Today, 29 December 2000

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    Masthead
    6 1 TODAY \n FridUV December 29, 20IUI
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  • Article
    Finally, a check on 'bucket shops'
    394 1  -  Ng Boon Yian by boonvianft'.'iiewstodav.com.sa SHADY huckct shops that have been swindling unsuspecting victims of their hard-earned savings for years may finally be put under the microscope. And if any dirt shows up, they could face prosecution. The Ministry of Trade and Industry decided
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    Lock icon Young intern saves company from bankruptcy
    140 1 -AFP LONDON A schoolboy who worked for a priming cnuipsuiy for experience saved ii i. bankruptcy b-, ei trii 5 rd worth mort- than $1 itiiliion, British media reported ye-*ter-dav, Adam Tlughes, 17, joined Martin Mulligan l.'Kvia api -ment scheme offered through his school
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    Hello again
    134 1  -  77.C ilHlu Kitty dolls that spitted torn. sweat and blood arr bad:. Bul (how ugiv scenes u ill not bi repeat ed this: tim round, Sfl I Donald's, which is bringing in I "Royal" Hello Kitty and Dear banwl dolls. Starting fan 4, six pans of th dolls
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    The Fullerton loses 3 key staff just days before its opening
    268 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan I by I'ii ..nn.se TUST days from its grand opening on New Year's eve, The Fullerton hotel is in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. News that two members of its core team had quit and were
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Schools say 'no'
      312 2 Some principals not continuing with option to start lessons later FORGET about packing off the kids to school at a later time. Most schools here are keeping to the starting time of 7.20am or 7.25am. Of the 35 schools Channel NewsAsia contacted, only two will continue with
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      Ostrich farm's 198 'investors'
      309 2  -  David Ngiau bl david-"'news".od;iy.com.sg HE wanted to keep his boss happy, but Ng Pia Seng ended up in court l te facing 199 charges. And the fact that lie had BOt gained a single cent front his "creative accounting" p< tplexed the presiding judge. I g
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      Lock icon Cholesterol sensor chip
      47 2 bit of n THIS sensor chip, dev-loped by Japan's electronics giant lils da Electric Industry, clechemically measures blood chol .erol 1 "Is ;> mi a single drop of blood. Used together with a card-sized anrtly- t-r (.his chip mal.-. 9 personal medical care more convenient.
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      Channel NewsAsia wins award
      180 2 CHANNEL NewsAsia's coverage of the Singapon. _rlines crash in Taipei has wi.ii an award for best news contribution of tiie month. Asiavision, the news production arm of Che Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), aimoiiM.' d this earlier this month. Praising CNA for its great speed and
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      Air-force deserter rescued from snow-buried car
      327 2 OREGON A 29-year-old US aitforce deserter was rescued after spending lt> days buried in his SGQWcovered spi -i. iiin a remote forest, reported Thi GuarOoiL "Here is this poor little- guy sitting with liis hand frosted up like a little claw, wearing nothing b
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      The anger conspiracy
      434 3 HE is just an actor after all! But comments against Nepal, which Indian superstar Hrithik Roshan (above) says he never even made, are straining ties between the two countries, attr..-, ing charges of an international coi (piracy that has already claimed four lives. Hrithik, who is hugely
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      Lock icon Sea lion pups to teach humans about conservation
      56 3 'photos One-year-old Cahj i. Audi iUfl) and Mittki, embrace and wrestle after arriving al I Zoo yesterday. 1 h 'young pair, brought mfitrm Germany's Stuttgart Zoo. weigh about 50 kg each. Tfuy -.fill be trained top "frm in the; oo's popular Seal
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      Find your way with HP's new Jornadas
      102 3 NEED to locate the closest ATM? Or find out whl K you are? You can do just that with HewlettPackard's Jornada 548 pocket PC and Jornada 680 handheld PC. HP, agis Ptc, Ltd and MasterCard Intent.:tional have added global positioning system (Ci power
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    • Article
      SLRT fined $10,000
      59 3 1 HE Singapore Light Rapid Transit (SLRT) was slapped with a $10,000 penalty yesterday by the Land Transport Authority for the collision of two of its trains at Phoenix Station last month. It had breached operating performance standards, which allow no collisions, said the industry regulator yesterday
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      Lock icon Middle East summit cancelled
      115 3 AFP JERUSALEM Peacemaking in the Middle East was in di rray yesterday, after a crucial Middle East peace summit was cancelled at the last minute, after the Palestinians rejected an outline agreement proposed by US iiesident Bill Clinton. The summit at the Egyptian Sharm el-Sheikh resort
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      New Year virus alert!
      118 3 THE good news is that no new computer viniS is expected to trigger off 00 Jan 1, 2001. But before you think it safe lo start up youi i'C on Monday, take heed. The viruses iiiw uted to create havoc on New Year's Day in the
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      SIA crash scares away Taiwan tourists
      117 4 TO! 'K'TST arrivals from Taiwan fell sharply after the Singapore Airlines crash in October. The drop, at 37.1 per cent, was the steepest decline recorded by the market this year. The Singapore Tourism Board said there were many cancellations last month in the aftermath
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      Lock icon Forced out
      328 4 Agencies Thaksin accusers also tainted? BANGKOK The anti-corruption group that passed the guilty vercl.. I on political front-runner Mr Thaksin Shmawatra is itself in trouble. The group's chief and two other commissioners were forced to resign amid accusations that they violated government regulations designed to prevent conflict; of
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      Dr M: Keep guessing
      153 4 DR Mahathir Mohamad (right) wilt step down as Malaysinn Prime Minister before next gettetal election, whiflh is due in November 2004. It's certain that Abdullah .-\hmad Badawi will succeed him. It's also certajs Dr Mahathir will conLiinie to be influential in Uinno. But what's nol *._rtain
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      Porno seller had fireworks
      89 4 Hh'S a porno-peddler toling f-i'",-::-rks. Yeo Sens Yo lg I tried guilty in court yeslr-rdny (Q rharges of posseaaion of dangerous fireworks a-id of possession of obscene VCDs. On J;-a 5, Yeo wa* found to have 240 sticks of fi** s in his possession by customs
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      Open hatch gives illegals away
      119 4 WHAT didn't kill them got them caught. That's what happened in a human trafficking case yesterday mom-it; The human trafficker had two choices. Close the hatch of his Uinkt.-r and his human cargo could die. Open the hatch and he could get caught at the
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      Drop off the MRT and have a bite
      953 5  -  Shiualina Snlim Now an MPH reference book on top restaurants and stalls near the stations by cha^alie iff" e, -n. rernii, o. IT IS no surprise that Singapore is known as a food paradise. We not only have food from every imaginable
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      108 4 READ 0N... Korea's CEOs fear crisis soon They are worried of a repeat of the 1987-88 Financial crisis/6 US economic slowdown, not recession Top IMF official says the slowdown will curb global economic expansion/8 Speak English,, it's okay It won't make you any less Malaysian, s >Dr Mahathir/10 It's just
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Top Korean CEOs fear crisis soon
      403 6 Bloomberg News Business chiefs do not expect a rebound until 2003, survey shows SEOUL Chief executive officers at Korea's top 100 companies are worried the nation could suffer another financial crisis amid signs the economy is already slowing down. About half of the CEOs
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      Bilateral trade with China to reach record high this year
      302 6 THE two-way trade be J n Singapore and China is expected to hit a record high this year. For the first 11 month of this yeai, Singapore's exports to China grew 40 per cent to reach 58.4 billion while imports
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      MPA extends cut in port dues
      121 6 THE Maritime and Port Authority will extend a 20 per cent cut on port dues for container ships into 2001. The extension v.ilj amount to annual savings of $5 million for Ute ships lining the port here. The MPA first slashed its port fees
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      Thakral losses narrow to $47.4 m
      123 6 ITHAKRAL Corp, a local distributor of consumer electronics, said it narrowed first-half losses by about half after it cut costs and sold more expensive products. Losses for the six months ending Sept 30 were $47.4 million compared to $100.7 million for the same period
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      SembCorp Industries revamps units
      100 6 SEMBCorp Industries i-j restructuring operations of two units to better focus its utilities services business. It will shift the engineering and construction operations of SembCorp Engineering into another unit, SembCir-e Construction. SembCirp Engineering will then be renamed SembCorp Utilities and will handle powe- generation and supply.
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  • MARKET NEWS
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      Heading nowhere
      484 8 Insignificant volume ends second last day of trading for the year SINGAPORE shares ended broadly lower t accept for some index-linked buyinfl --hat shoved the STI index 7.93 points up to close at 1900.53 pen*-. The index was nonetheless 13 point c-if is high- at closing. As liqoiditj
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      Lock icon Top IMF official sees US slowdown, not recession
      432 8 Bloomberg News WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund's number two official said the US is facing a slowdown in growth that will curb the global economic expansion. But Mr Stanley Fischer, the IMF's first deputy managing director, said the world's largest economy is
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      800 merchants on Singapore Finance's 'superdollars' portal
      191 8  -  Chin Wei tin I.. HON'j Le- .ii- ii d its subsidiary, Singapore Finance, have decided to jump on the bandwagon of e-conimerce businesses so as to strengthen theu p on in the industry. It will launch its new Super Dollars rev. 3 scheme
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  • WORD NEWS
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      Lock icon Welders to blame?
      415 9 Reuters Four arrested for fire outbreak in China which killed 309 people BEUING Chinese investigators believe sparks from a welding torch ignited I Christmas night blaze in a shopping centre which killed 309 people, most of them revellers in a disco, Xinhua news agency said yeF-U-rday. Four
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      Serial killer's jail break foiled
      206 9 PARIS A man accused of bringing terror to Pari- by murdering seven young women was under close watch on Wednesday night after prison guards thwarted an escape attempt Guy Georges, described by pyschiatrisfs as a narcissistic psychopath, was discovered t- /ing to saw through the
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      Switch it off, please!
      101 9 BEIJING China's most prestigious theatre, the Shanghai Grand, is to beam an electronic radio field at ii 1 1- pectators in an effort to stop mobile phone calls interrupting performances, reported the hctronic Telegraph yesterday. Chinese audiences have stubbornly resisted all pleas to turn off their
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      Clinton appoints first black to Circuit Court
      187 9 WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton on Wednesday used the power of a recess appointment to place the first ever African-American to a Circuit Court seat, reports CNN. "Roger Gregory is the right man at the right time to fulfill this historic role. His life
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      Tumour victims sue mobile giant
      195 9 LONDON British mobile phone suppliers are facing a bil-lion-dollar legal action hrought by US brain tumour victims. The lawsuits, to be launched liy one of America's most successful lawyers, are the biggest legal assault on the mobile phone industry and will be the i iiost
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  • WORD
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      Lock icon Taiwan blows hot and cold about links with China
      155 10 Reuters TAIPEI Taiwan's top agency in charge of relations with China gave a cautious response to signs that political rival Beiiing would accept direct travel links between Taiwan's frontier islands and the mainland. While Taiwan unilaterally approved direct trade, travel and
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      Lock icon Speak English, it's okay
      366 10 Be mama It won't make you any less Malaysian, says Dr Mahathir KUALA LUMPUR- Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Ihe notion that learning and mastering English makes a person less Malaysian is not true, Speaking to Bernama last Tuesday, he said language nationalists had spread the
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      Redrawing the Malaysian dream
      702 11  -  Sroe Kumar Race relations and citizenship rights. How do they play out in Malaysia? by A NEW chapter in Malaysian race-relations is being written. The recent challenge by Malay students to the Suqiu group to withdraw their demands r.iises once again several concerns over the rights
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Talk to me
      653 12  -  Cathleen Tung Today photo by The SMS chat- _m^ boards we're M putting up is good for the party environment, as it'll be noisy and crowded. It's like a visual PA system. -Dennis Goh, Item's CEO Partygoers to Countdown 2001 get chatboards to keep in touch by
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    • SHOWCASE
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        Mad about money
        548 13  -  Ros.-i I j rid Ptift Compiled by rosalinri^nnystmby. noni.sg It's a Mad Mad Mad World Today till Sunday 8 pm Da: 30 and Dec 31 8 pm and 2.30 pm Drama Centre Surviving in the world we are in is no easy task. The play portrays everyone's
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      Lock icon Dancing girl
      696 18  -  David Ngiau Today photo by ny Get serious! It's no flesh in the pan tnA :nra t C 'i 1.'.-i job, as a nightclub dancer, is certainly B0 t in the park having to deal v.Uh lecherous me it, jealous women, and a general trend in night-clubs for
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • travel
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      Balcony luxury
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  • motoring
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      Not So Boot-iful Now
      5186 21 Toyota Echo 1.3 a glance $81,988 Including COE f ngine luyoiir Irt-lii Engine cnpoufy I Maximum power 86bhp at 6OoOrpm Ma. i4oorpm Gearbox 4-iipeed -rmicmaiic Performance 1 l'«-3' an beam a«Jc Front \fenrllafc. H*ut Drums v« 175/55 &™.aMo.ors isi p* ud drfc/tog o 600/ /o //ie
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      properties
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  • TECH NEWS
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      It's just a mouse pad, right? Wrong!
      1102 26  -  Harry "SloneCoicT Dass Special preview of the Ultimate pad from SR Composites by! MOST people don't usually care about the mouse pad that they use, because they don't particularly care about the mouse they use. The tiny electronic rodent doesn't seem to be
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon West Indies tottering as Australia on course to continue record run
      244 27 MKIJ.OUKNB -The West Indies, set 4'>2 to win the fourth cricket test after Ai din de.-lured its second timings cl< 11 .u 2VZ-5, slumped to 18 for three at the end of lite third day on 7 Ir.lr7l.iay. Crucially,
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      Akhtar back to top fitness
      440 27 'Rawalpindi Express' set to terrify the batsmen LAHORE An athletically builtTOOOg in-i-i v ilk'* riown lo the nets where the Pakistan cricket team is prac'i-ing in Lahore. It is Shoaib Akhtar, and he looks in perfect shape, reports LI C Sport. Five minutes later, he
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      Lock icon Orlando loses Hill
      479 28 Reuters Ankle surgery rules him out for season NBA ORLANDO Grant Hill (picture) will have sea-son-ending surgery on his ankle, which is a devas taring blow to the Orlando Magic and its hopes that the five-time All-Star would lead it to an NBA title. Hi I! said
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      Lock icon Anfield's answer
      959 29 Biscan wastes no time in meeting Roy Keane's challenge LIVERPOOL -Gerard Houiiier declared on the day that Igor Hi scan made his TT. 5 million (*>Slt million) entrance to .'vnfield that he was buying potential, as opposed to the finished article. Perhaps the Frenchman was deliberately underselling his
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      World Cup
      354 30  -  Leonard Thomas It's down to the last four in our A Z series on the great sporting events of the year. Here, we feature the last three before the final one tomorrow -the lettersW f X,Y. It involves a football debacle, some big money and a team of
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      Mr X
      110 30 IF you'd asked anyone before Dec 12 who Alex Imdriguez (above) was, most likely you would have got a blank stare. But, on Dec 13, he became a household name all over the world. And a very, very rich man to boot. The American haseball team Texas Rangers
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      Super Y anks
      236 30  -  Ltonard Thomas ITS pIayCTS were too old- The learn had become jaded. The appetite was lost. Those were frequent headlines in the notoriously fickle New York press throughout the 2000 baseball season. The New York Yankees were written off as contenders for the World Scries pennant. That's
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      Lock icon Faulk runs away with it
      682 31 Rams running back major factor in his team's progress to the playoffs NEW YORK Marshall Faulk's recorditting ride for the St. Louis Reims earned him the I l/s I ost V; !unl e Player award in balloting co m and announced on Wednesday, reported sports
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      Lock icon Hide-and-seek man returns
      354 32  -  Kelvin Phong by k< ii-'-'^iicwslod'iy.com.sg NATIONAL striker Ahmad Latifl Kamaruddin is back in town, but even his closest relatives and friends have no inkling as to his whereabouts. According to his maternal uncle Syed Alwi, who met him last Monday, rhe 21-year-old has returned from Bogor, Indonesia,
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      Lock icon Gregory's future as Villa chief at risk
      177 32 Rt titers LONDON -John Gregory's future as Astori Villa manay. r appears under threat afU'r reports he had been summoned to a meeting vsterday with cluh chairman Doug Ellis. British newspapers reported. The newspapers said Ellis, 77, was incensed hy an interview in
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      Lock icon Liverpool interested to face Thai national team in May Asian tour
      254 32 AFP BANGKOK Liverpool has expn d interest in playing Thailand's national team during an Asian tour in May 2001, according to a report by mass market daily Thai Rath. Liverpool marketing representatives have contacted Thailand's national squad and are
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