Today, 30 June 2001

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  • 14 1 TODAY mitacd ns/nraMo iS t II I* Cl H V Jun e 30, 2001
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  • 552 1  -  Ivay Tan Chan Chao Peh They get together to fight DBS bid by and IN a move laden with symbolism and a certain poignancy, two of Singapore's oldest banks said they want to join hands and face the future together. Time had been running out for both
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  • 293 1 UNITED Nations (UN) staff could set off an Aids epidemic in East Timor, warned the Chief Minister of Australia's Northern Territory, Mr Denis Burke. In an interview with Newsßadio 93.8FM, he revealed that 10 foreign UN aid workers in East Timor
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  • 222 1 The local banks cannot rely on government pro- W tection forever, g^r Even if we had not liberalised the banking industry, the foreign banks here would still have been able to use technology and new delivery channels to compete for retail business. In fact, the most
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  • 78 1 Reuters NEW YORK Mr Kofi Annan was re-elected without opposition by the 189-nation United Nations General Assembly yesterday for a second five-year term as secre-tary-general. Mr Annan, a 63-year-old career UN official, became the seventh secretary-general of the world body, and the second from Africa. Some Southeast
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 371 2  -  Ng Hwee Koon Women earn less, and get retrenched more easily by h we e ko o n@n ewsto day. com.sg The NTUC chief, who's also chairman of the ministerial committee on marriage and procreation, said to approving laughter from the largely female audience: "I have
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    • 143 2 SEVEN asylum-seekers from North Korea transited through Singapore yesterday afternoon on a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight from Beijing, Upon arrival, they were escorted out of SQBII and taken down to the tarmac on an outside stairway, bypassing the normal exit at Changi airport. But by the evening,
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    • 192 2  - Jailed for sex with underaged girl Shazalina Salim by shazal ina@newstod ay.com ,sg A DAY after Chief Justice Yong Pung How set the benchmark of 12 months' jail for men who have sex with underaged girls they meet over the Internet, two men met the same fate. Alphonso Chan (above),
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    • 135 2 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR A largely Chinesebased party in Malaysia threatened yesterday to pull out of a national opposition alliance after the party heading it renewed its pledge to set up an Islamic state. Mr Abdul Hadi Awang, Parti Islam seMalaysia's (PAS) deputy president,
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    • 138 3 Reuters BANGKOK Residents of a Thai town are flocking to the home of a bereaved mother to see and touch a 1.5-metre long monitor lizard which she said is the reincarnation of her 13-year-old son and a bringer of good fortune. Madam Chamlong Taengniem, whose
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    • 172 3 -AFP BEIJING China may have to move its capital to another city as a lack of water around Beijing is causing the city to subside, experts said. The water shortage has led to the over-extraction of deep ground water, which in turn has led
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    • 112 3 -AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has asked the US government to help track down Muslim guerrillas holding 23 American and Filipino hostages on a southern island. In a speech to foreign businessmen, Mrs Arroyo said: "I have asked the US to
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    • 137 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have "sunk" a pornographic version of World War II movie, Pearl Harbor, which hit the local market two days ago. The first five minutes of the VCDs are the same as the original but the rest is hard-core porn, Home
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    • 260 3 Ex-president and opposition party at odds TAIPEI The rift between Mr Lien Chan, chairman of Taiwan's main opposition party, and the party's former chairman, Mr Lee Teng-hui, was further widened when the former floated the idea of a confederation with mainland China. "We will pursue stable and peaceful
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    • 156 3 Agencies TOKYO A young Japanese woman was raped early yesterday on the southern island of Okinawa, where there is a strong US military presence. Police said they were questioning several US servicemen. News of the rape came just hours before Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was
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    • 100 4 THE wife rubbed samba] goreng a dish of chillied soya bean products into the maid's eyes. She also splashed a mug of water at the maid, Tutik Rahayu Purwadi, 25, and hit her on the head with the mug and her knuckles. The husband slapped the maid's
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    • 59 4 THE trial of the two men charged with rigging the shares of Singapore's Mid-Continent Equipment Group in 1998 will be heard from July 16 to Aug 6 this year. They are former Ipco International chairman Gwee Yow Pin and businessman Tan Hong Pheng. A third man has
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    • 302 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Now, new regional facility in the West by pheiphei@news to day.com.sg HOSPITALS are making their way into the heartlands. Just as Changi General Hospital (CGH) was set up for the East, a new regional hospital will be built for the West. To be called the
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    • 160 4  -  Lee U-Wen by uwen@ne wstoday. co m. sg STAY more than a week in Singapore and the culture will grow on you, say two Australians who have lived, breathed and embraced Singapore for the past two months. Mr Paul Manks, 30, and Ms Georgina Harley,
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    • 180 4 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) will extend the open bidding system to Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) for motorcycles (Category D), goods vehicles and buses (Category C) in the September bidding exercise. And by the end of the year, bidders will be able to bid online for
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    • 145 4 Today photo by DID you know that the Betting and Sweepstakes Duty was introduced in 1931, or that the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) was established as a statutory board in 1992? You can find out all these and more at IRASWorId, a permanent gallery
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 115 4 READ 0N... So expensive Long list includes health care, transport and bousing/6 Poor divorcees Women in their 60s have little money for retirement/ 11 Physics and the law Every legal suit, however creative, must fall before the perfect defence/ 13 Voices to be heard International symposium is a boost to
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  • LETTERS
    • 488 6  -  Mohamad Roste Ahmad Long list includes health care, transport and housing MR Wong Teck Tian's eulogy of how good the People's Action Party (PAP) is in his letter, "Opposition parties, do you understand this?" (Today, June 16), rekindled a long-time dream of mine to write a book entitled,
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    • 156 6  -  Kuriakose Tomy I REACHED Changi Airport on June 3 at 6pm. And as soon as I arrived, I proceeded to a public telephone booth near the baggage claim area at the airport and called my friend. In my carelessness, I left my passport in
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    • 245 6  -  June Seah I REFER to the letter, "What happens to unsold dogs?" (Today, June 27). While I was in Melbourne, I visited a cattery. After admiring the kittens on sale, the breeder sat me down and conducted an interview. She wanted to know what type
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    • 176 6  -  Ckiam Mot Leng I AM a resident of Block 16 at Toh Yi Drive. I have difficulty getting a parking lot when I arrive home after Bpm. As a result, many drivers take the risk of parking along the roadside. I was advised by the Housing
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    • 324 6  -  Irving Ng I READ with interest the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's (Sasa's) decision to exclude Ang Peng Siong from the coming SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur. As a former athlete, I can testify that the coach's presence is necessary at competitions such as
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 379 7  -  Ivay Tan DPM Lee unveils plans for foreign banks by ivay@newstoday.com.sg FOREIGN banks with the Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) status will now be allowed to compete on a better footing with local players. They will be able to provide services such as debit cards
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    • 252 7  -  Tan Hwee Vee by reporter@news to d ay. c om.sg WITH the wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that has hit the banking sector, employees must be wondering if their jobs are at stake. After all, the whole idea is to gain economies of scale
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    • 73 7 Market Watch Loss riarf owed I THAKRAL Corp, a Singapore-based distributor of consumer electronics, has narrowed its loss for the year ended March to $98.8 million. This is better than the $174.5 million loss a year earlier. Sales fell 21 percent to $584.9 million. us$ UK£ Yen HK$ EM Euro
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    • 347 8 Bloomberg So NOL scraps IPO for tanker charter unit NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) has cancelled an initial public offer of shares in its tanker charter unit, American Eagle Tankers Inc (AET). The company "believed current equity market conditions did not favour a listing for AET," NOL Group President
      — Bloomberg  -  347 words
    • 148 8 Bloomberg RHB Capital Bhd, Malaysia's third-largest banking group, has agreed to sell its Singapore brokerage business for $9.7 million. The buyer is UOB-Kay Hian Holdings. RHB-Cathay Securities Ltd, which is 49 per cent owned by RHB Capital, will be liquidated after the sale
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    • 136 8 HEWLETT-PACKARD has asked its employees to take pay cuts or vacation days between July and October to cut costs. "This week, we introduced a payroll-savings initiative that asks employees to elect to contribute to the bottom line short-term," said HP's spokeswoman Cecilia Pang. In
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    • 108 8 -AFP TOKYO Japan's Hitachi said yesterday 550 jobs will be cut in Singapore with the shift of all colour television production to factories in China and Indonesia. "Fewer factories are better than many," said Hitachi spokesman Hiroki Inoue. "It will make us more efficient,"
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    • 85 8 Bloomberg SYDNEY Qantas Airways, Australia's largest carrier, said it would end its only direct, nonstop international flights from Adelaide from Dec 1, the Advertiser reported. "Unfortunately, the existing Adelaide to Singapore services continue to be unprofitable," Qantas spokesman Paul Edwards told the newspaper. This leaves rival Singapore
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    • 306 8 Market News SINGAPORE shares ended modestly higher on firmer finishes in technology and probably window dressing in blue chip issues. All eyes were on banks and their affiliated companies as a new takeover offer had tilted the current stalemate. The ST index closed 18.86 points up at 1726.50 in
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    • 154 8 THE KLSE finished the week on a firm note, encouraged by the US markets' delayed rally in response to the Fed's 25-basis point rate cut. Some window dressing activities in conjunction with the mid-year book closure for some institutions also saw selected stocks marked up towards the close. The
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    • 309 10  -  Lee Yew Meng Attractive prices at property auctions by ye wm engl^newstoday. com. sg AUCTION sales in Singapore rose 132 per cent in the second quarter of this year to $58 million, with a marked increase in residential sales. According to property consultancy firm Jones Lang
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    • 332 10  -  Cathleen Tung by cathleen@newstoday.com.sg ARE new HDB flats really affordable to newly-formed households? Maybe not, according to a study done by the National University of Singapore's Department of Real Estate. It noted that a double-income young couple has to work for about one-and-a--half years before
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 378 11 Women in their 60s have little money for retirement WASHINGTON The surge of divorces that started a generation ago is leaving hundreds of thousands of women in their 60s having to stay in the work force because of a lack of sufficient money to retire. "The only advice
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    • 111 11 -AFP CANBERRA Australian Defence Minister Peter Reith said yesterday he is quitting politics, dealing a damaging blow to an embattled government's chances of retaining office at the elections due by December. Mr Reith, 51, was initially one of two contenders to succeed Prime Minister
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    • 225 11 -AFP WASHINGTON The US Appeals Court yesterday threw out a lower court's order to break up software giant Microsoft, although it found the company had repeatedly abused its monopoly power in the software business. The appeals court also said Trial Judge Thomas Jackson engaged in "flagrant"
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    • 170 11 Reuters SEOUL The South Korean tax authorities yesterday asked prosecutors to press tax evasion charges against six top newspaper companies in the wake of record fines being levied against the media firms for concealing US$l billion ($l.B billion) in income. The move
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    • 300 12 -AFP Viet millionaire-politician murdered MP SYDNEY A former Vietnamese refugee who became a millionaire politician in Australia was yesterday convicted of murdering MP John Newman (right). Phuong Canh Ngo (far right), 42, a local government councillor and aspiring Labor Party MP, now faces a life sentence.
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    • 172 12 -AFP TOKYO Japan's jobless rate rose back to a post-war record high of 4.9 per cent in May, the government said yesterday. The number of unemployed grew 200,000 during the month to 3.48 million, up for two consecutive months, the Public Management Ministry said. The jobless rate
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    • 190 12 -AFP PONTIAC (Michigan) Grammy awardwinning rapper Marshall Mathers, alias Eminem, was sentenced to one year's probation on Thursday on weapons charges stemming from a dispute with a member of a rival rap group. Reminding him that he was a role model for his many young
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    • 266 12 Agencies BRUSSELS Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's extradition to the United Nations (UN) war crimes tribunal could help secure at least US$l billion ($l.B billion) from some 35 donor countries. The countries met yesterday to decide how to bankroll Belgrade's political and economic
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    • 166 12 -AFP BELFAST The resignation of Mr David Trimble as the head of Northern Ireland's powersharing executive is to come into effect tomorrow, sparking a process which threatens to destroy the government institutions born of the 1998 peace accord. Mr Trimble, 56, a moderate Protestant, last month
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 619 13 Every legal suit, however creative, must fall before the perfect defence DRY ICE by SISYPHUS SOME students who took the recent A-level physics examination were traumatised by an unanswerable question. Many broke down in tears, others saw their future (e.g. as doctors) vanish. They want something
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    • 443 13 IN an editorial yesterday headlined "Second thoughts", Hong Kong's South China Morning Post commented on China's population policy: CHINA'S one-child policy achieved a remarkable turnabout in the 20 years of its existence. Without it the country's population would have risen from
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    • 1413 14 •Taal '^fik. W^ I J«ky Cheung Special H^lH^^^^H Channel Newsasia Vasantham Centml, 4pm Channel U, 10.30pm F \J^ .■V/c/t/rt/lis the son ofjagmohan Ifehta. Interested toseejacky Cheung's office Jagmohan, while at a hill station, and listen to kirn share his thoughts u 10 N 2 4 meets famous local singer Tarabhai,
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  • RELAX
    • 640 16  -  lan De Cotta International symposium in August a boost to world-class groups here by ia n@ne wsto day. co m.sg Since the Singapore Youth Choir (SYC) was formed in 1964, several Singapore choirs have trail-blazed the globe, winning awards and earning the respect of the international
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    • 414 16 LISTENERSHIP for Mediacorp Radio's six stations is at its highest with 95.8 per cent of the population (aged 15 years and above) tuning in to radio every week. This is based on the latest *AC Nielsen Radio Diary Survey conducted from
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    • INCINEMAS
      • 451 17 Reuters Tribute to Jack Lemmon LOS ANGELES From putupon corporate underling in The Apartment and hapless traveller in The Out-of-Towners to his Oscar-winning role as a beleaguered businessman in Save the Tiger, versatile actor Jack Lemmon was Hollywood's consummate American everyman. Lemmon, who died on Wednesday
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        450 18  -  Rachel Lo She's the rose among thorns on City TV by ra chel@ne wstoday. com. sg Angel Teo (below) is the only female presenter on Sportsnight, a daily sports bulletin on City TV. This ex-model admits she does not play any sports herself due to her lack of
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      • 291 18 Reuters HOW long can six attractive, twenty some thing singles hang out in a coffee shop talking about love and sex before getting on with their lives? In the case of TV's Friends, the answer may be eight years. When the six co-stars
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      • 272 18 FLY with Air Connections and soar with the stars in Channe] s's new comedy series Now Boarding. With the likes of Vernetta Lopez, Koh Chieng Mun, Beatrice Chia, Steven Lim, Jamie Yeo and Gary Yuen, it's going to be a bumpy ride. They'll be taking
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    • ShopTalk
      • 119 19 From the same furniture house that brought you the Zen-inspired ROAAALI bedroom suite, STAR Furniture Group has now developed o new series of Oak Lime Wash furniture for its selected showrooms. These clean and simple designs suit individuals who like their modern homes
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      • 308 19 ZA introduces two new firsts to help you achieve that picture T-Zone perfect look. Sq ui rt on the T-Zone Perfect FixyUp mattifying spray, designed to combat oil and stickiness, and enjoy a shine-free look all through the day. Use it before applying base
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      • 164 19 What causes brittle hair? Many reasons as L'Oreal explains. Main culprits: being exposed to UV rays, pollution, styling, sports activities and even fashion fads. With damaged hair surface, it loses its shine and softness, and also its strength and resistance. Hair becomes
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        494 20  -  Gurmeet Singh Prepare well in advance for the festive season or any other occasion by stretching your shopping. With the GSS still on, it's the best time to stock up on gifts at a bargain by WHY wait for Christmas to creep up before you start planning your
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      • 635 22  -  Gurraeet Singh Surprise friends and stir up any festive season with your own cocktai concoctions. But first, you need the right tools for the home bar by SOME of the best entertaining happens indoors in our own homes. There's nothing like familiar cosy surroundings to induce family
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        95 24 Flower rubber photo frame UP $12.90 GSS $6.45 From Alternatives, nOS-l4JheHeeren Paper gift box UP $4.90 GSS Less 70% I From The Body Shop Hello Kitty backpack UP $24.90 GSS $19.90 From Mushi Mushi Gifts Silver rosebuds bangle GSS $88 From 02 Zarium Twin Star slippers UP $9.90
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        118 24 LARRY Jewelry's award-winning brooch, Fruitful (featured in our story "All that glitters", Friday, June 29, page 2), was available at 11,800 at its preview. But you can still get it at 17,100. Astro boy clear file UP $4.90 GSS $3.90 From Mushi Musbi Gifts Givenchy card holder UP
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        166 26 There's more to the structured jacket than just power dressing Basic item: Beige jacket $219, From Warehouse Flower Power Flower t-shirt, $39 By One Clothing Skirt, $59 From Miss Se/fridge Hairclip, $39 Ring, $59 By Nad'tne Delpbine Shoes, $199 (less 20%) From Warehouse Shoppin'Trottin' Horse print jeans,
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      • 306 30 The b oy next door STANCMART Raymond Tan's down-to-earth attitude extends to his wardrobe WHAT'S your personal style? I'm neat and down to earth. I like the boy-next-door look. So, are you a boy next door? Yes, I suppose so. Who's your favourite designer? I don't prefer any particular designer.
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