Today, 12 January 2005

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    24 1 /AediaCofip TODAY incorporating ouGHtS MICA (P) 103/07/2004 Wednesday January 12,2005 todayonline.com I TODAY AAsojaCorp rre&f MICA (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating ulTCfltS Wednesday January 12,2005 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Malaysian bank CIMB eyes GK Goh
    685 1  -  Val Chua Deal crucial as Singapore firms have been keener in expanding into Malaysia so far val@newsto day, com. sg THE flurry of deals across the Causeway has taken on a new dimension, with a top Malaysian investment bank with political connections reportedly eyeing
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    Lock icon Bulk of civil defence rescue teams to return home today
    647 1  -  Ng Shing Yi shingyi@newstoday.com.sg AFTER nearly two weeks of intensive search and rescue operations in the tsunami-stricken regions of Thailand and Indonesia, the bulk of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) teams will return home today. In Phuket, the SCDF
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      42 2 a I Now Everyone Can Fly Direct flight from Singapore (Changi Airport) Daily flights begin 19 January 2005 from HH 1799 one way Flights also available from Johor Bahru (Senai Airport) Singapore Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kuching, I (^ngiAirpon) Miri, Kota Kinabalu Bangkok
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      Lock icon PAP tops global poll
      445 3 Channel News Asia S'poreans vote ruling party into Ist place in survey of 40 nations SINGAPORE'S ruling People's Action Party has come out tops in the political party category of a global survey by market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS). Some 35,000 people from over
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      Parishioner's will gave more to convicted priest than to siblings
      354 3  -  Wong Fei Wan THE relationship between convicted priest Joachim Kang and his parishioner Emily Chan had been so close that she planned to bequeath more to the priest than to her own siblings, Kang's lawyer said yesterday. The 1994 will
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        Giving Hope through music
        111 4 Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Mr Lee Boon Yang will attend tomorrow's Concert for Hope benefit. All funds raised through the classical music concert, to be held at Bpm at the Victoria Concert Hall, will be donated to the Singapore Red Cross Society and
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        Lock icon President Nathan to open Parliament session today
        83 4 Channel News Asia Political watchers and MPs expect President S R Nathan to talk about the effects of the Asian tsunami when he opens the new session of Parliament today at 8.30pm. He is also expected to outline the role of the new
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        Lock icon New Sengkang polyclinic opens
        43 4 Newsßadio 93.8 A new clinic in Sengkang, operated by Singhealth Polyclinics, opens today. Located in Sengkang Community Club, the polyclinic occupies 2,500 sq m over three levels, and will offer services including outpatient treatment and child- and woman-specific care.
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        Lock icon MP Wong Kan Seng to receive achievement award
        45 4 Newsßadio 93.8 Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng will be presented the London Business School's Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of his work in business and government in particular his handling of the Sars crisis in 2003.
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        Lock icon Build-to-Order deadline extended
        52 4 Newsßadio 93.8 The HDB is extending the application period for the Build-to-Order exercise for the Anthias housing project along Punggol Drive and Sengkang's Coral Green until Jan 23. Because of the opening of LRT services in Sengkang and Punggol, more people may now want to apply, the
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      Lock icon $2 billion allocated to boost tourism
      461 4  -  Jasmine Yin jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg THE Government aims to double tourist arrivals, triple money spent by tourists to $30 billion and create an additional 100,000 jobs in the services sector within the next 10 years. And to do so, $2 billion will be pumped into a
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      Nets: Singaporean ATMs and shops to accept Chinese bank cards
      238 4  -  Chan Kwai Seng CHINESE visitors can now use their domestic bank cards in Singapore, following a landmark deal signed yesterday between local electronics payment company Nets and its Chinese counterpart, China Unionpay (CUP). CUP cardholders will be able to make
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      To change the world...
      406 6  -  Ng Shing Yi 3 S'poreans among young global leaders of World Economic Forum shingyi(gnewstoday.com.sg THREE prominent Singaporeans have been selected to be among the first 237 Young Global Leaders (YGL) of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the independent Geneva-based organisation that holds its influential annual summit
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      MediaCorp artistes for relief mission
      176 6  -  Mervin Tay YOU may be equipped with adequate first aid knowledge, but nothing will probably prepare you for the wreckage and devastation you will see in Sri Lanka. This was what some MediaCorp artistes were told by doctors and nurses at Ren C: Hospital and
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      130 6 University of South Australia Master of Education in Early Childhood Education Singapore 3rd Intake No. 1 Australian University for offshore student numbers Winner of the Prime Minister's Award and The Australian Awards for University Teaching Provides students with a framework for the development of a critical understanding of current theories,
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      Lock icon The Abu Ghraib defence
      454 8 Agencies 'He was following orders/ says lawyer of alleged ringleader FORT HOOD (Texas) So what if he is alleged to have heaped naked detainees in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in a tangled pyramid and tethered them on a leash in 2003? "Cheerleaders all over America form
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      Lock icon Militants launch attacks after Abbas makes peace overtures
      123 8 AP GAZA CITY Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a barrage of homemade rockets and mortar rounds at Jewish settlements hours after newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas extended his hand in peace to Israel. The militants fired five mortar bombs
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      Lock icon Brown sets off to marshal support
      339 11 AFP Aid plan may determine his future in politics LONDON Britain Finance Minister Gordon Brown was on his way to tour eastern and southern Africa yesterday where he was expected to promote his ambitious attempts to set up a so-called "new Marshall Plan" to
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      Filipino military clashes with MILF rebels
      202 11 MANILA Government troops retook an outpost lost to Muslim guerrillas following two days of fighting that left at least six soldiers and an unknown number of rebels dead. Earlier this week, an outpost in Mamasapano was overrun by about 300 fighters from the Moro
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon Indon wants aid workers' names
        72 11 AP Indonesia s military has asked aid groups to draw up a list of relief workers and report on their movements as fears rose that militant groups would attack relief workers in Banda Aceh. Mr Joel Boutroue, head of the United Nations' relief effort in
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        Lock icon Yushchenko claims Ukraine win
        67 11 AFP The end of weeks of political turmoil in Ukraine was in sight yesterday after the pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko was officially declared the winner of a re-run presidential vote. The announcement will pave the way for parliament to set a date for Mr Yushchenko's inauguration, despite
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        Lock icon Ex-China PM said to be ailing
        55 11 AFP Deposed Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, ousted in 1 989 after opposing the military crackdown on the Tiananmen democracy protests, has been hospitalised for a month, activists said yesterday. They said the 85-year-old former prime minister is in stable condition and believed to
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      Lock icon House fit for a king... of the jungle?
      45 13 A £3.3 million ($10.2 million) treehouse, believed to be one of the world's biggest, opened to the English public this week. It was built on the grounds where the Harry Potter movies were shot. EUROPEAN PRESS AGENCY
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      BA sued for discrimination
      264 13 LONDON Alleged male bias in the world of piloting has prevented a female pilot from going part-time to care for her young daughter, an employment tribunal here heard on Monday. Ms Jessica Starmer, 26, who earns £50,000 ($154,000) a year as a British Airways (BA) first
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Porn aired at airport
        58 13 Passengers at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport were shocked when a hardcore pornographic movie was played on public television screens for 20 minutes, reported Ananova.com. Airport officials later claimed that a TV channel had broadcast the film as part of an Aids awareness programme, although
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        A head for marketing
        53 13 A 20-year-old Nebraskan is selling advertising space on his forehead to the highest bidder on auction website eßay, reported BBC. Mr Andrew Fisher will sport a tattoo of a logo or brand name for 30 days. The highest of 39 bids placed for the auction stands
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        Lost in transgression
        79 13 An armed robber held up a petrol station in the United States and then went back to ask for directions, reported Ananova.com. The 22-year-old man held up staff at Knifepoint and took off in a red Honda car. After a 1 60kmh police car chase, the man
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      Monkey gene may hold key in fight against HIV
      181 13 LONDON British scientists have identified a gene that prevents the rhesus monkey from being infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), fuelling hopes that the study of the species may help find a way to prevent HIV infection developing into Aids
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      Focus On The Family
      234 14  -  Dr James Dobson Tbows byl ASSAULT ON SELF-ESTEEM You know it's not easy getting through adolescence today, and the effective parent must learn early on how to protect his kids. Perhaps the most painful aspect of growing up is related to the assault on self-esteem that
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      Tragic return for presenter
      741 14  -  Derrick A Paulo IE ill k EfOMl EVA MAZRIEVA 33, RSI journalist who lost 42 relatives in Aceh derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE Aceh she knew and grew up in was a beautiful place and a peaceful home. The Aceh she remembered held happy memories of her family. But
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      More varsity places part of reform
      163 16  -  LIM CHEE HWEE Letter from Director, Highe^Mucation Ministry of Education I REFER to the letter "Implement admission changes for poly grads now, not in 2010" by Chee See Lin (Jan 4). Currently, about 21 per cent of the Primary 1 cohort every year enters
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      Lock icon Focus aid on urgent needs
      316 16  -  MARIA LAI PECK KUNG Use cash set aside for rebuilding for food, medicine I Letter from I AM proud that Singaporeans gave generously, contributing a whopping $27 million which amounts to almost $7 per capita to the Singapore Red Cross. What troubles me, though, is
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      Undue attention to places with Caucasian tsunami victims?
      147 17  -  MICHAEL LOH YIK MING I Letter from THE tsunami disaster set me thinking about the uneven reporting of the full effects of the killer wave. I could not help but wonder, what if there had been no Caucasian tourists caught up in
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      Simplify contact centre number
      124 17  -  S RAMAMIRTHAM I Letter from THE work of the Singapore Contact Centre, which was set up in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster to allow the relatives of missing and uncontactable persons to get in touch with the authorities, was a highly commendable move. It helped
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      Anti-casino figures inflated?
      113 17  -  SEAH CHENG HWEE I Letter from I REFER to your report "Anti-casino drive grows" (Jan 5). The report states that the group, Families Against the Casino Threat in Singapore (Facts), posted a petition on its website containing the signatures of 24,400 people who are opposed to the
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      Lock icon Drive towards leadership
      576 18  -  Dow Jones ComfortDelgro aims to be world's biggest land transport firm SINGAPORE'S ComfortDelGro wants to expand its overseas business in Asia and Europe and overtake US-based Laidlaw International as the world's biggest land transport operator by buying thousands of new vehicles in the next few years, said
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        Lock icon Singapore, Australia to meet next month for air talks
        215 20 AFP TRANSPORT Minister Yeo Cheow Tong and his Australian counterpart John Anderson will meet next month to discuss opening routes from Australia to the United States to Singapore Airlines (SIA), a move hotly contested by Qantas. A spokesman for Mr Anderson
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        Lock icon Sunningdale, Tech Group Asia merge
        203 20 Agencies SUNNINGDALE Precision Industries (SPI) and Tech Group Asia (TGA), two manufacturers of plastic components, will merge to create a company with a market capitalisation exceeding $500 million, the companies said in a joint announcement filed with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday. Shareholders of SPI
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        Lock icon Datacraft eyes acquisitions
        168 22 Dow Jones DATACRAFT Asia is back on the acquisition trail, having cleaned up its balance sheet and achieved an operating profit last year. The company dashed hopes that it would return a large part of its US$ll2-million ($lB4-million) cash hoard to shareholders after chief executive Bill Padfield
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      • CORPORATE briefs
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          Lock icon TMC International Hold-
          88 22 Channel News Asia ings warned that its results for the year ended Dec 31, would show a significant loss due to a write-down in the book value of properties in Peninsula Plaza after an external valuation. The group also warned of operating losses incurred by its operations
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          Creative Technology
          24 22 raised its Q2 2005 revenue growth guidance by 45 per cent to over $360 million, compared to $250 million the year earlier.
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      • Market WATCH
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          4 22 ST Index 2,092.21 +2.53
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          World markets
          60 22 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.99 Change Pis +106.75 +0.93 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.25 4072.70 5975.66 -22.14 -0.16 -2.20 -0.05 +32.81 +0.55 Korea Comp KLCI 884.29 930.63 +10.11 +1.16 +11.61 +1.26 SET Index Jakarta Comp 691.97 1011.67 -4.06 -0.58 -3.80 -0.37 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1845.83
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          SGX most active
          62 22 By volume China Sun RafflesH Sing Tel UniFiber Junma Citiraya Zhguo Powerpl Norelco Semb Log DatacrftUSS Close 0.430 0.625 2.410 0.260 0.510 0.910 0.325 0.725 1.670 1.160 Change +0.015 +0.035 +0.050 -0.005 +0.030 +0.045 +0.020 +0.055 -0.010 +0.050 +3.6 +5.9 +2.1 -1.9 +6.3 +5.2 +6.6 +8.2 -0.6
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          SGX top rises
          65 22 By$ jealive50 24.500 +0.800 By percentage LHT 0.055 +37.. lardineC&C 10.600 +0.400 Creative CAeCW*****6 0.230 +27.! lurEng 2.450 +0.220 ihang Asia 2kHKS 10.700 +0.200 m Breweries 7.800 +0.150 EcoWise 0.115 SingTelDBeCW*****8 0.065 HMI 0.075 +21. +18.: +15/ BukilSem 13.300 +0.100 CrealiveSGAeCW*****6 0.235 +14.i KepCorp 8.850 +0.100 XBC
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          SGX top falls
          76 22 By$ failure ***** -0.300 By percentage Goldlron 0.010 -33.: Sp Land W*****3 2.930 DBS 16.100 -0.110 -0.100 Yongnam W*****6 0.010 North 22 0.015 -33.: -25.1 Fortune ReilHKS 6500 -0.100 Hor Kew 0.040 -20.1 Haw Par 5500 -0.100 Venture SGAeCW0S0627 0.150 -16.: HSI13O0OSGAeCWO5O53O 1.850 -0.100 VentureDBSeCW*****7 0.030 -14.:
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          Lock icon Singapore
          130 22 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed slightly higher, led by the blue chips with positive corporate news. However, the sentiment remained dull amid a lack of strong domestic leads and expectations of near-term consolidation as the broad market has been relatively overbought. The ST Index closed up 2.53 points, or
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          Your S$1 buys
          36 22 US$ 0.6079 UK£ 0.3242 Yen 63.428 HK$ 4.7390 RM 2.3101 Euro 0.4650 Rupiah 5647.6 Baht 23.786 Peso 34.100 A$ 0.8025 Indian Rs 26.706 Won 640.45 C$ 0.7436 Yuan 5.0314 NZ$ 0.8767 NTS 19.590
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          Lock icon Commodities
          27 22 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/i 422.000 Silver uss/oz 6.505 Platinum uss/.i 854.000 Rubber ansAg 194.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 337 Brent crude uss/barrei 42.90 Information provided by
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        Recovery in progress
        309 23  -  Tay Tsen-Waye Construction industry looks to have halted its downward slide waye@newstoday.com.sg THE building sector is emerging from its prolonged slump, with construction volume having "stopped sliding further downward", said Minister of State for National Development and Defence Cedric Foo at the opening of the Construction and
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        Lock icon Infocomms investment surges
        138 23 Channel News Asia THE information, communications and media sector attracted investments totalling $1.3 billion last year, up from $544 million in 2003, the Economic Development Board (EDB) said yesterday. Last year's investments will create some 3,000 professional and skilled jobs when the projects are fully implemented, the
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      215 34 LONDON Merseyside rivals Everton and Liverpool will not share a new stadium, it was confirmed yesterday. Talks had taken place, involving British sports minister Richard Caborn, with a view to Everton sharing Liverpool's planned new Stanley Park ground, reported BBC Sport Online yesterday.
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