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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday April 29, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday April 29, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    250 1 6MOE says 11 secondary schools had engaged Aware to give talks on sexuality and no complaints were received. 8 For years, men (and women) have had to put up with PMS, now there's a pill to treat it. ■"I /™\The middleman in the L\J kidney-trading case involvng
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    748 1 SWINE FLU OUTBREAK Boy tests positive; his village could be where it all started FOR years, little Edgar Hernandez Hernandez's village in eastern Mexico lay some 8 kilometres downwind of a large industrial pig farm. Then, in February, residents of La Gloria began to fall mysteriously ill, complaining of fever,
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    Lock icon S'pore raises alert level
    1069 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN LINYANQIN and chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE swine flu alert level in Singapore has been raised to Yellow from Green, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement last night, even as no human cases of swine flu have been detected here so far. The move comes
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      21 1 SAFETY FIRST SHOULDYOU BEWORRIED?2 WHO SAYS... SWINE FLU IS UNSTOPPABLE 3 GLOBALCHAOS SUSPECTED, CONFIRMEDCASES 3 NEWSCOMMENT WHEN MEAT REALLY IS MURDER^
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      274 3 AGENCIES AUSTRALIA Suspected cases: 70 BRITAIN Confirmed cases: 2 Suspected cases: 7 A Scottish couple tested positive for swine flu after returning from their Mexican honeymoon. Britain's Foreign Office has warned residents to postpone nonessential travel to Mexico. Thousands of British holidaymakers are to be repatriated from Mexico after leading
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      Lock icon WHO: Flu can't be contained
      395 3 THE GUARDIAN, AGENCIES SWINE FLU OUTBREAK Crisis at turning point and govts must plan for mass outbreaks LONDON The World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday that swine flu can no longer be contained, as the virus spread to the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, with
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      Lock icon WHEN MEAT REALLY IS MURDER
      741 4 THEGUARDIAN SWINE FLU OUTBREAK MIKE DAVIS THE Mexican swine flu, a genetic chimaera probably conceived in the faecal mire of an industrial pigsty, suddenly threatens to give the whole world a fever. The initial outbreaks across North America reveal an infection already travelling at higher
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      Lock icon BE AWARE OF THE CHANGES
      155 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Aware has changed the venue of its extraordinary general meeting to Singapore Expo Hall 2. The May 2 meeting, to be held from 2pm to spm, was originally scheduled to be held at the HSR building inToa Payoh, but Aware's executive committee had
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      Lock icon MOE contacts the 'feminist mentor'
      448 6  -  ZULOTHMAN AWARE SAGA Ministry seeks to clarify claims she made about Aware talks in schools zul@mediacorp.com.sg LAST year, 11 secondary schools engaged Aware to conduct sex-education workshops and there was no negative feedback from students or parents, the Ministry of Education said yesterday. In a
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      Lock icon Goodbye PMS, hello Yaz
      400 8  -  ESTHER NG NEW ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE estherng@mediacorp.com.sg FOR the longest time, women (and men) have had to put up with that dreaded time of the month when emotions run high and food cravings strike. Now, there is a little pink pill, the Yaz, an oral contraceptive approved
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      Lock icon Construction of $4b expressway begins
      218 8 938LIVE WORK on Singapore's most expensive highway, the Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE), has begun. Costing more than $4 billion, it is much higher than the initial estimation of $2.5 billion due to the difficult soil conditions. When completed by 2013, the 5-km road will serve
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      Lock icon Nephew-in-law planned to profit from it
      321 10  -  ONG DAI LIN TANG'S KIDNEYTRADING CASE Middleman testifies against Whang dailin@mediacorp.com. sg A WEEK after being released from prison, the middleman in the kidney trading case involving retail magnate Tang Wee Sung was back in court, this time to testify about the role of
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      Lock icon Reform Party denies talk of a fall-out
      281 12 LEONGWEE KEAT THE Reform Party has denied talk of a fall-ing-out between its secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam and Mr Ng Teck Siong, who quit as chairman after receiving a no-confidence vote on Sunday. Interim party chairman Edmund Ng stressed yesterday that the party is
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      Accountant jailed
      426 12  -  ONGDAILIN IN COURT 51-year-old man is first practising CPAto be convicted for tax evasion dailin@mediacorp.com. sg FROM 1995 to 2005, he made false entries in his income tax returns and under-re-ported earnings by some $2.4 million from his accounting practice, C T Chng Co. Yesterday, Chng Chor Tong,
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      Lock icon Alert SingPost employee foils Nigerian scam
      252 14 TEOXUANWEI SEEING an email from her "brother" at 7.45am titled "Urgent please!" jolted her. Ms Janet, 52, skimmed through the letter and was shocked: Her younger brother, 49, who was supposed to be working in Australia, had apparently been robbed in Lagos, Nigeria. "I
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      Lock icon Job losses could have been worse...
      345 14  -  SRAMESH CHANNEL NEWSASIA MAY DAY MESSAGE But labour chief says tripartite efforts have made a difference ramesh@mediacorp.com.sg THE job situation in Singapore could have been worse given the severity of the global economic downturn, if not for the concerted efforts of the Government, businesses
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      Lock icon Fatality rate to fall below 1.8 by 2018: WSH
      208 16 938LIVE A NEW national plan for workplace safety and health (WSH) hopes to bring the workplace fatality rate to below 1.8 per 100,000 workers by 2018. Two higher risk sectors are the first to be targeted, with the aim of halving
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      S'pore ranked No 1
      202 16 SINGAPORE has been ranked top of a table measuring the quality of city infrastructure. The Republic was followed by Munich and Copenhagen. The infrastructure ranking which measured electricity, water, public transportation and airport services was part of an annual survey by Mercer Consulting. Overall, in terms
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      475 16  -  ALICIA WONG NATIONAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SURVEY To counter trend, HPB emphasises hip and cool tobacco-free lifestyle alicia@mediacorp.com.sg THE graphic images of tar-coated lungs and diseased mouths have helped cut smoking for some years, but it appears they are having less of an impact now, with the latest
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      Lock icon SAF foils pirates in Gulf of Aden
      188 18 JUST a day after it began anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Task Group thwarted a pirate attack on a Mongolian-registered merchant vessel. Last Saturday, the SAF Task Group responded to an emergency call for assistance from
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      Lock icon S'porean gets 18 years for terrorism
      380 18 AFP TERRORISM TRIAL JAKARTA A Singaporean extremist who trained for "holy war" in Afghanistan and met Osama bin Laden in 2000 was sentenced to 18 years in jail yesterday under Indonesia's anti-terrorism law. Mohammad Hasan bin Saynudin, 35, yelled "Allahu akbar" (God is great)
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      Lock icon Penanti needs new approach: Mukhriz
      189 19 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER SHAH ALAM Echoing his father's views, Mr Mukhriz Mahathir has urged the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) to contest the Penanti by-election with a new approach to get voters on the ruling federal coalition's side. The International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister
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      Lock icon 'Era of govt knows best has ended'
      338 19 BLOOMBERG THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER IN MALAYSIA Najib wants to recruit private sector talent for civil service PUTRAJAYA Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (picture) yesterday proposed to open up key positions in government to talent from the private sector and govern-ment-linked companies (GLCs) in
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      Lock icon Karpal case trial set for Aug 12
      135 19 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Opposition politician Karpal Singh yesterday failed to persuade the Kuala Lumpur High Court to throw out a sedition charge against him, and the trial has been fixed for Aug 12. The Democratic Alliance Party chairman, who was charged
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      Lock icon New law encourages you to come to Seoul to fix your body
      269 20 AFP SEOUL Hospitals will be allowed directly to seek foreign patients from next month as part of South Korea's efforts to become Asia's new medical tourism hub, officials said. "We expect about 300 billion won ($332 million) in
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      392 20 INDONESIAN ELECTIONS Golkar leaders' move keeps hopes of SBYKalla coalition alive JAKARTA The decision by Golkar party regional leaders on Sunday to revise their nomination of chairman Jusuf Kalla for the presidential post reopens the possibility for another partnership with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, according to some
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      KIDS IN THE CRACKS
      652 22  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com. sg The One-Child Policy has unfortunately left many behind FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Li Xue has never attended a day of school. Instead, the second child of Beijing street peddlers spends her time helping her parents sell fritters in
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      483 24 THE GUARDIAN JAPAN POLITICS TOKYO Faced with an economy in steep decline, rising unemployment and an uncertain future, a growing number of Japanese are shunning the conservative consensus and turning instead to a new brand of cuddly communism. While the leaders of Japan's two main
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      Lock icon Pakistan expands offensive against Taliban
      182 25 AGENCIES ISLAMABAD Pakistan deployed troops and bombed Taliban positions in the north-western town of Buner yesterday where the Taliban were recently seeking to widen their control. Military spokesman NasirKhan said jets bombed positions in mountains in the Babaji Kandao area of Buner. Troops were also
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      Lock icon East Africa: The next Afghanistan
      464 25 AP TERRORIST ATTACKS Al Qaeda terror techniques gaining ground in Somalia WASHINGTON Evidence is growing that battle-hardened extremists are filtering out of havens along the Pakistan-Af-ghanistan border and into East Africa, bringing sophisticated terror tactics that include suicide attacks. The alarming shift, according to United
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      Lock icon Teach em young
      363 26 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH COMPULSORY SEX EDUCATION Parents bring up children, not the Government. Schools, however, can play a vital role in teaching children the essential skills for learning and life. Schools Secretary Ed Balls, on the necessity of early sex education Five-year-olds to learn about birds and the
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      Lock icon Kasab an adult, doctors tell court
      223 27 AGENCIES MUMBAI Medical tests conducted on a Pakistani man on trial in India for last year's Mumbai attacks show that he is an adult, doctors said yesterday, disputing his claim that he was less than 17 years old. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab underwent a dental
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      392 27 APF AFP CEASEFIRE MISSION PARIS France and Britain said yesterday they would go ahead with a mission to Sri Lanka to push for a ceasefire to help civilians flee the war zone after Sweden's foreign minister was denied a visa. Mr Carl Bildt was
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      263 28 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ECONOMIC CRISIS Recession drives prices of Australian islands down SYDNEY The global recession, coupled with Australia's struggling tourism industry, has seen the price of Australia's tropical islands cut by up to 50 per cent. More than 30 island resorts that dot the coast of Queensland
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      Lock icon US cDream Homes' dashed in $105m fraud scheme
      224 29 AFP WASHINGTON More than a thousand people who took part in a United States programme to buy their "Dream Homes" were victims of a massive US$7O-million ($lO5-million) fraud scheme, investigators said on Monday. A federal grand jury indicted four defendants and information
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      448 29 THENEWYORKTIMES CYBER WARFARE Pentagon seeking to develop a replica of the Internet of the future WASHINGTON The Pentagon has commissioned military contractors to develop a highly classified replica of the Internet of the future simulating what it would take for adversaries to shut down
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      385 32 AGENCIES NEWYORK PANIC Presidential plane's photo-op triggers fear as New Yorkers fear repeat of Sept 11 attacks NEW YORK- President Barack Obama's spare Air Force One plane and two fighter jets zoomed past lower Manhattan skyscrapers on Monday for a photo opportunity, sparking panic in
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      196 32 THENEWYORKTIMES NEW YORK Mr Barack Obama's presidency seems to be altering the public perception of race relations in the United States. Two-thirds of Americans now say race relations are generally good, and the percentage of blacks who say so has doubled since last
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      421 36  -  SumCheeWah(Ms) AWARE'S SEXUALITY EDUCATION PROGRAMME Letter from Director, Education Programmes Ministry of Education (MOE) WE REFER to recent claims and comments about Aware's sexuality education programme in schools. Sexuality education conducted in MOE schools is premised on the importance of the family, and respect for
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      217 38  -  DR JAMES DOBSON I BY LET CHILDREN EXPRESS ANGER The chances are, at least once or twice during your role as a parent, you are going to do or say something that will make your child angry with you. Should he or she be allowed to
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      1083 40  -  MAY SEAH X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE How one reporter got to squeeze Hugh Jackman's body part in Sydney g may@mediacorp.com.sg HUGH Jackman is sexy. He's also multi-talented he sings, dances and acts onstage and onscreen charming, down-to-earth and a family man. But above all, Jackman has
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      435 45  -  MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com. sg STILL high from the buzz over the inaugural Singapore Film Awards at the recent Singapore International Film Festival, the local movie industry is gearing up for another big date this time at Cannes. The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA)
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        69 46 Willie Valentine Fine Art Singapore puts the spotlight on new photography from South-east Asia with CUTO9: FIGURE, an exhibit of works by 15 photographers from the region, including Singapore's Francis Ng and Genevieve Chua. The exhibit runs until May 17 at Artspace@Helutrans, 39 Keppel Rd, Tanjong Pagar
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        115 46 The Esplanade is launching a new festival called A Tapestry of Sacred Music. And no, it's not all about singing hymns, but rather music that embraces human spirituality. To be held from May lto 3, the festival will feature more than 30 free programmes featuring Balinese gamelan, Japanese
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      468 47  -  MAYO MARTIN LOCAL ARTS The Substation turns vanimalistic with artist's month-long show mayo@mediacorp.com.sg COCKROACHES are not only a pretty sight, but they need our help, too. At least, that's what artist Zhao Ren Hui thinks. Rare white Japanese cockroaches, photographs of stuffed animals and animal traps, and animal
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      486 49 AGENCIES Tonight will be Giggs' Booth match, but United star only wants a win EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, SEMI-FINAL IST LEG Man United v Old Trafford MANCHESTER Ryan Giggs yesterday warned Arsenal that he is ready to recreate one of the
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      400 49 AGENCIES LONDON—Arsenal are promising an audacious approach lagainst Champions League holders Manchester United at Old Trafford tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), despite being deprived of two of their most creative players. Andrei Arshavin is cuptied and leading scorer Robin van Persie is injured
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      485 50  -  TANYO-HINN TODAY EXCLUSIVE Project 0812 to be expanded, and goal of new programme is for long-term success yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg LAUNCHED two years ago, Project 0812 was a $7-million-initiative to help elite Singapore athletes win medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. The programme is
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      491 50  -  SHAMIR OSMAN RHB SINGAPORE CUP PRELIMINARY ROUND DPMM FC v Pelita Jaya Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30 pm shamir@mediacorp.com. sg DPMM FC have taken Singapore football by storm. Currently sitting pretty at the top the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League table, no club
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      531 51  -  TANYO-HINN since Novem- BASKETBALL STYLE Harlem Globetrotters are as big as ever, says point guard vßucket' Blakes yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg THEY were around long before Formula 1 cars were doing battle for the first world championship in 1950. They were entertaining fans even before the first football World
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      453 52 AFP JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT BOXING LAS VEGAS Manny Pacquiao avoided Manila's distracting delights to train in Hollywood so he could better focus on what he needs to do to win Saturday's showdown fight with England's Ricky Hatton. After working out for weeks next door to
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      179 53 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE table tennis star Li Jiawei is pregnant. The 27-year-old revealed the news after informing the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA). Li got married last Saturday in a lavish wedding in Beijing to Chinese businessman, Li Chao, 36. The world
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      334 53  -  ASDWIGHT SCHOOL SPORTS Cedar's B division team end RGS' grip on table tennis title sports@newstoday.com.sg LAST Thursday, Cedar Girls Secondary School B Division table tennis team put an end to Raffles Girls School's (RGS) domination of the sport when they won the final 3-1 at Yishun Sports Hall.
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      84 49 SPORTS ON TV TODAY gam NBA Playoffs, Ch 23 5.55pm Cricket Somerset v Durham, Ch 110 6pm J-League Kashima Antlers vVissel Kobe, Ch 27 6.30pm IPL Bangalore v Kolkata, Ch 111 7pm Tennis Rome Masters, Ch 22 8.30pm Cricket Somerset v Durham, Ch 110 10.30pm IPL Punjab v Mumbai, Ch
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      453 54  -  VALARIETAN CHANNEL NEWSASIA POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION EASB expands its degree programmes amid stronger demand during downturn valarie@mediacorp.com.sg AMID the global recession, some Singaporeans who have lost their jobs are now seeking other opportunities by enrolling in post-graduate courses. The East Asia Institute of Management (EASB), has
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      861 55 -MELODY TAN VS. Since its inception in 2000, the President's Challenge has raised more than $70 million for over 400 voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs). The money has been used to help families, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities, among others, in the community.
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      330 56 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG BANKING Uproar over HK banks' sale of Lehman-linked securities to Vulnerable investors' HONG Kong banks sold structured notes linked to the failed American investment bank Lehman Brothers not only to the elderly and poorly educated but also the mentally ill, according
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        174 56 This Mother's Day, show Mum how much you appreciate her with a special night out at The Jewel Box on Mount Faber. A range of four- to eight-course Western and Chinese Heritage set menus have been designed to
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        118 56 For mail that just can't wait, SingPost now offers an innovative new service, A.M. Mail. It's easy to use and affordable, with rates starting at $2.60. Simply drop the prepaid A.M. Mail envelope in any SingPost postbox (by 7pm within the CBD or spm outside of
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        106 56 Shop at Eu Yan Sang this Mother's Day and get a gift created especially for Mum. Spend $288 in a single receipt and a heart-shaped box packed with three bottles of bird's nest in varying levels of sweetness: Rock sugar,
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        151 56 Consumer electronics megastore Audio House celebrates the revamp of its Liang Court store this weekend, with a Grand Sale starting Friday, May 1, and ending on Sunday, May 3. Unlike many other sales where old stock is cleared off. Audio House is slashing the prices
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      326 57 FEDERAL Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) chairman Sheila Bair (picture), looking beyond stress tests that will determine the health of the top 19 United States banks, said her agency should have the authority to close even the biggest lenders. The "too-big-to-fail concept" should be
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      396 57 AGENCIES US BANKING 'Stress tests' show that Bank of America, Citigroup may need more capital: Report THE Bank of America (BOA) and Citigroup, which have each received US$45 billion ($67.6 billion) in bailout funds from the United States government, have been told by regulators that "stress-test"
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      406 58  -  CHEOWXINYI PROPERTY MARKET Rates expected to drop 15% more, says fund manager cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com. sg FUND manager Henderson Global Investors believes the property markets of Hong Kong and China currently trump that of Singapore as investment propositions. Speaking at a media conference yesterday, the firm's head
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      192 58  -  TANHUILENG AS A suitable chief executive officer could not be found by a deadline to fulfil listing conditions, Mainboard-listed MAP Technology yesterday said current chief executive officer Chia Kin Heng would step down and become non-executive director, but remain an executive committee member.
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        86 59  -  KELVIN CHOW Mainboard-listed Fraser Commercial Trust yesterday said lawsuits against the property trust by former tenants have been discontinued. Following a settlement, legal proceedings byGuyCarpenterandCompany,William M Mercer (S) and Mercer 01 iverWyman, were terminated, said the real estate investment trust (Reit). In 2007, these companies filed
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