Today, 16 October 2002

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  • 7 1 TODAY Wednesday October 16, 2002 MITA(P) 063/11/2001
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  • 71 1 Reuters NEW YORK Stocks blazed higher in mid-morn-ing trade on Wall Street. Although worries linger over the economy, a possible war on Iraq and more attacks after the Bali blasts, investors are hoping bad news is already baked into a market that last week hit five-year lows. The Dow
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  • 589 1  -  Joy Frances JUNIOR college students will have an extra subject added to their plate of three content-based subjects from 2006. But to offset the extra pressure this could place on them, the content will be trimmed to allow more time for creative and analytical thought
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  • 793 1  -  Ng Boon Yian MFA doesn't mince words on eve of talks THE two neighbours are known to be touchy and the issues that divide them are testy. Even so, the sheer bluntness of comments made by Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the eve of today's talks with
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 195 2 Channel News Asia PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong on Monday night spoke of one of his major concerns in Singapore's efforts towards national integration the veil. He was participating in a discussion with 1,700 community leaders on sensitive issues, including the possibility of discrimination against Muslims. He
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    • 583 3  -  Elisia Yeo Ng Boon Yian Diplomacy, strong leadership needed FOR reticent and publicity-shy Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, the challenge seems mind-boggling. Still struggling with economic recovery, domestic unrest, corruption in Parliament and the Judiciary, the leader now has to take the lead in tackling Asia's own version
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    • 126 3 Reuters VATICAN CITY The Vatican voiced outrage after a church property in Moscow was turned into a brothel, saying it was part of what it sees as a long-running smear campaign against the Catholic Church in Russia. The Vatican said that Franciscan friars in
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    • 369 4 THE software industry must continue to manufacture products to help people to move ahead, said the chief executive officer of software powerhouse Microsoft "Sometimes people ask us: 'Why do you get into new areas (like) business intelligence and storage. Why don't you just keep doing
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    • 361 4  -  Tan Hui Leng SQ pilots can get licences back IN THE newest development in the SQOO6 crash saga, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has decided that the three pilots involved in the accident deserve to be reinstated as pilots. In a statement yesterday, CAAS said the three
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  • LETTERS
    • 325 6  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming Any positive reference to such acts can incite disgruntled elements PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong's dialogue with community leaders on the second round of Jemaah Islamiyah arrests was timely in the light of the Bali attack. I support PM Goh's reiteration that there should
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    • 142 6  -  Narayana Narayana LIKE Ms Christine Chen, I tend to be as apolitical as most Singaporeans ("JBJ is also part of the Singapore story" (Today, Oct 14). Even if many may not always agree with Mr J B Jeyaretnam's idealistic views, one has to
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    • 300 6  -  Su Kaixuan Teo Ai Chia Serene Ng Li Hui Pearle Chua Yee Wei WE agree with Mr Vishal Tiwary's proposal in his letter, "Find out why teens smoke" (Today, Oct 11). He suggested that a committee be set up to find ways
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    • 252 6  -  J B Jeyaretnam I WOULD like to clarify a question in your story on me ("The lonely fighter", Weekend Today, Oct 12-13). My action against the Workers' Party is concerning a judgement taken against me, the party and Mr A Balakrishnan, the
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    • 43 6 IN our article, "Esplanade takes flight", (Today, Oct 12-13), we said that that DJ Norman Cook would be spinning at the Esplanade's Fiesta!. The DJ who performed at the event was DJ Norman C. We apologise for the error.
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 290 8  -  Chan Chao Peh IMF man on impact of Bali blasts A TOP International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said Saturday's bomb blasts in Bali may have taken some wind off Asian economies, which have been the strongest performing on a regional basis. "It is clearly a blow
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    • 265 8  -  Val Chua SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) suffered a 4.6 per cent fall in full-year net profit to $307.4 million on lower print advertising revenue. Group revenue fell 12.5 per cent to $903.5 million, although the wage cuts and "rightsizing" of its Internet and
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    • 76 8 Channel News Asia PROPERTY developer Keppel Land has confirmed it is in advanced talks to sell its Capital Square office block. This is part of a push by Keppel to get lean and asset-light, by divesting its investment properties. Capital Square is 70
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    • Market Watch
      • 133 8 SHARES powered to its biggest one-day jump since March 4 to close 51.24 points up at 1429.68 yesterday. The broad-based rally saw a marked improvement to market breadth, with gainers outpacing losers 8.5 to one. Volumes surged to 536 million shares worth $481 million. Banking stocks took the lead,
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      • 55 8 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8836.73 +307.12 +3.60 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 9336.39 2946.50 4131.47 +370.66 +30.90 +220.49 +4.13 +1.06 +5.64 Korea Comp SET Index 629.57 328.82 +15.30 +4.96 +2.49 +1.53 Jakarta Comp 342.20 +4.73 +1.40 Phils Comp Shenzen B Mumbai 1047.69 217.68 3003.39 -19.82
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      • 36 8 USS 0.5533 UK£ 0.3571 Yen 69.0054 HK$ 4.3158 RM 2.1026 Euro 0.5629 Rupiah 5,129.3 Baht 24.4681 Peso 29.3955 A$ 1.0090 Indian Rs 26.7395 Won 699.156 C$ 0.8764 Yuan 4.5797 NZ$ 1.1559 NTS 19.4558
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      • 21 8 Gold uss/oz 318.600 Silver uss/oz 4.310 Platinum uss/oi 578.400 Rubber centsAg 147.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1388 Brent crude uss/borrel 28.09
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      • 5 8 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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      • 57 8 By volume Oct 15 '000 Gtiraya 47,610 UniFood 24,329 UniFiber 23,746 BIL Intl 19,882 Pac Cent 19,735 By value Oct 15 DBS 56,145,967 UOB 48,142,516 SPH 36,699,300 OCBC 35,654,850 Venture 31,375,700 '000 TPV 17,521 Links Is 16,765 DatacrftUSS 16,318 NWTech 15,290 FJBenWO7O7I6 14,660 SIA 23,711,300 Citiraya 18,496,105
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      • 80 8 By$ Oct 15 Venture Close Change 12.000 +0.900 Creative 50 12.200 +0.800 UOB 12.900 +0.600 SIA 10.600 +0.600 SIA200 10.600 +0.600 DBS 12.200 +0.600 STI ETF 100IOPV 14.352 +0.521 OCBC 10.300 +0.450 STI ETF 100 14.290 +0.310 CITYDEV 4.840 +0.300 By percentage Oct 15 Strike W*****5 Close
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      • 87 8 Bloomberg By$ Oct 15 Haw Par Close Change 3.900 -0.380 Sp Land Robinson SC Global 3.140 -0.060 5.500 -0.050 0.880 -0.030 EWSporl 0.095 -0.020 NalSleel 2.020 -0.020 ManOri USS Orchard? 0.395 -0.015 0.300 -0.015 St Tyre W*****0 EaslgaleW*****1 0.120 -0.010 0.050 -0.010 By percentage Oct 15 El-Nets
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    • 376 10 Reuters SINGAPORE'S retail sales fell sharply in August as the struggling economy, high unemployment, a weak stock market and jitters over recovery prospects kept shoppers at home. The retail sales index fell 8.4 per cent year on year in August and dropped 6.8 per cent against
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    • 4206 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Date Fund Name NAV/Bid Oiler Price Price tberdeen Asset Management (Asia) 4/ 0 AlerteenSe-AmeritanOpportunities 0.56 0.589 4/ 0 A lert een Se -Asian High Yield Fd 1.211 1.248 4/0 Alert een Se-China Opportunities Fd 0.888 0.933 4/ 0 Alert een Se-Continental Europe
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    • 218 12 Reuters SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) posted a ninth straight month of year-on-year rise in passengers and cargo carried last month, with analysts saying the recent bomb blasts in Bali would dampen sentiment slightly going forward. Asia's largest carrier by market value said in a
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    • 371 12  -  Val Chua More land for suburban housing THE Chinese government is taking steps to prevent a glut in Shanghai's property market even as it tries to woo developers to the city, said an official yesterday. The measures include controlling the land supply and setting plot ratio limits
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    • 115 12  -  Chan Chao Peh SINGTEL Mobile customers are invited to try a series of new Java-based applications developed for their handsets. The 20 applications, which were developed as part of the Asia Java Mobile Challenge, include arcade-style games, calendars and travel guides. The contest was organised by
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    • 91 12 TWO months after its broadband wireless Internet access debut at Suntec City, Star Hub is extending the service to Changi Airport Before the end of the year, airline passengers will be able to enjoy Internet access speeds of up to 11 megabits per second at
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      319 14 Reuters Sniper may have killed woman FALLS CHURCH (Virginia) A mysterious sniper who has been terrorising residents in and around the US capital for nearly two weeks is believed to have struck again when a woman was shot and killed on Monday night. The victim and her
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    • 118 14 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan has drafted incentives to encourage married couples to have more children as the island's birth rate dropped to a record low of 1.16 children per woman last year, an official said yesterday. The government would award married couples NT$3O,OOO ($1,540)
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    • 115 14 Reuters HONG KONG A woman allegedly killed her husband by pouring hot oil over him and stabbing him and then kept the body under the bed because she still loved him. He was wrapped in 16 layers of plastic. Li Suet-ping, 52, is charged with murdering
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    • Article, Illustration
      504 16 Agencies for Bali blast survivors and Australia's Muslims SYDNEY Many Australians who survived the terror of the car bombing in Bali now face the horror of months and even years of struggling to recover from excruciating burns and other wounds. Out in the streets, leaders of the
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    • 360 16 Canada wants newcomers but will it succeed? Reuters OTTAWA Many skilled people, especially from the Third World, love to seek greener pastures in Canada, a country which says it relies heavily on newcomers to keep the economy running. Yet, Canada's immigration system is in a state of disarray and Ottawa
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    • 154 16 Reuters RIYADH Saudi Arabian Airlines said yesterday that guards have foiled a hijack attempt by a lone Saudi gunman aboard one of its flights from Sudan with 204 passengers and crew on board. No one was injured. But Egypt's Middle East New Agency,
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    • 193 16 -AFP NEW DELHI Security personnel across India were on high alert yesterday on the occasion of a prominent Hindu festival, amid fears of attacks by militant groups, police said. In New Delhi, a police spokesman said heavily-armed commandos had been deployed at prominent temples to provide
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    • Article, Illustration
      49 16 -AFP photo An Iraqi teenager attending a show in support of President Saddam Hussein at Baghdad's National Stadium. Iraqis voted massively yesterday in a referendum to give Mr Saddam, the sole candidate, seven more years in office in defiance of US efforts to topple the regime
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  • COMMENTARY
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      1081 18  -  Bill Guerin FOR Indonesia, the pretence is well and truly over. Since Sept 11 last year, the Indonesian government an/1 police have been able to balance domestic interests and dangers against the security concerns of foreigners. The bomb blasts in Bali's waterfront town-. I of Kuta have changed
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  • UPFRONT
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      400 23  -  Yee Wei Zhen Legendary big band to play at the Esplanade TO say that the WDR Big Band Cologne (picture) is a jazz band is probably doing it a big injustice. This renowned German radio big band might have started out performing jazz in the 1950s but it
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    • 179 23 -AFP WASHINGTON Experts have found that applying duct tape to warts can remove them as effectively as using the more clinic-intensive cryotherapy treatment, according to a study released on Monday. Patients aged from three to 22 were selected randomly and had their warts either covered
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  • NEWS FEATURE
    • 556 25  -  Rosalyn Lim ...by cultivating closer landlord-tenant ties SHOPPING may rank second to eating as a national past-time, but the retail business is far from a walk in the park. In these harsh economic times, it is especially difficult to get shoppers to part with their
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  • LIMELIGHT
    • 412 26  -  Pearlyn Tham Fancy having Janet Jackson's abs? Put on your dancing shoes! YOU don't like to jog. You don't want to pay exorbitant fees to join a gym. And, you aren't much of a water baby to indulge in water sports. So, why not hit
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    • 206 26 THEATRE FORBIDDEN CITY: PORTRAIT OF AN EMPRESS The life of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi is dramatised in this Esplanade Theatres on the Bay and Singapore Repertory Theatre production. Date: Tomorrow till Oct 19 Time: Bpm; 2pm (Oct 19) Venue: Esplanade Theatres on the Bay Price: Evening shows sold
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 911 28  -  David Ngiau British director comes face to face with Hollywood AT ONE point, director Roger Michell jokingly called his project Changing Endings. His film, Changing Lanes, is about two men whose cars crashed on a New York highway. It's road rage taken to
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    • 290 29 ROGER Michell talks about working with renowned director Sidney Pollack, whom he cast in Changing Lanes. Did you feel nervous about having such an accomplished director acting for you? I felt stupid for casting him! I asked him, and he said 'yes', and then I thought
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    • 210 29 -Reuters LONDON British supermodel Naomi Campbell faced a huge legal bill on Monday after a tabloid newspaper, which had revealed her struggle against drugs, won a court appeal. Campbell had been awarded £3,500 pounds ($9,430) and hundreds of thousands in court costs in a judgement against
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    • 266 30 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD A crush of six new wide releases proved no drag on Red Dragon (Universal) and Sweet Home Alabama (Disney) last week's top films. The latest Hannibal Lecter thriller chewed off a chart-topping U5517.66 million ($30.1 million) to remain No 1 in its second
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