Today, 7 October 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Wednesday October j, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    153 1 Police arrest a 14-year-old £v suspect in connection with a fire that broke out at a Siglap mosque, damaging its prayer hall and injuring several people. 6 An attack on online email accounts resulted in 30,000 passwords being published on the Web as users were tricked into
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    Lock icon Twin jolts for S'pore
    679 1  -  TANYO-HINN 2010 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES Local hope Ting Wen US swimmers won't be at inaugural Games yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With 311 days to go to the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, the hosts have received a jolt both on the local and international fronts. It is
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      Lock icon Teenage suspect arrested
      555 2  -  LINYANQIN MOSQUE FIRE 150 evacuated; boy to be charged today yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE By the time the flames were put out, all that remained of the tiled roof of the prayer hall at Kampung Siglap Mosque were some supporting struts the only things standing between the hall and
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      Lock icon PM Lee meets Japanese PM Hatoyama, former PM Shinzo Abe
      288 3  -  MICHIYOISHIDA CHANNEL NEWSASIA japan bureau chief michiyo@mediacorp.com.sg TOKYO Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday became the first Asian leader to visit the new Japanese government. He met with his counterpart Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo. During their two-hour discussion, Mr Hatoyama
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      Judge acquits SDP five
      394 3  -  ONG DAI LIN IN COURT dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They have been hauled to court many times for staging protests and other activities in public, with a guilty verdict the regular outcome. Yesterday, however, a group of Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) leaders and activists were acquitted of holding
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      Fur flies, and rail operator apologises
      548 4  -  NEOCHAICHIN STRAYS IN MRT STATIONS chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE What happens when an animal strays onto MRT tracks? The question has surfaced after a cat ended up in the underground North East Line (NEL) last Friday morning. Commuter Risa Mardjuki was one of many at Dhoby
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      Lock icon 30,000 email passwords available online
      331 6 AGENCIES PHISHING ATTACK Account users tricked into revealing details SAN FRANCISCO At first, it was reported that more than 10,000 Hotmail accounts were compromised and all of the usernames and passwords of these accounts were posted online. Unfortunately, Hotmail was only the beginning. Google yesterday
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      MILLIONAIRES TO GROOM NEW ENTREPRENEURS
      113 6 The Entrepreneur's Resource Centre, founded by leading entrepreneurs is pleased to introduce a new g-month program to groom the next generation of entrepreneurs. The program is suitable for professionals and executives who are tired of the rat race and want to carve out a successful
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      Lock icon MAIN SPONSOR MIGHT SUE MISS SINGAPORE WORLD ORGANISER
      200 8 TEOXUANWEI After the controversy, legal action could follow. One of the main sponsors of the Miss Singapore World 2009 pageant has sent lawyers' letters to organiser ERM World Marketing. Young And Healthy said in a press release yesterday that it "has been
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      No shopping alone for Ris
      244 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT PROBATION REVIEW weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former Miss Singapore World Ris Low was back in court yesterday and ordered by a district judge not to go into a shopping mall unaccompanied by a family member. In a review of her 24--month supervised probation, District Judge May
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        Lock icon 95,000 EZ-LINK CARDS REPLACED IN 5 DAYS
        106 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA With the extended deadline for commuters to replace their old ez-link cards ending today, some 95,000 more cards have been replaced in the last five days. In all, some 4.6 million ez-link cards have been exchanged for the new Cepas-compliant cards
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        1,000 FIRMS TO BE FLU-READY BY NEXTYEAR
        108 10 The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) has launched a Flu Pandemic Business Continuity Programme to gear-up at least i,ooo firms by the end of next year. Firms can engage one of the accredited certification bodies appointed by Spring Singapore to verify their pandemic preparedness.
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      383 10  -  JULIENNE CHAN CHANNEL NEWSASIA RAM TIWARY TRIAL Retrial finds the accused guilty of murder again news@mediacorp.com.sg SYDNEY Found guilty of double murder by a second Australian jury, Ram Tiwary will learn next month if he will at least get a lighter sentence this time round. The
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      Lock icon Kim's youngest son gets party post
      181 12 AFP SEOUL The youngest son of North Korea's Kirn Jong II has been given a post in the ruling communist party in preparation for his eventual takeover of the leadership, a South Korean lawmaker said yesterday. Mr Kirn Jong Un is expected to be
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      Lock icon Pyongyang's price for peace
      373 12 AGENCIES SIX-NATION NUCLEARTALKS PYONGYANG North Korea yesterday expressed its willingness to return to six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations it quit six months ago but only after it talks directly to the United States to improve "hostile relations". The offer, made by North Korean leader Kirn Jong 11,
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      Nearly 13,000 bid for balance flats
      197 14 SINGAPORE It has been just six days since applications opened for the HDB's Sale of Balance Flats, and already there are an average of six hopefuls gunning for each unit. As of spm yesterday, there were 12,728 applications for 2,132 flats on offer. The
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      'He behaved like an animal'
      535 14  -  LEONGWEEKEAT IN COURT Chief Justice ups sentence of 28-year-old who bit, punched and slammed toddler, 3, against door weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The beating that toddler Muhammad Izzul Salihin Muhammad Farzid received on his third birthday last year was "savage to say the least", charged the Public
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      Lock icon Poor construction?
      391 16 AGENCIES AFTERTHE QUAKE Building standards blamed for massive damage PADANG As Indonesia begins to rebuild after last week's earthquake, questions are being asked about whether corruption and shoddy building standards contributed to the catastrophe. In Padang, around a quarter of the city's buildings were flattened, and almost all
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      Lock icon SCDF team hopes to do more as locals pick up the pieces
      584 17  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg PADANG (Indonesia) They are getting ready to come home possibly as early as Friday but dog handler Staff Sergeant Kelvin See, part of the Singapore Civil Defence's 42-strong rescue team in Western Sumatra, is hoping to
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      Lock icon Sondhi heads Yellow Shirts
      254 18 AFP THAI POLITICS BANGKOK The founder of Thailand's "Yellow Shirt" protest movement was yesterday voted leader of the group's new political party. Mr Sondhi Limthongkul, who led a blockade of Bangkok's airports last year to drive Mr Thaksin's allies from the government, was elected unopposed to
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      Bickering erupts within Golkar
      286 18 PEKANBARU The Golkar Party's national congress descended into chaos yesterday and the police had to step in to help cool tensions over the election of the party's next leader, reported the Jakarta Globe. Party members were debating over who had the right to vote today for
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      Lock icon Japan sounds alarm as Melor heads for Honshu
      218 18 AFP TOKYO —A powerful typhoon raced towards Japan yesterday, prompting warnings of strong winds and high waves just days after storms wreaked devastation in South-east Asia. Typhoon Melor, packing gusts of up to 252kmh, was bearing down on Minami Daito island in
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      Lock icon Indian politicians take along their own luxuries when visiting the poor
      286 19 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH NEW DELHI A campaign by Indian ministers to rebuild support among the country's "untouchables" by staying in their homes has backfired after they were accused of taking mattresses, fans and personal chefs when they visited poor families.
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      Lock icon 'Show your face, or stay out of school'
      405 19 AP COVER-UP CONTROVERSY Egypt's top cleric wants to ban face veil in some schools CAIRO Egypt's top Islamic cleric is planning to bar students wearing the face veil from entering the schools of Al Azhar, Sunni Islam's premier institute of learning. A
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      Lock icon We bombed UN office: Pakistani Taliban
      166 20 AFP ISLAMABAD The Pakistani Taliban yesterday said it was behind the suicide attack on a United Nations compound that killed five aid workers on Monday. Four Pakistanis and one Iraqi were killed when a man disguised in military uniform walked into the lobby of
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      Lock icon Kandahar the key
      347 20 AFP AFGHAN WAR Gates promises Pakistan: US will stay in Afghanistan WASHINGTON US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said he has reassured Pakistan, which it views as a strategic ally, that the United States would not be pulling out of Afghanistan despite a strategy review underway at the
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        Lock icon 3 AMERICANS SHARE NOBEL PRIZE
        92 22 AP Three scientists who created the technology behind digital photography and helped link the world through fiberoptic networks shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday. Mr Charles X Kao was cited for his breakthrough involving the transmission of light in fibre optics while MrWillard
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        Lock icon INDIA STEPS UP FLOOD RELIEF
        103 22 AFP Aid workers used helicopters and boats to reach survivors of massive floods in southern India that have killed at least 280 people, officials said yesterday. Days of heavy rain and flash floods in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have forced close to 1.5 million
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        Lock icon HIJACK BID ON S'PORE SHIP FOILED
        114 22 AP An attempted night-time hijack by Somali pirates on a Singapore-flagged ship has been foiled in the Gulf of Aden, a maritime official said yesterday. The vessel, which was carrying cars and is managed in Norway, was attacked on Sunday night en route to
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        Lock icon TAIWAN TO SPEND MORE ON FLOODING
        84 22 AFP Taiwan, reeling from the worst typhoon in half a century, plans to increase its spending on flood prevention by nearly 13 per cent next year, Premier Wu Denyih said yesterday. The government aims to invest a total of US$2.6 billion ($3.6 billion) to
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      Lock icon Pay freeze for top dogs?
      453 23 AGENCIES DEFICIT CONTROL UK government plans cutback on public sector salary increases LONDON The British government plans to freeze the salaries of top bureaucrats and offer only minimal increases to other senior workers in an effort to control the country's spiraling deficit, a treasury official
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      Lock icon Inmate injected 18 times in botched execution
      262 23 AFP WASHINGTON A botched execution of a US inmate in September, whose veins could not take a lethal injection, has led Ohio to call a moratorium that may prompt a wholesale re-examination of the execution method. On Monday, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland granted
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      Lock icon Obama declares war on heat-trapping gases
      238 24 AP WASHINGTON President Barack Obama wants the federal government to set an example when it comes to global warming. In an executive order signed on Monday, Mr Obama required all agencies to reduce heat-trapping gases. Each federal agency will have to set the first
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      Lock icon Chromosome 8: The cancer connection
      300 24 THEGUARDIAN. MISSINGGENE LONDON Scientists have identified a gene they believe plays a major role in more than half of all breast cancers and a significant portion of other tumours. The gene, which helps to stop cancer cells in their tracks, came to light after researchers
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      Lock icon Letterman tries to fix 'hurt', apologises to wife and staff
      239 25 AP NEW YORK Mr David Letterman, days after revealing on air that he had been sexually involved with women from his television programme, apologised to his wife on Monday's Late Show, saying she had been "horribly hurt by my behaviour"
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      425 25 AFP,THE NEWYORKTIMES GUIDING ENDORSEMENTS US moves to tighten rules for product endorsements WASHINGTON The United States published on Monday, tighter guidelines for advertisers, celebrities and bloggers endorsing consumer products. Web posts by bloggers receiving cash to review a product or service are considered an endorsement and
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      388 26 AP, THE GUARDIAN GERMAN MAGAZINE BERLIN Germany's most popular women's magazine announced on Monday that it is banning professional models from its pages in favour of "real women" in an attempt to combat an unhealthy standard of rail-thin beauty that it says has
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      161 32  -  M Lukshumayeh Letter from I REFER to "The ball is now in our court" (Oct 5). I thank Mr Conrad Raj for the article and agree with him. As a consumer I feel short-changed, even slighted. Having subscribed to Star Hub TV all these
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      218 30 n| When Singapore I was chosen as J a lpit stop' on The Amazing Race, who did we choose to represent us? Phua Chu Kang. Read Bryan Robert's wry views on Ris Low's command of English at www.todayonline.com/voices y MODELS OF EFFICIENCY Flatbed Colour Scanner •High-Speed KX-MB772CX HjT^^ 18-ppm Laser
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      298 37  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH A stirring and poignant look at the harrowing Nanjing Massacre genevievdoh@mediacorp.com.sg YEARS of hatred fuelled by almost complete non-contrition has made the Japanese occupation of China and in particular, the Nanjing Massacre, a very hard topic for most
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      158 37 GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW HAEUNDAE: THEDEADLYTSUNAMI BILLED as South Korea's first bigbudget disaster movie, Haeundae: The Deadly Tsunami sees the country's beloved Haeundae Beach and its surroundings completely destroyed by a CGI-ed super-duper wave. A blockbuster hit in its homeland, the supposedly mega budget spent
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      193 38  -  MAYO MARTIN MOVIE REVIEW 500 DAYS OF SUMMER mayo@mediacorp.com.sg 500 Days Of Summer is the latest proof that rom-coms for the hipster set are now pretty much formula. Music video director Marc Webb's oftentimes cloying, heart-on-sleeve, non-love story has all the ingredients in place: An "inventive"
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      174 39 GENEVIEVE LOH; MOVIE REVIEW PARIS 36 SET during a time of political unrest in 1936 Paris, Christophe Barratier's (Les Choristes) film tells the story of a passionate theatre crew who desperately try to seize back control of their beloved Chamsonia Theatre after the debt-ridden hall is purchased
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      195 39 GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW SORORITY ROW IT'S Heathers meets Means Girls meets I Know What You Did Last Summer meets Scream. With a cast that boasts Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher playing sorority house mother), Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Rumer, and other random hot girls, Sorority Row sounds
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      567 42  -  SHAMIR OSMAN UgUPjMMJMlJralMlldld&l shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Thailand stands in Singapore's way to the 2011 Asian Cup finals in Qatar, with Radojko Avramovic's Lions facing a rival buoyed by the appointment of former Manchester United and England captain Bryan Robson as their coach. "Captain Marvel", as Robson
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      219 42 LAN DECOTTA SINGAPORE Two days after he suffered a heart attack during a veterans match at Jalan Besar Stadium, Singapore football legend Dollah Kassim remains unconscious and in critical condition at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Responding to public concerns over the health of the
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      495 43 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Benitez to blame for poor start, not finances: Co-owner LONDON Liverpool's bid to capture their first league title since 1990 took a big hit on Sunday, when they lost 2-0 to Chelsea. It was the Reds' third loss of the season; the last
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      403 43 AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Aston Villa 1 Manchester City 1 BIRMINGHAM Martin O'Neill has described Richard Dunne as "absolutely immense" after the Aston Villa defender scored against his former club Manchester City on Monday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Dunne's strike secured a handy 1-1
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      477 44 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Manager's remarks about referee Wiley could spark backlash against United LONDON Retired English Premier League referee Jeff Winter has described Sir Alex Ferguson as "a bully" and "a coward" for his attack on veteran referee Alan Wiley. The Manchester United manager claimed
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      531 45  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE With just four games left and nothing but pride to play for, Woodlands Wellington and the Super Reds are pushing their teams to finish the S-League season on a winning note. For Woodlands coach Nenad Bacina (picture), there is the small matter of
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      331 44 X League Pohang Seoul Wed, 07/10/09 6.30pm KCup Daejeon Seongnam Wed, 07/10/09 6.30pm KCup Suwon Jeonbuk Wed, 07/10/09 6.30pm S.League Woodlands Super Reds Wed, 07/10/09 7.45pm Asian Cup Japan Hong Kong Thu, 08/10/09 6.20pm S.League Young Lions Bal Khalsa Thu, 08/10/09 7.45pm Ip LAYii Always play with care. SHGAPORE Iresponslblyy
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      490 46  -  ESTHER FUNG FINISCONNER Hard drive guru returns to S #pore to promote his vision esther@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Disk drive pioneer Finis Conner, who co-founded United States disk drive maker Seagate Technology some 30 years ago, is back in Singapore to promote his new vision
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      478 48 BLOOMBERG HK PROPERTY PRICES UP HONG KONG Luxury home sales almost tripled in September from a month earlier, as mainland Chinese residents flocked to buy flats in the city. The registered sales of residential units worth more than HK$lO million ($l.B million) rose to 1,351 from
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      119 49 AGENCIES SYDNEY Australia became the first Group of 20 nations to raise its lending rate since the start of the global financial crisis more than a year ago. Its central bank has raised its interest rate from a 49-year low of 3 per cent, to
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      183 49 BLOOMBERG SYDNEY Telstra, Australia's largest telephone company, may get at least As 6 billion ($7.4 billion) from the government for agreeing to sell its fixed-line assets. Analysts at Morgan Stanley said the payment would outweigh costs of the separation, and allow
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      429 49 AFP OILTRADING Report: Gulf nations leading talks to end dollar dealings for oil LONDON The US dollar's future as the world's top currency was thrown into doubt yesterday, as a British report said Arab states had launched secret moves with China, Russia, Japan and France
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        96 50 An annual series of weekly pregnancydedicated Internet seminars has been launched on www.pregnancynme.com, in partnership with a network of renowned doctors from Asia and Australia. This weekly "webinar" series is a public health education initiative hosted by FlyFreeForHealth, a pioneer of global healthcare, and supported by Obimin,
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        99 50 WET LIVE AT WILD WILD WEST Wild Wild Wet is holding exclusive night events themed "Wet Live" on six Saturdays: Oct 10, 24; Nov 14, 28; and Dec 12, 26from7-10pm. The popular "Tsunami" and the relaxing Jacuzzi will be open and there will be a live band and a BBQ
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      421 51 BLOOMBERG ASIAN AIRLINES SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are flying fuller planes. Profits may take longer to recover. SIA, the world's largest airline by market value, packed an average of 79 per cent of its seats in July and August, while
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      173 51 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK China led a rebound in initial public offerings (IPOs) in the third quarter, followed by the United States. A report by Ernst and Young said that companies had raised some US$37.B billion ($53 billion) in IPOs in the third quarter, the busiest
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      169 52  - Grey-listed' tax havens risk shutdown DESMONDWONG CHANNEL NEWSASIA desmondwong@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Greater scrutiny by developed countries on some offshore financial centres for being places to hide money has raised the risk of these jurisdictions losing their business, said industry players at a private banking summit yesterday. Places like Monaco and
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      334 52  -  WONGSIEWYING CHANNEL NEWSASIA CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY siewying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Rising trade protectionism may turn up the pressure on companies to use Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a condition to open up trade channels with one another. Experts at a CSR conference yesterday said that more organisations
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      375 53  -  TAN HUI LENG LIVING SPACES Can we adapt to even smaller apartment living? huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Small-sized private apartments that are commonplace in Hong Kong and Tokyo are now gaining popularity in Singapore. Sales of such "shoe-box" apartments, which measure less than 500 square feet, have hit a
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      211 53 938 LIVE SINGAPORE Asia-Pacific will see a sharper rise in travel costs next year, as airfares and hotel rates move up on the back of a recovering regional economy. The weakened economy saw a 7 per cent drop in business travel in the region this
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      150 53 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE MediaCorp has appointed Charles Marshall Ormiston (picture) to its board of directors. Mr Ormiston is the chairman of South East Asia and Asia-Pacific Head of Strategic Capability of Bain and Company a global management consulting firm. The 47 year old specialises
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      594 54  -  CHEOWXINYI SHARE PRICES INCENTS INITIAL PUBLICOFFERINGS cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The initial public offering (IPO) market sprang to life in the third quarter with nine new offerings making their way on to the Singapore Exchange (SGX). After a lacklustre start to the year, the IPO market saw more
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      207 54 .BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Singapore Airlines, the world's biggest carrier by market value, had a "dou-ble-digit" decline in yields in the quarter ended September as the global recession sapped travel demand. "The third quarter, in general, still remains in the minus territory," chief executive officer
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