Today, 18 October 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Monday October 18, 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Big bucks, bad drugs?
      838 1  -  Ritt Goldstein IPS World pharmaceutical giants 'routinely suppress results of negative drug trials' news@newstoday.com.sg STOCKHOLM Even before giant drug maker Merck Co announced late last month it was withdrawing its Vioxx arthritis medication from the market, voices were rising against the world's drug makers, also known
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  • hot news
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      All SET to go...
      636 2  -  Tor Ching Li But whom did training scheme really help? BY THE end of the year, the Government will have spent at least $1.9 million over more than two years towards training about 10,859 aspiring entrepreneurs on how to start, run and grow a business. Under
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      Lock icon Malaysian reality TV shows strike a chord
      661 3  -  Karim Raslan NEWSs&nun&n^— Phenomenon reveals 4 trends in M'sian society TWO years ago when I was in Spain, I saw an unusual reality television show called Operation Triumph that was dominating the country's TV ratings. The show's premise was straightforward. A group of
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      Lock icon Annan rejects bribe talk
      294 4 -AFP France, Russia are key governments, not banana republics LONDON UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (picture) dismissed the notion that countries such as France and Russia were prepared to ease sanctions on Saddam Hussein's Iraq in return for bribes and oil contracts, calling it "inconceivable". In an
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      Lock icon 3 blasts at KPE worksite
      275 4  -  Jose Raymond THREE explosions rocked a construction site for the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) yesterday morning but no one was injured. The site is at the junction of MacPherson Road and Paya Lebar Road, and is part of the work on a tunnel to link
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  • Singapore news
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      Former teachers in the dark
      576 6  -  Derrick A Paulo Many are still unaware of the details of MOE's new adjunct programme TWO weeks after the Education Ministry announced and implemented its initiative to get former trained teachers back into the service, many of them are still in the dark about the
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      Lock icon Wanted: Dog killer
      224 6 Channel News Asia AN animal welfare group and the public have offered a reward of $2,000 to find out who killed three dogs last week. The dogs were poisoned with tainted food at Block 118, Clementi Street 13. Action For Singapore Dogs had put up an initial
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    • Article
      Employment figures continue to show improvement
      221 6  -  Ng Shing Vi THIRD-quarter employment figures, to be released by the end of the month, are better than those in the first and second quarters, said Minister of Manpower Ng Eng Hen yesterday. The jobless rate in Singapore remains "on track" for a projected
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      Minister: Bedok Reservoir should be a playground
      258 6  -  Jose Raymond FOR years, the Government pondered whether it should be so. And yesterday, Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo gave his endorsement that the Bedok Reservoir and its surroundings should be "a playground" for residents. Speaking in support of the recent move
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      Lock icon A face lift... without surgery
      361 8  -  Clement Mesenas And no down time so you can get straight on with your life, thanks to new procedure FIRST to the surgery for a facelift, then home to dress up for a party. Aesthetic surgery with no bandages, no recovery time and no invasive
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        Lock icon MM Lee in Shanghai
        34 8 Channel News Asia Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew begins a four-day visit to Shanghai today. He will address McKinsey Company's Global Directors Conference and will be accompanied by Mrs Lee.
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        Lock icon Hit-and-run on ECP
        40 8 Channel News Asia A cab driver was seriously injured on Saturday night after a hit-and-run accident along the ECP, during which his taxi was hit from the back. Witnesses can call the police at 1800 547 1818.
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Mitterrand movie sparks furore
      247 10 -AFP PARIS A long-standing French taboo is about to be broken with the release of a film that depicts the last two years in the life of Francois Mitterrand (picture), the Socialist President who died in 1996. Not only is it the first time a modern-day
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Conjoined twins separated
        70 10 AFP Doctors in the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi successfully separated two-year-old Sudanese twins who were joined at the buttocks in a rare case in medical history. Twins Hassan and Al Hussein were joined at the buttocks and spinal cord and shared the same penis
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        Lock icon JFK aide Salinger dies
        69 10 AFP AVIGNON (France) Pierre Salinger, who served as Press Secretary to presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died of a heart attack near his home in southern France. He is to be buried in the Arlington cemetery in his native United States, his French wife
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      Lock icon Sharon 'no' to referendum
      412 10 AP Deep rift over Gaza with settlers JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday rejected calls from Jewish settlers to hold a nationwide referendum on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, escalating an increasingly bitter dispute between the onetime allies. The stormy meeting left the
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    • thisQUIRKYworld
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        Squatter sells London flat for $2 million
        110 10 A squatter has sold the flat he lived in for 35 years for £710,000 ($2.1 million), reported ananova.com, quoting The Sun. Mr George Weiss, a friend of late comic Peter Cook, won a legal battle which ruled that because there has been no
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        Lock icon 'Erotic gherkin' wins top architecture prize
        67 10 AFP A new skyscraper in London popularly dubbed the "erotic gherkin" for its curvaceous shape, has won a top British architecture prize, organisers said on Saturday. The building, officially named 30 St Mary Axe, after its address, won the Royal Institute of British Architects
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      THE FALLUJAH FALLACY
      551 12  -  Eric Koo Peng Kuan NEWS^^^^^_ The US assault will only earn more hatred among the Iraqi people for all things American WHEN will the Iraqi government and the United States learn that brute force is not the answer to the problems in Iraq? Air strikes which resumed
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      Lock icon Baghdad car bomb kills 6
      160 12 AFP BAGHDAD A car bomb killed at least six people and wounded 27 when it exploded outside a late-night coffee shop, the Interior Ministry said early today. "At least six people were killed and 27 wounded in the explosion, probably caused by a car bomb,
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  • voices
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      Focus On The Family
      91 14  -  jlkjlk kmvi VhW.-HIT Ih-i Jilh jllii u|t dqlh mmar-:fr/w-\mnkmm Tm IT" E -"H "J iX iX 'H X i"i ■-.l-ri iiLfe- aJfa. 1^ ■li-LBhi aii^^lv 'ii:i Ivvhfl-ftiii i.- ti m^tM ■*iri|kr.cta r#ta n-: -j urietui l^rinknhßlhiidlkif :i.: :.:i h i-ieUVTm .ki-lial.d.iv vß^uhlhn if i' 3 i-:w:.
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      Lock icon BUSH OR KERRY?
      913 14  -  Rand Miranda FIRST, a thank you to all who responded to my call last week, in "Kerry or Bush? You decide" (Oct 11). It's been enlightening, to say the least, to see how the presidential election in the United States might fare if people here in Singapore
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    • Article
      HDB sought feedback on Beach Rd MUP
      329 16  -  LOW CHER EX WE REFER to Mr Haj Mohamed's letter, "Restrictions under MUP" (Oct 7). The writer was concerned that the upcoming Main Upgrading Programme (MUP) for his estate may not obtain sufficient support unless it is changed to cater to the needs
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      ICA online informs with a dash of humour
      237 16  -  KUANG JINGKAI WITH the promises of a Government that will be more receptive towards public opinion and present a softer image, it seems that the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has taken a lead on their website. I was trying to find
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    • Article
      Woodlands Checkpoint traffic light causes jam
      150 16  -  BENNY TAN ON OCT 10 at about 5.30pm, I was caught in a massive traffic jam at the Woodlands Checkpoint on the way back from Johor Baru. It took me 75 minutes to drive through. I was appalled to discover that the source of
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      Amendment is a safeguard
      156 16  -  MARCUS LEE PROPOSED 5-YEAR-CAP TO RESERVES OF CHARITIES: I REFER to the article, "In the lurch when funds run out" (Oct 14), by the Young Ambassador for the National Kidney Foundation's Children's Medical Fund (CMF). The writer paints an almost apocalyptic picture for charitable organisations should
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      Funds will be freed lfor other groups
      124 16  -  MOK Zl YANG I CONGRATULATE Jeremy Lim for yet another well-written article. He is concerned with the future security of the CMF because of the 5-year cap on donations. As Jeremy mentions, competition is becoming more intense and donation fatigue will set in.
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  • business news
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      Lock icon SembCorp can appeal ruling in Solitaire case
      132 18 Dow Jones MARINE and utilities conglomerate SembCorp Industries said it can appeal an earlier ruling in a longrunning legal dispute in the United Kingdom. If the appeal is successful, the company may avoid further damages being levied against it SembCorp said it was
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    • Article
      Spores first IPO-centric unit trust launched
      537 18  -  Val Chua Fund offers man-in-the-street access to hot global IPOs AT A time when IPOs seem to have lost favour among retail investors, one fund manager has launched an IPO-centric unit trust, promising to put the faith back into new listings. UOB Asset Management's
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    • market BUZZ
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        Rent DVDs from a kiosk
        105 18 With Play! Entertainment's DVD booths, you can rent a DVD without going to a store. Register for membership by scanning your IC. To make the transaction secure, your thumbprint will also be scanned to make sure that someone else cannot borrow DVDs with your IC.
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      • Article
        Get paid for putting on weight
        119 18 Putting on weight may not be a bad thing at Causeway Point, Compass Point and Northpoint shopping malls, at least. To win vouchers, put on weight shopping weight, that is on Oct 29 at any of the three malls. Be among the first 1
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        Expert advice at beauty talk
        109 18 If you want to meet Dr Jacob Vromen, the doctor behind the world-patented Papain Enzyme Skin Renewal Treatment, sign up for this seminar. Presented by Bionn International Beauty Clinique, this three-houi seminar will be held or Oct 23 at the Imperiurr Fine Dining Entertain ment
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    • Market WATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        151 18 AFP THE stock market is likely to struggle again this week as concerned investors weigh the implications of continued high oil prices and expected slower export growth, dealers said. Crude oil futures traded in unchartered levels at near US$55 a barrel on Friday on worries that declining heating oil
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 18 US$ 0.5957 UK£ 0.3302 Yen 65.1297 HK$ 4.6393 RM 2.2637 Euro 0.4778 Rupiah 5412.087 Baht 24.6835 Peso 33.5954 A$ 0.8147 Indian Rs 27.3196 Won 682.3638 C$ 0.7464 Yuan 4.9305 NZ$ 0.8673 NTS 20.1745
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 18 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 420.100 Silver uss/oi 7.110 Platinum uss/oi 847 Rubber centsAg 218 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1444.5 Brent crude uss/barrel 49.93 Information provided by
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      TEMASEK BOND ISSUE SHOULD BE FOR ALL
      629 19  -  Francis Kan EVEN as Singaporeans pore over the details of Temasek Holdings' first ever publicly-released annual report, a separate crowd is eagerly awaiting another first from Singapore's investment company. Investors around the world are gearing up to grab a slice of Temasek's inaugural
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      Dividends Declared by SGX Companies
      785 20 ASL Marine Holdings Ltd C Ord F TBA TBA *****4 *****4 Arntek Engineering Ltd C Ord F SGD5.50 *****4 *****4 Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust C Cap 0 SGD 2,51 *****4 *****4 Ascendas Real Estate Invt Trust Issue 04A C Cap O SGD 5.09 *****4
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      Lock icon Air Asia buys Indon airline
      147 20 AFP MALAYSIA'S budget carrier Air Asia has acquired a private airline in Indonesia and will team up with a local partner to launch new flights to tap into South-east Asia's most populous nation, a report said yesterday. Air Asia bought PT AWAir Internasional for a
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      Lock icon Malaysia ups ante in Islamic banking race
      380 20 -AFP Foreign players heat up competition KUALA LUMPUR With eight full-fledged Islamic banks including three Middle East players, predominantly Muslim Malaysia has set the stage to become a key Islamic financial hub in the region, analysts say. The central bank completed a plan
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  • the business of learning
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      'Exciting decade for women'
      613 22  -  Lee Ching Wern As patriarchal structures fade, many more will break glass ceiling: Expert THE next 10 years will be exciting ones for women. As organisations around the world shed their old patriarchal structures for more flexible management styles, many more women would be able to
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      Prodigy MDIS' youngest student
      516 24  -  Lee U-Wen 14-year-old turns down Caltech to study here SOME companies spend thousands of dollars networking their offices. But last year, when British accounting company Moores Rowland asked Anand Aherkar at an international networking conference if he could network three of its India-based offices, Anand said
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      a thoughtful, touching GESTURE
      640 23  -  John B.ttleston Spores gracious act for late Brother Joe McNally offers a vital lesson SINGAPORE launched its Festival in Britain recently and my wife and I were fortunate to be invited as guests to the opening session. Prof Tommy Koh was the main speaker. As always,
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      Whaf s Up
      144 25 Sports Seminar for Parents Learn how to play with your kids. Yes, play is important to children as physical activity helps them develop motor skills, which in turn impacts on their learning ability. Keynote speaker, Dr Stephen Sanders professor and chair of the department of health and
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