Today, 7 July 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Monday «jni y 7,2003« MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Ex-NMP faces bankruptcy
      497 1  -  Jose Raymond Today EXCLUSIVE Bank demands $4.3m dues from Heshe's Chia ShiTeck by j ose@newstoday.com. sg A MAN who once wanted to contest Singapore's presidential elections and has been an outspoken figure in business and politics is now facing bankruptcy proceedings. Former Nominated Member of Parliament Chia
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      Tiger wins
      133 1 LEMONT So much for a slump. Tiger Woods silenced his critics and ended all talk of a decline in form when he clinched the Western Open this morning. Woods finished off his fourth PGA Tour victory of the 2003 season with a final round 3-under 69. He finished
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      Lock icon Twins separation surgery enters crucial phase
      330 1  -  Tan Hui Leng THE surgery to separate conjoined Iranian twins Ladan Bijani and Laleh Bijani has entered a critical phase. When reports last came in, plastic surgeons and neurosurgeons had completed peeling back the scalp by 9:30pm. The team then opened up the scalp
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Bones evidence crucial in Khmer Rouge trial
      113 2 -AFP PHNOM PENH Western forensic scientists have scoured Cambodia's bone-ridden countryside in preparation for an ambitious project to collect extensive evidence of crimes for a Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal. US scholar and Khmer Rouge expert Craig Etcheson said that the evidence could prove
      -AFP  -  113 words
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      The tourism S-factor
      920 2 News Comment/Shobha Tsering Bhalla RECENTLY, in a blaze of media coverage, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) launched a global drive to attract tourists back to Singapore. The initiative to resuscitate Singapore's tourism industry, ravaged by the Iraq war and Sars, will cost the board $50 million. Of
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      Lock icon MacRitchie attack: Police release photo-fit
      129 2 Channel NewsAsia THE police have released a photo-fit (picture) of a man whom they believe will be able to assist them in investigating a case of aggravated outrage of modesty at Macßitchie Reservoir last Monday. Slim-built and said to be in his 30s, the man
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      Lock icon Anwar may be out on bail as Dr M mellows
      265 3 Reuters POLITICAL changes and a "mellowed" Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad may lead to jailed ex-Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim being granted bail, Malaysiakini reported. The online news service reported Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor, chief of the opposition Keadilan Youth,
      – Reuters  -  265 words
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      Lock icon Is Tung noun a liability?
      627 4  -  Jaime Koh HK's Chief Executive may be the big loser in security Bill climbdown by jaime@newstoday.com.sg HONG KONG It will be hard for Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa to find a middle ground around the controversial national security Bill that brought half a
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      Cheek-to-cheek with Sharon Au
      142 4  -  ALVIN TOE MediaCorp artiste Sharon Au (centre) simply could not resist those chubby cheeks o/Kaizer Soh (right). With his parents chipping in the donation fund of $20, Kaizer and, his sister Karmen were the first to have their photo taken with Sharon. This photo-taking session was
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      Mah warns against Sars complacency
      168 4  -  Val Chua SINGAPOREANS should not "totally disengage" from all precautions against Sars, even if the global outbreak has been largely contained, said Minister for National Development Mr Mah Bow Tan yesterday. He warns against a complacency that might set in as lives go back to
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  • HOME NEWS
    • Article
      Mix & match wear for NDP
      311 6  - Mix match wear for NDP Tor Ching Li by chingli@newstoday.com.sg NATIONAL Day Parade 2003 costume designer Hayden Ng wants to apologise to the 7,000 participants. "I'm very sad," the 37-year-old full-time fashion designer told Today. For outlandish costume designs? Garish colours? Prickly fabric? Far from it It is because he
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      About the King ...
      762 8 About the King Since its first store opened in Singapore in 1982, Burger King has gone from strength to strength in the areas of restaurant locations, ambience, products and marketing. Here are some fun facts about this well-loved burger chain. General Singapore ranks as the second largest Burger King operation
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      BURGER KING
      33 8 Managed by Bon-Food Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Bonvests Holdings Limited. Currently operates 46 Burger King restaurants island-wide. Singapore ranks as the second largest Burger King operation in Asia, after Korea.
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      MILESTONES
      276 8 1 982 First Burger King restaurant in Singapore opens at Peninsula Plaza. 1 984 BK moves into suburban malls, such as Parkway Parade. 1 986 Bon-Food Pte Ltd becomes a whol-ly-owned subsidiary of Bonvests Holdings Ltd. 1 987 Launch of the Rendang Burger, the first-ever local BK burger. First
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      COMMUNITY EFFORTS
      48 8 2001 Raises funds for Community Chest of Singapore by selling the 'Symphony Bear'. June 2002 Works with Northeast CDC to create a Community, Safety Security Programme.The event is singled out for an award by the Ministry of Home Affairs. 2003 Raises funds for The Courage Fund.
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  • LETTERS
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      Bad language
      378 10  -  Susan Foo The problem with Singlish is not lah but poor grammar I FELT both gladdened and somewhat disturbed when I read your report, "No more lahs, please." (Today, July 3) I was glad to learn there is an organisation, the Speak Good English Movement, spearheading the push
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      Report those who annoy
      170 10  -  Philip Mah I REFER to Mr Peter Lim's letter, "The tout menace" (Today, July 3). The public distribution of flyers or pamphlets is not an offence, per se. Neither does the pushing of credit cards by banks constitute an offence. Such distributors or marketers typically accept
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      209 10 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:6s-*****217; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg Work, Exchange Ideas £jffrfali Network in Australia RTfllH Have you got what it takes to be part of the Singapore-Australia Young
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon 100,000 sacked
      60 12 AFX-Asia CHENNAI (India) The Tamil Nadu state government enacted the Essential Services Maintenance Act, and arrested 2,200 and sacked nearly 100,000 employees who were on the fourth day of a strike on Saturday for higher wages, police said. Unions said they would end the strike if the government
      – AFX-Asia  -  60 words
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      Lock icon Telcos protest
      318 12 AFX-Asia 5 firms set to sue NTT over connection fee hike TOKYO Five telecom operators, including KDDI Corp and Cable and Wireless IDC, are set to file a lawsuit this month against the Japanese government over rate increases for connection with the industry leader, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        84 12 AFP SINGAPORE shares are expected to track the movement of US stocks as the week starts, dealers said on Friday. Advance estimates of the June quarter GDP and a statement by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on its policy on the Singapore dollar should also influence trading, they
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        Commodities
        14 12 Gold uss/oi 350.6 Silver uss/oi 4.650 Platinum uss/oi 672.0 Brent crude uss/barrel 28.32
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5720 UK£ 0.3431 Yen 67.52 HK$ 4.461 RM 2.174 Euro 0.4977 Rupiah 4,677 Baht 23.81 Peso 30.49 A$ 0.8412 Indian Rs 26.45 Won 674.9 C$ 0.7658 Yuan 4.735 NZ$ 0.9597 NTS 19.63
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        Lock icon Saudi prince 'may invest to rescue Le Meridien Hotels'
        152 14 Bloomberg SAUDI Prince Alwaleed bin Talal may invest in Le Meridien Hotels to help prevent the bankruptcy of the operator of London's Waldorf hotel, the Sunday Times reported, without citing anyone. The prince, a nephew of Saudi Arabian King Fahd, would
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        Europe to Asia: Be fair
        421 14 Sharing burden of weaker US$ will help global recovery ASIAN and European finance ministers agreed their regions should share the burden of a weaker US dollar, amid criticism that Asian governments are keeping their currencies undervalued to the detriment of European exports. The statement, issued
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        Lock icon Pipelines set to bring Thais $3b
        167 14 Bloomberg THAILAND, South-east Asia's sec-ond-largest energy consumer, may get 51 per cent more revenue than previously estimated by developing a gasfield along with Malaysia, the Bangkok Post reported. Thailand may get 68 billion baht ($2.86 billion) in royalty, tax and profit over 20 years,
        – Bloomberg  -  167 words
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        Lock icon Limited gains in Asian currencies
        249 15 Bloomberg GAINS in Asian currencies may be limited by concern among traders that governments wilf sell their currencies to cap increases and protect export growth, after the South Korean won rounded out its fourth weekly gain in five. Gains in regional currencies last week were
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        Lock icon Top jobs available in M'sian banks
        186 15 Bloomberg RHB Bank, EON Bank, BumiputraCommerce Bank, Alliance Merchant Bank and Malaysian International Merchant Bank are looking for chief executives, the Star said, without saying where it obtained the information. RHB Bank, Malaysia's No 3 lender, also has hired two personnel search companies to
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        Lock icon Tycoons eye stake in Islamic bank
        193 15 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A group of investors linked to local tycoon Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary and mainly from the Middle East are believed to be eyeing a controlling stake in Bank Muamalat, an Islamic bank in Malaysia, a report said yesterday. The Edge business newspaper
        -AFP  -  193 words
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        Lock icon Fall of the chaebol?
        371 16 Bloomberg 1.7b won of shares or lose stock's voting rights S Korea's firms must sell SK GROUP, Hyundai Group and nine other South Korean industrial conglomerates must sell 1.7 trillion won ($2.5 billion) of shares they own in units or face losing their voting rights on
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        Lock icon Exxon Mobil to axe 500
        141 16 Bloomberg EXXON Mobil Corp, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, plans to cut about 500 jobs in Europe as part of a cost savings plan, German magazine Der Spiegel said, without naming its source. The company told worker representatives at its German Esso unit
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        Lock icon Bright outlook for India's GDP
        159 16 AFX-Asia INDIA'S macro-economic position is strong enough to lift its GDP growth between six and 6.5 per cent in the medium term, Reserve Bank of India governor Bimal Jalan said. "Our macro-economic position is very strong with low inflation and interest rates and high forex
        – AFX-Asia  -  159 words
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      577 14 Every Monday, we will carry a table of dividends declared by companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The list, compiled with the assistance of Telekurs Financial, will appear every Monday on our business and finance pages. The new service is in line with the efforts of the editorial team
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Wedding tragedy
      275 24 -AFP Petrol tanker explosion injures 189 at reception ANKARA A massive blaze sparked by several explosions reduced an Ankara petrol station to a smoking ruin, injuring 189 people, 10 of them seriously, the prosecutor investigating the tragedy said yesterday. Mr Ahmet Mutlu said it was likely the blasts
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      Lock icon Moscow blasts blamed on Chechen separatists
      243 24 -AFP MOSCOW Russian officials are blaming Chechen separatists for the suicide blasts at a popular outdoor festival on Saturday that killed at least 16 people and injured around 50. Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at the rock festival at the Tushino airfield
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    • AROUND THE WORLD
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        Lock icon TAIWAN MARKS SARS-FREE STATUS
        58 24 -AFP A JUBILANT Taiwan celebrated its official Sars-free status yesterday with champagne and dancing in the streets while the island's businesses hunkered down to plot its economic revitalisation. Students danced to music in the square of the Presidential Office to mark Taiwan's removal from the World
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        Lock icon HARSH WORDS FOR SUU KYI
        63 24 -AFP MYANMAR'S junta launched new attacks on opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in a clear sign it will not back down in the row over her detention. "Auntie Suu is a willful and hard-headed person liable to rash judgments followed by blind action, in
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        Lock icon PEACE TALKS HELD ON QUETTA
        41 24 -AFP PAKISTANI Prime Minister Zafarulbh Jamali met yesterday with provincial officials and religious leaders to discuss how to return peace to the south-western city of Quetta after an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed 48.
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        PRISONERS TO BE FREED
        52 24 IN ANOTHER boost for Middle East peace, the Israeli government yesterday gave the green light for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian officials and militants had demanded that Israel release all prisoners, about 6,000 to 8,000 of them, in order to preserve a three-month
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        Lock icon SHE AIN´T HEAVY, SHE'S MY WIFE
        58 24 Reuters ESTONIA'S wife carriers crushed all competition yesterday in Sonkajarvi, Finland, winning the world championship for a sixth straight year. The event, in which a man carries a woman over a 250-m obstacle course, is rooted in a local legend about a wife-stealing gang.
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Anti-US Iraq is a time bomb
      1121 25  -  Ehsan Ahrari Washington cannot afford to be a bungling governor by news@newstoday.com.sg IT'S either because of reports of a potential economic downturn in the United States or the strong sense that next year's presidential elections are fast approaching, but the Bush administration has initiated
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  • WATZUP?
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      Spotlight on reforms
      738 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang Actors want it better, not only in pay but also in standards by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg AS AN actor, it's always good to be working. When Tan Kheng Hua (picture) took the leap to become a full-time actress eight years ago, she couldn't stop. She might
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      Hitting the right notes all round
      330 26  -  Jeanine Tan CALL 11-year-old Abigail Sin a child prodigy if you will. Besides being a piano-playing genius, she is also a Gifted Education Programme student at Methodist Girls' Primary and the youngest winner of the HSBC Youth Excellence Awards. Her skinny shoulders seem barely
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon Arnie pumps them up
        248 28 Reuters Action star delights US soldiers in Iraq but others want JLo BAGHDAD Action movie megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger beefed up US Independence Day celebrations by American soldiers in Iraq on Friday, providing much-needed entertainment to distract them from the suffering caused by deadly attacks on their
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        Lock icon White dies at 58
        119 28 -Reuters LOS ANGELES The smooth bass voice of veteran soul singer Barry White (picture) stoked the romantic fires in music fans around the world for more than 30 years. The flame flickered last Friday, when White died at age 58 after a long battle with kidney
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    • EAT OUT
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        Lock icon Viva Italia
        347 30  -  Karman Tse Bon appetito! Celebrate the festive spirit at Domvs by WHERE: Domvs Sheraton Towers TELEPHONE: 6839 5622 OPERATING HOURS: Lunch 11.30am to 2.30pm (Mondays to Fridays) Dinner 7pm to 10.30pm (Mondays to Saturdays) Closed on Sundays Italian Festival participating restaurants: Cafe Lotus, Lotus Med, La Stella, GelateriaVenezia,
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        FOODNOTES
        207 30 HOT DEALS IN THE HOT POT THE Mushroom Pot is filled to the brim with mouth-watering deals. From now until Aug 10, diners will be treated to one free set meal with every three ordered. The prices of the set meals start from 16.80++ per person for lunch and
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    • EAT OUT
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        Stars of the night
        290 31  -  Katrina Karim Provignage offers fine finger food to go with Heineken beer I by eatout@newstoday.com.sg THE Provignage is one of the four Heineken Starbars which are selected exclusively by Heineken for their commitment to maintaining quality standards of serving Heineken beer in a comfortable ambience. Like
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    • LIVING & LEARNING
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        Ace SAT with High Q
        517 32  -  Low Shi Ping And it's money back if your SAT scores don't improve by news@newstoday.com .sq IF UNIVERSITY, especially a local or an American one, is your next destination, chances are, the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) is one of the hurdles you need to clear
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    • LIVING & LEARNING
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        Say goodbye to technophobia
        491 33 Singapore Science Centre's infocomm technology exhibition makes it easy IF technology and gadgets baffle you, the Singapore Science Centre now has an exhibition that will enlighten the technophobe and could even turn you into a "techie". The Infocomm Xperience is a permanent exhibition launched by the
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      1468 34 I TV Komodo Arts Central, 9 P m I The One with The Blind Date channel 5,10pm Jendela Hijrahku Suria, 9 30 P m Queen Camilla cna, 7.32pm Wff^JJ^^F I^P^^I^BHH ]°ey an& Phoebe conspire to arrange awful dates for Rachel and Hafiz and Lin are invited to Roy's party. Hafiz
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  • SPORTS
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