Today, 4 May 2007, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 TODAY /A=DJj-\CORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Friday May 4, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon The rush to push deals through...
    670 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG Pressure grows as prices soar, new en bloc rules set to kick in cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg WITH residents increasingly holding out for higher payouts as estates around the island continue to fetch record reserve prices in en bloc sales, allegations have emerged of
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    Fair defence, before axe falls
    625 1  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@media corp.com.sg YOU'RE fired. Words every employee dreads to hear but now a set of new guidelines aim to ensure that if a worker has to be given the axe, it will at least be done in a fair and responsible manner. Recommendations
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Landmark ruling for minorities
      412 2 -AP Hindu hubby, Muslim wife but Islamic court gives father custody of children KUALA LUMPUR In a landmark decision for minority rights in Malaysia, Islamic authorities yesterday gave a Hindu man married to a Muslim woman custody of their seven children. The decision was announced at
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    • Article
      FAREWELL, FAITH? THEN BYE BYE, BENEFITS: DR M
      160 2 If Malay Malaysians want to renounce their Islamic faith currently all but impossible they should be allowed to do so, said former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. But these people must also be prepared to give up their special rights associated with
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      DBS letter to Iranian clients a 'mistake'
      262 3 AN ATTEMPT by DBS to comply with United Nations sanctions against Iran has upset the bank's Iranian customers living in Singapore. In a letter dated April 25, DBS said that in light of the UN move and "the heightened risk associated with dealing
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      Lock icon Google@SG
      432 3  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Online search company opens regional office here hedirman@media corp.com.sg ONLINE search company Google opened its regional office in Singapore yesterday, putting paid to months of speculation. It is the firm's first foray into South-east Asia, which boasts a market of half-a-bil-lion people. The company will initially focus
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      206 2 They say unity is cruci At IKEA 8, diversi At IKEA, we believe in offering diversity in many ways because our business is and pillowcases for example. We have a wide selection of eye-catching styles, on it'! Choose from a variety of smart furnishings that brings in harmony to your
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      197 3 al to Singapore's fabric, ty is vital to ours. to take care of every detail of your sleeping needs. Take our affordable quilt covers colours, fabrics and sizes, so when it conies to deciding, you won't need to 'sleep homes, and visit your IKEA store during Bedroom Weeks. Because no
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Cancer survivor dies in fire
      651 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Two workers killed, two hurt in ExxonMobil refinery blaze in Jurong weekeat@media corp.com.sg GENERAL worker Tan Kong Lam (picture) was supposed to have the night off on Wednesday. Just after 6pm, he got a call from his employer asking him if he
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      NOT A RECIPE TO WIN HEARTS OVER
      803 6  -  SIEWKUMHONG More intrinsic appeal needed to woo overseas locals back I WENT to Singapore Day in New York a couple of weeks back. I was there for work, was with a Singaporean friend living in the city who wanted to go, and eventually
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      Only six captains flying at VP level
      352 8  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg AFTER the first day of the arbitration hearing between Singapore Airlines and its pilots' union, one newspaper had this headline: "Boeing 777 captains get higher pay than SIA vice-presidents". Yesterday, as both parties made their final submissions, the
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      Lock icon SIA pumps up surcharges again
      330 8 -AGENCIES Hike due to 'sustained' rise in recent jet fuel prices, will kick in from Wednesday FOR the second time in just over a month, Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its subsidiary, Silk Air, are raising their fuel surcharges. Citing the "sustained escalation" in jet fuel
      -AGENCIES; MCT  -  330 words
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      New entrant for ElderShield tender
      264 8  -  -SHERALYNTAY A NEW player, Aviva Life Insurance, has stepped into the running as a possible third insurer for Elder Shield. It joined incumbents Great Eastern Life and NTUC Income as tenders for the provision of the Government's severe-dis-ability insurance scheme, which closed on Monday. According
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      US-Singapore trade has room to grow
      213 8  -  CHRISTIE LOH IN WASHINGTON DC christie@media corp.com.sg ALREADY at a 'Very sizeable" U5542.5 billion ($64.8 billion), trade between Singapore and the United States has even more room to grow, leaders of both countries said yesterday. "We will continue growing that... and creating jobs for
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      Fight terror with community cooperation
      277 8  -  -NAZRYBAHRAWI THE fact that regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) now has an assassination squad, and that the Abu Sayyaf in southern Philippines recently beheaded road workers, suggest that terrorism remains very much a threat And countries in the region may want to involve community
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      IN HOPE OF A CLEANER WORLD
      121 10  -  DAPHNE CHUAH Named Hopeo7,tms eco-car, designed by a team from the National University of Singapore (NUS), is bound for the European Shell Eco-Marathon to be held in France from May 11 to 13. The 3m-long three-wheeled car was developed by five third-year mechanical engineering
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      Lock icon 'Dragon' fumbles his last shot
      524 10  -  ANSLEY NG Long pauses in defendant's final presentation on Serangoon murder case ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE judge gave him time, and ensured he had pen and paper in prison to prepare the final presentation of his case. Yet, given this last chance to argue why he should
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      Quick off the Green Mark
      255 10  -  SHERALYNTAY sheralyn@media corp. com. sg IT HAS systems that adjust the amount of lighting in the building according to the brightness of the environment Condensed water from air-conditioning is used for irrigation. And unwanted computer chips are recycled into signage. With such measures in place,
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      Lock icon Kidney patients keen on work, but...
      558 12  -  SHERALYNTAY They must first fight employers' misconceptions sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THE irony for social worker Tey Li Li is that while medical advancements have made it possible for her young charges stricken with kidney failure in childhood to survive the disease and grow into adulthood,
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon AN MBA FROM NUS IN ONE YEAR
        86 12 938 LIVE A Masters in business administration (MBA) degree can now be obtained in one year at the National University of Singapore (NUS), after the NUS Business School made changes to the core modules in its curriculum. The revised curriculum is more intense
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        Lock icon SERIAL BURGLARY SUSPECT NABBED
        115 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The police have arrested a 23-year-old Malaysian man suspected of being involved in several break-ins at the Woodgrove Estate last month. On April 10 and 11, five houses were broken into, and valuables amounting to about $4,000 in value were reported stolen. The police
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  • world news
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      Lock icon JI takes aim at Indon police
      442 14 -AFP It has switched tactics from killing Westerners: Report JAKARTA The Jemaah Islamiyah 01) still has more than 900 members and remains a threat despite police efforts to squash it, a report said yesterday. In its latest report, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said
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      Lock icon Indonesia Cabinet shake-up 'in days'
      195 14 ■DPA JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to make changes to his Cabinet "within days" amid dwindling public support for the government Mr Yudhoyono has come under pressure from political parties in Parliament to replace ineffective ministers and to create the strong, coherent
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      Lock icon Karimun quarry workers' fate uncertain
      400 14  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg THE fate of about 400 Indonesian workers from a Singapore-owned granite quarry in Karimun hangs in the air as their weeklong stay-at-home work order to end today has not been lifted. To resolve the issue, Riau Islands governor Ismeth Abdullah and Karimun regency
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      Lock icon Garuda, pilot fined for negligence over activist's death
      274 14 -DPA JAKARTA Garuda Indonesia has been found negligent after a prominent human rights activist was found murdered aboard a flight to Europe. Mr Munir Said Thalib died on board the flight to Amsterdam in September 2004 after drinking juice laced with arsenic.
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      Lock icon Time for change at 60?
      314 16 -AFP Japanese PM renews call to rewrite pacifist Constitution on anniversary TOKYO Japan marked the 60th anniversary of its pacifist Constitution yesterday amid protests and debate over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's renewed call to revise the document to reflect the nation's growing global influence. Mr
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      Lock icon Lanka airport to shut at night after raids
      226 16 AFP COLOMBO Sri Lanka will close its only international airport at night from next week following a spate of nocturnal bombing raids by Tamil Tiger aircraft. The Bandaranaike International Airport, which shares a runway with an adjoining military base, will close between
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      Lock icon Iraq gets five-year global rescue plan
      186 16 AFP SHARM EL-SHEIKH (Egypt) In the biggest diplomatic push to solve Iraq's woes since the 2003 United States-led invasion, a five-year plan aimed at stabilising the country was overwhelmingly adopted yesterday at a key conference in Egypt. "The resolution to support Iraq and to
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      Lock icon It's MySpace now: Obama
      436 18 -AP WASHINGTON At the cost of losing 160,000 friends and being accused of "bullying", Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign has taken over control of the MySpace page listed under his name, on the popular social networking site. The case highlights the struggle between campaigners' desire to
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      Lock icon Scribes' plea to recognise bloggers
      191 18 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's journalist union has called on the government to recognise blogging as a new medium of information, amid recent proposals by some government ministers to impose curbs on bloggers. Ms Norila Daud, president of the National Union of Journalists Malaysia, said yesterday
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      Lock icon 100,000 join anti-Olmert rally
      286 20 DPA TEL AVIV At least 100,000 Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv after sunset yesterday, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert because of a harsh report criticising his management of last summer's Lebanon war. "Resign!" demanded a huge white banner spanned across the city's central
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      Lock icon Obama gets Secret Service protection
      119 20 -AFP WASHINGTON US presidential candidate Barack Obama has been placed under Secret Service protection, though officials declined to say yesterday whether the unusual move was made in response to a specific threat A team of bodyguards was assigned to the Illinois senator, who hopes to
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        Lock icon 'KISSES' JUDGE TRANSFERRED
        89 20 -AGENCIES THE judge who issued obscenity charges against Richard Gere, for publicly kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, has been transferred from his job. Officials say it was a routine transfer. The Times of India reported on Thursday that Judge Dinesh Gupta, who had issued an arrest order
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        Lock icon MYANMAR PM BACK HOME
        82 20 -AFP MYANMAR'S ailing Prime Minister Soe Win returned to Yangon yesterday after spending at least seven weeks in a Singapore hospital, witnesses at the airport said. Authorities have insisted that Mr Soe Win is in good health and was merely in Singapore for medical checks. But
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      Lock icon This kiss, this touch
      368 22 -AFP Iran's President under fire; accused of'indecency' TEHRAN Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is being accused of "indecency" after he publicly embraced and kissed the hand an elderly woman who used to be his teacher in school. At a ceremony on Tuesday, ahead of Iranian teachers' day,
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      Lock icon IRAN EX-NUCLEAR NEGOTIATOR ARRESTED ON 'SECURITY' CHARGE
      163 22 -AFP TEHRAN- A former Iranian nuclear negotiator from the reformist presidency of Mr Mohammad Khatami has been arrested on accusations apparently linked to national security. Mr Hossein Moussavian, part of a moderate negotiating team that served until 2005, was arrested for "security reasons"
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      Lock icon QUEEN TO ATTEND AMERICA'S 400TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
      128 24 -AP Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband will visit the United States starting Thursday to help mark the 400 th anniversary of Jamestown, Engjand's first permanent settlement in America. One of the places the royal couple will see is historic Williamsburg (picture),
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      Lock icon The growing Dow dilemma
      492 24 —AGENCIES Potential lawsuits if it rejects News Corp buyout bid, political backlash if it accepts NEW YORK-DowJones could face a flood of shareholder lawsuits if it rejects a buyout bid from News Corporation and its shares tumble, legal and governance experts said. This comes as signs
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        Lock icon ARROYO'S HUSBAND TO WITHDRAW LIBEL CHARGES
        100 24 -DPA The ailing husband of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said yesterday that he would withdraw all libel charges that he filed against more than 40 journalists as "a gesture of peace" after surviving a high-risk heart surgery. Mr Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo, 60,
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      Lock icon A ROYAL TONGUE-LASHING, BUT SARKOZY STAYS CALM
      298 26 AFP RIGHT-WINGER Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist rival Segolene Royal staged an often bad-tempered televised debate on Wednesday that could have a crucial effect on France's presidential vote. Facing each other across a white table, Ms Royalwho trails in opinion polls ahead of Sunday's
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      Lock icon Ties with US a key card
      515 26 -AFP PARIS Ms Segolene Royal draws cheers when she declares that she is in no hurry to shake United States President George W Bush's hand while Mr Nicolas Sarkozy gets nods of approval when he says Europe must be free of US influence. Attacking
      -AFP  -  515 words
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      Tighter regulations for the registration of charities needed
      176 28  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from READING the report, "The Big Charity Chop" (May 3), I was enraged by the mismanagement of some organisations, especially when funds raised have not been channelled towards helping the disadvantaged. What really irked me was that
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      All for the pursuit of wealth
      561 28  -  AARON HO CHIENKWOK Social effects take backseat to economic gains while considering new policies Letter from MUCH has been said concerning Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's recent comments regarding the possible liberalising of laws with regards to homosexuality. The purpose of my writing is
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      Barriers mar mums' return to workforce
      227 28  -  LEEYUELI Letter from I APPLAUD Ms Yvonne Wong for her letter, "Have a mum-friendly economy" (May 2). This is an issue that has been all talk and discussion by various ministries and communities but nothing concrete has actually surfaced. I quit my full-time job
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      More MRT lines, home offices the way forward
      222 31  -  ONGUPHUA Letter from I AGREE with Mr Tan Kin Lian ("Alternatives to the Downtown line", May 2) that there should be an increase in the capacity of current public transportation to meet the surging transportation demands of the expanding economy. At the
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      Lock icon No time to dilly-dally
      442 31  -  RADHASKHOO Measures must be taken to bring about an en bloc sale once majority consent is given Letter from Head (Corporate Communications), Ministry of Law MS LUCY Huang, in the letter "STB should offer protection" (April 19), says that the Strata Titles Board (STB) is being
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      Lock icon SHOP AND SAVE
      833 33  -  Tabitha Wang HAI Jl Jrt/^7lriAl Jl J^^^■^^^^J^^'^^l J j I want all my investments to be pretty ones BUDGET TAITAI news@newstoday.com.sg A BANK officer once told me that despite all the innovative ways to invest money these days, Singaporean women still prefer their Save-As-You-Earn (SAVE) account. I
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      263 34  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY A TRIBUTE TO UNCLE WILLIS I want to pay tribute today to a good manwho happened to be my uncle Dr Willis B Dobson. He earned his PhD in Shakespearean English at the University of Texas and served for more than 40
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      Widen no-smoking rule at bus stops
      198 34  -  M LUKSHUMAYEH Letter from I APPLAUD the National Environment Agency (NEA) for zoning bus stops around the island as no-smoking areas. By and large, people do observe the rule. But regretfully some people sit or stand under the shelter of the bus stop and
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        358 34  -  TRINATAN Letter from WHAT happens on non-Bring Your Own Bag Days (BYOBD)? Yesterday morning, I visited the NTUC Fair Price supermarket outlet in Rochor Centre to buy a reusable shopping bag. Upon entering the supermarket, I headed to the cashier area, thinking
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      233 34  -  DAVID SOHPOHHUAT Letter from OF LATE much has been said about implementing "means testing" and solving the bed shortage problem faced by Government hospitals. Based on my past experience and observations, our Government hospitals may need to review their operations in conjunction with
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      44 28 ISKANPER: TOR AID /to Heup THO-oe poop. £.hildb.£n\ VIN AFp.|£A IS TPANSPOP-TATION. J> fieLL \SOM6TrtIN6, ?>TF-ON6, AND V\ Ne5D T0 l<S>e EKAMDER. SGcinemas.COM J—~-~^l NO TIMETO DILLY-DALLY Measures must be taken to bring about an en bloc sale once majority consent is given jjj
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      196 31 k ■ti^JrlinlifftJirtlnir For 43 years SIM has been entrusted with the development of Singapore's human capital. An alumni of over 73,500 have graduated from our programmes to create better prospects for themselves. In a knowledge-based economy, a relevant education is a career catalyst. Last year, more than 20,300 students chose
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      374 36 34 Tin /C/OOQ7 10/5/2007 See in store poster for details. hbh iSfi #i«i B®^ f.^»> |> ■mI W I Bfl -■-SLjgjgS^B i lUhb^m*. "''S^i§£is J Byr Advertised Offer B^^HMbJsS SrWr^B 9^9^m HW .^fll H*fl also available at EVL^I i^^ B^^. .^^tf k9 P/ Fair Price \k Fair Price outlets: Bukit
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      405 37 —I^l 11 4/5/2007-10/5/2007 Seeinstorepo3teftordetailsFair Price AMK Hub, Choa Chu Kang Outlets Tampines Mall if Si If if Time 12pm to 9pm A^^£f/ J/« Date 05 May-06 May P Hb^<Z///////f 1Q Ulau 9fl Mou iV RtMaLffr ff B m Mn B I a May &U May L^£ JJ m m m
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      556 38  -  TORCHING LI Russian group keen tobuySTTelemedia stake in Indon telco chingli@media corp.com.sg A RUSSIAN conglomerate seems determined to wrest Temasek subsidiary ST Telemedia's (STT) stake in Indonesia's second-largest telecommunications company, Indosat, through any means possible. According to Tempo, an Indonesian newspaper that has been reporting on
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      273 38 CHANNEL NEWSASIA CHANNEL NEWSASIA CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore's Joint Asian Derivatives Exchange (Jade) plans to launch a United States dollar-denominated crude palm oil contract on June 6. The futures contract will be settled with physical delivery at the ports of Belawan and Dumai in Indonesia. Jade is a joint venture
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        4 38 ST Index 3,450.64 +32.83
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        22 38 Digiland ChinaEntSp FHTK Jasper Sapphire 0.050 +0.020 +66.7 803.409 0.015 +0.005 +50.0 565.628 0.025 -561.974 0.025 -453.989 0.035 -359.074
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        22 38 DBS SGA *****8 0.060+100.0 Digiland W08Q116 0.040 +100.0 UOBBNP *****1 0.010+100.0 Digiland 0.050 +66.7 DBS SGA *****7 0.140 +55.6
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        20 38 Gold US$/oz 675.10 Silver US$/oz 13.34 Platinum US$/oz 1,299.10 Rubber cents/kg 355.00 Palm oil RM/tonne 2400.00 Brent US$/barrel 65.95
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        24 38 UOBDB *****9 0.040 UOB DBS *****9 0.010 OCBC Bk BNP*****0 0.035 -66.7 -50.0 -41.7 ICBCRB *****8 0.015 CharteredMER***** 0.040 -40.0 -38.5
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        28 38 uss UK£ Yen HKS RM Euro 0.6566 0.3295 78.894 5.1353 2.2463 0.4826 Rupiah 5940.8 Baht 21.504 Peso 31.245 AS 0.7959 Indian Rs 27.025 Yuan 5.0574
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        90 38 -AFP SINGAPORE share prices powered to a new closing high yesterday, fuelled by another record Wall Street performance overnight, dealers said. The ST Index rose 32.83 points, or 0.96 per cent, to 3,450.64 while 6.04 billion shares worth $2.99 billion were traded. Gainers led losers 477 to 377 with
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        49 38 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 HK Hang Seng *****.58 +293.09 +1.44 Australia ASX200 6245.60 +7.90 +0.13 Korea Camp 1559.86 +6.56 +0.42 Thailand SET 709.91 +4.44 +0.63 Jakarta Camp 2025.64 +17.08 +0.85 Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex *****.21 +205.84 +1.48 Malaysia KLCI 1342.79 +20.54 +1.55 TIGER AIRWAYS
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      Lock icon Tiger's Aussie arm to be Melbourne-based
      274 38 -AGENCIES BUDGET carrier Tiger Airways, which is 49-per-cent owned by Singapore Airlines, is setting up its Australian headquarters in Melbourne, in the state of Victoria. Tiger expects to carry about 2 million passengers in Australia in its first year, the carrier said yesterday in
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        174 40 938 LIVE BLOOMBERG The developer of the Marina Bay Financial Centre (MBFC) has awarded more than $700 million of contracts for the first phase of the waterfront site. BFC Development said the main contractor for the two commercial buildings in the first phase is a consortium of Kajima Overseas
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        Manufacturing sector dips
        336 40  -  JOSEPH YADAO Slowing global demand spurs caution joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg WHAT goes up must come down. After 12 consecutive months of expansion, Singapore's manufacturing sector, feeling the effects of a slowing global demand, contracted in April. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for April registered a reading of 49.7,
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        436 42  -  JOHNSONCHOO Ascendas plans $118 m food manufacturing facility johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg TO MEET the booming demand from the food industry, Ascendas is investing $118 million to build its first food manufacturing and warehousing facility in Singapore. And in another first the business space provider will sell the
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        222 42 BLOOMBERG NEPTUNE Orient Lines' APL and nine other shipping lines plan to charge customers more for moving cargo to Asia from the United States through the Panama Canal, to meet higher fees charged by the canal's operator. The 10-member Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement
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        502 44 -AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan will offer about RMI6 billion ($7 billion) to buy all the publicly held shares in his company Maxis, the country's No lmobile phone company, bankers said yesterday. In Malaysia's largest corporate deal so far
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        341 47 BLOOMBERG UNITED States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said it would take more than a stronger Chinese currency to reduce the record trade deficit between the US and China. "I don't think there is much they can do with the currency
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        150 47 -BLOOMBERG CITIGROUP raised 1.45 trillion yen ($18.3 billion) in Japan's largest syndicated loan to fund its purchase of Nikko Cordial Corp, said two bankers who were involved in the transaction. Mizuho Financial Group agreed to lend 220 billion yen to Citigroup,
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      580 48  -  FELIX CHEONG Stars from the mainland are increasingly giving their Hong Kong counterparts a run for their money in the Chinese movie stakes plus@newstoday.com.sg Last year, there was Zhou Xun in The Banquet, Xv Jinglei in Confession of Pain and Fan Bingbing in A Battle
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      Twinkle, twinkle Chinese starlets
      411 50 ZHOU XUN, 28 Star power The most promising among the starlets, with enough trophies Golden Horse, Golden Bauhinia and Hong Kong Film Award as Best Actress for Perhaps Love[2oob) —to prove she's no wallflower. Zhou has also taken on a wide enough variety of roles to
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      473 53  -  ESQB FRIDAY WITH FELIX in Hong Kong plus@newstoday.com.sg Spores most costly film atslB.2 million has Hong Kong director, set o'seas HOW much will the most expensive film ever bankrolled by a home-1 grown company cost? I A cool US$l2 million I ($18.2 million). And the
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      316 53 —AGENCIES NEW YORK Shrek the Musical is looking for a Shrek and a Donkey to star on Broadway. The makers of the stage adaptation want people to submit a You Tube-style audition to play the loveable ogre and his comedy sidekick. The characters voiced
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        222 54 -AFP LOS ANGELES Former "Spice Girl" Melanie Brown (picture, left) has lashed out at ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy (picture, right), insisting he's the father of her one-month-old daughter. In an interview to be broadcast by the US entertainment news show Extra, Brown said
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        'Villain' pays for being nice
        519 54  -  WINSONTEO Ousted Lee regrets not being his usual nasty self to survive winson@media corp.com.sg VILLAINY can have surprising consequences, especially when the bad guy makes an abrupt decision to change his ways. Mookie Lee learned that lesson last week when he became the latest contestant
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        THRILLOGY
        385 56  -  Felix Cheong pjppiiip FILMREVIEW by Spider-Man 3 IT'S the perfect summer popcorn vehicle almost a third SpiderMan that hits the ground running. The story picks up loose ends from the first two instalments. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) has found his summer of contentment a balance between love, work and
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        Summer Palace
        293 56  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW by THERE is meant to be an inextricable link between history and romance in Summer Palace, but as the supposedly controversial film it is banned in China progresses, the two seem more like lines that just happen to run parallel. Director Lou Ye has fashioned
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        258 58 -AP NEW YORK Two "Dreamgirls" Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson and Grammy winner Beyonce Knowles (picture) will compete for a golden popcorn trophy at this year's MTV Movie Awards. Both received nominations for best performance for their work in the 2006 film, MTV
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        This Wind shakes not
        380 58  -  Felix Cheong Cannes prize-winner is a cold tableaux FILMREVIEW by Wind Wat Shakes The Barley IT MAY have shaken the jury at Cannes last year and picked up the top prize, the Golden Palm. But The Wind That Shakes The Barky is likely to leave audiences
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        Sweetness 'and blight
        246 60  -  Jeanine Tan Documentary finds ray;of *hope in lives of Calcutta's destitute children I FILMREVIEW by I Bom into Brothels SOME children have little or no hope of a bright future, a harsh truth that is rammed home in the 2004 Oscar-winning documentary Born into Brothels. The documentary
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