Today, 18 July 2003

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    13 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Friday July 18, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Big guns join the biz fray
    637 1  -  Chan Chao Peh Ng Boon Yian PM Goh writes to Cheney over $440 m Global Crossing deal by i and chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg THE long drawn out battle by ST Telemedia to acquire a stake in bankrupt US cable operator Global Crossing seems to have moved
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      Gays OK, but
      336 2 News Comment/Lee Han Shih Banning SEX licence plates may deter foreign WHAT is it about sex that made the Singapore Government behave in strange and counter-productive ways? Before we even talk about its attitude towards the gay community, let us examine the issue of number plates for
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      Lock icon HK entertainment tycoon stars in graft drama
      366 2  -  Pauline D Loh by in Hong Kong pauline@newstoday.com.sg WHILE the resignation of two key Cabinet ministers hogged the headlines in Hong Kong yesterday, the real news of the day was the arrest of entertainment tycoon Albert Yeung (picture) by the Independent Commission Against
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      Lock icon SEX disallowed
      446 3 gay talent from coming to work in Singapore But there is a big difference between being sensitive to taboos and going overboard to avoid them. The first is the key to peaceful co-existence, the second can easily lead to a fractionalised society made up of tight-knit communities that
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      Street-fighter with the soul of a poet
      974 4 Farewell interview/by ravi veloo FITTINGLY, he is the son of a poet. Over a 33-1/3-year career as a newspat perman, words fed Mr PN Balji (picture), clothed him, and one day blessed him with a third infant, following his two flesh-and-blood daughters. His
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Touching Lives Fund boosted
      109 6 SINGTEL is pulling out all stops to help its corporate charity, the Sing Tel Touching Lives Fund. It will contribute some proceeds from its IDD services, multimedia messaging and Sing Net Broadband during selected periods. Contributions to the fund can be made by calling 1900 112
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      Missing input
      328 6  -  Derrick A Paulo Case: AIA did not consult us on choice of judge by dernck@newstodav.com. sg TWO days after AIA named an independent adjudicator to rule on its critical-year policy disputes, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has said that it was not consulted. This even though the
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      Senoko scores Newater first
      75 6  -  -Joy Frances SENOKO Power will be the first power company to use Newater in its operations at the end of the year. Eighty per cent of Senoko's water supply will come from Newater. The company also announced yesterday that it will sponsor the Singapore Environment Achievement
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      Young envoys
      344 8  -  Tor Ching Li S'poreans train in Melbourne under SIF scheme by chingli@newstoday.com.sg G'DAY mate! Are you between 21 and 35 years old? Have you spent at least two years in the workforce? Do you have a good track record in your profession? Where are these questions leading to?
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      MediaCorp Radio CEO to join GV
      216 8  -  Lee Ching Wern THE chief executive officer of Mediacorp Radio, Mr Kenneth Tan, is leaving Mediacorp to become the managing director of Golden Village. Mr Tan, who is also the executive vice-presi-dent of Mediacorp Group Communications, will leave the company at the end of
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      NDP voice
      262 10  -  Tor Ching Li Air force officer to lead parade by chingli@newstoday.com.sg I WAS expecting to hear the booming voice of this year's National Day Parade commander over the telephone. I was, instead, greeted by the mild and tenorrange voice of a Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) officer,
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      Lock icon Foreign action or S-League all-star match?
      162 14  -  Emma Grace Lee See Yao I HEARD with incredulity the news that the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) is scheduling an S-League "East vs West" allstar match on Aug 10. That same evening, the English Charity Shield, between Arsenal and Manchester United, and the
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      Dollar dance
      351 14  -  Tan Kin Lian Flexible Sings creates jobs, brings in business I APPLAUD the decision of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on a new trading band for the Singapore dollar. It has adopted an innovative approach to recentre the trading band for the Singapore dollar. This allows the
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      Bras, like stilettos, should only be worn occasionally
      165 16  -  Jeremy Rawle IT IS a sad to learn that a woman going bra-less in this millennium makes news ("Brazen Karen goes bra-less", Today, July 15). The bra is, after all, a hangover from the time of the misguided missionaries. It is a
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      Why shoot the messenger?
      320 16  -  Ho Kai Weng Appalling the way RJC treated whistle blower who filmed teacher I REFER to the article "RJC video throws up IT dilemma" (Today, July 16) and the letter "RJC head too harsh" (Today, July 14). As an alumnus of RJC, I am appalled at
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      24 14 Win a Canon Power Shot S5O without filling up any contest form! Look out for the Canon DIGIC SMS Contest ad in TODAY'S publication!
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        105 18 «j. v__ -AFP SINGAPORE shares closed 0.63 per cent lower yesterday as investors opted to take profits despite the positive news of a double-digit jump in key exports last month, dealers said. The STI fell 10 points to 1,585.92, having traded between 1,571.13 and 1,593.09, while the All-Singapore Equities
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        SGX top rises
        83 18 By$ July 17 DBS Close Changi 11.900 +0.101 Shang Asia 2kHK$ Iselan(S) 5.900 +0.101 2.590 +0.081 Transpac 1.820 +0.071 In Iei i ei 0.235 +0.05^ F&N 9.750 +0.051 LungKee BMU Meiban 0.690 +0.031 0.730 +0.031 TCIL3k HK$ 1.220 +0.031 By percentage July 17 In Iei i ei
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        SGX top falls
        77 18 luly 17 Close Changi alive 50 14.700 -0.501 iPHlOO 19.100 -0.301 irealEast 9.950 -0.251 DBS Bk 6% NCPS*****.800 -0.201 .IA200 10.900 -0.201 \PB Breweries 6.000 -0.151 .ingamasC 2kHKS 3.350 -0.12. ilecUSS 2.140 -0.101 )UE 7.500 -0.101 By percentage July 17 Close Change El Nets 0.015 -25.0 L&M
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        Straits Times Index-1,585.92 -10
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        SGX most active
        58 18 By volume July 17 Intend Close 0.235 Change +0.055 'OOO +30.6 209,71: Ipco Chartered Reed Strike IPC Citiraya Horizon DMXTech L&M 0.155 1.100 0.105 0.045 0.075 0.525 0.120 0.435 0.015 +0.005 -0.060 +0.010 -0.005 -0.030 -0.010 -0.020 -0.005 +3.3 141,33: -5.2 48,659 +10.5 48,058 -10.0 47,042 43,585
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        World markets
        60 18 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries KLCI Value 9,498.86 10,096.72 3,067.50 715.65 Change Pis -237.11 -110.45 -7.70 -8.70 -2.44% -1.08% -0.25% -1.2% Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp 5,299.51 716.48 -114.36 +3.03 -2.11% +0.42% SET Index 495.08 -8.11 -1.61% Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 523.553 1,274.20
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        Commodities
        21 18 Gold uss/oz 344.805 Silver uss/oz 4.***** Platinum uss/oi 681.000 Rubber cents/kg 177.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1350 Brent crude uss/barrel 28.70
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        Lock icon Your S$1 buys
        41 18 SGX Bloomberg USS 0.***** UK£ 0.***** Yen 67.3390 HK$ 4.***** RM 2.***** Euro 0.***** Rupiah 4,693.93 Baht 23.6744 Peso 30.4515 A$ 0.***** Indian Rs 26.2629 Won 668.735 C$ 0.***** Yuan 4.***** NZ$ 0.***** NTS 19.5660 Information provided by:
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      Lock icon Ex-Van Der Horst up 30.6%
      99 18 AFX-ASIA INTERRA Resources, formerly Van Der Horst, closed nearly a third higher yesterday, reversing substantial declines the previous day, due mainly to speculative interest after the stock resumed trading the day before following a three-and-a-half-year suspension, dealers said. Interra closed 30.6 per cent higher at
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      Key exports surge 18.7%
      283 18  -  Francis Kan Fastest growth in three months by francis@newstoday.com.sg THE first signs of a post-Sars economic recovery emerged yesterday, as Singapore's key exports beat expectations to rise 18.7 per cent in June over those for the previous year. This was the fastest expansion in three months
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      SINGAPORE-INDONESIA TRADE DETAILS IN 2YEARS
      143 18 IT might take a "couple of years" before detailed trade data with Indonesia can be released, IE Singapore said yesterday. "It will take time to check that everything is consistent," said IE Singapore deputy director Ho Shih Chua. Some Indonesian ministers have alleged that Singapore
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      Lock icon M1 profit dips 4%
      312 22 Bloomberg Company says Sars curbed customer spending in Q2 MOBILEONE (Ml), the second-largest mobile company in Singapore, said its profit in the second quarter fell four per cent after the Sars outbreak caused customers to curb spending. Net income for the three months ended June 30
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      Lock icon 'We'll sell Belgacom stake'
      251 24 Bloomberg But only if price is right: Sing Tel chief SINGTEL Ltd chief executive Lee Hsien Yang said the company is interested in selling its 12.15 per cent stake in Belgacom SA, Belgium's statecontrolled phone company. Closely held Belgacom may undertake an initial share sale to
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      156 24 AFX-Asia Bloomberg Bloomberg Bloomberg Changi Airport's passenger traffic improved by about 50 per cent in June compared to that in May, while about 30 per cent of the 1,267 flights that were suspended due to Sars had been reinstated by this week, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
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      Lock icon Boost for Ericsson
      212 26 Bloomberg Analysts upgrade stock after it cuts 13,000 jobs ERICSSON AB chief executive officer Carl-Henric Svanberg (picture) is winning over investors and analysts after accelerating cost cuts at the world's biggest maker of wireless-network equipment during his less than four months on the job. At least nine
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      Lock icon China car sales surge
      153 26 Bloomberg CHINA'S passenger car sales jumped more than four-fifths in the first half of this year from a year earlier, led by General Motors Corp's and Volkswagen AG's ventures with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp, as demand in the world's fastest-growing auto market surged. Passenger car sales
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      When gods switch sides
      694 28 News Analysis/Sunny Goh Time is ripe for HK protesters to walk away with the winnings NOW that the appeasements have been made, would the "gods" be happy? If the "gods" here refer to the people of Hong Kong, then the liberals who led the mass protests
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      Lock icon Koreas trade gunfire
      66 30 Agencies SEOUL North and South Korean soldiers exchanged machine gun fire yesterday in a rare incident that could raise the diplomatic stakes just as Pyongyang appears set to return to talks on its nuclear ambitions. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said its troops returned fire after
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      Lock icon A mind game...
      262 30 -AFP Ex-marine knew girl was 12 but media kept mum LONDON Former US marine Toby Studabaker knew Shevaun Pennington was 12 years old; he has a history of paedophile allegations against him; he had also downloaded child pornography. This information, however, was suppressed by the media at
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        Lock icon NATIONAL GUARD TO SERVE IN IRAQ
        80 30 Reuters The Pentagon could call up as many as 10,000 National Guard troops to bolster forces in Iraq and offset a lack of soldiers from allies. A senior US defence official said he had never seen the army stretched so thin in his 31
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        Lock icon MORO REBEL SUSPECT HELD
        57 30 Reuters An alleged member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) suspected of involvement in bomb attacks that killed 17 people at airports in the southern Philippines has been arrested. At least 16 people died in an attack in Davao in April and one person died
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        Lock icon 'PUNISH THOSE WHO BEAT WOMAN'
        72 30 -AFP Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien pressed Iran on Wednesday to punish those who beat photojoumalist Zahra Kazemi to death. The 54-year-old dual Canadian-Iranian citizen was arrested on June 23 for taking photographs of protesters outside Evin Prison in northern Teheran. The Iranian authorities, who
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        86-YEAR-OLD DRIVER KILLS 8
        62 30 Eight people were killed and dozens injured on Wednesday when a speeding car driven by an 86-year-old man barrelled through a crowded street market in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica. A three-year-old girl was among those killed. The driver told police that he thought
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        Lock icon ROLLER-COASTER RECORD
        78 30 -AFP A US lecturer has smashed his world record in non-stop roller-coaster riding after a 147-hour marathon in Germany. Mr Richard Rodriguez, a 43-year-old from Chicago, boarded the Expedition GeForce roller-coaster last Thursday with the goal of beating the Guinness record of 35.5 hours set by two Japanese
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      173 38  -  Jeanine Tan Cargo pants, trainers are recommended by jeanine@newstoday.com.sg CLUBBERS, please wear shoes to this year's ZoukOut Singapore Nokia Remix. Dancing barefoot in the sand is no longer the thing to do, since this year's party is taking place at the Marina Bay Waterfront Trainers come
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      139 40 SINGAPORE'S first smiling marathon will take place tomorrow from noon to Bpm at Novena Square Shopping Mall. The person who can smile the longest will bring home a hamper worth $1,250 that includes an Epson printer and a Nikon digital camera. To enter,
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      232 40  -  Jeanine Tan says rising star Ping Hui by, jeanine@newstoday.com.sg IF THERE'S one role that Tay Ping Hui (picture) should be able to play with ease, it is that of the anti-hero. The man is often thought of as arrogant and a playboy. "I'm not a brooding, arrogant
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        599 45  -  Derrick A Paulo No Diesel, no plot but who cares? 2 Fast 2 Furious FILM REVIEW IF THE surprise hit The Fast and the Furious was more about Yin Diesel than fast cars, then 2 Fast 2 Furious is everything the former was supposed to be. There
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        313 46  -  Yong Shu Chiang Hudson's cute but comedy is uninspired by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg ALEX is a lucky guy. When the novelist (Luke Wilson, picture, right) has writer's block, made worse by angry ban sharks whom he can pay only after he sells the manuscript who does he get as his
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        112 48 IT TAKES more than a single to let the world know she is just "Jenny from the Block". According to the World Entertainment News Network, superstar Jennifer Lopez (picture, right) is in talks to pen an autobiography to let the world know how misunderstood
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        114 48 /CHRISTINA Aguilera (picright) is not about to let her hard work go to waste. Having cultivated a bad-girl image, the singer wants her first acting role to be that of a villain. Aguilera turned down the role of a "sweet" character in Hollywood Wives:
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      475 62  -  Jenny Kong Different carpet designs to suit every decor theme by j enny@newsto day, com. sg THINK carpets and Persian rugs come to mind. Less is known about Chinese carpets, although they enjoy an equally long and illustrious history. Like its Persian counterpart, the Chinese
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      471 64 Today Traveller Even after many visits, there are still parts of Sydney to explore and discover SINGAPORE'S favourite Australian destination is still very much in the forefront when it comes to eating, shopping and a celebration of life and the pleasures in life. Even its most well-known icon,
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      568 68 Agencies As his contract remains unsigned, Arsenal moves to quell sale rumours LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has dismissed reports of skipper Patrick Vieira moving to Chelsea, Manchester United or any other club. The French midfielder has yet to sign a new contract but Wenger said he
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      233 68 Agencies PARIS Paris St Germain claimed yesterday that Barcelona is now in pole position to sign Ronaldinho after making a "superior" bid to Manchester United's offer. PSG chairman Francis Graille said he is keen to complete the deal and has told United it will need to
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      588 70 -AFP Veteran Norman chases leader Otto as world No. 1 Woods struggles Hi SANDWICH Two-time British Open champion Greg Norman relived the glory of 10 years ago when he shot a stunning opening twounder par 69 here yesterday. It was an impressive showing from the 48-year-old
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      255 70  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THERE may still be three months left in the NTUC Income S-League season, but one name is already being touted as a prime candidate for this year's Player of the Year award. Home United's Brazilian playmaker, Peres de Oliveira, has consistently caught
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