Today, 27 January 2005

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  • 9 1 TODAY incorporating MICA (P) 103/07/2004 todayonline.com January 27,2005 Thursday
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  • 515 1  -  Lee U-Wen Despite many schemes, aid goes a-begging u-wen@newsto day, com. sg MANY are elderly and unwell. Often they are illiterate and have no access to the mass media. They quietly go about their lives, sometimes without food, electricity and water. They are the
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  • 298 1  -  Choo Ai Leng in New York news@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Internet publications first came on the scene, many people predicted the death of newspapers. The thinking was that consumers would no longer pay for newspapers when they could get their news and information
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    • 39 1 B"flsf?rfH!fnfTffT!H NEWSX^/lEWS H Prithpal Singh Is Singapore still special to tourists?/4 Talk about it Tharman dares youth to push the boundaries/6 Flying high SIA Q3 profit up 26% on one-off gains/28 Traveller There's more to Sri Lanka than beaches/60
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  • Businesstoday
    • 296 28 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) said yesterday its third-quarter profit rose 26 per cent because of a one-time gain from selling aircraft and its stake in Air New Zealand. Net income rose to $475.6 million, or 39 cents a share, in the three
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    • 150 28 Bow Jones KEPPEL Land reported yesterday a 33-per-cent rise in net profit for fiscal 2004 ended Dec 31, helped by increased contributions from its overseas projects. The property arm of diversified conglomerate Keppel Corp earned $133.3 million, or 18.8 cents a share,
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    • Market WATCH
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      • 61 28 SHARES rose yesterday as institutional investors returned to the market after US stocks registered on Tuesday their best performance so far this year. The ST Index climbed 21.22 points, or 1 per cent, to 2,086.93. On the broader market, advancers led decliners 257 to 1 69, while traded volume
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      • 56 28 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp 11,376.57 +99.66 +0.88 13,623.68 +39.62 +0.29 Closed 5,835.37 +52.62 +0.91 927.00 +11.90 +1.30 KLCI 923.37 +3.62 +0.39 SET Index 702.66 +0.52 +0.07 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 1,037.50 +10.61 +1.03 1,970.28
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      • 49 28 By volume CDW ChinaFlexP TtiomsonMed Junma FibreChem L&M Asia Dekor StarQusUSS UniFiber FirstLink Close 0.465 0.835 0.195 0.485 0.815 0.005 0.125 0.320 0.285 0.170 Change -0.080 +0.060 +0.015 +0.010 -0.010 -14.2 +7.9 +13.6 +3.2 -5.6 'OOO 135,237 48,081 46,042 36,517 35,121 31,552 23,687 22,848 20,795 18,897
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      • 70 28 By Close Change IMH400USS 16.100 +0.400 5TIETF100 20.900 +0.250 DBS 15.900 +0.200 3realEasl 13.200 +0.200 ISH500USS 8.100 +0.200 HSI *****SGAeCW*****0 1.890 +0.180 KepCorp 9.250 +0.150 HOL 3.300 +0.120 BukilSem 13.400 +0.100 )y percentage Close Change faPoh 0.010 +100.0 :omforlDeMBLeCW***** 0.200 +81.8 joldtron 0.020 +33.3 (LWW*****6 0.020 +33.3
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      • 78 28 Creative 50 Close 22.600 Change -0.100 >IA 200 11.400 -0.100 lunma Robinson >p Land 0.485 6.300 5.400 -0.080 -0.050 -0.050 tandasreil 1.830 -0.040 Excelpoinl HOLDBePW*****0 Fischer 0.260 0.200 0.680 -0.040 -0.040 -0.035 3enMaq 0.145 -0.035 By percentage KepCorpDBePW*****1 Sunlight W*****4 Holy W*****8 3enMag FJBen W*****6 Close 0.040
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      • 21 28 Gold uss/oi 423.70 Silver uss/oi 6.74 Platinum uss/oi 864.00 Rubber cents/kg 199.00 Palm Oil RM/lonne 1,325.00 Btent Ctude US$/barrel 46.74
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      • 41 28 SGX, Bloomberg US$ 0.6117 UK£ 0.3260 Yen 63.285 HK$ 4.7693 RM 2.3238 Euro 0.4702 Rupiah 5,594.3 Baht 23.559 Information provided by Peso 33.839 A$ 0.7929 Indian Rs 26.782 Won 630.88 C$ 0.7546 Yuan 5.0625 NZ$ 0.8561 NTS 19.502
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    • 204 30 Dow Jones SINGAPORE Petroleum Company (SPC), an affiliate of marine engineering conglomerate Keppel Corp, reported yesterday a fourfold jump in full-year net profit, boosted by soaring oil prices. The company, which refines oil and operates petrol stations, showed a record net
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    • 315 30 AFP Biomedical sector grows 285% SINGAPORE'S already-strong economic numbers for last year got an unexpected fillip yesterday with the release of data showing industrial output climbed 31.7 per cent last month. The December performance topped by a huge margin analysts' forecasts for a 7.1- to 8.6-per-cent
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    • 138 30 Dow Jones OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) will raise $400 million through its latest hybrid preference share issue, the bank said yesterday. Orders for the deal amounted to around $500 million, the maximum amount the bank had originally said it was looking to raise. "However,
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    • 158 31 Dow Jones THE outlook for Flextronics is getting even stronger as the pace of electronics manufacturing outsourcing picks up, said chief executive Michael Marks. Flextronics benefits when technology companies want to improve their margins because they turn to outsourcing to do it, Mr
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    • 289 31 Singapore Airport Terminal Services, more popularly known by its acronym Sats, said its net profit for the third quarter ended Dec 31 dropped 17.7 per cent year-on-year to $50.7 million, or 4.9 cents a share, on revenue of $254.2 million. SIA Engineering Co reported a profit of $37.9 million
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    • 688 33  -  Ryan Chong LAST week, Malaysia's former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad was the latest voice in a growing chorus of calls for a review of the ringgit peg to the United States dollar, which has been in place since late 1998. Dr Mahathir cited the
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    • 181 34 AFP BEIJING China's banking regulator has taken disciplinary action against 1,841 officials at 157 branches of the country's four largest state-owned banks which have breached market rules. The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) said yesterday it conducted on-site investigations at the headquarters and 988
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    • 352 34 AFP Worlds of business, politics and entertainment merge at Swiss resort DAVOS Business, political and social leaders from every continent except Antarctica converged on this plush ski resort yesterday for the start of the World Economic Forum, an annual brainstorming session on global problems, including
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    • 604 36 Dow Jones Asian companies to pay out 44% of profit this year: Citigroup INCREASINGLY, investing in Asia is paying dividends. Investors typically have targeted Asia for stocks that climb fast in price, buoyed by heady economic growth. But recently, Asian companies have started dishing
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      620 38  -  Meryin Tay mervin@today.com.sg IT was the work of the editors. I am nothing like my onscreen persona. Jonathan Baker, 42, the contestant everyone loved to hate on The Amazing Race 6, took pains to emphasise this point in a phone interview yesterday. "What you see on the show is
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    • 180 38 THE next season of The Amazing Race will again feature reality-televi-sion veterans. Just as season five had Alison Irwin, the runner-up of Big Brother 4, participating with her boyfriend Donny Patrick, the upcoming season seven will feature Survivor: All-Stars winner Amber Brkich (picture) and fiance Rob
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      256 38  -  Yong Shu Chiang JUST call Gus McLeod the aviator. He may be 50 years old and somewhat rotund, but The Amazing Race 6 contestant is a record-setting adventure pilot. In 2000, the former CIA agent became the first person to fly over the North Pole in an
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    • 331 50 THE ancient Mayans of Mexico were on to something good when they discovered the many uses of the cocoa bean in 600AD. Then considered a status symbol, the cocoa bean was used as the Mayans' currency and the very wealthy even used
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    • 114 50 Chocolate and the cocoa from which it is made contain vitamins and minerals such as magnesium, calcium and iron. Chocolate also contains plant polyphenols powerful anti-oxidants that help to increase the body's natural defences. Phenylethylamine and Seratonin may be a mouthful to pronounce, but they are
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    • 170 50 SOMETHING new, something old this is what you'll find in the new Longines LungoMare watch collection. Bold and contemporary, the LungoMare collection is influenced by the fashions and styles of the young and young-at-heart It's even fronted by a young generation of ambassadors, rising stars in their own
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