Today, 5 December 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY Thursday December 5, 2002 MITA(P) 002/1 1/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 285 1 Reuters Mouse DNA the key to decoding human genetics LONDON It's small and furry and doesn't look anything like a human, but the genetic blueprint of the mouse published yesterday showed there isn't much difference between mice and men. Both have about 30,000 genes and share
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    • 128 1 AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon detailed for the first time yesterday his proposal for a Palestinian state, covering 40 per cent of the West Bank and three-quarters of the Gaza Strip. "Israel will accept the creation of a Palestinian state within non-definitive borders,
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    • 77 1 Reuters NEW YORK Stocks trickled lower yesterday after some cautious comments by Hewlett-Packard and a slew of sour investment calls were offset by investors' move into traditional safe-haven names. The Dow closed down 5.15 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 8,737.78. The broader
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      228 1 In a statement yesterday evening, Mr Oei Hong Leong said he would not accept 98 Holdings' 52.03 per shai-e offer. He noted the potential cash distribution of $1.55 per share from the proceeds of XatSteel divestments and the net tangible assets of 53.34 per share. He said
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    • 46 1 128 PAGES Today breaks a new record with this bumper issue, which includes a festive special to mark Hari Raya and Christmas. The paper will take a break on Friday and Saturday due to a press holiday. To our Muslim readers, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri CENTRESPREAD!
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 561 2  -  Francis Kan New SMRT CEO may know little about trains but... WHEN SMRT Corp announced on Monday that Ms Saw Phaik Hwa, 48 (picture), was their new chief executive officer, the market's first reaction was a loud "who?", followed by "why?". Compared to the male, mili-tary-trained mould
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    • 38 2 DEPUTY Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lee Hsien Loong will make a ministerial statement on the GST increase when Parliament sits today at 12.30pm. His speech will be broadcast live on Newsßadio 93.8 and Channel NewsAsia.
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    • 375 2  -  Joy Frances THE Working Group on Wages yesterday made further suggestions on how employers can give workers greater flexibility in wages and employment benefits. While the idea of a variable wage component is not new, the group suggested that it be graded at different
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    • 313 3  -  Asif Ansar AFP President declares state of emergency DILI (East Timor) Big trouble erupted in little East Timor yesterday with the world's youngest nation trying to control riots, which officials say are an attempt to topple the government. The violence, in which at least two people
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    • 272 3 AMSTERDAM Police sealed off 10 Ikea stores in the Netherlands yesterday and blew up a suspect package after at least two bombs were found at branches of the world's biggest furniture retailer. All Ikea's Dutch stores were closed yesterday and its 4,000
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    • 116 3 AFP. JERUSALEM The mastermind of the twin attacks in Mombasa last week has been identified as a Kenyan Muslim who is wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported yesterday. Faisal Abdullah Mohammad, 30, now hiding in Somalia, is on
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      545 4  -  Chan Chao Peh SingTel up $350m from Asia-Pacific venture HONG KONG Since April, SingTel has signed new corporate contracts worth more than $350 million as its effort to expand in the Asia-Pacific region begins to garner results. In the last few years, the company has been busy upgrading
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    • 413 6  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Competition good minister; Bleeding waste SPH chief THE patriarch of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), Mr Lim Kim San, did not mince his words last month when he was asked to comment on the impact of media liberalisation. His frank assessment? "We are bleeding," said
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    • 196 6  -  —Jose Raymond BRITON Michael McCrea, who was ordered by a Melbourne magistrate on Nov 15 to be extradited to Singapore, has not appealed against the decision. He had until last Monday to lodge an appeal to the extradition order. In response to
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 366 8  -  Janice Liu Care centre children lunch at a void deck A STRANGE sight has been greeting residents of Blk 110, Bedok North Avenue 3 over the past few weeks. They have been seeing about 60 primary school pupils having their lunch at the void deck of their
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    • 376 10  -  Chan Chao Peh ITU and Cisco to expand initiative for less well-off THE International Telecom Union (ITU) and Cisco Systems said on Tuesday that they were expanding their joint programme to help train young people from less developed countries in Internet networking. Four more training centres will
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    • 479 12  -  Val Chua New CEO wants to put the 'C back into TheY' ASK Ho Sun Yee what the YMCA stood for three years ago, and he'd probably have said: "It's that building at 1 Orchard Road." But today, the father of two knows the 15-year-old building as
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    • Article, Illustration
      325 14  -  Elisa Chia Sitcom wins best comedy award for sth year PHUA Chu Kang Pte Ltd continued its winning streak at the 7th Asian Television Awards ceremony last night. For the fifth year running, the MediaCorp TV Channel 5 sitcom clinched the Best Comedy Programme award. First-time winner Irene
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    • 261 14  -  lan De Cotta ONE hotel group is giving regional terrorism the fight it deserves. Six Continents Hotels, the brand manager of four Holiday Inn properties in Singapore, Penang, Bangkok and Hong Kong, has launched a public relations offensive to tell its guests that it is still safe
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    • 74 12 TheYMCA is conducting orientation briefings for Citi Youth for Causes today and on Dec 12 at 6.30pm at its premises. The aim of the project is to look for youths aged 15-35 who have enterprising ideas on how to raise money for charity. Teams of four will be given $1,600
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    • 239 17  -  Li Tang ALTHOUGH Singapore has never been known for its soccer prowess, the passion that Singaporeans have for soccer is beyond belief. In a decade of living in the UK, I have not met English people with the same passion for English soccer that
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    • 331 17  -  Marcus Loh I REFER to the article, "Do you know, Derrick?" by Ms Diana Ong (Today, Dec 2). Although we should not "point" fingers and place the blame on our "Dear Prime Minister", it is also not reasonable for "Young Singaporeans" to "point fingers
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    • 189 17  -  Namyana Narayana Sias barking up the wrong tree The Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) has slammed some corporations for "their inconsiderate mathematics, which is leaving minor shareholders with odd lots of shares". ("Nightmare sums", Today, Dec 3). It had been customary for companies to add a rider
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    • 136 17  -  Michael Loh Ytk Ming I REFER to your report, "A breath of fresh air at last" (Today, Dec 3). While I welcome the Restroom Association's new initiative to encourage building owners to keep well-maintained and odourfree public toilets, the move does not absolve the toilet
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 218 18  -  Lee Yew Meng THE Government will extend a ban on land sales and delay the sale of a new downtown site until the middle of next year a move aimed at reducing fears of a prop-erty-market glut, said analysts. It will decide in the second
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    • Market Watch
      • 119 18 SINGAPORE shares took a knock, erasing 15.87 points to close down at 1,366, a twomonth low. Market breadth was poor with five issues falling for every rising one. A total of 343 counters were unchanged. Volume was 331million shares with a value of $388 million traded. Ml, which made
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      • 56 18 In den Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hong Seng 111 Ordinaries loiwan Wld 9006.73 9995.73 2993.40 4727.49 198.38 231.28 -43.80 66.44 ■2.16 2.26 ■1.44 1.39 Korea Camp SET Index Jakarta Comp 714.50 364.94 397.08 -22.07 +.75 -.65 -3.00 +.21 ,16 Phils Camp ihenzen B Uumbai 1036.26 193.83 3214,21
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      • 35 18 9» JKE fen iK$ m Euro lupin h 3ahl u.jatj 0.3590 70.374 4.4027 2.1453 0.5637 5075.2 24.622 ruu Indian h Won C$ Yuon 10$ HT$ 1.004i 27.21i 686.7 0.88! 0.2141 1.126' 19.691
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      • 58 18 !y volume Sec 4 til !hnrlered DalotrftUSS iembCarp jijiiliind singTel .'iiplns jitiraya (epCar iuroptron Close 1.280 1.040 0.740 0.810 0.10O 1.280 0.070 0.470 3.700 0.335 Change -0.050 ■0.060 -0.030 ■0.010 -0.020 +0.010 -0.005 4.220 ■0.010 ■4.6 ■7.5 -3.6 ■9.1 -1.5 +16.7 -1.1 -5.6 ■2.9 'OOO 70,887 28,308
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      • 79 18 Iy$ let 4 Close Change >PH 20.100 +0.200 ;hangAsia2kKK$ 5.050 +0.200 SPBol 1.530 +0.130 :SN 7.800 +0.050 By percentage Dec 4 VicplosW*****9 Wee Poh m CraflP Close Changi 0.020 +0.00! 0.050 +0.011 0.025 +0.00! 0.075 +0.01! )UE 6.050 +0.050 1PB Breweries 5.000 +0.040 SKGoh 0.675 +0.025 AanOriOSS
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      • 79 18 SGX HMnSI Dec 4 Close Change /eoliveSO 13.600 -0.700 By percenti Dec 4 m tage Close Chqngi 0.010 -0.00! failure 14.600 -0.70O iPHlOO 19.700 -0.300 GMG U5S Excel 0.015 -0.00! 0.020 -0.00! fepCor 3.700 -0.220 3B5 10.900 -0.200 jBSBk&KNCPSID 104.300 -0.100 KBC 9.750 -0.10O >IA 200 10.500
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    • 380 20 Stake in Citadines will strengthen quality of its earnings THE Ascott Group has agreed to acquire a 50 per cent interest in Citadines, a pan-European servicedresidence chain, for $147.5 million. The Citadines Group has over 5,100 serviced apartments on 46 properties in 18 cities in the
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    • 287 22  -  Derrick A Paulo ALL eyes were on the market yesterday when MobileOne Asia (Ml) made its debut. However, investors may have to keep on watching before a true picture emerges. "You have got to wait for more than one day to deliver a verdict," said one
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    • 284 22 Bloomberg ABN AMRO, Citigroup and other foreign banks that are seeking business from Singapore's richest people will, next year, have to welcome a different income group the city's poor. From 2003, foreign banks will have to offer low-cost services to the city's four million
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    • 346 24 -AFP As China pushes to make IT a pillar of its economy HONG KONG China aims to make information technology a pillar of its economy, driven by the growth of telecommunications, as it opens up under the World Trade Organisation, its Information Industry Minister said. Mr
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    • 116 24 -AFP SYDNEY Australian financial services giant AMP Ltd announced it was cutting another 2,000 jobs from its global operations 1,900 of them in its troubled British operations. The cutbacks come on top of 2,700 jobs already axed worldwide as part of a major restructuring exercise. One hundred
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    • 411 26  -  Adrian Tan STRANGE people, fund managers. They don't seem to be that keen to be rated on their future perform- ance. We know that choosing a fund to put our hard-earned CPF savings into is difficult. What type of fund and which manager? Despite the mandatory warn-
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    • 142 26 BUSINESSES ranging from food hawkers to large corporations will continue to enjoy rental rebates for another six months, as the government yesterday acknowledged that the prospect of a quick economic recovery remains uncertain. The rebates will cost JTC Corp, HDB and the National Environment Agency about $200
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    • Article, Illustration
      276 28 -AFP America Online sees plunge in 2003 revenue NEW YORK The media giant, AOL Time Warner, said it expected its America Online division to suffer a 15 to 25 per cent plunge in earnings before interest, taxes and other charges next year. America Online's advertising and commerce revenues,
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    • 478 30 Bloomberg As home loan war hots up in Hong Kong HONG KONG Citigroup Inc, the biggest US financial services company, is retreating from Hong Kong's home loans market, citing fierce competition from rival lenders. The group will no longer offer discounts on the so called "best lending
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    • 175 30 -AFX News BEIJING HSBC Holdings PLC chairman David Eldon said investors and analysts have become obsessed with shortterm performance. The challenge facing companies now will be withstanding the pressure of conforming to those demands, particularly in their China operations. Investors have changed their mantras from "what can
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 293 32 Agencies WASHINGTON Saying it has been "unfairly maligned", Saudi Arabia launched a major damage control campaign on Tuesday, to stave off allegations that it is not doing enough for the war against terrorism. Mr Adel Al Jubeir (picture), a senior foreign policy adviser to Saudi Crown
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    • 115 32 -AFP JAKARTA In a major breakthrough in the Bali blast investigations, Indonesian police yesterday arrested five more people, including the new operations chief of the Jemaah Islamiyah {Jl}. "Last night... we managed to arrest several people, including the person wanted by the Indonesian, Malaysian and
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    • 121 32 Reuters HAMBURG (Germany) Extra-marital sex can increase your risk of having a heart attack, a British cardiologist has told a congress on sexual health here. Dr Graham Jackson, a heart specialist at St Thomas's Hospital in London, found that couples in long-term relationships were far
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    • 348 34 Sydney 2000 Olympics not threatened by terrorists: Aussie official SYDNEY Australian authorities and the former head of Olympic security yesterday dismissed a Singapore report that a terrorist plot had been hatched to attack Sydney's 2000 Olympics. Former New South Wales Police assistant commissioner Paul McKinnon said the
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    • 121 34 LONDON Barely a day after Prime Minister Tony Blair emerged victorious in the wage stalemate with firefighters, he is facing a major parliamentary rebellion, British newspapers reported yesterday. The crisis came after the government published a Bill to allow hunting to continue under strict new rules,
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    • 115 34 AFP LONDON British Airways (BA) has begun an investigation after one of its Concorde supersonic passenger jets lost part of its rudder during a flight from London to New York last Wednesday. The pilots felt vibrations in the plane, which persisted as the aircraft was approaching New
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    • 100 36 -AFP CARACAS (Venezueia) Venezuela's top trades union federation on Tuesday extended indefinitely a general strike aimed at bringing down President Hugo Chavez. It also urged his political foes to take to the streets, Venezuelan Workers Confederation chief Carlos Ortega made the call for open-ended action after
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    • 329 36 Agencies BAGHDAD Anxious to stymie the possibility of an American attack, Iraq said it had no weapons of mass destruction to confess to and promised to meet a United Nations deadline this weekend to declare all arms programmes. Sticking to a policy of complying with
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    • 177 36 -AFP LONDON Stunned to see a second royal trial fall through, London's main police force has announced an internal review of its handling of the investigations. The two cases have cost the taxpayer an estimated £2 million ($5.6 million). The move by the Metropolitan Police
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    • 210 38 Agencies SHANGHAI Adding to their busy schedules of preparing for the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese will be working just as hard for the 2010 World Exposition. Shanghai, the vanguard of China's economic and political reforms for more than 20 years, won the bid on Tuesday to host
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    • 184 38 Reuters TAIPEI If Taipei's Mayor is re-eiected on Saturday, he could upset President Chen Shuibian's re-election bid in 2004 and re-shape the government's policy towards China. A victory for Mr Ma Yingjeou (picture), 52, who favours closer ties with China, will make him a challenger to
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    • 121 38 Agencies TOKYO Japan called on the US military to crack down on crimes involving servicemen yesterday, a day after police issued an arrest warrant for a US marine over an attempted rape. Marine Corps Major Michael Brown, 39, attempted the act in a parked car on
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      477 42 -AFP Missile threat exaggerated, says expert KUALA LUMPUR The threat to airliners posed by terrorists using shoulder-fired missiles is growing but passengers have a good chance of surviving a direct hit, experts say. Missiles of the type used in a failed attack on an Israeli plane in
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    • 545 44 Reuters Thai museum catalogues opium dreams and nightmares CHIANG SENG First reactions to Thailand's new opium museum in the Golden Triangle are confused: Pleasant surprise at the cool air after the intense tropical heat, but then disorientation, shock and even fear. Visitors enter the 40 hectare complex through
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    • 652 46  -  Li Tang WHEN Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong mentioned that closer Asean ties were desirable, I was reminded of the mad-cow disease crisis in the United Kingdom. While people were buying beef from everywhere else except Britain, my six-year-old brother refused to eat any beef, saying:
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    • 919 48  -  Ravi Veloo IT sounds like a refreshing change, doesn't it, for a country with not such a lustrous record for nurturing media? The new year will usher in a brand-new bureaucracy and one of its major duties is to protect newcomers to the media industry here
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    • 610 51 OME 6,000 service staff were accorded the Excellent Service Award at a ceresi-■ mony last Wednesday at the University Cultural Centre. Minister of State for Defence Deputy Chairman, SPRING Singapore (Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board( Mr Cedrtc Foo said in his keynote address: "Customers are the
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    • 537 52  -  Sandra Leong NCE in a :V:. Chua (pic- ture) helps aster from occurring. As a banquet operation supervisor at the Grand Plaza Parkroyal Hotel, he often has to get involved in the tricky business of dealing with the 'in-laws' at the wedding dinners that the hotel
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    • 305 52 2002 EXSA Winners SINGAPORE HOTEL ASSOCIATION Silver Gold Star Total Mlson Hotel 3 3 7 13 Singapore Fhe American Club 27 22 9 58 Jeqaya Hotel 8 0 0 8 O rlion Hotel fS) 11 5 A 20 'te Ltd Zoncorde Hotel 2 10 3 Singapore
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    • 367 52 LAUNCHED in 1 994, the Excellent Service Award [EXSA] is a national award to recognise people in the services sector who have provided excellent service. The award, open to workers in the hotel, restaurant, retail, attractions, airport, travel service and land transport sectors, also
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    • 478 54  -  Sandra Leong !F you dread the crowded aisles, chaotic queues and mad rush at the supermarket each time your groceries run out, try to put yourself in Ms Tan Sock Keow's (picture) shoes. As senior supervisor of NTUC Fairprice Supermarket, she suffers the daily headache of
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    • 112 54 AS companies face increasing competition, they have to sharpen their competitive edge. Enhancing the quality of service is one of the strategies some have adopted. Service excellence needs to be supported by service and work performance standards. It is critical to establish these standards so
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    • 155 54 MADAM Betty Goh Swee Hay has worked for Mandarin Singapore for the past 12 years. She is a floor stewardess and a typical work day would see her collecting room keys in the morning and packing the trolley before heading out to clean the rooms. After Betty
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    • 503 54 2002 EXSA Winners SINGAPORE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION Silver Gold Star Total 7-Eleven 37 18 25 80 A's jewelry 0 3 14 Apparel Concepts Pte Ltd 7 4 0 11 Aspiol Corporation 9 23 34 66 Limited Beau teOne Pte Lid 3 3 3 14 C. K. Tang
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    • 470 56  -  Sandra Leang LITTLE bit of neighbourhood history is what you Excellent -:Award (EXSA) Superstar winner Mr Tan Chor Kwan (picture). As lead driver of Singapore Shuttle Bus Service CSS 608 since its inception in 1975, Mr Tan said: "I have ferried passengers from when they
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    • 111 56 2002 EX5A Winners LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY Silver Gold Star Total CityCab Pte Ltd 0 22 4 26 Comforf Bus Pte Ltd 8 6 0 14 Comfort 15 81 3 99 Transportation Pte Ltd Yellow-Top Cab 1 3 0 i Pte Ltd SBS Transit Limited 46 57
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    • 126 58 2002 EXSA Winners CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE Silver Gold Star Total Airport Police 44 10 4 58 Division Campaign Cleaning 1 0 0 1 Service5 Chcngi 34 22 12 68 International Airport Services Pte Ltd [CIAS Pax Services) Changi 225 100 117 442 International Airport
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    • 504 58  -  Sandra Leong MAN who does his work well will probably be missed until a replacement is found. But a man who goes beyond the call or duty as a worker and friend will be sorely missed for a long time. A few weeks shy of
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    • 479 59  -  Sandra Leong EING an Excellent Service Award (EXSA) Superstar winner was a dream come true for Mr Abdul Halim Bin Mohd Ali [picture) of Night Safari Singapore. Literally. "The night before I got hSe news, I had a dream that I had won. I woke up and
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    • 105 59 2002 EX5A Winners ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE ATTRACTIONS Silver Gold Star Total Butterfly Park Insect 0 0 1 1 Kingdom Jurong Bird Park 7 6 5 18 Notional Parts Board 0 10 1 Royal Ming Pie Ltd 3 0 0 3 Seniosa Discovery Tours 3 3 4
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    • 474 60  -  Sandra Leong T'S fried rice paradise for Ms Hoo Siew Yue now that she has been named one of this year's Excellent Service Award (EXSA) Superstars. As branch manager of Chen Fu Ji Fried Rice, Siew Yue oversees operations and customer service at the newly
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    • 218 60 2002 EXSA Winners THE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE Silver Gold Star Total ABR Holdings 18 9 0 27 Limited Bonstar Pie Ltd 0 4 0 4 Chen Fu Ji Fried Rice 4 2 1 7 Chilli Padi The 1 0 0 Nonya Family Restaurant Delifrance 4
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    • 214 60 SPRING Singapore's mission is "to raise productivity so as to enhance Singapore's competitiveness and economic growth For a better quality of life for our people". SPRING Singapore has three areas of focus: Productivity and innovation; standards and quality; and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and
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    • 460 62  -  Sandra Leong hen you board a f bus, you would expect a no-frills ride from point A to point B. Fivestar personal attention? Save that for the hotels. One of this year's Excellent Service Award (EXSA) Superstar winners, coach captain Teh Juat Cher [picture), believes
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    • 98 62 2002 EXSA Winners NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TRAVEL AGENTS SINGAPORE Silver Gold Star Total American Express 1 0 0 1 International, Inc Ananda Travel |S) Pte 2 I 0 3 Ltd Diners World Travel 4 4 0 S Pte Ltd GBC Pte Ltd 2 0 0 2
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    • 80 54 EXCELLENT SERVICE AWARD ■H 2002 DFS CALLERIA SINGAPORE to our Excellent Service Award providers Star Award Winners Gold Award Winners Silver Award Winners Choo Kim Hua Leo Beng Choo Goh Chor Hoon N<incy Tan Mui Keow Sally LeeGuekLin ThamChuey HarLiza Ong Bcc Yen Chua Hwcc Hoon Chli lI H ong
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    • 167 66 Along came a spider, which sat down beside him -Reuters SANTA MARIA (California) Pop superstar Michael Jackson hobbled on crutches into court here on Tuesday to resume testifying in a US$2l million ($35.8 million) lawsuit, despite suffering from what he said was a painful spider bite. Wearing a white sports
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    • 226 68 -Reuters LOS ANGELES Prosecutors plan to ask for actress Winona Ryder, 31, to undergo drug and psychiatric counselling as part of her shoplifting sentence which will be handed down on Friday. They say that she had eight types of drugs on her when she was arrested
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    • 1626 70 On TV Hari Raya Special Salam Lebaran Suria, 10.30pm Highlander 3 Channels, l Opm Coupling-My Dinner in Hell Arts Central, lipm 20/20 Channel NewsAsia, 7,32pm This Hari Raya eve, we invite t^^k T~ A^r <^il'S i>iiowi flmikcr gm*. i^ Steve bumps inln his dream Barbara WalU rs you to be
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    • 186 72 Reuters MELBOURNE Australian Open organisers are still unsure whether US Open champion Pete Sampras will compete at next month's Grand Slam tournament. Sampras was automatically included in the official entries for the January 13-26 event when nominations closed yesterday but has yet to indicate whether
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    • 676 72 Reuters RALEIGH Triple Olympic champion Marion Jones said yesterday she was back in training for the long jump after a two-year absence. And she plans to seek gold medals in at least three events and perhaps as many as five at next year's Paris world
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    • 490 73 Chinese giant's no flash in the pan HOUSTON Tim Duncan will attest to the fact that Chinese centre Yao Ming (picture) is the real thing. Yao scored 27 points and pulled down 18 rebounds, leading the Houston Rockets to an 89-75 victory over Duncan and the
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    • 259 73 -AFP SYDNEY Prime Minister John Howard launched an unusual public appeal yesterday for England to send the coveted Ashes trophy to Australia, a controversy that has dominated the two nations' cricketing rivalry for 16 years. In an open letter printed across the front page
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    • 263 73 LONDON One of the most famous bunkers in golf, the deadly greenside trap on the 17th hole at St Andrews, has been radically altered, causing "uproar" in the Scottish town. The Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that the size, shape and position of the Road Hole
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    • 956 74  - Winning is never easy unless it's Australia v England Rohitßrijnath WINNING loosens the tongue and muddles the mind. Grim men discover childish grins and even don't mind the press for once. In all the excessive adrenaline of the moment, captains forget the rules. Like Steve Waugh did last week. In
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    • 561 75 -AFP Golf Volvo Asian Masters Three-way battle for Asia best tag KUALA LUMPUR India's Jyoti Randhawa is in pole position to secure victory in a three-way race for the Asian Order of Merit crown at the Volvo Asian Masters starting today. Randhawa faces a duel
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    • Article, Illustration
      654 76  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Kabiga's confident despite a near disaster yesterday HE ALMOST lost his belongings, but having survived a mini-ordeal, Jackson Kabiga of Kenya is ready to take this Sunday's Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon by storm. Kabiga had temporarily misplaced his tracksuit and wallet, which contained his money
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    • 335 76 -AFP BEIJING China has asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to put back the date of the 2008 Olympic Games by several weeks, the president of the coordination committee said yesterday. Beijing wants the Games to be put back from
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    • 484 77 Agencies MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson believes Manchester United has good cause for optimism ahead of the vital Premiership clash against Arsenal at Old Trafford on Saturday. The league-leading Gunners will go into the showdown fully rested and refreshed after a midweek break. United, though, had a
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    • 458 78  -  Kelvin Phang Looks to popularise shooting for the masses FANCY becoming a trap-shooter like 12--time SEA Games gold medallist Lee Wung Yew? Well, come Dec 21, members of the public can learn how to fire shotguns in an introductory course for just $50 per person. In
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    • 386 78  -  Kelvin Phang SUNDAY Dec 8 is definitely the day for all Singaporeans to come out and play. From Sam to Bpm, members of the public can exercise for free at the Singapore Sports Council's (SSC) 16 stadiums, 27 swimming complexes and 12 Sports for Life
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    • 693 79  -  Neil Humphreys Liverpool manager looking increasingly eccentric with bizarre team selections GERARD Houllier sat in the press conference at Liverpool's training ground on Tuesday and told journalists, myself included, that Chris Kirkland would definitely play against Ipswich Town. He didn't. In the next breath, the
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    • 172 79 Reuters LONDON Giantkiller Wigan Athletic humbled Fulham while Chelsea crushed Everton in the English League Cup fourth round last night. Wigan's prolific forward Nathan Ellington netted both its goals as the division two leader saw off visiting Fulham 2-1 to claim its third premier league scalp
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  • UPFRONT
    • 526 81  -  Yong Shu Chiang Here to tell an exotic tale with autobiographical shades BRITISH performance artist Kazuko Hohki (picture) once had a karaoke club. It wasn't one of those darkened establishments where people with questionable singing talent belted out song after song. The Karaoke Klub was a 1989
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 391 82 AFP, Reuters/Variety Gallagher hurries home for treatment after nightclub brawl BERLIN The British pop group, Oasis, has called off its tour of Germany because singer Liam Gallagher (picture) needs to return to Britain for medical treatment after a nightclub punch-up, organisers said on Tuesday. Gallagher was hurt,
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    • 219 82  -  Yong Shu Chiang THE advent of digital television is expected to be the biggest development in the fast-grow-ing Asia-Pacific cable and satellite industry in the next decade. According to a new study, the number of households with digital television will grow dramatically
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    • 345 83  -  Lee Sze Tong Funnyman Suhaimi Yusof teams up with Lydia Sum BEING in the cast of Living with Lydia does not help Suhaimi Yusof watch his weight. In one scene, he had to eat nasi lemak. "Because the producer wanted a perfect shot, we had to do
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    • 173 83  -  Eltsa Chta KOREAN artiste Lena Park Jung Hyun (picture) is coming to town. And the 26-year-old's visit, to plug her album Op. 4, will be the first "promo" tour of a Korean artiste to Singapore. Lena, dubbed South Korea's Whitney Houston, first caught critics'
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    • 414 91  -  Felix Cheong Stories about witches and wizards are not new, so why the brickbats? 'TV) say that Harry Potter has become A handcuffed to its own vicious cycle of success seems like an understatement. In the trail of hype accompanying each installment of the series,
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    • 190 91  -  -LeeSze Yong THE Singapore Youth Award (SYA) organising committee is on the lookout again for inspirational role models for youths. Among those who have been singled out in past years are singer Kit Chan, adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow and ornamental fish supplier Qian
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    • 371 91  -  -Joy Frances THE Esplanade Theatres on the Bay appears to be earning its keep as far as Malaysian visitors go. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has attributed a 3.2 per cent increase in Malaysian visitors in October, in part to its promotion of the Esplanade. "STB's role
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      1158 92  -  Serene Foo It's time to give beauty contestants the kudos they deserve LET'S come bare with it. In the age of the supposedly empowered and emancipated modern woman, who needs to be a beauty queen? It's a hard question to answer if you're an aspiring pageant wannabe. Particularly
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  • FESTIVE FAMILY FAVOURITES
    • 288 84  -  Pauline D Loh Silky slivers of sweet bird's nest in a milky almond broth BIRD S nest is one of those little luxuries that every mother or grandmother thinks of when they want to pamper the family. There is something about a steaming hot bowl of bird's
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    • 121 84 Ingredients: 150 g Horse Brand bird's nest 250 g blanched almonds 100 g sweet apricot kernels (nanxing) 10 pcs bitter apricot kernels (beixing) 100 g rock sugar, made into syrup with a little water 3 pandan leaves 1 cup fresh milk 4 cups water
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    • 241 84 COLOUR Bird's nests come in many colours, from snow-white to a dark orange-red, all depending on the breed of swifts, and the quality of harvests. Contrary to belief, the darker coloured "blood" nests do not come from exhausted birds who
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    • 553 90  -  Alice Leong EVER since she was diagnosed with diabetes three years ago, Eunice Tan has become more careful about her diet. The 34-year-old secretary told Today: "I am especially conscious of my sugar intake. I try to cut down on cakes and soft drinks because they have
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    • 268 92 f i f I j Confident that you'll be the belle of the ball? The Miss Singapore Universe™ 2003 Pageant wants someone exactly like you. Not only will you walk away with $10,000 cash, attractive prizes and a MediaCorp contract, you'll have the honour to represent Singapore in Panama City
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  • CITYSTYLE
    • 607 94  -  Pearlyn Tham Hair can reflect illness, says Svenson trichologist ONE client started pulling her hair out as a habit after her father died. Another with migraine pulled his hair out, believing that doing so would ease the pain. As a trichologist, Michael Bernstein has seen clients who suffer
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    • 225 94  -  Pearlyn Tham SHE was rumoured to own 3,000 pairs of shoes but let's hope that former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos spent just as much time, effort and money on her feet as well. After all, if your shoes are pretty but your
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    • 207 95  -  Pearlyn Tham IF a restaurant or food stall serves good food, people will flock to it. The same philosophy is applied by Sensualite, a slimming specialist chain. "Because we produce fast, safe and effective results, our customers continue to use our services," Ms
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    • 580 95  -  Pearlyn Tham FOR the past three weeks, Lebon Ang has been one busy man. He has been zipping in and out of all the designer boutiques, arming himself with bags of designer clothes, but he is no big-spending clotheshorse. Instead, Lebon has the mammoth task
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    • 437 95  -  Toh Xing Yu, Miss EverSoft IF you are planning to have a white wintry Christmas overseas this year, make sure that your bottle of moisturiser is part of your check-list. Yes, you may have oily skin that can do without regular moisturising
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  • Festive special
    • 7 96 Step out celebraate Miss Singapore/Universe Nurliia Osman
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      573 98  -  Sandra Leong During Ramadan, Geylang Serai is a pulsing mini city of sights, sounds and tastes IF YOU'RE guilty of lamenting: "There's nothing to do in Singapore!" you probably need to get out more. Away from the overcrowded malls along Orchard Road, there are many "happening" places
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      683 100  -  Jenny Kong You have seen Alfarahiza Awangnit's home on TV. Now, we take you to the actress' home in the midst of the family's Hari Raya preparations IN the award-winning social drama Jeritan Sepi, Alfarahiza Awangnit plays Katijah, a troubled teen from a low-income family who has an
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    • 598 102  - PLEASE, NO ALCOHOL Amanda Koh and other Hari Raya dos and don'ts LIVING in a multi-cultural society like ours, having friends of other races is common. However, apart from hanging out together, how much do we really know about each other's traditions and customs? With Hari Raya Puasa just a
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    • 409 104  -  Sandra Leong A Ramadan tradition, eating dates is a healthy habit all year round by sandra@newsto day.com.sg which often dwindle after a day of fasting." High in fibre, dates can aid digestion after a heavy meal. They also contain potassium, which helps maintain a balance of
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    • 457 106  -  Sabina-Leah Fernandez NOYZFERA2 and Mr Moon are not just two ordinary guys. Besides holding day jobs, they play with the five-strong hip hop band, Urban XChange (UX). And for the last month, they have been fasting for Ramadan. Add a concert tour of Malaysia and the release
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    • 35 108 After the fasting month, happiness is celebrating Hari Raya with loved ones. Well, what are you waiting for? Pile on the glam, step out in style and let the celebrations begin.
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      54 110 Embroidered hkafa ($280) from Marie Veton Fashion Kebaya ($280) and shawl ($3O) from Kemy Surin; suit ($180) from Salmah Manap Bridal Boutique Embroidered organza kcbaya ($250) and mandarin collar suit ($180) from Salmah Manap Bridal Boutique Beaded baju kurong ($250), beaded shawl ($129) anil silver sun brooch ($69)
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      43 112 Muslims seek forgiveness from each other during the festive season. Time to bury the past and start anew. Golden suteramas checkers baja Innag ($210) Iron Kemy Surin; brown tkrM-fcittoa radarfe collar salt ($180) ari tmk,\i»ni sought ($65) from Salmah Maup Bridal Bmli^h
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      24 112 Wow1 Look at all the wonderful food! Retupat, rendang. cakes and cookies everyone's spoilt for choice at the grand feast. Clothes as akn
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      90 112 Hari Raya is also about visiting relatives and friends in your festive best. CREDITS STYIIST: Anwar Hasnin PHOTOGRAPHER: Wong Khing diong MODELS: Miss Singapore/Universe fhrliia Osman and Aaron Aziz LOCATION: Royal Plaza on Scotts HAIR: Alice Tan from Backstage MAKE UP: Alden Lob using Averine Cosmetics Kemy Surin (tel:
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      551 114  -  Pearlyn Tham After a year of toiling, no one can fault you for wanting a little sparkle for yourself or for that someone special... THE Christmas tree isn't the only thing that is glittering this festive season. During the year-end, more people tend to spend money on jewellery, either
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    • 264 116 Good things are rarely free except for the freebies that cosmetic companies give with purchases. Whether if s a bag or a soft toy, freebies make good lastminute Christmas gifts. We pick the deals that come with something extra. By Pearlyn Tham If you're planning a weekend
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