Today, 14 August 2001

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    7 1 TODAY Tuesday August 14, 2001 MITA(P) BSrtl/2000
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    Internet politics
    549 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Okay to Net campaigning, but questions remain by boonyi a n@n ewsto d ay. com.sg On the day the Government surprised its opponents, and even the media, by allowing political campaigning on the Internet, the sheer complexity of regulating this wild animal came into sharp
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    Lock icon First blood
    108 1 Channel News Asia THE Singapore General Hospital and National University Hospital have scored a world's first in successfully transplanting umbilical cord blood from an unrelated donor to a thalessaemia major patient. Thalessaemia major is a genetic blood disorder that prevents the production of red cell corpuscles. To get
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    Turtle tracking tragedy
    91 1 SAN DIEGO US scientists believe they have traced a 50--year-old turtle they had been studying to a village barbecue. San Diego-based conservationist, Wildcoast, blamed a transmitter malfunction for losing the creature they had tracked via satellite since December, reported Annanova. But they revised the explanation after learning
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  • HOT NEWS
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      The harsh new world
      561 2 New axioms, new volatility, new solutions DEPUTY Prime Minister Tony Tan (picture) yesterday took a deep and hard look at the position we find ourselves in and then spoke his mind. By the time he was done, one was left with the uncomfortable feeling that the
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      Man nabbed trying to import Ecstasy
      164 2 ACTING on a tip-off received in June this year, CNB officers yesterday nabbed a 31-year-old Singaporean for importing 4.33 kg of Ecstasy tablets. Investigations revealed that an international drug syndicate has been recruiting financiallystrapped Singaporeans to get them to be drug couriers. The unemployed
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      Medisave debate
      242 2  -  Ng Boon Yian by boo nyi an@n ewsto day. c o m .sg SHOULD Medisave be used for annual check-ups, including health screening? This issue generated heated debate between Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang and MPs such as Dr Lily Neo and Mr Sin Boon Ann in Parliament
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      Cut off uncle's genitals
      154 2  -  Elaine Quek A MENTALLY-ILL man who killed his uncle in a gruesome manner was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment. Dolah Omar, 55, pleaded guilty in the High Court to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The court heard that on Jan 30 last year, Dolah hit
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      Jailed for porn films
      103 2 A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 10 months jail yesterday for attempting to distribute 566 illegal films, as well as possessing nearly 1,400 obscene films at his shop. In mitigation, Mok Swee Wei's lawyer revealed that Mok was a dialysis patient who had exhausted his life
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      Lock icon RMAF men fly into a rage
      266 3 Agencies Attacks in Sabah following colleague's death KUALA LUMPUR More than 100 personnel of the Royal Malaysian Air Force went on a rampage at nightspots in Sabah late on Sunday. Labuan police chief Sidin Abdul Karim said yesterday that he suspected the incident was
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      Lock icon Six killed in Chennai violence
      132 3 AFP CHENNAI This southern Indian city was tense last night after an orgy of violence left six dead and more than 100 injured. The violence erupted at a political rally held by the regional Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) opposition party to protest against the arrest
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      Lock icon 50 km cable car ride?
      101 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A 50 km cable-car system has been proposed to link the Petronas Twin Towers here to the Genting Highlands casino. Malaysian Tourism Minister Datuk Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadm was quoted by the New Straits Times yesterday as saying that the extraordinary move
      -AFP  -  101 words
    • Article
      S'pore aviation-related courses
      137 3 SINGAPORE yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao) on the Icao-Singapore Developing Country Training Programme. In his speech, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, announced that Singapore will sponsor 100 fellowships, with the aim of providing
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      Aceh autonomy
      58 3 JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has signed a decree allowing special autonomy for Aceh, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said yesterday. "We hope in future Irian Jaya too will have their own autonomy laws," Mr Hassan told The Age. Parliament approved the decree in the last days of the
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      She stole $15 from dead man
      148 4  -  Pearlyn Tham A PROSTITUTE was yesterday jailed six months for stealing $15 from a dead man. On July 7, Juriah Sarimin was at Jalan Suka with three male friends when Thet Lwin asked her how much she charged for sexual services. Jamal Anak Nyalau
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      Call it the dream offer
      347 4  -  Shazalina Salim by shazalina@newstoday.com.sg IMAGINE this: An employer who gives you an extra month's salary every year, on top of the normal salary and bonus. Then, imagine this: The employer invests this extra money for you. Now pinch yourself. This is no dream. It's happening
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      SAF scholar and her life-long love for computers
      191 4  -  Lee U-Wen WHENEVER Ms Celine Tan (picture) encounters a technical glitch with her computer, she jumps right in to fix it herself. The bubbly 19-year-old harbours a life-long love for computers, so it came as no surprise when she decided to pursue
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      Medical cheat
      95 4  -  Peariyn Tham HE was a crook in a medical officer's uniform. Abdul Khair Ahmad, 43, was a medical officer with Heng-Gref Medical Supplies Services, an ambulance services company. On June 15 last year, Ms Chew Chee Lwe called for an ambulance to send her son to the Institute
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      Lock icon $700 feed
      81 4 Channel News Asia A WOMAN'S bag was stolen while she was feeding cats on a pavement along Irving Road at 11pm on Saturday. The 52-year-old cleaner lost $700 and some personal belongings. Police said the victim had placed her haversack beside her while she fed the cats. A
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      Bad times mean more applications to teach
      163 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim THE last time the economic crisis hit home in 1998, the recruitment of teachers shot up to a record 3,300. With the cloudy skies back, the Ministry of Education expects a similar situation for its recruitment in 2001/2002. It needs
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      161 3 fjff/ "■■7 (f:' Chi Id-related Illnesses ore a growing concern in Singapore. So Is the cost of treating them. If ?'.vT' That's why you need MeduCare.The only education savings plan that covers all the following: Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus Rheumatic Fever with Valvular impairment Kawasaki
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      59 4 Featuring Today... B I mi Hw .ji^js^ El 19 The 15-minuteTom Yam (above) it 16 The superwoman is not a new species in Asia h 17 Weathering the economic storm EMAS 20 Anne Heche plans to wed LimeLight 22 Margaret Chan is doubly happy LtFEIsGREAT 23 There is life at
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      112 5 TH! SL M :VM:.-i"'.:.'.::.'.'. ;--;.:;u- J >, > > v You can't think slimmer than the new SGH-N2OO from Samsung because it's the slimmest phone at just 14.9 mm. It is also one of the lightest (69°) and has the most stylish blue screen and keypad, ft even has voice
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  • LETTERS
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      China's changed
      311 6  -  Wong Teck Tian Better study recent trends if you wat to do business there A FRIEND of mine, a young businessman, expressed keen interest in investing in the China's market. He is confident of his investment plans as he claims to be proficient in Mandarin. I warned him
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      Nothing offensive
      120 6  -  Simon Kirn I REFER to the article, "Offensive Billboard" {Today, Aug 10). The reader was offended because two knobs, labelled Channel U, were placed on a woman's breasts, with the tagline "Turn U On". I sincerely think the writer may not be aware of the aspects considered by
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      Flying golf balls at the beach
      87 6  -  Marianne Teo MY husband was out jogging at East Coast Parkway last Saturday morning when he saw a golf ball ricocheting off a tree. My husband was astounded to discover that the culprits were actually a mid-dle-aged couple, practising their chipping skills on the
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      Time for Australia to substantiate its charges
      236 6  -  Ananda Perera ONE of Australia's defence experts, Prof Dennis Ball, has said he is not implicating Singapore in spy charges with SingTel's bid for Australia's Cable Wireless Optus. Then is he saying that such reports are false? A report by the Australian Broadcasting
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      Pay cut demand: What's the rationale?
      136 6  -  Nelson Ho BRAINS at the Think Centre must be working overtime and at a very different level from mine. My limited grey matter has not allowed me to grasp the rationale of the centre's call for ministers to take a 36 per cent pay
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      118 6 Reach us at Tbray Letters New Products To advertise Want 10 get something off your chest? Showcase your new product. Let your business associates know who's on More than 200.000 copies (audited) are printed Write lo us with your views. Give us your Send us a concise description including price,
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      64 6 Clarification THE aircraft carrier, USS Constellation, arrived at Changi Naval Base on Sunday, for a port visit here. The ship will not be open to the public during its Singapore visit. Today was unintentionally misinformed that the ship will be open to the public today. For more information on USS
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      139 7 www.mi.com.sg Everywhere under the sun. MX Chinese Zodi c With Ml Information Service*, you can get glimpses of your day ahead via SMS. Simply choose your sign from Horoscope or Chinese Zodiac. Better still, sign up for both. And you'll always be in the know. Now, the first 500 to
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Direct links
      316 8 -AFP After 50 years,Taipei opens trade routes TAIPEI Taiwan will open direct investment and cargo links with mainland China for the first time since they separated more than 50 years ago. The island's top decision makers agreed to remove the ban on single investments of more than US$5O
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      Lock icon Delgro to start taxi service in Beijing
      137 8 -AFP DELGRO Corp has applied to set up a joint venture with a Chinese partner to launch a taxi service in Beijing. The Singapore firm, which already has bus and taxi ventures in other Chinese cities, said its prospective partner was the Beijing
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      Lock icon Slowdown hits Malaysian companies
      183 8 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Some 70 per cent of Malaysia's small and medium-sized industries (SMIs) are facing cashflow problems as the slowdown bites. Worst hit are those in building materials, automotive parts, printing, electrical goods and electronics, National Small and Medium-scale Industry Association vice-president Lee Teck Meng
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    • Market Watch
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        Sembcorp Logistics' profit up
        84 8 SEMBCORP Logistics, a unit of SembCorp Industries, said first-half profit more than tripled, helped by earnings from its new Swiss partnership and one-time gains. Profit rose to $76.4 million, or 9.2 cents a share, from $21.5 million, in the year-earlier period. Sales rose 12 per cent
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        Frontline negotiating China purchase
        102 8 FRONTLINE Technologies Corporation is negotiating to invest in Modern Devices (China) Ltd (MDCL), headquartered in Hong Kong, and focused on the Greater China IT markets. MDCL's China operations are carried out through its network of regional offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu. Frontline is considering
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      Lock icon Rising rupiah irony
      171 8 Bernama JAKARTA Indonesian exporters have warned their earnings will deteriorate if the rupiah sustains its recent rally and stabilises at around 8,000/9,000 per US dollar. This is because they previously bought US dollar-priced raw materials at much higher exchange rates, Bisnis Indonesia reported. Quoting Indonesian Footwear Association
      Bernama  -  171 words
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      17-year low
      336 10  -  Bernama Poor tech earnings forecast drags Nikkei down TOKYO The Nikkei Stock Average plunged 2.19 per cent yesterday, its lowest close in 17 years. The gloom came in the wake of stunningly poor forecasts by Japanese high-tech firms Advantest and Rohm on Friday. The 225-issue Nikkei dropped 257.5
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      Lock icon BA-American tie-up 'not a threat'
      181 10 Bloomberg LONDON British Airways (BA) and American Airlines say global airline alliances have increased competition so much on North Atlantic routes that their partnership isn't a threat to consumers or other carriers. The airlines said in a US antitrust case on Friday that regulators should
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      Lock icon Properly sale gloom
      199 10 Bloomberg HONG KONG The Hong Kong government sold three building sites for HK$l.2B billion ($2BB million) in an auction that reflected a lack of confidence in the city's property market. Sino China Enterprises paid HKsl,o9 billion for the biggest site, at Hung Horn in Hong Kong's Kowloon
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    • Market News
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        Singapore
        275 10 THE key index was gridlocked within a small range in early trade before succumbing to end the day down by 16.90 points led mainly by falls in property and technology issues, which emulated the Nasdaq's poor closing on Friday. The STI index was clocked 15.29 points lower to 1626.14
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        Malaysia
        187 10 SPECULATIVE interest on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) has dwindled following weeks of active trading, particularly on the takeover-restructuring plays. As the results season is now in full swing, the market is also watching out for new fundamental leads. At the close, the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index managed
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      S'pore firm blazes forth in China
      354 11  -  Chan Chao Peh $100,000 last year to $58 mil in six months this year by eh ao pc h(s>ne wstoday. com. sg LAST month, during the Off-Budget measures announcement in parliament, Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo extolled Singapore companies to put on their
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      Japan companies to partly fund Boeing's sonic cruiser
      193 11  -  Bernama LONDON A group of major Japanese companies is poised to take a 25 per cent stake in Boeing's US$lO billion programme to develop a sonic cruiser aircraft which will travel close to the speed of sound, reported the Sunday Telegraph. The
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      Lock icon Fingers cut in protest
      304 12 Agencies as Japan's Prime Minister visits war shrine TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the controversial Yasukuni war shrine yesterday despite fierce protests at home and in South Korea and China. But Mr Koizumi insisted his visit should not call into question Japan's commitment to
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      Lock icon Arroyo pushes Muslims to vote for self-rule
      212 12 AFP. COTABATO (Philippines) President Gloria Arroyo went on a tough ride yesterday to convince the residents in Mindanao to expand the areas of Muslim self-rule through a plebiscite. The plebiscite, to be held today, will determine whether the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao
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      Lock icon Russia rejects pact
      113 12 Reuters MOSCOW Russia rejected calls by visiting US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday to abandon a landmark nuclear deterrence pact so that Washington could develop a missile defence. Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov told reporters Mr Rumsfeld had failed to convince him that the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)
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    • Article
      Lock icon Phone for cheating
      117 12 -AFP COLOMBO A Sri Lankan student who used a mobile phone strapped to his body to cheat in an exam has been arrested. The high-school student was handed over to the police after examiners found a mobile phone under bandages on his arm, with a hands-free microphone
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      University denounced
      108 12 LONDON France's leading university has been denounced as a refuge for whimsical and irrational academics lacking intellectual rigour. The criticism is contained in a report on the Sorbonne's decision to award a doctorate to Mademoiselle Elisabeth Teissier, an astrologer who has advised leading French personalities, including former President
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      Lock icon Six-week deadline to kickstart Nothern Ireland peace process
      309 13 -AFP BELFAST Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic parties have been given a six-week deadline to break the deadlock holding back the province's beleaguered peace process. The British government restored direct rule to Northern Ireland at midnight on Sunday, 24 hours after suspending
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      Lock icon Fine way to identify speed cameras
      126 13 -AFP LONDON The British government yesterday ordered the police to make known the location of speed cameras in return for keeping some of the money from fines. Under the hypothecation scheme, the police can keep part of the money from speeding tickets to cover
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      Singaporeans held in HK sex party raid
      106 13 HONG KONG Undercover agents "joined" the wealthy and professional clients at a "play party" in a sex shop on Sunday and arrested 26 people in the raid. The Hong Kong iMail said yesterday that the patrons were mainly businessmen from Singapore and Taiwan
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      Lock icon Deputy PM sacked
      50 13 -AFP HONIARA Solomon Islands deputy Prime Minister Allan Kemakeza was yesterday sacked for paying himself compensation for civil war damage. Taiwan banks lent the Solomons, whose government is virtually penniless, 133.5 million Solomons dollars ($44.32 million) last month but the funds are alleged to have been misused.
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Who destroyed
      1317 14 IN Singapore, the opposition politician's lot is not a happy one. The city state may have a high standard of living, but ask residents to discuss the ruling People's Action Party's lock on power and the undercurrent of fear rises quickly to the surface. While most know they
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      J B Jeyaretnam?
      919 15 yOUR July 31 editorial "A Worthy X Legacy" made out that the Singapore Government, and especially Mr Lee Kuan Yew, has used defamation lawsuits to drive "JB Jeyaretnam from the political stage". Mr Jeyaretnam was not made a bankrupt by any member of the Government. In 1996,
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  • UPFRONT
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      Something's cooking for the S Africans
      496 16  -  Mark Seah Nature Scholars plan to charm their hosts with chicken rice by WHAT do chicken rice, shopping and South Africa have in common? Not much, unless you are a Nature Scholar. Tanya Shaw and James Wang, both 16, are the two scholars who
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      Singaporean film-maker wins award
      222 16 NEW YORK-based Singaporean film-maker Meng Ong has won the international critics' prize for his film Miss Wonton at the recently concluded 54th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. The Fipresci jury citation for Miss Wonton, credited as a Singapore-US co-production, commended the film for how it "charmingly
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      The Filipino and the latest Asian superwoman
      515 16  -  Roulee Jane Calayag My Say by roulee.jane@newstoday.cora.sg FOR centuries, Asian women have been bound to a tradition that demands giving our all to family. In more recent times, we have been caught in the jaws of a vice that represents family and career.
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  • INFOTECH
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      Weathering the economic storm
      486 17  -  Sol E Solomon. Firms see logistics outsourcing as one way to pull through by solomon@newstoday. com. sg FIRMS here are seriously looking at the outsourcing of their logistics functions, such as warehousing and distribution, as one way to fight the effects of the current economic difficulties.
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      Blue Velocity for growth
      128 17 IBM's Net Generation Business launched Blue Velocity last week. This initiative aimed at helping Internet companies and service providers to "speed their path to profitability", takes a four-pronged approach programmes, partnerships, people and offerings. Among the programmes under the initiative are ASP Prime with the availability
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      Indian expansion
      116 17 IN a move that allows Singapore-based Genovate Solutions to expand its training and software services to India, it has signed Scallion Technologies of Chennai as its first Master Franchisee for South India for training and development services. The main focus is to provide training in e-com-merce, Java technology,
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    • BREAKING NEWS
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        Still spending on IT
        129 17 The information technology services market seems to have weathered the foul economic climate, with companies continuing to spend on the segment While the technology industry as a whole has been hard hit by the US-led slump, the IT services segment in AsiaPacific is shaping up fairly
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        Low attract
        130 17 prices To attract mobile users in Asia-Pacific, vendors should introduce low-price, entry-level handset models, as over 80 per cent of handsets sold in 2005 would be to price-sensitive developing markets, said the International Data Corporation (IDC). In its report Wireless (Handsets) Device Market Forecast and Analysis 2000-2005 the
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      The image master
      508 18  -  M David Stone oamsung s analogue monitor has a strong package by BY most measures, Samsung's SyncMaster 560 v TFT monitor is a prime example of what your basic 15-inch LCD monitor ought to be. This analogue-only monitor offers easy setup, smart good looks and welldesigned controls.
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      Hubs unite
      67 18 HDBUILDERS.COM has partnered with the construction portal, icxl23.com. According to the partners, the e-commerce experience of icxl23.com compliments HDBuilders.com's immense domain knowledge. The partnership with HDBuilders.com allows icxl23.com to proliferate its ecommerce innovation for indus-try-wide adoption to give it a critical mass needed to reduce cost. Their offerings
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      Critical partnership
      153 18 CRITICAL Path, a global provider of messaging and directory infrastructure, has partnered with Internet data centre provider, Data One Asia. This partnership combines Critical Path's messaging and directory infrastructure with Data One Asia's reach in Asia. It will provide hosted messaging services to businesses in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand
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      Suite for m-commerce
      150 18 ORACLE has shipped its mobile-enabled Oracle EBusiness Suite. The suite allows users to access key e-business applications from the desktop, the Web and a variety of mobile and wireless devices like the Palms, Web-enabled phones, smartphones and other PDAs. The company is also working with strategic partners
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      Server for small business
      168 18 DELL has introduced a server designed for small businesses and individual departments or branch offices of larger organisations. It comes with a starting price of $1,265. The Dell Power Edge 500SC is a single-processor server that offers customers the power of a server at the same
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      E-services builder
      145 18 HEWLETT-PACKARD has made available its business process-management and integration technology designed to help customers build comprehensive e-services. HP Process Manager 5.0 enables a business to integrate people (employees, customers and suppliers), business applications and e-services in order to build an ecosystem of processes that supports the entire value
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  • HOMECHEF
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      Tom Yam steamboat
      412 19  -  Pauline DLoh Some like it hot, some like it spicy Eating out can be expensive for a large family. In choice of cuisine and location, it's not easy to please both seniors and juniors, not to mention the ones in-between, like you and me, who have to
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      Spicy Tom Yam Steamboat
      241 19 Recipe Ingredients: 2 packets MAGGI Tom Yam Paste 2 stalks of lemon grass, sliced 500 gm salmon fillet, sliced 500 gm squid, cut into rings 500 gm prawns, trimmed One pkt fishballs (about 20) 500 gm young spinach, trimmed 200 gm enoki mushrooms 4 small bundles
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      STOCKSTILLS
      181 19 GETTING a good steamboat stock is easy these days, unlike those days when my father would stand vigil for a day over a pot of fried fish bones with white radishes and winter melon for 3 milky stock. These days, all you need is boiling water, and a couple
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  • INCINEMAS
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      111 20 Reuters/Variety LOCARNO (Switzerland) Fur flew and jaws dropped during the final hours of the 54th Locarno Film Festival on Sunday as a lineup of films took the top prizes, leaving the favourites out in the cold. Juror Debra Winger even walked out halfway through the awards press conference after repeatedly
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      Lock icon Italian film tops Locarno
      192 20 -Agencies Tempers flare as favourites are left out in the cold The Golden Leopard top prize went to Italian road movie Alia Rivoluzione sulla due cavalli {Off to the Revolution by a 2CV), Maurizio Sciarra's second film. Though it garnered little critical attention during the festival,
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      Anne Heche's weddina plans
      114 20 ANNE Heche is really for the spotlight again. The sometimes bisexual star, who once bitterly complained that her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres got so much publicity, is in negotiations with People magazine about granting the publication exclusive coverage of her wedding for a price. The actress,
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      Lock icon Harlin to go back to Finland
      138 20 -Reuters HELSINKI (Finland) Hollywood director Renny Harlin, who has directed Sylvester Stallone in Ciiffhanger and Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2, plans to return to his native Finland for his next film. He plans to document the life of Finnish wartime leader Carl Gustaf
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      487 21 -AFP Distributors avoid clash with film BANGKOK Suriyothai, the costliest film in the history of Thai cinema, opens this weekend, forcing local and foreign film distributors to reschedule releases to avoid a clash. Suriyothai premiered last Sunday at a gala screening for Thailand's Queen Sirikit,
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      220 21 AFP CAIRO Organisers of an Egyptian film festival said on Saturday they have refused to screen a US-Israeli production. They said they will not screen the movie because of continual Jewish "violence" against the Palestinians. Chairman of the Alexandria International Film Festival, Mohammed Saleh, told AFP
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      300 21 Reuters/Vanety HOLLYWOOD With New Line's Rush Hour 2 stuck in summer traffic this weekend, Universai's American Pie 2 (below) gorged an estimated US$45.l million ($79.46 million) in what is yet another record: the best opening, ever for an R-rated comedy. Second helpings of Universai's American
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      416 22  -  Sophia Ang That's how Margaret Chan describes her life these days by soplii a new sloday. com. sg 'TVie mop of short, tight, dark curls X. framing her face contrasts starkly with her turquoise traditional Chinese silk blouse which clashes in turn with her bright fuchsia pink Chinese
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      205 22 Reuters LONDON Moulin Rouge star Ewan McGregor has told a British newspaper he will never move to Hollywood because he loathes the studio system. In a frankly worded broadside, the Scot who also starred in Trainspotting condemned the Los Angeles-based film industry for treating actors as
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      148 22 -AFP LOS ANGELES Actor Drew Carey was a no-show at a charity bowling event here last weekend, but he had a good excuse. The 43-year-old comedian had just gotten out of the hospital after undergoing emergency heart surgery. Carey, the chubby, bespectacled star of The Drew
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      304 22 -Ratters LONDON Flamboyant Eighties icon Boy George has launched a hunt for a lookalike to play him in a new musical he has written about his rollercoaster life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll with the charttopping Culture Club. More than 200
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      731 23  -  Elaine Quek It may not be a resort or a holiday; but it is good entertainmen IT's almost impossible not to form a habit of going to the movies if you live in Singapore. Aggressive publicity from film distributors aside, the most compelling reason behind this
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      1453 24 ?V Jk /Vow News Nostalgia on Singapore Tonight with Seven Year Itch ■k-JIl I I'll Be Back Dorothy Tan and Duncan Watt Ctanne! News Asia, lOpm Am Camml, io P m \i ih jj**- I chomel v, 11.30 P m CHANNELNEWSASI* The National Day celebration contin- A man who has
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      267 25 What do a beautiful stranger, a chameleon and man's ex-best friend have in common? They are the creative works of students in the Art Elective Programme currently on display at the Art Connects exhibition, at the Singapore Art Museum. Jointly
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      481 25  -  Sian E Jay by With the launch of the New Media Art Fund by the National Arts Council, "cyber art" has become a buzzword for this century. But what exactly is cyber art, and how will it enhance our lives? For that matter,
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      41 25 KS? /Must b« 9^n9 away 4 V (Next pi W BLoOt> WEEK )Ls^^ i~<2^*-ss±g? I some free samplesy S V^^ >J Watch Chew Chor Meng and Daniel Ong /A=diaCorp rV in Mr Kiasu TONIGHT at 8.00 pm on Channel 5. y
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      358 25 Three- Listing music LUND University Male Choir (Sweden) Asia Tour 2001: A musical smorgasbord Led by conductor Mats Poulson.the choir will perform both contemporary as well as traditional Swedish and Nordic music. Date: Aug 15 Time: 12.30pm Venue: University Cultural Centre, NUS Admission: Free Enquiries: 874-6327 THEATRE A Midsummer's Night
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      407 26 BJ BjArthur Morris (Australia) ■iowardrf the end of 1948, he BJwa^ playing the best cricket Hoi any left-hander I'd seen. ■flic best left-band option to BJopcii an innings. He had Mpowerful wrists and foreManns. I Barry Richards (S Africa) BOne of the best players of Hi
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      248 27 -AFP LONDON Robbie Fowler's Liverpool future is the subject of renewed speculation after he was dropped from the Charity Shield clash with Manchester United. Several newspapers reported Fowler was furious with Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier after being axed from Sunday's traditional curtain-raiser to the English
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      660 27 But George Graham insists Red Devils are still the best LONDON Ex-Liverpool manager Roy Evans is backing Gerard Houllier's men to mount a real championship challenge this season after beating Manchester United for the third successive time, in the Charity Shield. It is the first
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      509 27 -AFP GRAND BLANC More than six years. That was how long Kenny Perry had to wait before winning again on the PGA Tour. Yesterday, he carded a three-under-par 69 to win the Buick Open and finally take home
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      963 28 Reuters Drug controversy should not be allowed to overshadow event World Athletics Championships EDMONTON For a hangover competition in the year after the most successful Olympics yet, the sport of track and field proved surprisingly robust at the eighth world championships. No world records fell
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      329 28 -AFP PARIS It's the football equivalent of walking the plank. The men handed the task of guiding the remaining Asian teams through the final qualifying round for the 2002 World Cup can all be forgiven for thinking they
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      486 29  -  Kelvin Phang Indonesian hopes to end poor run of form by kelvin@newsto d ay. c ora. sg INDONESIA'S top player Taufik Hidayat cannot seem to steer clear of controversy at the moment. Yesterday, a television crew left after he failed to show up for a press conference, arranged
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      206 29  -  Jose Raymond POLYTECHNIC student Alfred Sim will not race against Hamkah Afik in Sunday's Singapore Open 100 m race. This despite the challenge thrown to him by national relay coach Tang Ngai Kin. Tang had vowed to quit the team along with sprinter Hamkah Afik
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      116 29 Take your hat off to this fan TWENTY-YEAR-OLD bartender Mohd Faizaltul Amri Noor Ali is not your average S-League fan. A supporter of the Warriors, he is usually very colourful during matches which involve his favourite SLeague team. Not only does he shout at
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      462 30 Sakesan and Kiatisuk run wild against toothless Singapore side Singapore 0 Thailand 5 by Kelvin Phang kelvin@newstoday. c o m. sg SINGAPORE coach Jan Poulsen was hoping to impress with a new strike combination of Mohamed Noor Ali and Ali Imran Lomri last night. But it was Thailand's
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      159 30 THE final weekend of Singapore Cricket Association Division One championship saw Ceylon Sports Club emerge as champion. Indian Association (IA) began its Saturday encounter against SCC still in with a chance of winning the title. It had to win its match and hope CSC lost its Sunday game
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      78 30 MOHAMED Hasim (centre) was $3,750 richer yesterday. He emerged as the best pundit of last season's English Premier League, getting many of his predictions of results right in the "Big Man" section on the popular website E nglis hPremier Football.com. More than 2,600 football
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