Today, 21 April 2006, Afternoon Edition

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      29 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 12 voices 24 business 42 plus 52 tv radio listings 64 classad 65 travertoday 68 sports 70 we set you thinking
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      127 1 ~A^W* I APRIL 20: PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED Singapore President S R Nathan, on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, made the announcement yesterday. This was followed by the issuing of the election writ. APRIL 27: NOMINATION DAY Next Thursday, candidates contesting in the GE will file nomination papers for
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  • AFTERNOONEDI
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      Lock icon Chartered boosts Ql profit, wins another Microsoft order
      154 1 BLOOMBERG CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's thirdlargest made-to-order chip supplier, has reported its second straight quarter of profit as demand for consumer electronics such as game consoles improved. Net income was U5525.3 million ($40.3 million), or US 9 cents per American depositary
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      NOW THE REAL BATTLE BEGINS
      768 1  -  TEO HWEE NAK Singapore to go to the polls on May 6 as Parliament is dissolved DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR hweena k@newstoday.com.sg MONTHS after he indicated a direction, but not a date, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will lead his party to the polls on May
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      Opportunities lost and won in the long run-up
      888 2  -  LEECHINGWERN Parties have had longest preparation time in decades for GE chingwern@newstoday.com.sg TO SEE why the two-month gap between the release of the electoral boundaries report on March 3 and the polls on May 6 is such a surprise, look at the
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      AN EXAMINATION FOR ALL OF US
      634 3 ON MAY 6, several issues will be decided. We will know, once and for all, if Prime Mm ister Lee Hsien Loong has emerged into his own, as a strongly endorsed national leader. We will also know, with empirical proof, whether the Opposition in
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Postpone NKF court case: WP's Low
      237 4 -938UVE OPPOSITION MP Low Thia Khiang hopes the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) court case will be postponed until after the election. This will allow for a good debate on the issue, without stepping afoul of the law, the Workers' Party chief told reporters after
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      Net postings fall under Elections Act
      306 4 FROM now on, the gloves have to stay on. For the bloggers, that is. Now that the election writ has been issued, the Parliamentary Elections Act automatically comes into effect The Act last amended in August 2001 before the previous General Election regulates campaigning
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      Hot spots to watch
      513 4  -  TORCHINGLI Parties gearing up for Nomination Day on April 27 chingli@newstoday.com. sg THE action will be centred around nine schools that will be used as nomination centres next Thursday especially those located in hotspots that the Opposition have declared an interest in. Should the Opposition hold
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      MOM will not press charges against NKF
      257 4  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@newstoday.com.sg THE National Kidney Foundation (NKF) won't be charged for illegally hiring foreign nationals under the charge of former chief executive T T Durai. Yesterday, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said though there is enough evidence to file charges against the NKF
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      Should MPs give up their day jobs?
      815 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG The spotlight turns on MPs' allowances and whether they should serve full-time cheekong@newstoday.com.sg A RECENT question by an Hougang resident on Singapore MPs' allowance has turned the spotlight on an MPs' work on the ground, and in their salary-paying jobs.
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      Fight against piracy gets boost
      268 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg THE region's continued fight against piracy took a big step forward yesterday with the unveiling of a network system that would allow the participating countries of the antipiracy agreement to share information and monitor developments in the regional waters. Under
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      Lock icon 700,000 thank you Gems returned
      102 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SERVICE staff at 2,000 retail and service outlets islandwide received some 700,000 thank-you cards from customers in a month. This was part of the "Go The Extra Mile for Service" (Gems) appreciation initiative, which encourages customers to express their thanks for good service.
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      Number of new Aids cases here fall
      524 8  -  TAN HUI LENG More companies taking steps to educate workers huileng@newstoday.com.sg THE number of newly-di-agnosed Aids cases dropped last year with 255 infected as compared to 311 in 2004. A fall of 20 per cent, the new figures are a respite from the
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      Firm guilty – but what's the penalty?
      530 9  - Firm guilty but what's the penalty? ANSLEYNG Prosecution pushes for hefty fine for PDM International under amended Copyright Act a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THE interior design firm charged with installing pirated copies of popular software from Adobe, Microsoft and Autodesk in its office computers, pleaded guilty yesterday to copyright infringement PDM International
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      Lock icon S'porean in terror arrest
      154 9 -AFP A SINGAPOREAN suspected of being part of a terror group has been caught by police on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumbawa, a report said yesterday. Abdul Rasyid, also known as Hamdan, was arrested in Tongo village on Tuesday. He may be part of Malaysian
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      Lock icon Fare revision delay not an election move: Yeo
      230 9 IT HAS been criticised for being an election ploy, but the deferment of the fare revision deadline is not, said Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong. Defending the Public Transport Council's decision to defer its annual exercise by three months, Mr Yeo said
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      This CCA really rocks
      128 9  -  —JEREMY LUA ARE books and rock music strange bedfellows? Certainly not, where Raffles Junior College's (RJC) rock group Raffles Rock is concerned. The band was started last year by a group of Rafflesians who are so passionate about rock 'n' roll that they persuaded their school
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      Oh baby, you are so dear
      352 10  -  CHEOWXINYI Poll shows married women want more kids but are deterred by costs xinyic@newstoday.com.sg IT'S not surprising that money, or the lack thereof, is the main reason why the stork hasn't arrived fast enough for Singaporean couples. According to a telephone poll of 204
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      New NUS course a S'pore 1st
      299 10  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE National University of Singapore (NUS) has brought its engineering and science faculties together, creating a unique degree course that aims to groom cutting-edge researchers in those fields. The new Engineering Science Programme (ESP) was officially launched yesterday, and is the
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      Carving up the medical pie
      488 11  -  LINYANQIN Asia is a flourishing playground for medical tourism and regional players are cashing in ya nqinl@newstoday.com.sg THE rosy predictions for medical tourism in Asia continue to pour in, with industry players estimating the market to be worth more than US$4.4 billion ($7.08 billion) by
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      Card that does all
      224 11  -  TEOXUANWEI A CASHLESS society could be a reality within the next six months when credit, debit and prepaid cards that can double up as ez-link cards become available. The new cards offered by Visa can be swiped for credit payment the usual way or used like
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Protesters defy shoot orders
      430 12 -AGENCIES Despite curfew, thousands take to Nepal's streets; 3 dead, 40 hurt in shooting KATHMANDU Thousands of protesters yesterday defied a day-time curfew imposed on Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, to prevent a rally marking two weeks of protests and a general strike to force King Gyanendra lift
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        Lock icon THAKSIN CALLS HIMSELF'JOBLESS'
        97 12 -AP Outgoing Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called himself a "jobless man" and told reporters not to waste their time on him as he returned to Thailand yesterday after a personal trip to England and the United States. He arrived on a Thai Airways International flight and
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        Lock icon INDIA BUS MISHAP KILLS 51
        73 12 AFP A bus carrying a wedding party skidded off the road and slid into a pond in India's North-east yesterday, killing at least 51 people. "We have extricated 51 bodies. There could be more people in the pond and divers are at work," said police
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        Lock icon PLOT TO IMPORT MISSILES INTO US
        69 12 -AFP A Taiwan-born businessman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to attempting to smuggle Chinese shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles into the United States. Naturalised US citizen Wu Chao Tung, 54, who admitted conspiring to import the missiles for a buyer who turned out to be an undercover
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      Lock icon Asean fails to find Myanmar strategy
      302 12 AGENCIES ÜBUD (Indonesia) Asean foreign ministers failed to emerge with a strategy for dealing with recalcitrant member Myanmar at an annual retreat yesterday. Malaysia's Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar, who visited the military-ruled nation as Asean's envoy in March, said Myanmar's generals were in
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      MYANMAR DIPLOMACY IS NOT A ONE-WAY STREET
      699 14  -  THANG D NGUYEN Asean should perhaps ask junta if a win-win solution is possible ALMOST everyone has tried to help free Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy activist and Nobel peace laureate, from her oppression by Myanmar's junta. The United States and
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      Lock icon Revered king warns volcano may erupt in 10 days
      203 14 AGENCIES YOGYAKARTA The revered king of the city closest to Indonesia's rumbling Mount Merapi warned that an eruption was likely within 10 days. While scientists said activity at the volcano was heating up, the alert level on the 2,968-metre mountain in
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      Lock icon Big Five split on degree of action against Iran
      241 16 AGENCIES MOSCOW The five permanent members of the United Nations agree that action should be taken against Iran over its nuclear programme, but differ on the form and degree of action that should taken. "Every country said that some type of
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      Lock icon What's proper, what's not...
      424 16 -THE GUARDIAN Iranian police told to arrest women in 'un-lslamic' attire TEHRAN Iran's Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and political repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. From yesterday, police in Tehran were
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        Lock icon EAST ASIANS LEAST SATISFIED WITH SEX LIVES: STUDY
        49 16 BLOOMBERG Middle-aged and older people in Austria, Spain, the US and Canada have more satisfactory sex lives than those in East Asia and the Middle East, shows a new University of Chicago study. The Japanese and Taiwanese were the least satisfied.
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        Lock icon FIVE SMALL BOMBS RATTLE YANGON
        45 16 -AFP Five bombs exploded in Myanmarese capital Yangon on Wednesday night, but no one was hurt and little damage was caused, officials said. The bombs exploded in succession between 2am and 3am, while another was found in a garbage bag.
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      Lock icon Republicans fear loss of Congress
      570 18 THE GUARDIAN Karl Rove to focus on winning elections as staff shake-up signifies trouble for US President WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush on Wednesday freed his top adviser and long-time confidant Karl Rove from his duties overseeing US domestic policy so that he
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      Lock icon Dow hits 6-year high, oil prices close lower
      213 20 —AFP NEW YORK Wall Street's main blue-chip index leapt to a six-year high yesterday as selective buying was spurred by better-than-expect-ed earnings reports, although the overall market was mixed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 64.12 points to 11,342.89, its best closing
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      Lock icon Little progress in Bush, Hu talks
      385 20 —AFP Heckler mars meeting on White House lawn, prompts US apology WASHINGTON US President George Bush and China's President Hu Jintao pledged yesterday to boost economic and diplomatic cooperation but showed little progress in healing rifts dividing the two powers. The two met for
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      Lock icon Islam and life in space
      203 20 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR As Malaysia prepares to send its first citizen into space, the country's National Space Agency is holding a conference to consider how Muslim astronauts can pray and prepare halal food in orbit. So far, a nationwide competition has narrowed the numbers down
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      Lock icon Game over for Playboy?
      402 22 AGENCIES Indonesian edition suspends operations amid violent protests JAKARTA The future of the Indonesian version of Playboy looked uncertain after the adult men's magazine announced yesterday it was suspending operations following violent protests by Muslim hardliners. The announcement came less than a month after its launch,
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      Lock icon Shakespeare goes Bollywood
      328 22 -AFP MUMBAI Indian film-mak-ers are trying to make Shakespeare hip for young Bollywood audiences with new versions of two of his best-known tragedies. Scriptwriters are looking to western classic literature for inspiration for something different Last year's top box office hits broke away from traditional song-and-dance Indian
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      Lock icon A dialogue with my son
      798 24  -  mr brown My growing baby, once so docile, is now testing the boundaries of what is allowed MY TWO-YEAR-OLD son Isaac has been showing signs of dissent. He insists on watching his Wiggles DVDs and other "tartoons" on "teebee". And when I say no, he
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    • Letter, Illustration
      Retirement villages should not seem like an exile
      460 26  -  KRIS LEE WAI LOON Letter from I REFER to the News Comment, "Getting into the 'village' mindset" by Liang Dingzi ,and Mohd Rosle Ahmad's letter, "Home retirement?" (April 20). At the conceptual level, I have no objections to the planning and creation
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      My greatest fear – a case of out of sight, out of mind
      212 26  - My greatest fear a case of out of sight, out of mind HASUNDASHAMSUDIN Letter from BE IT for economic reasons or otherwise, to keep the aged in a village away from the general population denotes a society that has difficulty accepting the elderly among itself. The aged must be allowed
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    • Rude or frank? A matter of perspective
      • Letter
        Panellists were natural, mild and showed restraint
        224 28  -  JOHN LIN Letter by I REFER to Ms Lee Ching Wern's commentary, "Forum meant to provoke" (April 20), in response to the barrage of responses attacking the young participants in Why My Vote Matters, the television forum with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew
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      • Letter
        Young ones interrupted rather than listened
        116 28  -  PHUASONGCHYE Letter by IN EXPLAINING that it was all right for the panel to question MM Lee the way they did, Ms Lee missed the point as to why many viewers considered the panel rude. The questions that the panel fired at MM were
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        138 28  -  JAMES CHI Letter by I DO not think older Singaporeans should get so worked up over the audacious comments and questions put forward by the young people, as this is a sign of our society maturing politically. We have been
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        157 28  -  PATRICIA STEPHEN Letter by I UNDERSTAND Ms Lee Ching Wern's frustrations and her effort to explain the participants' side of the story. It was a great forum and to the participants I say, well done, I admire your courage to speak up.
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        198 28  -  HARRY CHIA Letter by COMING from the earliest baby-boom generation, I would advise Ms Lee not to be disturbed by the reactions. She and the participants did extremely well in engaging Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. I think the reactions were due
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      268 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BYI SAYING "I'M SORRY" Many people have a hard time saying they're sorry to anyone, let alone to their children. Although it is hard to do, apologising when we're wrong provides opportunities to teach valuable lessons to our sons and daughters. I remember
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      512 30  -  SIM KAH CHOON TO A 10-year-old riding in a bumboat chugging across the bumpy sea towards Singapore with my mother, three siblings and some heavy luggage, Clifford Pier was beautiful. The arched white building appeared to extend its arms like a comforting assurance
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      708 32  -  TEOXUANWEI Rl teacher learnt Korean to inspire her students face! in the crowi ■MM. T" YONG CHAI MAY 40s, school department head of Chinese language xua nweit@newstoday.com.sg WHEN she was young, everyone around her tried to discourage her from studying Chinese literature in
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      167 34  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from I AGREE with Mr Liang Dingzi's news comment, "No plane sailing for Changi" (April 17). There is a limit to what Changi can do in terms of architecture to compete with ultra-modern international airports. One thing our airport can
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      314 34  -  NGYAKEN Letter from THE assessment criteria used in the integrated resort (IR) bidding evaluation are: Tourism appeal (40 per cent), architectural design (30 per cent), development investment (20 per cent) and strength of consortium (10 per cent). Is that all? If so, then the evaluation
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      250 40  -  RACHELNG But successful admissions are based on other criteria too Letter from Senior Manager, Nanyang Business School Nanyang Technological University WE REFER to the letter by Steve X Ngo, "How relevant is GMAT?" (April 17). At Nanyang Business School, admissions for MBA and other
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      Utac to invest $500m here in 5 years
      533 42 Chip tester may become world's No 5 if current rate of growth maintained: CEO Lee SINGAPORE-BASED United Test Assembly Center (Utac) plans to invest another $500 million here over the next five years to meet higher demand, and is targeting annual revenue
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      Lock icon Chinese growth picks up speed, sets off alarm bells
      244 42 -AGENCIES BEIJING China's booming economy grew 10.2 per cent in the first quarter from the same period a year earlier, sparking off a fresh warning that the pursuit of growth for its own sake could lead to problems. The expansion in
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      SC Global clinches Hilltops for $294m
      169 42 MAINBOARD-listed SC Global Developments, a niche developer of luxury apartments, said yesterday it had won the tender for the collective sale of Hilltops Apartments located in Cairnhill Circle for $294 million. The development sits on land area of 67,308 square feet and approval has
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        'No urgency' for OCBC to sell non-core assets
        312 44  -  CHOW PENN NEE It has already divested all that is required: Chairman pennnee@newstoday.com.sg OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) will sell off its remaining non-banking assets only at the right time, said chairman Cheong Choong Kong at the bank's annual meeting with shareholders yesterday.
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        Lock icon CORPORATEBRIERS
        248 44 BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG DOW JONES Singapore Food Industries had a net profit of $7.1 million, or 1.4 cents per share, for the first quarter ended March 31, compared with $9.2 million, or 1.8 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 3.6 per cent to $150 million. London-listed Millennium Copthorne
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        112 48 SHARES retreated yesterday from a new record intraday high to close lower, as investors' cautiousness offset any boost the local bourse got from Wall Street's gains overnight. The ST Index ended down 2.11 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 2,583.73. In the broader market, decliners led advancers 375 to
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        66 48 Dow Jones Bloomberg SGX,.. Information provided by and... Nikkei 225 17,317.53 -32.59 -0.19 HK Hang Seng Australia ASX200 16,944.34 +113.90 5,276.90 -7.00 +0.60 -0.13 Korea Comp Thailand SET 1,434.15 -3.69 774.57 +10.40 -0.26 +1.36 Jakarta Comp 1,464.53 +11.30 +0.70 Phils Comp 2,242.76 +19.03 +0.06 Shenzhen B 295.20 +1.60
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 48 US$ 0.6259 UK£ 0.3516 Yen 73.734 HKS 4.8568 RM 2.2933 Euro 0.5077 Rupiah 5,565.1 Baht 23.649 Peso 32.253 AS 0.8438 Indian Rs 28.255 Won 594.09 C$ 0.7132 Yuan 5.0185 NZ$ 0.9933 NT$ 20.236
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        20 48 Gold US$/oz 645.30 Silver US$/oz 14.40 Platinum US$/oz 1,145.00 Rubber cents/kg 352.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1/428.00 Brent US$/barrel 73.78
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      Lock icon Millea asks Asia General to sell non-core holdings
      309 48 -DOW JONES Move needed to comply with Japanese law governing insurers TOKIO Marine Nichido Fire Insurance will ask Asia General Holdings to sell its non-core assets as part of its efforts to obtain regulatory approval for the planned acquisition of the Singapore-based
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      Lock icon Intel posts biggest profit drop in 4 years
      439 49 -BLOOMBERG World's biggest chip-maker earns $2.16b in Ql, down 38% INTEL Corp said first-quarter profit sank 38 per cent, the biggest decline in more than four years, as the world's biggest computer-chip-maker lost market share to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Net income
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      Lock icon Apple's Q2 earnings rise 41% to $656m
      202 49 BLOOMBERG APPLE Computer said second-quarter profit rose 41 per cent, buoyed by rising sales of iPod music players and Macintosh PCs. Net income rose to US$4lO million ($656 million), or 47 US cents a share, in the three months ended April 1, from
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      Lock icon eBay's Q1 profit falls 3.1% to $397m
      188 49 BLOOMBERG EBAY, the world's largest online auctioneer, said first-quarter earnings fell 3.1 per cent on expenses related to stock options. Net income was U*****.3 million ($397 million), or 17 US cents a share, in the three months ended March 31, down from U*****.3
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      Lock icon Gold at 25-year high, silver surges on inflation worries
      220 50 BLOOMBERG GOLD rose to a 25-year high and silver topped US$l4 ($22) an ounce for the first time since 1983 as investors snapped up precious metals to hedge against inflation. Gold is up 46 per cent from a year ago and
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      Lock icon COMMODITIES: THE MEANS TO EASY MONEY?
      548 50  -  DAVID PAULY BLOOMBERG news@newstoday.com.sg BUY me a sugar futures contract Get some shares of any company that mines copper. Maybe put money into a commodities index fund anything that smells like metals, oil or foodstuff will keep on soaring. Commodity prices have been doing
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        Lock icon Time to buy Asian bond funds?
        579 46  -  VALERIE LAW Experts think so, say interest rates will soon stop rising valerie@newstoday.com.sg THE recent performance of bonds have been lacklustre against the backdrop of rising interest rates, but some experts think that the possible ending of rate hikes could signal a good time
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          CHINA DAIRY GROUP (73 cents) —BUY
          69 46 Nomura Asian Equity Research maintains a "Buy" on China Dairy Group (CDG) as it believes that CDG's earnings will be lifted by its planned joint venture with Fraser Neave. The tie-up should let CDG churn out mid-range milk powder products, thus enhancing its product
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          CELESTIAL NUTRIFOODS ($1.57) —BUY
          69 46 DBS Vickers is increasingly optimistic that Celestial Nutrifoods will report strong IQO6 results (due mid-May) on the back of softer soya bean prices and possibly, improved group gross margins. Averaging the Group's FYO6-07 earnings-per-share growth. Celestial Nutrifoods looks attractive at 0.4 x Price earnings growth factor,
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          HONGGUO INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS (67 cents) —BUY
          79 46 The company announced a joint venture with Naughty Monkey's of California to distribute ladies shoes in China under a five-year licensing agreement. The group also plans to raise manufacturing capacity from 2.52 million pairs of shoes to 3.9 million by the IHO7. DBS Vickers
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      960 52  -  YONG SHU CHIANG in CANNES 'Wild card' Kevin Bacon on tortured characters and the perils of stardom plus@newstoday.com.sg BEING a celebrity has its fair share of perks. Life in the fast lane means having access to a lot of money, being able to bask in the adulation
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        62 52 Christian Slater has the lead role in this fact-based film about a petty criminal (Bacon) whose harsh confinement in prison leads to burgeoning insanity and the killing of a fellow inmate. Slater is the lawyer fighting to save the demented killer from execution, but Bacon
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        66 52 Thanks to the runaway success of The Sixth Sense, this paranormal thriller was shelved, released belatedly and ultimately suffered from comparisons to its predecessor. In it. Bacon is a regular guy who starts to see troubling otherworldly images after being hypnotised by his sister-in-law. The images
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        70 52 Director Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel centres on three childhood friends who share a dark secret whose long-term impact becomes apparent after the daughter of one of the three is found dead. As the community begins to fall apart amid suspicions and recriminations, the trio
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        63 52 This thought-provoking film by first-time director Nicole Kassell saw Bacon deliver what's arguably the best performance of his career as a paroled paedophile trying desperately to resist his urges and fight discrimination at the hands of his co-work-ers. Bacon hints at the storm inside his character brilliantly,
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        65 52 Nobody could have imagined Bacon having a part to play in this fluffy girl-power spin-off from the Barbershop movies. But he did, taking on the role of a celebrity hairstylist who's all bad accent, attitude and zero talent. Playing his part to the hilt. Bacon displays a
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      681 54  -  Felix Cheonq CATCHY. Mysterious. Goldmine. If you flipped through the movie listings in the newspaper recently, you'd notice the striking one-word titles: Dorm, Rent, Fragile, Typhoon and Ultraviolet. That's not counting recent films that have completed their runs such as Goal!, Proof, Transamerica and Munich. Of the six
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      441 56  -  JEANINE AIM with jeanine@newstoday.com.stj AFTER the fiasco that was 9 Songs his 2004 film about sex and concerts British director Michael Winterbottom returns in triumph with The Road to Guantanamo, a war documentary for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at this year's Berlin
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      363 58  -  AMELYNN LIONG Boyband battled rats to come up with catchy tunes a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg TAKE one look at their snappy suits and clean-cut good looks, and it's hard to imagine that the music of Boston-based quintet The Click Five came out of a dark place. But the
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      272 58  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL BAYU is the latest band to capitalise on the growing popularity of Malay emo-rock a la Padi and Peter Pan. But ask them whether they are imitators of the kind of Indonesianbred rock music that is flooding the radio airwaves
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      TRAVEL IS A KILLER
      408 60  -  Ross Wallace A blood-drenched gorefest, The Hostelis 'grindhouse cinema' at its best FILMREVIEW The Hostel ■T'S not every lorror flick that las at its core a >ractical lesson n fuss-free interlational travel. The secret to extricating yourself from any awkward situation you might encounter during a
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      240 60  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by............. WHEN is a comic book not a comic book? When it pretends to be a movie. Which is the problem behind Mirror Mask. Based on a story by Neil Gaiman and directed by artist David McKean, the film is a re-envisioning of Alice in Wonderland
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          29 62 7pm, Prince 2 A Catholic priest and a young English teacher are caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide in this film starring John Hurt and Hugh Darcy.
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          32 62 7pm, Alliance Francaise A compilation of short films, including one by Malaysian new-wave director James Lee, that explore love, identity and a sense of belonging in contemporary Kuala Lumpur.
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          26 62 9.15pm, Prince 2 A young Egyptian cinephile is torn between his love for the arts and the disapproval of his conservative Christian father.
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        313 62  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by.............. CHILDHOOD trauma: Check. Rising star, celebrity marriage, egomaniac: Check. Decline and J-„4-U. /~*l 1, UCdUI. All conventions of the genre are present and accounted for. Yes, Beyond the Sea meets the minimum criteria for a musician biopic. But, hang on: Why does actor
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        389 63  -  Ross Wallace 16 Blocks is predictable, but Willis stands out FILMREVIEW by I 16 Blocks EVERY so often, Bruce Willis plays a character who serves as a reminder that, for all the crap movies the star has made in his 9n_T7oat~ film r*Q_ reer Armageddon, for one the
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        310 63  -  Justin Cheong FILMREVIEW by............. FILM noir is a genre that directors can't go too far wrong with. And Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has certainly done right with V;T/7„„™ fU„ Ti^.tL T rrrtvrv irtv ±r win j_,te.o. The festival-favourite director is no stranger to layered films. He
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      183 68 TRAVELLERS heading to Kuala Lumpur now have another bus service to choose from. Airebus is a new double-decker coach shuttle offering a non-stop service from Singapore to the Malaysian capital. The service will take passengers from Singapore's Hotel Asia at Scotts Road to Hotel
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      535 71  -  DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Sengkang Punggol 0 Gombak United 2 da rren@newstoday.com.sg A HALF-TIME substitution by Gombak United inspired the Bulls to a 2-0 victory over Sengkang Punggol in an NTUC-In-come-Yeo's S-League encounter at the Hougang Stadium last night The 2-0 defeat consigned Trevor Morgan's
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      545 72  -  CUBBYLEONG SNOC will front application and submit to new cabinet for clearance cubby@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE Sports Council (SSC) CEO Oon Jin Teik yesterday confirmed speculation that Singapore are about to put forward a formal bid to host the 2011 SEA Games. Speaking at the
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      414 72  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg WILLED on by a 500-strong raucous crowd at the Yishun Sports Hall, CHIJ Toa Payoh and the Singapore Sports School took top honours at the National B and C Division Inter-Schools Challenge Netball Championship finals yesterday. CHIJ Toa Payoh
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      548 74  -  CUBBY LEONG SSA see successful hosting of world cup series as a prelude to world championships cubby@newstoday.com.sg IN JANUARY, there was talk that Singapore was in the running to host the 2010 World Swimming Championships (short course). Nothing came out of it, but early this
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      519 74  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE NTUC Fair Price Netball Super League (NSL) was introduced in 2000 to help improve the standard of local netball, and the results have started to show, most notably Singapore winning last year's Asian Netball Championship here. But plans are
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        122 75 BARCELONA'S Argentina international Lionel Messi, recuperating after treatment on a leg injury, says he's not going to rush his return. Messi has not played since he limped out of Barca's second leg last 16 Champions League tie against Chelsea at the Camp Nou on March 7
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        112 75 ENGLAND'S 1966 World Cup star Bobby Charlton believes striker Wayne Rooney can have the same shattering impact on this summer's finals as Pele had for Brazil in 1958. Pele went to the finals in Sweden as an unknown teenager but inspired Brazil to the
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        121 75 ITALY coach Marcello Lippi paid a visit to Roma's Trigoria training ground yesterday to check on the recovery of Francesco Totti. Lippi watched the striker take part in a morning training session to assess his fitness ahead of the World Cup. Totti returned to training
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      502 75 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL In November last year, Darren Fletcher's first-half header gave Manchester United a 1-0 victory over Chelsea and ended the Premiership leaders' 40-match unbeaten record. Now Rafael Benitez hopes his Liverpool side can do the same when they meet Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final at
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      192 76 -AFP NEW YORK Mastercard International filed a suit against Fifa in a New York court yesterday (this morning, Singapore time), seeking to block a sponsorship deal between world soccer's governing body and credit card rival Visa. In court papers Mastercard argued that an agreement
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      554 76 Big blow to Middlesbrough 3 days before FA Cup semi-final BUCHAREST Middlesbrough's hopes of pulling off a Cup double this season suffered a setback yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) when they were beaten 1-0 by Steaua Bucharest in the first leg of the Uefa Cup semi-finals. The result means Steve
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      175 77 -AGENCIES CHICAGO, Illinois Major League Soccer and Chelsea announced yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) that the English Premiership powerhouse will face the US league's All-Stars in August The MLS All-Star game will take place at the new home of the Chicago Fire
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      465 77 —AFP Injured star's Premiership comeback put back again as World Cup hopes take a beating LONDON The prospects of Michael Owen being at his sharpest for the World Cup have receded further after it emerged that he will play only one match for his club Newcastle
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      206 77 THE GUARDIAN LIVERPOOL Liverpool have dismissed as mischief-making suggestions from the out-going Real Madrid director of football, Benito Floro, that his club should attempt to entice Steven Gerrard (picture) to the Bernabeu this summer. Floro, who was appointed to replace Arrigo Sacchi in December
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