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    20 1 TODAY Friday July 3, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAYbDAtf Friday July 3, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    87 1 ■"1 Reach out to inmates' L\J families earlier so that both the offender and their loved ones can cope better, saysTeoXuanwei. M Cancer-stricken Corazon Aquino has refused to accept further medical treatment. Q The ill-fated Air France lO jet did not breakup in midair but plunged straight
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    Lock icon 1,2,3,4 ... shows of power
    606 1 1,2,3,4 shows of power AGENCIES NORTH KOREA MISSILETESTS Pyongyang launches four short-range missiles in a day SEOUL North Korea test-fired four shortrange missiles in the space of a day yesterday a move that aggravates already-high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and United Nations (UN) sanctions imposed as punishment. The
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      Singa takes to the streets with a message
      210 2 NEW CASES: 95 TOTAL: 878 Who's the masked mammal about town? Singa 20 of him, to be precise is making his appearance at as many spots from Clarke Quay to Scotts Road to Vivo City, with a HINI message for everyone: If
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      Lock icon Final debate, with a difference
      528 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, AGENCIES INDONESIAN ELECTIONS JAKARTA Following heavy criticisms of the first two debates, the third and final verbal sparring among the three presidential candidates last night was billed as a debate "with a difference". The Election Commission had decided to change the format to
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      Lock icon BAN'S FIRST VISIT HERE AS UN SEC-GEN
      104 3 WEETECKHIAN United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Xi Moon, on his first working visit to Singapore since taking office in 2007, called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday before being hosted to dinner by Senior Minister Goh ChokTong at the Istana. In a discussion
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      Tweaks after feedback
      404 4  -  TEOXUANWEI PRIVATE EDUCATION BILL xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg WITH scores of private schools jumping on the bandwagon to offer training to companies tapping Government funding schemes, some wonder how the proposed Private Education Bill would affect them. Would they need official permission for courses approved by external course developers or
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      Pricing drop at Sun Festival
      183 6  -  MAYO MARTIN THE gloomy economic crunch may have cast a shade on the Singapore Sun Festival, but there seems to be no drop in the quality line-up, which is getting bigger. According to Mindy Coppin, executive producer of the annual festival, the organisers are working
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      Lock icon Back in action
      518 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN MPSENG HANTHONG chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE office at the void deck of block 644, Ang Mo Kio Aye 4 was hushed with anticipation. At Bpm, nearly six months after being set ablaze at a community event, Yio Chu Kang Member of Parliament (MP) Seng Han Thong arrived for
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      Lock icon REACH OUT TO THEIR FAMILIES EARLY
      770 8  -  TEOXUANWEI NEWS COMMENT Inmates will cope better if they and their loved ones are engaged sooner xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg ASK any ex-convict and he will tell you: The darkest days aren't behind you when you step out from the prison gates; there are many other
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      Lock icon Strategise to tap Newater in emergency
      230 10 MORE than 65,000 tests on, Newater's consistent high quality has won the thumbs up from an external audit panel. Going forward, the PUB should develop a "management strategy" to tap Newater especially "in times of emergency or prolonged dry weather", the panel suggested. Indeed,
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      Still a copyright infringement
      389 10 RECORDTVTRIAL MediaCorp exec says taxpayers' burden not the issue A MEDIACORP senior executive acknowledged yesterday that the state broadcaster has "a community role to play" when it produces "public service programmes". Testifying on day four of a hearing involving online recordings of MediaCorp's free-to-air television programmes
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      The soundtrack of Singapore
      376 12  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH NDP 2009 Expect theatre and spectacle at this year's parade christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT do rock band Electrico, theatre luminary Ivan Heng and the Singapore pledge have in common? Well, they're all key elements in this year's National Day Parade (NDP). "We always want the NDP to
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      Lock icon Aquino refuses further treatment
      450 14 AGENCIES CANCER BATTLE Prayers pour in for former President of the Philippines MANILA Former President Corazon Aquino, the reluctant housewife who became the Philippines' democracy icon, has refused further chemotherapy or any other medical treatment in her battle against colon cancer, her spokeswoman said. Mrs Aquino,
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      Lock icon Ex-generals crowd Indonesian top job
      228 14 AFP JAKARTA Former generals vying for power in next week's presidential elections are living proof, analysts say, that the ghost of general Suharto is still stalking Indonesian democracy. Each of the three presidential tickets features a former general who earned his stripes under Mr Suharto,
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      Lock icon Gay sex now legal in New Delhi
      181 16 AGENCIES NEW DELHI New Delhi's highest court issued a landmark ruling yesterday that decriminalised gay sex between consenting adults in India by declaring a colonial-era ban on homosexuality unconstitutional. The decision by the Delhi High Court was hailed by gay activists here as
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      Lock icon Strike of the Sword underway
      488 16 AGENCIES AFP. AGENCIES BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN US Marines storm south in major Afghan offensive NAWA (Afghanistan) Thousands of United States Marines poured from helicopters and armoured vehicles into Talibancontrolled villages in southern Afghanistan yesterday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to
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      Lock icon Plane didn't break up in mid-air: Probe
      263 18 AGENCIES AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 447 Recovery operation set to end in a week's time PARIS The Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean a month ago with 228 people on board did not break up in midair but plunged vertically into
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      Lock icon Kedah DAP pullout 'not yet final'
      297 18 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Democratic Action Party (DAP) Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng said the Kedah DAP's decision to pull out of the state government was due to a "breakdown of trust" between opposition parties in Kedah. "Kedah DAP has never sought any titles or Datukships
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      Lock icon China wants diversified global monetary system
      193 20 AFP BEIJING China said yesterday it wanted a broader global monetary system days before President Hu Jintao was to leave for the G8 summit, during which the issue of a new reserve currency could be raised. "We hope that in the future, the international
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      Lock icon A rush to study English
      377 20 AFP JAPAN EDUCATION TOKYO At US$2B,OOO ($40,600) a year, a popular English-language cram school course in Japan does not come cheap, but its students hope the rewards will more than make up for the hefty tuition fee. The class is called "Route H" short for
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      Lock icon Another demand for new polls
      382 22 AFP IRAN POLITICS Defeated candidate also pledges to set up rights group TEHRAN Iranian presidential election runner-up Mir Hossein Mousavi on Wednesday renewed a demand fora complete re-run of the vote. He also pledged to help set up a new group to defend citizen's rights.
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        Lock icon ISRAEL REJECTS SETTLEMENT FREEZE
        85 22 AFP Israel will not impose a complete halt on settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land as demanded by the United States, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said yesterday. "Israel will not freeze natural growth and will not suffocate the life of 300,000 Israelis who live in
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        Lock icon AUSTRALIA UNCOVERS CREDIT CARD SCAM
        97 22 AP I ne Australian autnonties nave uncovered a Asb-miiiion (s6.g-million) international credit card scam that used stolen personal information from people as far away as Britain and Malaysia, officials said yesterday. Seven people were arrested on Wednesday in searches carried out in Sydney and Melbourne,
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        Lock icon SOMALIA, IRAQ DANGEROUS FOR MINORITIES
        81 22 AFP Somalia remains the world's most dangerous country for minority groups, followed by Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, a leading human-rights group said yesterday. The five countries are where minority groups or peoples are most at risk of mass killing or other systematic violent repression.
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      Lock icon California's $4.8-billion IOU
      267 24 AGENCIES CASH CRUNCH State offices shut 3 days a month to save money SAN FRANCISCO California's controller was to start paying many of the state's bills with lOUs yesterday after lawmakers failed to close its worsening budget deficit, adding a new measure of indignity to a state
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      Lock icon MJ's will unveiled
      530 24 AP AGENCIES LOS ANGELES A plan to bury Michael Jackson at his Neverland ranch fizzled out on Wednesday as a new will was unveiled, stating that his mother should raise his children, or failing that, entertainer Diana Ross. Ms Debbie Rowe, Mr Jackson's wife of three years
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      363 28  -  Joyce Fong SGXON PROFIT FORECASTS Letter from General Counsel ana company secretary Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) WE REFER to the column "Practise what you preach, SGX" (June 15) by Conrad Raj. It is useful to note that SGX has made a considered decision not to make
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      Pardon me, why wasn't it free?
      147 28  -  Paulene Liv Letter from I HAD a bus ticket which stated that its holder was entitled to a complimentary bus ride, as long as it was used before its expiry date. When I boarded the bus and showed it to the bus captain, who
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      173 30  -  DR BILL MAIER I BY PARENTAL TRUST All teenagers want to be trusted by their parents. But trust is something you earn, not demand. A counsellor once asked a group of teenagers: "How many of you consider yourselves to be honest with your parents?" Not one
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      Lock icon THE JOY OF BEING BI
      765 30  -  TabithaWang BUDGETTAI-TAI Bilingual, that is; it's so hard getting the simplest things done in a foreign land in Hong Kong voices@mediacorp.com.sg AS A non-Cantonese-speaking Chinese living in Hong Kong, I get lots of snide remarks from the locals. The occasional "banana" (yellow on the outside,
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      862 32  -  PHINWONG MALADJUSTED plus editor phin@mediacorp.com.sg Ditching the suit is a great way to cool off getting naked is a better way THIS column was going to be about Michael Jackson. Until I read a news report about two New Yorkers seeing the late pop star's face in
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      186 33 BIG LOSS, BIG MONEY Everybody wants to be a loser if it means winning USsioo,ooo ($144,980). And if you've packed on a lifetime of kilogrammes, now's your chance to use that to your advantage. The Hallmark Channel is launching the Asian version of The Biggest Loser, the
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      465 33  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH LOCAL MUSIC 101 j J''[. j]J:'i'BSil christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS the worst possible thing to happen to any band. Singapore pop band the Neu Faces were in the middle of their year-long tour of European clubs in 1984 when —just before taking the stage at Ishgl, Austria
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      159 34 ACTOR KARL MALDEN DIES Karl Maiden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterisations on stage, screen and television made him a star despite his plain looks, died on Wednesday, his family said. He was 97. Maiden died of natural causes surrounded by his family at home. Maiden
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      443 34  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH CLASSICALLY SEXY Don't hate them #cos they're beautiful christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg AS A model, looks are everything. But as a musician, good looks can only get you so far. Lucky then that all the members of string quartet Escala are musicians who sound as good as they look.
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        223 36 ■ORGE HARRISON IGHT years since the assing of the Quiet eatle, this collection, ssembled mostly by arrison's widow Olivia, n't quite the definitive she said in an interview, you can't quite please everybody. For instance, there's hardly any representation from albums issued in between Harrison's solo debut, All
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        122 36 THE OBSERVATORY Album No 4 for The Observatory is a great excursion into what making music in Scandinavia in the wintertime sounds like. Perhaps it's because of the sparseness of the songs, or because the music evokes images of an icy tundra. And when Leslie Low's vocals come in
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        84 36 IfHOU HUEI Taiwanese female singer Chou Huei was, along with Stefanie Sun, Elva Hsiao and John Tsai, touted as one of the Four Little Divas back at the turn of the century. But after an absence of two years, Chou is marking her "rebirth" of sorts with this
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        94 36 I VARIOUS Local music production house Funkie Monkies has made a name for itself in the past couple of years, being behind the music to movies 881 and 12 Lotus. i ne aiDum snowcases some of the firm's best work, featuring The AMPs, Wu Jiahui, Jim
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      536 38  -  MAYSEAH MOVIES ONTV July is couch-potato month, with a long line-up of movies on TV may@mediacorp.com.sg WITH rising costs, it's nice to know you can still enjoy one of life's simple pleasures: Curling up in front of the TV with some pizza. It's also nice to
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        399 41  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg HE WILL be the most unpopular athlete at the starting blocks today when the eight runners are introduced for the boys 100 m final at Bishan Stadium. He qualified for the final with the fastest time of 10.89 sec
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        416 41  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg IN A race where hundredths of a second separate winners and losers, Shahrir Mohd Anuar knows he has a record-breaking task ahead of him in today's 100 m final. The 16-year-old Singapore Sports School student carries the hopes
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      418 42  -  LOWLINFHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE'S table tennis team are on course for at least a bronze medal at the Asian Youth Games, after posting a 2-1 upset over fourth seeds Hong Kong in the group stage of the mixed team event
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      498 42  -  LAN DE COTTA IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES 2009 Singles champion partners Darshini to claim doubles gold ian@mediacorp.com. sg TEAMING up for the first time, the gameplan for New Hui Fen and Darshini Krishna was just to keep their minds focused on their own form for the Asian
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      425 43  -  TANYO-HINN IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES 2009 17-year-old took the plunge with doubts over her form, but is now all smiles yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINCE last year's Beijing Olympic Games, where she set the national 800 m freestyle record, Lynette Lim has had little to shout about swimming-wise.
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      307 43 THEY are the biggest rivals on the Asian stage. Over recent years though, China have clearly become the leading nation in sport, with Japan battling it out with South Korea behind it. The inaugural Asian Youth Games here is no different, with the Chinese leading
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      S'POREAN RESULTS
      149 43 ATHLETICS Girls'loomhurdles: 1 May Ueda (Jpn) 14.18s 2 Park Suel Gi (Kor) 14.67s 3 Inez Leong 15.225; Boys'4oom final: 1 Masanori Oishi (Jpn) 48.92s 2 Nitipol Thongpoon (Tha) 49.27s 3 Abkar Abdullah Ahmed (Ksa) 4g.2gs; 6 Jared Lim 50.88s; 400 m hurdlesfinal: 1 Chen Dong (Chn) 53.19s 2
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      115 43 ATHLETICS (Bishan Stadium) Boys'ioom final: Shahrir Anuar; Triple jump final: Syafiq Poh; Girls' Boom: Ranjitha Raja BOWLING: (Orchid Country Club) Boys'and girls' team preliminaries FIBA 3-ON-3 (Anglican High School) Prelims Boys' Group D: Spore v India (9.45 am). Girls' Group C: Spore v Bahrain (1.30pm) SWIMMING (Singapore
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      Lock icon Argentine flair, Japanese style
      659 44  -  AS DWIGHT SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Albirex midfielder Honda takes his cue from former Man United starVeron GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Albirex Niigata vSAFFC Jurong East Stadium, 7.30pm sports@newstoday.com.sg WATCHING Albirex Niigata's Kunihiro Honda on the pitch, it's easy to see why he says Argentinean Juan Sebastian Veron
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      261 44 ASDWIGHT AT THE half-way point of the Great EasternYeo's S-League 2009, defending champions SAFFC are in a position they're most familiar with. After 16 games, the Warriors are top of the standings with 36 points, two more than
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      Lock icon For Real, Ribery now dreams
      378 45 AGENCIES TRANSFERTALK French winger makes clear where he sees his future, and it's not in England LONDON The likelihood of Manchester United or Chelsea signing Franck Ribery this summer has suffered a knock back with the French international winger expressing a desire to join the
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      222 45 AGENCIES LONDON Real Madrid's extraordinary and relentless summer spending spree continued to send reverberations through the football world on Wednesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time), when the club agreed to a £30-million ($71.3-million) deal to sign the France striker Karim Benzema from Lyon.
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      187 42 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am MLB Mariners vYankees, Ch 23 8.45 am Football Gremio v Cruzeiro, Ch 27 gam AYG Table tennis mixed team/doubles, Ch 120 9.30 am AYG Swimming prelims, Ch 118/01 10.45 am AYG Shooting: Air Pistol, Ch 121 12.30pm AYG Table tennis mixed doubles, Ch 120 12.45pm
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      46 43 LEADING NATIONS siNGAPOR^y MEDAL TALLY AsianYo l ,thGames2oo9^^^ GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL China 13 3 2 18 South Korea 4 5 5 14 Japan 3407 Singapore 3058 Thailand 2406 India 2327 North Korea 1236 Taiwan 1225 Hong Kong 1214 Iran 1012 _wPB*P BbbtP^^^^^tßl w^MrwUflfL N0W!!! i
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      512 48  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg GLOBAL positioning system (GPS) technology has so far been limited to helping you locate yourself on a map or figure out the best route to your destination. Last month, two out of 12 local companies made it to the semi-finals of the
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      117 49  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN WWW.GDGT.COM Ryan Block and Peter Rojas, chief alumni from the two biggest gadget blogs Gizmodo and Engadget, have collaborated on a social networking website, GDGT, where gadgetheads can geek out on their gear and socialise. You'll love the ability to show off gadgets you
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      371 49  - You can do Magic HEDIRMANSUPIAN SMARTPHONE REVIEW HTC MAGIC With the best Android-based smartphone to hit the streets hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg THIN is always in, as evidenced by HTCs latest Android-based phone, the Magic. It's lost the Qwerty keyboard from the Dream and now comes in at a sleek 13.65 mm. The
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      285 50 .AGENCIES LUXEMBOURG The European Central Bank (ECB) has kept its key interest rate steady at a record low of one per cent as unemployment soared in the 16-nation eurozone and the threat of deflation loomed. The ECB governing council, which
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      371 50 AGENCIES US ECONOMY Non-farm payrolls down 467,000 WASHINGTON The United States economy has lost an unexpectedly large number of jobs, serving a grim reminder that the path to economic recovery will be bumpy. Non-farm payrolls declined 467,000 last month, the US Labour Department said yesterday,
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      348 51  -  YASMINEYAHYA GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS yasmine@mediacorp.com.sg ANALYSTS are hopeful of a rebound in the global economy next year but the financial crisis may just rear its head again in three years' time according to one economist from HSBC. Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Banking,
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        60 51 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Jurong Shipyard, a subsidiary of Mainboard-listed SembCorp Marine, has won a new order to build a semi-submersible oil rig worth U*****.3 million ($344.6 million). This is the second rig order that the yard has secured from Oban B Limited. The unit is
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        105 51 938 LIVE The Government will introduce three new sites in its industrial land sales programme for the second half of the year. The three new sites, to be made available under the Reserve List, are in Woodlands Avenue 12, Kaki Bukit Avenue 4 and
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        55 51 Oriental Century's chief financial officer has resigned with effect from yesterday. In an announcement to the Singapore Exchange, the education provider said the resignation was by "mutual agreement" as it "is unable to continue to finance the service". Mr Chan KhengYong Hock, 40, will continue
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      178 51 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE global downturn has not dampened Singapore's furniture manufacturers from spreading their wings in international markets. More firms are now participating in overseas trade fairs and for new growth opportunities these firms should also look at Russia and Brazil, IE Singapore,
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        74 52 57 cents Buy DBS Vickers starts call at "Buy" with 76 cents target, based on 10 times FYIO P/E ratio. Forecasts 106-per-cent earnings compound annual growth rate over FYO9-11, driven by demand for lift boats. Notes marine logistics firm will be South-east Asia's biggest owner of lift boats
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        60 52 80.5 cents I Hold Phillip Securities keeps call, raises target to 85 cents from 68 cents to reflect pick up in local property market. Target assumes 50-per-cent discount to net asset value versus previous assumption of 60 per cent. Says Ho Bee sold few properties recently and
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        51 52 $1.69 I Buy AmFraser Securities starts call with $2.11 target, based on discounted cash flow valuation. Says SMRT's earnings still steady despite economic slowdown, with ridership growth supported by rising private vehicle usage costs and improved network connectivity. Forecasts fiscal FYIO-11 rail ridership at 12 and 9 per cent,
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        33 52 Disclaimer: Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. Today cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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        20 52 H Wednesday 2,352.55 Tuesday 2,333.14 Monday 2,317.17 Friday 2,317.95 A 0.83% A 0.69% T 0.03% A 0.67%
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        22 52 Jikkei lhanghai ieoul /lumbai ;LComp 9,876.15 T 0.64% 3,060.25 A 1.73% 1,411.48 T 0.01% 14,658.49 A 0.09% 1,078.71 T 0.06%
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        21 52 aix.^u tiiw »i.^uu :i $2,372 HKS1OO $18.71 euro k$i !Mi $2,042 RMB100 $21.22 $1,162 RS100 $3,019 $0,412 RPio,ooo $1,420
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      460 52  -  CHEOWXIN Yl AND ESTHER FUNG COST CUTTING cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg EMPLOYEES of at least four big companies whose stocks are components of the key Straits Times Index (STI) are probably unscathed by the economic downturn as they had been spared from any cost-cutting measures and could instead be
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      173 52 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE'S manufacturing economy expanded for the second time last month after having contracted over eight consecutive months, according to the latest data from the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management. Its Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) showed a reading of 51.1 last
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