Today, 3 April 2002

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    5 1 TODAY Wednesday .Apm3,2002 MITA(P) 063/11/2001
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    What comes first, the cause or the dream?
    279 1  -  Ng Boon Yian by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg THERE is a strange, amorphous category that politicians often try to pin down. Loosely termed "younger Singaporeans", this group has been described as materialistic and politically apathetic. The worry is how to engage this lot and get
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    Lock icon Yours, stubbornly
    533 1  -  Joy Frances by joy@newstoday.com.sg COURT documents will merely record that on April 2, 2002, Mr Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam stood in court and read out an apology to 10 ruling party members for defaming them. And in exchange for the apology, he got out of paying them substantial damages.
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      23 1 call laoo-a ib-1 ibb Did Man Utd avenge its defeats by Deportivo? Call 1900-912-1122 after 6am today for this morning's Champions League re
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  • HOT NEWS
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      A Ministry for Women? A Department of Enjoyment?
      364 2 THE principles of non-discrimination and equality may be enshrined in the Constitution. Yet when a woman is discriminated against at work, are the existing institutions strong enough to protect these ideals? So far, the Government has preferred to use moral persuasion to
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      What comes first, the cause or the dream?
      193 2 (Continued from Page 1) Mr Khaw said young people do get involved in activities beyond textbooks. As a student, he had helped to set up the Red Cross Society in school and ran remedial classes for fellow classmates. "But there is an
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      Dr Pay-Little
      204 2 Taxman catches up with tax-evading doctor A DOCTOR who failed to fully declare his income for 2000 and last year may have to pay triple the amount that he was undercharged under Section 96(1) of the Income Tax Act. This works out to a hefty $589,634.76. The Act
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      Top law firm's new managing partner
      71 2 AN Australian legal eagle who worked on the United Overseas Bank takeover of Overseas Union Bank has joined Freshfields Drew& Napier as its managing partner. Mr David Simpson (picture), replaces Mr Roger Dyer, who is currently on a three-month sabbatical. Freshfields Drew Napier is
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      Lock icon Popular goes online with $16m goal
      197 2 Bloomberg BOOK retailer and publisher Popular Holdings Ltd is taking its textbooks online, in a move that may generate $16 million in sales over the next two to three years. It wants to deliver the content of English-lan-guage and Chinese-language school textbooks to students
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      Sharon offers one-way ticket to Arafat
      155 3 JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday responded to world leaders' concern for besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat with an offer of a one-way ticket Mr Sharon said Mr Arafat could leave the West Bank city of Ramallah but not return, adding that world
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      Lock icon The General's daughter
      359 3 Agencies YANGON The favourite daughter of Gen Ne Win, the man who ruled Myanmar with an iron fist for over 40 years, is about to face charges of treason that may get her the death penalty. The military junta that took over from Gen Ne Win, after
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      Lock icon A deadly boycott
      142 3 Agencies AHMEDABAD (India) Muslims are living in fear for their lives and livelihoods in Gujarat in west India, where sectarian violence has claimed at least 800 lives over the past five weeks. Hardline Hindu organisations have launched a campaign through chain letters urging Hindus to stop patronising
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      Lock icon Mainland-bound
      113 3 Agencies HONG KONG -A mainland Chinese man was the first to be sent home yesterday after a deadline for abode seekers expired at midnight on Sunday. He was among some 50 people who were ordered to report to the Hong Kong immigration office, said an official. But some of
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      Bak kua treat
      251 4  -  Sarah Chua Khoo rewards himself for making good time by sarah@newstoday.com.sg ON Day Eight of his attempt at the North Pole, adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow (picture) passed the spot where he aborted his mission last year. That was when he was plagued by frost-nipped fingers, chafed thighs,
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      Today gets the nod from WIPs
      182 4 EIGHT of Singapore's top industry leaders will go on television from this week to share with viewers why Today has become a must read for them. They are Ms Claire Chiang, executive director of Banyan Tree Gallery; marketeer Mr Ajay Bhalla; Mr Terry O'Conn-or,
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      Student burnt to death in accident
      96 4 A YOUNG woman was burnt beyond recognition in an accident early yesterday morning. The 20-year-old Singapore Polytechnic third-year maritime transport management student was driving along Sungei Kadut Drive when her SDJ-plate red BMW rammed into the centre divider. It hit a tree, overturned and
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      Blessed are the kind ...
      178 6  - Blessed are the kind Alex Yap Last Thursday, Today reported that remisiers were rallying in support of a colleague, Mr Alex Yap, whose slip-up cost him $127,000. On Monday, MrKC Tan wrote that Mr Yap should appeal to the authorities to reconsider his case. Mr Yap replies: I REFER to
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      What nue need are jobs
      299 6  -  Low Wai Choong High interest rates are not the answer I REFER to the commentary "Time for a rethink?" by Mr Anil Bhatia (Today, April 1). It may be time for a rethink, but the idea of high interest rates is not supportable by current
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      Lost your job? Here's how to survive ...
      242 6  - Lost your job? Here's how to survive Mohamad Rosle Ahmad BY the time you read this, I would have lost 10 of my colleagues to the two dreaded Rs restructuring and retrenchment While it is easy and expected of the Government and union leaders to call on companies to retrain
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Comfort in big wheels
      382 8  -  Val Chua Taxi operator targets buses by val@newstoday.com.sg LIKE their banking counterparts, private bus operators may be finding mergers inevitable too. Six of them, which have a total of 133 buses, were recently acquired by Singapore's largest taxi operator Comfort Group. The acquisitions and the purchase
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        83 8 DESPITE the uplifting ISM Purchasing Managers' Index data, concerns about escalating Middle East tension and the rising crude oil prices weighed on sentiments. The blue chip segment rebounded on some light bargain-hunting, lifting the STI 8.19 points to 1797.28 while the broader market was dogged with war fears. For
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        Malaysia
        95 8 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index was down 1.97 points at 755.42. Market players stayed on the sidelines, with overall market volume at 252,930 lots. However, market breadth was positive, thanks to sustained interest on lower liners. Gainers led losers, 442 to 247, while 197 counters were unchanged. SDKM Fibres,
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        SGX most active
        56 8 By volume April 2 '000 KLW 20,522 Digiland 15,405 Ipco 12,937 Unifood 9,579 HOL 9,295 '000 Seoiown 8,400 Slipsiz 7,550 Chartered 6,920 loi Sin 6,422 Surface MT 6,161 ByS April 2 Value Choriered 34,211,264 SIA 17,025,400 DBS 12,811,741 CIIYDEV 12,145,700 UOB 11,723,200 Value NOl 9,324,295 OCBC 8,657,300
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        SGX top rises
        79 8 By$ April 2 Venture Close Change 18.200 +0.200 DBS 14.700 +0.200 JMS400USS 5.700 +0.200 SPH 24.500 +0.200 SingnmosC 2kHKS UOB 0.780 +0.130 15.000 +0.100 KalBrood 2.550 +0.100 SPH 100 OUE 24.500 +0.100 6.950 +0.10O OCBC 13.800 +0.100 By percentage April 2 Oose Change SingomosC 2kHKS 0.780 +20.000
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        World markets
        54 8 Index Value Chang* Pfc Nikkei 225 *****.49 +175.79 +1.59 Hong Seng Ail Ordinaries Taiwan Wld *****.04 3338.50 6243.46 -154.88 ■24.80 +57.02 -1.40 -.74 +.92 KweaComp SET Index Jakarta (omp 905.34 370.82 489.09 +29.51 ■4.63 +2.42 +3.37 -1.23 +iO Phils (omp Sheraen B Mumboi 1422.75 228.34 3510.17 +26.65 -2.73
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        SGX top falls
        76 8 April 2 Close Change BMT100 0.800 73.200 Robinson 5.350 -0.200 SIA 14.100 0.200 GrealEosI 11.800 -0.200 O1YDEV 6.450 0.100 Creative 50 22.000 -0.100 H0fiti5D7%*****110k 1.040 -0.060 SIA 200 14.200 -0.100 TAC2MUSS 1.260 -0.050 KepLand 1.750 -0.050 By perisntage Apri 2 dose Change BMT1O0 0.8OO 98.919 Bonvests W*****S
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        Your S$1 buys
        35 8 US$ 0.5413 UK£ 0.3762 Yen 72.278 HK$ 4.2216 RM 2.0568 Euro 0.6161 Rupiflh 5302.0 Bohl 23.670 Peso 27.681 A$ 1.0151 Indian Rs 26.425 Won C$ 0.8660 Yuan 4.4802 NZ$ 1.2243 m 18.945
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        Lock icon Commodities
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      Enter Sulaiman
      476 9 KUALA LUMPUR In the Malaysian banking world, the name of Mr Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib (picture) does not ring a bell that is until recently when he inked the deal to merge Bank Utama with RHB Bank. All eyes are now on this 33-year-old man, who is tipped
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      Citibank home loan plan comes with safety net
      245 9  -  Tan Hui Leng by huileng@newstoday.com.sg CITIBANK yesterday launched a home loan plan that will insure consumers against retrenchment. The latest to hit the market, the Citibank Home Protection Plan came hot on the heels of new home loan plans launched by Standard
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      Lock icon Axe falls
      167 10 Bloomberg Lehman trims investment banking unit LEHMAN Brothers Holdings, the fourth-largest securities firm by capital, is cutting its investment banking unit in Singapore after failing to attract as much business as it first expected. It becomes the second American bank to trim its investment banking presence here, after
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Lifting of the axe helps avert Korean strike
      119 12 Agencies SEOUL A provisional accord has helped avert a major strike in South Korea. The 600,000-member strong Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) yesterday put off a sympathy walkout in support of a protracted strike by thousands of workers at staterun Korea
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      Early polls? What for, asks Mahathir
      180 12 KUALA LUMPUR To those wondering if the recent Singapore-bashing by Malaysians is because elections are around the corner, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has the answer. He said he would not call an early general election despite signs of increasing support for
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      Lock icon A blunt weapon?
      317 12 Agencies An Arab oil embargo may no longer be as effective KUALA LUMPUR Can Arab nations get together and use their oil power to hold the world hostage once again? The idea that the Arab world should start flexing its oil muscle again was first mooted by
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      No English please, we're Taiwanese
      223 14 TAIPEI Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian's recommendation that English be made the second official language for the Mandarin-speaking island has triggered a new round of controversy. Earlier, the opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) urged the island to adopt Hokkien, Hakka and Aboriginal languages as official languages.
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      60 14 It was terrible politics. fl A It wasn't worth the damage to my reputation. But that doesn't mean the attacks were true. Former US President Bill Clinton telling Newsweek magazine that he regretted granting billionaire financier Marc Rich a lastminute pardon. The decision took a heavy toll on Mr Clinton's
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      Lock icon Deviant school?
      178 14 AFP JAKARTA One of the largest Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia, the Al Zaitun, is under investigation for teaching a deviant form of Islam. The Indonesian Council of Ulema (religious scholars) said a joint team has been set up to look into claims that the school was a
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Why not lift the whip completely?
      850 16  -  Sunny Goh Our system is strong enough to meet the challenge THIS is going to sound rather confusing. Taiwan, which has a more robust system of democracy than Singapore, is looking to control its legislators by introducing a party whip for the ruling Democratic
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon A moving royal tribute
      140 18 AFP LONDON A televised TV address to the nation by Prince Charles in which he paid tribute to his "magical grandmother", the Queen Mother, has won him sympathy and praise for going public with his emotions. The death of the Queen Mother at the age of
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      Lock icon Oh, Carol!
      419 18  -  Elisa Chia Hong Kong actress here to star in comedy series SHE charmed many as the poor little rich girl in the 1980s Hong Kong hit serial, Man in the Net. Lately, she has been making headlines as the no-nonsense host of a quiz show. Soon, Hong Kong's
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  • PORTFOLIO
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      How to create a fat nest egg
      569 20  -  Low Ting Bee First, stick to a weekly allowance, then set aside six months' income for emergencies. HOW many of us listed "try and save more money" as this year's resolution but failed to keep it? Ms Jenn Lim, a 25-year-old business development
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      This one's for the NKF patients
      233 21  -  Low Shi Ping by shiping@newstoday.com.sg IMAGINE having to crawl 120 metres along a thin rope 12 metres above the Singapore River at night, facing the danger of winds causing the rope to sway and having thousands of eyes below and at home trained on
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      Star wins prize in treasure hunt
      57 21 MEDIACORP star Tay Ping Hui was specially invited by Opel to participate in a Singapore-Kuala Lumpur-Kuantan team exploration trip over the weekend. Ping Hui and other car owners enjoyed the holiday drive through scenic routes. The adventurous artiste even emerged as the first runner-up
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon Soprano star faces robbery charges
      227 23 Reuters/Variety Her, two others accused of taking $74 from tourists NEW YORK Actor Robert Her (picture), who plays the troubled son of a mob boss on the hit HBO television show, The Sopranos, will stand trial on robbery charges on May 6, a judge ordered
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      Lock icon Tom's an inspiration
      124 23 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Tom Cruise has surpassed Angelina Jolie. While the buxom actress brought digital heroine Lara Croft to life in the movie Tomb Raider, Cruise has inspired a video game based on his movie character. The video game publisher, Activision, has landed the exclusive rights to create
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      Lock icon Ricci to play Borgia scion
      75 23 Reuters/Variety NEW YORK Christina Ricci will play the female lead in the Neil Jordan-directed historical drama about the Borgia family who thrived during the Italian Renaissance. Ricci joins Ewan McGregor in the film, which will go into production this summer. She will play Lucrezia, a
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      SINGAPORE TOP 10 (MARCH 29-31)
      71 24 Rankings according to Cinematograph Exhibitors Association. Last weekend's position in brackets, denotes new release. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (1) (2) (3) (4) C) C) (6) (7) (9) Resident Evil NC 16 Time Machine Ice Age G A Beautiful Mind
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      370 28 -AFP NEW DELHI India "cheated" its way to winning field hockey's junior World Cup in Australia last year by fielding over-aged players, former Olympic captain Pargat Singh alleged yesterday. "People may not like what I am saying, but we cheated
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      139 28 Reuters YAOUNDE Africa's ruling sports body threw its weight behind the continent's soccer chief Issa Hayatou on Monday in his campaign to unseat Switzerland's Sepp Blatter as head of world football's governing body Fifa. In a statement read over state radio in Hayatou's native Cameroon, the
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      321 29  -  Kelvin Phang SWIMMER Nicolette Teo has given up a chance to make her Commonwealth Games debut in July. The 15-year-old breaststroke specialist, who left Singapore two months ago to train and study in Mission Viejo High School in California, wants to concentrate on September's
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      901 31  -  Neil Humphreys Expect Arsenal to drop points before the title race is over Comment by neil@newstoday.com.sg APPARENTLY, it has been a dark time for British football recently. The collapse of the Football League's ITV Digital deal threatens the very existence of lowly
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