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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday September 28, 2004 mita (P) 103/07/2004
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    Lock icon Will the haze come back?
    455 1  -  Tan Hui Leng iM^^nm huileng(g>news today, com, sg AS PEOPLE in the Caribbean and southern United States mop up after a spate of devastating hurricanes, some weather experts believe conditions developing in the Pacific could mean milder hurricanes for the rest of the season, which
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    Cast your votes in SF, Shanghai or Tokyo
    509 1  -  Derrick A Paulo derrick@newstoday.com.sg FOR the first time since 2001, Singaporeans can apply for registration to vote overseas, starting today until Oct 18. They will then be able to vote at eight polling stations, after San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo were added
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      137 1 r class tuesdaywednesdayfridaysaturday SHARE YOUR FREE NEWSPAPER Make every day count. This September, just spend 7 days in a row and get 8x the Rewards points*, guaranteed. On top of great deals at over 500 outlets in Singapore, you'll enjoy exclusive dining privileges* at: Baker's Inn Bobby Rubino's Coffee Club
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      47 1 NEWSX^/lEWS ■Jeremy Lim Why special needs children find normal schools a test/3 Coffee with Lawrence Leow, logistics boss and Asme president/20 Rags to riches Life after Athens not same for China track star Liu/47 FR E FtI Vernetta has survived n^| 11 years in show biz/35 HH
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      8 1 Page 22: Hurricane Ivan lifts Keppel Corp shares
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      Lock icon Republicans 'immoral': Edwards
      838 2  -  Teo Hwee Nak Democratic candidate says rivals using US' tragedies for political gain in the United States hweenak@newstoday.com.sg THE backdrop was stunning. Three rows of black women in crisp white suits, swaying in tempo as they belted out gospel songs in their deep, soulful voices. Behind them,
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        Not 'cool' to be seen helping disabled
        773 3  -  Jeremy Lim Why some children with special needs may find mainstream schools too challenging PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong said at his swearing-in-ceremony: "We must also have a place in our hearts and our lives for the disabled, who are our brothers and
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      240 3 -1 n I ■Hi 'Bk i L,. jHI I Set yourself apart with success. Go entrepreneurial with MDIS and you could be the next success story. PRIFYSGOL Established in 1893, University of Wales is a member of the u|«in UNIVERSITY Association of Commonwealth Universities. It is also the second Vjg/
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      Defence lawyer, warrant officer debate meaning of 'dousing'
      451 4  -  Lee Wern HEARING ON NSMAN'S DROWNING Ching chingwern@newstoday.com.se ONE word, two possible meanings this became a point of contention on day three of the trial into the death of NSman Hu Enhuai. Trainees who were going through interrogation training as prisoners of
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      Electricity tariffs to go up for fourth time this year
      138 4 FROM next month, electricity tariffs will go up by an average of 1.1 per cent or 18 cents per kilowatt-hour. SP Services said the increase, which will apply to home users and industries, is due to higher oil prices. Current
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      X-factors rank higher than grades for many parents
      588 6  -  Ng Shing Yi New banding system not sufficiently radical, some tell Today shingyi@newstoday.com.sg CONTRARY to popular belief, Singapore parents don't want their children to attend schools that are solely concerned with As. They want character and spirit Alternatives such as location, school
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      Lock icon Indon maid enters guilty plea in Paya Lebar killing
      263 6 Channel NewsAsia AN Indonesian maid has pleaded guilty to killing her employer in the second such case in a week. Purwanti Parji, 19, was convicted yesterday of strangling Madam Har Chit Heang last year in her house at Tai Keng Gardens
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      Lock icon Young PAP begins recruitment drive
      285 6 HOT on the heels of last Thursday's anniversary bash at Zouk, the Young PAP is looking to inject even more youthful energy into the political party. The youth wing of the People's Action Party (PAP) has embarked on a mass recruitment exercise as part of
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        Lock icon Blood with mad cow protein not in Singapore, HSA says
        83 6 Channel NewsAsia The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) confirmed that three purportedly contaminated blood products from the United Kingdom had been sent to another country and not Singapore. The Times newspaper had reported that blood plasma products contaminated with a protein
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        Lock icon 12 suffer burns in vessel fire at Jurong Shipyard
        78 6 Newsßadio 93.8 A fire broke out yesterday afternoon in the pump room of a vessel, the Jag Arpon, which was undergoing repairs at Jurong Shipyard. Sembcorp Marine said all 12 people in the pump room were sent to hospital, where eight
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      260 7 Celebrate Children's Day s wfth Humphrey and get a special trecit. UOB Orchard jC| orTampines f: (liafck lOam-Upm /V vSfc*'.' ana Q/7T5 To ids jfl \/j V j* given away! f™ W A Humphrey's Corner Ltd. By Sally Hunter. ufitt. AXr" All Rights Reserved. Licensed by The Sharpe Company. S^WHl^^
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      Expert links JI with Chechen rebels
      259 8 Rohan Gunaratna sees the terror group resorting to more aggressive tactics KUALA LUMPUR Regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) may have forged links with separatists in Chechnya and may resort to more aggressive terrorist tactics in future strikes, security expert Rohan Gunaratna said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Johor hospital shut after fungi invasion
      152 8 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A two-month-old Malaysian government hospital in Johor state has been shut down because of a deadly fungal invasion believed to have been caused by shoddy workmanship, the New Straits Times reported yesterday. Faulty air-conditioning has led to the aspergillus and penicillium
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        Lock icon Thaksin to sleep at airport site to show govt determination
        84 8 AFP Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was to sleep in a temporary workers' hut yesterday night at Bangkok's part-finished US$3.7 billion Suvarnabhumi international airport to encourage contractors to complete the long-delayed project on time. He was to be joined by
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        Lock icon Deal signed to turn Philippines into English learning centre
        71 8 AFP Government agencies yesterday signed an agreement to turn the Philippines into a centre for learning English in Asia, said the Department of Foreign Affairs. Foreign affairs, tourism, immigration and education agencies agreed to set up a programme to capitalise on
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      Anwar Subpoena me
      353 12 Also urges summons for Mahathir in Perwaja Steel graft case KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim reportedly wants prosecution lawyers in the misappropriation trial of Perwaja Steel ex-managing director Eric Chia to subpoena him and former boss Dr Mahathir Mohamad so that "the whole truth"
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      Lock icon Taj Mahal's 350th birthday 10 years too late: Experts
      248 12 -AFP AGRA (India) As India prepared to launch celebrations marking the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal, the country's famed monument to love, historians said the festivities were up to a decade too late. "Someone, somewhere goofed up somewhat on the
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      Lock icon Susilo pledges market-friendly Cabinet, more anti-terror steps
      225 12 -AP JAKARTA Indonesia's presi-dent-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday said he would establish American-style advisory councils to address the country's troubled economy and security problems, including the threat of more bombings by the Jemaah Islamiyah group. The former general, 55, said he would establish
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      Lock icon Syria says Israel conspired with Arabs to kill Hamas man
      188 12 AP. DAMASCUS The newspaper of Syria's ruling Baath party yesterday accused unidentified Arab security services of working with Israel to kill a Palestinian militant in Damascus. The killing of Ezzedin Sheikh Khalil, a founding member of Hamas, in a car
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        Lock icon Bodies outside outside embassy
        76 12 -AFP Protesters yesterday dumped the coffin of a Tamil politician killed by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels outside the Norwegian embassy in the Sri Lankan capital. It was the second such incident in a week. The Eelam People's Democratic Party a member of the ruling coalition, dumped
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        Lock icon Swiss reject citizenship changes
        71 12 AP Swiss voters have rejected government proposals that would have made it easier for some 200,000 people, including the grandchildren of immigrants, to become citizens of the Alpine country. Some 56.8 per cent of those voting in Sunday's national referendum refused the proposal to grant automatic
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        Lock icon Siblings survive 17-storey fall
        66 12 -AFP A 12-year-old Malaysian boy and his 1 o-year-old sister miraculously survived a fall from the 17th floor of an apartment block in Penang but suffered serious injuries after landing on a car roof, the New Straits Times reported yesterday. They were believed to have been
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        Rape threat for Swaziland women
        76 12 Bus drivers in Swaziland have banned women from wearing revealing clothes on buses and threatened to rape any female passenger wearing a miniskirt following the gang-rape of an 1 8-year-old schoolgirl at a bus station, the Telegraph reported yesterday. "Women who wear miniskirts want to
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      Lock icon Many UN hurdles for India
      388 14  -  Ranjit Devraj IPS N EWSSOSUSE& Gaining Security Council seat may be drawn-out affair NEW DELHI While India has thrown its hat into the United Nations Security Council ring, actually gaining a permanent seat on the body which has the power to introduce sanctions and authorise
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      Lock icon Koizumi reshuffles cabinet
      109 14 Agencies TOKYO Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday replaced key ministers and ruling party leaders in a cabinet shuffle aimed at solidifying his power and building momentum for his troubled reforms programme. He replaced Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi with former Education Minister Nobutaka Machimura. But he retained
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        Lock icon PMS pioneer dead
        43 14 AP Dr Katharina Dalton, a gynaecologist who did pioneering studies on premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and was said to have coined the term, died on Sept 17 in Poole, Dorset. She was 87. The cause of her death was not specified.
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        Lock icon HK CCTVs for hygiene
        37 14 AP Hong Kong has installed closed-circuit TV cameras in back alleys to nab people committing "hygiene offences". Over the last two months, 29 people have been caught and fined up to HK$2,OOO ($434)
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        Lock icon A bike doing 330kmh?
        71 14 AP People across the United States are shaking their heads over a kid ticketed for allegedly riding his 2002 Honda RCSI motorcycle at 330kmh most doubting he could have gone that fast. A patrol caught Mr Samuel Tilley zooming at 400m in 4.395ec on Sept 1
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      Lock icon 'Guess death toll' game prompts contest crackdown in China
      181 16 -AP SHANGHAI China has ordered TV networks not to run unauthorised contests using mobile phone text messaging after the state-run China Central Television station held a lottery to guess the death toll from the school siege tragedy in Beslan, Russia. Official
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      Lock icon Yes, it's getting worse'
      326 16 Agencies Powell's remarks on Iraq undercut Bush's claims WASHINGTON In a sharp contrast to the rosy picture painted by the Bush administration, Secretary of State Colin Powell warned that the insurgency in Iraq was "getting worse" and more violence would erupt in the run-up to the
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      249 16 •if SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY Master of Science in Applied Finance Singapore Management University is pleased to offer the Master of Science in Applied Finance programme This landmark programme aims to raise the standard of practitioners' knowledge and skills in applied finance, a critical training need as identified by the Economic
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      Focus On The Family
      244 18  -  Dr James Dobson i 5» byi TEASING IN THE HOME Ifs true that the healthiest families are those which can laugh together. But what if the laughter is always at the expense of others? I'm all for good-natured joking within the family, and I certainly don't
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    • Letter
      60-year ruling hits house owners badly
      146 18  -  ERIC TAN Letter from YOUR article, "Minimum lease or Catch--22 situation", (Sept 25-26) comes at the right time and hits the spot for those who own 99-year-leasehold properties. The worst hit are those who bought their properties during the market peak in 1996/97 and
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      Medisave came too soon
      239 18  -  JIMMY CHAN Letter from Those who have just started their small businesses may be unable to pay I COULDN'T agree more with Francis Kan's commentary, "Medisave Action will hit entrepreneurs" (Sept 27). My son, who is in his mid-20s, decided to start his own little business
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      CPF sympathetic to Medisave members in financial difficulties
      400 18  -  TAN YOKE MENG WILLIE I Letter from I Chief executive, UMh Board WE REFER to your recent articles on Medisave contributions for the selfemployed. Through Medisave, Singaporeans pay for their own medical needs and purchase MediShield to insure themselves against large hospitalisation
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      US$ tips for driver and guide baffling
      157 18  -  DIANE YEO Letter from I HAVE noticed many tour agencies are asking customers to pay a compulsory amount of tips to the driver and local tour guide. Recently, I booked a tour package and was told we must pay a compulsory US$2 ($3.38)
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      Mail bags should never be left alone
      104 18  -  JANINE MATHIEU Letter from| Deputy director. Corporate Communications, Spore Post I REFER to the letter, "Unprotected mail poses security risk" from Mr Lionel De Souza (Sept 27). We are deeply concerned to learn of this and would like to assure Mr De Souza
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      Don't deprive single mums of benefits
      154 18  -  LEW SYE PING Letter from WHAT is the logic behind not extending the baby bonus to single mothers? The answer given by one minister was that the State would not play a surrogate father or husband. So, the State is willing to be a
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      LOGISTICS TOWKAY
      720 20  -  EffilMa HjEj FROM TIKAM-TIKAM PUNTER TO llNH'l'lllllll Ifflg mam I 1 I I 1 1 HE IS president of the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Asme), but Mr Lawrence Leow started life as a street urchin worrying where his next meal would come from. His father, a
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      Lock icon QOll MOURNING FOR OQU LOST CHILDHOOD
      474 21 Nur Tasha bte Abdul Mutalib MUCH of childhood today is dead by choice, whether we realise it or not As toddlers, we are told to act "like a big boy or girl" if we make a fuss or throw a tantrum in public. Our
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      86 21 Awe-inspiring This awe-inspiring evening scene in front of the Jalan Besar Stadium, immediately after a thunderstorm, so touched the heart of our photographer Wee Teck Hian that he stopped to capture it. CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore and it can appear
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      155 20 QUESTION: Who plays the character Guo Yueli whose husband passes away after a heart attack? ANS: Name: Age: NRIC/Passport No: Gender: Address: Postal Code: Contact No: (HP) (H) E-mail Address: Q Yes! I want to receive health tips from the NKF. Closing Date: 5 OCT 2004 The first 75 correct
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Hurricane Ivan lifts Keppel Corp shares
      460 22 Traders expect bad weather to create demand for more oil rigs SHARES of Keppel Corp a major supplier of oil rigs rose for the third straight day to hit eight-year highs yesterday. The counter topped the gainers list, rising 25 cents, or 3.2 per
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      Lock icon Oil prices approach US$5O
      165 22 -AP WASHINGTON Oil prices approached US$5O a barrel yesterday as supply concerns persisted amid strong global demand. Light crude for November delivery was 74 US cents higher at U5549.62 a barrel in morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, surpassing a previous intraday high of
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        World markets
        54 22 ndex Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.32 *****.90 3620.60 5849.22 -35.84 -44.94 -3.30 -42.99 -0.33 -0.34 -0.09 -0.73 Korea Comp 832.10 +2.42 +0.29 KLCI 848.28 -7.04 -0.82 SET Index 646.78 -7.82 -1.19 lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 815.58 1760.33 244.99 -4.23 -2.97
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
        63 22 KepCorp 8.150 +0.251 3realEasl 11.700 +0.201 SIA200 11.500 +0.201 iPC 3.400 +0.201 :iTYDEV 6.750 +0.151 ISH500USS 6.550 +0.151 :iTYDEVW*****0 4.260 +0.141 lardine C&C 8.250 +0.101 IMH400USS 13.700 +0.101 fy percentage .&M 0.010 +100.1 fongnam W*****6 0.010 +100.1 DBS DB ePW*****1 0.125 +78.1 :irPlusW*****7 0.050 +42.' iunlighlW*****4 0.020
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        SGX top falls
        75 22 Fhai Prime200USS 10.400 -0.401 >hangAsia2kHKS 8.000 -0.251 /entire 16.200 -0.201 \PB Breweries 7.350 -0.101 :realfve50 18.500 -0.101 F&N 13.800 -0.101 yvHlilg Fortune Reit HKS 0.305 6.250 -0.051 -0.051 \pex-Pal 0.265 -0M ip Land 4.480 -0.04( By percentage Kian Ann W*****7 0.025 -37.: Yongnam 0.015 BBR 0.020 -25.1
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        Lock icon Singapore
        66 22 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended higher on bargain-hunt-ing after falling for the three previous sessions. The ST Index closed 9.93 points higher, or 0.5 per cent, at 1,983.39. Advancers outnumbered decliners 1 66 to 138 while 561.6 million shares worth $603.3 million were traded. Despite the benchmark's gains, traders
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 22 US$ 0.5904 UK£ 0.3273 Yen 65.497 HK$ 4.6048 RM 2.2435 Euro 0.4817 Rupiah 5427.3 Baht 24.493 Peso 33.331 A$ 0.8275 Indian Rs 27.138 Won 680.27 C$ 0.7537 Yuan 4.8866 NZ$ 0.8854 NTS 20.074
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        Lock icon Commodities
        27 22 SGX, Bloomberg Gold ussAz 410.300 Silver uss/oz 6.425 Platinum ussAi 854.000 Rubber ™tsAg 237.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 534 Brent crude uss/barrei 44.79 Information provided by
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      Lock icon August output slows
      517 23 -AFP Pharmaceutical sector caused sharp slide in growth last month SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output last month rose only 5.3 per cent from a year ago, down from growth of 19.1 per cent in July, due to a sharp slide in pharmaceutical production. The overall growth rate, which was
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        Lock icon Asian growth hit as tech sector slows
        691 24 Bloomberg Waning global electronics demand, high oil prices, Chinese lending curbs hurt exporters in Asia ASIAN economies are slowing as global demand eases for the electronic goods that have driven growth, including laptop computers made by Taiwan's Acer and flatpanel displays made by
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      514 28  -  Ted Chen A focused response is what is needed to foster creativity here, says advertising guru David McCaughan tedchen@newstoday.com.sg CREATIVITY is something that does not come easily in form-obsessed Singapore. Yet, this could be the key to giving Singapore an unfair advantage over its rivals.
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      433 28  -  Ted Chen IN SINGAPORE'S highly competitive society, it has become the norm for parents to send their children to language centres to polish up their English after school. One of the first to offer an avenue to do so
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      566 29  -  Where L'Oreal's Lancome label has the edge Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newsto day, com. sg THE local skincare industry is one of the fastest growing categories in the personal care business with more Singaporeans becoming conscious of their skin and focusing on improving it There
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        247 29  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla M&C Saatchi has done it again. This time it has bagged five top accolades at the 2004 Singapore Outdoor Advertising Awards (SOAA) for its campaign for Zuji, the online travel portal. These include best of show, the best campaign across more than
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        HP unsheaths BladeSystem, others
        134 30 HP has launched its next phase of utility computing capabilities through a portfolio of lower-cost, modular offerings that include the HP BladeSystem. The BladeSystem is an integrated envi- ronment that builds on current HP blade servers, services and networking to help lower the cost of blade
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        78 30 RosettaNet has launched a $2.4 million Architecture Centre of Excellence in Singapore, which is the result of a collaboration with IDA, Nanyang Polytechnic and other leading organisations and high-tech firms. The centre will allow RosettaNet to provide greater focus on emerging industry trends that could lead
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      377 32  -  Seah Siew Hua Report says e-commerce raids are up 400% in first half of year infotech@newstoday.com.sg ONLINE attackers are shiftI ing their priorities to attain economic rewards rather then merely seeking notoriety, says Symantec Corp. According to its latest bi-annual Internet Security Threat
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        777 33  -  Adriaan Pelzer Be it in bandwidth, legislation or virtual office services, Singapore is on top of the game infotech@newstoday.com.sg I IN 1986,1 received a ComI modore 128 home computer for my 13th birthday. What I wanted was a chess computer, but apparently,
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        675 34  -  Liew Yong Kuan Mike Pazak Integrated core systems will contribute to effective and efficient customer intimacy and iniotech(gnewstoday.com.sg I AT LUNCH hour, thousands of people call their banks to take care of personal business. They follow the prompts to enter their account numbers and the
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      507 35  -  Jeanine Tan j eanine@newstoday. com, sg T 7ERNETTA Lopez looks tired. V At the canteen of the Caldecott Broadcast Centre, where this interview took place, the 31-year-old actress and Class 95 FM DJ said she'd been suffering from insomnia for the past few nights. Could her weariness
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        90 35 Freshly-minted Indonesian Idol winner Joy Tobing and runner-up Delon Thamrin have been named the opening act for the American Idol gig here next Tuesday. Tobing and fellow gospel talent Thamrin outlasted about 35,000 would-be stars in a contest that started six months ago. The grand
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        181 35 The special extendea DVD version of 1 1-Academy Award winner The Lord of the Rings: me Return of the King will be out before Christmas. The four-disc set will hit shelves on Dec 14 at a recommended retail price of $79.90, said video distributor
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        442 37  -  Lynn Seah Diet should also contain minerals, vitamins and proteins news@newstoday.com.sg YOU know calcium is needed for strong and healthy bones. So, you drink milk every day and ensure you consume enough dairy products. But your efforts can be thwarted if your diet lacks some
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      547 40 -AP Manning and Favre simply magical, but rookie David wins it for Indianapolis NFL Colts 45 Packers 31 INDIANAPOLIS Peyton Manning and Brett Favre threw nine touchdown passes between them and weren't even the heroes. That role went to Jason David, a rookie defensive
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      466 41 Agencies India-Australia series may lose Test status in broadcast rights battle NEW DELHI Five judges from New Delhi's Supreme Court will hear a dispute over TV rights for Indian cricket today. The conflict threatens the imminent India v Australia Test series, one of the most eagerly-awaited
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      497 41 -AFP TENNIS Davis Cup CHARLESTON, South Carolina Andre Agassi hasn't played in the Davis Cup since 2000, but United States captain Patrick McEnroe said he wouldn't rule out a return for the eight-time Grand Slam champion. Andy Roddick, Mardy
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      261 41 AFP FORMULA 1 Chinese Grand Prix SHANGHAI Shanghai's inaugural Grand Prix ran as smoothly as a well-oiled engine, but organisers have been warned they must make the glamorous sport more affordable for it to really take hold in China. As Michael Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello
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      372 42  -  ALVIN CHUA NTUC INCOME CHALLENGE CUP Y Lions Invitational 1 Solomon Islands 1 (Y Lions win 5-4 on penalties) news@newstoday.com.sg RADOJKO Avramovic's experimental Young Lions Invitational side took the NTUC Income Challenge Cup when they edged the Solomon Islands 5-4 in
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      341 45 CHAMPIONS I p A/^ lIE Group A: Monaco (Fra) v Deportivo La Coruna (Esp) Shabani Nonda and Javier Chevanton could return after lengthy absences for Monaco. Deportivo are still without Mauro Silva (calf strain), but will welcome back Diego Tristan after a stomach complaint. Olympiakos (Gre) v Liverpool
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      669 46  -  TAN YO-HINN Cool Murofushi's happy to receive gold medal in Japan, especially after the reception back home ATHLETICS Men's hammer yohinn@newstoday.com.sg TO STAND on the winner's rostrum and hear your country's national anthem played at the Olympic Games, in front of thousands, and million
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      429 46  -  Tan YoHinn ATHLETICS Women's marathon TO REDUCE the risk of muscle injures, many athletes prefer to compete in warmer conditions. But Japanese distance runner Mizuki Noguchi goes against the grain and actively seeks out colder climes to conduct her training. Therefore, it came as a
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