Today, 25 May 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 25 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Tuesday May 25, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking MAY 25, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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  • NEWS
    • 584 4 US wants change, but China will only accept it on their terms NYT AFTERNOON BEIJING China and the United States opened three days of highlevel meetings yesterday meant to broaden and deepen the ties between the world’s largest developed and developing economies.
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    • 134 4 Ed Miliband gets early Labour nod LONDON Mr Ed Miliband (picture), the former British Climate Change Secretary, late yesterday surprisingly beat his brother David in the race to became the first Labour leadership candidate to receive enough nominations to enter the ballot. It was disclosed
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    • 358 4  -  ESTHER NG AND MAY WONG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Property experts have hailed the move announced yesterday to relocate the railway station from Tanjong Pagar to Woodlands in the north as timely. Singapore has plans to redevelop the Tanjong Pagar area into a new waterfront city,
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    • 287 4 S RAMESH SINGAPORE Toll charges for the Second Link will be reduced significantly to increase the road connectivity between Malaysia and Singapore. This was announced by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong after their retreat in Singapore
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    • 584 5  -  Some say competition from China a cause for worry for REC NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Will the Renewable Energy Corporation’s (REC) $2.6 billion solar manufacturing plant in Singapore the world’s largest, which is nearing completion stand up to competition from Chinese
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    • 396 6  -  First batch of locally-trained veterinary technologists graduates ANDRE YEO andreyeo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They used to be hired mainly from the Philippines, but Singapore can now boast locally-trained veterinary technologists. Last week, the pioneer batch of diploma in veterinary technology (VeT) students graduated from
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    • 177 6 SINGAPORE The Romanian Embassy in Singapore has told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Singapore Attor-ney-General’s Chambers that Romanian representatives to the joint working group will be here from May 26 to 29, and would like to interview a list of witnesses
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    • 83 6 From Saturday, electronic road pricing (ERP) rates for 12 gantries will go down by 50 cents or $1 for the June school holidays, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) yesterday. These include the seven gantries along the Central Expressway which will have
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 8 This is one of three special brassieres from China valued at $2.2 million now on display at Aimer’s VivoCity boutique until June 1. Handcrafted in gold and platinum and embellished with diamonds, rubies and sapphires, the bras are by Aimer, an international lingerie brand. Also on display is
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    • 251 8 ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE Afraid that he would lose his two $1,000 notes, Mr Wong Boon Pow kept the money with him instead of registering it for safekeeping with the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) where he was admitted. But Mr Wong, 53, showed senior
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    • 201 8  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He was the owner of a four-room flat in Jurong West but Ivan Tey was desperate for money. So he approached different housing agents and asked them to get him prospective tenants as he wanted to collect rental deposits from them.
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    • 196 8 ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE As well as being unhappy with his boss, an accounts officer had also lost money on soccer bets. So Indonesian national Wanto forged his boss’s signature on company cheques and siphoned off nearly $500,000. Wanto (picture), 29, was employed by a restaurant,
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    • 199 8 S MUSTAFA SINGAPORE Flat buyers can look forward to more public flats under the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS). The Housing and Development Board (HDB) awarded a tender yesterday for a site that could yield about 700 DBSS flats in Yishun to Guthrie
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    • 100 7 f 1 X s HI >■ i S> 4 *v W?A-s m/A MB TrSA-LkiT* II/* 1 -.C,V».^.-i'' V •a' WJ fSAVy We were there when Rathika's"!??■£/>, mitz grandparents were introduced by the village matchmaker. We were there when Rathika's parents were introduced by their aunties. We were there when Rathika
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  • VOICES
    • 316 10  -  Other libraries should emulate Jurong West’s system for CDs, VCDs Letter from Goh Kian Huat I APPRECIATE that the National Library Board (NLB) has reviewed its policies to allow ordinary library members to borrow six items each time, including two audio-visual items such as compact
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    • 191 10  -  Letter from Dr Phua Kai Hong Ex-President (1988-1990) LSE Alumni Association of Singapore WHEN I submitted the original version of the citation for the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the London School of Economics (LSE) Alumni Asso- ciation of Singapore to Dr
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    • 216 12  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON BLUE I was walking toward my car outside a shopping centre a few weeks ago when I heard a loud and impassioned howl. I spotted a man about 15 metres away who was in great distress. His fingers were caught in the
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    • 241 12  -  Stop the act of buying, freeing animals on Vesak Day Letter from Chin KeeThou ON VESAK Day which marks the birth, enlightenment and passing of the Buddha many followers and devotees buy captive animals from pet shops and set them free as a
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    • 120 12  -  Letter from Stephen Roberts I REFER to “Make road tax a green tax” (May 21). Carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution is a global issue and Singapore should not stand by the wayside while other countries take the initiative in these matters. Over the past three years
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    • 129 12  -  Letter from Eugene Tan Secretary, Public Transport Council Letter from Helen Lim Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority WE REFER to “Distance Fares a misleading term” (May 18). The term “Distance Fares” is reflective of a distance-based fare structure. As the writer
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    • 198 10 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices A GOOD DEED THAT IS NOT RIGHT PAGE CREATE MASSIVE WEALT in the SHORTEST TIME POSSIBLE Ot i Our Student Raised 2 Years of Savings in just 2 Months. YOU Can Do It Too! I Turned 1,000 into...
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    • 148 11 POSB HDB Loans We saw it. Liked it In 60 minutes, it was ours. We did it with POSB. You can too! k. k Your HDB home can now be secured with our 60-min Promise. Another first in Singapore from POSB. With POSB, you can now get your home loan
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    • 81 13 CONGRATULATIONS TO PRUDENTIAL PLC ON ITS SUCCESSFUL LISTING ON THE MAIN BOARD OF THE SINGAPORE EXCHANGE. l PRUDENTIAL CREDIT SUISSE HSBC <!► AIlen&Gledhill CLEARY uprhprt cmith GOTTLIEB HERBERT SMITB ADVOCATES SOLICITORS SLAUGHTER AND MAY BOWNE BRUNSWICK (fomputershare ■c s m EQUINITI Credit Suisse is acting as sole sponsor for the
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 900 14  -  The rich have left the stock market for the property market, leaving the ordinary investor to suffer ANDYXIE BLOOMBERG A bartender at my neighbourhood pub recently asked me how the Shanghai stock market was performing. I said it was at about 2,600
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    • 665 15  -  Investors should welcome proposed financial CONRAD RAJ conrad@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is Today’s editor-at-large. The recently proposed safeguards by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for those who invest in financial instruments like unit trusts here, while long overdue, are indeed welcome. The measures come in
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    • 998 16  -  Confirmation that the Jewish state has nukes increases the pressure on Obama SIMON TISDALL The writer is an assistant editor at The Guardian and a foreign affairs columnist. THE GUARDIAN Israel has long been assumed to possess nuclear weapons. The
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  • WORLD
    • 178 18 AGENCIES NEW DELHI India’s Prime Minister said yesterday that a major diplomatic effort was under way to improve ties between India and Pakistan. Mr Manmohan Singh’s comments came three weeks after he and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani agreed to resume
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    • 411 18 Court to decide on whether to issue arrest warrant based on charges of terrorism AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand’s criminal court will rule today on whether to issue a warrant to arrest fugitive former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges in connection with deadly street rallies. Department of
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    • 263 18 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The complaints committee of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) yesterday proposed installing CCTV cameras in interrogation areas as part of an overhaul to its investigation procedures following the death last July of Mr Teoh Beng Hock, an opposition political aide.
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    • 59 19 British longdistance swimmer Lewis Pugh gestures after completing his swim in Lake Pumori at an altitude of 5,300m on Saturday, below the summit of Mount Everest. The environmental campaigner wanted to make the highest altitude swim ever in a glacial lake, to highlight the impact of global warming
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    • 297 19 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea’s President Lee Myung Bak has cut trade to North Korea, vowing the country would “pay a price” for a torpedo attack on a warship that killed 46 sailors. He also banned the North’s merchant ships from
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    • 290 19 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON In the days since United States President Barack Obama announced a temporary ban on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells, at least seven new permits for various types of drilling have been granted, according to records. The records also
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    • 189 20 AP CANBERRA Australia ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat yesterday after investigators concluded Israel was responsible for forging four Australian passports that were used in the slaying of a Hamas operative in Dubai. Australia’s reaction echoes that of the United Kingdom, which in March expelled
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    • Article, Illustration
      60 20 Indonesian performers parading with their bodies and faces painted as masks during the traditional Topeng or mask festival in Malang, East Java province. Held in many parts of Indonesia, the highly-popular festivities vary from modern colourful cutouts, papier-mache and painted faces to the traditional woodcarvings symbolising faces of spiritual
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    • 536 20 Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession
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    • 179 21 AFP Australian scientists yesterday unveiled the world’s smallest electronic switch measuring just a few atoms, which will shrink microchips by up to 100 times and revolutionise computing speeds “exponentially”. The seven-atom transistor measuring four-billionths of a metre and embedded
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    • 91 21 A huge fire broke out at the main market in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, yesterday, destroying hundreds of shops. No victims were reported, shop owners and officials said. ‘Hundreds of firemen are still trying to put out the fire,’ a police official said, adding that he did
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    • 104 21 AGENCIES The husband of Brittany Murphy has died of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles, five months after the Hollywood actress died. British screenwriter Simon Monjack, 39, was reportedly found unconscious in the bedroom on Sunday night by Ms Murphy’s
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    • 120 21 AP An animal rights group known for provocative protests is trying a more staid tactic to influence companies: Buying stock. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) now owns a piece of at least 80 companies, including McDonald’s and Kraft Foods. Peta
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    • 503 21 Brought to you by The life sciences programmes atMDIS gave them a firm grasp of the field Melody Tan With their eyes on the rapidly developing life sciences industry, Anusha Vasudev and Alex Wong turned to the degree programmes at the Management Development Institute of Singapore
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  • SPORTS
    • 650 22  -  Sean, Wei Ning, Zachary favourites for Youth Olympic wildcard spots LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As the dust settles on track and field’s Asian Area Qualification for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), which was held at Bishan Stadium over the weekend, each member of Singapore’s
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    • 168 22 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Wang Yuegu, the world No 13 in women’s table tennis, was left shell-shocked yesterday when she was steamrolled by the Czech Republic’s Iveta Vacenovska, ranked 45 spots lower. Vacenovska levelled the scores at 1-1 in the Group B clash of the World
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    • 258 22 AGENCIES PARIS Shoulders went bare in the stands as the mercury soared on centre court, but there was no distracting top seed and defending men’s champion Roger Federer (picture) as he coasted to a comfortable 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 win over Australia's Peter
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    • 137 22 Men: Julian Reister (Ger) bt Feliciano Lopez (Spa x27) 6-1, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2; Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi x20) bt Jan Hajek (Cze) 6-1, 6-3, 6-3; Taylor Dent (US) bt Nicolas Lapentti (Ecu) 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3); John Isner (US x17) bt Andrey Golubev (Kaz) 6-4,
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    • 557 23  -  Phelps could miss Youth Olympics due to an international meet in California TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE American swim sensation Michael Phelps, Chinese diving star Guo Jingjing and the world’s greatest female pole-vaulter, Yelena Isinbayeva, were among the first sports ambassadors to be named for the inaugural
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    • 256 23 IAN DECOTTA SINGAPORE The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) have moved to ease the pressure on a congested S-League calendar now that the proposed tournament pitting the top three local and Malaysian clubs has been put on the backburner. The cross-Causeway tournament was originally planned for
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    • 212 23 IAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE With the economy picking up, demand for hospitality suites for this year's SingTel Singapore Grand Prix from Sept 24 to 26 is picking up momentum. Organisers Singapore GP revealed yesterday that 67 per cent of the 10,000 tickets costing between $3,500
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    • 583 24 Despite his stunning season, Milito is likely to ride Argentina’s bench this summer AGENCIES LONDON Diego Milito’s unique achievement of scoring the goals which sealed each leg of Inter Milan’s historic Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League treble has transformed him into Europe’s must-have striker. Yet,
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    • 718 26 But England’s shaky defence and lightweight midfield could be their downfall THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY England 3 Mexico 1 LONDON On a night of Mexican waves, Wembley waved goodbye to England, but Fabio Capello can wave goodbye to any hopes of winning the
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    • 150 26 Ronaldo Co held by minnows AFP INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY Portugal 0 Cape Verde 0 LISBON Portugal suffered a blow to their morale ahead of next month’s World Cup finals in South Africa yesterday as they were held to a 0-0 draw by minnows Cape Verde, ranked 117th in the world, in
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    • 112 26 AFP INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY South Africa 1 Bulgaria 1 SOWETO Carlos Alberto Parreira hailed his South Africa side despite seeing them held 1-1 by Bulgaria in a 2010 World Cup warm-up yesterday. “There was a lot of improvement and you can see the team are
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    • 115 26 AFP INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY Argentina 5 Canada 0 BUENOS AIRES Two-time World Cup winners Argentina eased to a 5-0 victory over Canada yesterday for a morale-boost-ing win ahead the World Cup. Even with Lionel Messi rested, the Argentinians had little trouble from one of the game’s
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • IMPACT
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      444 33  -  Briq Communications, the youngest media agency in Singapore, aims to be a giant PETER YEO peteryeo@mediacorp.com.sg MEDIA stalwart Pat Lim is out to prove a point, that is ‘locals can do it better, if not just as well, as foreign companies’. And that is the idea behind
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    • 343 33  -  Media partners awarded in Agency Reward and Recognition TERENCE LEE terencelee@mediacorp.com.sg MINDSHARE Singapore and Starcom Media Worldwide have emerged tops in the Platinum category for the second year running in MediaCorp’s Agency Reward and Recognition Programme. The Awards is organised by MediaCorp in
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    • 373 30 SHARES INDICES SECTORS COMMODITIES TREASURIES FOREIGN EXCHANGE SPEAKERS: Mr David Mu heads the Education team for CMC Markets Asia (ex-Japan). And is also the writer of several books such as Gold Trading and Gold Futures. Mr. Mu will speak about the Gold Market. Ms Tan Yang Po transformed a business
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  • BUSINESS
    • 344 28 THE NEW YORK TIMES MADRID About 720,000 investors outside the United States who lost money to the convicted swindler Bernard Madoff have settled with their banks, receiving about US$15.5 billion ($21.8 billion) in all, according to law firms representing those victims of the fraud. The
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    • 59 28 MONDAY CLOSE 10,066.57 (-1.24%) Friday 10,193.39 p 1.25% Thursday 10,068.01 q 3.60% Wednesday 10,444.37 q 0.63% Tuesday 10,510.95 q 1.08% NYSE TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Citigroup 839.1m $3.78 p 0.80% Bank of America 170.2m $15.40 q 3.69% Sprint Nextel 123.4m $4.79 p 8.62% Ford 90.9m
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    • 4 28 OIL US$70.21 (+US$0.17)Ç
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    • 21 28 US$1 $1.405 US$1 £0.694 US$1 €0.810 US$1 ¥90.215 US$1 A$1.213 US$1 HK$7.802 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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    • OVERNIGHT
      • 104 28 US slump continues US stocks slumped on new fears over Europe’s debt crisis, triggered by the rescue of a Spanish savings bank (see earlier report on Page B3). The Dow lost 126.82 points, extending last week’s massive losses when the blue-chip index shrank more than 4 per
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      • 73 28 Hovering above US$70 Oil prices stabilised in New York, pausing a three-week drop that has seen prices fall 20 per cent amid market concerns over the eurozone’s debt crisis and a fragile global economic recovery. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July, managed a modest
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    • 489 28 BA crew strike again, but airline says 70% of customers should be able to fly THE NEW YORK TIMES LONDON Thousands of flight attendants for British Airways began a five-day strike yesterday after their union and the airline failed to agree on a costcutting plan that
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    • 230 30 THE NEW YORK TIMES SAN FRANCISCO Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is turning his attention to Silicon Valley. Mr Blair will become a senior adviser at Khosla Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by Mr Vinod Khosla, an entrepreneur, investor and proponent
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    • 259 30 BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO Apple CEO Steve Jobs will address the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference next month, a sign Apple may be planning to unveil the next version of its iPhone, analysts said. “Given Apple’s track record, the most likely scenario is that they’ll introduce
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    • 102 30 The inflation rate remained stable with the consumer price index (CPI) increasing only marginally last month. Data released yesterday by the Department of Statistics shows CPI in April was up by 0.9 per cent on-month. Compared to the same period last year, CPI went up
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    • 131 30 Hiap Seng Engineering said its full year net profit jumped 143 percent on year to $31.5 million on the back of a 12.4-per-cent increase in revenue to $252 million. Hiap Seng said apart from a positive impact from higher revenue, the net
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    • 138 30 Mainboard-listed retailer Metro Holdings posted a 46.5-per-cent surge in its fourth quarter net profit to $56 million. That’s on the back of a 15-per-cent rise in revenue to $39.9 million. Metro said the higher profits were mainly due to a higher gain
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    • 189 31 AGENCIES The Japanese government has kept its outlook of the world’s second largest economy unchanged in May despite signs of a stronger recovery, suggesting it remains vigilant about potential risks such as the European debt crisis. “The economy has picked up steadily, but
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    • 518 31 US, European shares mixed in volatile trade, while Chinese market rises in relief rally AGENCIES NEW YORK Stock markets in the United States and Europe traded in roller-coaster fashion in intra-day dealings yesterday as investors remained jittery following a bailout of a regional bank
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    • 52 36 MAY 25, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF JAGGER’S EDGE SIR MICK COMES CLEAN ON THE ROLLING STONES’ DAYS OF DECADENCE. >> T10 AISHWARYA RAI, NAOMI WATTS AND JAVIER BARDEM HANGING WITH THE STARS IN CANNES. >> T2 THAILAND’S UNCLE BOONMEE WINS THE PALME D’OR. >> T6 LOSING WEIGHT FOR NO REASON?
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  • 569 37  -  CANNES EXCLUSIVE MOVIES Glitz and glamour outshine the films at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival GENEVIEVE LOH genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS the glitziest and arguably the most prestigious film festival in the world, held annually against the gorgeous backdrop of the Cote D’Azure. Michael Douglas,
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    • 373 39 Cross your fingers that these films make it to our multiplexes GENEVIEVE LOH Another Year (Mike Leigh) Previous Palme d’Or winner Leigh delivers a solid and simple family drama starring his regular muses Jim Broadbent and Lesley Manville. The quaint film stands out in the midst
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    • 534 41 Thai film and two Oscar-winners take top prizes in Cannes AP THE hypnotic Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won the top honour at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, while Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Javier Bardem earned acting
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