Today, 9 June 2003

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    17 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY JYJ 0 II Q 2i V JUIle 9' 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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    Lock icon No more Mr Nice Guy
    828 1  -  Elisia Yeo Americans struggle with a crisis of identity by elisia@newstoday.com.sg WASHINGTON DC "Do you have any spare change?" The question came from an African American woman dressed in casual clothes as I walked towards her. It was remote, not really expecting an answer. I
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    Lock icon When dead is truly better
    307 1 I Tan Hui Leng m Poor little Penny hit the street with her head. Now she keeps company with creatures under your bed. THIS poem accompanies the death certificate of popular Living Dead doll, Penny (picture). Tucked in coffin-shaped boxes, the Living Dead Dolls are
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      S'pore war rationale
      536 2  -  Val Chua On hindsight, decision may have been the same: PM by val@newstoday.com.sg THE failure to discover weapons of mass destruction in post-war Iraq the rationale behind the war has put many nations in a bind, but Singapore says its decision to back the war was justified.
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      Lock icon Sad goodbye in Aceh
      75 3 -AFP German tourist Elisabeth Engel, 49, placing her hand on her dead husband Lothar Heinrich Albert, 54, at an army hospital in Jakarta yesterday. The German nationals were touring the Indonesian province of Aceh on bicycle at night when they were shot at by Indonesian soldiers,
      -AFP  -  75 words
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      Lock icon NatSteel softens stance on dividends
      236 3 Chan Chao Pei TYCOON Oei Hong Leong, who owns a 29.99 per cent stake in NatSteel, won a victory of sorts when the NatSteel board decided to take a step back in the long tussle over the payment of dividends In an announcement which came
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      Lock icon Israel warns Mr Abbas It's ready to act
      51 3 -AFP JERUSALEM Israel has urged Palesinian Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas to crack down on militants following an attack on an Israel-Gaza crossing point yesterday. Four Israelis were killed as three militants, dressed as Israeli soldiers, opened fire. The militants were subsequently shot
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      Lock icon Ready to retaliate
      236 3 -AFP N Korea spells out the consequences SEOUL North Korea has threatened to counter the United States' plans for military enhancements on the Korean peninsula with a "corresponding powerful deterrent force". The threat was issued on Saturday by the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in
      -AFP  -  236 words
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      69 3 /jtie GMAT Princeton <-> a -r <—Review SAT Join us at the library and take a FREE SAT test worth $80! Date 21 June 2003 (Saturday) Time 1.30 4.30pm Venue Bukit Merah Community Library Bedok Community Library Ang Mo Kio Community Library library@orchard Please call 6839 0116/120 to register your
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Footballer probed for deadly threat
      152 4  -  —Jose Raymond AN S-LEAGUE player, who felt the team physiotherapist had "killed" his career by lodging a complaint against him, has landed in more hot water. The police are investigating whether the player threatened to kill the physiotherapist Police spokesman ASP Chua Chee Wai yesterday
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      Lock icon Lift for tired residents
      415 4  -  Lee Ching Wern by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg FOR the past 30 years, residents atop the Rumah Tinggi estate faced a monumental problem. For the 1,000 households, going shopping or having lunch at the nearby hawker centre was literally an uphill battle. That is until their MP, Mr Chay
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      Kick the bad habit bro
      776 5  -  Elaine Quek Alice does not want to see the brother she loves suffer from cancer, heart disease by news@newstoday.com.se MS ALICE Leong is a happy-go-lucky young lady with a younger brother whom she loves dearly. When he picked up smoking two years ago, her world
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      SingTel faces fine, pot shots
      391 6  -  Chan Chao Peh by chaopeh@newstodav.com.se SINGTEL has been fined again by telecom regulator Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), getting hit with record penalties for print advertisements that infringed the telecom competition code. Acting on a complaint from StarHub, IDA ruled that a SingTel Mobile print ad
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      Asean's Ong seeks to clear air on Sars
      305 6  -  Ng Boon Yian by boonyian@newstoday.com.se WITH Sars and economic turbulence hitting the region, Asean secretary-general Ong Keng Yong (picture) has had little idle time since he assumed office in January. He had to travel extensively to make himself known to the governments,
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      521 6 Doctors, CEOs, GMs, Engineers, Entrepreneurs Everyone seems to be doing Law as a second degree from University of London at SIC Why Law? All of us are presumed to know the law Do we really know the law? Knowing the rules will help you succeed in business and life People
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      Risky bypass
      386 8  -  Tan Kin Lian Policyholders can choose own workshop, but I REFER to the letter, "Low quotes, shoddy repairs?" by Bernard Low, Secretary of the Singapore Motor Workshop Association (Today, June 6). Mr Low suggested that tendering of repair jobs is not ideal and that motorists should be allowed
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      Account to donors
      152 8  -  Michael Loh I REFER to the article, "In the name of courage" (Weekend Today, June 7 8). The Courage Fund was set up outside the control of the Community Chest As such, Singaporeans expect close to all, if not all, of the money donated to the fund
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Shrinking trust funds
      551 10  -  Lee Yew Meng Investors are wary of further investment by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg IHJiKfc, are many more small unit trust funds here than investors care to think. Information culled from Lippers showed that some 39 unit trust funds here now have capital of less than $1 million each. And
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    • Market Watch
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        112 10 -AFP SINGAPORE stocks are expected to slide this week after a surge that was inspired by the republic being declared Sars-free, dealers said. The STI closed at 1,439.25 points on Friday, up 90.25 points, or 6.27 per cent, from the previous week. "It seems the run up has been
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        Yiyr S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5804 UK£ 0.3485 Yen 68.379 HK$ 4.5261 RM 2.2052 Euro 0.4945 Rupiah 4747.5 Baht 24.136 Peso 31.027 A$ 0.8752 Indian Rs 27.2171 Won 693.99 C$ 0.7862 Yuan 4.8039 NZ$ 1.0031 NTS 20.110
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        Commidutues
        21 10 Gold uss/oi 363.75 Silver uss/oi 4.545 Platinum uss/oi 653 Rubber centsAg 181.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1517 Brent crude uss/barrel 31.28
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      Lock icon Strike puts Alitalia's future at risk: Transport chief
      177 12 -AFP PISA (Italy) The future of Italian air carrier Alitalia is at stake in an ongoing battle over plans to cut staff numbers aboard flights, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Mario Tassone said. "This is a difficult time as the roles of the
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      Lock icon Warning on oil flow
      292 12 -AFP As date of single-hull ban moved up ATHENS The Greek shipping community the industry's biggest player worldwide has strongly opposed a European Union (EU) decision to send sin-gle-hull oil tankers to the scrapyards by 2010 and warned that the move will disrupt international petroleum flows
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      Lock icon £ for euro?
      166 14 for euro? Bloomberg Brown expected to rule out option LONDON Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Gordon Brown, is likely today to rule out swapping the pound for the euro this year, though he may keep alive the option of joining in the next few years, investors said. With polls showing
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      New poster boy of business
      244 16 MONTE CARLO An Indian billionaire who started a software company 22 years ago with US$25O ($431) and who still lives in a modest apartment, has been named Ernst Young's 2003 World Entrepreneur Of The Year. Judges praised Mr Narayana Murthy's "intellectually-, philosophically-, ethically- and spiritu-ally-driven
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      Roly out-performs among gainers
      407 16  -  Carmen Lee by news@newstoday.com.se WITH the resurgence in buying interest, the Straits Times Index has moved up about 13 per cent over the past month. Most stocks have rallied from the lows in March, when the twin impact of the war in Iraq and the Sars
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      Lock icon Bush, the master of low expectations
      285 24 WASHINGTON He has always been underestimated. From the time he ran for president, to his declaration of war on terrorism and even as US-led troops took Baghdad. "I am the master of low expectations," US President George W Bush was quoted by the Washington
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon CREMONA
        39 24 -AFP (Italy) A woman is suing an Italian supermarket after discovering a leech in a can of chick peas she had bought there, police said on Saturday. She had earlier found a cockroach in a can of spinach.
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        Lock icon BOSTON
        31 24 Reuters Episcopalians in New Hampshire elected the church's first openly gay bishop on Saturday in a vote sure to fuel debate in a denomination divided over homosexuality and same-sex unions.
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        Lock icon BAGHDAD
        33 24 AFP About 17,000 bags of foreign mail for Iraa, which had been backed up in Jordan since the war, were due to be delivered to Baghdad on Saturday, the US-led administration said.
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        Lock icon NEW DELHI
        27 24 Reuters India's annual monsoon rains hit the coast of Kerala state yesterday, bringing respite from a three-week heatwave that has killed more than 1,300 people.
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        35 24 Reuters (Mauritania Heavy gunfire erupted eary yesterday in the capital of the northwest African country of Mauritania in an apparent coup attempt against a pro-Israel Arab leader who launched a crackdown on Islamists recently.
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      696 14 Every Monday, we carry a table of dividends declared by companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The list, compiled with the assistance of Telekurs Financial, appears in our business and finance pages. The new service is in line with the efforts of the editorial team at Today to provide
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      866 17 2T Impressions W Singapore Arts Festival 2003 May 30-June 22 ORPHEUS CHAMBER MARK CHAN AND MUSICIANS I Wj^M on how to create Y our own ORCHESTRA (USA) LITTLE TOYS: CHINESE FILM i J^^S H puppets! Suitable for children The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is CLASSIC WITH LIVE MUSIC j Si H
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      1014 18 JOY RIDE Zhalannayas, and the arrangements Generation Films (Australia) of the multi-instrumentalist, Sergey (World Premiere) Starostin. Joy Ride is a 1 9th century carnival Date: June 20 22 P ride and 21st century video art Time: 7.30pm, 8.45pm l^^B/ experience rolled into one. The Venue: Outdoor Theatre, audience recline on
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      1118 19 Date: June 21 various classes of the Hong V^ gm COFFEE MORNING Venue: DBS Arts Centre production shows how the V^ll^Ci /^^^*>\_l This concert showcases Home of the Singapore characters are linked to one ~*ai 3& to* works from the xinyao Repertory Theatre another, as the encounter lP >>^ 1
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      1050 20 reflections on contemporary artist Linda Gouw. Inspired H-'o'Jl'r'^^'^'^qf "~^~'-"'••-'ffi\ 1 M^" ll I •sM2J^B|a'i be submitted to: Malay identity. by her interest in art and her Trr'a.-?*!', !*y?C'f.*trsfP Al|»""^alM Words Art 2003 Date: Till June 12 experiences of touring art ~-'^^^^T''l!S&'^|l-~rti:^^^>";'^!^ Kat^fef ■ffJK uf^ffltjjL nfflrl Programme (Closed on Sun) galleries
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      1317 21 TALES FROM THE ORIENT ACHMAED AND HIS Venue: Velvet should have an appropriate component. This competition Tales from the Orient, by AMAZING ARABIAN Underground GCE A-Level certificate or a is open to Singapore ACT 3 Drama Academy, is a CARPET STORIES Price: $10 (Before 10pm) diploma qualification in an citizens
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      1078 22 THE CITY OF MANILA: jj^ ■"—■■—pi "2 CZ^~"M Wk infrared photography and COMMUNITY HISTORY, PEOPLE, ■^■■■^■E f^k I techniques CONNECTIONS CULTURE IQ^fe Date: June 21 Each week host Valane This session conducted by *i*^~ B^^^Bfc Time: 2.30pm 4pm Tan checks out one speaker Rowena Unas '^^^^fcs"^^ Venue: Singapore History community
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Voodoo economics
      566 25  -  David Deßosa Japan's exchange rate strategy is a textbook case of contradictory logic by news@newstoday.com.sg JAPAN is once again upset that the value of the yen against the dollar is too high for its tastes. Accordingly, Japanese Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa promised on Friday he would take "action
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      43 25 I m 1 b iciciii i n^ijj m phi Mem i Mem wi^d m s icm k^icj^b HHHHiiilff^MpjHpi HI JBiiMJiii Hi H|HH^mH|lHhhh HI SESSION^^ 30 June 2003, Monday, 7.00pm HI Times Management Institute II KWll Unity Street #02-18/19 Robertson Walk Ak Singapore *****5
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  • WATZUP?
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      Don't look back in anger
      771 26  -  Razali Abdullah Lock up the kids, because Metallica is back, angrier than ever razali@newstoday.com.sg THE metal in Metallica is back. St Anger, which will be released today, is a return to the sound that made the band a speed/thrash metal institution and the godfather of
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      Lock icon Will Sharon play Hillary?
      154 27 SHARON Stone (picture, left) is in talks to play Hillary Clinton (picture, right) in an upcoming TV film of the former US President's wife, according to peoplenews.com. American Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E) is developing the film about Hillary based on a book by Gail Sheehy
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      Lock icon Bullock stalker stopped
      338 28 -AFP Restraining order for 34-year-old man LOS ANGELES Hollywood star Sandra Bullock (picture) has won a permanent restraining order against a man whom she claims stalked her across three US states and bombarded her with messages. Judicial Commissioner Scott Gordon, sitting in Los Angeles, granted the order
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      Lock icon Sly film to tackle LAPD corruption
      206 28 -AFP LOS ANGELES Sylvester Stallone (picture) has signed on to write, direct and star in a film that tackles the subject of corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The movie will weave together real-life scandals and events involving the police department Production
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon Good Bye, Lenin! wins seven awards
        325 30 Reuters BERLIN International box office blockbuster Good Bye, Lenin! scooped up seven German Lola awards at the 53rd German Film Prize competition Germany's equivalent of the Oscars on Friday. The German government had underwritten the lucrative awards as an indirect subsidy for domestic filmmakers.
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        Kidman in talks to cut an album
        169 30 IS acclaimed actress Nicole Kidman (picture) aiming to move from being in front of the camera to behind a mike? According to industry sources, she is on the brink of signing a record deal. Peoplenews.com reported that the 35-year-old actress has been in
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    • LIVING & LEARNING
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        Flexible, unusual, enjoyable...
        318 31  -  Gurmeet Singh by news@newstoday.com.sg REPORTING for duty at three in the morning while the rest of Singapore is asleep is nothing out of the ordinary for 28-year-old First Sergeant Chua Lee Mee (picture). A full-time member of the regular technical crew with the Republic of Singapore Air
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        Fresh, from trolley to table
        391 33 Tips on keeping supermarket food safe Ensuring the food you eat is safe goes a long way in keeping many diseases at bay. When you buy food from the supermarket, you can rest assured that they have gone through safety checks. But food can be
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    • EAT OUT
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        Chinese delicacies galore
        457 33  -  Angela Lim Mouth Seafood Restaurant's extensive buffet spread tempts you to feast WHERE: Mouth Seafood Restaurant 133 North Bridge Road, Chinatown Point #81-O2 TELEPHONE: 6533 6696 OPERATING HOURS: noon to 2.30pm; 6.30pm 10.00pm daily BUFFET: Lunch $16.90+++ (adult) $9.9o+++ (child) Dinner $19.90+++ (adult) $11.90+++ (child) (Additional $3
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        Lock icon Welcome to 'The Swamp'
        651 39 Reuters Intimidating Nets' arena will test Spurs' mettle EAST RUTHERFORD The NBA Finals shifts to the Meadowlands today with the New Jersey Nets hoping for the same success its National Hockey League room-mates have had at Continental Airlines Arena three wins at home. After splitting the
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        Lock icon Spain falls for the age-old trick of Greeks bearing gifts
        388 39 Reuters ZARAGOZA Spain, the most consistent qualifier in European football for a decade, crashed to a shock 1-0 home defeat to Greece in the last and most surprising of Saturday's (yesterday morning, Singapore time) 19 European Championship qualifying matches. The
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        Lock icon Turks back on top
        167 39 -AFP BRATISLAVA Turkey beat Slovakia 1-0 here on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) in a tense Euro 2004 qualifier to pile the pressure back on SvenGoran Eriksson's England in the race to win Group Seven and guarantee automatic qualification for the finals next year. "We needed
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        Lock icon Fergie's had enough
        652 40 -AFP Red Devils admit negotiations underway for Beckham sale LONDON David Beckham's love affair with Manchester United could be over by the end of this week after the club confirmed it had opened talks with potential buyers. Beckham, a lifelong United supporter who signed for the club
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        Vieira wants Pires to stay
        234 40 LONDON Patrick Vieira has admitted he fears Arsenal could lose FA Cup final hero Robert Pires this summer. Pires, who is reportedly wanted by Valencia, has two years left on his current contract and is stalling on a new deal with the Gunners. Vieira told
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      533 41  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Brazil stunned as arch-rival Argentina clinches World 5s by in Kuala Lumpur yohinn@newstoday.com.sg FEW predicted anything but a Brazil win. But no one told Argentina that it was supposed to just roll over and die in the final of the Kuala Lumpur World 5s futsal
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