Today, 30 October 2002, Afternoon Edition

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  • 16 1 TODAY We d n c s d a y °ct °ber 3° 2°° 2 MITA(P) 063/11/2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 36 1 Reuters NEW YORKThe Dow Jones industrial average edged up 0.90 of a point to 8,368.94. The Standard Poor's 500 index eased 8.08 points to 882.15, while the Nasdaq composite dropped 15.20 points to 1,300.63.
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    • 188 1 STUDENTS can now study at another top university the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). "Today is a special day as we formally announce and welcome the first Chinese institution into Singapore's world-class universities programme. It is also the first Asian institution to be admitted," said Mr
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    • 58 1 -AFP LONDON Hospital instruments exposed to the human form of "mad cow" disease, the fatal variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), were then used on another 29 patients, the British government said yesterday. The same instruments, which should have been quarantined, continued to be used during surgery at Middlesbrough General
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    • 696 1  -  Val Chua and the small investors byi val@newsto day. com. sg TWO isolated happenings not directly connected give an insight into how the lifeblood of the stock market has become the cause of its ailments. Officers from the Commercial Affairs Department recently hauled up six traders from three
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 89 2 Tor Ching Li AN extensive Malay Household Survey by the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) has identified some areas of concern. Three per cent of parents are not sending their children for preschool education. And 72 per cent of adults had never attended training or upgrading courses. AMP
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    • 236 2 -AFP Dr Clone: Conquer diabetes BRITISH cloning expert Professor Alan Colman, who helped produce Dolly the sheep, is working on developing embryonic stem cells into insulin-producing cells to help combat diabetes. At a forum at Bio Medical Asia here yesterday, Prof Colman said that diabetes is an "excellent
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    • Article, Illustration
      401 3  -  Elisia Yeo THE freedom of the postSuharto era has been a mixed blessing, according to Mr X H Hasyim Muzadi, chairman of Indonesia's biggest Muslim body, and Dr Bahtiar Effendy, who is from the country's I second largest Muslim I group. "Under the Suharto adminis- I tration, violence
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    • 255 3 Lee Ching Wern HOUSEWIFE Papathy Kaliappan was in tears as she identified two of her clothes a maroon floral Punjabi dress and a yellow saree in court yesterday. The two items, the High Court heard, were used to strangle her husband to death. In the
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    • 144 4 THERE has been criticism that patients seeking non-emergency or elective surgery were turned away because of overcrowded C class wards. Yesterday, Sing Health, one of the two health cluster groups, said it is confident of meeting the demand for C class beds. Group
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    • 414 4  -  Chan Chao Peh Gloomy view of GLC leadership: Survey ARE the mighty GLCs (governmentlinked companies) blessed with strong leaders, as perceived by the man in the street? Not so, it seems, according to the results of a survey carried out among managers in various sectors. In the
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    • 421 7  -  P Raveentheran Washington killings show importance of gun tests I AM relieved that the two suspected serial killers in Washington have been arrested. In the United States, the gun laws are relatively more liberal than those in other countries. The crime rates are high, with countless gun-related offences
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    • 211 7  -  KKaur I REFER to the letter, "Maid in Singapore" from NTUC Income CEO Tan Kin Lian (Today, Oct 28). I am an average person who dreams of the good life, while realising that these are hard times. I got married five years ago and have two beautiful daughters,
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    • 135 7  -  Leong Sze Hian I RECEIVE calls on my handphone and faxes every day from organisations marketing all kinds of products and services. Every phone call costs me 20 cents and each fax about five cents. I believe many other people are the targets of such marketing efforts.
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    • 77 7  -  Francis T Lim WHILE I am cycling around Pulau Übin, my mobile phone often cannot receive a local network signal and I have to roam to a Malaysian network. Similarly, when in the southern areas such as Kusu Island, I can only pick up the Indonesian
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 777 8  -  Toh Boon Ngee Ensuring customers a flawless dining experience is their specialty EATING has always been the national pastime, but this year's three finalists for the Tourism Host of the Year (Restaurant) award have elevated it to a fine art. No detail is too minute and no
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    • 92 8 UMIST W UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Management Ranked TOP for business and management for 4 consecutive years (Good University Guide) Ranked 10th in the whole of UK (Financial Times, FTIOO Annual League Table 2002) Awarded the 'EXCELLENT' Category in Teaching (HEFCE
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    • 3 8 TOURISM AWARDS SINGAPORE
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 284 10 Bloomberg Rise in S-E Asian resort bookings may not last PHUKET, Langkawi and other South-east Asian resorts are winning record Christmas business as vacationers shun Bali following the bomb blasts that killed at least 184 people. However, the gains may not last, say analysts. In the two weeks
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    • Market Watch
      • 119 10 SINGAPORE shares ended lower on profit-taking as an attempt to rally in the morning was met with heavy resistance-selling. The STI fell 28.06 points to 1,449.93, paced by selling in banks that shed 33.22 points off the finance sub-index. For every stock that rose, about four fell while 286
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      • 37 10 US$ 0.5649 UK£ 0.3624 Yen 69.6764 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.5742 Rupiah 5206.39 Baht 24.4819 Peso 30.025 A$ 1.0115 Indian Rs 27.321 Won 693.2( C$ 0.8796 Yuan 4.674 C NZ$ 1.1551 NTS 19.661
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      • 52 10 By volume Oct 29 '000 '000 Citiraya TianjinZUSS Europtron Chartered SembMar 17,849 12,091 11,056 9,714 8,701 Reed NatSteel TPV HLAsia Achieva 8,522 7,947 7,945 7,491 6,948 ly value )ct29 JOB IBS IA latSteel )CBC 41,894,640 41,090,300 19,343,400 16,158,000 14,451,300 Venture CITYDEV Chartered Citiraya SembMar 13,507,636 9,202,760 8,907,332
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      • 5 10 Straits Times Index 10-Day Chart
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      • 50 10 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8708.76 -48.75 -0.5« Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd 9634.67 2967.40 4554.13 -219.07 -22.40 -47.24 -2.25 -0.75 -1.0; Korea Comp SET Index lakarta Comp 673.18 353.95 361.92 -4.96 -3.47 +0.24 -0.7c -0.97 -i.o: Phils Comp ihenzen B 1045.70 201.07 -1.35 +0.94 -o.i; +0.97
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      • 21 10 Gold uss/oz 315.600 Silver uss/oi 4.412 Platinum uss/oz 586.800 Rubber centsAg 146.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1455 Brent crude uss/barrel 25.48
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      • 78 10 By$ By percentage Oct 29 Close Change DBS Bk 6% NCPS*****.900 +0.200 Oct 29 Close Change Benefun 20k 0.015+50.000 Robinson 5.700 +0.100 GMG USS 0.020 +33.330 C&C 3.880 +0.080 NewToyoW*****7 0.030 +20.000 NalSleel 2.050 +0.060 LCDev 0.100+17.650 InlFaclor 0.390 +0.050 OUE 6.150 +0.050 Semb Log 1.750 +0.050
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      • 80 10 Bloomberg By? By percentage Oct 29 DBS Close Change 12.300 -0.600 Oct 29 Close Changi SembCorp DBeCW*****80.005-50.00l SIA 10.800 -0.500 El-Nets 0.015 -25.001 Creative 50 13.500 -0.400 BakerTech 0.070 -22.221 SIA 200 10.900 -0.400 Reed 0.020 -20.001 STI ETF 100 14.570 -0.310 Sunway 0.040 -20.001 UOB 13.100
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    • 269 12 Reuters HONG KONG Police have raided the offices of Chinese orchid exporter Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings), whose chairman, Mr Yang Bin, has been placed under house arrest in China for alleged illegal business activities, the Hong Kong Economic Times said yesterday. The report said
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    • 68 12 OVER 30 survivors and next-of-kin of victims of the Singapore Airlines flight SQOO6 crash are rushing to file civil suits against the airline for higher damages, reported Channel News Asia. The deadline to file such civil suits is tomorrow two years after the crash at Taipei's Chiang
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    • 3930 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com Prke Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) 10/25 Aberdeen Se-American Opportunities 0.579 0.609 10/25 Aien een Se -Asian High Yield Fd 1.198 1.235 10/25 Aberdeen Se -China Opportunities Fd 0.929 0.976 10/25 Aberdeen Se-Continental Europe Eqty 0.755 0.794 10/25 A ierc een Se
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    • 306 15 Opportunities in oil, gas sector SINGAPORE can benefit from the expanding oil and gas sector in terms of business opportunities and job creation. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Trade and Industry, Mr Raymond Lim, said this at the opening ceremony of the Offshore East Asia
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    • 177 15 Reuters TOKYO Japanese Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said yesterday the government would seek Cabinet agreement by today for an economic package drawn up by the government to accelerate the clean-up of the banking sector. The government is expected to unveil a package focusing on accelerating
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    • 123 15 Bloomberg DAIRY Farm International Holdings will buy the Hong Kong and Taiwan stores of Ikea from Jardine Matheson Holdings for US$27 million ($4B million). Ikea, the world's largest home furnishings retailer, has four outlets in Hong Kong and one in Taipei, all
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    • 567 15 ADVERTORIAL Where an e-uniwersity reaches beyond the brick and mortar variety by Dr. Donald Babcock Universitas 21 Global Academic Provost ONLINE LEARNING is an exciting 18 months of full time study or take and rewarding way to achieve an up to six years studying part time. education. The many communi-
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      243 16 Agencies Disco fire spreads to Ho Chi Minh City office block HANOI At least 54 people were killed in a fire yesterday that engulfed an office block in Vietnam's southern commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City. Forty-eight bodies were recovered from the six-storey Saigon International Business
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    • 130 16 Reuters TUCSON (Arizona) In a second high-profile shooting in the United States in the past month, an aggrieved nursing student shot dead three of his professors before killing himself yesterday. Gulf War veteran Robert Stewart Flores, 41, was armed with two handguns
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    • 165 16 Agencies SYDNEY The Australian government is under pressure to explain its secret deportation of a suspected Al Qaeda member last year as it maintains that there was no confirmed Al Qaeda presence in Australia. Australian newspapers yesterday reported that Saudi national Ahmad Al Joufi
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    • 184 20 AFP Political motive behind killing of US diplomat? WASHINGTON The circumstances surrounding the murder of US diplomat Laurence Foley on Monday suggest a political motive for the killing rather than robbery, officials said. Sources close to the investigation said the killer probably used a silencer, indicating a professional
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    • 143 20 Agencies JAKARTA Battling perceptions that she has not responded strongly enough to the Bali bombings, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday made a surprise visit to the island. A reportedly sad-looking Ms Megawati inspected the devastated heart of Kuta Beach, Bali's bomb-hit tourist strip, and thanked the
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    • 45 20 AFP Photo More than 300 mainland-China brides and their relatives, including these two children, gathered in Taipei yesterday to protest the Taiwanese government's plans to extend their stay from eight to 11 years before they can be issued Taiwan identification cards.
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    • 151 20 Reuters TACOMA (Washington) The two men charged with the series of sniper shootings in Washington have been linked to two earlier shootings this year. Police said John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, had borrowed two handguns from a friend that were
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 654 23  -  Tang Li and the HDB heartland WHEN the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay (picture) were opened recently, my memory was brought back to a newspaper report a few months earlier. It quoted the Prime Minister as saying that he wanted "pockets of Little Bohemia" here. Naturally,
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  • UPFRONT
    • 574 25 Reuters/Variety that's what Woody Allen calls himself ROME Quirky comedy director Woody Allen (picture) dismissed himself as a failed artiste on Saturday and described American cinema as a sink-hole of mindless entertainment where everyone was obsessed with money. "If I had to describe myself in three words,
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 64 25 Ticket Refund AUSTRALIAN artiste Darren Hayes' Nov 19 concert has been postponed till next year due to recent terrorist events in the region. Refunds are available at the TicketCharge head office from Oct 28 to Nov 8. Please bring along your TicketCharge ticket as proof of purchase. Opening hours: Monday
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  • TIMEOUT
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      292 27  -  Serene Foo Organist injects life into 1926 silent film AMERICAN organist Dennis James (picture) knows perfectly well how to revive the silent films of yesteryear he plays the musical accompaniment to give them new life. James, 51, will resurrect German director F W Murnau's 1926 masterpiece Faust. His
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 152 28 AFP LOS ANGELES Actress Winona Ryder told detectives who arrested her that she allegedly shoplifted nearly U555,560 ($9,477) of goods from a posh store to prepare for a movie role. On the first full day of her long-await-ed trial, in which she is
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    • 467 28 Reuters/Variety HOLLYWOOD -Jackass The Movie (Paramount), the bigscreen adaptation of an MTV show mixing scary stunts and body parts, kicked butt at the box office with an opening gross of U5522.76 million ($38.79 million). But, the big news was the week-on-week improvement of The Ring, the
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    • 635 29  -  Ng Boon Yian Meet Kaos. He's 29, Thai, loves comics, and he's just directed a Hollywood movie KAOS is the kind of guy who talks in nervous, rambling sentences punctuated with lots of "you know". But, he has a right to be nervous because your next question
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    • 90 29 /CHRISTOPHER Lee is poised to replace the Richard Harris in the third Harry Potter instalment, which is tentatively scheduled to begin shooting in February or March, according the British newspaper, The Sun. Warner Bros executives said Lee is a "strong favourite" to play Professor Aldus Dumbledore
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