Today, 1 October 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Friday October l, 2004 mita (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Car bomb attacks kill scores in Iraq
      281 1 AFP 10 people, including two Indonesians, kidnapped BAGHDAD At least 49 people were killed, dozens of them children, in a series of devastating car bombs that left a trail of carnage in Baghdad and northern Iraq yesterday, medics and the US military said.
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      Lock icon Blair to undergo 'routine' heart procedure
      207 1 -AFP LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair (picture) will go into hospital today for "routine" treatment after suffering a recurrence of his irregular heart beat. In interviews yesterday with Sky News and BBC News, Mr Blair also said he would seek a third term
      -AFP  -  207 words
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      Lock icon Stocks hit by Merck drug withdrawal
      110 1 AFP NEW YORK Wall Street shares closed mixed yesterday as a plunge in Merck after its announcement of a global withdrawal of its blockbuster arthritis drug, Vioxx, roiled the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 55.97 points to 10,080.27, the Nasdaq Composite Index
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      42 1 NEWSX^/lEWS I Mr brown Normal people, it's time to remove those blinkers/28 Don't run to mum I Entrepreneur Nicholas Chan I prefers "hard knocks within I a sandbox" approach/42 SAA fines trio Shot putter Zhang worst hit I by athletics association/68 I
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      39 1 Today wins two S-League awards WEE TECK HIAN Making the news this time round: Photographer Trevor Tan (left) and senior reporter Stanley Ho. See Page 67 800 ILLEGALS LAND ON ITALIAN ISLE HOT NEWS 2 MAGNIFICENT SHEARER SPORTS 67
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  • HOT NEWS
    • Article
      Soldiers can say no to unauthorised acts: Ex-CO
      349 2  -  Lee Ching Wern HEARING ON IMSMAIM'S DROWNING Says commando instructors should know what's authorised chingwern@newsto day, com. sg ON WEDNESDAY, LieutenantColonel Ho Kian Soon, the former Commanding Officer (CO) of the School of Commandos (SOC), admitted he had been unaware the dunking
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      Lock icon 800 illegals land on Italian isle in 24 hrs
      218 2 AFP ROME Around 400 illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa yesterday, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a coast guard official said. Three boatloads
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      Lock icon Here's looking at you babe, finally
      87 2 Channel News Asia Li Lin and actor husband, Allan Wu, became parents yesterday when their baby girl arrived at 6.20pm. The child, weighing 2.9 kg and 49cm in length, was delivered normally after more than 15 hours of labour. The celebrity couple, both 32,
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      Lock icon Anti-terror fight a divine duty?
      695 3  -  Kalinga Seneviratne NEWSm^^mm Howard's stand that Asia is a threat is not backed by Labor opposition AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard's latest threat to mount pre-emp-tive attacks against terrorists in Asia is much more than an election gimmick. It could be seen as a reflection
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      Lock icon M'sia steps up flu measures
      304 4 -AFP MALAYSIA is on heightened alert for bird flu in its northern regions after a probable case of human-to-human infection was detected in neighbouring Thailand, officials said. "We view this case seriously and our staff are intensifying swab-taking among fowl to ensure they are free
      -AFP  -  304 words
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      Lock icon This Code Green saves babies', mothers' lives
      363 4 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE'S XX Women's and Children's Hospital has broken a world record by delivering its "crash" or emergency Caesarean sections within 17 minutes. No other hospital in the world has been able to achieve this. For patients, this means babies have
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      Lock icon China will target 800 missiles at us, says Taiwan
      233 6 -AFP TAIPEI China is likely to have 800 ballistic missiles targeting Taiwan before the end of 2006, Taipei's defence minister said yesterday as he pressed the case for an US$lB-billion ($30.4-billion) special security budget. Mr Lee Jye told parliament's defence committee
      -AFP  -  233 words
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      Tell Dell' boosts staff morale, bottom line
      579 6  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla TRUSTING the old adage that the happy worker is the better worker, Dell Inc has put in place an employee feedback system that has worked wonders on its bottom line, said company president and CEO Kevin Rollins. Called Tell Dell,
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon PUB reorganises
      161 8 Channel News Asia THE Public Utilities Board (PUB) is restructuring its organisation to ensure that Singaporeans continue to get water at an affordable and competitive price. Under the new set-up, PUB will manage the entire water cycle, from sourcing, collection, purification and supply of drinking water to treatment
      — Channel News Asia  -  161 words
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      Aids and a Samoan tree
      224 8  -  Tan Hui Leng US university hopes to isolate gene from tree for anti-Aids drug THE University of California, Berkeley, has signed an agreement with the Samoan government to isolate, from a tree, the gene for a promising anti- Aids drug and to share any royalties
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      Lock icon Eggs-acting task
      126 8 Channel News Asia The first batch of Malaysian poultry and eggs arrived just after 6am at the Tuas Checkpoint yesterday. This follows the partial lifting of the ban on such imports from Malaysia after an outbreak of bird flu was detected in Kelantan two months ago. The Poultry
      – Channel News Asia; TREVOR TANI  -  126 words
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      Air safety gets a boost with new system
      444 12  -  Wong Fei Wan Employees can make confidential disclosure of minor incidents STARTING today, employees of both local and foreign aviation system operators can report minor incidents without the fear of punishment as such a disclosure would be confidential. Called Singapore Confidential Aviation
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      A walk on the 'wall'side
      71 12 A model sashaying down a 30m vertical runway down the facade of Raffles City, for "Vertical Catwalk", a fashion show to mark the reopening of the Esprit boutique there. A team from Munich performed this novel show, which is part of an Asian tour that
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      Lock icon Centre for hearing impaired at SGH, thanks to NKF
      303 12  -  Tan Hui Leng CHILDREN suffering from any degree of hearing loss can soon get help at a hearing and cochlear implant centre at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). The centre was set up with a $1.6-million grant from the National Kidney
      WEE TECK HIAN  -  303 words
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      Lock icon Court prepared to give Chee second chance to cross-examine SM Goh, MM Lee
      179 12 Channel News Asia DR CHEE Soon Juan may get his day in court after all. The High Court is prepared to give the Singapore Democratic Party leader a second chance to cross-examine Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong
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  • world news
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      Lock icon M'sia, Indon may be heading towards dispute over oil blocks
      183 14 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia and Indonesia appear headed towards a territorial dispute, laying competing claims to potentially rich offshore oil-and-gas blocks off Borneo island. Malaysia's national oil company, Petronas, said in a statement yesterday that it "was in advance stages
      -AFP  -  183 words
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      Lock icon Blair remains under fire to recall troops
      346 14 Agencies Labour, opposition critical of PM BRIGHTON Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday faced fresh calls for British troops to pull out of Iraq as delegates to his Labour Party's annual conference vented their anger over the war. "Some people say our withdrawal would
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      Lock icon Jacko a dad again?
      122 14 -AFP LONDON An actress in Los Angeles is claiming that she is pregnant with pop star Michael Jackson's twin sons following IVF treatment, the Sun newspaper in London reported yesterday. Sholeh Bocchelli, 35, was due to give birth to quads, but was forced to abort two
      -AFP  -  122 words
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      Singaporeans among those required to be photographed, fingerprinted at US borders
      411 14 STARTING yesterday, Singaporeans and foreign visitors from 26 countries were to be fingerprinted and photographed before being allowed entry into the United States. Until now, the citizens of 22 European countries such as England and France, along with Singapore,
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      Lock icon Myanmar pressured by UN on democracy
      338 18 Agencies Release of Suu Kyi and over 1,300 political prisoners sought UNITED NATIONS Myanmar's military government came under increasing international pressure to move towards democracy as United Nations chief Kofi Annan met with representatives of a dozen nations here on the issue. "We will
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      Lock icon All fired up
      29 18 A right-wing activist set fire to his car with a plastic bag of petrol before driving it up to the Japanese parliament gate in Tokyo. AP
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Chinese commission to oversee online gaming
        62 18 AFP China has set up a Professional Commission of Online Games body to promote "healthy" online computer games for young people to play in its popular Internet cafes, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The body will also rate online games according to their various
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        Lock icon Indon court jails 5 directors for fraud
        51 18 -AFP A Jakarta court yesterday sentenced five directors of the Gramarindo business group to between eight and 15 years in prison for fraud at a state bank. The court found the five guilty of defrauding Bank Negara Indonesia of 728 billion rupiah ($134
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        Lock icon Doctor: Libyan septuplets nave died
        59 18 -AFP The Libyan septuplets born two months ago in Jordan have died from a congenital disorder, the Jordanian daily Al Rai reported yesterday, quoting one of their doctors. The first of the five boys and two girls died three weeks after their Aug 23 birthday,
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      Lock icon Brits honour Gurkhas
      137 18 -AFP LONDON Britain has extended full citizenship rights to Gurkha soldiers from Nepal who serve in the British armed forces, Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday. "The Gurkhas have served this country with great skill, courage and dignity," Mr Blair said. "They have made an enormous contribution,
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      Lock icon Half of Pitcairn males put on trial for rape
      373 20 Agencies One of the suspects is the island's mayor; offences are said to have occurred up to 40 years ago PITCAIRN ISLAND An unprecedented sex abuse trial putting more than half the male population of Pitcairn Island started yesterday with the
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        Lock icon Tropical storm Meari leaves 15 dead in Japan
        65 20 AP The death toll from tropical storm Meari buffeting Japan rose to 15 yesterday after rescue workers found more victims, including two men buried inside their homes beneath mud and debris. Meari has cut a wide swathe through Japan since Sunday, causing
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        Lock icon US terror watchlist undergoes review
        80 20 AFP The incTusion on a United States terrorism watchlist of British singer-songwriter and peace activist Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is under review. US Secretary of State Colin Powell said he had asked for an inter-agency review of Mr Yusuf's case as well
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        Lock icon Koalas put on pill to slow population growth
        60 20 AFP Australia s koalas are now propagating so fast in some areas that wildlife authorities are putting them on the pill. The government of Victoria state has announced a plan to implant up to 2,000 female koalas with a contraceptive containing a
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        Lock icon Kyoto treaty finally gets Russian nod
        40 20 -AFP Russia's Cabinet approved the Kyoto treaty yesterday in a key step likely to finally enable the United Nation's global warming treaty to enter into force despite its categorical rejection by the United States.
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      Lock icon Net child porn: Aussie cops nab 190 in massive swoop
      229 20 -AFP SYDNEY Australian police have arrested more than 190 people and expect to charge hundreds more in a massive nationwide crackdown on Internet child pornography linked to organised crime in eastern Europe, officials said yesterday. Those charged after raids this
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      Lock icon Form council of wise men, Libya proposes to UN
      172 20 -AFP UNITED NATIONS Libya has offered some colourful ideas for reforming the United Nations, including moving the General Assembly to Geneva and letting former American president Bill Clinton resolve the world's conflicts and wars. Speaking at the 59th annual United Nations
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      Lock icon Fox News brash yet popular
      372 22 -AFP In eight years, it has gained more primetime viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined NEW YORK When the Fox News Channel came on air in 1996, CNN founder Ted Turner vowed to crush the brash new rival for the US 24-hour cable news market
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      Lock icon Mining firm says it will be cleared
      150 22 -AFP WASHINGTON US-based Newmont Mining Corp, the world's largest gold producer, has said it is confident an independent probe will absolve it of any blame for deadly pollution in Indonesia, where five of its executives have been detained. "We are anxiously awaiting for
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      Lock icon Celebrating a giant achievement
      51 22 Workers putting the finishing touches on a cake made by a Chinese Indonesian woman, Ms Nila Sari (not pictured), at a Jakarta shopping mall yesterday. Ms Nila, 55, made the cake to celebrate a united Indonesia after the country's first direct presidential election went smoothly. IS
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      Lock icon Bishop's resignation over scandal brings relief
      185 22 -AP VIENNA An influential Roman Catholic lay organisation expressed relief yesterday at the resignation of a bishop who oversaw a seminary where authorities found child pornography, calling it an "important first step" in rebuilding trust in Austria's scandalised church. We Are the Church, which
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      Lock icon Rushdie opposes law which allows checks on reading habits
      172 22 -AFP WASHINGTON Prominent author Salman Rushdie has called on Congress to strike down a section of the anti-ter-ror Patriot Act laws allowing federal officials to monitor the book-buying and library-borrowing habits of US citizens. At a press conference at the House
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  • voices
    • Curbing out-of-control teen exuberance
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        It takes time to improve civil behaviour
        150 24  -  CHNGHEEKOK m^nj^iyi THIS letter refers to Lee Han Shih's commentary, "The nails-and-barbed-wire mentality" (Sept 30). When I was managing the town council, there was this constant need to repaint the void desks as ball marks appeared rather quickly on the newly-paint-ed walls. This
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        Teach youth to use proper sports facilities
        257 24  -  HENGCHOCHOON Letter from WITH due respect to Lee Han Shih and his sagacious views on town council's action to curb teenage exuberance, "The nails-and-barbed-wire mentality" (Sept 30), I am afraid he might have missed the forest for the trees. Granted our kids need
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      Single mothers aren't 2nd-class citizens
      101 24  -  m2^m2333Z3!HE1l I Letter from I REFER to Lew Sye Ping's letter (Sept 28) concerning single mothers. Single parenting is a task no words can ever adequately describe. The huge weight of shared parenting is loaded on the single mother. So, do not condemn and treat
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      Ex-offenders and a civil service career
      110 24  -  LIM KIAN CHYE SEAN I Letter from! THERE has been a Yellow Ribbon campaign to get the public to accept ex-convicts back into the society. They deserve a second chance at life. As the job market has been weak in the last few years,
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      Tipping, an individual choice
      296 26  -  i NARAYANA NARAYANA But travellers would be better served if tips are collected upfront and not at end of the tour Letter fronr IN MY travels abroad, usually with family, it has become almost the norm to tip US$l ($1.70) per day each for the guide
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      The high cost of replacing an ID card
      106 26  -  LENA LIM Letter from I FOUND to my surprise that it costs $100 to replace an identity card for the first time. It costs $300 for a second replacement. For those who are out-of-work, retired and on the dole, $100 could be
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      Lock icon Let the peddlers have their corner
      165 26  -  ALVIN CHUA CHUAN ANN Letter from MANY Singaporeans will agree it is difficult these days to have a quiet lunch or dinner in hawker stalls and coffee shops, without being bugged by peddlers charity volunteers, purveyors of electronic goods, the physically-challenged selling tissues or
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    • Article
      Focus On The Family
      233 28  -  Dr James Dobson w TXMTs ,mby COUNT TO 10 WHEN ANGRY We've often heard the old suggestion that we should count to ten when we get angry. Is there any validity to this advice? Actually when angry feelings do come over us, it can indeed be
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      We should never be embarrassed to help the disabled
      166 28  -  JAMES CHAN Yl JUN Letter from. I REFER to the article by Jeremy Lim, "Not 'cool' to be seen helping disabled" (Sept 28). I totally agree. There are many different kinds of people who are like princes and princesses, served by
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      Normal people, it's time to remove those blinkers
      1094 28 Let's put in as much effort nurturing special talents as we do policing chickens and eggs OK, Singaporeans can breathe easy and stop rationing those eggs now that the import ban oi Malaysian poultry and eggs is being partially lifted. Right now,
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    829 30 Kids fun at the Singapore History Museum On Children's Day, the little ones can get up close with™ a street hawker and a rickshaw puller. Or take part in the games and win exciting prizes. Free admission for children under 12 on Children's Day. Kids
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      391 32 Dow Jones Telecommunication company rallies enough support for full subscription STARHUB has generated enough interest from institutional investors for its $554-mil-lion initial public offering (IPO) to be fully subscribed, sources said yesterday. The IPO by Singapore's second-largest telecommunications operator is "comfortably covered", a
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        32 32 Dow Jones THE ST Index closed 1 0.39 points, or 0.5 per cent, higher, at 1,984.74. Losers led gainers 204 to 150, while 691.9 million shares worth $708 million were traded.
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        67 32 By$ F&N 13.900 -0.101 Jardine C&C 8.250 -0.101 KepCorp 7.900 -0.101 OCBC 4.5%NCPS 100 102.100 -0.101 OUE 7.300 -0.101 Haw Par 4.960 -0.091 Robinson 6.900 -0.051 Inchem 0.210 -0.041 SPH 4.740 -0.041 By percentage Goldtron 0.010 -33.3 CSC 0.025 -16.7 EaslgaleW*****1 0.050 Inchem 0.210 -16.7 -16.0 LKN
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        70 32 Creative 50 18.600 +0.201 Venture 16.500 +0.201 JSH 500USS 6.700 +0.151 NOL DB eCW*****1 0.565 +0.151 iPC 3.620 +0.141 Bukit Sem 13.200 +0.101 DBS 16.000 +0.101 ilA 10.900 +0.101 ilA 200 11.000 +0.101 ieeHS W*****0 0.035 +75.0 El Nets 0.015 +50.0 'DC Corp 0.060 fa Poh 0.015
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        36 32 US$ 0.5913 UK£ 0.3286 Yen 65.578 HK$ 4.6116 RM 2.247 Euro 0.4794 Rupiah 5428.9 Baht 24.554 Peso 33.3 A$ 0.8244 Indian Rs 27.206 Won 681.87 C$ 0.7512 Yuan 4.894 NZ$ 0.8826 NTS 20.111
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        4 32 ST Index 1,984.74 +10.39
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        58 32 fy volume Close 1OLDBeCWO5O531 0.565 'anpacMed 0.125 Horizon 0.190 ftguo Jilong 0.225 .antroVis 0.075 WL 2.820 MnaAvOil 1.670 SingTel 2.340 )io-Treat 0.860 Cosco Corp 1.020 Change +0.150 +0.005 +0.015 -0.010 +0.060 +0.040 +0.040 -0.015 +0.030 +36.1 +4.2 +8.6 -11.8 +2.2 +2.5 +1.7 -1.7 +3.0 'OOO 52,181 29,754
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        60 32 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Value *****.57 *****.03 3665.00 5845.69 Change Pis +37.47 +169.23 +8.50 +35.94 +0.35 +1.31 +0.23 +0.62 Korea Comp 835.09 +2.99 +0.36 KLCI 849.96 +3.24 +0.38 SET Index Jakarta Comp 644.67 820.13 +8.10 +7.24 +1.27 +0.89 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1761.57
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        26 32 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 414 Silver uss/oz 6.71 Platinum uss/oz 854 Rubber cntsAg 238.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1495.5 Brent crude uss/borrei 45 Information provided by
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        Lock icon S'pore can afford to save less: S&P
        156 34 Dow Jones SINGAPORE needs to examine whether it can live with lower savings and be more transparent, said credit rating agency Standard Poor's (S&P) yesterday. Singapore can learn from Hong Kong and be more transparent about its undisclosed reserves and allow private companies
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        186 34 Agencies SHARES in Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) surged nearly 11 per cent yesterday to a 17-year high after Temasek Holdings disclosed on Wednesday that it had amassed a 68.6-per-cent stake in the shipping line. The stock rose as much as 30 cents, or 10.9 per
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        299 34  -  Val Chua SINGAPORE credit card holders rolled over an average balance of $3,867 per person during the month of June, said Credit Bureau Singapore (CBS) in its first-ever study of usage patterns released yesterday. The findings, conducted between July last year to June this
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        376 34  -  Val Chua Banks report surge in suspicious transactions BANKS in Singapore have reported a "significant increase" in the number of suspicious transactions in the past two years amid heightened awareness about money laundering and terrorist financing activities in Asia, a senior police officer said
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        Busting a $ 1.85b racket
        154 34 Busting a 1.85b racket At yesterday's conference, Mr Gilbert Chan, Director of Investigation at Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) the equivalent of Singapore's CAD recounted how he busted a HK$B.5 billion ($1.85 billion) cigarette smuggling case in Hong Kong in 1995. The high-profile case which included money laundering,
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        178 38 Dow Jones PORT operator PSA has agreed to sell its entire 55.03-per-cent stake in logistics company CWT Distribution for $45.8 million, DBS Bank, which is acting for the buyer, said in a statement yesterday. The stake, comprising 82.6 million shares, will
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        139 38 Bloomberg CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) said it would pay $135.2 million in lieu of warrants it agreed on as part of its $227 million cash plus warrants acquisition of a 20.6-per-cent stake in Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC). SPC has
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        116 38 Channel News Asia COMPUTER network builder Datacraft Asia said analysts' expectations of its full-year earnings were "a little ambitious" because the recent rise in oil prices could clip corporate IT spending. The company is embarking on a major rebranding exercise to reposition itself as a customised
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        350 38 Channel News Asia CDL's project is also the world's 10th tallest PROPERTY developer City Developments Limited (CDL) and partner AIG have put a name to their landmark waterfront residential project. Called TheSail@Marinaßay, it will be Singapore's tallest residential project, and the world's 10th
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        132 38 Channel News Asia IN WHAT is turning out to be a red hot week for initial public offerings in Singapore, four more companies have lodged their preliminary prospectuses with the Monetary Authority of Singapore, on top of the five already lodged earlier
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        145 38  -  —Jaime Koh CAPITALAND Group, one of the largest listed property companies in Asia, yesterday announced a major structural reorganisation in a bid to strengthen its operations. Under the new structure, Capita Land Commercial will be broken into two distinct businesses Capita Land Retail (CRTL) and Capita Land Commercial
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        Asia power at G-7: China joins Japan
        775 40  -  William Pesek Jr i USIN ESSSSOUOSO^ It is expected to dominate talks this weekend UPSTAGING the richest economies is no small feat something China is sure to do this weekend when it participates in its first Group of Seven meeting. Industrialised nations didn't
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        449 42  -  Surekha A Yadav Entrepreneurship society ProjectSenso focuses on youth, aims to draw them out of comfort zone THE drive towards an entrepreneurial culture in Singapore has been hampered by the wrong attitudes, according to Mr Nicholas Chan, founding partner of IT solutions company SCN Technologies.
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        184 42  -  Tor Ching Li FOR entrepreneurs looking to expand their networks or venture capitalists hungry for investment opportunities, the Global Entrepolis@Singapore (GES) 2004 from Oct 11 to 15 is not to be missed. Members of the Action Community for Entrepreneurship, Association of Small and Medium
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        127 42  -  Tor Ching Li TO SPUR the growth of small and medium enterprises (SME) in Singapore, the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Asme) launched on Wednesday Singapore's first SME-centric magazine. Called Entrepreneurs' Digest, the quarterly publication replaces Asme's quarterly newsletter for members. While it
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        598 44  -  Vasu Menon They prefer equities as stock market valuations become more attractive with recent corrections: Poll OCBC's Wealth Management Unit recently polled nine fund managers for their investment outlook for the fourth quarter of this year and beyond. Aberdeen Asset Management, DBS Asset Management, First State
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      324 33 CelebfatS Childreifs'Dayfrt 1 I Bukit Panjang Plazsrl^ wm m Children, ~//fl tr^ the future pillar of our nation and our source of innocent joy in this hectic world. It's time again to celebrate and we at /j^^ZS- BukitVanjang Plaza*"*"l^ j has great plans for you and your family! k M^^^J
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      624 46  -  Elisa Chia Singapore Idol finalist withdraws just before first finals airs live SOMETHING is troubling Candice Foo. Less than 24 hours before the first of nine, live finals kicked off at Bpm yesterday, the 19-year-old decided to withdraw from Singapore Idol, citing the need to improve herself
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      265 46 Tonight, the two hopefuls with the lowest number of viewer votes will be eliminated, leaving nine finalists on the Idol journey. The telephone poll and SMS balloting closes at about 8.30pm, after which the results will be announced live on
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      714 48  -  David Chew Insomnia4B curator Ong on the direction of visual arts fest Seni, which kicks off tonight SENI Singapore 2004, the visual arts festival of the year, opens today with Insomnia4B a non-stop 48-hour event of performance, clubbing, music, installations, videos and workshops. The opening
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      $28m New Drama Centre to have 615-seat theatre
      202 48  -  David Chew IN 2002, when the Drama Centre at Fort Canning was closed to make way for the expanding Singapore History Museum, many bemoaned the loss of this medium-sized 326-seater venue. In a survey conducted by the National Arts Council in 2001,
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      287 48  -  David Chew IN 1991, a group of men in Canada decided they had a responsibility to urge men to speak out against violence against women and formed the White Ribbon Campaign. This was signified by the wearing of a white ribbon. As part
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      251 48  -  -Jeanine Tan DON'T go up to high altitudes if you have silicon breast implants because they might explode. Before all you artificially inflated ladies get hysterical, you might want to read on: It's not true, it's just a myth. Such housewives' tales are the target of former special-effects
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      425 51  -  Christopher Tan A little of Lee Kum Kee's Fine Shrimp Sauce goes a long, delightful way LEE Kum Kee's Fine Shrimp Sauce is made from a custom blend of tiny silver shrimp and salt fermented over an ideal length of time to yield a pale lavender colour and
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      194 51 HAR CHEONG KAI Ingredients (serves 4 to 6): 5 tblsp chopped ginger 3 1/2 tbsp Chinese rose wine (me/ kwei lv jiu) 2 level tbsp Lee Kum Kee Fine Shrimp Sauce I tblsp cornstarch I tblsp sugar or honey Method: I. Pound ginger to extract about two tablespoons of
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        406 52  -  yong shu chiang The Wayans make for crude yet likeable 'ladies' FILM REVIEW by White Chicks ONE of the oft-used jokes in a men-in-drag comedy is that they become irresistible to other men, no matter how obviously mannish they appear to the audience. Remember Jack Lemmon
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        251 52  -  david chew FILM REVIEW by Resident Evil: Apocalypse THE latest addition to the growing sub-genre of video-game-inspired movies is here and you've seen it all before: A few well-choreographed action sequences and an empty centre. If you've seen Double Dragon, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter,
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        Finding Che on the road
        249 54  -  Yong Shu Chiang FILM REVIEW by The Motorcycle Diaries BEFORE he became "Che", the beretwearing revolutionary whose image now adorns various merchandise, he was Ernesto Guevara idealistic medical student Director Walter Salles' film, named after the book Guevara later wrote, focuses on the life-altering trip
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        156 54  -  Yong Shu Chiang FILM REVIEW by JAPANESE director Takashi Miike, known for approaching taboo subjects head on, isn't afraid to shock the audience. One Missed Call, an obvious echo from Ringu, is his stab at mainstream horror. Although polished, it seems indecisive in its direction and the
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        231 56 -AP A LAWSUIT targeting Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio and two other men for their alleged roles in a street fight over Showgirls actress Elizabeth Berkley was thrown out by a judge on Wednesday. DiCaprio, 29, and others were sued for US$45 million ($76
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      365 63  -  DAN PEK Elite fighters from Singapore Police Force to run in skm race EMPLOYED to protect some of Singapore's most sensitive and high-security areas, the Gurkhas are an elite contingent in the Singapore Police Force. Famed for their never-say-die commitment and fighting skills, some members of
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      115 63  -  Dan Pek IN JUST his first year as a senior, the Philippines' Tommy Manotoc stormed to his second amateur title yesterday, at the 14th Asia Pacific Amateur Golf Championship. Held at the Raffles Country Club Palm Course, he carded a 1-under-par 71, which saw him
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      182 64 Singapore is like home after all these years. I like it here and want my daughter to grow up here. I will have to start planning for my future. I have one more year left on my playing contract at Home United and hopefully, I will
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      619 64  -  JOSE RAYMOND Surachai, Vorawan make history as they bag player and coaching awards S-LEAGUE AWARDS 2004 Player of the Year Coach of the Year HOME United coach Steve Darby admits he has a problem with Surachai Jatturapattarapong. The Thai midfield maestro hates having days off. When he
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      533 65  -  ALVIN CHUA Nazri believes fellow award winner Fahrudin will eventually take his place in Lions' line-up S-LEAGUE AWARDS 2004 Young Player of the Year People's Choice BOTH Tampines Rovers stars clutched awards and smiled dutifully for the cameras. But for Nazri Nasir and Mustafic Fahrudin, the
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      128 65 NTUC Income Player of the Year Surachai Jaturapattarapong (Home United) Maxell Young Player of the Year Mustafic Fahrudin (Tampines Rovers) Mikasa Coach of the Year Vorawan Chitavanich (Tampines Rovers) Yeo'sTop Scorer of I the Year Egmar > Goncalves (Home United) Polar Fan Club of the Year SAFFC
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        161 67 AFP LONDON The British Grand Prix has been dropped from the Formula One schedule for the first time in over 50 years, it was reported yesterday. The Silverstone track, which hosts the event, was not included on the 2005 provisional calendar, according to a report by the BBC,
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        462 67  -  Lee U-Wen Selected Uefa Cup results CSKA Sofia 2 Steaua Bucharest 2 Steaua Bucharest win 4-3 on aggregate Metalurgs 0 Schalke 04 4 Schalke 04 win 9-1 on aggregate Vfß Stuttgart 4 Ujpest Budapest 0 Vfß Stuttgart win 7-1 on aggregate Dinamo Bucharest 0 Partizan
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      343 68 AP NEW YORK Separating Kobe Bryant (picture) and Shaquille O'Neal on different teams on different coasts has done nothing to lessen the animosity between the one-time Los Angeles Laker team-mates. If anything, the feud is escalating. On Wednesday, O'Neal dismissed as "ridiculous"
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      557 68  -  TAN YO-HINN Shot put star Zhang hardest hit, Poh and Dong also punished TODAY EXCLUSIVE AT THE 2003 South-east Asian (SEA) Games, they accounted for five of the nine medals won Singapore's largest medal haul in athletics at the event since 1993 (12). But it has not
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      228 68  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THE Singapore duo of Poh Eng Wah and Madasamy Murugiah will have to be on top of their game today, if they are to be in contention for the three automatic spots, for November's World Golf Championship in Seville. At the
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      463 71 LONDON Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has warned his team-mates they must improve their away form or face wrecking their season. The Reds have endured a miserable time away from Anfield so far with just one victory recorded, reported Sky Sports yesterday. A below-par
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