Today, 5 February 2003

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    9 1 TODAY Wednesday February 5, 2003 i MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Lock icon Leaderless, not toothless
    321 1  -  Jose Raymond by j ose@newstoday.com. sg WITH the arrest of the Jemaah Islamiyah's Singapore head Mas Selamat Kastari (picture) on Bintan on Sunday, all but one of the terrorist group's leaders are behind bars, the exception being Riduan Isamuddin aka Hambali. Other JI heads in custody include
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    Lock icon Nasa's guilty secret
    823 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Derrick A Paulo Warnings ignored, messengers fired by and boonyian@newstoday.com.sg NOW, they say it was an accident waiting to happen. But when a Nasa panel of experts warned of an impending disaster in March last year, the space agency did not merely turn a
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Referee dies during game
      232 2  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg A VETERAN Football Association of Singapore (FAS) Class One referee died while officiating at a football match yesterday. Mr Veloo Pillay, 58, collapsed during a private veterans' match at the St Wilfred football field. The players rushed Mr Veloo to Tan Tock
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      Lock icon The Filipino roar
      443 3  -  Clement Mesenas Those working overseas look forward to next election by clement@newstoday.com.sg MANILA The voice of overseas Filipino workers, many of whom are forced to work in menial jobs in countries with inhospitable cultures, will be heard with a powerful roar when many of the 7.5 million
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      Territorial storm?
      101 3 KUALA LUMPUR A territorial dispute could be brewing between Malaysia and Brunei after both countries awarded contracts to rival companies to explore for oil and gas in the same offshore areas, a report said yesterday. The Malaysian state-owned oil company, Petroliam Nasional Bhd, awarded its unit, Petronas Carigali
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      347 2 ADVERTISEMENT $450,000 medical cover during tough times Use your CPF to get medical cover for the family till age 80 DURING tough times, it is even more important to have adequate medical Now you can get up to $450,000 [rs medical cover for the family, including including room and board,
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Why Hire stay out
      697 4  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Overseas Singaporeans dislike intense material life here by kim@newsto day. com. sg WHENEVER Associate Professor Ooi Can-Seng thinks of home, he feels the tug on his heartstrings but something always tells him to think twice. The sociologist, who is based in Denmark at the
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      Lock icon ERS helping hand
      191 4 ChannelNewsAsia SINGAPOREANS living in one-room and two-room HDB flats as well as those in welfare homes who have yet to apply for their Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS) will get special help to do so from this week. This is because grassroots leaders will be calling on them
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      Lock icon No wonder pill for woes
      187 4 Newsßadio 93.8 DON'T expect the Economic Review Committee's final report to be a cure-all that will solve Singapore's economic troubles. Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Tharman Shanmugaratnam made this point ahead of the report's release tomorrow. Putting the hype surrounding the release
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      Peek at MAS
      125 4  -  Tor Ching Li WITH increasing interest in the modus operandi of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) foreign-exchange and money-market operations, Singapore's central bank has released a publication on monetary policy operations here. Entitled "Monetary Policy Operations in Singapore", the paper lifts a corner of the MAS'
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  • LETTERS
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      Truth Will triumph
      272 6  -  Paul Wee S'pore did the right thing to release official letters I REFER to the letter, "It's pointless to highlight how talks went awry", from Mr Michael Loh Yik Ming (Today, Feb 4). His call for more diplomacy to solve the Singapore-Malaysia stalemate to the extent of
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      More vibrant style at'Boutique U'
      212 6  -  Sherlyn Lee Pei Yee I REFER to the report, "Great varsities in time" (Today, Jan 29). I am fortunate to have been able to have the "best" of both worlds. I completed my undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) some five years
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      Why not pick system that's cheaper to upkeep?
      370 6  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming MANY thanks for the replies, "The N-E Line is costlier to operate but offers safer and better service", from the Land Transport Authority and SBS Transit regarding the fares of the NorthEast Line (Today, Jan 31). Based on
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      30 6 I Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax:65-*****217; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg
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      346 7 Make 2003 your year of interest with ABN AMRO. Whether you invest in the Asia Enßich Plan", open a KfflfflfflJlWifflW Time Deposit or a Millennium Account, you'll enjoy more r) enos ts interest, more growth and more prosperity with ABN AMRO. Statement Savings Sslo,ooo As a special new year bonus,
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Home and dry
      353 8 Bloomberg CapitaLand to book profit for first time in 3 years CAPITALAND Ltd, South-east Asia's largest real estate developer, is expected to make a profit for the first time in three years riding on an increase last year in homes sold and a handsome gain from selling
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      Lock icon Singdollar lower
      94 8 Bloomberg THE Singapore dollar fell to its lowest in almost a month against the US dollar on concerns that Japan will start selling yen again after doing so last month, weakening the currency and luring Japanese buyers away from the island-state's exports. The Singapore dollar fell to a
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      Lock icon $547m loan
      46 8 Bloomberg MUMBAI Bharti Tele-Ventures, India's biggest mobile phone operator, said it borrowed US$3l5 million ($547 million) overseas at 5.5 per cent a year over five years to repay a 3.6 billion Indian rupee ($l3O million) loan and to buy equipment to expand its networks.
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    • Market Watch
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        World markets
        53 8 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 225 8484.90 -15.89 -0.19 HANG SENG 9252.71 -6.24 -0.07 ASXALLORDS TAIWAN WTD 2926.10 5015.16 5.60 0.00 0.19 0.00 KOREA COMP SET 603.78 373.37 3.37 0.97 0.56 0.26 JAKARTA COMP 394.15 3.93 1.01 PHIL COMP 1049.67 -8.47 -0.80 SHENZHEN B 209.30 0.54 0.26 MUMBAI
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        Your S$l buys
        36 8 US$ 0.5749 UK£ 0.3494 Yen 69.0606 HK$ 4.4842 RM 2.1845 Euro 0.6216 Rupiah 5099.45 Baht 24.5466 Peso 31.0093 A$ 0.9769 Indian Rs 27.4741 Won 676.900 C$ 0.8726 Yuan 4.7603 NZ$ 1.0489 NTS 19.9506
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        Commodities
        22 8 Gold uss/oi 374.95 Silver uss/oi 4.860 Platinum uss/oi 703.00 Rubber centsAg 166.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 600 Brent crude uss/bbl 32.76
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        SGX top rises
        77 8 By$ Feb 4 Close Change F&N 8.500 +0.400 Venture 13.300 +0.300 DBS 10.400 +0.200 DBS Bk6% NCPS10 104.50 +0.200 OUE 6.000 +0.150 SIA 9.750 +0.100 SIA200 9.750 +0.100 CITYDEV 3.960 +0.080 Prima 4.520 +0.080 Semb Log 1.500+0.070 By percentage Feb4 Media!. Star tech PKTech TungLok Mayfran Fastech
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        SGX top falls
        76 8 By$ Feb 4 Close Change Seaview 4.200 -1.000 OCBC 8.900 -0.200 SPH100 18.200 -0.200 Creative 50 11.500 -0.100 JMH400USS 6.050 -0.100 UOB 10.400 -0.100 CSA 1.090 -0.060 KepCorp 3.640 -0.040 AseanSupremel00USS4.660 -0.040 CSC U*****7 0.990 -0.030 By percentage Feb4 Presscrete Nucleus Close Change 0.040 -27.3 0.055 -26.7
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        Straits Times Index Intraday Chart
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        SGX most active
        52 8 By volume Feb 4 SingTel DatacrftUSS Chartered PFood LeongHin DMXTech TTInt Pokka Sp MultiVis Ml Close 1.310 0.690 0.710 0.895 0.730 0.265 0.435 0.295 1.240 Change +0.015 +0.025 +0.005 +0.015 +0.020 +0.010 +2.2 +2.9 +0.7 +6.0 +7.3 +0.8 'OOO 12,969 10,381 10,075 10,039 8,275 7,769 6,387 5,975
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        Lock icon Singapore
        167 8 Reuters SINGAPORE shares rose yesterday, lifted by technology stocks but the Straits Times Index failed to close above the psychological 1,300 level. The STI finished up 4.98 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 1,296.59 after touching an intra-day high of 1,309.80. Worries over the prospect of war between the
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      EDB's eggs in many baskets
      323 10  -  Grace Tay Board wants to set up another high-end hub by grace@newstoday.com. sg AFTER developing the services cluster last year in areas such as education and engineering, the Economic Development Board (EDB) is hoping to establish another hub in Singapore that of high-end professional services.
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      Lock icon Opec to cut output?
      97 10 Reuters DOHA The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) may be forced to cut supplies in the second quarter if oil exports from strike-bound Venezuela resume, according to Opec chief Abdullah al-Attiyah. However, output policy was uncertain due to the threat of war in Iraq. Opec
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      Lock icon More visit S'pore
      67 10 Bloomberg THE number of tourists visiting Singapore last month rose 5.8 per cent to 709,143 people, helped by a 38 per cent increase in arrivals from Japan. Tourists spent $9 billion last year, according to estimates, five per cent less than in 2001. Receipts from visitors this
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      MP on Keppel board
      67 10 KEPPEL Corporation Limited (KCL) has appointed Mrs Lim Hwee Hua to its board with effect from Feb 1. "Mrs Lim will bring to Keppel her strong experience and expertise in corporate finance," said KCL executive chairman Lim Chee Onn. Mrs Lim, 44, is the managing director
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      Lock icon It's a gold rush
      195 12 Reuters Prices hit 7-year high amid talk of US-Iraq war LONDON Gold vaulted to a seven-year high yesterday as Washington prepared to make its case against Iraq in the UN Security Council, prompting nervous investors to seek a safe haven for their money. Spot gold traded
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3591 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com NTUC Prime Fd 1 MTUC Singapore Bond Fd l.OOl L.l J1 1 12/31 USD Global Return-Oct 2004 1.04 2/3 USD Global Return M-Nov 2004 1.0132 2/3 USD North Asia Positive Growth 0.9355 2/3 USD PrtJ-Jun 2004 1.052 2/3 USD Prtd Return-Feb 2004
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      Lock icon SilkAir in $174m deal
      64 12 Bloomberg SILKAIR has ordered jet engines worth US$lOO million ($173.9 million) from International Aero Engines. The V2500 engines will be fitted on the six Airbus aircraft the airline ordered last October. Meanwhile, Cathay Pacific Cargo, Japan Airlines Cargo, Qantas Freight and Singapore Airlines Cargo will start
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      Lock icon Back in the black
      290 14 Bloomberg Hitachi boosted by chip sales TOKYO Hitachi returned to profit in its fiscal third quarter, as semiconductor sales rose by a third. Its net income totalled 1.3 billion yen ($lB.B million) in the three months ended Dec 31, compared with a loss of 115.8 billion
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      Lock icon Sharp's profits soar on LCD demand
      214 14 Bloomberg OSAKA Sharp, Japan's biggest maker of liquid crystal displays, said its fiscal third-quarter profit tripled as it sold more flat-screen television sets, thin screens and mobile phones with built-in cameras. Group net income rose to 14 billion yen ($202 million) in the three
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    • BUSINESS NEWS/HDB HOME LOAN SPECIAL
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        The contra question
        808 18 Question: Due to financial commitments and my children's schooling requirements, we plan to sell our five-room flat in Pasir Ris and downgrade to a four-room flat in another location from where my children can go to school more easily. (aj Can I do a contra, as my
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      158 18 Confused about home loan changes? Want to know more about bank loans and how you may be affected as a buyer? E-mail us at: hdb@newstoday.com.sg Hong Leong Finance HDB Home Loan. Attractive now. And in the future. While other HDB home loans offer attractive rates for the first year, maybe
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Powell without proof
      270 19 Agencies Newspaper says data to prove Iraq-AI Qaeda link missing LONDON US Secretary of State Colin Powell (picture) appears to have pulled back from claims that he would prove to the UN that there is a link between the Al Qaeda and Iraq, reported The Telegraph yesterday.
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      Lock icon A cola for the Muslim community
      192 19 -AFP LONDON In a move to counter the growing monopoly of major American brands, a cola drink aimed primarily at the Muslim community was launched in Britain yesterday. Qibla Cola is being manufactured by a company in England to provide an alternative version of
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      Lock icon Doctors study nursing
      94 20 -AFP MANILA More Filipino doctors are taking nursing courses in order to boost their chances of landing higher-paying jobs overseas. Ms Rose De Leon, executive director of the Philippine Nurses Association, said the greater demand for nurses than doctors is luring even highly-trained professionals, especially since nurses
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      Lock icon Passports with a chip
      135 20 -AFP TOKYO Passports of the future may contain more than a photograph of the owner and other details. In a move to boost security and prevent counterfeiting, Japan's Foreign Ministry plans to issue passports featuring physical data. "The information will be stored in integrated circuit chips
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      Time to team up
      348 20  -  Jaime Koh Indian DPM calls for united action against extremists by jaim e@newstoday.com.sg IN A candid and forthright public lecture here yesterday, Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lai Krishna Advani (picture) did not mince words as he spoke about the evils of terrorism. While taking stock of
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  • COMMENTARY
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      THE NEW CRUSADERS
      1275 21 SINCE the 911 attacks the world has become increasingly familiar with the inflammatory anti-Western rhetoric of radical clergy in the Muslim world. However, are we as familiar or even aware of the equally inflammatory rhetoric of Christian fundamentalist preachers in the United States? Writing in the Sydney
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  • WATZUP?
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      hold court
      1119 22  -  Felix Cheong When lawyers Law schools turning into nurturing ground for literary talent by: news@newstoday.com.sg IN his professional life, who is most likely to be the English language writer?: A. A new media producer. B. A lawyer. C. An academic. D. A financial analyst Interestingly, the answer is
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      Lock icon Liz and her new man
      379 23  -  Shanoo Maharaj And he's Indian businessman Arun Nayar by in Mumbai news@newstoday.com.sg ELIZABETH Hurley's new boyfriend is Indian, rich, estranged from his Italian wife and loves to party all night British tabloids have been awash with stories of late about Hurley, 37, cosying up to
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      Big slice of CNY pie
      156 23 THE battle for eyeballs continues as MediaCorp TV Channel B's Lunar New Year's Eve Special 2003 snagged a lion's share of almost one million viewers on Friday night. The two-hour live variety show attracted an average of 836,000 viewers (21.7 per cent) aged four and
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      Lock icon White Knight
      187 24 Reuters/Variety Ben Affleck quick to defend his lady's honour LOS ANGELES He does not wear a toupee, he has never entertained a gay thought and he is not getting married on Valentine's Day to girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, actor Ben Affleck told Vanity Fair in an interview published on
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      Lock icon Madonna pregnant again
      203 24 -AFP LONDON Pop diva Madonna, 44, is pregnant with her third child, the British gossip magazine Heat reported in its latest issue, which hit the streets yesterday. Her pregnancy was the reason why the couple moved recently to Los Angeles, the magazine said. The news follows long-running
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      Lock icon The Recruit comes out tops
      150 24 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Three new films debuted at the top of the North American box office over the weekend, with The Recruit (Disney) capturing the flag with U5516.30 million ($27.78 million). Second place was the final perch for the horror picture, Final Destination 2 (New Line),
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  • IN CINEMAS
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      Lock icon May My other REST IN PEACE?
      349 25 -Reuters/Variety LONDON The daughter of the Boston-born poet Sylvia Plath (picture) has turned to verse to vent her anger at plans for a major film dramatisation of her mother's life and suicide. Ms Frieda Hughes, daughter from Plath's celebrated marriage to fellow poet Ted
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      Lock icon Streeping off Oscar sheen
      140 25 -Reuters LONDON-Meryl Streep (picture) has blasted the race for Oscar glory, saying the event had almost deteriorated into a "political campaign". Streep, 53, is in the running for a Best Actress nomination for The Hours and Best Supporting Actress for Adaptation. She could break the record
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      158 27 Reuters CANBERRA Australia has told its nationals to steer clear of World Cup cricket matches in Zimbabwe this month, warning of possible violent protests. Although Australia has stopped short of barring its cricket team from playing in Zimbabwe, its foreign office said Australians should avoid large
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      385 28 Reuters MILAN European football's elite clubs are considering trying to turn the Champions League into a two-division 'superleague', the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport reported yesterday. The report said the leading clubs who make up the G-14 group are unhappy that
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      989 29  -  Rohit Brijnath Martina and Leander were meant to triumph AT A club in Prague in 1961, a four-and-half year old girl is hitting against a wall. She needs two hands to grip the wooden racket. She hates the wall, and she loves
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      Keane to meet new Irish manager Kerr
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