The Straits Times, 7 March 2006

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  • 453 1  - New bridge to link Marina Bay attractions Tan Hui Yee By 280 m pedestrian linkway Singapore's longest will connect areas such as the IR and waterfront gardens A TWISTING glass-and-steel pedestrian bridge will stretch across Marina Bay by 2009, as urban planners push on with plans to make the area
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  • 468 1  -  David Boey By SAFETY inspectors m the Singapore Armed Forces made about 20 unannounced visits a week to military units last year to make sure training was being carried out safely. The more high-risk the training, the more frequent the audits. With
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  • »UPFRONT
    • 1121 1  -  Yap Su-Yin By 'The whole episode has been very traumatic and hurtful. But I've broken out of that cycle of violence, and even though each day is still a struggle because of my health, I feel at peace." "MARK" (above), a stroke patient who
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    • 128 1 TODAY'S EXTRA ft A Telling the real |a f I Quills pips HDB Ommm A tale of t^v tr^ jrrn a j U| 9'ta( Life.7 5 fr° m c c JS.^ upgrading satire two countries y\ _j I Pirates are producing 1 I It was a night of rj p|Tgj
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    • 1023 2 SECTION ONE Abused cats Prime 3-4 Man who tortured a cat AsJ3 6-17 gets three months' jail. World 18-21 PAGEH2 Review 22-24 Clustersof farms •■I 25 Segregating farms m SECTION TWO clusters has cut the risk of j_| ome Hl-H8 a bird flu outbreak and Fnrum HQ protected egg supply.
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  • PRIME
    • 576 3  - $3. 9 b more to help SMEs get capital, boost know-how Erica Tay By Cash will be made available over five years as loans or grants, says Lim Hng Kiang LOCAL companies that need extra capital will soon have a larger kitty of cash to dip into after the Government
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    • 263 3 ASIA celebrated as Taiwanese director Lee Ang became the first Asian m the Oscars' 78th-year history to be crowned Best Director at Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre on Sunday night. The 51-year-old, a household name m Asia since
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    • 500 3  -  Sue-Ann Chia By VETERAN opposition figure J.B. Jeyaretnam is making a last-minute bid to get out of bankruptcy m time for a shot at the upcoming polls. He has applied to pay off all his debts, totalling about
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    • 380 4  -  Cheong Suk-Wai By Deputy Life! Editor "Sometimes it's very rewarding to tell these stories that don't get told m a normal situation." BEST ACTOR WINNER GERALD CHEW (above), on playing a bitter dying father THERE were surprises galore at last night's national theatre awards ceremony,
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    • 560 4  -  Jermyn Chow Tracy Sua By Touted as a coup for Spore, it was to have been beamed to global audience of 500 million A MEGA-CONCERT that the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) billed as the country's biggest-ever entertainment event has been cancelled. The Listen Live concert, which
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    • 176 4 HERE are the winners of the Life! Theatre Awards 2006: Production Of The Year: Quills by luna-id Theatre Best Director: Chong Tze Chien for Furthest North, Deepest South (The Finger Players) Best Actor: A tie between Gerald Chew for Everything But The Brain (Action Theatre) and Rehaan Engineer
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    • 404 4 LUCKY" 13 Someone has just bought 1 3 freehold apartments at this exclusive development on Cuscaden Road for about 555 million Today m The Business Times I GOODBYE I NONOI Neighbours gather I to grieve S talk about the I little girl pKper chemical sciences programme I The National University
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  • ASIA
    • 797 6  -  R eme Ahmad FUEL PRICE HIKE By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur Protesters want to know what national oil company has done with profits Malaysians ask: Why is Petronas not being tapped to reduce the pain suffered by the public? Why does oil-exporting Malaysia
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  • CHINA
    • 810 8  -  Chua Chin Hon NEWS ANALYSIS By China Bureau Chief In Beijing Core issues languish while Beijing commits $68b to vision of 'new socialist countryside 1 FACED with a worrying urbanrural gap, Beijing seems more intent on spending its way out
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    • 632 8  -  Tschang Chi-chu Jean Chua By In Beijing WIDER SCOPE "In terms of target-setting, we are paying attention not only to economic targets. We are paying even more attention to the human, social and environmental targets." MR MA KAI chairman of National Development and
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    • 229 9 The 2001 -06 Plan CHINA'S 10th Five-Year Economic Plan, the country's first for the new millennium, sought to speed up domestic economic reforms and restructuring of state-owned enterprises. It also set the broad stage for better integration with the global economy m anticipation of China's eventual entry into the World
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    • 277 9 Beijing FOR the second day m a row, a Chinese general called on the country's 2.3-million-strong military to be better prepared for "various military conflicts", the official Xinhua news agency reported last night. The warning from General Liang Guanglie, the People Liberation Army's Chief of
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    • 152 9 Beijing CHINA'S biggest increase m defence spending m four years is "far from enough", said military delegates to the parliament, rebuffing claims by the United States that the nations military build-up goes beyond its needs. "We believe our military spending is overall on the low
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    • 123 9 Close to 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, gathered m Beijing for its annual session on Sunday. The NPC meets annually m March to pass Bills, approve the budget and endorse personnel nominations, but is generally considered a rubber stamp for the ruling
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    • 267 9 DOMINATING the National People's Congress agenda this year is China's development blueprint for 2006 to 2010. Beijing began collecting views from the public for the 11th five-year plan m July 2003. The process usually involves key bodies like the National Development and Reform Commission and the Finance,
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 540 11 Man dies m province where there are no reported outbreaks of the disease m birds Hong Kong THE death of a man from bird flu m China's southern Guangdong province, where there are no reported outbreaks m birds, has sparked worries m Hong
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    • 254 11 Hong Kong A SINGAPOREAN couple based m Hong Kong have donated HK5250.000 (5552,300) towards the medical costs of a Filipino toddler awaiting a liver transplant at a hospital m the city. The couple, who wanted to be known only as "a generous,
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    • 230 11 A PREGNANT woman with bird flu symptoms died m Jakarta yesterday, while a boy who died elsewhere over the weekend was also suspected of carrying the virus, officials said. Madam Yani Mulyani, 25, who was five months pregnant, died along with her foetus while she
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    • 337 11 Hwang 'admits role in faking research' Seoul DISGRACED South Korean cloning expert Hwang Woo Suk has, for the first time, admitted playing a key role m fabricating stem cell research, the Yonhap news agency said yesterday. Professor Hwang, under questioning by prosecutors for the fifth day, admitted telling a researcher
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  • INDIA/ SOUTH ASIA
    • 417 13  - India wants Australian uranium Ravi Velloor By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi Move comes after Washington lifts freeze on sales of nuclear tech and fuel to New Delhi DAYS after getting the United States to agree to lift a freeze on sales of nuclear technology and fuel, India has
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    • 402 13  -  P. Jayaram By India Correspondent In New Delhi IF US President George W. Bush charmed his Indian hosts during his three-day visit last week with his salt-of-the-earth approach, his envoy to New Delhi had been courting one controversy after another m
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    • 139 13 Islamabad PAKISTAN'S President, General Pervez Musharraf, has stepped up a war of words with Afghanistan, deriding accusations that Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is m Pakistan, and questioning the Afghan leadership. Relations with neighbouring Afghanistan were growing tense and its President, Mr Hamid Karzai,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • THAI POLITICAL CRISIS
      • 736 14  -  Nirmal Ghosh By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok Resigning now would mean caving into mob and solve nothing, says PM THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra remained defiant yesterday hours after a crowd estimated by police at 60,000 called for his resignation m Bangkok on Sunday ending with a
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      • 515 14  -  Nirmal Ghosh Leslie Lopez By In Bangkok BUSINESSMAN Adisapat Ananwadchana's T-shirt captured the sentiments of the tens of thousands of people who thronged the Sanam Luang grounds m Bangkok on Sunday. Stretching the brown round-neck top, he showed off a self-sketched caricature of Thai Prime
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      • 50 14 In the just concluded battle of rallies m Bangkok, tens of thousands of people turned out to show their support for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawat ra and his opponents. Thailand Correspondent Nirmal Ghosh reports on the positions of the three critical camps m the ongoing political struggle.
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      • 369 14 THE ruling Thai Rak Thai (TRT) is seeking a fresh mandate to settle once and for all that it remains confident m the leadership of Mr Thaksin Shinawatra. It has also promised vote-winning goodies, with Mr Thaksin working the ground and emphasising his ability to deliver benefits
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      • 330 14 THE People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has spearheaded the campaign to unseat Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on grounds of conflict of interest, cronyism and ethical values. Businessman Sondhi Limthongkul, who has led the charge to oust Mr Thaksin, told The Straits Times: "After (Thaksin) steps down,
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      • 313 14 THE Democrat Party, some of whose MPs are said to be disappointed with the decision to boycott the April 2 election, is holding a series of meetings across the country to explain its decision to the public. Given the volatile situation m Bangkok, party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva has
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    • 697 15  - Jakarta resists pressure to withdraw tax Bills Salim Osman By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta But govt plans to amend measures m the face of business misgivings Reform move The three Bills cover general taxation arrangements and procedures, value-added and luxury taxes, and income tax. They are meant to reform tax
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    • 382 15 Jakarta STANDING astride a fumechoked footpath m the Indonesian capital, her year-old baby perched on a hip, Ms Dewi bin Suparao signals cars with a surreptitious finger, hoping they will pay to pick her up. Ms Suparno is among an increasing number of
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    • 115 15 Jakarta INDONESIAN police have arrested two men suspected of links to a wanted Malaysian terrorist. Ahmad Basyir, 36, was arrested m the East Java capital of Surabaya last Friday and Ahmad Arif Hermansyah was nabbed there a day later, a police spokesman said yesterday.
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
    • 582 16 Arroyo moves to steady economy and state as emergency rule comes to an end PRESS FREEDOM "We're not supposed to be restricted by the government but by our own code and the people we serve." ED LINGAO, of channel ABC-5 Manila
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    • 182 16 Malacca MALAYSIANS can now use their credit cards to pay for wedding hongbaos and funeral donations. The bonus points earned from using the credit cards will be converted into cash which goes towards funding the maintenance of a Chinese school. The idea came from
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 75 16 SEOUL: South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun left yesterday for a threecountry tour of Africa, where securing steady energy supplies for his re-source-poor country will be high on the agenda. Mr Roh will visit Egypt, Nigeria and Algeria m the first trip by a South Ko rean
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      • 64 16 BEIJING: Police m north-east China have detained a 32-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting and killing more than 20 children, state media reported yesterday. Gong Runbo is believed to have lured the children to his apartment m Jiamusi city m Heilongjiang province where he carried out the
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      • 76 16 PHNOM PENH: Vietnam's Prime Minister started a two-day visit to Cambodia yesterday, the first since the two countries signed a border agreement m October denounced by Cambodian critics who were later jailed. Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai will meet Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and
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      • 82 16 ISLAMABAD: Pakistani forces using helicopter gunships yesterday tackled sporadic resistance by militants after tnree days of clashes m a remote tribal town left nearly 120 rebels dead, the military said. The army imposed a curfew m Miranshah, the main town m the semi-au-tonomous North Waziristan tribal region
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 606 17  -  Carolyn Hong By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur 'My Second Home' scheme proving more successful since relaunch FORMER professional footballer Peter Butler is from England, works m Singapore, and runs a business m Bali. But his home is m Malaysia. He and his
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  • WORLD
    • 675 18 VIENNA A DEAL that could avert Iran being hauled before the Security Council is still possible, the UN nuclear watchdog's chief said last night. Citing a flurry of diplomacy as the meeting of the 35--member International Atomic Energy
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    • 205 18 THE lAEA groups 35 countries which try to reach decisions unanimously, only voting if consensus looks impossible. What key members say on the Iran issue: >> The EU3 powers France, Britain and Germany and the US want the Security Council to intervene m Iran's case unless
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    • 187 18 DIAGRAMS from an Iranian computer believed to depict an atomic bomb will be key to US arguments at the UN Security Council to take action on Iran's nuclear programme, according to Time magazine. The computer, said to have been stolen from an Iranian nuclear engineer and
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    • 532 19 Bush faces tough domestic battles Nuclear accord with India, Katrina fallout and the Dubai ports deal dent his popularity Washington Challenges on the homefront Congressional opposition to nuclear agreement with India Storm over government reaction to Hurricane Katrina disaster m New Orleans Worsening condition m Iraq occupation, with the threat
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    • 294 19 United Nations UN CHIEF Kofi Annan's proposals to overhaul the body's management will include seeking approval from the 191 member states to explore the possible outsourcing of some operations. The talking points m Mr Annan's reform report, expected to be out today, say
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    • 499 20 Former ruling Iraqi sect wants protection from Shi'ite majority keen to assert control Baghdad TWO years ago, city councilman Riyadh Al-Adhadh loudly demanded the withdrawal of the US soldiers who had toppled his Sun ni sect from power and overrun his homeland. But
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    • 276 20 LONDON HUMAN rights group Amnesty International says prisoners m Iraq are still being tortured, despite the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. The report, released yesterday, lists allegations from former detainees who claim they were beaten with plastic cables and given electric shocks. It
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 138 20 RAMALLAH (West Bank): The first working session of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament disintegrated into shouting matches yesterday, setting the tone for what legislators said would be a term fraught with tension. The confrontation erupted over an attempt by Hamas to overturn decisions made m the final
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      • 147 20 LONDON: An official British inquiry into the death of Princess Diana m a high-speed car crash has found no evidence of foul play, a newspaper reported yesterday. The inquiry's interim report will agree with earlier French findings on the 1997 crash, which killed the princess, her
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      • 126 20 SANAA (Yemen): Yemeni forces have recaptured three Al-Qaeda inmates who were part of a group that tunnelled out of a jail m the Arab country last month. "The authorities arrested three of the AlQaeda escapees m Sanaa on Sunday," a government official said yesterday. He gave no
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      • 133 20 VIENNA: Austria's right-wing Freedom Party started a petition yesterday for a referendum aimed at curbing the country's participation m the European Union. Austria holds the rotating six-month presidency of the 25-nation bloc. "Keep Austria Free" is the motto of the petition, which interested Austrians have a
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 213 21 BRITISH Culture Minister Tessa Jowell has decided to separate from her husband of 27 years after it emerged that he had wanted to trade on his relationship with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Mr David Mills, Ms JowelPs husband, is suspected by Italian prosecutors
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      • 185 21 VETERAN newsman Bob Schieffer, 67, is gaining thousands of new viewers for America's CBS TV by telling the news m "ordinary" English. For example, when US VicePresident Dick Cheney had a quail-hunting accident recently, Mr Schieffer said: "The question
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      • 187 21 GERMAN politicians have hailed former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev as the man who made the reunification of their country possible. "All Germans know that without his willingness to allow change, the democratic process m East Germany and the subsequent reunification of the two
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  • REVIEW
    • 401 22 T T£ HAVE made history to\l \j day, and I thank you, said India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the visiting US President George W. Bush. Dr Singh had reason to be fulsome, having pulled off a rare feat with a deal that will allow
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    • 1013 22  - A case of trainers vs flip-flops Tion Kwa By Senior Writer The crisis m Thailand will bring catharsis; that m the Philippines is just a sign of stasis THE current political turmoil m Thailand and the Philippines certainly reinforces the perception that both share similar traits, if not fates. Here
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    • 1047 22  -  Anthony Paul By Senior Writer SINCE about the 14th century, Thais have told and retold tales of an artful dodger known as Sri Thanonchai, a peasant who employs gifts of salesmanship and guile to come out tops m encounters with most people with whom
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    • 974 23  -  John Gapper By WHEN George Reyes, Google's finance director, invoked the law of large numbers last week to explain why its revenue growth would slow, he briefly knocked 13 per cent off its market value. But Google and other search engines have more to fear
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    • 714 23  -  Alice Waters By In Berkeley (California) IT IS shocking that, because of a rise m the incidence of Type 2 diabetes, experts predict children being raised m the United States today will probably die younger than their parents. If that does happen, it will
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    • 1149 24  - KL varsities set a course in English Abdul Razak Ahmad EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA By From next year, Malaysian state-run universities have to teach all science and mathematics-based degree courses, ranging from medicine to information technology, m English. How are they gearing up for the switch? WHEN Professor Yang Farina Abdul
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  • HOME
    • 8 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY MARCH 7, 2006
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    • 489 1 Probe on how she happened to be m step-grandparents' home after murder POLICE investigations appeared to have pinned down the place where toddler Nur Asyura Mohamed Fauzi, aged two, was killed. Yesterday, her stepfather, Mohammed AH Johari, 29, was charged with murdering
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    • 550 2  -  Elena Chong By 1 Vi-month-old kitten also beaten on head and had to be put to sleep for its injuries A MAN who rubbed the eyes of a kitten and beat its head was jailed for three months yesterday
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    • 230 2 Bid to sneak in chewing tobacco: Two fined TWO Malaysians working here were fined a total of nearly $3,300 for trying to smuggle m 12g sachets of Hans Scented Khaini brand of chewing tobacco. Balan Natarajan, 42, was fined $2,215 for trying to smuggle m 68 sachets through the Woodlands
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    • 213 2 FAKE goods are not new. But these days, the quality and look of some of these fakes software, music CDs and printer ink cartridges are so close to the originals that even seasoned shoppers cannot tell the difference. Increasingly, fakes are being hawked
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    • 261 2 HIS friends told the police that Muhammad Ibrahim Mohd Shafri had been drinking beer with them. However, an autopsy discovered no alcohol only a deadly combination of drugs. State Coroner Tan Boon Heng said the evidence revealed that Ibrahim had had a cocktail of
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    • 112 2 LIM Choon Chwee, accused of plotting with "one-eyed dragon" Tan Chor Jin to kill a nightclub owner, has been remanded for psychiatric examination. The 38-year-old unemployed man is said to have conspired with Tan, 39, to murder Mr Lim Hock Soon, 41, a
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    • 71 2 "Money" rained down at Plaza Singapura yesterday afternoon as a mountain of imitation $5 notes was tossed onto surprised shoppers. The "free cash" giveaway was part of a promotional campaign to spread the word about Capita Card, a new loyalty debit and credit card
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    • 438 3  -  Chong Chee Kin By Though he stabbed assailant, he was not aggressor m initial attack by duo HIGH on ketamine, salesman Raymond Yap Choon Teck and a friend attacked Neo Eng Kiat at a night market m Serangoon. However, Neo, then 24,
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    • 630 3  -  Tracy Sua GIRL KNOCKED DOWN BY TEEN: FAMILY IS UPSET By IT WILL be Liew Xue Mei's 11th birthday tomorrow and she will be getting a gift of grapes and a can of Coca-Cola. They will be placed on the altar of her
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    • 691 4  -  Sue-Ann Chia Aaron Low By Opposition unlikely to contest all 84 seats, even vying for half of that is still uncertain OPPOSITION parties are taking their time picking up a gauntlet thrown by the ruling party when it challenged them to contest
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    • 242 4 OPPOSITION politician Chee Soon Juan has asked the Law Society to weigh m on his contempt of court case. The secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party has been charged over his accusations that the Singapore judiciary is not independent m its
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    • 86 4 MALAYSIA'S Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Ahmad Husni Mohamad Hanadzlah will visit Singapore from today to Friday as the 27th Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellow. He will also meet Foreign Minister George Yeo, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang, and Mr Raymond
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    • 73 4 SINGAPORE has established diplomatic relations with Libya effective last Friday. A press statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the move is to strengthen and develop friendly relations between Singapore and the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The state m North Africa bordering the
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    • BUDGET DEBATE
      • 619 5  -  Chang Ai-Lien Meng Yew Choong By Farms segregated m clusters; vaccines for poultry also being stockpiled I NATIONAL I DEVELOPMENT FY2006: 1.24 b FY 2005: $1. 36 b Down 8.3 per cent BIRD flu plans are being strengthened here to
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      • 600 6  -  David Boey By Those with overseas varsity places cannot defer NS, but ITE grads can go to poly first FY2006: $10b FY 2005: $9.26 b Up 8.5 per cent TWO groups of students will be affected by a change that Mindef has
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      • 471 6  -  DAVID BOEY DEFENCE Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday transformed the way Parliament debated lofty issues of governance. In what is believed to be a first for a debate m Singapore Parliament, Mr Teo brought a military surveillance device to show the House one of
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      • 1069 6 Responding to questions from 1 2 MPs m a wide-ranging speech, Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday touched on a range of topics such as the defence budget, bilateral ties and the Singapore Armed Forces' capabilities, reports Marcel Lee Pereira. the minister also
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      • 542 7  -  Krist 800 By One example: Though fewer China tourists came last year, they spent more FY2006: $1.63 b FY2005: $1.53 b Up 6.5 per cent FEWER tourists came from China last year, but compared to those who came a year before, they
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      • 187 7 THE distinctive Golden Mile Complex m Beach Road was described as an "eyesore" m Parliament yesterday by Nominated MP Ivan Png m a strongly worded statement. And although Parliamentary Secretary (National Development) Mohamad Maliki Osman agreed wholeheartedly with that comment, he admitted
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      • 328 7 LOST IN TRANSLATION "Who is this Katong? I believe the editor was deliberately trying to create suspense. On another page, I found the answer. She said: 'Do you know Katong is named after a species of turtle found m Singapore?' This is to say that
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      • PARLIAMENT SHORTS
        • 312 8 SINGAPORE'S range of economic incentive schemes and free trade agreements (FT As) have helped anchor foreign investors, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday. The minister was responding to MPs who queried the yardsticks used to evaluate the Economic Development Assistance Scheme
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        • 249 8 SINGAPORE needs a comprehensive masterplan to protect and guide developments around its marine and coastal areas, said Nominated Member of Parliament Geh Mm said yesterday. Not doing so will shrink its limited recreation spaces and the potential for scientific research. Dr Geh, who is
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        • 182 8 SINGAPORE has to invest m building up its research and development capabilities though it may be difficult to measure R&D output, said Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang yesterday. "Building up our R&D capability is a crucial piece of securing our economic future.
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      • 562 8  - JTC move to divest unlikely to cause spike in rents Joyce Teo By Govt assures MPs who express concern that JTC Corp's planned assets sale to private sector will hit SMEs hard THE Government needs to ensure that industrial land prices do not rise dramatically as a result of JTC
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      • 402 8  -  Erica Tay By LOCAL firms should give the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) more time to fulfil its role as the country's top business body, said Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang yesterday. Mr Lim told Parliament that the "SBF is only four years
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      • 779 8  -  Ong Soh Chin FROM THE GALLERY By NO ISLAND IS AN ISLAND Singapore's plans for its nature, urbanisation, trade and defence looked impressively beyond the country's tiny borders showing that no island is an island either, especially one that wants
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    • FORUM
      • 527 9 I FIND the claim by the opposition that the recent Budget was aimed at winning votes for the Government ludicrous. Firstly, what votes are the opposition parties talking about? For several decades now, voters have supported the People's Action Party (PAP) Government, both m
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      • 147 9 pect of taking on the opposition at the coming general election". Plainly, the connection alluded to by the Workers' Party is not as tenuous and unreal as some might want us to believe. Tham Lijing GRASSROOTS leaders reacted strongly to the Workers' Party's recent charge
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      • 257 9 MY THREE-YEAR-OLD child had diarrhoea and vomited for two days. On Feb 15 at about 10.30pm she complained of stomach pain, had fever, vomited four to five times and had diarrhoea so we took her to XX Hospital's A&E Department. We got the queue
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      • WHAT HOSPITAL SAYS
        • 475 9 I REFER to Mrs Sheeba John's letter. We thank Mrs John for her feedback regarding her visit to our Children's Emergency (CE). She raised a few issues which we would like to address. As paediatric health-care professionals, we understand how distressing it is
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      • TAX ON EMPLOYEES' TAXI CLAIMS
        • 272 9 COMMERCIAL REALITY Is the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore losing touch with commercial reality? I REFER to the report, "Firms fume over tax guideline for expenses" (ST, March 3). While businesses fret over the taxman's move to treat employees' claims for taxi rides
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      • 164 9 Audrey Ang (Ms) Assistant Director (Media Relations) Singapore Police Force I REFER to Mr lan Sik's letter, "Cop sends SMS while driving" (ST, March 4). We have identified and interviewed the police officer whom Mr Sik saw on Feb 24. According to the officer,
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      • BOUQUETS
        • 58 9 I WOULD like to commend the driver of taxi SHC4O^7J for his kindness. He was on his way out of the National University of Singapore on Friday when he saw me limping because of an injured leg. He stopped, asked where I was headed and took me to
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        • 52 9 ON JAN 21 my 85-year-old mum fell at the overhead bridge outside Novena Church. An elderly couple, Mr and Mrs Chai, helped her to the bus-stop. Another woman exchanged my mum's broken umbrella with her own good one. My family would like to say "Thank you". Mark Chan
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        • 73 9 I WOULD like to thank a motorist who was on his way to pick up his daughter from school. He allowed me to wait m his car when I was chased by my former husband along Tampines Street 83 at about 6pm on Jan 20. I popped into
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      • 358 9 WE THANK Mr Mark Ho Boon Kin for his suggestion to open up more spaces for football games (ST, March 1). Mr Ho would be pleased to know that the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has opened up about 280 vacant sites (480 ha)
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    • SPORTS
      • 813 10 Chelsea get a hot reception on arrival, and Cole believes his team are not dead yet Barcelona CHELSEA v Barcelona is fast becoming the grudge match of European football. The English champions walked into a war zone on arrival at the Catalan city on Sunday
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      • 591 10 NOT COMPLACENT "It happened to us when we were 2-1 up last year. Chelsea have players who can score two goals at any moment, and we must realise we have achieved nothing yet" LIONEL MESSI Champions League Today Barcelona v Chelsea Live,
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      • 460 10 Turin (Italy) JUVENTUS are confident their "three minutes of madness" will not come back to haunt them when they face Werder Bremen m the second leg of their Champions League last 16 clash here today. The Italian league leaders, leading 2-1 m the first leg
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      • 546 11  -  Lin Xinyi SPORTS IN SCHOOLS By But the marks set by the 16-year-old will not count here as they were achieved indoors STEFAN Tseng marked his comeback from a career-threatening back injury when he leapt his way into British and Singapore sporting
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      • 323 11 SOCCER London MARTIN Jol said the next few weeks would be critical to Tottenham's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League after his side carved out a 3-2 win at home against Blackburn Rovers on Sunday. Irish striker Robbie Keane scored twice
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      • 656 11  -  Victor Ng »WILD WEEKEND By THEY can be naughty, the British tabloids. First, they run a story about a video m which two footballers indulge m gay sex. In it, there is the alleged use of a mobile phone m a
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      • 703 11 LETTER WE refer to your articles "Much aggro over Agu" and "Crime, punishment and misplaced forgiveness" (The Sunday Times, March 5). We thank the fans for their views. The FAS would like to explain its position. Understandably, many fans are outraged
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      • 235 11 THE Football Association of Singapore yesterday clarified that it had dropped Goh Tat Chuan and Masrezwan Masturi j for only two games against Iraq and Palestine m the AFC Asian Cup qualifiers. In a statement released yesterday, the FAS said: "There is
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      • 141 11 PJ» J) I F A Pts Chelsea 28 23 3 2 5617 72 Liverpool 2816 7 5 3317 55 Man United 26 16 6 4 52 27 54 Tottenham 2813 10 540 26 49 Arsenal 2813 ***** 22 44 Blackburn 2813 4 1136 34 43 Bolton 26 11 9
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      • 619 12  - First medal in athletics looms large Alvin Foo Commonwealth Games coverage THE Straits Times begins today its countdown to next week's Commonwealth Games m Melbourne. The spotlight falls on Zhang Guirong and Dv Xianhui, who are aiming to earn Singapore its first athletics medal m the 76-year history of the
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      • 457 12 GOLF Miami TIGER Woods played his best golf when he finally got some competition on Sunday at Doral, then was at his worst when it no longer mattered. Despite a bogey-bogey finish on the Blue Monster, Woods closed with a three-un-der 69,
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      • 83 12 GOLF iron-man Vijay Singh is giving himself a break. The Fijian, who has had only one idle week all year, pulled out of this week's Honda Classic, and is considering pulling out of the following week's Bay Hill Invitational The world No 2 said he needs to work
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      • SPORTS WORLD
        • 60 12 ROME: Inter Milan's Marco Materazzi headed a last-minute goal to snap Roma's record 11 -game winning streak m the Italian Serie A on Sunday. They drew 1-1. Roma led through Rodrigo Taddei's ninth-minute goal. But Inter dominated the second half and they finally got their reward
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        • 46 12 LAS VEGAS: James Blake toppled top-seeded Australian Lleyton Hewitt 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 to win the US$3BO,OOO (*****,000) ATP tournament here on Sunday. The fifth-seeded American claimed the fifth title of his tennis career and second of this year. AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
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        • 105 12 COLARADO SPRINGS: Kobe Bryant will be the centerpiece of the new-look US basketball team that is expected to improve upon a disappointing bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics. He was selected, along with Carmelo Anthony, Leßron James and 18 other NBA players, on
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      • 414 12 Yao's season high marred by McGrady' s injury h BASKETBALL Houston YAO Ming scored a sea-son-high 32 points on Sunday to lift the Houston Rockets to a 102-84 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers m the National Basketball Association. However, he could not afford to celebrate, after teammate Tracy McGrady
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      • 283 12  -  Alvin Foo SAILING By IT IS a remarkable achievement by any standard: Koh Seng Leong won the SAFYC Changi regatta last weekend without his left index finger. The national Laser sailor, who missed last December's South-east Asia Games because of injuries following a motorcycle
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      • 682 13  -  Nicholas Fang SWIMMING By She beats Joscelin to clock a personal best of 26.925 ec m the 50-metre butterfly HOSTS Singapore won their first gold last night at the Milo Asia Swimming Championships at the Singapore Sports School, thanks to Tao
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      • 468 13  -  Lin Xinyi SOCCER By JAPANESE side Albirex Niigata delivered on their promise for the new S-League season: They played with vision, hunger and purpose against the Young Lions m their first match yesterday. It took a stoppage-time goal from striker Qiu
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      • 249 13  -  NICHOLAS FANG IT IS a strong anti-inflammatory analgesic, usually applied on horses and dogs. It is not approved for human use m Singapore. So, why did Mirko Jelicic, the Singapore Armed Forces FC (SAFFC) physio, prescribe Domoso, which comes m a roll-on form, to nis
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      • 690 13 BASKETBALL NBA: Washington 117 Sacramento 107, Indiana 94 Philadelphia 93, Minnesota 103 Golden State 90, Phoenix 115 Dallas 107, Toronto 111 Boston 105, Cleveland 91 Chicago 72. Memphis 102 LA Clippers 86, Seattle 113 Utah 81, Houston 102 Portland 84. CRICKET Matches played on March 4 and 5: Ist
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        288 14 ■I I M AMMATHAID/OOYYANNARSEVATHAIAH (ex RAF Selatar IMH Staff) Owner ofKovan Market,ol-129 Spicemart Stall Age: 66 was called home to be with her loving mother on 5 March 2006. Deepl) missed fondly remembered by all loved ones. (HUSBAND: Sangaran S/O Suppiah, deceased) Sister: Venotham D/O Oyyannar Sevathaiah Sons: Daughters-in-law: S
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        591 14 KEK LAI TENG Age: 65 Passed away peacefully on 5 March 2006. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Tiyujen, Lucy aons: Daughters- in-lazy: Kek Seng Swee. Nicolas Tan situ Lan,Christina Kek Seng Guan. Danny Lieu ChlOU Keel. Maiulv Pant; Mini Heng, (iinn\ n a, c Daughters: Son-in-law:
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        230 14 CHAN AH QU EN Age: 83 Was called home to be with the Lord on Monday 6 March 2006. Sadly missed and always remembered by loved ones. Sons: Daughters-in-law: Pang Weng Fai Tracy Lee Dr Pang Weng Sun Dr Audrey Tan Daughters: Pang Wai Fun I Pang Wai Kuen Grandson:
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        468 14 RUSSELL HENRY 1)11 PRATT returned to the I ord on 6 Mar 2006. Sadly missed by all loved ones. Wife: Mona Mary DuTratt, deceased Daughters: Heather M.i> IU-utrns lean \iin Alexandre (Paris, Carol Marie Dif Pratt (Paris) Daughter-in-law: lean I)u' Pratt Sons: (Leslie I )u Pratt. deoeMed Andre' Dv Pratt
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      • 487 16 AT&T agrees to acquire BellSouth for 109 b Deal will hand over rest of Cingular and help telco compete against cable TV and Net rivals Philadelphia AT&T said on Sunday that it would buy Bell South for US$67 billion (*****.3 billion) to acquire the rest of Cingular Wireless that it
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      • 395 16 New York FOUNDED by some traders under a tree on Wall Street two centuries ago, the world's biggest stock exchange enters a new growth phase this week as it goes public, building a war chest to expand globally. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
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      • 36 16 Yesterday's close: 15,811.83 (+9.83 points) Hong Kong shares ended flat as investors took a breather ahead of earnings results from HSBC, which accounts for nearly a third of the index's weighting. REUTERS
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      • 36 16 Yesterday's close: 15,901.16 (+237.82 points) Japanese stocks shot up as bargain-hunting set m after three days of losses, despite worries over an expected end to the Bank of Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy. AFP
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      • 28 16 Yesterday's close: 4,903.9 (+5.4 points) >• Australian shares closed 0.1 percent higher, against a backdrop of mixed investor sentiment and little direction from offshore markets. AFP
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      • 34 16 Yesterday's close: 1,288.95 (-4.34 points) Chinese stocks fell Oil refiner China Petroleum Chemical Corp dropped after the chairman of CNOOC said prices of crude may remain high this year. BLOOMBERG NEWS
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      • 35 16 Yesterday's close-. 914.92 (-2.01 points) Malaysian stocks closed 0.22 percent lower, as investors stayed on the sidelines amid a lack of fresh leads and worries over a recent fuel price hike. AFP
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        41 16 Yesterday's close: 10,734.62 (+139.19 points) The Sensex ended higher, touching a new summit. Investors were bullish on the back of a strong listing of Reliance Communication Ventures. It debuted with a market cap of US$B billion (Ssl 3.05 billion).
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      • 29 16 Yesterday's close-. 1,262.69 (+1.42 points) Indonesian stocks edged up 0.11 percent to a record high, led by index heavyweight Astra International and a strengthening rupiah. AFP
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      • 33 16 Yesterday's close: 750.81 (-2.58 points) Thai shares finished lower, as investors stayed on the sidelines due to the political turmoil over the leadership of embattled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. AFP
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      • 258 16 March 6 Stock Name Wt Close Change All»reensoc 031 1.390 -0.010 AscendKreit 1.00 2.170 +0 030 BIL Intl US2Oc 0.57 1.540 Capita Land 3.85 4.240 -0.020 Capita Mall 079 2.390 +0.010 Chart SemiCond 26c 086 1.420 +0.010 CityOevSOc 2.69 10.100 +0.150 ComfortOelGro 25c 168 1.690+0.020 Cosco
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      • 74 16 March 6 China Sun HK25c 54.933,000 Frt Links 1c 51.245,000 China Essen HK5Oc 46,182.000 Global Voice 5c 33.884,000 Luzhou 33,254,000 Reyounj US7.5c 28,946,000 Sky Petrolic 27,584,000 China Dairy 5c 24,766,000 CG Tech HKIOc 23,355,000 Hongguo USI.SC 22,337.000 Star Pharm 22,170,000 CIO Pharm HK25c 20,574,000 Sing Tel 15c 17,733.000
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      • 151 16 March 6 FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT Indian rupee 3.400 3.800 OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Indonesian rupiah 0.***** .0.***** Buying Selling Japanese yen ***** ***** Aust dollar 1.2030 ***** Korean won 0.1640 0.1710 Can dollar 1.4210 1.4370 N Taiwan dollar 4.820 5 060 Euro *****
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      • 381 17 Production could start next year and will treble Toshiba's capacity Tokyo TOSHIBA and its partner SanDisk will jointly spend about 500 billion yen (Ss7 billion) to build a new flash memory plant m Japan, business daily Nihon Keizai said yesterday. Toshiba, the
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        • 85 20 SEMBCORP UNIT WINS $325 M BRITISH DEAL A BRITISH subsidiary of SembCorp Industries has won a contract worth more than US$2OO million (***** million) to build a petrochemical plant m Britain. The contract to design, procure and build the world's largest single-stream low density polyethylene plant was awarded to SembCorp
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      • 103 22 Despite political tension m the Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan, their key stock indexes have been rising. In the Philippines, where President Gloria Arroyo (right) declared a state of emergency, the Philippine Composite Index has gained 2.2 per cent m the past trading week. She has since lifted the
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      • 625 22  -  Chua Kong Ho By They warn against knee-jerk reactions, urge investors to think longer-term UNIT trust investors who sold their holdings m Thai, Philippine and Taiwan funds because of political tensions m the three nations would have done better keeping a longerterm view
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      • 1173 3  -  Ong Sor Fern FILM CORRESPONDENT Lee Ang's Oscar win is an historic event but it is going to be a hard act to foltow for other Asian directors who want to make it big m Hollywood IT WAS about time Lee Ang
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      • 440 3 TAIPEI Cheers rang out all over Taipei when it was announced that native son Lee Ang had won an Oscar for Best Director. In a small TV production and film distribution office m Taipei, his younger brother, Lee Kang, sprang up and pumped
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      • 799 4 A 10-POINT CRASH COURSE ON CRASH B The screenplay by scriptwriter- director Paul Haggis came from a real-life incident he and his wife, Diane, experienced m 1991. They were involved m a carjacking outside a video store at night. Their Porsche was robbed by two young African-Americans. Ten years later,
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      • 132 4 SOUTH Africa celebrated its first Oscar award for gangster film Tsotsi, raising hopes that a revival m local film-making would get a further spark. Cast members and supporters erupted into cheers at a local hotel m the early hours before dawn, watching on live
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      • 149 4 FORGET the suspense over Best Movie or Actor or Actress the real question on Oscar night was whether Three 6 Mafia could actually perform a cuss-free, non-graphic version of If s Hard Out Here For A Pimp. In one of the most exciting performances for
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      • 351 7  -  Tay Suan Chiang CONCERT MIGRANT VOICES CD LAUNCH Esplanade Outdoor Theatre Sunday THERE were no big-name celebrities onstage. Instead, a group of 22 migrant workers belted their lungs out to a crowd of about 300 m this free concert to launch the Migrant Voices
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    • 700 9 fffk D l 16 EAST COAST \^f PTE APTS SALE PENTHSE KING'S Mansion/ Peach Gdn 4+l 3118/ 2766 sqft $1.6x-I.7xM. Amber Pt 3+l. 1690 sqft. $933k-$l.xM up. *****888 PARKSHORE 2325 SOFT. 4 maid 2 storerms. High fir, f'hold, bright, windy, mins to city, rare, f/facilities. Sole agt *****361 KF D.15
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    • 765 9 Wfk HDB APTS FOR SALE iff (BEDOK/CHAICHEE) EDOK RES RD. Blk 146. 4 'S' *02. lust sell orig. Vacant quiet, edok Res View Blk 767. 4 'A' 01. 5 yrs, move m. 9270-6137 T BLK 503, Bedok N. NS facing, love m, amenities. Blk 39 Bedok outh. 2 I'NG' Beautiful
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    • 686 9 ■LV HDB APTS FOR SALE LHi (BTMERAH/Q B STOWN/ |F TELOKBLANGAH) DEPOT RD BLK 104A 5 rms. High fir unobstructed view/ windy. Excellent facing/ no noon sun. View to appreciate. 9797 5736 if JLN BT Merah Blk 11. Low fir. Near MRT/ mkt/ sch. Cheap sale! 4-rm corner Kirn Tian
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    • 785 9 Wf\ HDB APTS FOR SALE BirMCHOACHUKANG) BEST OF CCX Exec Mais 287, 208. High fir. Tip top. Unblocked Below value Exec Apt 448. High fir. 1000% move m Below value 5 'I' 688A. Very high floor. 100% move-in. 5 yrs. ..Below value 5 T 507 corner mid flrs26oK neq! 5
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    • 1056 9 B HOB APTS FOR SALE (HOUGANG/ S "GOON/ YIOCHUKANG) 5-RM BLK 5 Lor Lew Lian. Corridor unit. 128 sqm. 4 bdrms. High fir. Aircon, MRT/ sch/ amenities. Hurry! Below value! 9271-8484 BELOW VALUE 4'A' Blk 552 Hougang #04. Near MRT/ shpg ctr/ sch. Serious seller. 9092-0997 MUST SELL! HP 9488-6811
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    • 866 9 Properties PPrS HDB APTS FOR SALE f^ (KALLANG/WHAMPOA) FAYE j 9169 0096^1 NEW! INDIANS ELIGIBLE. 3 T Blk 55. Kallang Bahru. High fir. Upgraded. Selling fast. Value $165K 5 'I' Blk 111 Whampoa. 810. High ceiling. Corner. 200% move-in. (fK HDB APTS FOR SALE Uf (MARINE PARADE) 3-RM CORNER 31
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    • 609 10 HfV HUDC/HDB APTS \iif WANTED (RENT/ BUY) 9238-6626 MIKE. WHOLE units I urgently wanted for rent islandwide. High price ottered. Ready professional tenants/ tamilies. COUPLE/ MANAGER/ JAPANESE Lady/ PR urgently looking tor all areas, whole units. High budget. *****898 JUNAIDAH 9852-1264. TAIWAN, Philippines. M'sia, India (IT Prof). Co lease. With
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    • 1401 10 Bbsbs?"" BBSsr* 9%ssr* FOR LEASE INDUSTRIAL SPACE HI-TECH BUSINESS PARK TECHPUCE I 4 II. Ang Mo Kio Aye 10 4 5 INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES Unit sizes from 500 sf TECHUNK, Kaki Bukit Rd 3 A-Z BUILDING, Paya Lebar Rd TECHVIEW. Kaki Bukit View Unit sizes from 1 ,700/2.000/5,200/6.000/ C EN I^
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    • 1040 11 HK OFFICE SPACE t^/ FOR RENT DESK SPACE IN sve office avail. Near Tg Pagar MRT. Prime professional. Suits start-up biz. mycommspace.com *****720 ÜBI TECHPARK. NEW fully fitted office with roof terr. 3000 sqft. Aircon with 4 partition rms. Toilet attached. $neg. *****108 C2l CITY HALL 260/ 350/ 1485 sq.ft.
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    • 547 11 ffbk OFFICE SPACE Iff? FOR SALE International Property Advis#fs BALESTIER, LE SHANTIER, fairly new office. 732 sqft. Fully fitted/ aircon. F'hold./ Novena MRT. SSOOK 0.n.0. 9634-7392 Karen PRIME OFFICE FOR SALE Suntec Twr I, II 111, 2830. 4800. ***** sqft Mid/ High fir Th« Bencoolen, 1291 sqft. MRT Int'l Plaza,
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    • 15 1 Digital Life Your Weekly Tech Magazine From THE STRAITS TIMES Tuesday March 07, 2006 AAlfAn(gy^^2oos
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      • 715 3 Pirates are coming up with "high-end" fake goods that are harder to spot. Movie, music, software and printer companies spill the beans on how to tell the real from the pirated. CHUA HIAN HOU reports The problem of fake software programs, movies, music CDs and printer ink
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        427 4 CHUA HIAN HOU checks out the legal options to all things pirated from movies to printer ink There are ways to get good (and cheap) stuff without resorting to piracy. These options may not be the popular brand names like Microsoft or Norton, but they work. Software Those
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        558 6 Two Singapore Battlefield 2 clans score m early rounds of global competition. CHUA HIAN HOU assesses if they can take on the bigger All gaming eyes are on two homegrown Battlefield 2 clans. Siberian Bf .Nut and the Special Assault Force (SAF) have already beaten six Australian and
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      • 191 8 The iLife '06 Experience Contest, sponsored by Apple, has got winners, who now move on to the next stage of the contest More than 160 entries have poured m for the iLife'o6 Experience contest. The event, sponsored by Apple Computer, is to promote the creation and sharing of digital
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      • 393 8 Here are the winners' 50-word entries. 14 AND BELOW lan Chua, 10, on iPhoto: "I want to talk and chat with my friends m Singapore and overseas face to face on a Mac. "I also want to create a photo album on Mac to show my friends
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        99 12 A round-up of products and services for consumers Electronic dictionary Library on-the-go This pocket-sized Seiko e-dictio-nary could well be your reference library on-the-go. It packs the Britannica Con- "^^i*^ cisc Encyclopedia, Concise Oxford Dictionary, Thesaurus and Quotations m a slim 20mm package. Other features include a spellchecker, an abbreviation
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      • 227 12 Lenovo launched its first-ever 3000 pro-duct line, which includes new notebook PCs, the Lenovo C Series, and new desktop PCs, the Lenovo J Series. With Lenovo Care tools, PC maintenance and service guesswork is replaced by powerful autonomic tools to help make PCs more self-reliant,
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      • 145 12 Cellphones Camera-friendly Sony Ericsson's new cellphones, the KBooi and K79oi, boast cameras with two new features. The Xenon flash promises to give sharp and colorful pictures even m the dark, and Best Pic ensures that you capture the best moment. With one press of the shutter button, the camera captures
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      • 201 12 Fujitsu has released major upgrades to three new flagship corporate notebook computers the Lifeßook S7llO, EBllO and EB2lO. The Lifeßook S7llO, from the thin-and-light range, weighs just I.Bkg, and is a full-featured notebook with 14.1-inch XGA TFT screen. The EBllO has a bigger 15-inch XGA
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      • 502 14 Mobile tools with design flair Hewlett-Packard's new range of mobile devices focuses on design and features to cater to Asian consumers Hewlett-Packard (HP) is releasing several products like smartphones, notebooks and projectors aimed specifically at the Asian consumer. Figures from research company IDC show that the smart phone market is
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    • 366 5 The truth on fakes It is not an offence to buy or own pirated software. But software companies can bring a civil suit against individuals to recover the cost of such software. Is it illegal to bring m pirated movies? Will the police raid your home if they catch you
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    • 185 13  -  Alfred Siew High-definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) WHAT IT MEANS: Increasingly common on expensive plasma and LCD TVs, as well as DVD players, high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) refers to the digital connection that carries audio and video signals between the highdefinition TV set and the home theatre equipment When you
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      • 668 16 Ties untangled on the Web Hundreds of amateurs are switching on their microphones to make relationship podcasts and offer free online dating advice Mr Jesse Cohen isn't a degreed relationship expert. He's a copywriter at a New York ad agency. But when it comes to deciphering late-night phone calls, happy
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      • 552 17  -  SERENE LUO BY DIGITAL EDGE Adults must know the ground and guide youths on how to tap IT m the right ways Youths were saying: Tammy was just unlucky her cellphone was stolen and home-made sex videos should be kept more safely. (As if
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      • 469 17 Unlike m the past, money is stored on servers rather than m banks and is moved over networks rather than physically. Also, investors and auditors anxiously watch a company's every move. Proven compliance with regulations is a major consideration of every chief executive officer (CEO), chief
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          216 18  -  Valentine Chua By Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening Special Edition With the many difficult adjustments m the Special Edition, the game becomes a lot easier for those who threw their controllers m frustration to the original game. Here are some tips to get you through the game. The
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        • 358 18 Flashy, fastpaced Dante Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening Special Edition Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening Special Edition (SE) builds upon its predecessor Devil May Cry 3. It is packaged as a greatest hits or a re-release of original game titles. In SE, you play Dante again, the series'
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        • 329 18 Atari Masterpieces Volume 1 Game company Atari may have seen better days, but let's not for-get-that its classic video game titles kickstarted the entire industry. Nokia's N-Gage now jumps on the retro games bandwagon by offering the Atari Masterpieces Volume 1 collection that replicates the arcade
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        • 419 19 FINAL SAY if you are not too bothered about print, copy or scan quality, the Dell Photo 964 should fit your general needs. If you want better-looking prints, get a better machine at a higher price. Dell Photo 964 all-in-one printer $320.25 Buy online at www.
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        599 21  -  Serene Luo Compiled by (serl@sph. com.sg) The latest products and services for enterprise users SOFTWARE Talk m private Voice over Internet Protocol (or VoIP) is one of the hottest buzzwords now. But beware. CE-Infosys, an IT security solutions firm, says that VoIP calls are easy to intercept and can
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      • 164 21 Technology news from around the world MySpace.com to bolster security measures MySpace.com, the online virtual-community run by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, will soon add technology to screen how its 60 million members use the website to prevent crime, the company's chief executive said last week. He discussed the enhanced
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      • 150 21 US digital television recording pioneer TiVo announced last week that it has teamed with family- values groups to create a tool to shield children's eyes from adult programming. TiVo allied with Common Sense Media and the Parents Television Council to create menus of television shows acceptable
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        582 22 Switch to IP phones Eyeing the current opportunities with IP telephony, Alcatel also showed off video-conferencing systems, wireless security software and its OmniTouch contact centre equipment here. It is, however, not the only one to woo customers that are gradually switching from old PABX (private automatic branch exchange)
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      • 543 22 Unified Communications is about connecting the right people to the right people the first time, and avoiding the game of telephone Mr Joe Burton, director of engineering m Cisco's Unified Communications Business Unit If Internet networking giant Cisco Systems has its way, you will never
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      • 720 24 Today's IT security specialists are business managers and data defenders rolled into one and very much m demand. THAM YUEN-C From fighting malicious attacks on computer systems to managing business needs to ensuring return on security investments IT security managers now have to do it all. No
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      • 927 26 Data protection strategies and policies are crucial to businesses today. For companies, keeping the information for internal use at the right time and place can be an effective weapon to combat competition. For other companies whose business depends on creating trust with their customers, keeping information
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      • 402 27 Can electronic documents created today be readable tomorrow? An organisation m the United States wants to ensure the establishment of open and portable electronic documentation by government agencies A coalition of 30 technology companies, profesL\ sional groups and government agencies have JL jL announced the formation of
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