Today, 16 August 2004

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    24 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Monday Au"" iil 2004* \utmp> loa/in/zuw TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Monday August 16,2004* mita (P) 103/07/2004
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    Lock icon PM Lee's stress on strong grassroots
    833 1  -  Tor Ching Li Tribute to Nee SooiVs leaders and new, younger MPs AT his first official function as the third Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Hsien Loong true to his inauguration call for an "all inclusive society" and ground-up policy approach highlighted the
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  • Article
    End of long wait soon for M'sian visas
    145 1  -  Shoba Tsering Bhalla IN a move likely to have a spill-over benefit for tourism in Singapore and Malaysia, the Malaysian High Commission in Singapore is planning to outsource its visa-process-ing work to about 30 travel agents here. The move will not only
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    Lock icon Singapore's Susilo dumps China's world No 1
    290 1  -  LEONARD THOMAS 2am latest NOT MANY back home gave him a chance, but Ronald Susilo (picture) always believed he could do it. You could hear it when Singapore's badminton star spoke no fear, confident, not cocky, knowing there was a job at hand.
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      41 1 ATHENS 2004 fIiEDIACORP NEWSXVVIEWS People power Ideas from man-in-the-street to boost tourism/3 Oil price relief* But more fallout likely before that/12 Second force Time for Asians to learn more about Hispanic influence in the US/18 M FAB PHELPS, COOL THORPE /37
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      16 1 TOSHIBA MC ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Ifc^ How well did the big guns m perform? m Page 34
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon 'I felt a gun pressed at my head, then... click'
      410 2 Agencies Freed journalist recounts 20-hr ordeal in SundayTelegraph LONDON A young British journalist kidnapped for 20 hours in the southern Iraqi city of Basra revealed yesterday how he escaped by holding a female guard at knifepoint and was prepared to
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      Lock icon ENVOY'S KIDNAPPERS WANT 500 PRISONERS IN IRAN FREED
      103 2 Agencies Kidnappers holding an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad threatened to "punish" him within 48 hours if Iran did not release 500 prisoners captured in its 1980-1988 war with Iraq, Iranian state television said yesterday. Meanwhile, a national conference, hailed as Iraq's first
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    • Article
      Turning to people power to boost tourism
      560 3  -  Tan Eng Hong NEWS£fifflffl^— Great ideas may well come from the man-in-the-street SINGAPORE needs to do a lot more in the field of tourism and fast as our neighbours are speeding ahead in the fierce competition for the tourist dollars. While we mull
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  • HOME NEWS
    • Article
      MRT mishap revives platform safety debate
      512 4  -  Tor Ching Li Father of four in stable condition after being hit by train WITH the first recording closed circuit television (CCTV) system at the Pasir Ris MRT station due to come into operation this week, a second man in just over a fortnight
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    • Article
      Lock icon New initiatives to cut Govt red tape
      195 4 Channel NewsAsia IT'S called the No Wrong Door policy. If you direct an enquiry to the wrong public service agency, you won't be sent around in circles looking for the right one the receiving agency will liaise with the relevant one so that
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      Lock icon A picture that is worth $10,000
      83 4 Eveline Gan For Mr Liew Tong Leng, life truly is great after he won the top prize of 7 0,000 in the annual "Life is Great!" photo competition by Great Eastern Life Insurance. The 35-year-old aircraft maintenance engineer said of his winning entry: "I
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      Scholar's formula for success
      409 4  -  Lee U-Wen TAN Sherwayn doesn't have the straight As one typically associates with a President's Scholar. Indeed, when this year's only two President's scholars were announced on Friday, the media zoomed in on his fellow recipient, Mr He Ruijie who posted straight As in both his
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  • LETTERS
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      Muis can help counter spread of 'warped' ideas
      211 6  -  Haj Mohamed I REFER to Madam Hamidah Nazir's letter, "Fight extremism in all its forms" (Aug 12), in reply to my earlier comments. It reinforces my position that the media has a major part to play, as stressed by Defence Minister Teo
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      Danger in media stereotyping
      347 6  -  Kate Smith What the Birmingham Pub bombings taught me I REFER to Today's HotTalk discussion (Aug 13) about my reaction to Neil Humphrey's piece on ang mohs. I had specifically complained about his use of stereotypes that I feel is out of place in the profession
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      Don't push children to the limit
      189 6  -  Josephine Yang Ya Hui I REFER to the comment, "Want kids to be smart? Let them play more" (Aug 11). I was once a pre-school educator and have witnessed countless children falling victim to the various activities scheduled by their "concerned" parents. One of
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        111 8 AFP Jitters over high oil prices and a forecast for a slowdown in global demand for technology products are expected to weigh down Singapore shares next week. The ST Index closed at 1,872.88 on Friday, down 49.87 points or 2.59 per cent, from the previous week. Average daily turnover
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 USS 0.5836 UK pound 0.3167 Yen 64.6084 HKS 4.5516 RM 2.2178 Euro 0.4717 Rupiah 5392.79 Baht 24.2413 Peso 32.503 AS 0.8141 Rupee 27.0223 Won 678.0086 CS 0.7638 CNY 4.8306 NZS 0.876 NTS 19.9556
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 8 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 401.200 Silver uss/oi 6.625 Platinum uss/oi 864.200 Rubber centsAg 216.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1471.50 Brent crude uss/borrel 37.88 Information provided by
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        Uniting the world through stamps
        282 8 IT IS a marvel that, despite the onset of email, instant messaging and text messaging on mobile phones, snail mail has i i r retained its resilience as a means ot correspondence. So too has the stamp survived the past 150 years in Singapore (the
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      Lock icon SembCorp to 'minimise damage' from Solitaire case
      594 8 Dow Jones After more than 6 years of legal wrangling, marine group may end up poorer for it EVEN as it focuses on expanding its China footprint, local conglomerate SembCorp aims to limit the fallout from the ongoing Solitaire contract dispute that threatens
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      Sime Darby may buy 29% of Jaya Holdings
      281 8  -  Val Chua ONE of Malaysia's largest conglomerates may be eyeing a stake in a Singaporelisted shipping company. According to The Edge weekly, Malaysia's Sime Darby may acquire a 29-per-cent stake in mainboard-listed Jaya Holdings in the next two weeks. Sime Darby, which
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      Lock icon Prepare for interest rate hike: Lim
      171 10 Channel NewsAsia NEWLY-appointed Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang (picture) said one of his priorities is to consolidate the economic growth of Singapore. Although the country is at the sweet spot of global economic recovery, Singapore, he says, must not be complacent Singapore's
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      Lock icon Menace to US growth
      453 10 -AFP US recovery may be derailed by rising oil prices, analysts say WASHINGTON Tearaway world oil prices, toppling records and straining wallets, present a new economic threat barely three months before the United States presidential elections, analysts said. Just as the US economy shows signs of
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      Lock icon Oil may bring relief after shaking market
      752 12  -  Lim Say Boon But before that happens, more fallout is likely AS BRUTAL as the market shake-out has been over the past couple of days in Singapore, there is some good news. We may actually get a relief rally from that most unlikely
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  • Impact
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      Lock icon This man's got the goods
      655 13  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla He started off bright-eyed and inexperienced. But Barang Barang's Lim Kok Hui soon found out he had a knack for the furniture retail trade FROM the beginning, Barang Barang the lifestyle store has been a head-turner. First, there was the name so
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      Revlon launches ground-breaking global ad blitz
      324 13  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla IN A bid to capture a bigger share of the market for quality beauty aids, Revlon, one of the world's best-known brand names, has launched a trail-blaz-ing advertising campaign. Through the art of storytelling, the campaign brings the brand's "confident sexy"
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      GRAB BAG
      224 13  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla MOVING away from tired images of a Malraux-esque India still caught up in Gandhian abstinence, the newlyopened and impossibly swish fusion store Mumbai Se is set to do for India what Crocodile Dundee has done for Australia. Positioning the fusion fashion and lifestyle store as
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Hurricane Charley leaves trail of devastation
      203 14 Agencies PUNTA GORDA (Florida) National Guard troops patrolled a devastated southwest Florida to prevent looting as rescuers searched for any victims of Hurricane Charley which killed at least 13. Mobile homes were shredded and thousands of buildings were damaged. "Our worst fears have come
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      Lock icon Kerry's Republican audience
      395 14 AFP Disappointed with Bush, these voters are showing up at Democrat rallies MEDFORD (Oregon) More Republicans who are disgruntled with President George W Bush's handling of the economy and the war on terror are turning up at Democratic party rival John Kerry's rallies. This trend came as
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      Lock icon China 'rehearses' attack on Taipei
      154 14 Reuters TAIPEI China has been practising an attack on Taiwan's capital, Taipei, aimed at killing or capturing the island's leaders in a "decapitation" action, Taiwan Premier Yu Shyi-kun said yesterday. The strategy appeared to have been inspired by the United States' action in Iraq to
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    • GLOBALEroundup
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        Lock icon Blast kills mothers & children at India independence parade
        49 14 Blast kills mothers children at India independence parade -AFP At least 15 people eight mothers and seven children were killed when an explosion ripped through an Indian Independence Day parade in the revolt-hit northeastern state of Assam. Police blamed the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom for the blast.
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        Lock icon Howard picks TV over elections
        35 14 AFP Prime Minister John Howard all but ruled out a September election yesterday, saying he and most Australians would rather watch the Olympic Games than be interrupted by political campaigning.
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        Lock icon Berlusconi on terrorist hit list
        57 14 Reuters The Abu Hafs Al Masri Brigades, which claims links to Al Qaeda, has called on its fighters to attack "all targets" in Italy after the country ignored its Aug 15 deadline for Italian troops to quit Iraq. The group said Italian Prime Minister Silvio
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        Lock icon Caught in the porn act
        40 14 Reuters Two British policemen have been suspended from duty after the News of the World newspaper reported they had been filmed enjoying the attention of porn stars while they were sudposed to be on patrol.
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        Lock icon Olympics' security failure
        61 14 AFP The Sunday Mirror in Britain claimed yesterday to have exposed major security breaches at the Athens Olympics, after one of its reporters got a job at the main stadium without a thorough security check. The tabloid newspaper said a security sweep had failed to find three
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      Lock icon FROM HOBBY TO PASSION
      774 17  -  Melody Tan It's a labour of love, says philatelist Daniel Teo, who has stamps dating back to 1855 MOST of us don't know this, but there are stamp collectors and then there are stamp collectors. The difference? The first group are general collectors, who purchase stamps
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      WORLD STAMP CHAMPIONSHIP
      265 17 You ve heard of sports and even chess championships. But a stamp championship? Lesser known to those outside of the philately community, stamp competitions and championships have been around since the 1980s. Like any competition, points are awarded to collectors for their knowledge of stamps and how
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon The second force in American culture
      884 18  -  Karim Raslan It's time for Asians to learn more about the influence of Hispanics in US RECENTLY, I chaired a session at the Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival with the Hispanic-American writer and Pulitzer prize-winner, Oscar Hijuelos. As he talked about his work, his
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  • SUCCEED
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      The right woman for the job
      514 20  -  Ng Shing Yi An end to discrimination at work is Halimah's goal APPALLING. Old-fashioned. Exploitative. Madam Halimah Yacob uses strong words and speaks them with passion. "I think it's appalling on the part of any employer in a civilised society like Singapore to adopt
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      WHAT YOU MUST DO NOW
      598 22  -  innjimTii Personal preparation and planning (2): THIS is the last in a series of articles I have been writing under the title, The New Work Revolution. In it, I summarise the action plan for each and every one of us to cope with the large-scale
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    • Article
      New entrepreneurship course at SMU
      265 23 AT the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur awards last year, Acting Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam encouraged the growth of "intrapreneurs" employees willing and able to drive a business. Now, a course offered by the Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Chicago Graduate School of Business
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      212 21 MDM HALIMAH YACOB will speak on "Women's Rights in the New Economy" on Thursday, Aug 19, at 7pm at the SCWO Centre on Waterloo St. Her talk is part of the "Conversations with Uncommon Women" series, jointly organised by the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations and (JOB Lady's Card. For
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      250 21 I Turn your aspirations I I into reality with I I HSBC's Education Loan I A good education will pay for itself in the long term. Meanwhile, you have to pay for a host of expenses, not least of which are tuition fees and course materials. With HSBC's global experience
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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      122 23 WHAT'S UP SIM-OUC information sessions Here's your chance to find out more about tne SIM Open University Centre (SIM-OUC) before signing up for its 2005 intake. Date: Aug 21 Venue: Singapore Institute of Management (SIM headquarters) at 461 Clementi Road Time: 2.30pm to 4pm (Briefing session 1 for Business Studies,
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      mama drama
      559 24  -  Yong Shu Chiang Two plays shine the spotlight on mummy dearest THIS week, mummy dearest will feature prominently on stage. Wild Rice is staging Michel Tremblay's For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, while TheatreWorks is put- ting on Ma: moment. Coinci- I dentally, Festive Films is pre-
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      AND THE MOTHER, TOO!
      142 24 Quite by coincidence, the mummy theme will also stretch into cinemas next week. Homegrown distributor Festive Films is presenting Notting Hill director Roger Michell's controversial film, The Mother, at Golden Village Plaza Singapura from Aug 26. Scripted by acclaimed writer Hanif Kureishi, the film has an
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      1305 28 j4^v\ JT| J I Athens Olympic 2004 Athens Olympic 2004 v r^YfL\SiiVj^^3 -fP^ 1, Portugal VS MorOCCO (Live) Channel 5& TV Mobile, 3pm Vr r //Am Surra, 11.30am T f/jf J oscehn Yeo continues on her V jf Jl fjf^f After a totally unexpected opening day loss to quest for
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    484 31 Sinchi v Tampines Hougang Stadium Tomorrow 7.30pm SINCHI Probable line-up: Chen Si, Zhang Meng, Liang Fuming, Chen Lu, Zhou Yi, Chen Xiao (left, top), Hu Jun, Zhong Cheng, Li Benjian, Shi Ming, Zhang Zhiming Form: LLDDW (1-2 v Young Lions, 1-3 v Home, 0-0 v Woodlands, 1-1
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    517 31  -  Alvin Chua HE INTENDS to stay in the S-League for another year, but this season could be the best and last chance for Egmar Goncalves (picture) to be crowned as the league's deadliest striker. With five matches to go, the Brazilian-born Home United striker
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    154 32 EAGER young footballers have a chance to develop their football skills under the watchful eye of the experts. Tanjong Pagar's "Free Kicks" programme, which is jointly organised by the Central Singapore Community Development Council and the S-League's Tanjong Pagar United, has been set
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      487 33  -  DAN PEK Ist STBC Secondary Schools Bowling League Promising teenager plans to make a career out of bowling IN ITS bid to discover future national stars, the Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC) Secondary Schools Bowling League has unearthed a raw gem. Following in the footsteps
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      112 33  -  Stefanie Loh The Nike REAL Run saw over 5,500 runners take a jog around Sentosa yesterday. That figure topped last year's total of 4,800 and surpassed the 5,000 that organisers had been hoping for. Celebrities Tay Ping Hui, Alan Tern and Ix Shen were among
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      359 34 AFP LONDON For a striker who is first choice for his country and has been his club's most consistent goal-scorer over the past decade, Michael Owen was not particularly missed by Liverpool fans yesterday. Sports radio phone-ins were jammed with callers saying the Reds will
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      515 34 Agencies Newcastle boss claims striker stole a draw ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Middlesbrough 2 Newcastle 2 LONDON It was a controversial start to the Premiership season up in the north-east of England. Newcastle United manager Bobby Robson was left fuming by what he described as Jimmy Floyd
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      485 35 -AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton 1 Arsenal 4 LIVERPOOL Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger challenged his team to remain unbeaten for a second successive season after seeing his players launch the defence of their Premiership title with a comprehensive 4-1 victory against Everton at Goodison
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      199 36  -  Jose Raymond JUST 48 hours before 100m sprinter Poh Seng Song boards a plane bound for Athens, he was humbled by an out-of-shape UK Shyam yesterday. At the 46th Inter-Club Championships at the Serangoon Stadium, Shyam led from start to finish in the 100m race
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      497 36  -  STEFANIE LOH IN NETBALL, a game where everyone has an equal responsibility and a specific job due to boundary restrictions, it is often difficult to pick out a star player. However, in the Eastern Mannas' exhilarating 58-49 win over the Northern Arowanas at the Toa
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      701 37  -  LEONARD THOMAS Athens explodes with prospect of a once-in-a-lifetime clash I HAD to make two round trips to get to the swimming centre on Saturday night. Nobody had bothered to tell me that journalists needed a ticket from the press centre for every night of the
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      471 37 Singapore Olympians in action TODAY 3pm: Swimming women's 200 m IM heats (Joscelin Yeo) 4pm: Table tennis women's doubles 3rd rd (Zhang Xueling and Tan Paey Fern) 6pm: Sailing men's open single-handed dinghy laser races (Stanley Tan) 'Singapore times. Singapore results YESTERDAY Badminton Ronald Susilo (men's singles rd of 32)
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