Today, 14 November 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY Thursday November 14, 2002' MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 455 1 DPM Lee on four recipes for success YEARS OF strong economic growth, expanding exports and increases in foreign investment made Singapore what it is today. But the economic strategies that transformed the country must be re-thought and adapted if Singapore's economy is to remain strong
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    • 104 1 Reuters NEW YORK Stocks eked out modest gains after a choppy session yesterday as downbeat news about corporate heavyweight Citigroup Inc. put pressure on blue chips, hampering earlier gains following Iraqi acceptance of a UN resolution to disarm. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 12.49 points, or
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  • HOT NEWS
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      • 366 2 THE saga of Mr Oei Hong Leong's chase for DBS Holdings stake in Nat Steel ended as dramatically as it had begun. Yesterday, the bank spurned the corporate raider's offer of $2.03 for its shares and
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      • 112 2 -AFP NEW YORK-Oil prices plunged here after hitting an eight-month low in London as traders welcomed Iraq's acceptance of a tough new UN Security Council resolution on disarmament "When the news broke, the market started to sell off immediately, then slightly recovered through the
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      • 337 2 Agencies But Jiang is unlikely to leave the scene BEIJING Preliminary election results for an elite committee have confirmed that Chinese President Jiang Zemin is retiring but there are no indications that he is bowing out of the political scene completely. Delegates to the 16th Chinese Communist
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    • 403 3 Agencies Greenspan: Rebound will follow soft patch WASHINGTON The US economy was weighed down by worry over a possible war and falling stock prices but last week's sharp interest rate cut should help it through the "soft patch", according to Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. The economy
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    • 159 3 SINGAPORE yesterday dismissed allegations that it was trying to restrict the entry of Singaporeans and other travellers into Malaysia following reports of such claims by a Johor state official. "These allegations are absurd. It is untrue that Singapore Immigration and Registration had imposed additional restrictions to
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    • 71 4 SHOPPERS at Fair Price supermarkets will be greeted by colourful audio-visual motion displays of specials of the week, product information and even community messages. The electronic point-of-purchase display system, developed by Fair Vision Pte Ltd, is being installed in major Fair Price supermarkets. The system allows thousands of
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    • 386 4  -  Janice Liv Managers for the new economy SINGAPORE does not have enough competent managers. In the new economy, many are looking increasingly out of date, and that spells trouble ahead. That was the warning given by SPRING Singapore chairman and labour chief Lim Boon Heng (picture) at
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    • 140 4 YOUNG Singaporeans can now exploit their entrepreneurial instincts while doing their bit for charity, thanks to a joint project by Citibank and YMCA. The Citi Youth for Causes project, launched last month, has seed money totalling $40,000 to give away. It will award $1,600 to each of
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    • 128 4  -  Tor Ching Li AN irreverent, though not irrelevant, saying goes: Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? Because they share the same enemies the parents. But just to be sure, the Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS) is pumping in $900,000 to promote Senior
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 42 6 late December, those who wish to exchange their Economic Restructuring Shares for cash will be able to use ATMs, the Internet or a form to be sent to the CPF Board, says the Finance Ministry. See Page 8
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    • 193 6  -  Tan Hui Leng IFyou have an elderly wheel/chair- or bed-bound relative, he or she could soon enjoy a government subsidy for admission to a private nursing home a financial reprieve currently available only to patients at governmentfunded welfare nursing homes. From next year, subsidies will also be extended
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    • 138 6 Concert at Esplanade An Evening with George Brooks' SUMMIT Featuring George Brooks, saxophone Zakir Hussain, tabid Fareed Hague, guitar Steve Smith, drums Kai Eckhardt, bass 15 Nov, 7.30pm Concert Hall Esplanade Theatres on the Bay $100, $80, $60, $50*, $40* Don't miss the one-night only performance of Summit at Esplanade!
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    • 206 7 7 SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY Elsie is different. She's an SMU student. ">■■■■"■" CD «i Hi: I!^l j B Elsie looks at things from new perspectives. pi r e be''eve ta^es a different type of person to excel in the new "i B^ v economy. Which is why SMU is a
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  • LETTERS
    • 313 8  -  Leong Sze Hian Many people missing chance to offset the increase I REFER to the report, "Hike and dislike Should Govt postpone GST increase?" (Today, Nov 8). Some 490,000 Singaporeans have yet to make the necessary minimum contribution of $50 into their CPF accounts by Dec 31
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    • 150 8  -  Joe Lye I REFER to the report, "A game that led to tragedy" (Today, Nov 13). I applaud the effort made by the authorities to investigate the case thoroughly. I am one of the many commuters who rely on the
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    • 103 8  -  Ananda Perera I REFER to the letter, "Stained treasures" (Today, Nov 13). We must remember that there is so much more to life than squeakyclean sterility. Older, wiser cultures choose to claim the wholeness in the things that they create. In Japan, Zen gardeners
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    • 233 9  -  Lim Boon Hee IT began in supermarkets, with in-house brands like No Frills and First Choice. Then came the innovative Priceline, which is a boon for budget travellers. Competitors set up low-cost, no-frills airlines in Malaysia and Australia to join the ranks of Ryanair and Easyjet. Singapore
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    • 240 9  -  Alan Lim THOSE who believe that allowing bartop dancing will cause the nightspots to become more irresponsible might also believe that any postponement of the GST increase will ruin our public finances. I do not believe this to be so. The GST was
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    • 162 9  -  Murugesan Suppayyan I REFER to the article, "A question of trust and truth" by Ravi Veloo (Today, Nov 11). When Mr Veloo stopped writing for a certain local newspaper, I was quite disappointed because I enjoyed his frank and blunt, but truthful, views on
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 643 10  - Approved at last Val Chua Sing Tel Optus gets the nod for Foxtel pay-TV alliance by val@newstoday.com.sg LOSS-MAKING Sing Tel Optus has finally obtained the official nod from an Australian watchdog for a revised content-sharing alliance with pay-TV group Foxtel a move that will salvage its struggling consumer and multimedia
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    • 208 10 Reuters SINGAPORE plans to accelerate moves to offer privately-managed, low-cost retirement plans to CPF members, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, senior minister of trade and industry said yesterday. "The CPF board is in the process of appointing an investment consultant to assist in the designing of
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    • 154 10 The Government will not be scrapping the executive condominium (EC) scheme. Nor will it be extending its $30,000 housing grant to private home buyers. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said it is difficult for the Government to support these ideas, which were
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    • 135 12 Bloomberg MERRILL Lynch, the world's biggest securities company, holds 11 per cent of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (CSM) after buying shares investors spurned in a rights offer from the Singapore-based chip company. As of Oct 31, Merrill Lynch holds about 275.2 million shares of CSM, the world's third-largest
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    • 203 12 Bloomberg A MAJORITY of shareholders of SembCorp Industries has approved the company's plan to sell its stake in its publicly-traded food unit. SembCorp said in September it would sell its 75 per cent stake in Singapore Food Industries (SFI) to its shareholders for $262.5
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    • 223 12 Reuters HONG KONG is set for an early launch of retail hedge funds with disclosure guidelines expected to be announced by the end of November, an official of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said yesterday. "The first retail hedge funds authorised by the SFC are
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    • 275 14 Bloomberg Offers eight per cent yield, raises $240 million ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) priced its property trust at 88 cents, raising $240 million from an initial share sale that was five times subscribed. At that price, Singapore's second real estate trust yields eight per cent, which
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    • 3839 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Dote Nome NAV/Eid Oiler Price Price tberdeen Asset Management (Asia) A lert een Se-American Opportunities 0.573 0.603 A ierc een Se -Asian High Yield Fd 1.216 1.254 A ierc een Se -China Opportunities Fd 0.907 0.954 A lert een Se-Continental Europe Eqty
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    • 350 16  -  Lee Yew Meng Centre will be built over 15 years THE proposed Business and Financial Centre (BFC) in Marina Bay is expected to be built in phases over 15 years and the Government is considering a flexible payment for the developer of the project National Development Minister
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    • Market Watch
      • 123 16 SHARES ended lower yesterday, with the STI down 11.24 points at the day's low of 1394.75. Skittish investors dumped shares on heightened fears of a US-led war against Iraq and its consequence on the weak global economy. For every stock that rose, over two fell while 344 counters were
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      • 55 16 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8438.52 -26.25 -0.31 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 9616.62 2932.20 4671.77 +2.78 -10.70 -4.70 +0.03 -0.36 -0.10 Korea Comp SET Index 653.85 343.67 -0.58 -1.40 -0.09 -0.41 Jakarta Comp 367.10 -3.99 -1.08 Phils Comp Shenzen B Mumbai 1059.45 191.14 2960.66 +4.16
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      • 36 16 US$ 0.5665 UK£ 0.3571 Yen 68.0018 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.5628 Rupiah 5128.60 Baht 24.5283 Peso 30.1342 A$ 1.***** Indian Rs 27.3511 Won 681.151 C$ 0.8947 Yuan 4.6894 NZ$ 1.1453 NTS 19.6105
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      • 22 16 SGX Gold uss/oi 324.700 Silver uss/oi 4.600 Platinum uss/oz 578.700 Rubber cents/kg 147.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1581 Brent crude uss/barrel 23.95
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      • 59 16 By volume Nov 13 Bll Intl PFood Chartered SingTel Citiraya UniFood DatacrftUSS TPV TTInt Darco Close 0.530 0.840 0.860 1.330 0.470 0.380 0.640 0.555 0.400 0.485 Change -0.015 -0.030 -0.005 -0.030 -0.015 -0.020 -0.035 -0.030 -0.005 -2.8 -3.4 -0.6 -2.2 -3.1 -5.0 -5.2 -5.1 -1.2 'OOO 22,240
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      • 85 16 By$ Nov 13 Close Change DBS Bk 6% NCPS *****.800 +0.300 SIA 10.600 +0.100 SIA 200 10.700 +0.100 FCC NCCPS*****9 0.890 +0.085 F&N 7.550 +0.050 SingamasC 2kHKS 1.390 +0.040 Hyflux 1.050 +0.030 HLSpFinF 1.890 +0.030 Hr Glass 0.425 +0.030 Intraco 0.430 +0.030 By percentage Nov 13 LeeMetal
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      • 89 16 BLOOMBERG By$ Nov 13 Close Change Creative 50 12.600 -0.400 SPH 100 19.500 -0.400 Venture 12.800 -0.400 STI ETF 100 14.200 -0.210 Thai Prime200USS 4.400 -0.140 JMH400USS 5.900 -0.100 KepCor 4.220 -0.100 OUE 6.000 -0.100 SPH 19.600 -0.100 UOB 12.500 -0.100 By percentage Nov 13 Close Change
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 191 18 Agencies DENPASAR For the first time since investigations started, the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group has been linked conclusively to the Bali nightclub blasts. Indonesia's national police chief, General Da'i Bachtiar, said yesterday that Imam Samudra, whom top Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last month
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    • 191 18 Agencies JERUSALEM In a tough reprisal for a Palestinian attack that killed five Israelis on Sunday, Israeli troops took over the West Bank town of Nablus and two nearby refugee camps yesterday. About 150 tanks, armoured vehicles and helicopters, backed several thousand soldiers, moved in
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    • 123 18 -AFP WASHINGTON The US is seeking to extradite an unemployed Briton to face charges of computer fraud, the Justice Department said yesterday. Gary McKinnon, 36, was charged in Virginia and New Jersey with eight counts of computer fraud for hacking into more than 100 US
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    • 307 20 Reuters UNITED NATIONS Iraq has accepted a new UN Security Council resolution which orders Baghdad to disarm, cooperate with UN weapons inspectors or face "serious consequences". "I delivered a letter to the Secretary-General's office," Iraq's UN Ambassador, Mr Mohammed Aldouri, said yesterday. "It was a positive
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    • 130 20 AFP TOKYO All Nippon Airways (ANA) found two electrical wires cut and a warning device missing from one of its aircraft after it was serviced by a Chinese company in a suspected deliberate act The Japanese carrier spotted the defects in mid-October, during an engine test of
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    • 192 20 Agencies LONDON The royal family came under fire yesterday over its decision to hold an internal review into the collapse of the Princess Diana butler trial, rather than an independent inquiry. Sir Michael Peat (picture), private secretary to Prince Charles, announced the inquiry
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 881 22  -  Wimar Witoelar RENEE Chew is a Singaporean businesswoman who has lived as an expatriate in Bali for the last eight years. Through hard work, she co-founded the Wakatobi Dive Resort, a multi-million-dollar investment off the coast of south-east Sulawesi, which her guests visit by chartered plane
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  • UPFRONT
    • 548 24 Older women can give birth with donor eggs, say doctors CHICAGO Age need not be an obstacle to postmenopausal women determined to have babies, say doctors. However, they must be prepared to deal with both the attendant health risks and social implications. A group of researchers, using modern
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  • INFOTECH
    • 442 26  -  Janice Liv Get connected with Samsung's latest network products AT its Digit All Inspiration World Tour 2002 event held here this week, Samsung reiterated its commitment to three strategic areas home networks, mobile networks and office networks. For home networks, Samsung aims to create digital network products that
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    • 272 26 MICROSOFT Singapore will launch the Xbox video game system in Singapore next Friday. Electronic Arts is supporting the launch with the release of four game titles on that day, followed by another four titles on Nov 29. One of the first four
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  • FOOD FORUM
    • 595 27  -  Katrina Karim COOKED to perfection, eggplants (picture) become rich in flavour with a creamy texture. The eggplant belongs to the potato family. Around the world, it is also known as an aubergine, melanzana, garden egg, guinea squash, egg apple or patlican. In Asia, we tend to refer to
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 332 30  -  Janice Lee CDCs take part in buskers' fest EXCITING it is, but hard work too. This year's Singapore River Busker's Festival is just around the corner and it isn't the performers alone who are gearing up for the big event. Indeed, many other parties are
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    • 218 30 MUSIC I Wendi Koh Performance I One of Singapore's most I dynamic female entertainers, Wendi Koh, will sing songs from I her first solo album, Gutsy Girl. I Date: Tomorrow Time: Bpm Venue: Outdoor Theatre, Entry: Free I Yngwie J Malmsteen I Concert This will be rock guitarist Yngwie's
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  • CITYSTYLE
    • 240 31  -  -Pearlyn Tham AFTER 32 years in the jewellery industry, Lee Hwa Jewellery has added another gem to its crown. On Tuesday, the jewellery chain launched its flagship store the Lee Hwa Jewellery Hub (picture). The new store is located beside Orchard Emerald in a two-storey conservation
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      321 31  -  Pearlyn Tham TTTHAT can you buy with $50? Lots V V if MediaCorp artiste Huang Bi Ren's shopping spree at Guardian Pharmacy is anything to go by. The Guardian spokesperson was given the task of spending $50 at the Compass Point outlet Within minutes, the savvy shopper had
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    • 460 31  - Oatmeal, fruit, acne or deodorant when to use which soap Toh King Yu, Miss Ever Soft TODAY, let us indulge in a soap opera of sorts. Long before there were shower creams and bath beads, there was the humble soap. According to a Roman legend, soap got its name from
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    • 106 32 CONTROVERSIAL rapper Eminem's debut feature film opened in North American on Friday and Universal studio executives are "ecstatic". 8 Mile, based loosely on Eminem's own hard upbringing in Detroit, grossed U5554.24 million ($95.7 million), the fifth highest for this year and the second best ever opening
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    • 88 33 LOCAL celebrities brought their children and young relatives to Tuesday night's premiere of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets at Orchard Cineleisure. The kids proved that staying awake until midnight, when the film ended, was no challenge at all.They were still chirping at the end of
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    • 551 33  -  Yong Shu Chiang An engaging Photo that will draw you in FILM REVIEW One Hour Photo IN this day and age, it's scary how exposed one's life is. And I'm not talking about the Internet The humble photograph, a technological wonder, lets us capture memorable moments. They also
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    • 296 36 Reuters LOS ANGELES A Vietnamese actor branded a traitor by the Hanoi government and placed under virtual house arrest for appearing in a Hollywood Vietnam War film, has broken his silence to address the charges against him. Don Duong, who played a Vietnamese officer in We
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    • 144 36 Reuters/Variety LONDON Edgy director Larry Clark needs to find another UK distributor for his new film, after he punched the man who owned the local rights. Metro Tartan said on Monday that it cancelled its distribution deal for Ken Park, a sexually explicit film
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    • 29 42 Your guide to the All text in this special supplement is written by Today's motoring correspondent Colin Yong. He has a regular column in Weekend Today.
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      • 229 42 SWIFT was a big crowd favourite when he last performed his stunt driving manoeuvres in Singapore at the 1996 Motorshow. The current British Autotest Champion is back in town for the Motorshow and he is set to thrill with a new routine. Using a Subaru
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      • 187 42 WITH the Motorshow occupying some 25,000 sq m of exhibition space, taking in all the exhibits and demonstrations is going to be tiring. Try visiting the show during the off-peak hours, anytime before spm on weekdays. Not only will there be shorter queues for tickets, toilets and food,
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      • 89 42 AT the Peugeot stand, visitors can drive a 206 World Rally Car on a Sony Play Station, of course. It costs $1 to enter the competition, with all proceeds going to charity. Competitors get to drive three laps of the virtual rally circuit and
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      • 66 42 PHOTOGRAPHING cars and the show girls (left, bottom) at a Motorshow is not the easiest thing to do as the indoor lighting can be harsh and uneven. But here are some tips on how to bring back a better set of photographs. For conventional film camera users,
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    • 1472 44 A slew of new cars will be launched at the show including the BMW Z4 and Enzo Ferrari IF you are making a beeline for the Motorshow, you'll be one of the first to lay eyes on a slew of brand new cars which will be launched
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    • 231 46 MOST local car publications will be at the Motorshow, with subscription offers and lucky draws for visitors. Here's a rundown on what is available: Torque Booth: 4CIB SPECIAL OFFERS: 10 per cent off the usual subscription rates, with two-year subscriptions coming with gifts including a car
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      673 47 AWAY from the plethora of new models that will be launched at the Motorshow, there will be some very special cars on display. There will be the usual exhibits of cars that can be bought and driven, but there will also be models that will set hearts beating
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    • 511 48 Does your car really need those fancy wheels, LCD monitors and expensive hi-fi gadgets? WHETHER you are at the Motorshow to shop around for a new car, or there to admire the beauties because you already own a car, there is one section you can't afford
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    • 337 49 BEFORE a car can be registered in Singapore, you need to secure a COE. Most car distributors offer packages that include the COE, so you do not need to bid for one yourself. However, there is often confusion on the terms given by distributors
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    • 212 49 ACCORDING to the Motor Traders Association of Singapore, all purchases of new cars are governed by the terms and conditions of a sales contract. These are some of the important items that you should look out for: DESCRIPTION OF MODEL It
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      580 49 Should you get an SUV or saloon car, what about safety... WITH the government releasing more COEs, distributors slicing profit margins to increase market share and interest rates for loans at an all-time low, it is now as good a time as any to buy a new
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    • 493 50 Cars are getting green but they're still easy to drive PRODUCING concept cars that run on alternative fuels is nothing new for major car manufacturers. The world's best engineers have tried using everything under and including the sun to power cars, but so far nothing has emerged as a
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    • 1007 51  -  Rohit Brijnath THE problem with the most improved tennis player on the planet is that too few people know he's the most improved tennis player on the planet. The kid might have beaten Agassi and Hewitt, Safin and Ferrero, Roddick and Gambill, Henman and Rios, Canas
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    • 530 52 Agencies LONDON Padraig Harrington (picture) may have finished run-ner-up on the European money list for the second year running. But he refuses to let disappointment cloud what has otherwise been another fine golf season. The Irishman, who will be in Singapore for the Tiger Skins on Sunday,
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    • 163 52 AFP JOHANNESBURG A South African television sportscaster was fired for suggesting that Manchester United football boss Alex Ferguson could be guilty of sexual harassment, a news report said yesterday. A charge of indecent assault was laid against 60-year-old Ferguson in October during a business trip to
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    • 160 52 Reuters BERLIN Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld is unhappy at the idea that England midfielder Owen Hargreaves wants to leave the club. "If he desperately wants to go, we can't stop him," Hitzfeld said of Hargreaves, whose contract expires in June 2004. "At the moment he should
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    • 554 53  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Lions confident Bennett will easily fit in despite late arrival by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg HE WILL be travelling on a tiring 13-14 hour flight from London to Singapore. And he will only join the rest of his team-mates five days before the Tiger Cup tournament kicks-off.
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    • 295 53  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS a day of mixed emotions for Rosalynn Teo. Her school, Mm Kin Primary, bagged a hat-trick of titles in the Ml Schools Touch Rugby Series at Yio Chu Kang Stadium yesterday, but
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    • 148 53  -  Kelvin Phang SINGAPORE'S World Junior Championships runner-up Kendrick Lee is through to the second round of the 22nd JVC Asian Badminton Championships in Bangkok. The 18-year-old kicked off his campaign by beating Ahsun Habib Parash of Bangladesh 15-2, 15-1. He will face Commonwealth Champion Hafiz Hashim of Malaysia
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    • 110 53  -  Jose Raymond GEYLANG United has it all to do in the second leg to overturn a 3-0 scoreline suffered at the hands of Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua yesterday in an Asian Football Confederation Champions League third round match. All of Shanghai's goals were scored in the second
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        856 54 -AFP Bellamy's last gasp winner sends Newcastle through Champions League Group E Feyenoord 2 Newcastle 3 Magpies complete amazing turnaround ROTTERDAM A last-minute goal by Craig Bellamy assured Premiership side Newcastle United of its first ever spot in the second phase of the Champions League as it beat
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      • 220 54 Reuters MANCHESTER Manchester United handed Alex Ferguson the reaction he demanded as it made up for Saturday's derby defeat by beating a virtually reserve Bayer Leverkusen side 2-0 in the Champions League. United was not the free-flowing team of its prime and had to
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      • 208 54 Reuters LONDON Deportivo Coruna and Lokomotiv Moscow joined Newcastle in claiming the three remaining qualifying places for the second group phase. Lokomotiv Moscow beat Club Bruges 2-0 to steal second spot in Group H ahead of the Belgians and Turkish side Galatasaray, while Deportivo won
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    • 669 55 Fergie admits Veron has not adapted to the Premiership MANCHESTER It is perhaps a sign of the times, but Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been making some uncharacteristic statements of late. He publicly lambasted his side after its horror show at neighbour Manchester City on Saturday,
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