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  • 20 1 TODAY Wednesday December g, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday December g, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 506 1 AGENCIES TOKYO The Japanese government yesterday unveiled a 7.2 trillion yen ($113.6 billion) economic stimulus package amid signs that the recovery and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's popularity are waning. Mr Hatoyama's stimulus plan his first since his party came to power in August
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  • 816 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT LEONGWEE KEAT FOREIGN WORKER QUOTAS Firms facing labour shortfall as orders pick up, but analysts split on the solution weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE As the economy inches back into positive growth, trade association leaders have voiced concerns to the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce
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  • NEWS
    • 409 2 AGENCIES US EMPLOYMENT The US President may tap into unspent money from the bailout programme to fund job growth. a WASHINGTON From extending a helping hand to small businesses to modernising roads and railways to promoting energy efficiency, these were among the initiatives that President
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    • 229 3 SINGAPORE The HINI vaccine will now be rolled out to children aged from six months to less than 10 years. The Health Ministry (MOH) and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) are satisfied with the safety profile of the CSL
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    • 543 4  -  HOEYEEN NIE WANG ENG ENG MARRIAGE CENTRAL AND yeennie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE More than half of divorces here happen within the first nine years of marriage. That is why a national marriage resource centre is looking to strengthen marriages within this timeframe by focusing
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    • 564 6  -  ZULOTHMAN DEATH ROW INMATE Court rules that convicted drug mule can appeal zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Before a packed courtroom yesterday, the judiciary shot down a claim made by the Attorney-General's (AG) Chambers that the High Court had no authority to put off the execution
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    • 413 8 AGENCIES CO-ORDINATED BOMBINGS Al Qaeda has been active in Baghdad recently. The aim is to show the government is unable to protect civilians and to deter people from going to ballot boxes. Iraqi National Security Adviser MowaffaqAl Rubaie BAGHDAD A month-long calm in the Iraqi
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    • 343 10 IPHONE PRICE PLANS SINGAPORE Hours before its two rivals began selling the iPhone in Mi's case, at the stroke of midnight SingTel launched its return salvo of price plans to match, and in some respects exceed, their deals. In terms of the cost of buying the iPhone
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    • 89 12 HONG LEONG FOUNDATION Volunteers of the Hong Leong Foundation yesterday brought festive warmth in the form of food, cash and company -to residents of the Ju Eng Home for Senior Citizens. The charity arm of the Hong Leong Group is distributing cash gifts totalling some $400,000 to
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    • 269 12  -  ZULOTHMAN SINGAPOREAN GAMBLER zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE His act of not paying a Las Vegas casino the US$4.4 million he lost while gambling led to a landmark ruling last year when Justice Chan Seng Onn ordered Singaporean businessman Poh Soon Kiat to obey a United
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    • 297 14 ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE When he was caught, he had three condoms with him. But although the former National Environment Officer admitted to seeking sexual favours from a 44-year-old woman, he told a district court yesterday that it did
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    • 401 14  -  ONGDAILIN IN COURT Youngest was a year old offences committed over eight months dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The one-year-old girl was walking behind her mother along the common corridor when their male neighbour picked the toddler up and kissed her on the lips. When the mother, who
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    • 288 16 RACHEL KELLY SINGAPORE Soon, accessing YouTube videos, the World of Warcraft and United States-based websites will become a faster, smoother experience for StarHub's broadband Internet users. Businesses can also take comfort in more reliable connection, with lower chances of disruption in the event of, say,
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    • 400 16  -  ONGDAILIN IN COURT dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was his friend's childhood dream to have traffic police motorcycles, with blinker lights flashing, escort him and his wife on their wedding day for a grand entrance. So when his friend asked twice for five traffic police
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    • 555 17 It was a photography adventure of sorts for the 200 photography enthusiasts who attended Canon's Power in Vow Wands seminar last Saturday afternoon. Over two hours, the celebrity speakers MediaCorp Radio DJs Bukoh Mary and Daniel Ong, and artiste Tay Ping Hui took
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    • 296 18  -  NEOCHAICHIN RISE IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Factors such as population growth, urbanisation and globalisation more so than climate change are the principal drivers of infectious diseases reemerging worldwide, an infectious diseases expert said yesterday. Although experts agree that climate change affects how infectious diseases such
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    • 201 18 S RAMESH SINGAPORE Lapses in control of radioactive and nuclear material can lead to the possibility of a "dirty bomb" being set off in a densely-populated area. That, and the ease of access to information describing how to construct such devices, compounds the terrorism
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 74 20 The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports is spending some $12.5 million to improve the quality of childcare education here, through a scholarship programme that will allow eligible teachers to pursue a recognised degree or diploma. The scholarships, worth up to $25,000 each, are available until
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      • 78 20 A new test for specific cardiac biomarkers in the blood in a heart attack will be less invasive requiring just a finger-prick amount of blood and drastically cut down testing time. The integrated system was developed by researchers at A*Star's Institute of Microelectronics. It cuts sample
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    • 172 20 ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE For $400, Chua Kim Hai agreed to be part of an elaborate plan involving stopovers at two fish farms to smuggle an illegal immigrant out of Singapore using his motorised sampan. The plan was foiled by Police Coast Guard officers who arrested
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    • 201 20 BYRON HO SINGAPORE Social networking sites are keeping half the youths in Singapore glued to the Internet for three hours each day. One in five have dated a stranger they met through a social networking site, and one in 10 have
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    • 1026 21 For these two O-level graduates, their MDIS diplomas are stepping stones to attaining graduate qualification ONE is an aspiring computer programmerwho hopes to pursue his degree in the United Kingdom; the other has plans to take her career to the next level by attaining
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    • 254 22 ONLINESEARCHES SINGAPORE The Singapore Budget was the most researched term here in 2009, according to Yahoo with former Miss Singapore Ris Low and Aware following not far behind. Yahoo and Google recently unveiled their top local search lists including for celebrities, food and
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  • WORLD
    • 252 23 AP COPENHAGEN This decade is very likely to be the warmest since record keeping began in 1850, and this year could rank among the top-five warmest years, the United Nations weather agency reported on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference yesterday. The
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    • 499 23 AFP COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT COPENHAGEN The United States said it had seized the climate initiative with a regulatory shift that labels greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant, as a landmark conference entered a second day yesterday. The shift by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was announced
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    • 168 24 AP KUALA LUMPUR The Philippine government and a Muslim separatist group yesterday resumed peace talks that collapsed 16 months ago, restoring formal efforts to end a decades-long rebellion that has claimed at least 120,000 lives. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has been fighting for
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    • 379 24 AFP THAILAND'S SOUTH BANGKOK Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged his support yesterday for Thailand's "constructive" plans to curb the violence in its southern provinces during his first official visit to the neighbouring country. Mr Najib held "especially productive, very comprehensive" talks with his Thai
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    • 274 29 AP CAMBODIA SPYING CASE PHNOM PENH A Thai man was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday for spying on fugitive former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra during his visit to Cambodia. The case had threatened to worsen a diplomatic feud between the two neighbours. The
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    • 203 29 AGENCIES SHARIFF AGUAK Philippine bomber planes staged a show of force yesterday over a southern province placed under martial law. The military flights over Maguindanao province were aimed at intimidating the 3,000 gunmen loyal to a clan chief, Andal Ampatuan Snr,
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 101 29 AFP Eight students were killed and 26 others injured in a stampede down a narrow stairway at a private boarding school in central China, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The incident occurred on Monday in the city of Xiangxiang in Hunan province as students
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      • 100 29 AFP Indonesia will deploy thousands of police to an anti-graft protest today after President Susilo BambangYudhoyono warned that unnamed forces could hijack the rally to topple him, a spokesman said. "There will beio,ooo police personnel deployed tomorrow in several spots that will be
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    • 178 30 AP SEOUL South Korean President Lee Myung Bak yesterday offered to send HINI medication to North Korea amid reports that the virus killed dozens of people and is spreading fast in its impoverished communist neighbour. The Seoul-based aid group Good Friends
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    • 342 30 AGENCIES US-NORTH KOREA TALKS SEOUL A United States envoy arrived in North Korea yesterday to try to coax it back to nuclear disarmament negotiations, in what will be the first high-level dialogue between the Obama administration and the communist state. After a year of
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    • 188 32 SYDNEY The number of Chinese migrants to Australia has surpassed that of New Zealand and Britain, the traditional sources of settlers in the country. Statistics show that 6,350 people arrived from mainland China in July to October this year, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday. The number
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    • 378 32 AP ARTCENSORSHIP Australia blocks visas of artists, calls their studio a political tool SYDNEY Australia was accused of censorship yesterday after it denied visas to North Korean artists invited to a rare international exhibition of their work, saying their studio is a propaganda tool
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    • 395 33 THE NEWYORKTIMES, AFP PAKISTAN BLASTS LAHORE (Pakistan) Continuing a string of attacks against civilians and government offices, militants set off two bombs in one of the busiest markets of the eastern Pakistani city, killing at least 49 people and wounding at least 150 others, the Pakistani authorities said
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    • 260 33 AFP KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai told visiting United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates yesterday that Afghanistan would need aid to fund its security forces for up to 20 more years, and urged a long-term US commitment. Mr Karzai reiterated that
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    • 636 35  -  BRIAN WHITAKER THEGUARDIAN POINTOFVIEW An American writer falls victim to another false Yiarrative #:ThatUS foreign policy is altruistic AN INTERESTING spat has broken out between New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Stephen Walt, Harvard professor of international affairs. In a column prompted by the Fort
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    • 288 36 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH, AFP NEW DELHI A man suspected of being one of the underworld's most prolific bankers who is believed to have a client list ranging from British gangsters to Al Qaeda members has been arrested in India. Mr Naresh Jain, known
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    • 418 36 AFP MUMBAI ATTACKS Pakistani-American allegedly identified possible targets and landing sites CHICAGO United States prosecutors charged a PakistaniAmerican on Monday with helping in last year's Mumbai attacks by identifying possible targets and landing sites and reporting back to a Pakistanbased militant group. David Coleman Headley,
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    • 251 38 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH WHITE HOUSE SECURITY WASHINGTON The uninvited couple who sneaked into a state dinner at the White House were only the latest in a long list of security lapses by the Secret Service, the agency charged with protecting the President, his
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    • 150 38 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TEL AVIV The sounds of Mozart might help slow premature infants' metabolism, potentially helping them to put on weight, according to an Israeli study. Most research into the socalled "Mozart effect" has focused on whether listening to the composer can boost a
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    • 792 40  -  lAN DE COTTA STANDARD CHARTERED SINGAPORE MARATHON 2009 Eighth edition of marathon a roaring success on and off course ian@mediacorp.com.sg FEW among the 17,500 who signed up to run the full distance of 42.195km atthe Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009 on Sunday would have even
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    • 291 41  -  lAN DE COTTA THE Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon flagged off at 5.30am on Sunday. Itwas around noon when Jenap Said finished her race. Russia's Albina Mayorova, who won the women's event in a time of 2hours, 32min and 49sec, would have already been
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    • 392 42 AP MILLIONS STOLEN SAO PAULO Thieves who spent months tunnelling from a rented house to an armoured car company's safe made off with nearly US$6 million ($8.3 million) over the weekend, making their getaway as end-of-season football matches virtually shut down Brazil, the
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    • 107 44 SPACE IS NOW A TOURIST DESTINATION British billionaire Richard Branson (right, with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger) on Monday unveiled a commercial rocket plane, the SpaceShipTwo, that will allow tourists a chance to view the Earth and experience weightlessness from suborbital space. Mr Branson, who is spending between US$25O million ($347.4
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    • 395 44 AFP PRE-ELECTIONANTICS LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stands accused of launching a pre-election "class war" on the opposition, painting the Tories as rich, posh and out of touch in a desperate bid to whip up voters. With Britain in its worst recession and an election
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    • 180 46 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH SAN FRANSICO Google has announced that real-time news from Twitter and other information from the Internet will start appearing in its search results. Underthe new system, the freshest tweets on any online search topic will scroll past in real-time, without any need
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    • 78 46 AP Thousands of spectators and surfers are flocking to Hawaii's beaches to see the biggest waves in years crash ashore. Heavy traffic backed up for several kilometres on Monday along roads leading to Oahu's North Shore. Some of the world's most daring surfers took on the
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    • 255 46 AGENCIES TIGERWOODS'CRASH WINDERMERE A Florida Highway Patrol trooper suspected that golfing legend Tiger Woods was driving under the influence of alcohol on the day of his accident last month, according to a police report released on Monday. The trooper sought a subpoena for the golfer's blood test
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    • 149 46 AFP An ambulance responded early yesterday to a call for medical assistance from MrTiger Woods' home, local media reported. Local television in the Orlando, Florida area said a call for an ambulance was received from the Woods' home at 2.36am local
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    • 372 48  -  Jorge Soto MAID AGENCIES Letter from I REFER to the report "Give FDWs details of fees charged: NGOs" (Dec 7). I am a permanent resident from Mexico and have lived in Singapore with my wife for the past four years. Three years ago, we had our
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    • 325 57 AP VISUALARTS Artist who destroys his murals wins Turner Prize A SCOTLAND-BASED painter known for destroying his largescale wall murals after they have been exhibited won Britain's best-known art award, the Turner Prize, on Monday. Richard Wright (picture) said he was surprised he beat
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    • 719 62  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Hosts Laos confident of a boost as it looks to make its mark on a big stage linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg VIENTIANE Somvang Chanthilath loves his football. But the 51-year-old Laotian puts in 14-hour days every day at the Daowieng Restaurant here in Vientiane. He
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    • 498 63  -  LEONARDTHOMAS POINTOFVIEW sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS only one gold medal, but arguably the most precious one of all. Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia have all targeted it, Myanmar and Singapore secretly think they can grab it, hosts Laos dream of it. Gold in the
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    • 243 63 LOW LIN FHOONG VIENTIANE She's done her rounds on the ITTF Pro Tour, Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Championships, but for paddler Zena Sim, nothing comes quite as close as donning the red-and-black Singapore shirt here at the SEA Games. The 19-year-old Auckland University of
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    • 378 64  -  1 SHAMIR OSMAN VIENTIANE Deadball specialist Shaiful Esah had his game face on, his eyes glued to the target. Forward Khairul Nizam waited for the SAFFC left-back's next move, the rest of the team looked on. But it was not the mercurial
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    • 679 64  -  TANYO-HINN Singapore wary of the Philippines in the pool, but Molina plays down rivalry yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTIANE Miguel Molina hardly looked like someone set to go into battle yesterday. He was in cool mode, almost nonchalant, as he sat down to talk to MediaCorp
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    • 413 66  -  EWAN MAH SINGAPORE After a poor start to the 2009 Nations Cup, the Singapore netball team nearly pulled off an upset on Day 3 of the competition last night at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall. The Singapore women
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    • 534 67 AFP EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Win or bust for Italian champions as group goes down to the wire CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUPF Inter Milan v Rubin Kazan MILAN It may seem unlikely, given Jose Mourinho (picture) guided Inter Milan to the Serie A title in his first season in
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    • 455 68 ELEPHANT CORAL SINGAPORE Design has always been integral to the business of Elephant Coral, a store selling luxury brand fountain pens and fine stationery. It was founded 13 years ago by Mr Herman Chan, its managing director, who had grown to appreciate these fine works of
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      • 107 69 Forget jolly, forget merry. Fox says. Don't stick with tradition and go Foxy this Christmas, with Fox' latest range of feative gear! Girls-get set to sizzle intheirtartan red dress ($69), or get snug in a melange coat ($119) when you're on that winter holiday! Guys can deck out
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      • 130 69 Take your children to Downtown East to join Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Tazmanian Devil, Daffy Duck and Sylvester for a series of free year-end activities. Play games with the Looney Tunes stars at the Fun and Games Segment, every Tuesday to Friday from 6pm to 6.30pm
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      • 88 69 Enjoy a free skin analysis, goodie bags, live demonstrations, sumptuous hi-tea, exclusive promotions, and also receive a complimentary Jean Yip tote bag worth $100, when you visit Jean Yip's upcoming open houses from 2pmto spm! There is one happening on Dec 12 at Compasspoint
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      • 113 69 Looking for the perfect compliment to your dinner setting? Designed by German designer Jette Joop, WMF JETTE's modern cutlery and tableware of stainless steel will definitely add a sparkle to your table during that intimate dinner with close friends. Perfectly balanced with an intricate
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    • 488 70  -  MATTHEW LYNN POINTOFVIEW PROBABLY the only real surprise about the surge in gold prices is that it took so long to arrive. Last week, gold touched an all-time high of U551,227.50 ($1,705). In September it was still less than US$l,OOO. The price has dropped
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    • 373 71 BLOOMBERG ALUMINIUM FIRM'S IPO Sources say HK exchange needs more time to study application HONG KONG Rusal, the world's biggest aluminium company, has failed to get approval for an initial public offering here of as much as US$3 billion ($4.2 billion), according to sources. The
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    • 178 71 BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI India's passenger car sales rose the most in more than five years last month as cheaper loan rates and economic expansion lifted demand for Maruti Suzuki hatchbacks and Tata Motors Nanos. Sales totalled 133,687 units last month, 61 per cent more than the
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    • 162 71 BLOOMBERG IRVING (Texas) Exxon Mobil and its partners have given the go-ahead to a US$l5 billion ($20.9 billion) Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas venture. The country's biggest resource project, it will supply clean burning fuel to China, Japan and Taiwan.
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    • 341 72  -  RYAN HUANG JOINTVENTURE ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed oil and gas services firm KS Energy has formed a joint venture with a private equity fund, Actis, to sell parts and equipment to oil companies in Asia and the Middle East. The deal, valued at $320 million,
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    • 188 72  -  CHEOWXINYI SINGAPORE The independent directors (IDs) of beleaguered Sino-Environment Technology Group sought legal recourse by filing an application to the Supreme Court to remove the company's executive directors (EDs). In the same court filing on Monday, independent directors Mr Goh Chee Wee and Dr
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    • 350 73  -  CHEOWXINYI DISPOSABLE INCOME xinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore managers have the third highest disposable income in Asia, trailing behind Hong Kong and Thailand. This was based on the latest survey by Hay Group, which said that the higher disposable income is due to the country's low income
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    • 187 73  -  YASMINEYAHYA SINGAPORE Credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service said in its latest report that Singapore's banks operate in a sound environment and can rely on high systemic support in times of financial turbulence. Moody's said Singapore's economic growth is more volatile than many
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      • 82 73 The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has released a site, with an area of about 3.2 hectares, at Woodlands Ave 12 for sale from the Reserve List. It can generate a maximum gross floor area of 32,27g5qm and has a 60-year-lease period. Zoned under Business 1, the
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      • 82 73 Sembcorp Marine said its unit, PPL Shipyard, has signed a contract to sell a jack-up rig under construction to Vietsopetro, the national oil company of Vietnam. It did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. Construction work on the jack-up rig is on schedule, with
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