Today, 6 December 2001, Afternoon Edition

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    8 1 TODAY XllUrSCliiY December 6, 2001 MLTA (P) 063/11/2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Stunning comeback
      682 1 Agencies Dow Jones surges 223.5 points to 10,117 on optimism of US economic recovery WASHINGTON The US services sector staged a stunning comeback in November, building a wave of optimism for a recovery in the terror-shaken economy, a key barometer showed yesterday. "We are on our way back
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      Death from friendly bombs
      84 1 For us to become a world-class centre for M Biomedical Sciences R&D, we must have good facilities to attract companies and individuals to Singapore. To be built by JTC, the BioPolis will be the first major development in the Science Hub, now called One North. It will house a full
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      Lock icon Hamas leader under arrest
      49 1 AFP picture The Palestinian Authority has put Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin (above) under house arrest after it said he made statements against the Palestinian Authority. Hamas claimed it carried out the two suicide bombings that killed 25 Israeli civilians and wounded more than 200.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Ler to hang
      369 2  -  Elaine Quek Guilty of instigating wife's murder by elaine ©news today, com. sg ANTHONY Ler (picture) was yesterday found guilty of instigating a 15-year-old boy to murder Ler's wife, Madam Annie Leong. Everyone in court was asked to stand while Judicial Commissioner Tay Yong Kwang passed the
      WEE TECKHIAN  -  369 words
    • Article
      PM praises two envoys
      307 2  -  Woo Sue-Ann BOTH the foreign and local communities have contributed to the national 9.3 per cent volunteer participation rate over the year, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the Inaugural National Volunteerism Awards last night. He estimated that about 27 million man-hours are pumped into
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      ITE goes into biomedical field
      176 2  -  Jasken X Randhawa THERE is a dearth of top local talent in the biomedical industry here and that is why Singapore is sourcing for top foreign talent to help push this engine of growth. But there is another level of talent needed in the industry
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      Lock icon Sri Lankan polls: Tamils cry foul
      120 3 Agencies COLOMBO Sri Lanka appeared to have made no attempt to hold free and fair elections yesterday. An estimated 80,000 Tamils could not cast their votes yesterday because the army closed three checkpoints which stopped them from crossing to the polling station. The European
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      No vengeance
      365 3 Interim leader will not go afterTaliban BONN He wasn't even present at the signing of yesterday's historic power-sharing agreement for Afghanistan, but Mr Hamid Karzai (picture), a 44-year-old Pashtun tribal leader, now heads the country's interim Cabinet. Mr Hamid remained near Kandahar, where he has been leading tribal
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      Lock icon Deported
      92 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has deported all Indonesian illegal immigrants involved in a riot at the detention centre in Johor two days ago. They numbered 1,618, the largest group from among the 2,000 who set fire to four of the five wooden buildings at the centre on Tuesday night.
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      Sept 11 jitters hit Bali
      514 4  -  Jose Raymond SIA to help promote island in the aftermath of US attacks by in Nusa Dua, Bali DESPITE the reports about Indonesia's constant troubles, the island of Bali has always been able to draw tourists all-year-round. But now, even that has changed, especially after
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      Brunei prince pops in at the TODAY office
      70 4  -  WEETECKHIAN THE son of Brunei Foreign Minister Prince Mohamed Bolkiah visited the Today newsroom yesterday. HRH Prince Abdul Qawi (picture), who is executive deputy chairman and CEO of Qaf Brunei, was observing the online publishing system that Today uses. The prince owns
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      Lock icon Arsonist's target: Her mother's home
      176 4 Channel News Asia A WOMAN who thought that her mother was living at a 10th floor flat in Block 93, Henderson Road, set fire to a stack of newspapers outside the flat. Yesterday, Liew Bee Hua, 35, was sentenced to 12 months' jail for the
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      Green light for Saints
      152 4  -  Elisa Chia COMPLAINTS have surfaced over a finalist group's qualification rights in Talenthne 2001, organised by MediaCorp TV Channel 5. The group, Eternal Saints, is formed by the Crispus sisters Phoebe, 22 and Faith, 20. Phoebe (picture, right) recorded a song in February this year. The
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  • HOME NEWS
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      The queen of QC
      366 6  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim She is the reason for her company's 100% participation rate by zackaria@n ews to d ay.com. s g THE participation rate for Quality Circles (QCs) has been an impressive 100 per cent at the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA). And this is
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      A special gift...
      176 6  -  Fayen Wong SINGAPOREANS can give the gift of life this festive season by donating blood, says the Singapore Red Cross Society. The society said December is the month when the blood bank receives its lowest supply of blood from donors. Many Singaporeans go overseas during the school
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      Pizza from 'Santa'
      164 6  -  Tan Hut Leng THE next time you open the door to welcome the pizza man, don't be surprised to see Santa Claus there. As part of its Christmas promotion, Tricon, which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell fast-food chains, will be dressing up some 20
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      Don't be a goner
      407 9  -  Sol E Solomon This new computer virus even deletes anti-virus programs by solo mon@ newstoday. com. sg IT'S bad news for e-mail and ICQ chat users. A new mass-mailing virus, the W32.Goner.A@mm, hit two days ago. It arrives as an e-mail with the subject line "Hi"
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      Lock icon SIA cuts and increases flights
      206 9 -AFP SINGAPORE Airlines announced cuts to services to the United States and Asia due to the global travel slowdown following by the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the US. SIA will suspend the thrice-weekly Singapore-Amsterdam-Chicago service from Jan 13 to April 30 next year. However,
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    • LETTERS
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        For charity or bigger profit?
        88 10  -  Kathleen Kwan IN THE spirit of giving and spreading Christmas cheer to the less fortunate, I bought a CD, An A Capella Christmas Collection. I paid $18.99 for it at Tower Records. To my dismay, I found that the same CD was being sold at
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        Education is the treatment to stop the spread of Aids
        471 10 AS Mr Ananda Perera has pointed out in "So, what's being done?" (Today, Dec 3), anti-retrovi-ral treatment for HIV infection does not eliminate the spread of the infection. The fight against Aids is not just about giving more financial subsidies
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      Specialists for special needs
      353 11  -  Ng At Hong Certify and recognise therapists I REFER to Mr Chia Kok Hwee's letter concerning the recognition of educational therapists in Singapore (Today, Nov 28). I agree with him on the need to recognise educational therapists (or special needs therapists) as well as the special
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      Teach them to be human
      157 11  -  Thomas Wong I REFER to the recent debates over the bad behaviour of young Singaporeans. I think the problem extends to adults as well. We are getting colder towards the people around us. How many of us would indulge in a chit-chat session with our
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      Nothing golden about being totally dependent
      256 11  -  Narayana Narayana I REFER to the letters, "Golden years? Think again" (Today, Nov 30) by Mr Mohamad Rosle Ahmad, and "Reach for your dreams" (Today, Nov 28) by Miss Kathleen Kwan. As one who is about double the age of both these writers, I
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      Lock icon Look East for help
      356 12  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim East Shore Hospital's success by zackaria@news today, com. sg WHEN the staff of East Shore Hospital go out for training, they always return to spread what they have learnt to their colleagues. Take Ms Beulah Alliangkothi, a clinical teacher with the hospital for
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      Lock icon They won, now for the harder part
      284 12 ALTHOUGH G2OOO Apparel already has a structured training system, it pitched for the People Developer Standard (PDS) to see how it would measure up. Besides, applying for the PDS allowed its employees to understand the rationale behind the need for training. "Our staff
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      136 12 PEOPLE DEN^J> ELOPER SINCAPOKF THE People Developer Standard is a quality standard that gives recognition to organisations that invest in their people and have a comprehensive system for developing their staff. Some 254 organisations have been awarded the standard since it was launched by the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Local engineering, tooling firms to explore China's 'Silicon Valley'
      352 15  -  Ng Hwee Koon by hwe ekoon@ news Lod ay. com. sg SINGAPORE'S precision engineering and tooling companies are heading for China's "Silicon Valley" in Jiangsu to explore how they can service multinational companies (MNCs) there. A study mission organised by the
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      Lock icon Indian IT firms eye S´pore
      341 16 Reuters Republic seen as a gateway to China MUMBAI Indian IT companies can use Singapore as a gateway to enter the Chinese market by relying on the island state's profound cultural links with China and India to ease communication, speakers at a venture capital seminar
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      New IT, business trends slow revenue growth
      293 16  -  Chan Chao Peh by eh ao pc h® n c wstoday. com.sg THE current slowdown in revenue growth for telecom companies is caused more by a fundamental shift in technology and business models rather than weakening economic conditions, an industry expert said. Revenue
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      Lock icon French bank cuts staff
      77 16 Bloomberg SOCIETE Generate SA, France's number three bank, fired 20 employees, or seven per cent of its staff here, as the bank cuts costs. In November, SG reported a 20 per cent drop in third-quar-ter profit after failing stock markets pushed down earnings from investment banking
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    • Market Watch
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        DHL and Sats open Changi hub
        138 16 THE international air express company, DHL Worldwide Express, and Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats), yesterday opened a new multi-million-dollar hub facility at Changi International Airport. Called the DHL Singapore Hub/Sats Express Courier Centre 2, it is DHL's biggest transhipment hub in the Asia-Pacific region.
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        Hongkong Land's share buy-back
        60 16 HONGKONG Land Holdings has bought back 165.7 million of its own shares worth US$295 million ($516.78 million). The shares represent 6.7 per cent of its stock, "This repurchase will improve the efficiency of the balance sheet and enhance both net asset value and earnings per share,"
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        PCCW cuts over 500 staff
        72 16 HONG Kong's largest telecom carrier, Pacific Century CyberWorks, has laid off 506 staff and will freeze pay next year, chairman Richard Li said yesterday. He said the redundancies were "a direct result of the extremely difficult economic situation in Hong Kong and globally and of
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        Capita Land launches another project
        93 16 ENCOURAGED by the successful re-launch of its Tanamera condominium last weekend, Capita Land will officially launch yet another project this Saturday. The Levelz, a development in Farrer Road, will be sold at an average price of $788 per square foot, five per cent cheaper than
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        Your S$1 buys...
        30 16 US$ 0.5445 UK£ 0.3828 Yen 67.602 HK$ 4.2466 RM 2.0689 i Euro 0.6107 «S r Rupiah 5,700.4 Baht 23.932 Peso 28.312 A$ 1.0579 Rupee 26.082 Won 691.35
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      Low prices boost Keppel Land sales
      239 18 KEPPEL Land has sold almost all the private homes in two projects it launched last weekend, a sign that lower prices are helping developers increase sales. It said it sold all 53 units of The Edgewater condominium in Jalan Loyang Besar at an average
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      Lock icon Enron fallout squeezes funds
      227 18 Bloomberg Japanese tighten rules for asset firms TOKYO Japanese regulators will tighten rules for asset management companies, the Nikon Keizai newspaper said without citing sources. The move comes after Enron Corp's debacle resulted in almost five trillion yen ($73 billion) in outflows last month. The Financial
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      Lock icon Japan's corporate profits plunge
      487 18 Bloomberg TOKYO Japanese corporate profits plunged in the third quarter as the economy slid into recession, government figures showed. Companies may have to trim spending on factories and equipment which rose in the quarter to cut costs, economists said. Profits tumbled 32.5 per cent in the
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      Lock icon L & M hikes share capital
      319 19 L M hikes share capital Bloomberg To restructure its $83.5 m debt L&M Group Investments, a Singapore engineering company, will increase its share capital by more than five times by issuing new shares as part of a plan to restructure its $83.5 million debt. Bintai Kinden Corp, a Malaysian engineering
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      Lock icon Proton halts production of Juara model
      327 19 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Poor sales has forced Malaysia's national car maker Proton to temporarily halt production of its new multi-purpose vehicle, a report said yesterday. Since its July 22 launch, only 850 Juara vehicles have been sold, well short of the 5,000 to 6,000
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        Singapore
        272 20 SINGAPORE stocks sprinted to dizzy heights as the STI index recovered above the Sept 11 levels led by continued Strong buying in finance and technology stocks. The key index shot above the 1600 level briefly, before closing on profit-taking at 1593.19, up 55.16 points. The STl's good showing was
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        Malaysia
        279 20 THE Malaysian stock market enjoyed a robust day, recharged by the stronger overnight Dow Jones performance which surged by 1,3 per cent yesterday as it shrugged off concerns of re-surging Middle-East tensions. The KLSE also had a boost from expectations of the traditional year-end windowdressing rally. The KLSE closed
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        UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
        2043 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Fund Nome BidPricc/NAV Olftr Price Aberdeen Asset NLDnagemenl Alia Ltd .■V MifLiren r::in L Cpu'lLiifiei Fi_-|: d 0.911 0,957 ;r:srn-iii;lr,hr!iVj:liiiirl 0.6S7 0,i91 Aberrseen Globnl Teirhrc cgv rund 0.539 0567 Aberdeen UK Blue Chiri Fund 0.729 0.765 Aberdeen American Opportunities Fund 0.744 0.782 Aberdeen
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      542 21 UpSWing. get set to profit as stockmarkets take-off again. TBfe fJ: \%V 'X >_tf^ ■"^JSJEi^ Now's the time to invest in global stockmarkets! Prices are bottoming and stocks are ripe for the picking. Upswing is the ideal way to profit from the expected recovery of global stockmarkets* You may choose
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon New best pals
      302 22 Agencies India, US boost defence ties, pledge to fight terrorism NEW DELHI India has become America's newest best friend, a development that will cause unease among leaders of Pakistan. Following a meeting two days ago of the India-US Defence Policy Group, Washington and New Delhi agreed that
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      Lock icon Rocket attack in Bangkok
      72 22 -AFP, Some windows were damaged in a rocket attack on a Bangkok office building yesterday. Thai police said it was unlikely that the rocket was aimed at the building, which houses an Israeli airline, among other businesses. They added that it may have been intended for
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      Lock icon Misuari 'a terrorist´
      169 22 ■AFP photo MANILA Riding on the coattails of the United States' fight against terrorism, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday said that detained rebel Muslim leader Nur Misuari should be added to the US list of suspected international terrorists. Mrs Arroyo said the military had discovered that Misuari,
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      Lock icon Suharto clan cannot be touched
      136 22 -AFP JAKARTA Tommy Suharto may be in police custody but it seems that, as before, the rest of the Suharto family cannot be touched. Jakarta police said yesterday that they would not press charges against Suharto family members, who reportedly harboured him for three months
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      Lock icon Be prepared, Mega tells businessmen
      181 24 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday took up the clarion call for preparedness in the face of trade liberalisation, urging the country's businessmen to prepare themselves for the free trade era. "It is not a question of whether you fear the free market or
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      Lock icon China speaks at last
      116 24 -AFP BEIJING China has broken its unusual silence on the results of last week's elections in Taiwan. China-Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Zhang Mingqing said most people on the island prefer stability in relations with China. "We will pay a lot of attention to the direction of
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      Lock icon War of white and red
      117 24 -AFP JAKARTA Two years of on-and-off trouble have taught the people of Sulawesi one thing: To distinguish themselves with coloured headbands whenever danger lurks. Last week, in the Christian villages of Poso, Sepe and Tentena, they did just that. A police spokesman said: "Around 1,000
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      Lock icon Cyber Olympics begin
      76 24 -AFP SEOUL The world's first cyber Olympics began yesterday with 389 players from 37 countries competing for US$3OO,OOO ($540,000) in prize money. The five-day World Cyber Games will produce champions in the computer online games of Fifa 2001, Quake 3, Starcraft, Unreal, Age of Empires II and
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      Lock icon France's euro coins – kids show the way
      263 27 France's euro coins kids show the way -AFP PARIS As if to prove that Europe's switch to the single currency is going to be child's play, France has chosen a design submitted by schoolchildren as the first collectors' euro. "It is the first time a coin has been designed by
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      Australia's most expensive poll payout
      122 27 CANBERRA Taxpayers in Australia will have to pay out A$ 107.8 million ($102.23 million) for elections held last month. It's the highest election payout for the country so far, The Age newspaper reported. The money includes about As4o million which will be paid to all
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      Dropout's feat
      296 28 Inventor of super scooter optimistic it will take off ATLANTA It is bulky, runs at a maximum speed of less than 20kmh and there is no space for a passenger. Despite these shortcomings, Mr Dean Kamen (picture) has high hopes for his latest invention a super scooter named
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      What the regional papers said yesterday ...
      155 28 What the regional papers said yesterday The Star /Malaysia Illegals riot More than 2,000 illegal immigrants at the Pekan Nenas detention centre last night staged a violent riot and set fire to the four wooden longhouses, completely destroying them. The Jakarta Post/ Indonesia East Java urges govt to scrap Gresik
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  • COMMENTARY
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      993 30  -  Anil Bhatia Shades of 1997 in Enron and Argentina crises by anilbhatia@consultafit.com TWO recent debacles, the Enron bankruptcy and the Argentinian financial failure, spell out clearly the disaster that could befall gross mismanagement and the lack of strong financial prudence. There is a lesson to be learnt
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      462 32  -  Elisa Chia The who's who of Asian television converge here for the industry's premier awards MELVIN Yong, newscaster and editor of World Business Tonight on Channel News Asia, couldn't have felt more triumphant at Tuesday's Sixth Asian Television Awards. Not only did the financial news
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      143 32 Broadcaster Of The Year Winner: MTV Networks Asia Runner-Up: MediaCorp TV (Singapore) Channel Of The Year Winner: Channel 5, MediaCorp TV (Singapore) Runner-Up: Channel 2, ABS CBN Broadcasting Corporation (Philippines) Best Drama Series Winner: An Ox Corf For Dowry, Taiwan Television Enterprise Ltd (Taiwan) Runner-Up: Pangako Sa'Yo (The Promise/, Channel
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      163 32 INSIDE: «34/lnfoTech -38-50/ Excellent Service Award *56/ TV listings Broadcasting Corporation [Philippines) Runner-Up: Bridges, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc (Japan) Best Comedy Programme Winner: Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd Which Beng Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Channel 5, MediaCorp TV (Singapore) Runner-Up: Under One Roof Not In Front Of Your Parents,
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      134 32 Indosiar, PT Indosior Visual Mandiri TBK [Indonesia) Best News or Current Affairs Special Winner: Saksi sa Kasaysayan (Witness to History}, Channel 7, GMA Network (Philippines] Runner-Up: Licensed Prostitute, Public Television Service (Taiwan) Best Current Affairs or Magazine Programme Presenter Winner: Lion Pek, CNN (Hong Kong) Runner-Up: Koran Thapar, United Television
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      137 32 Malaysia, Bloomberg Television and ASTRO [Malaysia] Joint Runner-Up: News At 6:30 (9 June 2001 j, Television Broadcast Ltd (Hong Kong) Best Entertainment Special Winner: A Christmas Prayer, Channel 2, ABS CBN Broadcasting Corporation (Philippines) Runner-Up: MTV-CCTV Music Honours 2000, MTV Asia LDC (Singapore)/ China Central Television (Cliino) Best Entertainment Programme
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      146 32 Best Documentary Programme Winner: The Long Wait: Tales of a Wife and Mother, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (Korea) Runner-Up: The Crisis is Over, The Danger is Past, Sichuan Television (China) Best Natural History or Wildlife Programme Winner: Spaceship Earth: Australia A Small Crime Against Flowering Mother land, TV Asahi, Asahi National
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  • INFOTECH
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      214 34  -  Woo Sue-Ann Equipment makers join forces to make it a reality by sueann@newsto day. c o m.sg BY 2003, mobile phone users can expect a more systematic global communications infrastructure platform to improve communications. A group of mobile phone and telecommunications equipment vendors have banded together to
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      99 34 CNETASIA (asia.cnet.com) has produced its inaugural issue of Cool Gear Gift Guide, with the season's hottest products. It features CNetAsia Editors' picks, ideas for gift selection and exclusive offers from Compaq, Epson, Intel among others. Pick up a free copy of the Cool Gear
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      Start your first days to Christmas at Chijmes
      153 36 BEGIN your 12 days to Christmas next Thursday with a party at The Courtyard at Chijmes. The eAngelz community a support and self-help organisation for technopreneurs and IT professionals invites you to the Christmasßlast@Chijmes from 6.30pm to 9.30pm. Technopreneurs and tech companies
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      Breaking News
      333 36 CNETAsia asia.cnef. com/newstsch Flat-panel iMacs? APPLE Computer may finally launch a longrumoured flat-panel iMac, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley They said, in a report, that Apple has placed component orders to produce 100,000 15-inch flat-panel iMacs per month, starting from January. An Apple representative declined to comment.
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  • EXCELLENT SERVOCE AWARD
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      From service quality to service excellence
      370 38 EARLY 4,400 service providers in seven industries were honoured for delivering excellent service at work last week.They were recognised for their efforts at the 2001 Excellent Service Award {EXSA) presentation ceremony held on Nov 28 at the Singapore Expo. Mr Lee Suan Hiang (picture),
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      574 40 HE Excellent Service I Award (EXSA) aims to encourage and motivate workers in the service industry to deliver quality service and to raise the prestige of a career in the service industry. It also serves to instil in service providers the important role that each individual plays
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      THIS YEAR'S EXSA SUPERSTARS
      86 40 1. Ms Karen Chen CMngWen Guest Relations Officer, Underwater World Pte Ltd 2. Mr Soh Eu Kang Senior Station Inspector, Airport Police 3. MrThay Ngoh Lin Lead Driver, Singapore Shuttle Bus (Pte) Ltd 4. Mr Richard Soh Chni Choun Assistant Operation Manager, Uon Tourist Services Pte
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      when the customer is not king
      714 42  -  /Lan De Co tea HE customer is not always king. Ask any sales professional in any industry and you would probably be told that the axiom is anathema. But to Mr Pakir Singh (picture) the chairman of PSB's Excellent Service Award (EXSA) committee since
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      537 42  -  /Sandra Leong EFORE City Cab driver Lawrence Toh underwent grooming courses, he would drive around Singapore dressed in a casual singlet, trousers and a pair of comfortable sandals. Although he is only in his middle age, passengers would board his taxi and address him as "Ah Pek". But when
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      westin´s matching standards
      403 44  -  'Sandra Leong N American tourist who visited Singapore a while ago, has to thank a guest relations officer from the Westin Stamford Westin Piaza hotels for helping him catch his ideal spouse. After deciding that the magnificent view from the Compass Rose Restaurant would make a romantic
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      the art of comfort
      448 44  -  /Sandra Leong F you think driving a taxi is a cushy job, you'll change your mind when you hear about the high standards that Comfort has set for its cabbies. A driver's licence is definitely not enough if you want to sit behind the wheel of
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      hunting her way to a gold
      570 46  -  /Sandra Leong N old Japanese couple attracted to the charms of Bintan missed the ferry to the island and did not even realise it.They sat patiently at the terminal and, if not for the concern of a front office assistant supervisor from Bintan Resort
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      of man and beast, with a little wit
      482 47  -  /Sandra Leong F you're the type of Underwater World visitor who enjoys grabbing a helpless baby shark by its tail or poking and prodding at a turtle till the poor creature retreats into its shell, you'd probably hear a friendly but firm
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      ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE ATTRACTIONS
      93 47 F2O EXSAWinners Sit ivw i Gold Stcn Total loyal Ming (S) Pte Ltd 4 2 0 Loyal Selangor (S) Pte I I 0 2 -td ientosa Development 9 0 0 9 Corporation Singapore Cable Car 3 0 0 31 iingapore Science 2 0 0 1 Centre
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      sharksfin superstar loves her job
      471 48  -  /Sandra Leong ESIDES being home to the finest broiled sharksfin soup in town, the Thai Village Sharksfin Restaurant at Seaview Hotel is also home to one of this year's Excellent Service Award's (EXSA) shining stars. With a name like Crystal Lee, it's no wonder she
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      THE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE
      64 48 2001 EXSA Winners Silwr Gold Star Tdtdl Chen Fuji Fried Rice 3 2 2 7 Thai Village Sharksfin Rest I I 5 I 17 Tricon Restaurants 10 0 0 10 Singapore War. Lok Rest, Carlton 9 0 0 9 Hotel Parkway Thai Restaurant 0 4
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      people are funny
      701 49  -  /Sandra Leong ORK can be quite a barrel of laughs sometimes. Just ask Jackeline Carter (right), a customer service officer at the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). An upset passenger once approached her Information Counter and began ranting about a lost wallet and jacket. The frenzied
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      CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE
      102 49 C2O EXSA Winners Silver Gold Sl« Total Changi International Airport Services 102 22 6 130 Changi International Airport Services 74 70 24 168 Auxiliary Police SATS Security Services Pte Ltd 37 32 9 78 Singapore Airport Terminal Services III 36 II ISS Limited Airport Police
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      NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TRAVEL AGENTS SINGAPORE
      84 49 C2O EXSA Winners Sha- Gold Sim Total Bintan Resort Ferries Pte Ltd 4 2 0 6 DinersWorldTravel Pte Ltd 9 1 0 12 Sentosa Discovery Tours Pte Ltd 7 0 0 7 Ananda Travel (S) Pte Ltd 2 0 0 2 Lion Tourist Services
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      SINGAPORE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION
      403 50 2001 EXSA Winners Silvtf GoM Star Total 7-Eleven 27 45 9 ai A's Jewelry 3 I 2 o Apparel Concepts (S) 8 0 0 3 P/L Aspial Corporation Ltd 32 40 20 92 Beaute Concept Pte 2 J 3 S Ltd BPDe SilvaJewellers 10 0 1 P/L
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      mark of a regal charmer
      400 50  -  *I■ J^ "_1 h V U■■ *w *j /Gail Wan HENEVER Jennifer Tan's regular clients spot a piece of pewterware that catches their eye at any of Royal Selangor's showrooms, they place their orders with her at the company's Duty Free Shop atMilleniaWalk. What is
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      408 50  -  /Sandra Leong URING the I Christmas season, Lee Liat Chuang (picture) spends time making pretty Christmas decorations to spruce up his "home", in the hope that the season's joys will be shared with everyone who pays him a visit. His love for his work
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      SINGAPORE HOTEL ASSOCIATION
      234 50 2001 EXSA Winners Silver Gold Slat Total Albert Court Hotel 2 0 0 2 Alison Hotel 2 7 2 11 The American Club 35 I I I 47 Concorde Hotel 2 0 13 Crown Prince Hotel 4 0 0 4 Duxton Hotel 10 0 1 Furim.1 Hotel
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      218 40 A big Thank You" to our Star Award recipients of Excellent Service Award 200 I Erene Tan (Airport) Anna Yip (Zoo) Vivian To (Millenia) Gary Lee (Millenia) Salty Woon (Millenia) Amy Teo (Aitport) Florence Lee (Airport) Grace Tan (Millenia) ®DFS Galleria is the world's leading destination for travelers seeking distinctive,
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      184 40 EXSA- Joint Effort The- award is organised by the Singapore Productivity and Standards Bodrd (PSB). k is administered jointly by: 'Association of Singapore Attractions Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Land Transport Authority Nat'l Assoc of Travel Agents Singapore "The Restaurant Association ofSinjppore Singapore Hotel Association Singapore Retailers Association m AasocunoNQF
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      270 41 Vv-^v Vv HH ■••^fSP^S^L^^^H^^^B' -_v .--ißßill^^ti' ■^■■■.■■"^^^^^•^^^ssßß^H^B Hfl B^BMg; '^**!(&P' .y;' -4-. g j-^-"^^^.V T.-^^^Bt '-isSi :'-^^B^i!-"-i-'>'c^~"." Sic a :^ff■■ i^HE Rfev-: JF ■■"■■■■■■■■■.v: A^SsBI^F 'Ik a ;Mi.. £fA'/f,^r^- :|Hk HI. < W:'-:- L ■■'■■v'-:-':: .vv::. --/v' i^\\ ■:'^.'^v-^^-^^v^^^Br J"^^B jjHr vv. -.y- V'-^^Hl^^ffl At Singapore Post, we are committed
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      117 43 DRIVEN BY SERVICE EXCELLENCE. Bjfi H. '^H j> Jo^ I ■j-ii.-'b :^r j£r ■r\ I jj^^ 29 of our City Cab cabbies and front-line staff have done us proud this year. They have received 3 Stars, 9 Golds and 17 Silvers in the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board 2001 Excellent
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      368 44 Our staff at POPULAR has done the Company proud again by H winning a total of 74 Excellent Service Awards this year. POPULAR^ H employees have been winning these awards since I 996. H H We are committed to training and upgrading the skills of our employees so I H
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      356 45 r A Congratulations to our stair on winning 12 Star, 33 Gold 40 Silver awards mfhp fiTpQ'fidiniic Excellent Service Award. ty ffi i&- fy -yt. We're happy to congratulate our STAR AWARD winners, Amelia Garcia Rodrigues, Betty Lee Choon Whey, Chai Yu Peng, Cyril Leslie, Elizabeth Beh Mci Ling, Iris
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      134 46 experience excellence come sail with us /Is. Teresa Penne/ather /Is. JYoo/yanti Btei/imad */Is. Noorfazil&h lite /fussam /Is. AasmaA Bte Kamil /Is. Haslinda Bte Salim *Ms. ftaimunah hie Mohd Noor jpg(f#^ BINTAN Resort Ferries offers Sehcdulcd Ferry Services Fcrr} Charters fravcl Effl^j Packages Land Transfer Services Corporate Events and Excellent Service!
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      75 47 We serve from our Hearts to create many Happy Customers If 's a joy to receive the Excellent Service Award. From the bottom of our hearts, A BIG THANK YOU to all our Precious Customers ivho have given us this vote of confidence. And, not forgetting our <^cc Precious Staff
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      66 48 JROYALSELANGOIT I $k MING VILLAGE fa our staff who were awarded the CExcetCent Service *Award for year 2001, Royal Selangor (S) Pte Ltd Royal Ming (S) Pte Ltd "fan Cheng T,ng, Jennifer Sfier 'Bee tfoon, 'Peggy T'ay 'Kirn ifeo, 'Annie Lee 'M.cc Lang (Benno G^3 Zukaidak Bte Sar&or %fian i(eng
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      54 48 The "Board 0 s of T>fPelopment (Corporation (Congratulate Our Excellent $ef)>ice 2001 Winners Front row from left to right Noor Aim Bte Daud, Low Kheng Kwee, R Katarani Back row from left to right Batasandran s/o Kandasomy, Gob Soon Huat, Heng Cbee Meng, Urn Chwee Siong, Abdui Jabar Bin Taib
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      64 49 Congratulations to all Excellent Service Awards (EXSA) recipients from the Management and Staff of Tricon Restaurants Singapore Starring you EXSA Silver Award Recipients Low Kirn Seng Vincent Goh Kan Chee Chua Hwee Kian Ng Beng Kiau Nur Farhanah bte Ramli Nora bte Ibrahim Wong Yue Lang Lim Ham Siau Low
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      221 51 -I fin average person can stay k% underwater for one minute. 11 Yba, however, can stay 1 I for 12 hoars for just 17 Nov 2001 1 Jan 2002 €g|§ includes admission to Sentosa, Underwater World and Dolphin Lagoon i**w*t Interact with the highly ~^^r- J^ mX^ intelligent and adorable
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Lock icon Barely 20, going on 14
      441 52  -  Cathleeen Tung Today photo by Aww... these girls are so cute! by cathleen@n ews today.com.sg WITH a name like S.H.E, a debut album called Girls' Hostel and an award for being Taiwan's annual "Dream Girl(s) of National Servicemen", you can expect this girl group to
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon Chan rides high on HK's costliest film
      164 54 Reuters/Variety LONDON Columbia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights (excluding Asia and France) to Highbinders, the most expensive Hong Kong film production which stars Jackie Chan (picture). The $62 million martial arts fan-tasy-adventure stars Chan as a Hong Kong detective who teams up with
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      320 54 Reuters/Variety HONG KONG Hong Kong arthouse director Stanley Kwan tackles two of China's touchiest taboos homosexuality and democracy in his latest film set in the Chinese capital. Lan Yu, based on the online gay novel Beijing Story, is about the tortured 10-year romance between
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