Today, 30 September 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Thursday September 30, 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Power of choice now with students
      1298 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Diversity of talent encouraged through broad changes derrick@newstoday.com.sg INNOVATION and enterprise has been the catchphrase in Singapore education over the past couple of years but, in the years ahead, the buzzword will be "choice". Yesterday, Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam rolled out
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      Lock icon Private rocket ship in space success
      78 1 -AFP MOJAVE DESERT A private, manned rocket ship blasted through the Earth's atmosphere into space yesterday on a flight aimed at capturing a US$lO-million ($16.92-million) prize. SpaceShipOne, piloted by South African-born Michael Melvill, 62, reached an altitude of more than 100km before returning to
      -AFP  -  78 words
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      Lock icon Stocks extend rally as oil prices fall
      96 1 -AFP NEW YORK Stocks pushed higher for a second straight day yesterday as sentiment received a boost from lower oil prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 58.84 points to 10,136.24, the Nasdaq Composite Index rallied 24.07 points to 1,893.94 and the Standard
      -AFP  -  96 words
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  • hot news
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      The nails-and-barbed-wire mentality
      742 3 N EWS&AffIDI&IIL As long as we are stuck with that, Singapore may well stay a Third World nation THE $630-million Esplanade is a fitting symbol of our nation's wealth and sophistication. A few kilometres away, in the heartlands, town councils have hammered nails into the walls of
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      Lock icon Axe-wielding passenger in psychiatric ward
      139 4 -AFP OSLO An axe-wielding passenger who attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane in an apparent but failed bid to crash it has been taken to a psychiatric ward, police said yesterday. Minutes before the plane, a small Dornier 228, was due to land
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      Lock icon Nigerian city gripped by fear
      166 4 -AFP PORT HARCOURT The Nigerian southern oil city of Port Harcourt and its surrounding creeks are gripped by fear of fresh attacks by a separatist rebel group fighting for the control of the country's mammoth oil wealth, residents said. Some 500 people have died in
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      Lock icon Syria to boost security on Iraq border: US
      380 4 AFP WASHINGTON Syna has agreed to tighten its border with Iraq to prevent insurgents from entering the country, the United States said yesterday after two days of talks in Damascus between US, Syrian and Iraqi officials. Secretary of State Colin Powell said
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      Lock icon Former CO says he witnessed dunking
      551 5  -  Lee Ching Wern HEARING ON NSMAN'S DROWNING School of Commandos ex-chief tells court he saw trainees undergo this during survival training chingwern@newsto day, com. sg IN A surprising turn of events, the former Commanding Officer (CO) of the School of Commandos (SOC) told the
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Indon maid gets life sentence
      82 6 CNA INDONESIAN maid Purwanti Parji, 19, who was convicted of strangling her employer's mother to death, was given the maximum sentence of life imprisonment The Indonesian embassy and her lawyers plan to appeal. Her lawyers said Purwanti was verbally abused, deprived of food and made
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      Funeral for a friend
      403 6 Mourners honour entrepreneur who was a 'role model' Tor Ching Li chingli@newstoday. com. sg GLOOMY weather set the scene for businesswoman Dr Diana Young's funeral service and cremation yesterday, after her body was transported back to Singapore from China on Saturday. The 47-year-old mother of two
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      Lock icon A nation's mental health
      481 8  -  Tan Hui Leng Singles 2.6% times more likely to develop depression IN A snapshot of Singaporeans' state of mental health, the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) has found that people who are single, unemployed or lower-income earners are more prone to mental disorders. In the first-ever
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      Lock icon PSB Academy expands
      472 10  -  Lee U-Wen It hopes to have 4,000 full-time foreign students by 2007 IT OPENED its new four-storey Toa Payoh campus at the HDB Hub just two years ago. But the PSB Academy, an education and training arm of PSB Corporation, now wants an even bigger slice of
      LEE U-WEN  -  472 words
    • SINGAPORE snippets
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        Woman taxi driver murdered
        74 10 A woman SMRT taxi driver was found murdered in the backseat of her cab at about 6.15 am yesterday in Tuas. The taxi call centre received a distress signal at 4.40 am. Police found Madam Lim Choon Fang, 40, dead in her taxi in front of
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        Lock icon Union wants safer workplaces
        71 10 Newsßadio 93.8 The Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Employees' Union has called on the Manpower Ministry and employers to take a more rigorous approach towards workplace safety. It said Monday's accident at Jurong Shipyard, in which 3 workers were injured, was the second major incident in a
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        Lock icon ITE staff donate their ERS
        66 10 Newsßadio 93.8 A group of ITE staff have donated their Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS) to the ERS Community Service Fund, a project mooted by ITE East and North East CDC. The CDC matched each donated dollar with $2. A total of $24,000 was raised for
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Kerry has to radiate sunshine in debates
      952 12  -  Simon Marks To put himself on track for upset victory, challenger needs to offer a coherent vision of his policies WASHINGTON DC The proverbial "fat lady" is not yet singing an aria to mark the demise of Senator John Kerry's campaign for the
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      Lock icon Blair heckled in speech on Saddam and Iraq war
      376 14 Agencies No apology, but he admits to flawed intelligence overWMDs BRIGHTON British Prime Minister Tony Blair has refused to apologise for the Iraq war despite acknowledging that pre-war evidence over former dictator Saddam Hussein's much-touted weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was
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      Lock icon Booger remark: 'No slight meant'
      228 14 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun yesterday defended his controversial remark that Singapore was "a country the size of a booger (American slang for dried nasal mucus)", saying he did not intend to condemn the city-state publicly. In a press conference held to clarify
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      Lock icon Way clear for Brunei elections
      125 14 -AFP BANDAR SERI BEGAWANBrunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah yesterday cleared the way for the oil-rich kingdom's first elections in more than 40 years, but said pro-democ-racy reforms should be implemented with caution. Dressed in white military regalia with golden tassels, Sultan Hassanal signed an amendment to
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      Lock icon All I want for Christmas is a deep-sea submarine
      194 16 -AP DALLAS Fancy owning a winged submarine? For a cool US$l.7 million ($2.9 million), you can now order one from the 2004 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book, which is offering some fanciful and pricey gifts this season. The Dallas-based luxury retailer, known
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      Lock icon Wedlock going to the dogs?
      371 17 In Japan, some women prefer pets to husbands TOKYO In a trend similar to that in many parts of the world, more career-driven women in their 30s in Japan are delaying marriage or viewing it as unnecessary. Ms Kazoko Endo is among those in no
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      Lock icon 'Real men make women cry' myth exploded
      204 17 AFP MUMBAI For two months in the sprawling slums of Mumbai, gender equality activist Sujata Khandekar and her team of volunteers have been on a mission to explore and explode age-old beliefs about sex and male domination. The workshops which Ms Khandekar and
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      Focus On The Family
      244 18  -  Dr James Dobson by PARENTAL INSENSITIVITY If there's one lesson that parents need to learn most urgently, it's to guard what they say in the presence of their children. Many times following speaking engagements, I've been approached by a mother about a particular problem her child
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      Incentives great but...
      289 18  -  CHIN SUE LAN Can eligibility for lower maid levy be tweaked? I REFER to the Face In The Crowd article, "Desperate to be a mum" by Mas Intan Buang (Sept 27). I can empathise with her as I am one of the growing group of married women
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      MAS rules need fund managers to prepare reports
      97 18  -  ANGELINA FERNANDEZ I Letter from I REFER to the letter, "MAS should make managers explain fund losses publicly" (Sept 24). Under MAS' current framework, fund managers have to prepare semi-annual and annual reports of their funds for distribution to investors. The reports
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      Let elderly have flats on lower floors
      130 18  -  STEPHEN ONG FOR flats under Selective En Bloc Redevelopment and Built-To-Order programmes, including the Pinnacle@Duxton, I would like to propose that HDB build half of the flats between floors two and four as studio flats for the elderly. This will serve the elderly
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      Will increase in power rates be justified?
      126 18  -  LIM CHEE BENG I REFER to the article, "Electricity tariffs to go up for fourth time this year" (Sept 28). It states that the electricity rates need to be raised as they are pegged to oil prices. Isn't much of our electricity generated
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      Access NCSS websites for info on IPCs
      212 18  -  BENEDICT CHEONG WE REFER to the letter, "No excuse for IPCs not to record, report costs", by Mr Tan Kok Tim (Sept 29). He argues for all Institutions of Public Character (IPC) to make their accounting reports available on the website belonging to
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      Flower power for granny
      685 20  -  eh m hj SHE may look like any granny, with her wrinkly smile, white hair and flowery blouses but Madam Chiun Hai Cheok is in the same orchid-league as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Latin American pop star Ricky Martin and Queen Elizabeth 11. The
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      Explore Indian identity in greater depth
      185 20  -  EgjHSEEEH I REFER to Dharmendra Yadav's I Say column, "First, We're Singaporeans" (Sept 29). The writer tries to encourage national pride in Singaporeans which is good; but doing so by denigrating other nations is not. The writer is saying that by living for a
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      113 20  - UJ2jj222|ji3EE| THE article reminds me of the frequent tiffs between my husband, a Singapore Permanent Resident and Indian citizen, and myself, a Singaporean Indian. My husband cannot understand why we call ourselves Indians when we are clearly not citizens of India. Our debates have not stopped since his first visit
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Temasek owns 69% of NOL as offer ends
      502 22 Agencies Shipping firm's share price may fall: Analysts TEMASEK Holdings' $2.8-billion offer for Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) closed yesterday with the investment company falling far short of the 90 per cent it needed to take the shipping company private. Temasek, which offered
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    • Market WATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        85 23 -Dow Jones SHARES fell yesterday as high oil prices continued to weigh on sentiment. The ST Index closed down 4.75 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 1,974.35. On the broad market, decliners led advancers 1 92 to 1 20, while traded volume fell to 682.9 million shares valued at
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        ST Index: 1,974.35-4.75
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        World markets
        55 23 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries faiwanWld 10,786.1 Closed 3,667.10 5,809.75 Pis -29.47 +29.20 -39.47 -0.27 +0.80 -0.67 Korea Comp Closed KLCI 846.72 +1.26 +0.15 SET Index 636.57 -1.32 -0.21 lakarta Comp 812.89 +0.76 +0.09 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,742.09 245.34 -3.99 -1.68 -0.23 -0.68
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 23 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 413.40 Silver uss/oi 6.610 Platinum uss/oi 849.50 Rubber cents/kg 217.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,510 Brent crude uss/barrel 46.20 Information provided by
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 23 US$ 0.5904 UK£ 0.3268 Yen 65.505 HK$ 4.6055 RM 2.2437 Euro 0.4794 Rupiah 5,421.7 Baht 24.535 Peso 33.258 A$ 0.8245 Indian Rs 27.154 Won 676.47 C$ 0.7502 Yuan 4.8888 NZ$ 0.8808 NTS 20.088
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        SGX most active
        55 23 By volume Close Change 'OOO LantroVis Wee Poh Bio-Treat Adampak Meghmani SDS Informatics SPH DB eCW*****8 SeeHS LifeBi aridz AdvHIdg 0.085 0.010 0.875 0.185 0.265 0.405 0.275 0.100 0.200 0.330 +0.020 +0.075 -0.025 +0.015 +0.010 -0.015 +2.3 +22.7 -8.3 +17.6 +5.3 -4.3 56,105 56,026 36,667 21,249 15,866
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        SGX top rises
        78 23 By$ FSN Close Changi 14.000 +0.301 JMH400USS 14.100 +0.201 APB Breweries 7.300 +0.151 JSH 500USS 6.550 +0.101 OCBC 14.000 +0.101 UOB 13.600 +0.101 SPC 3.480 +0.081 Informatics 0.405 +0.07! Haw Par 5.050 +0.071 DairyFarm 900 USS 2.500 +0.061 By percentage Informatics Close 0.405 Change +22.7 NOLDB ePW*****1
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        SGX top falls
        77 23 By$ Creative 50 Close 18.400 Change -0.300 SIA 10.800 -0.300 JurEng SincereWatc 2.430 0.670 -0.170 -0.115 CITYDEV 6.550 -0.100 KepCorp SIA 200 8.000 10.900 -0.100 -0.100 FAC 200USS 3.360 -0.080 CITYDEV W*****0 4.120 -0.060 Fortune Reit HKS 6.150 -0.050 By percentage FJBenW*****6 Close 0.020 Change 33.3 LHT
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      Informatics nets $18.8 million from 1 -for-4 rights issue
      289 23 INFORMATICS Holdings' l-for-4 rights issue was fully subscribed, raising net proceeds of about $18.8 million that it will use to repay loans from DBS Bank and ABN Amro Bank and for working capital, the education services provider said in a regulatory
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  • business news
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      Jetstar Asia unveiled
      471 24  -  Jaime Koh Singapore's newest budget airline set to take to the sky by year end BY YEAR end, Jetstar Asia will join Thai Air Asia, Valuair and Tiger Airways in a fight for a slice of the crowded budget sky here. With its late entry into the
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      Lock icon Sentosa marina to be completed next year
      201 24 Ted Chen BY THE end of next year, boating enthusiasts can look forward to the completion of the first 100 pontoon berths of Sentosa Cove's new marina. This was announced yesterday by Sentosa Cove after it awarded the tender for The Marina-Sentosa to
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      Air Asia gets approval to list
      107 25 KUALA LUMPUR Air Asia has obtained final approval for its initial public offering (IPO), an official familiar with the listing said. The roughly RMI billion ($445 million) IPO will be the biggest share sale so far this year in Malaysia. "A letter of approval
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      Card deal
      148 25  -  Jaime Koh UOB,Tiger Airways offer Visa credit card RIDING on the budget air travel phenomena, Tiger Airways has teamed up with United Overseas Bank and Visa International to launch the UOB Tiger Airways Visa Gold Smart Card tomorrow. Card members can expect a host of travel privileges in
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      Lock icon Digiland CEO resigns
      93 25 Bloomberg MAINBOARD-LISTED Digiland International said yesterday that Mr William Tan, named chief executive officer last month, has resigned with immediate effect The company also said that Mr Gary Sutton has resigned as chief operating officer. Mr Tan was the company's third chief executive in less than two
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        207 44  -  Mr Robert Khoo i THE Natas Holidays 2004, Singapore's largest travel fair, attracted a record-breaking 57,001 visitors over three days providing yet another sign that the travel industry is on the upswing. "Holidays 2004 surpassed all our expectations," said Mr Robert Khoo, chief executive
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        1040 47 And the winner is Tonight, Singapore football and its supporters will come together for a grand celebration, as the ninth edition of the 2004 S-League season draws to a close. The best players, officials, teams, fans, and even the top football scribe, will be recognised in the 2004 S-League Awards
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      305 48  -  JOSE RAYMOND FOOTBALL AFC Cup, semi-finals A BOMBING in Damascus has thrown two Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup matches involving Singapore clubs into doubt On Sunday, a suspected terrorist was killed in a car bomb in Damascus, Syria, a tightly-controlled country where such
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