Today, 7 December 2005

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    22 1 //\=DIJ\COKiP TODAY MICA(P) 112/07/2005 incorporating JMTC*ItS Wednesday December 7, 2005 todayonline.com /A=diaCorp TODAY MICA(P) 112/07/2005 incorporating >MT6<itS Wednesday December 7, 2005 todayonline.com
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    Low-cost barrier
    745 1  -  LEECHINGWERN That cheap flight to Kuala Lumpur will have to wait as Malaysia refuses to open up air route to Singapore chingwern@newstoday.com.sg LOW-COST carriers which have been lobbying for the opening up of the lucrative Sin-gapore-Kuala Lumpur route had their hopes crushed yesterday. Malaysia will not agree to
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    Lock icon WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP AND HEROIN, CHIC
    748 1  -  PAULSHEEHAN The Sydney Morning Herald LIFE is cheap in Australia, for all our talk. While Australians have again indulged in preaching at an Asian neighbour because an Australian heroin-runner was executed last week, one might ask what, exactly, is our higher moral ground?
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      Maid abuse? Or made up?
      724 2  -  TORCHING LI MOM slams Human Rights Watch report of maid exploitation here as being 'grossly exaggerated' chingli@newstoday.com.sg ARE Singapore's maids fully protected by the law or open to discrimination, exploitation and abuse? A strongly worded 124-page report, Ending Abuses against Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore,
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      Lock icon Rush hour was almost crush hour for this man
      237 2  -  LEE U WEN I THERE was drama yesterday evening at City Hall MRT station as a man accidentally fell into the gap between the platform and a stationary train. The man, believed to be in his late 20s, was about to
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      Lock icon Two women kill 36
      450 3 AGENCIES Suicide attack on Iraq police academy, violence up as election draws near BAGHDAD Two women cleaners have been suspected of carrying out a suicide bombing attack at an Iraqi police academy just nine days before the country goes to the polls. The blast killed at
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      Slim BN victory sparks recount
      215 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Hanafi Mamat won a crucial by-election in Pengkalan Pasir in Kelantan state, but there will be a recount today because the majority was less than 2 per cent, media reports said. The recount was ordered after the
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      8 2 NEWS LINE *****268 every call has a story
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Keep cool over Bali Nine, Aussies told
      551 4 AGENCIES Jakarta expects emotions to run high if any of the 9 heroin traffickers get death penalty INDONESIA'S Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda (picture) has defended Singapore's right to execute drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van and warned Australians not to get emotional if any
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      WHO stockpiles anti-flu drug for Asia
      426 6  -  TAN HUI LENG Fund for the region also to be discussed at donor's meeting next month huileng@newstoday.com. sg THE World Health Organisation (WHO) will be setting up a Tamiflu stockpile specifically for Asia, as well as a fund to help the region cope with
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      Lock icon Grid power for school PCs
      95 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA ONCE the playground of researchers and power-users of technology, grid computing te linking of thousands of computers to enable complex tasks is now available to students. Raffles Institution and Hwa Chong Institution are the first two schools under a programme to get about
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      Alpha 8 rollercoaster accident not the first?
      480 8  -  VINITARAMANI Today reader told of bone injury after ride vinita@newstoday.com.sg SIX months before the two young sisters who fell off an amusement park ride last Friday made headline news, another injury on the same ride went unreported. The Chow family contacted Today after
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon TEENAGER BOTCHED HOLDUP
        84 8 938 Live A 19-YEAR-OLD believed to be responsible for three armed robberies in recent months was arrested yesterday morning after he attempted to rob another convenience store at Toh Vi Drive. Wearing a cap, he covered his face with a white T-shirt and brandished a chopper while
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        Lock icon USED TEXTBOOKS, PLEASE
        88 8 Channel News Asia The used textbook programme by NTUC Fair Price has a shortfall this year and organisers are calling for more donations. NTUC Fair Price said it is "30 per cent short" of its target, especially for Malay and Tamil textbooks, and for the normal stream.
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        Lock icon S'PORE IN WORLD WATER PACT
        71 8 938 Live SINGAPORE is the only Asian country invited to join an exclusive water research network called the Global Water Research Coalition. It comprises organisations from 13 other countries, including the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and France. Singapore will be able to tap the
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      Not that crazy after all
      433 10  -  LEE U-WEN 24 women see red over much talked about French art show, Crazy Horse u-wen@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREANS had their first taste of the much-awaited Crazy Horse show on Monday night as 450 guests, including Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang, attended the gala premiere.
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      Indian business school to have campus here
      243 10 IN A boost to Singapore's education-hub aspirations, one of India's top 10 business schools has announced plans to setup a campus in Singapore. From next year, the SP Jain Centre of Management which also has schools in India and Dubai will offer a
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      Lock icon Know your Merlot from your Malbec
      560 12  -  LEE U-WEN Service industry personnel are lapping up The Tourism Academy's new wine course u-wen@newstoday.com.sg SERVICE manager Franco Goh has been in the food and beverage industry for nearly eight years. But up until recently, wine was nothing more than a "superficial friend" to
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  • world news
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      Lock icon With US away, China can wield its power discreetly
      448 14 AGENCIES Upcoming East Asian summit will show Asian giant's growing clout BEIJING China will subtly wield its growing regional influence at next week's East Asian summit as it takes advantage of the absence of the United States, analysts say. "China's rise
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      Lock icon Taiwan opposition parties plan merger
      176 14 DPA TAIPEI Taiwan's main opposition party, the Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT), and its pro-uni-fication ally, the People First Party (PFP), are considering a merger, following the KMT's landslide victory in last weekend's local government elections, officials said yesterday. "The PFP will form a committee
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      Lock icon Thaksin drops all defamation suits against his fiercest critic
      212 14 -AFP BANGKOK- Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday withdrew all defamation lawsuits against his staunchest critic, just two days after revered Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej called on public figures to accept fair criticism. Dr Thaksin was demanding 2 billion baht ($81.5
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    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon FLASHER CAUGHT WITH 150 WOMEN'S OUTFITS
        100 14 -AFP A Japanese cross-dresser, who was arrested for exposing himself to a young girl, has been found to own nearly 150 women's outfits, police said. These range from schoolgirl uniforms to sports suits and a costume of the popular Japanese animation character, "Sailor Moon."
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        Lock icon SPIT HERE TO CHECK YOUR STRESS LEVELS
        92 14 -AFP A Japanese firm has created a hand held gadget to check stress levels by analysing saliva, allowing people on the edge to check their frayed nerves as frequently as they want. The 190-gram "Cocoro (Heart) Meter" has a chip which a person
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      Lock icon M'sia stops short of apology over abuse of Chinese
      259 14 -AFP BEIJING A Malaysian envoy on a fence-mending visit to Beijing expressed sadness and anger yesterday at the maltreatment of Chinese in his country but stopped short of apologising for an alleged incident of police abuse. Home Minister Azmi Khalid said
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      Lock icon SBY gets down to business
      733 16  -  MARIANNE KEARNEY Indonesian president's Cabinet reshuffle is expected to boost economy, political fall-out minimal news@newstoday.com.sg MARKETS and analysts cheered President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's long awaited cabinet reshuffle on Monday night, predicting the newly appointed economic team would help curb Indonesia's soaring inflation and promote investment
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        TSUNAMI VICTIMS HOMELESS
        86 16 Almost all of the aid recipients in villages hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami a year ago are still living in temporary shelters or camps, Reuters reported. In Indonesia, 100 per cent of the respondents still lived in camps or temporary shelters run by the government or
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        Lock icon NEW CARNIVORE IN BORNEO?
        69 16 BLOOMBERG A carnivore that may be a previously unknown species was photographed twice in the jungles of Borneo by a sensor-operated camera, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said. The creature has red fur, a long tail, small ears and large hind legs, and resembles a cross
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        Lock icon SADDAM AIDE IN A TIGHT SPOT
        90 16 AFP The Australian government will review the case of one of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's bodyguards, who has been granted a three-year visa to remain in the country. Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said. Mr Oday Adnan Al Tekriti, 38, has been given a
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      Lock icon Millions of students to be fingerprinted
      363 18 -AGENCIES Indonesian plan causes outrage across the country JAKARTA Inonesia will fingerprint 3.5 million students in the country's Islamic boarding schools, a move that has sparked outrage across the country. Vice-President Jusuf Kalla dismissed criticism that it was related to terrorism. "Don't connect this
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      Lock icon Oil-for-food seam's Ist casualty
      383 20 AFP UN report alleged that Indian Cabinet minister Natwar Singh received four million barrels of Iraqi oil NEW DELHI Former Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh became the first political casualty of a United Nations report released two months ago that revealed global corruption in the humanitarian
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      Lock icon 'Saddam trial won't be fair'
      313 20 AFP BAGHDAD Even as a Shia woman gave chilling testimony during Saddam Hussein's trial of being stripped and electrocuted, a lawyer on Saddam's defence team warned that it would be "very difficult" for the deposed Iraqi dictator's trial to be fair, CNN reported. Former United
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      Lock icon German man sues CIA for wrongful imprisonment
      231 22 -AFP WASHINGTON The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) rights group yesterday filed a lawsuit against the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on behalf of a German who alleges he was wrongfully abducted in Europe and sent to Afghanistan for antiterrorism interrogation. Visiting
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      Lock icon Kazakhstan: Fast track to democracy?
      538 22  -  VENESSA LEE It plans to win over key critic by leading it venessa@newstoday.com.sg ELECTION watchers largely dismissed as "flawed" Kazakhstan's presidential election on Sunday. When it was announced that the incumbent, Mr Nursultan Nazarbayev, had won a whopping 91 per cent of the votes, the
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      Lock icon EARTHQUAKE KOIZUMI IS READY TO RUMBLE
      671 23  -  DRERICTEOCHUCHEOW This man could change the face of Japan within a year news@newstoday.com.sg WITH a confident Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the helm, a bolstered coalition to govern Japan and a Cabinet reshuffle "towards the conservative right", a political earthquake on regional economics and
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  • Voices
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      It's high class, not crass
      628 24  -  GOHMINYEN There's nothing wrong with the female form, let's not be foolish and prudish Letter from Managing Director, Eng Wah Organisation I REFER to the article, "Bucking Crazy Horse Show" (Dec 3-4). For more than 50 years, the Crazy Horse Paris show has been an
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      Disparities in punishments
      149 24  -  BENJAMIN GAN Letter from CHARLES Tan's news comment, "It's the one sentence you can't retract" (Dec 6), made for fascinating reading. I am a strong believer in the death penalty, especially for murderers, drug traffickers and even for white-collar criminals like Nick Leeson, who singlehandedly destroyed Barings.
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      Database will be updated end December
      125 26  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications, SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter, "Outdated information on some display boards on SMRT buses" by Heng Cho Choon (Nov 23). We would like to share that SMRT maintains a database of
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      Why do public buses always come in twos?
      429 26  -  CHONG LEE MING GPS key to easing long waits Letter from I HAVE no doubt that Singapore has a public bus system comparable to or in certain areas surpassing that of other developed countries. While we should not have unrealistic expectations, people
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      It's not fair to compare
      162 26  -  ONGUPHUA Letter from IN "PUBLIC transport is going places" (Dec 5), readers Lim Wui Boon and Liew Kai Khiun concluded that Singapore's public transportation is efficient and we have taken the efficiency for granted, using Australia's long waiting times as the comparison. Transport providers have
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      Lock icon Aim beyond bursary ceiling
      409 28  -  LYDEAGNWEIEN Personal satisfaction is much better than money Letter from I REFER to the forum letters, "Penalise the child?" (Dec 6) and "Reward better-off students, too" (Dec 3-4). As our country becomes more affluent, it may be hard for some to imagine how it feels like
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      Works for NS,. why not our kids?
      164 28  -  CHRISTOPHER CHING Letter from I REFER to Mr Raymund Koh's letter ("Too much of a hassle, I'd rather do it on my own", Dec 6). I too have a daughter attending Primary 1 next year. On learning the Children Development Account cannot be
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      Keep CMF projects
      82 28  -  HARRY CHIA Letter from I REFER to your Dec 5 front-page article, "Windfall or liability, those CMF millions?". The transfer of funds from the Children's Medical Fund should not be taken as a "windfall or liability" issue. The issue should be whether the longterm projects and, more
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    • Letter
      Fear of VOIP terror
      77 28  -  COLIN ONG TAU SHIEN Letter from SINGAPOREANS show great interest in Voice over Internet Protocol, especially with the success of Skype. But it's been mostly about lowering consumer costs. As a parent and telco-researcher, I want to know if the technology can be exploited by terrorists.
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      Will serving the nation get us served a pink slip?
      187 30  -  MICHAEL CHUAKHENG HWEE Letter from IT APPEARS it's not just women who risk getting the boot from their work place when they go on maternity leave. There are men who defer their reservist in-camp training (ICT) for fear of being
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      Bread and butter issues
      492 30  -  LAMPINWOON HPB's keeping tabs on trans fat levels in food Letter from Chief Executive Officer Health Promotion Board WE REFER to the letters in Today on trans fat and thank the writers for their feedback. The Health Promotion Board (HPB) would like to clarify and reassure
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      258 32  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE PAIN OF RELEASE The average teenager chomps atthe bit to get out from under parental rule and during those tumultuous teenage years, many parents are only too eagerto showtheir child the door. But when the time comes, releasing a child is
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      552 32  - Farewell La Idler thanks for sharing Mr Miyagi Blogging community mourns the passing of kindred spirit news@newstoday.com.sg I AM deeply saddened by the sudden death last week of La Idler (idledays.net), one of my fellow editors at Tomorrow, sg. She succumbed to the effects of a rare blood disorder last
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      157 32  -  FOOCHEESEE Letter from Director (Development Control) Urban Redevelopment Authority WE REFER to the letter, "Will JTC protect factories gone private" by Mr Cheng Shoong Tat (Dec 1). Mr Cheng has proposed that the Urban Redevelopment Authority disallow strata-subdivi-sion of the divested JTC factories.
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      386 36  -  CHRISTIE LOH Thomas Tay's duties covered by founder Johnson Chong christie@newstoday.com.sg AMID ongoing police probes into the Airocean Group, the company's chief executive Thomas Tay has taken a leave of absence from the company that he helped build up. The freight service provider said in a
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      191 36  -  CHOW PENN NEE OCBC Bank and United Overseas Bank (UOB) have doubled theirs savings deposit rates, following in the footsteps of local rival DBS Bank. UOB now pays 0.25 per cent per annum on its savings accounts, up from 0.125 per cent previously, for account
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        50 36 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed lower, mainly due to a weak performance on Wall Street overnight and profit-taking in technology stocks. The ST Index ended down 24.26 points, or 1.0 per cent, at 2,308.35. Decliners outnumbered advancers 284 to 188, while 632.2 million shares worth $644.7 million were traded.
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        55 36 Nikkei 225 *****.38 -127.93 -0.82 Hang Seng ASX *****.61 4616.00 -168.21 -1.11 -8.60 -0.19 Taiwan Wtd 6350.52 +2.21 +0.03 Korea Comp 1321.06 +5.91 +0.45 KLCI 886.47 +0.99 +0.11 SET Index 679.16 +19.25 +2.92 Jakarta Comp 1123.43 +2.85 +0.25 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2099.15 190.16 -17.15 -0.81 -0.05 -0.03
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        26 36 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Gold US$/oz Silver US$/oz Platinum US$/oz Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent crude US$/barrel 511.70 8.74 1002.00 279.75 1391.00 57.73
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        169 38 DOW JONES ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) yesterday announced it had completed the acquisition of a light industrial building and signed an option to buy another in Singapore the deals worth a total of more than $40 million. A-Reit said that if it had
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        457 38  -  CHRISTIE LOH Agency will book a $10 million loss from the Science Park properties'sale christie@newstoday.com.sg GOVERNMENT agency Spring Singapore expects to book a loss of about $10 million after selling two properties at Science Park for $40 million. This was revealed in the statutory board's recently
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        284 40 BLOOMBERG But an agreement with Japan will not happen justyet ASEAN will sign free trade agreements with India and South Korea at its 11th summit next week, Malay-sian Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz said yesterday. The 10-member regional group will also agree to
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        205 40 -BLOOMBERG SAN Miguel Corp, the largest Philippines food and drinks company, hired three banks for a loan of as much as US$25O million ($422 million) to buy Singapore-list-ed Del Monte Pacific, a banker involved in the deal said. HSBC
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        89 40 Shares of Sesdaq-listed Ezra Holdings will start trading on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange tomorrow. Ezra provides offshore support vessels and services to the offshore oil and gas industry, and marine supplies and engineering services to the shipping industry. Stamford Tyres Corporation has reported a net profit of
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        111 42 DOW JONES COMPUTER screen maker TPV Technology, which is dual-listed in Singapore and Hong Kong, yesterday reported a 79-per-cent rise in third quarter net profit on stronger sales. Net profit for the period to Sept 30 was US$4l.6 million ($7O million), or 2.8 US cents
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        426 42 -AGENCIES Dow Jones The two to work on industrial, port facilities SINGAPORE and Vietnam have signed a broad economic cooperation agreement whereby the Republic will help Vietnam build an industrial park as well as develop and manage ports and logistics facilities in the southern part
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        879 44  -  JOHN M. BERRY BLOOMBERG news@newstoday.com.sg NOT being a superstitious lot, US Federal Reserve officials will gather on Dec 13 and for the 13th meeting in a row to raise their target for the overnight lending rate by a quarter-percentage point.
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        200 46 AFP SYDNEY Australia's ANZ Banking Group said yesterday it had agreed to buy a 19.9-per-cent stake in China's Tianjin City Commercial Bank (TCCB) for about US$l2O million ($202 million). ANZ said it would provide expertise and a US$5 million development fund to the
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        477 46 BLOOMBERG Deal to buy Archipelago rewrites history MORE than two centuries ago, 24 brokers signed an agreement laying the groundwork for the New York Stock Exchange. Yesterday, the exchange's 1,366 members sought to rebuild that foundation. The vote yesterday on the
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        474 48  -  VALERIE LAW Entrepreneurs must work on growing and preparing their firms for sale va lerie@newstoday.com.sg MANY business owners may think that they are entrepreneurs, but in reality, they are merely technicians suffering from the "entrepreneurial seizure", said Mr Michael Gerber, a
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      1468 50  -  Zul Othman I LINCOLN Cheng was I driving to his furniture I business one morning in 1 1989, when he spotted a I previously unseen side I street tucked away off I Kirn Seng Road. Driven by curiosity, I he turned the wheel and, in that
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      690 52  -  FELIX CHEONG PERFORMANCEREVIEW I Crazy Horse Paris No skin flick this, Crazy Horse Paris is a suave post-modernist cabaret f elix@newstoday.com.sg IF IT'S bare skin you're looking for, there's lots of it at Crazy Horse Paris. Count them: 14 gorgeous, well-toned women with legs that stretch
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        68 52 -AP He showed up at the Oscars in a hybrid car and lobbied loudly for worldwide access to clean water. Now, actor-activist Leonardo DiCaprio is making a documentary about global environmental issues. He has started production on 11th Hour -a feature-length film that explores global
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        76 52 Motown fans miffed by the National Football League's choice of the Rolling Stones for Super Bowl halftime entertainment are getting some satisfaction: Stevie Wonder will perform during the pre-game show at Detroit's Ford Field. Wonder will play three or four songs before the Feb
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        88 52 AGENCIES Fox has green-lighted a sequel to Fantastic Fowthat will reunite the superhero quartet on July 4, 2007. loan Gruffudd (Mr Fantastic), Jessica Alba (Invisible Woman), Chris Evans (Human Torch) and Michael Chiklis (The Thing) are all expected to return for the follow-up to the summer
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        101 52 ■AFP Former Friends star Jennifer Aniston (picture) has filed suit against a photographer for allegedly using a telephoto lens illegally to take snapshots of her when she was topless in her own home. The suit alleges that Peter Brandt used "a powerful telephoto lens" to
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        75 52 -AGENCIES Steve Carell, star of the The 40-year-old Virgin, has been to tipped play hapless secret agent Maxwell Smart in a remake of the classic TV spy spoof Get Smart. Peter Segal, the director of several Adam Sandier movies, will helm the project. The series-which ran
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      544 53  -  DAVID CHEW West Side SfoAyveteran Chan says the show won't have a dated feel david. chew@newstoday.com. sg LAST week, several theatre reviews suggested the musical Rent, which starred Karen Mok during its run here, was dated. Could the same be said of West Side Story,
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      274 53 KYM Ng left Sunday's Star Awards ceremony empty-handed, but no one was more disappointed about her loss than celebrity friend Quan Yifeng. Yifeng who picked up two trophies for Best Variety Show Host and Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes said she was particularly saddened by some
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      188 54 LONDON Director Steven Spielberg (picture) has called his new film Munich, about the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, "a prayer for peace". The Oscar-winning director offered his views in a rare interview about the film, reported the BBC. "I don't think
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        474 58  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS, US moviegoers walk the line for a country legend; Singaporeans chicken out Deputy Plus Editor plus@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREANS are crossing the road to watch the chicken, but Americans are happy to walk the line. Even in death, Johnny Cash remains as popular as ever in
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      427 66  -  TAN YO-HINN Cambodia dismiss speculation and insist they will host the 2011 edition IN PASAY CITY, MANILA yohinn@newstoday.com.sg CAMBODIA will host the 26th SEA Games in 2011. Prum Bun Vi, executive board member of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia and the team's chef-de-mission of the
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      377 66  -  DARREN LAI darren@newstoday.com.sg WHEN chef-de-mission Oon Jin Teik emerged through the arrival gates, the cheers from the 300-odd supporters were deafening, as the main SEA Games contingent returned home to be showered with gifts and garlands yesterday. The 210 athletes and officials from
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      358 66  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday,com.sg THEY came in for the most flak for their performances at the recent SEA Games. Now, Agu Casmir and Itimi Dickson want to leave the Young Lions. Yesterday, Young Lions chairman Samuel Panthradil confirmed that Agu and Dickson have requested they
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      902 67  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Oon has faith in Raddy, but he wonders about the attitude of some players in Pasay City, Manila yohinn@newstoday.com.sg WITH the biennial National Sports Associa ti on (NSA) Review due in the first half of 2006, those that failed to live up to expectations
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      856 68 -AGENCIES United hoping their latest tyro can dazzle the Stadium of Light, as Best so thrillingly did CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GRPE Benfica v Man United LONDON The emotions stirred up by the death of George Best appear to have had a galvanising impact on the performances of
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        384 63 AFP Seattle enhance credentials against limping Philly NFL Philadelphia 0 Seattle 42 PHILADELPHIA The Seattle Seahawks, already assured of the NFC West division title, still took the opportunity to make a statement here on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Using big plays on defence, including interception returns
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        180 63 -AP ORLANDO Tim Duncan had 26 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks, Tony Parker added 20 points, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Orlando Magic 110-85 in an NBA match-up on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Duncan, a nine-year veteran, and Rasho Nesterovic
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        302 63 LONDON Former England football star Paul Gascoigne has been arrested over an alleged assault outside a hotel, reported the BBC yesterday. Gascoigne, 38, was arrested on Monday night outside the Hope Street Hotel in Liverpool after a member of the press said he had
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        303 64 AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Birmingham 1 West Ham 2 LONDON Birmingham manger Steve Bruce declared that his embattled Blues had to show what they were made of in a "cup final" on Saturday. Fulham are the visitors to St Andrew's, where Birmingham lost for the sixth time
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        543 64 —AFP Holland could be paired with Brazil, Germany or England in Friday's draw FOOTBALL World Cup 2006 draw by Fifa, England came out second to Brazil while Italy narrowly beat the US into eighth. "It's excellent news," Eriksson said. "I think it's right too. We are one of
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        255 64 -AFP TEST CRICKET India vSri Lanka CHENNAI, India Chaminda Vaas skittled India for their lowest total against Sri Lanka, before the rainravaged first Test was consigned to a draw here yesterday. The left-arm seamer grabbed 4-20 in 21 overs and off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan claimed
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        662 65  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Songs keen to be paired together at the Internationals LEXUS CUP Internationals v Asian Team weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THIS week's inaugural Lexus Cup (Dec 9-11) could become a family affair for the Songs. Not only will Aree Song have older brother Chan caddying for
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        297 65 SCHOOLS FOOTBALL International Challenge Cup 2005 DEFENDING champions Malaysia will meet tournament favourites Qatar in the Singapore Sports School International Challenge Cup 2005 Final, after both teams shook off their opponents in yesterday's semi-finals. The Malaysian under-14 side produced a shock come from behind 4-1 win
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        184 65 ■AFP ANKARA Turkey's threetime Olympic champion Halil Mutlu (right) has been banned for two years by the International Weightlifting Federation for using anabolic steroids. Mutlu has denied knowingly taking nandrolone, an anabolic steroid that boosts muscle growth, which was detected in a urine sample at the European
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