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    • 172 1 -AFP Dow suffers biggest drop since last August NEW YORK Wall Street was buffeted by soaring oil prices yesterday as a cold weather snap in the north-eastern United States and Europe helped send stocks into a heavy tailspin following the extended Presidents' Day holiday weekend.
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    • 282 1  -  Seah Siew Hua siewhua@newstoday.com.sg A MAJOR money brokerage here has taken out a court injunction preventing almost 60 of its brokers half its broking staff from jumping ship to a rival outfit Nine senior brokers from Prebon Yamane had handed in their
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    • 161 1 -AFP LONDON Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the April 8 civil wedding ceremony of her son, Prince Charles, to Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles, Buckingham Palace announced late yesterday. "The Queen will not be attending the civil ceremony because she is aware that the
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    • 65 1 -AFP SARAJEVO Bosnian Muslim wartime army commander Rasim Delic, 56, is to surrender next week to the UN court in The Hague which had indicted him over war crimes committed against ethnic Serbs during the 1992-95 war, national television reported yesterday. It added that
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    • 51 1 NEWS£\yiEWS Lim Boon Khoon Put a stop to corporate manslaughter/26 CAD probe ACCS under police investigations/28 Leaping back Former national sprinter makes comeback as a long jumper/74 Big guns return Ruud back at Old Trafford, Mourinho returns to Barca/76 beyondWIj THE BIG\^/ PAGES 41 TO 59 LET THE GOOD TIMES
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    • 116 2 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE and Saudi Arabia are exploring the promotion of trade and investment either through a bilateral or multilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with other Gulf countries. This was among the issues discussed by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Saudi Arabia's
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    • 444 2  -  Jasmine Yin DPMTan unveils masterplan to expand cyberspace capabilities j asmine.yin@newstoday.com. sg A TOTAL of $38 million has been set aside by the Government to beef up Singapore's cyber-security defences over the next three years. Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan announced
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    • 772 3  - Indonesia roots for SBY and justice Thang D Nguyen N EWSSSDUDSD^ JAKARTA As 2004 drew to a close, Western intelligence forces issued a warning of a potential terrorist attack on a Hilton hotel in Indonesia over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Fortunately, no attack took place. Unfortunately, however, a
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    • 193 4 Channel News Asia THE bush fires in the east have worsened the air quality there. The Ministry of the Environment says the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI), over eastern Singapore is the worst in the country at 56, but it
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    • 356 4 Red-faced US officials worry California resident may reveal confidential official conversations JAKARTA United States President George W Bush's Bahasa interpreter has caused an uproar by appearing as a star witness for the defence in the terrorism trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. The
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  • singapore news
    • 391 6  -  Wong Fei Wan THINK twice the next time you leave your mobile phone unattended at a hawker centre chances are, you won't see it again. Wearing a mobile phone as a fashion item may also make
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    • 416 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Feasibility of compulsory testing to be assessed huilene@newstodav.com.se IN VIEW of the rising number of Aids cases in Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) is stepping up its efforts to combat the disease this year, said Minister of State
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 84 6 Channel News Asia The Attorney-General's Chambers is appealing the judgment on Monday in which Premier Taxis chief Timothy Chua escaped a jail term for his act of road rage. The 37-year-old chairman of the taxi company was fined $1,000 for
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      • 110 6 Channel News Asia The Slim 1 0 legal saga continues with the sole surviving family member of Ms Selvarani Raja who died after taking the Slim 10 diet pills suing distributor TV Media and retailer NTUC Healthcare for her sister's death. The victim's sister, Ms
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      • 128 6  -  Ansley Ng National Development Minister Man Bow Tan said yesterday that he had not ruled out the possibility of implementing tighter measures to curb the illegal practice of cashback agreements. But ne said that it would only be looked at if the
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    • 340 8  -  Tan Hui Leng Recognition of collective responsibility can help prevent disputes huilene@newsto day. com.se A MAN living in Woodlands Town did not like the smell of his neighbour's pungent cooking; another at Shunfu Estate could not stand his neighbour's dogs' excessive barking. In both cases, the
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    • 182 8  -  Ansley Ng TO FURTHER strengthen Singapore's defence against terrorists, all vehicles that transport hazardous materials, or Hazmat, will be tracked by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). "It is a decisive measure that we can take to counter terrorism and reduce our vulnerability," said Senior
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    • my PLACE
      • 470 9 New homeowners who take up bank loans have to pay a higher percentage of downpayment in cash INTERIOR designer John Tan and his wife Susan, a sales manager, have plans to move to a larger Housing Development Board (HDB) flat. They have been scouting around and have
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      • 388 9 Cash downpayment Who does it apply to? The cash downpayment applies to HDB flat buyers who are not eligible for an HDB concessionary rate loan and who need to take a bank loan to finance their flat purchase. Those affected include: Singapore Permanent Residents Private property owners Singaporean households with
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    • 371 10  -  Jasmine Yin Largest-ever walkathon planned to celebrate IWD jasmine.yin@newstoday,com.sg TWO People's Association (PA)-linked women's groups are planning an unprecedented 10,000-strong walkathon on March 6 to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8. The Women Integration Network (WIN) Council and 103 Women's Executive Committees (WECs) from community
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    • 254 12 IF Dr Tommy Cheng Yung Chi gets his wish, Chinese medicine will claim its place among mainstream medicine one day. A leader in cancer and viral pharmacology, the keynote speaker at the upcoming International Congress on Complementary and Alternative Medicines offered his vision of what he
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    • 505 12  -  Wong Fei Wan Thousands, touched by his generosity, pay their respects feiwan@newstoday.com.sg THE founder of popular vegetarian restaurant Komala Vilas demanded the highest standards when it came to the food he served. And it was this unwavering insistence on quality that helped Mr Murugiah Rajoo win
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    • 1089 13 It's important to develop personal interests or cultivate a hobby early in life. Ms Kam Choo Choo did just that. In Part Three of this five-part series, we find out how she has turned her passion for cooking into her livelihood. BACK IN Ms Kam
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  • world news
    • 138 14 Agencies SEOUL North Korea has done it again. After rattling the international community by declaring itself a nuclear power and then withdrawing from disarmament talks, the mercurial state says it is willing to return to the negotiation table. Not surprisingly, a jaded world has reacted
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    • 231 14 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR The heat is about to be turned up on thousands of students who have left the National Higher Education Fund Corp some RM7 billion ($2.99 billion) in the red, prompting the government to re-evaluate the loan conditions and repayment periods.
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    • 253 14 -AFP Britain accuses group of taking part in Belfast bank robbery LONDON Britain called yesterday for financial penalties against the Irish Republican Army's (IRA) political wing over its alleged role in a Belfast bank robbery that has damaged the Northern Ireland peace process. Northern Ireland Secretary
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    • 216 14 Agencies TEHRAN A magnitude-6.4 earthquake shook central Iran, killing at least 500 people and injuring more than 5,000, but officials fear that the death toll will rise. Many residents frantically dug through collapsed mud-brick homes looking for loved ones. The quake was reported to have
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    • 179 14 Agencies BAGHDAD Interim Vice-President Ibrahim AI Jaafari was chosen as his Shia ticket's candidate for Iraq's next Prime Minister, said senior alliance officials. Pressure from within the ranks of the winning Iraqi United Alliance forced maverick secular politician Ahmed Chalabi to withdraw yesterday,
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 68 16 FP i > Indonesia's armed forces chief Endriartono Sutarto has warned of strong military action against Aceh rebels should a second round of peace talks between the government and guerrillas prove fruitless. "If the peaceful means currently in place are heading in the right direction, that's fine.
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      • 71 16 Malaysia is on a nationwide hand-foot-mouth disease alert after 352 children were hospitalised for the disease since this year. Penang is the hardest hit with 309 cases so far, reported The Star. Some kindergartens have been shut down and cleaning in day-care centres has been stepped up. Symptoms
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      • 70 16 AP. A spring from a ballpoint pen has been blamed for recently halting service on Bangkok's fledgling and troubled subway system. The 5-centimetre coil apparently blew into a subway tunnel and atop a signalling box on the tracks, triggering an alarm that stopped trains on the
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    • 399 16 Agencies Thai premier challenges opponents to provide a better approach BANGKOK Upset by calls for a review of his southern village zoning policy, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he had to be "cruel to be kind" in dealing with the problems of
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 76 18 The Penang police busted 1 8 mini-casinos capable of raking in RMI million ($429,000) in bets daily during the Chinese New Year period, The Star reported yesterday. State CD chief Syed Ismail Syed Azizan said 197 people were arrested during the 12--day "Ops Rooster" which started on
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      • 59 18 Police arrested four men of Kampung Gajah village who allegedly sold stolen cars at dirt-cheap rates to gullible buyers, The Star reported yesterday. The suspects resold the cars for between RM4,000 ($1,700) and RM6,000 each. The buyers, who included civil servants, paid in cash, some buying
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      • 67 18 AFP Exporting the Englisn language and methods of learning could soon turn one of Britain's top foreign currency earners, with China a key market, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said yesterday. In the past five years, British export earnings through education have almost doubled to
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      • 99 18 A row has erupted after an expert said youngsters brought up as strict vegetarians suffered mental and physical problems, the Independent reported. British nutritionists dismissed the study by Prof Lindsay Allen, of the University of California, as "rubbish". It prompted Sir Paul McCartney, whose first wife,
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    • 305 18 The Guardian LONDON Cambridge University has called for A levels to be scrapped, after it rejected more than 5,000 students who had three straight As at the exams. The university warned that A levels were no longer stretching the brightest youngsters,
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    • 345 20 IPS Drug patent law may see 99% price increase NEW DELHI If India's Parliament ratifies a decree on patents that seeks to bring India's massive generic drugs industry in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, it will hurt poor patients especially
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 44 20 AP South African police couple, Inspector Gustav Myburgh, 27, and constable Barbara Boegner, 25, arrived late for their wedding after chasing and arresting three carjackers en route to church, The Star reported. The nuptials were delayed for 45 minutes.
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      • 72 20 AFP A 44-year-old Alaskan man had his penis re-attached surgically after it was cut off by an angry girlfriend and flushed down a toilet, police said. While making love, the man agreed to have his arms tied to the window sill. The woman used a knife
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      • 76 20 Kelantan state will build "Happy and Healthy" public toilets equipped with piped music and newspapers for people to enjoy while using the 100, the Bernama news agency reported. Officials said the facilities were "guaranteed to make users happy". Meanwhile, Japanese firm Toto has invented an entertainment centre
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    • 141 20 COLOMBO Nobody had "the faintest idea" how much has been donated to help the tsunami victims nearly two months after the launch of the world's biggest international aid effort, said a United Nations official. The Boxing Day disaster triggered a huge international aid effort
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    • 247 22  -  Dr James Dobson Tbnws by O.M.S. SYNDROME There's a new disease that's quickly spreading through the workplace. Its symptoms are stress, mental lapses and lack of focus. The name of this disease is O.M.S. Overnight Mail Syndrome. Modern technology and free enterprise have brought us many
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    • 193 22  -  IJIMMY HO KWOKHOONG Wrong message sent to the public I Letter from I REFER to the recent case of a road rage incident where the person involved escaped a jail term. Timothy Chua's attempt to correct his wrongdoing by offering to compensate the victim
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    • 193 22  -  TRISTAN SIM Letters fmm^^^^^^^^^^H Assistant Director (Media Relations) Singapore Police Force WE REFER to Mr Poon Chi Yeong's letter, "Stop prostitute trafficking first" (Feb 15). The term "trafficking" is misleading as it implies that the persons being conveyed are unwilling parties. In Singapore's context,
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    • 139 22 I REFER to Haj Mohamed's letter, "On vice-free massage parlours" (Feb 16). In his letter, Mr Mohamed suggested that we should ban private rooms in all massage parlours. In administering the Massage Establishments Act, the Police adopt a practical approach, taking into account
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    • 183 22  -  AHMAD SHUKOR I Letter from WHILE it is good that the minimum monthly wage for Indonesian maids has been increased by $50 to $280,1 wonder why the guideline is that they "should also get a day off every month".
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    • 258 22 Letter from Tan Yong Eng: The Budget announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is good, but it overlooks a group of Singaporeans aged 1 6 to 21. I would suggest to the Government that it extend the Edusave top-up to junior college and university students and unemployed
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    • 294 24  -  ANNE XAVIER Letter from AT A time when our Government is showing figures that drug addicts have declined, the issue of whether to build a casino is rather contradictory. My psychology book defines gambling as an impulse-control disorder, one that will ultimately be harmful to the
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    • 202 24  -  SEETAIMEE Letter from TODAY, when I walk in the city or the Botanic Gardens, or eat at the Newton Circus hawker centre, I see many young Japanese ladies: Tourists travelling with friends or in tour groups. Singapore is a top tourist destination
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    • 123 24  -  HARRY CHIA I Letter from THE casino should be viewed as part of a integrated resort not as a standalone project We are talking about foreign direct investment of over $1 billion. With employment of Singaporeans and overseas talent, revenue from food and
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    • 110 24  -  RICHARD QUEK I Letter from I FULLY support the establishment of a casino/entertainment complex in Singapore. It will add further spice and variety to life in Singapore and possibly reap some economic benefits. Of course, there will always be those who get into financial difficulties from
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    • 161 26  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from I FAIL to understand why, despite our National Environment Agency's (NEA) valiant efforts, the number of dengue cases is multiplying threefold, as Changi Hospital's experience shows. Are we missing out on something? The astronomical increase in
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    • 555 26 Lim Boon Khoon IN THE first 43 days of this year, four workers were killed at work one in January and three in February. That's one fatality for every 10 days, an unacceptably high figure. Last year, we saw three disasters that
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    • 402 28  -  Val Chua Reason undisclosed as board promises full co-operation in probe val@newstoday.com.sg MORE bad news emerged yesterday from Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) as the former stock market darling became the latest listed firm to come under police investigation. Five days after it said it
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    • Market WATCH
      • 117 28 Dow Jones SHARES fell yesterday, with sentiment weighed down by the disappointing earnings of heavyweight Venture Corp announced on Monday. The STI ended 19.65 points lower, or 0.9 per cent, at 2,146.73, the second straight day of losses after it recently hit a four-year high. In the broader market,
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      • 4 28 ST Index 2,146.73 -19.65
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      • 26 28 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 432.20 Silver uss/oi 7.54 Platinum uss/oi 869.00 Rubber centsAg 207.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,332 Brent crude uss/barrel 47.14 Information provided by
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      • 657 29  - Manufacturing success the SMB way Tor Ching Li SICC executive director says find your 'blue ocean' and swim or sink chingli@newstoday.com.sg FIND your niche, upgrade business operations and don't wait for the Government That was the advice that Mr Philip Overmyer, executive director of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce
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      • 391 29  -  Tor Ching Li SO, you've found your "blue ocean" {see main story) and are keeping it under lock and key. Mr Nelson Ng, managing director of lock manufacturer Duro International, shared with SMB Today breakfast seminar participants his eight-year-old company's experience in identifying a niche product
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      • 553 31 Advertorial Investors on the lookout for funds to park their savings now have a wider selection to choose from A TOTAL of 16 offshore funds from leading fund manager Fidelity Investments have received the green light from the CPF Board, making this one of the
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      • 190 31 FIDELITY FUNDS AMERICA FUND Winner of the Equity USA (3 Years) Category for the Standard Poor's Investment Funds Award Singapore 2004, Standard Poor's Fund Management "A" Rating and Standard Poor's Five-star Rating (as at Dec 2004) FIDELITY FUNDS EUROPEAN AGGRESSIVE FUND Winner of the Equity Europe (1
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      • 221 32 With net income of $13.5 m, firm proposes doubling of dividend INFORMATION technology products and services provider ECS Holdings announced yesterday a 114-per-cent surge in net profit to $13.5 million, or 3.81 cents per share, for the year ended Dec 31 as revenue rose 31 per
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      • 133 32 Dow Jones PROPERTY developer United Overseas Land (UOL) said yesterday net profit for fiscal 2004 rose more than four-fold due to a one-off gain from the sale of shares in its parent United Overseas Bank (UOB). UOL reported a net
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      • 150 32 Dow Jones OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) proposed a 2-for-l share split yesterday to make its shares more affordable to encourage greater retail investor participation. The split would involve dividing each OCBC ordinary share of $1 par value into two ordinary shares of 50 cents each,
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      • 135 32 JURONG Technologies Industrial Corp reported yesterday net profit for the year ended Dec 31 rose 76.1 per cent to a record high of $48.1 million, or 12.11 cents a share, from $27.3 million, or 6.94 cents per share in the previous year. Revenue rose 138.4
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      • 324 34 Bloomberg It receives orders for six times the stock on offer BURSA Malaysia Bhd, which runs the Malaysian stock exchange, received orders for about six times the stock it is offering fund managers in an initial public offering (IPO) that may raise US$l4O million
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      • 423 36 Dow Jones Strong interest seen in sector as real estate prices in Singapore, elsewhere in Asia rebound SEVERAL banks and asset management companies have launched, or are planning to launch, property funds in Singapore that pay regular dividends, taking advantage of renewed interest in the
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      • 148 36 Research reports from DBS Vickers CSE Global (57 cents) Buy Revenue rose 1 8 per cent to $201 million in fiscal 2004, while net profit grew 1 per cent to $17.4 million. Excluding the one-time divestment gain of $3.1 million for eßworx in fiscal 2003, CSE achieved a credible
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      • 715 39  -  Andy Mukherjee Bloomberg Accessible, affordable Internet to go rural MR SUNIL Bharti Mittal, chairman of India's second-biggest mobile-phone network, says fishermen on the nation's southern coast are using their mobile phones while at sea to call traders and find out who is paying the
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    • education
      • 923 42  -  Lynn Seah There's good reason why the private education sector and polytechnics are increasingly popular alternatives to getting that degree news@newstoday.com.sg THERE was a time when those leaving school with less than ideal O-level results and not much in the way of financial resources
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      • 190 46 LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore LASALLE-SIA, one of Asia Pacific's leading arts institutions, offers a foundation year for O-level graduates to prepare them for entry into the year three Bachelor of Arts (Hons) programmes. Some courses that the college offers include: BA (HONS) DEGREES IN
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      • 181 46 THE Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts provides quality training and education in the arts. The institute offers both full-time diploma and part-time certificate courses and also conducts degree programmes in collaboration with foreign universities. Some of the courses offered by the institute include: DIPLOMA COURSES
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      • 343 48 Ngee Ann Polytechnic NGEE Ann Polytechnic offers 32 full-time diploma courses in its six schools business and accountancy, engineering, film and media studies, infocomm technology, interdisciplinary studies, and life sciences and chemical technology. Students in the engineering diploma course will choose their specialisation
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      • 419 50 PSB Academy THE PSB Academy is one of the largest training and education providers in Singapore. Being partners with universities from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, the academy offers a diverse range of full-time and part-time degree programmes. These universities include: UNIVERSITY
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      • 171 52 THE Singapore Institute of Management is one of the largest private professional educational and training institutes in Singapore. The institute conducts various qualifica-tion-based training courses and collaborates with more than 10 foreign higher-learning institutions to provide certificate, diploma, degree and postgraduate programmes. Courses offered by the
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      • 164 52 The Management Development Institute of Singapore THE Management Development Institute of Singapore is Singapore's oldest non-profit professional institute for lifelong learning. Programmes the institute offers include areas of business and management, mass communications, biomedical sciences and information technology. The courses offered are in collaboration with universities in
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      • 526 54 Institute of Technical Education THE Institute of Technical Education offers a range of courses in four main schools applied and health sciences, business and services, engineering and info-communica-tion technology. Some higher National ITE Certificate courses include WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY COURSE This course provides students with the skills and
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      • 1120 56  -  Sunory Dutt The decision to pursue higher studies or to start working is often a tough one. There is a constant tug of war between the path of academics and financial independence. So, whether you want to start working immediately after completing the O levels
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      • 426 58  -  Elisa Yang Eight years as a Prisons officer has been all about change helping rehabilitate ex-offenders, as well as stints with different departments and duties elisa.yang@newstoday.com.sg SANDY Phung's passion for helping people helped her decide on a career with the Singapore Prison Service a
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    • 69 59 Immigration Checkpoints Authority HQ (Next to Lavender MRT) fW <9\ -^f V V t productive work ii our workshops, i PI partnership with the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE), Singapore Aftercare Association (SACA), Singapore Anti- ftjl t agencies, volunteers and employers, we are not only helping inmates, but also
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    • 1097 60  -  Yong Shu Chiang Jamie Foxx has gone from two-bit comedian to shooting for two awards come Oscar night shucniang@newstoday.com.sg HE SAT down, started playing some jazz tunes on the piano and promptly hit the wrong note. "Now why you gone and do that?" admonished Jamie
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    • 206 62 Clarence Lim COME March 6, Nick Shen will realise his dream of staging a solo gig at the Esplanade. Does he feel the heat of filling the 245-seater studio? He said he is confident that tickets, at $30 each, would be snapped
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    • 503 64  -  Meryin Tay Amazing Race 6 winners to head to Bali for honeymoon mervin(gnewstoday.com.sg HOW deep is your love? You certainly don't measure that with kisses, argued Amazing Race 6 winners Freddy Holliday and Kendra Bentley. Although the couple did not pucker up on-screen as often as
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      • 245 66 Will Smith's Hitch stayed at No 1 in the US despite stiff competition THE Will Smith romantic comedy Hitch continued to ride high the weekend after Valentine's Day. Over the extended weekend Monday was a holiday in the United States the comedy about a dating coach
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      • IN ADDITION ...
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        • 94 66 As part of its fringe festival, local theatre company The Fon Stage will stage Home and Station, a play written by stodent playwright Jocelyn Choa. Conceived doring the Theatre Works' 24-hoor Playwriting Competition in July 2003, the play explores the oppression of the common man
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        • 131 66 The Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) kicks off its 2005 season with Little Wings at 1 oam this Friday at the DBS Arts Centre. The play is meant for two to six-year-olds and will be staged by The Little Company, a division of the SRT. Set in
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    • 457 73 AFP Stunning century shows gulf between top one-day sides ONE-DAY CRICKET Australia v New Zealand CHRISTCHURCH Australian opener Matthew Hayden returned to his majestic best with a superb century, as the world champions trounced New Zealand by 106 runs in the second one-day international yesterday. After
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