Today, 6 July 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 27 2 AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday July 6, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking JULY 6, 2010 A PUBLICATION
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  • 784 2  - Left without cash Banking services disrupted but customer database safe: DBS JEREMY KOH AND JANICETEO jeremykoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The technical glitch that caused a seven-hour disruption of banking services yesterday of Singapore’s largest lender DBS and sister bank POSB could have resulted in delayed transactions of up to several millions of
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  • NEWS
    • 853 3  -  NG JINGYNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg NG JINGYNG SINGAPORE At least once a year. That is the regular inspection cycle to check for defects on the 480 pedestrian overhead bridges here and to evaluate their condition. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) shared this information with
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    • 560 4  -  Motorists ask if that will lead to higher charges, but transport experts say it is too early to tell NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Without the imposing gantry looming overhead, would motorists be less aware of road usage charges? Would realtime information on road
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    • 520 5  -  Wine investment firm boss was pushing deals with margins of 20 per cent, say sources TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Several days before he suddenly could not be contacted, Mr Benny Lee Ghim Seng (picture) was aggressively wooing clients of his wine investment firm
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    • 372 5  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Eight months after her husband fell to his death from the Hilton Hotel on the night of their wedding last November Ms Peh Li Ling was found dead at the bottom of the block where
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    • 369 7  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A former subsidiary of furniture group Picket and Rail Holdings, FB Furniture, yesterday withdrew its appeal against a High Court ruling made last November. A summary judgment released then ruled that the company, formerly known as Picket and Rail
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    • 229 7 SHAFFIO ALKHATIB SINGAPORE Chee Soon Juan, secretarygeneral of the Singapore Democratic Party, has been fined $5,000 for making a speech without a licence. Party activist Yap Keng Ho, 44, was fined $2,000 for the same offence, which took place at the open
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    • 209 7 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A 43-year-old Malaysian woman was sentenced yesterday to three months in jail for having in her possession five forged Singapore identity cards and 11 forged work passes. Assistant supervisor Sim Yock Hong was found with the documents in her handbag
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    • 203 7 SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A taxi driver has been sentenced to four weeks in jail for a rash act that resulted in the death of a motorcycle pillion rider who was three months pregnant. Yin Ming Seng, who is 72 years
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    • 248 9  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE To recognise his leadership of the country’s judiciary and his contributions to Singapore’s criminal justice system, the National University of Singapore has conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws on Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong (picture).
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    • Article, Illustration
      66 9 The Merlion at Merlion Park is covered up while it is cleaned. First built as an 8m-tall sculpture in 1972 and located at the mouth of the Singapore River to 'welcome all visitors to Singapore', it was moved to its current location next to One Fullerton on Sept
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    • 135 9  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has stressed the importance of fostering greater understanding and respect among youth in the region at a young leaders forum yesterday. The significance of multi-cultural understanding cannot be understated, he added, and technological advancement
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    • 86 9 This month, TransitLink ticket counters will be issuing three specially-commissioned ez-link cards to commemorate Singapore’s 50 years of self-government. The designs of these collectors’ items will reflect the progress and transformation Singapore has made in the last 50 years. The designs on the
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    • 134 9 The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has launched its inaugural public awareness campaign. This is its first large-scale campaign since the controversy surrounding its former CEO TT Durai in 2005. Mr Durai was arrested on April 17, 2006, and charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
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    • 118 9 Foreigners here can now top up prepaid mobile phone cards for their families back home from any post office in Singapore. Singapore Post and international airtime transfer company TransferTo have launched Singapore’s first over-the-counter mobile airtime transfer service. This would allow those in Singapore
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  • VOICES
    • Pressing needs call for bold solutions
      • 152 11  -  Letter from Kelvin Ong Kwee Beng I REFER to “SMRT has a plan” (July 3-4). With a current population of 4.5 million, it already seems as if our transport system is at its limit. And we are working towards a population goal
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      • 156 11  -  Letter from Yuen Kah Hung DISTANCE fares were introduced to give commuters greater flexibility, choice and convenience by charging a commuter based on the total distance travelled, regardless of the number of transfers made. But the structure and pricing of the monthly concession passes
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    • 208 13  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON SOARING SOLO SUCCESSFULLY We can learn a valuable lesson from the glider pilots who soar through the skies. From my office, I can see air force pilots train. The yellow training gliders have immense wing spans and seem to ride the wind
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    • 258 13  -  Not only did he not respond to my questions, he also took the wrong turn Letter from Satiman Saim ON SATURDAY afternoon, I was on SMRT bus No 171, travelling along Bukit Timah Road, heading in the direction of Sixth Avenue and
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    • 152 13  -  LETTER FROM JACK CHEW According to “Pedal-powered commuters” (July 3-4), bicycle theft has become such a problem that cyclists have resorted to using up to three padlocks to secure their bikes against theft. The statistic that three out of four cyclists interviewed had lost
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    • 169 13  -  LETTER FROM YEE JENN Those who have seen the recent graffiti on SMRT train cabins seemed to agree on one thing that it was done artistically. Even SMRT staff thought it was an advertisement and so did not report it immediately. While the
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 877 15  -  The EDB has set its sights on the next generation of flats PAUL GILFEATHER gilfeather@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the principal correspondent at Today. I imagine that, like many of you reading this, the only thing I really knew about the good people
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    • 912 17  -  Smugglers’ tunnels are proof that the siege of Gaza has actually empowered Hamas NICHOLAS D KRISTOF The writer is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. THE NEWYORK TIMES One useful place to mull Israel’s siege of Gaza is from inside a 250-metre-long smugglers’ tunnel burrowing under the
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    • 825 18  -  With 125,000 US jobs lost last month, could a wage subsidy scheme show the way? BOB HERBERT The writer is an award-winning columnist with The New York Times. THE NEWYORK TIMES Is it possible that there is a federal stimulus programme that is putting many
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    • 101 17 The Marriott Wedding Workshop CELEBRATE A LIFETIME OF MEMORIES Experience Singapore Marriott's new wedding themes while enjoying award-winning culinary delight from Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant. Get expert advice from our wedding planners and partners and be dazzled by Irene's Creation's latest designs. Visit them at 328 North Bridge Rd, #02-13/14
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  • WORLD
    • 381 19 AGENCIES NEW DELHI An opposition-led strike over fuel price rises disrupted life across India yesterday, triggering transport mayhem and sporadic violence in major cities where schools and businesses were closed. Flights were grounded in airline hubs such as Mumbai and Kolkata, while protesters
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    • Article, Illustration
      70 19 An armed Chinese policeman watching a Chinese woman weeping on a road in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi after burning offerings in the place where one of her relatives was killed last year, during the violence between the region’s Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of the majority
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    • 294 21 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The retirement age for Malaysia’s more than one million civil servants may be raised from 58 to 60 as early as next year, reported The Star. Its sources said Prime Minister Najib Razak is expected to make an
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    • 329 21 AGENCIES BEIJING An American geologist was sentenced to eight years in jail in China yesterday for collecting intelligence and revealing state secrets related to China’s oil industry, a United States official said. He was also fined 200,000 yuan ($41,000). US Ambassador Jon
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    • 82 21 AFP Japan’s main international gateway, Narita Airport near Tokyo, started testing full-body scanners yesterday as an additional security measure, despite privacy concerns. The Transport Ministry said it will test five different types of the scanners, which are made by American, Japanese and European companies
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    • 109 21 AFP Indonesian police said yesterday they would charge eight suspects over a celebrity sex video scandal that has gripped the nation. Chief detective Ito Sumardi refused to name the suspects. But he said they did not include television personalities Luna Maya,
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    • 597 22  -  Brought to you by Nur Zakirah Zakaria is set on doing Singapore proud at the upcoming Youth Olympic Games The most important thing is to give it all you’ve got. Just go for it. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose the fight. But
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    • 101 23 AFP Liberal Bronislaw Komorowski vowed to ease political tension in Poland after beating Conservative JaroslawKaczynski in a presidential election. Mr Kaczynski conceded defeat on Sunday when exit polls showed he trailed Mr Komorowski in the race to replace Mr Kaczynski’s twin broth- er,
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    • 75 23 AGENCIES Smokers at Germany’s annual beer festival, Oktoberfest, will be lighting up outside after 61 per cent of voters supported a total smoking ban for dining outlets and beer tents in Bavaria in a referendum on Sunday. Existing laws allow smokers to light up in beer tents
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    • 60 23 The family of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and thousands of supporters marching in Tel Aviv yesterday, on the ninth day of a 200km protest march from Shalit’s hometown of Mitzpe Hila to the Jerusalem residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It has been four years since
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    • 145 23 TURKEY TELLS ISRAEL: APOLOGISE OR AGENCIES Turkey ratcheted up tension with Israel yesterday, warning it will sever ties unless Ankara gets an apology for the raid on an aid convoy to Gaza, but the Jewish state said it will never say sorry for defending itself. “Israel will never apologise for
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    • 106 23 AFP Cambodia yesterday deported two suspected Red Shirt members to Thailand, where they are accused of involvement in a failed bomb attack in Bangkok. Kobchai Boonplod and Varissareeya Boonsom, both 43, were arrested on Saturday in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province over an attempted bombing at
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    • 149 25 AFP LYON International police agency Interpol has urged Internet users to help track down hundreds of fugitives wanted for murder, rape, child sexual abuse and other serious crimes. The round-up operation launched on May 3 targeted 450 people either convicted or suspected of
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    • 103 25 American Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut wolfed down 54 hot dogs in 10 minutes on Sunday to claim his fourth consecutive world title at the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. But the New York event was marred by the arrest of Takeru ‘Tsunami’ Kobayashi, Mr
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    • 318 25 Northumbria Police believe he has a grudge against the police because of the mistaken belief that Ms Stobbart had been having an affair with a police officer. AGENCIES LONDON British police are hunting a man suspected of shooting his ex-girlfriend, killing her
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    • 269 19 HOW PROFESSIONAL TRADERS TRADE AND WHAT THEY KNOW AND WHY AMATEUR TRADERS ALWAYS GET BEATEN How do Professional Traders differ from the average amateur who is trying to make a second income? The problem is that most people do not know what a Professional Trader knows. Do Traders have a
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    • 201 19 Healthy Male Female Participants Needed! Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a research study involving an experimental medicine used to treat type II diabetes mellitus. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of absorption, safety and tolerability of three different formulations of the experimental
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  • SPORTS
    • 360 27  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Lions midfielder Mustafic Fahrudin needed stitches to the head after rival fans pelted his team bus in Jakarta on the eve of a friendly match. Mustafic, who plays for Persija Jakarta in the Indonesian Soccer League (ISL), was in Cirebon for
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    • 133 27 Sixteen of the original Olympic torches, with one dating back to the 1936 Berlin Games, will be exhibited here next month as part of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games’ culture and education programme. The collection arrived from the Olympic museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, recently and
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    • 433 27  -  Budding pros to gain from STA, Spanish tennis school hook-up EWAN MAH ewanmah@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Tennis Association have tied up with Spain’s latest state-of-the-art tennis academy to groom the Republic’s youngsters for a professional career. In a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to be signed
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    • 168 29 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JOHANNESBURG World football’s two most prestigious player of the year awards will merge into a single title called the Fifa Ballon d’Or from next year. The Ballon d’Or and Fifa’s World Player of the Year awards will cease
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    • 363 29 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Liverpool striker Fernando Torres says he will not discuss his club future with new Reds manager Roy Hodgson until after the World Cup. Torres (picture) is currently in South Africa preparing for Spain’s semi-final with Germany (Thursday
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    • 159 31 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK The Knicks secured a commitment from one of this summer’s prized NBA free agents yesterday, coming to terms with forward Amar’e Stoudemire, the New York team announced yesterday. After touring the Knicks’ practice facility, Stoudemire met the news media
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    • 653 31 Tour de France riders refuse to compete after dozens of crashes in treacherous conditions THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST SPA (Belgium) After a treacherous day at the Tour de France that was marred by crashes to most of the leading challengers including Alberto Contador,
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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    • 345 31 A snining career startOTiere. Walk-in Interview 7 July 2010, Wednesday Time: 11 am 4 pm Venue: 290 Orchard Road B1-28/29 Paragon, Singapore *****9 Please bring along your resume, original and photocopies of educational certificates and a passport-sized photograph. M1 Shop Sales Consultant, Broadband (Full-Time/Part-Time) Job Responsibilities: Actively promote M1 broadband
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  • IMPACT
    • 564 36  -  Social media is not just for gossip, it can build your business too PETER YEO peteryeo@mediacorp.com.sg THE buzzword on the street is social media. The innocuous media has crept from our personal space into the corporate world. According to Mr Tem Hansen (picture), regional digital
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    • 265 36 SINGAPORE The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is a United Nations initiative to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases; and to provide universal primary education to the poor in the world. In support of the MDGs, Sony has
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    • 69 36 Class 95 listener Janice Quek and her husband were all smiles as they received a pair of air tickets to Phuket from SilkAir chief executive Chin Yau Seng, for having the best travel journal, at last Thursday’s Class 95 Discovers Asia with SilkAir party. She documented in
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    • 625 37 Singapore’s wins at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is nothing short of the Lion’s City pride PETER YEO The advertising fraternity celebrated what is known as the Oscars of the industry from June 20 to 26.The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is a week-long event, and the
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  • BUSINESS
    • 440 33 BLOOMBERG LONDON The United States government’s bank stress tests a year ago helped financial stocks to rebound 36 per cent over the next seven months. Europe’s plan to follow may not be as successful. Investors say they do not know if some banks
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    • 55 33 MONDAY CLOSE 4,823.53 (-0.30%) Friday 4,838.10 p 0.67% Thursday 4,805.80 q 2.26% Wednesday 4,916.90 p 0.05% Tuesday 4,914.20 q 3.10% FTSETOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Lloyds Banking 83.8m 54.77p p 0.13% RBS 58.5m 38.96p q 2.75% Vodaphone 56.8m 136.50p p 0.00% Taylor Wimpey 39.3m 25.06p q 2.57%
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    • 13 33 OIL US$71.78 (-US$0.36) È GOLD US$1,208.00 (+US$0.30) Ç Ç SILVER US$17.825 (+US$0.106)
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    • 23 33 US$1 $1.392 US$1 £0.661 US$1 €0.797 US$1 ¥87.765 US$1 A$1.189 US$1 HK$7.792 US$1 C$1.191 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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    • OVERNIGHT
      • 61 33 US closed for holiday Canadian and South American stocks fell, sending Canada’s main stock benchmark to the lowest level in five months, as banks and oil producers declined after surveys of purchasing managers in Europe and China indicated slowing economic growth. United States markets were closed for Independence
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      • 60 33 Equities close lower European stocks fluctuated, hit by slowing growth in the region’s services and manufacturing industries. “Equities just look really cheap unless you assume that it’s all going to be another deep recession again,” Mr Lothar Mentel, chief investment officer for Octopus Investments, said. EURO EURONEXT 605.75
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      • 55 33 Prices dip Crude oil traded near its lowest level in three weeks on concern that a slower pace of economic recovery in China may constrain global fuel demand. Car sales growth in the country slowed in June, the China Automotive Technology and Research Centre said, and a services-industry index
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      • 58 33 Euro, pound fall The euro and British pound fell against the United States dollar as traders prepared for key European monetary policy announcements due later this week. Slowdown worries have also fuelled speculation that the US will continue its easy monetary policy, which also weighed on the greenback. Volume
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    • 582 33 HSBC clients who fail to disclose Asian accounts may face criminal investigation BLOOMBERG NEW YORK The United States Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation of HSBC Holdings clients who may have failed to disclose accounts in India or Singapore to the Internal Revenue Service, according
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    • 108 34 Auction sales in Singapore grew for the first half this year, totalling about $87 million. Property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle’s Auction House reported more than 80 per cent of all listings were put up for sale by owners. The increase in the number of properties for
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    • 172 34 Sembcorp Industries said yesterday that the board of its takeover target, Cascal, has withdrawn its recommendation to reject its offer. Previously, the board of United States-listed Dutch water firm Cascal told shareholders to reject Sembcorp’s offer and not tender their shares
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    • 257 34  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Agricultural Bank of China has attracted subscriptions from big insurers and other major companies for its initial public offering (IPO), set to be the world’s largest at up to US$23 billion ($32 billion). Executive vice-president Pan Gongsheng said despite concerns
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    • 227 34  -  EPHRAIM SEOW ephraimseow@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s manufacturing economy expanded for the 14th consecutive month in June, though at a slower pace. The Singapore Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) showed a reading of 51.3, down by 0.9 points over the previous month. A reading above 50 indicates
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    • 168 35 South Korean conglomerate STX Group plans to list its European unit on the Singapore Exchange in October to raise up to 700 billion won ($797 million), the Korea Economic Daily reported yesterday. The STX Group intends to spin off STX Europe’s
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    • 331 35 AGENCIES BEIJING Most of the speculative and arbitrage capital from overseas that has entered China in recent months has ended up in the property and equity markets, an official at the country’s foreign-exchange regulator said in rare comments as the agency usually plays
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    • 237 35 AGENCIES PERTH Jupiter Mines, an Australian company developing manganese and iron ore mines, said yesterday Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings was interested in its US$200 million ($278.4 million) Tshipi project in South Africa. “They are fully briefed on this project and are interested
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    • SEMI-FINAL URUGUAY VS HOLLAND
      • 492 31 AGENCIES JOHANNESBURG Franz Beckenbauer has called on the German football federation to extend Joachim Loew’s (picture) contract beyond the World Cup finals following the team’s scintillating progress into the semifinals in South Africa. The Germans confront Spain in Durban (Thursday morning, 2.30am Singapore
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      • 220 31 football.” AFP ABUJA Nigeria’s government yesterday lifted a two-year ban it imposed last week on its national football team after a dismal World Cup showing, just ahead of a Fifa deadline to do so, a presidential source said. “The government has reversed the decision,” the source
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    • 474 40  -  Coach van Marwijk warns his Dutch team they can only be arrogant after they’ve landed trophy not before AFTERNOON LATEST AFP CAPE TOWN On the eve of the Netherlands’ World Cup semi-final, Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk insisted he is focused solely on
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    • 442 40 THE GUARDIAN CAPE TOWN Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez has angrily rejected suggestions that his team’s achievement in reaching the World Cup semi-finals have been tainted after Luis Suarez’s last-minute handball denied Ghana a winner in the previous round. The Ajax forward was dismissed
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    • 196 40 AGENCIES MONTEVIDEO Uruguayan assistant referee Mauricio Espinosa yesterday denied making a mistake over Frank Lampard’s “ghost goal” against Germany, saying it was “one of those things which happen in football”. England’s Lampard thought he had equalised against Germany in the round of 16 encounter but
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    • 651 42 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Uruguay captain Diego Lugano (picture) was to find out late last night whether he will be fit to face Holland in their World Cup semi-final tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). The Fenerbahce and Uruguay defender limped out of his country’s quarter-final encounter
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    • 529 42 Last to qualify for the World Cup, Uruguay hope to be the last to leave AP JOHANNESBURG They were the last country to qualify for the World Cup, and Uruguay could soon be the last to leave on July 11, with a little luck
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    • 591 43 17-club man set to step in for Suarez against Holland tonight AFP JOHANNESBURG Some may consider him mad, but wild-haired Uruguay striker Sebastian Abreu believes he is touched by magic. The 33-year-old nomad, a veteran of 17 clubs in seven different countries,
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    • 603 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH POTCHEFSTROOM In the great safari parks of South Africa’s World Cup, sightings of the “big five” in their spectacular pomp had been few and far between. Messi had let out a few roars then disappeared, the real Kaka was spotted rarely,
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    • 848 44  -  COMMENTARY Xavi and Schweinsteiger on collision course as European heavyweights eye the greatest prize LEONARD THOMAS in Johannesburg, South Africa leonard@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp NewsHub. He is a typically-styled German footballer, supremely fit, playing with his shoulders
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    • 636 45 AGENCIES ERASMIA Germany coach Joachim Loew said yesterday that their World Cup semifinal opponents Spain will be a tougher proposition for his young team than both England and Argentina were. That’s because while Argentina have Lionel Messi the Spanish have many players of
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    • 47 47 BOO! EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED AT THE ESPLANADE’S STUDIOS SEASON THIS YEAR. >> T2 AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH: VIEW ART AT 2,000m. >> T6 JULY 6, 2010 IT’S A CELEBRATION: THE CATHAY TURNS 75. >> T7 A PUBLICATION PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS: ‘I THOUGHT MY FAMILY WAS GOING TO KILL ME.’ >>
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  • ARTS
    • 1429 48  -  Esplanade’s wild card series, The Studios, continues to flourish amid competition MAYO MARTIN visit www.thestudios.com.sg. mayo@mediacorp.com.sg LAST week, we popped over to the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts’ dance studio, where choreographer Ricky Sim was in the midst of rehearsals for his new show, It Appears That...
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      330 50  -  MAYO MARTIN Chinese hotshot artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s wolves were let loose inside the National Museum’s basement gallery.The amazing installation, along with two other works comprising Head On, underscored the need for huge museum spaces. If Singapore wants to attract international artists who think big not to mention encourage local
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 684 52 Final installation of sculptor Antony Gormley’s famous figures reach new heights literally THE GUARDIAN SCULPTOR Antony Gormley’s famous human figures are to have a final hurrah high in the Austrian Alps. Gormley has created 100 life-size cast-iron statues which he has installed across Europe’s
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      427 53  -  Cathay turns 75 with a month’s worth of celebrations Genevieve Loh genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg WHO knew 75-year-olds could have this much fun? As part of Cathay’s 75th anniversary celebrations, the group is organising a month-long series of celebratory activities have been planned to commemorate this diamond jubilee. For instance, from
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    • 183 53 Controversial Airbender sails in at surprising No 2 BLOOMBERG IT COMES as little surprise that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse knocked off Toy Story 3 as the top film in the United States and Canada over the weekend, earning US$69 million ($96 million). The real surprise,
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    • 1080 54 ON MEDIACORP ON MEDIACORP THE NOOSE III Channel 5, 8.30pm We interrupt the regular irreverent Noose bulletins, to bring you a seriously sombre message, concerning the residents of Jurong. Guests cameo from Singapore Idol 2010 Sezairi Sezali, as well as runner-up Sylvia Ratonel. PRECIOUS BABES Channel 8, 9pm After swallowing
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  • 291 56 THINGSTO DO 1 KHROMA: Hues Of The Subconscious Mind A solo exhibition by Jeremy Ramsey, a British-born artist who has lived in Singapore since 1956. Known for his colourfilled paintings that reflect strong modernist art elements, this collection covers a period spanning about 15 years. Date: Till
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  • HEALTH
    • 261 58 THE NEWYORKTIMES BICYCLING for exercise may help women control their weight during their 30s and 40s, a new study says. Brisk-walking has the same effect for slim, overweight and obese women, researchers found, that slow walking does not. The
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    • 419 58 ASK THE DOC Query from Lyn I am a 48-year-old woman. I’ve just moved into a double-storey house which requires me to use the stairs every day. For the past six months, my knees have been hurting badly whenever I climb the stairs. My feet will hurt,
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    • 813 60  -  Many psychotic disorders have their beginnings in youth Eveline Gan eveline@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE most of us revelled in the year-end festivities last December, Estella (not her real name) locked herself up in her room, gripped by fear and paranoia. She was convinced that people were
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