Today, 12 June 2003

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  • 12 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Thursday June 12, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • 812 1  -  Elisia Yeo Remaking S'pore group suggests deep changes by elisia@newstoday.com.sg IS IT possible that Singapore's education system, criticised for being rigid and stressful, could change to nurture students as holistic beings, where those who excel at sport and art are given their place in the
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  • 221 1 AFP photo AFP HONG KONG Sars battle-scarred Hong Kong health officials implemented precautionary measures yesterday, including widespread disinfection, following the death of a two-year-old boy who had contracted anthrax. Authorities sterilised the boy's home, the hospital where he was treated and the nursery school
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  • 116 1 Reuters JAKARTA In his first public admission that the radical Jemaah Islamiah had targeted Singapore, the alleged Singapore JI chief told an Indonesian court yesterday the group had planned to attack US military facilities in the city state. Mas Selamat Kastari said the order came from Indonesian
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    • 35 1 BLIX BLAST STI BOOST 3 SUSPENDED UN weapons inspector Index breaches FAS hands out six to slams US detractors 1450 mark 1 8-month bans Page 3 Page 12 Page 46 Promote sexual equality: Page 2
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 404 2  -  Lee Ching Wern Milder form hits young, old Today photo by. by chingwern@newsto day. com. sg TYPICALLY, the young and the old are associated with being vulnerable to illnesses. When Sars hit Singapore, these two groups of patients were the ones doctors were most worried about Almost
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    • 130 2 KEY proposals made by the Remaking Singapore committee on Tuesday included recommendations to promote equality of the sexes. Even though ministers said "no" three months ago, the committee asked again for women civil servants to get the same medical benefits as their male colleagues do. Currently, a
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    • 181 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia plans to manufacture guided missiles and is eyeing technology from Bosnia and Brazil, Deputy Defence Minister Shafie Apdal said yesterday. The missile-development programme was prompted by the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Shafie was quoted as
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      59 3 AFP photo Thai prison boxers practising during a kickboxing programme in a prison in Khon Kaen province, north-east of Bangkok. The programme, provided free of charge to convicted thieves, is meant to provide inmates with skills in three vocations close to the hearts of northeasterners kickboxing, traditional Thai
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    • 216 3 Agencies JERUSALEM A day after Hamas militants vowed to revenge the attempted assassination of one of its senior leaders, a suspected suicide bomb ripped through a bus in central Jerusalem yesterday. "The bus was torn to shreds. There was a massive blast it's a
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    • 283 3 LONDON In an uncharacteristic outburst, outgoing chief United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix lambasted the "bastards" in the US administration who set out to undermine him during his three years at the helm. In an interview with the British daily, The Guardian, Dr Blix said: "I
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    • 559 4  -  Grace Tay and that's enough, say twins by grace@newstoday.com.sg LADAN and Laleh Brjani were the stars of a press conference yesterday. Despite the horde of photographers and cameramen present at the conference at Raffles Hospital, they appeared upbeat, and quite used to the limelight Ladan, dressed
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    • 80 4 FORMER Acting Minister of Information, Communications and the Arts David Lim (picture) may become the new chief executive of Neptune Orient Lines, The Business Times reported yesterday. In a Cabinet reshuffle announced late April, Mr Lim who was appointed acting minister in Nov 2001 asked
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    • 153 4 Bloomberg LONDON Barings auditors Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the second-biggest accounting firm, were negligent when they failed to spot losses at the UK bank's Singapore unit which caused its collapse, Britain's High Court ruled yesterday. Justice Edward Evans-Lombe also blamed the bank's management,
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 101 6  -  Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong receiving a memento from MediaCorp Group CEO, Mr Ernest Wong, when he met MediaCorp editors and journalists on Tuesday night. The memento was a Special Edition DVD of MediaCorp's first Star Search event in 1988. PM Goh was then Deputy Prime
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    • 506 6  -  Derrick A Paulo Good response rate may help uncover diamonds by derrick@newstoday.com.s. THE financing and financial situation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has come to the fore as SPRING Singapore aims to plug a vital information gap in the sector. The government agency yesterday
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    • 175 6 ASEAN is now a Sars-free region, according to a joint statement issued at the end of a special ASEAN plus 3 Health Ministers' meeting in Cambodia yesterday. But despite the significant decline in the number of new Sars cases and deaths in the
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    • 129 8 Newsßadio 938 FROM next month, all tobacco importers will have to be licensed by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) before they can import, distribute, wholesale or supply tobacco products. The move takes effect under the new Smoking Regulations. A statement from the HSA said the
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    • 642 8  -  Tor Ching Li and Grace Tay Affected MarineTerrace families to get reprieve by news@newstoday.com.sg JUDGING by the Marine Terrace upgrading snafu, one question begs answers: Should the HDB relook its tender system, which has awarded jobs consistently to the lowest bidder? Upgrading work on Blocks 12 to
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    • 83 8 Newsßadio 938 MORE than 300 people with disabilities and special needs were given a familiarisation tour of the facilities at North East Line stations yesterday. The North East Line has been built to enable the physically-disabled to travel within the system independently. Barrier-free facilities
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  • LETTERS
    • 461 10 No probe temple Yes, the CPIB did call up a temple member: Today ON behalf of Muneeswaran Temple Society, I will like to respond to the article "Temple Troubles" (Today, May 19). To the best of my knowledge, no member of the Temple has been called up by the Corrupt
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    • 260 10  -  Jacqueline Goh I READ the article 'Do I have Sars?' (Weekend Today, June 7-8) by the Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC, Ms Irene Ang (picture), and felt greatly disturbed. For months, the Government has been trying to educate the public about calling
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    • 237 10  -  Yim Soon Kong I AM a 72-year-old, who was admitted on May 16 to the Singapore General Hospital with heart problems and swollen legs. I was not placed in any isolation ward and did not show any sign of having Sars when I was
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 313 12  -  Lee Yew Meng Punters, funds lift STI above 1,450 THE Singapore stock market powered ahead yesterday to momentarily cross the 1,450 barrier, before taking a breather. Investment sentiment has turned positive, with the containment of the Sars virus, the end of the Iraq war, new property launches
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    • 210 12  -  Francis Kan THE global biotechnology industry could hit its first profitable year before the end of this decade, even though many biotech companies face cash shortages, industry studies released today showed. Reports by accounting giant Ernst Young said the industry may
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    • 47 12 AFX-Asia WING Tai Holdings will launch the Amaryllis Ville condominium in the Newton district this weekend at prices starting at $597 per square foot The apartments range from one to four-bedroom units with prices from about $700,000 to $1 million, Wing Tai said.
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    • 332 14  -  Lee Yew Meng Invesco cites small size and high operating costs as reasons by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg FROM Monday, Invesco Asset Management Singapore will start to send letters to unit-holders notifying them of the closure of its 10 funds on Sept 19. In a letter dated June 16, a
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    • 133 14 AFX-Asia FITCH Ratings has assigned a long-term rating of "A" to Overseas Chinese Banking Corp's planned issue of non-cumulative non-convertible preference shares worth $645 million. The ratings agency said OCBC's capital ratios are comfortably above the minimum imposed by regulators and that its
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    • 136 14 Bloomberg CREDITORS of Global Crossing wrote to US government officials to say that they stand behind a plan to sell majority control of the bankrupt network operator to Singapore Technologies Telemedia. A committee representing creditors who were owed more than US$5 billion ($8.67 billion) at
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    • 199 16 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) may sell bonds for the second time. The carrier said it wants to set up a medium-term note programme that would allow it to "respond swiftly to favourable opportunities to raise debt finance in the capital markets
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    • 210 16 To strengthen STB's international operations AS AN ongoing effort to strengthen its corporate leadership team, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has made several changes to key senior management positions, which will let STB reposition and strengthen its international operations, said Mr Lim Neo Chian, the board's deputy chairman
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    • 145 16 SINGTEL has launched its MobileMail wireless service that lets users enjoy highly secure and realtime wireless access to e-mail, calendar and contact information within corporate servers. Its ease of implementation and use make it attractive to end-users who need always-on connectivity to their office e-mail and documents,
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    • 346 17 Bloomberg CapitaMall to sell 119.8 million shares to fund IMM purchase CAPITAMALL Trust, Singapore's first property trust, plans to raise $128.2 million by selling 119.8 million new shares to fund the purchase of IMM Building. The shares will be sold at $1.07 each, a discount of 3.6
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    • 431 17 -AFP SHENYANG (China) The story of flamboyant tycoon Yang Bin appears to be a repeat of the rag-to-riches-to-jail saga of many of China's richest who have amassed great wealth only to be incarcerated for corrupt practices and bad economic decisions. Ranked No 2
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    • 124 17 ALLIED Technologies will offer 92 million new shares at 26 cents per share through an initial public offering (IPO). The retail tranche amounts to 9.2 million shares, with the other 82.8 million shares to be placed. Allied expects to raise net proceeds of $22.1 million from the
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    • 243 18 Reuters ImClone founder to serve maximum jail term NEW YORK ImClone Systems founder Samuel Waksal has become the first chief executive to go to jail in a spate of scandals that have rocked corporate America. He was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Tuesday.
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    • 45 18 THE Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS) hopes to meet with the Singapore Securities Association to discuss the custody charges by broking houses being proposed and to delay the implementation of the charges to allow investors sufficient time to make alternative arrangements.
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    • 72 18 -AFP BETHESDA (Maryland) The top US defence contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp, filed a suit against the Boeing Company, alleging its rival engaged in industrial espionage during competition for US$2 billion ($3.46 billion) of US Air Force rocket programme contracts during the *****. The US Air Force ultimately awarded
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 93 20 AFP WASHINGTON -Add "aspiring US senator" to talk show host Jerry Springer's resume. Mr Springer, 59, a former mayor of the Ohio city of Cincinnati, is considering challenging popular incumbent, Republican senator George Voinovich, next year for Ohio's US Senate seat. He announced the formation of an
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    • 263 20 Agencies Bali bomb suspect Samudra points finger at Amrozi BALI In a surprise twist in his testimony yesterday, key Bali bombing suspect Imam Samudra denied he masterminded the blasts, pointing the finger at Amrozi. Testifying at Amrozi's trial, Samudra said Amrozi was the first to suggest they
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    • 128 20 -AFP HANOI A European Union delegation that visited Vietnam's troubled Central Highlands last week to investigate alleged human rights abuses has questioned the merits of taking part in future "stage-managed" trips. "We are having doubts about these kinds of visits We don't know if
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    • 227 22 -AFP I Iran turns to N Korea for nuclear know-how TOKYO Iranian nuclear experts made three secret visits to North Korea this year even though the Stalinist state faced international criticism for its nuclear arms ambitions, a press report said yesterday. Quoting a source close to issues on
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    • 137 22 Reuters CANBERRA Australia is in talks with the United States and Japan about making changes to international law to boost powers that will block North Korean ships suspected of carrying drugs, counterfeit money or missiles. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said North Korean ships or aircraft could be
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    • 84 22 Three members of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations protesting in front of the Presidential Palace in Eonduras on Tuesday. The protest, which involved 18 members of the indigenous rights group tying themselves to crosses, was aimed at getting the government
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    • 382 22 Agencies -AFP Reuters -AFP Reuters WASHINGTON After chiding Israel for its assassination attempt on a senior Hamas leader and denouncing militant Islamic groups as extremists wno want to "blow up peace" in the Middle East, US President George W Bush remains optimistic. He said: "I am determined to
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 966 24  -  Adrian Tan by news@newstoday.com.sg Crucial need to balance individualism against civic responsibility SINGAPOREANS should be smug and, dare I say it, complacent, about the way we have handled Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), except for the warning of increased medical charges but that's another issue.
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  • WATZUP?
    • 661 26 AFP Or is it 'take your passion'? Misheard lyrics or 'mondegreens' is big PARIS Mark Raboo speaks of the moment when he wished the floor had opened and swallowed him and all because of some misheard lyrics. The 24-year-old was jamming with a rock band when
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    • 327 26 NEW YORK Former First Lady Hillary Clinton's tell-all memoir Living History sold about 200,000 copies in its first day of its release, its publisher said yesterday. Simon and Schuster said sales had been brisk and it had ordered 300,000 more copies of the
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    • DAILY BREW
      • 90 26 THE virulent Sars virus has provided fodder for a new rap song sung by Singapore's most famous contractor, Phua Chu Kang. And the music video for Sar-vivor rap starring Gurmit Singh and the cast will debut at 8.25 tonight just before the series Chemistry on
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      • 65 26 THE Beijing Royal Heritage is staging its second exhibition and sale of unique reproductions of precious art treasures from the Imperial Palace Museum, Beijing. The collection will be on show at the Alliance Francaise de Singapour's SG Private Banking Gallery from June 1 9
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      • 97 26 FOR those of you who still can't get that Air Supply tune out of your head, here's the perfect cure. You can listen to the famous duo live' in Singapore on Aug 10 when they perform at a one-night concert at the Suntec
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      • 430 29  -  Janice Lee Plodding pace but ballet does evoke fear by Tanice@newstoday.com.sg WHAT is intriguing about Ballet Nurnberg's rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher is its haunting images. Perhaps it moved a little too slowly, but the performance at the Esplanade Theatre
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      • 252 30 Holland V debut grabs high ratings THE eagerly anticipated debut of MediaCorp TV Channel B's blockbuster drama, Holland V, captured a 78 per cent share in the 7pm timeslot on Monday. The landmark 115-parter is destined to be Channel B's longest-running drama series. The first episode attracted
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    • CATS & DOGS
      • 472 31  -  JC Belle It's a bad habit to feed your pet cat table scraps. Human food is also not nutritious by news@newstoday.com .sg Like young children, some pet cats are fussy eaters and can make meal times a tedious affair. But before you reprimand your cat for not
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      • 206 32  -  Jeanine Tan by j eanine@newstoday. com.s SOME of the mysteries behind defence science the research of military technology are about to be unravelled. Technology related to national security is usually classified as "top-secret" but the Defence Science Matters! exhibition organised by DSO National Laboratories and
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      • 165 32 MEDIACORP star Jacelyn Tay (picture) has never looked better. Ironically, it is in the aftermath of her bankruptcy that Jacelyn's star has risen to new heights. Jacelyn has blossomed in the face of renewed media and advertiser interest. She has just turned 28, which makes her
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      • 138 32 HOLLYWOOD star Renee Zellweger (picture) will soon lose her stick thin figure again to reprise the title character in the film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. According to the World Entertainment News Network, the 34-year-old is piling on the kilos for
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 78 33 JUST two months after Russell Crowe and Danielle Spencer wed, the actor is preparing to become a dad. Spencer, 32, had said that she wanted to focus on "relaxing and getting pregnant" after the wedding, according to the Daily Mirror. The child is expected
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      • 211 33 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES The Transformers the ever-morphing Hasbro toy line that spawned comic books, TV series and an animated feature are ready to change shape again, this time into live-action stars of the big screen. Angry Films chief Don Murphy (whose next film is
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