Today, 13 December 2005

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  • 22 1 TODAY /A=DIJ^CORP incorporating dtrCßtS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Tuesday December 13, 2005 todayonline.com TODAY /A=d]aCorp incorporating &irG3tS MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Tuesday December 13, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • 601 1  -  SHARON VASOO Junta's continued democratic failures force Asean hand IN KUALA LUMPUR DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR sha ron@newstoday.com.sg INITIALLY, the answer was a flat "no". But after several days of intense persuasion and pressure by the leaders of the Association of South-east Asian Nations' (Asean) member
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  • 445 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg THE cost of living in a Nanyang Technological University (NTU) hostel just got higher. When students move into the new Hall Three next month, they will pay $350 for single rooms and $240 for double
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 42 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 6 world news 10 I voices 18 business 24 wealth 28 impact 30 infotech 31 plus 34 health 39 1v radio listings 46 classed 47 sports 48 we set you thinking HBH Hi H9 H li B
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  • hot news
    • 515 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO More inter-ethnic marriages here over the pastyear derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE tales of Singapore men and their foreign brides have been fodder for newspapers over the past year. But these anecdotes now seem to be a certifiable trend, going by the latest figures on marriages
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    • 252 2 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Esplanade and the Urban Redevelopment Authority are starting a New Year's Eve tradition at Marina Bay. To kickstart it, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan wrote his new year wishes on a beach ball, a symbolic white sphere
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    • 648 3  -  Lim Kuan Chiang AS THE Miss World tiara was placed on the head of a visibly surprised Miss Iceland Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir, pageant pundits must have been shocked, too. What happened to the Asian beauties on Saturday night? Hot favourite Miss Philippines Carlene
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    • 332 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG How a collision on the AYE triggered off two more nearly identical ones within an hour cheekong@newstoday.com. sg IT BEGAN as a minor collision between two lorries, with the drivers exchanging contact numbers and parting ways. But even before the 20 shipyard workers
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    • 370 4  -  ANSLEYNG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg IN A dramatic twist to a cheating case, a top executive of a country club was found dead just hours before he was due to appear in court Arthur Fu Shu Kwong, 49, was discovered lying motionless in the
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  • singapore news
    • 531 6  -  CUBBY LEONG Drug accused Zupancich still in jail; unable to find a Singaporean to bail him out cubby@newstoday.com.sg HIS defence attorneys had no objection to the $70,000 bail offered by District Judge Danielle Yeow yesterday morning. Yet, accused drug trafficker Lionel Rudolf Zupancich remains in
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    • 359 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO HAVING been embroiled in two defamation lawsuits one of which he initiated since his unsuccessful bid for the presidency, Mr Andrew Kuan, 52, says he simply wants to "move on with (his) life". His comment to the media came yesterday
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
      • 93 6 CNA Chief of the Indonesian national police. General Sutanto, is in Singapore for an official visit at the invitation of Singapore Police Commissioner Khoo Boon Hui. He is accompanied by 11 officers from Indonesia. This is the first official visit by the Indonesian police chief since
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      • 86 6 BLOOMBERG Singapore will stickto "basic principles" governing gaming for a second integrated resort even as bidders such as Wynn Resorts and Tabcorp Holdings dropped out of the race for the Marina Bay site. In an interview. Trade Minister Lim Hng Kiang said: "The basic principles
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      • 101 6 CNA The half-hourly parking arrangement at Housing Development Board (HDB) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) carparks with the Night Parking Scheme will be extended to 7am from next year. This means that between 10.30pm and 7am, motorists can either pay a half-hourly rate of 50 cents or
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      • 97 6 CNA The Singapore River Hongßao will be held at a new venue when it turns 20 next year. To mark the milestone, organisers are moving the event from the Marina Promenade back to its starting point-the mouth of the Singapore River. To usher in the
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    • 522 8  -  LEE U-WEN Study forecasts higher wages, less hiring and firing here nextyear u-wen@newstoday.com.sg A FATTER pay packet is what Singaporeans can look forward to when the new year rolls around, with increases of between 3.4 and 4.4 per cent expected across various industries. In study findings released
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    • 313 8 938 LIVE SINGAPORE may be closer to signing the Kyoto Protocol after a government delegation attended last week's Conference on Climate Change in Montreal. The Kyoto Protocol is a pact which 156 nations have ratified to reduce greenhouse gases that developed countries emit by
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    • 176 8 938UVE THE first fleet of 30 commercially-run, compressed natural gas (CNG) taxis is on the roads. The Mercedes Benz limousines, run by Smart Automobile, can be distinguished from the limousine cabs already on the road by a large logo of a green leaf on the side of each vehicle.
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    • 210 8 938 LIVE IT'S the No 1 killer among children worldwide and the number of cases in Asia is rising. Pneumococcal disease, an infection caused by the pneumococcal bacteria, is the subject of a conference in Singapore which will be attended by about
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    • 147 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Ministry of Defence has acquired 12 F-15SG fighter aircraft from Boeing. The F-15SG is the most advanced variant of the F-15 and will operate as the Republic of Singapore Air Force's (RSAF) next generation multi-role fighter jet Each aircraft will be equipped with
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  • world news
    • 231 10 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has proposed the setting up of a regional World Health Organisation (WHO) collaborating centre for influenza, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday. Mr Abdullah said his government is seeking support from member countries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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    • 777 10  -  TORCHING LI Violence continues for 2nd straight day, cars smashed, shots fired chingli@newstoday.com.sg RACIAL violence erupted for the second straight day in Sydney late yesterday, with cars smashed and reports of shots fired just hours after Australian Prime Minister John Howard appealed for calm. Witnesses said
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    • 593 12 -AP Thousands of infants, children suffer from this condition annually in the US IT LOOKED like a seizure when little Alexzandra Gonzales jerked and then went limp, barely breathing. A frantic race to the hospital led to a diagnosis her parents found hard to
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 51 12 At least 38 passengers returning from a wedding party in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore were killed yesterday when firecrackers being carried on their crowded bus exploded, reported AFP. A local resident said the explosion occurred after a young boy threw a firecracker out of the
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      • 59 12 -AFP Playboy Enterprises, the company behind the adult Playboy magazine empire, said yesterday it will open a store in Malaysia, even though the raunchy publication is bannec there. But the store, which opens at the popular Midvalley Megamail early next year, will only stock products like ladies
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      • 44 12 —AFP A drunken 39-year-old Japanese man strangled his 67-year-old father to death with a necktie after he refused to lend him 100 yen ($1.40) for his bus fare. The son was arrested after he called the police and confessed.
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    • 180 12 BANGKOK The Thai government's "peace-building" training programme aimed at youth in the rebellious Muslim southern provinces have been slammed by academics, activists and Islamic leaders following claims that the participants were forced to take part, reported The Bangkok Post. Mr Somchai Homlaor of the Law
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 102 15 A few days after the Indonesian military admitted a dozen deaths due to Aids-related causes, four policemen have reportedly died of Aids in Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) over the past five years and at least eight others are now living with HIV, reported
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      • 78 15 AP A young male lion bit off the tip of a woman's finger and ate it at Melbourne Zoo last Thursday after she climbed over a barrier next to the animal's cage to pick flowers, the zoo's director said yesterday. "It's
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      • 76 15 AP Pakistan's Supreme Court has extended a ban on making, selling and flying kites that it imposed two months ago after ruling the sport had become increasingly deadly. Lahore, the provincial capital, is the site of an annual festival in which tens of
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    • 292 15 AGENCIES 7.5% of UK oil supply lost in inferno, toxic smoke raises fears LONDON Experts estimated that around 7.5 per cent of the United Kingdom's total oil supply has been lost in the biggest industrial fire in peacetime Europe, which continued to rage at the Buncefield
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    • 180 15 AGENCIES BEIRUT A car bomb attack killed anti-Syrian MP Gibran Tueni, 48, and at least three others in a Beirut suburb yesterday, as a sensitive enquiry report on the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Raf iq Al Hariri was submitted to
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    • 222 16 -AFP NEW DELHI An Indian TV station caused a political uproar yesterday when it broadcast images of 11 members of parliament taking cash allegedly in return for raising issues in the federal legislature. The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) immediately suspended
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    • 310 16 AGENCIES Thousands fly in to protest against WTO as territory braces for huge security operation HONG KONG Hong Kong is bracing for the biggest security operation since the handover from British rule in 1997 as thousands of international protesters flew in to try and
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    • 178 16 'Their nails were gone' more Iraqi detainees found AGENCIES BAGHDAD Following the discovery of a secret Iraqi prison in mid-November, Iraqi officials and surviving prisoners have named four additional jails run by the country's Interior Ministry, where inmates were allegedly held incognito and subjected to torture, The Washington Times reported.
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  • Voices
    • 376 18  -  PATRICK DUFFY Success is more than fulfiling material needs, it's also about broadening our minds Letter from CONGRATULATIONS on your article, "The front door's open, the backyard's locked" (Dec 12) by Terence Chong, which I believe very much hit the mark and highlights once again the paradox
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    • 222 18  -  FRED LEAVITT Letter from I'VE just returned to the US after four enjoyable months in wonderful Singapore and would like to make two observations. Singapore is largely crime-free and much safer than most US cities. Most Singaporeans I've talked with attribute this to the
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    • 315 18  -  DAVID LIM Letter from THE recent Human Rights Watch's report on maid abuse in Singapore is exaggerated. I was astounded when I heard it on a BBC radio programme. The report generalises Singaporeans as inhuman and insensitive towards their domestic helpers. One
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    • Let's not go on guilt trips
      • 196 19  -  ALAN VERHONICH Letter from I READ the letter, "A generous tip can go a long way" (Dec 12) with much amusement. I have been in the service industry for the past 35 years and I always thought I was supposed to provide
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      • 174 19  -  STEVE KNGO Letter from I REFER to the letter, "A generous tip can go a long way" by Heng Cho Choon (Dec 12). It is ridiculous to fault Pasir Ris and Tampines residents for unhappy taxi drivers at Changi Airport, and to
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      • 243 19  -  FRISNATAN Letter from I REFER to the letters, "The airport passenger's headache: Making short trips worth the cabbie's while" (Dec 12). I agree with Shirlee Seng's suggestion to have a separate taxi queue for those who travel from Changi Airport to Pasir Ris,
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    • 240 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY! BACKGROUND FOR MARRIAGE Is there anyway to tell if a person is ready for marriage? It's not unusual for single people to wonder if their background or their family history has properly prepared them for a lifelong relationship. Afriend of mine. Dr.
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    • 190 20  -  HAN MUI HUI Prices are adjusted for changes in fuel oil prices; spike has been small Letter from Manager, Regulatory Affairs Branch, SP Services Ltd I REFER to the letter from Mr Mohamad Noor Abdullah ("Oil prices falls but SP tariffs stay the same", Nov 25) The
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    • 117 20  -  TAN CHEKWEE Letter from WHEN I read the letter, "Noisy birds roosting in trees a danger?" (Dec 12), my reaction was: "Oh no, not another reason for more killing!" But then I still wish that perhaps if the authority does respond, the trees may
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    • 118 20  -  DENIS DISTANT Letter from SOME years ago, I received a coupon for a cup of coffee at a fastfood chain after I bought groceries from a nearby supermarket When I went to get my coffee I was told: "Sorry, out of stock". I asked
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    • 714 21  -  Jeremy Lim "YU-GI-OH!" is a word my Dad has problems pronouncing correctly. I am sure many adults have not heard of it, let alone know what it is. It is a trading card game based on the Japanese comic mega-hit. It is quite a mentally
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  • Businesstoday
    • 210 24 -BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S economy will expand 5 per cent this year as growth rebounds after slowing in the first half, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said. South-east Asia's fourth-largest economy grew 7 per cent in the third quarter from a
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    • 262 24 DOW JONES MALAYSIA'S Southern Bank said yesterday the country's central bank might consider an alternative plan by the lender to buy the life insurance business of Singapore's Asia General Holdings. Southern Bank's earlier proposal to buy 51.58
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    • 372 24 DOW JONES Telco plans to sell remainder after 6-month moratorium SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Sing Tel) has trimmed its 30.85-per-cent stake in Singapore Post (Sing Post) and plans to sell the remaining shares. South-east Asia's largest telephone company by market capitalisation said yesterday it had sold 95
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    • 99 24 BLOOMBERG CONSTRUCTION group Sim Lian said it won a $54.4-million contract to redevelop the Kallang Leisure Park next to the National Stadium. Work on the project, awarded by Jack Investment, will start this month and should be completed by June 2007, the company said
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    • 204 25 DOW JONES CASINO operator Genting International made a strong debut on the Singapore Exchange yesterday, fuelled by its attractive valuations and hopes of success in its bid to build Singapore's first casino. The company, which operates Malaysia's
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    • marketwatch
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      • 54 25 Nikkei 225 15,738.70 +334.65 +2.17 Hang Seng 14,984.40 +73.89 +0.50 Australia ASX 4,611.90 +31.80 +0.69 Taiwan Wtd 6,266.29 +1.93 +0.03 Korea Comp 1,333.23 +15.81 +1.20 KLCI 897.01 -1.29 -0.14 SET Index Closed Jakarta Comp 1,175.00 +14.93 +1.29 Phils Comp 2,101.40 +1.15 +0.05 Shenzhen B 190.06 +0.36 +0.19 Mumbai
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      • 48 25 Gen Int 0.380 272,365 SingPost 1.150 105,488 UniFiber 0.325 +0.005 +1.6 21,215 TTL 0.155 15,050 SingTel 2.560 -0.010 -0.4 14,799 Chartered 1.330 -0.010 -0.7 13,854 Biosensors 1.170 -0.010 -0.8 11,622 GlobalVoice 0.190 -0.005 -2.6 8,431 HSII5400CW060I26 0.205 +0.020 +10.8 8,395 DatacrftUSS 1.050 +0.040 +4.0 7,867
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      • 149 25 Dow Jones SHARES rose yesterday despite an absence of fresh themes, as investors were encouraged by Wall Street's rally on Friday, traders said. The ST Index ended 10.30 points, or 0.4 per cent, higher at 2,331.40. In the broad market, advancers outnumbered decliners 233 to 215. Volume was a
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      • 36 25 US$ 0.5944 UK£ 0.3371 Yen 71.625 HK$ 4.6091 RM 2.2447 Euro 0.5007 Rupiah 5,798.7 Baht 24.521 Peso 31.872 A$ 0.7907 Indian Rs 27.412 Won 614.22 C$ 0.6857 Yuan 4.8015 NZ$ 0.8397 NT$ 19.947
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      • 27 25 SGX, Uow Jones Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 541.20 Slim uss/oz 9.29 Mia uss/oz 1,012.20 Hbir cents/kg 292.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,415 BnntDidiiisS'i.iiiiii 57.66 Information provided by and
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      • 421 26  -  CHRISTIE LOH Mobile phone services firm's bulk refurbishment unit was phantom business christie@newstoday.com.sg THE rot in Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) started even before Victor Tan, the one-time poster boy for entrepreneurship, took the company public in March 2003. Pre-tax profit for the year ended
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      • 189 26 DOW JONES DOW JONES DOW JONES Jet fuel supplier China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp, or CAO, which nearly collapsed last year with about US$55O million ($926 million) in derivatives trading losses, has received a written report from the Corporate Governance Assessment Committee. CAO's board of directors will review
        — DOW JONES  -  189 words
      • 345 26 DOW JONES MACQUARIE Bank has postponed its global property fund's $676 million initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore until next year, hitting another road bump in its pursuit of overseas expansion. Macquarie, Australia's largest investment bank, blamed the softening Singapore market for real
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      • 184 26  -  CHRISTIE LOH A-SONIC Aerospace said yesterday that it bought 4.175 million shares in beleaguered Airocean from the open market last Friday, boosting its indirect stake to 8.34 per cent from 7.42 per cent The purchases, made through its subsidiary Janco Strategic Biz, likely cost A-Sonic
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      • 782 28 There are many types of policies. You need to know what each policy covers and to disclose any pre-existing medical conditions in order to make valid claims. WE CAN never take good health for granted. Besides adopting a healthy lifestyle, it is also important to
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      • 407 30  -  JANE CHIAPOCO No star players'names headline the sporting goods firm's campaign ja nec@newstoday.com.sg THE new football marketing campaign from sporting goods giant Adidas conspicuously lacks a leading player name. Instead of having a hero carrying the banner this time, Adidas' "+10" campaign focuses on the dynamics
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      • 367 30  -  -JANECHIAPOCO IN A milestone for Singapore's largest convenience store chain, 7Eleven honoured industry partners with its first Leading Brands Award presentation last night Held at the 69th floor Equinox Complex of Swissotel The Stamford hotel, it was a night of appreciation for 7-Eleven's most popular brand
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    • 440 31  -  ELAINE NG Adobe is working on making Flash technology widely available on mobile services elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg FLASH animation and interactive mulI timedia content on computers is a common sight. Rich media content on mobile phones, however, is rare. Adobe (formerly Macromedia), the company that brought
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      173 31 FUJITSU FI-5120C/FI-5220C COLOUR DUPLEX SCANNERS Fujitsu's fi-5120C (picture) and fi-5220C colour duplex workgroup scanners are equipped with ultrasonic multi-feed sensors that detect and prevent multiple sheets of paper from being fed simultaneously. Both machines are able to digitise various types of docu- merits paper printouts, transparencies and photographs in
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    • 270 31 Ml CUSTOMERS who have been juggling multiple mobile devices with a single SIM (subscriber identity module) card will now be able to switch between these devices to suit their needs. Mi's new Multi-SIM service allows customers to acquire an extra SIM card
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      • 589 32 I THE holiday season is here I again. Before you jet off on some exotic year-end getaway, don't give hackers and malicious users the chance to help themselves to the assets on your computer systems. Internet security software provider Trend Micro offers you 10 tips to
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        321 32 In a fix over IT matters? Bugged by software glitches? Send your questions to infotech@newstoday.com.sg ZEROCFGSVC MFC APPLICATION Q: My laptop shows the message "Zero CfgSvc MFC Application has encountered a problem and needs to close" every time I start it up. When I restart the laptop, the same
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    • infotech focus: high-definition television
      • 969 33  -  TAYJOOTHONG HDTV's the next big thing in home entertainment joothong@media corp.com.sg THE market has been abuzz with talk about high-definition TV (HDTV) since the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore announced plans to collaborate with MediaCorp to begin a trial service in the middle of next
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      • SHORTCUTS
        • 78 33 Software AG has made enhancements to its four XML business integration products. Enterprise Business Process Manager; Enterprise Information Integrator; Enterprise Service Integrator; and Enterprise Legacy Integrator. The four XML products are now available with an embedded version of the company's CentraSite SOA Repository, which is developed jointly
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        • 75 33 The Hyperion System 9 is reportedly the first business performance management solution that integrates financial management applications with a business intelligence platform into a modular system. The scalable solution simplifies systems management, administration and support. It offers a standards-based foundation for easier integration into existing enterprise architectures. In
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        • 98 33 1-Net has launched NETmail, which allows small and medium enterprises (SMEs) corporate email and collaboration suites that suit their budgets. NETmail suite comprises HEX, MEX and FOX solutions, which offer hosted, managed and fail-over Microsoft Exchange services, respectively, to SMEs that want to outsource the
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    • 1454 34 ANGELS DEMONS -AGENCIES Robbie Williams is back, but he still can't escape aliens, stalkers and gay activists LONDON Even by his own flamboyant standards, entertainer Robbie Williams has been particularly entertaining in the past couple of weeks. Last week, the British singer won substantial libel damages over claims that he
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        92 35 Live 9.0 Live MODERN rock's equivalent of the Manson family has spent a year touring the world. Here is the result: Two CDs' worth of slashing hard rock and densely-layered mayhem that conjure up images of war-torn wastelands and pandemonium. Unlike most live albums. Live 9.0 Live's powerfully tribal
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        108 35 Solid Gold Hitz FOR more than 24 years, the Beastie Boys have overcome obstacles with mind-boggling endurance. This 15-track retrospective is testimony to the group's knack for fashioning immensely enjoyable hip-hop singles that transcend their often-patchy albums. While the 1999 collection Sounds of Science provided a better overview
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        98 35 Kish Kash ENYA'S albums have always smacked of pretension but, Amarantine is at least rich in ideas. Sung in an invented language she calls Loxian described by Enya and collaborator Roma Ryan as "a futuristic language from a distant planet" the album does little to change Enya's reputation
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    • 155 35 We ask Patrick Chng, Oddfellows guitarist and main man for the charity organisation Music For Good, for his favourite record: PATRICK CHNG ON THE VELVET UNDERGROUND NICO: My favourite album of all time varies from time to time. Van Morrison's Moondance and The Smiths' The Queen Is
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    • 194 36 —AFP TOKYO The book was controversial, but the Japanese are almost indifferent to the movie adaptation. Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the international bestseller that has long been controversial, experienced a lacklustre debut, opening in fourth place at the box office in Japan. Some 140,000
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    • 457 36  -  DAVID CHEW Radio and online broadcasts of Keiko Lee show planned david. chew@newstoday.com. sg THE Esplanade is, for the first time in its history, broadcasting one of its concerts on the radio and over the Internet. The unprecedented move will see this Friday's Keiko Lee concert
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    • INADDITION...
      • 172 36 AN ACTOR who once played an aspiring mobster on The Sopranos faces murder charges, along with another man in the death of an off-duty police officer, authorities said Sunday. Lillo Brancato Jr, 29, was hospitalised in critical condition with gunshot wounds suffered when the officer
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      • 149 36 -AGENCIES CRlTlCS'darling Brokeback Mountain, the upcoming effects extravaganza King Kong and the raucous comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin are among the 10 films that the American Film Institute (AFI) has judged as the most outstanding motion pictures of the year. The official selections of
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      • 66 36 RIDING on the success of MediaCorp TV Channel U's Project Superstar, Campus SuperStar drew some 4,000 teens at its open audition. Now, meet the top 20 singing schoolboys and girls who have emerged. They make their first public appearance today, 12pm, at Bishan Junction
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      • 50 36 CELEBRATE Christmas Singapore-style with Homegrown Christmas List, a compilation album of Christmas tunes sung by bands like Ronin, EIC and Singapore /do/semi-finalist Nana. Power 98FM DJs Jeremy Ratnam and Mario Larjarca also lend their voices. The album is available for download online at www.soundbuzz.com.
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    • 301 37 —AGENCIES Boatwright outlasts LaGrossa in Survivor: Guatemala finale LOS ANGELES It came down to 30-year-old sports radio host Danni Boatwright and 25-year-old Survivor veteran Stephenie LaGrossa in the Survivor: Guatemala, finale. Boatwright, a former Miss USA contestant from Kansas, outlasted and outcharmed LaGrossa, a veteran of
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    • 275 37 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Israel's consul-general in Los Angeles has lambasted Steven Spielberg's (picture) film about the 1972 Olympic massacre in Munich as a "superficial", "pretentious" and "problematic" work that draws an incorrect moral equation between Mossad agents and Palestinian terrorists. Speaking to Israeli radio, Ehud
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      • 402 38 —AP Paramount Pictures snaps up Spielberg's Dream Works studio for some $2.7 billion NEW YORK Paramount Pictures agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG for nearly US$l.6 billion ($2.7 billion) in cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled
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    • Healthtoday
      • 950 39  -  LAUREENTOH When the brain doesn't process whatthe ear hears laureent® newstoday.com..sg SEVEN-year-old Ben*(not his real name) hates birthday parties. He shies away from others,and tils his mother never to bring him to a party again. Jane* is a bright child who is typically vocal in expressing her
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      • 968 40 For Agnes Lee, life began again at 50, when she made a comeback as a pro bodybuilder TWO years ago, at the age of 50, lady bodybuilder Agnes Lee made a comeback into the world of professional bodybuilding. She started bodybuilding professionally in 1986, won
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      • 242 40  -  JANICE GOH FEELING down in the dumps? Reach past the chocolate bar for sweet potatoes to help you fight the blues. Sweet potatoes are naturally sweet, low in calories and are fat and cholesterol-free. They contain Vitamin 86, which is said to balance brain chemicals
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        524 41 Actress and former band member says music soothes her SHARING the stage with Ricky Martin. Jamming with an all-girl band in Taiwan. Been there and done that, says Jaime Teo, Miss Singapore Universe 2001. But before you dismiss her as just another pretty face, Jaime, who will soon
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      • 320 41 —AFP JERUSALEM An Israeli psychologist has reportedly developed a radical new technology which would enable an ordinary mobile phone to diagnose breast cancer and various type of heart disease. By installing new software and adding a basic infrared camera, a mobile phone could be
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      • 694 42 Drinking water, rest in between exercise cuts heatstroke risk HEATSTROKE is caused by excessive fluid loss and mineral loss through sweating. The patient usually feels hot, has a flushed face and dry skin. If the person's temperature rises above 40 degree Celsius, he
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      • 517 44 I HAVE been suffering from angina pectoris for several years and have had a few angiograms done over the past one-and-a-half years. I have also undergone three drug-elutting stents. Lately, the pains recurred, but after going through another angiogram, the doctor confirmed that my arteries were not
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      • HEALTHLISTINGS
        • 75 44 It's the time of the year to feast on festive goodies and food safety is especially important during this period. A panel of experts will discuss if our food is safe to eat and touch on topics such as food hygiene and food-related diseases
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        • 105 44 What is auditory processing disorder (APD), and could that explain why your child has been experiencing learning difficulties? Find out at this forum, where a multidisciplinary team of overseas and local doctors and medical professionals will be present to shed more light on APD. Date: Thursday
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        • 50 44 Quit Kaki is a service rendered by Malay ex-smokers who will man a toll-free hotline every Wednesday until May. Smokers who want to kick the habit can call Quit Kaki for encouragement and motivation. Date: Until May Time: 7pm to 9pm Hotline: 1800 438 2000
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      • 362 44 BLOOMBERG ALZHEIMER'S disease researchers in Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School said they found more evidence that the condition may be a new type of diabetes, or insulin deficiency, specific to the brain. The researchers discovered a "significant"
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      • 457 48 —AFP Pathan misses century but puts hosts in strong position CRICKET India v Sri Lanka NEW DELHI Man Pathan (picture) struck a career-best 93 to help India to a comfortable position against Sri Lanka on the third day of the second Test at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground
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      • 272 48 —AFP LONDON England's Ashes star Andrew Flintoff on Sunday won the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for 2005. The 28-year-old all-rounder was the favourite to win following his man-of-the-series role in the summer Test success over Australia. Flintoff, who is
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      • 604 49 —AP Colts have Dolphins' record in sight after 13th win I NFL Indianapolis 26 Jacksonville 18 JACKSONVILLE, Florida With most of their goals accomplished, the Indianapolis Colts can now turn their attention to history. But don't expect them to look too far ahead. Peyton Manning threw
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      • 356 49 -AP NBA Miami 104 Washington 101 MIAMI Playing for the first time in five weeks, Shaquille O'Neal missed 10 free throws on Sunday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time), but made the one that mattered. The NBA's most notoriously erratic foul shooter sank the
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      • 167 49 —AFP INDIANAPOLIS Injured Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest (picture) wants the National Basketball Association team to trade him, telling the Indianapolis Star that the club would be better off without him. The newspaper reported on Sunday that Artest, who missed almost all of last season for his
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      • 399 50 —AP GOLF Target World Challenge THOUSAND OAKS, California Luke Donald figured his year was going to end without a victory when he arrived at the Target World Challenge. Given his record, he should have known better. In his first year on the PGA
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      • 494 50 —AFP Thai gets peers'vote at Asian Tour awards BANGKOK Thailand's Thaworn Wiratchant picked up four top honours at the Asian Tour's Awards Night 2005, including the prestigious Players' Player of the Year and Order of Merit titles. On a day he claimed the mantle as Asia's top player
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      • 286 50 -AFP HANOI Vietnamese police are investigating allegations of match-fix-ing by members of the national football squad during the SEA Games in the Philippines earlier this month. At least four under-23 players are suspected of fixing matches against Myanmar and Malaysia, An Ninh Thu Do,
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      • 533 51 —AGENCIES Liverpool deny they are only in Japan for commercial reasons YOKOHAMA Liverpool arrived in Japan yesterday with only one intention: adding the Fifa Club World Championship to the European Cup they claimed so spectacularly in May. Chief executive Rick Parry denied yesterday that the European
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      • 189 51 —AFP MADRID Brazilian World Cup star Ronaldinho (picture) brilliantly illustrated his status as European Footballer of the Year with a breathtaking goal which gave Barcelona a 2-1 win over Sevilla and kept his side on top of the Spanish league. The 25-year-old scored the
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      • 245 51 —AGENCIES LONDON Roy Keane's closest confidant has denied reports that the former Manchester United captain is on the verge of a move to Real Madrid. A Spanish newspaper report on Sunday suggested the Irish midfielder had already passed a medical for Real, but the claim
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      • 147 51 —AFP SERIE A Inter Milan 3 AC Milan 2 ROME Roberto Mancini insisted his Inter Milan side can still win the Serie A title following their dramatic 3-2 derby win over AC Milan on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) which left them 10 points behind
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    • 892 52  -  S Murali With supply line of world m greats drying up at United, it is surely time for change FOR the past 20 years or so, or ever since computer football simulations were invented, I have been putting together dream Xls. You know, become
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