Today, 20 August 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Friday August 20, 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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    Lock icon Stocks fall, oil higher
    72 1 Reuters NEW YORK US stocks slid yesterday, ending four days of gains, as oil prices hit a new record at U5548.70 ($83.22) as surging violence in Iraq spurred concerns over supply disruptions. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 42.33 points at 10,040.82, the Standard Poor's
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    US planes blast Sadr's militia
    268 1 Cleric defies govt's final demand NAJAF (Iraq) US warplanes pounded areas near a shrine where radical Shia militiamen were holed up early today after their leader, Moqtada Al Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq's interim Prime Minister to disarm. US AC-130 gunships struck repeatedly
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    Lock icon No bail in $414 m fraud trial
    91 1 -AFP LAGOS A High Court judge yesterday refused to grant bail to the three suspects in Nigeria's biggest fraud case, saying that as they faced life in jail they posed a flight risk. Judge Olubunmi Oyewole said that lawyers to defendants housewife Amaka
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Singapore can help develop townships in Vietnam
      312 2  -  Derrick Paulo SINGAPORE is exploring the possibility of joint ventures with Vietnamese companies to develop townships in the region's second most populous country. Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan met officials from Vietnam's ministries and municipal committees to share the Republic's experience
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      Lock icon Dr Lee urges more IT use
      285 2 Channel News Asia Collaborative retail hubs will boost profits SINGAPORE'S retailers have been urged to adopt more infocomm technologies to keep up with competition and the rapidly-changing business environment. The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) will lend a hand by developing three collaborative retail hubs
      – Channel News Asia  -  285 words
    • Article
      Civil servants to have five-day work week?
      341 2  -  Raymond Andrew raymond@newstoday.com.sg ONE large group of employees could well have something to cheer about when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivers his first National Day Rally speech on Sunday. According to policy observers, a five-day work week could be on the cards
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      Feeling stressed? Try nude therapy
      745 3  -  Prithpal Singh NEWS£fifflffl^— THE conventional wisdom is that nudism and Asians don't mix. That's what people tell me anyway. So, it was not surprising a recent plan to set up China's first nudist colony near Hangzhou was put on hold after it sparked a furore
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      Lock icon Iraqi govt threatens military strike on Sadr
      361 4 Agencies 'Final hours' for Shia radical to end violence or face attack NAJAF (Iraq) A day after apparently promising to end his uprising, Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr was yesterday issued a government ultimatum to disarm his militia and quit a shrine in
      Agencies; AFP  -  361 words
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      Lock icon Mega unveils new coalition
      245 4 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday unveiled a coalition of parties that will form a majority in Parliament and work towards her return to office in next month's presidential elections. The Golkar party, Mrs Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle and the smaller United Development
      – Agencies  -  245 words
    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon M'sia delays deportation of illegals
        51 4 AFP Malaysia has postponed a massive deportation of up to 700,000 illegal Indonesian migrant workers to January. The move follows warnings from Jakarta earlier this month that a crackdown on its citizens in Malaysia before or during Indonesia's Sept 20 presidential elections could hurt bilateral
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        Lock icon Pressure on China's gays to marry
        67 4 AFP At least 80 per cent of China's estimated 30 million gays have already married members of tne opposite sex or will do so in the near future, health officials said yesterday. Despite their homosexual orientation, most of them will marry at some point,
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        Lock icon Graffiti artists turn militant
        59 4 Reuters A video sent to a newspaper showed two masked, black-clad Swedish graffiti artists holding power drills to the head of a "kidnapped" fibre-glass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade. They threatening to "sacrifice" it unless the sculptures were declared "non-art" by noon on Monday.
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      Lock icon Engineer accuses L&M staff of lying
      519 6  -  Wong Fei Wan Nicoll Highway Collapse Inquiry: Day 13 He also says it was his boss' job to check on readings feiwan@newstoday.com.sg AN ENGINEER from Nishimatsu Construction, who was in charge of monitoring wall movement at the MRT worksite at Nicoll Highway, said he
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      Lock icon HSNI virus cause of Malaysian bird flu
      415 6  -  Lee Ching Wern chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THE danger level went up a notch yesterday when the Malaysian authorities confirmed that the outbreak of avian flu among chickens in a Kelantan village, first revealed on Wednesday, was caused by the deadly HSNI virus. Although there have
      AFP  -  415 words
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Hospital eyes tourist dollar
      413 8  -  Tan Hui Leng Mount Alvernia joins medical tourism initiative MOUNT Alvernia Hospital, the only not-for-profit private hospital in Singapore, has joined the medical tourism initiative and is now targeting foreign patients. The hospital, known for its obstetrics and paediatrics services, has started concentrating its speciality services
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      Mrs Yu-Foo – coordinator, facilitator, channel-provider
      775 10  - Mrs Yu-Foo coordinator, facilitator, channel-provider Tor Ching Li As mayor she worked hard to get her wards to participate in the community WHEN Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon was planted in Singapore's largest geographical district Southwest Community Development Council (CDC) as mayor some three years ago, she had to oversee the
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      National health campaign targets adult obesity
      343 10  -  Tan Hui Leng THIS year's National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign has set its eye on a new target: Adult obesity. Going on the theme "Fighting Obesity", the Health Promotion Board (HPB) wants to fight the rising obesity in Singapore by encouraging adults to fit exercise
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  • LETTERS
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      Lock icon Susilo's pressure
      381 14  -  Dudley Au Lim Boon Hee is a part of sports IN YOUR report, "Susilo succumbs to the pressure" (Aug 19), sports editor Leonard Thomas said: "If only that cursed word (pressure) did not exist to dog Singapore's best athletes like a hex, a huge shadow stalking them at
      1 Today, AUG 19  -  381 words
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      'Irrational' reaction to MRT mishaps
      322 14  -  Peter Cheong Kwok Weng I REFER to the report, "MRT mishap revives platform safety debate" (Aug 16). While I lament the recent mishaps which occurred on the open platforms of MRT stations, it is remarkable how most victims are not the frail elderly, the disabled,
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      Even feedback cynics speak up
      717 16 From the Letters Editor's desk SPEAKING up is what Today readers do in these pages day after day. So, is it an irony, or a paradox, that so many wrote in expressing cynicism and hope in equal measure, after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's clarion
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon A sports village for regular dwellers
      387 18  -  Derrick A Paulo in Ho Chi Minh City Keppel Land's project will house 40,000 residents LANDED housing interspersed with retail centres and a commercial hub. High-rise condominiums next to a sports village with the likes of a tennis academy and spectator seating at its
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      Lock icon SIA and SilkAir to raise fuel surcharge
      86 18 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) will raise its fuel surcharge to as high as US$l2 ($2l) from US$5 on some of its flights, as fuel prices continue to climb. From Sept 1, SIA and its unit, SilkAir, will raise fuel surcharges to US$7 on
      — Bloomberg  -  86 words
    • MarketWATCH
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        Your S$1uys
        35 18 US$ 0.5851 UK£ 0.3201 Yen 64.062 HK$ 4.5636 RM 2.2235 Euro 0.4733 Rupiah 5415.3 Baht 24.253 Peso 32.629 A$ 0.8105 Indian Rs 27.104 Won 675.9 C$ 0.7621 Yuan 4.8393 NZ$ 0.8778 NTS 19.932
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        Commodities
        21 18 Gold uss/oz 408.200 Silver uss/oz 6.865 Platinum uss/oi 863.000 Rubber cenVkg 234 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1514 Brent crude uss/borrei 43.41
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        ST Index – 1,907.05 +16.37
        4 18 ST Index 1,907.05 +16.37
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        SGX most active
        64 18 By volume Meghmani SDS Chartered STATS ChipPAC BIL Intl Bio-Treat Interra UTAC SBI E2-Cap China Paper Cosco Corp Close 0.280 1.110 1.080 0.920 0.715 0.125 0.575 0.425 0.275 0.810 Change +0.060 +0.080 +0.050 +0.020 +0.010 +0.005 +0.040 +0.035 +0.015 +0.025 'OOO +27.3 43,154 +7.8 35,376 +4.9 32,811
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        Lock icon SGX top rises
        76 18 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Venture 16.400 +0.600 IMH 400USS 13.000 +0.300 3CBC 13.400 +0.200 rhai Prime200USS 9.600 +0.200 iTIETFlOO 19.150 +0.150 :iTYDEVW*****0 3.820 +0.120 IITYDEV 6.300 +0.100 Creative 50 17.600 +0.100 DBS 15.700 +0.100 ISH 500USS 5.650 +0.100 By percentage SeeHS W*****0 0.025 +150.0 PM Data
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        Lock icon Singapore
        135 18 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed higher as investors shrugged off surging oil prices and neighbouring Malaysia's first outbreak of bird flu, to snap up technology blue chips. "The market took its cue from Wall Street's overnight strength," said a trader, adding that investors have already factored in the impact
        — Dow Jones  -  135 words
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        SGX top falls
        68 18 By$ DBS Bk 6% NCPS *****.400 -0.400 F&N 14.200 -0.200 GrealEast 11.600 -0.100 SPC 3.060 -0.080 Iselan(S) 2.950 -0.050 ShangAsia2kHKS 7.250 -0.050 Asia Env 0.250 -0.030 St Trdg 2.140 -0.030 Penguin 0.130 -0.025 By percentage El-Nets 0.010 -33.3 NeoCorp 0.020 -33.3 SinSoonH W*****9 0.055 -31.3 SHC Cap
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        World markets
        60 18 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Value *****.53 *****.67 3486.30 5602.99 Change Pis +129.27 +168.13 +10.20 +175.24 +1.20 +1.37 +0.29 +3.23 Korea Comp 788.53 +15.34 +1.98 KLCI 810.15 +0.59 +0.07 SET Index Jakarta Comp 602.54 753.68 -lib -0.56 -0.46 -0.07 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1573.27
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      CORPORATE briefs
      196 20 Elite KSB, a chicken importer and distributor, said its profit may be hurt by Singapore's ban on Malaysian poultry after a suspected case of bird flu was reported there. The company says its financial year 2005 results will suffer, especially if the ban is prolonged. Ellipsiz has reported
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      Lock icon Oil at new record of US$48.70
      152 20 AFP NEW YORK crude oil smashed past US$4B a barrel for the first time yesterday, menacing the US$5O mark, as heavy fighting gripped the Iraqi city of Najaf. New York's benchmark light sweet crude for delivery next month tore US$l.43 higher to an unprecedented
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      Philips on hiring spree to beef up R&D centre
      402 20  -  Tay Tsen-Waye It aims to recruit 200 engineers, managers over next 2 months PHILIPS Electronics Singapore is looking to hire some 200 engineers and managers over the next two months to beef up its research and development (R&D) centre. This will
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      Lock icon Keppel has 'no plans'to sell controlling stake in SPC
      279 20 Dow Jones OFFSHORE and marine conglomerate Keppel Corp said yesterday it does not intend to sell its 49 per cent controlling stake in Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC), saying it intends to maximise shareholders' value. Keppel's comments follow an announcement on Wednesday
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      Lock icon GES International profit rises 45%
      110 20 Bloomberg GES International, a maker of electronic cash registers, said fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 45 per cent as it reaped more sales from designing products and started manufacturing in China. Net profit rose to $11 million in the three months to June 30, or 1.52
      — Bloomberg  -  110 words
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      Lock icon Google shares up 15% on debut
      252 24 Agencies NEW YORK Shares of Google Inc rose 15 per cent to USS9B ($167.42) in the first minutes of their Nasdaq stock market debut yesterday after the year's most anticipated initial public offering priced far below initial estimates. After ending its unconventional auction to
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      Lock icon UOB, other potential bidders get data on Permata bank
      161 24 Bloomberg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) and five other potential bidders received additional information on Indonesia's sale of a US$569 million ($973.6 million) stake in Indonesia's PT Bank Permata. Standard Chartered, Malayan Banking and PT Bank Danamon, which is partly owned by
      Bloomberg  -  161 words
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      Lock icon Thakral Holdings to buy Aussie hotel
      104 24 Bloomberg THAKRAL Holdings Group, the Australian property management unit of Singapore-based electronic equipment retailer Thakral Corp, agreed to buy Brisbane's Sheraton Hotel for Asloo million ($124 million). The company said net profit in the 12 months ended June 30 rose to As3s million, or
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      Lock icon Raffles Holdings to market note s with Indian group
      312 24 Bloomberg RAFFLES Holdings, which owns the 116-year-old Raffles Hotel (picture, below) in Singapore, will form a joint marketing programme with India's Taj Group of hotels, as the two companies seek to expand overseas sales. They will market their luxury hotels by
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  • ENTERPRISE
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      His daring pays off
      774 27  -  Tay Tsen-Waye Sembawang Music's owner sings song of success FOR ALL his business savvy and savoirfaire, Sembawang Music Centre (SMC) managing director David 800 finds it hard to resist an attractive rental offer, sometimes against rational economic judgment In a recent interview with Today over coffee,
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Bonds offer a safe haven
      507 28  -  Vasu Menon Fixed income securities lower the overall risk in an investor's portfolio INCREASING concerns over rising oil prices, inflation and uncertainty over the global recovery have weighed on equity markets recently. While much has been said about the benefits of diversification, few investors include
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      OCBC launches new endowment plan
      223 28 FIRST it was the durian, now it is the pineapple. Hot on the heels of rival DBSBank's offering of G22, OCBC has launched a similar single premium endowment plan but with a much shorter tenure. Called OAC's Guaranteed Return Plan marketed using a pineapple versus
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      US Security Council failed job
      341 30 Did not protect Bush against faulty pre-war intelligence: Weapons expert WASHINGTON Dr David Kay, who led President George W Bush's fruitless effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, told US Congress that the National Security Council (NSC) botched intelligence information before the war,
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Elderly urged to take boarder
        50 30 As part of a shake-up of British social care, pensioners living in large houses will be invited to offer a room to young single jobseekers in London and the Southeast in return for help around the house, including doing the shopping, reported The Independent yesterday.
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      • Article
        Cabbies to keep watch for police
        42 30 The drivers of some 1 3,000 taxis in the Klang Valley in Malaysia will act as eyes and ears for the police under a new programme aimed at curbing crime in the area, said The Star.
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        Lock icon Chinese police deny beating Ho
        46 30 -AFP Chinese police said they had evidence that Hong Kong opposition democrat Alex Ho slept with a prostitute and denied he was beaten to extract a confession during his arrest, which comes ahead of next month's legislative election in the territory.
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      Protest peacefully, get treat
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      122 30 SEREMBAN The moral decadence of Malaysian youths and their involvement in violent crimes are a saddening and shocking development, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. He cited a recent case in which a group of students from a religious school beat a fellow
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        55 36 Reuters Australia's prime minister John Howard said yesterday he expected to be found guilty of lying by a Senate inquiry convened by the opposition to probe a scandal involving campaign claims prior to the last election. Such a verdict could damage his chances
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        51 36 Reuters Mr Shin Ki-nam, the chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri Party, resigned yesterday following President Roh Moo-hyun's call for an inquiry to find out who benefited from working with Korea's Japanese colonial rulers. Mr Shin said his father served them during Tokyo's 1910-45
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      176 44 MEET the top 30 contestants of Singapore Idol, who were revealed in yesterday's episode. The 100 contestants were pared down to 75, and then 30, over three days of Idol boot camp. The 30 contestants will be divided into three groups. Each group will sing in front
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      414 44  -  -Jeanine Tan LAST night's Singapore Idol episode was the "boot camp". The 100 contestants who made it through the auditions spent three days shuttling between auditions at Caldecott Broadcast Centre and Hilton Hotel, where they stayed together. It was far from a love fest Episode three
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        108 47 JOHN Woo is developing his first Chinese-language film since Hard Boiled (1992). The film, tentatively titled The War of the Red Cliff, will also mark his reunion with actor Chow Yun-Fat, who last worked with Woo on the above-mentioned film. Production on the film
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