Today, 26 August 2003

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    18 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Til c S d ay August 26, 2003 i MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com
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    Kindergarten revolution
    576 1  -  Derrick A Paulo New classrooms, different teachers, but will mindsets change? by derrick@newstoday.com.sg MOST pre-schoolers on the island will get to sit in classrooms that previous generations would not recognise and learn from teachers who behave differently. Since the Ministry of Education launched its framework for pre-school curriculum
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    Lock icon Blast from past kills 42
    424 1  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla MUMBAI In a chilling repeat of its bloody history, India's commercial nerve centre was hit by two explosions, almost simultaneously, that killed at least 42 people and injured 150. The blasts were so powerful that some bodies were hurled into the sea
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Medical charges to be publicised
      541 2  -  Tan Hui Leng Transparency will help keep healthcare costs down by huileng@newstoday.com.sg JUST 25 days into his role as Acting Health Minister, Mr Khaw Boon Wan has already drawn up a list of priorities for his ministry for the year. And one of his most
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    • Article
      Sars diagnostic kit developed
      82 2 TEMASEK Life Sciences Laboratories and Tan Tock Seng Hospital have developed a rapid Sars antibody diagnostic test The test is called Elisa (enzymelinked immunosorbent assay). The first of such antibody tests in Singapore, the specificity of the Elisa is more than 95 per cent and the
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      Languages of the heart
      659 3 News comment/Tor Ching Li It's a farce the way dialects and the National Language have been sidelined FOR too long have we been minding our linguistic 'P's and 'Q's and nowadays it seems we've got to watch our political big 'P's and Hl' 'p's, too. But
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      Lock icon Maid had three bite marks
      187 4 Channel News Asia Two matched three-year-old Crystal's dentition, dental surgeon tells High Court THREE bite marks found on the Indonesian maid accused of the Bukit Merah double murder were likely to be those of a child, said a dental surgeon who testified at the High
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      Lock icon Killer had grudge against homosexuals
      194 4 Reuters BOSTON As investigations probed how a convicted prisoner killed paedophile priest John Geoghan, it was revealed that the inmate was homophobic and racist The Boston Globe newspaper reported that Joseph Druce, 37, who changed his name from Darrin Smiledge a few years ago, had
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    • NEWS ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon Arroyo to release some failed coup officers
        90 4 AFP President Gloria Arroyo yesterday ordered the release of 30 officers linked to a failed mutiny last month, saying they had been misled or coerced into joining the rebellion or had not taken part at all. Ms Arroyo said a number of army
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        Lock icon Alleged JI militant deported from M'sia
        76 4 Agencies Malaysia deported alleged Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl) militant, Mohamad Iqbal Abdul Rahman, to Indonesia after releasing him from prison. Mohamad Iqbal, an Indonesian with Malaysian permanent residence, was released on Friday after his two-year detention order under the Internal Security Act (ISA) expired. He
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        Lock icon US-Saudi Arabia anti-terrorist unit
        90 4 AFP The US is seeking to form a joint anti-terrorist unit with Saudi Arabia, with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service scheduled to fly to Riyadh to start work, Time magazine reported on Sunday. The idea, hatched in a phone
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  • HOME NEWS
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      China mums stage protest
      277 6  -  Jose Raymond Demonstration against new labour law by j ose@newstoday.com. sg MORE than 100 women from China gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Tanglin Road yesterday afternoon to protest a new law that has prevented some of them from working in the service industry. The women,
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      Volunteerism increasing, now for philanthropy
      206 6  -  Pamela Pang THE number of volunteers in Singapore has increased from nine per cent to 15 per cent over the last two years, according to a survey done by the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC). The NVPC, formerly known as the National Volunteer Centre,
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      Lock icon CEOs battle, gladiator-style
      246 6  -  -Jeanine Tan STARHUB crushes Ml with the help of SingTel, while IBM and Accenture go for each other's throats in a fierce grudgematch, in which there can only be one winner. Imagine corporate rivalries being settled this way, with CEOs trading their suits for sandals and arming
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      Lock icon Sars course for NUS students
      104 6 Dow Jones THE National University of Singapore will require nearly all of its undergraduates to take a course on Sars starting next month, a spokeswoman for the school said on Monday. "Students will look at how diseases with a global reach can result in economic,
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  • LETTERS
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      CPF monitors FM companies
      289 8  -  Tan Chut Leng (Mrs) and will not hesitate to delist those found to be mismanaging CPF money WE refer to the letter, "CPF nest egg worries" by Mr Simon Ng Yap Peng (Weekend Today, Aug 16-17). We wish to highlight that the CPF Board evaluates the
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      Firms doing well should share gains from CPF reforms with workers
      164 8  -  Wong Weng Ong (Mr), I REFER to Mr Yak Chin Hua's letter, "Will reforms be abused?" (Today, Aug 20). Sv^ fc<Sil Mr Yak may wish to note that the unions have always pushed for variable components to be negotiated
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      Maids not commodities to be exploited
      145 8  -  Ishwar Mahtani I REFER to the article, "Maids on display in some agencies" (Weekend Today, Aug 23-24). The article shows that we may have lost some of our humaneness. I have also seen another maid agency which uses such display tactics. Not only are
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      645 8 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: _£M tL^ Today, 24, Raffles Place #28-01/06, Clifford Centre Singapore *****1 Fax:6s-*****217 E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg 6 Ways You Can Achieve ft Greater Success In Your Life 1. Design a Powerful Life Plan MHfc If
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Maybank profits up
      282 10 Bloomberg Bank reports its highest full-year profit since 1997 MALAYAN Banking (Maybank), Malaysia's largest lender, said profit almost doubled in the fourth-quarter after it halved the amount of money set aside against bad loans. For the three months ending June 30, net income rose to RM630.1 million
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      Lock icon CPI up 0.4% in July
      173 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S consumer prices unexpectedly rose in July, led by rising education and healthcare costs. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.3 per cent from a year earlier, after falling 0.3 per cent in June, the Department of Statistics said yesterday. Prices rose 0.4 per
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        96 10 Dow Jones SINGAPORE'S shares closed lower yesterday led by banks after the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Friday extended the deadline for local banks to divest all their nonfinancial assets till July 17, 2006. The STI closed fell 9.80 points down, or 0.6 per cent, at 1,630.39 points. Losers
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        World markets
        60 10 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI 10,276.64 10,764.22 3,175.00 5,686.85 756.73 742.26 -4.53 +3.49 -5.40 +40.23 +2.01 -1.09 -0.04% +0.03% -0.17% +0.71% +0.27% -0.15% SET Index Jakarta Comp 529.53 529.036 -5.28 +0.093 -0.99% +0.02% Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,262.10
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 USS 0.*****5 UK£ 0.*****6 Yen 67.2510 HKS 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.*****3 Rupiah 4,834.28 Baht 23.7148 Peso 31.7495 AS 0.*****6 Indian Rs 26.2845 Won 670.835 CS 0.*****9 Yuan 4.***** NZS 0.*****6 NTS 19.5798
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 10 SGX Bloomberg Gold _ss/oz 363.298 Silver _ss/oz 4.***** Platinum uss/oz 692.000 Rubber cents/kg 186 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1397.5 Brent crude uss/b_rrel 30.30 Information provided by:
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        ST Index: 1,630.39 -9.80
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        SGX most active
        52 10 By volume Aug 25 Close SwingMediaW*****3 0.325 Chattered 1.060 SembCoip 1.340 GES 0.560 Cosco Inv 0.450 Change -0.010 +0.005 -0.9 +1.1 '000 30,264 28,701 27,055 23,921 23,039 JEL Coip 0.365 SwingMedia 0.410 Goldtron 0.025 Goodpack 0.745 Sinomem 0.795 -0.010 -0.015 -0.015 -2.4 -2.0 -1.9 21,427 20,533 19,875
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        SGX top rises
        79 10 By$ Aug 25 Close Change DBS 13.400 +0.200 Venture 18.800 +0.200 HKLandUSS 1.550 +0.180 Tri-M 0.435 +0.115 DBS Bk 6% NCPS *****.200 +0.100 GPBat 3.320 +0.100 JMH400USS 7.100 +0.100 Prima 6.100 +0.100 Noble 2.210 +0.070 Sincere 1.470 +0.060 By percentage Aug 25 Close Change Tri-M 0.435 +35.9
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        SGX top falls
        84 10 By$ Aug 25 Close Change Qeative 50 18.200 -0.400 UOB 13.100 -0.400 OCBC 4.59.NCPS *****1.000 -0.300 SPH 19.100 -0.300 Tbai Piime200USS 7.700 -0.300 GieatEast 10.200 -0.200 OCBC 11.100 -0.200 OUE 6.850 -0.200 Shang Asia 2kHKS 6.700 -0.200 SPH 100 19.100 -0.200 By percentage Aug 25 Close Change
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      The jobs buoy
      295 13  -  Elisia Yeo Philips' R&D, marketing staff likely to keep their jobs by elisia@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE may be losing manufacturing jobs to low-cost countries, but its attractiveness for R&D and design work may lessen that pain. The chairman and CEO of Philips Electronics Singapore, Mr Mourad Mankarios, yesterday confirmed
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      PacNet's new 1,500kbps plan
      156 13  -  Chan Chao Peh INTERNET service provider Pacific Internet (PacNet) has launched a new service plan to meet an increasing demand for souped-up Internet access. The Broadband Power 1500 plan lets users download at speeds of up to l,sookbps nearly three times faster than its next fastest
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      Lock icon Affected by CPF cuts? Banks promise to help
      131 13 Channel NewsAsia MORE Singapore banks say they're likely to lend a sympathetic ear and help their mortgage customers once the Government unveils its plans to cut CPF contributions on Thursday. DBS chairman S Dhanabalan has assured the Prime Minister that his bank
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      152 13 Bloomberg CHT Holdings Ltd, a mainland China manufacturer of PVC adhesive tape, plans to list on the main board of Singapore's stock exchange. GK Goh Stockbrokers is the manager, underwriter and placement agent for the initial public offering. This is the first IPO to be managed by GK
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      Lock icon NOL taps North China
      270 14 Bloomberg Eyes increasing exports from Asia's fastest-growing economy NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL), Singapore's largest shipping line, plans to add container services to northern Chinese cities next year to tap increasing exports from Asia's fastest-growing economy. The world's seventh-largest-operator of container ships plans to use some of
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      Lock icon Belgacom to cull senior positions
      117 14 Bloomberg BELGACOM, Belgium's former telephone monopoly, plans to thin management ranks to prepare for a possible initial public offering, the Le Soir newspaper reported. Chief executive officer Didier Bellens will announce the elimination of 40 of the top 200 management jobs in the coming days.
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • INFO TECH
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      No PC required
      499 16  -  John P Falcone Stand-alone device allows video meetings over broadband connection by. products@asia.cnetcom VIDEOCONFERENCING sessions have long been restricted to niche markets such as corporate boardrooms. But D-Link's DVC-1000 i2eye videophone may change all that This stand-alone device lets you make video-enabled calls over a broadband Internet
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      Keep computer networks safe
      105 16 WITH the rising number of attacks on computer networks recently, you may want to drop by Network Security Symposium 2003 and learn how to protect your organisation's network. The event on Sept 12 at the Olivia Room of Raffles City Convention Centre is hosted by Network
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon US troops in Iraq overstretched
      343 18 Agencies Military chiefs admission bolsters calls for fresh forces WASHINGTON Top US general Richard Myers appeared to back mounting calls for more soldiers in Iraq in admitting, for the first time, that his troops there were stretched too thin. Gen Myers, who is chairman of
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      Lock icon 1,000 feared killed in Liberian massacre
      196 18 Agencies MONROVIA (Liberia) As many as 1,000 civilians may have been killed and villages torched in a massacre in Nimba County north-east of Monrovia, a senior Liberian military official told AFP late Sunday. "I have received a report from our security officers that many
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon A six-way puzzle ...
      1113 20  - A six-way puzzle Sunny Goh Or, why one China 'Roundtable' may not be enough to solve the Korean problem by sunny_goh@pacific.net.sg IMAGINE an over-sized pecu-liarly-shaped but speciallydesigned hexagonal table in the middle of a meeting room in China's famous Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. Imagine the room filled with serious government officials,
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      213 21 Changes for the Better A MITSUBISHI W*. ELECTRIC PRESENTATION PRODUCTS REVOLUTIONIZINGCOLOR" THE PROBLEM Jg^ The new Chairman arrives from F pi New York in 24 hours. The Strategy yp jj Presentation is ready but your SfT faggßSKk Projector just went bust... y WHAT DO YOU DO? M ft B i
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon That haunting grin ...
      753 22  - That haunting grin Joy Frances A crime reporter revisits the Ler case, reluctantly by joy@newstoday.com.sg it yrORE /I I V II two i^L years ago, on May 14 2001, Annie I Leong's throat was slashed and she was stabbed to death. Her husI band, the now 1 infamous Anthony Ler,
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      Lock icon Behind a great man is an old wives' tale
      276 22 -AFP AUCKLAND Mrs Aesop is bored witless by her husband's tedious tales, Mrs Darwin mistakes her husband for a chimp while Mrs Icarus rolls her eyes at her husband's idiotic aerial antics, Queen Kong swoons over her per-fectly-formed "little man" and
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      Lock icon More reruns, please
      137 22 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter EDINBURGH (Scotland) To the surprise of an industry often criticised for scheduling too many reruns, Britain's culture minister has come out in favour of more repeats on television. On Saturday, Tessa Jowell applauded "the mining of the archives for golden nuggets from the past". She
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    • THE GROOMING EXPERT
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        Give decay the brush-off
        394 23 A good toothbrush is the best weapon against gum disease THERE are a few very important habits we learn as little tots that are meant to see us through to adulthood. Be honest, work hard and remember to brush your teeth after each meal and before
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        ORAL CARE FOR CHILDREN
        150 23 APART from providing effective products for adults, Oral-B has also channelled its energies toward children's oral care. It has designed toothbrushes for children at four key stages: four to 24 months (Stages 1), two to four years (Stages 2), five to seven years (Stages 3) and
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        BRUSHING KIDS' TEETH
        83 23 TO brush the teeth of younger children, it is easier to stand behind them. Gently place the brush where the tooth and gum meet and use small circular motions as you move from tooth to tooth. For the inside surfaces, use the same technique. Brush all the
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        More angles, more action
        103 23 THE Oral-B CrossAction™ toothbrush is proven clinically to remove more plaque than leading toothbrushes do witn its four types of specialised bristle tufts: Oral-B CrissCross bristles are angled in opposing directions to lift out and sweep away plaque. Oral-B Power Tip™ bristles are extra long to
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      Jay Chou, watch out
      491 24  -  Serene Foo Anson Hu's star is fast rising as the R&B singer takes Asia by storm by serene@newstoday.com.sg HE'S only 19, but R&B newcomer Anson Hu from China is already taking Asia by storm. And like Jay Chou and David Tao, who are heavily involved in
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    • BUSY COOK
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        Red-faced crab pasta
        899 26  -  Pauline DLoh Try papillon pasta with crabmeat and cheese for a lunch box treat ONE of the secrets to making a lunch box that will get eaten is to make sure the food packed will taste good cold or hot. Not many offices have pantries and if
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      Don't let diabetes limit you
      769 29  -  Tracy Koh OneTouch® Heroes inspire others with the condition to live life to the fullest by news@newstoday.com.sg HALLE Berry may be admired for her lifechanging experiences fought under the shadow of diabetes. Closer home, two Singaporean men, along with four others, were named Singapore's OneTouch®
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    • HEALTH
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        Lock icon Get screened
        739 30  -  Genevieve Woo It is best way to detect early-stage breast cancer by genevieve@newstoday.com.sg BREAST cancer is the most common cancer among Singapore women today. Every year, more than 700 new cases are diagnosed and about 250 women die each year from the disease. This translates to two women
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon Matrix Reloaded the biggest film of 2003
        225 32 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES The Matrix Reloaded has hit US$73O million ($1.27 billion) in takings at the worldwide box office. The tally for the film consists of US$2BO million in North America and US$45O million from the rest of the world, Warner Bros
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      578 44  -  Tan Wee Boon No end in sight to China's stranglehold on ladies badminton by weeboon@newstoday.com.sg THE reigning All England ladies champion is Zhou Mi. Zhang Ning, the world No. 1, clinched the world championship ladies singles title recently in Birmingham and walked away with the Yonex-Sunrise Singapore Open
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      62 44 DAEGU South Korea yesterday refused to apologise to North Korea after a protest at the World Student Games erupted in violence over the weekend. South Korean government sources said there would be no official response to the North's demand for an apology over the incident, a peaceful protest
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