Today, 17 May 2005

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    11 1 TODAY fV\=LjJ^CORP incorporating utfCiitS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Tuesday May 17,2005 todayonline.com
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    Is merger the way forward?
    1049 1  -  Christie Loh But marriage of transit providers will be difficult to broker, say experts christie@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS been easy of late to find disgruntled commuters such as stall assistant Madam Lilian, who's in her 50s. "How can they raise fares? I don't have enough money,"
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    'One China' unlikely without political changes: Patten
    407 1  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE the recent overtures from both sides and the growing business synergies, the unification of Taiwan with mainland China is not likely to be achieved until there is political change in China. That was the candid view of former
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      39 1 y You're Invited! '.'-,"-'.-""t'* Turn to Page 2 NEWSX^/lEWS H William Pfaff H The new Bush: Softer but still radical/3 Tisa Ng Real men not only eat quiche they babysit/19 Glazer control Tycoon grabs 75% stake to complete takeover/47
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  • hot news
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      Standing by your election candidate
      718 2  -  Tor Ching Li Will amendments to Parliamentary Elections Act help or hinder the Opposition? chingli@newstoday.com.sg A RAW nerve was struck amongst the three Opposition MPs in Parliament yesterday as Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng read out the amendments to the Parliamentary and Presidential
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    • NEWScomment
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        The new Bush: Softer but still radical
        656 3  -  William Pfaff HAS the George Bush (picture) administration's foreign policy really changed since the start of the president's second term in January? Is radicalism in retreat? A tentative answer is possible. Yes, there has been a distinct shift back toward a conventional definition
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      Lock icon Rebuilding work in Indonesia stalled
      328 4 -AP Govt indecision and donor demands causing delay DEAH GEULUMPANG (Indonesia) Political squabbling, donor demands and government indecision have stalled the building of roads, water treatment plants and nearly 180,000 homes for survivors of last December's tsunami. Aid agencies have put massive building projects on
      -AP  -  328 words
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      Lock icon Mahathir banned from entering Jerusalem
      269 4 -AFP RAMALLAH (West Bank) Israel yesterday banned former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad (picture), whose comments have in the past infuriated Jews, from entering disputed Jerusalem while visiting the West Bank. Dr Mahathir was delayed for an hour at the Allenby crossing from Jordan into the
      -AFP  -  269 words
    • Article
      Second chance for offenders
      589 6  -  Derrick A Paulo Criminal records to be considered 'spent' for those who stay clean derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE criminal pasts of some Singaporeans will soon be a matter of history. The records of those who have stayed clean for a fiveyear period after committing a minor crime will
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    • PARLIAMENTbriefs
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        Lock icon Applications open this month for Presidential Elections
        151 6 Channel News Asia The Presidential Elections Committee will start inviting those interested to stand for the Office of the President to apply later this month, said Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng. Anyone who wants to stand for the Office of the President
        — Channel News Asia  -  151 words
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        Lock icon Govt to cap proposed fare hikes
        125 6 Bloomberg The Government will cap any fare increases proposed by SBS Transit and SMRT Corp at 2.4 per cent, even if their costs rise by a higher amount, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said in Parliament yesterday. The two companies applied for fare increases
        — Bloomberg  -  125 words
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Govt reiterates tough stance on child-sex offenders
      503 8 Channel News Asia Harsh penalties for those who solicit sex with minors via Internet, tours SOLICITING for sex with minors is a crime that will be taken seriously by the police, and those involved will be severely dealt with whether solicitation is done
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      PR-seekers must do more than buy property
      369 8 INVESTMENT in residential property alone will not earn those who wish to sink their roots in Singapore Permanent Residence (PR) status. Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang made this clear yesterday when responding to MP Dr Amy Khor's question on whether Singapore
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      Lock icon PAP Women to visit M'sian counterparts
      163 10 Channel News Asia THE People's Action Party (PAP) Women's Wing will be visiting their Malaysian counterparts in Kuala Lumpur this Wednesday to Friday, with the aim of building on the group's warm ties shared with BN Wanita, Umno Wanita and MCA Wanita. Minister of
      — Channel News Asia  -  163 words
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      Lock icon New uni admission criteria from 2008
      323 10 Channel News Asia A-LEVEL students entering university in the year 2008 will have a new set of university admissions criteria to meet All three local universities have made revisions in their admissions criteria to support the new A-level curriculum, to be introduced in junior
      — Channel News Asia  -  323 words
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      Lock icon Poly hospitality courses ride on IR buzz
      167 11 Newsßadio 93.8 TEMASEK Polytechnic expects more students to take up its Hospitality and Tourism Management courses with the development of the two Integrated Resorts (IRs) here. Mr Yeo Li Pheow, the poly's director of its Tourism Academy, said this yesterday as the academy
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      Lock icon STB boost for cruise industry
      322 11 Channel News Asia THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is hoping to steer the regional cruise industry into uncharted waters. The board is taking the lead in working with the national tourism agencies of countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam to promote the region as
      — Channel News Asia  -  322 words
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Koizumi defends shrine visits on grounds of Japan's pacifism
      136 12 AFP TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi indicated yesterday he will again visit a contentious war shrine, rejecting the protests of China and South Korea which accuse him of supporting militarism and jeopardising ties. Mr Koizumi defended his annual visits to
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    • the QUIRKY world
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        'Corpse' punches doctor in morgue
        52 12 A Romanian boy who was drinking coffee passed out and found himself lying in a morgue. He was so traumatised that he punched the doctor inspecting him. The doctor in turn suffered such a shock that he had to take time off work for counselling,
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        Teacher wraps student's head
        37 12 A Colorado primary school teacher was so stressed out by a student's incessant talking that he took some tape and wrapped it around the student's head 1 0 times, reported the Denver Channel.
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      Lock icon Pyongyang, Seoul on talking terms
      278 12 Agencies SEOUL South Korea yesterday waved a carrot at its northern neighbour while the United States and Japan threatened to wield the stick if Pyongyang carried out a nuclear test Neither Washington nor Seoul, however, provided details of their plans to cajole North Korea, which
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      Lock icon Binge drinking causes brain damage more quickly in women than in men
      214 13 The Guardian LONDON Excessive drinking causes brain damage in women more quickly than in men, according to scientists at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. The finding is especially worrying in the light of reports that binge drinking
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      Lock icon M'sia's police force slammed for graft
      335 13 Agencies Suggested reforms include amending security law KUALA LUMPUR An inquiry yesterday issued a damning report on Malaysia's police force, calling for sweeping reforms to eliminate corruption and human rights abuses and for a draconian security law to be amended. The assessment by the
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      Lock icon Bashir sentence upheld by Indonesian court
      181 13 -AP JAKARTA Indonesia's High Court has upheld a 30-month prison sentence for accused terror chief Abu Bakar Bashir for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, a court official said yesterday. Lawyers for Bashir, who the United States and Australia allege is the spiritual
      -AP  -  181 words
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      Lock icon Russia 'profited under Saddam'
      309 14 Agencies 30% of the oil in Iraq's Oil-for-Food programme went there, US report claims WASHINGTON- Almost one third of the oil allocations granted under the United Nations' Iraqi Oil-for-Food programme, from 1996 to 2003, went to Russian parties or individuals, according to a United States Senate
      – Agencies  -  309 words
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      Lock icon Britain slams Uzbekistan's violent handling of protest
      162 14 -AFP LONDON The British government has crossed swords with Uzbekistan over the violent suppression of a protest in the former Soviet republic that Britain's Foreign Office said had left hundreds dead. In an unusual condemnation of a country routinely described as a loyal
      -AFP; AFP  -  162 words
    • GLOBALroundup
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        HK leader to stand in election
        58 14 Hong Kong's acting leader, Mr Donald Tsang, will formally announce his candidacy next Thursday for an upcoming election to choose the territory's leader, reported the South China Morning Post. Mr Tsang is believed to be China's choice for the top job and is expected
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        British hospitals may have to be legally bug free
        51 14 Hospitals managers may have a legal duty to keep their wards free from superbugs, British Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced, reported the Western Daily Press. A proposed Bill will make hospital bosses criminally responsible if patients get sick because of the
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      Newsweek apologises for Koran abuse report
      381 17 Magazine to re-examine accusations that caused 16 deaths NEW YORK Newsweek magazine has apologised for errors in a report alleging that interrogators at the United States detention centre in Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran. The weekly said it will re-exam-ine the accusations, which resulted
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      Lock icon This will be a grand celebration—you can bet on it...
      54 17 This will be a grand celebration you can bet on it... Final touches being put to a giant cake to celebrate the centennial of gambling capital Las Vegas on Monday. The cake, weighing more than 59,090 kg, was made of 30,240 individual half-sheet cakes and was 34m long, 17m wide
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        M'sia not to respond to Ibrahim's BBC interview
        77 17 Malaysian Deputy Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin said the allegations made by former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in a BBC interview did not merit a response because they were devised by the foreign media to generate controversy, reported Bernama. He said that
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        Lock icon 24 killed as ferry capsizes in Bangladesh
        63 17 -AP Rescuers searched yesterday for about 80 people missing from a ferry that sank in stormy weather in southern Bangladesh, killing at least 24 passengers after being boarded by a large wedding party. The double-deck ferry capsized and sank on Sunday, when it
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      Focus On The Family
      259 18  -  Dr James Dobson i Tbiws K23 FAMILIES AROUND THE DINNER TABLE Today I want to share the findings of an interesting study that was conducted by Dr. Blake Bowden of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Center. He and his colleagues studied 527 teenagers to learn what family
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      Govt must remove barriers
      330 18  -  JULIAN WEE CHOON ANN Only it has the legislative power to allow the disabled to claim their rights I Letter from I AM writing in response to the News Comment, "Empathising with wheelchair users" by Jerry Siah Eng Kiat (May 13). I applaud Mr Siah's attempt
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      More must be done to boost incomes of taxi drivers here
      333 18  -  ANDREW NGMUNKEONG Letter from I DEEPLY appreciated SMRT president Ms Saw Phaik Hwa's call to increase taxi fares to give taxi drivers an equitable income of more than $2,000 per month. On behalf of taxi drivers here, I say,
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      98 19 Entries invited for photo contest The photograph on the right by photographer Ulla Lemberg is part of an exhibition that is on until Sunday at Sculpture Square at 1 55, Middle Road. Dear Child on men, children and gender equality features 46 pictures from Sweden showing men with children
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      REAL (HOT) MEN DO BABYSIT
      385 19  -  Tisa Ng MORE men are looking good these days. There is a fresh new attitude that goes with an updated understanding of masculinity, which has to do with a new connectedness to the private side of life. Highly successful men make it known that they
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon NOL sells Manila shipping line
      236 20  -  Christie Loh christie@newstoday.com.sg NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) has sold its entire stake in Manila subsidiary Lorenzo Shipping Corp to another Philippine company, National Marine, for US$l.7 million ($2.8 million). NOL sold its 28.7 per cent slice of Lorenzo's common shares plus 82.2 per cent of
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      Lock icon Analysts expect 2.5% Q1 growth for S'pore
      191 20 Dow Jones SINGAPORE'S economy probably grew 2.5 per cent in the first quarter this year, compared to the same period last year, according to the median forecast of 14 economists polled by Bloomberg. But compared to the fourth quarter last year, the economy
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      SCS appoints two new board directors
      114 20 ONE week after both its chief executive and chief financial officer quit the company, Singapore Computer Systems (SCS) has appointed two new directors to its board. In a statement yesterday, SCS said businessman Philip Eng currently deputy chairman of MCL Land and Professor Tan
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    • savvy investor
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        What is Wealth Management?
        534 21 WEALTH Management is a catchy phrase which players in the financial services industry use frequently. However, its real meaning and who it is intended for is often misunderstood. Most people think that Wealth Management is meant only for the wealthy. This is a common misperception. Wealth
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        Lock icon CPF-linked funds bleed in Q1; Imas works to allay investors' fears
        425 21 Lhnstie Loh CPF-linked funds lost money again in the first quarter, but an industry association wants to ramp up investor education to "rationalise" fears on investing in unit trusts. Out of the 243 unit trusts under the Central Provident
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      • STOCK calls
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          Lock icon Want Want Holdings (US$l.03) – Strong Buy
          64 21 Want Want Holdings (US$l.03) Strong Buy DBS Vickers upgraded Want Want to a "Strong Buy" from "Buy" and raised the price target to US$l.3B from US$l.O9, after noting that the company's 1Q earnings showed broad-based growth in all business segments. The research house raised the FYOS net profit estimate by
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          Lock icon Seksun Corporation (38 cents) – Hold
          120 21 Seksun Corporation (38 cents) Hold Kirn Eng keeps a "Hold" on Seksun with a six-month target of 40 cents as the company's weak 1 QO5 results were in line with expectations. It also noted bullishness on the company's 2Q prospects, projecting 2Q operating performance to be both better quarter-on-quarter and
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      • market BUZZ
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          Pizza Hut dares to guarantee
          195 22 As part of its commitment to its customers and to its mission of being the best place for pizza in Singapore, Pizza Hut now promises guaranteed satisfaction with each and every one of its signature pan pizzas. That's right, at Pizza Hut, every pan pizza
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          ICM Pharma Aqurea giveaway
          115 22 ICM Pharma and TODAY teamed up last week to help hundreds of people in the business district give their skin a special treat. By simply visiting the ICM Pharma booth in Raffles Place Park during the lunch hour on Wednesday, presenting a namecard and the ICM
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          A dot of many possibilities
          114 22 The dot is the origin of all creations. A grain serves as a nucleus in the oyster to start off the production process of a pearl. With the theme, "One dot, many possibilities", this year's Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) School of Visual Arts
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        Lock icon Companies Act is amended
        232 23 Channel News Asia Most of the changes approved in Parliament relate to share capital THE Government has amended the Companies Act in Parliament yesterday, with the latest changes relating mainly to the share capital of companies listed in Singapore. It is no longer relevant to refer
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      • MarketWATCH
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          World markets
          51 23 ndex Value .hange Pis Nikkei 225 *****.22 -101.89 -0.9: Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd 3965.40 5925.88 -46.70 -55.60 -l.ii -0.9: Korea Comp 929.04 +5.85 +0.6: KLCI 889.27 -2.09 -0.2: SET Index 670.76 -8.35 -1.2: lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1048.78 1862.59 232.01 -10.48 -19.80 -1.25 -0.9' -1.0:
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          SGX most active
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          SGX top rises
          64 23 /enture 14.900 +0.201 :sa 1.420 +0.111 DBS 14.400 +0.101 ISH 500USS 10.000 +0.101 DCBC 13.900 +0.101 Robinson 5.850 +0.101 >IA 200 11.500 +0.101 >TI ETF100 22.140 +0.061 Breweries 8.650 +0.051 By percentage AdvSys 0.125 +25.0 BBR 0.025 +25.0 GMG USS 0.025 +25.0 IfentureDB eCW*****3 0.220 +22.2 Penguin
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          SGX top falls
          70 23 KepCorp ***** -0.401 :reanve 50 13.900 -0.301 DBSBk6MPS10 107.000 -0.301 F&N 15.300 -0.301 DUE 8550 -0.201 ip Land 5J00 -0.151 tepCarpDBS eOW*****2 0.685 -0.13! HSI*****SGABCW*****0 1.940 -0.111 HOLDBe(W*****0 0J25 -0.10! >hangAsia2kHKS 11J00 -0.101 By percentage Wee Poh 0.005 -50.0 STI DB ePW*****5 0.035 -46.2 4CCS CAeCW*****5 0.015
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          ST Index – 2,165.48 -6.19
          4 23 ST Index 2,165.48 -6.19
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          Lock icon Singapore
          76 23 SHARES closed lower in thin trade as investors took profits after recent buying of blue chips that reported strong earnings. Wall Street's mixed performance on Friday amid heightened tensions between the United States and China over Chinese textile imports also prompted selling on the Singapore bourse. The ST Index
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          Your S$1 buys
          34 23 IIK£ fen HK$ m Euro Rupiah Baht Peso 4$ Indian Rs Won C$ 0.3259 64.726 4.7035 2.2919 0.4774 5714.7 23.902 32.693 0.7921 26.194 603.45 0.7632 ftjan NZ$ NTS 4.9919 0.8474 18.885
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          Lock icon Commodities
          26 23 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 419.80 Silver uss/m 6.91 Platinum uss/oi 859.00 Rubber ™tsAg 226.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1417.00 Brent crude uss/bomi 51.05 Information provided by
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        101 23 People's Food Holdings reported first-quarter net profit of 167 million yuan ($33.5 million), or 0.15 fen per share, for the period ending March 31, down from 225 million yuan, or 0.2 fen per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 1 6 per cent to 1.9 billion yuan, from
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        256 24  -  Valeric Law 4 local firms infringedTrek'sThumbDrive patent valerie@newstoday.com.sg IN a landmark case on patent infringement in Singapore, a subsidiary of mainboard-listed Trek 2000 International has been awarded a favourable High Court ruling against four companies that had copied its Thumb Drive device. The
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        230 24 Bloomberg M+W Zander Facility Engineering, which will be the first German company to list in Singapore, is shifting its headquarters here from Stuttgart, Germany, as its business expands in Asia. "Our decision to base our global headquarters in Singapore was a shift of technology
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        195 24 -AFP BEIJING China may soon expand the role of foreign institutional investors in its securities markets, more than doubling the combined amount they can invest to US$lO billion ($16.6 billion), state media said yesterday. Qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs) have nearly reached the current
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          723 25  -  Greg Waldron FOR years, advertising executives have complained that clients just don't appreciate creativity. For their part, clients have wondered whether the slick campaigns advertising firms come up with have more to do with boosting the ad firm's chances of
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          463 25  -  Jasmine Yin To produce goods designed, built entirely in Singapore jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg IF MULTINATIONAL IT company Dell has its way, the next printer or plasma television screen that you own will be designed and built entirely in Singapore. To diversify its nondesktop business operations, the
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            60 25 Mr Daniel McHugh (left) has been appointed senior vice-president (commercial) of DHL Express Asia Pacific and a member of the company's Asia Pacific management board, the world's leading logistics company announced. He will be responsible for the commercial functions of sales, marketing, pricing, market research, product
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            83 25 The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) ranked among the top 10 providers of executive education worldwide in a survey released by the Financial Times. With its Asian base here, it also ranked No 3 worldwide for open-enrolment programmes. The programmes ranked in the
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        899 26  -  Valeric Law The link between luxury time-pieces and the planned casinos may be more intricate than one thinks valerie@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore luxury watch industry is ticking with excitement while waiting for the day when the two integrated resorts (IR) with casinos are fully operational
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        355 26 Bloomberg DEUTSCHE Bank plans to start its first hedge fund for Muslim investors, shunning investments in alcohol, tobacco and securities that pay interest The fund, targeting institutional investors and individuals in Asia and the Middle East, will probably be launched by
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        681 28  -  Ariel Tarn Innovation is the key to Agilent's success ariel@newstoday.com.sg I AGILENT Technologies thrives on I innovation and it is banking on its ability to churn out cutting-edge solutions to stay afloat as new technological waves sweep the global digital landscape. The precision measurement equipment company
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        341 28 Ariel Tarn AVAYA wants to connect people and processes in an enterprise environment intelligently and has unveiled a series of products aimed at realising this vision of smart, real-time communications. The products are part of an emerging category called business communications applications, which comprises software
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          623 29  -  Andrew Stern Protecting Web-based applications calls for different security methods infotech@newstoday.com.sg EVERY year, companies move more of their mis-sion-critical applications and data into Web browsers, as browser-based applications are easier to roll out, support and maintain. As browsers and client-script-ing languages become more powerful and Web
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      634 30  -  Felix Cheong TTE IS a knight, suave and JTLimpetuous. Living in a time of I crisis, he's pressed into service and, time and again, gives a good account of himself. When he's denied a promotion, this jaded warrior plots against the I establishment, taking by force
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      375 32  -  David Chew COME September next year, your daily commute into the city might be changed dramatically in an artistic sense, that is. The nation's first visual arts biennale, Singapore Biennale 2006 (SB2006), will be helmed by Japanese art critic and academic Fumio Nanjo,
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      450 32  -  Yong Shu Chiang First local animated feature to open next year in Spore, overseas in Cannes, France shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU'VE ever wondered about the origins of the Chinese zodiac, Singapore's first animated feature will provide an answer. Zodiac, The Race Begins is homegrown company Cubix Pictures'
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        83 33 Janusz Oleiniczak, who recorded all of Chopin's music for Roman Polanski's The Pianist, will be in Singapore for a piano solo recital at a one-night-only concert today at Bpm at the Singapore Conference Hall. Proposed by The Embassy of the Republic of
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        70 33 Singapore Idol finalist Leandra Rasiah will be performing at the annual fund-raising concert of the Infant Jesus Homes and Children's Centre. The two-hour concert will be held on Friday at Bpm at the DBS Auditorium. Nominated Member of Parliament Eunice Olsen will be present
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        82 33 Catch German playwright Bertolt Brecht's classic play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, from Thursday to Sunday at Bpm at the University Cultural Centre Theatre. Presented by Theatre Training Research Programme, the play revolves around the events following an insurrection by the governor of a Caucasian
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      694 34  - Grit your teeth go for that check-up Lynette Leong Regular visits to the dentist will save you a lot of money and unnecessary agony in the long run health@newstoday.com.sg IN case you are thinking of putting off next week's dental appointment, don't When dentists advise a halfyearly or yearly visit,
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        53 34 This public forum will address the benefits of exercise and advise on how to improve quality of life in your golden years. Date: May 21 Time: 1 Oam to 12pm Venue: Alexandra Hospital, Auditorium Registration: $2 per person Enquiries: Elaine Teo at 6379 3561,
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        107 34 "Save Your Breath Singapore!" a public exhibition, aims to create greater awareness of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). COPD has been identified by the Ministry of Health as the seventh leading cause of death in Singapore. Highlights of the exhibition include free lung function, bone density,
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        48 34 This public forum will be conducted in Hindi. Topics to be covered to include cataract, glaucoma, diabetes and retinopathy. Date: May 22 Time: 3 pm to 5 pm Venue: Alexandra Hospital, Auditorium Registration: $2 per person Enquiries: Alice How at 6379 3741 or email alice_how@alexhosp.com.sg
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      210 36 WOMEN pregnant with boys may be less forgetful than those carrying girls, said Canadian researchers recently, according to Reuters. The researchers said they found evidence that women who gave birth to boys consistently outperformed mums of girls in tests that specifically taxed
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      344 36 -KRT LOST amid the controversy over Terri Schiavo's feeding tube and the recriminations surrounding her recent death is the heightened awareness of eating disorders. Medical records suggest that Schiavo's eventual vegetative condition was caused by bulimia and a severe potassium imbalance in her
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      43 36 Learn the benefits of stubbing out that cigarette butt for good. Until May 22, if you are a smoker, you can call the Health Promotion Board's Quit Line at 1 800 438 2000 to help you quit the habit.
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      290 36 MediaCorp celebrity Guo Liang is a firm believer in eating in moderation, he tells Elisa Yang. The popular television host and actor is a guest DJ on Capital Radio 95.8FM every Monday and Wednesday. He has also started filming a new Channel 8 drama, Beyond The Axis
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        648 45  -  RAZALI ABDULLAH Like all the masters, Benitez adopts siege mentality as his men prepare for battle against the giants of Milan GREAT managers think alike. Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho share a man-manage-ment philosophy that has translated into Champions League glory. And Rafael Benitez (above) is
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        409 45  -  NBA PLAYOFFS -AP Seattle 101 San Antonio 89 SEATTLE Luke Ridnour skittered everywhere, dribbling around defenders and flipping in jumpers and runners. He showed no fear against Tim Duncan, bumping the big man on his way for lay-ups. It was a
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      454 46  -  TAN YO-HINN Two-time world champs could be in town in November, but July quadrangular is off yohinn@newstoday.com.sg ARGENTINA are currently the world's third best national team in the Fifa world rankings. They lead the South American standings in qualifying for World Cup 2006 and former skipper Diego
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      459 46 -AP GOLF Byron Nelson Championship IRVING, Texas Ted Purdy, 31, had a chance for a birdie on every hole and closed with a 5-under-par 65 to win the Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) for his first US PGA
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      191 46 -AFP ATLANTA Anmka Sorenstam fired a five-under-par 67 here Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to polish off a 10-stroke victory at the LPGA's USI.6 million ($2.65 million) Chick-fil-A Charity Championship. Sorenstam, who started the day with a 10-shot lead, posted a 72-hole total of 23-under 265 to
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      225 47 AFP LONDON Never one to keep his opinions to himself, Manchester United legend Eric Cantona believes that Malcolm Glazer's takeover of his former club could be a disaster. Cantona, who played a key role in inspiring United to the top when he played wth
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      640 47 Agencies LONDON Football fans are fickle. After his first six games in charge at The Hawthorns, Bryan Robson faced a fans' rebellion. The West Brom faithful booed mercilessly the manager who had once been a hero as a player at the
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