Today, 1 August 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Friday > August 1, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Dow rises
      32 1 Reuters NEW YORK The Dow Jones index ended up 34 points, or 0.37 per cent, at 9,233.80 yesterday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 14 points, or 0.82 per cent, to 1,735.02.
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      Lock icon Iraqi polls 'within a year'
      67 1 Reuters BAGHDAD Facing a guerrilla campaign and rising casualty toll among soldiers, the US governor of Iraq, Mr Paul Bremmer, said yesterday that Iraqi elections could be held within a year. Meanwhile, a soldier from the Ist Armoured Division was killed yesterday and three others
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      Lock icon A row over jobs
      842 1  -  reo Hwee Nak Chan Chao Peh and Derrick A Paula by' hweenak@newstoday.com.sg THE stunning claim by NTU economists that three out of four new jobs in recent years had gone to foreigners has erupted into a fullblown controversy over statistics, transparency and the truth about the
      Chan Chao Peh and Derrick A Paula  -  842 words
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      Lock icon The quiet nursing revolution
      408 1 Tan Hui Leng TO many, nurses are just the doctors' "yes men and women", carrying out the orders of those in white coats. But at Sing Health, nurses do more than that their views on patient management can carry as much weight as those of doctors.
      – Tan Hui Leng  -  408 words
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      Lock icon No toilet breaks, so wear diapers
      104 1 ■Reuters BUENOS AIRES Supermarket cashiers in Argentina are reportedly being forced to wear diapers to keep them from taking toilet breaks at work. Female cashiers in western Mendoza province must wear adult diapers in case "cold, nerves, pressure or stress" provoke incontinence, union official
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon New taxi operator
      90 2 Derrick A Paulo THE Land Transport Authority yesterday awarded a taxi-operating licence to gas man Teo Kiang Ang. Mr Teo, who is one of the largest liquefied petroleum gas supplier here, told Today that he would probably start operations "in around five to six months' time" with
      — Derrick A Paulo  -  90 words
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      LTA's puzzling line
      894 2 News comment/Lee Han Shih If it is more costly to build a train station later, why wasn't the station between Harbour Front and Outram Park built? REMEMBER the grassroots leader who drove his Mercedes to a charity event to get free textbooks? Even if you ignore the
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      MAS to restore all flights, hire 800 cabin crew staff
      299 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has announced that it plans to resume all flights halted by Sars and the war on Iraq by November, including those to China, Japan, Paris, Jakarta, Hong Kong and Phuket It also plans to hire
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      Heart-earned
      355 4  -  Pamela Pang Students put mind to folding hearts for charity by pamela@newstoday.com.sg TALK about child care. While every paper heart folded meant a dollar for charity from Sing Tel, eight-year-old Dhakkshina Moorthy (picture) wasn't going to leave it at that. He slipped a one-dollar coin into a red paper
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      Lock icon Sing Tel offers attractive plans
      306 4 Chan Chao Peh IN A bid to arrest declining market share, leading mobile operator Sing Tel Mobile has introduced four price plans to blanket the entire market range, introducing features such as free-incoming calls and different mixtures of talk time and SMS. With the addition
      – Chan Chao Peh  -  306 words
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      Lock icon M'sia bans SMS divorce
      138 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia plans to outlaw divorce via mobile phone text messaging after a row erupted over an Islamic court ruling that it was acceptable. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the Cabinet had agreed that Muslim men should be barred from divorcing their wives via
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      289 2 g\ A Time to Pay Tribute to Our Nurses j Win an exclusive prize! mm[ Acknowledge the nurse who has made an impression on you. Simply tell us how this nurse's knowledge and expertise provided a caring experience for you. Then email your entry I to nurses@newstoday.com.sg N^^^W The best
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      218 3 Home Entertainment System Kg-* Stereo System ss^H^SET ipjft) Better sound through research* The Bose® Lifestyle® 35 home entertainment system. Be amazed, at Bose's -l****M*A* r~~~~'T~' revolutionary ADAPTiQ audio calibration system that adapts the sound of your Lifestyle® 35 system to the room size and shape, speaker placement and your I!
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      429 4 Valid till 27 August 2003 or while stocks last. plus w_ Entry forms in TODAY newspaper on 6 Aug. ivOJfy Check Dairy Farm outlets for details. /^QffTl 'JDAM CM o CM H Congratulations! I This week's Hop-In and Win results: Top Prize $3,888 Belinda Bte Bakar *****2741 2nd p r
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      166 5 Who gives you triple points every time you spend? Other cards give you one point 1 T Sure, some may offer a bit more I I Mm But only the American Express® Card gives you the power of triple Membership Rewards™ points ameriq!nl >s I®l I LONG LIVE DREAMS Earn
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Back to his first love
      547 6  -  David Ngiau Outgoing MediaCorp Radio CEO Kenneth Tan elated to be GV's new head by david@newstoday.com.sg IT'S like "semi-retirement", joked Mr Kenneth Tan. About his leaving MediaCorp to head local film exhibitor-distributor Golden Village (GV) as its new general manager, the movie buff said: "It's
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      Lock icon Visitor arrivals up 43 per cent in July
      212 6 -AFP SINGAPORE'S Sarsbattered tourism industry is starting to enjoy a sustained influx of travellers, with officials announcing yesterday an expected 43 per cent month-on-month increase in visitor arrivals in July. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) released figures showing it expected 512,500 visitors
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      E-mail message claims man is a rapist
      136 6 AN e-mail message is spreading across the Internet alleging that a 20-year-old man is a rapist The e-mail message claims that the man had raped a friend of the sender. It also carried the man's mobile phone number and two photographs of him.
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      Sudsy success for trio
      444 8  -  Tor Ching Li Persistence wins them licence to wash cars in HDB multi-storey car parks by chingli@newstoday.com.sg IT'S BEEN anything but a walk in the (car) park for 29-year-old Raymond Ng (picture left) and company since they decided to start a carcleaning company last November. Indeed,
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      Lock icon Seniors help themselves and others
      276 8 Lim Wei Vi MOST people picture senior citizen groups as engaging in activities such as doing taiji exercises or watching opera. But one senior citizen volunteer society, Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme (RSVP), is changing all that Established in October 1998 and boasting 630 members,
      Lim Wei Vi  -  276 words
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      No more free repair of sewage pipes
      82 8 FROM today, the HDB will stop repairing leaking sewage pipes in flats for free, now that the Sars situation is under control. The free repairs were introduced in April to help combat the spread of Sars through sanitary systems. The Ministry of National
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      Are they too choosy?
      163 10 I READ your report, "Locals left in the lurch" (Today, July 31), with great concern. Do Singaporeans, who are as qualified and capable as foreigners, have salary expectations that are too high? Are they being too choosy? I don't think so. I have noticed that many
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      Clarification
      55 10 IN our report, "Garden party book launch" (Today, July 31), and its accompanying picture caption, we said that President SR Nathan had accepted the book, Gardens of the Istana, from Dr Tan Wee Kiat, CEO of NParks. President Nathan had actually presented the book to Dr Tan instead. We
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      Not hungry enough
      306 10  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng Why S'poreans lose out to foreign workers I READ with great interest your front page report, "Locals left in the lurch" (Today, July 31) The reason why foreigners have outnumbered locals in the job market over the past five years is simple: Singaporeans
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      Fabric of the Nation to be exhibited
      353 10 I REFER to Mr Fok Kah Hon's letter, "Why not sell patches for charity?" (Today, July 30). Like Mr Fok, we are heartened to see so many people making their contributions to this nationwide project Firstly, we would like to assure your reader
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      31 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: 65-*****217; E-mail: newsinews today.com.sg
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Flextronics to offer notes
      185 12 Bloomberg FLEXTRONICS International, the world's largest maker of electronics for other companies, said it intends to raise US$5OO million ($B7B million) through a private offering of convertible subordinated notes that mature in 2010. The notes will convert into ordinary Flextronics shares and the company will have
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      Lock icon Credit card write-offs hit high of $17.5m
      141 12 Channel News Asia CREDIT card bad debts written off by banks in Singapore hit an all-time high in June in the wake of mounting layoffs, pay cuts and bankruptcies. The latest Monetary Authority of Singapore figures showed that credit card write-offs rose to
      — Channel News Asia  -  141 words
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      Lock icon Oei, a winner
      242 12 Bloomberg Nat Steel to pay him $62m dividend NATSTEEL shareholder Oei Hong Leong (picture) will get a special dividend of $62 million after a shareholders meeting approved the payout This was after the company conceded to the Indonesian's demands. Mr Oei, Nat Steel's secondlargest shareholder, opposed the
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    • Market Watch
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        Straits Times Index: 1,558.87 -19.32
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        SGX most active
        53 12 By volume July 31 Sunningdale Interra Integra Reed JurTech Japan Asia MultiVis Ipco Chartered SingPost Close 0.360 0.320 0.100 0.075 0.615 0.095 0.340 0.140 1.030 0.705 Change -0.010 -0.015 -0.005 -0.015 -0.040 +0.015 -9.1 -2.4 -5.0 -4.2 -3.7 +2.2 '000 122,901 63,173 37,194 24,000 16,800 16,634 15,764
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        SGX top rises
        73 12 luly 31 :&c Close Change 5.550 +0.300 By percentage July 31 Close Change NewToyoV/*****7 0.070 +55.6 ILAsia 1.450 +0.130 L&M 0.020 +33.3 Sukit Sem 12.900 +0.100 Goldtron CPS*****6 0.050 +25.0 jreatEast 10.200 +0.100 Goldtron 0.030 +20.0 (obinson 6.550 +0.100 ITE 0.150 +20.0 \uslland AS SingamasC 2kHKS .erebosPac
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        78 12 SGX By$ July 31 IPH Close Change 18.900 -0.600 By percentage July 31 El-Nets Close Changi 0.015 -25.1 SPH 100 19.100 -0.400 GMG USS 0.025 -16.; ShangAsia2kHKS DUE DBS 6.200 -0.300 7.150 -0.250 11.400 -0.200 North 22 USS SP Corp FJBen W*****6 0.040 -11. 0.080 -11. 0.045
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        Singapore
        104 12 SINGAPORE shares closed 1.22 per cent lower yesterday on profit-taking in blue chips, dealers said. The STI fell 19.32 points to close at 1,558.87. Volume traded was 875.733 million shares worth $562,412 million, down from 898.174 million shares worth $476,083 million on Wednesday. Losers outnumbered gainers 201 to 107
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        World markets
        60 12 Index Nikkei 225 Value 9563.21 Change Pts -69.45 -0.72 Hang Seng All Ordinaries *****.83 3106.70 13.61 29.80 0.13 0.97 Taiwan Wtd 5318.34 11.16 0.21 Korea Comp 713.52 -0.63 -0.09 KLCI 720.56 -0.15 -0.02 SET Index 484.11 9.21 1.94 Jakarta Comp 507.98 -0.24 -0.05 Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold uss/oz 355.124 Rubber centsAg 179.50 Silver uss/oz 5.***** Palm oil RM/tonne 1427 Platinum uss/oi 684.000 Brent crude uss/barrel 28.69
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        Lock icon Your S$1 buys
        37 12 Bloomberg US$ 0.***** Peso 31.1196 UK£ 0.***** A$ 0.***** Yen 68.2398 Indian Rs 26.2441 HK$ 4.***** Won 670.873 RM 2.***** C$ 0.***** Euro 0.***** Yuan 4.***** Rupiah 4,831.27 NZ$ 0.***** Baht 23.8412 NTS 19.5668
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      Lock icon Keppel's profit slips
      364 14 Bloomberg Slump in oil rig business causes Q2 earnings to slide 2.5% KEPPEL Corp, which repairs ships and develops property, said its second-quarter profit fell 2.5 per cent because of a lower demand for oil rigs. Net income for the Singapore-based company fell to $97.8 million, or
      – Bloomberg  -  364 words
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      Lock icon Tap and donate
      260 14 Tor Ching Li I'HE now übiquitous "tap and travel" ez-link card is set to give the Singapore Mint a run for its money. "My aim is to eradicate the need for coin pouches," said Ms Norma Sit, CEO of QB Pte Ltd a consumer payment company in
      — Tor Ching Li; – Today photo by ALVIN TOE  -  260 words
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      Ritzy comeback
      285 20  -  Joy Frances Ritz-Carlton celebrates return of business after Sars by joy@newstoday.com.Si FOR over a week, Ritz-Carlton hotels in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai have been prepping employees for a return to "business as usual" with celebrations they normally reserve for the opening of a new hotel. The hotels
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      Lock icon Capita Land to double investment in China
      262 20 Bloomberg CAPITALAND, which wants to get half of its pretax profit from overseas operations this year, said it will double its investments in China to as much as 25 billion yuan ($5.3 billion) from 12 billion yuan in as early as three years.
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      Lock icon Power savings for CDL tenants
      177 22 Lee Yew Meng FROM this month, about 300 commercial tenants in nine buildings owned and managed by City Developments (CDL) will enjoy five per cent savings off the prevailing tariff for a year. The discounted rate follows its appointment of Tuas Power Supply (TPS) to
      — Lee Yew Meng  -  177 words
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      299 22 AFX-Asia Channel News Asia AFX-Asia Bloomberg Bloomberg Bloomberg ECON CORP, which owed its creditors $199 million as of early last month, was among one of the companies that was awarded contracts worth $313 million by the Land Transport Authority for the Circle Line. Construction of the Bartley, Marymount
      – AFX-Asia; — Channel News Asia; AFX-Asia; — Bloomberg  -  299 words
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      Lock icon Parkway on the ascent
      369 24 Bloomberg Biggest operator of private hospitals here expects positive third quarter PARKWAY Holdings Ltd, Singapore's biggest operator of private hospitals, expects earnings to recover in the third quarter as it cuts costs that escalated with the Sars outbreak and patients return for treatments they postponed because
      — Bloomberg  -  369 words
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2924 24 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The 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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      Lock icon Indon Telkom's profits up
      197 26 Bloomberg TELEKOMUNIKASI Indonesia, the country's largest company by market value, said profits in the first half rose 13 per cent as it made more money from its fixedline and cellular services. Profits rose to 3.78 trillion rupiah ($778.7 million) from 3.36 trillion rupiah in the yearearlier
      – Bloomberg  -  197 words
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      Lock icon Telekom may lose monopoly
      93 26 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Stateowned Telekom Malaysia may lose its fixed-line monopoly as regulators consider opening its network to liberalise the sector, a report said yesterday. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) wants Telekom to let other operators rent access to its monopoly on wired connections
      -AFP  -  93 words
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      Lock icon Loosening up
      410 26 Bloomberg Move makes M'sia market more attractive MALAYSIA'S moves to relax rules governing ownership in its stock market will help companies pare debt and bolster stocks, analysts said. On Wednesday, the Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz (picture) said Malaysia would ease rules, which require publiclytraded companies to ensure that
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      365 28 AFP MANILA Philippine state prosecutors are preparing to file rebellion charges against 321 junior military off: cers and soldiers accused of plotting to overthrow the government But President Gloria Arroyo (picture) and the country's top general warned that the mutiny was "far from over".
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      130 28 Reuters TOKYO Japan said yesterday that it would deal with Peru's request to extradite former President Alberto Fujimori "in line with domestic law", indicating Tokyo would probably not hand over the disgraced former leader to face criminal charges. "The final decision will be made by the
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      79 28 Game players take aim at the "freak "at Coney Island's "Shoot the Freak game in New York City. Players pay to shoot paintball bullets with air-rifles at a live human target or "freak who wears protective gear and insults the crowd while attempting to dodge the bullets.
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        61 28 Reuters In the clearest link yet between the Al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl), a senior Jl member, Wan Mm Wan Mat, told a Bali court via teleconference from Malaysia yesterday that the Al Qaeda network helped fund Jl activities. Until now, regional governments
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        66 28 ■a AFP I he Vatican rallied Catholics around the world yesterday in an intensified campaign against the legalisation of same sex marriages. In a strongly-worded document, the Holy See tasked Catholic politicians with a moral duty to fight laws allowing gay marriages, reminding them
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        69 28 AFP Prosecutors in Los Angeles said on Wednesday they would retry within 60 days a white policeman accused in a videotaped beating of a black youth. The announcement came a day after the case against former officer Jeremy Morse ended in a mistrial with
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        46 28 Reuters Ten suspected North Korean asylum seekers, including two children, were given refuge in the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok yesterday, embassy officials said. The group rushed to a Japanese official outside the embassy compound early yesterday pleading to be allowed inside.
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        87 28 Reuters An Austrian stuntman yesterday became the first person to skydive across the English Channel. Felix Baumgartner jumped out of c plane at 9,000 metres above Dover, England, wearing a specially constructed carbon wing and flew towards France before parachuting into hills above the port of
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      Lock icon Missing daughter claim a cruel hoax
      145 28 AFP INDIANAPOLIS (Indiana) A woman who contacted the parents of a missing child, claiming to be their long-lost daughter, was a fraud who likely gleaned all her information from the Internet, police said. Donna Walker allegedly contacted Mr Mike Sherrill and his wife Dorothy
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      371 30 Agencies US leader accepts blame for Iraq intelligence row WASHINGTON After weeks of blaming others, US President George W Bush has for the first time accepted responsibility for making a now-discredited charge that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. "I take personal responsibility for everything I say," he
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      MiG-21s safe: Indian minister to prove it
      181 30 NEW DELHI India's 73-year-old Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, who has accepted a challenge to fly on board a MiG-21, will ride the jet today to rid the ageing Russian fighters of their nickname of "Flying Coffins". Last week, a former junior minister
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      115 30 Getty Images England football captain David Beckham is the person over a third of Britons want to see on their currency notes. A quarter of those surveyed by the market research firm, Taylor Nelson Sofres, felt that the faces now featured on currency notes, such as
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      193 30 -AFP WASHINGTON Former US Vice-President Al Gore (picture) is being urged to make another run for the White House in the absence of a clear Democratic front-runner in the early campaign season, US media reported. Mr Gore, the Democratic Party's candidate in the
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      259 30 -AFP SANTIAGO A woman from Chile who parlayed her life as a prostitute in Japan into a business empire and a reputation as the "Chilean Geisha" says she is now broke. Ms Anita Alvarado became famous when she returned to her native Chile
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      1020 32  - Jobless? Buy 2-ply lah mr brown by iews@newsto day. com. sg and stop blaming foreigners for our problems THREE out of four new jobs went to foreigners in the last five years. So that's where all the jobs went! All this while I thought the jobs were being lost to
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      679 34  -  Ong Hee Yah Stories that make up Fabric of the Nation by news@newstoday.com.sg THE symbolism is clear and it transcends language, race and religion. It did not take long for us to get people to participate in the Fabric of the Nation project If ever there was a
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      FABRIC OF THE NATION PROJECT
      288 34 THE idea for the project came from a three-part documentary series that MediaCorp News is producing for the Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS) called Threads That Bind. It will be telecast the day after Sewing Day on Aug 24 on all four MediaCorp
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      488 38  -  Felix Cheong Singaporean writers put their work on an international stage by news@newstoday.com.sg THIS month, four homegrown poets will create history with their onenight performance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF). It will be the first time Singaporean voices are heard at the 20-year-old festival, the
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      212 38 WRITERS' FETE WHILE the biennial Singapore Writers' Festival languishes in the shadow of its more glamorous cousin the Arts Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) has gone from strength to strength. It's not just a matter of baiting big names with a handsome appearance fee but also, as festival
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      349 38 Corny Tan BARTOP dancing is here, and at Coyote Ugly one of the original hotspots which promotes this "art form" the Coyotes were going at it full tilt last night. The bar along Mohammad Sultan Road has taken this creative approach to live
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      238 39 BANK officer Lee Eng Eng (left) was all smiles yesterday as she received the key to a Mitsubishi Colt from Ms Monica Chan (right), merchandise director of Watsons Personal Care Stores. She had won the 1.5-litre car worth $50,000 (excluding COE, registration, insurance
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      Scumfrog spins tonight at Centro
      376 40  -  Jeanine Tan by jeanine@newstoday.com.sg ONE would be hard-pressed to make a connection between a frog and dance music, but DJ Jesse Houk (picture), aka The Scumfrog, is one of the hottest DJs Dn the clubbing scene today. Originally from Amsterdam, the New York-based DJ made
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      188 40 Serene Foo TAIWANESE pop singer Ella Chen's management company may lose an estimated NT$lOO million ($5.1 million) after her group's new album, TV hosting duties and endorsement deals were put on hold because of her back injury. The 21-year-old artiste of girl trio
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        II the X-treme
        798 43  -  David Ngiau I For better or worse, Bad Boys sequel is all about excess AS HOLLYWOOD films go, the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence action flick, Bad Boys 11, has to be the most excessive film ever. It's loud, it's lewd, it's awe-inspiring, it's crass... It's Michael Bay "X-treme".
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        A delicate balance
        369 44  -  Serene Foo or how an ugly duckling turned into a beautiful swan My Dream Qirl FILM REVIEW By serene@newstoday.com.sg FOR some strange reason, some film-mak-ers think that in bad times, people flock to comedy films for comfort. Director Raymond Yip probably wanted to position his latest Hong
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        A tale of seduction
        421 46  -  Serene Foo by serene@newstoday.com.sg that ends up as a dim-witted yarn SEX sells, it's a fact, but it can't save a bad movie. A bad movie about sex can literally lull one to sleep. From boredom, that is. Hong Kong romantic comedy Good Times, Bed Times
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        Revenge of the redneck
        396 48  -  Yong Shu Chiang by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg Wrong Turn harks back to 80s slasher flicks and age-old hillbilly stereotypes YOU must have heard all those jokes about the rural poor in America, how they're dimwitted, speak slowly with an indecipherable Southern slur and sleep with their cousins. The
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        127 48 Serene Foo IT will be hard not to make comparisons but don't dismiss Hong Kong cop action movie, Heroic Duo, as another Infernal Affairs wannabe, say lead actor Ekin Cheng and director Benny Chan. Together with award-winning actress Karena Lam, the three were in
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      411 64 -AFP Mystery surrounds Argentine star's next move NEW YORK-Juan Sebastian Veron was expected to face Juventus in New Jersey yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) with the world still guessing whether it proves to be his last game for Manchester United. What appeared to be
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      Lock icon Ronaldinho grabs spotlight as Barca dumps Milan
      299 64 Reuters Football Champions World Series Barcelona 2 AC Milan 0 WASHINGTON It looks as if Barcelona's long-drawn tussle with Manchester United for Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho was worth all the aggravation after all. The Spanish club's new signing scored one goal and laid on
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      257 64 Tan Wee Boon ANGLO Chinese School (Independent) has completed another clean sweep for schools rugby this year. Yesterday, its 'C Division boys strolled to a 17-0 win over St Andrews to lift the Dr Goh Keng Swee National Schools U-14 Rugby Challenge Shield. The
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      953 66  -  S Gulam Don't cry, but playmakers may be extinct in Singapore football Comment by gulam@newstoday. com. sg brought to you by They conjure up stuff that makes people sit up, eyes wide in wonderment They see openings where mere mortals only see a wall.
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      202 67 -AFP KUNMING World Footballer of the Year Ronaldo said sex isn't everything and he's got no complaints about abstaining for two weeks while on a tour of Asia. However, the Spanish superstar was clearly flummoxed by the question from a Chinese reporter,
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      286 67 -AFP HK govt funds to help cover cost of friendly HOJNG KOJNG The Hong Kong Football Association said yesterday it would pay HK$36 million ($B.l million) to bring Spanish giant Real Madrid to the city. Martin Lam, general-secretary of the football association, confirmed that including appearance money,
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      373 68 L AFP Wenger confident skipper will sign LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is confident Patrick Vieira will end his long-running contract saga by committing himself to a new deal before the start of the season. The 27-year-old Arsenal captain has told manager Wenger he will sign a
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      213 68 -AFP GLASGOW Scottish side Celtic was forced to spend an extra night in Lithuania after its aircraft aborted take-off as it attempted to return to Glasgow yesterday. The Uefa Cup finalist had rushed to the airport following its 4-0 Champions League second qualifying round victory over
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        357 70 LONDON Manchester United's attempt to win over America suffered a considerable setback yesterday when it was criticised by the Americans for not playing a match against one of their top teams. A newspaper went one further by suggesting United was afraid of losing to
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        110 70 Reuters GRAND BLANC Mike Sposa hit a seven-under-par 65 to snatch a oneshot lead after the first round of the Buick Open this morning. Carl Paulson, David Sutherland, New Zealand's Craig Perks and Paul Gow of Australia shared second place on 66. Shaun Micheel, Australia's Stuart
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        134 70 AFP LONDON Serbian striker Mateja Kezman said on yesterday that he will not be joining English Premiership side Tottenham because the Londoners lacked ambition, a report here claimed. Kezman, whose 35 goals fired PSV Eindhoven to the Dutch title last season, has also been linked
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        108 70 HOCKENHEIM Michael Schumacher has accused Formula One officials of double standards for slamming Ferrari for using nowbanned "team orders" while ignoring similar behaviour by others. The five-time world champion suggested McLaren's David Coulthard had let team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, Schumacher's closest title rival, past him at the British Grand
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