Today, 24 September 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • 8 1 TODAY todayonline.com Wednesday September 24,2003* MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • 554 1  -  Tan Hui Leng Red faces as panel finds Sars virus came from lab by huileng@newstoday.com.sg FACT: When the authorities in Singapore make an assertion, it is believed precisely because it is usually well-researched. Fact Just two weeks back, when a 27-year-old researcher was confirmed to have
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 135 1 Reuters LONDON Microsoft Corp said today it was shutting down its Internet chat rooms in 28 countries because the forums had become a haven for pedlars of junk email and sex predators. "The truth is free, unmoderated chat isn't safe," said Mr Geoff Sutton,
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    • 134 1 AFP NEW YORK Wall Street share prices swung higher yesterday as investors shifted attention to corporate earnings and shrugged off concerns about a weaker dollar. Rebounding from a big selloff on Monday, the Dow Jones industrials gained 40.63 points, or 0.43 per cent, to 9,576.04 and
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    • 39 1 NEWSX^/IEWS the lionisation of sm lee/3 sorry, old girl MAS grounds mature female crew/4 losing faith The backlash of people power/22 firestone bachelor Magnate goes wife-hunting/24 GIANT KILLERS Birmingham, Fulham knocked out of League Cup by lower division opponents/37
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    • 5 1 US airman charged with spying/2
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 534 2  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla PM Goh grilled on human rights, dynastic politics by shobha@newstoday.coms.sg IT WAS like a duel, a duel of words between somewhat mismatched opponents. One had 1,500 duels under his belt; the other was, by comparison, a novice. The questions came hard and fast,
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 277 2 Reuters WASHINGTON A US Air Force enlisted man has been charged with spying and aiding the enemy while working as an Arabic translator at the US base in Cuba where hundreds of suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners are jailed, the Pentagon said yesterday. Senior
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    • NEWS COMMENT/DHARMENDRA YADAV
      • 811 3 A TOURIST relying on the Singapore media during the week of Sept 14 would have thought that we live in a monarchy rather than a parliamentary democracy. That week, we celebrated the birthday of the man many Singaporeans describe as the "father of independent Singapore",
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      • 212 4  -  KUREK ASHLEY AFP Passengers want stewardesses to be 'young, demure and pretty', says MAS KUALA LUMPUR No offence to ladies over 40 but passengers want to be served by "young, demure and pretty stewardesses", a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) official said in defence of grounding "mature" female cabin
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      • Article, Illustration
        42 4 Reuters photo A sumo referee making a baby wail during a baby crying contest yesterday at Koyasu shrine on the outskirts of Tokyo. More than 400 babies participated in the event which is held to wish the babies' good health.
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      • 112 4 Agencies BAGHDAD Iraq's USinstalled Governing Council has decided to close down the Baghdad offices of the Arab satellite television stations, Aljazeera and Al Arabiya, at least temporarily, a council spokesman said yesterday. Mr Entefadh Qanbar, spokesman for the council's head, Mr Ahmad Chalabi, said
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 373 6  -  Derrick A Paulo Student killed in accident just as NTU conducts review of campus activities by derrick@newstoday.com.sg IN a case of tragic irony, an undergraduate was killed in a cycling accident just as his university was reviewing cycling activities. Mr Alvin Boey, 23, died when he was
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    • 256 6  -  Elisia Yeo IT HAS been lying low for the last few years but yesterday Second Chance Properties Ltd was zipping with life as it announced record pre-tax profits of $7.48 million for the 2003 financial year. The profit for the Sesdaq-listed company represented an 18.32-per
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    • 453 8  -  Ng Shing Vi Rising need for palliative care, but doctors in short supply by shingyi@newstoday.com.sg GROWING numbers of terminally-ill people are seeking the services of Singapore's eight hospices, but these havens of help are finding it difficult to attract the doctors they need. Last year, about
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    • Singapore Snippets
      • 66 8 THE Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE) are about two weeks away and a hotline set up a week ago to help students deal with the pressure has been ringing nonstop. The students' greatest fears are not getting into their Secondary School of choice and not meeting
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      • 64 8 From next month, HDB will cap mortgage loans for flat buyers from low-income families to encourage greater financial prudence and to ensure that families are financially ready when they buy flats. Buyers of four-room or smaller flats will be loaned up to 90 per cent of the
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  • LETTERS
    • 124 10  -  Wendy SL Wong SBS Transit and SMRT's no-pet rule is unreasonable. The rule means that pet owners who do not own cars have limited options for transporting their pets. Pets that are restricted to daily walks around the neighbourhood tend to become unsociable and
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    • 345 10  -  Chong Lee Ming Upgrading gives estates a new lease on life I REFER to Mr Lee Han Shih's news comment, "The upgrading myth" (Today, Sept 23). Mr Lee's argument that upgrading should stop as it no longer increases a flat's value shows that the benefit of
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    • 129 10  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng AFTER reading the report "Price of failure" (Today, Sept 23), I understand why the entrepreneurial spirit is still lacking among Singaporeans. The social stigma attached to failure or bankruptcy may be stifling our sense of entrepreneurship, thus deterring us from striking out
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    • 186 10  -  Ivan Tan I REFER to the article, "Price of failure" (Today, Sept 23). Sing Tel hosted an event for corporate customers to watch the musical, The Wedding Banquet, and invitations were sent to the CEOs of these companies. The invitation to Mr Chia
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    • 112 10  -  Philip Anderson, I AM writing to compliment you on your excellent report, "Price of failure" (Today, Sept 23). There is a story about Thomas Watson Sr, the IBM president who led the company starting in the 1920s through its major growth years until the mid-*****. An
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 328 12  -  Chan Chao Peh SIA denied lucrative Australia-US route by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sj SINGAPORE and Australia inked an expanded air services agreement yesterday, but national carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) was denied the much prized Australia-United States route. Under the deal, Singapore and Australian carriers can stop at any
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    • 151 12  -  Francis Kan MR Henry Ngo, the executive chairman and major shareholder of Bonvests Holdings, has made a takeover offer for the rest of the company he does not own. The 40-cent a share offer, which represents a 20 per cent discount to the counter's closing
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    • 117 12 Channel News Asia THE Standard Chartered Bank is launching what it claims to be Singapore's first credit-linked account for retail investors. The Singapore Dollar-denominated structured deposit is linked to the credit standing of listed property developer, Capita Land. The bank will pay 1.2
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    • MarketWatch
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      • 192 12 SGX, Bloomberg SINGAPORE shares closed slightly higher yesterday, led by gains in semiconductor and recently-listed stocks, despite Wall Street's losses on Monday. The ST Index gained 1.73 points to close at 1,588.36. In the broader market, gainers led decliners 202 to 96 while 289 stocks closed unchanged or untraded.
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      • 58 12 By volume Ellipsiz AnnAik Devotion Eastgate AlliedTech Hongguo AEM-EVER A-Sonic Chartered Autton Close 0.490 0.405 0.440 0.275 0.450 0.305 0.300 0.640 1.510 0.350 Change +0.070 +0.035 +0.055 +0.020 +0.020 +0.030 +0.020 +0.015 +0.030 +0.015 +16.7 +9.5 +14.3 +7.8 +4.7 +10.9 +7.1 +2.4 +2.0 +4.5 'OOO 57,264 57,137
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      • 79 12 By Close Change Shang Asia 2kHK$ 6.450 +0.250 OCBC 11.200 +0.200 By petcentage CSCW*****7 L&M Close Change 0.015 +50.0 0.015 +50.0 SIA 200 10.900 +0.200 El Nets 0.020 +33.3 Ezra 1.050 +0.170 Easycall 0.165 +26.9 STIETF100 16.390 +0.130 Nelwrk W*****1 0.030 +20.0 SingamasC 2kHKS 3.750 +0.125 JutEng
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      • 78 12 By$ Venture Close Change 20.400 -0.300 By petcentage Ttansit Close Change 0.115 -17.9 SPH 17.700 -0.200 Over&Gene AS 0.075 -16.7 JMH 400USS 7.000 -0.150 MediaS 0.030 -14.3 Bukit Sem 12.900 -0.100 ChipEngSW*****2 0.035 -12.5 Creative 50 18.500 -0.100 Econ 0.040 -11.1 UOB 12.600 -0.100 FJBenW*****6 0.050 -9.1
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      • 57 12 Index Value Change Pts Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Kotea Comp 10,944.36 3,187.20 5,684.01 718.84 +71.09 -12.80 +8.26 +3.95 +0.65 -0.40 +0.15 +0.55 KLCI 737.24 -1.12 -0.15 SET Index 566.13 +3.94 +0.70 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 588.51 1,303.01 228.66 4,220.91 +2.84
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      • 21 12 Gold us$/oi 388.500 Silver us$/oi 5.300 Platinum us$/oi 704.700 Rubber centsAg 197.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1478 Btent etude us$/borrel 25.89
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      • 36 12 US$ 0.579 UK£ 0.351 Yen 64.970 HK$ 4.488 RM 2.2002 Euro 0.5052 Rupiah 4892.6 Baht 23.201 Peso 31.863 A$ 0.8542 Indian Rs 26.487 Won 666.72 C$ 0.7818 Yuan 4.7926 NZ$ 0.9717 NTS 19.570
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    • 84 14 CHINA-BASED PVC adhesive tape maker CHT (Holdings) Ltd's initial public offering saw its public tranche of about six million shares 85.4 times subscribed, while the entire offer of 60 million shares was about 9.5 times subscribed. CHT issued the shares at 46 cents each and will use
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    • Article, Illustration
      331 14  -  Lee Yew Meng Property market still in doldrums by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg THE real estate market continues to be sluggish, with property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle estimating sales for the July to September quarter at 1,000 condominium units from new project launches. This is lower than the second quarter's figure
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    • 111 14 Bloomberg Ford Motor Credit, the financing arm of the world's second-largest car maker, will begin trading US$3 billion ($5.1 billion) of debt securities on the Singapore Exchange today. The company will issue US$l billion of 5.625 per cent five-year notes maturing in 2008 and US$2 billion of seven
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    • 119 15 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S consumer prices rose for a second month in August after the end of the Great Singapore Sale in July. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.5 per cent from a year earlier, after gaining 0.3 per cent in July, the Department of Statistics said
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    • 235 15 Agencies Star Cruises, Capita Land and Power Seraya reveal money-generation plans THERE was a flurry of activity in the debt markets yesterday, with Star Cruises, Power Seraya and Capita Land unveiling details of their fund-raising plans. Cruise operator Star Cruises is asking banks for about US$632 million
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    • 116 15 Reuters BEIJING A Beijing court has ordered Dow Jones Co to pay a Chinese calligrapher U5549,000 ($84,900) in compensation for using his artwork in the company's Chinese logo without permission, a court official said yesterday. In 1994, the company, which owns The Wall Street
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    • 197 16 Reuters NEW YORK Mr John Reed, 64, the former Citigroup co-chief executive selected on Sunday as interim head of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), will be faced with managing the turmoil at the Big Board amid calls for reform. Quickly
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    • 194 16 Agencies Should it be allowed to attend meeting? VIENNA A delegation from Iraq will be attending today's meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) for the first time since the US-led war to topple Saddam Hussein. Iraq's interim Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr Al Ulum arrived
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    • 1279 14 CHT (HOLDINGS) LTD. (INCORPORATED IN BERMUDA ON 31 DECEMBER 2002) Invitation in respect of 60,000,000 new ordinary shares of HK$O.6O each ("New Shares") comprising: (i) 6,000,000 Offer Shares at 550.46 each by way of public offer; and (ii) 54,000,000 Placement Shares by way of placement, comprising: (a) 52,000,000 Placement Shares
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    • 127 15 This announcement appears as a matter of record only 23 September 2003 W CHT (HOLDINGS) LTD. (INCORPORATED IN BERMUDA ON 31 DECEMBER 2002) Invitation in respect of 60,000,000 new ordinary shares of HK$O.6O each ("New Shares") comprising: (i) 6,000,000 Offer Shares at 550.46 each by way of public offer; and
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
    • 502 18  -  Herman Phua Average into the markets by not investing all your funds at one go news@newstoday.com.sg WITH the Singapore stock market up almost 20 per cent this year, the question many investors are asking is whether they have missed the boat The answer depends on whether the
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    • WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ...
      • 106 18 New Toyo Outperform OCBC Investment Research New Toyo is buying the remaining 50 per cent stake in Smurfit Toyo Holdings (STH), which is the owner of a 51 per cent stake in two operations (paper and printing) in China. The acquisition is priced at US$B million ($1 3.86 million) at
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      • 111 18 Singapore Press Holdings Retreat to $17 support Netßesearch Asia We think the gloom over SPH's falling advertising revenues should have been factored into the share price. Our estimates for the year ended August 2003 are for a 5.5 per cent fall in ad revenues. The consolidation could bring SPH's share
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 465 20 Besides being defensive, US president has also to humble himself at the UN WASHINGTON US President George W Bush is on the defensive and it is what The Washington Post described as an unfamiliar position for the Texan cowboy as he returned to the United
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    • 138 20 Reuters HELSINKI About 7,000 minks were released on Sunday from a fur farm in north-western Finland, in what fur farmers called the biggest attack on a Finnish mink farm. About two-thirds of the minks released near the town of Kokkola remained free by noon
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    • 87 20 AFP NEW DELHI Police in Hyderabad have booked a 10-year-old boy for allegedly attempting to murder his employer by lacing his glass of milk with poison. Mr Murli Krishna told police that the boy had laced his milk, while the boy said he wanted to poison Mr Krishna
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    • global roundup
      • 51 20 Reuters Thailand will fly Cambodian beggars home as it cleans up Bangkok's streets ahead of a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders next month, Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said yesterday. He said the beggars would be sent "as far as possible from Thailand so they won't come
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      • 77 20 AFP Swiss authorities said yesterday they had begun investigations into the possible Swiss links of a man detained in Stockholm in connection with the murder of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. Alleged links revealed by the media would "require major clarification and cannot be commented on
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      • 54 20 AFP Malaysia slapped two-year detention orders yesterday on nine alleged Islamic militants, despite calls for them to be charged or released. The men, members of the hardline Islamic Party, PAS, including the son of its spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat, have already been
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      • 101 20 Reuters photo Britain's Prince Harry holds on to his Australian bush hat as he chats with Annette Gifford (left) and Stacey Carter as they hold koala bears in front of the Sydney Opera House during his visit to Taronga Zoo yesterday. The prince is in Sydney
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    • 229 20 AFP LONDON The diary entries were as damning as they were sensational, not least because the author was Alastair Campbell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's outgoing media chief. Mr Campbell's explicit notes not only showed how he had hoped to use weapons expert Dr David Kelly to
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 888 22  -  Marites Danguilan Vitug Popular uprisings ousted a dictator but they also weakened the presidency, politicised the military by news@newstoday.com.sg A GROUP of graduating students at the University of the Philippines College of Law told an audience of legal luminaries recently that everything that was
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    • 125 22 LUacoal Learn more about breast cancer, the risk of getting the disease, signs, symptoms treatment option from medical expert in the forum titled "Breast Cancer: Every Lady is at Risk." On 18th October, the English Forum will be conducted at the Health Promotion Board Auditorium, from 1.30pm till spm. A
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  • WATZUP?
    • 311 24  -  Yong Shu Chiang STUDENT Charmaine Wee could not give her all to her studies in her second year of college. The drama and theatre studies student has been busy preparing for a role in her first musical. She is one of 65 students who make
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    • 444 24  -  Elisa Chia Firestone scion goes wifehunting in The Bachelor HE is the great-grandson of tyre magnate Harvey Firestone and the son of wine mogul Brooks Firestone. How much 27-year-old Andrew Firestone (picture) is worth isn't clear, but what is certain is that the Firestone scion
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    • 463 27  -  Jeanine Tan Sparse coverage by Chinese newspapers irks gameshow creator by j eanine@newstoday.com. sg ROBERT Chua's latest baby, the Jack Neo hosted TV gameshow, Everyone Wins, is doing extremely well in Shanghai and Hong Kong, where its debut recently garnered a whopping 83-per cent viewership share. Here,
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    • 130 27 Reuters LOS ANGELES Weeks after helping Arnold Schwarzenegger launch his gubernatorial bid, late night TV host Jay Leno made good on his pledge to give equal time to California's lesser-known recall candidates. About 90 of the 135 official candidates appeared on Monday on the Tonight Show
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 366 31 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter MUMBAI A new Indian film inspired by the world of male strippers in this city is causing tongues to wag. (In more ways than one.) Oops!, the directorial debut of former Bollywood actor Deepak Tijori, was shot in English and Hindi
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      • 278 33 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter $37m debut for R-rated horror flick in weekend opening LOS ANGELES Underworld overshadowed the competition at the box office this weekend as the R-rated release from Screen Gems sank its teeth into a surprisingly robust U5521.75 million ($37.07 million). While the horror film, starring Kate
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    • 77 40 BEIJING China plans to carry the Olympic torch over the world's highest peak Mount Everest ahead of the 2008 Beijing Games, state media reported yesterday. China plans to send a team up the mountain in the Himalayas in Tibet at a "suitable" date sometime in May 2008. Under
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