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  • 26 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday October 26, 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday October 26, 2004 < MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • 551 1 you Ibe serious [Deputy Sports Editor Neil Humphreys| THE Premiership season finally started on Sunday. Until then, the hyperbolic promises of a "bigger and better" campaign had failed to materialise. But all that changed when Arsenal stepped out for a brawl at Manchester
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  • 986 1  - Top job bigger health risks? Lee Ching Wern Survey finds that some CEOs in Singapore are ticking time bombs WHEN prominent businesswoman Elim Chew organised a talk on branding for the women members of the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Asme), she was swamped by an overwhelming number of
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    • 32 1 NEWSX\YIEWS Constance Singam Strangers in a familiar land/3 Coffee with Shawn Tay, ballroom dancing cnampion/16 Impact PAGES 24, 25 DID SOMEONE SAY 'RUNJQUR'? PAGE 31 a ass ywednesdayfridaysaturday SHARE YOUR FREE NEWSPAPER
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    • 322 2 Channel NewsAsia Politician accused of falsely reporting assets VETERAN opposition leader J B Jeyaretnam was labelled a liar yesterday as he came before Singapore's highest court asking to be discharged as a bankrupt Representing himself before the three-judge Court of Appeal, Mr Jeyaretnam said he
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 105 2 Channel NewsAsia Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan met India's Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh in New Delhi yesterday during his 10-day visit. Dr Tan, who heads a Ministerial Committee reviewing Singapore's R&D strategy, is on an investment mission aimed at boosting the flow
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      • 59 2 Newsßadio 93.8 King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway will make a two-day state visit to Singapore on Thursday. They will meet Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, and grace the opening of the Norwegian Business Symposium to explore
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      • 35 2 Newsßadio 93.8 Seven people suffered minor injuries after an SBS bus and a cement mixer collided yesterday morning along Alexandra Road. The casualties includec six passengers and the 45-year-old bus driver.
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      • 49 2 Channel NewsAsia A 1 6-year-old Indonesian victim of September's Jakarta bombing who was being treated at Mount Elizabeth Hospital has died. Mutia Rahmani Amalia hac multiple shrapnel wounds and was treated in Jakarta before being transFerred to Singapore on Oct 1 8 in critical condition.
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    • 678 3  -  Constance Singam NEWSSSS—SSL. Citizens can feel alienated in their own culture A TOURIST in my own country? What would you say to someone who says she feels like a tourist in her own country? She feels disconnected from her fellow Singaporeans, from the Government and
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  • singapore news
    • 197 4 Channel NewsAsia WHY did Lieutenant Divanandhari Ambat Chandrasekharan (picture), 28, take a 75-minute break during the combat survival training course and what was he doing? These were questions asked by the prosecution in court yesterday. Lt Diva was the second of four commandos charged
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    • 553 4  -  Jose Raymond Woman says she was taken to JB to visit 'dead husband' THE trial of prominent businessman and Ceylon Tamil community leader Moganaruban Subramaniam, whose brother faked his own death to collect more than $330,000 in insurance money, began yesterday. Moganaruban is facing three
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    • 371 6  - SingTel Video triology Part II WITH only months to go before the full commercial launch of the long-awaited third-generation, or 3G, network, SingTel yesterday took another step towards providing a "scintillating experience" for its potential pool of 3G customers. The telco launched a month-long trial for fixed linemobile video call,
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    • 419 6  -  Lee U-Wen Check hi 111. out UK property experts are coming to S'pore to make their pitch TALK about a property pitch. Arsenal football fans in Singapore are being given a shot at owning a piece of real estate in the Gunners'
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    • 195 6  -  Surekha A Yadav TOURISTS, who spent $4.3 billion in Singapore last year, will now find claiming their GST refunds as easy as swiping their credit cards. A new system launched in June does away with the need for filling in forms. With the
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    • 277 7 Channel News Asia, Newsßadio 93.8 Heart study to assess effect of shock therapy WITH about 2,400 Singaporeans suffering heart attacks every year, five health institutions are conducting a joint study to evaluate heart patients who have undergone electric shock therapy. The aim: To
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    • 218 7  -  Tan Hui Leng A RECORD 3,215 service staff from the hotel, healthcare, security and general services sectors have been singled out for the silver and gold national Excellent Service Award (Exsa) this year. Of these, 1,368 awards went to staff at 14 healthcare institutes
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    • 633 8  -  Lee Ching Wern Local doctor tells of his travails training 1,000 Chinese village medics WHEN former Public Service Commission scholar Dr Tan Lai Yong dropped everything he had in Singapore to go train "barefoot doctors" in rural China, he never imagined how much less his
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  • world news
    • 325 10 AP -AFP 400 TONNES MISSING IN IRAQ HMX: High-melting explosives, as they are scientifically known, are among the most powerful in use by the world's militaries today. HMX is used in bombs, rocket fuels and burster charges. RDX: Also referred to as cyclonite or
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    • 436 10 AFP,AP) But they will remain free pending outcome of appeal AUCKLAND (New Zealand) Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn, British authorities said yesterday, following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse
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    • 190 10 AFP TEHRAN In a major strategy shift in the standoff over its nuclear programme, Iran yesterday said it was ready to consider a European request to maintain a suspension on enriching uranium. The surprise comments by Iran's top nuclear negotiator marked a notable
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    • 194 10 Agencies Don't let go TAIPEI Typhoon Nock-ten whipped across northern Taiwan with powerful winds and lashing rain yesterday, killing at least four people in flash floods, including a TV cameraman and a firefighter. The typhoon also forced the closure of the Taiwan Stock Exchange, schools and
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    • this QUIRKY world
      • 42 10 AFP Two 1 9-year-old Buddhist monks abandoned their vows after they fell in love with a pair of teenage girls who sold beer across from their temple in central Cambodia, the Cambodia Daily said yesterday.
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      • 67 10 AFP Three Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka were forced under a shower and disrobed at the Canadian High Commission yesterday after they triggered an anthrax scare. The Sri Lankan and two Thai monks, had visited the mission to obtain visas but talcum powder in
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      • 56 10 A frustrated husband in China dialled the 999-emergency hotline after his wife refused to have sex with him, reported Ananova.com citing the Dane Daily. He told the phone operator he needed police assistance because it had been 28 days since his wife had slept with
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      • 57 10 Writing in 2 languages simultaneously Engineer Amanullah of India's Coimbatore city is able to write with both hands simultaneously in two separate languages, reports Ananova. com. The 53-year-old man can write different sentences in English and Tamil with both hands simultaneously. He is now honing his writing skills in five
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      • 64 10 Malaysian S Moganasundar, 22, claimed a place in the Malaysia Book of Records for running backwards, saying he "wanted to do something meaningful in life". He ran 30 km backwards in three hours, 30 minutes and 35 seconds, the official Bernama news
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    • 467 12  -  Shibu Itty Kuttickal AP) It could become 'breeding ground' for terrorism: UN official PHNOM PENH A top United Nations official has raised the red flag over the terrorism threat in Cambodia. Mr Heraldo Munoz, the chairman of the UN Security Council Committee on Al Qaeda, was quoted
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    • 147 12 LYTHAM ST ANNES British police have busted a shoplifting ring run by 80-year-olds at a social club known for its genteel reputation and tea dances, reported The Times. In an operation codenamed Bluerinse, the police nabbed three women aged between 80 and 82 at the
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 62 12 AFP Thousands of fowls have died of bird flu in the Pendeglang district in Java in the past month, the state Antara news agency said yesterday. Millions of poultry died in a bird flu outbreak in Indonesia early this year ana officials
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      • 100 12 AFP Asia's first naval exercise aimed at blocking and intercepting the shipment of weapons of mass destruction worldwide began yesterday in Japan. The exercise, known as the Proliferation Security Initiative, includes naval forces from the United States, France, Australia and host Japan as well
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    • 126 12 AMERICAN Astronaut Leroy Chiao is not too far to make his ballot count when he votes from space on Election Day, according to an Oct 21 press release by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa). From the International Space Station, 360km above the Earth,
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    • 272 14  -  Dr James Dobson TbiM^'s SAYING "I'M SORRY" Many people have a hard time saying they're sorry to anyone, let alone to their own children. Although it's hard to do, apologising when we're wrong provides opportunities to teach valuable lessons to our sons and daughters. I remember a time
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    • 326 14  -  LEE SIEW ENG People who need seats often denied them HOW often do you see someone offer a seat on the train to someone who needs it an elderly person, a pregnant woman, a person carrying an infant, the blind? I would be willing
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    • 244 14  -  MOHD SULAIMAN WOULD the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) kindly explain why the haj (pilgrimage to Mecca) packages in Singapore are among the highestpriced in the world? In addition to the already high prices, Muis charges $200 a person for miscellaneous
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    • 181 14  -  LIN SNG TWO thumbs up to Neil Humphreys for his column, "Have we gone to the dogs?" (Oct 23-24). I "knew" the three dogs that were poisoned to death. Unfortunately, the fourth dog from the same pack has been missing for more than a
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    • 154 14  -  LIM BOON HEE MANY people who are used to topping up their ez-link cards by Giro may not be aware of a peculiar deficiency of the system. If within three days of the latest Giro top-up, you use up all the money on
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    • 839 16  -  SHAWN TAY EWiCTlliiiiliiWiBiiTilliTiIwiBliiliiiwil WHEN he traded in his macho combat fatigues for ballroom tuxedos in 1986, former army captain Shawn Tay gave up a stable career for a most un-Singaporean path of uncertainty, adventure, near-poverty and dancing. He and his wife Gladys, 38, danced their way
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  • Businesstoday
    • 236 20 Bloomberg RAFFLES Medical Group, Singapore's second-largest publicly traded healthcare company, is buying Island Hospital in Malaysia for RMIIO million ($4B million) in cash. Island Hospital, located in Penang, is an eight-year-old facility with 240 beds, Raffles Medical said. Island Hospital gets patients from northern Malaysia,
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    • 151 20 Dow Jones KEPPEL Land, Singapore's third-largest listed property developer by assets, posted a 4.8-per-cent year-on-year rise in third-quarter net profit, thanks to increased contributions from its overseas businesses. The property arm of conglomerate Keppel Corp earned $32.6 million, or 4.6 cents per share,
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      • 233 20 Dow Jones SHARES ended lower yesterday in light trading, weighed down by Wall Street's decline on Friday amid continued concerns over rising oil prices, traders said. Singapore stocks traditionally take their cue from Wall Street's performance as the US is one of the city-state's major trading partners. The ST
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      • 58 20 By volume Close Change 'OOO Bio-Treat Horizon PSC Corp R UniFiber ShanghaiAsia ChinaAvOil Chartered Sing Tel Fung Choi DatacrftUSS 0.805 0.135 0.010 0.155 0.250 1.420 1.050 2.370 0.395 0.810 -0.005 +0.005 +0.010 -0.030 -0.050 +0.030 -0.020 -0.035 -3.6 +3.3 +4.2 -2.1 -4.5 +1.3 -4.8 -4.1 15,339 14,177
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      • 79 20 By$ Close Change SingamasC 2kHKS 4.025 +0.075 DairyFarm 900 USS 2.360 +0.070 ISH500USS 6.850 +0.050 Robinson 6.850 +0.050 SingTel 2.370 +0.030 CapitaCamm 1.260 +0.020 HKLandUSS 2.070 +0.020 HSIDB ePW*****1 0.315 +0.020 LTA n4.08%l ***** 10k 1.070 +0.020 SPC 3.860 +0.020 By percentage Close Change NeoCorp 0.030 +20.0
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      • 77 20 By$ Close Change IMH 400USS 14.600 -0.400 Venture 15.800 -0.300 DBS 15.200 -0.200 F&N 13.800 -0.200 CITYDEV 6.200 -0.150 CITYDEVW*****0 3.740 -0.120 Creative 50 19.600 -0.100 Fortune Reil HKS 5.950 -0.100 OCBC 13.500 -0.100 SIA 10.300 -0.100 By percentage Close Change Goldlron 0.010 -33.3 Unidux 0.060 -29.4
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      • 53 20 Index Value .hange Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries 10,659.15 12,818.10 3,694.40 Pis -197.98 -197.10 -26.30 -1.82 -1.51 -0.71 laiwan Wtd Korea Comp 808.14 -20.03 -2.42 KLCI 850.95 -2.93 -0.34 SET Index lakarta Comp 846.63 -4.13 -0.49 Phils Comp Shenzhen B Wumbai Sensex 1,735.69 228.22 5,581.49 -26.45 -6.88 -59.57
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      • 26 20 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 430.00 Silver uss/oi 7.495 Platinum uss/oz 855.00 Information provided by Rubber centsAg 215.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,425 Brent crude uss/barrel 51.70
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      • 36 20 US$ 0.6016 UK£ 0.3265 Yen 63.975 HK$ 4.6805 RM 2.2859 Euro 0.4700 Rupiah 5,413.1 Baht 24.691 Peso 33.865 A$ 0.8035 Indian Rs 27.449 Won 682.13 C$ 0.7327 Yuan 4.9791 NZ$ 0.8544 NTS 20.278
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    • 371 21 (9) in Well Anwell Technologies Limited Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 5 September 2003 f PI (Company registration number: *****8707W) f y Anwell Technologies Limited (the "Company") and 9 its subsidiaries (the "Group") provide integrated business solutions for DVDR and CD-R replication businesses. The Group designs, manufactures and
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  • business news
    • 193 22 Singapore Petroleum Co said it discovered oil and gas in an exploratory drilling well in the Gulf of Tonkin offshore north-east Vietnam. It did not provide an outlook for the production from the site. Lifestyle and health products distributor Osim International reported a net profit of $7.3 million, or
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    • 287 22  -  Toy Tsen-Waye HONG KONG-based Anwell Technologies is launching its initial public offering (IPO) of 235 million shares priced at 38 cents each today. Started by five engineers and a financial services expert in 2000, Anwell is an integrated business solutions provider to the DVD-R
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    • 104 22 Dow Jones CONSUMER prices grew at a faster-than-expected pace in September, due to rising oil prices and higher costs of food, education and healthcare. The consumer price index (CPI) was 2 per cent higher last month than September last year, after rising 1.6 per cent in
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    • 456 22  -  Tay Tsen-Waye They urge shareholders to re-elect them to board THREE weeks after construction firm Wee Poh Holdings (WPH) temporarily removed Mr Chew Yin What and Mr Lee Kok Swee as company directors, both men remained dissatisfied about the reasons why they were suspended.
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    • 94 22 y Visit Family Festival^ lyW-~ Roadshow 2004 FeftK?i! y 29-31 October 2004/ Tampines Mall As a run up to Family Festival 2004 Singapore's largest family event, watch out for exciting family activities such as face painters, balloon sculpturists, Ronald McDonald Show, family mind games and contests including: Family Photowall Contest
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  • savvy investor
    • 603 23 Dow Jones But opportunities may arise asTemasek restructures portfolio SINGAPORE'S venture capital industry has a long way to go despite the Government's efforts to attract start-ups in the technology sector, said the chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. However, an
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  • the business of marketing
    • 293 24  -  Ted Chen MEDIACORP'S Today newspaper has scored another first as the fastest growing daily in the local newspaper market in terms of readership. This was revealed in a Nielsen Media Research survey on a sample population of 3.19 million people above the age of
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    • 598 24  -  Greg Waldron Motor Image Enterprises' Glenn Tan revs up sales with clever promotions of Subaru cars SUBARU dealer Motor Image Enterprise takes branding seriously. The first thing one notices on entering its Leng Kee Road dealership is the outfits. Everyone from chief executive officer Glenn Tan
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    • 228 25  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla A MIX of pure scholarship and can-do culture were the winning ingredients that landed the Chicago Graduate School of Business (CGSB) the No 2 spot in the latest Business Week rankings of the world's best B-Schools. And some of
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      100 25 GRAB baq Chivas' 18-year-old luxury PREMIUM Scotch whisky Chivas Regal's master blender Colin Scott was in town last weekend to help promote the relaunch of the Chivas Regal 1 8 Year Old whisky (picture). The luxury whisky, created by Mr Scott, includes his "Gold Signature" on each bottle as a
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    • 564 25  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla Top teachers, new campus and soccer coaches from top clubs for school A SCHOOL whose soccer curriculum will be designed and directed by coaches from one of the world's top five clubs, whose teachers will be drawn from the cream of Singapore's teaching pool and
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    • 405 25  -  Greg Waldron DESPITE ripping audio CDs and creating digital music libraries being the rage, only a small number of people have the time and inclination to organise their thousands of songs properly. Every song must be assigned a genre, ranked
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  • Infotechsolutions for business
    • 666 26  -  Francis Chin Helpdesk services lets SMBs focus on core businesses, says Dell's Ho Lye Sum I USING computers in day-to-day work can be II unpredictable. Sometimes, you cannot access your email or log on to the World Wide Web. At other times, Windows simply freezes on
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    • 227 26 OUTSOURCING will move to the foreground at II Cebit 2005 one of the largest information and communication technology (ICT) trade shows in the world. For the first time, at the event to be held in Hannover from March 10 to 16 next
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    • 281 27  -  Ariel Tam THE 31 million small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Asia-Pacific are expected to spend US$l45 billion ($242 billion) on IT next year a significant growth of 18.3 per cent from U*****.6 billion this year. Targeting the IT
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    • 366 27  -  Leon Enriquez Tech ideas must find a use to survive I INNOVATIVE ideas are I vital when developing next-generation wireless technologies. But to bring the idea from conception to the market to serve real needs is a challenge. Often, technologies which seem to hold great
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    • 402 28  -  Jaime Koh Shanghai It works at building reputation in technology for the sector DUTCH electronics giant Philips, whose name has been synonymous with household electrical appliances, is looking to make its name in another growing field healthcare technology. In fact, it wants to build a reputation as
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    • 350 28  -  Seah Slew Hua THE winners of this year's National Infocomm Awards (NIA) are a mix of established names and newcomers. Out of 146 nominations, four finalists JTC, Sembawang Shipyard, e-Cop and Savi Technology emerged as winners while 11 others were given merit
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    • 415 28 ERROR MESSAGES DURING START-UP Q: I upgraded my home PC to Windows 2000. Everything seems fine except for two error messages that pop up when the screen is loading to the desktop: Can't find the file C:\Winnt\system32\svohost.exe. Make sure the path and filename are correct and all its
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      • 49 28 HP has launched the Advanced Open Telecom Platform (AOTP) programme that delivers integrated telecom platforms to network and service providers. The AOTP offers commercial and carrier-grade platforms and a framework of enabling technologies that incorporates a portfolio of operating systems and telecom network software.
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      • 44 28 Equant's Adaptive VPN (virtual private network) is an integrated, scalable and on-demand solution that allows customers to pick the most suitable network technologies for their sites and applications while Equant integrates and manages them in single customised communications infrastructure.
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      • 51 28 McAfee's IntruShield 1400 IPS sensor for SMBs delivers intrusion detection and real-time intrusion prevention in a single purpose-built appliance. It incorporates performance of up to 200Mbps, four 10/100 Ethernet detection ports, failover capability for high-availability network deployments, remote Web-based management, detection and blocking of peer-to-peer
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  • infotechfocus: intellectual property
    • 488 30  -  Seah Slew Hua I IT IS common for home users to have I collections of media files on their computers. Not only do people keep such files for their personal enjoyment, some share them on peer-to-peer networks. The fact
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    • 837 30  -  Tan Min-Liang TF^HIMOI nrSVeomment Intellectual property chapter of FTA amounts to a host of concessions to US I THE United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was a major milestone in trade relations between the two countries. As part of the pact, Singapore agreed to
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    • 739 31  -  Elisa Chia Maia Lee brushes off talk of her 'romance' with Sylvester Sim and says singing goes on after Idol OUSTED Idol hopeful Maia Lee insists that her relationship with Sylvester Sim is nothing more than friendship; they are "just very good friends". The Singapore Idol
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    • 203 32  -  IN A time when multi-media and multi-medium seems to be the trend, a group of artists have gone back to the basics using just graphite and paper. Brought together by visual and performance art group Kill Your Television (KYTV), the exhibition Project
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    • 462 32  -  Jeanine Tan Famous just for Roswell? Actor Jason Behr didn't think so JASON Behr may have made his name as the alien Max Evans in the teen drama Roswell, but he doesn't think it's the role most people remember him for. Nonetheless, over the phone from
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    • 563 32  -  DAVID CHEW A WEEKEND of introspective questioning took place on Singapore's stages last weekend, in a weekend that saw three plays opening simultaneously: Action Theatre's Hubbies4hire, Luna Id's The Physicists and Wild Rice's The Visit of the Tai Tai. After bemoaning the lack of current
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    • 217 33 AFP PARIS A lost novel by a oncefamous Jewish writer who was murdered in Auschwitz is being hailed as the literary event of the year in France, not least because of the extraordinary story that finally led to its publication. Suite Frangaise was
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  • incinemas
    • 330 34 AP NEW YORK Singer Ashlee Simpson's (picture) "extra help" may have been exposed when a Saturday Night Live audience heard her voice singing the wrong song while she held a microphone at her waist. Her record company blamed a computer glitch and she blamed her band
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    • Article, Illustration
      540 35  -  Pauline D Loh Waltz your way through life after 50 with Benedictine DOM FOREVERYoung.The New Old.The Modern Grey.Whatever you choose to call this generation of active seniors, don't waste your sympathy on them. They don't need it. It's the time of your life More than ever now, life
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      265 35 BENEDICTINE FRUITCAKE Ingredients: Fruits: 2 cups golden raisins I cup dried cranberries I cup dried apricots, chopped I cup dried figs, chopped I cup walnuts, halved I cup macadamia nuts, whole I cup sesame seeds, toasted Zest of I lemon I cup Benedictine DOM Batter: 450g butter 1 cup
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    • 142 36 IVF Public Forum If you have always wanted to find out more about in vitro fertilisation (IVF), make time for the IVF Public Forum organised by the National University Hospital this Saturday. Topics discussed at this public forum include Laboratory Advances in IVF by Research Professor Ariff Bongso,
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  • sports
    • 540 41 -AP In a remarkable performance, Boston's ace stars on one leg BOSTON The bloody sock, so prominent in the series against the New York Yankees, is now the very symbol of the Boston Red Sox, a rallying cry in the shape of a
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    • 218 41 AFP SAO PAULO Juan Pablo Montoya dedicated his Brazilian Grand Prix victory to boss Frank Williams, as he departed his team on an emotional high. Montoya, from neighbouring Colombia, recorded WilliamsBMW's first victory of the season with a perfect strategy in a rainaffected
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    • 445 41 LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida Ryan Palmer birdied four straight holes down the stretch and closed with a 10-under 62, to win the Funai Classic at Disney by three shots over Vijay Singh and Briny Baird. Palmer became the fifth PGA Tour rookie to
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    • 523 42  -  DAN PEK But O'Donell wants players to ignore pressure No one remembers the semi'finalists of any tournament. Having come so far, we want to reach the final. This is definitely the biggest match for Geylang. Duric (picture), confident Geylang will make the final cut We
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    • 250 42  -  Dan Pek FOR many golf enthusiasts, playing 18 holes can be a tiring affair. Weather conditions, plus the nature of the course, could make for tired limbs and aching muscles. But for 12 female golfers, fatigue was never a factor when they completed an
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    • 254 42  -  Dan Pek THEY may have only grabbed a late 1-1 draw against Geylang last week, but Al Wahda club president and team manager Safwan Nizaddin (picture) believes his side were the better team in the first leg of the AFC Cup semi-final. "We played much
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    • 560 43 AFP Ganguly unhappy with work on the pitch, as McGrath prepares to take onTendulkar NAGPUR, India Hosts India, desperate to stop world champions Australia from running away with the series, pleaded for the grass to be shaved off the wicket on which the
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    • 299 43 AFP SYDNEY Testers were urged to think like cheats in the ongoing war against the illegal use of drugs in sport, World AntiDoping Agency (Wada) chief David Howman said yesterday. "We tell them to think like a cheat. It's a
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    • 261 43 AFP BEIJING Football powerhouses Dalian Shide abandoned a match on Sunday against Shenyang Jinde in protest at the referee, as China's embattled Super League faced yet another crisis. The Dalian players stormed off the field after an apparent handball was not spotted. The
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    • 210 41 League Home Team Away Team I Match KickOff (Singapore date/time) SCORE Geylang Al Wahda Tue, 26/10/04 8.30pm German League Munich Wolfsburg Wed, 27/10/04 2.00am E League Cup Crewe Alexandra Manchester Utd Wed, 27/10/04 2.45am E League Cup Millwall Liverpool Wed, 27/10/04 2.45am E League Cup Burnley Aston Villa Wed, 27/10/04
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    • 1472 44 Agencies Ruud and company show the two sides are equal, now United boss Fergie demands consistency MANCHESTER This was punk against opera, and punk won. Manchester United against Arsenal now has all the fervour and spite of the Buenos Aires derby, Barcelona against Real Madrid or Fenerbache
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    • 258 44 MANCHESTER Arsene Wenger has called on the English Football Association (FA) to look again at Ruud van Nistelrooy's first-half challenge on Ashley Cole at Old Trafford on Sunday, which BBC pundit Alan Hansen labelled "a disgrace". Television replays showed the prolific Manchester United striker
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    • 338 45 LONDON Patrick Vieira criticised referee Mike Riley for the decisions which sparked a furious post-match tunnel bust-up. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was allegedly pelted with sandwiches and soup by Arsenal players, after his team's 2-0 win. But according to Vieira, Riley
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    • 446 45 Agencies MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson was involved in an astonishing post-match fracas with Arsenal players in the Old Trafford tunnel on Sunday. The Manchester United manager allegedly had tomato soup thrown over him by an opposition player. The incident, which took place
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