Today, 1 July 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Fed rate now 1.25%
      71 1 Reuters WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve Board raised US interest rates for the first time in four years yesterday, boosting them a quarter percentage point in the first of a likely series of increases to keep inflation at bay. The decision by the US central bank's policy-set-ting
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      Lock icon US stocks higher
      53 1 Reuters NEW YORK US stocks rose modestly yesterday after the Federal Reserve Board's highly anticipated quarter-point interest rate hike. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 22.05 points to 10,435.48, the Standard Poor's 500 Index gained 4.55 points to 1,140.75 and the tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index gained 12.86
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      Blackout backup plans did not work
      489 1  -  Tay Tsen-Waye THREE power failures in slightly more than two months, causing blackouts lasting between 20 minutes and two hours. And on Tuesday night, the worst power failure in 10 years one that left some 300,000 households without electricity and 60 per cent of
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Saddam to appear before Iraqi court today
      205 2 -AFP BAGHDAD Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said yesterday the country possessed a great deal of evidence against Saddam Hussein, the jailed despot due to be hauled into the dock today. "There are tonnes of papers documenting Saddam Hussein's actions," Dr Allawi told
      -AFP  -  205 words
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      Lock icon Suu Kyi can take part in polls: Indon
      71 2 Reuters JAKARTA Aung San Suu Kyi (picture), the Nobel peace laureate under house arrest in Myanmar, will be free to contest elections after a constitutional convention finishes its work, Indonesia's foreign minister said yesterday. "Myanmar disclosed that once the convention is finished
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      Lock icon Seeing the light in a blackout
      739 2  -  Dharmendra Yadav ■m nwccomment THIS week, we have experienced a number of "power transfers" of various sorts. First, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said he would hand over the responsibility of making Cabinet changes to his successor, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Then,
      WEE TECK HIAN  -  739 words
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      Bomb hoax delays SIA flight for 5 hours
      319 4 A SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) flight with 209 passengers bound for Bangkok from Changi Airport was delayed for five hours yesterday after a passenger found a note on her seat warning of a bomb. Flight SQ62 had been cleared for take-off at 10.40
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      Lock icon Asean seeks a smooth transition to democracy
      406 4 MYANMAR JAKARTA Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) gathering here for their annual meeting called for a smooth transition to democracy in military-ruled Myanmar. In a joint communique about their fellow member state, the ministers "underlined the need for
      REUTERS  -  406 words
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      Lock icon Crane arm falls 13 floors at site of new National Library
      220 4 Channel News Asia THE boom arm of a crane fell from the 13th storey of the new National Library building that is under construction at Bugis, but no one was injured. The construction company is Nishimatsu-Lum Chang, which is
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Commandos on top again
      616 6  -  Jose Raymond Win SAF's Best Combat Unit award for 18th time since 1969 IT HAS not been an easy 12 months for the men sporting the red berets. Regarded as the army's elite force, the Commandos suffered their first blow when they were disqualified from last
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      10 of 12 aquarium filter pumps fail test by Case
      227 6  -  Ted Chen TEN of a sample of 12 aquarium filter pumps being sold in the market have failed a four-month-long test commissioned by the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). The dozen filter pumps were chosen from nine brands. Ten of
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      Lock icon Sex And The City to be telecast from July 16
      286 6  -  Fayen Wong SEX And The City, a drama series that completed its seventh and final season in the United States two months ago, will finally be available in Singapore this month. This is after a new rating system was introduced
      AFP  -  286 words
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      Lock icon EU sets its sights on SE Asia
      346 8 Channel News Asia Delegation Office opened here yesterday will advance Europe-Spore bilateral relations THE European Union (EU) remains deeply committed to South-east Asia, despite perceptions that it is lukewarm about the bilateral relationship, EU External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten said during a visit
      – Channel News Asia; REUTERS  -  346 words
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        Lock icon May tourist arrivals up almost four-fold
        127 8 Channel News Asia Visitor arrivals in Singapore soared almost four-fold in May from the same month a year ago. The Singapore Tourism Board saia that is a sign that the tourism sector has recovered from last year's Sars outbreak. Even when compared to the
        – Channel News Asia  -  127 words
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        NTUC Income starts accreditation scheme for tutors
        89 8 Under a new Tutor Accreditation Scheme, NTUC Income will make it compulsory for all tutors under its Tutor Referral Service to attend a six-hour training programme. Eventually, the tutors will be graded to give a better assessment to the parents. Participants will be
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        Lock icon Wee Cho Yaw named NTU pro-chancellor
        82 8 Newsßadio 93.8 The head of United Overseas Bank Group Wee Cho Yaw has been appointed Pro-Chancellor of Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His role will include presiding at the university's major ceremonies and functions, including the upcoming Convocation. Yesterday, NTU also announced Professor Hong Hai
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  • LETTERS
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      Degree from reputable Aussie university not recognised
      273 10  -  Kelvin Goh Chin Teck I HAVE read with interest the recent letters on the lack of recognition by government bodies of certain types of degrees. The discrimination against those who obtained their qualifications through part-time or distance-learning programmes seems to have spilled over
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    • Lessons from the blackout
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        Singapore must share the blame
        174 10  -  him Boon Hee DO people whose businesses were affected negatively by the frequent power blackouts recently have any recourse to compensation? Businesses with stored frozen foods and aquariums, and those that offer late-night entertainment that were forced to close early, all incurred losses. The reasons
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        Police hotline not for queries
        205 10  -  Wu Pet Tong I LEARNED from the media that the blackout on Tuesday led many concerned people to call the police hotline to find out the cause and probable duration of the power outage and to seek advice. According to the reports, some of these
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        Time to stop taking power for granted
        113 10  -  Tan Ruo Yu HOW strikingly coincidental. Your report, "Power comes at a stiff price" (June 29), described how Iraqis are currently experiencing a lack of electricity. Many people may have treated the report as something that is of little concern to Singaporeans. Of
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        Why peg power tariffs to oil prices?
        158 10  -  Yak Chin Hua THE reason given for the blackout, which hit thousands of homes across the island, was a disruption of the natural gas supply from Indonesia. Among other things, the power outage demonstrated the extent to which Singapore relies on natural gas
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      DPS a helping hand for members
      1171 11  -  Chan Sect Fun The Dependants' Protection Scheme is an insurance scheme providing financial relief for members and their families, should they become physically or mentally incapacitated MANAGEMENT trainee Ms Tan Pei Ling and her two younger siblings were barely into their teens when their
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        186 12 Agencies SHARES rose for a sixth straight session, sending the ST Index to its longest winning streak in almost three months. Investors discounted a likely 25-basis-point increase by the US Federal Reserve in its federal funds target rate at its policy-making meeting late yesterday. The ST Index closed up
        — Agencies  -  186 words
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        World markets
        60 12 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries faiwan Wtd Korea Comp Value 11,858.87 12,285.75 3,530.300 5,839.44 785.79 C Pis -1.94 +169.45 +12.800 +97.92 +7.07 Change -0.02 +1.40 +0.36 +1.71 +0.91 KLCI 819.86 -3.42 -0.42 SET Index 646.64 -2.98 -0.46 lakarta Comp 732.40 +10.10 +1.40 Phils Comp Shenzhen B Wumbai
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 12 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 394.20 Silver uss/oi 5.92 Platinum uss/oz 783.00 Rubber centsAg 236.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,580.5 Brent crude uss/barrel 33.36 Information provided by
        SGX, Bloomberg  -  26 words
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5829 UK£ 0.3214 Yen 63.456 HK$ 4.5286 RM 2.2097 Euro 0.4796 Rupiah 5,465.5 Baht 23.826 Peso 32.634 A$ 0.8428 Indian Rs 26.745 Won 671.89 C$ 0.7837 Yuan 4.8242 NZ$ 0.9238 NTS 19.682
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        ST Index: 1,838 +7.76
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        SGX most active
        56 12 By volume Close Change 'OOO lets Technics Chartered SingTel Citiraya MOL StamfordTyres JTAC Bio-Treat LifeBrandz 0.185 1.400 2.250 0.500 2.360 0.490 0.775 0.900 0.185 +0.030 +0.020 +0.005 +0.040 +0.015 -0.030 -0.010 -0.010 +2.2 +0.9 +1.0 +1.7 +3.2 -3.7 -1.1 -5.1 76,415 29,801 21,960 16,768 16,755 15,411 12,239
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        SGX top rises
        78 12 By$ Close Change Hid Prime200USS 10.600 +0.500 >IA 11.200 +0.400 >ingamasC2kHKS 4.025 +0.325 Creative 50 18.100 +0.200 ilA 200 11.100 +0.200 /enlure 18.000 +0.200 DairyFarm 900 USS 5TIETF100 2.350 +0.170 18.620 +0.110 Haw Par 5.100 +0.100 ISH 500USS 5.150 +0.100 By percentage Close Change CirPlusW*****7 0.025 +66.7
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        SGX top falls
        80 12 By Close Change F&N 14.000 -0.500 OBS Bk 6% NCPS10 106.800 -0.200 lardine C&C 6.400 -0.200 BukilSem 13.000 -0.100 3realEasl 11.800 -0.100 XBC 12.100 -0.100 reo HS 2.920 -0.080 SPC 2.880 -0.070 DUE 7.050 -0.050 By percentage PM Data Close 0.090 Change -21.7 3MG USS 0.025 -16.7
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      Informatics' loss hits $42.5m
      365 12  -  Val Chua Ability of company to meet bank payments hinges on deal with Oei THE full-year losses at Informatics Holdings has ballooned to $42.5 million for the year ended March 31, more than double the unaudited losses of $20.6 million the company announced on April 30.
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      Lock icon First India listing on SGX
      337 14  -  Val Chua Indian pesticide firm lodged preliminary prospectus yesterday AFTER months of wooing, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) may soon see the first Indian company listing on the local bourse. Yesterday, India-based Meghmani Organics lodged its preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore for a
      BLOOMBERG  -  337 words
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      OCBC offer for Great Eastern closes with 81% stake
      284 14  -  Val Chua OCBC Bank's four-month-old takeover exercise of its insurance arm, Great Eastern Holdings (GE), finally ended yesterday, with the bank now owning 81.1 per cent of GE, up from 48.8 per cent While this is still short of the 90
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      Lock icon Temasek gets 20 bids for CIAS
      113 14 Dow Jones- TEMASEK Holdings said that the planned sale of its airport ground handling unit, Changi International Airport Services (CIAS), has generated strong interest from potential buyers. "There is strong interest in our sale of CIAS and when our offer closed this month, we
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      Pledge your gold at SingPost
      117 14 AFTER much anticipation, Sing Post officially launched its pawnbroking service at its Bedok Branch yesterday. Called Speed Cash, the service which is licensed under the Pawnbrokers Act is the "first" of more financial services to be offered at Singapore's post offices, said Sing Post chairman
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      CORPORATEbriefe
      367 16 GP Batteries International and a unit of Sanyo Electric Co. agreed to form a US$25-million ($43-million) joint venture in China to make lithium batteries. GP Batteries will hold a 49-per-cent stake with Sanyo Energy Tottori Co holding the rest in the joint-ven-ture company to be called the Ningbo GP
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      Lock icon New pricing regulation to affect Optus revenue
      187 20 Bloomberg THE competition regulator in Australia has told mobile-phone operators to cut connection charges by 40 per cent eroding an income stream that provides about a quarter of mobile-phone revenue for companies such as Sing Tel Optus and Vodafone Australia. So-called mobile termination
      — Bloomberg  -  187 words
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      Lock icon It'll get tougher to fund terrorists
      319 20 Bloomberg As bank group works on guidelines THE Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has completed a draft of the latest guidelines to regulate banks and fight money laundering and terrorism funding. Formal proposals will be ready in three months. The revision is the
      – Bloomberg; WEE TECK HIAN  -  319 words
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      Lock icon Flextronics to cut 400 jobs
      96 20 Bloomberg SINGAPORE-based Flextronics International, the world's largest maker of electronics for brand-name companies, will cut 400 jobs at a plant in Hungary, the Nepszabadsag daily reported, citing a company official. Flextronics will cut 320 assembly line and 80 administrative jobs at its plant in Sar-
      – Bloomberg  -  96 words
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      Lock icon StarHub gets nod for listing
      340 21 Dow Jones IPO likely the biggest since Sing Post STARHUB has received approval from the Singapore Exchange to list its shares, paving the way for an initial public offering (IPO) by September, a source familiar with the process said yesterday. An IPO by Star Hub
      — Dow Jones  -  340 words
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      Lock icon Utac may pay less for UltraTera
      199 21 Bloomberg UNITED Test and Assembly Center (Utac), Singapore's sec-ond-largest provider of computer chip-testing services, said it might pay a lower price for its planned $794 million purchase of Taiwan's UltraTera Corp. UltraTera will not be able to meet targets set this year, Utac said
      – Bloomberg  -  199 words
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      Lock icon Temasek, GIC may buy stake in Taiwan's Fubon
      174 21 Agencies SINGAPORE investment company Temasek Holdings and the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) may buy a 9.4-per-cent stake in Taiwan's Fubon Financial Holding from Citigroup, Taiwan's Economic Daily News reported, without citing its source. Temasek spokeswoman Rachel Lin declined to comment
      – Agencies  -  174 words
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      Lock icon Not so green-back
      63 22 US DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY A new US$5O note with touches of red, blue and yellow will go into mass circulation on Sept 28, the Associated Press quoted Mr Tom Ferguson, director of the US Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing, as saying yesterday. The note is the
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      Lock icon Microsoft boosts profile in China
      327 22 -AFP Aims to forestall Linux, other systems BEIJING Microsoft chairman Bill Gates yesterday began his fourth visit to China in three years as the world's largest software firm ramps up efforts to consolidate its position in the burgeoning Chinese market Mr Gates is in Beijing
      -AFP; AFP  -  327 words
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      Lock icon India's GDP rose 8.2% in Q1
      173 22 Bloomberg INDIA'S economy expanded 8.2 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier as rising farm incomes spurred consumer spending, adding pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates from a three-decade low. The gain in the quarter ending March 31
      — Bloomberg  -  173 words
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Disaster turns to opportunity
      540 24  -  Kevin Tan As Yangtze calamity stirs need for reforestation, one firm realises a quick fix WHEN the worst flooding of the Yangtze River in 44 years occurred in 1998 due to widespread deforestation and industrialisation, thousands were killed and millions made homeless. But the calamity planted
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    • STOCKcalls
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        Lock icon Elec & Eltek (US$2.BO) – Buy
        84 24 Elec Eltek (US$2.BO) Buy Dow Jones ABN keeps "Buy" on the company but cuts the target price to U553.36 ($5.76) from US$4, because "part of the good news is already in the price". Still, it raises the FYO4 earn-ings-per-share target by 55 per cent and that of FYOS by 43
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        Lock icon CapitaLand ($1.37) – Buy
        124 24 CapitaLand ($1.37) Buy Kirn Eng Securities With NTUC Income, its joint-venture partner, Capita Land is realising profits from their investment in office space in Tokyo. It is selling 1 1 floors of office space in Shunjuku Square Tower in Tokyo for 1 0 billion yen ($155 million) to Japan Prime
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • WORLD NEWS
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        54 26 -AFP The upstart Islamic-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), which attracted millions of disaffected voters in Indonesia's general elections, has decided to support presidential candidate Amien Rais. A party official said PKS is backing Mr Rais because of his "track record" and proven corn- mitment to upholding the
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        61 26 Reuters The Thai police have arrested an Afghan wanted by the United States for alleged drug trafficking and funding international terror groups with the proceeds. Mohammad Omar Azizi, 24, was arrested on Monday at his Bangkok apartment and he was carrying an Italian passport with the
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        60 26 Reuters The US expelled two Iranian security guards employed by Tehran's United Nations offices after the mission was repeatedly warned against allowing its guards to videotape bridges, the Statue of Liberty and the New York subway. A State Department spokesman said it was the third time
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      870 26  -  Karim Raslan On June 4 in a move that was clearly politically-moti-vated a group of kiyai (Islamic scholars) from the 30 million-strong Nahdatul Ullama (or the NU), based in the East Java town of Pasuruan, issued afatwa attacking the possibility of a woman becoming President.
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      258 28 AFP Top two parties seal deal to end year-long stalemate to form government PHNOM PENH After a year-long stalemate that crippled the kingdom, Cambodia's top two political parties signed a deal on Wednesday to form a coalition government In a nationally-televised ceremony at the Cambodian
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        64 28 Reuters A strain of bird flu virus that is not lethal to humans has killed at least 4,500 chickens in Vietnam, three months after an outbreak of the deadly HSNI type that killed 1 6 people was declared over, officials said. The chickens died or
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        64 28 -AFP About 1 00,000 surface-to-air missiles capable of blowing a civilian airliner out of the sky are in circulation, some in the hands of terrorist groups, stated a survey by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. The shoulder-fired devices are small enough to pack
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        48 28 AFP A Malaysian student who launched a £19,000 ($58,913) lawsuit against his estranged father to pay for his British university fees had his case thrown out yesterday. Instead Foo Dvi Geng, 23, was ordered to pay RM3,000 ($1,354) to his father in costs.
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      366 30 Agencies Arroyo pledges much despite modest first term CEBU Mrs Gloria Arroyo was sworn in as the 14th President of the Philippines yesterday with a 10-point programme for fighting poverty and bringing peace to the rebel-lion-torn corners of the country. She said her government hopes
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      152 30 JEDDAH After facing post-911 problems in the United States and Europe, 15,000 Saudi students are heading for Malaysia to further their studies. Malaysian Higher Education Minister Dr Shafie Mohd Salleh said the first batch of 200 students will be enrolling in the local private
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      149 30 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia has arrested several more district council members for suspected graft in West Sumatra province. The province's deputy chief prosecutor Suhandoyo said four members of the Sawahlunto Sijunjung district council, including the chairman and deputy chairman, have been detained and were suspects
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      68 32 Reuters JERUSALEM The Israeli Defence Ministry said yesterday it would respect the Supreme Court's ruling to alter partial routes of the West Bank separation barrier. The ministry's statement came after the Supreme Court ruled that the controversial barrier had "created such hardship for the local population that
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      227 32 Reuters Hideout was a factory for making explosives RIYADH Saudi police killed a top spiritual guide for the Saudi wing of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network during a shootout in Riyadh yesterday, security sources said. They named the slain militant as Abdullah Al Roshood,
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      136 32 Reuters WASHINGTON Twenty television stations that aired pop singer Janet Jackson's (picture) infamous breast flash during the Super Bowl should be fined U5527,500 ($47,190) each, according to a staff recommendation to US regulators, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday. During the National
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      133 32 -AFP HONG KONG A Hong Kong student ran out of a classroom during an exam and leapt to her death from the third floor. Ms Lo King Yee, 17, a pupil at an elite school, was sitting for her exam with classmates when
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      690 34  -  William Pfaff US Supreme Court rules against Bush administration's claims to deny prisoners' rights ATHENS The French Catholic novelist Georges Bernanos was in Brazil when World War II broke out On his return to France, he was asked what change he had observed in
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      922 35 lav »EREE S^C lAA™ott|eisoomQ°f Date 1,2,3 4 July 2004 Come forth to the outdoor atrium of Plaza Singapura and join us Bk V^ »fcßfc Aiw V oAH|kn|y|J Time :10am-10pm in an event that will bring back the charm and nostalgia of Singapore's V ft B^ WrappaiTianiaVoilCher aVWarTaWlMNarm Venue: Plaza Singapura
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      281 36  -  Zul Othman THERE'S a bit of a philosopher and a bit of poet in Latin pop musician/songwriter Robi Rosa. He spouts lines such as: "I'm always chasing the sun, but the abyss is always tapping me on my shoulder", "I love my life, but
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      462 36  -  Wendy Cheng Don't confuse Ng Hui with her ditsydaughter Living with Lydia persona SHE did well enough in her studies to enter Raffles Girls School and then Hwa Chong Junior College. While she was doing her degree in communication studies in NTU, she was discovered and introduced
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      702 37 Pep up your food with Cold Storage's condiments YOU don't need to be a five-star chef to know that using condiments in your cooking will help spice up your dishes. And whether it's a fresh herb to enhance the taste of pasta or a spice to braise
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      310 38  -  Jeanine Tan FAMILY is again the central theme of MediaCorp TV Channel B's newest sitcom Oh Dad!, with the tense relationship between two estranged brothers played by Zhu Houren and Thomas Ong at its centre. But during yesterday's press conference for the new show, things took
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      592 38  -  David Chew Hello Broadway! star fights Asian stereotypes in the US IN AMERICAN pop culture, Asians are often portrayed as either gangsters or geeks and it's something Asian-American actor Welly Yang wants to change. Granted, this complaint isn't new and the situation is not so bad
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        79 38 Do you have a secret invention? Showcase it on the new variety show, Creatively Mine, and slug it out for the title of best inventor The show supported by Creative Technology debuts next month on MediaCorp TV Channel 8. Marcus Chin and Mark Lee
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        61 38 AFP Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino has wed her restaurant- waiter boyfriend Christopher Backus in a private courthouse ceremony in California. The 36-year-old Sorvino, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for Woody Allen's 1 995 film Mighty Aphrodite, married Backus, 22, in Santa Barbara on
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        70 38 Come see the spiders! And we mean real spiders, not the superhero comic character. In conjunction with the movie, Spider-Man 2, the Singapore Zoo is having a spiders exhibition at the Tropics Atrium, Suntec City Mall, until Monday. Spiders on exhibit include the Chilean Rose and
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        472 40  -  Pearlyn Tham A skincare range from Lancome that men will appreciate IF MEN really came from Mars and women from Venus, it is no wonder then that the two sexes have different agendas in every aspect of their lives. But ever since it became fashionable for men to
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        250 40 TRIED&TESTED Working in the F&B industry means that Edmund Tan meets many new faces everyday so the well-groomed man believes in looking good on the job. "First impressions count, especially in my line," said Edmund, who is in his early thirties. "Surely I want to look good and
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        447 41 Spider-Man spotted at Changi Airport! Spider-Man 2 now has to face the daunting box office legacy of its hit predecessor LOS ANGELES Spider-Man did great the first time around. The question now is whether the sequel to the comic book adapted film, Spider-Man 2, set to hit
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        216 42 AFP LOS ANGELES Scarlett Johansson will replace Kate Winslet in film-maker Woody Allen's new movie after Winslet dropped out, the industry press said on Tuesday. British actress Winslet, 28, announced last week she would not make the as-yet-unnamed picture as she wanted to spend
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        216 42 Reuters Woman charged with stalking Zeta-Jones 'infatuated' with Douglas LOS ANGELES A woman charged with stalking Catherine Zeta-Jones has written the actress a letter of apology saying she was infatuated with her husband, actor Michael Douglas, her lawyer said on Tuesday. Dawnette Knight was arrested
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        675 45  -  Koh Chieng Mun A good cod steak depends on a good cooker and good timing I ALWAYS had an interest in cooking. From a young age, I had helped my working mother plan meals while my sister took care of the chores. When I went
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        182 45 Home Proud, Fair Price's private label, offers a comprehensive range of good quality and affordable general merchandise such as household products, kitchenware, hardware, electrical appliances and accessories. Backed by FairPrice's product-satisfaction guarantee, shoppers can look to Home Proud products for quality homecare and housekeeping solutions at great value. HP2BS
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        53 46 With the Great Singapore Sale in full swing, can you afford to be clueless? Inside: Confessions of a shopaholic and where to find the best bargains. Sharon Au is wearing halter neck dress 5599 from BCBG MAXAZRIA. Swarovski crystal and pearl earrings 518.06 (usual price: 525.80) from B*dazzle.
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        847 47  -  Pearlyn Tham Sharon Au reveals the trials and tribulations of being a shopaholic WHEN it comes to shopping, there are three kinds of shoppers. There is the window shopper who looks but rarely buys; the smart shopper who has an uncanny ability to spot the best bargains
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        536 50 Calling all shopaholics! Ryann Koh gives you good reasons to feed the shopping bug. Alternatives #04-25A/K2/K3 The Heeren Shops Barcode #01-41 Far East Plaza Beauty Wild #03-30 D Parco Bugis Junction Beetle Bug #81-28 Wisma Atria Energy Exercise Wear #03-33 Great World City Fila #01-19 Tampines Mall, #03-09/10/11
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      600 54  -  Elisa Chia SURPRISES await around every corner, my tour guide, Rita Leung, told me when I was in Hong Kong. By that, she wasn't referring to the fusion of East and West and new and old, for which the vibrant city is renowned. Neither was she
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      85 54 Great offers await visitors to the 2004 Hong Kong Shopping Festival. During the event, which runs from June 26 to Aug 31, participating shopping outlets and restaurants stay open until at least 1 opm. Those with Shopping Festival Passports are enti- tied
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      185 54 THE Merlion will always have a special place in the hearts of the couple in the photograph on the right. For it was one of the places the pair visited during their honeymoon. They were among 50 couples both newly-weds and longmarried couples from the
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        438 55 Today Traveller i Manado is a spectacular world 'of'underwater marvels THE name Manado may not ring a bell with many Singaporeans. But to many diving enthusiasts, it spells paradise. Manado, a city with a population of 250,000, is the capital of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. Amid volcanoes, mountains
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        604 56  -  Tan Yang Ephesus, Seljuk offer glorious sites and sights TURKEY is one country lucky enough to be able to offer visitors a glimpse into its rich heritage. Ephesus is one such place. It was known as Efes, and then lonia, during the days of the
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        151 57 MOBILE subscribers in Singapore can now find out about the best travel deals in town via SMS. From June 29, Zuji, Asia-Pacific's leading online travel company, is offering "lowest airfare SMS-alerts" to 50 destinations in Asia and beyond to mobile subscribers. The "price check" SMS
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    388 60  -  ALVIN CHUA Out of contract, Bhutia's inundated with offers, but he wants to set the S-League alight DEADLY AND AVAILABLE that's the current status of Indian star striker Baichung Bhutia. Bhutia, who is in Singapore working as a Euro 2004 commentator for cable
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    447 60  - r) s^l r f ***** ij-i r 1 Alvin Chua His task:To bring in China's f| brightest talent R HE is Sinchi's new signing, and he is the man with the keys to China's warehouse of footballing talent. Meet Fan Guang Ming, who gave up a highly-cherished job at the
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    383 61 Odds at press time Tampines v Balestier Tampines Stadium Tomorrow, 7pm, live, Channel News Asia TAMPINES Probable line-up: Rezal Hassan, Azlan Alipah, Scad Muratovic, Choketawee Promrut, Steven Tan, Aliff Shafaein, Mustafic Faharudin, Nazri Nasir (left, top), Santi Chaiperk, Mirko Grabovac, Noh Alam Shah Form: WLWWL (1-0 v
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    386 62  -  DAN PEK WEE TECK HIAN This striker cum keeper may be the next big thing ENGLAND may have the likes of Wayne Rooney, while Portugal can boast of Christiano Ronaldo, as their next big star. Not to be outdone, Singapore could well have a rising talent
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    53 62 Chinese side Sinchi will now be known as Sinchi Golden Throat, after announcing the lozenge makers as their main sponsors yesterday. Golden Throat, with managing director Jiang Peizhen (left), pictured here with Sinchi chairwoman Lee Tee Eng, will pump $150,000 into Sinchi for the rest of
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        388 63  -  Dan Pek FOR sports fans who are tired from the avalanche of Euro 2004 action over the last month, the upcoming Asian Touch Championships could just be the ideal break. The competition will be a showcase for international Touch club teams from all around
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        541 63 AFP Defending champion ends Hewitt's dream TENNIS Wimbledon LONDON Top seeds Roger Federer and Andy Roddick stayed on course for an explosive Wimbledon title showdown while unheralded Mario Ancic crushed Tim Henman's Grand Slam dream for another year this morning. Defending champion Federer overcame a battling
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        392 63  -  STANLEY HO IT took 16 matches, but finally, normal service has resumed. After playing second fiddle to title rivals Woodlands Wellington for much of the season, defending champions Home United went three points clear at the top of the NTUC Income-Yeo's
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        502 64 -AFP Figo inspires Portugal as Dutch sent packing EURO 2004, SEMI-FINAL Portugal 2 Holland 1 LISBON A virtuoso performance from Luis Figo inspired Portugal to a 2-1 victory over Holland that booked the Euro 2004 hosts' place in the first major final in the country's history. A first-half
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        308 64 LISBON Luiz Felipe Scolari said yes to a two-year extension to his marriage with Portugal this morning two years to the day since winning the World Cup with Brazil, exactly 13 years since Portugal won the world youth title and on the day he led
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      764 65 -AFP Inspirational captain fulfils his promise LISBON Luis Figo, the man who said he had nothing to prove after being hauled off against England, promptly went out and proved his "galactic" status with a sterling showing to power Portugal into their first ever major final at
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      968 66  -  ROHIT BRIJNATH The stars of Euro 2004 arrived in Portugal without the burden of arrogance and posture IT IS a summer of Greece. It is the summer of the Olympics. It is a summer of Homer, whose Illiad has stretched across our cinema screens in the
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      259 66 Reuters LISBON Two coaches with 130 years of life experience between them will strike a blow for the "golden oldies", when the Czech Republic play Greece in today's (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) Euro 2004 semi-final. Karel Brueckner, 64, has been promised free Czech
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