Today, 8 October 2004

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Friday October 8, 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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    Signs of an election?
    657 1  -  Jose Raymond Recent flurry of electoral procedure-related activities fuels speculation jose@newstoday.com.sg SPECULATION is growing that Singaporeans will be asked sooner rather than later to give their mandate to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who took over the reins in August Shortly after he took over the
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    Lock icon DBS warned of further supervisory action after safe deposit box fiasco
    457 1 Agencies DBS Group Holdings may face "further supervisory action" after Hong Kong's de facto central bank ordered it to investigate how 83 of its safe deposit boxes in its Hong Kong branch were destroyed. The investigation should cover implications
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  • hot news
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      Another blow for Bush
      562 2  -  Khairuman bin Lani No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq says chief US arms inspector's report khairuman@newsto day, com. sg YET another blow was dealt to the Bush administration just weeks away from the US presidential election when a longawaited report concluded that former Iraqi dictator
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      Lock icon Taiwan FM apologises for S'pore remarks
      140 2 Channel News Asia TAIWAN'S Foreign Minister Mark Chen has apologised for his angry remarks against Singapore. Mr Chen had described Singapore as "a country the size of a booger (dried nasal mucus)" and accused Singapore of sucking up to China. He expressed his anger
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      Darker side of the outsourcing trend
      545 3  -  Francis Kan |\lEyys£gmi]l£|]L While employers emphasise cost savings, employee loyalty might become a casualty Deputy Business Editor francis@newstoday.com.sg IN AN effort to tackle the sensitive issue of outsourcing, Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen urged workers recently to accept the realities of a changing employment
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      Doctor called halt to dunking
      754 4  -  Lee Ching Wern Physician who treated victim gave order in bid to protect other trainees chingwern@newsto day, com. sg IN order to prevent further casualties, the medical officer who attended to NSman Hu Enhuai ordered an immediate stop to the water treatment exercise while trying
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      Lock icon Chirac wants arms embargo lifted
      409 6 AFP French leader calls Ell's ban on sales to China outdated HANOI French President Jacques Chirac, in an interview released Thursday, repeated calls for a speedy end to a European Union ban on arms sales to China. The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, which
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      Lock icon COE prices plummet, but many buyers remain cautious
      248 6 Channel News Asia CAR prices have been slashed some models by as much as $4,000 the morning after COEs in the Open Category hit 11-year lows and COEs in Category A for small cars hit their lowest levels since October 1996. Tan
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    • SNIGAPOREsnippets
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        Lock icon PM Lee has talks with Finnish leader
        100 6 Newsßadio 93.8 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday met his Finnish counterpart, Mr Matti Vanhanen, in Hanoi. They exchanged views on terrorism, economic development in Asia and South-east Asia as well as the Asian process. Mr Lee said he would like to see
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        Lock icon DPM: Community must help needy too
        132 6 Newsßadio 93.8 Deputy Prime Minister Prof S Jayakumar said Government efforts to eradicate poverty problems must be complemented by strong, self-reliant communities because the poor depend on their communities, not just their own families, for supports. He was speaking at a meeting of Association
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      167 4 DONT GET MYTH-ED: GET REAL: 1. Macs are expensive. 1. An ißook costs as little as $1,988. 2. Macs don't share files with PCs. 2. Macs talk to PCs and share files easily. 3. Macs don't run Microsoft Office. 3. Microsoft Office is better on a Mac than on Windows.
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      313 6 W fe| Cambridge Tutors College, c™.,«,, Lonoon Tutors College Cambridge Tutors College, London (CTQ celebrates top results once again in 2004. A-level pass-rate -100%; A/B grades 84%; 63% A-grade 14 Oxbridge offers (Limited Top mathematics A-level student in UK 2004 (AQA); Plarac Available fop 3 students in top 5 for
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  • Singapore news
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      Girl, 4, thrown from 6th floor; woman to be charged
      205 8  -  Wong Fei Wan A FOUR-year-old girl suffered serious head injuries after she was apparently thrown from the sixth floor of a Housing Board flat early yesterday morning. A 36-year-old Chinese woman, who is a friend of the girl's father, will
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      Job training plan expands
      438 8  -  Tor Ching Li Restaurant workers can now apply chingli@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREANS taking up full-time work as waiters or kitchen assistants in Chinese restaurants can now enjoy a little sweetener in the form of the Place-Train-Adjust Programme (PTAP), first launched by the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) in 2002.
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      Now, choice of subjects
      584 10  -  Derrick A Paulo Taking minister's cue, schools explore expansion possibilities AS THOUSANDS of secondary school pupils sit for their year-end examinations now, many of their principals and teachers are starting to explore how to expand the subject choices for their charges. Plans are very much at
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        Lock icon S'pore seeks task force
        117 10 Newsßadio 93.8 National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan proposed that Association or South-East Asian Nations (Asean) countries set up a task force to combat the bird flu. He made this call during a regional meeting in Yangon and said Singapore would like closer collaboration among Asean
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        HPB awards for 3 CEOs
        51 10 National Computer Systems' Lee Kwok Cheong, Institute of Mental Health's Leong Yew Meng and Alexandra Hospital's Liak Teng Lit yesterday received, for promoting workplace health, the first Health Promotion Board HEALTH (Helping Employees Achieve Life Time Health) Leader Excellence Awards from Health Minister Khaw Boon
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        Lock icon Honour for M'sia officer
        46 10 Newsßadio 93.8 Royal Malaysian Police Special Branch director Mohamad Yusof Abdul Rahaman got the Meritorious Service Medal for contributing to the security of Singapore, Malaysia and the region against terrorism. The award was presented by Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng yesterday.
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      Youths 'insecure' without mobile
      287 10  -  Surekha A Yadav MOST youths in Singapore wake up to the sound of their ring tones. In fact, the mobile phone has become so much a part of the life of Singapore youths that they feel "insecure" when they do not have their phones with them.
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      Catholic JC sues insurance firm for $500,000
      395 10  -  Wong Fei Wan The insurance company that had stood as a guarantor for beleaguered Wan Soon Construction in Catholic Junior College's (CJC) building project is being sued by the school for about $500,000. Since 2000, a $10-million project to build a three-storey lecture
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Indon court Victory is valid
      492 12 Agencies Attention now turns to policies and who will be in the President-elect's Cabinet JAKARTA Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono became the undisputed winner of Indonesia's first presidential election yesterday as a deadline to appeal against the results expired. President Megawati Sukarnoputri, whose defeat the
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      Lock icon Blasts kill at least 40 in central Pakistan
      387 12 Agencies MULTAN (Pakistan) Two bombs planted in a car and motorcycle exploded at a gathering of Sunni Muslim radicals in central Pakistan before dawn Thursday, killing at least 40 people and wounding 100 in what police suspected was a sectarian attack. About
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Tribe's claim to air space
        46 12 Ngati Tuwharetoa, one or New Zealand's biggest and most important Maori tribe, is considering charging for air space above Lake Taupo. The New Zealand Herald reports that Tuwharetoa already earns NZ$l million ($1.14 million) a year from the existing fee system.
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        Grisly tourist draw
        72 12 A British entrepreneur wants to turn a Sydney house where a Filipino-Australian slaughtered his family into a gruesome museum commemorating one of the city's grisliest crimes. The neat brick home in the affluent suburb of Epping has been dubbed the house of horrors and was the subject
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        Sorry, I'm stealing your valuables
        62 12 Police in eastern India are looking for a burglar who reportedly left apologetic notes at the scene of his crimes. The anonymous thief in the Orissa capital of Bhubaneswar has left letters in each cash drawer ransacked asking shop owners to excuse him because he
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        Flower power
        43 12 Hundreds or people queued up in Sydney on Thursday to get a whiff of a blooming "corpse flower", arguably, the world's smelliest flower. The Titan Arum's smell is described as something like rotting flesh or fish gone bad, hence its nickname.
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        New 1,000 yen bill bid up to $89m
        41 12 What was claimed to be a sample of the new Japanese 1,000 yen bill was bid up to 9.9 billion yen ($B9 million) in an Internet auction before the auction was called off.
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        Playboy bunny bounces back
        55 12 Playboy's iconic bunny hostesses (above) are set to hop out of semi-retirement after 1 6 years. Playboy Enterprises, founded as a men's magazine by Hugh Hefner in 1953, said it had partnered with Las Vegas' Palms Casino Resort to open a club and boutique casino in
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      Lock icon New Cambodia crisis as king abdicates
      551 14 Sihanouk said to be unhappy with provisions for succession PHNOM PENH King Norodom Sihanouk, a symbol of unity in Cambodia, has abdicated while in self-imposed exile in Beijing, his son, the national assembly president, said yesterday. This has plunged the country into a new
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      Lock icon Captors thought Indonesian woman was wife of US soldier
      222 14 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian Istiqomah binti Misnad who was held hostage in Iraq said her captors suspected she was the wife of an American soldier, according to an interview published in Koran Tempo yesterday She said that her captors held up a
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        Lock icon Not guilty, says Renault
        87 14 AFP French car manufacturer Renault is to go to the courts to protect its reputation after a motorist claimed he was forced to drive at nearly 200 kmph because of a fault with his car's speed regulator, the company said yesterday. Tests on the Vel Satis
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        Lock icon Cannibal claim
        59 14 AFP British fugitive Paul Durant, held in Spain over the brutal murder of a British woman, Karen Durrell, has claimed in a letter to the Daily Mirror that he killed her, then ate her, the newspaper said yesterday. Ms Durrell was travelling through Spain with her boyfriend when
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      Lock icon Thai opposition slams Cabinet reshuffle
      419 16 They say Thaksin is trying to prop up govt's sliding popularity before polls BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Cabinet reshuffle this week has been slammed by the opposition. The opposition parties warned that the changes will do little to end a separatist insurgency in
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Couple booked for letting friend drive drunk
        67 16 A French judge must decide whether a young couple who allowed a rriena to drive home drunk after a dinner party are partly culpable for his accident, reported BBC. The couple are accused of failing to prevent a crime and of being partly
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        Lock icon Internet banking scam: HK police arrest 11
        71 16 AP Hong Kong police have arrested 11 members of a syndicate for allegedly swindling HK5660,000 ($143,000) from customers of HSBC through a bogus website, police and the bank said yesterday. Three suspects have been charged with theft. Police said the syndicate obtained the
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        Lock icon Nobel for Austrian writer
        49 16 -AFP Austrian writer and poet Elfriede Jelinek yesterday won the 2004 Nobel Literature Prize. She won the prize for "her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."
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      Top-selling pain-relievers in US may come under scrutiny
      255 16  -  Venessa Lee MILWAUKEE Two top-sell-ing drugs in Singapore, Celebrex and Bextra, might come under close scrutiny in the United States because key researchers, a Congressman and European regulators said they feared such painrelieving drugs might cause the same heart problems blamed on
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      Lock icon Cut wires lead to grounding of MAS plane
      142 16 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines was forced to ground one of its Airbus A 330 aircraft after engineering staff found possible tampering with the wiring system, the national carrier said yesterday. "When the aircraft was powered up during routine maintenance service, the
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  • voices
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      Ah bengs, heirlooms and aphrodisiacs
      886 18  -  mr brown I THINK Singapore may have found a solution to our low national sex drive and low birth rate. Yes, Singaporeans need to follow the example of our northern neighbours, specifically Kelantan, and swallow. Swallow live mudskippers, I mean. And it shouldn't be the
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    • Letter
      Jeassea's unfair ejection shows new Idol voting formula needed
      188 18  -  LAWRENCE QUEK Letter from I REFER to your report "Bring Jeassea back" (Oct 7). I agree that it would be unfair to Singapore Idol voters if the petition is successful and Jeassea is reinstated. The format of the show is the
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    • Letter
      More stringent test required for aspiring S-League teams
      270 18  -  LAW SIN LING Letter frorril I APPLAUD the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) for its daring vision of making the S-League more cosmopolitan. However, there are serious questions concerning the process of selecting eligible foreign clubs, as was highlighted by Planet FC's
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    • Article
      Focus On The Family
      232 20  -  Dr James Dobson TblMTs fdby BOOK LEARNING VS. COMMUNITY SUPPORT If you've checked out the parenting section of a bookstore lately, you've probably noticed hundreds of authors who want to tell you how to raise your kids. Have you ever wondered if they really know more
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      CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
      575 20 FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Today columnist Jeremy Lim's commentary, "Hold it! Don't reach for the cane" (Oct 6) opened up some raw wounds in our readers and a flood of letters. In an emotional letter, reader Mary Lee recounted her painful childhood one that was ruled by the rotan. "My teacher
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    • Letter
      Follow Keppel way to better governance in PLCs
      232 20  -  TAN KOK TIM Letter from I COMMEND Keppel Corp in setting up a formal whistle-blowing system to further strengthen its corporate governance. In fact, shouldn't all publiclisted companies (PLCs) have such a system as these organisations are owned by the public? The
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    • Letter
      Can information on election site lead to intrusion of privacy?
      144 20  -  MICHAEL LOH YIK MING I Letter from I'VE just updated my details at the election website, www. elections.gov. sg After scrutinising the website, it occurred to me that anyone in possession of the full name and date of birth of
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    • Letter
      Imparting right values to children
      92 20  -  PATRICK SIO Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Victims of HDB's success" (Oct 5). The writer tries to segregate HDB dwellers from private residential ones. Such division is likely to impart the wrong values to our children. In addition, playing at void decks should
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    • Article
      Voting for leaders not same as choosing Idol
      314 22  -  SIOWJIARUI S'poreans know wrong choice in Govt has ramifications We vote with our heads for our leaders not out of blind adulation; but because we respect and trust them to deliver on the bread-and-butter issues that are of most concern to Singaporeans.
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      peopleinthestreet
      172 22 The Health Ministry's announcement that Medishield premium would have to be raised drew much discussion and anxiety. This is what some people think... If s a good idea and investment I find private insurance very expensive. -Claudia Kennedy,4B, teacher Huh? Never heard of it Got Medisave, enough already. -Tan
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  • Businesstoday
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        74 26 SHARES fell yesterday on worries about the impact of rising oil prices on the global economic outlook, traders said. New York light crude rose above US$52 a barrel yesterday after having risen more than 60 per cent this year. Caution ahead of the US jobs report on Friday added
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        49 26 Dow Jones decliners outnumbered advancers 183 to 155. Traded volume totalled 763 million shares worth $813.5 million. Singapore Airlines fell 20 cents, or 1.8 per cent, to $10.80 on worries over the airline's fuel costs, which account for about 20 per cent of its total costs.
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        59 26 Index Value Ch hange Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp 11,354.59 13,321.73 3,710.50 6,103.00 885.33 Pis -30.79 +50.16 +1.50 +42.39 -2.12 -0.27 +0.38 +0.04 +0.70 -0.24 KLCI 864.16 +2.62 +0.30 SET Index 670.06 +1.55 +0.23 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 849.82
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        36 26 US$ 0.5920 UK£ 0.3328 Yen 65.878 HK$ 4.6171 RM 2.2498 Euro 0.4820 Rupiah 5,386.1 Baht 24.515 Peso 33.382 A$ 0.8151 Indian Rs 27.146 Won 680.97 C$ 0.7451 Yuan 4.9009 NZ$ 0.8765 NTS 20.073
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        79 26 Jy Close (epCorp 8.400 DBS 15.800 Changi -0.251 -0.201 >IA 10.800 -0.201 ilA 200 10.900 -0.201 Elec USS 2.790 -0.131 IMH 400USS 13.900 -0.101 ISH 500USS 6.850 -0.101 XBC 14.100 -0.101 XBC 4.59SNCPS 100 102.200 -0.101 fhai Prime200USS 10.900 -0.101 By percentage Close L&M 0.005 Change -50.0
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      163 28 Agencies SINGAPORE and Kuwait have agreed to begin free trade talks in December, a joint statement said yesterday. Kuwait is the latest among Middle East countries with which Singapore has sought to forge closer economic ties. Bahrain, Egypt and Iran have also
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      239 28 Dow Jones Winning bidder will be known today UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has decided not to submit a bid for 51 per cent of Bank Permata, Indonesia's seventh largest bank, a source said. Four other banks made a final bid by yesterday's deadline, said the
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      126 28  -  Val Chua A SINGAPORE investment firm looking to take over Perth-based carrier Skywest has raised its offer price to 23 Australian cents (28 cents) a share, up 3 Australian cents from its original offer in April. Singapore-based Captive Vision Capital (CVC) has so far accumulated
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      90 28 Channel News Asia ISIS Pharmaceuticals, a US biotechnology firm, opened a research facility in Singapore to develop drugs to treat cancer, blood diseases and Sars. California-based Isis did not give details on staffing and funding for its new facility at Biopolis, Singapore's centre for
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      315 30 -AFP PM Abdullah asks rich nations in grouping to share wealth with poor members KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi urged the world's largest Islamic grouping yesterday to focus on economic development rather than politics and encouraged oil-rich states to share their
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      165 36 Bloomberg CRUDE oil in New York rose to a record US$53 a barrel on concern that US supplies will be inadequate to meet winter demand. Hurricane Ivan has reduced production at platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, the source of a
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      427 36  -  Andy Mukheriee Bloomberg tUSINESSSSDUDSUL These result in strong investor support for Malaysian state firms MR AZMAN Mokhtar, head of the Malaysian government's investment arm, said that he is behaving like a body snatcher. In the five months since becoming managing director of Khazanah Nasional, he has
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      253 38  -  David Chew ANTOINE de Saint-Exupery's 1943 novel The Little Prince based on his experiences when he crashed his airplane in the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission has charmed children and adults alike for more than a half century. In Source Theatre will stage this fable
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      615 42 WITH rock V roll as the theme of the second round of the "Spectaculars" on Singapore Idol, one would expect something out of the ordinary from the ballad-loving Idols. But, the results were mixed. Thankfully, none of them looked too soft for the genre. Jeanine Tan (jeanine@newstoday.com.sg) takes
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        504 44  -  Yong Shu Chiang I I Wimbledon TENNIS season often means firm bodies in fig-ure-hugging attire participating in plenty of whiz-bang on-court action. But tennis isn't the reason for watching Wimbledon, a Working Title Films vehicle that might have had the perennial British romantic lead Hugh Grant charming
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        350 46  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby" Exorcist The Beginning rpHE story of how J. Lankester Merrin a washed-up former priest who has become a barfly in a dusty African town becomes exorcist extraordinaire Father Merrin, should have been interesting. But what's more interesting
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        232 48  -  r YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby Vanity Fair DIRECTOR Mira Nair's (Monsoon Wedding) adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel shows off her flair for colour. But the storytelling is bland and choppy in parts. Her ambitious attempt has resulted in this heavy two
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        45 50  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby PROVOCATIVE French director Claire Denis serves up a stylish, moody erotic thriller about cannibalism and sex. Ploddingly paced, it shatters your senses and leaves you feeling sick to your stomach when the horror comes. No second helpings, please.
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        195 50  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby" Spybound THE couple that spies together, stays to- gether. Well, not quite. Real-life couple, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel last seen in Irreversible are secret agents who've been romantically entangled before. We see them hauling their emotional baggage as they join forces
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      158 59 FOR the first time, the National Rugby Championship (NRC) Cup and Plate Grand Finals will be held at the Turf City rugby pitch tomorrow, from 3pm. The cup final will be a repeat of the NRC Premiership's title decider, which saw the Brewerkz Bucks thrash the
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      374 59 AP WORLD CUP QUALIFIER Spain v Belgium, group 7 MADRID Spain coach Luis Aragones has been slammed by his countrymen for his alleged racist comments about French striker Thierry Henry. According to reports, he called Henry a "*****" when talking to forward Jose Antonio
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      232 59 -AFP BASEBALL New York 7 Minnesota 6 (12 innings) NEW YORK Japan's Hideki Matsui (picture) drove in the winning run with a 12-inning sacrifice fly on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), giving the New York Yankees a 7-6 triumph over Minnesota that evened
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      499 60  -  STANLEY HO A year after the lightning tragedy, Chinese club to play at Jurong again stanley@newstoday.com.sg IT WILL be a poignant occasion, but Sinchi FC will return to Jurong Stadium next season, a year after their young player, Jiang Tao, was struck dead by lightning
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      578 61 -AFP World champions overwhelm India, ready to take first Test TEST CRICKET, DAY TWO India v Australia BANGALORE, India World champions Australia took charge of the first cricket Test against India, after battering the hosts with both bat and ball on the second day here yesterday. Debutant
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      165 61 -AFP BANGKOK Manchester United, the world's richest football club, have launched a roadshow in South-east Asia to find new corporate sponsors and strengthen their fan base, officials said yesterday. The club's commercial director, Andy Anson, met executives from electronics companies, airlines and a
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      261 61  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THEY helped lay the foundation for Singapore's transformation from a third-world to a first-world country within the space of one generation. And to aid the elderly's financial security, insurance brand Great Eastern have raised $220,000 at their 4th Annual Golf Charity Challenge. The figure
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      459 63 LONDON If American billionaire takes control of Old Trafford, Sir Alex Ferguson will be given a greater say in the running of the entire club. The tycoon's promise of increasing the Manchester United manager's power is seen as an attempt to reverse
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      317 63 AFP LIVERPOOL He still has not lived up to his considerable potential, but Australian international Harry Kewell has pledged to ram the words of his critics back down their throats and make a success of his Liverpool career. "I know I can
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