Today, 12 August 2005

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    22 1 TODAY /\\=£j]XjZOFlP incorporating utfCiltS MICA (P) 112/07/2005 Friday August 12,2005 todayonline.com TODAY /A=diaCorp incorporating ufTCfltS Friday August 12,2005 todayonline.com MICA (P) 112/07/2005
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    National footballer offered $12,000 to fix S'pore-M'sia friendly
    370 1  -  Jose Raymond j ose@newstoday.com. sg THE spectre of football match fixing reared its head again yesterday, when a national player revealed that he was approached by a bookie in July last year to rig a Singapore-Malaysia friendly. A regular on the first
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    Kuan's appraisal ghosts
    822 1  -  Lee U-Wen JTC Corp says he was told to quit, he calls ex-employers irritants u-wen@newstoday.com.se EARLIER this week, JTC Corporation chief executive Chong Lit Cheong received a call from the Presidential Elections Committee, asking for his assessment of one of his former employees. Mr Chong, who was
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      26 1 NEWSX^/lEWS Liang Dingzi Is Nobel dream just fiction here?/3 mr brown Let's hear it for Spores new mascots/28 Leading lady Bewitched director defies male film execs/48
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      Lock icon HAZE EMERGENCY
      451 2  -  Oon Yeoh Air quality hits 500 mark in Port Klang and Kuala Selangor news@newstoday.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR Haze blowing in from Indonesia, which has become something of an annual event here, has resulted in a state of emergency being declared in two towns in Malaysia. Air quality readings in
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      IN SINGAPORE: BEWARE OF WIND CHANGES
      172 2  -  Tan Hui Leng SO FAR, the direction of the wind has kept Singapore safe from the haze. Should that change, prepare for gloomy skies. The National Environment Agency (NEA) said that it is unlikely that the haze will hit Singapore in the next few
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      Nobel dream just fiction here?
      692 3  -  Liang Dingzi MOST local writers would have been asked, in their early days of being published, if they would be writing next the great Singapore novel. It is as if a preordained national masterpiece is waiting to be unearthed, except that no one has any
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      Lock icon Circle Line fears force demolition
      680 4  -  Ansley Ng and Loh Chee Kong Govt to buy, raze 5-storey building threatened by deep excavation works ansley@newstoday.com.sg THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) will buy a 40-year-old building along Paya Lebar Road and demolish it as it could put residents at risk when deep excavation
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      SPH seeks to shed 72 jobs
      194 6  -  Valeric Law SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) yesterday said it hopes to let 72 employees go, most of whom have worked for the company for more than 10 years. "We have made an offer to 72 employees from different sections of the group. They were
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      Catch every cable show
      291 6  -  Vinita Ramani Star Hub digital video set-top allows simultaneous recording vimta(g>newstoday.com.sg RECORDING your favourite shows on television will involve fewer hassles when a new Star Hub gadget is launched in the next six months. With the Star Hub Digital Video Recorder (DVR) a two-way interactive digital
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      Singapore an
      117 6 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 300dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption to describe yourself and your
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        Lock icon Medical board to settle claims
        99 8 938 Live The Manpower Ministry is setting up a medical board to deal with contested workmen compensation claims. The new medical team will be called upon for a second opinion when an objection to the initial doctor's assessment is raised. Currently, an objecting employer, insurance
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        A lap for charity
        80 8  -  Lee U-Wen The Boys Brigade is appealing to Singaporeans aged 35 or younger to help break the world mass participation swimming record in the name of charity. Only 200 people out of the 2,600 needed have signed up for the Aug 27 event at Anglo-Chinese School
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        Lock icon Health questions answered
        77 8 938 Live Got a health-related question? Chances are, you will find the answer in a reference book published by the Health Promotion Board, entitled You Asked. We Answer. Frequently Asked Questions On Healthy Living. The book's contents cover a wide range of topics and were developed from
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      In-Camp Training for NS men reduced
      484 8  -  Loh Chee Kong i_ l __sz\__ j_ a New programme in line with '3G fighting force' cheekong(g>newstoday.com.sg FROM April next year, In-Camp Training (ICT) for operationally ready National Servicemen (NSmen) will be cut from 13 to 10 years, Mindef announced yesterday. The change will
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      Lock icon 18 cities in 7 countries over 4 months
      670 10  -  Lee U-Wen Study programme connects potential leaders by taking them to countries around the globe u-werngnewstoaay.com.sg OVER the next four months, 23-year-old Reuben Ng will travel to more places in the world than most people will in an entire lifetime. The National
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      Plunge in hiring of older workers: Lim
      237 11 THERE has been a steep decline in the number of workers aged 50 and above being employed and this has brought the retirement age well below 62. NTUC's Secretary-General Lim Boon Heng highlighted this at a summit on human resources yesterday. Mr Lim
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      Red House to get $1 million face lift
      217 11 THE site that once housed a famous bakery in the Katong area will get a new lease of life, reported Channel News Asia. The Red House at East Coast Road will receive a million dollar facelift to restore it to its former
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      Protesters sent packing
      407 11  -  Ansley Ng ansley@newstoday.com.sg POLICE dispersed a group of six people who had gathered outside the Central Provident Fund (CPF) building yesterday after receiving several calls that a crowd had gathered at Robinson Road. The group were protesting against a lack of transparency and accountability in three Government
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      Lock icon Think out of the job box: MOM Minister
      182 11 938 Live MANPOWER Minister Ng Eng Hen (picture) says workers here must be prepared for different job opportunities. He said Singaporeans must adjust and adapt to changes to take advantage of emerging opportunities. "The job growth may not be in a sector
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      Lock icon 'Responsibilities go beyond financial matters'
      288 12 Channel News Asia THE responsibilities of Singapore's elected President go beyond just financial matters, said incumbent President S R Nathan. He is the custodian of the country's reserves with the second key to unlock it if the need arises, he added. Mr Nathan shared his
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      $10,000 and a golden opportunity
      377 12  -  David Chew is what the Vivo City Student Design Contest offers david. chew@newstoday. com, sg THE winner of this contest goes home with $10,000 cash. But the student participants won't be in it for the money. The real prize is a chance to work under
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      Lock icon Philippines hunt for 10 suicide bombers
      237 14 -AFP MANILA The Philippines said yesterday that it was hunting 10 Indonesian Muslim extremists who were feared to be plotting suicide attacks as security was stepped up following a spate of bombings in the south. National Security Advisor Norberto Gonzales said the Indonesians, believed
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      Lock icon Rapid-fire Rafidah scorches Cabinet
      355 14 But ministers not impressed by her performance KUALA LUMPUR An evening of high drama at Putrajaya, Malaysia's seat of power, ended rather tamely, but not before Malaysian Minister for International Trade and Industry, Ms Rafidah Aziz (picture), showed her combative side to her Cabinet colleagues. However,
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      Scientists decipher rice gene code
      164 14 LONDON Scientists have deciphered the gene code of rice, which could mean the difference between life and death for millions living in abject poverty around the world. Proponents of the breakthrough say understanding the genetic code will enable scientists to develop new varieties that could
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      Lock icon HK chief Tsang's fish pond angers public
      162 14 -AFP HONG KONG A plan by the new political head of Hong Kong to build a US$4O,OOO ($65,000) fish pond as part of a facelift of the historic home allocated to the city's leaders drew public anger yesterday. Mr Donald Tsang is reported
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        There's plenty of life in Asean yet
        658 15  -  Will the bloc rise to the occasion? You bet Dr Khoo How San news@newstoday.com.sg matic talk-fests but were capable of effecting change through diplomatic solidarity. The post-Cold War years have seen Asean's image take a battering, often unfairly. Just when Asean was finally
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      Lock icon Ten face deportation in British crackdown
      351 16 LONDON Ten foreigners were detained in London and other parts of Britain yesterday and face deportation on national security grounds, Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced. None of the foreigners were identified, but observers said the operation marked the start of an expected crackdown on
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      Lock icon Quarter million evacuated in China floods
      179 16 AFP BEIJING About a quarter million people were evacuated as floods hit large parts of western China, state media reported yesterday. At least 22 people have been killed and the death toll is expected to rise, Xinhua news agency reported. In Miyi county, the
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      Lock icon S Korea defies US and backs N Korea
      362 16 -AFP Pyongyang has right to maintain reactors: Seoul SEOUL South Korea's chief negotiator with North Korea defied the United States yesterday and said the Stalinist country had the right to maintain a civilian nuclear programme to produce energy. South Korean Unification Minister
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon China to send pig sperm to space
        85 16 AFP China's next manned space flight will carry capsules of pedigree pig sperm in an experiment that scientists hope will ultimately produce better quality pork. One ounce of sperm will be sent up in October to study whether exposure to space alters its
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        Lock icon That bleeping bikini
        75 16 AFP A bikini which bleeps every 15 minutes to prevent holiday-makers from sleeping in the sun will be sold in Britain from next week. The invention, called Tan-Timer Bikini, could stop the traditional ghastly sight of bright-red Britons on beaches across the world. The idea came about
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      Lock icon Why peace has more than a chance in Aceh
      532 18  -  Fabio Scarpello Both parties in the 29-year conflict stand to gain news@newstoday.com.sg ACEH has seen decades of war where several peace agreements have been signed and torn apart within a few months. But it seems a different story now. On Aug
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      Lock icon Too hot? Blame the power stations
      153 18 AFP GENEVA Summer temperatures have risen sharply in most west European capital cities over the past 30 years, adding to evidence of the accelerating impact of climate change, the environmental group WWF said yesterday. WWF International blamed most of the warming on pollution from
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      Lock icon Temperatures to rise with Siberian thaw
      227 18 AFP LONDON A huge expanse of western Siberia is going through an unprecedented thaw that could speed the rate of global warming dramatically. Scientists recently back from the Russian region say the world's largest frozen peat bog is melting into shallow lakes. It is
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      Lock icon It was his mum, after 41 years
      470 20 -AFP RAFIAH YAM (Gaza Strip) "I'm Carole, your sister," said the voice at the other end of the line. She had seen her brother, Mr Socrates Soussan on French television. Mr Soussan who has lived for 16 years in the main settlement bloc
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      Lock icon US spruce up Guantanamo Bay
      187 20 -AFP SAN JUAN (Puerto Rico) The United States military plans to ease conditions for some detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, housing them in a renovated section with televisions, stereos and a view of the Caribbean, the detention centre's commanding officer said. For the past several
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      Lock icon When dad isn't dad – and dad doesn't know
      313 22 When dad isn't dad and dad doesn't know -AFP Infidelity, change in partners, artificial insemination errors among reasons for rise, says study PARIS One father in every 25 may be unknowingly raising a child he thinks is his own but was in fact sired by another man, a British medical
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        Lock icon Two Indonesians nabbed for bomb hoax in Penang
        49 22 AP Two Indonesian men have been arrested for sending hoax bomb warnings via mobile phone text message in Penang. The suspects were caught at the island's airport as they prepared to leave for the city of Medan on Indonesia's Sumatra island.
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        Lock icon Truck with 17 tonnes of explosives blows up in Utah
        63 22 AFP A truck carrying 1 7 tonnes of industrial explosives blew up Wednesday in Utah after overturning in a mountain road, leaving a huge crater and four people injured. The truck was travelling on a two-way road when the accident
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        Lock icon Brazilian bank did not insure stolen $112 million
        53 22 AFP The nearly US$6B million ($ll2 million) stolen in a spectacular tunnelling heist last weekend in Brazil was not insured because it was already in the bank's vault, officials said. Police are investigating how the robbers broke through the vault's one-meter-thick iron
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        Lock icon Eighth person down with pig disease in Hong Kong
        81 22 AFP An eighth person has been diagnosedin Hong Kong with a swine disease that has already killed 39 people in China. The 78-year-old woman who was admitted to hospital with fever and hip pain. She had not travelled outside or the
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        Lock icon US firm to send tourists to space by 2008
        59 22 AFP United States firm Space Adventures, associated with the Russian Space Agency, hopes to send tourists to circle the moon, perhaps as soon as 2008. The ticket price: A cool US$lOO million ($165 million). The company said that they have identified
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    Focus On The Family
    250 24  -  Dr James Dobson m Tbrars NEWLYWEDS AND MONEY Problems over the use of money are among the most common sources of conflict in marriage. Yet, newlyweds begin to head down that destructive road when they use credit cards indiscriminately and take out loans to buy things
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      isay CAUTIOUS: BAD SIGN AHEAD
      540 24  -  une Seah Siew Ping HAS anyone noticed a great medical breakthrough advertised extensively in recent months? Apparently, one slimming coffee has been "clinically proven to lose weight". Shouldn't it read "clinically proven to help you lose weight" instead, or something to that effect? I didn't
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    • The chicken/egg good service debate
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        Why wait for the other guy to blink?
        247 24  -  MURAUKUMARASHARMA I I Letter from I READ Tor Ching Li's News Comment, "Ethos of good service isn't a one-way street" (Aug 10) with interest, but I feel that the ethos of good service must be one-way. People seem to play the waiting
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        Maybe if you smiled back, we'd feel better serving you
        132 24  -  STEVEN LIM Letter from I AM in the service line and every day, almost without fail, meet customers who have very little sense of basic courtesy. For example, a good percentage of those I greet with a simple "good morning"
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      NTUC club for healthy elderly
      204 27  -  MillliMMilM I Letter from I Chairman, The 3rd Chapter, NTUC Club I REFER to the article, "The Age of Loneliness" (Aug 8), which featured Ms Sally Wong and her suggestion to have a recreational centre for the healthy elderly. The 3rd Chapter at NTUC Club
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      ... And many more such clubs
      282 27  - And many more such clubs CHUA KIM SENG, PBM I Letter from Chairman, People's Association Senior Citizens' Executive Committees Coordinating Council, and Chairman, Kirn Seng CC Senior Citizens' Executive Committee IN RESPONSE to the article, "The age of loneliness" (Aug 8), I thank Ms Sally Wong for highlighting the needs
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    • READERS'SHORT TAKES
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        David Kwok
        93 27 MUCH of the congestion along Alexandra Road during peak hours is the result of long queues of vehicles outside the Ikea car park entrance. The jam stretches from the bus stop to the car park entrance, effectively reducing the three lanes into an inadequate one-lane thoroughfare. Cars turning
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        Andrew Yeo
        116 27 I HAVE been an off-peak car user for years and wrote to the LTA asking about the Saturday timing for off-peak car users. The reply I got was a reiteration of its offpeak car user policy. I asked the LTA if it could work out what needs to
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      Lock icon Let's hear it for S'pore's new mascots
      987 28  -  mr brown Life begins at 40, so how about some additions to the Lion City menagerie? THIS has been quite a month for National fervour. So many National this and National that We had our National Day celebrations, an upcoming Presidential Election (to
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      Lock icon Mrs Adventurer keeps her balance
      927 30  -  I TOK WEE LENG coffee with I 37, home-maker and adventurer AS SINGAPOREANS loudly celebrated National Day on Tuesday, adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow left quietly for England to attempt to become the second Singaporean to swim across the English Channel. Unlike on many of his
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      519 32  -  John Wanstall SIXTY years ago saw the end of the Second World War. But in Britain, the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day on May 8 this year passed pretty much unnoticed by most of the population. Prime Minister Tony Blair said he could
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      170 32  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) said motorists who had decided to seek alternative routes to avoid paying the new evening toll on the Central Expressway (CTE) last week seem to have changed their minds. According to the LTA,
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      476 36  -  Christie Loh But electronic waste recycler's application for stay order to be heard on Aug 30 christie@newstoday.com.sg IN A move that could spook potential white knights, the biggest creditor of Citiraya Industries has filed a petition to wind up the electronic waste recycler fighting
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        196 36 -AFP SHARES fell yesterday amid soaring oil prices and concerns that Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings might continue to trim its stakes in big local firms, dealers said. They also said they expected the market to fall further in the near term on profit taking to shake off excess
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        59 36 By volume CSC China Sun Capitaland SingTel GlobalVoice Sarin Bio-Treat LabroyMar CoscoCorpBNPeCW***** ChuanHup Close 0.040 0.420 2.830 2.620 0.085 0.480 0.800 1.060 0.425 0.920 Change +0.005 +0.005 -0.080 -0.040 -0.005 +0.020 -0.040 -0.060 -0.060 -0.010 +14.3 +1.2 -2.7 -1.5 -5.6 +4.3 -4.8 -5.4 -12.4 -1.1 'OOO 228,533
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        81 36 By Close Change HSI *****DBeCW*****9 3.220 +0.440 JMH400USS 18.000 +0.300 DBS Bk 6% NCPS10 109.000 +0.200 By percentage Close ACCSCAeCW*****5 0.015 PDC Corp 0.030 Burwill 2k 0.095 Change +50.0 +50.0 +46.2 GreatEast 14.700 +0.200 DBS DB ePW*****6 0.095 +46.2 SIA200 11.600 +0.200 VenlureDBSePW*****2 0.050 +42.9 CrealiveMBLePW*****6 1.240
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        86 36 By$ Creative 50 DBS Close 12.000 15.700 Change -0.500 -0.500 By percentage STI 2100 DBePW*****9 SIAMBLePW*****5 Close 0.035 0.010 Change -75.0 -50.0 KepCorp Venture 12.700 15.000 -0.500 -0.400 SingTel CAeCW*****2 Hua Kok 0.065 0.020 -43.5 -42.9 iTI 2200 DBeCW*****9 1.190 -0.330 CharteredSGAeCW***** 0.085 -37.0 STI ETF 100
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        60 36 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 12,263.32 15,445.20 4,424.30 6,353.71 1,123.77 936.05 681.95 1,167.97 2,023.70 239.25 7,816.51 Pis +165.24 +98.79 +39.50 -3.13 +18.91 -3.43 -2.64 -8.86 +13.29 +2.80 +86.69 +1.37
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        21 36 SGX, Dow Jones, Bloomberg Data provided by. Gold us$/oi Silver us$/oi 443.30 7.11 Rubber centsAg 266.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,338.00
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        36 36 US$ 0.6061 UK£ 0.3362 Yen 66.865 HK$ 4.7105 RM 2.2742 Euro 0.4883 Rupiah 5,948.5 Baht 24.799 Peso 33.781 A$ 0.7867 Indian Rs 26.427 Won 614.72 C$ 0.7320 Yuan 4.9105 NZ$ 0.8639 NTS 19.335
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      Lock icon Semb Corp Q2 profit up 22%
      190 38 Bloomberg Enjoys net income of $74 million SEMBCORP Industries' sec-ond-quarter profit rose 22 per cent after its utilities, marine and logistics units won more overseas orders. Net income rose to $74.4 million, or 4.17 cents a share, in the three months ended June 30,
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      240 38 Bloomberg NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) posted its smallest profit gain in six quarters as higher costs undermined demand for Asian goods by the United States and Europe. Net income in the three months ended June 30 rose to US$l96 million ($323 million), or
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      205 38 Bloomberg CITY Developments (CDL) said that sec-ond-quarter profit fell 36 per cent as tax expenses almost tripled. Net income fell to $23.5 million, or 1.9 cents a share, in the three months ended June 30, from a restated $36.8 million, or 4.3 cents a share,
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      321 38 Want Want Holdings had a profit of US$47 million [$77.5 million), or 3.66 US cents per share for the first half ended June 30, compared to U5534.7 million, or 2.74 US cents a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue rose 25 per cent to $314 million. HTL International
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      350 42 Suffers first quarterly loss in 3 years CREATIVE Technology had its first quarterly loss in almost three years on costs to reduce inventory as demand weakened. Net loss was US$3l.9 million ($52.5 million), or 38 US cents a share, for the three months ended June 30,
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      196 42 Bloomberg HOPSON Development Holdings, a property company controlled by millionaire Zhu Mengyi, said it would sell a 20-per-cent stake to Temasek Holdings and Tiger Global Management for HK$957 million ($202.8 million). The Hong Kong-listed firm will sell 100.3 million shares at HK54.875
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      384 42  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newstoday.com.sg IN ANOTHER sign of the global economic shift, UK-based Standard Chartered Bank's Indian operations has jumped up the bank's profit contribution ladder to second position. Until last year, the bank's Singapore operations came in second in terms of contribution to global profits.
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        162 42 LEARN more about healthy living at the Health You fair presented by AIA this weekend at Suntec City Hall 404. Although the average life expectancy has risen with medical advancements, healthcare costs are unfortunately on the rise. The Ministry of Health has successfully
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        158 42 WILD Wild Wet, Singapore's only water theme park, celebrates its birthday with the nation this month. The water wonderland turns one. The key attraction at Downtown East invites all Singaporeans to join in its first birthday celebrations themed Pirates D'East until Oct 31. And until Aug 31,
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      210 44 Bloomberg CRUDE oil futures in New York rose to a record above US$65 a barrel after a report showed rising gasoline consumption in the United States and Iran said that it restarted its uranium enrichment program, risking United Nations' sanctions.
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      422 44 AFP Carrier's finances in a mess,Thaksin says its president was inefficient BANGKOK The president of Thai Airways International has been suspended, Thailand's Prime Minister said yesterday, as officials warned that the carrier was suffering the worst financial crisis in its history. The airline's board suspended Mr
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      Lock icon Chevron swallows Unocal
      314 46 -AFP Merger between the two US oil firms after China's CNOOC abandons bid LOS ANGELES Months of controversy that saw China rebuffed in its attempt to enter the United States oil industry culminated on Wednesday in Unocal Corp's shareholders accepting a takeover bid by US rival Chevron
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      379 46 Bloomberg YAHOO will pay US$l billion ($1.65 billion) in cash for a 40-per-cent stake in Alibaba.com, China's biggest online retailer, to boost its share in the world's second-largest Internet market in terms of users. Yahoo will become Alibaba's biggest investor, according
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      177 46 Agencies CHINA had its secondhighest trade surplus on record last month, reflecting a surge in exports that has led the United States and Europe to threaten sanctions. The surplus widened to US$lO.3 billion ($l7 billion) from US$l.97 billion in the same month last year and US$9.6B
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      603 48  -  Jeanine Tan Bewitched director continues to defy male movie execs by making movies about women for women PERHAPS it takes a woman to be able to write about women, in a genre that usually targets a female audience. The woman in question is screenwriter-director Nora Ephron
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      349 48 ONE of Nora Ephron's loves was Carl Bernstein her second husband who was one of the two journalists who cracked the Watergate scandal in the early 1 9705. In fact, she was one of the few people who knew about Deep Throat's identity before it was revealed
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        90 50  -  Zul Othman It's official folks the most talked concert is not going to happen. Guns 'n' Roses Revisited a tribute concert to the US hard rock outfit was scheduled for Sept 3 at the Singapore Expo Hall 3. But TODAY learned yesterday that the
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        76 50 Star Wars trilogy in 1 hour! Agencies For those who have never seen the original Star Wars trilogy and can't face six hours staring at a screen, a one-man show in New York rattles through the whole story in an hour. Charles Ross, a 31-year-old actor from Canada who's seen
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        84 50 Agencies Matthew McGrory, the deep-voiced 210 cm-plus actor who played a gentle giant in the movie Big Fish, has died in Los Angeles. He was 32. He was work ing on a biopic of wrestler-turned-actor Andre the Giant. Paramedics said he had died of natural causes.
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        34 50 Homegrown artist Corrinne May shares her experiences as a singer-songwriter living in Los Angeles. Corrinne May The Journey As a Singer-Songwriter is on tonight, 7.45pm at library@esplanade's Open Stage.
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        54 50 Mouthwash adthis isn't. But it is the quirky title of the exhibition featuring new paintings and illustrations by Rajinderjit Singh. The exhibition opens tonight at 7 at the Merbau Gallery Bar, 79 Neil Road and runs until Sept 12. Opening hours are Mondays to
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      729 50  -  Felix Cheong American actor shines when he's not playing a 'real' man SEXUAL ambiguity has never looked so hip and appeared so harmless. If you've caught Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which is currently the No 1 movie at the Singapore box office and the second print-to-screen outing for
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        430 52  -  JEANNE TAN Kidman's got the nose wiggle, but not the chemistry with Ferrell FILM REVIEWby" I Bewitched WHEN news of Nicole Kidman playing the role of Samantha Morgan the witch in a remake of the classic TV sitcom, Bewitched got out, people were really curious about how
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        379 54  -  AUDREY PHOON Zombie master Romero returns with a biting satire FILM REVIEWby Land of the Dead HOW do you keep zombies fresh? Just ask George A Romero. The director of cult zombie flicks Night of the Living Dead (1968), Day of the Dead (1978) and Dawn
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        227 54  -  ELISA CHIA FILM REVIEWby WHEN a movie stars not one, not two, but nine awardwinning Asian artistes, expectations are usually high. Surely you can't get more value for your movie ticket than this. But what was director Wong Ching Po thinking when he made the stellar ensemble play
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        347 55  -  Zul Othman Lovehunters on the prowl at carnival zul@newstoday.com.sg IN THE late 80s, The Lovehunters were among Singapore's premier rock outfits. Ferocious live musicians, their seven albums collectively have sold a respectable 250,000 copies on both sides of the Causeway. The band also had the distinction of
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        183 55  -  BY DAVID CHEW FILM REVIEW SET in Beijing, The World tracks the lives of rural folk who move to the Chinese capital in search of a better life. Jia Zhang-ke's latest film has won awards at the Deauville Asian Film Festival 2005 and the 6th Las Palmas International
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      578 62 AFP All Blacks cannot forget 2003 World Cup loss and expect a strong home show TRI-NATIONS RUGBY Australia v New Zealand SYDNEY The All Blacks cannot be accused of going into tomorrow's pivotal TriNations rugby Test here against wounded Australia with their eyes shut. All this
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      153 62 AFP PERTH The Springboks yesterday laughed off claims by a former Super 12's rugby coach that their line-out ace Victor Matfield had been using a steel plate in his armguard. After the team touched down here ahead of next week's Tri-Nations clash against Australia, coach Jake
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      397 62 -AFP BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania Star receiver Terrell Owens left the Philadelphia Eagles training camp yesterday, after being suspended by the team following an argument with coach Andy Reid. "Terrell Owens has been sent home from training camp due to undisclosed team issues. He is expected
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      Lock icon Darling Tonique, gold Clay
      514 63 Bahamian adds world crown to Olympic title, American gains revenge TRACK AND FIELD World Athletics Championship HELSINKI Tonique Williams-Darling produced a performance worthy of an Olympic champion to add the world 400 m title to her medal collection here on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). America's
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      Lock icon Thunder and lightning fail to disrupt imperious Nadal
      222 63 AFP I TENNIS Masters Series MONTREAL Spanish top seed Rafael Nadal cruised into the third round of the rain-disrupted U552.45 million ($4 million) ATP Masters Series tournament here on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) with a straight-sets win over Brazil's Ricardo Mello.
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      310 63 -AFP NEW DELHI Sourav Ganguly's future as Indian cricket captain will be decided today, when the selectors announce their choice for the tour of Zimbabwe and possibly the rest of the season. Ganguly, India's most successful Test captain with 19 wins, was replaced by his
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      323 64 -AFP ROME Franco Carraro, president of the Italian football federation (FIGC), insists the new Serie A season will begin as scheduled on Aug 28, despite Genoa's ongoing legal battle which has prevented the fixture list from being published. Genoa are appealing against their
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      The curse of self-doubt
      540 64  -  TAN YO-HINN Track and field guru Seagrave says the key to top performance is confidence yohinn@newstoday.com.sg ONE of the biggest criticisms consistently directed at Singapore athletes is their lack of mental strength. According to top speed and sports conditioning coach, Loren Seagrave, confidence is the key
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      332 65  -  JOSE RAYMOND iose@newstoday.com.sg THE national under-18 football squad was rocked last week when a member of the squad was charged with having sex with an under-aged girl. The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) suspended him, along with two other youngsters from Paya
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      483 65  -  CUBBYLEONG Coach Zheng's idea of targets in Anaheim goes against the grain cubby@newstoday.com.sg WITH the rise to world prominence of Ronald Susilo and the golden performance of Li Li in the women's singles at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, expectations have increased for Singapore's top badminton stars.
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      117 65  -  Darren Lai WOODLANDS Wellington closed the gap on leaders Tampines Rovers to seven points last night, after they thumped Paya Lebar Punggol 4-0 in an S-League clash at the Woodlands Stadium. The depleted Rams, missing suspended stars Ahmad Latiff, Goh Tat Chuan, Essa Basile and the injured Park
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      308 65  -  DARREN LAI darren@newstoday.com.sg AFTER a fantastic performance in the trios on Monday when they finished with a silver medal, Singapore's women keglers had been hopeful of doing well in the team event, at the Women's World Championship in Aalborg, Denmark. But the team of Alice Tay,
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      Lock icon THE SHEIK OF TWEAK
      455 66 Warne hits the 600-wicket mark, displaying once again his ability to bounce back CRICKET The Ashes MANCHESTER Legendary Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne has been bamboozling England's batsmen ever since bowling the "ball of the century" to dismiss Mike Gatting at Old Trafford on the 1993 tour.
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      Lock icon Driving ambitions
      469 66  -  RAHUL PATHAK rahul.pathak@newstoday.com.sg VIJAY wouldn't approve. The man who routinely belts 500 balls down the range (in his days as a nobody in Malaysia, he even used to gather them back in buckets and start practising all over again) believes that great ball flight comes from a swing
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      247 66  -  Cubby Leong AFTER three successive heavy losses to South Korea, Japan and China, the Singapore men's hockey team are hoping their remaining two ties in the Macau Seven Nations tournament will be happier affairs. After Wednesday's 9-0 hammering by China in
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      Lock icon Cole likely to pursue appeal
      119 66 AFP LONDON Arsenal defender Ashley Cole is "very likely" to take a restraint of trade case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, after losing his appeal against his guilty verdict in the tapping-up row with Chelsea, his legal team said yesterday. Cole's fine for
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        274 68  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg WITH all the money in the world, which football player would one choose to build a team around? Depending on the era, the names most often mentioned would obviously be Pele, Platini, Maradona, Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo and
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      460 68 -AFP Gifted Brazil rightback reportedly already in England MANCHESTER It has been a pretty low-key summer for Manchester United, as far as bigmoney buys go. Over the last few years, the likes of Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand have ensured the Red Devils were regularly in
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      199 68 LONDON With the new English Premiership season kicking off tomorrow, Liverpool could have discovered the right strike partnership just in time. Spaniard Fernando Morientes scored a brace while Djibril Cisse grabbed the other, as Liverpool cruised to a 3-1 win over CSKA Sofia in
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      866 69  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Second-tier sides in Premiership can't produce an Everton-like show weekeat@newstoday.com.sg IT IS mind-boggling to think that heading into the English Premiership last season, Everton were every bookmakers' favourites for relegation. The Toffee turnaround was spectacular. One season after finishing just above the
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      113 69 AFP LONDON Bastia defender Alexandra Song (picture) has joined Arsenal on a oneyear loan deal. The two clubs have agreed on a fee of £2.75 million ($8 million), if Arsenal decide to sign him on a permanent basis next summer. Bastia were relegated from
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