Today, 21 January 2004

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday January 21, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    An eye on stat board kitties
    722 1  -  Francis Kan Panel wants guidelines on accumulated surpluses francis@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS the kind of year that makes you take a close, hard look at the very way you operate. With growth and revenues stalling in 2003 and costs shooting up on account of two
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    Lock icon Out of the blue, a lifeline and dinner invitations
    590 1  -  Ng Shing Vi shingyi@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS 6am and MP for Hong Kah GRC Amy Khor was listening to the radio when she heard a Today editor talk about how samsui women would have a lonely Chinese New Year. This newspaper had
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      40 1 NEWSX^/lEWS Samsung move Giant sets its sights on notebook market/3 Karim Raslan On dealing with Abdullah Badawi/19 Kobe dropped Lakers star loses McDonalds endorsement/32 Mirko's angry Marksman vows to prove his critics wrong/33 DEAN LOSES lOWA PRIMARY /2 A I"
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon PM Goh's Chinese New Year message: Return to family values
      245 2  -  Lee Ching Wern REFLECT on the importance of family and the values of our society during the Chinese New Year festivities, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday in his Chinese New Year message. At the core of all Singaporean
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      Lock icon Dean rebuffed in lowa primary
      595 2  -  Elisia Yeo Democrats think Kerry can beat Bush news@newstoday.com.sg THE search for the candidate who will eventually take on George W Bush kicked off in earnest yesterday as the Democrats launched the first round of party voting. The lowa vote proved a rude shock for
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      Samsung targets notebook market
      556 3  -  Chan Chao Peh Electronics giant to take on rival laptop makers Toshiba, IBM here starting in second quarter chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg IT came out of nowhere to grab nearly a fifth of the local market for mobile phones and now, Samsung Electronics has set its sights on Singapore's
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      Churchill's bird still cussing Hitler at 104
      275 3 WINSTON Churchill's old bird is 104 years old, and still cusses like a sailor. Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister during World War 11, bought Charlie, a blue and gold macaw, in 1937. Although she was a female bird, he gave her a boy's name
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      41 2 asssssssssss 'A Carmelite heritage, tradition devotion" saassaasssss *VH the Holy Infant Lunar New Year Novena Thursday evening 5.30pm Mass 6.00pm Weekly Novena Every Thursday evening 5.30pm Mass 6.00pm jJL. Church of Sts. Peter Paul IJkIIB 225 A Queen Street Singapore *****1
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      112 3 The liver is our largest internal organ. th©ITISOn Carbohydrates, fats and proteins are TradidoMUyusriasHvertonic metabolised in the liver. 3 The liver aids in the digestion of fats. i The liver removes metabolic waste products and old red blood cells. 120 0,,« i» *t»«300 Milk thistle has been used traditionally Livrin
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Worker's wages fall after 31 years of working experience
      314 4 Dow Jones AN EXTRA year of schooling boosts a Singaporean's wages by 13.2 per cent on average, a study by Government economists revealed. This appears significantly higher compared with other countries. The study, entitled Education for growth: The premium on education
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      The Singapore Swing in the Monkey Year
      587 4  -  Tor Ching Li chingli@newstoday.com.sg IT'S a jungle out there all right, but thank our lucky stars, it seems the Celestial Stem and Terrestrial Branch will support Singapore in the coming Year of the Wood Monkey. In fact, geomancers agree that the stock market
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        To New York in 18 hours, non-stop
        80 4 FROM March 28, you can fly non-stop from Singapore to New York in just 1 8 hours. Singapore Airlines announced plans for its second non-stop service to the United States using its new A 340-500 super long-range aircraft. This will trim up to
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        $22,801 for a luxury car's COE
        70 4 COE prices have fallen for all vehicles except for small and medium-sized cars. Rates for cars 1,600 cc and below rose by a marginal $200 to $24,001. Making the biggest drop is the price for luxury cars, which fell by more than $2,200 to
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      Lock icon Respiratory case in Hong Kong not Sars
      268 4 Agencies HONG KONG The prospect of a return of Sars to the territory was gladly dismissed, for now, after a man hospitalised with a respiratory infection tested negative for the Sars virus. Hong Kong authorities said yesterday that a 33-year-old man was admitted
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      Lock icon Case rejects SPH price hike rationale
      186 4 Newsradio 93.8 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has rejected Singapore Press Holdings' (SPH) rationale in raising the prices of most of its newspapers. Last week, Case had called the hike too sudden and unjustified. Case president Yeo Guat Kwang questioned if adjusting the
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  • LETTERS
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      New notes issued on demand
      199 6  -  Ms Angelina Fernandez I REFER to the letter, "Offer new notes at all festivals" (Today, Jan 20). The issuance of new notes is determined by demand, not by any particular festive season. The MAS' policy on currency is to issue "fit" notes (notes salvaged from
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      Parkway has 62% of international market
      65 6 IN OUR report, "Patients go public" (Today, Jan 19), it was reported that Parkway Group Healthcare (PGH) has a 30 per cent market share in the foreign patient market This is inaccurate. Thirty per cent of PGH's total patient load is made up of
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      Review allowance change
      374 6  -  Pam Wong PSC's payment guidelines will hurt final-year scholars MY SON is a statutory board scholar doing his final-year studies at a college in London. Earlier this month, in the middle of the academic year, the Public Service Commission (PSC) issued guidelines that final-year scholars be paid
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      Let's avoid this 'monkey trick'
      308 6  -  Narayana Narayana WITH the Year of the Monkey about to descend on us, we can expect many jokes, anecdotes and wise (and, no doubt, stupid) sayings about our ancestors (at least, that is what Darwin's theory expounds). Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan appears to have
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      Leaky buses are a hazard
      144 6  -  Ang Chee Chien I WANT to highlight the poor state of some of SBS buses. I boarded two SBS buses on a rainy day (services 186 and 51; registration nos *****37 and *****01 respectively). On both the rides, the roofs of the buses were leaking
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      349 6 Japan Hour Homeviewers' Contest 15 Dec 2003 14 Jan 2004 Lucky Winners Ist PRIZE 2nd PRIZE Two ANA Return Economy Class Daikin Air Purifier Air Tickets to Japan MC7O4VM Nicholas Wong Yap Sik Hong *****055G *****098F Lim Jit Jing *****408Z 3rd PRIZE 4th PRIZE Namiki Pen NEC LCDSIV Moniter Koh
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      MobileOne raises dividend payout
      290 8  -  Chan Chao Peh Net profit up 10.3%, slightly below expectations chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg MOBILEONE (Ml), Singapore's second-largest mobile operator, has raised its dividend payout to 70 per cent of net profit, from 60 per cent currently. Ml shareholders can now expect a dividend of 9.4 cents per share,
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      Lock icon CapitaMall's 4Q net investment income soars 26%
      201 8 Agencies CAPITAMALL Trust said its net investment income rose 26 per cent year-on-year to $17.7 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec 31 due to higher revenue from its newly-acquired IMM Building. The retail mall trust, 33 per centowned by Capita Land, will
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      Lock icon DBS Thai Danu may merge with state banks
      189 8 Agencies BANGKOK Thai Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha said yesterday that the Cabinet had approved the merger of two state banks Industrial Finance Corp of Thailand (IFCT) and Thai Military Bank and DBS Thai Danu Bank. DBS Thai Danu Bank is a local
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    • MarketWATCH
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        ST Index-1,865.44+16.23
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        Lock icon Singapore
        230 8 bHARt prices climbed yesterday, lifting the ST Index to its highest in almost three years. The ST Index closed up 1 6.23 points, or 0.9 per cent, at 1,865.44, its highest since March 9, 2001. Volume totalled 887.86 million shares worth $836.51 million, up from 788.05 million shares worth
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        SGX most active
        57 8 )y volume Close Change '000 tfee Poh 'apitaMall (otary Mm Corp >ac Cent ipeedy-Tech bartered Celestial (yodo-All IMXTech 0.015 1.390 0.685 0.725 0.300 0.660 1.860 0.485 0.255 1.110 +0.030 +0.055 +0.030 +0.015 -0.005 +0.010 -0.010 +0.050 +2.2 +8.7 +4.3 +5.3 -0.8 +2.1 -3.8 +4.7 46,558 38,392 33,514
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        SGX top rises
        72 8 F&N 13.600 +0.400 Hiap Hoe 0.025 +25.0 UOB 13.800 +0.400 Hua Kok 0.080 +23.1 STI ETF 100 18.650 +0.250 Wah Shing 0.240 +23.1 Jariline C&C 6.200 +0.150 Teamsphere 0.145 +20.8 ChinaAvOil 1.400 +0.130 IRE Corp 0.035 +16.7 CITYDEV 6.950 +0.100 BBR 0.040 +14.3 JMH 400USS KepCorp 9.400
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        SGX top falls
        72 8 By$ rhai Prime200USS Close 12.000 Change -0.500 By percentage Benefun 20k Close 0.015 Change -25.0 SPH 19.500 -0.300 LHT 0.065 -18.8 Creative 50 20.000 -0.200 Eastern Pub 0.170 -12.8 DBS 15.500 -0.200 Falmac 0.080 -11.1 SingamasC 2kHKS SPH 100 3.900 19.600 -0.200 -0.200 SPCorp GeneMedix 0.080 0.340
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        World markets
        56 8 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Value 11,103.09 13,570.43 3,320.80 Closed Change Pis +66.77 +317.12 +8.30 +0.61 +2.39 +0.25 Korea Comp KLCI 861.37 824.66 +4.57 +5.75 +0.53 +0.70 SET Index Jakarta Comp 771.88 773.12 -2.79 +6.64 -0.36 +0.87 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,546.89 Closed +26.86
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        Lock icon Commodities
        25 8 SGX, Gold uss/oz 408.10 Silver uss/oi 6.355 Platinum uss/oz 850.00 Rubber cents/kg 214.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,706 Brent crude uss/barrel 32.24 Information provided by
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        Lock icon Your S$l buys
        37 8 Bloomberg US$ 0.5853 UK£ 0.3257 Yen 62.769 HK$ 4.5452 RM 2.2242 Euro 0.4739 Rupiah 4903.1 Baht 22.848 Peso 32.554 A$ 0.7752 Indian Rs 26.582 Won 693.65 C$ 0.7625 Yuan 4.8439 NZ$ 0.8922 NTS 19.698
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      Lock icon CEOs get together in Davos to discuss their struggles
      305 10 Bloomberg MORE than 1,000 corporate leaders, including Mr Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mr Nobuyuki Idei of Sony, and Mr Juergen Hambrecht of BASF, will spend the next five days discussing why it's so hard to run a company even with a
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      Lock icon The Triangle dilemma
      554 10  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Will warmer ties give a new impetus to renew the allure of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle? shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE recent visit to Singapore of Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi makes it tempting to wonder whether one dormant, but not forgotten, bilateral issue will get a
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      Lock icon China's economy grew 9.9% in the last quarter
      132 10 AFP BEIJING China's fastexpanding economy grew a surprising 9.9 per cent in the final quarter of last year, the government said yesterday, signalling a quick recovery from the economic fallout of the Sars epidemic and hinting at an optimistic picture for this
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs
      299 10 Dow Jones Bloomberg Bloomberg Bloomberg Bloomberg Inter-Roller Engineering has received a letter of intent to jointly develop, design and build a baggage handling system with Siemens Dematic at Dubai International Airport. Inter-Roller expects to make $93 million from the Dubai proiect, 80 per cent of which will be completed
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      137 8 Enjoy Rewards Orchid Country Club Driving Range "PAR FIVE" Challenge Promotion 1 January 31 December 2DD4 A "PAR FIVE" Challenge Card allows you to accumulate stamps when you purchase or top up your range card. Collect all five stamps and you will be rewarded with 175 FREE Golf Range balls!
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      107 9 Jofk 1 1 life, live it. ljT|l AShare New Year greetings with FREE MMS. FEHIE from now till 25th January 2004* jg Spread the New Year cheer with a festive MMS! Get creative and compose your own jolly message or just download from our fun MMS selection. Either way, you'll
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      103 11 _M H FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG 1 SEP OCT NOV DEC "M^ji In true Malaysian tradition, \^Bk^ HUH IjMJ^fl Lunar New Year for one |K^9 is a celebration for everyone. vfc|3|x |HK^ |^3 -.*£<> l^fifc. I^^p p^S\^J/ KAWASAH \di^^^^. Jl PERINDUSTRIAN Ttißß f\ taman JOH 0 R
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Emerging markets' rally to continue
      705 12  -  Jerry Low The asset class was last year's top performer among equity markets and remains attractive news@newstoday.com.sg EMERGING markets, including those in Asia, Latin America, emerging Europe and Africa, were the best performing equity market as a group in the world last year. According to
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      I UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2136 12 I 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, dara on compilations is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or
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      91 13 i^ i -fIP Aft' XL I^B^^^^^v Receive the blessinos Meet our Gocl of Fortune ancl A Consult our Feng Shui master to see lhe ii on A be richlu regarded what the Year of the Monkeu Dote-Tnu 29 Jan 200/ WxSot, 17 Jon-Sun, 18 Jon 2004/ holds for you iwViom
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  • INFOTECH
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      Lock icon IT's yahoo for Yahoo!
      351 14 AP Dotcom makes over $400 m profit after two-year slump YAHOO! That's what they said in Yahoo! when the company made money, finally. After a two-year slump, the company made a US$23B million ($4OO million) profit last year, impressing disillusioned investors who had written it off
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      Lock icon 50-year-old camera is oldest Nikon
      191 14 HE BOUGHT a half-century old Nikon camera for $12,000 five years ago, and last Monday, he won the first prize of the Oldest Nikon Camera contest Art gallery owner Tan Chok Yong's old Nikon, now valued at $40,000, was made in Japan in 1948. Although
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      Lock icon New virus making the rounds
      131 14 Agencies THE Beagle space rover has disappeared on Mars since Christmas Day, but the Bagle has been spotted last week. It's not a Martian invader but an email worm, first seen by the anti-virus Swat team from Network Associates, a provider of intrusion prevention software.
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      Epson's new workhorse can churn out up to 34 pages a minute
      297 14 VERSATILITY, reliability and high productivity are the watchwords for Epson's new monochrome laser printer, the EPL-N3OOO. The fast A 4 printer, capable of churning out up to 34 pages per minute, and a first-page output of just seven
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      Computer technician is S'pore Microsoft Halo champion
      253 14 UNLIKE the grunts in the Unites States' invasion of Iraq, these 100-odd individuals didn't simply shoot on sight, but used strategy and skill. After five hours of intense game play in the semi-dark-ened hall of a cyber cafe in Katong Shopping Centre, Mr
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    • Want more from your Xbox?
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        CONTROLLER-S
        64 15 The Xbox Controller-S is built for maximum comfort, pinpoint accuracy and total control, featuring: Six analog buttons with 256 levels of sensitivity •Two analog pressure-point triggers •Two vibration feedback motors One eight-way directional pad •Two menu navigation buttons Two expansion slots for memory cards or other accessories (sold separately]
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        DVD MOVIE PLAYBACK KIT
        53 15 The Xbox DVD Movie Playback Kit is a quick way to expand the functionality of the best gaming machine around! Xbox requires this kit to enable DVD movie playback. Simply plug in the infrared receiver to a controller port and use the remote control designed for
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        HIGH DEFINITION AV PACK
        55 15 The Xbox High Definition AY Pack connects the console to most TVs with interlaced component video inputs including high definition ready TVs that support 480 i and either 480p, 720p or 1080 i component video signals. Look for HDTV support on Xbox game packages. Movie playback
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        MEMORY UNIT
        15 15 The Xbox Memory Unit provides additional storage space for use with compatible controllers.
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        XBOX AUDIO PARTNER
        93 15 ALTEC LANSING SPEAKERS The graphics in today's video games are simply amazing. Unfortunately, your TV's speakers are amazingly lame. It's time to upgrade to a sound system that brings your favourite games to life the XA3021. Two 3-inch satellites let you hear every screech, crash or laser
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    • TOP GAMES OF 2003
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        ELECTRONIC ARTS
        31 15 1 FIFA Soccer 2003 2 FIFA Soccer 2004 3 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 4 Lord of the Rings: Two Towers 5 Medal of Honour: Frontline
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        ATARI
        23 15 1 Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes 2 Magic: The Gathering Battlegrounds 3 Mission: Impossible Operation Surma 4 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
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        MICROSOFT GAME STUDIOS
        18 15 1 Halo: Combat Evolved 2 Project Gotham Racing 3 MechAssault 4 Brute Force 5 Counter-Strike
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        UBI SOFT
        28 15 1 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 2 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 3 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder 4 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 5 Rayman 3
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        VIVENDI UNIVERSAL
        30 15 1 The Hulk 2 The Simpsons Hit Run 3 Crash Nitro Kart 4 Metal Arms: Glitch In The System 5 Hunter The Reckoning 6 SWAT: Global Strike Team
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        JAPANESE TITLES
        35 15 1 Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Tec mo) 2 Dead or Alive 3 (Tec mo) 3 Soul Calibur 2 (Namco) 4 Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (Konami) 5 Dynasty Warrior 4 (Koei)
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Blair's tough week
      299 16 Agencies He could suffer first major parliamentary defeat LONDON It could be the toughest week of his premiership but British Prime Minister Tony Blair believes he will survive next week's vote on university tuition fees and the report on the suicide of weapons expert David Kelly. Next
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      Bird flu vaccine could be available soon
      278 16 PARIS Avian influenza, like Sars, is a new disease for humans but the good news is, unlike Sars, the quest for a "bird flu" vaccine may swiftly bear fruit Scientists in Britain and the United States, working under the aegis of the World
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Practical joke gone bad
        49 16 AFP A New Zealand train driver went on indefinite stress leave yesterday after running over a garden gnome which he feared was a child. The gnome was apparently placed on rail tracks in the North Island city of Tauranga as a practical joke, police said.
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        Lock icon Are corpses executed Chinese?
        86 16 Reuters German anatomist Gunther yon Hagens, whose corpse exhibitions have drawn praise and blame, faced new controversy as prosecutors said they would check claims he processed bodies of executed Chinese prisoners. Professor Yon Hagens' Heidelbergbased Institute for Plastination declined to comment on the allegations in Der
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        Lock icon Filipino peace talks next month
        66 16 AFP Peace talks between the Philippine government and separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels will resume in Malaysia next month. Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said, after talks with Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, that they agreed to hold "a new round of exploratory
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      MONKEY BUSINESS
      627 17  -  Amanda Koh Usher in the Year of the Monkey with lots of creative fun USHER in the year of the playful monkey at the National Heritage Board's museums for a rousing start to the Chinese New Year. Immerse yourself in Singapore's rich and colourful traditions of the New
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      WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE MUSEUMS ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE CHINESE NEW YEAR
      324 17 Asian Civilisations at 12pm. It is open to all Museum, Armenian visitors aged la and Street below. Terms and 9am 7pm conditions apply. 39 Armenian Street Tel: 6332 3015 2pm 3pm, 4pm spm Hui chun Kids
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      Lock icon Women jihadis – new partners in war
      478 18 Women jihadis new partners in war AP Hamas turns to use of female suicide bombers in intifada GAZA CITY The spiritual leader of the Palestinian fundamentalist group, Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, announced a major change in tactics on Monday, saying the Islamic militant group would increasingly dispatch female suicide bombers
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      Lock icon 18 seamen feared dead off Norway
      169 18 Agencies OSLO Eighteen crewmen, mostly Filipinos, were feared dead after a recently-built cargo ship carrying rocks capsized yesterday in the freezing waters off the southwest coast of Norway. Three people were confirmed dead and 12 others rescued after the Norwegian-operated ship Rocknes, with a
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      Lock icon 3 generations of rapists charged
      173 18 Reuters AGEN (France) Thirteen members of one family went on trial in France on Monday on charges of raping or sexually assaulting their children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews. The case came to light in September 2001 when a 16-year-old son of the family, who had
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      Lock icon South Korea plays down talks as North seeks reunification
      243 18 Agencies SEOUL Even as their nuclear impasse remains unresolved, North Korea has called for talks with South Korea to plan for reunification and to pool resources for a joint struggle against the United States. Top officials from the Communist Party and
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Episcopalian rift?
        73 18 Reuters Conservative US Episcopalians, opposed to the recent consecration of an openly-gay bishop, met on Monday to form a network of parishes in a move that could open a rift in the church. About 1 00 delegates from 12 dioceses that represent about 1 0 per cent of
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        Lock icon The pill is in the mail
        70 18 Reuters The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, notorious for its teeming slums, will mail contraceptive pills free of charge to women, including teenagers, in poor neighbourhoods from February. The city's health secretary, Mr Ronaldo Cezar Coelho, said on Monday the programme was not
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        Lock icon Till death do us part ...
        72 18 Till death do us part Reuters An 81-year-old Spanish woman was killed at a retirement home on Monday and the chief suspect is her new husband, 82, whom she had married five days earlier. The state news agency, EFE, citing police sources, said the presumed motive was jealousy because the
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        Lock icon Work was too taxing?
        104 18 AFP A 60-year-old Finnish auditor died last Tuesday, but it took his colleagues until Thursday to notice that he wasn't just silently poring over tax returns, the Ilta-Sanomat tabloid reported on Monday. Commenting on how it was possible that he could have been dead for two
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        Lock icon Liars need not apply
        60 18 AP An Israeli national, Mr Ori Weitz, opened the Polygraph Center in Thailand two weeks ago, offering services such as employment screening and other investigative work to Thai firms. Polygraphs use sensors to detect if someone is lying by monitoring the examinee's pulse, breath, blood pressure
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    • COMMENTARY
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        Lock icon Dealing with ... ... Mr Abdullah
        627 19  - Dealing with Mr Abdullah Karim Raslan Bilateral ties could be improved, due to this window of opportunity LAST week, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi made his first visit as Premier to Singapore. It was a courtesy trip lasting just five hours, and given its extreme brevity, it would be unrealistic
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      • GLOBALroundup
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          Lock icon Japan troops in Iraq
          98 19 AP Japanese soldiers, embarking into a conflict zone for the first time in a half-cen-tury, yesterday inspected the site of their future base in southern Iraq amid reports of a possible terrorist plot against them. An advance party of about 30 soldiers arrived in Iraq on
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          Lock icon Caught in the act
          85 19 ■AFP Two Chinese students have sued their high school in Shanghai for breach of privacy after authorities broadcast a video of them kissing. The young couple, who graduated from Fuxing high school last summer, have demanded compensation of 5,000 yuan and a public apology for the
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          Lock icon Auspicious absence
          109 19 AP After a year of Sars, recession, and political turmoil, the superstitious people in Hong Kong may be glad to hear that Secretary for Home Affairs Patrick Ho is bowing out of a Lunar New Year ceremony meant to predict the territory's fortunes. That's because during last February's
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        31 19 REUTERS A model presents an ancient Egypt-inspired creation by British designer John Galliano during the 2004 Spring/Summer Haute Couture show for Christian Dior Fashion house in Paris yesterday.
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      284 20 NOT sure how much you should give whom? Working from an average salary of $3,000, we've put together this handy, tongue-firmly-in-cheek-white-lips-kiss-wallet guide for this Chinese New Year: Your sibling $100: If he lets you borrow his car whenever you want to, and not expect a
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      Who's the most generous of them all?
      194 20 Huang Shinan and Pan Lingling, setting aside $4,000 for hongbao "How much we put in the hongbao depends on how well we've done the past year. We believe that the token is intended only to spread a little joy to the recipient." Edmund
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      ADD A LITTLE COLOUR
      111 21 ROSES are red, so are hongbao which translates literally as "red packet". Red symbolises prosperity in Chinese culture, hence the tradition of giving out hongbao during Chinese New Year as a way of well-wishing. Recently, we've been seeing the emergence of the jingbao (or "gold packet").
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      FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART
      116 21 NEVER mind that Shrek and Peter Pan have got nothing to do with Chinese New Year, these hongbao should bring smiles to the faces of the little ones. For purists though, it's cause for more sighing and bah-humbugging over the the loss of another tradition
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      A MONKEY INVASION
      114 21 SIMPLE, uncomplicated, classic. You just can't go wrong with these hongbao. And this being the year of the monkey, you'll see lots of them on hongbao. Some are classy, calligraphyetched representations, while others are no better than ads for the zoo. With Animal Planet and Discov- cry
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      Yes, she jumped over the Great Wall of China
      304 21  -  Elisa Chia GOT a ticket to the Silver Hawk screening? Good. Just make sure you turn up on time, for you wouldn't want to miss its opening sequence. It's history in the making, promises Michelle Yeoh. In her latest celluloid offering,
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        498 23  -  Yong Shu Chiang Last Samurai star looks set for the international stage shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg STANDING over 1.82 m tall and looking stern and uncompromising, Japanese actor Ken Watanabe exudes a regal bearing that brings to mind the image of a warrior. It is no surprise then that
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        No dance, this Samurai
        411 24  -  YONG SHU CHIANG Yong Shu Chiang Unlike Costner's movie, this plot has a questionable premise FILM REVIEW BY The Last Samurai I IF NOT for Kevin Costner having already cavorted through the rough country of America in a 19th century setting, where the white man devastated
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        Lip-smacking recipe of love
        250 25  -  SERENE FOO Sammi, Andy steam up the screen with a tale of food and romance FILM REVIEWby" Magic Kitchen THE Chinese New Year offering, Magic Kitchen, is a heart-warming tale. Kitchen stars veteran singeractress Sammi Cheng and actor Andy Lav, and rising stars such as Taiwanese
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        Nicholas Nickleby
        155 25  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby THERE are few better ways to rediscover one's faith in human goodness than to enjoy a Charles Dickens tale. This wonderful adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby tells the story of an orphaned young man who saves his remaining family and other kind souls from
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          146 26  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby FOR those of us who grew up on the classic Disney animated version of Peter Pan, this film may come as a shock. It is a faithful, somewhat darker adaptation of JM Barries celebrated tale. The film-makers call this the first liveaction theatrical
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          Silver Hawk
          139 26  -  SERENE FOO FILM REVIEWby WITH international kickbutt action star Michelle Yeoh, you expect highoctane action and logicand gravity-defying stunts. But her latest movie, Silver Hawk, is derailed by a cliche-ridden plot and flat acting. Based loosely on a legendary female hero who fought for justice and was a
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      Lock icon Big guns breeze through
      526 31 AFP Federer copes with no coach as emotional Venus makes winning return TENNIS Australian Open, first round MELBOURNE World No 2 Roger Federer sent a defiant message to rivals at the Australian Open yesterday by blowing past his first-round opponent and showing he can compete in
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      Lock icon Doping scandal not to blame for early defeat, says Rusedski
      280 31 Agencies MELBOURNE British No 2 Greg Rusedski had hoped to let his tennis finally do the talking after his positive test for the banned steroid nandrolone hogged all the headlines in the past two weeks. However, a lacklustre performance against
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      Lock icon Gang suspect nabbed in Williams shooting murder
      322 31 AFP LOS ANGELES Half a world away, Venus Williams was busy getting her Grand Slam comeback on track in the first round of the Australian Open yesterday. While the older-half of US tennis superstars the Williams sisters was easing into the second round,
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      Shinnick working to end more than 40 years of hurt
      392 32 ST PAUL, Minneapolis It has been more than 40 years, but Phil Shinnick still feels cheated, reported the New York Times. "My deepest meditation told me that I had to do something about the record," he said. "I really care
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      446 32 Facing rape charges, Bryant dropped by sponsor McDonalds CHICAGO It wasn't a good day for Kobe Bryant yesterday. Having recently injured his shoulder, the Los Angeles Lakers superstar had to watch from the sidelines as his teammates lost at the Staples Center to Phoenix 88-85. And then,
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      Lock icon European F1 races under threat from new EU rules
      222 32 AFP LONDON Formula 1 bosses are considering boycotting races in Europe over new European Unionwide rules relating to death on the race track. Arrest warrants could be used against team chiefs in the case of fatalities, but they want guarantees from
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      Lock icon Don't write me off, says Grabovac
      506 33  -  STANLEY HO S-League's top marksman vows to prove critics wrong and return to the national fold stanley@newstoday.com.sg MIRKO Grabovac will go down in the history books of the S-League as arguably their greatest-ever striker. From 1999-2002, the SAFFC hitman proved every defence's worst nightmare
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      Lock icon Jang Jung goes back to Korea for talent
      399 33  -  KOH WEI LING weil inq@newstodav.com.sq HE TURNED to Australia and England for new talent in an effort to strengthen his squad for the upcoming S-League season. But Balestier Khalsa's South Korean coach Jang Jung was disappointed when the players he brought to
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        Scud's cousin in heart scare
        97 33 MELBOURNE Mark Philippoussis' cousin suffered a heart attack during the 1 Oth seed's tense straight sets victory over former champion Thomas Johansson at the Australian Open last night. Philippoussis, nicknamed "the Scud", claimed a 7-6 (8-6), 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) victory. He later said he had
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        Batsman fractures skull
        78 33 MELBOURNE Zimbabwe batsman Mark Vermeulen (picture) suffered a depressed skull fracture yesterday during his side's 24-run defeat by India in a triangular series one-day match. The African side were all out for 231 at the Gabba ground in Brisbane as they chased India's total of 255 for
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        Larsson considers quitting
        61 33 STOCKHOLM Swedish striker Henrik Larsson, 32, says he could retire from the game when his contract with Celtic expires at the end of the season. "I might quit football after this season and move home to Helsingborg," he said. "This transfer guessing game is just annoying." Barcelona
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        Birmingham net profit
        65 33 LONDON Birmingham City's successful return to the Premiership helped turn last year's annual loss into a profit, the club announced yesterday. The Midlands club, who finished 13th in the Premiership last season after a 1 6-year spell in the lower divisions, posted a pre-tax profit of £3.3
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        80 33 MADRID Former Real Madrid coach John Toshack has been named manager of relegation-threatened Primera Liga side Murcia in place of Joaquin Peiro. "The club can confirm that the final details have been sorted out and that John Toshack will be the new coach until the end
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      644 34 Agencies Facchetti takes over as president, Moratti to pull strings away from critical glare of fans MILAN Former Italy and Inter Milan full-back Giacinto Facchetti has taken over from Massimo Moratti as president of the Serie A giants. Moratti resigned on Monday after a humiliating
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      Lock icon Burdened by debt? Don't worry, that's sport
      363 34 Reuters ROME Italian Football League president Adriano Galliani says debt is unavoidable if Serie A clubs are to keep pace with their English and Spanish rivals. "There isn't a fan of AC Milan who would exchange Brazilian playmaker Kaka for a healthy bank
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      245 34 Reuters MADRID A lot more than pride will be at stake when Valencia and Real Madrid meet in the first leg of their King's Cup quarter-final at the Bernabeu today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Primera Liga leaders Valencia know that inflicting a first domestic defeat
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      Gunner Van Persie?
      103 35 AMSTERDAM Arsenal have made an offer for Feyenoord winger Robin van Persic, a spokesman for the Dutch club said yesterday. Feyenoord's external affairs manager Jan D Swart said the Premiership leaders were keen to sign the 20-year-old before Jan 31, when the transfer window closes. "Arsenal have
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      Hamann could leave
      113 35 LONDON Dietmar Hamann has admitted he will consider a return to the German Bundesliga if Liverpool fail to offer him a new contract The German, a key member of Gerard Houllier's midfield, has interested clubs in his home nation. Stuttgart coach Felix Magath admitted on Sunday he
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      Lock icon Accept pay cut or Smith is off
      479 35 Agencies Leeds will sell star striker if his team-mates do not take 30 per cent drop in wages LONDON He is Yorkshire born and bred and the pride of Leeds United. But the fact that the club are poised to sell striker Alan
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      Lock icon Fulham aim to replace Saha with Tottenham's Keane
      366 35 AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Newcastle 3 Fulham 1 LONDON Tottenham Hotspur have had problems scoring goals all season and yet the club seem willing to sell Irish striker Robbie Keane. Fulham were reported yesterday to be set to snap up Keane for £7
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      185 35 SPORT ON TV TODAY B.ooam Tennis Australian Open, Day 3, Ch 22 TOMORROW 3.55 am Carling Semi-finals, Ist leg Cup Bolton v Aston Villa, Ch 22 5.00 am Golf Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, First round, Ch 23 B.ooam Tennis Australian Open, Day 4, Ch22 7.30pm Golf Dunhill C'ship, Day 1,
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