Today, 5 January 2005

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    11 1 /AediaCorp TODAY incorporating ulX6<ltS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Wednesday January 5,2005 todayonline.com
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    'I thought it was the end of the world'
    686 1  -  Wong Fei Wan feiwan@newstoday. com, sg INDONESIAN Rizal Sahputra is a very lucky man. He not only survived the catastrophic tsunami waves that destroyed his village in Aceh and swept him into the sea on Boxing Day, but he managed to
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    Relief work must be sustained: PM
    695 1  -  Derrick A Paulo World bodies need to coordinate efforts to rebuild devastated areas in Aceh and Tan Hui Leng in Singapore derrick@newstoaay.com.sg THERE is a lot of work to be done, and relief efforts have to be prioritised and sustained. Speaking to reporters after
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      21 1 NEWSX\VIEWS Plight of tsunami orphans Aicf groups fear threat of exploitation/3 Constance Singam Will aid effort change attitudes?/4 LIONS BEWARE MHHH|
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      Relief efforts coordination
      252 2  -  Tor Ching Li National body proposes central management of resources chingli@newstoday.com.sg EVEN as Singapore moves towards becoming a regional coordination centre for the United Nations' tsunami relief efforts, the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) has proposed coordinating the resources deployed by various local non-profit organisations (NPO).
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        Lock icon Memorial service
        62 2 Channel News Asia A memorial service to mourn Asia's tsunami and quake victims will be held on Sunday at spm at Singapore Expo Hall 2. Singapore's flags will be flown at half-mast on that day as a mark of respect. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will address the
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        Medication 'fast depleting'.
        58 2 depleting' Supplies of critical medication are fast depleting in Aceh, according to a Raffles Medical Group team that arrived the tsunami-hit area on Sunday under The Medical Foundation. According to the team of two doctors and two staff nurses, led by Dr Andre Leong, mass graves are
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    Lock icon Tsunami orphans face threat of exploitation
    421 3 Agencies Aid groups fear sale of children to traffickers, paedophiles KUALA LUMPUR The rising concern over the plight of the thousands of orphans left behind by the tsunami catastrophe was brought into sharp focus yesterday by two developments. Malaysia called on the Organization of
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        Will aid effort lead to attitude change?
        575 4  -  Constance Singam FOR more than a week I have been feeling numb and sad and helpless. Sometimes a little grateful but mostly numb and helpless. So today, when I saw one of my neighbours waiting for a taxi to go to the hospital,
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      Lock icon Anti-casino drive grows
      424 6  -  Jasmine Yin 24,400 have signed online petition asking President to 'reject' casino plans jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg OPPOSITION to the building of a casino in Singapore is gaining momentum in the virtual community. A local website's online petition against the establishment of a casino here has gathered 24,400 signatures. Started
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      How you can help
      341 6 Spore Red Cross Donations in cash or by cheque. Cheques are to be made out to the "Singapore Red Cross Society". Indicate "Tidal Waves Asia" and include your name, address and telephone number on the back of the cheque. Donations can be made during office hours
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      Case: Make schoolbus fees transparent
      295 6  -  Patricia Yap TO ASSURE parents of school-going children they are not being overcharged by schoolbus operators, the Singapore School Transport Association (STTA) yesterday revealed for the first time the price structure of schoolbus services here. Details of how schoolbus fees are calculated were released following
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      Windfall for banks, credit card firms
      164 8 LONDON Banks, credit card companies and Internet trading firms stand to make hundreds of thousands of pounds from the British public's donations to the Asian tsunami disaster relief effort, reported the Times of London. The newspaper said that international charities, including Oxfam, the British
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      Lock icon William Hung and HK stars lend their voices to disaster relief
      81 8 AP I The American Idol reject-turned-sensation William Hung (above) has done his bit for tsunami-stricken areas, holding charity sales of his albums and posters in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, some 70 Hong Kong stars, including singer joey Yung and boy
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      Lock icon Tussle begins as aid pours in
      481 8 -AFP Tsunami tragedy develops into jostle for influence TOKYO As aid pours in for victims of Asia's tsunami disaster, a less altruistic operation is also underway as governments jostle over who is giving, receiving and leading in the world's biggest relief operation ever. The
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      Lock icon Kuwait plot foiled
      359 10 Agencies Soldiers were planning to attack 'friendly forces' in emirate KUWAIT CITY The Kuwaiti army has arrested a number of soldiers who were planning to attack "friendly forces" in the emirate. This comes two weeks after the United States warned of the increased possibility of militant attacks.
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        Game for a Hollywood kiss
        62 10 Ms Aishwarya Rai (picture), one of India's top film stars, said on CBS TV that she would not rule out kissing in films when she moves From Bollywood to Hollywood. But she said this will create a minor scandal among her fans. Ms Rai, 31,
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        Lock icon Meet the latest model, age 96
        51 10 AFP It's never too late to start a new career, even if you're 96 years old and your new ob is modelling. Ms Irene Sine air is appearing on billboards in Britain this month, wrinkles and all, to help sell Dove, a popular facial
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      Allawi consults Bush amid mounting violence in Iraq
      127 10 WASHINGTON Amid concerns of increasing violence, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi called US President George Bush to discuss the obstacles to the Jan 30 elections in Iraq, the New York Times reported yesterday. A spate of violence that erupted on Monday continued
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      175 10 PREVIEW TALK 05 th (Wed) Jan 05, 7pm By Mr. Ravindra Naidu Member of Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Division lIJ A Diploma in Applied Psychology Specialisation in _^^fc Principles of Psychology I Counselling Psycho-Therapy Principles of Psychology II Community Care Human Growth and Developmental Psychology i^S^^^* Psychology
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      1021 11 ADVERTORIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP In this third of a five-part series on the Singapore Youth Award (SYA), Reeta Raman speaks to Mr Charles Wong, recipient of the SYA last year and Mr Kenny Yap, who received the SYA in 1998 and a Medal or Commendation last year. The SYA is the highest
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    Focus On The Familv
    242 12  -  Dr James Dobson TbDsrs by, TWO FACED? Isn't it curious how in the midst of a nasty family argument we can shake out of a bad mood the instant the telephone rings or a neighbor knocks on the door? Sometimes you know it seems that those
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      No pure altruism in the act of giving
      184 12  -  DUDLEY AU From I I REFER to Wong Fei Wan's News Comment, "Give... with no strings attached" (Jan 4). There is no such thing as absolute altruism. There would be very little altruism in the world if it were not a source
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      Bus driver allowed 'molester' to escape
      220 12  -  SERENE CHIA Letter from MY FRIEND and I were on SBS bus 30 near HabourFront at 12.50pm on Sunday when a woman passenger approached the bus driver to complain that she had been molested. She then used my friend's mobile phone to call the
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      Shocked at Myanmar football player's act
      214 12  -  ANDREW WEE Letter from I WRITE to express my shock at the behaviour of a Myanmar football player during the Tiger Cup semi-final match against Singapore at the National Stadium on Sunday. I have been an ardent football fan since the Malaysia Cup days
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      Can schools suspend girls for too-short hair?
      99 12  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from I KNOW of a convent secondary school that suspends girls for a week for having hair that is too short. Conservative principals and teachers frown on "butch" girls who sport short hair and prefer pants to skirts. What
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      isay SAVOUR SMALL MERCIES
      595 15  -  Murali Kumara Sharma IF New Year's Day is what defines the year, then in that sense, 2005 began a week early on Dec 26. It was the usual quiet morning after Christmas. I got up late nursing a churning stomach and was weak from many dashes
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      New contractor to complete work next year
      159 15  -  ALICE TAN, Letter froml Manager (Media Helations), Land Transport Authority I REFER to Mr Yap Ngim Choon's letter about the status of the down ramp at Keppel Road/ Ayer Rajah Interchange, published in Streats on Dec 28. The down ramp in the direction
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      Greater disclosure
      327 18  -  Val Chua Credit card issuers must provide more info: ABS val@newstoday.com.sg BANKS should be more transparent if they send unsolicited credit cards to their customers, said the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) yesterday. In addition to disclosing all fees and conditions of usage as required under current
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      19th month of manufacturing expansion
      115 18  -  Jaime Koh SINGAPORE'S manufacturing sector remained strong as last month's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) posted a reading of 51.8, an increase of 1.5 points over the previous month. The manufacturing sector had expanded for the 19 th consecutive month. A reading of above 50 shows
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        Singapore
        63 18 SHARE prices closed mixed in the absence of strong domestic leads and are likely to remain so until Friday when ST Engineering kicks off the earnings reporting season with its full-year results. The ST Index (STI) closed 1.66 points, or 0.1 per cent, lower, at 2,068.49. Gainers led losers
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        SGX top rises
        76 18 By$ OCBC4.5%NCPS 100 102.200 +0.300 OCBC 13.700 +0.200 SIA200 11.600 +0.200 Sp Land W*****3 2.830 +0.170 CoscoCorpCAeCW*****5 0.330 +0.140 Sp Land 5.000 +0.140 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 107.800 +0.100 F&N 16.500 +0.100 SIA 11.500 +0.100 JTCn4.826%l *****1 Ok 1.140 +0.090 Jy percentage :oscoCorpCAeCW*****5 0.330 +73.7 >lalo 0.040
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        SGX top falls
        65 18 lardineC&C 10.100 -0.400 Venture 15.800 -0.300 IDT 2.390 -0.190 CITYDEVW*****0 4.500 -0.120 CITYDEV 7.000 -0.100 Creative 50 24.200 -0.100 Hyflux 2.940 -0.100 UOB 13.700 -0.100 CerebosPac 3.280 -0.060 By percentage L&M 0.005 -50.0 NeoCorp 0.030 North 22 0.015 -25.0 -25.0 PNE Ind W*****8 0.015 -25.0 Star tech
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 18 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.61 0.3203 62.706 4.745 2.3181 0.4531 5664.2 23.737 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 34.257 0.784 26.521 633.28 0.7365 5.049 0.8545 19.424
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        Lock icon ST Index- 2,068.49 -1.66
        30 18 Dow Jones Market sentiment is expected to continue to be lacklustre today with the STI trading in the 20-point range of 2,060 and 2,080, traders said.
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        SGX most active
        59 18 By volume UniFiber Citiraya GlobalVoice Zhguo Powerpl ShanghaiAsia Cosco Corp DatacrftUSS FirstLink China Sun L&M Close 0.265 0.825 0.105 0.305 0.310 1.220 1.160 0.140 0.410 0.005 Change -0.005 -0.015 +0.005 +0.015 +0.050 +0.030 +0.020 -0.010 -0.005 -1.9 -1.8 +1.7 +5.1 +4.3 +2.7 +16.7 -2.4 -50.0 'OOO 26,028
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        World markets
        60 18 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.75 Change Pis +28.99 +0.25 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.90 4058.60 6060.46 -191.52 +7.90 -82.66 -1.35 +0.20 -1.35 Korea Comp 886.90 -6.81 -0.76 KLCI 902.49 -1.35 -0.15 SET Index 684.48 +16.38 +2.45 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 1018.54 1873.07
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 18 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Bold us$/m iilver us$/oz 'latinum us$/oz 428.9 Rubber otsAg 195.75 6.46 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1388.5 848 Brent crude us$/barrei 40.46
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        Lock icon CapitaLand buys 2 more China malls, brings total to 8
        195 20 Dow Jones CAPITALAND will buy two shopping malls in Beijing for $345 million, which it will eventually fold into its proposed China retail property fund. The seller, Beijing Hualian Group Investment Holding Co., has also given Capita Land right of
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        Lock icon Koh Beng Seng to leave UOB
        250 20 Bloomberg Resignation takes effect at end of Jan UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB), Singapore's secondlargest bank by assets, said that deputy president Koh Beng Seng will resign at the end of this month. Mr Koh will be leaving to "pursue other career opportunities", the bank
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        CORPORATEbriefs
        148 20 Keppel Corp subsidiary, oil rig-maker Keppel Offshore and Marine, has acquired full control of its Brazilian subsidiary Fels Setal. Keppel Offshore and Marine bought the PEM Setal Group's entire 1 7.25-per-cent interest for US$5 million ($8.2 million). Crane and heavy equipment supplier Tat Hong Holdings has formed a joint
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        S'pore remains world's second-freest economy
        286 22  -  Jaime Koh Republic holds position for 10th consecutive year jaime@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE has retained its spot as the world's second-freest economy for the 10th consecutive year, trailing only top-ranked Hong Kong, according to the 2005 Index of Economic Freedom. "As the world's second-freest country, Singapore is
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        Lock icon Cosco expects higher profit
        109 22 Bloomberg COSCO Corp Singapore, a bulk carrier and ship-repair unit of China's biggest shipping company, expects net profit last year to be "significantly higher", its president Ji Haisheng said. "I think Cosco profits in 2004 will be significantly higher than in 2003," Mr Ji said in
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        Lock icon Bank merger likely in first quarter
        79 22 Dow Jones THE merger between a local unit of United Overseas Bank, UOB Radanasin Bank, and Bank of Asia PCL will likely be completed in the first quarter, Post Today reported, quoting a source at Bank of Asia. In July, UOB bought an 80.77
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        Lock icon Fit to handle shocks
        329 23 Dow Jones Banks can cope with oil price hikes, electronics downturn: MAS SINGAPORE banks and financial institutions are well placed to weather shocks arising from a sustained increase in oil prices and a severe downturn in the electronics industry, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said
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      Lock icon ALL EYES ON U
      422 24  -  Jeanine Tan Mervin Tay Channel U's BenYeo and Andy Hui: Separated at birth? j eanine@newstoday.com. sg THE Hong Kong media has popular Channel U host Ben Yeo pegged as an Andy Hui lookalike. In an industry where big, bright peepers seem to be the norm, both
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      Lock icon S'porean stars help tsunami victims
      187 26 LOCAL celebrities are taking time off work to film TV trailers encouraging the public to donate to the Singapore Red Cross to help victims of the tsunamis. The trailers will air on MediaCorp's TV channels next week. Singapore-based artistes including Christopher Lee, Michelle Chia, Gurmit
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      Lock icon No sequel for Taxi Driver
      210 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang in Los Angeles shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg ROBERT De Niro wants to work with Martin Scorsese again. The Meet the Fockers star said he would be happy to collaborate with his old friend in the future and said that over the years, they had considered
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        Kung Fu Hustle, Meet the Fockers rule the roost
        166 27 STEPHEN Chow's Kung Fu Hustle and Ben Stiller's Meet the Fockers continued to rule the roost at the Singapore and US box offices, respectively, last weekend. In 11 days, Kung Fu Hustle has earned a cool $3.5 million, after a record
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