Today, 7 September 2004, Afternoon Edition

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  • 13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday September 7, 2004 mita (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 747 1 -AFP Tiger's five-year reign ends NORTON Fiji's Vijay Singh replaced Tiger Woods as the world's number one ranked *v golfer this morning by winning the PGA Deutsche Bank Championship. Voods owned the top ranking, based upon a rating system of results over^ the past
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    • 488 1  -  Tom Sullivan i in Jakarta SINGAPORE businesses could soon see improved access to markets in the 25-nation European Union (EU) whose 450 million consumers account for more than a quarter of world trade. An economic and trade agreement possibly leading to
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 35 1 NEWS^yiEWS E Timor loses out Australia to gain from Timor Sea's oil and gas fields/34 Bridging cultures Indian artist practises old Japanese Nihonga art/36 Her side of story Swimmer Joscelin, tired of half-truths, speaks up/45
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 608 2  -  Tan Hui Leng New bird flu outbreak in Kelantan; AVA to keep import suspension THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) yesterday announced an extension of the ban on all poultry and egg imports from Malaysia, after a new outbreak of bird flu was
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    • 408 2  -  Derrick A Paulo DR CHEE Soon Juan will have two weeks to make his case against the damages and costs claimed by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in a defamation case stemming from events in
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    • 785 3  -  Brendan Pereira NEWSS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^—^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^— WHAT next? That is the one question on the lips of many Malaysians now that Mr Anwar Ibrahim is out of prison. The decision by the Federal Court on Thursday to overturn his conviction for sodomy throws up a host of
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    • 337 4 Agencies 200 people still missing as town buries victims of Russia's hostage raid MOSCOW A suspected member of the gang behind Russia's worst hostage crisis was shown pleading for his life in the custody of authorities on state television yesterday. Channel One showed an
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 62 4 AFP After judges at a South Jakarta court ruled that the arrest and detention of alleged Jemaah Islamiyah head Abu Bakar Bashir was legal yesterday, a mob of Bashir supporters descended on police officers and beat them up before boarding buses outside the court building.
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      • 51 4 AFP Police in Manila are to fine men who go shirtless in public as part of the city's urban renewal programme. An official said the sight of half-naked men is a sign of decay in moral and cultural values Offenders will be fined US$lO
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    • 94 4 -AFP DUBAI The Moscow bureau chief of the Al Arabiya satellite television station was arrested yesterday as he prepared to fly back to Moscow after covering the school hostage bloodbath in North Ossetia, the Dubai-based station said. No reason was given for the detention of Amr Abdul
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    • 61 4 -AFP GAZA CITY Thirteen members of the radical Palestinian group, Hamas, were killed and more than 45 wounded by Israeli tank fire in the Gaza Strip early today, medical sources and witnesses said. The Hamas activists were conducting military training on a football pitch in eastern
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    • 323 5 -AFP Former President gives election advice to Kerry while in hospital NEW YORK Former US President Bill Clinton was recovering yesterday after successful heart bypass surgery, the New York Presbyterian Hospital and his office said in a statement. Mr Clinton, 58, was hospitalised on Friday after complaining
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    • 30 5 A valuer at auction house Phillips De Pury and Company measuring supermodel Heidi Klum's legs. The company valued the famous legs at £1.1 million ($3.3 million). AP
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    • 318 5 -AFP MBABANE Swazi King Mswati 111, Africa's last absolute monarch, has picked a 16-year-old girl as his new wife, bringing to 12 the number of official spouses, a source in the royal household said. A source confirmed a report in the Times
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 48 5 Channel NewsAsia The Government will spend $3 million a year over the next five years to fund special early intervention programmes for children with special disabilities such as autism and Down Syndrome. This is up from the $2.2 million spent last year
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      • 49 5 Newsßadio vo.o A blackout lasting about an hour-and-a-half hit six blocks of HDB flats in Bukit Batok East Avenue 4 last night. The outage was caused by a fault in an underground cable and power supply was fully restored nt nhmit 9.30pm, said SP PowerGrid.
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      • 48 5 Newsßadio 93.8 The Singapore Management University (SMU) is dropping the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) as a compulsory requirement for admission. From the August intake next year, students can choose to use only their A Level or polytechnic arades. or to also include SAT scores.
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    • 155 5 Make every day count. This September, just spend 7 days in a row and get 8x the Rewards points*, guaranteed. On top of great deals at over 500 outlets in Singapore, you'll enjoy tantalising discounts* at: Bab Noodle Cuisine Xpress Devi Fusion An Indian Feast Kia Hiang Restaurant Superbowl The
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 349 6  -  Wong Fei Wan NICOLL HIGHWAY COLLAPSE INQUIRY AFTER 20 days of testimonies by workers and supervisors on the ground during the Nicoll Highway collapse, at least 16 experts still could not agree on some key issues leading to the mishap. They were scheduled
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    • 571 6  -  Raymond Andrew For these STB winners, it's a push to work harder A FLUKE. That was what Ms June Guai thought when she won the merit award for the Singapore Tourism Board (STB)'s Tourism Host of the Year for Leisure Attractions in 2000. There
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    • 347 8  -  Lee U-Wen Primary school exams could be less writing-based A MINISTRY of Education (MOE) review committee will decide by next month on changes to the way Chinese is taught and tested in primary schools. Reflecting a greater emphasis on listening and speaking, one
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    • 304 8 Channel News Asia THERE is a trade off between a rigorous syllabus and creating space for students to explore, and "tough choices" will have to be made by schools and parents, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. This has to be weighed
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    • 497 10  -  Tan Hui Leng One-year trial project also to run in clinics in 7 other nations WITH its advanced medical care and ageing population, Singapore has become one of the first test beds for the World Health Organization (WHO) Age-Friendly Primary Care Initiative.
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    • 103 10 PROMINENT businessman Kwek Leng Joo has been appointed to the Board of Directors of MediaCorp Pte Ltd. Mr Kwek, 51, is the managing director of City Developments Limited, an international property and hotel conglomerate. He is also president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Industry
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    • 191 10 AS A country, it could not be more different from Singapore. Bhutan has no fast food outlets, no ATMs and no traffic lights. And, it assesses its achievements based on the index of a Gross National Happiness (GNH) rather than on the economics
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    • 137 8 W Strategies to benefit from "~cs I I factors affecting the Bond c the new Equities Markets Apple ißook I An "In Touch session" with: Date: 18th Sept 2004 (Saturday) To participate, simply s*^\ Venue: Raffles Town Club perform any one of 1 Plymouth Avenue, Singapore *****3 our transactional Mr
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    • 256 12  -  Dr James Dobson w OF MACHINES AND MEN Afewyears ago I sawa computerized chess set in a store featuring a little sign that invited customers to play the game. I took the bait. This remarkable device had a mechanical arm that actually reached out and grabbed
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    • 278 12  -  Mun Cheong Kwok CPF members' hard-earned monies must be safeguarded from loss RECENTLY, AIG Global Investment Corp, the sister company of AIA, shocked the market by dropping 12 unit trusts as the funds were deemed too small to be viable. A few had been approved
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    • 238 12 AS CRICKET fans, we commend Star Hub CableTV for supporting the sport by launching the ESPN Star Sport Cricket Channel and by airing major international tournaments on pay-per-view. However, we are dismayed that Star Hub is not only asking subscribers to fork
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    • 174 12  -  Ng Chek Hock I AM a Malaysian citizen with Singapore Permanent Residence. As a first-generation PR, I have been exempted from National Service. My child who will be born in Singapore would be a second-genera-tion PR. He will not
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    • 206 12 I REFER to Mr Roger Waaijer's letter on HDB's quota policy, "Apply policy to estates, not blocks" (Sept 3). I agree with his suggestion that the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) should be applied to estates and not blocks. My sister has
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • Market WATCH
      • 69 17 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 *****.37 +221.88 I +2.01 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.34 3576.90 5775.99 +156.24 -0.40 +14.85 I +1.21 I -0.01 i +0.26 Korea Comp 824.21 +3.52 +0.43 KLCI 838.77 -3.13 I -0.37 SET Index 630.87 +1.79 I +0.28 Jakarta Comp 784.78 -1.70
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      • 61 17 By volume NOL GuangzhaolFB Zhguo Powerpl Noble Grp Chartered SingTel PanpacMed DMXTech Meghmani SDS AsiaPharm Close 2.810 0.265 0.230 1.090 1.020 2.330 0.120 0.985 0.280 0.600 Change -0.010 +0.010 +0.015 +0.020 -0.020 -0.020 -0.005 +0.005 -0.005 +0.005 -0.4 +3.9 +7.0 +1.9 -1.9 -0.9 -4.0 +0.5 -1.8 +0.8
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      • 75 17 By$ DBS 16.100 +0.300 F&N 14.200 +0.300 JMH400USS 13.700 +0.300 JurEng 2.350 +0.140 KepCorp 7.300 +0.100 SIA 11.100 +0.100 SIA200 11.100 +0.100 Robinson 6.250 +0.050 ShangAsia 2kHK$ 7.550 +0.050 CITYDEV W*****0 3.980 +0.040 By percentage Benefun 20k 0.015 +50.0 El Nets 0.015 +50.0 WeePoh 0.015 +50.0 IRE
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      • 74 17 By$ OCBC 13.500 -0.200 Jardine C&C 7.350 -0.150 Creative 50 18.000 -0.100 UOB 13.200 -0.100 Venlure 16.400 -0.100 APB Breweries 7.450 -0.050 Fortune Reit HIC5 5.900 -0.050 MCL Land 1.450 -0.050 OUE 7.350 -0.050 SngamasC2kHKS 3.800 -0.050 By percentage Yongnam 0.015 BBR 0.020 -25.0 -20.0 North 22
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      • 80 17 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed flat in thin trade as gains in high-yield blue chips barely offset a continued slide in technology stocks. The ST Index inched up 0.88 point to end at 1,937.43. Losers led gainers 147 to 143 as 295.9 million shares were traded. Buying in high-yield
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      • 36 17 US$ 0.587 UK£ 0.3304 Yen 64.855 HK$ 4.5782 RM 2.2307 Euro 0.4868 Rupiah 5437 Baht 24.406 Peso 32.926 A$ 0.8491 Indian Rs 27.1792 Won 675.14 C$ 0.7633 Yuan 4.8586 NZ$ 0.9087 NTS 19.904
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      • 26 17 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/.i 402.500 Silver uss/oz 6.590 Platinum usS/m 859.400 Rubber cents/kg 233 Palm oil RM/t.nn. 1570.50 Brent crude uss/bomi 41.13 Information provided by
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    • 326 17  -  Val Chua Home buyers must declare all benefits when taking loans THAT early-bird discount and those furniture vouchers that you get from the housing developer must be declared when you approach a bank for a home loan, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday. The requirement will
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    • 218 17  -  Val Chua CITIBANK, which is being sued by a Singaporean investor for professional negligence, said yesterday that the case had "no merit", and that it intended to "aggressively defend" itself in the courts. This was the first time Citibank had commented
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    • 69 17 Bio-Treat Technology has clinched a 205 million yuan ($42 million) contract to provide its proprietary wastewater treatment services to a municipal wastewater treatment project in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, China. Raffles LaSalle will buy Australia's largest private creative design institute, Kvß Institute of Technology. If Kvß's after-tax profit
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    • 545 18  -  Recta Raman WHEN you think about it, we are all project managers. Managing and handling projects have become a way of life. While some of these projects can encompass both technical and non-techni-cal fields like finance and marketing, other functional areas utilise projects to get
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    • 353 18 CORPORATE leaders are mostly cautious about the economic prospects for their respective businesses and sectors, notwithstanding the bullish forecasts for Singapore's economy this year, according to a report in The Business Times yesterday. The Government raised its forecast for full-year growth
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    • 145 18 Dow Jones THE board of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) rejected yesterday a call by a substantial shareholder to seek competitive bids for the shipping line that Temasek Holdings had offered to buy. New York-based fund Paulson Co, which owns a 6.1-per-cent stake
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    • 430 19  -  Jaime Koh Observer Star aims to be world's largest Chinese financial newspaper THE Observer Star may be a newcomer in the Greater China media industry, but its ambition is big: It wants to be the widestcirculated Chinese language financial newspaper in the world. Sesdaq-listed Panpac Media
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    • 210 19  -  Tay Tsen-Waye THE new co-branded credit and debit cards issued by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) and NTUC Link will allow union members to accumulate Link Points at a faster rate, said National Trades Union Congress Secretary-General Lim Boon Heng at their launch yesterday. NTUC-OCBC Visa
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    • 346 20 -AFP EU and Japan among trading powers sanctioning America GENEVA A series of stinging defeats for the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO) may encourage US protectionism, analysts say. The WTO last week authorised eight trading powers, including the European Union
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    • 143 20 SINGAPORE'S stock of foreign equity investment rose 8 per cent to reach $229 billion at the end of 2002, an 8 per cent increase from 2001, the Department of Statistics said yesterday. It said about 96.1 per cent of foreign equity investment was in direct
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    • 161 20 -AFP SHANGHAI Asean has recognised China as a full market economy, the China Daily reported yesterday. The decision was a victory for China because worldwide recognition of it as a market economy would give it more clout in fighting trade disputes. Around one in every
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    • 2279 20 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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  • INFOTECH solution for BUSINESS
    • 754 25  -  Ariel Tarn Nasas award-winning nanotechnology expert Dr Meyyappan speaks about the promises it holds I ONE of the favourite pastimes of I product manufacturers these days is trying to make things as small as possible. Over the years, scientists and researchers have sought
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    • 280 26 -AP Spyware may cause computers to freeze up on installation SEATTLE Though I Microsoft's new security update package is all about protecting systems from worms, viruses and spyware, it can't do much about what's already on computers and that could pose a problem. The
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    • 212 26 AGILENT Technologies has develI oped a miniature, low-cost optical proximity sensor to enable a variety of applications in compact mobile devices. In mobile phones, for example, Agilent's sensor enables an automatic change from loudspeaker to earpiece mode when the phone is placed near
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    • 78 26 Indian cyclists riding past an advertisement for Reliance India Mobile (RIM), a mobile service provider, in Chennai. Cellular companies, in a bid to draw more customers, are providing more services such as data transfer facilities. India, with its billion-plus population, is seeing a gradual
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    • 135 26 THE Symantec Network Security 7100 I Series offers multi-gigabit intrusion prevention and an innovative One Click to Prevention capability. With a single mouse click, the product can be transformed from a monitoring device to a prevention tool, allowing customers to switch between modes based on
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    • 165 26 I THE Aspila Topaz is NEC InfronI tia Asia-Pacific's latest digital keyphone system targeted at the small and medium business, small office and home office markets. The scaleable intelligent telecommunication tool allows for expansion from three trunks/eight extensions to 27 trunks/72 extensions without compromising on
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    • 454 26 AP McAfee's multi-layered defence system bows McAfee's Virus Scan Enterprise B.oi is reportedly the industry's first next -generation anti-virus solution to offer intrusion prevention capabilities. This combination delivers proactive protection from today's threats including buffer-overflow exploits and blended attacks and features advanced outbreak management responses. It helps IT administrators
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    • Focus: IT OUTSOURCING
      • 508 28  -  Leon A Enriquez Your firm will save costs, gain market agility and be freed up to focus on revenue generation I WHY do companies outsource? IT I outsourcing helps organisations to gain market agility, financial savings and technical capabilities without extra investment in
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      • 146 28 TODAY, most, if not I all, companies outsource their human resource procurement to HR agencies. Benefits gained by a company outsourcing its HR needs on a short-term basis include: The ability to focus limited resources and pay more attention to core business initiatives. Reduction in headcount
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      • 341 28 Red Hat has appointed Mr Charles E Peters, Jr as executive vice-president and chief financial officer. His responsibilities include accounting, finance, treasury, tax, credit and investor relations. Mr Peters was the chief financial officer at Burlington Industries. Dr Wolfgang Ziebart has taken on the role of CEO at
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      • 387 28  -  David Hufton I NOWADAYS, it is difficult I to find any company that isn't engaging in some form of outsourcing. However, an increasing number of firms are experiencing difficulties in their outsourcing relationships. So, it is advisable to consider what makes outsourcing work. Firstly,
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      • 439 29  -  Leon A Enriquez No tracking of data location needed I CONFRONT any IT I administrator working in an enterprise about storage and you'll find that his immediate concern is the need for space to keep up with the massive volume of data generated. Often, each piece
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      • 75 29 According to Mr Jeff Hornung (left), vice-president of Network Appliance, the storage grid vision will bring about: Unlimited scalability of performance, capacity and availability in small, modular increments. Lowered storage costs as a result of non-disruptive data move and a single point of management, higher
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      • 111 29 Tool bar on my Explorer Q: After installing MSN Messenger Plus! Update, I realised a toolbar had been installed onto my Internet Explorer. It always generates buttons with links to websites, including pornographic ones. How do I remove it? Li Van A: According to the MSN Messenger Plus!
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    • 354 30 Agencies Teachers told to avoid promoting extremist concepts and beliefs RIYADH Saudi Arabia has issued a directive to its teachers and education officials to avoid promoting extremist concepts and to protect the nation by promoting "tolerant Islamic beliefs" in the school system. The instruction came from de
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    • 167 30 -AFP ROME An Italian couple undergoing fertility treatment gave birth to twins of colour following a error at a fertility clinic, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported. The daily said the eggs and sperm of two couples of different races receiving fertility treatment
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    • 213 30 AFP FALLUJAH (Iraq) Seven United States marines and three Iraqi national guards were killed yesterday in the deadliest anticoalition attack in months, as Iraqi officials sheepishly retracted claims that former president Saddam Hussein's long-time righthand man Izzat Ibrahim Al Duri had been
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    • 197 32 BANGKOK Thailand is to grade "lewd behaviour" in public by students, so that appropriate disciplinary action could be taken to curb the perceived growing menace, reported The Nation yesterday. Officials, drafting new regulations, will have to find fresh terms to describe what
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    • 298 32 Agencies Move to swing over voters in HK HONG KONG China's Olympic team arrived in Hong Kong yesterday to parade their haul of medals a move, critics say, is aimed at giving a boost to proBeijing candidates ahead of this weekend's key legislative election. "China has
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    • 472 34  -  Kalinga Seneviratne Australia stands to make a fortune from oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea WHILE the fluctuations in the world oil prices on a daily basis is a major news story these days, a great oil grab taking place right at the region's doorstep
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    • 338 35 ment and its supporters overseas are disputing the boundaries and wants Australia to negotiate a new boundary which is at the halfway mark between the two countries. This is the norm under international law when such a dispute crops up between neighbours and if that is
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    • 139 35 AP SHANGHAI Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life imprisonment under new rules that took effect yesterday. The crackdown is part of a renewed campaign for greater
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    • 482 36  -  David Chew Indian artist Sunaina Bhalla practices traditional Nihonga, while Japanese artists go mod INTERCULTURAL art is nothing new, and the Indian influence in Japanese arts and culture can be traced all the way back to when Buddhism was introduced into Japanese society. What's not as common
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    • 274 36  -  David Chew COMIC book-like characters and graphic design patterns feature predominantly in this latest exhibition presented by The Arts House. Comprising 55 paintings by nine leading Japanese contemporary artists, Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in ]990s will on at The Arts House Gallery until
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    • 290 37  -  Jeanine Tan FIRST Farm, now Christopher. Yesterday, MediaCorp actor Christopher Lee was unveiled as the spokesperson for Xcerol, a natural health supplement that supports the immune system. Xcerol is manufactured by health and lifestyle products company Reborne. Christopher's rumoured girlfriend, Farm Wong,
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    • 288 37  -  David Chew THE Substation is abuzz with Septfest 2004. Besides hosting an Asian Film Symposium and a Writers Forum, this year's festival includes a Humanimal visual art show, forum and fair. The Writers Forum, titled Voice and Place, will be held this Sunday from lpm to
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    • 529 37  -  Recta Raman Science.o4 has more than 120 activities to 'keep both hands and mind busy' IF I had known science could be this fun, I probably would have done a lot better in the subject when I was at school. That was my first thought when
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      • 406 38 -AFP But Amenabar denies MarAdentro advocates assisted suicide VENICE A true story of one man's fight for the legal right to die, by Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar, has proved the talking point of the Venice International Film Festival so far. Amenabar's film Mar Adentro (Out to
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      • 239 38 -AFP VENICE A raw, provocative American film about child sex abuse and the relationship of two young boys with their baseball coach has become one of the surprise hits of the Venice International Film Festival. Gregg Araki's dreamy, unsettling and sexually explicit film, Mysterious
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      • 490 39  -  Recta Raman And along with it are increased cases of heart disease and diabetes MR TAN* is in his late 30s and weighs 72kg. He is considered obese but is not bothered by his expanding waistline. And if statistics are anything to go by,
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      • 608 39 -AP HEALTH EVENT OR TALK? Have a health-related event or talk? If you would like it to be featured in TODAY, email pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg at least TWO weeks in advance. Publication depends on space available. THERE'S more good news for chocolate lovers. Scientists have
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    • 611 43 As usual, Williams rebels to good effect TENNIS US Open, women's singles NEW YORK Serena Williams rarely does as she is told and, on this occasion, it seems to be paying off. The American says she has no regrets about going against doctors' advice to
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    • 352 43 Agencies TENNIS US Open, men's singles NEW YORK Fans who tacked 21 pieces of paper with a yellow "A" (as in "ace") to a railing during Andy Roddick's US Open match probably didn't bring any decorated with "D" (as in "double-fault"). Those
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    • 358 43 -AFP NEW DELHI India's cricket team may be struggling to hit top form on the field, but off it, Sourav Ganguly's men remain the hottest marketing property on the international circuit. Yesterday, an Indian television network agreed to shell
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    • 442 44 After Olympic defeat, Singapore shuttler is determined to tighten her game DAN PEK dan@newstoday.com.sg SINCE becoming Commonwealth Games champion in 2002, when she won gold in the women's singles, Singapore shuttler Li Li has struggled to reach the same giddy heights. Though
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    • 519 44  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg TWO years ago, a paltry crowd of slightly over 10 turned up for the National Squash Championships, reflecting the sorry decline of a sport that many Singaporeans once played regularly. Indeed in the 1980s, the Republic was
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    • 567 45  -  TANYO-HINN Fed up with the speculation, she gives her side of the story LAST week, it was reported that swim queen Joscelin Yeo faced a potential ban from future games after allegedly snubbing chef de mission Annabel Pennefather at a Team Singapore dinner during last month's
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    • 130 45 -AFP TOKYO Yuta Tabuse has signed for the Phoenix Suns, boosting his hopes of becoming the first Japanese to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) regular season, the NBA's Tokyo branch said yesterday. The 23-year-old guard, who took part in the
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    • 399 45 -AFP LONDON The smart money was on Terry Venables. David O'Leary was a major contender, along with Steve Bruce and Steve McClaren was a rank outsider. Graeme Souness' name wasn't even mentioned. But it was the fiery Scot who was appointed
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    • 178 46  -  Stanley Ho MATT Brown quit just three months into his new job, returned after a year to ask for a second chance, and found himself rewarded with a promotion. That is the bizarre story surrounding Woodlands Wellington's new head coach, who
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    • 111 46 A HAT-TRICK from striker Fadzly Shah Jahan gave Singapore their second victory in as many days in the inaugural Inter Sports School Football Championships as the Republic defeated Thailand's Suphanburi Sports School 3-1 last night. The 13-year-old opened his account at the Singapore Sports School field in
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    • 475 46  -  JOSE RAYMOND ONE of Singapore's defensive lynchpins S Subramani could well play his final international tomorrow against Oman in the pre-World Cup qualifier. Yesterday, the 32-year-old defender confirmed that he told national coach Radojko Avramovic last Friday that he wanted to retire
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    • 420 46  -  STANLEY HO But Singaporean clubs will receive $60,000 less SINGAPOREAN S-League clubs were dealt a double blow at the monthly club chairmen's meeting last night. At a closed-door session at Khatib Camp, the S-League Strategic Business Unit (SBU) announced that Singaporean clubs will receive
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    • AFTERNOON EDITION
      • 264 47 -AFP LONDON Former England captain Terry Butcher has hit out at David Beckham (picture), claiming his performances during the last three years hardly merit him being in the team. Butcher, writing in his column on BBC Sport online, said Beckham's fame had helped him stay
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      • 362 47 -AFP TENNIS US Open NEW YORK Birthday boy Tim Henman was handed an early gift yesterday when Nicolas Kiefer pulled out of their fourth-round US Open match, allowing Henman to reach his first quarter-final here in 10 appearances. "I am making some pretty slow starts
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