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AFTERNOON EDITION
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Article99 2005-02-25 1 -AFP NEW YORK US stocks put on a closing spurt yesterday, ending the day in positive territory despite weathering weak economic news and searing oil prices which continued to trade above US$5l a barrel. Just after the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrials Average was-AFP - 99 words
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Article, Illustration127 2005-02-25 1 -AFP Surgery for breathing difficulties VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul II (picture) underwent a successful tracheotomy to relieve breathing difficulties late yesterday, hours after being readmitted to hospital with a relapse of the flu, a Vatican spokesman announced. The 84-year-old pontiff was spending the night in-AFP; AFP - 127 words
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Article, Illustration440 2005-02-25 1 Ansley Ng; Shobha Tsering Bhalla - Ansley Ng and Shobha Tsering Bhalla ansley@newstoday.com.sg JETSTAR Asia, which has been without a chief executive officer since it took off here in December last year, has finally appointed one. Sources familiar with the appointment told Today that Mr Ken Ryan, a440 words
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Page 1 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous36 2005-02-25 1 NEWS£\yiEWS Mono Sabnani Tough for casino to meet expectations/2 mr brown Now the news for free!/24 50% drop Spooked investors dump ACCS shares/32 STORE FACTORY PRODN 'DOWN' HOT NEWS 3 SYRIAN PULLBACK: U.S. CAUTIOUS WORLD 1636 words
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NEWScomment
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Article, Illustration955 2005-02-25 2 Mano Sabnani - Mano Sabnani MUCH has been said about the casino project There are arguments for Singapore to go ahead and equally valid counter views. The business community seems positive on the idea and there has been some buying of shares in companies that might beBLOOMBERG - 955 words
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Article430 2005-02-25 3 Clients of OCBC, ABN Amro, HSBC face 0.25-0.5% rise next month Val Chua val@newstoday.com.sg THREE banks OCBC, ABN Amro, and HSBC will increase their board rates by 0.25 to 0.5 per cent next month, signalling an official end to cheap housing loans. The three430 words
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260 2005-02-25 3 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S factory production probably shrank last month as drug manufacturers, including the local units of Schering-Plough Corp and Merck Co, reduced output. Manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of the economy, probably fell a seasonally adjusted 9.8 per cent from December, according— Bloomberg - 260 words
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249 2005-02-25 4 Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S national carrier, Malaysian Airlines (MAS), signed an agreement with Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its subsidiary Silk Air yesterday, allowing the carriers to sell tickets on each other's flights to five destinations. The agreement, which starts on March 27, will increase the– Bloomberg - 249 words
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305 2005-02-25 4 Agencies Conditions include yearly price hikes on tobacco products MANILA Of the current 1.3 billion smokers worldwide, some 650 million people are expected to die prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses. To add muscle to the battle against smoking, the world's first treaty on reducing tobacco consumptionAgencies - 305 words
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Article, Illustration69 2005-02-25 4 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (second from left) was the surprise guest at President S R Nathan's (centre) Istana dinner party held for the Tiger Cup-winning squad last night. Also there were Minister for National Development and Football Association of Singapore (FAS) advisor Mah BowJOSE RAYMOND - 69 words
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Miscellaneous16 2005-02-25 2 TUTORS WITH A CONSCIENCE 'Socially-responsible' education centre launched to help kids 'love learning' SINGAPORE NEWS 816 words
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Singapore news
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448 2005-02-25 6 Shobha Tsering Bhalla - Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), one of the country's leading business schools, is opening a branch here, the first foreign offshoot for any of India's so-called Ivy League institutions The Bangalore-based school listed in the Wall Street448 words
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Article515 2005-02-25 8 Patricia Yap - Patricia Yap 'Socially-responsible' education centre launched to help kids 'love learning' patricia@newstoday.com.sg A NEW institution is doing the unprecedented in the cut-throat local tuition industry: It tells parents when their children having improved to the point that they no longer need help with their schoolwork can515 words
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201 2005-02-25 8 Newsßadio 93.8 IT'S not just smokers who are feeling the pinch of rising cigarettes prices. Small business owners have been hit as well. A pack of cigarettes is now priced at $10 or more, following last week's announcement of an increase in tobacco taxes inNewsßadio 93.8 - 201 words
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Article, Illustration462 2005-02-25 10 Jasmine Yin - Jasmine Yin S'poreans conscious of need to save, but end up with little for their golden years: Survey jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg COMPARED with other industrialised countries' citizens, Singaporeans want to retire the earliest and are most active in saving up for the future but still end up with one ofSNG LI WEI - 462 words
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Article96 2005-02-25 10 Channel News Asia Results of the 2004 GCE O level examinations will be released next Monday. School candidates may collect their results from their schools at 2pm, while private candidates will be informed of their results by post. Students hoping to go on to— Channel News Asia - 96 words
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118 2005-02-25 10 Newsßadio 93.8 The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has called for a thorough review of the safety legislation in Singapore, following Wednesday's explosion at a Tuas warehouse which killed two workers. Calling the accident "totally unacceptable", NTUC's Assistant SecretaryGeneral Halimah Yacob said NTUC– Newsßadio 93.8 - 118 words
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Article68 2005-02-25 10 Delegates from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and local research institutes and universities will meet at the UNSW Singapore Research workshop, held from Monday to Wednesday next week. The workshop, jointly organised by A*Star and UNSW, aims to identify potential leading UNSW research68 words
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Article, Illustration740 2005-02-25 10 – Ted Chen - Ted Chen THE battle for glory at the 19th Singapore Tourism Awards continues as 14 nominees compete to be named Tourism Host of the Year in the Transport (Taxi), Tour Guiding, Travel Agency and Leisure Attraction categories. Yellow-Top Cab taxi driver740 words
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Article, Illustration735 2005-02-25 12 Jasmine Yin - Jasmine Yin Despite the flak, Youth Expedition Project is 'here for the long haul', says its director jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg IT has been criticised as a Government appendage that organises "guilt trips" for Singaporean youth to live among less developed regional communities a creative "soft-sell" onYEP - 735 words
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LIVING WELL
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Article, Illustration831 2005-02-25 13 Financial planning for old age does not start in one's senior years but in one's working years. In the last of this five-part series, we find out how prudent planning will help Mr David Lee retire comfortably. GROWING up in a household of humble background, MrSNG LI WEI - 831 words
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Article108 2005-02-25 13 Start early. Tap on the power of compounding. Avoid debts if you can help it, and pay up your mortgage as soon as you can. Make sure your loan is flexible so you can pay it off as soon as possible. Set future goals and formulate a108 words
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world news
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199 2005-02-25 16 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States gave a cautious welcome yesterday to reports that Syria was prepared to redeploy its troops in Lebanon towards their common border. Lebanese officials said earlier that Damascus, under mounting international pressure to release its tight grip on its neighbour,-AFP - 199 words
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Article, Illustration237 2005-02-25 16 RAMALLAH (West Bank) The Palestinian Parliament yesterday overwhelmingly approved a new Cabinet chosen by Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei after refusing to accept the premier's earlier decision to reappoint political cronies from the Arafat era. Fifty-four members of the legislative council voted in favour of the list,237 words
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Article147 2005-02-25 16 -AFP MELBOURNE A 25-year-old mum has been charged with the murders of four of her five children over a five-year period. Carol Matthey was arrested at her home in Geelong, near Melbourne, following an investigation lasting more than a year into the deaths of the-AFP - 147 words
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this QUIRKY world
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Article46 2005-02-25 16 Florida man Steven Denton faces charges of allegedly attempting to bribe a policeman with McDonald's cheeseburgers, reported Ananova.com. Denton was originally arrested following a fight at a local pub but tried to avoid being locked up by bribing the police officer.46 words
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Article61 2005-02-25 16 Moscow Mayor Juri Luschkov has warned the city's weather forecasters that they would face heavy fines if they get the weather wrong, reported Ananova.com. The warning came after the head of the Romanian National Meteorology Agency, Mr lon Poiana, was firecTafter he predicted warm weather61 words
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Article84 2005-02-25 16 -AFP A solid-gold, gem-encrusted U557.76 million ($12.6 mil- lion) toilet has been flushed from Hong Kong's tourism maps after staff at the jewellery store that made it were rude to customers, officials said. The move came after 41 people complained about the shop, 3D Gold, in-AFP - 84 words
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Article73 2005-02-25 16 AFP Two boys and two girls were marriecf off to puppies of the opposite sex by tribal villagers in Kuluptang in the northern Indian state of Jharkhand to ward off evil, said the Press Trust of India. The mother of "groom" Durga, 1, said if theAFP - 73 words
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Article184 2005-02-25 18 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's National Higher Education Fund Corporation plans to send debt collectors or "credit counsellors" to homes of former students to collect payments from loan defaulters. Higher Education Minister Shafie Mohd Salleh said the corporation would soon decide on the number of people on184 words
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Article, Illustration409 2005-02-25 18 Agencies Leaders tackle issues despite souring ties BRATISLAVA US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin were set to hold a tightly-guarded summit even as strain over Moscow's autocratic reforms and nuclear cooperation with Tehran plagued bilateral ties. The two leaders could showAgencies; AP - 409 words
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137 2005-02-25 18 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian navy has made it clear that homosexuals will not be admitted into its fold. Commenting on a report yesterday on the British navy recruiting gays, Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) chief Mohd Anwar Mohd Nor said the country's laws were137 words
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GLOBALroundup
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48 2005-02-25 20 dpa Two Indonesians and a Malaysian, suspected to be members of the regional Jemaah Islamiyah PI) group, have been arrested in the Philippines. Authorities seized bomb components, US$7,OOO ($11,400) and firearms from the suspects, who were allegedly plotting to attack key cities.dpa - 48 words
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87 2005-02-25 20 Agencies The army yesterday found some 250 detonators hidden in a warehouse in an abandoned stone quarry in Pattani district in southern Thailand. It is believed that the devices, which could be used in remotecontrolled bombs, belonged to the militants behind the ongoing violenceAgencies - 87 words
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146 2005-02-25 20 KUALA LUMPUR A new ruling on indoor air quality, aimed at protecting the health of workers at offices and entertainment outlets, will be introduced next month. It will require building operators to improve ventilation at the workplace and ensure that air quality is acceptable according146 words
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Article, Illustration369 2005-02-25 20 Agencies Defendants say they are scapegoats LONDON As many as 11 more British soldiers could face a court martial over the fatal beating of an Iraqi civilian and other instances of abuse, reported The Times. The report comes a day after two British soldiersAgencies; AP - 369 words
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Article, Illustration404 2005-02-25 22 -AFP Former US marine will walk through Asia to raise money for tsunami victims MANILA Vietnam War veteran Danny Garcia's life is a classic Forrest Gump-style Hollywood script He has walked 36,000 km in the past eight years and met some 400 world leaders including Pope-AFP; AFP - 404 words
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167 2005-02-25 22 The Guardian LONDON The global fight against Aids is being hampered by a massive shortage of condoms. Only about one-tenth of the 10.8 billion condoms needed were available in developing countries in 2003. The chances of meeting the target of 18.6— The Guardian - 167 words
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123 2005-02-25 22 -AFP NEW YORK Four-year-old American Maria Olmstead, who has made a small fortune selling her famous artworks, may not be the prodigy her admirers believe her to be. An investigation by CBS network's 60 Minutes programme cast doubt on the child's artistic talents. Miss Olmstead's father,-AFP - 123 words
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Article267 2005-02-25 23 Over-60s are far more content than over-30s LONDON It is supposedly your most dynamic decade, when you leap up the career ladder as older colleagues count the days to retirement. But a new study has found that angst-ridden 30-something employees are desperate to quit their267 words
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GLOBALroundup
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66 2005-02-25 23 The Guardian Scientists at the Cajal Institute in Madrid claimed to have found evidence that cannabis helps prevent memory loss experienced by people suffering from Alzheimer's, which affects around nine million worldwide. The study seems to show that THC, the main active ingredi-The Guardian - 66 words
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Article84 2005-02-25 23 The Guardian The use of cartoon characters to sell unhealthy food is reportedly boosting Britain's childhood obesity. Which?, a consumers organisation, described the use of popular characters such as Scooby-Doo and Winnie the Pooh on some products as "manipulative marketing ploys", which made it more difficultThe Guardian - 84 words
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Article228 2005-02-25 24 Dr James Dobson - Dr James Dobson Tbiws byj PACHYDERMS AND TEENS I once watched a documentary showing how Indian elephants are trained to serve their human masters, and I was struck by the parallel between these beautiful creatures and our fragile teenagers. An elephant begins its training process shortly228 words
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READERS'SHORT TAKES
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107 2005-02-25 24 I hope the $1 0 million Word War II surrender site which will be ready by mid-2006 will include exhibits on Dalforce, which put up fierce resistance to the Japanese invaders in 1942. Dalforce's heroic contribution to the defence of107 words
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101 2005-02-25 24 Having lived in Singapore for more than two years, I am always surprised at how clean and tidy the country is. However, in my early morning runs along the Singapore river, I run through the underpass under Bridge Road. I noticed a disgusting101 words
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Article, Illustration1003 2005-02-25 24 mr brown - Now, the news mr brown news@newstoday.com.sg TODAY, I would like to share with you stuff that you do not read in the papers, whether online or in print The reason I decided to share this great resource is because I have come to realise that news and history about SingaporeYEN YOK - 1,003 words
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Letter, Illustration334 2005-02-25 26 JOHNTHURST - JOHNTHURST Country too diverse to be affected by addition I Letter from THE establishment of a casino in Singapore will probably not increase the number of gamblers in Singapore except for the foreign tourists who will come. And while it may334 words
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Letter, Illustration160 2005-02-25 26 MERRICKTEO - MERRICKTEO Letter from IT'S an irony that, on the one hand, our Government is concerned about our aging citizens and their retirement plans. On the other, Singapore is considering a casino to allow people to gamble away their money, especially when we know that the160 words
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Letter, Illustration171 2005-02-25 26 DANIEL KOH - DANIEL KOH Letter from WERE I an American, and felt strongly that Las Vegas was not the place to bring up my family, I could move to Denver, Colorado Springs or El Paso to raise my family. And I would still be171 words
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177 2005-02-25 28 PRPJJOHN - PRPJJOHN Letter from I REFER to "More battered hubbies seek court protection" (Feb 24). I am glad you have highlighted this major social concern as many men are being victimised by women, some of them the higher-income earner in the family. Women moving177 words
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Letter316 2005-02-25 28 JASMINE SOH HUI TSAN ]; JONATHAN CHEE - JASMINE SOH HUI TSAN JONATHAN CHEE Why complicate helping the needy? Letter from I REFER to Tan Sai Siong's news comment, "Persuade proud poor to accept aid" (Feb 24). There is another group of citizens that have sought help in one way or another, but have been316 words
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158 2005-02-25 28 CHITRA DEVI V RAMIAH - CHITRA DEVI V RAMIAH Letter from I AM a resident of Hougang Street 51. In recent months, residents of my block have endured dirty and smelly lifts. Would you believe that you even find wet droplets on the158 words
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247 2005-02-25 30 TAN SIYU, JOLENE - TAN SIYU, JOLENE Workers don't even have nights to themselves Letter from earner among us, they do not even have nights to themselves to meet other people and visit places outside of the house. They clean homes full of consumer luxuries before247 words
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204 2005-02-25 30 LIEW KAI KHIUN - No excuses enshrine their rights in law LIEW KAI KHIUN Letter from THE fact that such an appalling guideline giving foreign domestic workers (FDWs) one day off a month has to be suggested by the Association of Employment Agencies reflects on the working conditions FDWs are subject to. I know204 words
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221 2005-02-25 32 SPOOKED investors dumped the shares of Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) yesterday, causing the stock to plunge by 50 per cent to 36 cents, and wiping $346 million off of its total value, following news that the company had overstated revenues for last221 words
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Article44 2005-02-25 32 Dow Jones SHARE prices closed higher on mild bar-gain-hunting, helped by Wall Street's strong rebound overnight. The ST Index ended 16.17 points up, or 1 percent, at 2,152.59. Gainers led losers 237 to 204 as 1.02 billion shares worth $980 million were traded.—Dow Jones - 44 words
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Article75 2005-02-25 32 Bys F&N 15.700 +0.300 JSHSOOUSS 9.350 +0.300 OCBC 13.800 +0.200 KepCorp 9.500 +0.150 Hyflux 2.890 +0.120 STIETFIOO 21.700 +0.120 JMH4OOUSS 18.400 +0.100 CapilalanSGAeCWso6o6 0.740 +0.080 Dairy Farm 900 USS 2.750 +0.080 NOL 3.620 +0.080 By percentage JurTechDß eCWOSIOIO 0.250 +28.2 BRCAsia 0.080 +23.1 OCBCDBeCWOSOS3O 0.055 +22.2 HKLand75 words
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Article57 2005-02-25 32 By volume Close ACCS 0.360 SunBusiness 0.090 UniFiber 0.325 GlobdVoice 0.080 UTAC 0.630 SingTel 2.700 SuntecReit 1.260 Noble Grp 1.700 DBSMBLeCW*****8 0.110 Celestial 0.370 Change -0.360 -0.005 +0.010 -0.005 +0.050 +0.020 +0.070 -0.015 +0.020 'OOO -50.0 174,807 30,825 -1.5 26,848 +14.3 25,053 -0.8 23,404 +1.9 20,044 +1.657 words
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Article60 2005-02-25 32 Index Nikkei 225 Value *****.15 Change Pis +30.97 +0.27 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd *****.91 4096.90 6128.34 +102.97 -22.20 +6.82 +0.74 -0.54 +0.11 Korea Comp 987.10 +18.67 +1.93 KLCI 903.64 +3.96 +0.44 SET Index 736.89 +6.33 +0.87 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 1102.01 2073.1960 words
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Article36 2005-02-25 32 US$ 0.6143 UK£ 0.3219 Yen 64.401 HK$ 4.7914 RM 2.3344 Euro 0.4648 Rupiah 5657.8 Baht 23.642 Peso 33.575 A$ 0.7813 Indian Rs 26.854 Won 616.20 C$ 0.7649 Yuan 5.0843 NZ$ 0.8514 NTS 19.17636 words
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Article26 2005-02-25 32 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/i 436.30 Silver uss/oz 7.45 Platinum uss/oi 871.90 Information provided by Rubber ™tsAg 209.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1361.50 Brent crude uss/borrei 48.50SGX,; Bloomberg - 26 words
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Article, Illustration320 2005-02-25 36 Agencies Says it's open to bank acquisitions in Malaysia UNITED Overseas Bank's full-year profit rose 21 per cent to $1.45 billion as it cut bad-loan costs and benefits from higher fee and commission income. The second-largest local bank is also open to expanding and– Agencies - 320 words
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Article137 2005-02-25 36 Dow Jones TROUBLED China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp (CAO) is contesting a claim by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC), for US$l3.l million ($2l million). CAO said it filed its defence in the Singapore High Court on Thursday. SMBC, a member of the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group,Dow Jones - 137 words
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Article203 2005-02-25 36 X Plas Holdings reported losses of $280,000, or 0.36 cent per share, for the year ended Dec 31, compared to profits of $744,000, or 1.13 cents per share, a year ago. Its revenue rose 29 per cent to $24 million. Sinwa reported earnings of $5.7 million, or 4.59 cents203 words
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Article140 2005-02-25 38 Lee U- Wen - Lee U-Wen u-wen (s> newstoday.com.sg IN RECENT years, the changing economic landscape in Singapore has brought into sharper focus the relevance of lifelong learning for employability. This applies to employers as it does to workers. Employers have an important role in helping their workers remain140 words
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Article, Illustration424 2005-02-25 38 HOTELS RESTAURANTS SHE graduated from the University of Bradford last year with an honours degree in Business and Management Studies, but Ms Sophie Wong was intent on pursuing her first love a career in the hospitality sector. Today, the 24-year-old is working herLEE U-WEN - 424 words
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Article, Illustration505 2005-02-25 38 AEROSPACE ent, there are the Aviation Maintenance and Welder Specialisation courses to train those without the relevant experience. Trainees then work at their sponsoring companies after completing the threemonth course. Said RASA's Human Resource Manager Ms Jasmeet Sandhu: "To succeed in this line youTREVOR TAN - 505 words
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Article, Illustration442 2005-02-25 39 PROCESS FRESH out of Ngee Ann Polytechnic with a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Ms Suhaila bte Suleiman Syed was optimistic about quickly finding a job. But after registering with 10 job agencies and sitting through numerous interviews, the 23-year-old remained unemployed. She spent theWEE TECK HIAN - 442 words
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Article56 2005-02-25 39 For more information on the courses mentioned and for other queries, please refer to the jobseekers guides found on the WDA website. http://app.wda.gov.sg/jobseekers.asp Alternatively, you can call the WDA hotline at 6883 5885. Operating hours are from B:3oam to s:3opm (Mon-Fri) and B:3oam to Ipm (Saturday).56 words
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Article, Illustration315 2005-02-25 39 MARINE OFFSHORE ENGINEERING EVEN though Mr Hatta bin Sikin lost his job as a senior unit controller with a power plant last February, he never thought about throwing in the towel. But even he admitted the future seemed bleak at the time, as just aWEE TECK HIAN - 315 words
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177 2005-02-25 40 Agencies AUSTRALIAN casino and media firm Publishing Broadcasting (PBL) has submitted a proposal to build Singapore's first casino, it told analysts yesterday. PBL, which Australia's richest man, Mr Kerry Packer owns about 36 per cent of, estimates that it is one of 14 orAgencies - 177 words
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Article, Illustration165 2005-02-25 40 Val Chua - Val Chua AN INVESTOR watchdog expressed concern over the trend of prolonged suspended counters, calling on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to allow firms under probe, such as Citiraya, to continue to trade. In a letter to the SGX chief Hsieh Fu Hua, the Securities165 words
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Article505 2005-02-25 40 Val Chua - Val Chua Observers see OCBC's replacement of 300 cards to prevent fraud as prudent move val(gnewstoday.com.sg SOME 300 OCBC credit cards have been recalled in recent weeks to prevent fraudulent activity a sign that overseas syndicates have hit well-travelled Singaporeans at home. The cards are believed to505 words
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Article, Illustration58 2005-02-25 44 The Queen of Caldecott has now become the Queen Mother Zoe Tay has given birth to a healthy baby boy. The MeaiaCorp actress checked into hospital yesterday morning, with the boy delivered around 7pm in the evening by natural birth. Her son, who has yet to beDON WONG - 58 words
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Article, Illustration287 2005-02-25 46 Say hi to Norah If you are a fan of Norah Jones (picture), you may want to be at Changi Airport Terminal 2 on Saturday morning when she flies in on SQ2I at 6.55 am. Not only will you get a chance to see the jazz diva in287 words
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Article, Illustration254 2005-02-25 46 – Zul Othman - Zul Othman A FTER collecting three gongs at last Friday's Anugerah Planet -TiMuzik awards, record labels have come knocking. Homegrown combo Bhumiband (picture) now making waves on the Malay pop scene with their world music-tinged debut Suara Dunia (World Voice) was one of the biggest winners of254 words
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Article, Illustration321 2005-02-25 48 Yong Shu Chiang - Yong Shu Chiang Star of Bergman films is in town to open the Swedish film festival shucniang@newstoday.com.sg 8181 Andersson doesn't think much about her glory days anymore not unless she's asked to do so. The 69-year-old veteran of Swedish stage and screen is most famous for having starredYONG SHU CHIANG - 321 words
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Article, Illustration426 2005-02-25 50 ROSS WALLACE - ROSS WALLACE Best film of the Oscar season no two ways about it FILM REVIEWby AND the Oscar goes to Sideways. If it were up to the critics, the Academy Awards would end with these words on Monday and we could all rest easy knowing that the best movie426 words
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Article, Illustration166 2005-02-25 50 YONG SHU CHIANG - YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW by IT used to be that spirits spooked humans via ouija boards or bloody writing on the wall. Japanese horror flicks such as Ringu and One Missed Call incorporated the telephone and mobile phone. Now it seems the radio and nearly all kinds166 words
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Article, Illustration352 2005-02-25 52 YONG SHU CHIANG - YONG SHU CHIANG Love, warts and all, on show in four-way drama I FILM REVIEW by DIEHARD romantics will find Mike Nichols' Closer a bitter concoction to swallow. Relationships are stripped of all idealised concepts here. The principal characters played by Clive Owen, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Julia352 words
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Article, Illustration282 2005-02-25 54 YONG SHU CHIANG - YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby" TT7TTHIN the first V V 10 minutes of Hayao Miyazaki's film, based loosely on a children's book by British author Diana Wynne Jones, something happens to take your breath away. Miyazaki the Japanese animator behind Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor282 words
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Article, Illustration120 2005-02-25 54 YONG SHU CHIANG - YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEWby SOUTH Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker deliver this razor-sharp lampoon, reminiscent of the old Thunderbirds TV series, to poke fun at their native USA. If you're able to put up with coarse language and can stomach raunchy mari- onette-on-marionette120 words
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Article, Illustration203 2005-02-25 57 AFP ROBBEN ISLAND (South Africa) For a long time, it epitomised the brutality of the apartheid state, but Robben Island, where Mr Nelson Mandela spent much of his years in prison, is now a lovers' rendezvous. During Valentine's Day last week, 15 couples fromAFP - 203 words
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Article, Illustration595 2005-02-25 65 TANYO- HINN - TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg JAMES Lim (above) is rarely ever absent for long periods from his coffeeshop at Jalan Sultan. That will all change next year, when he swaps his apron to sail the high seas, away from his coffeshop for an entire month toDON WONG - 595 words
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Article, Illustration445 2005-02-25 66 Tampines sign defender Hucika, ready for title defence ERIC DING sports@newstodaycom.sg REIGNING S-League and Singapore Cup double champions Tampines Rovers may have pulled off the transfer coup of the season. The Stags have signed former Croatian national under-23 defender Branko Hucika on a free transfer fromDON WONG - 445 words
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Article, Illustration324 2005-02-25 66 STANLEY HO - STANLEY HO stanley@newstoday.com.sg SHAPE up or ship out That's the warning Tampines Rovers chairman Teo Hock Seng has given to his defender Scad Muratovic, following the player's failure to pass the mandatory preseason fitness test After failing to meet the minimum requirement of BeepTODAY FILE PHOTO - 324 words
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Article, Illustration504 2005-02-25 68 Agencies Shearer scores as Newcastle progress to last 16 of Uefa Cup UEFA CUP Newcastle 2 Heerenveen 1 (Newcastle win 4-2 on aggregate) NEWCASTLE Newcastle United stayed on course for two trophies this season when they beat Dutch side Heerenveen 2-1 for a 4-2 aggregate and clinch a– Agencies; GETTY IMAGES - 504 words
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Article, Illustration291 2005-02-25 69 LONDON Even by Jose Mourinho's standards, this was a match with too many off-field incidents. Following the shenanigans, the Blues complained to Uefa and may face Uefa sanctions themselves. Chelsea claim that an alleged half-time incident in theGETTY IMAGES - 291 words
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