Today, 29 June 2001

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  • 4 1 TODAY Friday MITAfP) 138/11/2000
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    418 1  -  Joy Frances A small movement against old favourite by joy@newstoday.com.sg THOSE who thought that nothing would come between a hungry Singaporean and his shark fin soup did not bargain for a burgeoning environmental consciousness and the campaign to save sharks from being hunted for their fins. Companies, and
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  • 121 1 THE six families of the victims of the Silk Air crash who did not accept the airline's compensation offer will be taking the airline to the High Court on Monday to ask for damages. The ill-fated flight, MI 185, crashed in Palembang, Indonesia,
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  • 223 1  -  Najib Ahmad by reporter@newstoday.com.sg EVEN as madrasahs here get discussed for the standard of education they provide, an Australian Islamic school is trying to woo Singaporean students. It promises a first-rate secular education in an environment that is Islamic. "It is very easy to put Muslim
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 440 2  -  Ng Hwee Koon Did DBS make its point? by h we c ko o n@n ews to d ay.com. sg A BOY and a man. A challenge and a response. All in an advertising campaign used as an effective accompaniment to a hostile takeover bid as in the
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    • 126 2  -  Elaine Quek SEX offender Tay Kirn Kuan, 45, yesterday appealed against a nine month jail term for having sex with an underaged girlInstead, Chief Justice Yong Pung How added another three months to his sentence and slapped the maximum $10,000 fine on him. Tay, a
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    • 68 2 THE Singapore Democratic Alliance has been given the goahead by the Registry of Societies, reported ST TV yesterday evening. The coalition of five opposition parties the Singapore People's Party, National Solidarity Party (NSP), the Singapore Justice Party, the Singapore National Front and PKMS (Singapore Malay
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    • 430 3 Agencies UN chief: Education for women and girls the only way NEW YORK "Girl power" may be the best vaccine in the fight against Aids, said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He was speaking as the General Assembly wrapped up a three-day special session on HIV/Aids
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    • 303 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is to launch a US$l billion ($2.1 billion) bond issue in the international market to raise money for government projects. However, Prime Minister and Finance Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who said this yesterday, rejected speculation that the proceeds would
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    • 161 3 Bernama SINGAPORE A High Court judge has upheld his earlier ruling to dismiss a US$lO million {$18 million) suit filed against the Crown Prince of Johor, Tengku Ibrahim Ismail, by a Malaysian businessman. Lawyers for the two parties said Justice M P H Rubin made
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    • 106 4 KEPPEL Capital Holdings said it has hired Dexia BIL Asia Singapore as an independent financial adviser to assess a takeover offer by OverseaChinese Banking Corp. This comes two weeks after OCBC, Singapore's third-largest lender by assets, offered to buy Keppel Capital shares at $3.38 each, valuing Singapore's smallest
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    • 99 4 BRITISH lawyer Ms Julia Elizabeth Tubbs was not negligent in the road accident that caused the deaths of a Korean woman and her two young children on Feb 3 last year. Chief Justice Yong Pung How yesterday dismissed the deputy public prosecutor's appeal against the Jan 30
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    • 244 4  -  Sol E Solomon Get property details online by solomoa@newstoday.com.3g WANT to know more about that property you're eyeing? Then go to the Singapore Land Authority's (SLA) enhanced integrated land information service (Ink's) website at www.inlis. go v. sg Inlis allows anyone from real estate agents, developers, lawyers, surveyors,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 112 4 READ 0N... Don't blame the readers Other reasons behind Project Eyeball's failure/6 All eyes on Japan What will Sank of japan do after quarter point cut in Fed rote/10 The golden years ...and how prepared are Singaporeans for them?/14 Visionary maniac This director wants all and does all/17 Fright night's
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  • HOME NEWS
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      295 5  -  Shazalina Saiim The Nightßus is smaller, but the service is better by shazalina@newstoday.tom.sg GOOD news for party-goers who rely on SMRT's Nightßus services to take them home in the wee hours of the morning. From Sunday, the Nightßus services will be improved to provide passengers with more reliable,
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    • 397 6  -  Constance Singam Other reasons behind Project Eyeball's failure I AM saddened to read of the premature death of yet another newspaper in Singapore. I applaud Bertha Henson's valiant efforts to introduce a new concept and for struggling against an impossible goal set for her by her
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    • 153 6  -  Victoria Koh I RECENTLY visited the National Library branch at Woodlands and was very impressed with its facilities. The wide range of books, posh leather seats, corporatelike project rooms and high-tech multimedia stations suggests that the NLB has taken great pains to build
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    • 203 6  -  Alan Teo OUR current laws make it very difficult for consumers to settle legal fee disputes with lawyers. I felt I was overcharged by the the lawyer handling my late father's estate. As the Consumers Association of Singapore does not handle matters regarding
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    • 108 6 I REFER to the article "What does Japan-mania mean to you?" (Today, June 23). Six decades ago, Japanese goods were "cheap and not-so-good", but they fulfilled the purpose of "for the moment utility". Japan improved quality and made continuous efforts to attract customers with innovations. Your
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 141 8 AMID volatile markets and a possible technical recession this quarter, Prudential Unit Trusts' new chief executive officer Mr Tan Chin Kong remains upbeat about the unit trust market here. "When it comes to investment, this time is as good a time as any," said Mr Tan at
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    • 136 8 Moody's sure of Singapore SINGAPORE'S slowing economic growth will not hurt its credit ratings, given its Strong financial position and stable political system. In its annual report released yesterday, Moody's investors service says the economy faces no serious threat despite negative regional and global trends. The ratings agency
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    • 70 8 SESDAQ-listed Sincere Watch, a luxury watch retailer, said fiscal 2001 profit doubled to $12.1 million. Sales rose 18 per cent to $173.5 million during the same period. The company said profit rose because of lower borrowings and an increase in foreign exchange gains. Its foreign exchange
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      • 74 8 TPV Technology, the world's third largest computer monitor manufacturer, has reported a 28.3 per cent rise in unaudited profits to US$7.B million (5514.22 million) for the three months ended March 2001. Turnover reached U*****.9 million, up 30.4% during the same period. Gross profit was 8.6%. Geographically,
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      • 405 10 Reuters/ Bloomberg What will Bank of Japan do after quarter point cut in Fed rate ASIAN stocks took the modest US interest rate cut in their stride, mimicking the eventual neutral reaction of US markets to the widely expected move. "The (Fed's) 25-basis-point cut fell within
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      • 79 10 Japan's May industrial output falls 1.2 -AFP TOKYO Japan's industrial output m May fell 1.2 per cent from the previous month, the Ministry of Trade said in its preliminary report released yesterday. The fall follows a two per cent decline in April, the Ministry said in its state- orient. The
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      • 103 12  -  Pearlyn Tham by p c arlyn newstoday. com. sg THE next time you want to change the personal identification number (PIN) of your DBS account, you won't need to spend your lunch hour in a bank queue. A phone call to 1800-327 2265 will connect you to
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      • 298 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Tsingtao clinches 51% stake by chaopeh@newsto day.com.sg TSINGTAO Brewery, maker of the top brand beer in China, has bought a majority 51 per cent stake in Singapore's Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing's brewery business in Fuzhou. The sale is worth 85 million yuan
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  • Market News
    • 322 12 THE STI index bucked the regional downtrend with a 4.26 point rise to 1,707.64, helped by the revitalised theme of merger and acquisitions. Market breadth was mixed while volume was healthy on 603 million shares valued at $739 million. Traders found themselves in a range-bound gridlocked trading situation, with
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    • 143 12 KUALA LUMPUR Following a relatively calm morning, renewed selling surfaced in the afternoon session yesterday to push the market lower. With no dear direction from the US following the Dow's decline in response to the Fed rate cut, investors chose to trim their positions. The XL Composite Index lost
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    • 188 13 Bernama WASHINGTON Thousands of foreign workers in the United States are under threat of being deported. Why? Because the workers who have H-1B visas which allow them to work in the US for up to six years, have been laid off, along with
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    • 65 13 AFP WASHINGTON Scientists are within a whisker of creating a genetically modified feline for allergic cat lovers. An American company plans to produce kittens with "deleted" allergen genes. They will be sold for about US$75O ($1,300) to people who normally suffer allergies to cats.
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    • 273 13 -AFP Mrs Arroyo's U-turn affects her credibility MANILA Philippines President Gloria Arroyo is battling a credibility problem after being forced to back down twice in the space of a week on separate allegations of plots to destabilise her government, analysts say. Foreign investors and tourists
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 808 14  -  Debra Soon and how prepared are Singaporeans for them? by MY mother is amazing. At age 59, she embarked on a new career as an insurance agent. It was not an easy move. She had to study, sit for examinations and learn how to use new computer
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    • 485 14 Agencies WASHINGTON An exiled Chinese doctor has given a chilling account of China's lucrative organ-harvesting trade to a group of US congressmen. Dr Wang Guoqi, 38, said he had been forced to skin the corpses of more than 100 executed prisoners, including one convict
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    • 1263 16 nCuTrCPcQT David Copperfield Portal I CVCnTvOlCnuOr focuses on Korean women's trees can be grown on a rooftop f~Y~^ David Copperfield is coming contribution towards Korea's garden.There will also be talks Romeo and Juliet your way with Portal, his most Fluid economic achievement in the and demonstrations on gardenH»H|: hhmh spectacular
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  • RELAX
    • 537 17  -  Rachel Lo This director wants all and does all by ra c he] newstoday. com. sg Director extraordinaire, playwright, production designer and now costume designer, Goh Boon Teck (picture) is a maniac when it comes to his artistic vision. He would wake up at two in the morning,
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    • 195 17 MEDIACORP TVI2 has won an award at the prestigious PROMAX Awards ceremony in Miami Beach last Friday. It walked away with a Silver PROMAX award for the Best Music Package/Sound Design/ Post Score or Instrumental Theme with its production, "Suria Channel Music Package" in the Broadcast
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    • 132 17 THE shores of Sentosa's Siloso Beach were invaded by China's famous terracotta warriors (left) recently. Internationa] and local sculptors turned 6,000 sq metres of the beachfront into a veritable sand city for the Sandsation festival for the first three weeks of this month. Twelve magnificent sand sculptures were
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  • INCINEMAS
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      173 19 Lucky Damien Teo won the ToiiAY-Swordfish contest a few weeks ago. His prize two tickets to the Australian premiere of Sword-fish in Melbourne last week. As a bonus side-trip, he and his girlfriend Serene Ong got to visit two Warner Village Theme Parks on the Gold Coast. Here's a
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    • 395 20 Reuters US film critics just can't decide on Steven Spielberg's new film A.I LOS ANGELES What happens when you take the cold, clinical vision of one of cinema's great directors and mix it with the warm humanism of another major director? Or, to put it another way,
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    • 346 20 Reuters LOS ANGELES Two-time Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon, one of America's best loved actors, died of complications from cancer on Wednesday night, his publicist said. He was 76. Lemmon, winner of two Academy Awards, died at USC Norris Cancer Hospital in Los
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    • 622 21  -  Jenny Kong Pontianak with a modern twist set to spook local audiences by j enn y@ ne wstoday. co m. sg HORROR strikes again in Asia -Japan has The Ring, Thailand has Nang Nak, and now Singapore has Pontianak. Contrary to old tales about men going to
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    • 244 21 Reuters LOS ANGELES The next Survivor is going on safari. More than 30 years after Born Free was filmed there, the Shaba National Reserve in eastern Kenya will host the third edition of the hit CBS reality franchise Survivor, set to air sometime this
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      • 964 22  -  Roger Mitton After a Christmas carol in mid-April, it was a glorious slumber at the Chittagong Club The Singapore Cricket Club, the Kuala A Lumpur M Lake Club, the Bangkok British Club, Fve joined them all and frankly can take them or leave them. by BANGLADESH
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  • SPORTS
    • 499 25 Signing of Riise shows manager eyes more glory English Soccer LONDON Former Liverpool skipper Phil Neal believes the signing of John Arne Riise proves Gerard Houllier has started the next phase of his Anfield revival. The 20-year-old Norwegian recently agreed a five-year deal with the Reds,
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    • 226 25 Reuters NBA NEW YORK Kwame Brown felt a heavy responsibility after Michael Jordan made him the first high school student ever selected number one in the NBA draft yesterday. "We all have opportunities to do something great, but there will be a lot of pressure on me
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    • 689 26 Copa America suspended, Uruguay may have to take over as the host Copa America BOGOTA The history of the South American Championship is as uneven as the political development of the continent, says BBCSport.com. First contested in 1915, the tournament has been held frequently in times when relations
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    • 365 26 MANCHESTER Lazio midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron has left the door open for Manchester United to move in for him, revealed Guardian Unlimited. This comes after the Argentine superstar was acquitted on Wednesday of falsely obtaining a European Union passport. United,
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    • 838 28 Briton almost pulls off all-time upset Wimbledon WIMBLEDON During each tense changeover inside the carbonated atmosphere of Court One, the 26-year-old Briton with the dockworker's physique slipped on his headphones and pumped his ears full of one song You'll Never Walk Alone. The inspirational tune
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    • 156 28 LONDON American Jennifer Capriati and Serena Williams each dropped only four games in straight-set victories at Wimbledon yesterday as they moved a step closer to a quarter-final showdown, reported ESPN.com. Capriati, her sights set on a third consecutive Grand Slam triumph, bludgeoned Italy's Francesca
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    • 116 28 AFP NEW DELHI India's cricket coach John Wright was disappointed with his team's performance in the tri-series in Zimbabwe despite securing a place in the final. The New Zealander was clearly upset that the Indians, chasing a moderate target of 235 off 50 overs on Wednesday,
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    • 472 30  -  Stanley Ho Dickson continues to impress in his quest to be a Lion Jurong 6 Marine Castle 2 HE RAN, he scored and he waved a Singapore flag. That was the emphatic goal celebration displayed by Nigerian teenager Itimi Dickson (right) after he scored Jurong's third goal
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    • 247 30  -  Jose Raymond Sembawang 3 Gombak 1 VICTORY could not have come at a better time for the Stallions. Two cracking goals by Thai international Tawan Sripan and another by Imran Sahib saw the Stallions beat Gombak United 3-1 at the Yishun
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      516 31  -  Scott O'Donell by scott@newstoday.com. sg BALESTIER Central striker Daomeang Krongpol may not be one of the more well-known Thai players currently playing in the SLeague, but he has certainly been making his presence felt at Toa Payoh Stadium. Daorueang, or "Two" as he likes to be called, is
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    • 349 31 Wimbledon LONDON-Second seed Andre Agassi (right) of the United States reached the third round of the Wimbledon men's singles yesterday by defeating Britain's Jamie Delgado 6-2, 6-4, 6-3 in lhr 28min. Agassi next plays the winner of the South American clash between Brazil's Fernando
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    • 390 32  -  S. Murali by murali® newstoday. com. sg WITH just about two months to the start of the South-east Asia Games, one would expect the national soccer team to be hard at training, in preparation for the first-ever Under-23 edition of the competition. Instead,
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    • 588 34  -  Linda Lim by EVERY woman owns some form of jewellery be it a pair of earrings, a necklace, a bracelet or a ring and it doesn't necessarily have to be diamonds or goid. With trendy designs in semi-precious stones and crystals, women today have more options to
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