Today, 22 November 2002

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    Masthead
    8 1 TODAY FridftV November 22, 2002 < MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Peg to Brunei dollar to stay, says MAS
    549 1  -  Val Chua SINGAPORE'S financial regulator yesterday tried to put a stop to persistent rumours of the Brunei dollar being unpegged from the Singapore dollar. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday that the one-to-one peg is still intact and there are
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    The big union
    537 1  -  Chan Chao Peh Comfort, Delgro to merge AT a time when consolidation is the buzzword for companies operating in a mature market, two big transport companies are going with the flow. Yesterday, Comfort Group and Delgro announced a merger proposal to create a company that will dominate
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  • HOT NEWS
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      No-frills airlines ready for fray
      415 2  -  Francis Kan AS the inaugural Australian Airlines flight landed at Changi Airport yesterday on the tailwinds of a similar debut by Philippinesbased Cebu Pacific Air last month, one thing seemed clear. The low-cost threat to Singapore Airlines (SIA) has finally arrived. SIA is clearly aware
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      Lock icon Bali blast chief caught?
      249 3 Agencies JAKARTA In what could be seen as a breakthrough in the Bali blasts investigations, a man suspected to be the chief planner of the bombings was arrested yesterday. "I have just received reports from the investigation team it has arrested three people and Imam Samudra
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      Lock icon Where are the trees?
      363 4  -  Joy Frances Green groups 'not consulted' over expressway project WORK on Singapore's most expensive and complex road project to date has gotten a little more complicated. Local tree huggers are unhappy that construction of the $1.8 billion Kallang/Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) is leaving a trail of
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Death and the taxman
      458 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Families may be liable for taxes of a dead person unless IT is something that few want to plan for. But with the growing affluence of Singaporeans, your family could be hit with the shock of having to pay the taxman after you
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      Lock icon Game models
      51 6 WEETECKHIAN TWENTY Xbox models greeted over 4,000 guests at Zouk disco last night at the launch of a new Microsoft's video game system. One of the first 100 people who bought the Xbox stood the chance of winning a specially-autographed Xbox by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Today photo
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      Gum or no gum, no big deal
      276 6  -  Derrick A Paulo TO the rest of the world, Singapore is the country that bans chewing gum. For 10 years we have smiled, shrugged off the jibes and returned home from holidays abroad with illicit heaps of the sticky stuff. Now, the world
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      Games to avoid F scores
      147 8  -  Grace Tay YOUR children may be scoring Cs, Ds or even Fs because they are not equipped with the proper learning skills. Teachers and parents should get children to play "mind" games, says one expert One method is to practise visualisation exercises as they can
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      Real cost
      301 8  -  Janice Liv As LRT mulls over proposed fine WHEN the Bukit Panjang LRT system experienced its longest breakdown last month, SLRT braced itself for a hefty fine from the Land Transport Authority (LTA). Yesterday, LTA announced that it might impose the maximum penalty of $10,000 on the light
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      Now a police case
      130 8  -  Lee Ching Wern THE man who sued Singapore Airlines claiming that a cup of pineapple juice he was served contained glass shards, is facing charges by the Hong Kong police for falsifying evidence. Mr Stephen Graham Olding has appeared in the Hong Kong courts to face
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      The Leow crescendo
      534 12  -  Rosalyn Lim EVEN as a 12-year-old school boy, Crescendas Group head i Mr Lawrence Leow (picture) showed sparks of enterpreneurship. f He would set up his own t tikam tikam stall and entice his friends to take part in his home- f made lucky draw game. t
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      Man pleads guilty to having weapon
      168 12  -  Lee Ching Wern A JOURNALIST pleaded guilty in the Subordinate Courts yesterday for possessing an offensive weapon at the Ikea Building in Alexandra Road last year. The court heard that at about 9.30pm on Nov 18 last year, Kelvin Phang, a sports reporter with
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      Remember my name?
      505 14  -  Shibu Itty Expert offers training to help unleash the art of recall IMAGINE you are given 10 minutes to memorise a 50-digit number before your memory is put to the test The questions: What is the number? Reel it off from memory forward and back. What is
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      28 6 .NiTeMieNess* Fri 22 Nov 2002 from 11 pm Zouk 6TH SINGAPORE RIVER ONE FULLERTON CLARKE QUAY ESPLANADE THEATRES ON THE BAY MARINA SQUARE PROMENADE ROBERTSON WALK UE SQUARE
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      Carry on living life, Elderly Brothers
      125 16  -  Leslie Terh I READ your report, "Blues Brothers" (Today, Nov 20), with amusement and glee. It is good to note that these gentlemen in various senior positions still remember to smile and have a good time, without having to continue to act like the
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      Cap it
      220 16  -  Leong Sze Hian How about a limit on CPF expense ratio? I REFER to the report, "CPF working on low-cost pension fund scheme" (Today, Nov 13). I support the Economic Review Committee's CPF working group's recommendation that the Government should facilitate the provision of low-cost private pension plans
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      Yes to NS for women
      144 16  -  I Wang Yixing I REFER to recent debates on women and national service (NS). I believe there are many benefits for women to do compulsory NS. First, there is a shortage of men in active units because some are downgraded due to their medical problems.
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      Why lift the Whip ...
      265 17  - Why lift the Whip Michael Loh Yik Ming when changes are to improve system? I REFER to the Government's plan to lift the Whip in the coming debate in Parliament on the proposed education policy changes and the fact that 30 MPs will rise to debate it. There have been
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      If s a contest, nothing kiasu about it
      118 17  -  Francis Lye Teng Wai (Dr) I REFER to the letter, "Plague of greed" by Mr Jerry Tan (Today, Nov 21). A contest is a contest, be it a lucky draw or a Survivor-like challenge, as in the case of the Subaru Impreza
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      Govt stand on Budget deficit
      175 17  -  Lionel Yeo I REFER to the letter, "Can we avoid route of dogma, please?" by Mr Alan Lim (Today, Nov 14). Mr Lim was concerned that the Government always expects to "end each fiscal year with a Budget surplus". This is not so. For example,
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      32 16 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full M« name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, f #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1 Fax:6s-*****217; E-mail: news@news today.com.sg
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      159 17 Cheers! You're invited! H^^ iM,. I f -^■'Iv^«?^ I 'J&^*^^^\> I jM I The party has already begun. But it's not too late to get a load of the excitement I at all the other venues we're partying at. We've got a whole lot of fun lined up I for
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      Credit caution
      429 18  -  Richard Seah Personal debt rising,Tharman warns govt regulation cannot curb problem AT a time when banks are marketing credit cards and personal loans aggressively, even along the streets, the Government is concerned that Singapore is fast becoming a nation of debtors. Household debt has been growing rapidly in
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      Lock icon US recovery faces serious obstacles: OECD
      231 18 Reuters PARIS An economic recovery in the United States has faltered and will remain tepid next year. And even though growth should pick up in 2004 it must still overcome some potentially-seri-ous obstacles, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned yesterday. It
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      Lock icon KL approves plan to demutualise KLSE
      122 18 Channel News Asia MALAYSIA'S Finance Ministry has said "yes" to a proposed plan to demutualise the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) by July next year. That's one step before listing the KLSE on its own bourse which is being targeted for end-2003. Under the
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      Lock icon Datacraft uncertain
      403 20 -AFX News Declines to predict performance for current year DATACRAFT Asia has posted a wider-than-expected loss, after failing to collect on payments in China. It said it wouldn't predict its performance in the current year due to the uncertain business environment It lost US$34.B million ($61.6 million) in
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        112 20 THE STI index rose 15.59 points to 1398.90, aided by modest rises in banks and technology issues. For every stock that fell, about two rose while 411 counters were unchanged. Volume was low on 275 million shares with a value of $234 million traded. Hewlett-Packard's sterling fourth quarter results
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        World markets
        55 20 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8668.06 +208.44 +2.46 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.54 2984.80 4579.45 +32.39 +15.80 -74.05 +.32 +.53 -1.59 Korea Comp 690.38 +8.38 +1.23 SET Index Jakarta Comp 358.44 373.23 +6.26 +1.63 +1.78 +.44 Phils Comp Shenzen B Mumbai 1030.84 186.43 3101.36 -3.36
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 20 US$ 0.***** UK£ 0.***** Yen 69.2283 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.***** Rupiah 5103.62 Baht 24.5511 Peso 30.2428 A$ 1.***** Indian Rs 27.2496 Won 686.176 C$ 0.***** Yuan 4.6812 NZ$ 1.***** NTS 19.6802
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        Lock icon Commodities
        22 20 SGX Gold uss/oz 317.600 Silver uss/oz 4.535 Platinum uss/oi 586.800 Rubber cents/kg 146.00 Palm oil RM/tonne 1574 Brent crude uss/borrel 24.13
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        SGX most active
        61 20 By volume Nov21 DatacrftUSS Citiraya Europtron PFood TPV UniFood Chartered Pac Cent StarCrus R USS Haw Par Close 0.630 0.495 0.375 0.925 0.565 0.390 0.865 0.340 0.020 3.760 Change +0.055 +0.005 -0.015 +0.035 +0.015 +0.010 +0.020 -0.010 -0.040 +9.6 +1.0 -3.8 +3.9 +2.7 +2.6 +2.4 -33.3 -1.1
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        SGX top rises
        80 20 By$ Nov 21 Creative 50 Close Change 13.400 +0.500 Venture 13.300 +0.400 OCBC 10.200 +0.250 UOB 12.300 +0.200 STIETF100 14.230 +0.130 CITYDEV 4.520 +0.120 DBS 11.300 +0.100 SIA 10.600 +0.100 SPH 20.000 +0.100 AVJennings AS 0.970 +0.060 By percentage Nov 21 Close Change EWSport 0.080 +0.020 NWTech
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        82 20 Bloomberg 4ov 21 Close Change )BS Bk 6% NCPS*****.300 -0.100 ireatEast 9.100 -0.100 .IA 200 10.500 -0.100 ,PH100 19.900 -0.100 (oh Bros 0.100 -0.045 5iken 0.100 -0.040 law Par 3.760 -0.040 :CC 0.790 -0.030 Irilliant 0.225 -0.020 loGCen 0.330 -0.020 By percentage Nov 21 Close Changi StarCrus
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      Inderjit thinks big, gets $63m
      328 23  -  Chan Chao Peh INFINITI Solutions, the semiconductor testing and packaging company led by Member of Parliament Inderjit Singh, has received a US$36 million ($63.7 million) grant from EDB Investments (EDBI) and 3i, a global venture capital fund. The company will use part of the grant
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      CapitaLand goes for a quick sale
      258 23  -  Lee Yew Meng CAPITALAND will offer pre-launch sales of a 176-unit residential development, Glentrees (picture), at an average price of $598 per sq ft tomorrow. That is much lower than the $700 per sq ft the market had expected and could well reflect the
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      Phone Pong
      96 23 FOUR classic arcade games developed by electronics games pioneer Atari are now seeing their latest reincarnation on mobile phones. The four games Asteroids, Breakout, Pong and Centipede are the latest addition to Mi's growing roster of games played using Javaenabled handsets. Each game costs $4 to download and
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      Lock icon HP grins as profits soar
      378 24 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO HewlettPackard posted a quarterly net profit that met with the most bullish Wall Street forecasts. Due to costcutting and higher-than-expected revenue, HP said revenue in the current quarter would rise slightly amid tepid holiday shopping. "There's nothing in this report you can
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3963 24 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 I E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com I Provided by: Willi LIPP 19/11 Henderson GS Eur 058 19/11 Henderson GS Eur Property Securities 1.08 19/11 Henderson GS Pacific Dragon 078 15/11 OAC Cap Prtd Investor Global (SGD) ***** 19/11 OAC Premier Link Balanced 0965 19/11 OAC Premier Link
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      Lock icon Morgan Stanley fires 100
      292 26 Bloomberg Japan, Hong Kong offices suffer the heaviest casualties, say staff HONG KONG Morgan Stanley, the biggest US securities firm by market value, fired about 100 employees in Asia, or four per cent of the total. It is part of a global effort to cut costs
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      Lock icon Amid all the gloom ...
      162 26 Amid all the gloom Reuters WHOLESALE trading activity in Singapore grew 10.3 per cent over the year to the third quarter, posting its first annual gain since the middle of last year. Singapore's domestic wholesale trade index, which measures sales by wholesalers, also expanded 2.6 per cent against the second
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      Lock icon More cash for Indonesia
      207 29 Bloomberg JAKARTA Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have signed an agreement that will pave the way for the payment of a US$34O million ($602 million) loan to the Southeast Asian nation. The agreement was signed at the end of the talks on Indonesia's economic
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      Lock icon A lighter Boeing
      154 29 AFP BOEING hopes to launch a new Jumbo 747 aircraft in 2005, a year before the Airbus A3BO hits the market, a company official said. The revamped Jumbo 747 will have a range of 15,000 km and will be able to carry 500 passengers, 40 more than
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      Lock icon An eye on Asia
      125 29 Bloomberg SIX Continents plans to add 25 hotels in Asia to its portfolio in two years, aiming to strike better deals as the slump in demand intensifies after the Bali bomb attack, a top executive said. The owner of Inter-Continental and Holiday Inn hotels expects to
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      Lock icon Changi a tougher nut
      508 30 Reuters Malaysia not going to have it easy this time, says source KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's southern Senai airport, newly-placed under the control of a local tycoon, aims to grab air cargo business from Singapore's Changi in another example of growing commercial rivalry between the two countries.
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      Get your own .com e-mail
      129 30 STARHUB is upping the ante in the Internet Service Provider arena, with two new e-mail features i.Mail and MyDomain. They were launched recently. i.Mail is an enhanced e-mail service that lets users operate on a single, unified e-mail platform. With this, they can access all
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      Lock icon World Com to cut 3,000 jobs in Dec
      229 30 -AFX News LONDON World Com will cut at least 3,000 jobs next month as part of its effort to trim costs and emerge from bankruptcy next year, the Washington Post reported, citing company officials. World Com spokesman Brad Burns said the layoffs
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      34 20 Congratulations to our "be an astronaut^ Grand Prize Winner!^ Tony Tan Kor Meng (NRIC No. *****440 5-day trip for two to Belgium's Euro Space Centre Al consolation prize winners wil be notified by post.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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      204 25 SINGAPORE M&< MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY Elsie is different. She's an SMU student. t tt S'e '°°'<S n §S from new perspectives. ■> V r e I 36''6™ ta^es a different type of person to excel in the new l| B^ n economy. Which is why SMU is a different kind of
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      226 26 Time to get back to work. Set your sights on a new career without leaving home. I I Jfl 111 mfrML Jjj Mobile Broking at Phillip Securities. It used to be that every working mother had to be a "Superwoman". Women had to choose between being there for their children
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      158 34 -AFP LAGOS (Nigeria) A newspaper office was burned down on Wednesday by a crowd angry over an article suggesting the Prophet Mohammed would have chosen to marry a contestant in Miss World pageant The protest against the newspaper came as Islamic scholars wrote to President
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      283 34 Agencies LONDON Onlookers gasped and covered their noses but watched fixated as German professor Gunther yon Hagens (picture) conducted Britain's first public autopsy in 170 years on Wednesday. Prof yon Hagens could face three months in prison if authorities decide he has contravened the Anatomy Act by returning
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      300 36 ISLAMABAD Pakistan's latest civilian Prime Minister lauded the legacy and achievements of President Pervez Musharraf before he moved into his office. Mr Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (picture), of the promilitary Pakistan Muslim League party, was elected by Parliament as the country's first civilian Prime Minister
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      154 36 -AFP PRAGUE The United States rallied and prodded its allies yesterday for military support for a possible war against Iraq if Baghdad fails to cooperate with a new and accelerated UN disarmament drive. US diplomats have approached some 50 nations to prepare to send troops, material
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      203 36 Agencies PRAGUE The world's biggest and most important military alliance, The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), yesterday invited seven countries to join the coalition in a historic move that will see it spread its security shield from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The two-day summit
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      100 36 -AFP BHOPAL At least 60 people died yesterday in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh when a bus caught fire after a passenger carrying cans of fuel lit a cigarette. Thirty people are being treated for burn injuries, said district collector Mr Sanjay Shukla.
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      137 36 Agencies LONDON The routine practice of "undercorrecting" short-sight-edness may have damaged the eyesight of millions of people, reported The Telegraph newspaper yesterday. For decades, many optometrists have deliberately given children weak spectacle lenses in the belief that this slows the deterioration of eyesight But, research
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      244 38 Reuters US paranoid about terrorism, it says KUALA LUMPUR Calling Americans paranoid, Malaysia played down a US warning that it could be the next target of a Balistyle attack. The US State Department yesterday issued a statement repeating concerns about the "possible heightened risks to American citizens
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      291 38 Agencies SYDNEY An Australian citizen charged with conspiring to bomb Israeli missions here claims other Caucasians in Australia have undergone terrorist training in South-east Asia and Afghanistan. British-born Jack Roche, a convert to Islam, was arrested on Monday as part of an anti-terrorist crackdown
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      112 38 Indon army to Post Apologise Or Reuters JAKARTA The Indonesian military (TNI) has asked the US-based Washington Post newspaper yesterday to apologise over a story or face a US$l billion ($1.77 billion) lawsuit The Post story suggested that a shooting near the Freeport mine in Papua New Guinea on Aug
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      53 38 Reuters photo Mock victim David Wright being hosed down by firemen during a civilian exercise simulating a terrorist attack in the western Australian city of Perth on Thursday. The exercise which simulated a chemical, biological or radiation attack was carried out to test the response of the city's
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      279 38 Agencies TONGDUCHON (South Korea) Five South Koreans were injured in clashes with riot police yesterday as they protested over a US military court's acquittal of an American soldier involved in an accident which killed two girls. The protest outside the US Army base
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      390 40  -  Valeric Ng Demand for Spore books rises after XL acts WITH English being touted as the language that will help propel Malaysia to greater heights, many parents in Johor Baru are turning to made-in-Singapore textbooks for help. The Malaysian government announced in July that English will be used
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      33 40 -AFP photo This X-ray print of the head of former Beatle John Lennon was sold for £250 ($696) at an auction in Denmark Street, central London, two days ago.
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      450 42 Reuters BEIJING A sweeping leadership shuffle in China's top military group is set to spearhead a drive to make the world's largest armed forces more modern and professional, said analysts. The new leaders of the Central Military Commission (CMC), who are younger and
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      144 42 -AFP BEIJING Tianjin, the parched northern Chinese city hit by a six-year dry spell, is testing a card that will regulate the use of water by its people. The new card has been handed out to students taking part in a pilot project at one of
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      204 42 Agencies HONG KONG Asia's richest woman has lost her claim over the control of her late husband's fortune after a fiveyear legal tussle. A court yesterday ruled against Ms Nina Wang's (picture) claim that she was the sole beneficiary of the estate of Mr Teddy
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      66 42 Reuters photo BERLIN Eccentric pop star Michael Jackson visited the Berlin Zoo with his children (picture) on Wednesday. The young ones wore veils, reportedly to protect them from becoming a target for kidnappers. The visitors were escorted by a dozen security guards, some of whom held up
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      129 42 COLOMBO Faced with a growing number of conversions to Christianity, Sri Lanka is to introduce an anti-conversion Bill in February, said a government minister on Monday. "Because of disruptions created by the long war, Hindus are converting increasingly to other religions. The proposed Bill will make conversion
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      93 42 AFP BEIJING Intravenous drug users in Guangdong can now have access to clean needles which have been put on sale at designated pharmacies, state media reported yesterday. The move is a bid to stall the country's spiralling Aids epidemic. Surveys showed that 53 per cent of intravenous drug
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      412 44 Agencies Al Gore cranks up PR machine for 2004 LOS ANGELES More than two years after his defeat in the US presidential election, Mr Al Gore (picture) has returned to the public eye. But whether the explosion of publicity is a 2004 coming out party or
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      183 44 Agencies MOSCOW Top Russian journalists issued a dramatic appeal to President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to veto changes to a law imposing tough restrictions on reporters covering crises like the Moscow theatre siege. The appeal, signed by journalists at nearly all major state and independent
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      155 44 AFP HONG KONG Despite the region's reputation for aggressive materialism, Asian-Pacific business executives claim they put family and loved ones above career and making money, a survey released yesterday concluded. Pursuing hobbies and special interests are of lesser importance than loved ones, according to over
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      115 44 -AFP WASHINGTON An experimental vaccine has been effective in fighting a virus that is known to increase women's risk to cervical cancer, according to a study published on Wednesday. The vaccine successfully prevented infection from the human papillomavirus type 16, a risk factor for cervical cancer, according
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      998 46  -  Roger Mitton As Dr M hands power to Abdullah, expect changes in three areas IF we were to take him at his word, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad will hand over the leadership of his country to Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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      302 46 Reuters LAS VEGAS Mr Tom McGinn, assistant state veterinarian for North Carolina, outlined the results of a computer model that simulated what would happen if foot-and-mouth disease was deliberately and simultaneously released in five different sites across the country. The exercise showed
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      Lock icon Why terrorists will fail
      894 48  -  Brian Farrell Their agenda will take 21st century South-east Asia to the 11th century WE all know what happened at Kuta Beach in Bali. Or do we? I hear the confusion every day, as people say the bombing "destroys Bali's economy, it will hurt the whole
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      353 48 Excerpts from an editorial in Jakarta Post JAKARTA The national campaign against terror has entered a new and critical phase this week, with the publication of the photographs of six suspects in connection with last month's deadly bomb
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      531 49  -  David Ngiau then The Pool won't disappoint you FILM REVIEW The Pool QUESTION: What's worse than one of those crappy horror flicks from the US, that's made for American teens and all about good-looking people getting murdered one by one? Answer: A crappy horror
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      1069 50  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Former ER star Margulies is one tough cookie or is she really? SHE wipes the beads of sweat from her forehead, as carelessly as if it was smeared lipstick. Be it the hurly-burly of taming the perilous high seas or outwitting the sinister forces
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      248 50 IN Ghost Ship, Margulies develops a special relationship with a little girl, Katie, whose candle was snuffed out before her time. The lonely apparition, played by I 3-year-old Australian actress Emily Browning, yearns for a friend to share the tale of the unspeakable horror
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      765 52  -  Joy Frances Das Experiment revisits a 1971 psychological study and asks tough questions of prison systems TWENTY men are picked for a study and put into a prison situation. Half are made guards, the others prisoners. The researchers sit back to let nature take
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      Mark of a champ
      1053 56 Wales' young manager is the reason for its renaissance European Championships Grp Nine Azerbaijan 0 Wales 2 Welsh have one foot in Portugal CARDIFF Away from the minarets that pierce the smog, from the racetracks masquerading as public highways and oil slurries staining the landscape, a
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      Lock icon England finally does some damage to Australia, thanks to lucky Vaughan
      239 56 Reuters ADELAIDE Michael Vaughan scored his first Test hundred against Australia yesterday only to fall in the last over of the day as England's cricketers finally enjoyed some good luck on their troubled Ashes tour. Vaughan survived a series
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      Celtics take their revenge
      247 57 BOSTON Tony Delk and Shammond Williams gave the Boston Celtics a small measure of revenge against the New Jersey Nets. Delk and Williams scored 21 points each and led a long-dis-tance barrage as the Celtics cruised to a 96-79 victory over the Nets in a match-up
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      Lock icon No roar, only poor play
      731 57 -AFP As world No.l struggles, Clarke burns up the course Golf Dunlop Phoenix Irishman holds two stroke lead MIYAZAKI It appears that Tiger Woods (picture) has his work cut out for him if he intends to win the Dunlop Phoenix tournament The world No.l laboured
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      Banking on youth
      612 58  -  Stanley Ho in Bangkok Thailand feels Asian Games' U-23 squad is good enough to defend Tiger Cup MOST of Thailand's senior players will not feature in the upcoming Tiger Cup. But if opponents like Vietnam, Malaysia Singapore think they will have an easier time wresting the region's
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      Lock icon Rejuvenated Jyoti steals Harrington's thunder
      364 58 AFP TAOYUAN India's Jyoti Randhawa stole the early thunder in the first round of the US$l.5 million ($2.6 million) BMW Asian Open here yesterday as Irish star Padraig Harrington led the chasing pack. Randhawa, a four-time winner on the Davidoff Tour, shot a superb seven-under-par
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      Thai attraction
      66 58 NEW DELHI Asian tennis sensation Paradorn Srichaphan will be the star attraction at next month's US$4OO,OOO ($707,000) ATP Indian Open in Madras. The Thai, who leapt to world number 16 this year, will strive to win the season opener after losing to Guillermo Canas of Argentina in the
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      Series level
      76 58 JODHPUR Stand-in captain Rahul Dravid top-scored with 58 as India pulled off a tense threewicket victory over West Indies in the sixth one-day international yesterday to level the seven match series 3-3. Needing to win to keep the series alive, India dismissed West Indies for 201 in 46.3
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      Tyson's back
      52 58 NEW YORK Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will return to Memphis on Feb 22 for his first fight since an embarrassing eighth-round knockout at the hands of Lennox Lewis. The fallen former champion will meet Clifford "The Black Rhino" Etienne in a 10-round bout at the Pyramid in
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      Hero retires
      50 58 SEOUL South Korean captain and veteran defender Hong Myung 80, who holds the record number of caps for his country and led the national team to the World Cup semifinals this year, has retired from international soccer. Hong played his last international, a friendly against Brazil, on Wednesday.
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      Open a joke?
      60 58 MELBOURNE The golfing world will be laughing at Australia after the first round of the Australian Open was abandoned due to rock-hard greens, US PGA winner Rich Beem said. The cancellation of the first round and reduction of the tournament to 54 holes also caused major embarrassment
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      Going the distance for a good cause
      724 59  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2002 In the fourth of our five-part series on the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, we tell you how taking up the marathon's corporate challenge can be a meaningful and worthy affair TO this marathon relay team from
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      Brewing up funds for charity
      105 59  -  Tan Yo-hinn the teams sponsored by Brewerkz will be rewarded with a meal at its Riverside Point outlet after the marathon. Apart from Brewerkz, Standard Chartered Bank's (SCB) Group Executive Director, Mike DeNoma, is also getting in on the fund raising act. DeNoma said: "I
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      Time to come out and play
      655 60  -  Kelvin Phang Singapore Sports Festival promises weightlifting and plenty more in December WHEN the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) starts a press conference by showing off his capteh or shuttlecockkicking skills, one should realise that something special is afoot
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      Lock icon Singapore Sports Festival 2002
      208 60 From Dec 1 to 31st, Singapore will play host to eight international and 26 local tournaments. Except for football's Tiger Cup, spectators do not have to pay for entry. The international events are the World Bytes Sailing Championships, Singapore-Malaysia Invitational Weightlifting Championship, Tiger Cup, Singapore International
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      Lock icon Fair or foul rule?
      667 61  -  Jose Raymond Foreign players unhappy with new compensation clause in transfer deals THE rule has only just be introduced. And already, controversy has reared its ugly head. From now, any S-League club that signs a foreign player from a rival after a season ends will have
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      First a crushing defeat, now it's food poisoning
      371 61  -  Stanley Ho IT just can't get any worse. After suffering a decisive defeat against Arabian Gulf in the 18th Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU) Championships Division Two match on Wednesday, a dozen members of the Singapore national rugby team went down with
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      Lock icon Salary cap?
      122 61 Reuters OXFORD English soccer players may have an upper limit imposed on their wages if a proposal is agreed at a meeting of Football League chairmen in Oxford, held early this morning Singapore time. The chairmen of England's 72-strong first, second and third division clubs, many of which
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      Lock icon Ugly side of two good men
      1072 62  -  S. Gulam Managers should never forget how to manage, no matter how good they are THEY are among the best in the business. They are sound and shrewd, wise, and sometimes witty. They wield tremendous power. Still, they are vulnerable. They could be the
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      Lock icon Keane: We've no excuses
      358 63 MANCHESTER Injured Manchester United skipper Roy Keane is refusing to accept the growing Old Trafford injury list as an excuse for the failure to match Arsenal and Liverpool this season. Keane insisted that it was too easy to attribute United's stumbling league form Sir Alex Ferguson's
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      Smith is in the money
      264 63 LEEDS Leeds has responded to interest in Alan Smith by offering the striker a massively improved contract. The Elland Road club is reported to have effectively offered Smith the chance to name his price, reported The Sun. New contract talks between Smith and Leeds are
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  • Page 59 Miscellaneous
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      87 59 EVENT DETAILS Date: Sunday, Dec 8 Prizes: Total prize money of Venue: National Stadium US$ 100,000 176,000). Top (West Entrance) team in corporate relay chalTime: 6.30 am (Marathon), lenge also wins six return air 7am (Relay) tickets to Hong Kong. Those Categories: Full marathon who complete the marathon will (42.195
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      STEPPING DOWN ...
      272 65  - STEPPING DOWN Robert Yeo IN October, a dinner was held to honour Madam Li Lien Fung (picture). At 80, she has offered to retire from the position of chairman of the Arts Fund. She had occupied the voluntary position for the last eight years. Since 1984, when the fund was
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Why is she leaving? She's only 80
      554 66 Continued from Page 1 "I have been told these shows are good because they are trendy. But what does trendy mean? If it means being imitative, then I see no merit in it" She protests that she is old but she also insists
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      Drinking with friends
      438 66  -  Kelvin Phang Carlsberg unites its fans with a new global campaign WHEN you drink Carlsberg beer, you know that you're not alone. That is the message being sent by Carlsberg Singapore with its new branding campaign "Drink with a world of friends", launched on Wednesday. Its latest
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      Glen and Rod on TV, censorship and Alan Tam
      582 66  -  Yee Wei Zhen THEY'VE gone from quick-fire gags on the popular Perfect 10 morning show Five Guys and A Girl to punning tomfoolery on Tiger Beer commercials. Don't count on wacky hosts Glen Ong and Rod Monteiro to miss a beat
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      The Wright stuff
      529 68  -  Yong Shu Chiang Host lan is as funny in person as he is on Lonely Planet travel show IT isn't always a whole lot of fun listening to someone else's travel stories, unless that someone happens to be lan Wright On a travelling press inference, held aboard
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      New digital technology on cable
      165 68  -  Yong Shu Chiang YOU have HBO for movies, ESPN for sports and now Discovery Travel Adventure for travel. Cable channels like these are popular because they cater to specific interests and don't require audiences to remember programme airtimes. People may tune in to a particular
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      Confident Comelia has dad to thank
      286 68  -  Yee Wet Zhen UP-and-coming Malaysian singer Camelia (picture) has her father to thank for the confidence she exudes on stage. From a shy 14-year-old who did not dare sing on stage, she has blossomed into a powerful singer with a charismatic stage presence. "My
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      Valen to give S'pore a miss
      255 68  -  YeeWeiZhen FANS of Valen Hsu (picture) will be disappointed to hear this. Although the ballad princess has 16 albums under her belt, including compilations of greatest hits, she will not hold a solo concert in Singapore any time soon. "I'm less energetic and I
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