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  • 21 1 Today incorporating utrCiitS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Tuesday February l, 2005 todayonline.com Today incorporating tStrCmS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Tuesday February 1,2005 todayonline.com
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  • 460 1  -  Val Chua val@newsto day, com. sg CHINESE New Year may be a week away, but investors had reason to cheer yesterday when the Singapore stock index briefly crossed the 2,100 point level for the first time in four years. The
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  • 663 1  -  Sharon Vasoo sharon@newstoday.com.sg THE last leg of the Feb 6 Thai election campaign is expected to see a surge in mud-sling-ing matches as competing parties go all-out to win the hearts and minds of voters. Political watchers said the players will try to distract voters and
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    • 28 1 /^ediaCorp NEWSX^/lEWS ml\AI\A Lee says Remember how we got here/2 Etiquette abuse Rules needed to check boorish phone manners/3 i-mode coming Star Hub signs wireless deal with NTT/3O
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  • hot news
    • 685 2  -  Derrick A Paulo Review, revise or discard policies, but make sure alternative is viable, says Minister Mentor derrick@newstoday.com.sg TO MOVE forward in a changing world, Singapore must always be open to new ideas and be willing to go against conventional wisdom, said Minister
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    • 661 3  -  |\IEWS£S!S!S£S^ Time for a code of etiquette to check rising boorish behaviour in public of cell phone users Soh Tiang Keng WITH the proliferation of mobile phones during the last few years, noise pollution levels have risen and courtesy standards have fallen in
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    • singapore news
      • 143 4  -  Tan Hui Leng THE public face of the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), Associate Prof Kong Hwai Loong (picture), is leaving the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) for the private sector. Talent-scouted five years ago by A*Star chairman Philip Yeo
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      • SINGAPORE snippets
        • 114 4 The four major taxi operators have failed to meet the accident rate standard in their latest accident report card. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) stipulates that the number of accidents must not exceed two for every 1 0 million kilometres travelled in
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        • 79 4 Channel News Asia Tanjong Pagar residents have become the first in Singapore to be able to make over-the-counter payment for their service and conservancy charges at Sing Post outlets, following a memorandum of understanding signed between the town council and
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        • 72 4 Newsßadio 93.8 Narcotics officers arrested a man who has been on the run from police since 1998. The 43-year-old was caught last Friday night at the hawker centre in Marine Parade Central. Officers moved in when they spotted the alleged drug
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      • 521 4  -  Wong Fei Wan Highest employment growth in four years feiwan@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S economy saw the creation of 66,200 jobs last year, more than making up for the 35,900 jobs lost over the preceding three years. The last quarter of 2004 recorded the highest employment growth in
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      • 136 6 Channel News Asia EXPERT witnesses in the Nicoll Highway inquiry have concluded that the reclamation history of the area around Nicoll Highway had affected excavation works. The experts engaged by the Land Transport Authority summed up their report yesterday. They also
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      • 328 6  -  Jose Raymond Moganaruban sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment for role in scam jose@newstoday.com.sg PROMINENT Ceylon Tamil community leader, businessman and philanthropist S Moganaruban (picture) was yesterday sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment for his role in an insurance scam. The 53-year-old executive chairman of the Telecoms Credit
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      • 132 6 Newsßadio 93.8 A 44-YEAR-OLD man who ran over two of his friends with his car has been sentenced to three years and five months' jail. Ong Kiang Gek also crashed into nine other vehicles during the traffic accident that took
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      • 617 8  -  Jose Raymond Her biggest challenge: Helping ensure Singapore's readiness for emergencies jose@newstoday.com.sg SHE has a simple rule for getting through each day: "I do the critical first, then the urgent, then the important, and then the rest." Ms Indranee Thurai Rajah is talking about her
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    • world news
      • 678 9  -  -IPS NEWSSUSUS!^ Not only are peace talks floundering, both sides are also steadily increasing their arsenals Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI Not only are the yearold peace talks between India and Pakistan floundering but the South Asian neighbours are also steadily increasing their nuclear arsenals,
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      • 148 10 -dpa LOS ANGELES Pop star Michael Jackson said yesterday that the child abuse allegations against him have been a "nightmare" and predicted he would be acquitted. In a videotaped message released through his website on Sunday, the 46-year-old pop icon said the lurid allegations were "disgusting and false".
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      • this QUIRKY world
        • 55 10 AFP Slovak Richard Krai, who was trapped in his car under an avalanche, freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it. Rescue teams found him drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi was
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        • 80 10 The drunk and a hand grenade A drunken German who bought three hand grenades at a flea market in Bosnia was arrested after throwing one out of the window, Ananova.com reported. The 36-year-old took the three hand grenades home to Frankfurt as souvenirs where he kept them in a drawer
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      • 556 10  -  Shibu Ittv Kuttickal N EWSS&SIXS!^ Its success could depend on how soon the United States will leave the country shibu@newstoday.com.sg EVEN as the world hailed the Iraqis for turning out in large numbers for the Sunday election, the jury was still out on whether Iraq
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      • 389 12 More talks to be held on Indonesian govt offer of autonomy JAKARTA Acehnese rebels said yesterday they were willing to provisionally drop their demand for full independence for their tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province, in a move hailed by analysts as a "breakthrough" The Indonesian government
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      • GLORAL roundup
        • 39 12 AFP Members of Britain's elite Special Air Service are believed to be among the estimated 15 men, who were killed when a British military plane crashed in Iraq Sunday. The cause of the crash was not known.
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        • 32 12 AFP Asia's most wanted man Azahari Husin, who had key roles in a series of bombings in Indonesia narrowly escaped a police dragnet recently, Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.
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      • 137 12 LONDON The son of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has allegedly admitted he was involved in talks to sell millions of barrels of Iraqi oil under the regime of Saddam Hussein, reported the Sunday Times of London. Mr Kojo
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      • 124 12 -AFP SHANGHAI As part of a widening crackdown on graft, Chinese authorities have caught 44 officials in northwest Gansu province for allegedly misusing US$93O million ($1.5 billion), Hie Xinhua news agency said yesterday. An official audit last year found that
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      • 279 14 Decline in entry of foreign students hurting US software industry DAVOS Microsoft chief Bill Gates (picture) has warned that tough United States visa regulations have caused a decline in foreign computer science students coming to the country, reported the Financial Times. Speaking at the World
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    • 55 8 Faculty of Medicine ftTiTicr SliJdS Centennial Celebrations vQO >^ ~+f of Singapore (1905-2005) Can we live lo Chairpersons: 1 Professor Kua Ec Heok Professor Lenny Tan I TOPICSH Yes, we can! Quality of life of centenarians Why should I want to be 100 My life at 107 IH||ijH^^^^W ok Health
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    • 152 12 FIRES AND EMERGENCIES Electrical fire destroys entire factory You shouldn't be making the headlines this way. Never overload electrical outlets or circuits. Frayed or cracked cords should be replaced or repaired by licensed technicians. Good fire safety habits can save lives and property. Message brought to you by j^ SINGAPORE
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    • 245 16  -  Dr James Dobson TbiM^'s by YOU DON'T TRUST ME If there's a magic bullet that children, especially teenagers, use on their folks, a perfect phrase that melts the toughest resolve of a parent within seconds, it's these four words: You don't trust me! I've been the
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    • 202 16  -  STEPHANIE SUN LIMENG I Letter from I WOULD like to appeal to the HDB to allow free parking on the first day of Chinese New Year in the majority of HDBmanaged car parks, if not all of them. I know the HDB has already
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    • 131 16  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from I AM happy to hear that the Public Transport Council allows private bus operators to operate on niche routes as there is an acute lack of feeder buses to MRT stations. Buses currently take commuters to MRT stations using
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    • 510 16  -  PERCY NAVAL KHAMBATTA Higher wages, shorter working hours would improve service culture here I Letter from I REFER to Mr Prithpal Singh's News Comment, "Is Singapore still special to the tourists?" (Jan 27), and Lai Yew Chan's letter "Hotels in Spore, be hospitable!" (Jan 29-30). Mr
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    • 250 16  -  JANICE LEE Letter from IN PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong's speech at the dinner held in his honour by Indian community groups on Saturday, he said that meritocracy would never be compromised and that all races are to be treated equally. If
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    • 225 18  -  KELLY WEE Letter frorrß Director, MarKetm^ommunication^epH JTC Corporation WE refer to Mr Nelson Quah's feedback on Jurong Lake Park (Jan 28). Mr Quah and residents of Jurong will soon be able to enjoy the natural beauty of Jurong Lake, enhanced
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    • 472 18 Nicholas Lim Shuqing I WATCHED Thursday's televised commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of AuschwitzBirkenau concentration camp, which kicks off a series of other events marking the anniversary of the end of World War II worldwide. This year's commemoration is significant as many
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  • Business today
    • 442 20  -  Val Chua Bank will double number of branches and ATMs, provide full range of services val@newstoday.com.sg CITIBANK will invest over $20 million to double the number of its branches and automated teller machines (ATM) in Singapore this year, as it creates 150 new
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    • 200 20  -  THE manufacturing output from Singapore's biomedical sciences (BMS) industry surged 33.2 per cent to $15.8 billion last year from $11.8 billion in 2003. Last year's output far exceeded the Government's target set in 2000 for the industry to be worth some $12 billion by
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    • 346 20 Dow Jones UNITED Test Assembly Center (Utac), Singapore's second-biggest chip tester, expects revenue in the first quarter to grow at a slower pace sequentially as the global semi-conductor industry takes a seasonal breather, its chief executive said yesterday. "For the first quarter, there
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    • 430 22 Bloomberg Merger would improve competitive position: Analyst CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing is open to considering acquisition offers, chief executive Chia Song Hwee said yesterday. Chartered said on Friday it had its first annual profit since 2000, earning US$6.6 million ($lO.B million) for fiscal 2004 ended Dec
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    • 92 22 Dow Jones SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has denied speculation that it may bid for a stake in Australian budget airline Virgin Blue. Virgin Blue has been the target of a Asl.l-billion ($1.4 billion) bid by Patrick Corp, which wants to raise its stake from the
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    • 62 22 Bloomberg KEPPEL Corp's unit, Keppel Fels, has won a US$B5-million ($139 million) order to upgrade an oil rig for a subsidiary of US-based Diamond Offshore Drilling. Ocean Endeavor, a semi-submersible rig, will be upgraded to enable further underwater drilling of up to 10,000 feet, Keppel Fels
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    • 378 24  -  Chan Kwai Seng Firm will use proceeds for logistics infrastructure, new markets that will place it among the top 50 listed companies on the SGX mainboard by market value. Olam sources agricultural products and food ingredients directly from over 35 countries and supplies
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    • Market WATCH
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      • 71 24  -  SHARES rose yesterday, with sentiment boosted by a slew of upgrades by analysts and the sharp drop in crude oil prices over the weekend. The ST Index closed up 6.81 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,096.32, after setting a new four-year high of 2,101.62 in the afternoon. On
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      • 60 24 Index Value Ch hange Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Pis 11,387.59 +67.01 13,721.69 +71.63 +0.59 +0.52 Ordinaries laiwan Wtd 4,107.10 +10.70 5,994.23 +114.30 +0.26 +1.94 Korea Comp 932.70 +11.11 +1.21 KLCI 916.27 -0.96 -0.10 SET Index 701.91 +0.25 +0.04 lakarta Comp 1,045.43 -1.04 -0.10 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2,019.56
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      • 21 24 Gold uss/oi 425.60 Silver uss/oi 6.705 Platinum uss/oi 873.90 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,299.59 Rubber centsAg 201.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 44.30
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      • 57 24 fy volume Close :dw 0.550 .&M 0.005 Chartered 1.010 China Sun 0.455 Change +0.035 +0.070 +0.010 +6.8 +7.4 +2.2 '000 49,564 46,118 38,104 27,484 iingTel 2.550 iTATSChP 0.930 3iarteredeCW*****0 0.115 JTAC 0.570 :ibreChem 0.800 iuntecReit 1.210 +0.020 +0.025 +0.025 +0.020 +0.020 +0.050 +0.8 +2.8 +27.8 +3.6 +2.6
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      • 76 24 :&N Close Change 16.700 +0.200 ip Land W*****3 3.260 +0.200 :orlune Reil HKS 6.600 +0.150 ip Land 5.450 +0.150 \scendasreil 1.970 +0.130 iPC 4.320 +0.120 iukit Sem 13.500 +0.100 DBS Bk6% NCPS10 108.600 +0.100 XBC 13.700 +0.100 By percentage Close PNE Ind W*****8 0.015 Change +50.0 CharteredMBLeCW*****
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      • 81 24 By Close Change Creative 50 22.200 -0.300 APB Breweries 7.750 -0.150 HSCEI5000SGAePW***** 0.530 -0.130 HSI*****SGAePW*****0 1.130 -0.130 Jardine C&C 10.000 -0.100 IMH400USS 16.400 -0.100 SIA 11.700 -0.100 DairyRirm 900 US$ 2.320 -0.080 kelan(S) 2.800 -0.080 Iransmara 0.800 -0.075 By percentage Close Change IRE Corp 0.010 Wee Poh
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      • 33 24 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by JK£ fen iuro (upiah 0.3246 63.315 4.7633 2.3206 0.4701 5,597.8 Peso 4$ Indian Rs Won C$ fan NZ$ 33.63' 0.7901 26.70' 626.3! 0.758i 5.054: 0.859:
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    • the business of marketing
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        • 113 26  -  THE eight qualifying teams for the finals of L'Oreal Brandstorm 2005 were announced last week. Three of them "Intrigue", "Prism" and "S.A.S.S.Y" are from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and two "Heloise" and "Reveurs" are from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) which produced last year's winners. The
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        • 112 26  -  JUST when you thought there was a limit to how innovative marketing managers could be, along comes a company with a marketing gimmick that makes buying positively fun an online auction. M Hotel is teaming up with O2 and MSN to offer special packages for lovebirds
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      • 712 26  -  Opportunity Noks only once, says iconoclastic Thai airline's CEO Tor Ching Li chingli@newsto day, com. sg POSITIONING itself as the "truly Thai" low-cost airline, Nok Air (nok means "bird" in Thai) blazed into the skies of Thailand last June in a kaleidoscope of colours bright green,
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      • 409 26  -  THOSE of you who enjoyed last week's Caltex Masters Singapore 2005 at the Laguna National Golf and Country Club have a leggy Danish blonde bombshell to thank Ms Pia Knudsen. The 1.76 m tall former footballer is Carlsberg's international sponsorship manager, in charge of the
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    • Infotech solutions for business
      • 671 28  -  Ariel Tarn CEO of LGA talks about company's early struggles as it transforms publishing business to that of broadband communications service* ariel@newstoday.com.sg I FACSIMILE machines I were considered the most advanced office equipment that a small and medium enterprise (SME) could have until the Internet
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      • SHORTS cuts
        • 52 28 Sun Microsystems will make the source code for Solaris 10 available under the Common Development and Distribution Licence approved by the Open Source Initiative. The code will be available at opensolaris.org in the second quarter of the year. Solaris Dtrace source code is also available for download
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        • 80 28 McAfee Singapore has launched Entercept 5.1, a new version of its host intrusion prevention solution that blocks attacks. Entercept 5.1 offers patented anomaly detection and signature technology to protect against unknown vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow and zero-day attacks. Designed for businesses of all sizes, Entercept
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        • 71 28 Fuji Xerox Printers' A3 monochrome network laser printer, Phaser 5500, is built for use in large departments or work groups. It prints at 50 pages per minute and is powered by a 500 MHz processor with 128MB base memory. This is the first Phaser monochrome printer
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        • 83 28 Connectra 2.0 the latest version of Check Point Software Technologies' Web security gateway is reportedly the industry's first software-based Secure Socket Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) solution. The integrated Web intelligence technology allows organisations to deploy clientless SSL VPN access without compromising
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        • 84 28 Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories is teaming up with Microsoft's Real-Time Collaboration Group to offer an integrated solution that will enable users of Microsoft's next-generation communications client, Istanbul, to access contact information and make telephone calls through the computer. Products resulting from the agreement will take advantage
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        • 72 28 Business Objects has launched BusinessObjects XI, a business intelligence (Bl) platform that delivers reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and data integration. The platform works directly within Microsoft Office to secure and manage documents. The platform is built on a Service Oriented Architecture
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      • 411 30  -  Jaime Koh Star Hub signs deal with NTT to laun jaime@newstoday.com.se I COME end of the year, I mobile phone users in Singapore can look forward to joining more than 46 million users worldwide in using NTT DoCoMo's i-mode wireless Internet technology. The Japanese mobile communications
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      • 250 30 THE security software I market in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) is expected to reach US$l.37 billion ($2.2 billion) in 2008, up from U*****.8 million in 2003, based on a compound annual growth rate of 19 per cent, says International Data
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      • 232 30 Symbol Technologies has hired Mr Michael Muller as the vicepresident of the Asia-Pacific region, who will be responsible for developing the company's enterprise mobility business in the region. Mr Muller joins Symbol after a 1 6-year career at HP in the Asia-Pacific region, where he most recently held
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    • inftech focus: push to talk over cellular
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        869 32  -  Ariel Tarn ariel@newstoday.com.sg I CONSUMERS these days are spoilt I for choice when it comes to ways to communicate and that's just on the mobile phone. Besides making voice calls with your mobile phone, you can send text and multimedia messages and get into instant messaging. Most phones
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      • 390 32  -  CJAng MISSING MODULE DURING SYSTEM STARTUP Q: On booting up WinXP Home Edition, an error message appears: "Error loading C:\WINDOWS\ DOWNLO A 1 \BDPLUGIN.DLL" "The specified module could not be found." While I cannot detect any harm it is doing to my computer or Internet usage, it is
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      626 34  -  Yong Shu Chiang shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg A MARINE biology teacher turned aniXAjnator, Stephen Hillenburg has a dream job that combines his life's passions. As a kid growing up by the sea in Southern California, he was inspired by Jacques Cousteau's television specials about underwater life. He'd come across tide pools
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    • 279 34 Agencies LOS ANGELES Movie tough guy and Million Dollar Baby movie-maker Clint Eastwood was crowned Best Director of 2004 by fellow Hollywood film-makers, giving him a major boost ahead of the Oscars on Feb 27. Eastwood beat fellow legend Martin Scorsese, the maker
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  • 474 36  -  Mervin Tay Raintree Pictures' latest movie puts stars' trust to the test mervin@newstoday.com.sg FOR some members of the cast of Leap of Love, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures' latest movie, doing the romantic comedy required a leap of faith. For China-born rising star, Qi Yu Wu, the leap
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  • 186 36 -dpa SAN FRANCISCO The dark family drama Forty Shades of Blue won the top prize on Sunday at Sundance, independent cinema's premier festival in the United States. The film, by director Ira Sachs, focuses on a Russian woman who marries a man
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    • 742 37  - Just what friends are for Recta Raman reeta@newstoday.com.sg THE battle against breast cancer is never an easy one. Some days, all goes well and the chemotherapy sessions are good. But as most breast cancer survivors will tell you, for every good day, there is a bad one just around the
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    • 131 37 -AFP FALLING levels of sex hormones in men and women could result in the build-up of a protein thought to trigger Alzheimer's. Australian researcher Ralph Martins, a professor of Alzheimer's and Ageing at Edith Cowan University, said research found that men with lower levels of
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    • 407 41  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg JAPAN'S top golfer Shigeki Maruyama is a distinct possibility. And if the tournament takes off, the big three of Vijay Singh, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els could even grace the event in years to come. Yesterday, the event
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    • 497 41  -  STANLEY HO Spore hoping to hold four-nation basketball extravaganza later this year stanley@newstoday.com.sg NATIONAL Basketball Association's (NBA) Chinese superstar Yao Ming could well be attempting sky-hooks here later this year, if a proposal for Singapore to host a four-nation tournament is accepted. Following the successful
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    • 209 41 GEYLANG United will have to honour their contract with winger Jeykanth Jeyapal. Last night, the Players' Status Committee (PSC), led by chairman Jeffrey Beh, ruled that the club had wrongfully terminated the 29-year-old former international last October. Jeykanth had brought up the matter with the PSC
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    • 227 41 -AP LONDON Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will return to face his former club, Everton, in the most intriguing match-up of yesterday's draw for the fifth round of the FA Cup. Rooney scored two spectacular goals in United's 3-0 win over Middlesbrough in the fourth
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    • 313 42 -AFP BERLIN Players from a non-league team involved in a Cup upset that exposed Germany's biggest match-fix-ing scandal were reported yesterday to have shared a 10,000-euro ($21,275) bonus from an anonymous backer. SC Paderborn president Wilfried Finke confirmed that the club's Dutch captain Thijs Waterink had split
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    • 350 42 -AFP Russian eyes tennis majors, but says Wimbledon will be difficult GOLF Bob Hope Classic MELBOURNE Marat Safin is looking confidently towards winning more Grand Slam tournaments, after breaking through for his first victory at the Australian Open. The Russian fourth seed got the monkey off his
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    • 157 42 -AFP MELBOURNE Australian Lleyton Hewitt proposed to Australian television soap opera actress Bee Cartwright (picture) straight after his defeat to Marat Safin in the final of the Australian Open, the couple announced yesterday. The couple's agents confirmed the engagement in a statement and said
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    • 213 44 LONDON Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood is ready to demand English Premiership leaders Chelsea be docked points, if it is proved they made an illegal approach to Ashley Cole (picture). The Gunners are ready to investigate allegations that the Blues held secret transfer talks with
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    • 218 44 LONDON Arsenal's Sol Campbell has called the rivalry between Manchester United and the Gunners "bitter and personal". Past encounters have stirred up plenty of ill-feeling between the sides and they meet again at Highbury tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). "It is just
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    • 152 44  -  WINNING a free trip to catch the live match between Arsenal and Newcastle at Highbury was a shock to Elm Tan (picture). But she was even more elated when she received a second surprise. The 27-year-old discovered that her friend had just
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    • 132 44 LONDON Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson loves a battle. And the Scot is certain hostilities will be back on the menu when his team travel to bitter rivals Arsenal tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) for a crunch match that could bury one side's Premiership title
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