Today, 5 May 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    31 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday May 5, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 TODAY IT solutions for SMBs todayonline.com A fortnightly supplement by Today May 5 18,2004 < •Vol 3 No 9
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • Article
      Iraq takes centre stage in PM's talks in US
      213 1  -  Teo Hwee Nak in Washington ISSUES surrounding Iraq dominated Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's meetings with top US leaders yesterday, as the situation in Iraq continues to worsen. Mr Goh, in Washington for a five-day visit, met Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
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      Bailout by a Raja
      570 1  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla S'porean takes over island-state Nauru's $294 m debt IN A historic first, a Singapore businessman is bailing out a country on the verge of bankruptcy. Mr Raj Kumar Hiranandani, founder of the property group, Royal Brothers, will take over the A5239-million ($294-million) debt
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      Lock icon Fed rate unchanged, stock prices rise
      84 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks held on for a positive finish yesterday in volatile trade after the Federal Reserve Board eased market fears by leaving interest rates unchanged and by suggesting that it would move slowly in boosting them. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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      Temasek makes surprise bid for UOL
      304 1  -  Chan Chao Peh IN WHAT some see as a shrewd reading of the property market trend, Singapore's investment holding company, Temasek Holdings, yesterday made a surprise bid for United Overseas Bank's (UOB) entire stake in associate company United Overseas Land (UOL). UOB owns about
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Had he fought on ...
      502 2  - Had he fought on Lee Ching Wern MOE would have made former principal step down for hitting student HAD Mr Ng Lee Huat not offered to step down as principal of Nan Chiau High, he would have been made to, said Minister of State for Education Chan Soo Sen. That
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      US businesses eager for FTA with Asean
      526 3  -  Teo Hwee Nak JUST under a year ago, the historic United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) was signed. Now that a bridge between the US and Singapore has been built, American business leaders are wasting no time in broaching their next target a
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      Lock icon SQ hijack scare sends F-16 jet scrambling; police storm plane
      201 3 Channel News Asia A HIJACK scare on a Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane heading for Los Angeles on Tuesday turned out to be a false alarm. Nevertheless, US authorities scrambled an F-16 to fly alongside the plane and armed police stormed
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      SMU gets record $200m donation
      175 3  -  Tay Tsen Waye SINGAPORE'S youngest tertiary institution, the Singapore Management University (SMU), has received a $200-million boost After a year of negotiations with the Lee Foundation and the Ministry of Education (MOE), each party has agreed to donate $50 million and $150 million respectively, making
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      Lock icon Thailand investigates
      331 4 Commission to look into last week's violence in the south BANGKOK-Amid growing criticism at home and overseas, Thailand appointed an independent commission yesterday to investigate last Wednesday's shootout at a mosque that left more than 30 Muslim militants dead and relations with neighbouring Malaysia bruised severely. As a
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      Dr M: Don't split Umno ranks
      164 4 PENANG Former United Malay National Organisation (Umno) chief and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said it was imperative that the top two positions in the ruling party not be contested in the upcoming party polls to avoid a split in the ranks. He
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    • Article
      Lock icon Headmistress canes teacher
      122 4 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR -A Malaysian teacher suffered bruises after he was caned by the headmistress for criticising her ideas on discipline, the New Straits Times reported yesterday. The headmistress, who is in her 50s, was reportedly upset with the teacher because he opposed her plans to improve
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      18 3 BIBLICAL^ Speaker: Rev. Dr John Shepherd Lim fcf You Can Be Super Blessed To Be A Super Blessing!
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Today goes Chinese?
      336 6  -  Loh Chee Kong Chinese language ad wrap a pleasant, creative surprise YESTERDAY'S edition of Today which came with a Chinese advertising feature wrap caught many readers by surprise. Several thought Today had come up with a Chinese edition or was planning to do so. Ms May Foo,
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      Rescued vervet monkey repatriated to Africa
      361 6  -  Ted Chen A VERVET monkey which had been confiscated by the Agri-Food Veterinary Authority (AVA) last May will be the first pet primate to be repatriated to Africa on an early morning flight today. The AVA found the monkey in a cage in a
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      Attempting the world's longest yam seng toast
      240 8  -  Choo Ling Lan IT'S a raucous, friendly contest at most wedding dinners, but this time, toasters will be competing to set a Guinness World Record for the longest jaw seng cheer ever made. The noisy challenge is the highlight of the Thomson Day
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      Lock icon Is this real money?
      237 8 Channel News Asia Mixed views on plastic $10 notes THE new plastic $10 notes went into circulation yesterday, with a very mixed reaction from the Singaporean public. Some thought the polymer bills were counterfeit notes. "Doesn't look like plastic to me, but it doesn't look like
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      Expert: Lamp-post that killed teen had rusted below ground
      275 8  -  Wong Fei Wan AT THE coroner's inquiry into the death of a teenager who was killed by a falling lamp-post last year, an expert witness testified that corrosion of the post had happened below ground. This made the corrosion difficult to
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  • LETTERS
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      Lock icon For the sake of sports in Singapore...
      272 10  -  Lav Chong Han, Joseph Why argue over a bill for more stadium seats? I REFER to your report, "No more seats at Jurong East Stadium?" (Today, May 4). I thought it was a joke that we, the Singapore sports authorities and various agencies
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      MOE should censure student's parents
      160 10  -  Cheong Chee Mun (Mr) THE NAN CHIAU HIGH SCHOOL ISSUE MUCH has been said about Mr Ng Lee Huat's stepping down as principal of Nan Chiau High School. But has the Ministry of Education (MOE) met the parents of the wayward student to tell them
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      Force cannot be a form of discipline
      139 10  -  Tan Joo Hymn, CHILDREN learn best by observing and copying what adults do, not what we say. When we tell children to be kind and compassionate, but react to their misbehaviour with corporal punishment, we teach them might is right and it is
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      Seek cause of errant student's behaviour
      134 10  -  Eric Ching Seek Meng I WONDER if anyone who sees the Nan Chiau female student as the villain of the piece, has given a thought to the underlying causes for her behaviour. Some time ago, when I was a teacher, I encountered similar problems
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      'Scramble walk' unsuitable on busy roads
      251 10  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms), I THANK Ms Siow Jia Rui for her letter, "Follow Aussie way for traffic lights junctions" (Today, April 29). Ms Siow suggested that a system where pedestrians cross the roads all together in all directions, when all the cars have
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Pawn your Rolex at the post office
      312 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Sing Post to start service next month chaopeh@newstoday.com. SINGPOST will start operating two pawn shops in June, as the company looks beyond its traditional mail delivery business to boost revenue and profits. The company, which had earlier announced plans to
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    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        109 12 Dow Jones The ST Index closed 26.12 points higher, or 1.4 per cent, at 1,865.35. Advancers led decliners 277 to 74 with 128 stocks closing unchanged or untraded. Volume traded was 567.4 million shares. Share prices closed higher buoyed by strong earnings from local companies, shrugging off fears of
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        STI – 1,865.35 +26.12
        3 12 STI 1,865.35 +26.12
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        World markets
        62 12 Im Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.79 Pis -242.50 Ch hange -2.02 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.30 3398.40 6188.15 +147.68 +10.40 +158.38 +1.24 +0.31 +2.63 Korea Comp 867.48 +1.37 +0.16 KLCI 838.21 -11.51 -1.35 SET Index 644.10 -4.05 -0.62 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 12 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 390.000 Silver uss/oi 6.080 Platinum uss/oi 811.000 Rubber centsAg 232 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1979.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 34.68 Information provided by.
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5867 UKE 0.331 Yen 64.749 HK$ 4.5764 RM 2.2296 Euro 0.4911 Rupiah 5156.2 Baht 23.464 Peso 32.74 A$ 0.8136 Indian Rs 26.289 Won 687.62 C$ 0.8053 Yuan 4.8564 NZ$ 0.9384 NTS 19.555
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        SGX most active
        55 12 )y volume Close Change 'OOO nformatics Iosco Corp -ibreChem )io-Treat nterra JnitedTAC bartered ieautyChina .OL Jnified 0.290 0.795 0.430 0.905 0.210 0.880 1.520 0.530 1.990 0.485 +0.050 +0.005 +0.020 +0.025 +0.040 +0.030 +0.090 +0.010 +6.7 +1.2 +2.3 +2.9 +2.7 +6.0 +4.7 +2.1 38,107 27,615 22,515 20,004 14,000
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        SGX top rises
        76 12 By$ Close Changi IMH 400USS 11.000 +0.601 iPH 21.900 +0.601 iPH 100 21.900 +0.601 Breweries 8.500 +0.551 /enlure 19.600 +0.501 DUE 6.600 +0.451 JOB 13.900 +0.401 jealive 50 17.700 +0.201 >TI ETF100 18.850 +0.151 By percentage Close Change FJBen W*****6 0.035 +40.0 JOLW*****1 0.650 +26.2 >PHDBSeCW*****5 0.435
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        SGX top falls
        77 12 :iTYDEV Close 5.700 Changi -0.601 JIS 1.200 -0.091 iuroptron 5&W Group 0.360 0.180 -0.07^ -0.071 riCL Land 1.410 -0.051 :ih 2.560 -0.031 icoWise 0.130 -0.02: ISJ 0.630 -0.021 Elec USS 2.950 -0.021 Ir Glass 0.530 -0.021 )y percentage 3&W Group Close 0.180 Change -28.0 iolillion 0.015 -25.0
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      Lock icon SembCorp Marine makes $20m Q1 profit
      214 12 Dow Jones SEMBCORP Marine, South-east Asia's largest shipyard company, reported yesterday an 8.3-per-cent rise in first-quarter net profit, thanks to a tax write-back of $4.3 million resulting from a 2-per-cent cut in the corporate tax rate. Net profit for the quarter ended March 31
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      Lock icon Venture profit up but below expectations
      216 12 Bloomberg VENTURE Corp said yesterday its firstquarter profit rose 11 per cent on higher sales of products such as computer printers, flash memory cards and cell phones. Net income for the three months ended March 31 rose to $46.9 million, or 17.5 cents a
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      Sias Research partners NTUC Income
      172 14  -  Val Chua SIAS Research, the research unit of Securities Investors Association (Singapore), has tied up with insurance giant NTUC Income to boost its base of subscribers. The new outfit, which was launched officially yesterday, has 3,000 subscribers, one-third of which are NTUC Income policy-holders. The
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    • market BUZZ
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        Now in Novena Square
        105 14 IN A move to strengthen its customer support network across Singapore, Sensualite Slimming is proud to announce the opening of a new branch in Novena Square (picture). This comes at a time when Sensualite Slimming a chain of professional slimming centres is seeking to build on
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        Win an Alias VCD
        140 14 ARE you a fan of Alias? Now you can own a VCD collection of the television series. Read on for more details. Alias stars Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a 26-year-old graduate student working for a secret division of the Central Intelligence Agency. Its mission is
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      Lock icon UOB makes $357m profit
      319 14 Its Q1 results in line with analysts' expectations UNITED Overseas Bank said its first-quar-ter net profit rose 36 per cent from the previous year to $357.2 million, or 90.9 cents a share. The performance was in line with expectations. Analysts polled estimated that the bank earned
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      Financing could get easier for SMEs
      256 14  -  Kevin Tan SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may soon find it easier to secure bank financing after yesterday's launch of a survey to gauge companies' views on providing greater financial disclosure. Spring Singapore, the lead Government agency for the development of SMEs, jointly launched
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      Lock icon Oil prices hit new high
      658 16 Agencies Saturday's Saudi Arabia killings add 'fear premium' CRUDE-oil prices shot to a 14-year closing high in New York on Monday as traders responded to the weekend killing of five Westerners working for an oil contractor in Saudi Arabia and wholesale US gasoline prices hit
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      Lock icon Subscribers of SingTel's regionel partners hit 47 million
      263 17  -  Chan Chao Peh SINGTEL said yesterday its five regional mobile associate companies grew their subscriber base by 37 per cent to 47 million for the quarter ended March 31, compared to the year-earlier period. Australian unit Optus Mobile the division that contributes
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      Lock icon UMCi: Profits ahead
      116 17 Bloomberg UNITED Microelectronics Corp, the world's second-largest provider of made-to-order chips, said its Singapore factory, known as UMCi, will make a profit this year as it expands manufacturing capacity. UMCi is winning orders as demand for chips grows. United Microelectronics Corp, which owns 85 per cent of
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      Lock icon ST Telemedia, Global Crossing's lone saviour
      615 17 Dow Jones Spore stakeholder to provide beleaguered telco with up to $170 million in short-term financial aid TELECOMMUNICATIONS network company Global Crossing is not likely to be able to raise cash from anyone other than its 61--per-cent shareholder, Singapore Technologies Telemedia, until its murky
      – Dow Jones; AFP  -  615 words
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      184 14 Celebrating 25 years ofVYßßAlflTmusic 1 *^11 21 &22 May 2004 Friday Saturday (LIHfE _^s' \\j Esplanade Concert Hall, 7.30pm Singapore Symphony Orchestra Lan Shui conductor Pre-concert talks at library@esplanade at 6.30pm on concert nights. A* Wang Jian cello Symphony Chat with Lan Shui and Wang Jian after the concert IJ^m
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Lock icon US interest rates and S'pore bonds
      1224 18 Federal Reserve funds rate causes bond yields here to generally move in line with those from America Wong Sui Jau FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that the long period of disinflation in the United States has ended and that the US central bank
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon China confirms 3 Sars cases
      151 20 Reuters BEIJING Three suspected cases of Sars in the Chinese capital have now been confirmed, taking the number of victims of the latest outbreak to nine, the Health Ministry said yesterday. All three newly-confirmed cases of the highly contagious deadly flu-like Sars were linked to
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      Lock icon Row over voter list
      663 20  -  Miriam Grace A Go in Manila Suspicions of fraud grow as Philippine election nears SIX days before the presidential elections, the Philippine government has yet to finalise the list of citizens who can cast votes. It said the number of voters on the official list could
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      Lock icon BJP unlikely to make up for loss of votes
      248 20 AFP NEW DELHI India's staggered general election enters the final phase with analysts saying the ruling Hindu nationalists are unlikely to make up lost ground. Five exit polls after the first three rounds of the ballot, which began on April 20,
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      Lock icon New missile bases in N Korea: Report
      337 24 Agencies but Pyongyang vows not to sell nuke materials to Al Qaeda SEOUL As fresh reports emerged that North Korea was building new ballistic missile bases, the Stalinist nation vowed it would not sell nuclear material to Al Qaeda and called for friendship
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      Lock icon Aide to Osama gets 32 years for stabbing prison guard
      337 24 Reuters NEW YORK An accused former top aide to Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 32 years in prison for stabbing a guard through the eye with a sharpened comb while awaiting trial for conspiring with Al Qaeda to kill
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      Lock icon Letter urges Bush to rethink Israel stand
      193 24 WASHINGTON Former US diplomats and government officials are collecting signatures on a letter urging President George W Bush to reconsider US support for Israel. The diplomats plan to release the text at a press conference in Washington. "Your unqualified support of Sharon's extra-judicial
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    • GLOBALroundup
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      56 24 TOURISM AWARDS SINGAPORE Congratulations to the following 3 Winners of the 18th Tourism Awards Lucky Draw Minjmaa Minjgee Passport Number: E*****5 Jennifer Lee NRIC: SIBO47IAD Liew Koi Pin NRIC: *****804E Each winner will receive $4,000 worth of f*~, UNIQUELY shopping, hotel, travel, spa and F&B vouchers. ofWIQ^POT^P All winners will
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      783 26 Eric CC Teo WITH the current tension and uncertainty in Taiwan and in cross-straits relations, China's relations with South-east Asia are consolidating as a factor of regional stability. The successful strengthening of Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean)- China relations, despite historical
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      53 26 INSTITUTE OF '"he SIIA is G non'? rofi1 INTERNATIONAL nongovernment think tank. a ppAIRS Through different programmes for its members ant! Singaporeans, il is helping lo moke Singapore o m i ""V^ more cosmopolitan end global M society with a people who know an(lcare more about the region i. and
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      386 27 tFEEL THE CARE. Make each day feel like Mothers' Day with gentle skin care for the whole family. "Our skin feels as smooth and JHHHHfI] "^B soft as a baby's." BH9F k^ "I've always been very careful about flreßt fll j^.^'i f 1 protecting my skin. After my daughter WLW
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      861 28  -  Lee Ching Wern Director Ron Howard, whcipf >^#feWl_;^^^ cut his teeth on the westerny 'ISy.^.H^^^^^^^^^KS^ P wm' RON Howard must have the last word. Wanting the final say is precisely why Howard, whom many still remember as Richie Cunningham from Happy Days, turned director. And he
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        203 30  -  Wendy Cheng INTERNATIONAL hit musical Mamma Mia! will open at the Esplanade Theatre in September, the production's only stop in South-east Asia. Mamma Mia! is a musical based on the iconic 70s disco band Abba's most popular songs. "We chose Singapore because
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        720 30  -  Felix Cheong The horror genre's revival is ending in a bloodbath A CURIOUS thing happened to director Paul Schrader on his way to work last year. He was abruptly told he was fired, even though he had delivered his US$4O million ($6B million) film on time, within
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        398 32  -  Yong Shu Chiang And so in love with acting is Melody Chen IF SHE were young again, Melody Chen wouldn't simply be sitting around idle. "Oh my God! I'd be like I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that Woo hoo!" she enthused.
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        140 33 -AFP LOS ANGELES North American moviegoers made a just-released film about highschool cliques the box-office winner this weekend. Paramount's Mean Girls (see report below) took in U5524.4 million ($41.5 mil- lion) in its first weekend, bumping last week's leader, Man on Fire, to second
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        207 33 Agencies NEW YORK New Jersey investigators have seized memorabilia of pop star Michael Jackson including Calvin Klein briefs believed to have been worn by him as evidence in the child molestation case against the "King of Pop", authorities said. Investigators took the underwear and several newspapers
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      203 33 BOX OFFICE TOP 10 In the US (April 30-May 2) ..™„r WEEKEND CUMULATIVE WEEKS IN RANKING MOVIE GROSS/USS GROSSAJSS CINEMAS 1 Mean Girls $24.4 m $24.4 m 1 2 (1) Man on Fire $15.01 m $44.29 m 1 3 (2) 13 Going on 30 $9.87 m $35.06 m 1 4
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Vi j ay's happy on Mondays
      669 38 AFP Red-hot Fijian eyeing the Tiger as he revels yet again in extra day's play NEW ORLEANS At the ninth hole, Vijay Singh thought he was out of the New Orleans HP Classic. At the 18th, he knew the tournament was his for the
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      Lock icon O'Sullivan owes world title to imprisoned dad
      281 38 Agencies SHEFFIELD Englishman Ronnie "Rocket" O'Sullivan won the world snooker title for the second time here, beating Scotsman Graeme Dott by 18 frames to eight on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). He later dedicated the win to his father, a convicted murderer. The
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      Lock icon Pistons defensive clamp
      219 38 Agencies AUBURN HILLS, Michigan The Detroit Pistons' defence were so dominant, they were almost offensive at least to those who believe basketball should be about scoring points. The New Jersey Nets found out that this year's series against the Pistons will be nothing like last year's. Detroit's
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      Lock icon Garnett ... best of the best
      484 39 Garnett best of the best Agencies Minnesota's main wolf muscles out Duncan for MVP honours MINNESOTA "The Kid" is all grown up, and he has an National Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player award to prove it. Kevin Garnett got 120 of 123 first-place votes to beat two-time winner Tim Duncan
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      Lock icon Ronaldinho's price tag: $205 million
      522 40 Agencies Barca says world record bid could land their best player MADRID Despite being Spanish football's best player, Barcelona's Brazilian star Ronaldinho could be prised away from the Nou Camp by a world-record bid, after just one season in the Primera Liga. The Brazil playmaker
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      Lock icon Chelsea want Trezeguet and Samuel, but United not interested in Beckham
      363 40 Agencies LONDON David Beckham will not return to his former club Manchester United, according to club officials, but a move to Chelsea remains a possibility. Should the England captain join the Blues, he could end up playing alongside Juventus'
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      Lock icon Kezman wants Reds
      218 40 LONDON PSV striker Mateja Kezman has revealed he wants to sign for Liverpool, despite interest from a host of English clubs. Several Premiership sides have already made contact with Kezman's agent Chiel Dekker, but the striker's preferred choice is Anfield. Dekker told BBC Sport: "Liverpool have not
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      Lock icon F1 revolution is on
      560 41 Agencies Teams approve changes despite Schumi hailing the current state of the sport MONACO The Formula 1 teams have agreed to sweeping changes that will dramatically change the future face of Grand Prix racing, according to the sport's boss. FIA president Max Mosley said the teams
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      Lock icon Greece's 100-day race to Olympics begins
      358 41 -AFP ATHENS Dawn in Athens today will mean exactly 100 days to go before showtime for the Aug 13-29 Olympics. And as the clock ticks, the Greek government's whip is literally cracking over building firms as several key projects, notably the roof over the
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      Lock icon South Africa leading 2010 World Cup race: reports
      291 41 Reuters JOHANNESBURG A leaked Fifa technical report on bids to host Africa's first World Cup in 2010 puts South Africa ahead and their main rival Morocco in third place, South African newspapers reported yesterday. Morocco denounced the reports as "an attempt to
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      Lock icon Agony for inconsistent Tigers
      296 42  -  KOH WEI LING ONCE again, Balestier Khalsa's dreaded malaise of inconsistency let them down last night in their 2-2 draw against Albirex Niigata. Balestier, bolstered by their Korean foursome, dominated much of the match and were on their way to a welldeserved victory, only for Lee
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      Lock icon Rams seek compensation
      448 42  -  JOSE RAYMOND FAS probe on as Casmir, Dickson deny any wrongdoing for damaged condo TWO players from the current Young Lions team are locked in a dispute with their former club Woodlands Wellington, over the cost of damage and repair to an apartment the club rented out
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      Reds in Singapore for two-week football clinic
      344 42  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IN AUGUST 2000, the official Liverpool Fan Club was formed in Singapore. One of the main goals of the fan club is to see their beloved Reds' eventually set up a football school here. As part of the move towards
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        525 44 -AFP Derlei puts Portuguese side through, Depor coach blames all and sundry CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINAL, 2ND LEG Deportivo 0 Porto 1 (Porto 1-0 agg) LA CORUNA, Spain Porto became the first Portuguese side for 14 years to make the final of Europe's top club competition after beating Deportivo
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        244 44 Reuters LONDON Arsenal remained on course for a remarkable unbeaten premier league season when they drew 1-1 at in-form Portsmouth last night The champions have two games remaining away to Fulham and at home to relegated Leicester City to achieve the milestone. It has been
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        113 44 -AFP LONDON Norwich were crowned English First Division champions last night despite losing 1-0 to Sunderland. The Canaries became champions after second-placed West Bromwich Albion were thrashed 4-1 at Stoke. Carl Robinson scored the winner for Sunderland to end Norwich's run of seven straight wins,
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        Lock icon Ranieri seeking redemption at Stamford Bridge
        461 44 Agencies CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINAL Chelsea v Monaco (Ist leg: 1-3) LONDON Claudio Ranieri's right of appeal as a "condemned man" comes at Stamford Bridge today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), when Chelsea will attempt to overturn a 3-1 first leg deficit in their Champions League
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      148 42 League Home Team Away Team ,_.Match KkkOff (Singapore date/time) SCORE East Bengal Geylang Wed, 5/5/04 5.30pm SCORE Happy Valley Home United Wed, 5/5/04 B.oopm UE Champions Chelsea Monaco Thu, 6/5/04 2.45 am S League Young Lions Sinchi Wed, 5/5/04 7.30pm S League SAF FC Tanjong Pagar Thu, 6/5/04 7.30pm UECup
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      28 42 [PORT ON TV 8.30pm Tennis Telecom Italia Masters, 2nd Rd, Ch24 1 1 pm Tomorrow 2.30 am Football Champions League Semi-final 2nd leg: Chelsea v Monaco, Chs 23
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      88 43 Tiger Football Night Eflam QD vs Chelsea Will Man U redeem themselves and salvage some dignity for the next season? Sat, 8 May 2004, Dubliner's, 5.30pm onwards (Kick-off at 7.30pm) Am B Ki*fl M m\ *w*kAM \mT^l***m mmMm E^v wTi _j JP ■f—■ twl y&-\ \m A t^^^M^Pl I K»§ll*iSH
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      34 47 f I Network Associates > can helEf SMBs A secure^their m business with its m 24x7/one-click, tt onystop online J solution, ASaP,# says its regional /ice-president /Mr Ashley Wearne FORTHE SMALLER MGUYS TREVOR TAN
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        96 49 Editor: Francis Chin francis.chin@ newstoday. com.sg Sub-editor/Reporter: Ariel Tarn ariel@newstoday. com.sg ADVERTISING/SALES For advertising enquiries, please call Daisy Chia at 6236 4553 or email daisy.chia@mediacorppress. com. CUSTOMER SUPPORT 6236 4887 help@mediacorppress.com PRINTER KHL Printing Co Ltd 57, Loyang Drive Singapore *****8 INFOTECH Magazine is published by MediaCorp Press Ltd
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        Data Storage Institute, Showa Denko collaborate on hard disk media R&D
        285 50 HOW do you squeeze more I gigabytes into the same hard disk surface or into a much smaller area? This will be one of the research projects that Singapore's Data Storage Institute (DSI) intends to do with Japanese hard
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        $8M ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM
        297 50 Sistic goes all out to improve e-ticketing set-up I TICKETING firm I Sistic.com is developing a $5 million one-stop booking service on the Web, to be ready next year. More enhancements, to the tune of $3 million, will be made after its completion. "By harnessing state-of-the-art
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        714 51  -  Ariel Tarn The father of the popular programming language talks about his baby's growth I THE Java Man was in town last month and he I was confident of tackling the 800-pound Microsoft gorilla. Mr James Gosling, the designer of the Java programming language and the CTO of
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        Helping SAP users in migration path
        149 51 COMPUTER maker Dell is offering a migration I service to enterprises moving from Unix to Linux or Windows platform in the SAP application environment Dell and SAP are offering customers mutual support for SAP solution deployments. These customers will benefit from the combined effort
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        Mainframes to PCs
        131 52 HE WAS a professional tennis player, then a school teacher and finally, a computer man. Mr Ashley Wearne, the 47-year-old regional vice-president of Network Associates, hails from Australia. "Luckily, I'm living in Singapore," he said, extolling the working and living conditions in the Republic. He started dabbling
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        Lock icon PROTECTION FOR THE SMALLER GUYS
        655 52  -  Francis Chin Network Associates offers SMBs a way to secure themselves ASaP I "THE overwhelming feeling among I small and mid-sized businesses is one of frustration," said Mr Ashley Wearne, regional vice-president of Network Associates. "And the more the business executives rely on IT, the
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        Power of the McAfee brand name
        98 52 WITHIN the first quarter of the year, 860,000 people worldwide have signed up on the Web for the wellknown McAfee anti-virus software. The McAfee (say "mac-ka-fee") name is so well-known that owner Network Associates has announced that it is changing its identity and will
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        Hotline for your computer woes
        242 53 I IN THE bad ol' days, small and I mid-sized firms, particularly those operating in the Chinatown district, were often troubled by local thugs asking for protection money Today, the trouble-makers viruses, hackers, worms although not so crude in manners, are no less virulent One
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        SENTINEL TO THE RESCUE
        284 53 Safeguard digital ri REMEMBER the old days I of the burly turbaned jagah (watchman) keeping watch outside a pawnshop? Software is equally valuable and it also requires protection, not from a jagah but from Sentinel, an anti-piracy and digital rights management solution from Safe Net For
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        Combat worms, minimise service downtime
        217 53 IT SERVICES company I Datacraft has launched a suite of security solutions to help organisations combat the rise in the frequency of viruses and worms. Worm Killer provides "day zero" protection. It enables organisations to be protected immediately once a worm infection occurs. Unlike traditional
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        Integrated approach of spam control, virus protection and access management
        619 53  -  Anthony Lim I RUNNING a business has I been likened to running a military campaign, with many adopting strategies from Sun Tze's Art of War. This is even more so in today's context, where enterprises are becoming increasingly under siege
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        629 54  -  Charles Cousins Spammers use a variety of techniques to sneak past filters I SPAM has cost American companies I more than US$lO billion ($l7 billion) losses in productivity last year. According to Gartner, email spam accounts for up to 60 per cent of messages received via
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        Security policies ignored: Survey
        373 54 MORE than three-fourths of I IT managers have reported that a virus has penetrated their network defences at least once in the past year. And only 7 per cent of employees obey security policies while 46 per cent do not even try to work securely These
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        Lock icon Review risks, counter-measures regularly
        359 54 Angela Huang I Businesses are all about I managing risks, such as credit risk, currency risk and investment risk. Security threats are another risk when conducting business online. There is no perfect security; the best we can do is to find ways to reduce risks to
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        Visa protects card holders' information
        110 54 I CREDIT CARD data is a I gold mine in the hands of criminals. To ensure that information about your card number, personal particulars and transactions is safe from unauthorised eyes, Visa AsiaPacific has begun an Account Information Security risk management programme. Merchants, processors and
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        56 55 REUTERS A BRITISH passport office volunteer has his fingerprints scanned for a biometrics enrolment card in London last month. The British government has outlined plans to introduce identity cards for the first time in 50 years, in an attempt to clamp down on the threat
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        Intelligent intrusion detection
        196 55 SUN Microsystems' I intrusion detection server now comes pre-loaded with the Symantec ManHunt software to meet the increasing security needs of enterprises and service providers. This combo solution protects vital information infrastructure with enterprisewide high-speed multi-gigabit detection, real-time threat analysis and policy-based responses to guard against intrusions
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        RELATIONSHIP MATTERS
        529 55  -  Goh Beng Yeow Good work ties are key to security IN TODAY'S e-centric world, I organisations have come to rely on IT infrastructure not just as an aid to business, but for some, as the core of their business. Secure computing and reliable telecommunications are essential to these
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        Beef up safety at remote locations
        195 55 WHEN large companies and I service providers choose security solutions for their small or remote offices, they are often forced to choose between consumer-level products that lack manageability and more expensive solutions with functions they do not require. Net Screen Technologies offers the Hardware
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        Safeguard offices without sacrificing network performance
        292 55 I A SECURITY product for remote and I branch offices, Crossbeam System's ClO, delivers 2GB of security applications at half the cost of single-application products. To create internal secure containment zones, customers can leverage the high port density of the ClO to protect up
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        781 56  -  Michele Soon Former engineer turns his passion for digital photography into full-time career I IN THIS new age of entrepreneurI ship, anything is possible. The publisher of Go Digital magazine, Mr David Ng, was a boiler efficiency engineer who sold equipment to power plants and refineries.
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        570 56  -  -John Lvi HEY you, Ms Pet Shop Owner! Over I here, Mr Cafe Boss! You need the OfficeMaster3ooo, the all-in-one IT solution that faxes, waxes and does your taxes! It files, dials and beguiles your customers for 10 easy payments of
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        580 57  -  Vincent Bockaert Nikon D7O lets you optimise images without affecting speed I IF YOU have been waiting to I move from conventional to digital photography or from a digital compact (point-and-shoot) camera to a digital SLR, now is the time to do so. The Nikon D7O
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        734 57  -  Tan Min-Liang 'Opt-in' type legislation, harsh penalties can plug flood of unsolicited email HAPPY Spamiversary! On April 12, I 1994, Canter Siegel, a law firm in the United States, flooded online message boards with thousands of messages advertising its services. While the escapade reportedly netted
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        746 58  -  Ariel Tarn Motorola goes on the Bluetooth warpath with its new arsenal of mobile phones and companion products BLUETOOTH is gaining momentum. Hailed many years ago as the technology to look out for, it got mired in too much hype and was bogged down by interoperability problems. Now,
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        319 58  -  Francis Chin Reuters, WHAT would King Harald BlueI tooth of Denmark a millennium ago think of the technology that is named after him for linking devices and people when they're 10 metres of each other? Bluetooth not only connects people to play games and send messages, but
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        Watch a movie on this Bluetooth smart phone
        278 58  -  Francis Chin Latest Handset I IF YOU cannot imagine life I without Microsoft Windows in every electronic device, then get the 02 Xphone (picture). This 12cm long and 2cm thick smart cellphone has a highresolution two-inch display screen that gives at least
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        68 58 AFP A SHOW promoter showing off the latest models produced by a domestic telecommunication company in Beijing. More than a quarter billion Chinese are cellphone users, but this number is only 20 per cent of the population. Manufacturers are scrambling to meet the huge
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        570 59  -  Francis Chin All-in-one saves space, effort, time and money PRINT jobs are expensive I and tedious in almost all business settings. To save effort, time and money, consider using all-in-one (AiO) machines. The basic AiO should be able to perform the three essential office tasks: Printing from
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        Extra cartridges, extra oomph
        207 59  -  Francis Chin IF YOU are going to I splurge to produce the perfect print of your photographic handiwork, you might as well get a large-sized printer with the most accurate colour reproduction. The A3 poster-sized Canon i 9950 photo printer with eight separate colour ink cartridges
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        138 59 FOR design professionals who need standard-size and occasional largeformat printing, consider the Hewlett-Packard DesignJet lOOplus, a CAD machine without the usual CAD price. The DesignJet lOOplus has three independent paper paths: An automatic C-size paper tray (up to 18x24 inches) that accommodates 150 sheets of
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        Stylish brochures, DIY-style
        186 59 SOMETIMES, for marketing I literature, you may require a colour laser instead of an inkjet The reason is simple: You can print high-resolution, near-photo-graphic-quality images on both pages of a plain paper sheet using a colour laser. To print high-resolu-tion images on inkjet, you need expensive glossy
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        Networked centre for multiple tasks
        174 59 I FOR print-intensive busiI nesses (such as educational institutes and editorial services agencies), the new Fuji Xerox Copy Centre/WorkCentre Pro 90 offers a complete printing solution. The networked centre incorporates printing, copying, scanning and emailing functions and integrates these functions with third-party solutions. "The Copy
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        403 60 Precision mice designed for intensive gaming environments I COMPUTER gamers and profesI sional designers are the most demanding users when it comes to precision and accuracy for pointing devices. In the course of enhancing an image or playing a fast-paced RTS (real-time strategy) game, the mouse is an
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        eMac thrills with low price, power apps
        221 60 I FROM a basement price of $1,888 I (yes, it's Singapore dollars), you can get an Apple eMac desktop computer with 333 MHz DDR memory, fast ATI Radeon graphics, USB 2.0 connectivity and a CD or DVD burner. Housed in a compact all-in-one
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        270 60 I BROCADE Communications Systems, I a provider of infrastructure solutions for storage area networks (SANs), has introduced the SilkWorm ***** Director for the enterprise segment of the SAN market SilkWorm ***** delivers an extensible architecture that acts as the foundation for system expansion and growth
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        92 60 WHETHER you are having a bath or lounging in the living room, you deserve high-quality entertainment from Samsung Electronics' new LCD TV models, the 15-inch LSISM 13C and the 20-inch LS2OM 1 IC. The sleek design, clean lines and silver finishing
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        290 60 FOR SLR power and compact camera I convenience, Canon has launched two Powershot models, the Pro 1 and the SI IS (IS stands for image stabiliser). First, the powerful Pro 1. This 8-megapixel camera shoots images as good as most digital SLRs, if not better.
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