Today, 27 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 27, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking JULY 27, 2010 A PUBLICATION
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  • 213 2 Face of oil spill debacle will be offered job in Russia: Source AP LONDON Mr Tony Hayward, who became the face of BP’s flailing efforts to contain the massive Gulf oil spill, will step down as chief executive in October and be offered
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  • 173 2 THE NEWYORKTIMES BRUSSELS The European Union intensified the economic isolation of Iran over its nuclear programme by ordering its toughest economic sanctions yet against the Iranian government yesterday. European energy companies and insurers affected by the new controls promised to comply. Although European companies
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  • 485 2 China rankles at American interference into Spratly, Paracel Islands dispute THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING The Chinese government reacted angrily yesterday to an announcement by United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that Washington might step into a long-simmering territorial dispute between China and
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  • NEWS
    • 430 3  -  Could more free tickets lure bigger crowds? NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Businessmen, supporters, relatives, sports scientists. These are some overseas visitors expected in town during the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG), besides the 5,000 young athletes and officials associated with the event. With
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    • 228 3  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is less than a month away, and more support is needed from Singaporeans. Many are already aware of the event taking place from August 14 to 26, said chairman of the YOG’s Community Outreach Advisory Commmitte, MrZainudin
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    • 636 4  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He was the Government’s lead counsel in several major public inquiries such as for the Sentosa cable car accident in 1983 and the Hotel New World collapse in 1986. Lawyer Sivakant Tiwari was part of the
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    • 138 5 Besides getting the iPhone 4 through the telcos, Singaporeans will be able to get the muchawaited device at Apple’s online store this Friday. The telcos here have not revealed their prices, but in a press statement, Apple said the iPhone 4 will be sold
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    • 589 5 AP LONDON The release of some 91,000 secret United States military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised yesterday, adding that he still has thousands more Afghan files to post online. The White House, Britain and Pakistan have
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    • 151 7 Singapore says the trial of former Charge d’Affaires Silviu Ionescu in Romania, which begins today, is an important step forward in ensuring that justice is served. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement yesterday that its Special Envoy to
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    • 119 7  -  EVELYN CHOO Singapore’s first batch of graduates schooled in Western and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) graduated yesterday, with 59 young physicians finishing the pioneer five-year programme on biomedical sciences and TCM. Offered by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the unorthodox double
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    • 67 7  -  IMELDA SAAD A new qualification programme has been launched to improve the skills of infocomm security professionals in Singapore. It is part of a five-year masterplan to strengthen the country’s defences against cyber attacks. The aim is to equip security professionals and the man
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    • 85 7 Tan Tock Seng Hospital yesterday kicked off celebrations to mark Nurses’ Day on Aug 1 by putting 418 nurses on the Singapore Flyer. And the National Healthcare Group (NHG) has partnered the Flyer’s operator to have all NHG nurses ride on it for free in July in
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    • 309 7  -  LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE Prominent paraplegic athlete William Tan Kian Meng, who was sued for $400,000, had claimed the amount was the result of “love gifts” given by Dr Stephanie Chee Jok Heng because they were in an intimate relationship. But High Court Judge Tay Yong
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    • 186 7 A mother who was driving herthree children was lucky to have escaped serious injury after she lost control of her car, which collided into the side railing of the Pan-Island Expressway on Sunday afternoon. Her three-year-old son, who
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    • 333 9  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE She loathed getting scolded by her employer. So she found a way to minimise reprimands: Adding sleeping pills to “Ah Ma’s” soup, so that she would fall asleep and not find fault with her work. For over a year, Indonesian
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    • 128 9 More than 100 student leaders and teachers, who are in Singapore for the Hwa Chong Asia-Pacific Young Leaders Summit, got a behind-the-scenes peek at Singapore media group, MediaCorp. During their tour of the Caldecott Broadcast Centre, the visitors got a closer look at
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    • 110 9  -  TEO XUANWEI An eighth man believed to be connected to the fatal brawl at Orchard Plaza last Friday was charged with murder yesterday. Muhammad Fazri Mohd Noor, 25, is accused of being part of an unlawful assembly which allegedly attacked and killed Mr
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    • 112 9 The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is revising the ERP charges for four gantries from next Monday, following a quarterly review. With the change, it will cost $2 to pass through the gantries at East Coast Parkway (Fort Road) and the KPE
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    • 138 9 The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and Sembcorp Marine (SCM) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate in enhancing the training of students in marine and offshore engineering courses. As part of the MoU, a Marine Engineering and Quality
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    • 13 11 HAVE YOUR SAY email your letters to voices@rnediacorp.corn.sg JOIN THE COMMUNITY www.todayonline.com/voices
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    • 207 11  -  Lessons from Bangkok Letter from Denis Distant I REFER to the letter “In case of emergency (July 24-25) from Bernadette Low, manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications of SMRT Corp, which seeks to reassure commuters that each train has a Train Officer in
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    • 257 11  -  Letter from Richard Seah THE SMRT communications staff asserts that MRT trains carry an “average” of only 1,300 to 1,500 passengers during peak hours. These numbers work out to an average of 3.8 persons per square metre, which does not correspond with reality. Anyone who
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    • 199 12  -  Letter from Noodie Mak ONE Friday, during the morning rush hour, I boarded a train at Buona Vista MRT Station to head downtown. On board, I had to stand surrounded by people, with no nearby pole or rail for support. At a slight bend in
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    • 212 12  -  Non-drivers, tourists should have access to road laws Letter from Ong Hong Bee ALL road users must obey traffic rules and regulations to prevent road accidents. Yet, the Highway Code cannot be found online. There are traffic regulations that are relevant to non-drivers, such as
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    • 169 12  -  BY DR BILL MAIER BLESSING YOUR CHILDREN It’s the little things that make children feel special. Things that take almost no time and effort but add up to great memories for their future. Give thanks for every member of the family, for each child by name. Say something
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    • 64 12 CLARIFICATION In the article “15 called up in Hindu temple probe” (July 24-25), we reported that the secretary of another temple, the Arulmigu Velmurugan Gnanamuneeswarar Temple, shared how it manages its finances, amount- ing to $300,000 in annual income and $10,000 in net income. The temple chairman, N Subramaniam, has
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 150 11 MediaCorp Press Ltd Caldecott Broadcast Centre, Annex Building, Level 1, Andrew Rd, Singapore *****9 Tel 6236 4888 Fax 6534 4217 today@mediacorp.com.sg Today we set you thinking todayonline.com Publisher Patrick Yong Editor Walter Fernandez Deputy Editor Lee Foong Ming Associate Editor Chan Teck Guan Night Editor Richard J Valladares Editor-At-Large Conrad
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  • COMMENT & ANALYSIS
    • 912 13  -  Australia's idea-starved contest is worrisome for a 'miracle' economy on autopilot WILLIAM PESEK The writer is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Here’s the plot: An unmarried, foreignborn, atheist woman whose partner is a male hairdresser wants to lead a major
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    • 1319 15  -  NICK DAVIES GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA The United States authorities have known for weeks that they have suffered a haemorrhage of secret information on a scale which makes even the leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war look limited by comparison. The
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    • 556 15  -  Bangkok bomb blast, by-election a sign of things to come SIMON TAY The writer is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. The bomb that went off in Bangkok after Sunday’s by-election echoed the mass violence of April and May. Weeks have
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    • 510 18 doctors and medical teams is important as it enhances the dynamics of the team and ultimately leads to better patient care. “We need to work well as a team and having confl icts will only pull us down and affect the patient, which is defi nitely not what we want,”
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  • WORLD
    • 137 19 The war games go on AGENCIES United States and South Korean warships staged anti-submarine drills yesterday as part of a major naval exercise intended to send a warning to North Korea despite its threats of nuclear retaliation. The two allies, who accuse the North of sending a submarine to torpedo
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    • 340 19 Aquino faces huge battle as he loses key post to rival AGENCIES MANILA Philippine President Benigno Aquino may face an uphill struggle meeting campaign pledges to fight poverty, narrow a record budget deficit and address power and water shortages after failing to gain control of the Senate.
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    • 157 20 AGENCIES BANGKOK A bomb in central Bangkok that killed one person and wounded 10 on Sunday was designed to create disorder for political gain, the police said yesterday. The blast came hours after polls closed in a crucial Bangkok by-election.
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    • 363 20 AFP PHNOM PENH Tearful Khmer Rouge survivors expressed anger yesterday at what they considered a light sentence for the first member of the Cambodian regime to face international justice. In a historic first, a United Nations-backed court sentenced Kaing Guek Eav,
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    • 204 21 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Lawyers for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim have demanded that the Malaysian Attorney-General responds to allegations that a female deputy public prosecutor in the ongoing sodomy trial is romantically involved with the lead witness. Fugitive blogger Raja Petra
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    • 240 21 AFP BEIJING—Torrential rains have left at least 37 people dead in China’s ancient capital Luoyang and shut its World Heritage Site as the authorities yesterday warned other flood-hit areas to brace for downpours in days ahead. China’s worst flooding in 10 years
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    • 167 21 AFP BODHGAYA Myanmar’s reclusive military ruler General Than Shwe, on a state visit to India yesterday, toured the Mahabodhi Temple, one of Buddhism’s holiest shrines. His visit was met with protests and condemnation from rights groups. A crowd of about 100 pro-democracy
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    • 130 22 THE GUARDIAN A Chinese “culture war” has spilled on to the streets of Guangdong, as hundreds of inhabitants held a mass rally on Sunday to defend their local language. Proposals for Guangdong’s main television company to broadcast primarily in Mandarin China’s official language have angered
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    • 337 22 Chinese mining giant from corporate star to villain AP BEIJING A month ago, the Zijin Mining Group was a Chinese corporate star, a profitable gold and copper miner (picture) with ambitions to further expand abroad. Today, Zijin is an environmental villain to China’s public after a July 3 leak of
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    • 109 22 BLOOMBERG The authorities in China’s Yunnan province have found 84 children with excessive levels of lead in their blood caused by illegal gold processing operations. The children were diagnosed after the local environmental protection department cracked down on operations that used
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    • 215 23 AGENCIES BERLIN The Mayor of the German city of Duisburg was under intense pressure to quit yesterday, two days after a panicked stampede at the Love Parade left 19 people dead. The authorities had reportedly been warned the western city was too small to
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    • 108 23 AP A man driving a minibus blew himself up in front of the Baghdad office of Al Arabiya, a popular Arabic news channel early yesterday, killing at least six people, and injuring 16, said officials. The channel is among the
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    • 63 23 WHEN TRAIN HITS TRUCK AFP Several wagons of a maintenance train in the Netherlands ploughed through the buffers and hit an empty diesel truck before crashing through a shop in the village of Stavoren on Sunday. Two of the four people on board the train suffered minor injuries. Police said
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    • 107 23 AP Prison officials in northern Mexico allegedly let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people last week. Prosecutors said the prison-based hit squad is suspected
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    • 107 23 AUSTRALIAN PLEADS GUILTY TO USING COMPUTER VIRUS TO STEAL DATA AP A 20-year-old Australian has pleaded guilty to initiating a computer virus that infected 3,000 computers in Australia and other countries to steal banking and credit card information. Court papers say Anthony Scott Harrison pleaded guilty to four counts of
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    • 153 24 BEAR TAKES CAR FOR'JOY-RIDE' AP A bear got into an empty car, honked the horn and then sent it rolling 40 metres into a thicket, a family in Colorado said. The car’s owner, Ben Story, 17, said he and his family were asleep in their home south of Denver when
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    • 371 24 AFP PARIS Increasing numbers of Asian men, particularly those in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, are marrying foreigners because fewer women in their homelands are willing to wed. The phenomenon, which dates back more than a decade, has even created a detectable
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    • 137 24 AP WELLINGTON A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived a 16-sto-rey plunge from the balcony of his family’s apartment onto a concrete floor. Local media reported yesterday that the boy was playing on a balcony before he fell, dropping through the roof of a
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  • SPORTS
    • 407 25 TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE With just 18 days to the start of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, there is still no word if two of the biggest names in sport right now will be in Singapore for the event. Fourteen-time Olympic swimming champion
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    • 660 25  -  Set to go up against China's Qiu Bo, Singapore's Youth Olympic diver is just keen to learn LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Watching top Chinese diver Qiu Bo execute somersaults, tucks and pikes at the Youth Olympic Games qualifier in Guadalajara, Mexico, in
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    • 410 26  -  Lee and Low the pick of the crop at 420 worlds, Liu and Cheng in the mix in the men’s event TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore’s sailors remained on course to win the country’s first 420 world sailing title yesterday. After the final day of
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    • 353 26  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE In a space of a month in two different editions of the Fifa World Cup the men’s competition and the women’s under-20 tourney German teams triumphed 4-1 in controversial circumstances. Englishman Frank Lampard’s drive and France’s Lea Rubio’s shot both
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    • 355 27 AFP ROME Star teenage Italian forward Mario Balotelli’s (picture) agent has denied that his client has signed a deal with Manchester City. Earlier reports in the Italian press claimed the 19-year-old Inter Milan striker had already agreed a contract with
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    • 688 27  -  COMMENTARY Another race, another scandal, the rulers of Formula 1 need to hit Ferrari harder IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is senior F1 correspondent at MediaCorp. Much is made of Fernando Alonso’s talent behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car. Over the last
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    • 260 29 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh claimed that he would rather forfeit the championship than order one of his drivers to stand aside for the other, as Ferrari controversially did during the German Grand Prix on Sunday. The Italian team
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    • 214 29 THE GUARDIAN LIVERPOOL Javier Mascherano returned to pre-season training at Liverpool yesterday, accompanied by his agent, and told Roy Hodgson that he wants to leave Anfield. The midfielder’s request will have come as little surprise to the manager. Rafael Benuitez, Hodgson’s predecessor at
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    • 262 29 THE GUARDIAN MADRID The departing Real Madrid captain Raul says he is considering a move to England following his departure from the Bernabeu, denying a deal with Schalke has already been done. The veteran striker yesterday announced he would be leaving the club where he has spent his
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  • BUSINESS
    • 300 33 AGENCIES PARIS The world’s top central bankers and regulators said yesterday they had reached broad agreement on new standards to make sure the banking system could face any new financial crisis with confidence. “The agreements reached today are a landmark achievement to strengthen
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    • 57 33 MONDAY CLOSE 10,525.43 (+0.97%) Friday 10,424.62 p 0.99% Thursday 10,322.30 p 1.99% Wednesday 10,120.53 q 1.07% Tuesday 10,229.96 p 0.74% NYSETOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Citigroup 427.0m $4.15 p 3.23% Bank of America 158.8m $14.15 p 2.98% Ford 125.3m $12.94 p 1.73% Sprint Nextel 84.4m $5.05 p
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    • 13 33 FTSE100 Ç Ç Ç 5,351.12 (+0.72%) DAX 6,194.21 (+0.45%) CAC40 3,636.18 (+0.81%)
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    • 8 33 OIL US$78.98 (UNCH) È GOLD US$1186.00 (-US$1.00)
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    • 21 33 US$1 $1.361 US$1 £0.646 US$1 €0.770 US$1 ¥86.970 US$1 A$1.109 US$1 HK$7.766 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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    • OVERNIGHT
      • 108 33 Dow hits 10-week high US stocks extended gains as sentiment was boosted by data showing a surge in new home sales and robust corporate earnings. The Dow jumped 100.81 points to a two-month high of 10,525.43, after surging 3.2 per cent last week. The blue-chip index posted its
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      • 68 33 Close unchanged Oil prices were little changed as investors mulled expectations of an inventory decline in the US, indicating greater energy demand, and as concerns over a storm threat to drilling in the Gulf of Mexico eased. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in September, ended
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    • 325 33 Economy cheers at FedEx, UPS' strong Q2 showing BLOOMBERG MEMPHIS FedEx boosted its profit forecast for the quarter and full year, exceeding analysts’ estimates, on rising demand for international express shipments. FedEx shares climbed to a sevenweek high yesterday. Earnings for the quarter ending in
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    • 98 33 BLOOMBERG Owners of the Apple iPhone and other smartphones can unlock the devices to use applications not authorised by the phonemakers, the United States Library of Congress ruled yesterday. The library added the practice, described in the ruling as “jailbreaking”, to a list of
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    • 358 34  -  Majority of listed firms here not disclosing top execs' pay: Report JULIE QUEK JULIE QUEK juliequek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A large majority of Singapore-listed companies are still not disclosing key information on the pay packages of their top executives and more should be done to improve this lack of
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    • 267 34 SINGAPORE Singapore’s manufacturing output continued to increase last month at a double-digit pace but the rate of growth came in slower due to a drop in the pharmaceutical segment. Data released yesterday by the Economic Development Board (EDB) showed that industrial production increased by 26.1 per cent
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    • 253 34 EPHRAIM SEOW SINGAPORE A condominium block and an adjoining site in Bassein Road near the Novena MRT Station are going for a joint collective sale for between $130 million and $150 million. Pastoral View is a 10-storey development comprising 50 units and has a
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    • 269 34 NO STRESS FOR ASIAN STOCKS AS MSCI HITS MONTH HIGH AGENCIES Asian stocks rose yesterday, driving the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index to a month high, after most European banks passed stress tests and boosted optimism over the health of the global economy. “The stress test results weren’t the disaster that some
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    • 110 34 SINGAPORE AIRLINES BOOKS $253M NET PROFIT Singapore Airlines (SIA) has booked a net profit of $253 million in its fiscal first quarter the three months to June. This overturns a loss of $307 million in the year ago period. The performance beat analysts forecasts for a net profit of $232
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    • 52 38 HERE COMES THE MUSIC DECEMBER RAINS RETURNS, PRESENTED BY A BUNCH OF FUN-LOVING PLAY MAKERS. >> T2 JULY 27, 2010 A PUBLICATION SOLO AND THORNY: THE STONE ROSES’ IAN BROWN TO PLAY AT SINGFEST. >> T8 IF SIX BOTTLES COST $150,000, HOW MUCH IS A DROP? >> T6 PORE SUPPORT:
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    1171 39  -  ARTS Toy Factory doesn't simply do plays, they play MAYO MARTIN MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER much snooping, we have reason to suspect that for the past two decades, we have been deceived by Toy Factory. That it’s actually not a theatre company but a bunch of children. Sure,
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 582 41  -  Boeing Boeing's Daniel York on accidental kisses and a Harry Potter moment MAYO MARTIN IT’S not often that an actor can boast of having Professor Severus Snape as a fan, but Daniel York can. Back in 1992, the English actor was performing in a run of
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    • 582 42  -  One Aussie artist's artwork is another man's rock album MAYO MARTIN FOR famous musician-artists such as Keith Richards, Paul McCartney and Blur’s Graham Coxon it is primarily their rock star reputations that have built up public interest in their paintings. But for Darren Sylvester whose works are
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    • 376 43 Asian collectors get drunk at London auction houses BLOOMBERG AN EDVARD Munch print and a Birkin were stars at London auction houses this month. But thanks to Asian collectors, it’s been fine wine and silver that have seen the most success. In a slew of
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      418 44 MAYO MARTIN Theatre and radio personality Hossan Leong graduated from jester to knight after receiving the Chevalier de l’Order des Arts et des Lettres the latest in a slowly growing army of Singapore artists to be “conscripted” by the French. Victoria Concert Hall had its last hurrah on Sunday
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    • 720 45 Singer Ian Brown and former Stone Roses frontman will perform at Singfest. He tells us why going solo is his destiny CHRISTOPHERTOH WHEN we called him last week, singer Ian Brown took the call from his parents’ house in Manchester. “I don’t have a landline,” he
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    • 176 46 AP EVEN though Angelina Jolie plays a suspected Russian sleeper agent in her latest movie, in real life she thinks USRussian relations are going well. Jolie was in Moscow for the Russian premiere of the movie Salt on Sunday, just a few weeks after 10 Russian
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      1461 47  -  Can watching live arts performances online match the real experience? Leo Benedictus features@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN TO GET the most from any show, apparently, you have to be there. No technology can transmit the sound of a real orchestra or the immediacy of theatre, can it? If you haven’t
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    • 499 47 ONLINE BOOKING -WWW.CATHAY.COM.SG BOOKING HOTLINE-6235 1155 THE CATHAY 2 Handy Road, Levels 5 Et 6 THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE* (IN DIGITAL FORMAT) 2.00pm, 4.30,7.00, 9.30pm THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE* 12.35pm, 1.30, 4.00, 5.45, 6.30,9.00pm INCEPTION* 1.15pm, 2.50,6.30, 8.00,9.25pm DESPICABLE ME* (IN 3D FORMAT) 12.30pm THE CRAZIES* 1.00pm, 3.05,5.10, 7.15, 9.20pm ESESZa HOT
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    • 318 47 THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (CS) 10:30am, 11:30,12:30 1:45,2:45,4:00,5:00, 6:15,8:30,9:30 THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (CS) 3:00pm ONG BAK 3 (tin 6] (thai) ItssES) 11am, 1:00pm, 5:15, 7:20, 9:30 INCEPTION (CS)* EI3IEI112:40pm, 3:30,6:30,9:30 INCEPTION (CS)* 10:30am, 11:30, 2:30pm, 5:30,8:30 DESPICABLE ME** ER9ES] 10:30am DESPICABLE ME(CS) 1:15, 3:15,7:15,9:15 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE 1:45pm, 4:15,6:45, 9:15
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  • Page 49 Miscellaneous
    • 1009 49 CHANNEL ON MEDIACORP BUFFETLICIOUS Channel 5, 8pm 4.00 Don’t Forget The Lyrics! Singapore 5.00 Video Zonkers 5.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VII 6.30 The Price Is Right USA 7.30 Wheel Of Fortune 8.00 Buffetlicious 8.30 The Noose III 9.00 Just For Laughs Gags 9.30 News 5 Tonight 10.00 CSI Miami
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    251 48 THINGS TO DO top 1 Broken Social Scene The Toronto alternative-rock collective returns with its new album, Forgiveness Rock Record. Date: Today Time: 7.30pm Venue: Esplanade Concert Hall Tickets: $40 to $100 from Sistic Enquiries: www.esplanade.com 2 Views Of The South An exploration of Singapore’s southern islands
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