Today, 4 October 2005, Afternoon Edition

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      39 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 6 world news 12 voices 20 business 24 wealth 28 impact 30 infotech 32 plus 35 health 40 tv radio listings 46 classad 47 sports 48 we set you thinking j^rjj mm mV^m -HP
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      60 1 PEACEKEEPER MISSILES 1^ nKKEK! TAKEN OLTT OF SERVICE H amAw/ DATE FOR DETERMINED lA^Nuumi-bhHviuh jj ipjjj^ r^ camtopop-s I mf *to vindicate U.S. MAN ARRESTED IN I fMM ■ONG I 'AIR KATRINA'CHARrTY SCAM ig I I YAHOO! TAKES ON RIVAL, I V I GOOGLE EYES SAN FRANCISCO ig II PLAY
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Not a false dawn
      709 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH Property market optimistic as private home prices make biggest gain in five years christi e@newstoday.com. sg THE property market's dark night has stretched on for far too long, even though recent months have been less depressing than before. But for the first time in
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      Lock icon US stocks mixed, oil lower
      161 1 —AFP NEW YORK US stocks ended mixed yesterday after a strong manufacturing report raised concern that the Federal Reserve will keep lifting interest rates to quell inflationary pressures. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 33.22 points at 10,535.48 and the Nasdaq Composite Index was
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      Lock icon Plane capacity to Bali set to rise
      521 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO IN BALI derrick@newstoday.com.sg PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong brought a little extra help for Bali when he arrived yesterday and he will leave behind another small piece of good news for the troubled island. The Singapore delegation that touched down
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      Lock icon Macabre leads and search for S'poreans
      373 2  -  ANSLEYNG a nsley@newstoday.com.sg WHILE Indonesian police are using photographs of severed heads of suicide bombers to hunt for the masterminds of Saturday's bombings in Bali, hospital workers are busy combing through body parts to determine the death toll, which stood at 22 at press
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      TIME TO THINK
      669 3  -  Wayne Soon Focus on 'thinking' subjects like economics, end arbitrary division between arts and science streams news@newstoday.com.sg ARE there arbitrary barriers to thinking in the education system? Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's stress on innovation and research to improve Singapore's competitive edge should be welcomed, as should
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      Lock icon It's happened again, and again...
      422 4  -  DAWN QUEK Cecil-Robinson problem junction claims even more victims da wn@newstoday.com.sg THE Cecil Street-Robinson Road accident that occurred last Friday replayed itself not once, but twice yesterday afternoon, within half an hour of each other. At about 2.30pm yesterday, a red Toyota Camry driving towards
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      Bird flu drug now less effective
      285 4 CANBERRA A strain of bird flu has grown resistant to the anti-viral drug that Australia is relying on to protect frontline health workers and other people in a pandemic. The federal government has stockpiled about 4 million doses of the drug Tamiflu, but Hong
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      Waterfront fun city
      515 6  -  TORCHING LI From sea activities to sky gardens, Greater Marina Bay will have it all chingli@newstoday.com.sg IT'S not just Marina Bay that will be the place to live, work and play, but the "Greater Marina Bay" area as well. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan announced yesterday
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      Lock icon From patient to top scoring nursing student
      630 8  -  JASMINE YIN Touched by the nurses' care during her pregnancies, she switched careers jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg FOUR difficult pregnancies one of which resulted in a miscarriage and another in a stillborn child don't usually show the way to a new calling. But they encouraged Madam
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        76 DENGUE CASES REPORTED YESTERDAY
        37 8 A TOTAL 76 cases of dengue were reported in the 24 hours up to 3pm yesterday, compared to Saturday's 74 cases and Sunday's 10. Hospital admissions, meanwhile, fell from 45 to 44.
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        ISLAMIC THINKERS TO BE LAUNCHED TODAY
        88 8 MediaCorp's Radio Singapore International (RSI) will launch its inaugural book, Islamic Thinkers, today. The book is a collection of the philosophy of well-known past and present day Islamic intellectuals, including Rumi, Al Ghazali, Avicenna, Professor Yusuf Qaradawi, Syed Muhammad Naquib AlAttas and Professor Dr
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        5,800 OWNERS YET TO RETROFIT WINDOWS
        69 8 About 5,800, or 3 percent, of homeowners have yet to retrofit their windows after the one-year grace period to do so lapsed last Friday. The Building and Construction Authority said it was monitoring the situation and could step up checks. Homeowners without a valid
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      Lock icon It's now twice as nice to go green
      592 10  -  LEE U-WEN LEE U WEN Tax rebates for eco-friendly cars doubled to encourage purchase of green vehicles u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE next time you buy a car, you might want to consider going green. To make environmentally-friendly cars more attractive to drivers here, the
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      Needy P1, P2 kids included in fund
      237 10  -  LEE U WEN AFTER having helped more than 1,200 pre-schoolers from low-income families three years after its launch, the Education Trust Fund (ETF) will move on to extend help to needy Primary One and Two children in the Malay-Muslim community from next year
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      A suicide threat and a happy ending
      766 10  -  LOH CHEE KONG LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com.sg AT 3pm yesterday, the last 12 owners of Hock Kee House vacated their units and handed over their keys, about nine hours before the midnight deadline. But not before one final melodramatic episode over the weekend.
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      Lock icon Nicoll Highway trials begin
      436 11  -  LOHCHEEKONG THE hearings for those found responsible for last year's Nicoll Highway collapse started yesterday with the trial of a former Land Transport Authority (LTA) project director. Ng Seng Yoong, 48, was the only LTA employee charged in court, along with Nishimatsu Construction, a Japanese construction
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      Lock icon Bangladesh courts bombed
      189 12 AFP DHAKA Two people were killed in series of bombings at Bangladesh courts yesterday and police said the attacks may have been timed to coincide with the filing of charges after a nationwide wave of blasts in August. More than 400 small bombs were detonated almost simultaneously
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        Lock icon MRS ABDULLAH RETURNS AFTER CANCER TREATMENT
        45 12 AFP The wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Ms Edon Mahmood, has returned home after undergoing nearly three months of breast cancer treatment in Los Angeles. She is now under observation at a hospital in in Putrajaya.
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        Lock icon BOMB SCARE ON SRI LANKAN AIRCRAFT
        52 12 AFP A bomb scare forced a London-bound SriLankan Airlines plane to return to Bandaranaike International Airport, 40 minutes after take off yesterday. The plane turned back after officials received an anonymous call warning of a bomb on the plane, which carried 258 passengers and
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        Lock icon AUSSIE DUO WIN NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE
        60 12 AFP Australian research duo Barry Marshall and Robin Warren were yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their breakthrough research on how to treat stomach ulcers with antibiotics. The pair discovered that gastritis as well as peptic ulcer disease is the result
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      Lock icon The perfect 'infidel' target
      737 12  -  MARIANNE KEARNEY Bali has a high percentage of foreigners and most locals are Hindus IN JAKARTA news@newstoday.com.sg popular dining spot, especially on a Saturday night with upmarket tourists looking to escape the rowdiness of Kuta. An Indonesian suicide bomber wandering straight off the footpath into Raja's
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      Lock icon M'sia struggles against dengue
      307 14 -AGENCIES Number of cases may rise as health minister warns outbreak may continue into nextyear KUALA LUMPUR As another Malaysian succumbed to the dengue virus yesterday, local officials said that they are still struggling to contain the outbreak which has worsened in the states of Penang
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      Lock icon Thatcher to be questioned in US graft probe
      153 14 AFF LONDON British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher (picture) will be questioned by the police as part of a United States corruption probe which has forced Republican House of Representatives majority leader Tom DeLay to step down, according to the Daily Mirror.
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    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon BARBER FINED FOR WRONG HAIRCUT
        65 14 -DPA A Thai barber had to pay his disgruntled customer 100 baht ($4.10) in damages for shaving the man's head bald while he snoozed, media reports said. The regular customer had jokingly asked the barber how much he charged for a head shave before he
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        Lock icon SING YOUR HUSBAND TO SLEEP...
        42 14 -AP Malaysia's Kelantan state is searching for the most soporific soprano. The Islamic government of the northeastern state will hold a lullaby contest for wives singing their husbands to sleep, said chief minister Nik Aziz Nik Mat.
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      Lock icon 'Two-finger' Cheney, hostile Chirac and story-teller Patten
      198 16 —AFP BRUSSELS French President Jacques Chirac is ignorantly hostile to reform. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is "not a democrat". United States Vice-President Dick Cheney's style is to stick up "two fingers" to the outside world. And oh, Russian President Vladimir Putin is a
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      Lock icon Japan to slash its share in UN budget
      398 16 AFP Tokyo may refuse to bear financial burden without a permanent seat in the Security Council TOKYO With its prospects for obtaining a permanent seat on the Security Council fading, Japan will seek to reduce its contribution to the United Nations by
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      Lock icon In US, a PR offensive on Iraq
      406 18 —AFP The message: Better fight terrorists in Iraq than at home WASHINGTON President George W Bush will this week try to rally Americans wavering on Iraq, as senior aides warn a quick exit for American troops could sow a deadly harvest of future
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      Lock icon IRAQIS FEAR MORE VIOLENCE DURING RAMADAN
      167 18 —AFP Iraqis are set to begin the holy month of Ramadan for the third time since the US-led invasion, but few believe the period of fasting and prayer will take place in a peaceful atmosphere. Set to begin early this week, Muslims will refrain
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      Let's remove barriers, Israel tells Indonesia
      158 18 JAKARTA Further to the "secret meeting" in New York between the Israeli and Indonesian foreign ministers, the Jewish state yesterday made a direct pitch to the Indonesian people, urging "continuing dialogue" with their country, which has the largest Muslim population in the world. In
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      Lock icon Merkel stretches a slight advantage
      234 18 -AFP BERLIN Germany's conservative Christian Democrats embarked on another round of political wheeling and dealing yesterday, boosted by an election win in Dresden that they hope will tip the balance in their favour following last month's inconclusive general election. Ms Angela Merkel's conservatives widened their
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      Lock icon US man arrested in 'Air Katrina' charity scam
      260 19 -AFP MIAMI The US authorities said yesterday that they had arrested a man who allegedly ran a fake charity for Hurricane Katrina victims by claiming he was airlifting emergency supplies and evacuating sick children from affected areas. The scam allegedly earned Florida
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      Lock icon Peacekeeper missiles taken out of service
      240 19 -AFP Silos remain open for inspection purposes UNITED NATIONS The United States announced yesterday that it had completed the deactivation of its entire force of 50 Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS), each capable of carrying 10 nuclear warheads. "This latest step implementing President (George
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      Lock icon Yahoo! takes on rival
      96 19 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO US Internet giant Yahoo! Inc unveiled plans yesterday to take on its arch-rival Google with the launch of an ambitious and controversial online library of tens of thousands of classic books. The announcement came after Google last December unveiled similar plans to set
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      Lock icon Google eyes San Francisco
      105 19 -AFP SAN FRANCISCO US search behemoth Google said yesterday it had offered to blanket the city of San Francisco with a wireless network that would allow residents to log on to the Internet free of charge. The revolutionary bid to turn the West Coast city into
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      Cyclists, respect pedestrians' space
      180 20  -  HAN LIANG YUAN, TRISTAN SIM, Letter from Director, Corporate Communications, Land Transport Authority Assistant Director, Media Relations, Singapore Police Force WE REFER to Mr Khoo Lih-Han's letter "Cyclists flout rules too" (Sept 27). Cyclists are not allowed to ride across pedestrian crossings, including pedestrian overhead bridges
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      Lock icon An artificial twist to natural genius
      1298 20  -  PROF NOEL SHARKEY DAWNQUEK. Meet the chicken poo sweeper turned modern-day Einstein coffee with 56, artificial intelligence specialist HE DROPPED out of school at age 15 to become a musician and shovelled chicken poo to make ends meet. Today, Noel Sharkey hobnobs with the
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        Sure, they charge; but what about the service?
        201 21  -  PATRICK LAU Letter from I REFER to your report, "Where does that 10% service charge go?" (Oct 3). This system was allowed to be set up many years ago when giving good service was not the norm. I believe it was to
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        Prosecute unjust restaurant owners
        119 21  -  JOHN LUCAS Letter from THE service charge added to the bill seems tantamount to consumer fraud. I am confused why the owners of restaurants who do not disburse the collected service charge to service staff are not prosecuted. There should be at least some basic legislation
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      Helping disabled is easier said than done
      259 21  -  JEREMY LIM Letter from KHOO Lih-Han's letter, "Why spend all the money on minority?" (Oct 1-2), offers some interesting arguments. I agree that disabled citizens cannot expect every facility to be disabled-friend-ly. However, that does not rule out my contention that there is
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      238 22  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY edfhhng LOVE WITH RESPECT When a child is convinced that he is greatly loved and respected by his parents, he is inclined to accept his own worth as a person. However, I've observed that many children know they are loved by their
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        Understand and counsel instead of jail sentence
        204 22  -  HAJ MOHAMED Letter from I REFER to Mr Dharmendra Yadav's commentary, "Education is the key, not a gag and fines" (Sept 30), where he urges us to ponder the root reasons why people make racist remarks. One of his reasons for such behaviour
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        Amend the Sedition Act; delete 'race' item on NRICs
        228 22  -  HUANG SHOOU CHYUAN Letter from I REFER to the commentary, "Should 'Fine City' get more creative?" (Sept 28), by Mr Siew Kum Hong. If by amending the Sedition Act with its enhanced penalties for incitement of racism, we give ourselves a
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      All union members benefit
      443 22  -  NEO GIM KIAN Letter from Director, Membership Department National Trades Union Congress I REFER to the letter, "Union fee hike unfair to those in the middle-income group" (Sept 29), by Mr Christopher Teo Kian Lam. The union membership fee increase does not penalise any groups of
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      isay TAKING THE 'RACE' CARD AWAY FROM TERRORISTS
      733 23  -  Tang Li news@newstoday.com.sg MUCH as I would love to bury my head in the sand and pretend that Saturday's murderous and cowardly attacks in Bali have nothing to do with me, I can't I may be too far away to suffer the
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      Hong Leong, AIA to tie up ?
      418 24  - Hong Leong, AIA to tie up CHOW PENN NEE Finance firm in talks to distribute insurance giant's products at its branches: Sources pennnee@newstoday.com.sg THREE months after Hong Leong Finance (HLF) was granted approval to sell insurance products, speculation has emerged that it will tie up with insurance giant American International
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      HK shipper Courage Marine launches IPO on SGX
      198 24  -  CHOW PENN NEE HONG Kong-based shipper Courage Marine Group launched its initial public offering (IPO) yesterday for a listing on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange. The company is offering 270 million shares at 22 cents each to raise gross proceeds of
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        151 24  -  DOW JONES SHARES fell yesterday as investor sentiment turned cautious after the Bali bombings on Saturday that killed at least 25 people and renewed terrorism fears in the region. The ST Index closed 3.65 points, or 0.2 per cent, lower at 2,301.49. In the broad market, decliners led advancers
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        36 24 US$ 0.5898 UK£ 0.3364 Yen 67.265 HK$ 4.5771 RM 2.2234 Euro 0.4947 Rupiah 6,080.1 Baht 24.281 Peso 33.016 A$ 0.7752 Indian Rs 26.025 Won 6iais C$ 0.6879 Yuan 4.7751 NZ$ 0.8548 NT$ 19.615
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        27 24 SGX, Dow Jones Bloomberg M uss/oz 466.30 Silver uss/oz 7.44 PMiin uss/oz 927.80 Mtll cents/kg 290.75 PlhlilßM/tonne 1/454 Bnt nia usS/bairHi 63.83 Information provided by and
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      392 25 DOW JONES Export-led recovery expected, powered by pharmaceutical and services sectors KEY economic data to be released next week is likely to indicate that the economy is strengthening, analysts said. The Ministry of Trade and Industry will issue advance estimates for third-quarter gross domestic
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      199 25 Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) said its preferential offering and private placement to raise $216.9 million had been fully taken up. The 101.8 million new units, sold at $2.13 apiece, begin trading tomorrow. The new units do not qualify for a distribution of between 2.9 cents and 3.1
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      267 25 BLOOMBERG PROPERTY group Ascendas, which sold shares of Singapore's second property trust three years ago, said in a statement yesterday it had formed a joint venture with OSK Holdings to set up a real estate investment trust (Reit) in Malaysia. OSK, a
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      176 25 CHANNEL NEWSASIA KEPPEL Corp has agreed to sell its entire 96.5-per-cent stake in Keppel Bank Philippines for 1.5 billion Philippine pesos ($45.4 million) to GEC South East Asia, GEC Emerging Markets Asia and Raystanal Philippines. Keppel Corp said the sale would
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        458 26 —AFP Indonesian minister, IMF official say bombings unlikely to hit tourism or GDP hard JAKARTA Indonesia's economy will not be badly affected by the weekend blasts on the resort island of Bali, despite fears of damage to the tourism industry, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
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        215 26 BLOOMBERG GOLDMAN Sachs Group's buyout fund will buy a 9.4 per cent stake in Hana Bank, South Korea's fourth-largest lender, after doubling its money from a 1999 investment in market leader Kookmin Bank. The fund will acquire about 13 million shares
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        206 26 BLOOMBERG BOOTS Group, owner of the largest UK drugstore chain, will merge with Alliance Unichem in a stock transaction valued at as much as £3.24 billion ($9.63 billion) amid competition from supermarkets. Investors in Boots will own 50.2 per cent of the
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        468 27 -BLOOMBERG The Malaysian company is also in talks with other car makers for more partnerships: PM KUALA LUMPUR Proton Holdings, Malaysia's state-run car maker, will sell a stake to Volkswagen AG, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (picture) said yesterday. "The question is what is
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        186 27 AFP TOKYO A key survey of Japanese business confidence provided fresh evidence that the world's No 2 economy is slowly getting back on its feet, with manufacturers slightly more upbeat for a second consecutive quarter, analysts said yesterday. At the same time, the Bank
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        1233 28  -  PAULSTEFANSSON SOURCE IPAC SOURCE IPAC Costs of obtaining an overseas university degree are rising and you need to design a sensible investment strategy TO MOST parents in Singapore, the greatest gift they can give their children is not money but education. Parents consider it
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        512 30  -  SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA Growing global dislike for the Bush regime's foreign policies could hurt US products, says Forbes columnist shobha@newstoday.com.sg WITH signs of anti-Americanism becoming noticeable even in Britain, the United States' long-standing ally, Brand America could be in serious trouble, according to a Forbes.com columnist. In his
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        243 30  -  -SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA THE Singapore market is unlikely to turn into a case of hard cheese any time soon for New Zealand dairy food brand Chesdale if the statistics are anything to go by. According to a survey by AC Nielsen, about 65 per cent
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        879 31  -  SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA Guardian opens its first beauty hall in Asia, offering four luxury brands shobha@newstoday.com.sg WITH uncertainty being the only certainty in the highly competitive retail industry, today's successful retailers are re-inventing themselves to differentiate their stores from competitors. Leading the charge in Singapore is the country's largest "drugstore"
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          141 31 HOME-GROWN seminar organiser Success Resources Pte Ltd is organising the World Internet Summit Asia, a four-day seminar that will feature top Internet marketers from around the world. The event which is being held in Singapore for the first time will bring in a
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          GRAHAM KELLY NAMED BBH JAPAN'S CREATIVE DIRECTOR
          95 31  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA BBH has appointed Mr Graham Kelly (picture) as BBH Japan's new creative director. His role will be to focus on developing BBH's interactive offering and enhancing the agency's integrated expertise. Mr Kelly was formerly executive creative director at Saatchi and Saatchi
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        127 32 FUJI XEROX WORKCENTRE 220/222 MFPS Fuji Xerox Printers' monochrome multi-function printers (MFPs), the Work Centre 220 and 222, give you the versatility to print, scan and copy on one machine. The MFPs have a print speed of 20 pages per minute, a first-page out time of less than
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        420 32  -  ELAINE NG Going wireless and moving ahead of the pack has paid off for RIM elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg RESEARCH in Motion (RIM), I the developer of the BlackBerry platform, intends to add about 10 more carriers in the Asia-Pacific region in the year ahead. The company also aims to
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          85 32 Computer Associates will be launching BrightStor r11.5, an integrated set of modular storage management solutions, next month. A new component of this is BrightStor Storage Command Center, which provides business-centric insight into the enterprise storage environment, transforming raw technical information into an intuitive dashboard that allows
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          58 32 The patent-pending SAS Forecast Server is a forecasting product that helps companies improve the accuracy of their forecasts and the manageability of the forecast process. Features include time-series mining to uncover time-related patterns and trends, as well as an interactive user interface. The SAS Forecast Server will
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        517 33  -  ELAINE NG Microsoft Business Solutions has had a name change, but focus remains the same elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg I MICROSOFT Business I Solutions has been renamed Microsoft Dynamics in a re-branding strategy that seeks to align Microsoft's products with its research and development roadmap, which centres on a people
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        145 33 ELAINE NG I LOCAL company, Genetix, a Web solutions comI pany that targets small and medium enterprises (SMEs), small offices and home offices, has recently launched a Web portal service for this segment of the market EZ Update is a Web portal service that will
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          1012 34  -  ELAINE NG Companies in Asia need to monitor blogs and other such forums to protect their reputation from being tarnished elaine.ng@newstoday.com.sg WITH the advent of the Internet, so much online information is available to consumers that companies need to monitor how much discussion there is
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      1048 35  -  Zul Othman 'ANTON CORBIJN Dealing with drugs, departures and divorce has led to an album that band member Andrew Fletcher says is Depeche Mode's bestyet WHILE peers like Duran Duran have been consigned to the retro circuit, Depeche Mode have risen from their humble beginnings in 1980 to
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        48 35 The perfect overview of the band's early career, including everything frnm nrowinnc MV,,,, fj, 0.,^U0 songwriter Vince Clarke's pop obsessions on New Life and Just Can't Get Enough, to Martin Gore's dark and kinky musings with Blasphemous Rumours, Master and Servant and Everything Counts.
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        43 35 The band's fifth album from 1986 laid the blueprint for their present soundextremely emotional lyrics put over anthem-like, yet brooding, electronics. Full of memorable songs, including fan favourites Stripped, A Question of Lust and the oddly chirpy But Not Tonight.
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        66 35 Name checked by techno artistes as an influential electronic album, the gothic Music For The Masses was the album that introduced DM to America and led to their concert album 707. Even though it was thematically schizophrenic and riddled with silly lyrics, it does feature
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        40 35 Depeche Mode's most successful and danceable album, this worldwide chart topper is also the most consistent of all of their albums. Features their best known hits Enjoy The Silence and Personal Jesus, which made l//o/afortheir US chart breakthrough.
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        66 35 Perhaps inspired by equal parts Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode went rock in Songs of Faith and Devotion with Dave Gahan recast as a long haired, leather-clad rock god. Famous for being the album that nearly did them in, it also includes
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      374 36  -  ZULOTHMAN Carreras happy to be performing here after cancellation zul@newstoday.com.sg THE last time Spanish tenor Jose Carreras was scheduled to play in Singapore, it made headlines for all the wrong reasons concert promoter M 2 allegedly failed to honour the financial terms of the agreement, resulting
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        107 36 Tak... IT WOULD seem that a band who sings in an invented language called Hopelandic and is prone to crafting grandiosely orchestral numbers is terribly pretentious. This Icelandic quartet might go to extraordinary lengths to create anti-pop music epics, but they've also conjured a collection of splendid tunes
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        111 36 Leaders of the Free World THEY'RE not likely to inspire the critical acclaim of Coldplay or Keane but as far as crafting heartwrenchinq melodies go. Elbow win hands down with their masterful combination of heartbreak, romance and twisty tunes. For one thing. Elbow is warped enough to swerve the
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        104 36 Best of Me NANAMouskouri's big glasses maybe a source of constant chuckles but her status as one of the chief progenitors of easy listening is unchallenged. After all, the Greek songbird has sold over 200 million albums worldwide working with top-notch talent. Culled from an illustrious career that
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      111 36 This week, we ask celebrity photographe Russell Wong to pick out his top disc: RUSSELL WONG ON DAVID SANBORN'S PEARLS: I started listening to Sanborn 15 years ago. His sound is just so unique. From the moment he plays that first note, it screams at you! Not
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      786 37  -  REAVATHI SINNATHAMBY Vasantham Star talent contest winner Shabir says that's next reavathi@newstoday.com.sg JUST moments after being crowned the Vasantham Star, Mohamed Shabir admitted he was going to take singing lessons. At the MediaCorp TV Theatre on Sunday night, it was clear there was only going
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      539 38  -  JOYCE LIN Despite his appearance on Full Circle, former drug addict Pastor Ang still hasn't been reunited with his daughter joyce@newstoday.com.sg may remember him as the reformed drug addict hoping to be reunited with his estranged daughter. The 52-year-old made a heartfelt plea to the nation
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      287 38  -  —JOYCE LIN J M BARRIES classic, Peter Pan, will leap from page to stage at the Esplanade Theatre from this Friday. In a copyright agreement that has rarely been publicised, Barrie gave the rights to his novel to one of the world's most famous
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      98 38 Watch the new season of The Sopranos on MediaCorp TV 12 Arts Central every Tuesday to win attractive premiums. This week, there are five Sopranos family history books up for grabs, which you can win by answering this question: In tonight's Episode Two, called the Rat Pack,
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      201 38 —AFP LONDON Pete Doherty, the drug-ad-dicted rock musician boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, was released from custody yesterday morning, having been arrested following a raid on his tour bus, the singer told journalists. Doherty said the arrest was "some sort of mistake" and insisted he
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      476 39  -  ELI SA CHI A Cantopop legend Sam Hui still writes about his humble roots Anita Mvi and Leslie Cheung," Hui told Today. "I just wanted to bring happiness and smiles back to my fans." Indeed, to his family and close celebrity chums, his comeback wasn't entirely a
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        825 40  -  REETA RAMAN Terminal cancer patient leads full life, despite the pain reeta@newstoday.com.sg AS HER day begins, so does her pill popping. At Bam, it's morphine tablets. At 9am, she takes some Chinese medicine. At 10am, Florence Heng is consuming some ling zhi (reishi mushrooms)
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          76 40 The Breast Unit at XX Women's and Children's Hospital is organising a public forum to address a range of topics related to breast cancer screening and treatment. Date: Oct 8 Time: 2pm to 4.15pm. (From Ipm to 1.45pm, there will be a pre-event activity on how to do
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          51 40 Understand more about the effects of anger and learn how to manage it in this forum. Date: Oct 8 Time: 2pm to 4.15pm Venue: Changi General Hospital, Auditorium, Training Centre, Level 1 Registration/Enquiries: $4 per person (inclusive of refreshments). Closing date for registration is Oct
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          39 40 FITNESS WORK For one hour every Wednesday, join the instructors at California Fitness for an energising workout. Participation is free Date: From Oct 12 to Mar 29, 2006. Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm Venue: Singapore River Promenade (beside UOB Plaza)
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        578 41  -  REETA RAMAN Good diet and exercise alleviate joint aches reeta@newstoday.com.sg OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA) is the single most common cause of chronic pain. OA is a common joint condition affecting mainly weight-bearing joints such as the knees, hips and spine. While almost everyone will experience pain in their
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        131 41 In a qualitative research conducted by Research International that involved interviews with five Singapore healthcare professionalsfrom sports medicine, rheumatology, geriatrics and general practice and 30 sufferers of chronic pain, it was revealed that not many sufferers understood what caused their joint pains. The location of their pain seemed to
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        811 42 1 AILMENT 3 APPROACHES How 2 alternative therapists and a doctor alleviate bad breath in their patients BAD breath, medically called halitosis, can result from poor oral hygiene habits and may be a sign of other health problems. Bad breath can
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        714 42  -  REETA RAMAN reeta@newstoday.com.sg WOMEN used to start preparing for menopause in their late 40s. That made sense, since the normal age to reach menopause was between 45 and 55. In Singapore, the average age is 51 years. But, said Mrs Dincy Lim, president
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        170 43  -  ■BRENDACHEW IN THE West, the starfruit (picture) is more commonly known as carambola, and is considered to be a luxurious and expensive fruit Here, it is both common and popular because of its high water content and is a refreshing
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        620 44 STOP EXCESSIVE SWEATING Permanently FOR many years, James*, 25, suffered from excessive perspiration. He had sweaty palms and was always embarrassed to shake hands with people whom he met at social functions or at work. Often, he also had a strong odour emanating from his armpits, especially after participating in
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        463 45 My mother-in-law sometimes experiences giddy spells and hears "ringing sounds" in her ear. She has seen an ENT specialist and has had a CT scan done. However, all seems to be fine. What can be done to prevent further giddy spells? JK Giddiness can be due to
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          401 45 When BRENDA CHEW caught up with MediaCorp actress Michelle Chia, the affable actress confessed to having a sweet tooth, with a special preference for icecream and chocolate. The svelte star seems to have an affinity with food. She was the host of the popular food variety series
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        Lock icon England all out to atone for N Ireland defeat
        1084 52 AFP Cole: Team determined to vindicate manager Eriksson in match against Austria LONDON Ashley Cole warned yesterday that England would be gunning to vindicate under-fire manager Sven-Goran Eriksson when they meet Austria in this Saturday's 2006 World Cup qualifier. The Arsenal
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        336 52 AFP LONDON Former Manchester United football star George Best (picture), who has battled alcoholism since quitting the game, was in a "serious" condition in intensive care at a London hospital yesterday, his doctor said. Best, 59, was admitted to the private
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      Young Lions in M'sia?
      444 53  -  JOSE RAYMOND FAM, FAS look set to send respective youth sides across Causeway jose@newstoday.com.sg WHILE it will not quite spark the kind of Malaysia Cup fever that shook both sides of the Causeway in years past, it is a swap that could boost football ties between
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      Lock icon Eight years to build a world champion
      382 53  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg TO PRODUCE a world champion in eight years. That is the target of the Singapore Waterski and Wakeboarding Federation (SWWF), with the help of the HSBC Junior Riders Programme. The programme was officially launched yesterday at the Bedok Reservoir to kickstart
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      263 53  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@newstoday.com.sg THE Queen's Baton arrived in Singapore from Brunei yesterday for a three-day visit, as the countdown to next year's Commonwealth Games (March 15-26) in Melbourne continued. Officiating at last night's opening ceremony at Eden Hall for the Singapore leg of the Queen's Baton
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        471 48 ■AP Federer cites his French Open humbling in 2003 as a watershed moment SHANGHAI In 2002, the last time Roger Federer was in Shanghai, he was a promising but still unproven world No 6. Yesterday he was back, world No 1 and the undisputed king of
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        Lock icon Boost for Indian golf as Hero Honda sign deal
        215 48 —AFP NEW DELHI Motorcycle giants Hero Honda yesterday signed a three-year deal to sponsor the Indian Open, giving a major lift to the country's biggest, but struggling, golf event. This year's edition of the US$3OO,OOO ($508,908) tournament will be played at
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        595 49 -AGENCIES New record set as NFL regular season hits Mexico City NFL Arizona 31 San Francisco 14 MEXICO CITY Incredibly, more than 100,000 fans packed the Azteca Stadium on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to witness a 31-14 "home" victory for the Arizona Cardinals over the
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        Lock icon No drink culture, fumes Mitchell
        256 49 -AFP WELLINGTON Former All Blacks coach John Mitchell (above) has denied suggestions by former skipper Anton Oliver that he promoted a booze culture in the team. Binge drinking was part of the All Blacks culture until recently, Oliver said in weekend newspaper excerpts from a
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        Lock icon Red Sox and Astros claim final playoff berths
        330 49 —AFP BOSTON World Series champions Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros clinched the final two Major League Baseball playoff berths on the last day of the regular season Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The Red Sox, seeking a repeat after capturing
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        Lock icon Choi snaps winless streak
        642 50 -AP Asia celebrates first 1-2 on US PGA Tour as Maruyama follows Korean home GOLF Chrysler Classic GREENSBORO, North Carolina- KJ Choi had the look of a champion from the start "You can tell when someone is in the zone by his eyes," said Choi's caddie,
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        266 50 -AFP GOLF Office Depot RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California South Korea's Han Hee-won is nursing a one-shot lead with the back nine left to play of the suspended US$l.3 million ($2.2 million) LPGA Office Depot event Slow play and darkness pushed the completion of the
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          MUSEEUW A DRUG TRAFFICKER?
          72 50 FORMER world cycling champion Johan Museeuw of Belgium was charged yesterday with possession of banned doping substances, prosecutors said. The 1996 world road race champion was accused of possessing the banned blood booster EPO and two other banned performance enhancers. He was suspected of being at
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          RUUD'S HOME IN MANCHESTER
          74 50 RUUD van Nistelrooy's agent says the Holland international is staying at Manchester United 24 hours after hinting the striker was leaving for Real Madrid. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Rodjet Lindse said: "Ruud is happy at Manchester United. "He's in the process of buying a
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          MONTY ON THE MARCH
          101 50 COLIN Montgomerie stunned overnight leader Kenneth Ferric to win the Dunhill Links Championship by a stroke and end his 19-month victory famine at St Andrew's on Sunday. Montgomerie carded a final round 1-under-par 71 for a 9-under-par total of 279. Ferric, who began the day with
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          OHNO, BE CAREFUL
          109 50 AMERICAN speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno (picture), whose controversial Olympic gold medal angered South Koreans in 2002, arrived in Seoul for a short-track competition yesterday amid tight security. Ohno was the target of strong criticism in South Korea after winning the gold in the 1,500 m shorttrack final
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          HENRY SAYS NO TO TALKS
          73 50 SKIPPER Thierry Henry has told Arsenal he will not hold talks over a new contract before the end of the season. By then the 28-year-old Frenchman will have 12 months left on his current deal, leaving Arsenal in fear he could leave the club for
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        Lock icon The Vieira factor?
        549 51 -AFP Former Arsenal skipper has been the catalyst for Juventus SERIEA Juventus2 Inter Milan 0 ROME There is only one team in Europe's top leagues still with a 100 per cent record in both domestic and European competitions and that team is not Chelsea. That honour falls
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        291 51  -  LALIGA AFP Real Madrid 4 Real Mallorca 0 MADRID Real Madrid coach Wanderley Luxemburgo believes the Spanish giants are on their way to breaking their two-year silver drought, after their 4-0 crushing of Real Mallorca on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). "This team is
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