The Straits Times, 7 June 2010

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  • 19 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. MICA (P) 094/11/2009 MONDAY, JUNE 7 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS
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    • 32 1 SPAIN’S Rafael Nadal won his fifth French Open tennis title yesterday, beating Robin Soderling of Sweden 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in the men’s singles final. SPORT PAGE B9
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    • 37 1 A MEGACHURCH in Singapore, the New Creation Church, told its followers yesterday that its commercial ventures were not for monetary gain, but to house a growing number of worshippers. PRIME PAGE A3
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    • 36 1 FAMILIES with money woes who need temporary housing have been able to get it through a year-old scheme by the Housing Board to assign them interim rental flats. HOME PAGE B1
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    • 35 1 SCIENTISTS have made progress in taming lung and skin cancer among the hardest cancers to treat. The studies are seen as significant advances in the field, though far from cures. WORLD PAGE A16
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    • 46 1 SINGAPORE has become a hot spot for global mid-sized companies looking to expand in the nascent but booming clean technology industry. The trend could add $3.4 billion to the Republic’s economic output by 2015, says the Economic Development Board. MONEY PAGE B18
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  • 1026 1  -  Acting on poll, NEA increases patrols and adds more bins BY AMRESH GUNASINGHAM amreshg@sph.com.sg YEARS of effort against littering have not stamped out the problem, so the authori- ties embarked on a survey to find out why, and to help them formulate intensive new
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  • 111 1 CHERLYN Lee is only five, but she is a whiz at counting. She correctly managed six out of 10 tasks each involving the addition of 10 rows of 10 digits at a mathematical competition recently, setting a new Singapore record. She also
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  • 651 1  -  BY LEE SEOK HWAI, JERMYN CHOW MOST, if not all countries, at the Shangri-La Dialogue back an Asean-led body that will be launched later this year to tackle security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region. This includes China, South Korea, Russia and the
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    • 113 1 REALITY TV SECRET SERVICE AGENT He reports bad service Fang Xiu’s lasting legacy REVIEW, PAGE A19 10 learn about being an imam WORLD, PAGE A10 LIFE! PAGE C4 BREAKING NEWS: www.straitstimes.com INTERACT: www.stomp.com.sg EMAIL: stomp@stomp.com.sg VIDEOS: www.razortv.com.sg NEWS TIPS: 1800-*****28 CALL 6388-3838 TO SUBSCRIBE OR GO TO www.sphsubscription.com.sg E ST?
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  • prime.commentary
    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 71 2 WE SAY Mass suicides and strikes in Chinese factories are a sign that labour exploitation is reaching danger point in China’s headlong rush to raise industrial output. The central government must strengthen law enforcement and monitoring. A spontaneous explosion of workplace anger over cruel
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      • 33 2 COLUMNS The BP oil spill is a wake-up call for Western society to rethink its dependence on ever-accelerating technological innovation for ever-expanding fuel consumption, says Kenneth Rogoff. REVIEW PAGE A18
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      • 23 2 Confusion over security issues is most emblematic of former PM Yukio Hatoyama’s troubled reign, says Robert Karniol. REVIEW PAGE A19
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      • 32 2 OUR READER SAYS The country of origin of Singapore’s winning players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships should not matter, says Benjamin Tan. FORUM PAGE A20
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      • Article, Illustration
        15 2 www.straitstimes.com Lynn Lee ponders the Airbus A-380’s versatility as a mass transport carrier.
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    • 985 2  -  Until EU gets its house in order, real dialogue with Beijing not possible BY JONATHAN EYAL EUROPE CORRESPONDENT jonathan.eyal@gmail.com FOR decades, the Europeans preached to the Chinese about the virtues of financial responsibility. Only last month, Mr Karel de Gucht, the European Union’s
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  • prime.news
    • 376 3  -  LIEW HANQING, LIM WEI CHEAN, MELISSA SIM PASTOR Tan Ye Peng, a founding member of City Harvest Church (CHC) and Senior Pastor Kong Hee’s deputy, is among those assisting the authorities in an investigation arising from complaints about the alleged misuse of church
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    • 790 3  -  Operations driven by need to find space for growing congregation, says church deacon BY LEE SIEW HUA siewhua@sph.com.sg THE New Creation Church assured churchgoers yesterday that its business ventures were formed not to spin money for the megachurch, but were essentially driven by the
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    • Article, Illustration
      74 4  -  BY LAU FOOK KONG PHOTOJOURNALIST It’s that golden time of the day when things start to wind down, people head home, and friends and family start getting together. Straits Times photographers show their take on that moment in the Prime pages every Monday entitled 6.39pm. Construction workers form
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    • 36 4 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be on overseas leave from today to Saturday. While he is away, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean will be acting prime minister.
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    • 699 6 Seven of the 19 expelled, with others to follow; Hamas hails latest aid bid AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BERNAMA JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday expelled seven of 19 activists from the aid ship it had stopped from running the Gaza siege a day earlier, as calls grew
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    • 308 6 REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has proposed a multinational investigation of Israel’s raid on the aid flotilla ship that killed nine activists, as pressure continues on the country to explain how the raid turned deadly. An investigation
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    • 256 6 SINGAPORE'S FINEST JEWELLERY AUCTION Global Economic Crisis Forced Sale Seized and Confiscated Valuable Assets Previously Held, Sold and Released by Financial Entities Government Agencies; to be Auctioned to the Public Piece by Piece with other Consignments which constitute the Majority of other Inventory from Private and or Commercial Interests. Tuesday
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  • prime.shangri-la dialogue
    • 578 8  -  They must build up their capabilities in disaster-prone Asia, say three defence chiefs BY ZAKIR HUSSAIN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT zakirh@sph.com.sg HELPING people affected by disasters such as earthquakes and floods must be a core skill for military forces in disaster-prone Asia, three defence ministers said
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    • 455 8  -  BY TEH JOO LIN THE international security mission set up almost a decade ago to restore peace in Afghanistan must do more to stamp out poppy production if it wants to quell the insurgency in the country. The Nato-led International Security Assistance
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    • 508 9  -  But new defence body needs to prove it is not just another talk shop COMMENTARY BY GOH SUI NOI SENIOR WRITER suinoi@sph.com.sg ENOUGH of talk, now for some practical cooperation. The new regional defence body that will meet for the first time
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    • 484 9  -  NEWS ANALYSIS BY CHEONG SUK-WAI SENIOR WRITER IN LESS than an hour yesterday, security and Shangri-La Hotel staff dismantled bomb and metal scanners, scraped scuff marks off marble floors and stripped rooms of the tangles of wires used during the three-day Shangri-La Dialogue. But the dialogue
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  • WORLD.
    • 868 10  -  Malaysian reality show has young men competing to be best imam BY HAZLIN HASSAN MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT hazlinh@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR: When 10 young Malaysian men signed up to compete in the latest reality show in town, little did they know they would face gruesome death. Their first
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    • 108 10 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE US faces biggest environmental crisis Egypt’s taps are running dry MOST COMMENTED ON Condemn Israeli attack on aid flotilla. Says luikhang: “I do not care who is right or wrong politically. What I care about is that well-trained
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    • world.regional
      • 511 11 Emergency measures still in force; Cabinet to be reshuffled REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HO CHI MINH CITY: Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday an emergency decree would remain in place for now though the situation was calm and added that an
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      • 303 11 JAKARTA: Indonesia’s national police said they had no plans to investigate claims that companies owned by the family of tycoon Aburizal Bakrie had paid bribes to avoid taxes, despite a recent accusation by a former tax official. Mr Gayus Tambunan, the
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      • 573 12 Ri Je Gang, 80, said to be working to secure power transfer to Kim Jr NEW YORK TIMES SEOUL: A top North Korean official, believed to be working to secure an eventual transfer of power from ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to
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      • 432 12 XINHUA ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has said sanctions could not block the march of his country towards prosperity, the official newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported yesterday. As the speech the leader made during an undated inspection tour at a chemical
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      • 620 13 Powerful Japanese media seen as instrumental in downfall of Hatoyama and previous heads ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japan’s new Prime Minister Naoto Kan will have to keep the country’s powerful media on his side if he wants to escape
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    • world.memo from delhi
      • 930 14  -  Country is talking its way to becoming world’s biggest market by 2013 BY RAVI VELLOOR SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF velloor@sph.com.sg SINCE India began opening its economy in 1991, a full 13 years after China, the question has been asked: Will the sleeping giant
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    • world.international
      • 642 15 Containment work is ongoing and oil giant’s bill for compensation and clean-up keeps growing AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS GRAND ISLE (Louisiana): BP has claimed a rare success in the battle to stop oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but the compensation bill continues to
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      • 231 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI: An advertising campaign by BP apologising for causing the biggest oil spill in US history has earned the company more criticism than sympathy. The radio, television, online and print advertisements feature BP chief executive officer Tony Hayward (right) pledging to fix the
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      • 667 16 Scientists claim results using different strategies to shrink, block tumours NEW YORK TIMES REUTERS CHICAGO: Using two opposite strategies, one focused and one broad, scientists have made progress in taming two of the most intractable types of cancer. The studies on lung cancer
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      • 94 16 A Canadian man who has spent the past decade walking around the world to promote peace crossed Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday, having travelled through 62 countries. A mid-life crisis prompted Mr Jean Beliveau (right), 55, to begin his walk from Montreal, Canada, in August 2000.
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      • 314 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEWARK (New Jersey): Two New Jersey men who allegedly intended to kill American troops were arrested at a New York City airport before boarding flights on their way to join a jihadist group in Somalia, a local newspaper
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      • 333 17 Ex-husband, accused of kidnapping children 15 years ago, arrested ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN BERNARDINO (California): A California woman whose two children were reported missing 15 years ago has tracked them down in Florida using Facebook. The children’s father, Faustino Utrera, had taken them from his
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      • 90 17 PHOTO: REUTERS Tens of thousands of people fled from vulnerable coastal villages in the southern Pakistan province of Sindh yesterday as Cyclone Phet swirled along the country’s coast. But thousands more refused to abandon their homes, despite heavy rain and winds lashing the port
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      • IN BRIEF
        • 90 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS CAIRO: An Egyptian court has ordered the government to consider, case by case, revoking the citizenship of Egyptians married to Israelis, if the marriages posed a threat to Egypt’s national security. The Supreme Administrative Court’s ruling was in response to an appeal by the
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        • 93 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS TAIPEI: Foxconn workers in China will get another pay rise, on top of an increase that just took effect in response to recent worker suicides. Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group said yesterday salaries would be raised in October to 2,000 yuan (S$410) for workers at
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        • 66 17 HONG KONG: Five people dining in a street in Hong Kong’s Tsuen Wan district last Saturday were injured when they were showered with acid likely the 13th attack with such liquid since December 2008. The victims suffered minor head, arm and eye injuries and were
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        • 78 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: The author of a “fictionalised biography” of Italian-born Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi has vowed to fight attempts to stop it from being published. The Red Sari: When Life Is The Price Of Power touches on the sensitive issue of Mrs
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        • 62 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ABU DHABI: A tower in Abu Dhabi has been recognised as the “furthest- leaning man-made tower” in the world by Guinness World Records, local media reported yesterday. The 160m Capital Gate tower leans at 18 degrees over four times the angle of Italy’s famous Leaning Tower
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        • 82 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY: Australia yesterday announced a police probe into whether Google illegally collected private information from wireless networks, becoming at least the second country to investigate the Internet giant’s “Street View” mapping service. Last month, Google acknowledged it had mistakenly collected fragments of data over public
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  • REVIEW & FORUM.
    • 418 18 TWO foreign-owned factories in southern China promptly offered big wage increases after workers made known their frustrations over poor pay and harsh working conditions in different ways. First, there was a rash of about a dozen suicides at Taiwanese-owned contract manufacturer Foxconn in Shenzhen.
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    • 883 18  -  OIL SPILL IN THE U.S. BY KENNETH ROGOFF The writer is professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF. PROJECT SYNDICATE AS THE damaged BP oil well continues to spew millions of litres of crude from the depths
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    • 862 18  -  BY ALAY C The writer is UN assistant secretary-general, UNDP assistant administrator and director for UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. MONGOLIAN herders and rural Indians could bring valuable insights to this week’s World Economic Forum on East Asia. Both
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    • review.
      • 981 19  -  REMEMBERING FANG XIU BY LEONG WENG KAM SENIOR WRITER wengkam@sph.com.sg THE late Goh Tze Kwong, better known by his pseudonym Fang Xiu, was a journalist-turned-scholar who pioneered the study of modern Malayan-Singapore Chinese literature since the early 1950s. He is revered by many in
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      • 796 19  -  BY ROBERT KARNIOL DEFENCE WRITER rkarniol@sph.com.sg THE short-lived tenure of reformist prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has left Japan’s Ministry of Defence dazed with uncertainty. “The political situation is very complicated,” a Japanese defence official told The Straits Times in a candid telephone exchange. “We don’t
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      • 764 19  -  BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON The writer is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. RECENT developments in curbing high levels of forest loss around the world are promising. They are significant because deforestation, including the clearing of trees from
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    • forum.
      • 359 20  -  Benjamin Tan I AM a Singaporean living and working in Beijing, and I sat riveted as our women table tennis players challenged the mighty Chinese team during the recent World Team Table Tennis Championships. I rejoiced when they claimed their historic victory and I
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      • 173 20  -  Michael Sim Senior Manager Corporate Communications Investor Relations StarHub WE THANK Madam Cheong Lai Yin (“TV listings missing from revamped television guide”, last Wednesday) and Ms Christina Ho (“Spare a thought for subscribers, StarHub”, Forum Online, last Thursday) for their feedback on the
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      • 163 20  -  Tan Kok Tim THE Central Provident Fund Board recently issued a general circular letter, “GST credits for 2010” and the schedule, “Benefits for households in 2010”. Those living in HDB three-, four- and five-room flats will receive goods and services tax rebates that are
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      • Article, Illustration
        82 20 More letters on www.straitstimes.com 1 MR TAN SHAO KEN: Act against MLM firms recruiting students 2 MR TAY XIONG SHENG: Be sceptical of MLM firms’ claims 3 MS QI YULAN: World Cup Telcos on the losing end 4 MR POH CHUN WAH: Provide schedules for fibre-optic cable installation
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      • 60 20 Letters should be sent only to The Straits Times. They should be no longer than 400 words and must include the writer’s full name, address and phone numbers. The Forum editor reserves the right to edit a letter. For women, please indicate Miss, Ms, Mrs or Madam. Please
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      • 242 20  -  Genesis Auste I WITNESSED a heroic act last Thursday by three 12-year-old boys at the dead end of Jubilee Road. I was on my way to the International Community School at about 7.30pm when I saw a boy running to the school’s guard house to
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      • 402 20  -  Chia Siew Ling (Ms) AFTER reading the report (“Trio in fake witness case to be charged”, last Friday), I wish to relate a recent road accident I was involved in. Last Wednesday, I was driving on the Tampines Expressway towards Sengkang at
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    • Article, Illustration
      663 1  -  ANOTHER OPTION FOR FAMILIES More than 600 families given roof over their heads under HDB scheme BY CAROLYN QUEK carolynq@sph.com.sg FAMILIES down on their luck have been able to get a roof over their heads through a year-old Housing Board scheme to find them interim housing. More
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    • 109 1 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE Church staff probed City Harvest followers rally MOST COMMENTED ON Birth rate issues shouldn’t be seen as a battle of genders. Says khunying: “Singapore parents still show favouritism to their sons. This has led to them growing up
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    • 1037 2  -  A second company will start plant here to make fuel out of waste oil BY LESTER KOK lesterk@sph.com.sg DEMAND for the cheaper and more environmentally friendly biodiesel is picking up both overseas and in Singapore, as companies strive to go green. A second company
      ST PHOTO: TERENCE TAN; GRAPHICS: BONG FORTIN & MIEL  -  1,037 words
    • 428 2  -  LESTER KOK ALPHA Biofuels will soon allow customers to produce their own biodiesel, using a machine the size of a long dining table. The micro-refinery is being used on the construction site of Asia Square, an upcoming hotel-cum-office complex in Marina Bay, producing 1,000 litres of
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    • 303 3  -  SUJIN THOMAS THE Briton named in court documents for his involvement in spraypainting graffiti on an MRT train is believed to have left Singapore for Hong Kong. It is not known exactly when British citizen Lloyd Dane Alexander left, but
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    • 524 4  -  Get re-acquainted with Singapore’s heritage at the National Library, where the Preservation of Monuments Board is showcasing 27 heritage buildings. The first travelling exhibition is part of a new programme to promote Singapore’s history. The Straits Times looks at eight of the featured buildings. TEXT:
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    • 205 5 MORE than 1,500 people took part in a 1km charity walk yesterday morning to raise awareness and money to help needy school children in Cambodia. Called Walk The World, the annual event, held at Sengkang Riverside Park, helped to raise more than $60,000 for the
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    • 576 5  - Big demand great Net deals New websites here feature big discounts but deals closed only if there are enough buyers BY JESSICA LIM, TAN WEIZHEN,DARYL CHIN limjess@sph.com.sg tanwz@sph.com.sg darylc@sph.com.sg COMPANIES looking to pull in more customers are taking a new route. Instead of handing out discount fliers to individuals, they
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    • The New Market
      • 622 6  - Foo d courts go upmarket To pull in the young crowds, the food courts in town provide cosy ambience and a delicious mix of popular cuisines BY i GAYLE QUAH THE new food courts in the central business district are getting better in a bid to attract the young, trendy
        PHOTOS: FOOD REPUBLIC, TAKASHIMAYA  -  622 words
      • 248 6 CANON Singapore has rolled out a series of tech goodies at bargain prices for the Great Singapore p Sale (GSS). The products include compact cameras, dSLR cameras, camcorders and projectors. To upgrade your compact camera, opt for the PowerShot SX120 IS (GSS price: $399 [Usual: $469]
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      • 217 6 SINGAPORE Medical Group (SMG) opened The Obstetrics and Gynaecology Centre (TOGC) on Level 17 of Paragon Medical Centre last month. The centre provides a wide range of obstetrical and gynaecological services. It is led by Dr Chee Jing Jye, the medical director of TOGC,
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      • 254 6 THE launch of this year's Great Singapore Sale (GSS) came with a shopping challenge entitled "Your Great Singapore Sale Experience" held last Saturday at Wisma Atria. Organised by the Singapore Retailers Association (SRA) and managed by SPH MediaBoxOffice, the challenge saw teams
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      • 282 6 THE second Great Eastern International Kids Performing Festival (Great Eastern IKPF) began last Saturday at ION Orchard. Organised by insurer Great Eastern and Precious Entertainment, the festival that will run till June 26 is intended to create opportunities for young talents to experience the arts
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          49 6 Crystal Jade My Bread's latest novelty rice dumpling is made with lychee and sold at $2.50 each. Other flavours include chocolate, black glutinous rice and mango. Traditional dumplings with ingredients such as spicy chicken and abalone are also offered. Prices start at $5.40. Available till June 16.
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          49 6 The new Laurier Super Slim Guard with Safety Gathers is discreetly slim and ultra absorbent at just 1mm thin. It offers extra protection from side leakage with soft Safety Gathers. Available in 18s ($6.45) and 9s ($3.25), it is sold at supermarkets, pharmacies and personal care stores.
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          39 6 The new Magnum Gold ice cream is the latest in the indulgent Magnum range. Consisting of Madagascan vanilla ice cream swirled with sea-salt caramel and coat- ed with golden dipped milk chocolate, it is priced at $3.90.
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          41 6 ESP (Enjoyable, Safe Pleasure) is a new condom brand that offers a wider range of options. Scientifically researched and designed with quality assurance, they are sold at affordable prices. The range includes genicare creams, lubricating gels, washes and sprays.
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          60 6 Japan's top-selling face lotion, Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid (SHA) Moisturising Lotion, is now available in Singapore. The manufacturer has a "no more no less" philosophy where special care is made to remove additives such as alcohol, colourants, fragrance and mineral oils. Instead, essential ingredients such as SHA
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          53 6 Organix is a hair care brand with organic ingredients and exotic fragrances. It has won several beauty awards in the United States. Now available exclusively at Watsons Personal Care stores, the flavours include Cherry Blossom Ginseng, Tea Tree Mint and Lavender Soy Milk. Retails at $14.90 for both
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    • 616 7  -  Cherlyn Lee’s score at olympiad best in S’pore BY TED CHEN tedchen@sph.com.sg CHERLYN Lee is only five, but she is a computational whiz. She correctly answered six out of 10 tasks each involving the addition of 10 rows of 10-digit numbers at a mathematical
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    • 121 7 ROMANIA’S former diplomat Silviu Ionescu’s detention in his home country has been extended by 30 days, according to media reports there. The reports say a district court in Bucharest granted prosecutors’ request to extend Ionescu’s detention period. The former charge d’affaires at the Romanian embassy
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 69 7 FROM today till Thursday, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen will be in Japan to learn more about their educational developments. He will meet senior parliamentarians and visit the University of Tokyo, as well as other education institutions. Dr Ng will be accompanied by Ms Grace
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      • 104 7 FINANCE Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be in San Francisco and Berlin from today till Thursday to attend and speak at two conferences on global economic challenges. He will deliver the opening keynote address at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Conference on Global Recovery: Asia
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    • home.youthink
      • 495 8  -  Singapore risks losing talent if there are not enough local varsity places SOAPBOX BY AMELIA TAN ameltan@sph.com.sg THE difference between junior college (JC) and polytechnic students is now so slight that it may come down to little more than what they wear to school. Just
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      • 832 8 With two more junior colleges building hostel facilities for their students, should secondary schools and other JCs take this path? YouthInk writers weigh in MY LIFE Children can learn life skills UNACCOMPANIED by our parents, I stayed in a youth hostel for
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    • 53 4 Go to www.pmb.sg for exhibition details. Of Monuments and Memories Travelling Exhibition Volunteers and student ambassadors will conduct 11 free guided walking tours over five Sundays starting this week. The website has more information on the tours and registration details. A Chinese who croons like the late P Ramlee For
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  • SPORT.
    • 556 9 Spaniard will regain top ranking after thrashing Soderling in the final FRENCH OPEN AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: Rafael Nadal proved to be the King of Clay yet again and is set to regain the world No. 1 ranking from Roger Federer today. This, after the Spaniard captured
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    • 645 9 REUTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS: Italy seldom has an opportunity to herald individual success on the tennis court, so Francesca Schiavone’s French Open triumph was greeted with banner headlines and praise from politicians to pop stars yesterday. Saturday’s 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) win over Australia’s Samantha Stosur
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    • 179 9 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE STORIES World champions Crowds welcome home Singapore’s world champions Feng takes centre stage MOST COMMENTED ON Crowds welcome home Singapore’s world champions Said spfairley: “Great news from the Singapore Table Tennis Association website: ‘STTA is committed to the
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    • 4 days to the World Cup
      • 554 10 Players worried about injuries; local team have poor disciplinary record THE TIMES, LONDON RUSTENBURG (South Africa): Fabio Capello is ready to risk his stars today in a game against local players with a poor disciplinary record, despite calls for him to be cautious after
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      • 446 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS JOHANNESBURG (South Africa): Thousands of football fans stampeded outside a stadium yesterday before a World Cup warm-up match between Nigeria and North Korea, leaving at least 20 people injured. In a separate incident, the game at the Makhulong Stadium in
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      • 377 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Diego Maradona’s stewardship of the Argentinian national side is a negative factor which could harm his country’s chances, according to 1978 champion and former international teammate Osvaldo Ardiles. Under Maradona, the two-time champions just crept into the Finals after some inept showings
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      • 488 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS REUTERS GENEVA: Italy coach Marcello Lippi has injury and formation headaches to ponder over, during his two days off, before the world champions fly to South Africa with 24th man Andrea Cossu in tow. World Cup winner Lippi is too experienced to let
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      • 67 11 Nearly 10,000 km separate the Netherlands and Brazil but interest in the World Cup is the same. Orange, the colour of the Dutch national team, dominates a street in the municipality of Goirle (above) in the country’s south. In Rio de Janeiro (below), a street is
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      • 236 11 Reuters Associated Press SCARES CONTINUE: World Cup injury scares continued over the weekend. Portugal winger Nani will be re-examined before tomorrow’s warm-up match against Mozambique, after falling while attempting an acrobatic shot and injuring his shoulder yesterday. Uruguay striker Diego Forlan picked up a foot injury when he
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      • 152 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SION (Switzerland): The Ivory Coast Football Federation has said that captain Didier Drogba had successful surgery on Saturday, a day after suffering a fractured forearm which threatens his World Cup dream. The 32-year-old Chelsea striker was hurt by a robust
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      • 256 11 REUTERS JOHANNESBURG: Germany will go into the World Cup in top form despite a string of injuries that ruled out several starting players, coach Joachim Loew said hours before the team departed for South Africa yesterday. Injuries have so far ruled out captain Michael Ballack and
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      • 1038 11  -  Argentina, Brazil display good form, while rivals struggle with injuries days to the World Cup 4 BY TERRENCE VOON tvoon@sph.com.sg JUST a few weeks ago, all the signs pointed to a maiden World Cup win for Spain. But now, with four days to go before the
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 54 12 ALEKSANDAR Duric struck twice as Tampines Rovers returned to the top of the Great Eastern-YEO’s S-League after beating Beijing Guoan 4-0 at Tampines Stadium last night. Jamil Ali and Aliff Shafaein scored the other goals for the Stags, who moved to 34 points, one
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      • 83 12 REUTERS MUGELLO (Italy): MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi will be out of action for four to five months after fracturing his right leg in a crash during practice for the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday. The 31-year-old Italian needed a three-hour operation after
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      • 67 12 REUTERS NEW YORK: Drosselmeyer unleashed a devastating late sprint on Saturday to win the 142nd running of the Belmont Stakes, the third and final leg of US horse racing’s Triple Crown. Ridden by jockey Mike Smith, Drosselmeyer surged clear of his 11 rivals on the
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    • 374 12  -  BY JONATHAN WONG A JOURNEY that began from the steps of Buckingham Palace in London last October has finally made its way to Singapore’s shores. The Queen’s Baton Relay, the curtain raiser for every Commonwealth Games since Cardiff 1958, began its local leg yesterday morning, having
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    • 294 12 THE TIMES, LONDON ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Guus Hiddink has ruled himself out of the race to become Liverpool’s new manager, but Sven-Goran Eriksson admits it would be a dream to take charge of the English Premier League football club. Hiddink
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    • 70 12 Today Basketball NBA Finals Game 2: Los Angeles v Boston (Live, Ch294, 8am). Football S-League: Gombak v Albirex (Jurong West), Balestier v Young Lions (Toa Payoh) 7.45pm. Tomorrow Football S-League: Sengkang v Singapore Armed Forces FC (Hougang), Home v Woodlands (Clementi) 7.45pm. Wednesday Basketball NBA Finals Game
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    • 49 12 NEW YORK: Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico (right) landing a left on Israel’s Yuri Foreman on his way to winning the World Boxing Association junior middleweight title on Saturday. The referee stopped the bout 42 seconds into the ninth round. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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    • 181 12 Cricket 2nd Test In Manchester, 2nd day: England 419 (overnight 275-5: M. Prior 93; S. Al Hasan 5-121). Bangladesh 216 (T. Iqbal 108; G. Swann 5-76). 5th match Tri-Series In Harare: India 268-9 (V. Kohli 68). Sri Lanka 270-4 in 48.2 overs (D. Chandimal 111). Sri Lanka win by
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    • 43 12 GRAEME SWANN, the England spin bowler, after taking five wickets in the final session on the second day of the second cricket Test against Bangladesh, who slumped from 126 without loss to 216 all out
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    • 547 12 He refuses to entertain media after struggling to a 69 at the Memorial AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE DUBLIN (Ohio): The largest crowd at Muirfield Village followed Tiger Woods, and the cheers were loud and frequent. But they were not for him. Playing with the world’s No. 1 golfer, little-known Ricky
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  547 words
    • 491 12  -  ARUNNER’S DIARY BY JEANETTE WANG jwang@sph.com.sg The writer is the associate editor of Shape, Singapore’s premier health, fitness, wellness and nutrition magazine for women. IF RUNNING an ultramarathon is tough, deciding to quit in the middle of one is even tougher. You start to
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    • 33 9 LOOKING GOOD NOW Diego Maradona’s Argentina are the form team going into the World Cup. B11 WOODS FRUSTRATED Tiger Woods refuses to entertain media after struggling at Memorial. B12 (f\r o tic iSttiW:
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  • 557 13 OBITUARIES With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The family of the late LINDA SIM AI SHIAN (Pharmacy Manager) Departed on 5 June 2010 From: The Management Staff of SingHealth Polyclinics RM. KALUNGAPPA CHETTIAR Age: 87 (Ex staff of UCO Bank, Singapore and Tamil Murasu) passed away peacefully on 05 June
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    • 41 14 The advertisement is issued by Macquarie Capital Securities (Singapore) Pte. Limited (Reg No. *****2912C), holder of a capital markets services licence under the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore. OA TS R The first step on your ladder RECRUIT
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    • money.markets
      • 519 14  -  Investors advised to sit tight as markets board the roller-coaster again BULLS AND BEARS BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg AFTER three days of heady gains, it is back to the doghouse for the local bourse today, as it grapples with
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        98 14 Currencies Jun 4 CHNG YR 2010 CLOSE FR Jun 3 S$ LOW S$ HIGH US$ 1.4023 -0.07 1.4219 1.3680 Euro 1.7126 +0.64 2.0153 1.7060 2.0578 +0.12 2.2831 2.0003 A$ 1.1876 +0.46 1.2960 1.1515 Yen* 1.5109 +0.06 1.5927 1.4467 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.18 0.***** 0.***** Where S$ stands Jun 4
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      • 2715 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS A unit trust or investment-linked insurance policy qualifies for inclusion under the CPF Investment Scheme if it has: a three-year track record, top quartile performance, a sales charge not exceeding 3 per cent and an expense ratio that is lower than the median of existing funds in
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      • 203 14 Week's Top Rises CENTS DBXT Nifty 10US$ ***** 689.7 4.6 JMH 3694 308.4 6.3 DBXT MSKorea 10US$ 4475 302.8 5.1 JSH 2148 266.3 9.7 WesTech 360 240.0 200.0 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 4399 224.3 3.8 Jardine C&C 2992 214.0 7.7 Westech Elec 10 346 206.0 147.1 Lyxor India
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      • 241 14  -  WARRANT WATCH GOH ENG VEOW IT WOULD not be surprising if local lenders find themselves hit by a knee-jerk sell-off, following the 323-point plunge on Wall Street last Friday. What may spook investors here is the impact that the United States’ snail-paced recovery
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      • 198 14 Week's Top Rises CENTS UOB.ES.1006 1932 128.0 7.1 CityDev.ES.1006 1072 62.0 6.1 SIA.ES.1006 1436 38.0 2.7 OCBC Bk.ES.1006 851 24.0 2.9 Goodpack W*****0 98.5 19.5 24.7 UOB BNP eCW*****8 34.5 19.5 130.0 BakerTech W*****3 38 8.0 26.7 StraitsAsia.ES.1006 184 8.0 4.5 UOB RB eCW*****0 20.5 8.0 64.0
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    • 968 15  -  Investors should be protected from risks of lightning-fast trades C A I JIN BY GOH ENG YEOW SENIOR CORRESPONDENT engyeow@sph.com.sg Cai Jin runs every Monday and covers financial matters and corporate governance issues that can affect investors. The two Chinese characters marry wealth with
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    • 469 15 REUTERS BLOOMBERG SAPPORO (Japan): Trade ministers of the AsiaPacific region agreed yesterday to press on with stalled Doha talks on global trade and planned to relay the political momentum on this to a Group of 20 (G-20) meeting later this
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    • 56 15 FTSE Vietnam ETF 1C 31/05/10 41,92 USD IMSCI AC Asia Ex Japa/ TRN IND/ ETFl |lC 31/05/10 26,64 USD| IMSCI Indonesia TRN Index ETF |lC 31/05/10 11,23 USD| IMSCI Taiwan TRN Index ETF 11C 31/05/10 14,84 USD |S&P 500 Short ETF |lC 28/05/10 53,99 USD| US Dollar Money
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    • 54 15 AUSTRALIA MONEY MARKET ETF 1C 01/06/10 186,08 AUD [AUSTRALIA MONEY MARKET ETF I pC 01/06/10 154,50 SGD| IBOXX Treasuries Total Return Index ETF 1C 28/05/10 183,46 USD Markit iBoxx ABF Korea Government Index ETF 1C 01/06/10 109,52 USD USD IG INFL/ Linked Treasuries Total Return Index ETF
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    • 57 15 Agriculture USD 11C 27/05/10 5937,19 USD Balanced Currency Harvest Euro 11C 28/05/10 100,29 EUR Croci Alpha Pairs Sectors USD R1C-B 28/05/10 11,14 SGD Croci Alpha Pairs Sectors USD 11C 28/05/10 7999,04 USD Croci Euro R1C-A 28/05/10 11,48 EUR I Croci US I1C 28/05/10 132,19 USD Double Joy
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    • 55 15 Agriculture Euro 11C 27/05/10 5709,55 EUR Branchen Stars 11C 28/05/10 *****0,20 EUR Commodity Euro R1C 28/05/10 167,88 EUR Commodity USD R1C-B 28/05/10 7,45 USD Commodity USD 11C 28/05/10 *****,43 USD CROCI Alpha R1C-B 28/05/10 8,90 EUR db X-MACRO Trading Index Fund I4D 26/05/10 98,90 GBP EMLIN Sovereign Bond
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    • 615 16  -  Businesses can look to it for practical tips on responsible growth BY VICTORIA VAUGHAN vvaughan@sph.com.sg GREEN group Conservation International has set up a council for businesses in the Asia-Pacific to discuss how to be more environmentally friendly. Known as the Asia-Pacific Business and Sustainability
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    • ON THE MOVE
      • 65 16 MARGARET LUI (right): Appointed director on Sembcorp Industries’ board and a member of its executive resource and compensation committee, as well as of its nominating committee. Mrs Lui is the chief operating officer of Temasek Holding’s newly formed global investment company Seatown Holdings International. She also serves on
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        113 16 TEDDY TSAI (right): Joined DnB NOR Asia’s regional headquarters in Singapore as deputy head of research for Asia. Mr Tsai is a shipping and transport sector analyst for Asia with more than 10 years’ expertise in investment research. He will be involved in the research of shipping
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      • 73 16 WALTER DE OUDE (right): Appointed chief executive of HSBC Insurance (Singapore). Mr de Oude replaces Mr Paul Arrowsmith, who has been appointed the new chairman of HSBC Insurance (Singapore). Mr Arrowsmith will remain as deputy regional head of HSBC Insurance (Asia Pacific) Holdings. Mr de Oude joined
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      • 97 16 TIMOTHY CHANG (right): Appointed chief executive of Mahkota Medical Centre, a subsidiary of regional health-care service and education provider Health Management International. He will succeed Mr Francis Lim Poon Thoo, who is leaving to pursue other career objectives. Mr Lim will also retire as executive director and
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    • 275 16 MINDSHARE Singapore has become the first media agency to win the Overall Agency of the Year in Marketing Magazine’s Agency of the Year awards. It beat more than 100 agencies across all marketing categories, including big names such as DDB, Saatchi Saatchi,
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    • 692 17  -  How to indulge staff’s passion without paying penalty of near-zero productivity in the office WORKING LIFE BY MARISSA LEE marilee@sph.com.sg EVERY four years, football fever grips the globe. Goals are toasted and flags are waved as the Fifa World Cup seizes the hearts of
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    • 194 17 REUTERS BLOOMBERG PARIS: The chairman of the Euro Group of euro zone finance ministers, Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, dismissed concerns yesterday that Hungary might face a Greek-style debt crisis and said the current level of the euro did not worry him. “The situation in Hungary
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    • 744 18  -  Smaller firms to comprise up to half the cleantech sector's output by 2015 CLEAN TECHNOLOGY BY JESSICA CHEAM jcheam@sph.com.sg MID-SIZED companies, foreign and local alike, are sprouting in Singapore in the nascent but booming clean technology or “cleantech” industry. The Economic Development Board (EDB) estimates that
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    • 111 18 www.straitstimes.com MOST-READ ONLINE More S’poreans buying pricey homes Banks dangle higher rates for fresh funds MOST COMMENTED ON Debt woes for European retail. Says NoodleWon: “US President Barack Obama has very high hopes in his two deputies: Tim Geithner and Ben
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    • 30 16 DROPPING THE 'S' IN SME The number of mergers among small and medium enterprises has been climbing steadily over the past four years, and the trend is accelerating Today in
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    • 443 1 See Dick perform again 8 Questions With... Pretty, empty Veteran musician starts showbiz company C2 Celeb TV chef Mark McEwan C3 High-profile arts fest flop C8 A Singapore Service Star mystery shopper like Mr Tan Jin Haw tries his best to be a difficult customer. But he tells SANDRA LEONG
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    • 50 18 JUNE 16 AND 17 The Employment Act (EA) is the basic labour law governing employment relations in Singapore. This seminar will give participants a sound understanding of the concepts, rationale behind the EA and its practical applications in the workplace. For details, visit http://hrsingapore.net/eaoverview/ or call 6337-8016.
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