Today, 15 September 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    16 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday J s September 15, 2004 1 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      MAS set to publish details of errant financial advisers
      414 1  -  Val Chua val@news today, com, sg IN A move which could radically change the investment landscape in Singapore, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) looks set to publicise details about errant financial advisers. This "name-and-shame" action marks a change from its
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      Lock icon Small gains on Wall Street
      69 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks eked out small gains yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 3.40 points to 10,318.16, the Nasdaq Composite Index added 5.02 points to 1,915.40 and the Standard and Poor's 500 Index managed a gain of 2.51 points to 1,128.33.
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      Lock icon Arab League backs Iraq
      90 1 -AFP CAIRO The Arab League condemned terrorism in Iraq yesterday and called on member states to restore full diplomatic relations with the interim government in Baghdad. This came in a statement issued at the end of a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital
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      Lock icon No news on hostages
      104 1 -AFP DUBAI The Islamic Army of Iraq, which is holding two French journalists hostage, said last night that France is an "enemy of Muslims", in a statement on a website that gave no details on the fate of the captives. The hostage-takers initially demanded that Paris
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      165 1 /A=DIACORP 8 "*****6"*****9" SHARE YOUR FREE NEWSPAPER 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 exclusive dining privileges* at: Baker's Inn Bobby Rubino's Coffee Club
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Tackling terrorism at sea
      44 2 The countries of the Five Power Defence Arrangement Australia, Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore holding their first joint maritime terrorism exercise yesterday. It saw them intercepting a ship carrying illegal cargo as it sailed through the South China Sea.
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      Tharman's vision embraces diversity, messiness, failure
      336 2  -  Tor Ching Li NATIONAL examinations, school rankings, private primary schooling these were bugbears that some 400 tertiary students dished out to Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the annual National University of Singapore (NUS) Political Association ministerial forum last night. A candid minister lapped up
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      SCV, SingTel discuss cable infrastructure
      536 2  -  Jaime Koh on the second day of legal battle between telecom rivals jaime@newstoday.com.sg CABLE services provider Star Hub Cable Vision (SCV) yesterday maintained before the High Court that it had the right to build its own cable infrastructure to serve any type of property. On
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      Lock icon Aiyah! It's gold-painted, not gold-plated ...
      788 3  - Aiyah! It's gold-painted, not gold-plated Jeremy Lim |\lEyys£g|]l|]|£|]^_ No, the NKF isn't paying me to be its Young Ambassador, but I have selfish reasons for volunteering ARE we so materialistic that we have to get something in return for everything we do? Perhaps. I was asked by many well-meaning people
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      Lock icon Inspections near end
      409 4  -  Tan Hui Leng AVA could allow Malaysian poultry imports if bird flu appears under control huileng@newstoaay. com. sg THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) is expected to complete its inspection of Malaysian poultry farms this week before deciding if Singapore's suspension on the import of
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      Lock icon Police recruits are target of latest wave of Iraq bombings
      259 4 Agencies BAGHDAD Militants in Iraq targeted the country's fledgling police force yesterday by exploding a massive car bomb outside Baghdad's police station killing 47 people, while rebels peppered a bus in the north of the city slaying 13 passengers all
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      Lock icon Raffles chain to rehire Cambodian strikers
      104 4 -AP PHNOM PENH The Sin-gapore-based Raffles Hotel chain will rehire most of some 300 workers who were fired after going on strike five months ago, a union leader said yesterday. The agreement calls for 60 per cent of the fired workers to be reinstated
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon China secures dam
        28 4 AFP China has deployed military helicopters, patrol boats, armoured fighting vehicles and bomb disposal robots at the Three Gorges Dam area to prevent an attack.
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        Lock icon Mega, Susilo on TV
        32 4 -AFP Campaigning for next Monday's final round of Indonesia's presidential elections kicked off yesterday with Megawati Sukarnoputri and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono facing off in a televised ques-tion-and-answer session.
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        Athletes honoured
        23 4 Eight Thai medalists will get one-year diplomatic passports in recognition of their achievements at the Athens Games, reported the Bangkok Post.
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        Lock icon Treasurer steps down
        30 4 AP Philippines President Gloria Arroyo yesterday accepted the resignation of national treasurer Mina Figueroa, who denied reports that she was quitting because of differences over government borrowing.
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      Lock icon HDB to invite tenders for Pinnacle@Duxton construction
      127 6 Channel NewsAsia THE HDB will proceed with the tender and construction of The Pinnacle@Duxton as 79 per cent of the units in the project have been snapped up. The booking exercise began on Aug 14 and by Sept 13, 1,456 units had been
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      Ortho-k, is it okay or not?
      548 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Ophthalmologists aren't so sure, but optometrists say it can be beneficial WATER polo player Andre Chong used to have a problem when his contact lenses slipped during practice. Then, he discovered contact lenses he could sleep in that would leave him
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Photogenic dragon
      60 8 TREVOR TAN Everyone wants to get a picture of this 280m-long dragon lantern sitting by the bank of the Singapore River. It is supposed to be the longest lantern in the world and rests on 84 gold coins, each representing a constituency of Singapore's. It is one of
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    • Article
      Did firm turn a blind eye to the warnings?
      399 8  -  Lee Ching Wern NICOLL HIGHWAY INQUIRY Delay in project meant NLC faced $9m-10m penalty PRIOR to the collapse of Nicoll Highway in April, there had been other alarming incidents during the construction of the MRT Circle Line involving wall deflections and
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      No state-based pension for S'pore: MOM
      229 8  -  Lee Ching Wern SINGAPORE will not go down the route some countries have taken with statebased pension schemes, said the Ministry of Manpower yesterday in response to recent media commentaries urging the Government to provide state pensions for Singaporean retirees. Press Secretary to the
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      Lock icon Manny conscious, can talk
      249 10 Newsßadio 93.8 Blast victim can move left side of body JAKARTA bomb-blast victim Elisabeth Manuela Bambina Musu has regained consciousness and is now breathing on her own. The five-year-old, better known as Manny, has spoken briefly but has not asked about her mother, who was killed
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        'Chee misleading public'
        127 10 The press secretary to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Madam Yeong Yoon Ying, has responded to Dr Chee Soon Juan, secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party, who said he would press his defamation claim if Mr Lee represented himself; did not ask for security for Dr Chee's
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        MOU on e-government
        38 10 The Kuwaiti Minister of Communications, Planning and Administrative Development, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, will sign an MOU on e-government cooperation with Singapore's Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Dr Lee Boon Yang, today.
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        Disability online portal
        31 10 The National Council of Social Service has launched the first Disability Portal here, www.disabihty.org.sg, to provide disability information and resources such as on education, employment and financial schemes.
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        MOM outsources IT
        40 10 The Ministry of Manpower has outsourced its IT applications, hardware, software and services to the InfoCorn m Development Authority and Hewlett-Packard Singapore for three years. Twenty-three MOM staff have joined HP while 1 1 went to IDA.
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        Asme to help in training
        36 10 The Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Asme) has been appointed as the Singapore Workforce Development Agency's first SME Training Champion, as part of efforts to provide training support to SMEs.
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      Focus On TheFamily
      263 12  -  Dr James Dobson w Tbrar's CHILDREN DONT FIT ON TO-DO LISTS Have you noticed that routine panic is becoming a way of life for today's families? There was a time when a man didn't fret if he missed the ferry. He'd just catch one the next month.
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      Not the voice of the real generation
      171 12  -  Muhammad Ridzal FOR a 51-year-old, Phillip Williams ("Kelong? Nah! Voters' choices", Sept 12) writes as if he were the very voice of what he calls the "new generation". May I respectfully ask Mr Williams to please stop speaking for my generation? As a
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      Privacy is paramount
      348 12  -  Fionne Tan Consumer Mediation Unit will keep process secret WE REFER to the letter from Mr Spencer Campbell, "Secrecy prevents investor diligence" (Sept 10). The Consumer Mediation Unit (CMU), established on Jan 2 last year, is an independent unit within the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS)
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      MAS studying publication of actions taken
      156 12  -  Angelina Fernandez I REFER to "Secrecy prevents investor diligence" and "More transparency will help investors" (Sept 10 and 11). The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) sees benefits in publishing its regulatory actions against financial institutions under certain circumstances. We have been studying the issue
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      Air Asia doesn't need certificate to fly here
      217 12  -  Albert Tjoeng I REFER to the article "Thai Air Asia plans to use Changi's low-cost terminal" (Sept 11). The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has received several Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) applications, including Air Asia's. We have prioritised the processing of
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Temasek closes in on NOL
      389 14 Agencies Open market purchases and acceptances give it 46.61% stake TEMASEK Holdings, which is offering to buy Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), was only 3.39 per cent shy of a majority stake in the shipping company at the close of trading yesterday, one day before its
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    • MarketWATCH
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        World markets
        59 15 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd Korea Comp Value 11,295.58 13,148.06 3,630.20 5,919.77 851.42 Change Pis +42.47 +0.38 +8.49 +0.06 +14.70 +0.41 -8.45 -0.14 -0.49 -0.06 KLCI 856.71 -0.54 -0.06 SET Index 651.89 +1.96 +0.30 lakarta Comp 809.01 +11.24 +1.41 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,717.45 219.74
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        SGX most active
        58 15 Jy volume Close Change '000 WL Capitaland Jio-Treat ?hguo Powerpl Chartered Meghtnani SDS lurTech China Paper JTAC iTATS ChipPAC 2.800 1.780 0.855 0.230 1.090 0.285 1.290 0.335 0.630 1.100 27,744 +0.040 +2.3 23,514 -0.020 -2.3 18,235 -0.005 -2.1 14,897 14,104 -0.005 -1.7 12,310 +0.030 +2.4 11,558 -0.010
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        SGX top rises
        67 15 DBS 16.800 +0.400 HiaiPrime200USS 10.400 +0.300 jealive50 18.800 +0.200 ilA 200 11.600 +0.200 3realEasl 11.600 +0.100 IMH 400USS 13.800 +0.100 Robinson 6.550 +0.100 JOB 13.700 +0.100 »BS(M/*****7 0.335 +0.065 By percentage L&M 0.010 +100.0 Morth22 USS 0.025 +25.0 DBSSMW*****7 0.335 +24.1 \BR 0.170 +21.4 3MG USS 0.030
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        SGX top falls
        66 15 By$ Weiban Gp 0.715 -0.32. :iJYDEWW***** 4.300 -0.101 ISH500USS 6.000 -0.101 \?i Breweries 7.450 -0.051 :iTYDEV 6.800 -0.051 KepCorp 7.400 DUE 7.400 -0.051 -0.051 MOVENA 0.220 -0.03. HKLandUSS 2.010 -0.031 By percentage MeibanGp 0.715 31.3 Falmac 0.065 -23.5 FJBenW*****6 0.020 -20.0 Guangzhoulnv2k 0.105 lntegrW*****7 0.055 NewLakeside 0.170
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        ST Index —1,994.13 +8.34
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        Singapore
        72 15 SHARES closed mixed yesterday, but buying of blue chips continued to drive the ST Index higher. The ST Index rose 8.34 points, or 0.4 per cent, to close at 1,994.13, its highest since February 2001, when it was 2,000.33. On the broader market, losers outnumbered gainers 1 85 to
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 15 US$ 0.5909 UK£ 0.3291 Yen 64.884 HK$ 4.6082 RM 2.2455 Euro 0.4830 Rupiah 5,385.6 Baht 24.396 Peso 33.192 A$ 0.8451 Indian Rs 27.126 Won 676.73 C$ 0.7678 Yuan 4.8909 NZ$ 0.8958 NTS 20.014
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        Lock icon Commodities
        28 15 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 405.30 Silver uss/oz 6.235 Platinum uss/oi 843.00 Rubber O nts/k 9 212.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,580.50 Brent crude ussAomi 41.68 Information provided by
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      A-Sonic to start China airline
      387 15  -  Tay Tsen-Waye It will pay $5.4 m for 25% stake in Guangzhou-based venture AIRCRAFT and avionics retrofitting firm A-Sonic Aerospace confirmed yesterday that it was eyeing China's rapidly-growing aviation sector. Along with two Chinese firms, Guangdong China Travel Service (GCTS) and China X-press (CXP), as
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      Whitesands mall sold for $161 million
      138 15 OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp said yesterday that its 55-per-cent owned unit, Pasir Ris Properties, had sold the Whitesands Shopping Mall for $160.9 million in cash. The mall located in Pasir Ris Central was sold to Arima Investment, OCBC said in a statement to the Singapore
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      market BUZZ
      171 15 Have breakfast and eat it too As part of the Nestle Breakfast Campaign, readers received a free Nesquik six-pack each at NTUC Fair Price, Sun Plaza, last Saturday (picture). A post-it note in Weekend TODAY entitled readers to redeem the pack. There will be three more redemptions on
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      CORPORATEbriefs
      174 16 Advanced Holdings expects to raise about $3 million in net proceeds from its initial public offering. The Singapore company, which supplies process equipment to the oil and gas, petrochemical and electronics industries, is offering investors 20 million new shares at 20 cents each. Advanced is offering 1 million shares
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      Lock icon S'pore to Phuket for 29unknown on Air Asia
      290 16  -  Tay Tsen-Waye 3,000 tickets go on sale onThai airline website waye@newstoday.com.sg BUDGET carrier Air Asia clearly means to tame "even the wildest tiger", with its latest 29-cent one-way fare for its new daily service from Singapore to Phuket In a statement yesterday,
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      Maryland Park up for en bloc sale
      483 19  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newstoday.com.sg IN WHAT could be the largest private residential property en bloc sale in terms of value in nearly five years, the 246,737-sq-ft Maryland Park site in Katong is up for grabs. The freehold site, which went on sale yesterday,
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      Lock icon Sony to acquire MGM
      300 19 Agencies Japan firm leads consortium to buy studio for $8.5b LOS ANGELES A group led by Japan's Sony Corp struck an agreement in principle on Monday to acquire Hollywood's last major independent studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), for nearly US$5 billion ($8.5 billion). MGM made the announcement after
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      250 16 vjss Q^Jfk www.sgx.com Trade a basket of blue chips in one transaction This investment fund that is listed on Singapore Exchange allows you to do just that. It invests in Singapore's leading companies, tracks the Straits Times Index and trades like a share. What are the features and advantages of
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Fraud link to JI?
      222 20 -AFP Indons in Aussie court on bank fraud charges MELBOURNE -Indonesia's vice-consul in Melbourne has dismissed reports that a group facing charges of a bank fraud across Australia had links with Jemaah Islamiyah 01). Five men of Indonesian and Chinese descent appeared before an Australian court
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      Lock icon Arafat expulsion a matter of time: Sharon
      148 20 AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insisted yesterday that Mr Yasser Arafat would be expelled from the West Bank, adding that the Palestinian president would be dealt with in the same way as the two assassinated heads of the Hamas militant group.
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Hijab debate persists
        47 20 AFP A Muslim policewoman in Paris, known as Nora C, has annoyed her superiors and stoked a national debate in France over Islamic headscarves after she refused to remove hers which she wore under her uniform cap on religious grounds, a police union said.
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        Lock icon Artist's self-portrait fools US officials
        61 20 AP Artist Rafal Bujnowski's visa application was a copy of a self-portrait, but the United States officials who approved it never caught on. In New York, he took private flight lessons. The Polish 30-year-old said his ruse was not meant as a political state- ment
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        Lock icon Saudis warned
        28 20 AFP The Saudi government has warned civil servants of losing their jobs if they spoke out openly against official policy, the official SPA news agency reported.
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        Lock icon First lesbian divorce granted in Canada
        60 22 AFP granted A Canadian court has granted what is believed to be the world's first same sex divorce to a lesbian couple, barely a year after the country gave approval for gays and lesbians to wed. The Ontario Supreme Court found the defi- nition
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        Man denied bail for marital sex request
        56 22 An Indian court in the western state of Gujarat denied bail to a man who wanted to be released to have sex with his wife, reported the BBC. The defendent Firoz Khan is one of 99 people arrested on suspicion of burning a
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        61 22 -AFP The Malacanang presidential palace yesterday denied that the Philippines was one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists, saying people who attacked reporters were being arrested. The rebuke came after the Committee to Protect Journalists said on its website that last year, at least five
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      245 22 -AP BERKELEY (California) A California teenager has become the first person who is a transgender to receive an academic scholarship in the United States. Mr Alyn Libman, 19, won a US$l5,OOO-a-year ($25,457) scholarship from a Chicago non-profit organisation, The Point Foundation.
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      223 23 Pressure from China to dropWu from Paralympic Games is ignored TAIPEI Taiwan's First Lady, Madam Wu Shu-chen, will continue to head a delegation and attend the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Athens despite political pressure and attempts by China to prevent her from
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      122 23 -AFP MOSCOW Russia said yesterday it did not expect North Korea to agree to resume faltering six-way talks about its nuclear weapons programme as scheduled this month. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev made the comment after meeting his South Korean counterpart, Mr Lee
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        56 23 —Agency Experts have found that eating curry on a regular basis may be good for you. Research by Chicago's Loyola University Medical Centre has revealed that the core ingredients in Indian curry such as cumin, turmeric, coriander and garlic, can help prevent high blood pressure and help protect
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        55 23 Faulty wiring has resulted in a recall an estimated 460,000 vehicles in Europe, the US and Australia by Swedish carmaker Volvo. The company's spokesman has yet to confirm whether the recall, which effects the company's 1 999-2000 SBO and S6O sedans and XC7O and V7O wagons, is also
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      838 24  -  Sanjay Kapoor Indian opposition, trying every trick in book to topple Singh govt, now places hopes in the planets LAXMAN Das Madan or "Babaji" is an astrologer who hangs around newspaper offices after a major political event or a natural calamity telling editors
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      417 24  -  Prem Singh Can we fend off a terrorist attack? Can we say that security has been sufficiently tightened to keep us reasonably safe from terrorists' attacks? I have this fear, suicide bombers may already be walking around in Singapore. Places like France, Russia and Jakarta
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      152 25 Esplanade Presents CD J^^Hl^w^, I Hi I 111 l| Joyful eclecticism by British jazz sax star. I U |L DEVOTION touches all Pine's favourite bases: I African music, jazz funk, dub, soul and drum n bass with unfaltering musicality and sense of fun." Q Magazine oSnTiiiEY pinE 2 Oct °4
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      623 26  -  Zul Othman Members of local band Electrico quit lucrative day jobs for their passion and are now reaping the rewards news@newstoday.com.sg DANIEL Sassoon, a guitarist with home-grown pop group Electrico, recently walked away from a lucrative career as a lawyer to dive into music fulltime. And he did
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      181 26 Fallen idols go on stage Next Thursday's episode ex Singapore Idol will feature memorable characters from the auditions, such as "Careless Whisper" and "Pink Lady". The episode will be recorded today at 7pm at MediaCorp TV Theatre. Limited free tickets for the recording are available today at MediaCorp
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      460 26  -  Elisa Chia DITSY blondes make for good television, or do they? Well, certainly not when you are portrayed as one just ask Amazing Race 5 contestants Kami and Karli French. The 26-year-old twins' USsl-million ($1.7-million) quest ended when they finished
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        215 28  -  Yong Shu Chiang Zombies storm US chart, airport drama takes off in Singapore THE majority of movie audiences in North America saw dead people last weekend hordes of them. Video game-based sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse, starring Milla Jovovich as a military agent fighting to stay alive against zombies,
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      780 32 -AP US and favourites Europe go into battle this week in the unique Ryder Cup atmosphere GOLF Ryder Cup MICHIGAN Vijay Singh and Mike Weir provided a preview of the Ryder Cup last Sunday, even though neither will be playing at Oakland Hills this week. The
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      295 32 NFL Panthers 14 Packers 24 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina Ahman Green scored three touchdowns to lead the Green Bay Packers past Carolina 24-14 on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), in the National Football League season opener for both clubs. Green ran the ball
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      580 33  -  TANYO-HINN Singapore to host Asian All-Stars and Asian Grand Prix track meets ATHLETICS Enzer Asian All-Stars Athletics Championship yohinn@newstoday.com.sg TWO major international meets, boasting some of Asia's finest athletes, will be held here as Singapore strives to become a regional athletics hub. The first will be
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      Lock icon Torrential downpour fails to affect Bibat
      340 33  -  Tan Yo-Hinn GOLF Singapore Open Amateur Championship LAST year, the benchmark was raised several notches by a 13-year-old school kid who won the event by 14 strokes. But if there was any pressure to live up to the standards set by Alexander Sitompul who
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      Lock icon Shape up for the S-League
      466 34  -  STANLEY HO FAS set to introduce new 'fitness clause' next year to cut back on unfit players stanley@newstoday.com.sg consistently achieve high fitness levels." This season, the FAS set a target of Level 13-9 on the beep test for all S-League players. Last year, the target
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      High-flying Eagles stun Perak
      124 34  -  ALVIN CHUA AFC CUP QUARTER-FINALS Perak 1 Geylang 2 news@newstoday.com.sg GEYLANG United have a great chance of reaching the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup semi-finals, after they defeated Malaysian side Perak 2-1 in the quarter-final first-leg clash last night Scott O'Donell's team came away from Ipoh
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        Lock icon Bielsa resigns as Argentina coach
        303 34 -AFP BUENOS AIRES Argentina national football coach Marcelo Bielsa has resigned from his post this morning (Singapore time), just over two weeks since he guided them to their first ever Olympic title. The 49-year-old Bielsa is nicknamed the "madman" for his eccentric press conferences and
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        115 34 -AFP PARIS The Renault Formula 1 team have parted company with Italian driver Jarno Trulli, the French outfit said this morning (Singapore time). Trulli, who won this year's Monaco Grand Prix, said last week that he has a contract to continue racing next season but
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        556 35 -AFP Drogba double fires Chelsea ahead, Mourinho delighted CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP H Paris St Germain 0 Chelsea 3 PARIS A fine double by Didier Drogba handed Chelsea a convincing 3-0 victory over French side Paris Saint Germain in their opening Champions League Group H tie this
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        310 35 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP E Arsenal 1 PSV Eindhoven 0 LONDON Arsenal needed an own goal to brush aside PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League Group E opener at Highbury this morning (Singapore time). Under pressure from Patrick Vieira, centre-half Alex turned Thierry Henry's
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        Lock icon Celtic crash, Inter Milan and Valencia post victories
        468 35 Agencies CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUPF Celtic 1 Barcelona 3 GLASGOW Barcelona striker Henrik Larsson returned to Celtic Park to help destroy his old club's unbeaten home record in the Champions League this morning (Singapore time). Deco shot the impressive visitors ahead after 20
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      148 34 League Home Team Away Team Match K"*Off (Singapore date/time) S. League SAF FC Sinchi Wed, 15/9/04 7.30pm SCORE Olym Beirut Home United Wed, 15/9/04 10.00pm UE Champions Leverkusen Real Madrid Thu, 16/9/04 2.45 am UE Champions Lyon Manchester Utd Thu, 16/9/04 2.45 am UE Champions Liverpool Monaco Thu, 16/9/04 2.45
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