Today, 3 February 2004, Afternoon Edition

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      43 1 NEWSX^/lEWS Fast Fingers Getting millions of shares in minutes/3 Koh Buck Song Thinking out of the science box/26 Vie's Secrets Quiet F4 heart-throb on boxers and babies/28 Next Pistol Can Federer assume the mantle?/38 Arts Xplosion Your eight-page guide to the arts/Centre pages
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Dow up slightly
      48 1 Reuters NEW YORK US stocks ended near the unchanged mark yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 11.11 points at 10,499.18, the broader Standard Poor's 500 Index closed up 4.13 points at 1,135.26 and the Nasdaq Composite Index finished down 3.00 points at 2,063.15.
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      Lock icon Blair to call inquiry into 'intelligence failings'
      100 1 Reuters LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair will bow to growing pressure today and call an inquiry into apparent intelligence failings over Iraqi weapons, just hours after US President George W Bush announced an independent investigation into the justification given for war. A British
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      Lock icon When B is just not good enough
      755 1  -  Lee Ching Wern Julihabee Mohd Noor Haryani Othman Chinese 'B' syllabus less popular than Higher Mother Tongue chingwern@newstoday.com.sg AFTER years of complaining about the stress that a second language puts on their children, Singaporeans seem reluctant to shrug off the burden even though
      Julihabee Mohd Noor; Haryani Othman  -  755 words
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      The danger of unquestioned ideas
      898 1 News Comment/ By William Pfaff PAEIS The important lesson to be learnt from the Hutton Inquiry in London has only incidentally to do with the war in Iraq. It concerns the dangers of unanalysed and unquestioned ideas and the terrible power of what "everybody knows".
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      144 2 Try a Computerised Hearing Aid FREE w Amazing advances in hearing aid .jfT I technology means that thousands Hr a Built-in are en j O yj n g better hearing and no wmputei^ w one knows their secret! Now there _r^^ A is no need for anyone to suffer a
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      286 2 i study In jANADA Fair'2oo4 Interested in an alternative route to higher fTJ J- CANADA WELCOMES YOU! STUDY Fri b FeD V mm T in CANADA. Come meet with representatives 3pm 9pm from Canadian Universities, Colleges, and Sat 7 Feb 2004 Secondary Schools. Polytechnic Diploma 11 am spm students may
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      369 3 I la HmmmmM ■r .^r 1 PRIFYSGOL Established in 1893, University of Wales E|n| CYMRU is a member of the Association of B^l^BWl PWPPWI ygjgj qf'wALES^ Commonwealth Universities. It is also the second largest University in the UK, HpjHHHPHjHpHjHM with 80,000 students studying for its jjjjjLfjjj| awards and over 9,000
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      Fastest fingers claim IPO shares
      496 3  -  Tor Ching Li Million a minute snapped up in new scheme ONE million shares per minute that's about the rate at which bullish Singapor ans have been snapping up initial public offering (IPO) shares via DBS Bank's "first come, first served" (FCFS) ATM application system
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      Lock icon CNA wins New York television award
      242 3 Channel News Asia MEDIACORP'S Channel News Asia has won a medal at the prestigious New York Festivals' 2004 International Television Programming and Promotions Awards held on Jan 30. Its trailer, Primetime News: Lessons from the World, bagged a Bronze World Medal for News Promotion
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      Lock icon Jackson exposed
      257 4 Agencies HOUSTON Singer Janet Jackson set off a furore during Sunday's nationally broadcast Super Bowl show when she had her breast bared during a half-time song and dance routine with pop star Justin Timberlake. At the end of a song titled Rock Your Body, Jackson allowed Timberlake to
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      Lock icon New bird flu deaths in Vietnam, Thailand
      345 4 -AFP Thai authorities rule out human transmissions BANGKOK The death toll from the bird flu rose to three in Thailand and nine in Vietnam yesterday. The Thai and Vietnamese authorities confirmed, respectively, that a 58--year-old Thai woman and an 18-year-old Vietnamese man died
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      275 6 The power to move could also give you... I Professional Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 a vi' t Professional gives you the ApxJY^fjjiA a power to deliver important l^^^fe^l documents halfway around the world in minutes .power on-the-move f Stand a chance to win a Palm® Tungsten T3 worth $749 for every
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      Lock icon Sports dreams are made of this
      648 6  -  Joy Frances srr.\ i SSS principal bends the rules so that disabled and normal-stream sportsmen get a chance BEFORE the Singapore Sports School (SSS) got off the starting blocks this month, principal Moo Soon Chong was trying to ensure that every kind of sports
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      85 7 H jU TORCH RELAY I I SH ATHENS 2004 I PROUD PRESENTER Will you represent Singapore in the Athens 2004 Olympic Torch Relay? OFFICIAL REGISTRATION FORM The closing date for all entries is 18 February 2004. Please complete this form, attach your letter to it and send them to: The
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      102 8 WWWWWmL .1 J t^^^r#T• j BuSSpjjiP i-^i^iir itaji<g" n^S ►15 minute guarantee www.pizzahut.com.sg E§3 Terms Conditions: Available at all Dine-In Pizza Hut outlets from 11.30 am to 2.30pm, Mondays to Fridays, excluding Eve of Public Holidays vfllH Public Holidays Prices subject to prevailing GST and 10% service charge Serving suggestions
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      First-timeK's CPF grant should apply
      275 8  -  Roy Chang Say Won and HDB should consider extending scheme to those first-timers opting for resale executive condo THE FIRST batch of executive condos (ECs) launched in 1996 becomes eligible for resale this year. Potential sellers of Eastvale in Pasir Ris and Westmere in Jurong
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      When left is not right
      86 8  -  Daniel Koh Kah Soon THERE are signs at MRT stations in Singapore reminding commuters to stand on the left when riding an escalator. To me, this seems to be a futile exercise. Perhaps, the British got it right when they advised travellers to stand on
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      Are bird flu vaccines silently harmful to humans?
      133 8  -  Leong Yit Chun THE NATIONAL Development Minister has assured us that chickens and eggs sold in Singapore are safe to eat. Elsewhere, it has been reported that while sick chickens are culled, the healthy ones are being pumped with eight times the
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      Ambulance attendants need guidelines on where to take emergency victims
      242 8  -  Lan Foo Hee Yang I APPRECIATE the clarification by the chairman of the Medical Council on the need to send an injured person by ambulance to the best-equipped hospital, rather than just the nearest one. I want to relate an
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      159 9 Farhana Bte Mohammed Anuar A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (PhD) Cardiovascular Diseases National University of Singapore Raffles Junior College Alumni -y^fch'^.:- ;>**M»J ':^£Uk, mWt'M bWß^^^vonS&sßbl J'''m^^ mLZ^^^ m^m^k Aw 1 I I 'i m kAm^m^ WMmmM Ph^ B^B Hf**!' I BJ I ff^mmmmmaW m*T BB^»^^a*Bß H^_ '^1 P T '-88. v always
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      656 10 y *^^^K^^^^n^^ Terms conditions 1111 iil r'm ff-/w IMm I Phone price is on a 2-yr plan and are applicable to Sing Tel Mobile customers if iTil I T'W') ■7/77 i rA on C|assic.- P°d 2oom, i-Plans, e-Plans '^^^^U, 1- ,^^^^J £J and Premium7oo7lsoo plans Offer is valid for new
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      169 10 Healthy Participants Needed The Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a scientific study. The purpose of this study is to investigate the blood levels of an investigational medicine when it is given in combination with another medicine that has been approved and marketed for use in the
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      Lock icon More users in region connect to SingTel
      283 10 -AFP Regional subscriber base rose 37% to 44 million last year THE number of mobile phone users connected to Sing Tel and its Asia-Pacific associates surged 37 per cent last year to more than 44 million, the company said yesterday. Sing Tel, which
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      Lock icon Goldman Sachs was No 1 last year
      248 13 Bloomberg It beat 2002 winner, Citigroup, with 25 per cent increase in investment banking fee earnings LAST year, Goldman Sachs Group toppled Citigroup from its year-long perch as the No 1 investment bank in collecting fees for advice and underwriting stocks and bonds.
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      Lock icon PSA on shortlist to manage Indian port
      102 13 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S port operator, PSA Corp, and six other companies have been shortlisted to manage a transshipment facility at India's Cochin Port, the Shipping Times reported, citing an online report by Exim India. The other candidates are Dubai Port International, APM Terminals, P&O
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      Lock icon Hutchison to gain $284m from Vanda sale
      140 14 Bloomberg BILLIONAIRE Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa said it will book a profit of HK$l.3 billion ($284 million) from selling 1.8 billion shares in Vanda Systems Communications Holdings. Yesterday, Vanda's stock suffered its biggest drop in more than five years. Hutchison sold the Vanda
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      Lock icon US boom in election year
      312 14 Bloomberg Gains for stocks and growth likely THE history of US presidential election years is on the side of investors who are looking for stocks to rebound from last week's losses. The Standard Poor's 500 Index which dropped for the first time in 10 weeks
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      Lock icon Bank chief quits after rogue trade scandal
      384 15 -AFP National Australia Bank's UK boss takes helm SYDNEY National Australia Bank (NAB) chief executive Frank Cicutto resigned yesterday in the aftermath of the rogue trading scandal that has cost Australia's biggest bank at least As36o million ($464 million). Mr Cicutto, who will
      -AFP; BLOOMBERG  -  384 words
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      1791 15 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 Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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      1075 11 NTUC Income News mss* Pay no cash for Superior up to $900,000 performance •ttttA*! i^"^l #*AifAW Equity funds deliver 36.1% HICCIICcII COlfCl 11 of 15 funds outperform benchmark Guaranteed for life *6 funds ranked number 1 NTUC INCOME'S investment-linked funds investors. showed excellent results in 2003. The total Our focus
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      690 12 Doubly good reception. V A IBM recommends U Microsoft 9 Windows 9 XP \,X~ fl Professional for Business. I Distinctive IBM Innovations: mk M\m Rapi(l Restore"Ultra one-button recovery solution m. m\ Wf Access IBM one-touch access to online support J IBM ThinkPad T4l (***** FA) V\ KM Inter Centrino™ Mobile
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      20 13 [M.KENTRIDGE I LANGUAGE SCHOOL Arabic Japanese Cantonese Korean Chinese Malay English Shanghainese French Spanish German Tamil Hindi Thai Indonesian Vietnamese
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      270 13 il f SINGAPORE XX MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY Master of Science in Applied Finance *w B Ju I Jfl The Singapore Management University (SMU) is pleased to offer the Master of Science (MSc) in Applied Finance programme by coursework. This landmark programme aims to raise the standard of practitioners' knowledge and skills
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      241 14 ap UNIVERSITY OF LONDON V Jfi'W/ Ahv <&^Mtes*\ Graduate entry route >^_ *S T $2 Million Full time Part Time classes available \SICLaw Campus J /t/so available: Diploma In Law A 3-year LL.B direct honours degree !3Al^ can 6220 2600 t F'"v""""47 Singapore Institute of Commerce gji o| LAW SCHOOL
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      122 14 4& MANAGING SELF MANAGING LIFE Keys to TRUE Success, Health Happiness 4$T Face daily challenges with ease confidence by learning practical life skills: Intuition t* byneraize your whole brain to align fc yourself Inspiration a; onsc ous breathing with sounds to boost your immune system Imagination s ow down a
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      52 15 'Promotion available in January 2004 and February 2004 only. The Terms and Conditions Governing OCBC Lucky Day Draw 2004 shall apply to the promotion. Please refer to www.ocbc.com/luckyday or visit any OCBC branch for the Terms and Conditions Governing OCBC Lucky Day Draw 2004. 'Applicable to Singapore or foreign currency
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      460 16 "Winds of Change 7|5 Tides of Life" A Public Forum on Coping Tan Tock Seng with Life's Challenges HOSPITAL 7 February 2004, Saturday, 1.00 pm 5.00 pm A member af National He-aWrcore Group J Theatrette, Level I,Tan Tock Seng Hospital E3O pm Registration opm Welcome Address opm "Try Another Approach"
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      Lock icon Many Asian victims
      399 16 Agencies Saudi Arabia mulls restructuring of holy sites after stampede MINA (Saudi Arabia) The Saudi Press Agency reported that the country would set up a high-level committee to restructure Islam's holiest sites after the latest stampede. The group will draft a new layout for Mina and other
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      Lock icon 65 die in Iraq blast
      108 16 -AFP ARBIL (Iraq) On Sunday, two suicide bombers killed at least 65 people and wounded 200 who were celebrating a Muslim holiday at the offices of the main Kurdish political parties. Among those who died in the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and
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      Flawed intelligence
      342 25 MI6 and CIA to be blamed for failure to find WMD BRITISH and American intelligence services look set to share the blame for the spectacular failure to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. President George W Bush appears ready to order a full investigation of US
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        Lock icon Buy and sell politicians
        88 25 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter your Americans can fog on to www.PresidentialMarket.org and play Wall Street using politicians as shares of stock to be bought, sold and even sold short. Although the website's purpose is to educate as there are links to news items about the Presidential primaries, most
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        Lock icon Fake ice wine from China
        99 25 -AFP Counterfeit ice wines sold in parts of Asia are threatening legitimate Canadian exports of the sweet dessert wine. Ice wine is made from grapes frozen on the vine and picked at temperatures below minus 8 deg Celsius. Canada, Austria and Germany are the largest
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      511 26 Advertising Feature Your Child Can be a /t Super Achiever Adam Khoo shares his secrets on how any student can get from Cs to As From 'Unmotivated' to 'Super Achiever 1 Expelled in primary 3 and ending up in a neighbourhood school, Adam started out as an underachieving teen. After
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      30 26 YAM RICE IN THE POT All-in-one dish that is undemanding but delicious BUSYCOOK 30 DOCTOR-ON-CALL AT YOUR SERVICE A team of specialists now just a phone call away HEALTH 32
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Thinking out of the science box
      798 26  -  Koh Buck Song Singapore needs to take a leaf out of the MlT's book and not shun the arts THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced recently its new degrees being offered in Singapore. This caps many years of the Republic's effort to imbibe
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      260 27 If you love teaching and interacting with students, you should consider signing up for a Teacher Training Scheme, where you can pursue a diploma course and be trained as a teacher. After all, there aren't that many jobs that can fulfil your aspirations to teach what you love. The Ministry
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      156 28 TM f mis BffSBI v —Bi v .j EC Council Authorized Training Centre I if you are the security officers, f^S. r^cJlrH auditors, security professionals, A afi Nk site administrator and anyone who is Til ISHPI! 1 Ifi concerned about integrity of the network W WHlWll V infrastructure, then this
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    Lock icon Vic's secrets
    815 28  -  Elisa Chia F4's shy guy, Vie Chou, tells of wearing boxers to sleep and wanting to tie the knot before he's 30 ANDY Chou. Andy Chou Yu-min. Like it or not, that almost was the name you'd be idolising today. Well, it turned out that his agent did
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    Catch this odd couple on 5 tonight
    506 28  -  Yong Shu Chiang ON SCREEN, funnyman Mark Lee and popular DJ and host Suhaimi Yusof don't get along. They play bickering neighbours who get on each other's nerves in Police and Thief, the new series that debuts at Bpm tonight on MediaCorp TV
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      Yam rice in the pot
      305 30  -  Pauline D Loh An all-in-one dish that is undemanding but delicious IN JUST a few days, Chinese New Year will be officially over and we'll start to settle down to tackle new challenges in the year of the Golden Monkey. One of my resolutions is
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      RECIPE
      284 30 SAVOURY YAM RICE Ingredients: I small yam (about 400g) 1 OOg dried prawns, soaked 50g dried Chinese mushrooms, soaked 2 Chinese sausages or 6 fresh Oriental cocktail sausages I OOg groundnuts 4 shallots 1 bunch coriander leaves 2 cups rice I teaspoon concentrated chicken stock (optional) Salt and pepper
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      KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
      181 30 FLAVOURED RICE SAVOURY rice dishes are always popular, witness the proliferation of claypot rice stalls in the food courts and hawker centres. Cooking these at home will allow you to add or subtract ingredients according to your dietary preferences. All you need is a rice cooker, basically and
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      82 31 f\ Mw $jr<cx,*i y*^ Ufa The spice of life. At your fingertips. Tom Yum Kung Chicken Green Curry Chicken Red Curry Stir-Fried Chicken with Basil If variety is the spice of life, consider this a sumptuous spread. Thai Thai now brings the authentic tastes of Thailand, right to your dinner
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      67 32 V<fc <b°V HEALTHIER CHOICE SUPERMARKET Free He^ *29 Febr^iy. '^date I N^romo^/ PROMOTION w ith Cookbo I Eat All Foods In Moderation 6Feb SUP6rmark6t Healthier Choice Products I „r-,. I NTUC Fair Price Jurong Point ""e stoc/ro; "Ues Hsterf I 8 Feb Malaysia Dairy Industries Ks last) a I 2004
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      Doctor-On-Call ... at your service
      514 32  - Doctor-On-Call at your service Lynette Leong NO question is too trivial or embarrassing to ask the team of specialists behind the Doctor-On-Call programme. Callers can ask the doctors about issues related to the programme, such as diabetes, breast cancer and stress management Dr Tavintharan Subramaniam, a consultant endocrinologist from Alexandra
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      1522 34 Police and Thief j Journey Across Lesotho i Print to Screen I What Women Want.. Really Channel s,Bpm j Channel B,Bpm Geopatm I Channel News Asia, 8.32pm Lee Tok Kong, his wife Lily and their T^^fe*^*4^MM^ ■ow 'ne 1 Central, 10pm j For some women BH H4l iv." i lii
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