Today, 10 August 2005, Afternoon Edition

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    22 1 TODAY /\AediaCorp incorporating utFCiitS MICA (P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday August 10,2005 todayonline.com TODAY /\AediaCorp mica (P) H2/07/2005 incorporating utFßiitS Wednesday August 10,2005 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Economy grew 5.2% in second quarter
      227 1 MTI narrows this year's growth forecast to 3.5-4.5 per cent THE Singapore economy grew 5.2 per cent in the second quarter of this year from 2.7 per cent in the first quarter, the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this morning. The growth momentum
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      Stocks rally as Fed boosts interest rate
      184 1 NEW YORK Wall Street rallied yesterday after the Federal Reserve, increasing the Fed funds interest rate to 3.5 per cent, signalled no change to its policy of gradually tightening interest rates. The Fed hiked rates for the 10th time running to ward off
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      Kuan, presidential hopefuls should bear no secrets from public: PM
      641 1  -  Tor Ching Li chingli@newstoday.com.sg BEING a grassroots leader is one thing but heading the nation is quite something else, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at a National Day ceremony in Ang Mo Kio yesterday. Mr Lee was referring to
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      Celebrations all around the nation
      450 2  -  Ansley Ng NDP organisers made sure the heartlands enjoyed the fireworks too ansley@newstoday.com.sg AFFANDI Ismail was moved by the story of Singapore's success on the huge screen at the National Day Parade (NDP) at the Padang yesterday. So moved in fact that he could have
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      Ethos of good service isn't a one-way street
      676 4  -  Tor Ching Li NEWScomment Consumers, too, need to be courteous to service staff chingli@newstoday.com.sg SMILE, and the whole world smiles with you except, some may say, if you are in Singapore. As the soul-searching goes on about why shoddy service and sulky
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      Lock icon We are sorry: Jakarta says to KL over stifling haze
      266 4 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Indonesia's Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar has said "sorry" to Malaysia over a haze that has enveloped parts of the country. "The haze has become more acute for our neighbours in Malaysia and we are truly sorry for
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon Flower power retail therapy
      179 6 MORE than 1,000 early birds marked the country's 40th birthday yesterday in a uniquely Singaporean fashion. Holding a stalk of orchid each, they started queuing outside the Carrefour stores at Suntec City and Plaza Singapura from lam. The flower was their redemption ticket for one of
      WEE TECK HIAN  -  179 words
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      Lock icon MPs widen their net with SMS
      437 6  -  Lee U-Wen Technology being used to tap into the electorate u-wen@newstoday.com.sg SOME members of the People's Action Party (PAP) are going high-tech to reach Singaporeans. For the past few days, the five Members of Parliament from the Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC sent out National Day
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      Lock icon One second after midnight, a National Day miracle is born
      172 7 938 Live LITTLE Shawn Tang (picture) was born just one second after the clock struck 12 on Monday night, at Thomson Medical Centre. His timing could not be better. As Singapore's first National Day baby this year, he will receive
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        Petrol discount SMS a hoax
        118 7 Long queues were spotted at several petrol stations across the island yesterday. Drivers had flocked to the pumps after receiving an SMS that claimed all petrol stations would give a 40 per cent discount to celebrate Singapore's 40th birthday. The message even specified that the
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        Lock icon Ministers, residents celebrate National Day together
        123 7 Channel News Asia Cabinet ministers celebrated Singapore's 40th birthday with residents in their constituencies, in several National Observance ceremonies held across the country yesterday. Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng was at Bishan East, where he shared a birthday cake with residents. Mr Wong
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      Dunman High to expand premises and implement full IP
      317 7  -  Loh Chee Kong JUST one year after its Integrated Programme (IP) kicked in, Dunman High School is set for an expansion. The school received approval from the Ministry of Education (MOE) on July 22 to implement a full IP. With this
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      Brothers missing
      398 7  -  Ansley Ng They have not returned home since Monday ansley@newstoday.com.sg POLICE have launched a search for two young brothers who went missing on Monday morning, after attending a National Day concert at their school. Jeremy Tan Chia Khee, 10, and Tan Chia Ying, 8, were to have waited
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      Lock icon REUNITED ... 50 YEARS ON
      643 8  - REUNITED 50 YEARS ON Jasmine Yin Separately adopted, these long-lost twins finally met through a twist of fate ■1//F j asmine.yin@newstoday.com. sg BORN 10 minutes apart but separated for five decades, identical twin sisters Madam Chua Poh Choo and Noorsia Suyut were reunited by a miracle of fate. And now,
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Bush warns Iran of possible UN action
      251 10 -AFP CRAWFORD (Texas) US President George W Bush warned yesterday that Iran may face UN sanctions over its nuclear ambitions as he cautiously welcomed signs that Tehran is ready to resume talks to defuse the issue. Speaking a day after Iran resumed sensitive
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      Lock icon A commander's plea
      281 10 -AFP Public must support space programme: Collins EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE (California) Discovery commander Eileen Collins made an impassioned plea yesterday for public support for the embattled US space programme, saying it must go forward to benefit mankind. Ms Collins made the appeal following her arrival back
      -AFP; AFP  -  281 words
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      Lock icon Prisoner flees after wife shoots officer
      186 10 -AFP WASHINGTON A woman shot and killed a Tennessee prison officer and freed her husband, who was appearing in court two years into a 35-year jail term, sparking a massive manhunt. Jennifer Hyatte, 31, allegedly shot corrections office Wayne Morgan outside the Roane County
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      Lock icon UN officers accused of graft
      307 12 Agencies Two senior staff took kickbacks, bribes: Probe UNITED NATIONS The former head of the United Nations oil-for-food programme, Benon Sevan, was accused of receiving nearly US$l5O,OOO ($249,000) in kickbacks and another UN official was arrested on charges of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon Potter enchants terror suspects
        43 12 AFP Books about boy wizard Harry Potter are a hit among 520 Islamic terror suspects at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They top the request list and a few prisoners have reauested to see the movies.
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        World's first crustless bread
        62 12 Britain has unveiled the world's first "crustless bread", a sliced loaf that is all white, reported The Times. Called Invisible Crust, it is aimed at parents who have to trim sandwiches before their children will eat them. Made from regular ingredients, the bread is cooked in
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        Lock icon Caffeine-fuelled quest
        41 12 I -AP A Houston man, Mr Rafael Lozano, is on a mission to visit every Starbucks in the world. He has visited 4,775 outlets in North America and over 200 worldwide He hopes to visit all 5,715 Starbucks outlets.
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      Lock icon Australia in nuclear fuel talks with China
      202 12 -AFP SYDNEY Australia announced on Tuesday it would start formal negotiations with China on a nuclear cooperation agreement to ensure that uranium exports to the energy-hungry country are used only for peaceful purposes. "The agreement will establish safeguards to ensure uranium supplied to
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon UK blasts: Man attacked
        37 14 AFP A doctor of Indian origin was pelted with stones and suffered racial abuse from a gang of youths in Chatham, south-east England, in the wake of last month's bomb blasts in London
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        Lock icon Cashing in on suicides
        57 14 AFP A Hong Kong official proposed that the territory's Cheung Chau island could make a killing with a theme park based on its unsavoury reputation as a sui- cide spot. Over 20 people have killed themselves there in the past five years. Visitors could spend the
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        Lock icon Britain considers secret pre-trial terror hearings
        55 14 AFP Britain is mulling over secret pretrial terror hearings in which a security-vetted judge would examine evidence without a jury to decide how long a suspect should be held without charge. If introduced, this French-style "inquisitorial" system of justice would mark a huge departure
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        Lock icon Record $ 112m bank heist
        49 14 Record 112m bank heist AFP Thieves tunnelled into a bank in Brazil and stole US$6B million ($1 12 million), the biggest bank heist in the country's history. The 80-m-long tunnel, wnich started in a house rented by the gang, was reinforced with wood and plastic, and had electric lighting.
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      Lock icon At hope's end
      279 14 Agencies After 75 hours, the 7 trapped Russian submariners prepared for the worst PETROPAVLOVSKKAMCHATSKY (Russia) In the pitch dark, lying flat on their backs and under orders to breathe as lightly as possible, the crew of the Russian mini submarine AS-28 waited. They started writing farewell letters
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    Focus On The Family
    213 16  -  Dr James Dobson TblMTs byl COMPENSATING FOR HANDICAPS A difficult childhood leaves some people stifled and struggling for the rest of their lives. But for others, early hardships actually fuel great achievement in success. In their now classic study called "Cradles of Eminence", Victor and Mildred
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      What's your 'One Singapore Minute'?
      535 16  -  Mr Miyagi Take a picture to depict what Spore means to you and upload it THERE'S this thing in the online community called a "meme", where a blogger starts a certain behaviour on his or her blog, and gets everyone else to imitate it The
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      BLOGGERS' REFLECTIONS ON NATIONAL DAY
      173 16 CJ (www.gabby-cj. blogspot. com): Dear Singapore, You are successful and prosperous. Though you are small, its ok 'cos size doesn't really matter (yet). You make me feel weird 'cos you are older than my dad and yet v don bald. I love the colours on
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      Patriotic fervour marred by red tape
      207 18  -  ROBERT BACSAFRA Letter from I'VE noticed with pride and delight the number of Singapore flags and National Day buntings and the 40th Birthday logo displayed across Singapore. But when I decided to show my loyalty and love for my country by arranging for a
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      Service should be for service's sake
      240 18  -  SWEEEIKLEONG Breeding the right attitude, not greed, the key Letter from I REFER to the article, "Bad Service" (Aug 6-7). While I applaud many of the ideas mentioned in the article, I am disturbed by the proposition that if companies pay more commission, they
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      No million-dollar turnover = no ability to lead?
      193 20  - No million-dollar turnover no ability to lead? |JEFFREYLAWLEE BENG I Letter from I AGREE with Mr Chia Shi Teck's suggestion, "Why not an athlete President?" (Aug 9). Our choices of electing the President are drastically narrowed by the current criteria for contesting the Presidential elections. It appears that people such
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      Time to clear misconceptions
      212 20  -  |GARYLEETATKWONG Buck does not always stop with CEO I Letter from I REFER to the letter by S Ramamirtham, "Don't bring religion into it" (Aug 9). Mr Ramamirtham mentioned in his company analogy that the buck stops with the chief executive officer. Not really. In a
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      President Nathan gets my vote
      279 20  -  ■VASUDEVAN SAM B ANDAM I Letter from IN RESPONSE to the various letters and articles on President Nathan's bid for a second term, I can cite many reasons for the current President to continue for another term. We have a relatively young Prime Minister and
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      Let's not endorse candidates yet
      90 20  -  |SOONSZEMENG I Letter from I REFER to the various endorsements of President S R Nathan made by political leaders, the NTUC and many civic organisations. This, even before Singapore knew who the other eligible candidates are. These early endorsements may dissuade other qualified Singaporeans from
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  • Businesstoday
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        Singapore
        16 22 The Singapore stock market was closed for the National Day holiday yesterday. Trading resumes today.
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        Lock icon Commodities
        28 22 Dow Jones, Bloomberg Data provided by i Gold us$/oi Silver us$/oi Platinum us$/oi 439.50 7.000 905.00 Rubber centsAg 279.7: Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,328.51 Brent crude us$/borrel 62.4i
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        Your S$1 buys
        35 22 JS$ JK£ fen 1K$ 0.6038 0.3384 67.695 4.6914 2.2633 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ 33.735 0.7933 26.292 612.47 0.7332 iuro (upiah iaht 0.4883 5,913.7 24.856 Yuan NZ$ NTS 4.8951 0.8734 19.312
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      Lock icon More banks allowed to trade yuan forwards
      176 22 Bloomberg CHINA has further liberalised its foreign exchange regime, allowing more than 130 domestic and foreign banks to trade yuan forward contracts. "Chinese companies require better and more products and services to hedge against currency risks," the People's Bank of China, the country's
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      Lock icon CAO loses monopoly
      320 22 Agencies as competition in China's jet fuel market grows BEIJING China Aviation Oil Holding Co (CAOHC) the parent company of beleaguered China Aviation Oil Singapore (CAO) is losing its monopoly to supply aviation fuel to Chinese airports. China's two largest oil producers will team up with the
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      Lock icon Qantas sacks 15% of management staff
      195 22 -Dow Jones SYDNEY Australia's Qantas Airways said yesterday it had laid off 15 per cent of its management staff and planned further job cuts to reduce costs in the face of soaring fuel prices and increased competition. By the end of this month, Qantas
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      Lock icon Oil prices hit a new high
      507 23 Dow Jones China and India are expected to maintain high economic growth rates CRUDE oil prices are at historic highs, but so far they have done little to make the big emerging markets slip. The main reason for that, say analysts, is that it
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    • the business of enterprise
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        Lock icon Luxury brands create Nat'l Day commemorative items
        283 24 Channel News Asia WOULD you pay $6,000 for a pen commemorating Singapore's 40th birthday? Well, it appears many Singaporeans would and did. For the first time this year, luxury brands are designing commemorative items for National Day and they say sales figures have
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        On the hunt for this year's top entrepreneur
        283 24 Past winners have found award a useful platform to promote business MR DOUGLAS Foo, affectionately known as Mr Sakae Sushi, was one. So was Mr Ricky Chew, the man behind restaurant chain Fish Co. Both businessmen were once Singapore's Entrepreneur of the
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        Lock icon Japan offers growth opportunities for food companies: IE Singapore
        168 24 Channel News Asia INTERNATIONAL Enterprise Singapore has identified the food services and food manufacturing sectors as new growth areas for Singaporebased companies to explore when expanding into Japan. It believes this is an excellent time for Singapore food and beverage companies
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      Lock icon GOOD OLD FUN
      731 25  -  JeanineTan Parade's familiar performances topped off by pretty fireworks SOME things never change. Last night's National Day Parade (NDP), which celebrated Singapore's 40th birthday, was a perfect example. As an entertaining spec-1 tacle, the NDP looked just I as it did last year and in 2003 and
      PHOTOS BY ERNEST CHUA AND TREVOR TAN I; ERNEST CHUA  -  731 words
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      Lock icon Wilber unleashes his dark side
      332 26  -  Joyce Lin j oyce@newstoday.com. sg ONSTAGE, Taiwanese singer Wilber Pan (picture) goes heavy on the bling and grooves to his signature hip-hop music like he's a homeboy from the 'hood. In person, Pan acts more like a goofy kid: He jumped around like a schoolboy
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      Lock icon A show that empowers
      354 27  -  David Chew A Nation in Concert will showcase not patronise disabled children david.chew@newstoday.com.sg /^HARITY concerts can sometimes be a affair. In a bid to tug at the heartstrings, society's disadvantaged are occasionally portrayed in an unflattering (some might say patronising) way to boost donations. But this
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        Scarface returns! ... as a game
        86 27 Scarface returns! as a game Al Pacino's portrayal of Tony Montana in the 1983 cult classic crime film Scarface will be resurrected next year for video game enthusiasts. Vancouver-based Radical Entertainment is developing a video game based on Montana's rags-to-riches story for its parent company Vivendi Universal dubbed Scarface: The
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        Singer shot in the head
        98 27 Respected musician Marc Cohn, a Grammy winner, was treated at a hospital and released on Monday after being shot in the head during an attempted carjacking following a performance. Cohn, who had a hit with the song Walking in Memphis and won the Grammy for
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