Today, 15 August 2001

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    8 1 TODAY Wednesday August 15, 2001 t MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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    Lock icon The long good-bye
    579 1  -  Elaine Quek How a dying industry spends its final days by elaine ©newstoday. com. $g SO this is the way a business dies not with tears and recrimination, but with long smoke-breaks and employees still trying to be punctual. Not because that achieves anything, but because it
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    Prison inmate arrested
    81 1 A 35-YEAR-OLD inmate at the Queenstown Remand Prison has been arrested for the murder of his cell mate. Police found Shankar Suppiahmaniam, 19, unconscious in his cell at about 9am last Friday, covered in bruises. He was rushed to Alexandra Hospital where he was declared dead. Suppiahmaniam
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    Look who's cooking
    90 1 LIKE a seasoned chef, Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, Minister for Community Development and Sports, cooks the delicate ikan kurau to perfection. He was with a group of MCDS vounteers to prepare lunch for about 17 elderly patients at the Hospice Care Association yesterday. This event was one of
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Animal champ
      59 2  -  Audra him GEMMA Cocks (picture), 12, has been raising money for animals since she was five. Her latest fund-raising activity was a walkathon yesterday around the Singapore Zoological Gardens with 750 students from her school, the Australian International School. It was to raise between $5,000 and $8,000 to
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      Bi-election?
      456 2  -  Ng Boon Yian Lively debate on Chiam's new 'strategy' by boony i a n@n ewstn d ay.c om .sg years said that if voters in different constituencies were willing to vote for a candidate, the government should let them. And of someone wins a Group Representation Constituency as well
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      Air strategy
      89 2  -  Lee Ching Wern IN just a few years, the world's scheduled airlines will carry some two billion passengers annually. The president of the International Civil Aviation Organisation Council (ICAO), Dr Assad Kotaite, said at the Singapore Aviation Academy yesterday that part of ICAO's strategy to arm itself for
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      Let's see data
      93 2 THE need for more off-Budget measures to deal with the economic downturn will depend on a fuller analysis of Singapore's third-quarter economic data, said labour chief Lim Boon Heng at Murata Electronics National Day Observance Ceremony yesterday. Mr Lim said the Government would decide in October or
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      Lock icon No to a larger Muslim region
      146 3 Agencies ZAMBOANGA Unofficial results of a vote here have indicated that the majority are against the creation of an enlarged Muslim autonomous region in southern Philippines. Thousands of troops were on alert against possible attacks by Muslim guerrillas opposed to the plebiscite but there
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      Grandson held
      301 3  -  Elisia Yeo Police step up efforts to get Tommy by clisia@newstoday.com.sg JAKARTA In a sign of impatience over the elusiveness of the fugitive Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, police on Monday detained a grandson of former president Suharto. Jakarta police spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam said they arrested Ari Sigit
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      Lock icon Shrine draws more ministers
      125 3 AFP TOKYO Two Japanese ministers yesterday paid their respects at the Yasukuni Shrine despite continued protests over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit. Chinese hackers attacked a series of Japanese websites and South Korea and China summoned the Japanese ambassador to make formal protests. But despite the
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      Easy catches
      375 4  -  Jose Raymond The wealthy are letti by jo se@ n c wstoday. co m. sg THE Shaw family stopped keeping personal bodyguards. The Hyundai distributors never saw the need for any and neither did the Melwanis. A host of "high risk" (read rich) people in Singapore let their
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      LKY scholarships
      104 4  -  Lee U-Wen A 25-YEAR-OLD former President's-curn-Overseas Merit Scholar in 1995 was yesterday awarded the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship. Ms Tracey Ho (centre) is one of two people to receive the scholarship, which is for outstanding Singaporeans to pursue their post-graduate studies at renowned universities. She is pursuing
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      Unleash your power
      177 4  -  Ng Hwee Koon DESPITE belt-tightening in most sectors, some are sparing no expense for one event. The tickets, going for a minimum of $1,850, are selling like hot cakes, with the most expensive ones costing $2,950 being snapped up first. What is this seminar that has attracted
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      Lock icon Compass unite parents and school
      109 4 Newsradio 938 EDUCATION Minister Teo Chee Hean said the Community and Parents in Support of Schools (Compass) programme has heJped schools to focus on developing its students. RAdm Teo said: "I see it as a continuing promotional effort to get parents and the community, as
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      67 4 ror wordsmiths j^^Qi only Turn to page 39 gToday... g Kal+irrandu I it 20 Buddha's birthplace at the IndiaNepal border under threat Portfolio 21 How to benefit from your CPF MAS 22 Pearl storms China: War epic strikes a chord with Chinese _IGHT 24 CNN wooing big names to boost
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      Bankers' choice
      513 6 Mergers were not 'forced' and liberalisation won't be rushed THE article by Associate Professor Donghyun Park (Today, Aug 3) and the letter by Mr William Kusters (Today, Aug 7) presented inaccurate criticisms of the Singapore banking sector and rehashed old arguments for market forces to be given free
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      Women equal and yet weaker?
      111 6  -  CffLee I REFER to your report "The 16-year-old dad" (Today, Aug 8). The question that always springs to mind is: Why is the man always at the losing end when it comes to court cases involving sex? Women are always fighting for equality when it
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      Commuter sees red over MRT colour coding system
      250 7  -  Sam Yeo I FEEL the recent changes in the colour and number coding for the MRT and LRT network are neither userfriendiy nor easy to use. First of all, the issue of using fewer colours. The rationale given is that the MRT
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      Ifs for the future
      472 7 WE would like to take this opportunity to explain the rationale behind the new signage system. The system is developed by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to cater for the future expansion of the MRT and LRT network. By 2006, the rapid transit network would have
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Is there life on this stretch?
      418 8  -  Joy Frances Nature lovers intrigued, but HDB not convinced by joy@newstoday.com.sg TALK about the sand flat at Tanjong Chek Jawa on Pulau Übin has been circulating like wildfire. No one seems to be able to agree about what will happen to the stretch, which
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      Teen in a ring of drugs
      122 8 THE 18-year-old boy who stole his mother's rings in order to pay off his drug debts was yesterday jailed eight months. Nicholas Loong Jihong had in July last year stolen three diamond and ruby rings worth $51,000 from his mother's cupboard. He had pawned
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      Lock icon Singapore sends relief
      97 8 -AFP SINGAPORE has sent $50,000 worth of relief goods to flood victims on the Indonesian island of Nias, the Defence Ministry said yesterday. The aid package, comprising tents, blankets and medical supplies, was ferried by a Singapore Air Force C-130 transport plane and turned over to the
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      Lock icon 'Spiderman' nabbed
      82 8 Newsradio 938 POLICE have arrested a cat burglar whom they have dubbed the Spiderman of Hougang. The unemployed 25-year-old man was caught red-handed after he had just looted a flat on the 10th floor of Block 838 Hougang Central. More than $5,000 worth of cash and valuables were
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Where CPF works harder
      396 10  -  Ivay Tan Single premium policies are new favourites by i vay news today.com.sg SINGLE premium policy sales surged by about 300 per cent to $6.02 billion in the first half of this year, largely because of the liberalisation of the Central Provident Fund (CPF) accounts early
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    • $ Market Watch
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        Econ approached for stake sate
        46 10 ECON International, a Singapore-based construction company, said it has been approached to sell "substantial stakes" in itself to parties it didn't name. "There is no certainty that such transactions will proceed," the company said in a statement to the Singapore Exchange.
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        SembCrop's first-half profit may rise 15%
        121 10 SEMBCORP Industries may report that profit for the first six months rose 15 per cent, helped by its logistics and shipyard businesses. Profit from operations in the first half is likely to rise to $77.3 million from $67.3 million in the year-earlier period, according
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        Your S$1 buys...
        27 10 us$ 0.5680 Rupiah 4802.3 UK£ 0.400 IBaht 25.528 Yen 69.772 Peso 29.078 HK$ 4.4303 >;A$ 1.0992 RM 2.1584 Rupee 26.764 Euro 0.6336 IWon 730.87
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      Maintaining growth
      359 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Onus is now on mobile phone operators by eh a opeh@ne wsto day. c o m. sg MOBILE phone operators have to find new revenue streams by developing technologies while milking existing capabilities in an increasingly saturated market. Industry watchers said they have to do
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      Lock icon $1.4 bil theme park for Johor?
      167 12 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Renong Bhd, Malaysia's biggest industrial group, and Universal Studios Inc will develop an US$BOO million ($1.4 billion) theme park in Malaysia's southern Johor state, the Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ) said, citing unnamed sources. Universal Studios, a filmmaking and amusement-park unit
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      Lock icon China beats US in mobile phone
      122 12 Bloomberg BEIJING China overtook the US in July to become the world's biggest cellular phone market by subscribers, as the number of Chinese mobile phone users grew by nearly half in the first seven months of this year, China had 120.6 million mobile phone
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      Lock icon South Korean airlines in the red
      90 12 AFP SEOUL High fuel prices and the weak won kept South Korea's two main airlines in the red in the first half of this year despite surging sales. Korean Air Lines (KAL) said its operating loss grew to 149.4 billion won ($2O million) in
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      From metal stamping to contract manufacturing
      306 13 Beyonics expects sales to reach more than $250 million this year BEYONICS Technology is a local listed contract manufacturer, which made the headlines when it acquired Seagate's manufacturing facility in June this year. It was founded in 1981 and subsequently was listed on the
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      Lock icon UOB to woo investors
      139 14 Channel News Asia It's selling bonds to fund acquisition of OUB UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) (picture) will be courting investors at the end of the week to sell around $750 million in bonds. That is less than the $1 billion some were originally expecting from UOB.
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      Lock icon Air New Zealand may cut down on operations
      293 14 Bloomberg AUCKLAND Air New Zealand will have to reduce its operations unless New Zealand's government allows Singapore Airlines (SIA) to take a bigger stake in the airline, said Mr Gary Toomey, Air New Zealand chief executive. "It seems inevitable that we will
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      Pacific's $5.7 M 02 loss
      169 14 PACIFIC Internet's net loss for the second quarter ended June 30 widened by nine per cent to $5.66 million, as compared to the same quarter last year. This higher loss follows the write-down of telephony assets worth $3.3 million the result of the change in
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      Lock icon Change of plans for Pos
      109 14 Channel News Asia KUALA LUMPUR The government may backtrack on a proposed sale of Pos Malaysia to Phileo Allied group. This came after the country's Securities Commission revised the share price of Phileo Allied from EMI ($0.46) to EM1.92 and approved a cash top-up by
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    • Market News
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        Singapore
        268 14 SINGAPORE shares were boosted by a rally in Nasdaq overnight as Goldman Sachs upgraded the semiconductor sector in the belief the bottoming of business and stock prices was near. Nasdaq's recovery elicited some measured buying enthusiasm in tech shares, which helped lift overall market sentiment. The buying momentum was
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        Malaysia
        154 14 AFTER several dry days, the Kuala Lumpur stock market came back with a vengeance, as investors piled in on the penny stocks, especially those that are potential takeover or restructuring candidates. The stronger finish of Nasdaq overnight also boosted Malaysian chip and IT stocks. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon It's not war
      320 16 Agencies But Israel-Palestine conflict will drag on JERUSALEM Israel faces a long, low-intensity conflict with Palestinian militants, a top army officer said yesterday, after Israel launched a three-hour incursion into a Palestinian controlled town. He added that the Jewish state would emerge victorious "because we have no
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      US bungled probe in scientist's case
      177 16 WASHINGTON It's official. The US government badly bungled its investigation of ChineseAmerican Lee Wen Ho, the nuclear-weapons scientist accused of mishandling top-secret government information. A report released on Monday blamed the Energy Department for the "inaccurate representations given to the FBI" and blames the
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      Lock icon A hug and a free hog
      51 16 Reuters Ms Supaporn Patakorn competing in a catch-a-free-pig race yesterday at a farm carnival in Petchaburi province, south of Bangkok. Contestants who can carry their piglet, covered with oil and weighing over 50 kg, for one minute, can get the hog free of charge.
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      Lock icon XL bans 25 more sauces
      90 16 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has added 25 new sauces to the 22 banned last month for allegedly breaching safety standards set by Britain's Food Standard Agency. The latest products banned include a premium oyster sauce with dried scallop made in Hong Kong, three soy sauces
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      Lock icon Thaksin: Never again
      167 16 AFP BANGKOK The Thai government has vowed never to allow a repeat of the weekend flood disaster that left 90 dead after seven villages were washed away in the mountainous north. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said his Cabinet would map out decisive short-term and long-term measures to
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      Lock icon Blair hits air pocket
      205 16 Reuters LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted to show he was a "people's leader" by using a low-cost, no-frills airline for a family holiday in France. But what should have been a public relations success hit turbulence in British newspapers. They seized on the fact
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      Emery grounds fleet
      123 16 WASHINGTON A US-based cargo airline has grounded its entire fleet of planes following safety concerns. Emery Worldwide Airlines signed an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration. (FAA) stating it would immediately cease operating its fleet of 37 aircraft until it fully resolves safety issues arising from past
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      Lock icon Angry Left
      350 17 AFP. Jiang's embrace of capitalists draws fire BEIJING President Jiang Zemin's attempt to make the Communist Party relevant in today's China has drawn much flak from diehard Reds. In fact, the backlash seems to have been bad enough for the authorities to launch a media crackdown on criticisms
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      Lock icon Pedicab drivers' burning fury
      51 17 Reuters A man riding by a burning vehicle after angry pedicab drivers in Jakarta set fire to turn city council vehicles. The fiery attack took place yesterday after city officials tried to remove the pedicabs from the main streets in the central Roxy and Karanganyar areas.
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      Road map to Pakistani democracy
      192 17 ISLAMABAD Pakistan's military ruler marked Independence Day yesterday by announcing a "road map" to restore democracy in the country. General Pervez Musharraf, who made himself President in June after seizing power in a 1999 coup, said provincial and federal elections will be held starting Oct
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      Lock icon Bomoh arrested for teen rapes
      116 17 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have arrested a spiritual healer suspected of raping more than 10 young girls. The 34-year-old "bomoh" from Johor was detained on Monday after accusations by four girls aged between 13 and 16. Local police chief Abdullah Rahmat was quoted by
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      Lock icon Of Barbie and rights
      325 18 Reuters Mattel loses copyright case against artist LOS ANGELES When it comes to free speech, intellectual property rights will have to take a backseat, a US court has ruled. US District Court Judge Ronald Lew ruled on Monday that Mr Tom Forsythe enjoyed free speech rights
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      Two drugs offer hope for'mad cow7 victims
      320 18 Two drugs offer hope for'mad cow 7 victims LONDON The prospect of a cure for the human version of "mad cow" disease increased yesterday after new research showed that two drugs can reverse its effects in the laboratory. A 20-year-old British woman with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) was the first
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      531 18 "Why is my baby crying?" «<• Q What is stomach wind A Stomach wind is the name given to the sharp, intermittent abdominal pains or cramps that occur in babies from birth onwards, Q What causes stomach wind A The cause of stomach wind remains a mystery although the belief
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  • COMMENTARY
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      In search of a better Seoul
      731 19  -  Patrick Smith S Korea seeks new answers to old woes by in Seoul IT is hard to say which seems the more daunting and disorderly: the view from Mr Jin Nyum's window across the centre of this cacophonous capital or the bulging portfolio of
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      261 19 > ■> f v&'<r h ■'^PJiii lH^, 1/1/ r7£*T7 I I stomach wind Soothing KelteJ r (€^s^so Stomach wind occurs in babies when there is a build up of trapped wind, it can occur in both breastfed and bottle-fed babies, as well as teething babies. Breastfed babies may be reacting
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  • UPFRONT
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      India's dam threat
      385 20  -  Richard J Valladares Talking points Birthplace of Buddha under danger of destruction by NEPAL has formally asked India to halt the construction of the controversial Rassiyal-Khurda-Lautan dam that threatens to flood Buddha's birthplace. Four months ago, India began building the barrage across the Danav River only 200
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      That big question is a really big one
      334 20  -  Serena Sim My Say by sere na@news Lod ay. co m. sg JOHN: Melanie, will you marry me? Melanie: I don't believe in marriage... I just don't think that love is something you contract Ally Mcßeal, Aug 14, MediaCorp TV Channel 5,
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      172 20 ■MHUUJIHIHUJHJ.B Nepal has asked India to stop building a dam that threatens to flood Buddha's birthplace j^a 125 miles f'm^ I NEPAL s^Lumbini \s\ Kathmanduf ■■■■IMIWM *^*fL Hi *>*!^J[^^P Hbi 4flH Source: Associated Press GRAPHIC NEWS §AUI»A @CORE f' w COMPETENCIES FOR MANAGERS 10Sep2001 Fee: $2008.50 (indu. lunches 6 no.
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  • PORTFOLIO
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      Building a nest egg
      462 21  -  Karman Tse Personal finance How to use the CPFIS to your benefit by karman newstoday. com. sg A SIGNIFICANT number of working iiadults especially my contemporaries, as I found out are not aware of the investment options available for them to beef up their Central Provident
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      Ordinary Account
      61 21 Full Ordinary Account savings can be invested in: Fixed deposits Singapore Government bonds Statutory board bonds Bonds guaranteed by Singapore Government Deferred annuities Endowment insurance policies Investment-1 inked insurance policies Unit trusts Fund management accounts Up to 35% of investible savings can be invested in: Shares Corporate bonds
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      28 21 Full Special Account savings can be invested in: Fixed deposits Singapore Government bonds Statutory board bonds Bonds guaranteed by Singapore Government Deferred annuities Endowment insurance policies
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      299 21 What are the current CPF contribution rates? Employees aged 55 years and below contribute 20 per cent per month, while their employers contribute 16 per cent. Monthly contributions are subject to a maximum of $960 for employers and $1,200 for employees, based on a salary ceiling of $6,000,
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  • INCINEMAS
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      203 22 Reuters/Variety World War II epic strikes a chord with Chinese SYDNEY Pearl Harbor's record-busting premiere in China helped propel the foreign box office gross for the World War II epic past US$2OO million ($352.2 million) last weekend. At the same time, Planet Of The Apes, Jurassic Park
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      97 22 Reuters/Variety THE Planet Of The Apes remake opened at top spot in Singapore with roughly U*****,209 ($924,000) on 48 screens. The figure includes sneak previews and general release from its Aug 9 opening through the weekend and is now Fox's second-best debut in Singapore, after
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      Lock icon Spielberg pulls out of festivals
      105 22 Reuters/Variety PARIS Film director Steven Spielberg has pulled out of the coming Deauville Film Festival in France. He is also expected to cancel his appearance at the Venice Film Festival. He will not be able to attend the Sept 8 screening of A.L Artificial Intelligence
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      Woody Allen's toughest critic
      156 24 WHO would've guessed? Woody Allen is his own toughest critic. Writer-director Allen, 65, who stars in almost all of his films as a neurotic tangle of nerves (and usually involved with gorgeous, younger women), told the Toronto Sun that he often agrees with bad reviews of
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      Twisted tales
      541 24 Apes director Burton loves mind games HAVE you seen The Planet Of The Apes, and are you confused about the ending? Well, don't try asking director Tim Burton (above) to help explaining it, as Empire Online found out. In an interview with Burton in London, Empire Online tried
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      422 24 Reuters/Variety TTTRITER-DIRECTOR Quentin V V Tarantino (above) was in a quandary recently when he discovered that his Kill Bill star, Uma Thurman, was pregnant. Tarantino hasn't been behind the camera since Jackie Brown, and was eager to direct his first original script since Pulp Fiction.
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Lock icon CNN wooing Rush Limbaugh to boost ratings
      238 26 Reuters/Variety NEW YORK CNN is apparently an equal-opportunity employer. The news cable network, often assailed for a perceived liberal bias, is talking to radio right-winger Rush Limbaugh about hosting a show. Limbaugh is known as the voice of the extreme right-wing conservatives. His
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      Charity stars
      210 26 MediaCorp artistes out in force raising funds THE stars turned out on Saturday night in support of the "Together We Share Charity Night". Zoe Tay, Christopher Lee (top, right), Chew Chor Meng and Xie Shaoguang (top, left) all lent their voices in song. On top of that, Zoe
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  • TIMEOUT
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      Bubbly and boogie
      343 28  -  -Joy Frances Mid-week stressbuster? How about free champagne at Carnegie's If it's chart sing-a-longs and free champagne you're after for a mid-week stressbuster, you need look no further than Carnegie's. This popular hang out at Far East Square is packed with business district socialites almost every night.
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      Reflections of serenity and dynamism
      567 28 A fusion of nature and art this is the theme of Malaysian artist Cheah Thien Soong's latest series of works, entitled Reflection of Nature Created. As an artist, Cheah believes in the Tao of Chinese art, in other words, in the essence and value of
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  • JOBBEAT
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      A raise may not get you up
      519 29  -  Jeffrey Tan Are your professional goals in line with your work objectives? EVEN if you have performed well on the job, getting a good raise isn't a sure thing. One of the last obstacles you will face before you get that financial pat
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      Getting headhunted isn't a bad thing
      411 29  -  Gurmeet Singh by THERE is more than one way to skin a cat, we are t01d... and certainly, there are ways to land that dream job in a market that is currently under a cloud of gloom. Instead of flipping through newspaper advertisements and
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      312 30 jQbStreet.com Singapore: www.jobstreet.com.sg, sg.jobstreet.com Quick Search: ~1 [Search) WnmtJBwffti Employers I Philips Electronics (S)l (S) Pte Ltd Heart Centre.l Medical Science |Pte Ltd (Central) P J'JPIJi WJEWtfJUI|M I Singapore Pte Ltd ITechnology Agency »ct»iMgJtitiii bum •rpTtya 'ii BmWflfji fTyna K^ikidJuMi lUpkiuM I^P^S*: I CHAN E EL Nanyang Polytechnic invites applicants
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Tendulkar elated, Gavaskar unconvinced
      417 33  -  Allspqrt -AFP Star India batsman named for the late Sir Don's Dream Team Cricket NEW DELHI India's star batsman Sachin Tendulkar was "on top of the world" after being named for the late Sir Donald Bradman's Dream Team, but former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar dubbed the
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      Owen to the rescue
      684 34 And no one is talking about a little Liverpool striker named Michael International Friendly: England v Holland LONDON Owen Hargreaves' first full England cap could involve something more significant than a walk-on part. Sven-Goran Eriksson is now much closer to including the 20-year-old Bayern Munich midfielder
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      'Big Phil' Scolari wobbling as Brazil stands on the brink of disaster
      682 34 RIO DE JANEIRO In Rio de Janeiro, not long ago, an apparently wayward and confused penguin turned up on a beach, where it was described by lifeguards as "wobbling all over the place and on its last legs".
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      Lock icon More than just a Slam at stake
      931 35 Ryder Cup beast lurks in the background of this year's PGA PGA Championships DULUTH As he sat in the clubhouse eating lunch yesterday, Rocco Mediate would have gladly traded his meal for a place on this year's Ryder Cup team. "At least if
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      Lock icon Two Slam champions and teenage star make it to second round
      320 35 AFP Indianapolis Championships WASHINGTON Teenage tennis sensation Andy Roddick squeezed past Australian Wayne Arthurs 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7/4) yesterday in the first round of the US$BOO,OOO ($1.4 million) Indianapolis ATP tennis tournament. The ninth-seeded Roddick was the highest seed
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      Lock icon The world's greatest athletes
      699 36  -  Rohit Brijnath ...are people you probably won't recognise THE world's greatest athlete is not someone you think it is. He isn't married to an actress. He doesn't spend his time fishing and being chased by a nine-foot brown bear. He doesn't have a strange affinity for
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      Lock icon All Blacks remain unchanged
      203 36 Reuters DUNEDIN New Zealand named an unchanged squad yesterday to play South Africa in a Tri-Nations match in Auckland on Aug 25. The All Blacks lost their second Tri-Nations match, which also doubled as a Bledisloe Cup game, 23-15 to Australia in Dunedin on the weekend
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      Lock icon Alesi happy with new car
      199 36 Reuters LONDON Jean Alesi made an impressive debut for Jordan at Silverstone yesterday as he used a 50-kilometre shakedown test to get used to his new EJII car. The Frenchman moved from Prost after the German Grand Prix to fill the place left by sacked
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      Lock icon Good and bad
      577 37  -  Kelvin Phang Singapore Open Badminton by Kelvin newstoday. com. sg ONE is a strong advocate of the proposed new scoring system, while the other is more cautious. But the fact remains neither world number two Peter Gade Christensen or All-England champion Pulella Gopichand have won a tournament
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      Gopichand's ups and downs since All-England title
      408 37  -  Kelvin Phang BEING a national icon has its perks and privileges, but being a champion also demands sacrifice and commitment. This was the view of reigning All-England champion Pullela Gopichand of India, before a practice session at the Indoor Stadium yesterday. The 27-year-old
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      Two defeats for Singapore in hockey tourney
      114 37 International Masters SINGAPORE had a disappointing day in yesterday's hockey tournament at the Delta Sports Complex. Singapore lost 3-1 to Malaysia in the Masters category (40 years and above), while the Senior Masters' team (50 years and above) fell 2-0 to Hong Kong.
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      Not a one-man show, says Yap
      701 38  -  Jose Raymond by j n se@n ewsto day.cora.sg WHILE a few were surprised when Malaysian Moey Yoke Ham parted ways with Gombak United recently, there were many who felt that his departure was mainly due to agreement with one man -club chairman John Yap
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      Football...it's not all about fat pay cheques, cars and big bonuses
      629 38  -  Scott O'Donell by scott® ne wstoday. co m. sg "I ONLY want to play soccer until I die." That is what Cambodia's Kao Nisai told the Phnom Penh Post last week. The player had to borrow US$4OO ($720) from
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      Fergie's not angry with me, says Stam
      484 39 MANCHESTER Jaap Stam remained unrepentant over the furore caused by his book revelations and insisted: "My conscience is clear." The former PSV Eindhoven defender has risked a furious backlash from Sir Alex Ferguson by divulging details of a secret meeting in an Amsterdam
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      Lock icon English soccer losses mount despite record income
      168 40 Rmters LONDON English soccer broke the billion pound revenue barrier to cement its position as the richest league in the world last year. But losses mounted as wages soared and the gap between rich and poor clubs widened, consultants Deloitte Touche said in
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka strikes after tea
      127 40 -AFP GALLE Injury-hit India struggled against Sri Lanka's bowlers on a seamers' wicket to make 163 for five on a dreary opening day of the first cricket Test yesterday. Openers Shiv Das and Sadagopan Ramesh put on 79 for the first wicket after Sri Lanka
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