore can now look forward to an annual arts day at the university's Cultural Centre, thanks to a new programme called heARTS. The Tanjong Pagar CDC
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    • 208 6  - Pork-tainted MSG not just Muslims who suffer Deepak S Narula I READ the article on the MSG scramble (Today, Jan 5) with great interest. This article impacts not only those of the Islamic faith, but also impacts greatly on me, my family and members of my community and faith as
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    • 77 6  -  Coco Phoebe I AM writing with regard to the MSG scramble (Today, Jan 5). I feel bad to hear that MSG contains pig-based enzymes, but having read the whole article that Mr Zackaria Abdul Rahim has written, I thought that the use of beef-based enzymes
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    • 253 6 WE thank Mr. David Soh for his feedback letter "City Hall MRT Woes" (Today, Jan 2). Passenger safety is our foremost concern in the operation of the MRT system. High safety standards have been built into the system and are strictly observed in our daily operations.
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Not yet clear ...
      • 824 8 THE year 2001 started on a weak note with the STI index giving up most of the "window dressed" gains made on Dec 29. A sharply lower Dow and Nasdaq on unexpectedly weak National Association of Purchasing Management numbers, led to
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      • 532 8 KUALA LUMPUR The first trading week of the New Year left much to be desired. Foreign institutional selling on index-linked heavyweight continued unabated, dragging the rest of the market lower in tandem during this holiday-shortened four-day week. In the first two
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  • WORLD
    • 145 9 Agencies. JAKARTA FT Ajinomoto Indonesia, the producer of monosodiura glutamate, is in more trouble. The Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) and the health authorities have ordered its factory closed. The closure affects 4,500 workers. The big question remains: Why was an extract from pork
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    • 442 10 AFP Lack of corporate reform hinders the country's recovery KUALA LUMPUR The absence of real corporate reform is slowing Malaysia's recovery from a recession two years ago and the economy would suffer in a global slowdown, economists warn. Analysts say the government's protection of the
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    • 50 10 A man rows his boat in the flooded streets ofGuipry, northern France, following heavy rains which hit Europe, flooding the River Vilmne and forcing inhabitants to evacuate the village. Towns in Brittany were also inundated, causing a mud slide that derailed a high-speed train. AFP photo
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    • 145 10 Reuters SYDNEY Two Australian holidaymakers out fishing were thrown overboard and their boat holed when a whale attacked them off the south-east coast of Austrialia. The Sunday Telegraph newspaper said Paris Vella and Glen Connell were fishing 1.8 km off Merimbula in New South Wales when
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    • 340 10 AFP LONDON A parliamentary committee will question British defence ministers over fears that soldiers in the Balkans may have contracted cancer from uranium-tipped ammunition. This follows an announcement by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Friday that it found traces of radiation
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    • 323 12 AFP 10 killed as Jakarta govt and separatists prepare for peace talks BANDA ACEH As the Indonesian government and Aceh separatists prepare to resume peace talks in Switzerland, unabated violence between their forces has left another 10 dead. Reports said the victims, including one policeman, were
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    • 179 12 LONDON Sir Richard Branson has appointed a team to work on plans for a rival lottery to challenge Camelot. The Sunday Times reported that Sir Branson's People's Lottery could be ready for launch in October, despite its failure to oust Camelot as the
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    • 230 12 AFP NEW DELHI Marketing executives, flogging everything from soap to a new drink called Nirvana, will compete for space with tens of millions of pilgrims at the world's largest religious gathering in northern India this month. Indian corporations are eyeing the 42--day Maha Kumbh Mela
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    • 58 12 Reuters STOCKHOLM Microsoft has closed a private Swedish website it hosted after being alerted by police that it contained child pornography. The site was created under the US company's community service, which allows individuals, families or groups to set up their websites on its servers. Microsoft
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    • 55 12 Reuters NEW YORK A police boat searches the waters just south of the George Washington Bridge on Saturday for a reportedly downed single-engined aeroplane. Several witnesses reported seeing a white plane with blue stripes flying low over the bridge the dav before. It landed on the
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 592 13  -  Rosmawati Sulaiman Web jargon is making a lot of sense and there's more to learn by. THE year 2000 has spelt GLOOM for those in the Internet business. Tech stocks headed south. Dot-coms were downsizing. And ambitious IPO plans were put on hold. Many say
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    • 650 13 The Hindu NEW DELHI Most efforts in India begin with a bang and end in a whimper. They are high on hope and enthusiasm, but low on execution, determination and perseverance. The recent Delhi government decision to stop
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  • RELEX
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      662 14  -  Dan Billiard IPS don't want a penny if this marriage dies' Madonna's Guy by_ What more is there to say about Madonna that hasn't already been said in print many times before? Millions of words have been written about the Material Girl since her emergence into
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    • 627 15  -  Dr. Sigmund Fraud On the couch this week: Jamie Yeo by drfraud@newstoday.com.ag MS Jamie Yeo is currently straddling both TV and radio. On TV, Ms Yeo is Ms Tammy Tay from the nostalgic dramatic series Growing Up. On the Perfect 10, 98.7FM, Ms Yeo is... well, Jamie
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    • 1115 21  -  Yap Yok Foo SHARED MEMORIES What stories can the first Singapore-Malayan link tell? by_ SINCE the awakening of political consciousness among Malayans in the *****, the engineering structure that joins the Peninsula with the Island of Singapore known as "the Causeway" has figured large.
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    • 701 22  -  Hazel Tan A musical that turns the tables on Tinseltown by haze 1@ ne wstoday. com. sg GLENN Close is losing her hair. Cameron Diaz is ditzy. Keanu Reeves can't act for nuts. So Diaz and Reeves sing to the tune of You Ought To Be
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    • 160 23 SHE'S becoming a mother the second time round, at age 46. But ex-movie queen Lin Ching Hsia seems to be taking things well in her stride. Better than her anxious friends and family. It makes her feel like a protected animal, she said. Her husband,
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    • 123 23 WHAT'S new? Pop icon Madonna has started a new craze yet again. This time, it's about British weddings. And it seems Jennifer Lopez has her heart set on one. "I think England is the most romantic place to get married!" she gushed. In England to
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    • 831 19 I Lives of women through the lens Compiled by Rosalind Png Art in Alternative Spaces Lunar New Year Celebration rosalind@newstoday.com.sg Spaces A to Z Lot 1 Shoppers' Mall Today till Feb 9 The Grand Imperial Draw Gallery Evason Hotel, 76 Robertson Quay Today till Feb 7 Women at Work Do
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    • 1351 20 CA3 ti^W The Sixth Day: 12.55pm, 3.30,6.05, The Sixth Day: 1.30pm, 4.05, 6.40, The Sixth Day: 12.15pm, 4.45,9.15 4^l II 8.40 9.15 C^ BftjP W" Unbreakable: 1.15pm, 3.35, 6.15, 8.25 Unbreakable: 12.10pm. 2.30 JURONG ftp. "~yrMM Wonder Boys: 11.50 am, 2.10pm, 4.30, Wonder Boys: 12.10pm, 2.30,4.50, A Fighter's Blues (M):
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  • SPORTS
    • 433 25 Team-mates and fans alike happy No 84 is a Viking NFL Vikings 34 Saints 16 bration dance of Saints owner Tom Benson. But for Benson, there was no dancing after the game and that was largely due to Moss, NFL.com reported. The receiver touched the ball
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    • 296 25 Raiders 27 Dolphins 0 OAKLAND Tory James didn't wait until he reached the end zone to start celebrating. The Oakland cornerback highstepped for the final 25 yards of his 90-yard interception return that started the Raiders on a 27-0 rout of the Miami Dolphins,
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    • 356 26 Reuters Three-time Olympic heavyweight champ to help train Cuban boxers Boxing HAVANA-Three-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Felix Savon has announced his retirement from the ring. But he will help train Cuba's fighters for the 2004 Athens Olympics, Cuban television reported. Savon was already obliged by
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    • 308 26 -AFP Italian Serie A Juventus 3 Fiorentina 3 MILAN Historic rivals Juventus and Fiorentina fought out a thrilling draw in the Italian first division at Turin's Stadio Delle Alpi, but that result could leave Serie A leaders AS Roma
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    • 415 27 FA Cup Carlisle 0 Arsenal 1 LONDON Should Arsenal eventually book its passage across the Severn Bridge to the Millennium Stadium in May, it will remember without affection an uncomfortable afternoon in Carlisle. Embarrassingly, the team placed second in the Premiership was unable to buy itself breathing
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    • 387 27 But he won't push Robson out MIDDLESBROUGH Terry Venabies (right) has not ruled out extending his stay at Middlesbrough beyond this season. But be insisted: "Whatever happens, Bryan Robson is the future of this club." Venabies has only a six-month deal, but the fans are desperate
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    • 270 28 CLEVELAND It was a homecoming all right Allen Iverson's, reported ESPN.com. Iverson, still bothered by boos be heard in Cleveland nearly four years ago, scored a career and NBA sea-son-high 54 points to help the Philadelphia 76ers to a 107-103 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Coming
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    • 630 28 Rest of cricket world is struggling to just keep pace JOHANNESBURG Test cricket's current split into the Best and the Rest will have a negative long-term impact on the game, said new South African supremo Gerald Majola. With Australia and South Africa pulling away from
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    • 606 30 Reuters Steve Strieker bags US$l million jackpot after beating Swede Fulke MELBOURNE Steve Strieker (above) wasn't the highest-ranked player in the Accenture World Golf Matchplay Championship. Not by a long shot. "But I feel like I am a good enough player to beat anybody if I get
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    • 145 30 AFP MELBOURNE World matchplay golf is unlikely to be played in Australia again but other World Golf Championship (WGC) events will be, according to US PGA tour commissioner Tim Finchem. A rash of top name players snubbed the tournament in Melbourne and crowds at the
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    • 111 30 AFP MELBOURNE There was no evidence to warrant drug testing in golf, said US PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem. A British newspaper, Scotland on Sunday, has reported that golfs govering body, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, is working on a new
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    • 178 31 Reuters NASHVILLE Anthony Mitchell returned a blocked field goal 90 yards for a touchdown and Ray Lewis added a 50-yard interception return for a score as the Baltimore Ravens upended the Tennessee Titans 24-10 to advance to the
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    • 274 31 Reuters ROME AS Roma won 2-0 at thirdplaced Atalanta Bergamo and capitalised on a series of upsets across Italy to move eight points clear at the top of Serie A in a turbulent round of matches this morning. Champion Lazio had goalkeeper Angelo
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    • 355 31 Reuters Meets West Ham in fourth round LONDON Manchester United overcame a stubborn Fulham side to set up a fourthround FA Cup encounter with West Ham at Craven Cottage last night. Despite the poor showing against the division one leader, bookmakers installed the Red Devils as favourite to
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