Today, 16 December 2005

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  • hot news
    • 382 2 AGENCIES Landmark elections carry hopes of stability BAGHDAD Iraqis turned out in droves yesterday in a landmark poll to choose a new government that many hope will restore stability to a nation wracked by violence and sectarian feuding since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Despite a
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    • 282 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@newstoday.com.sg JUST as others are dropping out of the race to build Singapore's integrated resorts (IR), tycoon Kwek Leng Beng has jumped right in. The executive chairman of City Developments (CDL) announced last night that the hotel and property group
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  • singapore news
    • 270 4 SINGAPOREANS with fond memories of the Costa Sands Resort in East Coast will have to bid it goodbye when it ceases operation on Jan 3. The resort's 30-year lease with the Singapore Land Authority expires early next year and, according to
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    • 519 4  -  JASMINE YIN Report reveals SAVH's breaches and poor controls: Inquiry jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg THE first inquiry in recent times by the Commissioner of Charities (COC) into a voluntary welfare organisation in Singapore confirmed what many had suspected: The Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) suffered from inadequate service
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    • 623 6  -  LEE U-WEN New 'one-stop' treatment centre helps all addicts from gamblers to sexaholics u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WHENEVER he got his monthly salary, George (not his real name) would squander it all at parties, downing bottles of beer and having one-night stands with women he barely knew. That was
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    • 102 6 WE CARE is located within the Alexander Day Centre at Tiong Bahru, just beside Redhill MRT station. The two-storey building, recently refurbished thanks to a $50,000 donation by pharmaceutical giant Schering Plough, boasts a lounge with a library and computers, a music jamming room, a cafe and a sobriety
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    • 435 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG Construction firm's former directors face 283 charges each cheekong@newstoday.com. sg NINE months after the court shut down a troubled construction firm, charges were slapped on three of its former directors yesterday. Wan Soon Construction chairman Koh Koo Yong, 67, his son Koh See Kwang,
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 81 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Mariana Abdullah, who was arrested in the high-profile cocaine bust in October last year, has been arrested again by narcotic officers for drug consumption. Mariana, 25 -the girlfriend of Tunisian fugitive Guiga Laroussi charged with drug trafficking -was earlier sentenced to 13
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      • 63 8 Motorists are advised to find alternative parking if they wish to visit the area around Club Street this Saturday. The street between Ann Siang Hill and Mohamed Ali Lane will be closed to traffic from noon to midnight for street performances. This is
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    • 399 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MOM: 28,500 jobs were created in the third quarter alone SINGAPORE'S employment situation showed continued improvement in the third quarter of this year, with 28,500 more jobs recorded. Although lower than the preceding quarter's gain of 31,700, the increase is double the 14,100
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPET
      • 118 10 938 LIVE Bus and rail operator SBS Transit has set up a high-level Service Quality Committee to look into improving commuting standards. Three of its directors will helm the six-member committee. The other three will come from Comfort Delgro's senior management. The team
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    • 446 12  -  TORCHING LI Travellers will pay less passenger charge than at Terminals 1 and 2 chingli@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S Low Cost Carrier (LCC) terminal will open its gates for operations on March 26 next year, said the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) in a press release yesterday.
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    • 159 12 MEDIACORP has been appointed the official Singapore representative of the prestigious Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival for 2006 and 2007. The festival is the annual gathering of the world's advertising, creative, direct marketing, interactive, film, radio, media, sales promotion and marketing communities. As the
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    • 625 14  -  LEE U-WEN Businessman injects $1m into NUS researcher's mixed reality company u-wen@newstoday.com.sg IT TOOK four months of negotiations, answering phone calls after midnight, making presentations and attending countless and endless meetings. All this, while juggling between his day job as a researcher and lecturer. But
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    • 486 19  -  TORCHING LI National leadership programme for young women kicks off Young women need opportunities to develop leadership skills. If not, women will continue to be underrepresented in decision-making positions at every level. MP Irene Ng on the Leaf programme, which will target male-dominated fields,
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  • world news
    • 362 20 AGENCIES Says Iran confirms his controversial 2002 assertion as it is a real threat WASHINGTON In an escalating war of words, United States President George W. Bush on Wednesday called Iran "a real threat", repeating his controversial charge from 2002 that Iran is part of
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    • 143 20 LONDON Iran's tough-talk-ing President has a hardline Cabinet, alleges a study titled "Ministers of murder", the Telegraph reported. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has filled his government with former security and intelligence officials responsible for serious human rights abuses, a leading rights group said. A report by Human
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    • 112 20 AGENCIES MANILA —Police arrested a retired Philippine army general yesterday, a day after he declared a "revolutionary transition government" to oust President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Police spokesman Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said 80-year-old Fortunato Abat, a former defence secretary and army commander, will be charged with
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    • 809 23  -  YANG RAZALI KASSIM Asean's at the core of East Asia, but the road is long and hazy news@newstoday.com.sg AT THE 11th Asean Summit on Saturday in Kuala Lumpur, Australia formally acceded to the regional grouping's non-ag-gression pact called the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation
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    • 419 25 Attacks come after suicide bombing earlier this month GAZA CITY Israel launched new air strikes in the Gaza Strip yesterday, hours after a similar raid killed four militants, providing a violent backdrop to a new round of Palestinian local elections in the West
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    • 289 25 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused the international community yesterday of shirking its obligation to help prosecute deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein by effectively boycotting his trial. Dr Rice, without naming countries, said she was "saddened" that so many nations
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    • 508 26 -AGENCIES WTO talks stutter over touchy issue of opening up the world's food markets HONG KONG As talks on tearing down global trade barriers remained deadlocked, riot police in Hong Kong braced for more protests outside the meeting of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) 149 members.
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    • 224 26 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian authorities quarantined about 500 cattle at a southern Malaysian farm and banned the shipment of thousands more after animals there showed signs of Foot and Mouth disease, The Star reported yesterday. Some 194 cattle at the farm in Sinaran Baru
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    • 557 30 AGENCIES Sydney steps up security as racist posters appear in NZ WELLINGTON Apparently following the Sydney example, "white power" posters appearing to call for racial attacks were found hung at suburban railway stations outside the New Zealand capital. Yesterday, the country's Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris
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    • 604 31 Electronic currency is taking Japan by storm TOKYO Electronic cash (e-cash) is rising to be a dominant form of currency in Japan as its society is rethinking commerce by doing away with the increasingly arcane concept of paper cash, reported The Washington Post. Mr Toru
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 71 32 -AFP A United Nations-backed tribunal on Wednesday convicted a former senior Rwandan army officer of playing a major role in the country's 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found excolonel Aloys Simba guilty
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      • 68 32 Only a fifth of the 1.8 million people made homeless by last December's tsunami will be in permanent homes by the end of this year, the British-based aid group Oxfam International said. In the three worst-affected countries Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India 308,000 homes
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      • 47 32 AFP Indonesia and Russia are considering using an island off Indonesia's Papua province as a launching base for a Russian communications satellite, an official said. "Indonesia and Russia are discussing the use of Biak as a satellite launching base," he said.
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    • 266 32 -AFP Need to help former rebels for peace to take hold: Report JAKARTA Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebels handed over another 51 weapons in the final phase of a disarmament process yesterday. However, the hitherto-promising peace process could crumble in Aceh if it falters at this
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    • 173 32 -AFP BANGKOK- Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has offered to personally oversee foreign bids for 1.8 trillion baht ($68.3 billion) worth of public works projects, reported the Bangkok Post. Dr Thaksin said he would personally ensure "a great emphasis on transparency and openness" in the selection process
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    • 364 33 Nifty toys clever kids? No basis to support claims that children learn from their electronic toys: Study NEW YORK While American parents commonly buy electronic "educational" toys for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers, questions have been raised regarding the effectiveness and educational value of such playthings which range from simple videos
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    • 242 33 SILOAM SPRINGS (Arkansas) Midway through her first solo sky dive at about 900 m above the ground Ms Shayna Richardson, 21, discovered her parachute was not functioning. She hurtled towards a parking lot in Siloam Springs, hitting the asphalt face first, reported The
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    • 230 33 -AP NEW YORK- New York has adopted a health code regulation that will make it the first American city to keep track of people with diabetes in much the same way it does with patients infected with HIV or tuberculosis. The city will occasionally
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    • 216 34 JAKARTA Indonesian lawmakers have received a hefty allowance to facilitate better communications with their constituents despite rising poverty and public uproar against rewarding the legislators. The provision of revised allowance for lawmakers has raised debates and much public uproar, even among the lawmakers. Islam-based Prosperous
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    • 310 34 'Like a deer in headlights AFP It's time for US to prepare an effective strategy to fight China's rising military power WASHINGTON The United States must prepare an effective strategy to face China's rising military power and not freeze "like a deer in the proverbial headlights", a study warned. Beijing's
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    • this quirky world
      • 90 34 -DPA Two women won their case against a German casino yesterday after their gamblingaddict husbands had sneaked off to a gaming parlour and lost the family savings. Germany's high court said the casino should have known that the two men, in a moment of clarity, had
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      • 99 34 Police officers in the UKwere stunned when a car crashed into their patrol car and they found a three-year-old boy was responsible, reported ananova.com. Oliver Willment-Coster was left strapped in the car by his father who went to buy his son a Milky Bar.
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  • Voices
    • 456 38  -  ANTHONYTOH Others played bigger roles in ensuring that Singapore survived Letter from IT IS interesting to read your report, "Holes in the History of Singapore" (Dec 14). As a Singaporean aged 60, with an interest in our country's history, I have often wondered whether Singapore would
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    • 264 38  -  MARGARET HAN Letter from I REFER to the letter "Rising costs for Singaporeans who marry or employ foreigners?" (Dec 15). I beg to differ from the view presented. In fact, I'm extremely glad that the Ministry of Health has decided not to
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    • Article, Illustration
      104 38 POINT THE WAY, PLEASE... Go straight to the end and turn left is that what one is telling the other? It doesn't take a bird-brain to lose one's way, but unlike men, this humble avian seems to know how to ask for directions. Information services officer Jansen Ec, 34,
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    • 233 40  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY FATIGUE AND EMOTION It's amazing how many problems in our lives can be eliminated by this simple prescription...get some rest! The late, great football coach of the Green Bay Packers, Vince Lombardi, once made this statement, "Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
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    • 231 40  -  MASTURA MAMAT Letter from MY AUNT from Malaysia used the MRT during her visit here. She said she had no clue why she had to pay $2.50 for a $1.50 single-trip ticket After the trip, she threw away the smart card because she did not know what
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    • 46 40 Progression does not necessarily mean discarding traditional or conservative values and casting off self-restraint. The individual's freedom of expression is not absolute and, therefore, cannot trump countervailing interests and values. Yvonne C L Lee, in response to Andrew Duffy's letter, "Move on, Singapore" (Dec 13)
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    • 311 40  -  CHONG LEE MING Can we be a global city that holds together diverse voices? Letter from I REFER to the letter by Mr Yong Teck Meng, "Asia's one continent but it's half the world" (Dec 14). Mr Yong rightly pointed out that
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    • 126 40  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from READING the report, "Helpful Singaporean stung in JB" (Dec 5) I felt sorry for Rosdee who was attacked by a stranger who had sought his help. This ugly incident is an eye-opener. Our stronger currency makes it worthwhile for
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 58 41 MOJIAMIN Can anyone explain the location of the ERP gantry on Bras Basah Road? Motorists leaving Orchard Road to turn left into Selegie Road pay ERP even though they are leaving the Central Business District. Can the Land Transport Authority re-site the gantry to
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      • 63 41 JONATHAN CHEEFOOKHENG: I refer to Mr Khoo Swee Chiow's $150,000 pursuit of the world underwater diving record; why not channel the $150,000 to help needy artists living from hand to mouth? J X Rowling lived on £70 ($207) a week in state benefits before becoming
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      • 56 41 DAVID KWOKNG KAN Work to install a lift at Tanjong Pagar MRT station started a few years ago but is still uncompleted. Why is it taking so long when other MRT lifts, such as the Queenstown one, have long been completed? The lift is
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      • 52 41 MURALI SHARMA: Some taxis now have TVs surely an unnecessary luxury that is useful only for long rides lasting hours, like in big countries? I urge that we remove the TVs. Or we'll become a society that can't be away from TV even for
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    • 382 42  -  NINDRA A good education for her daughter beats the good life anytime for this mum Letter from I READ with interest Ms Susan Fong's letter, "Playing mother courage" (Dec 15), and I cannot agree more with her, especially on the fact that our children
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    • 68 42  -  HAN LIAN YUAN Letter from Director, Corporate Communications Land Transport Authority I THANK Mr Raymund Koh for his letter on the maintenance of Whitehouse Road (Dec 5). I am sorry that we were not able to address Mr Koh's concerns when he first called
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    • 275 44  -  HWANG YUNG CHIANG Letter from I REFER to S Murali's comment on Manchester United's recent troubles, "No star cast in this Theatre" (Dec 13). It is time for Alex Ferguson to stop being in denial. It was apparent as early as the
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    • 226 44  -  HAJ MOHAMED Letter from A FEW weeks ago, Today carried an article by a reporter who was given counterfeit bills when exchanging his money for English pounds. MediaCorp TV and Radio have embarked on an awareness exercise to caution those needing foreign exchange to
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    • 220 44  -  EDWARD TAY JOLENETEO ACCOLADES Letter from ON DEC 13,1 took a taxi from Bukit Timah Plaza to Bukit Batok. The taxi driver, Mr Francis Tan, greeted me with a smile and made me feel welcomed. Afterward, I realised I'd left my phone in the cab.
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    • 1068 46  -  NAVTEJ SINGH THE year is 1972. It's a balmy Sunday afternoon and I am cruising along Tanah Merah Road (soon to be subsumed by the runway at Changi Airport). I swerve down a bumpy country lane. With a handful of lowlying houses facing
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    • 1123 48  - Enjoy the moment before the next upgrading comes mr brown Somehow it will never be the same afterwards THE wet market near my home was upgraded recently, after about 18 months of construction. I know this sounds odd, but every time I hear something in Singapore is going to be
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 93 49 DENIS DISTANT: The rights issue of Amtek Engineering closed on Dec 9. Yet a week later, the results giving details of acceptances as well as applications for excess rights have not been announced. Are investors to wait until Dec 27 when trading in rights
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      • 85 49 MICHAEL AW: The problem of unhappy taxi drivers picking up passengers for short trips after a long wait is not confined to Changi Airport. The same problem occurs at the Malayan Railway Train Station at Woodlands. Taxi drivers there are even bold enough to
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    • 304 50  -  VALERIE LAW Oceanus Bio-Tech is first company to withdraw listing for such a reason valeri e@newstoday.com.sg OCEANUS BioTech,which was slated to list on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday withdrew its listing due to a snowstorm that has affected its operations in
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    • 150 50 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering said yesterday that it had bought a 67-per-cent stake in SAS Component, the repairs unit of Scandinavian airline SAS for about $161 million. The acquisition of the stake in SAS Component is expected to be immediately "earnings enhancing",
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    • 110 50 DOW JONES MALAYSIAN broker OSK Holdings has signed a deal to buy 51-per-cent of Singapore brokerage DMG Partners Securities. Its unit, OSK Securities, inked a share sale agreement worth $50 million with Su E- Mm Co (Singapore) for its stake, OSK said. The
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      • 484 52  -  CHRISTIE LOH Customers more stringent now, says Tes-Amm christie@newstoday.com.sg THE Citiraya Industries scam not only shook up corporate Singapore, but also raised the bar for the recycling industry. According to two old hands, Mr Terence Ng and Mr Ramkripal Pandey, who set up a new
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      • CORPORATE BRIEFS
        • 70 52 Singapore Airlines filled 69 per cent of its capacity in November, up from 68.7 per cent a year earlier, even as it added more flights to popular destinations during the period. The carrier filled 74.9 per cent of total passenger seats, down from 75.4 per cent
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        • 42 52 Macquarie Pacific Star Prime REIT Management, the manager of Singapore-listed Prime REIT, has appointed Graham Sugden as deputy chief executive. Sugden was previously the head of product development at Macquarie Bank's property investment management division in South-east Asia.
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        • 35 52 Enzer Corp, a Singapore marketer and distributor of electronic goods, said its chief operating officer Ting Puong Huat has resigned. The company did not give a reason or name a replacement.
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      • 362 54 -BLOOMBERG Up 10.2 per cent from lastyear, the biggest jump in six months SINGAPORE'S retail sales grew in October at the fastest pace in six months as consumers bought more cars and sales at department stores increased. The 10.2 per cent increase from a year earlier
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      • 248 55  -  VALERIE LAW It will provide wireless LAN at 4,000 locations in the country valerie@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE-based Netpower International, an Internet solutions company, has won a US$l5O-million ($250-million) contract to develop the largest wireless local area network (WLAN) in China. The contract, awarded by Great Wall Broadband
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        • 63 55 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed flat due to the lack of fresh corporate leads. But investor sentiment was bolstered by a report citing the Prime Minister's optimism for Singapore's economic growth prospects, a trader said. The ST Index rose 1.35 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 2,325.73. Gainers led
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        • 55 55 Nikkei 225 *****.44 -210.14 -1.36 Hang Seng ASX *****.02 +02.76 4627.90 +10.00 +0.55 +0.22 Taiwan Wtd 6250.47 +23.12 +0.37 Korea Comp 1337.60 +3.41 +0.26 KLCI 094.90 -3.02 -0.43 SET Index 690.49 -4.23 -0.61 Jakarta Comp 1155.96 -17.75 -1.51 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2071.67 -25.50 190.13 -0.52 -1.22 -0.27
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        • 26 55 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 505.00 Silver US$/oz 8.44 Platinum US$/oz 950.00 Rubber cents/kg 281.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1383.50 Brent crude US$/barrel 59.61 Information provided by
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        • 36 55 USS 0.599 UK£ 0.3379 Yen 70.321 HK$ 4.6444 RM 2.2638 Euro 0.4992 Rupiah 5867.6 Baht 24.574 Peso 32.048 A$ 0.7936 Indian Rs 27.395 Won 608.92 C$ 0.6901 Yuan 4.837 NZ$ 0.8472 NT$ 19.984
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      • 508 56 BLOOMBERG Steel tycoon tops Forbes list of richest Indians with $33b MR LAKSHMI Mittal, chief executive of Mittal Steel Company, retained his position as India's richest person with an estimated wealth of US$2O billion ($33 billion), Forbes Asia said, as demand for commodities boosted the tycoon's fortune.
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      • marketbuzz
        • 123 56 IF YOU are looking for digital cameras, photo printers, all-in-ones or digital camcorders, do not miss the Canon X'mas Carnival 2005 at Singapore Expo, Foyer 2 next to Hall 6, today until Sunday from 11am to 8 pm. Enjoy unbeatable promotions plus
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        • 135 56 THE finals of OTO's Shape Up for Health campaign took place at Bukit Panjang Plaza Atrium last Sunday. After competing in the telematches, garnering votes from the public and going through a health check, the team that emerged winner was the one led by
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        • 137 56 BELIEVE your eyes if you see blue Santarinas and Christmas elves in town from today till Sunday. Dressed in blue, they will appear along Orchard Road from noon to 7pm. As part of a Christmas giveaway event organised by Nivea to spread festive cheer, they
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        • 156 56 THIS festive season enjoy Marigold Jelly, a tantalising soft, double-layered dessert topped with crunchy, fresh fruits. It is Singapore's first chilled dessert that gives you two delicious layers so you enjoy double the pleasure: A soft upper layer
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      • 362 57 BLOOMBERG US attorney general says ex-AIG CEO cheated charitable trust of $10 billion NEW York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and other former American International Group (AIG) Inc executives exploited their authority 35 years ago, costing a charity set up by AlG's founder US$6
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      • 151 57 BLOOMBERG SHAREHOLDERS of Sunday Communications, a Hong Kong mobile-phone company being acquired by PCCW, rejected a plan to privatise the company, spokeswoman Stella Wong said in a phone interview yesterday. About 17 per cent of the shareholders rejected the plan at a meeting this
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      • 824 58  -  JASMINE YIN jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg SHE dislikes sending text messages, but a chance to purchase an item that she had been eyeing for just $5 prompted Ms Gan Lay Lee to send off an SMS for the "Today is sive" weekly promotion organised by this newspaper.
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      • 300 59 BLOOMBERG Drop in share prices of firm behind Canberra's revision AUSTRALIA'S government slashed the amount it expects to get from the sale of its remaining stake in Telstra Corp by 20 per cent, after shares of the nation's biggest telephone company slumped this year. The sale
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      • 203 59 BLOOMBERG Australian Treasurer Peter Costello raised the government's forecast of next year's budget cash surplus by more than a quarter to A 511.5 billion ($14.4 billion) and said he would consider cutting income taxes for a third successive year. Mr Costello in May had forecasted a
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      • 835 60  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE news@newstoday.com.sg IN 1990, when former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called for the creation of an East Asian Economic Group, the United States was livid. Secretary of State James Baker described the plan as an attempt to isolate the US from rapidly
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      • 1083 61 SONY'S Cyber-shot line of cameras is known for its great compact designs and top-notch image capturing technologies. CYBER-SHOT THE DSC-N1 ($899) is one of the latest devices to join the Cyber-shot family. This 8.1-megapixel camera boasts a Carl ZeissVario-Tessar lens and is the first digital
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      • 240 66 WITH the overwhelming number of sources for travel information, planning a trip today can be confusing and time-consuming. That's precisely why the services of a professional travel agent are more valuable than ever. A travel agent is your one-stop shop for planning your trip.
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      • 510 66  -  JMHIRSCH ■AP Europe for two under $2,000-areyou up for the challenge? DUBLIN Europe. For two. Five days, four nights.Total cost: As little as possible. Armed with a stack of travel magazines and a laptop, I challenged myself to see just how cheaply I could get
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    • 541 62 ARIES (March 21 -April 19) LIBRA (Sept 23 Oct 22) HYou may be busy, but try to find some time Put your emotions aside and you will easily to help others. Changes at home will be ben- |K#^ gain ground in every aspect of your life. Mateficial, so do your
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    • 196 68 WEATHERTODI Amsterdam 4/9 C rainy Los Angeles 7/19 C fair o Auckland 14/24 C rainy Manila 24/29 C showers OlligapOre Bali 24/30 C rainy Melbourne W26C windy 24/32 C BSBegawan 24/31 C showers New Delhi 7/23 C fair Bangkok 20/30 C showers New York -2/6 C thunderstorm occasionally Bangalore 17/25
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  • sports
    • 355 69 -AFP LOS ANGELES Tim Montgomery, who reiterated on Wednesday that he never "knowingly" took steroids, called it quits just one day after being slapped with a two-year suspension for using steroids. The 30-year-old American's retirement announcement ended a controversial sprint career that was highlighted
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    • 452 69 -BLOOMBERG Supporters, actors, former cricketers protest axing KOLKATA Sourav Ganguly's supporters burned effigies of India cricket coach Greg Chappell and chief selector Kiran More in Kolkata yesterday, after the deposed captain was dropped from the national team. A suburban railway service was also halted by
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    • 280 69 -AFP ROME Lance Armstrong (picture), the seven-time Tour de France winner who retired last July, will go on trial for defamation after losing a preliminary hearing against Filippo Simeoni on Wednesday. Armstrong famously called the Italian rider a "liar" in an interview with French
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    • 417 70 -AGENCIES Today's Champions League draw throws up some mouth-watering possibilities NYON, Switzerland The Champions League is heading into the knockout stages, and today's draw at Uefa headquarters could produce some intriguing match-ups. At the draw, the eight group winners from the first round will go up
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    • 336 70 -AP NBA Miami 100 Milwaukee 83 MILWAUKEE A four-game, five-night road trip was the perfect way for Miami Heat coach Pat Riley to bond with his new team. Dwyane Wade scored 27 points and Gary Payton added 20 to give Riley his second win in
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    • 524 72 -AGENCIES Ferguson hopes Gunners can wound high-flying Chelsea this Sunday MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted he will become an Arsenal fan for a day this weekend. The unusual alliance is because the Gunners face Chelsea at Highbury in a potentially decisive Premiership clash on Sunday and
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    • 382 72 -AGENCIES MANCHESTER Former Manchester United skipper Roy Keane has joined Celtic, the Scottish club announced yesterday. Keane has agreed an 18-month deal, after leaving Manchester United last month. The 34-year-old will be eligible to make his Hoops debut against Hearts in the Bank of Scotland Premier
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    • 519 73 -AFP Record-breaking Liverpool one step away from becoming world club champions WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS SEMI-FINAL Liverpool 3 Deportivo Saprissa 0 YOKOHAMA Liverpool overwhelmed Deportivo Saprissa 3-0 yesterday to book a place in the final of the World Club Championships and extend their winning streak to
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    • 281 74  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE Badminton Association (SBA) president Lim Swee Say yesterday conveyed his condolences to the Korean Badminton Association over the death of Kirn Mi Scon, one of their most promising young shuttlers. Mi Scon, 15, died on Tuesday evening from multiple injuries after being
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      634 74  -  TANYO-HINN Kua conquers the pain barrier in Mexico and is now the world No 6 HE had no coach to guide him. He had to contend with painful saddle sores and abrasions. Worse, he was in real danger of inflicting terrible damage to his Achilles tendon. But nothing could
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    • 739 75  -  TANYO-HINN Largest public-private project set for completion in 2011, as Singapore looks to a possible Asian Games bid yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE projected completion date has been put back nine months and the total cost could reach $800 million, up from the initial $650 million estimate. Despite the
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    • 37 74 SPORT TV TODAY 9am NBA Nuggets v Cavaliers, Ch24 6pm Football Fifa World Club C'ship: Al Ahly v Sydney FC, Ch24 8.30pm Golf South African Airways Open, Ch22 TOMORROW 3.45 am Ligue 1 Lyon v Lille, ChloB
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      482 78 She's bone thin, she's funky, she's a tigress Pearlyn Tham (pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg) enters the manic world of Patricia Mok and comes out gasping for air SHE is girl power, noodle loving and cheek-bustingly funny, all in a streamlined 1.65m-tall figure. It may sound ironic but J Team artiste Patricia
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      1995 82  -  MARK LEE: What does it take to make it big when you were once a small fry? A whole lot of guts, as Eveline Gan (eveline@newstoday.com.sg) finds outs. SITTING PRETTY AT TOP 10 WITH his lanky frame and less-than-flaw-less looks, Mark Lee is not your typical Channel 8
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      118 94 Get your fill of the Christmas spirit with these palatable, bite-sized reads, says Recta Raman (reeta@newstoday.com.sg) All books from Books Kinokuniya CHRISTMAS ATTHE NEW YORKER From the pages of one of America's most influential magazines, The New Yorker, comes a compilation of eight decades of holdiday cheer. Lively,
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    • 78 94  -  John Grisham by The king of suspenseful courtroom drama John Grisham has penned a heartwarming holiday tale in which a couple decide they've had enough of Christmas. Come Dec 25, they will avoid the festivities by going on a cruise. But they soon find that skipping Christmas is
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    • 105 94  -  J R RTolkien by The author of the Lord of the Rings shows his paternal side in this collection of Christmas letters to his four children. In these inventive missives, Tolkien assumes the guise of Father Christmas and describes in vivid, lyrical detail his house, friends
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    • 98 94  - CHICKEN SOUP FORTHE SOUL THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS VIRTUES Jack Canfield and Mark Vie- by tor Hansen with Carol McAdoo Rehme The Chicken Soup for the Soul series can always be depended on for a dose of heart-warming stories and this collection does not disappoint. The stories, with their themes
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      450 96 Give yourself a break from the stresses of the season with this aromatic citrus dessert, says Christopher Tan (food@newstoday.com.sg) FANCY a hit of something sweet, even when your waistline and wallet are being stretched by the temptations and demands of the season? These streamlined bars, thinner and less
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      977 98 Step off the machine and step into the shopping centres to get in shape for Christmas EVENTS MALLS OF CENTREPOINT The colour of Christmas live musical show Celebrate the yuletide season at the Malls of Centrepoint with all things chocolate! The M&M's red, green, yellow, blue and orange
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      1869 100 I Christmas is no time to sport the lean and hungry look. Karman Tse (karman@newstoday.com.sg) shows you where to get your fill. SEAFOOD EXTRAVAGANZA Eat to your heart's content! That's arguably Singaporeans'favourite way of celebrating any festival. And it's exactly what you can do at Swissotel Merchant Court,
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    • 1236 108  -  Ross Wallace Back with another remake, Hollywood just can't stop aping old movies THERE'S an old joke about meddling politicians that says their motto a twist on the saying: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" should be: "If it ain't broke, fix it until it
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    • 293 109 BEST REMAKES 'The Fly (1986) Director David Cronenberg made certified stars of Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis with this thought-provoking makeover of the 1958 Vincent Price cult classic. A heartfelt love story disguised as a gorefest. The Fly\s a seminal work for film theorists and movie geeks. 'Scarface
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    • 737 110  -  Felix Cheong Revisiting a year of disembodied chicken heads, fast fingers and new faces, Plus columnist FELIX CHEONG puts on his claws (and places tongue firmly in cheek) to give his verdict on the year's news-making events in the entertainment industry MOST POINTLESS PRODUCTION 1:
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    • 730 112  -  JEANINETAN Actor Jang is handsome but that hasn't kept him from tackling non-heroic roles jeanine@newstoday.com.sg SOUTH Korean actor Jang Dong Gun looks even better in person than he does in the movies. His face may come across as slightly chubby on screen, but in real
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    • 226 113 First major film role was playing an upstart young cop in cult director Lee Myung-se's 1999 film Nowhere to Hide. Earned recognition outside South Korea in the late '90s after several of his TV dramas were screened in Vietnam. Achieved Asia-wide stardom in the 2001 film Friend, the all-time
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    • 422 115  - in cinemas soon JEANINE AN with jeanine@newstoday.com.sg CHAELIZE Theron is fast becoming the heir apparent to Meryl Streep: A glamorous actress who doesn't just star in blockbusters, but also relishes taking on the challenge of portraying ordinary women. PLUS looks at her new movie and the latest industry news. ANOTHER
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    • 479 116  - SLAUGHTER ON PAUSE JEANINETAN WWI movie recalls the day enemies put down their weapons to celebrate Christmas together jea nine@newstoday.com.sg IN ONE of the many strange but true incidents that took place during World War I, French soldiers captured a stray cat that had wandered between the French and German
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    • 449 118  -  ASHRAF SAFDAR CNA documentary revisits Aceh a year after tsunami ashraf@newstoday.com.sg THE plan was to gather stories about the devastating earthquake that struck Aceh on Dec 26 last year. So, in October, Channel News Asia (CNA) senior producer Zainudin Afandi criss-crossed the province, visiting villages and speaking
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    • 248 118  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR AN EXTREME option for many, it was a natural career choice for Deb Fung. For most of her life, the Australian had juggled her twin passions of law and music. Then, in her third year at college, the idea of recording an
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    • 586 120  -  JONATHAN LIM Singapore theatre must speak directly to its audience plus@newstoday.com.sg ALMOST every lengthy conversation I've had with a theatre colleague this year has ended up focusing on how Singapore theatre has been lacking in direction of late. Oh, we've been busy producing to meet quotas and marketing
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    • 310 122  -  DAVID CHEW Eclectic line-up set for next year's fringe test david. chew@newstoday.com. sg A CD of poems and songs written and performed by migrant workers in Singapore, life-sized papier-mache dolls that will be taken from Thailand to Singapore as part of an exploration of cross-border issues,
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    • 630 124 -AGENCIES Ang Lee s gay Western Brokeback Mountain is taking America by storm NEW YORK Brokeback Mountain is breaking new ground in Hollywood. The story of a pair of Wyoming cowboys who fall in love is sweeping top honours among major critics groups for Best Film
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      489 126 -AP Andy Serkis says playing fantastical hobbits and gorillas is 'just acting' NEW YORK In computergenerated bodies, Andy Serkis has starred in two of the most biggest-budget films of the decade. Serkis, who stands at 172 cm, plays the role of Kong in Peter Jackson's King Kong,
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      368 128 —AGENCIES MJ's family eager for reality TV exposure LOS ANGELES Only one question is doing the rounds on the American celebrity circuit How low can the Jackson family go? After his recent trial for child molestation, Michael Jackson might be shunning the spotlight these days once he was
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    • 183 130 —AGENCIES Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a very big boy? LONDON Superman has always had big muscles, a big heart and a big brain. But there are fears that he might be too big in a rather sensitive area. In fact, the
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    • 485 132 That book looks awfully familiar -AGENCIES W\ththe Da Vinci Code film debuting nextyear, expect a few rip-off novels coming soon NEW YORK- The Da Vinci Code is one of the best-selling novels of all time and its Hollywood adaptation will be a guaranteed box office smash next year. The world
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    • 146 132 -THE GUARDIAN LOS ANGELES A California man has pleaded guilty to illegally posting a copy of Star Wars: Episode lll—Revenge of the Sith on the web the night before the film opened in cinemas, becoming only the second person in the US to
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        133 134  - ASHRAFSAFDAR NARNIA IN ORCHARD: Talking beavers, lost children, minotaurs and White Witches have taken over the green area beside Orchard MRT. A bizarre collection of characters are coming together to recreate the winterscape of C S Lewis' classic world of Narnia, in an event organised to coincide with next Thursday's
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      • 709 134  - Kongratulations, Jackson Felix Cheong They said it couldn't be done, but the Kiwi director's made an epic movie of King Kongan overhashed, B-grade tale FILMREVIEW King Kong YES, King Kong is 30 minutes too long but it doesn't outstay its welcome. Yes, it's a fanboy's remake but it pays homage
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      • 543 135  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by. The Promise 2 CHINESE blockbuster |""N. The Promise is a real IJB\^? head-scratcher, not least because of its convoluted plot. How could a director like Chen Kaige make such a monumental mess of this film? This production is touted to be
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      • 290 136 AP Animation giant shoots local movie to lure biggest market BEIJING The Walt Disney Company announced its first film production in China, adding to its efforts to break into the booming Chinese entertainment market. The Chinese-language film, The Secret of the Magic Gourd, began shooting in
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        • 51 136 Catch Angels, a collection of paintings and sculptures of angels, the nativity and the Madonna and child at YaddoArt, 19 Duxton Hill. The collection includes work by artists Diah Yulianti, Ramon Orlina, Sukana Kariana, Teguh Ostenrik and Wahyu Sukayasa. Call 6735 2555 or visit www.yaddoart.com for more
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        • 59 136 Join Singaporean a cappella group Budak Pantai for a Christmas concert in their inimitable style. Giving an irreverent, but always fun, treatment to familiar songs, the ensemble of five guys will be performing at the Esplanade Concert Hall this weekend at 7.30pm in what promises to
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        • 53 136 Cirque Dv Soleil and Beyond Social Services are engaging 65 children who are socially and economically disadvantaged to put up a free circus performance this weekend, entitled One. It will premiere at the Toa Payoh Amphitheatre on Sunday at spm. It will then travel to
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