Today, 24 June 2004

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday* June 24, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
    526 1 EDITORIAL THE images have been chilling, horrifying. We have viewed them in print, on the Internet, on television screens, with rising repugnance. We do not want these terrible things to happen, but they are happening, and they are making the headlines because they are so terrible. They
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      121 1 /A=djaCorp ATHENS 2004 099 ftIEDIACORP S'iaSadta E WE'fcE HEADY FOfcJAkAfcTA. I JAKAKIA AHEYOU? I I I After Bangkok and Hong Kong, we're now making our maiden flight to Jakarta. And with our great fares and spanking new Airbus A32os, why don't you join us? fcETUfcAJ L*LJ yy e jqq^ f
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      31 1 great s'por^ NEWSX^/lEWS mSI\A Lee says One can't be fully bilingual/3 Harvard con How Gregory Earls cheated the university of $24m/24 You're fired! See Trump in action tonight on The Apprentice/26
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      5 1 Low-cost, high-yield terror: Page 4
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      72 1 France&Spain Special 1 1 IVORY TOWER I SECRET I PASSAGES A Traveller PREPARE FOR ONE HELLUVA BATTLE 3^ HOT NEWS CREATIVE BLAST Sim Wong Hoo chooses China to launch revolutionary video card. Says Singapore does not have the inclination nor the talent to nurture such technology. INFORMATICS SHOCK Chief executive
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Chief executive resigns from troubled Informatics Holdings
      509 2 Agencies THE auditors of beleaguered Informatics Holdings have withdrawn their earlier statement that they had found no reason to believe the company's management had intentionally mis-stated results. The company also said its chief executive, Mr Ong Boon Kheng, had resigned yesterday, and would
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      Creative unleashes Wildcat
      618 2  -  Tor Ching Li Beijing chosen for launch as Spore market too small, too slow: Sim IT'S no secret that Singapore would like to attract more Mice (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) visits to the Lion City. But, perhaps, unknown to the Singapore Tourism Board, homegrown digital entertainment
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      Lock icon 'One can't be fully bilingual'
      517 3  -  Lee Ching Wern SM Lee compares linguistic abilities to limited hard disk storage capacity WHEN then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew laid the foundations of Singapore's bilingual system in 1965, he had thought it was possible for an average student to be fully bilingual. But decades
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        Lock icon PM in Bangladesh
        62 3 Begum Channel News Asia Singapore and Bangladesh are to sign an investment guarantee agreement to affirm their growing economic partnership. The signing ceremony takes place in conjunction with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's official visit to Bangladesh. He arrived in Dhaka yesterday after a three-day visit to
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        MFA: Do not go to Iraq
        62 3 The Government has issuecf a travel advisory warning Singaporeans against going to or stay- ing in Iraq. The Foreign Affairs Ministry's travel advisory follows the latest killing of a South Korean apparently by an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Iraq. Singaporeans residing or travelling
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      Lock icon Low-cost high-yield terror
      784 4  -  Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE The killing of Mr Kirn Sun-11, a 33-year-old South Korean working in Iraq, by an Islamist group with links to Al Qaeda is the latest in a spate of incidents in which Islamic militants have kidnapped and then decapitated their hostages. While hostagetaking is
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      Lock icon Al Jazeera not airing Kim execution scenes
      79 4 AFP DOHA Aljazeera decided to spare its audience the execution scenes from a videotape of the murder of Mr Kirn Sun-11, said the Qatari channel's spokesman yesterday. "The management consid- ered it should not put out the scenes of the hostage's murder, because
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      Lock icon Kim killing stuns S Korea
      284 4 Agencies SEOUL The killing of South Korean translator Kirn Sun-Il in Iraq stunned a nation which has never sought a high profile on the world stage and which remains deeply divided over its role in the United States-led coalition in Iraq. Mr Kirn's body was
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Palakrishnan scholarship fund
      100 6 MR R Palakrishnan, a top criminal litigator who died last year, will be remembered in a scholarship that has been set up in his memory. Called The Palakrishnan Memorial Scholarship Fund, it will be administered by the Law Society of Singapore and awarded to Singapore citizens who
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      You can quit smoking, it's all in the mind
      701 6  -  Surekha Yadav S'porean proposes a psychological approach to kick the habit THERE is the therapeutic chewing gum and then there are the images on cigarette packs of a dying baby and a brain oozing blood. But for one man, it's all
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      Lock icon People's Park Centre to close next March for facelift
      177 6 Newsßadio 93.8 CHINATOWN icon, the People's Park Centre, will close for 10 months from March next year for a $5-million facelift. The 36-year-old building, known for its good hawker food and bargain textile shops, has been slated for a major upgrading.
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  • LETTERS
    • That vindictive girl from ITE
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        No apology made to slandered teacher
        94 8  -  Alan Lee FOR ALL the numerous lies the former ITE student had told the Ministry of Education and ITE, she has gotten away with a simple statement that she "regrets that the incident has caused inconvenience or embarrassment to ITE". I note that the
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        Why no action against the accuser?
        92 8  -  Adrian Choo Wai Ying I REFER to the article, "Suspended ITE lecturer resumes work (June 22). I am appalled that despite the untold embarrassment, suffering and damage to the lecturer's reputation, his teenage accuser got away scotfree without any form of punishment The allegations
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      What price S'pore's economic success?
      185 8  -  See Leong Kit YOUR report, "Divorces peak over decade" (June 23) should set politicians and people thinking. Last year, marriages fell 5 per cent while divorce cases doubled over the last 10 years to 6,561 18 divorces every day. In 2001, there were 357 suicides
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      'Sandwich generation', it's time to grow up
      126 10  -  Jimmy Chan I REFER to Mr Kenneth Goh's letter, "Sandwich generation needs Government help" (June 23). The writer's approach reveals a shocking softness about him hopefully that is not true of his whole generation. Every generation is a "sandwiched" generation that needs to
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      Lock icon An American ashamed of US actions in Iraq
      335 10  -  Thomas D Robinson Double standard in dealing with N Korea and Iraq I AGREE with lan Williams' editorial, "US not up to task of ruling the world" (June 22). Sadly, it is a very accurate assessment of the position of the United
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      Do they know what charity is?
      189 10  -  Sally Tan ON Saturday, I was accosted by three secondary school students eagerly soliciting donations for flag day. Noticing that the beneficiary was the Planned Parenthood of Singapore, which is affiliated with the International Planned Parenthood Association (IPPA), I could not resist quizzing the
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      Sops for elderly: A clarification
      143 10  -  Kathryn Lav I refer to Mr Jimmy Chan's letter, "Extra concession that costly?" (June 14). We appreciate the opportunity to clarify that all Singapore citizens or permanent residents aged 60 years and above are eligible for the Senior Citizen EZ-link Card. As explained in our
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • MarketWATCH
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        World markets
        60 12 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex Value 11,580.56 11,849.77 3,545.30 5,729.30 738.93 822.09 627.24 699.756 1,573.47 241.87 4,644.00 Change Pts -0.71 -0.01 +4.18 +0.04 +11.30 +0.32 +172.76 +3.11 -7.55 -1.01 +3.62 +0.44
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5809 UK£ 0.3203 Yen 63.355 HK$ 4.5402 RM 2.2122 Euro 0.4805 Rupiah 5,485.1 Baht 23.832 Peso 32.732 A$ 0.8468 Indian Rs 26.703 Won 675.18 C$ 0.7888 Yuan 4.8088 NZ$ 0.9250 NTS 19.621
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold uss/oi 395.60 Silver uss/oi 5.895 Platinum uss/oi 812.00 Rubber centsAg 238.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,531.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 35.60
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        Singapore
        112 12 SHARES closed mixed yesterday. However, the benchmark index closed higher to snap a four-day losing run as gains on Wall Street encouraged bargain-hunting among the blue chips. The trading was restrained as investors were sidelined because of the Euro 2004 football tournament and ahead of the US Federal Open
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        ST Index: 1,794.65 +8.72
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        Lock icon SGX most active
        57 12 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by fy volume Close Change 'OOO joldtron .ifeBrandz Horizon JniFiber Chartered SingTel ComfortDelGro )io-Treat lurTech iPH 0.015 0.220 0.130 0.150 1.340 2.160 1.250 0.850 1.200 4.140 -0.010 +0.020 -0.005 +0.020 -0.020 -0.005 +0.080 -4.3 +18.2 -3.2 +0.9 -1.6 -0.6 +2.0 23,817 20,142 19,435
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        SGX top rises
        77 12 By$ F&N Close Change 14.200 +0.300 KepCorp Creative 50 Jardine C&C 7.150 +0.250 17.400 +0.200 6.500 +0.200 OCBC4.55SNCPS100 101.700 +0.200 STIETF100 Robinson 18.500 +0.160 5.850 +0.150 OCBC 12.100 +0.100 DairyFarm 900 USS SPH 2.140 +0.090 4.140 +0.080 By percentage North 22 USS Close 0.025 Change +25.0 Horizon
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        SGX top falls
        74 12 jy Close )ingamasC2kHK$ 3.700 SukilSem 12.900 Change -0.275 -0.200 \PB Breweries 7.800 :iH 2.750 -0.100 -0.100 3BS Bk6% NCPS10 106.500 -0.100 SreatEast 12.000 -0.100 ihang Asia 2kHK$ 7.500 /enlure 17.500 -0.100 -0.100 rhai Prime200USS 9.550 -0.050 By percentage IRECorp Strike W*****5 Inchem W*****8 MediaS Close 0.030 0.010
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      Lock icon Biomed output to hit $12b
      158 12 Dow Jones SINGAPORE'S biomedical industry is developing faster than expected, Minister for Trade and Industry George Yeo said yesterday. He was speaking at a ceremony to mark the $100-million expansion of GlaxoSmithKline's plant in Jurong to boost the output of a critical compound used in
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      Lock icon DBS plans to acquire stakes in China banks
      419 12 Bloomberg Group in talks with five banks in fast-growing market DBS Group Holdings, South-east Asia's largest bank, is in talks to acquire stakes in five Chinese banks as part of its plans to expand in the fast-growing domestic market in China. The
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      Lock icon GM Asia shifts S'pore HQ to Shanghai
      204 14 -AFP SHANGHAI General Motors (GM) said yesterday it would move its Asian headquarters to Shanghai from Singapore and invest US$25O million ($430 million) in a testing centre to ramp up its presence in the world's fastest-growing car market. GM chairman and chief executive
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs
      132 14 Channel News Asia Raffles International has made its maiden foray into the Russian hotel industry, signing an agreement to manage a 235-room deluxe hotel under the Swissotel brand in Moscow. The hotel will be named Swissotel Riverside Towers Moscow and is scheduled to open by May next year. The
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      Lock icon CPF to privatise insurance scheme
      322 14 Dow Jones Newswires. Dependant's Protection Scheme under private insurers will better benefit CPF members THE Central Provident Fund (CPF) plans to privatise its Dependant's Protection Scheme (DPS) and will invite private insurers to submit their proposals next month. Insurers will be selected on the basis
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      Lock icon China tree grower to raise $25m in IPO
      192 14 Dow Jones CHINA-BASED Guangzhao Industrial Forest Biotechnology Group said yesterday it expected to raise about $25.2 million in net proceeds in the initial public offering (IPO) of its shares in Singapore. The company, which cultivates trees for the pulp and paper industry,
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      2-day summit on business opportunities in India
      133 16 THE Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in conjunction with the Indian Merchants' Chamber in Mumbai, is organising a two-day "India Calling 2004: Asia-Pacific Business Summit" in Singapore. The conference on July 9 and 10 will look at business opportunities in the
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      Lock icon $20m Linux centre opens
      331 16  -  Francis Chin Spore picked for strong IT foundation A $20-million Linux development centre opened in Singapore yesterday as forecasts showed a growth of 30 to 50 per cent in the number of companies worldwide adopting the open-source operating system. Funded by Oracle, a database supplier, and
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      Lock icon Healthcare, education costs drive consumer prices up 2%
      159 16 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S consumer prices rose 2 per cent year-on-year in May, driven by higher healthcare and education costs and "miscellaneous items" such as packaged tours. Compared with April, the consumer price index rose 0.1 per cent in May, the Department of Statistics
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      413 17 TOSHIBA TOSHIBACELEBRATES 30 YEARS IN SINGAPORE BIRTHDAY BASH!*^ This year, we at Toshiba celebrate our 30th year in Singapore. 30 years of giving you the best in technology through products like audio-visual products and home appliances. We're proud to be a part of Singapore's success story, and we're proud to
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Impact of trading access fee seen marginal for SGX
      424 18  -  Kirn Eng Research Kirn Eng keeps 'Buy' rating on bourse's growth prospects, dividend yield STOCKBROKING firms have announced that they will be passing on to investors a new trading access fee to be levied by the Singapore Exchange (SGX) with effect
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    • STOCKcalls
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        Boustead (59.5 cents) — Buy
        92 18 Boustead (59.5 cents) Buy Engineering services group Boustead's 63.5-per-cent-owned subsidiary, Salcon, has been awarded a $40-million contract for Phase II of the El Hadba sewage treatment works in Libya. While the award of the contract has been factored into our forecasts for the group, it is positive as it raises
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        Lock icon GES (58.5 cents) – Buy
        96 18 GES (58.5 cents) Buy DBS Vickers GES management has reiterated the group's positive outlook. Orders for point-of-sale terminals continue to rise, while evidence is growing over its success in acquiring more original-design-manufacturing customers. We expect margins to expand, which will lead to higher earnings growth, while positive cash flow generation
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2655 18 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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    Lock icon Labels of Love
    657 19  - Label s of Love Wan HuiYuen There's a bottle for everyone at Cold Storage, thanks to a good selection of wines WHETHER you're a novice or a seasoned wine drinker, you're sure to find a bottle that's to your liking at Cold Storage. Its shelves boast a wide range of
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Smog causes flight delays, school closure
      125 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Smog shrouding Malaysia worsened yesterday, delaying some flights to Indonesia and forcing authorities to consider shutting schools temporarily due to health concerns, officials said. The smog over Kuala Lumpur and the west coast has thickened due to increased open burning in
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon N Korea willing to listen to new proposal from Washington
        62 20 AFP The first of four days of talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes ended yesterday with signs of possible movement. North Korea's delegate said he was willing to listen to a new proposal from Washington which reportedly offers a
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        Lock icon British had no ill intent in Iran
        46 20 Reuters Eight British servicemen held in Iran after their boats strayed into the Islamic Republic's waters on Monday were to be freed yesterday. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said it became clear the British men had no ill intentions.
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        Lock icon Death toll hits 92 in Ingushetia
        45 20 Agencies The death toll from the attacks by Chechen rebels in the Russian republic of Ingushetia rose to 92 confirmed deaths officials said. The toll looked set to rise as dozens of others fought for their lives in hospitals.
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      Lock icon PAS loses seat due to counting error
      144 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) suffered a fresh blow yesterday when it was stripped of one of the seats it secured in March polls after a counting error was revealed. Justice Ramly Ali declared Mr Che Mm Che Ahmad
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      Saddam is 'happY'
      353 20 He says in letter his spirit and morale are high WASHINGTON Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says his spirit and morale are high and asks relatives to "say hello to everyone" in the first and only letter the former Iraqi dictator has sent to his family since
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      Lock icon 'Straits pirates not linked to terror groups'
      193 20 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR United States intelligence services have found no evidence that pirates operating in the Malacca Straits have links to terror networks in South-east Asia, a senior US admiral said yesterday. "But we do know that terrorists have used the maritime opportunities
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      Bush: I've never ordered torture
      390 22 But secret documents show interrogation methods approved, then abandoned WASHINGTON With the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal showing no signs of abating, United States President George W Bush went on the defensive saying he never ordered the torture of Iraqi or Al Qaeda detainees. His comments
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      Lock icon Three wheels good, four wheels bad
      32 22 AFP Some 2,000 drivers of Jakarta's distinctive "Bajaj" taxis held a protest yesterday against plans to replace the noisy and smoke-belching three-wheelers with more environmentallyfriendly mini-vans.
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      Lock icon Management of Iraqi oil money under fire
      103 22 Reuters UNITED NATIONS The United Statesled occupation is managing billions of dollars of Iraqi oil money sloppily and moving at a glacial pace to guard against corruption, according to an international watchdog agency. The Coalition Provisional Authority has yet to award contracts for
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      Lock icon Wal-Mart faces gender bias lawsuit
      153 22 -AFP WASHINGTON A federal judge allowed a sex discrimination suit against Wal-Mart to proceed as a class action which covers about 1.6 million women, including current and former employees of the retail giant. In the biggest of such suits in United States history, Judge Martin
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      Lock icon US terrorism review marred by errors
      175 22 Agencies WASHINGTON Embarrassed United States officials more than doubled their count of people killed and injured by international terrorism last year as they revised a faulty report used to argue that Washington was winning the war on terror. They admitted that the State Department's
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      Lock icon Britain's most pampered pet?
      90 22 -AFP LONDON Jasper, a Doberman-Labrador mixed-breed dog which owns stocks, travels by limousine and dines daily on sirloin and fresh mussels from New Zealand, is well placed to win Britain's most pampered pet award in a contest to be televised on private British television network ITVI.
      -AFP  -  90 words
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Harvard fund-raiser ... and con man
      925 24  - Harvard fund-raiser and con man Michael Lewis Bloomberg News How Gregory Earls swindled the venerable, 368-year-old university of $24 million ELEVEN days ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article about a man named Gregory Earls, who used his role as a prominent fund-raiser for Harvard University to persuade investors
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      228 28 This Pinocchio leaves me cold DANCE REVIEW by liyana othman Pinocchio On Ice WHERE'S the Blue Fairy when you need her? The premiere of Pinocchio On Ice, billed as a world-class event, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Tuesday was marred by the same sound-system problems which plagued Andreas Bocelli's
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      152 30 Reuters LOS ANGELES Teen actress Mary-Kate Olsen who with her twin sister, Ashley, has grown into an American pop icon and fashion brand has entered a treatment programme for an eating disorder, reported to be anorexia. The 18-year-old co-star of New York Minute recently "entered
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    87 47 ALBIREX Niigata star Issey Nakajima (left) got into the swing of things at the Metta School Charity Carnival at the Marina Promenade last weekend. The Metta School provides special education to mildly intellectually disabled and mildly autistic children. This is not the first time S-League clubs
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    63 47 CATCH the Young Lions against SAFFC at Jalan Besar Stadium tonight (7.30pm), where the first 500 fans will receive free Euro 2004 postcards from Sing Tel. The postcards feature European players such as David Beckham (right), Raul Gonzalez and Luis Figo, among others. Key in Sing
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    137 47 FOOTBALL Association of Singapore (FAS) president Assoc Prof Ho Peng Kee has been a busy man around the Singapore football scene lately. With his declaration last week that the FAS would be more active in grassroots football, Assoc Prof Ho looks set to be even
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    465 47  -  KOHWEI LING Sng, Richmond are trying to be as good as MartinTyler THEY are buddies of the armchair sportsmen, giving voice and life, breaking through the strict solitude of the visual action on television. They also give fans extra bits of information and trivia throughout a
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    356 48  -  ALVIN CHUA First Blagojevic, now axed Guinean midfielder wants compensation from SAFFC GUINEAN midfielder Ballamodou Conde has become the second S-League player in two weeks to seek compensation, after his contract was terminated by SAFFC in mid-season. Last week, Today reported that Australian Milan Blagojevic was
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    117 48 THEY'RE young, they're hot and they're ready to bring the house down at Jalan Besar Stadium tonight. For the past month, the cheerleading squads of SAFFC and Young Lions have come together to work on a combined performance that is set to blow fans' minds away.
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    311 48  -  Alvin Chua THE next Southeast Asia (SEA) Games in Manila may be more than 18 months away. But the preparations have already begun for Singapore coach Radojko Avramovic. The Serbo-Mon-tenegrin is using next month's friendly against the Japan under--19 team to
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    150 48 1) What's the one thing you'd refuse to eat even if you were starving? Fish. I don't know why, but I just can't stand fish. 2) What do you worry about the most? Injuries and the future. 3) If you weren't a footballer, what would you be? I've
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    477 49  -  ALVIN CHUA GREATEST MOMENTS: SCOTT O'DONELL Geylang coach's memories stretch from playing in Australia to a Cup final in Jalan Besar f AS A player, my most memoW rable moment was probably making my league debut in Australia for the Parramatta Eagles against Adelaide City,
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      181 50  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THEY were ranked world No 6, going into the World Table Tennis Team Championships in March this year. But they finished a dismal 10th, and were promptly fined and reprimanded by the Singapore Table Tennis Association for their shoddy performance. But Singapore's
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      336 50  -  TAN YO-HINN AT LAST year's Asian Grand Prix, she played bridesmaid in the shot put on all four occasions to team-mate Dv Xianhui. But a recent rise in form has seen her overtake the reigning SEA Games champion in the pecking order for
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      484 50 AFP Safin condemns Wimbledon surface, vows never to return TENNIS Wimbledon LONDON Marcelo Rios thought it was only good for grazing, Wayne Ferreira loves it, but thinks it too slow, while Marat Safin hates it so much, he's never going to play another Wimbledon. Nothing divides
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      661 51 Carlsberg Singapore invest $5 million, but diehard Sim wants to talk football MERVIN Sim is supposed to discuss the biggest sponsorship deal in his company's history, but he's clearly distracted. "Did you read the news today?" The managing director of Carlsberg Singapore asks. "Chelsea are ready
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      468 51 Reuters LISBON Greece coach Otto Rehhagel has told his players not to turn France's big names into the stuff of nightmares, before their Euro 2004 quarter-final clash tomorrow (Saturday morning, Singapore time). Rehhagel, who steered the Greeks to
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      116 51 SOCCER fans, whose Euro 2004 experience have been limited to second-hand match updates from newspapers and websites because they are not plugged into cable television, will have a new lease of life from tomorrow. Channel 5 will broadcast all matches live for the remainder
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      311 52 THE BATTLE FOR EUROPEAN SUPREMACY Wayne Rooney has already emerged as one of the best play* ers at the European Champi' onships. He's a very exciting talent, who shows maturity and composure beyond his young years With his tremendous ability both on and off the ball,
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      364 52 AFP EURO 2004, GROUP C Denmark 2 Sweden 2 OPORTO Denmark coach Morten Olsen (picture) and his players scoffed at claims that their 2-2 draw with Sweden was fixed to ensure they progressed to the quar-ter-finals at the expense of Italy. "It's ridiculous,
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