Today, 6 November 2001

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    6 1 TODAY Tuesday November 6, 2001 MJTA(P)O63/11.'2001
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    Lock icon Why this estate ditched Chiam
    681 1  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Lee Ching Wern by and WHEN Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong offered an unusual upgrading carrot to the residents of Potong Pasir during the recent elections, poll-watch-ers wondered how many would bite. After all, Singaporeans who choose to live in Opposition-held wards
    VPCWC KHING CHONG  -  681 words
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    Lock icon Fast track to China
    125 1 Agencies BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN A 100-year-old dream of linking Singapore to China by rail is about to come true. Asean leaders yesterday gave the green light to the US$2.5-bil-lion ($4.5 billion)-project as part of their efforts to firm up economic linkages in the region, Brunei's Sultan
    – Agencies  -  125 words
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    Poisoned river
    89 1 HENAN Thousands of Chinese soldiers, police and civilians have been mobilised to contain a cyanide spill in a river here, BBC reported. State media said 11 tonnes of the chemical sodium cyanide leaked into the Luohe River after a truck transporting it to a local gold mine was
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Chia may take seat
      347 2  -  Tan Hui Leng NCMP post if NSP, SDA agree by hu ile ng@newstod ay.com. sg NATIONAL Solidarity Party's (NSP) Mr Steve Chia (picture) is likely to accept the NonConstituency MP position if his party does not object. After he thanked voters yesterday, the Opposition's "best loser"
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      Singapore Power, SMRT to switch chiefs
      158 2 TWO top guns are switching jobs from Jan 1 next year, RAdm (Retired) Kwek Siew Jin, who is president of SMRT Corp and managing director of its subsidiary SMRT Ltd will move to Singapore Power (SP). BG Boey Tak Hap, the president and CEO
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      Bintan water deal soon?
      132 2 SINGAPORE is expected to get a proposal from Indonesia on the feasibility of buying water from its Riau province by early next year. Acting Environment Minister Lim Swee Say said this in an interview with Newsradio 93.8, in conjunction with Clean and Green Week. He said
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      Lock icon Two plans on the table
      334 3 -AFP Asean leaders to look at free-trade zones BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN The idea of an expanded free-trade zone comprising Asean and China took centre stage yesterday at the summit of South-east Asian leaders. The grouping is also studying the proposal from South Korean President Kim
      -AFP  -  334 words
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      Lock icon 110,000 new jobs for M'sia
      76 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will work to create 110,000 new jobs this year to soften the impact of 45,000 expected job losses. Human Resources Minister Datuk Fong Chan Onn told Parliament yesterday that, to date, more than 30,000 workers had already been retrenched. The government
      -AFP  -  76 words
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      Lock icon Indonesia to muddle through
      224 3 JAKARTA Instead of embarking on much-needed economic reforms, Indonesia is likely to just "muddle through" its economic woes, said the World Bank. In a report prepared ahead of a twoday annual donors' meeting which starts tomorrow, the bank said progress on Jakarta's latest pact with the
      – Agencies  -  224 words
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      Calling the moderates
      374 3  -  Elisia Yeo by elisia@newstoday.com.sg SOMEHOW, Islamic society, civilisation and culture have been taken hostage by a fundamentalist minority and it is time for moderate leaders to step forward and take over. This was part of a vision for Muslims outlined yesterday by Dr Surin Pitsuwan, opposition MP
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      Toy seller gunned down by the law
      153 4  -  Audra Lim A TOY shop owner was jailed a day and fined $3,000 after he was caught selling pellet-discharging toy guns. Lim Ching Poh, 36, was nailed for the offence after an 11-year-old boy stole a gun from his shop in July. The
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      Lock icon Fire-walking ceremony
      52 4 JOSE RAYMOND More than 5,000 Hindu devotees took part m the annual fire-walking ceremony yesterday at the Sri Mariamman Temple in South Bridge Road. The ceremony is the culmination of a sequence of religious activities. Each rite is a particular event from the Hindu epic, the Mahabaratha. Today
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      Few takers for this job
      335 4  -  Tan Hui Leng Workers retiring, more openings, good pay but... by huile ng@newst oday.com.sg ONE industry that is still in need of workers is the transport sector, which according to the executive secretary of the National Transport Workers' Union has 50 to 60 vacancies for
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  • LEETERS
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      Bad service could cost us dear
      195 6  -  Thomas Wong I WOULD like to comment on the level of customer service my friends and I have experienced in Singapore. A few of my Japanese and local friends visited a souvenir shop located at a tourist attraction. My overseas friends were students and
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      Time to heal, time to act
      352 6  -  Ee Teck Ee This is no time to play the blame game MANY people voted for the ruling party in the recent elections because they believe it can lead them through the current international turmoil and help them during the economic crisis. As a
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      End of opposition? Thaf s bad
      82 6  -  Soon Sze Meng WILL voting overwhelmingly for the People's Action Party discourage opposition participation in future elections? We cannot blame the opposition candidates who have spent tremendous time, effort and money on their cause for feeling discouraged by the results of the recent elections.
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      HDB should reconsider levy policy
      330 6  -  Askok Pillai I REFER to the Housing and Development Board's {HDB) policy of charging a levy on every flat sold by owners on the open market. This policy was initially introduced to curb speculation on the sale of HDB flats. The HDB says that flats
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Long queue to cash NSS cheques
      183 8 Channel News Asia ABOUT 5,000 Singaporeans turned up at the Citibank branch at Capital Square yesterday to cash their cheques for the New Singapore Shares. They are among the 131,000 CPF members who have chosen to cash in up to half of the shares
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      Lock icon Fed may cut interest rate
      86 8 Bloomberg LONDON The US dollar rose to a one-week high of $0.8954 against the euro as investors speculated that the US Federal Reserve will reduce borrowing rates for a 10th time this year at a meeting tomorrow. The Fed is expected to trim its key
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      DBS to sell $2.1 b shares
      482 8  -  Francis Kan New shares will dilute Govt's stake in the bank by francis@newstoday.com.sg DBS Group Holdings, Southeast Asia's biggest bank, is selling $2.1 billion in new shares to beef up its capital as it braces for more economic uncertainty. It will sell 221.8 million
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    • Market Watch
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        CEl's Japanese venture
        80 8 MAINBOARD-listed CEI Contract Manufacturing has entered into a joint-venture agreement with Japanese company Toyo to market contract manufacturing services to Japanese customers. CEI executive chairman Tien Sing Cheong said Japanese manufacturers now "consider more outsourcing and we need a good Japanese partner to position us to take
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      Lock icon SIA units warn of tough times ahead
      162 10 Channel NewsAsia SIA Engineering Company and Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) have reported higher profits for the six months to September but have warned of tough times ahead. Mr William Tan, chief executive officer of SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC), said: "The outlook is
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      Lock icon Global oversupply
      647 10 Bloomberg SEA oil producers face $4b decline in revenue KUALA LUMPUR South-east Asia's oil producers may see revenue from crude oil fall US$4 billion ($7.3 billion) this year as an oversupply of oil amid a global economic slowdown cuts prices. "South-east Asian oil producers are feeling the pain,"
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      Lock icon Emirates places $27.3b aircraft orders
      198 10 Agencies DUBAI (United Arab Emirates) Dubai's Emirates airline has placed its largest aircraft order ever, signing deals to buy 58 planes from Boeing Co and Airbus Industrie for US$l5 billion ($27.3 billion). The order was announced on Sunday, following the opening of the Dubai International
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      Lock icon Cheap parts boost Nintendo's profits
      245 12 Reuters TOKYO Japanese video-game maker Nintendo said yesterday its profits for the half-year ended September would be boosted by a price drop in key components for its Game Boy Advance console. The world's second-largest home videogame maker said there was almost no negative impact from
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      Lock icon Allianz eyes second listing in bourses
      110 12 Bloomberg HONG KONG Allianz AG, Germany's largest insurer, is considering a second listing of its shares in Hong Kong or Singapore, the South China Morning Post quoted Mr Joachim Faber, an Allianz board member, as saying. The company, which has operated a life insurance
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    • Market News
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        Singapore
        177 12 THE key ST index slid 16.5 points on selling in banks after news of DBS' share placement and fall in third quarter results. Some bargain hunting reigned and the STI ended 1.08 points lower at 1340.49 on optimism that the US Fed may cut its rates today. Shares of
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        Malaysia
        78 12 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index closed 3.8 points lower at 592.8, just slightly above its intra-day low of 591.1. Most players, particularly institutional investors, stayed on the sidelines amid lingering economic uncertainty, a lack of local corporate developments and ahead of the US Federal Reserve's meeting today. Malayan Banking
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        Lock icon Thousands cross border to join Taliban
        176 14 Agencies The New War/casualties of war ISLAMABAD While Afghans are fleeing their war-torn homeland, thousands of pro-Taliban Pakistanis have crossed into Afghanistan to wage a holy war against the United States. Islamic leader Maulana Sufi Mohammad said he has permission from the Taliban to
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        Brave front
        376 14 Rumsfeld assures allies amid growing doubts over US-led raids NEW DELHI With no clear victory in sight for the US-led attacks against Afghanistan, the international community is beginning to doubt the success of the month-long offensive. However, visiting US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday insisted that the effectiveness
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        Lock icon Refugees strain medical resources
        207 14 AFP PESHAWAR Since the US-led attacks on Afghanistan began, the influx of injured Afghan refugees into Pakistan is putting a strain on the medical resources of Islamabad. Despite the border being officially closed, UN refugee agency officials estimate that up to 130,000 Afghans have crossed into
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        Lock icon WAR ECHOES
        152 14 -AFP -AFP KABUL US rockets yesterday blasted a hotel in the Afghan capital used by Taliban troops, residents said. They heard what sounded like helicopters before the rockets slammed into the base just before dawn.That would mark a change in US tactics from using high-flying jets, Reuters BANDAR
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      313 9 sense THE SENSIBLE WAY TO INVEST Who knows when the market will hit bottom? It could bottom tomorrow or it could bottom next week. Or it could take half a year to bottom. Just catch it before it rebounds. Tte markets are down. Which means that prices are low. Sliil,
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Out of bad, some good
      723 16  -  David Pauly Post-Sept 11 America now has a rare chance to refashion itself by in New York THESE terrible days present Americans with a rare opportunity. Americans have rallied around each other ever since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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      What the regional papers said yesterday ...
      220 16 What the regional papers said yesterday The Sun/ Malaysia Our men No 1 Viagra users Believe it or not! Malaysians are the world's biggest users of Viagra. And this is giving Heaith Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng a huge headache. The Nation/ Thailand Pair identified, witnesses pick Supot, Krissanapat out
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  • UPFRONT
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      Art's lost treasure
      795 18  -  Sian E Jay Talking points INSIDE: »20/lnfoTech *21/&usyCook *WTV listings Ng Eng Teng was Singapore's pioneering sculptor and his absence will be felt by THE last time I chatted with Ng Eng Teng (picture) we were standing by The Explorer, the sculpture standing outside the Singapore Art
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  • INFOTECH
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      For the masses
      350 20  -  Sol E Solomon Firm's storage technology makes data centres affordable by solomon@newstoday.com.sg THE cost of subscribing to an Internet data centre's (iDC) services should not be too high that it becomes prohibitive for smaller firms to use. Putting this concept into practice is storage service provider SurgoSysterns,
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      82B technology enters mainstream
      198 20 THE adoption of e-marketplaces in the AsiaPacific (excluding Japan) in the coming years will be driven by real corporate needs. "Companies are going to evaluate business-to-business (B2B) and e-marketplace technology as part of their overall business and operational plans," said Mr Richard Jacobson, 828 Internet research
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      Server that works like a mainframe
      105 20  -  Audra Lim OFFERING mainframe-like technology is Sun's new Sun Fire VBBO entry-level server designed to help customers save on administration time and costs. The UltraSparc IH-based system includes an automatic system recovery, hot-swap PCI cards, online upgrades, concurrent maintenance, cluster support multi-pathing, system management,
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      Powerful PC for cramped places
      157 20 ACER has released its Veriton 3300 desktop PC, based on Intel's new Pentium 4 processor. A large hard disk, a floppy disk drive and a choice of optical drives (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or CD-RW) offer huge storage space. At one-third the volume of typical mini-tower PCs
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      New security facility opens
      79 20  -  Ivay Tan A SINGAPORE and Shanghai-based Xiprovider of Internet security services, TrustAsia, officially opened its $4-million security facility in Singapore recently. As part of VeriSign's global affiliate network of authentication technologies and online payment services provider, TrustAsia received an endorsement from its principal to serve the
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    • BREAKING NEWS
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        Foreign talent sources for S'pore
        110 20 Most foreign talent pursuing jobs in Singapore are from the United States, Australia and India, according to career site Monster.com.sg. In October, 88,000 job-seekers visited its Global Gateway site to access information on Singapore. Twelve per cent of the visitors were from the US, seven
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        Inactive Hotmail members to be junked
        58 20 Microsoft has told members of its free Hotmail service that their e-mail accounts will be closed if they do not use them at least once a month. The rule does not apply to its MSN Hotmail Extra Storage accounts, which cost U5512.95 ($23.54) per
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  • BUSYCOOK
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      A feast of sweets
      347 21  -  Kavita Ratty 1 Hindu kitchens have begun to heat up in preparation for Deepavali celebrations FOOD plays a central part in almost all Indian festivals. For Deepavali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, preparations begin after Navarathiri, a nine-day fast that takes place 28 days before the
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      Almond Burfi
      174 21 A favourite among Indians is burfi. It's something like white chocolate.The traditional recipe can take a few hours to cook. But if you have a microwave, here's a quick and easy almond burfi recipe that's a sure winner. What you need: 2 cups full-cream milk powder 3/4 cup
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      Gulab jamun
      163 21 What you need: 2 cups full-cream milk powder 1/2 cup self-raising flour 6—B tbsp fresh cream I /2 kg sugar 3 cups water 5 cardamoms I tsp rose water A pinch of saffron Oil for frying How to cook; I. Sift the milk powder and flour. 2.Add the
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      Muruku
      96 21 What you need: 3 cups rice flour I cup urad dhal flour I tbsp sesame seeds 1/4 tsp asafoetida powder 25 gm ghee I tsp salt How to coo ft: I.Mix sieved rice flour and urad dal flour in a bowl. 2. Add the rest of the ingredients to
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      Fried Puttu
      175 21 What you need: 1/2 kg rice flour 2 big onions (minced) I red chilli (sliced finely) Curry leaves (few leaves) 3^4 eggs (beaten) I worth of grated coconut without skin Ghee or butter How to cook; I .Toss the rice flour in a hot pan for about S
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  • INCINEMAS
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      A monster weekend at the box office
      173 22  -  Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Talk about a well-named movie. Monsters, Inc was a box-office monster this weekend. Its U5563.5 million ($ll6 million) in estimated three-day gross takings bode big things for the corporate bottom line of co-producers Disney and Pixar. "This is a movie that
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      153 mins of magic
      330 22  -  Reuters/Variety Harry Potter earns rave reviews at London premiere LONDON The year's most eagerly awaited film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which had its world premiere in London yesterday, has been described as "153 minutes of pure magic" by the British media. Not put off
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      340 23  -  Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD Intrusive fans and inquisitive reporters traditionally create the only obstacles for celebrities at the Emmy Awards. But this year, unlike any other, guests had kept their eyes open for terrorist threats rather than the coveted trophies. The famed red carpet was lined with police officers
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      157 23 WAI iLK covers more than 70 per cent of the Earth, yet more is known about our solar system than about the deep sea. Tonight, in the first of a landmark series produced by the BBC's Natural History Unit, you can follow the Blue Planet team as
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      550 27 -AFP I Primera Liga Early season blues seem to have been banished in Madrid camp MADRID Two of the world's most expensive, and most highly-rated footballers, proved their standing yesterday. Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane, Real Madrid's superstar midfield duo, were instrumental in the 2-0 victory over
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      345 29 -AFP MILAN Preseason predictions of a return to former glories for Juventus and AC Milan have yet to be realised for the two most distinguished clubs in Italian football history. And yesterday, the coaches charged with forging the renaissance of both teams admitted they were
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