Today, 7 May 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Friday May 7, 2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Abuses: Bush 'sorry', will not sack Rumsfeld
      130 1 Reuters WASHINGTON President George W Bush said yesterday that he was "sorry for the humiliation" suffered by Iraqi prisoners at the hands of Americans as he struggled to stem a rising tide of criticism over the abuse of detainees by US soldiers. Speaking
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      Tycoon pays $40m for plot
      110 1 TYCOON Oei Hong Leong is paying nearly $40 million for a 120,000 sq ft freehold site in Gallop Road, the Business Times reports today. The price for the Good Class Bungalow site, belonging to Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd, works out to about $331 per
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      Lock icon US stocks close lower
      97 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks skidded lower yesterday from renewed worries over interest rates, rising oil prices and the situation in Iraq. News that jobless claims for state unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in about three-and-a-half years, dropping 25,000 to 315,000, prompted fears of
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      Lock icon Fighting extremism the Muslim way
      627 1 PM Goh: Govts must gain trust of mainstream leaders Teo Hwee Nak, Deputy News Editor in Washington hweenak@newstoday.comsg SPEAKING candidly and pointedly, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday offered American and other Western policymakers a perspective on the subject of militant Islamic terrorism not usually
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Vicious parang attack
      187 2  -  Raymond Andrew Two hospitalised after being assaulted at Newton hawker centre raymond@newstoday.com.sg A GROUP of men, allegedly armed with a samurai sword and parangs, attacked two men viciously early yesterday morning at Newton Hawker Centre, according to eyewitnesses. Both the victims were hospitalised with multiple cuts. The
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      Lock icon Crew member set off SIA hijack alarm by accident
      136 2 Newsßadio 93.8 THE hijack alarm that had a United States F-16 jet scrambling to escort a Singapore Airlines flight into Los Angeles on Tuesday was accidentally set off by a crew member. Flight SQ2O was escorted into LA airport and stormed
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        MAS puts shrewd Wee in tight spot
        811 3  -  Val Chua val@newstoday.com.sg EVEN as Wee Cho Yaw mulls over his options to keep control of his empire, he has one less choice, thanks to a littleknown Government rule that has come into force. The rule that affiliates of banks cannot hold more
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      It's The Little Things That Make All The Difference
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      Lock icon Bush blasts Rumsfeld over prisoner scandal
      600 4 Powell said to be disillusioned over rising body count in Iraq WASHINGTON Following the worsening situation in Iraq and a highly-damag-ing scandal over US troops abusing prisoners there, questions are being raised about the future of two of the most influential members of President
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      Thaksin visits troubled south to mend relations
      275 4 HAT YAI (Thailand) Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Thailand's restive Muslim south under tight security yesterday, making the trip despite warnings from officials and pleas from his family. "Everyone is concerned about security for my visit to the south, including my wife
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      102 2 j* ■fcfc!^l^. I b^B jf iSI BrMBl B^Mv Soon you can relax in China's Mountain City with Silk Air. Sail down the Yangtze River for a magnificent view of the Three Gorges, discover Flight No. Days Routing Departs Arrives K^VJ the ancient mystique of the Dazu Grottoes, or stroll along
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  • HOME NEWS
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      It's The Little Things That Make All The Difference
      188 6 If your printouts are smudging in all the wrong places, don't blame your fingers. It's the ink. In reality, ink is not just ink but a miraculous combination of art and science to perfect the ink and printer head used in
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      Lock icon SEAHORSES NOW AN ENDANGERED, PROTECTED SPECIES
      129 6 SEAHORSES have long been collected as aquariurrß pets, medicinal remedies and souvenirs. But beginning this month, the trade of all speciesH of seahorses will be regulated. Following the drastic decrease in the population of seahorses, they will now be protected under Appendix II of
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      Bidding for Government projects is still prudent
      553 6  -  Derrick A Paulo Contracts not always awarded to lowest bidders dernck(gnewstoday.com.sg THE scrutiny on the public tendering system, which began when several Housing Development Board (HDB) contractors went bust last June, has intensified with the recent collapses at Nicoll Highway and Ayer Rajah.
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      Lock icon Female inventors wanted
      386 8  -  Tor Chins Li For every five male entrepreneurs here, there are only two female counterparts chingli@newsto day, com. sg NO LONGER are women mere procreators, they are job creators too, said South West District Mayor Yu-Foo Yee Shoon at the opening ceremony of the 2nd Annual Global
      TOR CHING LI  -  386 words
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      IPS board chairman to step down in July
      129 8  -  Lee Ching Wern AT the end of July, Mr Hsuan Owyang will step down as chairman of Board of Governors of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). Professor Tommy Koh, the current IPS director, will succeed him. The board will appoint Mr
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      Lock icon HiFly Carnival aims to inflate charity coffers
      256 8  -  Tay Tsen-Waye BY land, air and sea, it will be an invasion of the giant balloons at the Esplanade this Saturday. At heights of up to 15m or four storeys high, these inflatable behemoths including Singapore icons such as the chilli crab and
      WEE TECK HIAN  -  256 words
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      Cancer fears surround vermicelli brand
      138 8 IN a precautionary move following reports of tainted vermicelli in Hong Kong, NTUC Fair Price supermarkets have taken Long Kou brand of vermicelli off their shelves. The Agri-Food Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) said the results of tests for harmful cancer-causing agents are expected today.
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      Singapore's silent warriors
      344 10  -  Tan Hui Leng Doctors who put up defences against bioterrorism attacks, infectious outbreaks huileng@newsto day, com. sg IMAGINE anthrax germs or small pox being released on the unsuspecting public in the middle of Orchard Road. Should it happen, it is not just the defence and security agencies
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      Answering S'pore's population woes
      152 10  -  Ng Shing Vi 1 HE Government should focus on lowering the cost of having children in Singapore, say economists and sociologists who will present their research at a seminar on "Marriage, Fertility and the Household" on May 14. The organiser of the seminar, the National University
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      Japanese fined for pushing, grabbing 2 SIA stewardesses
      222 10  -  Raymond Andrew A JAPANESE marketing executive was fined $4,500 yesterday for holding and pushing a Singapore Airlines stewardess into an aircraft toilet and then grabbing another stewardess. Daimon Tomonori, 29, pleaded guilty to two counts of using criminal force and one count
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      140 9 What's stopping you from investing in Japan? After over a decade of stagnation, the signs are pointing to a brighter future. Japan has now had its Bth consecutive quarter of growth (annualised 6.4% 1 in the last quarter of 2003). Japanese companies have begun investing again. Unemployment has fallen from
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      487 11 The new Japan is ready to go. Are you? Your key to the future of Japan's economic engine The United Japan Growth Fund 1 has been ranked among the a sustainable recovery, the United Japan Growth Fund offers best performing Japanese equity funds in Singapore, winning an opportunity to have
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      Your virus, my problem
      299 12  -  Abdul Islam Onus on computer owners to scan for bugs, avoid infecting other machines FOR the past weeks, I have been receiving emails with attachments containing the virus W32.Netsky.P@mm. Going by the numerous email accounts that they have been sent from, this seems to be a
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      Ex-convicts are not write-offs
      185 12  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng I REFER to the report, "Investing in ex-convicts" (Today, May 6). While I applaud RE Holdings, formed by the Singapore Prison Service and the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises to help create jobs for ex-offenders, I am saddened by the apathy of
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      Costs still too high for SMEs
      168 12  -  Robert Teh Kok Hua Your report, "Mood here subdued despite recovery" (Today May 6), underscores the point With the effort put in over the past five years by our Economic Review Committee and government agencies to restructure and re-make Singapore, there ought to be
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Oil may hit US$40
      317 14 Prices rise on worries of shortages in US, attacks in the Gulf LONDON World oil prices set fresh 13-year highs yesterday, within a whisker of US$4O ($67.50) a barrel for US crude, stoked by worries about summer petrol shortages in the United States. Fears of possible
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    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        117 14 Dow Jones Share prices closed lower on worries over rising US interest rates and the possibility of a drawn-out battle between tycoon Wee Cho Yaw and Temasek for United Overseas Land. The ST Index closed 12.83 points or 0.7 per cent lower at 1,866.61. Decliners led advancers 196 to
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        STI -1,866.61 -12.83
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        World markets
        61 14 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.34 C Pis -190.45 Change -1.62 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.31 3406.50 5909.79 +59.85 -7.20 +55.56 +0.50 -0.21 +0.95 Korea Comp KLCI 837.68 842.77 -29.80 -3.91 -3.44 -0.46 SET Index Jakarta Comp 634.01 746.11 -10.09 -11.96 -1.57 -1.58 Phils Comp Shenzhen B
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 14 fSGXJ Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 392.500 Silver uss/oi 6.005 Platinum uss/oz 795.000 Rubber cents/kg 251.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1997 Btent Ctude US$/barrel 36.48 Information provided b)
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 14 US$ 0.5929 UK£ 0.3306 Yen 64.463 HK$ 4.6248 RM 2.2531 Euro 0.487 Rupiah 5149.6 Baht 23.655 Peso 32.884 A$ 0.8095 Indian Rs 26.495 Won 693.69 C$ 0.8146 Yuan 4.9077 NZ$ 0.9323 NTS 19.716
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        SGX most active
        55 14 By volume UniFiber SingTel Rich Land PanpacMed Bio-Treat Ipco Informatics NOL El-Nets teiaPharm Close 0.170 2.390 0.230 0.175 0.870 0.095 0.255 1.990 0.025 0.360 Change +0.010 -0.050 +0.030 -0.025 -0.020 -0.050 +0.005 -0.030 +6.3 -2.0 +20.7 -2.8 -7.3 -2.5 +25.0 -7.7 'OOO 39,463 39,396 32,830 29,529 22,203
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        SGX top rises
        76 14 By Close Change F&N 13.900 +0.900 DBS 14.700 +0.200 Creative 50 17.700 +0.100 OCBC4.55SNCPS100 102.300 +0.100 HTLInl 1.300 +0.070 ChinaAvOil 1.740 +0.060 UOL 2.180 +0.050 UOLW*****1 0.915 +0.045 Boardroom 0.500 +0.040 Haw Par 5.000 +0.040 By percentage NWTech W*****1 Close Change 0.010 +100.0 Falmac 0.080 +33.3 Globa
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        SGX top falls
        77 14 By Close Change JardineC&C 6.550 -0.300 SPH 21.500 -0.300 SPH 100 21.500 -0.300 SIA 10.500 -0.200 UOB 13.800 -0.200 CITYDEV 5.650 -0.150 HLAsia 1.750 -0.120 Noble 3.360 -0.120 UOI 3.480 -0.120 DBS Bk6% NCPS10 106.200 -0.100 By percentage Close Change Wee Poh 0.015 -25.0 Inno-Pac 0.025 -16.7
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      Lock icon Temasek plans to sell entire CIAS stake
      147 16 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE'S investment holding company Temasek Holdings plans to sell its entire 78-per-cent stake in Changi International Airport Services (CIAS). Temasek's partners have also agreed to sell their 22-per-cent stake in CIAS. Temasek said it hopes to find a valueadding shareholder
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      Sias wants action on Informatics
      411 16  -  Chan Chao Peh Investor body to push for discussions with SGX :haopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S investor watchdog is finally making its voice heard in the uproar over Informatics Holdings' under-reporting of its profits. The Securities Investors Association Singapore (Sias) confirmed yesterday that it had received complaints on
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs
      170 16 Dow Jones Datacraft Asia said the police has served a summons on a former director after investigating the company. The ex-official was summoned on charges relating to "alleged non-disclo-sure of share trading", the company said in a statement to the Singapore Exchange yesterday. The company said the Commercial Affairs
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      Shareholders of SingTel to get $4.1 b
      475 18  -  Chan Chao Peh Telco posts record profit, boosted by divestments chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGTEL, Singapore's largest and most widely-held listed company, plans to reward its shareholders with a whopping $4.1 billion payout in what is believed to be the biggest cash bonanza for shareholders of
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      Lock icon Cathay, Citibank launch Platinum Visa
      253 18 Ted Chen CATHAY Pacific Airways has teamed up with Citibank to launch the first Platinum co-brand airline credit card in Singapore. Called the Citibank Cathay Pacific Platinum Visa, the new card scores over other credit cards in the frequent-flyer miles quotient Cardholders earn one Asia
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      Lock icon Ascott enters US
      315 21 Bloomberg Serviced apartment operator teams up with American billionaire Sam Zell's Equity Residential ASCOTT Group, the biggest servicedapartment operator in Asia and Europe, has tied up with Equity Residential, the No 1 apartment company in the United States and gained access to the American market Ascott, which
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      Lock icon M'sia aims to reduce budget deficit for 2004
      354 24 Bloomberg This comes after country's 7 years of fiscal expansion MALAYSIA may trim its budget deficit below its target of 4.5 per cent of this year's gross domestic product (GDP), said Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. "The government will take constructive steps
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      Lock icon China election ruling may affect HK rating
      252 24 AFP HONG KONG Moody's Investors Service said China's recent decision to rule out direct elections in Hong Kong in 2007 could affect its Al sovereign rating. The rating is currently one notch above China's A 2 rating and Moody's said it believed the
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      Lock icon Order backlogs despite productivity rise
      159 24 Bloomberg THE GAUGE of how much an employee in the United States produces for every hour worked is forecast to have risen at a 3.5-per-cent annual rate in the first quarter after a 2.6-per-cent rise from October through December, according to a median of 62
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      Lock icon Patient no longer, Fed 'measures' its words
      713 26  -  Caroline Baum Bloomberg Commentary but future looks inhospitable to 1% funds rate JUNE is in play. The United States' Federal Reserve said as much in its statement issued after Wednesday's meeting at which the overnight federal funds rate was left at 1 per
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    what's up at the MUSEUMS
    908 28 Mark your diary for an unforgettable time at the museums! Battle of Pasir Panjang and Malay Regiment (Askar Melayu) Revisit the moments of courage, honour and dedication of the Malay Regiment who fought valiantly against invading Japanese soldiers to defend Singapore during WWII. Date: Permanent
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      China sneezes, Taiwan catches a cold
      599 30 But long-term prospects ofTaiwan stock market more dependent on OECD countries than on China LAST week, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that Beijing will implement measures to curb China's red-hot economy. Following his remarks, Asian bourses fell sharply. Taiwan, which has 35 per cent
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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    728 33 Cold Storage ensures fresh supplies of quality beef, lamb and pork Quality is a word that is constantly on the lips and minds of Peter Lee and his team members at Cold Storage's Fresh Food Distribution Centre (FFDC). Peter, a category manager of the meat department, said:
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      489 34  -  Miriam Grace A Go Some say she is stretching terrorism issue as election ploy in Manila news@newstoday.com.sg THE Philippines government yesterday said that anti-terror forces had broken up a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) cell but, as in the past several weeks when such operations were announced, most
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      143 34 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia plans to tighten rules for hiring foreign labour due to an oversupply of migrant workers in the country. Yesterday, The Star reported Human Resources Minister Fong Chan Onn as saying that Malaysia needed one million foreign workers but there were currently
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      261 34 Agencies JAKARTA Faced with a tough battle in the presidential election, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday teamed up with the country's largest Muslim group to reenergise her flagging campaign. She named Mr Hasyim Muzadi, head of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) which claims to have 40 million
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      32 40 A Filipino transvestite posing beside a photograph of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during the finals of the "Gloria Look-alike 2004" contest in Manila on Wednesday. REUTERS
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      125 40 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian shipment of 2,800 second-hand sub-machineguns seized in Hong Kong was legally transported and was meant to be sold as antique collectors' items in the United States. "These weapons, which were disposed of by the police force in 2002, were obtained by a
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      466 40 Editor of top M'sian newspaper calls for review of press act KUALA LUMPUR A senior editor with Malaysia's topselling newspaper, The Star, has called on the government to abolish the restrictive Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984. The Star's deputy group chief editor 11, Mr Wong Chun
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      354 42 Agencies Says new ground developments require contingency plans WASHINGTON Despite previous pledges not to seek more money to keep troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, President George W Bush has turned once again to the United States Congress for an additional US$25 billion ($42.5
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      155 42 Agencies BENGHAZI (Libya) A Libyan court sentenced six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad yesterday for deliberately infecting 426 Libyan children at a Benghazi hospital with the deadly HIV virus, court officials said. More than 40 of the
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        49 42 AFP The United States will grant Jordan's request for written assurance on negotiations for an eventual Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, Washington officials said yesterday. King Abdullah II also asked that the deal should not be prejudiced by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan.
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        55 42 AFP The US has stepped up surveillance over North Korea as the Stalinist country is set to test engines for a ballistic missile capable of hitting US territory, the JoongAng newspaper reported yesterday. The missile's 6,000-km range would mean that the US west coast will
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      29 44 On Wednesday, Picasso's 'Boy With A Pipe' became the most expensive painting sold at an auction, when, at Sotheby's, it fetched U*****,168,000 1$ 175,684,540). REUTERS
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        55 44 AFP Experts warned the emergence of new diseases that are passed from animals to humans, such as avian flu, was accelerating and they were ill-equipped to counter the trend. The scientists, meeting at the World Health Organization, said there was a lack of cooperation between the
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        59 44 Reuters A New York woman who told police she robbed banks to pay for surgery for her cat pleaded not guilty to larceny on Monday. Ms Catherine Kaczanowski, 44, began her crime spree after learning her cat had a cancerous tumour. She
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        49 44 Reuters Brazil's Senate dealt a major blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday when it rejected a ban on bingo parlours as unconstitutional. Analysts said the rejection of the presidential decree showed Mr da Silva was not in control there.
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      530 44  -  Shanoo Maharaj: Test for India's ruling party is uniting a future coalition in New Delhi WITH the last round of India's marathon five-phase general election left to poll, the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition seems poised to win only
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      1113 46  -  mr brown Why not? I mean we have instant container offices, instant trees and instant metal sheet roads FIRST, there were the flash floods, then the Great Western Singapore Blackout, the collapse of Nicoll Highway and not long after that, the Fusionpolis
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        56 46 AFP Two Beijing hospitals at the centre of China's latest Sars scare lifted isolation orders on 159 medical workers and patients who have been quarantined for two weeks, as no new cases were reported yesterday. State- run media did not say how many people
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        Lock icon Bomber of Marriott Hotel in Jakarta on trial
        54 46 Reuters An Islamic militant went on trial yesterday for the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 people last year. Police said Tohir, 30, is one of the region's top five terror suspects due to his alleged links to
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        58 46 Reuters Justice Abdulkadir Orire, Nige- ria's top Islamic leader, said 300 people, mostly Muslims, were killed by ethnic Tarok Christians in an attack in the town of Yelwa last Sunday. He said 700 to 800 people had been killed in three months of ethnic
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        39 46 Reuters Britain's royal family said it has appointed a security director to vet staff after an undercover reporter was hired as a Buckingham Palace footman in November a major embarrassment for PM Tony Blair.
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      414 50  -  Elisa Chia Want instant fame? Go for the Singapore Idol audition on June 5 if you dare THE countdown has begun. The search for a Singapore idol is on. And no, you don't have to be a Singaporean or permanent resident to win the title. Organised and produced
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      510 50 I'M not going to be Singapore's answer to Ryan Seacrest," said designated Singapore Idol host Gurmit Singh. Laughing, he added: "He's good-looking but he can't speak Singlish and he can't play PCX as well as I can." For the uninitiated, the boyish-looking Seacrest is the host
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      447 52  -  Wendy Cheng Beatrice Chia talks about torturing men, working with an all male-cast and how she gained respect from the testosterone-charged brood wendy@newstoday.com.sg AFTER directing the awardwinning play, Bent, Beatrice Chia is all set to have another play with a testosterone-filled, all-male cast in East Side
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      503 54  -  Wendy Cheng YOU would think that the second time Alicia Calaway gets on Survivor, she would have been better at being Machiavellian. Well, no. Calaway, 35, is very much the same as she was in the second season of Survivor: The Australian Outback, which was
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      118 54 Reuters LOS ANGELES In a departure from her role as a sexy siren on HBO's Sex and the City, Kirn Cattrall (picture) will play a former skating star in the Disney movie, Ice Princess. She will portray an ice skating instructor who, at one
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      373 57  -  Pauline D Loh Entice her with stuffed baby kailan with a colourful chicken mushroom filling WELCOME to a brand new series of MAGGI® Home Chef with its fresh new look and healthy, tasty recipes. Mothers deserve the best, and this year on Mother's Day, pay tribute
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      172 57 DARK green leafy vegetables are full of vitamin A, vitamin C and calcium, and are good sources of fibre. Darker leaves have more nutrients than lighter leaves and that's why eating pale crispy lettuces in salads does nothing for you. Calcium is abundant in dark green leafy vegetables
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        556 58  -  YONG SHU CHIANG Action adventure Van Helsing is full of characters, but short on ideas FILM REVIEW by Van Helsing AS A concept, it seems a good idea to bring together characters from different origins, be they in literature or in movie franchises, into one movie.
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        117 58 AFP LOS ANGELES Michael Jackson is lying low as a surprise charge of conspiracy to abduct a child casts a new shadow over his fight against child-molestation charges. Jackson, 45, disappeared quickly after his appearance in court last Friday, when a 10-count indictment was
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        354 60  -  SERENE FOO New director Wong prefers the subtle approach in gangland flick I FILM REVIEW by Blood Brothers DON'T compare Blood Brothers with the Hong Kong smash trilogy, Infernal Affairs, or you will miss the new gangland flick for what it really is. Think of up-and-coming director
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        393 62  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW by First, it was unemployed steel workers from Sheffield, England. Now, it's a group of middle-aged women from Yorkshire who are taking their kits off. It's not British bawdiness that's responsible for the striptease in The Full Monty and
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      304 70  -  JOSE RAYMOND joseOnewstoday.com.sg IN RECENT weeks, a number of strange incidents within the walls of the Young Lions' dressing room has forced the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) to launch an investigation. The S-League club have been hit by what appears to
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      384 72 NBA PLAYOFFS SA Spurs 95 LA Lakers 85 (San Antonio lead series 2-0) SAN ANTONIO Tony Parker gave the San Antonio Spurs a big cushion early, and when the Los Angeles Lakers made a move, it was Parker who snuffed it out. Parker scored
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      94 72 LONDON Manchester United manager boss Sir Alex Ferguson may rest Ruud van Nistelrooy until the FA Cup final on May 22 to allow his knee problem to settle. United have Premiership games against Chelsea and Aston Villa before the trip to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff,
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      920 74 Agencies Error-prone Gunners goalkeeper makes amends at Portsmouth LONDON Only Fulham and Leicester City now stand between Arsenal's attempt to create history by going unbeaten through an entire Premiership season. That they are still unbeaten owes much to goalkeeper Jens Lehmann. Ironically, the man who was savaged
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        241 76 -AFP BUENOS AIRES Maradona's disregard for his doctors was blamed yesterday for his being placed back in intensive care six days after his release from a Buenos Aires hospital. The Argentine football legend is under sedation again at the Suizo-Argentina clinic where he was treated
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        311 76 Reuters UEFA CUP SEMI-FINAL, SECOND LEG Valencia 1 Villarreal 0(1-0 agg) VALENCIA Valencia clinched their place in the Uefa Cup final after a first-half penalty from leading scorer Mista gave them a 1-0 aggregate win over regional rivals Villarreal last night (this morning,
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