Today, 14 March 2001

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  • 11 1 TODAY MITA(P) 138/11/2000 We dn ce sday m.«i. v, 2 m
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  • 115 1 "You need not convince me of the fl A capabilities of women. At the M office, my Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Permanent Secretary and Deputy Secretary and most of my senior management are all women. And I am proud to say that this is one of the
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  • 449 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Letter offers KL's views on those issues I by boony i a n@ne wsto d ay. com. sg Jayakumar said: "Our preliminary study shows that there are variations on some points between Dr Mahathir's reply and Senior Minister's understanding with Dr
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  • 88 1 -AFP HONG KONG Twenty-five persons, including 11 secondary school .students, have been arrested following a six-month anti-triad undercover operation. The 11 students, the youngest aged 13, had been drafted into the society while at school and were being used as couriers to deliver
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 314 2 Agencies Police may use Internal Security Act against rumour-mongers KUALA LUMPUR Five days after clashes broke out between groups of squatter residents, the Malaysian police have announced a temporary ban on public gatherings and ceratnahs (political lectures) in Selangor. Selangor's police chief, Mr Nik Ismail Nik
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    • 180 2 -AFP TRADE and Industry Minister George Yeo yesterday met new US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick ahead of a new push to conclude what would be the first free trade agreement between Washington and an Asian government. BG Yeo and Mr Zoellick
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    • 234 2  -  Maurice Png by maurice@newsto day. co tn.Sg DID you know that the transport sector is responsible for a third of the world's environmental damage, the biggest culprit of which is the car? In the light of this, the Singapore Environment Council (SEC), a
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    • 187 2 NO track record and no money to break into the arts scene? No worries. The National Arts Council (NAC) yesterday unveiled a fund which budding artists can draw on. Called the Emerging Artists Fund, NAC will set aside $100,000 a year for 'unknown
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    • 118 2 Bloomberg THREE SIA cabin crew and 43 passengers were hurt in a rough flight from Calcutta to Singapore on Mar 7. The Airbus A3lO-300 jet experienced unexpected turbulence "while a meal service was underway". Singapore Airlines spokesman Innes Willox said signs advising
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    • 37 2 THE Mystic P&wers of the Shaolin Masters, which was due to ran from Mar 9 to 11, has been postponed. Entries for contest will be held until the organisers have set a new date.
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    • 356 3  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim The development will cost $8 million, says MP Ong by zack a ria@newstoda> f. com. sg IT'S been almost five years since Pasir Ris residents first heard about plans to boost their resort town image. That was in December 1996, in
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    • 216 3 IN two separate cases, two men cheated Electric Ctty (Singapore) of more than $15,000. Wee Pang Teik, 37, was the Department Manager of the Electric City branch at Tampines Mall. Sometime in March last year, Wee was found to have stolen $5,550 of the
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 384 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Details of third child scheme unveiled by phe iphei@news today, com. sg PART Two of the government's profamily initiative is in place with the launch of the Third Child Maternity Leave Scheme (3CML). From April 1, female workers having their third child
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    • 135 4 MORE than 4,000 DBS customers logged on to DBS Internet Banking since last September, raising $70,000 for charity in the process. Customers made the Net donations using the site's bill payment service. The money raised will go to Club Rainbow, a charity which provides support to
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    • 82 4 SINGAPORE is now second only to Hong Kong in terms of the percentage of households with Internet access. But we lag well behind in seventh place in order of time spent online, according to a survey published yesterday. Although 48 per cent of households here have
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    • Article, Illustration
      25 4 This audio<assettt shaped MP3 player FPS-2000GT has a built-in 32M8 flask memory and is equipped with a multimedia card slot. AFP photo
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    • 135 4 A FOREIGN construction worker was robbed and bludgeoned to death with an axe while he slept Maung Aung Naing Win, a 20-year-old Myanmese, was attacked by colleagues in September 1997. Maung Soe, a 19-year-old Myanmese, and several other unknown men confronted him at his bed. One of the
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    • 104 4 READ 0N... N Korea miffed by Bush's talk Pyongyang calls off dialogue with Seoul after remarks/14 Say a little prayer, Australia There will be less than 30 minutes' warning if Mir veers/1 5 Regional trade may save Asia Chances of surviving a US recession much higher than a decade ago/
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  • LETTERS
    • 367 6  -  Narayana Narayana Writers should not 'attack' others for their views THERE is nothing wrong with anyone professing his unflinching loyalty to any particular cause or political body. But it would be crossing the borders of acceptable sportsmanship and common courtesy when one indulges in attacks
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    • 317 6 WE refer to the letter "Don't hire too many foreigners" by Mr Simon Ng Yap Peng (Today, March 2). Mr Ng raised concerns over the supply and demand for foreigners. On the issue of employment passes, the processing criteria used to assess applicants are very
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    • 169 6  -  Ananda Perera I REFER to recent reports on the bombing of world-famous Buddha statues at Bamiyan in Afghanistan by the Taliban forces. These statues, reputed to be nearly 2,200 years old and regarded as a world heritage site by the United Nations, were
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    • 149 6  -  HSTan I HAVE recently read an article about human cloning. Different people are driven by different motivations and scientists are often driven by a need to prove themselves in their field of work. This often means doing things that may not be in line with
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    • 149 6  -  Dr Ben Bobmhmati I WOULD like to add to the issue of giving up seats to a pregnant or elderly person. If a person sacrifices his own comfort and gives up his seat to someone else, he might not be doing it just to hear a "thank
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 283 8 Reuters Triggered by grim plunge on Wall Street ASIAN stock markets ended sharply lower yesterday following the plunge on Wall Street overnight. In Japan, Tokyo's key Index lurched below the 12,000 level for the first time in over 16 years. The benchmark Nikkei Average shed 351.67 points or
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    • 183 8 THE Singapore corporate debt market rose 159 per cent to $50.5 million last year, according to a survey by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In a statement, it said this was the largest growth rate since the survey was carried out in 1995. The number
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    • 179 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S auction of a waterfront site drew two bids with the top tender coming in at a lower than expected $461.8 million. The top bid was submitted by a joint venture of three companies, Singapore developer Keppel Land, Hong Kong's top developer, Cheung Kong (Holdings), and
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    • 45 8 TEE International yesterday launched its IPO of 8.6 million shares at 28 cents each. Of this, 600,000 shares were for public subscription. The company, which provides integrated mechanical and electrical services, expects to raise net proceeds of $1.6 million from the IPO.
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    • 115 8 NTUC Income and SMP.com have teamed up to introduce an instant underwriting solution for life insurance policies. With this new service, insurance agents will be able to settle the underwriting process immediately with their clients through the software, which is downloaded into their palmtop computers. Currently, more than
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    • 229 8 101 pc turnover rise for Millennium Copthorne Hotels MILLENNIUM Copthorne Hotels pic has posted a 55 per cent rise in pre-tax profit of £129.1 million (*****.2 million) for the year ended Dec 31 2000. Group turnover jumped 101 per cent to £690.9 million. Commenting on the results, the company's chairman
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    • 212 8 THE Ascott Group, Asia Pacific's largest service residence company with over $2.8 billion in assets, has announced its plans to embark on a $5 million brand rationalisation and promotion exercise of its serviced residences in 16 cities in 10 countries. The initiative paves
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Technical rebound?
      • 521 10 THE ST Index revisited the 1780 lows not seen since last October and May, driven by the US markets' steep losses overnight. Widespread talks of margin calls and fund redemption styled selling akin to the Asian financial crisis haunted the market,
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      • 485 10 THE Malaysian market posted a relatively mild reaction to Wall Street's bloodbath on Monday. Even the two to four per cent falls registered by key markets across the region failed to rattle the KLSE. At the close, the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index was only
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 438 12  -  Steven Ooi NZ Government demands explanation on death of army major byi steven@newstoday. com.sg KUWAIT A shocked New Zealand Government yesterday demanded to know how its young army major could have been killed by a stray bomb from a US warplane, together with five American soldiers.
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    • 171 12 SYDNEY An Ansett flight heading for Melbourne had to turn back to Sydney when a passenger saw flames coming from the engine, reported The Sydney Morning Herald. Mr Mark Stanley, a passenger on board the Airbus 320 told Melbourne radio 3AW that "I heard a
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    • 145 12 Reuters HOLLYWOOD The story of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, arrested last month on charges of passing secrets to the Soviet Union for 15 years, will be made into a television series. CBS network has enlisted veteran scribes Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller to produce
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    • 137 12 Agencies JAKARTA A group of 17 leading Indonesian MPs yesterday warned that the sprawling archipelago was on the edge of collapse, and called for the creation of a national coalition government The grotip, including President Wahid's former top economic minister, Mr Kwik Kian Gie, called for a
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    • 88 12 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition activist E2am Mohd Noor was charged yesterday with sedition, for allegedly saying he planned to topple the government. Ezam, who was political secretary to jailed ex-deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, pleaded not guilty, and was released on bail of RM5,000 (552,315). "I'm
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    • 355 14 Agencies Pyongyang calls off dialogue with Seoul after remarks SEOUL US President George W Bush (right), criticised by many as a foreign policy neophyte (beginner) surrounded by a Cold-Warrior Cabinet, seems to have brought a few dark clouds to Korean "sunshine" reconciliation. This became
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    • 145 14 LONDON British police are removing shotguns with some delicacy from farmers who are on the brink of suicide or who are contemplating it after having been emotionally affected by the rapid spread of foot-and-mouth disease, reported the Times. In Devon alone, local police have
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    • 99 14 AFP photo LIMA Peruvian police carry the remains of an identified member of the guerilla group, Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, after the body was exhumed for an autopsy on Monday. Federal prosecutors said they were considering a lawsuit against former President Alberto Fujimori,
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    • 128 14 -AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the police yesterday to step up the fight against kidnap gangs. Mrs Arroyo denounced the gruesome killings of a 23-year-old university student, John Carlos Leong, and his girlfriend by their kidnappers on Sunday. The two students
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    • 177 14 Reuters LOS ANGELES Cold War thriller writer Robert Ludlum died on Monday in Naples, Florida, where he maintained a home, after suffering a massive heart attack, a family spokesman said. He was 74 years old. Ludlum, whose Cola War spy tales, like The
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    • 392 15 There will be less than 30 minutes' warning if Mir veers SYDNEY This weekend, more than the usual number of Australians may look up towards the heavens and say a quiet prayer. The long-delayed descent of the dilapidated Russian space station, Mir (see photo), is
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    • 156 15 -AFP WASHINGTON The Asian population of the United States grew by more than 52 per cent in the past decade, emerging as one of the most dynamic ethnic groups in the country. But Asian Americans still remain the third largest racial group in the country,
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    • 145 15 Women's Day n .^r^^^ Depicted here by a pair of chopsticks (Jr ,^Uf W^ to symbolise equality, it is a time to \^Ur P^^ reflect on the progress made over the <JISf JSKt last nine decades of struggle for .jsP^iraP^ justice and equal footing with men. drmUr^ It's also a
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  • Commentary
    • 614 16  -  Park Donghyun Chances of surviving a US recession much higher than a decade ago by WHETHER you call it recession, slowdown, contraction or anything else, the long-soaring American economy is approaching the ground much more quickly than most analysts expected. Official definitions aside, consider this:
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    • 376 16  -  Brian Farrell by_ OVER the last decade, a new player emerged in world politics. It crept into the opportunity created by the end of the Cold War, which revived the hope that a new consensus of law-abiding states could be built, one that could
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  • RELAX
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      757 17  -  Steven Ooi Education is the only way out of the poverty cycle for Myanmar children by steven@newstoday. com. s g IT WAS a refreshing change for me: A gathering of Singaporeans in which the only agenda was kindness. Feb 12 saw the first ever gettogether of sponsors
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    • 689 18  -  Chan Chao Peh Self-made businessman returns to his home village in China in a blaze of glory by chaop eh@news today, com. sg This scene, this kind of welcome, is what I thought I will see only in the movies. An entire school population of 400 is out
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    • Article, Illustration
      488 25  -  David Ngiau FILM REVIEW The Yards (Not showing) Film's moodiness almost unbearable if not for casts fine performance by] .1. davici@newstoday.com.sg The Yards is a gloom-soaked film that's buoyed by its fine performances if it weren't for principals Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron and James Caan,
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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    • 1044 21 Yesterday, Today and LjmM 27 Dollars: Tomorrow Wm On Women's Side K\ vi-Ti o*"^ pm T&is Italian gem bagged an Oscar for feJTyE V Bast Foreign Film in 1965. Still steamy 1 »V- "'ij e documentary looks into the MORNING after all these years, it consists of three I |Ui
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    • 1234 22 .^^p InBOtrSPGOT Group will be presenting three Venue: Singapore Federation w»^|gjr»"f f^ri plays for secondary schonl stu- of Chinese Clan Associations USr ill Tales From the Giant dents. Conference room W£w4J g5» Blanket 2 One of it is an adaptation Tickets: $5, call 354-1 972 1^ This is a consistently
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  • SPORTS
    • 433 32 NBA Spurs 99 Clippers 81 SAN ANTONIO The San Antonio Spurs grabbed a share of the Western Conference's best record last weekend and on Monday, they tightened their grip on first place. Tim Duncan scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Spurs to
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    • 241 32  -  Scott O'Donell by scott@n ewsto d ay, com. sg IT WAS bad enough when Australian club Eastern Pride anchored the bottom of the National Soccer League (NSL) with 16 points from 22 games. But things got worse on Monday when
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    • 550 33 Tiger is human after all Golf CALIFORNIA By now, you are no doubt aware that Tiger Woods is just another a face in the crowd of golfing gypsies, a choker and a pouty loser who is doomed to live the life of ordinarypeople. Read your
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    • 468 33 -AFP Serie A MILAN Vincenzo Montella is suddenly the flavour of the month in Rome after finally emerging from the shadows of Argentinian Gabriel Batistuta to fire AS Roma ever closer to what would be a first Serie A title for
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    • 699 34  -  Stanley Ho Newcomer Montoya is set to take Formula One by storm by stanley@ne ws today, com. sg "I AM ready for Formula One," said Juan Pablo Montoya. It was not the words that was impressive. But, it was the steely determination with which he uttered
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    • 314 34 Reuters LONDON Jordan driver Heinz Harald Frentzen has questioned characteristics of Ferrari's Formula One cars, while stopping short of accusing the Italian manufacturer of breaking any rules. The German said on his personal website frentzen.de on Sunday: "In the past 18 races, I had
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    • 337 35 Cycling MADRID Reigning Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has declared that he and Italian arch-rival Marco Pantani had buried the proverbial hatchet at least off the race course. "Unfortunately, we reached a point when we both came to see each other as enemies and
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    • 557 35  -  Nonetheless, Why don't Premiership big clubs grab golden boy Henrik? British Soccer LONDON With 43 goals for Celtic so far this season, Henrik Larsson is far and away the leading scorer in Britain. Yet in an age when managers will pay millions for untried and frequently
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      263 36 Champions League Leeds v Lazio LONDON Alan Smith has urged David O'Leary to unleash him on Lazio, despite the threat of suspension hanging over the Leeds, striker. A yellow card in tonight's meaningless Group D clash at Elland Road would rule Smith out of the first leg of
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    • 190 36 GROUP C: In Bayern's hands Bayem Munich needs a draw or victory against Arsenal FC to finish top of its group. A defeat would award first place to the English team. However, in that event, Bayern could still qualify as runner-up should Olympique Lyonnais not win against
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    • 675 37 Gunners in final scrap with Bayern and Lyon Champions League Bayern Munich v Arsenal LONDON Three clubs will compete for two Champions League quarter-final places tonight as Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Lyon slug it out for a place in the last eight. Group C is delicately poised
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    • 643 38  -  Scott O'Donell by scott@newstoday.com. sg TALK to any S-League player, and a main gripe is the standard of local pitches. Well, things are looking up this season. The Football Association of Singapore (FAS), with the help of Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and Singapore Pools,
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    • 212 38 Reuters Cricket CALCUTTA India's Vangipurappu Laxman struck his second Test hundred to keep Australia's push for victory on hold, after the third day of the second Test yesterday. Laxman, 26, scored an unbeaten 109 to lift India to 254 for four in its
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    • 428 39  -  Stanley Ho Q WHAT ARE SUPER DOLLARS? A Super Dollars are given to customers who save or obtain financing from Hong Leong Finance Limited (HLF) and Singapore Finance Limited (SFL). The voucher can be redeemed for goods and services from participating merchants outlets. And you can
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