Today, 25 July 2005, Afternoon Edition

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  • 11 1 TODAY /\AediaCorp incorporating utT6£itS MICA (P) 112/07/2005 Monday July 25,2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 144 1 PORT BLAIR (India) An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked India's remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands late yesterday, prompting tsunami warnings and causing panic in parts of the region. The quake struck the island chain about 440 km north-west of Indonesia's tsunami-hit city
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    • 614 1  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Jetstar, Valuair agree to merge under new company shobha@newstoday.com.sg AFTER weeks playing the mating game, lowcost carriers Valuair and Jet Star Asia have tied the knot In the first merger of its kind among the region's 16 budget airlines, the two
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    • 259 1  -  Clement Mesenas Foreign Editor in Vientiane clement@newstoday.com.sg THE issue of whether junta-ruled Myanmar should yield the chairmanship of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) to safeguard the bloc's trade ties with the West was the dominant subject as Asia-Pacific nations opened their top
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    • 72 1 NEWS£\yiEWS Suit of gold Truth can be the casualty in defamation battles/4 Set your own pace, says John Bittleston/25 LATEST NEWS ACCUSED CHILD MOLESTER WAS WRITING MEMOIRS/10 SHUTTLE LAUNCH TO GO AHEAD IF GLITCH RECURS/10 ]p I ARTS XPLOSION Get your FREE 16-page arts events guide at MRT stations in
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    • 17 1 HaHiiiiHniiiimt'*"^ n HAPPY ALONSO /7\ Page 39 RENAULT ty CREATEUR D'AUTOMOBILES I Tackling Myanmar tangle: Page 8
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  • hot news
    • 343 2 AFP SHARM EL SHEIKH Egypt suffered a new bomb scare yesterday, a day after multiple bombings killed 88 people in this Red Sea resort, adding to global terror fears after the recent London attacks. Police arrested close to 100 people as they
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    • 518 2  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Sentiment-lifting changes to the property market last week gives much-needed boost shobha@newstoday.com.sg THERE was a 40-per-cent increase in traffic at some property launches over the weekend following last week's sentiment-lifting changes to the property market One such development was the luxury development
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    • 732 3  -  Clement Mesenas It brings Asean closer, says Kishore Mahbubani Foreign Editor clement@newstoday.com.sg IS SINGAPORE shying away from the Myanmar issue because it does not want to annoy the junta in power and put its large investments in the reclusive state at risk? Definitely not
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    • NEWScomment
      • 923 4  -  Siew Kum Hong Truth is the casualty when defamation cases cost so much to fight DEFAMATION law is a funny thing. I recall a former boss telling a client that the last thing he wanted was to be at the wrong end of a defamation lawsuit, simply
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    • 207 4 HONG KONG Singapore Press Holding's correspondent Ching Cheong, who has been detained in China on allegations of spying, may be released later this week, said his wife. Madam Mary Lau told the weekend publication of the South Morning China Post that she
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  • singapore news
    • 228 6  -  Vinita Ramani ONE of the most precious things Mr Daniel Chung inherited from his father was a diary. In that diary, his father had painstakingly recorded every birth, death and marriage in the Chung family over 10 years. When his father died in 1999, the 62-year-old
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    • 420 6  -  Wong Fei Wan Pilot grassroots scheme for youths launched at Hwa Chong feiwan@newstoday. com, sg THE People's Association (PA) has extended its reach into schools to get more students involved in grassroots activities. Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) which incorporates The Chinese High
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 58 6 938 Live The National Library Board (NLB) has unveiled its direction for the next five years in a roadmap called "Library 2010". The blueprint aims to provide Singaporeans with a world-class library system. The "Library 201 0" roadmap will see libraries reaching out to the whole
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      • 74 6 Channel NewsAsia Police used a stun gun on a 23-year-old man before arresting him for rioting outside a shopping mall along Havelock Road. Early yesterday, police spotted 1 0 youths assaulting a man. All of them fled the scene except for two, one of whom
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      • 16 6 Non-Constituency MP Steve Chia has been re-elected as the National Solidarity Party's secre-tary-general.
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  • world news
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      • 662 8  -  Oon Yeoh M'sia should force junta on reforms and on opting out of Asean chair news@newstoday.com.sg UNITED States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's recent decision to skip the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) dialogue in Laos next week has been interpreted in many ways. US officials have diplomatically
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    • 122 8 AFP I he secret ot British Krime Minister Tony Blair's famous all-year healthy glow has been revealed he spends almost twice as much on make-up as the average British woman. Figures released by Downing Street on Thursday in answer to a parliamentary question showed that Mr Blair
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    • 255 8 Agencies MANILA Security forces were placed on full alert yesterday as demonstrators took to the streets demanding President Gloria Arroyo's resignation over alleged vote-rigging. The focus of the protest rallies is the House of Representatives, which is expected to open a debate
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    • 188 8 AFP WASHINGTON Cyberspace is the new battleground for the United States and China, amid growing concerns about Chinese industrial espionage through various types of computer worms. A "Trojan horse" program used to steal files from infected computers has been traced to servers in
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 59 8 AP Hong Kong hospitals were on the lookout for a mystery illness that has killed nine people in China's southern Sichuan province. Twenty people were hospitalised with the unknown disease in the city of Ziyang. The cases may be linked to farmers who have slaughtered
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      • 59 8 AFP The Indonesian authorities destroyed yesterday 1 8 pigs and 40 fowl infected with bird flu following the deaths of three people from the virus, shelving plans for a wider cull to minimise the impact on farmers. Agriculture Minister Anton Apriantono said officials decided against
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      • 52 8 AFP Israeli security forces thwarted a suicide bombing when they captured a Palestinian in southern Israel wearing an explosive belt. The man had infiltrated into Israel from Gaza and belonged to the Fatah group. He told police that he wanted to detonate his bomb in
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    • 275 10 SAN JOSE (California) A man who the authorities say could be the most prolific US child molester was crafting lengthy memoirs about his sexual exploits with boys when he was arrested, police said. The authorities also said they have cracked "99 per cent" of
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    • 375 10 Agencies Police sorry for killing innocent man, but are unmoved on orders LONDON British police stood their ground yesterday and maintained that all suspected suicide bombers will be shot, if necessary in the head, in spite of mounting criticism over the wrongful
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 44 10 Thieves posing as police officers in Russia stole thousands of rolls of toilet paper, reported ananova.com. The "policemen" stopped three toilet roll-laden trucks which were travelling from St Petersburg to Moscow. The gang members then made off with their cargo.
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      • 96 10 A German builder admitted to stealing hundreds of pairs of ladies' knickers because he likes to wear them for work, reported ananova.com. The police arrested the 23-year-old for stealing panties from neighbours' washing lines after he was trapped by one of his victims. Ms Ingrid Volkmann, 53,
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      • 85 10 AFP A Peruvian university has advertised on a government website offering 2,070 soles ($1,076) for a corpse for its medical students to practice on, despite the fact that buying and selling cadavers is illegal. The macabre advertisement was posted on the site of the Centre for the
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    • 193 10 AFP CAPE CANAVERAL The launch of the space shuttle Discovery will go ahead even if a fuel gauge malfunction reoccurs, Nasa said yesterday, two days ahead of the planned liftoff of the first shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster in 2003. Nasa
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    • NEWSanalysis
      • 715 11  -  Sharon Vasoo It's clear they are trying to shield Rove (picture). But what are they telling people out there? That you can get away with anything? A Congressional source, speaking on the condition of anonymity sharon@newstoday.com.sg HE IS known at the White House as
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  • 254 12  -  Dr James Dobson w TblMTs M by PREMARITAL COUNSELLING (PART I) Premarital counseling can make a great contribution to the stability of the marriage to come. My friend, Dr. Archibald Hart, is a great believer in the value of six to eight counselling sessions before the
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    • 146 12  -  IRAMCHANDRAMESHJ I Letter from I AM truly surprised that the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) had to spend $400,000 to figure out that the best name for Marina Bay is indeed Marina Bay. Also, the new logo for Marina Bay leaves much to be desired it could
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    • 163 14  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from THE recently concluded International Olympic Council (IOC) meeting here, during which tiny Singapore managed to show her face to the world on TV for two minutes, should have received more support from the Government After organising committee chairman Ng Ser
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    • 378 14  -  ANNA IP If Mauritius can run on LPG, why not Lion City? Letter from I AM writing in response to Mr Charles Tan's commentary, "Cheaper than petrol and greener" (July 21). I would like to state that I agree wholeheartedly with Mr Tan.
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    • 128 14  -  LIMSIEWIMM Letter from WHEN it was announced that Singapore would launch a sports school, I was ecstatic. At least there is hope for them, I thought Then further news was released: Entry was reserved for Express students. I was very disappointed.
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    • 300 15  -  SUSAN LEE WOON NGAN Why did it take 15 minutes to get help for man hurt outside a hospital? Letter from ON THE night of July 21, an accident occurred on the road leading to the Novena Square car park, just opposite Tan Tock Seng
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    • 260 15  -  |PARAMESHVATHY SIVAUNGAM U2j2jU23jg jjj^g I Letter from I RESPOND to: 'Turtle soup? Banned species in pet shops" (July 23-24). The findings on the presence of illegal animals on sale in local pet shops has once again highlighted the lack of
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    • 162 15  -  MICHAEL CHUA KHENG HWEE [THOMAS CHEN ZHISHENG I Letter from I WOULD like to highlight my dissatisfaction with the current circular design of the Housing Development Board's (HDB) season parking ticket. As it is perforated in a circular fashion, it is difficult to tear the disc out
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    • 649 16  -  SEAH SENG CHOON Using dubious tactics on consumers gets Case's strongman up in arms coffee with 53, executive director of Case WITH his quiet demeanour, Mr Seah Seng Choon is an unlikely champion of consumers. But the executive director of the Consumers Association of Singapore
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  • Businesstoday
    • 434 17 Dow Jones LOSS-MAKING Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing may be close to turning a profit again as the world's fourthlargest contract chipmaker overhauls its efficiency and costs. In an interview, chief executive Chia Song Hwee said the Singapore-based company is "doing everything under our control" to improve its
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    • MarketWATCH
      • 93 17 THE ST Index had its biggest weekly gain in more than 1 8 months after China scrapped the yuan's peg to the US dollar on Thursday. For the week, the index surged 3.1 per cent, the biggest gain since the five days ended Jan 9, 2004, when it jumped
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      • 35 17 JK£ fen 1K$ (M iuro (upiah iaht 0.6026 0.3465 67.085 4.6817 2.2777 0.4994 5902.0 24.931 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 33.674 0.7894 26.202 614.61 0.7347 4.8874 0.8789 19.057
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      • 27 17 'SGX, I Bloomberg Information provided by Sold us$/oi iilver us$/oi 'latinum us$/oz 425.60 7.11 890.6 Rubber centsAg 302.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 57.45 Brent crude us$/barrel 1402
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    • business news
      • 263 18 -AFP It's close to fundamentals: Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is content with the new value of the ringgit after dropping the currency's peg to the US dollar, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said. He said the new value of the ringgit- at 3.778 to the
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      • 90 18 PSA I MSC Pamela the world's largest container ship sailed into PSA's Pasir Panjang Terminal on Saturday. The 9,200-twenty-foot equivalent-unit (TEU) vessel owned by Mediterranean Shipping Company has the largest declared capacity for container ships in the world to date. The 337m-long ship
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    • savvy investor
      • 408 22 UOB Kay Hian Research Banks, property companies to gain most from yuan, ringgit changes SINGAPORE companies with an exposure to the domestic markets in Malaysia and China stand to gain from the current and future appreciation of the Chinese yuan and Malaysian ringgit following their
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      • STOCKcalls
        • 82 22 Sinomem Technology (67.5 cents) BUY This is a leading integrated membrane technology company with 1 00 per cent of its business and over 99 per cent of its assets in China. In addition to the direct impact of the yuan revaluation on earnings due to translation, it is also expected
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        • 40 22 United Food Holdings (26.5 cents) BUY Although most of the company's segments remain neutral, the soybean processing segment is a big gainer of revaluation. The appreciated yuan will reduce the cost of raw materials. The target price is 31 cents.
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        • 56 22 Full Apex Holdings (38 cents) BUY It sources all its supplies from China, including Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) pellets, low-density Eolyethylene (LDPE), and paper supplies. It will enefit indirectly as PET pellets and LDPE are petroleum downstream products and the yuan appreciation helps relieve the pressure from the oil price hike.
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        • 46 22 People's Food Holdings (84.5 cents) BUY It buys all its live pigs locally and sells its meat products to Chinese consumers. It remains neutral to a yuan revaluation. Gains are from forex translation of the yuan prices. The target price is $1.01. UOB Kay Hian Research
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    • the business of learning
      • 505 24  -  Derrick A Paulo Challenges varsities face in attracting and retaining staff derrick@newstoday.com.sg ASK any student or lecturer here what the initials S-M-U stand for, and they will say Singapore Management University. Ask the same question in the United States, and the answer is likely to be,
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      • 556 25  - Set your own pace Hniiffl SUCCEED I with J bittleston@btinternet.com DIFFERENT parts of our lives seem to go at different speeds. When we are young, we long for the days, months and years to get out of the way to allow us to grow up. Later in life, we will
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    • 827 26  -  JeanineTan Tsui Hark, king of the wuxia flick, is bent on reinventing the genre EVEN if you only have a passing familiarity with Hong Kong movies, you've probably watched at least one Tsui Hark film. The prolific producer and director is behind many of the mainstream classics of
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    • 186 29 HONG KONG Twenty-two years after he died, gongfu movie legend Bruce Lee (picture) will be commemorated with a bronze statue. Lee was born in the United States but moved to Hong Kong as a child. Most of his movies were filmed and produced in Hong
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    • 113 29 AP BERLIN Jermaine Jackson said his brother's child molestation trial left the star too exhausted to attend their father's 76th birthday bash in Berlin. Hundreds of fans thronged the Estrel hotel on Friday in Berlin's working-class neighbourhood of Neukoelln, where the party
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    • 176 29  -  Mervin Tay WITH placards, cameras and yells, it's official Project SuperStar contestants inspire as much fervour in their fans as Taiwanese boybands. Over 1,000 fans turned up at Bishan Junction 8 shopping mall on Saturday to catch a glimpse of the 10 semi-finalists, and if the volume
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    • eatout
      • 632 30  - Great F B at Corduroy Finch Tor Ching Li Join the crowd at this chic multi-hyphenate eatery chingli@newstoday.com.sg IT MAY be nestled in the Bukit Timah suburbs, but Corduroy Finch attracts a regular crowd of urbanites who enjoy fine food and a cosy place in which to hang out and
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      • 295 32  -  Eveline Gan It's an art, says food writer, all you have to do is combine flavour, colour, aroma and texture eveline@newstoday.com.sg ADMIT it How many times have we thumbed our noses at bland home-cooked dishes? But, according to food writer and cookbook author Pauline D Loh,
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      • 403 32  -  Eveline Gan IF ASKED to identify the taste that defines Chinatown, one way to sum it up might be by describing the Chinatown Signature Dish I sampled last week. Created by three master chefs Lau Yeok Pui, Sin Leong and Hooi Kok Wai as
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    • 768 36  -  S MURALI Can Van the last man rise to the challenge of filling Man United's biggest void? in Hong Kong murali@newstoday.com. sg FRANK Lampard and John Terry may have taken most of the plaudits, but just as critical a factor in Chelsea's success last season
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    • 97 37 SINGAPORE'S sporting fraternity, including athletes, National Sports Associations and partners, came together yesterday at Bishan Park 2 to raise funds for the President's Challenge 2005. Led by the Singapore Sports Council, the Team Singapore Sports Fiesta was kicked off by President S R
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    • 235 37 CRICKET The Ashes LONDON England's hopes of salvaging a draw from the first Test against Australia were boosted as rain fell at Lord's yesterday. With showers predicted for today as well, the weather looks to be England's best bet of avoiding defeat, reported
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      • 310 38 AFP MONTREAL Australia's Grant Hackett won the men's 400 m freestyle this morning, cruising to victory after the shocking flop of US superstar Michael Phelps in the heats of the same event Phelps, whose eight medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics included six golds,
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      • 353 38 Agencies LONDON Lyon midfielder Michael Essien has begged Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to sanction the deal that would see him complete his dream move to Stamford Bridge. So far, the French champions have steadfastly refused to sell their prized asset for less than what they believe
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      • 652 39 Young Spaniard stretches lead as Finn's engine blows again FORMULA 1 German Grand Prix HOCKENHEIM Germany Kimi Raikkonen's title dreams were shattered here yesterday when mechanical failure stole victory from his grasp and handed championship leader Fernando Alonso his sixth win of the year. The Finn
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