Today, 5 March 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    20 1 TODAY Thursday March 5, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday March 5, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      BIZ LATEST
      38 1 US Worsened' The US economy "deteriorated further" in almost all corners of the nation over the last two months as consumer spending slumped and manufacturing declined, according to the Federal Reserve's regional business survey. Page Bl
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      SPORTS LATEST
      76 1 Wayne Rooney (picture) and Dimitar Berbatov were on target as Manchester United extended their advantage at the top of the English Premier League with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Newcastle United yesterday. Page 47 Results of all the matches played yesterday: Newcastle 1 Man United 2 Man City
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      Maybe minus 10%: MM Lee
      1009 1  -  CHRISTIE LOH LINYANQIN ECONOMIC CONTRACTION GIC portfolio also takes a hit down 25 per cent from peak deputy business editor christie@mediacorp.com.sg MORE than just a numbers game, worsening projections of Singapore's economic growth are showing just how closely tied the country's fortunes are to global
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      Lock icon WHO WILL SAVE PAKISTAN?
      709 1  -  SIMON TISDALL THE GUARDIAN NEWS COMMENT Zadari's PPP seems unable to handle the country's problems THE audacious attack on Sri Lanka's cricket players as they travelled through Lahore has underscored fears that politically-fractured, economically-des-titute and militarily-challenged Pakistan, if not already a failed state, is heading rapidly
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Arrests, but no leads ...
      539 2 Arrests, but no leads AGENCIES TERROR IN LAHORE Provincial govt offers a $193,000 reward LAHORE With Pakistani investigators yet to determine who were behind the gun-and-grenade attack on Sri Lanka's visiting cricket team, the provincial government of Punjab yesterday took out advertisements offering a 10-million-Pa-kistani rupee ($193,000) reward for help
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      'S'pore can tough out what FT can put out'
      429 3  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THE exchange lasted perhaps five minutes, but it produced one of the more memorable segments of the hour-long dialogue. Partly because it involved a journalist who has had his run-ins with Singapore and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. When
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      Undergrad advised thrice to buck up
      187 4 THREE letters, advising Mr David Hartanto Widjaja to improve his academic performance, had been sent to the undergraduate and his family between Aug 10, 2007, and Aug 18 last year, before his Asean Undergraduate Scholarship was terminated last month. The Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
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      When cabbies turn to crime
      562 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ABDUCTION CASE Man pleads guilty to abduction charge, accomplice still at large weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THE plot was hatched over coffee. Later, they haggled with their victim over her ransom. Taxi drivers Au Gan Chye and Neo Soon Joo resembled a pair of bungling criminals than
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      Lock icon 'Resort at three-quarter mark'
      571 6  -  TEOXUANWEI MARINA BAY SANDS First batch of hotel rooms will be ready by August xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg COME year-end, Marina Bay Sands will usher visitors in to at least half of the property's gross floor area. That was the assurance given for Singapore's first integrated resort, although Marina
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      Lifting survival rates
      413 8  -  ALICIA WONG CHILDHOOD CANCER New centre targets more affordable treatment, gets $24-million boost alicia@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Indonesian children went through a cancer treatment developed in the United States, 25 per cent of them died from toxicity as the four drugs used were too intensive, and they did not
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      Lock icon COE prices rise in all but one category
      105 8 938 LIVE CHANNEL NEWSASIA, IN THE biggest surge in recent weeks, Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) have gone up for all but one category in the first bidding exercise this month. COE premiums have plummeted to historic lows in recent months. This was
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      Lock icon He overcame the odds, one at a time
      332 8  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg HE WAS born with a rare disease that made his lungs shrink over time. Because of Morquio Brailsford disease, a basic activity such as walking was difficult for Mr Dennis Kweh (picture) because he was frequently out of breath.
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        EASB LAUNCHES SCHOLARSHIP FUND
        63 10 A $io-million scholarship fund awarded by the East Asia Institute of Management has been launched to help Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents. The first tranche of 100 scholarships will be given out over six months, starting in April, and will covertuition fees. Applicants must be under
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        400 JOBS AT NORTH EAST CDC JOB FAIR
        78 10 Four hundred jobs at new neighbourhood mall Tampines 1 are up for grabs this Saturday. The North East Community Development Council (CDC) and mall landlord Asia Malls are organising a job fair at the Tampines Central Community Complex, Tampines Street 83, from
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        Lock icon DRUG ARRESTS AT ZOO
        137 10 AGENCIES The Night Safari cancelled performances after police arrested 10 Malaysian workers and three Singaporeans on suspected drug involvement, AFP reported. Three of the Malaysians were stopped at the Woodlands Checkpoint on Sunday and found to be carrying drugs that included cannabis, ketamine and "ice". Three
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      Late MP to be honoured
      460 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT VICTORIA JC DINNER weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg BOTH were instrumental on and off the field in building up the history of Victoria School (VS) and Victoria Junior College (VJC). Now, the late Dr Ong Chit Chung and Mr Retnam Pierre will be honoured as the college celebrates
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      Five more centres planned
      351 12  -  ZULOTHMAN FAMILY HELP zul@mediacorp.com.sg PART of the $16-million boost the Government is giving Family Service Centres (FSCs) will be spent building five more such centres to serve needy families in the next few years. This move, announced by Minister of State (Community Development, Youth and Sports)
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      Half of us would work for less pay, if job was good
      221 12 TOUGH times or not, half of Singapore's workers say they would work for less pay if they found real value in what they did. Among them, baby boomers (60 per cent) are more willing to sacrifice their salary
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      Lock icon UNDERNEATH IT ALL
      110 12 001 BOON KEONG The world's largest underground depot off Upper Paya Lebar Road is officially open. Built at a cost of $295 million and taking five years to complete, Kirn Chuan Depot is the nerve centre of the soon-to-be-launched Circle Line. Besides housing the operation control centre
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      Lock icon HSA confirms Lipitor's benefits
      228 13  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS a well-known cholesterol-lowering drug, but patients are still reluctant to take it in high doses for fear of side effects. Now, with the Health Sciences Authority's (HSA) approval last week that Lipitor has proven benefits to coronary heart disease patients such
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      Lock icon A Chikungunya treatment boost
      204 13 ALICIA WONG CURRENTLY, those suffering from Chikungunya are given general drugs to help alleviate their symptoms. But with the latest research findings, future patients could be getting more targeted drugs that would help them fight the disease. Local researchers at A*Star's Singapore Immunology Network (Sign) and
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Academics call for monarchy law reform
      210 14 AFP BANGKOK A group of academics yesterday launched a campaign to reform tough laws protecting Thailand's monarchy, amid a growing crackdown on alleged violators. More than 50 foreign and local experts, including famed linguist Noam Chomsky, have signed a letter which says the law
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      Lock icon $109 billion for defence budget
      360 14 AGENCIES CHINA'S MILITARY 14.9% rise in expenditure puts it on par with Japan, Russia and Britain BEIJING China announced its latest dou-ble-digit rise in defence spending yesterday. But Beijing insisted its expanding military posed no external threat despite concerns in Asia and the United States.
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      Lock icon India in bid to stop sale
      364 16 AGENCIES GANDHI MEMORABILIA Diplomats work to get items returned for public display NEW DELHI India has ordered its diplomats in the United States to try to obtain personal effects of iconic independence leader Mahatma Gandhi that are soon to be auctioned off in New
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon SUPERSONIC CRUISE MISSILE TESTED
        99 16 DPA India India on Tuesday successfully test-fired the land version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in the western state of Rajasthan. The Block II BrahMos missile took two-and-a-half minutes to strike its target at the Pokhran firing range, an official from the Defence Research and
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        Lock icon FIRM SUSPECTED OF ILLICIT CHINA EXPORTS
        113 16 AFP Japan Japanese police said yesterday they had arrested employees of a machinery maker on suspicion of illegally exporting to China and South Korea tools that could be used to produce nuclear weapons. One former and three current employees of Hiroshima-based Horkos Corp were
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        Lock icon WORST OF WILDFIRE SEASON DECLARED OVER
        131 16 AFP Australia The Australian authorities yesterday declared the worst of the deadly wildfire season over, telling thousands of people who fled their homes it was safe to return. Fire-fighting authorities began scaling back their operations after cooling rains fell almost a month after a
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      Lock icon PERAK'S LAW OF THE JUNGLE
      651 17 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER NEWS COMMENT Could the palace have done more to uphold Constitution? POLITICIANS might have started the Perak imbroglio but the palace, too, is guilty for adding to the constitutional crisis that has led to a state assembly under a raintree on Tuesday
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      Lock icon Chimp victim very badly injured
      139 18 AP NEW HAVEN (Connecticut) Hospital officials in Ohio say that a Connecticut woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage. The Cleveland Clinic says that 55-year-old Charla Nash
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      Lock icon Egyptian boy contracts bird flu
      146 18 AFP CAIRO Egypt's Health Ministry said yesterday that an eight-year-old boy had contracted bird flu after he was exposed to dead fowl, the state-run Mena news agency reported. The boy is the 57th case reported since the first outbreak of the disease in the country
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      Lock icon Call for joint panel on Bush
      216 18 AP AFTERNOON LATEST Republicans to Democrats: Forget it WASHINGTON Senate Democrats suggested yesterday that Republicans should join their call for a non-partisan "Truth Commission" to probe whether the Bush administration abused its power, or face partisan US congressional investigations. The Republican response: Forget it.
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      Lock icon Japan gives go-ahead to public cash handout
      221 20 AFP TOKYO Japan's Parliament yesterday approved legislation for a controversial plan to hand over US$22 billion ($34 billion) back to the public to fight the recession. In a rare revote, Prime Minister Taro Aso's coalition won approval with a two-thirds majority in the
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      Lock icon Opposition's 'destroyer' hit
      374 20 AGENCIES JAPAN POLITICS Ozawa claims key aide's arrest was politically motivated TOKYO Japan's opposition leader said yesterday he will not quit after the arrest of a key aide in a donations scandal that has dealt a major blow to the party's efforts to topple unpopular Prime Minister
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      Lock icon Abbas seeks Clinton's help
      439 21 AP I p US-PALESTINIANTIES Palestinian leaders urge US Secretary of State to push Israel on settlement freeze RAMALLAH (West Bank) Palestinian leaders were urging United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday to push Israel to freeze construction in West Bank settlements and open blockaded Gaza
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      Lock icon Iran's leader wants war crimes tribunal
      168 21 AGENCIES TEHRAN Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday called for Israeli leaders to be tried in an international war crimes tribunal over the conflict in Gaza two months ago, in which more than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died. Mr Khamenei was speaking
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        Lock icon SUDAN'S PRESIDENT BESHIR INDICTED
        98 22 AFP The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued yesterday an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, an ICC spokesman said. He is the first sitting ruler to face an ICC arrest warrant. The fiery and defiant professional
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        Lock icon PLANE CRASH: BAD ALTIMETER A FACTOR
        109 22 AP Investigators say a faulty altimeter played a role in a Turkish Airlines crash that killed 9 people in the Netherlands. The Dutch Safety Authority says the plane was landing on automatic pilot and the problem with the altimeter, a device that measures altitude,
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      Lock icon 'Have faith in free markets'
      401 22 AGENCIES US-UKTIES PM Brown urges US Congress to avoid protectionism WASHINGTON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is taking his message of faith in free markets to the United States Congress, where lawmakers have been eager to protect American businesses against foreign competition. Mr Brown was
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      554 18 Digital Edition The first of its kind in Singapore. Save yesterday for tomorrow. 30-Day archive. Available anytime, anywhere. T ARCHIVE ISSARCHf HOVE > BUSINESS Wednesday, fetmiary 18,2009 wesetvou linking Russia'set for 2.2% GDP British bailk RBS slashes bonuses by over 90% Russia launches major gas I, contraction' project near Japan
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      96 26  -  Goh Kee Nguan Letter from CEO, Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee WE REFER to the letter "A vote for road cycling at Youth Olympics" (Feb 27) by Mr Errol Goodenough. The Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee would like to clarify that
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      424 26  -  Adeline Yap LAST evening, over dinner, my eight-year-old daughter sighed as we discussed the tragedy at Nanyang Technological University. At 21, she said, most people would be out there having fun, excited about being on the brink of adulthood. "Yet someone among them was
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      119 26 YEOHAN KWANG The top picture shows the woods mentioned in Melissa Koh's I Say piece, 'Leave my green spot alone' (Feb 27). I saw these trees for the first 18 years of my life that picture was taken in 1996. I was dismayed when I saw
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      231 30  -  DRJAMES DOBSON Tl BY ROBIN IN A RAINSTORM Single parenting can be like a robin in a rainstorm. Sometimes the loneliness of single parenting can seem almost unbearable. I've heard that so often from those trying to parent without the aid of a spouse and how
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      827 41  -  JAMIESHUM A visit to the Thai capital shows that all's well in the land of a thousand smiles traveller@newstoday.com. sg DESPITE the political turmoil that brought the Suvarnabhumi airport to a halt and protests to the streets, tour agencies and regular visitors are confident Bangkok will soon
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      153 42 MOUSE HOUSE SPECIAL Three is the magic number this spring. One person can enjoy a free trip to the Mickey Mouse fun park when two book the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Disneyland (HKDL) package. The "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" special includes three economy return tickets, three passes
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      239 44  -  JENNIFERCHEN AT A time when commercial airlines are reducing flights and grounding planes, lowcost carriers are boldly going where they haven't gone before, and adding frequencies to existing routes to boot. On Tuesday, budget carrier Tiger Airways announced a seat sale
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        89 44 As airlines slash ticket prices to draw customers, budget carrier Jetstar Asia has thrown down the gauntlet to guarantee the cheapest seats to 16 short-haul destinations. Until Aug 16, travellers who find online fares that are cheaper than those on www.yetstar.com can call the company's 24- hour
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        132 44 Enjoy low fares and Japanese hospitality on those long-haul flights to the United States. All inclusive one-to-go tickets to Los Angeles and San Francisco are from $1,298 on ANA for bookings made before March 20 for travel between March 9 and April 7. Flights to
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        71 44 Leafy sidewalks, alfresco cafes and tulip fields in full bloom see Europe in full summer splendour. Book before March 16 to catch a British Airways flight to London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris from as low as $1,260, all inclusive. The price is valid for travel to 88 cities
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      700 47 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Newcastle 1 Manchester United 2 NEWCASTLE Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney were on target as Manchester United extended their advantage at the top of the English Premier League with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Newcastle United yesterday (this morning,
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      379 47 DPA LONDON With Manchester United opening up a seven-point lead at the top of the Premiership with their 2-1 win over Newcastle United, here is a look at how the rankings have changed following two days of matches involving all 20 teams in
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      679 48  -  LEONARDTHOMAS SPORTS MATTERS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.cop.sg With less than four months to the Asian Youth Games, it's about time the buzz starts building ON TUESDAY, Fifa expressed disappointment over the lack of promotional activities generated by the South African organisers for the World Cup,
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      167 48  -  SHAMIR OSMAN DEFENDING champions SAFFC (picture, in blue) maintained their perfect start to the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League season with a 3-1 win over arch-rivals Home United at the Choa Chu Rang Stadium last night. An Ahmad Latiff header in the 39th minute was cancelled out by a
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      581 49  -  LAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Former Geylang star Aide will use "inside knowledge' to help Sengkang win Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 Sengkang Punggol v Geylang United Hougang Stadium, 7.45pm ian@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN Aide Iskandar leads out Sengkang Punggol tonight against Geylang United in their Great-Eastern-Yeo's S-League
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      388 49 AGENCIES LONDON Liverpool beat Sunderland 2-0 at home on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to keep their hopes of a first Premiership title in 19 years alive. And there was more good news for Reds fans here after the match. Quoting a club
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      710 50  -  MELISSA TAN 938 LIVE FINANCIALCRISIS melissatan@mediacorp.com. sg THREE years ago, Mr Gurdev Singh was working in a security firm for a monthly pay of $1,200. The divorcee with a son, had just started dating. He and his girlfriend were thinking of starting a family,
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      374 52 AGENCIES AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY GDP contracts by 0.5% from the third quarter THE Australian economy has joined most of the rest of the developed world and shifted into reverse. Official figures released yesterday showed the country's gross domestic product (GDP) unexpectedly shrank in the fourth
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      397 54 AGENCIES JAPAN CAR-MAKERS VEHICLE manufacturers Honda and Mazda may join Toyota Motor, Japan's No 1 car manufacturer, in asking the government for financial aid. This comes as industry data showed Asia-based car-makers' sales declined a combined 34 per cent from a year earlier,
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      673 55  -  MATTHEW LYNN BUSINESS COMMENT Refinancing, stress tests and government intervention needed before it is too late BANKERS, regulators and politicians are behind the curve. They are like workers rushing to clear up a car crash armed only with aspirin and Band-Aids: too late on the scene, and
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      470 56 AGENCIES CHANGEATTHE HELM Former Finance Minister nominated to head troubled Swiss bank ÜBS has nominated former Swiss Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger as chairman of its board of directors, replacing Peter Kurer after one year, amid a probe into whether it helped wealthy Americans evade taxes. Mr
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      318 56  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg GOVERNMENTS need to formulate timely "exit strategies" to ensure that quick fix measures adopted to fight economic recession don't lead to inflation or hinder private borrowing. That was the advice given yesterday by Mr Heng Swee Keat, managing director
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      129 57 KELVIN CHOW MAINBOARD-LISTED cosmetics company, Beauty China Holdings, has disclosed that its chairman Wong Hon Wai was forced to sell about 4.6 million mortgaged shares in the firm. Mr Wong has declined an interview with Today to clarify why he was forced to sell
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      45 57 EPA Agents of Ukraine's national intelligence agency (SBU) escort the vicechief accountant of Ukraine national natural gas company Naftogaz, Ms Maria Kushnir (centre) in Kiev, Ukraine. SBU in a statement confirmed their agents had conducted a raid in connection with an anti-corruption investigation.
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      516 57  -  CONRAD RAJ BUSINESS COMMENT Current situation provides company with cheaper way of exploiting synergies editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg DID United Overseas Land (UOL) really "fail" in its attempt to take over United Industrial Corporation (UIC)? Most market observers suspect that UOL was never really that serious with its
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          84 58 Stocks rebound Wall Street snapped a five-day losing streak, as an expected huge stimulus plan from China and new US efforts to ease home foreclosures helped mute the impact of weak economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 150.14 points to 6,876.16, rising from 12--year lows, the
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          79 58 Crude up U553.73 Oil prices jumped nine per cent as markets rebounded and as the US reported that crude levels in America's storage houses had fallen unexpectedly. Benchmark crude for delivery next month rose U553.73 a barrel to U5545.38 in New York, its highest close in six weeks.
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          55 58 Rebound here, too European stocks rebounded from 12-year lows on news of China's impending stimulus package. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 133.78 points to 3,645.87, Germany's DAK added 200.22 points to 3,890.94 and France's CAC 40 rallied 121.13 points to 2,675.68. The national benchmark indexes climbed in 17 of
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