Today, 10 March 2003

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    12 1 TODAY IVI o ii d 3.y •March io > 2o°3' MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Blair faces party revolt
    296 1 LONDON The first casualty in the event of a war against Iraq may not be Mr Saddam Hussein but British Prime Minister Tony Blair (picture). Members of Mr Blair's Labour government are set to quit en masse if he joins a US-led war without United Nations'
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    To snip a rival's linings...
    759 1  -  Val Chua by. vaKgnewstoday.com.sg COME May, Ms Tan Yen Nee will be taking a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight to Kuantan with her Malaysian husband. Nothing unusual there, except that the holiday-mak-ers will be bypassing Singapore's Changi Airport From Copthorne Orchid Hotel along Dunearn Road, they
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Just a piece of paper?
      336 2  -  Joy Frances by. joy@newstoday.com.Sp; THE intentions are admirable, but are they practical? As regional environment ministers gathered in Siam Reap, Cambodia, last week to launch the Asean Environment Year 2003, they were scrambling to ratify the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. Five countries Singapore,
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      Lock icon Iraq, N Korea and now Iran?
      272 3 -AFP Bush's nuclear headache keeps on growing WASHINGTON With an attack on Iraq looming and a defiant North Korea pursuing its nuclear ambitions, the last thing the United States needs is another nuclear wild card. But that is just what is happening. An article
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      Lock icon Malaysia slams 'fake' US evidence
      168 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Acting Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday slammed the United States for submitting a false report to the United Nations on Iraq's alleged nuclear weapons programme. Describing the action as "a worrisome and shameful act," Mr Abdullah said it would be
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      Lock icon Mourning their leader
      53 3 Reuters photo Hamas militants marching with flags and a portrait of their late leader Ibrahim al-Maqadma during a rally in Gaza city yesterday. Al-Maqadma and his bodyguards were blown up in their car on Saturday by missiles fired as part of the Jewish state's steppedup campaign against
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      Lock icon China bomber wanted fame
      143 3 Reuters BEIJING The Chinese farm worker suspected of bombing the cafeterias at China's two most prestigious universities last month said he did it to become famous, the official Xinhua news agency said in a report "These two universities are renowned institutions... I'd be famous if I
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      Lock icon PM holds out hope to youths
      166 4 ChannelNewsAsia CHIN up and hang in there until the dark clouds disperse. That's the advice the Prime Minister has for the young and the restless. Speaking at the sidelines of the opening of the Bukit Batok East Community Club yesterday, Prime Minister Goh Chok
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      100 years of Cold Storage
      99 4  -  WONG KHING CHONG The Cold Storage Group is celebrating its 100 th year in Singapore with a year-long bash. The group, a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International, has over 360 stores in Singapore. The celebrations, which include a $l-million charity drive for Care Community Services
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      Not slaves
      308 4  -  Lee Ching Wern Maids speak out against 'unfair' system By. chingwern@newstoday. com. sg TO be treated as human beings and not as emotionless and slavish working machines. That's the plea of a civil society group, The Working Committee 2 (TWC2), formed to improve the welfare of domestic workers
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      21 2 How much subsidy do you get for hospitalisation? A) 0% B1) 20% B2) 65% C) 80% D) All of the above
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Unanswered questions
      305 6 ChannelNewsAsia Review of security arrangements under way after fatal shooting of Cisco guard WITH so many questions clouding the shooting of a Cisco guard by his ex-col-league, the authorities are leaving nothing to chance. Cisco, the police and Sing Tel are conducting internal reviews to see if present
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      Lock icon Slurp noodles for charity
      264 6  -  Tan Hui Leng By. huileng@newstoday.com.sg NO TIME, too tired, no life these are the usual excuses that you hear from working professionals. But not from a group of young people out there, sacrificing time after work and even taking time off work to raise money for
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  • LETTERS
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      PE should not depend on the teacher's mood
      173 8  -  Sze Kai Loon I READ with interest the column, "There will be no PE today", by Bachan Singh (Weekend Today, March 1-2). I could not agree more with the writer. Many schoolchildren, including my daughter, long for PE and she gets really
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      Morality musings
      224 8  -  S Sivakolunthu Iraq issues: Who has right on his side? I REFER to the commentary, "Too little too late", by Dr Hussin Mutalib (Today, March 7). He says: Morality seems to have gone to the wind in global politics these days, more so in unipolar world exemplified by
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      It's individualism
      132 8  -  Chia Jiet Ling I AM writing in response to the letter, "Two sad incidents", by Ms Low May Yuen (Today, March 7). I believe the teenager wearing the swastikaadorned T-shirt had no idea that it carried offensive notions. If he did worship Adolf Hitler and the writer had
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      32 8 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full C"S name and address and I write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, f #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax:6s-*****217; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon In the doldrums
      322 10 AFP Singapore share prices to remain low as uncertainty over war prevails SINGAPORE share prices should remain in the doldrums next week on continued uncertainty over a US-led war against Iraq, analysts said. The Straits Times Index (STI) closed at 1,226.15 on Friday, down 47.7 points or
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      Lock icon High-tech gizmos at Cebit fair
      274 10 -AFP BERLIN The world's largest high-tech fair, Cebit, opens this week, showcasing the gleaming new gadgets that will change the way we work and play in the coming years. Cars that read you your e-mail as you drive and digital cameras that play mini-compact discs
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Commodities
        25 10 asdf Gold uss/oi 350.75 Silver uss/oi 4.67 Platinum uss/oi 690.5 Rubber cents/kg 186.5 Palm oil RM/tonne 1557 Brent crude uss/barrel 37.78 Information provided by:
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        Your S$1 buys
        35 10 UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5761 0.3588 67.4400 4.4933 2.1652 0.5235 5119.11 24.5157 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 31.599 0.9353 27.454 702.20 0.8470 4.7688 1.0165 19.953
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      Roadblock for Quek
      229 11 asThistle seeks to auction a number of its London hotels LONDON Britain's Thistle Hotels is in talks to auction some of its flagship London hotels to defeat a 554.7 million pound ($1.54 billion) bid from its largest shareholder Singapore's BIL International which it spurned last week, the
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      Lock icon Japan struggles to patch ailing economy
      253 11 Reuters TOKYO An increasing sense of alarm is gripping Japan's political scene. The Nikkei stock index is plunging, dropping 2.69 per cent on Friday to its lowest level in 20 years. The economy is in a deflationary spiral, interest rates are virtually zero and
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      Lock icon Petronas Twin Towers short of tenants
      201 13 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR The Petronas Twin Towers (picture), the world's tallest buildings, are short of tenants with only 65 per cent of their 75 rentable floors occupied due to a glut of office space, the New York Times said, citing the building's management company.
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      Lock icon Telekom, Celcom tie-up on track
      333 13 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Telekom Malaysia said yesterday that it expected to save 350 million ringgit ($159.67 million) in operational costs over the next two years following the planned merger of its cellular arm and Celcom. "The integration of network and systems will also result in
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      Make it your First Stop
      702 13  -  Grace Tay Help for SMEs is just a call away grace@newstoday.com.sg RUNNING a business and stuck in a rut? Expertise and assistance is just a call away, thanks to SME First Stop. If you're turning to the Government for help to improve your business, you
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      Lock icon HK dishes out highest salaries in Asia: Survey
      143 14 -AFP HONG KONG Hong Kong executives are now the best paid in Asia, demoting their Japanese counterparts to second place, according to a survey released yesterday. The poll, conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, found executives in Hong Kong received on average
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      Choice stock
      434 14  -  Carmen Lee Del Monte is expected to perform well this year news@newstoday.com.sg AS an established integrated producer, marketer and distributor of premium-quality processed food products, Del Monte is a well-recognised brand name in the Philippines and in the rest of Asia. Recently, it delivered a strong set of
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      Lock icon A gradual exodus
      607 16 Reuters Disk drive makers are shifting their low-end factories out of Spore WALKING the factory floor of Western Digital Technologies in Kuala Lumpur, Mr John Coyne, a senior vice-president at the company, is comforted by the thunder of well-oiled machinery. But the hum comes at a price
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      1170 10 Every Monday, we will carry a table of dividends declared by companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The list, compiled with the assistance of Telekurs Financial, will appear every Monday on our business and finance pages. The new service is in line with the efforts of the editorial team
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      197 14 MediaCorp Press Ltd, the publisher of Singapore's fastest growing newspaper, TOIMY, invites tenders for: The Provision of Newspaper Distribution Services COLLECTION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS Tender documents can be purchased from 10 March 2003 onwards during office hours between 9.30 am to 5.00pm (Mondays to Fridays only) from: MediaCorp Press Ltd
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      252 17 mjj—} rlB 'l Bw B B?' L. Ik Ifim tl**'' (W m m\.y^mil v'm. It's easy to be caught up in the mood of the current economic climate. But if you can reposition yourself with skills and knowledge that are highly demanded by employers today and in the near future,
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Minister vs prosecutors
      233 18 Storm over push for meritocracy SEOUL She made news when she became South Korea's youngest and first female Justice Minister. This time, she has made news again for daring to overhaul the time-honoured tradition of appointing prosecutors based on seniority, academic or personal background. Justice Minister Kang
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      Dynamite in shopping centre
      169 18 RIYADH Sixteen sticks of dynamite, set to blow up a shopping centre in the heart of Saudi Arabia's commercial capital, Jeddah, were defused yesterday, a Saudi newspaper reported. The sticks of dynamite, wired to go off at 9am, were laid at the emergency exits of the
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      Lock icon Finally, smoke without fire
      146 18 Bloomberg NORTH CAROLINA From next month, smokers in the United States who cannot give up the habit but who are concerned about their health may have less to worry about R J Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc, the second-largest US tobacco company, will start selling a so-called
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      Lock icon Warrant out for Fujimori
      241 20 Agencies Former Peruvian President wanted for homicide and kidnapping LIMA Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (picture) may face extradition from Japan as the international police agency, Interpol, on Saturday issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of homicide and kidnapping. Mr Fujimori went into selfimposed
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      Lock icon Moving pictures
      43 20 Reuters photo A man with photographs of Aids sufferers in Beijing yesterday. Activists have urged lawmakers meeting in Beijing to help children who have been orphaned by an Aids epidemic in the countryside caused by blood-selling schemes that infected entire villages.
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      Lock icon Rebels face charges
      185 20 Agencies MANILA Philippine prosecutors have filed murder charges against the leader of the country's biggest Muslim rebel group and 150 of his fighters over a deadly bombing at a southern airport, officials said yesterday. Acting Chief Prosecutor Danilo Belo of Davao city, where 21 people were killed
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      Lock icon No lack of issues
      367 22 -AFP International Women's Day has huge global response FROM Singapore to Washington, Paris to Rio De Janeiro, Iran to Taiwan and Indonesia, hundreds of thousands of women turned out on Saturday to remind the world that they are still not treated as equal citizens with men.
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      286 21 SONY. All you need. In the new Sony Cyber-shot. --3-_ The new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P72 digital still camera. Now with long video and audio recording that lets you capture it all! IT: snow 2003 f Deliuerlny IT beyond your eH pec tat 10n5...1 See the new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P72 in
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon The FTA spaghetti
      937 23  -  Alan Wheatley Red tape from many free-trade agreements is a risk worth taking by. news@newstoday.com.sg RICE is Asia's staple but the region could soon suffer from spaghetti indigestion if its trade negotiators get their way. The "spaghetti bowl effect" was the memorable phrase coined by Columbia University
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon Irene Ang on Irene Ang
      962 24  -  Elisa Chia by. elisa@newstoday.com.sg AN innocent question draws a furious reaction from actress Irene Ang (picture). Arching her brows, she snarls: "So, you're now blaming me, lah." Gulp of course not, Irene. It is just that it is unusual for a celebrity not to know
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      Lock icon More than girl power
      554 25  -  Yong Shu Chiang Our male reporter learns a thing or two at the Singapore Women's Congress LATE on Saturday morning, it was tea time at the conference I was attending and also, in the words of the emcee, time to check my T-zone. During this "powder
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      A teen's struggle
      416 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang A play that looks at the MTV generation by. shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg TO be younger may be a wish of many, but not for 28-year-old Natalie Hennedige not if it means becoming a teenager again. "Thank god I'm not 15 again!" said the full-time artiste with
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    • LIVING LEARNING
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        Lock icon Money is no obstacle
        650 27  -  Low Shi Ping Funds for those who want a university education by. news@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU think university education is too expensive, think again. The Singapore Management University (SMU) has several funding packages ranging from scholarships to the Work Study Grant Scheme (WSGS) to assist students who
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        A second chance...
        460 28  -  Jason Chong School offers alternative to A levels by. newstffnewstoday.com.sg LIKE at any other school, students at St Francis Methodist School begin their day by singing the National Anthem and reciting the National Pledge. They also wear school uniforms and participate in co-cur-ricular activities. The only difference
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon Paltrow, rock star engaged
        108 29 -AFP LONDON American Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow (picture, right) is engaged to Chris Martin (picture, left), the frontman of British rock group Coldplay, a London newspaper reported yesterday. According to The Sunday Mirror, a "close friend" of the pair said the couple had decided to tie
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        Lock icon Advantage Hours
        313 29 Reuters WGA award gives film an edge to bag an Oscar LOS ANGELES Social satirist Michael Moore's anti-gun documentary Bowling for Columbine and David Hare's adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours took top honours on Saturday at the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards. Moore's win for
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    • EAT OUT IN BEIJING
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        Right royal retreat
        545 30  -  Pauline D Loh in Beijing Gourmet tour starts at the source with the Imperial City by]. pauline@newstoday.com.sg INSIDE the Forbidden City, an army of chefs used to cook hundreds of dishes daily for the emperor's pleasure. If they got lucky, he sampled them. If they got luckier,
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    • EAT OUT
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        Bird's eye DIY lunch
        512 31  -  Karman Tse Get creative at the Top of the 'M' I by. karman@newstoday.com.sg THEY say love makes the world go round. While the Meritus Mandarin can't exactly promise you love, it does make Singapore go around you as you sit back, relax and take pleasure in
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