Today, 30 November 2004

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  • 26 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday November 30, 2004 MICA (P) 103/07/2004 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday November 30, 2004 MICA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • 427 1  -  Ng Shing Yi FORMER Miss Singapore Universe Eunice Olsen and the eight other Nominated Members of Parliament yesterday received their letters of appointment from President S R Nathan at the Istana. The selection of Ms Olsen, 27, who makes history
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  • 622 1 HOPES for the release of Myanmar's detained icon of democracy Aung San Suu Kyi (picture) were dashed yesterday after her house arrest was extended for another year by the ruling military junta, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party and security officials said. Her
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • hot news
    • 251 2  -  Tor Ching Li FROM today, almost 75 per cent of Singapore's domestic exports to South Korea, which amount to more than $3 billion, will enjoy immediate tariff elimination. Singapore concluded the Korea-Singa-pore Free Trade Agreement yesterday. This follows seven rounds of negotiations between officials,
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    • 381 2  -  Tor Ching Li Aid is earmarked to further close development gap NOTING the many challenges that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is facing, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced yesterday that Singapore is committing $28.9 million over three years to help close the
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    • 266 2  -  Tor Ching Li ASEAN leaders gave Malaysia's proposal for an East Asia Summit (EAS) which it offered to host in conjunction with the Asean Summit at Kuala Lumpur next year the go ahead yesterday. Ministers had initially held off from a
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    • NEWScomment
      • 708 3  -  Jeremy Lim Voicing one's opinion requires responsibility, sensitivity and a degree of courage, I suppose I HAVE many happy memories of my primary school days. Among them was a measure of freedom of speech which I miss. My classmates and I did
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  • singapore news
    • 453 4  -  Derrick A Paulo Hwa Chong Institution offering to hone 'Chinese language elite' THE Integrated Programme (IP) at the new Hwa Chong Institution is about to get an even more distinctive Chinese orientation. In January, upper secondary students will be able to apply for the Chinese Language Elective
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    • 347 6 Channel NewsAsia MOM to tackle lack of skills of older workers EFFORTS to bring down Singapore's unemployment rate are bearing results and the Manpower Ministry (MOM) is now turning its attention to tackling a new challenge helping older workers ensure they have enough to see them
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    • 250 6 A NEWLY-minted regional agreement will help local authorities to investigate crimes that occur here, even where perpetrators or the criminal proceeds are outside Singapore. Singapore signed a treaty that will see eight South-east Asian countries provide legal assistance in criminal matters to each other. The
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    • SINGAPOREsnippets
      • 92 6 AP Singapore-based budget carrier Valuair said yesterday that it was teaming up with an online hotel-booking agency to offer its fliers access to discounted, lastminute accommodation. Under the deal, Valuair's website has been linked with that of Wotif.com, an Australia-based booking company that
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      • 105 6 Newsßadio 93.8 From tomorrow, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) will take over the processing of all applications for the Dependant's Pass for a Child Proposed for Adoption from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). The purpose of a
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      • 109 6 Channel NewsAsia The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) is launching a practical guide to performance management for SMEs (small and medium enterprises). The guide outlines basic steps for companies to link organisational and individual performance to wages. One recommendation is
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    • 239 6 Newsßadio 93.8 A DELAY in meeting time turned out to be the downfall of two suspected heroin traffickers. Officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) swooped in on the suspects before one could pass the drugs to the other. The first suspect, a 19-year-old Nigerian
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    • 292 8  -  Wong Fei Wan AGE discrimination is one employment obstacle that Tampines GRC is tackling head on. Having seen so many older, unemployed residents who complain that they cannot land a job because of their age, the MPs in the GRC decided to
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    • 356 8  -  Ng Shing Yi Contact tracing can reduce fetal transmission, say women WOMEN professionals have told Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan that they strongly supported compulsory HIV screening for pregnant women. Some even urged "aggressive" contact tracing of HIV infection, like in the Sars epidemic. These suggestions
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  • world news
    • 379 10 -AFP Asean moves closer to forging a single Asian market VIENTIANE The Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) moved a step closer to forging its own European-style single market here yesterday and also signed deals with China towards creating the world's largest
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    • 225 10 BANGKOK In the latest bloodshed in southern Thailand, suspected Islamic rebels shot and killed a soldier yesterday while he was taking his daughter to school in Kok Pho district, Pattani province. Sgt Nothong Praphan, 43, died instantly but his daughter was unhurt
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    • this QUIRKYworld
      • 61 10 A Brisbane pub competition in which two men bit off the tails of mice was "a public display of cruelty in the name of entertainment". While a court ordered the men to pay fines of up to A***** ($1600) the SPCA has
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      • 65 10 A missing cat has left police in Mecca at wits' end. The cat, said the owner, is not used to living in the street but in the lap of luxury, eating good food and wearing expensive perfumes. Police are unsure how to proceed
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    • 629 12  -  Antoaneta Bezlova IPS NEWS3U3U3I^— BEIJING Even as Iran pledges suspension of its uranium enrichment programme to avert United Nations sanctions, United States-led international efforts to curb Iran's nuclear capabilities are being undermined by the rise of a stronger partnership between Beijing and Tehran. This was
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    • 333 13 CNN, FT. Ukraine opposition leader seen as an icon for freedom UKRAINE Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's support has grown to such an extent that even some young police cadets are crossing the line to support him. Over the weekend, hundreds of them took
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    • 129 13 AP, The Independent BAGHDAD Assassins tried to kill Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Sunday morning with a car packed with explosives by a road he was about to travel, but his guards discovered the bomb shortly before his convoy went past. The bomb, which
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    • 171 14 AFP and BBC LONDON A probe has been ordered to investigate into the allegation that British Interior Minister David Blunkett has abused his position to help his former lover, Mrs Kimberly Quinn, acquire a British visa for her nanny. Mr Blunkett admitted checking over the visa application
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    • 532 14 Bush set to revamp team which was seen as a weak poll link WASHINGTON In an indication of the United States administration's desire to get cracking on its economic agenda, President George W Bush is moving quickly to overhaul his economic team for the second time
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    • 113 14 PARIS In a last-minute move that will save an agreement with three European countries reached earlier this month, Iran has backed off from a demand to operate uranium enrichment equipment The UN atomic agency confirmed that Iran has suspended all uranium enrichment activities, following
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    • 230 14 KUALA LUMPUR Local Chinese education movement Dong Jiao Zong (DJZ) has completed a memorandum on mother tongue education, which it insists on handing to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, online news portal Malaysiakini reported. DJZ executive officer Bock Tai Hee, when contacted by
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    • GLOBALroundup
      • 80 14 -AFP Jordan's royal family was thrown into turmoil last night when King Abdullah abruptly dismissed his half-brother, Prince Hamzeh, as crown prince and heir apparent. The king said on television he had taken the decision ostensibly to allow the prince to be "more free
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      • 50 14 East Timor will deport 274 Indonesians for failing to acquire proper immigration documents, officials said yesterday. Indonesian Ambassador Ahmea Bey Sofvvan said the 274 people claimed they had no money to pay for immigration documents and they didn't want to claim East Timorese citizenship.
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      • 51 14 -AFP An Indonesian Islamist group known for its raids on nightspots said yesterday it would send volunteers to help Iraq's insurgents fight US-led forces in Fallujah. The Islamic Defenders' Front opened registrations for volunteers on Friday and so far 300 oeoole had signed in, a spokesman
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      • 42 14 China is in the final stages of revising its law on the death penalty, which will rescind the right of lower courts to have the last say on executions, state media reported yesterday. The move is expected
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    • 545 15 fidence-building measure to answer United States charges that Tehran was developing nuclear weapons secretly. The latest deal means Iran is safe from possible United Nations sanctions as the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) the UN's nuclear
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    • 292 15 AFP JEDDAH The conservative society of Saudi Arabia opened its first conference on Aids on Saturday with a view to raising public awareness about the disease, the Arab News reported. The event represents a new openness about the disease within the kingdom. The social
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  • voices
    • 218 16  -  Dr James Dobson Tibo^'s THE MARRIAGE TRAIN Do you everfeel like you just don't love your spouse anymore? Well, welcome to the club. The fact is love is not dependent on our feelings and emotions. The fact is feelings come and go. None of us always
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    • 256 16  -  GOHSHIHYONG I REFER to the letters "Make future pet-owners foster one first" by Ms Santi Yeo Her Chuen (Nov 23) and "Fostering not the answer" by Mr Eddy Tanumihardja (Nov 24). We thank the writers for their concern for pet animals. Owning a pet comes with many
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    • 601 16  -  Neil Wilkinson I THINK I know why the annual courtesy campaigns do not have much success. And it isn't that Singaporeans are rude or inconsiderate. It hit me this morning as I was walking to my car. An Indian gentleman cycled past me. He smiled
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    • 239 18  -  ROSE MARY TAN It is not up to men to stop violence against women; education is key I REFER to Constance Singam s News Comment, Let us speak of the unspeakable" (Nov 25). Truly, only women can change and stop violence against women. We cannot
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    • 150 18  -  GIDWANI KARAN LAL r j* WITH regard to your report, 0 "Disabling misconceptions" (Nov 22), I feel that discrimination against the handicapped is a growing problem in Singapore. It is important that we do something to end such discrimination and that we educate the younger generation
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    • 288 18  -  SEE LEONG KIT IN conjunction with World Aids Day tomorrow, I would like to urge Singapore parents to remind their teenage children of the very real dangers of pre-marital sex. As of last year, Singapore had 14 detected cases of teenagers with
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    • 168 18  -  LIM BOON HEE CI WAS surprised to learn that SilkAir has decided to suspend flights to Macau from y Janl. Passengers have been advised to fly Singapore Airlines to Hong Kong and take the highspeed ferries to Macau. With Macau gearing up to be the
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    • 226 18  -  ERICTEO •*y l WAS at ihe J^2*l Besar I^'' Stadium to see Singapore beat Myanmar on Saturday. I enjoyed the evenly fought Sr game. Sadly, the Myanmar fans outnumbered the Singaporeans by what seemed like two to one. Once
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    • 735 19  -  I KATHLEEN CHIA Unforeseen ordeal pushes landlady to brink of bankruptcy lace in the crowd I 55, subsidiary proprietor FROM the outside, the "For Rent" sign suggests nothing more than a vacant shop waiting to be leased. Except its owner has been
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    • 243 19  -  GEORGE JACOBS I Letter from President Vegetarian Society (Singapore) IT was shocking to read that, according to the World Health Organisation, the birdflu virus will kill between two million and seven million people in the near K> future. Many
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  • Businesstoday
    • 319 20  -  Val Chua Trading halted amid speculation of CEO sacking and police probe MAINBOARD-listed China Aviation Oil (CAO) continued to keep investors in suspense yesterday, after it failed to make an announcement following a full-day trading halt The silence only served to fuel speculation about an impending
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    • marketWATCH
      • 61 20 SHARES rose yesterday amid light trading in the absence of fresh themes. Blue chips rose on bargain hunting, while property stocks gained on hopes of a residential market rebound, dealers said. The ST Index climbed 10.29 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 2,038.72. On the broad market, advancers led
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      • 72 20 By$ By percentage CreativeSO 20.100 +0.400 Twinwood 0.055 +83.3 DBS 16.000 +0.200 WeePoh 0.015 +50.0 SIA 11.100 +0.200 NeoCorp 0.025 +25.0 STIETF100 20.830 +0.180 Federal R 0.085 +21.4 FortuneReilHKS 6.350 +0.150 CMTel 0.065 +18.2 FXN 14.700 +0.100 Nelwrk 0.065 +18.2 GrealEast 11.900 +0.100 SIA DBS eCW*****0 0.070
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      • 75 20 By$ By percentage ChODBeCW*****6 USS 147.100 -24.300 DBSSGAePW*****7 0.045 -52.6 DBSBk6%NCPS10 107.000 -0.100 Easyknit 5k HKS 0.150 -26.8 Venture 16.000 -0.100 Penguin 0.110 -26.7 ComfartDelGro 1.430 -0.070 North 22 OSS 0.015 -25.0 SPC 3.580 -0.060 CraflP 0.080 -23.8 Easyknit5k HKS 0.150 -0.055 FJBen W*****6 0.020 -20.0 DBSSGAePW*****7
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      • 36 20 US$ 0.6095 UK£ 0.3232 Yen 62.765 HK$ 4.7395 RM 2.3166 Euro 0.4599 Rupiah 5,493.5 Baht 24.078 Peso 34.241 A$ 0.7783 Indian Rs 27-362 Won 638.56 C$ 0.7233 Yuan 5.0442 NZ$ 0.8508 NTS 19.595
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      • 9 20 Dow Jones valued at $456.2 million
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      • 58 20 By volume Close Change '000 China Sun 0.420 16,746 Junma 0.475 +0.015 +3.3 15,864 DatacrftUSS 1.090 +0.090 +9.0 14,449 SingTel 2.360 11,100 Horizon 0.105 -0.005 -4.5 10,578 SembCorp Capilaland Noble Grp MG Metal Cosco Corp 1.400 2.120 1.480 0.640 1.200 -0.050 +0.010 +0.060 +0.025 +0.030 -3.4 +0.5
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      • 58 20 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Value 10,977.89 14,066.91 Change Pis +144.14 +171.88 +1.33 +1.24 All Ordinaries Taiwan Wld 3,938.10 5,785.26 +15.20 +6.61 +0.39 +0.11 Korea Comp 865.4 +7.28 +0.85 KLCI 915.90 +7.12 +0.78 SET Index 657.25 +8.50 +1.31 Jakarta Comp 964.08 -1.13 -0.12 Phils Comp Closed Shenzhen B
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      • 26 20 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 453.00 Silver uss/oz 7.73 Platinum uss/oz 865.10 Rubber centsAg 198.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,485.50 Brent crude uss/borrei 44.75 Information provided by
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    • 457 21  -  Jaime Koh Applications for the public tranche at between 97 cents and $1 opens today IN THE largest initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore this year, the Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit), aims to raise between $700 million and $722 million, overshadowing the $458-million listing
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    • 79 21 KOH Brothers Group subsidiary, Koh Brothers Building Civil Engineering Contractor, has secured a contract worth $226 million from the Public Utilities Board to construct the Marina Barrage. The tender for the project, which is expected to be completed in 2008, attracted 48 bids
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    • 93 21 Cerebos Pacific had a net profit of $1 3.7 million, or 4.35 cents per share, in the fourth quarter ended Sept 30, compared to $9.1 million, or 2.9 cents a share, last year. Revenue grew 12 per cent to $1 63 million. Net profit for Petra Foods surged by
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  • the business of marketing
    • 738 22  -  Greg Waldron TNS bids to be only audience research firm here THE head of the world's leading market research firm TNS thinks rival ACNielsen may have a credibility issue. Noting that television audience research firm ACNielsen had recently entered into a joint venture with a subsidiary of
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  • !mpact
    • 716 23  - Millennium Copthorne's template for a global brand Shobha Tsering Bhalla Kwek Leng Beng's 'first-born' relaunched after $15-million makeover THIRTY-FOUR years ago, a young man had a dream to build a hotel that would set a benchmark for other hotels in Singapore. Fired by a singular passion to succeed, the 29-year
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    • GRAB BAG
      • 114 23  -  Ted Chen ONE OF Singapore's top local creative talents, Mr Tay Guan Hin (right), executive creative director of Grey Global Group SEA, has been invited to be a judge at the prestigious 2005 One Show in New York. Mr Tay has been ranked among
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      • 214 23  -  Ted Chen RAISING brand awareness can be achieved at the last minute. So claims TAG Activate!, Singapore's first "lastminute" public relations (PR) agency. Launched two weeks ago by integrated brand communications company, The Advocate Group (TAG), it caters to a niche-market segment that contemplates the use
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      • 85 23  -  Ted Chen ENTRIES from across the region are currently being accepted for next year's Asian Advertising Awards. Organised by Media Magazine, the event is into its 1 9th year and will introduce a media self-promotion category, as well as interactive (website and mobile) categories for
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  • savvy investor
    • 436 24 Kim Eng Research The company is moving away from distributing oil and gas equipment to becoming a service provider KS TECH (KST) is fast transforming from an oil and gas equipment distributor to a full-fledged service provider. Owing to its strong business franchise and
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    • STOCKcalls
      • 72 24 Brilliant Manufacturing (63.5 cents) FULLY VALUED DBS Vickers downgraded the stock to "Fully Valued" from "Buy" with 62 cents as the target price because its earnings are too dependent on Maxtor whose financial performance has been lagging. The trading house also cut Brilliant's FYOS earnings target by 9 per cent
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      • 56 24 CapitaLand ($2.12) OVERWEIGHT Dow Jones Morgan Stanley keeps "Overweight" on the stock because concerns over a pending convertible bond conversion had been "largely overplayed". The brokerage said that the conversion of $380 million bonds in 2007 into 1 90 million new shares will reduce its net asset value forecast to
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  • Infotechsolutions for business
    • 668 25  -  Ariel Tam I GENOVATE Solutions has I come a long way. Founded in 2000, the company has grown from a single office in Singapore to a global network of offices from the Middle East to the Pacific Rim. Specialising in software, training and professional services in
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    • 724 26  -  Adriaan Pelzer Software Review: Suse Linux 9.2 Professional Ease of installation and migration from rival's counterparts alluring I MY DESKTOP background is as I black as the night. The darkest, most "Giger-esque" theme I could find (icevm.themes.org), makes me feel at home as if I'm
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    • 358 26 A SURVEY conducted by Network I Appliance revealed that employees were largely unaware of the corporate network security risks they were exposed to through personal Internet usage at work. The results of this online workplace-inter-net-usage survey were based on responses
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    • SHORTcuts
      • 70 26 Salesforce.com has launched its Winter '05 product line the 17th generation of its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) service. The line includes Salesforce.com Winter '05, Supportforce.com Winter '05, sforce 5.0 and an on-demand customisation toolkit, Customforce.com. Companies will be able to build on-demand applications for critical
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      • 71 26 Infineon Technologies AG has constructed the world's smallest nanotube transistor, with a channel length of 1 Bnm (nanometre). Other transistors in production are almost four times the size. Infineon built the nano-transistor by growing carbon nanotubes, which can carry efectrical current virtually without friction on their surface.
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      • 78 26 Motorola is panning to acquire MeshNetworks a privately-held developer of mobile mesh networking and location technologies that allow customers to deploy high-performance IP-based wireless broadband networks. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year and will allow Motorola to provide its customers
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      • 130 26 Maxtor's Atlas 1 OK V and Atlas 15K II drives with Ultra32O SCSI interface are now available. The drives are designed to have a 1.4 million hour MTTF (mean time to failure) reliability rating and include new MaxAdapt adaptive features, with twice the storage capacity of
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  • infotechfocus: voice over internet protocol
    • 257 27 Cannot Read Chinese In IE 6.0 Q: lam unable to read Chinese (Simplified) in Internet Explorer 6.0 after installing SP2 for the XP Home Edition. Please advise. Ray Tan A: To display a document correctly, computer applications need to know how a document is encoded. You can think
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    • 447 27  -  Yew Hock Meng Online telephony comes of age I THE year 1995 was a I watershed for world commerce, not only because the Internet was ready for large-scale commercial adoption but also because technology was on the brink of another revolution VoIP (voice over
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    • 750 28  -  Tan Min-Liang Commentary Regulating VoIP as a voice service could stifle its growth I IN MY first column for Infotech this I year, I had earmarked a number of technology law and telecommunications trends for the year one of which was that telecommunications regulatory
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    • 533 28 I THE majority of corporate I executives predict that they will implement VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), according to a survey and report on networking and business strategy from AT&T and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). VoIP, the ability
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    • 657 29  -  Elisa Chia Bands left hanging as contestants are bound by contract not to perform in public IT'S tough enough surviving as a band in Singapore. Imagine losing your lead vocalist for up to a year, because he or she is a finalist of MediaCorp's Singapore
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    • 303 31  -  Jeanine Tan TAUFIK Batisah and Sylvester Sim, the Singapore Idol finalists who are on the cusp of fame and have had their fair share of detractors, can learn a thing or two from Taiwanese pop princess Jolin Tsai. The 24-year-old had a rocky road to
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    • 380 32  -  Lynn Seah A picky eater may be sign of something else DO YOU have a hard time getting your pre-schooler to finish his food at meal times? If so, you are not alone. About onethird of mothers in Singapore think their children are picky about food,
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    • 183 32 And there are kids who eat too much -AFP MANY parents have no idea that their child could be overweight, according to a study which found that offspring who are chronically fat are typically viewed by their mother and father as being of normal weight. In a survey that involved
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    • 444 32 Eye care gets interactive With eye problems such as myopia on the rise among children as young as seven years ofd, the newly-launched Eye Care Interactives at HealthZone provides new insight into various eye problems. There will be information on various eye problems, such as stereovision and eye-care
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    • 371 37 Agencies MADRID Michael Owen (picture) refuses to give up the fight for a regular first-team place, after he came off the bench to score again for Real Madrid. The England international grabbed his side's last goal in the 5-0 win over Levante on
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    • 550 38  -  TANYO-HINN SBA want to keep Hendri and Li on court, as long as they remain fit EARLIER this month, an unlikely couple appeared from nowhere to storm into the last four of the five-star US$l7O,OOO ($279,000) Aviva Open Singapore 2004. Although they finished empty-handed, Singapore's mixed doubles
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    • 326 38 -AFP LA QUINTA, California Fred Couples made two big putts worth at least US$3OO,OOO ($491,520) apiece to again emerge the big winner at the Skins Game, which also featured Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam and Adam Scott. Couples sank a 27-foot birdie try at
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    • 243 38 -AFP ADELAIDE New Zealand kept an eye on the weather to save them as they frustrated Australia's efforts to wrap up another fasttracked victory in the second cricket Test at the Adelaide Oval yesterday. The Kiwis, humiliated by an innings loss in Brisbane, appeared
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    • 474 39  -  JOSE RAYMOND Raddy more worried about midfield than strikers SINGAPORE'S strike force of Indra Sahdan Daud and Agu Casmir may have fired blanks against Myanmar, but national coach Radojko Avramovic is preoccupied with a bigger headache. With Singapore's opening Tiger Cup match against Vietnam in Ho
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    • 260 39  -  TAN YO-HINN MARDAN Mamat is Singapore's top golfer now, but the Singapore Golf Association (SGA) are determined to produce others who will follow in his footsteps down the fairways. In a bid to groom future champions, they will spend $100,000 a year or
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    • 646 40  -  STANLEY HO Wenger can spend, even without European football, says Gunners' managing director ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger warned his players last month that a house is not a home without Champions League football. Following the massive £375 million ($1.16 billion) investment required to build the
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    • 197 40  -  Stanley Ho SINGAPORE bodybuilder Terence Lee won a bronze medal in the Asian Bodybuilding Championships yesterday, more than two months after the competition was held in Bahrain in September. Lee, who was fourth in the flyweight (60kg) category, was awarded the honour by the
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    • 653 41 Agencies When they take on the big boys, lack aggression and creativity LIVERPOOL The Arsenal general was at a loss to explain his troops' unexpected, late surrender. But he does know that when so many battles are lost, so, inevitably, is the war. As the Arsenal
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    • 304 41 Arsenal can deny it, but since they lost 2-0 at Old Trafford, they have stumbled from one poor performance to another. Man Utd 2 Arsenal 0 (EPL, Oct 24] Ruud van Nistelrooy and Wayne Rooney shatter Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten record at Old Trafford. The blow didn't knock
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