Today, 20 June 2006, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Are you watching, Brazil?
      793 1 An unstoppable Spain score three in the final 20 minutes tobreakTunisian hearts group h I) Spain 3 Tunisia 1 |gj i STUTTGART This Spain team attack with Brazilian flair, defend with Italian grit and work as hard as the Germans. Spain are emerging as serious candidates
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Fed jitters hit US stocks, oil price closes lower
      132 2 —AGENCIES NEW YORK Wall Street shares fell sharply yesterday with no economic news driving market action and investors skittish about a US Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates next Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 73.73 points to 10,940.82, the
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      Lock icon Tanker blast, sailor missing
      113 2 —AGENCIES FRONTLINE, the world's biggest oil tanker owner by capacity, said yesterday a vessel it operates was abandoned after being damaged by an explosion 322 km north-east of Singapore. The Front Sun da was abandoned after the explosion in the evening, a Frontline spokesman in London
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      Lock icon PM LEE RESPONDS TO NZ MEDIA'S CRITICISM
      320 2 LOH CHEE KONG PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong was on the plane to New Zealand from Australia where he had just finished his official visit, when he came across an 848-word article criticising the Singapore Government. "I (read) Fran O'Sullivan's article in the
      — LOH CHEE KONG; AFP  -  320 words
    • Article
      Working as equals
      511 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG IN WELLINGTON Spore, NZ look to leverage on strong ties to mutual benefit cheekong@newstoday.com.sg RECALLING a conversation on a plane with a British diplomat some 40 years ago, New Zealand's Leader of the Opposition, Dr Don Brash, marvelled at the "extraordinary" change that has
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    • Article
      Four more ex-NKF directors now part of suit
      491 3  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com.sg THE High Court yesterday approved an application for the remaining four former directors on the old National Kidney Foundation (NKF) board to be included in the civil suit filed by the new NKF. This means that every member of
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    • Article
      Shin Corp's TV unit 'faces fines'
      275 3 THE purchase of Shin Corp by Temasek Holdings in January from the family of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has thrown up another problem, according to today's Business Times. The paper reports that Shin's ITV unit faces a massive fine that could potentially wipe
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      481 3 University of South Australia AP MI KAPI AN^ Doctor of Business Administration Mil vci 31 uy vi JUU Li I «U3 Li aI \a Mr IVI I IVMrLM 7// Most successful doctoral program in the region with more than 180 graduates in Asia O Information Session on Thursday, 29 June
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  • singapore news
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      Help for dyslexic, autistic school kids
      233 4 MORE schools will get extra hands to help students with mild to moderate dyslexia and autism. Nextyear, 57 primary and 13 secondary schools will get special needs officers (SNOs) who have been trained to help children with mild to moderate dyslexia and autism. This
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      Lock icon Better HDB shop rental rebates
      505 4  -  SHERALYN TAY Now up to 75% to help those hit by upgrading works; other changes to help cut business costs shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) yesterday sent some good cheer the way of HDB businesses, especially those hard hit by upgrading works.
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    • Article
      Ang Mo Kio murder suspect to be charged in hospital
      318 4  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com. sg THE injured man arrested for the murder in an Ang Mo Kio salon on Sunday will be charged this afternoon in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. The 53-year-old hawker, who goes by the nickname of Ah
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      Seeking a $400,000 salve
      581 6  -  ANSLEYNG Four years after fracturing his pelvis, SIAEC employee claims compensation a nsley@newstoday.com.sg AN employee of the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Engineering Company (SIAEC) is claiming about $400,000 in compensation after a freak accident fractured his pelvis. Technician S Thiagarajan, 54, is suing SIAEC for negligence in
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
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        POPE'S SPECIAL ENVOY IN TOWN
        104 6  -  CLEMENT MESENAS The Pope's special envoy. Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, is in town to attend celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Singapore and the Holy See. During his visit, from today to Saturday, Cardinal Martino will call on President
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        STUDYING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
        114 6  -  TAN HWEE HWEE A team of 30 ministers and senior policy makers from six African countries is in Singapore for a week to learn more about the education system here. Organised by the World Bank, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Enterprise Singapore, the programme
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      Lock icon Inspections to curb safety lapses after office hours
      219 6 938 LIVE FROM next month, construction sites, factories and shipyards can expect inspections at their workplaces, even after office hours. This follows findings by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) that 40 per cent of all fatal accidents last year occurred on weekends
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Pro-whaling Japan scores a symbolic win
      239 8 -AGENCIES FRIGATE BAY (St Kitts and Nevis) -Japan and pro-whaling allies struck a historic blow against the moratorium on commercial hunting on Sunday, winning their first vote in two decades at global whale talks. The pro-whaling bloc secured a symbolic triumph after forcing a
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon CHINA TO 'PUT MAN ON MOON'
        47 8 REUTERS China has set 2024 for its first moonwalk. Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po reported. The mission would kick off next year, when China launches an unmanned lunar satellite in March or April to orbit and survey the lunar surface.
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        Lock icon 2 GIRLS BURNT TO DEATH IN RIOTS
        50 8 -AFP Two girls were burnt to death in rioting between Hindus and Muslims sparked by the death of a youth in India's Uttar Pradesh state. The incident occurred after a youth was gunned down by unidentified people in a village market on Sunday.
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        Lock icon MOST TAIWANESE SAY CHEN UNFIT
        56 8 -AP Amid charges that President Chen Shuibian's family is corrupt, a China Times poll revealed yesterday that 53 per cent of the respondents said it was inappropriate for him to stay on as President and 31 per cent said Mr Chen should continue as Taiwan's
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        Lock icon SUU KYI TURNS 61 UNDER HOUSE ARREST
        37 8 -AFP Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi turned 61 yesterday, alone and under house arrest. Some 300 supporters kicked off a day of ceremonies near her crumbling Yangon house.-
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    • Article
      N Korea threatened with 'severe action'
      492 8 Pressure on regime to stop missile launch stepped up TOKYO International leaders yesterday stepped up a diplomatic drive to stop an apparent attempt by North Korea to test-fire a long-range missile, issuing a barrage of warnings to the reclusive nation and threatening retaliation if
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      Lock icon Jihadi architect convicted on three terrorism counts
      306 10 -AFP SYDNEY A Pakistan-born architect accused of plotting a jihad bombing campaign in Australia was convicted on three terrorism-re-lated charges yesterday and faces a life in jail. Faheem Khalid Lodhi, 36, had been accused of planning to blow up the electrical grid in
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      Lock icon We'll stand by Abdullah, says Umno
      462 10 -AP M'sia's ruling party backs PM in continuing friction with former premier Mahathir KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday won full support of the ruling party in a continuing political duel with former leader Dr Mahathir Mohamad, which has raised fears
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      Lock icon Wives rented out on monthly basis
      135 12 -AFP MUMBAI A shortage of eligible single women has prompted some poverty-stricken husbands in western India to rent out their wives to other men on a monthly rate. One man allowed his farm labourer wife, and mother of two, to stay with her boss
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      Lock icon Bollywood stars in the dock
      160 12 -AFP JODHPUR (India) Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and four other Indian film personalities were yesterday charged with poaching endangered black buck during a movie shoot Khan, who is out on bail after being convicted of shooting a gazelle in a separate case, was in court
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      Lock icon 'Malaysia not linked to blasts'
      252 12 -AFP Thai FM confirms there's no such evidence BANGKOK Thailand's Foreign Minister has said there is no evidence linking Malaysia to a wave of bomb blasts in its insurgency-plagued and mainlyMuslim south, the Thai government said yesterday. "Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon... reaffirmed that there was
      -AFP  -  252 words
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      Lock icon US' first woman bishop elected
      146 12 -AGENCIES CHICAGO The United States Episcopal Church said on Sunday it had elected its first woman Presiding Bishop, scoring a breakthrough after years of resistance in a church already riven by the election of a gay bishop in 2003. Ms Katharine Jefferts Schori (picture), bishop
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      Lock icon 11 cousins have stomachs removed to avoid cancer
      266 13 —AP LOS ANGELES Mr Mike Slabaugh doesn't have a stomach. Neither do his 10 cousins. A rare hereditary stomach cancer killed their grandmother and some of their parents, aunts and uncles. Upon turning to genetic testing, they learnt that they had inherited
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      Lock icon Three American soldiers charged
      236 13 —AFP Military acts after deaths of Iraqi detainees WASHINGTON Three US soldiers have been charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with the deaths of three Iraqi detainees, the US military said yesterday. "A non-commissioned officer and two soldiers each have been charged with violating
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      Lock icon US, Russia extend N-deal
      178 13 —AFP WASHINGTON The United States and Russia have extended the US-funded programme that pays for the dismantling of weapons of mass destruction inherited by Russia from the former Soviet Union, the White House said yesterday. The move means that the Cooperative Threat Reduction Agreement (CTR) will
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  • Voices
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      Take the power out of bullies' hands
      444 14  -  CHENG KAH KEE Counselling is toothless when most victims are too scared to report incidents Letter from I REFER to your cover feature, "Sketches from a bullied world" (June 17-18). I agree with social worker Esther Ng that to nip this problem in
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    • Address old folks' daily challenges, such as buses and boredom
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        Going up's a downer for elderly
        269 14  -  LI CAIYING Letter from I AGREE with what Mr Chia Hern Keng said in his letter, "What old folk need" (June 16). One problem for the elderly is the stairs and steps in buses and public areas. Old folk take a longer time getting
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        Plant new interest in their lives
        264 14  -  LEELACHANDRAN Letter from MR CHIA has highlighted an important topic that needs to be given a lot of thought My response concerns the comment that life in old folks' homes can be boring. I can't agree more that the elderly need avenues to stimulate
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    • Lax parents and louts – a natural pair
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        School shouldn't be feared
        191 16  -  IRENECHEONG Letter from WHILE I sympathise with the teachers who face a class of spoilt children, I do not agree that the teachers should be given the right to use any correctional methods to discipline an errant pupil. I come from the generation where our parents
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        Backto basics and the cane
        177 16  -  DANIEL MAH Letter from I APPLAUD the commentary and agree that parents must get back to the basics with their children. With nine children, my mother did not hesitate to use her cane on any of us who fell outside her boundaries of acceptable behaviour.
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        Powerless to teach brats
        238 16  -  WINNIE GOH Letter from I WAS in the education line for four years, and I found that the parents behaved like children and the children behaved like parents. That's because parents only listen to their children, when they are supposed to be making them listen. In
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        Lock icon 'Whack me, I'll tell the police'
        255 16  -  AMIUATAN Letter from I HAVE seen how parents pamper their children in the name of love and it is shocking. Yet, when the parents talk to, say, a customer service officer, they can be stern and direct So why can't they deal with children
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        Yes to saying 'no' out of love
        239 16  -  OLIVIA GOH Letter from I BELIEVE part of the malaise is to do with the one-child syndrome in families today. The French also face the same problem with many families now having only one or two children. My french history professor called the
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    • Article
      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      238 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I ACTIONS LEAD TO CONSEQUENCES Sheltering a child from the consequences of his own actions now could help create an immature adult later. One of the prime objectives during the pre-adolescentyears is to teach the child that actions lead to consequences, and
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      isay OH, YOU LUCKY S'POREANS
      577 18  -  KATE SMITH LAST Saturday, I found myself in a Japanese restaurant in Pattaya, Thailand crying like a baby. My husband groaned with embarrassment as thick, lumpy trails of black mascara made their way down my face. The locals looked at me as if I were
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        WHAT IS THE CRITERIA FOR NDP TICKETS ALLOTMENT?
        122 18  -  ROBIN ANGCHEEYONG: I refer to the e-balloting exercise for National Day Parade (NDP) tickets. What is the criteria used for allocation? I wonder why some people are granted tickets every year, while others never get a chance to partake in the celebrations.
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        HEY TEACHER, YOU FORGET ONE THING...
        118 18  -  TAYHIOKHNG: I agree with the letter, "School holidays or 'mid-term home study' period?" (June 17). As a student, I went to school during the first week of the holidays, not for CCAs but pure hard work. I get plenty of projects and homework which
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Global economy can weather US slowdown
      551 20 -BLOOMBERG Strength in Japan, China and Europe will help offset slower growth in the US THE world economy may be better placed than at any time this decade to weather a slowdown in the United States wrought by higher interest rates. While investors debate
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    • marketwatch
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        ST Index— 2,367.90-6.01
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        Lock icon Singapore
        113 20 -Dow Jones SHARES ended lower yesterday on profit-taking after Friday's sharp gain and amid renewed concerns about rising inflation in the United States. The ST Index ended down 6.01 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 2,367.90. In the broad market, losers led gainers 328 to 142. Traded volume totalled
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        Lock icon World markets
        64 20 Dow Jones Bloomberg SGX, Information provided by and Nikkei 225 14,860.35 -18.99 -0.13 Hang Seng Australia ASX 15,768.86 4,901.20 -73.79 -0.47 -67.80 -1.36 Taiwan Wtd 6,583.04 +7.27 +0.11 Korea Comp 1,251.67 -10.52 -0.83 KLCI 889.51 -3.99 -0.45 SET Index 659.68 -5.71 -0.86 Jakarta Comp 1,295.05 -14.47 -1.11 Phils
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 20 US$ 0.6252 UK£ 0.3398 Yen 72.285 HKS 4.8566 RM 2.2938 Euro 0.4966 Rupiah 5,865.5 Baht 24.053 Peso 33.318 A$ 0.8474 Indian Rs 28.715 Won 601.11 C$ 0.7031 Yuan 5.0065 NZ$ 1.0146 NT$ 20.377
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        Commodities
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Destination: Singapore
        331 22  -  LEECHINGWERN City state follows India and China as preferred offshoring site in Asia chingwern@newstoday.com.sg AFTER the rising powerhouses of India and China, Singapore is the next preferred outsourcing destination in Asia for financial institutions. A survey jointly conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) of
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      • Article
        Lock icon MediaCorp aims for 30% revenue from overseas: CEO
        259 22 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SHANGHAI Singapore's MediaCorp is embarking on an aggressive regional expansion exercise. The group, which owns multiple news and entertainment platforms, aims to earn 30 per cent of its revenue from overseas within five years. This was revealed by the company
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        Asean eyes open access in infocomm sector: Sec-gen Ong
        356 23  -  SHIBUITTYKUTTICKAL Aims to have basic regulatory regime by 2008 shibu@newstoday.com.sg THE Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) is working towards opening up access to the region's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector by late 2007 or early 2008, according to the
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        221 23 IN a bid to boost its 3G roaming services, mobile phone service provider Mobile One (Ml) has teamed up with its Malaysian counterpart Celcom to offer free roaming and IDD 3G video calls between Singapore and Malaysia. The combined promotion,
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        328 24 BLOOMBERG PCCW, Hong Kong's biggest phone company, said yesterday it was in talks to sell all its telecommunication and media assets after receiving an expression of interest from an independent third party. The proposed purchase of the assets and shares in certain subsidiaries will
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          171 24 KFC is offering extended delivery hours until July 10. In Phase 1 until June 23, KFC delivers till sam. Call its delivery hotline at 6235 3535 before 9 pm to place orders from the late-night delivery menu and delivery will be
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          227 24 FRASER NEAVE WINS TWO SUPERBRANDS AWARDS FRASER Neave has been conferred the Superbrands Consumers' Choice Award (Singapore) 2006 for F&N, Fruit Tree, Daisy, Magnolia, Farmhouse and Ice Mountain. The company also received the Superbrands Consumers' Choice Award (Asia) for its brand identity which targets today's sophisticated and discerning consumers and
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        540 24 BLOOMBERG View of German co-chief of Airbus parent firm weighs on his French counterpart EUROPEAN Aeronautic, Defence and Space Co's (EADS) German co-chief executive Tom Enders didn't consider it appropriate to sell shares in March, he said, speaking three days after it emerged that his
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        846 25  - WHAT JAPAN JUST DOESN'T NEED WILLIAM PESEKJR -BLOOMBERG Nascent economic recovery may be undermined by BOJ governor Fukui's indiscretion news@newstoday.com.sg JAPAN'S central bank again risks getting in the way of an economic recovery. The latest example isn't the risk of an ill-timed rate hike like one the Bank of Japan
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        834 26  -  VALERIE LAW valeri e@newstoday.com.sg BEFORE you rush to sign up for a home loan deal that promises to make refinancing easier, you should weigh the pros and cons of using variable and fixed rate loans, check out the lock-in periods and take
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        442 26 -DOW JONES MERRILL Lynch Investment Managers senior fund manager Mr Dennis Stattman who heads a team that manages around US$22 billion ($35.18 billion) in global funds is maintaining a conservative portfolio because he believes financial markets worldwide will
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        325 27  -  -SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA FEW food companies can claim the kind of longevity and success of Kellogg Company, which celebrates its 100 th anniversary this year. The Michigan, United States-based company best known for its corn flakes breakfast cereal has been around since its founding in 1906
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        542 27  -  JANE CHIAPOCO As the official IT partner for the 2006 World Cup, Toshiba keeps soccer fans connected ja nec@newstoday.com.sg SATISFYING the World Cup cravings of soccer fans worldwide is a task high-tech electronics manufacturer Toshiba gamely undertook. It is on this world stage where
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          175 27 ADVERTISING trade publication AdAsia magazine and AdAsiaOnline are organising the inaugural Asia Interactive Awards for the region's best online and interactive campaigns. "It's a chance for people in the industry to show how good they are, and we are proud to appreciate the people and organisations
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          BBC WORLD'S NEW REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF SALES
          127 27 BBC World has promoted Ms Jeslyn Eng (picture) to regional director of sales. The former account director of sales now leads a four-member team in cultivating the channel's growth in South-east Asia. She also manages relationships with clients in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam,
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        428 28  -  ELAINE NG Mobile entertainment and IPTVfeature high on the agenda of IT trade shows elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg THE convergence buzzword has been around since the dotcom boom. This year, it is the overarching theme for CommunicAsia and Broadcast Asia two major communications and information technology exhibitions
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        465 28  -  ELAINE NG I SPL Innotech, a Singapore-based provider of digI ital media systems for Internet Protocol (IP) networks, is teaming up with Singapore Technologies (ST) Electronics to market and implement a complete Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) architecture for customers internationally. The
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          66 29 SGX-listed Addvalue Technologies is launching what is said to be Asia's first commercial portable satellite BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) terminal called Sabre 1 at CommunicAsia 2006. Allowing you to have a high-speed satellite link wherever you go, this notebook-sized satellite terminal
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          66 29 Link Research is introducing the first wireless camera system to transmit high-definition (HD) video in compressed Mpeg-2 formats to the Asian market at Broadcast Asia 2006. The LinkHD wireless camera system touts ultra- low transmission delay, low power requirement and a robust diversity
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          91 29 Check out Act Teleconferencing's on-demand multimedia offerings at CommunicAsia 2006 at Booth 3MI-10. With Ready Connect Video, users can participate in a video conference via the Internet or the telephone without having to make advance reservations or needing any technical support. It
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        377 29  -  ARIEL TAM a riel@newstoday.com.sg I WATCHING television I programmes on a handheld will soon be a reality, no matter which country you are in. Homegrown broadband and telecom equipment vendor, Innoxius Technologies, has introduced at Broadcast Asia 2006 what it says is South-east Asia's first multi-standard and multiband
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        717 30  -  ARIEL TAM VoWiFi services promise users seamless roaming a riel@newstoday.com.sg I IN THE past 15 months or so, the technology industry has been raving about VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) communications. The wondrous ability to make telephone calls using the Internet as a
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          MOTOROLA, SONY TO JOINTLY OFFER WIRELESS SURVEILLANCE SOLUTIONS
          118 31 Motorola has teamed up with Sony to offer wireless video surveillance solutions for deployment to cities worldwide. As part of the collaboration, Sony's Ipela SNC-RXSSO, CSSO and RZSO network cameras are now compatible with Motorola's Mesh Enabled Architecture (MEA). Motorola's MEA multi-radio
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          105 31 Sanyo Electric and Soma Networks have jointly developed the NPM 2000 next-gener-ation broadband wireless base station and the SOMAport 400 Series subscriber gateway products. The NPM 2000 base station is an Internet protocol, wireless multimedia platform that offers service providers higher subscriber density
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          88 31 Voxbone, a Belgian start-up that provides VoIP origination services, has established a superPoP (Point of Presence) in Hong Kong to support its Asian expansion. Voxbone already runs a VoIP backbone, distributed around two superPoPs in Brussels and New
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        392 31  -  ELAINE NG An interactive channel that runs on multiple platforms elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg I THE INTERACTIVE Chan- nel (TIC), a Hong Kongbased company, is touting its crossmedia channel as the next big thing in the broadcast industry. TlC's cross-media concept involves the convergence of broadcast television, Internet,
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      476 23 EASB Institute of Management "My program gives me the cutting I mK&B^^^ 1 edge advantage. It provides me with industry-relevant programs and W^ practical exposure. w /T Dawn Yao Lv (China) r I Tan Yong Ming (China) I Current students in BA Hospitality Tourism Mgmt at EASB I Heriot-Watt University
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      337 28 DA I VINCI presents SUNTEC SINGAPORE, Level 4 International Convention Exhibition Centre 29 June-2 July 2006 29 June -1 July 2006: 11 am Bpm 2 July 2006: 11am -7pm Free Admission For Trade Public For security reasons, all visitors must produce some Icm of identification before issuance of badges For
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      174 31 I'VE GOT ROOM TO SPARE EVEN THOUGH I LIVE OUT OF MY SUITCASE Because when I hit the road, I take all my photos, videos and music with me. Some might say I have my whole world in the palm of my hand. mm I %\n Ms^^ -I^==^" v-i i
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        69 32 Based on Thomas F Dixon Jr's 1905 book The Clansman, D W Griffith's 1915 silent movie opus The Birth of A Nation is regarded as one of cinema's earliest print-to-screen adaptations. Infamous for its sympathetic view of racial segregation, the film continues to garner
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        70 32 Perhaps one of the most admired book-to-film adaptations, director Francis Ford Coppola's take on Mario Puzo's 1969 thriller is widely considered to be the finest Mafia movie of all time. It also had a profound impact on audiences, critics and even American culture: Don Corleone's line, "I'm
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        83 32 It was a flop when it was first released but Blade Runner loosely based on science fiction writer Philip X Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? now stands as one of the most influential movies ever made. Starring Harrison Ford as retired cop Rick
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        75 32 Adapted from Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's 1993 book of the same name. Trainspotting chronicled the lives of a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, and starred Ewan McGregor in a breakthrough role as Mark Renton. The film initially divided critics: Some dismissed Trainspotting for glorifying drug addiction while
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        97 32 Lead actor John Travolta called L Ron Hubbard's 1980 Scientology blueprint Battlefield Earth "the best science fiction since Star Wars". Naturally, he made it into a movie and the results were a laughable mess. Universally regarded as the box office equivalent of the Titanic (the ship, not
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      1103 32  -  David Chew Catherine him With Catherine Lim's Leap of Love poised to hit the big screen, the author and film-makers weigh in on the challenges involved The adaptation of books into movies is old hat in Hollywood. From classics such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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      224 34 SINGAPORE will experience a little bit of Hollywood glitter in October, when the MTV Asia Movie Awards come to Singapore. As part of a $50 million strategic alliance between the Singapore Tourism Board and MTV Networks Asia, Singapore will host
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      446 34  -  AMELYNN LIONG Walk down Motown memory lane with local answer to Alicia Keys, Michaela Therese a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg FOR all the hype surrounding the search for fresh musical talent in Singapore, there is a danger of overlooking the promising young singers who are already out there. One of
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      340 34 DPA SYDNEY Australian sweetheart Nicole Kidman was back in her Sydney hometown yesterday preparing for a weekend wedding to New Zealand-born country music star Keith Urban. Kidman and Urban, both 38, are expected to marry at a Catholic church here on Saturday.
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        137 35 Keane This Sussex trio's 2004 offering may have left them unfairly pegged as Coldplay clones, but Hopes And Fears still became one of the year's biggest releases. The album sold more than five million copies worldwide and earned the group a Grammy nod for Best New
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        143 35 Nelly Furtado Canadian songbird Nelly Furtado does a Gwen Stefani on her third effort Loose and the results are hyperactive to say the least. The best part of Loose is that Furtado's hip-hop themed creations prove imaginative. Under the watchful eye of producers/ hip-hop heavyweights Missy Elliot and Timbaland,
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        151 35 Sonic Youth The past few years have been good to pioneering New York noise rock gods Sonic Youth. Their most recent album, 2004's Sonic Nurse, was greeted with some of the best reviews since the band's best known albums like 1989's Goo and 1992's Dirty. Rather Ripped looks
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      81 35 This week, MediaCorp Radio9B.7FM DJ Carrie Chong reveals what's currently shaking her stereo system. CARRIE CHONG ON DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE'S PLANS I have so many favourite tracks from this album, such as Will Follow You Into The Dark, What Sarah Said and Marching Bands of Manhattan.
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      237 35  -  Lorraine Lim PERFORMANCEREVIEW by THERE is no denying that Victoria Hanna is a talented singer. Her voice boasts a purity and clarity that stunned the hall into silence on her opening song last Thursday, during the first of two performances of Jerusalem Dreaming as part of the Singapore
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        800 36  -  REETA RAMAN A father's role is critical to a child's development but yet is underestimated reeta@newstoday.com.sg WOULD the kind of father you have affect your success in the work place? Apparently, it may, according to The Father Factor, a new book by Stephan Poulter. Poulter is
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        571 37  -  JANICE GOH A NEW study suggests that sports drinks and energy drinks erode teeth faster than other beverages. Researchers at the University of lowa School of Dentistry studied the effects of different beverages on tooth enamel and root surfaces. They recently presented their findings
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        363 37 KRT NEW YORK Got a tough decision to make? Got a complex set of circumstances? Got all the facts? Good. Now, forget about it for a while. Then, follow your gut. Counter-intuitive as it may be, those rusty old saws about taking a deep
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      1100 38 HUM /A=DiACORP /ASDIACORP /A=DIACORP V/XIANNJiL/ JU 4.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show /^*~rO| 10.30 Critic's Pick: Everybody Hates S Newlyweds: Garth Brooks CCIItTCII Chris ch«».l«wsasia 6.00 AM The Golden Girls TrishaYearwood On Marriage, 9.00 AM Blue's Clues Everybody Hates Sausage Transplant Divorce Love Shape Searchers (preschool! 11-30 Inside the Actors Studio
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      150 40 HELPLINE EMERGENCY LINES City Gas (to report gas supply 1800-752-1800 interruption, low pressure and leakage) Civil Defence (Fire Emergency Ambulance) 995 Non-emergency ambulance 1777 Police 999 Police hotline 1800-255-0000 SPPowerGrid 1800-778-8888/ (to report power failure) 6778-8888 Traffic Police 6547-1818 Water Supply 1800-284-6600 HELPLINES —GENERAL Samaritans of Singapore 1800-221-4444 Society for
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      665 42 -AP Mickelson still in shock after handing victory to Ogilvy GOLf US Open MAMARONECK, New York Phil Mickelson was poised to take his place with Tiger Woods'in the record books. Instead, he joined Jean Van de Velde in the sad chapter of Major championship collapses.
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      460 42 -AFP MAMARONECK Geoff Ogilvy knew Australia's 11-year drought in Major golf championships was due to end, he just didn't think he'd be the one to end it. Although he won the star-studded WGC World Match Play title in February, his second career victory, he
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      220 42 ■AFP MAMARONECK At least Colin Montgomerie managed to hang onto a shred of humour after a botched final hole in the 2006 US Open cost him a chance at the first Major title of a two-decade career. The Scot, who turns 43 next week, was
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      1120 43  -  DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Sporting Afrique 0 Balestier Khalsa 0 ONE name was conspicuously missing from the Sporting Afrique side who drew 0-0 with Balestier Khalsa at the Yishun Stadium last night Top scorer Eric Harrison Muranda was not even on the
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      621 43 -AP Wade dominates as Dallas undone by untimely timeout NBA FINALS Miami 101 Dallas 100 (Miami lead best-of-seven series 3-2) MIAMI Draped in white paper streamers that rained down from the ceiling, the Miami Heat hugged and danced their way off the floor following a win to
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      132 43 IF THERE is someone in Singapore who is a sporting inspiration, you can nominate the person for the Sporting Singapore Inspiration Awards 2006 and possibly win an exclusive Team Singapore travel package to the Doha 2006 Asian Games in December, worth $4,000. An initiative by the
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        125 45 HOLLAND coach Marco van Basten could make up to eight changes against Argentina in tomorrow's fixture that will decide who wins Group C. "We are thinking of resting the six players who are on one yellow card," said van Basten. "We don't want to risk anyone
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        102 45 AUSTRALIA striker Harry Kewell will face a Fifa disciplinary panel over his rant at German referee Markus Merk after Australia's 2-0 World Cup defeat to Brazil, Fifa said yesterday. Kewell remonstrated and jabbed his finger at Merk for some time before being pulled away by a
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        121 45 VICTORIA Beckham and the other England World Cup 'Wags' (wives and girlfriends) stormed the luxury boutiques of Baden-Baden at the weekend, spending 80,000 euros ($160,000) in one hour, according to a report yesterday. The mass-market daily Bild said six of the women who joined the English
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        134 45 GERMAN striker Lukas Podolski is threatening to take legal action against German radio station WDR, after finding some of its satirical World Cup content about him below the belt. The station broadcasts a humorous "Lukas' diary", but the German striker has not seen the funny side.
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      540 45 —AGENCIES German skipper Ballack not baulking at prospect of second-round clash GROUP A PREVIEW Germanyv Ecuador LEIPZIG The group stages have yet to be completed, but hosts Germany are already dreaming of a second-round clash with one of their oldest European rivals. After their final Group
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      306 45 AFP LEIPZIG The Deutscher Fussball Bund (DFB) have left the final decision up to Jurgen Klinsmann. If the Germany coach wants to stay in charge, he can, even if the side do not achieve their minimum target of reaching the last eight, according
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      Time to stop this card-waving nonsense
      500 46  -  TAN YO-HINN ON THE pitch, the 18th World Cup finals has generally been a clean tournament sans Italian midfielder Daniele de Rossi's blatant elbow on the United States' Brian Mcßride, which left him with a bloodied face. But some of the game's undesirable elements
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      1188 46 AGENCIES Eriksson desperate to beat his home country, Rooney set to start GROUPB England v Sweden BADEN BADEN, Germany Sven Goran Eriksson isn't exactly the most popular of England managers. Since his appointment in October 2000, he has been harassed over his tactics, his private life
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      244 47 -AGENCIES BADEN BADEN —Michael Owen (picture) is clearly not a happy man. Speaking before England's match against Sweden tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), the 26-year-old striker was exasperated after having his form questioned again. Owen failed to score in England's two victories against Paraguay and Trinidad
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      311 47 AGENCIES COLOGNE Sweden have vowed to disprove claims they are a bunch of Premiership rejects by maintaining their impressive run against England tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Eleven of Lars Lagerback's World Cup squad have played in England in the past, but only
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      1002 48  -  LEONARD THOMAS Ecuador plotting hosts Germany's demise, and a long stay in the country THE Cambiasso goal still sticks in the mind, how Argentina pinged the ball through their players, carving a mortal gash in the heart of a once mighty Serbia Montenegro defence will surely be
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      1027 49  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Watching the fading RonaldoandZidane plod around is a sad experience UNLOVED and unappreciated, a dejected Ronaldo trudged off the Munich pitch. Apart from an indifferent pat on the stomach from manager Carlos Alberto Parreira, the "Phenomenon" received no handshakes, no hugs, no
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      768 50 They have, quite literally, held their countries' dreams in their hands. The strikers and the playmakers usually hog the headlines, but at the ongoing World Cup finals, the goalkeepers appear to be taking centrestage with a number of memorable performances and some truly outstanding saves. Five goalkeepers,
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      534 51 —AP Team's potential, much talked about, finally makes an appearance GROUP G IT L-J Switzerland 2 Togo o\^/ DORTMUND Everyone had talked about and waited for the potential of the young Switzerland team. Yesterday, there were glimpses of it in Switzerland's 2-0 victory over Togo at
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      246 51 -AP LEVERKUSEN South Korea might be ready to add some firepower to their lineup for their final Group G match against Switzerland. Starting striker Cho Jae-jin said he "felt alone" up front in the team's first two games and wondered if head
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        493 52 —AP Ukraine bounce backfrom their 4-0 defeat to Spain to put four past Saudi Arabia GROUP h V' /f\ Ukraine 4 Saudi Arabia 0 V'^^P HAMBURG It took just four minutes for Ukraine to get their World Cup bid back on track. The World Cup newcomers, coming
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        326 52 —AFP HAMBURG Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin (picture) hailed his players for bouncing back from their 4-0 hammering suffered at the hands of Spain to deliver their own footballing masterclass against Saudi Arabia. The 4-0 win over the desert kingdom this morning (Singapore time)
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        342 53 RESULTS Group G France 1 South Korea 1 Togo 0 Switzerland 2 Group H Ukraine 4 Saudi Arabia 0 Spain 3 Tunisia 1 FIXTURES TV TIMES Today Group A: Costa Rica v Poland, 10pm Ch22 Group A: Ecuador v Germany, 10pm, Ch27 Tomorrow Group B: Sweden v England, 3am,
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