Today, 18 June 2010

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    44 1 TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Friday June 18, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Friday June 18, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking JUNE 18, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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      61 1 explore WITH OCBC CARDS 7 Wonders Across 7 Continents. The world is yours with OCBC Cards. Let's talk. Win an unforgettable trip to see all of your 7 Wonders of the World. Turn over for details. Q Ask OCBC www.ocbc.com 5StO, MOOD 81 Don't have an OCBC Card? SMS <0CBC
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      571 2 explore WITH OCBC CARDS Your journey to the 7 Wonders Across 7 Continents begins here. From now till 31 st July 2010, tell us which of the four destinations in this month's South American Wonder is your favourite, and we might just take you there in the Wonder of the
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    Lock icon Clogged canal caused flash floods, says PUB
    625 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A heavy buildup of debris in an underground drain linked to Stamford Canal has been identified as the likely cause of the flash floods which turned parts of Orchard Road into a lake on Wednesday. The question is,
    WEE TECK HIAN; PHOTOS DON WONG, WEE TECK HIAN  -  625 words
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      71 3 10 PAGES OF WORLD CUP NEWS FREE EVERY DAY IN BOTH OUR MORNING AFTERNOON EDITIONS WORLD CUP W8 ENGLAND ARE ALL SMILES TEAM IN EASY MOOD BEFORE ALGERIA CLASH ARGENTINA 4 S KOREA 1 WORLD CUP W1 COMMENT&ANALYSIS OOI KEE BENG THE DANGEROUS POST-CRISIS DIVIDE 16 WILLIAM PESEK BILLIONAIRES DIG
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Insurers brace for hefty claims
      443 7  -  JULIE QUEK juliequek@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ZULKIFLI OTHMAN SINGAPORE The insurance industry is bracing for hefty claims amounting to millions of dollars from businesses affected by Wednesday’s flash flood. Industry experts said that, based on early estimates, claims could exceed $6 million. The General Insurance
      ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ZULKIFLI OTHMAN; DON WONG  -  443 words
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      Lock icon Alleged terrorists planned to bomb 2 places of worship
      665 9 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The nine foreigners and a Malaysian who were arrested for alleged terrorist activity early this year were planning to blow up two places of worship because they felt that the government was not doing enough to uphold Islam,
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      Town councils out to score
      507 10  -  Statistics put online for residents’ scrutiny LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg >> www.todayonline.com/voices SINGAPORE A washing machine, bicycles and drying racks for clothes as well as other corridor clutter formed half of the “defects” logged by Aljunied Town Council. It has put such statistics online and
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      Lock icon Komodo dragon creates history
      314 10 SUREKHAA YADAV SINGAPORE Yoko, a Komodo dragon, has helped the Singapore Zoo make veterinary history. A procedure to treat wounds in humans was used for the first time in November last year on a reptile in captivity. While laying eggs, Yoko had wedged herself in a
      SUREKHAA YADAV; PICTURE COURTESY WILDLIFE RESERVES SINGAPORE  -  314 words
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      Lock icon Heavy rain disrupts Beijing flights
      141 12 AGENCIES BEIJING More torrential rain hit southern China yesterday, forcing cancellations and delays of hundreds of flights into and out of Beijing. Wide areas of southern China have been hit by heavy rains since Sunday, causing floods and landslides that have killed at least 46
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      ‘Set standard contracts for foreign domestic workers, too’
      622 12  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A day off every week. A wellventilated room with a lock and the key to be given to the domestic worker. These were some proposals made at the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva, last week to recognise
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      Frenchman fined for causing a ruckus at Changi
      311 14  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE—A Frenchman who vandalised equipment at Changi Airport Terminal 1 blamed the BP oil spill and the Icelandic volcanic ash for his outburst. Oil rig supervisor Antonie Mathieu Rongeot, 38, was going home to Paris from Indonesia and
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      CABBY WHO THREATENED MINISTER TO FACE TRIAL
      180 14 A district court yesterday rejected the guilty plea of a relief cabby who allegedly threatened MP for East Coast GRC Lee Yi Shyan on March 1. In his mitigation, 52-year-old Teo Kian Seng said that he had not intended to cause alarm to
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      Lock icon MAN WHO POSSESSED PISTOL'HAD NO IDEA HOW TO DISPOSE' OF THE WEAPON
      167 14 SHAFFIQ ALKHHATIB An unemployed man who was convicted of being in possession of a pistol said in mitigation yesterday that he “had no idea how to dispose” of the weapon. Low Hua Choon, 41, was found with the
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      Lock icon STUDENT FINED FOR HELPING FRIEND WITH SAME SURNAME TAKE IPPT
      159 14 ONG DAI LIN They had the same surname, and were the same age, so they thought they could both benefit if one impersonated the other. GohTingFu (picture), a student at the Asia Pacific School of Sports and Business, met up
      ONG DAI LIN  -  159 words
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      NAVY JOINS COUNTER-TERRORISM EXERCISE
      149 16 The Republic of Singapore Navy is taking part in the annual South-east Asia Cooperation Against Terrorism (Seacat) exercise, together with the United States Navy and navies from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. This year’s exercise, which began yesterday, will be held until next Friday.
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      MediaCorp journalist to join IOC training at YOG
      146 16 SINGAPORE MediaCorp journalist Ong Dai Lin is one of five Singaporeans picked by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take part in the Young Reporters Programme of the Youth Olympic Games in August. The five Singaporeans are between the ages of 22
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      THEY ABETTED UNLICENSED EMPLOYMENT AGENTS ...
      161 16 THEY ABETTED UNLICENSED EMPLOYMENT AGENTS The Ministry of Manpower said it is stepping up its enforcement against unlicensed employment agents. In the latest cases, two employers have been charged with abetting the operations of unlicensed employment agents. They are the first employers to be prosecuted for abetment of offences under
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      Lock icon PRIMARY 1 REGISTRATION BEGINS ON JULY 6
      168 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The registration of children for Primary 1 next year will start from July 6. It will close on Aug 30. Registration applies to children born between Jan 2, 2004, and Jan 1, 2005. During that period, schools will open for registration
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE, GREECE EXPAND AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT
      133 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore and Greece have agreed to expand a bilateral air services agreement. With the agreement, carriers from Singapore and Greece are allowed to operate unlimited cargo flights between and beyond the two countries. There will also be unlimited “hubbing” rights for cargo
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  • VOICES
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      Watch those prices
      296 18  -  Middle class has most to fear about rising cost of living Letter from Kwan JinYao I READ the report, “The rising cost of living” (June 15) with great apprehension. The administration must remain cognizant of the ramifications should Singapore continue to be one of the costliest cities
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      CORRECTION
      41 18 In our report “Wet, wet Wednesday” (June 17) we captioned a picture of a flooded underground car park as that belonging to Thong Sia Building. That is incorrect. The flooded car park was at Tong Building. We apologise forthe error.
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      CORRECTION
      94 18 In our report “Orchard Road underpass to get makeover” (June 15), we stated that the tender for the work has been awarded to CapitaLand and its Hong Kong partner Sun Hung Kai Properties. That is incorrect. The tender for the work has been awarded to McConnell Dowell South East
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      248 20  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON BE THERE, DAD! I’m told that when I was just a child maybe two years of age my family lived in a one-bedroom apartment. My little bed was located beside the bed of my parents. My father said it was common during
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      Not just a railway station
      755 20  -  BUDGETTAI-TAI For many, it’s a chill-out joint, meeting point, font of memories Tabitha Wang My flat in Singapore used to be only 100 meters away from the Tanjong Pagar railway station. Being so close, it figured prominently in my life. When you work from home,
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      130 18 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices X Pharmaton Stay &keeP Recharge yourself with Pharmaton®. Filled with essential vitamins, minerals and standardized ginseng extract G115®, Pharmaton® gives you the boost of vitality you need. 0 Pharmaton Caplets with selenium P j Boehringer Ingelheim (Malaysia) Sdn
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      8 18 BUDGET TAI-TAI: NOT JUST A RAILWAY STATION PAGE
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
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      The dangerous post-crisis divide
      773 22  -  Simon Tay outlines three possible paths for Asia and America in his new book OOIKEE BENG The writer is a Fellow at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies. The notion of Asia-America relations rests on several conceptual pillars. One is that while “America” is not an
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      Lock icon Billionaires dig in to kill a good idea
      939 24  -  Rudd’s planned tax on mining ‘super profits’ could go a long way towards improving Australia’s future WILLIAM PESEK The writer is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. Australia is committing economic suicide. That’s what the hyperbolic backlash over
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      Lock icon Farewell to the shadow shoguns
      1009 26  -  It’s time for Japanese politics to return to where it belongs in the hands of its elected leaders YURIKO KOIKE PROJECT SYNDICATE It’s deja vu all over again in Japan. Despite a landslide electoral victory for his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) last September, Japanese
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  • WORLD
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      POLLS DATE WILL BE A SURPRISE, SAYS NAJIB
      140 28 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he will not dissolve Parliament to call for a general election in the near future just because a recent popularity survey showed that the majority of Malaysians were satisfied with his performance. He said, however, that
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      Lock icon Israel eases Gaza blockade
      349 28 AGENCIES JERUSALEM Israel yesterday approved a plan to ease its land blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, following weeks of international pressure, but provided few details on what new goods would be allowed in. In one of the major changes, Israel will now allow in more desperately-needed
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      Lock icon Mandela attends great-granddaughter's funeral
      187 30 AGENCIES JOHANNESBURG A sombre and frail Nelson Mandela mourned at the funeral of his greatgranddaughter yesterday after she was killed in a car accident on the eve of the World Cup. Hundreds of mourners also came to remember 13-year-old Zenani Mandela (picture), whose death made South
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      Lock icon Japan's ruling party unveils manifesto
      315 30 AFP TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s ruling party yesterday outlined its determination to rebuild the nation’s finances and slash the deficit in its new manifesto ahead of upper house elections next month. Changing course from his predecessor Yukio Hatoyama, who had focused on foreign
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      Lock icon Briton, Australian face trial over Thai unrest
      147 30 AFP BANGKOK A Briton and an Australian will go on trial in a Thai court over their involvement in deadly anti-government protests, a judge said yesterday. Jeff Savage, a British citizen, and Australian Conor David Purcell denied breaching a State of Emergency and
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      Lock icon Sanctions mount on Iran's nuke programme
      240 32 AFP WASHINGTON The Obama administration has added Iranian individuals and firms to a blacklist, as the United States and Europe tighten the screws on Iran’s nuclear programme. The new US sanctions target insurance companies, oil firms and shipping lines linked to Iran’s atomic or
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      Lock icon BP nod to $28b spill fund
      409 32 AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama has scored a political victory by pressuring oil giant BP to commit US$20 billion ($27.8 billion) for damages from an environmental disaster that is weighing on his presidency. While acknowledging that oil is likely to continue spewing
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      Lock icon Hungry and thirsty, Uzbek refugees return home
      425 40 OSH A handful of Uzbek refugees displaced by ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan returned to their wrecked homes yesterday in the southern city of Osh, desperate for food and water that aid agencies have had trouble delivering to the thousands camped out on the
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      Lock icon AUSTRALIAN TEEN CHARGED WITH INDIAN STUDENT'S MURDER
      72 40 AGENCIES A 15-year-old Australian boy was charged yesterday with the stabbing murder of Indian student Nitin Garg in January, one of a string of highly publicised attacks on Indian nationals in Australia. Police said they did not believe racism was the motive. The
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      Lock icon UK DRINK-DRIVE LIMIT'SHOULD BE TOUGHER'
      147 40 THE GUARDIAN Britain’s drink-driving laws should be toughened to a level that would put some people over the limit after one drink, according to a government-commissioned report. In the first review of drink-driving laws for 34 years, Sir Peter North recommends cutting the maximum legal
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      Lock icon Global warming to continue wreaking havoc
      382 42 Cutting greenhouse gases will be no quick fix for the weather THE GUARDIAN LONDON Global warming will continue to bring havoc to the world’s weather systems for decades after reductions are made in greenhouse gas emissions, a new study shows. Scientists at the Met
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      Lock icon US ARMY DITCHES VELCRO FROM ITS UNIFORMS
      101 42 THE GUARDIAN It was an essential to United States army uniforms, but Velcro’s ripping noise betrays their position to the enemy and gets clogged with dirt and sand. Its fasteners also fail to cope with bulging pockets. Now the US army has decided
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      Lock icon IDENTITY THEFT RING BUSTED IN US
      111 42 THE NEW YORK TIMES A New York-based ring of Nigerian immigrants has been charged with identity theft of at least 200 people, including active-duty members of the United States armed forces serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. They are accused of using the victims’ personal
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      Lock icon CONDOMS FOR ARMED FORCES COST BRITAIN $164,000
      98 42 BLOOMBERG The British Defence Ministry has spent at least US$118,000 ($164,000) on condoms for the armed forces since 2008, said the British government. The money was spent on packets of condoms and dispensing machines as part of health promotion across the army, navy
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      347 46 LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Approximately 1,000 members of the public, sponsors, partners and Youth Olympic Games staff will get to experience life in the Youth Olympic Village at the end of next month well before the first of 5,000 athletes and
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      443 46  -  Indonesia’s Dionysius makes Malaysian ace sweat LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Having come off a rigorous Thomas Cup campaign and a knee injury, Malaysian world No 1 Lee Chong Wei may insist he is not in good shape for the Li Ning
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      496 48  -  IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg LONDON Air Asia boss Tony Fernandes wants to throw his weight behind moves to bring MotoGP to Singapore, and is even keen to have his airline back the race in the Republic when the Changi Motorsports Hub is ready at the end of
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      281 48 IAN DE COTTA IN LONDON As co-owner and team principal of the Lotus F1 team, on top of running a host of companies including low-cost carrier Air Asia, Tony Fernandes’ has his hands full. Yet the Malaysian, who also owns the Singapore Slingers
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      240 48 ADHE SARARIANY ANDI DJOHAR SINGAPORE They tower over most people. They “fly” and they dunk. By Asian standards, they are giants. They are also, the world’s finest basketball players. From June 28 to July 1, NBA All-Star Al Horford and 2009
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      94 50 B11 Stevens Suites, a freehold development along Stevens Close, will be open for preview either later this month or early next month, said home-grown developer EL Development. The property has two residential blocks with 32 apartments and penthouses with one, two or three bedrooms. Prices range
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      202 55 KUMQN Shaun Tan, 11 yrs old, completed English programme, working on secondary school maths. Jordyn Lim, 8 yrs old, doing fractions and complex sentence analysis for English. Brandon Ryan Irawan, 7 yrs old, doing fractions Chloe Neo, 6 yrs old starting on simple fractions. I v A > V\V 4
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      33 53 FROM BROKERAGE RESEARCH AND AGENCY REPORTS Disclaimer: Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. Today cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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      473 51  -  New DBS chairman Peter Seah outlines strategy for bank’s expansion, shares customer-relations philosophy WONG SIEW YING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Six weeks into his new job and DBS chairman Peter Seah (picture) is already working on expanding the bank’s Asia franchise by reviewing its strengths and
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      151 53 DOW JONES SINGAPORE There could be another twist in the battle for control of Parkway Holdings between Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional and India’s Fortis Healthcare. Indian newspaper Financial Express cited sources saying that the country’s conglomerate, Reliance Industries, is interested in buying a 26-per-cent
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      87 53 THURSDAY CLOSE 2,843.95 (-0.11% Wednesday Tuesday Monday Friday 2,846.94 2,818.21 2,818.07 2,796.29 p p p 1.02% 0.78% 0.60% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Z-Obee Genting SP GoldenAgr SingTel Genting HK US$ 68,485 67,109 35,296 24,063 23,812 0.425 1.120 0.540 3.060 0.200 p p q p p
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      ASIA
      30 53 HANG SENG Ç È 20,138.40 (+0.38%) È È Ç NIKKEI 9,999.40 (-0.67%) SHANGHAI 2,560.25 (-0.38%) AUSTRALIA 4,527.34 Ç (-0.69%) MUMBAI 17,616.69 (+0.88%) Ç MALAYSIA 1,304.47 (+0.10%) SEOUL 1,707.92 (+0.15%)
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      13 53 OIL È US$77.34 Ç È (-0.42%) GOLD US$1,237.80 (+0.59%) PLATINUM US$1,570.90 (+0.22%)
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      17 53 US$1 £1 €1 ¥100 RM1 Rp10,000 HK$100 RMB100 1.392 2.062 1.724 1.524 0.426 1.519 17.87 20.38
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        58 53 Buy $1.59 Phillip Securities keeps call and raises the target price to $2.02 from $1.93, backed by the high-end developer’s healthy inventories and stable profit recognition from projects in Singapore and China, as well as its Australian unit AVJennings’ recent move to sell its contract building division for
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        38 53 Outperform $2.63 Credit Suisse starts coverage with a $3.30 DCF-based price target, saying the stock is a compelling play amid global economic recovery, given the company’s dominant position in ground-handling and in-flight catering services at Changi Airport.
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        68 53 Buy $13.72 UOB KayHian keeps call on optimism over loans growth, noting that fixed-rate mortgages have become increasingly popular in Singapore, while loans for businesses have picked up since 1Q 2010. But it cuts the target price to $19.82 from $21.00, based on 1.7X P/B, after reducing FY10 earnings
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      LI HENG TO BUILD NEW PA CHIP PLANT IN FUJIAN
      112 53 Mainboard-listed Li Heng Chemical Fibre Technologies said it intends to build a new 715-million-yuan ($145.8-mil-lion) polyamide or PA chip production plant in Fujian, China. The company currently has a PA plant in the Binhai Industrial Zone in Fujian, with a
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      260 55 MILLET ENRIQUEZ SINGAPORE An Amsterdam court has ruled in favour of Brit-ish-based Biwater Investments and local conglomerate Sembcorp Industries in its case against USlisted Dutch waste-water management company Cascal. Biwater Investments last month filed a petition in Amster- dam for an inquiry to be conducted
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      Electronic exports give Nodx a boost in May
      465 55  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ AND MOK FEI FEI emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s nonoil domestic exports (Nodx) continued to see double-digit growth in May compared to the same period last year, albeit at a slower pace. Data released yesterday by trade promotion agency International Enterprise (IE)
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      288 57  -  DESMOND WONG desmondwong@mediacorp.com.sg desmondwong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Hong Leong Group expects hotel room rates in Singapore to rise by some 15 per cent by the end of the year, but is setting its sights on budget hotel projects in the future. At the opening
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      342 57 SINGAPORE Power systems provider Rolls-Royce is seeing rising demand for its aerospace, marine and power generation products in Asia, and it is looking to double its headcount in Singapore by 2015 to cater to the growing order book. This, says Rolls-Royce, will double
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      UNITED ENVIROTECH SECURES $611 MILLION CREDIT
      103 57 Mainboard-listed United Envirotech has said that it has secured three-year credit facilities from China Merchants Bank worth up to 3 billion Chinese yuan ($611 million). According to the water and wastewater treatment solutions provider, this will be used to finance water-related investments and help
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      STANCHART, AGBANK SIGN BANKING COLLABORATION
      102 57 Standard Chartered Bank and the Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank) have signed an agreement to explore joint development of business opportunities across a wide spectrum of retail and wholesale banking products and services both within China and internationally. The partnership will focus on the increasingly
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      Lock icon EU leaders gather as Spain passes debt test
      484 59 Iberian country to also publish bank stress test results AGENCIES BRUSSELS European Union leaders met yesterday to try to fix deep, long-standing problems with their economy by forging tougher rules to rein in government overspending and prevent another debt crisis. Though the
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      270 59 AGENCIES BERN Swiss lawmakers approved a tax treaty between UBS and the United States government, ending a two-year legal battle that threatened the American business of Switzerland’s largest bank. The approval, by majority votes in both chambers of Parliament, came after week-long negotiations between the
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      225 61 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States Congress has made “significant progress” towards creating stricter financial regulation while the Federal Reserve has sought on its own to improve oversight, including through tougher capital standards, central bank chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday.
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      456 61 FSA to be scrapped, BoE to assume wider powers AGENCIES LONDON Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (picture) is abolishing the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and giving most of its powers to the Bank of England (BoE), undoing the regulatory system set up by former
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    • GROUP B ARGENTINA V SOUTH KOREA
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        561 79 Argentina hammer South Korea 4-1 as goals finally flow at World Cup AP 2010 WORLD CUP, GROUP B Argentina 4 South Korea 1 JOHANNESBURG —Gonzalo Higuain scored Argentina’s first hat-trick at a World Cup in 12 years, leading his team to a 4-1 victory over South
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        160 79 AGENCIES For neutral football fans, Argentina’s 4-1 win was a welcome change to the dour first batch of 16 matches which produced just 25 goals, or an average of just over 1.5 goals per match. Most teams started the 2010 World Cup cautiously, using the first
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      695 76  -  COMMENTARY Hosts will struggle to make a breakthrough even against a poor France LEONARD THOMAS in Cape Town, South Africa leonard@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp NewsHub. Uruguay never ever make friends at the World Cup, do they! Even during the great
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      321 76 AGENCIES PRETORIA Diego Forlan’s (picture) two goals in Uruguay’s 3-0 win over hosts South Africa on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) have not only brought the South Americans to the brink of a place in the last 16, but underlined the striker’s class on the biggest
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        611 78 Greece come from behind to beat Nigeria to secure first ever World Cup points AGENCIES 2010 WORLD CUP, GROUP B Greece 2 Nigeria 1 BLOEMFONTEIN Greece beat 10-man Nigeria 2-1 in a thrilling encounter yesterday to record their first victory at a World Cup finals.
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        Lock icon RIOT POLICE BREAK UP PROTEST
        83 78 AP Police broke up a demonstration of about 200 stewards with rubber bullets and a stun grenade in a labour dispute linked to low pay for World Cup duties. Police superintendent Andre Traut said seven people were arrested but none injured during yesterday’s protest outside
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        Lock icon CAHILL'S ONE-MATCH BAN STANDS
        69 78 AFP Australia captain Tim Cahill will miss his team’s Group D match against Ghana after Fifa yesterday confirmed his onematch ban for a red card received in Australia’s 4-0 opening defeat to Germany on Sunday. The 30-year-old midfielder received only the automatic one-match ban, which covers
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        161 78 AP A South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup football match instead of a religious programme was beaten to death by his family in the north-eastern part of the country, police said yesterday. David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from
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      546 72 Italy’s back-up keeper ready to step up with Buffon ruled out for tournament AFP IRENE Federico Marchetti admitted yesterday that he is worried about the Jabulani ball ahead of his first World Cup start. The 27-year-old Cagliari goalkeeper replaced first choice custodian Gianluigi Buffon at half-time
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      Lock icon Spanish fans blame defeat on Casillas’ girlfriend
      167 72 AGENCIES DURBAN Angry Spanish fans found an unlikely scapegoat for their team’s shock 1-0 loss to Switzerland on Wednesday: The girlfriend of goalkeeper Iker Casillas (picture). Sara Carbonero is a sports TV journalist, and her presence in South Africa to cover the 2010
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      533 74 Former coach Aragones lays into team’s tactics, lack of conviction AP DURBAN Former Spain coach Luis Aragones criticised the team’s tactics after their 1-0 defeat to Switzerland on Wednesday. Aragones, who led Spain to their European Championship triumph in 2008, called the Group H loss
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      379 74 AGENCIES DURBAN Switzerland basked in a maiden victory over World Cup favourites Spain on Wednesday, with coach Ottmar Hitzfeld (picture) calling it a “gift” of three unexpected but highly valuable points. Midfielder Gelson Fernandes scored the sole goal of the Group H match, tapping
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      Lock icon Bookies not panicking
      93 74 AGENCIES LONDON Bookmakers installed Brazil as favourites to lift the World Cup, by just a small margin. Britain’s Ladbrokes moved Brazil, who beat North Korea 2-1 on Tuesday night, to 4-1 while pre-tournament favourites Spain slipped to 5-1 alongside Argentina. Ladbrokes rates England, Holland and Germany at
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    • GROUP C ENGLAND V NIGERIA GROUPCENGLANDVALGERIA
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        590 68 Keeping Green in goal not his biggest concern THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CAPE TOWN Fabio Capello is considering starting with Jermain Defoe as Wayne Rooney’s partner in attack against Algeria tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time), but there remains a strong chance that he will stick with
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        190 67 AFP CAPE TOWN Wayne Rooney has insisted he would relish the prospect of coming up against Germany in the first knockout round at the World Cup. England’s talisman admitted he was impressed by the Germans’ 4-0 demolition of Australia in their opening match, but that does
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      451 66 England fans descend on South African coast for Algeria clash AP CAPE TOWN Only 6,000 English fans were supposed to be at Royal Bafokeng Stadium for their team’s World Cup opener against the United States last Saturday. Yet, by kickoff, it seemed
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        286 64 AFP PORT ELIZABETH Serbia are hurting after their opening defeat to Ghana and must show no fear if they are to stop “ma-chine-like” Germany today, striker Milan Jovanovic has said. Germany, arguably the team of the tournament at the World Cup so far, can
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      692 84  -  This year’s massive Shanghai Film Festival is a clear sign that China’s cinema industry is roaring Rachel Cooper features@mediacorp.com.sg THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SHANGHAI is, as someone described it to me yesterday, “like New York on steroids”. Its skyline of gleaming skyscrapers seems to grow more populous by
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      232 86 Oprah thanks staff with 14,000 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BILLIONAIRE media mogul Oprah Winfrey has given staff at her magazine US$ 10,000 13,900) each and an Apple iPad. “As a thank you for their hard work and dedication, Oprah Winfrey surprised the staff of O, The Oprah Magazine, with an Apple
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      293 88 AP THEY finally did it. Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart have tied the knot in a wedding presided by New Mexico’s governor. Governor Bill Richardson confirmed on Wednesday that the couple, who got engaged last year, were married at the governor’s mansion in Santa Fe. Ford’s publicist,
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      80 88 And they're engaged again AP MEGAN Fox is off the market. Again. A spokeswoman for the 24-year-old actress said Fox is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, actor Brian Austin Green. Publicist Dominique Appel declined to elaborate. Fox was previously engaged to Green, 36, whom she has been dating for several
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      440 90 Australian actor Paul Hogan’s off-shore tax accounts to be published THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AUSTRALIAN actor Paul Hogan has lost a long-running legal battle to keep the contents of his tax documents secret, paving the way for details of his offshore accounts to be published. Hogan, 70,
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      265 100 This marks the first time stars are in the same film THE GUARDIAN NICOLE Kidman and Nicolas Cage are to play a married couple taken hostage in the action adventure Trespass, according to Variety, marking the first occasion that the two actors have taken starring
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      380 118 Free navigation services boost growth of location-based apps HEDIRMAN SUPIAN FREE navigation services, such as Nokia’s Ovi Maps, are causing a surge in locationbased mobile applications, says digital map information provider Navteq. “People who never had experience with navigation, particularly in the AsiaPacific, can now try it
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