Today, 5 December 2001

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    10 1 TODAY AVCQUC S Q3.V December 5, 2001 mita p)063/i 1/2001
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    Charge of the foreign banks
    638 1  -  Francis Kan HSBC and May bank win expanded licences by and Chan Chao Peh THE Big Bang that first shook the protective walls surrounding Singapore's local banks in 1999 was heard again yesterday. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it had granted the
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Recession and the role of QCs
      336 2  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Focus on innovation, not just improvement by zackaria@newstoday.com.sg MANAGEMENT and workers should work harder to get companies to be more productive during the recession, said Manpower Minister Dr Lee Boon Yang yesterday. Instead of cutting back on Quality Circle (QC) projects
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      ElderShield tender up
      172 2  -  Gillian Wong SINGAPOREANS can expect competitive premiums from the private sector for the Ministry of Health's (MOH) severe disability insurance scheme, ElderShield, when the ministry publishes tender notices for the scheme on Dec 11. ElderShield provides insurance coverage to elderly Singaporeans who require long-term care and helps
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      Lock icon Divided cabinet
      325 3 Agencies Peres' Labour Party walks out over branding of Arafat JERUSALEM The Israeli Cabinet, which seemed to speak with one voice over ousting Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat, looks dangerously close to a split. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, has voiced his displeasure over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
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      Lock icon Don't be emotional, says Dr Mahathir
      198 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has denounced a religious ruling calling for the boycott of US products in retaliation for its bombing campaign in Afghanistan. "We should not be emotional, we should think practically, things that we can
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      Lock icon Osama's No 2 hit Oil rig rescue saga
      240 3 AFP JALALABAD (Afghanistan) The US-led coalition has wounded Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahiri, considered to be Osama bin Laden's deputy, a provincial military chief said. If this were true, Al Zawahiri would be the highest-level Al Qaeda member to be hit by the
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      Lock icon Chee's case on Jan 14
      116 3 Channel NewsAsia LAWYERS for Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew have applied to the High Court for a "summary judgement" against Singapore Democratic Party chief Dr Chee Soon Juan. They are arguing that Dr Chee has publicly admitted to defaming
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      Lock icon Channel 5 is tops
      176 4  -  Serene Foo THREE newscasters received the Best News Presenter award in the Asian Television Awards ceremony last night a first in its history. The proud recipients were Ms Glenda Chong, Mr Melvin Yong (both from Channel News Asia, MediaCorp News) and Ms Catherine Yang (from Bloomberg
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      Diesel down by 2 cents
      282 4  -  Joy Frances But don't expect fares to drop by joy@ne wsto day. c om.sg FOUR more fuel giants yesterday reduced retail diesel pump prices by two cents a litre following Shell's lead last Friday. ExxonMobile, British Petroleum, Singapore Petroleum Company and Caltex now price their
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      Ler's murder trial wraps up
      232 4  -  Elaine Quek YESTERDAY in High Court, the prosecution and lawyers for Anthony Ler and the 15-year-old boy charged with the murder of Madam Annie Leong submitted their closing arguments. Ler's lawyer argued that his client could not have instigated the boy to commit the murder
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  • HOME NEWS
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      From constable to supervisor
      447 6  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Zainal makes the transition smoothly by zackaria@n cwst o d ay. com. sg IF you think you can't teach an old hand, wait till you see what PSA Corporation can do for its staff. When Mr Zainal Abidin Baba (picture) joined the organisation
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  • LETTERS
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      Where are the 'more able' students?
      235 8  -  Huang Wetting I AM a student in Singapore and I am very concerned about the education system here. There have been cases where primary school students commit suicide due to intense pressure from schools and parents. I am afraid that this is the heavy
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      Enron's fall is a lesson
      205 8  -  Mohamad Rash Ahmad Transparency vital in business IF journalists live and die by the "accuracy, accuracy and accuracy" mantra, then the businessmen's equivalent must be "transparency, transparency and transparency". The collapse of yet another corporate Goliath this time in the form of energy trader Enron
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      More SAM services soon
      99 8 I REFER to the article, "Play it again, SAM" by Mr Richard Seah (Today, Nov 28). To bring convenient one-stop service round-the-clock to our customers, it is SingPost's objective to offer as wide a range of services as possible at our Self-service Automated Machines (SAM). In
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Prime office rents dropped 2.7% in November
      159 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S prime office rents fell 2.7 per cent in November from the previous month, a Cushman Wakefield report said. Average monthly prime office rents fell to about $6.62 per square foot, resulting in a cumulative eight-month decline of 8.6 per cent. The
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    • Market Watch
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        Keppel sells Sydney hotel
        40 10 KEPPEL Land sold its Bayswater Village Hotel in Sydney for $22 million. It said the sale of the 70-suite hotel cum retail and carpark development is in line with its efforts in monetising its investment assets.
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        Sincere Watch's profit
        68 10 SESDAQ-listed Sincere Watch has reported an almost unchanged net profit of $6 million for the six months ended Sept 30. Group turnover rose 11.7 per cent to $85.8 million during the same period. The company said the higher turnover was driven by its growing retail and distribution
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        Your S$1 buys ...
        29 10 Your S$1 buys US$ 0.5449 UK£ 0.3831 Yen 67.519 HK$ 4.2493 IRM 2.0704 i Euro 0.6117 mammmmmmmmm Rupiah 5704.5 Baht 23.973 Peso 28.345 A$ 1.0568 Rupee 26.109 Won 692.38
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      Live, work and play
      458 12  -  Tan Howe Yang JTC unveils masterplan for $15 billion all-in-one science hub by h owey ang@n ewsto day, c o m .sg THE masterplan for Singapore's first experimental live-work science hub was unveiled by the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) last night. The hub, christened One-north because
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      The big byte
      395 14 Small StockWatch ECS to be China's third largest e-distributor after merger ECS Holdings provides e-enabling and IT (information technology) products as well as an array of IT services in Singapore, China, Thailand and Malaysia. In July this year, ECS announced a potentially lucrative merger with PCI-Solectron, one
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      Lock icon MPH in the red
      284 16 Bloomberg Bookstore giant reports $45.2m loss MPH Ltd, a Singapore-based bookstore owner with real estate interests, swung to a loss in the six months ended September after it took provisions on some units amid efforts to restructure its business. The company reported a loss of $45.2
      — Bloomberg  -  284 words
    • Market News
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        Singapore
        158 16 FIRM buying support of key index stocks sent the ST index to a three- month high as it breached the psychological 1,500 resistance level to close 40.78 points up at 1,536.37 on good volume. Usual worries like profit warnings, high profile US corporate bankruptcies, the Middle East tension and
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        Malaysia
        82 16 THE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) closed at an intraday high of 647.51, up 4.16 points. Gainers overwhelmed losers, 539 to 168 with 166 issues unchanged. There was improved trading volume of 376,092 lots as compared to Monday. Among the key-index linked counters, Tenaga Nasional added 5.0 sen to
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2006 16 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative} Fund Name Bid Price/NAV Offer Prke Aberdeen AssL't Management Asia Ltd Aberdeen (hind Opportunities Fund 0.899 6.945 Aberdeen Glohnl Mile Fund 0.655 0.669 Aberdeen Glohal Technology Fund 0.544 6.572 Aberdeen OK Blue Chip Fund 0.723 6.760 Aberdeen Ameticon Orjporlunilces Fund D.748 6.796 Aberdeen
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      311 17 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. The markets mr® down. Which means that prices are tow. Still,
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon She's also in the ring
      283 18 Agencies Not a candidate, but President is still in the running COLOMBO Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga, who became Sri Lanka's first woman president in 1994, is not a candidate in the country's parliamentary elections today. She gets to keep her job until 2005. But she has
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      Lock icon Blair's son gets unfair help in homework
      101 18 AFP LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair's 17-year-old son may have received some help from his father's aides, a report said. Euan Blair, 17, asked his mother, Cherie, for help to prepare for a school debate on nuclear deterrent. She, in turn, asked
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      Entrepreneurs welcome
      167 18 HONG KONG Capitalism is no longer a dirty word for Communist China. Private entrepreneurs, who have long suffered prejudice and unfair competition from state enterprises, are now a welcome lot for the Central Party School (CPS), according to the South China Morning Post. CPS, traditionally an exclusive training
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      Lock icon Misuari pact for no jail
      100 18 AFP. KOTA KINABALU The Nur Misuari episode could possibly achieve some progress later this week, according to The Star, The Philippine government has offered a "no jail" condition for the former leader of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, who was arrested in Malaysia last
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      Lock icon Fear and hope
      189 21 -AFP Worried HK eyes free trade area HONG KONG Being part of China has not made Hong Kong less jittery over the mainland's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WHO). Financial Secretary Antony Leung has warned that the territory's role as a "middleman" could be undermined by
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      What the regional papers say today ...
      147 21 What the regional papers say today AAFTERNOON EDITION New Straits Times /Malays i a Mat Sabu, three others detained for holding illegal ceramah PAS MP for Kuala Kedah, Mohamad Sabj and three other party leaders were detained last night for holding a ceramah without a police permit. The Jakarta Post/
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  • COMMENTARY
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      The Masako effect
      836 22  -  William Pesek Jr How a baby girl may help change Japanese society and economy by in Tokyo JAPAN'S newest economic stimulus package is more of a bundle of joy, that is. Crown Princess Masako, 37, gave birth to a healthy baby girl last Saturday. She not only
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Alice in TVland
      965 24  -  Serene Foo Boss of MediaCorp TV's Channel 5 talks about competition BEING right on the spot may have its advantages but Ms Alice Tan (picture) is determined not to jeopardise the top ratings her channel is getting. Any other English channel is competition. Apart from rival SPH
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      PROMAX&BDA Asia 2001 Awards Show (Gold Winners in some of the main categories)
      83 24 Best Drama Promo MediaCorpTV Singapore Pte Ltd (Spin MTV) Best Comedy/Entertainment Promo SuperTV (Taiwan) (Let's Play Politics (wordplay)) Best News/Current Affairs Promo STAR Group Ltd (Hongkong) (Asian Journal The News Through Train) Best Sports Promo Singapore Cable
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  • PORTFOLIO
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      Market Trivia: The worst is over
      257 25  -  Vasu Menon IN recent weeks, several fund managers have started turning bullish on stocks. Many who have missed the boat are now looking to buy on dips. This is a healthy sign. It means that there is good buying support for stocks and it
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      Want to pay less tax?
      586 25  -  Vasu Menon Make your SRS contributions before Dec 31 to enjoy tax savings UNDER the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS), introduced in April this year, individuals would enjoy tax relief if they contribute a portion of their annual income to a SRS account, opened at any
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon Mind your damn business
      439 26 Reuters/Variety LOS ANGELES Actor Tom Cruise, who recently ended his 10-year marriage to Nicole Kidman, told Vanity Fair that people should "mind their own damn business" about his personal life. Yet, in a story that appears in the magazine's January issue, which hits newsstands this week,
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      And he's not gay, okay?
      95 26 'T^OM Cruise won hig court battle against a publisher who X claimed he had a video of the star involved in gay sex. Last week, Michael Davis, who publishes Bold Magazine, retracted his claim that he had a videotape of Cruise engaged in homosexual acts.
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      Lock icon Quirky match made in heaven?
      262 27 ifewfers/Vanefy NEW YORK Jim Carrey is in early talks to star in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a film written by Charlie Kaufman, the brains behind Being John Malkovich. Kaufman's off-centre scripts have been in high demand among actors since the quirky Malkovich earned
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      Lock icon Another one 'bites' the dust
      121 27 Agencies HOLLYWOOD Ex-Baywatch bouncing babe Yasmine Bleeth joins the ignominious list of Hollywood celebrities battling drug abuse. Last week, Bleeth pleaded guilty to charges of cocaine possession and driving under the influence. Bleeth avoided a four-year jail sentence through a plea bargain. The deal also
      – Agencies  -  121 words
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      136 30 Date: Tomorrow SSO Great Classics/ Garrick Ohlsson Time: Bpm Plays Brahms Venue: Young Musicians' Society Centre Distinguished American pianist Garrick Price: 12 Ohlsson makes his Singapore debut in Ticketing: Call YMS at 332 5813 Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. Date: Today and tomorrow Time: 8.15pm {pre-concert talk at 7.15pm) Gift
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      698 31  -  Sunory Dutt Hearing-impaired chef Justin and boss Jane by Tustin Ng, chef de partie of the pasI try kitchen at The Oriental, welcomes visitors to the hotel with a warm and affable smile. You can't help but notice this tall and handsome man. But it's only when
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      618 32 But tough January schedule could scupper defending champ's hopes NBA LOS ANGELES Among themselves, in hushed tones and knowing grins, the Lakers will make the occasional reference. They won't make it a public goal, nor even address the concept, because it's too early and because it's
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      632 32 Golf photo FLORIDA A 17-year-old golfer from Orlando became the youngest player to earn his PGA Tour card after he carded a bogey-free 66 yesterday to finish among the top 35 at qualifying school, reported the Washingtonpost.com. Ty Tryon (picture)
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      235 33  -  Stanley Ho EX-ENGLAND and Aston Villa star Peter Withe will no longer guide SEA Games and Tiger Cup champion Thailand, it was confirmed yesterday. Withe rejected a new one-year contract offered by the Thai FA. Events management company International Management Group (IMG) sponsored the new contract.
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      246 33 AFP I MOHALI India's makeshift opener Deep Dasgupta hit exactly 100 and Rahul Dravid made an unbeaten 78 to expose England's inexperienced attack in the first cricket Test here yesterday. The pair put on 136 for the third wicket as India batted in
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      663 33 Agencies But that may not be enough to stay with Europe's elite ROME Thanks to Ruud Gullit, the talk in English football used to be about "sexy football". Now it appears "ugly soccer" is in vogue. Caretaker manager Phil Thompson (picture) is happy that Liverpool
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      807 34  -  Leonard Thomas !'■>>■■ le onard @>news today.co m.sg YESTERDAY, Pete revealed that the only way his beloved Brazil could win next year's World Cup was if superstar Ronaldo was back to something like his best. Here, in part II of Today's interview with the Brazilian
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      254 34 THREE times a week, ex-national track and field athlete James Murali (picture, seated) dreads going through treatment at the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Dialysis Centre along Kim Keat Road. But yesterday, for once, he really looked forward to it. For the 43-year-old
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      324 35  -  Jose Raymond RENEGADE national footballer Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin (picture) will return to the S-League next season. He signed with Tampines Rovers last night, the S-League club he first started out with as a teenager in 1996. The 22-year-old returned to Singapore two months ago after buying
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      122 35  -  Stanley Ho LAST season's wooden-spoonist Woodlands Wellington has swooped for champion Geylang United's midfielder Zulkarnaen Zainal. The national team stalwart will join fellow international team-mates Goh Tat Chuan and A. Siva Kumar in a new-look Woodlands team next season. Rams' team manager R. Vengadasalam said that
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