Today, 22 October 2002

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    8 1 TODAY Tuesday October 22, 2002 MITA (P) 063/11/2001
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    Lock icon Fear's low notes
    701 1 Concerts cancelled as Asia's terror spreads FIRST, it was Faith Hill, then Oasis, and now, 0-Town. All three big-name performers have decided to postpone their concerts in the Asia-Pacific in the wake of the recent rash of terrorist bombings in Indonesia and Philippines. Their decision to give
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Little big voice
      477 2  -  Chan Chao Peh Shareholders reject SembCorp Marine's privatisation plans SEMBCORP Marine (SCM) shares fell to their lowest level in nine months yesterday as minority shareholders threw out a $573 million privatisation proposal by parent SembCorp Industries (SCI). The minority shareholders' decision caught the market by surprise and
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      Mahathir guarantees water for Spore, but...
      146 2 JEDDAH Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that water will not be used as a weapon against Singapore despite the stumbling negotiations over the price of water. The Star reported Dr Mahathir as saying that Malaysia had also given Singapore a guarantee that it
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      Lock icon Gunman, gunman
      448 3  -  Maurice Perera Woman screams as man kills two students at Monash STILL on edge after the bomb blasts in Bali, Australia was shaken yesterday when a heavily armed gunman walked into a class at Monash University here and opened fire killing two students and wounding five others. The
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    • 1.30 AM LATEST
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        Snipers held?
        59 3 WASHINGTON Police hunting for a sniper terrorising residents in and around this city have arrested two people, the BBC reported yesterday. Police also towed away a white van from near where the men were taken into custody. In earlier attacks, in which nine people were killed and two
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        Lock icon Suicide blast
        32 3 -AFP KARKUR JUNCTION (Israel) A suicide car bomb early this morning killed more than 10 people and wounded nearly 50 others when it tore apart a bus in northern Israel.
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      Toxic chemical: 3 workers killed
      223 4 THREE workers at an industrial chemical waste treatment plant died after being exposed to a toxic chemical. Between Sept 29 and Oct 4, eight workers from Chem-Solv Technologies were admitted to hospital with fevers, headaches, breathlessness and coughs. It is believed they were exposed on
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      Singapore's favourite 14
      528 4  -  Rosalyn Lim THE list of winners of the inaugural Singapore Brand Award 2002 reads like a who's who of big companies here. Fourteen players Asia Pacific Breweries, Brands', DBS Bank, Eu Van Sang, F&N, Great Eastern, Informatics, OCBC Bank, OSIM, Singapore Airlines, Sing Tel, The Hour Glass,
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  • HOME NEWS
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      LRT service woes continue
      90 6 THE beleagured Bukit Panjang LRT service suffered a major disruption which left thousands of commuters fuming. The service broke down at 6.38 am yesterday after one of the trains' guidewheels came off, leading to a power trip. Service B in one direction is expected to resume
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      $2.8 m message for job seekers
      229 6  -  Lee Ching Wern IT is a $2.8 million campaign to encourage unemployed Singaporeans not to lose hope and to tell job seekers not to hold out for that dream job. The Jobs Task Force OTF) hopes to convey these messages through a series of
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      From 9 years to 15 years
      268 6  -  -Joy Frances THE man who poisoned three people at a New Year's Eve party last December had his sentence increased yesterday. The Public Prosecutor had appealed against his original nine-year sentence, arguing that it was "unduly lenient" for a culpable homicide charge. Quek Loo
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      New Dy Sec
      90 6 THE Home Affairs Ministry will have a new Deputy Secretary from Nov 11. She is Mrs Ow Foong Pheng, the current Second Deputy Secretary. She will take over from Mr Tan Boon Huat, who will assume his new position as chief executive director of the People's Association
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  • LETTERS
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      The zoo and the bohemian
      328 7  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming I REFER to your report, "Our very own Little Prince" (Today, Oct 21). Your article on Mr Bernard Harrison's new passion for life is fascinating because vicariously, many people, including myself, want to live a life that we had dreamt about
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      Hoax culprits will be prosecuted
      204 7  -  Phillip Mah IN his letter, "The dangers of not being scared enough" (Weekend Today, Oct 19-20), Mr Michael Loh Yik Ming pointed out correctly the seriousness of hoaxes. Such hoaxes cause unnecessary alarm and drain the resources of emergency services. They also have the potential
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Beng Seng tips the ante
      474 8  -  Val Chua New offer makes hotelier favourite for Nat Steel prize FLAMBOYANT hotelier Ong Beng Seng upped his own bid for Nat Steel Ltd to $772.6 million or $2 a share in cash from his original $1.93 yesterday, leading the race in a takeover battle
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        132 8 PROFIT-TAKING from Friday continued yesterday as investors closed their open positions following last week's rally. Dealers said that investors became increasingly wary that last week's frantic buying was but a technical rally, at best, a dead cat bounce. As such, more chose to sell their present positions, than to
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        World markets
        50 8 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8978.41 -107.72 -1.19 Hang Seng Ordinaries faiwan Wtd 9570.36 2947.80 4463.52 -42.71 -19.60 +5.35 -1.15 -0.66 +0.12 Korea Comp SET Index 652.67 344.28 -18.12 +1.82 -2.70 +0.53 lakarta Comp Phils Comp ihenzen B 361.87 1014.90 210.37 +0.96 -12.77 -0.82 +0.27 -1.24 -0.39
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 8 USS 0.5619 UK£ 0.3629 Yen 70.055 HKS 4.3820 RM 2.1351 Euro 0.5758 Rupiah 5167.3 Baht 24.484 Peso 29.909 A$ 1.0156 Indian Rs 27.170 Won 698.61 C$ 0.8821 Yuan 4.6505 NZ$ 1.1631 NTS 19.608
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        Commodities
        21 8 Gold uss/oz 313.300 Silver uss/oz 4.360 Platinum uss/oz 583.900 Rubber cents/kg 145.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1435 Brent crude uss/barrel 28.00
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        Straits Times Index — 10-Day Chart
        5 8 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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        SGX most active
        56 8 By volume Oct 21 'OOO 'OOO SembMar BIL Intl UniFood PFood UniFiber 105,348 11,966 10,102 8,937 8,417 DatacrftUSS N0L Links Is Chartered TTInt 7,994 7,984 6,799 6,369 6,089 By value Oct 21 SembMar Venture UOB DBS Creative 50 87,016,100 38,594,809 28,865,113 25,637,835 13,085,360 SIA OCBC SPH PFood
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        SGX top rises
        74 8 Oct 21 UOB Close Change 13.100 +0.200 Thai Prime200USS 4.660 +0.180 DBS 12.700 +0.100 SIA 11.100 +0.100 SIA200 Semb Log 11.000 +0.100 1.770 +0.060 Innovalu 1.140 +0.060 OUS 1.880 +0.060 OUE 6.100 +0.050 By percentage Oct 21 GMG USS Kian Ann W*****7 Close Changi 0.020 +33.33: 0.040
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        Lock icon SGX top falls
        77 8 Bloomberg Oct 21 SembMar lade Close Change 0.840 -0.260 0.285 -0.225 /enlure 13.100 -0.200 Creative 50 13.600 -0.200 :iTYDEV 4.900 -0.150 3realEast 9.050 -0.150 KepCor XBC 4.300 -0.140 10.400 -0.100 iPH 19.500 -0.100 Jy percentage Dct 21 lade lolorland Close Change 0.285 -44.118 0.045 -30.769 SembMar 0.840
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      Lock icon Sweet medicine
      116 10 Reuters Koizumi urged to soften shock of reforms TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi came under pressure yesterday to balance tough reforms with policies to limit the resultant economic shock. Mr Koizumi is to unveil a policy package this week aimed at fixing banks and halting years of
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      Lock icon Sinking feeling in HK as bankruptcies rise
      76 10 AFP HONG KONG Personal bankruptcies in Hong Kong rose further in September from a year earlier, despite signs that the economy was rebounding, government figures showed yesterday. The number of bankruptcy orders issued rose to 17,427 in the nine months to September, from
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      Lock icon Reshuffle at OCBC
      148 10 Reuters OCBC Bank yesterday announced a series of organisational changes which analysts said were a prelude to chief executive David Conner unveiling his new strategy for the bank. Mr Conner, who joined the family-controlled bank seven months ago, announced in August that the group would unveil a
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      4126 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Jute Fd Name NAV/Bid Oiler Price Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) 8/0 A rerdeen Se -American Oppprtunities 0.585 0.615 8/0 Aierdeen Se -Asian High Yielcf Fd 1.194 1.231 8/0 A rerdeen Se -China Opportunities Fd 0.94 0.98! 8/0 A lerdeen Se -Continental
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      Dial M for mobile
      517 11  -  Chan Chao Peh Handphones and recession lead to cut in number of fixed lines AFTER hitting a peak of 1,951,000 lines in May 2001, the total number of fixed telephone lines in Singapore has started declining gradually. This is a result of companies downsizing and cancelling
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Nuclear heat
      229 12 Agencies US on brink of war with N Korea in 94 WASHINGTON The Korean peninsula was close to witnessing war in 1994, as the United States mobilised hundreds of thousands of soldiers to stop North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons. Mr William Perry and Mr Ashton Carter, Defence
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      Lock icon Abu Bakar's arrest a police action: V-P Hamzah
      149 12 Agencies JAKARTA Indonesian VicePresident Hamzah Haz said yesterday the government was not involved in the police decision to arrest militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. He said that it was "simply a measure to restore public order and it is a police
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      Lock icon Trio's bomb plot in Rome
      147 12 AFP ROME The latest search of an apartment used by three Egyptians suspected of planning a series of bomb attacks near Rome has turned up important new evidence, Italian police said on Sunday. A police source said the police discovered a leather belt, which could
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      Lock icon Foreign hand?
      178 13 -AFP Police probe Zamboanga blasts ZAMBOANGA The Philippine authorities are investigating the possibility of "foreign terrorist" links behind a series of deadly bomb blasts in this southern city, officials said yesterday. Amidst increased security in the country, a home-made bomb exploded outside a Roman Catholic shrine here on
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda book controversy in KL
      158 13 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Although no official ban has been imposed yet, major bookstores have already removed a controversial book on the Al Qaeda terrorist network from their shelves. The Malaysian government has expressed outrage at a United Nations document alleging that the ruling coalition
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Portrait of a leader
      881 14  -  Ng Boon Yiah A hunger to learn about our political processes and personalities THE other day in Parliament, Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman, an MP of Sembawang GRC, complained about how little Singaporeans know of the political workings of the country. Talk turned to the media and
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Different Song
      563 16  -  Serene Foo BILLED on its first staging last year as a "conversation of the living and the dead, a dialogue between the happy and the sad through a journey in search of contentment", Silent Song has now been resurrected with a different tune. Choreographed by contemporary dancer Kuo
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • YOUR MONEY
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      The painless checklist
      654 17  -  Kelly Ng MOST people don't bequeath a lot of money upon their deaths but many leave behind a mess. Whether it is through procrastination or plain ignorance, their most immediate legacy is a jungle of disorderly paperwork and unintended consequences. Estate planning is about mitigating estate taxes
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  • BUSY COOK
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      Cool tea noodles
      541 18  -  Pauline DLoh Chasoba, eaten ice cold, for a refreshing meal on hot days GREEN noodles may not be everyone's cup of tea, but judging from its popularity in Singapore, this is one cool dish Singaporeans like a lot probably because many of us prefer light meals when
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      Udon and soba
      192 18 THERE are now many types of Japanese-style noodles available to the home chef. Ranging from the fresh to the dried, they are stored easily and are good store cupboard standbys. Udon: These are the fresh wheat noodles that are sold in plastic packs in the chiller cabinets
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  • HEALTH
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      Balanced treatment
      614 19  -  Alice Leong Chinese medicine can complement Western treatment MY 60-year-old father swears by traditional Chinese medicine. After he found out from his doctor two years ago that his blood pressure was a little high, he wasted no time in seeking treatment from an acupuncturist A year later, his
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      Emil turns on the charm
      357 21  -  Tor Ching Li IT was strange to hear veteran singer Emil Chau (picture) admit during his concert on Saturday night that he was nervous about his performance. In one of his many exchanges with the 12,000-strong audience, he likened his latest outing to an apprehensive
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      HAPPENINGS
      47 21 FILMS QUELQUE PART QUELQU'UN (SOMEWHERE, SOMEONE) This movie influenced women's films after the *****. Its premiere is part of the Women Director's Selection at the French Film Festival. Date: Today Time: 9pm Venue: Alliance Francaise Price: $4.50 (Members), $6.50 (Non-members) Ticketing: Call Sistic at 6348 5555
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      163 21 55 Hat tl 368 Alexandra Road VPfJ Anchorpoint I Xii (directly across IKEA) sanjiubar Tek*****833 Fa *****3313 SILKAIRi CHARTERS TO tf EXOTIC NORTHERN INDIA The princely city ofjaipur, former imperial capital of Delhi and home of the Taj Mahal in Agra, combine to provide some of India's finest attractions known
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  • TRAVELLER in Harbin
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      Ice castles in a winter wonderland
      405 22 Harbin's festival of snow, ice and cool fun NORTH by north-east, right on the crown of the Chinese mainland, a winter wonderland of pristine snow and ice palaces awaits discovery. Harbin has always been for the adventurous, though most shudder at its remoteness and
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      TOP 10 THINGS TO DO IN HARBIN
      503 22 1. ADMIRE THE WILDLIFE The North-eastern Tiger Park is north of the Songhua River, the main waterway flowing through the capital city. The garden houses about 100 Northeastern tigers, who enjoy the freedom of more than 350,000 sq m of land. It is
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      Fun festivals in Harbin
      224 23 HARBIN INTERNATIONAL ICE AND SNOW FESTIVAL Harbin, January This is when the world comes visiting. The ice festival and the snow sculpture exhibition draws participants from all over, who use ice from the Songhua River to create their transient masterpieces. MULAN ICE-ROLLING FESTIVAL Mulan, February. Gunbing
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      The customs of the land
      124 23 Icy swims and snow baths. Square holes are cut into the frozen rivers and people jump right in for a winter swim, sometimes doing line dances by the snow-covered riversides, just for the fun of it. Or, they change into swimsuits and roll around in
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      4 23 a^aW 5A (UIC) Tours
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      263 23 V --4j m The beautiful snow scenes of Harbin a fairyland for tourists Harbin ice SNOW TOUR (5/7/s/iodi Great Ice and Snow World "MI3TH3I Harbin Feilong Banquet Changchun Herbal Cuisine yf.iMEgi4.-al Jilin Steamboat Ginseng Chicken w Laobian Dumpling Jingyuetan Skiing Sports Ground Sun Island artistic works of ice and snow
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Spicy kebabs, sweet secrets...
      417 24  -  Sadiah Ahmad That is what Amisha's Fireplace promises THE way to Amisha Patel's heart must surely be through her stomach. Yup! The voluptuous one, who shot to fame in Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai (Say That You Love Me) two years ago, loves to eat and eat
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