Today, 24 June 2005, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Stocks plummet as oil hits new high
      207 1 -AFP Supply concerns from strong China, US demand NEW YORK US stocks went into a tailspin yesterday as a spike in crude oil to US$6O ($100) a barrel sent investors running for cover. A late-day selloff sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling
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      Lock icon Greased hands in cuffs for $2m scam
      639 1  -  Val Chua val@newstoday.com.sg IT MAY not be the biggest corruption case Singapore has seen, but the unravelling Citiraya Industries scam is still a stunner for its audacity and complexity. Four people were charged yesterday and another 10 are to be hauled before the
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      Lock icon Prosecutors lose Jackson's passport
      149 1 -AFP LOS ANGELES Frail pop icon Michael Jackson has left his Neverland ranch, where he holed up following his acquittal last week, and is aboard a friend's yacht moored in California, a family friend said yesterday. The source close to the famous clan also said that
      -AFP  -  149 words
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      Lock icon Rebuilding a ravaged town
      423 2  -  Lee U-Wen in Meulaboh Spore to play key role in urban planning of Meulaboh u-wen@newstoday.com.sg A HELPING hand from Singapore may get this Indonesian town on its feet again. Indonesia has called on Singapore to offer its expertise in urban planning to rebuild Meulaboh. Foreign Affairs
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        Let competition take flight Qantas
        547 3  -  Chew Choon Seng SOON, the Australian government will consider allowing Singapore Airlines (SIA) to compete against Qantas on the transPacific route. This is a fundamental issue about competition and choice. The debate should not be solely about the interests of Qantas. Consumer benefits and the
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  • Singapore news
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      Phishy business
      427 4  -  Ansley Ng Fake websites take advantage of credit card fiasco to steal users' personal account data ansley@newstoday.com.sg A US-BASED Web security firm is warning credit card holders and bank customers to be on the lookout for a fake MasterCard website, which appeared after a credit card breach earlier
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      Lock icon Data breaches dent consumer confidence in the Internet: Surveys
      384 4 -AFP WASHINGTON US consumers are increasingly concerned about identity theft and the security of online commerce in the wake of recent data breaches, surveys showed yesterday. A Conference Board survey showed more than half of online consumers say their level of
      -AFP  -  384 words
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      Lock icon No funeral for body parts victim – yet
      163 4 No funeral for body parts victim yet Channel News Asia IT WILL be some time before a funeral can be held for the victim of the Kallang body parts murder. Police say the body parts of 22-year-old Liv Hong Mci are still undergoing forensic investigations. It is understood the investigations
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      Lock icon Aid worker shot in Aceh flown here
      229 4  -  Ansley Ng THE female Red Cross relief delegate from Hong Kong who was shot in the neck in Aceh is in stable condition at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital, her doctor told reporters last night. Ms Eva Yeung, 27, was airlifted to Seletar Airbase
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      Fireworks and car races for National Day
      220 4  -  -Joyce Lin FOR the first time in 38 years, racing will be allowed in Singapore since its ban in 1967. Among those who will be speeding down Marina Park Road is international movie star Jackie Chan also the ambassador of Asian motor sports
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      Nicoll Highway collapse: Four charged
      457 6  -  Wong Fei Wan Lawyers for the accused ask: 'Why should they post bail? They live in Singapore.' Court disagrees feiwan@newstoday.com.sg AS FOUR men stood in court yesterday, facing charges for their role in the collapse of the temporary walls at the Nicoll Highway MRT worksite,
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      News $35m plant and animal disease research centre
      419 6  -  Sheralyn Tay THE nerve centre of Singapore's daily battle to keep out plant and animal diseases is now housed at a new $35 million state-of-the-art premises. The new Animal and Plant Health Centre (APHC) at Lim Chu Kang boasts Bio Safety Level
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        Lock icon Qualify for transport fund? Apply
        125 8 938 Live Needy Singaporeans can apply for the Public Transport Fund from July 1. The $4-million fund is meant to help lower-income Singaporeans cope with impending increases in public transport fares. Each needy household is entitled to one $50 voucher. Households with no union members
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        Lock icon More firms raise petrol prices
        64 8 Channel News Asia Two more petrol companies have increased fuel prices. Singapore Petroleum Company and Shell have raised the price of petrol by 9 cents and the price of diesel by 6 cents per litre. The changes came into effect at 7pm yesterday. The price
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        Air quality in moderate range
        48 8 Singapore's air quality in the past 24 nours remained in the moderate range. The PSI reading as of 4pm yesterday was 58 down from 74 on Wednesday. Only the southern and eastern parts of the island had air quality in the good range.
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      Lock icon Poacher hunter's escape
      377 8  -  Jasmine Yin Wildlife SOS chief recalls his arrest by Indian cops j asmine.yin@newstoday.com. sg HE is the terror of poachers in India. But the Indian police mistook Mr Kartick Satyanarayan for a terrorist of a different sort when they picked him up during a covert anti-poaching operation
      AFP  -  377 words
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      Scare spreads, 6 to get heart device replaced
      617 10  -  Sheralyn Tay Two models of defibrillators affected here; NHC contacts patients who had received implants sheralyn@newsto day, com. sg AT LEAST six heart patients in Singapore have been affected by a worldwide recall of about 50,000 defibrillators. The National Heart Centre (NHC),
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      Lock icon Students showcase enterprising skills
      364 10  -  Dawn Quek DO YOU find Singapore too hot and humid? Use Slumber Oasis. It is a blanket that works like an air-conditioner except that it does not cool the entire room but only your body. Besides being cost-efficient five times cheaper than an air-conditioner the blanket
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      Lock icon Click and play, the Singapore way
      657 12  -  Tor Ching Li Local punters bet as much as the whole of North America does, says online casino boss chingli@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPOREANS may not be able to walk into a casino here till 2009, but punters are already logging onto casinos via the Internet. In
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        Lock icon Over 100 Taliban fighters killed: Official
        90 14 AFP United States and Afghan forces are believed to have killed around 1 00 Taliban fighters in one of the biggest offensives since the fall of the fundamentalist regime, officials said yesterday. "We believe that over 1 00 Taliban have been killed in the
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        Lock icon Man gets 36 years for raping maid
        85 14 A Malaysian court yesterday sentenced a man to jail for 36 years and nine strokes of the rattan cane for raping his Indonesian maid. Scow Eng Aik, 37, was found guilty on three counts of raping the 19-year-old maid from Semarang, capital of
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        Aceh to hold first public caning
        64 14 The Indonesian province of Aceh, where partial Islamic law is in force, is to hold its first public caning today, an official said yesterday. Twenty-six Acehnese Muslims found guilty of gambling will be caned after prayers outside the main mosque in Bireuen district, some
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      Lock icon Abducted Malaysian baby found in nurse's home
      237 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A baby boy who was snatched from a maternity ward hours after he was born over the weekend was found at the home of a nurse who worked in the hospital, Malaysian police said yesterday. "The baby is safe and
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      Lock icon China arms spending mystery baffles America
      606 14  -  Sharon Vasoo Not clear what new weapons are for, says US official in Washington, DC sharon(g)newstoday.com.sg PENTAGON China has spumed repeated requests from the United States to be more transparent about its increase in military spending. A senior US official, speaking on the condition
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      Lock icon Thai military to label some zones 'violent', hunt down and kill Islamic rebels there
      297 16 Agencies BANGKOK Thailand plans to declare "violent zones" in Muslim southern provinces, in which security forces will attempt to hunt down and kill Islamic insurgents blamed for a surge of deadly attacks, the defence minister said
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      Lock icon Was the poison in the system?
      442 16 AFP Indonesian national intelligence agency linked to death of activist JAKARTA A team investigating the death of a top Indonesian human rights campaigner by arsenic poisoning has found indications that Badan Inteligen Nasional (BIN) the state intelligence agency was involved, a rights activist said
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        Lock icon Worker anger clouds telco sell-off
        571 18  -  Muddassir Rizvi IPS A sense of personal loss among Pakistan Telecom staff may create problems for new management ISLAMABAD Pakistan's sell-off of its state telecommunications company has lit a fire under the country's languishing labour movement and sparked the creation of an anti-privatisation group of
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon Miss World ready to sue over buttock implants claim
        97 20 AP Ihe reigning Miss World, Peru's Maria Julia Mantilla (picture), is considering suing her plastic surgeon, who claims he gave the beauty queen buttock implants and trimmed her ears. The 20-year-old admits Dr Cesar Morillas, among Peru's most sought-after plastic surgeons,
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        Lock icon US man booked for 'drink flying'
        99 20 An intoxicated 20-year-old American man stole a small plane and took two 1 6-year-old friends on a three-hour, predawn joyride early on Wednesday that ended with a safe landing at the closed Westchester County airport in New York, authorities said. An official who went
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      Lock icon Honeymoon over for Rice
      432 20 AFP Latest trip drives home limits of diplomacy for top US diplomat LONDON After boosting the Middle East peace process and lecturing the Arab world on democracy, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice drew the line this week at backing the right of Saudi women to
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      Lock icon N Korea gets food aid from US
      133 20 AFP WASHINGTON The United States said yesterday it was donating 50,000 tonnes of food aid to North Korea, but denied it was bait to lure Mr Kirn JongIl's regime back to stalled nuclear crisis talks. The donation came in response to a World
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      Lock icon Terror alert in Australia
      488 22 Agencies Attacks being planned on Sydney landmarks; travel warning on Sabah SYDNEY Australian authorities raided several houses in southern Australia as the country's top spy agency suspected that Muslim extremists were plotting terror attacks on Sydney's Opera House and other landmarks, media reports said yesterday. Meanwhile,
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        Lock icon Bank account details for sale
        65 22 I AFP A newspaper reporter was able to buy the personal details of 1,000 British bank customers from a telephone call centre in India, throwing doubt on the security of such offshore outposts. The Sun newspaper said its journalist had paid a computer expert in
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        Lock icon Estrada 'forgives' Jaime Sin
        64 22 AFP Former Philippines president Joseph Estrada said he has forgiven Cardinal Jaime Sin, who died this week, for his role in causing a popular uprising that removed him from power in 2001. "I have forgiven everybody including him and I have included him in my prayers
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        Lock icon High anti-American sentiments prevail in West Europe
        84 22 ■AP' Anti-Americanism remains high in Western Europe, with a majority of French, Germans and Spaniards saying they don't trust the United States and dislike President George Bush, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center. In France, only 43 per cent of
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      Lock icon Iraq breeding world's jihadis, says CIA
      328 22 Agencies BRUSSELS Even as supporters and opponents of the US-led war on Iraq piled on the rhetoric about rebuilding Iraq as a pluralist democracy at an UN-sponsored conference here, a CIA report said the war in Iraq was creating a new breed of jihadi
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      Focus on The Family
      219 24  -  Dr James Dobson Ibex's by i PARENTAL BURNOUT I talk to a number of mothers, especially those with younger kids who feel like they're suffering from burnout If they have to do one more load of laundry, or tie one more shoelace, they'll just explode! This
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    • Letter
      MediShield plans comparison can be viewed on MOH website
      124 24  -  KAREN TAN I Letter from Director, Corporate Communications Ministry of Health IN "MEDISHIELD plans comparison should be made to inform public" (June 20), Mr David Soh suggested that more comparative information on the Medisave-approved private integrated plans be made available, to
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      Hospitals, scrutinise A&E systems
      467 24  -  LIM WEI VI Doctors, nurses doing a great job, but are bogged down by inefficiencies Letter from MY FATHER has been visiting Tan Tock Seng Hospital recently because of some health problems. While he was warded, my family and I were often pleased with the good
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      MOE should offer English courses to home tutors, too
      161 24  -  [SIMON NG YAP PENG I Letter from I READ with interest the letter, "Community support vital to raising standard of spoken English" from Ms Ho Peng of the Ministry of Education (MOE) (June 23). Recently, a friend engaged a home tutor
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      It's goodbye to colonial hangover
      172 24  -  CHOOYUNSONG I Letter from I READ with interest the news analysis "How Bali survived the Corby tsunami" (June 23). I would like to commend the Indonesian court for standing by its verdict, despite enormous economic pressure. The ban, as proposed by outraged Australians, had the
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      Let the poor pay lower fares
      517 26  -  DAVID GEORGE FERRAO I Not fair for a factory worker to pay the same as one higher up the scale Letter from THE posters have just gone up at bus stops publicising the new bus and MRT fares from next month. SMRT has refused
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      Lock icon BABY FACTORY !
      920 28  - BABY FACTORY mr brown news@newstoday.com.sg Have a (still taboo) third child and that's what many people will look at you as MY WIFE is upset It is bad enough with the nausea, the messed-up taste buds and the return of her bionic Six-Million-Dollar Nose (giving her a Six-Million-Dollar Sense of
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      Lock icon Fire I But they were told to pay first before leaving
      264 30  -  NICHOLAS TAN WEN-YU Staff of restaurant blocked evacuating customers I Letter from I REFER to the small fire that broke out at Plaza Singapura on Tuesday night While it was rather scary being at the scene, I thought the
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      Report rogue contractors
      327 30  -  TAY BOON SUN Letter from I Senior public for Director (Corporate Development), Housing Development Board (HDB) WE thank Mr Sim Chin Hong and Mr Leow Theng Huat for sharing their experiences with window contractors in their respective letters on June 10 and 16. Mr Sim suggested that
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      Seeking a way out of the Chariots of Fire dilemma
      313 32  -  DR STEPHEN LEE Letter from I Honorary Secreiar^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Triathlon Association of Singapore I REFER to Tricia Tong's letter, "Twin athletes' Chariots of Fire dilemma" (June 20). We thank Ms Tong for her feedback on triathletes Araunah and Oman Wei. While
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      singaporeseen
      98 32 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore and it can appear on this page. Give your full name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption to describe yourself and your
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      isay A BABY LOST, A PURPOSE FOUND?
      594 32  -  Frances Ong Hock Lin THIS is an open letter to the 23-year-old undergraduate who was recently let off with a stern warning from the judge for throwing the body of her stillborn baby down a rubbish chute. Dear Ms Koh Kailin, You must
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        195 34 Dow Jones SHARES rose yesterday on institutional buying as market sentiment was bolstered by an overnight retreat in oil prices, traders said. The ST Index advanced 17.1 1 points, or 0.78 per cent, to 2,223.45. In the broad market, gainers beat losers 270 to 178, with traded volume amounting
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        58 34 By volume Close UniFiber 0.400 Ban Leong 0.235 SingTel 2.690 Capitaland 2.360 UTAC 0.675 STEngg 2.480 STATSChP 1.210 Pearl Energy 1.600 :apitalanMBLeCW***** 0.110 SembCorp 2.710 Change +0.005 -0.010 +0.060 +0.010 +0.040 +0.020 -0.050 +0.015 +0.070 +1.3 -0.4 +2.6 +1.5 +1.6 +1.7 -3.0 +15.8 +2.7 '000 44,992 26,149
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        74 34 By Close Change DBS 14.300 +0.200 IMH400USS 18.000 +0.200 By percentage Close Goldtron 0.015 Dalacrfl DBeCW*****5 0.180 Change +50.0 +44.0 SIA200 11.600 +0.200 CSC 0.035 +40.0 /enture 16.000 +0.200 SIADBeCW*****1 0.035 +40.0 XBCR 6.700 +0.150 SembMar 2.560 +0.150 STEngMBLeCW*****6 0.135 A-SonkW*****0 0.020 +35.0 +33.3 iembCorpMBLeCW***** 1.080 +0.140
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        73 34 )y$ :ortune Reit HKS Creative 50 lariline C&C Close 6.300 12.700 13.600 Change -0.300 -0.200 -0.200 By percentage Close Digiland 0.015 FHTK 0.015 Jade 0.015 Change -25.0 -25.0 -25.0 kcendasCAeCW*****4 tecendasMBLeCW*****6 DairyFarm 900 USS 3PBal Haw Par Pearl Energy 0.360 0.350 2.800 1.610 5.100 1.600 -0.085 -0.060
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        59 34 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index lakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 11,576.75 14,190.44 4,225.60 6,373.86 1,010.8 902.31 693.13 1,137.42 1,955.22 220.39 7,119.76 Pis +29.47 +29.42 -6.50 +16.03 +8.65 -1.02 +6.56 +2.72 -3.40 +2.15 -25.58 +0.26 +0.21
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        26 34 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Sold us$/oi 439.40 iilver us$/oi 7.245 'latinum us$/oi 892.00 Rubber centsAg 244.50 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,435.50 Brent crude us$/barrel 57.01
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        31 34 IIK£ 0.3290 fen 65.092 HK$ 4.6522 m 2.2756 Euro 0.4957 Rupiah Baht 5,777.4 24.562 Peso 33.383 4$ Indian Rs 0.7739 26.073 Won 605.28 0.7408 ftjan NZ$ 4.9551 0.8442
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      476 34 Dow Jones Decision on route to US likely to be postponed CANBERRA Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister John Anderson said yesterday he would be stepping down from both roles next month, muddying the timing of a government ruling on whether Singapore
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        UOB's 'mother of home loan wars' Sim Puay Suang retires
        225 36  -  Christie Loh UNITED Overseas Bank's (UOB) veteran banker Sim Puay Suang, 51, has opted for early retirement The executive vice-president and head of personal financial services had been instrumental in growing UOB's consumer banking business during her 26 years with
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        300 36 Agencies Satya may be seller of SPC stake INDIAN Oil Corp (IOC) has confirmed that it is considering the purchase of a stake in an oil and gas company in Singapore, India's top refiner said in a regulatory filing with the Mumbai Stock
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        Citi opens biggest branch in Asia
        144 36  -  Christie Loh WATCH out for the new kid on the block it's an old hand looking to extend its reach. Citibank's new branch in Mac Donald House along Orchard Road is twice the size of its former flagship branch at 268 Orchard Road, more
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        100 38 GK Goh Holdings has paid 432 million yen ($6.6 million) for a 50-per-cent stake in Japanese foreign exchange brokerage FX Kanetsu. The other half of the joint venture is held by Kanetsu Shoji. The brokerage will be renamed Kanetsu GK Goh. Flextronics International plans to set up a facility
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        CAO non-exec directors get permission to travel
        425 38  -  Val Chua They must return by July 12 ahead of next hearing on July 14 val@newsto day, com. sg THE three Chinese nationals who are facing charges for their roles in the China Aviation Oil Singapore (CAO) scandal are now allowed to travel
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        Lock icon SembCorp Marine shares surge to record as analysts raise targets
        235 38 Bloomberg SEMBCORP Marine shares soared to a record as analysts raised their target prices for one of Singapore's two biggest shipbuilders after it won orders valued at US$9ll million ($1.5 billion) earlier this week. SembCorp Marine shares advanced 6.2 per
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        Lock icon NISP to raise $173m in 5 years
        113 38 Bloomberg PT BANK NISP, 71 per cent owned by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC), plans to raise more than 1 trillion rupiah ($173 million) selling new shares in the next five years, its presi-dent-director Pramukti Surjaudaja said yesterday in Jakarta. Bank NISP needs to
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        479 42 AFP If successful, it'd be largest overseas buy by a China firm BEIJING State-run energy firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced a bid yesterday to buy US oil major Unocal for US$lB.5 billion ($30.9 billion) cash, trumping a rival offer
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        Lock icon Ameritrade to buy TD Waterhouse USA
        224 42 -AFP WASHINGTON US online broker Ameritrade agreed on Wednesday to acquire rival TD Waterhouse USA from Canada's TD Bank Financial Group, creating the sector's largest player in terms of daily trade volume. Terms were not disclosed, but a report by CNBC television said that
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        206 44 AFP ASIAN small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) outside Japan will spend nearly US$lO billion ($16.7 billion) on personal computers (PCs) and servers this year, a technology research firm said here yesterday. Notebook computers are also gaining popularity among such companies as
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        432 44 Channel News Asia Broadband-based technology set to make overseas calls cheaper WHILE mobile phone operators in Singapore still figure out how to get customers to warm up to third generation or 3G services, recent events may result in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) becoming the
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        Lock icon Asia's biggest Islamic real estate fund established
        348 46 -AFP Worth $1b fully invested, South-east Asia is its main focus ASIA'S biggest Islamic real estate fund has been established through a joint partnership between Singa-pore-based Pacific Star Group and the Kuwait Finance House, the two firms said yesterday. The companies said the
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        166 46 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE'S consumer prices were flat in May compared to the same period last year, as higher food prices were offset by lower car prices and lower housing costs. The consumer price index (CPI) fell 0.2 per cent compared to last month, the
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        126 46 -AFP HONOLULU (Hawaii) The Korean owner of a sweatshop has been jailed for 40 years for forcing his workers into "mod-ern-day slavery", the toughestever punishment imposed in America for human trafficking. Lee Soo Kil, 52, who was convicted of holding more than 200 victims from
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          125 48 DAIMLERCHRYSLER SEA presented the Mercedes Ball 2005 an evening of glamour matching the luxury stature of the Mercedes-Benz brand. Attended by dignitaries and renowned figures in the social arena, it was held in appreciation of the generous support given to the Mainly I Love Kids (Milk)
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          For budding film-makers
          125 48 CANON DV Fest is the only digital video event where participants are taught the skills of film-mak-ing through workshops. Participants would be given a free loan of equipment and facilities to bring their scripts to life. The festival is calling for entry submissions to its "DV Fest
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          Fun way to good health
          129 48 MULTI-TABS Tasty Chewables for Children, packed with 17 essential vitamins and minerals, is available in Singapore. The chewable tablets feature well-balanced supplements to meet the recommended daily allowance for children. A tablet daily after a main meal helps meet the nutritional needs of your child.
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          Facelift without surgery
          146 48 810-ESSENCE upholds the principle that "seeing is believing", and believes in delivering consumers results that they can see and feel. Bio-essence which offers a range of facials to suit every need held the "Face Lift Without Surgery in 10 Minutes Challenge" at Sunway Pyramid where 1 00
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          This race is between two sea dragons
          93 48 AIA HK is sponsoring a team called AIA Southside Massive Urban Gorillaz (Smugs), which will compete with Singapore's national dragon boat team at Kallang Basin tomorrow. The Hong Kong-based amateur dragon boat team is famed for its competitive spirit, will to win, goodwill,
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          Here is another reason to get a Mini
          81 48 WHILt interest rates tor car loans have increased to 3 per cent, Mini is giving a -1 -per-cent rebate for the first year. This promotion is applicable for all models, from the Mini One right up to the Cooper S. Terms and
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        442 48 -AFP His final goal is an Islamic common market PUTRAJAYA Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday urged Muslim nations to tear down tariff barriers and move towards forming an Islamic common market. Speaking to economic and finance ministers from the world's biggest Muslim
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      923 50  -  Yong Shu Chiang shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg After LOTR and Star Wars, which films can breed such huge, fanatical fallowings? WHAT'S a die-hard fan gotta do to find a spot to camp? There are no more Star Wars movies, so George Lucas says, although spin-off television series are planned.
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      558 52  -  Jeanine Tan The youngest S'porean to be accepted by Juilliard is like any other 12-year-old jeanine@newstoday.com.sg LIKE some 12-year-olds, Clare Yeo is not particularly articulate. She peppers her responses with a mixture of thoughtful "Hmms" and nonchalant "I don't knows", and plenty of giggles. When
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      235 52  -  Lorraine him CAN one man's sea voyage 600 years ago, with a crew of 30,000 and a fleet of 300 ships, have any relevance to the journeys we take in the age of airplanes and backpacks? For playwright Jean Tay (picture), whose latest work is Action
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      212 52  -  david chew| I THEATRE REVIEW by Theremin IT WAS definitely more of a play on light and sound than a play. Hotel Pro Forma's Theremin, like Heavenly Bento's recent endeavour, proved that retelling history is not as easy as it looks. Using personal vignettes
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        476 54  -  Jeanine Tan j eanine@newstoday.com. sg JACELYN Tay may look flawless now, but back in the mid-90s, she had eyebrow woes. The 30-year-old actress is fast garnering a reputation as a health and beauty guru her health tome Feel Good, Look Good was released last year and she
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        358 54  -  Yong Shu Chiang IT SEEMS that Batman Begins lead actor Christian Bale feels that Batman needs to live a little. In press reports leading up to the release of the film, Bale suggested that future movies in the series portray Batman in an R-rated context, including delving
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        485 56  -  YONG SHU CHIANG Jay Chou vehicle rides on the strength of its racing scenes FILM REVIEW^ I Initial D THE "D" stands for drifting a trick which involves braking your vehicle suddenly, causing it to slide through the turns in a road. For its exciting race sequences,
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        300 56  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW~ [T'S easy to dismiss this romantic comedy as yet another showcase for the slapstick schtick of Ashton Kutcher, an actor wnose appeal nas yet to be backed up by evidence of actual talent However, under the direction of British film-maker Nigel
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        224 56  -  YONG SHU CHIANG FILM REVIEW~b7 A FANTASY on wishfulfilment that's both sweet and sentimental, this Japanese boxoffice hit not to be confused with Eric Khoo's Be With Me is a guilt-free feel-good experience. Directed by Nobuhiro Doi, and starring Yuko Takeuchi and Shidou Nakamura, the film made
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        246 58  -  YONG SHU CHIANG Affable drama charms as romance blossoms FILM REVIEWby The Upside of Anger RAGE can bring out the worst in people. For devoted wife Terry (Joan Allen), all bets are off after her husband disappears, presumably with his hot Swedish secretary. That, plus her four
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        186 58  -  YONG SHU CHIANG DVD REVIEWby WATCHING this existential comedy wait, what does that even mean? from director David 0 Russell (Three Kings) is likely to leave one oftentimes confused, exhilarated, and oddly, amused. Gifted young actor Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore) plays a man suffering from existential angst, which in
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        217 58  -  BY MERVIN TAY DVD REVIEW THIS local telemovie tells the story of 13-year-old Shuang (Wang Li Rong) and her problematic family. Her father leaves the country to find a job and her mother (Catherine Tan) abuses her. She befriends a young coffeeshop assistant Wei (Joshua Ang, I Not
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        604 60  -  Yong Shu Chiang Older men are fine for some, but are not this actress' preferred choice shuchiang(gnewstoday.com.sg CHUCK the Electra complex theory out the window. Erika Christensen may have played a young woman who gets involved with an older man in her latest film, The Upside of
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    621 64  -  Pearlyn Tham Here are some some ways for retailers to build customer loyalty pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg WHEN it comes to retail therapy, what keeps you going back for more? Unique merchandise and attractive discounts aside, there's actually more to the art of luring and keeping the
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    465 66  -  ElisaYang Childproof your home so children can frolic freely news@newstoday.com.sg THE inquisitive, active nature of young children makes them very vulnerable to injury. At the XX Women's and Children's Hospital's Children's Emergency Department, child injuries make up 15 per cent of total admissions, with more than half
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          441 71 -AFP Brazil will dance their way to the cup: Coach CONFEDERATIONS CUP Germany v Brazil BERGISCH-GLADBACH, Germany World Cup holders Brazil will beat Germany in tomorrow's semi-final of the Confederations Cup if they play to their strengths, coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said. "It is no
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          499 71 Agencies EPL newcomers face champs on opening day LONDON Premiership champions Chelsea will travel to newly-promoted Wigan to begin their title defence on Aug 13. And it won't be long before London's heavyweight sides do battle, reported BBC Sport Online. On the second
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        973 72 TOMORROW, rugby fans worldwide will be glued to the telly, when the mighty All Blacks take on the British and Irish Lions in one of the most storied rugby clashes on the calendar. It is the first time the Lions are touring New Zealand
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        391 72  -  JOSE RAYMOND IN COLOMBO iose@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Reds are chasing history. If they defeat Sri Lanka here tomorrow, they will become the first Singapore side to make it to the second stage of the Rugby World Cup qualifiers since the Singapore Rugby Union
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        171 74 Agencies BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Malaysia's Danny Chia fired a sparkling 8-under-par 63 yesterday to put the shade on Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand in the opening round of the inaugural US$3OO,OOO ($500,000) Brunei Open. The 32-year-old Chia, who will make history next month by
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        133 74  -  Tan Yo-Hinn TWO more national records tumbled at the National Swimming Championship yesterday. At the Singapore Sports School, national swimmer Lynette Ng, 17, lowered the women's national 50m backstroke record of 30.605, set by Cheryl Tang in April 1994, clocking 30.595. In the men's 1,500 m
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        142 74 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian weightlifter Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim, who won three gold medals in the 56kg category at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, faces a possible two-year ban for an alleged doping violation. Amirul was tested out of competition by the Malaysian National Sports Council and his
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        387 74  -  CUBBYLEONG Another last-gasp strike condemns Seahorses to 14th successive defeat NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2005 SAFFC 3 Paya Lebar Punggol 2 cubby@newstoday.com.sg PAYA Lebar Punggol and their fans would have been devastated last night, after they came so close to ending their record losing run in the
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        419 74  -  TAN YO-HINN GOLF Singapore Open Junior C'ship yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IN THE past three weeks, Goh Kun Yang has teed off in the 100 Plus Power Asean Junior Championship in Shah Alam and then the Keppel Golf Club Championship last week. The
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        566 75 After their unsettled EU battle, political leaders will square off in Singapore LONDON Last week, the European Union (EU) summit broke down as French President Jacques Chirac found himself at loggerheads with British Prime Minister Tony Blair over the EU's budget Yesterday, Chirac said in a
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        263 75 Agencies TENNIS Wimbledon LONDON Rafael Nadal's hopes of becoming the first man since Bjorn Borg in 1980 to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year were shattered by little-known Gilles Muller of Luxembourg yesterday. Nadal lost 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 as
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        103 75 INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee (IOC) members will certainly travel in style while they are here for the 117 th lOC Session from July 6- 9. Some 113 Mercedes Benz, driven by professional chauffeurs, will be used to transport the 116 lOC members around the country. The
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        810 76 NEW BALANCE 4TH INTER-COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS AQUATHLON CHALLENGE 2005 28 MAY2OOS, TANJONG BEACH SENTOSA CATEGORY: A BOYS DIVISION: JUNIOR POS NAME 1 Scott Ang Yiqiang 2 Ervin Sethi 3 Zephaniah Wei Enxin A BOYS RELAY JUNIOR 1 TayAikWen, Tarn Zi Wen Kelvin 2 Ryo Chuah, Amir Khan Ansari 3 Christopher Lv
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        234 76 A Boys Junior Anglo Chinese School (Junior) Joel Wang Pinwen Choo Jia Chen Matthew Tay Aik Wen Tarn Zi Wen Kelvin A Girls Junior Methodist Girls School (Primary) Audrey Odelia Yee Xiv Wen Laura Anne Jiayu Peh Goh Wen Li Rachel Sasha Siew Hoon Christian B Boys Junior
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        504 76  -  LAN LYE Teenager Clementine will compete in her fifth triathlon next week ian.lye@newstoday.com.sg THERE will be a dash of French flavour added to this year's Osim Singapore Asia Triathlon Championships. To be held at East Coast Park from July 2-3, the Singapore triathlon will be the
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        150 76 AFP SYDNEY The Australian government said yesterday it will establish a new antidoping agency with increased power to catch sports drug cheats. Sports Minister Rod Kemp said the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) would begin operations early next year, acting as an independent
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      1002 78 Winner-take-all PRESSURE Agencies Pistons look to make history, Spurs just want to avoid another collapse NBA FINALS, GAME 7 San Antonio v Detroit SAN ANTONIO One of the most vivid memories Robert Horry has from the last Game 7 in NBA Finals history was New York Knicks guard John Starks
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      46 78 9am NBA Finals, Pistons v Spurs, Ch23 7pm Tennis Wimbledon, Ch24 9.30pm Golf EPGA: Open de France, Ch22 11.25pm Football Fifa World Youth Championships: Morocco v Italy, Ch2l Tomorrow 2.25 am Football Fifa World Youth Championships: Germany v Brazil, Ch22 sam Golf US Women's Open, Ch23
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      826 82 WHEN you think of the celebrity life, a few things come to mind. A fancy home or two, frequent trips to fashion capitals Paris and Milan and a calendar of social activities that involve hob-nobbing with a who's who of the nation's rich and powerful. But for
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      401 86  -  Jenny Kong RICHARD CHEE-THE JOY OF FREE FALL Richard, 35, has no qualms about jumping out of an airplane at 4,000 m but his knees turn wobbly when he looks down from the third storey of a shopping mall. "I have a phobia about heights," says Richard, a qualified
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      332 88  -  Justin Cheong ALAN SEE GETTING IN THE SWING When Alan applied for a job as a children's club organiser at Club Mcd, little did he know that not too far down the road, he would be swinging two storeys off the ground and teaching people how to do
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      369 88  -  Justin Cheong BENJEMAS LOH and KHAZEED SHAH -THE HEIGHT OF PASSION Imagine this: You are 28 storeys up, with a warm, tropical breeze on your face, savouring a panoramic view of Singapore. Then, you look down and realise you're standing on a 60cm-wide ledge, at which point the
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      472 96  - LIM ZHI CONG SWIMMER Justin Cheong A SWIMMER'S MASTERSTROKE "As a daring three-year-old, I jumped into the deep end of the condominium pool and struggled back to the side. Although it was tiring, I found it fun and repeated it." It was this survival instinct and a desire to better
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      482 98  - JANICEYAP ARTIST Jenny Kong DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT At the age of two, when most toddlers are learning about colours and shapes, Janice Yap was creating award-winning works of art. For two straight years since 2003, her parents have entered her works into the UOB Painting of the Year competition. Last
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