Today, 19 October 2010, Afternoon Edition

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  • 48 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday October 19, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Tuesday October 19, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking OCTOBER 19, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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    • 530 4 DISCOVER A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES IN GLOBAL EMERGING MARKET BONDS Over the years, Emerging Market (EM) bonds have matured considerably as an asset class. In fact over the long term, EM debt as an asset class has outperformed equities with less volatility*. Believing that global long-term investors will continue to
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  • 141 3 BLOOMBERG AUCKLAND The New Zealand city of Christchurch and surrounding districts were rocked by a magnitude-5 earthquake, with strong shaking felt throughout the area, according to GNS Science. The temblor struck at 11.32am local time (6.32am, Singapore time) and was centred about 10km southwest of
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  • 512 3  -  Slew of changes to landed property ownership tabled in Parliament ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Foreign ownership of landed homes here is set to be tightened, four years after the Residential Property Act was last revised. The latest changes to the law, tabled yesterday in Parliament,
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 526 5  -  Fault went undetected because helicopter’s computers did not generate any error messages TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A corroded component had caused both engines of an Apache attack helicopter to suddenly shut down forcing it to land in an open field in Woodlands last month (picture). The
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    • 556 6  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Now that he is back, Mas Selamat Kastari (picture) is being detained at the highest risk level under a revised regime for detainees. Classified under the red category, the former Jemaah Islamiyah leader is “heavily shackled whenever he
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    • 278 7  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Above water or under it? As speculation continues over whether the proposed MRT extension to Tanjung Puteri will see commuters travelling under the Straits of Johor, Foreign Minister George Yeo reiterated in Parliament yesterday that no decision
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    • 404 7  -  ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE Among the property cooling measures introduced in August, the requirement for resale flat buyers to dispose of their private property, including any held overseas, has left some flat seekers in a bind. And National Development
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    • 173 11 SINGAPORE Parliament yesterday observed a minute’s silence for the late Dr Balaji Sadasivan. The Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of Parliament for Ang Ko Kio GRC died on Sept 27, aged 55. Leader of the House and National Development Minister
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    • 272 11  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In the absence of a global agreement, Singapore will still take steps to implement energy-efficiency measures announced under the Sustainable Singapore Blueprint in April last year, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Yaacob Ibrahim
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    • 81 11 Some bus routes will be changed by year-end, Transport Minister Raymond Lim said yesterday. As consultations with the community continue, more changes will be implemented on an ongoing basis. The Land Transport Authority will update advisers to the grassroots organisations on improvements to bus and
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    • 83 11 Studies are being conducted on the possibility of providing lifts for overhead bridges near MRT stations, Transport Minister Raymond Lim said yesterday. The study by the Land Transport Authority covers the selection of bridges, technical feasibility and maintenance. This “significant undertaking” will be weighed
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    • 121 11 The Government is reviewing the use of additional measures against children who do not repay education loans taken from their parents’ Central Provident Fund sums, Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong said yesterday. Currently, repayment has to start one
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    • 66 7 The West dominates global institutions. You still have a rule that says to become the head of yy the IMF, you must be European. To become the head of the World Bank, you must be American. W That is the kind of anachronism that has to go. Professor Kishore Mahbubani
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  • NEWS
    • 235 9  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB shaffiq@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The AttorneyGeneral’s Chambers (AGC) has taken issue with 14 passages from a British writer’s book which it said had called into question the integrity, impartiality and independence of the country’s Judiciary. Alan Shadrake (picture), 75, is contesting contempt of court charges
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    • 397 9 Andersson to be university’s first non-Singaporean SINGAPORE After eight years at the helm, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) president Su Guaning, 60, will step down from his position which he described as a “burden that has also been a joy and a source of energy” when
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  • VOICES
    • 302 13  -  Letter from Jessie Chong I AM writing about the treatment that my dad encountered and I hope companies out there can review and improve the working conditions for cleaners. My dad, a senior citizen, got a job two weeks ago as a cleaner at a
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    • 299 13  -  Letter from Dr DianaTeo Group Director, Blood Services Group Health Sciences Authority WE REFER to the letter by M V Andeny, “Should private hospitals run own blood banks?” (Oct 16). The Blood Services Group of the Health Sciences Authority has the
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 840 15  -  What the rare earth fracas says about China and the US PAUL KRUGMAN The writer is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. THE NEWYORK TIMES Last month, a Chinese trawler operating in Japanese-controlled waters
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    • 1031 17  -  Its course will be decided by its response to China YURIKO KOIKE Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former Minister of Defence and National Security Adviser, is now Chairman of the Executive Council of the Liberal Democratic Party. This commentary is exclusive to Today in Singapore. PROJECT SYNDICATE
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    • 1091 19  -  Open approach of competitors like Android spurs quicker innovation MIGUEL HELFT THE NEW YORK TIMES If you want a smartphone powered by Google’s Android software, you could get Motorola’s Droid 2 or its cousin, the Droid X. Then there is the Droid Incredible from
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  • WORLD
    • 285 21 AP CAUAYAN The strongest cyclone in years to hit the Philippines knocked out communications and power as residents took shelter yesterday. Typhoon Megi packed sustained winds of 225kmh and gusts of 260kmh as it made landfall at mid-day yesterday at Palanan Bay in Isabela
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    • 288 21 China’s Vice-President Xi Jinping promoted AGENCIES BEIJING Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping (picture) was promoted to vice-chairman of a key Communist Party military committee yesterday, in the clearest sign that he remains on track to take over as the country’s leader within three years. Along
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    • 320 23 AGENCIES LONDON A hostile cyber-attack interrupting Britain’s electric power transmission network. Rogue groups or foreign states breaking into computer systems to steal top-secret information. Terrorists hacking into the country’s air traffic control. British officials yesterday identified cyber warfare, along with terrorism, as
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    • 143 25 AGENCIES NAYPYITAW International election monitors and foreign journalists will be barred from Myanmar’s first general election in 20 years, its military rulers said yesterday, deepening concern that next month’s polls will be a sham. The United States, Britain and Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbours had urged
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    • 95 25 AGENCIES Facebook confirmed yesterday that some of its most popular applications transmitted identifying information, such as user names, to advertising and Internet-tracking companies. The admission follows a Wall Street Journal investigation which uncovered evidence that all 10 of the most popular Facebook apps including well-known games
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    • 265 25 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday called democracy a “failed” ideology and held up China’s model of authoritarianism as an alternative “worth studying”. He said China’s political model which he termed the “Beijing Consensus” showed that
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    • 292 26 AGENCIES PARIS Saudi intelligence officials have informed France that Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen may be planning an attack in France or other parts of Europe, French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said. He told French media that France had received the information
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    • 155 26 AGENCIES The fugitive head of the Al Qaeda terrorist network, Osama bin Laden, as well as his deputy, Ayman Al Zawahiri, are believed to be hiding in north-west Pakistan, a senior North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) official said yesterday. The
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    • 49 26 Iraqi soldiers on guard outside a jewellery store after clashes with gunmen in the Mansour neighbourhood of western Baghdad. Gunmen stormed three Baghdad jewellery stores on Sunday in what appeared to be coordinated robberies and clashed with security forces, leaving several people dead. AP AP
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    • 159 26 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON A drug addict known as John has become the first man in Britain to be sterilised in exchange for cash under a controversial new project. The man, who has been addicted to heroin for 15 years, was given £200
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    • 257 23 HOW WILL YOU TRADE to SURVIVE A VOLATILE MARKET? EQUITIES CURRENCIES FUTURES OPTIONS COMMODITIES The Market has been extremely volatile. If you didn't know why or if you can't handle it, it is obvious that you don't know what you're doing and you should not be trading. With so many
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  • SPORTS
    • 551 27  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From the high of hosting the world’s first Youth Olympic Games, to the women’s world team table tennis championship triumph in Moscow in May and the country’s best haul at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi earlier this month, it
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    • 312 27  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE The Republic will host at least four more Formula One night races, even as government agencies and race promoter Singapore Grand Prix begin their review on extending the contract with the sport’s administrators, said Minister for Trade and Industry
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    • 93 27  - BLOW FOR RELAYTEAM The record-breaking men's 4x100m quartet of Gary Yeo, Muhammad Elfi Mustapa, Muhd Amirudln Jamal and Lee Cheng Wei have suffered another setback ahead of the Guangzhou Asian Games. National University of Singapore student Elfi, 22, was involved in a motorbike acci- dent last Friday and suffered abrasions
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    • 594 28  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They have been one of the Republic’s leading national sports associations (NSA) over the years. Since 2004, SingaporeSailing have produced 17 world champions at junior and youth levels and are one of the best-fund-ed NSAs, receiving more than $2 million annually from the
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    • 187 28 REUTERS LONDON Newcastle United striker Andy Carroll was freed on bail on condition he live with the club’s captain Kevin Nolan after he appeared in court charged with assaulting a teenage former girlfriend. The 21-year-old forward is accused of assaulting his
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    • 350 28 AP LIVERPOOL American tycoon John Henry (picture) has cautioned that his New England Sports Ventures (NESV) consortium, which recently acquired Liverpool, will not throw cash at reviving the fortunes of the fallen English giants. The urgency of the rebuilding task facing Henry was
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    • 509 30 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST MANCHESTER Wayne Rooney is ready to pursue an incredible transfer to Manchester City after being told that Manchester United have no intention of making him the highest-paid player in English football. Rooney has left his Old Trafford future hanging by a
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    • 106 30 AP; Villarreal rallied for a 2-2 draw at Hercules last night (this morning, Singapore time) but missed a chance to go top of the Spanish league for the first time in club history. Nelson Valdez and Joan Capdevila exchanged goals before DavidTrezeguet put Hercules ahead 2-1 in
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    • 370 30 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Fifa has widened its investigation into bribery allegations against two members of its executive committee to include the potential suspension of one or more bidding nations involved in the race to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Following a day
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    • 275 32 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The theme of the day was unquestionably linked to star players reaching the ends of their tethers and wanting to move on but Arsene Wenger will pick his Arsenal team for the Champions League Group H tie against Shakhtar Donetsk at
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    • 257 32 REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST Blackburn 0 Sunderland 0 BLACKBURN Sunderland drew for the sixth time in eight Premier League matches on Monday when they could find no way past 10-man Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. Christopher Samba was shown a red card just before halftime for Rovers
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    • 102 32 REUTERS Middlesbrough managerGordon Strachan has left by mutual consent following a poor run of form, the Championship club said on their website yesterday. The former Scotland and Manchester United midfielder, who joined less than a year ago, leaves the club languishing two points clear of
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    • 40 30 At the end of the day, you know, it’s a marriage, with the audience It’s a story with highs and lows. You look at the bigger picture and it’s quite exciting. Actor John Travolta speaking to Today June 22, 2001
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  • IMPACT
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      586 38  -  Cooking just got closer to home with the FairPrice Family Cookoff reality TV series PETERYEO peteryeo@mediacorp.com.sg There is no denying Singaporeans’ love affair with food. But aside from scouting great food venues and snapping pictures of tasty eats for their blogs, some have taken their passion one
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    • 111 38 Reading Weekend Today and the New York Times (NYT) can take you places. Literally. Since last week, 530 SMRT taxis have been plying the roads with the Weekend Today/NYT splashed on their sides. The highly visible red taxis with the Weekend Today/ NYT ad is a timely
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  • BUSINESS
    • 236 34 THE NEW YORK TIMES SAN FRANCISCO Apple demonstrated its might in consumer electronics yet again yesterday by reporting strong sales of its iPhones, iPads and even its Mac computers in its fourth quarter. Apple reported that net income in the quarter ending Sept
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    • 73 34 BLOOMBERG Although IBM announced its third-quarter profit rose by 12 per cent as its revenue increased modestly, its stocks declined as much as 4 per cent in extended trading after posting its third straight quarterly drop in new contracts, with services signings falling 7 per cent
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    • 59 34 Monday 11,005.97 p 0.08% Friday 10,997.35 p 0.64% Thursday 10,927.07 p 0.27% Wednesday 10,897.52 q 0.66% TUESDAY CLOSE 11,143.69 (+0.73%) NYSETOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Citigroup 937.5m $4.17 p 5.57% Bank of America 405.1m $12.34 p 3.01% General Electric 67.2m $16.25 q 0.31% Wells Fargo 65.9m $24.87
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    • 11 34 FTSE100 5,742-52 H (+0.69%) DAX 6,516.63 (+0.37%) CAC40 3,834-5° (+0.19%)
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    • 21 34 US$1 $1.300 US$1 £0.629 US$1 €0.717 US$1 ¥81.212 US$1 A$1.009 US$1 HK$7.757 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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    • OVERNIGHT
      • 72 34 A good day for traders US stocks advanced as stronger-than-expected profit from Citigroup helped financial shares shake off worries that the foreclosure mess could threaten the stability of the housing market. “It is very much an earningsdriven day, about the fact that banks are trading well,” said analyst
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      • 86 34 Bounce back above US$83 Oil prices bounced back above US$83 a barrel, as stocks rose on encouraging earnings reports and the US dollar weakened against the euro. With a number of companies reporting this week, investors are on the lookout for signs of economic health and energy demand. “The
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    • 440 34 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Two years after Citigroup became the symbol of all that went wrong in the financial system, its executives expressed confidence yesterday that the bank would be healthy enough to start buying back shares or raise its dividend in 2012. Buoyed
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    • 388 35  -  JULIE QUEK juliequek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Retail investors who have bought shares of Global Logistic Properties (GLP) during its initial public offering (IPO) last week may be smiling their way to the bank. The counter had a sparkling debut on the Singapore Exchange
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    • 420 35  -  CHRIS HOWELLS christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For some traders here, it is goodbye to sleepless nights. With the Singapore Exchange (SGX) launching trade in American Depository Receipts (ADRs) of 19 Chinese companies this Friday, investors here will be able to buy and sell ADRs of, among others,
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    • 755 36  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Mr Ching Chiat Kwong, the man who made shoebox apartment living a new lifestyle, is now thinking big. The policeman turned entrepreneur is planning to build similar apartments abroad, especially in China and neighbouring countries
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    • 203 36 SINGAPORE Parliament yesterday passed a Bill to amend the Income Tax Act which includes introducing a new tax incentive for sovereign funds. The Ministry of Finance said this is to attract sovereign wealth funds to Singapore and help make the cluster of
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    • 105 36 Sembcorp Marine has won a US$384 million ($501 million) contract from Norwegian firm, Seadrill. The firm said the contract was secured by its subsidiary, Jurong Shipyard, which had orders for two turnkey jack-up rigs. The contract comes with options for anotherfour jack-up rigs. Sembcorp Marine
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    • 378 37 SINGAPORE The Economic Development Board (EDB) said it regrets the decision by US pharmaceutical group Eli Lilly Co to close part of its Singapore operations and is now working closely with the Indianapolisbased group to place out affected staff. “We are confident
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    • 366 37 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Equities traders in Hong Kong may soon have to say goodbye to lunches of sauteed ostrich and crispy pigeon at Michelin-starred restaurants and settle for a sandwich at their desks instead. Hong Kong Exchanges Clearing chief executive officer Charles Li wants
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    • 554 48  -  The beauty of experiments at this year’s da:ns Festival Mayo Martin mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IF THE two shows that bookended da:ns Festival 2010 revealed anything, it’s that experimentation in dance continues to prove its relevance. The sixth edition of the annual festival wrapped up eight days of dance on
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