Today, 26 May 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday May 26, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 493 1 Reuters Blair says new Iraqi govt but Powell says US will command its own forces BAGHDAD Britain said yesterday a planned interim Iraqi government will have final control over foreign troops but Washington said its forces will be under US command and do whatever necessary to
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    • 65 1 AFP WASHINGTON Comprehensive testing has confirmed that a 155 mm artillery shell that was discovered in Iraq earlier this month contained the deadly nerve agent sarin, a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday. "Further testing has revealed that it was indeed sarin," said Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Venable. "We're looking
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    • 47 1 AFP Police officers carrying out computers confiscated from a home in Stockholm yesterday. Police in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland carried out coordinated raids and arrested up to 350 people suspected of obtaining and distributing child pornography throughout the Nordic region.
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    • 240 1 Reuters BOSTON The Boston Archdiocese said yesterday that it will shutter nearly a fifth of its parishes in the largest single round of US Roman Catholic Church closings ever as it seeks to overcome a devastating sex-abuse scandal. The church said 60 churches
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    • 108 1 AFP NEW YORK A modest dip in oil prices from record levels was enough to spark a powerful rally yesterday as Wall Street snapped out of its recent torpor. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average surged above the psychological level of 10,000 with
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 279 2 SINGAPORE'S maritime security readiness has been given top marks by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) chief, who was here to witness a full-scale security exercise yesterday. IMO secretary-general Efthimios Mitropoulos rated Singapore's efforts as "excellent" and said he was pleased to read the
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    • 196 2 AFP A RISE in crew abductions in the Malacca Straits could be evidence of terrorists wanting to learn how to navigate ships for use in attacks, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) chief said yesterday. Secretary-general Efthimios Mitropoulos told a shipping conference in Singapore that
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    • 509 2  -  Chan Chao Peh Laws to curb spam may be in place by next year, says IDA OVER the last two years, as the problem of spam in Singapore escalated, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) called it a "recognised nuisance" and maintained that it was not illegal. Yesterday,
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    • 103 2 -AFP PORT-AU-PRINCE At least 502 people have died and hundreds are missing following torrential rains and flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to civil defence officials. At least 358 people were killed in Haiti, while 144 people died in the Dominican Republic. The
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    • NEWScomment
      • 872 3 Kudos to Kumar for lending a voice to those who suffer in silence Constance Singam SO far, the month of May has given us little to celebrate in terms of the state of humanity. The hot weather hasn't helped. The many stories in the papers
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    • 370 4 Malaysian PM's son-in-law quits govt post amid rumours KUALA LUMPUR Mr Khairy Jamaluddin was considered "the most powerful 28-year-old in Malaysia". Now, it's official that the son-in-law of Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is quitting as a member of the Premier's staff amid vicious
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    • 244 4 AFP MANILA The chairman of the Philippines' elections watchdog came under fire yesterday after his office leaked a report naming President Glori; Arroyo as the winner of the May 10 presidential election. Ms Harriet Demetriou, the former head of the Commission
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 248 6 THE Indonesian maid accused of killing her employer had said she was abused and provoked by the latter's humiliating and unreasonable acts. No such thing, the prosecution said yesterday, calling Sundarti Supriyanto's version of what happened on May 28 two years ago "blatant lies". The 23-year-old
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    • 137 6 Channel News Asia A RED zone will be drawn around most primary schools as part of an Enhanced School Zone Scheme to make roads around schools safer for young children. There will be two red surfaces to alert drivers that they have
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    • 454 6  -  Tav Tsen-Wave But, NEA launches new Litterbug Attack initiative IN CLEAN and green Singapore, it can be hard work catching litterbugs. Last year, the National Environment Agency (NEA) surveyed 1,000 people and found that 87.8 per cent "do not and will not litter".
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    • 421 8  -  Tan Hui Leng New product to hit the shelves by early July IF YOU think that the greatest historical invention derived from clay is china pottery, Mr Peter Lim would like to correct that perception. The president and chief executive of Nature's Glory, a
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    • 221 8 For that total Australian experience THE Australian Tourist Commission (ATC) yesterday launched new As36o-million ($434-million) campaign with the new tagline, "Australia. A different light". The new approach aims to represent Australia as a country, rather than solely as a holiday destination. "As the world is changing, people are seeking more
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    • 1010 9  -  Gurmeet Sinqh Learn how entrepreneurship can work within an organisation in this MDIS management degree course YOU do not have to be a businessman to benefit from learning entrepreneurial skills. There's a new buzzword these days. It's "intrapreneurship" and it calls for enterprising individuals to
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  • LETTERS
    • 356 10  -  Lois Tan, Council assures public it does not promote ageism WE REFER to the article in Hottalk (Weekend Today, May 22-23), where the Letters Editor quoted Dr Tan Chek Wee's comments on the South East Community Development Council's (SECDC) advertisement on a recruitment
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    • 100 10  -  Dr Khoo How San I REFER to Mr Colin Yong's "Maxi fun in a topless mini" (Weekend Today, May 22-23). The Mini has been called many things, but I've not seen it described as a "hatchback". The absence of a regular-shaped boot (the "notchback") or its diminutive
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    • 104 10  -  Colin Yong YOUR observation that a hatchback is a car with a "one piece" rear windscreen and boot door is spot-on. That is exactly what the new Mini has. The convertible model has a bot-tom-hinged tailgate (like the original Mini). This means it
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • Market WATCH
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        147 12 Bloomberg SHARES fell after ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) said higher oil prices may be here to stay, renewing concerns that rising energy costs may hurt earnings at companies such as Singapore Airlines and Neptune Orient Lines. The ST Index slumped 1 3.37 points, or
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      • 56 12 Nikkei 225 10,962.93 Pis -138.71 -1.25 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd 11,692.56 3,395.50 5,958.38 +29.59 -5.90 +16.30 +0.25 -0.17 +0.27 Korea Comp KLCI 784.06 796.48 -15.58 +2.09 -1.95 +0.26 SET Index lakarta Comp 601.51 717.135 -7.39 -15.445 -1.21 -2.11 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,493.90 251.55 +11.99 -3.82 +0.81
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      • 21 12 Gold uss/oi 387.50 Silver uss/oi 6.025 Platinum uss/oi 832.00 Rubber cents/kg 236.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,786.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 37.95
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      • 36 12 US$ 0.5826 UK£ 0.3228 Yen 65.656 HK$ 4.5401 RM 2.2136 Euro 0.4827 Rupiah 5,402.8 Baht 23.769 Peso 32.612 A$ 0.8295 Indian Rs 26.402 Won 686.02 C$ 0.7987 Yuan 4.8222 NZ$ 0.9584 NTS 19.568
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      • 54 12 By volume Interra Bio-Treat Lasseters FibreChem ChinaCast Armarda UnitedTAC Informatics PanpacMed UniFiber Close 0.205 0.880 0.355 0.375 0.400 0.280 0.775 0.310 0.145 0.150 Change +0.015 -0.025 -0.010 -0.005 -0.010 -0.015 +0.010 -0.005 +7.9 -2.8 -2.6 -1.2 -3.4 -1.9 +3.3 -3.3 'OOO 62,660 28,862 26,736 22,863 20,520 15,404
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      • 80 12 By$ Close Changi F&N 13.200 +0.401 ihang Asia 2kHK$ 7.500 +0.151 iingamasC 2kHK$ 3.850 +0.151 3PBal 3.480 +0.141 feoHS 2.990 +0.111 :iTYDEV 5.200 +0.101 Robinson 5.550 +0.101 iPH 20.600 +0.101 iPH 100 20.600 +0.101 lardine C&C 6.700 +0.051 By percentage Goldtron Close 0.020 Change +33.3 Hua Kok
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      • 78 12 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Venture Close 17.200 Changi -0.501 ilA 10.200 -0.401 ilA 200 10.200 -0.401 Creative 50 16.700 -0.301 (epCorp ■loble 6.650 3.700 -0.201 -0.161 iTI ETF100 18.090 -0.111 iukit Sem 13.300 -0.101 )BS 13.900 -0.101 By percentage TMC Inl Close 0.135 Change -15.6 Casa
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    • 346 12  -  Chan Chao Peh UOL shares below $2.26 as company forms committee to unlock value chaopeh@newstoday.com.Sj THE board of United Overseas Land (UOL) announced yesterday that it had formed a committee to explore options to unlock value for the benefit of its shareholders ahead of Friday's
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    • 139 12 EDUCATION services provider Raffles LaSalle reported a net profit of $7.5 million, or 1.07 cents a share, for the nine months ended March 31, more than doubling the $3.6-million profit recorded in the year-earlier period. Sales rose 57 per cent to $22.4 million during the period,
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    • 316 13  -  Kevin Tan HKfirm hopes to be listed on mainboard here kevin@newstoday.com.sg DAKA Designs, a Hong Kong-based designer and developer of consumer products, yesterday lodged its preliminary prospectus with an eye for a mainboard listing on the Singapore Exchange. Formed in 1993, Daka designs and develops
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    • 135 13 EXEMPT private companies with annual revenues of $5 million and below will not be required to have statutory audits of their accounts from June 1. The new threshold is double the current ceiling of $2.5 million. The move is part of the Government's efforts
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    • 223 13 FibreChem Technologies has formed a unit in the Fujian province of China. Xiamen Hongxin Specialised Fibre, which produces textile and chemical fibres, will get at least 15 per cent of its HK$22B million ($50.19 million) registered capital by July. Standard Chartered Singapore trumped 43 regional banks to win the
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    • 332 14 AFP Fears that Opec will not be able to meet demand NEW YORK The main oil contract here roared to a record high closing price yesterday as fears re-surfaced that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will be powerless to ramp up supply to meet
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    • 167 14 Bloomberg SINGTEL, which is scouting for investments in Asia as its home market in Singapore becomes increasingly saturated, has met the Bangladeshi government to inquire about the telecommunications market in the country, said Mr Mahmudur Rahman, executive chairman of the Bangladeshi government's board
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    • 337 15 Agencies Inflation and US$ weakness are cited as reasons MINISTERS of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) said oil prices at above US$3O a barrel may be here to stay. Opec members said that they want prices at the top end
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    • 285 15 -AFP NEW YORK New York state Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer has sued former New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) chairman Dick Grasso in a bid to recover some of Mr Grasso's U*****.5 million ($322 million) severance and compensation package. The civil law suit came after a
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    • 312 16 Bloomberg FOREIGNERS will be able to bid in the next auction of land on Sentosa the first time that non-permanent residents will be allowed to buy homes other than apartments. Sentosa Leisure Group plans to sell more land in its
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    • 319 16 Bloomberg The fund-raising is not for financing mergers and acquisitions OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corporation plans to sell US$2 billion ($3.4 billion) of commercial paper and an unspecified amount of float-ing-rate notes overseas to diversify its funding. The sales of the so-called euro commercial paper,
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    • 213 16 Bloomberg CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, Singapore's biggest maker of computer chips, said chip-design software companies have made their products compatible with chip-making systems that it is developing with IBM. The agreement may allow customers to lower risks and save costs when designing chips by eliminating the
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
    • 288 17 Kirn Eng Securities Capita Land shares are a 'buy', says Xi CAPITALAND has entered into an agreement to sell the 486,113-sq-ft Plaza Singapura to its retail mall trust, Capita Mall Trust, for $710 million, of which $702 million accounts for the purchase value and $8
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  • INFOTECH
    • 288 19  -  Francis Chin Intense Animation Studio offers courses in effects and 3D animation NOT satisfied with your current job? How about creating big, green monsters and flying vampires instead? There is a demand for people with such skills in producing TV commercials, corporate videos and even Hollywood-scale movies,
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    • 180 19 USABILITY, not fancy design, is the criterion in producing e-government websites, said Mr Makoto Aizawa, Fujitsu's software and services manager. Mr Aizawa was in Singapore last week to give a presentation to local officials on Japan's e-government experience. Usability means having as much
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    • 177 19 IF YOU think you have the fastest thumb in Singapore, take part in SingTel's SMS competition by keying in this message as fast and as accurately as possible: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 683 25  -  Fabio Scarpello Analysts see link between violence and the Indonesian presidential elections IN AMBON, the strife-stricken main city of Indonesia's Maluku islands, peace is hanging by a thread. At least one person was killed and 16 were injured yesterday in a bomb explosion
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    • 144 25 AFP JAKARTA A paramilitary training course for members of a hard-line Muslim group led by detained terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir had been disbanded, police said yesterday. Police and local officials visited a forest campsite in the Karanganyar district of Central Java on Monday
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    • 132 25 AFP LONDON A public inquiry opened in Britain yesterday into the murder of a young Pakistani prisoner who was made to share a cell with a psychopathic white racist. Zahid Mubarek, 19, was bludgeoned with a table leg in March 2000 in a cell
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    • 106 27 Reuters CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister John Howard will meet 60 chief executives of the country's top companies next month to ascertain their abilities to cope with a possible terror attack, the government said yesterday. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Defence Minister Robert
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    • 313 27 Agencies they must drop autonomy claim BANGKOK Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday set preconditions for talks with Muslim separatists in the country's south, insisting that they must drop their claim for autonomy beforehand. "Don't ever raise the autonomy issue. Thailand is an
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    • 160 27 AFP WASHINGTON Malaysian authorities have been engaging in widespread abuses against terror suspects held under the country's draconian Internal Security Act (ISA), according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). The New York-based human rights group released a 60-page report documenting a
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    • 782 30 Q f~\ p four days, Singapore Civil Defence Force \J fl (SCDF) officers Lieutenant Ernest Ong and Sergeant Md Himmi had to "feel their way" around as they worked in a deep and dark hole on Nicoll Highway. Lt Ong and Sgt Himmi were part of
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1074 31  -  Kumar Ramakrishna Recent US mistakes, including prisoner abuse, have inadvertently empowered radical Islam IN the book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, journalist Thomas Friedman, of The New York Times, states that there are three "democratisations" driving globalisation in today's world: Information, technology and finance. The
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 61 31 Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, under fire from some quarters for his weekend summit in Pyongyang, denied yesterday that he had been snubbed by North Korean leader Kirn Jong 11. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda denied reports that Mr
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      • 39 31 A South Korean protester who rallied with dozens of others in Seoul yesterday demanding the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea and a halt to Seoul's plan to send additional troops to Iraq. REUTERS
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      • 72 31 -AFP The brand-new Eurofighter Typhoon has so many problems with its on-board systems that it should only be flown aggressively, or in foul weather, by two pilots, the Evening Standard said on Monday, quoting a leaked defence ministry report. Test pilots at the ministry's research arm
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      • 85 31 AFP A US judge on Monday allowed a federal government lawsuit against the tobacco industry seeking US$2BO billion ($4Bl billion) in "ill gotten gains" linked to allegedly deceptive marketing In the suit, filed in 1 999 by the Clinton administration, the government accused companies of
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      • 65 31 Reuters The Catholic Church is investigating reports of statues of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary in Australia that have apparently begun weeping and bleeding rose oil. Hundreds have flocked to a Vietnamese community hall near St Mary's Church in the suburbs of Brisbane on
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