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      225 1 6 His dramatic escape attempt from a police road block has eft a serial drink driver nearly $40,000 poorer and banned from driving for life. 8 Contact lens wearers look out: Depending on the type of ens you wear, your corneas could be ageing prematurely. ■"I The
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    • 533 1 AGENCIES JAPANESE ELECTIONS DPJ focuses on bolstering nascent recovery, market euphoria quickly fades TOKYO —Japan's likely next Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama began talks yesterday on forming a new government, faced with the mammoth challenge of reviving the world's second-largest economy after his Democratic Party of Japan
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    • 561 1  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg THERE was an error in the formula that investors were told would be used to calculate any remaining value in their investments should there be a "credit event". But, DBS Bank is arguing, this was such "an obvious clerical mistake", that it
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    • 575 2 .AFP NEWS ANALYSIS CRUSHED in a historic election rout, its old guard leadership in disarray, Japan's longruling conservative party yesterday faced up to the unaccustomed role of life as the opposition. For more than half a century, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
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    • 314 2 AGENCIES LEADERS across the world yesterday welcomed the landslide win by Japan's opposition Democratic Party (DPJ), with Asia-Pacific countries seeking closer ties with Tokyo. Offering his warmest congratulations to DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said: "It is a clear reflection
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    • 317 3 AGENCIES THE DALAI LAMA Spiritual leader's remarks in Taiwan cause a stir SHIAO LIN (Taiwan) The Dalai Lama said yesterday Taiwan should have "very close and unique links" with China and encouraged the island to preserve its democracy, as he visited a village devastated by Taiwan's worst storm
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    • 582 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938LIVE WAFER FAB JOBS 7 ooo PMETs to gain from new skills qualification scheme SEVEN thousand professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) working in wafer fabrication are set to benefit from a new Workforce Skills Qualification scheme. They will be sent for in-house training, a
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    • 164 4 If you are an unemployed PMET needing the knowhowto launch your own business, here's help. The Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce Industry, together with Vector Scorecard (Asia-Pacific) and the Enterprise Development Centre@SMCCl, launched a PMET-Business Incubation Acceleration Programme yesterday. The hands-on programme will help
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    • 499 6  -  ANSLEYNG SERIAL DRINK DRIVER His streak in evading road blocks ends with jail sentence, a ban on driving for life and a fine ansley@mediacorp.com. sg A SERIAL drink driver with a knack for skirting road blocks has been sentenced to four months in jail
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    • 438 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN CONTACT LENS WEARERS chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg HERE'S one more thing for contact lens wearers to be wary of your corneas may be prematurely ageing. Wearing contact lenses with low oxygen permeability for prolonged periods can damage the cornea, a transparent layer covering the eye. And the
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    • 448 10  - S'pores got talent or maybe not ALICIA WONG JOB MARKET Companies face challenge of attracting talent: Surveys alicia@mediacorp.com.sg THE competition for talent continues in spite of the economic downturn. This is because as Singapore moves into a knowledge-based economy, more companies could be seeking highly-skilled professionals when there is already
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 165 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Insurance company Great Eastern said the majority of its GreatLink Choice products have been redeemed. The affected policies involve a series of structured products and the redemption offer closed last Friday. As of Aug 28, Great Eastern said some 62 per cent
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      • 103 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Two more HiNi-related deaths have been reported in Singapore, bringing the total number of such fatalities hereto 15. The country's 14th HINi-related death was a 53-year-old Singaporean man who had a history of diabetes and hypertension. His death on Saturday was certified as acute
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    • 427 11  -  LINYANQIN PUNGGOL SPECTRA District ramps up facilities to meet surge of new residents, as fifth BTO in nine months is launched yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg FOR most people, the groundbreaking of a new construction project and the months of dusty work that follows is a nuisance. But for residents of
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    • 293 11 With a mix of units ranging from tworoom standard offerings to five-room premium flats, the resident mix at Punggol looks set to be a diverse one. Beyond the younger couples looking for their first homes, Build-to-Order projects such as Punggol Regalia and Punggol Arcadia launched
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    • 185 12 TWO new professional awards to recognise outstanding teachers and mentors, and degree scholarships worth $75,000 to pursue a Degree in Early Childhood, were some of the Teacher's Day presents to pre-school staff from NTUC First Campus. Yesterday, the social enterprise's senior executives, including
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    • 456 12  -  ANSLEYNG IN COURT Doctor suing for return of $297,000 from spiritual teacher's wife ansley@mediacorp.com.sg A DOCTOR who gave money in a trust to be "safeguarded" by her spiritual teacher's wife, is suing the latter for the return of the money. On her part,
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      • 95 13 MsYeoh CheeYan will begin her two-year term as the National Library Board's (NLB) new chairman today. MsYeoh, who is the Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, is currently a member of the National University of Singapore Board of Trustees as well as a founding
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      • 102 13 The day got a little brighter for about 400 needy households in the Kaki Bukit area last Saturday. Volunteers replaced the light bulbs in their homes with energy-saving ones, for free. More than 70 volunteers from FairPriceand Philips Lighting Singapore, the Institute of Technical Education College
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      • 110 13 Sinda has announced new operating hours for its Family Service Centre (FSC) and Career Development and Resource Centre (CDRC). Both centres have been open till gpm on Mondays and Thursdays since February this year, but as the number of actual walk-ins during the extended hours have dropped,
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    • 141 13  -  LINYANQIN THOSE seeking a cross-cultural experience for their doctoral studies can look forward to more of such programmes from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which signed a Memoradum of Understanding with German university Technische Universitat Miinchen (TUM) yesterday to offer joint Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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    • 278 13 CHANNEL NEWSASIA TIWARY RE-TRIAL THE re-trial has begun in Sydney of Singapore student Ram Puneet Tiwary, who was convicted of murdering two flatmates in 2003. Tiwary pleaded not guilty yesterday to killing fellow Singaporeans Tay Chow Lyang, 26, and Tony Tan Poh Chuan, 27, who
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    • 486 14 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER TEMPLE RELOCATION ISSUE SHAH ALAM Section 23 is a typical middle-class housing estate, with rows of new and identical double-storey houses. Recently though, it has become the ground zero of a major debate on race relations. Last Friday, a
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 172 14 AFP Yesterday, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor went to investigate claims that ethnic Malays faced discrimination from bureaucrats on a remote Indian Ocean outpost The Malays, who form about 80 per cent of Cocos Island's 600-strong population, had reportedly been prevented from
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      • 158 14 AP Two hundred children are suffering from lead poisoning in south-west China, the country's third such case in the past month. Parents from a town in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, blamed the poisoning on a nearby industrial park, reported the China Daily. An
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      • 44 14 AFP Malaysians waved national flags outside the Parliament House in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, in celebration of Malaysia's 52nd national day. Activities were kept relatively small-scale in respect of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, and over Influenza A concerns.
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    • 183 14 AP JAKARTA A suspect wanted in connection with hotel suicide bombings in the Indonesian capital had infiltrated the national airline in a plot to carry out a "bigger attack", National Police Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri told members of Parliament yesterday. The suspect, identified only as Syahrir,
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    • 398 15 AGENCIES MYANMARCLASH NANSAN (China) Refugees who fled Myanmar into China after clashes between junta forces and ethnic rebels headed back across the border yesterday, but some said they feared a fresh outbreak of violence. Officials in China's southwestern Yunnan province said 37,000
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    • 176 15 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korean President Lee Myung Bak reshuffled top aides yesterday, ahead of a Cabinet shake-up planned later this week, giving his chief economic secretary greater roles as coordinator for broader government policies. Senior secretary for economic affairs Yoon Jin Shik
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    • 372 16 AGENCIES SRI LANKATRIAL COLOMBO Sri Lanka's High Court sentenced a Tamil reporter described by United States President Barack Obama as an "emblematic example" of a persecuted journalist to 20 years in prison yesterday for supporting terrorism. Mr J S Tissainayagam (picture), 45, who contributed
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    • 154 16 JAKARTA Indonesia plans to test a new identity card that will store each citizen's personal data on an electronic chip, the Jakarta Globe reported yesterday. "You can no longer lie about your marital status," Home Affairs Ministry spokesman Saut Situmorang was quoted as
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    • 253 16 AP HANOI A Vietnamese blogger who criticised the ruling Communist Party's policies has been detained by police, his close friend said yesterday, days after another popular blogger was sacked from his job at a statecontrolled newspaper. Mr Bui Thanh Hieu, 37, who writes his blog
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    • 183 18 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The widow of the late United States Senator Edward Kennedy should be considered as an interim appointee to represent Massachusetts in his place, two US senators said. Senators Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, and Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, said yesterday on CNN's
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    • 388 18 AGENCIES GERMAN POLITICS BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bid fora second term suffered a setback as her Christian Democrats lost support in state elections a month before general elections. Voters on Sunday chose new state legislatures in Saarland, on the French border and
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    • 165 20 AP NEW YORK NBC's Today show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent Ms Jenna Hager (picture), the daughter of former President George W Bush. Ms Hager will contribute stories about once a month on issues such as education, said executive
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    • 157 20 AP CABO SAN LUCAS Residents stocked up on food and the authorities set up shelters as a strengthening Hurricane Jimena pushed toward Mexico's resort-studded Baja California peninsula on yesterday. Mexico issued a hurricane watch for the south of Baja. Jimena, a dangerous Category 4
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    • 382 20 .AGENCIES I |CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE Two firefighters killed as their vehicle is overrun by flames LOS ANGELES Firefighters tried to hold back a wildfire from consuming thousands of homes and an essential communications centre in Los Angeles County as they mourned two of their own
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    • 448 22 TURMOIL IN AFGHANISTAN Afghan officials are risking their lives, for the sake of democracy PUL-I-ALAM (Afghanistan) Mr Aminullah Fazly, an Afghan official who ran elections in Logar province, has spent three months barricaded in his office. He doesn't want to leave the Taliban want to
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      • 103 22 AP Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has contracted Influenza A (H1N1) and South American leaders who met him last week have been informed of the infection. The 57-year-old Uribe began developing symptoms on Friday, the day of the meeting in Argentina, and was confirmed to have
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      • 95 22 AFP After three delays, the US shuttle Discovery made a textbook docking on Sunday with the International Space Station (ISS). Its seven astronauts including one Swede are delivering equipment for a new bedroom, a treadmill, a freezer, food and other supplies. They are also dropping
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      • 95 22 AFP Violence in Kashmir has fallen to its lowest level since militants launched an insurgency against Indian rule 20 years ago. According to police records, killings have dropped to one a day, from 10 daily in 2001 and a peak of 13 in
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    • 187 23 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Healthy people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack are doing themselves more harm than good, researchers have said. Millions of people including the "worried well" take a daily dose of the drug in the belief it will keep them healthy. But at the
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    • 107 23 PORT MORESBY Twin outbreaks of a mystery flu and dysentery in a remote region of Papua New Guinea have killed 47 people and infected another 2,000 villagers, a senior medical official said yesterday. And a separate eruption of cholera has killed seven adults and
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    • 434 23 UNUSUAL ECONOMIC INDICATOR WASHINGTON One quick way to know when the recession will end is to look into the American man's underwear drawer. If men are putting off buying new pairs and sticking to wearing threadbare underpants, the downturn is probably not over. But
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    • 537 24  -  M Lukshumayeh APATHETIC SINGAPOREANS Letter from I REFER to "I screamed at the top of my lungs but..." (Aug 31). While it is hoped that such apathetic bystanders disappear from this world I have found that each and everyone of us is, or could
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    • 175 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY........... TEACHING CHILDREN TO WORK Why do some children love to work, and others get depressed just thinking about it? Generally speaking, children learn what they have been taught. Some well-meaning parents think childhood should not be encumbered by work. But, if children
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    • 403 26  -  S Ganesamoorthy IN SCHOOLS Letter from I REFER to "Let teachers motivate (Aug 31). Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) as a methodology has lots of hidden issues and problems. As principals are increasingly inviting these speakers to talk to their students, there is a need to be circumspect
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    • 161 26  -  Ong San San Letter from I REFER to "Let teachers motivate..." (Aug 31). I have three children and empathise with Mr Roland Ang. Yet, I think the school his daughter attends has done right in engaging neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practitioners to motivate its students.
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      1221 28  -  MAYO MARTIN MEGA ART SHOW Does the Singapore Art Show need to go on a diet? mayo@mediacorp.com.sg THERE is an ongoing buffet in town. It comprises 6,000 kinds of "dishes" prepared by 600 "chefs" spread across 60 "tables" all over the country. It's running until October and
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    • 391 30  -  MAYO MARTIN -i^i^ 1 THEATRE Classic Japanese tale opens to an audience of ghosts mayo@mediacorp.com.sg THE SPIRITS ofßashomon will not be the only ones roaming around when Theatre Practice's new production opens on Thursday. It's also that time of the year when the vaunted gates of hell are
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    • 134 31 AGENCIES WES Bentley (picture), the actor who played Kevin Spacey's disturbed young neighbour in the Oscar-winning American Beauty, is apparently the latest victim of a bad economy. Or maybe he's just not good at paying his bills. TMZ is reporting that American Express is suing
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    • 459 32  -  MAYSEAH WEIRDTV LouisTheroux is the man who has been there, done that may@mediacorp.com.sg LOUIS Theroux is perhaps the most unassuming man you've ever met wellmannered, a little nerdy but that image hides an uncanny knack for extracting your innermost thoughts. The son of American journalist
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    • 803 33  -  EVELINE GAN SILENT KILLER When seemingly trivial ailments such as a sore throat may mean cancer eveline@mediacorp.com.sg THE sign seemed innocuous at first a sore throat, which Mr L H Sim thought nothing of. But, unlike most sore throats, the discomfort didn't go
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    • 315 34 A monthly selfexamination of your mouth may go a long way in detecting any suspicious lumps Asst Prof Fan i shows you how. Lift up the upper lip and pull down the lower lip to look right inside the fold. Stretch open right and left cheek to
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    • 256 34 THENEWYORKTIMES LEAD poisoning in children is usually traced to peeling paint in old homes or old lead pipes. But the family car, and the children's car seats, can also become contaminated, especially if parents work in jobs that expose them to lead. When six babies
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    • 1018 36 TV LISTING! ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL ON MEDIACORP DON'T FORGETTHE LYRICS 6ooAM Entertainment Tonight Grader? 1100 CSlMiamivl DESTINATION TRUTH Channel 8, Bpm 6.30 Prime Time Morning 5.00 The Rachael Ray Show 111 MN Traveler Sea Monster And Bat Demon 9.30 The Rachael Ray Show 111 6.00 Entertainment Tonight I.OOAM Entertainment Tonight
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    • 603 37 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL After heart-wrenching defeat, Wenger brands Ferguson's United a dirty team LONDON Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has reopened hostilities between Manchester United and Arsenal by accusing the Premier League champions of using "anti-football" tactics during their 2-1 victory at Old Trafford on Saturday.
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    • 354 37 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON The spectre of institutionalised cheating in Formula 1 raised its head in Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday night, when it emerged that the sport's governing body, the FIA, are to launch an investigation into events at last year's Singapore Grand Prix, in
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    • 432 38  -  lANDECOTTA RHBSINGAPORECUP Tampines can't forget their harrowing loss to Albirex ian@mediacorp.com.sg RHBSINGAPORECUP QUARTER-FINAL, IST LEG Tampines Rovers v Albirex Niigata Tampines Stadium, 7.45pm TAMPINES Rovers are still smarting from their 3-0 loss to Albirex Niigata in the S-League at the end of July. It brought their
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    • 290 38 DPA SYDNEY Africans will be running for Australia at the London Olympics without having to leave their home countries permanently. Changes to citizenship rules announced yesterday will see Australia joining oil-rich Arab states in offering quick passports and relaxed residency
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    • 253 38  -  lAN DECOTTA TTM Samut Sakhon have gone one better in their second appearance in the RHB Singapore Cup. Last year, the Thai outfit were knocked out in the quar-ter-finals by Woodlands Wellington. Last night, TTM ensured there was no repeat when they beat Brunei's
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    • 515 39 AFTERNOON LATEST Swiss the first tennis player to break USssom barrier with three-set defeat of teenager Devin Britton NEW YORK With 15 grand slam titles to his name, Roger Federer has not got where he is without possessing something of a ruthless streak. But for all
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    • 161 39 AFP Kirn Clijsters posted a triumphant return to the US Open on Monday, four years after being crowned queen of New York. The 26-year-old former world No 1, who only returned to competitive tennis at the start of the month after more than two years of retirement,
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    • 627 40 AGENCIES GOLF Unheralded Slocum triumphs as world No 1 comes up short, again JERSEY CITY On his 72nd hole at The Barclays, facing a putt Tiger Woods normally couldn't miss if he tried, a putt that would've landed him in a playoff with someone named Heath
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    • 300 40 Byeong-Hun latest off Korea's production line AGENCIES TULSA The best amateur golfers in the United States keep getting younger and younger. For the second straight year, the US Amateur crowned the youngest champion in its history dating back to 1895. This time, it was Florida high school student An ByeongHun
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    • 49 37 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am Tennis US Open, Ch 22 Bam NFL Houston v Minnesota, Ch 117 Bpm Cycling Tour of Spain Stage 4, Ch 113 11pm Tennis US Open, Ch 22 TOMORROW 1.58am Cricket England v Australia, Ch 110 6.35am-11.35pm SportsZone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on gjBLive
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    • 572 41  -  SHERMAINEWONG BESTOFAUGUST These ads of the month will tug at your heartstrings shermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg A SEXY coupe and jumping chocolate dolphins what do they have in common? According to the panel of judges for Today's Ad of the Month contest design editor Edric Sng, voices editor Agatha Koh
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    • 183 41 THE Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) South-east Asia, Singapore Chapter, has announced its leadership council and executive officers for 2009/10. lAB Singapore, supported by more than 40 leading digital advertising firms in Singapore and South-east Asia, is dedicated to promoting investment in interactive advertising. The 10
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    • 836 42 THE NEWYORKTIMES US ECONOMY NEARLY one year after the federal rescue of the United States' biggest banks, American taxpayers have begun seeing profits from the hundreds of billions of dollars in aid that many critics thought may never be seen again. The profits, collected from eight of
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    • 260 43 3LOOMBERG NEW YORK Walt Disney agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment for about US$4 billion ($5.8 billion) in cash and stock, adding the comic-book characters Iron Man and Spider-Man to its lineup of princesses and live-action stars. Marvel investors will
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    • 429 43 BLOOMBERG US ECONOMY Economists doubt Fed #s ability to contain prices in wake of stimulus THE United States Federal Reserve will not be able to prevent the trillions of dollars in government stimulus pumped into the American economy from stoking inflation later this decade, a survey of
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    • 349 44 AFP TAX HAVENS Switzerland, Singapore agree on data exchange to curtail tax cheats ZURICH Switzerland has agreed on a deal with Singapore to allow for data exchange aimed at clamping down on tax cheats. The accord, which has yet to be formally signed, is one of a
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    • 294 45 DOWJONES TOKYO Japan's industrial output rose more than expected in July in another sign that the business environment is improving, even as domestic consumers remain reluctant to spend. Production rose 1.9 per cent from June, the government said, registering the fifth straight
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      450 45 AGENCIES CHINESE STOCKS Shanghai Composite biggest loser among major markets SHANGHAI Chinese shares plunged 6.7 per cent yesterday as concerns over slowing lending growth and a new share supply glut weighed on sentiment. The Shanghai Composite Index ended down 192.94 points at 2,667.75 on turnover of 124.6 billion
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    • 185 46 938LIVE EMPLOYEE benefits are certainly an important component in an employees remuneration package, and in most companies it has been ranked almost as important as cash. Good benefits can also influence employee goodwill, motivation and productivity so firms should use the downturn to improve their
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    • 391 46  -  RACHEL KELLY CHANNEL NEWSASIA SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY Singapore-listed firm wants to move into the solar sector rachel@mediacorp.com.sg MAINBOARD-LISTED Manufacturing Integration Technology (MIT) is the latest semiconductor firm in Singapore that is looking to diversify into the growing solar sector to boost its
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    • 148 46 938LIVE PROPERTY consultancy CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) is launching a prime office building, called Merchant Square, for sale by expression of interest. The property is at the fringe of the Central Business District, located close to the junction of Merchant Road and Clemenceau Avenue. It
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    • 288 47  -  YASMINEYAHYA 938LIVE yasmineyahya@mediacorp.com.sg MOST economists here are upgrading their forecasts for the full year, thanks to the better-than-expected domestic economic figures as well as uplifting news from overseas. They also expect the pace of Singapore's recovery to gain
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    • 354 47  -  KELVIN CHOW MEDIARING kdvinc@mediacorp.com.sg IN A move to bolster shareholders confidence, the new chair-man-designate of Mediaßing, Dr Bhupendra Kumar Modi, said that there will not be any major shake-up in the company and that he is confident that the company will be able to start paying out
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        • 150 48 Stocks slide US stocks fell as a sharp Chinese equity sell-off added to concerns about the global economic prospects of recovery from a steep recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 47.92 points to 9,496.28, closing lower for the second straight session. The Nasdaq composite skidded 19.71 points
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        • 87 48 Dips below US$7O Crude oil was little changed after dropping below US$7O a barrel yesterday on concerns a slowdown in lending growth may derail a recovery in China, the world's second-largest energy-consuming country. Crude oil fell 3.8 per cent yesterday, the biggest decline in two weeks. "Worries about
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      • 354 48 WONGSIEWYING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore Government has revised the development charge rates for some segments of the property sector to better reflect the current market values. A development charge is a tax levied when a property site is developed into a more valuable project, allowing the
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      • 516 48  -  ESTHER FUNG GIC'S NEW APPOINTMENTS With new postings, GIC hopes to enhance ties with American and European policymakers esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has created two new senior appointments with overseas postings in a move that it hopes will enhance its ties
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