Today, 3 March 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 96 1 Reuters CARLSBAD World No 1 Tiger Woods held off David Toms to win the World Matchplay Championship two-and-one this morning. Woods, the top seed, built a four-up lead through the morning session and then won the 19th hole to go five-up, his biggest lead of the 36-hole final.
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    • 193 1 Bloomberg WASHINGTON US companies have little reason to hire or buy new equipment as the threat of war with Iraq bridles an economy struggling to gain speed, reports this week are expected to show. Economists said they expect the government to report on Friday
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    • 81 1 -AFP TOKYO Japan's major Internet investor, Softbank Corp, said today that it would sell eight per cent of its shares in Yahoo Japan, aiming to earn some US$66O million ($l.l billion) in extra profit Softbank said in a statement that its board members decided to reduce its control
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    • 830 1  -  PUAYKOON. WASHINGTON The mastermind behind the Sept 11 attacks in the United States, the plot to bomb the American and British embassies in Singapore and the Bali blasts has been captured. The running to ground of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, possibly the most fearsome of Osama
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 421 2  -  Val Chua in Hanoi as PM leaves today for visit by val@newstoday.com.sg WHEN you visit Hanoi, don't be surprised to find homegrown Sakae Sushi among the Vietnamese beef noodle (pho) shops and French bistros. Its boss, Mr Douglas Foo, intends to take his brand of cheap
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      71 2 WEE TECK HIAN MPs watering flowers that grew and sprang into a dance at the opening of ACE (Admiralty Community Experience) The Place, Our Community Centre® Admiralty. From left PA chief executive director Tan Boon Huat, Prof Chin Tet Yung (MP, Sembawang GRC), Dr Mohd Maliki Osman (MP,
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    • 111 2 JOB fairs organised in Johor and Malacca to help retrenched Malaysians, especially those who had worked in Singapore, have had a poor showing, reported the New Straits Times yesterday. There are ample jobs for retrenched Malaysians, said Malaysian Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr Fong Chan
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    • 139 2 DON'T be surprised if field officers from the Department of Statistics (DOS) pop by your house in the next few weeks. This is part of the Household Expenditure Survey, which DOS is carrying out until September. The survey for the first 11 groups out of
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    • 139 3 -AFP JAKARTA While many have hailed the new law, which requires at least 30 per cent of parliamentary candidates running in elections to be female, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri was one critical detractor. According to a report yesterday, Ms Megawati has criticised the new law
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      295 3 AFP Air traffic computer glitch hits image TOKYO Despite its reputation as a tech-sawy country, the credibility of Japan's high-tech industry was brought into question again after a weekend air traffic glitch. The latest incident involved a computer malfunction which disrupted some 1,600 flights causing 270,000 passengers to
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    • 119 3 AFP KUALA LUMPUR The secret to the youthfulness of the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is not Botox, moisturisers or facial creams but the country's humid weather. The 77-year-old leader, making a pitch to woo tourists, said the high humidity in Malaysia keeps the skin moist
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    • 418 4  -  Joy Frances $129 guide stirs up a fuss joy@newstoday.com.sg A RECENTLY published guide to the top lawyers in Singapore has stirred up a fuss in legal circles. The 193 top names listed included familiar legal eagles such as Senior Counsel K Shanmugam and Senior
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 583 6  -  Francis Kan Malaysia's richest man finds tomorrow's business by francis@newstoday.com.sg BACK in the mid-1980s, Mr Abdullah Mohamad Salleh, then chief executive of the Malaysian oil giant, Petronas, was tasked by the Malaysian Prime Minister to set up an urgent meeting with an Indonesian minister. Going through
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    • 331 6 Channel NewsAsia COMING on the heels of the GCE 0 Level results is the release of the A Level results. While exam-smart students typically expect a starry picture of As galore, there is greater uncertainty as to what their score sheets will look like this time.
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  • LETTERS
    • 361 8  -  He Yinlian for the job vacancy, poly grad told I REFER to the report, "Hard work getting jobs Poly graduates tell of difficulties" (Today, Feb 21). I agree with the two engineering graduates interviewed. Like them, I also graduated last year with a chemical engineering diploma and I,
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    • 197 8  -  I REFER to your humour column by Neil Humphreys, "Shoot those damn cyclists" (Weekend Today, March 1-2). I am a considerate cyclist who can be found most mornings, complete with lights and helmet, on the roads in Katong and East Coast Park. It is in the
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    • 110 8  -  Looi Kok Yang YOUR humour column, "Shoot those damn cyclists" (Weekend Today, March 1-2), strikes a chord with me but I do not think I will shoot them or knock them down. The report has, however, left out the views of the motorist At
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 382 10 Top execs must report remuneration packages and payouts SYDNEY The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is poised to announce tough measures to make companies reveal the pay and termination packages of its top executives, the Sun Herald reported yesterday. The report said the ASX's Corporate Governance Council
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    • 342 10  - And pressure in S'pore to justify high salaries Lee Yew Meng TOP executives of financiallyailing listed companies here are likely to come under increasing pressure to justify their high remuneration packages while the companies are still in the red, analysts say. They noted that many of the 48 listed companies
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    • 208 11  -  Lee Yew Meng Today photo by HOTEL 81 is opening a budget hotel in Chinatown catering to low-budget travellers. The hotel, which has more than 90 rooms, is expected to open for business in June. It is being converted from two
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    • 344 11 AFP Four-year low as Blair backs US LONDON Worries about the British economy and Prime Minister Tony Blair's staunch support for the United States in the Iraq crisis have driven the sterling down to a four-year low against the euro. The euro smashed above 0.68 pounds ($1.87)
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    • Market Watch
      • 63 11 SHARES ended lower last week, with the Straits Times Index down 38 points to 1,273.85. Analysts said market sentiment continued to be weighed down by fears of war in Iraq. Investors had earlier cautiously welcomed the news that Iraq had agreed, in principle, to destroy its al-Samoud 2 missiles
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      • 22 11 Gold uss/oz 349.95 Silver uss/oi 4.6 Platinum uss/oz 683.5 Rubber cents/kg 177.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 621 Brent crude uss/borrel 36i
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      • 36 11 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5764 0.3644 68.0316 4.***** 2.***** 0.***** 5128.2 24.6450 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 31.389 0.9466 27.456 687.49 0.8599 4.7713 1.0291 20.012
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    • 292 12 Bloomberg WASHINGTON Hutchison Whampoa, in a revised bid to win US approval of its purchase of the bankrupt communications network company, Global Crossing, may agree to limit its role in managing the organisation, people familiar with the matter said.
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    • 560 12 Bloomberg Li Ka Shing is Forbesf fifth most powerful billionaire HONG KONG Li Ka Shing's influence eclipses even his billions, according to Forbes magazine, which ranked him fifth among the world's 10 most powerful billionaires behind Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch.
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      297 13 AFP Foreign banks move to S'pore asTokyo declines TOKYO Foreign banks in Japan are hastily withdrawing from foreign exchange operations in Tokyo in frustration at the nation's anaemic economy and expensive living costs, analysts said. Many of the lenders are beating a retreat to Singapore, with Bank of
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    • 107 13 Bloomberg PSA Corp, the port operator, has not abandoned plans to sell shares to the public even though its rates will continue to fall because of intensified competition. Temasek Holdings, the Government's investment arm which owns the company, in July delayed an initial public
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    • 239 13 AFP HANOI Over 500 government and business leaders from Asia, Europe and the United States will meet in the Vietnamese capital this week for a conference on Vietnam's role in the Asian economy. Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai will open the three-day event,
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    • Article, Illustration
      388 14  -  Vasu Menon Award-winning funds may not continue to excel news@newstoday.com.sg INVESTORS have to be careful not to assume that an award-winning fund will continue to do well just because it has done well in the past Before jumping into a fund, you should ask more questions
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    • 430 15  -  Carmen Lee Jaya Holdings will do even better in second half by news@newstoday. com.sg JAYA Holdings was featured in this column last September as an attractive investment idea because of its high dividend yield, good earnings growth and inexpensive valuations. It justified our recommendation with its
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    • 195 15 LANGKAWI Malaysia has set a minimum target of four per cent economic growth this year but Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad cautioned that the figure may not be reached if war breaks out in Iraq, a report in the New Straits Times said.
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    • 31 10 More than his $13.6 billion Li Ka Shing is Forbes' fifth most powerful billionaire See Page 12 Not a sure bet Award-winning funds may not continue to excel See Page 14
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  • THE ISO WAY
    • 682 16  -  Gurmeet Singh Integrated Management System helps lower costs, increase efficiency by newscffnewstoday.com.sg MANY of us equate quality, environmental and occupational health and safety with higher costs, but that need not necessarily be true. In fact, for companies that are concerned about certification to some international standards,
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    • 323 16 INDUSTRY players revealed that more businesses were moving towards IMS instead of implementing individual certifications at different stages. Said Mr Peter Sim, the business development director at AJA Registrars Pte Ltd: "Over the last two years, both new and old clients have been requesting IMS
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    • 405 18  -  Justyn Olby Accreditation enhances company's corporate image and attracts customers by news@newstoday. com.sg IN these tough times, it is essential for companies to have good work practices. These include reducing operational costs and maintaining a high level of employee efficiency. Jurong Engineering Limited (JEL) chose to
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    • 291 18  -  -Justyn Olby HOW does an international company make sure that all its branches follow the same policies? If you are Kasei Optonix Asia Pte Ltd, you use the Integrated Management System (IMS) to build common standards and policies that staff can follow. Kasei's managing director, Mr
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      389 20  -  Justyn Olby How to ensure quality control and motivate employees by news@newstoday. com.sg ONE of the key issues faced by businesses is to ensure the quality of their products and maintain that quality. For a company like CEL Coatings Industries Pte Ltd, which provides electroplating services
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    • 94 20 "Having the ISO 9001:2000 certification will help us clinch more deals as it is recognised as a standard of quality. It's also in line with the government's call to constantly upgrade." Mr Pour Beng Quey Managing Director Hsuen Chow Pte Ltd "We hope to remain as the
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 53 29 Reuters An elderly man, carrying a placard shaped like a kitchen^knife adorned with a statement saying "butcher the poor", walking past other disabled protesters. They were demonstrating yesterday against the Hong Kong government's plans to cut welfare tav merits to tackle a gaping deficit and lingering
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    • 147 29 Agencies TEHERAN Iran's reformers could not repeat the landslide victory they had in the 1999 local government elections, losing virtually all the seats they had won in those polls. On a turnout which officials admitted barely topped 10 per cent in the capital, electoral officials said
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    • 104 29 LONDON In a reversal of decades-old wisdom, a group of leading environmentalists and waste campaigners argued that incineration is better for the environment than recycling, The Telegraph reported yesterday. In an article for the leading Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, a group of Swedes argued that recycling
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    • 404 29 Agencies Turkey, Arab League reject war against Iraq WASHINGTON The war plans are nearly ready but a double blow to Washington's campaign against Iraq over the weekend showed that its diplomatic efforts still have some way to go. Turkish Prime Minister Abdullah Gul was yesterday trying to mend
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    • Article, Illustration
      262 30 In race to be California Governor WASHINGTON US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice (picture, top) could end up squaring off with Hollywood muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger (picture, bottom) for the top post of California's Governor in 2006. A report published in The Sunday Times of London yesterday reported
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    • 148 30 Agencies CHIAYI (Taiwan) Prosecutors have blamed human error for a train accident on Saturday in the Alishan mountain which killed 17 people and injured 173. Speaking after experts combed the crash site, chief prosecutor Lo Chienhsun said yesterday that the coupling linking the brake of
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    • 116 30 Agencies WARSAW Poland's government coalition has split apart after one of the ruling parties opposed a key measure on preparing to join the European Union (EU) three months before a referendum on the issue. Prime Minister Leszek Miller on Saturday demanded the resignation of two ministers of
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    • 76 30 AFP BEIJING The authorities have issued regulations to curb indoor pollution, which kills 111,000 people in China every year, state media reported yesterday. The rules, which took effect at the weekend, set a ceiling for 13 chemical pollutants, including formaldehyde and benzene, Xinhua news agency
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 966 31  -  Dr Kog Yue Choong Malaysia and Singapore should focus once again on shared interests news@newstoday.com.sg FOR many in Malaysia and Singapore, the memory of the heyday of economic cooperation among the states of South-east Asia may be a very distant one. One can recall
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  • WATZUP?
    • 467 32  -  Rachel Fang DancerYoko Komatsubara lives through the passionate art form by rachel@newstoday. com.sg FLAMENCO literally gives dancer Yoko Komatsubara (picture) life. "Flamenco is the evidence of having lived my life. It is the evidence of love. Without it, I cannot even imagine where I would be
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    • 204 32 TO commemorate International Women's Day this Saturday, the Singapore Council of Women's Organisation (SCWO) will be holding a public exhibition and forum. The launch will be officiated by the patron of SCWO, Mrs S R Nathan. Titled Her Story of Singapore, the exhibition at Suntec
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    • 687 33 The first outcast of Survivor would have been happier joining the other team TALK about birthday nightmares. Ryan Aiken was the first contestant sent packing on Survivor: The Amazon in an episode that airs on his 24th birthday. Survivor, which premiered with a 90-minute special
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    • LIVING LEARNING
      • 609 34  -  Chan Seet Fun What could be more rewarding than helping those who are in need? by news@newstoday.com.Sß ONE was getting sick of being cooped up in a laboratory and the other was tired of shuffling paper. So they became nurses instead. Staff Nurse Ng Wan Ru,
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      • 211 34 SEASONED nurses who want to develop their skills further are given training opportunities throughout their career. Under the Health Manpower Development Programme, Mr Arumugum Govindasamy, 44, a nurse educator at the Institute of Mental Health/Woodbridge Hospital, went to the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences
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      • 342 34  -  Low Shi Ping Today photo by IN THE next year, the pioneer batch of students from the Singapore Management University (SMU) will be entering the workforce. Priscilla Foo and Byron Chan are two such students. Looking back at the past three years, both
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 201 35 -Reuters George Michael to bring message to 100m European homes BRITISH pop star George Michael (picture), who angered Americans last year with a single lampooning President George W Bush, is to record an anti-war song that will be broadcast to more than 100 million homes across Europe.
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      • 135 35 TUSTIN Timberlake (picture), I the former heartthrob boyfriend of Britney Spears, is set to go gay. According to peoplenews.com, the pop icon will be making his sitcom debut on Will Grace playing a gay gigolo. Timberlake, caught up recently in an a**e-fondling furore with pop kitten
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    • EAT OUT
      • 596 36  -  Katrina Karim Aussie chef wows with his culinary genius and refreshing style by eatouKffnewstoday. com.sg WHOEVER believes that hard work does not pay off has not met master chef Matthew Moran. Unlike most restaurants, which change their menu once or twice a year, Matthew's Aria restaurant in Sydney
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      • 181 36 THE Food and Heritage Trail returns with a meaningful theme racial harmony. Bringing the Chinese, Indian and Malay communities closer, the award-winning event promises a good spread of cuisine, contests, prizes and enriching visits to various heritage and religious sites such as churches, temples and mosques, as
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      • FoodNotes
        • 99 36 The Cherry Garden at the Oriental Hotel has turned into a huge treasure chest filled with an unlimited array of yummy dim sum. For $22+++ per person, the Chinese restaurant offers diners as much as 20 varieties of exquisite dim sum items.These include the crispy prawn rolls
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        • 142 36 For this month and next, PrimaDeli aims to sweeten life up with two delightful cakes the "Yummy Yam" (picture) and the Hazelnut Truffle. The "Yummy Yam", the flavour for this month, is made from a heavenly combination of fresh yam slices and soft vanilla sponge.The creamy
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      • 397 37  -  Katrina Karim Beer and food make a good pair by eatouKffnewstoday. com.sg THIS is not your usual garden variety beer promotion. Instead, it is a unique promotion that introduces the pairing of beer with food, bringing to Singaporeans a higher awareness of the versatility of
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    • 231 43 Agencies LAS VEGAS Britain's Lennox Lewis and former undisputed champion Mike Tyson are just some of the possible next opponents for Roy Jones, who made boxing history yesterday morning by becoming heavyweight champion. The 34-year-old American became the first former middleweight since Bob
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    • 224 44  -  Nilesh Pritam A SPORTS LETTER IT WAS a match between Singapore's two top S-League teams. The weather was perfect The field looked in pristine condition and the stadium seemed almost full. While I've never been the type to make time to watch S-League
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    • 402 45 Reuters PORT ELIZABETH Andy Bichel produced a man-of-the-match all-round performance as Australia edged out England by two wickets in World Cup Group A on Sunday to seal a world record 12th straight one-day win. Bichel completed figures of seven for 20, the
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