Today, 28 April 2003

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    10 1 TODAY Monday a phi 28' 2°° 3 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Atypical new mania and a strange old attitude
    382 1  -  Tor Ching Li by chingli@newstoday.com.sg WHO would have thought that regular temperature checks would take on such life-and-death proportions? According to an industry source, one doctor in a government hospital was kept in isolation on premises for a few days because her
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    Lock icon Beijing bedlam
    610 1 Agencies Tough new rules getting punctured on the ground BEIJING Till further notice, all marriage registrations in Beijing have been stopped. Only China could have taken such a dramatic step so nonchalantly, as the country seemed to wake up suddenly to quell the threat of Sars. Movie halls
    – Agencies; -AFP photo  -  610 words
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      140 1 //^DIACORP Carrefour 4ft Singapore r CHECK INSIDE FOR TODAY'S Carrefour SUPERNffi Incomeshield M A AB V w fl I Pays for hospital surgical bills, including certain expensive outpatient treatment. Covers more than 400,000 policyholders. Premium payable by CPF Medisave. ~^F~ [^Family Insurance Plan iY I f W a ■AH Provides
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lecturer dies of pneumonia
      343 2  -  Grace Tay But NUS takes no chances, adopts precautions by grace@newstoday.com.sg ONE week into the undergraduate examinations at the National University of Singapore (NUS), news went out to staff and students that a School of Business lecturer had died on Friday evening. Dr Chng Pheng Lui
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      Sars killed Dr Chao: MOH
      285 2  -  -Joy Frances DR ALEXANDRE Chao, the only son of the late forensic pathologist Prof Chao Tze Cheng, had died of Sars, according to the Ministry of Health. The consultant vascular surgeon at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) was being treated for dengue fever but post-mortem
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      The coalition's mole?
      513 3 LONDON At the beginning of the war, American officials had hinted that then Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz had defected. He then appeared before journalists in Baghdad, denouncing angrily the claim and said that he would rather die than be taken into American custody. Now that
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      457 3 INFORMATICS TAKES BIG STEPS IN ITS 1 SERVICE EXCELLENCE JOURNEY. j In the education services sector, high-levels of academic and professional According to Mr Lawrence Wee, Senior Vice President of Informatics competence are paramount. The Informatics Group has shown leadership in Group, "Service excellence becomes an effective enabler to differentiate
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Reward for model motorists
      212 4  -  Grace Tay SOME 852 motorists have been singled out for their courteous acts on the roads and some gestures were as simple as giving way to a vehicle filtering out of a side lane. The police held a lucky draw on April 15 to pick 100
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      Reality check
      401 4  -  Joy Frances Sars here to stay but there's a twist by j oy@newstoday. com.sg THE threat of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) will not go away but Singapore could benefit from the situation if it can adapt and attract investors who have been impressed by its decisive handling
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      Lock icon Update on Sars crisis
      317 4 AFP AFP AFP ALL public hospitals here will implement a no-visitor rule for patients from tomorrow. Of the 198 Sars cases reported so far, about 38 per cent were visitors to hospitals.This is an added measure to cut down the chances of visitors being infected in
      — AFP  -  317 words
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      'Chalet' check-in
      420 6  -  Grace Tay Spare HDB flats for Sars quarantine not for the sick: Mah by era ce@newstoday.com.sg IN THE that HDB blocks are set aside as emergency housing to quarantine those suspected of having contracted Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), neighbouring residents should not be frightened unnecessarily. National Development
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      Lock icon Rowling's richer than the Queen
      109 6 -AFP LONDON Author of the Harry Potter books, J K Rowling, is worth £280 million ($792 million), making her richer than Britain's Queen Elizabeth, according to the latest "Rich List" in the Sunday Times. The writer's success puts her 122nd on the annual survey of
      -AFP  -  109 words
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      20 6 MediaCorp salutes healthcare workers Please donate generously to The Courage Fund. Call 1900-*****11. Each call is a donation of $5.
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      Crack down on those who spread rumours
      181 8  -  Christie Loh I READ with interest the reports on the parliamentary sitting to push through legislation to combat and control the outbreak of Sars (Weekend Today, April 26-27). The measures appear to be well thought out. However, they do not make any mention
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      Speed up verdicts on Sars
      176 8  -  Yong Yit Kuen Delay puts others at risk I REFER to the report, "Family's fears come true" (Today, April 25). Why did the health authorities tell the family initially that the woman had died of an apparent heart attack? The family held the funeral wake
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      Special schools too?
      132 8  -  Eng Whan Seng I REFER to reports that thermometers will be distributed to those in school and the armed forces, so that people can take their temperature twice a day, as a precaution against Sars. I would like to applaud the Ministry of Education for taking an
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      386 9 Always Giving You Mojre... Ip Education James Cook University (JCU) is one of Queensland's premier stateowned universities and Australia's leading tropical university. With over 40 years of history, JCU is a world leader in environmental, ecological and technological research. With sprawling campuses in Melbourne, Sydney, Cairns and Townsville, JCU offers
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Taiwan's visa ban a blow
      412 10 Bloomberg SIA, China Air, Cathay Pacific to be affected SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), China Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways, already suffering because of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), will be further affected by Taiwan's halt on visas for residents from Sars-affected areas. Taiwan yesterday said it
      — Bloomberg; -AFP photo  -  412 words
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      Lock icon Temasek consortium likely to win Danamon stake
      420 10 Reuters JAKARTA A foreign-led consortium is seen outbidding its competitors for a majority stake in Bank Danamon, Indonesia's fifth-largest bank, but analysts say talk of a US$4OO million ($7lO million) price tag is unrealistic. Indonesia's Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra), which owns Danamon, has
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        54 10 SGX SHARE prices in Singapore are expected to trade lower this week as investor concerns about the Sars outbreak and its impact on the local economy showed no signs of abating. The STI fell for the third straight session, dropping 13.87 points to 1,229.14. The All-Singapore Equities index slipped
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        Commodities
        21 10 Gold us$/oz 333.700 Silver us$/oz 4.646 Platinum us$/oi 624.000 Rubber cents/kg 173.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1440.5 Brent crude us$/borrel 26.36
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        Lock icon Your S$1 buys
        37 10 Bloomberg US$ 0.5608 UK£ 0.3524 Yen 67.3994 HK$ 4.3739 RM 2.1309 Euro 0.5081 Rupiah 4903.9 Baht 24.1357 Peso 29.766 A$ 0.9098 Indian Rs 26.555 Won 694.15 C$ 0.8113 Yuan 4.6415 NZ$ 1.011 NTS 19.597
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      Lock icon Meaty Ikea
      452 13 Reuters Food boosts furniture firm's bottom line STOCKHOLM Ikea is synonymous in much of the world with simple, cheap furniture, but for Swedish expats the name has different connotations. For Swedes far from home Ikea's lines of herring, meatballs and lingonberry jelly provoke homesickness. The company that gave
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      M1 to declare interim dividend
      316 13 MOBILE phone operator MobileOne (Ml) will maintain its policy to pay out 60 per cent of its net profit this year as dividend, though the company sees growth for the rest of the year moderating. "I don't see any compelling reason to change the dividend
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      Lock icon Dying allure
      528 14 Bloomberg Several Asian firms are severing ties with Nasdaq DATACRAFT Asia's plan to list on the Nasdaq stock market sent its shares up 11 per cent in a day. That was four years ago. Datacraft, a Singapore-based installer of computer networks, never followed through. Several other Asian companies
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      Lock icon Sars may hurt Asian manufacturers' outlook
      304 14 Bloomberg SHARES of Asian makers of computers, consumer electronics and related items, which dropped after disappointing results from Sony Corp, may fall further as the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) threatens Chinese factories. Matsushita Electric Industrial, the world's biggest maker of consumer
      — Bloomberg  -  304 words
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      Lock icon China investment tough but vital: ANZ chief
      227 14 -AFP SYDNEY The head of Australia's third-largest bank, ANZ Banking Group, yesterday signalled his determination to stay in China for the long haul, although he admitted it was difficult for foreigners to make money in the populous country. ANZ chief executive John McFarlane
      -AFP  -  227 words
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      Reits buck the trend
      581 16  -  Carmen Lee Attractive yields from CapitaMall, AReit by news@newstoday.com.sg IN a market characterised by worries that corporate earnings will be hit by the Sars outbreak and weak consumer demand, two listed real estate investment trusts have surpassed expectations with the recent delivery of above market earnings.
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Why there's no backlash
      522 18  -  Jaime Koh Swift US victory among possible reasons by jaime@newstoday.com.sg BEFORE the outbreak of the war, the general sentiment was that military action in Iraq would lead to an antiAmerican backlash from Muslim communities in South-east Asia. There were also fears that the war in Iraq
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      Lock icon Cry, babies, cry!
      110 18 Reuters photo Waaaaaaaahhhhh! It's a contest, for crying out loud! And the baby at left sure knew how to rise to the occasion. While it cried like there's no tomorrow, the little one on the right slept peacefully in the arms of an amateur sumo wrestler during
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      No escape from super missile
      254 18 WASHINGTON US scientists are trying to develop a superfast missile that will be able to strike targets with lightning speed, all but denying future enemies of Washington a chance to escape, according to people familiar with the project. The highly-classified programme, whose origins go back
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      Lock icon Terrorists behind airport blast
      184 18 Agencies JAKARTA Terrorists have been blamed for a bomb blast that ripped through an American fast-food restaurant at Jakarta's international airport yesterday, the second attack on foreign facilities in three days, officials said. The bomb exploded near a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet at the Soekarno-Hatta airport,
      — Agencies  -  184 words
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      Lock icon Israel to dismantle two settlements
      219 18 -AFP JERUSALEM Israel will dismantle two "wildcat" settlements, as the Jewish settlements are known, near Hebron in the southern West Bank when Palestinian Prime Ministerdesignate Mahmud Abbas presents his Cabinet this week, Israeli public radio said yesterday. This is the first step Israel has to
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      Geared to the future
      806 27  -  Gurmeet Singh Facing greater challenges and responsibilities at work? Stay on top with MDIS by news@newstoday.com.sg WITH years of work experience, you suddenly find yourself faced with added responsibilities in a higher functional management role. It is a more challenging territory-how do you deal with managing
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      Rich tradition, quality education
      193 27 WITH a teaching tradition dating back to 1 904, Oklahoma City University (OCU) is recognised for offering quality education. Fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, OCU's Masters programmes were placed 26th in the US NEWS 2002 ranking of American Universities
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon The rough road to peace
      1009 28  -  Marites Danguilan Vitug Suspicions drive wedge between Manila and rebels by news@newstodav.com.se THE war in Iraq may be over but there is a war closer to home that refuses to die: The war against Muslim secessionist rebels in the Philippines. The US invasion of Iraq
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  • WATZUP?
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      Cape fear
      908 30  -  Tracy Heah The teenage Superman's love conflicts and his reluctance to don the red cloak by news@newstoday.com.sg TOM Welling (picture) makes a striking young Clark Kent His character on Warner Brothers' hugely popular series, Smallville, which begins its second run on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 at 10.30 tonight,
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    • EAT OUT
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        Shanghai splendour
        561 32  -  Katrina Karim Experience the distinct flavours of the ritzy old Shanghai by eatout@newstoday.com.sg DURING the 1930s, Shanghai was deemed the greatest city in Asia the "Paris of the East". A visit to the Grand Shanghai restaurant at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel was as good as travelling back
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        With these brainy beauties, all you need do is chill
        442 32 A PERFECT combination of beauty and quality. That's what Mitsubishi Electric's Folio series of refrigerators (pictures) are about. Beneath the sleek metallic exteriors lies a powerful technology that works hard at preserving your foods as well as the environment. Available
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        Perfume in my food
        371 33  -  Karman Tse Hermes lends flavour to Olive Tree I by karman@newstoday.com.sg THE Olive Tree Mediterranean Restaurant in conjunction with Hermes Parfums' latest fragrance, Un Jardin en Mediterranee is serving up speciallycreated set lunch and dinner menus that feature ingredients used in the fragrance, namely bergamot, fig
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      Kumon, let's learn maths
      648 34  -  Jason Chong by news@newstoday.com.sg THAT the ultimate aim in education is not only the passing of exams is a principle held dearly by the instructors at Kumon centres. Instead of getting students to work on the assessment books or exam papers of other schools, students enrolled
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      Win a scholarship and study in Japan
      272 34 *TV) ENCOURAGE more creativity and -L boost development in applied and media arts, the National Arts Council (NAC) is now inviting applications for a scholarship for diploma studies in Japan, to be awarded next year. The Takashimaya-NAC Scholarship is sponsored by Takashimaya Co
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    • LIVING LEARNING
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        Not just any qualification
        691 35  -  Justyn Olby HR managers want candidates with skills that prepare them for workplace challenges by news@newstoday.com.sg THESE days just finding a job can be difficult enough. Then there is the challenge of landing the interview and standing out from the crowd enough for the person on
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        To learn from the real world...
        278 35 To learn from the real world PSB Academy ensures that its students are fully prepared to put their skills to use in the real world and that the courses they take have local and international recognition. Here is how it is done: The PSB Academy Heritage Formed in the early
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        'No' to Porno
        208 36 EWAN McGregor (picture), first introduced to film audiences worldwide in the seminal British drug film, Trainspotting, has changed his mind about reprising his role as Mark "Rent-boy" Renton in the sequel. Having said earlier that he would be interested in playing the drug-addict character again in the
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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      364 36 Film festival screenings today 7pm Jade 2 Czech folk star, a recovering Prince I Shadow Play alcoholic, and his guitarist The Best of Times (Australia); 79 mins friend, who takes a year-long (Taiwan); 107 mins Dir: Chris Hilton vow of silence.The star Dir: Chang Tso-chi After General Suharto's then asks
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      1629 38 TV Sars Your Role ch 8,10 45pm Monday Mega Movie Fifth Element channel 5,7pm lanya Anugerah Suria, 9 30pm Not Just Another Flu, Part 4 Channel NewsAsia, 1.02pm The programme will highlight the impas- In the year 1914, some scientists in Egypt W \J Murad is a teacher at a
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Andre the giant
      429 39 Agencies Amazing Agassi begins life at the top again at 33 HOUSTON Andre Agassi became the oldest player to top the world rankings after crushing Jurgen Melzer to reach the final of the US Clay Court Championships Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The 32-year-old Agassi continued the
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      Lock icon Well, Neapolitans, heck, the rest of the world used to say he was a god
      715 39 NAPLES A decision to rename Naples' Stadium after both St Paul and Diego Maradona, the Argentinian striker who turned Napoli into a great team in the late 1980s, has divided the city and enraged the
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