Today, 2 December 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Tuesday December i, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      BIZ LATEST
      20 1 US recession official It's true and has been since last December. Stock markets plummet in response. Page Bl
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      Ben gets creative
      24 1 Fed chairman Bernanke mulls less conventional policies, including buying Treasury securities and a rate cut to zero per cent. Page B2
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      NEWS LATEST
      26 1 294,000, not 53,000 China announced that more than five times the previouslyannounced number of children had fallen sick after drinking tainted milk. Page 18
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      Lance for France
      25 1 Get ready for a familiar sight. LanceArmstronghasannounced he will be seeking an unprecedented eighth Tour de France title this year. Page 38
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      Lock icon A brisk escalation
      779 1 .AGENCIES U8677 Pakistan, India play blame game over Mumbai attacks MUMBAI India yesterday warned that the attacks on Mumbai were a major setback to relations with Pakistan and promised a "stern" response. It also summoned the Pakistani Ambassador and formally accused "elements" in Pakistan of being behind
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      Lock icon A 4.3% wage hike, really?
      560 1  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com. sg RETRENCHMENT, recession and wage cuts have been the gloomy buzzwords lately so the latest Mercer study on wages is raising eyebrows. According to the global HR company's survey of 232 multi-national and Singapore companies, conducted in the third week of November,
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon A vivid reminder for all
      488 2  -  LINYANQIN FIGHTINGTERRORISM Lo Hwei Yen's death has strengthened resolve in fight against terrorism: SM Goh yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg FOR her loved ones, it will be a "very emotional" period as they come to terms with her death. For all Singaporeans, the death of Ms Lo Hwei Yen,
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      Lock icon Not all that glitters is all gold
      714 3  -  ALICIA WONG CONSUMERALERT alicia@mediacorp.com.sg 'TIS the usual season forthe sale of gold jewellery to pick up. And with the markets being what they are, some may even be tempted to invest in gold rather than in stocks. But what if what you buy
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      TIPS FOR CONSUMERS
      132 3  -  ALICIAWONG Ensure the jewellery is weighed in your presence and without the price tag. Ask for a detailed breakdown on the receipt, which should show the unit price per gram, gold purity and net weight of the gold item. •You can also send the jewellery to the
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      Lock icon California is broke, says Schwarzenegger
      228 4 AP SACRAMENTO Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency yesterday and called lawmakers into a special session to address California's US$11.2-billion ($17.1-billion) deficit. The state's revenue gap is expected to hit US$28 billion over the next 19 months without bold action. The emergency declaration authorises
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      Lock icon 1 dead in Bangkok blast
      330 4 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST New tension before court verdict today BANGKOK One person was killed and 20 anti-government protesters wounded by a bomb blast at Bangkok's domestic airport early today, in the latest incident targeting the demonstrators, local reports said. The explosion at Don Muang Airport
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      MORE FLIGHTS TO SINGAPORE
      109 4 Singapore Airlines (SIA) says its rescue flights for stranded passengers in Bangkok will continue till at least tomorrow. It operates a twice-daily service between Singapore and U-Tapao airport, located on a naval base 190 kilometres from Bangkok. Demand is heavy for these flights and SIA advises
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      Lock icon Drivers must give way, or else ...
      573 6  - Drivers must give way, or else NEO CHAI CHIN BUS PRIORITY Pilot project makes it compulsory for drivers to stop for buses exiting bay chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg STOP for public buses turning out of bus bays, oryou may soon be fined $130 underthe Land Transport Authority's (LTA) latest scheme to give priority
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      More wheelchair-accessible buses
      111 6  -  LEONGWEE KEAT SIX more wheelchair-accessible bus services will be launched today, bringing the total number to 22. SBS Transit is rolling out wheelchair accessibility for bus services 64,130, 183, 199,232 and 268 to mark World Disability Day tomorrow. Since the launch of the first wheelchairaccessible bus service
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        RECORD CROWDS AT SITEX DESPITE DOWNTURN
        95 6 Consumer IT fair, Sitex, ended its fourday run on Sunday with a record of more than 800,000 visitors and an estimated $45 million in sales. Last year's fair drew 751,800 visitors and $40 million in sales. More than 200 exhibitors took part. Mr Edwin
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        SIGN UP FOR GSTCREDITS, GROWTH DIVIDENDS BY DEC 31
        94 6 Singaporeans who have not signed up for their Growth Dividends and GST Credits for 2008 have until the end of the month to do so, at www.gstojfset.gov. sg or by approaching any community centres, community development council and CPF Service Centre
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE OPENTO FOSTERING STRONGER TIES WITH N KOREA
        97 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore would be glad to explore ways to strengthen bilateral co-operation with North Korea in areas such as trade and investment, once international concerns are assuaged and the environment improved. Making the point to visiting North Korean Foreign Trade Minister
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      School money for HIV's young victims
      416 8  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINCE her HIV-positive stepfather died in June, 15-year-old Jane has been skipping lunch because she cannot afford it. And when she goes home for a meal, it is always instant noodles. "It would be nice to eat rice, or some chicken
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      Lock icon Spotting talent early
      453 8  -  LINYANQIN NUS HIGH SCHOOL Plans to hook the young, as first cohort receives diplomas yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg AS THE pioneer cohort at the NUS High School of Mathematics and Science was receiving their diplomas yesterday, the school already had its eye on grooming its next batch of talent,
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      'CRISIS AN R&D OPPORTUNITY'
      110 8 The global downturn provides Singapore with a "unique opportunity" to attract and root more research and development and top-end education institutions, said Education Minister Ng Eng Hen. Even in these times of economic uncertainty, he said, "we should spend just as much, if not more, on
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      Lock icon Clearer skies ahead for airlines?
      244 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT BLOOMBERG AMID the gloomy outlook for the global airline industry, one aviation chief has emerged to say that clear skies may just be ahead. International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) council president Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez predicted that the global airline industry would pull out of
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      More funds for design
      433 10  -  ONG DAI LIN HELPING HAND Government pumps in $iom for training, research dailin@mediacorp.com.sg TO HELP the design sector ride through the economic downturn, the Government will earmark $10 million over the next two years for grants and the co-funding of activities in the sector. Called the
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      209 3 THINK SUCCESS. THINK ]YJ DIS. World class Qualifications HS GOL l§£S] UNIVERSITY Ml Ql I Iri OF WALES Willi a V7IV/L/GI L-Ul^d The Sunday Times Universities Guide ranked University of Wales, Bangor 4th in Wales The University of Wales, Bangor is ranked 47th in business studies in the UK Times
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      33 4 45***^ BUILDING FUTURES -^■SSj^sg t~- x One success story at a time C^ Irn looking for an education P —0 that stretches my horizons l mE it M Xmrn' wm QQRRiK»gQ T. .17.
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      224 10 SP riEWTon _s ll At^-mJL^ Sir <~ —Mmam\.Lm{^ m--^m am9-Z=rm Join us at Sports -T-. v aW Fitness Expo U*:, WMjm 4-7 Dec T -*A?--'" -J^l Singapore Expo v^ v Hall 5 Booth 305 PfSEfl al.n 7 77 7,. -,--h- TiT__m Sri innaOTra S a .'Til Tim firm, ***r mL^g^aaZmmr
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      351 10 I I| J \*M*^ I_l J L^ T*l CRISIS INVESTING I k'i *m 'Jli 111, I f"fl_l T I I 7 111 'fl strategies revealed J HI! *m\ IF______l_- _T* JHiiIIII l I fl HMore and More People Losing Jobs and Worried about Recession are using our slfBN YORK Rapid-Fire
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Warnings ignored: Reports
      405 12 AFP TERROR IN MUMBAI Captured militant had given precise information about the attack 10 months ago NEW DELHI Public outrage in India over the devastating Mumbai attacks was fuelled yesterday by fresh reports that clear warnings of an assault were ignored. The Hindustan Times said intelligence agencies
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      Can India and Pakistan fight terrorism together?
      364 12  -  JESSINTATAN jessinta@mediacorp.com.sg INDIA needs to develop a strategic response to combat terrorism beyond just focusing on "tactical, on-the-ground reprisals of attacks", said a terrorism expert. By now, the Indian government would be aware that the country is facing a wellorganised militant movement that
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      EYE ON ASIA
      361 14 Malaysia PIONEER PLAYWRIGHT SYEDALWI DIES Pioneering playwright Syed Alwi Syed Hassan, who won Malaysia's highest cultural accolade for writing seminal plays that shaped his country's theatre scene after independence from Britain, has died. He was 78. Mr Syed Alwi's son found his body at his bungalow on
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      Lock icon Vernacular schools should go: Mukhriz
      390 14 MALAYSIAN EDUCATION He calls for one school system with Bahasa Malaysia as instruction mediun KUALA LUMPUR Mr Mukhriz Mahathir said yesterday the government should put an end to vernacular schools so that Chinese and Tamil schools can be streamlined into one "Malaysian education system". "We
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      Lock icon New push to combat global warming
      252 16 AFP POZNAN (Poland) A 12-day United Nations conference on climate change began yesterday to warnings that the impact of global warming could wreak a dark toll in human misery and conflict. "The world community is more and more aware that humankind in its activity
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      Lock icon A new alliance
      348 16 S^LOOMBERG USSECURITYTEAM Mr Obama picks Mrs Clinton to be Secretary of State CHICAGO President-elect Barack Obama yesterday nominated his former rival, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, to be the next Secretary of State and said that he would retain Mr Robert Gates, President George VV Bush's Secretary
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      Lock icon Russian hackers strike at Pentagon computer system
      142 16 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH WASHINGTON Computer hackers suspected of working from Russia successfully penetrated Pentagon computer systems in one of the most severe cyber attacks on United States military networks. The electronic attack was so serious that Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of thejoint chiefs of
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      Lock icon She stashed babies' bodies in the freezer
      245 18 AFP SIEGEN (Germany) A mother was sentenced to more than four years in jail yesterday for killing two of her babies, whose bodies she stashed under pizzas in the family freezer. She was not tried in connection with a third baby, also found
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      Lock icon Brother-in-law arrested over Hudson murders
      120 18 AP CHICAGO Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law has been arrested in Illinois in the deaths of the singer's mother, brother and seven-year-old nephew. Authorities say 27-year-old William Balfour was arrested yesterday at a prison where he was being held on a parole violation. Chicago police spokeswoman
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      Lock icon Tainted milk: 294,000 fell sick
      357 18 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST 86i children still in hospital but the worst is over: China BEIJING China said yesterday that 294,000 children had fallen ill from consuming dairy products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, with 154 of them still in serious condition. In a statement
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      Security, a shared responsibility
      371 20  -  Lionel De Souza Letter from TERROR IN MUMBAI THE death of Ms Lo Hwei Yen, 28 on the 19th floor of the Oberoi Trident Hotel in Mumbai shocked and angered me immensely. Why kill an innocent young lady who has the whole world before her? I
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      169 22  -  DR BILL MAIER BY PREVENTING OSTEOPOROSIS If you thought osteoporosis was reserved for the elderly, think again. It is true that osteoporosis is most common in older people, but it can also occur in young- and middle-aged adults. And there is a lot we can do
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      Woes of the creditor
      421 22  -  Jimmy Ho Kwok Hoong BANKRUPTCY RULES Letter from I REFER to "Creditors at disadvantage" (Nov 27). The experience Mr Phang Kirn Wah is going through as a creditor is not new. Since the financial liberalisation of 2001, Singapore has adopted a lenient attitude towards debtors. After
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      A conversation or a consultation?
      233 22  -  Yenleng Fong Letter from I READ the report "Health Ministry will be compassionate" on Nov 24, and the next day my mother complained to me about an unpleasant incident she faced the National Dental Centre. She had an appointment for a tooth extraction. When she
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      27 20 HAVE YOUR SAY. news@ newstoday.com.sg /\A=DIACORR TbDAY I We set you thinking. Get Online News Updates From Around the World With A Click Of The Mouse. www.todayonline.com
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  • plus THE ARTS
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      Lock icon Exhibit A: The Singapore Museum
      876 24  -  MAYO MARTIN CRISIS AND CULTURE Economic crisis? Too many venues? Today muses on the future of our museums mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IN THESE difficult times, it's been a veritable Nightmare at the Museum in some parts of the world. Two weeks ago, some museums in Rome were
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      The art of the annual report
      475 26  -  MAYO MARTIN PRESIDENT'S DESIGN AWARDS Annual reports boring? This design award winner begs to differ mayo@mediticorp.com.sg IF YOU think company annual reports are the most boring things ever published, you obviously haven't seen one done by Edmund Wee. For the past 18 years, Wee
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    • PLUS ROUNDUP
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        THE GREATEST MOVIE CHARACTERS EVER
        117 28 Empire magazine has released its list of the 100 Greatest Movie Characters, as voted by readers. The anarchic Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt in Fight Club, came out tops because "he looks like what you want to look, he f***s like you want to
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      Hi-ho, not ho-hum
      290 28  -  MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WITH a wave of his wand (his pen), playwright Alfian Sa'at has successfully transformed a harmless fairy tale into a tongue-in-cheek modern day Singaporean allegory while giving adults the perfect excuse to wave hand clappers and toot horns along with the children in the
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      530 30  -  EVELINE GAN A SOUPY MISCONCEPTION Even if its appearance is unappetising, soup scum does contain nutrients eveline@med.iacorp.com.sg LIKE most people, Mdm Lily Teo painstakingly skims off the soup scum whenever she prepares homemade soups for her family. The 56-year-old homemaker believes that the frothy scum
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      189 30 A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR CANCER MANAGEMENT A team of medical experts will touch on the treatment and management of various cancers including colorectal, liver, stomach, oral and breast cancer. There will also be a short Q&A session. Date/Time: Saturday, 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm Venue: Orchard Parade Hotel
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      570 31 ml brush my teeth at least twice a day and, sometimes, use mouthwash to freshen my breath. Recently, I read that cleaning between the teeth and gums daily helps prevent gum disease. Isn't brushing enough to clean the plaque away? A Brushing alone
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      143 31 Most adults neglect their oral health due to a hectic lifestyle or ignorance. This could lead to problems such as tooth decay and gum disease. Here are some tips which will help you achieve good oral health: Brush your teeth twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste.
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      266 34  - WHENTHECHAMPIONSCOMETOTOWN SHAMIROSMAN All eyes were on current Asean title-hold-ers Singapore, when they emerged to limber up in the sun at Senayan Ground C, just outside the Senayan Stadium, for their first training session in Jakarta. A 60-strong crowd, made up of members of the media and the public, gathered around
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      579 34  -  SHAMIR OSMAN ASEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Champions arrive in Jakarta, and recall that heady January night in 2005 shamir@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER almost four years, he still remembers the night clearly. Back then, on Jan 8, 2005, Daniel Bennett was a 27-year-old looking to make his mark
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      252 36 I TANYO-HINN i THERE has been much speculation over the competition programme for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. Yesterday, Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (Syogoc) chairman Ng Ser Miang revealed that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board are set
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      483 36  - Games info a click away TANYO-HINN COUNTDOWN TO 2010 Atos could feature some fresh ideas for inaugural Youth Olympics yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg AT THE Olympic Games in Beijing a little over three months ago, Atos Origin introduced the Remote Commentator Information System. The system helped to process competition data for media and
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      323 36 MANCHESTER Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson defended Cristiano Ronaldo after the winger's bizarre sending-off in the 1-0 win at Manchester City on Sunday. The 23-year-old received his second booking when he inexplicably handballed Wayne Rooney's corner after 68 minutes. "He tried to stop the
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      228 38 DPA ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool o West Ham o LIVERPOOL Liverpool reached the summit of the English Premier League yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) despite being held to a 0-0 draw at home by West Ham United. The home side dominated possession
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      163 38 HFTH STWE American aims to win Tour de France for 8th time PARIS America's seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong announced last night (this morning, Singapore time) that he was seeking an unprecedented eighth title and, like Irishman Stephen Roche, try for the
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      281 38 THEGUARDIAN LONDON Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has ruled out the possibility that Luiz Felipe Scolari will make any new signings when the transfer window opens next month and insists that Didier Drogba will not be leaving the club at that time. Drogba's future
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      166 38 LONDON Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has indicated that the club will be looking to sell Emile Heskey during next month's transfer window given the England forward's reluctance to sign a new contract. The 30-year-old's current deal expires in the summer and, having resurrected his
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      327 40  -  PEARLYNTHAM TARGETING YOUTH Advertisers should assess whether their brands are going after the right target audience on Facebook pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg THERE can be more to Facebook than locating long-lost friends, stalking former crushes, sharing party snapshots and throwing sheep at your colleagues. The online social network also has
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      349 40  -  PEARLYNTHAM EVEN before they have exchanged their wedding vows, 30 couples were treated to a honeymoon-like experience courtesy of Styleweddingssg. The wedding portal organised its first bridal cruise workshop recently on Nov 19 and took its online members out to sea on the Star
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    237 42 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Rival banks declined to follow the lead of Royal Bank of Scotland in pledging to wait six months before starting the process of repossessing a home. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB and Northern Rock yesterday said they believed their current
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    433 42 INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE AMbKNUUN LAIbbl Car-maker weighs options in bid to earn govt bailout funds DETROIT Ford Motor said yesterday that it might sell Volvo, the Swedish luxury-car maker, sending the price of Ford shares up sharply. Ford, which has been shedding assets as it scrambles
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    194 42 BLOOMBERG MANUFACTURING in the United States contracted in November at the fastest pace in 26 years, putting American factories at the forefront of a global industrial slump emanating from the lack of credit. The Institute for Supply Management's factory index dropped to 36.2, the lowest level
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    806 44  -  PAULKRUGMAN THENEWYORKTIMES In times like these, US fiscal expansion may be the way to go RIGHT now there's intense debate about how aggressive the United States government should be in its attempts to turn the economy around. Many economists, myself included, are calling for a very
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    488 45 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST Among Fed chiefs ideas: Buying Treasury securities Rate cut to zero per cent WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said he has "obviously limited" room to lower interest rates further and may use less conventional policies, such as buying United States
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    287 45 while Paulson gets defensive on bailout BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said his department is working to expand the availability of capital to businesses and consumers and may use funds from the US$700-billion ($1.05-trillion) bank rescue plan to help homeowners. "We are actively engaged in developing additional
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      75 46 OIL PRICES Slip below US$50 Oil prices fell sharply after Opec decided at a weekend meeting against cutting production despite a deepening global economic slowdown. Light sweet crude for delivery in January closed at US$49.28 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down a whopping US$5.15 from Friday's
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      83 46 Falling in turn European stocks fell as record declines in European and Chinese manufacturing signalled that the global economic slump is worsening. Stocks tumbled to the lows of the day after a report showed US manufacturing contracted last month at the fastest pace in 26 years. National benchmark
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      96 46 Hit by demand slump Brazilian's Bovespa fell 5.1 per cent to 34,740.50, the most in a week, on speculation the global economic slowdown and decline in commodity prices will reduce earnings for the country's biggest raw-materials producers. Mexico's Bolsa retreated 3.4 per cent while Chile's Ipsa slipped 2.8
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      85 46 AFP Nissan Motor's chief operating officer, MrToshiyuki Shiga, posing next to the redesigned FairladyZ sports car during a press preview in Tokyo yesterday, even as Mr Carlos Ghosn, head of Renault-Nissan, aired his view on the importance ofthe auto industry to employment worldwide. "Job destruction will be
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      474 46 THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST Stocks crumble on news that US recession began last December NEW YORK Confirmation that the United States is in recession shook Wall Street overnight and set the Dow Jones industrial average on course to end a five-day winning streak. The Dow fell 679 points
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      306 46 THEGUARDIAN LONDON The Bank of England is set to chop interest rates by an aggressive 100 basis points on Thursday, according to a snap Reuters poll taken after a report showing the worst factory slump since at least 1992. While the risk of an aggressive
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      205 46 AGENCIES AT LEAST ll.OOOjobs have been cut or threatened with the axe as leading banks and a luxury car firm shed labour in response to the economic downturn. JP Morgan announced plans to lay off 9,200 employees at Washington Mutual, the failed savings and loan
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