Today, 11 August 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Monday August n, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      IN OUR MORNING PAPER
      234 1 CLASHES IN KUQA Restrictions akin to martial law were slapped on China's remote north-west after 11 people died in bombings and fierce clashes between police and attackers, the second outbreak of deadly violence there in under a week, said a Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition
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      Lock icon One striker, by this week
      482 1 AFP ri iji dd rA v*iBTB Will it be former Gunner Henry? Ferguson won't rule it out I LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed he hopes to sign a striker before Manchester United start their Premier League title defence against Newcastle on Aug 17. Reports
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      Lock icon Bentley drives Spurs in rout of Roma
      256 1 AGENCIES LONDON Tottenham Hotspur underlined their aspirations for the season with a stunning 5-0 demolition of Serie A giants AS Roma in a friendly yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). For the second consecutive weekend, a London club had hammered Italian opposition, after Chelsea
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      Lock icon Two in a row
      455 2 AP GOLF Harrington produces stunning fightback to lift PGA Championship BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Michigan Padraig Harrington rallied from three shots behind to win the US PGA Championship and his third Major title yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). In closing with a 4-under 66 at Oakland Hills club,
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      Lock icon Australians told to wear national colours in security move
      731 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT .AGENCIES BEIJING Australian athletes have been told to wear their team uniform while touring Beijing, in the hope that a visible Olympic connection might offer them more protection following the fatal stabbing of the father of a former United States
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      Lock icon $400,000 spent to build a race car, but team can't represent Singapore
      644 3  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg DESIGNED and assembled in Singapore, this racing car costs as much as a new five-room Housing and Development Board flat. Conceived by a local car tuner and sports car parallel importer Garage R the goal is
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      Lock icon Eto'o to remain at Barcelona
      266 3 .AFP MADRID Cameroon international Samuel Eto'o, who was deemed surplus by Barcelona's new coach Pep Guardiola in June, will be staying at the Spanish giants after all. Shortly after he was named as Frank Rijkaard's replacement in June, Guardiola announced that he was not counting
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      A digital concierge
      319 4 MOCCA.COM One Guide is your one-stop directory for everything YOUR air-conditioning breaks down; your plumbing is choked; your car will not start. Now, there is a one-stop digital directory One Guide with a whole lot of listings that can help you solve all these problems and more.
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      Lock icon An Afghan's handy guide to Islam
      575 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI TODAY EXCLUSIVE nazry@mediacorp.com.sg SOME women were beaten with a stick because their ankles could be seen as they walked along the streets. Others, were labelled immoral and beaten for speaking to strange men in public. These punishments —inflicted on women in Afghanistan were
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      PARTICIPATION NATION
      497 6  -  ALICIA WONG POINTOFVIEW NDP was magnificent but organisers need to get audience involved alicia@mediacorp.com.sg I'VE never watched a National Day Parade until this last one. My dislike of being stuck in crowds and the difficulty of getting tickets made me find other things to do during the long
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      THEY PAINTED THE TOWN RED
      85 6 It was a family outing for many at the National Day Parade this year and most of the pictures sent in by Today readers were those of children. To be sure, the children had a fun time, and the occasion as always could only be
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      Lock icon Never too old for a run at the Olympics
      209 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA CATCHING the Olympic fever in a big way, 60 senior citizens in Kampong Glam had their own special Games on Saturday. Called the Senior Olympics, it was organised by young people from North Bridge Road's PEACEConnect Neighbourhood Link, which
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      Lock icon Buyer jailed for 10 months
      357 8  -  ZULOTHMAN DRUG POSSESSION Journalist who allegedly sold him Ice slapped with three charges zul@mediacorp.com.sg NARCOTICS officers nabbed him for having a packet of methamphetamine or Ice a controlled drug on July 16. During questioning, Sani Bin Saidi broke down and named the man who sold
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      201 4 La The IRs will hire. Do you have what it takes? J ARE YOU READY TO BE AMONGST THE FIRST TO TOP THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY SINGAPORE'S NEW EXCITING SECTOR? With the coming of the IRS in Singapore and similar concepts spouting in Asia, a career in Tourism Hospitality industry
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      303 7 I m W B^"0^ i V_ _ML ___P *x _PL_l__t M m mdrJM v 1 t ___fcr i___M^_i^__K___lk _BH_fl_\ «>______ -»»<rt i,. %>,?f-^&£^o*'t _*v«. --'-sp^ i *"4_s^&*A^^_a| |l^^t^^:^%i:^g^^ -:^^^m DON'T BOTHER w The REAL Run is back. Now with 4km of mudslinging trail. __^3 p H-^W hnlnn.^'aP _Ki9^^_f 75WW ~4km
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      41 8 IH oLmpics shot °F the day I Nikon Best Caption Contest is to 24 August 2008] I_P _v#_^r_l _^H___ tv *noo I top 3 entries will stand to win Nikon cameras worth up to $2,100! I Email your entries to nikonolympics@newstoday.com.sg
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      541 9 We MediaCorp Easyßeader v 2.10 TODAY Digital Edition I s asy eader L^tiW^^d&lfflllk? Mm WmWrnMrnrnM HOT NEWS SINGAPORE WORLD VOICES BUSINESS SPORTS PLUS 11 Today I•< home > world _^_^jearchl___^_^j_^ I HH^BH|HH I H^H^_BH in rhina'e Yiniiir*- Pakistanihelicopters save Biasi in ,nina s Ainjiang climbers d^te,. I rhre^s acrowd and^
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      Lock icon Too risky for debate?
      319 10 AP MALAYSIAN SOCIETY Politicians ponder whether to banish religious forums KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian politicians wrangled yesterday about whether to curb sensitive debates on religious disputes in this Muslim-ma-jority nation after protests halted a conference on Islamic conversions. The police told the Bar Council association of lawyers
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      Lock icon Dr M will 'migrate' if Anwar becomes PM
      220 10 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad says he would rather migrate if opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim succeeds in toppling the Barisan Nasional government, reported news portal The Malaysian Insider. This comes as Dr Mahathir denied speculation he would
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      Lock icon Thaksin and wife miss flight to Bangkok
      224 10 DPA FORMER Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Pojaman did not board a Thai International Airways flight from Beijing to Bangkok as scheduled, reported The Nation. A Thai official source said that the couple did not board the flight numbered TG6IS,
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      Lock icon WATER-CUTTING
      46 12 Sri Lankan Hindu devotees performing a 'water-cutting' ceremony in Colombo yesterday as part of an annual ritual of the Maurapathy Pathrakali Amman temple. Sri Lanka's minority Tamils are mainly followers of Hinduism in a country torn by ethnic strife. Majority Sinhalese are mainly Buddhists. AFP
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      Lock icon Cop heads kidnap gang
      197 12 AFP THAILAND KIDNAPPING Group abducts 5 children, kills 1 BANGKOK A gang headed by a policeman kidnapped five children in eastern Thailand as they were being driven to school, killing one girl so she would not identify them, a top police official said yesterday. Four kidnappers
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        FOOD SAFETY CONCERN DUE TO 'FUSSY'CONSUMERS: MINISTER
        168 12 JAPAN Japan's government pays close attention to food safety as consumers here are "fussy" unlike in communist China, which can hide inconvenient facts from its people. "Food safety is already secured in Japan but we are working to bring to thoroughness as consumers
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        Lock icon STAFF FROM THE SOUTH WITHDRAW FROM NORTH KOREA'S MOUNTAIN RESORT
        91 12 AFP SOUTH KOREA South Korean personnel began withdrawing from North Korea's Mount Kumgang resort after the communist country asked them to leave, officials said yesterday. The withdrawal followed a North Korean statement on Saturday that "unnecessary" South Korean personnel would
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      Lock icon OLYMPICS SHOT OF THE DAY
      38 15 Send us your captions for the Nikon Olympics Best Caption Contest now! Email your entries to nikonolympics@newstoday.com.sg Michael Phelps of the United States competing in the Men's 400m Individual Medley Final GETTY IMAGES
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      Lock icon Embracing the Olympic spirit
      349 15 AGENCIES BEIJING 2008 As the shooting goes on at home, Georgian and Russian hug at ceremony BEIJING Their countries may be in a conflict, but a Russian and a Georgian shared a podium and an embrace after winning Olympic medals yesterday. Russia's Natalia Paderina and Georgia's
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon RAIN HALTSTENNIS, ARCHERY
        110 15 AFP Torrential rain, thunder and lightening played havoc yesterday with the Olympics as tennis and archery were suspended and the women cyclists braved treacherous conditions on the road. At Juyongguan, just outside Beijing, the women's road race went ahead despite the appalling weather as rain lashed the
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        Lock icon TIBET ACTIVISTS DETAINED ON TIANANMEN SQUARE
        106 15 AFP Five people staged a protest near Tiananmen Square yesterday against Chinese rule of Tibet, in the latest proTibet demonstration to hit Beijing. Two of the protesters, including a Tibetan woman from Germany, held the Tibetan flag just outside the southern entrance of the
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      Lock icon Don't fear religion, Bush tells China
      250 16 AFP BEIJING United States President George W Bush urged China's leaders not to be afraid of religious freedom as he attended a church service in Beijing yesterday and held talks with Chinese leader Hu Jintao. It is a point the US leader has repeated
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      Lock icon Russian forces take control
      328 16 AFP WAR IN SOUTH OSSETIA Russia builds up dominant firepower as Georgia withdraws troops TBILISI Russian forces took control of the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia yesterday as Tbilisi withdrew its troops in the face of a buildup of Moscow's dominant firepower. This comes as
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      445 11 ■___■_____;-?-.'.''1-. V ___________________________~6#?^," .jFSISSHR'ifi ___mPii2 88---B-B mw^ WA FOOD" "Hm**"! EDUCHTION 1^ PETROL' BEFORE I NOW Hj BEFORE I NOW BEFORE I NOW 5 INFLATION GROWING FASTER THAN YOUR WEALTH? Prices are on the rise, fast. Which unfortunately also causes your wealth to erode. [J C-OC |V I I IVI
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      Lock icon HOW ABOUT A LITTLE STOMACH WITH THAT SCORPION?
      789 18  -  DAVE BARRY TRIBUNE MEDIASERVICES DAVE BARRY ATTHE OLYM PICS news@newstoday.com.sg BEIJING I have good news and bad news about the food here. The good news is, there's a lot of excellent food, and it can be unbelievably cheap. Four of us went
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    • Letter
      Microchipping helps AVA in management of stray dogs
      309 18  -  Goh ShihYong Letter from Assistant Director, Corporate Communications for the Chief Executive Officer WE REFER to "Can more be done?" and "We donate to humans but not to animals" (July 28) from Ms April Chia and Mr Calvin Teo. The Agri-Food and
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      Raising standards
      192 19  -  TanChor Hoon Letter from I REFER to "Profits not main priority" (Aug 8). Salaries and rental costs are probably two of the biggest components in childcare centre expenses. I wonder if the low remuneration of teachers impacts their motivation in nurturing young children. Does the Ministry of Community
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      175 19  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY FATIGUE AND EMOTIONS Ever notice how much better life seems to look after a good night's sleep? One mum told of coming home so depressed she could not seem to face her family. For no reason, she seemed angry with her husband
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      Lock icon One hot foreign talent
      604 22  -  KARMANTSE KINGS OFTHE HILL plus@newstoday.com.sg Having headlined four movies so far The Leap Years, The Home Song Stories, 881 and the latest, Royston Tan's 12 Lotus Yu Wu can brag to have starred alongside international actress Joan Chen, and to having rubbed elbows with famous directors
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      One hot foreign talent
      519 24 KINGS OFTHE HILL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22 Do you, as a "foreign talent", have to constantly work twice as hard to prove yourself and outshine local artistes? Did you ever feel like an outsider? I think I'm very lucky. When I first came to Singapore, I
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      Lock icon Ocean's Eleven loses one of the gang
      511 25 AP OBITUARY Comedian Bernie Mac dies at age 50 BERNIE Mac (picture), the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper Ocean's Eleven, died on Saturday at age 50 from complications due to pneumonia. The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an
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      335 27 Singapore Parenting Congress 2008 16-17 August 2008 Sat 16 Aug 9.00am I.oopm (English) Talking with Today's Teens f~ Dr William J. Doherty Understanding children, especially teenagers, can be difficult, find out Why Can't We Get Along? how y°u can bridBe the BaP with y°ur teenager at Singapore Parenting Managing Parent-Teen
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  • sports
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      Lock icon Now for the perfect race
      975 28  -  LEONARD THOMAS BEIJING BUZZ History-maker Tao Li is in the mix for Olympic medal glory this morning sports editor in beijing leonard(S>mediacorp.com.sg WHEN the announcer introduces Tao Li in Lane 6 at about 10.20am today at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, he will name
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      GO FOR IT, TAO LI
      202 28  -  ■TANYO-HINN WITHTao Li chasing herOlympic dream, her fans and officials here are urging her on. Shortly after she qualified forthis morning's finals, the 18-year-old was on the phone with her best friend and Singapore Sports School hostel roommate, Amanda Lim. "She was really happy about
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      A Great White loose in Beijing
      1078 29  -  LEONARD THOMAS BEIJING BUZZ Phelps gets off to spectacular start by breaking 400m IM mark sports editor in beijing leonard@mediacorp.com.sg THERE'S this unforgettable scene in Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, jaws, when Quint, Brody and Hooper gather in the cramped dining area on the Orca far
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      OVERHEARD @ THE OLYMPICS
      204 30 OVERHEARD THE OLYMPICS I wouldn't be afraid or daunted by these big figures or the scale of what you see in China. Just hold faith with the great games that we're going to host in London in just four years' time. Britain's Olympics minister Tessa Jowell on why it is
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      374 30  -  TANYO-HINN BADMINTON Powerful Koreans stand in way of S'pore shuttlers' progress ON SATURDAY, shuttler Xing Aiying suffered a surprise loss to Olga Konon of Belarus in the first round of the Beijing Olympic women's singles badminton competition. But there was no repeat in the
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      384 30 AFP IN SYNCFORGOLD BEIJING Australian Stephanie Rice's daring race strategy reaped an Olympic gold medal and reclaimed the world record with a magnificent victory in the women's 400-metres individual medley at the Beijing Games yesterday. The 20-year-old swimmer went out hard
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      671 31  -  SAILING Women's 470 pair may just get lucky should a little bit of history repeat itself TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg EVERY time national 470 sailor Toh Liying loses a personal belonging, she ends up getting back something else greater in value. She's not superstitious but Toh,
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      317 31 AFP BEIJING The US team of National Basketball Association stars began their quest for Olympic redemption yesterday with a 101-70 victory over a Chinese team that showed glimpses of a challenge. Dwyane Wade scored 19 points, LeBron James added 18 and Kobe Bryant
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        79 31 Indian weightlifter Monika Devi has been cleared of doping charges, but the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) said it is too late for her to take part in Beijing as entries for the Games have already been closed. Devi was dropped from India's Olympic contingent last
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        85 31 Greek sprinter Ekaterina Thanou (photo), who was banned for two years for missing a drug test before the 2004 Olympics, won't be allowed to run at Beijing. The International Olympic Committee's executive board decided to bar her after their disciplinary panel held a hearing on Aug 7,
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        78 31 Scantily-clad cheerleaders gyrating to rock music have injected a shot of Las Vegas glitz into the somewhat staid world of amateur boxing here. Li Guoyan, 20, a music undergraduate at a local university, is having fun in what she does and doesn't mind the reaction
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        66 31 Organisers are surprised to see rows of empty seats at several events, despite claims that tickets have been sold-out. "The empty seats are a challenge for us and we are trying to manage it," said Wang Wei, vice-president of the Games organising committee. "Quite a lot
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        92 31 AGENCIES In her rush to get to Beijing after she was activated by the Uzbek team, reserve gymnast Luiza Galiulina could not get official kits and ended up taking an old training leotard to the Olympics. The 16-year-old's plight came to the notice of Paul Ziert, the American
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      365 32 AGENCIES OLYMPIC FOOTBALL He's back in the groove, coach Dunga warns Brazil's rivals SHENYANG Ronaldinho delighted his legion of fans, scoring twice as he led Brazil to a 5-0 rout of New Zealand in an Olympic men's football match yesterday. The Brazilian captain was at the heart
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      183 32 AFP LONDON Manchester United's spot-kick prowess came up trumps again as they won the Community Shield 3-1 on penalties after a drab goalless draw against Portsmouth at Wembley last night. Just three months after United were crowned kings of Europe, thanks to
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      561 32  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Woodlands Wellington v Young Lions Woodlands Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg WOODLANDS Wellington and the Young Lions are going to get well acquainted with each other this coming fortnight. The two sides meet in an NTUC In-come-Yeo's S-League 2008
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      132 29 OLYMPICS LIVE ON TV MEDIACORPTV 10am C.IS&HDS Swimming semis finals: 100m butterfly, 4xloom freestyle relay (M&W) 10am Ch 5 Badminton: doubles quarter-finals (W), singles (M&W) 2pm Ch 5 Men's boxing 2.30pm C.IS&HDS Diving: synchronised 10m platform final (M) 4pm Ch 5 Weightlifting: Women's 58kg final 6.30pm G.S&HDS Swimming heats: 200m
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      843 34  -  DERRICK A PAULO FOREIGN AFFAIRS Mr Barry Desker. The dean of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies talks to Today deputy news editor derrick@medicorp.com.sg WHEN he first joined the Foreign Service in 1970, diplomatic reports or dispatches, as they were then
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        74 35 SPORE EXCHANGE $6.73 I Buy OCBC Investment Research cuts the fair value to $8.10 from $9.60 after lowering the valuation multiple to 20 times earnings from 23 times. It forecasts a 14.6-per-cent drop in securities revenue to $384 million in FY2009 due to the weakness in global financial
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        73 35 20.5 cents Buy CIMB starts with a 24.5-cents price target, saying the Chinabased fabrics-maker can support strong historical gross margins of 35.1 to 38.4 per cent given its continuous introduction of products and focus on functional fabrics. It says while margins may peak this year due to cost
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        112 35 76 cents Outperform CIMB maintains its rating but cuts the price target for the nylon specialist to $2.25 from $2.62 to reflect 11- to 12-per-cent earnings cuts for FY2OOB--2009. It says some customers in Jiangshu and Zhejiang have been asked to shut down during the Olympics and the
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        430 35 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE GDP Singapore's economy expanded at the slowest pace in five years and exports will decline for the first time since 2001. Gross domestic product increased 2.1 per cent from a year earlier, after expanding 6.9 per cent in the first three months of
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        576 35  -  SELENA LING Buckle up for a bumpy ride THE Prime Minister's message is crystal-clear while Singapore has enjoyed good growth in the last few years and extending into the first quarter of this year, the road ahead is going to get bumpy. If anything, the macroeconomic softness that
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      242 36 AFP WASHINGTON US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (picture) believes the American housing market will remain in a slump through the rest of the year, but does not intend to stay on to help the next president cope with the crisis. In an interview with
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      682 36 AFP BANKING GIANT'S WOES It's been a torrid year for the Swiss bank, culminating in its shares losing 66% AFTER the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) invested in Swiss banking giant ÜBS in January, a Zurich newspaper light-heartedly re-christened it the "United Bank of
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      220 36  -  BARRY PORTER ANOTHER Chinese clothing manufacturer plans to list here. China Vogue Casualwear no relation to the famous fashion magazine has lodged a preliminary prospectus to list shares on Singapore's Mainboard. The firm makes and distributes its own SISULAN brand of fashionable and affordable
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      771 37  -  CONRAD RAJ MONDAY BLUES editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg Why are investors who use CPF kept in the dark about the actions of agent banks? SINGAPORE is known throughout the world for being well-run and efficient. In many areas, it's a model for others to emulate. However, there are still
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      166 38 STORIES of personal triumph and individuals who have made significant achievements by stepping out of their comfort zone at a time when the employment landscape is changing rapidly, these can be found simply by learning new skills. And the search for Singapore's most
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