Today, 4 May 2004

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    26 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday May 4, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 I TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday May 4,2004 MITA <P) 002/11/2002
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  • Article
    Opening doors for Indian firms
    666 1  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Bigger presence for State Bank of India could see Indian companies listing here PLANS by India's biggest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), to step up its presence in Singapore could encourage Indian companies to take a closer look at listing
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    Lock icon Troops arrive in southern Thailand as fresh attacks loom
    683 1 BANGKOK Thai security forces were on high alert yesterday following reports of a possible suicide bombing over the next few days in the restive Muslim-majority south of the country and that an estimated 30,000 militants were ready to launch fresh attacks.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      48 1 NEWSJW/TEWS Direct to NY SIA begins daily non-stop flights to New York City/2 Koo Tsai Kee Generation V told: Don't despair/3 In a nosedive Informatics sheds 62% due to earnings fiasco/10 William Pfaff Pullout plan by US from lraq?/20 THE HP ERIC TSANG WANTS TO NURTURE NEW BLOOD/22
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon SIA to launch the world's longest commercial flight
      241 2 Dow Jones Airline's 18-hour, non-stop flights to New York set record SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) will start daily, non-stop flights over the Arctic to New York from June 28, making it the world's longest commercial flight It will use Airbus' new longrange aircraft
      Dow Jones; AFP  -  241 words
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      Boom years ahead for Generation Y
      747 3  -  Koo Tsai Kee |\IEWS£S!B!BSBL. AT a recent social gathering, many of those present were from the pioneering "Class of 85" civil engineers of the Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI). I was one of their lecturers and although more than 20 years have passed, I remember
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      Lock icon Bid to bomb June Nato summit foiled
      484 4 Agencies Turkish police nab 24, seize guns and explosives ANKARA Guns, explosives and 4,000 compact discs featuring training instructions from Osama bin Laden were among materials seized as Turkish police foiled a bomb plot targeting a Nato summit at the end of June.
      Agencies; AFP  -  484 words
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      Lock icon 30m Chinese children have mental handicaps
      191 4 AFP BEIJING One in eight Chinese children have psychological or behavioural problems and parents are often to blame, according to a new study. The study, conducted by Shandong province-based child psychologist Zhai Jing, found that the number of school-age children seeking medical help for
      AFP  -  191 words
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  • HOME NEWS
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      PAP's youngest MP roots for the elderly
      409 6  -  Raymond Andrew Dr Chong convinces 7 GPs in his ward to halve fees for them AT THE age of 35, Dr Chong Weng Chiew may be Singapore's youngest current MR But his work focuses on people at the other end of the age
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      Woman jailed, hubby to be tried for assault
      215 6  -  Wong Fei Wan IT WAS 2am and the couple had only $3 between them. It was not enough for taxi fare, so the husband decided to ask an elderly man sleeping near the staircase at an HDB void deck for some money.
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      NSman died of'natural causes'
      166 6  -  Wong Fei Wan THE national serviceman who collapsed during a 2.4 km run last September died of natural causes. Andrew Chew Heng Huat, 20, was 20m away from the finish line when he fell. He was undergoing an Individual Physical Proficiency Test at the Pulau Tekong
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        Lock icon Youth charged over fatal stabbing of ex-classmate
        67 6 Newsradio 93.8 The youth who fatally attacked a teenager on Labour Day has been charged in court. Bernard Kok Wong Shing is said to have repeatedly stabbed Kelvin Yang, 17, who was working at a shop at West Mall in Bukit Batok Central.
        – Newsradio 93.8  -  67 words
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        Lock icon Embezzler Kang drops plans to appeal jail term
        52 6 Channel News Asia Catholic Priest Joachim Kang has decided not to appeal his seven-and-a-half year jail sentence. Last month, he pleaded guilty to embezzling over $5 million of church funds after an almost three-week-long trial, which had called into question Kang's relationships
        — Channel News Asia  -  52 words
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      Lock icon First SQOO6 suit in court
      306 7 Channel News Asia Siblings seek damages for deaths of parents in 2000 crash inTaiwan THE first wrongful death case to go to trial in the United States against Singapore Airlines over the 2000 crash of Flight SQOO6 begins today. A Los Angeles federal court is
      — Channel News Asia; AFP  -  306 words
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      MFA Permanent Secretary retires
      174 7  -  Tay Tsen-Waye The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Mr Tan Chin Tiong, 59, will be retiring after more than 35 years in the administrative service. Mr Tan joined the Singapore Armed Forces in 1967. He has been with the MFA since 1997
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      Lock icon These families take no chances when it comes to preparedness
      367 7  -  Raymond Andrew APRIL was a sobering month for Singaporeans. First, there was a blackout in the northwest on April 13. Then, the collapse of Nicoll Highway on April 20 followed by the Fusionpolis construction site collapse nine days later. While
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      Top priority is fearless reporting
      216 8  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng First World status calls for First World media I REFER to the news comment, "Free media and nation-building" (Today, May 3). I believe that our media is becoming freer and more robust and that it can play a proactive role in
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      Help sought in avoiding trishaw mishaps
      230 8  -  Ms Shirley Tan WE refer to Mr Michael Low Yik Ming's letter, "Trishaws can also be a nuisance to others" (Today, April 23). These trishaw rides give visitors a peek into historic places of interest using a mode of transport that has all but
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      Lessons from past accidents overlooked
      118 8  -  See Leong Kit WITHIN two weeks, we have seen the Nicoll Highway and Fusionpolis collapses. Singaporeans are rightly asking: Were these accidents waiting to happen? In 1993 at Clementi Station, an MRT train crashed into a stationary train, injuring more than 156 people. The Inquiry
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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        Singapore
        56 10 SHARES declined yesterday amid concerns that higher US interest rates would slow growth in the world's largest economy and its dependent economies. The ST Index shed 2.8 points, or 0.15 per cent, to close at 1,839.23. In the broad market, losers beat gainers 230 to 88. Volume totalled 460
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        World markets
        51 10 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Closed Hang Seng Ordinaries faiwan Wtd Korea Comp KM SET Index 11,950.62 3,388.00 6,029.77 866.11 Closed Closed +7.66 -19.70 -88.04 +3.27 +0.0* -0.58 -1.44 +0.3E Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Wumbai Sensex Closed 1,562.65 261.31 5,588.30 +7.64 -0.69 -66.79 +0.45 -0.26
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 10 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 389.00 Silver uss/oz 6.10 Platinum uss/oi 799.50 Rubber centsAg 232.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,979.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 34.48 Information provided by
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        Lock icon ST Index —1,839.23 -2.8
        38 10 Agencies Traders attributed the low volume to caution ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting today that is expected to provide clues if the US will raise interest rates as early as June.
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5871 UK£ 0.3316 Yen 64.788 HK$ 4.5867 RM 2.2346 Euro 0.4926 Rupiah 5,164.9 Baht 23.488 Peso 32.783 A$ 0.8165 Indian Rs 26.309 Won 689.13 C$ 0.8056 Yuan 4.8592 NZ$ 0.9388 NTS 19.589
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        SGX most active
        60 10 ly volume Informatics FibreChem Bio-Treat Tat Seng Cosco Corp Interra PanpacMed Chartered UnitedTAC SingPost Close 0.290 0.425 0.885 0.240 0.745 0.210 0.145 1.480 0.855 0.810 Change -0.480 -0.035 -0.035 +0.015 -0.005 -0.010 +0.005 -0.020 -0.025 -0.020 -62.3 -7.6 -3.8 +6.7 -0.7 -4.5 +3.6 -1.3 -2.8 -2.4 '000
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        SGX top rises
        75 10 By$ IMH 400USS Close Change 10.400 +0.300 iPH 21.300 +0.300 :iTYDEV 6.300 +0.200 jreatEast 11.700 +0.200 iPH 100 21.300 +0.200 ilA 200 10.700 +0.100 3P Bal 3.360 +0.080 Noble 3.320 +0.060 SATSvcs 2.030 +0.060 >T Engg 1.950 +0.060 By percentage Close Ratal 0.125 Change +25.0 Sunlight 0.110
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        SGX top falls
        70 10 By$ Close Change DBSBk6MPS10 106.200 -1.900 Informatics 0.290 -0.480 Creative 50 17.500 -0.300 F&N 13.000 -0.300 Thai Prime200USS 10.500 -0.200 UOB 13.500 -0.200 rAC 200USS 2.410 -0.110 MB Breweries 7.950 -0.100 DBS 14.200 -0.100 By percentage Close Informatics 0.290 Changi -62.: Tenmsphere W*****8 0.045 -30.1 Falmac 0.060
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      Lock icon Informatics plunges 62%
      245 10 Dow Jones Shares clobbered by earnings fiasco SHARES of Informatics Holdings nosedived 62.3 per cent, or 48 cents, to close at 29 cents yesterday in the first market reaction since the education provider said its nine-month earnings were inflated. Some 108 million Informatics shares were traded, or
      – Dow Jones  -  245 words
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      Lock icon CapitaLand Q1 profits up on China sales
      125 10 Dow Jones CAPITALAND said yesterday its first-quar-ter net profit rose 73 per cent from a year earlier to $48.5 million, or 1.9 cents a share, thanks to higher property sales in China and a stronger global hotel business. However, revenue recorded by the
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      Lock icon ChinaCast IPO at 49 cents per share
      148 12 Dow Jones CHINACAST Communications Holdings, a Chinese Internet communications services provider, launched its initial public offering (IPO) here yesterday. Expecting to raise about $50.5 million, China Cast is offering 110.5 million shares at 49 cents each, of which 4 million are to the
      – Dow Jones  -  148 words
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      Lock icon An eye on contracts to rebuild Iraq
      372 12 AFP Singapore firms hope for share of $31 b pie HUNDREDS of businesses across Asia are preparing to invest in Iraq despite the dangers, said US officials who are in Singapore on a regional road show to promote investment in the war-torn country.
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      Lock icon Bullish expectations
      383 14 -Dow Jones Manufacturers, services firms predict better prospects for 2004 TWO Government surveys released yesterday underscore the view that electronics will spearhead Singapore's economic growth this year and that the recovery is spreading to the services sector. The Economic Development Board's (EDB) quarterly Business Expectations Survey of manufacturers,
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      CORPORATEbriefs
      114 14 Singapore's manufacturing expanded for the 1 1 th straight month in April. The Purchasing Manager Index rose 1.8 points to 55.2 points, said the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management. A class action suit filed in the United States on behalf of shareholders who bought Global Crossing shares
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      Lock icon Changi gets 3 bids
      90 14 Dow Jones THE tender for a third airport ground handling licence at Changi Airport drew two bids while a flight catering tender drew just one. LSG Catering Hong Kong submitted the tender for the flight catering licence. Swissport International and Worldwide Flight Service tendered for the
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Lock icon A pause before resuming its uptrend?
      659 16 HSBC Indian Growth Fund bullish on Indian stock market, but warns of volatility related to elections LAST year, the Indian bourse was a star performer, with the benchmark Mumbai Sensex posting a gain of 72 per cent According to data from Lipper, the HSBC
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Humiliated Sharon vows not to resign
      555 18 Agencies 59.5% of Likud party reject Gaza pullout plan but Israeli PM remains adamant JERUSALEM Mr Ariel Sharon said yesterday he will not resign after his Likud party overwhelmingly rejected his controversial plan to unilaterally pull out of the Gaza Strip, inflicting on the
      — Agencies; AFP  -  555 words
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      Lock icon Arroyo, Poe ink deal to back poll winner
      136 18 AFP MANILA The two front-runners in the Philippine presidential election have pledged to respect the result of next week's vote in order to avoid the feared post-poll violence. Yesterday, officials said the campaign teams of President Gloria Arroyo and her main rival,
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      Lock icon Bomb kills 3 Chinese in Pakistan
      261 18 Agencies KARACHI In the first attack against foreigners in Pakistan since 2002, a car bomb killed three Chinese engineers helping to build a multi-million dollar seaport and injured 11 others yesterday. The bombing occurred as 12 Chinese engineers travelled in a van to work
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Chen's inauguration invites phone threats
        59 18 Reuters Six of Taiwan's diplomatic allies Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Panama have received threatening telephone calls warning them not to attend the inauguration of President Chen Shuibian on May 20, police said yesterday. The six are among only 26 nations
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        Lock icon Buffett joins Kerry's team
        50 18 Reuters Mr Warren Buffett, the world's second wealthiest person, has joined United States Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's economic advisory team. Mr Buffett is a longtime critic of the Bush administration's tax policies, which he believes favour the wealthy and big corporations over the middle class.
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        Lock icon Main Djinjic murder suspect surrenders
        54 18 AFP The main suspect in last year's murder of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has surrendered to the police, the Serbian interior ministry said on Sunday. Mr Milorad Lukovic is accused of masterminding the assassination on March 12 last year in broad daylight with fellow
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      Lock icon Six US officers reprimanded
      145 18 Agencies BAGHDAD The United States military has reprimanded six senior commissioned and non-commis-sioned officers in connection with the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. The announcement followed an investigation ordered by Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez commander of US forces in Iraq into
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Policy for US to quit Iraq becoming visible
      913 20  -  William Pfaff It is clear American presence is destabilising the country PARIS The outline of a policy to get the United States out of Iraq, limiting further damage to Americans and Iraqis, is now becoming visible. Unlike proposals that some US analysts
      BLOOMBERG  -  913 words
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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    • BROTHERS
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        THE YOUNG APPRENTICE
        480 22  -  WONG CHING PO HARDLY known outside Hong Kong indie film-making circles, up-and-coming director Wong Ching Po suddenly became the talk of the town when he landed a whopping HK$4O-million ($8.74-million) budget, a stellar cast and free rein for only his second film. The 30-year-old, skinny and bespectacled
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        Lock icon HE WANTS TO BE GODFATHER
        450 22  -  ERICTSANG I 'T^HE roly-poly comedian J. wants to be the godfather I of Hong Kong films. Eric Tsang is Hno Mafia don but I after three I decades in the I movie industry Has actor, proBducer and I scriptwriter, the (51-year-old now wants to take
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      BLOOD BROTHERS IS ABOUT BONDS AND LOYALYT
      113 22 HONG Kong gangland flick Blood Brothers boasts stars such as Andy Lav, Jacky Cheung, Edison Chen, Shawn Yue and Eric Tsang. The movie centres around the power struggle that ensues when a triad kingpin announces his retirement. It will open in cinemas here
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    • incinemas
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        Lock icon Canadians love their Barbarian
        388 24 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter but award-winning actors absent at Canada's Oscars ceremony TORONTO Writer-director Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions, which snagged the best foreign-language film Oscar earlier this year, was the big winner on Saturday at the Genies Canada's version of the Academy Awards. The film went home
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    • busycook
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        Hot dumplings
        538 26  -  Pauline D Loh Homemade//aoz/ with spicy minced lamb and diced carrots IN a couple of weeks, I shall be heading for Yunnan where I will very likely be collecting more recipes using hua jiao or Sichuan peppercorns. Since my last visit to Kunming, I have developed a love-hate
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        KITCHEN CONFIDETIAL
        172 26 Sichuan peppers for tingling heat THEY look like peppercorns, but these pungent berries are actually the fruit of the Chinese prickly ash, native to Sichuan in China. Sichuan peppercorns are mildly hot if used prudently, but if you follow the examples of the native chefs of Sichuan, they
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    • health
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        Lock icon Early consultation is the best defence
        620 28  -  Lynette Leong Learn to recognise the symptoms of juvenile arthritis FOR close to 10 years, Joel Si battled an illness normally associated with the elderly. The 14-year-olds mother, Joyce Si, told Today: "When Joel was five-and-a-half years old, he was jumping from his bed
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