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  • 11 1 TODAY /A=djaCorp MICA (P) 103/07/2004 incorporating !strC3tS Monday January 31,2005 todayonline.com
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  • 447 1 BAGHDAD Iraqis turned out in large numbers yesterday to vote in their country's first free election in half a century, defying insurgents who launched deadly suicide bombings and mortar strikes at polling stations, reports said. By midday, at least 37 people were dead but the
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  • 671 1  -  Ng Shing Vi Bosses respond to NTUC push to redesign jobs shingyi@newsto day, com. sg A SECURITY guard who also does the job of a customer service representative. A chambermaid who doubles as an electrician. These are not just theoretical examples in a publicity pamphlet about
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  • 311 1 PARIS The global warming clock is ticking faster than expected, according to new evidence that will be presented this week at a gathering in the United Kingdom of world climate experts. One report suggests just 15 years are left to ensure that atmospheric
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    • 31 1 NEWSX^/lEWS Constance Singam Overcoming sex myths/3 Coffee with Dave 800, Sembawang Music Holdings/1 8 ■John Bittleston Value of honest self appraisal/26 Caltex Masters Unknown Dougherty upsets Monty/39 DESPERATELY fl r pv/281
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    • 11 1 TOSHIBA ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Big boys ready for big game Page 36
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  • hot news
    • 120 2 One speaks mostly Hokkien; the other, Cantonese. Yet Mdm Ng Yew (left), 95, and Mdm Siew Ah Yean, 87, who live two storeys apart in the same HDB block, have been getting along just fine as companions for the
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    • NEWS comment
      • 651 3  -  Constance Singam LET'S talk about sex. Maybe the more we talk about it the more likely it is we will dispel some of the myths and misconceptions about it Kinsey is doing it again. Kinsey the movie may be set in an earlier time but
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    • 317 4  -  -Wong Fei Wan NEEDY Singaporeans will continue to receive help from the Government to get back on their feet, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. Mr Lee, who announced a slew of assistance schemes for the elderly
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    • 509 4  -  Lee U-Wen Two new schools to focus on arts, sports and wellness u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WHILE its more established counterparts have been putting out new diploma programmes, the fledgling Republic Polytechnic (RP) has had its hands full launching new schools. First up is
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    • SINGAPORE snippets
      • 111 4 Channel News Asia A Singaporean woman is in intensive care at a hospital in Kuantan, Pahang, after she fell from a waterfall and broke her leg. Ms Punira Sagem Ali Khan, 22, had to be airlifted to the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital. Reports
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      • 79 4 Channel News Asia With many doing their springcleaning ahead of Chinese New Year, the Singapore Civil Defence Force reminded the public not to discard unwanted items carelessly, as these could be a fire hazard. In the first six months of last year, 1,600 cases
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    • 245 4 -AP LONDON Britain's former culture minister Chris Smith (picture), a Labour Party lawmaker, publicly admitted to being HIV-positive in a report published in the Sunday Times. Mr Smith told the weekly he had had the virus, which causes Aids, for 17 years.
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    • 469 3 Lower premium on your mortgage policy NTUC Income is pleased to announce mortgage policies, so that our that it has reduced its premium rate by policyholders will enjoy the savings from 5% to 15% on 18,500 existing mortgage lower claims. policies taken prior to October 2004. New policyholders who took
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  • Singapore news
    • 353 6  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha(g>newstoday.com.sg A NEVER-before attempted encyclopaedia on the world's Indian diaspora is expected to be published in Singapore by late next year. The massive multi-coun-try effort is spearheaded by a team from the National University of Singapore's South Asian Studies Programme, led by
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    • 351 6  -  Sng Li Wei WITH the sound of bagpipes urging them on to victory, the exuberant crew of the raft, Dream It Do It, discovered that, sometimes, dreams are made of cardboard. The students, all of them in the Diploma in Nautical Studies programme at Singapore
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    • 230 8  -  Ted Chen LOCAL sailors with disabilities will get a fresh burst of wind in their sails, thanks to a £13,500 ($41,600) sonar boat from England. The Singapore Disability Sports Council (SDSC) acquired the craft in September last year, aiming to
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    • 445 8 Channel News Asia, Newsßadio 93.8 DPMTan hopes it'll promote Spore as a centre of medical excellence DEPUTY Prime Minister Tony Tan said Singapore's second medical school would take in its first batch of students in 2007. The medical school is the first
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  • world news
    • 497 10 Agencies Rights groups fear armed operation in XL may lead to human rights abuses KUALA LUMPUR No one will be spared: That's the message Kuala Lumpur intends to send to the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in Malaysia with the launch of a massive weed-out
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    • GLOBAL roundup
      • 70 10 -AFP Marines and policemen killed 12 members of a bandit group in a clash in Zamboanga, southern Philippines, regional marine spokesman Capt Rommel Abrao said yesterday. The forces had tracked the group or at least 50 men to an isolated area in Tuburan town on
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      • 48 10 -AFP Regional tourism experts and officials will gather at Phuket today, ahead of an unprecedented emergency meeting of the World Tourism Organisation executive council. The conference was originally planned for Bangkok, but Thailand pushed for it to be held on the tsunamravaged island instead.
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    • 43 10 In a light moment, Nazaruddin, a resident of the Lam Jamee neighbourhood of Banda Aceh, is seen here pretending to play the remains of an electric ?uitar as he sifts through the rubble of is tsunami-wrecked town yesterday. AP
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    • 180 10 Agencies BANGKOK Strong opposition by Indonesia, India and Australia has thwarted Thailand's plan to set up a coordination centre for an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system in Bangkok. Representatives of over 50 countries and organisations had assembled in Phuket over the weekend to discuss the
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    • 337 12 Beijing afraid to stir up Zhao memories BEIJING China kept up its strict surveillance on dissidents yesterday in a sign of the government's continued unease over potentially widespread mourning over the death of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang. Mr Zhao, who died on Jan 17,
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    • 211 12 Agencies WASHINGTON The administration of United States President George W Bush has ruled out creating a timetable for withdrawing US troops from Iraq after yesterday's elections, but has drafted a plan allowing Iraqi security forces to take the lead in operations in some parts
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    • 406 14 No deals in talks aimed at ending conflicts in Aceh, Sri Lanka BANDA ACEH Recent developments in Indonesia and Sri Lanka were pouring cold water on hopes a window of opportunity was opening to resolve long-standing separatist problems in the two countries in the wake of the
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    • 251 14 TEL AVIV Israel will transfer security control over several West Bank towns to the Palestinians in the coming days, Israeli defence minister Shaul Mofaz said yesterday, hours after he met with a top Palestinian security official to work out the
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    • GLOBAL roundup
      • 83 14 dpa A suspected drug lord in Myanmar's Shan state has diversified into pirated CDs, VCDs and DVDs to be sold in Thailand, news reports said yesterday. Thai customs officials said that Wei Hseunh Kang, a methamphetamine magnate, has won a concession from Myanmar authorities to manufacture and
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      • 125 14 Living alone rather than meeting Mr or Mrs Right is the goal towards which a growing number of young Britons are striving especially men the Observer newspaper reported. A survey is to show later this week that the longer people live by themselves, the more
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    • 13 10 MILESTONES Beacon of Hope The NKF Story Tonight on Channel News Asia, 8.30pm
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    • 443 11 Stansfield produces Top Results for 10th consecutive year! Stansfield has been producing excellent results consistently for the London programmes every year since 1995. In 1995, one of our First Class Honours students was the first in Singapore to be awarded a full scholarship to pursue his Masters in Economics (LSE).
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    • 266 16  -  Dr James Dobson m TbEtfTs by................... WHEN FRIENDS' MARRIAGES BREAK UP Divorce may be happening more and more these days, but there's still something about it that shocks us when we hear that close friends are separating; and we say to ourselves, "I wish there were
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    • 692 16 SOME would have us believe, bringing dialect back to the big screen would be like going back to the bad old days of Babel unravelling years of painstaking socio-lin-guistic integration. But, other readers have argued the exact opposite, blaming the "Speak Mandarin" campaign for everything from the
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    • READERS' SHORT TAKES ON WILLIAM PFAFF
      • 120 16 I agree with Mr William Pfaff's news comment, "US appetite for war undiminished" (Jan 28). Why all these senseless killings especially in Iraq? And for what purpose? Could it be pride, partisan politics, elusive ideology or other reasons? The perpetrators of war should know better from painful experiences
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      • 157 16 Mr William Pfaff argues that the reason for European countries not engaging in preemptive programmes is that since the two world wars, Europe "has enough of ideologies that kill people in the name of unproven and false ideas about how to make a better world", and
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    • 209 16  -  Ljagkuosoonyong I Letter from I REFER to the letter, "More info on life fund deals' (Jan 29). There is definitely a lack of transparency from insurance companies in Singapore, as most do not reveal their investment portfolios, rates of returns and expense rations of
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    • 670 18 Special Feature The NKF continues to save lives with principles of persistence, prudence and dynamism NKF: Beyond dialysis Was instrumental in passing of the Human Organ Transplant Act of 1987 and its extension in 2004 Launched its prevention programme in 1997 and has organised more than 1
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    • 713 18 Sembawang Music boss's business acumen and passion for music help him weather setbacks DAVE 800 Founder, CEO, Sembawang Music Holdings COFFEE with Dave 800, founder and CEO of recently-listed Sembawang Music Holdings, lasted well over two hours. In 1986, the polytechnic-dropout started a
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  • Businesstoday
    • 372 19 Agencies Sources suggest Tiger Airways, PMB to set up budget airline THE next tie-up between Malaysian and Singaporean companies will involve the sizzlinghot, increasingly-competitive airline industry, said The Star daily on Saturday. It said that government-owned Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad (PMB) which owns 69
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    • 340 19 Agencies FOURTEEN companies, including Singapore Telecommunications (Sing Tel), have shown interest in buying a stake in Pakistan Telecommunication Co Ltd (PTCL), the nation's biggest fixedline phone service provider, the Pakistan government said. Other prospective bidders for the 26 per cent stake include Emirates
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    • Market WATCH
      • 169 19 -AFP LAST week, the ST Index rose 4.12 points, or 0.10 per cent, to finish at 2,089.51. Average daily volume totalled 893.8 million shares worth $792.2 million, compared with 1.11 billion shares valued at $852 million a week earlier. Corporate earnings are expected to move the stock market this
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      • 36 19 USS 0.6115 UK pound 0.3239 Yen 63.1585 HKS 4.7698 RM 2.3238 Euro 0.469 Rupiah 5594.2516 Baht 23.512 Peso 33.6952 AS 0.7891 Rupee 26.739 Won 626.0816 CS 0.7576 CNY 5.0613 NZS 0.8582 NTS 19.4478
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      • 27 19 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 428.900 Silver uss/oz 6.795 Platinum uss/oz 872.300 Rubber cms/kg 200.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1 299.50 Brent crude uss/iorrei 44.95 Information provided by
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    • 287 19 Bloomberg BIL International, a Singaporebased hotel and property-invest-ment group, said profit in its first half almost doubled from the previous half-year, boosted by lower financing costs and a cash payout following the restructuring of a United Kingdom (UK) hotel chain. Half-year net profit rose to
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    • 102 19 ANOTHER Singapore-listed company has issued a profit warning ahead of its full-year results. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange, construction player Top Global said it expects its second-half performance, ending Dec 31, to fare worse than its first half, due primarily to the continuing
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    • business news
      • 353 20 Agencies SYDNEY British tycoon Richard Branson has rejected a takeover offer by ports and rail operator Patrick Corp for Virgin Blue, the discount Australian airline he founded, as being too low. Patrick Corp, which already holds 46 per cent of Virgin Blue, launched a
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      • 458 20 AFP Critics attack lack of market policy HONG KONG Hong Kong prides itself on being the freest of the free economies, but analysts and vocal critics are beginning to question the claim. Fuelled by growing suspicion that the government is colluding with big business, the
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      • 229 21 -AFP DAVOS (Switzerland) High energy prices are as much the result of risk, geopolitical factors and swift information transfers, as a real lack of supply, sector leaders told the World Economic Forum. "There can be no doubt that because
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      • 298 21 Maintains that a stronger banking system is needed first DAVOS (Switzerland) China's top officials told business leaders from almost all seven continents that they want to maintain a "stable" exchange rate, rebuffing calls from the US and Europe to let the Chinese currency
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      • 151 21 -AFP TOKYO Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric has asked its workers to buy its products worth as much as US$l9,OOO ($31,000) per employee in a drive to narrow its losses. If all the 35,000 staff meet this goal, the Sanyo group's
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      • Article, Illustration
        85 21 Be a Chinese New Year original Be original, be part of the moment. Here's how: Personalise your mobile phone with Singtel's exciting MMS wallpaper and melodious polyphonic ringtones. Usher in the Lunar New Year by sending animated greetings to your loved ones, friends and even business partners, wishing
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    • savvy investor/business news
      • 273 22 Bloomberg THE world's richest man with a net worth of U5546.6 billion ($76.1 billion) is betting against the American dollar. "The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down," said Mr Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp, in an interview at
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      • 429 22  -  Chan Kwai Seng Lyxor's new Asian Power Fund offers guaranteed dividends kwaiseng@newstoday.com.sg An investment that pays guaranteed dividends and lets you participate in the growth of leading Asian stocks that's the promise of a fund that Lyxor International Asset Management will launch
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    • the business of learning
      • SUCCEED
        • 566 24  -  Sheralyn Tay We just have to want to, says motivational speaker Bob Proctor sheralyn@newstoday.com.sg IN Mr Bob Proctor's world, you are a super being. The best-selling author of You Were Born Rich believes that everyone has the ability to succeed. In Singapore recently to
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        • 645 26  -  John Bittleston Getting your career into shape: The Appraisal You think you know who you are, but do you really? IT IS time to write a self-appraisal. If you don't like the idea, go back to my last article and re-read it Any attempt to straighten out
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    • 620 28  -  Elisa Chia In an exclusive interview, Golden Globewinning actressTeri Hatcher tells Today's Elisa Chia (elisa@newstoday.com.sg) that she's THERE are reasons why some stars will never be has-beens. Teri Hatcher, even at the age of 40, still looks as stunning as she did when she was sweeping Superman off
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    • 275 29  -  David Chew CLASSICAL music doesn't necessarily only belong in a concert hall. In No Strings Attached, a four-part programme which debuted last Monday on MediaCorp TVI2 Arts Central, not once does local classical group Tang Quartet appear in a concert hall. "We
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    • incinemas
      • 372 30  -  Jeanine Tan No back-stabbing needed for his exit from Apprentice 2 j eanine@newstoday.com. sg BRADFORD Cohen, the second contestant to be fired from the reality show, The Apprentice 2, may go down in the show's history as the most self-sacrificing contestant of all time or the dumbest
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      • 90 30 MEDIACORP won three Bronze World Medals at the prestigious New York Festival's 2005 International Television Programming and Promotion Awards. Among the winning entries was MediaCorp Channel s's sitcom, Achar, on inter-racial marriage. Its Home of Blockbusters on-air campaign also received an
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    • eatout
      • 758 32  -  Pauline D Loh For his kids, KimYong An gives up cushy job to be a restaurateur pauline@newstoday.com THIS story has all the makings of a Korean drama that could be called A Father's Love. I chanced upon the newly-opened Han Fung Korean Restaurant during one
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      • FOOD notes
        • 148 33 Moet and Chandon has the perfect champagne experience for you and your sweetheart this Valentine's Day. Drink champagne in a new and intimate fashion the "Moet and Chandon Chandelier" way. The Chandelier is a specially designed two-flute champagne glass (picture) for couples. On Feb 14, experience
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