Today, 10 August 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Monday August 10, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon THAT 8.22PM MOMENT
    502 1  -  ANSLEYNG POINTOFVIEW ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN they first taught me the Pledge in primary school, no one, if I remember correctly, told me what it was about or why I should say it. I went through 12 years of school reciting it without really giving it much thought. Last
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      in the news
      286 2 4 Indonesian police were scrambling to determine yesterday whether the man killed in a 17-hour operation on Saturday in Central Java was in fact one of Asia's most-wanted terror suspects. 6 The KTM railway track, where two Republic Polytechnic students died on Saturday, is easily accessible and
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      Lock icon WHY SHOULD THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER BE IN HIS 30S?
      1062 2  -  QUAKHIANGWHAI POINTOFVIEW news@mediacorp.com.sg I AM now resigned to the fact that there is very little chance that I will be Singapore's next Prime Minister. Apart from the fact that I'm not currently involved in politics or policy, it has now
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      Lock icon WHAT HAVE WE DONE FOR OUR MERDEKA GENERATION?
      624 3  -  P N BALJI NEWS COMMENT news@mediacorp.com.sg I BELONG to the Lucky Generation. Born soon after World War II into a tumultuous world, by a twist of good faith and fortune, we became the early beneficiaries of Singapore's economic success. Three moves catapulted
      CONTRIBUTION TO THE TODAYTHEN& NOW PHOTO CONTEST.  -  624 words
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      A STORY OF SINGAPORE'S PROGRESS, NOW AND THEN
      308 4  -  ANSLEYNG Crowds gathered around the photographs even before Today's My Life: Then Now photo exhibition (picture) officially began. Stepping over the rope cordons, families, many with grandparents in tow, as well as couples with young children, peered at the sepia-tinged pictures of
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      Lock icon Was it really Noordin Top?
      509 4 AGENCIES SLAINTERRORIST JAKARTA Indonesian police were scrambling to determine yesterday whether the man killed in a 17-hour operation on Saturday in Central Java was in fact one of Asia's most-wanted terror suspects. Doubts were raised that a massive manhunt for Noordin Mohammed Top had come
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      2nd death at IR construction site
      114 4 THERE has been a second death of a construction worker in the space of two weeks at the Resorts World at Sentosa worksite, the Police confirmed yesterday. On Saturday, a 300kg metal pipe fell on the head of a 33-year-old foreign worker. Mr Annamalai
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      Lock icon NO ORDINARY PILLAR
      84 6 WEETECKHIAN South-east Asia's only all-granite Musical Pillar was unveiled at the Sri SenpagaVinayagar Temple in Ceylon Road yesterday. The 15-ft tall pillar was carved from a single piece of special grade granite in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It comprises of an inner column encircled
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      Lock icon A scenic death trap
      438 6  -  LINYANQIN KTM RAILWAY TRACK yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN she hears a horn sounding in her neighbourhood, Ms Jenny Phua knows it means the driver of a train on the KTM railway track running near Upper Bukit Timah Road has spotted someone on the track. "They sound it when
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      DEFINITELY REFRESHING
      522 9  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com. sg A FAN club on Facebook called NDPeeps; Behind-the-scenes videos on YouTube; and even a Twitter account to send updates on the National Day Parade (NDP) celebrations. The organisers also got home-grown rock band Electrico to sing the National Day song, while putting up
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      2009 reasons why tourism outlook remains positive: Iswaran
      251 10 THE Philippines, Malaysia, Germany and Vietnam these are reasons why, despite the severe blows to global tourism, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is confident of hitting its tourism forecast this year. And besides the "signs of recovery" evinced by recent growth in
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      Lock icon Unity key to surviving crisis: PM
      511 10  -  LINYANQIN NATIONAL DAY OBSERVANCE CEREMONY PM warns of another wave of retrenchments, calls on S #poreans to vstay on guard' yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THANKS to the Internet, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong got to celebrate National Day not only with his constituents in Singapore, but with
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    • S'PORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
        103 10 CHANNELNEWSASIA This year's first National Day baby was born at Thomson Medical Centre at just one minute past midnight. Arriving over two weeks early, the 2.9 kg bundle of joy (picture) was a pleasant surprise for mother Cheng Meow Eng, 33, and father Gan Chia Leng, 30. Said
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        Lock icon A NATIONAL DAY QUEUE
        52 10 DONWONG Shell stations nationwide, including this one along Lornie Road (below), saw long queues as cars make a beeline to enjoy a National Day special discount of 44 cents for every litre of fuel. The promotion was announced on the radio, and SMSes were also sent
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        PSI READING STAYS ABOVE 55
        60 10 The 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) at 4pm yesterday stood at 55 the sixth consecutive day that it hovered above the 50-mark. According to the National Environment Agency website, a PSI reading of between 1 to 50 means the air quality is "good" while a
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        NINTH H1N1 DEATH
        83 10 A 27-year-old Indian female with no known underlying medical conditions died yesterday morning, becoming the ninth HINI fatality. According to the Ministry of Health, the patient went to Changi General Hospital's Emergency Department on July 23, after suffering a fever, a cough and lethargy for four days.
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Security ramped up for President
      306 11 AGENCIES TERROR IN INDONESIA JAKARTA The Indonesian military (TNI) said yesterday it had tightened security for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after police killed terror suspects believed to have been plotting a suicide bombing at the leader's private residence. The two suspects shot dead by anti-terror
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      More eye international schools
      268 11 KUALA LUMPUR Ever since the recent decision to reverse the national policy of teaching Science and Mathematics in English, international schools have fielded more inquiries than usual from Malaysian parents thinking of sending their children to these institutions. Some schools said many Malaysian parents were considering
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        'PAKATAN WILL BE HISTORY IN A YEAR'
        77 11 MALAYSIA The opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition will be history soon, Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister MuhyiddinYassin said yesterday. He said the polemics and squabbles among its component members showed the alliance would not last long, Bernama news agency reported. "By my estimate, it
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        Lock icon STRONG EARTHQUAKE SHAKES TOKYO
        78 11 AP JAPAN A strong earthquake shook Japan's capital and surrounding areas yesterday but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. There was no threat of a tsunami from the quake, which was centred at a depth of 303km in the Izu islands off the
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      Lock icon 1 million evacuated in China
      499 14 AFP TYPHOON MORAKOT BEIJING China rushed nearly 1 million people out of harm's away as Typhoon Morakot slammed into its coast yesterday after triggering Taiwan's worst flooding in 50 years. A four-year-old child died yesterday after his family's house collapsed as Morakot approached the Chinese
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon PRO-LTTE PARTY WINS SEAT
        81 14 AFP A partythat backs the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels won a council in elections near Sri Lanka's former war zone, in a sign that separatists still attract popular support. TheTamil National Alliance, a front for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), took five seats on
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        Lock icon QUARANTINE REMOVED
        91 14 AP A blockade around a remote north-west Chinese town where deadly pneumonic plague killed three people and left nine ill was lifted after no new infections emerged. The blockade of Ziketan in an ethnically Tibetan area in Qinghai province ended Saturday night after 10 days, said a government
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      Lock icon Healthy Britons lying to get Tamiflu
      284 14 THE GUARDIAN LONDON People are making use of a helpline to fraudulently get Tamiflu in case they fall ill, Britain's leading general practitioner, Professor Steve Field, has warned. The practice could lead to the creation of private stockpiles and shortages of the drug. Doctors
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        Lock icon TALIBAN COMMANDERS BATTLE FOR TOP JOB
        91 16 AGENCIES Pakistan's Taliban appeared in turmoil yesterday after reports of a deadly shootout between contenders to replace the movement's leader, who is believed to have been killed in a Unitec States drone attack. Intelligence officials said that Baitullah Mehsud who was implicated in the
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        Lock icon PROTESTORS WERE TORTURED: IRAN OFFICIAL
        121 16 THE NEWYORKTIMES A top judiciary official has acknowledged that some detainees arrested after recent post-election protests had been tortured in Iranian prisons, the first such comments by a senior Iranian official, weeks after reports that detainees had been tortured. "Maybe there were cases of torture
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        Lock icon IRAN CONFIRMS ARREST OF THREE US HIKERS
        67 16 AFP Iran has officially confirmed that they have arrested three Americans who hiked into its territory from Iraq, White House national security adviser Jim Jones said yesterday on NBC television. The three Shane Bauer, Sara Shourd and Joshua Fattal were widely reported to
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      Lock icon SOTOMAYOR TAKES OATH
      85 16 AFP Ms Sonia Sotomayor made history on Saturday as she took the oath of office to become the first Hispanic United States Supreme Court justice. For the first time, the public swearing-in ceremony was broadcast live on television. In what is seen as a symbolic sign of
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      Lock icon Collision over the Hudson
      402 16 AGENCIES AIRCRAFT MISHAP NEW YORK Nine people are feared dead after a helicopter carrying Italian tourists crashed mid-air with a light airplane over the Hudson River on Saturday (picture). Recovery teams resumed their search for bodies yesterday morning after operations had been suspended for the night.
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      Lock icon WHAT'S NEXT FOR BILL?
      519 16 AFP NEWS ANALYSIS A FAMILIAR question is back on the lips of Washington's movers and shakers what's next for Bill Clinton?" His rescue of two jailed United States journalists in North Korea, and three-hour head-to-head with the reclusive Kim Jong 11, thrust the former President back
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      220 15 M1 BOX QFFICE €'l I I Redeem your preview tickets to watch I I I THE PROPOSAL. I I Look out for more details in TODAY newspaper on 11 August 2009. I 1 SANDRA BULLOCK RYAN REYNOLDS I k PROPOSAL I II IV HERE COMES THE 8R18E... R, V b.
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  • voices
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      402 18  - Here are two more AmarjitS Wasan CHALLENGES FACING SINGAPORE Letter from RECENTLY, Senior Minister Goh ChokTong clearly elucidated his prognosis of the 10 challenges facing Singapore, which I am confident our efficient public servants will convert to effective action plans. I would like to suggest that there are two more
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    • Letter
      Not feasible to have a pro-rated passport fee
      101 18  -  Chia Hui Keng Letter from Head, Public and Internal Communications Branch, Corporate Communications Division, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority I REFER to "Why no pro-rated passport fees, ICA?" (Aug 1-2) from Tee Kia Hong. As with most other public services, the passport fee
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    • Article
      SHORT TAKE
      70 18 A WASTE OF RESOURCES? Letter from Murali Sharam Three lights have been installed along a lane off Joo Chiat Place that links it to Joo Chiat Avenue. Lights nearby already illuminate half the lane at each end adequately. Cost aside, it is now a month since the new
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      Ratis replacement had to be customised
      181 18  -  Bernadette Low Letter from Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications, SMRT Corporation WE THANK Mr David Kwok for his feedback regarding the Rail Travel Information System (Ratis) (July 29). There are two Ratis screens on each platform of Queenstown MRT Station that provide commuters with
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      Boarding buses: It's safer to keep baby in stroller
      248 19  -  Ong Chin Gek Letter from I AM greatly disappointed that I am not able to carry my baby stroller into a bus with my child safely buckled inside it. On many occasions, I have been forced to remove my baby from
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      See a doctor early, don't self-medicate
      212 19  -  DrKVijaya HINI Letter from Director, Corporate Marketing and Communications Division, Health Promotion Board WE REFER to "It's no miracle drug" (Aug 3) from Mr Richard Seah. The Frequently Asked Questions on Influenza A(HINI-2OO9) booklet published by the Health Promotion Board (HPB), aims to provide
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      160 19  -  DR BILL MAIER BY HOMEWORK HINTS It's a wonder kids ever get their homework done with all the distractions life throws at them. They've got sports, choir, drama class and dozens of other activities they could sign up for. A lot of them have chores to
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      20 19 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices R' hMFMHIIIIH I 11 VwJppmim!wpMi! JV\~iyl-Ai.i^Ol^iP J NihOlt we set you thinking
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        Enter at your own risk
        852 20  -  MAY SEAH REALITY TV Abandon hope, all ye who go into the Dragons' Den especially if you're trying to sell anti-wrinkle hats in london may@mediacorp.com.sg YOU have spent much of your life developing a brilliant invention, but lack the capital and business know-how to make
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      Count on them, Singapore
      342 21  -  MAYSEAH SINGAPORE IDOL Kooks and young 'uns make Idol entertainment may@mediacorp.com.sg IF YOU had watched the telly yesterday evening, you'd know that after the patriotic tour-de-force that was the National Day Parade came another showcase of our country's resources. Singapore Idol proved that Singapore not only
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      Lock icon Hollywood bound
      212 21 AFP TAIWANESE pop singer Jay Chou (picture) will star alongside Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz in the movie remake of the 1960s television series The Green Hornet. Chou, 30, has been cast as the superhero's sidekick Kato, a role played by the late martial arts icon Bruce Lee
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      PLUS IN ADDITION
      100 21 LOSTAND FOUND Think of Lost Images as the visuals to accompany your grandmother's fondest stories. In a special documentary, MediaCorpTV's okto presents exciting, never-before-seen footage of 1950s Singapore culture and wildlife. Shot by Dr Ivan Polunin, a part-time documentary cinematographerforthe BBC, this Singapore material is the only
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      RACE CAR YA-YAS
      328 22  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH PLUS POINT christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg AS YOU'RE probably aware, organisers for this year's Singapore GP has promised entertainment to match the excitement of the race itself. And with the announcement of Fl Rocks last week, you're talking about a whole lot of decibels going on. (And, by the
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      GET ACTS THAT ...
      218 22 GET ACTS THAT CAN PLEASE A BROAD AGE DEMOGRAPHIC RISV Any act falling under the IkL^l categories "classical", "opera", "quietjazz" (aka Diana 4 Krall), "art rock", "tortured singer-songwriter" and "world music" except hot sexy Latin American acts and percussion groups. PJ3JS The Rolling Stones, U2, Madonna the only people over
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      23 22 Y What do the I cool kids think of Fi Rocks? Read one 18-year-old's point of view exclusively at www. todayonline. com/plus a
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      812 23 TV LISTINGS ON MEpJACORP ....™.™.__™....g.... MEGA MONDAY MOVIE: FLYBOYS OKTORIGINAL Channel 5 6.30pm 6.30AM Holiday Movie: (Encore) n-45 Making Of G.I. Joe: The Rise Lost lITIBQ6S Raising Helen 4.45 Just for Laughs Gags VIM Of Cobra 9.00 Holiday Movie: 5.00 Entertainment Tonight MN Holiday Movie: okt0' 9-3°Pm Doctor Dolittle 111
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  • sports
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      Lock icon Chelsea draw first blood
      597 24 AFP COMMUNITY SHIELD Ancelotti makes winning start as Blues manager LONDON Chelsea and Manchester United launched the English season in explosive fashion as the Blues' 4-1 penalty shoot-out win in yesterday's Community Shield was marred by an ugly clash between Michael Ballack and Patrice Evra. With
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      Lock icon Australia rout England
      250 24 AGENCIES LEEDS (England) Australia thrashed England by an innings and 80 runs in the fourth cricket Test here, to level the series at 1-1 in the five-match Ashes series. England, who resumed yesterday in the dire position of 82 for five in their second innings, still 261
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      Lock icon Arsenals boy-saviour
      587 25 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Young Wilshere offers hope in a season of despair for Wenger LONDON Just five years after being hailed as English football's invincibles, Arsenal are in danger of being reduced to bit-part players in the Premier League. The sight of Patrick Vieira proudly holding the Premier
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      Lock icon Espanyol skipper Jarque dies
      289 25 AGENCIES MADRID The skipper of Spanish top flight side Espanyol, Dani Jarque, has died from a heart failure while on a pre-season training camp in Italy. The 26-year-old died at the hotel where the team were staying in the town of Coviciana. He was discovered in
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      Lock icon Sister act
      510 26  -  LOWLINFHOONG 12TH THAILAND SPORTS SCHOOL GAMES Shanti #s following in the footsteps of sibling Valerie only faster in nakhon si thammarat linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg CALL it genetics, or plain coincidence, but there's no doubting the sprinting prowess of the Pereira girls Valerie and Shanti who are making it a habit
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      Lock icon HAPPY 44TH BIRTHDAY, SINGAPORE!
      71 26 SINGAPORE SPORTS SCHOOL They may be more than 1,400km away from home, but the Singapore Sports School's 150-member contingent celebrated the Republic's 44th birthday with a party in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, on Sunday. Student-athletes from five sports athletics, table tennis, swimming, football and netball —took
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      Relay teams still shy of Games marks
      314 26  -  lAN DECOTTA IT WAS their last chance to impress the selectors and earn their tickets to the December SEA Games in Laos, but it was not to be as the Singapore men and women's relay squads failed to meet the marks at the
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      584 27  -  TANYO-HINN SPORTS SCIENCE Loughborough University scientists team up with Singapore Sports Council to give elite athletes the edge yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg ATHLETES today are spoilt for choice when it comes to energy drinks, with a slew of products like 100 Plus, H2O, Pocari Sweat and Gatorade readily available off
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      399 27 AFP WASHINGTON Reigning world 100- and 200 metres champion Tyson Gay leads a star-studded American squad into the world championships with hope of redemption after struggling at the Beijing Olympics. Gay's anticipated showdown with Olympic star Usain Bolt, who set world records to win
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      46 24 SPORTS ON TV TODAY Bam NFL Hall of Fame Game, Ch 117 5.55pm Cricket England v Australia, Ch 110 11pm Tennis 1000 Rogers Masters, Ch 22 TOMORROW 7am Tennis 1000 Rogers Masters, Ch 22 SPORTS ON RADIO 6.35am-ii.3spm SportsZone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on g3BLive
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      676 28  -  JOHN BITTLESTON TAKING CHARGE succeed® mediacorp.com. sg PERFECTLY adequate societies exist without religion. People lead lives of unblemished goodness and value without believing, although a strong faith helps those of us who find the world complex and sometimes purposeless. But religion can be one
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      307 28  -  JIM COLLINS HOWTHE MIGHTY FALL Given how the recent financial upheaval brought several corporate giants to their knees, the title How the Mighty fall might come across as slightly gloating. But as author Jim Collins takes care to highlight, the book is "not about gloating over the demise
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      370 32 AFP EVEN as the United States economy seems to be emerging from recession, the Federal Reserve is likely to signal it will maintain extraordinary efforts to spur growth until a recovery takes root, analysts say. The Federal Open Market Committee meeting tomorrow and on
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      186 30 BLOOMBERG CHINA will maintain its macroeconomic policy stance aimed at bolstering domestic spending, as the nation continues to hurt from the global recession, said Premier Wen Jiabao. In a statement posted on the central government's website yesterday, he said the effect of some of China's stimulus
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      178 31  -  ANSLEYNG WATCH breaking news while indulging in retail therapy on Orchard Road. Orchard Central, the new kid on the shopping belt, yesterday launched three giant television screens, dubbed "OC TV", with MediaCorp developing and managing the content. Tips on shopping, dining, fashion and IT will
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        66 32 $3.39 I Neutral Credit Suisse hikes target price to $3.50 from $2.20 to reflect recently revised target for affiliate SembMarine but keeps rating. While it raises FYO9 earnings forecast by 6 per cent to reflect strength in marine business, it cuts FYIO, 11 earnings estimates by 4 and
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        18 32 Thursday 2,601.50 T 0.20% Wednesday 2,606.83 1.58% Tuesday 2,648.76 T 1.23% Friday 2,681.64 A 0.84%
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        26 32 iang Seng 20,375.37 2-5°% Jikkei 10,412.09 A 0.23% ihanghai 3,260.69 T 2.85% ieoul 1,576.00 A 0.70% /lumbai 15,160.24 T 2.28% Malaysia 1,184.88 A 0.08%
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        23 32 US$1 £1 i euro A$i RMi $1,440 ¥100 $1,476 $2,403 HK$ioo $18.58 $2,046 RMB100 $21.07 $1,208 RS100 $3,010 $0,411 RPio,ooo $1,454
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      120 32 DOW JONES OCBC, the third largest Singapore bank, is looking for local investors to take up a 30-per-cent stake in its Malaysian insurance arm Great Eastern Life Assurance, The Edge reported yesterday quoting unnamed sources. The weekly newspaper said the parties identified include Malaysia's
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