Today, 29 May 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    12 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Thursday May 29, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Blair to visit Iraq
      122 1 -AFP BAGHDAD British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to become the first western leader to visit Iraq since the end of the war, to thank British troops for their role in toppling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "I want to see the British troops to thank
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      Lock icon Sars kills 2 in Toronto
      119 1 Reuters TORONTO Sars has killed two more people in Toronto and concern about the deadly virus closed a high school, sending staff and students into quarantine and raising fears it may have spread from hospitals to the community. Health officials in Toronto, however, said they
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      Lock icon Stocks gain
      73 1 Reuters NEW YORK The Dow Jones industrials rose 11.77 points, or 0.13 per cent, to 8,793.12, its highest close since mid-January. The Nasdaq composite climbed 6.55 points, or 0.42 per cent, to 1,563.24, its highest close since early June. The broad Standard Poor's 500 rose 1.74 points, or
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      Yuppie colony
      547 1  -  Lee Yew Meng Condo sells a lifestyle and captures a niche ...by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg AT a time when the property market has been scrambling for crumbs, a simple, seductive idea is showing firm signs of becoming a runaway success. The pitch is direct A home that young, well-to-do professionals
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      133 1 /AbDJACOPP Carrefour 4§\ Singapore OUT MISS TODAY 1: OUTSTANDING SUPERBUY! CHECH Celebrate life on the bay in support of the Courage Funo^sS how to donate BY CHEQUE: BY CASH: BY PHONE: x A crossed cheque made out to "The There are donation boxes at the The public can donate to
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Everest ascents a farce
      537 2  -  Shanoo Maharaj Today Exclusive Hillary says modern climbing methods have reduced conquest to a 'fad' ...by news@newstoday.com.sg NEIL ARMSTRONG and the moon. Edmund Hillary and Mount Everest Some names have become so interlinked that when Sir Edmund starts slamming the whole process of climbing the mountain
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      SARS UPDATE
      82 2 NO MORE DEPOSIT: The Ministry of Education announced yesterday that foreign students travelling only to non-Sars affected countries will no longer have to place a 1,000 deposit. Students in national schools and the Institute of Technical Education will only need to re-apply for a new Student Pass once,
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    • Article
      Lock icon MAS halts EC-Asia IPO
      229 2 Bloomberg THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has ordered a halt to the share sale of EC-Asia International, a company that recycles memory chips and distributes electronic components. A MAS statement said it issued the interim stop order on the prospectus because of concerns that it
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      Lock icon Impact of an Aceh war
      395 3  -  Jaime Koh It's Indonesia's image that is at stake, says economist by jaime@newstoday.com.sg AS the December ceasefire agreement between the Aceh rebels and the Indonesian government lies in tatters and a long-drawn war looms in the province, questions are being asked about the impact of
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      Lock icon US warns M'sian leaders
      176 3 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR The US envoy to Malaysia gave the leaders a public warning yesterday that relations will go downhill unless they curb their sometimes "offensive" criticism of Washington's foreign policy. While other friendly countries also disagreed with the war in Iraq, Malaysian leaders upset senior
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      Riyadh blast leader arrested
      109 3 SYDNEY Amid reports of Saudi Arabia's arrest of several alleged Al Qaeda members in connection with the Riyadh bombing, intelligence sources say the group's third-ranked leader and alleged mastermind of the bombings has been seized in Iran. The man, identified as Saif Al Adel, is the
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      Lock icon MILF declares ceasefire
      127 3 Agencies MANILA In a surprising move, the biggest Muslim separatist group in Philippines, the Mora Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), declared a 10-day unilateral ceasefire yesterday. Mr Eid Kabalu, the MILF's spokesman, said Murad Ebrahim, the military chief of the group signed the ceasefire declaration effective June 2,
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Sprocket to blame
      360 4  -  Joy Frances ...for freak escalator mishap at City Hall MRT by joy@newstoday.com.sg IT has been more than two weeks since an escalator at City Hall MRT station went into reverse drive, injuring several people. "This was a freak accident. We have to appreciate the fact that escalators
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      Varsity revamp report accepted
      234 4  -  Grace Tay THE Government announced yesterday that it has accepted the recommendations proposed by the inter-ministry committee to review the university sector and graduate manpower. Some of the recommendations included expanding university intakes, transforming the National University of Singapore into a multi-campus university and allowing a
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      Lock icon SIA engineers say 'no'
      112 4 Channel News Asia LEADERS of the union representing SIA engineers and executives have turned down a 15 per cent pay cut proposal. They met the SIA management yesterday to look at cost-cutting measures and, instead, proposed restructuring to help the company save money. The engineers' union
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      Fair for needy
      81 4 PARENTS of the students of Ramakrishna Mission are organising a food and fun fair to raise money to help needy students of the Sarada Kindergarten. Last year, the kindergarten gave $20,000 to these students. The need is even greater this year to raise money because of the
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      NOL's big U-turn
      581 6  -  Tor Ching Li Did old Captain Jacobs set the course? by chingli@newstoday.com.sg STEERING away from a US$9l.5 million ($158.56 million) loss this time last year to a current profit of US$2O.3 million is quite a laudable turnaround for any company all the more so when there is
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      Lock icon Narita refusing to cut aircraft fees
      392 6  -  Chan Chao Peh THE International Air Transport Association (lata) has blasted Japan's Narita Airport for not cutting its handling fees to help airlines grappling with one of their worst business crises ever. The airport has refused repeated requests to cut its fees to help
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      Lock icon Free insurance
      84 6 Newsradio 93.8 MORE than 24,000 healthcare workers from the public sector are now insured for free over the next six months. This is part of the Appreciation Plan by the American Home Assurance to show its gratitude to the workers for battling Sars. The workers will be covered
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      7 6 DRENCHED IN PERSPIRATION? FUJI E*LEI_Tr_IC AIR CONDITIONER
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  • LETTERS
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      Not porn
      218 8  -  Tania Chew so funds should not be withheld I REFER to the report, "Rejected again" (Today, May 28). The local media needs more of such reports to give more voice to groups such as the Drama Box. The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts and the National
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      SIA saga: A good alternative view
      85 8  -  Nigel Eng I REFER to the report, "SIA missing the woods for the trees?" (Today, May 27). I am a college student in the United States and I must say your article on the tussle between the pilots and the company provides a good
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      4As chief: My comments were objective
      285 8 I REFER to the article, "Numbing number" (Today, May 22). I am not very pleased by how my comments were used in the article because it apparently gave the impression that I was totally biased in my views on Streats' increased readership. The comments
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Chip wars
      167 10 IBM beats Chartered, eyes Taiwan INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp (IBM), the world's biggest computer maker, has overtaken Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing to become the third-largest supplier of made-to-order semiconductors. IBM's chip sales were US$76O million ($1.31 billion) last year, well above the US$449 million chalked up by Chartered,
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      Broadband video-on-demand
      45 10 HAVING obtained a video-on-demand trial service licence from the Media Development Authority, Tivit Technica will pilot the service at a private hospital here. The licence allows Tivit to conduct a six-month trial to deliver community-based, infotain-ment-on-demand services to TV sets via broadband technology.
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        78 10 Bloomberg STOCKS advanced after an index of consumer confidence in the US rose to a six-month high, boosting optimism for a recovery in Singapore's largest export market The Straits Times Index rose 13.30 points, or one per cent, to 1338.60. DBS Group Holdings led gains among blue chips, rising
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 us$ 0.5789 UK£ 0.3535 Yen 68.1131 HK$ 4.5149 RM 2.2001 Euro 0.4900 Rupiah 4764.52 Baht 24.1374 Peso 30.7378 A$ 0.8876 Indian Rs Won 27.1804 694.966 C$ 0.7987 Yuan 4.7917 NZ$ 1.0031 NTS 20.1033
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        World markets
        55 10 In. Index Value Ch hange Pts NIKKEI 8234.18 113.94 1.40 HANG SENG 9510.62 89.81 0.95 ALL ORDINARIES 2976.10 25.30 0.86 TAIWAN WTD 4474.41 23.30 0.52 KOREA COMP 628.36 14.06 2.29 SET 402.98 2.29 0.57 JAKARTA COMP 492.82 12.55 2.61 PHIL COMP 1047.82 11.83 1.14 SHENZHEN B 223.05 0.05
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        Lock icon Commodities
        22 10 SDDDDDD Sold us$/oi iilver us$/oi 'latinum us$/oi 364.75 4.625 675.3 Rubber cents/kg 178.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1471.5 Brent crude us$/barrel 29.35
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        SGX most active
        62 10 )y volume Way 28 bartered MTedi Sloba JniFiber j'tiraya Horizon iurface MT latacrftUSS Close 0.850 0.140 0.035 0.115 0.535 0.090 0.600 0.660 Change +0.075 +0.010 +0.015 +0.005 +0.005 +0.005 +0.070 +0.030 +9.7 +7.7 +75.0 +4.5 +0.9 +5.9 +13.2 +4.8 'OOO 77,13 57,53 54,22 51,18 26,74 24,99 23,93
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        SGX top rises
        81 10 By$ May 28 Close Change ChODBeCW*****61USD 103.900 +3.300 By percentage May 28 ChipEngSW*****2 Close Change 0.020 +100.0 GrealEasI 9.200 +0.300 CSCW*****7 0.010 +100.0 SPH 100 16.900 +0.300 SeeHSW*****0 0.010 +100.0 Creative 50 11.600 +0.200 Globa 0.035 +75.0 DBS 9.600 +0.200 Kian Ann W*****7 0.025 +66.7 Venture 15.100
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        81 10 78 By$ May 28 OCBC Close Change 9.150 -0.450 By percentage May 28 MediaS Close Change 0.010 -33.3 Prima 5.950 -0.050 AsiaDekot USS 0.030 -14.3 SPC 0.980 -0.050 Ptessctele 0.035 -12.5 UOL Sunlight HPL 1.900 -0.050 0.240 -0.030 0.900 -0.025 EWSport Sunlight Nobel Des 0.080 -11.1 0.240
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      Lock icon Yellow Pages sale hits snag
      69 10 Bloomberg SINGTEL'S talks on the sale of its directory business to Telstra Corp may have run into difficulties over pricing, analysts said. Telstra, Australia's largest phone company, has been negotiating to buy SingTel's Yellow Pages unit since February. "This is not a fire-sale for Sing
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      Lock icon Oei mulls offer
      71 10 Bloomberg NATSTEEL adjourned a shareholders' meeting until June 4 to allow Mr Oei Hong Leong time to consider a special dividend worth $205.5 million. The proposal, from controlling shareholder 98 Holdings, would allow Mr Oei, who owns 29.9 per cent of the company, to receive the dividend
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      355 12 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia HUAN HSIN HOLDINGS said its first quarter to March net profit rose 41 per cent year on year to $4.6 million on strong sales boosted by its moulded plastics division. SINWA KS said it has secured an $8.5
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      Have no fear
      440 12  -  Kim-Kyna Tan BG Yeo: Business continuity planning will help Spore firms withstand shocks by kim@newstoday.com.sg HORROR stories abound about entrepreneurs venturing into China, with the Sars outbreak only fuelling further doubts. To allay fears, the Government is taking the lead by encouraging Business Continuity Planning (BCP) measures
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      Fullerton aces it
      418 14  -  Chan Chao Peh Far East first developer to win Fiabci top award four times by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg THE Fullerton Square project developed by Far East Organization (FEO), has been conferred top honours by an international real estate body. The project, which included the restoration of The Fullerton (picture)
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      168 14 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia TEE INTERNATIONAL, a Sesdaqlisted firm, said it has secured $9 million worth of new engineering services projects here and in Malaysia. These include a $2.3-million renovation project at the National University of Singapore awarded to its unit PBT Engineering. Including the new contracts, Tee has
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Cambodia crushes terrorist web
      208 16 Agencies PHNOM PENH Cambodia has broken up an Islamic group with links to the Al Qaeda network and charged three men with being members of the Jemaah Islamiyah yesterday. Cambodian officials said 50 other people from the Middle East and Africa would be deported in a
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      Aussie bombshell
      349 16 MP threatens to reveal sexual exploits of minister SYDNEY Australia was hit by a fresh child sex scandal after a New South Wales (NSW) opposition MP dropped a bombshell yesterday, accusing a rival in Parliament of sexually assaulting and robbing a 15-year-old boy. Mr Charlie Lynn, a liberal
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      Lock icon New ways of 'doing news'
      165 16 Reuters NEW YORK News agency Bloomberg News on Tuesday broke away from the journalistic tradition of writing datelines when it scrapped the practice of indicating the location of the reporter at the beginning of the story. The move came after criticism was levelled policy over
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      MCA's Dr Ling exits politics for good
      163 16 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad accepted Dr Ling Liong Sik's resignation as Transport Minister yesterday, paving the way for the former leader of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) to exit politics. According to media reports, Mr Ling's 30-day leave, beginning
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      Lock icon US wants to speed up rebuilding of Iraq
      213 16 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States has lifted most of the remaining sanctions against Iraq in a bid to spur the country's redevelopment after decades of war and misrule. However, it issued a warning at the same time, saying that it will not
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  • WATZUP?
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      Pease of mind
      640 20  -  Felix Cheong by news@newstoday.com.sg IF RELATIONSHIP guru Allan Pease (picture) had his way, every marriage certificate should be accompanied by an instruction manual: One that gives the lie to romance, that its sweetness and light is, at its heart, all in the mind. So claims Pease in
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      The acid test
      339 23 WHO would you like to send on holiday? In the "Chemistry Couples" contest organised by MediaCorp TV Channel 5 and film distributor UIP, viewers get to pick a couple, from three short-listed pairs, who'll win tickets to an exclusive screening of How to Lose a Guy in
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      DAILY BREW
      263 24 GURMIT SINGH 'COOLEST MALE' IN MALAYSIA MEDIACORP celebrity Gurmit Singh has been selected by young Malaysians as the coolest male television star. Other celebrities like Matthew Perry [Friends], David Boreanaz [Angel] and James Marsters [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] were also in the race. The poll was conducted by
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      590 32 -AFP Finley inspires Mavericks as Spurs blow up NBA Spurs 91 Mavericks 103 Spurs lead series 3-2 SAN ANTONIO The San Antonio Spurs forgot to bring its game. It stalled, sputtered, bumbled and choked its way to an embarrassing loss that ranks as one of the worst in
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