Today, 13 October 2005

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    11 1 TODAY Frew mica(P) 112/07/2005 incorporating dtr63tS Thursday October 13, 2005 todayonline.com
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    Death of a mega deal?
    823 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO But CDL won't take Suntec Reit's about-turn lying down derrick@newstoday.com.sg A MAJOR wrangle has broken out between two big property players over a $788-million deal. A day after Suntec Reit called time on its agreement to buy 11 well-known properties from City
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    Former MP Lew charged under Companies Act
    668 1  -  VALCHUA val@newstoday.com.sg A HIGH-PROFILE businessman and former Member of Parliament, Lew Syn Pau (picture), has found himself embroiled in a criminal case involving companies in three jurisdictions and a $4.2 million loan. The 51-year-old Lew, who sits on the boards of several firms,
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      7 3 What's your view? Email us at news@newstoday.com.sg
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  • singapore news
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      Temasek Holdings' $13b acquisitions
      545 4  -  VALCHUA It buys Asian banks, budget airlines, its annual report shows va l@newstoday.com.sg RELEASING its annual report to the public for the second time in its 31 years, fastexpanding Temasek Holdings gave a glimpse of how it performed last year as it snapped up banks and
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      Lock icon Agencies coordinate relief efforts
      554 4  -  LEECH ING WERN HOW TO DONATE: High Commission of Pakistan: Cash can be deposited into a/c number 3041 with Habib Bank Ltd, 3 Phillip Street, #01-03 Commerce Point, *****93. Cheques to "President's Relief Fund for Earthquake Victims 2005" to the high commission at 1 Scotts Road,
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      Lock icon Flu without borders
      423 6  -  TAN HUI LENG US, WHO senior officials give thumbs up to Singapore's action plan huileng@newstoday.com. sg THERE is a need for global cooperation to cope with the current bird flu fear, said United States Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky yesterday in Singapore.
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      Lock icon Syrian Interior Minister commits suicide
      280 6 DAMASCUS Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan (picture), who was questioned over former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri's murder, committed suicide in his Damascus office yesterday, the government announced. Earlier in the day, Mr Kanaan, 63, spoke to Voice of Lebanon radio to make a "final declaration"
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    • CHOPPER MURDER TRIAL
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        Morbid jealousy? No, it's normal mind
        275 6 TAXI driver G Krishnasamy Naidu, who hacked his wife to death in May last year, exhibited a "normal pattern of thinking" rather than an alleged case of pathological "morbid jealousy". This was the argument put forward by Deputy Public Prosecutor Chong Kah Wei in
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        SIA plans to fly to Moscow
        88 6 SINGAPORE Airlines plans to fly to Moscow by the middle of next year, but the move will need the approval of Russian regulatory authorities, CNA reported. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, who is on a visit to Moscow, revealed this to reporters. He also
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      Their eggs can survive 6 months without water
      666 8  -  ANSLEYNG Aedes mosquito a tough opponent but the pest can be beaten-though it won't be easy, say experts a nsley@newstoday.com.sg IT MAY have been a known fact among dengue experts. But a Malaysian academic yesterday reminded the world how vulnerable humans are
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      Lock icon With an SMS, your water supply is safe
      564 10  -  LEECHINGWERN New technology ensures vital areas in HDB blocks can be accessed only by those authorised to do so chingwern@newstoday.com. sg TEENAGE couples go there for some privacy. Mischievous kids love playing there. Residents use them as extended storerooms. This is how
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      Netting child-sex tourists
      495 12  -  JASMINE YIN More than 1,300 petition online to change Spore lawto prosecute perpetrators back home jasmine.yi n@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a subject whispered about but that has not been debated in detail until now. If a Singaporean paedophile goes overseas to exploit children, should he be prosecuted here
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    • SINGAPORE SNIPPETS
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        Lock icon SECURITY TIGHTENED ALL AROUND S'PORE, INCLUDING CHECKPOINTS
        110 12 Channel News Asia The Singapore police has enhanced security at locations island-wide. Forces from Special Operations Command (SOC) and the Gurkha Contingent have been deployed to complement existing arrangements by police officers on patrol. SOC troops have been patrolling commercial, entertainment and residential
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        Lock icon RED-FACED EXAM BOARD PLANS TO STEP UP CHECKS
        107 12 Channel News Asia Parents and students are asking how the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board could have made a mistake formulating a question in the PSLE mathematics paper. The board, which apologised, said it would review its processes and introduce new checks
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      Lock icon Bollywood glam backs cause
      309 12  -  DAWN QUEK da wn@newstoday.com.sg THE influx from Bollywood into Singapore continues. Hot on the heels of an Indian movie being filmed here, Bollywood star Perizaad Zorabian is in town along with six top Indian models. Along with India's leading fashion and jewellery houses as well as
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      The charity show must go on!
      470 14  -  EUSACHIA THE Cancer Charity Show 2005 will go ahead after all. The Singapore Cancer Society's (SCS) television extravaganza which was originally scheduled for telecast last month was postponed after the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) saga. Yesterday, the SCS confirmed that the show would air
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      Five-day work week a roadblock for bus drivers
      616 14  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com. sg EVEN as a host of jobs are being redesigned for the jobless, mindsets are still getting in the way of some forms of employment This is evident in the transport industry, where there is a shortage of local
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Now, the cold's killing them
      427 16 -AGENCIES Measles and diarrhoea outbreaks also likely in quake-hit areas say UN and relief workers MUZAFFARABAD (Pakistan) After a fourth night out in the cold, hundreds of thousands of survivors are still desperate for help, even as relief operations in the earthquake-hit Pakistan-controlled Kashmir got
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      Lock icon Man who interviewed 7 US presidents joins Al Jazeera
      310 16 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON What does one do when, after decades of fronting for a network television station, one's contract is not renewed? In veteran BBC host David Frost's (illustraton) case, one takes up a similar post with Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon SCHROEDER, THE POWERBROKER
        104 16 -AFP Germany's Gerhard Schroeder will play no role in the country's next government after seven years in power, the outgoing chancellor confirmed, but will help steer his party into tricky power-sharing talks. He said in a speech late on Tuesday that he would help steer his Social
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        Lock icon ETA THREAT TO AIRPORT
        47 16 ■AFP The airport of Zaragoza in northern Spain was evacuated yesterday following a threat made in the name of the Basque separatist group ETA, police and airport sources said. ETA staged a mortar attack on Zaragoza airport on June 10 without causing casualties.
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        Lock icon CHINA SEES URBAN MIGRATION RISING
        58 16 AFP Some 200 million to 300 million farmers are expected to move to China's cities over the next 15 years, an unprecedented challenge that will require huge government assistance, state press said yesterday. China's current urban population of 524 million is expected to grow to
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      Lock icon Tsang sidesteps democratic reform
      238 16 AFP HONG KONG The Beijing-appointed leader of Hong Kong promised a modest range of measures to boost the economy in his maiden state-of-the territory speech yesterday, but sidestepped the thorny issue of democratic reform. In his policy address for the coming year, Chief Executive Donald Tsang
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      WHY DR M IS OUT TO GET RAFIDAH
      798 18  -  Oon Yeoh She remains defiant, but Abdullah may find it difficult to keep her in the Cabinet for too long MALAYSIA'S Minister of International trade and Industry (Miti), Ms Rafidah Aziz, must have hoped the long-running controversy over Approved Permits for cars
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      Lock icon Out of sight but not out of mind
      626 21 -AFP At 80, Margaret Thatcher is still a force to be reckoned with LONDON Even though she has been out of office for 15 years, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who turned 80 today, still casts a lengthy shadow over Britain. The
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      Lock icon 'I think you are cool...'
      403 22 THE GUARDIAN Letters between Bush and his Supreme Court nominee Miers raise eyebrows WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush's already uphill struggle to put his nominee, Ms Harriet Miers, in the Supreme Court got tougher yesterday with the publication of personal correspondence that added
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      Lock icon Google gives $1.7b to make world better
      246 22 -AP SAN FRANCISCO Google Inc is financing its promise to make the world a better place with an initial commitment of nearly US$l billion ($1.7 billion) to a philanthropic arm devoted to causes that mesh with the Internet giant's mission. The altruistic effort,
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    • this QUIRKS world
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        FOOTBALL IS A GIRL'S GAME
        122 22 British women are top of the table when it comes to knowledge about football, relegating their menfolk to second spot, according to a survey conducted by Walkabout, a sports bar chain. The poll found that 59 per cent of women could correctly identify the offside
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        Lock icon THE SMURFS GET MASSACRED
        109 22 -AP Smurfette is left for dead. Baby Smurf is left crying and orphaned as the Smurf's village is carpet bombed bywarplanes a horrific scene and imagery not normally associated with the lovable blue-skinned cartoon characters. These are the scenes being shown as part of a new
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        CROOK CAUGHT BY HIS OWN DOG
        73 22 A criminal who gave German police the slip was caught after cops used his own dog to sniff out his hiding place, reported ananova.com. The 22-year-old suspected burglar fled out the back door and hid in the neighbours' garden when the police came to
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      Police identify one of three Bali bombers
      453 24 His former roommate is under interrogation and being evasive, say local newspapers DENPASAR Indonesian police have reportedly identified the first of three suicide bombers suspected of carrying out the attacks in Bali on Oct 1, which killed 23 people, including four Australians. Police
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      Lock icon Corby's sentence cut but she wants her name back
      277 24 —AP DENPASAR Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has had her 20-year drug smuggling jail term reduced by five years, her lawyers said yesterday. The former-beauty student, who is imprisoned since May for sneaking in marijuana to Bali says that the good
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda warns Zarqawi
      240 24 —AFP BAGHDAD Al Qaeda's sec-ond-ranking leader has sharply questioned the wisdom of opening up a conflict with Iraq's Shia majority, warning in a letter made public that it was unacceptable to most Muslims. Ayman Al Zawahiri's letter to Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the leader of Al
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      Lock icon China wants to send women into space
      318 24 —AGENCIES JIUQUAN (China) As China launched its second manned space mission yesterday, sending two astronauts into orbit, it opened a new chapter in its ambitious drive to become a global space power. Shenzhou VI, based on Soviet Soyuz technology, lifted off on a
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      More can be done to help ex-criminals
      572 26  -  RAPHAEL LEONG JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Decriminalise offences, do more to prevent crime Letter from I THINK that the move to expunge criminal records is a move in the right direction. However, I wonder how the period of 5 years was determined. Is
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      $6 an hour a fairer wage for mozzie inspectors
      205 26  -  TAN KIN LIAN Letter from I REFER to the article "15 jobless citizen enlisted in the mozzie inspector brigade" (Oct 11). I congratulate the Holland BukitTimah Town Council for this excellent initiative to provide jobs to our unemployed citizens and to
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      97 26 CATWATCH: Today photographer WEE TECKHIAN captured this photo of Singapore's popular tourist destination once bustling with activity, the Newton Hawker Centre. It is closed down for an eight-month upgrading programme. Even without diners offering food scraps, a lone stray cat, obviously unperturbed by the desolateness, lingers on. CALLING ALL
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      246 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY................ BECOMING REAL Who are you when no one else is looking? When the shades are drawn and the lights go dim? Are you and I the people everyone thinks we are? The classic children's book "The Velveteen Rabbit" holds within its pages
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      Lock icon Let the healthy pay
      353 28  -  DAVID CHAN SIG YAM Reimburse disabled workers who take taxis Letter from IN CONSIDERING how we may help disabled workers commute to and from work, let us not forget the primary purpose of the main transport modes. For the MRT, the emphasis is on "mass" and
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      If 3 million give way once a day...
      157 28  -  ALEXLO Letter from I GUESS for most Singaporeans the world is only about themselves and those they socialise or work with. I was very impressed with the American society during my brief stay there, especially the things they have done to make
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      The price of ignoring passion
      438 28  -  JASMINE TAY Letter from I WAS thrilled to read your report "No sec-ond-class talents here" (Oct 11). I agree with Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, that no person should be considered second-class especially if they follow their passion and try
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      isay TIME TO PROMOTE THE 'REBELS'
      726 31  -  TANG LI news@newstoday.com.sg I THINK that Singapore is one of the most liveable cities in the world. The infrastructure works and we are a green city with a secure environment, perfect for bringing up kids. I was, therefore, shocked to find that we only
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      What if teachers talk about students in blogs?
      189 32  -  HENRYUMUSHUN Letter from I REFER to Berton Lim's letter "Teachers, be prepared for criticism online" (Oct 12). I question how fair it can be to teachers if students are allowed to criticise their teachers online. Will students be able to accept it
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      Something's wrong if elderly prefer to die
      242 32  -  LOWSWEEHENG Do more for elderly with special needs Letter from EVELINE Gan's commentary, "Chor Chor, will you know me, next year?" (Oct 10) struck a chord in my heart Ten years back, my sister and I were in an identical situation, caring for
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      Equip caregivers with skills to cope
      193 32  -  NELSON QUAH Letter from IT MUST have been a sad and harrowing experience for Eveline Gan to look after her grandmother with dementia. It struck me that her mother emotionally wrecked from juggling work, the family, hospital check-ups and healthy meals for her grandmother
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      Lock icon Not just a $70 fine, law allows offenders to be prosecuted for worse
      425 34  -  RAJIV NAIR Letter from I REFER to the letters on Oct 11 concerning the inadequacy of a $70 fine for a parking offence. There are two instances involved: The driver whose Mercedes obstructed traffic (including a tourist
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      Clowning achievement
      602 34  -  RONE&GIGI DAWN QUEK In a society where the word 'clown' does not exist, two women teach Japanese children how to laugh and live in the crowd^^^^H Japanese female clowns da wn@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a little-known fact that the word "clown" does not exist in the Japanese vocabulary. Which
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    THE ROAD WELL travelled
    942 35  -  Eveline Gan Chan Brothers' group managing director looks back at past achievements and looks forward to new challenges By.............. TAKING the road less travelled is something that homegrown Chan Brothers Travel is used to. It has carved out new markets in erstwhile unfamiliar destinations; offered travellers
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    556 36 Marie Hooper earned bragging rights after her visit to Cairns, where she flew in the world's biggest balloon, tried diving in the I world's largest natural wonder and journeyed along one I of the world's most scenic rail routes. ONTOP OFTHE WORLD! I'M no early riser. So
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      413 37 :^M J^/S%vJothJJf £i*umfißAtr 'Jitmal Jean. Australian Airlines, a full-service, international carrier, flies three times a week between Singapore and Cairns. For more information, log on to www.australianairlines.com.au. ifiyiiil "5/8 D Ca'rns+ 7D Gold Coast with Ai rfa re 62i2 t1968 4 '^^^^SbKb^T Gold Coast Dolphin Experience Specials ft W JM'tjilr
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    FAMILY FUN!
    527 39 Perth offers great family vacations with loads of activities thatand old can 'Are we there yet?!' Holidays are great ways for families to bond, but even the ties that bind can be strained when a cranky kid kicks up a fuss during the trip. No fears of that
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    GREAT FAMILY ESCAPES IN SYDNEY
    235 42  -  Diana Chan Look no further 1 if you're looking for a fun, interactive 1 V^HHj and educational m holiday for your X kids this year end. 1 Af the fop of most parents' checklist is a holiday destination that packs both fun and edutainment. Take
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    AS YOU LIKE IT
    618 44  -  Eveline Gan Chan Brothers offer free-and-easy holidays to (clockwise from bottom) China, Las Vegas and San Francisco. Free-and-easy holidays seen to be the order of the day BANK officer Helen Fong hardly looks like a typical adventurous traveller. Yet, the 45-year-old woman said that she would
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    A SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIP
    248 45 FOR nearly 20 years. Air New Zealand and Chan Brothers have been working together to promote travel to New Zealand.Their successful partnership can be seen from the strong growth in visitor numbers which the agency has registered over the years. Mr Ng Nai Shon, manager of SE
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    303 47 SNOW-CAPPED mountain peaks and glaciers. Lush green valleys. Wild sparkling rivers. Small idyllic villages. There's no better way to discover the beauty of Switzerland than via the Swiss Travel System which offers ticket-holders access to a wide network of train, bus and boat lines. Here're some
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    THE PERKS OF BEING 40
    482 48 Enjoy great travel deals at Chan Brothers' anniversary fair THE number 40 will figure prominently at Chan Brothers' travel fair this weekend at Suntec City. After all, the home-grown travel agency is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Those who visit the fair between 11am
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      Lock icon SembCorp, Keppel eye power stakes
      451 49 -DOW JONES Conglomerates keen to acquire electricity gencos to be sold off by Temasek SEMBCORP Industries and Keppel Corp are keen to buy Temasek Holdings' three domestic power plants to grow their own power generation businesses, officials from the two companies said late on Tuesday.
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        67 49 SHARES fell yesterday on profit-taking as investors turned cautious following a rise in oil prices. The ST Index closed 34.49 points, or 1.5 per cent, lower at 2,320.53. In the broader market, decliners led advancers 434 to 131, while traded volume amounted to 1.26 billion shares worth $1.1 billion.
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        Lock icon ST Index—2,320.53-34.49
        55 49 Dow Jones barrel, up from U5563.53 at the US close on Tuesday. The broad-based selioff on the SGX was not surprising "as many traders were long on the market after the recent upbeat economic data," said a trader. Among the day's top losers, DBS fell 30 cents, or
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        Your S$1 buys
        33 49 UOvP V.Usltl. JK£ 0.3385 ten 67.777 HK$ 4.5855 RM 2.2291 Euro 0.4932 Rupiah 5,975.7 Baht 24.183 Peso 33.011 W 0.7856 Indian Rs 26.521 Won 616.66 0.6945 fuan 4.7815 NZ$ 0.8522
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        54 49 Nikkei 225 13,463.74 -92.97 -0.69 Hang Seng 14,575.02 -323.75 -2.17 Australia ASX 4,468.20 +39.40 +0.89 Taiwan Wtd 5,987.40 -79.19 -1.31 Korea Comp 1,217.06 -27.21 -2.19 KLCI 928.49 +0.06 +0.01 SET Index 709.20 +0.07 +0.01 Jakarta Comp 1,102.98 -2.64 -0.24 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,958.26 218.70 -5.96 +1.24 -0.30
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        27 49 SGX, Dow Jones, Bloomberg Information provided by ■old US$/oz 481.80 iilver US$/oz 7.91 'latinum US$/oz 945.00 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brant US$/barrel 297.2! 1,464.01 60.3!
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      Citiraya saga: ex-CEO's brother to plead guilty
      275 49  -  CHRISTIE LOH ONE of the key suspects behind Citiraya Industries' conspiracy to defraud may soon be put behind bars. Ng Teck Boon, 36, who was formerly the electronic waste recycler's assistant general manager and sales manager, plans to plead guilty to police charges
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        PDC's woes deepen
        129 50 CONSTRUCTION services firm PDC Corp said yesterday it had been served with a statutory demand for $65,900 by lawyers acting for Ms Lav Yen Eng, who is the assignee of a claim arising from fees the company owed to NTan Corporate Advisory. PDC directors said they were
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        Lock icon GPac invests $25m to expand production
        74 50 CHANNEL NEWSASIA GPAC Technology, a unit of Hong Leong Asia, is spending $25 million to ramp up its production capacity in Singapore. The home-grown manufacturer has developed a technology and process to turn wood waste into a packaging material that is space-saving and eco-friendly.
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        563 50 —AGENCIES Net profit rose 80% to $45.3 m on a surge in trading volumes SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX), which operates the Republic's securities and derivatives market, said first-quarter net profit rose 80 per cent to a record after an increase in trading volumes boosted clearing fees.
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          FREE SKIN CARE, MORE AT OG ALBERT
          107 50 SKINCARE provider New York Skin Solutions is renowned for its botanical formula to treat skin problems and complexions. Its team of medical researchers, dermatologists and aestheticians incorporate the use of nature's finest active ingredients and light massage routines to repair, protect and restore
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          WANT TO EMIGRATE TO CANADA?
          116 50 FORMER Canadian senior diplomat Robert Ironmonger, who is also the managing director of the Canadian Immigrant Investor Services for Singapore and the region, will conduct free seminars on obtaining a Canadian permanent residency. The presentations will focus on the Investor Program an opportunity to receive
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          KITZ CAN ACT AS ANTI-MOSQUITO REPELLENT
          213 50 A NEW product from the Kitz range of Air Revitalisor Concentrate Solutions might double up as an anti-mosquito repellent, a useful addition to the fight against dengue at a time when cases in Singapore have risen to an all-time high. The US Environmental Protection
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        Lock icon Ascendas buys two S Korean buildings
        325 51 DOW JONES Plans to 'multiply' investments over next 5 years SINGAPORE property developer Ascendas said yesterday it recently bought two freehold properties in South Korea and that it plans to "multiply" its investments there over the next five years. The two properties are the
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        Lock icon UOL launches Regency Suites
        136 51 DOW JONES UNITED Overseas Land (UOL) said yesterday it will launch its freehold Regency Suites development on Saturday at an average price of $730 per square foot. The price for Regency Suites indicates developers are becoming more bullish about the middle segment of Singapore's private home
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        Lock icon Gold fund best performer in Sept
        84 51 DOW JONES UNIT trusts registered for sale in Singapore gained an average of 2.51 per cent in September, with growth across all asset classes except bond funds, according to a report by Lipper yesterday. Equity funds rose an average of 4.15 per cent from
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        Lock icon Utac on track to meet year's $507m target
        225 51 DOWJONES UNITED Test Assembly Center (Utac) is on track to meet its fiscal year revenue target of more than US$3OO million ($507 million), the company's chief executive said yesterday. Mr Lee Joon Chung added that Utac expects third quarter revenue to grow
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        SPH share price falls 3.7% on lacklustre earnings outlook
        323 52  -  VALERIE LAW valeri e@newstoday.com.sg THE share price of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) fell by 3.7 per cent yesterday, one day after reporting that its full-year net profit fell by 9.4 per cent to $495 million, due to profit-taking and market expectations
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        SingTel bags clutch of awards for governance, transparency
        220 52  -  CHOW PENN NEE SINGTEL went home with its arms full at the Securities Investors Association Singapore (Sias) Investors' Choice Awards 2005 last night. For the third consecutive year, the telecoms giant picked up the Singapore Corporate Governance Award and the Golden Circle
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        Lock icon Singapore needs number portability: MP
        376 53  -  CHRISTIE LOH Cost shouldn't inhibit telcos, says Zainudin christi e@newstoday.com.sg COST concerns should not be a hindrance to introducing true number portability in Singapore, said Mr Zainudin Nordin, deputy chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Information, Communications and the Arts. His comments come
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          WBL CORP EXPANDS STAKE IN WEARNES
          75 53 WBL Corp yesterday paid $3.21 million to boost its stake in luxury car distributor, Wearnes International, to 86.12 per cent from 84.86 per cent. It bought 2.51 million shares for $1.28 each from the open market. This is the parent company's first move since
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          DANISCO STARTS INNOVATION CENTRE HERE
          62 53 Danish food ingredients manufacturer Danisco said yesterday it has set up a new innovation centre in Singapore to serve all of its activities in South-east Asia. To be located within Danisco Singapore at Singapore Science Park 111, the centre will support the growth of the
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          FRASER TO MANAGE 2ND SEOUL ESTATE
          79 53 Fraser Serviced Residences has signed a contract to manage a second property in Seoul. To be called Fraser Place Central, Seoul, the property will add a further 235 apartments under the Fraser brand. The company already has 213 units in its existing property, Fraser
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        477 54 BLOOMBERG Number of US$ billionaires rose to 7 from 3: Hurun Report MR HUANG Guangyu, chairman of Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings, has been named China's richest man for a second year running with a fortune of US$l.7 billion ($2.9 billion), according to an
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        Lock icon WHICH IS A BETTER BET, GOOGLE OR INDONESIA?
        735 55  -  WILLIAM PESEKJR BLOOMBERG The Internet wonder may be in vogue, but the South-east Asian economy offers good opportunities for investors with a long-term view news@newstoday.com.sg FACED with poverty, surging oil prices and terrorist threats, many of Indonesia's 235 million people probably never
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      324 53 Have A Great Weekend Singapore! We wish all residents a great weekend. And to ensure you do, we've created three exclusive packages. Which one will you choose? Family Fun Movie Mania Time For Two This weekend, treat your family to Spend the afternoon relaxing by the Fresh flowers, a candle-lit
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      1614 56  -  David Chew GOH CHING LEE As it celebrates its third birthday, it seems the Esplanade is finally being accepted by Singaporeans THE Esplanade celebrated its third birthday yesterday with some seven million good wishes. That's how many visitors stepped into the "durian" last year, of which
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      452 57  -  JOYCE LIN joyce@newstoday.com.sg CALL it irony. Despite having a penchant for movies with "sad endings", Neo Beng Poh (picture), 29, has always been hopeful in life. And that optimism led to him become the winner of MediaCorp TVI2 Arts Central's Project Pilot 3G short
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      Puppeteering comes of age
      649 58  -  LORRAINE LIM Spore theatre group follows trend of using children's story devices for an adult audience plus@newstoday.com.sg TALKING animals, cheeky computer generated monsters and sarcastic singing puppets are merely the stuff of children stories? Think again. Chances are, just as many adults as children would have
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      Uncovering Asia
      279 59  -  JEANINETAN New CNA series reveals hidden mosque and other Asian secrets jeanine@newstoday.com.sg FEW people know this there is an underground mosque right in the middle of the Central Business District The unique Moulana Muhammad Ali Mosque is located within UOB Plaza and the only entrance is a discreet
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        MY NAME'S BOND, BLOND BOND
        123 59 The producers of the next James Bond movie are doing their best to keep the identity of the man who will play 007 a secret but a new favourite has emerged English actor Daniel Craig. Just days ahead of an expected official announcement, Craig was
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        OPRAH REWARDS WOMEN WHO NABBED SEX OFFENDER
        139 59 Two women received US$5O,OOO ($84,625) cheques from Oprah Winfrey's show for their part in capturing a fugitive sex offender from Indiana. Friends Karie Miller and Jean Rosenthal held hands while walking onto the set of The Oprah Winfrey ShowXo a standing ovation by
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        88 59 Tearful Grease star Olivia Newton-John broke her silence about the mysterious disappearance of her boyfriend at sea three months ago, saying she was still praying for his safe return. Cameraman Patrick Kirn McDermott, 48, who has been involved romantically with Newton-John for nine years, has been
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        26 59 Local artist Cheo Chai-Hiang's exhibition of varied. Erased, Mislaid, Rejected, Revisited, begins today at 6.30pm at Sculpture Square and runs until Nov 20.
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        190 60 NGSIEWENG, Singapore Dance Theatre general manager, picks up a few positive strategies on running non-profit companies. "I recently picked up this book, which I'm recommending everyone else to read: How Full Is Your Bucket, by Donald 0 Clifton and Tom Rath. "I got it from the National
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        268 60  -  Neil Gaiman Tan Jun Lei BOOK REVIEW Do parents exist solely to embarrass their children? Fat Charlie Nancy thinks so, especially when his father dies, in what Fat Charlie feels is the most embarrassing manner possible, just months before Fat Charlie's wedding. So Fat Charlie flies all the
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        169 60  -  Ryan Giggs Joe Lovejoy TanYo-Hinn BOOK REVIEW If you're expecting a literary masterpiece, then you may be disappointed. If anyone has heard Ryan Giggs give press interviews, then this book is very much in the same vein. In keeping with the Manchester United winger's laid-back demeanour, much
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        365 61  -  PEARLYN THAM Passionate about what you wear? You think it, they create it pea rlyn@newstoday.com.sg WHEN he was at Asia Pacific Breweries, he conceptualised the design of beer mugs and bottle labels. These days, Leon Chu works with different kinds of materials: Diamonds, sapphires and other gemstones.
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        187 61  - CENTREPOINT SHOP STOP Pearlyn Tham This month, enjoy a whiff of fresh air literally when you shop at Centrepoint. Just head to the Aroma Therapy Bar on level two and present same-day accumulated receipts totalling at least $50. Perk yourself up with a four-minute oxygen aromatherapy session. Choose from six
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        254 62  -  PEARLYNTHAM THE heritage of watch-making and of science are compounded in JeanMairet Gillman, exclusive to Cortina Watch and available in Singapore. Jean-Mairet Gillman was founded in 1999 with a watch-making history that goes back to the 1800s, when master Sylvain Jean-Mairet produced precision watches and
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        449 62  -  PEARLYN THAM pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg DON'T bemoan your Oriental looks. Slit eyes and broad lips, what Edward Kiti calls "uniquely Asian features", are hot on the fashion runway these days. As the director of Elite Model Management Asia-Pacific and with eight years of experience in the modelling business,
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        369 63  -  AMY VAN GUAVA COCKTAIL Ingredients 2 cups NTUC Fair Price guava juice 3/4 cup dark rum (optional) J ii|..<). omit i-.HM Ice cubes 4 canned pineapple slices, for garnishing 4 maraschino cherries, for garnishing 1. Pour the guava juice, rum and coconut cream into a blender. Add
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        809 64  -  KAREN JACKMAN Malaysia's national park is haven for wildlife, plants. There's also a bat cave traveller@newstoday.com.sg EVEN superheroes need a break sometimes and what better place for Superman or Batman and even mere mortals to visit than the action-packed jungles of Malaysia's Taman Negara? A
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        437 66 More high-end hotels open in Hong Kong amid tourism boom HONG KONG Several high-end or refurbished hotels have opened in recent weeks as Hong Kong prepares to cash in on its new-found position as a top travel destination. Spurred by a strong economic recovery from
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        61 66 watch ZUJI makes travelling easier by offering customers access to 400 airlines, 60,000 hotels and more than 50 car hire companies. Every week, it will offer flight and hotel deals to the top 10 destinations.To book visit www.zuji.com.sg/today or SMS the word today to 8100 1234 for more
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        79 66 AIR NEW Zealand will begin a weekly service between Auckland and the Pacific Island of Niue from Nov 4. The new service will leave Auckland on Friday at 10pm and arrive in Niue at 1.40 am the same day after crossing the international dateline. The
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        576 68 WITH low-cost carriers fast expanding in Asia and launching new routes to more key cities, travelling has become more affordable than it was before. With budget airfares, a growing number of travellers are going online to seek out discounted accommodation. Here are some tips on how to become
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        136 68 WOTIF.COM has increased its booking window from the current 14-day model to 28 days. The change will offer consumers greater scope for travel planning and the ability to book longer stays. Mr Charles Tee, chief operating officer (Asia) for Wotif.com, said that research had shown that consumers would
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      1027 78  -  Rohit Brijnath It takes more than great players to make a team... SOMETIMES the dicionary is wrong. Sometimes a collecion of players does not n itself qualify as a earn. Sometimes we leed to be reminded hat a gathering of briliant players is not
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        487 74 -AFP Ganguly to lose armband for home series against S Lanka MOHALI, India Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid's week keeps getting better and better. On Tuesday, Dravid's wife Vijeta gave birth to their first son. Today, Dravid is expected to be named India's new cricket captain, ending Sourav Ganguly's
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        280 74 -AFP BEIJING Women weightlifters have broken at least 11 world records at the China National Games and more are expected to fall. Despite the achievements, none of the records will be recognised by the International Weightlifting Federation, who only approves marks set at events on
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        400 74 -AP MLB PLAYOFFS Chicago White Sox 2 LA Angels 3 CHICAGO Three time zones in three nights. No matter, the Los Angeles Angels were plenty fresh thanks to Paul Byrd and his bullpen. Byrd pitched effectively, Garret Anderson homered and baseball's most frequent flyers
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        648 75 AGENCIES England manager hits back at critics, promises to see out his contract LONDON England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson wears his cool exterior like a suit of armour. Perhaps he does it for times like these when protection is needed from some of the fiercest criticism thrown at him
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        224 75 LONDON Fifa president Sepp Blatter yesterday vowed to stop "greed ruling the world of football" and launched a blistering attack on hugely-wealthy club owners he claims are threatening the future of football. In a column in the Financial Times, the Fifa supremo said the "pornographic
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        335 75 —AGENCIES LONDON Arsenal are ready to break the bank in a bid to keep striker Thierry Henry at the north London club. With Barcelona monitoring their skipper's situation at Highbury, Peter Hill-Wood, the Arsenal chairman, has indicated the club are ready to offer
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        120 75 —AGENCIES LONDON Real Madrid defender Jonathan Woodgate scored another own goal in Tuesday's (yesterday morning, Singapore time) friendly with Real Zaragoza. The 25-year-old was unfortunate to see a rebound come off him and cross his own goal-line in the 19th minute. Last month, Woodgate deflected a shot
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        489 76  -  TANYO-HINN Ruled out of SEA Games two months ago, injured shuttler's making a remarkable recovery yohinn@newstoday.com.sg TWO months ago, Ronald Susilo's hopes for glory at this year's SEA Games, to be held in the Philippines (Nov 27-Dec 5), laid in tatters. A snapped achilles tendon threatened
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        71 76 THE Singapore national rugby side's year ended on a losing note when they crumbled 40-5 to the visiting Australian Army Rugby Union side last night A lone try by winger Jonathan Chen prevented a whitewash by the visitors at the Yio Chu Kang Stadium. The
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        490 76  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg THEY are Singapore's most revered footballers, and are supposed to line up alongside some of the world's best players in the Fifa Century Club. But Fandi Ahmad, Samad Allapitchay, Nazri Nasir, Malek Awab and David Lee are all missing from
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        553 77 -AFP Teen star tees off today for the first time as a pro and she's loving it GOLF Samsung World Championship PALM DESERT, California Less than a week into her pro career, golf prodigy Michelle Wie has yet to taste any fallout from her decision. The
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        344 77  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@newstoday.com.sg THE name list for the inaugural Lexus Cup just gets bigger and better. South Korea's Hee Won Han and Meena Lee, and Chile's Nicole Perrot and Scotland's Jamie Moodie, were announced yesterday as the latest names for the women's team event, to
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