Today, 5 February 2004

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday February 5, 2004 > MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Lock icon FALLING RATES, RISING FEARS
    716 1  -  Tor Ching Li Ng Shing Vi Numbers suggest baby bonus schemes not working SINGAPORE is fast running short of its only available natural resource: Singaporeans. And the problem is becoming so acute that public officials are painting a scenario of a country made up of more
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    Lock icon 'Bring it on', says front-runner Kerry to Bush
    582 1  -  Tay Tsen-Waye With agencies waye@newstoday.com.sg JUST a month ago, he was barely a blip on the US presidential race radar. Today, he has pulled well ahead of the early favourites for the Democratic ticket to the White House. On Tuesday, Mr John
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      41 1 NEWSX\YIEWS Cheng Shoong Tat Why not depoliticise Chinese and let parents make the call?/3 New therapy? Yoga helps heart patients, says novel study/6 Michael Backman Predicts a year of instability for Indonesia/24 MAURITIUS The Great Family Escape gs^li^ I f +traueller|
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  • HOT NEWS
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      D-Day for Übin birds
      388 2  -  Ted Chen 700 chickens to be slaughtered by tomorrow if not sold TOMORROW is D-Day for the poultry on Pulau Übin. With the exception of a few birds, such as songbirds reared in cages, the island's 700 head of poultry will be rounded up and taken
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      Open up Chinese B syllabus
      543 3  -  Cheng Shoong Tat NEWSssnunsD^H It will depoliticise the language and allow the global economy to dictate its path news@newstoday.com.sg SINCE the majority of Chinese Singaporean parents decided to send their children to English schools instead of Chinese-medium schools, the Chinese language has been surviving largely
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      Thai Air Asia to fly to S'pore this month
      181 3 THAI Air Asia, a budget carrier venture of the Shin Corp and Malaysia's Air Asia, will be allowed to fly between Bangkok and Singapore this month, becoming the first discount carrier to operate here. Air Asia's chief executive officer Tony Fernandes
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      Dr Khan pleads for clemency
      436 4 In sudden twist, scientist takes blame for nuke scandal ISLAMABAD In a bizarre development, the disgraced father of Pakistan's nuclear programme yesterday pleaded for clemency from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan accepted full responsibility for the weapons proliferation scandal and asked for
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      Lock icon Samsui women get another reunion dinner
      96 4 WONG KHING CHONG Singapore's samsui women had a second Chinese New Year reunion dinner last night at the Kreta Ayer Community Centre, thanks to the generosity of some women MPs. Some of the MPs at the dinner were (from left} MPs Penny Low, Lim
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Malaysia denies Libya links
        89 4 AFP Malaysian police chief Bakri Omar yesterday denied his country had been involved in producing nuclear components for Libya, but said a Sri Lankan businessman identified only as "Tahir" by US and British intelligence was under investigation for being an alleged middleman. Allegations that Malaysia had
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        Lock icon WHO hazy over bird flu deaths
        142 4 Agencies It was a day of rising death toll from the bird flu virus and confusing signals. As the death toll in Asia from the deadly bird flu hit 16, the World Health Organization IWHO) sought to dampen fears of the disease. It said
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Mild form of Sars exists: Study
      357 6  -  Tan Hui Leng A BREAKTHROUGH study of healthcare workers at the National University Hospital (NUH) has confirmed that it is possible to suffer from a mild version of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Two healthcare workers who tested positive for Sars antibodies in their blood
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      Clearer arteries through yoga
      487 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Expert aims to start 'Rajyoga' programme here IT'S all in the mind. Well, almost all in the mind. A one-year study of heart patients in India has found that yoga therapy and the positive thinking it produces can help reduce the size of
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      Go online for marriage certificate
      183 6 SINGAPOREAN couples can now go online to obtain copies of their marriage certificate or change the date and venue of the solemnisation ceremony. And non-Singaporeans, too, can now apply online to get married at the Registry of Marriages (ROM) or Registry of Muslim Marriages (Romm).
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  • LETTERS
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      Irreversible ploy to sell more tickets
      346 8  -  Ms Lee Sin Yee Why is film being shown in popular cinema? The uncut version of the French film, Irreversible, has sparked off discussion since its screening in local cinemas. Although the main issue is whether locals can accept such a controversial film, I
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      Scene offensive to conservative S'poreans
      154 8  -  Haw Pei Ling I REFER to the report, "Can Singapore stomach this?" (Today, Jan 27). I don't see how a nine-minute rape scene can be "contextually relevant and not exploitative", when it is obvious that the movie is relying on it at the box office.
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      No bird flu vaccine in local chickens: AVA
      127 8  -  Goh Shih Yong WE REFER to Mr Leong Yit Chun's letter, "Are bird flu vaccines silently harmful to humans?" (Today, Feb 02). We would like to assure Mr Leong that poultry and eggs in Singapore are safe for consumption. The Agri-Food and
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Manufacturing activity slips
      350 10  -  Suresh Mark Kumar Analysts attribute it to Chinese New Year holidays A KEY barometer of Singapore's manufacturing activity slipped unexpectedly to 53.8 last month from 54.5 in December. Economists were expecting the Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) to be slightly better than that of the previous month. A
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      Lock icon SembLog nearly triples earnings to $91m
      176 10 Dow Jones SEMBCORP Logistics, South-east Asia's largest listed logistics group, reported yesterday a tripling of its net profit for last year on the back of a strong growth in its supply chain management business and a jump in earnings from affiliates. The group's net
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      Govt plans to spend $700m on IT this year
      166 10  -  Chan Chao Peh THE Government plans to award $700 million worth of contracts for information technology related goods and services this year. Out of this $700 million, 70 per cent has been budgeted for hardware like new computers, servers, and software
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        ST Index- 1834.64 -10.49
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        Lock icon Singapore
        215 10 Dow Jones SHARES ended lower yesterday for the second consecutive session, weighed down by selling in heavyweight bank stocks DBS Group and United Overseas Bank. Traders said investors cashed out of DBS and UOB on concerns that their valuations had risen too quickly ahead of fundamentals. The ST Index
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        SGX most active
        57 10 fy volume Cosco Corp ipeedy-Tech \EM-EVER ixcelpoint SingTel lapan Asia Celestial -rontline iingPost Close 0.850 0.890 0.415 0.620 0.385 2.080 0.100 0.470 0.180 0.725 Change +0.060 +0.015 +0.015 +0.050 -0.010 +0.010 -0.005 +0.005 +0.025 +7.6 +1.7 +3.8 +8.8 -2.5 +0.5 -1.1 +2.9 +3.6 '000 68,108 57,321 48,357
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        SGX top rises
        78 10 fy Close Changi losco CorRCCPS*****4 4.120 +0.521 JairyFarm 900 USS 1.760 +0.101 :&N 13.000 +0.101 XBC 12.400 +0.101 iPHlOO 18.900 +0.101 \SJ 0.820 +0.071 \USSINO 0.540 +0.061 losco Corp 0.850 +0.061 3P Bat 3.840 +0.061 )y percentage Close i WaDekor USS 0.065 Changi +30.1 IhipEngS W*****2 0.025
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        SGX top falls
        80 10 )y$ Close Change iukil Sem 14.600 -1.200 Creative 50 18.900 -0.300 DBS 14.900 -0.300 fhai Prime200USS 10.200 -0.300 IMH 400USS 9.000 -0.200 ihang Asia 2kHK$ 7.800 -0.200 JOB 13.800 -0.200 :iTYDEV 6.500 -0.150 iingamasC 2kHK$ 3.750 -0.150 By percentage Globa Close 0.020 Change -20.0 LCDev 0.090 -18.2
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        World markets
        54 10 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.25 Change Pis -194.67 -1.83 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.50 3279.80 6241.39 -7.51 +2.0% -10.84 -0.06 +0.06 -0.17 Korea Comp 835.5 -4.37 -0.52 KLCI 804.83 -14.11 -1.72 SET Index 718.06 +18.31 +2.62 lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 730.28 1441.12 300.22 -0.04 +3.45
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 10 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 400.300 Silver uss/oi 6.095 Platinum uss/oi 821.500 Rubber centsAg 213.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1796 Brent crude uss/barrel 29.75 Information provided by
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5907 UK£ 0.3212 Yen 62.316 HK$ 4.593 RM 2.245 Euro 0.4709 Rupiah 4994.4 Baht 23.073 Peso 33.063 A$ 0.7715 Indian Rs 26.756 Won 690.10 C$ 0.7898 Yuan 4.8894 NZ$ 0.8673 NTS 19.676
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      Work to continue on leaning building in Church Street
      185 12 THE contractors of the building at 3, Church Street, which was found to have a slight tilt of 0.1 degree, have reached an agreement with its joint owners to complete construction by the end of next year, after a delay of
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      Lock icon EDB woos Chinese hi-tech firms
      280 12 Dow Jones Electronics to remain key contributor as Spore plans to draw $8b in manufacturing investments this year THE United States, Japan and Europe will continue to account for the majority of investments in Singapore's electronics sector, but the Economic Development Board (EDB) hopes to
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      Lock icon SIA may post $315m Q3 profit
      266 15 Bloomberg Return of travellers leads to analysts' optimistic forecast SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) may report its second quarterly profit since last year's Sars outbreak, as more businessmen and tourists return to the skies. SIA may report $315 million in net income for the third quarter
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    • Article
      Lock icon Macquarie may buy ING Asian equities
      101 15 Bloomberg MACQUARIE Bank, Australia's only listed investment bank, said it was in talks to buy the Asian equities businesses of ING Groep NY, the biggest Dutch finan-cial-services company. Macquarie may buy the equity sales, trading, research and equity underwriting businesses of ING's Asian operations,
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      Smart card operating systems maker seeks listing
      182 15  -  Suresh Mark Kumar HOME-GROWN I'M Technologies lodged its preliminary listing prospectus last week with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The company, which develops smart card operating systems and applications programmes for the telecommunications industry, hopes to float its shares in the coming weeks.
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      Lock icon US to face pressure on dollar, deficits at G7 meeting
      381 16 AFP Europeans, Japanese want statement to reverse the dollar's slide: Experts WASHINGTON The United States will be pressured by the Europeans and Japanese at the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) meeting to stabilise the flagging US dollar, analysts say. Economists
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      Lock icon M'sia's Dec trade surplus hits $2.7b
      114 16 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia posted a trade surplus of RM6.I billion ($2.7 billion) in December, as both exports and imports reached their highest monthly values. Fuelled by growth in intermediate and capital goods, imports soared 36 per cent to RM32.6 billion, compared to that
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      Lock icon China Power to hire Deutsche, Merrill for $1,7b IPO
      104 16 Bloomberg CHINA Power International, controlled by one of the five biggest power generators in China, is set to hire Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch to manage its US$l billion ($1.7 billion) initial public offer, bankers involved in the sale said. China
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      Lock icon Fed official tips 2004 growth above 4%
      167 16 AFP WASHINGTON A senior Federal Reserve official, Mr Michael Moskow, predicted the US economy would beat private forecasts of 4 per cent growth this year without a substantial rise in inflation. "The consensus of private sector economists now expects real GDP growth to
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      266 15 r SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY Master of Science in Applied Finance 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 in Applied Finance, a critical training need
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      22 16 [if*! KENTRIDGEI I 1 LANGUAGE SCHOOL Arabic Japanese Cantonese Korean Chinese Malay English Shanghainese French Spanish German Tamil Hindi Thai Indonesian Vietnamese
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Lock icon Is China still a good bet?
      634 18 Risks abound, but opportunities offered by the world's fastest-growing economy cannot be ignored MS FLAVIA Cheong, who manages the Aberdeen China Opportunities Fund, shares her views on China with Mr Vasu Menon, vice-president and chief editor of finatiQ Bank of Singapore (www.finatiq.com). The Aberdeen
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2197 18 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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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Foot-and-mouth disease in China
      230 20 -AFP 87 head of cattle put down in June last year BEIJING China is facing allegations that it is trying to cover up a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. Canadian businessman Jack Tang said Chinese officials had shot 87 head of cattle at his dairy farm in south-western
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      Lock icon Ricin-laced letter mailed to White House
      243 20 AFP WASHINGTON As the US capital went on alert for a bio-terror attack yesterday, authorities here revealed that they had intercepted a letter to the White House three months ago containing the deadly ricin poison. "The substance tested positive for ricin. However it was
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        Lock icon Rais denies Saddam handout
        65 20 AFP Leading Indonesian politician and presidential hopeful, Mr Amien Rais, denied reports that he had taken oil handouts from the regime of then-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the Koran Tempo newspaper reported yesterday. Mr Rais is one of more than 200 world leaders and organisations, including Indonesian
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        Lock icon Fumes from cat faeces lay vet low
        77 20 Reuters A vet sent to inspect a strong stench coming from an uninhabited rural cottage in south-west Sweden, collapsed, as he was poisoned by fumes from the faeces of some 20 cats locked inside for months, the Goteborgs-Posten newspaper reported. The vet spent
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      Lock icon White House hits back at accusers
      284 22 Agencies It says Bush did not avoid combat duty in Vietnam WASHINGTON The White House mounted a rare, election-year counterattack on Tuesday at opposition Democrats accusing President George W Bush of skirting military duty during the Vietnam War. "It is outrageous and baseless. I
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      Lock icon Warning of more terror attacks in region
      173 22 -AFP NUSA DUA (Indonesia) South-east Asia should brace for more terrorist attacks which are inevitable, said Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer yesterday. He told a regional counter-terrorism conference on the bomb-scarred Indonesian resort island of Bali that "South-east Asia remains a front line
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Thieves with a heart?
        49 22 -AP Malaysian police on the trail of twins who have stolen luxury cars worth nearly RM4.5 million ($2 million) are investigating whether they're making large donations to orphanages. The 25-year-old pair heads a gang that steals Mercedes Benz and BMW cars, The Star reported yesterday.
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        Lock icon Iraq's capability 'overstated'
        33 22 Agencies Some British intelligence officials believed Iraq's weapons capability was overstated in a government dossier used to justify war, former intelligence official Dr Brian Jones wrote in The Independent yesterday.
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  • COMMENTARY
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      A year of electoral uncertainties
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      393 28  -  YONG SHU CHIANG Body-swap comedy lifted by Curtis and Lohan DVD REVIEWby Freaky Friday Video Van THIS being a remake that employs the same body-switching premise that has resulted in several mediocre films, Freaky Friday is surprisingly fresh and thoroughly enjoyable. Made nearly 30 years after the original,
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      234 28  -  YONG SHU CHIANG DVD REVIEWby" Comstar Siii in 1860s Norway, this gothic drama about a woman whose traumatic childhood makes her headstrong and wild is a difficult film to sit through. An early scene, which shows a horrific accident that kills Dina's (Maria Bonnevie) mother, exposes the
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        538 31  -  Pauline D Loh FAIRPRICE SMART SHOPPER Unpolished rice can be made very tasty if it's cooked right ONE of the best remembered vignettes of my childhood was eating unpolished rice porridge. It took me hours to finish and earned me the wrath of my nanny. It was
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