Today, 21 August 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Friday August 21, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday August 21, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      in the news
      214 1 2 IT consultant Andy Jaeger had just polished off his curry rice dinner on Singapore Airlines SQ227 when the pilot's voice came through the intercom he had received a bomb threat. 6 In March, Sophia Pang experienced the joy of being selected to represent Singapore n a
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      Lock icon Two former big guns in hot water
      362 1  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg TWO one-time, high-ranking personnel in their respective organisations a former assistant police superintendent and an ex-chief financial of-iitk-i mill ti luvun V luicu vuinpunv were hauled to court yesterday on separate corruption charges. Ex-ASP Ong Tat Wei (left) and Choo
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      From the clinic to the home
      742 1  -  ALICIA WONG HEALTHCARE The challenge GPs must meet for an ageing population alicia@mediacorp.com.sg AS HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan moves to get the message across that the healthcare sector is not just about acute hospitals, one segment will have to keep in tandem with
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      This is your captain speaking, don't panic
      593 2  -  ANSLEYNG BOMBTHREAT ansley@mediacorp.com.sg IT CONSULTANT Andy Jaeger had just polished off his curry rice dinner on Singapore Airlines 5Q227 when the pilot's voice came through the intercom. In a measured tone, the captain informed the passengers on the Singapore-Melbourne flight that he had
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      Lock icon An ebb in the H1N1 wave?
      276 2 NEOCHAICHIN FOR the first time in six weeks, polyclinic attendances for acute upper respiratory infections have dipped below epidemic levels another sign the Influenza A (H1N1) wave could be subsiding. This is the second consecutive week numbers have fallen from 24,477 in the last
      NEOCHAICHIN  -  276 words
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      Muhyiddin denies selling land to Singapore
      327 3 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has denied an allegation made by the opposition that he had sold a piece of land to Singapore when he was the Johor chief minister. He said he was being slandered so that people would hate
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      New campuses await
      470 4  -  LINYANQIN EDUCATION yanqin@mediacorp.com IN FUTURE, a person hoping to be trained in the hotel industry will not only get the basic service training he needs, but also related skills in areas like hotel human resource management and sports and leisure all on one campus. And this could
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      More workers receive payout
      262 4 SOME 10,000 employees were able to get on the Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) scheme between January 2007 and January this year with the help of the CPF Board. They were among the 57,000 informal workers who got converted to formal employment and who began receiving CPF
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      The race to raise funds
      577 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION Trek for green movement and female empowerment hits snag in financial targets chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg HERS is an experience that could mirror what the Singapore Women's Everest team went through. No, not the victorious conquest of the elements just yet but the stress
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      Lock icon HO CHING NO 5 ON FORBES
      197 6 938LIVE Temasek Holdings CEO, Ms Ho Ching, is ranked fifth in Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the World's Most Powerful Women and the only CEO of an Asia-based company in the top 10 list. She was ranked eighth last year and third in 2007.
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      Barokah appeal dismissed
      414 8  -  ZULOTHMAN IN COURT Maid's mental condition not a mitigating factor to shorten sentence: Judge zul@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS the second time her case was heard before the Court of Appeal. The outcome remains the same. Barokah, 30, the Indonesian maid who killed her elderly employer in 2005, will
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      Undergrad molester found guilty
      286 8  -  ONGDAILIN dailin@mediacorp.com. sg HE HAD claimed trial in May but yesterday, a National University of Singapore undergraduate who had preyed on three teenage boys was found guilty of all the charges against him. Andy Lee Kee Liang, 24, was convicted of molesting the boys, and having
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      Dubious deal
      397 10  -  ONG DAI LIN IN COURT Man jailed for helping with money stolen from Cisco dailin@mediacorp.com.sg IT HAD seemed like a good deal for Tan Chee Wey: Help a friend repay his debts using the $800,000 given to Tan and earn a 10 per cent commission in the process.
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      Mum, our neighbour's naked
      205 10  -  ONGDAILIN IT WAS a sight that a mother and her teenage daughter would rather not see: A mid-dle-aged neighbour wearing his birthday suit in his kitchen. But that was what Madam Kali Selvi and her 14-year-old daughter were exposed to on two different occasions earlier this
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      Lessons for lapses
      183 10  -  NEOCHAICHIN TO ADDRESS contract management and procurement lapses in government agencies, the Finance Ministry is rolling out a new framework to boost competency in these areas, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday in a written reply to Mdm Ho Geok Choo's question in Parliament on Wednesday. A
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      Keep the posts coming
      130 12 THE topic of race and religion accounted for almost half of the 319 responses to the National Day Rally received by Government feedback unit Reach, using platforms such as Facebook, email and SMS. Another 116 have taken part in a quick poll on the Reach home
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      Lock icon Lush hits at Orchard
      317 12  -  ESTHER NG RADIO GOESTOTOWN estherng@mediacorp.com.sg FANS of chill-out music, you can catch your favourite Lush DJs in action while you shop at Orchard Central the radio station's new home. DJs Hossan Leong, Kate Reyes, Angel Teo and Lavinia Tan will be playing the hits on the
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      Lock icon RWS jobs on offer at mass recruitment exercise
      245 12 ESTHERNG AFTER months of selectively building up its workforce, Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) is launching this weekend its first mass, walk-in recruitment exercise. In addition to gaming positions, there are 33 rank-and-file job types to choose from including limousine and tram drivers,
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      107 3 Positive Thinking for a Healthy Mind fwr r Ik I My boss rejected my proposal. A A I think I'm a loser. I m ft^ y nf M fNo way! I think I you're great and I so does your family. You're the smartest ft I I guy we know.
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      211 13 IV^ I 1 II I I t^ M m I Your Peace of Mind I|ll^^ As a mom, you leave nothing to chance when it comes to your little one's protection. You wish you could be there for him every time, but because you can't, you need to make sure
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      Lock icon Low voter turnout
      494 14 AGENCIES AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION KABUL Election workers in Afghanistan yesterday began counting the millions of ballots cast in the country's second direct presidential election, amid fears of poor turnout due to a string of militant attacks. The election commission says that partial results could emerge as early
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      Lock icon Pressure on BN candidate to withdraw
      312 15 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PERMATANG PASIR BY-ELECTION PERMATANG PASIR Pressure is building for the controversial Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Rohaizat Othman (picture) to withdraw his name from the Permatang Pasir state seat by-election on Aug 25. Mr Rohaizat, 38, was disbarred last year after he
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      Lock icon Scotland frees terminally ill Lockerbie bomber
      350 15 AP EDINBURGH Scotland's government freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds yesterday, allowing him to die at home in Libya, rejecting American pleas for justice in the 1988 attack that killed 270 people. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi yesterday left Greenock Prison and flew
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      Lock icon Asean mulls amnesty appeal
      306 17 AFP SUU KYI RELEASE JAKARTA Senior Asian officials met in Indonesia yesterday to discuss issuing an unprecedented call for amnesty for Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The officials from the 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) were considering a "joint appeal" for Ms
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      Lock icon 'I HAVE NO REGRETS'
      140 17 AP American John Yettaw said he has no regrets about taking a secret swim to the home of Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He said that he still believes his actions somehow saved her from being assassinated. "If I had to do it
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      Lock icon N Korea gets nod to mourn Kim
      304 17 AP SEOUL South Korea officially confirmed yesterday that it will allow a North Korean delegation to visit the country to mourn the death of former President Kim Dae Jung. The team will arrive today to pay respects to Mr Kim and depart tomorrow,
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      Lock icon Taiwan tanker fire extinguished
      132 17 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian firefighters put out a blaze aboard an oil tanker yesterday, more than 30 hours after it collided with another vessel in the Strait of Malacca. The Liberian-registered MT Formosa Product Brick collided late on Tuesday with Britain-registered bulk carrier, the Ostede Max.
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      Lock icon India's Hindu party expels leader over book row
      221 19 AFP SHIMLA India's opposition Hindu nationalists expelled one of the most senior figures in their party on Wednesday amid a row over his book praising Pakistan's founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Mr Jaswant Singh (picture), a former Foreign Minister and Member of
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      Lock icon Musharraf safe for now
      353 19 AP PAKISTAN POLITICS No treason charges against ex-President unless Parliament requests them ISLAMABAD Pakistan's Prime Minister on Wednesday effectively ruled out bringing treason charges against the country's former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf (picture). Pakistan's Supreme Court recently ruled that Gen Musharraf s imposition of a State
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      Lock icon Singapore handled sanctions well, says US diplomat
      225 20  -  RACHEL LIM THE United States is "impressed" with Singapore's efforts in implementing United Nations sanctions aimed at halting North Korea's expansion of its nuclear and ballistic programmes, a senior US diplomat said yesterday. Ambassador Philip Goldberg, the US coordinator for the implementation of
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      Lock icon A shift in temperament
      225 20 AFP N KOREA-USTIES Pyongyang sends 'positive' signals, moves to ease border restrictions SEOUL North Korea struck a conciliatory note yesterday after months of hostility, sending good signals during talks in the United States and announcing plans to ease border restrictions. The North's military has said it
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      Lock icon Scientists develop high-yield deep water rice
      162 22 AP TOKYO —Japanese scientists have discovered genes that enable rice to survive high water, providing hope for better rice production in lowland areas affected by flooding. A team, primarily from the University of Nagoya, reported their findings in yesterday's issue of Nature, a science
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      Lock icon Bureaucrats beware...
      323 22 AFP JAPAN ELECTIONS PM front-runner vows to clip wings of civil servants TOKYO They are highly educated, mostly male and almost always wear grey suits, and now they are in the cross-hairs of the man who hopes to become Japan's next prime minister: They are government bureaucrats. The
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    • EYE ON CHINA
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        Lock icon DISSIDENT'S KIN EVICTED
        81 24 AFP Relatives of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer who are currently living in China's restive Xinjiang region have been instructed to leave their homes, which will then be demolished, said the Uighur American Association yesterday. The Chinese authorities blame Ms Kadeer, who lives in the United States,
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        Lock icon LEAD POISONING IN CHINA
        74 24 .AFP The authorities in Hunan, China have discovered more than 1,300 cases of suspected lead poisoning in children. They have shut down a smelting plant and detained two of the company's executives. A total of 1,354 children accounting for 70 per cent of those aged 14
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      Lock icon There's a new sheriff in town
      192 24 THEGUARDIAN CRIME INCHINA CHONGQING Millionaires, police chiefs, illegal casinos, loan sharks and a mafia-bust-ing cop in hot pursuit of hundreds of gangsters. It is not the latest Hollywood blockbuster movie, but a crackdown on organised crime in Chongqing, and its "protective umbrella" of rich
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      Lock icon China relations 'full of challenges': Australian PM
      176 26 AFP MELBOURNE Australia yesterday conceded its relations with China were challenging, but vowed to stand up for values such as freedom of speech despite strained diplomatic ties with its major trading partner. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd likened recent rows with Beijing to "bumps
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      Lock icon 'Extreme and inhumane
      339 26 .AFP HUMAN RIGHTS Amnesty condemns poor conditions in refugee centre on Christmas Island SYDNEY A top rights watchdog on Wednesday condemned Australia's decision to continue holding refugees in a high-se-curity offshore detention centre despite an official report calling the practice "inhumane". Amnesty International said the government should
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      Lock icon WOMEN AND POWER
      661 35  -  JOAN SMITH THE GUARDIAN NEWS COMMENT It is not to influential females that the Forbes list of most powerful women pays homage, but to the eternal might of money WHAT, no Posh? She may be one of the most famous women in the world, at least as
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      Lock icon US protest against Israel's travel restrictions
      174 36 AFP WASHINGTON The United States said on Wednesday it had complained to Israel about restrictions on the travel of US citizens of Palestinian origin, calling the measures "unacceptable". The US State Department said that Israel has been issuing entry stamps for some travellers, mostly
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      Lock icon Spotlight on Blackwater
      318 36 THE NEWYORKTIMES CIAASSASSINATION PROGRAMME CIA hired outsiders to locate and kill Al Qaeda operatives WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2004 hired contractors from security firm Blackwater as part of a secret programme to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and
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      Lock icon Organ story draws Israel fury
      202 36 AP JERUSALEM Israel and the Swedish Embassy responded furiously on Wednesday to a Swedish newspaper article that suggested Israeli troops killed Palestinians and harvested their organs. The article, published on Monday inAftonbladet, implies a link between those charges and the recent arrest in the United
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      Lock icon Model wins right to unmask bully
      513 39 AFP CYBERWOES Landmark ruling sets new precedent for online behaviour WASHINGTON A Canadian model has won a landmark case in a New York court after Google was forced to disclose the online identity of a blogger who anonymously posted derogatory comments about the Vogue
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      Lock icon Woman who cried rape to hide affair arrested
      188 39 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH MADRID A Spanish woman has been arrested after allegedly making a false claim that she was raped in order to get an abortion. The 27-year-old woman, who lives in Malaga, used the excuse to get a termination when she became
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      433 40 KEVIN TAN SIAH YEOW PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong's comments on the need to be mindful of the potential volatility of religious and ethnic issues were certainly timely and welcome. However, it may also be useful if Singaporeans look beyond framing such issues merely
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      425 54  -  LOW LIN FHOONG DEFENDING champions Australia regained the world netball crown in 2007, making it nine titles since the first event in 1963. Which is probably the reason why the Singapore national netball team did not expect to win even a game when they
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      621 55  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Veteran SAFFC striker may well blow for full-time on his career at season's end GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 SAFFC v Home United Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm Live on Channel 5 shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SAFFC captain Aleksandar Duric celebrated his 39th birthday last Wednesday
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      368 56 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST EUROPACUP Playoffs, First Leg PARIS Aston Villa have work to do in the Europa League after losing their playoff first leg away to Austria's Rapid Vienna 1-0 yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). The Austrians caught Villa cold as Nikica Jelavic
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      237 57 AP AFTERNOON LATEST BERLIN —Jamaica's Usain Bolt extended his stunning domination in the sprints, adding the 200m gold to his tally with yet another world record at the world championships yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Gritting his teeth and pointing to the clock as soon as
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      299 62 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Citigroup's US$3Ol billion 428.92 billion) of federal asset guarantees, extended by the government last year to help save the bank from collapse, will be audited to calculate losses and to determine whether taxpayers got a fair deal, the official tasked with policing bank
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      455 62 AGENCIES US GOVERNMENT Improvement comes as stabilising economy removes need for further bank infusions WASHINGTON The United States government will announce a US$l.5B trillion ($2.25 trillion) deficit for fiscal 2009, three times more than the previous year but about US$262 billion less than forecast in
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      283 64 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Seven people have been arrested and 27 addresses raided over a suspected £38 million ($B9 million) fraud involving the trade of carbon credits to avoid paying value-added tax (VAT). British tax officers searched residential properties and offices
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      467 64 DOW JONES MALAYSIAN MARITIME CENTRE Hurt by global crisis, Dubai SWF rethinks $6.3gb investment in Johor DUBAI Sovereign wealth fund Dubai World is reconsidering its investment in a RMI6 billion ($6.39 billion) Malaysian maritime centre with MMC Corp, as the global financial downturn buffets its overseas projects.
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      129 65 938LIVE THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has launched a commercial and residential site for sale by public tender. The land parcel, located at Yio Chu Rang Road and Seletar Road, has a site area of 2.1 hectares and is designated for a mixed commercial
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      392 65  -  KELVIN CHOW LIFE INSURANCE kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg IN A move to provide better safeguards for consumers when they buy a life insurance policy, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has proposed that life insurers review the commissions structure for their insurance agents. Speaking at an
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        60 65 SGX, CABLE WIRELESS DEAL 938LIVE Cable Wireless Worldwide signed a Network Connectivity Agreement with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday that will allow customers of the British-based telecom firm to get access to SGX's securities and derivatives market data. This means that traders, brokers and investment firms will be able to
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        62 65 938LIVE Ratings agency Standard Poor's (S&P) expects Singapore's economy to grow between 3.3 and 3.8 per cent next year. In its mid-year outlook report, S&P said that promising Q2 growth data has prompted it to upgrade its forecast. The report added that the US economy
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          52 66 Stocks advance Stocks rose as more signs the US economy is creeping towards recovery encouraged investors to move further into stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 70.89 points to 9,350.05, the S&P 500 index rose 10.91 points to 1,007.37 and the Nasdaq composite index gained 19.98 points
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          37 66 Crude mixed Oil prices were mixed a day after rising to their highest levels since June. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery next month, edged up 12 US cents to US$72.54.
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          46 66 Highest in 2 weeks European stocks rose the most in two weeks as companies reported earnings that topped the estimates of analysts. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 66.91 points to 4,756.58, Germany's DAX 79.08 points to 5,311.06 and France's CAC 40 54.98 points to 3,505.32.
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        58 66 WEETECKHIAN NTUC FairPrice launched Singapore's first Pergasaudited supermarket at Joo Chiat Complex, aimed at addressing the needs of Muslim customers. With a wider range of Halal-certified offerings within its store as well as a pilot 'Stretch Your Dollar Zone', FairPrice seeks to address the needs of the
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        356 66 AP AFTERNOON LATEST More than 457,000 vehicles sold under popular $4.30 programme WASHINGTON The Obama administration will bring to an end the popular US$3 billion ($4.3 billion) cash for clunkers programme on Monday, giving car shoppers a few more days to take advantage of big
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        203 66  -  ESTHER FUNG estherf@mediacorp.com.sg The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) said yesterday that it did not take part in the placement of 6 billion Swiss francs ($8.1 billion) of UBS shares that has been put for sale by the Swiss Government. The
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