Today, 14 July 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 175 1 AFP RIYADH Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that a disabled militant, suspected of being a top Al Qaeda figure close to Osama bin Laden and who had been hiding along the Iran-Afghan border, had surrendered under a royal amnesty. "The wanted Saudi Khaled bin
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    • 80 1 AFP NEW YORK US stocks churned in a narrow range yesterday as investors waitec on the sidelines amid worrier about a lacklustre trend in corporate earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 9.37 points, or 0.09 per cent, to 10,247.593 while the techheavy Nasdaq Composite Index
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    • 344 1 -AFP Fate of Filipino hostage unclear, US urges the Philippines not to give in but Manila begins pullout BAGHDAD Militants in Iraq have killed a captive Bulgarian truck driver. The Arab satellite television station, Aljazeera, said yesterday that it had received a video of the killing purportedly
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    • 44 1 ATHENS 2004 999 fIiEDIACORP NEWSX^/lEWS Closer ties Singapore and Iran to promote free trade and investment/2 Gender-blind The reason more women are getting Aids/3 Bush's blunders Why Sen John Kerry will win in November polls/4 Growth power Temasek buys 15% stake of Malaysian Plantations/14
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    • 15 1 FRENCH WOMAN ADMITS SHE MADE UP VICIOUS ATTACK HOT NEWS 2 IS VAN THE MAN?
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 296 2 Channel News Asia, Singapore, Tehran to promote free trade and increase investment SINGAPORE and Iran have agreed to beef up economic and business links. The two countries will be exploring three separate agreements: To promote free trade, attract investors and avoid double taxation. Prime
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    • 246 2 -AFP PARIS A French woman, who claimed last week that she had been the victim of a vicious anti-Semitic attack, admitted to police yesterday that she had made up the entire incident and was detained for falsely reporting a crime. After being
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    • NEWScomment
      • 615 3  -  Tor Ching Li Gender-blind HIV/Aids government policies have been as harmful as the deadly disease itself IF nothing is said and done, Aids will fast become a women's disease. Already, women account for nearly half of all adult HIV/Aids infections not just sex workers
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    • 690 4  -  Clement Mesenas Mr Ted Sorenson Former policy adviser to Kennedy says Bush's Iraq blunders will cause his downfall clement@newstoday.com.sg IF PRESIDENT Bush were to lose the elections at year-end, two reasons could have contributed do his downfall: His inability to correct the sense of
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 47 4 AFP Front-runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is approaching possible coalition partners before the second round of Indonesia's presidential election in September, his run-ning-mate Jusuf Kalla said yesterday. A candidate would need 50 per cent to avoid the second round between the top two.
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      • 37 4 Reuters Chronically labour-short Malaysia plans to expel around 1.2 million illegal immigrants by the end of next year and is training special squads to catch them, The Sun newspaper reported yesterday.
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      • 54 4 AFP Jailed former Philippines president Joseph Estrada has won a legal battle to be placed under house arrest, the court trying him for graft said yesterday. Estrada, 67, will be moved out of an army base east of Manila and into his resort
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      • 48 4 -AFP Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approached the ultra-orthodox Jewish Shas and United Torah Judaism parties about possibly joining his teetering coalition government. Mr Sharon has also met opposition leader Shimon Peres about bringing his Labour party to retain parliamentary majority.
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 402 6  -  Wong Fei Wan Company director David Ban says Oei would have taken control of Nat Steel otherwise THE company that triumphed during the Nat Steel takeover saga said it revised its "no-increase" final offer when it became obvious that tycoon Oei Hong Leong
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      191 6 PLAINTIFF: Oei Hong Leong DEFENDANTS: David Ban, a director of 98 Holdings and Nat Steel; 98 Holdings; Catherine Ong, a former Business Times (87) journalist who wrote the report on June 4 last year; Singapore Press Holdings, the publisher of 87 THE CASE: Mr Oei claims that the article
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    • 423 6  -  Raymond Andrew DESPITE expressing his sympathies, Chief Justice Yong Pung How dismissed the appeals of the two Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) officers found guilty of negligence in the collision between the RSS Courageous and ANL Indonesia on Jan 3 last
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    • 111 10 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE may not need another landfill as Singaporeans are recycling more and producing less waste, said Environment Minister Lim Swee Say. This could help make Singapore's only landfill at Pulau Semakau last longer. He also added that at the present rate, fulfilling the ultimate
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    • 187 10  -  Surekha A Yadav MORE women than men are balding in Singapore, according to a study done by AC Nielsen. Of the half-a-million sufferers in Singapore, 51 per cent, or 237,000, are women. Hair loss is mostly due to hereditary
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    • 507 10  -  Lee U-Wen JC student discovers more to life than studies AN Al grade didn't use to be good enough for 17-year-old Daniel Lim. If he scored an 80 out of a maximum 100 in a test, but found out that a classmate had scored
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  • LETTERS
    • 238 12  -  Phua Hong Choo I WRITE in response to Mr Lim Boon Hee's letter, "Disappointing Glutton Square" (July 12). First, I must congratulate the Singapore Tourism Board for giving the Orchard Road food scene a shot in the arm. Disappointed at the food
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    • 236 12  -  See Leong Kit Too little education of youth on dangers of drinking, smoking I REFER to your report, "Growing up alcoholic?" (July 10-11) and the episode of Channel News Asia's Get Real on the same topic. More of our teenagers and young adults are falling victim
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 157 14 THERE are obstacles to an Asean free trade deal with Australia and New Zealand but these will be cleared, said Minister for Trade and Industry George Yeo. "It is something which will bring us much closer together and which will make
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    • 233 14 Agencies It will pay RM2.65 a share: AWSJ TEMASEK Holdings has agreed to buy a 15.4-per-cent stake in Malaysian Plantations (MPlant) for RM474 million ($212 million), the Asian Wall Street Journal reported, citing an unnamed person familiar with the deal. Temasek will pay RM2.65 a
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    • 190 14 CORPORATEb riefs Capita Mall Trust is marketing some $331 million in commercial mortgage-backed bonds to raise funds for its purchase of the Plaza Singapura shopping centre. China-based Junma Tyre Cord is seeking a listing on the Sesdaq. The maker of tyre cords is the first China firm to seek a
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    • MarketWATCH
      • 97 14 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended higher as investors bought into property stocks. Volume, however, was low due to a lack of fresh leads. The ST Index rose by 7.26 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 1,878.15 points. Decliners led advancers 212 to 97 as 452.8 million shares were traded.
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      • 3 14 STI 1,878.15 +7.26
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      • 57 14 Nikkei 225 *****.62 Pis +26.34 +0.23 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.33 3558.60 5685.57 -112.68 +0.70 -73.17 -0.92 +0.02 -1.27 Korea Comp KLCI 750.95 851.82 +4.68 +0.69 +0.63 +0.08 SET Index Jakarta Comp 5685.57 756.58 -73.17 -0.99 -1.27 -0.13 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1573.03 250.06 -13.22 +1.07
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      • 26 14 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 405.100 Silver uss/oi 6.455 Platinum uss/oz 812.000 Information provided by Rubber centsAg 246 Palm oil RM/tonne 1391 Brent crude uss/barrel 36.32
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      • 36 14 US$ 0.5897 UK£ 0.3167 Yen 63.858 HK$ 4.5993 RM 2.2408 Euro 0.4752 Rupiah 5189.3 Baht 23.992 Peso 32.902 A$ 0.8107 Indian Rs 26.943 Won 676.76 C$ 0.7769 Yuan 4.8808 NZ$ 0.8923 NTS 19.873
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      • 54 14 By volume Techcomp Chartered Citiraya LifeBrandz SingTel Bio-Treat SingPost Digiland GuangzhaolFB UTAC Close 0.440 1.330 0.570 0.170 2.290 0.940 0.795 0.055 0.270 0.750 Change +0.005 -0.020 -0.010 +0.020 -0.020 -0.005 -0.005 -0.015 +1.1 -1.5 -5.6 +0.9 -2.1 -0.6 -1.8 -2.0 'OOO 17,759 14,715 13,052 12,983 11,458 11,224
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      • 79 14 By$ Close Change Thai Prime200USS 10.600 +0.300 By percentage Wee Poh Close i 0.015 Change +50.0 F&N 13.900 +0.200 Golillron 0.020 +33.3 KepCorp 7.600 +0.200 OCBC 12.600 +0.200 LKN TopGlobal 0.040 0.170 +33.3 +25.9 JMH400USS 12.100 +0.100 Eastern Pub 0.170 +17.2 OCBC 4.5%NCPS 100 102.400 +0.100 Venture
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      • 85 14 By$ Close Bukit Sem 12.800 Change -0.100 By percentage El Nets Close 0.015 Change -25.0 Creative 50 17.100 Sp Land 4.440 Haw Par 4.840 PFood 1.110 -0.100 -0.100 -0.080 -0.070 Sunlight W*****4 Hor Kew RowsleyW*****7 GMG USS 0.020 0.045 0.045 0.025 -20.0 -18.2 -18.2 -16.7 Sp Land
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    • 290 16 -AFP He also warns that world could be divided into trading blocs WELLINGTON Another failure in World Trade Organization (WTO) liberalisation talks could spell the end of multilateral trade agreements and see the world divide into trading blocs, Minister
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    • 110 16 SIA Engineering, the aircraft maintenance unit of Singapore Airlines, has formed a venture with Jamco Corp to modify aircraft interiors. The venture, in which SIA Engineering will hold 45 per cent, is the second for the partners. Tokyo- based Jamco and its United
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      • 148 16 Canon rolled out its superstars at Sunday's roadshow at Jurong Point. The roadshow, held between 2.30pm and 4.30pm. Canon's latest photo camcorders, the MVX 250 i and 200 i, scored a technological first by having a print/share button for easier direct printing. Interest in the products were high,
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      • 122 16 Gnee Hong Co Pte Ltd offers an environmental ana healthy solution to those who seek compact and reliable transportation. The firm announced the launch of a unique range of aluminium and magnesium foldable bicycles, which have been technologically enhanced. The lightweight bicycles are easy to fold for transport
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    • 301 19 Dow Jones The company's firm in the United States might get to build three warships for sale to Egypt DEFENCE conglomerate Singapore Technologies Engineering said that its unit in the United States might build three warships worth US$565 million ($958 million), which the US
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    • 284 19  -  Tay Tsen-Waye IT MAY not have the kick of the annual bull run festival in Pamplona, Spain, where people risk life and limb to run with raging bulls. But there certainly will not be a short supply of adrenalin. Come Oct 22, the Singapore Exchange
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 308 20 Agencies They replace those nabbed after the Bali blasts JAKARTA The Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group is replenishing its ranks with militants trained in Muslim rebel camps in the southern Philippines after hundreds were arrested in the wake of the Bali bombings. Training
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    • 73 20 Death in the afternoon almost REUTERS A runner, identified only as JGZ is floored during yesterday's "running of the bulls" at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain. The 27-year-old (inset) survived the stampede. During the week-long fiesta, made popular by American author Ernest Hemingway, a pack of six bulls
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 32 20 AFP Villagers marooned by floods that have stranded at least two million people in northern Bangladesh yesterday said they were fast running out of food and fresh water.
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      • 44 20 Talks with Dalai Lama, only if -AFP China yesterday made clear to the Dalai Lama that there was no chance of negotiations for his return home until he declares publicly that both Tibet and Taiwan are part of China and halts his "splitist" agenda.
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      • 56 20 Reuters Thousands of Filipinos alleging human rights abuses moved closer to receiving US$4O million ($6B million) from the assets of late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos after a United States federal judge ruled in their favour. The strongman moved to Hawaii in 1 986 and lived
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    • 182 20 -AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian foreign ministry has summoned Myanmar's ambassador following "strong indications" that its embassy in Yangon was bugged, an official said yesterday. Ministry spokesman Yuri Thamrin told AFP that there were suspicions some embassy phone lines had been tapped by Myanmar's military rulers.
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 53 21 Reuters Mexico's Attorney-General Rafael Macedo and his staff have had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of their arms to give them exclusive access to a new crime database and also enable them to be traced if they were abducted or assaulted. He said the chip
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      • 49 21 Communist Vietnam unveiled yesterday a new law purporting to guarantee religious freedom but warned that those using religion to undermine the State would be punished. It also banned the "spread or superstitious practices" and authorised clergy to preach only in approved places of worship. AFP
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    • 285 21 AFP More funds to fight disease also their cry at world Aids forum BANGKOK The world Aids forum was disrupted yesterday by demonstrators targeting western politicians and pharmaceutical firms to demand cheaper drugs and more money to tackle the pandemic. Activists jeered France's Minister
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    • 504 22  -  Yong Shu Chiang On the upside, Amazing Race 5 contestant Dennis Frentsos and his ex-fiancee got back together THE bad-guy-turned-nice guy finished last on the first episode of Amazing Race 5, shown last Wednesday. After a crucial tactical error in Uruguay, Dennis Frentsos and
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    • 249 22  -  Yong Shu Chiang OFFICIAL ties now bind the audio-visual industries of New Zealand home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Singapore. Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo and New Zealand's Trades Negotiation Minister Jim Sutton signed the first co-production agreement between New Zealand and
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    • 304 24  -  Jeanine Tan Now parodying Taiwan's unlikeliest celebrity, she's also got an eye on William Hung REMEMBER Hsu Chun Mci, the Taiwanese "celebrity" who made the news last year as the mother of a 12-year-old runaway girl? She has continued to hog the limelight since with her
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    • 206 24 Reuters LOS ANGELES Walt Disney Co's quest to rule the box office with King Arthur only slightly disappointed Wall Street, although one analyst warned that the studio's poor year at the box office would hurt DVD sales next year. Arthur, which cost
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      • 340 25  -  Yong Shu Chiang SPIDER-MAN 2 (picture) continued to fascinate audiences in North America and Singapore last weekend as it clung on to the top spot, posting strong numbers. The film's takings in the United States and Canada stood at a staggering
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