Today, 2 April 2002

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    9 1 TODAY Tuesday i April 2, 2002 mita(Pio63 ii 200)
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    Simple sorry to end mess?
    348 1 IN a move that surprised Mr JB Jeyaretnam as much as everybody else, 10 PAP leaders offered to drop legal proceedings against him if he apologised for the remarks he made at an election rally in 1997. The ruling party has come down hard on
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    MP and the wall
    497 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Those unbending officials by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg WHILE all eyes were trained on the new MPs, a relatively old hand stole the show in Parliament yesterday. The six new MPs who made their maiden speeches tended to stick gingerly to familiar and predictable issues like
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Tender notices go online
      105 2 ALL Government tender notices will now be posted on the Government Electronic Business (GeBIZ) website at www.gebiz.gov.sg. As a result, advertisements of tender notices will no longer appear in newspapers like The Straits Times. If others follow in the Government's footsteps, it can deal a revenue
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      High drama in High Court
      393 2  -  Joy Frances by joy@newstoday.com.sg THERE were several tense moments in the High Court yesterday in the hearing involving two men and a woman who were sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping a Singapore businessman, one day before his wedding. The case, which had been set
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      That deposit will remain at $100,000
      153 2 MAS announced yesterday that it will not change the existing licensing and regulatory framework for granting or renewing licences for remittance houses. Since a money changer was charged with cheating 1,000 workers from mainland China earlier this year, there have been calls for the
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      Dr M's new tack
      376 3  -  Ambiga Raju Condemns all attacks even those by Palestinians by ambiga@newstoday.com.sg WHEN the world seems to be spinning with problems of terrorism, Asia's most vocal and longest-ruling politician has offered both a definition for the word as well as a subtle lesson in statesmanship. Making a
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      Lock icon 'We know when Arafat pees'
      192 3 Agencies JERUSALEM The Israelis have Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat now holed up in his headquarters in Ramallah under such close surveillance that "he won't be able to go to the toilet without us knowing about it", one intelligence official told Time magazine. Still, the Israeli
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      Abode seekers rejected by HK
      98 3 HONG KONG Despite appeals by human rights groups and tearful pleas by mainland abode seekers and their families (picture), the Hong Kong government remained unmoved. A government spokesman said deportation of abode seekers whose stay in the territory expired at midnight on Sunday would go
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      Lock icon S Korea braces itself for power strike
      209 3 Reuters SEOUL South Koreans are bracing themselves for a major disruption in their daily lives after a powerful labour union threatened to join striking utility workers in a show of sympathy. Thousands of workers at the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp (Kepco) have
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      Singaporeans in China ... on Ch 8
      184 4 Singaporeans in China on Ch 8 THE Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) has commissioned two programmes Singaporeans in China and Recession Proof— to be aired on MediaCorp TV's Channel 8. Singaporeans in China is an eight-part series, featuring 13 case studies of Singaporeans who have either made it big in China
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      Dreaded 'R' word
      439 4  -  Francis Kan I by francis@newstoday.com.sg THERE were times during yesterday's Parliamentary debate when the rhetoric started to sound like a broken record, as one member of parliament (MP) after another touched on the hot, and widely discussed topics of unemployment and entrepreneurship. But enough interesting points emerged
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      Pick Tourism Awards winners
      77 4 THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is on the hunt once again for the best in the service industry. The public can nominate their favourites in 15 of 21 categories at this year's Tourism Awards. The nomination period will run till May 31, and submissions can be
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      46 4 TWENTY YEARS from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
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  • LETTERS
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      I'm still in Fateha
      239 6  -  IN the letter "Didn't he quit Fateha?" (Today, April 1), Mr S Ramamirtham questioned why Fateha.com published an interview its former CEO Zulfikar Mohamad Shariffhad given to web group Islam Online. He also questioned the validity of Mr Zulfikar's resignation from Fateha.com. Below is Mr Zulfikar
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      Shell's move to M'sia: Who's next?
      256 6  -  Lim Boon Hee I REFER to Shell's move to site its global IT headquarters in Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) over Singapore, Hong Kong and even India. What is consistent and pertinent are the reasons given by Shell as it is typical of the
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      Why spoil Kranji?
      82 6  -  Sue Richter I READ with dismay the controversy surrounding the planned golf course at Kranji. Is the National Service Resort Country Club (NSRCC) not aware how fast Singapore's swamps and rain forests are being destroyed? If as the Nature Society claims that the marsh is home to
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      A fine touch
      234 8  -  Tan Kok Siong Virgin Mobile CEO gives reader a pleasant surprise RECENTLY, I wrote to Mr Ross Cormack (picture), the chief executive officer of Virgin Mobile (S) Pte Ltd, to highlight some problems I had encountered with Virgin Mobile's services. I was pleasantly surprised when Mr Cormack
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      Time for safer habits
      191 8  -  Ananda Perera I REFER to increasing reports on road deaths, especially those involving motorcyclists. Motorcyclists and pillion riders are more vulnerable on the roads than car drivers and passengers, and must take greater care on the roads. I am not absolving careless motorists from dangerous driving
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon KL scraps Schiphol plan
      258 9 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said it called off talks to sell a 30 per cent stake in its airport operator, Malaysia Airport Holdings, to Schiphol Group of the Netherlands. Malaysia twice extended the deadline for the talks to sell 330 million shares in the airport operator
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      Lock icon J P Morgan to sell bonds for Maybank
      134 9 Bloomberg MALAYAN Banking, Malaysia's biggest lender, has hired Deutsche Bank and J P Morgan Chase Co to arrange a sale of as much as US$3OO million ($554 million) of bonds by May, bankers involved in the transaction said. Maybank plans to sell
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      Lock icon Andersen insurers will not pay group
      86 9 Reuters NEW YORK Beleaguered accounting firm Andersen said its insurance carrier will not pay a US$2l7-million ($4OO million) lawsuit settlement to a Baptist fund-raising group over alleged accounting malpractice charges, a month after the company agreed to settle the litigation. Andersen lawyers have sent
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      Goodbye Swissair, hello Swiss
      130 9 SWISS took off on Sunday as Switzerland's new flag carrier, replacing the debt-ridden national carrier, Swissair. It took a 30-minute hop from Basel to Zurich. The carrier combines the services of Swissair and regional airline Crossair. It has taken over viable medium- and long-haul routes from
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      Lock icon East Asia on the mend
      145 9 -AFP MANILA East Asian economies are moving from last year's sharp and synchronised slowdown to a faster-than-expected but moderate rebound, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. But the Manila-based bank warned in its latest economic analysis of the region that the positive outlook could be
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      Sats' 45th customer
      68 9 HAINAN Airlines has become Singapore Airport Terminal Services' (Sats) 45th customer. The airline, which started a weekly Haikou to Singapore service yesterday, is China's fourth largest airline group. Sats will supply the carrier with passenger and cargo handling, apron, baggage, aircraft interior cleaning and security. Hainan Airlines
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        65 10 NEWS of war, despair and destruction appeared to rile sentiments. The STI slid 14.13 points lower to 1789.09 led by a 1.55 per cent fall in the finance sub-index even as loans regis- tered a two per cent growth in February. Market breadth deteriorated with three losers for every
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        Malaysia
        86 10 IT was a slow start to the week as a lack of fresh leads and the Easter holidays led to muted interest in the Malaysian market The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index was in negative territory throughout most of the day, hitting a low of 752.51. But thanks to a
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        SGX most active
        56 10 By volume April 1 '000 Kingboard 73,659 Digiland 36,581 Ipco 19,599 KLW 19,203 IANKom 9,991 '000 Fu Yu 9,208 GES 8,809 Vikay Ind 7,525 Ionics 6,793 MediaRing 6,138 ByS April 1 Value Chartered 26,023,300 Kingboard 23,587,555 UOB 16,535,620 SPH 11,983,255 DBS 11,884,397 Value SIA 10,133,800 Digiland 9,593,810
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        SGX top rises
        77 10 By$ April 1 Close Changi F&N 7.950 +0.151 Innovalu 0.775 +0.12: DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 102.500 +0.101 AseanSupremelOOUSS 5.500 +0.101 Robinson 5.550 +0.101 ITE 0.450 +0.081 Isetan(S) 3.100 +0.081 HKLand USS 1.780 +0.051 OUE 6.850 +0.051 HawparHC 2.200 +0.051 By percentage April 1 ITE Close Change 0.450
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        World markets
        55 10 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 *****.70 +3.76 +.03 Hang Seng "ill Ordinaries faiwan Wid *****.92 3363.30 6186.44 +45.04 +2.90 +18.97 +.41 +.09 +.31 Korea Comp SET Index lakarta Comp 875.83 375.52 486.67 -19.75 +1.57 +4.89 -2.21 +.42 +1.02 Phils Comp ihenzen B Wumbai 1396.10 231.09 3500.18 -7.52
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        SGX top falls
        67 10 )y$ \pril 1 JOB Close Change 14.900 -0.300 IBS 14.500 -0.300 iPH 24.300 -0.300 3reatEast 12.000 -0.300 tenture 18.000 -0.200 iPH 100 24.400 -0.200 Ireative 50 22.100 -0.200 3CBC 13.700 -0.100 »IA 14.300 -0.100 By percentage April 1 HoGCenW*****2 WediaS Close Change 0.010-50.000 0.040 20.000 EWSport 0.080-15.789
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 USS 0.5424 UK£ 0.3800 Yen 72.327 HKS 4.2309 RM 2.0613 Euro 0.6206 Rupiah 5289.1 Baht 23.607 Peso 27.665 A$ 1.0157 Indian Rs 26.482 Won 718.796 C$ 0.8673 Yuan 4.4899 NZ$ 1.2291 NTS 18.986
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        Lock icon Commodities
        22 10 Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 303.70 Silver uss/oz 4.650 Platinum uss/oz 518.70 Rubber cents/kg 121.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1135 Brent crude uss/barrel 25.60
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      Lock icon Will oil flow freely?
      217 10 Bloomberg Prices rise to six-month high CRUDE oil prices rose to a six-month high after an intensifying conflict between Israelis and Palestinians raised concern that flows from the Middle East, which supplies about 30 per cent of the world's oil, may be disrupted. Increased tension in
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      Lock icon M'sia's trade surplus drops
      227 11 -AFP Electrical and electronic exports to the US fall 12% KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's trade surplus dropped 13.6 per cent in February from the month before, mainly due to the decline in exports of electrical and electronic products. The country registered a surplus of RM3.B billion ($1.85
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      Another goal for Spring
      86 11 THE Singapore Productivity and Innovation Board (Spring) is now in charge of the Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC). The council was previously under the charge of the Singapore Confederation of Industries, reported Channel News Asia. The Trade and Industry Ministry said there is now a rising need
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      When bosses think they know all the answers ...
      243 11 When bosses think they know all the answers THERE are two main reasons why Singaporeans do not take the plunge into business, an American business coach and entrepreneur said. One is the "parenting" attitude that the Singapore society has adopted over the years, where everyone is comfortable knowing that the
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      Lock icon Property optimism
      148 11 -AFP EVEN as the latest flash estimate of property prices from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) shows a further dip, property analysts say we may be seeing the last of the quarterly drops. According to property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle, transactions in the auction market during the first
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      Lock icon More tourists, fewer businessmen
      130 11 -AFP VISITOR arrivals here increased marginally in February from a year ago, reversing a decline reported in January, the Singapore Tourism Board said. The 0.8 per cent jump in February arrivals to 597,415 visitors came mainly from a rise in tourists from other countries in Asia.
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      Lock icon Export growth for S Korea in the offing?
      242 11 -AFP SEOUL South Korea's trade surplus widened to US$l.43 billion ($2.64 billion) in March from US$l.l7 billion a year earlier, despite a slowdown in exports. Exports fell 5.2 per cent year-on-year in March to U5513.39 billion, falling for the 13th month in
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      Lock icon KPMG's merger snag
      406 13 Reuters Singapore, Japan spell difficulty for its expansion scheme ACCOUNTING firm KPMG's ambitions to expand its operations in the region by merging with the Asian units of troubled rival Andersen appears to have hit a snag in Singapore and Japan. The non-US units of Andersen have been
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      $150m LNG project shelved
      112 13 THE SembCorp Industries unit, SembCorp Utilities, has decided not to build its planned liquid natural gas (LNG) project in Singapore. Based on a feasibility study that it conducted together with the Economic Development Board, the company said the $150 million facility Singapore's first is not feasible
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      Lock icon Sapura abandons takeover plans
      156 13 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Sapura Holdings aborted talks to buy control of Southern Bank, Malaysia's seventh-biggest lender, in what would have been its first foray into banking. Negotiations to buy a 32.4 per cent stake in Southern Bank collapsed over board representation and differences over guarantees provided
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      HDB resale price method
      94 13 THE HDB now uses the Moving Average (MA) method to calculate its Resale Price Index (RPI). The RPI helps buyers and sellers of resale HDB flats to make informed decisions regarding their transactions. Under the older Laspeyres method, fixed weights are assigned to the various flat
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      Lock icon Hong Leong's new look
      94 13 HONG Leong Singapore Finance has launched a newlook uniform (picture) and a new-look home-loan in its latest competitive move to lure customers away from the Big Three domestic banks. The new "Home Bliss Loan" features fixed rates of three and 3.25 per cent for the first
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3111 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Fund Name NAV/Bid Price Oiler Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) Aberdeen Se Americaa Opportunities 0.751 0.789 Aberdeen Se Asian Fixed Income 1.186 1.223 Aberdeen Se China Opportunities Fund 1.023 1.075 Aberdeen Se Continental Europe Equity 1.023 1.075 Abeideea
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      Lock icon Foreign birds fly away ...
      464 14 Foreign birds fly away Bloomberg Apartments are empty, art is unsold CHRIS Maiden enjoyed expat life in Singapore wearing shorts year-round, taking midnight swims in the condo pool until he lost his job writing software. He's heading home. "The job market... is so slow it's pointless to stay on a
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      Lock icon Quake damage minimal: Chip firms
      92 14 Reuters TAIPEI Taiwan's largest semiconductor makers said that the powerful quake that killed five people in the country had caused minimal damage to their production lines and did not disrupt their water and electricity supplies. A quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shook Taiwan
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Blow for Koizumi as independent is elected Yokohama Mayor
      235 16 -Agencies TOKYO The election of independent candidate Hiroshi Nakada as Mayor of Yokohama, Japan's secondlargest city, spells real trouble for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Mr Nakada, 37, beat the incumbent, Mr Hidenobu Takahide, who was backed by the ruling coalition as
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      Lock icon Quake will not stop world's tallest building
      210 16 AFP TAIPEI The devastating earthquake on Sunday might have shook Taiwan but not the confidence of the island's investors. They are determined to go ahead with the construction of the world's tallest building (picture) despite the fact that the island sits on the
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      Lock icon Sabah limits routes of Indon, Filipino ships
      140 16 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A new security ruling restricting the number of routes for Indonesian and Filipino ships entering and leaving Sabah came into effect yesterday as part of Malaysia's efforts to clamp down on illegal immigrants. Sabah Chief Minister Chong Kah Kiat said
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      Casino Queen
      238 18 Tycoon Stanley Ho's daughter takes charge HONG KONG Yesterday saw the end of Casino King Stanley Ho's gambling monopoly in Macau but it certainly is not the end of his casino empire. The 81-year-old tycoon still has an 18-year deal with the Macau government to run 11 casinos
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      Lock icon Top Osama aide captured?
      105 18 Reuters WASHINGTON For all its successes in Afghanistan, the big prize catching Osama bin Laden or his key lieutenants remains elusive for the US military. US officials are now keeping their fingers crossed that a militant captured in Pakistan last week is Abu Zubaydeh, one of
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  • COMMENTARY
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      The Thaksin mystery
      983 19  -  Roger Mitton Thai PM is delivering, so why is media behaving like a spoilt brat? I LEARNED early that stories on Thai politics rarely travel well. So I know many of you will be inclined to turn the page when you see today's topic is the Thai
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      Lock icon Ketari voters endorse KL's strong reaction against Islamic militancy
      465 19 AFP. KETARI (Pahang) If further proof is needed that Malays are warming up to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad's government, Sunday's by-election in Pahang is it. Dr Mahathir's Barisan Nasional won the Ketari seat in the State Assembly against
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Like father, unlike son
      776 20  -  Shibu Itty Kuttickal Author and millionaire avoids real father's mistakes, learns financial wisdom from rich 'dad' HE FLUNKED twice at school when he was 15 and 17 because he could not write well. There were times when he did not have any money and was homeless.
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      Dominatrix or nun? Juliet's 'true' colours revealed
      311 20  -  -Janice Lee THE magic of Shakespeare's plays is often missed by those who study the texts without dramatising the works themselves. The Bell Shakespeare Company wants to prevent this. Last week, Bell's Actors at Work caused a stir at St Joseph's Institution when
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Crucial three minutes
      469 21  -  Ambiga Raju Tamil Talentime finalists impress audience with improvised numbers I HAD not even been thinking of who would turn out to be the winner of Sunday's Tamil Talentime 2002 until late into the show. But, when the results were announced, it was not hard to accept
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      162 21  -  -ElisaChia AN unforgettable Good Friday, is what Desmond Loh, 12, and his 45 friends from the Canossian School for the Hearing Impaired can boast of. They are among the 2,000 beneficiaries (picture) from about 40 charities, which were treated to a dazzling performance of Alegria
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      118 21 ST Anthony's Canossian Primary beat neighbourhood schools Xingnan Primary and Ngee Ann Primary in the finals of The SCV Spelling Bee on Sunday. This was not a contest for those who were "pusillanimous" or faint-hearted but the three Primary Six girls
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      278 21  -  Elisa Chia by elisa@newstoday.com.sg ATEARY-EYED Eric Moo (picture), clutching his guitar, delivered his song in a cracking voice to a sell-out house at the Kallang Theatre on Friday evening. "I've taken to the stage over 1,000 times. But tonight, I'm really emotional," he confessed apologetically to the
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      193 22 CNETAsia asia. cnet. com/newstech NETWORK Associates has renewed its bid for McAfee.com, the anti-virus site it spun off three years ago and which it now owns about 75 per cent. Last week, Network Associates pulled back on a previous bid after disclosing that it was being investigated by
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      Happily out-of-the-box
      506 22  -  Sol E Solomon One company found using Office XP's features good for staff morale by solomon@newstoday.com.sg FOR local IT trainer Comat, which provides services to corporate clients that include large multinationals here, the ability to be highly responsive to customers' needs is paramount Key to this is Comat's
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      IBM's self-healing server
      175 22 AFTER three years of development, IBM has launched its eServer x 440 with Enterprise X-Architecture technology. The system supports Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems within a single SMP configuration and can support up to four physical partitions or up to 64 virtual partitions. A "building-block" architecture
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      231 22 THE Concept Notebook, which represents HewlettPackard's vision of future commercial mobile computing, is designed to cater to the needs of the mobile user while on the move or working at the office desk. Designed to function as a notebook, tablet or desktop, its look unique and
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      790 23  -  Dr Charles Ling They make IT solutions a reality for new-generation SMEs WITH the slowing down of the economy, many enterprises are considering scaling down their expenditure on technology. This decision, however, is difficult for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that run lean IT departments with underinvestment
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      IDC: Sun is No 1 in Asean and the Indian sub-continent
      372 23 LAST year, Sun Microsystems strengthened its leadership position as the Number One RISC/Unix server vendor in Asean and the India region. According to the latest results from industry analyst firm IDC's Q4 2001 Enterprise Server Tracker, Sun grew its
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      626 24 Reuters/Variety Despite studios' declining profits, superstars continue to earn more HOLLYWOOD Wasn't it just the other day that the town was talking about the vaunted "US$2O million club?" Well, that elite fraternity of superstars is no more. It's now officially the "US$25 million ($46 million) club". Those
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      207 25 Reuters/Variety John Woo eyes Face/Off star for railroad movie NEW YORK John Woo (picture) is courting Nicholas Cage to star with Chow Yun-Fat in Men of Destiny, the director's epic look at the 19th century construction of America's railroads. The project puts Woo in reach of joining Hong
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      331 25 -Reuters/ Variety NEW YORK Newly-minted Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly (picture, left) has committed to join Ben Kingsley (picture, bottom left) in The House of Sand and Fog, an adaptation of the Andre Dubus 111 novel whose domestic rights Dream Works purchased in an auction on
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      Another baby for Angelina?
      75 25 ACTORS Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton plan to return to Cambodia to find a sister for their new baby son, Maddox. Thornton told IMDB.com: "We're going back to get little Maddox a baby sister. Angelina and I have already seen the baby girl the last
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      549 28 Montoya and Barrichello endure a bad day in home grand prix Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix Schumacher brothers reign in Brazil SAO PAULO They could have held the Brazilian Grand Prix in the living room, if there had been space for the spectators around the coffee
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      410 28 -AFP Golf Houston Open Fijian snaps two-year winless streak with a record win HOUSTON Few things could be this comfortable, except another green jacket. Vijay Singh cruised to his first PGA Tour title in two years yesterday, recording the most
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      L A sneaks win
      98 28 LOS ANGELES Derek Fisher's two free throws with 15 seconds left gave the Los Angeles Lakers a dramatic 96-95 victory over the San Antonio Spurs yesterday. Kobe Bryant led Los Angeles with 31 points while Shaquille O'Neal scored 15 of his 24 points in the second
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      Tuffey strikes
      81 28 AUCKLAND Daryl Tuffey struck twice in his opening over to rock England and give New Zealand a sensational start in its pursuit of a series-levelling win in the rain-hit final cricket Test at Eden Park yesterday. And April Fool's Day just got worse for England with skipper Nasser
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      Evil Devils
      55 28 SEOUL South Korean religious groups yesterday launched a campaign to make the national team's fanatic supporters stop calling themselves "the Red Devils" before the World Cup finals begin. Church leaders said the name will bring dishonour on the country during the tournament to be held in South Korea
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      Win no. 700
      86 28 MIAMI- Andre Agassi recalled career win number one yesterday shortly after beating victim number 700, Roger Federer, to collect his 51st title at the Nasdaq-100 Open Masters. "John Austin, 6-4, 6-4, clubhouse court, La Quinta California," said Agassi, as if the match were yesterday. "He was up
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      Loh v Lee
      730 29  -  Jose Raymond The fight for the SAAA presidency by jose@newstoday.com.sg TWO years ago, lawyer Loh Lin Kok appeared to face the biggest threat to his position as president of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association (SAAA). Then, there was talk that lawyer Edmond Pereira would unseat Loh. Pereira
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      Young Warrior and national midfielder sacked after ill discipline
      380 29  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg HE MAY be one of the brightest talents in Singapore, but bouts of ill discipline have left his fledgling football career in tatters. National under-23 midfielder Razali Johari (picture) has been axed by the Singapore Armed Forces
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      611 30  -  Leonard Thomas If Dutchman performs, Galicians will be in for a shock Champions League quarter-final Deportivo v Man United Live, tomorrow on Ch 5 Ch 23 2.30 am by leonard@newstoday.com.sg A FUNNY game, is football. If Sir Alex Ferguson had watched the recent Worthington Cup final,
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      296 30 -AFP MUNICH Defending champion Bayern Munich knows what to expect when it faces eighttime European king Real Madrid in a mouth-watering Champions League quarter-final first leg tie today. "It's effectively like bringing the final forward," said Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer. Real's chances of
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      Lock icon Henry shoots Gunners top
      832 31 Agencies ln-form Frenchman scores a double as Arsenal overtakes major rivals English Premier League Charlton 0 Arsenal 3 Home side collapses under Arsenal's attack LONDON The relentless attacking might of Arsenal has once again powered the North Londoners to the top of the Premiership. French striker
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      299 31  -  Kelvin Phang by kelvin@newstoday.com.sg A WORLD-CLASS performance. That was how national head coach Goran Bergendorff described Remy Ong's victory in Sunday's President's Cup. Besides beating Asia's No. 1 Wu Siu Hong of Hong Kong 236-232 in a cliff-hanger stepladder final. The stylish southpaw
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