Today, 23 June 2004

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday June 23, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Drawing mileage from blood
    802 1  -  Jaime Koh As /A/ Jazeera reports beheading of S Korean hostage, scholar blames M-E turmoil on those seeking control of oil jaime@newstoday.com.sg A MILITANT Iraqi group has carried out its threat to behead a South Korean hostage, the Arabic language Aljazeera television station was reported by
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      48 1 NEWS rVIEWS Prithpal Singh Tapping on Senai the way to fly high/3 Karim Raslan A challenging reforms agenda/28 9-year courtshipl James Lye and Diana Ser to wed this Sunday finally/30 I THE %mU& NEW M Wa PELE? Wk WA impressive but let's not flf get carried away/44 *MF
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      Creative leads China charity donors list
      539 2  -  Tor Ching Li in Beijing Digital entertainment giant made $4m donation to China Children andTeenagers' Fund chingli@newsto day, com. sg EVEN as Singapore gets used to the business of charity, China is delving into the charity of businesses big time. However, leading the pack
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      Tapping on Senai the way to fly high
      728 3 NEWSfifimm^—^ Prithpal Singh AS a pilot, I am familiar with Senai Airport in Johor. Over a period of 20 years, I have seen it grow from a little ramshackle terminal to a glass-and-marble one and the runway lengthened to accommodate 8747 aircraft
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      Lock icon Iran may charge UK sailors
      156 4 Agencies TEHRAN A seemingly minor border incident became a serious diplomatic spat yesterday after Tehran said it was interrogating and could prosecute eight British navy personnel whose vessels strayed into Iranian waters on the border with Iraq. Rejecting British appeals for the sailors and Royal
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      M'sian tourism hit by drought
      141 4 KUALA LUMPUR The ongoing drought and rampant water theft have left thousands of Cameron Highlands residents short of water and caused hotel cancellations by tourists. The severe water shortage is said to have reached a critical stage, with households in Tanah Rata and Brinchang the
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      Lock icon Singapore, Pakistan to boost trade, security ties
      274 4 Channel NewsAsia TRADE and terrorism topped the agenda yesterday as Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong held talks with his Pakistani counterpart Mr Goh is in Pakistan for a three-day official visit at the invitation of Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali. Both countries
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      Lock icon Coordinated attack blamed on Chechens
      389 4 Interior Minister of Russian republic among dozens killed MOSCOW Just days after a top Chechen rebel leader warned of launching "big attacks", suspected militants unleashed a massive coordinated offensive on the neighbouring Russian republic of Ingushetia, killing the country's interior minister. The strike was the
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      Lock icon KL deploys troops to fight pirates in Malacca Straits
      133 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR In a new security measure, Malaysia said yesterday it would place soldiers on islands in the Malacca Straits to beef up security against potential pirate and terror attacks on ships. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said some
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Divorces peak over decade
      488 6  -  Ng Shing Yi 6,561 divorce cases reported last year, marriages fall 5% shingyi@newstoday.com.sg THE number of divorce cases in Singapore climbed to a peak of 6,561 last year, after doubling over the last 10 years, while the number of marriages fell 5 per cent from the
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      Lock icon Suspension wrong, say ITE students
      219 6 Channel NewsAsia AFTER the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) lecturer who was accused by a female student of screening pornography in class was cleared of any wrong-doing, several students have stepped out to criticise the management for having suspended him during the investigations. The Yishun
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      Lock icon NUS researchers step closer to Sars cure with protein isolation
      206 8 Channel News Asia RESEARCHERS of the National University of Singapore (NUS) took a step towards developing a drug to cure Sars after isolating the protein which causes the virus to reproduce in the human body. The next step is to
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      Lock icon An eye for an eye, and you can help
      708 8  -  Derrick A Paulo Eight-year-old Mouri needs aid for artificial eye derrick@newstoday.com.sg WHENEVER Iffat Ara Mouri would notice that her parents were not looking at her, she would go to the mirror and peer wistfully at her reflection. Slowly, she would remove
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      Lock icon Human Pacman on Orchard Road
      363 9  -  Liew Mei Yan The game uses Head Mounted Display to allow physical interaction and free body movement HAVE you ever wished that you could escape into a world where you could collect cookies which give you "magical powers" and run away from "bad people"? Your
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    • SINGAPOREsniPPets
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        AVA lifts bans on Dutch and US poultry imports
        70 9 The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) has lifted the ban on poultry imports from the Netherlands and the United States, except the state of Texas. It has also allowed the import of ornamental birds from Taiwan to resume. The
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        Man jailed two weeks for tax evasion
        77 9 Businessman Tan Kim Seng, 49, was sentenced yesterday to two weeks in jail for tax evasion. He was also ordered to pay a penalty of $224,000 three times the tax undercharged. Tan admitted in court yesterday that he did not declare about $334,000
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        Lock icon Some still worried about harmful seafood
        98 9 Channel NewsAsia Some Singaporeans are avoiding seafood after nine batches of contaminated seafood from abroad were destroyed recently. Wholesalers said business was down 30 per cent. Prices surged initially because of a drop in the supply after the fish, prawns and squid were destroyed.
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      More to benefit from NKF children's fund
      211 9  -  Fayen Wong MORE chronically ill children will benefit from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Children's Medical Fund (CMF). NKF has announced new partnerships with three children's charities the Canossian School, Spastic Children's Association of Singapore (SCAS) and Rainbow Centre as part of a
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      When bigger is not better
      594 10  -  Liew Mei Yan Health facility exclusively for men readies programme to fight male obesity meiyan@newstoday.com.sg IF you are a man in your 40s and have a pot belly, listen up. That excess baggage on your abdomen which is a sign of central obesity is an
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      'Sandwich generation' needs Government help
      329 12  -  Kenneth Goh IN the 26 years of my existence, I have observed the stress my mother had to endure to look after her mother and raise two children single-handedly. She had divorced my father when I was 6. My sister and I turned out fine.
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      Recovery on way but too soon to restore pay cuts
      186 12  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng I REFER to Mr Khng Eu Meng's letter, "Leaders should be like ship captains, last to leave" (June 22). After hearing the news of the Government's restoration of pay cuts for ministers and top civil servants,
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      Lock icon Why single out table tennis player for fine?
      215 12  -  Rick Yong I SHARE the sentiments Mr Robert Oei expressed in his letter, "Isn't losing part of sports?" Qune 19-20). I was shocked when I read that table tennis player Li Jiawei had been fined $3,000 for her sub-par performance at the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Inflation is making comeback in S'pore, but will it lead to stronger Singapore dollar?
      368 14 INFLATION is making a comeback in Singapore after years of stable prices, but economists aren't sure if this will lead to a gradual strengthening of the local dollar to keep consumer prices in check. Indeed, the
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      Maybank's fund-transfer from any ATM in S'pore
      270 14 SOME 150,000 credit-card members from Maybank can now transfer funds over the telephone and draw cash from any ATM in Singapore, including the restricted local banks' network. The new telephone transfer service works this way: A customer transfers funds from his available credit-card
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      Lock icon Ho interested in Singapore casino
      502 15 Agencies Casino mogul's Sociedade de Jogos seeks business outside Macau after it loses monopoly THE Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, a gaming company controlled by Mr Stanley Ho, may seek to operate a casino in Singapore as it looks for business outside Macau, where the
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      CORPORATE briefs
      206 15 ECS Holdings' Indonesian subsidiary has been appointed by American software giant Microsoft as one of its four distributors in the country. With this appointment, ECS is expecting revenues of more than US$5O million ($B6 million) from Indonesia for the current financial year. The company already had sales of
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      Lock icon Review clears Global Crossing management
      338 16 Channel NewsAsia It did not have prior knowledge of understated costs: Deloitte FLORHAM PARK (New Jersey) An independent review by Deloitte Touche has found no wrongdoing by the management of Global Crossing. In a statement yesterday, Global Crossing, a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Telemedia, said
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      A fund to retrain financial staff
      164 16  -  Val Chua THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has set aside $2.5 million over two years to retrain manpower for the financial sector. Called the Financial Sector Manpower Conversion Scheme, the new initiative will re-channel manpower quickly to new growth areas, such as the
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      Extrim gets an Indon distributor
      146 16 LIFEBRANDZ, which started trading on the Singapore Exchange last week, has appointed Diethelm Singapore as the exclusive distributor for its Extrim tablets in Indonesia. Under the distribution agreement, Diethelm is committed to sales orders of $36 million up to July 31, 2007, including an initial
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      Lock icon Singapore
      147 16 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended almost unchanged in lacklustre trading on continuing fears of a US interest rate hike, worries about violence in Iraq and the popular Euro 2004 football tournament that is keeping investors and traders awake at night. The ST Index closed down 1.22 points, or 0.07
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        ST Index: 1,785.93 -1.22
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        SGX most active
        59 16 By volume Teledata Rowsley LifeBrandz AsiaPharm JurTech SingTel UniFiber Informatics Noble Grp North 22 USS Close 0.055 0.120 0.230 0.495 1.200 2.140 0.155 0.350 0.820 0.020 Change +0.010 +0.015 +0.030 -0.080 -0.020 -0.005 +0.010 -0.005 -0.005 +9.1 +7.0 +6.5 -6.3 -0.9 -3.1 +2.9 -0.6 -20.0 'OOO 41,107
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        SGX top rises
        76 16 fy Close Change fenture 17.600 +0.300 jeative 50 17.200 +0.200 :&N 13.900 +0.200 :ortune Reit HKS 5.450 +0.100 3reatEast 12.100 +0.100 DCBC 12.000 +0.100 DUE 7.050 +0.100 ilA 10.200 +0.100 MryFarm 900 USS 2.050 +0.090 iPH 25 4.080 +0.060 By percentage MediaS Close Change 0.020 +100.0 Strike
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        Your S$1 buys
        32 16 IIK£ 0.3174 fen 63.321 HK$ 4.5335 m 2.2089 Euro 0.4798 Rupiah Baht 5461.1 23.771 Peso 32.65 4$ 0.8421 Indian Rs 26.701 Won 672.39 C$ 0.7936 ftjan 4.8139 NZ$ 0.9248
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        Commodities
        12 16 Sold us$/oi iilver us$/oi 5.845 lubber cents/kg 'aim oil RM/tonne 152:
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        Lock icon World markets
        64 16 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.27 Change -18.89 -0.16 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.59 3540.70 5556.54 -9.96 -13.90 -12.75 -0.08 -0.39 -0.23 Korea Comp KLCI 746.48 818.47 -2.82 -7.09 -0.38 -0.86 SET Index Jakarta Comp 629.36 691.09 -0.67 +1.47 -0.11 +0.21 Phils
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        SGX top falls
        72 16 By Close Changi DBS 14.200 -0.201 OCBC4.596NCPS *****1.500 -0.101 JurTech 1.200 -0.081 JSH500USS 5.000 -0.051 KepCorp 6.900 -0.051 IntRoller 0.850 -0.041 NOVENA 0.250 -0.041 Sp Land 4.320 -0.041 SPC 2.830 -0.041 SNP500 0.900 -0.03! )y percentage Close Cl toCorp 0.020 Jenefun 20k 0.010 Change -42.9 -33.3 (LWW*****6
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      Lock icon Nymex plans to set up shop here
      328 18 Dow Jones Move to forge closer ties with Asia-Pacific players THE head of the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) the world's largest energy exchange hopes that its plans to establish an energy futures exchange in Singapore will become a reality "sometime in 2005".
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      Lock icon Semiconductor sector to grow 27%
      156 18 AFP THE Asia-Pacific semiconductor industry will grow at a world-fastest rate of 27.4 per cent to reach US$9O.B billion ($154.4 billion) this year, fuelled by demand in China, research house Gartner said yesterday. Over the next four years, the industry is expected to average 14.3
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      Lock icon Cross-trading must meet M'sian rules
      171 18 Dow Jones KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop said yesterday that a proposed cross-trading of Malaysia and Singapore securities must meet Malaysian regulations. "Whatever Bursa Malaysia does, (it) is subject to the constraint of the rules and regulations," Mr Nor Mohamed told
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      Lock icon Asian equities still a good bet: Analysts
      450 20 Dow Jones They could rise to 20-30% within 12 to 18 months ALTHOUGH concerns over strong oil prices, higher global interest rates and the state of China's economy have turned investors overly cautious, in particular toward Asian equities such as those of Japan,
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        Micro-Mechanics ($0.39) – Buy
        136 20 Micro-Mechanics ($0.39) Buy We reiterate our "Buy" recommendation on the back of the company's robust sales growth. Its revenue has risen about 30 per cent in the first five months of the year, in line with industry expansion. Sales in China are starting to pick up after the company hired
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        Lock icon Inter-Roller ($0.85) – Buy
        143 20 Inter-Roller ($0.85) Buy DBS-Vickers The group has been awarded a 15-mil-lion contract to design and build an inflight catering system for the new flight kitchen at Dubai International Airport. This win improves the group's earnings visibility in FYOS ana signals the high likelihood that it will be awarded the $93-million
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      Lock icon Presidential hopefuls pressed on wealth
      259 22 LAKSAMANA.NET Anti-vice groups voice shock at politicians' riches Fabio Scarpello in Jakarta ANTI-CORRUPTION groups in Indonesia, saying they are astounded by the declared wealth of some presidential and vice-presi-dential candidates, want the source of those riches to be explained before the July 5 election. The
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      Lock icon Yudhoyono camp cites smear tactics
      365 22 AFP JAKARTA As campaigning for Indonesia's presidential election on July 5 enters its final days, smear tactics against front-runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have increased, his party said. SMS alleging that Mr Yudhoyono is a Christian and that his Democrat party is Christian-dominated have already reached
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      Basic wage counter to M'sian philosophy
      166 22 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Human Resources Minister Dr Fong Chan Onn has said Malaysia will not set a minimum wage scale because it is against the country's philosophy. Dr Fong said wages should be left to market forces and that the economy would be more
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        Lock icon Philippine vote count to go on
        60 22 -AFP The Philippine Supreme Court yesterday threw out a petition by opposition Senator Aquilino Pimentel to nullify the presidential vote count in Congress which was won by incumbent Gloria Arroyo. Mr Pimentel's petition was part of a bid by the opposition to stop or
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        Lock icon No Aussie flag, no school funding
        47 22 Reuters Australian schoofs were told yesterday they had to fly the national flag if they wanted federal funding. Prime Minister John Howard said a shift in cultural attitudes meant more Australians wanted to display the flag now than in the past.
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        Forest-fire haze hits Indonesia, Malaysia
        61 24 The haze, believed to be from Indonesian forest and ground fires, returned yesterday to Indonesia's Sumatra islana affecting some flights in Pekanbaru city. Seven flights could not land in Pekanbaru city and one did not take off, Antara news agency quoted airport officials as saying.
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        Nobel laureates back Kerry for President
        60 24 Democrat John Kerry has pickeaup the endorsement of 48 Nobel laureates who attacked President George W Bush for "compromising our future". "The Bush administration has ignored unbiased scientific advice in policy-making," the scientists, who have won Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine dating
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        Lock icon Bush anti-terrorist ratinqs plummet
        50 24 Reuters The public's confidence in Mr George W Bush's ability to fight terrorism has eroded significantly, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. The survey found, for the first time, that more than half of the polled Americans believed the Iraq war was not worth fighting.
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        Lock icon His prodigious mane
        78 24 AFP Vietnamese Tran Van Hay (picture), who has not cut his hair for 31 years, is seeking a place in the Guiness Book of Records, claiming to have a mane measuring 6.2 metres. "He has not cut his hair for 31 years. The last time he washed
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      Lock icon Boost Afghan security, aid agencies urge Nato
      257 24 Reuters KABUL More than 50 aid agencies have urged the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) to boost security in Afghanistan by announcing specific plans next week to deploy troops in restive provinces where they are most needed. In an open letter on Monday
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      Teacher fined for using schoolgirls as punishers
      153 24 LONDON A Scottish court fined a teacher £750 ($2,350) for recruiting a squad of schoolgirls armed with rulers to carry out her classroom punishments, reported The Guardian yesterday. Avril Mackenzie, 55, used the primary five girls to keep primary four boys in check
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      Clinton on top again with book
      368 24  -  Ted Chen My Life draws huge crowds; book to go on sale here today WASHINGTON The top political bookstore in Washington has not seen anything like it since Harry Potter. The release of former president Bill Clinton's autobiography drew 1,000 people to queue at
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      Maximum benefit with minimum fuss
      353 25 DIGI-SOUND offers good service and long-term support SHOPPING for a hearing aid is not the same as stepping into your favourite boutique and walking off with a dress or shirt that you can wear immediately. It takes a thorough ear examination by a trained audiologist
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      Face-to-face with Peter Zachskorn, audiologist
      259 25 Q: How does hearing loss affect a person's life? Zachskorn: Firstly, it will not only affect the person with the hearing loss but also everyone else around him or her. The hearing loss will cause miscommunication between them and slowly, he or she will be
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      Types of hearing aids
      88 25 DIGITAL hearing instruments provide top quality hearing comfort and the highest level of speech intelligibility and outstanding sound quality. These hearing instruments automatically adapt to everyday hearing situations and provide hearing without any background noise. In loud surroundings, you will understand almost every word with these
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      Hearing Health Fair 2004
      122 25 FIND out the state of your hearing health through a free hearing test and more at the DIGI-SOUND Hearing Health Fair 2004. Date: June 24 to 27 Time: 1 1.30am to 7pm Venue: Suntec City Mall, #01-073/075 What's on: Video audioscopy (Get a view of your
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      Promotions at the fair
      122 25 There will be three promotions at the fair: Promotion A Customers who buy a TRIANO hearing aid will receive $600 worth of goodies, including: Dinner cruise for two 1 0% instant discount off the purchase 2 years of replacement batteries Promotion B Customers who buy a
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      Lock icon Kofi Annan slams states which use him as scapegoat
      233 26 Agencies UNITED NATIONS UN Secre-tary-General Kofi Annan told the organisation's members not to use him "as an alibi" for not helping two million people caught in the fighting in Sudan. He said perhaps some UN agencies had been slow to act
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      Lock icon US isolated in nuclear talks
      419 26 -AFP Stance towards N Korea too rigid WASHINGTON As the third round of talks to end the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula begins in Beijing today, it is still unclear whether progress could be made. Previous talks hosted by China and involving the United
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      886 28  -  Karim Raslan MALAYSIA'S Second Finance Minister, Mr Nor Mohamed Yakcop, made many groundbreaking points in his recent policy speech on govern-ment-linked companies (GLCs) and the role of Khazanah Berhad. The reforms of the GLCs will impact positively on the broader society and the education system. Briefly,
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      844 30  -  Elisa Chia elisa@newstoday.com.sg After nine long years, James Lye and Diana Ser to wed this Sunday AN IMPRESSIVE, pea-sized diamond glittered on her left ring finger. "It's priceless!" Diana Ser chuckled, before deftly steering the conversation away from specifics about the sparkler. Right, getting specific was
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        581 31  -  LCay Groom Spot regularly to ensure that he stays clean and looks good news@newstoday.com.sg GETTING a haircut, facial and manicure these are some of the things we do to look good. It is the same for dogs: They also need a certain amount of grooming, such as
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      437 32  -  Jeanine Tan DJs Glenn Ong and Jam RADIO DJs Glenn Ong and Jamie Yeo are sky-high on love. Three weeks ago, Glenn, 34, proposed to Jamie, 26, on a night flight from Singapore to Sydney. The couple, who have been together for about two years,
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      372 33  -  David Chew david.chew@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS a very good year for the Singapore Arts Festival. Audience turn-out tripled from about 300,000 last year to over 900,000 this year, the National Arts Council (NAC) announced yesterday. While that's an impressive figure, the leap in attendance is
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      256 35 Reuters Spielberg-Hanks film is beaten at US box office by Dodgeball LOS ANGELES Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn aimed low and came up on top of the weekend box office in North America, as their raunchy comedy Dodgeball knocked down Oscarwinners Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
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      188 35 In the US (June 18-20) RANKING MOVIE WEEKEND CUMULATIVE WEEKS IN GROSSAJSS GROSS/USS CINEMAS 1 Dodgeball 30.07m 30.07m 1 2 The Terminal 19.05m 19.05m 1 3 (1) Harry Potter 18.03m 190.93m 3 4 (3) Shrek 2 13.94m 378.62m 5 5 (4) Garfield 1 1.34m 42.36m 2
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      452 41  -  TAN YO-HINN Thais plan to turn netball into a mass participation sport yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IN THE sporting arena, Thailand are arguably the dominant force in Southeast Asia. But there is one sport where the Thais continue to lag behind their regional competitors netball. That is why Netball
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      355 41  -  STANLEY HO stanley@newstoday.com.sg FOR the first time, Liverpool's women's team will embark on an 11-day pre-season training tour of Asia and they will be based in Singapore. The ladies in red arrive tomorrow. The Asia tour organised by Tampines Rovers and Liverpool Supporters'
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      195 41 AFP BRISBANE Eddie Jones has never had a better chance of beating England as coach of the Wallabies than in Saturday's return of the World Cup rugby finalists, England coach Clive Woodward said here yesterday. Under Woodward, England have won their last five internationals
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      225 42  -  STANLEY HO NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE Balestier 1 Geylang 4 stanley@newstoday.com.sg THE defeat was perhaps expected. But the manner in which Balestier Khalsa crashed to their sixth consecutive S-League loss against Geylang United last night was shocking. The woeful Tigers slumped to a 4-1 defeat
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      159 42 THEY met at the Thai Open in January this year and the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and their head-to-head record currently stands at 1-1. But at the ongoing Cheers Badminton Age Group tournament, world No 17 Kelly Morgan will get the chance to avenge that
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      444 42 Reuters Williams driver suffers blackout after Indianapolis accident BERLIN Ralf Schumacher has no memory of the huge crash during Sunday's US Grand Prix that landed him in hospital with severe concussion and back bruises. In an interview with Bild newspaper yesterday, the Williams-BMW driver said he
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      285 42  -  TENNIS LONDON Russian sixth seed Elena Dementieva suffered a shock first round exit at Wimbledon yesterday when she lost 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 to Sandra Kleinova of the Czech Republic. Kleinova, ranked 129, had never won a match in the main draw at Wimbledon before and
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      465 43 Agencies German coach unhappy with wayward strikers after just one goal from two games EURO 2004, GROUP D Germany v Czech Republic FARO, Portugal Oh, if only the Germans had a player like Wayne Rooney. It's not often they envy the talents of their
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      315 43 Reuters EURO 2004, GROUP D Holland v Latvia PORTO Dick Advocaat puts his job on the line when his underachieving Holland meet Euro 2004 surprise package Latvia in their final Group D match in Braga tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Both teams
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      345 43 Spain coach Saez won't quit MADRID Spanish coach Inaki Saez said yesterday he will remain at the helm or the national side despite their first-round exit from Euro 2004, saying he believed he had the players' support to continue. "For me, the fundamental thing is to work in
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      1049 44 Rooney has been impressive, but let's not get carried away LISBON Sven-Goran Eriksson was asked if he could think of another young star who had made an impact on a major tournament to rival Wayne Rooney's heroics in Euro 2004. The England manager, straightfaced,
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      224 44 AFP LISBON Chelsea centre-back John Terry has vowed to be fit for England's quarter-final against Portugal tomorrow {Friday morning, Singapore time) despite limping off the pitch at the end of the 4-2 win over Croatia, which booked his side's place in the last eight
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      205 45 -AFP LONDON Wayne Rooney's performance against Croatia was a godsend for Britain's pun-crazed popular press. The tabloids' only dilemma was where to fit in the "roo" for Rooney in their headlines. The Daily Mirror went for "Heroo!", the Sun chose "We're throo", while the Daily Express
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      241 45 Reuters LISBON An England supporter was killed in a possible robbery attempt yesterday morning and a Ukrainian man has been arrested, Portuguese police said. The 27-year-old British man was stabbed in the early hours near Lisbon's Rossio Square, a gathering place for Euro
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      525 45 Reuters Champions admit they are below par and must improve EURO 2004, GROUP B France 3 Switzerland 1 pean Championship finals. In the second-half, France virtually gave up the midfield battle and for a while the spectre of another first-round exit loomed, before Thierry
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      140 42 League Home Team I Away Team I Match KickOff (Singapore date/time) S. League Woodlands Tanjong Pagar Wed, 23/6/04 7.30pm Portugal 2004 Holland Latvia Thu, 24/6/04 2.45am Portugal 2004 Germany Czech Republic Thu, 24/6/04 2.45am S. League Home United Tampines Thu, 24/6/04 7.30pm S. League Young Lions SAF FC Thu, 24/6/04
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      1057 47 FANS know he's Peter Parker, an unassuming young man who becomes a crime-fighting superhero after he was bitten by a genetically modified spider. In Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, the hotly awaited sequel that swings into theatres June 30, Parker dons a costume concealing his identity because
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      269 3 (TOBEY MAGUIRE) Two years have passed since the orphaned Peter Parker, then living with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in Queens, was bitten by a genetically altered spider during a school field trip. Peter's life was changed forever when he became endowed with unusual powers: The
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      130 4 (KIRSTEN DUNST) The long-time love and next-door neighbour of Peter Parker, MJ had a troubled home life but felt she could always confide in Peter. In SpiderMan, the feisty MJ endured a number of perilous encounters with the Green Goblin before the web-slinging superhero came to
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      108 4 (JAMES FRANCO) Harry Osborn is Peter Parker s best friend. Their friendship was tested in Spider-Man by the fatherly affection which Harry's father Norman Osborn showed Peter Parker, and was further strained by Harry's eventual involvement with MJ, Peter's long-time love. Two years later, Harry is in charge
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      364 6 TO call Eric Khoo a Spi-der-Man fan would be an understatement. Sit down for 15 minutes with the local film-maker and he could tell you the origins of Spider-Man, how the famous Marvel Comics character has evolved over the years in the comics universe, as well as all the
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