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  • 29 1 TODAY /A=diaCofip MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Friday March 2, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=DJj-\CORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 share your free newspaper Friday March 2, 2007 todayonline.com H
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 203 1 BLOOMBERG THE global sell-off in stocks resumed in the US yesterday after a rise in jobless claims and a lower forecast for semiconductor sales reinforced investor concerns that economic growth may be slowing. Intel, the world's biggest maker of computer chips, and General
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    • 794 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG Tharman explains the need for GST hike, and how fair Budget 2007 is cheekong@media corp.com.sg FOR three days he listened to Members of Parliament hold forth on whether the Goods and Services Tax (GST) really needed to be raised when the Government's coffers
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    • 456 2  -  LEE U-WEN More than half of 2,000 scholars in Civil Service are in teaching service u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg THERE are 2,000 scholars in the Civil Service today and of these, just over half are in the teaching service. If the educators were excluded, one-in-10 graduate civil servants
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    • 298 2  -  -LEEU-WEN Should public money used for scholarships to lure foreigners here be better used to help Singaporeans instead? That was one question posed by Parliamentary Secretary for National Development Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman, who wondered if Singapore truly did suffer a lack of foreign talent. As
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    • 522 3  -  TORCHING LI Resorts World to build 3-lane bridge to Sentosa IR which could cost up to $80m chingli@media corp.com.sg DESPITE some shadows of doubt being cast on its casino license, Genting's Resorts World at Sentosa is going full steam ahead, with the payment of $400 million
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    • 229 3 ONE of the first tasks for the newly appointed Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) chairman Dr Loo Choon Yong will be the search for a new chief executive. Mr Darrell Metzger, who helped transform Sentosa since he joined in 2002, shocked industry players with his
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  • parliament news
    • 438 4  -  LEE U-WEN Employers urged to support, better integrate handicapped into Singapore's workforce u-wen@media corp.com.sg THE disabled community was not forgotten as Parliament wrapped up its debate on this year's Budget yesterday. Two MPs, Dr Teo Ho Pin (BuMt Panjang) and Ms Denise Phua (Jalan Besar
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    • 284 4  -  LEE U-WEN AN OPT-IN scheme has been suggested for the rich in Singapore who want to receive their Goods and Services Tax (GST) credits, which will be distributed later this year. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Marine Parade GRC Member of Parliament Seah
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    • 98 4 We should absolutely not be apologetic about our success. Indonesia is wrong to ban the export of sand to Singapore out of spite. Indonesia should jolly well know that solid bilateral relationships cannot be built on shifting sands. Thailand should know that it should not use Singapore as the
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    • 782 5 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a vibrant campus with over 19,000 undergraduates and 8,500 graduate students. Throw in an increasingly-diverse international student population among the 9,000 young people staying on campus, and there's a special buzz to NTU's residential living experience. Besides acquiring knowledge through a multi-disciplinary curriculum
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  • Singapore news
    • 553 6  -  GRACIA CHIANG Integrated Resort opportunities draw crowds at job fair gracia@mediacorp.com.sg ON THE the opening day of Singapore's largest career and education fair, one of the most popular booths had, ironically, no specific job positions to offer. Just four hours after Career 2007 opened its doors,
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    • 443 6  -  DERRICK A PAULO SHOULD more than 3,000 lawyers come to Singapore in October for a meeting? If some human rights activists in Sweden and Singapore had their way, the lawyers would be made to stay away. Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan has
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    • S'PORESNIPPETS
      • 130 6 -ANSLEYNG A district court has allowed MediaCorp artiste Christopher Lee to leave the country for China to shoot a TV serial. The Malaysian-born actor was accused of injuring a motorcyclist and his pillion in a hit-and-run case in October. He faces one
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      • 58 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Ministry of Education will release the results for the 2007 Joint Admissions Exercise on Tuesday at Bam. Candidates will be informed of their postings by mail on or after that date. They can also call 6691 2131, log on to www.moe.gov.sg/esp/schadm/jae or
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    • 409 6  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE lawyer of former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chief T T Durai yesterday sought to assert that the manner in which $20,000 was paid to a vendor was nothing but proper. Mr Durai was accused of using false papers with the intention to
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    • 449 8  - What's that red label in the TCM shop GRACIA CHIANG Scheme aims to stamp out sale of endangered species products gracia@mediacorp.com.sg BY THE end of this month, the public will be able to tell if a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) shop is selling endangered species products. Under a new voluntary
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    • 443 8  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp.com.sg YOUR poo can take Singapore into the record books or at least that is the aim of the Singapore Cancer Society's (SCS) campaign for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month this year. Looking to achieve a record of 15,000 faecal occult
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    • 169 8  -  DERRICKA PAULO THE Police have identified the person responsible for putting online the videos of two suicide jumpers at Admiralty and Yishun MRT stations in December. An SMRT spokesperson told Today the company is now looking at the findings of the Police investigation, which it received
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    • 192 8 -938 LIVE MORE products have been pulled off supermarket shelves. This time it is trout and salmon from Australia. Specific batches of the Yumi's brand of products are said to be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes a bacterium that affects primarily pregnant women
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    • 302 10  -  DAVID CHEW david.chew@media corp.com.sg A LOCAL edition of one of the world's best-known arts and culture magazines has hit newsstands and five-star hotels here. With its arrival last Wednesday, Singapore joined 17 other cities around the world including Beijing, Shanghai and Mumbai in having its
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    • 530 10  -  MIRAKASHINATH International Furniture Centre at Sungei Kadut set to become Asia's industry hub, revitalise local scene mira@media corp.com.sg SHOPPING for state-of-the-art, designer furniture? Sungei Kadut may not come readily to mind as a hotspot for such pieces, but by September, it may be one of the
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    • 370 10  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg GLOBALISATION is not just reshaping our local economy, but also religiosity. For instance, a new form of evangelical Christianity driven by Filipino migrants is now taking root in Singapore. Muslims and Christians here are also going online to create religious cyber communities.
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    • 972 12  -  THOMAS KOSHY Not a lotto the self-employed, but the scheme could lower the number of unemployed significantly FROM first mention two years ago to a one-off distribution last year, Workfare has now been elevated to a long-term wage supplement scheme for older workers earning less than $1,500
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  • world news
    • 822 14 THE BANGKOK POST Thai Finance Minister wants to write book on his experiences THE following are excerpts from a question-and-answer session by The Bangkok Post and Post Today, with Mr Pridiyathorn Devakula (picture), who resigned on Wednesday as Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister.
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    • 185 14 -AFP A state telecom has blocked a new Thai television channel created by members of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's political party from making its first broadcast yesterday, the station has said. CAT Telecom did not provide People's Television (PTV) (picture) with a link to the
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 59 14 -DPA A grandson of late president Chiang Kai-shek yesterday sued President Chen Shui-bian for libel for calling General Chiang the main culprit in the 1947 massacre of thousands of Taiwanese. Mr John Chiang has demanded compensation of 1 Taiwan dollar ($0.05) and
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      • 74 14 -AP Hong Kong held its first leadership debate yesterday since its handover to China one decade ago, with the incumbent candidate Donald Tsang renewing his pledge to tackle democratic reform in the next five years. He is expected to win another term in March.
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      • 50 14 ■AFP Timor Leste's rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado asked to negotiate with the authorities yesterday as an Australian-led international force surrounded his hideout on the island, but rejected calls to surrender. The rebel is partly blamed for deadly unrest in the country last year.
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      • 69 14 AFP Four people have been killed and another 25 injured in clashes between police and protesters in an Indonesian province. The clashes occurred on Wednesday in the town of Banggai on an island with the same name. It was the third day of street protests
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      • 70 14 -AFP A Malaysian minister yesterday ruled out an inquiry into graft and sexual assault allegations against the nation's top anti-corruption official, and dismissed calls for his suspension. Mr Nazri Abdul Aziz, minister in the Prime Minister's department, said the accusations against the director-general of the
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    • 230 14 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia and Singapore will hold another round of air talks next month to pave the way for a more liberalised policy, reported The Star. This follows discussions between Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy and his Singapore counterpart on the
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    • 271 16  -  SUJADI SISWO sujadi@media corp.com.sg BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Environment ministers from the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) have agreed to clean up their act to stop haze from neighbouring countries polluting the region. Singapore's plan to collaborate directly with a province in
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    • 709 16 -JAKARTA POST EVERY time there is a major transportation accident here, people immediately think of Japan. Many Indonesians wish their officials would follow the deeply rooted tradition of Japanese officials demonstrating their accountability to the public. Japanese ministers or officials often resign when a major incident or
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    • 274 16 BLOOMBERG INDONESIAN Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari has agreed to resume sharing samples from bird-flu patients after being assured by the World Health Organisation that the specimens will not be used for commercial purposes. Indonesia, which has had more human fatalities from the
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    • 242 17 -AFP WASHINGTON The American policy in Iraq following the 2003 invasion was "incompetent, foolish, dubious," said the new US coordinator for Iraq's economic development. Ambassador Timothy Carney told NPR radio that the US policy to exclude Iraqis from governing the country
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    • 518 17 -AFP WASHINGTON After years of scolding Iran, Syria and North Korea, the United States is set to come face-to-face with its sworn foes in a sudden burst of diplomatic activity. But the Bush administration fiercely denies it has undergone an overnight
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    • 249 18 ■AP LONDON More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles yesterday to measure the effects of climate change, using icebreakers, satellites and submarines to study everything from the effect of solar radiation on the polar atmosphere to
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    • 394 18 ■AFP But region has done much to reduce poverty, says United Nations study HANOI The Asia-Pacific region has done much to fight poverty but no country is on track to meet a set of United Nations-agreed goals that range from stemming
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    • 501 20 -AFP Special privileges for foreigners ends with unified tax rates BEIJING People often say China's legislature does not matter. Tell that to foreign companies, which will see their tax bill rise by a collective US$5 billion ($7.6 billion) after the nation's lawmakers gather
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    • 321 20 -AP SHANGHAI Tens of millions of Chinese migrant workers are becoming an "urban underclass", held down by economic exploitation and residency rules that deny them access to medical, housing and education benefits, Amnesty International said in a report yesterday. As many as 200 million people
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    • 405 22 AP NEW YORK New York declared the n-word off limits to all races in a purely symbolic resolution prompted by the common, casual use of the slur in hip-hop music, comedy and street slang. "People are using it out of context,"
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    • 376 22 AGENCIES 'Why I Hate Blacks' columnist suspended SAN FRANCISCO -An American magazine Asian Week has apologised for a racist tirade against African-Americans by one of its writers who had said blacks are "easy to coerce". The San Francisco-based publication aimed at AsianAmericans said it had
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    • 178 22 AFP WASHINGTON Virginia's decision to become the first American state to express remorse for slavery may pave the way for other states in a country that has never officially apologised for enslaving Africans and their descendants. Virginia, which profited from
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    • 457 24 AGENCIES Republican supports permanent tax cuts WASHINGTON Influential Republican John McCain has said he will run for the White House in the 2008 race. The Arizona senator chose the platform of comedian David Letterman's Late Show programme to launch his presidential bid. "I
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    • 215 24 -AFP Senator John McCain's long-expected entry into the presidential race sees him lagging behind ex-New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, his top rival for the Republican nomination. Mr Giuliani was pulling in 44 per cent of support, compared to 34 per cent on Jan 19, according to
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    • 186 26 -AFP LOS ANGELES Authorities have confiscated Paris Hilton's Bentley after the celebrity socialite was caught driving on a suspended license. Police stopped the hotel heiress on Tuesday night as she was driving without headlights on, said Sergeant Duane Allen of the Los Angeles sheriff's department.
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    • 367 26 AFP Victoria Beckham to star in reality TV show LOS ANGELES Victoria Beckham is to be the star of a new TV reality show chronicling her and footballer husband David's move to Los Angeles, according to Variety showbiz magazine. Hollywood's industry Bible said
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    • 181 26 MIAMI In the latest twist in the legal tangle over the body of ex-Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (picture), a Florida appeals court has upheld a ruling that the controversial star be buried in the Bahamas. The funeral will reportedly be held today. "The trial court
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  • Voices
    • 927 28 Enabling Masterplan roadmap will help the disabled cushion bumps in Spores ageing society coffee with PROFESSOR TAN SERKIAT 61, Sing Health group chief executive officer sub-committee chairperson on community, residential and caregiving support for the Enabling Masterplan steering group HIS first answer was a "no",
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    • 694 28 in the crowd MADAM LAU DEEP HAN 89, has a mentally-ill adopted daughter WHAT will happen to my kid when I die? Finding an answer to the question weighing on the minds of many parents with disabled children was one of
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    • 216 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I MINNESOTA TWIN STUDIES Some absolutely fascinating studies of identical twins raised apart had been going on for many years at the University of Minnesota. More than 100 pairs were identified who were separated nearthetime of birth for a variety of reasons
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    • 392 30  -  PAUL CHAN POH HOI Waiting time display doesn't work Letter from THE recent survey conducted by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) reflects a perennial problem the waiting time to get a taxi. The measures implemented do not help to make things better. Displaying waiting
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      254 31  -  KAREN LEE Bad jams on the expressway, even after peak hours Letter from I REFER to the letter "When will we see an end to the CTE traffic jams?" (Feb 27). It is true that traffic congestion on the CTE is a perennial problem, even during offpeak hours.
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    • 209 31  -  SEETKINGHWEE Letter from THE Electronic Road Pricing system does nothing more than push traffic flow from one road to another. The volume is still there. My experience has taught me to pay the ERP at the CTE in the evening, rather than
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    • 255 31  -  NALEEZA EBRAHIM Letter from Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority I REFER to Mr Lim Boon Hee's letter, "Taxi waiting time display doesn't solve the real problem" (Feb 23). The purpose of posters displaying the indicative waiting times at a taxi stand
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    • 787 34  -  Tabitha Wang BUDGET TAITAI newsOn ewstoday.com. sg When gambling, dream big but keep your bets small... I HAVE a secret that I'm hiding from my husband. Every once in a while, I go into my neighbourhood Singapore Pools outlet and buy a $3 lottery or put
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 104 34  -  SIAO KIAN KIONG I refer to the article, "A plea for those who miss out" (Feb 28), which called for housewives/househusbands to receive benefits under the recently-announced Budget. Being a homemaker is a self-centred decision, made only for the benefit of one's family. On the other
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      • 166 34  -  LIMYAOHO I strongly believe in the Government's stance of promoting entrepreneurship by encouraging innovation and risk-tak-ing. But when it comes to helping Singapore win an Olympic medal, I feel that what would count most is not being done monetary rewards and other incentives are
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    • 199 36  -  LEE KIAO HOONG Letter from IT WAS recently proposed that newborn babies be covered by Medishield or Medisave-approved insurance plans. I hope that Minister Khaw Boon Wan will also look into the medical cost for parents whose newborns are admitted into the Neonatal
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    • 306 36  -  ALVIN HOON Estate duty should be raised, not abolished Letter from I REFER to the article, "Death and Taxes" (Mar 1) and, in particular, the position adopted by Phillip Overmyer of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. First, I must agree with his comments that the
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    • 251 36  -  WENDY D BOKHORST-HENG Letter from THERE have been increased calls for more help to be extended to couples who would love to have children but for various medical reasons cannot do so naturally. Adding to the various suggestions for financial assistance for processes such
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    • SHORTTAKES
      • 133 38  -  ISHWAR MAHTANI: Recently, I was diagnosed with a heart problem and had to go for an angioplasty. As the bill amounted to nearly $20,000,1 was glad that I had taken a critical illness policy with AIA more than 20 years ago. However, to
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      • 144 38  -  LAWRENCE SEOW KUAN YONG My son passed his driving test in December last year. He is required by lawto display a provisional triangular sign on the front and back of windscreen for one year. Presumably, its purpose is to alert other drivers that he is
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    • 423 38  -  CHIAHERNKENG Let them live on their own if that's what they desire Letter from THE letter "Don't relegate the elderly to old-age homes give three-generation families a chance" (Feb 28) by Ms Sonal Merchant makes me wonder if she missed my letter's point I was
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    • 455 40  -  CHOW PENN NEE The offer to buy the remaining shares of Stats ChipPAC seen as a U-turn for Temasek pennnee@media corp.com.sg IN A surprise move, Temasek Holdings has made a $2.65-billion offer to buy up the rest of chip testing firm Stats ChipPAC that
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    • 248 40 BLOOMBERG Global semiconductor sales will rise less than expected this year because of falling demand for personal computers and mobile phones, researcher Gartner Inc said. The chip industry's sales will increase 6.7 per cent to $276.4 billion ($422 billion) this year, Connecticut-based
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    • 170 40 Banyan Tree Holdings said its fourth-quarter profit grew 77 per cent to $14.7 million in the three months to December, as more tourists visited its properties in Thailand and the sale of more homes. Sales jumped 58 per cent to $114 million. For the year. Banyan Tree will pay
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    • 310 40 BLOOMBERG PSA International, the world's secondlargest container port operator, plans to develop and operate a total of four container terminals in India, Panama and Turkey, to tap rising world trade. The terminals will have a total of 10 berths and the capacity to handle a
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      • 142 41 DOW JONES The ST Index fell for the fourth straight day, down 11.57 points, or 0.4 per cent, to close at 3,092.58. But this was a milder drop than Wednesday's fall of 127.87 points. Traders said the mood was still uncertain a day after the STI saw one of
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      • 53 41 Nikkei 225 *****.51 -150.01 -0.80 HK Hang Seng *****.00 -304.01 Australia ASX200 5810.20 -22.30 -1.55 -0.38 Korea Cnmp 1417.34 -37.20 Thailand SET 080.00 +3.47 -2.50 +0.51 Jakarta Cnmp 1750.40 +18.51 +1.00 Phils Cnmp 3100.12 +122.07 Shenzhen B 480.75 -4.48 +4.00 -0.01 Mumbai Sensex *****.55 +221.40 +1.71 Malaysia KLCI
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      • 34 41 SGX, I Bloomberg Information provided by USS 0.6554 UK£ 0.3340 Yen 77.447 HKS 5.1199 RM 2.2982 Euro 0.4957 Rupiah 5998.7 Baht 22.124 Peso 31.830 AS 0.8325 Indian Rs 29.012 Yuan 5.0749
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    • 307 41 -AFP STOCKS in Asia closed mainly lower yesterday, as the aftershocks from the global stock market rout reverberated around the region, pushing Tokyo and Shanghai back into negative territory. However, falls were limited by gains on Wall Street and comments by Federal Reserve chairman Ben
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    • 405 41  -  CHRISTIE LOH Stock data display was normal yesterday after Wednesday's slowdown christie@media corp.com.sg AFTER Wednesday's slowdown in stock data display, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) is now studying ways to prevent a recurrence. Key to more glitch-free trading is an upgraded system that will be installed
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    • 174 41 938 LIVE THE much heralded tie-up between the Singapore Exchange and its Malaysian counterpart, Bursa Malaysia, slated to take place this year has been delayed yet again. Chief executive of Bursa Malaysia, Yusli Mohamed Yusoff, told reporters in Singapore that it would probably take
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    • 342 41  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@media corp.com.sg IT is the first of its kind in Asia, and organisers are hoping the Singapore International Waqf Conference 2007 next week will help Singapore move a step closer towards tapping global opportunities in the Islamic finance sector.
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      • 324 43  -  MIRAKASHINATH BLOOMBERG Reduced expansion here due to foreign competition: Analyst mira@mediacorp.com.sg MANUFACTURERS here are hiring less, as production fell slightly last month due to fewer exports and new orders for electronics. According to the latest Purchasing Managers' Index, which tracks manufacturing activity, the reading fell
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      • 171 43 SINGAPORE-LISTED Pacific Century Regional Developments (PCRD) is selling its Hong Kong insurer to Fortis the biggest financial services group in Belgium for HK$3.5 billion ($685 million). Fortis said yesterday that it was offering HK$B.lB a share for 50.5 per cent of Pacific Century Insurance
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      • 174 44 ■AFP TRADE between Singapore and the United States rose 19 per cent in 2006 from the year before, the second fastest growth rate among Washington's major trading partners. According to the American Chamber of Commerce yesterday, two-way trade totalled U5542.5 billion ($65 billion), boosted
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      • 490 44 -AFP Company to launch Islamic banking services in region DUBAI'S Emirates Bank is to formally open a representative office in Singapore today in a bid to capture a share of the growing trade between Asia and the Middle East. Company executives said the bank,
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      • 875 47  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE India's budget ends the tax holiday its thriving software companies have enjoyed TWICE a day, software engineers working at the technology hub on the outskirts of Bangalore undertake a journey thatkeeps getting longer. The boom in outsourcing, which has led to
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      • 200 48 BLOOMBERG THE Macquarie Bank-led buyout of Qantas Airways has cleared one hurdle by winning antitrust approval, then promptly run into another as a parliamentary committee moves to scrutinise the Asll.l-bil-lion ($13.3-billion) deal. Yesterday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement
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      • 381 48 -BLOOMBERG Excess housing inventory is being reduced quickly, says Greenspan HIS predictions sent chills down investors' spines earlier this week. Yesterday, Mr Alan Greenspan, whose words were carefully dissected when he was Federal Reserve Chairman, had more reassuring words about the world's largest economy.
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    • 374 50  -  Ross Wallace Latinos, Asians add fresh colour to TV, with Ugly Betty leading the charge WITH her "brace face", granny glasses, '80s hairstyle and dependably cringeworthy wardrobe choices, Betty Suarez is an unlikely trendsetter. And yet in the months since her debut last September on
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    • 36 50 It's more of a trickle than a flood, but Asian and Latino actors are slowly coming onto the American TV radar. ROSS WALLACE picks a few faces that deserve to be better known.
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      1257 51 15 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively, of the US population, with African-Americans accounting for another 15 per cent Civil rights advocates have been working for decades to promote more ethnic diversity both behind the scenes and in front of the camera and Ugly Betty's arrival has been welcomed
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    • 479 52  -  Felix Cheong perately bored housewife getting it on with her neighbour and Notes on a Scandal, about a teacher risking her bourgeois marriage for a fling with an under-aged student. Even the thriller, Hannibal Rising, which began its reign of terror yesterday, contains a scene ripe
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    • 357 53  -  AMELYNN LIONG Punk outfit Saw Loser ink deal with Universal Music Japan plus@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE-BASED pop-punk band Saw Loser should probably starting boning up on their Japanese. The group made up of Australian vocalist Sam Cooper, his drummer brother Matt, Japanese guitarist Masashi Kimura and American
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    • 336 53  -  -WINSONTEO HONESTY is over-rated. At least that's the opinion of Sylvia Kwan, the third contestant voted off Survivor: Fiji. Reeling from several consecutive defeats, Kwan's tribe Ravu took a tepid view of her frank apology for clumsily slipping in the third
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      620 54  -  Neil Humphreys Forget the other bad sequels, Rocky Balboa is a fitting end to Rocky-Adrian love story FILMREVIEW by Rocky Balboa WHAT is often lost in the sea of inferior sequels is that the original Rocky was not a boxing movie. The 1976 classic, and a deserving Oscarwinner
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      299 54  -  Jeanine Tan bv Volver THERE are times when director Pedro Almodovar lets his camera lens linger on lead actress Penelope Cruz's body, from an aerial shot of the top of her breasts peeking out of her blouse as she washes the dishes, to a closeup of her behind as
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      301 55  -  Justin Cheong AS WITH many films in Hollywood that are "inspired by a true story", The Pursuit of Happyness based on the rags-to-riches story of stockbroker Chris Gardner is nothing short of, well, inspirational. At least it probably will be to people who worship the almighty dollar. Chris is
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      152 56  -  Jeanine Tan by The lives of Others CALL this the film with a perfect ending, the kind of ending that makes you realise, with sudden clarity, the power of film. Set in the German Democratic Republic before the Berlin Wall dividing East and West Germany came down, The Lives
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    • 379 56  -  Felix Cheong Hannibal Rising turns one of cinema's most fearsome killers into a campy, two-bit clown FILMREVIEW by Hannibal Rising SOME things are best appreciated when left permanently in the dark. Which is why Hannibal Rising tanks even before it starts. One of several horror prequels
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    • 509 61 —AFP Judge says former Melbourne Cup-winning jockey 'breached contract' HONG KONG Australian champion jockey Chris Munce was sentenced to 30 months in jail yesterday after he was convicted of conspiring to trade tips in return for bets. Presiding judge Kevin Browne said he was
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    • 215 61 -AFP KARACHI Pakistan pace bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were ruled out of the World Cup yesterday in a move that cricket chiefs insisted was due to injury and not doping. Akhtar has been suffering from knee and hamstring problems and Asif has an elbow injury.
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    • 395 61 AGENCIES ORLANDO A potentially huge steroid scandal could be brewing in the United States. An illicit steroid distribution network, which may be responsible for Internet sales of performanceenhancing drugs nationwide, has been targeted by an upstate New York prosecutor. Former heavyweight champion Evander
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    • 681 64  -  JOSE RAYMOND Safsa withdraw clearance for skipper Baihakki and Tengku to play 2007 season jose@media corp.com.sg THE 2007 S-League season kicks off on Sunday and the Young Lions' first match in their campaign is scheduled for next Friday, against Chinese side Liaoning Guangyuan at the Jalan
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    • 780 65  -  DARREN LAI Newly wed and settled, Moroccan hitman Laakad eyes glory with Woodlands darren@mediacorp.com.sg HE BANGED in 23 goals in the S-League last year to emerge as the top scorer. So impressive was Abdelhadi Laakad's rookie season in the S-League that the Woodlands Wellington
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    • 86 65 WOODLANDS BOOT ROOM Chairman: Francis Gomez Team manager: Lawrence Lav Head coach: Jorg Steinebrunner Sports trainer: Jeffrey Tham Fitness trainer: Joseph D'Angelus Prime League coach: S Sivarajan Club achievements 2007: Sing Tel League Cup champions New signings: Bah Mamadou (Home United) Kamal Nasir (Home United) Ahmad Latiff (Tampines Rovers)
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