Today, 28 February 2001

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  • 7 1 TODAY Wednesday February 28, 2001 MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • 453 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Electronic payments, while promising convenience, are costing Singaporeans more than they bargained for by irim@ne wstoday. CO m. sg SINGAPOREANS are getting themselves caught in a payment trap. As the number of bills that the average person has to pay every month multiplies
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  • 305 1 Agencies LONDON Britain's rapidly worsening foot-and-mouth crisis threatened yesterday to torpedo Prime Minister Tony Blair's hopes of calling a general election within the next two or three months to win a second term. Farmers' leaders made clear they were opposed to any election
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  • 145 1 Reuters. SHANGHAI -The French "spiderman", who climbed Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers and was arrested in Singapore for trying to scale the OUB Building, has been upstaged in China by a shoe salesman. Alain Robert walked away from Shanghai after he decided that shimmying up the
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 336 2  -  Joy Frances Most activities to be exempt from licences come March 1 by. joy@newstod ay.com .sg GOOD news for entertainment operators. From March 1, red tape and bureaucracy will be slashed with the introduction of the new Public Entertainments and Meetings Act. Performers used to
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    • 195 2 -AFP BEIJING China yesterday issued its own report entitled US Human Rights Record in 2000 to rebut the US version, which it claimed "falsely accused" China and other countries of abuse. Beijing's version set out human right abuses in the United States,
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    • 146 2 THE Potong Pasir Community Development Council will get a new Chairman this Thursday. Mr Sitoh Yih Pin will succeed Mr Andy Gan, who has been the People's Action Party's grassroots adviser for nine years. For the past three months, Mr Sitoh has been meeting residents
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    • 104 2 Q: How can one prevent Hep B transmission? Can it be spread through kissing? A The Hep B virus is pres ilent in blood, semen, vaginal secretions and saliva. It can be transmitted through sex, sharing of injection needles and from an infected mother to
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    • 66 3 SCVMaxTV. Rugrats Angelica Pickles and Chuckie Finsters helping to lay out some pages yesterday. They visited Today's office at Clifford Centre to deliver a message that Singapore Cable Vision is launching a new children's channel, Nickleodean, on March 9. And the Emmy-award winning series The Rttgrats
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    • 73 3 'We're not stupid -AFP MANILA A senior aide of President Gloria Arroyo yesterday let rip at Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew over his comments that Philippine democracy doesn't work because the people are not educated enough. He is out of line it is easier to foist a dictatorship on a
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    • 311 3  -  Ng Hwee Koon Will new Raffles Hospital snatch public sector docs? by] h we eko o n@n ews to day.com.sg A HOSPITAL building converted from the Blanco Court in Prinsep Street will start taking in patients in a month's time. The first major tertiary private hospital to
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    • 334 4  -  Chin Wei Lin Fair Price to add variety, cut cost with new centre by weilin@newstoday.com.sg FROM chips to potatoes may not sound much of a move, but it may help Singaporeans get fresh food supplies cheaper. NTUC Fair Price is converting what used to be
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    • 70 4 BOW does a hotel's laundry department contribute to charity? Simple. When 730 employees of the Ritz-Carlton Millennia donated their old clothes to charity, the laundry department washed and ironed them and packed them into Ritz-Carlton boxes. Some clothes looked so good that a few donors halfjokingly wondered
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    • 177 4  -  Steven Ooi by! ste ven@ne wstoday. co m. sg TEL AVIV Labour Party cadres greeted the decision of their central committee to join Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's unity government with great ambivalence yesterday. Some, like outgoing Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, were utterly disgusted at
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    • 173 4 FIRST world status could bring a host of first world problems. Although crime rates in Singapore have fallen overall since 1999, a slip into complacency should be avoided, warned the director of operations of the Singapore Police Force. Mr Soh Wai Wah said that
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    • 116 4 READ 0N... Mori 'to go in April' Prime Minister to step down after Budget is passed, says paper/1 1 Knowledge boost New Budget will encourage growth of a robust, IT-focussed nation/12 Has theatre really arrived? After the recent theatre awards, struggling local artistes can certainly hope that more recognition and
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  • LETTERS
    • 224 6  -  Rayshmii No patience, no sympathy, just spoilt I REFER to the article "Your English is rude in my culture" (Today, Feb 26). Despite the fact that such utterances have no rude intentions, as a Singaporean, I am not convinced. I am very disappointed by the
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    • 94 6  -  Yeo Kok Seng WHILE most people are happy about this year's budget, there are facets that will affect all income-tax payers in the long run. The one that stands out is the reduction of GST rebate from $500 to $250. While all the goodies are
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    • 153 6  -  See Leong Kit I REFER to your report (Today, Feb 23) on the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore lucky draw with a total of $235,000 in cash prizes. It is improper for a public body to use public funds in such a manner. If IRAS has so
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    • 475 6 WE refer to the letter "Help Novena MRT crowd" (Toemy, Feb 16). We appreciate and share the writer's concerns on the passenger flow at Novena station during weekday peak hours and when services are held at Novena Church on Saturdays and Sundays.
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    • 173 6 THERE have been some letters published in your newspaper questioning the need for TV licence fees and the choice of Public Service Broadcast (PSB) programmes. We would like to clarify that revenue from collection of such fees goes into funding public service broadcasts, which
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Lack of confidence
      • 478 8 SINGAPORE shares were broadly lower on forced selling and profit taking yesterday while most investors were sidelined through the rummage. Nagging worries about the state of earnings, slumping consumer confidence and a sinking stock market have given the most bullish investor second
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      • 421 8 KUALA LUMPUR The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange remained listless, with the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) trading within a narrow range of 709 to 712. At the end of the day, the KLCI was up a mere 0.4 point to close at 711.3, near its intra-day
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    • 226 9 Reuters Trading volume highest since Jan HONG KONG A near eight per cent drop in shares of global banking giant HSBC Holdings Pic dragged Hong Kong blue chips to their lowest close in eight weeks yesterday. However, buying of selected property issues helped stave off
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    • 100 9 Bloomberg News HONG KONG Star Cruises Pic, Asia's dominant cruise operator, said it slipped to a loss last year because it took charges for its purchase of Norway's NCL Holdings ASA. The net loss was U5529.6 million (5551.5 million), compared with a net income
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    • 117 9 ■Bloomberg News ONG Tjin An, chairman and executive director of Singapore brokerage, Ong Asia Ltd, has died, the company said. Mr Ong led the firm's share sale on the Singapore Exchange last April, making it the first brokerage in eight years to do
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    • 92 9 DTZ Debenham Tie Leung is putting up for sale 100,000 square feet of strata commercial/warehouse space in Eng Cheong Tower at North Bridge Road, near the Lavender MRT Station and Kallang River. The property for sale comprises the building's four-storey podium block and all the offices/shops
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    • 69 9 TTL Holdings Ltd, a manufacturer of plastic components for electronics and telecommunications products, said it's raising $5.9 million in net proceeds to finance expansion. The company will sell 46 million shares at 21.5 cents each. The IPO price represents 6.14 times its historical earnings of 3.5
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    • 97 9 SINGAPORE'S Ministry of Trade and Industry has said that it is impossible for goods made in non-Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) countries to qualify for Afta preferential tariff treatment. A Ministry spokesperson said that to qualify for the Afta preferential tariff, 40 per cent
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 277 10 Fairly good interest expected, analysts say SINGAPORE has put up for bid a second site under this year's sales programme for private residential sites, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said. The 99-year leasehold site in Marine Parade will yield 555 condo units, the URA said
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    • 227 10 Bloomberg News SEMBCORP Industries may report that its profit rose 5.6 per cent in 2000, helped by its logistics business. The company will report earnings later today. Profit from operations may rise to $135.4 million from $128.2 million in 1999, according to the average
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    • 122 10 -AFP LONDON Vodafone has paid US$l.35 billion for 10 per cent of Japan Telecom, increasing its holding to 25 per cent. Vodafone bought the stake in the third-biggest Japanese telecommunications operator from the US group ATT for cash. The price represents U5521,125 per share,
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    • 121 10 MAINBOARD-listed Bonvest Holdings has acquired a 75 per cent stake in Brooklyn Bagels, a bakery and wholesaler of freshly-baked bagels and bread. The $200,000 deal to buy into Singapore's only supplier of fresh New York-style bagels was signed earlier this month. The remaining 25 per
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    • 269 10  -  Chan Chao Peh by I _1L c hao pc h@ne ws to day. c om.sg MR Henry Lim, a photography enthusiast, has a problem. The capacity of the compact flash cards in his digital cameras is simply too small. So the chief executive of
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    • 92 10 AMD yesterday broke ground for a new $80 million semiconductor testing facility and design centre here. It is scheduled to be operational in the second half of 2002. It will operate as a test centre for microprocessors, engineering research and development and integrated
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    • 219 11 Premier to step down after Budget is passed, says paper TOKYO Leaders in Japan's ruling coalition have decided that unpopular Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (right) will step down in early April. The leading Asahi Shimbun newspaper yesterday said the embattled Mr Mori would go after
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    • 137 11 BRUSSELS The European Union has agreed to open its markets to the 48 poorest countries those with a per capita income of less than US$l (551.74) a day. A meeting of EU foreign mm isters in Brussels agreed to waive
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    • 130 11 Reuters LONDON Now this is more like the Eminem we know. Dressed in blue-jean overalls and ice hockey mask and carrying a chainsaw, the controversial rapper took the Best International Male Artist prize at the Brit awards, Britain's biggest for pop music. The irreverence
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 266 12 Reuters Aussie government acts to win election support CANBERRA Australia's coalition government said yesterday it would back down from unpopular petrol and tax measures wherever possible. This, after a poll showed coalition support had hit its lowest point since the government's 1998 re-election. Only a week after
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    • 111 12 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesia was greeted with 118 new headless Madurese bodies yesterday with the country's two top executives continuing to take no firm action to end ethnic violence. All the way from Cairo, President Abdurrahman Wahid sent his condolences to relatives of victims, but refused to
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    • 62 12 THE HAGUE The first senior politician to be convicted of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia was jailed for 25 years yesterday, reported the Daily Telegraph. Dario Kordic, 40, VicePresident of the breakaway Bosnian Croat republic, was found guilty of "enthusiastically" ordering the massacre of hundreds
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    • 26 12 Former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev blows on candles during a ceremony in Mocsow ahead of his 70th birthday on Friday REUTERS photo.
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    • 155 12 Agencies ISLAMABAD Thailand said yesterday Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were damaging themselves and the country by destroying ancient Buddhist images, but stopped short of issuing a formal protest. The statues, which the Taliban has ordered destroyed, are believed to be amongst the earliest examples of
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    • 88 12 LONDON A gun that fires coin-sized pellets ten times faster than a bullet has been developed in America, reported the Daily Telegraph. The Z accelerator could fire a pellet from London to Edinburgh in 26 seconds, or from London to New York in four-and-a-half minutes.
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    • 127 12 AFP HONG KONG Hong Kong's Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) yesterday hailed a landmark court ruling in which a US company became the first employer in the territory to be found guilty of sex discrimination against a pregnant employee. Chang Ying-kwan, a former
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 463 13  -  Jerry Wu New Budget will encourage growth of a robust, IT-focussed nation by. WITH the general consensus being that the global economy is headed for a slowdown, and that an election is looming, the Singapore Budget 2001 announced last Friday was by and large, a "friendly" package which
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    • 456 13 bouth China Morning Post HONG KONG Few people can be unaware of the fact that the over-prescription and misuse of antibiotics in Hong Kong is of serious concern. The equation is straightforward: The more antibiotics are used, the more opportunities there
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  • RELAX
    • 755 14  -  Hazel Tan Today photos by After the recent Theatre Awards, struggling local artistes can certainly hope that more recognition and support will follow b y hazel@newstoday.com.sg More openness and support for the local theatre scene, please, screamed almost every award winner at Monday night's Life! Theatre
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    • 770 15  -  Roulee Jane The lady who has taken on dictators in the Philippines with just pen in hand by: F Calayag ro ul ee,ja ne newsto d ay, com. sg She is the epitome of a woman of substance strong, full of conviction and determined to pursue
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    • 1123 19 0,. n I_■ and fidelity, as narrated by Mark, You will also uncover many IVIUSICP6Ot I I H6QTrCb6Qt a struggling young film-maker. ItIUS6UItIp6(IT facets of this interesting commuI The contemporary music creat- I nity that are often unknown to Melanie Cm Concert I Rent NC(I8) ed by Jonathan Larson for
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  • 480 21  -  Chan Chao Peh With service that promises more than a smile by chaopeh@news today, com. sg Get ready for a cracking night of fun, laughter and excitement at Dracula's Theatre Restaurant on the Gold Coast in Australia. Dracula's is a cabaret-type restaurant, combining elements of comedy and
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  • SPORTS
    • 547 27 Bucks destroy 76ers on Allen's magical night NBA 76ers 91 Bucks 98 PHILADELPHIA On a night when Dikembe Mutombo looked great but Allen Iverson struggled, nothing they did made much of a difference in the end because of Ray Allen, Allen ruined an impressive home debut by
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    • 248 27 Formula One Three-time world Formula One champion Niki Lauda has warned that the sport risks becoming boring because of more sophisticated technology, reported BBCSport.com. The Austrian, now part of the management of the Jaguar team, said the drive to make racing safer had
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    • Article, Illustration
      606 28 Back from injury, Brown looks ready to lead new-look England LONDON But for the pain, gloom and prolonged frustration entailed in recovery from a snapped cruciate ligament, it would be tempting to suggest that Wes Brown was modelling his career on that of Roy Keane. Like the
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    • 377 28  -  Leonard Thomas England v Spain by Leonard @newstoday. com. sg THE new England manager's predecessors must have had a wry smile on their faces when they woke up on Monday morning. The familiar story that dogged them welcomed Sven Goran Eriksson
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    • 411 29 Golf MALELANE -World No. 3 Ernie Els (above) is confident he will be able to sort out his indifferent form before the US Masters. Els, a two-time winner of the US Open, struggled with his game in the southern African
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    • 659 29 AFP This match is a friendly only in name Italy v Argentina ROME Italy and Argentina meet tonight in Rome's Olympic Stadium in a match that both sides admit is more than just a friendly. The two countries, historically linked, are two of the aristocrats of
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    • 437 30  -  Scott O'Donell S-League fans can look forward to bumper crop of new faces by scott@news to day.com. sg KIATISUK, Martins, Kakimoto, Bamrung, English and Peres. They are just some of the new foreign names that will be strutting their stuff in stadiums around Singapore come March
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    • 263 30 -AFP Cricket BOMBAY Australia's premier bowlers Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath ripped through India's batting to leave the tourists in control of the first cricket Test here yesterday. Warne took 4-47 and McGrath grabbed 3-19 from 19 overs as the Indians, sent in to
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    • 108 30 Badminton SINGAPORE will play host to the richest team badminton tournament in the world from May 2-6. Announcing the US$l7O,OOO ($297,000) Asia Cup, Asian Badminton Confederation sec-retary-general Punch Gunalan said: "The format of the competition will allow each of the four members of the winning
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    • 442 31 Man United midfielder will retain role as England skipper in new-look side LONDON England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson named David Beckham as captain for his first match in charge against Spain at Villa Park tonight and told him he could become a leader. Beckham admitted
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    • 204 31 Pre-World Cup Singapore 1 Kyrgyzstan 1 KUWAIT Singapore's pre-World Cup campaign ended on a dismal note last night when it drew 1-1 with minnows Kyrgyzstan. The result left the Lions at the bottom of their group, with just two points from six matches. The Lions
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