Today, 22 May 2001, Afternoon Edition

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  • 9 1 TODAY Mil (PI 138 11 2000 Tuesday -May 22,2001
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    • 187 1 AFP WASHINGTON In a move likely to rile Beijing, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (picture) will meet with President George W. Bush and US Secretary of State Colin Powell today and tomorrow, US officials said yesterday. US officials said the Nobel peace laureate
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    • 213 1 -AFP Recession averted: Top Bush official WASHINGTON US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said yesterday that he believed the United States had averted a recession, with the economy now on the upswing again. "I think the correction process is well under way," Mr O'Neill said on Fox television,
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    • 116 1 -AFP LONDON After months in the doldrums, the price of gold jumped sharply yesterday to the highest point for almost a year, as investors finally responded to a series of US interest-rate cuts and piled back into the precious metal. In a rally that started in
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    • 81 1 /A=DJj\CORP Great things happen when life is great. Like securing the position of Singapore's No. 1 Insurer Amassing strong financial assets in excess of $19 billion Strategically merging with Overseas Assurance Corporation to further strengthen our leading position in the market* Attaining higher standards of agency professionalism through the establishment
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    • 7 1 Life U great! See P age 5
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    • 72 1 THE CHANNEL WAR/See Page 3 May 20Teievision Ratings Time Channel S Ratings TV Works Ratings 7:00 pm David Copperfield: *|0.2% Gtl<lz'lla 4.7% Tornado of Fire 8:00 pm Phua Chu kang K (\0L Pteltd I3.vn W_?W»"t.'ToB(. 18>1% P*o<o«u e 4% asr Ne^ 5 Tonight 5>6% j*^ 1.6% 10:00 pm Alien 10
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 228 3  -  Chan Chao Peh Sing Tel bid is 'not fair but reasonable' by chaopeh® newstoday. com. sg THE directors of C&W Optus have said yes to SingTel's bid for Australia's number two telecommunications company. Optus' independent directors, having decided to accept SingTel's offer, will choose the cash and share
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    • 92 3 LAST week, Mr Wong Fook Hung retired as the managing director of Power Supply, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 60. Mr Wong is a veteran of more than 20 years with Singapore Power and its predecessor Public Utilities Board. But his
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    • 138 3 MEDIACORP artiste Gurmit Singh was told that his sitcom character Phua Chu Kang is the best in Singapore, JB, Batam, and some say TV Land. Just take a look at Sunday night's TV ratings, with the launch of SPH Media Works' TV Works, PCX, which aired
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    • 97 3 IT was just another theft case. Then the man in the dock spoke up and everyone in court sat up. "I have Aids and would like to spend a little more time with my family," said Mohannadas Jesudhass in his mitigation plea. No such luck.
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    • 269 4 Reuters JAKARTA She has been dubbed the "reluctant housewife turned politician", the silent vice-president who waits for her day at the top, keeping her ambitions quiet with Javanese reserve. But Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri is slowly but surely making her presence felt, as her time
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    • 147 4 -AFP MANILA President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday she will embark on "healing" visits to Manila's slums and Christian communities in the south. These represent two constituencies which dumped her candidates in last week's elections. The work that we must do now is to hea] our nation,"
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    • 69 4 -AFP NEW YORK Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian arrived yesterday at the start of a five-nation tour of Latin America via the United States a stopover certain to anger China. Mr Chen departed from Chiang Kai-shek Airport on board an EVA Airways Boeing 747-400. "As a sovereign
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    • 114 4 READ 0N... From air to sea and now on land Catch the man who has ants in his pants and always looks for new experiences/5 Think of those who live in the east How about express bus services to take students to varsities? /8 Good show Locat server market's Ql
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • 690 5  -  Elaine Quek Life is great! A series celebrating Singaporeans living life to its fullest Today photo by Man who has got ants in his pants and always looks for new experiences SPENCER Johnson probably had someone like Mr Felix Ling in mind
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 230 6 THE problem is as simple as it is sad. When times are good and companies can afford to sponsor their workers for training, the workers are not interested. When bad times come, and insecure workers desperately seek training, their companies can no longer afford
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    • 80 6 JAMIE Yeo was very surprised and flattered to be voted FHM's ninth sexiest woman in the world. A total of 36,000 votes were cast this year. Jamie, MediaCorp Radio's deejay, was dubbed "the unstoppable sex machine". But she doesn't understand why. Said Jamie: "I am not a sex
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    • 73 6 SINGAPORE is pushing further into the life sciences with the opening of an Office of Life Sciences at the National University of Singapore. The Office will coordinate the university's educational and research initiatives, and establish a Young Scientist Award Programme. Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan,
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    • 113 6 AFl 1 THE third round of talks for a free trade agreement (FTA) between Singapore and the US began yesterday in a push to wrap up Washington's first such deal with an Asian country by year end. The Ministry of Trade and Industry said this round
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    • 125 8  -  Eddie Hooi THERE have been many calls from the Government encouraging working adults to take parttime courses to upgrade themselves. But which certificate is recognised? Diplomas and degrees offered by some distance learning programmes of respectable schools are not recognised. After spending so much time and money
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    • 235 8  -  TomOng How about express bus services to take students to varsities? AS we know, NUS and NTU are situated at the far west of Singapore. Those students living in the west who drive to and live in the hostels have few problems in getting
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    • 108 8  -  Jimus Tan I REFER to your story "Stolen daily: Laptops in cars" (Today, May 14). On May 16, my handphone was stolen from my car after my window was smashed. My car was broken into at Valley Point at Alexandra Road. Passersby said this was the third
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    • 153 8  - If you can't convince, then confuse Namyana Narayana I REFER to the letter "Deafening silence" (Today, May 19). Mr Ananda Perera has reason to be annoyed at not receiving a reply from official bodies on matters concerning the public. I usually send copies to the Feedback Unit, and to be
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    • 221 8 WE refer to the article "Is there any coordination on smoky nvcycles?" (Today, May 12). We would like to assure your readers that the Ministry of the Environment (ENV) works closely with the Land Transport Authority and approved vehicle inspection centres to ensure that established
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    • 205 8  -  Simon Ng Yap Peng I REFER to the letter "Who wants to be well-read?" (Today, May 18), I was shocked by Mr Kevin Slew's sweeping statement: "Singaporeans do not have good general knowledge, simply because they don't read lots of books and
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 223 9 Bloomberg News SINGAPORE-based BrierJey will sell its 28.7 per cent stake in Australia's second-largest building materials maker, James Hardie Industries, as it looks for investments that yield higher returns. It will sell the 119.4 million shares at A 54.75 ($4.60) a share, or A
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    • 109 9 Bloomberg News DBS Group Holdings' managing director for corporate relations, Mr Charles Newton, will leave in August. Mr Newton, the group's spokesman since 1999, earlier worked at Burson-Marsteller as chairman of its Asia Pacific corporate practice. He also worked at Ruder Finn and Boston Edison. He
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    • 157 9  -  Bernama AFX-Asia KUALA LUMPUR Local and foreign banks are competing fiercely to capture a bigger share of the home loan market. They are offering very low rates and a host of attractivelypackaged incentives in a bid to build Up their loan books in view of
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  • MARKET NEWS
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      • 401 10 THE MSCI changes which will take place in two stages on Nov 30 this year and end-May 2001 had been anticipated and reflected in stock prices with short term index driven portfolio revisions. While most shares remained gridlocked in nar-row-band trading, some bargain
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      • 476 10 KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange had a lethargic start, with little interest save for some delayed reaction to the new provisional weightings announced by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) over the weekend. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index ended 3.3 points to
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  • WORLD
    • 203 12 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister and Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has clarified that only Sabah Chinese who were members of the now-defunct Sabah-based Parti Angkatan Keadilan Rakyat (Akar) can join Umno. "I apologise for my statement yesterday that Umno
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    • 172 12 Reuters CANNES The Son's Room, a poignant drama of bereavement from director Nanni Moretti, scooped the prestigious Palme dOr at the 54th Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. Europe and the US went away the big winners with three awards going to a single film,
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    • 141 12 -AFP SYDNEY The Victoria State Correctional Services agreed yesterday to review education courses offered to maximum security prisoners. The move came after a mass murderer was found to have completed a university degree in weapons and military strategy while in prison. Julian Knight, who
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  • INFOTECH
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      341 14 Local server market's Q1 figure better than most SINGAPORE has emerged as one of the few countries in the AsiaPacific region where the server market in the first quarter of this H year had improved in terms of unit shipments when compared to the final quarter of 2000.
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    • BREAKING NEWS
      • 104 14 German phone maker Siemens AG plans to slash an additional 2,000 jobs worldwide, bringing the total number announced this year to 8,100, or 1.7 per cent of iis total workforce. Thus far, the layoffs to be carried out in the next 18 months will only
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      • 43 14 Sound Exchange, a recording industry group that collects Webcasting royalties, said that it is still working with its 25 Webcasters to get reports needed to accurately distribute the money. The group was originally scheduled to distribute the money in July.
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    • 383 14  -  Bruce and Mage Brown by THE HP Jornada 720 Handheld PC, a lightweight notebook alternative that weighs just 624 grammes, upgrades the HP Jornada 600 series by adding a 32-bit 206-MHz StrongAßM processor, a 51MHz data bus and a 2-D graphics accelerator.
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    • 54 14 GOOD: Provides notebook functionality plus improved portability Bright, 6.1-inch-diagonal 640 by 240 dpi touch screen Compact, comfortable keyboard and customisable hot keys Easy interconnectivity PC synchronisation worked flawlessly BAD: Dialup 2.0 wizard is powerful but it automatically restores the default settings if a good connection is not
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • RELAX
    • 616 24  -  David Ngiau American movie Godzilla kicks off show amid talk of local blitz by da vid@ne wstoday. co m. sg TV Works' launch on Sunday evening was a promising start, judging from the glimpse we got from its gala launch event, TV Land. Beginning at 5.45pm
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    • 402 24  -  David Ngiau by david@newstoday.cora.sg CARLA GUGINO (top left in picture) radiates a playful sultriness, a genuine warmth and indubitable intelligence all of which come into play in her role as a super-spy soccer mum in Spy Kids, as SPLlCEDwire's Rob Blackwelder found out.
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  • SEEFOOD
    • 587 25  -  Karman Tse This teahouse-style restaurant boasts great ambience, service and food by k arman newstoday. com. sg It is tucked away in a cosy corner on the second storey of the newly-opened Novena Square. And it is where I am about to recommend you have your lunch or
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  • SPORTS
    • 530 26 NBA PLAYOFFS Carter gets his diploma, but it is The Answer' who graduates NBA Philadelphia 88 Toronto 87 PHILADELPHIA On a day when Vince Carter got a diploma, it was Allen Iverson who showed who's smarter. Iverson, the NBA's Most Valuable Player, was clever enough to
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    • 596 26 Cricket LONDON The winning habit that eluded England for so long seems now to have been learnt so well that not even a day and 16 more overs lost to the weather nor the captain's broken thumb can
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    • 341 27 Reuters Golf FORT WORTH Sergio Garcia of Spain fired a seven-under-par 63 in Sunday's final round to win the US$4 million ($7 million) Colonial tournament by two strokes for his first US PGA Tour win. Garcia, who began the day
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    • 417 27  -  S. Murali Comment by murali@n ews to day.com. sg PUT yourselves in the size eights of Michael Campbell for a minute, if you will. There he was at the 13th hole of the Deutsche-Bank SAP Open, toe to toe with world No.l Tiger Woods,
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    • 518 27 Primera Liga MADRID Real Madrid moved a step closer to its first domestic title in four years with a 1-0 win at city rival Rayo Vallecano on Sunday. Deportivo kept the pressure on Real with a
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    • 445 28  -  Stanley Ho by Stanley iff newstooay. com. sg BARELY a week after being relieved of his club captaincy, Nazri Nasir will lead his national teammates onto the pitch in a friendly international against New Zealand tonight. And the national skipper promises that he
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    • 275 28  -  GOMBAK United striker Azhar Jamil (right) has been added into the Singapore national team against New Zealand at Bishan Stadium tonight (7.30pm). The lanky 21-year-old is promoted from the national under-23 squad to fill the final berth in national caretaker coach Jan
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    • 234 28  -  Kelvin Phang NATIONAL Junior College's Chan Chun Hao is not in any of the Singapore youth squads, but tonight, he may play for Fulham Under-21s against the Singapore Under 235. The 17-year-old, who plays for National Football League Division One
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    • 73 28 ANDREWS Avenue and Sembawang Sports Club are favourites to take the NFL Division title this year, with only one round left to be played. Both teams are on 15 points with SCC one point behind. Andrews jumped from third spot to equal first following its
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    • 306 29  -  Kelvin Phang by ke tvin newstoday. com. sg SINGAPORE'S silat warriors are on the warpath again. Fresh from winning three golds at last month's Belgian Open, the national silat team is heading to Zwoole, Holland, today for the European Championships. This is the first time Singapore
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    • 65 29 JOINT league leaders Eastern Mannas and Southside Sharks both won in the NTUC Fairprice Netbal! Super League last Saturday. The Mannas beat the Dolphins 38-21, while the Sharks edged out the Marlins 44-33. Both are level on 10 points after six rounds, but the Mannas have a
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    • 169 30 Reuters BERLIN Bayer Leverkusen sacked its coach Berti Vogts on Sunday, despite his team having earned a Champions League qualifying spot at the weekend. The German first division club then announced yesterday that Klaus Toppmoeller would replace Vogts. Vogts, 54, who was
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    • 105 30 AFP LONDON Manchester City parted company with its manager Joe Royle yesterday. Royle left the club by mutual consent following its relegation from the Premiership to the first division. Royle, 52, took over in 1998 and after relegation that season to the
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    • 567 30 Reuters Bayern's theatricals may be a thing of the past MUNICH Bayern Munich suffered from persistent squabbling and scandals until a discreet gentleman wearing a long raincoat decided a bit of discipline could do them no harm. Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld has turned the club
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    • 304 30 Reuters AMSTERDAM- Arsenal has begun talks with Feyenoord about signing its Polish goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek, the Dutch club said yesterday. A Feyenoord spokesman confirmed that officials from the two clubs met on Sunday. Arsenal vicechairman David Dein and coach Arsene Wenger were in
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 153 32 LONDON Ipswich manager George Burley (left) has beaten the likes of Gerard Houllier, Alex Ferguson and David O'Leary to the title of Carling Manager Of The Year, Football36s.com reported. Burley triumphed in the League Managers' Association's annual ballot after guiding his side to fifth place and
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