Today, 20 February 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Friday February 20, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 192 1 -AFP HOUSTON (Texas) Former Enron chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling (picture) was charged with 35 counts of fraud and insider trading yesterday in connection with the spectacular collapse of the energy trader in a web of accounting scandals in 2001. The former number two
      -AFP; REUTERS  -  192 words
    • 41 1 Reuters NEW YORK US stocks fell yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 7.26 points at 10,664.73, the S&P 500 Index finished down 4.76 points at 1,147.06 and the Nasdaq Composite Tnde-x fell 30.51 points at 2,045.96.
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    • 546 1  -  TeoHweeNak Just get on the bandwagon and in-source IF YOU can't beat them, join them. This is the tactic Singapore should adopt as outsourcing picks up pace around the world, said industry players. And this is exactly what companies in Singapore are doing. Increasingly, Singapore businesses
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 596 2  -  Derrick A Paulo Institution hopes to open its doors to 550 students in April FOR three hours every week, students at this international school will be able to ride horses and get tips from a horse trainer. Sounds like the usual expensive school only
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    • 479 2  -  Loh Chee Kong THE findings are worrying: One in three Singapore youths aged 15 to 29 sees nothing wrong with face-to-face meetings with someone first encountered online, while 39 per cent have actually done so. These findings from
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    • 759 3  -  Adrian Tan |\IEWS£S!S!S£B! I WAS wondering why senior politicians were reminding Singaporeans to have faith in their abilities. Was this another one of what critics of the Government call a "manufactured" crisis to keep us from being complacent? But our almost Cultural Revolution self-criticism about the arrogant
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    • 320 4 Agencies Bush unfair to single out M'sia with nuke scandal KUALA LUMPUR The diplomatic fallout is continuing over American statements associating Malaysia with the covert production of nuclear weapons, with Kuala Lumpur lodging an official protest with the United States charge d'affaires. Mr Robert Pollard was summoned
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    • 188 4 KUALA LUMPUR A series of important political meetings chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has fuelled speculations that the general election is fast approaching. Mr Abdullah met with state Umno liaison chiefs yesterday to receive a list of proposed candidates, reported The Star
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 99 4 Newsßadio 93.8 An officer with the National Environment Agency has been charged with corruption and cheating. Mr Lim Choong Hiang allegedly tipped off an illegal hawker about impending raids around the Woodlands MRT station. Mr Lim also lied to the hawker that the bread he
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      • 78 4 The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore and the AttorneyGeneral's Chambers are planning to fine-tune the country's regulations for business transactions over the Internet. The revisions to the Electronic Transactions Act will bring it in line with international developments and the ongoing work of the United
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      • 86 4 You can now buy eggs imported from Australia at selected NTUC Fair Price outlets. The supermarket chain is the first to bring in such eggs as an alternative to those from Malaysia and local farms. The move is also to prepare for the worst-case
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 326 6  -  Samten Wangchuk DESPERATELY in need of inner balance, stressed-out Singaporeans aren't just going gaga over yoga. This May, Fort Canning Hill will once again be the site of the "Harmony in Nature" Holistic Living Spring Festival Singapore's fourth exhibition of natural and alternative healing
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    • 603 6  -  Joy Frances Doctor accused of threats, altering patient records THE allegations were many. He had threatened to "chop" her and to kill both of them. He had left her without an identity card for months by "snatching" her wallet And, on one occasion, he
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    • 200 6  -  Tay Tsen-Waye MIA, 23, describes herself as "a ditzy kind of gal", but do not call her a "bimbo". She believes it is her "wit and humour" that has taken her 10 weeks closer to pocketing US$5,OOO ($8,363) in cash prizes
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    • 508 8  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Tourism agency wants to 'internationalise' local delicacies SOME do it with table tennis (remember the 1970s "ping-pong diplomacy" between America and China?), while others do it in a more sinister way through "weapons-grade chumminess". Singapore does it with the easi-est-to-proliferate material
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    • 222 8 Channel News Asia ISLAMIC banking, medical services, food manufacturing these are just some of the business opportunities Bahrain is offering Singapore businessmen. The Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry presented these opportunities to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong during a meeting. It also proposed that
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    • 194 8 Newsßadio 93.8 SINGAPORE and Malaysia have successfully completed an emergency exercise aimed at tackling chemical accidents. The exercise simulated an incident involving a prime mover carrying ammonia across the Tuas Second Link to Singapore. This is the fourth such exercise jointly held by Singapore's
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  • LETTERS
    • 411 10  -  Leong Sze Hian Should students pay for ez-link facility? I REFER to the article, "The e-way to save and spend" (Today, Feb 19), which stated students can only buy items from their primary school's canteen using their ez-link cards and they have to pay $24 a year
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    • 352 10 I REFER to Mr Andrew Ting Kok Liang's letter, "Booking rate for Sundial project was 70%, not 'insufficient' (Today, Feb 12). Under the Build-to-Order (BTO) system, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) will proceed to construct the flats only if the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 327 12  -  Emril Shafeeq Jamil Share price doubles to 56 cents on Ist trading day MAINBOARD debutant Unified Communications hogged the limelight yesterday on the Singapore Exchange, doubling to 56 cents from its IPO price of 28 cents and topping the list of most activelytraded stocks with
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    • 100 12 Agencies LONDON-BASED Millennium Copthorne Hotels reported profit after tax of £16.8 million ($53.5 million) for the year ended Dec 31, down from £45.8 million in the year earlier. The company, which is 52 per centowned by Singapore-based City Developments (CDL), said it expects
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    • 239 12 Bloomberg GES International reported a net profit of $1 0.2 million, or 1.42 cents a share, for its second quarter ended Dec 31, from $7.4 million, or 1.03 cents a share, from a year ago. Revenue rose 23.5 per cent to $154.5 million, up from $125 million. Bright Orient
      — Bloomberg  -  239 words
    • 167 12 ROBINSON'S chief executive officer Peter Husum has sold all his shares in the retailer, the company said. Mr Husum, 59, who is also Robinson's managing director, sold 145,200 shares for $1.2 million in total. The shares were sold over the last two days,
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    • MarketWATCH
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      • 204 12 Dow Jones SHARES ended slightly higher yesterday in cautious trade ahead or key corporate earnings, traders said. The ST Index inched up 1.45 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 1,889.96. Gainers led losers 1 68 to 143. Volume slipped to 1.1 billion shares worth $928.7 million, from 1.2 billion
        — Dow Jones  -  204 words
      • 52 12 By volume Close Change '000 Unified UnitedTAC Bio-Treat SingTel PFood PCI AddvalTech ChinaFlexP MMI UniFood 0.560 1.030 0.980 2.310 1.450 0.800 0.165 0.925 0.420 0.605 +0.035 +0.030 +0.010 +0.150 +0.120 +0.010 +0.030 +3.5 +3.2 +0.4 +11.5 +17.6 +2.4 +5.2 229,580 54,339 38,477 34,161 28,928 27,994 24,079 21,557
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      • 75 12 By$ Close Change Noble 4.000 +0.380 NalSleel 2.550 +0.230 CMShekou 100 HKS 6.000 +0.200 Transmarco 1.180 +0.160 CITYDEV 6.850 +0.150 PFood 1.450 +0.150 ChinaAvOil 2.000 +0.120 PCI 0.800 +0.120 DBS Bk6% NCPS10 107.300 +0.100 F&N 13.100 +0.100 By percentage Wee Poh Close Change 0.020 +33.3 LHT 0.085
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      • 76 12 By$ Close Change DBS 15.800 -0.200 SPH 18.500 -0.200 KepCorp 6.750 -0.150 Robinson 8.350 -0.150 OCBC4.55SNCPS100 101.000 -0.100 SPH 100 18.600 -0.100 Thai Prime200USS 11.700 -0.100 UOI 3.380 -0.100 Venture 21.400 -0.100 GeneMedix 0.840 -0.080 By percentage L&M Close Change 0.010 -33.3 Globa 0.020 -20.0 TMC Inl
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      • 54 12 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.80 Change Pis +76.99 +0.72 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.22 3366.90 6681.52 -61.16 +1.70 +75.67 -0.44 +0.05 +1.15 Korea Comp 881.65 +4.55 +0.52 KLCI 858.66 +1.51 +0.18 SET Index 732.97 -9.36 -1.26 lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 789.43 1473.14 303.03 +3.52 +1.02
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      • 26 12 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 410.300 Silver uss/oi 6.635 Platinum uss/oz 856.000 Rubber centsAg 217 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1931 Brent crude uss/barrel 31.49 Information provided by
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      • 36 12 US$ 0.596 UK£ 0.3155 Yen 63.6223 HK$ 4.6313 RM 2.2644 Euro 0.4697 Rupiah 5016.836 Baht 23.2754 Peso 33.4635 A$ 0.7547 Indian Rs 26.9823 Won 688.6826 C$ 0.7883 Yuan 4.9328 NZ$ 0.8514 NTS 19.7354
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    • 603 14  -  Suresh Mark Kumar Industry to employ 10,000 by then, says PhilipYeo THE Economic Development Board (EDB) hopes the $11 billion biomedical sciences (BMS) industry will expand to about $20 billion by 2010, as more companies are attracted to set up shop in
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    • 406 16  -  Kevin Tan Initiatives for access to debt and equity markets on the anvil SMALL- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may soon be able to tap a greater variety of financing through new initiatives being spearheaded by the Government In the pipeline are initiatives that
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    • 154 16 NTUC Income reported a surplus of $428 million for its life insurance business last year, turning around from a $108 million loss in the previous year. Its general and health insurance business achieved a surplus of $72 million, compared to a $10
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    • 170 16  -  Dow Jones METRO Holdings will invest US$47 million ($79 million) by subscribing to 400 million preference shares in unlisted Hong Kong company Shui On Land. The senior and junior preference shares, which Metro will hold through a subsidiary, will be converted
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    • 181 16  -  mm KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian finance minister Daim Zainuddin is in talks with Temasek Holdings to sell his family-con-trolled Alliance Bank, The Asian Wall Street Journal reported, quoting sources familiar with the discussions. The proposed deal reinforces the improvement in bilateral relations between
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    • 302 16  -  Chan Chao Peh THE global aviation industry faces the urgent task of persuading national governments to standardise legislation so that they will be able to respond more quickly and effectively to security threats, according to officials from airline IT systems provider Sita. Sita
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    • 371 18 Agencies TOKYO Japan said yesterday it had signed a US$2-billion (553.37-billion) deal with Iran to develop the massive Azadegan oil field in an effort to secure stable oil supplies, as the United States expressed "deep concern" over the development Japan, which relies
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    • 96 18 -AFP LONDON The Anglo-Dutch oil major, Royal Dutch/Shell, said yesterday it was being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) following its shock decision last month to downgrade a fifth of its proved oil and gas reserves. The SEC in Washington, following standard
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    • 64 18 Agencies SYDNEY Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways surprised the market yesterday when it reported a profit of A 5357.8 million ($475.7 million) for the six months ended Dec 31, up 1.5 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier. The result marked a significant turnaround
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    • 936 22  -  Dr Eric Tea Commentary The financial stakes, risks and stability of the region will be put to test this year IN THE Chinese Year of the Monkey, it is widely believed that the economies of North-east Asia should be relatively sound and stable despite the threat
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    • ISSUES AT PLAY IN THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY
      • 51 22 Beijing is injecting large amounts of state funds into the banking sector. The economy may topple over if its financial system collapses. Given the weakness of the Chinese financial system, the developmenl of a local bond market is crucial. Hence, the significance of the planned World Bank yuan bond
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      • 45 22 There is now an acute awareness that credit may have spun out of control. It is believed that a considerable sum of this credit may result in bad debts, which may have to be written off or absorbed by a weak financial system.
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      • 27 22 Keeping the yen down through massive Bank of Japan intervention is difficult. Securing present and future financing for tne near-bankrupt pension fund is another domestic challenge.
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      • 32 22 Japan, S Korea and China are expected to help "prop up" the moribund North Korea economy and prevent it from collapsing. Reconstruction of that economy would entail a hefty bill.
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    • 643 24  -  Vasu Menon JAPAN'S unexpectedly strong fourth quarter economic growth rate, released on Wednesday, should have excited the stock market. Instead, the Nikkei 225 index fell 24.32 points to 10,676.81 on Wednesday, as investors remained unimpressed by the strong economic performance posted by the world's
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 398 26 Agencies Quits US presidential race after losing all 17 primaries WASHINGTON One-time presidential hopeful Howard Dean ended his roller-coaster bid for the White House on Wednesday, completing his spectacular plunge from the pinnacle of politics he was at only a couple k of months ago. "I am
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    • 120 26 -AFP BEIJING China's ruling Communist Party yesterday published an exhaustive list of taboo activities in a bid to root out corruption and abuse of power. Besides the usual political no-nos punishable with expulsion, such as opposing Marxism, Leninism, Maoism and Deng Xiaoping's ideologies, the
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    • 141 26 -AFP KHORASSAN (Iran) Officials in Iran started investigating yesterday how scores of railway wagons loaded with chemicals, fuel and fertiliser managed to roll out of control, derail and explode. The blast on Wednesday killed 295 people and injured 450. "We currently have a death
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    • 207 26 -AFP BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called for an emergency security meeting yesterday following fresh attacks in the Muslim-dominated south which killed three people. A series of six violent attacks on Wednesday night in the provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat left three people
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    • 106 26 Agencies A supporter of presidential front-runner and action movie hero Fernando Poe Jr helping a woman to her feet after a crowd was dispersed with water canons during a protest yesterday. Hundreds of riot police battled the rock-throwing supporters, stopping them from marching to the Supreme Court,
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    • 377 30 Chirac, Schroeder and Blair for united front to rival US BERLIN Britain, France and Germany made a united call on Wednesday for urgent European Union (EU) economic and social reforms if they want to rival the economic might of the United States. At a trilateral
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 52 30 AFP The death toll from Indonesia's dengue fever outbreak rose to 175 yesterday and a health official warned that floods beginning to inundate Jakarta and other cities would worsen the situation. The outbreak spread to four more provinces and has infected 8,735 people since
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      • 68 30 AFP North Korea is willing to address its alleged uranium enrichment programme through a third country with the US at the six-nation talks in Beijing next week, the Yonhap news agency reported yesterday, quoting an unnamed top N Korear government official. A day earlier, US envoy John
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      • 59 30 AFP UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday ruled out elections in Iraq before US forces hand over control on June 30. Elections have to be properly organised; the conditions have to be right with security and the political and legal instruments must be ready for
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    • 131 30 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Top environment officials from 100 countries vowed yesterday to curb the extinction of endangered species by 2010, warning that human activity was causing the planet's diversity of life to be "lost an at unprecedented rate". The delegates, wrapping up a two-week UN-backed
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    • 89 32 REUTERS Mr Park Ji-woo, director of Netian Entertainment, which produced South Korean actress Lee Seungyeon's nude photographs, burning photographs and videotapes of the actress in Seoul yesterday. The company, which produced the material under the theme of "comfort women", burnt all pictures and video tapes
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    • 410 32 Agencies She was on the run for nearly 15 years LOS ANGELES It was no secret, friends and neighbours say, that the 17-year-old boy who lived with his mother in a tiny, nondescript apartment in the San Fernando Valley had a father in Canada
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    • 143 32 Reuters WASHINGTON Two Pentagon offices that critics say twisted intelligence to bolster the case for Iraq war are facing fresh scrutiny as the defence department defended the groups as completely benign. At issue are the activities of the Office of Special Plans and
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    • 381 34 Agencies Furious settlers demand Sharon's resignation over withdrawal steps JERUSALEM About 3,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip marched on Jerusalem on Wednesday, calling for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's resignation over his plan to shut down their settlements and withdraw from Gaza. The protesters,
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    • 167 34 PROVIDENCE (Rhode Island) The size of the award is meagre, yet it has drawn plenty of applicants and media attention. And the controversy surrounding the scholarship is not over the sum of money involved US$25O ($420) but the fact that it is a whitesonly scholarship. Critics charge
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    • 432 39 -AFP People power stops one of Hong Kong's oldest districts from being destroyed by the wrecking ball HONG KONG Among Hong Kong's gleaming skyscrapers and huge futuristic shopping centres lie pockets of the old city: Ancient quarters, historic buildings and preserved streets which offer
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    • 170 68 Reuters LONDON Cricket's ruling body is commissioning research into the bowling action of spinners, to counter suggestions that certain bowlers are being protected. Sri Lanka's ace off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, who has taken 485 Test wickets, has been a particular target of Australian critics, who
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    • 900 70 Agencies Gerrard is the new midfield automaton and Liverpool's biggest challenge is to keep him SVEN Goran Eriksson says he always learns something from an international friendly. Apart from discovering that in Ledley King, he has a new contender in the centre-back stakes, what else
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