The Business Times, 26 April 2003

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    11 1 85C MTTA (P) 024/03/2003 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE APRIL 26-27. 2003
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    Lock icon Q1 private home sales slump to 7-year low
    787 1  -  Property developers sell a lower-than-expected 427 units as prices slide 0.9% from previous quarter By\ Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] It has been a low, low quarter for the property market. Sales of new private homes hit a seven-year low in the first three
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    Lock icon Tycoons gunning for Indon presidency?
    1234 1  -  Idea of a business leader at the helm gaining acceptance, notes YANG RAZALIKASSIM YANG RAZALI KASSIM A BUSINESSMAN as president of Indonesia? Don't rule it out. A new phenomenon is emerging in the countdown to Indonesia's presidential elections due early next year top entrepreneurs may
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    Lock icon China must pull out all stops to fight Sars: SM
    680 1  -  Beijing is determined, but it's a massive task Bi Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] China's authorities now understand the gravity of the crisis posed by the spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) within the country and need to make a
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      Lock icon Sars fears dog Taipei, Seoul bourses
      102 1 THE deadly Sars virus continued to hound stock markets yesterday as both the Taiwan and South Korean bourses lost 3 per cent each. Taipei stocks closed at a more than six-month low, with bellwether techs and China plays the most badly hit. Over in
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      Lock icon US Q1 growth at tepid 1.6%
      126 1 THE US economy expanded at a tepid 1.6 per cent rate in the first quarter of 2003, below most private forecasts, the government said yesterday. The Commerce Department's first estimate of US gross domestic product showed only a marginal increase from the 1.4 per
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      Lock icon Take Sars threat seriously, says SM Lee
      822 2  -  It could prove a deadlier foe than any S y pore has faced before and everyone must play their part to fight it, he says By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Having fought many battles in his long political career, Senior Minister Lee Kuan
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      Lock icon S'poreans urged to dose ranks in Sars battle
      507 2  -  frontline warns off blacklisting by WHO By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore could end up on the World Health Organisation's blacklist and that would spell even more bad news on the economic front if it fails to tame Sars, Minister of State
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      Lock icon On PM Goh's lunch menu — a Sars message
      173 2 On PM Goh's lunch menu a Sars message [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong hosted a lunch for media editors yesterday and drove home to them the need to get across the message that Singaporeans must take individual responsibility for health. Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng, who is chairman
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      Lock icon Taxi operators must do more for cabbies
      910 2  -  Saturday soapbox Drivers' earnings plunge while operators' profits soar christopher tan HOW much do Singapore cabbies make? Ten years ago, it would not be unusual for a hardworking driver to take home $3,000 a month. For plying the streets an average of 10
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      142 2 More donations for Citibank-BT San fund [SINGAPORE] Donations continue to pour into the "Citibank-Hie Business Times Sars Fund", set up to help needy families of Sars patients. All proceeds will go towards the Courage Fund. Those who wish to donate by credit card can call 622&5U2 between 10 am and
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      Lock icon THE POSITIVE THINKER
      1640 3  -  He is rarely without an opinion on the issue of the day, writing earnestly and prolifically to newspapers on a regular basis. His day job? CEO of one of Singapore's biggest insurers, NTUC Income. CATHERINE ONG meets Tan Kin Lian CATHERINE ONG TAN Kin Lian, chief executive
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      Lock icon A critical threshold
      748 3 TAN Kin Lian wants to be heard but not quite on the subject of NTUC Income's losses in investments last year. A pleasant lunch conversation turns tense, the Income CEO becomes visibly annoyed, when the topic of its investment losses cropped up. Asked to comment on market
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      61 3 Raffles INTERNATIONAL Hotels Resorts The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles International Hotels and Resorts. The Traveller's Palm in the Raffles International logo is an apt symbol. Not only has water stored at the base of this palm provided sustenance, the leaves rest in
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  • news companies
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      Lock icon CapitaLand Q1 net profit down 21% to $25.7m
      503 4  -  Company cites higher taxes, lower portfolio gains Byi Andrea Tan WERE the analysts way off in their forecasts or did Capita Land disappoint the market badly? sk,2 The property giant yesterday turned in a worse-than-expected net profit of $25.7 million for the
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      Lock icon Play the waiting game for SingPost
      893 4  -  corporate analysis Dividend yields may appeal but investors should see if the shares hold up a month after its IPO, ANGELA TAN suggests ANGELA TAN GIVEN the dearth of quality initial public offers (IPO) in Singapore, the poor returns from the stock market as
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      Lock icon Omni Mold to merge with Tech Group S'pore
      394 4  -  By Michelle Quah INDUSTRY veteran Koh Boon Hwee is helping to bring together two midsized plastic component companies in Singapore Sesdaq-listed Omni Mold and privately-held Tech Group Singapore (TGS) in a proposed deal that will see the delisting of Omni Mold and
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      Lock icon The wrong history repeats itself
      662 4  -  market review r sivanithy HISTORY has repeated itself this week on two counts. And unfortunately, neither is what punters or those concerned with preserving the market's integrity would have hoped for. First, instead of stocks rallying after the conclusion of hostilities in the Middle East
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      69 4 STI 1*229.14 (-13.87) «T INDEX FUTURES 1*227.00 (-23.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 150.60 (-2.30) Friday Change KLSEOOMP 627.73 ♦1U7 NIKKEI 225 7.699.50 155.07 HANG SENG 8.***** -33.10 SET INDEX -Vt 1.18 JAKARTA OOMP _435.04 10.10 MANILA COMP .1,049,19 21.06 TAIPEI WPI UMH ***** SEOULOOMP ***** -21.72 SHENZHEN B 210.67 -4JM AIJST
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      73 4 FOREX RATES us$ s$ IS$ (S$ per US$) 1.784 £(I'S$/S$ per 1.591 2JW EUROOSS/SS/E). 1.101 1365 YEN 1205 67.60 RM 1800 11» HK$ 7.800 4571 BAHT 41% 24.04 RIT1AH 8,737 4.896 RENMINBI 8199 4.651 INDIAN RITEE 4755 26.54 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 515 Kl ALA U'MPl R 6.40 HONG KONG
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    • corporate roundup
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        Lock icon Shares of two Leong Hin bosses sold 'to meet obligations'
        110 4 THINGS certainly aren't going right for the guys at Leong Hin Holdings. Separate announcements yesterday by the listed firm shows financial institutions have sold shares belonging to executive chairman Chan Peng Kheng and managing director Chan Chwee Leong to "meet
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        Lock icon ST Engineering shares heat up
        51 4 Bloomberg SHARES of ST Engineering yesterday jumped 9 cents to $1.56, buoyed by hopes of rising demand for a $150,000 thermal sensor machine that the defence group helped develop. The machine can screen people for a fever, which is one of the symptoms of Sars.
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        Lock icon SGX rejects Medtecs bonus issue
        33 4 THE Singapore Exchange has rejected Medtecs International's proposed one-for-flve bonus issue of shares because "the daily weighted average price adjusted for the capitalisation will be less than 10.20".
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        Lock icon New customer for Chartered?
        138 4 LOSS-making chip maker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is believed to have landed Philips Semiconductor as a new volume customer, says a report by Kim Eng Ong Asia. But before Chartered shareholders uncork the champagne, here's what the local brokerage has to say about such talk. Kim Eng
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        Lock icon JP Morgan sees hard landing for SIA
        113 4 Reuters JP Morgan Chase has slashed its FYO4 earnings forecast for Singapore Airlines by 74 per cent on expectations that the Sars outbreak will have a prolonged impact on tourism and travel The net earnings forecast has been cut to $247 million from
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        Lock icon UOB Radanasin sees Sars impact
        57 4 Thailand's UOB Radanasin Bank, which is controlled by United Overseas Bank, reckons it may not be able to achieve profitability this year. It said yesterday its profits could be hit by the Iraq war and Sars. In January, it expected to return to net profit
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        Lock icon A show of confidents at DBS
        87 4 JUST as David Conner recently put his money where his mouth is at OCBC Bank, veter- an banker John Ross, who was recently appointed to DBS Group's board, has also made a "commitment" to his new affiliation. Mr Ross, who was a senior executive
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        Lock icon SPH now owns 100% of MediaWorks
        81 4 SINGAPORE Press Holdings has bought out the minority stake-holders in television unit SPH Media Works, turning it into a fullyowned subsidiary. The media giant said yesterday it has transferred a total of 12.4 million shares at par value of 10 cents apiece from several
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  • money property
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      Lock icon Chill in HDB resale market
      812 5  -  The number of applications to buy resale public housing plunged to record low of 5,866 in Ql, reports VINCE CHONG VINCE CHONG RESALE applications for public housing fell to a record low of 5,866 in the first quarter of this year as potential home-buy-ers grappled
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    Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
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    Lock icon Househunt Property transactions lodged in selected districts between April 16 and April 23, 2003
    603 5 District 3 NON-LANDED Landmark Twr Apt 24/02/2003 99 1399 465 332 Queens Apt 24/03/2003 99 1195 726 608 District 5 NON-LANDED Treasure Place Apt 03/04/2003 FH 2174 1067 491 District 10 NON-LANDED Balmoral Residences Apt 28/03/2003
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  • money personal finance
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      Lock icon Platinum club — entry only by invitation
      1176 6  - Platinum club entry only by invitation Platinum credit cards hold an immense product appeal for customers and a strong business case for banks, says TEH HOOI LING TEH HOOI LING Uy HERE is no W H more shine in F I 1 gold," declared I Francis Hsu, I UOB's senior
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      Lock icon 11% slump in lowest price-to-book portfolio
      916 6  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE routing of the market this week did not spare the five portfolios that we track, with the lowest price-to-book portfolio suffering the biggest loss. The portfolio plunged some 11 per cent compared with a week ago. It was pulled
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  • money personal investment
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      Lock icon Financial planning must start at an early age
      879 7 I STARTED working when X was 23. Even at that time, I felt I'd have to manage primarily on my own resources. That was when the seeds of financial planning started growing to me. Some basic principles remain true to this day.
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      Lock icon The age factor in investment decisions
      1108 7  -  show me the money An analysis of global demographic trends will offer pointers on where to put your money teh hooi ling HE dominant factor for W I business in the next I two decades is not I going to be economics I or
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      Lock icon New corporate debt issues dive 48% in 2002
      428 8  -  It reflects global decline in such issues, slow economy, says MAS Byy Wong Wei Kong AFTER a record year in 2001, new corporate debt issuance slumped 48 per cent in Singapore last year, reflecting the global decline in corporate issuance and a
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      Lock icon Hotels can get Sars-free certs soon
      282 8 THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said yesterday a Sars-free certification system for hotels will be unveiled early next week, but hotels will start daily temperature checks for their staff in the meantime. "We can tell all visitors that our hotels have already begun introducing
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      Lock icon SIF award winners honoured despite Sars
      374 8 THE Sars scare failed to take the wind out of the sails at the Singapore International Foundation's (SIF) annual awards ceremony yesterday even though the two SIF trophy recipients flew in from China. In a show of support that life goes on, the event
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      Lock icon Just 8% of firms mull job cuts as Sars precaution: poll
      500 8  -  EYE OH THIS ECONOMY By] David Boey IF there's a silver lining in the current crisis sparked by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or Sars, it could be the brighter outlook for 2004 voiced by businesses polled recently by
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  • news executive jobs
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      Lock icon If you put your mind to it
      559 9  -  DANIEL BUENAS finds out about a programme to help retrenched executives adapt to new economic realities DANIEL BUENAS ABRAHAM Lincoln once said: "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." In the doom and
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      Lock icon Tips to cope with retrenchment
      371 9  -  By Daniel Buenas MANY retrenched executives are often at a loss. The disruption of a daily work routine, as well as the anxiety of being laid off and the freedom of unemployment, often form a volatile mix of frustration, stress and apathy. There are, however,
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  • news region
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      Lock icon North Korean weapons admission hits Seoul stocks
      534 10 Stocks dip 3% and won falls as S Korean minister warns of grave economic impact Reuters (SEOUL] South Korean markets dived yesterday after US sources said North Korea admitted to having nuclear weapons, prompting a warning from a top Seoul official that the
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      Lock icon Taiwan stocks hit 6-month low on Sars fears
      316 10 Reuters, AP [TAIPEI] Taiwan stocks yesterday closed down 3 per cent at a more than sixmonth low, as bellwether technology stocks and China plays were hit by growing fears of the spreading Sars virus. The Taiwan Weighted Price Index extended a 6.1
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      Lock icon Ibra again delays Danamon bid date
      339 10 Analysts expect Temasek consortium to outbid others Reuters (JAKARTA) The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said yesterday the deadline to submit final bids for a 51 per cent stake in Bank Danamon would be delayed to May 5 from April 28. It is the
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      Lock icon Beijing quarantines 4,000 as infections mount
      574 10 SARSOUTBREAK AP, Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg [BEIJING] Officials in the Chinese capital yesterday told 4,000 people suspected of exposure to Sars to stay home, while quarantined medics in Taiwan raised protests and Hong Kong hospitals were accused of not properly protecting frontline medics from the
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        Lock icon China's largest ratal group launched
        87 10 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Shanghai has formally brought four of its largest retailers under a single umbrella, creating China's top retailer with annual revenues of more than 70 billion yuan (Ssls billion), a government official said yesterday. Analysts said the alliance would arm local retailers for a
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        Lock icon Biggest loss by a China-listed firm
        111 10 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Jinan Qingqi Motorcycle Co, one of several Chinese companies that ran afoul of regulators when state-owned parents used them as piggy banks, reported the biggest-ever loss by a company publicly traded in China. The nation's largest motorcycle manufacturer blamed the 3.4 billion
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        Lock icon HK airport body unveils relief package
        128 10 AFP [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong Airport Authority yesterday announced a HKJ363 million (SsB3 million) relief package to ease the impact of the Sars outbreak on battered airlines and airport businesses. Airlines will be able to defer 50 per cent of airport charges for
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        Lock icon SKS Power invites fresh bids for plant
        86 10 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's SKS Power Sdn Bhd has reopened bidding for the construction of a US$l.B4 billion power plant as initial submissions were not satisfactory, a source said yesterday. Japanese firms Sumitomo Corp and Mitsubishi Corp, and Germany's Siemens have been invited
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        Lock icon Hopewell unit eyeing HK$1b IPO
        71 10 Rauers [HONG KONG] The infrastructure unit erf Hong Kong conglomerate Hopewell Holdings Ltd is eyeing an IPO worth HK|l billion (*****.7 million), sources said yesterday. Citigroup has been appointed to handle the share sale. Hopewell said earlier this week it had applied to Hong Kong's
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      Lock icon RHB Capital sells research unit to GK Goh
      152 10 [KUALA LUMPUR] SINGAPORE brokerage GK Goh will have a research arm in Malaysia after all. KL-listed RHB Capital said its indirect whollyowned subsidiary Straits Asset Holdings Sdn Bhd yesterday signed an agreement to sell the entire Straits-GK Goh Research (SGKGR) to GK
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      1466 10 HOTEL PROPERTIES LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-Third Annual (ieneral Meeting of the Company will be held at the Four Seasons Ballroom A, Ixvel 2, Four Seasons Hotel Singapore, 190 Orchard Boulevard, Singapore *****6 on Wednesday, May
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  • news world
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      Lock icon US economy grows 1.6% in Q1
      481 11 Slight improvement allays fears off double-dip recession AP, Bloomberg, AFP, Reuters {WASHINGTON] The US economy, frozen at the start of the year by war anxieties, still managed to grow at an annual rate of 1.6 per cent in the first three months this year,
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        Lock icon Rush into low-risk assets
        74 11 Reuters [ZURICH] Banks in industrialised nations snapped up more low-risk assets in the last quarter of 2002 as worries about a war in Iraq grew, said the Bank for International Settlements. Banks and clients, especially in Japan, ploughed more cash into government bonds. Investors racing for
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        Lock icon Honda posts bumper profits
        63 11 Reuters [TOKYO] Honda Motor Co posted bumper profits but warned that its operating profit would fall due to unfavourable exchange rates. For 2002/03, Honda reported a 7.8 per cent rise in operating profit to a record 689.45 billion yen (Sslo billion), better than the company's estimate
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        Lock icon Plunge in Japan's consumer confidence
        73 11 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japanese consumer confidence fell to a fiveyear low in the first quarter amid rising unemployment and falling wages, a survey showed. The Cabinet Office's quarterly consumer confidence index fell two points to 36.1 in March. That's the biggest drop since Q4 of 2001.
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        Lock icon US to continue terror crackdown
        77 11 Reuters [PARIS] Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, a key architect of the US-led drive to topple Saddam Hussein, was quoted yesterday as saying Washington would pursue other states in its crackdown on global terrorism. "The military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq are part of efforts to
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      Lock icon Murdoch helped push for Iraq war: Turner
      336 11 He says News Corp promoted war as it was good for business Bloomberg, Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Rupert Murdoch helped start the US war against Iraq by using his News Corp media outlets, such as Fox TV, to advocate an invasion, Ted Turner, founder
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      Lock icon Ageing rockers climb UK rich list
      361 11 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's richest musicians got even richer in the past year with a host of wrinkly rockers like Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger defying global economic woes to rocket up an annual list of the country's wealthiest people. Former Beatle McCartney, 60, already
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      Lock icon Tariq Aziz was Iraq's most visible face in first Gulf War
      381 11 AP [CAIRO, Egypt] Tariq Aziz was once Iraq's face to the world elegant and eloquent, the whitehaired foreign minister who made Saddam Hussein's case before the United Nations before and during the 1991 Gulf War. The US military confirmed
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    Lock icon STOCKS ASIA
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  • style motoring
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      870 12  -  Lexus' new KX3OO won't climb mountains or waddle through swamps. But CHRISTOPHER TAN reckons it's still an ideal SUV for real people CHRISTOPHER TAN IT'S Bpm on a Friday, in anything but a typical month. The rain is coming down in sheets. Forget April showers. This wind-blown avalanche is
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        Lock icon Eyeing new reign on the road
        222 12 HONDA, which led the Japanese premium segment in the 1980s with the Accord, is banking on its newly released model to return it to pole position. Singapore distributor Kah Motor unveiled the car this week, and has started taking orders. Prices start from a
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        Lock icon Swansorng for Thunderbird
        118 12 FORD Motor is killing off the Thunderbird, barely two years after it announced that it would revive the cult car. The loss-making company said it would cease production of its muchhyped T-Bird in the "2005 or 2006 model year", according to AP. The Thunderbird got a huge
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        Lock icon Ride to Infiniti
        92 12 NISSAN has launched the new Infiniti FX45 a car-based SUV not unlike Lexus' RX series in the US. The car has a 4.5-li-tre V8 with 315 horsepower on tap. It has full-time all-wheel-drive and traction control. For those who like a softer ride, there's an alternative: the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Leaving competitors behind
        83 12  -  Compiled by CHRISTOPHER TAN VOLKSWAGEN'S muscular Touareg has been voted by America's Car and Driver magazine as the best in its class. The V8 version of the car topped this year's "5 Best Trucks" poll conducted by the US' top-selling car magazine. In all, the survey examined
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  • style food
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      Lock icon cooking for immunity
      1434 13  -  With proper nutrition now a pressing concern, Chinese restaurants are winning diners over with tonic soups and herbal concoctions that don't just strengthen the body, they taste good too. CHEAH UI-HOON reports CHEAH UI-HOON FROM green tea to Chinese herbs and even crocodile meat, restaurant chefs have
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • style sports
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        42 16 Light and packed with plenty of useful pockets inside including the must-have handphone slot Liz Claiborne's new bag from its spring collection is bright, roomy, functional and fun. $89 at Liz Claiborne, including at Scotts Shopping Centre and Plaza Singapura.
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