Today, 17 November 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday November 17, 2004 I MICA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      S'pore growth eases to 7.5% in Q3
      117 1 THE growth of the Singapore economy eased to 7.5 per cent in the third quarter, from 12.5 per cent in the second quarter, the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this morning. The growth momentum, on an annualised quarter-on-quarter basis, declined by 3
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      The maturity test
      729 1  -  Tor Ching Li Debate on society's ability to cope with casino holds the key: Minister AFTER months of heated public debate over the possibility of a casino as part of Singapore's plans for a worldclass resort on the Southern Islands first mooted by the Government in March
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      US stocks fall as inflation soars
      73 1 NEW YORK US stocks plummeted yesterday as inflation soared above expectations last month, sending edgy investors diving for cover. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 62.59 points at 10,487.65, the Nasdaq fell 15.47 points to 2,078.62 and the Standard and Poor's 500 Index
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      Mysterious illness hits HK hospital
      116 2 HONG KONG Health authorities are investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness in a children's hospital, where at least 30 young patients have been infected, reported Channel NewsAsia. Officials have so far ruled out Sars or influenza. Since the outbreak, an 11-year-old girl has
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      PM Lee heads for Chile
      199 2  -  Val Chua FTAs and counter-terrorism on Apec agenda FRESH from his visits to Thailand and Indonesia, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (picture) will join other leaders in Santiago, Chile, this weekend for the 12th Apec Economic Leaders' Meeting. Mr Lee is expected to have bilateral
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      Lock icon Bush picks Rice to replace Powell
      500 2 WASHINGTON National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, nominated early today (Singapore time) as Secretary of State, is President George W Bush's top foreign policy adviser, an expert on the former Soviet Union and a fluent Russian speaker. The first black American woman appointed Secretary of
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        Gaming and WTO rules
        974 3  -  Lee Han Shih Spore could be forced to open up its gaming industry in the spirit of free trade IF IT has its way, the Government would like to open up the gaming scene in Singapore one step at a time, at a pace totally under
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      206 3 Come down to the Singapore Motorshow 2004 &-dro&your name card |mtovthe'box at the Level 4 sral Enquiries Counter. SINGAPORE Term and conditions apply. |fl 11 40 years of leadership In management 19 First Class Honours University of London Graduates at SIM in 2004. Take Your Studies to a Higher Plane.
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon No fare hikes now; charges to be reviewed in May
      237 4 Channel News Asia THERE won't be any public transport fare hike for now, despite the high oil prices. This is because there have been no applications by the transport operators to increase prices. But there will be a fare review
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      Lock icon Some immigration officers to be armed
      181 4 Channel News Asia SOME immigration officers will be issued firearms under changes made to the Immigration Act in Parliament yesterday. The aim is to "enhance" the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's (ICA) "enforcement powers against undesirable foreigners", said Assoc Prof Ho Peng Kee, Senior Minister
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      Lock icon Jobless rate to end around 4% this year
      556 4  -  Derrick A Paulo Projected figure would be lowest since 1999 derrick@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S unemployment rate for this year is likely to end at 4 per cent or slightly below that, the lowest figure since 1999. But this would be higher than the dramatic
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      Lighter penalty for negligent landlords
      493 5  -  Ng Shing Vi No mandatory jail term for those guilty of unwittingly harbouring illegal immigrants shingyi(gnewstoday.com.sg COURTS will now have the discretion not to sentence unwitting landlords who harbour immigration offenders to a mandatory jail term if they are found guilty. A lighter penalty will
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      Novelist Goh passes away
      255 6  -  David Chew HIS stories expressed the Singaporean way of life and bound its people together, said then Minister for Information and the Arts Lee Yock Suan at a 2000 book launch of Mr Goh Sin Tub's sequel to his 1998 bestseller, One Singapore. The sequel is
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      Lock icon Most Singapore workers highly satisfied with jobs
      381 6 Channel News Asia But many are unhappy with role played by supervisors: Survey SINGAPOREAN workers like their work environment and enjoy levels of job satisfaction that are well above their Asian peers. But they are not happy with their employers' supervision skills and
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      Students race against time to produce business plan
      342 6  -  Eveline Gan COMING up with a prototype and a business plan for a product within 24 hours seems a tough task even for seasoned professionals. But 16-year-old James Baudzus is undaunted. The Australian International School student is among the 80 youth from
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      Lock icon Jobless man charged with making bomb hoaxes
      168 6 Newsßadio 93.8 A 47-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with making bomb hoaxes involving Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's house. Unemployed Ganesan Singa Ravel allegedly called the police at the 999 hotline three times within 15 minutes on Saturday morning. The Tampines resident was
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      NUS readies campus-wide grid
      152 8  -  Seah Siew Hua siewhua@newstoday.com.sg THE National University of Singapore has put in place the first tera-scale campuswide grid in the region. The Tera-Scale Campus Grid, or TCG@NUS, is a virtual supercomputing platform that harnesses resources from idle workstations and computers on campus to produce high-speed computing
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
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        Donate books to help needy
        149 8 Do you have unused textbooks or unread storybooks collecting dust at home? If so, why not donate them to FairPrice's Used Textbooks Project? This year, the cooperative, which aims to help needy students, has invited 340 primary and secondary schools and 23 welfare organisations to
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        Electric Youth set for fund-raiser
        92 8 A group of teenagers and young adults with Down syndrome will be performing a dance drama on Friday. The performance, called Electric Youth, will be held at the drama theatre of Anglo-Chinese School in Barker Road. The group will be performing the concert with their
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      Lock icon Life lessons in tuck shop sessions
      448 10  -  Lee U-Wen Guangyang Primary students learn to interact with elderly neighbours over Tuesday breakfasts u-wen@newstoday.com.sg TUESDAY is fast becoming the favourite day of the week for 12-year-old Nicholas Tan. On those mornings, the Primary Six student from Guangyang Primary School meets his new friends
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      Swiss concept car makes a big splash
      95 10 Meet the Rinspeed Splash at the Singapore Motorshow 2004. This Swiss-made car is the only one in the world that can swim and "fly" at an altitude of 60cm. It is also the world's first amphibious vehicle powered by natural gas engine. Under
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      Lock icon Alfa Romeo's classic carbon fibre coupe
      67 10 The two-door Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione coupe is one of 10 concept models making its debut at the the Singapore Motorshow 2004. Powered by a 4.2-litre turbo-charged engine with more than 420bnp, the carbon fibrebodied 8C Competizione has a top speed of 290kmh. Its
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      All shook up with the Chevrolet Corvette
      74 10 Look out for this Chevrolet Corvette at the motor show. The 6.0-litre twodoor coupe is one of two left-hand drive Chevrolets that have been brought in for the event, the other being the SSR (Super Sport Roadster). Among the Corvette's high-tech features are
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      348 8 I] SINGAPORE W^C MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY Graduate Programmes at SMU %AIlSm Singapore Management /IT t0 offer two Prest 'gious X Masters Degrees MASTER OF SCIENCE IN APPLIED FINANCE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT This landmark programme aims to raise the standard of practitioners' This programme is offered in collaboration with
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      1342 9 *food how <&\<&c} Asia /te 2ow V". 22 November 3 December The AMF (Asia Media Festival) is an annual fiesta bursting with activities to delight all senses of the media and x M entertainment industry. The fortnight-long festival will showcase an impressive line up of public and trade events. f
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      239 11 UP TO The Qantas Birthday Sale. Book before November 18 and you'll enjoy many happy returns with our amazing fares when you fly with a companion. DESTINATION AIRFARE DESTINATION AIRFARE DESTINATION AIRFARE London $798* Melbourne $498* Adelaide $498* Frankfurt $798* Brisbane $498* Christchurch $698* Perth $348* Cairns $498* Auckland $698*
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Pressure on US over Iran
      392 12 AFP EU deal to freeze Tehran's nuclear activities puts Washington in corner VIENNA The European Union deal that got Iran to freeze key nuclear activities puts the United States on the spot Washington must now decide whether to continue confronting Iran as an enemy or
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      Lock icon Video shows US Marine killing unarmed Iraqi in mosque
      283 12 Agencies WASHINGTON In an act that could inflame Muslims around the world, a US Marine was caught on camera shooting dead an apparently wounded and unarmed Iraqi militant in a mosque in Fallujah, where American-led forces have been battling insurgents. The
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon China voices regret for submarine intrusion
        54 12 -AFP China has told Japan it regrets the intrusion of a submarine into Japanese waters last week that set off a security scare, Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said yesterday. Beijing said the submarine had entered Japanese waters near a disputed gas field because
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        Lock icon Arnie supporters seek constitutional change
        39 12 AFP A group of fans of movie star-turned-Cal-ifornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger calling themselves "Amend for Arnold" have launched an advertising blitz pushing for a constitutional change to allow foreign-born citizens to become US president.
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        Lock icon Chinese man gets 15 years in prison for rental car scam
        68 12 -AFP A Beijing court sentenced Gu Qing to 15 years imprisonment for giving away rental cars to people as an incentive for them to lend him large sums of money, the China Daily said. The swindler rented 48 cars
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        Lock icon Teen dies as quarrel at Chinese toll station turns into riot
        77 12 AFP A teenager died, seven firefighters were injured and 17 people arrested after about 1,000 police officers used batons and tear gas to quell a riot in southern China sparked by a quarrel between a woman and staff at
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      Lock icon Thaksin blames foreign extremists
      271 13 Agencies Thai PM says separatists getting assistance, but not from terrorist groups BANGKOK Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday that foreign Islamic extremists were helping separatists launch attacks in Thailand's Mus-lim-dominated south, but he denied that international terrorist organisations were sponsoring the conflict "The separatist movement
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      Lock icon Mysterious derailment
      59 13 Some 163 people miraculously escaped with only injuries after Australia's fastest train ploughed through trees and dirt "like a bulldozer" after it mysteriously derailed early yesterday morning. The train, which can travel at speeds of up to 160km/h, was on a trip from Brisbane to the northern city
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      Lock icon Spain blasts: Youth detained for 6 years
      162 13 -AFP MADRID The Spanish Supreme Court early this morning (Singapore time) sentenced a teenager implicated in the March 11 Madrid train bombings to six years in youth detention after he pleaded guilty to handling explosives used in Spain's worst terrorist attack on the
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      Lock icon Murder of bosses puts maids in focus
      472 14 -IPS NGOs highlight harsh treatment of Indon workers KUALA LUMPUR A ripple of combined fear and anger has hit the community of about 250,000 Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia many of them lowly-paid and harshly worked after one of their compatriots was sentenced
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon Auction of breasts banned
        63 14 Online auction site ebay has banned a student from auctioning her breasts on the Internet, reported Britain's The Sun. The girl, known as Twinkly Spangle, offered bidders a 15-minute fondling session with her 32C breasts to fund her university fees. Bidding for the breasts, "still attached,
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        Lock icon $5.7 million 'child's painting'
        69 14 tert Australia's Art Gallery of New South Wales has spent A 54.5 million ($5.7 million) on its most expensive acquisition ever, an abstract by American artist Cy Twombly, which the gallery admitted looks like it could have been painted by a child. "I know some people
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      Lock icon Yemeni sets himself alight at White House
      360 16 He says the FBI had failed to pay him for information WASHINGTON A man who set himself alight outside the White House was a Yemeni national who informed United States authorities on terrorism activities and who was protesting how the Federal Bureau of
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      Focus On The Family
      271 18  -  Dr James Dobson Tbnws werw MORE DISHONEST EMOTIONS (Part3of4) We were talking last time about anxiety and how it distorts perceptions of reality. Here's another example. In the fall of 1969, a wild man named Charles Manson and his young followers went on a killing spree
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      Lead fight against animal cruelty, AVA
      208 18  -  SEAH BEE CHENG Letter from I DISAGREE with the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority's (AVA) contention in its letter, "Pet owners have a right to breed their animals" (Nov 16), that prohibition of breeding would represent overregulation. With the increase in abandoned pets and strays,
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      Alternatives to oil
      236 18  -  BENJAMIN SEET CHONG EN Nuclear reactors a safe, viable source of power Letter from I REFER to Jaya Prakash's news comment, "Break oil's stranglehold: Think nuclear" (Nov 16). I agree with the writer's position on the need to secure alternative sources of power. I believe that the
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      NEA's multi-pronged anti-dengue battle
      142 18  -  CHIAM YEOW KHONG I Letter from Head, Environmental Health Department The National Environment Agency I REFER to See Leong Kit's letter "It's time NEA adopts a more effective way to fight dengue" (Nov 8). The NEA has a proactive and wide-rang-ing education programme to convey the
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      isay WHEN OLD IS GOLD
      450 20  -  Nicholas Lim MY FIRST mobile phone was added to the endangered species list recently. It had stopped vibrating and when I took it in for repairs, they told me they didn't have the spare parts anymore. So, I was left with my cousin's "old" phone,
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      BRIDGING THE GENERATION GAP
      792 22 SOMETIMES, I wonder if the old are intimidated by the young, writes Santi Yeo Her Chuen. Her aged parents, she says, "do not share any of their children's enthusiasm to go out, have a meal or visit a place of interest to spend a public holiday
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      472 20 YOUR GIRO DONATIONS MORE THAN I In fact, they go a long way to help us run the SPCA. Like its 24-hour I emergency service, investigation of cruelty complaints, collecting unwanted I pets and confined strays, re-homing of animals, conducting educational I talks, operating a clinic for sterilisation of strays
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  • MarketWATCH
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      Lock icon Singapore
      143 24 Dow Jones SHARES closed marginally lower yesterday, led by profit-taking on stocks like Singapore Telecommunications following a mixed overnight performance by US stocks on Wall Street. The ST Index ended down 2.04 points, or 0.1 percent, at 2,036.42, despite hitting a new fouryear high of 2,045.74 early in the
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      ST Index: 2,036.42 -2.04
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      SGX most active
      58 24 )y volume China Sun ChinaAvOil Close 0.415 1.260 Change -0.015 -0.090 'OOO -3.5 42,22! -6.7 30,29: iwissco 0.265 28,811 JniFiber .&M \nwell 0.155 0.010 0.360 +0.005 +0.005 +0.025 +3.3 21,071 +100.0 13,83' +7.5 13,70' South ernPkg SingTel StarHub 'etra 0.230 2.370 0.975 0.800 -0.020 -0.020 +0.015 -0.040
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      SGX top rises
      74 24 By$ ISH 500USS Close Change 7.900 +0.500 DairyFarm 900 USS IMH 400USS 2.740 +0.250 16.800 +0.200 IAC 200USS 3.360 +0.140 DBS 16.400 +0.100 lardine C&C 9.900 +0.100 OUE 7.350 +0.100 Shang Asia 2kHKS 9.600 +0.100 SIA 11.000 +0.100 By percentage L&M Close Change 0.010 +100.0 FHTK 0.040
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      Your S$1 buys
      36 24 US$ 0.6063 UK£ 0.3272 Yen 63.865 HK$ 4.7146 RM 2.3039 Euro 0.4673 Rupiah 5,451.7 Baht 24.449 Peso 34.227 A$ 0.7845 Indian Rs 27.329 Won 661.19 C$ 0.7237 Yuan 5.0198 NZ$ 0.8645 NTS 19.896
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      Commodities
      21 24 Gold uss/oi 438.20 Silver uss/oi 7.55 Platinum uss/oi 870.00 Rubber cents/kg 209.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,457.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 42.99
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      Lock icon World markets
      60 24 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Index Value Change Nikkei 225 11,161.75 Pis -65.82 -0.59 Hang Seng 13,746.08 -186.14 -1.34 Ordinaries laiwan Wtd 3,879.90 5,910.85 -11.00 +4.16 -0.28 +0.07 Korea Comp 876.61 -5.72 -0.65 KLCI Closed SET Index 642.65 -4.91 -0.76 lakarta Comp Closed Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,787.89
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      SGX top falls
      67 24 iy$ :&N Close Changi 14.100 -0.400 (epCorp SPBat 8.250 -0.150 2.460 -0.130 HI 1.720 -0.110 \?i Breweries 7.650 -0.100 :iTYDEV 6.700 -0.100 (obinson 6.250 -0.100 JOB 13.600 -0.100 linaAvOil 1.260 -0.090 )y percentage Close IVeePoh 0.010 Change -33.3 \AediaS 0.015 -25.0 ieeHS 0.075 -21.1 <LW 0.040 -20.0
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    CAO shares continue slide
    399 24  -  Jaime Koh Fuel supplier hurt by trading losses, will close all speculative derivatives positions jaime@newstoday.com FOLLOWING China Aviation Oil Singapore's (CAO) poor third-quarter results, shares of the mainboard-listed company shed 9 cents, or 6.7 per cent, to close at $1.26 yesterday, after hitting a low of
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      243 50 AFP HONG KONG A row over possible match-fixing has cast a shadow over today's last round of first phase Asian qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup, which will see mighty China battling to stave off a shock elimination. With four of the eight places in
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      346 50 AFP SAITAMA, Japan Japan coach Zico is confident his secondstring national squad can beat Singapore today to finish the World Cup Asian qualifying first round with a 100 per cent record. Japan have an unbeatable 15 points from five straight
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      66 51 SINGAPORE'S contingent to this year's Athens 2004 Paralympic Games received a big thank you from President S R Nathan yesterday. Swimmer Theresa Goh (left) was among eight disabled athletes and six officials who were thanked by the President at a tea reception at the Istana for
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