Today, 30 January 2008, Afternoon Edition

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  • ANOTHER STAR ATHLETE QUITS
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      Lock icon Within two years, a code of conduct?
      660 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH MEDIACORPEXCLUSIVE ButTemasek's Simon Israel says issue is getting SWFs to embrace disclosure christie@mediacorp.com.sg OVER the past few months, Mr Simon Israel has been globetrotting with the message that his company, Temasek Holdings, is poles apart from other sovereign wealth funds (SWFs).
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      Banks and the pool of pink talent
      548 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@media corp. com. sg AMERICAN investment bank Lehman Brothers is planning an unusual initiative in Singapore, Financial Times reported recently. It is specifically targeting gay and lesbians who aspire to be bankers. This follows the success of a presentation and buffet dinner
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      241 2 Fundamental Analysis w Will the market be weighed down by the slowing U.S. economy? Or is it ready for a rebound soon? Technical Analysis What do the current chart formations suggest? How can charts be easily interpreted even By one ■jflljgSjßjgfiH A with no prior knowledge? A ffrgpffFT aSpE Gapping
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      Lock icon 'A two-way street'
      437 2  -  ZULOTHMAN Labour chief Lim urges those in SIA Staff Union to talk through dispute zul@media corp.com.sg LABOUR chief Lim Swee Say is "very disappointed" to learn that union members are resorting to legal means as a way of settling internal disputes. Referring to Today's report on Jan
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      Lock icon Catch a movie? $10.50, please
      581 3  -  ASIFANSAR Cathay ups ticket prices, other cinema operators wait and watch asif@media corp.com.sg EXPECT to pay up to $10.50 on a weekend to watch blockbusters such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince or The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Prices for tickets at all
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      No names for Odex, but ...
      433 3  - No names for Odex, but ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg ANIME distributor Odex may have yesterday lost an appeal to lay its hands on names of people accused of ripping content off the Web, but such netizens were not let off the hook. The judge directed that Pacific Internet (Pacnet) surrender their names,
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      Lock icon A PRESIDENT'S SEARCH FOR A LEGACY
      649 4  -  SUZANNE GOLDENBERG THE GUARDIAN US PRESIDENT George W Bush used his final State of the Union address on Monday night (picture) to try to reassert his primacy in American political life and demonstrate his commitment to Republican principles. But it was impossible to escape
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      236 4 fSk JfPositive Psychology c cluest or happiness has finally become a science. Now, living happiness is an art everyone should experience. The international movement of positive psychology has mjM finally come to Singapore. With our specialized courses, you can create your own path to happiness and share this knowledge with
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      510 5 Br 00/ "off in,,, sa.es LJ U potential /O charge on selected nIU I I ret U HIS I MH Asian funds! with HSBCs Asian Currency Plus.* I HSBC Premier customers enjoy 2%* off for Short 1-year structured deposit. IioOOOO °r 1% *°ff f°rSss°'oootO leSStha" 100% principal protected at maturity.
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      262 6 r MDIS: A Great Chapter in My Life J^ W THINK SUCCESS. THINK MDIS MDIS. TRUSTED BY MORE THAN 12,000 ft, \flfcj ™J»" arts in mass communications m«ib«b-b.im« B-a*«Mai w afe Awarded by Oklahoma City University, USA STUDENTS FROM 55 COUNTRIES. IV* f~w- I CommencesAugoB( P art.time) I MASTER OF
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon A bit of pain, a lot to gain
      440 6  -  TAN HUI LENG MediShield premium will be raised to cover more large hospital bills: Khaw huileng@media corp. com. sg WHILE the implementation of means testing may not jack up MediShield premiums after all, the need to provide higher coverage for policyholders will.
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      Better English grades thanks to MOE scheme
      256 6  -  LOH CHEE KONG TO MAKE up for the lack of parental attention at home, Greenridge Primary teacher Mariah Rahmat has enlisted the help of parent volunteers to take weaker students out of their regular English Language classes and listen to them read or,
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      Lock icon No need to buy water
      306 8  -  UNYANQIN Desalinated water feeds energy firm's own industrial needs yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IT WILL help energy retailer PowerSeraya be self-sufficient in its water needs, improve energy efficiency and create more cost savings which could mean more competitively-priced utilities for its customers. Such is the promise of the
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      Lock icon 3 out of 4 opt for the V-bonus
      436 10  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@media corp.com.sg THE Government's decision to raise the draw-down age to 65 for the Central Provident Fund's (CPF) Minimum Sum drew a chorus of opposing voices when it was announced last August, but some 75 per cent of those eligible for
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      Lock icon New tests for old hands
      371 12  -  JINNY KOH Skilled workers can now get certified faster jinny@media corp.com.sg IN THE past, it would have taken skilled worker Ms Tan Beng Hong two weeks to obtain a certificate in generic manufacturing skills. Now, under the new composite assessment scheme offered by the Singapore
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      Lock icon NTUC aims to help workers adapt to change
      260 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) wants to focus on three areas this year: Raising the employment rate, lowering unemployment, and bringing down underemployment Some 35,000 unionised workers are expected to get help to improve their skills and wages, and
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      269 7 Great /j^k ?«t Eastern The qT&CIt /#fSa *Jf Centennial Wish 4■>f fr f P^ but you get to moke ?^1 ff\\ f^T\\ your <^#/ come true! v ft V 4 y .^KV i^ —j SLK-Cisss j^^^ As Great Eastern celebrates its lOOth Anniversary, we're going to make your wish come
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      306 9 SONY. like.no.other™ Imagine a camera with the mind and the eye of da Vinci. Sony is focused on stimulating creativity through unique image sensors that provide the "eyes" for capturing beautiful pictures and image processors known as the world's smartest camera "brains." In Renaissance Italy, Leonardo da Vinci channeled his
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      33 11 REALISE YOUR TALENT >S% IN THE REAL J' I VtfUllLyi. jf jn feC^s .v\i iiMS^S S I^^P tigsllS Mill 'f CaJ fi&M S SB BE EXTRAORDINARY J^^^HB^^^Hlp^Tl^^RW^^nJr^jS^E^^t^Jl! 1 realiseyou rt alent.spf. sg J
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      245 12 Canon Delighting You Always 'd/lem^mS^r-a/id-sAar&(^ Remember your very first dinner date together? Your first bouquet of fl flowers? There are few things more precious than the memories of the ®StfliT^n S good times the two of you spent together. ml ASps^P s '/ir~ Al- I JmmmW^l rPyTr/^/ /M Make your
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      76 13 B< t ft 'p^SPSfe m> m I 1 "i *Q r t(L "-v^afcfik 1 O "^N^k. I"* I' #*>' T 1 f I 11^? -1 «'l^S»*'.' 1 THEY BREED, YOU BLEED. The grim truth is that the yletfes mosquito is a highly adaptive creature that breeds all year round. And
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      131 14 .^B^B^L- .^■■^■W. j Wow! A very good 4-day course. Time is well spent! ...this BAR Course could help us accountants to add more value (and) increase productivity, especially in this I competitive business environment. Accountants should be able to contribute more and not just being classified as —JM "back support"
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      160 14 After experiencing 3 major business failures, Conrad was declared bankrupt in 2001 at the age of 37 under a mountain of debt amounting to SGDI7O,OOO. He was under qualified, over experienced and had no employment. He then learned how to trade and through constant research and consistent profits, he traded
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  • world news
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      Lock icon US was his ally despite rights abuses: Reports
      504 14 I AFP -AFP Past leaders gave Suharto aid, weapons, support at expense of democracy WASHINGTON The United States has declassified documents detailing how Washington propped up former Indonesian President Suharto, who died on Sunday, at the expense of democracy and human rights.
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      68 17 There is no more political future for Anwar Ibrahim. If he thinks he is going to be the Prime Minister, he is daydreaming. Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad (picture), on his former deputy, ahead of Malaysia's next general election. Dr Mahathir said he expected Mr Anwar, sacked in 1998
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      Lock icon Malaysian tycoon denies judicial corruption role
      268 17 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR One of Malaysia's most prominent business tycoons, who has been named in an alleged judicial scandal, has dismissed allegations of his involvement as "ridiculous". A royal commission is investigating a secretlyfilmed video, which purportedly shows high-profile lawyer V X Lingam offering
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      Lock icon Insensitive' teacher chided
      292 17 -AP He may have to say sorry over Hindu boys' shaved beards KUALA LUMPUR A local teacher has been reprimanded for forcing six Hindu schoolboys to shave their moustaches and beards, which they were growing for a religious ritual this month. The Star newspaper quoted State Education
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      Lock icon 'WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE ALIVE'
      576 19  -  VENESSA LEE Via video link, Jews support families of abducted Israelis venessa@media corp.com.sg SYMPATHETIC strangers around the world, including here in Singapore, gathered last night in a show of support for two Israelis in distress. In a video conference spanning four countries, the wife
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    • GLORALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon THAI KING ENDORSES SAMAK
        64 20 DPA Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej yesterday approved the election of Mr Samak Sundaravej as Prime Minister, paving the way for the formation of a new government. On Monday, the Thai Parliament voted 310 to 163 in favour of Mr Samak. As the constitutional monarch. King Bhumibol,
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        JOINING FORCES TO FIGHT PIRACY
        96 20 Malaysia and Singapore plan to invite Thailand to join them in the "Eyes in the Skies" air surveillance programme to combat piracy in the Straits of Malacca, The Star reported yesterday. This comes after Thailand expressed interest in joining the programme. Malaysian Defence Minister Najib
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        Lock icon NAKED IN THE SKIES
        97 20 -REUTERS German nudists will be able to strip off on a plane if they take up a new offer from a German travel firm. Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip on July 5 which will
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      Lock icon SocGen had been warned
      395 20 —AGENCIES Exchange had raised alert on Kerviel's deals late last year PARlS —Exchange officials had warned SocGen about rogue trader Jerome Kerviel's deals late last year, a Paris prosecutor said, piling pressure on the French bank to explain why his trades were not discovered sooner. The
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      Lock icon Republican slugfest in Florida
      379 22 —AFP High-stakes state for McCain, Romney MIAMI Republican presidential hopefuls John McCain and Mitt Romney dug in for a fierce battle in Florida yesterday, as former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani faced high stakes in his bid for the state's primary. With Mr Giuliani and former
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    • What happened to the game?
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        Disappointed by disruption of Aussie Open men's final
        162 24  -  GURMIT SINGH KULLAR Letter from I WAS pleasantly surprised when MediaCorp TV decided to broadcast the Australian Open men's tennis final live on Channel 5 on Sunday and was looking forward to watching a great match. The men's final started at 4.30pm
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        Lock icon No easy decision when it comes to live telecasts
        438 24  -  PARKER LIM Letter from Senior Director, Programming Production 5 Network Programming, MediaCorp TV WE REFER to the feedback we've received on our live telecast of the Australian Open Men's tennis singles final last Sunday on Channel 5. Our initial programming decision
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      189 26  -  DR BILL MAIER T BY SLOWING DOWN KEY TO FIGHT STRESS We are about to take a 30-second stress test. Are you ready? Here goes Do you find yourself in a constant rush mode, always trying to catch up? Are you often late for appointments? Do
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      Lock icon Ready to fight dengue
      177 26  -  JULIE SIM Ability to curb outbreaks not affected by under-reporting Letter from Deputy Director (Media Relations), Corporate Communications Division, Ministry of Health (MOH) IN THE Weekend Xtra article, "Why the numbers went missing" (Jan 26-27), Loh Chee Kong questioned the under-report-ing of dengue deaths and asked
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    • Letter
      24-hr gas stations a waste of resources
      217 26  -  JAMES WONG Letter from IN OUR effort to conserve energy and save the planet, I wonder if there is a need for petrol stations to stay open for 24 hours. After midnight, especially on weekdays, few motorists go to the stations. I am
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      136 25 My boss just messed up an order from Japan. Guess who's going there to apologize?" We know there are times you'd rather undergo root i t^ canal than do certain things for work. So, for constantly taking one for the team, and taking care of business, let us take care
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      Lock icon Keppel Land gets an early hongbao
      397 28  -  ESTHER FUNG Boosted by sale of stake in One Raffles Quay, the firm posts a seven-fold surge in Q4 profits to $572 million esther@mediacorp.com.sg KEPPEL Land kicked off the current quarterly earnings for the property sector on a positive note with a strong set
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      Lock icon Wall St extends gains as Fed meets on rate
      145 28 AFP NEW YORK US stocks rose for a second straight day yesterday as traders positioned for a likely cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve and reacted to a better-than-expected report on durable goods orders. Wall Street's action came on
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      Lock icon Subprime loans: 14 firms under probe
      110 28 -AP WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday it is investigating 14 companies for possible fraud or insider trading violations in connection with loans made to risky borrowers, and investments spun off from those loans. Agency officials did not identify the companies under
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      $1.73 decent exit price for Ascott: CIMB
      174 31 Capita Land's offer to buy the remaining shares of its 67-per-cent unit. The Ascott Group, at $1.73 apiece represents a decent exit price for minority owners of the luxury residences operator, according to CIMB, who said the price "is a fair valuation from
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      Lock icon CME eyes Nymex
      295 31 ■REUTERS $15.6-billion deal would allow CME group to control 95% of US futures volume CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, hopes to broaden its reach by buying energy and precious metals mart New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) for US$ll billion ($15.6 billion), the company said. The
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    • BUSINESSBRIEFS
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        Lock icon SIA ENGINEERING REPORTS Q3 NET INCOME DOWN 3.1 PER CENT
        53 31 BLOOMBERG SIA Engineering, the aircraft maintenance arm of Singapore Airlines, reported net income declined 3.1 per cent in the third quarter. The company had a profit of $53.6 million in the quarter ended December, while revenue increased 1.1 per cent
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        OPEN SKIES OVER SCANDINAVIA
        82 31 Singapore concluded yesterday three bilateral Open Skies Agreements (OSAs) with Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden, said the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. The OSAs allow airlines of both parties to fly between Singapore and any point in Scandinavia, via and beyond to any third country,
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        STRAITS TRADING HALTS OUTPUT
        96 31 Straits Trading's Indonesian tin-mining unit Koba Tin has been ordered by local police to halt production in order to facilitate investigations that its subcontractors had been operating within a restricted forest area. Malaysia Smelting Corporation, the tin-smelting arm of Straits Trading, said that its 75-per cent
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        SGX ASIACLEAR SEES GROWTH
        169 31  -  CHEOWXINYI The Singapore Exchange's (SGX) Asia Clear facility has exceeded US$4.7 billion ($6.6 billion) in value of trades cleared last year, a more than 12-fold increase in value of trades cleared in 2006, said the SGX. The average monthly value of trades cleared last year was
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