Today, 8 October 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    11 1 TODAY Wednesday October 8, 2008 wv» ■p we set you thinking
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        Rate cut coming?
        63 1 Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke hinted yesterday that the central bank would cut interest rates as the outlook for economic growth in the United States worsens. Speaking to business economists in Washington, Bernanke explained how the latest economic data showed the prospects for the world's biggest economy
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        Savings protection
        62 1 The European Union battled yesterday to protect people's savings by more than doubling deposit guarantees to at least 50,000 euros in its first joint action against the global financial firestorm. The European Central Bank also joined with the US Federal Reserve and three other central banks in planning
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        AIG under fire
        48 1 AIG executives escaped to a pricey California beach resort to unwind just days after the insurance giant was rescued by an unprecedented US$B5 billion US government loan, lawmakers said yesterday. Invoices showed that AIG paid the Pacific Ocean getaway resort more than U*****,000. Page B2
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      Lock icon Bangkok bleeds
      746 1 AGENCIES. THAI TURMOIL PM flees Parliament, army chief quells coup rumours BANGKOK In a day of fast-moving events that saw riot police clashing with protesters and soldiers being deployed on the streets, Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was forced to flee Parliament yesterday by climbing over a fence
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      Telco wars: StarHub dangles $100 carrot
      741 1  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg A DAY after Sing Tel announced a hike in its land line fee and call charges, rival Star Hub has thrown down the gauntlet by offering its 511,000 cable TV customers a free home line. All you have to do is to
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      Lock icon 36 injured as Qantas flight forced into emergency landing
      332 2 AGENCIES PERTH Thirty-six passengers and crew were injured, some seriously, after a Qantas jet struck air turbulence, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing yesterday. The terrifying incident saw the Airbus A 330-300 issue a distress call when it suddenly
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      Lock icon A split for the better?
      659 3  -  NEOCHAICHIN CHANGI AIRPORT Lee Hsien Yang to head new regulator, Liew Mun Leong to chair airport company chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg UP UNTIL now, Changi Airport has been one of the world's best. So, is there a need to change a winning formula? The answer is yes, as
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      AVA to test pet food for melamine
      243 4 SINGAPORE'S Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) is more than halfway done with testing food samples for traces of melamine. Of the more than 2,200 samples, 1,450 have been tested. Moving forward, the AVA said it would expand its tests to animal feed and
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      Starbucks, where a tap is always on
      540 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT WATER CONSERVATION Environment Council chief urges chain to look for alternative weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg IN EVERY one of the 57 Starbucks outlets in Singapore, there is a constantly running water tap which is never turned off as long as the outlet is open. And
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      Lock icon THERE'S A GIFT FOR SINGAPORE'S FUTURE
      96 6  -  KOH MUI FONG CHANNEL NEWSASIA, How can Singapore invest in future Chinese leaders? Tycoon Oei Hong Leong (left) thinks it is important to educate them here. 'After they study in Singapore, they go back, they will remember how they got their degree.'Yesterday, the Lee
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      Better grades for security firms
      216 6 THE quality of local security firms has improved, according to an annual assessment by the Singapore Police Force. Nearly 60 per cent in the professional audit of the industry obtained either an A or B grade, up from 52 per cent of the participating agencies
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      Lock icon Putting art in heartlands
      462 6  -  ALICIA WONG COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HowtheNACis looking to increase participation in the arts alida@mediacorp.com.sg THEY may be elderly, with no musical background. But for the past month, 180 senior citizens have been making music together. Under the guidance of OneHeartbeat Percussions, they meet weekly in groups to
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      Building wealth in today's market
      1174 7 Investing in your long-term financial goals isn't a daunting affair. By simply adopting a dollar-cost averaging strategy, you could save a significant amount, while instilling a disciplined approach to investing. With the financial markets constantly in a state of flux these days, as much as
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon PETROL AND DIESEL NOW CHEAPER BY 5 CENTS
        111 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Pump prices for all grades of petrol dropped by 5 cents per litre yesterday, with Caltex and Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) kicking off the latest round of price cuts. The price of diesel also came down by 5 cents. While
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        Lock icon NO TIME FOR EXERCISE, SAY SINGAPORE WOMEN
        130 8 938 LIVE When it comes to exercising regularly, Singaporean women find it either too timeconsuming, or say it is something that is just not for them. These attitudes towards sports were revealed in a study conducted by the Singapore Sports Council early this
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      Birthday bash ends in tragedy
      517 8  -  ZULOTHMAN ORCHARDTOWERS KILLING Six plead guilty to voluntarily causing grievous hurt zul@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS a night of revelry, as six friends all gang members aged from 17 to 28 gathered at a pub in Orchard Towers on Nov 23 to celebrate a birthday. But the
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    • Flavours at the Singapore Flyer
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        SEAFOOD PARADISE
        269 10 Seafood Paradise's founder, Eldwin Chua, originally started out hawking zhi cha in a dingy coffee shop in the Defu Lane industrial estate. But his unconventional culinary style became such a hit with foodies that he eventually opened more outlets at Mosque Street and, more recently, atthe Singapore Flyer.
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        GELATISSIMO
        124 10 Save some room for dessert, even if you're already bursting at the seams from your indulgence at Seafood Paradise or Shalimar. After all, who can resist smooth, creamy and freshly made artisan gelatol Made using the finest ingredients sourced from Italy and Australia, Gelatissimo's gelato contains no artificial flavouring,
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        SHALIMAR PALACE RESTAURANT
        143 10 Indian cuisine varies in different regions. But the chefs at Shalimar Palace Restaurant have cleverly merged both North and South Indian cuisine, so you can get the best of both worlds. The captivating aroma of Indian spices and herbs hits you even before you begin ordering yourfood.
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      Lock icon Morning blaze destroys 52 motorcycles
      226 12 RESIDENTS living near Block 163 A, Gangsa Road, in Bukit Panjang, were roused from their slumber by exploding oil tanks and the acrid smell of burning rubber early yesterday morning. As they peered out of their flats, they saw a roaring blaze at the multi-storey
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      Lock icon For brain repairs, help from a female factor
      327 12  -  ONGDAILIN MEDICAL RESEARCH The secret may lie in the hormone oroaesterone dailin@mediacorp.com. sg THE traditional medical belief was that injured brain tissues cannot be repaired. Now Dr Donald G Stein (picture), who has studied brain injury in rats for 40 years, has
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Govt will pick biased
      622 14 AGENCIES SODOMYTRIAL Anwar protests government bid to move his case to the High Court KUALA LUMPUR Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has cried foul over a government bid to move his sodomy trial up to the High Court, saying he feared he would end up facing a
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      Lock icon Iran fighter jets force down Hungarian aid plane
      292 15 AFP, BLOOMBERG TEHRAN Iran said yesterday that an aircraft forced down in its territory was a Hungarian aid plane with no Americans aboard, contradicting earlier reports that it was a United States plane carrying US soldiers. A senior military official told state
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        FILIPINO KILLS SELF, WIFE WITH EXPLOSIVES IN KOTA KINABALU
        102 15 A Filipino refugee has killed his wife and himself with explosives during a marital dispute. Police chief Rowell Marong says the killings have orphaned their 11 kids, aged from three to 20 years. Mr Marong says Mr Babin Isang, a fishmonger,
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        Lock icon ROBOT SUITS TO HELP THE PARALYSED WALK
        132 15 AGENCIES A Japanese professor announced yesterday he was introducing robot suits for paralysed people, helping them walk again by detecting their next move and lifting their muscles. ProfessorYoshiyuki Sankai's company, which produces the robot suits, is named Cyberdyne Inc, same as the sci-fi
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      DEAR VIRTUAL LEADER ...
      633 16  - DEAR VIRTUAL LEADER MARIASIOW TODAY IN KOREA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg Kirn's continued absence a source of uncertainty RECLUSIVE North Korean leader Kirn Jong II has reportedly emerged over the weekend, in what is seen as an attempt to contain rumours that he is ill. But even though a
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      Lock icon White Rabbit candy is back in production
      263 17 AGENCIES SHANGHAI China's iconic White Rabbit candy is back in production after being pulled out of stores around the world last month in the wake of the country's tainted milk scandal, a state-run newspaper reported yesterday. The sweets are sold in more than
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      Lock icon China calls off exchange with the United States
      252 17 AFP TAIWAN ARMS ROW But US policy allows for such sales, says Pentagon spokesman BEIJING China yesterday confirmed that it had curtailed military exchanges with the United States over a proposed US arms package to Taiwan, saying the plan was a threat
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      Lock icon Taiwan security chief apologises for Sars gaffe
      121 17 AFP TAIPEI —Taiwan's top national security chief was yesterday forced to apologise after suggesting the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus could have been developed in Chinese laboratories as a bioweapon. National Security Bureau director Tsai Chao-ming "expresses his sincere apology that
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      Lock icon Indian family of 6 die in LA murder-suicide case
      269 18 AP LOS ANGELES An unemployed man with an advanced finance degree who was despondent over his own financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community, police said on
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      Lock icon The tough questions
      495 18 US PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE JOHN McCain and Barack Obama were set to meet Tuesday night (US time) in Nashville for the second US presidential debate. As Americans worry about a confusing federal rescue plan, a falling stock market and a financial crisis that is spreading across the globe,
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      Lock icon Not funny, Manila says of BBC comedy show
      230 19 AP TVSKIT^FFENSIVE' MANILA The Philippine government has protested against a BBC comedy sketch in which a Filipino maid was told to have sex with a neighbour, officials said yesterday. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban Conejos said the Philippine Embassy in London sent letters
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      Lock icon Murder victim 'ended up on the stove'
      293 19 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON The first winner of Mr Gay UK stabbed a man to death before carving a piece of flesh from his thigh, seasoning it with fresh herbs and cooking it in olive oil. Mr Anthony Morley, 36, then attempted to eat a
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      Lock icon Japanese duo, US scientist win Nobel prize
      244 20 AFP STOCKHOLM Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize yesterday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles. The three Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, as well as Mr Yoichiro Nambu of the United States were lauded
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      Lock icon BEWARE SOPUTAN
      122 20 AFP People living in the shadow of Mount Soputan volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi island were yesterday warned to stay away after it started spewing smoke and flames, officials said. 'There's no order to evacuate but people are asked to stay outside a radius of 4km from the volcano's
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      Lock icon Face-off
      380 20 AFP MALDIVES ELECTION A "Nelson Mandela' up against President of 30-year standing MALE (Maldives) Abitter campaign ahead of historic elections in the Maldives drew to a close yesterday, with a veteran Asian leader and a prominent dissident each confident of victory. The polls today will be the first time
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      Chief Justice post now vacant
      325 21 INDONESIAN LEGAL SYSTEM Lawmakers fail to retain incumbent JAKARTA Indonesia's current Chief Judge, Mr Bagir Manan, who reached the retirement age of 67 on Monday, will have to step down, following an unsuccessful attempt by the House of Representatives to pass a bill that will
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      Lock icon Not enough proof to sack ministers linked to graft
      240 21 AFP INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has no immediate plans to sack two ministers linked to a corruption scandal unless further evidence emerges against them, his spokesman said yesterday. "The President has summoned these two but it all depends on whether
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      242 21 "Raffles Education Corporation is Singapore's Largest and Most Global Private Education Organisation" by Edupoll 2008/09 4— •/A r. T f till Psychology is the science of mental processes: the systematic study of behaviour. At REC College, our Applied Psychology students, in addition to their psychology knowledge are equipped with an
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      Local situation 'stable'
      264 22  -  Angelina Fernandez DEPOSIT INSURANCE Letter from Director (Communications), Monetary Authority of Singapore I REFER to "Time to calm the waters?" (Oct 6). As noted by Mr Conrad Raj, the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) approach has been to emphasise stringent regulation and supervision of financial institutions so
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      Sorry for the confusion
      193 22  -  Tammy Tan Letter from Vice-president Corporate Communications SBS Transit WE REFER to "Wheelchair friendly but sorry, you can't board" (Oct 2). SBS Transit would like to apologise to all of its wheelchair-bound commuters who have been confused by the use of blue Wheelchair-Accessible Bus (WAB) decals
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      184 26  -  DR BILL MAIER BY ITS THE LITTLE THINGS THAT KILL A MARRIAGE It isn't the major tragedies that tear so many marriages apart, it's the unhealthy choices that couples make on a daily basis. When marriages fail, most couples point to some major issue, but strong
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      isay GREEM LIGHT TO HEALTH
      537 26  -  ZHUANGYIZHONG Use "traffic light' system to help consumers choose healthier food Adelaide, Australia I REFER to "Stay healthy, read the fine print" (Oct 6) about food labelling from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) and Health Promotion Board (HPB). The stance taken seems to be
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      278 27  -  Tan MeiXuan Letter from I AM glad that the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has been putting a lot of effort in testing food products and reassuring the public of their safety in the light of the mela-mine-in-food scandal. As a
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      1171 28  -  GENEVIEVE LOH dfgfhfghf CINEMA 101 genevievelohiaimediacorp.com. sg THE actors are unrecognisable faces, the filmmaker's name is something you can't pronounce, the language is foreign (naturally). And the film duration? Longer than your last three dates put together. Welcome to the world of the
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      350 31  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW BURN AFTER READING Non-stop laughs with the Coen Brothers' new film genevieveloh@mediacorp.com. sg HOW does a writing-directing powerhouse duo follow up a serious Best Picture Oscar? By having a ball of a time with a bunch of A-listers hamming it up
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      229 31  -  MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg EXPECT no complaints when the Ml Singapore Fringe Festival returns next year with a "safe" theme and a lot of firsts. The annual festival organised by The Necessary Stage will run from Jan 7 to 18 and will focus on
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      232 32  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH MOVIE Nothing new here, but still enjoyable christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg DIRECTOR Guy Ritchie returns with a flick that harks back to his earliest hit, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). But that's not a bad thing, considering his last movie Revolver (2005) was universally panned. Rocknßolla
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      230 34  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW BOTTLE SHOCK LIKE an expensive well-known bottle of wine you feel like you might have paid too much for, Bottle Shock has all the promise of a good, full-bodied grape but leaves a not-so-satisfying aftertaste. The film is based on reallife events
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      261 34  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW SALAWATI Too slow, but a good attempt at honest film-making genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS a Singapore film, made in the core racial languages of Malay, English, Tamil and Mandarin, directed by an American, with a world premiere at the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival. No
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      1052 35 TV LISTINGS ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL ON MEDIACORP AMERICA'S GOT TALENT 111 SPACE ODYSSEY Channel 5 7.30pm 6.00AM Entertainment Tonight 2.30 Style By Jury (Premiere) Is My Guy A Cheater? VovaqeToThe Planets (Debut) 6.30 Prime Time Morning 3.00 New Adventures Of Robin 1.00 Entertainment Tonight r 9.30 Oliver's Twist Hood I
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      588 36  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Forward-thin king Avramovie hopes to find the right attacking mix shamir@mediacorp.com.sg IF THE make up of the Lions squad that national coach Radojko Avramovic has picked is anything to go by, it appears that the Serb is plotting an all-out assault when Singapore
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      425 36  -  LOWLINFHOONG DESPITE being fined $20,000 by the courts last year after pleading guilty to two counts of corruption, former Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) technical director Zheng QJngjin (picture) is back at his old job. Yesterday, the SBA confirmed the 65-year-olds reappointment and
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      549 37  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE SPORTS SSC step in to resolve boardroom crisis while athletes eye Beach Games prize linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg ALL was calm at the Singapore Silat Federation's (SSF) Bedok centre of excellence yesterday evening, the same day news broke of a shake up in the national sports
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      362 37  -  SHAMIR OSMAN THE Singapore under-16 team will be making an early return home after being eliminated in the preliminary stage of the AFC Under-16 Championships. They face Iran at 3pm (6pm, Singapore time) today but have no chance of
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      560 38  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Mustafic #s eagerly awaiting the arrival of his first child NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Tampines Rovers v Dalian Shide Tampines Stadium, j.^spm sports@newstoday.com.sg TAMPINES Rovers' national midfielder Fahrudin Mustafic has enjoyed a successful six years in the S-League and three years
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      389 38 AFP FUJI SPEEDWAY (Japan) Fernando Alonso is realistic about his chances of another victory in Japan this week after his upset win in Singapore, but he remains confident Renault will again be on the pace. The two-time world champion
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      202 38 AP MILAN Ferrari will revert to a "lollipop" signal system for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix after a traffic light method caused mayhem during a pit stop in Singapore. "Right now we need to stay calm and therefore we've decided to go back to the
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      346 39 THE GUARDIAN LONDON West Ham's financial security is not at risk, according to one of the club's directors despite the collapse of Iceland's second largest bank, of which the Hammers' chairman was a major shareholder. West Ham's chairman, Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, was yesterday removed
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      378 39 AFP AFTERNOON UPDATE FA chief says more clubs are in trouble LONDON English Football Association chairman Lord Triesman said yesterday that English football had total debts of more than £3 billion ($7.7 billion) and warned of its danger to the well-being of the sport. The
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      38 37 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 4.55pm Football AFC Champions League: Adelaide Utd v Kuruvchi, Ch 23 5.55pm Football AFC Champions League: Gamba Osaka v Urawa Red Diamonds, Ch 24 6.35am-11.35pm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on gjBLive
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      565 40  -  ESTHER FUNG REBRANDING Water company taps staff's expertise for rebranding exercise esther@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN the Candid Water Cooler company went through a rebranding exercise earlier this year, the result was not just a better look for the product employees ended up feeling more involved and enthusiastic too.
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      455 40  -  ESTHER FUNG 2008 BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARDWINNERS: Singapore Quality Award: Avi-Tech Electronics, Baxter Healthcare (S'pore branch), PUB, URA Singapore Quality Award with special commendation: HDB People Excellence Award Hamilton Sundstrand, Pacific Aerospace Innovation Excellence Award: LTA, Kenwood Electronics Technologies (Singapore) Service Excellence Award McDonald's Restaurants
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      842 41 Keep your business going by staying connected at home and abroad With globalisation, more small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs are thinking big and are looking abroadto heedthe call of new business opportunities and explore untapped markets. Integrated communications agency FormulB is a case in
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      607 42  - OCTOBER 1929? THAT WAS EASY JOENOCERA THE NEWYORKTIMES BUSINESS COMMENT The current crisis is irrational and shows no signs of relenting WE WOKE up Monday morning, all of us, hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. The American Government's US$7OO-billion (sl-trillion) bailout package had been passed into law,
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      240 42 BLOOMBERG JAPAN and Australia's central banks pumped more than US$ll billion ($16.1 billion) into money markets yesterday, seeking to ease near-record borrowing costs that threaten to tip regional economies into recession. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) injected ¥1 trillion ($14.43 billion) and the
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      652 43  -  LYNETTE KOH Island Shop gets help from iadvisor to create franchise manual lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN without making much of an effort to market itself overseas, Island Shop has made its presence felt beyond Singapore over the past five years. Since 2003, the brand specialising in Asian
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      143 43 The iadvisory programme, a key initiative by International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, takes a holistic approach to provide Singapore-based companies with a comprehensive range of knowhow, important for overseas expansion via online and offline channels. iadvisory portal is an online platform that companies can use to
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      410 44  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg THAKRAL Corporation chairman Kartar Singh Thakral is fighting to stay in power even as the Hong Leong Group calls on shareholders to remove him, claiming that he was infirm and ineffective in his post. In a letter dated Oct
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      377 44  -  KELVIN CHOW INVESTMENT BANKING M&As to drive investment banking deals kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg INVESTMENT banking in the United States may have slowed and the big names in the industry have either disappeared, merged or transformed into bank holding companies, but Morgan Stanley Asia said the business remains robust
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      399 45  -  DOWJONES SINGAPORE GDP SINGAPORE'S economy likely expanded slightly in the third quarter, but analysts said weak global demand continues to strain the island's key manufacturing sector. A Dow Jones poll of nine economists forecast gross domestic product to have expanded 0.3 per cent
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      158 45 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday that a few financial institutions are considering replacing the collapsed Lehman Brothers as the swap counterparty for the Lehman Brothers Mini-bonds. HSBC Institutional Trust Services Singapore told the MAS that a 15-day grace period for coupon payment for
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      282 45 AGENCIES »CONTINUED FROM PAGE Bl central banks," said Ms Katie Dean, a senior economist at the Australia New Zealand Banking Group. Asian markets had opened lower following a rout on Wall Street the night before, but bounced back following news of the Australian rate
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        96 46 US MARKETS Dow slides US stocks plunged yesterday for a second straight day as investors were gripped by fears of a deeper credit crunch leading to severe recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 508.39 points (5.11 per cent) to a five-year low of 9,447.11 just after the closing
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        103 46 Oil rises Oil prices rebounded yesterday as the market speculated about an OPEC output cut and a concerted interest rate cut by central banks to face a global financial crisis. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, climbed U552.25 to close at U5590.06 a
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        101 46 Euro stocks fall European stocks fell, sending the DowJones Stoxx 600 Index to a four-year low, as concern that banks need more capital overshadowed the Federal Reserve's plan to unlock credit markets by purchasing shortterm corporate loans. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Pic tumbled 39 per cent on
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        475 46 AFP AFTERNOON UPDATE Fed moves to calm markets, Bernanke hints at rate change WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke hinted yesterday that the central bank would cut interest rates as the outlook for economic growth in the United States worsens. Speaking to business economists in Washington, Bernanke
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        136 46 AFP LUXEMBOURG The European Union battled yesterday to protect people's savings by more than doubling deposit guarantees to at least 50,000 euros in its first joint action against the global financial firestorm. Amid another day of financial turmoil, the European Central Bank also
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        137 46 AFP WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund urged central banks yesterday to collectively throw life lines to a global banking system sinking in financial turmoil, saying US$675 billion was needed over the next five years. Loan defaults in the United States, the epicenter of the financial crisis,
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