Streats, 20 September 2002

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  • 13 1 Streats FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 Hotline: 1800-844-5566 E-mail: streats@sph.com. sg MITA (P) 240/03/2002
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  • 591 1  -  B y Wendy Tan HATRED. Distrust. Racial riots. And the eventual destruction of Singapore, swallowed by a sea of Muslim states stretching from Malaysia to Mindanao. That’s the big gameplan of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist cell. That’s the twisted vision of Jl’s mastermind, Indonesian
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    • 34 1 Adam’s quibble Why dress like this when you don't have the figure? PAGE 34 FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 2002 The Strategy PAGE 2 The Terrorists PAGE 3 The Training PAGE 4 The Network PAGE 4
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  • 118 2 FAUZI ABU BAKER BAF AN A 37, TECHNICAL OFFICER MOHAMMAD HISILAM ILAIRI, 34, TRANSPORT WORKER SAJAHAN ABDUL RAHMAN, 54, BUSINESS ABDUL MAJID MAZ MOHAMED, 40, DRIVER FAIZ ABDULLAH ASHIBLIE, 37, UNEMPLOYED HUSIN ABDUL AZIZ, 52, BUSINESSMAN ZULKIFLI MOHAMED JAFFAR, 42, USED CAR SALESMAN MUNAIN TURKU, 41, DRTVER
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  • 342 2  - Survey destroy Causeway pipelines Mindef headquarters Changi Airport and Biggin Hill radar station Jurong Island US interests THE TARGETS Reports by Wendy Tan MILITARY, utility and US installations in Singapore were among potential targets that at least eight Jemaah Islamiah cell members were assigned to investigate and survey. Fortunately, their
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  • 191 2 AROUND 1999, Indonesian Riduan Isamuddin, a suspected JI leader who is also known as Hambali, initiated a move to militarise Jl’s missionary cells. Hambali is said to have links with A 1 Qaeda and to be in charge of JI operations in Malaysia and Singapore. Reconnaissance
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  • 204 3  -  Mostly blue-collar workers Nondescript appearance Mostly middle-aged THE TERRORISTS Reports by Wendy Tan MOSTLY non-descript in appearance, the motley crew of terrorists-in-training, aged from 30 to 54, held mostly bluecollar jobs. Two were jobless but the others had jobs such as driver, canteen operator, deliveryman, butcher and
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  • 133 3 THEY were sent to terrorist schools to become arms and explosives experts. Mahfuh Haji Halimi, Mohd Jauhari Abdullah and Azman Jalani went to A 1 Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, while another, Habibullah Hameed, trained with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines. Mahfuh learnt
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  • 297 4  -  They learnt... How to make Molotov cocktails How to throw knives How to survive in the jungle THE TRAINING Reports by 1 Wendy Tan TERRORIST training did not only take place in Afghanistan and Mindanao, but also in various parts of Malaysia.* Fourteen of those arrested, including
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  • 234 4 THE JI did not operate alone. In 1999, it formed a regional alliance of “jihadist” or militant groups, called the Rabitatul Mujahideen. The alliance comprised a central committee of leaders from militant groups in the region, including the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and a
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    • 220 4 The Rice Table The centrepiece of Indonesian cuisine is the 'rijsttafel', a phase coined by the Dutch which literally means 'rice table'. Developed by the Dutch the story goes that they first approached Indonesian food with a great deal of caution, first sampling one dish and than another until a
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    • 30 4 War on TERROR ABU BAKAR BASIIIR EXPECTS TO BE ARRESTED UMAR TTIALIB JAFAAR WANTED WAR EBI WARNS OF NEW KINDS OF HIJACK II AGENT PAID CASH FOR BOMBS PAGE 23
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  • STREATS local
    • 482 6  -  4.1% unemployment rate set to rise in second half with fresh grads Gary Lim AN all-out information blitz has begun so that unemployed Singaporeans will know where to get help to land a job or upgrade their skills. The main sources of information are the Ministry
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    • 154 6 YOU can now enjoy a subsidised boost to your information technology education if you live in the Northwest district. The IT Learning Fund for the 21-hour Infocomm Competency Programme (ICP) is for residents who have completed the 10-hour National IT Literacy Programme. North
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    • 155 8 THREE women employees of a maid agency were supposed to counsel an Indonesian maid whose boss complained about her poor work. Instead, they stripped, humiliated and called her a prostitute in a two-hour ordeal. Yesterday, Kamisah Mohamed, 27, Haryati Sahat, 31, and
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    • 274 8 She met men in Internet chat room TWO 26-year-old men fell victim to an elaborate extortion scam that cost one $30,000. The other, blackmailed for $20,000, handed over 1,000 and told a gang of seven that he would pay the rest later. Mr Ong Eng Hwee
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    • 184 8 SINGAPORE’S first court to specialise in intellectual property (IP) rights disputes officially came into existence yesterday. The Intellectual Property Court, located in the Supreme Court complex, will deal specifically with cases such as who owns the legal rights to an invention, a musical composition or even
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  • STREATS financial
    • 413 10 STI: 1,439.11 7.86 Reuters SHARES closed slightly higher yesterday on bargain-buying in blue chips such as Singapore Press Holdings and DBS Group, but sentiment was subdued on fears of war and a US slowdown. The Straits Times Index finished 0.55 per cent, or 7.86 points,
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    • 398 10  -  Education key to success of complex investment tool, say some players Chug Kong Ho MINIMUM subscriptions for retail hedge funds will be lowered by the year-end, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday. The revised guidelines remove minimum investment limits for guaranteed and protected
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    • 181 10 AFP NEW YORK The lavish lifestyles of US corporate chieftains have sparked a backlash. The latest tale of greed and excess focuses on former Tyco International chief executive Dennis Kozlowski dubbed the “king of perks” by Newsday newspaper. He allegedly used company
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    • 24 10 *AS AT SEPTEMBER 19 US$: 551.769 552.746 EURO: 551.733 Ss: 68.76 YEN Ss: RM2.148 Ss: HK54.409 Ss: 24.26 BAHT Ss: 5,085 RUPIAH
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    • MONEY SCAN
      • 84 10 Reuters CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing received a double blow yesterday with both HSBC and Morgan Stanley raising loss forecasts. HSBC widened its loss forecast in the October to December quarter to US$lO3 million (S$ 182 million) from US$B7.2 million. It also cut Chartered’s share price target to $1.06.
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      • 53 10 -AFP POLICE have questioned the finance manager of Malaysia’s Technology Resources Industries (TRI) about allegations of fake invoices worth more than US$6B million (Ssl2o million), a police spokesman said yesterday. Last week, TRI chairman Mohamad Munir Abdul Majid had said that fake invoices were issued in 1998
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      • 79 10 Bloomberg MORE than 40,000 employees of India’s Bank of Baroda plan a walkout for a day next week to protest management efforts to ensure that they turn up on time. Union leaders say it’s unfair to mark tardy workers as absent and send them home. They are
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  • STREATS vocal
    • 227 12 FOR Singapore to make its name synonymous with quality education, as per the proposals of the ERC subcommittee on service industries (“Big bucks in education”, Streats, Sept 17), the Ministry of Education (MOE) must be actively involved. I would like to recount a case in
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    • 112 12 I REFER to “LTA replied but didn’t answer” (Streats, Sept 16), a letter by Mr Daniel Yong. We would like to clarify that usage restrictions which apply to cars under the Off-Peak Car (OPC) scheme are not tied to the operational hours of the
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    • 217 12 MP Ahmad Khalis Abdul Ghani (Hong Kah GRC) raised a valid point in saying that Muslims should not feel they have to prove themselves in ways such as attending a Hungry Ghost Festival dinner (“IRCCs around since the 60s”, Streats, Sept 19) to demonstrate racial tolerance.
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    • 144 12 I’M a dog lover and, while out walking my pet recently, I was wondering why there are no dog parks on our island. Other countries have fenced areas where owners can unleash their dogs and let them run free. I know we don’t have much land
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    • 72 12 Have Your Say E-mail us at streats@sph.com.sg or write to The Editor, Streats, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be deemed that
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  • STREATS regional
    • 172 16 AP KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will hand down a two-year budget today that is due to be his last before retiring. Economists say the 2003-2004 budget covering two years for the first time is likely to focus on three
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    • 288 16 PAS outlaws some live acts in Kelantan -AFP KUALA LUMPURMalaysia’s Kelantan state yesterday banned rock and pop bands, and outlawed live performances in front of men by female entertainers. The move is to “cultivate modesty and high morals”, said a spokesman for the state, which is run by
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    • 160 16 -AFP SINGAPORE Asian leaders want to ease cultural differences and seek greater market access for their products at a summit with their European Union counterparts in Denmark next week. “I think that Asia better understands Europe than Europe understands Asia,” said Delfin Colome,
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    • 214 18 Reuters TOKYO North Korea said at a summit with Japan this week that it would allow international inspectors into the country to examine its nuclear programme, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said yesterday. “North Korea... said it would
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    • 201 18 -AFP TOKYO Two of eight Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korea and confirmed dead by Pyongyang this week died the same day, a Japanese daily said yesterday. Japanese officials accompanying Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to his unprecedented summit with North Korean leader Kim
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    • 150 18 AP INSIDE THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE, Korea Soldiers of the two Koreas opened parts of their heavily fortified border area yesterday and began removing mines ahead of work on cross-border railways and roads that were severed half a century ago. The demining operation inside the 4km-wide
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    • 249 21 Reuters ZAMBOANGA A bomb exploded in a bus at a southern Philippines bus terminal yesterday, seriously wounding a security guard, police said. The bomb, hidden in a biscuit tin, went off shortly after Bam as the guard inspected the bus after passengers
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    • Asian cross-dressing scams
      • 180 21 AP MANILA Immigration officials arrested a US man wanted for child abuse who evaded authorities in the Philippines for years by dressing as a woman, an official said yesterday. Domingo Ramon Cruz, 55, was arrested on Wednesday when he was
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      • 184 21 -afp TOKYO Japanese police last week discovered that a 14-year-old schoolboy had worked as a “hostess” at an Okinawa bar for more than two months, a local official said yesterday. “The junior high school boy confessed to having had a job interview at the
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  • STREATS global
    • War on TERROR
      • 305 23 JI chief linked to embassy threat -AFP JAKARTA Suspected Jemaah Islamiah chief Abu Bakar Bashir expects to be arrested following a report that he was involved in a recent threat against the US embassy, his lawyer said yesterday. Abu Bakar is ready to face
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      • 124 23 AP MANILA Indonesian terror suspect Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi is giving evidence in the Philippines against co-suspects Malaysian Faiz Abu Bakar Bafana and Indonesian Riduan Isamuddin. He has agreed to testify that the two gave him funds to buy explosives for strikes against Western
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      • 162 23 WASHINGTON The FBI warned yesterday that A 1 Qaeda may be developing a new way to hijack airliners, ABC News reported. The FBI is also concerned that A 1 Qaeda is searching for new ways to sneak explosives on planes explosives that cannot
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      • 108 23 AP MOSCOW Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said that Moscow was prepared to unleash preventive strikes on militants in Georgia, and that he would give the US evidence of a terrorist presence there. “If we see that bandits are headed in our direction and only
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      • 92 23 -AP JAKARTA A police officer testified yesterday that he had overheard the leader of the Laskar Jihad militia urge his followers to wage war on Christians in Maluku. “I heard Jafaar (Umar Thalib) say that from today there will be no more talk of reconciliation,” said
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    • FLASHPOINT IRAQ
      • 287 25 -AFP WASHINGTON US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested yesterday that military action against Iraq could be avoided if its president, Mr Saddam Hussein, left the country. In an interview on PBS’s “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer” programme, Mr Rumsfeld said: “There have been
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      • 203 25 WASHINGTON US President George W Bush wants Congress to give him authority to use military force against Iraq but quickly. “That will be part of the resolution authorisation to use force. If you want to keep the peace, you’ve got to have the authorisation
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      • 97 25 AP BAGHDAD Iraq’s Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan said that Baghdad’s decision to re-admit UN weapons inspectors to the country is a “sincere move” that will show “for certain and from close up” that Iraq is “clear of weapons of mass destruction”. Iraqi media quoted him
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    • 252 26 -AP TEL AVTV A suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded bus in downtown Tel Aviv yesterday, killing at least five other people and wounding 49 in the second such attack in two days. The blast tore through the bus while
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    • 89 26 AP LONDON UK police officers are being encouraged to eat at McDonald’s and other fast food outlets while on duty to help cut street crime, police officials said on Wednesday. Police chiefs in Birmingham, central England, have issued officers with vouchers to
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    • 261 26 Saudis want see oil price at US$25 a barrel -AP OSAKA Opec yesterday decided to leave its output unchanged, rejecting calls from the West to put more oil on the market and give consumers relief on their fuel bills. Top producer Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Ali
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    • Article, Illustration
      47 26 A group of young Sri Lankan children having yesterday their heads shaved and washed before being ordained as Buddhist monks in Kadwatta, just outside the capital Colombo. Around 40 children aged between eight and 12 were ordained in a ceremony held at a temple AFP
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    • 183 26 AP BANGKOK A day after concluding their first peace talks with the government in seven years, the chief negotiator for Sri Lanka’s Tamil rebels said yesterday that they were “pleased” with the progress made. Mr Anton Balasingham made the comments after paying a courtesy call
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    • GLOBAL DEBRIEF
      • 70 26 Reuters CARACAS The US said yesterday it was worried about growing rumours of another coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez, and urged the government and its opponents to shun violence. Persistent rumours about a coup have been circulating here five months after Mr Chavez was briefly deposed
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      • 59 26 AP KARACHI In a series of overnight raids, police arrested five suspected Islamic militants accused of participating in deadly attacks against foreigners and plotting to kill Pakistan’s president, authorities said yesterday. The latest detainees are the owner of a soft drinks and ice cream shop here, one
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      • 105 26 Reuters PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil A guntoting musician forced a radio station here to play his debut album for more than an hour on Wednesday, the man’s father said. Marcus Vinicius dos Santos, 27, the vocalist for the rock group ACC, stormed disc jockey Marcio Paz’s booth at
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  • STREATS people
    • 203 28 AP KHAG, India A few minutes into his election speech, holding a small red plough, his party symbol, the young man expected to be Indian Kashmir’s next administrator said something considered suicidal for a politician in India. “We have made mistakes We realise
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    • 336 28 Mixed Taiwanese reaction to visit :.-ap TAIPEI Some Taiwanese disagreed yesterday about whether first lady Wu Shuchen’s planned historic visit to Washington would help the island. Ms Wu, set to depart yesterday evening, would be the first Taiwanese president’s wife to visit the US
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  • easy STREATS
    • Article, Illustration
      426 32  -  Yvonne Kwok Make way ocXx. Sleeper hits such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Barbershop are nudging big-budget blockbusters off the top rungs of2oo2’s box-office hit list IN one of those stunning examples that proves that word-of-mouth is a powerful marketing device, low-key movie My Big
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    • 124 32 TOULA (Nia Vardalos) is 30, unmarried and works at Dancing Zorba’s, a Greek restaurant owned by her parents. Despite her family’s objections, Toula takes a job at her aunt’s travel agency where she falls in love with lan Miller (John Corbett), a high school teacher
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    • Article, Illustration
      100 32 A comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago and a guy named Calvin (Ice Cube), who inherits the struggling business from his deceased father. The barbershop has its fair share of wacky characters such as Eddie (Cedric Kyles), an opinionated
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    • 107 32 IT appears that Taiwan’s R&B princes David Tao and Jay Chou have become friends. The two met for the first time at a party David threw to celebrate the launch of his latest album, Black Tangerine. Jay turned up with a guitar for David
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    • 99 32 l. Reuters CANCELLED last year due to the Sept 11 attacks, the Latin Grammys returned to Hollywood on Wednesday in high style to honour Spanish artist Alejandro Sanz, who swept the awards for the second year in a row. Singer-songwriter Sanz, who won four top awards
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    • 83 32 LATIN sexbomb Jennifer Lopez was cheating on her ex-hubby Cris Judd even while they were married, claimed his dad Larry Judd in a recent interview that was reported by PeopleNews.com yesterday. Jennifer was seeing actor Ben Affleck just five months into her marriage. She was also carrying
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    • 444 34  -  Adam About Town By i ADAM lIASHIDY LADIES, some of you need to invest in a full-length mirror at home. Why? Because you do need to take a good look at yourself before walking out the door. Or you risk causing eyesores. Along Orchard Road
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    • 244 34 ap PROSECUTORS opened their case yesterday against Canto-pop bad boy Nicholas Tse on charges that he conspired to let his chauffeur take the rap for a car crash in March. Hongkong’s antigraft watchdog, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, has charged Nicholas, 21, and police constable Lau
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    • 122 36 WHEN Alexander Graham Bell introduced the telephone in 1876, 1 it did not ring off the hook with l calls from potential backers. US President Rutherford Hayes, after making a demonstration call, said: “That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of
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      • 116 36 The National Arts Council World Rhythms concert series starts again. The first show is on Sunday at the Botanic Gardens beside the Swan Lake, 5.30pm-7pm. Singapore’s T’ang Quartet will play. It’s free. Tomorrow, Canadian jazz singer Jennifer Ryan, who performs in the series next month, will give
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      • 80 36 SWENSEN’S MOONCAKES All its outlets Until tomorrow Celebrate the Mid-autumn Festival with the old and the new. This place offers traditional mooncakes as well as those in many flavours, including chocolate ice cream. Prices from $l4 for two and $3O for four. FINEST HANDWRITING COMPETITION Jurong Point Sunday, 2pm
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      • 105 36 KIRI TE KANAWA University Cultural Centre Saturday, 8.15 pm Tickets $2Ol, $l7l, $l4l, $lll, $Bl, $5l at Sistic World-renowned soprano Dame Kiri returns for a one-night performance with the SSO. You can expect a mix of opera arias from The Marriage of Figaro, La Boheme and La Wally. JAZZNITE
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      • 34 36 Chijmes, Saturday, 6pm-9pm, Free Last chance to check out this colourful and vibrant festival. There will be performances from a mariachi band, a Mexican bazaar and a Streats Make-the-Headlines photo service.
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      • 70 38 10pm, Channel 5 The 16 castaways are marooned on Koh Tarutao, off Thailand, in the Andaman Sea. It’s a former penal colony known for its steep limestone cliffs, dense jungle and king cobras. The producers are keeping mum, but it looks like this version has one tribe being
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      • 63 38 Midnight, Channel i When a young man is beaten while with an older woman at a hotel, Detectives Benson and Stabler soon find that this incident is just one of a string of such beatings, some of them fatal. All the victims are male
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      • 154 38 AP NEW YORK Christopher Reeve wants to show that “conventional wisdom is now falling by the wayside” in a documentary that chronicles the progress in his fight to regain movement. Christopher Reeve: Courageous Steps shows the Superman star moving his right wrist, left fingers and both legs
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      104 38 THE GURU Original Sound Track THIS is one eclectic sound track from the movie The Guru. It has 16 hits such 43 One Way Or Another (Sophie Ellis-Bextor), Roung Round (Sugababes), You’re The One That I Want (John Travolta Olivia Newton-John), Just The Way You Are (Diana Krall),
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    • 75 38 More exciting activities and prizes than ever! mm 1 m Hlf Don’t miss all the fun at Children’s Day Carnival 27 29 Sep 02, 10.00 am -8.30 pm Singapore International Conference Exhibition Centre Hall UOI (Suntec City) Catch the full details in Lianhe Wanbao Shin Min Daily News, 26 Sep
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    • 459 38 Yourdailyhoroscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 By putting yourself first, you run someone else off the road. At least try to be charming when haste and force are this necessary. The consequences, while not instantly apparent, are very real. K PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Fall in
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    • 569 40 Ferguson hopes to carry winning momentum to Premier League -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Manchester United 5 Maccabi Haifa 2 MANCHESTER Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson believes his side’s five-goal display against Israeli champion Maccabi Haifa could herald a turnaround in the club’s fortunes after a faltering start to
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    • 287 40 Group E: It Feyenoord (Ned) 1 (van Hooijdonk 75) Juventus (Ita) 1 (Camoranesi 32) Dynamo Kiev (Ukr) 2 (Shatskikh 17, Khatskevich 62) Newcastle (Eng) 0 Group F: Manchester United (Eng) 5 (Giggs 10, Soljskaer 35, Veron 46, van Nistelrooy 54, Forlan 89-pen) Maccabi Haifa (Isr) 2 (Katan 8,
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    • 307 40 Wire services CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Dynamo Kiev 2 Newcastle United 0 KIEV Newcastle manager Bobby Robson remained defiant after seeing his side launch its Champions League campaign with a 0-2 defeat in Kiev. Goals from Maksim Shatskikh and Aliaksandr Khatskevich either side of half-time
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    • 434 42 Sprint champions Montgomery and Jones set to deliver goods at World Cup -AFP MADRID Athletics golden couple Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones lead the United States into battle here today in the World Cup with the men dearly hoping the new 100 m world record-holder is fit
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    • 247 42  -  B y 'Adam Hashidy CRUSHED skulls, broken bones and badly-burnt bodies. Nurse Kelly Ho (below), who works in the emergency room at the National University Hospital, has seen them all. Yet, they don’t frighten her. As a biker babe, she zips around in riding boots, leather
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    • 334 45  -  Coaching tool helps in teaching correct skills to children By Tan Kim Han ALVIN Ong is just nine. Yet he can turn, dribble and execute other football skills. For that, he has to thank a locally-produced instructional VCD on football techniques. The 30-minute production, a first
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    • 96 45 JURONG FC could not reproduce the form that saw it dump defending champion Geylang United out of the Singapore Cup on Tuesday. Looking lethargic, it lost to Tanjong Pagar by a solitary goal in the S-League yesterday. Suriyandi Naib scored the winner in
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    • 526 47  -  Soccer talk By TAN KIM HAN SOMEWHERE in Manchester, Alex Ferguson (below) must be wondering why his team enjoys more success against foreign teams than those at home. It’s a tricky assignment even for the king of psychology. Just days after back-to-back defeats to Bolton Wanderers
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    • 419 47 TOMORROW: Newcastle United v Sunderland Head-to-head: Newcastle won 44, Sunderland 40. Draws: 38 Previous meetings: Feb 24, 2002 Sunderland 0 Newcastle 1; Aug 26, 2001 Newcastle 1 Sunderland 1 League form: Newcastle WLDLL; Sunderland DLWDLL Team news: Newcastle Cort injured; Sunderland Phillips injured, McCann doubtful Verdict: Newcastle win
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    • 27 45 IN THE LIVING ROOM TENNIS: Davis Cup s-final, Day 1: France v USA (Super Sports Ch 22, 4.30 pm). DELAYED TELECAST SOCCER: EPL Preview (Channel i, 9pm).
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    • 145 1 P)d Academy w f ,y wI’ i 1: iM s ***fc open house tomorrow to begiiyy? journey to academic excellence. 1 ■i I I P)B Academy ĕ!Ss r i> A POWERHOUSE OF powerll I 1 i t: vlllSSßs 1« rj mBS&rmW, <7.1 «•I sSrssw WBkP ii£s® W Mlliltttt ■Bw>* V
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    • 137 2 P$ Academy What Have You Achieved Today? As your reliable partner in quality education, PSB Academy defines success with you in mind. Our recent strategic move to the Toa Payoh Campus has equipped us with comprehensive facilities that add value to our varied education programmes. Visit us at our new
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      774 3 New name, identity, address. LEONG PIKYIN talks to senior vice-president Chua Soh Kheng to find out how else the PSB Academy is reinventing itself. The wheels of change are in motion at PSB Academy, it seems. Last year, it assumed its new name and identity. Last month,
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    • 358 4 A wealth of free information and valuable advice all in one place. That is what forward-looking corporate leaders, human resource and training managers, professionals, students, and lifelong learners can look for- ward to tomorrow. To celebrate the opening of its
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      105 4 PSB Academy moved to its new premises in Toa Payoh about a month ago after operating for nearly 16 years in Bukit Merah. The planning for the move took about a month and the actual relocation took a swift three days, all thanks to efficient teamwork. On the
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    • 238 4 PSBlntelli® The PSB Corporation is so confident about the quality of its educational products offered by its training arm, PSB Academy, that it is expanding overseas through its global education and training brand name PSB Intellis. Behind the brand is over 30 years’ experience in providing education
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      529 5 Every student who goes through the PSB Academy has a person who makes sure that everything is taken care of from the day he joins to the day he graduates. LYNN SEAH speaks to' Madam Kwek Lay Kheng, one such programme executive. On days with the phone
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    • 264 5 1972: Management and supervisory development The PSB Academy began in 1972 as the Management Services and Supervisory Development Division in the then National Productivity Board (NPB) a government statutory board. Its role then was to help companies make productivity improvements through training of their managers and supervisors.
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    • 513 6  -  Walk into PSB Academy’s reception and say "hello” to a brand new kind of service front desk executives who can answer almost any of your questions on the spot By Lynn Seah You’ve seen them. Those high counters receptionists perch behind, conducive for brief transactions a
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    • 846 8  -  Over four courses and 10 years, Mr Alan Tan took an unconventional route to his Bachelor of Science degree. By Peggy Tan Peggy Tan is a freelance writer. Years ago, if anyone had told him he would one day graduate with honours, Mr Alan Tan, 37,
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    • 394 1  -  Careful shopping around for his Master’s got Mr Kenneth Wang a course that suited him to aT Peggy Tan Mr Kenneth Wang, 27, is a project leader in Web development at Xerox. He is currently enrolled at PSB Academy’s Master of Information c Technology (e-commerce) course, conducted
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      547 2  -  By Lynn Seah Yen Nhu's father wanted his daughter to get a foreign education, but it had to be somewhere safe and close to Vietnam. Guess which institution he chose? When it was time for her to decide where to continue her studies after completing Grade 12
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    • 462 3  -  Lynn Seah Fun and interesting classes kept Mr Paul Soh from switching off and tuning out. When Mr Paul Soh was studying banking and finance at a polytechnic six years ago, he found the classes so boring, he dropped out after a year. This year, he
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    • 889 4  -  By Rav Dhaliwal Rav Dhaliwal is a freelance writer. PSB Academy runs courses for individuals and corporations. One client, City Cab, had its training programmes specially customised to meet its particular needs. Taxi commuters’ expectations have gone up and good service by cabbies no longer
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    • 335 5  -  Rav Dhaliwal Practising what the Service Excellence Training Programme preaches has made a difference to taxi driver 1 Kelvin Ho’s pocket. Mr Ho, 41, is pleased that it has brought him tangible benefits in the form of increased income. “With the extra customer care that I
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    • 220 5  -  Rav Dhaliwal How does a taxi driver decide whether it is wise to strike up a conversation with his passenger? A City Cab driver will try to gauge the passenger’s mood and willingness to converse from his or her body language and voice tone. Body language is
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    • 553 8 mxm m f knowledge open: Saturday, 21 September 2002, PSB Academy has moved to new premises at the Toa Payoh Campus. With this strategic move, you can expect more from us! So here's what forward-looking corporate leaders, HR personnel, professionals, students, and life-long learners from all walks of life can
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