Today, 3 March 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Tuesday March 3, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Tuesday March 3, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      BIZ LATEST
      37 1 US stocks tumble Renewed fears about the financial sector sent Wall Street indexes tumbling to fresh 12-year lows yesterday after a new bailout for insurance giant AIG and big troubles for Britain's HSBC. Page BI
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      NEWS LATEST
      91 1 Donors pledge $8b International donors have pledged a total of US$5.2 billion ($8 billion) to rebuild the devastated Gaza Strip and fund the Palestinian government, giving a powerful boost to President Mahmoud Abbas and putting new pressure on the rival Hamas militant group to moderate. Page 17 2
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      SPORTS LATEST
      45 1 Chase to continue Guvs Hiddink accepts it will be an uphill battle to stop Manchester United from winning the Premier League but has promised Chelsea will do all they can to stop them between now and the end of the season. Page 33
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      Lock icon Tragedy at NTU
      896 1  -  ZULOTHMAN CAMPUS HORROR He was an avid gamer and a brilliant student what made him snap? zul@mediacorp.com. sg HE WAS both a brilliant student, and a loner who loved his manga comics and World of Warcraft. David Hartanto Widjaja was in his final year at the School
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      Lock icon Winning Chinese bidder says he won't pay for imperial bronzes
      436 1 AGENCIES BEIJING After days of frenzied speculation, a well-known Chinese art collector yesterday revealed himself as the mysterious bidder who bought two controversial imperial bronzes at an auction in Paris, which had gone ahead despite Beijing's objections. However, in a
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      Now open for your inspection
      383 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG REGISTER OF ELECTORS cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg FROM today, legislative changes to relax rules on overseas voting will swing into force as the Elections Department completes its revision of the Register of Electors and opens it for public inspection until March 16. The electoral roll, which lists
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      OTHER VIOLENT INCIDENTS ON CAMPUS
      139 3  -  LINYANQIN In August 2003, a professor from the National University of Singapore engineering faculty was fatally slashed at the throat with a paper cutter by a technician who barged into a management meeting. The man was found to have been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. He
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      Law Society: More can be done
      479 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG CRIMINAL PROCEDURECODE It wants more transparency in pre-trial process, detailed rules for police interrogation cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg BY ALL accounts, the proposed changes to the Criminal Procedure Code the most sweeping since 1985 would better protect the interest of defendants. Still, the Law Society believes
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      Four arrested for evading GST
      237 4 THEY tried to pull the wool over official eyes by submitting invoices that showed incorrect values for the import of cars from Japan. For that, four Singaporeans were arrested yesterday for fraudulent evasion of duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST). Mr Ng Wee Siang,
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      Three sue bank to recover forex losses
      430 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT IN COURT Plaintiffs claim HSBC prevented them from using certain trading strategies weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THEY considered Singapore as an ideal destination for their investments given the Republic's status as a leading financial centre. But less than three months after they opened a foreign
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      Now, rag-and bone man wants a lawyer
      262 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ALL he needed was an interpreter, he had earlier said. Less than two weeks later, the rag-and-bone man, accused of threatening to harm Member of Parliament (MP) Denise Phua, changed his mind. Yesterday, just before the start of his trial, Mr Ng
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      Lock icon Travel bug bites even as Natas sales fall
      335 6  -  JENNIFERCHEN ALTHOUGH sales figures revealed by Natas (National Association for Travel Agents Singapore) for its travel fair over the weekend showed that the recession has hit holiday budgets, sales at travel fairs leading up to the biannual event indicated that travel is
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      Beyond the call of duty
      463 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN CUSTOMER SERVICE CAAS recognises airport workers for service excellence chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg CUSTOMER service officer Sarah Jane Casama had finished work at midnight and had slept only three hours when she got a call from a distressed Filipino traveller in Changi Airport's transit area. Mrjose Ping-ay's
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      Defuse the mindset
      457 10  -  ESTHERNG ASEAN ROUNDTABLE Nuclear power is a viable energy source, but people need to be educated, say experts estherng@mediacorp.com.sg PEOPLE equate nuclear energy with explosives, thanks to movies where the bad guy often comes armed with a nuclear bomb. As a result, the problem is not so
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      Seniors volunteer group, RSVP, goes self-sufficient
      320 10  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com. sg THEY are a group of senior volunteers who have spent the last 10 years helping the less fortunate. Now, the charity is shifting away from just asking for donations, towards financial self-sufficiency. The new direction was announced yesterday as the
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      Lock icon A-LEVEL RESULTS TO BE RELEASED ON FRIDAY
      64 10 938LIVE TheGCE A-Level examination results will be released on Friday. School candidates may obtain their result slips from their respective schools from 2.30pm. Private candidates will be able to get their results through the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board website at www.seab.gov.sg, also
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      323 3 THINK SUCCESS. THINK ]VT]DTS ~<*am to turn M|H |'@Cl«'/ «Ai^e Consistently ranked No. 1 for graduate employment in Yorkshire and HHUPIffi^PWJPPffIPfI Mi-m^ftlU^^ OF™.*™™™ joint Ist place in the North of England (Times Good University Guide 2008) ■fiiMWMMllMMfil Ofr j^^^^^^^pS> Business studies undergraduate programmes ranked among top 10 f^t^y in UK
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      154 4 Bk To bring cheer for this downturn, NTUC Club is slashing prices to make fun affordable. B NTUC members enjoy 1 -for-1 deals* from now till 13 March 2OO9.fn|=||||Qj m. \'*»<tnigMf«*/ admission m \Si» U pßslSa/ \a«uptos«3®/ \*«in.l»SW»» ■i DowtttomieaatX I IVoimtoim CnsA Hf <V ffO Ferris Wheel 7-for-1 Ptay
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      26 10 Jffc "make EMPLOYABILITY YOUR GREATEST ASSET. M^^^H^k YOUR CHOICE;; tffff^ Queen Margaret University tBT ASIA CAMPUS "Singapore's BEST Institution in Hospitality Tourism Management" Edupoll Survey 2008/09
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon N Korea, UN hold talks amid tensions
      296 12 AGENCIES SEOUL Generals from North Korea and the United States-led United Nations Command in South Korea met for talks yesterday for the first time in almost seven years as tensions rise over Pyongyang's planned rocket launch. Their meeting at Panmunjom, inside the frontier
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      Lock icon BN fights for control of Perak
      306 12 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS Opposition plans to call no-confidence vote during emergency sitting KUALA LUMPUR Just 24 hours before an emergency session of the Perak state assembly was to start, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) went on overdrive to forestall being brought down.
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      Lock icon Indonesians tighten polygamy rules
      125 12 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian Muslims contemplating an illicit second, third or fourth marriage could face jail under a proposed bill aimed at tightening the rules for polygamy. The draft rules being considered would force Muslim men wanting to take extra wives to get written consent from their
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      Lock icon HK, US scientists develop improved bird flu vaccine
      185 14 AFP. HONG KONG Scientists from Hong Kong and the United States have developed a new vaccine against the HSNI bird flu virus which could be cheaper and more effective than its predecessors, the University of Hong Kong said yesterday. Microbiologists from the
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      Lock icon Tibetan monks vs police again
      235 14 AGENCIES SICHUAN UNREST Security forces surround Tibetan monastery after protest: Activists BEIJING Security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in southwest China after monks there demonstrated against a decades-old ban on prayers during the Tibetan New Year, activists said yesterday. The demonstration on Sunday the
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      Lock icon SNOWSTORM HITS US EAST COAST
      78 17 AP A worker plows snow in front of the White House. A massive snowstorm ravaged the eastern United States yesterday, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of thousands of schools. The storm could be the largest in three years, with more
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      Lock icon Donor nations pledge $8b
      371 17 AP REBUILDING GAZA SHARM EL-SHEIK (Egypt) International donors have pledged a total of US$5.2 billion ($8 billion) to rebuild the devastated Gaza Strip and fund the Palestinian government, giving a powerful boost to President Mahmoud Abbas and putting new pressure on the rival Hamas militant group
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      Lock icon Police charge 2 over record Irish bank robbery
      172 17 AP DUBLIN Police charged two men last night in connection with a record Irish robbery in which a gang forced a Bank of Ireland employee to steal millions from his own employer or risk having his family executed. The police did not
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      Lock icon Ukraine has world worried
      378 19 THENEWYORKTIMES COUNTRY IN CRISIS Political bickering, faltering economy have left nation teetering KIEV Steel and chemical factories, once the muscle of Ukraine's economy, are dismissing thousands of workers. Cities have had days without heat or water because they cannot pay their bills, and Kiev's subway service
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      Lock icon 'We'll leave Iraq a better place'
      147 19 THE GUARDIAN A BRITISH General claims the army will leave Iraq with Al Qaeda largely defeated and the roots of democracy firmly planted. Lieutenant-General John Cooper believes January's nationwide provincial elections were a turning point. He said Iraq would be handed over in better
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      Lock icon Yes to death with dignity
      195 19 AP OLYMPIA (Washington) Terminally ill patients with less than six months to live will soon be able to ask their doctors to prescribe them lethal medication in the American state of Washington. But even though the "Death with Dignity" law takes effect on Thursday, people
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      An accepted right
      292 20  -  CONSTITUTIONAL LAW How the right to vote should be exercised already set out in legislation Chong Wan Yieng Letter from Press Secretary to the Minister for Law ASSISTANT Professor Jack Lee, in his letter, "Make the Implicit Explicit" (Feb 20), has suggested that it is desirable for
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      We're not just a concrete jungle
      176 20  -  Darren Lum Letter from I REFER to Melissa Koh's I Say comment, "Leave my green spot alone" (Feb 27). If you use Google Earth to look at Singapore from far, you will see that while there's concrete almost everywhere, at the same time, it
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      215 22  -  DRJAMES DOBSON BY THE FOUNDATION OF SOCIETY It's been said that strong families represent the foundation for a stable and well-ordered society, and it's true. So much of what brings health and happiness to human beings, especially children, depends on committed family units. That's why social
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      Lock icon THE 'BALANCING' MUM
      788 22  -  AGATHA KOH BRAZIL COFFEEWITH voices editor agatha@mediacorp.com.sg Maybe you can't have it all, but clear priorities help IT IS International Women's Day on Sunday, but there are some things that may never change. Women still can't really "have it all". As Melisa Tantoco Quijano puts it: "I've
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      258 20 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices tmc Pathway Disciplines offered include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Finance, Gaming, Hospitality Tourism, Information Technology, Law, Marketing, Mass Communications, Multimedia, Property, Psychology... BR fflfflEEM LiverpoolJohn MooresUniversity, UK The University of Newcastle, Australia Higher Diploma in: KjHSEjUm! JKllllM BSc (Hons) Internet Computing Systems
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      Annie Lennox called me 'dear'
      1054 24  -  SEOW JIA MIN IN LONDON TODAY EXCLUSIVE She's a living legend, yet she's warm like an old friend plus@mediacorp.com.sg ORDINARILY, this reporter who is otherwise terribly responsible would say no to working on the first day of Chinese New Year. It's not being lazy. It's
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    • PLUS ROUNDUP
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        MORNINGS WITH VERNETTA
        130 26 Three's a crowd? Not on Class 95FIWS Morning Express, which welcomed Vernetta Lopez to the fold yesterday. Lopez, who previously hosted the Lunchbreak slot, will join Glenn Ong and the Flying Dutchman on the morning show from 6am to 10am. Taking over her slot is Carol Smith,
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        MEXICAN JAZZ
        72 26 The Mexican embassy is presenting a jazz concert Mexican style. Jazz trio Sacbe, consisting of theToussaint brothers (Eugenio on piano, Enrique on bass and Fernando on drums), who performed at last year's International Jazz Festival of Montreal, will be performing two concerts on March 8. They'll be at
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        GENEE BALLET ON OUR SHORES
        113 26 Think you've got what it takes to be the top ballet dancer in the world? Registration for the prestigious Genee International Ballet Competition 2009 is open until Aug 3. The annual ballet meet, the flagship event by Britain's Royal Academy of Dance, will beheld in
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      Heroes in mid-flight
      465 28  -  MAYO MARTIN THEATRE REVIEW SLEEPLESS TOWN Brave new musical does not completely take off mayo@mediacorp.com.sg "WHAT the hell is this the Church of Scientology?" a certain character blurts out as she steps out of a phone booth/teleportation device and into the bizarre world of Sleepless Town. And
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      768 30  -  EVELINE GAN NUTRITION DURING MENOPAUSE Keeping to certain dietary habits during this period can provide relief from symptoms eveline@mediacorp.com. sg MENOPAUSE. For some women like Mdm Karen Tan, the word itself evokes fear and anxiety. Even before she hit menopause, the 51-year-old homemaker began experiencing its
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        44 30 Paediatricians will shed light on childhood asthma and allergies. Date: Saturday Time: 1.30pm to 3.30pm Venue: HDB Hub Convention Centre, Auditorium, 480 Lorong 6Toa Payoh Fee/Registration: $6 per person/$8 per couple. Registration required. Call 6772 5566 or email enquiry@ican.com.sg.
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        GLAUCOMA PUBLIC FORUM, EYE CHECK
        64 30 Eye experts will talk about the condition that accounts for 40 per cent of blindness in Singapore. The eye check will be available at $5 per person. Date: Saturday Time: 9.30am to 11am (eye check), 11.30am to Ipm (talk) Venue.-Auditorium, Level 4, Tower Block, Singapore
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        BEATING COLORECTAL CANCER
        34 30 Learn about its risk factors and howto manage the condition. Date: Sunday Time: 10am to 12.30pm Venue: Theatrette, Level 1, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Fee/Registration: Free. Registration required. Call 6357 8266.
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        48 30 Learn more about the types of food that are useful in managing menopausal symptoms. Date: March 9 Time: 2pm to 3.30pm Venue: 9 Bishan Place, Junction 8 Office Tower #06-05 Fee/Registration: $12. Registration required. Call 6250 1012. Open only to women aged 40 and above.
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      932 32 TV LISTINGS ON MEpJACORP ....™.™__™....g.... TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE 6ooAM Entertainment Tonight Hood II Batman Begins (Available in OKTORIGINAL Batman Begins 5.30 Prime Time Morning 4.00 Heroes II True HD on HDS) Happily Ever After j-i I 9.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI 12.45AM Justfor
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      668 33 THE GUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST Hiddink promises to do all he can to stop United LONDON Guvs Hiddink accepts it will be an uphill battle to stop Manchester United from winning the Premier League but has promised Chelsea will do all they can to stop them between
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      292 33 .AFP LONDON Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal can rescue a Champions League place from their disappointing season if his players start to think positively. The misfiring Gunners face West Bromwich Albion tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) after a dismal run of four successive goalless draws
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      248 34 SHAMIR OSMAN THREE matches into the Great EasternYeo's S-League 2009 season, Tampines Rovers have yet to record their first win. The Eastern giants were held to a 1-1 draw by lowly Balestier Khalsa at Toa Payoh Stadium last night. New signing Seiji Kaneko gave Tampines the lead in
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      382 34  -  LOW LIN FHOONG HSBC WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS 20og World No 3 Creamer and Singapore amateur Joey get practice round in linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg WOMEN'S world No 3 Paula Creamer, Momoko Ueda of Japan (14), 2008 Scandinavian TPC winner Amy Yang (Korea), and LPGA rookie Vicky Hurst arrived in
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      494 34  -  LAN DE COTTA Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 Woodlands Wellington v Young Lions Woodlands Stadium, 7.45pm ian@mediacorp.com.sg THE Young Lions have the youngest squad in the 12-team competition the average age of the 25-player roster is 19.5 years but they've been
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      351 35  -  LOW LIN FHOONG ASIAN YOUTH GAMES 2009 Fans will have access to live events, news via official website linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg THE battleground for the first Asian Youth Games in Singapore has been set, with 10 venues around the island hosting a total of 90
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      128 35 SPORTS BET INLI WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER S.League Woodlands Young Lions Tue, 03/03/09 7.45pm German Cup Mainz Schlko4 Wed, 04/03/09 3.30 am Italian Cup Lazio |tvs Wed, 04/03/09 3.45 am S.League SAFFC Home United Wed, 04/03/09 7.45pm S.League Brunei DPMM Super Reds Wed, 04/03/09 8.15pm German Cup Wolfsburg W Bremen
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      58 35 SPORTS ON TV TODAY Bam NHL Colorado v Ny Islanders, Ch 117 TOMORROW 3.45 am EPL Portsmouth v Chelsea, Ch 27 4am EPL Liverpool v Sunderland, Ch 21 Bam Basketball Michigan State v Indiana, Ch 23 9.30 am NHL Detroit vSt Louis Blues, Ch 117 SPORTS ON RADIO 6.35am-11.35pm Sports
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      347 36  -  MCDONALD'S MOMENTS Its new campaign ads were inspired by real-life stories and directed by Eric Khoo PEARLYNTHAM pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg YOU may have had a McDonald's moment in your life. Perhaps when you were younger, your parents would reward you with a visit to McDonald's whenever you aced
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      166 36 IT PAYS to tune in to radio. MediaCorp Radio, which has 12 stations including 938 LIVE, Class 95FM and YES 93.3FM, recently held the Great Radio Game from Feb 2 to 27. During this period, "SMS To Qualify" trailers were played on all 12 MediaCorp Radio
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      938 38  -  DAVID REILLY BUSINESS COMMENT Citigroup'sVlP investors benefit at the expense of the average Joe IT'S good to be a Saudi prince. And it's good to be an investment company backed by the Singapore Government or a former Citigroup chief executive. For that, you get favoured treatment from
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      315 39 AFP HSBC'SWOES Banktoaxe6 ioo US jobs after profits plunge 70 per cent GLOBAL banking titan HSBC yesterday said it needs nearly US$lB billion ($2B billion) of new capital to withstand the financial crisis and announced 6,100 job cuts in the United States after profits collapsed. The
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        73 40 OIL PRICES Crude down US$4.6l Oil prices plunged almost 10 per cent in New York after another huge US government bailout in the financial sector sent markets into a tailspin on fears of a deepening global economic slump. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in
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        86 40 Big fall in prices European stocks posted their biggest drop since December as concern grew that banks will need more capital. In Britain, stocks fell to the lowest since 2003 as HSBC's plan to raise £12.5 billion ($27.6 billion) in a rights offering sparked the biggest slump in
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        75 40 Closes lower again Gold fell for the sixth straight session, the longest slump since October, as some investors sold the precious metal to cover losses in equity markets. Gold futures for April delivery fell US$2.5O to US$94O an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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        459 40 AGENCIES IN EXCHANGE for as much as US$3O billion ($45 billion) in fresh government funds, American International Group (AIG) will undergo a dramatic restructuring after posting the biggest quarterly loss in American history. The fourth-quarter net loss of US$6l.7
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        517 40 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST Dow in first close below 7,000 and the weakest since April 1997 NEW YORK Renewed fears about the financial sector sent Wall Street indexes tumbling to fresh 12--year lows yesterday after a new bailout for insurance giant AIG and big troubles for Britain's HSBC.
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        424 40  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE Singapore's three homegrown lenders have made it into a list of the world's 50 "safest banks", they are not in the good books of some investors. Yesterday, share prices of the trio hit one-year lows during intraday trading, as
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      245 38 Best Selling Author gi main An #±poor UH I LIVE in Singapore 2009! Robert believes in the potential of the human spirit and Is dedicated to H unleashing and setting it free! It is only through awareness, education and II action that YOU can finally take control of YOUR life
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      235 39 A member of ngi m L career milestone? J|k "J& I Discover at PSB Academy. The University of Newcastle, Australia is widely known for its sterling reputation in academic and research excellence. Its researchers care about making an impact on the world, especially in the fields of energy, the environment,
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      139 42 Check in at Swensen's and travel to Italy, Germany, France and England all four countries at the same time! End your delicious Europe adventure with a delightful Profiteroles Glacee! Start your gastronomic journey from $15.90! Each European set meal conies with a Soup-of-the-Day and Soft Drink of your choice. 1
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      1034 44 The world's top 78 female golfers have arrived in Singapore and are ready I to battle it out at Asia's major' for a share of the USs2million prize purse. I HSBC^X^ Women's sth-Bth March 2009 A rhomrvinno T uu h r t pi l Defending champion and world number one
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