Today, 7 March 2001

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  • 11 1 TODAY WC (111 G S (1 BY March 7 > 2001 Mn-Atwna/iiaooo
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  • 462 1  -  Tan Siew Eng Higher pay draws Singaporeans to Hong Kong by sieweng@newstoday.com.sg THEY are young. They are bold. They are game for challenges. They are away. Even as Singapore invites tieups with foreign practices here, its own lawyers have been flying off and quite a number
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  • 44 1 Is it right or wrong that we know perfectly g well what works for our teenagers and yet provide this only for a minority of American kids? Meredith Maran on Salon.com, on yet another shooting in an American school (Page 2)
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  • 46 1 I'd venture to suggest that for the majori- W ty of us sitting in front of the television sets watching the (Miss SingaporeUniverse) pageant, we'd probably do no better. Reader Jeffrey Tan on why it's so easy to be an armchair critic (Page 6)
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  • 27 1 It is said that a doctor heals the body but I believe a writer can heal j the soul. Doctor who became writer (Page 28)
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 305 2 School killing spree again US President's reaction is even more disturbing SANTEE (CALIFORNIA) It's becoming predictable. An American teenager, angry with his peers, turned his school into a shooting gallery, killing two and injuring 13. This time, it was Santana High School in the San Diego suburb on Monday morning.
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    • 165 2 FEWER drug users were arrested in Singapore last year, but people nabbed with ketamine a hallucinogenic sedative popular in clubs leapt almost six times, according to government figures. A total of 3,157 drug abusers were caught in 2000, an 18 per cent fall from 1999 and
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    • 165 2 Agencies BEIJING China yesterday played down the significance of a 17.7 per cent rise in its defence budget, saying it was not directly related to US plans to establish a missile defence shield. The increase is mainly due to a need to increase the salaries of
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    • 142 2 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police said yesterday they were investigating a detained opposition leader for sedition after his alleged call for mass protests to topple the government. Mohamad Ezam Mohamad Nor, ex-political secretary to jailed former deputy, Premier Anwar Ibrahim, was arrested on Monday. He denied making
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    • 154 2 IT WAS a sad day yesterday for family and friends at the funeral of the last of the three police officers killed in the Airport Boulevard crash. Sgt Benny Tan Chiew Leong, was only 23 years old and had been a regular with the
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    • 60 2 THREE new mayors will be appointed to Community Development Councils (CDCs) from Apr 1. They are Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon (Bukit Timah CDC), Mr Zainal Abideen Rasheed (Ang Mo KioCheng San CDC), and Associate Professor Yaacob Ibrahim (Central CDC). Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will officiate
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    • 186 3 DESPITE the glitches, last Saturday night's Miss Singapore Universe pageant attracted a total of 256,000 households a remarkable feat for MediaCorp TV Channel 5. It is one of the highest viewership figures that Channel 5 has enjoyed in recent years, said Mr Franklin Wong, CEO of
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    • 273 3 MYSTERY shrouds the case of the former remisier king Peter Lim, who is suing key shareholders of Europa Holdings and Raffles Town Club for 40 per cent stakes in both companies. In a document in Mr Lim's handwriting showing the shareholding structure of the company was a numeral
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    • 369 4  - No $olution Zackaria Abdul Rahim MPs ask if cash alone really helps the poor by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg IS pumping more money into training and retraining those in the lower income strata the solution to the plight of the underclass in Singapore? That was the question posed in Parliament when the Budget
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    • 134 4 MEDIACORP and Singapore Bus Services (SBS) are looking at ways to improve their new service, TVMobile, to meet commuters' varied needs. This includes adjusting the volume on the TV monitors and improving the quality of the images. Parliamentary Secretary for Communications and IT, Mr Yaacob Ibrahim gave
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    • 73 4 A 70-year-old mini-bus driver died on Monday night when he lost control of his empty 14-seater bus in the carpark of a housing estate off Toh Guan Road. The vehicle mounted the curb and crashed into the pillar of a covered walkway. The driver was unconscious but
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    • 103 3 READ 0N... Beauty bashing It's easy to be an armchair critic /6 Under pressure Motorola sells off investments to avoid loss/ 12 Gus Dur must bring solutions Dayaks fear Sampit visit will be empty promise/ 18 Still not equal See how women are lagging behind/22 Be a millionaire The Flying
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    • 638 6  -  Jeffrey Tan It's easy to be an armchair critic until you come under the limelight THE recent live broadcast of the Miss Singapore-Universe 2001 contest highlighted one glaring fact: That many people like to see beautiful people fall flat on their faces. I'm no different from anyone else.
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    • 164 6  -  Wendy Lee I WOULD like to highlight to some pregnant women not to take it for granted when passengers give up their seats to them and would like to urge them to be more courteous when offered a seat. I am sorry to have to
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    • 78 6  -  Choy Kah Wai I REFER to your report "Foreign reality" (Today, Mar 3). I do not understand why the Government does not allow part-time maids or employers to share maids. The reason given by the Ministry of Manpower in the past seems to be that there will be
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    • 144 6 Security vs quake relief Nita Agarwal I REFER to the letter "India's wrong priorities" from Mr John Faulkner (Today, March 3). It is true India needs to spend money for economic growth to be a country of happy citizens. But a country can progress only if it is militarily secure,
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 441 8 Reuters Companies losing faith in economy NEW YORK Job cuts announced by US companies almost tripled last month from the same period last year, a research group said, which signals that employers are losing confidence in the slowing US economy. International outplacement firm Challenger, Gray Christmas said
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    • 304 8 Reuters BEIJING Chinese Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng said that the government expects a record deficit this year as spending on social security and defence soar, while pump-prim-ing of the economy will continue. Central and local government agencies are expected to run
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    • 214 8 Bloomberg LONDON European stocks rose, led by phone equipment companies. Alcatel, Europe's secondlargest phone equipment company, gained 2.25 euros, or five per cent, to 46.91. After dropping 23 per cent this year, the shares trade at 26 times forecast earnings, compared with
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    • 111 8 Reuters TOKYO Fujitsu and other chip-related shares helped the Tokyo stock market end higher yesterday, with investor sentiment boosted by signs that a slide in Wall Street's techs may have found a short term bottom The US markets were lifted on Monday by comments from top
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    • 368 12 Reuters Sells off $1.75b investments to avoid loss CHICAGO A sale of investments in five non-US cellular operating companies has provided Motorola Inc with more than US$l billion (551.75 billion) in cash, boosting the company's liquidity. Since Jan 1 it received cash payments for the sale
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    • 168 12 HONGKONG and Shanghai Banking Corp (HSBC) will shut up to 70 of its 220 branches in Hong Kong, according to a local newspaper. The closure is part of the banking giant's downsizing which would be conducted in phases, with the first
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    • 473 14 Reuters Aspirin inventor, Bayer, finds globalisation a headache as competitive pressure mounts LEVERKUSEN As the say ing goes, if you throw a stone in Leverkusen, Germany, you hit someone who works for Bayer. Germany's largest drug firm, famous for inventing Aspirin a century ago, is
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    • 355 14 AFP GENEVA Internet-based telephone calls, which offer huge cost savings, are tightening their grip on the market. People are increasingly turning to the Internet and other networks based on the Internet Protocol (IP) for their telephone calls, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
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    • 93 14 Reuters TOKYO The yen managed a comeback yesterday, after Japanese officials sounded more sensitive to its breakneck decline. The currency was due for a bounce, having slumped almost three yen in just two sessions. Traders were inclined to view its gains as just a temporary reprieve. An all-too-rare
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    • 212 14 Reuters TOKYO Japan Telecom Co Ltd, the country's third-biggest telecoms carrier, said it would delay the launch of the third generation, or 3G, mobile phone services offering highspeed Internet access. Japan Telecom and its wireless subsidiary J-phone had previously said they aimed to
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 342 15  -  Steven Ooi Users get round the blocking of copyrighted music by steven@newstoday.com.sg LOS ANGELES Internet songswapping service Napster Inc says it has started filtering some two million music files from its servers from Sunday, but its tech-sawy users are already finding ways around the screening process. Music
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    • 119 15 Keuters WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney (below), who has a history of heart trouble, underwent an urgent procedure on Monday to clear a narrowed artery after suffering mild episodes of chest pains for three days, doctors said. Doctors at George Washingto Medical Center said it did not
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    • 207 18 Dayaks fear Sampit visit will be empty promise JAKARTA Dayak leaders expressed doubt over the effectiveness of President Abdurrahman Wahid's planned visit to Sampit, Central Kalimantan, saying he is welcome provided he brings a solution to the ethnic problems here. "He is welcomed to visit
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    • 187 18 MANILA After a foiled escape attempt on Friday, Mr Joseph Estrada planned two other departures over the weekend, reported the Philippine Daily Inquirer. One planned flight was from Cagayan de Oro to Hong Kong on Saturday, and another from Palawan to Palau on
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    • 323 20 It's a business deal, says Malaysian website KUALA LUMPUR News website Malaysiakini.com refuted govern-ment-led allegations that it had received money directly or indirectly from billionaire financier George Soros. Chief executive officer Premesh Chandran told Malaysia.CNet.com the government had seized upon former Malaysiakini news editor Chong Yen
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    • 169 20 AFP BANGKOK A bomb that gutted a Thai Airways International jet minutes before Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was to board was aimed at some 12 top leaders and their families, police officials said yesterday. Police also said the bombing was carried out by an
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    • 290 21 AFP PEARL HARBOUR A flood of errors on board the USS Greeneville doomed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Mam, a top Navy investigator testified here on Monday. The sub's hardened steel rudder sliced through the fishing boat on Feb 9, sending it to
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    • 160 21 -AFP HONG KONG Chinese President Jiang Zemin has given his endorsement for Hong Kong's leadership to deal with the Falungong spriritual movement on its own, but stressed stability was of paramount importance. Jiang's stand was made known before a one-hour meeting with Hong Kong chief
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    • 79 21 BAVARIA A man has been arrested in Germany for running a bogus medical practice for 22 years. Public prosecutors in Bavaria say the man had a fake medical degree, supposedly from the University of Naples, reports Ananova. He was arrested twice on charges of bodily harm and
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    • 48 21 AFP MANILA President Gloria Arroyo yesterday named Lieutenant General Diomedio Villanueva as the new armed forces chief of staff effective from Mar 17. Veteran Gen Villanueva, who had led a campaign against Moro separatists in the south, is to jreplace the retiring General Angelo Reyes.
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 878 22  -  Siva Anantham Look at the numbers and see how women are lagging behind by_ THE 20th Century was the century of women. Around the world, an increasing number of females started going to university and taking up top positions in academia, business and politics. From Marie Curie
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    • 459 27  -  Rachel Lo A boy band from Nashville singing gospel tunes? You'd better believe it by rachel® newstoday. com.sg When I was told I was to interview an all-guy quintet who call themselves Plus One, the first thought that came into my mind was: "Oh no, not another
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    • Article, Illustration
      936 28  -  Peter Ooi He made a living practising medicine, but has returned to his first love of writing by His passion was writing but his family saw no future in it. And so it was decided through the family council that he should be a doctor. Acceding to his
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    • 656 29  -  Hazel Tan He bids T-shirts and jeans goodbye, sports a shorter, neater crop in preparation for his new job by hazel@newstoday.com.sg YOU saw how he handled the sticky situation when a contestant blanked out during a question and answer session during the
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  • SPORTS
    • 376 42 Journeyman inspires Orlando NBA Orlando 95 Dallas 81 ORLANDO The Orlando Magic used an unlikely hero and a pair of vise grips to win yesterday. Little-used Cory Alexander came from the end of the bench to help the Magic defeat the Dallas Mavericks 95-81, avenging the worst
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    • 442 43 Cricket KANDY The scene of Australians last Test defeat, 18 matches ago in September 1999, is hardly the most auspicious place, in theory, for England to try to turn round its brief, fierce series in Sri Lanka. If Australia could be beaten here in Muttiah Muralitharan's home
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    • 495 44 O'Leary counters by saying the legend is becoming senile LONDON As if relations between Manchester Uni:ed and Leeds needed any further cooling, Sir Alex Ferguson yesterday branded lan Harte a diver who attempts to get opponents sent off, reported The Independent. He was responding
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    • 434 44 Reuters BRUSSELS Soccer's governing bodies and the European Union struck a compromise deal on a new transfer system yesterday, ending six months of fractious negotiations that had threatened to throw the game into turmoil. In a statement issued after five hours
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    • 620 45  -  Leonard Thomas That can only be good news for Man Utd as it enters the Greek cauldron Panathinaikos v Man United (Live tonight, 3.30 am, ESPN Ch 23) A COMMENT made by lan Darke during the Leeds v Manchester United match last Saturday summed tip
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