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    11 1 TODAY /AehiaCorp incorporating utfCiltS Tuesday August 16,2005 todayonline.com MICA (P) 112/07/2005
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    A uniquely Singapore sex show
    596 1 SEX in Singapore? A non-event, going by surveys of global sexual habits. But one local company is hoping to change this, by organising Singapore's first sex exhibition. On display will be adult novelty products and sex-friendly furniture, and there will be demonstrations of intimate dancing
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    Finally, after 30 years
    677 1  -  Shibu Itty Kuttickal Jakarta and Aceh separatists sign peace treaty shibu@newstoday.com.sg CAUTIOUS optimism greeted the signing of a peace treaty by the Indonesian government and Aceh rebels in Helsinki, Finland, yesterday to end the nearly 30 years of fighting in the resource-rich province that has killed
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Security on the move
      439 2  -  Jasmine Yin New police MRT unit to deter terror attacks jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg YOU might have seen them yesterday. Donning blue berets and carrying Taurus servicerevolvers, officers from the Police Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) unit reported for their first day of patrols at MRT stations and on trains.
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        What Hitler can teach our young
        684 3  -  Frances Hock Lin To think critically, differentiate truth from propaganda and question the facts Ong news@newstoday.com.sg IN JUNE, a group of students inappropriately chose Adolf Hitler Germany's wartime leader who started World War II and killed six million Jews in Europe as their group
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      33 2 ■MyHL^B i\ L X 1 /> II tfJV^H /^^fl| ow c'° y°u ce P a dream alive when the Jy 4| one closest to you wants to bury it? R^T www.shootingstars.com.sg Source: TNS, 2005
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      196 3 f fl I You're closer to success than you think. Your future success begins today! With an impressive $35-million UniCampus* you'll enjoy superb facilities while you pursue recognised programmes awarded by established universities. Many have realised their dreams. You can be next. Call now and start your journey to success.
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  • Singapore news
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      No shortage of hospital beds
      563 4  -  Lee U-Wen A&E services also not compromised, says Health Minister u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WITH the sharp rise in dengue and chickenpox cases, and twice as many non-critical ambulance cases heading for it, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) has found itself running out of beds and having to
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      Govf s pro-family policies bearing fruit
      144 4 LATEST statistics from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) show that the Government's pro-family policies seem to be paying off. The number of citizen births between May and July this year increased by 3 per cent, as compared to the same
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      Private sector to build for HDB
      281 4 AS PARLIAMENT approved the new design, build and sell, scheme yesterday, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan gave his assurance that it would not lead to a hike in Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat prices. The scheme, which comes under the amended Housing
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      Inside Constance's mind
      680 6  -  Ansley Ng SINDEE MURDER TRIAL ansley@newstoday.com.sg WHAT kind of a person was Constance Chee? Yesterday, a State-appointed psychiatrist gave the court a peek into the psyche of the former Singapore Airlines flight attendant Chee suffers from "simple schizophrenia", a "subtype" of schizophrenia marked by a "development of
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      Charity dinner to pay tribute to President Nathan
      251 6  -  Loh Chee Kong THE BUSINESSMEN originally set a target of $600,000, but, in just three months, raised $843,000 for the President's Challenge instead. But next Monday, at the dinner that is the highlight of the business community's fundraising drive, the 500 businessmen
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        Lock icon 2 men face 9 years jail for "explosive" box threat
        163 7 Channel News Asia Two men were charged in the Subordinate Courts yesterday with criminal intimidation after they allegedly left a sealed cardboard box labelled "Explosive" outside the Sats Maintenance Centre. Ahmad Tamrin Salamat and Ahmad Muhssin Adnawi, both 31, are
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        Lock icon Transport minister Down Under
        38 7 938 Live Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong is in Australia for a four-day visit starting today. He will meet with the new Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss, other key ministers and members of parliament.
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      Lock icon Singapore launches Deep Sabre Exercise
      233 7 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE is hosting a multi-national maritime interdiction exercise under the ambit of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Called Exercise Deep Sabre, it will involve about 2,000 personnel from the military, coast guard, customs and other agencies of 13 PSI countries, including Australia,
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      Lock icon Foreign workers hot potatoes
      370 7 938 Live 400 employers nailed in first half of year for illegal deployment, hiring THE Government prosecuted 3,180 employers over the past five years for either illegally deploying or employing foreign workers, and the culprits are usually in the construction and marine industry. Between January and
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      Early dry spell in Singapore put the heat on firefighters
      304 7  -  Dawn Quek SINGAPORE'S firefighters were busy in the first half of this year. Between January and June, 2,816 fires broke out around the island, a marked increase of 310 cases from the same period last year. Non-building fires such as
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      139 7 ma s ran fu» nouse receipt anywhere in I (&(&cn a day in August. (suV, f2Xs)u fc\ <^ Present today's or \s\aTO\-\NU\e Jl*^, ■/Ma§!\ i^ yesterday's charge slip and sweet w\at\\a J| j| J j J^\ your current day coupon has swept V (which has been _«"<l Singapore this JV
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  • I world news
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      Lock icon Chest-deep in floodwater
      53 8 Flash floods have submerged much of northern Thailand in muddy water, leaving at least five people dead. In Chiang Mai, where this man was photographed clinging to a tree outside his home, the floodwater was chest-deep. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said: "This flooding is the worst in
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      Lock icon Koizumi apologises, avoids war shrine
      329 8 Agencies 60th anniversary of war sees anti-Japan protests TOKYO While Asia commemorated the 60th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi tried to salve old wounds by apologising for the "great damages and pain" his country had inflicted on
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      Lock icon World urged to help fight Tamil Tigers
      197 8 Agencies COLOMBO Sri Lanka wants the world to take antiterrorism measures against the Tamil Tiger rebels, Foreign Secretary S Paliakkara an said, declaring that the guerrillas had "gone too far" by assassinating the country's foreign minister, who was cremated at sunset yesterday. The
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        Lock icon Gaza withdrawal: Just another Sharon ploy?
        649 10  -  John Gee Move allows Israeli PM to avoid Palestinian statehood issue news@newstoday.com.sg MORE than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled their homes in the West Bank and Gaza in 1948, when the state of Israel was created. Most left in fear of injury or massacre, leaving
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      Lock icon Israel will hold on to six West Bank settlements
      225 10 Agencies NEVE DEKALIM (Gaza Strip) Israeli troops met with protests in the largest Gaza settlement yesterday as they marched there to hand out eviction notices, while Israel declared it intended to keep control of six West Bank settlement blocs in a
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      Lock icon Most of the 121 on board were probably dead before crash
      292 12 AFP ROME The worst airline crash in the history of Greece on Sunday was one of the most mysterious in aviation history. Most of the 121 people on a Cypriot airliner which slammed into a wooded hill near Athens
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      Lock icon Call centres in India selling data
      256 12 AFP Tens of thousands at risk of fraud SYDNEY Workers at call centres based in India are selling personal information which puts tens of thousands of people at risk of computer fraud, Australia's ABC Television said yesterday. The network's reporters, posing as interested businessmen,
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Don't reduce Bashir sentence, says Australia
        63 12 -AFP Australia will ask Indonesia not to reduce the jail sentence of Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his role in instigating the Bali bombings, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday. Bashir, jailed in March for 30 months, will have his sentence cut like
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        Lock icon Detained in China for reading Quran
        66 12 AFP The authorities in China's Mus-lim-majority Xinjiang region have detained a Uighur woman and 37 of her students for studying the Quran, a rights group said yesterday. Ms Amman Momixi, 56, was teaching the Quran to her students, aged between seven and 20, at
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        Lesbians, single women to win right to IVF
        38 12 Lesbians and single women are poised to win the right to seek in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment in the first overhaul of Britain's fertility laws for 15 years, The Independent reported.
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      29 10 Hit c llivnl -i hr« g srTfcW7!srrHiß I^4 SEE WHAT ALL THE NOISE IS ABOUT y 4* y /'EXPLOSIVE JOYh^/ WILDLY CREATIVE' -THE NEW YORK TIMES iii-ifiWiiffiiis ifcf aji^
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      172 11 Chl"iS l "I'm at the arcade. I B The Blaster Master game's I Sso cool man! I was like I 9 bada dada da ba da ba da I Iba do. Rnd the explosions I B mere unreal -Ke Bish ka S I bo bo. Hnd suddenly the lasers were
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      135 12 POEMS Mobile J^~~ POEMS WAP is now POEMS Mobile! POEMS Mobile allows you to access SGX stock information, place trades and review your watch lists through a mobile phone or PDA. It uses the latest secured mobile technology via WIFI, GPRS or WAP. Ob flr ml Br »B' W ™v
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      Focus On The Family
      243 14  -  Dr James Dobson w TOD«"s by j RECOGNISING MENTAL ILLNESS Every parent of a teenager may wonder at some point if their son or daughter has gone crazy. How can you tell the difference between normal behaviour and the beginnings of mental illness? Dr Paul Meier,
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      isay LET US RIDE OUR OWN CPF BIKE
      612 14  -  Charles Tan Meah Yang CONTRIBUTING to the press is hardly my style, but the article Today ran on Friday about the four social activists campaigning for CPF reform compelled me to respond. So, rather than get myself arrested for being a public
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      Make green more gettable
      356 15  -  |PRAVEENTHERAN No better time to promote hybrid cars Letter from IN VIEW of the increasing fuel prices, I think it is a good time for the Government to bring forward its review of the existing rebates for green cars. Currently, buyers of hybrid cars get a
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      READER'S SHORT TAKES
      209 15 R Azhar I COULDN'T agree more with Mr Lim Boon Hee's ideas (Aug 15). Something should be done now to tackle the haze problem before it affects us badly. I once put up a suggestion that water sprinklers be installed on all building roofs, which can be
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    • Letter
      Increments should apply to NSmen second time around
      216 15  -  |VINCENTLAIWAIYIN I Letter from I REFER to Sebastian Ng Sui Chye's letter, "Reinstate NS pay for ex-army regulars" (Aug 15). I think he is referring to exarmy regulars who have contracted to serve as career soldiers upon enlistment for national service. Upon
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      Allow for President to continue in office without contest
      163 16  -  [DRCHANKIMYONG Letter from MR S R Nathan is, without doubt, an excellent choice for the Presidency and he has my admiration and full support However, in order to not embarrass a future candidate whom the Government wishes to nominate to continue
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      Literary arts scene here not so bleak
      478 16  -  R RAMACHANDRAN Various agencies working to help writers Letter from I National Book Development Council of Singapore I REFER to Mr Liang Dingzi's News Comment, "Nobel dreams just fiction here?" (Aug 12). I agree with the general tone of his article, but the
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      When 5 years of learning proves worthless
      279 18  -  PADMINI KESAVAPANY Teachers should lay the foundation of good English Letter from MS JUNE Seah's letter ("Bad signs ahead", Aug 12) prompted me to comment based on my personal experience. This could be an isolated case or only the tip of an iceberg.
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      Look at how they ruined our new park
      91 18  -  ARUN X S Letter from, I LIVE near the newly-opened Woodland Crescent Park a hangout for joggers, kids and residents. But it seems like some folks enjoyed a party on Aug 5 too much to clean up. I saw cigarette butts, splashed
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  • Businesstoday
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      CORPORATEbriefs
      247 21 Singapore Airlines filled 69.1 per cent of its capacity last month, up from 68.8 per cent in July last year, with passenger numbers outpacing an increase in flights. The airline filled 78.7 per cent of total passenger seats in July, up from 78 per cent in the same month
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      Lock icon Singapore banks' Indian niche
      370 21 Dow Jones Credit penetration low in the South Asian country and poised to grow strongly: Morgan Stanley SINGAPORE banks can take advantage of a recent economic pact with India by buying stakes in Indian banks and bolstering future partners with technology and capital, US investment bank
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    • business news
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        Loh Wai Kiewto head Shell's global marine products unit
        187 22 MS LOH Wai Kiew (picture), the chief executive officer of SembCorp Environmental Management (SembEnviro), is quitting to head Royal Dutch Shell's global marine products business. The appointment of Ms Loh is effective from Nov 1. After a period of familiarisation in
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        Informatics slashes losses
        151 22 INFORMATICS Holdings slashed its net loss by 85 per cent to $3.9 million, or 1.01 cents per share, for its first quarter ended June 30 from the same period a year earlier. The education services provider achieved this by cutting $11.6 million in operating expenses and $4
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      • marketWATCH
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          World markets
          56 22 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 12,256.55 15,466.06 4,425.50 6,245.13 Closed 927.92 675.52 1,118.27 2,005.99 238.78 Closed Pis -5.13 -0.04 +15.11 +0.10 -6.30 -0.14 -105.77 -1.67 -9.12 -0.97 -6.43 -0.94
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          Your S$l buys
          36 22 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6028 0.3332 66.066 4.6836 2.2631 0.4873 5,959.1 24.731 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 33.623 0.7817 26.247 611.91 0.7213 0.4883 0.8518 19.266
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          Commodities
          21 22 Gold us$/oi Silver us$/oi Platinum us$/oi 448.10 7.06 912.00 Rubber centsAg 258.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,383.00 Brent crude us$/barrel 66.43
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          Lock icon Singapore
          124 22 Dow Jones SHARES closed lower yesterday, tracking losses on Wall Street on Friday due to record-high oil prices, traders said. Lacklustre earnings from some big local companies also damped market sentiment, they added. The ST Index fell by 23.44 points, or 1.02 per cent, to close at 2,279.76. In
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          ST Index —- 2,279.76 -23.44
          4 22 ST Index 2,279.76 -23.44
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          Lock icon SGX most active
          63 22 SGX, Dow Jones, Bloomberg Information provided by By volume Biosensors GlobalVoke Sing Tel Capitaland UniFiber Union Steel Bio-Treat Achieva MapletreeLog STATSChP Close 0.965 0.075 2.610 2.840 0.370 0.195 0.785 0.080 0.995 1.020 Change -0.085 -0.010 -0.010 +0.020 -0.005 -0.010 +0.005 -0.020 -8.1 -11.8 -0.4 +0.7 -1.3 -1.3
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          SGX top rises
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          SGX top falls
          77 22 By$ F&N Close Change 16.700 -0.800 Jardine C&C 12.100 -0.400 JMH 400USS 17.600 -0.300 KepCorp 12.700 -0.300 Venture 14.800 -0.300 STI ETF100 CapilalanMBLeCW***** 23.340 -0.260 0.515 -0.245 Creative 50 JSH 500USS 11.800 -0.200 10.600 -0.200 nrnr »u wmk i nn By percentage TACMBLeCW*****2 Close Change 0.020 -50.0
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        SC Global fails to add Vantage to its stable
        264 28 PROPERTY developer Simon Cheong has failed in his bid to take control of Vantage Corp, with his investment vehicle SC Global Developments garnering only 24.35 per cent of the company at the close of its offer yesterday. SC Global's offer comprising
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        Lock icon Deutsche Bank to advise Unifiber on Kiani Kertas buy
        116 28 Bloomberg MAINBOARD-LISTED United Fiber System (Unifiber) has appointed Deutsche Bank to advise it on the proposed purchase of Indonesia's Kiani Kertas, the company said in a statement yesterday. Deutsche will also help Unifiber arrange financing for the purchase of a majority
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  • Wealth your personal finance special
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      Lock icon How much insurance do you need?
      745 24  -  Christopher Tan Most of our protection needs are temporary. With term plans, you can afford to cover yourself fully news@newstoday.com.sg MOST of us own whole life insurance plans. They are meant to protect us against death, disability or a major illness for our entire
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      UOB raises home interest rates
      210 26  -  Chow Perm Nee pennnee@newstoday.com.sg Bank's 0.25 percentage point hike in board rate will take effect on Sept 10 THE United Overseas Bank (UOB) has become the last of the local banks to raise its home loan rates due to rising cost of funds. The bank
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      Money Sense to focus on the poor
      237 26 LOW-income families and housewives will be given special attention as a national financial education scheme ramps up its seminars in the heartlands. According to Mr Hawazi Daipi, Senior Parliamentary Secretary of Manpower, a series of "Financial Planning for Families" seminars will be conducted
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      297 24 f The key to successful stock market investment starts Organiser r\icrr«v»=»r right here at "2005 Discover IPO Gems" seminar. II7T7,CuT/^/"YI% /FT) I Key players from 12 listed companies come together yy H\III I yI X rn^Wg and share their management insights and market T JLjkJ J- \y\JLi LU I I
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      84 28 1 ™sw«nt $888 to Paris on KLM The guru says: A world of savings awaits the global traveller. At prices as low as this, you can go anywhere in the world you want. With no credit card fees and free ticket delivery, you would be crazy not to get away.
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      Agilent sells off more than $4b worth of shares
      507 31  -  Seah Siew Hua Equity firms KKR and Silver Lake buy its semiconductor unit siewhua@newstoday.com.sg I AGILENT Technologies has sold its semiconductor business to United States private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners for about U552.66 billion
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      329 31 D-Link DPH-120S VoIP Telephone Built for corporate use, the D-Link DPH-120S VoIP phone comes with a speakerphone, call forwarding, voice mail, three-way conference calling, call waiting, address book and menu key features. Voice clarity is ensured with acoustic echo cancellation, voice activity detection/comfort noise generation and adaptive jitter buffer.
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        383 32  -  Seah Slew Hua I THE days of delivering workplace I solutions through a browser or client server model will soon come to an end. According to Mr Frank Luksic, the vice-president of workplace, portal and collaboration for IBM (Asia-Pacific), organisations should look at on-demand
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        507 32  -  Seah Siew Hua Soon, with region's fast-growing market solutions siewhua@newstoday.com.sg THE market for web I conferencing solutions may be reaching saturation point in the United States. But here in the AsiaPacific, it is just taking off, said Ms Leesa Lee, Macromedia's senior product manager (Australia
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        652 33  -  Adriaan Pelzer Has instant messaging edged out email? infotech@newstoday.com.sg IN THE past eight years or so, I instant messaging and voice over Internet protocol (IP) have all but taken the world of online communication by storm. The rate at which this is taking place is such that experts
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        179 33 CITRIX Online has released an I enhanced version of its online meeting solution GoToMeeting 2.0 to help businesses of all sizes to benefit from real-time collaboration. Some of the key features include desktop recording and playback, annotation tools to increase group interaction, specific application sharing
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          1 -petabyte storage capacity
          88 33 EMC has launched the Symmetrix Direct Matrix Architecture (DMX)-3 system, which is capable of storing one petabyte (1,024 terabytes) of data. Compared to the DMX-2 system, the DMX-3 features increased internal bandwidth and processing power and includes global memory directors based on DDR SDRAM memory technologies.
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          An agile SOA infrastructure
          53 33 BEA Systems' new Aqua Logic Service Bus 2.0 manages a fully-deployed Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) across multiple application platforms, whether they are based on Java or .Net. It offers intelligent messaging, routing and transformation that can support heterogeneous end-points, combined with capabilities for service registration, monitoring
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      177 34 2005 Are you competitive to stay employable for tomorrow? DATE 19 -20 August 2005 1 VENUE: Suntec I Singapore International Convention Exhibition Centre, Level 3 Infocomm Admission is FREE i^Ullllddlwll Id FREE Training Awards t l i 1 (Pre-Registration required) I Mwaras Technical A Tracks i '/a. Certification &//> Certification
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    535 35 Singapore takes lead in helping infocomm professionals to upgrade IN MARCH this year, Singapore was ranked as the most net-work-ready country in the world, in an annual survey by the World Economic Forum on an index measuring the ability to exploit infocomm opportunities. Singapore's continuing efforts to
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      205 35 B^^ _>>^ll^^_ Brought to you by n^, 2005 ENHANCE YOURSELF IN A SMARTER WAY PACE 2005 (Promoting Accreditation, Competency Employability), ■yMM MpMIiM W!!!Bl!MKM!lffiM^^ a revolutionary 2-day event, will feature leading presentations Hlffl* mm on compelling business/technical issues with concentrated emphasis XljTiTiu on INFOCOMM industry trends. Covering the latest market trends/developments
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    1210 36 IT Training investment or cost? Most companies in NICC survey say that they are successful at retaining the staff they sponsor for courses COST is usually a major consideration when companies think of IT training. But there are determinants other than cost to justify the need for training. Should training
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    318 36 AIRRAID Wireless Hacking Challenge NICC challenges infocomm security professionals to test their skills at AIRRAID a Wireless Penetration Contest at PACE 2005. The tournament recognises the challenge from a new generation of hackers and gives security professionals a chance to test their skills against the
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    563 37 Those in the sector find its fast pace exciting, motivating GLOBALLY, there is a gradual decrease in women contributing to the IT industry. In the United States, for instance, the percentage of women employed in the industry has fallen by almost 18.5 per cent since 1996, according
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        91 38  - Peace, Love Truth John Lennon It's not easy to pull off a remix compilation, especially when i means having to rework the classics. The concept Asian artistes re-jigging John Lennon's back catalogue may be bold but the reality paints a different picture. The remixers have fused hip-hop with Lennon's vocals.
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        136 38  -  Michael Jackson Given Jackson's recent woes, it is expected that the selfdeclared King of Pop would continue to flog his back catalogue. But as an objective overview of Wacko's career, The Essential is unbeatable. Fans couldn't ask for anything sweeter disc one kicks off with the Jackson s's
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        102 38  -  James Blunt Like a more upbeat Damien Rice and a less miserable David Gray, former army officer James Blunt ploughs through a familiar melancholy furrow to create one of the more memorable debuts this year, Back To Bedlam. Recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Tom Rothrock,
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        92 38  -  Taufik Batisah The Singapore Idol's latest song Ist is written by Shooting Stars' executive producer Ken Lim and is the first new song recorded for the show. While there are no plans to release the song yet, it may be compiled into a soundtrack for the show (with all
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      1011 38 Agencies But iconic Beatles legend still can't escape controversy NEW YORK Paul McCartney is played by a black man. Elton John is portrayed by a woman. There is only one bona fide original Beatles song in the Broadway musical and the band's devotees are calling it nothing short
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      394 40  -  Jeanine Tan /do/finalist Jessea Thyidor is stunned by TV show's success jeanine@newstoday.com.sg TEASSEA Thyidor, currently starring I in the Singapore Idol drama Shooting Stars, was stunned. She had no idea that she and the rest of the former Singapore Idol finalists were such big draws that a phenomenal
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        76 40 top Members of U2 received Portugal's Order of Liberty, one of the country's highest honours, on Sunday, in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes over the past 25 years. President Jorge Sampaio presented the medals to the four musicians in a formal ceremony at the presidential
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        Make a film on your mobile phone
        108 40 Discovery Networks Asia and Nokia are searching for new talent in Asia for mobile filmmaking. In the Mobile First Time Filmmakers Contest 2005, shortlisted finalists will stand to win US$lO,OOO ($16,600) by filming on their Nokia N9O models. To participate, interested parties should
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        March for the
        62 40 Penguins Bird lovers can do their bit for the penguin conservation efforts at the Jurong Bird Park, by buying tickets to the charity premiere of the acclaimed documentary, March of the Penguins. Tickets from Sistic are priced at $12 for adults and $1 0 for children. For
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        71 40 Fancy going on a dinner date with Womad artistes Amber from Wicked Aura Batucada and James from The Reggae Revolution? Make your bid on www.eßay.com.sg by Aug 22. All proceeds will go to charity. Successful bidders will enjoy chauffeured service for the evening in a Subaru
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      The original hitchhiker
      375 41  -  David Chew British actor Jones recalls being a guide to the galaxy david.chew@newstoday.com.sg THE world has a lot to thank Simon Jones for. If not for him, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy might not exist Adams' classic radio show which was later turned into
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      A Bollywood legend
      186 41  -  SHIBU ITTY KUTTICKAL CONCERT REVIEW BY jg jj,f.m,.,m).i:U AS SHE strolled on to the stage at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Saturday evening, there was some apprehension. Organisers revealed she had a fever: Would it affect her performance? But when the elegant 72-year-old Asha Bhosle started crooning,
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      540 42  -  Recta Raman Cervical cancer can be treated before it becomes fatal reeta@newstoday.com.sg Hong Kong celebrity Anita Mvi succumbed to it. Annually, 100 Singaporean women die from this disease. Every year, about 200 women in Singapore are diagnosed with cervical cancer. It is the fifth most common cancer among
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      Cervical Screen Singapore
      67 42 This is a national cervical cancer screening programme aimed at encouraging all women aged 25 to 69 to go for regular pap smear tests once every three years. Subsidised screening is available in government polyclinics for $15 if you go for the test once every three years.
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      202 43  -  Brenda Chew Raisins are considered nature's original candy bursting with nutritional goodness and packed with natural sugars. Their wholesome and pleasant saccharine flavour comes from fructose, or fruit sugar. Fructose is easily digested into energy, which explains why raisins are a great snack for those who engage in
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      399 43  -  Recta Raman While most lung cancers occur among smokers, last week, non-smoker, Dana Reeve, the widow of Superman star Christopher Reeve, disclosed that she was being treated for the disease. Her announcement came days after ABC news anchor Peter Jennings, a smoker, died of
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      756 44  -  Recta Raman Know which foods cause and prevent cancer reeta@newstoday.com.sg FROM soybean to spring onions to green tea, research has pointed out the powerful role food and beverages play in cancer. Driving home that point is research in medical journals such as the Haematology/ Oncology Clinics of North
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      607 45 Three approaches to relieving this painful rash and keeping it away SHINGLES, also known as herpes zoster, is an uncomfortable and often painful rash. Since it usually appears on the abdomen or buttocks, herpes zoster is named for the Greek word zoster, meaning "girdle". The name shingles
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      178 45  -  Recta Raman MOBILE phones have a useful new function keeping track of their user's health. Jointly set up by mobile provider, Ml, and the Health Promotion Board, this new health section on MiWorld Mobile, Mi's mobile portal, will help customers to keep tabs on their general health.
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      694 46  -  Brenda Chew Doctors say atherosclerosis can begin as early as the age of two brenda@newstoday.com.sg YOU would think that atherosclerosis affects only middle-aged people. Think again. Atherosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries, can begin during childhood and develop during adolescence, doctors warn. According to Dr Warren
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      760 47 My daughter usually complains of abdominal pain prior to her menstrual periods. Two weeks back, she experienced severe pain on the left side, near her pelvic region. The doctor recommended an ultrasound as she could have had a left ovary that was smaller than the right one.
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      404 47 Age-related eye diseases Cataracts, glaucoma, dry eyes and diabetic retinopathy are some of the various topics that will be covered in this forum. Sessions will be conducted in English, Tamil, Mandarin and Malay. Date: Aug 20 (in English) Time: 10am to noon Venue: Alexandra Hospital, Auditorium Registration/Enquiries: Please
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      431 44 Nine out of ten Singaporeans have no reason to smile. (No, it's not the economy again.) First the bad news. BRUSHING The Adult Oral Health Survey 2003 I J Start with brushing at least conducted by the Health Promotion TTTTmT( twice a day; in the morning Board has reached a
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