Today, 6 July 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    22 1 TODAY /\AediaCorp mica (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating utFßiitS Wednesday July 6,2005 todayonline.com TODAY Freat incorporating utFC^tS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Wednesday July 6,2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon EU will not accept Iranian resumption of N-weapons activity
      229 1 -AFP WASHINGTON The European Union will not accept a resumption of any nuclear arms activity by Iran, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said yesterday after talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "The Europeans will never accept a resumption of
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      Lock icon London Madrid Moscow New York OR Paris?
      876 1  -  Rohit Brijnath Friendships forged, stars wheeled out anything to host the Games NEW York Senator Hillary Clinton had, one presumes, just about shrugged off her jet lag, adjusted her hair, cemented her dazzling smile in place and was contemplating attacking her breakfast, before
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      Lock icon US stocks, oil close higher
      136 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks posted solid gains yesterday as an unexpectedly strong increase in monthly factory orders reinforced the view that the economy is on track. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 68.36 points to 10,371.80, the Nasdaq advanced 21.38 points to 2,078.75 and
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        Time to scale the Everest of our prejudice
        904 2  -  Liang Dingzi In the emerging new Republic, should only people born here qualify as 'real' Singaporeans? LET me first congratulate National University of Singapore (NUS) mechanical engineering undergraduate Teo Yen Kai for reaching the summit of Mount Everest I admire him, like
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      Riveting proposal
      648 3  -  Tor Ching Li Private flatowners slow in replacing window rivets advised to negotiate collectively with contractors for cheaper rates chingli@newstoday.com.sg SOME 92,000 high-rise property homeowners are putting themselves at risk of a $5,000 fine and six months' jail. That is, if they fail to retrofit their outward-open-ing casement
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      Lock icon Flashpoint revisited as 6 attack Indian shrine
      651 4 LUCKNOW (India) An attack on India's biggest and controversial religious site yesterday has resulted in six gunmen being killed. Unidentified militants blew up a security wall with a car bomb and stormed one of India's most revered Hindu religious sites, Ram Janmabhoomi. The
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      Lock icon Animal rights protest staged at Jurong
      269 6  -  Jasmine Yin DRESSED in shirts and ties, they looked like any other office worker at the International Business Park (IBP) in Jurong yesterday. Except that Mr Dan Abril, 32, and Mr Bryan Barrientos, 24, were crouching inside a 0.7 m by 0.5 m wire-mesh
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      Ministers get guidelines on gifts and business
      348 6  -  Tor Ching Li Code of conduct for ministers, PAP MPs overhauled chingli@newsto day, com. sg THE code of conduct governing how ministers and Members of Parliament should act in their personal or business dealings was re-issued yesterday, after having undergone a comprehensive review.
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      To Singapore with Love, Happy 40th Birthday
      254 6  -  Dawn Quek SINGAPORE'S turning 40 and she is getting a photo tribute as a birthday gift Called To Singapore with Love, this limited-edition 264-page hardback photo art book hits bookstores today. Not just another coffee-table book, it comprises the works of some of
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      Lock icon MediaCorp, BBC renew radio agreement
      282 8 MEDIACORP Technologies has renewed a transmission agreement with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). This will see the BBC World Service Radio Broadcast remain on Singapore's airwaves indefinitely. The BBC World Service 88.9FM has been transmitting in Singapore since 1976 and reaches an audience of 300,000
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      Nowhere to hide
      385 8  -  Ansley Ng New Cisco software can recognise faces in disguise ansley@newstoday.com.sg WOULD-BE crooks should think twice before entering properties where Cisco's new Facial Recognition Software Solution is used even if they are in thick disguise. The system recognises facial features and takes only five seconds to identify
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      Lock icon Terror webs 'are weakening'
      550 10  -  But it's not time to relax yet, notes leading terrorism and Islam expert Shibu Kuttickal Itty shibu@newstoday.com.sg WHILE terrorist networks in Indonesia are weakening and will continue to do so in the days ahead, the Jemaah Islamiyah 01) is likely to stay intact but not with
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      Lock icon Top Egyptian envoy 'kidnapped by Zarqawi-led group'
      241 10 -AFP DUBAI The group of Al Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, claimed yesterday that it had carried out the recent abduction of Egypt's top envoy in Baghdad, Arab satellite television reported. Ambassador-designate Ihab Al Sharif, 51, was kidnapped late on
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      Lock icon Police officer killed in Thailand's troubled south
      161 10 -AFP BANGKOK A police officer was killed last night in troubled southern Thailand, yet another member of the security forces to fall victim to a string of brutal attacks over the past month, police said. The body of the 44-year-old sergeant, who was
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      Lock icon Rice to visit East Asia over N Korean crisis
      312 12 -AFP US anxious about stalled multilateral talks WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a trip to China, South Korea and Japan beginning on Friday, the State Department said yesterday amid US anxiety over stalled multilateral talks to end
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      Lock icon I welcome impeachment, says Arroyo
      155 12 Agencies MANILA President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday she would welcome being impeached so that she could refute opposition allegations that she rigged last year's elections. "The impeachment is uncalled for and will just be a waste of time. But if this move is the only
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      Lock icon Policies hurting Howard's popularity: Poll
      112 12 Agencies SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister John Howard's popularity has plummeted as his conservative government plans to take on unions over radical labour reforms, according to two polls published yesterday. The plunge in popularity comes as the government has set industrial relations reform at the top
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    • A MediShield Feature
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        MediShield – integrated insurance plans for better coverage
        855 13 MediShield integrated insurance plans for better coverage We all do not hope for large hospital bills, but if there were, will we be prepared? Faced with a large hospital bill, we can make sure we are prepared if we have at least MediShield.This catastrophic insurance scheme wills cover you for
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Sweden passes Peeping Tom law, gets free snow
        88 14 The Swedish Parliament has added to the country's reputation for being sexually liberated by passing a law that makes looking up ladies' skirts legal. The motion was carried 332 to 17, reported ABC Online. To celebrate the new law, the Parliament's second
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        Thief leaves photos of self at crime scene
        106 14 A German thief effectively signed his own arrest warrant after photographing himself at the scene of a crime and accidentally leaving the pictures for police to discover. Police in the northern town of Neumuenster said the youth stole a digital camera during
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        Man nabbed because his breasts were too big
        99 14 A Russian man who tried to sit for university entrance exams in Elace of his sister was caught ecause his breasts were too big, reported ananova.com Security staff got suspicious because the "girl" had bright make-up, "outstanding feminine features" and breasts of
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      Lock icon First stem cell hospital planned
      308 14 AFP Cells to come from umbilical cord blood SEOUL A South Korean medical company plans to open the world's first hospital exclusively providing treatment using stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood. The move offers patients worldwide hope for a cure for debilitating diseases. Histostem
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      Focus On The Family
      229 16  -  Dr James Dobson Tbiws byi THE VALUE OF ADVERSITY The self-doubt that typically accompanies adolescence, if experienced in small doses, may not be all that bad. When we see our children struggling with the conflicts associated with the teen years, especially low self-esteem, it's tempting to
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      Together, the old need not be lonely
      266 16  -  BENJAMIN GAN If there are communities for the elderly, they won't need children's support I Letter from IN HIS piece, "That lonely old man could be you" (July 5), Mr Jerry Siah Eng Kiat said that "we are becoming islands as we grow
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      Maid issues: Understanding helps
      257 16  -  JOANNE LEONG Letter from. I READ with interest the recent debate over the proposed four mandatory days off a month for maids. Perhaps the Association of Employment Agencies (Singapore) could have handled the reactions of the public better if they had done some surveys separately with
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      Olympic Park: Learn from Australia's lesson
      149 16  -  TAN KOK TIM Letter from THE Olympic Committee is in town to decide the host for the 2012 Games. Although Singapore has not won a gold yet, this meeting will give us a few days of glory on the world sporting stage. The countries
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      Letter came 4 months after traffic offence
      107 16  -  S ZAINAL Letter from I WAS stopped by a traffic policeman on March 4, along the Pan Island Expressway, for a traffic offence. The officer, after taking my particulars, told me to wait for a letter of notification of offence to be sent
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      Lock icon Can't a girl have dreams?
      489 18  -  RENE YAP Don't give boys the wrong idea and widen the communication gap I Letter fro ml I READ "First a wife, then a career woman" by Ms Frances Ong Hock Lin (July 5) and was amused by many of her assertions about modern women
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      Why dads may say no to paternity leave
      232 18  -  I LAU WAH YUEN Letter from I REFER to Mr Choo Eng Keong's letter, "Many dads keen to pitch in if given more paternity leave" (July 3). Much attention has been directed at raising Singapore's birthrate, but to little or no avail.
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      Go ahead! Tick off your boss, rant about a date
      617 20 Nothing is off-limits to a blogger, but watch out for backlash SO WHAT happens when you have a bad day at work, and come home still angry with your colleague or boss whom you think doesn't deserve his or her
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      More foreigners buy private property here
      327 22  -  Valeric Law Demand from locals remain weak amid low yields valerie@newstoday.com.sg THE proportion of foreigners buying residential property in Singapore has been rising rapidly in recent years, according to real estate consultancy Knight Frank. Foreigners made up about 25 per cent of private home
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      Lock icon Temasek confirms investment in China bank
      120 22 AFP TEMASEK Holdings confirmed yesterday it was investing in China Construction Bank, the country's third-largest lender, but declined to give further details pending approval from regulatory authorities. "We are pleased to have this opportunity to invest in China Construction Bank," Temasek spokeswoman Rachel Lin
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    • MarketWATCH
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        SGX most active
        58 22 By volume MMI LabroyMar StarHub UTAC Macqlntlnfra Man Wah ElectroTech Cosco Corp UniFiber PFood Close 0.455 0.895 1.850 0.670 1.140 0.305 0.565 2.010 0.385 0.855 Change +0.045 +0.065 -0.060 +0.010 -0.020 +0.010 +0.040 -0.005 +0.010 +11.0 +7.8 -3.1 +1.5 -1.7 +1.8 +2.0 -1.3 +1.2 '000 35,862 29,980
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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        World markets
        60 22 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 11,616.70 14,124.80 4,253.60 6,232.04 1,018.81 898.87 663.52 1,131.16 1,817.02 212.54 7,220.25 Pis -34.85 -53.07 +18.90 -39.16 -2.90 +0.18 -6.26 -7.71 +1.35 -0.71 -57.06 -0.30
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 22 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Gold us$/oi 426.90 Silver us$/oi 6.935 Platinum us$/oz 868.00 Rubber centsAg 268.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,436.00 Brent crude us$/barrel 58.04
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 22 US$ 0.5886 UK£ 0.3354 Yen 65.845 HK$ 4.5752 RM 2.2365 Euro 0.4947 Rupiah 5,816.3 Baht 24.456 Peso 33.118 A$ 0.7922 Indian Rs 25.652 Won 619.13 C$ 0.7311 Yuan 4.8715 NZ$ 0.8704 NTS 18.831
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        4 22 ST Index 2,222.61 +1.45
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        203 22 Dow Jones SHARES rose yesterday, led by gains in selected blue chips, but ended well off their intra-day highs on late profittaking and economic worries. The Purchasing Managers' Index for June released late on Monday night declined to 50.5 points from 51 points, suggesting that a recovery in the
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        Lock icon Warrants hotting up
        398 24 Channel News Asia Turnover on SGX accounts for 5% of total volume THE Singapore warrants market, currently the sixth largest in the world, looks set to climb higher. In terms of both volume and value, trade in structured warrants for the first six months of this year
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        CORPORATEbriefs
        241 24 Singapore Post and Prudential Assurance aim to double the distribution network of their tie-up to 38 branches by year's end. The partnership began in January with 1 8 Sing Post branches offering Prudential's financial planning products and services. Keppel Corp unit Keppel AmFeld won a US$l74-million ($296-million) order to
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      • the business of enterprise
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          Lunch Actually looks affranchising love
          346 26  -  Christie Loh ONE year after it burst into the scene offering lunchtime dates, Lunch Actually is already toying with franchise plans. The matchmaking agency is looking to enter other Asian cities with similar demographics, such as Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, within the next year
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          Ex-security guard scores in business
          614 26  -  Chow Perm Nee He turns his passion for foosball into money spinner pennnee@newstodav.com.se HIS is a story of turning a childhood passion into a viable business. Thirty-year-old Mike Tang has been playing foosball a table game based on the popular sport of soccer since he
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      407 30  -  Mervin Tay Project SuperStar judges' preferences differ greatly from audience's picks WHAT do industry experts know? Not much, the public seems to think. Project SuperStar, MediaCorp TV Channel U's Mandarin singing contest, is not unlike Singapore Idol. It's a show that eliminates singers with the
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      337 32  -  Jason Tan Singapore Polytechnic gives students a hand in the fame game jason@newstoday.com.sg FIRST it was Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah, then it was Miss Singapore Universe contestant Tay Vi Ning. Now, Singapore Polytechnic's (SP) icfoZ-worshippers have found three more students past and present to support
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      209 32  -  Mervin lay SINGAPORE Idol runner-up Sylvester Sim (picture) showed up at Monday's recording of Project SuperStar to support contestant Leon Lim, whom he met in an early round of Singapore Idol. The episode will be shown tonight at 8.30 on MediaCorp TV Channel U. He spoke
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        194 33 Agencies Tom Cruise vehicle tops box office in Singapore and the US THE second Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise collaboration, War of the Worlds, may not have had the best reception from critics, but it didn't matter as moviegoers worldwide flocked to cinemas to see it After only five
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      521 39 AP Santos' desire to retain Robinho stalls Real Madrid move MADRID Robinho's transfer to Real Madrid is being prevented by Santos' insistence that the Brazil striker stays until next year's World Cup, his agent said yesterday. "The problem isn't the money anymore, but the refusal by
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      399 39 AFP BEIJING The China Golf Association (CGA) yesterday announced the launch of a US$B million ($15.8 million) professional tour to nurture the game in the world's most populous nation. "The future for golf in China the real, long-term future is not paying large sums
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        590 40 Agencies Liverpool fans upset over Gerrard's quit decision LONDON Steven Gerrard walked alone yesterday. The Liverpool captain ended 13 months of intense speculation over his Anfield future by informing the European champions that he wants to bring his 17--year association with the club to an end.
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        380 40 Agencies BASEL, Switzerland Twenty-four hours after his almost flawless win over Andy Roddick, Roger Federer returned to his home city of Basel yesterday to a crowd of about 3,000 fans. To the newly crowned Wimbledon champion, that's enough to make him cry.
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      297 41 -AP MEXICO CITY Mexico internationals Salvador Carmona and Aaron Galindo were suspended for one year yesterday by their national football federation for positive doping tests. Federation president Alberto de la Torre said both defenders took the anabolic steroid norandrosterone. He said they may have received
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      544 42  -  TAN SuperstarThorpe dismisses suggestions his recent sojourn will slow him down yohinn@newstoday.com. sg STILL only 23, he has already garnered five Olympic gold medals in the last two Games. There is also the small matter of 11 world championship golds, nine Pan-Pacific titles and 10
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      247 42 AFP INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge had a special word for the five cities vying for the 2012 Olympics: Don't give up even if you do not win the vote today. "The election of the host city for the 2012 Games will
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      87 42 FROM American senators to boxing legends, World Cup winners and global leaders, a galaxy of stars shone in Singapore yesterday as they lobbied for their respective cities. New York senator Hillary Clinton (from left), Muhammad Ali and former US swimmer Donna Devarona backed the Big Apple.
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      459 43  -  CUBBYLEONG British PM ignores Chirac's cuisine jibes cubby@newstoday.com.sg IF IT was a joke, no one in the London camp found it very funny. With the English capital reportedly just behind Paris in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games, French President Jacques Chirac's derogatory remarks
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      359 43  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg HE WASN'T even here, but everyone was talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday. At Moscow's final press conference, rumours were rife that the world leader would make a surprise appearance at the 117 th International Olympic Committee
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      791 44  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS I England skipper desperate for hometown win I ON MOST nights of the week, the teenage David Beckham could be seen running along the streets of east London. But the Real Madrid midfielder didn't always have a ball at his feet Growing up in Leytonstone,
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      144 44 There are three possibilities. One, there is a misinterpretation by the journalist. Two, there is a mistake with the press release. Three, President Putin will be coming. Moscow 2012 General Manager Alexander Chernov, on speculation that President Putin is coming Finding another David Beck' ham in east London
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      496 45  -  TAN YO-HINN In a break from tension, performers delight the lOC crowd with thrilling show yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IT HAD been an intense couple of days of lobbying, meetings, short chats, a quick word, maybe a nod and a wink, even. The bid ambassadors of the five cities striving
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      192 45 How the opening day will unfold: 9am: Presentation by Paris 10.30 am: Presentation by New York 12pm: Presentation by Moscow 2.30pm: Presentation by London 4pm: Presentation by Madrid 5.15pm: Report by the Evaluation Commission 5.45pm: Vote to elect the 2012 Host City 7.30pm: Announcement
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