Today, 6 October 2011, Afternoon Edition

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    37 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF /A=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday October 6 2011 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday October 6, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon Steve Jobs dead at 56
    624 1 Apple’s visionary co-founder finally succumbs after an eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder and former chief executive of Apple, has died at 56. Apple said in a press release, sent out at about 7.40am Singapore time, that it
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      26 1 LATEST UPDATES PALIN PULLS OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE HOT NEWS 3 UBS SPOTTED UNUSUAL TRADE, DIDN’T ACT BUSINESS 50 TEVEZ COMMENTS LOST IN TRANSLATION? SPORTS 59
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Malaysia apologises for border delays caused by fingerprint scanning
      429 2  -  WOO SIAN BOON, SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Malaysia’s Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen, who was in town to launch an advertising blitz to get more Singaporeans to visit Malaysia, apologised yesterday for the inconvenience caused to travellers when the country implemented
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      Lock icon MALAYSIA FREES 125 SUSPECTS IN SECURITY LAW REPEAL
      247 2 AGENCIES Malaysia yesterday granted “immediate freedom” to 125 mostly criminal suspects detained under the Restricted Residence Act (RRA). Prime Minister Najib Razak called the RRA, which has enabled the authorities to banish thousands of suspects to remote districts and force them to
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      Lock icon NUDE SQUAT PROBE FINDS NO IMPROPRIETY BY OFFICERS
      209 2 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER The Malaysian Immigration Department’s probe into a nude squat incident involving two Singaporean women found that its officers exercised their responsibilities in a “good and orderly” fashion, the Home Ministry said yesterday. In a response to opposition Member of
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      An Emmy for The Noose?
      176 3 An Emmy for The Noose SINGAPORE After bagging two awards at last year’s Asian Television Awards, MediaCorp’s Channel 5 comedy, The Noose, has been short-list-ed for the prestigious International Emmy Awards. Along with three sitcoms from Brazil, Belgium and the United Kingdom, The Noose is in the running for Best
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      Lock icon Microsoft eyeing Yahoo?
      484 3 Search giant it bid S$62b for in 2008 is now valued at just S$23b REUTERS NEW YORK Microsoft could be considering a bid for Yahoo, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the search giants in 2008, sources close to
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      Lock icon Sarah Palin confirms she won't run for President
      407 3 AFTERNOON THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Sarah Palin is not running for President of the United States. Ms Palin, the former Governor of Alaska, ended her inscrutable cat-and-mouse game with the political establishment yesterday by saying she would not join the
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      Six step down from PAP's CEC
      420 4 SINGAPORE Singapore’s first Prime Minister and founding member of the People’s Action Party (PAP), Mr Lee Kuan Yew, has stepped down from the party’s central executive committee (CEC), its key decision-making body. Also stepping down from the CEC are Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok
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      SingTel 'willing to sell Telkomsel stake'
      224 4 JAKARTA Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), the nation’s biggest telecom firm, said yesterday that Singapore’s SingTel is willing to sell its 35 per cent stake in its mobile unit Telkomsel. “So far, there are informal talks between the government, Telkom and SingTel regarding this matter,” said
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      Lock icon MEDIA LITERACY COURSES AVAILABLE IN SOME SECONDARY SCHOOLS
      251 6  -  NG JING YNG At Queenstown Secondary School, all Secondary 2 Express students undergo a media literacy course on how to source for reliable information and use it appropriately. At Crescent Girls’ School, such skills are taught at Secondary 1, where teachers will
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    • Article
      Information literacy needed for Singaporean students
      538 6  -  NG JING YNG Jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Students here might be increasingly turning to the Internet as a source of information but a study has raised red flags on their information literacy or the ability to manage the information, such as discerning its authenticity and using
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    • Article
      Fewer sought help last year, but CDCs gear up for uncertain outlook
      350 8  -  HOE YEEN NIE yeennie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Community Development Councils (CDCs) disbursed nearly S$61 million between April last year to March this year to assist some 61,500 beneficiaries through the national ComCare schemes, down from the S$66 million given out
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      Lock icon Meet Nash: Tall, smart and a potential friend to the elderly
      319 8  -  YU PEI FERN yupeifern@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Named Nash (NTU Advanced Smart Humanoid), it stands at 1.8m tall making it the tallest robot in the world and it can see, respond to instructions, climb stairs and even resist force. Its impressive
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    • Article
      Amid illicit liaison rumours, parents keep the faith with Sports School
      350 9  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While its investigation into an alleged liaison in 2009 between a male swimming coach and a national female swimmer revealed no wrongdoing, the Singapore Sports School’s immediate concern is how the students have reacted to
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    • Article
      President addresses Parliament on Monday; MPs expect rallying call
      375 9  -  S RAMESH SINGAPORE Come Monday, President Tony Tan Keng Yam will deliver his address at the opening session of the Republic’s 12th Parliament. And after a six-month break during which two intensely-fought elections were held parliamentarians, regardless of political affiliation, will
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      Lock icon Asian stocks fall on Italy's credit downgrade
      497 10 AGENCIES TOKYO Asian stocks fell yesterday, as the downgrade of Italy’s credit rating overshadowed signs that Europe may reach consensus on measures to shield its banks from the sovereign-debt crisis. In contrast, European stocks ignored the fresh warnings about Italy’s ability to repay
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon A new star rises in the Middle East
      1439 12  -  MEGHAN L O'SULLIVAN Meghan L O’Sullivan, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and former Deputy National Security Adviser, is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are her own. BLOOMBERG Qatar, a country of fewer than two million people
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      Lessons from the Taiwan arms deal
      781 14  -  SIMON TAY Simon Tay is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and the author of Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post Crisis Divide from America. Controversy surrounds the near-US$6-billion (S$7.85 billion) deal signed recently for the United States to help Taiwan upgrade its
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      Lock icon The other Mad Hatter's tea party
      1206 16  -  The euro zone countries have failed to appreciate how monetary union works, and Berlin now faces a LARRY ELLIOTT Larry Elliott is the economics editor of The Guardian. THE GUARDIAN Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice said in her adventures in Wonderland. The longer the
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      Lock icon For Obama, all gloomy on the foreign front
      840 18  -  SIMON TISDALL Simon Tisdall is an assistant editor of The Guardian and a foreign affairs THE GUARDIAN Candidates run on hope. Incumbents run on their record. But Mr Barack Obama, lining up for a second term at the White House next year,
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  • VOICES
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      Liberalisation has its benefits: EMA
      366 21  -  Natural gas-based production and more competitors led to savings, greater Letter from Juliana Chow Deputy Director, Corporate Communications, Energy Market Authority I REFER to the letter “Anomalies in retail electricity market since liberalisation” (Sept 27), which asked about the benefits of liberalisation in the electricity
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      Lock icon Review bottlenecks on our roads
      474 22  -  Letter from Alan Koh Chuan Kok I REFER to the article “More ‘commuter-cen-tric’ public transport planned” (Oct 4). The Transport Minister should first look at the bottlenecks on expressways, their exits and entrances before taking measures that will drive up Certificate of Entitlement prices. For
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      A lesson from HK maid ruling
      289 22  -  Letter from Liew Kai Khiun THE recent ruling by a Hong Kong court on the right of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) to apply for permanent residency is a legal landmark for a city that already has policies on minimum wages, rest days and the
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      67 22 VOICES ON RADIO With premiums rising with age, is hospitalisation insurance for older Singaporeans becoming more unaffordable in an ageing population?Tune in to TalkBack on 938Live from 8.15am to 8.45am tomorrow. Call us at *****938 and share your views. JOIN THE CONVERSATION FACEBOOK.COM/ TODAYONLINE X, M x r V x
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      60 22 VOICES ONLINE So long as there are loopholes for employers to change employment terms and conditions after the arrival of workers, such abuse will continue. What can workers do when they have committed to a loan on the terms and conditions promised by agencies back home? From Thomas Lee Chee
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Credit bureau gets ex-husbands to pay alimony
      312 24  -  SHARON SEE SINGAPORE Three months after the government authorised DP SME Commercial Credit Bureau to blacklist men who fail to pay alimony, the company has helped six women settle their maintenance arrears. The bureau, which received authorisation in June from the Ministry of
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      MFA continuing efforts to find missing S'porean
      209 24 SINGAPORE The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is working with the Greek authorities in continuing efforts to track down Singaporean medical student Kouk Leong Jin, who is believed to have been missing in Greece since last Tuesday. The Greek police reportedly believe Mr
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    • Article
      Lock icon Mercy Relief to aid flood-hit Cambodia, Philippines
      229 26 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Mercy Relief is deploying a five-man disaster response team tomorrow morning to areas affected by floods in Cambodia. The Singapore-based humanitarian organisation said in a media statement yesterday that this is in response to a direct appeal by the Cambodian
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      Efforts to cut packaging waste bear fruit
      230 26 SINGAPORE The 127 companies that have pledged to reduce packaging waste have together reduced 7,100 tonnes of waste and saved a total of S$14.9 million in costs over four years, as the Singapore Packaging Agreement enters its fifth and final year. Their efforts
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      FORMER SALESMAN JAILED
      107 28 A former salesman was jailed yesterday for three-and-a-half years for misappropriating more than S$110,000 of his employers’ money. Goh Poh Sun, 43, faced five charges of criminal breach of trust and pleaded guilty to three of them with two more counts taken into consideration. He committed the
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      Lock icon A ‘green’ office to lead the way
      305 28  -  WENDY WONG SINGAPORE With an “open concept” that maximises daylight to save energy on lighting, and walls made of recycled wood, business space developer Ascendas is hoping its newly-renovated, eco-friendly office will help to spread the “green message”, as it kicks off its
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      Subway Niche presents arguments in court
      417 28  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Their shops may both contain the word “Subway” but one sells simple cling-wrapped triangle-cut sandwiches while the other’s main offering is “gourmet” submarine sandwiches. It is unlikely for a consumer, even if he has “imperfect recollection”, to think of local
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      22-YEAR-OLD NS MAN CHARGED FOR HAVING SEX WITH UNDERAGED STUDENT
      133 28  -  ALVINA SOH A 22-year-old National Serviceman was charged in court yesterday for having sex with an underaged student. The girl, who cannot be named to protect her identity, was 15 years old when the acts were allegedly first committed in
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon India unveils 'cheapest' tablet PC
      307 32 REUTERS NEW DELHI India unwrapped what it dubbed the world’s cheapest tablet computer yesterday, to be sold to students at the subsidised price of US$35 (S$45) to expand digital access in the Asian giant that lags behind peers such as China and Brazil. The government
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      Lock icon S$2.09b flood damage is first test for Yingluck
      383 32 BLOOMBERG BANGKOK Thailand’s worst floods in at least 50 years may slow economic growth and cause 50 billion baht (S$2.09 billion) of damage, posing the first leadership test for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The deluge swept across the country from late July,
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      Lock icon Plot to kill Afghan President foiled
      238 32 REUTERS KABUL Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said yesterday it had thwarted a plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai after arresting a bodyguard and five people with links to the Haqqani network and Al Qaeda. The suspects, who included university students and a medical professor, had
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    • Article
      Lock icon Aussie central bank officials 'hid corruption evidence to win contracts'
      354 34 REUTERS CANBERRA Senior Australian central bank officials helped conceal evidence of corruption at two bank subsidiaries accused of bribery to help win overseas contracts to print banknotes, the Sydney Morning Herald alleged yesterday. Top officials at the Reserve Bank of
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      Lock icon Qantas, union dispute turns violent
      226 34 REUTERS SYDNEY —The industrial dispute between Qantas Airways and unions has turned violent with racist and threatening letters sent to the airline’s chief and other management staff and cars and homes of Qantas staff damaged after they refused to strike. One letter sent to the
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      132 34 AP The Philippines has deported 67 Chinese allegedly involved with an international syndicate that engaged in Internet and credit card fraud. Immigration investigation chief Arvin Santos said in a statement yesterday that the suspects are accused of luring customers from China and
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      42 34 Philippines President Benigno Aquino III (in yellow shirt) surveys the flood-hit area of Calumpit in Bulacan province, north of Manila, yesterday. Flooding from back-to-back typhoons has affected more than half a million people in northern Philippines. AP AP
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      244 36 THE NEWYORKTIMES TOKYO In a fresh blow to public confidence, a reactor in southern Japan went into automatic shutdown on Tuesday because of problems with its cooling system, clouding the outlook for an imminent restart of the country’s idled nuclear plants. Kyushu Electric,
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      254 36 AP STOCKHOLM Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman (picture) won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosa-ic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Dr Shechtman’s discovery in 1982 fundamentally changed
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      120 36 AP The death toll from a coal mine explosion in south-western China has risen to 17. The state-run Xinhua news agency said 28 miners were in the shaft when the blast occurred on Tuesday in Guizhou province. Eleven were rescued
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      547 38 AP KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) As the United States and NATO mark 10 years of war in Afghanistan, a grim picture emerges from scores of interviews over six months across the country with ordinary Afghans, government officials, soldiers, and former and current
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      315 38 THE NEW YORK TIMES LASHKAR GAH (Afghanistan) Punctually, at 8 o’clock every evening, the mobile phone signals disappear in this provincial capital. Under pressure from the Taliban, the major carriers turn off their signal towers, effectively severing most of the connections to
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      259 41 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —A group arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests last week filed a suit against New York City on Tuesday, alleging that officers had violated their constitutional rights
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      211 41 AP NEW YORK A helicopter carrying five people on a private tour for a birthday celebration crashed into the East River in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon shortly after take-off from a riverbank heliport, killing one passenger. The victim, who was visiting the city with
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      159 41 AP A Nigerian accused of trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear made a defiant political outburst on Tuesday, demonstrating again why his courtroom behaviour will be closely watched throughout the trial where he is representing himself. “The
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      451 42 The millions that await Amanda Knox AGENCIES SEATTLE Amanda Knox can look forward to making as much as £10 million (S$20.2 million) from her story, with potential for a string of television and newspaper interviews followed by a movie and book deals. But if she does not tread carefully through
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      222 42 AP GEORGETOWN (Texas) A Texas grocery store employee who spent nearly 25 years in prison in his wife’s beating death walked free on Tuesday after DNA tests showed another man was responsible. His lawyers said prosecutors and investigators kept evidence from
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      170 42 AP LOS ANGELES A man who spent 17 years behind bars won his freedom on Tuesday evening, just days after a judge overturned his murder conviction. Mr Obie Anthony (picture), 37, who spent his incarceration reading self-help books in
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      405 43 AP WASHINGTON The United States Republican presidential field is set following the decision by Governor Chris Christie (picture) of New Jersey to not jump into the race. Mr Christie’s decision is the latest in a long procession of Republicans who have turned
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      207 43 THE NEW YORK TIMES He listened to the jokes and laughed. But he read the columns and cringed. Governor Chris Christie (picture) of New Jersey, on his way off the stage as a possible 2012 presidential contender, offered perhaps his most candid comments to date
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      230 43 REUTERS BOSTON Many wealthy donors in the United States who gave the maximum allowable amount to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign have doubled down with big donations to an outside group backing the Republican’s run for the White House. A study released on
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      233 44 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MADRID One of Spain’s wealthiest women, the 85-year-old Duchess of Alba, faced a nude photo scandal on Tuesday on the eve of her wedding to a civil servant 25 years her junior. A 30-year-old photograph of the
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      386 44 AP ATLANTA A small group of frequent fliers began using lowerhassle security lines on Tuesday in exchange for sharing more personal information with the government in a trial programme at four United States airports. The PreCheck programme represents a big attempt by
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      320 46 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW DELHI India’s Yamuna River, one of the world’s most heavily polluted, is to be transformed from an “open sewer” to a multi-million dollar eco-holiday destination. Officials have released ambitious plans to turn its rank riverbanks into a
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      293 46 REUTERS NEW YORK Elderly men with naturally higher levels of testosterone may be less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those men with lower levels of the hormone, according to a study. Findings published in the Journal of the American
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      300 46 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Four in 10 workers would rather see a colleague made redundant than take a pay cut themselves, a new survey in Britain shows. The ruthless approach of a large proportion of employees highlights how money is the main motivating
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      321 48  -  AVELYN NG avelynngsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Small and Medium Entreprises (SMEs) in Singapore have been found to be among the most optimistic about the global economy. According to a survey by Sage Group of over 10,000 SMEs around the world, Singapore companies were found
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      291 48  -  RYAN HUANG SINGAPORE Singapore has asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to explore new ways to overcome issues causing a logjam in world trade talks, known as the Doha Developmental Agenda (DDA). The Minister of State (Trade and Industry), Mr Lee Yi Shyan,
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      302 48  -  YVONNE CHAN SINGAPORE Many Singapore companies are accelerating share buyback schemes as a way of shoring up confidence among their shareholders amid the global turmoil. According to DBS Vickers Securities, the transaction value in share buy-back schemes rocketed to S$204 million in the
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      137 48 Singapore Post Ltd (SingPost) has announced that DrWolfgang Baier, its current chief executive officer (International), has been appointed group chief executive officer and board director with effect from Oct 5. Dr Baier will lead the group as it steps up its transformation efforts to
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      153 50 REUTERS TORONTO Shares of Research In Motion surged yesterday on takeover speculation a day after the BlackBerry maker’s stock fell below US$20 for the first time in almost six years. The stock closed more than 12 per cent higher its largest oneday gain since
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      258 50 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS ZURICH An internal investigation into the UBS “rogue trading” scandal showed risk systems detected unauthorised activity but no proper action was taken, the bank’s new interim boss said as two heads of the division stepped down. UBS said yesterday
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      760 53  -  PETER YEO AGENCIES SINGAPORE The latest iPhone 4S, as announced yesterday morning, Singapore time, is expected to be available here on Oct 28. While Apple would not confirm a specific date, it has said the smartphone will be available in the
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      605 56 SINGAPORE In a crowded market, it takes something special to stand out. And a little publicity does not hurt too. Scrawl Studios is one of Singapore’s pioneer animation studios that specialises in original animated TV titles. In 2008, it clinched an Emerging Enterprise Award
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      729 58  -  The sport has been hit hard of late and the SSA must ensure the year ends on a high COMMENTARY LEONARD THOMAS leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Leonard Thomas is sports editor at Today. It has been a tumultuous few months for Singapore swimming. Tao Li was
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      298 58 AGENCIES LONDON Fabio Capello is considering pairing Wayne Rooney with Danny Welbeck for the Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro tomorrow (Saturday morning, Singapore time), opting for the Manchester United partnership which has yielded startlingly success this season. Welbeck and Rooney have scored four
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      147 58 REUTERS Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has been given a two-match ban for poking Barcelona’s assistant coach in the eye during August’s Spanish Super Cup, the national football federation (RFEF) said yesterday. Tito Vilanova, Pep Guardiola’s assistant, was given a one-match ban and both he and
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      303 59 AFTERNOON THE GUARDIAN LONDON Goal-line technology will not be used in the Premier League next season, Football Association general secretary Alex Horne said yesterday. Horne revealed tests into the accuracy of various systems would not be complete in time for the start of
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      556 59  -  Arguably the best supported club in the S-League, Tampines vow to work hard to keep attendances healthy when they move SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is home to some of the most fanatical fans in the S-League, a ground consistently drawing in
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      175 59 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LOS ANGELES David Beckham is ready to consider offers to extend his playing career from as far afield as Brazil and the Middle East when his MLS contract with LA Galaxy expires in December. The former England captain, whose five-season stint in the
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      614 60 Adviser says the Argentina striker did not refuse to play against Bayern Munich, blames ‘poor interpreter’ AFTERNOON LATEST THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER Carlos Tevez’s adviser has opened a new front in the explosive dispute over whether the Manchester City striker refused to take the field during
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      374 60 THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER Sir Alex Ferguson has written to Manchester United’s supporters to urge them to improve their behaviour at away matches or risk their ticket allocations being slashed. Ferguson has gotten personally involved after United learned that their usual 3,000 allocation for
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      212 60 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has said that winning the Premier League title is beyond the Merseysiders as Manchester United, City and Chelsea are “unreachable”. The Uruguay striker, who is currently in Montevideo ahead of his country’s 2014 World Cup qualifier with
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