Today, 5 August 2011

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    41 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF A=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday August 5, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Todyy MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Friday August 5, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon No NTUC endorsement yet
    530 1  -  Labour movement wants union leaders to draw own conclusions about candidates TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The labour movement will break with tradition for the coming Presidential Election. While it had thrown its support behind a candidate during the previous Presidential Elections, the National Trades Union Congress
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    More MRT train trips to ease off-peak waiting times
    319 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From Aug 15, public transport operator SMRT will roll out 119 more train trips each week on the North-South East-West lines to shorten waiting times during non-peak hours on weekdays and Sundays. Waiting times during non-peak
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    HANDBOOK FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
    227 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT A 78-page handbook was launched by the Elections Department yesterday to help candidates and their election agents comply with rules for the Aug 27 Presidential Election. The handbook is available in electronic format and, from Monday, hard copies can be purchased at S$8.50
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon CNBC drops flagship show over paid Malaysian interviews
      498 2 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR International news broadcaster CNBC is cancelling its flagship show World Business while the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has said it will not broadcast any programmes made by World Business’ production company, FBC Media, as a precautionary measure, amid allegations
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      Vision 2030 plans to mould S'pore sports landscape
      298 2  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Ideas for a dedicated sports university, such as the United Kingdom’s renowned Loughborough University, could well become a reality here, as Vision 2030’s 23-member steering committee mull suggestions to help mould the country’s sports landscape. More than 200
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      Lock icon 'President can share knowledge and experience’
      381 2  -  CAROLYN QUEK SINGAPORE A “perfect storm of economic problems” is brewing, presidential hopeful Dr Tony Tan, 71, cautioned yesterday, as he noted that his financial expertise meant that the ministers may “listen” to him when it comes to overcoming the challenges in the coming
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      FORMER CNN ANCHOR INVOLVED IN SCANDAL
      177 3 Central to the scandal is FBC Media’s managing editor John Defterios, who was also a former CNN anchor and correspondent, the Sarawak Report said. It found his data on the FBC website, where he was described as “an awardwinning journalist with 25 years of
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      National Day Rally on Aug 14
      272 4 SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will deliver this year’s National Day Rally (NDR) speech on Aug 14 from 6.45pm. He will speak in Malay, Mandarin and English. The rally will be held at the National University of Singapore’s University Cultural Centre and will
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      Lock icon Japan intervenes to sell yen, BOJ eases further
      540 4 AGENCIES TOKYO After days of fretting publicly over the strength of the yen, Japanese authorities intervened in foreign exchange markets yesterday to let some air out of the lofty currency. The Japanese authorities have eyed the rising yen with growing alarm in
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      Thomson Fertility Centre can take in patients again
      311 6  -  NG JING YNG SINGAPORE After an eight-month suspension, Thomson Fertility Centre, which was involved in an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) mix-up last year, can finally take in new patients again. Responding to queries from Today, the Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed that suspension
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      More rules planned for greater transparency in property market: URA
      439 6  -  TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Following a month-long public consultation exercise conducted online between March and April, the authorities will introduce more rules to inject greater transparency and more accurate information in the property market, such as requiring developers to provide
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      Lock icon Japan sacks 3 top officials in charge of N-power policy
      304 8 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan sacked three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy yesterday, holding them to account for a series of scandals in recent weeks over the government’s cosy relationship with the power industry. The move is the latest
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      The case for regional energy cooperation ...
      563 8  - The case for regional energy cooperation ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic is “seriously considering” importing electricity to add to the country’s energy mix, said Second Minister for Trade and Industry S Iswaran yesterday. To that end, Singapore is reviewing its regulatory framework and studying various trading models that
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      Lock icon SWEDE TRIES TO SET UP NUCLEAR REACTOR AT HOME
      175 10 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A Swede man has been arrested for attempting to split atoms in his kitchen, claiming that he was only doing it as a “hobby”. Richard Handl said he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his
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      Lock icon Hunt for criminals in Aussie fake bomb scare
      597 10 AGENCIES SYDNEY New South Wales police have set up a special strike force in the manhunt for the man behind collaring a fake bomb around the neck of Sydney teenager Madeleine Pulver (picture). Ms Pulver, 18, was freed from the device late
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      FORBES’ TOP 10 NON-US BUSINESS SCHOOLS
      69 12 1. London Business School (United Kingdom) 2. Manchester Business School (United Kingdom) 3. IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) 4. National University of Singapore Business School (Singapore) 5. China Europe International Business School (Shanghai) 6. ESADE Business School (Barcelona) 7. IPADE Business School (Mexico City)
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      NUS MBA tops in Asia, fourth outside US: Forbes
      331 12 SINGAPORE The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme is not only tops in Asia, but also ranks fourth among business schools outside the United States, according to the latest Forbes rankings. This is the
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      'Many S'poreans expect career switch in 5 years'
      227 12 SINGAPORE Singaporeans are getting restless in their jobs, according to the findings of a survey released yesterday. The global survey conducted by human resources firm Kelly Services which covered 30 countries found that more than half of the 900 Singaporean respondents said
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon Could train crash wreck a consensus?
      876 14  -  DAVID PILLING David Pilling is the Asia editor of the Financial Times. THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED When a student asked Sigmund Freud about the meaning of his cigarsmoking habit, the Austrian psychoanalyst is said to have replied: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
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      Lock icon How far can Yingluck's 'beauty premium' get her?
      763 16  -  PAVIN CHACHAVALPONGPUN Pavin Chachavalpongpun is a fellow at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies. Today, Ms Yingluck Shinawatra (picture), 44, leader of the Pheu Thai Party, will take office as Thai- land’s Prime Minister. Her party won a landslide election on July
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      Lock icon Creativity, China and Mickey Mouse
      1102 18 He wasn’t the odds-on favourite to succeed Michael Eisner. But when Bob Iger, 60, (picture) became CEO of Disney in 2005, he confounded the sceptics. He quickly moved to calm the infighting that had roiled Disney, and then he launched the media giant into profitable
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      An international outlook's good, but don't forsake Singapore brand
      732 20  -  RICHARD HARTUNG Richard Hartung is a management consultant who has lived in Singapore since 1992. For a Singapore service company wanting to expand overseas, a critical consideration is how to compete effectively. When your services are largely based on talent, it
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  • VOICES
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      To rein in white horses ...
      482 22  - To rein in white horses I David Boey Meng-Whye David Boey was formerly The Straits Times defence correspondent. The full version of this article is at http://kementah.blogspot.com. When a general leading the Army has the same surname, and Boey is not very common, you can guess my full-time National Service
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      A national flag is more than just a piece of cloth
      315 24  -  Letter from Sanjay Bhatia I REFER to Mr Chan Hean Boon’s letter “Let’s fly the Singapore flag” (Aug 3). As a foreigner in this country, I am appalled that a Singaporean blatantly blames the influx of foreigners as a
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      Lock icon PLACEMENT OF SIGNS A RISK TO PEDESTRIANS
      99 24  -  LETTER FROM M LUKSHUMAYEH There is a clear need to forewarn motorists of road works ahead to ensure safety. However, to place the warning signs along the pedestrian sidewalk, as found along Guillemard Road and thereby forcing pedestrians onto the road is to
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      Should President be 'voice of the people?'
      278 24  -  Letter from Yak Chin Hua IN THE run-up to the Presidential Election, many letters to the press and postings in the blogosphere have argued that candidates should not campaign on a platform to be the “voice of the people”. Those who argue that
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      85 22 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices A Experience the electrifying atmosphere of the NDP* Oil! Multi-angle live streaming of the NDP 2011 from August 9, 6.10pm PLUS rewind function to catch what you've missed Share your NDP 2011 photos in real time Share your
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  • SINGAPORE
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      2.8kg of heroin found, four nabbed
      207 27 SINGAPORE Nearly half a million dollars worth of drugs were seized by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in a 24-hour-long operation that began on Wednesday. Four suspected drug traffickers were arrested and about 2.8kg of heroin with a street value of more than S$419,000
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      S'poreans give S$34m for Japan
      414 27  -  WAYNE CHAN waynechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A multi-purpose hall-cum-evacuation centre. A temporary hospital. These are among recovery projects worth about S$34.4 million that will be launched by Singapore to help survivors of the earthquake and tsunami disasters in Japan’s Tohoku region. The Singapore Red Cross (SRC), which
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      10,000 illegally-imported sleeping pills seized
      250 28 SINGAPORE About 10,000 midazolam sleeping pills, meant for the black market, have been seized by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). The HSA said yesterday that its enforcement branch conducted an operation in Woodlands on July 26 to seize
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      TWO YEARS IN JAIL FOR CLEANER WHO STOLE S$2
      132 28  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB A 24-year-old Malaysian cleaner will be spending two years behind bars after breaking into his former workplace to steal a cash register that contained only S$2. This is the minimum sentence for the offence. Ansar Anwar broke into a
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      Fined s$500 for not reporting address change
      206 28  -  SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB SINGAPORE A self-employed woman has been fined S$500 for failing to inform the authorities about a change in her home address within the required 28 days. Ooi Siew Lang, 48, could have been jailed up to five years and fined a
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      120 A*STAR scholarships and fellowships to groom talent
      329 30 SINGAPORE Polytechnic graduate Leow Yi Ning has a dream: That her research will one day benefit patients recovering from a stroke or other neurological ailments. And she is now one step closer to realising her dream after becoming the first diploma holder
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      Lock icon SAF overseas scholarships a 'strategic investment': Dr Ng
      264 30 SINGAPORE The “strategic investment” to bring in capable men and women through the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship and other schemes “has paid rich dividends”, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said yesterday. He noted the SAF has come “a long way” since
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      Lock icon WORKSHOP TO BOOST POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS’ FINANCIAL LITERACY
      141 30 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Polytechnic students will soon get a headstart on financial literacy, with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Securities Investors Association Singapore (SIAS) conducting seminars on money management for them. The inaugural SIAS-ACCA Financial Literacy Workshop features lectures on
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      Lock icon French court orders IMF chief investigated
      304 32 AP PARIS A French court yesterday ordered an investigation into new International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde’s (picture) role in a much-criticised US$400 million (S$484 million) arbitration deal in favour of a controversial tycoon. Ms Lagarde was France’s Finance Minister when magnate Bernard
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      Lock icon HELICOPTER CRASHES IN INDONESIA
      89 32 A helicopter chartered by an Australian mining company slammed into a mountain in eastern Indonesia, killing all 10 passengers and crew, the search and rescue team said yesterday. The Bell 412 carrying two Australians, two South Africans and six Indonesians lost contact with the authorities on
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      Lock icon JAPANESE CITY PULLS OUT OF NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT
      101 32 REUTERS Japan’s Minamisoma city, about 20km north of the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, became the first city since the crisis to pull back from plans to host a future nuclear plant, as safety concerns cast doubts over nuclear power’s future. Minamisoma has
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      Lock icon SELANGOR OFFICIALS 'ENTERED CHURCH WITHOUT WARRANT'
      157 34 AP Malaysian Christian officials accused Islamic authorities yesterday of unlawfully entering a church and harassing guests at a community dinner. The incident reignited criticism that the authorities in the Muslimmajority country fail to respect the rights of Christian, Buddhistand Hindu minorities. At least 20
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      Lock icon Terrorists will be shown no leniency, says Beijing
      186 34 REUTERS BEIJING China will show no leniency to those who perpetrate terrorist activities, the country’s top police official said yesterday, the most senior official comment since deadly attacks shook China’s western Xinjiang region over the weekend. “Those criminals who dare to test
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      Lock icon Japan exaggerating military threat: China
      223 34 REUTERS BEIJING China accused Japan yesterday of deliberately exaggerating Beijing’s military threat, underlining the suspicion with which Asia’s two biggest economies view each other. The accusation follows a defence white paper this week in which Japan warned that China’s naval forces were likely to increase
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      Lock icon SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS SYRIAN ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS
      141 44 AP After months of deadlock, the United Nations Security Council finally responded to the escalating violence in Syria on Wednesday, condemning President Bashar Assad’s forces for attacking civilians and committing human rights violations. The trigger for the council to act was the military
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      Lock icon Mubarak spectacle captivates Arab world
      367 44 THE NEW YORK TIMES CAIRO Hosni Mubarak’s televised trial transformed Egypt and much of the Middle East into a vast living room on Wednesday, with millions of viewers mesmerised by the live broadcasts of a once-unthink-able spectacle beamed from a Cairo court. The sight of
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      Lock icon OREGON REPRESENTATIVE RESIGNS AFTER ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ENCOUNTER
      180 46 AP Democratic Representative David Wu of Oregon resigned his seat late on Wednesday, making him the fourth member of Congress to quit this year in the wake of a sex scandal. MrWu, 56, had announced his intention to resign after his hometown
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      Lock icon Obama turns birthday bash into fund-raiser
      281 46 REUTERS CHICAGO President Barack Obama turned his 50th birthday into a 2012 campaign fundraising bonanza on Wednesday, buoyed by a hometown crowd after what he called a frustrating period locked in a debt battle with Republicans. Mr Obama made clear in remarks to a
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      Lock icon Earth once had two moons, according to US astronomers
      335 48 AP WASHINGTON In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is
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      Lock icon FACEBOOK BUYS E-BOOK PUBLISHER PUSH POP PRESS
      152 48 REUTERS Facebook is diving head first into the world of online publishing with its purchase of Push Pop Press, an iPad book designer founded by former Apple employees whose first e-book was Al Gore’s interactive title Our Choice. Though the social-net-working site is
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      Lock icon HEALTHY EATING A PRIVILEGE OF THE RICH: US STUDY
      177 52 AP A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new United States nutritional guidelines, according to a study published yesterday that says the government should do more to help consumers eat healthier. A update of
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      Lock icon US fast-food chains rush to meet Russian demand
      405 52 THE NEW YORK TIMES MOSCOW Earlier in his career, Mr Christopher Wynne put his Russian expertise to work researching arms proliferation for the American government. Now he’s engaged in geopolitics of another sort: Deploying American fast food for the emerging Russian middle
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      568 49 COURTS Celebrates Nation’s 46th Birthday! a DAYS 1 A NATIONWIDE Discounted PRICES! GENUINE DEALS PRICES GUARANTEED LOWER THAN ANY TRADE SHOWS OR FAIRS! BEWARE OF IMITATIONS THOUSANDS OF DEALS TO ‘Q’ FOR! 1 SET PER CUSTOMER WHILE STOCKS LAST TODAY ONLY! Branded 2-Door Refrigerator FIRST 10 SETS PER STORE FIRST
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      Lock icon TIGER SWINGS TO Q1 LOSS, WARNS AUSSIE GROUNDING TO HURT FULL-YEAR PERFORMANCE
      196 54 DOW JONES Budget carrier Tiger Airways Holdings yesterday said its full-year performance will be significantly hurt by expected losses from its Australia unit, which grounded flights in July due to safety concerns. The warning came as Tiger swung
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      Lock icon OCBC earns S$577m net profit in Q2
      389 54  -  TIMOTHY OUYANG timothyouyang@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCY REPORTS SINGAPORE Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC), Singapore’s second-largest lender by assets, yesterday reported a smaller-than-expected net profit increase of 15 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier to S$577 million, as the continued growth in its
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      Lock icon Sembcorp Q2 profit up 9%
      209 54 DOW JONES SINGAPORE Sembcorp Industries said yesterday its secondquarter net profit rose 9 per cent from a year earlier, driven by stronger contributions from its utilities divisions. Net profit for the three months ended June 30 was S$ 175.1 million, up from S$161.3 million a
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      Lock icon CapitaLand posts 17% rise in Q2 profit to S$399m
      296 56  -  LINETTE LIM linettelim@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCY REPORTS SINGAPORE CapitaLand, Singapore’s largest listed property developer, has posted a 17-per-cent increase in second-quarter net profit from the corresponding period a year earlier to S$399 million due to higher contributions from projects in Singapore and
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      Lock icon StarHub Q2 net profit up on lower cost of sales
      186 56  -  RACHEL KELLY RACHEL KELLY, WITH AGENCY REPORTS SINGAPORE Singapore telecommunications firm StarHub said yesterday its second-quarter net profit rose 34 per cent to S$78 million, mainly as a result of a lower cost of sales in its pay TV segment.
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      Hyflux Q2 net profit falls, order book at record
      159 56 SINGAPORE —Water treatment firm Hyflux said its second-quarter net profit fell 47 per cent year-on-year to about S$14.5 million, mainly because of higher finance costs, tax rates and amortisation expenses. Revenue fell 21 per cent to S$111 million. For the first
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      STI
      57 56 THURSDAY CLOSE 3,107.01 (-0.75%) Wednesday 3,130.34 q 1.47% Tuesday 3,177.09 q 1.19% Monday 3,215.27 p 0.82% Friday 3,189.26 q 0.02% TOP 5 BYVOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE HPH Trust US$ 64,300 $0.745 p 1.361% Equation 50,745 $0.034 q 10.526% Noble Grp 48,106 $1.745 q 3.324% GoldenAgr 44,560 $0.710 q
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      ASIA
      31 56 HANG SENG 21,884.74 (-0.49%) È Ç Ç È È Ç È NIKKEI 9,659.18 (+0.23%) SHANGHAI 2,684.04 (+0.21%) AUSTRALIA 4,276.5 H SEOUL MUMBAI 17,693.18 (-1.38%) MALAYSIA 1,546.89 (+0.12%) SEOUL 2,018.47 (-2.31%)
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      75 56 STOCK CALLS Buy S$1.01 OCBC starts PEC at Buy with S$1.23 fair value. The house notes that PEC, a specialist engineering group servicing the oil and gas, petrochemical, oil and chemical terminal and pharmaceutical industries, holds S$168 million of cash, amounting to 56 per cent of its total assets.
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      139 54 SINGAPORE JAPAN US/ 126 Years Of Academic Excellence Distinguished U.S. Faculty Flexible Schedule For Busy Professionals AACSB accredited for over 76 years Connecting Minds, Connecting Leaders TEMPLE UNIVERSITY 5 Is an EMBA right for you? Information Session Date: 11 August 2011 Time: 7-9pm Venue: National Library Building, Level 3, Function
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      WATCH THE NDP 2011 LIVE ON XINMSN
      72 58 Catch the live streaming of the National Day Parade on Aug 9, from 6.10pm on www.xinmsn. com/ndp2011. At the website, you can choose from five different camera angles for a complete view of the celebrations. The website also offers a live Facebook chat
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      PROTECT YOUR TEETH WITH DARLIE
      83 58 The new Darlie Double Action Enamel Protect toothpaste (S$3.55) contains 45 per cent more enamel strengthening ingredients to increase your teeth’s enamel strength and defend against teeth’s calcium loss. Available at leading supermarkets and pharmacies. Pick up samples at tomorrow’s roadshow at FairPrice Bedok A
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      WIN A SIX-MONTH SUPPLY OF DUTCH LADY MILK
      102 58 Vote for your favourite Dutch Lady moments photo and you could win a six-month supply of Dutch Lady milk products. There are up to 10 sets to be won! To cast your vote, just purchase any Dutch Lady Liquid Milk and submit
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      LIVING GREEN AT LIANG COURT
      73 58 Head to Liang Court and learn to care about our environment through a range of fun activities, workshops, performances and cooking demonstrations. On National Day, look out for the Project Youth R Challenge where they will be building the AsiaMalls logo from recycled papers. There’s
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      GET A HEADSTART ON YOUR GYM WORKOUT WITH AMORE’S NEW CLASSES
      118 58 Take Amore’s new introductory classes and equip yourself with the basic steps and skills to fully optimise your workout sessions. The Fresh Step class familiarises you with the step board platform and footwork to ensure a safe and fun
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      TREAT YOURSELF TO A NEW ACER ASPIRE NOTEBOOK
      140 58 The two new Acer Aspire 4755G and 5755 notebooks take advantage of the second generation Intel Core processor family to deliver smart and excellent performance wherever you go. Also, the notebooks offer up to 4GB (upgradeable to 8GB) of DDR3 memory to
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      SK-II’s NEW BRAND AMBASSADOR
      76 58 Skincare brand SK-II unveiled its latest brand ambassador, Tang Wei, at the opening of SK-II’s Miracle House in VivoCity. At the event, the award-winning Chinese actress shared about her SK-II journey and revealed how SK-II Facial Treatment Essence has improved her skin despite her hectic filming
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      HEALTHY BUBBLE TEA
      86 58 Enjoy a cup of delicious yet healthy bubble tea at SOD Cafe, whose name was inspired by the anti-oxidant, Super Oxide Dismutase (SOD). But what’s really healthy about SOD drinks is that they made from natural extracts, organic ingredients, and are caffeine- and preservative-free. Plus, you can
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      THE BEST OF HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY
      64 58 Watsons celebrated its 2011 Health, Wellness and Beauty Awards at Shangri-La’s Rasa Sentosa last week. A total of 208 awards were handed out. There were also eight Watsons YOU Awards winners a beauty contest that celebrates the “Unique You”. Each winner won $2,000
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      THE WORLD’S FIRST SKY ART GALLERY
      75 58 Singapore Cable Car celebrates the nation’s birthday with the new Sky Art Gallery that showcases 46 cable car cabins adorned with artwork and artistic impressions of Singapore. Take a ride onboard these cable cars at a special price of S$46 for three persons. Promotion
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      Lock icon Facebook faces friendly 'mob' in India
      522 60 BLOOMBERG MUMBAI In a two-room shanty with no running water in northern Mumbai, Ms Darshana Verma makes tea on a small stove. On a bench nearby, her 18-year-old son, Vishal, messages Facebook friends on his Nokia smartphone. “This is the Internet age,” said the
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      622 61 CULTURAL PERFORMANCES w A > x 6 &7 Aug 2011 (Sat Sun) 12pm 5pm Event Square Come watch the various cultural performances that promise to be a dazzling visual feast for you! r* mi movie T SCREENING 27 Aug 2011 (Sat) 8pm Begonia Lawn Reminisce the Good Ol’ Days with
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      Grand Tower sold for s$88.5m
      178 62 SINGAPORE Grand Tower in Novena has been sold en bloc for S$88.5 million to 27MR, a wholly owned subsidiary of boutique developer New Century Real Estate, marketing agent Savills said yesterday. Grand Tower is a freehold development with a site area of 21,742 sq ft.
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      673 62  -  COMMENTARY COLIN TAN property@mediacorp.com.sg Colin Tan is head of research consultancy at Chesterton Suntec International. Like many others, my jaw dropped when I read about the findings of a recent employment survey of fresh Nanyang Technological University graduates which showed that the top earner
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      612 68  -  Table-tennis body’s olive branch to SNOC will see world No 2 Feng doing double duty in Indonesia and London LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) have nominated world No 2 Feng Tianwei (picture) for the November SEA Games in
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      250 68  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE At the 25th SEA Games in Laos two years ago, the Team Singapore Recovery Centre dubbed “Singapore House” was a star attraction that offered medical and sports science support to the Republic’s athletes. It was modelled after a facility
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      507 70  -  Unanimous support for national team’s acclimatisation needs SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Lions will have to face a team 58 rungs above them in the pecking order of world football, and they will have to climb 1,900m above sealevel for that privilege. When Singapore
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      107 70 THE GUARDIAN Chelsea have completed the signing of defensive midfielder Oriol Romeu from Barcelona on a four-year deal. The 19-year-old is the second arrival of the Andre Villas-Boas era and will link up with his new team-mates at the end of Spain’s Under-20 World Cup campaign.
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      183 70  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Some 45,000 runners taking part in the half and full marathon at the 2011 Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS) will have an added incentive to finish the Dec 4 race. Participants who go the full distance in the two categories
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      155 72 REUTERS Former Japan defender Naoki Matsuda died in hospital yesterday, two days after collapsing during training from a suspected heart attack. He was 34. Matsuda, who won 40 caps for Japan and represented his country at the 2002 World Cup,
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      265 72  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Three dropped shots on the first four holes was not the start they were looking for, but Mardan Mamat and Lam Chih Bing recovered to seize a three-shot lead midway through the Omega Mission Hills World Cup Asian Qualifying
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      672 74 With supportive owners and a legendary player at the helm, things are looking up for Liverpool AGENCIES LIVERPOOL Few would dispute that it is unlikely Liverpool can win the Premier League next season. The gulf which divides Anfield, still scarred by three
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      281 74 THE GUARDIAN OHIO Rory McIlroy, ever surprising and ever his own man, served up a surprise on Wednesday when he revealed that he intends to join the US PGA Tour and set up a home in Florida. The 22-year-old Northern Irishman, who won the US
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      845 2  -  Perigord truffles grown in Western Australia are making the seasonal delicacy available practically all year round Annette Tan Annette Tan in Manjimup features@mediacorp.com.sg THEY are ugly, misshapen bits of fungi that look a lot like shrivelled brains in miniature form.They are also pungent, like a mix of wet
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      423 4  -  Good as gold around the world, served fresh DON MENDOZA Where: Senso (21 Club Street,Tel: 6224 3534) What: A seasonal menu by executive chefYves Schmid featuring the Italian black summer variety of noble fungi, next to clever pairings of wild mushrooms, available ala carte. Seafood also gets the
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      408 4  - This round’s on Domaine Chandon’s Lilian Carter Boozy conversations about what makes people smile DON MENDOZA OVER a span of just eight years since she graduated from Adelaide University with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Oenology (agricultural science), Lilian Carter, 29, has gained vintage experience in a diversity of
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      556 8  -  A pair of new Japanese eateries at Laguna National Golf Country Club may just turn it into a dining destination FOOD REVIEW ANNETTE TAN IT CALLS itself an izakaya the Japanese equivalent to a gastro pub but Enmaru is really a Japanese restaurant that serves bar food. Or
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      235 12 REUTERS THE man behind the SexAndThe City television series and movies said on Wednesday that he is not working on a possible “prequel” and has no interest in one, quashing media speculation about a new chapter in the hugely successful franchise. “I am not working on
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      137 12 REUTERS A DUET between jazz great Tony Bennett and the late singer Amy Winehouse is being released as a single to benefit a charity established by her father, Bennett’s spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The classic pop standard Body And Soul that Winehouse recorded with Bennett in
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      277 12 AP FILM academy president Tom Sherak is coming to Oprah Winfrey’s defence. Sherak says Winfrey is “one of the most philanthropic performers in the world” and thus deserving of the academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted on Tuesday
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      552 16  -  German auto-maker BMW’s new sub-brand aims to help save the world Derryn Wong DerrynWong in Frankfurt cars@mediacorp.com.sg PREDICTIONS of the future vary with the era, but the coolest guess has to be Robert Zemeckis’ 1989 hit, Back To The Future 2. Okay, robot waiters, self-adjusting clothes, hoverboards
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      126 18 NEWS TRACK MERCEDES-BENZ has pulled the covers off a pair of two-door models aimed at the sporting crowd.The SLK hard-top cabriolet and a coupe version of the popular C-Class sedan. Both are brand new models, with the SLK now in its third-generation, while
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