Today, 15 June 2004

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    12 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday June 15, 2004* mita(P) 002/11/2002
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  • KEPPEL FIRE ENQUIRY PANEL
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      A conflict of interest?
      480 1  -  Fayen Wong President of Asmi, which plays a crucial role in marine work safety, is on board fayen@newstoday.com.sg EYEBROWS have been raised in the marine industry at the composition of the three-man panel looking into the fire which killed seven workers on a vessel at Keppel
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      Lock icon An Englishman, not in shock
      771 1  -  Neil Humphreys EURO 2004/NEIL HUMPHREYS DEMONSTRATING bravery of the British bulldog variety, Wayne Rooney found a weakness in the French Legion's backline and forced his way through with the temerity of a teenage terrier. Without hesitation, the referee afforded the staunch Englishmen the opportunity to
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      51 1 NEWSrVIEWS Andy Mukherjee The hype and heartache of post-election India/3 Tor China Li The stumbling blocks to skills upgrading/6 Eric Teo As Asia rewrites US ties, balance of power shifts/23 iVPCTECH will now appear every Tuesday in the main section of Today Pages 17-20 d 11 *1 »J MI ■>
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      Lock icon 'Vote Bush out' voices grow louder in the US
      553 2  -  Tay Tsen-Waye Group of retired diplomats and military brass issues critical letter waye@newstoday.com.sg FIRST, it was the hatchet job by controversial film-maker Michael Moore now, a group of 26 United States retired senior diplomats and military brass have joined voices in
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      Lock icon The hype and heartache of post-election India
      697 3  -  Andy Mukheriee Bloomberg NEWSs&nun&n^— India's agenda for progress looks daunting to everyone, except the timeless politicians of sloganeering THE loud "India Shining" publicity blitz has come to a quiet, unceremonious end. Type www.indiashining.com in your Web browser's address box now and the message
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda-trained terror gang identified
      131 4 Agencies KARACHI Pakistani police identified a new terror group yesterday which they said trained under Al Qaeda fighters and was involved in various attacks in the country over the past weeks. Nine alleged members of the group, Jund Allah (which means "God's brigade"), appeared before
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      Lock icon Indon candidates and 'money polities'
      547 4  -  Moch N Kurniawan Parties admit reimbursing supporters' transport expenses The Jakarta Post JAKARTA Transparency International (TI) Indonesia has alleged that all five presidential candidates have been involved in some form of vote-buying, or money politics, during their electoral campaigns. Mr Anung Karyadi, TI Indonesia's senior
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  • HOME NEWS
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      The stumbling blocks to skills upgrading
      558 6  -  Tor Ching Li Implementation of programme in construction industry tardy chingli@newstoday.com.sg FIVE years ago, the vision for a professional, productive and progressive construction industry took shape in the Construction 21 report In it were recommendations for a points-for-skills-upgrading initiative the Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
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    • SNIGAPORE snippets
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        Lock icon Singaporeans 'optimistic'
        83 6 AFP A survey of 4,700 people aged over 1 5 in six Asian countries found Malaysians to be the happiest lot, followed by Singaporeans and Thais. Singaporeans were the most optimistic, with 1 0 per cent feeling "on top of the world" and 85 per cent saying they
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        Lock icon Self-employment workshop
        75 6 Newsßadio 93.8 Unemployed Singaporeans can now operate their own retail business through the Workforce Development Agency's Retail Incubator Training Programme. They can learn about topics such as merchandising and marketing in a five-day workshop and thereafter test their skills by operating a push-cart business selling non-perishable goods such
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        Lock icon 1,800 flats up for sale
        63 6 Newsßadio 93.8 The Housing and Development Board released all the remaining blocks at The Pinnacle@Duxton for sale yesterday. As of 1 Oam, HDB had received over 3,000 applications for the more than 1,800 flats. The closing date has been extended to July 2. The HDB
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      Reservist training: Not feasible to grant year-long deferment
      272 8  -  Col Bernard Toh I REFER to Mr Stephen Tan Lay Wee's letter, "Reservist training must be more family-friendly" (Today, June 5). The SAF is a citizen armed forces and NSmen form the backbone of our defence force. Therefore, it is very important
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      Punggol 21 flats delivery woes
      359 8  -  Francis Tan Estimated time of delivery for housing project is delayed time and again COULD the Housing and Development Board (HDB) please draw up guidelines to help residents affected by the delayed construction of flats in Punggol Field, Project S2 C 2? I booked a
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Oei's $10.8m windfall
      291 10  -  Dow Jones Informatics shares surge on tycoon's vote of confidence AFTER just over five weeks, businessman Oei Hong Leong now sits on $10.8 million in paper profits. Of this, $2.05 million is the result of his May 12 purchase of 17.25 million Informatics Holdings shares at 27.144
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      Lock icon Hyflux wins $154m China deal
      129 10 Bloomberg HYFLUX has won a contract to build what it said would be China's biggest water desalination plant in Tianjin. The company estimates the initial investment to be at US$9O million ($154 million). When it is completed by 2006, the plant will be able to
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    • Market WATCH
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        ST Index-1,814.06 9.08
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        World markets
        54 10 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.66 Change -35.16 -0.31 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.57 3478.20 5574.08 -319.82 +10.20 -160.99 -2.58 +0.29 -2.81 Korea Comp 738.79 -12.74 -1.70 KLCI 817.61 -6.71 -0.81 SET Index 614.00 +0.87 +0.14 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 696.33 1536.83 244.01 -7.78 +18.83
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        SGX most active
        53 10 Informatics fciaPharm UniFiber China Petro Bio-Treat FibreChem Ml Chartered ChinaCast SingTel Close 0.390 0.490 0.170 0.490 0.890 0.375 1.550 1.370 0.305 2.230 Change +0.070 +0.010 -0.005 -0.005 -0.010 -0.020 -0.010 -0.030 '000 +21.9 35,543 +2.1 35,122 -2.9 19,001 -1.0 17,933 -1.1 16,188 13,404 9,542 -1.4 9,316 -3.2
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        SGX top rises
        74 10 By$ DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 106.500 +0.200 By percentage Informatics 0.390 +21.9 F&N 14.000 +0.200 GMG USS 0.030 +20.0 Jardine C&C 6.500 +0.150 Oakwell 0.065 +18.2 SPC 2.890 +0.120 Kian Ho 0.200 +17.6 GrealEast 12.100 +0.100 JMH400USS 10.900 +0.100 Penguin W*****0 0.045 FHTK 0.055 +12.5 +10.0 KepCorp
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        SGX top falls
        73 10 By$ By percentage Venture 17.300 -0.400 El-Nets 0.015 -25.0 Creative 50 16.900 -0.200 Mayfran 0.065 -18.8 OOB 13.100 -0.200 ISH500USS 4.960 -0.140 CITYDEV 4.940 -0.060 AdvSys 0.175 SingLun 0.180 OKP 0.120 -12.5 -12.2 -11.1 CITYDEVW*****0 2.450 -0.060 SIA DBS eCW*****0 0.080 -11.1 Sp Land W*****3 2.100 -0.060
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        Singapore
        126 10  -  Dow Jones SHARE prices here ended slightly lower in thin trade yesterday on concerns over weak US stock futures and renewed violence in the Middle East. The ST Index closed down 9.08 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 1,814.06. Losers outnumbered gainers by 212 to 78, while market volume
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5824 UK£ 0.3201 Yen 64.097 HK$ 4.54 RM 2.2132 Euro 0.4851 Rupiah 5457.2 Baht 23.719 Peso 32.545 A$ 0.8406 Indian Rs 26.299 Won 677.9 C$ 0.7943 Yuan 4.8204 NZ$ 0.9259 NTS 19.572
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 10 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 383.800 Silver uss/oz 5.660 Platinum uss/oi 796.000 Rubber ™tsAg 257 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1507 Brent crude uss/borrei 35.50 Information provided by
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      US trade gap in April widens to record $83 billion
      173 12  -  Dow Jones WASHINGTON The United States trade deficit hit another record high in April despite declining oil consumption as the nation's overseas sales of goods and services fell and overall foreign purchases rose slightly. The deficit in international trade of
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      Lock icon Electrolux eyes S'pore suppliers
      256 12 Channel News Asia Local firms may capture slice of $1-billion components market THE purchasing team of household appliance giant Electrolux is in Singapore to meet, identify and possibly appoint local companies as its suppliers for electronics and precision components. Electrolux also plans to make Singapore one
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      Lock icon Local telcos: 3G won't spur sales until 2006
      341 14 Bloomberg Handset price and size among reasons for slow early adoption SINGTEL and Mobile One said it may take more than a year before new high-speed services known as 3G, which enable faster Internet surfing and downloading of email over handphones spur
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      Lock icon FTA with S Korea likely this year
      157 14 Channel News Asia SEOUL Singapore expects talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea to wrap up by the end of this year. Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan said this to reporters during a World Economic Forum roundtable in Seoul yesterday.
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      5-year goal for SEA market link
      133 14  -  Dow Jones BANGKOK Thailand will push ahead for the partial integration of capital markets in South-east Asean countries primarily a link-up between the markets of Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, said Thai Finance Minister Somkid Jatusripitak. "We're talking about crosslistings and cooperation in terms of
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Lock icon Foreign funds return to Asia
      549 16  -  Dow Jones North Asian economies, supported by domestic demand, are most favoured FOREIGN funds are returning to Asian shares as regional bourses have factored in the likelihood of a rise in global interest rates and are offering attractive valuations at current levels, according to HSBC
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2625 16 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Enquiries: Although carefully verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy Call
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  • INFOTECH solutions for BUSINESS
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      Lock icon GLOBAL ENTITY, LOCAL ASPIRATIONS
      529 17  -  Francis Chin In the spirit of SMBs, Microsoft helps small Spore firms expand overseas francis.chin@newstoday.com.sg MICROSOFT, the largest software company in the world, used to be a small to midsized business (SMB). k Hence, it understands the technology needs and constraints of small businesses. According to
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      MS server saves the day
      249 17 INFOTECH GOES WEEKLY Info Tech will now appear every Tuesday as a section of Today. This will allow us to bring you more timely news and views about IT solutions for business. And don't miss our Wh?ch section in Weekend Today: Your guide to the
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      Giving back to the community
      212 17 IHE often engages in com- "My wife, Karen, is savvy with I munity activities such as the computer. I met her when helping old folk learn the when she was the office manbasics of Word or helping sec- ager in the US," he said, ondary
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      Lock icon HP DesignJet creates world's largest book
      184 19  -  Francis Chin I FROM now till Friday, you can see the I world's biggest book at Kinokuniya book shop in Takashimaya. Printed on Hewlett-Packard's DesignJet 5500, it contains photographs and drawings of the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Michael
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      Access old data as Web services
      264 19 UNLOCK the data hidden in mainframe and other old computers in your company. Germany-based Software AG is offering three integration software packages to help companies make such data accessible as Web services. The XML Business Integration portfolio uses standard technology to bring the old
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      These tools make light work
      444 19  -  Joanne Wee MSN offers SMBs search aids, targeted database access infotech@newstoday.com.sg MSN, the Microsoft website I synonymous with email and instant messaging for individual users, wants businesses to know that they can benefit from its dot-corn services too, says regional general manager Sharon Baylay. Ms
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      Asian bigwigs @ CommunicAsia
      454 20 Asian bigwigs CommunicAsia Trade show attracts more regional vendors this year COMMUNICASIAthis year's event from today until Friday is the 15th edition records the highest number of exhibitors from China as well as increased participation from rap-idly-growing IT markets such as South Korea, India, Malaysia and Thailand. The number of
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      Pay local charges on your mobile phone when you roam overseas
      541 20  -  Ariel Tarn anel@newstoday.com.sg I FREQUENT travellers may soon I have a more convenient and costeffective way to roam overseas. Unified Communications, a provider of customised products for the telecommunications industry, has unveiled its Visitor Local Number (VLN) solution at
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      Video conferencing gets personal
      220 20  -  Ariel Tarn I REAL-TIME enterprise environments I require instant communication to remain productive and video conferencing solutions have become an important part of a company's communications strategy. Polycom, one of the participants at CommunicAsia 2004, offers end-to-end audio and video conferencing solutions which enable collaborative communications
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Beijing offers Hong Kong democrats olive branch
      335 22 Agencies Proposal comes after a 6-month tussle over reforms HONG KONG In a rare conciliatory gesture, Beijing proposed yesterday, sober-minded talks with Hong Kong's democrats, with whom it has been locked in a six-month tussle over democratic reforms. With relations between Hong Kong
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      Lock icon NZ might reconsider automatic citizenship policy
      154 22 -AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand could tighten its citizenship laws after Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday that the country should reconsider its policy of granting automatic citizenship to anybody born there. "There has been a tendency in recent years not only in New Zealand
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      Lock icon 16 killed in Iraq suicide attack
      157 22 Agencies BAGHDAD A second suicide bombing here in less than 24 hours killed at least 16 people, including five foreign electricity contractors and wounded about 45 in a passing convoy yesterday. A diplomatic source in Baghdad said that according to the United States-led coalition
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      Lock icon Signals of easing tension between the Koreas
      66 22 AFP South Korean Navy sailors on a warship send flash (or light) signals to a North Korean warship on the western maritime border near the Souths Yeonpyeong Island yesterday. The South Korean and North Korean navies established radio contact for the first time
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      Lock icon Low turnout mars EU elections
      243 22 Agencies PARIS Governments in the European Union were dealt a wake-up call as low voter turnout in the European Parliament elections signalled disillusionment with the newlyexpanded bloc. Turnout across the 25-mem-ber bloc in the weekend elections was 45.3 per cent the lowest since the first
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon Not safe for foreigners in Saudi Arabia
        50 22 AFP The United States has warned that the Al Qaeda's determination to stage attacks within Saudi Arabia poses a serious threat to the kingdom and made the nation a dangerous place for foreigners. Meanwhile, authorities hunted for the kidnappers of a US national.-
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        Lock icon China to put woman in space by 2010
        64 22 AFP China plans to send its first woman into orbit by 201 0, with officials at the space programme to start looking for the right candidate early next year, the Beijing Times said. However, the woman chosen will only be a researcher
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        Lock icon Para-military force to protect Malacca Straits
        49 22 AFP Malaysia said yesterday that it would deploy a new paramilitary force in its territorial waters following international pressure to tighten security in the vital Malacca Straits. The force would act as a law enforcement body in peacetime and a combatant during war.
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon As Asia rewrites US ties, balance of power shifts
      678 23  -  Dr Eric Teo news@newstoday.com.sg IN ASIA, the perception of the United States is undergoing a dramatic transformation one that could alter the geo-political and geo-economic balance of power in the region in the next 10 to 20 years. A key to
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      It'll be this duo's 'birthday' concert
      179 24  -  Wendy Cheng IT MAY be a little unusual to see Zhang Shan Wei and Wilber Pan pair up. After all, we're used to seeing Shan Wei with 5566 member Zax Wang in the Taiwanese variety show, Showbiz. But the two Taiwanese stars are getting
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      Lock icon 'I just want an ordinary Joe'
      408 24  -  Wendy Cheng JacelynTay's birthday wish is for a man in her life wendy@newstoday.com.sg MEDIACORP actress Jacelyn Tay celebrated her 29th birthday with dozens of her fan club members at X Union Karaoke Cineleisure last Saturday. As an accomplished actress and spokesperson of Konica Minolta
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    • incinemas
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        Purple reign
        455 25  -  Liyana Othman Barney's sold-out shows here proves how much kids love him liyana@newstoday.com.sg LIFE for the big and friendly purple dinosaur, Barney, is still good. Last Saturday, over 2,000 children and parents caused a ruckus at Changi Airport, just to welcome him. "Barney! Barney! We want Barney!" fans
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        The multivitamin boost to health
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      684 33 Reuters Germans, Dutch meet yet again, with the bitter rivals hardly at their best EURO 2004, GROUP D Germany v Holland OPORTO, Portugal The French and the English have left centrestage. Now it is the turn of Germans and the Dutch to move in. Another traditional
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