Today, 12 January 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 14 1 TODAY /A=DJj\CORP share your free newspaper MICA (P) 314/10/2006 Friday January 12, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 611 1 -AFP LOS ANGELES Lights! Camera! Beckham: Celebrity-obsessed Los Angeles was abuzz yesterday at the prospect of welcoming David Beckham and his pop-star wife Victoria (picture) into the Hollywood jet-set The former England captain and Manchester United star had announced earlier that he
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    • 709 1  -  lANDECOTTA >DAYEXCLUSIVE Local business czar in talks to host F1 race here ian@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S race against time to host a Formula 1 Grand Prix is nearing the chequered flag. Today has learnt that Fl supremo Bernie Ecclestone has been in talks with at least two
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    • 39 1 hot news 2 Singapore news 6 world news 14 voices 26 business 40 plus 50 1v 62 classad 63 sports 67 we set you thinking WxjJXMmVMm' (iff m\W I '.ui^^Brs &v- *iw^H Hj v 'Ai iilfl H-: K ifl
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    • Article, Illustration
      526 2 —AGENCIES Finally, a link to Adam Air tragedy as fisherman finds part of wreckage IT WAS just a piece of debris from a missing Indonesian aircraft but it meant a lot to the anguished relatives of the 102 people on board the Adam Air plane that vanished
      —AGENCIES; AFP; AP  -  526 words
    • 528 3  -  ANSLEYNG Evidence Act means NKF can use ex-CEO's admission against former colleagues ansley@mediacorp.com.sg NOW that he has conceded the civil suit against him, former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief T T Durai may be out of the limelight, at least until he is called to
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    • 210 3 -AFP NEW YORK The leading blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average soared to a record close yesterday, as Wall Street sentiment was boosted by plunging crude oil prices, traders said. Investors cheered the decline in crude prices, which tumbled under US$52 a
      -AFP  -  210 words
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    • 594 4 I -THE GUARDIAN US PRESIDENT George W Bush's announcement that he will pour more troops into Iraq was the last throw of the dice in a misconceived enterprise that has dragged his country, Britain and the Middle East into a nightmare The package includes
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    • 488 6  -  TORCHING LI chingli@media corp. com. sg IF the current strict regulation of mainstream media continues unabated while the alternative media freewheels in cyberspace, Singapore could become a "schizophrenic" nation. That was the observation of Dr Cherian George, an Institute of Policy Studies adjunct senior
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    • 804 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG Government needs to draw up integration policy for foreigners, says NUS prof cheekong@media corp.com.sg WHILE its efforts to attract foreigners here are bearing fruit, the Government needs to apply the same acumen to making sure they fit in once they
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    • 490 7  -  JOSEPH YADAO High-end property run filtering to mid-market, good response to recent launches joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg WITH the buying frenzy for high-end apartments still fresh in memory, property developers now seem ready to cash in on the hype, with two of them poised to test
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    • 364 7  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg THE big job of reviewing Singapore's public transport system from the nuts and bolts to the service standards has gone to the Australians. In its first move to rope in an external consultant,
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    • 568 8  -  LEE U-WEN Companies prefer training their younger lot: MOM study u-wen@media corp.com.sg SIX days a week, Mr V Prakash slogs 10 hours a day as a cleaner at a food court The 40-year-old takes home about $850 a month to provide for his homemaker wife and schoolgoing
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    • 203 8 THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) is embarking on a series of initiatives to explain the importance of training and re-training of older workers. The Silver Collar dragonboat, a group under the NTUC's new Labour Movement 2011 vision, plans to talk to
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    • 674 10  -  ANSLEY NG 41 complaints against parallel car importers over late deliveries, misrepresentation ansley@mediacorp.com.sg IN SEPTEMBER last year, sales manager Lionel Loh ordered a $70,000 Honda Stream from a parallel importer that promised delivery in the shortest time. After paying the deposit of $3,000, Mr Loh looked forward
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    • 490 10  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp. com. sg ALLOWING staff the freedom to do their own rosters. Giving them more rest days in exchange for longer working hours. Work-life measures such as these have made for a much happier staff in the public healthcare sector if
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 67 12 The floodwaters got to the Thomson nurseries again yesterday but only briefly. Heavy rains flooded the low-lying car park in front of Goodwood Florist and Candy Greenhouse and Flowers at about 6pm but receded within about 10 minutes, said the Public Utilities Board. In all, the heavy
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      • 39 12 Two bunker tankers collided 500 m south of St John's Island yesterday. No one was hurt. One tanker had a tank damaged, spilling some 200 tonnes of oil. By spm, most of the oil spill was cleaned-up.
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      • 59 12 -938 LIVE A 44-year-old woman has been caught smuggling tobacco products between sheets of roti prata. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority confiscated some 100 packets of tobacco products from her when she was nabbed at Tuas checkpoint. If convicted, she could be fined up to 20
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      • 48 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore and Dubai have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for closer cooperation in healthcare. The MOU was signed by the Permanent Secretary for Health, Ms Yong Ying-I, and Dubai's Director-General of the Department of Health and Medical Services Qadhi Saeed AlMurooshid, visiting Singapore.-
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      • 110 12 -938 LIVE Some $4,000 worth of metal signs has been stolen from Block 20, Toa Payoh Lorong 7. The five signages were taken from different lift landings in the same block. The crime was discovered by a town council officer on Monday morning. This is not the
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    • 458 12  -  LEE U-WEN And Aussie university here is still looking for more teachers for future intakes u-wen@media corp.com.sg WHEN Singapore's first foreign private university launched its first academic recruitment drive last year, the response was, simply, overwhelming. In less than a month, nearly 800
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    • 173 12 CHANNEL NEWS ASIA RABAT: Islamic law and how it is practised in the moderate state of Morocco has some lessons to offer to Singapore, particularly where families are concerned. Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong made this observation after meeting Morocco's Minister of Habous and
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  • world news
    • 300 14 AGENCIES CEBU (Philippines) Members of the Association of South-east Asian Nation (Asean) will not step in to defend Myanmar against American attempts to push the United Nations toward declaring Myanmar's authoritarian rule a threat to regional peace, the grouping's secretary-general Ong Keng Yong said
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    • 195 14 -AFP DHAKA Bangladeshi President lajuddin Ahmed yesterday declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in the country ahead of disputed elections on Jan 22, state television reported. "President lajuddin Ahmed has declared a state of emergency in the country and he will shortly address
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    • 583 14  -  FAWZIAH SELAMAT fawziah@media corp.com.sg AN Asean charter has taken shape, but will it mean anything at all, if it can't be enforced? For example, it makes sense to slap penalties on states that break their promises or don't comply. But are the
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    • 364 16 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR -Malaysia's status as a moderate Muslim country is being put to the test in a milestone court decision that may allow Muslims to renounce their faith, a deed considered one of Islam's greatest sins. The nation's highest court
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    • 753 16  -  FAWZIAH SELAMAT Main opposition parties boycott poll in Pahang fawziah@mediacorp.com.sg PARTI Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) and Keadilan have boycotted a Jan 28 byelection in Batu Talam, Pahang, leaving no credible opposition to take on Malaysia's ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN). Keadilan said in a statement that it and
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 118 20 -AFP Malaysia does not believe the Thai military is responsible for a suspected grenade attack on an army border post that injured four soldiers, a minister said yesterday. The army is conducting a probe into Wednesday's incident at an army outpost in
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      • 74 20 AFP Indonesia, which has been rocked by a series of deadly bombings in recent years, has invited six other nations to a special meeting in March on fighting terrorism, officials said yesterday. The six nations are reportedly Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Australia. Indonesia has
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      • 73 20 AP After years of negotiation and anticipation, Vietnam officially became the 150 th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) yesterday, opening the door to a new era of trade and investment in one of Asia's fastest-growing economies. Vietnam will be required to slash tariffs and
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      • 94 20 -AFP A prominent Malaysian political analyst charged over the gruesome slaying of a Mongolian model was ordered to remain in jail yesterday when an appeals court rejected his bid for bail. Abdul Razak Baginda is accused of abetting two policemen to murder Ms Altantuya
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    • 424 20 AFP Ousted PM slams restrictions on his activities BANGKOK Deposed Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday the junta's crackdown on his activities was unfair after the military revoked his diplomatic passport and banned television coverage of him. The announcements came on Wednesday amid a flurry
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    • 228 22 -AFP KABUL Nato and Afghan forces unleashed air and ground strikes on a group of insurgents, who were spotted infiltrating Afghanistan from Pakistan, killing up to 150 of them, officials said yesterday. The men were seen gathering on the Pakistan side of the border
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    • 637 22 —AGENCIES Al Maliki cracks down on his ally's loyalists as part of commitment to US strategy WASHINGTON Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has told Shia militiamen to surrender their weapons or face an all-out assault This is part of a commitment
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    • 152 22 -AGENCIES United States troops raided Iran's consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil yesterday and arrested five employees, said an anonymous Iranian diplomat. "We don't know the reason for this," the diplomat said of the raid, which came amid mounting US
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    • 253 24 WikiLeaks where dissidents worldwide can blow the whistle -AFP PARIS Chinese dissidents, equipped with powerful encryption software, say they will launch a site designed to let whistleblowers in authoritarian countries post sensitive documents on the Internet without being traced. "Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet
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    • 369 24 ■AFP Cisco takes a bite out of Apple over iPhone trademark SAN JOSE United States computer network giant Cisco has sued Apple Inc to stop it from naming its new cellphone the iPhone. Cisco claims it has owned the trademark for several years. Cisco's announcement came a
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    • 494 25 -AFP Unseasonal warmth in North America, Europe a result of El Nino, greenhouse gases PARIS Across the continental United States and Canada, states and provinces reported above-average temperatures for December, while five states in the north and east of the country experienced record highs
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    • this quirky world
      • 141 25 Is poker a game of skill or chance, or a combination of both? That is what a British jury has been asked to decide in a trial. The Independent reported yesterday. The trial, which could set a precedent in gaming laws, could decide the growth
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      • 115 25 A GOODIE BAG WITH TAX STRINGS ■AFP Hollywood stars who appear on stage at the annual Golden Globe Awards are used to being showered with free goodie bags, but they might be surprised to find a United States government tax form nestled among their luxurious treats. The Internal Revenue Service
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  • Voices
    • 513 26  -  PAUL CHAN POH HOI The nuclear option is more feasible and viable than other energy sources Letter from YOUR front page story "The atom calls to XL, Jakarta" (Jan 6-7) makes interesting reading. However, I don't share the experts' concerns that nuclear energy for
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    • 60 26 The first day of school here was a let-down for the son of my good friend of Filipino descent. She has taught her son to be respectful especially to teachers. So he greeted them all but none of his schoolmates did, even when the teachers walked past them. Jessica
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    • 193 26  -  AUDREY ANG Letter from Assistant Director (Media Relations) Singapore Police Force WE REFER to the letter, "New year, same old rudeness" (Jan 8) by Mr Randy Khoo. For incidences of illegal/double parking, the public could note down the registration number of the offending vehicle, take
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    • 308 26  -  LEO CHEN lAN Letter from President, Disabled People's Association OUR disabled athletes have just done the country proud in the 9th Far East and South Pacific (Fespic) Games for the Disabled in Kuala Lumpur with new records
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    • 352 28  -  S SATISH APPOO NEA officers checked more than 4,000 eateries; number of complaints from public fell Letter from Director, Environmental Health Department National Environment Agency WE REFER to the news article, "Where there's smoke, there's ire" (Jan 5) and the letters in Voices on Jan 9,
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    • 406 28  -  NICHOLAS WONG Letter from I READ with dismay about the suggestion to use cameras to help the National Environment Agency (NEA) enforce the smoking ban in eating places. In the letter, "Smoke gets in our eyes" (Jan 10), the writer suggests that such video evidence
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    • 199 28  -  ONG-ANGAIBOON Letter from Director Association of Banks in Singapore WE REFER to the letters published over the past few weeks with regard to the implementation of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for Internet banking. The Monetary Authority of Singapore has encouraged all banks, which provide Internet
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 76 30  -  ONGUPHUA: A high-level panel of education experts is here to study how to increase the number of Singaporeans with qualifications beyond a bachelor's degree. A check with the Nanyang Technological University's website reveals only two scholarships for graduate study by coursework available: The Asean Graduate Scholarship (not
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      • 78 30  -  G JAGATHISAN: The last time I took the KTM train to Kuala Lumpur from Tanjong Pagar, my passport was not stamped by Malaysian immigration to indicate entry. What is the legal position of the traveller? How can I prove I was out of Singapore? Or
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      • 98 30  -  LYNETTETAN: Banks are usually crowded on the first working day of the week, especially on the first working day of the new year Jan 3 when I saw an exceptionally long queue at a bank in a mature estate. Many standing were older folk.
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    • 790 30  - KNOCK, KNOCK Tabitha Wang That's the signal for you to part with your money BUDGET TAI TAI WE ARE happily tucked up in bed when the dreaded sounds come. First the squeak of trolley wheels, a knock on the door and then, the familiar shout: "Yakult!" My hubby scrunches down
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    • 248 32  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY PEACE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Is there anything parents can do about misbehaviour of children from otherfamilies in the neighbourhood? Parents in a neighbourhood can bring about a more peaceful atmosphere among their children if they will simply talk to each other. But
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    • 208 32  -  SUSAN KOH Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Communications Singapore Land Authority (SLA) WE REFER to the letter from Mr Royston Ng ("Was SLA too easy on withdrawn bid?", Jan 6-7) concerning the award to the next highest eligible bid for the tender of one of the
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    • 364 32  -  KAUSARSHAIKNAINA MOM, high-rise developers must play part in eliminating dangerous chores Letter from WHILE I agree with the crux of Mr Phillip Ang Keng Hong's letter on maid fatalities ("Ban dangerous household chores to stop maid fatality", Jan 10), what is the logic behind his suggestion
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    • 778 34  -  JOHN LEO IT all started when the four of us, in our early 60s, were discussing how to keep our minds agile. We have heard horror stories of how our buddy Ben recently grew heavy in the head and is no longer the friend we
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    • 251 38  -  VIVIENNEUM Letter from A FRIEND was recently posted to a junior college (JC) in the north. But she decided to withdraw as she was ineligible for her preferred subject combination and the travelling took more than two hours each day. When my friend
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    • 378 38  -  RICHARD SEAH Entire region could benefit from tighter local trans fats laws Letter from IN ITS letter ("What if we ban trans fats...", Jan 11), the Health Promotion Board (HPB) says that banning trans fats would affect 70 percent of our food imports. The HPB
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    • 117 38  -  KONG YIT SAN Letter from Director of Parks National Parks Board WE REFER to Mr Kwok's letter, "Why not turn Katong Park run into a dog hub?" (Dec 27). We would like to clarify that the Katong Park dog run is still open after
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    • 281 40 Singapore has become the first Asean country to meet the new Asean Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) agreement aimed at harmonising standards and boosting trade within the grouping. This milestone is almost four years ahead of the deadline set by member countries to align their national legislations to comply
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    • 671 40  -  CHRISTIE LOH CHRISTIE LOH christie@media corp. com. sg THE chief executive of the Singapore Exchange (SGX), Mr Hsieh Fu Hua, was anxious to leave after chairing a conference announcing the bourse's stellar results. "I've a flight to catch tonight," said Mr Hsieh, who was heading to
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      • 4 40 ST Index 2,969.69 +8.5
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      • 142 40 DOW JONES SGX, Bloomberg THE ST Index (STI) got a boost from property stocks, rising 8.5 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 2,969.69. In the broad market, gainers led losers 379 to 329 as 2.37 billion shares worth $1.71 billion were traded. "Equity funds are still taking profits across
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      • 55 40 Nikkei 225 *****.17 -184.23 -8.62 Hang Seng ASX *****.37 -182.97 5564.98 +44.88 -8.94 +8.88 Taiwan Wtd 7618.55 -79.97 -1.84 Korea Comp 1365.31 +9.52 +8.78 KLCI 1186.86 -7.13 -8.64 SET Index 637.63 +15.36 +2.47 Jakarta Comp 1783.84 -6.52 -8.38 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2948.16 -18.92 479.74 +18.86 -8.37 +3.91
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      • 271 42 BLOOMBERG Will provide maintenance service for engines of carrier's Boeing 777 fleet SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), the world's biggest carrier by market value, signed an agreement for Rolls-Royce Group to provide engine-maintenance services for its fleet of 58 Boeing 777 aircraft United Kingdom-based Rolls-Royce, Europe's biggest aircraft-engine
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      • 194 42 -BLOOMBERG NIDEC Corp, the world's biggest maker of motors for hard disks, yesterday extended its $195-mil-lion offer to buy Singapore-list-ed Brilliant Manufacturing by two weeks to Jan 25, to take into account the year-end holidays during which some investors
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      • 229 42 STOCK trader Tan Pomas Candranegara has been fined $50,000 by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for creating a false impression of trading activity in the shares of Eagle Brand Holdings between Jan 13 and Feb 3, 2004, the financial regulator
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      • 408 44 -DOW JONES FIRST Real Estate Investment Trust will use about two-thirds of its new $90 million credit line to fund four property acquisitions already in its pipeline, with the remainder to be used for additional acquisitions in South-east Asia and
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      • 504 44 -DOW JONES Jade chief downplays rivalry with Malaysian counterpart over crude palm oil contracts THE upcoming launch of crude palm oil futures contracts by the Singapore-based Joint Asian Derivatives Exchange (Jade) will complement similar contracts traded on Malaysia's Bursa Malaysia Derivative (BMD), not compete with them,
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      • 916 46  -  ANDY MUKHERJEE BLOOMBERG Concerns over privacy foster swift improvements to India's legal system news@newstoday.com.sg "WHEN a bank sends jobs offshore to India, it isn't just the jobs that go," said a radio commercial prepared for broadcast by the Finance Sector Union in Melbourne. "It's all your
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      • 512 48 BLOOMBERG China's stock market capitalisation surges on stock boom, new sales CHINA'S stock market surpassed USsl-trillion ($1.54-trillion) in value for the first time on Wednesday, crowning an 18-month rally that spurred the biggest series of state asset sales since the Communist nation's exchanges were founded. The
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      • 203 48 -AGENCIES THE Chinese yuan hit a record post-revaluation high yesterday, one day after Beijing announced a walloping rise in the country's full-year trade surplus. Yesterday in Asia, the yuan was trading at 7.7948 per United States dollar, its highest value since China re-valued
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    • 1309 50  -  Ross Wallace IF GUILLERMO del Toro hadn't become a film-maker, he may well have gone into the bank robbery business. A specialist in films about ghosts, mutants, vampires and other horrors, the 42-year-old director might have become an evildoer himself had he not found an
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      319 51 IT MIGHT be too much to call them the new Three Amigos, but film-makers Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu are undoubtedly Mexican cinema's leading lights. Not only has each made a name for himself in their country of birth, they've also notched hits in Hollywood,
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    • 976 52  -  lo l!t™l Ballsy performances and global contributors aside, this year's Golden Globe winners will be clear-cut choices WHAT a difference a year makes. This time last year, critics were raving about heavy-duty, politically-conscious films, such as Crash, Syriana and Munich, making the cut for Golden Globe
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      • 439 54  -  Ross Wallace Labyrinth's world of fauns and monsters will leave audiences spellbound FILMREVIEW by isman.mnsm LIKE its namesake, Pan's Labyrinth has enough twists and turns to leave audiences in the dark as to the journey's end. Still, there'll be few filmgoers sorry to have lost themselves in this
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        212 54  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by The reimagining of renowned photographer Diane Arbus' life may have been planned as an offbeat work of creative biography, but director Steven Shainberg, who helmed the quirky Secretary, has instead painted a shallow portrait. The late Arbus took photos of people on the edge of
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      • 356 56  -  Jeanine Tan Neither here nor there, film stumbles along FILMREVIEW by liUII.IJiU.IM FUNNY is hard to do, and funny and serious is even harder. The failing of One Last Dance is that it tries to be both, and it comes out a rather confused film
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      • 427 58  -  Ross Wallace Film that pairs corrupt with clueless saved by fine acting FILMREVIEW by 1/flßilfffi? IT'S Training Day for psychopaths and who better to take the reins than the man who scripted Denzel Washington's Oscar-winning performance in that 2001 film? While it might not be
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      • 260 60  -  Justin Cheong FILMREVIEW ANOTHER adaptation of Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name the first was made in 1934 and starred Greta Garbo The Painted Veil tells the story of a young English couple in the *****. Bacteriologist Walter (Edward Norton) falls hopelessly in love with Kitty
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      • 379 60  -  Jeanine Tan Ben Affleck shines in riveting Tinseltown murder mystery FILMREVIEW by EEB2 BEN Affleck may be the best thing about Hollywoodland, but the film holds up on its own as an incisive look at the seamier side of Hollywood land of dreams, opportunity and ultimately, downfall
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      • 293 60  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by WITH a title like Kungfu Mahjong 3, you can expect a slapdash, slapstick affair. And with Hong Kong producer Wong Jing holding the cards, the odds are it's a rip-off mass production. But surprisingly, the film has a couple of
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