Today, 12 April 2003

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  • NEWS
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      NUS zonal plan to fight Sars
      475 2  -  Derrick A Paulo Campus to be disinfected in event of outbreak by derrick@news.oday.com.sg AS SINGAPORE settles down to life with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), the National University of Singapore (NUS) has decided it will not shut down even if someone on the campus
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      SARS UPDATE
      112 2 Two Singaporean women, one returning from Hong Kong and the other from China's Yunan Province, were screened at Changi airport on Thursday and admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital as suspected Sars cases. Seven more cases of Sars were reported Friday. They included three staff, two visitors and
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      Lock icon Nurses faced the unknown when Sars outbreak began
      457 2  -  Grace Tay WHEN Tan Tock Seng Hospital nurses Catherine Chua and Lim Siew Geok started working with patients in the Sars ward, no one knew what to do with themselves, or the patients. One month ago, on March 12, when the first
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    • WAR II
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        Lock icon Iraq's massive debts
        367 3 -AFP Post-war government would be crippled if it has to repay $700b WASHINGTON Iraq's new leaders and their American-led backers are facing a staggering legacy of deposed President Saddam Hussein's rule. A bill of US$3B3 billion ($683 billion) in foreign debts and liabilities which if not resolved
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        Lock icon DEBT WOES
        144 3 AFP MR RICK BARTON, director of the Iraq post-conflict reconstruction project at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think-tank, said the liabilities broke down as follows: US$199 billion ($355 billion) in Gulf War compensation claims. Of this, US$172 billion is for companies, governments and
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        Lock icon Next big target: Saddam's Tikrit
        189 3 Agencies BAGHDAD With the fall of two northern Iraqi oil cities, the US-led forces are beginning to set their sights on Tikrit, the last bastion of President Saddam Hussein. American and Kurdish troops entered Kirkuk and Mosul, as US troops in Baghdad fended off sporadic
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        Lock icon FRIDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS
        214 3 AFP, Reuters IRAQI President Saddam Hussein's half-brother, Mr Barzan Al Takriti, died in a US bombing of his farm, in the region of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a family friend said. US Central Command said that Mr Barzan had been targeted by air strikes in Ramadi with sixJDAM
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        Lock icon Jitters in the Middle East
        643 4 Agencies, BBC Prospect of 'domino effect' worries region "THE second catastrophe" was how a Beirut daily billed the symbolic toppling of President Saddam Hussein's statue on Wednesday. The first "catastrophe"? The creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Such was the shock and dismay
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      Lock icon 'We want shock and awe'
      129 4 .u\_.ci.uivj'.ii -AFP WASHINGTON The US military's "shock and awe" campaign in Iraq will be coming soon to a retailer near you, after the US Patent and Trademark Office decides which one, among a host of eager companies, gets the label. No fewer than 15 "Shock
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      Lock icon Saddam gone but is US safer now?
      283 4 -AFP WASHINGTON Now that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has disappeared from Baghdad, many Americans are wondering whether the collapse of his regime has really made the United States safe from attack. President George W Bush and his main administration officials have insisted that
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      Lock icon Thumping approval
      110 4 -AFP WASHINGTON Seventy-six per cent of Americans believe the United States made the right decision when it went to war with Iraq to bring down the government of President Saddam Hussein and rid Baghdad of its suspected weapons of mass destruction, according to a new public opinion poll.
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    • Article
      Luxury voyages cancelled
      436 6 Two Star Cruises crew hospitalised on Sars fears TWO days after a crew member of the SuperStar Virgo cruise ship was hospitalised in Malaysia as a suspect case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), a second crew member has fallen ill in Singapore. The second crew member,
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      Singaporeans unmasked
      165 6 ONLY three per cent of Singaporean respondents in a recent survey said they use face masks against Sars, compared to a whopping 65 per cent of Hong Kong residents who claimed they did. In a survey of 1,002 Singaporeans conducted by AC Nielsen Research Singapore, 49 per cent
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      Lock icon Sars fund raises $700,000
      231 6  -  Grace Tay JOIN the war against Sars by making a donation to The Courage Fund, named in honour of healthcare workers in Singapore. The fund, whose Patron-in-Chief is President S R Nathan, provides relief to the families of needy Sars patients as well as healthcare workers
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      Lock icon Bowen Sec takes no chances
      241 6  -  Tor Ching Li by chingli@newstoday.com.sg ALL 1,581 students returning to Bowen Secondary School on Monday will have their temperatures taken before being allowed into class. It is a precaution Bowen is taking, with secondary schools reopening for the first time since their March 27 closure.
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      Lock icon Cathay stops flying to M'sia
      210 6 -AFP HONG KONG Cathay Pacific Airways has suspended flights to Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur imposed travel restrictions on visitors from Hong Kong to contain the outbreak of Sars. The airline had suspended two flights to Malaysia as a result of the recent downturn in business.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • HOMOUR/NEWS
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      Lock icon To improve feeder bus services ...
      807 8  - To improve feeder bus services Neil Humphreys chop my head off! by neil@newstoday.com.sg SHORT of chopping my head off and handing it to the bus driverj don't know what else to do while travelling on single-deck buses. For the umpteenth time last Sunday, my head met the ceiling of the
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      Lock icon (Up) yours truly
      131 8 Reuters SAJN FKAJNCIS CO A California city councilwoman who sought to encourage civility in public discourse by calling for an end to offensive body language said on Thursday that she has received piles of hate mail. Palo Alto Councilwoman Judy Kleinberg, who headed the committee that drafted
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    • Article
      Lock icon 57 years in 'sin'
      112 8 -AFP SANTIAGO Alter living together for 57 years, Ms Isolina Ojeda, 107, of Chile and her 86-year-old lover decided to make it official, tying the knot here this week. Slightly hard of hearing, it took Ms Ojeda a moment to say her "I do", which she
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  • LETTERS
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      Keep them all
      409 9  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong We need the experience of our veteran ministers I REFER to the article "Adversity checklist" (Today, April 10). I applaud Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's decision to promote some of the current Ministers of State to become Acting Ministers, thus testing these leaders
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    • Letter
      Healthcare workers touched by public's kind words, gestures
      184 9  -  Diana Chia WE ARE the union representing more than 5,000 workers in the restructured hospitals in Singapore. The last four weeks have been trying for healthcare workers and their families. The union is extremely proud that the healthcare workers have risen to
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    • Letter
      Shouldn't chute cleaners wear gloves and masks?
      98 9  -  Jerusha Devan IN YOUR Sars update (Today, April 9), it was mentioned that the town councils have been asked to step up their cleaning and maintenance of HDB estates. May I suggest that the workers who clear our rubbish chutes don masks and
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    • Letter
      Are NUS students not prepared for examinations?
      234 9  -  S Ramamirtham I REFER to your report on NUS students being furious with the university's decision not to defer examinations (Today, April 8). It would seem from some NUS students that they are hoping that the Sars outbreak will provide a reason for
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    • Letter
      Use tissues, please
      114 9  -  Chiam Yeow Khong I REFER to the letter, "Aargh... please stop this bad habit" (Weekend Today, March 29-30) We agree with the writer that spitting is not only anti-social, it is also a very unhygienic act Under the Environmental Public Health Act it is an offence to
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    • Letter
      Tribute to lab workers, the little-known heroes in war on germs
      245 9  -  Addison Fu THIS letter seeks to highlight a group of dedicated healthcare workers who may not be at the frontline fighting the spread of Sars, but are just as commendable and crucial in the war on germs. Somewhere in
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      29 9 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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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Forget discounts
      344 10 Bloomberg Price cuts unlikely to lure travellers back FOR General Motors Corp, which has 18,000 employees in Asia, not even cut-rate air fares will prompt it to lift a travel ban it imposed after the outbreak of the Sars virus. "The restrictions are there because the safety of
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    • Article
      Asiatic IPO targets $2 million
      229 10  -  Francis Kan FIRE equipment distributor Asiatic Group (Holdings) on Friday launched an initial public offering of 15 million new shares at 22 cents each. Asiatic aims to raise net proceeds of $2.0 million to fund the expansion of its business operations and serve as I
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    • Article
      Lock icon SIA lays off crew trainees, cuts more flights
      257 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines is cutting 206 people who were training to become cabin crew the airline's first job casualties from the Sars crisis. The carrier, which has been the subject of retrenchment talk over the past few days, also announced yesterday that
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      Semi postpones chip fair
      148 10 SOUTHEAST Asia's largest exposition dedicated to the manufacture of semiconductors has been postponed because of Sars. Semicon Singapore 2003, originally slated for May 6 to 8 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exposition Centre, will now be held from Aug 12 to 14, organiser Semiconductor
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    • Market Watch
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        World markets
        50 10 Index Value Change Pts NIKKEI 7816.49 -163.63 -2.05 HANG SENG 8645.65 19.93 0.23 ALL ORDINARIES 2908.30 3.60 0.12 1AIWAN WTD 4530.40 -10.96 -0.24 KOREA COMP 582.97 5.24 0.91 SET 383.36 8.34 2.22 JAKARTA COMP 438.55 8.10 1.88 PHILIPPINES COMP 1122.27 9.74 0.88 SHENZHEN B 217.24 6.13 2.90 .1
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5628 UK£ 0.3580 Yen 67.5188 HK$ 4.3894 RM 2.1385 Euro 0.5233 Rupiah 4994.94 Baht 24.1566 Peso 29.4952 A$ 0.9294 Indian Rs 26.6503 Won 691.964 C$ 0.8177 Yuan 4.6582 NZ$ 1.0321 NTS 19.5805
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        Commodities
        21 10 Gold uss/oz 325.15 Silver uss/oi 4.45 Platinum uss/oi 624 Rubber cents/kg 178 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1479 Brent crude uss/borrel 27.46
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      • Article
        Lock icon Singapore
        93 10 -AFX SGX SHARE prices closed slightly higher after a listless session dominated by fears over the economic impact of a long drawn-out war in Iraq and the effects of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) scare that dragged travel stocks such as Singapore Airlines to 16-month lows, dealers said.
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        Straits Times Index- Intra-day Chart
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        SGX most active
        57 10 By volume April 11 Technics StarCrusUSS Medtecs ASL Marine SingTel NWTech Ml DBS AsiaFoodP Chartered Close 0.230 0.185 0.185 0.255 1.420 0.155 1.330 9.050 0.085 0.675 Change -0.010 +0.005 +0.010 -0.005 -0.020 +0.100 +0.005 +0.005 -5.1 +2.0 +0.7 -3.1 -1.5 +1.1 +6.3 +0.7 'OOO 34,48 11,95 9,229
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        SGX top rises
        75 10 )y$ \pril 11 Close Change XBC 9.600 +0.200 :realive50 11.800 +0.100 IBS 9.050 +0.100 3BS Bk 6% NCPS*****.700 +0.100 (obinson 5.400 +0.100 ilA 8.950 +0.100 JOB 10.800 +0.100 >emb Log 1.820 +0.080 irealEast 9.700 +0.050 )y percentage tpril 11 .&M Close Change 0.010 +100.0 >M Data 0.070
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        SGX top falls
        80 10 By$ April 11 SPH Close Change 17.100 -0.400 SPH 100 17.100 -0.400 1MH 400USS 5.800 -0.100 Venture 14.300 -0.100 Iselan(S) 2.000 -0.050 UOI 2.900 -0.050 CITYDEV 3.540 -0.040 AsiaPower 0.120 -0.030 IPSCOM 0.080 -0.030 St Trdg 1.270 -0.030 By percentage April 11 BBR Close Changi 0.010 -33.:
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    • Article, Illustration
      Smooth operation
      1301 14  -  Lee Yew Meng BCA urged to accreditate managing agents by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg THE Comptroller of Buildings (COB) or the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) may have to take a more active role if self-regulation of condominium estates is to progress smoothly. Property analysts cited accreditating managing agents (MA) to
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      Lock icon Sentosa to help tenants through hard times
      129 14 Channel News Asia SENTOSA Development Corporation (SDC) said it has started talks with its tenants about how it can help them during this difficult period. It said visitors have dropped 25 per cent since the beginning of April, mainly because of Sars. CEO
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      Lock icon Airlines cut flights
      361 15 Bloomberg Sars hits Korean Air, SIA and All Nippon operations HONG KONG Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said first-half profit will be "adversely affected" by the war in Iraq and the Sars virus that has spread through Asia. "Passenger load factors dropped sharply in the second half of
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3205 15 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Trie 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 compilations is not guaranteed by Lipper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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  • WEALTH MANAGEMENT
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      Lock icon Where do I invest my savings?
      718 11  -  Lee Yew Meng It depends on your age and needs, says expert by yewmeng@newstoday.com.s; ARE you losing sleep over your investments, or rather, over-investments? If you are, you are not alone. There are many others in the same predicament as the traditional product focus,
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  • SAVVYINVESTOR / CO-ORDINATED BY VAL CIIUA
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      How to beat the market odds
      922 12  -  Teo Hwee Khee Buy a diversified portfolio of Asian stocks: Dr Doom By news@newstoday.com.sg EQUITY prices have melted for a few years running, geopolitical risks creep into every investment decision, and low interest rates and low growth have driven investors to buy bonds for
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      Lock icon Mouth-watering claims, but too good to be true
      738 12 dollarDEX RECENTLY a television advertisement for a steak sandwich was banned for creating a misleading impression of its toppings. Viewers had complained that the burger shown in the commercial was thicker and better packed than the actual ones, which were "flat, not
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
    • What The Experts Say ...
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        Lock icon SGX – Market Perform
        110 13 SGX Market Perform RECENT changes at the senior management of Singapore Exchange (SGX) are not totally unexpected as the company is in transition. Last August, Mr Thomas Kloet gave notice of his exit from the company and the new CEO only came onboard in Mar 2003. During the transition period,
        – OCBC Investment Research  -  110 words
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        Lock icon ECS Holdings – Buy
        136 13 ECS Holdings Buy GK Goh DESPITE the weak macro environment, all the regions in which this IT distributor operates registered year-on-year growths in revenue in the first quarter this year. The company is adopting a more conservative approach under the current uncertain economic environment, walking away from businesses if there
        – GK Goh  -  136 words
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        Lock icon Keppel Land Ltd – Buy
        94 13 Keppel Land Ltd Buy NetResearch Asia THE short-term price target has been raised to $1.45 per share from a previous $1.30 per share.The company is deemed least exposed to industries hit by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), such as retail rents and hotel earnings. However, the main risk for
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        Lock icon City Developments – Underperform
        124 13 City Developments Underperform OCBC Investment Research THE prospects for CityDev in the near-term appear to be gloomy. The unfavourable combination of the Iraq war and the Sars situation are likely to affect CityDev's property and hotel divisions. Potential buyers are putting off buying properties with the prevailing weak economic outlook.
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        Lock icon Datacraft – Hold
        140 13 Datacraft Hold GKGoh CONTRARY to rumours, Datacraft said it has not seen any cancelled contracts in China, although there has been some cancellation of IT training classes, which is a small proportion of the company's business.The company announced exceptiona provisions for doubtful debt last year. So additional exceptiona provisions are
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      STOCK – 'STIRNG BUYS'
      205 13 STOCK 'STIRNG BUYS' Company Forecast EPS P/E Ratio 12-Mth Price 1 TARGET AMTEK ENGINEERING LTD 0.18 4.89 AUSSINO GROUP LIMITED 0.03 7.42 -0.47 0.53 1.53 0.40 CHEUNG WOH TECHNOLOGIES 0.04 6.14 0.08 0.37 CSE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 0.05 7.47 EASTERN ASIA TECHNOLOGY LTD 0.11 4.75 0.02 0.17 0.54 0.97 FIRST ENGINEERING
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      Lock icon A boost from Sars
      425 13 Reuters Demand for MedTecs masks soars THRUST into the spotlight by the arrival of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus, MedTecs International Corp Ltd, a little-known Asian medical products maker is looking forward to a healthy set of 2003 profits. "Sars is beyond our expectation.
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      Lock icon Indian bank plans branch here
      145 13 MUMBAI ICICI Bank Ltd, India's second-biggest commercial bank, said it has received approval to open a branch in Singapore and a representative office in China to help Indian companies expand their operations. ICICI's Singapore branch will help the lender boost its foreign transactions and lend
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      98 13 CompiledbyThomsonFinancialFirstCall ™O.V. S OM DEFINITIONS: Forecast earnings-per-share (EPS): The portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock, forecasted for the current fiscal year. Price/Earnings ratio (P/E ratio): A stock's P/E tells us how much investors are willing to pay per dollar of earnings. A P/E
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  • WORLD IN REVIEW
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      Lock icon Last link to Vietnam war
      833 16 Reuters Former Vietnam V-P and sole survivor of peace accord signatories NguyenThi Binh hopes that hard-won lessons will not be forgotten HANOI Thirty years after she signed a document that would eventually lead to the end of the Vietnam War, former school teacher Nguyen Thi
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      Lock icon Wary of the US
      480 17 Agencies N Korea's Kirn says pilots ready to 'beat back the enemy' SEOUL The leader told his pilots that he was confident that they could "beat back the enemy", a reference normally reserved for their nemesis, the United States. The leader was not Iraqi President Saddam
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      Lock icon Conflict gems curbed
      152 17 Reuters WASHINGTON The US Senate unanimously approved a bill on Thursday banning the import of uncut diamonds a source of funding for African civil wars and a possible source of funds for the Al Qaeda network. The legislation is needed for US implementation of an international agreement,
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      Lock icon Sounds good to us
      128 17 -AFP NEW YORK As jet-setters mourned the end of the Concorde, a hardcore group of American environmental activists were celebrating the demise of its three-decade-old supersonic nemesis. "My reaction? Good riddance!" said Mr Allan Greene, president of Sane Aviation For Everyone (SAFE), a coalition of concerned
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      Lock icon Peaceful in Costa Rica
      51 17 Reuters photo Sunbeams filtered by clouds reflect in the lake at the Peace Park on Thursday in Costa Rica. The park was named for former President Oscar Arias, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987, and is one of the most visited sites in the
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      Lock icon New western sources help spread WMD
      191 17 AFP WASHINGTON Countries such as North Korea, Russia and China are not the only sources of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said in a report on Thursday. New sources of WMD-related information and training from Western
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      Lock icon Dutch fail to form coalition government
      171 17 Agencies AMSTERDAM Talks to form a centre-left coalition government in the Netherlands have collapsed, bringing renewed political instability to the country a year after the murder of populist politician Pirn Fortuyn. Eleven weeks of talks between the two main parties, the Christian Democrats (CDA)
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      Lock icon Back to Bali
      93 17 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States said on Thursday it would allow diplomats it had ordered to leave Indonesia last year after the Bali blasts to return to the country due to improvements in security. "Effective immediately, non-emergency employees of the US embassy will be allowed to return
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  • COMMENTARY
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      The legacy PMGoh could leave ...
      849 18  - The legacy PMGoh could leave Dharmendra Yadav A Cabinet without SM Lee, who coula then play a vital role steering MPs in Parliament by weekend@newstoday.com.sg NOT too long ago, Ravi Veloo, a product of the Lee Kuan Yew Government, argued the legacy that his Prime Minister (now Senior Minister Lee
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      Lock icon Doing time for his brother and ...
      136 18 Doing time for his brother and Reuters BERLIN He wanted to use the time behind bars to beat an alcohol problem. But the German, identified as Norbert X, was fined 2,000 euros ($3,834) by a Hamburg court for his 10-month board and bed. The reason: The jail term was not
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      Lock icon Success comes in the form of a tomb
      150 18 Reuters BEIJING After luxury cars and premium homes, sprawling tombs are fast becoming the token of wealth and influence for the Chinese. A newspaper reported that a healthy 14-year-old had his own tomb made of choice white marble near Tianjin, about a
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      Lock icon MIRROR, MIRROR, WHO'S THE BEST
      53 18 -AFP photo Models looking through a mirror at a member of a panel of judges who were examining their hair on Thursday during 'Beauty Time", an international hairstyle contest, in Kiev, Ukraine. Sixty masters from different countries will take part in the contest during the
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  • HUMOUR
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      Lock icon Try a Survivor style tax plan
      791 19  -  Dave Barry Conventional tactics against the likes of EGTRRA and GUST are just not enough by w eekend@new stoday. com. sg IT'S tax time. I know this because I'm staring at documents that make no sense to me, no matter how many beers I
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      Lock icon Ash The next Bond GIRL?
      645 20  -  Shanoo Maharaj by news@newstoday.com.sg MOVE over, Halle Berry. If everything goes well, leading Indian actress Aishwarya Rai (left) will be the next James Bond girl. The ravishing green-blue-eyed heroine has been offered a lead role opposite Pierce Brosnan in a new Bond movie, according to
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      From PAPER to the BIG SCREEN.
      402 21  -  Serene Foo Here's a chance budding scriptwriters shouldn't miss by serene@newstoday.com.sg THE Media Development Authority (MDA) is offering aspiring scriptwriters a chance of a lifetime to see their scripts transported from paper to the big screen. On Thursday, it announced that it was including
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      Lock icon Spidey gets some competition
      145 21 -AFP LOS ANGELES New Zealand actor Daniel Gillies has landed a role as Kirsten Dunst's love interest in Hollywood's sequel to last year's mega-hit Spider-Man movie, the industry press said. Gillies will play John Jamison, an astronaut who woos Dunst's character, Mary Jane Watson, according to
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        839 22  - The language gap Ross Wallace and how Emma and 'poop' pa are working to bridge it NUT long alter our daughter was born two years ago, my wife made me take a vow of silence. In the years before our marriage, I had gained a reasonable proficiency in her native
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        450 22  -  Armin A Brott by news@newstoday.com.sg IT'S amazing how the arrival of a baby affects the relationships among the adults in her life. It can even change the nature of your friendships. You and your partner aren't going to be nearly as
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        368 24  -  Jeffrey Yang by eatou_@news_oday.com.sg IT WAS wine galore as the World Gourmet Summit hit town over the past two weekends. Some of the best vintners showcased their wines along with the offerings of top chefs, and Singaporean wine lovers certainly got their worth from attending the various dinners
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        1076 24  -  Jeffrey Yang Fine wines, good food make for an exquisite combination by eatout@newstoday.com.sg ALTHOUGH the original chefs slated for the Bouchard Pere Et Fils wine dinner at the Shangri-La's BLU stayed away due to the Sars threat, diners were still able to enjoy the great Burgundy wines of
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        518 25  -  Richard Seah by eatout@newstoday.com.sg UMEBOSHI (picture) the Japanese version of the Chinese sng buay, or pickled sour plum is a powerful infection fighter. Scientific studies show that umeboshi begin to destroy bacteria and virus in the body within 15 minutes after consumption.
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        474 26  -  Ambiga Raju Shraddha\N\\\ thrill you with its unique blend of East, West by news@newstoday.com.sg (Sars), the performers kept their commitment to the organisers and will play as scheduled. Shraddha is the first Indian performance to be sponsored by top-end watch-maker Tag Heuer, and this testifies to the credentials
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        237 26 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO World music pioneer Babatunde Olatunji, the Nigerian drummer and band leader whose groundbreaking 1959 recording, Drums of Passion, brought African music to a wide American audience, has died at age 76. Olatunji, who was born and raised in a tiny Nigerian fishing
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        581 27  -  Colin Yong Refinements, new engine give this family car a lift by colin@newstoday.com.sg FACE-LIFTS done on cars are all too often like those done on humans. A little tuck here and a little nip there may give the impression that the finished product is brand new. But in
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        193 27 THE new BMW 5 Series (picture) is one of the most highly-anticipated cars of this year. As expected, it borrows some of its design from the controver-sially-styled 7 Series, but moulds them into a more cohesive whole. The latest Mercedes-Benz E-class may have introduced a
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        165 27 FANCY a compact saloon with automatic transmission that accelerates from 0 to lOOkm/h in 5.2 seconds? Or how about a mid-sized executive car with a king-sized 5-litre engine? Mercedes-Benz is synonymous with comfort, luxury and quality, but not many people here associate the brand with sporty
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        913 28  -  Janice Lee Dreamcatcher director Kasdan's self-description helps explain his enviable success as a film-maker by in Los Angeles janice@newstoday.com.sg MAKING a movie takes arrogance, insanity, hubris and a whole lot of guts, as Lawrence Kasdan proves. Kasdan began his writing-directing-producing career in 1980 with his screenplay
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        554 30  -  Deirdre Lim Under its contemporary cover, the latest home style melds Japanese and tropical tastes by news@newstoday.com.sg THE overall look is contemporary but from a certain perspective, you will find the Japanese flavour of this apartment seeping into your consciousness. Take a closer look and you'll discover
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        542 31  -  Nicholas Chan While the trend in home decorating favours Zen and modern designs, this home opts for the classic style by news@newstoday.com.sg IN A day and age when everyone wants a modern home with clean lines, it's nice to know that there are some who break away from
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      509 39 Agencies FA Gup semi-finals: Arsenal v Sheffield United, Watford v Southampton Warnock claims his Blades will slice through Arsenal's attempt to make history SHEFFIELD Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock (picture, left) is doing everything to make the FA Cup semi-final against star-studded Arsenal on
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      137 39 Reuters LONDON Like Arsenal, Southampton will be wary of its First Division opponent in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final. Watford already has two Premiership scalps to its name after knocking out relegationbound West Bromwich Albion and Sunderland. But Southampton has had a sparkling season thanks to the skilful management
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      1018 40  -  Rohit Brijnath Give teenage stars a break, for their sake SOMEWHERE in England a young man will put on the TV, pick up the newspaper, switch on the radio and watch, read and listen about Wayne Rooney. He will then silently mourn the passing of another boy's
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      235 40 NBA Lakers 117 Kings 104 Los Angeles moves to fifth LOS ANGELES The LA Lakers played into the middle of April, played a day closer to the playoffs, looking for nothing but to get there looking
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      682 41 Agencies Keep title dream alive by beating United, Shearer tells team-mates English Premier League Newcastle v Man Utd Live, today, Ch 23, 7.25pm NEWCASTLE Brushing aside fears of a possible backlash, Newcastle United skipper Alan Shearer has a new rallying cry for his team-mates: "Beat
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      836 42  -  Stanley Ho First five rounds of 2003 S-League show no improvement, but Chan still optimistic by stanley@news_oday.com.sg EVEN the most ardent of NTUC Income S-League fans would admit that the 2002 season was disappointing. The standard of football was poor and crowd figures were low. Many
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      445 43  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Beleaguered Tanjong Pagar has to get its act together soon, says chairman by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg SIX matches, six losses. A sobering statistic for any football club, let alone one so steeped in history as former S-League giant Tanjong Pagar United. Only five years ago, the Jaguars won
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      423 43  -  ran Yo-Hinn AUSTRALIAN David Gleeson was not on the initial list of entries for the $43,000 Singapore Information Technology Federation (SITF) Golf Masters 2003. Yet, it seemed as if he was destined to win the tournament First, at last week's Thailand Open in Bangkok, good
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      725 44  -  Jose Raymond Ex-Geylang coach replaces Abdullah Noor at Balestier by jose@newstoday.com.sg THE excitement among the officials when SLeague clubs Balestier Central FC and Clementi Khalsa announced their merger last October was palpable. Ex-Clementi chairman Jagjit Singh and exBalestier chairman S Thavaneson even christened the new Balestier Khalsa
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      285 44  -  Tan Yo-Hinn NTUC Income S-League Sengkang 1 Home Utd 3 The Protectors march on THE Home United bandwagon continues to roll on. On Friday, the talk was of an upset when Sengkang Marine hosted the NTUC Income S-League leader. Instead, like a top class
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      181 44  -  Jose Raymond NATIONAL under-23 team manager and chairman of former S-League club Gombak United John Yap has been appointed the new national teams committee chairman. He takes over from the outgoing chairman Patrick Ang, who stepped down at the last Football Association of Singapore (FAS) annual
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      186 44 Reuters LONDON Italian Giancarlo Fisichella said justice had been done after he was awarded a belated victory in last Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix. Race stewards, meeting in Paris, awarded the Jordan driver a first career win and demoted McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen to second place following a timing
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      342 45  -  JOHN BELL Horse Racing Written By QUARTET results for the month of March and early April have continued to be life changing for many racegoers and payouts are, not surprisingly, caching the attention of many people. The popularity of the wager where the first four horses
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      278 46 Reuters AUGUSTA Multiple major winner Nick Price moved into a three-way tie for the early lead at two-under-par in the delayed US Masters opening round on Friday as Tiger Woods could only open with a bogey. Reigning Open champion Ernie Els, the
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