Today, 28 March 2006

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    26 1 TODAY //\=DIJ\COKiP share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Tuesday March 28, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY /AeljjaCorp share your free newspaper Tuesday March 28, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 112/07/2005
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    Lock icon Singapore pit-stop for Fl?
    621 1  -  lAN DE COTTA TODAVEXCLUSIUE Street circuit a possibility, says FOM chief Ecclestone ia n@newstoday.com.sg KEEP those fingers crossed and prepare for the ride of your lives. If all goes well, Singapore could get to host a Formula 1 Grand Prix race as early as 2008. The
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    I'll push for Sitoh in Cabinet if he wins, vows SM Goh
    615 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg CARRYING forward his quest to win back Opposition strongholds for the ruling party, Mr Goh Chok Tong visited Potong Pasir yesterday and had this promise for the residents: Elect Sitoh Yih Pin, and they
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      49 1 |MS|D| hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 8 voices 14 business 22 impact 28 infotech 30 plus 34 health 40 1v 46 classed 48 sports 49 we set you thinking I WORKING LATE? STOP Why long hours shouldn't I earn you a promotion TEMASEKBUYS KHOO ESTATE'S STANCHARTSTAKE
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      Lock icon In Myanmar's capital, they march in defiance
      376 2 -AFP Junta flexes military might in controversial Pyinmana PYINMANA (Myanmar) Myanmar staged its first official ceremony in its new administrative capital, Pyinmana, yesterday, defying those calling for democratic reforms with a major display of military force. Addressing almost 13,000 troops on Armed Forces
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      WORKING LATE AGAIN? STOP...
      816 3  -  VINCENTCHIA Here's why those who stay on long past office hours shouldn't be promoted WORKING late again? Drive past Raffles Place or Shenton Way at night and you will see most of the office lights still on. Quite a few of us work late if not
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      460 3 ■fjl University of South Australia Doctor of Business Administration CRicos ***** b 'Most successful doctoral program in the region with more than 170 graduates in Asia \S*JM O Information Session on Tuesday, 28 March 2006 at 7pm i i inn —Hi bii iBiiii it mm r Ma Master of Business
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      End of the road for killer duo
      566 4  -  ANSLEYNG Case that once ignited double jeopardy claims has its final day in court a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THEY were charged with the murder of a businessman in 2004 but escaped the gallows after a judge found them guilty of a lesser charge of robbery
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        Lock icon DEADLINE TO DECLARE INCOME FOR WORKFARE BONUS: APRIL 1
        114 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singaporeans who qualify for the Workfare Bonus Scheme must declare their income by Saturday to receive the bonus. Those who qualify include those who have worked for at least six months last year, but who do not have Central
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        Lock icon FERRY AND LAUNCH SERVICES RELOCATED TO MARINA SOUTH PIER
        105 4 ■938 LIVE From April 1, all ferry and launch services will be relocated from Clifford Pier to Marina South Pier. With the relocation. Clifford Pier will cease its operations as a public landing point. Customs, immigration and quarantine facilities will be
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      JBJ files appeal against dismissal
      273 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG DESPITE missing the High Court's deadline last Friday to pay off costs for his previous discharge hearings, Opposition figure J B Jeyaretnam (picture) is still trying to have his bankruptcy annulled. In a press statement released yesterday, Mr Jeyaretnam confirmed that he had filed
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      Mystery of the no-go Feelin' Good Party
      367 6  -  VINITARAMANI Advertised extensively, then cancelled at the very last minute vinita@newstoday.com.sg THE party was to have taken place on Sunday, but it was called off at the last minute on its eve. And no one seems able to agree on why the Feelin'
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      Lock icon Interpol attachment for Singapore cop
      239 6 938 LIVE FOR the first time, a Singaporean police officer will be attached to the Interpol headquarters in France. The selection process for a suitable officer is ongoing, and the chosen one is likely to be posted there for two or three years. Revealing this
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        16% HIKE IN TOURIST ARRIVALS
        67 6 Singapore welcomed nearly 727,000 visitors last month, an almost 16-per-cent rise over the figure for the same period last year. Hotels recorded $117 million in revenue a rise of 53.2 per cent over February last year. Data from the Singapore Tourism Board showed that Indonesia
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        TOP US OFFICIAL IN SINGAPORE
        69 6 United States Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has arrived in Singapore on a four-day official visit. Mr Chertoff will meet Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and other senior ministers. He and Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng will later sign
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        Lock icon ARF SEMINAR IN PROGRESS
        81 6 938 LIVE Singapore is hosting the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) seminar on Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The seminar, which started yesterday, ends on Friday. Co-chairing the event with Singapore are China and the United States. The seminar brings together senior officials and experts from
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      29 4 Enjoy a hearty start to the day with toasted muffins, I a protein-packed chicken sausage, scrambled fepr j0 eggs and delicious hashbrowns. S The McDonald's Big Breakfast™. There's nothing
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      310 5 'Compared against competitor banks' prevailing rates as at 27 March 2006. +Forthis Promotion, the placement amount will be placed for the first 88-day deposit at 4.08% p.a.and the principal and interest earned will be auto-rolled into a second 88-day deposit rate at an interest rate that is pegged to the
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      Lock icon ISRAELI ELECTION SEES CLASH OF PERSONALITIES
      585 8  -  EMANUELSHAHAF A Kadima-Labour coalition govt may emerge after today's polls IN JERUSALEM TODAY, Israeli citizens will decide who will lead them. Three candidates are in the running for the Prime Minister's post. Among them are two seasoned politicians acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
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      hot spot
      275 8 A large number of Israelis feel safer with tough-talk-ing Mr Olmert although his military service was limited to reporting for the army newspaper. His veteran security team has a knack for strong action. But its sophistication leaves a lot to be desired as proven recently by the damaging
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      Lock icon Bombs found near Thai opposition office
      377 10 -AGENCIES Police defuse explosives minutes before blast as antiThaksin groups reject offer to form unity government BANGKOK Tensions rose in the Thai capital after police yesterday found two small bombs outside the headquarters of the main opposition Democrat Party, news reports said. The bombs
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      Lock icon Man divorces wife in his sleep
      268 10 AFP KOLKATA An Indian couple has been ordered by Muslim clerics to separate after the man uttered talaq, or divorce, three times while asleep, police said yesterday. Ms Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had pronounced the word talaq three times in
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      Lock icon A 'difficult' friend to have ...
      444 12 A 'difficult' friend to have -AFP Top US ally Tony Blair says friendship with Washington could be tough but isolating America is'madness' CANBERRA British Prime Minister Tony Blair, seen as among the closest of Washington's allies, said yesterday that the United States was sometimes a "difficult" friend to have. During
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        Lock icon IRAQ SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS 40
        84 12 -AFP A suicide bomber killed 40 people waiting outside an Iraqi army recruitment centre yesterday. About 20 others were injured in the attack on the Iraqi army base called Tamarat, close to the Syrian border. It was the deadliest single attack in Iraq since a
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        M'SIA APPROVES REBEL FILM
        58 12 A semi-musical documentary on the life of Mr Chin Peng, the exiled leader of the banned Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), has received the nod from Malaysian film censors and will be shown in May, reported The Sfaryesterday. The film, titled Lelaki Komunis Terakhir(Jhe Last Communist
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      368 11 fc?SMU SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY More than fees Financial savvy "No deserving student WIN De OepriVeQ^ OT SMU's pedagogy empowers students to look at issues 3n SMU edUCdtJOn from all angles, to analyze critically and think creatively, hPP^M^P nf fPP^ to turn issues into opportunities. We practise what we £k H^
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      Light-up plans = more CO2
      249 14  - Light-up plans more CO2 BINHEEHENG Increased night lighting will contradict undertaking to cut down pollution Letter from I WONDER if there is inconsistency in Singapore Government's policies when the Minister of National Development Mah Bow Tan unveiled plans to encourage owners in the new and existing Central Business District to
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    • Of Whips and carrots
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        Why special treatment for two PAP candidates?
        169 14  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I REFER to your front page report, "Will sparing the Whip win PAP worry wards?" (March 27) in which Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong suggested lifting the Whip for People Action Party's candidates Eric Low and Sitoh
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        Good luck in the polls, Mr Eric Low
        145 14  -  HARRY CHIA Letter from MR ERIC Low seems to say that this election will be his last if he is not elected ("Chiku man gunning for a win", March 25-26). To be fair, he has put in a lot of hours and
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        How'safe'wards may perceive concessions
        118 14  -  UMBOONHEE Letter from I BELIEVE there are pockets of discontent elsewhere other than in Hougang and Potong Pasir where the residents are just as disaffected by rent hikes after the upgrading of hawker centres or markets. They do not find an increase in their business by
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      All hail this cabbie
      412 16  -  BRIGITTE LEYENDECKER ACCOLADE Driver's presence of mind ensured this injured passenger could fly back home Letter from I HAD booked a flight from Singapore to Frankfurt on March 22 and was on the way to my hotel when, at about 6pm, I fell down at the
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      Ranking students in tie-breakers tough
      347 16  -  LIMHUAYCHIH Letter from Director, School Planning and Placement, Ministry of Education MADAM Chia Chye Hiang ("More transparent information, please Clarify posting system, MOE", March 16) had queried about the Joint Admissions Exercise OAE) posting process, through which students are posted to junior colleges, the Millennia
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        HDB CLEANERS WASTE MOST WATER
        131 16  -  GLENN MJOTHY: I refer to Tan Sai Siong's commentary, "Why not cut back on mopping too" (March 27). Do you want to know who the biggest wasters of water are? HDB estate cleaners. At about 4pm on March 19,1 was at Holland Village across from
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        HOW BLACK SHOES MAY SAVE WATER
        81 16  -  TOWJOONHENG: I would like to suggest a way how Singapore can save water. School children are required to wear white school shoes. If all schools were to allow black shoes, it would translate to an immediate saving of water and time. Imagine if each
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      270 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY CUP OF TEA Have you noticed that children sometimes try to be helpful but it only makes your life more complicated? I heard a story about a mother who was sick in bed with the flu. Her darling daughter wanted so much
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    • Grading down the good?
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        No longer good enough to be a teacher
        310 18  -  HO KONG LOON Letter from THE current ranking instrument for teachers, the Enhanced Performance Management System (EPMS) diminishes the crucial role of a good classroom teacher. An effective and efficient classroom teacher now scores only a D or, at best, a C
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        Criteria couched in technical and subjective language
        375 18  -  WONGSIONGYAN Letter from THE Ministry of Education (MOE) says it is taking a holistic approach in attracting and retaining good teachers ("Beyond pay and rewards", March 20). In my work as an education consultant, I meet current and ex-school teachers each year who
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      150 18 Healthy Participants Needed The Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a scientific study involving a marketed medicine. The purpose of this study is to find out how this medicine will affect the electrocardiogram (ECG) which records electrical activity of the heart, as well as its safety and
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      200 19 S P Jain Center of Management-Singapore offers an exclusive Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA) V M 1 Program Highlights Intensive 2 year part time program for working professionals in Singapore Program runs on alternative weeks in the evenings and weekends Convenient class timings for working professionals Comprehensive specializations in
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      79 20 INSIDE MAN Inside Man is the story of a tough cop (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen), in this tense hostage/heist drama. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda. When
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon GIC mulls bid for AB Ports
      482 22  -  CHRISTIE LOH Govt's investment arm may join consortium in a takeover pricing UK port operator at $6.4b christie@newstoday.com.sg SHORTLY after failing to take over United Kingdom-based port operating giant Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O), Singapore Inc has turned its eye on a
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      Lock icon China Aviation Oil shares to resume trading tomorrow
      198 22 -BLOOMBERG THE shares of China Aviation Oil (Singapore), or CAO, which narrowly averted bankruptcy after a US$55O-million ($B9l-million) scandal involving trading oil derivatives, will resume trading tomorrow following a 16-month suspension. Trading was halted in November 2004 when the jet fuel trader
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      CORPORATEBRIEFS
      155 22 Alpha Investment Partners, the wholly-owned property fund management arm of Keppel Land, has raised $720 million for its Alpha Core Plus Real Estate Fund, far exceeding its initial target of $412 million. With gearing, the fund would reach a total asset size of $1.8 billion when fully invested. Separately,
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    • marketwatch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        144 22 Dow Jones SHARES closed higher yesterday, led by casino-related stocks and Chinarelated issues. The ST Index ended up 6.92 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,504.23. In the broad market, gainers outnumbered losers 312 to 220. Trading volume amounted to 1.38 billion shares worth $1 billion. Traders said investors
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        67 22 SGX, Dow Jones Bloomberg Information provided by! and I Nikkei 225 16,656.16 +89.23 +6.54 HK Hang Seng Australia ASX266 15,815.87 +99.41 +6.63 5,688.16 +48.66 +6.95 Korea Comp 1,336.34 +9.11 +6.69 Thailand SET 733.33 +2.48 +6.34 Jakarta Comp 1,311.95 +6.58 +6.64 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2,195.95 -12.18 -6.55 257.39
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        SGX most active
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        Your S$l buys
        31 22 JS$ JK£ 'en m iuro lupiah 0.6173 0.3536 72.189 4.7921 2.2817 0.5134 5,5B5.9 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ 31.567 0.8756 27.588 602.56 0.7229 4.9537 1.0174
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        Commodities
        16 22 iold US$/oz Rubber cents/kg !ilverUS$/oz 'latinum US$/oz 10.86 1,058.00 Palm oil RM/tonne Brant US$/barrel 1,410.1
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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    • business news
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        Lock icon ASX to buy Sydney Futures Exchange for $2.59b
        233 24 BLOOMBERG AUSTRALIAN Stock Exchange (ASK) has agreed to buy the country's biggest futures market for A 52.25 billion ($2.59 billion), betting that derivatives trading will grow faster than stock transactions. ASK will pay 0.51 of its shares for each share of SFE
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        Lock icon G K Goh gets $75.4 million from Nexgen stake sale
        119 24 BLOOMBERG G X GOH Holdings, a futures and foreign exchange brokerage in Singapore, said its unit received U5546.5 million ($75.4 million) from Paris-based Ixis Corporate and Investment Bank after selling a stake in Dublin-based Nexgen Financial Holdings. The proceeds excluded
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        Lock icon Factory output surged 37.2 % in February
        400 24 Factory output surged 37.2 in February BLOOMBERG Pharmaceuticals led gains with 312% growth SINGAPORE'S factory production surged last month as pharmaceuticals output from companies such as Merck increased more than four-fold. Manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of Singapore's US$ll9-billion ($193-bil-lion) economy, soared 37.2 per cent in February from the
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      427 23 The first PRC property developer to list in Singapore Sunshine Holdings Limited is one of the leading property developers in Henan China's cradle of civilisation and the most populous province in the People's Republic of China (the "PRC"). Ranked amongst the top five GDP provinces in the PRC over the
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      239 26 Without your support, our success is just not possible. It's been one year since Jet Airways, India's finest airline**, commenced operations in and Chennai as part of the NATAS Fair promotion. So come on board and let our multilingual Singapore. And what an enjoyable journey it has been! Obviously we
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  • wealth the business of personal finance
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      227 28  -  JANECHIAPOCO janec@newstoday.com.sg The Institute of Advertising Singapore (lAS) hosted the first Advertising CEOs' Asia Pacific Summit 2006 last Friday. The event welcomed 120 delegates from Hong Kong, Thailand, Taipei, Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore to discuss issues facing the industry. Mr Ho Kwon Ping, chairman
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      631 28  -  SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA Indian art of wellness more popular than tennis; is it thanks to True Yoga chief Patrick Wee? shobha@newstoday.com.sg IN hindsight, it seems like a studied move, but when one of Singapore's biggest wellness firms focused on yoga for the masses almost one and a
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      512 28  -  -SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA EVEN as Yahoo! Ups the ante in the search engine war with its localisation of home pages in six countries in the region, it faces an uphill task of generating advertising revenue in South-east Asia. Yahoo! 's managing
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      417 29  -  JANE CHIAPOCO Subaru hub has Asia's first multi-terrain track on building top janec@newstoday.com.sg SUBARU, the automobile brand well known in the rally circuit, has carved itself a new home in the Singapore heartlands with the Subaru Hub in Toa Payoh. Motor
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      126 29  -  JANECHIAPOCO Far East Organization is challenging Singaporeans to name its newest mall, to be built at the former Glutton's Square site near the Somerset MRT. Due to the overwhelming response, the "Name Our Mall" contest has been extended to April 16. The
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        83 30 Sophos has released Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux version 5.0, which includes on-access scanning for Linux platforms. Capable of detecting and disinfecting viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware targeting Linux, Windows and other platforms where files are accessed on a Linux computer, the software includes support
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        106 30 Quest Software has launched Archive Manager 3.0, an email archiving solution that captures, indexes and stores messaging data for mailbox management, compliance and knowledge sharing. Based on technology acquired through Quest Software's purchase of After Mail, Archive Manager 3.0 captures all email and attachments,
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      495 30  -  ELAINE NG Tap into the Public Grid via a secure Net portal elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg SUN Microsystems hopes to offer its customers and partners more choice and control over how they buy and use technology with the public version of its Sun Grid Compute Utility, a utility-based computing
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      334 30  -  ELAINE NG IN LINE with its vision to move from being a hardware-focused organisation to a software solutions provider, Internet protocol (IP) telephony applications and service provider Avaya is offering products with "intelligent communication" capability for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs)
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        639 32  -  TERRY LAU infotech@newstoday.com.sg SECURITY HARDWAREREVIEW Koolspan SecurEdge Starter Kit I YOU know a company is seI rious about security when it packages its products as "lock" and "key". Koolspan's SecurEdge starter kit extends the connectivity of any wired or wireless local area network
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      627 34  -  E!^S^^^H^H^E^l^^K» WATCH YOUR WORDS PLACEBO AREN'T HERE TO PLACATE THE MEDIA, THEY JUST WANT TO DO IT FOR THEIR FANS zul@newstoday.com.sg CONTRARY to recent reports, British rock band Placebo aren't as combative they're made out to be. The band which was in town to play to 1,500
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      335 36  -  DAVID CHEW Singapore Art Museum offers behind-the-scenes look at its vast collection david.chew@newstoday.com ON NOW at the Singapore Art Museum is an exhibition entitled Thelnoyama Donation, focusing on works by artists Wong Shih Yaw and Heri Dono that were donated by Yuji Inoyama between 2002
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      172 36 —AFP TORONTO In book form, novelist J R R Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings has sold millions of copies while the three films in director Peter Jackson's movie trilogy are among the highest-grossing of all time. But in its debut here
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      200 38 —AGENCIES FANCY stirring things up on Wisteria Lane? Walt Disney's Buena Vista Games said it plans to release a PC video game based on the popular television show, Desperate Housewives, this fall. In the game, players take on the role of a new Wisteria Lane housewife,
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        104 38  -  Zul Othman by; Graham Coxon Blurs Damon Albarn may be conquering the world with his electronic-based Gorillaz project but his former guitarist Graham Coxon is revisiting the glory days of Britpop with unexpected results. Love Travels at Illegal Speeds is a surprisingly jaunty fifth effort
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        124 38 Corinne Bailey Rae It's not often you come across a soul singer like this 26-year-old Briton, who won acclaim for her sublime debut single Like a Star. Blessed with a voice that is warm and relaxing, Rae sounds not unlike a mix of Sade and Erykah Badu
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        1237 40  -  REETA RAMAN Some insist on leaving sick kids at childcare centres despite advice not to do so reeta@newstoday.com.sg OVER the past few weeks, childcare centres have stepped up their vigilance, as they monitor children for the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). But even as
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        528 42  -  REETA RAMAN More adults suffer from gum disease due to poor oral health reeta@newstoday.com.sg LAST week, findings published in The Archives of Internal Medicine found that patients with periodontitis (severe gum disease), especially infections that cause a high concentration of pathogens (disease-producing organisms) in the blood,
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        1318 43  -  REETA RAMAN Laparoscopic surgery can be effective if cancer is detected early reeta@newstoday.com.sg FOR housewife S X Neo, 57, and retiree Leong Soh Har, 67, a routine medical examination last year ended up saving their lives. Both went for a free medical check-up, provided by the
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      619 49 —ap But after blowing away Canadian may miss next week's first Major GOLF Players Championship FLORIDA Stephen Ames blew away the strongest field in golf with a 5-under 67 to win The Players Championship by six shots on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) and earn an unlikely
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      282 49 —AFP ORLANDO Tiger Woods gave a rare glimpse into his private life during a television interview broadcast here on Sunday. Speaking with Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes, Woods said he still fantasises about winning Majors. "Still do, always will, because you never lose that passion, that
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      631 50  -  LEONG WEE KEAT After recent successes, the quest is on for an Olympic medal in 2008 weekeat@newstoday.com.sg HEADY high fives were exchanged and hearty bear hugs were the order of the day when Singapore's sailing team returned home from Doha, Qatar yesterday bearing admirable bounty. Last Saturday, after
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      315 50  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg APART from a $22,000 winners' purse, the 2006 edition of the annual Sultan of Selangor's Cup will return to the National Stadium on May 10 with a brand new trophy. Made of sterling silver and worth at least $100,000, the trophy,
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      154 50  -  -JOSE RAYMOND NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Balestier Khalsa 3 Sporting Afrique 2 BALESTIER Khalsa earned their first win of the 2006 NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League season when they defeated rookies Sporting Afrique 3-2 in a pulsating match at the Toa Payoh Stadium last night. The match was
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      587 51  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SNOC chief wants winning momentum maintained as he welcomes back Spores Melbourne heroes weekeat@newstoday.com.sg IT BEGAN with a "best-ever away" showing at the 23rd SEA Games in the Philippines. Mardan Mamat then lit up Laguna National to become the first Singapore
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      227 51 EVER wanted to rub shoulders with top sevens stars, attend dinner with John Eales and Martin Johnson as guests and hold grandstand tickets to Singapore's hottest international sports event the Standard Chartered Sevens Singapore? Members of the public now have the opportunity to bid for the
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      232 51  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg THE disciplinary hearing over the selection of the SEA Games men's 4x400m relay team finally convened at the Singapore Athletics Association (SAA) office at the National Stadium yesterday evening. On Sept 24,2005, the men's 4x400m team did not start their final trial
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      591 52 —AGENCIES A Catalan hero in 1992, Koeman hopes to surprise his former employers CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, QUARTER-FINAL IST LEG Benfica v Barcelona LISBON Benfica coach Ronald Koeman is plotting the downfall of Barcelona in the Champions League here tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) 14 years after
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      255 52 —AFP MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson has backed Manchester United to overcome West Ham tomorrow night (Thursday morning, Singapore time). He feels a win would be a giant step towards beating arch-rivals Liverpool in the race for second place and an automatic spot in next season's
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      622 53 —AGENCIES Key to this battle could be whether Fabregas can hold sway against former Gunners skipper CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Quarter-final, first leg Arsenal v Juventus LONDON When his team were struggling, Arsene Wenger admitted he might have made a mistake letting his midfield automaton Patrick Vieira leave
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        112 53 ENGLAND striker Michael Owen expects to go to the World Cup 100 per cent fit. The 26-year-old Newcastle striker fractured a metatarsal in his right foot in a Premiership game at Tottenham on Dec 31, an injury which required a screw to be inserted in January.
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        96 53 BRAZIL international Ronaldo has hit back at critics who claim he is overweight by revealing he currently weighs exactly the same-87kg-as he did at the World Cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea, four years ago, he finished as the tournament's top scorer with eight goals.
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        95 53 HOST nation Germany want their next friendly match to be against minnows Luxembourg or Liechtenstein, in a bid to boost confidence ahead of this summer's World Cup finals. Germany provisionally quashed rumours of their imminent demise with a convincing 4-1 win against the United States last
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