Today, 10 January 2005

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  • 12 1 TODAY /AeejlaCorp incorporating utrCHIS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Monday January io, 2005 todayonline.com
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  • 431 1  -  Tor Ching Li chingli@newstoday.com.sg TWO weeks ago, thundering walls of water from the Indian Ocean crashed shorelines, wrecked homes and claimed lives hundreds of thousands of children, parents, brothers, sisters, husbands and wives. Although Singapore sheltered by her geographical neighbours escaped the calamity unscathed, it was
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  • 1049 1  -  Ansley Ng Retail numbers may have gone up, but business is going to big malls, say some ansley(gnewstoday.com.sg WATCH-DEALER Madam Lim Bee Keng does not synchronise the time on the clocks and watches in her 26-year-old shop anymore. Some watches, she told Today, have
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    • 30 1 NEWS£\yiEWS H Theresa Van Time to set up DNA bank?/3 I Penny Low Paradigm shift starts with MP/28 ■Jen Brad H Did Angelina Jolie get in the way?/30 wB H^l
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    • 292 2 -AFP Weather man warns of likelihood in next 24 hours COLOMBO Sri Lanka's tsunamibattered shores are in danger of being hit by a cyclone which is building off its east coast, the meteorological department warned yesterday. "It is not a cyclone at the
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    • NEWS comment
      • 619 3  -  Theresa Yan Usefulness goes beyond identifying tsunami disaster victims HOW much easier would it be for Singapore's forensic experts, now in Thailand, to identify the tsunami victims if they had a DNA database to fall back on? In the past week or so,
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    • 493 4 Agencies Govt fears rebels may gain political points from trip TAMIL rebels have warned that the government's travel curbs on United Nations Sec-retary-General Kofi Annan during his visit of tsunami-hit areas could have negative consequences for peace in Sri Lanka. Mr S P Thamilselvan,
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  • Singapore news
    • 390 6  -  Ted Chen Many people unaware of minute of silence for tsunami victims yesterday ted.chen@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREANS all over the island stopped what they were doing at 5.57pm yesterday when chimes signalling the national minute of silence were sounded. Although they rang three minutes before schedule, Singaporeans
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    • 145 6 Tor Ching Li A FIVE-MEMBER team from the Alliance for Reform and Democracy Asia (Arda) said it had conducted its first study trip on Singapore's election system over the weekend. The four-year-old, privately-funded organisation touched base with representatives from the Singapore Democratic Party, National Solidarity Party, the
      — Tor Ching Li  -  145 words
    • 798 8 It's 'all in a day's work' for CNB officers on the drug hunt THE high-society cocaine bust last October undoubtedly stands as the Central Narcotics Bureau's (CNB) most prominent case of the past year. The raid grabbed headlines here for the significant quantity of cocaine
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    • 638 10  -  Lee U-Wen NUS to offer Bachelor in Nursing programme starting next year u-wen@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE may be well on its way to becoming a medical hub for the region, but it still lacks something that countries such as Malaysia and Thailand offer a full-time
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    • 298 10 VENERABLE Shi Ming Vi did it again, with yet another amazing feat for the Ren Ci Charity Show last night After abseiling down Suntec Tower 2 in 2003 and immersing himself in a ton of ice last year, he performed a stunt where
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  • world news
    • GLOBAL roundup
      • 65 12 -AFP The Interior Ministry in Thailand yesterday cast doubt on the nationalities of nearly 2,000 bodies recovered from tsunami-hit areas. Many of the DNA tests of 1,973 bodies were conducted on samples that were already decomposing, so tests are being redone
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      • 70 12 AP A Hong Kong-based Briton survived the tsunami by abandoning a pregnant woman clinging to him. Scotsman Andrew Keith, 35, was swept by the waves from the Thai island of Phra Thong and found himself weighed down by a pregnant Swedish woman who wrapped
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    • 388 12 Agencies Disease may now claim survivors BANDA ACEH Two weeks after the world's worst tsunami wreaked havoc, aid groups said some of the most isolated communities in Aceh may not have received relief supplies yet And, with the World Health Organization warning of a possible
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    • 183 12 -AFP SYDNEY Much of the earth is still "ringing like a bell" two weeks after the Dec 26 earthquake that unleashed tsunamis around the Indian Ocean, Australian scientists said yesterday. Australian National University scientists said hyper-sensi-tive gravity measuring equipment showed minute reverberations may continue for
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    • 97 14 -AFP NAIROBI Africa's longest-running civil war came to an end yesterday as Sudan government and southern rebels inked a long-awaited and historic peace accord. Sudan Vice-President Ali Osman Taha and rebel leader John Garang of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/ Army (SPLM/A) brought 21
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    • 97 14 -AFP LOS ANGELES A sailor died yesterday of injuries sustained when a nuclear submarine ran aground in the Pacific, a spokesman for the US Pacific fleet said. Twenty-three other crew members were being treated "for a range of injuries including broken bones, lacerations, bruises
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    • 450 14 Agencies RAMALLAH (West Bank) As voting began in the Palestinian territories to elect a successor to the late Yasser Arafat, Israel prepared to open talks with the likely new president, Mr Mahmoud Abbas. Senior Israeli officials said Tel Aviv expected Mr Abbas, the head of the
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    • 119 14 -AFP BAGHDAD Five people were killed when an Fl6 jet accidentally dropped a 500-pound laser-guided bomb on a house in northern Iraq, mistaking it for a nearby insurgent hideout, the US military said. However, an official from a joint USIraqi security centre for Salahuddin
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    • 124 18 AFP SEOUL South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun yesterday sacked his education minister less than a week after his appointment, which had drawn strong criticism. Mr Lee Ki-Jun was named Education Minister last Tuesday but immediately came under fire for
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    • 75 18 -AFP STOCKHOLM At least 11 people were reported dead yesterday after a fierce storm swept across Denmark and Sweden, leaving 405,000 households without electricity, disrupting road and rail traffic, and causing heavy damage as hurricane strength winds whipped across the region at 151 km per hour.
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    • 318 18 Agencies Blair-Brown ties at an all-time low LONDON An explosive new book has charged British Prime Minister Tony Blair of repeatedly assuring Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown that he would quit in the autumn of 2004 and cynically betraying him in the end. The revelation in
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    • 220 16  -  Dr James Dobson Tbnws BY.... FACING THE WINTER My mother and father were married for 43 years in one of the most beautiful, loving relationships the world has ever seen. When my mom turned 50, my father was beginning to think about the passage of time.
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    • 371 16  -  Suba Siva suba@newstoday.com.sg ONE post-apocalyptic Sunday afternoon, aerial surveys spotted cars in trees, ruined buildings and devastated coastlines in Yala National Park, a Sri Lankan wild life reserve. Yet, despite tsunamis storming 3 km inland, not a single animal corpse was spotted in a park
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    • 154 16  -  KARIN CHAI YIN HUI Letter from I REFER to Murali Kumara Sharma's Isay contribution, "Savour small mercies" (Jan 5). We Singaporeans are certainly fortunate in many ways. Our narrow escape from the devastation of the tsunami is almost unbelievable. Indeed,
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    • 239 16  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from WHEN the government moved to implement the 5-day work and school weeks, the noble objective was to lessen the stress on Singaporeans and be more pro-family. In theory, kids are under less pressure and couples are not too dog-tired from
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    • 720 20  -  HAN KEEN JUAN WILLIAM LIM coffee witli 53, chairman 44, managing director There's new blood at Old Chang Kee. Mr Han Keen Juan, who bought the curry puff business in 1986 and named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1992 for developing it into a
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    • 463 21  -  DR CHAN YEW WING Raleigh Society prepared to serve as platform for 'Engineers Without Borders' Letter from President, Raleigh Society I REFER to the I Say contribution, "Needed: Builders Without Borders" (Jan 8) by Mr Leong Kit Meng. I strongly support the author's suggestion to
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    • 111 21  -  TAN KEN JIN Letter from HOW nice it would be to have a truly interactive arts fest Art tends to be something only artists do or perform. But, to create a true Renaissance City, all Singaporeans should feel that they have ownership
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    • 219 23 Bloomberg It will take part in erection of a plastic plant there SEMBCORP Simon-Carves, a unit of South-east Asia's largest civil engineering company, SembCorp Industries, will assist in the construction of a plastics plant in Iran, the country's official news agency reported. The
      — Bloomberg; AFP  -  219 words
    • 215 23 THE selection of candidates for World Bank chief took an unexpected turn after the favourite, US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, was nominated to be the number two in the State Department Mr Zoellick, 51, was chosen by President George W Bush as second
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    • Market WATCH
      • 116 23 AFP THE ST Index rose 1 9.44 points, or 0.94 per cent, to finish at 2,085.58 last week. Average daily volume was 742 million shares worth $599 million, up from 592 million shares worth $345 million the previous week. Dealers expect share prices in Singapore to consolidate this week,
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      • 36 23 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6068 0.3243 63.564 4.7265 2.3057 0.4648 5631.9 23.764 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 34.085 0.8011 26.588 637.83 0.7473 5.0218 0.8728 19.428
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      • 729 24 Special Feature Cancer is physically, emotionally and financially crippling. The NKF Cancer Fund hopes to change this When Mr Christopher Tan was diagnosed with leukemia, his immediate reaction was one of disbelief. It wasn't long before a surge of emotions fear, anger, betrayal, helplessness and
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      • 549 24 -AFP China in frontline of blitz on $413 billion piracy business WASHINGTON American businesses, losing a whopping US$25O billion ($413 billion) a year to copyright piracy, are taking the fight against counterfeit goods in Asia to the sources of production, with
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      • 261 24 Dow Jones LAS VEGAS Scores of new gadgets and technological advances filled the exhibit floor at the Consumer Electronics Show where once again hype ran ahead of reality. Many of the most imaginative devices combined multiple functions for instance, making
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      • 575 26 Dow Jones M'sian telco giant takes after Sing Tel as it turns to overseas markets HONG KONG Telekom Malaysia, Malaysia's dominant fixed-line carrier and its secondlargest wireless company, is acting a lot like its Singaporean counterpart these days. Just like mammoth Sing Tel, which now derives
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      • 569 27 Why gains in productivity and globalisation bode well for stocks this year Chet Currier AS 2004 came to a close, it was fun to own stocks again. Stocks and stock mutual funds may do well this year for two reasons: A great leap forward in productivity
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    • the business of learning
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        • 642 28  -  Ng Shing Yi Penny Low on the gradual acceptance of women in male-dominated politics shingyi@newstoday.com.sg WHEN she entered politics, Miss Penny Low did not expect an interesting challenge that confronted her when meeting members of her constituency as an MR Her first instinct was to
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      • 360 28  -  John Bittleston SUCCEED I with i I bittleston@btinternet.com SINCE my previous article in this series, nature has forced the world to think more long-term. Major natural disasters put mankind's short-term, selfish problems into perspective, making us realise that even with our increasing wealth, we still have insignificant control
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      401 30 The Guardian Golden couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston call it quits after four years THE reigning king and queen of Hollywood have split up. Fans of the two stars are coming to terms this weekend to news that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have "formally" separated after
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    • 517 30 IT WAS Angelina Jolie (picture, below) who brought about the separation of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. And, quoting a "source close to the couple", British tabloid News of the World claims in an exclusive report that it was Pitt's phone sex session with
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    • 150 32 Mervin Tay MUCH as Taiwanese pop group S.H.E. was worried about performing on a four-sided stage for the first time, it was the audio glitches that tested their stage skills during their concert on Saturday night. The first audio interference occurred while Hebe Tien, Selina Jen
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    • 288 32  -  Mervin Tay Singer offers to unite lovers on stage mervin@newstoday.com.sg GUYS, if you are a fan of Fish Leong and planning to pop the question to your significant other soon, her upcoming concert may be a good chance to propose. In town to promote her first concert
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    • incinemas
      • 204 34 -AP BRITAIN'S public broadcaster televised Jerry Springer The Opera on Saturday, despite appeals from church groups not to air the expletive-laden musical. The BBC said it had received 40,000 complaints even before airing the show, which has been running in London's West End
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      • 56 34 Stefanie Sun showing off the tango moves she learnt while filming for one of her music videos at the request of her fans on Saturday afternoon at Zouk. The local songbird who made a recent comeback after a year-long hiatus performed numbers from
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      • 94 34 .-AFP THE annual MTV Asia Awards, featuring global and regional musicians, will now be called MTV Asia Aid. Pop video broadcaster MTV Networks Asia, which claims it has 450 million viewers across the region, has chosen the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) as
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      • 843 36  -  Michael Seah New eatery offers tasty spread in a lovely setting food@newstoday.com.sg FLAMENCO. Real Madrid. Sangria. These were the most common answers given by locals who were asked to name three things Spanish off the top of their heads. While sushi, foie gras and
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    • 496 39 -AP Vijay on course to become first wire-to-wire winner in Kapalua GOLF PGA Mercedes Championships KAPALUA, Hawaii Vijay Singh heard cheers at every corner in the Mercedes Championships, and all he could muster were mostly pars. He finally answered with one shot that salvaged the day.
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    • 187 39 -AFP NFL Playoffs SAN DIEGO, California San Diego's superb season ended in bitter disappointment as the New York Jets posted a thrilling 20-17 overtime victory over the Chargers, in the first round of the National Football League playoffs. San Diego's Nate Kaeding
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    • 195 40 LIVERPOOL Liverpool have finally agreed a £6 million ($18.5 million) fee with Real Madrid for Spain striker Fernando Morientes (picture), but they also want to take reserve goalkeeper Cesar. The protracted transfer should be completed today, after Liverpool were forced to go beyond
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    • 153 40 -AFP LONDON Southampton and Finland goalkeeper Antti Niemi has said he will welcome a transfer to Old Trafford if Alex Ferguson moves to solve Manchester United's goalkeeping problems. Niemi has been in top form since moving to the Premiership from Scottish side Hearts in
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    • 616 40 -AFP Wenger fears that Campbell, Lehmann and Edu may quit Gunners at the end of the season LONDON With Chelsea stubbornly refusing to drop points at the top of the Premiership, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger already has enough to worry about Now, he must concern himself with
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    • 455 41 Agenices Premiership giants were 45 mins from going out ENGLISH FA CUP Arsenal 2 Stoke 1 LONDON Their nerves jangled throughout the first-half, but in the end, Arsenal's superior quality prevailed. An FA Cup humiliation at Highbury looked a real possibility for the Premiership champions, as
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    • 394 41 Agencies ENGLISH FA CUP Manchester United 0 Exeter 0 MANCHESTER Events at Old Trafford proved that the FA Cup can still be romantic, but for all the wrong reasons. Alex Ferguson's team selection showed contempt for the tournament
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    • 325 42  -  JASMINE ZHAO BOWLING National Bowling League jasmine. zhao@newstoday. com, sg TEENAGE keglers and national bowlers with years of experience at the highest level came together yesterday, as the National Bowling League (NBL) began at the Cathay Bowl Safra Yishun. Not surprisingly,
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    • 1107 42  -  JOSE RAYMOND Within minutes, confident coach knew Singapore would win TIGER CUP FINAL, FIRST LEG Indonesia 1 Singapore 3 IN JAKARTA jose@newstoday.com .sg THERE were 80,000 in the formidable Senayan Stadium on Saturday. But only a handful of them believed Singapore could defy the bookmakers'
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    • 363 43  -  Jose Raymond BEFORE the match, Indonesia coach Peter Withe asked fans to be on their best behaviour. The Jakarta police briefed the Asean Football Federation (AFF), and the media, a day before the first leg of the Tiger
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    • 177 42 League I Home Team I Away Team 1 Match Kick Off (Singapore date/time) E League Cup Liverpool Wtfrd Wed, 12/01/05 4.00 am International Football Lille Marseille Wed, 12/01/05 4.00 am Italian Cup Paim Fiorentina Wed, 12/01/05 10.00pm Italian Cup Bologna Inter Thu, 13/01/05 12.30 am Spanish Cup Osasuna Getafe Thu,
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