Today, 13 June 2001

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  • 14 1 TODAY /A=DJJ\CORP Frexr We d n c s d <iv junc i3 > 2°ol *o^-a^»fu«>«>
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  • 180 1 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong at a reception hosted by the Singapore Embassy in Washington DC for some 150 Singaporeans yesterday: What do I think of Singapore after SB the Senior Minister? That's not a compliment to me because the Senior Minister (had been in the job)
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  • 51 1 -AFP JAKARTA -Former Indonesian President Suharto is in a critical condition. He was said to have collapsed at his home earlier yesterday. "He is in a serious and critical condition," Dr Miftah Suryadipraja, a cardiologist treating Mr Suharto said. The 80-year-old Mr Suharto has been fitted with a
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  • 561 1  -  Chan Chao Peh Ivay Tan OCBC makes a move, but KeppelTatLee is coy by.. and.. SEDUCTION does not get more blatant than this in the banking industry. OCBC chief executive Alex Au (right) agreed that his bank had no patience with shyness and openly advertised
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 120 2  -  Peariyn Tham HE sat on his wife and slapped her but she did not want him punished for it, even though it was not the first time he had assaulted her. Mohd Amin bin Osman, 38, was smelling strongly of liquor when he entered his wife's bedroom
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    • 343 2  -  Kim-Kyna Tan by.. kim@ne wsto day. c n m. sg BRASH claims by Abu Sayyaf rebels that they had beheaded an American hostage as a "gift to the country on Independence Day" have thrust the Philippines into a tizzy. The problem, started by a "bunch of bandits",
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    • 177 2  - Up goes the roof and the savings Wong Khing Chong SIA Engineering has literally raised the roof of its latest sin-gle-bay aircraft hangar at Airline Road, Changi Airport Originally, the flat roof stood at a height of 17 m or about four storeys high. Using 5.5 km of steel cable,
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    • 129 2  -  Audra Lint DO you know what CAD and e-MRO mean and how to use them? If so, you are among the elite six per cent of Singaporeans who are considered e-busi-ness savvy and are most likely to carry Singapore into the digital age. CAD means
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    • Article, Illustration
      368 3 Dr M's son now quits as treasurer of Umno Youth KUALA LUMPUR Two months ago, the second son of Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad stunned the corporate world by withdrawing from all his business interests. Yesterday, Mr Mokhzani Mahathir (right), 40, again created a stir
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    • 116 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian girl, desperate to go to a different school, invented a story that she had been kidnapped near her current school, police said yesterday. News reports had said on Monday that thelS-year-old was kidnapped in Kulim, where two men allegedly bundled
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    • 91 3 Reuters JAKARTA Embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid reshuffled his Cabinet the second time in a month yesterday but analysts dismissed the move as pointless and not enough to save him from impeachment in August. He replaced Chief Economics Minister Rizal Ramli with a little-known Deputy Governor of the
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    • 248 4  -  Tan Hwee Yee Lack of time, money deters potential retail students by.. Reporter@news tod ay, com. sg LOCAL retailers know they need to upgrade their skills to survive. Yet, the highest qualification specifically tailored for them has not taken off in seven years. The MBA in Retail
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    • 139 4 LOCAL renal patients have a better quality of life compared to their US counterparts. This was revealed in a study by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). More than 1,000 end-stage renal patients were quizzed on their physical health, mental health,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 111 4 READ 0N... Shrink class size Some parents wouldn't mind higher fees if teacher-student ratio is kept fow/6 Refining oil at a loss in Asia Poor demand and high crude prices make it worse/9 It's too much Blair gets flak for Cabinet's pay rise/14 The Net rules for politics Many questions,
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  • LETTERS
    • 465 6  -  Annie him Some parents wouldn't mind higher fees if teacher-student ratio is kept low ONE of the things I really like about my child's playschool is the low teacher-student ratio. How about implementing this in primary and secondary schools as well? The class teacher can devote more
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    • 147 6 WE refer to the letter "Community clubs with shopping malls" (Today, June 7). We would like to thank Mr Tom Ong for his various suggestions. The People's Association (PA) is setting up the new Tampines Central community club (CC) in a commercial complex being
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 262 8 -AFP BT may save at least $3bil from partnership LONDON Telecoms giant BT and Deutsche Telekom yesterday unveiled a deal to work together on building third-generation networks in Britain and Germany, a cooperation effort that could save billions of euros. The deal, the first of
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    • 213 8  -  Ivay Tan by.. ivay @news today, com.sg MALAY SMEs should look at seeking business partners beyond their ethnic group to stay competitive. Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, Minister for Community Development and Sports and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, said: "Malay SMEs cannot... choose to serve a
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    • 71 8 Bloomberg CAPITALAND Ltd said it is selling $200 million of bonds to refinance debt. It said 80 per cent of the six-year bonds are rated "AAA" by credit rating agency Fitch. "The proceeds will be used to pare down debt," said company spokesman Sonny Lim. Capita
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    • 167 8 SINGTEL Mobile customers can now cal] visitors here who are logged onto SingTel's networks without incurring international call charges. This Local Direct Dial service, the first to be launched in the world, "reflects our on-going commitment to always give value-for-money", said Sing Tel
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    • Market Watch
      • 42 8 OSSIA International has acquired a further 10 per cent stake in Pacific Leisure, Australia, making it into a wholly-owned subsidiary. The purchase price was $127,636. It said the move reinforces the group's marketing and distribution presence in Australia.
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      • 125 8 DBS Bank has said that $19.58 million out of the $50 million Tincel Senior Bonds were taken up via DBS ATMs. Together with bonds subscribed through the bank's other retail channels, the total amount of senior bonds sold was $25.28 million. The balance of senior bonds not
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      • 72 8 DATACRAFT Asia will provide Nokia's market leading solutions to tighten Internet security for companies throughout the Asia-Pacific. This follows Datacraft's appointment as Nokia's first Regional Direct Gold Reseller Partner for the region. Under the agreement, Datacraft will work with Nokia to offer customers in the
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      • 97 8 ACE Dynamics, together with its 51 per centowned subsidiary Omnidisc Manufacturing, have acquired a 32 per cent stake in the share capital of Golden Mandarin Organisation(GMO) for $1.28 million. GMO distributes entertainment programmes through packaged media in Singapore and Indonesia. It also distributes Hong Kong's TVB film
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    • 487 9  -  Thomas Hogue Bloomberg Poor demand and high crude prices make it worse by..' in Kuala Lumpur ASIAN oil refineries run by Exxon Mobil Corp, Royal Dutch Shell Group, and British Petroleum had a bad year in 2000 as the cost of crude oil
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    • 290 11 MARKET NEWS SINGAPORE shares lost further ground yesterday as bullish sentiment fizzled out on warnings of profit shortfalls. Comments of a later-than-expected recovery in the tech sector silenced the bulls as sellers took centre stage. The STI closed 7.6 points down at 1678.38, off its intra-day low of 1669.47.
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    • 186 11 DESPITE concerns of profit-taking after several days of gain, the Malaysian market held firm as both institutional and retail investors entered a market that was felt to have reached bottom. Short-term investors were also betting on a market resurgence ahead of the Umno general assembly. The benchmark Kuala Lumpur
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      239 11 SMALL STOCK FOCUS Trek2ooo's portable storage medium is a winner TREK2OOO, one of the four locally-listed companies to win the prestigious Forbes World Best 300 Small Companies award, specialises in providing customised engineering and manufacturing solutions to global manufacturing operations. Leveraging on its technical expertise, Trek2ooo invented
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    • 183 11  -  Tan Hwee Yee by.. rep orter@ne wsto day. c om.sg STARHUB Internet will be launching Asia's first Application Service Provider (ASP) aggregation portal in mid-July. Called Starßiz, this e-busi-ness approach is targeted at helping both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and ASPs in the local market.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 213 12 LONDON Jevan Richardson returned home from school on a cold night last February, slipped past his parents, who were asleep in the lounge, and headed for the bathroom. Half an hour later, his father found 10-year-old Jevan hanging from a nylon stocking from the shower rail. Why? Because
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    • 356 12 US may impose economic sanctions WASHINGTON The ongoing tension between China and the US stepped up pace yesterday when it was revealed that China has been secretly shipping arms and explosives to Cuba, a communist country. The Washington Times reported that at least three arms
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    • 196 12 -AFP THE HAGUE A specially equipped Dutch ship has set sail for Ireland, where it plans to anchor in international waters and offer up to 20 abortions a day to women from the predominantly Catholic country where abortion is illegal. The Aurora left
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    • 143 12 -AFP UNITED NATIONS Mr Pino Arlacchi, the UN drug control and crime prevention chief, has been given one year to clean up his act after allegations of mismanagement by the world body. It published a report into the workings of the Vienna-based Office for Drug
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    • 61 12 Reuters ANTANANARIVO About 40 people, including the entire regional league soccer team Le Racing Club d'Antongil, were missing after a boat sank off Madagascar yesterday. The boat was the second vessel with a soccer team to sink off the Indian Ocean island in as many
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    • 144 14 US Embassy in Israel not shifting again Reuters WASHINGTON Acting out of national security interests, US President George W Bush on Monday postponed for six months the relocation of the American Embassy in Israel from Te] Aviv to Jerusalem. However, in his memorandum to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Mr
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    • 297 14 Blair gets flak for Cabinet's pay rise LONDON After being returned for a second term last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair found himself under attack from newspapers yesterday for giving his Cabinet ministers a pay rise, including a 40-per-cent raise for himself. Downing Street sought to
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    • 101 14 Reuters SRINAGAR (India) The siege of a mosque in strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir ended yesterday with the killing of the three remaining separatist guerillas who had taken refuge there after a shootout on Sunday. The three were killed in an overnight operation in which two soldiers
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 731 16  -  Ng Boon Yian Many questions, few answers I CAN imagine the Elections Department having a pretty tough time now, hammering out rules on how political parties can use the Internet during the election period. The Net is notoriously difficult, if not impossible, to regulate. Even
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      406 19  -  Hazel Tan Don't judge Jeff Wang by his hai by.. h azel@ news today, com. sg The first thing that strikes you about Jeff Wang is his bright orange hair. He is no Ah Beng wannabe. In fact, he doesn't really seem to like his new hairdo,
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    • 171 19 NO more guessing games about where model-turned-actress Celest Chong's future lies. She has signed on with SPH Media Works, the new television station announced in a press conference yesterday. Chief Operating Officer of Channel U, Mr Man Shu Sum, said Celest was chosen because of
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1185 18 /AbdiaCorp /A~ej]j\Corp HIGHLIGHTS The X-Files Without School Days 2 Jin-Roh LoveSongS with Love The hunt for Mulder brings Aware of the students Kazuki Fuse is a Goddess Yasmin the entire FBI into the middle k. having problems in their member of the f^fl aa- s -fu i mho attempts to
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  • IN CINEMAS
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      537 21 The much-talked about star of Tomb Raider charms media and fans alike in LA by Michelle Ang in Los Angeles mi eh eHe @newstoday. com. sg A NGELINA Jolie wears scandal like other llwomen wear perfume. It is a scent that surrounds her, trails behind her, and sends
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    • 98 21 Reuters LOS ANGELES Cybercrime thriller Swordfish topped the North American box office in its opening weekend, sinking World War II romance Pearl Harbor to No 3, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. Offering a heavy artillery of high-tech action and sex appeal, including
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  • SPORTS
    • 95 26 NEW YORK Women's world number one Martina Hingis has filed a $40m (s72m) lawsuit against an Italian sportswear manufacturer claiming that it gave her shoes that injured her feet, BBCSport.com reported. The 20-year-old Swiss says in court papers filed in New York that in tournaments from 1996
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    • 68 26 Reuters BUENOS AIRES The players of defending Libertadores Cup champion Boca Juniors refused to travel to Brazil yesterday for their semi-final second leg against Palmeiras in protest over unpaid bonuses. They were held to a 2-2 draw at home on Monday. The players abandoned the team hotel
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    • 128 26 -AFP NEW YORK Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis told the US District Court here yesterday that at his age his skills could "deteriorate any moment." Lewis, 35, is giving evidence at a hearing to decide whether world heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman should honour a
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    • 137 26 Reuters MELBOURNE The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) said yesterday it may consider the issue of using an artificial eye for no-ball rulings, but it was more a matter for the International Cricket Council (ICC). ACB chief executive Malcolm Speed, who will take over from David Richards as
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    • Article, Illustration
      585 27 Hot spicy Philly and LA go trash talking off the court NBA Finals PHILADELPHIA Oh, good. Everyone is starting to get on everyone else's nerves in the NBA Finals. Just in time, too. Crankiness and a little bad blood never hurt in holding interest, as the basketball season heads toward
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    • 166 27 -AFP The EPL transfer merry-go-round LONDON English Premiership side Middlebrough confirmed yesterday that new manager Steve McClaren will be allowed to resume his role as one of Sven Goran Eriksson's assistants with the English national side. "England has been granted permission to take Steve
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    • 128 27 LONDON Robert Pires holds the key to Patrick Vieira's Arsenal future. Vieira will have showdown talks at Highbury this week and spell out his concerns about the Gunners' ability to challenge for top honours next season, revealed the Sun Online. And the unhappy French ace
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    • 153 27 LONDON Chelsea has agreed an £11 miEion (s27m) fee with West Ham for unsettled England midfielder Frank Lampard, reported the Sun Online. But the deal will not go through for at least a week as the player is away on holiday. Chelsea managing director
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    • 985 28  -  Rob it Brijnath Cable from the Australian Cricket Board to the MCC: "...Unless stopped at once, it (Bodyline) is likely to upset the friendly relations existing between Australia and England". MCC to ACB: "We at the MCC deplore your cable..." All this over a game of
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    • 175 28 LONDON Pete Sampras has slammed world No. 1 Gustavo Kuerten for boycotting Wimbledon. Seven-time winner Sampras insists the Brazilian star's decision to give the tournament a miss "does not make sense". Kuerten claims he needs a rest after beating Spaniard Alex Corretja to claim a
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    • 537 30  -  Jose Raymond 'Big James' aiming to strike gold in Kuala Lumpur THE SPAT between discus thrower James Wong and the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association last year resulted in Singapore's most bemedalled field athlete of the 1990s expressing his displeasure with the association and its policies. But
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    • 125 30  -  Stanley Ho AFTER Thursday's 1-1 draw against Gombak United, Woodlands Wellington lodged an official complaint to the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) Referees' Committee. It said it was robbed of victory by referee Krishnan Lai Giri when he turned down a penalty claim after striker Masalan
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    • 133 30  -  Kelvin Phang LIVERPOOL fans will probably be drinking lots of Carlsberg beer over the next few days. This Sunday, those who have collected 60 Carlsberg Green Label Quart/Pint promotional liners or crown caps and Special Brew new packaging Quart/Pint liners will get a chance to redeem one
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    • 327 30  -  S. Murali FOR THE first time, sponsor Rolex has decided to throw its support behind the Singapore Junior Golf Championship, which starts today at Sembawang Country Club. "Well, we supported old professional men for a long time and decided that
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    • Article, Illustration
      895 31 Woods' rivals must block out intimidation factor TULSA Somewhere this week there will be two office pools for the US Open: One to pick the run-ner-up, the other to pick Tiger Woods' victory margin. In the 101-year history of the US Open, it's doubtful any man has ever
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    • 134 32 Reuters LONDON England has been given an extra place in the 2002-2003 Champions League at the expense of Germany and will be able to field four teams after the success of its top clubs in Europe this season, Uefa said yesterday. The
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    • 156 32 -AFP NEW DELHI Former hockey giant India is on its way to regaining its lost glory in the sport despite lack of support from the country's politicians and business houses, a top official said yesterday. Kunwar Pratap Singh Gill, who heads the Indian Hockey
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