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  • 10 1 TODAY Thursday May 21, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    199 1 2 The ambassadors of Singapore, Thailand and Russia were allowed a rare meeting with detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the prison where she is on trial for violating the terms of her house arrest. C2 Enhanced Government \J schemes mean owning flats is
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  • 699 1  -  LOW LIN FHOONG ONTHE ROOFOFTHEWORLD linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg ARMED with a banner and placards, Republic Polytechnic students Atiqah Zaini and Renuka Singh were 3,519km away from Nepal, home to the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. But that didn't stop the 19--year-olds from sharing the joy and the
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  • 687 1  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT exactly transpired in Associate Professor Chan Kup Luk's office before David Hartonto Widjaja fell to his death? On the opening day of the eager-ly-awaited coroner's inquiry into his death, the Widjaja family's lawyer, Mr Shashi Nathan, sought to postulate the possible
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  • NEWS
    • 369 2 AGENCIES AUNG SAN SUU KYI Junta opens trial, allows three ambassadors to meet detained leader YANGON The ambassadors of Singapore, Thailand and Russia were allowed a rare meeting with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the prison where she is on trial for violating
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    • 283 2 In response to media queries that the Singapore Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Robert Chua was among three Ambassadors invited to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on May 20, 2009 in Yangon, an MFA Spokesman said: The Myanmar Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mofa) had today invited
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    • 384 2 AGENCIES THE weather was good. The C-130 Hercules was believed to be in good repair. And there was contact with the crew just moments before the plane went down. As investigators began their probe to determine the cause of yet another crash involving an Indonesian
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    • 715 4  -  NEOCHAICHIN HEALTHCARE PLANS More resources in dementia and psychiatric care for ageing population chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE next major step the Ministry of Health is taking to prepare for the "silver tsunami" was evident when it announced yesterday its latest plans and priorities: Tending to the psychiatric
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    • 372 4  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THERE are the long-term manpower needs, which a third medical school would meet, and then there are the more pressing requirements for which the Ministry of Health has devised more ways to boost hiring and skills. The latest carrot is a new scholarship,
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    • 416 5  -  NEOCHAICHIN JURONG GENERAL HOSPITAL Incoming CEO Foo wants holistic care beyond JGH chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE Jurong General Hospital will be completed by 2014, a year earlier than expected, and its chief executive-des-ignate Foo Hee Jug expects to care for patients beyond the confines of the hospital. Mr
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    • 549 6  -  ESTHER NG PUBLIC HOUSING Enhanced Govt schemes now make owning flats a breeze estherng@mediacorp.com.sg HOME for Mr Elmie Samsuri and his wife have been at their parents, or more recently, a Housing and Development Board (HDB) rental flat, for the 10 years that
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    • 106 6  -  ESTHER NG Implemented in March this year, the Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS), allows low-income elderly Singaporeans in three-room and smaller flats to monetise their HDB flats for their old age. To date, HDB has received more than 250 applications. To promote the scheme, the Board has organised
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    • 210 6  -  ONGDAI LIN ONGDAILIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg THE vision is to create a "Sustainable Singapore" where limited resources will be used efficiently and innovatively but community support is vital in making that a reality. That was the message from Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for the Environment and Water
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 115 6 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Senior Minister Goh ChokTong have both sent their congratulations to Mr Manmohan Singh on the Congress Party's victory in the recent Indian elections. Relations between India and Singapore have expanded and deepened on all levels under Mr Singh's
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      • 166 6 Mr Najib Razak, who became Prime Minister of Malaysia last month, is in Singapore on an introductory visit. During his two-day visit, he will meet with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who will host an official dinner tomorrow. Besides meeting Senior Minister Goh ChokTong and Senior
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      • 97 6 The direct admission exercise to junior colleges (JC) here starts on June 29, while that for polytechnics begins on July 8. The closing date for both is Oct 9. Successful applicants can confirm places in a JC or polytechnic prior to taking
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    • 169 8 938LIVE PRICES of Certificates of Entitlement (COE) went up for almost all categories of vehicles in the latest tender exercise yesterday, the exception being motorcycles. The premium for big cars spiked the most, up by $1,628 to nearly $9,180. The COE for small
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    • 422 8  -  GERALDINESOH 938LIVE ESTATE PRIVATISATION HDB tells residents more time needed to count the costs geraldines@mediacorp.com.sg SOME 17 months after the idea was mooted, a proposal to privatise an HUDC estate in Hougang remains in limbo. This, despite the fact that to date, 282 resident owners
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    • 85 10 WEETECKHIAN More than 200 cyclists gathered at the Merlion Park to join others worldwide in a silent slow-paced ride in honour of those who have been injured or killed while cycling on public roads. The Ride of Silence was started in 2003, in White Rock
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    • 354 10  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SENTENCED to four years for having sex with a 15-year-old girl, the man was content to serve out the jail time despite his insistence that he never committed the crime. He wanted to get his sentence overand done with. But in
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    • 493 10  -  ZULOTHMAN PROFESSIONAL MISREPRESENTATION zul@mediacorp.com. sg THE doctor presented himself as a specialist in plastic or cosmetic surgery on his website from Jan 2005 and July 2006. That claim led the Chapter of Plastic Surgeons to lodge a complaint against Dr Zubin Firdos Medora
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    • 638 11 SHUTTERBUGS HARNESS TV V-w** The early afternoon shower did little to dampen the spirit of the more than 250 participants of Canon's Power in Your Hands photography seminar at the Raffles City Convention Centre Atrium Ballroom last Saturday. From chirpyteenagers and young couples to parents with
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  • WORLD
    • 444 12 THE NEWYORKTIMES SRI LANKA VICTORY How the President and his brothers played for a win COLOMBO The Sri Lankan President, Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa, on Tuesday savoured a victory that had eluded every Sri Lankan head of state before him: After more than 25 years, his troops had
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    • 233 12 .AFP NEW DELHI The prospect of war crimes charges following Sri Lanka's military victory over Tamil Tiger rebels loomed larger yesterday, with United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon backing growing calls for a full investigation. Thousands of civilians are believed to
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    • 202 14 MELBOURNE A doctor in rural Australia (picture, left) used a handyman's power drill to bore a hole into the skull of a boy with a severe head injury, saving his life. Nicholas Rossi, 13, fell off his bike on Friday in the
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    • 487 14 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH EASTERN POWER Beijing has built facilities across South and South-east Asia BEIJING If any more evidence of China's steady ascent towards Asian regional dominance was needed, the climax of Sri Lanka's war has provided the proof. An ally of Beijing, Sri Lanka found
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    • 317 15 AGENCIES NORTH KOREA SUCCESSOR Former aide reveals Kim's middle son could succeed father SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong II is grooming his middle son as successor, not the youngest son as has been widely speculated. Kim Jong Choi holds a secret high-level post
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    • 215 15 AFP PUTRAJAYA Malaysia may revive a proposal to build a new bridge to neighbouring Singapore, officials said yesterday. Prime Minister Najib Razak, 55, may raise the issue when he meets his Singaporean counterpart, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, tomorrow during a two-day visit to the
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    • 181 15 AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwan's President said yesterday that rival China is more pragmatic and flexible in its approach to the island, attaching greater importance to preventing its formal independence than to uniting it with the mainland. Mr Ma Ying-jeou's comments came on the first
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    • 204 16 AGENCIES KABUL The United States military said yesterday at least 20 civilians and 60 insurgents may have died in a disputed US-Taliban clash earlier this month, refuting the Afghan government's assertion that 140 civilians were killed. This comes as a US service member
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    • 551 16 AFP URANIUM PRODUCTION But weapon storage "pretty secure' from militants: CIA head WASHINGTON Satellite photos released on Tuesday show Pakistan has expanded two sites crucial to its nuclear programme as part of an effort to bolster the destructive power of its atomic arsenal, said a
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    • 501 17 THENEWYORKTIMES ARMS TRANSFER KABUL—lnsurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces. Munitions procured by the Pentagon have found their way
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    • 153 17 AGENCIES TEHRAN Iran announced yesterday that its constitutional watchdog approved three prominent candidates to run against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the election next month, setting the stage for a showdown between reformists and hard liners who have both criticised the current leader. Hardliners
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    • 177 18 AFP WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by early next year hit a snag as his Democratic allies in the Senate moved to deny him US$BO million ($ll7 million) he had sought for the purpose. Democrats
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    • 306 18 AGENCIES US CAR EMISSIONS President sets strict limits on car exhaust emissions WASHINGTON -America's fuelguzzling cars were heading for extinction yesterday as President Barack Obama set strict limits on car exhaust emissions and directed producers to make a more fuel-efficient vehicle fleet. The
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    • 207 18 AP MEXICO CITY The arrest of a drug cartel lieutenant Rodolfo Lopez Ibarra as he stepped off a private plane fresh from a baptism party held by his boss, one of Mexico's most wanted drug lords, has sparked a debate about whether Mexico is winning the
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    • 542 20 AP SAFE URANIUM VIENNA Warren Buffett's bankroll, Barack Obama's clout and the partnership of a savvy ex-Soviet strongman may turn the steppes of central Asia into a nuclear mecca, a go-to place for "safe" uranium fuel in an increasingly nervous atomic age.
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    • 245 22 AGENCIES TEHRAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran test-fired a new advanced missile yesterday with a range of about 1,950km, capable of reaching Israel and United States Middle East bases. "The Defence Minister (Mohammad Mostafa Najjar) told me today that we launched a Sejil-2
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    • 436 22 AGENCIES HINI FLU OUTBREAK Japan cases top 251, global figures past 10,000 in 41 nations TOKYO Japan's Influenza A (H1N1) epidemic spread to the capital Tokyo as a 16-year-old high school girl there tested positive for the virus yesterday with the number of confirmed
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  • voices
    • 169 24  -  Karin Ekeberg-Towson Letter from THE Kindness Movement is beginning to yield dividends. When my daughter left school yesterday, she forgot her wallet, which she had left in her locker. She boarded SBS Transit Service No 24 at Ang Mo Kio, to head home. Once the
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    • 368 24  -  Mariann Maes FAMILY TIME Employers are the key to keeping families together Letter from I REFER to "Keeping families together: MCYS"(May2O). Although I am heartened by the efforts of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) to support Singaporean couples with various
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    • 190 26  - FOCUS ON THE FAMILY DR BILL MAIER ON 1 THE J BY WHAT MAKES A MARRIAGE STRONG? So what does it take to make a strong marriage? Most people would say "love", and they are partly right. Love is critical to a successful marriage and most people would never get
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    • 299 26  -  CheongYaoming TEN-YEAR SERIES Reader says concepts, rather than rote learning, are key Letter from I REFER to "Can MOE help with 10-year series?" (May 19). First, there seems to be a misunderstanding regarding the General Certificate of Education (GCE) exams, N-, O-, A- level,
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    • 189 26  -  Caitlin Fua Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, StarHub WE REFER to "Not fair to non-fans' (May 18). We would like to clarify that the cost of all sports content, not just football, has been increasing over the years and will continue to rise.
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    • 103 26  -  Kelvin Ng Letter from I REFER to "Liu ponders legal route" (May 20). I am very disturbed by the recent development between Mr Liu Guodong and the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA). Even more so by the behaviour demonstrated by Ms Lee Bee Wah. As the presi-
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    • 122 26  -  Alan Ho Letter from I REFER to "Liu ponders legal route" (May 20), which shows that the disagreement between ex-coach Liu Guodong and the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) is far from resolved. I am very puzzled with STTA president Lee Bee Wah's attitude in
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    • 116 26  -  Edward Tan Letter from I HAVE written to the authorities before about the persistent urinating in the lifts at Blk 93, Paya Lebar Way. But to date, nothing has been done to deter the culprits from dirtying the lifts. Whatever happened to the
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    • MUSIC
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        1214 28  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH ill I mj v^ I \-v I v^ ill v I xmj n iti v^ I SINGAPORE, JOSEPH PEREIRA AND AUDIE NG LOCAL MUSIC REVIVED W^ 'MAs/ .;M TfagMr .ajF" BMP' A.. y vAar i- [hesii^erstringi PHOTOS COURTESY UNIVERSAL MUSIC SINGAPORE, A new CD box set
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    • CD REVIEWS
      • 222 32  -  MADISON SQUARE LIVE FROM GARDENj ERIC CLAPTON AND STEVE WINWOOD A series of three concerts at the Madison Square Garden in February last year marked Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood's first fulllength concerts together since their days in super group Blind Faith. This double-disc captures the
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      • 105 32 GREEN DAY If you liked Green Day's previous album American Idiot, chances are you'll like this one, too. Not only does it continue with the "concept" album format of Idiot, it also has enough catchy songs that will hook your interest. True, there are shades of every
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      • 99 32 |THE BIRD ANDTHE BEE If music were part of the Periodic table of elements, The Bird and the Bee would be listed as the element lighter than oxygen, along with helium and hydrogen. Made up of Inara George (the bird) and Greg Kurstin (the bee),
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      • 98 32 MELODY GARDOT With her smoky voice and haunting tunes, Melody Gardot's sophomore album My One and Only Thrill shows a maturity beyond her years (she's only 23). Although many of tracks bear the underlying jazzy-blues roots she planted in her debut release, Worrisome Heart, this
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      • 98 32 LAURA IZIBOR I was expecting this album to put me to sleep. But surprise the album's beguiling beats and captivating choruses lift this above and beyond your usual R&B offering. Think Macy Gray but happier, Alicia Keys but spunkier, or Beyonce but ballsier. Opening track
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    • 198 32 DAY ATTHE MUSEUMS (FOR FREE) Excitement, adventure and thrills. These words don't usually come up when describing a museum. But International Museum Day (IMD) might change your mind. In conjunction with IMD'og, museums across the country will be offering special events and promotions from Saturday to May
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    • 498 34  -  MAYO MARTIN TODAY EXCLUSIVE Head of Cannes Directors' Fortnight on getting drunk with S #pore #s Eric Khoo IN CANNES mayo@mediacorp.com. sg WITH seven films at the Cannes Film Festival, South-east Asia is making its presence felt on the world cinema stage. Five are in the Official
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    • 230 34 THE GUARDIAN CAN it really be true that there are gasp! fewer parties in Cannes this year? The word was that this year's ocean of champagne had dried to a shallow pond, and that the canape mountain had dwindled to a hillock. Some traditional soirees do
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    • 385 35  -  MAY SEAH PHOTO EXHIBITION may@mediacorp.com. sg SOMETIMES, life up close takes the form of an intricately decorated mask. For photographer Foong Lian Fey, it was a visit to the Venice Carnival, an annual celebration of masks and pageantry, which inspired her to pause, zoom in, and reflect on
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      • 75 47 Adventurous drivers can now appreciate Australia's sweeping landscape with help from Wego.com a travel search engine based in Singapore which features 14 Great Australian Roadtrips.You can find suggested itineraries for each Roadtrip and a range of airfares, accommodation and restaurants along the way. Users can
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      • 71 47 Avid golfers can now indulge in their favourite sport in Vietnam with special hotel packages. From US$Bl ($119) to US$l5O per night, stay at Novotel Dalat Hotel, Sofitel Dalat Palace or Novotel Ocean Dunes and Golf Resort, inclusive of 18 holes of golf with caddie at
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    • 372 48 AP A scientists' group has put together a guide to green travel to help you determine which modes of transportation have the smallest carbon footprint, and the group, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), says some of the greenest choices can also save money UCS
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    • 885 48 AFRICA ATRIP to Africa is a holiday of a lifetime for most travellers, but for marketing executive Rina Yazid, 29, and her husband, it was to learn about the Great Apes. The trip saw them volunteering their time at sanctuaries for gorillas and chimpanzees in Rwanda and
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    • 75 49 AFP The sculpture The Braves at Omaha Beach, France, erected in memory of Allied soldiers killed on D-Day. Traces of World War II can still be found across this stretch of Normandy, on the beaches, in the museums and above all, in the cemeteries where President Obama,
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    • 745 52  -  LEONARDTHOMAS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg The team's success on Everest makes them a special breed IT IS known as the Death Zone, where frostbite can be so severe it makes the legs and feet curl up so you cannot walk. Death beckons because no one,
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    • 354 52 BLOOMBERG MANCHESTER Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand may not be available to play in the Champions League Final on May 27 against Spanish champions Barcelona, manager Alex Ferguson said yesterday. The England star has missed several games recently with groin, back
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    • 482 53  -  TANYO-HINN YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES lOC confident countries will send their top athletes for t^ Ypyrti 9!.Y.™P.!.CS. yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg THE modern Olympic Games has a history spanning 113 years and is considered the pinnacle of sporting achievement. There have been concerns that the inaugural Youth Olympic
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    • 524 53  -  SHAMIR OSMAN GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Woodlands Wellington v DPMM FC Woodlands Stadium, j.^spm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg WATCHING mild-mannered Sairol Sahari ambling down the steps of Queenstown Stadium yesterday, one would not guess that he's known as a hard man. Chatting with the DPMM FC midfielder before
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    • 571 54 AGENCIES I ENGLISH FOOTBALL Manager gives assurance he's staying at Arsenal as fans plan show of support LONDON Arsene Wenger met the Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis on Tuesday to plan for the close-season and the next campaign, and emerged from the three-hour meeting to give
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    • 186 54 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Britain's Foreign Office yesterday warned Manchester United fans to stay away from a string of known trouble spots when they travel to Rome for next week's Champions League Final against Barcelona, and told those without tickets not to make
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    • 489 55 AGENCIES NBA PLAYOFFS Ail-Star Bryant steps up in fourth quarter to lift sluggish Lakers WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS, GAME l LA Lakers 105 Denver Nuggets 103 line in the fourth quarter. Bryant's brilliance is something team-mate Lamar Odom never gets tired of seeing. "It's crazy, but you
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    • 100 54 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am NHL Playoffs, Ch 117 5.45pm Cricket England vWest Indies, Ch 110 6pm Tennis Austrian Open, Ch 21 6pm Tennis WTA Tour: Warsaw Chii3 6.30pm IPL Delhi v Mumbai, Chin gpm Cycling Giro d'ltalia, Ch 113 10.15pm Golf BMWC'ship, Ch 26 10.30pm IPL Bangalore v Deccan,
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    • 541 56  -  TAN HUILENG PROPERTY INVESTMENTS S poreans are putting their money in overseas property huileng@mediacorp.com.sg PROPERTY buyers are not just snapping up properties in Singapore but are also looking overseas, in yet another sign that property investments are still in vogue. Last weekend, marketing agents Top Leaders Realty
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    • 511 58  -  IRENE CHAN NUSAJAYA DEVELOPMENT Downturn hits region but developer says universities, other projects are on track irenec@mediacorp.com.sg MALAYSIA'S Iskandar Development Region is likely to see new projects being launched later this year, including a logistics terminal, a biotech centre and probably four new universities. UEM
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    • 179 58 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SEMBCORP Marine says the lawsuit filed by Petroßig 1 in a New York bankruptcy court to stop the sale of a rig has been adjourned till tomorrow as Petroßig and its associated third parties have offered to pay Sembcorp
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    • 552 60 YORKTIMES,THE DAILYTELEGRAPH SHELLAGM LONDON Shareholder anger over lofty executive bonuses at a time of dwindling earnings reached a fever pitch when blue chip energy and petrochemical giant Shell suffered a humiliating investor rebellion at its annual general meeting yesterday. Just under 60 per cent of Shell
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    • 408 60  -  NILSPRATLEY THE GUARDIAN THE behaviour of Shell's remuneration committee was outrageous. The rules said bonuses for executives would be due if Shell came third or better in a league of five oil majors ranked by total shareholder return. But Shell finished fourth, prompting the non-executives
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    • 323 61 AP US RECOVERY WASHINGTON United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says a new public-pri-vate partnership to help banks shed their bad assets will begin operating in the next six weeks. The programme would combine up to US$lOO billion ($146 billion) in government funds with private investments
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      • 106 61 DOWJONES Offshore oil and gas service provider Ezra Holdings is seeking up to $79.3 million from a share sale, a source familiar with the deal said yesterday. The Singapore-listed company plans to sell 65 million new shares at $1.18 to $1.22 each, a
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      • 85 61  -  KELVIN CHOW Singapore-based broadband entertainment provider M2B World Asia Pacific is planning to tap China's online advertising market, as part of plans to expand overseas. It has signed a partnership with the Chinese internet search provider, Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology (Baidu). M2B will
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      • 57 62 56 cents HOLD OCBC Investment Research maintains call. Company said in statement that acquisition of scaffolding hire company Modern Access for Asls million ($l7 million) will improve geographic diversification, add new blue chip customers and boost order book. Modern Access' As2o3 million order book will increase AusGroup's total order
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      • 37 62 13.5 cents Buy Goldman Sachs upgrades call from "Neutral", hikes price target to 15 cents from 7 cents. Says tanker market is showing signs of bottoming out and could benefit from China's economic recovery.
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      • 93 62 $4.70 Buy Kim Eng initiates call, sets $5.70 target price. Says although stock has outperformed market year-to-date, there is still further upside due to earnings outperformance and unlocking of value through listing of China assets in Hong Kong or Shanghai. Says palm oil company has good exposure to China
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