Today, 28 December 2001

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    8 1 TODAY Friday December 28, 2001 MITA (PI 063/11/2001
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  • Article
    War dance
    605 1  -  Elisia Yeo But posturing can be dangerous business by elisia@newstoday.com.sg LIKE two boys squaring up in the schoolyard, India and Pakistan are hurling insults at each other while deciding whether to throw the first punch. Neither of them wants a bloody nose and the posturing is as much
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    It was a dark and stormy day
    230 1  -  Fayen Wong THOSE who were stuck inside their offices didn't want to get out and some of those who were stranded on the roads found they couldn't get back in. As rain and winds of up to 35 knots lashed Singapore yesterday, even
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      42 1 Changes at SPH? Executive chairman Lim Kim San wonts to step down/2 DEATH AND LIFE SENTENCES/3 19 holy war militants found guilty in Malaysia ANGELA'S MIRACLE/4 Tap Normal Tech student gets a shot at O levels SPORTS/35 Tang slated to head SAAA
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Changes at SPH?
      409 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Executive chairman wants to step down, search for new CEO by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg THE winds of change seem to be sweeping through the Singapore Press Holdings' (SPH) boardroom at a time when the company has just emerged from a stormy year. In a full-page statement
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      Power will cost less from next year
      145 2  -  Woo Sue-Ann SINGAPORE Power will be reducing electricity tariffs from Jan 1 next year. This price adjustment, which is conducted quarterly, will affect low, high and extra-high tension supplies in Singapore. For low tension, domestic and non-domestic supplies, the tariffs will be lowered
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    • Article
      Editor loses job over Dr M article
      167 3 KUALA LUMPUR It was a case of misplaced faith in sources that cost the job of the editor-in-chief of The Sun newspaper. Mr Hng Hung Yong resigned yesterday over an article published in the newspaper on Tuesday, alleging that Prime Minister Datuk Sen
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      Lock icon It's death or life
      362 3 19 holy war men found guilty in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR A strong message was sent out by the Malaysian High Court yesterday to Islamic militant groups thinking of waging a holy war to make Malaysia an Islamic state. Nineteen members of the Al Ma'unah cult, whose
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    • Article
      Bushfire spreading
      127 3 SYDNEY The massive bushfire burning for a third day yesterday was expected to impact on the Blue Mountains, a resort area, by the weekend, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. New South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire Service Commissioner, Mr Phil Koperberg, said the fire was started by a lightning
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      Angela's miracle
      426 4  -  Woo Sue-Ann Top Normal Tech student defies history, gets shot at 'O' levels by sueann@iiewstoday.com.sg THE mountain is still steep but a ladder has suddenly appeared to help Anthony Angela Jean (picture) make her climb. Like thousands before her, this year's top Normal Technical student was agonising between
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    • Article
      NIE undergrad dies in accident
      155 4  -  -Jasleen Randhawa A NATIONAL Institute of Education (NIE) undergraduate was killed in a bus accident on Wednesday night. Miss Tang Jie Ru, 20, was trapped under the front left wheel of the SBS Transit bus at the junction of Tampines Ave 7 and Tampines St
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      91 3 START THE NEW YEAR WITH A STEAL! EHwffl 112 mm I*-*^ fs g April —0011 i*£& H^^^^^Hr 1/ j^^TrST fcaMßffl^P li£ver y purchased of S3OO above, .V. v /M£~ si^ r~>r~\& Pick up an ARCAM A75 amPlifier' ARCAM CD72 compact disc player *^V New Years DaY promotional price of 552,899.
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      33 5 I a Lt 4s ntce to see someone aitei' a Long haul day ci: Joel Tan Business Development Executive 23yesrsoid Courtesy, The Key To A Pleasant Journey rmr>T Log on to: www.smrtcorp.com.sg/courtesy V^"
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Where's the line?
      357 6  -  Gillian Wong Tough question at dialogue on embryo by gilli an@news to day.com. sg WHEN is an embryo a full human person? The controversial question came up at a dialogue session between the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) and seven religious organisations yesterday. The session was held to
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      Lock icon Win while you wait
      166 6  -  -Jasleen Randhuwa YOU can now win money vouchers when you are at Changi Airport. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has conceived an original gameshow to entertain its passengers when they are in transit. CAAS has invested almost $1 million and gives out a maximum
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  • LETTERS
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      Family or work: Which comes first?
      316 8  -  Yeo Kok Seng Working parents have little time for children I REFER to Ms Julie Lim Siew Choo's letter, "It's about the children" (Today, Dec 26). The problems with our youth are not caused by couples having fewer children and lavishing too much love
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      Putting the brakes on choosy cabbies
      205 8  -  Jacqueline Tham I REFER to the letter, "Running out of patience with cabbies" (Today, Dec 20). In November last year, Comfort substituted automated rooftop signs for manual signs to stop the pick-and-choose behaviour among taxi drivers. The new sign automatically shows "On Call" when
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      IPO fever next year?
      621 10  -  Francis Kan Investors can look forward to more choices and better pricing by fran c i s@n ews to d ay. co m .sg MORE choices and better pricing: that's the good news for initial public offering (IPO) investors next year. Market watchers expect more quality
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      Lock icon Singdollar slips further
      245 12 Agencies THE Singapore dollar slipped to yet another low against the US dollar yesterday, pulled through the 1.85 barrier by a weakening yen, analysts and dealers said. The weak Singapore economy was also hurting the local currency and the slump was expected to continue for several months,
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      3 for Sesdaq
      402 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Home-grown firms seek NewYear listings by ch ao peh@ ne wstoday, co m, sg HOME grown furniture maker Koda clean room specialist Kyodo-Allied Industries and creative design and management education group, Raffles LaSalle, will be among the first to seek listing on Sesdaq in
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      Office rentals plummet 11 per cent
      122 12 OFFICE rentals here dived 11 per cent in the fourth quarter as local companies struggled to deal with a deep recession, property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle said yesterday. In a bleak appraisal of the market, the company said office rentals for the full year
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    • Corporate Briefs
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        Boustead in the red
        51 14 THE red ink at listed trading firm Boustead has turned into a flood at half-time. The company reported an interim net loss of $5.4 million compared to $1.4 million previously. It made a $2.9 million provision for its investments in the property and start-up information technology
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        Freehold condo launch
        73 14 FREEHOLD condo development Belmondo View at Novena will be launched this Saturday. The 12-storey single apartment block comprises 20 apartments and two penthouses. The threebedroom units are priced between $478 and $646 per sq ft. The developer is offering a deferred payment scheme under which homebuyers pay
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        No more terrorism 'cover'
        67 14 THE General Insurance Association of Singapore will exclude cover for terrorist acts in general policies issued or renewed from Jan 1 as a direct result of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on America. Its president Law Song Keng said that as yet, there is no credible
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        221 14 INVESTOR interest remained thin as most players were either in holiday mood or still away on leave. A mildly positive Wall Street last night helped to improve sentiment in Singapore with the Straits Times Index closing 25 points higher at 1,612. Market volume was thin with only 259 million
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        Malaysia
        146 14 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index continued its upward climb yesterday, underpinned by yearend window-dressing activities and Wall Street's advance overnight. Profit-taking pressure was well absorbed and renewed buying of selected index-linked stocks towards the end of the trading day saw the KLCI finishing at 687.72, close to its intra-day
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      Lock icon Car boom
      365 16 Bloomberg Cheap loans, new models perk up Malaysian market KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian vehicle sales are set to reach their highest level in four years as customers take advantage of cheap loans and snap up new models, making automaker stocks among the biggest gainers. Sales of passenger cars and
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Jayalalitha set to return
      169 17 MADRAS Just months after she was made to step down as Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Ms Jayaram Jayalalitha looks set to return to power. Ms Jayalalitha was yesterday acquitted in a 65 million rupees ($2.6 million) "coal import" scam as
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      What the regional papers said yesterday ...
      114 17 What the regional papers said yesterday The Star /Malaysia PM: It's not right Dahjk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said sensationalist reporting like the ore about a plot to assassinate him and his deputy could affect the country's economy. The Jakarta Post/ In don esia Bureaucrats told to be thrifty After
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      Lock icon The President's man
      239 17 -AFP JAKARTA Just who is the real President in Indonesia? That question, often asked of Mr Taufik Kiemas, the husband of President Megawati Sukarnoputri, resurfaced this week. The controversy this time is over the president's decision to send Mr Taufik as her "special envoy" and head of
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      Lock icon Ouch, that hurts!
      114 18 -AFP BEIJING In a sign of affluence, a disgruntled Chinese businessman destroyed his sleek Mercedes Benz SLK23O after the German automaker failed to repair it. Mr Wang Sheng (picture) said he had to repair the 700,000 yuan ($156,594) car five times last year and that repeated requests
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      Heat on Arab 'CNN'
      286 18 Station aired Osama's latest tape against US wishes DOHA, QATAR Osama bin Laden's latest tape does not answer any questions nor has it made the search for him any easier. Yet, Qatar-based television station Aljazeera aired excerpts from it yesterday, defying an indirect warning from the
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      Lock icon Japan's military boost
      167 18 Agencies TOKYO Despite the legal implications arising from its weekend gun battle with a suspected North Korean spy ship, Japan may now find it easier to strengthen its military. Professor Hajime Izumi, who teaches international politics at Shizuoka Prefectural University, said: "The shoot-out will vastly affect the
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      S Koreans gambling their woes away
      143 18 SEOUL Despite the economic downturn, one industry is thriving. More and more South Koreans are turning to gambling, a trade worth US$5 million ($9.3 million) last year. The BBC reported a rise in gambling in Seoul, where betting at the two statecontrolled horse race
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Argentina's latest folly
      656 20  -  David Deßosa $10 billion of new currency to be issued, but without economic backing by NO sooner had Argentina's interim President, Mr Adolfo Rodriguez Saa, taken power on Sunday than he hit on a way to have his cake and eat it too or so he must
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      339 21 S^^Sy^Bi^^n^P^^^' 22 December 2001 Till 6 January 2002 Compaq Presario HP Pavilion ,e=~^£_ A HP Pavilion Acer Veriton VT33OOM *P3-I.IGHz IJ& F=Sl "P4-I.BGHZ l*P4-18GHz I I ~|*256M8 SDRAM *128MB SDRAM I ;j UJ *256M8 SDRAM 1! M^U E256M8 SDRAM ffl^BS 'CDRW •40GBHDD »40GBHDD :»40GBHDD I B* 10/100 Ethernet LAN >CDRW
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  • UPFRONT
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      Star wars in Chennai
      726 22  -  Sudha G Tilak Tamil film stars caught in the crossfire between TV and cinema by in Chennai 'T^HIS is surely a war with a X difference a war being fought by two media giants in Chennai, India. Caught in between are the film industry's top actors
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      That Rafidah Aziz press conference
      576 23  -  Clement Mesenas My Say by clement@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Margaret Thatcher visited Kuwait where I worked in the early 80s, she was trailed by a horde of newsmen, the national Arab press, the foreign press and an admiring public. When Rafidah Aziz came, I wondered: should I
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  • TRAVELLER
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      Lock icon The killer on board
      647 24  -  lan De Cotta Potentially fatal blood clots can form suddenly in even healthy passengers by ian@newstoday.com.sg T7OURTEEN months after 28-year-old J7 Briton Emma Christoffersen's 20-hour flight from Australia to London on Qantas ended in her tragic death, another 28-year-old British woman has died under similar circumstances.
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      342 24 Three Day YiSUALARTS Pop Buddha This exhibition, described as Andy War hoi-meets-Sudd ha, features American artist Jay's images of the icon. Date: Until Monday Time: I2pm-Iopm (Mon to Sat,. ON Sunday by appointmentonly) Venue: Prasat Gallery Entry: Free Enquiries: Call the gallery at 323 0503 Sacred Threads; the Ceremonial Textiles
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Magic in the spirit world
      385 26  -  Serene Foo Tale of self-discovery is bound to enchant FILM REVIEW Spirited Away (How showing) by serene@newsloday.com.sg HAYAO Miyazaki's latest animated feature, Spirited Away, is a spunky, humorous and introspective piece packed into one delicious bento (lunch box). It's a visual feast from the elaborate
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      Open your eyes, see the truth
      926 28  -  David Ngiau FILM REVIEW Vanilla Sky {Now showing) by d avid@newstod ay.com.sg DEALING with altered states of consciousness, Vanilla Sky is not unlike a dream that draws us in. And what a wondrous dream it is, though it does take us into the realm
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      A feel-good movie
      531 29  -  David Ngiau NEVER mind the critics. Behind Enemy Lines has something timely to offer America in the post-Sept 11 era, says the film's star, Gene Hackman, "We all have a sense of patriotism and a loyalty to the military, which has changed from the post-Vietnam era when
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      484 33 Reuters NBA I Charlotte 99 Washington 93 Jordan's 28 points not enough CHARLOTTE Michael Jordan moved through the lane with ease, went up for what should have been a routine jumper and watched the ball rattle off the rim. It happened over and over six times in
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      224 33 Reuters MELBOURNE Australia moved confidently to 126 without loss at the close of play in reply to South Africa's 277 on the second day of the second test yesterday. Justin Langer, boasting four centuries in Australia's past five tests, was unbeaten on 67 and Matthew
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      664 34 Agencies LONDON -We don ft have a weak link that was the verdict of a delighted Bobby Robson after the easy win over Middlesbrough. And the Newcastle United boss added: "Every segment of the team did its job and I've got to be happy at
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      315 34 AFP LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has again mounted a defence of Laurent Blanc who has been the target of criticism following recent defensive lapses by the side. Ferguson said that the veteran French defender had not been responsible for any
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      215 34 -AFP MILAN International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge yesterday took a thinly-veiled swipe at the lenient penalties imposed on top footballers for doping offences. Belgian Rogge, a former Olympic sailor and one-time rugby international, made his comments in an interview with Italian sports paper
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      279 35 Reuters PARIS Formula One champion Ferrari has beaten off the French Davis Cup-winning tennis team and Gerard HouUier's Liverpool to top a readers' poll in L'Equipe newspaper for world team of the year. Ferrari, with Frenchman Jean Todt as its sporting director, secured
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