Today, 27 February 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY /y\-.OJA.CORf MICA (P) 314/10/2006 Tuesday February 27, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Iranian space launch 'did not happen'
      214 1 —AFP WASHINGTON The US military has no evidence to corroborate an Iranian claim that it fired a rocket into space and suspects that the event never happened, a US defence official said yesterday. Iranian space officials said on Sunday they launched a "sounding rocket"
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      Lock icon Chopper pilot gets medal after 41 years
      134 1 BLOOMBERG A FORMER US Army helicopter pilot received the Congressional Medal of Honour, the nation's highest military award, 41 years after he repeatedly flew into the middle of an enemy attack in Vietnam to deliver supplies to soldiers on the ground and evacuate
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      Good climate, save for distant clouds
      1038 1 Survey gives Singapore top marks but points to risks from beyond its borders THE Government has been rated "extremely stable". The police and the civil service have come in for praise. The judiciary has been given the thumbs up. Once again, a detailed survey
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  • hot news
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      Focus on odd-job workers
      425 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg THE spotlight looks set to fall on a group of Singaporeans who are rising by the number and in danger of falling through the cracks when Parliament reconvenes today, two weeks after Second Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam unveiled Budget 2007.
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      Lock icon A costly spat for Thailand
      825 3 -AGENCIES Economic repercussions of row with Singapore are now coming home BANGKOK-Thailand is starting to feel the economic repercussions from its diplomatic spat with Singapore, its top Asean investor. Investment flows from Singapore to Thailand fell by 88 per cent last month, according to Thailand's
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      345 2 MILLIONAIRES HELPING OTHERS BE UNEMPLOYED TRUE wealth starts with you firing yourself from your current !®kr. employment. The wealthiest individuals to the likes of Bill Gates. WfS&ffii'' Li Ka Shing and Sim Wong Hoo have all created fortunes. They are m' able to retire young and rich by choosing the
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  • singapore news
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      HDB takes guess out of flat selection
      679 4  -  LEE U-WEN No more queues as new system kicks in come April u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg THE days of queuing for a flat are now history. Gone too, is the need to check ones's email at 6am just to see if there are units for sale
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon DEADLINE FOR CPF SINGTEL SHARES SALE
        104 6 -938 LIVE CPF members who wish to sell their discounted Sing Tel shares via Sing Post can only do so till the end of next month. From April 1, they will have to open a trading account with a Singapore Exchange broking firm to
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        CHEE FINED $4,000, WILL FILE APPEAL
        99 6  -  -LEONGWEEKEAT Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan was yesterday fined $4,000 in default three weeks' jail in the Subordinate Courts after he was found guilty of attempting to leave the country without permission from the Official Assignee's (OA) office. District Judge Aedit Abdullah
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        Lock icon GCE A-LEVEL RESULTS ON FRIDAY
        54 6 938 LIVE Results of the GCE A-level exams will be released this Friday. Students may collect their result slips from their schools from 2.30pm. For private candidates, the results will be posted on the Singapore Exams and Assessment Board's website at www.seab.gov.sg. They will also
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        Lock icon NEW NUS DEGREE FOR ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
        124 6 938 LIVE Students interested in the Arts and Social Sciences will soon have another degree option. The National University of Singapore (NUS) is launching a new Bachelor of Arts degree programme, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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      SMEs to get GST grant
      551 6  -  CHRISTIE LOH Govt earmarks $30m for compliance costs christie@mediacorp.com.sg FOR the first time, small and medium enterprises (SME) will get $30 million of state help to cope with higher Goods and Services Tax (GST). Those that voluntarily register to become GST traders for the first
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      Probe into video leaks of MRT accidents
      286 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THERE were no signs of blood, but the scenes still made viewers flinch. Two separate videos of individuals being run over by MRT trains are making the rounds among Singapore's online community. Even as the clips were removed from
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      OPEN SKIES BUT SOME DOORS ARE CLOSED
      824 7  -  LIANG DINGZI Opening of Spore, Malaysia air routes will impact Asean's 'open skies'regimen news@media corp.com.sg THE recent announcement by Singapore and Malaysia to expand their air services agreement once again caused euphoria over the possibility of opening the lucrative Singa-pore-Kuala Lumpur (XL) route
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      447 4 i Tourism and hospitality is fast becoming one of the world's largest industries and is I i 5| sp*f f 1 C~ I ■'"I widely predicted to become the biggest single industry in the 21st century, generating J iJ J Jj-^Z-CIJ J\ \^J J J *SJB about 11% of world
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      496 7 Includes Ss2oo of FREE Gifts. Ryan Moor Diana Blair Russ Little "Before this training, my eßay sales were "This years grass sales are expected Id surpass "The idea of combining something I love with around S $1,400.00 per month, now I sell over last year's sales of S $660,000; thanks
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Asia could face another financial crisis, says UN
      428 8 -AFP Region faces risks similar to those in 1997, official warns BANGKOK Asian economies face new threats that could destabilise the region, despite the current boom that resulted from success in overcoming the 1997 financial crisis, a top United Nations official said
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      Lock icon Hundreds march for peace in Thai south
      318 8 AGENCIES YALA (Thailand) Hundreds of people in Thailand's restive south protested neardaily violence by suspected Muslim insurgents yesterday, as a roadside bomb injured four policemen in a neighbouring province. Protesters marched through the town of Yala, many in yellow shirts showing allegiance to
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon M'SIAN TEACHER ALLEGEDLY HIT STUDENTS WITH HIGH-HEELED SHOE
        102 8 -AP Ateacher in a school in Kedah allegedly hit eight of her students with her highheeled shoe for not doing their homework, injuring at least three of them. The three 10-year-old boys who were injured said their teacher had removed one of
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        Lock icon ROYAL ITEMS FOUND IN RUBBISH HEAP
        57 8 AP Royal items believed stolen from the palace of Malaysia's ceremonial king have been found stashed in a pile of rubbish. The three daggers, three Malay daggers and a sword belong to the ancient Terengganu Malay sultanate. They went missing last Friday at the
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        Lock icon BALI BANS FILM ON 2002 BOMBINGS
        71 8 -AP The authorities on Indonesia's Bali island have banned a film about the 2002 bombings, saying if the movie were screened there, old wounds would be reopened. "It is still too soon for the Balinese to watch this," said Mr I Gusti Ngurah Gede,
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        OVER 400 THEFT CASES AT BANGKOK'S NEW AIRPORT
        53 8 A Thai tourist services centre has received reports of some 415 cases of theft at Bangkok's new airport in the past several months, according to The Nation newspaper. "The thieves targeted notebook computers and cameras," said police lieu-tenant-colonel Thammawat Hirunyalekha, an inspector
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        Lock icon INDONESIA SHUTS BORDER WITH TIMOR LESTETO CURB REBELS
        67 8 -AFP Indonesia said yesterday it had shut its border with neighbouring Timor Leste, which had asked for the closure in order to prevent the movement of armed rebels out of its territory. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered border crossings halted late on
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        Lock icon RADICAL CLERIC LOSES APPEAL AGAINST DEPORTATION FROM BRITAIN
        80 8 AFP Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric and suspected key Al Qaeda figure, lost an appeal yesterday against deportation from Britain to Jordan. Qatada arrived in Britain in September 1993 and was initially arrested in October 2002. He was re-arrested as part
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      M'sia tightens grip on use of Internet
      322 9 Web users warned not to circulate sensitive news, pictures online KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Deputy Internal Security Minister Fu Ah Kiow yesterday sounded a reminder that Internet users who circulate sensitive news and pictures online will be taken to task. This includes clips of
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      Lock icon Foreign gang suspected in Thai shootings
      328 9 -DPA BANGKOK Pattaya police suspect a foreign gang was behind the brutal slaying of two Russian women over the weekend near the Thai beach resort city, a senior policeman said. Regional Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Assawin Kwanmuang has ordered Pattaya police to follow up
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon HUNDREDS TRAPPED IN INFERNO
        130 10 —AFP At least two people were killed and hundreds left trapped yesterday when a massive blaze raced through an office tower in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, officials said. Walls of flame and choking black smoke hampered rescue efforts by the military, which called in helicopters to
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        Lock icon S KOREANS FILE SUIT AGAINST WAR SHRINE
        82 10 -AP A group of South Koreans filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court yesterday against the Yasukuni war shrine criticised for glorifying Japan's militaristic past, demanding it remove relatives' names from the list of war dead hon- oured there. The 11 plaintiffs,
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        Lock icon SERBIA NOT LIABLE FOR MASSACRE
        108 10 —AGENCIES Serbia is not liable for acts of genocide in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica during the three-year conflict in the former-Yugoslavia, although it did aid ethnic armies who carried out the massacres, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled. "The court finds that Serbia
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        Lock icon CHEN BLAMES CHIANG KAI-SHEK
        122 11 —AP The late Gen Chiang Kai- shekwas responsible for the bloody suppression of a 1947 riot that led to the deaths of thousands of people, Taiwan's President Chen Shui-Bian said yesterday. Mr Chen's comments came as Taiwan gears up for elections, which pit his Democratic Progressive
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      Lock icon US gets tough on ally Pakistan
      330 10 AGENCIES Musharraf faces aid cuts if he does not step up Al Qaeda hunt, says report WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush has decided to officially warn Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that the Democratic party-led Congress could cut aid to Islamabad, if it
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      Lock icon Talabani in stable condition
      139 10 -AFP AMMAN Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who was flown to hospital in Jordan suffering from exhaustion and dehydration, is in a stable condition and could be discharged in the next two days, Baghdad's ambassador to Amman said yesterday. "The president is in a stable state of
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      Lock icon World powers discuss Iran resolution
      182 11 —AFP WASHINGTON Six world powers will meet again on Thursday by telephone to try to thrash out which elements to include in a new tougher UN Security Council resolution on Iran, the US State Department said yesterday. Policy chiefs of the US, British, Russian, Chinese,
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      Lock icon Aussie PM's 'girl' problems
      419 11 AGENCIES SYDNEY —Two women are set to give Australia's Prime Minister John Howard a political headache as he faces elections this year. Far-right politician Pauline Hanson, who sparked outrage in the 1990s with her campaign against Asian immigration, has announced that she would run for the
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      330 13 A 1 life, live it. I Get your exclusive free preview tickets now! Ml customers can redeem a pair of movie tickets to the Ml Box Office Preview of 300 with 400 Sun Perks points. Simply log on to www.miworld.com.sg from February 27, 9am onwards to redeem. U B "While
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      HDB resale woes
      493 14  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from I REFER to the article, "Once unwanted, some HDB flats get a new lease on shelf life" (Feb 23). A close friend who has been paying his HDB mortgage repayments intermittently over the last two years because of financial difficulties has received
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      Lift ethnic quota for unsold flats
      251 14  -  LIMWEETECK Letter from THE professionals the housing agents have now been tasked to sell some of the old and unsold HDB flats, which remain on the market despite repeated attempts via balloting or Walk-In-Selection to sell them. After being unsuccessful in both the balloting
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        EXCHANGE SAM POSTAGE LABELS
        136 14  -  TAYPOHCHOO(MS) Vice President (Corporate Communications/Customer Service, Singapore Post Limited: I refer to Mr Kang Wee Khiang's letter, "Sing Post should make 2-cent stamps available for NETS users" (Feb 21). We wish to apologise for the inconvenience caused and we will be considering his suggestion. We will
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        NO LIFE JACKETS AND SAFETY VIDEOS ON BATAM FERRY
        85 14  -  MOHAMED OMAR: On my recent trip to Batam on Feb 16 at 1.30pm, I noticed that there were no life jackets at the upper deck of the Batam Fast ferry. There was also no short video on how to don a
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        CHANGING NEW NOTES
        107 14  -  NGKWOKLEONG Head, Planning Customer Assurance, Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd: We refer to the letter by Ms Janica Chan on "Change new note exchange rules (Feb 21). We are sorry that our branch staff did not exercise flexibility when attending to the customer who needed to change new
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    • Letter
      When will we see an end to the CTE traffic jams?
      327 15  -  GAN CHIN YEAN Letter from I AM writing about the continuous traffic jams along the Central Expressway (CTE). From letters in the media and the response from the Land Transport Authority, I am gratified that there is an implicit
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    • Letter
      Two groups that lose out
      396 15  -  PETER FABIAN ANDREW Housewives, contract workers not rewarded by Budget proposals Letter from THE recently-unveiled Budget does not benefit two groups of Singaporeans, namely contract workers and housewives. I understand the Government tries to make all able-bodied citizens work but it does not work that
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      FOCUS ON THE
      264 16  -  DR JAMES DOBSON ////BY PETTINESS IN MARRIAGE I recently read of a news story from London about a 56-year-old woman who filed for a divorce. She said her husband was so petty and stingy that he literally squeezed the love out of their relationship. Court documents proved
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      Lock icon Giving wings to scholarly dreams
      868 16  -  DERRICK A PAULO The first one to donate to his Australian alma mater, this businessman believes in the power of scholarships derrick@media corp.com.sg face i in the crowd BEN CHNG Mid 60s, Building consultant and president, UNSW Singapore Alumni Association HE HAS worked his way
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    • Letter, Illustration
      Merely a pretty piece of paper?
      324 17  -  VICTOR SNG HOE PENG What use is the PSLE if it can't get you a decent job? Letter from I REFER to Mr Mohamad Rosle Ahmad's letter, "A foundation too fragile" (Feb 23), in which he mentions rightly that no clear, coherent and concrete
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      Family support vital for quitting smokers
      246 17  -  JANETTEO Letter from I read the article, "He quit and won" (Feb 26) with interest and fully agree with what Mr Saharudin Ibrahim said, that "family support is very important". This happened to my own father, who turns 62 this year. Our family has
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      123 15 fc?SMU SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY I l j I I A Master of IT in Business (Financial Services) The School of Information Systems (SIS) at the Singapore Management University (SMU) is pleased to launch a unique, first-of-its-kind Professional Masters Programme for preparing technology and operations professionals to assume leadership positions in
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      42 16 enriching families Focus the Family 3;> Singapore Limited www.family.org.sg Founder: Dr James D obson If w If Terms S conditions subject to change without prior notice. Tel: 6788 1122 Email: csll22@income.coop 'Website: www.income.coop/loans XTTUC Income Olncoue Voar Weed, Oar Priority Y*r P«jrt>urfrrAßrtkrUp<
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Jan industrial output up 14.6%
      379 18 ■AFP Pharmaceuticals and oil rigs spur growth BRISK orders for Pharmaceuticals and oil rigs helped push Singapore's industrial output up by 14.6 per cent in January from the year before, the Government said yesterday. Building, repair and conversion work on ships, as well as growth
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      Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
      173 18 BLOOMBERG 938 LIVE 938 LIVE Venture Corp, Singapore's biggest maker of customised electronics, said fourth-quarter profit rose 43 per cent, as testing equipment and printer orders boosted margins. Net income rose to $78.3 million, or 28.8 cents a share, from a revised $54.8 million, or 20.2 cents, a year
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      Lock icon Spore dollar at its highest in 9 years
      195 18 -DOW JONES THE Singapore dollar yesterday rose to its highest level since 1997 after sentiment toward the U.S. dollar turned negative over the weekend, on growing concerns that interest rates would rise in Europe but remain frozen or even decline in the
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      Mediaring can bid for PacNet
      349 18  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@media corp.com.sg A BIDDING war for Pacific Internet could erupt again, with major shareholder Mediaßing reappearing unexpectedly soon. Rules here dictate that Mediaßing cannot trigger an offer for Nasdaq-listed PacNet in the 12 months after its first attempt failed last July. Although the
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      CPFIS investments post strong returns
      500 19  -  MIRAKASHINATH Reason is strong showing of global equity markets, especially in second half of last year mira@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER experiencing a bad run for years, there is now good news for Singaporeans who have invested their CPF funds in unit trusts and investment-linked products (ILPs). In
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      • marketwatch
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          SGX most active
          25 20 Gen Int 0.830 +0.020 +2.5 El-Nets 0.025 STATSChPML 1.570 +0.110 +7.5 Abterra 0.040 MediaRing 0.440 +0.015 +3.5 89.261 63.459 56.077 46.735 36.803
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          Singapore
          58 20 Share prices closed marginally lower off an all-time high as some profit-taking trimmed earlier gains, dealers said. The ST Index closed down 2.52 points or 0.08 percent at 3,307.92, a shade off the alltime high of 3,310.44 set on Friday. Volume reached 2.13 billion shares worth $1.82 billion. Gainers
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          SGX top rises
          19 20 STATSChPML STATSChPMBL 0.490 +50.8 0.295 +34.1 Chartered SGA 0.305 +32.6 UOBCA CapitalanMBL 0.675 +32.4 0.575 +32.2
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          Lock icon STI 3,307.9 -2.4
          28 20 AFP unchanged. Property stocks look stretched but investors continue to accumulate them on robust expectations for housing and office demand over the next few years.
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          SGX top falls
          21 20 Digiland 0.005 -50.0 SembMar SGA 0.005 -50.0 Gen Int DBe STI 0.105 0.010 -34.4 -33.3 Serial 0.040 -27.3
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          World markets
          53 20 Nikkei 225 18.215.35 +26.93 +0.15 HK Hang Seng 20.507.95 -203.70 -0.98 Australia ASX200 6.044.00 +7.90 +0.13 Mumbai Sensex 13,649.52 +16.99 +0.12 Korea Camp 1,470.03 +0.15 +0.01 Malaysia KLCI 1,272.87 -10.60 -0.83 Thailand SET 688.70 -2.06 -0.30 Jakarta Camp 1,783.95 -7.60 -0.42 Phils Comp 3,380.00 -9.37 -0.28 Shenzhen B
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          Lock icon Your S$1 buys
          34 20 SGX, I provided Bloomberg USS 0.6543 UK£ 0.3333 Yen 78.948 HKS 5.1096 RM 2.2840 Euro 0.4969 Rupiah 5932.9 Baht 22.106 Peso 31.560 AS 0.8257 Indian Rs 28.912 Yuan 5.0708 Information ////by
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      • Article
        JTC'ss 18.9 m tender
        177 20  -  -DOW JONES JTC Corp has awarded its tender for the engineering design of its underground oil storage facility on Jurong Island to a consortium for $18.94 million, a JTC statement said yesterday. The consortium, Geostock-Jurong Consultants, will also manage the construction of underground tunnels and associated
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        Lock icon SPC buys stake in Australia's Tap
        164 20 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Petroleum Co (SPC), the only oil refiner traded on the Singapore Exchange, bought a 4.7 per cent stake in Australia's Tap Oil Ltd for about A 510.7 million ($12.9 million). Tap reportedly will seek talks with SPC, which held about 7.3 million
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      • marketbuzz
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          CRUISE WITH THE STARS
          96 20 From now until March, Star Cruises' Superstar Virgo passengers sailing on selected 2-Night Malacca/Kuala Lumpur cruises can get up close and personal with evergreen crooners from the 70s to the '90s. During special on board "Meet the Fans" sessions, they will be able to get their
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          FIRST AID TO THE RESCUE
          83 20 Knowing first aid can make the difference between life and death. So, make time to attend 938LIVE's The Living Room lunchtime talk at the Library@Orchard tomorrow from 2.30pm to 3.30pm. This month's speaker, Stephen De Souza from the Singapore Red Cross, will give you the
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        The way to create an arbitration hub
        503 20  -  DERRICK A PAULO Singapore can attract more international arbitrators by 'hands off'approach to dispute resolution: CJ Chan derrick@mediacorp.com.sg IT MAY have the power to intervene, but the Singapore judiciary will adopt a "handsoff" approach in the area of dispute resolution. Chief Justice Chan
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        Lock icon Central banks diversify from US dollar, survey shows
        236 21 -BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Central banks are increasingly diversifying their reserves, including cutting holdings of dollars, according to a survey. Italy, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland have made "major adjustments'" in foreign-exchange holdings favouring the euro and the pound, according to the poll conducted
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        Lock icon An eye on illegal stocks
        106 21 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China's State Council approved a special task force to clamp down on illegal share offerings and other banned activities in the stock markets, the government said. Vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Gui Minjie, will lead the "cooperative team", which consists of
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        Lock icon US economy to grow slowest in 5 years?
        499 21 -AP Top forecasters also predict inflation ease WASHINGTON Restrained by a worse-than-expected slump in housing, the United States economy will grow at the slowest pace in five years in 2007, top economic forecasters say. They predict consumers will get a break on
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        266 24 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR I Malaysia over the weekend hunched what it said is the world's smallest microchip with radio technology in a quest to position itself as a leading high-tech chip producer for a global market The Malaysia Microchip was released after more than two
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      325 28  -  JEANINE TAN jeanine@mediacorp.com.sg Gorgeous gowns in a palette of beautiful colours dominated the red carpet at the 79th annual Academy Awards, putting classic black firmly in the corner Most stars got it right, which made the unfortunate few who didn't stick out terribly REESE WITHERSPOON Reese wearing Nina
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          858 31  -  JOANNEYAP Biologies medication the latest treatment option for psoriasis joanne@media corp.com.sg FIFTY-five-year-old Mr Siva was first diagnosed with psoriasis 20 years ago, at the age of 35. Back then, little was known about the disease. "It started off as a mild and itchy reddish rash
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      1833 34 _mnrs__i POLICE THIEF LIFESTYLE I BOOMBASTIK BLOGTV.SG Channel 5, Bpm The Travelling Palette y-L Tf-,. /^.l|,'n r Po|a-f4-a_ _a Usik Usik Chef Wan Caught You! Arts Central, 9.30pm I 11_ il_v_llll l^l m Suria 8 3 0pm Channel News Asia, 8.32pm __ifl aWM ___H feels This is a six-part documentary
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      203 35 WEATHERTODAY Amsterdam 3/8 C rainy Los Angeles 11/15 C rainy Auckland 14/22 C showers Manila 24/31 C thunderstorm OingapOre Bali 24/32 C rainy Melbourne 17/27 C showers 24/32 C BS Begawan 25/32 C thunderstorm New Delhi 12/26 C partly cloudy Bangkok ***** partly cloudy New York -01/04C cloudy Bangalore 17/31
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      510 36  -  CUBBYLEONG cubby@media corp.com.sg KEITH Martin (picture), of the Singapore Sports Council (SSC), is going to be buried under boxes tomorrow as the 4pm submission deadline for the Singapore Sports Hub approaches. The development director of the Sports Hub Project is expecting a "truck load"
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      861 36  -  DARREN LAI Warriors coach Bok, Bennett talk up title chances and Asian conquest darren@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Richard Bok took over the reins at SAFFC last year nine matches into the season, he was an unknown quantity. It was Bok's first appointment, even as "caretaker" coach. While the Warriors
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      348 36  -  -DARREN LAI WITH the core of the champi-onship-winning team retained, boosted further by four quality signings, SAFFC goalkeeping coach David Lee believes the Warriors will take some stopping as they attempt to retain their S-League crown this season. But the former Singapore goalkeeper
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      634 37  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@media corp.com.sg HIS year-long ban from international football ends tomorrow, the day his one-year contract with Woodlands Wellington expires. Now Agu Casmir is desperate to be registered with Gombak United. Earlier this month, Today revealed that the player
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      637 38 -AFP After two 1-1 draws with United, Reading go into FA Cup replay with high hopes FA CUP, FIFTH ROUND REPLAY Reading v Man United READING The little town of Nowra in New South Wales, Australia, will be keeping a night-time vigil as their favourite
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      426 38 AGENCIES PRIMERAUGA Barcelona 3 Athletic Bilbao 0 MADRID After a heart-wrench-ing defeat to Liverpool, which followed a debilitating loss to Valencia, Barcelona bounced back to the top of the Primera Liga after thrashing Athletic Bilbao 3-0 on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The win
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      284 39 —AFP Players did not deserve red cards, say clubs LONDON Arsenal and Chelsea have lodged appeals against the red cards handed out to Emmanuel Adebayor and Mikel John Obi during Sunday's League Cup final, the Football Association (FA) confirmed yesterday. Both players were dismissed for violent conduct
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      311 39 —AFP LILLE (France) Lille, whose protest against Manchester United's controversial Champions League winning goal was thrown out by Uefa last week, announced yesterday that they intend to appeal against the decision. The French club are protesting against Ryan Giggs's quickly taken 83rd-minute
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      433 39 —AFP LONDON —John Terry said yesterday he has no memory of the sickening head injury that saw him carried off on a stretcher during Chelsea's 2-1 League Cup Final win against London rivals Arsenal. The Chelsea and England captain was knocked
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