The Straits Times, 1 November 2004

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    24 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 82 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS MICA (P) 048/03/2004 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1 2004 4Pa SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 »80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Upbeat economy bringing in new jobs
    655 1  -  Sue-Ann Chia Lydia Lim Economists expect jobless rate to dip for first time in 9 months to 4.3°/o By A BUOYANT economy, upbeat business prospects and a recovering job market are all signs that economists and other analysts say point to the unemployment rate
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    Lock icon Body of missing China girl found; Malaysian arrested
    692 1  -  Ben Nadarajan By THE search for missing eight-year-old Huang Na drew to a close yesterday in the worst possible way: Her naked body was found badly-decom-posed, unrecognisable and stuffed into a box less than half her size. The box was found in
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      1156 1  -  Salma Khalik By Health Correspondent THE young doctor was stumped by his patient's symptoms. The man had a severe itch all over his body and the doctor had no idea what to do. He referred the patient to a skin specialist, who
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        34 2 US U-turn on Taiwan Washington reverses position and acknowledges it is part of China. PAGE 7 Mahathir rebuked Thailand "no" to suggestion by Malaysian ex-PM to give its south more autonomy. PAGE 11
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        36 2 Sprint to finish Bush and Kerry joust over Osama video as US election campaign ends. PAGE 13 Biotech overhyped Study finds benefits of advances "exaggerated", with no boost to production of new drugs. PAGE 16
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        23 2 MM Lee slew magazine Far Eastern Economic Review ex-editor says legal action by Mr Lee Kuan Yew weakened the publication. PAGE 20
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        52 2 Fewer PSLE calls Calls to PSLE hotline at four-year low, but they last longer. PAGEH2 Payuporelse Company demands thousands of dollars from parties that reproduced its maps without permission. PAGEH3 Make a difference Mr Wong Kan Seng urges youths to step forward and play a more active role in
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        52 2 Cautious OK to casino Reader thinks casino can work in Singapore if done correctly with a strong civil support system for social ills. PAGEHI3 HOW to curt) vice To stem' 'wave'' of foreign prostitutes, reader suggests Singaporeans be trusted to make informed choices on how they want to live,
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        42 2 Back to square one Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson says 0-2 defeat by Portsmouth wipes out victory over Arsenal six days earlier. PAGEHIS Vijay unstoppable* Golfer leads and has to finish seventh or better to become first US$lO million man. PAGEHI7
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        33 2 Correct decision Government of Singapore Investment Corporation was right not to invest m former Wall Street darling LTCM. PAGEH22 Indian cellphone boom 60,000 new subscribers a day, thanks to economic growth. PAGEH24
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      Lock icon First Japanese hostage beheaded
      960 3  -  Kwan Weng Kin His body is found covered by US flag in Iraq; Japan PM says death is "regrettable" By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo MR KATSUYA OHKI, 55. a businessman "If it had been my own son, I would probably have said the same thing. This
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      Lock icon Sentosa water supply disrupted
      301 3  - Sentosa water supply disrupted Radha Basu By WATER supply to at least half of Sentosa was disrupted yesterday evening, affecting hotels, holiday chalets and the ferry terminal, among others. The disruption, caused when a pipe on the island sprang a leak, began at around spm, and continued spreading till 10
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      Lock icon Abdullah vows 2nd year results in corruption battle
      642 4  -  Carolyn Hong He has not achieved everything he wanted to, he says in interview marking 1 st year as PM By I Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur WITH one year as Prime Minister behind him, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi admits that
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      Lock icon Anwar arrives home promising new style or politics
      423 4  -  Reme Ahmad By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur FORMER deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim was mobbed by hundreds of supporters yesterday as he came home from overseas to start a new chapter in his life with promises of a different style of
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    Lock icon S'pore firms head for S. Korea
    539 6  -  Lee Tee Jong INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITES UP NORTH Its cities are seen as launch pads by companies eyeing North Asia By South Korea Correspondent In Seoul SINGAPORE companies have been flocking to South Korea to set up shop. They see the country as a possible
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    Lock icon Seoul courts foreign investors
    167 6 Seoul courts foreign investors THE South Korean government has been sending representatives overseas as part of its aggressive courting of foreign investment. Two weeks ago, South Korean parliamentary Speaker Kim Won Ki visited Singapore to promote investment tor free economic zones in Incheon, Busan and Gwangyang in a bid to
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      770 6 Capital attraction Putrajaya, Malaysia's new administrative capital, has become a hot destination for local and foreign tourists. PAGE 12 CHINA'S NEW HOSPITALS Rich Chinese queue with expatriates for treatment at foreign-funded facilities. Page 8 CHOKING ON E-WASTE Used computer parts are piling up in India's Silicon Valley, endangering public health.
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  • CHINA
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      Lock icon Protest against defence budget
      218 7 Taipei PROTESTERS began a three-day sit-in outside Taiwan's parliament yesterday in a bid to prevent lawmakers from approving a US$lB billion (Ss3o billion) special defence budget. About 30 college academics and activists chanted "Reject the special military budget" outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. They wanted
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      Lock icon Bush s safer Taiwan path
      608 7  -  Ching Cheong He scrambles back to time-honoured policy after shaky deviation By Chief China Correspondent In Washington US PRESIDENT George W. Bush is returning to the timehonoured US position on Taiwan albeit in a clumsy manner. Mr Bush had tried to venture into uncharted territory
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      Lock icon Taiwan 'risks further isolation'
      333 7 Taiwan 'risks furthe r isolation' Taipei TAIPEI mayor Ma Ying-jeou has accused Taiwanese leaders of seeking to politicise simple economic moves that could further isolate the island from the world. He said President Chen Shui-bian's government failed to sign a free trade agreement with Singapore because it was too eager
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      Lock icon Mother of two stabbed by her 'toy boy'
      346 8  -  Lim Ruey Yan By A HONG KONG woman was smashed on the head and stabbed a dozen times by her "toy boy" in southern China after she threatened to break off their relationship. The case highlighted a growing trend of rich Hong
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      Lock icon Foreign funded hospitals take off
      410 8 Foreign funded hospitals take off They target rich Chinese dissatisfied with state-run facilities and willing to pay more for better care Beijing SEATED on a soft leather sofa in an elegant cream-coloured reception area, a Beijing woman waits for her appointment with the doctor. The scene at the foreign-funded Beijing
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      Lock icon WALKING TALL
      75 9 Herder Xi Shun, who stands 2.38m tall, poses for a photo with a woman at a shopping mall in Chif eng in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The 53-year-old grew up as normal until he was 16, but by the age of 23 he had grown to
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      Lock icon Sporadic cases of Sars likely in Guangdong
      310 9 Beijing GUANGDONG province, where the deadly Sars virus is believed to have originated, could see the disease return in coming months but cases will be sporadic, a leading expert has said. "This winter and next spring, it would not be surprising if individual
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      Lock icon China to accelerate aviation industry reform
      494 9 China to accelerate aviation industry reform Personnel training, infrastructure and management are not matching growth Zhuhai (China) CHINA will push for a rapid reform of its aviation industry to meet the demands of its fastgrowing economy and to boost competitiveness, a senior official said. Mr Gao Hongfeng, ViceMinister of Civil
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      Lock icon Discount carriers revolutionising US air travel
      276 9 Chicago AFTER half a decade of turmoil, a picture of air travel in the US is emerging. The transformation in the airline industry is rewarding discount carriers that are meeting their customers' needs, but with few frills. In truth, Americans fly be- cause it
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      Lock icon Bangalore chokes under e-waste
      443 10 More than 1,000 different toxic substances lurking around Bangalore AS INFORMATION technology firms continue to swamp India's technology hub of Bangalore, the city is starting to choke under a heap of e-waste generated from obsolete computers and discarded electronic components. Environmentalists and officials say that the
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      Lock icon BJP 'fanned flames of Gujarat riots'
      291 10 "The ratio of death figures in police firing is not good." FORMER GUJARAT HOME MINISTER GORDHAN JHADAFIYA allegedly said, referring to the fact that five Hindus and one Muslim had been killed in a police firing incident Ahmedabad INDIA'S Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
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        Lock icon CHINA SHUTS 1,600 INTERNET CAFES
        96 10 BEIJING: China closed 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August and imposed fines totalling 100 million yuan (5520.1 million) for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations, Xinhua news agency has reported. The crackdown came amid a nationwide push to limit
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        Lock icon DEADLY GAS KILLS 15 COALMINERS
        78 10 BEIJING: A sudden gush of unidentified poisonous gas killed 15 miners as they were working underground at a coalmine in north-eastern China, state media reported yesterday. Thirty-five other miners were able to reach the surface safely in Saturday's incident at the Xilutian mine, Liaoning province,
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        Lock icon LAST CHECK ON SEOUL'S N-TESTS
        109 10 SEOUL: The United Nations nuclear watchdog will conduct a final inspection in South Korea this week before completing a report on the country's unauthorised nuclear experiments, the Seoul government said yesterday. Starting tomorrow, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will make a week-long visit
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        Lock icon PHILIPPINES COLONEL UNDER PROBE
        74 10 MANILA: A Philippines colonel has been relieved of his post and is under investigation for alleged irregularities at the army hospital he commanded, including the dispensing of expired medicines, the military said yesterday. The announcement of the probe into Col Willian Yu came days after the
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        Lock icon SUMATRA GOVERNOR IN GRAFT CASE
        126 10 JAKARTA: A governor in Indonesia's West Sumatra province has been declared a suspect in a U*****,000 (Ssl.2 million) corruption case after being implicated by local councillors already convicted in the case, a report said yesterday. Court testimonies of the 43 councillors alleged that Governor Zainal
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        Lock icon GOVT BODY SUED FOR UNPAID FOOD
        128 10 BEIJING: A restaurateur is suing a government bureau for not paying for meals for years in what he vows will be the first step to recovering more than 800,000 yuan (S$161,000) of unpaid bills from many departments, state media reported yesterday. Many businessmen in
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon GOLDEN CAMBODIAN TRADITION
      113 11 GOLDEN CAMBODIAN TRADITION King Norodom Sihamoni is borne in state to his royal palace in Phnom Phenh on a golden litter carried by eight bearers. Accompanied by royal guards and courtiers playing music, the 51-year-old son of former king Norodom Sihanouk has been at the centre of three days of
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      Lock icon Yudhoyono, the voice of moderate Islam?
      332 11 Sydney NEWLY ELECTED Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said he would consider becoming a globetrotting advocate for moderate Islam, working to promote peace in hot spots such as the Middle East. Dr Yudhoyono said he wanted Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation,
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      Lock icon Mahathir rebuked for Thai comments
      469 11 His remarks on autonomy in south unhelpful: Bangkok Bangkok THAILAND rebuked Malaysia's former leader Mahathir Mohamad yesterday for suggesting that Bangkok give more autonomy to its mainly Muslim south to end months of violence. The Thai Foreign Ministry said that his remarks, published in a
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      Lock icon Put nation first, lawmakers told
      316 11 Jakarta NEW Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on Indonesians to put the nation ahead of "narrow interests" amid wrangling among lawmakers over control of the legislature. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has massive poverty, endemic graft and a militant Islamic fringe
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Working capital is hot tourist attraction
      600 12  - Working capital is hot tourist attraction Reme Ahmad Putrajaya has been drawing growing number of visitors By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Putrajaya MRS Maria Birke donned a pink robe before stepping into the huge Putra Mosque, with its pink granite dome. Inside the mosque's openair compound, dozens of tourists from
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      Lock icon Mahathir's brainchild
      117 12 THE brainchild of retired premier Mahathir Mohamad, Putrajaya is a RMIO billion (554.4 billion), 4,932ha capital city, which houses 45,000 people. Some 20,000 workers, mostly civil servants, have their offices in Putrajaya today. The city was named after Malaysia's first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra. The word
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      Lock icon Murder of sultan's wife: Appeals by four dismissed
      310 12 PUTRAJAYA JUDGES have dismissed an appeal filed by four men convicted of manslaughter and abetment in the murder of the Sultan of Perak's second wife. In so doing, the Court of Appeal said the four could count themselves lucky they had not
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Bush, Kerry tied at 48 per cent
      133 13 US PRESIDENT George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry are tied with two days remaining to the ballot, a Reuters/Zogby poll released yesterday snowed. Mr Kerry and Mr Bush were deadlocked at 48 per cent in the latest three-day national tracking poll,
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      Lock icon Feverish sprint to the finish
      771 13 RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE No let-up in last 72 hours as rivals crisscross swing states ashwaubenon (Wisconsin) AS US President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry flitted from one campaign rally to the next shadowed by the video spectre of Osama bin Laden
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      Lock icon Car bomb kills 8 US soldiers near Fallujah
      538 14 Marines take heavy blow as violence surges across Iraq Near Fallujah (Iraq) A CAR bomb killed eight US marines outside Fallujah on Saturday in the deadliest attack against US troops in nearly six months. And in Baghdad, another car bomb exploded outside
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      Lock icon Time short for Fallujah peace deal
      458 14 Baghdad IRAQ'S interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said yesterday that time is running out for a peaceful solution in the western city of Fallujah, where US marines are poised to assault insurgents and Islamic militants. He said the government was still offering an olive
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      Lock icon Al-Qaeda aiming at military bases in Britain
      423 15 Leaked intelligence document warns of 'real threat' to troops after suspects snoop on bases London AL-QAEDA is planning to attack British military bases, the Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday, quoting a top-secret British intelligence document. Copies of the report were sent to garrisons across
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      Lock icon Aussie prisons keep watch on Muslim converts
      169 15 THE prison authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales are monitoring some inmates who have converted to Islam in jail for fear that they might try to plan terrorist attacks, the state government said yesterday. Several prisoners have been put under
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      Lock icon Blair 'to call for polls in February'
      156 15 London BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is to call a general election in February rather than May or later in 2005 as had been expected, two leading British newspapers said yesterday. He has ordered top election strategist Alan Milbura to launch a television
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        Lock icon WHOOPING COUGH RETURNS
        158 15 WASHINGTON: Whooping cough is making a comeback 40 years after most industrialised countries started vaccinating children. The culprit seems to be the weakening effects of the shot, say researchers. Known also as pertussis, whooping cough can kill infants and can cause a lingering but hard-to-diagnose cough in
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        Lock icon DEFIANT IRAN PASSES NUCLEAR BILL
        195 15 TEHERAN: To cries of "Death to America" and "God is Greatest", Iran's hardline-dominated Parliament passed a Bill yesterday obliging the government to continue efforts to develop a civilian nuclear energy programme. The proposal, backed by 247 out of 290 Iranian lawmakers, did not specifically force
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        Lock icon SEX-CRIMES MAYOR SACKED
        172 15 WELLINGTON: Pitcairn Island mayor Steve Christian has been sacked after being sentenced to three years' jail for sex abuse crimes, British High Commission spokesman Bryan Nicolson said in New Zealand's capital yesterday. Christian, who claims to be a direct descendent of 1789 "Mutiny on the Bounty" leader
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        155 15 SANTIAGO: Chileans voted in nationwide municipal elections yesterday seen as a crucial test for the centre-left coalition government and its bid to retain the presidency. Rising crime rates in some large cities and high unemployment were central issues in the campaign. About 8 million
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      Lock icon Benefits of biotech advances' exaggerated'
      426 16 Benefits of biotech advances exaggerated' They have not helped boost the production of new drugs, says study London SO-CALLED miracle cures, ushered in by what is described as the "biotech revolution", have not delivered genuine improvements, says a new official study. Among the breakthroughs attributed to biotechnology which is based
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      Lock icon ROYAL RHINO
      82 16 Believed to have belonged to an ancient South African king, this palmsized rhino is one of the many artefacts recovered from excavations in Mapungubwe Hill in South Africa's Limpopo province. Stories of the Mapungubwe kingdom had been passed from one generation to the next, but were kept out
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      Lock icon Make more love, Vatican book urges Catholics
      275 16 London CHURCHGOERS should make love more often in an effort to offset "impotence and frigidity", according to a new Vatican-sanctioned guide that addresses papal concerns over declining birth rates among Italian Roman Catholics. The controversial book, It's A Sin Not To Do It,
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      Lock icon Jobless man sells car and watch to gamble on lottery
      156 16 London WHEN unemployed Andrea De Luca ran out of cash to bet on Italy's national lottery, he sold his car, then his watch and I.4kg of gold, raising 45,000 euros (5595,850) in total with which to pursue dreams of much
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    • WORLD PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Mrs Arafat needs image makeover
        251 17 MRS Suha Arafat (right) helped soften her husband's profile as a guerilla leader but it is her image that needs adjustment now. The gulf has widened between the 40-year-old Palestinian "first lady" and her people, said The Sunday Telegraph. "I married a myth," she boasted
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        Lock icon Tycoon's $21m gift to 2008 Games
        109 17 HONG KONG tycoon Li Ka-shing has donated HK$lOO million (Ss2l million) to Beijing's 2008 Olympics effort. Mr Li's companies Cheung Kong, Hutchison Whampoa, Cheung Kong Infrastructure and Hong Kong Electric have chipped in to build a national swimming stadium that will feature five pools,
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        Lock icon Hawking to lead anti-war protest
        112 17 EMINENT scientist Stephen Hawking will take the lead role in a ceremonial anti-Iraq war protest in London to coincide with the United States presidential election. Peace protesters will gather in Trafalgar Square tomorrow where they will read out the names of 5,000 Iraqi men, women
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        Lock icon Royal alarm over global warming
        162 17 BRITAIN'S Queen Elizabeth (right) has made a rare tip-toe into the world of politics, warning British Prime Minister Tony Blair of her concerns over the US policy on global warming. The Observer reported yesterday that she reportedly asked Mr Blair's office to lobby the US
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    • GLOBAL AGENDA
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        Lock icon America elects its next president
        289 18  - America elects its next president ROGER MITTON WORLD WHAT IT IS TOMORROW, Americans will vote to decide whether Republican President George W. Bush or his Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry will occupy the White House for the next four years. Around 120 million citizens are expected to vote. Due to
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        Lock icon Singapore's stake in China-Asean Expo
        172 18  -  JASON LEOW CHINA WHAT IT IS SINGAPORE will participate in the inaugural ChinaAsean Expo in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, from Wednesday to Saturday. Singapore will set up a 500-sq-m pavilion to promote itself as a place to work, learn and play. Trade and Industry
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        Lock icon Thaksin's pitch to foreign investors
        112 18  -  SHEFALI REKHI SOUTH-EAST ASIA WHAT IT IS THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (right) will address about 900 participants, including corporate leaders, investors and policy makers, via video conference at the Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific summit in Singapore tomorrow. The Premier will talk about Thailand's economic
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        Lock icon Court verdict on controversial polls
        176 18  -  LAWRENCE CHUNG TAIWAN WHATfTIS THE Taiwan High Court is expected to deliver its verdict this Thursday on the legitimacy of the March 20 presidential election, which saw President Chen Shuibian beat his opposition rival Lien Chan and win a second four-year term by a wa-fer-thin
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      278 13 Target British soldier Al-Qaeda is planning to attack military bases in Britain and may be targeting servicemen. PAGE 15 U.S. TROOPS HIT IN IRAQ ib i *(^H A car bomb kills eight marines nearFallujah, the biggest toll for the United States in nearly six months. Page 14 BIOTECH OVERRATED Gene
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      413 20 Jk MERICANS choose their presiL\ dent tomorrow and not a -Z. Jl moment too soon as far as the world is concerned, for it has been an unusually bitter and divisive campaign. President George W. Bush has claimed that his defeat would "embolden" America's enemies, while
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      1222 20  -  Pranay GUPTE By Senior Writer THEIR traditional scepticism notwithstanding, journalists can be a sentimental bunch, especially when a publication dies or is being sliced into a skeleton of its old self. This past weekend, after an unexpected announcement that the Far Eastern Economic Review would no longer
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      882 20  -  Sandra Davie By Education Correspondent A MONTH ago, Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced a few more changes to allow for more choice and diversity in schools. Three out of six parents I called gave me their comments but then went on to grumble about what they
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      923 21  - Indonesia 's Muslim ferment Maarof Salleh Fundamentalist mainstream and liberal groups vie for influence By For The Straits Times IF YOU want to study Muslims in the region, go to Indonesia or so say my Indonesian friends. In the southern Philippines and Thailand's southern provinces you only get stories of
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      573 21  -  Gwynne Dyer By MR YASSER Arafat is not dead yet. The "blood disorder" that forced him to fly to Paris may not kill him, but he may never go home again, and his long reign as the undisputed leader of the Palestinian
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      949 22  -  Eugene Low FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT: USA By US Correspondent In Austin (Texas) ON A chilly night in late October, Americans from both ends of the political spectrum came together in a remarkable show of solidarity, a refreshing change from the bruising presidential campaign thus far. Liberals and
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      526 22  -  David Brooks By THE nuisance is back! Remember when Mr John Kerry said that he wanted to reduce terrorists to a nuisance? Mr Kerry vowed to mitigate the problem of terrorism until it became another regrettable and tolerable fact of life, like gambling and organised crime.
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      1025 23  -  Arti Mulchand LIVING WITH A KAMPUNG FAMILY By "A flat has only one door and four walls. But in my kampung house, I have five doors and I can walk in and out of any of them when I want." MADAM HABSAH ONE
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      241 23 KAMPUNG Lorong Buang Kok is nicknamed Kampung Selak Kain, Malay for the "kampung of hitching up sarongs", because it used to be extremely prone to flooding. Despite the canal built in the late 1970s to alleviate floods, its residents still
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      207 20 Kampunglife There are flies and it floods. But the kampung also affords you the freedom to roam. PAGE 23 b THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS, NEWS CENTRE, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2, *****4 ST INTERACTIVE http.7/stjaitstimes.asial.corn.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer Senior Executive ViceAlan Chan Heng Loon President
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      172 24 Singapore today Showers with thunder in many areas in the afternoon. ■^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^Bt^B^^Bß*^" BV^flV/ Bk'v^l ■■■■■■■■■■■■^■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■^■■■■■■c^k .^r -WBwB ■wKjIJ B^BW-_^i«^»wflßr^«wß ■HFv_^M IF* ■H#*CjD^B ■l ß llffHißI 8 118 ,KIH B Hi^lßiilm«^^B ■H K SH HJV BR/Vw Hw BB ■■K.j^tl JIM ■Vx^Bvl BBBBj BbBIV^hVBh^BB BW BvBIV^Ka. \^Bvl 08-^re. b^b^^^tVimS '^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^bl j^^^^F Bk|
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      33 24 WIRED TO HACK What makes a teen hacker tick. POLLS Latest on eve of US presidential election. ISLANDS ON SALE Looking for an island? New Dubai project offers 300 man-made islands for sale.
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      824 24 SINGAPORE WORLD USEFUL NUMBERS 5 THINGS YOU CAN WEATHER iimmiii >imn > Emergency lines DO TODAY Clear W**!*** I %f9^' J^ JL*' A^M^^B R)Kce HotKne 1800-255-0000 <* Watch barefoot Hindu devotees walk on wft f [V^P^ff^j^2m^mmmwmW^ Civil Defence (Hre and Emergency I hot coals at the annual firewalking '> SINGAPORE
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      8 H1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES MONDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2004
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      Lock icon Sad end that broke searchers' hearts
      749 H1  -  Natalie Soh Ben Nadarajan HUANG N A'S DEATH Shocked volunteers wept openly at a prayer session held yesterday By PALL OF GLOOM "Although she was not a relative, we felt for her. After all, we are parents too, so we can understand." MRCHIACHINMENG.a cabby
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      Lock icon Calls to PSLE hotline fall to four-year low
      562 H2  -  Ho Ai Li But calls are about 5 mins longer than in the past; 2 in 3 callers are girls By DESPITE the outcry over this year's Primary School Leaving Examination science paper, Primary 6 pupils are coping better with exams, going
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      Lock icon Exams aside, O-level students concerned with BGR issues
      173 H2 MANY O-level students who have written to an e-mail counselling service mention problems with friends or boy-girl relationships (BGR), said SCS centre director Peace Koh-Wong. They also express a general sense of uncertainty about their future. Many students had written in to
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      212 H3 77ze ngjrt rime yow dhnfe Brand's essence of chicken tonic or one of its bird's nest concoctions, don't throw the metal cap of the bottle away, for it could help a needy child. From now till the end of January next year, Brand's will give 20
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      Lock icon SMEs fight map payment demands
      529 H3  -  Selina Lum They admit they reproduced maps, but say money asked is too much By HUNDREDS of small and me-dium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are being asked to pay thousands of dollars to reproduce maps from streetdirectory.com on their websites. Some have been asked to pay $10,000
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      234 H3 IN THEIR letter to the Singapore Land Authority, affected businesses raised a litany of issues they said hinted at "premeditative planning" on the part of Virtual Map. In response to queries from The Straits Times, Virtual Map issued a point-by-point rebuttal of the SMEs' charges:
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      548 H4 IT ALL DEPENDS ON NEW GENERATION "If the younger generation has a high political awareness of the problems and competition faced by Singapore, the country can overcome the current competition. If they choose to remain indifferent, then Singapore will not go
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      242 H4 BUSINESSES which are involved in the production, import or sale of chemical products are being drawn in to help safeguard Singapore in the fight against terrorism. They are encouraged to report suspicious buyers or anyone trying to buy chemical weapons or bomb-making ingredients
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      863 H6  -  Tanya Fong Fight with ex-hubby comes after court win against former father-in-law's firm By GOLD DIGGER? NOT ME "I am not a gold digger. I just want to ensure that my children and I are provided for." MADAM JENNY WONG, who
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      500 H6 TWO sisters have taken a sibling and three stepsisters to court in contesting a will their father made just before he died in August 1998. The spat revolves around 83--year-old Walter Cheodorus Dendroff's money and properties, which he willed to the quartet their younger
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      Lock icon Can't speak English? Club barred us: Tourists
      312 H7  -  Tracy Quek By TWO Chinese tourists wanted a taste of Singapore's nightlife, but the women claim they got an earful instead from staff at nightspot Brix and were denied entry because they could not speak English. The club's staff say they also got
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      Lock icon Man falls on MRT tracks
      106 H7 A THAI national in his mid-30s was injured on Saturday when he fell onto the MRT tracks at Jurong East station. The man fell into the path of a west-bound train at about 2.30 pm, forcing the driver to apply the emergency brakes. It is
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      84 H7 SINGTEL held a 3G trial involving 150 users who made video calls and surf ed the Web on their cellphones for the past month. All the testers appeared to have adapted well to the new technology, with capabilities such as phone conferencing (above). SingTel's survey showed: 39
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      Lock icon SingTel's 3G gets a thumbs up in trial
      557 H7  -  Alfred Siew Half of the 150 people polled say they would subscribe if the cost is reasonable By THE 150 people who had been making video calls and surfing the Web on their cellphones for the past month, to test SingTel's new
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        633 H8  - Getting to grips with CHANGES Ho Ai Li With a better teaeher-pupil ratio, each P1 kid will get more attention By The changes THE OLD Forty youngsters in a Primary 1 class. Most schools have morning and afternoon sessions. THE NEW About 30 children in a Primary 1 class. Partial
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        586 H9  - Keen on art? 'Niche' is a big draw Ho Ai Li PRIMARY SCHOOL CHANGES Parents can pick schools to help kids develop in nonacademic areas too By MORE MONEY HELPS "It's always good to have extra money of course. With that money, you can do a lot more for the
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        503 H10  -  Lynn Lee PRIMARY SCHOOL CHANGES Outdoor classes, project work a boon for Bukit View pupils By The changes THE OLD Focus on classroom teaching and rote learning. Lessons are mostly delivered by a teacher standing in front of a class
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        864 H11  -  Lynn Lee PRIMARY SCHOOL CHANGES Putting pupils of different abilities together does good, say parents By MORE ROOM TO DEVELOP "Removing this label will help boost the morale and self-esteem of pupils as those who are good in mother tongue but not as good
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        662 H12  -  Maria Almenoar PRIMARY SCHOOL CHANGES Primary schools now offer new CCAs such as archery and ballroom dancing By GOOD TO START EARLY "We want our pupils to gain as much exposure to different skills as possible. It's good to start children early,
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        Lock icon Okay, but support system needed to curb social ills
        454 H13 THE CASINO DEBATE AT THIS juncture, one can safely draw two conclusions from the great casino debate, which grows increasingly repetitive and tiresome. First, contrary to the pro camp, the casino is not likely to be a panacea to our economic
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        279 H13 I AM a Melbournian working in Singapore. Like all Melbournians, when the idea of a casino was brought up, many of us thought it was a great idea as it would generate income and create more jobs for the state of Victoria. Many
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        168 H13 I WRITE in total agreement with Mr Ngiam Tong Dow regarding "Why Singapore should never have a casino" (ST, Oct 21). Gambling in whatever form is the root of evil. I should know because as a cabby, I have picked up many gamblers
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        202 H13 MR CHEONG Wing Lee is right to point out that gambling will always be a problem, casinos or not ("Social woes blamed on casinos already exist"; ST, Oct 26). However, he fails to see the real point. To believe gambling is not the root
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        113 H13 I WOULD like to highlight something in the event that Singapore decides to build a casino here, regardless of the pros and cons. I believe of the many reasons that will be given to justify a casino, one of them is mainly to
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        489 H13 MR HARVEY Neo's suggestion of a carrot-and-stick approach to prostitution is useful but rather simplistic ("Tackle 'prostitution wave' with car-rot-and-stick approach"; ST, Oct 18). Foreign women caught without papers in Singapore may not be here voluntarily as prostitutes. Human trafficking is a vast business in
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        518 H14  - Teens grab titles with dare -devilry Marc Lim WAKEBOARDING They thrill the crowd and upstage older competitors to win World Cup crowns By BEDOK Reservoir roared to life yesterday as more than 8,000 spectators lined its usually sleepy snores to watch gravity-defying wakeboarding on the final day of the US$5O,OOO
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        Lock icon Jiawei misses another chance at a medal
        365 H14 TABLE TENNIS LI JIAWEI again missed out on a podium finish of a world tournament when she lost her third-place play-off in the Women's World Cup in Hangzhou, China yesterday. Li, who finished fourth at the Athens Olympics, had to again settle without
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        378 H14  -  Alvin Foo BOWLING By IT COULD not have come at a better time. Champion at the Qatar Open in September and second at the Indonesian Open last month, Singapore's leading bowler Remy Ong continued his hot streak by capturing the Guam
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        Lock icon Ferguson wants Henry banned
        586 H15 >» SOCCER GIVING UP SO SOON. FERGIE? This was a bad, bad performance and an awful defeat. We've let everybody down and I'm not interested now in what happens at the topofthetabip.' ALEX FERGUSON, on United'* lots at Portsmouth After PortsmoutMoss, United boss claims Arsenal striker
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        1019 H15 SerieA Sampdoria 0 AC Milan 1 Inter Milan 1 Lazio 1 Roma 5 C agliari 1 Fiorentina 4 Lecce 0 Juventus 3 Chievo 0 Uvorno 2 Brescia 1 Messina 2 Reggina 1 Parma 2 Atalanta 2 Siena 1 Bologna 1 Blackburn (England) LIVERPOOL
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        Lock icon Chelsea prepare to sue Mutu for loss of transfer value
        437 H15 London WHEN it rains, it pours. Chelsea are planning to sue striker Adrian Mutu, whom they sacked after testing positive for cocaine, for the loss of transfer value and will also attempt to bar him from moving to another club
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        Lock icon Bilbao hold Barcelona to a draw
        431 H15 Barcelona EAGER to bounce back from their shock defeat in the King's Cup, Spanish league leaders Barcelona could manage no more than a 1-1 draw against Athletic Bilbao. It was only the second time this season that Barcelona had dropped points but the result
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        Lock icon Leaders Juventus crush Chievo
        330 H15 Turin (Italy) JUVENTUS maintained their five-point cushion at the top of Italian Serie A yesterday when they beat Chievo Verona 3-0 at the Stadio delle Alpi. Goals by Marcelo Zalayeta, Pavel Nedved and 23a tan Ibrahimovic continued their unbeaten start to the season and gave them
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          160 H16 SINGAPORE golfer Mardan Mamat finished nine strokes off the pace after a final round of one-under-par 71 in the Sanya Open at the Yalong Bay Golf Club in China. He had been among the leaders after a 64 in the second round followed a firstround
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          Lock icon NIKE LEBRON II GOES FOR $1,000
          72 H16 THE only pair in Singapore of Nike's Limited Edition Air Zoom Leßron II was auctioned off for $1,000 at the Zouk discotheque last Friday. Only 55 pairs of the shoe are distributed in the Asia Pacific region. Proceeds of the auction will go to
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        Lock icon A warm-up friendly in name only
        572 H16  -  Marc Lim SOCCER Pride and reputation will see Singapore and Malaysia fielding their best players tonight By WITH Tiger Cup places on the line and pride on their minds, tonight's Singapore-Malaysia match at the Jalan Besar Stadium will be anything but a warm-up friendly
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        435 H16 RUGBY SINGAPORE are now Asia's fifth best team after they beat Thailand 41-34 to win the Division Two title at the Asian Rugby Football Union Arfu) tournament in Hong Kong yesterday. In an exciting match, Thailand drew first blood through an early penalty,
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        Lock icon Nothing but disaster can stop Vijay
        549 H17 »GOLF He leads and needs to finish seventh or better to become first US$l O-m man Palm Harbor (Florida) ONLY a terribly played final round will prevent Vijay Singh from becoming golf's first US$lO-million (5516.7-mil-lion) man. The world No 1 only needs to finish
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        Lock icon Park homes in on LPGA victory
        271 H17 Jeju (South Korea) GRACE Park of South Korea carded a seven-under-par 65 in the final round to win the US$l.35-million (552.25 million) CJ Nine Bridges Classic here yesterday. She finished at 16-under-par 200 after three rounds. It was her first LPGA victory on home
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          Lock icon INDIA MAKE CHANGES FOR FINAL TEST
          108 H17 NAGPUR: Indian cricket selectors made a host of changes on Saturday for the fourth and final Test against Australia after an ignominious defeat in the third Test here. Opener Akash Chopra and wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel were the prime casualties a day after India went
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          Lock icon AUSTRALIA WIN WITH ROONEY'S TRY
          89 H17 MANCHESTER: Luke Rooney scored a dramatic last-minute try to give Australia a thrilling 12-8 win over Britain and book their place in the Tri-Nations rugby league final here on Saturday. The Kangaroos had come back from 0-8 down and the match was heading for a
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          Lock icon JOEY FOLLOWS IN FATHER JONAH'S FOOTSTEPS
          141 H17 NOTTINGHAM: More than 20 years after the famous squash name last appeared in the starting line-up of the British Open, a Barrington will feature in the 2004 championships. Joey Barrington, son of the six-time champion Jonah, fought from two games down to overcome fellow
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        100 H18 CHONG SING Age: 96 passed away peacefully on 30/10/2004 leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Ng Chye Chie Sons: Daughters-in-law: Chong Huai Seng Teoh See Eng Chong Tian Seng Ng Leh Lee Chong Hou Seng Kong Carol Daughters: Son-in-law: Chong Chui Lun (Chan Chee Lam, deceased) Chong Poh Lian Grandsons: Granddaughters:
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        400 H18 "Be sure, then, to keep in your hearts the message you heard from the beginning. If you keep that message, then you will always live in union with the Son and the Father. And this is what Christ himself promised to give us eternal life." BETTY ANG Al GIN Age:
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        339 3 NEW YORK Their collaborative CD, Unfinished Business, is out but their concert tour is finished business. R. Kelly (below, right) ended his concert tour with Jay-Z (below, left) a day after he walked offstage and was allegedly blasted with pepper spray by someone from the latter's camp.
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