Today, 25 September 2003

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  • HOT NEWS
    • 145 2 Channel News Asia THE four banks which have been defrauded of some $160 million by an employee of Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) have filed claims against a unit of the brewer of Tiger beer. The unit, Asia Pacific Breweries Singapore, intends to contest the
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    • 484 2  -  Ng Shing Vi Environment Minister apologises for safety failures in Sars research facility by shingyi@newstoday.com.sg FIRST, he said sorry in English. Then, he repeated it in Chinese. Speaking to reporters last evening, Minister for the Environment Mr Lim Swee Say, apologised for safety failures on behalf
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    • 293 2  -  Tor Ching Li IT WAS a header, but Home United FC forward Egmar Goncalves didn't shoot it a Straits Times photographer did and Berita Harian published it Yesterday, football buffs (excluding Egmar) were shocked to see the Brazilian-born national forward's penis clearly visible in
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    • 761 3 News Comment/Shobha Tsering Bhalla Subversive ideas creep in under censors' noses THE Singapore censors are barking up the wrong tree. A little dog and a cute blonde have convinced me of this. I had my epiphany last week while watching an entertaining little film called Legally Blonde
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    • 210 3  -  Teo Hwee Nak A SURVEY has found that more Singapore-based companies are planning to hire in the last quarter of this year. Recruitment and human resource consultancy TMP/Hudson Global Resources has also found that fewer companies have plans to downsize, making this the best employment
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    • 78 4 Agencies VIENNA The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) agreed yesterday to cut daily production by 900,000 barrels to 24.5 million barrels, said Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahd Al Sabah. The move caught oil markets by surprise as Opec oil ministers had said
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    • 320 4  -  Derrick A Paulo WHILE insurers announce their bonus policies once a year usually around March or April American International Assurance (AIA) has taken the unusual step to revise its bonus policy again. It declared yesterday a special terminal bonus for eight insurance plans that
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    • 331 4 Agencies Thai police foil attempt on Israeli El Al airliner at Bangkok airport BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday confirmed that Jemaah Islamiah terrorists had plotted to launch an attack on an Israeli El Al airliner in Bangkok. Dr Thaksin's confirmation came after an
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 108 6 A BRITISH man was found dead at the Changi Airport MRT station early yesterday morning. The man, 31, had apparently fallen five storeys from the departure hall, where he was last seen. AFP reported that the police found the man lying face down, with head
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    • 370 6  -  Chan Chao Peh Star Hub moves ahead with pay-TV monopoly by chaopeh@newstoday.com.s; STARHUB will have no competitors in the pay-TV business for the foreseeable future, as the Media Development Authority's (MDA) tender for the licence closed yesterday with no bids. Potential bidders, like Sing Tel and MediaCorp,
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    • 212 6  -  Madeleine Chong WE have just witnessed the Emmys. Now, here come the Effies. The Effies are awarded internationally for the most effective advertising campaigns and have come to Singapore. The Effie Singapore Awards were launched yesterday by Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information,
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    • 787 8  -  Kim-Kyna Tan That's what matters, say these Tourism Awards nominees by news@news today, com, sg IN THIS winner-takes-all world, it's unfathomable that for some, the thrill is really in the chase. That's something that the "gracious losers" of the last Tourism Awards can attest to. The annual
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    • 104 8 Nominations for the Tourism Awards 2003 are now open to the public. Each time you nominate, your name will be entered in a lucky draw, and if your choice is the winner, you may win one of three attractive prizes
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  • LETTERS
    • 305 10  -  Jason Lee Boon Hong Other political leaders deserve recognition, too I REFER to the bold and interesting News Comment by Mr Dharmendra Yadav: "The lionisation of SM Lee" (Today, Sept 24). Like many Singaporeans, I understood the vulnerability of our small island when we became
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    • 110 10  -  Baud Ghaffa I REFER to the News Comment "The lionisation of SM Lee" (Today, Sept 24). I read it with amusement and some sadness. As a foreigner, I feel some Singaporeans are being ungrateful to and disrespectful of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Without him, Singaporeans would
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    • 262 10 I REFER to the article "Slip-up with a sting" (Today, Sept 24). Acting Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said: "It's a minor trip a small earthquake, Richter scale 2.0,1 think". The Government is to be praised for its containment procedures which made the recent
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    • 173 10  - but Govt must lead Law Sin Ling I REFER to the article "Slip-up with a sting" (Today, Sept 24). The Government has emphasised the importance of the lessons drawn from the Sars outbreak in March, urging people to stay vigilant and take sanitary precautions. Thus, the security lapse at the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 171 12 MICROFAB Technology, a unit of mainboard-listed Ellipsiz, has been selected to be the technology partner of China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), providing wafer bumping solutions to SMIC's clients. The company, which provides engineering services to the semiconductor industry, said that under a US$2 million
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    • MarketWATCH
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      • 191 12  -  SGX, Bloomberg A REBOUND on Wall Street and strong regional markets led shares in Singapore to close sharply higher yesterday. The ST Index soared 45.67 points, or 2.9 per cent, to 1,634.03 points its intraday high and also its highest level in a month. In the broader market, gainers
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      • 54 12 )y volume :ht irilliant Jongguo VddvalTech Iosco Inv IEM-EVER llliedTedi Soodpack iastgate :H Offshore Close 0.800 0.655 0.310 0.165 0.510 0.300 0.450 0.735 0.270 0.410 Change +0.040 +0.005 +0.010 +0.020 +0.020 -0.005 +0.005 +6.5 +1.6 +6.5 +4.1 +2.8 -1.8 +1.2 'OOO 120,533 53,609 49,960 41,021 29,527 29,195
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      • 76 12 )y$ iPH JOB Close Change 18.200 +0.500 13.100 +0.500 By percentage KingWan W*****4 Globa Close Change 0.025 +25.0 0.030 +20.0 IBS 12.900 +0.400 Goldtron 0.030 +20.0 fenture 20.800 +0.400 Koh Bros W*****6 0.035 +16.7 :iTYDEV Creative 50 5.150 +0.310 18.800 +0.300 Yongnam YHI Inl 0.040 +14.3 1.000
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      • 79 12 By Close Change GuocoLandNCCPS*****9 1.140 -0.110 By percentage Close Change CSCW*****7 0.005 -66.7 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 108.100 -0.100 Goldtron CPS*****6 0.040 -50.0 Goldtron CPS*****6 0.040 -0.040 Benefun 20k 0.010 -33.3 Ellipsiz 0.460 -0.030 El-Nets 0.015 -25.0 Ezra 1.020 -0.030 2ndChance 0.255 -0.020 Bouslead 0.785 -0.020 Hiap
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      • 61 12 Im Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp Value 10,502.29 11,295.89 10,502.29 5,722.36 724.70 Change Pis +27.19 +351.53 +27.19 +38.35 +5.86 +0.26 +3.21 +0.26 +0.67 +0.82 KLCI 744.99 +7.75 +1.05 SET Index 575.55 +9.42 +1.66 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 605.62
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      • 14 12 Bold US$/oz iilver us$/oz )l_*: 16.600 5.255 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne 148i
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      • 36 12 us$ 0.5756 UK£ 0.3486 Yen 64.626 HK$ 4.457 RM 2.1871 Euro 0.503 Rupiah Baht 4843.3 23.094 Peso 31.629 A$ 0.852 Indian Rs Won 26.337 662.18 C$ 0.781 Yuan 4.764 NZ$ 0.9697 NTS 19.422
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    • 407 12  -  Alvin Toh Dow Jones Sing Tel looking for investments in the region SINGTEL took a step towards resuming its regional mobile ambitions, with a top executive saying it had "digested somewhat" the Asl4 billion ($16.5 billion) acquisition of Australian operator Optus and now wants more.
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    • 261 12  -  Lee Yew Meng AN Entrepreneur Business Centre is being built at Kaki Bukit to serve the IT needs of entrepreneurs. To be completed next year, it targets companies that want to maintain the local link while moving their manufacturing operations overseas. To help reduce
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    • 269 14  -  Pamela Pang COMPANIES can now assess their Intellectual Property (IP) management processes online. Strategies for Creation, Ownership, Protection and Exploitation of IP (Scope IP), a new national IP management programme for enterprises in Singapore, was unveiled by the Intellectual Property
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    • 322 14  -  Pamela Pang by pamela@newstoday.com.sg TOPPING up your ez-link card with your mobile phone may soon become a reality. Parents and students of the Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) at Barker Road will be the first to try out the six-month pilot project launched yesterday. Parents can use
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    • 100 14 -AFP China Food Industries' IPO saw its public tranche of 2.5 million shares about 460.8 times subscribed. The entire offer of 27 million shares was about 47.1 times subscribed. CFI issued the shares at 22 cents each. Singapore will chair the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's
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    • 455 16  -  Val Chua It offers 50 new products, flexible financing schemes for entire product lines by val@newstoday.com.sg SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) facing a cash crunch in Singapore need not fret when it comes to climbing the technology ladder, promised IT giant Hewlett-Packard (HP). It has unveiled
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    • 103 16 -AFP HANOI Vietnam Airlines will begin direct flights from the capital Hanoi to Singapore next month as part of the carrier's regional expansion strategy, officials said yesterday. The carrier will fly to Singapore on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Singapore is the
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    • 122 18 AFP THE Government unveiled a scheme yesterday to attract foreign entrepreneurs into the city-state based on their business plans instead of their educational qualifications and salary levels. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Raymond Lim said the EntrePass scheme will ease the
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    • 243 18 -AFP SIA to fly thrice-weekly to Shenzhen SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) will launch a thriceweekly service to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen as it restores China flights to levels before the Sars crisis. The Shenzhen service, which will start on Jan 16, will be SlA's
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    • 133 18 Bloomberg NEW YORK The same lawyer who advised former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso on aspects of his pay package also advises the exchange on corporate governance issues, the New York Times reported. Mr Martin Lipton, a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
    • 443 20 Agencies Cold weather, strong yen may choke Japan's recovery TOKYO The pace of Japan's nascent economic recovery could slow as a strengthening yen hits exports and a cool summer puts a dent in consumer spending. The yen hit 110.9 to the US dollar this week, its strongest
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    • WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ...
      • 80 20 SIA Market Perform Singapore and Australia have failed to sign an open skies agreement that would give SIA access to the lucrative Australia-US West Coast routes. Instead, the two countries have expanded on their existing air services agreement. SIA will have access to all Australian airports and there are no
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      • 75 20 MI Underperform Dow Jones Mobile One (Ml) is not likely to be affected greatly by the termination of paging services, according to Credit Suisse First Boston. Ml's paging business contributed a revenue of $3.6 million, representing 0.5 per cent of FYO2 sales. But M I is likely to be the
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      • 81 20 GuocoLand Sell Dow Jones UOB-KayHian keeps Sell on GuocoLand despite the property developer reporting $94.2 million in FYO3 net profit versus a $179.9 million loss a year ago and raising its dividend to eight cents per share from five cents.This is because the profits were due largely to an exceptional
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    • 2060 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, r acq 0079 LL(\(\ periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on tlKjUiriSSlLOll OJL-Lll J-OOUU compilations is not guaranteed by Lipper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. r
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  • INFO TECH
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    • 587 22  -  PC Lee Blast through walls and battle bot soldiers i n Red Faction II by pangchuan@newstoday.com.sj THE year is 2161. You are Alias, a soldier who has been transformed into an efficient killing machine by nanotechnology. A demolitions expert, you are one of 2,000 super soldiers
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 144 24 -AFP MANILA The headstrong daughter of respected former Philippines President Corazon Aquino once again dominated the headlines yesterday after her tempestuous break-up with her married lover. Ms Kris Aquino's lawyer was quoted as saying that Mr Joey Marquez, a television star and town Mayor,
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    • 148 24 Agencies LONDON In a bid to foil paedophile activities and spam, Microsoft's online subsidiary MSN will end its free chat room services in most countries, the company said yesterday. In a message posted on its websites, the company said services in Europe, the
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    • 333 24 UK leader grapples with crisis at home LONDON British Prime Minster Tony Blair was undoubtedly the staunchest supporter and ally US President George W Bush had in the case for war against Iraq. They had stood shoulder to shoulder in justifying their rationale and fending
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    • global roundup
      • 75 24 Agencies In the latest development in the on-off saga of the historic recall vote in California, an 1 1-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Tuesday unanimously overturned last week's decision by three of its judges to postpone
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      • 85 24 AFP A former Australian Museum employee stole more than 2,000 rare artefacts from the museum over several years, including a large stuffed lion which had been on display since 1911, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said yesterday. The ICAC said that Hendrikus van Leeuwen,
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      • 64 24 The home movies of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, interspersed with dark recordings of torture sessions and executions, are best sellers on the streets of Baghdad, The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday. The videos, now available on CD, are believed to be the work of cameramen
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      • 62 24 A "sobriety" drug developed by the former Soviet secret intelligence agency to allow its KGB agents to outdrink tneir opponents before stealing secrets is now being sold on the Internet to Hollywood stars, The Guardian reported yesterday. Stars are reportedly fond of the Russianmade Ru-21 as
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    • 113 26 -AFP SYDNEY A Swedish man was arrested at Sydney airport trying to smuggle eight snakes, including four deadly King Cobras, into the country by strapping them to his legs, Australian officials said yesterday. The 28-year-old arrived late on Monday from Thailand and the eight
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    • 205 26 -AFP JERUSALEM A group of Israelis and Palestinians hoping to break the ice between their two communities have decided to prove they can live cheek-by-jowl by taking part in an expedition to the Antarctic. The group of four Israelis and four Palestinians six men
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    • 301 26 Reuters Airman-cum-translator charged WASHINGTON In the wake of an investigation into possible espionage charges against an Islamic chaplain in the US army, an enlisted air force man has been charged with spying and aiding the enemy, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Senior US airman Ahmad al
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1106 28  -  Katsuo Hiizumi He takes on LDP's dinosaurs and gets his own way and own team by news@newstoday.com.sg TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was re-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president on Saturday, winning convincingly by garnering 399 of the 657 votes. Of the ruling LDP's 357
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  • WATZUP?
    • 679 30  -  Janice Lee by janice@newstoday.com.sg Veteran guitarist Steve Howe continues to inspire guitarists TO become a great musician, one has to start out in absolute befuddlement Strange as this theory might sound, veteran guitarist Steve Howe truly believes in the artistic process of utter confusion, before
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    • 449 30  -  -Joy Frances EAGER recruits entering the advertising industry can find it tough to gain the experience they need to move up the ladder fast. Industry CEOs might lament their lack of experience and academic ideas that do not work in the field. But these days,
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    • 279 32  - Girl just wanna Yong Shu Chiang DVDS find daddy and this DVD's fashion extras I What A Girl Wants Alliance IT isn't quite The Princess Diaries, but this film starring American teen queen Amanda Bynes {Big Fat Liar) also has a young girl breaking into "proper" English society and making
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    • 241 36 Ben and Jen in court to get a gun Reuters ATLANTA Will-they or won't-they couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez appeared in a Georgia courthouse, but the only licence they asked about was for a gun, a court official said on Tuesday. The Hollywood couple whose wedding was called off
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    • 402 36  - It's a bird, it's a plane Jeanine Tan by jeanine@newstoday.com.sg No, it's True Courage host Tin! AS YOU might expect from the host of a TV show that's titled True Courage, Tin Chokkamolkij (picture) is quite the hero. Over the phone in a recent interview, the 26-year-old Thai with the
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 949 38  -  Serene Foo by in New York Cits serene@newstoday.com.sg Italian Job director takes on his adversary the stunts WHEN you get a script that calls for a hole to be blown in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles one that is big enough for
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      • 412 42  -  Yong Shu Chiang Local firm makes brave foray into high definition by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg AFTER popular demand led to a two-week commercial run for its previous film, homegrown production company Gateway Entertainment is preparing another film for local cinemas. The company's first foray into the high definition (HD)
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      • 185 42 Reuters Springsteen's Born to Run the most popular album ever At least according to the first Music Guide by Zagat Survey, which is better known for its surveys of restaurants. Zagat queried more than 1 0,000 listeners to create a list of the 1,000 top albums of all
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      • 226 44 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Dirty Pretty Things leads the way at British indie awards LONDON Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things leads the charge at the sixth annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) with seven nominations. Vying for the best British independent film crown will be Dirty Pretty
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      • 92 44 BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM: 28 Days Later Buffalo Soldiers Dirty Pretty Things Magdalene Sisters Young Adam ACTOR: Paddy Considine, In America Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things Ewan McGregor, Young Adam Kevin McKidd, 16 Years of Alcohol Joaquin Phoenix, Buffalo Soldiers ACTRESS: Kate Ashfield, This Little Life Helena Bonham Carter,
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      • 615 50  -  Genevieve Woo More women die from heart disease than lung or breast cancer by genevieve@newstoday.com.sg MORE men than women die of heart attacks. Coronary heart disease (CHD) has thus always been viewed as a male disease. Many reasons have been offered for this. The man remains largely
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      • 308 50 a-T^HIS year's National Heart J. Week is dedicated to helping women understand their most serious health threat," said Dr Goh Ping Ping, organising chairman of the National Heart Week campaign. Organised yearly by the Singapore Heart Foundation (formerly known as the Singapore
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      • 807 54  -  Tracy Koh laugh it off and have more sex. 10 tips for a stronger heart here by news@newstoday.com.sg CARDIOVASCULAR disease (CVD) is a global public health concern. It is the number one cause of death in industrialised countries. According to the World Health Organisation,
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      • 819 58  -  N H Keshvani MediaCorp TV's star brings out the exuberance of the charming country by traveller@newstoday.com.sg THE hit French movie, Amelie de Montmartre, was filmed in Montmartre, one of Paris' most vibrant neighbourhoods. The lead character, a French saucer-eyed sprite, walks the cobbled alleys of Montmartre,
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      • 372 60  -  Justine Moss This island has good spas, hotels, beaches by traveller@newstoday.com.sg INDONESIA has excellent spas and retreats where the burnt-out executive, exhausted parent or tired tourist can relax and recharge. The island of Lombok is located east of Bali and boasts of an array of resorts and hotels
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      • 127 60 STARTING this month, Skybed (picture) a new state-of-the-art, cocoon-style sleeper seat awaits Qantas' Business Class passengers on all 30 of the Australian carrier's 747-400s. The Skybed is part of Qantas' new International Business k Class. To give passengers more space, the new cabin configuration
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      • 91 60 EASIER transfer service. Better flight connections. These are among the benefits that await passengers who fly on Swiss now that the carrier is set to become the ninth member of the oneworld alliance. oneworld is a global group of leading air carriers including American Airlines, British
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      • 519 62 Today Traveller Soak in South Korea's therapeutic hot springs and rejuvenate your body and mind ONCE upon a time, the quality of water and mineral content alone were enough to ensure the popularity of a hot spring in South Korea. After all, people flock to hot
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      • 330 63 GULF AIR is spreading its wings further around the world. The 53-year-old carrier recently announced the addition of several new destinations to its network. From November, Gulf Air will operate daily flights to the historic Greek city of Athens and the Australian city of
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    • 581 65 Reuters Champion Schumacher expects fireworks at the 'Brickyard' LONDON Ferrari's Michael Schumacher expects a US Grand Prix thriller on Sunday (Monday morning, Singapore time) with Juan Pablo Montoya and Kimi Raikkonen going flat out to prevent him celebrating a record sixth Formula 1 championship. Colombian Montoya, in
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    • 196 65 -AFP CHICAGO Rookie Jose Contreras' stellar performance gave the New York Yankees another division title on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Contreras pitched eight strong innings as the Yankees clinched their sixth straight Major League Baseball American League East Division title with a 7-0 rout over
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    • 597 66  -  Tan Yo-Hinn While England's a threat, legendary ex-lock says Kiwis are in fine nick by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg MUCH of the talk over the last few months with the approach of the Rugby World Cup Oct 10 kick-off in Australia has centred around England. Armed with an
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    • 413 66 Reuters SYDNEY Former Australia coach Alan Jones believes New Zealand is haunted by previous World Cup failures. The All Blacks are favourites to win the World Cup in Australia next month but Jones thinks the ghosts of their past defeats will spook them again. "I
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    • 347 67 -AFP PHILADELPHIA Allen Iverson has been the NBA's Most Valuable Player (MVP), a scoring champion and an All-Star. He is going to be an Olympian. But he apparently never will be a free agent Iverson, 28, has agreed to a fouryear,
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    • 984 67  -  Rohit Brijnath Hewitt's ugly masochism provides the defining moment of 2003 by news@newstoday.com.sg IMAGINE if we had a choice, if we could pick a time, a place, any team and any player that we wished, and had them perform at our command? Perhaps we might
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    • 465 68 AFP Blues' boss tells his players a rotation policy is the wise thing to do LONDON Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri admits his rotation policy is not popular, but he has told his all-star team to be intelligent and to get used to it Yesterday, the
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    • 340 68 -AFP LONDON Premiership sides Birmingham and Fulham were dumped out of the English League Cup by lower league opponents on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Second division Blackpool beat Birmingham 1-0 and First Division leader Wigan defeated Fulham by the same scoreline as
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    • 174 68 Reuters MADRID Real Madrid beat River Plate 3-1 at the Bernabeu on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) in an entertaining match held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of legend Alfredo Di Stefano's debut for the Spanish club. A virtuoso goal from Santiago Solari and
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    • 473 69  -  Stanley Ho SAFFC says coach is now free to negotiate with other clubs by stanley@newstoday.com.sg AFTER seven trophy-laden years at the club, both as player and coach, Fandi Ahmad could well be out of a Warriors uniform next season. Recently dethroned 2002 S-League champion SAFFC yesterday
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    • 378 69 -AFP MANCHESTER Paul Scholes is on course to resume playing for Manchester United in next week's Champions League match against Stuttgart, Reds' boss Sir Alex Ferguson revealed yesterday. But the news was dampened when the club found out that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would be out
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    • 74 69 MADRID Disillusioned Brazilian World Cup winner Rivaldo is courting Real Madrid with a view to ending his misery with AC Milan, Spanish media reported yesterday. Rivaldo told Spanish sports daily AS that his friend Ronaldo had broached the subject of a return to Spain when the pair met up
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    • 73 69 KARACHI The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) yesterday announced the revised itinerary for South Africa's tour next month. The United Cricket Board of South Africa decided on Tuesday that its team would tour on a revised itinerary after initially cancelling the trip on security grounds last Saturday. PCB spokesman
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    • 76 69 EDINBURGH Fijian lock Apolosi Satala has been banned from playing for his Scottish club Heriot's FP for three weeks after being sent off for punching in response to alleged racist provocation. Satala was sent off for throwing at least three punches during Heriot's Scottish Premiership match against Stirling
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    • 98 69 ROME The Italian Football League has ordered Napoli to play its next five home games behind closed doors after violence at the weekend in which one died and more than 30 police were injured. Napoli supporter Sergio Ercolano died on Monday as a result of injuries sustained when
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    • 462 70 Six Arsenal players and two Man United stars charged for Sunday's fracas LONDON Arsenal and six of its players, as well as two Manchester United players, were yesterday charged by the Football Association (FA) following the ill-tempered goalless draw at Old Trafford on Sunday. Arsenal is
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    • 240 70 LONDON Arsenal defender Sol Campbell has revealed his lingering sense of grievance at being the victim of "football politics" when he was forced to miss last season's title run-in through suspension. Campbell received his second red card of the last season for a clash with Ole Gunnar
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    • 358 70  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg IT'S confirmed. As first reported by this newspaper earlier this month, the S-League will undergo a major revamp for the 2004 season. Yesterday, Football Association of Singapore (FAS) vice president Assoc Prof Ho Peng Kee hosted
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