Today, 15 April 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon US shares rise
      71 1 -AFP NEWYORK US shares rode higher yesterday on a wave of solid profit results, wrenching attention from Iraq where the bloodiest fighting appeared to be over. The Dow Jones industrials average advanced 147.69 points, or 1.80 per cent, to 8,351.10. The broader Standard and Poor's SOO index
      -AFP  -  71 words
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      Lock icon Italian may be first Sars fatality in Europe
      185 1 -AFP ROME An Italian back from Asia died yesterday in what could be the first death in Europe from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), a hospital official said. "We cannot rule out that it could be atypical pneumonia, but we have to
      -AFP  -  185 words
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      Culture of fear and concern
      569 1  -  Grace Tay and Derrick A Paulo Can more be done to cap Sars spread? by gra ce@newstoday.com.sg WE may not have a culture of wearing face masks but that may change as we grapple with this mysterious deadly disease called Sars. Yesterday, when secondary school
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      Good cheer for some HDB flat owners
      345 1  -  Chan Chao Peh The Grant will help to support schools in their efforts to establish comprehensive and coordinated health promotion programmes ...The Health Promotion Board will provide a grant of up to $5,000 for each participating school. Minister for Education and Second Minister
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Stringent checks
      431 2 Agencies Schools score 92% attendance on re-opening MORE than 200,000 secondary school students in Singapore returned to class yesterday after an 18-day shutdown to contain the spread of the Sars virus, but only after facing stringent screening measures. The Ministry of Education (MOE) reported a 96 per cent
      Agencies; ALVIN TOE  -  431 words
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      SARS UPDATE
      149 2 Seven new cases of Sars were reported today. Six are linked to the Singapore General Hospital cluster.The seventh is a family contact of a health attendant from Changi General Hospital. The Raffles Hospital has offered to take in subsidised patients to ease the load at Sars-hit hospitals. It
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      Roche to develop Sars test
      272 2  -  Tan Hui Leng IN what is believed to be a first for a private company here, the local arm of the Swiss healthcare group, Roche Diagnostics, said yesterday it will help develop a diagnostic test kit for Sars. The group's Asia-Pacific headquarters are in Singapore.
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      Cruise staff okay, industry falls ill
      268 3  -  Ng Boon Yian THE good news: After creating ripples of fear last week, the two Star Cruises crew members suspected of having Sars have been released from hospital. The bad news: Sars has taken its toll on another business as Star Cruises has been
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      Lock icon Genome mapped
      315 3 Reuters Breakthrough key to understanding disease LONDON While the world focuses on finding a diagnostic kit or cure for Sars, an international consortium of scientists said yesterday it had completed the sequence of the human genome, or genetic blueprint of life, which holds the keys to transforming medicine
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      Goodbye paperwork
      669 3  -  Grace Tay by grace@newstodcty.com.sg \AOST people would not give a single thought as to what happens to those documents after they have signed on the dotted line of an insurance policy. But dealing with all that paperwork is important for an insurance company like NTUC Income, which has
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      Lock icon Syria linked to chemical arms
      355 4 Agencies US allegations dismissed by Arab League WASHINGTON Concern is growing in the international community that Syria may be in Washington's sights after US President George W Bush ramped up criticism of Damascus. On Sunday, Mr Bush repeated allegations that Syria may be harbouring Iraqi
      – Agencies  -  355 words
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      YESTERDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS
      146 4 British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Britain and the US are expecting the three other permanent UN Security Council members China, France and Russia to help in the reconstruction of Iraq. Mr Ahmed Chalabi, one of Iraq's best-known opposition leaders with strong support in the Pentagon, said in
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      Lock icon Bank looter caught
      68 4 AFP photo A LOOTER (picture) was taken away by US soldiers on Sunday in Baghdad after he was caught inside a bank. US forces detained suspected thieves for the first time in Baghdad, stopping 25 men on the east bank of the Tigris. More than 2,000 Baghdad
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      Lock icon Tikrit falls, so is the war over now?
      214 4 Agencies TIKRIT, Iraq There was no jubilant welcome for US troops yesterday as they captured Tikrit, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's hometown and his last major seat of power. A statue of Mr Saddam on horseback stood unscathed in one square while pristine
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      Lock icon Sats to cut number of contract staff
      120 6 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services (Sats) is reducing the number of its contract workers after passenger and cargo volumes fell in March. Sats employs about 10,000 people, with a 10th of those being contract workers. But the company did not give the number
      — Bloomberg  -  120 words
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      Lock icon No celebration for Anwar
      151 6 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's jailed ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim marked his fourth anniversary behind bars yesterday as police threw a tight cordon around his home and prison to prevent demonstrations by his supporters. Mr Anwar could have been released on good behaviour yesterday, after having served
      -AFP  -  151 words
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      Lock icon Caldecott cheer lifts the mood
      535 6  -  Tor Ching Li Record $6.7 m raised despite Sars, war gloom by chingli@newstoday.com.sg THE last time Singaporean spirits were lifted to such a collective "high" was no, not during the last Great Singapore Sale but probably nearly a decade ago when the Lions won the
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  • LETTERS
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      Half measures
      403 8  -  Chiang Ming Yu Ministries should have same rules for all to fight Sars NEW work permit and employment pass holders from Sars-affected countries will be quarantined for 10 days, as would existing work permit and employment Q-pass holders who return from visits to these places. But employment P-pass
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      Not only when illness strikes
      138 8  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming LONG after the Sars threat is over, or when life returns to normal and Sars becomes a sensational story in the dim past, the public should never forget that nurses straddle two very different realms that of a quasi-doctor and care-giver.
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      Send SAF medical team under United Nations command, not US
      301 8  -  Ngiam Shih Tung TWELVE years ago, I was a full-time National Service medic when Singapore sent an SAF medical team to serve at a British Army field hospital during the first Gulf War. I knew several of the men who
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Asia stocks decline
      243 10 Reuters Japan's Nikkei ends at 20-year low STOCKS fell in Asia yesterday, hitting a 20-year low in Tokyo as investors waited to see if earnings reports would confirm the recovery signs in US data. Worries that the bigger picture might be unpleasant helped send Tokyo's Nikkei 225
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      IE Singapore's credit rating service
      277 10  -  Lee Yew Meng by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL companies now have another avenue to check the credit ratings of theii potential partners here and abroad. For a $100-to-$l5O fee, they can do this at the business information services centre of International Enterprise Singapore (IE Singapore). This follows
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        103 10 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) led a decline in stocks yesterday. The spread of the Sars has hit SIA. The company said it was cutting a total of 199 flights, or a fifth of available seats, after earlier reducing a combined 125 services. The STI fell 18.15 points to 1,282.87 its
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        World markets
        51 10 Index Value Change Pis NIKKEI 225 7752.10 -64.39 -0.8% HANG SENG 8533.55 -112.10 -1.3% ALL ORDINARIES 2905.50 -2.80 -0.1% TAIWAN WTD 4459.81 -70.59 -1.6% KOREA COMP SET INDEX 594.40 closed +11.43 +2.0% JAKARTA COMP 433.947 -4.602 -1.0% PHILS COMP SHEN7HEN B 1,133.37 224.57 +11.10 +40 +0.9 +2.5% MUMBAI
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 USS 0.56 UK£ 0.36 Yen 68 HK$ 4.38 RM 2.13 Euro 0.52 Rupiah 4,969 Baht 24 Peso 29.50 A$ 0.93 Indian Rs 27 Won 687 C$ 0.82 Yuan 4.65 NZ$ 1.03 NTS 19.51
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 10 SGX Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 328.50 Silver uss/oi 4.49 Platinum uss/oi 613.70 Rubber cents/kg 177 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1476 Brent crude uss.rrel 27.11 Information provided by:
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        Straits Times Index Intra-day Chart
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        SGX most active
        59 10 By volume April 14 MediaS Chartered StarCrusUSS SingTel ComfortDelGro TT lilt DatacrftUSS ACCS CITYDEV LeongHin Close 0.005 0.640 0.185 1.450 0.810 0.455 0.535 0.335 3.440 0.760 Change -0.005 -0.035 +0.030 -0.005 -0.005 -0.030 -0.010 -0.100 -0.005 -50.0 -5.2 +2.1 -0.6 -1.1 -5.3 -2.9 -2.8 -0.7 'OOO 18,857
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        SGX top rises
        82 10 By$ April 14 Robinson Close Changi 5.450 +0.051 Isetan(S) SingTel 10 SingTel 100 SingTel HoGCen 2.040 +0.041 1.460 +0.041 1.450 +0.041 1.450 +0.031 0.330 +0.02: LHT 0.075 +0.02: HLAsia 1.320 +0.021 HL Fin Parkway 1.980 +0.021 0.725 +0.01: By percentage April 14 Goldtron Close Change 0.015 +50.0
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        SGX top falls
        79 10 By$ April 14 SPH Close Change 16.700 -0.400 Creative 50 11.500 -0.300 SIA 8.650 -0.300 SIA 200 8.600 -0.300 SPH 100 16.800 -0.300 C&C 4.000 -0.260 DBS 8.800 -0.250 OCBC 9.400 -0.200 Seaview 5.350 -0.200 Informatics 0.860 -0.135 By percentage April 14 L&M Close Change 0.005 -50.0
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      Lock icon Regional GDP forecasts cut
      495 12 AFX Agency cites Sars as 'serious threat' to growth HONG KONG ING Financial Markets has cut its GDP forecasts for this year for Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan as a result of the outbreak of Sars. "Sars is a more serious threat to regional
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      Lock icon Asia Pulp sister firm plans bond issue
      121 12 Bloomberg JAKARTA Duta Pertiwi, an Indonesian property company owned by the parent of indebted Asia Pulp and Paper Co, may issue about 600 billion rupiah ($l2O million) worth of bonds this year, Bisnis Indonesia reported, citing an unidentified official. The company plans to
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      Lock icon New WorldCom plan
      92 12 -AFX ASHBURN (Virginia) World Com said it has filed a reorganisation proposal to emerge from bankruptcy protection, supported by a majority of creditor groups that hold more than 90 per cent of its debt It also announced a name change to MCI. Under its filing with a
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      Lock icon $2.7b loan restructure
      94 12 -AFP SYDNEY Australia's Telstra agreed with Hong Kong's PCCW to restructure a US$l.5 billion ($2.7 billion) bank loan held by their undersea cable joint venture, Reach. The terms of the pact do not require a further cash injection by the equal partners and do not alter the
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      191 12 AFX -AFX THISTLE TALKS STILL ON: Thistle Hotels is still in talks with a number of third parties which may lead to a competing offer for the group as it posted its official defence documents against the outstanding bid from BIL International. Thistle is also reviewing the potential
      AFX; -AFX  -  191 words
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      Lower trading fees
      250 14  -  Lee Yew Meng OCBC woos online traders with new deal by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg OCBC Bank has launched an online equity investment cum margin account for smaller investors that come at low brokerage fees the first to be offered here. Through the account managed by its subsidiary, OCBC Securities,
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      Lock icon Flextronics stays in China despite Sars
      128 14 Bloomberg FLEXTRONICS International, the biggest maker of electronics for brand-name companies, denied a report that it is moving production of Microsoft's Xbox to Mexico from China because of the deadly respiratory virus, Sars. "It's absolutely untrue," Flextronics official Nina Posadas said. Taiwan's Economic Daily
      – Bloomberg  -  128 words
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon N Korea hit by 'Baghdad effect'?
      318 16 Agencies Its readiness to negotiate with US may be panic reaction SEOUL The rapid destruction of the Iraqi regime might have been the catalyst that has prompted North Korea's leader to meet at the negotiating table to resolve the nuclear crisis. Analysts believe that
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      Lock icon Dance to welcome new Rain Queen
      56 16 Reuters photo Traditional dancers performing as 25year-old Makobo Modjadji VI is inaugurated as the Rain Queen of the Balobedu people at Modjadji in South Africa's northern Hmpopo province. The new Queen's subjects believe she possesses the power to make rain, an ability inherited from
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      Lock icon Abu Bakar formally charged
      94 16 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian prosecutors yesterday formally charged Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with heading the Jemaah Islamiyah 01) terror network and with authorising the Christmas eve church bombings in 2000 which killed 19 people. Mr Abu Bakar is also accused of plotting to blow up US
      -AFP  -  94 words
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      Gains abroad may be his loss at home
      199 16 WASHINGTON President George W Bush (picture) may be enjoying successful military campaigns overseas but he is expected to have a tough time at home pushing his domestic agenda through the US Congress. Emboldened by the rapid military success, the President plans to
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda suspects escape Yemeni jail
      175 16 Reuters ADEN (Yemen) Yemen is questioning two senior secret police officers after 10 Al Qaeda suspects, including two linked to the suicide bombing of the US warship USS Cole in Oct 2000, escaped from a Yemeni jail, an official said. "Two senior officials of
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Take a step back, Uncle Sam
      960 20  -  Deep X Datta-Ray The United Nations can do much to bring Iraq back on its feet AS law and disorder continues to grip post-Saddam Iraq, it is evident that American soldiers who are well-trained to fight a war are ill-equipped to keep the peace.
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  • WATZUP?
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      Shards of inspiration
      779 22  -  Rachel Fang This motivational speaker walks on glass to prove that anything is possible by rachel@newstoday.com.sg AT lunchtime, in a private function room at the Grand City Restaurant recently, the gravitational pull did not come from the large serving of dim sum but from a "bald and
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      596 23  -  Tor Ching Li Stars touch hearts, funny bones at NKF Charity Show by chingli@newstoday.com.sg If any of the nurses at the entrance of the MediaCorp TV theatre had measured the temperature of the audience during the three-and-a-half hour National Kidney Foundation (NKF) 10th Anniversary Charity Show on
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        458 26 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Men go Full Monty for spot in cross-country tour TORONTO Heard of Meet My Folks, that reali-ty-TV show rip-off of the movie Meet the Parents! Here's one that's taking off on The Full Monty, the hit 1997 British film about a bunch
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        99 26 TVMBRAIDER star Angelina Jolie is planning to invest US$5 million ($8.9 million) over the next 15 years to set up a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia, according to the World Entertainment News Network. The sexy actress is the mother of an adopted Cambodian boy, Maddox, and
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        103 26 -Reuters LOS ANGELES Actor Scan Perm's car, stolen as he was lunching near the University of California campus at Berkeley, has been recovered but two guns inside are missing, police said The car was found on Friday 14km from where it was stolen, said police.
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        165 27 -AFP LOS ANGELES Police quizzed American Gangsta Rap star and actor Snoop Dogg (picture), after a convoy in which he was travelling came under a barrage of gunfire that injured his bodyguard, detectives said. "He could have left any time he wanted. He was
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        228 27 -Reuters Rapper accused of eating lung to cultivate image LOS ANGELES An aspiring rap star charged with murdering his roommate and eating part of her lung committed the act as part of his record label's plan to cultivate a "gangsta" image for him, the victim's mother charged in
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    609 33 Agencies But Mickelson's happy despite yet another third-place finish Golf Masters World's best crumble AUGUSTA Phil Mickelson accomplished something Tiger Woods failed to achieve this week, a Masters three-peat But he still has not shaken the tag of being the best golfer never to win a major
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    296 33 Reuters I Tennis Family Circle Cup Clay court suits Henin-Hardenne CHARLESTON Serena Williams suffered her first defeat of the year yesterday when she was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Justine Henin-Hardenne in the final of the Family Circle Cup. The world No.l, who completed
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    74 33 ROME AC Milan and Inter Milan are still dreaming of the title after league-leader Juventus' 2-2 draw with Bologna at the weekend saw the gap stand at six points. The race for the scudetto remains open and in the next three weeks Juve faces tricky games against AS
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    68 33 LONDON The English Football Association is to examine comments made by Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock after Sunday's FA Cup semi-final 1-0 defeat by Arsenal. Warnock, furious that referee Graham Poll did not give a foul and then got in the way of one of his players during
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    93 33 ROME Mechanical problems with Ferrari's new car make it too risky to use at Sunday's San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, according to world champion Michael Schumacher. "It's not yet 100 per cent reliable. It'll be a big step forwards in terms of performance, but there's no
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      405 34  -  Stanley Ho Referees' committee says video evidence proves player's indiscretion by when Woodlands lodged an official complaint with the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), alleging that Jurong's skipper Rafi Ali had elbowed Dickson in the face while tussling for the ball during the closing minutes
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        611 35 Relax it's just Cantona's way of paying tribute to his former mentor LONDON Eric Cantona regrets retiring at 30. It is not a mistake, he said, that would be made by Alex Ferguson, his mentor at Old Trafford, whom he predicted would "die on
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        558 35 LONDON The clash between Manchester United and Arsenal at Highbury tomorrow could be the defining moment of this season's Premiership campaign. It could also be the defining moment of Roy Keane's career. The United captain has declared himself fit for tomorrow's crucial encounter, though
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        62 35 FOLLOWING the postponement of the the IRB Sevens Singapore rugby tournament, ticket holders can get refunds from today. Ticket refund details time: Monday to Saturday, 12pm-Bpm, Sunday and public holidays, Ipm-7pm Venue: Sistic box office, Singapore Indoor Stadium, 2 Stadium Walk (Bring along the full portion of
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