Today, 24 February 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    TODAY
    11 1 /AehiaCorp mica (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating utTCiitS todayonline.com February 24,2005 Thursday
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Star player 'ages' eight years in three
      545 1  -  Jose Raymond Club and FAS stunned, investigation underway j ose@newstoday. com.sg IT WAS all smiles last month when local Singapore Armed Forces Football Club (SAFFC) announced that it had re-signed 2002 S-League Player of the Year, Thailand's Therdsak Chaiman. But that smile has
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      Lock icon US stocks higher, oil down slightly
      146 1 -AFP NEW YORK Wall Street managed to claw back some gains yesterday following a heavy rout as simmering oil prices cooled a shade and a tame US inflation report offered investors some relief. Just after the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrials Average was
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      New fare-review formula mooted
      606 2  -  Tor Ching Li It will be make transport fares more responsive to cost and wage changes chingli@newstoday.com.sg PUBLIC transport fares could fall over the years if times are lean. A fare review mechanism submitted by the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Transport on Feb 11 proposes
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    • YELLOW RIBBON PROJECT
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        Father back in the fold
        709 2 The Lunar New Year is a good time for the family to support an ex-offender's efforts at reintegrating into the society IT was a lonely Lunar New Year for Ah Chan last year. The 43-year-old spent the festive period behind bars for infringement of copyright
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        FROM HOUSEMAKER TO BREADWINNER
        385 3 The events that followed Ah Chan's arrest are still fresh in his wife's memory. His incarceration was a shock because the couple did not know his actions were against the law. She recalled: "I couldn't think straight. I was dizzy with worry. When he was sentenced,
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        Persuade proud poor to accept aid
        609 3  -  Tan Sai Siong The needy should eschew misconceived pride that prevents them from accepting State help AS A senior citizen, I give Budget 2005 three cheers. The first is for the $350 Medisave top-up for those 60 years old or older, which means me.
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      Lock icon Drug suspect jumps bail
      400 4  -  Wong Fei Wan Arrest warrant issued for Tunisian involved in last year's high-profile drug bust feiwan@newstoday.com.sg A THIRD suspect in the high-profile cocaine case has jumped bail. Tunisian Guiga Lyes Ben Laroussi failed to show up in court yesterday, prompting a warrant of arrest to be
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      Still at large
      101 4 Sri Lankan Jeremy Mahen Chanmugam jumped bail on Dec 15. The 40-year-old artist was given permission to leave the country to seek specialist treatment in Australia for severe depression. Instead, he bought a one-way ticket to Colombo after he claimed he could not get a visa. His
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      Pact boosts ties for S'pore, Saudi Arabia
      164 4  -  Saifulbahri Ismail RIYADH TIES between Singapore and Saudi Arabia got a boost with the sealing of a General Agreement on Cooperation (GAC), and the announcement that Singapore will appoint a resident ambassador to the kingdom. The agreement was signed yesterday by Minister of
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      Lock icon Commercial rentals keep public transport fares down
      381 4  -  Tan Hui Leng THE Ministry of Transport (MOT) has given its approval to transport operators pursuing commercial rental revenue, as this could go towards keeping public transport fares down. "The commercial revenue generated will increase the revenue stream of SMRT and help to
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      SingTel's 3G plans launched
      489 6  -  Sheralyn Tay Telco aims to make transition from 2G services 'seamless' for users sheralyn@newstoday. com, sg DESPITE uncertainty among market-watchers on whether 3G services will take off, SingTel yesterday unveiled a host of hard-to-resist offerings at the commercial launch of its 3G plans. The telco will
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      Nanyang ex-CEO fined
      295 8  -  Wong Fei Wan Liv pleads guilty to abetting clerk to commit forgery feiwan@newstoday.com.sg THE former chief executive officer of the Nanyang Institute of Management (NIM) who abetted his clerk in committing forgery was yesterday fined $50,000. Liv Shuang Liang, 36, pleaded guilty to five charges of instigating
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        Lock icon Keppel Land to propose joint casino venture
        77 8 Dow Jones Singapore property group Keppel Land Ltd said yesterday it is teaming up with United States gaming operator, Harrah's Operating Inc, to propose building a casino in Singapore, joining a growing list of keen international operators. Details of the venture have yet
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        Lock icon Consumer prices up
        104 8 Singapore's consumer prices rose 0.3 per cent last month as prices of everything except clothing rose compared to the month before, reported the Department of Statistics. Food prices, which formed the largest portion of the index, rose 0.4 per cent from Decem- ber because of more expensive
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      Lock icon Ritz-Carlton S'pore holds job fair
      265 8  -  -Jasmine Yin MORE job fairs are being organised as the economy picks up, but what distinguishes one such job fair is how it is solely organised by a six-star hotel for itself. The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore expects some 500 people to turn up at its
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      Show of grace under pressure unites winners of this year's Tourism Awards
      831 8  -  Ted Chen IN WHAT promises to be a tough fight, 15 finalists have been nominated for three categories in the upcoming 19th Singapore Tourism Awards 2004 event The Tourism Host of the Year Hotel, Tourism Host of the
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      Lock icon Shine in your golden years
      790 9 Working keeps me alert and active. I like knowing that I am still a useful person. Major Ibrahim Bulat on why he continues to work after retirement. Age is no barrier to having a career. In Part Four of this five-part series, we see how
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      Stay employable
      132 9 Soul searching Re-examine and adjust your life and career goals. Self assessment Conduct an honest self-assessment of your vocational skills. Do you have the relevant skills needed in the job market? If not, how and where can you acquire them? Be flexible You can have a career without
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      PYRO TECHNICS
      435 10  -  Patricia Yap Most bush fires are caused by careless acts patricia@newstoday.com.sg THEY have been blamed on the hot, dry weather, but the record number of bush fires raging across Singapore lately have a more insidious and human source. Since the beginning of the year through Tuesday, 469 bush
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      Lock icon Factory explosion in Tuas kills 2 men
      180 10 Newsßadio 93.8, Channel News Asia A CHEMICAL explosion in a factory at Tuas Avenue 9 yesterday at about 1.40pm has left two workers dead. One has been identified as production manager Lee Lean Seng, 60, the other as production worker Goh Tua Bak,
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        Lock icon 87% employment for ITE grads
        76 10 Channel News Asia Nearly nine in 1 0 graduates of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) found employment within three months of starting their search, according to a 2004 employment survey by the ITE. The average starting pay remained stable. Graduates earned $1,208 a month
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        Lock icon Woman dies donating kidney
        41 10 Channel News Asia A 33-year-old woman died after donating a kidney to her husband at the National University Hospital last week. The woman is believed to be the first donor to die after a kidney transolant operation.
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        Lock icon Protection orders for youths rise
        52 10 Newsßadio 93.8 More youths are being brought to the Juvenile Court for Care and Protection Orders (CPO). A study by the Subordinate Courts on childcare protection and family violence showed 74 children and youths were on CPO last year an increase of 76 per cent
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        Lock icon AVA: No toxic food dye in S'pore
        32 10 Channel News Asia The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority said tests on food products sold here confirmed the absence of the toxic food dye Sudan 1.
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        Lock icon US offers aid to quake-hit Iran
        48 12 AFP The United States has proffered relief assistance to Iran after a powerful earthquake killed at least 420 people in the country's South-east. The US sent in a team of aid workers after an December 2003 quake that claimed some 31,000 lives.
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        Lock icon Chavalit quits politics
        63 12 AFP Former Thai Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, now a Deputy Prime Minster, announced yesterday that he was retiring from politics after a long, and sometimes turbulent career. Mr Chavalit, who succeeded in restoring peace in southern Thailand in the 1 980s, recently clashed with Prime Minister Thaksin
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        Lock icon Eds to account for blank spaces
        57 12 -AFP The editors of four Nepali weeklies were summoned before security officials to answer for leaving blank spaces in their newspapers after King Gyanendra declared a six-month ban on political comment against his power grab. The King sacked the coalition government, assumed absolute power
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        Lock icon New maps of Thailand needed
        38 12 AFP Satellites measurements show that the Dec 26 earthquake that measured 9.0 on the Ricnter scale and led to the devastating tsunamis has shifted Bangkok by 9cm and Phuket by 32cm, newspapers reported.
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      Lock icon Trans-Atlantic clouds linger
      565 12 Agencies Bush's fence-mending trip to Europe fails to get beyond the rhetoric BRUSSELS European leaders were full of warm words for United States President George W Bush this week, but few are under any illusion that the chill over Iraq will be dissipated so easily. An European
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      Lock icon Serious risk of global bird flu pandemic: Experts
      254 12 Agencies HO CHI MINH CITY The world is perilously close to a deadly bird flu pandemic and governments need to start drafting emergency plans, experts told a landmark conference here yesterday. The bird flu virus will take years to eradicate and Asia
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      Lock icon Fatah backs Cabinet finally
      84 12 -AFP RAMALLAH (West Bank) Beleaguered Palestinian Premier Ahmed Qorei finally won the dominant Fatah faction's approval for a revised Cabinet line-up yesterday after days of wrangling with reformist supporters of new leader Mahmud Abbas. Principal sacrificial lamb in the new line-up was Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath,
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      Lock icon Iraq abuse: British soldiers guilty
      209 12 -AFP OSNABRUECK (Germany) Two British soldiers were found guilty of abusing Iraqi civilians by a court-martial here yesterday in a case compared to the US mistreatment of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib Prison. A third soldier had already pleaded guilty to one charge of assault
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      Lock icon Russia's nuclear materials have been stolen, says US
      353 14 Agencies warn its atomic plants are vulnerable to terrorists WASHINGTON US intelligence agencies have been alarmed by what they claim is the theft of radioactive materials from Russia's nuclear complex, warning that the country's atomic power plants are vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        How to read a woman by her breasts
        140 14 Italian researcher Piero Lorenzoni claims he can tell a woman's personality from the size and shape of her breasts, reported Ananova.com, citing the German-language Bild newspaper. He has categorised breast types according to fruits and says men can draw up their own
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        Lock icon State official arrested for running naked
        83 14 AFP State prosecutor in Key West, Florida, Albert Tasker, is under arrest after he allegedly ran naked and drunk across a parking lot and hopped into the wrong car, the Florida Keys Citizen newspaper said. Tasker, 28, said he had been drinking and thought
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        Why May 20 is a good day to get married
        81 14 Officials in the Netherlands have been flooded with requests from couples wanting to get married on May 20 because the date is easy for men to remember, reported Ananova.com. "Men are not very good at remembering dates but 20/05/2005 is
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      Military involved in illegal logging: SBY
      223 14 JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono admitted yesterday that military and police personnel, in cahoots with local forestry and immigration officials, were involved in illegal logging in the country's Papua province, reported Hie Jakarta Post. The operations assistant to the Indonesian military (TNI) chief,
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      Lock icon A doll for granddad
      194 14 -AFP TOKYO As Japan produces fewer children and more retirees, toymakers are designing dolls not for the young, but for the lonely elderly companions that can sleep next to them and offer caring words Talking toys have become such a hit that some elderly people have
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      Assisted death tangle
      348 16 Husband and parents' legal battle over woman's life WASHINGTON In the first case of its kind, the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Bush administration's challenge to the only state law in the country authorising physicianassisted suicide. This is likely to spark a national debate
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        Lock icon M'sian court sentences man to hang
        50 16 -AFP Malaysia's High Court yesterday sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of a Malaysian-born US resident. Ahmad Najib Aris, 29, a former aircraft maintenance worker, was convicted of raping and murdering Canny Ong, an IT analyst in San Diego, California
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        Primary school pupils can't write properly
        51 16 British Prime Minister Tony Blair's success in improving school standards was undermined yesterday. A report by the Office for Standards in Education said students leave primary school unable to write properly, nearly seven years after the government introduced the national literacy strategy, reported The
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        Lock icon Sex-toy ban stays
        36 16 -AFP The US state of Alabama's prohibition on the sale of sex toys was left standing by the US Supreme Court when the court refused to hear a constitutional challenge to the law.
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      Lock icon Queen won't attend Charles' civil wedding
      305 16 LONDON Buckingham Palace's announcement that the queen would not attend the civil wedding ceremony of Prince Charles, her son and heir, to Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles, has revealed divisions in the royal family. The explanation announced on Monday was that Queen Elizabeth II respected
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    TODAY's Focus On The Family
    220 18  -  Dr James Dobson by ROUGH WATER The most helpful advice for parents of teenagers may be remarkably simple to implement. To parents whose teenage sons and daughters are going through a period of rebellion and experimentation, the most constructive recommendation might be: just get them
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      Fogging delayed; done half-heartedly
      178 18  -  JIMMY HO KWOK HOONG I Letter from LAST month, I contacted the town council to carry out fogging at my block after my son was diagnosed with dengue fever. One manager told me it was only able to do so four days later due to the
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      Mosquitoes breeding in public places...
      339 18  -  JEFFREY HO LOON POH If found, fine responsible govt entities, contractors Letter from WHILE I agree with Mr Lim Boon Hee's view that choked drains in Singapore could well be the main source of mosquito breeding ("Beef up green agency's resources to tackle dengue", Feb
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    • Letter
      Let employers, maids solve off-day issue
      231 18  -  LAUBENGYAN I Letter from I REFER to Mr Ahmad Shukor's letter, "Not fair to give maids only one day off a month" (Feb 23). Many employers are not at home during weekdays as they are working. The maids have plenty of rest these times.
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      NPB doing all it can to minimise fire risk
      127 18  -  KONG YIT SAN Letter from Director, Parks Management, National Parks Board WE REFER to the letter "It only takes a spark..." (Feb 18) and thank the writer for the feedback. You may have noticed the bush-fires in the last few weeks
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      Striking a balance
      435 20  -  KENNETH MAX KENG KOK A casino resort doesn't have to mean bad things I Letter from LAST August, my wife and I decided to give ourselves a treat in Las Vegas. What is truly amazing about Las Vegas is that it is situated in a desert By
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      Father's gambling problem ruined family
      175 20  -  JENNIFER HENG-GUAI I Letter from MY FATHER was a compulsive highstakes gambler who frequented casinos in the region. As the habit grew more uncontrollable, he started to increase his stakes to recover the massive losses. Eventually, by the time I was 15, my father had
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      Proper governance reduces problems
      178 20  -  GUARAV NISRA Letter from A CASINO does bring its share of problems, but that usually happens in places without proper controls and regulations. Singapore already has Singapore Pools and the Singapore Turf Club, yet I don't think it has many suicides, family disputes, drugs or violence
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      FIRST ANIMAL ABUSERS, THEN ...
      505 22  - FIRST ANIMAL ABUSERS, THEN Kate Smith Saif HAVING studied criminology, I was disturbed by recent letters about children throwing stones and sticks at stray kittens and other animals. Children finding pleasure in the infliction of pain should set alarm bells ringing. Far from being a mindless prank or just "kids
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      Coach depot still 'Third-World'
      213 22  -  NEIL WILKINSON Letter from IN DECEMBER 2002,1 had a letter published in Streats regarding the SingaporeMalacca express coach depot in Lavender Street I commented that it hadn't changed in the last 10 years. The toilets were smelly and badly lit There was no vending machine to
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  • SMB TODAY
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      Lock icon Take pride in goods 'Made in Singapore'
      520 24  -  Tor Ching Li Encouraging people to buy locally-made products could boost the fortunes of home-grown companies chingli@newstoday. com, sg BESIDES adapting to an everchanging world market and the needs of multi-national corporations (MNCs), Singapore's Small and Medium Businesses SMBs also need to create
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      SMB Today for SMBs today
      140 24 THE SMB TODAY Inspire, Interface, Innovate seminar series, which started two years ago as a collaboration between Hewlett-Packard and TODAY, is now proudly into Season Two. Said Mr Mano Sabnani, CEO and Editor-in-chief of TODAY, at the second session held on Tuesday: "The seminar aims
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      Thoughts from seminar participants
      60 24 The seminar was quite applicable in terms of the sharing of business strategies. Mr Overmyer's point' ers were helpful and Duro's case study in branding and product development was also very interesting. It's definitely a good networking opportunity and a useful platform to find out more
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      Do IT Yourself
      811 25  -  Tor Ching Li The key to lock-in growth is IT investi says Duro International MD Nelson Ng chingli@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS been a happy new year indeed for Mr Nelson Ng, managing director of Duro International, and his eight employees at their office unit in Shun Li Industrial
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      348 28  -  Val Chua Firm places executive on unrecorded leave, hires restructuring specialist val@newstoday.com.sg TROUBLED mobile phone service provider Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) has placed an unnamed executive on "unrecorded leave" to assist in police investigations, even as it reveals a revenue overstatement in its third-quarter results.
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        4 28 ST Index 2,136.42 10.3
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        128 28 Singapore shares closed lower yesterday as sentiment was hurt by a sharp overnight fall on Wall Street; higher crude oil prices; and a police investigation involving a company that was once a favourite of retail investors. The STI ended 10.3 points lower, or 0.5 per cent, at 2,136.42, off
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        58 28 By volume Venture MBLeCW*****8 Close 0.080 Change -0.055 -40.7 '000 29,425 UTAC 0.635 -0.020 -3.1 26,872 FirstLink 0.140 16,022 Venture DBeCW*****3 Chartered 0.060 1.140 -0.025 -0.010 -29.4 -0.9 14,976 14,277 Noble Grp 1.630 +0.060 +3.8 13,809 SunBusiness 0.090 13,413 UniFiber SNF Corp 0.330 0.375 -0.010 +0.005 -2.9
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        82 28 By$ Close Change JingamasC 2kHK$ 5.950 +0.450 /entureDBSePW*****2 0.260 +0.145 «*****SGAePW*****0 0.760 +0.125 /enlureDBePW*****3 0.290 +0.105 :SN 15.400 +0.100 :ortune Reit HK$ 6.550 +0.100 SIA200 12.500 +0.100 ip Land 5.600 +0.100 DairyFarm 900 US$ 2.670 +0.090 .ungKee BMD 1.150 +0.070 Luni )y percentage Close Change /enlureDBSePW*****2 0.260
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        77 28 By$ Close Changi Venture 14.600 -0.801 Creative 50 19.600 -0.601 DBS 15.300 -0.301 CITYDEV 6.750 -0.151 JSH 500USS 9.050 -0.151 Iselan(S) 2.890 -0.111 GrealEasI 13.300 -0.101 Jardine C&C 11.500 -0.101 OCBCCap3.93%Pref*****00.000 -0.101 Spindex 0.330 -0.061 By percentage Close Change /enlure SGAeCW*****7 0.050 -0.035 /enlureMBLeCW*****8 0.080 -0.055 /enlureDBSeCW*****4
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        60 28 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 *****.18 Pts -97.53 -0.84% Hang Seng All Ordinaries *****.48 4103.4 +0.20 -35 +0.02% -0.85% Taiwan Wtd 6121.5 +14.35 +0.23% Korea Comp 968.43 -9.37 -0.96% KLCI 899.68 -5.07 -0.56% SET Index 730.56 +4.67 +0.64% Jakarta Comp 1102.93 +3.01 +0.27% Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2042.78
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        36 28 US$ 0.6142 UK£ 0.3213 Yen 63.901 HK$ 4.7904 RM 2.3339 Euro 0.4632 Rupiah 5649.4 Baht 23.564 Peso 33.566 A$ 0.7727 Indian Rs 26.875 Won 616.052 C$ 0.7524 Yuan 5.0834 NZ$ 0.8433 NTS 19.1567
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        26 28 Gold uss/oz 434.800 Silver uss/oz 7.500 Platinum uss/oi 871.500 Rubber centsAg 209.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1335 Brent crude uss/barrel 47.78 Information provided by SGX, Bloomberg
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      130 30 Bloomberg SINGAPORE-LISTED Noble Group, which supplies about a tenth of China's iron-ore imports, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled on surging demand for raw materials. Net profit rose to US$7B.l million ($127 million) in the six months ended Dec 31, from U5529.4 million a
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      275 30 Bloomberg Advance mainly a result of increased sales to China HYFLUX, Singapore's biggest publicly-traded water-treatment company, said profit last year rose 37 per cent, boosted by increased sales in China. Net profit rose to $26.8 million from $19.5 million a year earlier, the
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      Prebon Yamane brokers free to leave
      147 30  -  Seah Slew Hua THE money brokers that resigned from Prebon Yamane earlier this week have been given the green light to start work at BGC Partners today. In a closed hearing yesterday, Justice Lai Kew Chai lifted the injunction that Prebon took out against
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      140 32 Dow Jones STARHUB yesterday said its net loss narrowed in the fiscal fourth quarter as its mobile phone and broadband operations chalked up sharply higher sales. The company reported a net loss of $6.2 million for the three months to December, narrowing from $35.7 million a
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      81 32 Bloomberg MALAYSIA will build a RMIOO-million ($42.9 million) terminal for discount airlines at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at Sepang, instead of at Subang airport, Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy said yesterday. The terminal will be ready in the first half of next
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      295 32 Bloomberg SK CORP is suing to recover U5514.35 million ($23.4 million) from China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp (CAO), the third such action against the jet fuel trader. SK Energy Asia, SK Corp's Singapore-based oil-trading unit, is also suing nine directors, including Chen Jiulin, CAO's
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      922 35  -  Vasu Menon Geomancy Master anticipates consolidation in a year of 'stagnation' CHINESE New Year may be over, but predictions of how the economy will fare in the Year of the Rooster continue to be of interest to a jittery market that has already seen
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      675 36  -  Jeanine Tan A drama Playwright RobertYeo's works get a dusting in Singapore literary anthology jeanine@newstoday.com.sg A S a playwright, he may rlhave been forgotten in the theatre scene. As a writer, he will be remembered. Those familiar with playwright Robert Yeo would know that the neglect of his
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      198 38  -  -Jeanine Tan DESPITE six long years occupying the afternoon time slot on local television, soap opera Days of Our Lives will soon be no more. Citing dipping viewership ratings, MediaCorp TV Channel 5 will replace the soap which still airs in the
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      104 38 CANT get enough of Taufik and Sylvester, or find that your homemade wallpaper or video of your favourite singer on your handphone is a tad too unprofessional? Help is on the way. Come March 10, MediaCorp Studios will launch a range of Taufik and Sylvester mobile
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      358 38  -  Meryin Tay Local organisers say show is not like original Idol contest and will not be telecast mervin@newstoday.com.sg THE Idol fever rages on and not only because of the new season of American Idol, currently being telecast on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. Teenage Idol, a local
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      385 40  -  Mervin Tay Local stars, as seen through the eyes of Asian artists mervin@newstoday.com.sg POSING in front of cameras is all in a day's work for celebrities. But being the subject for an artist was a new experience for Diana Ser, Cheryl Fox, Sharon Au and Tay Ping
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      168 40 HONG KONG Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi (right) seems to have found love in Eric Fok, grandson of Hong Kong billionaire Henry Fok. She was coy about the relationship when Hong Kong reporters questioned her at the 11th Hong Kong Film Critics Society awards ceremony on Tuesday.
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      356 42  -  cannon AFP Writer wanted ashes to be spread by LOS ANGELES Author Hunter S Thompson, who killed himself last weekend, wanted his remains to exit this world in a style befitting his extraordinary life being fired from a cannon. The larger-than-life writer of Fear And Loathing In
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      199 42  -  Cheng Puay Koon David Foster Wallace OBLIVION is a startling short story collection by word-weaver David Foster Wallace, who is back spinning verbosities after a five-year hiatus. Fashioned after the morose, quirky styles of Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and Girl With Curious Hair, Oblivion sets out to shock
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      159 42  -  Lorraine Lim AT 14, Duanbai is named Emperor of the Xie empire and his life changes. Having absolute power at his disposal, Duanbai makes rash decisions that haunt him. In the midst of palace conspiracies as well as internal and external power struggles, all Duanbai yearns
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      168 42 Quan Yifeng (far right), the wacky and straighttalking host marks her return to MediaCorp TV Channel 8 with a new lifestyle show, Life Scent, which she co-hosts with Darren Lim and Michelle Chong. The show premieres on March 3 and will air Thursdays at Bpm on Ch
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        200 44  -  YONG SHU CHIANG DVD REVIEW by Friday Night Lights AMERICAN football in Texas is not just a game. In the small town of Odessa, the Permian Panthers are the lifeblood of the community. The ultimate goal for the high school athletes is to win the state
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        139 44  -  YONG SHU CHIANG DVD REVIEW by A TOUCHING and beautifully-shot film with two appealing young leads, The Notebook may be a sentimental journey but it doesn't feel manipulative or overbearing. Based on Message in a Bottle author Nicholas Sparks' first novel, this sweet film works well in the
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        674 46  -  Yong Shu Chiang Will playing a paedophile tnally give Kevin Bacon the recognition he deserves? shucniang@newstoday.com.sg KEVIN Bacon was unfazed by the question. "YES, I've played it; no, I don't get irritated; and yes, I do get asked all the time," the actor said with a
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        538 48  -  Amy Van Try this fuss-free Salad Nicoise recipe for a refreshing light meal food@newstoday.com.sg THIS easy-to-prepare Provencal salad originated from Nice, South of France. During my visit there a couple of years ago, I went to one of the city's small seaside cafes
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      187 50 Can a long-haul flight be enjoyable? Yes, it can, with Air France's new concept of air travel. Air France passengers can now fly daily from Singapore to Paris on its new long-range Boeing 777-300. I tried Air France's new I'Espace Affaires (business class), which is
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      271 52 Visit the magical, exotic Maldives from $738 with SlA's special packages NEARLY two months after the Dec 26 tsunami, the Maldives are ready to offer tourists a chance to experience the "sunny side of life". According to the Maldives Tourist Board website, it's
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