Today, 22 March 2006

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    14 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp fresfsf share your free newspaper MICA(P) 112/07/2005 Wednesday March 22, 2006 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Jail, rebuke for 'Insider' Chen
    842 1  -  LEECHINGWERN Judge hits out at CAO ex-chief's web of deceit chingwern@newstoday.com.sg A CHAPTER closed yesterday on Singapore's biggest corporate scandal of the past decade as the man who drove China Aviation Oil to the brink of collapse was jailed for deception and insider trading. There
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    M'sian minister tells non-Muslims to refrain from commenting
    606 1  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com. sg THE very same Islamic scholar who recently warned Malaysian political parties against using Islam as a platform to win votes at the expense of the nation may just be seen to be doing likewise himself. Political watchers Today
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  • hot news
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      Choosing S´pore´s next Chief Justice
      807 2  -  DHARMENDRAYADAV Only a handful of law professionals fit the strict criteria REVERBERATING through the corridors of our legal fraternity, once again, is talk of Chief Justice Yong Pung How's retirement. Fuelling the talk is the imminent expiry of the CJ's current two-year term. When asked
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      Lock icon Disease next worry for Queensland
      537 3 —AGENCIES Emergency relief work in full gear after Cyclone Larry BRISBANE The potential spread of disease is a new threat to residents of cyclonehit north Queensland, as they begin the long struggle to rebuild their lives. Emergency relief efforts swung into full gear yesterday, as
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      More than 65,000 scrap Thai trips
      568 4  -  ANSLEYNG Protests scare away holiday-makers from Singapore, China a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THOUSANDS of protesters brought traffic in Thailand's commercial district to a halt yesterday as they marched to the Singapore embassy, reported the BBC. The protest marked the second week of demonstrations against the sale
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        Lock icon FLATS UP FOR SALE IN THE WEST
        69 4 Channel News Asia The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has launched 321 flats for sale under a walk-in selection exercise. The flats, located in Bukit Batok, Bukit Panjang and Choa Chu Kang, comprise 30 fourroom flats, 105 five-room flats and 186 executive flats.
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        Lock icon PARENTS JAILED FOR PASSPORT SCAM
        78 4 938Liva Three Singapore parents were jailed for selling their children's passports in a scam involving China-born kids. The trio had allowed their children's passports to be used by a syndicate which forged identity papers for Chinese kids heading for the United States. Two mothers factory
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        Lock icon YOUTH WORKER WINS BRITISH AWARD
        67 4 Channel News Asia Queen Elizabeth II has conferred the award of Member of the British Empire on the National Youth Achievement Award Council's executive director, Mr James Soh the first time it is given to a Singapore youth development director. The award recognises his leadership
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  • Singapore news
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      Take 3 for Rebel director
      432 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO Martyn See questioned about Singapore Rebel again; new film goes to the censors this week derrick@newstoday,com.sg IT HAS been 10 months since the police opened the case on Singapore Rebel a documentary on opposition politician Chee Soon Juan and its director Martyn
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      Caught for selling stolen phones hours after alleged murder
      563 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg THE man accused of hacking a 69-year-old woman to death was a bungling thief who tried to sell a stolen handphone just hours after the murder, the court heard yesterday. Ismil Kadar, 37, was arrested on
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      Harrah's bid to have Asian stars
      421 8  -  JASMINE YIN Gaming giant teams up with South Asian and local firms to woo Indian and Chinese tourists jasmine.yi n@newstoday.com.sg WITH one more week before proposals for the Marina Bay Integrated Resort (IR) are due, Harrah's Entertainment has increased the entertainment value of its
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      Govt property for 9-year rent
      302 8  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg BUSINESSES now have the option of renting disused state properties for up to nine years, instead of just three years, as was the case previously. The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) announced yesterday that it is expanding its Rent Direct scheme, an initiative
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      Kitchen project to help Bukit Panjang job seekers
      543 10  -  VINITARAMANI Of the 21 pioneers who learned baking skills, 11 work in community club vinita@newstoday.com.sg THEY are largely middle-aged, lack adequate work experience or academic qualifications and have family commitments that make fulltime work a challenge. In an effort to help some
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      Talks to 'educate' boisterous foreign workers
      420 10  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THEY would gather at housing estate void decks after work, drinking alcohol, littering the common area and remaining rowdy well into the night. So when residents in a neighbourhood in Woodlands complained about the boisterousness of these foreign construction workers, grassroots
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      CCTV on buses soon?
      369 12  -  TORCHING LI chingli@newstoday.com.sg IN LESS than five years, all 3,550 buses in Singapore could be equipped with close-circuit television (CCTV) security cameras similar to those plying the roads of London. This is the aim of an ongoing study by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to beef
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  • world news
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      Lock icon M'sia's racial reality
      478 14 55% believe politicians should be blamed for 'segregating people' KUALA LUMPUR Racial politics is the reality of the Malaysian political system, and politicians there admitted to playing up the race issue. A survey by the Merdeka Centre for Opinion Research on ethnic relations revealed that 55 per
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      Lock icon Prophet cartoons and tsunami claim Swedish Foreign Minister
      233 14 -AFP STOCKHOLM Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds yesterday stepped down after months of fierce criticism of her handling of Asia's tsunami crisis and allegations of lying about her involvement in shutting down a website which had posted controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.
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      Lock icon Bird flu may spread across M'sia: Report
      241 14 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian deputy minister warned yesterday that the deadly bird flu virus may spread nationwide after two more outbreaks were reported in a northern state. "There is always the possibility (of this)," said deputy agriculture minister Mah Siew Keong. "We
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      Lock icon Named as a terrorist 70 times before 911
      223 16 -AFP VIRGINIA An FBI agent testified on Monday that he warned his bosses about Zacarias Moussaoui 70 times before the terror attacks on Sept 11,2001, and raised fears that he planned to hijack an airliner. Agent Harry Samit took the witness stand
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      Lock icon Voice from a 'cancer village'
      411 16 AFP Pollution woes linked to high rates of the disease in many parts of China WULI (China) Ms Wei Dongying dumped 30 plastic bottles from an oversized bag onto her living room floor. "Look at all the different colours: Red, black, yellow, brown," Ms Wei
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      Lock icon Thai impasse worries investors
      511 18 -AFP Economic growth will be affected if political stalemate continues: Study BANGKOK As the political deadlock between Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his opponents continues, there is growing concern over a likely economic fallout of the tussle in the long run. Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and
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        Lock icon RIGHTS ACTIVIST'S DEATH: WIDOW TO SUE GARUDA
        77 18 -AFP The widow of prominent Indonesian human rights activist Munir, who was poisoned aboard a Garuda flight will file a civil lawsuit against the national carrier in mid-April. "Garuda failed to ensure the safety of Munir as its passenger," lawyer Uli Parulian Sihombing
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        Lock icon CHEN TO MAINTAIN STATUS QUO
        65 18 -AP Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said yesterday that he would maintain the status quo in relations with China, amid American concerns over his scrapping of the 15-year-old National Unification Council. "There will be no change in the commitments that I've made to the US," he
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      Lock icon Iran nuke talks hit by Russian, Chinese objections
      225 20 -AFP NEW YORK Officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States wrapped up more than four hours of talks on the Iranian nuclear crisis but failed to agree on a strategy to coax Tehran into giving up nuclear arms.
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      Lock icon Belarus on brink of revolution?
      280 20 -AFP MINSK In a protest reminiscent of Ukraine's "orange revolution", opposition supporters in Belarus remained camped on the main square of the capital Minsk yesterday, after spending the night there demonstrating against President Alexander Lukashenko's controversial re-election on Sunday. Between 300 and 400 mostly young
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      Lock icon Did US Marines kill civilians in Iraqi town?
      165 22 ■AFP BAGHDAD The United States plans to investigate the deaths of 15 Iraqi civilians in November following a roadside bomb blast that killed an American soldier. The civilians, who died in the town of Haditha on Nov 19, were killed by US
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      Lock icon Israel feels Sharon void
      498 22 -AGENCIES Country's political dynamics frozen after premier's debilitating stroke KIRYAT GAT (Israel) With election campaigns drawing to a close, there's a malaise among Israeli voters as they prepare to choose Mr Ariel Sharon's successor in the Israeli polls on Aug 28. Pollsters predict voter turnout will
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      Lock icon To be shamed online?
      298 24 -AGENCIES Countries with bad air safety records could be named on the Net MONTREAL The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) plans to discredit countries with dismal air safety records by posting their failures online. Several countries in South America and Africa, however, are opposed to the
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      Lock icon Chips to keep track of bags as 30m lost in transit last year
      253 24 -AP GENEVA If you have ever been frustrated after an airline lost your luggage, you are in the good company of millions of others. An estimated 30 million bags were temporarily lost by airlines last year and
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      SO, WHO STOLE THEIR SMILES?
      845 26  -  CHEOWXINYI xinyic@newstoday.com.sg HIS assignment was to travel to eight of the world's poorest countries to document the progress towards improving their people's lives by 2015 a goal set by world leaders at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. The collection of photographs that Britain-born photojournalist
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      262 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON -----BY SCHAEFFER'S BRIDGES Manyyears ago, I had an opportunity to hear a speech given by the late philosopher Dr Francis Schaeffer, and he referred that night to the many bridges in Europe that were built by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago. These
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    • The high road or the low?
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        LTA looking at more road-level crossings for the elderly
        339 28  -  LYNN ONG Letter from Deputy Manager, Media Relations Land Transport Authority I REFER to Ms Ethel Chong's letter on pedestrian overhead bridges and underpasses (March 18-19). Ms Chong suggested installing escalators or ramps on pedestrian overhead bridges and underpasses. We would
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      • Letter
        Why not just instal more traffic lights?
        200 28  -  CHUAKIMCHOO Letter from SOME of the elderly prefer to jaywalk than attempt to climb the many stairs of a bridge to reach the other side of the road and some are not even able to make the attempt. The authorities should rethink the
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      The punishments just don't add up
      234 29  -  DENIS DISTANT Are white-collar criminals getting off easy? Letter from I REFER to the news of a smuggler jailed three years for smuggling $1,200 worth of cigarettes in return for a $240 payment Yesterday, Chen Jiulin, 44 the ex-CEO and former head of jet
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      Teachers don't do diagnoses
      235 29  -  RUTH LOW Letter from Chief Executive, PAP Community Foundation (PCF) WE WANT to thank Mr Chia Kok Hwee for sharing his view and concerns on autism detection, in his March 14 letter. We want to reassure Mr Chia Kok Hwee that PCF recognises the complexities involved
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      A smile for the ugly
      236 30  -  CLAUDINETAN Columnist's novel advice a fresh take on dealing with neighbour Letter from THANK you Jeremy Lim for your timely article, "Accept the ugly for your own sake" (March 21). I have been trying to put up with intermittent furniture moving and on-off drilling sounds
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      Maids training required, but IMH cannot provide it
      255 30  -  LEONG YEW MENG Letter from Chief Executive Officer Institute of Mental Health Woodbridge Hospital I REFER to Heng Cho Choon's letter, "Caring for elderly needs special training" (March 16). The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) is a tertiary psychiatric hospital that provides
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    • Letter
      Animal abuse leads to worse
      448 31  -  DAWN KUA SU-WEN Other countries have increased penalties as there's a link to domestic violence, why not us? Letter from Director of Operations Cat Welfare Society We refer to the letter "Reform, don't just punish animal abusers" (March 15). Miss Tham Yunbing's suggestion of asking
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    • Letter
      RESPONSES TO GOH BOON CHOO'S COMMENT, "CATCH THE HUMAN RATS" (MARCH 20):
      154 31  -  LEE KIAN CHENG GL£NN JEREMY LOH Letter from Caning should be worked into the legal penalties especially for repeat offenders. Further, we should consider laws that someone like David Hooi should be legally barred from ever keeping an
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      The 'faceless' up in arms
      646 32  -  Mr Miyagi Bloggers riled about assertions thatthey are ignorant and lack creativity OVER the weekend, some local newspapers took to highlighting blogs and the elections. The Weekend Today ran a front page story about bloggers and whether "they know the rules" regarding the elections complete
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      Sincerity, not fluent rhetoric
      157 33  -  TIMOTHY LIU Letter from' MS TAN Sai Siong ("PAP new blood, here's what I want to know (March 21) wants the newbies' messages to be refreshing, that they should not regurgitate the same repay and contribute to society" refrain. But if this is their inner voice,
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      It keeps complacency in check
      134 33  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from SOME people feel that it is healthy to have a few Opposition MPs to ensure that the ruling party does not lapse into complacency. To them, any monopoly is not good, and I agree with them. I observe that
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      539 34  -  CHRISTIE LOH Quek Leng Chan's First Capital sells stake for $171 m christie@newstoday.com.sg MALAYSIAN tycoon Quek Leng Chan divested his 20.97-per-cent stake in Hotel Properties Limited (HPL) yesterday, squashing years of speculation that he eyed a takeover of the mainboard-listed company run by high-profile businessman
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      213 34 BLOOMBERG CHINA Aviation Oil (CAO), which is reorganising after a US$55O million ($BB9 million) trading loss, won the approval of a Singapore court for a plan that will pave the way for its shares to resume trading by the end of
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        120 36 OVERSEAChinese Banking Corp (OCBC) only needs to sell 12 per cent of Robinson Co to comply with requirements for Singapore banks to sell non-core assets by July, said chief executive David Conner yesterday. Media reports have said that OCBC
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        385 36  -  CHOW PENN NEE Oversea-Chinese Banking buys 10 per cent stake in VP Bank pennnee@newstoday.com.sg OVERSEA-Chinese Banking Corp, or OCBC, continued its regional expansion yesterday by making an acquisition in Vietnam. The Singapore bank's purchase of a 10-per-cent share of Vietnam Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Private Enterprises (VP Bank)
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        248 36 -DOWJONES Keppel Corp said yesterday that it received a $13-million contract to provide technologies and services to build a waste-to-energy plant in China. It said that the contract was awarded to Keppel Seghers, the environmental technology division of Keppel Integrated Engineering. Keppel added that the project would be completed
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        473 38  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA Singapore branch to become hub for Asia-Pacific operations shobha@newstoday.com.sg IT IS the latest bank from India to set up in Singapore but the Bank of Baroda could be vying with much bigger Indian lenders to get a Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) licence
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        182 38 -AFP NEW DELHI India's central bank has appointed an expert panel to create a fully convertible rupee, a move that is expected to boost much needed foreign investment in the fast-growing economy. The statement by the Reserve Bank of India
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          56 39 SHARE prices closed lower as market sentiment was hit by news of Temasek Holdings' sale of shares in index heavyweight Singapore Telecommunications, traders said. The ST Index ended down 15.43 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 2,497.17 Losers led gainers 275 to 263 while 2.1 billion shares worth $884
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          33 39 UOJ> U.UI3I UK£ 0.3521 fen 72.11' HK$ 4.806! RM 2.291' Euro 0.5091 Rupiah 5662.1 Baht 24.00! Peso 31.611 4$ 0.860: Indian Rs 27.501 Won 599.1! 0.719; fuan 4.971' NZ$ 0.991!
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          44 39 -DOW JONES also mostly down on profittaking as the market has already factored in the upbeat outlook for the high-end property market, a local trader said. Bucking the trend, retailer Robinson rose 15 cents, or 2.3 per cent, to $6.75.
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          53 39 Mikkei 225 tang Seng HSX *****.75 4991.30 -7.20 -9.10 -0.05 -0.18 faiwan Wtd <orea Comp 6458.03 1336.65 -58.49 -10.04 -0.90 -0.75 I <LCI 923.13 +0.11 +0.01 SET Index 732.48 -2.03 -0.28 Jakarta Comp 1327.14 -2.97 -0.22 Dhils Comp Shenzhen B 2185.71 251.79 +22.40 +2.76 +1.04 +1.11 Vlumbai Sensex
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        225 39 DOW JONES Q1 sees 10.5% year-on-year increase AVERAGE prices of prime apartments and condominiums rose 4.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of this year as the recovery in Singapore's residential market continued, real estate consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle said yesterday. Compared to the
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        301 40 -DOW JONES Seoul regulator studies Temasek influence on the Spore bank DBS Group Holding's planned bid for a controlling stake in Korea Exchange Bank may come unstuck with South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) saying yesterday that it was necessary to
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        197 42 -BLOOMBERG THE Singapore dollar reached its highest level in more than seven years as traders bet the central bank will allow the currency to strengthen to curb inflation. A report today may show inflation rose 1.5 per cent in the year through February, according to
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        371 42 BLOOMBERG Sale of 770 million shares cuts Temasek's stake in telco operator from 61 to 56.3% TEMASEK Holdings raised $2 billion by selling shares in Singapore Telecommunications (Sing Tel), giving the fund cash to expand overseas. The Singapore investment company sold 770 million
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        348 43  -  CHOW PENN NEE Novel proposal for site next to Gleneagles pennnee@newstoday.com.sg THE buyers of a residential site next to Gleneagles Hospital hope to build a medical facility on it that will target affluent tourists. Napier Properties, a company owned by Mr Tony Tan,
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        182 43 -AGENCIES A SINGAPORE-based company has won the first contract for food service equipment for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft Diethelm Keller Aviation (DKA) said it has received a contract from United States aircraft maker Boeing worth over US$5O million ($Bl million) to supply food service
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        689 44  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE BLOOMBERG news@newstoday.com.sg WHAT Singapore is counting as a great new opportunity might turn out to be a threat. Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said in a speech in November that as China and India relax controls on capital outflows, individuals, banks and
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        332 46 -AP Features include more interactive stock charts, links to blog commentaries MOUNTAIN VIEW (California) Online search engine leader Google is devoting a section of its website to information about the stock market and corporate America, filling a gaping product hole as
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        263 46 -BLOOMBERG KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines, the nation's largest carrier, will stop flying to six cities in Asia and Europe and reduce flights to other routes to help cut losses by as much as RM3O3 million ($132 million). Starting April 1, Malaysia Airlines
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        382 47  -  VALERIE LAW Al-Qiblah Consultancy guides firms that want to cater to Muslim customers va lerie@newstoday.com.sg COMPANIES in the hospitality industry who wish to tap the Muslim market might want to consider using the advisory services of Al-Qiblah International Consultants, a firm set up to help eating establishments
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        223 47 CHANNEL NEWSASIA HSBC has launched a seed capital fund in a bid to promote greater entrepreneurial spirit among the young. Called the Youth Enterprise Fund, a total of $100,000 will be made available to the winning or best performing Singapore team in the
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      1715 48  -  David Chew To escape the confines of classical music, this rebel took to the toy piano the rest is history THERE is a scene in homegrown filmmaker Tan Pin Pin's documentary Singapore GaGa in which Margaret Leng Tan sits down in the middle of an HDB void
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      551 50  -  LEONARD THOMAS Failure to Launch star puts to rest rumours of on-set friction with co-star McConaughey IN NEW YORK leona rd@newstoday.com.sg AS WITH most Hollywood gossip, it was tempting to wonder and waver. Surely there had to be some truth to it even if they are two
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      395 53 -AGENCIES InS'pore and US, story of revolution gets hot reception at box office IT WAS "V" or "victory" over the weekend as the action tale V for Vendetta topped the box office in both Singapore and North America, where it grossed U5525.6 million ($41.4 million)
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      603 59 Cech can't wait for the Magpies as latest loss is simply too fresh in his mind FA CUP, QUARTER-FINAL Chelsea v Newcastle LONDON Petr Cech hopes Chelsea's FA Cup last eight clash at home to Newcastle United tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) will ease
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      393 59 WORK AND FOOTBALL... THE World Cup is fine if you have time to watch the matches. But what about the workers who can't get away? These issues will be discussed over the next few weeks before the tournament kicks off in Germany on June 9. For Germans who
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      296 60 —AFP MANCHESTER Dean Ashton paid back a large chunk of his £7.25 million ($20.5 million) transfer fee with two goals, as West Ham beat Manchester City 2-1 on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to reach the FA Cup semi-finals. Ashton struck at the end of
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      107 60 -JOSE RAYMOND TAMPINES Rovers' dreams of winning the Asian Football Confederation Cup are back on track, after a 3-1 demolition of Hong Kong side Happy Valley in a Group F tie at the Tampines Stadium last night Goals from Noh Alam Shah, Aliff Shafaein and Peres
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      644 60  -  DARREN LAI McManaman insists Fowler will come good as he dreams of a World Cup triumph darren@newstoday.com.sg ROBBIE Fowler may have only scored once since his much-antici-pated return to Merseyside, but his great friend Steve McManaman is convinced Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez will not
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      508 61  -  LEONGWEEKEAT Air rifle ace bags a silver as shooting chief Chng now eyes gold 18TH COMMONWEALTH GAMES IN MELBOURNE Shooting weekeat@newstoday.com.sg AFTER picking up three bronze medals since the Commonwealth Games began, Singapore's shooters went one better yesterday. Zhang Jin raised the stakes by picking up
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      1070 62  -  CUBBYLEONG TEAM SINGAPORE RESULTS AND SCHEDULE SELECTED RESULTS (Singaporeans unless otherwise stated) Badminton: Men's Singles Round of 64: Aaron Tan btGarron Palmer (Jam) 21-13, 21-18, Hendra Wijaya bt Richard Vaughan (Wal) 18-9 RET; Women's Singles Round of 64: Frances Liu bt Kerry-Lee Harrington (Rsa) 21-10, 21-10;
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      292 62 -AFP 18TH COMMONWEALTH GAMES IN MELBOURNE Swimming MELBOURNE Australia's world-beat-ing women sealed their domination of the Commonwealth Games swimming meet with a world record in the medley relay on the final night in the pool yesterday. The team of Sophie Edington, Leisel Jones,
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      664 63  -  TANYO-HINN National champ Zhang eyes a medal, as Singapore duo get set to do battle in the shot put arena atthe MCG ■■M yohinn@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE have never won gold in track and field at the Commonwealth Games. Today in the women's shot put final
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      285 63 18TH COMMONWEALTH GAMES IN MELBOURNE Track and Field MELBOURNE Christine Ohuruogu of England produced a major upset yesterday when she won the women's 400 metres title at the Commonwealth Games. The 21-year-old froze the clock at 50.28 seconds to beat Olympic and world champion Tonique Williams-Darling
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