Today, 1 May 2002

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  • 7 1 TODAY Wednesday May 1, 2002 MITA(P)O63.'II.; 2001
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  • 41 1 Reuters JUBILANT astronomers unveiled yesterday humankind's most spectacular views of the universe as captured by the Nasa Hubble Space Telescope's new advanced camera for surveys. The Cone Nebula, Ml7, is pictured in this Nasa handout photo.
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  • Article, Illustration
    653 1  -  Lee Yew Meng Franchises on offer as supermarket strikes a fine balance by ye wmeng@newstoday. com. sg USUALLY, the happiest problem in the corporate world is that of unbridled success. But when the small man's supermarket becomes a Big Boy, the discomfort is palpable. NTUC FairPrice is now
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  • 327 1  -  Jose Raymond by jose@newstoday.com.sg A SIMPLE drive turned into an overwhelming tragedy for two Singaporean students in Michigan. Amanda Yeo, 19, died after the car she was travelling in was hit by a truck at a road intersection just outside
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 522 2 CPF rate cut for those over 40 may help save their jobs ONE week ago, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Secretary-General, Mr Lim Boon Heng (picture), suggested that the CPF contribution rate for lower income workers and those over 40 be cut to help
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    • 349 3  -  Kiisia Yeo Is Aung San Suu Kyi ready to cooperate? VANGON The Lady is finally ready to cooperate with the generals. So went the big buzz in Myanmar yesterday, after reports said opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (picture) was set to be freed after 18 months
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    • 174 3 Agencies NEW DELHI The Indian government was yesterday given a tongue-lashing session over the sectarian violence in Gujarat state, though it looked set to survive the censure vote. Opposition leader Sonia Gandhi lashed out at Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Hindu nationalist BJP
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    • 147 3 -AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistani voters heeded an opposition call to boycott a referendum yesterday to decide whether military ruler Pervez Musharraf should remain President for another five years, according to opposition party sources. "Today, the people of Pakistan have given their verdict against General Musharraf," said Mr
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    • 99 4 Newsßadio 93.8 A CHINESE man was found dead yesterday evening near the zebra crossing at the entrance of the Cruise Centre's cable car tower. Police received a call about the body at around 5 pm. He was pronounced dead when ambulance officers arrived
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    • 108 4 MR LEE Yock Suan, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs, received the Medal of Honour last night at the NTUC May Day Dinner held at Orchid Country Club. Mr Lee was chairman of the Singapore Labour Foundation (SLF) from
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    • 749 4  -  Ng Boon Yian Heng Chee How to push campaign at Raffles Place by boo nyian@newstoday. com. sg RIGHT in the heart of the financial district tomorrow, Mr Heng Chee How, deputy secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), will launch the union's membership drive for
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    • 144 4 A SMALL local architectural firm, ARC Studio, has emerged as the winner of Singapore's first international architectural design competition for public housing. It had beaten some 200 entries from around the world with its design of the 48-storey HDB apartment blocks at Duxton Plain in
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    • 339 4 THE latest seasonally-adjusted overall unemployment figure for the first quarter shows a marginal increase of 0.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent. The figure for December last year was 4.4 per cent. The number of people who were employed in the first quarter of
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    • 436 6  -  Elaine Quck ComChest steps in as charities fight for dollars by elaine@newstoday.com.sg AMIDST the economic doldrums, competition for the last consumer dollar exists in all sectors, with charitable and welfare organisations not spared the tough fight. "Competition has become that much stiffen Nowadays,
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    • 537 6  - After three years in limbo Zackaria Abdul Rahim GOING for upgrading, training or retraining courses could yield some very interesting opportunities. Mind you, it's not every day that this happens. There was no looking back for Mr Christopher Monteiro (picture) when he was retrenched in 1999. He had spent 25
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    • 213 6  -  Tan Hui Leng THIS year's Sing Singapore event will steer away from patriotic themes and focus on songs that will tug at heartstrings. "It is important that... the songs that we sing are songs which are meaningful to all of us songs which
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    • 192 6  -  -Joy Frances BAD weather conditions and a pain in his handicapped ankle might make disabled climber Mr David Lim's second Tibetan summit a hard one to reach. Currently on his Ascent 8000 expedition, Mr Lim and his Tibetan climbing partner, Mr Man Bahadur
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 33 3 WIN air tickets and a SD4N trip for two to China's No 1 golf course in Kunming. Or join Transview Golf Country Club for one year at just $450. Turn to page 13
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    • 241 7 <^^S^^-- Il& S^ Kin iv CUAD C^ID Use your American Express Card and you could shop for free when our Mystery Spotter spots you! He's spotting lOCardmembers EiLbL> everyday and paying up to $500 off each purchase'. Look out for signs at participating stores is land wide Here are just
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  • HOME NEWS
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      714 8  -  Clement Mesenas A little known lifeline from the labour movement by clement@news tod ay. com. sg WHEN death strikes down the breadwinner unexpectedly, the family experiences a tremendous sense of loss. It's like a ship losing its captain in a storm. It struggles to find its way
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    • 233 8 THE local law firm, Colin Ng Partners, and the foreign firm, White Case, will be terminating their joint venture in Singapore by the end of this month. The two firms teamed up on Jan 1 last year to combine more than 100 lawyers in
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    • 432 8  -  Francis Kan IT offers loans and fixed deposits at attractive rates, and has a potential customer base of some 800,000. But don't ever call NTUC Thrift Loan Cooperative a bank. For one, it's not out to make a
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    • 504 12  -  Tan Hui Leng It's offered over the counter at all Unity pharmacies by huile ng@ne ws to d ay.com.sg BEST known for its übiquitous Unity pharmacies, NTUC Healthcare is not just a pharmaceutical group that seeks to improve the welfare of Singaporeans. The cooperative has gone one
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    • 371 13 Union members had a ball of a time teeing off at the SLF Golf Tournaments held earlier this year. Held at the Orchid Country Club, the Tournaments received an overwhelming response. While the first Tournament held on 13 January drew only 60 participants, an impressive 216
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    • 708 10 UNION MEMBERSHIP HELPS YOU SURVIVE IN SO MANY WAYS. Union Membership Our NTUCJobLinkCentreis Q shinir|fl«^mpie The Union and The Importance For those of you who have never joined o union, of our commitment to genuine employment assistance, Q f FU n the first question you're most likely to ask is
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    • 939 11 Shelter from the storm Joining a union offers you more than just protection i^^^ Whal can the Union do for you? In a more Recruiiment Campaign extravaganza on 2nd May Fair Price Outlets uncertain en\ ironmcnt, Union Membership is "'i>l)2, outside the OUB Centre at Raffles Place, Blklo7 Tampines Whitesands
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    • 640 12 |(J^ Sign up now for one or more courses conducted by I the NTUC Skills Development Department and ride into a better tomorrow. These courses are highly subsidised for union members. ■IT Courses at NTUC Computer Business Courses Training Centre Improve and certify your office/ Ride the I.T. wave! Sign
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  • LETTERS
    • 378 14  -  Vivien Tan I REFER to Ms Lee Mui Lin's letter, "A crying need" (Today, April 17). I agree with her that the Baby Bonus Scheme does not address the fundamental issues, the most important of
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    • 357 14  -  Kathleen Kwan For such a sum, how can we expect a Mary Poppins? I REFER to Ms Audrey Perera's article, "Of women, maids and systems" (Today, April 29). Women often impose high expectations on themselves, their family members and their domestic help, and this leads to
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    • 178 14  -  Tan Kok Tim WE have been told that the GST might be increased from three per cent to five per cent. We expect the change to be announced on Budget Day this Friday. When the GST was introduced six years ago, the
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    • 349 14  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms) WE refer to Mr Steven Neo's letter, "Is ERP the only way to alleviate congestion" (Today, April 18). Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) is part of our overall policy to provide Singaporeans with an efficient land transport
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    • 361 15 Union Members, Time to pack your bags! Whether if s a weekend by the sea or a nice drive around Malaysia, SLF has the perfect getaway for you. SLF Holiday Facilities Rental Rates Resort Guest Remarks Per Unit Per Night Golfing Charges (Green Fees/ Buggy/ Caddie) B Peak (S'pore Off
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    • 826 16 4fc The NTUC Income Summit Club (ISC) recognises 'M\l''W-\^'■ rjjmisty- '■■'.:.,..:;i^l\-''■ i professionals who have achieved sales and service :^:r flifpliMj *-D£ Ay excellence. The 788 members serve their clients with ■If* >- M -w a high standard of ethics, service and care. They V ,::;H; r M ..i represent
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 228 18 Channel NewsAsia Delay in supply of sand from Indonesia hits SembCorp project SEMBCORP Industries has warned that its engineering and construction arm is suffering from recent unforeseen delays in the supply of sand from Indonesia. In particular, SembCorp Engineers and Constructors is struggling to complete a
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    • 135 18 -AFP BAD credit card debts written off by Singapore banks rose 59.3 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier to $23.9 million, data showed yesterday. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said that, for the month of March alone, bad credit card
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    • Market Watch
      • 139 18 THE Singapore bourse got off to a shaky start yesterday after Wall Street closed in the red once more on credit jitters with some key indices putting in a sixth consecutive loss. Some institutional interest pushed the key index 12,11 points higher to close at 1725.37. Market participation slowly
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      • 51 18 Index Valve Change ftj Nikkei 225 Kong Seng J.l: Ok!in(ilie; Foiwan Wfd *****.51 *****.58 3299.50 6065.73 -48.85 136.09 -4.70 139.36 ,42 +1.20 ,14 -2.25 Karen Camp 342.34 +3.83 +.46 SET Index 371.42 +.41 +.11 Jakarta Co-in 534.06 +8.20 +1.56 Phils Camp ibeiuen B 1346.09 223.68 +31.08 ,9B +2.36
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      • 36 18 US$ 0.5522 UK 0.3786 Yen 70.851 HK$ 4.3070 m 2.0985 Euro 0.6121 Rupiah 5,152.3 Baht 23.867 Peso 27.970 A$ 1.0282 Indian Rs 27.034 Won 711.82 C$ 0.8654 Yuon 4.5709 HZ$ 1.2364 NT$ 19.174
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      • 19 18 Gold lE$/« 309.500 Silver uss/oz 4.555 Plolinumuss/« 534.000 r-:i.l.!n:r i-.. 121.25 Pah Oil RM/ionne 1210 BrenUrude usJ/W 26,50
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      • 5 18 Straits Times Index TO-Day Chart
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      • 55 18 By volume April 30 '000 QianHu 71,966 Doyen 32,689 Higibntl 20,092 ipco 16,201 Integra 12,196 By 5 April 30 Value DBS 56,850,300 Chartered 43,504,115 QianHu 40,231,280 DOB 31,079,462 Doyen 27,654,300 '000 Chartered 9,564 SembCorp 8,099 WH 7,953 Porkwny 7,720 Ellipsiz 7,359 Value SIA 21,672,310 KepCor 19,392,120 Venture
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      • 75 18 Sy$ April 30 Close (hung* DKBl<6%NCK10 102.000 +0.501 5PH 100 22.500 +0.40! DBS 14.000 +0.301 5PH 22.500 +0.301 GrearEast 11.300 +0.301 OCBC 13.000 +0.201 STIETF100 17.250 +0.171 Shnng isio 2kHKS 7.150 +0.151 QionHu 0.635 +0.131 Irnrtspac 1.540 +0.12I jy percentage April 30 3innHu Close Cknge 0.635 +25.743
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      • 85 18 Bloomberg )y$ tyril 3D /eniuie Close Chung. 17.000 4201 jsttlive 50 21.300 -0.101 low Par 4.320 -0.081 iembCoff 1.570 -0.061 1PB Breweries 5.200 -0.051 ttJ 0.545 -0.04: 3 0.805 -0.03! fCIL 3k HKS 1.300 -0.021 Sousleod 0.350 -0.021 :sc 4.820 0.021 \y percentage ip-1 30 :SCWO5O«7 Close
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    • 448 19  -  Vasii Menon Unit trusts in its investment scheme tend to perform better byj UNIT trusts that are included in the CPF Investment Scheme did well in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released yesterday by Mercer Investment Consulting. Of the 179 CPF
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    • 279 19  -  Val Chua CAN Singapore ever have a home-grown brand as highly-successful as Coca-Cola? That's a question folks at IE Singapore (formerly TDB) have been asking themselves. To find out exactly where Singapore brands stand, it will conduct a study and ranking of
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    • 531 20  -  Val Chua Customers can opt out of scheme but could find getting credit harder by val@newstoday.com.sg COME September, all customers' payment information will be made available to banks through a database library. This consumer credit bureau, Singapore's first, will give member banks and credit card companies
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    • 240 20 Bloomberg NEPTUNE Orient Lines, which operates the world's sixth-largest liner fleet, said a unit will pay US$lB million ($32.6 million) for MTL Petrolink Corp, which provides crude oil transport services in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. American Eagle Tankers Inc
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    • Corporate Briefs
      • 61 20 HEALTHCARE lifestyle product retailer Osim has reported a 23 per cent rise in first quarter profits to $3.2 million, thanks to higher sales in all its key markets. Malaysia, in particular, recorded a whopping 131 per cent growth in turnover. Osim says that it is on
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      • 58 20 FEDERAL International has set up a South Korean subsidiary to trade and procure specialised valves and other flowline control products. Federal has operations in United Kingdom, United States, India, Thailand, China and Indonesia, apart from Singapore. Federal said this investment may not have any material impact on
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    • 199 20 AFP HONG KONG The Hong Kong Government said yesterday that it booked a deficit of HK563.3 billion ($14.7 billion) for the year ending March. The government said in a statement releasing its provisional financial results for the period that expenditure was HK5238.9 billion, while revenues
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    • 245 20  -  Tan Hui Leng by huileng@newstoday.com.sg GIVE consumers a reason to spend money at your retail outlet even during a downturn, said Mr Loh Kok Choy, a general manager at the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING Singapore). "If we recapture this
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    • Article, Illustration
      784 22  -  Lee Yew Meng What role will NTUC ChoiceHomes have in a stable property market? by yewme ng@newstod ay. com. sg WHEN NTUC ChoiceHomes successfully bid for its latest condo site in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, it raised eyebrows with its top bid of $184 million. At the
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    • 398 22  -  Chan Chao Peh by ch aopeh newstoday. com. sg THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is offering a recreational site at Fairy Point Hill, which analysts say may attract bids from smaller private developers but not the big boys. Situated west of the Changi Village area, the
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    • 94 22 -AFP BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday he will consider next week whether to sign a controversial billiondollar gas pipeline linking southern Thailand with a gas field being jointly developed with Malaysia. Mr Thaksin said he had received reports reviewing the much-delayed cross-border project and
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    • 472 23 Bloomberg GM, partners to buy the company for $2b SEOUL General Motors Corp (GM) and its partners agreed to buy Daewoo Motor Co for US$l.l7 billion ($2.12 billion) in cash and assumed debt, a move investors said is the first of many steps needed to revive the bankrupt
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    • 167 23 Channel NewsAsia SMALL and medium sized enterprises had their say at a feedback unit session yesterday. Topping their concerns are the lack of financing, overregulation and their small market share. Mr Kwek Theng Swee, chairperson of the SME Feedback Group said: "Most of
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    • 2522 26 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Uli prices are indicative) Enquiries: Coil B5? 2973-6600 E-mail lipper.osio@reulers.com FundNnme NAV/Bld Prite Oiler Price Hariioa US Equity [USD) 0.4(9 142( I.. >i JM-- 0.511 B.548 Soyers Global Tiul Fund 0.B!) O.ffl ice'In'.Fund 0493 0.511 :::!japenFaad 0.731 0.775 t:;ea Faad 1.(51 1,78 Smn 'Inlaysia Fund Mi] 1.012
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    • 70 26 Bloomberg JAKARTA Commerce AssetHoldings Bhd, Malaysia's number two bank, is bidding for PT Bank Niaga with Mr Robby Djohan, who ran the Indonesian bank from 1984 to 1994. Commerce is bidding with Mr Djohan's Asia Fund, said a former official of the state-run agency
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    • 449 26  -  Francis Kan But it will take time, says NTUC Income chief by francis@newstoday.coin.sg IT will take roughly five years before ElderShield, a disability insurance scheme for the elderly, takes off here. This is the assessment of Mr Tan Kin Lian (picture), chief executive officer of NTUC Income,
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    • 280 27 Bloomberg ST Assembly Test Services Ltd (STATS), whose stock is the fourth-best performer on the Straits Times Index this year, probably had a wider loss for the first quarter as sales of chip-testing services fell, analysts said. Five
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    • 401 27 AFP BANGKOK Thai Airways International chairman Virabongsa Ramangkula has agreed to quit to avert the threat of a strike by pilots at the troubled national carrier, government officials and pilots said yesterday. The Transport and Communication Ministry's Permanent Secretary,
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    • 454 27 JRHt We invite you *3?tSv to join us Workshop 1 "Eating your way to a Healthy Life" Workshop S Tackling Stroke and Hypertension" English session :11May2002 (Toa Payoh East CQ English session :29June2002 (Fuchun CC) Mandarin session :18 May 2002 (Marsiling CQ Mandarin session 8 June 2002 (Fuchun CC) Time
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 330 28 Two million die from occupational injuries yearly GENEVA As workers around the world prepare to mark the day specially dedicated to them, here's a sombre reminder: Work kills more people than alcohol, drugs and warfare together do each year. Some two million workers lose their lives annually
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    • 179 28 AFP JAKARTA "Ninja-style" intruders were spotted making a comeback to the religiously-divided Indonesian city of Ambon as Muslims and Christians remained on high alert after Sunday's killings of 13 Christians. "Ninjas wearing all black were seen in at least three Christian areas. Residents chased
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    • 210 28 -AFP SYDNEY Australia's medical services were thrown into disarray yesterday following the collapse of the country's biggest health insurer, United Medical Protection (UMP). Doctors across the country cancelled high-risk but non-urgent operations on private patients out of fear that they could be forced into bankruptcy without
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    • 123 28 THIS intense 41k focus on Hu's personal!- W ty doesn't f make sense. How much can an individual really make a difference within the ruling Chinese Communist Party? Why do we so often make the mistake of over-personal-ising Chinese politics, exaggerating the importance of a
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    • 165 28 AFP JAKARTA The lawyer who was accused of giving bribes to three witnesses in the murder and illegal weapons trial of Tommy Suharto (picture, left) was yesterday cleared of the accusations. The head of the inquiry by the Indonesian Advocates and Lawyers Association, Mr Salikin,
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    • 169 28 TORONTO (Canada) Top Tamil actor Kamalahaasan was stopped from flying out of Toronto airport on Saturday because of his "Muslim-sound-ing" name. He is seeking the help of the Indian Embassy in Toronto. Kamalahaasan was also sporting a beard when he was stopped at Toronto from
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    • 354 30 Reuters Europe debates two cases of euthanasia LONDON The contrasting cases of two British women who sought the right to die has highlighted the legal and ethical debate over the emotive issue of caring for people who do not want to live. In the first case, the European
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    • 178 30 Reuters WASHINGTON The US government's plan to significantly reduce the number of reservists and National Guard troops on active duty has met with objection from the Democrats. They accused the White House Budget Office of undercutting the Defence Department at a time when more active reservists
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    • 260 30 Agencies BEIJING Japan and North Korea struck some accords yesterday on sensitive humanitarian issues after their first bilateral talks in over two years. In one of the deals, Pyongyang has agreed to investigate the whereabouts of Japanese nationals allegedly kidnapped by North Korean agents, according to
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    • 137 30 Reuters WASHINGTON The head of a joint congressional investigation into the failure of US intelligence agencies to detect the plot that led to the Sept 11 attacks has resigned, government sources said. The resignation of Mr Britt Snider, a retired inspector-general at the Central Intelligence Agency
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    • 106 30 AFP WASHINGTON The Aegis destroyer will eventually be replaced by a new generation of warships known as the DD(X) destroyer. The US Navy on Monday awarded the almost US$3 billion ($5.4 billion) contract to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, whose proposal included space in the aft section
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    • 547 31 Quality, Service and Value. 1 I Serving the Community V W At the heart of the NTUC Healthcare philosophy is a strong commitment to contribute to the progress of Singapore's economic and social development, and to provide affordable quality healthcare services and products. NTUC HEALTHCARE ln 2001r announced a $1m
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1020 32  -  Matthias Yao t i S'pore fell from 2nd to sth in world economy rankings. What does this mean? ON Monday, Switzerland's International Institute for Management Development (IMD) released its ranking of the world's economies for 2002, The United States continues to be number one in competitiveness this
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    • 613 33  -  Leoiif* Phei Phei NTUC innovative centres for the elderly offer relief for families who need help THE answer to how Singapore can take care of its burgeoning ageing population could very well lie in elderly day-care centres. By 2030, one-fifth of Singapore's population will be over
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    • 732 34  -  Low Ting Bee Couples should communicate so that they can resolve areas of financial incompatibility WHAT is your financial personality? Like our attitudes to family and friendship, our money values do not develop overnight. How we view money depends on how we were nurtured and what
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    • 316 34  -  Vasu Menon kL ASIAN stock markets are taking a breather after rallying strongly since September. Despite this, a recent Dow Jones poll showed that most fund managers have turned more bullish on Asia in April compared with previous months. South Korea remained the favourite with
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    • 126 34 How does Ms Laletha Nithyanandan, managing director of Business Trends, value and manage money both in her business and persona! life? Does she agree that the Singapore women tend to get into the squirrel trap? And what is a squirrel trap? Come and hear her as she recounts her experiences
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    • 576 35  -  Tan Hui Leng There's no need for a Department of Enjoyment It's already here by huileng@newstod ay. com. sg WHEN Parliament met a few weeks ago, the MP for Holland-Bukit Panjang GRC, Dr Teo Ho Pin, proposed the setting up of a Department of Enjoyment
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    • 387 35  - Promoting the spirit of learning the way of celebrity deejays EHsa Chia by elisa@newstoday.com.sg A S part of MediaCorp Radio's XiLifelong Learning campaign which was launched recently, 11 deejays have been singled out to take on the titles of celebrity learning ambassador. They will promote the spirit of learning among
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    • 300 36 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD MGM has teamed up with Bruce Willis' production company to sign a first-look deal for new movie and TV projects from comicbook king Stan Lee's new company, POW! Entertainment. Cheyenne Enterprises, which Willis runs with Arnold Rifkin, will develop the projects in
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    • 680 36  -  Bob Tourtellotte Variety After 15 years, Spider-Man gets his big screen debut by_ THIS Friday, Spider-Man finally makes his film debut, to wow cinema-goers as he has been thrilling Marvel comic fans for the past 40 years. To hear its film-makers tell it, getting the new Spider-Man
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    • 183 37 Reuters/Variety LONDON Britain's state-backed Film Council will spend £12.5 million ($33.7 million) over the next four years to create a "virtual circuit" of cinema screens dedicated to arthouse movies. The circuit will be centrally booked and include up to 150 cinemas around the country,
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    • 392 37 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD The Scorpion King (Universal) stung a pair of wide openers in its second weekend, extending its box office reign with a US$lB.O4 million ($30.75 million) gross last weekend. Scorpion pushed aside romancer Life or Something Like It (20th Century Fox/New Regency), which opened
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    • 565 39  -  Low Shi Ping Can poor Igor break it and set himself free? by ship ing@ newstoday. com. sg WE all know about Count Dracula, the blood-sucking vampire. But how many of us have heard of his curse? Head on down to Igor's The Main Event's The
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    • 473 39 FAMILY GATHERING CONCERT CUM CARNIVAL Take your family to NTUC Lifestyle World Downtown East today for a full day of fun and activities. Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, will be the guest-of-honour at the event. Rub shoulders with MediaCorp artistes Jack Neo, Gurmit Singh,Tay Ping Hui, Mark Lee,
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    • 667 42  -  Stanley Ho by Stanley @newstod ay. com. sg THEY are simple, everyday, ordinary folk. But a sense of adventure, born from a desire to explore, has now brought them together. The goal? To conquer one of the world's most challenging treks in 25 days. That
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    • 58 42 Apart from trekking from Khata to Kangshung Valley, Union Quest 2002 members will also stop by some villages to undertake community work. They will render assistance in the refurbishment of furniture and provide educational materials to schools. They will also be giving blankets to the
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    • 375 42  -  Kelvin Phang by ke lvin newstoday. com. sg ALL Singapore athletes should "play a bigger role" in future by forming an "Athletes Association." That was the message sent out by Singapore National Olympic Council President EAdm Teo Chee
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    • 449 43  -  Stanley Ho by s tanley® news today, com. sg LIKE a battered, bruised boxer, Sembawang Rangers was pummelled for most of its NTUC Income Singapore Cup match last night. Woodlands Wellington tormented its rival in the northern derby, leading 3-1 going into the 88th minute at Yishun Stadium.
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    • 65 43 In its first competitive test since last year's Kuala Lumpur SEA Games, the newly assembled Singapore Under-23 team was humbled 2-0 by Home United at Bishan Stadium last night. In the game, which saw the Protectors field second stringers, Yazid Sawal and Samawira Basri scored one
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    • 317 43  -  Kelvin Phang THANKS to a group of companies chipping in, the Singapore Golf Circuit (SGC) will hold its second tournament of the year at Laguna National Golf and Country Club from May 8-10. The Singapore IT Federation (SITF) Golf Masters 2002 tournament
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    • 550 44  -  Jose Raymond Proposed tournament could spark local football fever again Today EXCLUSIVE by j ose ©news today.com.sg TOP S-League and Malaysian League teams could well square off against each other in a football tournament next year. The idea was mooted in a meeting between S-League chairman, Major
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    • 93 44 THE former president of the SEA Games federation, Tunku Imran Ibni Jaffar, has warned Singapore against hosting a 'mini-SEA Games' at the same time Vietnam will be hosting the 2003 event. While Malaysia's Olympic chief encouraged the idea of sports not represented in Vietnam holding a separate
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    • 420 44  -  Stanley Ho by stan ley @news tod ay.com. sg HOME UNITED started the ball rolling last year. By the end of 2002, Sembawang Rangers and Tanjong Pagar United will be the other two S-League clubs to be part of Central Singapore Community Development
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    • 337 45 -AFP SALT LAKE CITY Peja Stojakovic scored 30 points and Vlade Divac hit a rare three-pointer with 89 seconds left as the Sacramento Kings advanced to the National Basketball Association's Western Conference semi-finals after yesterday's 91-86 victory over the Utah Jazz. "It was a lucky
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    • 242 45 AFP NEW DELHI An unprecedented security blanket will be thrown around superstar batsman Sachin Tendulkar and the rest of the Indian cricket team during their upcoming tour of England, officials said yesterday. Fears of crowd trouble in the unfenced English grounds and alleged threats by
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    • 545 46 -AFP Champions League semi-final Real Madrid v Barcelona Live, tomorrow on Ck 5 23, @2.30am MADRID The cheek eh! Barcelona is boasting that it can still make the European Champions League final despite its emphatic 2-0 defeat by bitter rival Real Madrid in last week's semi-final
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    • 698 47 Agencies Arsenal boss wants to win title on arch-enemy's ground English Premier League BoltonO Arsenal 2 Draw next week and Gunners are champs LONDON Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has targeted a win at Manchester United to clinch the title as soon next Wednesday, May 8. Alex
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    • 322 47 LIVERPOOL Michael Owen insisted yesterday it is only a matter of time before Liverpool wins the Premiership title. The England striker believes the young Airfield squad promises a bright future. "It was disappointing losing to Tottenham because we had been on such
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    • 77 47 PARIS French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen warned France's football superstar Zinedine Zidane yesterday not to interfere in the presidential election, which reaches its climax this Sunday. Zidane, whose father is Algerian, claimed that the National Front did not represent the traditional French values. Le Pen attacked the
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    • 58 47 BRIGHTON Local police launched an investigation yesterday over allegations Peter Taylor attacked a photographer. The alleged incident came just hours before it was announced the former England Under-21 boss had surprisingly stepped down as manager of Second Division champion Brighton because of a disagreement with the board over
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    • 88 47 BANGKOK Thai breweries are gearing up for a 15 per cent increase in beer production ahead of football's World Cup finals, which kicks off at the end of May. Bar owners said they were also looking forward to a surge in trade during the month-long football extravaganza, which
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    • 69 47 NEW YORK Topless photos of Anna Kournikova appearing in the June issue of Penthouse magazine, which hit the newsstands yesterday, are fake, according to representatives of the Russian tennis player. Kournikova's agent David Schwab said that the pictures, which are part of a 10-page spread, were not
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