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  • 27 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday October 21, 2004 i MITA (P) 103/07/2004 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday October 21,2004 I MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • 562 1  -  Asif Ansar New Indonesian president vows to fight terrorism, corruption and poverty JAKARTA Former General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia's sixth president yesterday. He vowed to eradicate corruption, crack down on terrorism and fight poverty. Dr Yudhoyono, 55, took the oath of
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  • 869 1  -  Mano Sabnani |\IE^y5&filIIIII£ll^ NOW that Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is firmly in the saddle as the leader of our large neighbour, Indonesia, what are the key tasks ahead for him on the economic and business fronts? Dr Yudhoyono, or SBY as he is
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    • 48 1 NEWSJW/TEWS sth least corrupt Singapore ranks fifth in anti-graft report/6 She brings hope Serena Soliano: Face in the crowd/1 8 Idol antics Singapore Idol finalists make music video/26 Firing blanks Man U struggle even with stable of star strikers/51 byvuUI~-- ?3h tcit-irjLl .■B'.*-1 O FIR HrTfliHr'" HMBlW**lii¥tL_^~j^. til
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  • hot news
    • 634 2  -  Stanley Ho Pan-West scores as new Callaway distributor for golf in China,Taiwan IN A landmark move yesterday, homegrown golf retailer Pan-West has been appointed the official distributor of Callaway Golf's products in China and Taiwan. The agreement is an expansion of the current deal, in which
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  • singapore news
    • 349 4  -  Melody Tan r bites BRAND'S Your partner in support of a healthy lifestyle IN BUSTLING Singapore, it's always easy to find a fast food outlet or hawker food stall that caters to our desire for fried, greasy or sweet, rich sustenance. As the years pass, our
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    • 508 4  -  Clement Mesenas and it comes with a $120,000 price tag FROM driving fast cars to making luxury watches, Dr Luigi Macaluso has done it all. Dr Macaluso, a European Rally champion in his younger days, is now in Singapore for the Sincere Fine
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    • 195 4 THE Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has cleared rapper Sheikh Haikel unconditionally after his urine samples tested negative for any controlled drug. The 28-year-old entertainer, one of 23 arrested two weeks ago during a massive cocaine bust, was informed of the outcome of the urine analysis at
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    • 423 6  -  Val Chua But it has yet to sign UN anti-corruption treaty SINGAPORE has once again performed well in an annual international corruption index of more than 100 countries. The Republic was ranked fifth in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2004 issued yesterday, putting
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    • 317 6  -  Wong Fei Wan THE commando who grilled Captain Ho Wan Huo before he was dunked repeatedly during combat survival training (CST) said he did not single out the trainee for interrogation. Lieutenant Divanandhari Chandrasekharan was responding to the prosecution's question on why his fellow accused,
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    • 472 8  -  Shibu Ittv Kuttickal It may raise cap on foreign investments in media THE Indian government has set up a panel of ministers to study and propose amendments to a law setting out investment guidelines including raising the present 26-per-cent cap on foreign direct investment in
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    • 160 8 Agencies AN AUSTRALIAN drug trafficker had his appeal against his death sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal yesterday. Nguyen Tuong Ban, 24, was found guilty in March of importing over 390g of heroin into Singapore while in transit at Changi airport in December 2002.
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  • world news
    • 401 10  -  Venessa Lee Outlook for Myanmar's democratic reforms now uncertain YANGON The Myanmar military regime's ouster of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt yesterday raised concerns about the uncertain future of democracy in the isolated country and the fate of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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    • 58 10 The Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia awaits the coronation of Prince Norodom Sihamoni (inset), the country's newly-chosen king, next Friday. The prince is to return home from China with his father, former King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated the throne after decades
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 74 10 prize Two prize crabs were snapped up for HK$2OO,OOO ($43,000) in a charity seafood auction here, AFP reports, quoting the South China Morning Post yesterday. A huge seafood wholesaler shelled out the cash for the two green hairy crabs. The creatures, weighing 470gm and 320gm,
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      • 84 10 With election fever gripping the United States, the New York Sports Clubs' chain is offering to relieve some electoral stress with a non-partisan "voterobics" workout, reports AFP. The workout requires participants to "bend over backwards for spe- cial interests" by performing back extensions
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      • 71 10 Japan has decided to keep Adolf Hitler out of its boisterous gambling parlours, shooting down an attempt to name a pinball slot machine after the Nazi dictator. Manufacturer Fuji Shoji said it wanted a commercial edge by naming its machines after 35 historical figures, among them Hitler,
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    • 446 12 Opinion polls show Bush clinging to barest lead nationally WASHINGTON With opinion polls showing United States President George W Bush and Democratic challenger John F Kerry going neck and neck in the race for the White House, the campaign trails have heated up with both
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 91 12 Slain brigand Veerappan's 12-year-old daughter, Prabha, studying at a convent in Cuddalore in south India, will be thrown out by the school, the Press Trust of India reported. St Joseph Matriculation Higher Secondary School will issue the transfer certificate to Prabha who
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      • 107 12 AFP A Malaysian man let himself be "cooked" for half an hour in a huge wok of steaming dumplings and corn in an offering to Chinese deities during a Taoist festival, The Star reported yesterday. A cover was placed over temple caretaker
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      • 115 12 -AP Utah child-welfare authorities removed eight children from a family belonging to a polygamist clan on Tuesday. The children were taken from Mr John Daniel Kingston, 49, and Ms Heidi Mattingly, 32, who have 1 1 children, including two teenage girls who had been
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    • 238 14 AP HOUSTON Relatives of a man who was gunned down during a robbery 12 years ago are opposing next week's scheduled execution of his murderer. The United States Supreme Court has, however, refused to stop the execution. Dominique Green, who was 18 at the
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 66 14 The Sultan of Selangor has suspended the "Datuk" title given to six people who are facing criminal charges, The Star reports. The six, including former Perwaja Steel managing director Tan Sri Eric Chia Eng Hock, former state assembly speaker Datuk Saidin Tamby and former state exco
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      • 67 14 AP A Hong Kong woman was convicted of butchering a dog for food a practice that has been outlawed in the territory, even though the meat is considered a delicacy by some. Defendant Chan Yuk-sim, 44, claimed that she saw a "primitive man" cutting
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    • 129 14 Agencies I PARIS Sikhs must respect France's new law banning conspicuous religious signs from public schools, the education minister said, as three Sikhs who refused to take off their turbans, from a community of an estimated 5,000-7,000 people, brought their case to court. The
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    • 340 14 IPS Acute social problems the cause, say experts TOKYO Loneliness, financial insecurity, poor communication skills and other deep-seated social problems in Japan have been blamed by experts for a spate of suicide pacts, including last week's discovery of nine young people who had killed themselves. Police
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    • 274 16  -  Dr James Dobson Tbiws PREDATORS ON THE ROAD TO ADULTHOOD Afewyears ago myfamily and I visited the magnificent wild animal preserve known as the Serengeti in Tanzania. It had rained all day and we eventually came to a stretch of road that was almost impassable. If
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    • 522 16  -  GEORGE LIMHENGCHYE MAS should also reveal the amount earned from late credit payments I REFER to the recent concern over the misuse of credit cards. I propose that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) look into lowering the excessive interest rate
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    • 266 16  -  GARY LEE I REFER to the letter, "Time to revamp voting system" (Oct 15). I would like to thank Mr Tan Keng Tat for highlighting the need for Singapore's election rules to be reformed. Besides reforms to the GRC system, I
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    • Article, Illustration
      649 18 IN THE financial heart of Singapore, a sprightly grandmother in jeans and a T-shirt sits on the steps of Clifford Centre and raises her strong voice to the bustling crowd of business suits. "Please have a heart for the disabled, you are able," she cries, undeterred by
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    • 165 18  -  LIMJINGJING I REFER to the article "Passports soon to go electronic" (Oct 14). We would like to clarify that Mr Yu Chien Siang, a computer security adviser from the Home Affair Ministry, was merely explaining the various possibilities of the use of biometrics for identification purposes.
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    • 202 20 Agencies SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering's aerospace unit has been appointed by budget airline Jetstar Asia to maintain its aircraft for the next five years in a deal worth about US$47 million ($79 million). The Singapore-based Jetstar Asia, which is 49.9-per-cent owned by Australia's Qantas
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    • MarketWATCH
      • 48 20 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended lower, hurt by Wall Street's overnight drop and concerns over Singapore's growth prospects. The ST Index fell 17.23 points, or 0.9 per cent, to close at 1,953 Losers led gainers 234 to 99 as 650.1 million shares worth $589.5 million were traded.
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      • 36 20 US$ 0.5972 UK£ 0.3311 Yen 64.742 HK$ 4.6526 RM 2.2695 Euro 0.4772 Rupiah 5420.6 Baht 24.681 Peso 33.631 A$ 0.8212 Indian Rs 27.355 Won 683.49 C$ 0.7515 Yuan 4.9431 NZ$ 0.8719 NTS 20.22
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      • 29 20 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/ m 423.200 Silver uss/i 7.250 Platinum uss/oz 842.000 Rubber o «s/k 9 236.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1401 Brent crude uss/bami 49.07 Information provided by
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      • 70 20 By$ IMH400USS 14.800 +0.401 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 109.200 +0.201 lardine C&C 7.950 +0.101 XBC 13.700 +0.101 iPC 3.640 +0.101 tandasreil 1.620 +0.051 Robinson 6.900 +0.051 Sunningdale 0.815 +0.04: Hi-P 1.750 +0.041 By percentage Wee Poh 0.015 +50.1 LKN 0.030 +20.1 Oakwell 0.060 +20.1 Casa 0.105 +16.;
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      • 4 20 ST Index 1,953 -17.23
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      • 60 20 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.18 Change Pis -182.68 -1.65 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries *****.13 3700.10 -155.42 -15.00 -1.18 -0.40 laiwan Wtd 5788.34 -19.45 -0.33 Korea Comp 828.61 -27.16 -3.17 KLCI 848.65 -3.09 -0.36 SET Index 652.46 -8.54 -1.29 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 840.79 1784.93
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    • business news
      • 150 22 CITIGROUP has ousted its vice-chair-man Deryck Maughan and two other senior executives in the wake of the scandal involving its private-banking operations in Japan, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. In an internal company memorandum, Citigroup chief executive Charles Prince announced that Mr Maughan,
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      • 286 22 Dow Jones But 3G costs will pull profit down in last quarter THE third-quarter earnings of MobileOne rose slightly compared to the same period last year, but the company warned that its profit margins would weaken in the fourth quarter due to higher expenses, including
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      • 113 22  -  Jaime Koh BANGALORE Philips India yesterday announced plans to invest US$5O million ($B4 million) and increase its workforce at the Philips Innovation Campus (PIC) in Bangalore to 3,000. The US$5O million will be used to expand and improve its workplace infrastructure over the next five years,
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      • 117 22 THE chief executive of Tiger Airways, Mr Patrick Gan, is leaving the budget carrier, sources told Channel NewsAsia yesterday. Mr Gan was said to have resigned from his position some time ago, but was asked to stay on until the carrier launched its first flight last
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      • 230 23 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia yesterday said it was buying a stake in Indonesian airline AWAir to launch new low-cost flights from Jakarta. In documents detailing its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), AirAsia said it was paying a token US$2
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      • 148 23 CHANGI Airport handled 2.4 million passengers last month, up 8.8 per cent from September a year ago, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) stated yesterday. Cargo traffic rose 10.2 per cent in the month to 155,802 tonnes from a year ago, the third
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    • business commentary
      • 793 24  -  William Pesek Jr Bloomberg Report sure to say growth slowing, even if it did not IT'S really hard to get excited about tomorrow's report on China's gross domestic product (GDP). For one thing, even if Chinese growth slowed in the third quarter and you can
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    • savvy investor
      • 472 25 Dow Jones More fund managers see Asia-Pacific region slowing down INTERNATIONAL fund managers are increasingly bearish on economic and corporate earnings growth in the AsiaPacific region, according to a Merrill Lynch survey. Among fund managers surveyed in the first two weeks of this month, a net 43 per
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      353 26  -  Jeanine Tan PHOTOS BY KOH MUI FONG and they make a music video, too ieanine@newstoday.com.sg THE seven remaining Singapore Idols are dancing and lip-synching to Sheryl Crow's Soak Up The Sun, despite the fact that there isn't any sun to speak of in the late afternoon at Pasir
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    • 240 27  -  Eveline Gan WITH more than 20 years in showbiz, Choo Mimi (picture) doesn't even bother to dress up when she goes out In a loose floral blouse (yes, the auntie kind) and gold chain draped around her neck, Choo looks alarmingly like the typical auntie
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    • 428 28  -  Felix Cheong Colum McCann understands the displacement he writes about NOT many writers can claim to having lived the books they write. But then again, not many writers are as bold in hauling themselves in and i out of new experiences as Colum McCann. Author
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    • 178 28 AFP BRITISH author Alan Hollinghurst won the Booker Prize for his explicitly gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher. Hollinghurst won this year's prestigious international literary award and a £50,000 ($151,270) check for the best novel published in
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      • 268 32  -  Jenny Kong THE "Thursday Next" series is the work of an extremely imaginative mind. And that's not an overstatement. Welsh author Jasper Fforde certainly has his way of teasing the reader's mind witn an incredible (and incredulous) plot, colourful characters and everything out
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      • 203 42 PASSENGERS on board Star Cruises' SuperStar Virgo are in for a spectacular "surprise" from this month. Since Oct 14, the luxury liner has been staging the multi-million-dollar production, Sorpresa, A New Season, during its cruises. Sorpresa which is Italian for surprise is a Vegas-style performance which tells
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      • 239 42 THERE'S always something new and refreshing for visitors to Genting City of Entertainment in Genting Highlands. For new culinary delights, head for The Olive or the Ming Ren or both! The Olive (picture), located at the lobby floor of Genting Hotel, offers the best cuts of meat,
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    • 427 44 While vodka is an important part of Russian culture, its hearty food also plays a large role in society RUSSIAN cuisine has been perfected by the influences of many neighbouring countries. Its love for all things French led to an array of sauces, salads, pastries and
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    • 254 49 Agencies LONDON Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has ended negotiations aimed at securing the future of the British Grand Prix. He said talks with Silverstone owner the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) had broken down over the contract's length. Ecclestone decided he could
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    • 336 50 ATHENS It was only a matter of time before Arsene Wenger defended his Arsenal players. Yesterday, the Gunners boss responded for the first time to claims by Sir Alex Ferguson that Arsenal had "got away with murder", following the infamous brawl at Old Trafford
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    • 797 51 Agencies But with the Gunners coming, United boss expects an end to the goal-drought LONDON In recent years, Sir Alex Ferguson has had his fair share of selection headaches. Neither Juan Sebastian Veron nor David Beckham could replicate their international form at Old Trafford on
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    • 434 51 Agencies MADRID He always seemed slightly bigger head-to-toe in Liverpool's red. Wearing all white, and in the company of bristling figures such as Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo and Ronaldo has had the effect of accentuating Michael Owen's relative shortness.
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