Today, 27 April 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Monday April 27, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      in the news
      211 1 2 More details on the National Integration Council and how it will foster integration efforts, which will start by seeking feedback and ideas, says MYCS Minister Vivian Balakrishnan. 3 Former Indonesian General Prabowo Subianto's name has been thrown up as a potential running mate for both Megawati
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      AWARE SAGA
      112 1 n| MCYS Minister Vivian Balakrishnan warns the two factions within Aware to 'keep religion above the fray of petty polities'. Page 6 n| What Teo Chee Hean and X Shanmugam say about the affair, while past and present exco members have their say. Page 6 n Executive recruiter
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      Lock icon Race to contain outbreak
      441 1 AP MEXICAN SWINE FLU WHO to consider tomorrow whether to raise threat level WASHINGTON The world's governments raced to avoid both a pandemic and global hysteria yesterday as more possible swine flu cases surfaced from Canada to New Zealand and the United States declared a public
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      Scanners at the airport
      335 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg THERE are no known cases of swine flu in Singapore, but preventive measures have already kicked in at Changi Airport. From 11pm yesterday, thermal scanners were deployed to screen passengers arriving from the United States. And from Bam today, all passengers arriving at
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      Lock icon Supporting social integration
      541 2  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S like getting married. Once a foreigner has made the decision to live in Singapore, then he or she is part of the family and together with citizens born locally, are in the same boat to build a brighter future for their children. Giving this
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      Lock icon Khaw: Play safe, assume the worst
      389 2  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg HIS ministry is working "round the clock" to stay abreast of swine flu developments around the world. And Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday sounded a reassuring note, saying the nation is in a better position to deal with a global pandemic
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      Maternity leave claim: No need to wait till 16th week
      399 3  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg EMPLOYERS and self-employed women will have more reasons to celebrate Labour Day this year they will be able to claim part of the Government's paid maternity leave, from May 1. Instead of waiting until after all 16 weeks
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      Lock icon Does he hold the key?
      446 3 AGENCIES INDONESIAN POLITICS JAKARTA Could former General Prabowo Subianto (picture) turn out to be the kingmaker in Indonesia's presidential election in July? As political parties held behind-the-scenes meetings to explore possible coalitions, Mr Prabowo's name has been thrown up as a potential vice-presidential running mate
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      Lock icon Starry, starry night
      516 4  -  MAYSEAH STAR AWARDS 2oog may@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS a cloudy evening, but a huge cluster of stars was seen at the Star Awards 2009 held yesterday at the MediaCorp TV Theatre on Caldecott Hill. Fifteen years since its debut, the annual awards ceremony honouring the best in local
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      'Keep religion above the fray of petty politics
      452 6  -  ZULOTHMAN THE AWARE SAGA Vivian Balakrishnan warns of the danger of mixing the two zul@mediacorp.com.sg THE Aware spat is not a national problem, and the Government has no intention of intervening in it, said the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports
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      Lock icon WHAT OTHER MINISTERS SAID
      551 6 It is important in Singapore that all groups make sure that when they have a point of view to put across, that they do so in a way which is tolerant of other groups. Know that other people have other points of view, that if you
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      Lock icon More protection for car buyers
      543 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTRE As complaints against the motor industry rise, dealers and Case set up dispute resolution centre chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg DELAYED delivery of cars, problems with Certificate of Entitlement rebates, and the failure to refund downpayments to buyers who fail to get a bank loan.
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon TURN IT DOWN OR FACE A FINE
        152 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Many Housing and Development Board (HDB) residents suffer when their neighbours play loud music or create other disturbances. To keep such inconsiderate behaviour in check, a new penalty framework will be implemented later this year to deal with those who disrupt
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        LIVING PEACEFULLY, SIDE BY SIDE
        164 10 To recognise the contribution of foreign workers to Singapore's economy and to facilitate a more harmonious co-existence between locals and foreigners, the Migrant Workers Centre (MWC) was launched yesterday. Set up by the National Trades Union Congress and the Singapore National Employers Federation, the MWC
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      Lock icon Downturn-friendly solutions
      406 10  -  ZULOTHMAN BUSINESSTOOLS zul@mediacorp.com. sg SMALL businesses need not fork out a ransom for technology in their bid to pull in customers, especially when they struggle to keep costs in check amid a worsening downturn. For as little as $5,000, they can employ systems that allow them to send
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      58 10 Which of the following is the highest rank of JsL the Singapore Armed Forces? zu i X Tn Major General Jp Lieutenant General General W de po shT wu na zhuang yT bu PA ge dv! I jun de jie jun I t sheing zhong shiio jidng jidng jidng b
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  • WORLD
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      Govt rejects rebel ceasefire
      271 12 SRI LANKA CONFLICT COLOMBO Sri Lanka rejected a unilateral ceasefire declared by Tamil Tiger rebels yesterday, as the United Nations said the ongoing fighting was preventing essential aid from reaching thousands of trapped civilians. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse dismissed the ceasefire as "a joke" and said
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      LTTECHIEF PLANNING SUBMARINE ESCAPE?
      106 12 Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, is planning to escape Sri Lanka in a makeshift submarine, the Daily Telegraph reported. His son, Charles Anthony, is reported to have already escaped in a submarine. "Prabhakaran might have retained a submarine to escape from the island. This was revealed
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      Lock icon China, Taiwan get closer with agreements
      171 12 AGENCIES BEIJING China and Taiwan signed three agreements on Sunday that will enhance economic ties between the rivals and increase the frequency of direct flights, in the latest step forward in rapidly improving ties. Taiwan envoy Chiang Pin-kung and his Chinese counterpart Chen Yunlin
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        MILITARY POST FOR KIM'S SON
        79 12 N Korea North Korean leader Kirn Jong ll's youngest son has been assigned to a powerful national military body, in a possible sign of his being groomed as the next leader. Seoul's Yonhap news said Mr Kirn Jong Un, 25, would eventually rise the ranks
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        MINISTER'S DATING SCANDAL
        72 12 Taiwan A minister and key economic adviser to Taiwan's President MaYing-jeou has resigned after admitting he had skipped work to go on dates during office hours. The resignation of minister without portfolio ChuYun-peng came after Next Magazine ran a story with photographs showing him out with his
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        SHOE HURLED AT PM
        57 12 India A protester threw a shoe at Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during an election rally in western Gujarat's Ahmedabad city yesterday, but it landed several feet short of where he was speaking. This is the fourth occasion when shoes have been hurled at Indian political
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      Lock icon GOLDEN CELEBRATION
      81 14 AFP To celebrate Golden Week, a popular holiday in Japan, members of the Japanese performance group Medaman-Medaman donned costumes and entertained shoppers around the Roppongi Hills shopping mall in Tokyo on Sunday. The crowd were also treated to a variety of street performances in anticipation of Golden Week,
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      Lock icon Pakistan takes on the Taliban
      208 14 AFP TERRORTHREAT PESHAWAR (Pakistan) Islamabad launched a new offensive yesterday to halt the advance of Taliban militants in the country's north-west, the military said, after the extremists ambushed troops, killing one soldier. The country has come under Western and domestic pressure to rescind a peace
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      Lock icon SHOW OF FORCE
      116 14 ftFP,THE DAILY TELEGRAPH In Buner, a district in Malakand, a terrified young man said Taliban militants shaved the heads and moustaches of him and three friends for listening to music late on Saturday. "I was with three other friends in my car, listening to music when armed
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      Lock icon Italy ship fends off pirate attack
      127 14 AP ROME An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia when its Israeli private security forces exchanged fire with the bandits and drove them away, the commander said yesterday. Commander Ciro Pinto
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      Lock icon OBAMA: 100 DAYS OF FORTITUDE
      539 15  -  STEPHEN COLLINSON AFP NEWS ANALYSIS A IN HIS high-velocity first 100 days, United States President BarackObama has sketched the outlines of a presidency of astounding ambition, which would remake the US at home and transform its role abroad. Yet, the President's agenda still faces tests
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      Lock icon 'Spy for us or else...'
      378 16 THE GUARDIAN UK POLICE LONDON British undercover police are running a network of hundreds of informants inside protest organisations who secretly feed them intelligence in return for cash. They claim to have infiltrated a number of environmental groups and said they are receiving information about
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      Lock icon No sign of prof who killed 3
      317 17 AP AFTERNOON LATEST Wife, two men gunned down outside theatre ATHENS (Georgia) A University of Georgia professor suspected in the shooting deaths of his wife and two men outside a community theatre has not used his hand phone or credit card, leaving few
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      Lock icon Kent State rioters dispersed
      89 17 AP COLUMBUS (Ohio) A college party spiralled out of control as police fired pellets and used pepper spray to break up hundreds of rioting students at Kent State University. Police said the party grew violent after one reveller was arrested and students began pelting officers with
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      Lock icon Man guns down deputies although stunned by Taser
      174 17 AP PENSACOLA (Florida) Two deputies who were killed by a soldier they were trying to arrest exchanged multiple rounds of gunfire with the man when he began shooting while lying on the ground after he had been shocked with a Taser stun
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      213 15 The future of banking technology in an uncertain world 7.00pm to B.oopm Wednesday 29 April 2009 Level 22 One Raffles Quay Singapore *****3 A must attend event for technology professionals in the banking sector fThe credit crunch has affected the way banking works, arguably forever, and no sector of the
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      I SAY BUILD A GOOD BRAND
      391 18  -  Theresa Goh Leaders of non-profit organisations need to create a positive image COMPARING the incident at Aware versus a few societal annual general meetings that I have attended recently, the former is a breath of fresh air. Aware does have a strong brand which
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    • Letter
      For new blood, no overhaul needed
      175 19  -  Ho Anqi Letter from I REFER to "Leadership renewal: A change would do them good" (April 24). Mr Mak Yuen Teen's letter seems to imply that any organisation should be open to revolutionary changes in leadership. We should not confuse a lack of safeguards
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      Shareholders' right to know
      323 19  -  MakYuenTeen Letter from KIAN HO BEARINGS I REFER to "We stand by our 'Gentleman's' approach' (April 25-26). Mr Gilbert Teo's letter introduces an alternate beginning from what could be inferred from the earlier letters by independent director Tan Lye Huat. According to Mr Tan's letters, at
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      242 19  -  DRJAMES DOBSON I BY DEFIANT OR JUST IRRESPONSIBLE? I want to talk to parents today about the very important distinction between childish irresponsibility and wilful defiance. Let me explain. Suppose little Chris is acting silly in the living room and falls onto a table, breaking some
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      405 19 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices SINGAPORE >^CTV ■■■^■■■■■■■■■■■JH BUSINESS Ijf l_^ FEDERATION 0" EBIS Conference 2009 Apex Business Chamber surv/wng the Economic Downturn: Eager to obtain BUSINESS FINANCING and stay afloat? Business Rnartngt^Opponunttes Lookjng fo|> MQRE BUS|NESS LEADS and CONTRACTS? onno k Wondered WHERE and HOW to
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      Behind le silver screen
      794 20  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE MAGIC genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg ONE director treated audiences to a feel-good musical with a colourful palette of whimsical circus fun. The other kept them at the edge of their seats rooting for a vigilante father who will stop at nothing to save his kidnapped daughter.
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      The future looks Rose-y
      491 22  -  MAY SEAH LOVELY LAWYERS may@mediacorp.com.sg ROSE Byrne is one of those actresses who surreptitiously seeps into your consciousness by making appearances in more movies than you can count. She's been in everything from Attack of the Clones to Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette to Troy, where she
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      Lock icon Copycat artist
      461 22 MAYO MARTIN MING Wong (picture) likes to act in his video works, but when asked how he rates himself as an actor on a scale of one to five, he says he's a "two-and-a-half. "I usually act very badly and it's all very low tech." Flubbed lines, bad
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      Say cheers to beers
      384 23  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH BEERFEST ASIA 2009 Üblues Group hopes to forge new direction with beer festival christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg COME Wednesday, Üblues Group they run the Timbre chain of music bistros and cocktail bar Klee will be hosting the first Beerfest Asia 2009 (BFA) ever. Offering five nights of "liquid
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      Lock icon 'Welcome' to Brunei
      657 25  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL A visit to DPMM's home ground is no holiday, as SAFFC found out last night in bandar seri begawan shamir@mediacorp.com.sg GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO9 DPMM2SAFFCI THE Bruneian capital of Bandar Seri Begawan has a sleepy small town feel to it. Walking along the streets,
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      Hopes rest on Feng, Wang
      202 25 SINGAPORE paddlers Feng Tianwei (sth seed), Wang Yuegu (7), Sun Bei Bei (25) and Yu Meng Yu (28) have reached the main draw for the women's singles of this week's World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, Japan, while Gao Ning and Yang Zi will feature
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      Abhiraj shines in S'pore loss
      132 25 FEW gave Singapore a change against defending champions Nepal in their Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Group A match in Kuwait on Saturday. But the underdogs got the crowd behind them before falling to their third defeat in as many games, losing by a run. The
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      Lock icon A perfect finish
      368 26  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE SPORTS After slow start to the season, Stingrays go all the way to 2009 crown SLING HD NETBALL SUPER LEAGUE 2009 FINAL Stingrays 38 Marlins 32 linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg IT'S been quite a season for the Stingrays. The team started out the Sling HD
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      454 26  -  ASDWIGHT GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Young Lions v Sengkang Punggol Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg SENGKANG Punggol climbed off the foot of the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 table last Thursday after a 1-0 home win over Woodlands Wellington, their
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      505 27  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Rushton believes talent is already there, now to groom them into champs linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg HE'S only been with the Singapore Sports School for four months, but head swimming coach Clive Rushton is already certain he will be seeing another Tao Li
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      458 27  -  LOW LIN FHOONG TWO weeks ago. Angel Cabrera becamethe lowest-ranked player to win the Masters. The Argentinean was 69th in golf's world rankings going into the tournament. He ended up beating a field that included Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
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      490 28 AFP FORMULAi Brawn driver triumphs thanks to masterful pit stop strategy SAKHIR (Bahrain) Jenson Button consolidated his lead in this year's title race with a masterful triumph for Brawn GP in yesterday's closely contested and tactical Bahrain Grand Prix. The 29-year-old, who won in Australia and
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      397 28  -  LAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg THE Canon Super Series corporate bowling league was launched last October by the Singapore Bowling Federation and Canon Singapore with the aim to have companies get together and have some fun. Each four-man team must include least one
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      600 29 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL United come back from 2-0 to tear Spurs apart, but Fergie tamps down title talk ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Manchester United 5 Tottenham Hotspur 2 MANCHESTER At half-time on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), it looked like Manchester United were determined to throw away
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      265 29 AP LONDON Manchester United stalwart Ryan Giggs has been voted player of the year by his fellow English league professionals for the first time at age 35. The top PFA accolade was the one prize that had eluded English football's most decorated player
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      477 29 AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Rovers 2 Wigan o BLACKBURN South Africa's Benni McCarthy scored one goal and created the other as Blackburn Rovers beat Wigan Athletic 2-0 at Ewood Park here yesterday to move nearer Premier League survival. Victory left Sam Allardyce's side six points clear of
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      854 30  -  TALULA CARTWRIGHT ACCOMPLISHING GOALS succeed@mediacorp.com.sg IN GOOD times and bad, peer relationships can make or break you. Your peers hold the keys to resources, expertise and support and can be a powerful asset in both the short- and long-term. To work well with your
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      129 31 HOW IMPORTANT ARETRAINING AND SKILLS UPGRADING, AND WHAT IMPACT DOTHEY HAVE ON PRODUCTIVITY? REPLY FROM MR RAVI RAJENDRAN, VICE-PRESIDENT AN GENERAL MANAGER, ASEAN, HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Innovation will see companies emerge from the financial crisis stronger than before. To Hitachi Data Systems, employee training is the crucial factor
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      752 32  -  MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON Not long ago the International Monetary Fund (IMF) seemed headed for relic status. Now, it's once more flying high, rolling out ambitious plans to blanket an economically-distressed world with US dollars. Even grander designs are on the drawing board.
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      361 33 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON General Motors, racing to beat a June 1 United States government-ordered bankruptcy deadline, will provide details today on the latest plan to cut costs and keep US$l5.4 billion ($23 billion) in loans it needs to survive.
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      160 33 DOWJONES SHANGHAI China's central government will allocate 70 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) for the third batch of its stimulus package, falling short of market expectations, the state-run Economic Information Daily reported over the weekend, citing an unnamed official at China's top economic planning
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      402 34 KIAN HO BEARINGS MINORITY shareholders ofMainboard-listed Kian Ho Bearings will vote today on whether they agree with a resolution to remove Mr Tan Lye Huat, one of the company's three independent directors, who are all accountants by profession. The proposal was tabled by Ms Amanda Teo, who
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      286 34  -  ESTHER FUNG estherf@mediacorp.com.sg ASL Marine Holdings expects to book an impairment charge of up to $3 million after refunding a customer US$lB.B million ($2B million) following the rescission of a shipbuilding contract. The payment will be made from internal funds, the company said
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      188 34 ESTHER FUNG MICRO-MECHANICS has reported its first quarterly loss ever as customers slash orders amid the global downturn in the semi-conductor industry. For its fiscal third quarter ended March 31, the precision tools and partsmaker suffered a loss of $1.4 million, compared to a net
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      651 35  -  CONRAD RAJ MONDAY BLUES editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg It's time the MAS curbs the exorbitant charges imposed by credit-card companies UNITED States President Barack Obama's move to crack down on some of the more nefarious and "deceptive" practices of the credit-card industry couldn't have come at a more
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          65 36 16 cents Underperform CIMB keeps its rating but raises the target price to 13.5 cents from 11 cents, saying the Ql '09 net loss was not as big as forecast. It lowers Chartered's net loss assumptions for FYO9-10 by 25 to 44 per cent and raises the FYII
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          59 36 46 cents I Hold OCBC Investment Research downgrades from "Buy" after target price of 45 cents was hit. It says that while the trust's diversified, high-quality portfolio will allow it to deliver reasonably stable income over next two years, "we have not seen enough corresponding positive signals
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          50 36 JARDINE CYCLE CARRIAGE $13.06 I Sell DMG downgrades from "Neutral" on valuation grounds after sharp gains over past month. Still, it raises the target price to $10.28 from $9.91 after increasing the FYO9 earnings forecast by 6 per cent to assume higher contributions from its plantation and coal mining businesses.
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        64 36 Thursday 1,859.98 A 0.90% Wednesday 1,843.41 T 2.32% Tuesday 1,887.25 A 0.66% Monday 1,874.85 T 1.14% Hang Seng 15,258.85 A 0.29% Nikkei 8,707.99 T 1.57% Shanghai 2,448.60 T 0.62% Seoul 1,354.10 T 1.07% Mumbai 11,329.05 A 1.74% KLComp 992.68 A 1.43% US$1 $1,489 ¥100 $1-537 £1 $2,178 HK$ioo
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        648 36  -  JAMIE MIYAZAKI DOWJONES BUSINESS ANALYSIS Should they take advantage of the recent rebound in share prices to tap the market? WHEN is equity cheaper than debt? Those who may soon know the answer are Singapore-listed real estate investment trusts, or S-Reits, and their lenders, who are doubtless
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        268 36 AFP WASHINGTON The global economic crisis is turning into "a human and development calamity", with poorer countries being hit increasingly hard, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank said yesterday. "The global economy has deteriorated dramatically developing countries face especially serious consequences as the financial
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