Today, 24 November 2004

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    13 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Wednesday November 24, 2004 MICA (P) 103/07/2004
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    NUS moves to keep top talent
    599 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Today Exclusive Age limit for tenured staff raised 10 years IN A move that will strengthen its ability to attract and retain faculty, the National University of Singapore is extending the age limit for tenured staff by 10 years. Tenured faculty
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    Lock icon I was in that Fallujah mosque...
    1153 1 The broadcast last week of footage showing a US marine shooting an injured Iraqi fighter in Fallujah caused an international outcry. Yesterday the cameraman, Mr Kevin Sites, published on his website this open letter to the marines with whom he had been embedded. Here
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      15 1 Our look at the universities A^^ll continues tomorrow with: Does NTU have an image problem?
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      37 1 NEWSX\VIEWS Adrian Tan Loopholes that allow unskilled in/3 SPH sued Tiger Airways chief Patrick Gan alleges libel/4 Idols to reunite Last 11 to come together at grand finals/30 Spore double Home United, Shamsul up for AFC awards/41
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  • hot news
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      Ban on male headgear at KL govt schools upheld
      233 2 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's second highest court has upheld the right of government schools to bar male Muslim students from wearing turbans to class, drawing protests from the Islamic opposition. In a landmark decision, the Appeal Court ruled on Monday that the
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      Loopholes that allow unskilled in
      789 3  -  Adrian Tan |\lEWS£S!£!££!!£— Are they not taking away jobs that can be done by Singaporeans? I DON'T know if you noticed, but ever since the housing councils started employing Singaporeans to do conservancy work in the HDB estates, the lifts, stairs, passageways and other common
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      Lock icon Ethics guidelines for biomedical research
      227 4 Channel NewsAsia HUMAN subjects of biomedical research will now be protected by a set of guidelines on ethics governance to ensure their interests are taken care of. The guidelines are issued by the Bioethics Advisory Committee, which has been set up to look at various
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      Lock icon Tiger Airways chief sues SPH for libel
      336 4 -AP Suit charges that a BT report suggested he was 'incompetent' THE outgoing head of Tiger Airways is suing Singapore Press Holdings for libel over a report suggesting he was fired for incompetence, court documents showed yesterday. Lawyers acting for Tiger chief executive
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      Lock icon Rapist struck twice in 2 months, faces long sentence
      184 4 Newsßadio 93.8 THE man who raped a flight attendant and molested her colleague at the Grand Hyatt hotel in April last year has been punished for committing another rape. Suresh Nair Vellayutham was sentenced to 16 years in prison and 16
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Top three in Nicoll Highway incident like '3 blind men'
      504 6  -  Wong Fei Wan LTA lawyer says project coordinator, engineer were groping in the dark THE top three who oversaw the review of the computer program used in the temporary structure design at the Nicoll Highway worksite relied on each other
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      Lock icon Full confidence in Annan, say UN union leaders
      250 6 Agencies GENEVA Union leaders representing about 4,000 United Nations employees here expressed full confidence in UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan following criticism of the world body's senior management The UN staff moved the motions following Mr Annan's decision to pardon the head of
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      New drug for hypertension
      178 8  -  Keith Lin A NEW drug clinically proven to rapidly reduce high blood pressure is now available in local clinics. One in two hypertension or high blood pressure patients achieve optimal blood pressure readings within two weeks of using the drug Olmetec, a US study found. This
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      Lock icon Every child a winner in this log cake-making class
      197 8  -  Tor Ching Li YESTERDAY, 30 children from the Singapore Children's Society trooped into the Ritz Carlton Hotel, wore chef uniforms and made Christmas log cakes. Other than playing with pandan and choco-late-flavoured cream-and-sponge cake, and gobbling sugar snowmen, the icing on
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      Are the old that happy?
      432 8  -  Clement Mesenas Debate over findings on quality of life of Singapore's elderly A PURPORTEDLY exhaustive university survey that showed that elderly Singaporeans are satisfied with their lives came under intense scrutiny at a workshop on the ageing and the status of the older population in
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  • world news
    • this QUIRKY world
      • Article
        Virgin Mary sandwich fetches $46,000
        62 10 Ms Diana Duyser, who said her 1 0-year-oid grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary, will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for US$2B,OOO ($46,000) on eßay, reported AP. The half sandwich was snapped up by online casino,
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        Ship crashes into house
        65 10 Croatian Egon Selestrin, 23, was watching an action movie when a 60-metre runaway ship crashed through the wall of his parents' house, reported ananova. com. The vessel was coming in to dock at the fishing village of Kukljica, on the Adriatic island of Ugljan, when it
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        Kimonos used for crime prevention in Tokyo
        85 10 The upmarket Ginza district in Tokyo has come up with a novel way to combat muggers and bag snatchers by using traditional bar hostesses in kimonos to patrol the streets, reported the Times of London. The six-strong patrols led by a mamma-san (lead
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        Couch potatoes are born, not made
        69 10 After 12 years of research, Prof Claude Bouchard has found a "couch potato gene" that explains why some of us would find lounging in front of a television more tempting than going out for a jog, reported me Daily Telegraph The scientist from Louisiana's
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        'Flirt parties' replace queues for lonely hearts
        77 10 "Flirt parties" in Moscow are increasingly replacing bread queues as a place for lonely Russians to meet a partner, reported ananova.com. Before the fall of communism, most couples met while waiting outside stores. But this year special "Flirt parties" have started to appear
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      Lock icon Two government officials attacked in southern Thailand
      224 10 Agencies BANGKOK Suspected Islamic insurgents attacked a deputy provincial governor and a municipal official in separate incidents yesterday in Thailand's predominantly Muslim south, where sectarian violence has left hundreds dead this year. Mr Soonthorn Rittipakdee, deputy governor for Pattani province, was ambushed and
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      Lock icon Fatah picks Abbas
      532 10  -  Sharon Vasoo He is seen to be the most suitable to fill void left by Arafat THE appointment of Mr Mahmud Abbas, 69, by the mainstream Fatah movement as the top contender to step into the shoes of Mr Yasser Arafat in the elections in January was
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      Lock icon 64% of young Japanese women have been groped on trains
      212 10 -AP TOKYO Nearly 64 per cent of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s surveyed said they have been groped on trains, subways or at transit stations in Tokyo, according to Yomiuri newspaper yesterday. Women polled by Tokyo authorities and
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      Lock icon Aids will kill 3 million people this year: UN report
      266 11 -AFP PARIS More than 3 million people will die from Aids this year, while nearly 40 million now have HIV, the highest tolls in the 23-year history of the disease, the United Nations reported yesterday. The World Health Organization (WHO)
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      Lock icon Crashed jet was on its way to pickup Bush Sr
      186 11 Agencies WASHINGTON A private jet that crashed early on Monday in foggy conditions near Houston's Hobby Airport, killing all on board, was on its way to pick up former United States President George HW Bush, a spokesman said. The private
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      M'sia to allow foreign students to work
      276 11 KUALA LUMPUR From next year, Malaysia will allow foreign students to seek gainful employment The move is aimed at solving the twin problems of foreigners on student visas working illegally and a shortage of workers. "The students will be allowed to work part-time
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon Kidnapped trio freed in Kabul
        56 12 AFP United Nations workers Annetta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, Shqipe Hebibi of Kosovo and Filipino Angelito Nayan, who were kidnapped and held hostage in Afghanistan for three weeks were released yesterday. The Afghan government said they were "abandoned" in Kabul. Officials denied that a deal
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        Lock icon Philippine floods kill 16 more
        55 12 AFP Heavy rain and floods from tropical storm Merbok killed 1 6 in the Philippines yesterday as the country struggled to recover from storm Muifa that claimed 49 lives over the weekend. Merbok dumped heavy rain on the east coast of Luzon. At least 67
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        Lock icon Opposition protests poll results
        47 12 AFP Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko yesterday called on more than 100,000 supporters in Kiev's Independence Square to march towards the parliament building. The pro-Western opposition is claiming large-scale fraud in the results of Sunday's election, won by pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich
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      Keeping alive peace hopes
      357 12 Pakistan PM in rare visit to India NEW DELHI Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived in India yesterday on a rare trip. Analysts do not expect any pleasant surprises to emerge from his talks with the Indian leaders. They felt the visit would serve to keep
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      Scare shuts US Mumbai mission
      121 12 MUMBAI The United States closed its consulate here yesterday, citing news of a terrorist threat, but an Indian official dismissed the possibility of an imminent attack. The consulate was shut for one day "as a precautionary measure," said Mr David Kennedy, spokesman for the US
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      Even innocent were held in 'Guantanamo on Hudson'
      394 13 Those arrested during Republican convention were exposed to cruel conditions, says lawsuit NEW YORK Saying the city had created its "own little Guantanamo on the Hudson" during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer filed a lawsuit on behalf of nearly 2,000 people
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      Lock icon Dolphin pod saves NZ swimmers from great white shark
      229 13 -AP WELLINGTON (New Zealand) A pod of dolphins saved a group of swimmers from a cruising great white shark off the northern New Zealand coast, The Northern Advocate newspaper reported yesterday. This unusual incident occurred on Oct 30, when lifeguard Rob
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      434 11 Se M c« -I Important Information "'ln Year 1, the Managers intend to make the first distribution of 1.75 cents per Unit on 30 June 2005 (book closure date) and subsequent distributions of 0.875 cents per Unit on the last Business Day of each of the two subsequent calendar quarters
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    Focus On The Family
    263 14  -  Dr James Dobson LOVE IS A ROSE One of the great myths about romantic love is that if a couple is genuinely in love, that condition is permanent and will last a lifetime. Love, even genuine love, is a fragile commodity. Like more than one popular
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      Let smokers bear cost of their folly
      182 14  -  RICHARD LAM Letter from BHUTAN has taken the lead and banned smoking completely. Singapore should consider following suit. Cigarettes are still too cheap because students can easily pool their pocket money to buy a pack or two. If taxes were raised such that
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      Motorcycle hazard in Ang Mo Kio
      119 14  -  WONGHENGTONG WHILE I was at the bus stop in front of Block 409A on Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 at around 11.45am on Monday, I saw a motorcyclist driving along the pavement towards the bus stop. As the motorcyclist steered over the kerb and
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      Three ways to file ez-link card claims
      216 14  -  MS KATHRYN LAU WE REFER to readers Ms Eileen Tan and Ms Kelly Lek's feedback on overcharging of fares on ez-link cards (Nov 19). We appreciate this opportunity to share that there are three channels for customers to file a claim: At TransitLink
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      Journey is not over
      382 15  -  MOHAMAD ROSLE AHMAD Singapore has some way to go, in many aspects I REFER to Mr Ananda Perera's letter "Parts of MM Lee's speech made on PAP's 50th anniversary should be etched in gold" (Nov 23). Like Mr Perera, I also travel frequently, for business and
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      Beware the ang moh Osama
      206 15  -  JEFFREY BILUNGTON HERE'S the scenario: My local agent and I were approaching the security checkpoint at Manila International Airport There are three lanes leading to the departure terminal drop-off area, one for airport registered vehicles, the other two for all other vehicles. Because of heavy
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      BUST, BEAUTY, PECS OR BICEPS?
      547 17  -  Robyn M Speed isay I SAW an advertisement for the television premier of Lara Croft Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie, armed and dangerous, and written next to her torso were her vital statistics. The line below read: "You measure a woman by how she makes
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      Fostering not the answer
      277 17  -  EDDYTANUMIHARDJA I REFER to the proposal to foster a pet as a prerequisite of pet ownership in the letter "Make future pet-owners foster one first" (Nov 23). I am against it because it demeans the animals. If we recognise that animals have feelings, then we should
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  • Businesstoday
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      DBS to open Authorised Trading Centre in Newton Building
      280 18  -  Jaime Koh DBS Bank will open another Authorised Trading Centre (ATC) to meet the needs of the growing number of investors wishing to transact their SingTel shares. The new ATC will open tomorrow at the bank's Newton Building along Bukit Timah
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      Things made simpler for SMEs
      387 18  -  Tay Tsen-Waye Govt procurement rules get modified to help them WITH the relaxing of rules for the $10-billion-a-year Government Procurement (GP) market, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) no longer have to furnish a track record before bidding for government contracts, nor will they need to
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      Other changes to Government Procurement rules
      174 18 1. Bidders of goods and services contracts can pool their strengths and resources to offer a more integrated package and bid for tenders of a higher financial category. Spring Singapore is prepared to facilitate the formation of consortia so that by banding together, marginalisation
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    • business news
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        Lock icon At least 5% of Hyflux sales to go to R&D
        343 20 Agencies The water-treatment company opens research and development centre in Singapore HYFLUX, Singapore's biggest publiclytraded water-treatment company, plans to spend 5 per cent to 8 per cent of sales on research and development (R&D) over the next few years. It
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      • Market WATCH
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          Lock icon Singapore
          121 20 Dow Jones SHARE prices ended higher, spurred by overnight gains on Wall Street and strong buying in technology heavyweights. The US dollar also stabilised overnight and Asian trading, easing fears of the threat that a fading greenback posed to exporters. The ST Index closed 9.72 points, or 0.5 per
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          ST Index – 2,029.86 +9.72
          4 20 ST Index 2,029.86 +9.72
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          SGX top rises
          75 20 By$ jealive50 20.400 +2.100 F&N 14.500 +0.300 By percentage Easyknil 5k HKS 0.250 +101.1 L&M 0.010 +100.1 >hangAsia2kHKS 9.950 +0.250 ZITYDEV W*****0 4.320 +0.200 Creative DBeCW*****3 0.310 +63.! Federal R200 0.070 +55.1 SingamasC 2kHK$ 4.450 +0.175 :iTYDEV 6.750 +0.150 CrealiveSGAeCW*****0 0.345 +53J El-Nets 0.015 +50.1 ISH500USS 8.200
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          SGX top falls
          71 20 By$ IMH4000SS 16.200 -0.500 By percentage MediaS 0.015 -25.1 lardine C&C 9.250 -0.300 BBR 0.020 -20.1 DBS 16.000 -0.200 Jade 0.020 -20.1 SreatEast 11.800 -0.100 Hor Kew 0.045 -18.: ilA 200 10.700 -0.100 GMG USS 0.025 -16.; UOB 13.600 -0.100 LHT 0.050 -16.; DairyFarm 900 OSS 2.760
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          SGX most active
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          World markets
          56 20 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.29 3866.10 5851.10 +222.69 +35.40 +12.68 +1.61 +0.93 +0.22 Korea Comp 860.40 +10.41 +1.22 KLCI 909.38 +13.44 +1.50 SET Index 650.87 +5.92 +0.92 lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Wumbai Sensex 959.01 1811.23 241.23 6009.86 +19.02 +23.03
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          Your S$1 buys
          36 20 US$ 0.608 UK£ 0.3268 Yen 62.712 HK$ 4.726 RM 2.3104 Euro 0.4659 Rupiah 5468.3 Baht 24.203 Peso 34.212 A$ 0.777 Indian Rs 27.384 Won 647.73 C$ 0.7202 Yuan 5.0321 NZ$ 0.8566 NTS 19.747
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          Lock icon Commodities
          26 20 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/i 447.500 Silver uss/oz 7.560 Platinum uss/„i 854.000 Rubber cents/kg 202 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1501.50 Brent crude uss/borrei 44.15 Information provided by
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        Lock icon Wireless surfing gets easier
        409 22  -  Jaime Koh M1 introduces 3G data card with third-generation mobile service pilot YOU will soon be able to surf the Internet at high speed wirelessly on your laptop anywhere in Singapore, even if you are not in a designated wireless "hotspot". MobileOne (Ml) yesterday launched phase
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        CORPORATE briefs
        107 22 Temasek Holdings bought 10 per cent of Gateway Distriparks, a port logistics firm based in India, for an undisclosed amount, Gateway said. SingTel and Royal KPN, the biggest Dutch phone company, have agreed to share each other's internetbased networks, connecting each other's customers. The interconnection enables SingTel and
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    • savvy investor
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        Good times for property firms
        637 24  -  -Dow Jones The sector in Asia has enjoyed returns of 8 per cent so far this year ASIA'S property firms have enjoyed strong gains over this year and international fund managers expect more upside potential for the sector, given the region's relatively robust economies and
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