The Straits Times, 12 December 2005

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    24 1 THE STRAITS TIMES •_F*A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS MICA (P) 093/03/2005 MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 2005 ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon PM Lee urges faster regional integration
    709 1  - PM Lee urges faster regional integration Ll XUEYING By In Kuaia Lumpur He suggests bringing forward time frame for an Asean Economic Community by 5 years SINGAPORE has called for decisive action from Asean to speed up economic integration among its member countries. Making the call here yesterday, Prime Minister
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    Lock icon FUEL DEPOT BLAST
    149 1 FLaAMMS and smoke belfh himfcemof metres into the air from a jffe/ depotafter^ explosion so powerful it rocked houses up to 40km away. The blast happened near Hemel Hempstead, around 40km north of London, just after 6am yesterday. Police said there were 43 casualties, but only one
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    Lock icon Cabby breaches SMRT Taxis' golden rule, passenger gets free fare
    563 1  -  Maria Almenoar By HE WANTED to travel from Tanjong Pagar train station to Aljunied and had a route in mind, but his cabby drove off without consulting him. The passenger paid his fare of $8.20, then made a call to
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Asean gets ready to face Asia's juggernauts
      1082 1  -  By Paul Jacob Deputy Political Editor In Kuala. Lumpur DO NOT be surprised if a contest featuring songs with melodies that get stuck in your head becomes an annual event, with viewers from the 10 Asean countries voting for a winner. Or if
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  • UPFRONT
    • IN A FLASH
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        40 2 China detains official China has arrested an official who ordered security forces to open fire on villagers. PAGE 8 fighting militant ideas Indonesia's clerics are fighting militant ideas by reaching out to teachers of Islamic boarding schools. PAGE 11
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        40 2 Blasts at oil depot Explosions at one of Britain's largest oil depots jolted an area north of London. PAGE 12 Links re-established A ban on contact between Australian special forces and Indonesia's Kopassus unit is to end. PAGE 13
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        20 2 More than talk shops' Summit meetings are outgrowths of a revolution in how nations think about ties. PAGE 17
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        64 2 life with a gambler Chinese national Li Jin, a one-time croupier, tells of living it up with Chia Teck Leng. PAGE HI Redevelopment plans The fight to prevent older housing estates from becoming slums is high on the Government's agenda. PAGE H3 Lethal opponents Unmanned war machines were used
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        45 2 Teach the kids Parents need to instruct children on how to behave in public facilities such as libraries, says reader. PAGEHB Bus-stop alerts Alerting bus commuters to the next bus stop is a good idea, but it can be improved upon, says reader. PAGEHB
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        49 2 Perfect choices One of the main reasons why the inaugural Lexus Cup staged here was a success was player selection. PAGEHIO Shearer targeted Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger launches furious attack on Newcastle striker Alan Shearer after watching his side slip to a 0-1 loss at Newcastle. PAGE Hll
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        49 2 A note of caution Despite the excitement among investors here over Ine return of stock futures to SGX, there is also sortie concern. PAGEHI7 Training hub Swiss food and beverage giant Nestle will use Singapore as a regional training centre to hone leadership skills among its managers. PAGEHIB
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      626 2 SECTION ONE Prime 3-4 Asia 6-11 World 12-16 Review 17-19 FYI 20 SECTION TWO Home H1-H7 Forum H8 Sports H9-H12 Obituaries H13 Money H14-H18 LIFE! People L2-L9 Events TV.. L10, Lll "Singapore's Leadership Crisis" The single biggest challenge facing Singapore what this requires, neither do they have the skills, attitude
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Former mistress now a hotel employee in China
      419 3  -  K.C. VIJAYAN INTERVIEW WITH WOMAN IN THE CHIA TECK LENG CHEATING CASE By In Zhenjiang (China) Lover of man who stole $11 7m denies rumours she stashed some of the money TWO years ago, 25-year-old Chinese national Li Jin made headlines she
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      Lock icon High-flying corporate criminal
      158 3 AFTER graduating in accountancy from the National University of Singapore in 1983, Chia started work with the accounting and consultancy firm Arthur Andersen. Following that position, he held several more jobs: assistant vice-president at United Overseas Bank, mergers and acquisitions manager at publishing company Jack Chia-MPH, and
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      Lock icon Air safety questioned as Nigeria suffers second major crash
      549 3 Port Harcourt (Nigeria) A NIGERIAN plane crashed during a storm at Port Harcourt airport on Saturday, killing 106 people, including dozens of schoolchildren on their way home for Christmas. It was Nigeria's second major aeroplane accident in seven weeks, raising questions
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      Lock icon Tenants try to cash in on HDB shops at People's Park
      559 4  -  Daryl Loo By Some try to sublet at higher rent after winning tender against HDB rules A GROUP of new Housing Board shops at the People's Park building in Chinatown is proving to be so hot that some tenants
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      Lock icon Racial attack: Sydney cops battle rioters
      340 4 Sydney RACIAL tensions turned into running battles yesterday between police and thousands of white youths, many chanting racial slurs against ethnic Middle Easterners, at a beachside suburb here. At least 12 people were arrested for assault and other offences while several were injured in
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      239 4 BLOWING THE WHISTLE V V_P am m\% "if y*> GmlLmS Should companies encourage whistle blowing? What can they do to ensure that the practice is both effective and fair? CEOs give their views PEOPLE'S PARK TO REOPEN EARLY NEXT YEAR, HOME H6 Senior citizens went for free health screening, only
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon ASEAN'S VISION 2020
      594 6  - ASEAN'S VISION 2020 Carolyn Hong By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur TO 'wise men' to draw up charter for an integrated community ASEAN has an ambitious vision of turning itself into an integrated community by 2020, and the job of drafting the document that will set its direction has fallen
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      Lock icon PM Lee meets Viet and Myanmar leaders
      281 6  -  PehShingHuei By In Kuala Lumpur PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong held back-to-back meetings with his counterparts from Vietnam and Myanmar yesterday afternoon, ahead of the Asean leaders' summit. At the meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai at the Kuala Lumpur Convention
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      Lock icon Temasek would rather curb investments than hurt ties
      530 6  -  Reme Ahmad By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE accepts that investments by Temasek Holdings are perceived as "sensitive" in some countries, and it is willing to step back from investing rather than sour relations with its neighbours, visiting Singapore Prime
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    • CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS
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        Lock icon Beijing dictates conditions for talks to resume
        269 7 Kuala Lumpur CHINA yesterday demanded that Japan create the right "conditions and atmosphere" before it would agree to resume talks. Japanese officials' visits to a war shrine had prompted Beijing to call off a customary three-way meeting between the leaders of China, Japan
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        Lock icon Foreign ministers in cordial chit-chat
        279 7 Kuala Lumpur CHINA'S Foreign Minister has refused any formal talks with his Japanese counterpart at an Asean summit this week, but the two found time for cordial chit-chat when they were seated next to each other at a meeting. China, outraged over Japanese Prime Minister
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    • ASEAN QUICKLY
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        Lock icon PLEDGE ON BIRD FLU TO BE MADE
        79 7 KUALA LUMPUR: China and other Asian nations faced with bird flu outbreaks plan to adopt a pledge to report all outbreaks rapidly and transparently, underscoring the need for countries to be candid and to cooperate against the threat. A declaration to be adopted
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        Lock icon A COMMON CURRENCY ONE DAY?
        86 7 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia envisions that Asean will one day have a common time zone, travel document and currency in its efforts to build an Asean community by 2020, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said. He told the Asean community that the association should not merely constitute
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        Lock icon DISPUTED AREAS: 'BEEF UP PACT'
        90 7 KUALA LUMPUR: The Philippines is urging countries in the region to give legal bite to a nonbinding agreement aimed at preventing conflicts over disputed areas in the South China Sea. The Philippines adopted die accord, known as the Declaration Of Conduct Of Parties In The
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        Lock icon MOSCOW SIGNS ECONOMIC ACCORD
        141 7 KUALA LUMPUR: Russia has signed an economic cooperation accord with South-east Asia as Moscow seeks greater engagement with a region that launches a new economic and security club this week. The agreement with Asean is the first of a series of documents that Moscow is signing
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        Lock icon AIRASIA PUSHES FOR OPEN SKIES
        162 7 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia yesterday urged Asean countries to speed up deregulation in the aviation industry, saying such a move would lower costs and spur growth. Chief executive Tony Fernandes said the 10--nation bloc had to harmonise regulatory requirements if it wanted to
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        Lock icon JOINT SEA PATROLS IN PHILIPPINES
        71 7 KUALA LUMPUR: Four South-east Asian countries have agreed on joint patrols to fight crossborder crimes and beef up security in piracyprone waters around the southern Philippines. Security in the area, prone to sea robberies, smuggling and kidnappings, topped the agenda when leaders of Brunei, Indonesia,
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        Lock icon CALL FOR ENERGY COOPERATION
        98 7 KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia yesterday floated a vision for greater energy cooperation among South-east Asian countries and beyond, saying the region needed to join forces to cope with spiralling consumption. "The consumption of oil will increase tremendously in the years to come in East Asia," Dr Susilo
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        Lock icon SURPRISE OVER MYANMAR CAPITAL
        107 7 KUALA LUMPUR: It was odd enough that Myanmar's secretive army rulers decided to move the country's capital to a remote mountain location but even more unusual that they never even told their neighbours. "It came as a big surprise and that worried many Asean members," Thai
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  • CHINA
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      Lock icon Arrested: Official who ordered village shooting
      608 8  -  Chua Chin Hon By China Bureau Chief In Beijing China finally admits violent suppression of protesters, after media pressure THE Chinese authorities have arrested an official who ordered security forces to open fire on protesting villagers in southern China. The police have also sealed
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      Lock icon PSA may advise Shanghai on new Yangshan port operations
      481 8  -  Jean Chua By China Correspondent In Shanghai SINGAPORE port operator PSA may be involved in the development of the next phase or Shanghai's new port at Yangshan, said a senior port authority official, as the US$l.7 billion (552.9 billion) project's first
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      56 8 A Chinese policeman displaying playing cards with photos of eight wanted men in PHOTO: Xuchang, central China's Henan province. Local police have released 50,000 packs of these playing cards at train and bus stations as well as public places, hoping to collect information about the eight murder suspects,
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      Lock icon KMT rejects coalition govt with ruling party
      234 8 Taipei THERE seems no end in sight to Taiwan's political gridlock as the opposition, fresh from a local elections victory, has rejected a coalition government with the ruling party, now a minority in Parliament. President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) suffered a
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  • EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Chinese and Indian expats remit big bucks
      678 9  -  TSCHANG CHI-CHU By China Correspondent In Beijing They send home billions of dollars, helping to fuel economic boom REDUCING POVERTY "To the countries of origin, the benefits of migration are realised mostly through remittances. Remittances reduce poverty." SENIOR ECONOMIST Dl Ll P RATHA
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
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        Lock icon SEOUL TELLS PILOTS TO END STRIKE
        121 9 SEOUL: South Korea yesterday ordered striking pilots at the country's largest carrier, Korean Air, to resume work immediately and to submit to mediation. The government action ended a strike over pay since last Thursday that had cost the country more than 189 billion won
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        Lock icon SONGHUA RIVER'S TOXIN LEVELS DIP
        83 9 BEIJING: Toxins from a chemical spill in a northeastern Chinese river have become much less concentrated as the toxic slick flows towards Russia, the Chinese government said yesterday. The spill in the Songhua River is due to hit the Russian border city of Khabarovsk this
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        Lock icon U.S. TELLING LIES: NORTH KOREA
        93 9 SEOUL: North Korea has flatly denied the United States' allegations of state-level criminal activities such as counterfeiting and illegal trade. Washington was "making up lies" to disrupt six-way nuclear talks, the North's Foreign Ministry spokesman told its official Korean Central News Agency on Saturday, in
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        Lock icon INDIA-PAKISTAN BUS LINK ON TRACK
        97 9 WAGAH (India-Pakistan border): The first bus in a new India-Pakistan service crossed the border yesterday, linking two border cities for the first time in nearly six decades. Nine Indian officials rode on the yellow bus bearing the flags of the two countries in a trial
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        Lock icon KL MAY ALLOW 'VARSITY-HOPPING'
        81 9 KUALA LUMPUR: Undergraduates in Malaysia may soon be able to "hop" among universities to accrue credits instead of being limited to courses in their own university. Malaysia hopes to be the first Asean country to offer this flexible system, Higher Education Minister Shafie Salleh said on
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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      Lock icon Dhaka back on high alert after bomb attack on car
      425 10 Minor blast near diplomatic zone is a chilling reminder of continuing strife Dhaka SECURITY forces went on special alert in the Bangladesh capital yesterday after a bomb hit a car near the city's diplomatic area, wounding two people, police said.
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka's spy network short of manpower
      230 10 Colombo SRI LANKA'S top general says more intelligence officers are needed to replace dozens of agents killed by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels since 2002. Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka has also called for stronger intelligence-gathering efforts to prevent guerilla attacks. "At present, field commanders do
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      Lock icon Bollywood star hits boy in car accident
      164 10 Mumbai BOLLYWOOD romance hero Saif Aii Khan has been allowed bail after he admitted to police that his car hit a 13-year-old boy, fracturing his leg, in the western Indian city of Mumbai. Police said yesterday that the accident happened in the crowded
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA/ MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Jakarta clerics set out to correct extremists
      611 11  -  Salim Osman By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta Taskforce to clarify meaning of jihad in dialogues with the community MISUNDERSTANDING JIHAD "There has been a misconception that the term only refers to war. Worse, deviant groups see Indonesia as a land of war, and
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      Lock icon Bogus cop bashes and rapes woman from Sichuan
      335 11 Petaling Jaya A MAN posing as a police officer bashed up a Chinese national before raping her in a toilet in Selangor, reports said yesterday. He later died after falling from the 11th floor of a condominium block while fleeing from the
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      Lock icon Speak up or society will rot, Mahathir urges
      275 11 Kuala Lumpur PEOPLE must "stick their necks out" and speak up if they see something obviously wrong, says former Malaysian prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. 'My fear is that if people fail to think and criticise that which is wrong, then
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 'IT'S LIKE DOOMSDAY'
      566 12 43 hurt in oil depot blasts near London; explosion heard as far away as Netherlands Hemel Hempstead (England) AT LEAST 43 people were injured, but only one seriously, in a series of massive explosions at a fuel depot near London yesterday that filled the sky with orange
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      Lock icon Aussie, Indonesian elite troops to renew ties
      468 13 Canberra recognises important role played by Kopassus unit in war on terror Sydney THE threat of regional terrorism has forced an end to a seven-year ban on military contact between Australian special forces and Indonesia's elite Kopassus unit, with the two forces set
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      Lock icon No news of hostages as deadline expires
      210 13 No news of hostages as deadline expires Baghdad PHOTO: THE fate of four Christian missionaries hung in limbo as a deadline to kill them passed without a word from the kidnappers. The hostages two Canadians, an American and a Briton were seized by a group calling itself the Swords of
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      Lock icon Ahmadinejad's outburst: A tried-and-tested tactic
      707 14  - Ahmadinejad's outburst: A tried-and-tested tactic Jonathan Eyal NEWS ANALYSIS By Straits Times Europe Bureau In London Iranian President's latest anti-Israel rant is just to whip up Arab support PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has done it again. Two months ago, he sparked off an international scandal when he called for
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      Lock icon Iran offers US a stake in new nuclear power plant
      193 14 IRAN'S Foreign Ministry yesterday offered the United States a share in building a new nuclear power plant in an apparent effort to curb American opposition to its controversial nuclear programme. "America can take part in international bidding for the construction
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      269 15 MR MARTIN Halstead is not yet 20, but he will see his own low-cost airline, AlphaOne, take off this week. It is part of his continuing flair for business, which was demonstrated at an even more precocious age. At nine, he was made manager
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      196 15 A FRENCH woman who had the world's first partial face transplant has spoken of her amazement at seeing her new appearance, Britain's Daily Mail newspaper said. Ms Isabelle Dinoire, 38, underwent surgery to give her a new nose, chin and mouth at a hospital
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      173 15 NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong II has forbidden internal talk about his naming a successor to the world's only communist dynasty, saying that speculation hurts his rule. He has three known sons, and analysts have been guessing for years which one will take
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      95 15 BRITAIN'S Prince Charles has been interviewed by police investigating the death of his ex-wife Diana in a Paris car crash in 1997, The Sunday Times reported. Lord John Stevens, the former commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, saw the prince at his Clarence House
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        216 16  -  VINCE CHONG CHINA WHAT IT IS THE latest round of World Trade Organisation negotiations to facilitate open trade begins tomorrow in Hong Kong but there is little hope of a compromise between the European Union and the United States on the sensitive
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        247 16  -  CAROLYN HONG SOUTHEAST ASIA WHAT IT IS ASEAN leaders meet today and tomorrow to discuss closer integration of the region to make the most of the rapid growth of Asia's two giants India and China. The inaugural East Asia Summit (EAS)
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        137 16  -  JONATHAN EYAL WORLD WHAT IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY ministerial meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (Opec) will be held in Kuwait today at a time when oil prices remain historically high, and pressure to increase production is intensify- ing. The oil ministers will
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        143 16 WORLD WHAT IT IS EU foreign ministers start critical talks today aimed at breaking a deadlock over the bloc's budget, with pressure on Britain for fresh proposals. Britain, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, will unveil proposals on the eve of a summit of
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      439 16 MONDAY KUALA LUMPUR: Independent inquiry into strip-search scandal begins. TAIPEI: Kuomintang leader Ma Ying-jeou will meet People First Party's James Soong to discuss merger. TUESDAY JEJU (South Korea): Two Koreas resume Cabinet-level talks. WEDNESDAY BANDAACEH (Indonesia): Start of last phase of Helsinki peace pact between Free Aceh Movement and the
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      403 17 FIVE men have been jailed for making a false declaration when they donated blood. This might seem harsh, given that in choosing to become donors they displayed a virtue that should be encouraged in the public. But in their case, that virtue is cancelled by
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      1089 17  -  Evelyn Goh By For The Straits Times Asian and Australasian countries gather in Kuala Lumpur this week for the Asean, Asean Plus Three and East Asian summits. What are all these meetings about? TOP-LEVEL regional meetings are often dismissed as photo opportunities and "talk-shops" in
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      1234 17  -  Ooi Kee Beng By For The Straits Times HOW THE HEALING PROCESS COULD WORK China and Korea will find it easier to bury the pain of their modern past if Japan also buries both the shame and the glory of its modern
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      973 18  -  Bertha Henson CONFUSION OVER NKF RESERVES By Supervising Editor (Home) HOW long, exactly, will the National Kidney Foundation's reserves last? The question which has been on the public mind for close to half a year got a new answer last week when the new board,
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      Lock icon What price a statistical life?
      799 18  -  Weyma Luebbe By HAVE you ever sat at the deathbed of a statistical life? Such lives are what politicians save, or let die, or kill, when they decide on resource allocations for health care. Health care is not the only area where political decisions are
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      842 19  - S'pore's past, rehashed Zakir Hussain By A NEW three-part documentary entitled The History of Singapore offers viewers a few new insights into the Republic's past. Among them was that this place was tagged Singalore in the mid-19th century because gambling, opium smoking and prostitution were rampant, fed by an immigrant
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      208 17 What about us? The History of Singapore, a documentary, fails to tap the experiences of ordinary folks. PAGE 19 THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS, NEWS CENTRE, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2, *****4 ST INTERACTIVE: http://straitstimes.asial.com.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice-President Alan Chan Heng Loon (Marketing) Editor-in-Chief
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    17 20 Singapore today Showers with thunder are expected in the predawn and early morning over many areas.
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      269 20 Learn more about hearing loss. You probably know someone who has difficulty hearing. Approximately 400,000 people in Singapore has some form of hearing loss that may lower their quality of life. Hearing loss isn't an untreatable problem, so it's not necessary for you or your loved ones to suffer from
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      8 1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES MONDAY DECEMBER 12, 2005
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      1151 1  - Cruise, then off to London on same day K.C. VIJAYAN INTERVIEW WITH WOMAN IN CHIA TECK LENG CHEATING CASE By Crime Correspondent Living luxuriously, Li Jin was clueless her lover was a fraudster LUCK RAN OUT "He was on a winning streak and he was putting back all he took.
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        132 2 Education Minister and MP for Jurong GRC Tharman Shanmugaratnam gave his son, Arivan, 11, a pupil at N any ang Primary, a high-five after completing the rock wall. Mr Tharman and his son were the guests of honour at the Southwest Community Development Council (CDC)
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        Lock icon Donations dive but charity helps more
        481 2  -  Lee Hui Chieh By Assisi Home and Hospice raised $800,000 this year, much less than last year DONATIONS have gone down dramatically this year for at least one major charity. Assisi Home and Hospice, which cares for the terminally ill, raised more than $2
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        28 2 Ng Wei Hao, seen here with his parents, Mr Ng Hee Seng and Madam Magesvary Suppiah, raised $7,000 with his first two books. PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN
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        Lock icon Cancer teen pens third book to raise funds
        364 2  -  LEE HUI CHIEH EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ng Wei Hao may be dying of cancer, but that has not stopped him writing three books to help raise funds for Assisi Home and Hospice. So far, his first two books have raised $7,000 for the hospice,
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        Lock icon Renewal of older estates even more crucial now
        468 3  - Renewal of older estates even more crucial now Lim Wei Chean By Recent riots in France a lesson for S'pore as Sers marks 10th year PREVENTING older housing estates from sliding into slums and becoming breeding grounds for unrest is high on the Government's agenda. National Development Minister Mah Bow
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        Lock icon Move means having old neighbours, new friends
        342 3  -  LIM WEI CHEAN MR RAHMAN Shah Abdullah was among those who were upset when the announcement came on March 21, 1999, that their flats were to come under the Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme (Sers). The 41-year-old, who is self-employed, said he did not
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        Lock icon Family, friends bid farewell to Devan Nair
        565 3  -  Eugene Low By US Correspondent In Hamilton, Ontario A LOVING husband, devoted father, doting grandparent, and a stalwart defender of human rights. All the qualities that defined former president Devan Nair were fondly remembered at a simple but moving funeral in Ontario, Canada,
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        221 3 MORE than 770 subscribers and vendors have signed up for a Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) programme, where their newspapers are given to charities when they are on holiday. Copies of The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Tamil Murasu, Business Times and The New Paper will
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        627 5  - EYE ROBOT David Boey By Defence Correspondent SAF robots prove a formidable aid to commanders in locating and destroying enemy forces in battlefield exercise A BATTLEFIELD robot no bigger than the famous R2-D2 droid from the Star Wars movies trundles along dusty terrain in the Australian bush. Two cameras mounted
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        Lock icon People's Park to reopen early next year after $5m facelift
        273 6 81 original hawkers will be back, as well as some old shopkeepers THE 37-year-old People's Park was closed for a $5 million facelift in February, and is expected to be ready early next month in time for the Chinese New
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        Lock icon Many help schemes for needy students
        227 6 NO CHILD will lose an opportunity because he lacks the finances, Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday. Speaking at a family bonding event organised by South West Community Development Council, the minister cited the case of 12-year-old Hamizah Nordin, who wanted to switch to
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        112 6 ABOUT 80,000 used textbooks can be picked up for free by members of the public at two collection centres today. The textbooks are for all subjects taught from Primary 1 to Secondary 5. NTUC FairPrice has been organising this used textbooks scheme since 1983, and
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        232 6 DESPITE the morning drizzle, more than 3,000 people turned up yesterday for the Arulmigu Velmurugan Gnana Muneeswarar Temple's ceremonial closing of the topmost part of the temple dome. For a $10 donation, each devotee got two packets of the "navarthunam", consisting of nine precious stones, such
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        230 6 EIGHTY members of public turned up for a seven-hour tour of five famous local temples yesterday, organised by evening Chinese newspaper Shin Min Daily News. Each paid $20 to visit Po Chiak Keng Temple, Singapore Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng, Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple,
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          Lock icon It involves more than uttering the over-stated 'I do'
          297 7  -  Goh Wen Zhong I ATTENDED two weddings over the past two years. In each one, the bride was a dear friend from junior college. It feels surreal that I am spending 18 hours a day trying to finish my assignments while
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          Lock icon I'm too young to be tied down by family obligations
          275 7  -  By Chen Wei Li I AM not a believer in getting married young and I cannot understand why some people choose to do so. Although it can be rationalised that some women want to settle down while they are still
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          Lock icon It takes both parties to accept that they have flaws
          320 7  -  Tris Pruetthipunthu By MY CIRCLE of friends consists of people at different stages of married life and with different perceptions of it. It is interesting to hear the difference in views between married people, those who are engaged, and those
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          Lock icon Marriage? Not if it lowers quality of life
          255 7  -  Christopher Choo By GETTING married here costs an arm and a leg. Doing so without adequate financial planning is foolish, in my view. Take this for example: An HDB flat today is likely to keep a couple in debt for more than
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        115 7 HIP AND HAPPENING >> Place: J Bar >> Crowd: Shenton Way professionals Where it's at: 9th floor, M Hotel Singapore, 81 Anson Road >> Word on the street: Stylishly sleek and yet comfortable for busy worker bees, the J Bar is a great place for a post-hectic day escapade. Located
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        An MNC job? She'd rather sell duck rice
        491 7  -  Mazuin Khamis YOUNG AND RESTLESS By Business grad has no regrets joining family chain; it has taught her to 'think big' THINK of hawkers and hawker centres and Ah Peks in singlets come to mind. But if you visit one of the
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        Sieve out the good in human rights reports
        481 8 THE response from two MPs to the Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports ("Treatment of maids: charges and responses"; ST, Dec 7) caused me greater concern than the content of the reports itself. Ms Indranee Rajah said: "What's the use of giving the
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        Illegal parking: effects on private home owners
        430 8 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitsti mes. asia 1 .com. sg/forum. Access to online letters is free. We can do more for foreign maids Disturbing figures on maid deaths No loss if top pupils pass up elite schools? >> Close,
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        Some children treat library as playground
        479 8 Some children treat library as playground You can also mail your letters to Forum Editor, Hie Straits Times, Singapore Press Holdings, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Levenf 2, Singapore *****4. Fax: 6319-8289. When you write to Hie Straits Times Forum page, we take it that you agree at
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        violation policy unclear
        398 8 AS A concerned road user, I would like to provide feedback to the Land Transport Authority regarding its electronic road pricing (ERP) CashCard violation policy. On the evening of Dec 3, 1 drove into Orchard Link unaware that the ERP gantry was in operation. There was no
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        Parents key in early language acquisition
        182 8 I REFER to the excellent letter by Mrs Padmini Kesavapany, "Relook English teaching at kindergarten level" (ST, Dec 5). I wish to emphasise the parents' role in pre-schoolers' language acquisition. Many toddlers not only speak in full sentences, but also use words with many
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        Include phonics in S'pore's reading curriculum
        133 8 I REFER to the report on reading lessons being revamped in British schools (ST, Dec 2). It said children learn to read best by a method called "synthetic phonics", where they are taught sounds of letters and letter combinations before they go on to
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          MARATHON MADE MEMORABLE
          79 8 LAST Sunday, a group of dedicated volunteers got up when it was still dark and spent almost the whole day 1 preparing drinks at water points or cheering them- selves hoarse along the route of the Standard Chartered Marathon. I will never forget the sweet girl who
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          PIZZA AT 8.30AM? NO PROBLEM
          69 8 MY SON'S kindergarten organised a year-end potluck class party, and he asked me to order pizza to share with > his friends and teachers. J But I was not sure if pizze- rias would deliver at 8.30am. I was touched when Noorman of Oishi Japanese
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          HELP FOR FRIEND AT CHANGI AIRPORT
          69 8 MY FRIEND from Papua New Guinea arrived in Singapore recently, but I was unable to meet him at the airport. To make matters worse, he had no directions to the hostel for his stay here. He approached a customer service officer, Miss Tharshini, who
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        SMRT buses help us know when to alight
        166 8 RECENTLY, I have noticed that most SMRT buses display the name of each bus stop as they approach it. This is very helpful, especially for Singaporeans and visitors who are unsure of the way. In the past, they had to rely on
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        Team Asia one step behind opponents
        927 9  -  Marc Lim »GOLF By Sports Correspondent Team International win 16-8 as Asians' lack of matchplay experience shows INEXPERIENCED "I think the lack of experience in matchplayhurtus. Hopefully, in the future, those of us who played will have a better idea of what to do
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        It ain't heavy, it's my sister's bag
        544 9  -  Lee Yulin By Assistant Sports Editor GREG Sheridan and Donna Earley work for separate people. Yet they constantly travel together, stay at the best hotels and eat gourmet food, all at their bosses' expense. As unlikely as it may sound, those are just
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        Fans, players behind Lexus Cup success
        868 10  -  Tay Cheng Khoon »GOLF By Sports Editor But a tweak to the matchplay format could improve the tournament for spectators INTERACTION "I have never seen so many world-class players eight of them feature on this year's LPGA top 10 money list being so accessible
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        Pros also have soft-toys spots
        361 10  -  MARC LIM THEY may be the world's best women golfers, respected and adored by millions. But women will be women and they will have their fondness for anything soft and furry. Team Asia's captain Grace Park has her array of Hello Kitty club-head covers. LPGA
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        It may be Woods' own event, but not his week
        472 10 Thousand Oaks (California) TIGER Woods is sure that someone is going to win the Target World Challenge and he is also sure it will not be him. That probably makes him a perfect host. He is showing good manners by
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        460 11 SOCCER Doha TWO Asian teams should make it through to the second round of the 2006 World Cup. Mohammed Hammam, president of the Asian Football Confederation, would not say if Japan, Iran, Saudi Arabia or 2002 semi-finalists South Korea would progress.
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        566 11 He is furious that the Newcastle skipper gets away with crude tackles Newcastle ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger. looking to blame someone, launched a furious attack on striker Alan Shearer after watching his side slip to a 0-1 loss at Newcastle on Saturday. For 30
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        551 11 LONDON CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho was forced to defend his players' sportsmanship after their 1-0 win over Wigan at Stamford Bridge. Wigan boss Paul Jewell was unhappy that Chelsea's William Gallas on the advice of his manager had refused to throw the
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        40 11 The Steven Burridge-trained j gelding showed no early speed, however he made steady progress towards the end of the race to finish eighth behind Lim's Oasis in Race 6. The Dexter three-year-old should improve as the distances get longer.
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        44 11 In the final event, the Carnegie gtlding clipped heels shortly after the start and lost ground. After entering the home straight he made up many lengths to finish seventh behind Fat Boy. Trained by Charles Leek, the four-year-old is close to another win.
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        211 11 REAL Madrid will this week launch an audacious £15 million (Ss44 million) bid to prise Arsene Wenger from Arsenal, reported The News of the World. Real vice-president Emilio Bu tragueno is poised for talks with his Gunners counterpart David Dein at the Champions League draw in Switzerland
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        657 11 Track: Yielding Race 1 Class 5 (4) 1200m 8 AFFLUENCE, I Saifudin 1. I Venus, P Braem 2. II Superb Hero, S Salee 3. Margins: 3/4 len x S-Head. Time: 1:12.2. Nos. 8, 1, 11. Win: $15. Place: $7, $10, $33. FCT: $19. PFT:
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        354 11 Track: Good to Firm Race 1 aaas 2 1600m Nos. 11, 12, 14. Win: $28. Place: $9, $44, $36. FCT: $174. PFT: {11-121 $73, (11-14) $64, (12-14) $266. TCE: $8,606. Scratchings: Nil. Race 2 Class 3 1200m Nos. 1 1, 9, 4. Win:
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        Jiawei falls to world No 1 Zhang
        408 12  -  Nicholas Fang TABLE TENNIS By But Singaporean's second place in the Pro Tour Grand Finals is still a career best WORLD No 1 Zhang Yining has never lost to Singapore's Li Jiawei in nine international matches. The streak continued last night at the
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        495 12 Sally Yeh and 21 -point scoring to boost game BADMINTON Kuala Lumpur THE International Badminton Federation (IBF) will try out a new scoring system and recruit a pop star ambassador as part of a plan to revive fading interest in the game. IBF deputy president Punch Gunalan said the decision
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        Derek wants to follow daddy's footsteps
        491 12 HIS father struck gold in the 1983 South-east Asia Games badminton singles event, and Derek Wong is aiming to follow in dad's footsteps. But the 16-year-old second son of SEA Games champion Wong Shoon Keat is taking it one step at a time; he
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        503 12 BASKETBALL Milwaukee LEBRON James did everything but win. The 20-year-old star scored an NBA season-high 52 points, but T.J. Ford tied his career high with 24 and Michael Redd added 23 to help the Milwaukee Bucks beat James and the
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        585 12 BASKETBALL NBA: Chicago 118 Washington 111, Orlando 94 Denver 83, Atlanta 94 San Antonio 84, Philadelphia 107 New Jersey 95, Toronto 111 Charlotte 103, Minnesota 95 LA Lakers 82, Indiana 80 Memphis 66, Dallas 103 Boston 94, Milwaukee 111 Cleveland 106, Sacramento 123 Seattle 104, LA Clippers 101 Phoenix
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          77 12 SINGAPORE will host a fiveteam women's soccer series from tomorrow to Saturday. The hosts will have two teams the national Under--20 side and the Singapore Young Women team. The other three teams are China's Beijing Girls and Australian sides Northern Redbacks and Beckenham Angels. All
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          80 12 THE SMU soccer team are organising a women's street soccer competition with Heartwar6 Network. The competition, called "Girls Beat The Street", will be held on Saturday and Sunday from Bam to 3.30pm at the open field in front or Tampines MRT station. It will be
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          86 12 TOKYO: Saudi Arabia's Al Ittihad beat Al Ahly 1-0 in the opening match of soccer's Fifa Club World Championship yesterday, snapping the Egyptian club's 55-match unbeaten run in the process. Ittihad captain Mohammed Noor pounced on an error by goalkeeper Essam El Hadary in the
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          73 12 NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar made history on Saturday when he reached 35 Test centuries on the opening day of the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here, smashing compatriot Sunil Gavaskar's world mark of 34. Indian President Abdul Kamal led
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        602 14  -  AZRIN ASMANI TAKING STOCK By Fed benchmark set to hit 4.25°/o, while crude may edge up in the wake of depot blasts THINGS ARE LOOKING UP "Interest rates could pose a challenge to the bulls... We advocate a selective strategy, and investors should
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          109 14 NEPTUNE Orient Lines' (NOL's) $1.34 billion dividend payout announced last week has sparked a mixed reaction from observers. CIMB-GK said in a note on Friday that the move was a "nice reward" for shareholders who had held on to the stock despite its underperfonnance.
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          102 14 CAPITALAND'S bold $1.38 billion bid that it jointly submitted last week with Hong Kong's Sun Hung Kai Properties for the prime Orchard Turn site has raised eyebrows at OCBC Investment Research. "We see little room for margin of error, and the downside risk of
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          76 14 UOB Kay Hian is maintaining its "hold" recommendation on Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing despite the good news from the chipmaker last week. Chartered on Friday raised its forecast for fourth-quarter sales and profit, thanks largely to robust demand for chips powering the Microsoft XBox
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        6188 14 UNIT TRUSTS IBM Amro Asset Mgt (Spore) Star Europe Eqty!** 0.859 Star Europe Bond 1203 Star Europe Bal 1 139 Star Asian Tiger Eqty 1106 Star Asia Bond 1339 Star Asia Balanced 1 065 Star Global Technology Fund!" 0 215 MuttiStFd 1044 Star Asia BondtUSD) 0
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        719 15  -  TSCHANG CHI-CHU By China Correspondent In Beijing Observers question benefits of foreign investment and price paid by investors A FIERCE debate has erupted in China over the wisdom of selling stakes in all the state-owned commercial banks to foreigners. The debate began shortly
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          80 15 KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia is on track for economic growth of 5.5 to 5.7 per cent this year, the country's trade minister said on Saturday. "For the time being, yes, we are still on track to meet 5.5 to 5.7 per cent growth," Dr Mari
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          58 15 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's government is maintaining its economic growth forecast of 5.5 per cent for next year, Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop said. The country may expand by 5 per cent this year, the Ministry of Finance had said on Sept 30 in its
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          100 15 BEIJING: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is boosting loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) despite higher risks from this type of lending, its chairman said on Saturday. "Lending to SMEs is a must for Chinese commercial banks because the market
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          91 15 SHANGHAI: Inßev, the world's largest producer of beer, has won a fierce bidding war and is set to acquire one of China's largest brewers for about US$75O million (551.27 billion), according to people briefed on the talks. The deal to acquire the producer, Pujian Sedrin
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        661 16  -  Joyce Teo By Property Correspondent Healthy economy, improving rentals and tight space boost demand BUOYANT DEMAND "Rentals have already risen 22 per cent and this has put extra pressure on companies and their costs." MR CHATHAM of The Executive Centre, on
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        244 16 PEOPLE ON THE MOVE MOTOROLA NAMES ASIA-PAC VP JEFF SPAETH: Succeeds Mr John Gherghetta as the vice-president of Motorola's government and enterprise mobility solutions business in the Asia-Pacific. Mr Spaeth (above), vice-president for the same business in Latin America, Caribbean and Canada, will be based in Singapore. He will oversee
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        139 16 SCOTTISH entrepreneur Tom Hunter has teamed up with CapitaLand South-east Asia's largest real estate company, which is owned by Temasek Holdings and Citigroup to invest in the Chinese property market. The groups have created a fund, believed to be valued at £1 billion (552.97 billion)
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        1169 17  -  Goh Eng Yeow COMMENTARY By Lessons from Pan-El, Barings crises worth noting even as stock futures make return A FRISSON of excitement passed through Singapore's investing world last week when the Singapore Exchange (SGX) said a sexy type of
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        436 17  -  Grace Ng By > REGIONAL SURGE A NOSEDIVE in the number of domestic deals dragged the value of mergers and acquisitions (M& As) completed here this year down by 17 per cent to US$B.l billion (5513.7 billion). Domestic deals, which involve
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        736 18  -  Gabriel Chen By Facility here will conduct courses and seminars for top Asia-Pae staff Developing regional talent The new training programme, which will run over the next three years, is a tie-up between Nestle, the NUS Business School and the London Business School.
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        300 18 MASSIVE TRADING BLUNDER Tokyo THE Tokyo Stock Exchange has admitted that a fault in its system had been partly responsible for a massive loss suffered by a securities firm following an erroneous sell order by one of its dealers. The
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