Today, 8 April 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 TODAY Tv c s d ay A Pr» 8 > 2°° 3 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Iraqi political exiles move in
      310 1 Reuters WASHINGTON Despite calls by the United States' Gulf allies for Iraqis to decide their own future and for the UN to have a role in the country, opposition exiles are already staking a claim in a future government With the help of the US
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      Lock icon Time to take a stroll in Basra
      52 1 AFP photo A member of the British 21 Air Defence Squadron from 3 Regiment Army Air Core, 16 Air Assault Brigade, on patrol near Basra in southern Iraq. Scenes of jubilation and looting by residents greeted the British soldiers when they entered the
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      Lock icon Wall Street ends higher
      71 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks ended modestly higher yesterday as traders locked in gains after a spectacular early rally sparked by US-led coalition successes in Iraq that fuelled hopes of an approaching end to the war. The Dow Jones industrials closed up 23.26 points at 8,300.41,
      -AFP  -  71 words
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      Beyond the tragic
      818 1  -  Lee Ching Wern Father and pastor dead, now Esther loses her mum by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THE woman who infected 106 people, directly or indirectly, with Sars lost her mother to the disease yesterday. Her father and church pastor died of Sars last month. Esther Mok, 23, a former
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Fear and faith
      359 2  -  Grace Tay Changi hospital hit as Minister calls for understanding by g_ace_newstoday.com.sg THE grim toll on Singapore's healthcare industry continued unabated yesterday. Another seven healthcare workers joined the list of Sars suspects, bringing the national total to 113. Worse still, Sarsrelated deaths now stand at eight as
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      TTSH staff lauded
      80 2 THE grassroots organisations of Marine Parade GRC have written a letter of appreciation to the staff of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), lauding their efforts in fighting the Sars outbreak. E-mailed to chief executive of TTSH, Dr Lim Suet Wun, the letter from the 20 grassroots organisations
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      Lock icon Kan Seng spells out his top priority
      244 2 ChannelNews Asia THE aim of the new Ministerial Committee on Sars is to get life in Singapore back to normal as soon as possible, said its chairman Wong Kan Seng, a day after the committee was announced by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.
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      Lock icon SARS UPDATE
      201 3 HONG KONG The chief executive of the hospital at the centre of Hong Kong's Sars crisis is suffering from the disease. Dr Fung Hung, chief executive of the Prince of Wales hospital, was readmitted to hospital after being diagnosed with Sars. Dr Fung, 45, was originally admitted to
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      Lock icon WHO chides China for slow action on Sars
      239 3 Agencies GUANGZHOU World Health Organisation (WHO) officials publicly criticised China for the first time for its foot-dragging over information on Sars. The global health agency's director general, Ms Gro Harlem Brundtland, said China should have reported its first cases of the atypical
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      Exams won't be deferred: NUS
      538 3  -  Derrick A Paulo Students furious over unilateral action on Sars by derrick _newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Institute of Management closed its campus due to the Sars outbreak. The Nanyang Technological University postponed its exams. And the failure of the National University of Singapore to do either
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      Lock icon 'Chemical Ali' killed in bombing?
      358 4 Agencies AS SAYLIYA CAMP (Qatar) It won't make much difference to the war's outcome, but if "Chemical Ali" or Mr Ali Hassan AI Majid (picture) is indeed dead, it will be yet another symbolic victory for the US-led forces. Since reports that the US bombed
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      Lock icon Palaces raided
      456 4 Blow dealt to Saddam's symbols of power BAGHDAD In a carefully orchestrated move, US troops yesterday made a dramatic incursion into the heart of Baghdad, targeting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's icons of power and glory. Attempting to deal a psychological blow to the Iraqi regime, the troops raided
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      YESTERDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS
      102 4 The battle for Basra, Iraq's second city, is "more or less over", British officers said as thousands of troops poured into Iraq's main southern city. US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice held hastily-arranged talks in Moscow with Russian foreign and defence officials over strained US-Russia ties. US marines
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon US$l million up for grabs
      452 6  -  S Murali Not for a big tournament, but to help raise funds for Anderson Secondary by murali@newstoday.com.sg EARLIER this year, helicopter giant Eurcopter put up a US$l million ($1.77 million) helicopter as a hole-in-one prize, possibly the richest amount ever offered in an amateur tournament
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      Servicewoman's family still waiting for news; she's still classified MIA
      293 6  -  Tor Ching Li THREE months ago, the RSS Courageous and ANL Indonesia collided. To date, Second Sergeant Chua Bee Lin's official status is Missing In Action (MIA) because her body has not been found. And while Mindef awaits the State
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      131 6 TODAY and Ml pay tribute to NURSES caring for SARS patients From all of us at TODAY and Ml, we want to say a heartfelt Thank You to our nurses. Your selfless attitude and dedication to your profession deserves all Singaporeans' deepest respect and admiration. While the rest of Singapore
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  • LETTERS
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      What if foreign maids get Sars?
      341 8  -  Lie w Kai Khiun I WISH to draw your readers' attention to discrimination faced by foreign nurses. Many of them have been rejected by landlords when they seek accommodation while working in Singapore. Foreign workers such as nurses, domestic workers and cleaners are at
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      Uniforms not hygienic
      244 8  -  Frances Lim I AM writing in response to the two letters, "Where's the respect?" and "A nurse's sadness" (Today, April 3). I was trained as a nurse in the United Kingdom in the *****. The hospital I worked in did not allow the nursing staff to wear
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      Condo owners should cherish vote
      187 10  -  Edmond Rodrigues I REFER to the article, "Uproar over upgrading" (Today, April 3). It brought to mind the situation at the condominium in which I live, Bayshore Park. We have just concluded our Annual General Meeting, where there was a small turnout of owners. There
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      He chose to die
      274 10  -  Marcus Lim Jiing-Xian Don't eulogise Leslie, for he didn't value his life MR FELIX Cheong's article, "Fatal Art" (Weekend Today, April 5-6), was misguided in its sentimentality. Mr Cheong's suggestion that Leslie Cheung's dedication to his acting drove him to suicide reads like a vain attempt
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      Motorists, take more care in school zones
      170 10  -  Karina Roberts I READ Mr Bachan Singh's article, "Look left, look right... look out" (Weekend Today, March 29-30), with shock and heartache. Some motorists do not give pedestrians the slightest care. My daughter attends a school in the east coast Unfortunately, it is
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      175 10 Attention to ISO 9000:2000 2 days Interactive [H ptR Workshop on ISTO V»* Principles and Guidelines Singapore Quality l._llrl_Ho_ jointly conducted by: Imbtat' I Contents 1. Eight quality management principles 2. Fundamentals of quality management system (QMS) 3. Terminology utilized in ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9004:2000 4. Application of ISO
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      144 11 f/lj m Because Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) begins with flu-like am T symptoms, don't take any chances. There are things you can do to make your home as unfriendly for the virus as possible. I HI t_l Add Clorox Liquid Bleach to your laundry and use it to wash
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon SK Global debt woes
      89 12 Bloomberg UNION de Banques Arabes et Francaises (ÜBAF) is to ask the Singapore High Court to wind up the local arm of SK Global, so it can recover money it says the unit of South Korea's third-largest business group owes it ÜBAF, 44 per cent owned
      — Bloomberg  -  89 words
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      Lock icon Mad about Danamon
      233 12 -AFP Temasek consortium is the 'most serious' bidder for Indonesian bank JAKARTA A consortium made up of Singapore's state investment firm Temasek Holdings and Deutsche Bank is the most "serious" of three bidders for an Indonesian bank, a report said yesterday. Asia Finance Indonesia, along with Bank
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      Lock icon ST Engineering posts Q1 profit drop of 12%
      127 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering, South-east Asia's No 1 defence company, said first-quarter profit fell 12 per cent on lower marine and investment income. Net income for the three months ended March 31 fell to $73.5 million, or 2.5 cents a share, from
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        88 12 Reuters SINGAPORE shares finished at a 10-week high yesterday, notching up a fifth consecutive day of gains, led by buying in blue chips on hopes of a swift end to war. The STI rose 1.91 per cent, or 25.1 points, to end at 1,338.83 its highest close since Jan
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        Your S$1 buys
        32 12 II K£ 0.3617 fen 67.7178 HK$ 4.3741 m 2.1313 Euro 0.5299 Rupiah Baht 4980.65 24.2227 Peso 29.8581 4$ 0.9452 Indian Rs 26.5885 Won 705.289 0.8358 Kuan NZ$ 4.6420 1.0496
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        World markets
        53 12 Index Value Change Pts NIKKEI 249.98 175.86 2.18 HANG SENG 8962.21 139.76 1.58 ILL ORDINARIES 1AIWAN WTD 941.60 4575.83 45.30 76.65 1.56 1.70 KOREA COMP 585.90 27.89 5.00 SET 371.93 6.81 1.87 JAKARTA COMP 423.81 18.14 4.47 PHIL COMP 1090.66 28.17 2.65 SHENZHEN B 211.37 -1.42 -0.67 MUMBAI
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        Lock icon Commodities
        22 12 SGX Bold us$/oi iilver us$/oi 'latinum us$/oi 320 4.41 609 Rubber centsAg 180.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1471.5 Btent etude us$/battel 28.62
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        SGX most active
        58 12 _y volume Ipril 7 latter ed )atatfftUS$ StarCrusUSS l_ _&M >T Engg 'at Cent \ccs Tiap Hoe STAssemb Close 0.710 0.590 0.215 0.505 0.010 1.830 0.225 0.365 0.010 1.360 Change +0.045 +0.050 +0.015 +0.020 +0.015 +0.015 +0.110 +6.8 +9.3 +7.5 +4.1 +7.1 +4.3 +8.8 '000 43,674 27,685
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        SGX top rises
        79 12 )y$ By percentage \pril 7 Close Change _realive50 12.300 +0.800 April 7 csc Close Change 0.040 +60.0 SPH 100 17.900 +0.300 NTI Inl 0.070 +27.3 /enlute 14.800 +0.300 ChuanSHW*****0 0.050 +25.0 .alSleel 2.550 +0.260 LKN 0.025 +25.0 STIETF100 13.500 +0.230 _&C 4.360 +0.200 Cyber Vill MulliChem 0.030
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        86 12 Bloomberg By$ By percentage April 7 Hun Kok Close Change 0.025 -0.025 April 7 Close Change KingWan W*****4 0.005 -66.7 Tat Seng 0.130 -0.025 Hua Kok 0.025 -50.0 GP Bat 1.830 -0.020 Excel 0.015 -25.0 Fasteth OrthardP 0.130 -0.015 0.295 -0.015 Yongnam 0.015 -25.0 Koh Bios W*****6
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      Power of five
      381 13  -  Chan Chao Peh M1 partners four regional operators to share content, services by chaopeh_newstoday.com.Sj Ml, SINGAPORE'S second-largest mobile operator, yesterday announced a partnership with four other operators in Asia-Pacific to share data content as well as provide other services to one another's customers. Besides Ml, the other
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      Lock icon Nintendo cuts forecast on weak Gamecube sales
      182 13 -AFP TOKYO Top Japanese video game maker Nintendo yesterday slashed its earnings forecast for the year to March after worldwide sales of Gamecube consoles and software were hit by the popularity of rival PlayStation 2. The firm slashed its expected group net profit
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      Lock icon Taiwan's CPI dips 0.19%
      83 13 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's consumer prices fell 0.19 per cent in March from a year earlier, mainly due to falling vegetable prices, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said yesterday. The consumer price index in March rose a seasonally-adjusted 1.09 per cent from February,
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      Lock icon Fateful trigger
      322 14 Exports to Gulf fell with Bush's call for regime change THE slowdown in exports from Singapore manufacturers to the Middle Eastern markets region started before the war in Iraq, a survey by the Singapore Confederation of Industries (SCI) shows. The SCI said exports to Middle East markets, down
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      Lock icon SIA delays aircraft purchases
      160 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines, Asia's most profitable carrier, said it will defer plans to place new orders for aircraft as the war in Iraq and a fatal respiratory disease curb demand for travel. The airline said in February it expected to place orders at the end of
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      Lock icon China gets help on bank debt
      133 14 -AFP SHANGHAI US financial giant Morgan Stanley is seeking to set up a consulting company to help China's debt-saddled state banks dispose of their nonperforming assets, state press said Monday. An application is under review by authorities with a decision expected soon, the 21st
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      Lock icon Deal to end chip battle?
      205 15 -AFP S Korea to cut exports if US drops Hynix tariffs SEOUL South Korea said on Monday it will cut exports of computer chips to the United States if Washington agreed to suspend tariffs imposed on Hynix Semiconductor memory chips. The offer followed a preliminary
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      Lock icon Taiwan chip-makers loss spells gain for S'pore, M'sia
      143 15 Bloomberg HSINCHU (Taiwan) Some customers of United Micro-elec-tronics Corp are switching to smaller rivals of the world's secondlargest supplier of made-to-order chips after the Taiwan company said it will pare its clients, the Commercial Times said. The Taiwan-based publication did not reveal
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    • Corporate Briefs
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        REFINERY PROFITS UP: Local oil refiners'
        89 15 profit margins from turning crude oil into petrol, diesel and other fuels rose 70 per cent to U552.57 ($4.57) a barrel in the week ended March 28, Merrill Lynch said. The so-called simple refining margins in Singapore, Asia's biggest oil-trading centre, were US$l.5l a
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        Lock icon RAFFLES HOLDINGS EXEC LEAVES: Raffles
        77 15 Bloomberg Holdings Ltd senior vice-president Manvinder Pun has quit and is moving to Hongkong Shanghai Hotels Ltd, which owns the Peninsula chain, The Business Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Mr Puri's resignation from Raffles Holdings is not related to the departure of former chief executive
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        Lock icon CHINA VENTURE FORMED: Dayen
        60 15 AFX-Asia Environmental Ltd said it has signed an MoU with SAC General Products Industry Co Ltd to form a joint venture company in China specialising in water treatment projects. The firm will have initial paid-up capital of US$2.5 million ($4.4 million) and will be owned 51
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      Lock icon Shipping in the profits
      406 16 Bloomberg Cosco benefits from rise in freight rates, seeks to diversify COSCO Investment (Singapore) Ltd, a subsidiary of China's largest shipping company, expects profits this year to rise because of higher freight rates and contributions from its ship-repair unit Earnings may be "in line with or
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      Lock icon TPV profits up as sales jump
      154 16 Reuters COMPUTER monitor maker TPV Technology Limited announced yesterday a 17.9 per cent rise in its net profit for last year resulting from higher sales revenues. Sales jumped 20.9 per cent to US$l.5 billion ($2.7 billion), it said in a statement TPV, listed in
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      Lock icon Lemon economics
      376 18  -  David de Rosa Bloomberg New accounting plan for Japan amounts to cooking the books by news_newstoday.com.sg IF Mr Taro Aso, the policy chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has his way, you can forget knowing the true financial state of many Japanese companies. Mr Aso and his
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3024 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Fhe data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilaions is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or soliciations to buy or sell
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  • INFO TECH
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      HIP, HIP, hooray
      341 20  -  /Vriel Tam FOR CORPORATES Project helps jobless IT personnel learn new skills by ariel@newstoday.com.sg RETRENCHED or unemployed professionals in the IT field can now take advantage of a new programme aimed at boosting their employability. The Project HIP (Helping Infocomm Professionals) initiative of the National InfoComm Competency
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      New Acrobat new strategy
      231 20  -  Sol E Solomon WHEN Adobe launched Acrobat 6.0 yesterday, the software maker rolled out a new sales strategy for the program that lets users create the Portable Document Format (PDF) file-format documents that are distributed electronically. With version 6.0, Acrobat now comes in three flavours Acrobat
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      One size fits all
      598 21  -  Dan Littman Gamut of storage options in this notebook by news@newstoday.com.sg TOSHIBA'S Satellite 2410 (picture) series hits the mid-price sweet spot for a mainstream notebook. With a one-size-fits-all fixed configuration, the hefty but cool-looking system sports a 15-inch screen and a DVD/CD-RW combo drive. These grey-and-black
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      This printer is for those on the go
      128 21 THE Canon i7O (picture) is a sleek and portable printer for executives on the move. Only half the size of a laptop and weighing I.Bkg, it fits into a briefcase snugly. As analysts predict that digital cameras will go mainstream this year,
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      453 22 US and UK forces in Iraq: Oppressors or liberators? BAGHDAD Palestinian suicide attacks and the sympathy they generate for the displaced Palestinian populace is a strategy that the Iraqi regime appears to have studied in their defence of Baghdad and Basra. Such guerrilla warfare is "an excellent
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      119 22 -AFP MOSCOW Twenty-one Russian children and their teacher were killed in a fire that destroyed a school in Siberia yesterday, a spokesman for the Russian emergencies ministry, Ms Marina Ryklina, told the Interfax news agency. The children were aged five to 11, another
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      105 22 -AFP JERUSALEM At least 155 employees of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, said they will resign if their pension plans are slashed, the daily Yediot Aharonot reported yesterday. They include several high-rank-ing Mossad officials, who gave the ultimatum to the head of the spy service,
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      30 23 -AFP photo A Hindu i priest growing wheat on his chest as j part of a nine-day-long meditation in praise of the Hindu goddess, Durga, in Bhopal yesterday.
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      202 23 Reuters SEOUL South Korean prosecutors said yesterday that they had banned two aides of President Roh Moo Hyun from leaving the country as part of an investigation into a lobbying scandal involving a collapsed merchant bank. Any hint of wrongdoing in the new administration will
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      288 23 -AFP Five Indonesians on wanted list MANILA Five Indonesians suspected of being members of the Jemaah Islamiyah 01) terrorist network are being sought for a bomb attack in the southern Philippine city of Davao that killed 16 people last week, police said yesterday. The Indonesians
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  • COMMENTARY
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      1017 24  -  Dr Eric Teo by: news@newstoday.com.sg TWO major issues have now topped Asia's agenda in the past two weeks. Firstly, the outbreak of the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) is sending shivers down the spines of East Asian countries and their citizens. China (Guangdong), Hong Kong, Singapore and
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  • WATZUP?
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      648 25 Touch of gloom Reuters shadow of Sars, Cheung's suicide hit HK film awards HONG KONG The news of singer-actor Leslie Cheung's suicide on April 1 and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak put a dampener on the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday, with its rolled-up red carpet
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      304 26  -  Rachel Fang by rachel@newstoday.com.sg EVERYONE has been young once and the cast of the drama Light Years said they drew on their teenage experiences for their roles. Actor Randall Tan, who plays 18-year-old Tan Chee Keong, said: "Everything I did on the show, I've gone through before. Like
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        151 26 THE Singapore Indoor Stadium (SIS) has stepped up precautionary measures against the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). The SIS is cleaning all surfaces, including seats, walls, railings and toilets. It is also disinfecting the backstage rooms and the airconditioning system. The stadium
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        GUESS WHAT? JACKY POSTPONED
        94 26 THE JackyWu (picture) concert as well as that of Sally Yeh and George Lam scheduled for this month have been postponed to May and June respectively over fears of Sars. JackyWu was due in town for a performance on April 19, but the concert will be
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        466 27 -AFP but you will need a generator to run yourTV set BAGHDAD Their city besieged by coalition troops, Baghdadis lucky enough to have electricity pass the time watching movies. One of their favourites is about a militiaman who takes up arms for his country
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    • HEALTH
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        364 28 Reuters GENEVA The World Health Organisation (WHO) called for urgent international action to remove environmental hazards which kill five million children every year, mainly in poor countries. Simple measures to improve habitats where children live, learn and play could prevent the acute respiratory infections, malaria
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        464 28  -  Lynette Leong Pace yourself to avoid injury at the gym by news@newstoday.com.sg GOOD news for gym lovers gym-related injuries are rare in a professionally-run gym. Mr Jimmie Lee, chairman of the Dynaforce Group, said: "Professionally-run gyms provide you with safe and reliable fitness equipment to
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    • BUSY COOK
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        Tempura crabs
        593 29  -  Pauline __WUi RECIPE Crisp, battered soft-shell crabs served with a tangy fruit dip THE first time I tasted soft-shell crab was in a San Francisco restaurant. It was one of those rare after-term treats at Fishermen's Wharf when I was allowed to stuff my face with Dungeness crab
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        SOFT-SHELL CRABS – EASY TO COOK, EASY TO EAT
        179 29 SOFT-SHELL CRABS EASY TO COOK, EASY TO EAT SOFT SHELL crabs are crabs caught in a state of undress. That is, in-between moults when the shells they have outgrown are shed and the new carapace is still very soft. They have to be harvested as soon as they shed the
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      1252 30 TV pm^^ Heartlanders 2 I ea' Madridvs Manchester Health Matters II -j^^ W M I Channel 5,8.30pm I United, Live Channel 5,2.30 am Channel 8,8.30pm —*I^li llt is probably the match-up ofthe season as I Mln Heavenly Duties, Aileen gjjffi |J 4M The boys turn I too 0 f t^e
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      371 31 BOSTON Michael Jordan bid a memorable farewell to Boston and may yet have a shot at the playoffs. Jordan hit a game-tying 14-foot jumper in the lane with 43 seconds left in regulation and set up Christian Laettner for a wide-open winning basket from the left
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      Lock icon Hootie v Martha
      539 32 Reuters In the Masters build-up, not all the talk is about Tiger AUGUSTA Defending champion Tiger Woods will not be the only focus of attention when the Masters golf tournament gets underway on Thursday. Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts the prestigious event, has come under criticism
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      Lock icon Improbable Crane lifts his game to capture first title
      428 32 -AFP DULUTH American Ben Crane staged a dramatic charge to capture his first career title yesterday. The 27-year-old second year player carded a nine-under-par 63 at the US$4 million ($7 million) PGA event to erase a sixshot deficit and post a
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      Kato in coma
      64 32 TOKYO Japanese rider Daijiro Kato was still in a critical condition yesterday, a day after sustaining serious head, neck and chest injuries in a high-speed crash at the Japanese Grand Prix. "He is still in a coma. Basically, there is no change from last night. He is
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      Please resign
      58 32 SYDNEY A governmentbacked review yesterday called on the crisis-prone Soccer Australia board to stand down and recommended an interim board be put in place. The Crawford Report called for an independent commission to run the financially-strapped national soccer league and a massive shake-up of voting rights of the
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      Swede win
      55 32 LOS ANGELES Sweden's Annika Sorenstam capped a 1-under-par 71 with back-to-back birdies yesterday, defeating South Korea's Se Ri Pak by four strokes to win her first LPGA tournament of the season. Sorenstam, the best female golfer in the world, will make a historic appearance next month on the
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      Good news
      74 32 SYDNEY Glenn McGrath is expected to make an announcement this week about rejoining the Australian cricket team in the Caribbean after receiving positive news about wife Jane's cancer, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) said yesterday. The premier Australian fast bowler returned home last week from the West Indies
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      Goose is back
      45 32 LONDON South African golfer Retief Goosen returned to the top five in the world rankings after finishing tied for third place in the Bellsouth Classic. He moved up two places to sit behind Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Davis Love and Phil Mickelson.
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      608 33 -AFP SAO PAULO World champion Michael Schumacher said Sunday's (yesterday morning, Singapore time) chaotic Brazilian Grand Prix which saw Ferrari finish out of the points for the first time since Nurburgring in 1999 will mark the end of a disastrous start to the 2003 season. The five-time world
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      276 33 -AFP INDIANAPOLIS Michael Phelps improved his own 400m individual medley world record yesterday, and closed in on the 100m fly world mark in a breathtaking performance in the USA v Australia "Duel in the Pool". "Huge," was Australian 1,500m world record-holder Grant Hackett's assessment of Phelps' day, which
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon Fulham falls to Sukur punches
        718 34 -AFP Sukur-inspired Blackburn demolishes Fulham English Premier League Fulham 0 Blackburn 4 Rovers edge closer to Uefa Cup place LONDON Turkey forward Hakan Sukur opened his Blackburn account with a pair of well-taken goals as Rovers beat Fulham 4-0 in their English Premiership match at
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        343 34 Agencies Champions League quarter-final Real Madrid v Manchester United Live, tomorrow, Ch 5, Ch 24, 2.30 am MADRID The Spanish have a phrase for it "I've seen a green dog". It describes an unusual event and dogs were observed to be roaming
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        119 34 Reuters Champions League quarter-final Ajax Amsterdam v AC Milan Live, tomorrow morning, Ch 23, 2.30 am AMSTERDAM Ajax coach Ronald Koeman should be able to start with almost his strongest line-up when the Dutch champion faces AC Milan in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final today
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      725 35  -  Stanley Ho Home United ace is into his eighth season terrorising opposing defences by Stanley® newsto day. com. sg HE MADE his S-League debut in 1996 as a 17-year-old with Police FC. One year later, he hit nine goals for Geylang United in the S-League in
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      329 35  -  Stanley Ho WHEN the new Jalan Besar Stadium pitch was turned into a padi field following a heavy downpour last Sunday evening, it certainly raised a few eyebrows. Critics wondered how the $30 million new stadium, owned by the Singapore Sports Council (SSC),
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      221 35 -AFP NEWCASTLE Newcastle United manager Sir Bobby Robson said his team's challenge for the Premiership title was all but finished after the 2-1 defeat against Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday. The result left the third-placed Magpies six points behind leaders Arsenal and Manchester United
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