The Straits Times, 21 September 2001

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1 34 The Straits Times
  • 34 1 The Straits Times Established 1845 Friday September 21, 2001 A Singapore Press Holdings publication 60 Cents 118 Pages in six parts MITA (P) 024/12/2000 The Straits Times interactive: http://straitstimes.asial.com.sg is available from 6 am.
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  • 659 1  -  US ships and fighter jets get into position, army units ordered there and broader military plan to unfold Bu LOUISE BRANSON STRAITS TIMES UNITED STATES BUREAU Bu WASHINGTON As the United States began deploying ships, warplanes and ground troops to the region of the Persian Gulf
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  • 381 1  -  LYDIA LIM A MEMORIAL service will be held at the National Stadium on Sunday to remember the thousands who died in the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on Sept 11. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Deputy Prime Minister Lee
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  • NEWS FLASH
    • 91 2 HOME SHE stood over her sleeping husband and poured hot water over him. Housewife I>ow Siew Ai, 27, who also attacked her sub-contractor husband with a metal rod on March 28, was jailed for three weeks. But she was a battered wife, the court heard. Low’ was
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    • 81 2 THE woman who owns 59 cats kept her beloved animals with her until the last minute. But in the end, accounts clerk Ellen Teo followed a Housing Board order to move her 59 cats out of her four-room Woodlands flat by Wednesday. By 3 am on
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    • 49 2 MANY students worn’ that a fourth university in Singapore will create a glut in the job market and devalue their degrees. But working adults see it as a “second-chance university” for late bloomers. These two contrasting views emerged from separate feedback sessions. HOME: Hl2
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    • 84 2 COMMENTARY INDIA is wondering how to play its cards, in the face of a US attack on Afghanistan which would affect regional stability. It has itself been a target of terrorism from underw’orld chief Dawood Ibrahim, now based in Karachi. And it now fears that Washington
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    • 108 2 LIFE! THEY rev up in isolated places in the early hours of the morning. They are illegal racers who turn up every other week, in remote areas like Tanah Merah or Tuas. Big betting may be involved. To evade the police, a race venue may be decided
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    • 100 2 HOME HIS engineering-solutions firm is listed on the stock exchange. And it made it to Forbes’ list of3oo best small companies in the world. But Mr Henn Tan, CEO of Trek 2000 International, is more eloquent about having bought all his firm’s equipment and furnishings
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    • 102 2 HOME VICTORIA Junior College has earned top honours in the annual JC ranking, in both academic and value-added performance. Temasek is second among the value-added JCs, making it the fifth year in a row that it has done well on this. But first place goes
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    • 75 2 PEOPLE are likely to be offered a wider range of medical-insurance plans. And these could pay them more than the basic Elder Shield package of $3OO a month. Tenders are going to be called, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary Chan Soo Sen, so that insurance companies can “put
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    • 70 2 MONEY JOB losses here could exceed 20,000 this year, now that the Great American Layoff has started. About 1,520 US companies have operations here. And the top five American employers of Singapore staff Seagate Technology-, Hewlett-Packard, Maxtor Peripherals, Citibank and Agilent Technologies account for about
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    • 56 2 ASIA PLANS for a bustling and glamorous central business district have been unveiled by Beijing. The city wants to be a great metropolis and to take on the dual roles of administrative and economic capitals. It will become a combined Washington-New York or Tokyo-Osaka, said an investment-promotion
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    • 95 2 THAILAND’S crowded prisons could soon see improved conditions and fewer jailbreaks with the new move to let private companies manage them. It will also mean better medical care and rehabilitation programmes for prisoners but the main aim is to reduce cost, said a prison official.
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    • 80 2 PIG farmers in Malaysia are oveijoyed their pleas have been heard and help is on the way. The government announced that RMIB million (SSB.2 million) in public donations long disputed would now- be disbursed to those affected by ‘.he deadly Nipah virus that killed 108 people
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    • 60 2 SPORTS A PALL hangs over Singapore’s national bowlers, in the midst of questions as to what went wrong in the South-east Asia Games. M any of them are still reeling from their nightmare of not bringing home a single gold. And this was after national coach
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  • PRIME NEWS
    • 152 3 AFP WASHINGTON US President George W. Bush still plans to travel to Asia next month despite security concerns after last week’s terrorist strikes on New York and Washington, the White House has said. “Our everyday assumption is that the meetings will take place,”
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    • 539 3  -  In return for Megawati's pledge, Bush extends economic goodies, including waiver of duties on goods and funds LEE SIEW HUA US CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON President Megawati Sukarnoputri has assured US President George W. Bush that her populous Muslim nation will join the world community to
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    • 395 3 NYTNews Service WASHINGTON The White House, working quickly to try to bolster the nation’s ailing airlines, is proposing to give airline companies US$5 billion (SsB.7 billion) in cash immediately and to help protect them from liability in last week’s attacks, White House advisers
      NYTNews Service; AFP  -  395 words
    • 421 4 Fed chief says US prospects are not diminished by terrorist strikes, although they have been weakened in the short run Bloomberg News, AP WASHINGTON Terrorist attacks on New York and Washington have not damaged long-term prospects for tht US economy, although it will
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    • 91 4 IN THE world’s first transoceanic operation which experts say would change medical practice, a 68-year-old woman in a hospital in Strasbourg, France (above), had her gall bladder removed by a team of French surgeons in the United States on Wednesday. Dr Jacques Marescaux (left),
      REUTERS; AP  -  91 words
    • 105 4 The Nation/Asia News Network BANGKOK The Thai government plans to equip riot police with genital protectors after an officer was hospitalised with serious injuries to his testicles. “In addition to shields, batons and armoured vests, we may also need to issue krajab to
      The Nation/Asia News Network  -  105 words
    • 364 4  -  kil K.C. VIJ AYAN A 77-YEAR-OLD man, said to be depressed after he thought he had lung cancer, is suspected to have slashed his wife’s neck and then jumped from his llth-storey flat. The body of Mr Mok Chuck Khian, a retired foodstall
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  • AMERICA ON THE OFFENSIVE
    • 24 6 ANTI-US protesters in Pakistan and London see Osama as a herrow (hero), while New York remains steadfast. AP AFP AFP
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    • STRONG SUPPORT
      • 463 6 AFP WASHINGTON The United States won solid if not specific support from two crucial Muslim countries Indonesia and Saudi Arabia and rival Russia as it ramped up its anti-terrorism campaign to build a global coalition to retaliate for last week’s attacks.
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      • 388 6  -  By DERWIN PEREIRA STRAITS TJMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA The Indonesian military is looking at ways to help the United States combat international terrorism following the deadly attacks there last week. On the cards is intelligence sharing, including moves to monitor groups linked to
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    • 185 7 LONDON A leading authority on Pakistan’s nuclear programme has warned of a “nightmare scenario” in which a destabilised Pakistan loses control of its nuclear weapons to supporters of the Taleban. Any military action against Muslim terrorists within Afghanistan would have to take account of that, a nuclear-weapons
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    • WEAK SUPPORT
      • 455 7 AP, AFP ISIAMABAD More than two-thirds of people in Pakistan think their government should side with neighbouring Afghanistan rather than the United States if Washington attacks the Afghans. This result from a Gallup poll taken on Wednesday is yet another
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      • 330 7 New York Times ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf tried to rally Pakistanis behind his decision to cooperate fully with the United States in its confrontation with Afghanistan, amid fears that his choice risks upheaval and even civil war in Pakistan. In a half-hour
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    • 412 8 The likely moves Target It is not limited to just Afghanistan or Osama bin Laden. Strategy A sustained campaign, with a long series of actions: A chain of air strikes and relatively small-scale raids by special forces. Deployments At sea Three aircraft carrier battle groups: A 14-ship
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    • 476 8 Codenamed Operation Infinite Justice, the response to terrorist attacks may also move beyond Afghanistan, say military officials WASHINGTON America’s military response to last week’s terrorist attacks codenamed Operation Infinite Justice is likely to be a series of air strikes and relatively small-scale raids
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    • 180 8 The ‘secret’ war LONDON The United States and Britain are producing secret plans to launch a 10-year “war on terrorism" Operation Noble Eagle involving a completely new military and diplomatic strategy to eliminate terrorist networks and cells around the world. Despite the mass build-up of American forces
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    • Preparing for the front line
      • 280 9 Platoon," which includes female operators. Saw action in Desert Storm and Just Cause in Somalia has 29,000 of America’s 1.4 million army, navy and air force troops at its disposal. Tasked with attacking Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda terrorist network in the mountains of Afghanistan, it
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        40 9 Aircraft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt USS Enterprise USS Carl Vinson E-2C Hawfceye: Early warning F-14 Tomcat: Aerial combat Speed 1,985kmh F-18 Hornet: Fighter-bomber Speed 1,904kmh Gruman EA-6B: Armed with Harm (High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles) to destroy radar Speed 920kmh
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        87 9 Missiles and aircraft could be launched from bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Diago Garcia and aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea. Meaningful targets however will be limited with any known Bin Laden bases probably long abandoned Boeing B-52 Carries up to 20 cruise missiles. 12 externally and eight
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        81 9 Finding Osama would almost certainly rely on information from within Afghanistan, possibly from the Afghan factions opposing the Taleban. Sophisticated spy planes and satellites are of limited use in tracking individuals and small groups, but could be used fo targeting any air strike against air fields or troop concentrations
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      • 59 9 Landing even a relatively small force would require the cooperation of at least one neighbouring state as a helicopter-borne raid would need to be launched from within 350 km of its target. In addition to US and other Western special forces, the inclusion of forces from islamic
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      • 81 9 Secretive, highly trained troops with expertise in mountain warfare, air/sea mobility, special weapons and vehicles. Both forces have been used for anti-terrorist and hostage-rescue missions. The SAS is known to have experience in Afghanistan where they trained Afghan fighters during the 1980 s UH-60 Blackhawk
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    • 362 10 In the face of tragedy hope is born as babies Gabriel and Allison show their newly widowed mothers that life goes on AP NEW YORK Gabriel Benjamin Jacobs arrived in this world six days after his father was taken from it.
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    • 482 11  -  MIDDLE EAST AND PAKISTAN With war looming, are overseas Singaporeans who may be caught in the crossfire running home? EUNICE LAU and SHARON VASOO talk to Singaporeans in the Middle East and in the US. EUMCE LAU and SHARON VASOO TAKING no chances, Mr Suhadar Mohammad Yusoff,
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    • 392 11 US EVER since the attack on the US. Mr Kelvin Wong, 30, a Singaporean working in New York, has been sleeping with his passport beside him {'ust in case war >reaks out and he needs to run for his life. Miss Roxanne Ong, 25, who works in
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    • 94 11 IN ASIA HUNDREDS of people participated in a mock hijacking of a plane in China’s southern city of Shenzhen on Wednesday. Chinese police, fire and medical personnel also took part in the exercise, the largest ever on mainland China. It demonstrated China’s zero tolerance approach to air
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    • 458 11  -  ARLINA ARSHAD and GOH CHIN LIAN TOUGH luck for customers who have paid for holiday packages to the US but now wish to back out. They may not get a full refund. Since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center
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    • 413 14 Television has had to wipe humour off the programming slate, leaving chat-show hosts and satirists at a loss for words NEW YORK The public is in no mood for laughter and the comedians are in no mood to be tunny, leaving US television executives scrambling to concoct
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    • 126 14 MELBOURNE Australian television networks have joined a US network in limiting sensational footage of aircraft slamming into the World Trade Center and the collapse of both tow'ers. The footage, captured on videotape by news crew's and amateurs, has been shown repeatedly on the major networks in
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    • 627 16 Israelis accuse Arafat of allowing the ceasefire to unravel as two people die in new clashes and retaliatory shootings JERUSALEM The two-day-old Middle East truce was in danger of falling apart yesterday with one Palestinian and an Israeli killed and at least seven
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    • 91 16 Reuters HONGKONG A popular Hongkong weekly magazine is offering HKSI million (*****,000) for exclusive information on Osama bin Laden. East Week took out a full-page advertisement in a local newspaper yesterday urging anyone with news about the Saudi-born dissident to come forward. "Whether you are
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    • 71 16 Reuters BEIJING China has showcased its no-nonsense approach to counter-terrorism in a mock hijacking of an airliner in the southern city of Shenzhen. Hundreds of police, fire and medical personnel took part in the exercise at Shenzhen’s Huangtian airport in which two people “hijacked” a domestic
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    • 60 16 AFP PARIS An Algerian-born suspect arrested in the United Arab Emirates in July has confirmed that terrorists had planned to strike at US interests in France before last week’s attacks, the newspaper Le Monde reported. The newspaper said the suspect, Djamel Begal, had told investigators
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    • 72 16 WASHINGTON Replacing today’s flimsy airline cockpit doors with sturdier models capable of thwarting hijackers has emerged as a top priority of an emergency advisory panel to US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, officials say. The Houston Chronicle reported that the Federal Aviation Administration has begun soliciting plans
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    • 93 16 AP MANILA Officials said yesterday that three Saudi Arabians and one Iraqi who visited the Philippines before the US terrorist attacks were not among the 18 men believed to have been involved in the hijackings. Immigration chief Andrea Domingo had said four names in the Immigration Bureau’s airport
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  • COMMENTARY • ANALYSIS
    • 616 20 The Straits Times FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2001 IT COULD have been worse. Indeed, some had feared a meltdown, but Wall Street has been reasonably calm this week after reopening on Monday following a four-day hiatus as a result of the attack on New York’s World Trade
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    • 684 20 IT SHOULD now be clear to Europeans and Japanese that the American corporate model is the most productive and competitive. A study of US companies and how they have come back after losing ground to the Japanese and Germans shows that the
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    • 1048 20  -  Bij MARVIN OTT IN W ASHINGTON [The writer is Professor, National Security Policy, at the National War College in Washington. The views expressed are his own and not necessarily those of the college or the Department of Defence. He contributed this article to The
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    • 765 21  -  Btl GRAH AM E. FULLER [The writer a former vice-chairman of the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Intelligence Council and political officer at the US Embassy in Kabul from 1975 to 19 1 8 is author of the Rand Corporation study, Islamic Fundamentalism In Afghanistan.
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    • 544 21  -  By NIRMAL GHOSH INDIA CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Indian officials and strategists are apprehensive about the impact on regional stability of a potential US attack on Afghanistan, and New Delhi is wondering exactly how to play its cards. India has long been a tarfet of terrorism: Coordinated
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    • 935 23  -  *L MALL FERGUSON [The writer, professor of political and financial history at Oxford, is author of The Cash Nexus: Money And Power In The Modem World. He contributed this article to the New York Times.] OXFORD (England) Viewed from England, what happened
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    • 556 23  -  By] MASHA LIPMAN [The writer, a Russian journalist, contributed this article to The Washington Post.] MOSCOW Within hours after the terrorist attack on the United States, President Vladimir Putin addressed his nation on television. He said this tragedy goes beyond
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • FORUM
    • 777 24  -  AS A RESPONSIBLE PUBLICTRANSPORT OPERATOR, WE CERTAINLY DO NOT RELY SOLELY ON COMPLAINTS TO KEEP TRACK OF OUR BUS CAPTAINS' PERFORMANCE. WE PROACTIVELY SOLICIT FEEDBACK THROUGH VARIOUS CHANNELS. VINCENT LIM Manager Corporate Communications Singapore Bus Services I REFER to the letter,
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    • 447 24  -  CHIA HERN KENG WHENEVER the topic of fostering creativity and innovation in Singapore is mentioned, I notice that there is a tendency to look towards bigger countries for examples. It is as though we are lacking in this area. To be fair, I
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    • 105 24  -  LIM SWEE AH I REFER to the letter,“Scientists must reflect on their inventions” (ST, Sept 20), by Dr Gabriel Oon, and to the interview with Professor Ariff Bongso, (“I don't feel I’m playing God”; ST, Sept 18). If Dr Oon’s main objection is to Prof Bongso’s
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    • 176 24  -  KOHLIATCHOON I REFER to the letter, “What a waste when GPs turn private tutors” (ST, Sept 19). I am appalled by the callous attitude of Mr Chan Kwee Sung. I would have thought that reading about the general practitioner forced to giv e up his practice
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    • 531 5  -  Workshops have been losing business since insurance companies started to dictate which ones policy-holders use By KOH BOON PIN CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT MEMBERS of the Singapore Motor Workshop Association are worried that they are losing business to workshops authorised by insurance companies. This is because motorists
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    • 270 5  -  By' WONG EE I WAN STORES selling used books have this scheme: If you buy a book and return it before a certain date, you get a partial refund. Then the store gets to sell the book again. Huang Bing, 34, knew
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    • 803 6  -  It tops in academic performance and as a school which adds value the best gift for its long-time principal who is retiring SANDRA DAVIE EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT VICTORIA Junior College students and staff had two reasons to celebrate yesterday when the annual juniorcollege
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    • 210 6 TWO damaged submarine cables caused problems in accessing overseas websites for Internet users here yesterday. Some users experienced slow surfing speeds, while others could not even access some websites. Mr John Lee, 34, an information-technology consultant and Sing Tel customer, told The Straits Times that
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    • 82 8 ALBERT SIM A fire in a vacant restaurant left Outram Park in Chinatow n clouded with smoke on Wednesdav. The former premises of popular Cantonese restaurant, Yan Palace, was ablaze at about 2.30 pm. A team of 25 firefighters entered it and tamed the flames in 20 minutes.
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    • 370 11  -  Survey shows seven out of 10 such operations reported higher gains, 77 per cent had increased annual sales kOH BOON PIN C O SUMfcK CQKKKSPOXUKXT NINE out of 10 businesses which have franchised their operations became more profitable, according to a study released this week.
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    • 419 12  -  Two feedback sessions on a fourth university here sees working adults and students in two separate camps Bit EUNICE LAI WORKING adults see it as giving them a better chance of pursuing a degree, but many students worry that a fourth university will
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    • 1629 14  -  Mr Henn Tan, CEO of an engineering-solutions firm, does not covet the title of Singapore’s best employer. He tells our senior correspondent about his dictatorial style, his hippie past and the caning that changed his life. MOVERS AND SHAKERS THE SUSAN LONG INTERVIEW
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      • 361 15 Two firms one dealing in sports scheduling, the other in component designs get $15,000 each as joint winners of Start-Up Asia award BUSINESS plans for ventures as diverse as sports tournament scheduling and integrated-circuit designs shared the spoils at Wednesday’s Start-Up Asia awards. The
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      • 560 16  -  Breakthrough eliminates risk of animal diseases crossing over to humans when animal tissue is used as growth medium By CHANG AI-LIEN and NATALIE SOH SINGAPORE scientists have found a way of growing human embryonic stem cells that eliminates the risk of
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      • 418 16  -  *L CHAN KAY MIN CHINA S top geneticist yesterday condemned human cloning as immoral, after receiving word that a research group in Guangdong may have embarked on this controversial work. Professor Yang Huanming, director of the prestigious Beijing Genomics Institute, told the international audience
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    • 731 1  -  Officials caught napping, mayor says sorry, commuters enraged by the scale of flood chaos in the wake of Typhoon Nari TYPHOON FLOODS LAWRENCE CHUNG STRAITS TIMES TAIWAN BUREAU TAIPEI More than a million Taipei subway commuters could find moving around a nightmare in the next few months
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      • 482 2  -  With 3.3 million Japanese out of work, the new proposals are designed to help young and old workers to secure jobs KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORKKSPONDENT TOKYO With Japan’s unemployment rate at 5 per cent ana expected to climb, the government
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      • 113 2 AFP TOKYO Four hospital staff have been handed small fines while a nurse was given a suspended jail term for criminal negligence after surgery was performed on the wrong patients, the Yokohama District Court said yesterday. Surgeon Yoshinori Takanashi, 58, who mistakenly installed a heart
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      • 551 3  -  With the business district, the city aims to take on dual roles of being a commercial metropolis on top of being a cultural centre DAVID HSIEH STRAITS TIMES CHINA BUREAU BEIJING Beijing has unveiled plans to create a bustling, glittering central business district (CBD)
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        • 58 3 AFP A WAREHOUSE worker arrested in connection with Hongkong's biggest moneylaundering racket has admitted he had sent up to HKS4 million (*****,500) in the f>ast year to family friend and ugitive Lai Changxing in Canada. Ng Yuen Kwan, 23, was among 39 people
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        • 60 3 AFP CHINESE airplane makers said yesterday they planned to make the country’s first fully home-produced 70-seat passenger jet in an effort to grab a stake of the growing global market for short-haul planes. “China cannot indefinitelv be buying this kind of aircraft from foreign
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        • 66 3 AT LEAST seven serving and former employees of Hongkong’s Lands Department were among 29 people arrested over an alleged HK$l million (*****,000) bribery racket involving small housing development projects in the territoiy, according to the South China Morning Post. The employees had accepted
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        • 43 3 AFP HONGKONG has imposed a ban on the import of Japanese beef after last week’s discovery of mad-cow disease in Japan. The ban came after the authorities imposed precautionary restrictions on the importation of Japanese beef on Sept 11.
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        • 78 3 AP HONGKONG could play an important middleman role to help China cope with the commercial legal fights it will face after Beijing enters the World Trade Organisation, the territory’s Justice Secretary said yesterday. The mainland judicial system was not up to coping with
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      • 191 3 AFP SEOUL President Kim Dae Jung is ready to become the first South Korean leader to veto parliamentary decisions to stop a new opposition onslaught on his North Korea policy, party officials confirmed yesterday. The President gave his warning after the opposition demanded that
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      • 519 4  -  Business groups which look at their trips to China as a chance to open doors do not want to act in haste ihj JASON LEOW STRAITS TIMES CHINABUREAU NANJING (Jiangsu) Singapore business groups which have made trips this month to China are
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      • 291 4  - S 'pore urged to draw up Chinese medicine plan MARY KWANG CHINA CORRESPONDENT SHANGHAI Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) gractitioners in Singapore offer services of comparale standards to those in China but lag behind in terms of research, says a Shanghai professor. Professor Wang Lingtai, president of the Shu Guang Hospital
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      • 569 5  -  His absence from the event in Bangkok hints at intrigue in choosing a new king for Cambodia JAMES EAST STRAITS TIMES THAILAND BUREAU BANGKOK Cambodian royals are unpredictable but the failure of Prince Norodom Ranariddh to turn up for the launch
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      • 148 5 The Nation/Asia News Network BANGKOK Standing firm on his moral crusade, Thai Interior Minister Purachai Piemsomboo has fired an assistant district chief for drinking at a restaurant after 2 am, an adviser to the minister said. Mr Purachai had signed an order
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      • 232 6 Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network MANILr. Beleaguered Senator Panfilo Lacson returned i'rom the United States with a bagful of documents which he said would prove that he was not involved in money laundering. “All I can tell you is that I
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      • 586 6  -  Bangkok aims to cut costs and reduce the number of jailbreaks caused by poor conditions such as overcrowding By- EDWARD TANG THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK Convicts in crowded Thai jails can expect better living conditions with the latest move by the authorities
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        • 65 6 AFP AN AMERICAN couple and 16 other hostages held by Abu Sayyaf bandits are still alive in the jungles of Basilan island in the southern Philippines, the military said yesterday. But the hostages’ health could deteriorate in Basilan’s rugged terrain, where malaria is endemic
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        • 59 6 AFP A VISITING Japanese business executive was killed yesterday and a compatriot critically wounded in an attack by unidentified gunmen in the central Philippine city of Cebu, police said. Mr Masayuki Kuwabara, 72, and Cebu-based Yushiyaki Mewa, 49, were shot at by two motorcycle-riding
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        • 34 6 AP VIETNAMESE police have arrested an American of Vietnamese background who is wanted by the FBI on robbery and fraud charges, the Thanh Nien newspaper said yesterday.
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        • 36 6 The Nation/Asxa News Network THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has ordered the suspension of a planned increase in the price of diesel but allowed regular petrol prices to rise as announced.
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        • 27 6 AP AT LEAST two people were killed and several injured in fresh religious violence in Central Sulawesi province, police said yesterday.
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      • 414 7  -  The call comes in the wake of a bloody clash between soldiers and police officers in which three teenage civilians were shot dead DEVI ASMARAM STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA The Indonesian army has called on the government to disarm the National Police
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      • 288 7 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian National Defence Institute, a state think-tank, has thrown its supfiort behind direct elections for egislators, the President and Vice-president, saying this will end the over-dominance of political factions. Under the present system, people vote for a party which decides
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      • 591 8  -  The government's latest package is designed to minimise the economic fallout from the US terrorist disaster REME AHMAD IN KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA, already hit by an economic slowdown, has acted to counter any adverse effects of the terrorist attacks in the United States
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      • 219 8 KUALA LUMPUR At least 24 multinational companies in Penang and Kedah are said to be either planning to downsize, retrench or close down operations because of the slowdown in the world economy, according to a report. The Penang state labour department pointed to a
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      • 229 8 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is in no hurry to buy new' multi-role combat aircraft to beef up its air defence system despite the need to strengthen its defence capability in the w r ake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, Defence
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      • 584 9  -  Although the money may not amount to much for individual farmers, they are happy their pleas have been heard by the government LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR PIG farmer Lay Yong Tee could hardly believe the news yesterday that his plea had been
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      • 270 9 New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR It was a beginning of sorts for pupils of the Damansara Chinese Primary’ School when about 1,400 of them moved into their new’ school at Tropicana on outskirts of the city on Wednesday. The first day brought many hitches
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      • 95 9 New Straits Times PENANG A bouncer has been shot with a revolver, believed to belong to a policeman, during a brawl outside a discotheque. Mr M. Manogaran, 27, was shot in the chest while quarrelling with a patron about 7 am on Wednesday. While
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      • 285 9 It will deal with compoundable traffic offences in 17 major cities in the country KUALA LUMPUR A tribunal will be set up to help clear the backlog of more than 250,000 traffic cases which have accumulated over the past one year. Announcing
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      • 332 10 Mohamed Amin disrupts proceedings for the fourth time by flinging a slipper in court, leading the judge to order the ban Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The leader of the Muslim cult AlMa’unah, now on trial for allegedly waging war against the
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      • 140 10 New Straits Times KUALA TERENGGANU Firefighters are planning to flood a peat forest with public water supply after attempts to douse a peat fire, started more than a week ago, failed. The authorities will decide on Saturday if they will have to totally
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        • 60 10 Bernama THE government has seized RM111.5 million (Sssl million) worth of pirated VCDs and CDs in 10,943 cases since April last year, Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said. He also said the decision to ban the sale of VCDs
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        • 55 10 New Straits Times A UROLOGIST was charged in a Kuala Lumpur court for hurting his former wife, also a doctor, at a shopping centre in the capital. Dr V. Manivannan, 40, is accused of slapping Dr R. Malini on the face, causing hurt to her
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        • 46 10 Bernama MORE enforcement agencies will join future naval exer- cises between Malaysia and Thailand under a series of exercises code-named Seaex Thamal in the light of increasing unlawful trans-bor-der activities' Region 1 Naval Area Deputy Commander Capt Faizal Abdullah said.
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        • 48 10 New Straits Times GIRLS do better than boys in school because of superior learning strategies and the higher number of women teachers, a study has shown. The study followed public concern over the poor performance of boy students compared to girl students.
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        • 37 10 Bernama THE General Operations Force arrested 19 illegal immigrants from Myanmar, Thailand and Bangladesh in Padang Besar, Perlis, according to ASP S. Sudanathanan, the Bukit Kayu Hitam GOC field commanding officer.
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    • 441 10 MALAYSIA WEATHER TODAY: Showers with thunder in the afternoon over many areas of Singapore. OUTLOOK: Afternoon showers can be expected for the next two days. 32 E 3 25 JURONG o WOODLANDS o CENTRAL O AIR QUALITY CHANG! BUSINESS DISTRICT PSI: 49 (Good) 24-hour reading up to 4 pm yesterday
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    • 937 1  -  Reds striker left on the bench as his team settles for a point at Dortmund SOCCER *L NEIL HUMPHREYS AFTER watching their side’s dull 0-0 draw with Borussia Dortmund, the most worrying aspect for Liverpool fans must have been the sight of a frustrated Robbie
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    • 375 1 Bloomberg, Reuters, AFP ROME Italian soccer club Lazio has named Alberto Zaccheroni as its new head coach following the team’s 1-3 home defeat by Nantes in the Champions League. The man he replaced, Dino Zoff, rejected an offer to become club president.
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    • 55 1 Reuters LONDON Real Madrid, easy 4-0 winner over Lokomotiv Moscow 7 on Wednesday, is now 11-4 favourite to win the Champions League title with bookmakers William Hill. Latest odds: Real Madrid 11-4; Manchester United 6-I;Juventusl3-2; Bayern Munich 8-1; Barcelona 9-1; AS Roma 14-1; Arsenal, Liverpool 16-1; Borussia Dortmund
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    • 320 1 LONDON England striker Michael Owen is very close to signing a new contract with Liverpool which will make him one of the wealthiest players in the world, the player has confirmed. The club has been in talks with him for several months and
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    • 419 1 Reuters, AFP LONDON Schalke 04 manager Huub Stevens was left cursing his strikers’ failure to take early chances against Arsenal after the German side lost 2-3 in the Champions League Group C match. The Gunners stormed into a 2-0 lead with first-half goals from Freddy Ljungberg
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    • 630 2  -  STBC boss Ong interviews them on what went wrong at SEA Games BOWLING §IL CHAN TSE CHUEEN A PALL of gloom hangs over Singapore’s national bowlers, even as a full-scale review of last week’s South-east Asia Games searches for answers to what went
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    • 457 2 SOCCER AFP, Reuters LONDON Rod Wallace celebrated his return to the game after a three-month exile by helping to steer Bolton Wanderers back to the top of the English Premiership after a hard-fought 1-1 draw' away to Blackburn Rovers. The 31-year-old striker left Glasgow Rangers
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    • 476 2 MANAMA (Bahrain) Saudi Arabian football’s “Mr Fixit” Nasser A 1 Johar has got the Gulf giant back on course tor its third consecutive World Cup appearance as Asia’s qualifying race enters the home straight today. A 1 Johar called up as coach
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    • SPORT IN SHORT
      • 79 2 ITALY’S AC Milan kicked off its Uefa Cup campaign with a firstround, fist-leg victory over host BATE Borisov in Moscow yesterday. Andrei Shevchenko opened the scoring in the 64th minute and Javi Moreno, in the 88th minute, gave the Italian side a two-goal cushion
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      • 79 2 FIFA has allowed England to stage its final Group 9 soccer match against Greece on Oct 6 at 3pm local time. Fifa rules say that the final round of games should kick off simultaneously when teams are rivals for World Cup places. Germany, level
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      • 74 2 RACING driver Alex Zanardi has come out of his coma and is in a stable condition following his high-speed crash at a CART race in Germany last weekend. Dr Steve Olvey, CART director of Medical Affairs, said Zanardi was awake and talking, but
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      • 52 2 TRINIDAD and Tobago sprinter Ato Boldon, w'ho tested positive for a banned stimulant at a California meet, said he was undone by a cold remedy. The 27-year-old tested positive for ephedrine at the Mt SAC Relays in April at Walnut, California, but was
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    • 884 3 Olympics will see more female participation but less of some sports OLYMPIC GAMES AP, AFP Lausanne The International Olympic Committee has announced plans to put the ever-growing and gigantic Olympic Games on a maintenance diet and measures to encourage more female participation. Significant steps include
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    • 704 3 TENNIS AP, AFP SYDNEY Jonas Bjorkman has been pitched into both singles and doubles against Australia, opening today against US Open champion Lleyton Hewitt as Sweden bids for a Davis Cup upset. Sweden captain Carl-Axel Hageskog preferred Bjorkman to higher-ranked Thomas Enqvist in
      – AP, AFP; AFP  -  704 words
    • 446 3 GOLF AP, Los Angeles Times LIGONIER (Pennsylvania) In an unprecedented shift in golf, whicn prides itself on its unflinching devotion to history and tradition, the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup are trading places on the calendar beginning next year. The Ryder Cup, scheduled for Sept 28
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    • 290 3 MARDAN Mamat, enjoying his finest season in Asia, and big-hitting Lam Chih Bing will represent Singapore in the Davidoff Nations Cup at Malaysia’s Royal Selangor Golf Club from Sept 27 to 30. The top six countries mil qualify for the World Clip to be staged
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    • SCORES AND STATISTICS
      • 78 4 American League: Tampa Bay 12 Boston 2, Cleveland 11 Kansas City 3, Toronto 4 Baltimore 1, NY Yankees 6 Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit 6 Minnesota 2, Texas 10 Oakland 4. Seattle 5 Anaheim 0. National League: NY Mets 9 Pittsburgh 2, St Louis 8 Milwaukee 2, Chicago Cubs
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      • 88 4 FAS Women's League, Div 1: UWC A 4 Balestier Central 0. Div 2: SAS B 3 ITE East 1. Uefa Cup Ist-rd, Ist leg Chernomorets Novorossiisk (Rus) 0 Valencia (Esp) 1, Westerlo (Bel) 0 Hertha Berlin (Ger) 2. Dutch Cup, 2nd rd: ACV 1 IVS 0, Klcetinge 1 Groningen
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      • 202 4 Toyota Princess Cup in Tokyo, 2nd rd: Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Esp) bt Silvija Talaja (Cro) 6-4 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (9-7), Jelene Dokic (Yug) bt Lina Krasnorotskaya (Rus) 6-4 6-4. Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) bt Nicole Pratt (Aus) 6-3 3-6 6-2, Gala Leon Garcia (Esp) bt Miho Saeki (Jpn) 6- 3-6 6-2,
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    • TODAY'S EVENTS
      • 39 4 NTUC income S-League: Marine Castle United v Tampines Rovers (Hougang), Balestier Central v Jurong (Toa Payoh -7.30 pm. SGSFL finals Div 2: Singapore Power v Changi Airport RC A (5.15 pm). Div 1: Police SAvSCDFSRA (7pm) Bishan Stadium.
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    • 409 4  -  After beating world champ, he leads but chokes in his next match BADMINTON IJIL CHAN TSE CHUEEN SINGAPORE’S Ronald Susilo scalped world champion H. Hendrawan of Indonesia in the opening round of the Youngor Super China Grand Prix in Ningbo yesterday morning. But by evening, he
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    • 513 4  -  FUTSAL ĔIL MARC LIM ORGANISERS of the Tiger 5s futsal competition want to turn it into a sporting event that Singaporeans can call their own. They hope to do this by turning the biennial event to an annual one. Tiger Beer and ESPN Star Sports
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    • 393 4  -  S-LEAGUE SOCCER *IL NEIL HUMPHREYS HOME United must count itself lucky when it went to the top of the table last night to keep itself firmly in the NTUC Income S-League title race. It took an own goal to help the Protectors edge
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    • 594 4  -  Marc Lim TAMPINES ROVERS technical director Jita Singh has a new challenge for his team: Hang on to the sixth spot in the NTUC Income S-League. With the club out of the running for the League title and the Singapore Cup, Jita wants his Stags
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    • 281 4  -  Marc Lim SINGAPORE Armed Forces FC kept alive its slim chances of retaining the NTUC Income S-League title when it defeated Gombak United 3-1 at the Bukit Gombak Stadium last night. The Warriors’ goals came from Fadzuhasny Juraimi (47th), Mirko Grabovac (78th) and Vimon
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    • 67 1 Bowlers Meet STBC President STBC president T.T. Ong interviews bowlers on what happened at tlie SEA Games. Trimming The Games The lOC announces proposals to restrict the size of the 2004 Olympic Games. Showdown In Sydney Sweden sees Jonas Bjorkman as the answer to Lleyton Hewitt in the Davis Cup
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    • 161 4 LIVE ON TV SOCCER Fifa Under-17 World C'ship: Spain v Argentina (Super Sports Ch 22, 7.20 am). Asian World Cup Qualifier: Bahrain v Saudi Arabia (Star Sports Ch24,11.30pm). EPL: Here We Go (ESPN Ch 23, 7pm). DELAYED TELECAST GOLF PGA European Tour: Lancome Trophy, Day 2 (Super Sports Ch 22,
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  • 1814 5 Obituaries “You shaft show me the path of fife, in your presence thefuffness of joy, at your right hand haziness forever.” Tsafm 16 TON'J JUM CHEW Age: 88 was caCCed dome to be with tfie Lord on 19 September 2001, having behind Coved ones Wife: Wong Mui Hua Sons Daughters-in-law
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    • 49 6 CORRIGENDUM In yesterday’s death announcement of the late Chan Leong, the daughter's name should read as 'Christine Chan' and not as published. MORE OBITUARIES ON PAGE S 5 p Not dead but passed beyond The mist that binds us here Into the newer larger life Of that clouded sphere.
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  • MONEY
    • 679 7 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Transaction date: Sep 20,2001 52-Wk High Low Company Last Sale ♦orvol 000 Day High Low Las! Quote Buyer Seller wt Avg Price 39.5 13 ASTI W*****1 .14 -2.5 20 14.5 14 14 15 15 47.5 13.5 Amteh W*****0 ..21 •1.5 30 21 20.5 20.5 22.5 21 22.5
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    • 545 7 Sep 20 Source: Singapore International Monetary Exchange EURODOLLAR Open High Low Sett Est Vol Aet/Vol Op/lnt Dec 01 97.495 97.550 97.480 97.510 ***** ***** *****. Mar 02 97.390 97.440 97.375 97.405 ***** ***** ***** Jun 02 96.980 97.015 96.960A 96.990 ***** ***** ***** Sep 02 96.495
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    • 135 7 Transaction date: Sep 20,2001 52-Wk High Low Curr Last Company Traded Saie Vol torDay '000 High Low Gross div Net P/E M Cap $mll HONGKONG STOCKS Cathay Pac 20c HK720 265 6 *****.2 Cheung Kong50c... HK1780 240 3 *****.5 Citye Solutions Lt HK53 2 52.5 HK Tel 50c
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    • 24 7 Sep 20 CHANGE HONGKONG: Hang Seng 9317.98 ....-240.17 CHINA: Shenzhen B 240.77 AUSTRALIA: Sydney All Ordinaries 2924.90 Sep 19 .«-49.20 CHANGE ....-144.27
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    • 79 7 Contract date: Sea 20, 2001 Unit On# mth 3 mth* 6 mth* 9 mth* 12 mth* Call Value date 14 A 1/32 1'7-6 2’4 a 54 1/32 17. 2’/; r4 1/16 3 3 V. 3'/. iy. 24/09 24/09 24/09 24/09 25/09 24/09 A$ NZS STG JY SFR
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    • 55 7 CRUDE PRODUCT PRICES Source: Dow Jones Newswires Crude/Product Month* Change Price (US$) BBL Brent Blend Nov -0.82 26.73-26.78 w Texas Interm Nov •1.01 27.37-27.41 -0.15 -0.60 24.97-25.02 26.40-26.50 Tapis Blend Oct Oct -0.60 25.90-26.00 Naphtha ClF jap -9.5/8.5 231.5-234.5 24.35-24.45 153.50-155.50 CST-180HSF0 -0.50 Timing of cargoes. Prices as at 18:40
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      • CURRENCY
        • 134 7 Buying 00 Sellinq Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.8530 0.8750 Canadian dollar 1.0980 1.1210 NZ dollar 0.7100 0.7340 Sterling pound 2.5400 2.5660 US dollar 1.7350 1.7470 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency 11.85 Chinese renminbi 21.00
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        • 76 7 Physical <S$) Thu Wed Kilobar **********.40 *****.36 100 gm *****712.89 1695.38 50 gm *****7.26 859.02 20 gm *****0- 353.44 355.35 5gm 81-107.12 80-105.06 1 gm 16-37.08 16-37.08 Bullion coins (S$/oz) Thu Wed S'pore bullion coin 523-535 516-528 Canadian maple leaf.... 523 -535 516-528 Australian nugget *****7.96 541.78 UBS gold
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        • 13 7 Thu Wed Singaaore (US$/oz) 289.302 88.70 289.80 London morning fix (Thu) 288.20
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    • 612 7 Sep 20 RM Affin Holdings 0.21 unch AKN Technology ....3.60 -0.08 Aluminium Co of M'sia 1.00 0.04 Amai industrial Steel ....0.49 -0.10 Amsteei Corp —0.13 -0.01 Antah Holding ....0.46 -0.02 Antah Wrt 30Aug02 ....0.08 -0.01 APL industries ....0.48 -0.01 AraD Malaysian Corp ...0.68 -0.03 AMDevBd5.5%i6Feb02 0.14 unch Arab
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    • 34 7 Sep 20 A$ 2 ParK Street Trt 3.75 unch unch A jstar United Comm 0.26 -0.03 Australian Gas Liqht 9.49 0.41 Cdble& Wireless Optus 3.71 unch CSR Ltd Energy Developments 6.55 0.39 -0.19
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    • 281 7 Sep 20 Baht Advance Agro PCI 14.00 0.25 Advanced Info Service 456.00 -4.00 Bangchak Petroll 5.40 -0.20 Bangkok Express 8.90 -0.10 Bangkok first Invm Trt 9.90 -0.35 Bank of Asia 4.60 -0.30 Bank of Ayudhya 4.50 -0.20 Banpu PCI —23.75 -025 Cai-comp Electronics -....21.50 -0.25 Charoong Thai W C
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    • 36 7 Sep 20 Rp Astra Agro 1275 175 indah Kiat P&P 315 0 Lippo E-Net 80 0 Medco Energi Corp ’300 0 Multipolar Corp 305 -5 Teiekomunikasi ind 3075 0 405 15 Wahana Phonix 235 20
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    • 797 7 Sep 20 HK$ AcrossAsia Multimedia 0.80 -0.C4 Ananda Wing On 0.06 unch Angang New Steei h 0.68 -0.03 Anhui Conch h 1.30 0.02 Anhui Expressway H 1.10 0.02 Bank Of East Asia 15.40 -0.30 Beij Cap Inti AirpH 1.57 0.07 Beijing Datang Pwr 2.60 0.15 Brilliance China Autv 0.98
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    • 483 7 Sep 20 RMB Anhui Cujing Distill B 7.36 0.17 Benqa'ng Steel Plates B 2.96 0.07 Chengde Dixian Tex B —7.25 0.26 China First Pencil B 0.75 -0.02 China mt'i Marine Cont ...26 97 0.47 China Merch Shekou B 6.74 0.20 China Southern Glass B 5.:o C.20 China Textile Mach
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    • 497 7 Sep 20 Yen Advantest Corp 5510 -200 Aiful ***** 120 Ajinomoto Co 1296 -53 -28 Arabian Oil 865 -49 Asahi Breweries 1’87 13 Banyu Pharmaceutical 2115 -60 Bridgestone Corp 854 -35 Central Jap Railway .*****0 -***** 1857 -43 586 -3 Credit Saison 2480 80 CSK Corporation 2530 -65 1783
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    • 18 8 SingTel 15c 23.993.000 UniFood HK25c 6.279.000 Omni IndlOc 5.447.000 Frontline 5c 5,059.000 Chart Semiconductor 26c.. 4,684.000
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    • 156 8 up MAIN Dn Unch up SDQ Dn Unch up TOTAL Dn Unch Multi Ind 0 15 2 0 0 0 0 15 2 Manufacturing 16 65 22 6 14 6 22 79 28 Commerce 9 23 11 2 2 2 11 25 13 Tpt/Stor/Comms 11 14
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    • 47 8 Chang# Straits Times index 1313.47 -28.69 BT OB/OS ....-1092.00 -80.00 BT CADi *****.00 -135.00 BT io*day ma *****.00 -109.00 DBS 50 index 422 97 -10.44 OCBC30 421.21 -9.68 -0.43 UOB Blue Chip 459.90 -13.26 STI Futures 1305 -25 MSCI Singapore 160.05 -4.17 SiMSCl Futures 159.60 -3.80
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    • 86 8 TURNOVER ('000) Main Sdq Total VALUE (’000) Main Sdq Total Multi Ind 24,399 24,399 39,422 39,422 Manufacturg 80,849 5,913 86,762 122,369 601 Commerce 15.567 520 16,087 Tpt/Stor/Com 43,831 43.831 78,797 Finance 18.805 18,805 100,019 Construction 9,157 1,561 10,718 3,945 147 Properties 16,587 16,587 28,483 Hotels/Rsts 957 59
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    • 4860 8 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Currency last High low Company Traded Sato ♦or'Vol 000 HI* Day Low Gr'* Dhr <* Net P/E M Cap SsnH ill 143 22 c Acma50c 22.5 -1 138 23 22 0.5 5.9 39 25 8 c Alliance Tech 8 6.6 61.5 6
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    • 1255 8 52-Wk Currency last High Low Company Traded Sale ♦or* 'Vol 000 High Day Low Gr's Div Net P/E M Cap Smll Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 40.5 12 CAP Oil 5c 12.5 -1 288 13 12.5 3.2 11 13 168 28 c AS Auto 10c 30.5 -1.5 186 31.5
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    • 235 8 FINANCE wt 52'Wk Currtncy last ’Vol Day Cr's Net M Cap Avg High Low Company Traded Sale ’000 High Low Ole P/E $mil Price ***** ***** s Diamonds USl0450cd 6890 4260 s IS OJ US Tech US4260cd 555 510 S IS MSCI Spore US530 ***** ***** s ISS&P500
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    • 557 9 US attacks will prolong Asia's downturn by half a year, with a subdued recovery not expected till next year, says bank AFP MANILA Global economic growth could be cut by half this year, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned yesterday, likening the fallout
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    • 342 9 SURVEY FINDINGS Bloomberg News NEW YORK The Federal Reserve is not done with lowering interest rates in an effort to revive the economy even after cutting its target lending rate to a 7 ‘A -year low of 3 per cent on
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    • 291 9 Reuters LONDON The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the US economy was set to show signs of recovery by year-end despite the terrorist attacks and the airline industry malaise, the Financial Times reported yesterday. In a roundtable discussion with reporters on Wednesday, IMF
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    • MONEY WORLD
      • 69 10 Bloomberg News 3COM’S fiscal first-quarter loss more than tripled to U *****.4 million (Ss4o6 million) as revenue plunged 58 per cent. The maker of computernetworking equipment boosted job cuts this year by 1,000 to 6,000. The loss in the period ended Aug 31 was
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      • 54 10 Bloomberg News CHINA will merge settlement of stock trades at the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges starting next month in order to improve efficiency, the two bourses said in statements. Effective Oct 1, all settlements will be processed byChina Securities Registration and Settlement Co, the
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      • 67 10 Bloomberg News GENERAL Motors (GM) has agreed to buy parts of Daewoo Motor to set up a production base in South Korea, ending a year of talks with the car maker’s creditors. South Korean newspapers reported yesterday that the accord includes GM paying
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      • 64 10 Bloomberg News ASIA Pulp Paper, w'hich stopped repaying more than US$l2 billion (5520.9 billion) of debt in March, is seeking $4O million for its Singapore head office, according to the estate agent handling the sale. The four-storey building at 118 Pioneer Road has
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      • 44 10 Reuters THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday allayed market fears over stalled talks by the official Paris Club of creditors for a US$B.B billion (5515.4 billion) debt deal for Indonesia, saying Jakarta had met all the criteria.
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    • 177 10 Reuters UNITED Microelectronics Corp (UMC), the world’s second-largest contract manufacturer of microchips, said yesterday that chaos would reign in the industry if China started to build a huge number of wafer fabrication plants. “If China started to build a huge number of new
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    • WORLD GROWTH SLOWS
      • 519 10 Report fails to identify a single bright spot in the economy, which is on the brink of its fourth recession in a decade Reuters TOKYO Bank of Japan (BOJ), fresh from its latest monetary- easing, yesterday downgraded its view- of the economy
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      • 222 10 Bloomberg News, AP SEOUL South Korea, which expects growth to slow by more than half this year, said yesterday the slowdown may last through the second quarter of next year. The government said it may increase spending this year to keep growth from stalling.
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      • 328 10 Bloomberg News FRANKFURT The European Central Bank (ECB) said the terrorist attacks on the United States would probably undermine optimism in countries using the euro and dampen inflation, suggesting it may lower interest rates further. The ECB pared its main lending rate
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      • 512 10  -  NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT INDIA will still see more than 5 per cent growth this year as the fall-out from last week’s terrorist attacks on the United States is likely to have a limited impact on its economy, says the chief
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 75 11 OVERSEAS Union Bank (OUB) and its subsidiaries officially became part of the United Overseas Bank (UOB) group yesterday. In an announcement to the Singapore Exchange (SGX), UOB said that it has paid fully OUB shareholders who accepted its offer for the smaller bank on or
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      • 81 11 TOY maker Wah Shing International has reversed into the red with an interim net loss of HKSB4.4 million (5518.9 million) compared to a profit of HK$3.4 million in the same period last year. Turnover shrank 38 per cent to HK$392 million for the half-year
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      • 78 11 HONG Fok remained in the red for the half-year ended June 30 but it managed to slash net loss to $1.84 million from a whopping $13.34 million for tne period in the preceding year. Turnover fell by 3 per cent to $24.34 million.
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      • 57 11 ROTARY Engineering reported a marginal fall in interim net earnings of 1 per cent to $3.64 million from $3.66 million. Turnover, however, rose by 5 per cent to $77.58 million. Earnings per share stayed flat at 0.9 cent while net tangible asset backing per share
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      • 58 11 ELECTRONICS firm Clipsal Industries saw its net earnings slip by 8.3 per cent to $6.63 million for the half-year ended June 30. Turnover fell by 1.2 per cent to $94.08 million. Earnings per share slid to 5.6 cents from 6.3 cents while net tangible asset
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      • 58 11 CONSTRUCTION group PSL Holdings’ interim net loss has narrowed to $2.7 million from $3.4 million. Turnover fell 14 per cent to $10.3 million for the half-year ended June. Loss per share was 1.95 cents compared to 2.47 cents previously while net tangible assets
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    • 333 11  -  NEW INSURANCE 'POLICY' Bi/l LORNA TAN IN A bold move, AXA Life Insurance Singapore is permitting its agents to market its rivals’ products. By doing this, it hopes to develop a new breed of “true financial planners” who can sell a wider range
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      143 11 SHORT-TERM EFFECT Increase in demand for teleconference facilities and broadband connections over business travel. Building management costs to rise due to enhanced security, higher insurance premiums. Projects under development may be reviewed in terms of bunding specification, volume and configuration. LONG-TERM EFFECT No flight from central business districts,
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    • 544 11  -  They expect few takers in the aftermath of US terrorist attacks; recovery of the sector delayed till end-2002 at the earliest, say analysts COLIN TAN and FELISA BATACAN THE property market turnaround expected in the middle of next year has been pushed back by at least
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    • AIRLINE CRISIS
      • 419 12  -  Chief exec Cheong assures staff: Other cost-cutting moves wiil be looked at first; transatlantic bookings down 10% NICHOLAS FANG TRANSPORT REPORTER SINGAPORE’S national carrier warned yesterday of possible retrenchments as it coped with “a most difficult period” in its history. In a
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      • 448 12 Nicholas Fang THE savage round of retrenchments sweeping through US and European airline industries intensified yesterday but so far Singapore and the rest of Asia have been spared. The latest major airline to announce mass layoffs in the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks in the United States
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      • 506 12 Nicholas Fang AIRLINES across the world have announced they will be charging customers an extra fee to cover much higher war risk insurance costs following last week’s terrorist attacks on the United States. Singapore Airlines (SIA) joins other
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      • 513 12  -  ĔIL REBECCA LEE THE administrator of embattled Australian airline Ansett announced yesterday it had struck a deal to get some of the carrier’s fleet back in the air as early as today The deal would see up to 350 Ansett
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    • 334 13 Business Times LISTED Capita Land, which has monetised about $1.2 billion worth of assets this year, is looking to replicate this next year. It plans to divest of another $1 billion to $2 billion worth of properties, mostly to funds,
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    • 358 13  -  SHARE TRADING DISPUTES By HUGH CHOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT THE Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) is looking at setting up an out-of-court dispute resolution mechanism which enables small investors to settle grievances with remisiers more quickly and at lower cost. The move was prompted
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    • 328 13 THE Singapore Government has reminded banks and other financial institutions in Singapore to be on guard against assets which may belong to international terrorist Osama bin Laden or Afghanistan’s Taleban government which is thought to be harbouring him. They have been told to
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    • 478 13  -  Prime rates have stayed in 5%-5.75% range for nearly three years despite falls in interbank rates, says the consumer watchdog By IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE’S leading consumer watchdog is urging banks to help boost consumer confidence in a flagging economy by cutting
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    • 579 13  -  By AZHAR kll VI ID Send your comments to azhark@sph.com.sg INVESTOR sentiment across regional stock markets waned yesterday as news of United States military deployments to the Middle East heightened fears of a reprisal against last week’s terrorist attacks. Disappointment ever overnight declines
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    • 614 14  -  Massive layoff exercise in the US will have major impact since American firms rank as S'pore's largest foreign employer DENESH DIYYANATHAN and LEE SU SHYAN Additional reporting by Edna Koh and Kelvin Wong JOB losses in Singapore are expected to exceed
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    • 235 14 Bloomberg News WASHINGTON The number of US workers filing new claims for state unemployment benefits fell last week, partly because the shock of the terrorist attacks led Americans to put off submitting applications. Initial jobless claims dropped by 49,000 to a level of 387,000
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    • 557 1 TWILIGHT ZONE MBfriiliUni »*i r ni Arti Mulchand Nightlife blues following US attacks PAGE 5 http://straitstimes.asial.com.sg/life m Fit! m «gr .JH S&: H Check out the action at the carpark rallv scene. r ‘l’m a commentator and a doer,’ says publisher Forbes eneath his quiet demeanour the /president and CEO
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      • 98 2 GET ANIMATED (THE BEST OF BRITISH ANIMATION FILMS) GV Grand Great World City, 3rd Floor, Kim Seng Promenade Till tomorrow': 7pm (Programme II) ir 9.30 pm (Programme III) today Tickets: $8.50 Tel: 1900-912-1234, at the box office or log on to wimv.golderwillage.com.sg COME and get animated at this visual
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      • 51 2 THE FIRST DISCIPLE (CHARITY CONCERT) Singapore Expo Conference Halls, Foyer 1, Level 2 Today Sun: 8 pm (today ir tomorrow), 5 pm (Sun) Tickets: $25 ir $50 Tel: 241-9565 IF YOU love musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar don’t miss this one on the life of Mary, the mother of
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        99 2 ARTS IN THE CITY LUNCH-TIME CONCERT THE CONCERTINO TRIO Raffles City, City Square, Level 1 Today: 1 1.45 pm Free Tel: 433-2236 FORGET those recession blues as you listen to Eastern European music as well as classical pop and colourful folk tunes by Melbourne’s Concertino Trio (below). RACHMANINOV'S PIANO
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      • 50 2 MOLLY MALONE'S 6TH BIRTHDAY BASH Boat Quay Today: From 6 pm Free (pay for drinks housepours at $5 and draughts at $10 and free vodka jelly shots with first drink and selection of shooters at $5) CELEBRATE this popular Irish pub’s 6th birthday with complimentary cake and a shooter.
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      • 36 2 FORBIDDEN DESIRE (MANDARIN) Toy Factory Theatrette, 17 A Smith Street Today ir tomorrow: 8 pm Tickets: $5 Tel: 222-1526 EXPECT a titillating time at this reading featuring three comedies that explore desires of the flesh.
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      • 109 2 FALL OF SINGAPORE Singapore Art Museum Glass Hall, Bras Basalt Road Today: 7.30 ir 8.30 pm Free. Tel: 332-3222 HOW did Singapore, touted as an impregnable fortress, fall to the Japanese in 1942? Come and find out from historian A. Jeyathurai. THE ART OF THE FUTURE: CYBERARTS IN SINGAPORE
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        65 2 LINDY HOPPERS' NIGHT d> SAM Singapore Art Museum Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 71 Bras Basalt Road Today ir Oct 5: 7-8 (lesson), 8-9 pm (dancing) Fee: $lO (lesson ir dancing), $5 (dancing only, enter after 8 pm) Tel: 332-3220 SINGER Jennifer Lopez swears by the Lindy Hop dance as part
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      • 94 2 SILK ROUTE LANTERN SHOW LANTERN FESTIVAL 2001 Chinese Garden, 1 Chinese Garden Road, Jurong Today till Oct 14:9 am 10 pm daily Tickets: $4 (child), $7 (adult) Tel: 261-3632 FASCINATED by unusual lanterns? Then check out these from Suzhou, China, which depict scenes from the famous Silk Route. ICONS
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      • 43 2 NAFA FUND-RAISING BI-A-THON 2001 Sentosa Today: 4.30- 6.30 pm Ticket: $5 (donation ticket-cum-entry to the island) Tel: 338-7827 JOIN the walk-a-jog amid the lush greenery or cycle around the island to raise funds for the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts’ Building Fund.
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      • 43 2 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PAINTINGS Mirage Art Gallery, 14 Upper Cross Street Till Sun: 11 am 7pm Free Tel: 221-3669 CHINESE art enthusiasts can view a selection of 200 contemporary Chinese paintings by artists from China, including Yang Yong Siong and Shi Hua Fong.
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      • 489 3  -  Come Oct 1, SCV will launch two 24-hour channels offering non-stop Mandarin and Japanese entertainment channels ROUND-THE-CLOCK TV SAMUEL LEE TV ADDICT'S in search of round-the-clock entertainment will not get much sleep starting next month. On Oct 1, Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) will launch two 24-hour channels offering
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      • 339 3  -  Bit DYLAN BOEY FANS of British animation are lapping up a series of films brought in by The British Council and the Singapore Film Society. Get Animated, a three-day British animation festival, started yesterday and ends tomorrow. All screenings take place at Golden Village Grand.
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      • 1151 4  -  Mr Steve Forbes may be the son of a flamboyant billionaire, but that hasn't stopped him from making a name for himself in politics and business Too Fau Lin WHEN you have a surname like Forbes, a few things are expected of you. You smell of
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      • 786 5  -  Pubs came to a standstill last Tuesday, with pints left untouched as drinkers watched the horror unfold on TV screens TELEVISED TERROR Arti Miilrhaiul THEY call him Mr America because of the red-white-and-blue flag motif ties he wears with pride as he wends through the
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      • 138 5 FOR Shino Lin Hsiao-pei (Avex Trax) A CLASSIC manifestation of Taiwanese obsession with Japan is seen in Shino Lin’s fourth album For, her first on Avex Trax. Besides her Japaneseinspired first name and stylised J-pop-meets-glam rock makeover, the album bears the imprint of Japanese collaborators. To
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      • 223 5  -  CHINESE POP Samuel Lee CHANGE 1995 Huang Shu-jun (Fortuard Music) WONDERING how to deal with the loss of loved ones? This two-CD anthology by Taiwanese scribe and singer Huang Shu-jun might shed some fight. The death of a dear friend and collaborator in 1995
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      • 213 5  -  ASIAN PICKS By Tan ShzrEe Fu Cheng In Memory Of Chinese Music Master Yang Yinliu (Wind Records) YANG YINLIU may not be the most familiar name among lovers of Chinese music today. But without his pioneering efforts, the shape of the Chinese classical scene might look a tad
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      • 355 6 SOUND BITES STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS Tori Amos (Atlantic) A COVERS album may sound like a cop-out from indiepop’s most prolific “alpha female”, but it is the apotheosis of Tori Amos’ discourse on gender, gun culture and tes-tosterone-driven violence. Recasting tunes penned by men (Depeche Mode,
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      • 77 6 THE must-have CDs of the last few weeks: Is This It The Strokes (RCA/BMG) New York strutters put swagger back into rock Dyed in The Wool Shannon Wright (Quarterstick) Underground punk-folkie too good for the lazy mainstream ear Vespertine Bjork (One Little Indian) Domestic bliss distilled in one
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      • 171 6 Singin yippee-aye-ay THE GUNMAN AND OTHER STORIES Prefab Sprout (Libertij/EMI) WITH song titles like Cowboy Dreams, has Prefab Sprout gone hillbilly? Not quite: This is Nashville in the dream-pop world of Paddy McAloon. Last frontier conquered, The Gunman is the Briton’s latest homage to the mythology of America. He has
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      • 132 6 RINGS AROUND THE WORLD Super Futry Animals (Sony) irkiriris WELSH magpies Super Furry Animals filch from everyone, from The Beach Boys and The Stooges to Mogwai and Bacharach, but come out transformed. Its fifth outing is ace guerilla warfare for pop survival, rolling along as psychedelic
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        124 6 ‘There’s no melody. It’s like a mosquito buzzing around. There’s three notes in about 14 syllables. That’s what happens when I write lyrics first.” Singer Billy Joel on his former hit song, We Didn’t Start The Fire ‘Animals scare me quite a lot. Especially horses and cows
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    • 307 2 RADIO PASSION 99.5 FM 7.00 am The Breakfast Show with Michelle Chang Justin Cheong 8.50 World Music Top 10 9.00 The Jazz Singer: Susannah McCorkle 9-15 In The House 9-30 Singapore Jam 11.00 Folktales 11.15 Club Chat 11.30 Latin Lunch with Licng Kit Yeng: Latin music, Arts News Interviews 2.00
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    • 378 4 Dneam Home 2001 15 v 23 Sept 2001 S’pore Expo Hall 6A 12noon -10 pm Free Admission Lost 3 Days! An Exhibition for those who crave to fulfil their dreams... 1» *1 Home Owner c < Attractive Design Reno Packages from City Design Contract tep into Dream Home 2001 and
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      607 8 Ms Demeanour has the answers to your questions Hi Ms Demeanour! Do girls like guys who drive modified cars? I recently added a spoiler to my Honda Civic and changed my sports rims to the chrome-plated type. I love it but my girlfriend says she won’t be caught dead
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        264 9  -  Get on track in the official fashions worn by Formula 1 stars and teams By Kor Kian Beng v 0 e. 'V .■ou may never drive as fast as Michael If Schumacher or David Coulthard do, in first gear, but you can keep up with the way they
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        512 10 Many motor racing fanatics here own cars from the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution series or Subaru Impreza WRX. Both come with turbo-charged engines boasting 276 bhps. But that is not enough for some. Call it car modification, enhancement or upgrading true car fanatics will find a way of making
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        717 10  - rev roll Feel the need for speed? You're not alone. Many are driving themselves around the bend for the chequered flag o michelle ho j n just 10 seconds the time it takes to tie your I shoelaces or touch up your lipqloss some 256 racing junkies fired up their
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      • 291 10 Ivan Chua, 30, a consultant to the Singapore Motor Sports Association (SMSA), provides a glossary of commonly used terms in the racing circuit ECU: Electronic Control Unit. Every model n car has one. It comprises various computer software which helps to run the whole car. Anti-lag: A device which
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        460 11 Don’t dismiss the skeletal go-kart as child's play. Even Formula One speedsters like Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen started out on the humble kart. The origins of karting go back to 1956 in the United States, where race-car builder Art Ingels devised a kart that was simple but
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      • 293 11 From Tanah Merah to Tuas, illegal races take place every other week. But before you get really fast and furious on the roads, the authorities warn that such races are against the law. You risk having your car impounded if you take part in them. There are even
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      • 877 12  -  Your image is important. Or rather, your car's image is important. So dress it up with the right accessories tommy wee batman had one. Knightrider had one. Even funky Brit secret agent James Bond had one. And the chicks just love it. We're talking about that
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        605 13  -  LTW seeks out the yummiest doughnuts By Dylan Boey It was the Dutch who made the first doughnut in the 18th century, sans the hoie. They called it olykoek or "oily cake". Later, hazelnuts and walnuts were put in its centre for fear that the dough would not
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    • 636 13  -  A fast car can be just as exciting as a slow woman stars n gripes tay yek keak 41 was packed like a sardine in a bus I the other day getting turned on by armpits when I found myself hallucinating that I was zooming off
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        991 14  -  Her passion is car racing. And at the recent Fast Furious Race Wars, she clocked 9.58 sec in the Supersprint set over 200 m By Michelle Ho When she was in school, Lynn Tan sprang into action each time she was on the running track, sprinting her
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