Today, 9 March 2004

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    15 1 TODAY we set you thinking X o o oC v H o o o o
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    TEN WOMEN ONE VOICE
    734 1  -  Ng Shing Vi PAP's women MPs band together to be Visible force' THEY want to be a "visible force", a stronger voice for women and particularly professional women and others normally too busy to offer their thoughts and concerns to the policy makers. They are the
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    Motorola to close its Singapore chip design centre
    170 1  -  Emril Shafeeq Jamil US COMMUNICATIONS giant Motorola is shutting down its semiconductor chip-design units in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It is expected to move them to India and China. The company told Today the move is to lower the cost of
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      28 1 NEWSX\YIEWS MPs plea Cut costs in right areas/2 Oon Yeoh Lim Kit Siang's last hurrah/3 Fighter jets How Mindef chose just three aircraft/6 NOTFOR THE FAINTHEARTED/31 SSjuy^ IS
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      Lock icon Sloshing in the rain
      94 2 TREVOR TAN Heavy rain wreaked havoc in Singapore yesterday, causing flash floods which left traffic crawling from the early hours of the morning. While pedestrians and drivers have difficulty negotiating the flooded paths along Kelantan Road (above), a Public Utilities Board statement said the worst hit
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      Cut costs in right areas
      618 2  -  Lee Ching Wern Look at out-dated schemes, not small amenities, MPs urge Govt WITH most ministries forced to tighten their purse strings from this year, MPs have warned against taking the easy way out of a longstanding problem. If not careful, cost-cutting could eat into
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        Lock icon Last hurrah for Lim Kit Siang
        628 3  -  Oon Yeoh DAP chairman faces 'make or break' test in polls that could end his 35-year political career THROUGHOUT much of the 70s, '80s and '90s, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) was the main opposition party in Malaysia with its seasoned leader, Mr Lim
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      Democracy alive and well in M'sia
      296 4 But a bigger mandate for BN will bring more: PM BUTTERWORTH (Malaysia) Instead of showing displeasure upon seeing opposition posters and banners as he toured Malaysia, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi took the opportunity to point out the state of democracy in the country.
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        Lock icon Commonwealth war heroes remembered
        75 4 Channel News Asia Australia's Governor General Michael Jeffery is in Singapore on a four-day visit and yesterday, he laid a wreath at the Kranji War Memorial where over 6,000 men and women of the Commonwealth and Allied Forces are buried. Despite the rain, expatriates from Down
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        Lock icon US, S'pore talk defence
        111 4 Channel News Asia US Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge and Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan discussed the threat of terrorism in the region and the security measures taken by both countries when they met yesterday. Dr Tan, who is also Co-ordinating Minister for Security
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      Lock icon PAS leader's son hospitalised
      163 4 -AFP I KUALA LUMPUR The fate of 16 detained Islamic militants who launched a hunger strike loomed larger after the son of the opposition Islamic party's (PAS) spiritual leader was hospitalised. Mr Nik Adli, son of Mr Nik Aziz Mat, was hospitalised on Sunday after refusing
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      Lock icon Forthe sake of better 'four'tunes
      146 4 -AFP BEIJING Officials in Guangdong province have decided to delete the number four, traditionally considered unlucky, from the licence plates of cars, drawing flak for encouraging superstition. "Four" sounds like "death" in the local Cantonese dialect and Mandarin, causing many car owners to shy away
      -AFP  -  146 words
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      28 2 SCHUMI WARY OF SEPANG First real test will come in Malaysia, says six-time world champion SPORTS 29 Flexible work plans help mums to care for family: Page 8
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  • HOME NEWS
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      WHICH ONE OF THESE WILL DEFEND SINGAPORE'S SKIES?
      62 6 F-15E Country: United States Manufacturer: Boeing Value-add: Well-tested in combat. Mindef satisfied with what the jet can do. RAFALE Country: France Manufacturer: Dassault Aviation Value-add: A regular at Asian Aerospace. 'Long and steady' relationship with France. EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON Country: UK, Germany, Italy
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      To shop for a fighter jet
      584 6  -  Derrick A Paulo How Mindef narrowed down the choice to just three aircraft PLEASE buy 20 fighter planes to defend Singapore. P.S. We want technology transfer, something that can be upgraded and it must be cost-effective. In a nutshell, these could have been the
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      Lock icon Jammed gun: Wrong procedures
      206 6 Channel NewsAsia TWO army safety officers made a mistake during a live-firing exercise last month, resulting in an explosion in a machine gun which injured four Singapore Armed Forces' servicemen. Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean said if they are found to be negligent, disciplinary action will
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      Flexible work plans help mums to care for family
      326 8 TO ENCOURAGE procreation, it was suggested that mothers should be allowed to take four or six months of maternity leave. Some employers complained that this would disrupt their work and require them to train a temporary employee to cover the work
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      Impose disincentives on women to increase births
      196 8  -  Robert Oei I REFER to the article "Why not women in NS?" (Weekend Today, March 6-7). I believe that the core reason for the declining fertility rate lies in the priorities and values embraced by our young, educated and liberated women of today.
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      Paternity leave a boon, says mum
      270 8  -  Goh Chee Leng SECOND Minister for Finance Mr Lim Hng Kiang's comment on men staying home "doing nothing" is extremely disturbing. When our first baby was born in 2000, my husband took one month's leave after the confinement nanny left to take care of
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      Correction
      140 8 IN OUR report "How to inspect and maintain your windows" (Today, March 8), we said that HDB would be replacing aluminium rivets in casement windows with durable stainless steel ones and that it would be sharing half the cost on a goodwill basis, with lessees having to pay $40.
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      Lock icon DBS Thai Danu agrees to merge
      404 10  -  Emril Shafeeq Jamil Proposed merger with 2 other Thai banks will give parent DBS 16.1% stake in enlarged entity DBS Group will soon end up with a 16.1 per cent stake in the fifth largest bank in Thailand by assets, following the proposed merger
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      UOB expands reach to the super-rich
      215 10  -  Chan Chao Peh UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) aims to double its number of high net worth customers, as it taps into the rising number of rich customers in Asia. "We want to grow our fee-based income, we want to grow our regional presence," said
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    • marketWATCH
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        World markets
        59 11 ndex Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Wumbai Sensex Value *****.86 *****.54 425.50 6901.48 900.10 880.85 704.46 772.86 1468.76 283.88 5935.19 Change Pis -34.43 +118.78 +9.20 -42.20 -5.28 -5.30 +3.87 -5.14 -2.89 -9.64 +54.84 -0.30 +0.88
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 11 US$ 0.5777 UK£ 0.3129 Yen 64.7264 HK$ 4.5003 RM 2.1954 Euro 0.4672 Rupiah 4951.18 Baht 22.8061 Peso 32.4831 A$ 0.7607 Indian Rs 26.154 Won 677.6244 C$ 0.7638 Yuan 4.782 NZ$ 0.8567 NTS 19.3024
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        Commodities
        21 11 Gold uss/oi 400.00 Silver uss/oi 6.955 Platinum uss/oi 894.00 Rubber centsAg 231.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 2009.50 Brent crude uss/borrel 34.26
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        Lock icon Singapore
        122 11 Dow Jones SHARES ended lower yesterday for the fourth day running, as investors sold following concerns about a weak US labour market, traders said. The ST Index slipped 3.1 9 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 1,888.35. Losers led gainers 234 to 97, while market volume dwindled to 591.5
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        ST Index: 1,888.35 -3.19
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        Lock icon SGX most active
        60 11 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by By volume Bio-Treat ISoftel UniFiber UnitedTAC Pac Cent AEM-EVER ChinaFlexP JadeR NOL Straco Close 0.860 0.235 0.165 0.885 0.330 0.255 0.860 0.040 1.950 0.225 Change -0.050 +0.055 -0.015 -0.020 -0.010 -0.010 -0.040 -0.005 -5.5 +30.6 -1.7 -7.3 -1.1 -20.0 -2.0 -2.2 'OOO
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        SGX top rises
        79 11 By$ Creative 50 Noble Close Change 18.000 +0.300 4.520 +0.300 UOB 13.900 +0.100 OSIM Want Want W*****4USS 1.450 +0.080 0.745 +0.080 Want WantUSS Parkway STIETF100 ISoftel CITYDEV 1.380 +0.080 1.110 +0.070 18.790 +0.070 0.235 +0.055 6.450 +0.050 By percentage ISoftel Jackslnt Close I 0.235 0.145 Change +30.6
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        SGX top falls
        80 11 By$ IMH 400USS CMShekou 100 HKS [AC 200USS Close 10.800 6.400 2.740 Change -0.300 -0.200 -0.110 4PB Breweries F&N 7.350 14.500 -0.100 -0.100 OCBC 12.500 -0.100 SPH Meiban 4mlekW*****0 18.700 1.430 1.010 -0.100 -0.060 -0.050 Bio-Treat 0.860 -0.050 By percentage MWTech W*****1 Close 0.005 Change -66.7 M
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs_
      249 11 Bloomberg The Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF) is scaling down its controversial Ang Mo Kio Town Centre project. SLF said it will downsize the site for an integrated shopping mall and bus interchange development to 1.93 ha from 2.57 ha, in view of the current glut in the property market.
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      Lock icon Free Wi-Fi roaming in Tokyo
      359 12 Agencies Sing Tel, NTT DoCoMo launch joint three-month wireless Internet trial SINGTEL and NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile-phone services providers in Singapore and Japan respectively, announced plans yesterday for a joint high-speed wireless Internet service in both countries. The technology, commonly known as Wi-Fi, will
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      Lock icon SIA says no interest in stake in Aussie budget carrier
      113 12 Dow Jones SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) denied yesterday speculation that it is keen on acquiring a stake in Australian budget airline Backpackers Xpress. "Singapore Airlines is not considering a stake in Backpackers Xpress," an SIA spokeswoman said in an email response
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      Lock icon Macquarie Bank buys ING's Asian equities operations
      189 12 AFP SYDNEY Australian investment bank Macquarie said it would buy the equities operations of Dutch bank ING across Asia for an undisclosed amount The deal will see Macquarie Bank take over ING's Asian cash equity sales, sales trading, research and capital markets businesses,
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      Lock icon Garuda adds three routes to Singapore
      123 12 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian airline Garuda will open three new routes linking cities in Sumatra and Java with Singapore. "Coinciding with the start of the summer season for the aviation sector, on March 28, we will launch three new flight routes to Singapore," said spokesman
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      Lock icon Forex chief warns against yuan betting
      460 13 -AFP Official says currency speculators likely to pay 'enormous' price BEIJING China's forex chief has warned domestic firms against betting on the appreciation of the yuan, while dismissing criticism that an undervalued currency is responsible for job losses in the United States. "Betters on
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      Lock icon Thailand grew 6.7% in 2003; up to 8% tipped for this year
      208 13 Agencies BANGKOK Thailand's economy grew 6.7 per cent last year with a strong fourth-quarter performance, pushing this year's forecast to between 7 and 8 per cent, according to the government. Booming construction, exports and consumer spending in the
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Indian stocks are still attractive
      666 14  -  Jerry Low Market has hidden potential and prices have more upside despite the strong rally last year IF YOU think you are having trouble choosing stocks from the Singapore Exchange's 550-or-more listed companies, think again. India's Mumbai Stock Exchange has more than 10 times that
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2716 14 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 Lipper 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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      Sperm delivery for single, gay women
      230 16 LONDON In a direct challenge to legal and moral regulations, a new sperm donor clinic for single and gay women will be set up in Britain. The controversial clinic will be named Man Not Included New Life Centre, the Guardian newspaper said yesterday. Businessman
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      Lock icon New blasts fail to stop inking of Iraq's draft charter
      433 16 Reuters Former Shia objections withdrawn, paving way for handover of power BAGHDAD Loud explosions were heard across central Baghdad yesterday, minutes before the Iraqi Governing Council was due to sign an interim Constitution. At least one of the blasts was
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      Lock icon Kerry stirs things up for a little French town by the sea
      235 16 -AFP SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER (France) The eyes of this small French seaside resort town has turned toward America ever since Senator John Kerry became a serious presidential candidate. The town mayor's automobile has a Kerry bumper sticker, which is hardly
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon First openly gay bishop invested
        80 16 Reuters Four months after his controversial installation as the first openly gay Anglican bishop in the United States' Episcopal Church, the Reverend Canon Gene Robinson was officially invested as the ninth bishop of New Hampshire on Sunday. Although there were no protests at St Paul's
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        Lock icon Bid to unseat Roh
        45 16 Reuters South Korea's two main opposition parties agreed to join forces yesterday and submitted an impeachment Bill to Parliament today in an attempt to unseat President Roh Moohyun. Mr Roh dismissed the attempt to impeach him for breaking an election rule.
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        Lock icon Aussie mufti warned
        55 16 -AFP Senior Australian Muslims warned that they may strip their spiritual leader, Sheik Taj El Din Al Hilaly, of his "Grand Mufti" title yesterday because of his reported comments in defence of terrorism. Sheik Taj, was condemned over his remarks that the 91 1 attacks were "God's
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      Lock icon Indonesia acts to ban public smooching
      172 16 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian Parliament has drafted a Bill to combat pornography, proposing a ban on erotic dancing as well as on kissing in public, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. The Bill proposes sentencing anyone found guilty of organising a public display of erotic
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon An electoral show of force
      736 17  -  Dr Eric Tea Nationalist sentiment surrounding elections in Taiwan is a development Beijing cannot ignore THE recent "2-2-8 celebrations" in Taiwan may have crystallised even further Taiwan's future relations with the mainland. The commemoration of the Feb 28, 1947, killing of 10,000 Taiwanese by Kuomintang
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      GANGSTER'S PARADISE
      603 18  -  Serene Foo Stars of Aussie outlaw film tackled challenges head on THEY are two of Hollywood's hottest young guns. But Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom, stars of director Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly, a 19th century outlaw tale that opens the Commonwealth Bank Australian Film Festival on Thursday, didn't
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    • incinemas
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        Lock icon King to make an early return
        281 19 -AP DVDs, tapes of LOTR finale available in May LOS ANGELES The march to Middle-earth will be shorter this time for the home-video release of the final chapter in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Return of the King will hit stores in
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          Flamenco fever
          79 19 Carmen Linares, one of the world's greatest flamenco singers, will grace the Esplanade Concert Hall tonight in a one-night only performance. She will thrill the audience with her "extraordinary and expressive power", as The New York Times has described her vocals. A master of the jondo, or "deep"
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          The Stones
          71 19 Australia's Zeal Theatre presents the award-winning play, The Stones, at the Esplanade Theatre Studio from Thursday to Saturday. This Asian premiere of the production is based on a true story about two Melbourne boys who threw stones from a freeway overpass and killed a motorist accidentally. The play
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        Lock icon Kidman to play White Witch of Narnia?
        172 19 Agencies NEWS coming out of New Zealand suggests that Aussie actress Nicole Kidman is set to star in the next big adaptation of a fantasy story to be filmed in the country. Kidman reportedly made a secret trip to New Zealand last week
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        Lock icon Asia, through Asian eyes
        620 21  -  Ong Hee Yah Channel News Asia. Against the odds, Channel News Asia succeeded in giving region a voice FIVE years ago, Asia was hit by a crippling currency crisis that humbled the most formidable. But something good came out of it Then, the Asian take on
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    • health
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        Lock icon The importance of early detection
        539 22  -  Lynette Leong A breast x-ray costs just $50 and is available in 13 polyclinics LIKE most cancers, breast cancer can strike at any time in a woman's life, sometimes without showing any symptoms. The only way to put your mind at ease is having a
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        Lock icon Hymns top list of musical hallucinations
        213 22 Reuters ABIDE with Me, a hymn penned in the mid-1800s, is one of the most common tunes heard in musical hallucinations, a psychiatrist said. Occasionally, everyone has a catchy tune which they can't get out of their head but in a musical hallucination, the
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        Suntec City to host heart forum
        102 22  -  Elise Tan HEART Matters: The Heart and I, a health forum organised by The Heart Institute (National Healthcare Group) and the Singapore Heart Foundation, will be held on Saturday from lpm to spm at the Suntec City Convention Centre. The forum, which aims to
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    • busycook
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        Pumpkin and corn pie
        287 24  -  Pauline D Loh Here's an easy way to give the family a beta carotene fix SHEPHERD'S pie is easy comfort food, and it should be a staple in any busy cook's favourite repertoire of recipes, especially if there are children in the family. At its simplest,
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        KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
        159 24 COLOUR THERAPY THE more colour it has, the better it is for you. That is one school of thought that is emerging among trained nutritionists and dieticians. Bland colours such as white and brown are less good for you as they hardly contain any nutrition. Think a wedge
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