Today, 20 September 2002

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    • 419 3 Agencies Jailed terrorist reveals plot to attack Singapore MANILA A jailed Indonesian explosives expert has revealed details of a jihad (holy war) aimed at creating an Islamic state and a plot to bomb Singapore that underline the extent of terrorist networks in the region. Self-confessed Jemaah Islamyiah
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    • 49 3 -Jose Raymond POLICE recovered a severed left hand at Blk 665, Woodlands Ring Road at 7pm and rushed it to a hospital, where a 13-year-old boy was being treated for a severed hand. Doctors were reattaching the hand on the boy at press time. Police are investigating.
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    • 44 3 -AFP JERUSALEM Israel warned yesterday against a "major drive" by Palestinian militants after the second suicide bombing in as many days shattered a six-week lull. A suicide attack on a bus in central Tel Aviv killed five people and injured around 40.
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    • 135 3 Reuters JAKARTA Ministers from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia meeting here stressed the need for closer cooperation between the three countries on anti-terror efforts in the Straits of Malacca, "The issue of fighting piracy in the Straits of Malacca has to take on a new importance given the
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    • 72 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A ban on performing live in front of men has been slapped on female entertainers in the Malaysian state of Kelantan in a move to "cultivate modesty and high morals", a state spokesman said. The ban applies only to women above the age of
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    • 326 4  - When reality bites Tan Hui Leng Singaporeans realise the need to learn new skills and accept pay cuts OUT-OF-WORK Singaporeans are starting to face up to the reality that they will have to adjust, learn new skills and accept lower-paying jobs. As a result of this mindset change, nearly 18,000
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    • 272 4 DOMESTIC helpers have been acting as the "eyes and ears" of the police over the last year to prevent housebreaking in the Faber Hill estate where they worked, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said yesterday. They were briefed on crime prevention measures
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    • 66 4 The Commander of Ihe Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF), Major General Pehin Jaafar (picture, left), was conferred Singapore's highest military award, the Distinguished Service Order (Military), by President S R Nathan at an investiture ceremony at the Istana yesterday. The award was given to Gen
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    • 139 4 A THIRD petrol company ExxonMobil has raised its pump prices. In a statement, the company said the prices for its three grades of Synergy fuels will be increased by one to three cents per litre from today. The diesel at all of its 82 Esso and
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    • 162 6 Rosalyn Lim SOME Malay Muslim students here lack exposure to mathematics at an early age, while some of their pre-schools have "inappropriate mathematics curriculum and teaching methodology". These factors may cause these students to develop a phobia for the subject at a later age, according to
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    • 548 6  -  Joy Frances Corrupt practices investigators accused of bullying OFFICERS investigating an executive of Centrepoint Properties, who is on trial for corruption, threatened to take him, in handcuffs, to his office and his children's school, a court was told yesterday. The investigating officers said they would handcuff him outside
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    • 157 6  -  Toh Boon Ngee IF SINGAPORE wants to position itself as the venue of choice for international events, the country has to involve a network of players here, including sponsors, hotels, media, and the Government. "If you offer the best deal and the
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    • 318 8  -  Yak Chin Hua Unhealthy trend linking drop in birth rates to rise in fees A REASON given for the losses suffered by the XX Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) is that national birth rates had plunged from 47,000 in 1997 to 41,000 last year. This figure
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    • 183 10  -  SSLee THE matter of trust between Muslims and non-Muslims must be addressed, as noted in the report, "The JI threat" (Today, Sept 18). In the report, Mr Ridzuan Wu, chairman of the Centre for Contemporary Islamic Studies, was quoted as saying: "It is not as
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    • 334 10  -  Ritawillis Selamat After these new arrests of JI members I AM shocked at the recent arrests of 21 people who have been linked to terrorist activities, as noted in the report "Spores ring of terror widens" (Today, Sept 17). With all the detainees identified as Muslims, I wonder
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 346 12 Bloomberg Sovereign may build oil plant in N Korea SINGAPORE-BASED Sovereign Ventures is considering plans to build a power plant in North Korea, fuelling it with natural gas it expects to find there. Sovereign is the first foreign company to gain exploration rights from the communist state. The
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    • 259 12 AFP OSAKA The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will leave oil production unchanged at current levels but will hold an extraordinary meeting in December to re-assess demand and the political situation in Iraq. Algerian oil minister Chakib Khelil said Opec ministers plan
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    • 230 12  -  Chan Chao Peh EVEN with last year's unprecedented round of mergers and acquisitions which saw the five local banks becoming three Singapore's banks could not find a place among the top 20 biggest players in Asia. According to a ranking of the region's 300
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    • 442 14 THE latest privatisation deal involving the Singapore-listed I-Comm Technology and its Hong Kong parent company, IDT International, is leaving a sour taste in the mouths of minority shareholders here. They are unhappy that IDT is offering only 30 cents per share in cash to
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    • 211 14 Channel News Asia BUOYED by an increasingly optimistic rental outlook, property developers in Shanghai have resumed construction of office space, after leaving sites vacant for years. One such project is Capita Land's Raffles City project in Puxi, which is slated for completion by the end
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    • Article, Illustration
      338 18 Casabella offers three types of housing in Dist 10 CAPITALAND is set to launch its upmarket Casabella freehold project (picture) this weekend at an average price of $688 per sq ft. Twenty per cent of the units have already been taken up at an earlier preview. Located in
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    • 241 18 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesia may unveil the names of investors eyeing a major stake in international phone operator PT Indosat at the end of this month, a government source with knowledge of the deal said yesterday. Separately, state-run Indosat said it had no plans
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    • 257 21 Agencies C&C prices fall to six-month low SHARES of Cycle Carriage (C&C) fell six per cent yesterday on news that its Indonesian unit, PT Astra International, is considering raising up to US$lOO million ($177 million) through a rights issue. The amount would represent 12 to 14 per cent
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    • 213 21 MORE WORLDCOM WOES: Fallen US telecom giant World Com is preparing a new revision of its earnings that could add about US$2 billion ($3.5 billion) to already disclosed mis accounted funds, The Wall Street Journal said yesterday. The report, which cited "people close to the situation", said company
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    • Market Watch
      • 140 21 SHARE prices closed higher due to a late rally among selected blue chips, after spending most of a lacklustre trading session in the red. Dealers said the marginal rise in the Nasdaq futures index also helped to fuel the late gains. Still, investors preferred to wait on the sidelines
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      • 51 21 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 9669.62 +197.56 +2.09 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries faiwan Wld 9427.79 3044.10 4491.31 46.28 -26.60 +8.66 -0.49 -0.87 +0.19 Korea Comp JEF Index labia Comp 704.12 352.34 408.70 +0.25 ■166 ■10.42 +0.04 ■047 -2.49 Phils Comp ihenzen B 1149.03 234.98 -4.27 +6.11 -0.37
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      • 37 21 US$ 0.5649 UKI 0.3637 Yen 68.701 HK$ 4.4057 RM 2.1465 Euro 0.5757 Rupich 5088.3 Boht 24.283 Peso 29.539 A$ 1.0247 Indian Rs 27.346 Won 683.14 C$ 0.8884 Yuan 4.6752 Mi 1.1 896 mi 19.554
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      • 22 21 Gold USS/DI 321.800 Silver uss/o_ 4.640 Platinum ust/az 554.200 Rubber ienWk s 156.75 Palm ail m/mm 1362 Brent crude tisVkrml 28.03
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      • 5 21 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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      • 56 21 By volume Sept 19 '000 HWTech 20,097 CHiroyo 19,877 Links Is 14,074 Sing Tel 10,567 ttomm 9,94? '000 Federal 9,771 StarCrusUSS 9,708 Chartered 9,534 Beyonics 8,138 L&M 7,829 By value Sept 19 DBS 48,841,584 UOB 31,506,845 SIA 24,318,300 Veniure 23,811,617 SPH 22,952,112 CITYDEV 20,975,100 Create 50 16,710,847
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      • 69 21 1Y$ >ept 19 Close Chnnge JeaiivsiO 12.200 +0.500 >PH 2D.200 +0.400 >PH100 20.100 +0.400 ill 10.500 +O.30O >IA 200 10.500 +0.300 iukitSem 11.500 +0.200 IBS 12.500 +0.200 KBUKHR 104.600 +0.200 KBC ***** +0.100 By percentage Sept 19 Close Changi '*mbCorpuBeCW3022S 0.010+100.001 ChonnSHW*****0 0.120 +41.181 tatems 0.130 +30.001
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      • 78 21 Bloomberg iy$ iept 19 IITYDEV Close Change 5.200 -0.250 :sc 3.740 -0.240 feature 11.500 -0.200 :&N 7.750 -0.100 1taiPrime200USS 4.400 -0.100 JOB Ulgreen )elGro 500 12.700 -0.100 1.090 -0.060 1.700 -0.050 fetISS 1.990 -0.050 •untight 0.195 -0.045 By percentile Sept 19 PSL Sunllghl Pokko Sp HE Close
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 267 23 Reuters. WASHINGTON One way to avert war: Go into exile. So, if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein flees the country, the world will not have to witness a sequel to the 1991 Gulf War. That is the option United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (picture) has proposed during
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    • 100 23 -AFP SANAA Yemen said on Wednesday that it would launch a campaign to crack down on Al Qaeda fugitives in the country and has ruled out intervention by the United States. A Yemeni government official dismissed reports that US special forces may launch covert
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    • 100 23 -AFP PARIS More Australians and Britons committed suicide whenever Conservative governments in their respective countries were in power, according to a study published on Wednesday in a medical journal. The research teams from the University of Sydney and Bristol University found that suicide rates
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    • 344 25 Agencies KARACHI Pakistan has continued its crackdown on terrorists, detaining eight, including one suspected of masterminding a suicide car bombing which killed 11 French engineers. Some intelligence officials believe the group was also planning an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf during his visit to Karachi
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    • 170 26 TAIPEI Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! Taoyuan County bore witness to that saying on Monday as it introduced the "three nos" policy prohibiting women who staff betel-nut stands from exposing their breasts, bellies or buttocks. These betel-nut beauties, together with the Collective
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    • 350 26 WASHINGTON The greenlight has been given to a case alleging that Unocal Corp was complicit in human rights abuses in Myanmar, broadening the potential liability of US corporations for abuses overseas. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday reversed a Federal District Court decision to dismiss
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    • 128 26 Agencies SEOUL For the South Korean public, it is unthinkable for North Korea to apologise to Japan for kidnapping its citizens while refusing to settle similar issues with the South. So outraged were they that a group of 10 South Korean families protested at the Unification
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 698 28  -  Anil Bhatia THE threat of war in the Middle East looms even as Iraq has agreed to allow weapons inspectors into the country without conditions. Market analysts agree there could be frightful consequences especially on oil supplies and prices. Iraq has the second-largest oil reserves in the
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    • 487 30  -  Teo Siok Kuan Spotlight is on fibre optics at upcoming Asia-Pacific Furniture Fair A SKY above your head indoors and a wall you could walk through. These are possible with the manipulation of light using fibre optics. This medium, which is free from the
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    • 872 30 See well live better Alice gets her first pair of specs m I thought it was the sunlight reflecting off the blackboard which made it difficult for me to see what the teacher had P7 --"^■*Of it. written. But as time went by, I found myself squinting furiously and having
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    • 426 32  -  Yong Shu Chiang The Necessary Stage explores issues of space and closeness in cramped Singapore IN the classic, Rear Window, Jimmy Stewart observes his neighbours and sees, among others, a frustrated composer, a shapely dancer and the man who might have killed his wife. When Aziz
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    • 405 32 THE crimson cloth that lines the Peking opera stage seems to have special significance for Goh Siew Geok (picture). The artistic director of TAS Theatre named her latest offering, The Red Carpet, after it. She wrote and directed the theatric a 1-cum-o
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    • 158 33 -AFP HONG KONG One of Hong Kong's most famous pop stars appeared in court here yesterday at the start of a trial which has gripped the territory. Nicholas Tse arrived at Western Court on the first day of the high-profile trial flanked by his
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    • 131 33 -Agencies BEVERLY HILLS After closed-door plea bargain talks between prosecutors and defence lawyers collapsed, a judge ruled on Wednesday that actress Winona Ryder will stand trial on Oct 7 to face shoplifting charges. Ryder, 30, was not present when Beverly Hills Superior Court
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    • 431 34  -  David Ngiau Great idea, but Simone staggers under its weight FILM REVIEW Simone/SlmOne IN A word: Disappointing. And especially since this future shock-meets-film-making comedy Simone or "SlmOne" as writ large on posters was a great idea to begin with. The brilliant premise begins with a down-and-out film
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    • 253 35 David Ngiau FILM REVIEW Slap Her, She's French! IF THERE'S only one movie you should miss this year, this is it! Slap Her, She's French! is a sure contender for worst film of the year, although it has little chance against The
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    • 227 35 Reuters/Variety HONG KONG Hong Kong's film industry is calling for greater access to the China market and support from the local government to boost the ailing sector, which they say risks disintegration. They made the appeal at an industry forum on Wednesday, where
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    • 474 37  -  Serene Foo Elisa Chia Popular TV series returns today LOVE it or loathe it, the granddaddy of all reality TV series is back with a vengeance. The fifth series of Survivor starts today at 3pm and will be telecast over the next 13 Fridays. This time, the
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    • 371 38 Agencies MADRID Athletics' golden couple Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones were supposed to lead their respective USA teams into battle today in the World Cup with the men dearly hoping the new 100 m world-record holder is fit for the competition. But yesterday, things weren't
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    • 286 38 Reuters ADELAIDE Lleyton Hewitt will play both singles and doubles as Australia chases a quick victory in its Davis Cup World Group qualifier against India today. The world number one will open the Sept 20-22 tie at Adelaide's Memorial Drive when he takes
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    • 188 38 COLOMBO Australia set up a semi-final showdown with Sri Lanka after it crushed Bangladesh by nine wickets in their pool 1 Champions Trophy clash yesterday. Australia had looked on course for only its second victory by 10 wickets in 512 oneday internationals, with Matthew Hayden and Adam
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      604 39 Reuters German teams suffer opening night Champions League horror show MUNICH Bayern Munich slumped to a shock 3-2 home defeat by Deportivo La Coruna as German clubs made a poor start in the opening round of Champions League matches. Bayern paid the price for a sluggish first half
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    • 405 39 KIEV Newcastle boss Sir Bobby Robson remained defiant after seeing his side launch its Champions League campaign with a 2-0 defeat in Kiev yesterday, reported Football36s.com. Goals from Maksim Shatskikh and Aliaksandr Khatskevich either side of half-time were enough to hand Dynamo Kiev all
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    • 283 40  -  Stanley Ho THE mystery surrounding Noh Alam Shah is over. Yesterday, he confirmed that he would join Tampines Rovers today. The former Sembawang Rangers striker's contract with the club ended yesterday. The burly international had earlier snubbed an offer that would have seen him remain at
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    • 208 40  -  Tan Yo-Hinn WOODLANDS Wellington is still well and truly in the fight for third place. Last night, it dispatched cellar-dweller Gombak United 4-1 in their NTUC Income S-League clash at the Gombak Stadium. A brace from Agu Casmir and one goal apiece from John Wilkinson and
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    • 470 41  -  Kelvin Phang Busan Games is youngster's chance to shine IF THERE is anyone capable of following in the footsteps of bowling queens Adelene Wee, Grace Young and Jesmine Ho, Valeric Teo is it. Based on her credentials and recent form, the upcoming Asian Games
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    • 456 41  -  Kelvin Phang LOCAL table tennis fans are in for a treat as the International Table Tennis Federation's (ITTF) Pro Tour will stop over in Singapore next year. Singapore Table Tennis Association president Choo Wee Khiang confirmed yesterday that ITTF has invited the Republic to host
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    • 121 41 THE Singapore Open golf championship may not feature on the Asian PGA Tour (APGA) for the next couple of years. Yesterday, the Singapore Golf Association (SGA) and the Asian PGA Tour Limited jointly announced that they have mutually terminated a 1999 agreement which granted the commercial
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    • 704 42  -  lan De Uitta But Leeds needs another quality striker to realise the manager's dream THERE are three grandmasters in English football. And two of them are knights. Last week, though, first Sir Alex Ferguson, and then Sir Bobby Robson, ended up with bloodied noses by the junior
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    • 651 43 -AFP I'm pleased for him because he deserved his goal, albeit from a penalty kick, tn the time he was on, he had half a dozen attempts at goal. His movement and work-rate were first class. If you put that much effort into a match, you deserve
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    • 82 39 A Sports Night With Former England Manager Peter Taylor Presented By PG Sports International Wednesday, 25th September 2002 6.45pm 9pm at The bar Opiume, One Empress Place, Asian Civilisation Museum Ticket Price SG$7O (on the door) (Includes "One Hour Of FREE" Cocktail Snacks And House Drinks PLUS Extended Happy Hour
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    • 400 47  -  Jeffrey Tan TELL someone you're going to Las Vegas and chances are, you'll be clapped on the back and wished a truckful of luck at the tables. M Yes, Las Vegas is a haven for those who want to tip their hands igainst Lady
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    • 334 50 Roasted Duck/Goose Hong Kong street markets such as Central, Wanchai, Causeway Bay, Mongkok and even Stanley are full of little restaurants selling roasted meats. While the char slew and roast pork are good,you have to try the roast ducks and geese. The one dish that
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