Today, 10 July 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • 6 1 TODAY Wednesday •July 10,2002 I M!TA(P)O63/11/200l
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  • 381 1  -  K>«# S/m Chiang Come of jtk J^them T (younger X people) attend these shows to be seen. Arts fan Sabrina Goh. A SELF-DEPRECATING oneliner. A scathing observation aimed at our society or system. Singaporeans are fond of underselling themselves, especially when it comes to the arts
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  • 1107 1  -  Ng Boon Yian Val Chua by and b oonyian@newstoday. com. sg ONE does not recall a day in recent times when Singapore's Parliament crackled with so much emotion, when strong words poured out and when so many PAP backbenchers closed ranks to criticise their own Government on
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    • 82 1 For Financial Update*, key i-ClOiJ t For Daily HowM=ope. key i; i« IS Forfiin«.lwvl:.j4|j;|nt3 For latating neatby ftm-nl^kßy^ieM^^J ShgTtl Ths SingTel Touching lives Fund Is in aid of lass privilaged \«f"" TOUCHING children. Call ISW-1B Ml or key I; B BililL-> torai'e LIVES FUND aSS donalion uiday. SingTel will marcfi
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 123 2 THE decision on whether SingTel will be allowed to raise local fixed line telephone charges for the first time since 1991 will be made by September. Mr David Lim, the Acting Minister of Information, Communications and the Arts, revealed this in Parliament yesterday in response to
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    • 349 3 Agencies Bush gets tough with corporate crooks NEW YORK A tougher corporate watchdog and increased jail time for corporate fraud are on the plate for errant executives who try to cook their books as their Enron and WorldCom counterparts had. In a bid to clean up and restore
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    • 65 3 AFP photo KAOHSIUNG One hundred and thir-ty-two Chinese fishermen were airlifted from the burning vessel, Yuansken 2, during a tropical storm. One fisherman is missing. The group of fishermen huddled near the bow of the boat while fires raged on in the rest of the
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    • 166 3 AFP MANILA The Philippine military arrested a Filipino suspected of supplying explosives for an alleged plot by the Jemaah Islamiya QI) extremist group to stage attacks in Singapore. Hussain Ramos, also known as Ali Ramos or Abu Ali, was arrested on July 3 in the southern
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    • 330 4 Bloomberg MAS likely to reveal currency strategy THE Singapore dollar's threemonth rally may be at its end as the economy takes longer than expected to emerge from the recession and the central bank tries to halt its gains to shore up exports, traders say. The Monetary Authority
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    • 191 4  -  Lee Cking Wern ENERGY-INTENSIVE industries can now save up to 30 per cent or more on their energy costs by joining the Energy Audit Scheme. The scheme, which is voluntary, was officially launched yesterday by Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Minister of State for Health
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    • 149 4 Channel NewsAsia THAILAND will soon hold the world's largest Aids vaccine trial, which if successful, could mean a medical breakthrough by 2005. The trial and study is expected to last five years and is the third phase of testing a two-drug combination. The Thai authorities
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    • 236 4  -  Elaine Quek THE judge presiding over the Raffles Town. Club (RTC) suit has reserved his judgement on whether to dismiss the case. Yesterday, RTC's lawyer, Senior Counsel K Shanmugam said he took "strong exception" to Senior Counsel Molly Lim contradicting herself. Ms Lim
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    • 291 3 rGAIMSI HH| A LJL AI miiMm^^ I Hartford I University Fair 20 July 2002 (Sat) lpm-Spm Marriott Hotel Legacy Suite Level 2 Featuring a wide array of quality Diploma Bachelorls, Master's and Doctorate programmes that are fully accredited by prestigious world-renowned associations. FREE course consultations with our lecturers, alumni and
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    • 258 5 Touch the lives of children in need. I SingTel Touching Lives Fund B^B^^B Ew nsisyo autisiii urtiioy could come: rroni single-|jsn;!itTd;iiiiios But tike any ot us. tligsg V:~Sfe,. J ■K.:';iJ| cliilrlren also have hopes and dreams However, to fulfil their aspirations they need "&^"h«^_ S^^d. U mOBBm. j& support from
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  • HOME NEWS
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      482 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Far East Plaza looks at life after Metro by hui le ng@ newstod ay. en m. sg FOR 19 years, the Metro department store (picture) was the anchor tenant that "held together" the twin towers of the Far East Plaza shopping centre. Last month, the
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    • 69 6 THE National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) will launch its first China Travel Fair this weekend. Highlights include cultural performances by troupes from Xinjiang and Tibet. It will be held at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The fair will be open from 10am
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  • LETTERS
    • 108 8  -  Ananda Perera TEMASEK executive director Ms Ho Ching has said that the bomb-shelter requirement in HDB flats creates a lot of design inefficiencies and increases the cost to the economy. Naturally, the question of security arises for the majority of Singaporeans who live
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    • 311 8  -  Susan Tea Rejection by university goes against PM Gobi's flexi-work push for women I APPLAUD Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong for saying that flexible work practices are a competitive strategy to tap female talent in Singapore, where manpower is scarce. He was speaking at the
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    • 346 8 WE refer to the suggestion by Mr Tan Kok Tim in his letter, "Oh, for a spot of football: Why not open school fields to the public?" (Today, July 3). We would like to thank Mr Tan for his suggestion
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 293 10 Bloomberg Elan stock price plummets over probe DUBLIN Elan Corp CEO and chairman Donal Geaney stepped down after a US probe of accounting procedures at Ireland's biggest drug-maker caused its shares to tumble 95 per cent this year. Vice-chairman Thomas Lynch also quit, Elan said in a statement.
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    • 181 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines said it has no plans to sell more shares in catering and engineering units that it listed in 2000, ignoring pleas from investors. Asia's most profitable airline owns 87 per cent stakes in its catering arm, Singapore Airport Terminal Services, and
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    • Market Watch
      • 150 10 SINGAPORE shares opened yesterday with surprising strength despite damaging news overnight from drug-maker Merck that took major US indices lower. The STI firmed up 24 points to 1,645. Market breadth was fairly mixed, with a fair amount of profit-taking being absorbed by new entrants who believed it could head
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      • 54 10 Index Valve Change Pi: Nikkei 275 *****.25 +191.05 +1.77 Hong Seng 411 Ordinaries laiwnnWtd *****.15 3205.40 5383.52 +39.70 +24.30 10.66 +0.37 +0.76 +0.20 Korea Comp JET Index 801.99 403.2! +18.64 +4.47 +1.38 +1.12 Jakarta Comp 480.31 -4.31 -0.89 Phils Comp ShEJizen E Mumbai 1138.43 252.46 3353.SS +17.20 -7.11
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      • 36 10 US$ 0.5698 UK£ 0.3684 Yen 67.301 HK$ 4.4325 RM 2.1595 Euro 0.5743 Rupiah 5063.4 Bahl 23.441 Peso ***** A$ 1.0011 Indian Rs 27.733 Won 671.88 C$ 0.8651 Yuon 4.6999 NZ$ 1.1562 UTS 18.965
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      • 23 10 Gold ust/oi 312.50 Silver ifss/ m 4.980 Platinum uss/k 513.60 Rubber »iM B 153.25 J;iln oil ■:'.>. ».i-i 1335 Brent crude ust/Wrsi 25.85
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      • 5 10 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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      • 54 10 By volume Jul 10 '000 BlLlntl 26,127 WesTedi 22,397 DalatrfltlSS 16,963 NWTech 16,762 SingTel 15,327 By value Jul 10 Venture 38,976,215 DBS 31,787,590 Chfiered 34,736,800 Creative 50 24,977,790 DtrtacrrtUSS 23,267,860 '000 Tefkwah 12,556 I-Comm 9,758 KIW 9,287 Chartered 9,237 Goldtron 9,040 SingTel 22,827,640 SIA 22,532,808 UOE 22,375,450
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      • 77 10 By$ JullO Close Chcngi Creative 50 1 8.900 +0.601 Venture 15.100 +0.5OI 51AM 13.300 +0.5O1 5PH 21.000 +0.4OI 5PH 100 21.000 +MOI HOB 13.800 +0.3OI SIA 13.500 +0.3OI STIEIF100 14.6(0 +0.271 .Ml 40QUS3 STIETF100IOFV 6.100 +0.551 16.59? +0.231 jV percentage lullO dose (hang. \fmstrang W01O520 0.020+100.001 to!
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      • 76 10 JullO (lose Changi DBS 13.300 -0.101 FupOffs fepid FFood 0.230 -0.071 0.350 -0.051 1.560 -0.041 Iransmrco 0.890 -0.031 Noble im -0.031 LKT 0.080 -D.03I BILInll 0.610 -O.fl![ liWIeth 0.355 -0.021 InlRoller 0.200 -0.021 By percentage JtillO Uff Close Change 0.080 27.273 Fuji 0(1; Globa W04O826 Aipinl 0.23(1
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    • 274 11 Bloomberg Accelerated growth due to export recovery MANILA South Korea, Thailand and other Asian economies will rebound faster this year than forecast, lifted by a revival in exports and strong consumer demand, the Asian Development Bank said. South Korea's economy is expected to expand 6.1
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    • 182 11  -  Chan Chao Peh LOCAL defence conglomerate, ST Engineering said that profit before tax for the quarter ended June 30 fell 4.1 per cent to $109.8 million, which is within market expectations. Revenue however rose seven per cent to
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    • 50 11 BUKIT Sembawang Estates will release 20 units at the soft launch of Phase 111 of Mimosa Terrace today (picture). This phase comprises 40 three-storey intermediate and corner terraces. DTZ DebenhamTie Leung, the project's sole marketing agent said the units are priced from $1,298 million.
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    • 177 11 STARHUB and Sierra Wireless will launch a wireless personal computer card modem which allows users constant access to their office via the StarHub mobile network. The credit-card sized AirCard 750 is compatible with the card slots found in most notebook computers and personal digital assistants. The
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    • 159 12 Bloomberg NEW YORK Merck Co plans to go forward with the twice-delayed sale of shares in its Medco Health Solutions unit after disclosing that the business had booked revenue it never received. Merck shares fell 2.2 per cent after Medco, a Merck business that administers
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    • Corporate Briefs
      • 45 12 INVESTOR interest in the IPO of Capital Mall Trust (CMT) appears to be picking up. A broking source said the price range has tightened to $0.94 $0.96 because of good demand. The actual price will be decided on Thursday.
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      • 138 12 THE initial public offer of the information technology firm, aspnetcentre, has been nine times oversubscribed. The company issued 67 million shares at 20 cents apiece last week for a mainboard listing. A total of 20 million shares were for the public, while the rest were placed
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    • 1969 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquired! BS2 2973 S6OO E-mtii! lippEr.mio@reuiers.tom IMS Fund Nik M»¥/B[d Ofler Price Prte Jn-J &7 4 art een Sc -Asmn MigA TitH Fd 1.164 U {jj A m nn Se -China C pWunil ti FJ 1 .OH 1.19 ill A dun Se U(Tins Onp Oil) ii' .in
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    • 896 13  -  Val Chua Today art by Do honorary doctorates from unrecognised universities help your business? by val ©news tod ay.com. sg DOES adding the honorary title "Dr" to an entrepreneur's name add value to his or her company and help its business expand? Or is it purely
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 261 14 AFP Plan to draw immigrants away from crowded city SYDNEY In a bid to ease population congestion in Sydney, the government has unveiled a plan of tax breaks and cheaper home loans to lure immigrants away to other Australian cities and regional centres. New South Wales Premier Bob
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    • 172 14 Agencies SEOUL The hostile rhetoric emerging from North Korea in recent days has put paid to any hopes that South Korea's tattered Sunshine Policy could somehow be revived. The unpredictable communist regime North Korea yesterday ratcheted up its verbal attacks on South Korea by demanding that a 50-year-old
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    • 159 14 Agencies KARACHI The militants behind the suicide bomb attacks on the US consulate and French naval engineers in Pakistan are believed to be members of an erstwhile unknown underground organisation. The Pakistani authorities became aware of the existence of Harkat-ul Mujahedin-al-Alaami only after three of its alleged
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    • 99 14 THAILAND An investigation has been launched following a claim from an HIV-infected man who used and distributed the Vl-Immunitor drug once hailed as a cure for HIV/Aids that the drug is a scam. The man, who declined to be named, said that after about seven months
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    • 97 14 JAPAN Playing video games on a prolonged basis could cause people to lose concentration, get angry easily and have trouble associating with others, reported Mainichi Shimbun. In a study that analysed the brainwaves of 240 people aged between six and 29, Professor Akio Mori, from
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    • 370 15 Reuters LA police caught on video beating black teen, raises spectre of 1991 Rodney King incident LOS ANGELES Images of the incendiary 1991 beating of Rodney King was back to haunt the nation after a video tape shot by a tourist showed a white police officer
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    • 188 15 AFP MANILA Some 200 Roman Catholic priests in the Philippines have been investigated for sexual misconduct over the past 20 years, a church leader said as the clergy apologised for the abuses. Some of these have been dismissed while most resigned from the church voluntarily,
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    • 120 15 TOKYO Introduced during the Meiji Era from 1868 to 1912 as a source of firewood, the toog is now posing a threat to the inhabitants of the Ogasawara Islands, some I,oookm south of Tokyo. The toog is a common South-east Asian evergreen tree which can grow
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    • 118 15 AFP BEIJING There's a special campaign under way this summer in the capital of China to get its men to keep their tops on. The Beijing Youth Daily is offering a free T-shirt and 100 yuan ($21.30) to readers who provide information of where
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1179 18  -  Arun Mahizhnan Will it prepare our media giants for the big fights with foreign media? by THE Singapore Government announced two important decisions on April 26 and June 9, 2000. The first announcement said the Singapore Press Holdings Group (SPH) had been awarded the country's second
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    • 293 18 -AFP JERUSALEM The chaotic manner in which Mr Yasser Arafat has tackled the purge of his much-criticised security forces may indicate the ageing leader is losing power, with the turmoil at the top playing into the hands of Israeli Prime
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    • 536 20 Reuters Talking points Wrong sperm? Wrong egg? Both? Mix-up throws lives of couples into chaos LONDON An historic legal battle is brewing in Britain following reports that a white couple had black twins as the result of a mistake during fertility treatment. The couple will be
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    • 381 20 AFP BARCELONA Denial, stigma and discrimination are three horsemen driving China, Indonesia and India towards a potential Aids apocalypse. The grim picture was highlighted during a world conference on Aids in this Spanish city. The three countries, which have large populations, "face one of the greatest
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  • YOURMONEY
    • 805 21  -  M P Dunleavey Here's how you can ferret out some fabulous freebies by SO, money's a little tight now. Okay, it's very tight. Not that you'd ever admit it. Scrimping isn't enough, budgeting won't cut it and you're too old to call the parents. (Besides, they
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    • 75 22 weeks 1 Minority Report 1 2 (1) The Eye [Mandarin) 2 3 (2) Bend It Like Beckham 2 4 (3) Bad Company 2 5 Musa: The Warrior NC-16 (Korean) 1 6 (4) ScoobyDoo 4 7 (7) Insomnia NC-16 2 8 (5) Windtalkers 3 9 rTu
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    • 118 22 North American Top 10 (J uly 5-7) weekend gross cumulative gross days 1 Men in Black II US$ 52.15m US$ 87.24m 5 2 (1) Mr Deeds US$ 18.41m US$ 73.61m 10 3 (3) Uto& Stitch Uss 12.64m USslo3.o2m 17 4 (2) Minority Report US$ 12.56m US$ 97.12m 17 5 O
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    • Article, Illustration
      425 22 Reuters/Variety MIB II storms the US over July 4 holiday HOLLYWOOD Men in Black II (Sony) was launched last Wednesday, on the eve of Independence Day in the United States, on a platform of 6,000 screens. By comparison, May saw Spider-Man debuting on 3,615 screens and Star
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    • 602 23 Reuters/Variety Sony set to gross what normally takes studios a year to do LOS ANGELES Aided by a webslinging superhero and alien-chasing government agents, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is poised this week to top US$l billion ($1.7 billion) in North American movie ticket sales for this year,
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    • 255 23 The king is dead THE career of former super agent Michael Ovitz is well and truly dead. Ovitz was once considered the most powerful man in Hollywood by various industry power-polls in the 1980s and 90s as the co-founder and head of Creative Artists Agency. The debacle that has Hollywood
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    • 107 23 IN WHAT could be a big blow to French independent film-makers, a long-standing ban on TV ads for movies in France may be lifted, reports Screen International According the British trade paper, the ban was supported by French film-makers who fear that American distributors, and slate
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1483 24 On TV Singapore Stories Sports X-Files Audrey Pauley Channel 5,10pm Film Art Une Femme Est 11 Meteor Garden Unlimited Vintent Ng and Monks'* brush with W| \A Une Femme Am Central, topm 49 fc thonnil i, lfliOpip Yap Hui Kim Channel NewsAsla, 8.30pm deatit in an autom°- f\ M Whom
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 413 25  -  Asif Ansar Relive the good old days of Abba, Queen and the Beatles by asif@newsto day. c om.sg TT7HEN a Beatles tune is played V V on the radio or a music video of Queen flashes on the television or when you are dancing to an Abba tune
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    • 709 27 AFP CHRISTCHURCH It's the question on everyone's lips, not only in New Zealand but around the world. After the naming of the All Black team to play Australia on Saturday, is this the end of Jonah Lomu? The gargantuan
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    • 295 27 THREE of Asia's best golfers will take on some internationally renowned golfers at the BMW Asian Open 2002 from Nov 21-24 at the Ta Shee Golf and Country Club in Taiwan. Korea's Charlie Wi, Indian Arjun Atwal and Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee, who all
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    • 472 29  -  Jose Raymond by jose@newstoday.com.sg GEYLANG United midfielder Mohd Noor Ali (picture) was a disappointed man after he was dropped from the national football team for the first time in five years yesterday. Ali was omitted from the squad that will travel to Pahang for
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