Today, 19 August 2005

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    21 1 TODAY /AehiaCofip incorporating utf6£itS MICA (P) 112/07/2005 Friday August 19,2005 todayonline.com TODAY /A=diaCorp incorporating Friday August 19,2005 todayonline.com MICA (P) 112/07/2005
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    Lock icon Seven years on, vindication and RM4.5 million for Anwar
    633 1 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Seven years later, the wheel appears to have turned quite dramatically for former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (picture). In 1998, when he took on his mentor Mahathir Mohamad, he was fair game for his enemies. Yesterday,
    -AFP; AFP  -  633 words
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    Lock icon New NKF board whistles for cops
    676 1  -  Lee U-Wen and Tan Hui Leng CAD called in as it stumbles across 'matters of grave concern u-wen@newstoday.com.sg EXACTLY one month to the day he stepped into the hot seat at the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), interim chairman Gerard Ec has asked for police
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      30 1 NEWS£\yiEWS Liang Dingzi Service lessons for The Big Boss/2 mr brown Our curious obsession with urine/26 Stay away What one wife did to 'the other woman/28 B^k A 3 19^1
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        Service lessons for The Big Boss
        648 2  -  Liang Dingzi news@newstoday.com.sg I AM perturbed by the constricted view that a customer has equal responsibility for the poor service we experience in Singapore. It is not a vicious chicken-and-egg argument, as some believe. The imperative to provide satisfactory service rests entirely with the
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      Lock icon Armed and ready to confront terrorists
      77 2 A team from Singapore's Naval Diving Unit rappel from a Singapore Air Force Super Puma helicopter on board a merchant ship during the Exercise Deep Sabre 2005 military exercises on the South China Sea off Singapore on Wednesday. US-led naval forces and Singapore security
      AFP  -  77 words
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      Kelly, Wei Lian take SuperStar title
      237 3  -  Mervin Tay plus@newstoday.com.sg HE overcame his visual disability, while she overcame a choppy performance in the female finals. Together, Tan Wei Lian and Kelly Poon took top spots in Project SuperStar last night by emerging as the male and female champions respectively. Showing that
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      Meanwhile, a centre warts for sponsors
      216 3  -  Lee U-Wen THE ongoing controversy surrounding the National Kidney Foundation may be having an adverse effect on its patients, too. Today has learned that, as part of the interim board's work, the foundation has decided to build a new dialysis centre to serve a
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      Lock icon Top business paper to take tabloid route
      577 4  -  Derrick A Paulo The new Wall Street Journal Asia says that's the future derrick@newstoday.com.sg IT WILL be more than just a change of name for the Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ) come October. It will be the newspaper's way of charting its future
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      Trader sued for dodging GST
      290 4  -  Val Chua IN THE first case of its kind, signalling a toughening stance, the taxman has taken a businessman to court for failing to register the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for his company. Jewellery trader Foo Kia Loang, the co-partner of Loang Noi partnership,
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      Lock icon Brunei to ink taxation deal with Singapore
      73 4 938 Live Bruneian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Prince Mohamed Bolkiah (right) chatting with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during a call at the Istana yesterday. Both men reaffirmed the close ties between Singapore and Brunei. A bilateral Agreement for the Avoidance of
      938 Live; AFP  -  73 words
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        Lock icon Man charged for hoax
        100 4 938 Live A 42-year-old man has been charged in connection with a bomb hoax at Hougang MRT station last Friday. Liv Tze Yuen is accused of placing a suspicious package on the platform of the MRT station at about 12.30pm. The white package, wrapped with scotch
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        Lock icon Man crushed by vehicle
        87 4 Channel News Asia A man was crushed to death yesterday morning after the excavator he was operating overturned. The accident happened at Pasir Panjang Road Gate 3. The Singapore Civil Defence Force said the man was driving the excavator up some wooden struts onto a prime
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        Lock icon Took verdict in next few weeks
        82 4 938 Live The verdict of the murder trial of Took Leng How (picture), the man accused of killing eight-year-old Huang Na, is likely to be announced in the next few weeks. Lawyers for Took filed their closing written submissions, which could not be made
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        SIA glitch causes delays
        74 4  -  Dawn Quek A technical glitch in the Singapore Airlines' check-in ana reservation system caused a delay of some 20 flights at the Changi Airport yesterday. The system, which broke down at about 7am, was restored about an hour later. Long queues formed at the check-in counters
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        Lock icon Woman faces 80 charges of maid abuse
        66 4 Channel News Asia A 28-year-old woman has been slapped with 80 charges of maid abuse. Sazarina Madzin allegedly punched, slapped and hit her 22-year-old Indonesian maid Winik Setyonati between May last year and February this year. The accused is appealing against the charges
        — Channel News Asia  -  66 words
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      Lock icon The dealings before the demolition
      736 6  -  Loh Chee Kong 12 accept LTA offer, moves to help eligible owners buy flats early cheekong@newstoday.com.sg SOME residents of a five-storey building earmarked for demolition are edging towards a settlement with the Land Transport Authority (LTA). But with time ticking away, others want to hold
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      Lock icon Scientists gear up for brave new world
      520 8 Channel News Asia $7b boost in R&D budget will fund more research RESEARCH institutes and universities here welcome the news that research and development (R&D) funding will be increased to $12 billion over the next five years. The amount, announced by Deputy Prime
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      Many one-cents add up to $1m donation
      320 8  -  Dawn Quek YOU might have helped pay for a share of this $1,063,000 cheque. Over the past year, for every house brand and private label item sold, as well as weekly-advertised offer item sold at its outlets, NTUC Fair Price has been putting
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      Lock icon KKH to study pre-term Asian baby care
      219 8 938 Live XX Women's and Children's Hospital is set to conduct a first-ever study of the nutritional needs of Asian preterm babies. Currently, the nutritional intake of pre-term babies those born before their full term of 37 weeks is based on international standards.
      – 938 Live  -  219 words
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      He'll weep, but he can now walk alone
      587 10  -  Loh Chee Kong 1_ l __sz\__ j_ T Teenager's school has taught him to handle Down's Syndrome, now he's ready for National Service cheekong(gnewstoday.com.sg LIKE many other 18-year-olds, Bakarth M is about to enter National Service and the adjustment will not be
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      First local Tamil degree programme
      412 10  -  Lee U-Wen FOR over 30 years, Tamil language teachers in Singapore have longed to get a local Tamil degree, which would boost their qualifications as well as their salaries. The only option available to those who wanted to upgrade themselves was to attend universities in
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      Lock icon After haze, the long dry spell
      357 12 Rationing kicks in as major dams across Malaysia record all-time lows KUALA LUMPUR Just as the skies are beginning to clear from last week's severe haze, several areas across Malaysia may face a water crisis. Major dams across the country have recorded all-time low
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      Smoking kids face threat of cancer
      157 12 KUALA LUMPUR Children as young as six are puffing away in Malaysia, the New Straits Times reported. A quarter of all youth in the country smoke most of them between 13 and 17 and a third of all smokers are young women. The newspaper
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      Lock icon Religious leader killed at prayer
      145 12 Agencies PARIS The interfaith Taize community was yesterday trying to take stock of the fatal stabbing of Brother Roger (picture), its popular 90-year-old founder and a celebrated apostle of church unity. Brother Roger Schutz was killed late on Tuesday in front of a congregation of
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        Lock icon Russia, China hold first-ever joint war games
        43 12 -AFP Longtime adversaries Russia and China launched their first-ever joint war games yesterday. "The first joint military exercise in (our) history does not threaten the interests of other countries," Russian chief of staff Yurv Baluyevsky said.
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        Lock icon Indonesian man faces jail for translating Arabic verses
        59 12 AFP An Indonesian man is facing three years' jail for sullying Islam by providing Indonesian translations of Arabic verses during prayers at his Islamic boarding school in Malang. The Indonesian Ulemas Council, the highest authority on Islam in the country, has banned
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        Lock icon Suspected Al Qaeda chief killed
        40 12 AFP One of two militants killed in clashes with Saudi security forces in the city of Medina yesterday was the suspected chief of Al Qaeda in the country, Saleh Al Ufi, the interior ministry confirmed.
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        Lock icon Ali Alatas visits Myanmar as UN special envoy
        27 12 AFP Former Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas arrived yesterday in Myanmar as a special envoy of the United Nations.
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      Lock icon Taipei mayor to head Kuomintang
      208 12 -AP TAIPEI Taiwan's largest opposition party made final preparations yesterday for the installation of a new leader, hopeful that he can return the party to power and improve relations with rival China. Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou (picture), 55, will take over the reins of the
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      Lock icon Many Taiwanese sceptical of official explanation of shooting
      171 12 AFP Many Taiwanese do not believe official claims that an unemployed man who later committed suicide shot at President Chen Shui-bian on the eve or the election, according to a survey by China Times. Results showed that only 19 per cent of
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      Lock icon Radical Islamic prison gang planned to attack LA?
      270 14 -AP LOS ANGELES The United States is investigating whether an alleged terrorist plot to attack Los Angeles-area targets on Sept 11 or Jewish holidays was organised by a militant Islamic gang at a state prison, a top official said. They are examining
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        M'sian mother sells toddler to buy drugs
        58 14 A 29-year-old housewife who was so desperately hooked on drugs sold her two-year-old baby girl to a teacher for RM5,000 ($2,200) to support her habit. When the baby's grandfather tried to get her ack, the teacher was said to have upped the price
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        Baby dies while mum plays slot games
        59 14 A six-month-old baby died in Japan after her mother, 27, left her in a car in the summer heat to play slot games and did not even return during a major earthquake that struck on Tuesday. The baby was left alone for two-and-a-half
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        Lock icon China hit by floods
        41 14 AFP Severe flooding and landslides caused by torrential rains have killed at least 16 people in northern and central China and left 1 8 missing. The heavy rainstorms destroyed many houses and disrupted power, transportation and telecommunications.
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      Lock icon Behind the agony, a dream takes shape
      838 14  -  Clement Mesenas Gaza pullout sparks hope for breakthrough in Mideast peace Foreign Editor clement@newstodav.com.se GAZA STRIP Painful though the process of disengagement from the Gaza Strip may be for Jewish settlers, the operation the first time Israel has withdrawn from Palestinian territory captured
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        Bank not amused with cheeky Bangsar restaurant
        110 16 The next time you drive around Bangsar in Malaysia and see a bright yellow sign with the letters "HSBC", do not mistake it for the financial institution, reported the New Straits Times. The sign is actually for a restaurant, and the "HSBC" acronym
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        Lock icon This beer is 'good' for you
        65 16 AFP An Indian firm has launched a vitamin-rich beer which it says protects the body from the harm ful effects of alcohol, the Press Trust of India reported. Ladybird Bio Beer, which was launched in Kerala, contains aloe-vera extracts as well as the normal
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      Lock icon Britain's top Doliceman in hot water
      541 16 Agencies He tried to stop independent probe into killing of innocent Brazilian LONDON Britain's top police officer, Mr lan Blair (picture), tried to stop an independent external investigation into the shooting of a young Brazilian mistaken for a suicide bomber, newspapers reported, fuelling growing
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      Lock icon Overtime trap – accidents waiting to happen
      302 18 Overtime trap accidents waiting to happen The Guardian Study shows longer work hours can be dangerous and younger workers are most accident prone LONDON Long working hours increase your chances of illness and injury, irrespective of what job you do, an University of Massachusetts study on 11,000 workers over a
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        Lock icon Chemical leak scare in Wales
        55 18 AFP Thousands of people in south Wales were urged to stay at home and keep their windows shut following a suspected chemical leak. No one was hurt in the incident. The unknown chemical leaked from a plant in the Barry Docks area on Wednesday night.
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        Lock icon World first for Vancouver
        59 18 AFP Vancouver International Airport will next year become the first in the world to operate a new radar system that can detect the smallest piece of debris on a runway with pinpoint accuracy. It can detect materials the size of a five-centimetre bolt to within three
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        Tardiness blamed on cell phones
        68 18 Mobile phones have made people less organised and more willing to be late when meeting their friends, according to a survey on 1,000 mobile phone users. Nearly one in five people said they were being unreliable about timekeeping because they had the "safety net" of
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        Lock icon Australian tourist turns hero
        56 18 AFP A 60-year-old unnamed Australian tourist leapt from a pleasure boat on the River Thames in London to save a woman spotted jumping off a bridge in an apparent suicide bid. The pair were fished out by coastguards. Officials thanked the man for saving the woman
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        Warning on ayurvedic remedies
        45 18 Ayurvedic remedies available in Britain may contain dangerous levels of heavy metals, a healthy ministry warning said. Many of the products contain mercury, arsenic and lead, reported The Times of London. The metals can cause severe nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
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      Lock icon Banned Islamic group linked to blasts in Bangladesh
      308 20 AFP DHAKA-The banned Islamic extremist group Jamayetul Mujahideen has been linked to Wednesday's bombings across Bangladesh. Some 350 devices exploded, killing two people and injuring 100. Police said they had rounded up almost 90 people in the wake of the attacks, which
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        Lock icon Ten killed in Thai floods
        50 20 AFP The death toll from last weekend's flash floods in northern Thailand has risen to 1 0, with six people still missing, the interior ministry said yesterday. Seven people died in Mac Hong Son province, two in Lampang and one in tourist magnet Chiang Mai.
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        Lock icon China's anti-terror police
        53 20 -AFP China is setting up special anti-terror and anti-riot police units, equipped with everything from batons to helicopters in 36 large cities. One of the first detachments, a 500-member elite squad, has just been formed in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China's unrest-prone Henan province, the Xinhua
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        50,000 women in Pakistan's local polls
        83 20 Nearly 50,000 women candidates contested yesterday in local body elections in half of Pakistan's 110 districts. Voting in the remaining districts will be held next week. Political parties are not allowed to take part in the polls but a specific quota for women and
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        Lock icon Man fined for smuggling turtles wrapped in socks
        64 20 -AFP A Japanese man was fined A 524,600 ($31,000) yesterday for trying to smuggle 24 protected turtles and a lizard out of Australia. Thirteen of the native oblong turtles, which were tightly wrapped in socks, died, the Customs Service said in a
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      Lock icon The future is in the boardroom for US, India
      825 20  -  Tom Sullivan But inadequate infrastructure and poverty is preventing the Asian giant from exploiting close ties news@newstoday.com.sg AS THE political reverberations of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington last month begin to fade, business leaders and analysts in India
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      150 14 PUBLIC FORUMS IN ENGLISH, MANDARIN AND MALAY "We Can Make a Difference" In commemoration of World Alzheimer's Day 2005 10 September 2005, Saturday Dementia presents one of the greatest health and (Registration starts at lpm) social challenges of our time. It affects one In 20 Vfkrlf l-lntol over the age
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      Focus On The Family
      232 22  -  Dr James Dobson m TtHMTs by > OUT OF WORK Unemployment it doesn't just affect individuals; it can devastate entire families. Author Donna Partow, a mom with an unemployed husband, says that unemployment is just plain hard work and it's tough on everyone. Her husband, Cameron,
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      Nation of copycats, not entrepreneurs
      279 22  -  STEVE X NGO Most are out just to make a quick buck Letter from I CONGRATULATE Mr Vincent Chia on his excellent commentary, "Can entrepreneurs be mass produced?" (Aug 18). My view is that there are more business people than entrepreneurs in Singapore. It sickens
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    • Letter
      Review CPFIS agent bank fees
      216 22  -  GARY LEE Letter from FURTHER to the letters by Mr Charles Tan Meah Yang and Mr Benjamin Gan (Aug 15 and 17), I think a CPF Board review of the CPFIS fees and charges is way overdue. The fees and charges imposed by CPF agent
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      singaporeseen
      119 22 Faces of contentment Product design engineer Ronnie Gob Leong Cheng captured this scene while walking through the busy marketplace of Chinatown on a Saturday afternoon. What caught his attention were the smiles, chattiness and the expression of joy on the faces of these people. To Mr Goh, 38, they
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    • Letter
      Treating foreign workers at cost of Singaporeans?
      142 22  -  WONGSEKCHOON Letter from I REFER to the report, "Sorry, dengue patients first" (Aug 18). I am surprised that foreign workers are given free treatment at Tan Tock Seng Hospital's Communicable Disease Centre. One can see how this would encourage foreign workers to come
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      Licence not revoked automatically if cabbie has criminal record
      153 22  -  HAN LIANG YUAN I Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, Land Transport Authority I REFER to the letter by Mr Lum Choong Eu about the taxi driver whose vocational licence was revoked (Aug 16). LTA can suspend or revoke vocational licences
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      Suggestions for tighter MRT security
      228 24  -  KHOO LIH-HAN Letter from I REFER to the article, "Security on the move", (Aug 16) by Jasmine Yin. I thank the Government for the beefed-up security measures at MRT stations. But I have a few concerns and suggestions. Firstly, can the police officers patrol as
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      Some things worth more than ranking
      528 24  -  CLASS OF 4H/2004 Victoria School, co-ed? Camaraderie, history will be lost Victoria School WE ARE writing as a graduating class of Victoria School 2004. We are usually thrilled to see our alma mater being mentioned in the papers, yet we read with disappointment and
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      Working to resolve Ikea traffic situation
      96 24  -  HAN LIANG YUAN I Letter from Senior manager, Corporate Communications Land Transport Authority I WOULD like to thank Mr David Kwok for his letter about the traffic situation along Alexandra Road, outside the entrance to the Ikea car park (Aug 12). I am pleased
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      Lock icon Urine hub of Asia?
      996 26  -  mr brown news@newstoday.com.sg First Newater, now urine-powered paper battery. A two-in-one combo unit may lie ahead WHAT is up with Singaporeans and our obsession with urine? From the same country that gave us Newater, that refreshing beverage magically created out of our sewage, comes another human-waste-inspired
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      Lock icon Stay away from my husband, you hearl
      1438 28  -  I MRS TAN Wong Fei Wan faun in ttin nrnwrl 44, sales manager THERE are dozens of conflicting emotions, and even more difficult questions, that a woman whose husband has cheated on her goes through. Mrs Tan (not her real name) is no
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      26 24 MR BROWN: URINE HUB OF ASIA? pJ9 First Newater, now urine-powered paper J^S battery. A two-in-one combo unit may lie "H^^Kl i ahead (S/^HCSI PAGE 26
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      422 30 Agencies Partners Deutsche Bank to buy into lender in deal worth as much as $3.6b SINGAPORE'S largest lender, DBS Bank, is tying up with Germany's Deutsche Bank to buy a stake in China's Guangdong Development Bank (GDB) for as much as
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      211 30 Agencies LONDON Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) said yesterday it would pay US$l.6 billion ($2.7 billion) to take a 5.2-per-cent stake in Bank of China (BOC), which is owned by the Chinese government. A unit of Merrill Lynch and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing
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      257 30  -  Val Chua IN THEIR preparation for the trial related to the huge losses suffered by China Aviation Oil (CAO) last year, defence lawyers representing three CAO directors have requested additional documents, including videotapes, from the prosecutors. The videotapes are recordings of CAO board meetings,
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          60 32 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp KLCI SET Index Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex Value *****.37 *****.09 4442.90 6205.09 1092.71 923.64 672.02 1100.29 1979.12 231.18 7811.33 Change Pis +34.25 -301.49 -24.90 -36.83 -20.54 -2.74 +4.53 -13.52 -5.98 -5.32 -48.20 +0.28
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          36 32 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6013 0.3329 66.098 4.673 2.2656 0.49 5957.1 24.832 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NTS 33.605 0.7906 26.177 612.42 0.7294 4.8701 0.8582 19.263
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          21 32 Gold us$/oi Silver us$/oi Platinum us$/oz 443.90 6.99 888.00 Rubber centsAg 256.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1363.00 Brent crude us$/borrel 63.45
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          99 32  -  SGX, Bloomberg BLUE chips closed slightly higher on limited bargain hunting as market sentiment was helped by overnight gains on Wall Street. The ST Index rose 2.47 points, or 0.1 1 per cent, to 2,282.70. However, decliners led advancers 278 to 242, while 1.04 billion shares worth $1.1 billion
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          56 32 By volume Close GlobalVoice 0.085 Capitaland 2.880 LMA 0.790 CapilalandDBeCW***** 0.375 Bio-Treat 0.845 CapitalanMBLeCW***** 0.290 SingTel 2.620 STXPO 1.020 UTAC 0.635 AirOcean 0.220 Change +0.005 +0.010 +0.050 +0.020 -0.025 +0.005 +0.010 +0.005 +0.015 +6.3 +0.3 +6.8 +5.6 -2.9 +1.8 +1.0 +0.8 +7.3 'OOO 51,204 49,906 33,558 32,269
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          78 32 By$ Close Change Hyflux CA eCW*****5 1.950 +0.210 Jardine C&C 12.200 +0.200 By percentage Close Change Goldlron 0.015 +50.0 ChinaEnlSp 0.020 +33.3 Venture 15.000 +0.200 FHTK 0.020 +33.3 CITYDEV 8.750 +0.150 HyfluxDB eCW*****7 1.920 +0.150 CITYDEV W*****0 6.200 +0.100 HSI*****SGAePW*****9 0.120 +33.3 TACMBLeCW*****2 0.020 +33.3 Surface MTW*****9
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          76 32 By$ Close Change HSI*****DBeCW*****9 2.730 -0.650 HSI *****DBeCW*****0 1.590 -0.290 HSCEI5000DBeCW*****0 1.140 -0.230 By percentage Close Change NOLDB eCW*****6 0.010 -60.0 Roly W*****8 0.015 -40.0 DalacrflMBLeCW***** 0.345 -33.7 HSCEI5100DBeCW*****9 0.555 -0.225 JSH 500USS 10.200 -0.200 DalacrflMBLeCW***** 0.345 -0.175 SIAMBLeCW*****5 0.020 -33.3 SwingMediaW*****3 0.010 -33.3 HSCEI5100DBeCW*****9 0.555 -28.8
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        443 32 Bloomberg TELEKOM Malaysia is unlikely to receive a significant earnings boost from its purchase of a stake in Mobile One (Ml) because of the limited size and reach of Singapore's smallest mobile phone company, analysts said. "It's marginally positive but not meaningful," said Baring
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        933 42 Bloomberg With yields slipping to 3.8 per cent, investors are eyeing higher-paying Reits in the region RETURNS from shares of Singapore's real estate investment trusts (Reit) may decline, after a three-year rally, as investors switch to higher-paying Reits from Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand.
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          75 42 Raffles Education Corp (83.5 cents) BUY OCBC Investment Research keeps Raffles Education as "Buy", and raises the fair value to 95 cents from 82 cents, based on a 0.7-times price/earnings to growth ratio, compared to 0.6-times previously, over the FYO6-07 forecast period. It believes the company's joint venture with the
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          57 42 Hotung Investment (9 US cents) BUY Kirn Eng upgrades Hotung to "Buy" despite its "dismal" 2Q05 loss of NT$333 million ($17.2 million). It says the target price of 16 US cents (27 cents)."has found a base with all the bad news discounted". It forecasts FYOS net loss of NT5266.5 million,
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          66 42 Breadtalk Group (25 cents) HOLD Dow Jones DBS Vickers keeps a "Hold" call on Bread Talk with the 12-month target price of 27 cents. It is "sceptical of the bakery segment's ability to be profitable in the near-future". The 1 HO5 results were as expected. Profit for the first half
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        378 36 Agencies Southern Bank will pay $918.8 m for Asia General Holdings' entire equity ONE day after Telekom Malaysia became the biggest shareholder in Singapore's Mobile One, another major cross-border deal was concluded yesterday. Malaysia's Southern Bank yesterday said that it won its bid
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        322 36  -  Christie Loh SHAREHOLDERS of Wearnes International which is being taken private by its mainboard-listed parent WBL Corp will not receive a revised scheme if they do not accept the one on the table, wrote WBL chairman Tang I-Fang in a
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        203 36 Great Eastern Life Assurance and Chongqing Land Properties Group yesterday signed an agreement to set up a joint venture life insurance company. With its head office in Chongqing, the joint venture life insurance company will be called Great Eastern Life Assurance (China). The initial registered capital is 300 million
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        227 36 AFP LONDON Oil prices rose yesterday but an increase in crude reserves in the United States eased worries of tight supplies, dealers said. Benchmark New York light sweet crude for delivery in September added 10 US cents to U5563.35 per barrel
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        285 38 AFP SYDNEY Australian flag carrier Qantas Airways announced a better-than-expected annual net profit yesterday but warned that high fuel costs would likely hit profitability this year and lead to job losses. The airline reported a record A 5763.6 million ($974 million)
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        373 38 AFP Good relations between China and India bode well for region: Yeo GOOD relations between China and India will form the foundation of a "new architecture of co-operation" bringing together East, South-east and South Asia, Foreign Minister George Yeo said yesterday. Mr Yeo
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        INTERIM RESULTS SHOW THINGS ARE LOOKING UP
        697 41  -  Mano Sabnani Editor-in-Chief/CEO mano@newstoday.com.sg But rising inflation and excessive US spending may trigger reversal in regional markets COMPANIES listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), with December fiscal yearends, had until August 15 to release their half-year or interim results. There has been a
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      1051 44  -  The Maid may just be the global break for the movie industry here EVERY few weeks or so, a South Korean film opens in cinemas here. Now imagine if audiences in Seoul enjoyed a made-in-Singa-pore film the same way we lap up films such as My Sassy
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      206 46 Agencies LOS ANGELES Michael Jackson just can't seem to put his recent past behind him. The pop megastar has been fined US$lO,OOO ($16,610) for failing to appear in court Joseph Bartucci, 39, is suing Jackson, who he claims sexually assaulted him in a limousine in
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      327 46  -  Jeanine Tan Today Exclusive Joanne Peh co-starring with a Hollywood star? It could happen soon jeanine@newstoday,com.sg SIGNIFICANT Hollywood players ware being lined up by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures to star in its upcoming slate of productions. First up is One Last Dance, which is set to be
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      657 48  -  Felix Cheong plus@newstoday.com.sg FELIX ON FRIDAY Age-old sexism still pervades films about witches and wizards WHEN your computer is hung and an IT person gets it up and running, you'd probably compliment him: "You're a wizard!" If it were a woman, would you tell her: "You're a
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      161 48  -  Elisa Chia FANN Wong (picture) has landed another movie deal. The MediaCorp star will lend her voice to a character in Singapore's first 3Danimated movie Zodiac. The 90-minute Chineselanguage movie by homegrown company Cubix Pictures recounts the legend behind the zodiac on how 12
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        286 50  -  JEANNE TAN I FILM REVIEWby" THE Maid is not quite the scream-fest the recent publicity blitz would lead j-_ you lv believe, although it is a credible effort without the cheap effects that could have plagued a film with a lesser budget Director Kelvin Tong's second outing takes
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        411 50  -  JEANNE TAN Local film about a taxi driver carries underlying message FILM REVIEW by Perth PERTH is a gritty little film with something important to say about Singapore society and that's reason enough to watch it over the more polished efforts that are opening this week
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          47 52 Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria was injured yesterday during the taping of the hit comedy series and was taken to a nearby hospital for outpatient treatment, officials said. Longoria, 30, was said to have been "bumped on the head by something" while shooting on location.
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          78 52  -  Joyce Lin offering Sing Tel has teamed up with with kids' TV channel Nickelodeon in a one-year partnership to reach out to its new target audience kids This partnership will see the introduction of a Jimmy Neutron TV series, an online website, as well as wallpapers and
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        417 52  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS Quirky pigeon movie flies, but doesn't quite soar FILM REVIEW ~~1 BY Valiant DURING World War I and World War 11, pigeons were used to carry messages across enemy lines and so helped in saving countless human lives. Amazingly, some pigeons were actually awarded the Dickin
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        162 54  -  JEANNE TAN I FILM REVIEW by. THE title should be Must Love Diane Lane John Cusack Optional, because dogs don't really have much to do with the film. This love story has Sarah (Lane), recently divorced, being forced by her well-meaning family to look for a man.
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        288 54  -  DAVID CHEW A stylishly nuanced good cop, bad cop movie FILM REVIEWby When Vrinks and Klein both pursue the same promotion, things get ugly as they try to outdo each other. Initially good friends, the movie charts their disintegrating friendship and dwindling moral values, particularly Klein, who
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      269 61 AFP Japan's travel firm eyes final frontier TOKYO With Japanese tourists already travelling all over planet Earth, the country's leading travel agency said yesterday it would blast off into a new market space. JTB Corp said it had set up an exclusive sales agreement for
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      492 68 Agencies Essien arrives, but the star-littered Chelsea dressing room's already slightly blue LONDON With Michael Essien in London, English champions Chelsea were yesterday preparing to complete the signing of the Lyon midfielder in time for him to play in Sunday's Premiership showdown with Arsenal. Another new addition, and
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      263 68 -AFP SEOUL South Korea's fans want to reward coach Jo Bonfrere (picture) with the sack for steering the country through to the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. The 59-year-old Dutchman's chief crime seems to be that he is not Guvs Hiddink, his compatriot who
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      401 68 -AFP TOKYO After an uncertain start, Japan and their coach Zico are smiling after proving they are worthy Asian champions by finishing top of their qualifying group for the 2006 World Cup. Eight years ago, Japan dramatically clinched their first World Cup finals
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      240 69 -AFP I ROTTERDAM Holland were left to rue a string of missed chances, as arch-rivals Germany came from two goals down to secure a 2-2 draw in a friendly here on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). A clutch of fans created
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      285 69 Agencies SPLIT, Croatia Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira slammed two of his star players, Ronaldo and Adriano, after the world champions were held to a 1-1 draw by Croatia on Wednesday. The Croats took the lead in the 32nd minute through Niko Krankjar, with Ricardinho
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        164 63  -  Darren Lai SINGAPORE'S national men's bowlers took on their Kuwaiti counterparts in a friendly tournament at the Orchid Bowl early this week, as part of their warm-up for the upcoming Manila SEA Games (Nov 27-Dec 5). Coached by Australian Andrew Frawley, the trip is part of Kuwait's preparations
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        266 64 AFP ANAHEIM, California World No Is Lin Dan and Zhang Ning both maintained their blistering form with dominating second-round victories at the 2005 badminton World Championships on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Top seed Lin, bidding for his first world title, overpowered Kennevic Asuncion 15-1, 15-3. The
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        482 64  -  Cubby Leong GOLF Singapore Open SIX Singaporean golfers will have the chance to take on the likes of world No 7 Adam Scott and Northern Irishman Darren Clarke in the US$2 million ($3.36 million) Singapore Open, to be
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        515 65  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Plans are underway to make the Thai Sports School Games a regional competition weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore Sports School had another good outing yesterday, when they bagged six gold medals in the fourth day of competition in the Thailand Inter Sports School Games.
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        344 65  -  Leong Wee Keat GOLF Singapore Open Amateur C'ships THE last time the Singapore Open Amateur Championships saw a home winner, Choo Tze Huang (picture) was barely two years old. Former Singapore No 1 Samson Gimson emerged tops in 1989. Sixteen years on, Tze Huang
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        84 65 THE Official FC Bayern Munich Fan Club in Singapore are organising an International Youth Soccer Tournament involving youth academies from around the world in November 2005. To beef up their youth squad, the fan club's Youth Soccer Academy is holding trials today and tomorrow at
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        473 66  -  TRI-NATIONS RUGBY -AFP Australia v South Africa SYDNEY George Gregan may play his last home rugby Test against South Africa this weekend, amid reports yesterday of a review of the Wallabies ahead of November's European tour. Coach Eddie Jones plans to look at
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