Today, 2 June 2005, Afternoon Edition

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  • 11 1 TODAY /\AediaCorp incorporating totrCmS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Thursday June 2,2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 513 1 AFP Dutch vote 61.6% against it THE HAGUE Dutch voters fired a second deadly shot to the heart of the European project yesterday, rejecting the first EU Constitution after a campaign that exposed deep divisions over the direction of Europe. Dutch voters spurned the charter
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    • 637 1  -  Val Chua Today Exclusive val@newstoday.com.sg ABOUT 350 Singapore students taking longdistance courses offered by the Auston International Group have been hit after its Australian university partner abruptly called off its joint teaching programme. The University of Western Sydney (UWS) called off the seven-year-old deal
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  • 117 1 -AFP NEW YORK Wall Street weathered a sharp rise in oil prices yesterday and swung higher after a survey showing a slower but still-growing US manufacturing sector lifted the bond market, helping stocks as well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 82.39 points to
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    • 529 2  -  Clement Mesenas China may suspect he spied for Taiwan asTiananmen link looms Foreign Editor clement@newstoday.com.sg THE mystery surrounding the detention of Hong Kong-based journalist Ching Cheong took another twist yesterday when his wife said that Beijing probably suspected he had been spying for Taiwan. Ms Mary
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    • 77 2 Ola Kala (All's Well), an aerial trapeze spectacle of acrobatic and technical feats, was performed by Les Arts Sauts in front of Parkview Square in Bugis. The performance marks Les Arts Sauts' success in reinventing its performance space around a 12m high-cross trapeze. Singapore will be
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    • 489 3  -  Lee U-Wen Today Exclusive Students may get to stay in nearby HDB blocks u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THEY are already preparing to study at a campus in the heart of the city. Now students of the Singapore Management University (SMU) may be able to live there as well. SMU's
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    • 533 4 AFP Free newspapers get bigger slice of pie, traditional media feel the bite SEOUL First, a disclaimer. This newspaper did not commission this article. But, a conference of newspaper executives heard yesterday that while the traditional print media grapples with how to make money out of
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    • 271 4 SINGAPORE'S civil servants will get a midyear Annual Variable Component (AVC) of 0.4 month and an additional one-off payment of $200 in next month. The Public Service Division (PSD) announcement comes a day after the Government accepted the National Wages Council's latest guidelines.
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    • 245 4 JOHOR BARU Singapore's negative media reports on crime in Johor may have adversely affected tourist arrivals from the republic last year. Statistics from the Johor Tourism Action Council showed that the number of Singaporeans entering the country dropped from 10.8 million
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    • 530 6  -  Derrick A Paulo Just fill in these forms and fulfil some eligibility criteria derrick@newstoday.com.sg "HI, I'D like to collect the application form for the certificate of eligibility for the elected presidency." "Is it for yourself?" asked the Elections Department staff behind the counter. "It's for an
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 101 6 Channel NewsAsia A second man, Muhammad Kadar, 29, has been charged with the murder of a 69-year-old woman in Boon Lay on May 6. Madam Tham Weng Kuan was found in the living room of her flat. Her daughter, Madam Loh Yin Leng, had
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      • 111 6 Channel NewsAsia The contest is on to find a name for Singapore's new low-cost terminal in Changi which is expected to be ready next year. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore is looking for a name that best reflects the terminal's role and function.
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      • 60 6 NewsRadio 93.8 Veteran actor Leong Nyet Chin, better known as Liang Tian, was yesterday fined $1,000 and disqualified from driving for eight months for using a mobile phone while driving. He also had his mobile phone forfeited. The 62-year-old, who plays supporting roles
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      • 63 6 NewsRadio 93.8 A policeman has been sentenced to 20 months jail after pleading guilty to corruption charges. V N Arasakumar accepted bribes totalling $1 3,350 from pub operators and former triad members. In return, he used his influence to protect their interests. The station
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      • 56 6 NewsRadio 93.8 A 33-year-old housewife, Pauline Ang, has been jailed for 5 months after admitting to ill-treating her 24-year-old maid by punching, slapping and caning her. The court heard this abuse started in August 2002 and went on for one-and-a-half years. In mitigation, Ang said
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    • 671 8  -  Derrick A Paulo in Bhutan First Singapore Executive Expedition returns from Bhutan, having helped empower disabled kids derrick@newstoday.com.sg EVERYWHERE that Aaron Lam went, his little Bhutanese friend, Jigmi, was sure to follow. When the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) director had lunch, Jigmi would sit with him and
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  • world news
    • 157 10 JAKARTA Indonesian police have detained seven people as part of a probe into last weekend's bombing in a Christian market town on Sulawesi island, which killed 21 people. Under Indonesia's anti-terror laws, the seven will be interrogated for a week before police decide whether to
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    • 150 10 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's criminal court yesterday cited a lack of evidence in acquitting four Thai Muslims accused of belonging to the regional extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah 01) and plotting to bomb foreign embassies. The accuser was Singaporean national Arifin bin Ali, who was arrested
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    • 518 10 AFP Envelope with 'bacteria' sent to Indonesian mission in Canberra CANBERRA Staff at Indonesia's Embassy in Australia have been released from isolation after an envelope containing potentially dangerous bacteria was sent to the mission, officials said early today. However, the embassy would remain closed
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    • GLOBALroundup
    • 300 12 AFP UN alleges 'serious misconduct' in deals UNITED NATIONS UN Secre-tary-General Kofi Annan has carried out the first sacking of one of his top officials over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, a UN spokesman said yesterday. Mr Joseph Stephanides was dismissed for "serious misconduct" over the
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    • 49 12 A bomb attack by suspected Taliban militants at a mosque in the Afghan city of Kandahar during the funeral of a leading cleric killed 20 people including the police chief of the capital Kabul. Over 40 were seriously wounded, said officials. AFP
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    • 118 12 -AFP LONDON A British woman offered a £10,000 ($28,487) reward yesterday to anyone who can help her find Alfie, a four-year-old terrier who she says was kidnapped in May last year while she was walking her pack of eight dogs in the park. Faversham resident Justine Marlowe,
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    • 120 12 -AFP WASHINGTON The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr William Donaldson, announced yesterday that he was quitting his post as the top US financial market watchdog. Mr Donaldson, a long-time friend of President George W Bush's family, had come under fire in business and
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    • 192 12 AFP LONDON Ageing rock star Rod Stewart is set to become a father again at the age of 60 and will marry pregnant fiancee Penny Lancaster, who is in her thirties, after their baby is born. The child, officially Stewart's sixth, is due
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    • 283 14 -AFP NEW DELHI India has banned all scenes showing smoking, cigarette packs or tobacco advertisements in movies and TV programmes, stepping up its war against tobacco use, a government official said yesterday. "The new rules will take effect as law from
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      • 729 16  -  William Pfaff France rejected the European Constitution largely because of a generalised fear of change news@newstoday.com.sg PARIS The French have been in crisis for 30 years. It has become a way of life the Crisis even a rather comforting one, in that it
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    • 238 18  -  Dr James Dobson Tbnws by........... MUSIC IN THE HOME One of the most popular guests on our 30-minute Focus on the Family radio broadcasts was Mr John Waltrip, a music specialist who has had 30 years of experience in teaching children to play musical instruments. Parents,
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    • 123 18  -  CHRISTIE LOH Letter from I REFER to your article "Chemicals in plastics 'harming unborn boys'" (May 28). I have observed that food operators use cling-wrap that is meant for industrial use. It is my understanding that such cling-wrap has been pre-coated with some powder that
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    • 613 18  -  Kate Smith TWO related stories in Today have inspired me to comment this week: Constance Singam's "Mirror, mirror on the wa11..." (May 30) and Lim Kuan Chiang's "Of 'Glamazons' and Blonde Barbie dolls" (June 1). My husband first moved to Singapore two years ago, leaving
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    • 462 18  -  SEAH LEONG KHAI I Letter from I REFER to Today's report on the growing popularity of tabloid papers ("Tabloid Fever Sweeping Across Newspaper World", June 1). Today was started as a tabloid, a wise move indeed. The Times of London went tabloid last November. So did The
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    • 378 20  -  MURALI KUMARA SHARMA See waiting at hospitals in perspective I Letter from OF LATE, there have been many letters from readers on the time one has to wait at hospitals. Still, I would like to record my appreciation to our doctors and hospital staff who are
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    • READERS' SHORT TAKES ON WAITING
      • 170 20 I sympathised with Jeremy Lim on the problem of medical appointments being changed ("The hospital waiting game", May 20). On April 29, I turned up at Tan Tock Seng medical centre clinic 2A earlier than my appointed time. My appointment with Dr Tan
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      • 141 20 I have to bring my father-in-law to the National University Hospital on an average of once a month to see the doctor. We usually have to wait for an hour or two past our appointed timeslot to get to see the doctor.
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    • 131 20  -  SOHCHINHENGI I Letter from Director (Retirement Investment) Central Provident Fund Board I REFER to the letter, "CPF too slow in evaluating Reit" by Ms Jessica Tee Puay Koon (May 28). Ms Tee commented that the CPF Board should speed up the inclusion of a Real Estate
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    • 135 20  -  GOPINATH MENON I Letter from THE Ministry of Education's plans for 10 secondary schools to offer Malay as a third language are a welcome sign. It took the tragedy of the tsunami and our valiant efforts to assist in the rescue efforts to understand the importance
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    • 287 22  -  ■victor keong, asp I Letter from IAsst Director (Covering) Public Affairs Department I REFER to the letter by Ms Jessica Chan ("Questions arise in Tony's arrest", May 27). Acting on several complaints of outrage of modesty which had occurred on
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    • Keep closer eye on pet shops
      • 213 22  -  PRUE HARRISON] Letter from I REFER to Goh Boon Choo's News Comment "Anti-animal abuse rules lack bite" (June 1). I am so glad you raised this issue in your paper. It is time the Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) realised the degree to which lax
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      • 153 22  -  SEAH BEE CHENG] Letter from I AGREE that there is a lack of animal welfare-related legislation and enforcement. The problems of animal abuse, abandonment and over-breeding are increasing, as evidenced by the huge number of animals being put down by the Society for the
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    • 377 24  -  Chow Perm Nee He aims to put firm on solid footing in 9 months pennnee@newstoday.com.sg IN AN apparent move to rebuild investor confidence, embattled Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) has appointed a prominent corporate figure as its chairman. The company announced yesterday that
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    • 367 24 Bloomberg AIRBUS, the world's biggest maker of commercial aircraft, faces demands from Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Qantas Airways because of a six-month delay in delivering its new A3BO aircraft SIA, scheduled to be the first carrier to fly the A3BO, may seek penalty
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    • business news
      • 222 26  -  Chow Perm Nee THE manufacturing sector expanded last month, driven by higher new orders from the domestic market. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) which factors in inventory, new orders and exports posted a reading of 51 last month, an increase of 1.3 points from
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      • 278 26  -  Chow Perm Nee Members managing payments better pennnee@newstoday.com.sg MORE Singaporeans are paying their credit card bills on time, and managing their card repayments better, if statistics by the Credit Bureau Singapore (CBS) is anything to go by. Statistics for first quarter of this year showed a
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      • 122 26 THE number of new bankruptcies in Singapore hit an 11-month high in April, according to latest Government data. Figures from the Ministry of Law showed that the number of bankruptcy orders for both individuals and companies rose to 378 last month its highest level since April last
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      • 236 27 SUNTEC Real Estate Investment Trust (Suntec Reit) and City Developments said in separate statements yesterday that they were in discussions about Reit-related transactions but neither identified their potential partner or partners, or gave details of the talks. Their comments follow a
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      • Market WATCH
        • 61 27 Index Nikkei 225 Value CI Pis 11,329.67 +53.08 .hange +0.47 Hang Seng 13,873.07 +6.00 +0.04 Ml Ordinaries 4,103.70 +33.30 +0.82 Taiwan Wtd 5,971.62 -39.94 -0.66 Korea Comp 969.51 -0.70 -0.07 KLCI 861.96 +1.23 +0.14 SET Index 667.52 -0.03 0.00 Jakarta Comp 1,082.94 -5.22 -0.48 Phils Comp 1,964.31 +34.93
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        • 90 27 SHARES ended mixed yesterday as interest in select blue chips boosted a lacklustre market, dealers said. The ST Index rose 15.1 6 points, or 0.7 percent, to 2,176.93. But in the broad market, losers led gainers 234 to 177 on volume of 533 million shares worth $61 4 million.
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        • 36 27 US$ 0.5975 UK£ 0.3294 Yen 64.905 HK$ 4.6495 RM 2.2695 Euro 0.4873 Rupiah 5,712.5 Baht 24.329 Peso 32.596 A$ 0.7976 Indian Rs 26.151 Won 603.69 C$ 0.7505 Yuan 4.9438 NZ$ 0.8558 NTS 18.746
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        • 26 27 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 419.00 Silver uss/oz 7.42 Platinum uss/„z 869.00 Rubber cnVkg 235.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,414.50 Brent crude uss/borrei 51.07 Information provided by
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      • 417 28  -  Christie Loh Securities watchdog urges Longcheer to distribute settlement from issue manager christie@newstoday.com.sg THE Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) is urging Longcheer Holdings to distribute the $696,000 it got last week from DBS Bank to the subscribers of the company's initial public offering (IPO).
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      • 230 28 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE-listed Fortune Real Estate Investment Trust (Fortune Reit) will be issuing new units worth as much as $428 million, partly to finance its planned acquisition of six properties in Hong Kong. These are City One Shatin, Waldorf Garden, Tsing Vi
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      • 453 30 -AFP US Supreme Court says instructions to jury flawed WASHINGTON The United States Supreme Court has dealt a blow to the government's corporate fraud crackdown, overturning the criminal conviction of Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant that was put out of business for
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      • 177 30 Bloomberg CITIGROUP, the world's biggest financial services company, agreed to pay US$2OB million ($344 million) to settle regulators' claims it pocketed fees that should have been passed on to its mutual funds. The settlement with the United States Securities and
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      • 178 30 Bloomberg AMERICAN International Group (AIG), the insurer accused by New York AttorneyGeneral Eliot Spitzer of duping investors, lowered its net income for the past five years by US$3.9 billion ($6.5 billion), or 10 per cent, to correct improper accounting practices and increase reserves for asbestos
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      • 600 37 BANDWIDTH AND LATENCY WHAT ARE THEY? BANDWIDTH refers to the amount of data than can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. Bandwidth is usually expressed in bits or bytes per second. The amount of time that it takes for data to travel from
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    • 592 40  -  Jeanine Tan and Elisa Chia The guys on Project Superstar may lack the X chromosome but not the X-factor I ieamne@newstoday.com.sg THANK goodness that the "Battle of the Sexes" for the latest Mandopop talent show in town, MediaCorp TV Channel U's Project Superstar, won't take
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    • 462 44  -  David Chew Spirits premieres tonight, hoping to make Chinese opera hip david.chew@newstoday.com.sg FILM director Baz Luhrmann made Shakespeare hip enough for kids with his Romeo +Juliet in 1996. Now, Toy Factory Theatre artistic director Goh Boon Teck wants to do the same for Chinese opera.
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        522 48 Agencies Activist Bob Geldof wants to reach out to more with Live 8 LONDON On Tuesday, Bob Geldof announced plans for a sequel to his 1985 Live Aid benefit concert and march on Edinburgh, on the eve of the G8 summit in Gleneagles. The five-country Live 8
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      • 543 46  -  David Chew Sara Banerji's meeting with Britain's 'exported' children made such an impact she wrote a novel based on their lives david. chew@newstoday. com.sg IN ONE of the most misguided social interventions in recent history, Great Britain exported 130,000 of its children between the
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      • 515 60 AFP TENNIS French Open, men's quarter-finals PARIS Journeymen Mariano Puerta of Argentina and Russia's Nikolay Davydenko struck memorable blows for the underdog yesterday when both triumphed in five-set marathons to reach the French Open semi-finals. Puerta, who served a nine-month
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      • 817 60 Agencies Blues blame everyone but themselves for Cole scandal, pledge to appeal against sanctions LONDON Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck announced that his club would almost certainly appeal against their fine and suspended points deduction for illegally approaching Ashley Cole, then turned his fire on Arsenal for
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      • 314 56  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg IF THE race to host the 2012 Olympics was decided by a click of a mouse, Paris would win the vote at the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) 117 th Session here on July 6. A global
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      • 123 56 WITH greater prize money at stake, the Singapore Emirates Derby 2005 promises to be a major highlight on the horse racing calendar this year. Yesterday, Dubai-based airline Emirates pledged to boost the prize money by $150,000 to $800,000 for the July 17 race. Yu Pang
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      • 585 56 -AP Focused Detroit ignore the Brown saga to level series NBA PLAYOFFS Detroit 106 Miami 96 (Series tied 2-2) AUBURN HILLS, Michigan Larry Brown's uncertain future as coach was not a distraction to the Detroit Pistons. On the contrary, it was barely in their thoughts. Detroit
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      • 484 58  -  JOSE RAYMOND iose@newstoday.com.sg THERE has never been such a bizarre resignation before. Just 10 minutes into their S-League match against Tampines Rovers on Tuesday, Geylang United released a statement, informing the media that their coach, Scott O'Donell, had stepped down. The Eagles went on
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      • 213 58  -  Leong Wee Keat EIGHTEEN Singaporean golfers are set to dash their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, after they lowered the mark for the fastest game of golf yesterday. The group, with handicaps between 2 and 10, completed the game
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