Today, 13 October 2004

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    25 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday October 13, 2004 mita(P) 103/07/2004 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday October 13, 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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    Giant lifts veil of secrecy
    645 1  -  Val Chua Annual report shows despite declining returns,Temasek remains profitable THE normally reticent Temasek Holdings unveiled its annual report for the first time in its 30-year history, giving a rare insight into how the $90-billion group is run, without baring all. Although certain nuggets of
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    Lock icon Anwar looks beyond Malaysia, mulls a role on international stage
    605 1  -  Alastair Wanklyn, MUNICH (Germany) During the six years he spent in jail, he had only limited access to news, but the out-of-date magazines and newspapers that Anwar Ibrahim (picture) did read convinced him that the world is succumbing to old
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      29 1 NEWSX\YIEWS Lee Han Shih Fear of non-acceptance is second prison for some ex-convicts/ 3 Eric Teo How Japan can build confidence/8 Coffee with Moira Coops, makeover artist extraordinaire/1 6
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  • hot news
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      ITE campuses to follow poly model
      642 2  -  Derrick A Paulo 3 'colleges' to have individual niches THE evolution and devolution of Singapore education reached another stage yesterday with the unveiling of a new model for the Institute of Technical Education. Tagged as the "One ITE system, three colleges" model, the plan
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      Sentence served but still in prison
      924 3  -  Lee Han Shih |\IEWS£&DIDI&D^h That is the reality for some ex-convicts, whose 'second prison' is non-acceptance FOR the past six weeks Hong Kong has celebrated the return of a former jailbird, Mr Chim Pui-ching. It says a lot about Hong Kong that Mr Chim,
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      Hu fit for training, despite B grading
      517 4  -  Wong Fei Wan Ex-SAF doctor says NSman's old leg injury would not have affected his ability to undergo training THOUGH Second Sergeant Hu Enhuai's fitness going by the book was a notch below the required grade for combat survival training (CST), a doctor
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Musharraf wants to break constitutional pledge to quit
        72 4 -AFP A Pakistani parliamentary committee has approved a Bill to allow President Pervez Musharraf to break a constitutional pledge to quit as army chief by year's end, [he state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported. Mr Musharraf had pledged in a deal with
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        Lock icon 'The Boss' and other rock stars root for Kerry
        80 4 AFP Rock star Bruce Springsteen urged fans yesterday to support "change" by voting for Democratic nominee John Kerry as he wrapped up a marathon five-hour concert in Washington. The show concluded an 1 1-state tour by a group of rock music
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        Lock icon Mentally-troubled man held in Paris for embassy blast
        65 4 AP Police investigating a bomb attack at the Indonesian Embassy in the French capital have arrested a man at a Paris Internet cafe from where an email was sent claiming responsibility, judicial officials said. Officials said the man appeared to be mentally
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        Lock icon Indian plane crashes during joint exercises with S'pore
        77 4 AFP f\ rrencn-ouiiT mirage-zuuu or me Indian Air Force (lAF) crashed near [he central Indian city of Gwalior yesterday during joint manoeuvres with the Singapore Air Force after a pilot lost control because of technical problems. The jet developed unspecified problems minutes
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      169 5 1 life, live it. |1 With 50% off, every moment is an MMS moment! Look around you and you'll find lots of MMS moments worth sharing. With a 50% discount from 7am to 7pm daily till 3 November 2004, you'll find it all the more worthwhile. Don't wait another moment.
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  • singapore news
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      Association helps biotech start-ups
      423 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Bio Singapore to aid in networking, education, listing WHEN Dr Thuan D Bui launched his biotech start-up here five years ago, it wasn't just funding concerns he had to grapple with: He also had to find foreign companies he could work with. Today,
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      S'pore to gain from opening up of Japanese biomedical field
      182 6  -  Tan Hut Leng SINGAPORE can expect to grab a US$6O million ($lO2 million) share of the outsourced logistics pie by Japanese pharmaceutical companies. This translates into a sizeable 20 per cent of the US$3OO million market, said global express logistics
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        More for teachers
        46 7 training Chinese language teachers will be given more pre-service and continual training when the teaching of Mandarin is changed. The Education Ministry will also re-look its recruitment model and consider new forms of career progression for them, said Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday.
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        Lock icon Girl flung out of flat dies
        60 7 Newsßadio 93.8 The four-year-old girl thrown from the sixth floor of a Telok Blangah HDB block last Thursday died in hospital yesterday at 2.20pm. Her father's woman friend, Constance Chee Cheong Hin, 36, was initially charged with attempted murder, but will be charged on
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        Lock icon S'pore, Irish PMs exchange views
        53 7 Newsßadio 93.8 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong met visiting Irish Premier Bertie Ahem yesterday, with both leaders exchanging views on the common challenges facing Singapore and Ireland and the possibility of enhancing air links. Mr Ahem also met Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and President
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        Lock icon 2 named S'pore honorary citizens
        70 7 Channel News Asia Spore honorary Two foreigners have been named honorary citizens of Singapore. Dutchman L C van Wachem, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Royal Phillips Electronics, helped clinch investment projects worth billions. Briton Sir Richard Sykes, chairman of the Biomedical Sciences International Advisory
        — Channel News Asia  -  70 words
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        Architectural Heritage Awards
        57 7 The Old Parliament House, a bungalow at Mountbatten Road and three terrace houses at Cairnhill and Kirn Van roads have won this year's Architectural Heritage Awards, presented by Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan last night. The Urban Redevelopment Authority will launch a catalogue featuring nearly
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      S'pore rises in world sex poll
      379 7  -  Lee Ching Wern Republic second-last in Durex Global Sex Survey, behind Japan THERE'S one area in which accolades-happy Singaporeans just can't seem to get it up. In the 2004 Durex Global Sex Survey, Singapore continued to trail miserably as the world's second-least sexually active
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  • world news
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      How Japan can build confidence
      621 8  -  Dr Eric Tea |\IEWS£&niDI&DL 'Economic enmeshment' can only go so far FOLLOWING the tirade by Chinese fans against Japan in the recent Asia Cup football finals, in which China lost 1-3, a Japanese diplomatic source indicated that Beijing has made it clear to Tokyo that
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      Teen's eBay scam netted almost $140,000
      108 8 A TEENAGER from suburban Pontypool, UK, has conned Internet auction site eßay users of £46,000 ($138,900), The Guardian newspaper reported yesterday. The youth, who was 16 at the time of his crimes, offered non-existent electrical items for sale on the site and stashed some
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon Newest Miss Tibet is announced
        96 8 Agencies The Miss Tibet competition has to be the strangest beauty pageant in the world given that many Tibetans are in exile and it is disapproved by its monk-Prime Minister, Mr Samdhong Rinpoche. The swimsuit round is held at a secret location in the Indian
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        Sarandon says no to Playboy
        56 8 Oscar-winning, Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon has been asked to pose naked by Playboy magazine at the age of 58, reported Access Hollywood. The mother-of-three turned down the offer because it would be embarrassing for her sons, who are "just getting to the age where they
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      • Article
        Politician blows his own whistle
        45 8 Indian politician Nicholas Almeida is conducting his election campaign as a whistle-blower, literally, because if he gives "regular speeches" no one will listen. The former Mumbai councillor has also taken to handing out whistles to voters, reports the Mid-day newspaper.
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        Rock music scares away boars
        50 8 Serbian villagers are blaring out rock music day and night to stop wild boars from raiding their crops, said Ananova.com. The technique was discovered by a farmer who played 1 970srocker Meatloaf while working on his fields. Since then, the pigs have never been sighted.
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      $1.5b pyramid scheme fraud trial begins in HK
      424 10 4 face charge of wooing investors with false profit claims HONG KONG Four people are standing trial in a pyramid scheme fraud case in Hong Kong involving HK$7 billion ($1.5 billion) and 14,000 victims, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported yesterday.
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon 9 found dead in rented cars
        54 10 Agencies Nine young Japanese people were rouna dead in rented cars in locations near Tokyo yesterday in what police suspected were two group suicides. In both incidents, police found charcoal stoves in the vehicles, which they believed were used by the victims to poison
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        Lock icon 'Dead' teen found alive
        95 10 -AP After eight days without food or water, teenager Laura Hatch was found badly nurt and severely dehydrated in the back seat of a crushed car, 60m down a ravine in Seattle. Her family had almost given up thel 7-year-old for dead and Seattle police had
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        Lock icon Grandma fights crocodile
        69 10 Agencies A 60-year-old grandmother, Ms Alicia Soronan, jumped on the back of a 4.2 m crocodile in Bathurst Bay, Queensland, on Monday as it dragged a friend, Mr Andrew Kerr, 34, from his tent where he had been sleeping. The crocodile bit her right hand as she
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      Lock icon China's 100 richest worth $50.6b
      144 10 -AFP BEIJING China's 100 richest people amassed a total of USS3O billion ($50.6 billion), up 29 per cent from last year, with 35-year-old electronics retailer Huang Guangyu topping a rich list released yesterday. Average wealth among China's top 100 entrepreneurs reached US$297 million, according to
      -AFP  -  144 words
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      Focus On The Family
      229 14  -  Dr James Dobson w TOUGH TIMES BUILD STRENGTH Contrary to what you might believe, the ideal environmentforyour child is not one devoid of problems and trials. Though it's hard to accept atthe time, yourchild needs the minor setbacks and disappointments which come his way. How can
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      Doubts linger over details of electors
      386 14  -  lIAVIHIHLMca Security issue not addressed fully in response m^m^iii] I FIND it disturbing that the Elections Department seems to believe that its response, "Details on election site closely guarded" (Oct 11), on the matter of protecting personal information, was adequate despite failing to address
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      Lock icon Water sports will disturb the peace
      107 14  -  mjnEgjuiji RJ^ THE move to allow water sports at a number of reservoirs is cause for concern. My in-laws live near Bedok Reservoir and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere. I'm afraid that water sports and other such events will cause a disruption. Have the authorities
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      High fee for NRIC replacement meant as a deterrent
      322 14  -  LIM JING JING I Letter from Senior Public Internal Communications Executive Corporate Communications Division for Commissioner Immigration Checkpoints Authority I REFER to the letters, "The high cost of replacing an ID card" by Ms Lena Lim (Oct 1) and "An ez-link
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      Better health – at what price?
      95 14  - Better health at what price? i WONG KAI LING I Letter from THE Healthy Lifestyle campaign encourages consumers to ask for less oil, less gravy, more vegetables, etc, when eating out I've noticed that some hawkers write "Add $1" on the green sticker after the words "Ask for more vegetables".
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      Lock icon MAKEOVER ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE
      807 16  -  Tan Hui Leng MOIRA COOPS THE next time you watch an interview with a cool, calm, polished politician or CEO on television or come across his picture in an annual report, you could well be viewing the work of Moira Coops (picture), known for her foundation airbrushing
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  • Businesstoday
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      Commission-free policies
      363 18  -  Val Chua One-of-a-kind insurance portal targets IT-savvy Singaporeans INSURANCE agents who push policies just to earn commissions may be a thing of the past if a new initiative takes off here. Independent advisory firm Providend yesterday launched its commission-free insurance portal, believed to be the only one in
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      Lock icon Two win Nobel economics prize
      158 18 AFP. STOCKHOLM Norwegian Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott of the United States have won the 2004 Nobel economics prize for business cycle research that has helped reform monetary policy in many countries. "In a highly innovative way, the laureates have analysed the design of economic
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      Lock icon Bursa M'sia to submit plan for SGX tie-up
      199 18 Bloomberg BURSA Malaysia, which operates Southeast Asia's second-largest stock exchange, will submit a plan this month as part of a tie-up with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to let brokerages execute stock orders on the other market The exchange will submit its business
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    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        78 18 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended lower for the fourth day, hurt by continued concerns over high oil prices and the economy's prospects. The ST Index fell 20.95 points, or 1.1 per cent, to close at 1,971.04. Losers led gainers 31 8 to 90 as 752.7 million shares worth $798.5
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
        78 18 By$ OCBC 13.600 -0.301 Creative 50 19.100 -0.201 Jardine CSC 7.700 -0.201 Fhai Prime200USS 11.300 -0.201 UOB 13.500 -0.201 failure 16.200 -0.201 Semb Log 2.350 -0.191 5hang Asia 2kHKS 8.450 -0.151 FAC 200USS 3.360 -0.141 IVBLCorp 3.240 -0.121 By percentage L&M 0.005 -50.0 Yongnam W*****6 0.010 -33.3
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 18 US$ 0.5949 UK£ 0.3308 Yen 65.067 HK$ 4.6352 RM 2.2606 Euro 0.4802 Rupiah 5404.7 Baht 24.546 Peso 33.508 A$ 0.8118 Indian Rs 27.272 Won 681.82 C$ 0.7468 Yuan 4.9237 NZ$ 0.8731 NTS 20.134
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        STlndex- 1,971.04 -20.95
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        SGX most active
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        World markets
        54 18 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.81 Change Pts -147.54 -1.30 Hang Seng Ordinaries faiwan Wtd *****.59 3717.40 5979.56 -53.54 +11.60 -109.72 -0.40 +0.31 -1.80 Korea Comp 858.09 -23.02 -2.61 KLCI 852.80 -2.30 -0.27 SET Index 658.27 -19.66 -2.90 lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 849.19 1784.91 246.20 -10.95 -37.06
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 18 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 420.300 Silver uss/oz 7.090 Platinum uss/oz 856.200 Rubber cms/kg 1474.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 218.25 Brent crude uss/iami 49.63 Information provided by
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Althorp called out of retirement to aid DMX Technologies
        289 20  -  -Jaime Koh FOR the second time in less than 20 years, Mr Derek Althorp, former chairman of Datacraft Asia, has been called out of retirement to help boost a small company. DMX Technologies, a Sesdaq-listed IT company, yesterday announced the appointment
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        HOT stuff at Enterprise Exchange
        376 20  -  Tor Ching Li Now easier for start-ups to apply for licenses, grab opportunities overseas IN A bid to make Singapore a global "entrepolis", the Ministry for Trade and Industry has expanded the scope of an online business licensing service it launched in January. Minister for
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  • savvy investor
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      Lock icon After the break up
      522 22 Dow Jones Market worries over SembLog earning potential SEMBCORP Logistics (SembLog) shares took a battering yesterday as the market fretted about the blow to its earnings from the sale of its 20-per-cent stake in Swiss sea freight company Kuehne Nagel (KNI). South-east Asia's largest listed logistics
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    • STOCKcalls
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        Lock icon Cheung Woh Technologies (31.5 cents) – HOLD
        114 22 Cheung Woh Technologies (31.5 cents) HOLD Kirn Eng Securities THE company's net profit fell 43 per cent year-on-year on lower demand for voice coil motor plates between June and July. Lower top cover unit shipments also dragged sales down. Its gross margin fell 7 percentage points to 17 per cent
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        Lock icon Neptune Orient Lines ($3.08) – HOLD
        96 22 Neptune Orient Lines ($3.08) HOLD DBS Vickers NOL reported its Period 9 (Aug 21 to Sept 1 7) operating results that show its and the industry's robust fundamentals. Its earnings growth this year came largely from volume. Average rates are up 7 per cent year-on-year. Volume continues its strong pace,
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3766 22 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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