Today, 23 April 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Thursday April 23, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday April 23, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    252 1 2 Coalition talks between Indonesian President Susilo BambangYudhoyono's Democratic Party and Jusuf Kalla's Golkar party have collapsed. 3 While the Health Minister's idea of tying hygiene to tenders for hospital food stalls is 'helpful', it won't work for hawkers, says Environment Minister. ■"1 For over-prescribing L\J hypnotic
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    Time for a rethink?
    819 1  -  ALICIAWONG GENETIC RESEARCH Leading geneticist says there has been vtoo much optimism', a view shared by Lee Wei Ling alicia@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU were to develop cancer, could genetic research one day provide a cure? One facility here, the state-funded Genome Institute of Singapore set up in
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    Lock icon But MOM said it was OK: Ming Yi
    818 1  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg FACED with incriminating evidence that he had hired former air steward Raymond Yeung as a personal aide in 2001 despite the latter's lack of an employment pass, Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre founder Shi Ming Vi yesterday threw in
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      Lock icon Kalla-SBY talks break down
      532 2 AGENCIES INDONESIA ELECTIONS JAKARTA Coalition talks between Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party and the Golkar Party of Vice-President Jusuf Kalla have collapsed, a Golkar official said yesterday, but other senior party members insisted the decision was not final. Golkar executives decided to break off
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      Lock icon Talks to resolve Thai crisis turns into bickering
      568 2 AGENCIES BANGKOK —A special joint session of Parliament aimed at resolving Thailand's political crisis degenerated into partisan bickering yesterday, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pointing fingers at each other for deepening the divide. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva opened the
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      Two ministers, two approaches
      612 3  -  LEONGWEEKEAT FOOD STALL HYGIENE Benchmark idea for hospital canteens vhelpful but won't work for hawker stalls: Yaacob weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE he welcomes the Health Minister's firm stance that food stalls at public hospitals must score an "A" or "B" on cleanliness, that is Mr Khaw Boon Wan's
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      NO HYGIENE RATING FOR NIGHT MARKETS
      142 3  -  ONG DAI LIN Pasar malams will not be given a hygiene rating in spite of the fact that more food stall operators at such night markets were booked last year for hygiene lapses but that does not mean they are not scrutinised, said DrYaacob
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      Lock icon Widjaja inquiry set for next month
      262 4 938LIVE,TEOXUANWEI A FIVE-DAY coroner's inquiry into the death of NanyangTechnological University (NTU) student David Hartanto Widjaja has been set for next month. It will be heard from May 20 to 22, and May 25 to 26 but more days may be needed after a
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon $8M RECYCLING FUND
        123 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA An $8-million Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Fund has been launched as part of Earth Day, to co-pay up to 80 per cent of the costs of new projects that can lead to waste minimisation and product recycling. The fund is open to all companies and Singapore-regis-tered
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        Lock icon COE LITTLE CHANGED
        63 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Certificate of entitlement (COE) prices were little changed in the latest bidding exercise. Premiums for small cars (i,6oocc and below) rose $499 to $7,589. For big cars, it was $11 lower, at $7,490. In the Open category, it increased $463 to $7,789. It dropped $692
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      Lock icon Reaching out to more
      426 6  -  ESTHER NG COMMUNITY CHEST Fund targets $52.6 m in the hope of benefiting more estherng@mediacorp.com.sg RAISING funds will be more challenging during this economic slowdown, but the Community Chest (Com Chest) is confident it can meet its target of $52.6 million some $3 million more than
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      Lock icon New hope for high-risk patients
      605 8  -  ALICIA WONG HEART VALVE TECHNOLOGY alida@mediacorp.com.sg HE HAD a severely narrowed heart aortic valve, but an open-heart bypass surgery 15 years ago had left Mr Tang Vat Cheong (picture), 77, unsuitable fora valve replacement operation. "Doctors said it would be very dangerous. I was very
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      Lock icon SHOWING THE WAY ON EARTH DAY
      86 10 ERNEST CHUA Not only did Timberland staff get their hands dirty yesterday, they got their customers to do the same. For their efforts, Macßitchie Reservoir is now a little greener. To commemorate Earth Day, 100 native trees such as the Tembusu were planted to
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      Lock icon Doctor found guilty
      289 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT Doc who over-prescribed drug struck off register 2nd time weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg A GENERAL practitioner has been struck off the rolls for the second time after the Singapore Medical Council found him guilty of over-prescribing hypnotic medication. DrTan Bin Seng (picture), 58, who was the chairman
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      194 6 I It* 6 SOTA Open House 2009 Saturday 25 April 2009 10.00 am 5.00pm School of the Arts 90 Goodman Road School of the Arts Singapore Set up by the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), SOTA is Singapore's first national pre-tertiary specialised arts school for youths aged
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      625 7 m L" AVIVA ive worry-free to a ripe old age. Start planning for long-term care now. As much as we all hope to remain healthy in our senior years, the unexpected can happen, and the associated costs of severe disability are real. In a month, medicine can take up Ss4oo,
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      211 8 lIW I X^ LNIVERSITY OF WALES INSTITUTE, CARDIFF pL JpL 7^j^- s I^\ A 'i^Vjj WM prifysgol metropolitan Cacrdydd I I X f^fcT/^^3ki" ill I I oneofthelAßGESTrangeoe Kli';P'"l^ W mV m I 11 Business &Management §g BL^. p 4 "i^-3 ffl RELATED COURSES IN SINGAPORE &f% l mmm M^^^a^!!Trmj^7Tr77M7tT?3^^^^J with
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      Lock icon Rules relaxed for service sector
      422 12 AGENCIES MALAYSIA'S BUMIPUTERA POLICY No need for 30 per cent ownership by Malays for areas such as tourism KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said yesterday it will liberalise parts of the services sector, removing ownership rules linked to a controversial affirmative action policy for the majority Malays,
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      Lock icon Dr M: BN's call on Penanti by-election
      211 12 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said it was up to Barisan Nasional (BN) to decide if it wants to contest the upcoming Penanti by-election, news portal Malaysiakini reported. Saying he had no influence over the government to
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      Lock icon INDONESIAN BUDDHA BAR DROPS NAME
      165 12 AFP The first Asian branch of the chic Paris-based Buddha Bar has dropped its name amid complaints by Indonesian Buddhists that it denigrated their religion. The Jakarta franchise of the bar-cum-restaurant, which opened in a historic colonialera building last December, said in a statement that
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      Lock icon N Korea: Border provocation by S Korea
      200 12 AFP SEOUL North Korea accused South Korea yesterday of a "serious provocation" by moving a marker on their heavily-guarded border, raising tensions after rare talks between the two ended without agreement. "This serious military provocation is a wanton violation of the Armistice Agreement
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      Lock icon Rebels free passengers
      283 14 AGENCIES TRAIN HIJACK Day before second phase of elections, Maoists stir trouble PATNA Maoist rebels freed nearly 300 train passengers unharmed after taking them hostage for almost five hours at a railway station in eastern India yesterday, on the eve of the second phase of national elections
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      CYNICISM IN THAI POLITICS
      760 15  -  DRPAVIN CHACHAVALPONGPUN NEWS COMMENT The end result is a zero-sum game CYNICISM has long reigned in Thai politics. The crisis, which culminated in violent clashes between Thai security forces and red-shirt protesters spiritually commanded by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, reaffirmed the existing absurdity and hypocrisy
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      Lock icon Tigers by the tail
      358 16 .AFP CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA Government presses final attack on rebels COLOMBO Sri Lanka's government said yesterday the Tamil Tigers were close to complete defeat as the army pressed a final offensive against the rebels despite international fears for civilians. A defence spokesman said more than
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      Lock icon WAR IS OVER, WHAT'S NEXT?
      715 17  -  DEAN NELSON THE DAILYTELEGRAPH NEWS COMMENT Sri Lanka's conflict ends —but no one is celebrating AFTER 25 years of conflict and at least 70,000 dead, it's hard to believe the Sri Lankan war may be in its final days with the imminent defeat of the
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      Lock icon Zuma poised for victory
      351 18 'AFP SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS South Africa votes with ANC set to win JOHANNESBURG South Africans went to the polls yesterday in general elections all but certain to propel the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party's controversial leader Jacob Zuma to the presidency. Polls tip the ANC
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon UK POLICE RELEASE TERROR SUSPECTS
        146 18 AFP The two remaining suspects among 12 mostly Pakistani men arrested during a major anti-terror operation in north-west England this month were released without charge yesterday, police said. A police spokesman said the men were 41 and 23 years old. One was released into the
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        Lock icon TRIAL OVER ANTI-US ATTACK PLOT BEGINS
        122 18 AFP Four suspected Islamic militants accused of plotting devastating attacks against United States citizens in several German cities went on trial yesterday. In what the authorities call one of their biggest terror cases in decades, the three Germans and a Turkish national face charges
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      Lock icon Take it like a man
      337 20 AGENCIES PIRACYTRIAL Somali teen pirate to be tried as an adult in US court NEW YORK A teenaged pirate captured by US forces in a high-seas drama off Somalia was ordered to stand trial here as an adult on Tuesday. Abduhl Wali-i-Musi, wearing a blue
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      Lock icon Charred meat ups pancreatic cancer risk
      150 20 AFP WASHINGTON Regularly eating meat cooked at a high temperature, to the point of charring, could increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 60 per cent, researchers said on Tuesday. "Our findings in this study are further evidence that turning down the heat when
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      Lock icon STOLEN PAINTINGS RETURNED
      111 21 AFP The United States returned on Tuesday a rare early 17th century portrait of a musician holding bagpipes that was seized by Nazis from a German-Jewish art dealer Max Stern in 1937, to his estate. The work was turned over at a ceremony in New York commemorating
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      Lock icon Asian-Americans: Loyal or competition?
      334 21 AFP WASHINGTON Fears over China are hitting the image of Asian-Americans, as their loyalties come under suspicion despite steady improvements in perceptions of the community, a survey said. The Committee of 100, a Chinese-American group, conducted a nationwide survey to look at changes since its major
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      Lock icon Condoleezza Rice approved procedure'
      398 21 AP USTERROR INTERROGATIONS Ex-Bush official has not mentioned direct role WASHINGTON Then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the ClA's request to subject alleged Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002. A few days later, the Justice Department approved the use of the
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      Room for political robustness
      385 22  -  Poh Lee Heng SINGAPORE BEYOND LKY Singapore can prosper even if differences exist Letter from I REFER to "Singapore beyond Lee Kuan Yew" (April 22). I am 45 years old and have seen and benefited from the transition of Singapore from Third World to First under
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      NMPs from the arts fraternity most timely
      130 22  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng Letter from I WAS heartened to read the report, "Wanted: An NMP for the arts" (April 22). The arts community's plan to offer candidates for Nominated Members of Parliament is most timely, especially at this juncture where our practitioners
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      168 24  -  DR BILL MAIER BY IT'S ONLY A GAME When it comes to organised sports for kids, there's the good, the bad, and the downright ugly! Sports can be a great way for kids to keep fit and learn the importance of teamwork and competition. They can
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      I SAY DO COMPANIES OWN THEIR STAFF, BODY AND SOUL?
      494 24  -  LIANG DINGZI DBS Bank's objection to Ms Josie Lav, vicepresident for consumer banking group cards and unsecured loans, taking on the top post at women's advocacy group Aware demonstrates antiquated thinking. It raises the question of how far an employer
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      Now that's haute
      818 26  -  MAYO MARTIN TODAY EXCLUSIVE Christian Lacroix loves our Singapore Girl uniform so much, he wishes he had designed it mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE we can brag about knowing a thing or two about stage productions, we're sadly the last people to ask when it comes to all things haute
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      Lock icon The not-so-little Nyonya
      351 30  -  MAY SEAH STAR AWARDS 2009 No surprises The Little Nyonya sweeps the Professional Categories may@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS like a wedding dinner, with people congratulating one another in between dodging waiters and taking bites of steamed fish. Only there was no bride or groom only a Little Nyonya
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      Little emperors and a 'lost generation'
      393 30  -  MAYO MARTIN BABIES and children from the past are making their presence felt at two ongoing exhibits. The paintings of babies at the Baby Blooms show in Tembusu Art Gallery may seem adorable, but Chinese artist Huang Zhan Wen said they're actually pampered, spoilt
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      Lock icon Susan Piers?
      285 32 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH BRITAIN'S GOTTALENT BRITAIN'S Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle (picture) has spoken of her crush on Simon Cowell but said she would choose fellow judge Piers Morgan for his "lovely baby face". Boyle, 47, said she was bullied at school because of her fuzzy hair and difficulties keeping
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      Lock icon Thank you for the music
      586 34  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH CLASSICAL RECORDINGS Violinist Siow Lee Chin pays tribute to her father and teachers in her debut album christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg FATHER'S Day isn't for a couple of months, but Siow Lee Chin (picture) has already got her gift for her dad her debut album Songs My
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      Lock icon SPICE IT UP
      306 35  -  ANNETTE TAN Delicious Fair Price Gold Cuttlefish Balls get a spicy twist with some homemade Thai sweet chilli sauce food@newstoday.com.sg One of my favourite childhood snacks are fried sotong balls skewered on a bamboo stick.To this day, when I'm in need of a nostalgic snack, I'd head
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      940 36  -  AMIRALI LIKtTTHOT Revitalising onsen and outdoor activities make Kusatsu an all-season playground amir@mediacorp.com.sg VISIT Japan, and you would be remiss to overlook the time-hon-oured Japanese habit of communal bathing. And one of the best ways to experience this would be to visit one of the many onsens that
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      121 36 The first thing you should know when you goto a traditional onsen is that you must be nude to enter. The baths in Kusatsu are single sex, though there are mixed facilities in Japan. Before stepping into the bath, sit down at one of the many washing nooks,
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      618 38  -  JUSTIN LEE MALAYSIA Kota Kinabalu waters offers divers rich sightings traveller@newstoday.com.sg YOU see it on television schools of fish swirling in formation like a tornado against the light, turtles languidly winging past spiky beds of coral, sharks, ever elusive, materialising out of the blue. If
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      546 40 JENNIFERCHEN A GOURMET'S TOUR Spanish restaurants dominate world's top 10 list, so is it time for a tasting? IT USED to be that when one thinks of Spain, it's flamenco, tapas, bullfighting and Gaudi's dripping La Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona that comes to mind. Soon, one
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      461 41 AP The cloisterl I of the Duomoi ofMonreale i i m SICILY THROUGHOUT its 2.5 millennia of history, the jarringly gorgeous Mediterranean island of Sicily has been at the crossroads of drastically different cultures. Miraculously, it has managed to fuse those contrasts in a peaceful dialogue.The fruits
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      170 41 M PREFER'PERKS Travellers who book nights with the Preferred Hotel Group before June 30 can dip into a host of extras aside from discounted room rates. The company has launched an M Prefer' promotion where participating Asian hotels and resorts will throw in perks such as spa treatments
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      1124 42 TV LISTINGS ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL^ ON MEDIACORP RED THREAD CHELLATHIN CHELLAM Enisod6 6 6.00AM Entertainment Tonight 3.00 Identity II 10.00 American Idol VIII Best Buddv 6.30 Prime Time Morning 4.00 Kyle XYII 11.00 Criminal Minds IV Channel 5, Bpm g3O The E en DeGeneres show VI 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres
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      691 43 AP AFTERNOON LATEST ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United 2 Portsmouth o MANCHESTER Wayne Rooney scored early as Manchester United cruised to a 2-0 victory over Portsmouth yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) that lifted the defending champions three points clear of Liverpool atop the
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      475 43 AP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea o Everton o LONDON Chelsea's English Premier League title hopes slimmed when they were held 0-0 by Everton yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) in a preview of next month's FA Cup final. Chelsea remained third in the
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      534 44  -  LAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE V LIVERPOOL Liverpool confirm they're headed this way for a pre-season friendly ian@mediacorp.com. sg COME July 26, Singapore national goalkeeper Hassan Sunny could face one of the biggest tests of his life: Liverpool star striker Fernando Torres bearing down on goal. Lions
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      562 44  -  ASDWIGHT GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Sengkang Punggol v Woodlands Wellington Hougang Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com. sg SENGKANG Punggol started the season with great expectations. They signed Singapore skipper Indra Sahdan and national defender Noh Rahman. Aide Iskandar, the former Singapore captain,
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      812 45  -  LEONARDTHOMAS SPORTS MATTERS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Singapore is set for a slew of world-class events and the public needs to show up IF YOU are a sports fan, then the next few months in Singapore cannot get any better. Some of the best shuttlers
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      180 45 .ASDWIGHT FANS are snapping up early bird tickets for the 2009 Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix (Sept 25-27). Race organisers Singapore GP released the first batch of tickets on April 9. The remainder, including the Bay Grandstand and walkabout tickets, went on
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      129 45 TANYO-HINN DEFENDING S-League champions SAFFC were eliminated from the AFC Champions League 2009 last night, after a 5-0 thrashing by Japan's Kashima Antlers in their Group G clash at the Kashima Stadium. Forward Shinzoh Kohrogi netted a brace (38th and 74th minutes) fortheJ-League champions, with midfielder Takuya
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      78 45 S.League Sengkang Woodlands Thu, 23/04/09 7.45pm Italian Cup Inter Sampdoria Fri, 24/04/09 2.45 am S.League Bal Khalsa Gombak Fri, 24/04/09 7.30pm Spanish and German League matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. Qualifying Sat, 25/04/09 7.00pm Bahrain Race Final Sun, 26/04/09 B.oopm [p AY^
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      92 45 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am NHL Playoffs, Ch 117 8.45 am Football Copa Libertadores: Sao Paulo v America, Ch 27 Ipm Golf Ballantine's C'ship, Ch 24 6pm Tennis Barcelona Open, Ch 22 6.30pm IPL Chennai v Delhi, Ch 111 10.30pm IPL Kolkata v Rajasthan, Ch 111 TOMORROW 2.40 am Football
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      384 46 DTZ RESEARCH FORECAST Home market has just a 5.8% probability of recovering by end-Dec THERE exist a few parallel leading indicators in the Singapore residential market. Both the stock index and level of unsold inventory are found to precede all major turning points in residential prices.
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      299 46  -  TANHUILENG THE current economic downturn has triggered a light bulb moment for POSB. In a first for the home loans market, the local bank has launched a mortgage, known as Home Ideal, which comes with an unemployment cash benefit. Should the borrower lose his job, he
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      241 48 AGENCIES KINGDOM Holding Co (KHC), the global investment company headed by Saudi billionaire Prince AlWaleed bin Talal, said its net profit fell 83.4 per cent to 50.2 million riyals ($20.2 million) in the first quarter of 2009. At the same time, an external auditor
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      472 48 THENEWYORKTIMES SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES Firm's managers duped customers as they lined their pockets, says report NEW DELHI Managers at India's Satyam Computer Services spun an elaborate web of fraud to attract customers and investors, while using stakes in the company to raise cash for themselves, according
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      181 50 AGENCIES FOR the first time in 28 years, Japan posted a trade deficit for the year ended March. Official data showed yesterday that plunging exports resulted in a ¥725-billion ($11.5--billion) trade deficit in the world's second-largest economy. On a brighter note, exports
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      414 50 DOW JONES PCCWDEAL HK securities regulator alleges that shareholder vote was rigged IN A stunning blow for PCCW chairman Richard Li (picture), a Hong Kong appellate court has overturned his US$2.l-bil-lion ($3.2-billion) buyout of the city's biggest telecommunications company. The three-judge Court of Appeal yesterday
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      296 53  -  TANHUILENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg GLOBAL economic recovery is likely later in the year, but sustainable growth will be slow, said investment strategists here yesterday. Describing the recovery as a "slow thaw", Societe Generale Asset Management (SGAM) strategy and economic research head Michala Marcussen said she expects weak
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      326 53  -  CONRAD RAJ CITI PRIVATE BANK editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE has gained ground in wealth management at Citigroup with the promotion of Mr Deepak Sharma to the new position of chairman of Citi Private Bank. Mr Sharma will continue to be based in Singapore. Until now,
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        79 54 Rally fizzles out Nagging worries about banks upended a stock market rally yesterday. Bank stocks had tumbled on Monday after Bank of America warned of further loan losses, only to jump back on Tuesday after US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress that most banks were well-capitalised. The
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        74 54 Crude at U5548.85 Oil rebounded as the stock market advanced as a gauge of home prices unexpectedly improved and General Electric led a rally in industrial companies. Prices dropped earlier on a US Energy Department report that oil inventories rose 3.86 million barrels to 370.6 million, the highest
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        55 54 Higher close European stocks climbed for a second day yesterday. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 43.20 points to 4,030.66, France's CAC 40 was shot up 51.30 points to 3,025.24 and Germany's DAK was higher by 92.79 points to 4,594.54. The national benchmark indexes rose in all 18 western European
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      573 54  -  ESTHER FUNG BUSINESS ANALYSIS esther@mediacorp.com. sg WILL it be "more of the same" or some kind of rejuvenation towards the next growth phase? That's a question that observers including its rivals are now chewing on, after Mobile One (Ml) appointed veteran insider Karen Kooi as chief
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      392 54 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON EDITION WASHINGTON Apple reported second-quar-ter profit and sales that topped the estimates of analysts after the iPhone and new versions of the iPod helped the company sidestep a slump in consumer spending. Net income rose 15 per cent to US$l.2l billion ($1.82
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      332 54 AGENCIES FREDDIE Mac's acting chief financial officer David Kellermann, 41, was found dead yesterday in his home in the Washington suburbs, police said. There were no signs of foul play and the death is being investigated. According to ABC News, Virginia police said they
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      213 54 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG China Cosco Holdings, the world's largest operator of dry-bulk ships, says it is in talks to delay or cancel orders for new vessels after slumping to a sec-ond-half loss on plunging freight rates. China Cosco had a 3.5 billion yuan ($771.5 million)
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      290 56 TrichoKare Exclusive: City pollution and the recent bout of 'extra fiery 1 weather may be bad news for global warming. But do you know that they can be bad for your hair too? IF recent researches are to be believed, aside from genetic
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