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  • 10 1 TODAY Thursday August 27, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    199 1 C 2 Former SAF driver gets 53 \J months' jail for taking bribes to assist in smuggling illegal cigarettes. ■i Model Kartika Sari Dewi 1 Zi Shukarno, who has been sentenced to caning for drinking beer, has become a symbol both political and socio-religious in Malaysia. ""1
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  • 1069 1  -  ESTHER FUNG THEY make up just 0.4 per cent of resident taxpayers but account for a hefty one-quarter of net personal income tax payable. In all, 3,799 residents, a surge from the 2,751 9 in the previous year, declared an annual income of above
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  • 796 1  -  LINYANQIN LINYANQIN EDUCATION 28,000 educators tapped for views on profession's future yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THERE was a time when parents were happy to give teachers the authority to discipline their children, and were content to let them teach their way. "When we had to punish the children, the
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  • NEWS
    • 817 2  -  HO PENG NEWS COMMENT NEXT year, we enter a new decade in the 21 st century, the next lap of our education journey. It is timely to have a vision for the teaching service, which would express the aspirations of professionals and point the way
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    • 451 3  -  LINYANQIN EDUCATION SYSTEM To teach better, teachers need to talk about how they plan lessons yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg NO MATTER how knowledgeable a teacher is on a given subject, it comes down to how well he can transfer that knowledge to the students he is trying
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    • 343 4  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com. sg THEY enjoyed playing and studying together at the club run by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). But when the Chinese boy saw the same group of boys, who were of a different race, outside his school while he
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    • 148 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA DEFENDANTS took the stand on Day 2 of the hearing of the trial between MediaCorp and Mediaßanc. MediaCorp is taking the Malaysian company to court for selling content recorded off its radio and television channels without license. The acts were discovered in 2006.
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    • 323 6  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg LISTED jewellery retailer Aspial Corporation has ventured into the pawnbroking business in a big way since it obtained its first licence to do so in February. Through subsidiary Maxi-Cash Group, the company is set to open its ninth pawnshop next week.
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    • 517 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT CONTRABAND CIGARETTE CASE Judge jails ex-SAF driver for 53 months; issues stern reminder to civil servants weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THIS former full-time driver in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) could have cost the authorities and the country more than just $3.2 million in unpaid taxes, when
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      80 8 Thirty-five special needs children from the Spastic Children's Association of Singapore under the Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children enjoying an afternoon of pony-riding with youth volunteers. Spearheaded by participants from the People's Association Youths Lead Programme 2009, the therapeutic activity aims to bring these children
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    • 462 8  -  ONGDAILIN SUPREME COURT Come October, lawyers can exchange more electronic documents dailin@mediacorp.com.sg THE Supreme Court is moving with the digital times. And it means legal costs may go down, and lawyers can soon have more access to information to fight their case. It was
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    • 173 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT TWENTY-TWO people have been charged in the Subordinate Courts for their alleged involvement in a property cashback scam. The scam which had involved rogue lawyer David Rasif, property agent Goh Chong Liang and former lawyer David Tan Hock Boon saw mortgage loans secured well
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 124 10 Two Chinese wine products, "King Narcissus brand Ginseng Wine Tonic" and "Camel brand Rice Wine" were found to contain excessive levels of methanol and have been recalled from sale. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority has instructed manufacturer Lam Hock Leong Trading Company to suspend factory production as
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      • 84 10 938 LIVE Twenty-one officers from the Singapore Police Force have been awarded the Timor-Leste Solidarity Medal. The Medal is a state decoration awarded to security forces for their contribution to stability and peace operations in Timor-Leste. The 21 officers are currently serving in the United Nations
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      • 154 10 Singapore and Peru signed an open skies agreement (OSA) that is "even more liberal" than conventional OSAs. Carriers from both countries will have unlimited rights to use the other country as a base for any number of cargo operations to third countries. The OSA also allows
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    • 425 10 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA ECONOMIC RECOVERY NTUC on second stage of move to help workers, firms SINGAPORE must go on the offensive to implement structural changes so as to bring about economic recovery, said labour chief Lim Swee Say, warning that after two quarters of relative
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    • 687 11 Quitting his job to care for his son and ease the pressure on his wife has been 'worth it', says this father When Joel Chan was born, doctors told his parents that he would grow up to be a "special child". Joel was born with a
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  • WORLD
    • 111 12 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR PAS deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa broke his silence to reject the Bar Council's idea to do away with caning in a brewing controversy over model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno's punishment for drinking beer. Mr Nasharudin said whipping
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    • 115 12 KUALA LUMPUR Media rights campaigners yesterday condemned the seizure of hundreds of copies of a new political cartoon magazine. Home Ministry officials on Tuesday confiscated 408 copies of the inaugural issue of GedungKartun shortly after it hit the news-stands. A ministry official said the magazine did
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    • 626 12  -  DINAZAMAN THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER NEWS COMMENT MODEL Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who has been sentenced to six lashes of the cane for drinking beer, has garnered a lot of international and local attention. The caning has been delayed in view of the fasting month of Ramadan.
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    • 248 15 AGENCIES TAIPEI Leaders of Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) invited the Dalai Lama to bless the land and people in areas worst affected by Typhoon Morakot. The move was likely to anger China despite the warmer ties between Beijing
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    • 251 15 AFP CHINAORGANTRADE BEIJING More than 65 per cent of all transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners, the state media reported yesterday. The China Daily report, which attributed the figure to health experts, was a rare acknowledgement of the role played by death row
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    • 178 15 AFP WASHINGTON United States Senator Jim Webb, back from a rare trip to Myanmar, called sanctions against the military regime "overwhelmingly counterproductive". Mr Webb voiced concern that the West's isolation of Myanmar had pushed it into the arms of China, "furthering a dangerous
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    • 663 18 AP 99V^V^R!V9^^^^!T^VQ9VRf9^£QVIJPP^PIJMJH most glamorous political family, plagued again and again by tragedy. President Barack Obama said he was "heartbroken" over Mr Kennedy's death, saying the liberal icon's demise closed an epic chapter in US political life. Describing him as "the greatest United States Senator of
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    • 472 20 AGENCIES HYUNDAI DETAINEE South Korean employee's release from the North comes with a heavy price SEOUL North Korea presented South Korea with a hotel bill for almost U5515,757 ($22,728) after detaining and interrogating one of its citizens in an inn for 137 days, an official said yesterday.
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    • 274 20 AFP KAWASOTI When Uttam Sanjel began giving reading classes to street children in the Nepalese capital in the *****, he had never thought it would lead to having 18,000 children in his care. In nine years, Mr Sanjel, 35, a Kathmandu native who
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 80 20 AGENCIES Indonesia Nine people died and three were missing when a passenger boat sank off the Indonesian island of Bali yesterday. The boat carrying 25 people was travelling from Kusamba beach in eastern Bali to Nusa Penida island when it capsized, a health
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      • 82 20 AP Thailand The Thai authorities issued an arrest warrant yesterday for a man whom police believe detonated a car bomb that wounded dozens, and detained two Muslim men suspected of involvement in the blast. The Criminal Court of Narathiwat province has issued an arrest
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    • 353 22 THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is close to brokering an Is-raeli-Palestinian deal that will allow him to announce a resumption of the long-stalled Middle East peace talks by September, according to United States, Israeli, Palestinian and
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    • 249 22 AGENCIES TERROR ATTACK KANDAHAR Rescue workers yesterday sifted through the rubble of the deadliest bombing in Afghanistan for a year as signs of poor election turnout pointed to the success of Taliban intimidation. The Islamist rebels were blamed for setting off a truck bomb in
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 93 25 AFP A French security guard said on Tuesday he suffered a faceful of glass when the screen of his Apple iPhone exploded in the second such incident in France. MrYassine Bouhadi, 26, who had bought the phone for €600 ($1,235) three months ago, said he
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      • 92 25 AP New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said yesterday that his governing party will thwart attempts to overturn a law that bans hitting children. The law stops parents from using force to discipline their children but gives police the discretion not to prosecute minor incidents.
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      • 82 25 AFP Argentina's Supreme Court on Tuesday decriminalised the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use, tossing out tough provincial drug laws whose penalties it deemed unconstitutional. The court ruled on a case involving the trial and sentencing of five young people arrested during a
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    • 356 25 AFP BAGHDAD BOMBINGS BAGHDAD Iraq and Syria recalled their envoys on Tuesday, deepening a diplomatic crisis sparked by Iraqi accusations that Damascus is sheltering insurgents who orchestrated massive truck bombings in Baghdad. The flare-up threw into disarray extensive efforts made in the past year to boost
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    • 486 26  -  MICHAEL SLACKMAN THENEWYORKTIMES NEWS COMMENT ONCE the mad dog of the Middle East, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has focused on shedding his outlaw status: He heads the African Union and is courted by Western powers hungry for Libyan oil. But if the world
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    • 246 26 AGENCIES LONDON The Lockerbie bomber could live far longer than predicted by Scottish ministers when they decided to release him, a cancer expert has warned. Dr Richard Simpson said medical reports show there is "significant doubt" that Abdel Baset Al Megrahi the only
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    • 409 28 AGENCIES PRISONERABUSE Report shows agency had Overwhelming control' over detainees WASHINGTON Two 17-watt fluorescent-tube bulbs no more, no less illuminated each cell, 24 hours a day. White noise played constantly but was never to exceed 79 decibels. A prisoner could be doused with 41 -degree water but
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    • 161 28 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH NEW YORK A prominent Democratic party fundraiser has been charged with using fake documents to secure a US$74 million loan ($106.7 million) from Citibank. Hassan Nemazee, chairman of Nemazee Capital, was detained while checking in at Newark Airport for a flight to Rome
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    • 314 32  -  Jessica Chan Geak Choo AN EVENING WITH FRIENDS Letter from I RECENTLY took some expatriate friends to Singapore's "infamous" red-light district at Geylang for a visit and to sample some local dishes. The six of us started with frog leg's porridge in Lorong 9, something that
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    • 140 32  -  Shahid Khan Letter from WHY doesn't the SMRT increase the frequency of trains between Tanah Merah and Singapore Expo during peak hours or, better still, allow certain trains on the EastWest Line to go straight through to the Expo and on to Changi Airport
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    • 170 36  -  DR BILL MAIER BY AVOIDING POOR PLAYMATES Some kids are natural born leaders, but most kids tend to be followers. That's not a bad thing, as long as they're following the right people. All kids struggle with peer pressure, but those who are followers seem to
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    • 190 36  -  Lim Eng Choo HDB RESALE FLAT From I HAVE been searching for a 3A HDB flat in Tampines for the last few months. The prices have been escalating thanks to the rising prices of private properties. I was told by an agent that the cash
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    • Most do not see tangible benefits of speaking good English
      • 90 36  -  Krison From SOME schools are putting in more effort to teach their students to speak better English. But it is a task with multiple hurdles to overcome. For example, the influence of students who are non-standard English speakers around them. Most importantly,
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      • 93 36  -  KH From I AGREE with Mr Toh Chong Siong. As an American, I find diction here appalling. Examples include the use of Singlish in formal settings with foreigners, wrong use of grammar, and using words people don't understand. I am not against
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        812 40  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH CHICKS WJjORpCK^ issssssss christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THERE are several reasons why you should go to Baybeats 2009. One, there'll be some interesting collaborations by Chris Collingwood of Fountains Of Wayne fame, with local musicians Kevin Mathews and the Lilac Saints, as well as Brit singer Ally Kerr and
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    • 527 42 AP CELEBRITY COURT No jail time for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna A JUDGE on Tuesday sentenced Chris Brown to five years' probation and six months' community labour for beating Rihanna and ordered the R&B singer to stay away from his former girlfriend for the next five
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    • 485 44  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH TEEN SENSATION Performing on Broadway and singing with Adam Lambert are just two of Julia Abueva's dreams christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg SHE HAS been featured on Oprah, performed for heads of state, and starred in musicals Sleepless Town and The Fantasticks. She gave her first stage performance when
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    • 84 44 DYING GOLDFISH PERFORMANCE Now that we've got your attention, the show's actual title is Goldfish Is Meant for Dying, a work-in-progress performance by Norwegian artist Rudi Skotheim Jensen atTheatreWorks 72-13 on Friday, Bpm. Jensen is currently artist-in-residence under the product development residency programme of 72-13's International Centre
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      759 46  -  Ch'ng Poh Tiong FairPricewine consultant delineates the subtle differences of this popular varietal "SYRAH" or "Shiraz" is more than just two ways of saying the same thing. Although they refer to the same grape or varietal, they indicate a particular style of wine. For a start,
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    • 314 48 AFP LONDON Peter Reid (picture) confirmed yesterday he will be leaving his current job as coach of Thailand to take up an offer to serve as assistant to Stoke manager Tony Pulis. Reid, 53, still has three years left on his contract with the Thai
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    • 415 48  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Phnom Penh get points for effort as they go down fighting RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2009 QUARTER-FINAL, IST LEG Phnom Penh 1 Bangkok Glass 2 shamir@mediacorp.com.sg NEITHER the Cambodian national team nor any of the country's club sides have made it past
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    • 356 48  -  SHAMIR OSMAN WHEN South African side SA Vipers won the Ablitt Cup for the second successive time, at last year's Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) International Rugby 7s, it was the first all-ticket event in the competition's 61-year history. While the 24-team format in
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    • 757 49  -  LOW LIN FHOONG FINA/ARENA SWIMMING WORLD CUP World's pre-eminent backstroke specialist not sure if high-tech suits are wrong linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg AARON Peirsol swims backwards faster than any other human being in the world. He is the first man to go under 52 seconds in the 100 m
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    • 314 49 LAM Chih Bing and Mardan Mamat are on target after the first round of the Omega Mission Hills World Cup Asian qualifier at the Seri Selangor Golf Club. The Singapore duo carded a 64 in the fourballs yesterday and are four strokes off the
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    • 503 50  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Champions SAFFC can all but canter home to make their historic mark M GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 SAFFC v Woodlands Wellington Choa Chu Kang Stadium, 7.45pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg RICHARD Bok's SAFFC have just eight games left to play in the 2009 Great Eastern-Yeo's
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    • 394 50  -  LAN DECOTTA GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Albirex Niigata v Home United Jurong East Stadium, 7.45pm WITH eight matches left in their Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 campaign, Home United are mathematically not out of the title race yet. But 14 points separate
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    • 656 52 AGENCIES PRIMERALIGA Real Madrid will grab most of the attention on the first weekend in Spain MADRID Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo isn't afraid of criticism. The Portuguese midfielder says he has "nothing to prove to anyone". Real will kick off the new Spanish
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    • 617 53 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL United boss may consider last-minute dash for Robben as Gunners loom large LONDON There is much off-the-field activity surrounding Manchester United, ahead of the biggest match of the English Premier League season on Saturday when red-hot Arsenal visit Old Trafford. As Tuesday's transfer
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    • 192 53 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL With two losses in three games as many defeats Liverpool suffered all last English Premier League campaign Yossi Benayoun admitted yesterday that the Reds will need to go the rest of the season unbeaten if they are to win the title. "We still
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    • 374 53 AFP LONDON British police were on the hunt yesterday for those responsible for "large-scale" violence at a match between London rivals West Ham and Millwall, which revived memories of the hooliganism of past decades. A 44-year-old man was in a stable
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    • 654 54 INVESTING IN PRECIOUS METALS Strong interest in precious metals could push the gold/silver ratio below 40:1 PRECIOUS metals were historically used as day-to-day currency, with the most widely acknowledged ones being gold and silver. These precious metals have enjoyed similarly long pedigrees as jewellery and ornamentation, although
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    • 1103 56  -  EDMUND L ANDREWS THE NEWYORKTIMES BUSINESS COMMENT AS HE looks forward to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S Bernanke's biggest challenge will be to undo much of what made him a hero during his first term. In nominating Mr
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      • 128 58 BLOOMBERG Cnooc, China's biggest offshore energy explorer, posted first-half profit that exceeded analysts' estimates after oil prices rebounded and the nation's economic recovery spurred demand for fuels. Net income fell 55 per cent to 12.4 billion yuan ($2.62 billion), or 0.28 yuan a share, from
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      • 74 58 AFP Air China shares surged yesterday after the carrier said its net profit had more than doubled in the first half due to lower fuel prices, fuel hedging gains and improving domestic travel demand. It posted a net profit of 2.9 billion yuan ($6lO million)
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      • 61 58 AFP Troubled conglomerate Citic Pacific said yesterday its first-half net profits plunged 43.4 per cent because of reduced contributions from its steel investments. The China-backed company, hit by massive losses from unauthorised currency trading last year, said profit dropped to HK52.47 billion ($457 million),
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    • 265 58 AFP GERMAN ECONOMY BERLIN Germany's Finance Minister said yesterday he was considering giving low-inter-est state loans to cash-strapped firms in order to prevent a credit crunch hampering a recovery in Europe's biggest economy. "If the efforts of banks are not sufficient to supply the economy with
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    • 322 59  -  TAN HUI LENG DTZSTUDY huileng@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S not just developer property sales that have been bubbling with foreign buyers on the rise. According to an analysis by DTZ Research, the secondary market has also seen a flurry of activity in second quarter this year as 5,142
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    • 137 59 938 LIVE THE Singapore Management University (SMU) is tying up with the Paris-based Financial Markets Association to launch a series of training and certification programmes for financial market professionals in Singapore and the region. The partnership will see the two parties co-develop and deliver a
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    • 175 59 BLOOMBERG PARKWAY Holdings said the number of people seeking treatment at its hospitals in Singapore may climb this year, overcoming two quarters of patient declines as the global economy recovers. "For July and August, we are slowly coming out of the woods
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      • 45 60 $2.22 Overweight JPMorgan assumes coverage, raises target price to $2.65 from $2. Sees company as a prime candidate to benefit from global economic recovery forecasted in 2010 and China's continued growth and infrastructure development. PRC accounts for 18 per cent of Noble's sales.
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      • 66 60 $1.76 I Sell Citigroup downgrades from Hold on valuation grounds as stock up almost 30 per cent in past two months, outperforming STI by 16 per cent. Nudges target price up to $1.69 from $1.56 to reflect higher selling prices in some of its projects. Notes FYO9 operating
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      • 91 60 $3.18 I Equalweight Morgan Stanley upgrades from Underweight on valuation grounds given underperformance vs MSCI Singapore by 30 per cent since January this year, raises target price to $3.25 from $2.60 to reflect earnings upgrade. Says stock's premium to NAY has shrunk from 20 per cent to 7-9 per
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      • 64 60 Tuesday Monday Friday Thursday IBSidEeBSiifl 2,618.76 A 0.25% 2,612.33 A 2.65% 2,544.86 T 0.57% 2,559-57 A1-46% Hang Seng 20,456.32 A 0.18% Nikkei 10,639.71 A 1.36% Shanghai 2,967.59 A 1.78% Seoul 1,614.12 A 0.80% Mumbai 15,769.85 A 0.52% Malaysia 1,172.56 A 0.13% US$1 £1 1 euro A$i RMi $1,443
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    • 98 60 OOI BOON KEONG The nutrient agar is one of the projects on showcase at this year's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Festival at the Nanyang Technological University. Launched in conjunction with NTU's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Festival is the ideas.inc. Business Challenge a competition undertaken by Spring Singapore and NTU
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    • 487 60  -  KELVIN CHOW MANUFACTURING Electronics and chemicals also recovering, output figures may return to positive soon kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg THE biomedical sector is once again the star of Singapore manufacturing. But going by the latest manufacturing output figures, other clusters like electronics and chemicals are on their way to regaining
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    • 248 60  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has fined the finance manager of Mainboardlisted Datapulse Technology $50,000 for insider trading. Mr Toh Leng Poh made a profit of $10,120 by purchasing 690,000 Datapulse shares between March and September 2007 while in possession of price-sensitive information
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    • 1291 66 While weekend breaks are all very good, its the week-long trips to far flung destinations that fill our dreams. Jetsetter and photographer SIMON TAN suggests eight eye-opening trips for adventurous travellers I.CROATIA Increasingly popular with the Europeans, this country in the Balkan peninsula has risen like
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    • 953 68  -  SIMON TAN GO WHERE: Hokkaido, Japan CURRENCY: $1 is ¥67 BIG MAC, cost: ¥320 ($4.75)* GETTING THERE: There are no direct flights from Singapore to Hokkaido. ANA and JAL fly to Narita Airport in Tokyo and from there to New Chitose Airport in Sapporo.
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    • 1030 72 GO WHERE: Tohoku, Japan CURRENCY: $1 is ¥67 BIG MAC, cost: ¥320 ($4.75) GETTING THERE: ANA operates flights to Sendai City with a stopover in Tokyo. Travel time is about 11 hours. From the airport, rent a car to explore the region. Ask about
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    • 1038 74  -  ESTHER NG GO WHERE: North Gyeongsang, South Korea CURRENCY: $1 is 850 won BIG MAC, cost: 3,400 won (s4)* GETTING THERE: Asiana Airlines flies direct from Singapore to Incheon daily. That frequency will change to twice daily fromOct 19 to Dec 31. Flight time is 6
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    • 890 76 GO- WHERE: Taipei, Taiwan CURRENCY: $1 is $22.8 Taiwan BIG MAC, cost: $75 ($3.30) GETTING THERE: Singapore Airlines and Jetstar Asia operate direct flights to Taipei daily. Flight time is 4 hours and 30 minutes. Source: McDonald's, The Economist So, you have two days in
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    • 766 78  -  KAREN TEOH GO WHERE: Hong Kong CURRENCY: $1 is HK55.35 BIG MAC, cost: HK$l3.3 ($2.45)* GETTING THERE: The ferry to Tung Ping Chau departs from Ma Liv Shui pier, a 10-minute walk from University station on the MTR line. Return fare is HK$9O. The one-and-a-half hour
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    • 740 79  -  RACHEL LO GO. WHERE: KohSamui, Thailand CURRENCY: $1 is 23.7 baht BIG MAC, cost: 64.49 baht ($2.72) GETTING THERE: Bangkok Airways flies direct from Singapore to Koh Samui daily. Flight time is 1 hour 45 minutes. Tickets cost about $450. The Thai boutique carrier has
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    • 1080 80  -  TAN CHUI HUA GO WHERE: Sarawak, Malaysia CURRENCY: $1 is RM2.43 BIG MAC, cost: RM6.77(52.78)* GETTINGTHERE:Kuchingis your launch pad. Take a short 1 hr 30min flight to the state capital. There's a plethora of airlines making the trip, including Malaysia Airlines, Silk Air, Jetstar, Tiger
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    • 507 82 Discounts and delight await those planning to cruise the Malacca Strait GO. WHERE: Malaysia and Thailand CURRENCY: $1 is RM2.43, 23.7 baht BIG MAC, cost: NA GETTING THERE: Star Cruises ships depart from the Singapore Cruise Centre at Harbour Front. V^^ For more information on the promotions,
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    • 557 84  -  JENNIFER CHEN Never been on a cruise? You may be missing out. looks at the common reservations 1. I'LL BE TRAPPED ON A SHIP. Many tray ellers are put off by cruising because they think their freedom is limited by the confines of a ship. Granted, a
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    • 839 90  -  TAN CHUI HUA GO WHERE: Bandung, Indonesia CURRENCY: $1 is 6,900 rupiah BIG MAC, cost: 20,900 rupiah (s3)* GETTING THERE: Take a short 1.5-hour flight from Singapore to Jakarta. Check for promotions on airlines such as Tiger Airways, which makes the trip daily. From Jakarta,
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      742 92  -  MARKMALBY GO WHERE: Northern Territory, Australia CURRENCY: $1 is $0.83 Australia BIG MAC, cost: A 54.34 ($5.25) GETTING THERE: Darwin is a 4-hour flight direct from Singapore. Jetstar Airways is likely to be your cheapest bet, with fares of $36 return (before taxes) offered for no checked luggage.
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    • 472 96 What lies beneath GO- WHERE: Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia CURRENCY: $1 isAsB3 BIG MAC, cost: A 54.34 ($5.25) GETTING THERE: Central Coast is an hour's drive north of Sydney, which is served by a host of carriers, including Singapore Airlines' A3BO. Flight time is about 7 hours and
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    • 1100 98  -  CHEN FEN GO WHERE: England, UK CURRENCY: $1 is £.42 BIG MAC, cost: £2.29 ($5.50)* GETTING THERE: Major airlines such as Singapore Airlines and British Airways have daily flights to London from Singapore. The non-stop flight takes about 13 hours. You can hire a
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