Today, 16 June 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    12 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Monday June 16, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION – SPORTS LATEST
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      Lock icon Furyk wins as Tiger fizzles out
      160 1 Agencies OLYMPIA FIELDS Jim Furyk (picture) won the US Open here this morning, capturing the first Major title of his golf career with a twoover par final-round 72 for an eight-under total of 272. Furyk finished three strokes in front of Australian Stephen Leaney,
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      Lock icon 'Beckham man' is Barca president
      126 1 -AFP BARCELONA-Joan Laporta, the man who wants England skipper David Beckham for Barcelona in a US$5O million ($86.7 million) deal, became the president of the Spanish giant this morning. The landslide win paves the way for the 40-year-old lawyer Laporta to push ahead with his
      -AFP  -  126 words
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      Asean's secret war on terror
      777 1  -  Val Chua Jasmine Yin and why Singapore is doing the delicate balancing act by and val@newstoday.com.sg THE recent arrest of Arifin bin Ali, a senior Singaporean member of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), in Bangkok. The nabbing of explosives expert Fathur Rohman Al Ghozi, in January last
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon OB markers: We still need them?
      848 2 News Comment/By Ng Boon Yian IF THERE is one phrase that ought to lie outside Singapore's OB (out-of-bound) markers, it has to be the "OB marker" phrase itself. I was dismayed when the phrase was brought up again during a recent Remaking Singapore sub-committee
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      Lock icon Mahathir foresees power struggle
      269 3 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has expressed fear that a power struggle may emerge in his United Malays National Organisation (Umno) party after he steps down, a report said yesterday. "I do not think there would be anyone who will challenge Abdullah Ahmad
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      Lock icon The new Tekka-shimaya
      410 4  -  Tor Ching Li Air-con comfort, a hypermarket and a solution to Little India's parking woes by. chingli@newstoday.com.sg SINCE Tekka Mall opened along Serangoon Road last month, its swanky new food court, Food More, has been drawing drinking crowds. The beer-guzzling, peanut-peeling old men who used to hang
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      145 4 Wage cuts... Forced leave... Impending retrenchments... ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It's time to take charge of my own income! lough, challenging times can bring out the best In you. Are you going to settle for being a pawn or are you going to control your own destiny? Face up to the
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      1306 5 CYNEFIN CENTRE'S CREATIVITY HR MANAGEMENT PURCHASING SUPPLY CERTIFICATION INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT 93 Purchasing and Marts Management Jul 2-4 TRAINING PROGRAMMES 43. The Buzan Techniques: Building Brainpower Jun 19 &20 56. Talent Management Jun23&24 94. Compefflive Supplier Sourdng and 1. Introduction to Organic Knowledge Sen 11 &12 57. Consulting Skills Workshop Jun
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon All artistes winners in Bali peace awards show
      236 6  -  Janice Lee in Bali by. janice@newstoday.com.sg 11 was an awards show like no other. With no nominee lists read out and no lengthy acceptance speeches made, the recipients of the World Peace Music Awards (WPMA) held over the weekend simply exchanged quick
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      Students show their forte
      407 6  -  Jasmine Yin Revamped MOE system results in more performing groups by. jasmineyin@newstoday.com.sg THIS year's Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) will see a surge in student participation of 30 per cent compared to than in 2001. More than 38,000 youths will be involved in this year's festival, which
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      Lock icon Security issues to dominate meeting
      146 6 Channel NewsAsia ASEAN foreign ministers started arriving in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, which is hosting their annual meeting, yesterday. Today is the official opening ceremony for the four-day meeting, but ministers were already busy with bilateral meetings. Speaking to the Singapore media on his
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  • LETTERS
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      Sad devotee
      303 8 Call for an interim temple committee I REFER to the report, "Temple troubles" (Today, May 19), and the subsequent response, "No probe Temple", from the president of the Muneeswaran Temple and Today's reply to his letter (Today, June 12). As a devotee of the temple, it saddens me
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      HDB, police cannot stop noisy neighbour
      167 8  -  WJ Audrey I REFER to the report, "Now, all homes can set up office" (Today, June 11). National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan has laid down guidelines for home-owners who wish to start a business in their homes. In this regard, what does the
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      Govt depts and Saturdays
      146 8  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming I REFER to the recent call by the Remaking Singapore Committee for the Civil Service to work five days a week, like many firms in the private sector. Of course, as a beneficiary of a five-day work week, my Saturdays are filled
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      Quarantined as a precaution
      197 11 WE REFER to the letter, "Heart patient's plea on home quarantine" by Mr Yim Soon Kong (Today, June 12). We empathise with Mr Yim on his home quarantine experience. Since the cluster of Sars cases occurred at Singapore General Hospital in April, non-Sars patients with chronic
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      Foolish dreams
      274 11  -  Goh Si Guim Banks shouldn't cover losses for clients IT IS disturbing to learn that bad credit card debt is soaring, as reported in "The bottom Iine"(TODAY, June 4). The article stated that the highest amount of defaulted credit card debt was at $15.6 million in the month
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Stock rally to continue
      376 12 -AFP Forecast of STI 1,600 in one year biiNtjA^UKii b stock market nas surged to seven-month highs since the end of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) crisis with dealers predicting further rises this year as the economy recovers. The Straits Times Index (STI) soared past
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      Lock icon HK push for more jobs
      153 12 -AFP HONG KONG Hong Kong will create more than 32,000 additional jobs and training places at a cost of HK$7l5 million ($159 million) to ease unemployment problems caused by Sars, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said yesterday. He said 14,000 training places and jobs would be
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    • Market Watch
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        Singapore
        99 12 SHARES closed slightly lower on Friday as investors took profit a day after the ST Index rose to a nine-month high. The Straits Times Index closed just 0.11 points down at 1,479.30 a seven-month high. Analysts questioned the sustainability of the rally in the coming week considering the weak
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5779 0.3456 67.8879 4.5069 2.1959 0.4873 4752.9 24.0624 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 30.9853 0.8645 27.0066 688.789 0.7708 4.7831 0.9956 20.0191
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold us$/oi Silver us$/oi Platinum us$/oz 357.20 4.575 664.60 Rubber centsAg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent crude us$/borrel 181 1500 31.28
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      Thistle Hotels is BlL's gem
      382 14  -  Carmen Lee by. news@newstoday.com.sg THE investment holding company, BIL, came into sharp focus last month when Mr Oei Hong Leong (picture) became a new substantial shareholder. This led to a sharp surge in its share price from less than 50 cents in late April to
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      New fund to select top 3
      64 14 THE DBS Star Track Fund, an equity basket that tracks the performance of global leaders monthly, will select the top three with the best capital growth from an initial basket of 12 stocks after the first anniversary of the fund. The minimum payout after
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      Lock icon Dragonair can fly to six new Asian destinations
      136 16 Bloomberg HONG KONG Dragon Airlines (Dragonair), the smaller of the territory's two carriers, has won rights to fly to six new Asian destinations, according to the Standard newspaper. Starting yesterday, Dragonair may operate flights to Pusan and Cheju in South Korea and
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      Raffles for Thai hotel
      249 16 Bangkok owner picks group, drops Hilton THE Raffles International hotel group has inked a deal to take over the management of the Hilton International Bangkok. The owner of the five-star hotel, Nai Lert Park Hotel Co Ltd, signed the 15-year contract with Raffles on Friday to
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      Lock icon Alliance Bank seeks suitors for merger
      105 16 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The owners of Malaysia's Alliance Bank Group are looking for suitors for a merger of the bank, a report said yesterday. Malaysian Plantation Bhd (MPlant), which owns 100 per cent of Alliance, had approached several financial institutions about a merger, The
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      Buoyant Boeing
      117 18 PARIS Boeing, the world's largest planemaker, expects airline passenger traffic to rebound to the levels in 2000 by the end of the year and said carriers are beginning to show more interest in ordering new planes. "A lot of people think traffic could be back to 2000 levels
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      Lock icon Euphoria ends
      262 18 -AFP WASHINGTON Post-Iraq war euphoria evaporated in the United States as economic recovery failed to gather speed, stoking speculation of an interest rate cut A closely watched barometer of consumer sentiment drawn up by the University of Michigan dropped to 87.2 points early this month from 92.1 points
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Gaza Strip give-and-take
      353 19 Agencies Israel to leave territory in return for Palestinian crackdown on militants JERUSALEM In a bid to salvage a US-backed peace plan battered by a week of violence, Israel looked set to withdraw from the northern Gaza Strip in exchange for a Palestinian crackdown on militants. Israeli
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      Lock icon For the newsmen, a nightcap at the Heart of Darkness
      194 19 AFP PHNOM PENH The Cambodian authorities have ditched a previous practice for this week's Asean Regional Forum and will allow the capital's more notorious bars and karaoke joints to remain open. Seedier bars were forced to close as part of
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      Cutting-edge courses
      550 19 "CHANGE involves learning. If we help people become agile workers and take changing opportunities in their stride, then we can help participants build up their intellectual capital and base their success on it. In turn, their intellectual capital will help their companies grow. "That's what we're in the
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      Lock icon Japanese 'vote' for empress
      355 20 AFP TOKYO More than three quarters of Japanese believe a woman should be able to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne although it is banned under the current imperial law, a poll showed. The nationwide poll on June 7 and 8 found that 76 per cent of the
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      Lock icon IN BRIEF
      249 20 -AFP GUM WITH OOMPH: Wrigley, the world's biggest chewing gum manufacturer, has patented a way to make its "Double Your Pleasure" slogan more potent with chewing gum containing the active ingredient in Viagra. The gum, patented in November 2000, will contain up to 100 milligrams of sildenil citrate,
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon A struggle for the soul of Islam
      949 21  -  Tommy Koh At stake is not just the future of the religion in the region, but the future of South-east Asia itself by. news@newstoday.com.sg I PARTICIPATED in the Second Asian Security Conference, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, which was held in Singapore
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  • WATZUP?
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      Quietly, she does it
      562 22  -  Kim-Kyna Tan Mercy is all the more powerful for its subtlety by. kim@newstoday.com.sg ON a spartan stage, two performers sit across each other, motionless, their gazes locked. The silence is shattered by a primordial "ah" escaping from Meredith Monk's throat The sound is magnified on a
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      Saba spotted in Little India
      298 24  -  Shibu Itty Kuttickal by. shibu@newstoday.com.sg There was a buzz in Little India two Saturdays ago. That was when a volunteer distributed flyers urging people to "vote for" Saba Muthu Natarajan nominated for the Best Host (non-variety) award at this year's Pradhana Vizha, the Indian equivalent
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      Friends for life
      392 24  -  Wong Khing Chong Life is great with meaningful relationships by. khingchong@newstoday.com.sg I can't imagine a life devoid of relationships. What would it be like? If I had to use a metaphor, it would be like a galaxy with just one star, or a piano with only one
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon Blow-up boobs for Britney
        149 25 25 LONDON US singer Britney Spears (picture) is to get a pair of inflatable, throbbing breasts that will pulsate in time to her dancing at least her waxwork model will at Madame Tussauds museum in London. "There are plans to make a new figure of Britney
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        Lock icon I am not anti-Semitic
        464 25 -AFP Mel Gibson hits back at anti-Catholic accusations too LOS ANGELES Hollywood star and film-maker Mel Gibson (picture) has hit out for the first time at claims that either he or his controversial new film about the death of Christ was anti-Semitic or anti-Catholic. The comments,
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        Lock icon Si, I'm real!
        227 26 Curvy Bellucci slams skinny US stars SEXY Italian actress Monica Bellucci (picture) has slammed "childishlooking" American actresses for being so skinny accusing them of being scared to be "real women". According to the World Entertainment News Network, The Matrix Reloaded star loves the fact that she is
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        Lock icon Grand memorial service for Peck
        346 26 AFP LOS ANGELES Hollywood will bid farewell to Oscar-winning screen legend, Gregory Peck (picture), at a giant memorial service on Monday following a small private burial in Los Angeles, his publicist told AFP. Peck died at home in his sleep on Thursday at the age
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      Tasty treats from Italy
      377 28  -  Katrina Karim Savour delectable cuisine from Amalfi, Bologna, Sicily,Torino and Venezia by. eatout@newstoday.com.sg FROM now till the end of this month, Ristorante Bologna at the Marina Mandarin is featuring its Tour of Italy menu in conjunction with the Italian Festival 2003. This event is organised jointly
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    • EAT OUT
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        Beer and cheer
        368 29  -  Katrina Karim Sample fish fritters, homemade meatballs and spicy bayou wings as you sip your Heineken BISOUS Bar is host to Singapore's first Heineken Finger Food Festival which continues till July 12. The bar is one of four Heineken Starbars selected exclusively by Heineken for its commitment
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    • LIVING LEARNING
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        Modest Deyi students not de yi about winning
        489 30  -  Amanda Koh despite beating 92 other schools in quiz by. news@newstoday.com.sg The winning team of the Discovering Singapore competition finals from Deyi Secondary School were definitely not deyi (smug in Mandarin) about their victory. Modest and unassuming, the team of eight shrugged
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        Ovetcoming Interview Netves
        607 30  -  www.monster.com.sg By. Do you suffer from interview nerves? If you answered "yes" you'll probably not be surprised to learn that you're not alone. We at Monster Singapore have discovered that most people experience a degree of nervousness before and during an interview. Whilst some people can control
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      398 32 AFP Underdogs must win their 'Alamo' NBA Finals 2003 San Antonio v New Jersey Live, today, Ch 23, 8.30am SAN ANTONIO Unless the New Jersey Nets can make an unprecedented recovery, the curse that has haunted them since their earliest days in the National Basketball Association
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      206 32 -AFP SYDNEY Wallabies coach Eddie Jones has had a dig at England's rugby-playing style, calling it "Premier League soccer" tactics, ahead of their rugby showdown in Melbourne next Saturday. Jones, who has had a feisty relationship with English counterpart Clive Woodward since taking charge of the
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      61 33 WHAT a day it was for the Protectors. On Saturday, Home United's head coach Steve Darby (picture, left) received the NTUC Income S-League Coach of the Month Award (May) from NTUC Income marketing executive Evelyn Tan before Home's clash against Woodlands Wellington. Darby toasted his coaching accolade
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      421 34  -  Tan Yo-Hinn by. yohinn@newsto day. com. sg KIM Poulsen wanted to park his car, but his wife, convinced there were no lots left in the car park, tried to dissuade him from trying his luck. But Poulsen still went ahead. As he drove in,
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