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  • 11 1 TODAY Frew incorporating dtrCßtS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Friday November 4, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • 733 1  -  RAHULPATHAK Why appeals and personal history can't save drug trafficker NIGHT EDITOR rahul.pathak@newstoday.com.sg HE IS a young man with the kind of personal history that inspires movies and a wave of support that has united Australian politicians of all persuasions behind him. But Nguyen Tuong
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    373 1  -  MERVINTAY news@newstoday.com.sg FOR the past two years, Singapore fans only heard Ocean Ou's voice, and never saw his face. But ironically, when fans saw him for the first time yesterday evening at a music showcase, they could not hear him because of an audio glitch at the start
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  • hot news
    • 479 2 -AFP Asean mulls redirecting funds to combat bird flu HONG KONG Cash set aside to improve farming in South-east Asia may be redirected to help the region's poorer countries battle bird flu, the general secretary of Asean said yesterday. The
      -AFP  -  479 words
    • 739 3  -  GOHBOONCHOO Why animal welfare groups in Singapore can't reach out to the authorities IN SINGAPORE, animal cruelty reports precipitate letters in the media calling for harsher punishment, tougher laws and stringent enforcement The authorities then issue sympathetic responses, explaining their stand and that they "will
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    • 427 4 -CHANNEL NEWSASIA Muis, mosques to provide guidance for Muslim youth, says DrYaacob AS MUSLIMS across Singapore celebrated Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Minister in Charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim called for young Muslims seeking guidance to go to the right sources. He also said it is the job of
      -CHANNEL NEWSASIA; PHOTOS 001 BOON KEONG, KOH MUI FONG  -  427 words
    • 341 4 Good neighbours and long may that last CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore's younger leaders say relations with Malaysia are good, and they believe any outstanding bilateral issues can be ironed out over time. This was the view of Ministers Ng Eng Hen and Vivian Balakrishnan, who with their wives visited the Sultan
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    • 325 4  -  VINITARAMANI vinita@newstoday.com.sg What does a small town called Pegnitz in Bavaria, Germany, have to do with Queenstown in Singapore? Eighteen German students from grammar school Gymnasium Pegnitz, aged between 12 and 18 years old, are in Singapore on a nine-day Creative Connections exchange programme initiated by New Town
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    • 506 6 ABDULLAH'S POIGNANT HARI RAYA Planned training centre for maids draws protests JAKARTA—Activists and labour exporters dismissed a plan by Singaporean company Homemaker to establish a training centre for maids in Indonesia, saying it would largely serve the interests of employers rather than Indonesian overseas workers. Such a centre
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  • Singapore news
    • 550 8  -  VINITARAMANI Prof Chia Boon Lock will receive lifetime achievement award for his contributions vinita@newstoday.com.sg MANY local doctors can say that they have been taught at least once by him. In fact, some would go so far as to call him the father of modern cardiology. Next week, Professor
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    • 105 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The People's Action Party will be holding its 2005 awards ceremony on Saturday and Sunday at the Kallang Theatre. Both carriageways of Stadium Walk will be closed to vehicular traffic from spm to midnight on Saturday and from 7am to 3pm on Sunday. Only vehicles
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    • 135 8 CAN you name four of the sections found in Today? Regular readers will have no problem answering that one and earning themselves a shot at winning a Nikon Coolpix 5900 digital camera worth $599. All they have to do is find the
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    • 197 8  -  -TAN HUI LENG HE WAS was born with a congenital medical condition, but didn't know about it till three years ago, at the age of 38. "I started experiencing shortness of breath and was constantly lethargic," said administrative assistant Amin Mubarak, who used to play
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    • 395 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA COMPANIES, and not the Government, must take ownership of the campaign to improve the service culture in Singapore, a Swiss professor on service strategy said. And most companies that do not have a service culture would take about five years to develop
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    • 459 10  -  LOHCHEEKONG This sport is getting popular, as local group pushes it as a CCA in schools cheekong@newstoday.com. sg ICE skating is experiencing a mini-revival in schools here. The universities and polytechnics have all started ice skating clubs, and now, the Singapore Ice Skating Association (SISA)
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    • 263 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA WOMEN can now control how much pain relieving drugs they receive during childbirth. XX Women's and Children's Hospital says the Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia ensures mothers get the right amount of pain relief when they most need it About 35 per cent of
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    • 322 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA O-LEVEL students suffering from examination stress can now turn to an SMS buddy for relief. That is just one of many eservices organised by trained counsellors to help students beat the exam heat. Ms Stella Thng, editor of
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    • 473 12  -  LEE U-WEN It is also important to follow up with the grant-giving organisations, says philanthropist u-wen@newstoday.com.sg AS A renowned philanthropist, Dr Barnaby Marsh has seen thousands of applications for funding land on his doorstep. Not surprising, considering that the Pennsylvania-based John Templeton Foundation OTF)
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  • world news
    • 522 14 -AFP World Bank estimates initial shocking impact of a bird flu pandemic will arise from panic WASHINGTON Growth in East Asia's emerging economies will slow to 6.2 per cent this year, from 7.2 per cent last year, and will suffer severely if a bird flu
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    • 204 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian villagers on Borneo island are smuggling pet birds and fighting cocks from neighbouring Indonesia, despite a government ban meant to keep the country free of bird flu. Veterinary authorities in Malaysia's eastern Sarawak state which shares an extensive land border with
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    • 161 14 AGENCIES BANGKOK A Thai version of Alcatraz is in the making as the country's Corrections Department is eyeing a remote island off Rayong coast for building a maximum prison for inmates with life sentences. Mr Natthee Jitsawang, director-general of departments, said that he had assigned
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    • 173 14 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government has not cut the sentence of hardline Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (picture), who was jailed for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings, to mark Hari Raya Aidilfitri yesterday, a cleric said. The 67-year-old Bashir
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    • 236 14 LONDON Virgin Atlantic Airways said it has ordered a supply of Roche Holding AG's antiflu drug Tamiflu as a precaution against the spread of avian flu in air travellers. The London-based airline "is (also) evaluating a range of other
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    • 1015 16  -  Dr Yeo Lay Hwee Vietnam has devised a comprehensive strategy to fight bird flu; it needs one to combat corruption too WHAT has bird flu in common with corruption? Once entrenched, it is difficult to get rid off. Over the last month, we have heard
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 76 18 -AFP Nearly 60,000 graduates are unemployed and many of them cannot get jobs because of lack of experience and poor English and communication skills, a study by Malaysia's Economic Planning Unit said. Most of those affected were Malay women. The report said those affected majored in business
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      • 41 18 -AFP Eighteen people were confirmed dead and 10 others listed as missing after Typhoon Kai Tak battered central Vietnam for a second day yesterday. It has caused damage of about US$7 million ($11.9 million) so far.
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      • 40 18 -AFP UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has named Rajat Kumar Gupta, former managing director of McKinsey and Co, as a special adviser to help with efforts to reform the woriri body, a UN spokesman said.
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      • 68 18 —AFP Thousands of Americans staged noisy demonstrations nationwide to protest the policies of President George W Bush on the first anniversary of his re-election. They denounced issues as diverse as the war in Iraq, Mr Bush's economic polices and response to deadly Hurricane Katrina. The protests were
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    • 446 18 AGENCIES UN warns of second wave of deaths as aid to ravaged areas slows to a trickle CHHUMBER (Pakistan-con-trolled Kashmir) Dozens of villages containing hundreds of thousands of people have received little or no aid nearly four weeks after a devastating earthquake hit
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    • 330 19 -AFP New Delhi to probe reports implicating ruling party, minister NEW DELHI The Indian government yesterday promised to investigate reports that its foreign minister and the ruling Congress party secretly benefited from shady deals linked to the United Nations' oil-for-food programme for Iraq. Prime Minister
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    • this quirky world
      • 67 19 AP Hardware retailer Home Depot found itself in a sticky situation recently. Customer Bob Dougherty, 57, of Nederland, Colorado, was stuck to a toilet seat in one of the stores when someone smeared glue on it as a prank. "They left me there, going through
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      • 73 19 AP For US$6OO,OOO ($1.02 million), a man aged between 40 and 60 years old can buy a house in a trendy Denver neighbourhood that comes complete with a bride. Ms Deborah Hale, 48, has placed an ad on eßay offering to sell her home
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      • 95 19 Whinging about the weather or the broken photocopier are sackable offences at a German firm that has banned moaning, ananova.com reported. Employees at IT company Nutzwerk Ltd, in Leipzig, have to agree to be in a good mood as part of their contract. Manager
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    • 196 19 LONDON Hindus in Britain are being urged to attempt to clog up the postal service after the Royal Mail refused to withdraw an "offensive" Christmas stamp. The 68p ($2) Christmas stamp, which features a woman with traditional Hindu markings worshipping the infant Christ, went
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    • 372 22 -AFP Potential targets in Melbourne had been filmed, says terrorism expert CANBERRA The Australian Senate rushed through anti-terror laws yesterday as Prime Minister John Howard denied his warning about a credible threat of attack was a diversion from the government's political problems. Mr Howard
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      51 22 A 1 KIMCHIVJMH ROUNDWORM EGGS, ANYONE?: Pots of kimchi,the spicy side dish beloved by Koreans, on sale at a market in Seoul yesterday. The Korea Food and Drug Administration has said 16 out of 502 domestic kimchi brands were contaminated with roundworm eggs believed to have come from cats and
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    • 264 22 -DPA BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) yesterday flatly denied a news report that the government had allowed the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hold terrorist suspects in secret prisons in the kingdom. "Speaking of Thailand, we have had only one
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    • 262 22 AFP TEHRAN An online shopping craze sweeping Iran which appears to be harmless coin collecting has been accused by the country's judiciary as a dangerous pyramid scam that has to be shut down. Fearing uncontrollable hard currency outflow and armed with claims of
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    • 652 24 Blair PM in office but not in power? -AGENCIES Pressure on the premier as key ally Blunkett resigns and party members rebel LONDON With a key ally being forced to quit and his government retreating over controversial terrorism laws, there is, as the British media called it, a "whiff of
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    • 596 26  -  MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR -IPS Myanmar's poppy farmers now need alternative sources of income fast news@newstoday.com.sg MYANMAR, the world's largest producer of opium after Afghanistan, has succeeded in drastically slashing poppy cultivation but tens of thousands of erstwhile cultivators now face starvation. According to the annual report of
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    • 375 29 By 2009,70% of all calls will be wireless, says survey LONDON Internet phone calls are in and fixed phone lines are out In its latest survey, the marketing group Gartner predicted that, come 2009, a third of people in the United States and Europe
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      80 29 AP BACK TO NATURE: Two activists from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) protested in front of the Australian Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. Peta said in a statement that it was protesting against cruel methods used in Australia's wool industry. It has staged similar "nude protests"
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    • 173 29 -AFP PARIS Violence broke out in impoverished Paris suburbs for the seventh straight night, with rioters clashing with police and leaving a trail of torched cars yesterday. In Aulnay-sous-Bois in the worst affected area of Seine-Saint-Denis, a police station was briefly besieged by gangs
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  • Voices
    • 618 30  -  AIDAN L* Women's Charter abused to 'punish' man; time to enshrine protection and uphold equality Letter from I REFER to the commentary, "Husband abuse: When it's men who need shelter from violence" (Oct 31). I can empathise with the writer because I also faced similar abuse
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    • 222 30  -  SHARON S* Letter from I WAS glad to read Terrance Ang's account of being the abused husband of a bi-polar disorder sufferer. I am married to someone with a similar illness, only, I am the abused wife. My husband's mood swings can go
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    • 236 32  -  SHERANN TANG Letter from I WAS out on a weekday night looking for a cosy place to have a few drinks with some colleagues after work. We came across the Ladies' Night event at the Double 0 bar at Mohd Sultan Road.
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    • Dilemma of the capital divide
      • 298 32  -  NICKTYMM Letter from IT IS likely that within the next few weeks, 25-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van will be hanged at Changi Prison. His case has now come to the public's attention in Australia after his appeal for clemency to President Nathan was denied. Arguments put forth
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      • 195 33  -  CLARE WOOLSTON Letter from AS A British citizen who has recently moved from Sydney to Singapore, I beg to differ with Mr Siow Jia Rui's assessment of the Australian media and gov- ernment ("The right to question", Nov 3). The Australian media
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    • 316 32  -  808 TAN Letter from I AGREE with the commentary "Coco idea not nutty" (Oct 31) contributed by Richard Seah. Not only are coconuts healthy, the oil is "the healthiest oil on earth", according to Dr Bruce Fife a naturopathic doctor and one of the world's leading
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 117 33  -  MUHD HUDZAIMAN: When I got my cable TV decoder from Star Hub Cable Vision a few years ago, AXN aired two-and-a-half hours the best Japanese anime with original audio and English subtitles. Now, Animax has been introduced and one can see anime 24/7 by
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      • 93 33  -  LEE KIP LEE: In a strange endeavour to upgrade the status of a bus driver, it has been suggested that he be described as a bus "captain" a designation which should apply only to a leader of men despite the fact that the bus driver
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      84 33 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore and it can appear on this page. Give your full name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption to describe yourself and your
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    • 1047 34  -  mr brown Put national interests before your own and don't just a/fresco I ike a copycat I TOLD my wife earlier this week that for the Hari Raya Puasa holiday on Thursday, I would like to sleep in a little, given that we did an
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      420 36  -  NELSON QUAH Time to pay tribute to the heroes who line Singapore's pantheon Letter from ON WEDNESDAY, many Singaporeans, including myself, visited the graveyards and columbarium niches of their loved ones and reminisced about the good times they had shared. What better way to renew the memories of
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    • 225 36  -  IVAN LI M WEI PENG Letter from I REFER to Mr Toh Kok Seng's letter, "Book drivers with lights on high beam" (Nov 2). I agree with his point that factory-fitted fog lamps are, by default, tuned to illuminate the road surface directly in
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    • 102 36  -  DENIS DISTANT Letter from I APPEAL to the bus operators and in particular to those who decorate their vehicles to look like advertisement hoardings on wheels to remember that the route number should appear somewhere on the back of the vehicle. This is so that
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    • 727 40  -  TANG LI AS THE Prime Minister himself said in his National Day Rally speech: "In India people say namaste or vanekum, in Australia, they say 'G'day mate. But in Singapore, if you are lucky, they ask, 'What you want?'" Something has gone quite wrong here.
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    • 332 40  -  DRTANCHEKWEE Letter from SOME cats like to lie on the roof of cars, perhaps for the warmth that is radiated from the heated metal. However, this can bring displeasure to some owners when they find scratches on the car's surface. Blaming the cats
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    • 222 42  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I DIVORCE AS THE EASY SOLUTION Divorce often looks like the easy solution to a very unpleasant situation. Countless men and women struggle today to choose between the painful process of divorce vs. the lure of escape. The entire process reminds me
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    • 562 42  -  JENNIFER CHUA I REFER to the letter from Irene Cheong "Ugly neighbours ruin guests' stay" (Nov 1). I often stayed over with my boyfriend and his mother at a condominium along Hillview Avenue and these are the different types of neighbours who live around
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    • 457 42  -  LEONGSZEHIAN Relax waiting period and ineligibility rules for them to rent flats Letter from I REFER to the commentary, "A sense of false safety in numbers" by Siew Kum Hong (Oct 28), and responses that the National Trade Union Congress' call to exempt low-income
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    • 437 44  -  SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA Magazine names Temasek boss, 2 other S'poreans among most powerful business women shobha@newstoday.com.sg TEMASEK Holdings chief executive Ho Ching has made it to another prestigious list of powerful women in business. In Fortune's annual global ranking, Ms Ho was ranked 11th out of
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      • 47 44 Nikkei 225 Closed Hang Seng ASX *****.59 4513.70 +4.11 +57.40 +0.03 +1.29 Taiwan Wtd 5050.01 -12.36 -0.21 Korea Comp 1217.97 +9.59 +0.79 KLCI Closed SET Index 704.79 +4.91 +0.70 Jakarta Comp Closed Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2031.70 190.09 +24.50 -1.01 +1.22 -0.94 Mumbai Sensex Closed
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      • 16 44 THERE was no stock trading in Singapore yesterday due to the Hari Raya Puasa holiday.
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      • 36 44 US$ 0.5905 UK£ 0.3323 Yen 69.009 HK$ 4.5779 RM 2.2299 Euro 0.4891 Rupiah 5934.7 Baht 24.108 Peso 32.304 A$ 0.7949 Indian Rs 26.686 Won 613.78 C$ 0.6963 Yuan 4.7739 NZ$ 0.8523 NT$ 19.829
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      • 406 47  -  CHRISTIE LOH Island suits 'smaller' forms of Disney fun, not theme parks: Walt Disney president christie@newstoday.com.sg NOT long after it landed in Hong Kong in September, it was reportedly heading for Shanghai and Seoul too. Will the Disneyland theme park ever come to Singapore? Without saying
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      • 362 47  -  CHOW PENN NEE RISING housing loan rates have resulted in homeowners flocking to packages that offer predictable and consistent monthly instalments. At least one bank, Citibank Singapore, has seen a rise in the take-up of its fixed-rate home loan. Last
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      • 382 48 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Analysts expect it to happen next year if home owners overprice properties THE en bloc or collective sales market may have picked up in recent months, but property consultants have warned of a slowdown next year. There are signs that home owners
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      • 292 48 MAKING inroads Down Under, Internet service provider Pacific Internet said that it would buy an Australian telco player for up to Ass million ($6.3 million). In a statement yesterday, the Nasdaq-listed Pacific Internet said the deal to buy T3 Communication Partners and its subsidiaries consists
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      • 324 48 -BLOOMBERG HONG Kong property developer Cheung Kong (Holdings) will guarantee a dividend payment next year by its first Hong Kong real estate investment trust (Reit). Cheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa, both controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, will contribute cash
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      • 507 50 BLOOMBERG FEDERAL Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan says the US economy is poised for continued growth even after the shock of two hurricanes raised energy prices and increased the risk of broader inflation. "The economic fundamentals remain firm and the US economy appears to retain
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      • 171 50 BLOOMBERG CHINA plans to encourage more brokerage takeovers as the government seeks to bolster an industry that's battling a five-year stock market slump, an official of the securities regulator said. Better-managed securities firms should acquire smaller and struggling brokerages and expand into new businesses
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      • 185 50 -AFP BEIJING Chinese state bank reforms have made progress over the past two years but they need to extend beyond just initial public offerings (IPOs), international ratings agency Moody's Investors Service said yesterday. "The state banks need to be transformed into competitive commercial
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      • 257 50 DOW JONES BANK of China (BOC) has yet to set its plans for listing abroad, and has not ruled out listing domestically, said a senior official from the bank yesterday. "Why not (list on a domestic exchange)?" said Mr Zhu Mm, executive assistant president
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      • 507 52 -AFP Key players meet in London for make-or-break talks WASHINGTON The United States said talks next week among five key players in the World Trade Organization (WTO) would prove crucial to the success or failure at a meeting in Hong Kong next
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      • 321 52 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States government said it had made "substantial progress" in a fresh round of talks with China in a bid to forge a comprehensive agreement on textiles trade. It announced a deal with Beijing to limit Chinese socks imports, in
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      • 1425 54  -  MAH CHING CHENG SOURCES BLOOMBERG, FEDERAL RESERVE Worries overblown as they probably affect markets only in the short term news@newstoday.com.sg LAST month, most equity markets all over the world suffered a significant correction. There was a drop in the United States market and selected Asian
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    • 1260 56  -  Jeanine Tan Censors scissors are doing less damage on screen, but inconsistencies remain ONE of the best films of the year was a disturbing, but deeply poignant, drama about paedophilia and its psychological impact on its victims. The acclaimed Mysterious Skin, which was screened in July,
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    • 452 57  - in cinemas soon JEANINETAN with jeanine@newstoday.com.sg FILMS COMING UP Could two Chinese films that broke the bank with their multi-million dollar budgets produce two quality Chinese blockbusters? Chen Kaige's The Promise and Peter Chan's Perhaps Love will both be released here next month. Perhaps Love is a bit of an
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    • 669 58  -  Felix Cheong Local film-makers earn Sundance grant for documentary HERE'S another sign that the Singapore film industry is heading for its place in the sun. Indie film-makers Lynn Lee and James Leong have scored a first in the country by clinching a U5535,000 ($59,360) grantfrom United
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      • 75 58 British cartoon group Gorillaz has finally lifted some of its mystery after Blur frontman Damon Albarn and his band of musicians appeared on stage this week for the first time. In previous Gorillaz concerts, the musicians appeared like shadow puppets behind a screen but Albarn and crew took
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      • 49 58 More than 20 choirs will perform together under the Choral Association's Voice of a Thousand II, the sequel to last year's concert. The performance on Sunday at the Esplanade features choral renditions of classical, folk and popular songs. Tickets are available from Sistic.
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      • 51 58 Tom Jones impersonator Mohamed Mokhtar Abdullah, the winner of early 1990s TV show Rolling Good Times Tom Jones contest, brings to audiences some of the legend's greatest hits in two performances on Nov 7 at the Esplanade Recital Studio. Tickets at $10 are available from
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      • 42 58 The juxtaposition of comedy and heart-tug-ging situations pays off magnificently in the operatic repertoire of Pagliacci by Italian composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo. The performance will be held until Sunday at the Esplanade Recital Studio. Tickets are available from Sistic.
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    • 309 59  -  -JEANINETAN Respected for being genuine on Survivor BOSTON police sergeant Amy O'Hara suffered plenty of ribbing from her male colleagues for being on Survivor Guatemala; they thought that a giant boulder rolling over her in one of the challenges was funny. "Oh, they tease me constantly.
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      • 633 60  -  DAVID CHEW French director's war movies look like the real deal: He was a Pow in Vietnam david. chew@newstoday.com. sg THE war movies helmed by Frenchman Pierre Schoendoerffer are unique in that, unlike most film-makers, he's actually suffered the hardships of warfare. The acclaimed director suffered
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      • 405 62  -  MERVINTAY Top Malaysian singer up for four Singapore Hit Awards plus@newstoday.com.sg IN 2000, Malaysian singer Fish Leong (picture) couldn't sleep the night before her first awards ceremony. It was the Malaysian Entertainment Association Awards and she had been nominated for the Best Newcomer award. "I
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      • 306 63  -  by Jeanine Tan At last, a comical film in which the superheroes are not dark and broody FILMREVIEW Sky High ENOUGH of macho posturing in predictable superhero films in recent years: Here's a witty superhero spoof with no delusions of grandeur, but plenty of cheeky energy. Kurt
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      • 197 64  -  by Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW Tom Yum Goong AN over the top transvestite villain, kidnapped elephants and a motley crew of fighters, that include a pugilist with dreadlocks whose moves seem inspired by break dancing and a giant white wrestler, signal the making of a
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      • 289 64  -  by David Chew Great acting helps mask uncertain plot FILMREVIEW Asylum Asylum proves that classifying a movie is often a pointless and un.l+j. necessary exercise. The British drama is not a standard thriller, nor is it a romance drama, but there is clearly strands
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    • 217 68 WITH the year-end peak travel season around the corner, many of us will be leaving the country for an overseas holiday. For those who have yet to make their reservations and are still looking for that perfect tour, here are some tips
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    • 448 68 -AFP Country is set to rank among world's top tourist destinations HANOI With its old-world charm, mountain scenery and long, unexploited stretches of sand, Vietnam's tourism sector is booming again as international hotel groups and investors return after years of mistrust. Vietnam welcomed 2.9 million visitors last
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    • 708 70 —AP Bryant wins it in overtime for Jackson to celebrate winning return NBA Denver 97 Los Angeles 99 (OT) DENVER With a sweet swish as the clock neared zero, Kobe Bryant picked the perfect way to say, "Welcome Back, Coach!" The Kobe and Phil Show made a
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    • 202 71 -AFP BERLIN Promising German driver Nico Rosberg, the son of ex-Formula 1 champion Keke, will follow in his father's footsteps and drive for Williams next season, the English team confirmed yesterday. The 20-year-old Rosberg, winner of this year's GP2 Series championship, will join Mark Webber at Williams
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    • 178 71 -AFP HONG KONG Indonesian Taufik Hidayat was unceremoniously bundled out of the men's singles competition yesterday in the round of 16 of the U*****,000 ($423,972) Hong Kong Open against a left-handed shuttler who has one of the best records against him. Malaysia's Wong Choong Harm had gone
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    • 489 71 Chelsea's rivals must pray for a benefactor like Abramovich, says Uefa's Gaillard LONDON What hope is there when even the European football governing body Uefa feel the Chelsea juggernaut is simply unstoppable. Speaking to BBC Radio Four on the programme "Club Class The Billionaire Boys Football Club"
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    • 329 71 LONDON The former president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revealed that the last-minute lobbying by Prime Minister Tony Blair and Sebastian Coe, the bid leader, was decisive in London being awarded the 2012 Games. In an exclusive interview with The Daily
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    • 482 72 -AFP As team ease into last 16 in Europe, Frenchman's not easing up on Mourinho CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPB Arsenal 3 Sparta Prague 0 LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has vowed that he will not back down from his row with Jose Mourinho, although he denied calling the
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    • 232 72 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPC Barcelona 5 Panathinaikos 0 BARCELONA Spanish champions Barcelona advanced to the last 16 of the Champions League after thrashing Greek side Panathinaikos 5-0 in their group C tie here on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Red-hot striker Samuel Eto'o grabbed
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