The Straits Times, 6 December 2008

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  • 17 1 THE STRAITS TIMES MICA (P) 191/11/2008 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 2008 «jp* AN SPH PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 1.00
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    • 56 1 SIX top foreign law firms will soon be allowed to practise Singapore law in selected areas like the corporate, finance and maritime sectors. The new licences will allow the firms to directly employ Singapore-qualified lawyers, who will be able to get international exposure without having to
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    • 52 1 THAILAND was in a sombre mood yesterday as ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej failed to attend celebrations for his 81st birthday. His absence is an added concern in the rudderless country where plans to choose a new government next week may face a possible legal challenge. WORLD
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    • 50 1 ZION Road Hawker Centre is the latest in the growing number of partners to adopt The Straits Times' tray-return project launched in October. The Goodness Gracious Me! campaign, which started at five Kopitiams, has also expanded to a school, an industrial estate and IMH. HOME PAGE Bl
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    • 50 1 LEADERS on all sides of the political divide in India have become the targets of mounting anger since last week's terror attacks in Mumbai. "Rather a dog visit my home than a politician," read one banner at gathering at the ravaged Taj Hotel. WORLD PAGE C 4
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    • 45 1 THE global economic crisis has claimed its first major sporting casualty: Honda Racing. The Japanese automaker announced its complete withdrawal from Formula One yesterday, citing its inability to keep footing the £200 million (***** million) annual bill. PRIME PAGE AlO
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  • 68 1 PETER Bennett and Yen Nguyen have travelled the world to run marathons. The couple have run past tanks in Chile, during protests against a new government, and been accompanied by impoverished children in Tanzania. Tomorrow, they take on the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, in what
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  • 486 1  -  Sue-Ann Chia Instead, he sees a long downturn, then years of slow growth By SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong does not foresee a global depression despite the current financial storm sweeping the world. "I think that global depression is not on
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  • 610 1  -  Lee Siew Hua I By SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT LONG-TIME MP Ho See Beng, a founder and first president of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), died last night after a long illness. He died in Alexandra Hospital after being stricken
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    • 1043 2  -  Lydia Lim While coercion is needed sometimes, often persuasion works better I By SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THIS year has been one of stunning political change in the United States and Malaysia two countries whose fortunes have a major impact on Singapore. Last month, Americans elected
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    • 187 2 VIEWPOINTS WE SAY Fuel check Singapore electric power rates will go down in January. But they could be lower if regulators tweaked the way they calculate fuel costs. EDITORIAL PAGE A32 COLUMNS Cheaper online shopping jmjs% Shopping spree blogs and IP H vPost are two ways to cut If* the
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    • 865 3  -  Salma Khalik Health Minister agrees it should be treated like any other chronic disease By HEALTH CORRESPONDENT PEOPLE with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), who have long complained about the cost of medication here, are about to get some relief the Government has decided to
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    • 143 3 THE songs were upbeat and the jokes saucy, but the ribald entertainment conveyed a serious message too. The open-air concert in Chinatown last night was organised by Action for Aids for older, blue-collared, Chinese men who go to sex workers in Batam and other parts
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    • 595 4 PRESIDENT SR NATHAN'S TRIBUTE "I AM deeply saddened by the news of the passing away of Mr Ho See Beng a long-time stalwart of the labour movement, co-founder of NTUC and parliamentarian for many years. He was in the forefront of
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    • 795 7  -  Sue-Ann Chia Most will need skills, says NTUC official I By DESPITE the economic slump, Singapore will create more than 45,000 new jobs in the next two years. About half will be in the two upcoming Integrated Resorts, with the other major employers coming
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    • 870 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Dramatic exit could put Fl sport in crisis TOKYO: Pummelled by the global financial meltdown, collapsing global car markets and an army of angry shareholders, Honda yesterday pulled out of Formula One. It dealt a huge symbolic blow to the company's image
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  • prime facing the downturn
    • 200 11  -  ROBIN CHAN SINGAPORE'S fiscal policy measures have taken a largely different route from other countries. Being a small and open economy, Singapore suffers from what are known as high import leakages. As Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently explained, an additional dollar of spending would result in 60
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    • 850 11 Governments all over the world are looking to spend their way out of trouble. Along with the trillions of dollars already spent bailing out financial institutions, countries have pledged further trillions to stimulate their economies in the hope that this will stave off, or at least blunt,
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    • 572 11  -  Robin Chan Measures to spur economy take time I By THE initial shock of the financial crisis may have subsided but fears that the world is tumbling into a severe recession are prompting governments from Britain to Brazil to unveil stimulus packages. Sweden joined
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    • 665 13  -  Kwan Weng Kin JAPAN Other measures need to be submitted to Parliament, but Aso is delaying doing so By JAPAN CORRESPONDENT TOKYO: To Prime Minister Taro Aso's dismay, handing out 2 trillion yen (Ss33 billion) in cash gifts to Japanese voters to help them tide
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    • 687 15  -  Sim Chi Yin CHINA Expenditure goes to long-term schemes; rebates aimed at getting people to spend more By CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: Building worker Wang Dongsheng splashed out last week on his most expensive purchase this year: a new 600 yuan (Ssl3o) colour television
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    • 675 17  -  Ho Ai Li TAIWAN Government is hoping its people will spend and boost the economy By TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT THE Fu-cheng Western Clothing Store in a historic Taipei neighbourhood has heavily discounted Valentino shirts going for NT$7BO (Ss3s) but few are buying. Store manager Li
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    • 632 26 Happy people boost chances that someone they know will be happy, says 20-year study WASHINGTON: Happiness is contagious like the flu. It can spread among friends, neighbours, siblings and spouses, according to a large study that for the first time shows how emotion can ripple through clusters
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    • 1076 28  -  Tan Hui Yee FREEMASONS Secretive group attracts stream of young members I By FIVE months ago, 33-year-old bank manager Prithvi Raj Singh joined a group he had always been curious about. He joined the Freemasons, a fraternity of publicity-shy men which traces its origins back
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  • REVIEW & FORUM
    • 429 30 SINGAPOREANS will be relieved that power rates will decline by a quarter in the three-month period that begins in January. This will be the first cut since April last year, and follows a 21 per cent hike in rates this quarter. Residents will gladly
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    • 1065 30  -  Anthony Paul PEARL HARBOUR ANNIVERSARY By SENIOR WRITER TOMORROW Dec 7 would be "a date that will live in infamy", US president Franklin D. Roosevelt once assured us. These days FDR's prediction of 67 years ago seems less a memorably impassioned statement of a deeply
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    • 713 30  -  Karim Raslan MALAYSIAN POLITICS By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES MANY Malaysians are getting tired and even resentful of the country's endless politicking. They are not used to such a drawn-out period of political uncertainty. They are familiar with bouts of intense political horse-trading
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    • review.
      • 936 31  -  C. Raja Mohan MUMBAI ATTACKS AND INDIA-P A X I S T A N TIES By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES FOLLOWING the terror attacks on Mumbai, the conventional wisdom in the sub-continent and beyond is that the weak governments of New Delhi and Islamabad may
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      • 1054 33  -  John Mcßeth SHADY WORLD OF ESPIONAGE I By I SENIOR WRITER IN ITS early years, when it had a deserved notoriety, tarring someone or something with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) brush was a well-used method of undermining credibility and tarnishing reputations. While it can
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      • 896 34  -  Joanne Lee THE DIGERATI DIARIES By STRAITSTIMES.COM EDITOR IN SEARCH of a little retail therapy the other weekend, I headed to the beauty hall in one of Orchard Road's department stores. In these times of self-imposed spending austerity, the only pick-me-up I was willing
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      • insight
        • 1938 35  -  Sue-Ann Chia When the economy gets tough, the workers get going for training. It is Singapore's answer to saving jobs and keeping workers employable. But how effective is training really? Insight speaks to new NTUC training chief Ong Ye Kung By SENIOR POLITICAL
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        • 472 36  -  SUE-ANN CHIA MR ONG Ye Kung has gone from the Istana to the ground, literally. The high-flier was principal private secretary to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong before becoming one of the youngest civil servants, then aged 35, to helm a statutory board. In
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        • 342 36 Last week, we asked readers if Public Service Commission (PSC) scholarships should be awarded purely on merit, or should family income matter when deciding who is more deserving. Here are some responses: "SCHOLARSHIPS should be based on merit. The rich do not have an advantage because secondary and junior
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    • forum
      • 439 37  -  Jacob Tan GET TO KNOW SINGAPORE'S STARS PROFESSOR Kishore Mahbubani writes on Wednesday that one of our national narratives "could portray Singapore as the city that launched the great Asian renaissance" ("Get to know Singapore's stars"). While giving a small nod to Japan for creating
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      • 441 37  -  Tan Ec Kuan I REFER to Wednesday's column by Professor Kishore Mahbubani, "Get to know Singapore's stars". Prof Mahbubani argues for "a massive multi-billion-dollar global advertising campaign to sell Singapore as the great renaissance city". His case is based on two assertions. First, the
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      • 199 37  -  Jack Tan I REFER to Mr Francis Dorai's letter, "Traffic down to a standstill", on how the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) has affected him and other drivers heading to the city in the morning. I have studied the road map and appreciate how the
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      • 137 37  -  Ong-Kong Yong Sin (Mrs) THE Special Report, "Young dragons" (Nov 22) gave some gross overestimates of the number of PRC nationals in Singapore. Our records show that the total number of persons from all Asian countries (excluding South-east Asia) who are in Singapore is 852,000.
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      • 296 37  -  Sim Soo Kheng I REFER to the letter by Ms Aileen Ng, "SMEs frustrated by initiative to save jobs" (Nov 29). We apologise for the frustrations Ms Ng faced when accessing our services and the erroneous reply she was given when she called our
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      • 289 38  -  Tan Loo Peng (Mdm) BUS DRIVER DOES NOTHING TO HELP ON WEDNESDAY, my mother, who is 56 years old, brought my four-year-old daughter back from her preschool at about I.lopm by bus. The ride was, as usual, a jerky one. After the bus
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      • 268 38  -  Oh Tham Eng MS LO Hwei Yen won, and the terrorists lost. Many Singaporeans should know this, because we saw the videos and slides of the pretty, intelligent and bubbly Hwei Yen at her wake. That is what she will be in the next
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      • 129 38  -  Jasmin Owen (Ms) LIKE many Singaporeans touched by the tragic death of Ms Lo Hwei Yen, I went to pay my respects at her wake on Wednesday with my parents. What struck me was the graciousness with which we were received. First,
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 36 38 rt WHAFS ONLINE MORE LEnERS www.straitstimes.com ONLINE FORUM "INDIA'S 9/11": One week since senseless attack in Mumbai SINGAPORE REMAINED A FUNCTIONING PORT: After fall of Temasek in 14th century STARHUB WOES: Problems cancelling digital voice setup
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  • HOME
    • 639 40  -  Judith Tan Zion Road centre happy with rising number of considerate patrons I By SINCE Monday, patrons of Zion Road Hawker Centre have had little excuse for not returning their trays. "It looks like the invasion of the tray racks around
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    • 66 41 A total of 6,361 sheep from Perth, Australia, landed in Singapore last night after a 10-day journey on board the vessel, Hereford Express. They were brought in by approved korban vendors to be ready for Hari Raya Haji on Monday, when Muslims will perform
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    • 849 41  -  K.C. Vijayan Sujin Thomas SUJIN THOMAS Their presence will offer more opportunities to local lawyers as well By I SIX top foreign law firms will soon be allowed to practise Singapore law in selected areas like the corporate, finance and maritime sectors.
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    • 460 42  -  Elena Chong ANTI-ISLAMIC COMIC BOOKS Duo claimed in statements that they only wanted to spread Christianity By COURTS CORRESPONDENT A SINGAPOREAN couple accused of distributing anti-Islamic comic books admitted to police that they sent out the publications and apologised profusely, a court heard yesterday. The
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    • 99 42 SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS A truck carrying bags of flour tipped over while travelling along Benoi Road on Thursday afternoon. The 26-year-old driver said he had arrived from Johor Baru that day and had been on his way to Tanjong Kling to deliver the goods. He
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    • 403 42  -  Chua Hian Hou I By A GROUP of Internet users has launched a fund-raising drive in aid of two men who are being sued over alleged illegal downloads of Japanese cartoons, in the first case of its kind here. The support
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    • 472 43  -  Chua Hian Hou 3 local telcos among bidders for operating company contract I By FOUR groups are vying for a contract to install the networking equipment that will direct Internet traffic on Singapore's nextgeneration broadband network. At the close of the request for proposal process
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      • 110 43 A CONSUMER fair for seniors, believed to be the largest ever in Singapore, will be held at the Suntec Convention Centre on Jan 11 and Jan 12 next year. The 50+ Singapore Expo 2009 will offer activities, products and services cutting across five themes health and
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      • 70 43 A NEW visual-effects animation studio will train its students in the Houdini 3D-animation software. The Houdini software has been used in feature films and blockbuster movies like Superman Returns, Spider-Man 3 and The Incredible Hulk. The studio is a collaboration between Nanyang Polytechnic's School of Interactive
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    • 285 43  -  Grace Chua I By COSMETICS giant L'Oreal announced yesterday it would hand out three $20,000 fellowships a year to young female scientists in partnership with a United Nations offshoot and the national science agency A*Star. The $20,000 fellowships are meant to help women doing research,
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    • 136 43 PUMP prices have fallen for the second time this week, bringing petrol prices down to below 2006 levels. Before discounts, 92-octane fuel is now four cents lower at $1,523 a litre. Other grades went down by five cents 95-octane fuel is $1,546 and 98-octane fuel is $1.62
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      • 87 45 "We don't measure ourselves by the count of the number of commissions but by the outcome in terms of the life of Singaporeans: Do they have jobs, do they have security, do they have real freedoms, do they have a future? And I think by all those measures,
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      • 133 45 "I don't think the Government depends on feedback by having listeners at the Speakers' Corner. If we put listeners there, you would say the Government is everywhere snooping on people. You can say anything you like at Speakers' Corner, have no fear; nobody is eavesdropping on you. We
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      • 861 45  -  Zakir Hussain He describes delay as a setback, wants meet to be earlier than March By THE postponed summit of Asean leaders needs to be held sooner rather than later, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who described the delay as a
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      • 605 45  -  ZAKIR HUSSAIN THE prospect of a terrorist attack here depends not just on what Singapore does, but also on how well Singapore and its neighbours work together so trouble can be nipped in the bud, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.
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      • 49 46 "I don't know, to the first question. Yes, to the second question. When? Again I don't know." PM's response to two questions: Will Singapore have a woman minister by the next general election, and will Singapore ever be ready for a woman PM.
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      • 103 46 "It's the IR owners' job to worry about this problem. We are the landlord. We have sold the land to them. They have every interest in making their projects succeed and will not be white elephants, and I am sure they are applying themselves totally to
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      • 436 46  -  Li XUEYING I By PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong does not rule out the possibility of Singapore having a nuclear power plant in the long term. There would be difficulties, he acknowledged, because of the scale of such a project. At the same time,
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      • 335 46  -  Sue-Ann Chia I By THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation's (GIC) financial performance is "respectable", Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. He was referring to its real returns of 4.5 per cent in Singapore dollars over the last 20 years. "So if you take
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      • 242 46 DURING the 2001 recession, foreign workers helped shield Singaporeans from job losses, by taking the brunt of retrenchments. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong expects the same scenerio to play out this time round. "I expect some of them will either complete the contracts
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      • 303 46  -  GOH CHIN LIAN THE labour movement is warning companies against outsourcing work to the lowest-price bidder, even as they struggle to cut costs during a downturn. Companies and contractors must consider quality and performance as well, not just the price, it says. This
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    • 677 47  -  Amelia Tan Mendaki's training plan aims to equip them with right skills to find jobs I By MORE Malay single mothers are turning to Mendaki's training arm, Social Enterprise Network (Sense), to help them find jobs. Their numbers have leapt threefold over the
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    • 391 47  -  Jermyn Chow I By MORE Singaporeans are being encouraged to join the construction industry to help ease the shortage of tradesmen and foremen. The move is also aimed at reducing our reliance on foreign workers who currently fill the bulk of entry-level positions
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    • 463 47  -  Zakir Hussain I By FORMER American diplomat Strobe Talbott does not think United States President-elect Barack Obama will devote a majority or even a great deal of his attention to the US-China relationship. Some may find this disturbing, but not Mr
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    • causes
      • 299 48  -  Scow Kai Lun Community groups find creative ways around problems to help others I By UNDAUNTED is the word that sums up some of Singapore's community groups. At least three groups faced with problems financial or otherwise are finding creative solutions. One casualty of the economic downturn
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      • 416 48  -  SEOW KAI LUN A GROUP of 23 Singaporeans is not letting the recent terrorist attacks in India keep it from its community outreach project. The group left Singapore on Wednesday with plans to set up a library for a village
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      • 341 48  -  SEOW KAI LUN THIS year nearly went by without the annual Christmas light-up at the Assisi Hospice. Since 2003, Light A Heart has been a major fund-raiser for the hospice while creating a festive atmosphere in the home. Two months ago, its regular
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      • 311 48  - They were helped now it's their turn SEOW KAI LUN THEY were outcasts until someone lent them a helping hand but now they are giving it back. Ex-offenders, former drug addicts, reformed gamblers and recovering alcoholics from eight halfway houses are helping to collect and transport items, usually foodstuffs, donated
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      • Get involved
        • 79 48 THE Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) has launched a calendar featuring 14 dessert recipes. It costs $10 for members and $12 for non-members. A special bundle of the calendar and YWCA's cookbook, Sharing From Our Hearts, is also available at $34 for members and $38 for
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        • 74 48 MAKE a stand to stop violence against women at the Take A Step To Make A Change walk organised by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem). The registration fee for the awareness walk down Orchard Road is $10, inclusive of an event
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        • 72 48 TAKE a peek into the lives of Singaporeans suffering from Aids through photos showcasing their day. Organised by Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the photos in A Life No Less Ordinary were taken by The Straits Times' deputy picture editor Stephanie Yeow, Lianhe Zaobao chief photographer Lee Tiah
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  • WORLD
    • 704 50  -  Kor Kian Beng News of Thaksin's wife's return raises further questions I By BANGKOK: Ailing King Bhumbibol Adulyadej failed to attend celebrations marking his 81st birthday yesterday, adding to the mood of anxiety and uncertainty in the country. His second public absence in two days
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    • Thailand in turmoil
      • 497 51  -  Kor Kian Beng Desmond Lim I By I BANGKOK: Traditionally clad Thai dancers, drummers and puppeteers greeted visitors yesterday morning as Suvarnabhumi International Airport officially opened for business after anti-govern-ment protesters closed it for eight days. Some travellers even received a personal apology from Tourism Authority of
        ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  497 words
      • 681 51  -  Nirmal Ghosh Opposition senators challenge legality of govt MPs' switch to shell party By THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK: Thailand's Parliament may find itself in a legal limbo, which throws into doubt the selection of a new prime minister and Cabinet, and the future of the
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    • mumbai attacks aftermath
      • 686 53  -  Ravi Velloor Ruling class accused of abusing power and failing to protect citizens from attacks By SOUTH ASIA BUREAU CHIEF NEW DELHI: "Poda, Poda!" the angry father's shouts ordering India's oldest state chief minister to "get out" of his home, caught on television, reverberated across
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      • 377 54 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: India has said nine militants were killed and one captured alive, but analysts said there could have been more who escaped. "I think there are more. My sources say (there were) at least 23 of the gunmen," said Ms Farhana Ali,
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      • 624 54 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Surrounding area is locked down temporarily after gunshot-like sounds are heard NEW DELHI: Gunshot-like sounds were heard at New Delhi's international airport early yesterday, sparking a security scare after last week's Mumbai attacks, but police said no one was hurt.
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    • regional
      • 650 55 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS It also aims to set rules for different sectors of food industry, in bid to restore faith in products BEIJING: China will publish a blacklist of food additives that make products taste better or appear nutritious, but are damaging to health,
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      • 297 55 REUTERS BEIJING: Angry Chinese nationalists are gathering online momentum for a boycott of French products in protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to meet the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, in Poland today. Beijing has warned Paris about Mr Sarkozy's decision
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      • 46 55 A serving dish, partially seen here, adorned with colourful figures is among the items on display at the Bth China Ornamental Stone Exhibition. The event kicked off on Thursday in Hefei, the capital of east China's Anhui province. PHOTO: XINHUA
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      • 361 58 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: Russia has signed landmark accords with India on issues ranging from nuclear energy to space, as President Dmitry Medvedev met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other Indian leaders in a bid to bolster ties. The accords covered the
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      • 694 58  -  Tay Hwee Peng urace Ng US and N. Korea fail to make headway at meetings in Spore By I& A TOP US envoy expects the upcoming six-party talks to be difficult a sign that one-on-one talks with North Korea in Singapore have failed to
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      • 845 59 REUTERS School in South offers academic and life classes for traumatised teens ANSEONG (South Korea): North Korean teenager Han Jee Hee's journey to school in South Korea began by slipping past border guards into China where she was forced into hiding to avoid forcible repatriation
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      • 276 59 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL: A cellphone service will be launched this month in North Korea but it is unclear who will be allowed to use it in the secretive communist state, according to a news report yesterday. The service is due to begin in
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      • 751 60  -  Peh Shing Huei Feiyue shoes worn by taiji exponents now seen as 'cool' By CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: Three months after the end of the Olympics, an obscure Chinese brand is turning out to be the Games' biggest winner despite not having paid a single
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      • 123 61 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK The Malaysian authorities investigating the collapse of a retaining wall at Damansara Heights in Kuala Lumpur said yesterday that the drain at the top of the wall could have overflowed, causing a landslide. The 20m retaining wall had collapsed on Thursday,
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      • 631 61  -  Teo Cheng Wee Retrenchment fund and reserved jobs for locals among possible moves I By KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government is mulling over measures such as forcing companies to reserve jobs for locals, and to advertise all vacancies on its job website as
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      • 506 61  -  Leslie Lopez I By SOUTH-EAST ASIA CORRESPONDENT PENANG: The state's chief minister, Mr Lim Guan Eng, has warned that its economy will enter a severe slowdown or "even a recession" next year, but that increased public spending and a spillover of business from Thailand
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      • 662 62  -  Carolyn Hong First item on agenda: To set up an independent anti-graft commission I By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who is now in his last four months as Premier, is finally taking steps to introduce the hard reforms which
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      • 72 62 REUTERS Newborns at this Hello Kitty-themed hospital are welcomed into the world with a set of whiskers and pink or blue blankets. The 30-bed Hau Sheng Hospital in central Taiwan hopes the Japanese cartoon icon will ease the stress of childbirth as well as
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      • 758 63  -  Alastair Mclndoe Philippine leader blocks fourth impeachment bid; faces protests over planned charter change I By PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo this week saw off the fourth impeachment attempt. Graft scandals and allegations that she cheated during 2004's election have bad- ly buffeted her
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      • 603 64 REUTERS Govt urged to focus on creating jobs as ranks of unemployed swell amid economic slowdown BEIJING: China risks massive social turmoil as the economy slows and the number of angry jobless grows, a leading Communist Party scholar has warned, urging the government to
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      • 447 64 ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL: The women gave a news conference but asked that no one take pictures showing their faces, and one speaker's office requested that no one print her name. It is a lot of secrecy for a press event, but it
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    • regional tourism woes
      • INBOUND
        • 950 65 Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg THE pavement on a road in the downtown Nana district of Bangkok is, as usual, lined with roadside stalls selling all kinds of tourist kitsch. The scene is one straight out of the guidebooks: fake DVDs lining the racks,
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      • OUTBOUND
        • 760 66  -  NIRMAL GHOSH, LEE TEE JONG, P. JAYARAM, KWAN WENG KIN, WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA, PEH SHING HUEI FOR years now, South Koreans have been avid globe-trotters, riding the Duck Tours in Singapore, snapping pictures of the Eiffel Tower in France, and cruising down the Nile in Egypt. But
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        • 342 66  -  P. JAYARAM NEW DELHI: Mr Ravi Shankar and his wife Jyoti are among the growing upwardly mobile Indians bitten by the travel bug. The two, both aged 41, are packing their bags again to head for the United States along with their 12-year-old
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        • 517 66  -  Kor Kian Beng I By BANGKOK: Ever since their Los Angeles-bound flight on Japan Airlines was cancelled on Nov 26, American real estate agent Martin Kanselbaum and his wife have spent more than US$5OO (Ss76o) on accommodation and expenses. They were among the 300,000 or
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    • international
      • 689 67 WASHINGTON POST, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, LOS ANGELES TIMES He calls on US military to rethink strategy in war on terror, and rely less on high-tech arms WASHINGTON: United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates has called for the military to develop an enduring capacity to
        WASHINGTON POST, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, LOS ANGELES TIMES; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  689 words
      • 1035 68 BBC NEWS There are conflicting reports about how much pirates want for the Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star (above) and its cargo of two million barrels of oil, but how do you negotiate and deliver the money? How it is done would be worthy of a Hollywood
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      • 372 68 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, BERNAMA COPENHAGEN: A Danish anti-piracy warship has rescued seven suspected pirates, whose boat had broken down in the Gulf of Aden, before sinking their heavily armed vessel. The warship acted after receiving a distress signal from the ship, which was
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, BERNAMA; AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS  -  372 words
      • 694 69 REUTERS Drop in greenhouse gas emissions likely to be temporary, say experts POZNAN (Poland): An economic slowdown will give a respite from surging greenhouse gas emissions but the world will struggle to shift in the long term to new, greener lifestyles, delegates said at
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      • 669 69 ASSOCIATED PRESS POZNAN (Poland): If a solar-powered car can drive 52,000 km around the globe without using a drop of oil, perhaps it can be forgiven for not having frills like a coffee cup holder. Or maybe that makes Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer's journey even
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      • 522 70 ASSOCIATED PRESS European court rules DNA of innocent people cannot be kept forever LONDON: Europe's top human rights court has struck down a British law that allows the government to store DNA and fingerprints from people with no criminal record a landmark decision that could
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      • 307 70 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS JERUSALEM: Security forces braced themselves yesterday for more violence after Israeli hardliners went on the rampage against Palestinians in retaliation for the eviction of settlers from a disputed house in the West Bank city of Hebron. The entire southern West Bank was
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      • 568 71 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE US space agency cites problems with rover and limited launch dates WASHINGTON: United States space agency Nasa said it will postpone by two years the planned launch of a major mission to study whether Mars was ever capable of harbouring life,
        REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; AGENCE PRANCE-PRESSE  -  568 words
      • 187 71 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: Scientists wanted. Must be willing to travel to space. China's military-backed space programme will send scientists on future manned missions as its demand for technical expertise rises, Chinese state media said. Plans call for the programme to begin setting up space
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    • people
      • 419 72 No joke congresswoman hangs up on Obama twice ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI: First she hung up on Presi-dent-elect Barack Obama twice. Now Republican Representative Ileana RosLehtinen is fielding calls from angry constituents who think she did it on purpose. The Miami congresswoman says she and the Democrat had a good laugh
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      • 224 72 NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON: The Bushes are downsizing. As hard as it may be to leave 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush have settled on a new home in the upscale Preston Hollow neighbourhood of Dallas, a
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    • in brief
      • 124 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Election Commission has announced that the by-election in northern Terengganu state will be held on Jan 17. Election Commission deputy chairman Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said yesterday that parties have to declare their candidates on Jan 6 for the Kuala Terengganu
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      • 111 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: Japan yesterday passed a new law that could pave the way to citizenship for thousands born out of wedlock to foreign mothers, ending their legal limbo, officials said. Illegitimate children born to mothers from abroad previously could be granted nationality only if the father
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      • 87 73 ASSOCIATED PRESS OTTAWA: Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has won a political reprieve by obtaining an unprecedented shutdown of Parliament to avoid almost certain defeat in an imminent confidence vote. But opposition parties vowed to go ahead with another vote next month to oust the government.
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      • 104 73 REUTERS A stranded climber cuts a forlorn figure amid the snow as he waits for a helicopter to hoist him to safety near the summit of Mount Cook in New Zealand. Japanese climber Hideaki Nara (right), 51, was rescued yesterday, six days after a fierce storm
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      • 116 73 ASSOCIATED PRESS NESKOWIN (Oregon): A romantic marriage proposal turned deadly for a bride-to-be when a wave swept her out to sea. Mr Scott Napper, 45, had taken 22-year-old Leafil Alforque from the Philippines to Proposal Rock to pop the question last Saturday, The Oregonian reported. The
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      • 95 73 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: A senior Chinese official will visit the United States next week for high-level security talks agreed on by the countries' presidents in 2005, China's Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. State Councillor Dai Bingguo will hold a "strategic dialogue" with Deputy US Secretary of
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      • 98 73 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK SHAH ALAM: Malaysian police arrested a 36-year-old woman who tried to smuggle 10 wet towels soaked with liquid cocaine into Thailand. Officers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport found the towels weighing 10.5 kg in the bags of the foreigner who was acting
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      • Article, Illustration
        138 73 ASSOCIATED PRESS Departure lounge singers HOUSTON: Imagine being able to belt out that 1960s classic, Leaving On A Jet Plane, just before boarding your flight. Travellers can soon sing their hearts out at Houston's Bush International Airport. The airport is setting up karaoke booths for holiday travellers in the
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  • MONEY
    • 532 74  -  Elizabeth Wilmot ADVICE TO PROPERTY INVESTORS Sit tight and wait for recession dust to settle, say financial and real estate experts in a survey I By PROPERTY investors here might feel like cutting and running but the best advice is to sit tight and hold on,
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    • 702 75  -  Robin Chan First quarter economic output expected to shrink by 7% to 8% I By SINGAPORE could face its worst quarter of economic contraction early next year in year-on-year terms, an economist has warned. Dr Chua Hak Bin, head of equity research
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    • 254 75  -  Jessica Cheam I By THE Master Plan 2008 an ambitious blueprint setting out Singapore's physical development for the next 10 to 15 years has attracted plenty of attention from the public. Its exhibition received more than 200,000 visitors over the past six months, and about
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    • 640 76 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LABOUR DEPT REPORT Expected number was 325,000; unemployment rate soars to 15-year high WASHINGTON: The United States economy lost a stunning 533,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate jumped to a 15-year high of 6.7 per cent, the US Labour
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    • 623 77  -  Peh Shing Huei STRATEGIC ECONOMIC DIALOGUE Beijing promises to give foreign banks greater access to bond market By CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING: China and the United States have pledged US$2O billion (5530.6 billion) to fund trade and strengthen financial ties in their last economic
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    • 495 78 BLOOMBERG Likely next year if global recession affects China; oil now under US$44 NEW YORK: Crude oil was little changed below US$44 a barrel yesterday, near the lowest price since January 2005, as petrol futures dropped under US$l a gallon and the recession in
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    • 396 78 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK: Boeing, whose 787 Dreamliner has already been delayed three times, says it is still assessing the effects of a fac-tory-idling strike and another issue with parts for the plane, and does not know when it will have a new timetable.
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    • 178 78 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE HONG KONG: Hong Kong investors who were allegedly mis-sold Minibonds in the collapsed bank Lehman Brothers have been invited to mount an international lawsuit against the institutions involved, a lawmaker said yesterday. Mr James To, a lawmaker from the Democratic Party,
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    • 784 79 REUTERS Ford, too, seeking help and many want to keep industry from collapsing WASHINGTON: The heads of General Motors (GM) and Chrysler said they would consider restarting merger talks if needed, to win their slice of up to US$34 billion (Sss2
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    • companies
      • 691 80  -  Gabriel Chen More customers may cancel contracts if financial crisis worsens: Analysts I By ANALYSTS warn there is some risk that more customers of Keppel Offshore and Marine may flag a possible cancellation of their orders if the financial crisis deepens. Last week, Keppel
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      • 356 80 REUTERS LONDON: HSBC will make a gain of £250 million (Sss6O million) from the repurchase of its European headquarters in London after property firm Metrovacesa failed to refinance a loan secured on the building. In a statement yesterday, the bank said it
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      • COMPANY BRIEFS
        • 84 80 IPCO International said yesterday it expects a loss for the half-year ended Oct 31. Chief executive Quah Su Ling said the financial downturn has cut demand for semiconductor back-end equipment, while a weakening housing market has dented its United States real-estate investments. Ipco said provisions
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        • 74 80 CHINA Farm Equipment is terminating a leasing and management contract with Hunan Juzhou Automobile Manufacturing. It said yesterday that competition in China and lower margins for sales of agricultural trucks under Hunan Juzhou had prompted the move. It said it would make certain
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        • 105 80 NEL Group said yesterday it did not want KPMG to continue reviewing the transactions of the firm and its subsidiaries as a conflict of interest could arise. KPMG is also acting as the special investigator looking into allegations that Advance Modules Group (AMG)
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    • markets
      • 465 81  -  Yang Huiwen BULLS AND BEARS Overall a dull session despite some gains in latter part of day I By THE benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) posted its third straight day of very modest gains in a lacklustre session. However, the benign string of
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      • INTHEKNOW
        • Article, Illustration
          88 81 UOB Kay Hian chairman and managing director WeeEe Chao has raised his deemed stake via a series of open market purchases. Filings with the Singapore Exchange show that his most recent deal was done last Friday when he bought 1.5 million shares on the open market at
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        • 76 81 RAFFLES Education chairman Chew Hua Seng has been raising his direct interest in the firm. His most recent purchase was done on Wednesday and announced the same day. He acquired 800,000 shares on the open market at 48 cents each. The transaction increases his direct stake from 224.67
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        • 75 81 WHEELOCK Properties chief executive David Lawrence made an open market purchase of 120,000 shares on Wednesday, according to an SGX filing made on Thursday. Mr Lawrence did this through his wife Tay Lai Yong at an average price of around 87 cents. The trade has given him a
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      • MARKET SUMMARY
        • 20 81 STOCK TRADING VOLUME 866.9 million shares worth $746.9 million UP DOWN Gainers: 221 Losers: 179 Unchanged: 882
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        • 79 81 Mid Cap 327.73 2.63 Basic materials 215.44 3.95 Utilities 257.26 2.09 Small Cap 278.34 1.92 Industrials 322.40 1.01 Financials 398.79 "2 QQ 3.00 All Share 396.23 3.55 Consumer goods 332.94 5.02 Technology 344.65 3.60 Fledgling 375.84 1.77 Health care 344.82 T -3.45 Real estate 329.05 3.32 China
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      • REGIONAL
        • 29 81 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 7,917.5 (-6.73) »Japanese stocks ended slightly lower, giving up early gains as investors turned cautious ahead of key United States jobs data.
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        • 33 81 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 13,846.09 (+336.31) Hong Kong shares closed up 2.5 per cent on a series of rate cuts by European central banks to battle the financial meltdown
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        • 25 81 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 2,018.66 (+17.15) Chinese shares closed up 0.86 per cent on hopes of more measures to boost China's economy.
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        • 30 81 Sydney S&P ASX 200 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 3,489.9 (-42.5) Australian share prices closed down 1.2 per cent, tracking Wall Street's overnight fall on rising job cuts and economic fears.
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        • 29 81 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 838.2 (-8.58) Malaysian shares closed 1 per cent lower in the absence of any positive leads and concerns over slowing economic growth.
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        • 28 81 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 1,028.13 (+21.59) South Korean shares closed up 2.1 per cent, led by banks, steel firms and carmakers, on hopes of government support.
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        • 26 81 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Yesterday's close: 8,965.2 (-264.5) Indian shares fell 2.87 per cent ahead of an economic stimulus package expected from India's central bank today.
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        • 23 81 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Thursday's close: 392.87 (-0.05) Thailand's financial markets were closed for a national holiday. They will re-open on Monday.
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      • SINGAPORE STOCKS
        • Top Movers (Stocks)
          • 97 81 (0) IMH 1624 67.2 UOB 5.05%NCPS 100 9000 40.0 Lyxor China H 10US$ 965 38.2 SIA200 1086 26.0 HKLand 245 22.9 SI A 1060 20.0 UOB 1214 18.0 WBL Corp 318 18.0 MOIL 99 15.3 ChasenHldg 31 11.0 ChasenHldg 10 28 11.0 OCBC Bk 4.5%NCPS 100 ...8010 10.0
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          • 107 81 (0) Dec 5 CENTS OCBC Bk 5.1%NCPS 100 ...8500 -310.0 -3.5 DUE 1126 -74.0 -6.2 ISH 884 -24.4 -1.8 Straits Trdg 380 -16.0 -4.0 Lyxor Cmdty 10US$ 212 -12.2 -3.6 DBS Bk 6% NCPS 10 9260 -12.0 -0.1 Select Grp 18.5 -11.5 -38.3 Great Eastern 860 -10.0 -1.1
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          • 97 81 Dec 5 CENTS Europtron L-Jacob ChasenHldg 10 ChasenHldg Advanced System ShangTurbo MeghmaniSDS Asia Water Evergro SwingMedia ChinaNTown luken Tech lade Tech Reyphon Sunray ChinaAngel Lee Metal Nico Steel Samko THC Edu 7 100.0 2 100 0 28 64.7 31 55.0 1.5 50.0 4.5 50.0 14 47 4 11
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          • 94 81 Dec 5 CENTS ERA Amplefield Select Grp Kinergy Hoe Leong Avaplas Qualitas KLW Hldgs Hencast Intraco Enporis Equation Keda Com Otto Marine C80 Pharm Cortina Ellipsiz Ultra Tech ASA Grp PacShip Trust 5 -50.0 -5.0 2 -42.9 -1.5 18.5 -38.3 -11.5 10 -37.5 -6.0 6.5 -35.0 -3.5 2
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        • Top Movers (Warrants)
          • 108 81 (0) Dec 5 CENTS (epCorp RB ePW*****6 182 28.0 ;PHMBLiCW*****0 43.5 13.0 SingTel BNPeCW*****3 27.5 2.5 !TI 1650BNPeCW*****0 ...36.5 2.0 !GX BNP eCW*****3 37.5 1.5 !TI 1650 DBeCW*****2 45 1.5 ;ingTelMBLeCW*****2 24 1.5 IBS BNP eCW*****0 24 1.0 IBS DB ePW*****0 28 1.0 IBS MBL eCW*****2 24 1.0
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          • 111 81 (0) Dec 5 CENTS JOB RBeCW*****5 17.5 JOB MBL iCW0S1230 20.5 !GX MBL iCW*****3 36.5 ;oscoCorpBNPeCW***** 14 )BS BNP ePW*****0 60 1CBC Bk BNPePW*****2....41.5 !TI 2200BNPeCW*****6 3 JOB BNP eCW*****6 33 :apitalanBNPeCW***** 19.5 :apitalanMBLeCW***** 17.5 )BS MBL eCW*****4 5.5 )BS MBL iCW*****3 37.5 )BS RB ePW*****8 98 !TI
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          • 101 81 Dec 5 CENTS ;PHMBLiCW*****0 43.5 42.6 (epCorp RB ePW*****6 182 18.2 SingTel BNPeCW*****3 27.5 10.0 ;ingTelMBLeCW*****2 24 6.7 JOB MER eCW*****8 8 6.7 ;ingTelMBLiCW*****3 9 5.9 !TI 1650BNPeCW*****0 ...36.5 5.8 !TI 1700BNPeCW*****6 22 4.8 !ingTelMBLeCW*****5 23.5 4.4 )BS BNP eCW*****0 24 4.3 )BS MBL eCW*****2 24 4.3 !GX
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          • 104 81 Dec 5 CENTS STI 2200BNPeCW*****6 3 -40.0 STI 2400BNPeCW*****0 1 -33.3 JOB RBeCW*****5 17.5 -32.7 DBS MBL eCW*****4 5.5 -21.4 DBS BNP eCW*****5 2 -20.0 TechON8GaeW*****6 4 -20.0 DOB MBL iCW*****0 20.5 -19.6 Tat Hong W*****2 3 -14.3 SGX MBL iCW*****3 6.5 -13.3 CoscoCorpBNPeCW***** 14 -12.5 CapitalandDBeCW***** 9.5
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      • 176 81 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS By Volume cents Vol itraitsAsia 84 Solden Agri 20.5 iafflesEdu 55 1oble Grp 91 [zion 18 Ham 104 SingTel 254 ;osco Corp 87 ;hina Hongxing 19.5 :zra 66 Jwiber 55 ;apitaLand 244 JembMar 137 ;apitaComm 62.5 Iceanus 17.5 5.0 0.5 2.5
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      • 93 81 runi.mii uunnLiiLii iiuil nniLo: vcmm;: S$ TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Dec 5 Buying Selling Aust dollar 0.9720 1.0040 Can dollar 1.1900 1.2040 Euro 1.9390 1.9610 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4172 0.4179 NZ dollar 0.8070 0.8250 Sterling pound 2.2280 2.2530 US dollar 1.5180 1.5360 S$ TO 100 UNITS OF FOREIGN
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      • 361 81 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR'OOO HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 718 375 710 2180 590 72 123 525 3580 2236 795 458 270 319 1880 467 482 384 .1, 473 414 316 2170 572 228 5606 CapitaLand 143 5417 CapitaMall 513 5611 CityDev 60.5
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      • 613 81 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY TRADED SALE +0R'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MII 166 272 210 256 257 438 104 109 238 239 200 190 365 I" 195 ll« 595 398 765 422 372 317 190 580 87 222 256 I"-. 130 117.4 36.5 357.2 130
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  • Page 74 Miscellaneous
    • 95 74 Wm WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COm It should not have risen in the first MOST-READ ONLINE place." Singaporeans' top worry jobs. US private sector sheds 250,000 RECESSION REPORT jobs. What's the latest on the economic Buying property? Pick Tokyo. and financial front? For a comprehensive look
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  • OBITUARIES
    • Obituary, Illustration
      119 82 have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4: 7 YONG MONG LUAN 24 December 1959 5 December 2008 Was called home to be with the Lord Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones Husband: Gay Teo Poh Christopher Daughter:
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      147 82 "Surely goodness and love will follow me all lljf the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the v Lord forever." Psalm 23:6 y| WONG KAN PUI Age: 81 was called home to be with the Lord on 4 December 2008. Dearly missed and fondly
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      42 82 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to our Director Mr Gay Teo Poh Christopher On the demise of his beloved wife Our Founder YONG MONG LUAN Departed on 5 December 2008 From: The Management Staff of CENTOUR TRAVEL TRADING (S) PTE LTD
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      44 82 7th Anniversary With Fond Memories Of FLORENCE KHOO Departed: 6/12/2001 She suffered patiently and long, Her hope was bright, j her faith was strong; The peace of Jesus filled her breast, And in His arms she sank to rest. Always remembered by loved ones.
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      58 82 DORIS CECILIA THOMAS nee GOMEZ Age: 85 passed away peacefully on 5 December 2008 cherished by her family Daughters: Son-in-law: Myrna Susan Ivy Francisca David Yong Caregiver: Helen Tapel Doris Is resting at St Joseph's Church Parlour, Queen Street from Sat 6 Dec (from 3pm) to Mon 8 Dec. For
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      51 82 With Deepest Condolences to the family of the late *28.11.1989 in Arnsberg, Germany 14.12.2008 in Singapore Jan, you will remain in our hearts forever. We will dearly miss you. With love from your friends and fellow students, jMISk the staff and entire community of the JIH, German European School Singapore
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    • 754 84  -  JEANETTE WANG FOR an accountant, Yen Nguyen has a surprisingly poor grasp of numbers when it comes to talking about ultra-mara-thons. "Oh, it was only 100 miles long," the American told The Straits Times yesterday, referring to Florida's 162km-long Keys 100 race, which she
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      622 84  -  Jeanette Wang SINGAPORE MARATHON World champion Kibet wants to win his first Spore Marathon in style I By HE HAS brought two pacers with him and even skipped a 15km race in Australia last week to focus on tomorrow's Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon. No doubt, reigning world
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    • 182 84 LOS ANGELES TIMES, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE FLORIDA: Michelle Wie, trying for the first time to earn her United States LPGA Tour card, is showing the type of game that made her the biggest draw in women's golf. In a qualifying tournament, the 19-year-old American shot a blistering
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      117 84 Badminton Cheers Post-Secondary Team Challenge, s-finals: Temasek Poly 3 Anderson JC 1, NTU 3 Raffles JC 0. Basketball NBA: Dallas 112 Phoenix 97, San Antonio 108 Denver 91. Football Uefa Cup Gp E: Heerenveen 1 Braga 2, Wolfsburg 3 Portsmouth 2. Gp F: Aston Villa 1 Zilina 2, Slavia
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    • 156 85 SINGAPORE'S New Hui Fen served notice of her potential yesterday, when she held on for victory in the women's Masters event at the the Asian Intercity Bowling Championships in Macau. The 16-year-old who is aiming to represent the Republic in next year's Asian Youth Games, won
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    • 835 86  -  Rob Hughes England's cricketers now in Abu Dhabi will ponder if India is safe for them INGOOD CONSCIENCE By ENGLAND'S cricketers are holed up in Abu Dhabi awaiting word from their security officer that it is safe for them to play in India next week. Their
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    • 314 86 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BLOOMBERG ARONA (Spain): Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has played down rumours of internal strife in his new cycling team Astana. On his comeback from retirement, he joined the Astana team of Spaniard Alberto Contador. Contador recently became the fifth
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    • 66 87 June 28, 2008, against David Diaz for the WBC lightweight world title: In his first fight at 61kg, Manny Pacquiao (right) was flawless. His speed and skills, connecting with accurate punches, left Diaz (left) in a bloodied mess as he tried to weather the storm. "He was
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    • 404 87 REUTERS LAS VEGAS: Renowned trainer Angelo Dundee believes Oscar De La Hoya has the perfect style to beat World Boxing Council lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao in today's clash. Dundee, who has trained such great fighters as Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard and
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    • 847 87 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Won or lose, Filipino will pocket at least $22m in bout against De La Hoya LAS VEGAS: Whenever Manny Pacquiao fights, policemen in the Philippines say the crime rate drops to zero. It will be no different today. The country will shut down early to root
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    • 263 87 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MADRID: Plagued by injuries and losing ground in the title race, Spanish football champions Real Madrid are desperately trying to cling on to the coat-tails of Primera Liga leaders Barcelona ahead of El Clasico at Camp Nou on Dec 14. Real already trail
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    • 781 88 REUTERS CSL plagued by crime, violence, protests and allegations of corruption BEIJING: Another miserable soccer season in China drew to an underwhelming close, when Shandong Luneng claimed the Chinese Super League (CSL) title with a 0-0 home draw at the weekend. Failure for the national and Olympic
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    • 439 88 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS ROME: AC Milan's season is slowly unravelling after the Italian football giants conceded nine goals in four games. Having begun with one stated aim to win the Serie A a 1-3 loss to Palermo last weekend left the Rossoneri six points behind
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    • 151 88 LONDON: Manchester City striker Robinho meant well. But he probably had not seen his compatriot Ronaldo recently before suggesting to his manager Mark Hughes this week that the English club recruit the Brazil striker. Ronaldo's latest appearance on a football pitch came in
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    • 334 89 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WOLFSBURG (Germany): Calamity James lived up to his name, with a typical error that knocked Portsmouth out of the Uefa Cup on Thursday. Not that the English club's trip to Wolfsburg started on a sure footing. Their airline went bankrupt hours before
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    • 696 89 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE His hardline ways of management alienated many at floundering club LONDON: Roy Keane's shock departure as Sunderland manager on Thursday sparked celebrations among the players, and left the one-time captain of Manchester United facing accusations of being a coward. "He ruled by
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    • 244 90 ASSOCIATED PRESS CRISTIANO Ronaldo said he came "within an inch" of joining Arsenal before Manchester United came up with a much better offer. Speaking in an interview with France Football magazine published yesterday, the winger said he was approached by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger
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      • 439 90 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: A home encounter with one of the mid-table minnows should be enough to have one of the English Premier League's giants smacking their lips. But then we are talking about Arsenal. When facing their Big Four rivals, the Gunners have been inspirational. They have
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      • 440 90 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Liverpool are sitting at the top of the Premier League table but, after two dismal 0-0 draws at Anfield in as many weeks, questions are mounting about how long they will last there. Today, they travel to Blackburn. The corresponding score last season was
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      • 425 90 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON: Chelsea may be second in the Premier League table, but Luiz Felipe Scolari takes his side to Bolton today facing a growing crisis. Their form one win in five games has taken an abrupt downturn against a backdrop of discontent in the dressing room.
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      • 448 90 LONDON: Maybe it was the hangover of last season that ended in the small hours in Moscow in May in a Champions League finale that would have left them drained, physically and emotionally. Starting a new season with their best player Cristiano Ronaldo nursing an ankle injury and
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    • 626 91  -  Wang Meng Meng Indra, Alam Shah, Agu come good in opener Singapore 5 Cambodia 0 I By JAKARTA: They came to the Asean Football Federation Suzuki Cup with question marks over their heads. But in Singapore's 5-0 win over Cambodia yesterday, Indra Sahdan Daud, Noh Alam Shah
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    • 347 99  -  Amresh Gunasingham I By THE computer chips of today are almost 400 times smaller than those of the *****. That has squashed the distance electrical impulses have to travel and sped up processing speeds exponentially. But there will come a time when the revolutionary microchip
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    • 1137 100  -  K. E. Seetharam Its effective sanitation, water strategies offer viable growth models, says sector specialist I By A NEW consensus is emerging that countries which prioritise their water policies have made significant progress in terms of the human development index, as well as key
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    • 437 107 AP Los Angeles Enter the new Grammy Museum and run head-on into 160 musical genres, photos and footage from 50 years of awards ceremonies, historic costumes and instruments, plus dozens of interactive displays that illuminate popular music's origins and cultural impact through the decades. Then settle into
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    • 427 109  -  anjana krishna kumar Korean percussion troupe Nanta are a hit in their performances with knives Most people use knives in the kitchen to prepare meals. But a Korean percussion troupe called Nanta use them to make music. By chopping and dicing, and banging pots and pans, all to
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    • 426 110 Associated Press The indie film's triumph in the National Board of Review list boosts its Oscar hopes NEW YORK The National Board of Review has picked Slumdog Millionaire as the year's best film. The board's picks on Thursday are considered the first major harbinger of the
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      • 572 125 Associated Press The first six houses in New Orleans built by the actor's foundation are ready New Orleans It was a bittersweet moment for Brad Pitt, walking through the Lower 9th Ward neighbourhood where families were preparing to spend their first holidays since Hurricane
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      • 412 130 Reuters The Shanghai World Financial Centre is named the Best Skyscraper completed this year Chicago The 490m-tall Shanghai World Financial Centre, the world's secondtallest building, which some say resembles an elegant bottle opener, was named last month as the Best Skyscraper completed this year. "The simplicity of
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      579 133 Agence France-Presse J.K. Rowling's new book set to be big best-seller as it goes on sale around the world Edinburgh- Superstar author J.K. Rowling launched The Tales Of Beedle The Bard, her first book since ending Harry Potter's adventures, with a special reading for children in her home
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