Today, 10 March 2001

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  • 8 1 TODAY 133.tU.rQ.3.V March 10, 2001 mita (P) i,is/u/2000
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  • 511 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Is liberalisation driving papers crazy? by... bo onyian@newsto d ay.com.sg A SCANTILY-CLAD Jennifer Lopez splashed across the pages of Streats and Project Eyeball. Gory pictures of a badly burnt girl used in newspapers, including a "so-called quality, family newspaper". Why, even ministerial walkabouts are increasingly
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  • 177 1 FEWER Certificates of Entitlements (COEs) will be issued from May this year to the end of April next year. A total of 86,831 COEs will be available during this period, 20 per cent less than the year before. Minister for Communications Information Technology Yeo Cheow
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  • HOT NEWS
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      315 2 But what a way for a lady to take over MUMBAI One of Asia's oldest bourses got its first woman chief in 125 years under circumstances that can only be described as odd. Mrs Dma Mehta took over as president of the Bombay Stock Exchange after India's most
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    • 215 2  -  Ng Boon Yian by.. bo onyia n@ne wsto ci ay, com. sg IS the mandatory jail of six months for landlords who habour illegal immigrants too harsh? Sembawang MP X Shanmugam thiiiks so. "Are these landlords to be classified with mutineers, kidnappers, rapists and murderers, who
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    • 445 3  -  Kim-Kyna Tan NUS to up intake, more foreign sourcing by.. kim@n ews to day. co m.sg WANTED: Lawyers to meet the shortfall in supply and the insatiable demand for legal services in the years to come. The Ministry of Law has implemented a slew of policy changes to
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    • 101 3 WONG KHING CHONG About 100 kids from Kinderiand, Marine Parade were given a treat of fun and laughter by a three-man British act— The Chipolalas. The trio is sponsored by Singapore Finance in support of the Prudential Children First! Singapore International Festival
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    • 140 3 BANGKOK A group of air-conditioner repairmen who worked on Thai Airways Flight TGII4 is now the newest set of suspects into the explosion of the aircraft last Saturday. Deputy National Police Chief Sant Sarutanond said they are focusing on the eight mechanics who worked at
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    • 369 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Civic group turns focus on rally for politician by.. zack a ria@ne wsto day. com .sg FIRST, they wanted to demonstrate against the Internal Security Act, then they wanted to protest against the dismissal of a radio presenter. Now, civic group
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    • 147 4 THE Singapore Broadcasting Authority Act will be amended to restrict foreign broadcasters which engage in Singapore's domestic politics. Information and the Arts Minister Lee Yock Suan was replying to an MP's concern about protecting Singaporeans from the undesirable outcomes of foreign media competition. The issue has been
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    • 137 4 READERS of the Mar 8 issue of Today would have found their copies peppered with bright yellow two-by-three-inch notices. This was part of SingTel's advertising campaign to promote their concierge service, City Search, where callers will be able to receive "answers to all
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    • 38 4 Today photo by WONG KHMG CHONG Enjoy an underwater experience on ice at the Disney on Ice's little mermaid and sing along with Ariel and Flounder today' Tickets are available at SISTIC outlets.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 109 4 READ 0N... Right or wrong, who's to judge? No way of labelling social behaviour with such diversity/7 Tacky tech stocks Old economy counters survive the Nasdaq-induced onsiaughf/10 Where are the ladies? Spore has yet to produce a top woman leader/15 Still young Yang Libing is still very much the sweet,
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    • 30 6 A-mei's surprise 3| NBN| ;'^WB^iffisiJM IHiELJ^I F®9^***4M H n4 QUf 0W c s'n9N sensation showed her jjMb£<4Ki3Sl fe^^^^jj^ boyfriend how she loved him on his birthday ?^J ft|Z Rl BHrMI
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  • LETTERS
    • 268 7  -  Ang Kok Stang, Roland No way of labelling social behaviour with such diversity I REFER to the letters "Good, OK and the ugly" (Today, Mar 8) and "Don't play the blame game" (Today, Mar 2). To label certain types of social behaviour and to
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    • 212 7  -  Mickael Chua ON Sunday, Mar 4, at about 6.20 pm, I boarded a Service 62 bus licence plate number SBS 942 M at the bus stop along Aljunied Road, opposite the Aljunied Mass Rapid Transit station. I alighted at the bus stop opposite
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    • 237 7  -  Siva I WOULD like to know if the government controls the prices and the quality of essential produce sold in local supermarkets. Rice and sugar appear more of a luxury commodity being exploited by traders for high profit margins. Sugar bearing the SIS brand sells
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    • 72 7  -  Cai Shuqin I REFER to the letter "Cig hikes can be injurious to health" (Today, Mar 8). The small percentage of successes in quitting smoking shows how addictive a habit it can be, despite reports to the contraryJust as you say, something must be done
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    • 180 7  -  Christine Tan I HAVE read the letter "They're pregnant, but they're rude" by Ms Wendy Lee (Today, Mar 7), and feel a little uncomfortable with her feelings. I feel that if you want to help someone, do so from the bottom of your heart. When
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 318 8 Bloomberg News Importers hurt as currency nosedives SYDNEY Australian companies are paying more for everything from jet fuel to movies after the local currency dropped 3.5 per cent this week to a record low. The Australian dollar is second only to the South African rand as
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    • 140 8 Bernama-AFX SYDNEY The Australian dollar was little changed in late trade amid consolidation after it hit a record low of U550.5061 ($0.8894) overnight, dealers said. The unit traded between a high of U550.5132 and a low of US$O.5llO during the day. ANZ Investment Bank
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    • 128 8 Channel News Asia THE bidding war for Australia's Cable Wireless Optus was to have begun yesterday, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. In the report, Sing Tel was supposed to make a bid of US$7.7 billion ($13.43 billion) for Optus on Friday. But
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    • 181 8 Bernama-AFX-ASIA THE United Overseas Bank chairman, Mr Wee Cho Yaw, said the bank is likely to achieve singledigit net profit growth in 2001 given the difficult economic environment. "I don't think we can achieve double-digit growth in 2001. It will be a tough year for
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    • 515 8 DBS managed a 30-per-cent rise in net profit last year, in line with expectations. However, the better figure masked a 14;per-cent drop in its operating profits as it felt the impact of a challenging loans environment last year. Mr Gabriel Yap, Director of Institutional Sales
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 312 11 No big deal if he does or not TOKYO Japan's political district of Nagatacho was yesterday abuzz with excitement over speculation that highly-unpopu-lar Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was finally ready to bid sayonara. Mr Mori remained tightlipped about his fate. "I cannot discuss such a matter with
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    • 176 11 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police mounting a crackdown on antigovernment protests said yesterday that they would investigate websites which call for street demonstrations. Earlier this week, police seized a computer from the operator of a website which supports jailed former Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim.
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    • 331 13 KUALA LUMPUR They were strange bedfellows right from Day 1. Encouraged by the anti-estab-lishment mood sweeping Malaysia, the Islamic-based party, PAS; the pro-Anwar Ibrahim party Keadilan; the Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP), and the small Malaysian People's Party decided to form an opposition coalition in 1999.
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    • 163 13 AFP LONDON Britain's top vet spoke too soon when he claimed earlier this week that the foot-and-mouth crisis seemed to be stabilising. On Thursday, Chief Veterinary Officer Jim Scudamore was forced to admit that Britain would likely have to grapple with more new cases
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    • 99 13 AFP WASHINGTON China has ordered Chinese firms upgrading Iraq's air defence system to stop work following US protests, Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday. "China has now said that they have told the companies that were in the area doing fibre-optics work to
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    • 160 14 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia's long and brutal economic crisis is sending increasing numbers of people living in the capital insane. "The number of psychotic people in Jakarta has almost tripled since the crisis," the Kompas daily yesterday quoted Ms Endang W Dunga, head
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    • 341 14 AFP China chatroom shut after angry messages BEIJING China's leading website Sina.com yesterday shut down its chatroom in response to a flood of angry comments accusing the government of covering up a deadly school blast (above) in southeast China, a company official said. Several hundred comments
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    • 202 14 Agencies WASHINGTON US President George W Bush scored a big victory when a Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved the centrepiece of his tax-cut plan on Thursday. The House voted along party Ones 230 to 198 to cut income taxes by US$95B billion
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    • 116 14 Reuters NEW DELHI A strict vegetarian has won a two-year court battle against a private Indian airline, saying he suffered intense anguish after he found a chicken bone in his meal. The Delhi consumer court ordered Jet Airways to pay passenger Mr Bimal Naulakha 10,000 rupees (*****)
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    • 149 14 Reuters SYDNEY Australia is grappling with its own version of a "body parts" scandal which rocked Britain last year. Up to 25,000 body parts, including hundreds of baby hearts, are held in hospitals, universities and museums in New South Wales state. The body parts
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 824 15  -  Ravi Veloo slim. Spore has yet to produce a top woman leader hy_ QUESTION: What kind of woman leader does Singapore produce? ANSWER: None, nada, nix, nein, digital zero. Well, let me be a bit more specific. Has Singapore produced a single TOP woman leader in
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  • Relax
    • 618 16  -  Hazel Tan by.. hazel® newstoday. com.sg Whoever said their relationship was on the rocks? Taiwanese singing sensation Zhang Huimei appeared to be still very much in love with her boyfriend, Brian Chow. Why else would A-mei be celebrating Brian's 31st birthday in the private function room at the
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    • Article, Illustration
      550 17  -  Hazel Tan Yang Libing is still very much the sweet, smiling girl who has captured audiences 7 hearts since 1984 by.. hazel@newsto day, com.sg Me, an aunty? Yang Libing laughed out loud. "I just found it very funny when I was first told about the newspaper report. I
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      1437 18  -  LIM SEX They sing about moments in life too painful to hold on to, yet too tender to let go of DABBLER'S DAY BY Continuing our series on divas, we shall look at a category of divas who are so easy to love jazz divas! There is something
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    • 444 27  -  Rachel Lo This is what one inspired man plans to make you do by.. Rachel ©newstoday. co m .sg The annual Singapore International Comedy Festival is here again in a three-week extravaganza, with over 30 performances by award winning acts from comedy festivals all over the
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    • 212 27  - Mark Chan, the concert where mystic meets modern Rachel Lo by.. rachel® news today, com, sg Homegrown musician Mark Chan has, over the past 12 years, captured Singaporeans' ears with his unique brand of world and ambient music, beautifully created with Easternand Western instruments. The talent behind hit album China
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    • 1005 23 To Cut a Long Short Gerhana yV A story 0/ deadly and catastrophic Episode two deals with what is hap- a^B perception.ln search of better life MORNING pening in today's short-film making Karim, played by the legendary 6.00 am Graphic Headlines environment, here in Singapore. mma Ahmad Makmud, had difficulties
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  • SPORTS
    • 398 33 NBA Portland 79 San Antonio 93 PORTLAND The San Antonio Spurs are making the kind of late-season surge that started its march toward the 1999 championship. The Portland Trail Blazers, meanwhile, are showing signs of self-destructing, and once again facing questions about Rasheed Wallace (above) and
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    • 364 34 Liverpool puts on professional performance to shut out Porto Uefa Cup Quarter-final First Leg Porto 0 Liverpool 0 OPORTO At the age of 20, Steven Gerrard just keeps on growing. And it's not only the extra inch that the young midfielder has added to his height in the
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    • 567 34 Reuters Uefa Cup Quarter-final First Leg Barcelona 2 Celta Vigo 1 BARCELONA Celta Vigo coach Victor Fernandez praised his players for their character after their comeback against Barcelona at the Nou Camp left everything to play for in their Uefa
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    • 520 35 Reuters Another defeat could spell doom for beleaguered AC Milan coach Atalanta v AC Milan (Live today on Ch 23, 3.30 am) MILAN AC Milan coach Alberto Zaccheroni's future hangs in the balance at the start of a decisive week for the five-time European champion. Following Wednesday's 2-0
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    • 545 35  -  Primera Liga Reuters Real Madrid v Real Sociedad MADRID Real Sociedad believes it can make a dream return to the Bemabeu for coach John Toshack when it meets Real Madrid tomorrow. On paper, the game appears to be one of
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    • 534 36  -  Leonard Thomas 113 But Houllier's men should triumph FA Cup Q-finals by.. leonard@news today, com. sg A GLANCE at the Premiership and Division One standings will indicate 40 places separating Liverpool and Tranmere Rovers. That's not just a drop in standard between the two teams, but
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    • 140 37 Reuters Athletics LISBON Gabriela Szabo, bidding for a record-equalling fifth women's world indoor title, qualified comfortably for Saturday's women's 3,000 metres final on the opening day of the eighth world championships. Szabo, current Olympic champion over 5,000 metres and world indoor record holder for the 3,000, finished second
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    • 247 37 Reuters Formula One BOWRAL The widow of the track marshal who was fatally injured during the Australian Formula One Grand Prix said at his funeral yesterday that her husband had died doing what he loved. Graham Beveridge, 52, died after
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    • 112 37 AFP LONDON Manchester United defender Gary Neville is to appeal against a two-match for using foul and abusive language to a linesman in the aftermath of West Ham's FA Cup victory at Old TVafford in January, his lawyer confirmed yesterday. The England international was also fined
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    • 367 38  -  S. Murali Solid 67 helps edge out Mardan by.. murali@n ewstoday. com. sg IN THE end, it came down to a simple sand wedge contest at the par-three 12th. Zaw Moe hit his to three feet and made birdie while Mardan Mamat caught his
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    • 86 38 Reuters RALEIGH World shot put champion CJ. Hunter (above) has been suspended for two years after testing positive for the banned steroid nandrolone and has officially retired from the sport. Hunter, the husband of Olympic star Marion Jones, retired after he chose not to contest
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    • 350 38  -  Scott OTJonell by.. scott@newsteday. com.sg SEMBAWANG Rangers yesterday announced a two-year sponsorship deal with Taai-based sports company Bangkok Athletic Co. Ltd. worth $190,000. The deal involves $50,000 in cash and $140,000 in apparel and equipment. Also, Sembawang Rangers Football Club will enjoy
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    • 504 39 Ferguson and Ogilvy are leading Australia's charge on the PGATour Golf CORAL SPRINGS Meet the newest members of the tribe: Ben Ferguson and Geoff Ogilvy. Ferguson and Ogilvy are part of the next wave of Australians to invade the PGA Tour, reported Golf.com. Although less celebrated than some
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    • 255 39 Reuters Cricket KANDY Sri Lanka was facing defeat in the second Test against England yesterday. It ended the third day eight runs ahead with four second innings wicket left after a day of fresh controversy and confrontation. Its
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    • 305 40 Reuters Shuttler produces one of the biggest upsets in All-England history to down China's Olympic champion in straight sets BIRMINGHAM As one observer pointedly remarked about India's Olympic tally in Sydney: "One bronze medal does not go far among a billion people." So, when any Indian
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    • 450 40 LONDON Having spent much of his career taking great delight in provoking the odd spat with Ms managerial rivals David O'Leary may still be nursing bruises after his contretemps with the "great man" this week Sir Alex Ferguson (right) yesterday changed
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