Today, 11 March 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Wednesday March n, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    29 1 Maria Siow From Ping-Pong Diplomacy to Panda Diplomacy to Spring Diplomacy. Now, China seems to be trying out "Barbed Diplomacy", says our East Asia Bureau Chief. Page 16
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    COMMENT
    19 1 Economic revenge America's current economic woes stem from the 1997 Asian financial crisis, says Dean Baker. Page 22
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    SPORTS
    19 1 Welcome, Man Utd English Premiership giants eye Singapore as regional base for their youth football academy. Page 42
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    BUSINESS
    15 1 Unorthodox *plan Malaysian Finance Minister Najib Razak unveils a $25-bil-lion stimulus package. Page Bl
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    SUPPLEMENT
    16 1 School's out! Find out how your children can have a well-balanced school holiday. Page 36
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    A dubious promotion
    660 1  -  TEOXUANWEI SINGAPORE: 10TH MOST COSTLY CITY xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg WITH the economic crisis wreaking havoc on global currencies heavily strengthening some, like the Japanese yen, while striking down others, like the British pound the result has been much turbulence on the leaderboard of the world's most expensive cities
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    Lock icon Standoff at sea: China testing waters?
    546 1 AGENCIES BEIJING Just when USChina ties appeared to be on the upswing, a tense standoff between their two navies in the South China Sea on Sunday has led at least one United States lawmakerto suggest that Beijing is out to test the Obama administration.
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    Lock icon Cancer claim criteria: Docs unconvinced
    727 1  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg MANY believe buying health insurance will help defray their medical costs should they fall ill. But what few seem aware of, is that were they to come down with cancer, their critical illness policy is no sure guarantee of this. Some oncologists
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      Bumpy road ahead for some schools
      749 3  -  LINYANQIN PRIVATE EDUCATION ACT New education council prepared to deal with upheaval, help students yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS expected that some schools will close down, merge or get absorbed by larger operators over a period of about 18 months. In the long run, tighter regulations
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      MM Lee clears the air about Goodyear
      308 3 WHEN it comes to the issue of succesion, Temasek Holdings updates its CEO options yearly, the company has told Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. At the Thomson Reuters Newsmaker Event on March 4, MM Lee had said that Mr Charles Goodyear was picked
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      i.Mail's moving woes
      282 4  -  ONGDAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg HE WAITED yesterday for a client to email him information, but a breakdown in Star Hub's LMail service meant he never received it. The pastoral counsellor told Today that Star Hub had sent out an email last month informing users that it was shifting
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      US move puts kink in talent flow here?
      694 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG STEM CELL RESEARCH As Obama lifts funding ban scientists say Singapore's reputation should keep talent coming here cheekong@mediacorp.com. sg AS THE United States on Monday lifted barriers on embryonic stem cell research, and with South Korea set to also review its
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      Is it RIP for Singapore Internet radio?
      407 6  -  MAYO MARTIN SHE lives in China, yet it's a family of familiar voices from Singapore that have kept Jennifer Seah informed and entertained. For the past two-and-a-half years, the Singapore housewife, whose husband works in Shanghai, has been tuning into MediaCorp's Internet radio
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      Lock icon Reaching out to the young at heart
      607 8  -  ALICIA WONG ALICIA WONG NTUC ELDERCARE alicia@mediacorp.com. sg THESE senior citizens are better-educated, health-conscious, affluent and know what they want. If they were to go to a day care centre, they would pick one that gave them more options. One, perhaps, of the
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        SCOUT JOB WEEK STARTS
        109 10 Scout Job Week begins on Saturday, but it got off to an early start at the Istana yesterday as some scouts got down to carrying out a series of cleaning jobs in the compound. The annual event was launched by Presidents R Nathan. During this school
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        Lock icon AVAGETS NEW CEO
        113 10 CHANNELNEWSASIA THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) will get a new chief on May 21. DrChuaSin Bin, who has been with AVA since Aug 2005, is retiring as chief executive officer. His position will be taken over by Ms Tan Poh Hong, the current deputy
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        Lock icon DENGUEONTHE RISE
        79 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Dengue fever is on the rise in Singapore. The National Environment Agency (NEA) said there were 1,205 cases of dengue here in the first nine weeks of this year, compared to 952 cases registered in the same period last year a 26-per-cent increase This rising trend
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        Lock icon REGISTERS OF ELECTORS OPEN
        138 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Nearly 24,000 Singaporeans have checked their particulars in the Registers of Electors, which are open for inspection until March 16. Seventeen people who qualify as electors but were not on the registers applied to be included; 18 sent in objections against names of people
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      Lock icon Get well sooner
      367 10  -  ESTHER NG HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY Once the preserve of divers, HBOT now available at SGH estherng@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN the wound on Mr Lee Tee Kuang's left leg did not heal after two months and he was left with a 10-cm-long gash of exposed flesh, the 60-year-old diabetic sought
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      Lock icon A BIRTHING APE
      127 12 THE SINGAPORE ZOO There has been a lot of'monkeying around' at the Singapore Zoo. And the result is not one, but four recent primate births one each of the colobus and black howler monkeys and two proboscis monkeys (picture). These births mark the first for the colobus
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      He stole to self-console
      465 12  -  ZULOTHMAN THEFTWHILE DEPRESSED Man in "difficult case has sentence cut zul@mediacorp.com. sg TWO men went on a spending spree last year, charging $2,661.25 to stolen credit cards. As a result, one of them, Joe Teo, was sentenced to 18 months' jail on July 1 last year
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon War of words
      506 14 AGENCIES TIBETCONUNDRUM China says it won't respond to Dalai Lama's lies on Tibetan repression DHARAMSHALA (India) Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama accused China of having brought "hell on earth" to his homeland in a speech yesterday on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising.
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      Lock icon A 'merciless' strike
      356 15 AGENCIES CITIZENS'ABDUCTION Pyongyang warns Tokyo against finding a pretext to recolonise the peninsula SEOUL North Korea accused Japan yesterday of raising an outcry over the abduction of its civilians in an attempt to find a pretext for recolonising the peninsula. The North said its military would launch
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      Lock icon Anwar to go on trial for sodomy in July
      139 15 AP KUALA LUMPUR Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will go on trial for sodomy in July, Malaysia's high court said yesterday, overruling the politician's fears of not getting a fair hearing. Mr Anwar claims there is a greater risk of bias in
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      Bali bombers to testify against Hambali
      194 15 JAKARTA Convicted Bali bombers Ali Imron and Mubarok said they will testify against alleged terrorist mastermind Hambali, if he is returned to Indonesian custody after the closure of Guantanamo prison. The Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorists are in prison for their roles in the 2002
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      CHINA'S 'BARBED DIPLOMACY'
      724 16  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg CHINA'S diplomacy has taken many forms over the years from Ping-Pong Diplomacy to Panda Diplomacy, New Diplomacy, Spring Diplomacy, and even New Dictatorship Diplomacy. But at the weekend, Foreign Minister Yangjiechi might have just added another new
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      Lock icon US wants Swiss help in Iran
      97 18 AFP WASHINGTON The United States said on Monday it wants a representative from the Consulate of Switzerland, which represents US interests in Iran, to see IranianAmerican journalist Roxana Saberi, who is being held in Tehran. US State Department acting spokesman Robert Wood said Washington
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      Lock icon Ministers were the target of attack
      317 18 AFP SRI LANKASUICIDE BOMBING COLOMBO At least 15 people were killed yesterday and another 60 including a government minister were wounded in a suicide bombing in southern Sri Lanka blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels. The attack was targeted at politicians attending a function at
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      Lock icon Suicide bomber strikes blow to national reconciliation efforts in Iraq
      262 19 AFP BAGHDAD A suicide bomber yesterday killed at least 33 people outside the town hall in Abu Ghraib, on Baghdad's western edge, security officials said. Among the victims were Iraqi army officers who had been meeting people in the local
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      Lock icon Iran may join US-led talks
      229 19 AFP TEHRAN Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited Iran yesterday on a trip that could help seal Tehran's presence at the table for an international meeting aimed at helping his violence-wracked nation. The United States, other world powers and neighbours of Afghanistan are due to meet
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      Lock icon Back to the blackboard
      364 20 BLOOMBERG US EDUCATION Obama unveils reform of education system I WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama said he'll seek tougher standards in schools, merit pay for teachers and reduced high-school dropout rates in a bid for a more educated and competitive workforce in a contracting economy.
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      Lock icon THE OLDER YOUR DAD, THE LESS INTELLIGENT YOU ARE
      218 20 AFP Children fathered by older men are likely to be less intelligent than the offspring of younger dads, Australian and United States scientists have found in a report published yesterday. The surprise result contrasted sharply with earlier studies showing that older
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      Lock icon A fragile peace
      484 21 AGENCIES N IRELAND SHOOTINGS Paramilitaries still a threat, as dissident group vows to continue attacks LONDON Republican splinter group Continuity IRA have claimed responsibility for killing policeman Stephen Paul Carroll, 48, who was shot in the head on Monday. "As long as there is British involvement in
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      Lock icon American job-hopper lands 50 jobs in 50 states
      241 21 AGENCIES WASHINGTON At a time when some people are having trouble finding one job, Mr Daniel Seddiqui has lined up 50 one in every state in the United States. Each job symbolises the state's most famous industry, and each lasts one week
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      Lock icon EAST ASIA'S ECONOMIC REVENGE
      600 22  -  DEAN BAKER THE GUARDIAN NEWS COMMENT Want to find the roots of the US current financial woes? Look back to 1997 IN A matter of a few short weeks during the summer of 1997, the thriving countries of East Asia saw their economies overwhelmed by a
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      TOUGHEN UP IN BAD TIMES
      412 24  -  Ho Kong Loon I SAY Learn your lessons from this downturn and the next one will hit you less hard BUDGET Tai-Tai Tabitha Wang's piece "My middle-class prison" (March 6) is an indictment of societal consumerism gone berserk. When times were good, when jobs were
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      176 28  -  DR BILL MAIER BY.... THE CURE FOR TANTRUMS Ever seen a toddler throw a temper tantrum in the middle of a grocery store? It usually makes their parents feel like crawling under a rock. Tantrums usually start around the age of one or two and just
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      Why you should finish NS before poly
      315 28  -  Denis Edward TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS Letter from THERE has been a growing trend in recent years of a significant number of postsecondary school students choosing to serve their National Service ahead of embarking on their diploma education. Having finished their NS, they then tend
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      Allow Medisave use for outpatient tests
      251 28  -  Brian Selby Letter from I REFER to the letter from Mr Chin Kee Thou ("Subsidise test for No 1 killer in Singapore", March 9). Perhaps a simpler solution to lower the cost to routine colonoscopies here would be for the Ministry of Health (MOH)
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      Lock icon Great Dragonballs of fire
      1184 30  -  KflaHHaiHaHil MOVIES FROM MANGATO MOVIE Stars from Hollywood, Korea, Hong Kong and Spore heat up the Land of Smiles I in bangkok christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS a hot and humid day in Bangkokas we, ajolly band of journalists from Asia, trooped into the cool of the movie
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        BRITNEY'S NEW VID
        31 31 Britney Spears' newvideo for IfU Seek Amy will premiere on www.britney.com and www.britneyspears.com at lipm, Singapore time, tomorrow. This global exclusive will only be available for 24 hours.
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        TIGER TRANSLATE MUSEUM
        35 31 Tiger Translate Museum's "Art in the City", a public event from March 13 to 22 at the Atrium@Orchard (beside Dhoby Ghaut MRT), will seethe edgiest creative folk in town showcasing their talents.
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      Lock icon New residents on Melrose
      275 32 AGENCIES RETRO REMAKE Ashlee Simpson the first confirmed tenant ASHLEE Simpson-Wentz is moving to Melrose Place. The 24-year-old singer will join the cast of the updated 1990s TV hit Melrose Place as a small-town girl with a "shrewd sex kitten" within, Entertainment Weekly reported on its
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      427 33  -  MAYO MARTIN DISNEYCHANNEL TODAY EXCLUSIVE Billy Ray Cyrus revives his career, thanks to his famous offspring mayo@mediacorp.com.sg MILEY Cyrus loves her dad a lot and isn't afraid to show it. In fact, in Miles To Go, her recently released memoir (yes, a memoir at the ripe
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      170 34  - Aliens attack again MAYSEAH MOVIE REVIEW RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN AS IF we hadn't had enough already, here is another remake of yet another alien movie. Starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Race to Witch Mountain is a reimagining (that's Hollywood-speak for "recycling") of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain.
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      257 34  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH MOVIE REVIEW DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg Purists, beware: Creative leeway ahead NOTE: This is a movie targeted at the teen crowd. Another note: This movie is loosely based on the manga comic series by Akiro Toriyama, and even more loosely based on the anime DragonballZ.
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      580 35  -  MAY SEAH NEW ON TV Buffy alumni JossWhedon and Eliza Dushku return to television may@mediacorp.com. sg THE Dolls in this Dollhouse are no Cabbage Patch or Barbie specimens. They're like no dolls you've ever played with before and that includes action figures, too. Dollhouse is a new sci-fi-themed
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      485 33 What Food Is'ln'? What can I bring into Singapore? M jTy^r nl Many travellers may wish to bring home food from their holidays f| for personal consumption, but you should know that there are /CSsS^V guidelines set by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) p/afc^A t0 maintain the high food
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    905 36 ADMIT IT! Are you one of those kiasu parents who signs your child up for every available enrichment course during the holidays? Or do you allow your child to watch TV all day long or run amok at the park every day? Whatever your parenting style,
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      553 37 Astronaut, Teacher or Doctor? /"^T^^^ What does your child want to be when he/she V^§*^l growsup?BringyourchildtoanyofourSunday Banking branches on 15 and 22 Mar 09 for fun !^B discovery about the different professions. Miss Encyclopedia will also be guiding the children in this fun discovery at: Date Time OCBC Branch H^fl
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      938 39 TV LISTINGS ONMEDI AC OR P CHANNEL iij 9. N* 9. A. C. 0...? THE SCHOOL NATIONALS STAR Channel 5 7.30pm S.OOAM Entertainment Tonight 2.30 Style Her Famous 9.30 News s Tonight Vasantham 10.30pm 6.30 Prime Time Morning 3.00 New Adventures Of Robin 10.00 American Idol VIII 9.30 The Ellen
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      558 40 THE GUARDIAN EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Fergie dismisses Mourinho #s talk of taking United's reins and expects Inter to play for penalties Champions League, round of 16 2nd leg Manchester United v Inter Milan MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson has accused Inter Milan of negativity ahead of their Champions
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      259 40 THE GUARDIAN Cristiano Ronaldo has acknowledged that he is struggling to control his "anger" in the face of rough treatment by opposing defenders, with the Manchester United forward admitting he needs to work on his temperament. Ronaldo's calm is likely to be tested in
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      466 41 'THE GUARDIAN EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Teen star ready to step up as Arsenal eye last-eight spot Champions League, round of 16 2nd-leg AS Roma v Arsenal (Gunners lead 1-0) ROME Theo Walcott (picture) has played down concerns about the shoulder injury that kept him out for
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      427 42  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE SPORTS Premiership giants view expansion of football school to rest of the region yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg WITH academies in the United States, Portugal, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Australia, the Manchester United Soccer School (MUSS) are looking to make Singapore their regional base,
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      196 42 ASDWIGHT WITH just four points from their first three matches of the Great EasternYeo's S-League 2009 season, Home United are already trailing defending champions and league leaders SAFFC by five points. Last Wednesday, they were humbled 3-1 at Choa Chu Rang Stadium, the home of their
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      509 42  -  TANYO-HINN Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 Super Reds v Balestier Khalsa Yishun Stadium, 7.45pm yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg AFTER a dismal debut S-League season in 2007, in which they finished dead last, the Super Reds took the S-League by storm last year. With a stronger
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      491 43  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE SPORTS Paddler Li Jiawei discussed family plans with association and mentor Jing in October linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE table tennis star Li Jiawei is planning on starting a family by the end of next year, so she can gear up for the 2012 London Olympics.
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      238 43  -  AS DWIGHT FOOTBALL may be the most popular sport amongst schoolboys here, but the cricketers of Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) wouldn't dream of trading in their bats and gloves for football boots. The team won the "B" Division championships last Thursday, when they beat Victoria School
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      145 43 CHIAYANWEI A whopping 2,264 students aged between eight and 18 years descended on Sentosa'sTanjong Beach last Saturday for Singapore's first youth triathlon event, jointly organised by Milo and the Ministry of Education. The Milo MOE Youth TRYathlon featured both individual races in three age categories and
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      66 40 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am NHL Philadelphia v Buffalo, Ch 117 10am Baseball World Baseball Classic, Ch 23 ....TOMORROW 2am Football Champions League: Man Utd v Inter Milan, Ch 23 3.30 am Football Champions League: Roma v Arsenal, Ch24 3.55 am EPL Fulham v Blackburn, Ch27 8.45 am Football BoyacaChicov
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      303 41 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER Asian Champ Suwon Kashima Antlers Wed, 11/03/09 7.00pm S.League Super Reds Bal Khalsa Wed, 11/03/09 7.45pm Asian Champ Shenhua SAF FC Wed, 11/03/09 B.oopm S.League Ceylang Brunei DPMM Thu, 12/03/09 7.45pm S.League Albirex Woodlands Thu, 12/03/09 7.45pm E Premier, UE Champions, UE Cup
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      534 44  -  TAN HUI LENG LEGACY PLANNING How businesses deal with growth, succession issues huileng@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS not an uncommon story in Asia a successful businessman running a family enterprise sends his children overseas to study. But then none of them want to return to take over the firm.
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      167 44 v Energftns Fi«>d m i l^,m\ Once a day, A VitfllitVflii J^zji:^ zjjjxJ iJuxJij frA^} IUUU/ all /^ijiu-uizj-ijxjij J^nrujn H Dr Kevin U-Jyn Chan S I D 5 -M-jkih™ Date: 13 March2oo9 (Friday) V C <te Time: 6:30 pm BifWirlfnfllSl Ik Venue: Flinders Practice Pte Ltd BVrn'WlnPf'llii H HZ A?
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      367 46 BLOOMBERG CITIGROUP'S BAILOUT MONEY 3 goo staff get up to $7,500 each for cancelled getaways CITIGROUP, the recipient of US$45 billion ($69 billion) in government rescue funds, doled out US$l3 million as compensation to employees whose trips to resorts the company was forced to scrap, two
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      290 46 AGENCIES HONG KONG HSBC Holdings yesterday sought to reassure nervous investors, after shares of the struggling banking giant plummeted to a near-14-year low amid fears about its plans to raise fresh capital. The local securities watchdog is investigating the sudden drop that left HSBC's stock
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      205 47 BLOOMBERG LEAVING behind the "junkyard" fights he had with Las Vegas Sands boss Sheldon Adelson, the casino operator's president and chief operating officer Mr William Weidner said he quit on Sunday. "Last year, with falling stock prices and worsening global economic conditions, disagreements and
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      452 47 AFP USTRADE Obama #s prospective envoy wants S Korea FTA renegotiated THE prospective trade envoy of United States President Barack Obama vowed to push for strict enforcement of global trading rules and said a free trade agreement (FTA) signed with South Korea should be
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      387 48 BLOOMBERG THE Standard and Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500) is likely to drop to 600 points or lower this year as the global recession intensifies, said Mr Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor credited for predicting the financial crisis. The benchmark index
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      394 48 AP CHINA ECONOMY Price index fell 1.6 percent from a year earlier the first drop in more than six years CHINA'S consumer prices fell for the first time in more than six years in February, underlining weakness in the world's third-largest economy, but officials downplayed the risk
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        86 48 Since March 1,15 participating dining outlets at Clarke Quay have been offering their own unique special set lunches for only $15 nett per person. And if that doesn't give you an excuse to pop over, there are other exclusive privileges such as Free Lunchtime
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        296 48 Lorna Whiston Study Centres' (LWSC) Primary 6 PSLE English Language Course prepares your child for the PSLE exam through a wide range of stimulating and challenging activities. Highlights of the Primary 6 PSLE English Language Course include practising writing under examination conditions, getting tips on how papers
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      289 49 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE central bank plans to set aside $15 million of funding support to provide fresh local university graduates with "meaningful industry internships and attachment opportunities over the next one to two years", said Mr Ong ChongTee, deputy managing director of the
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      278 49 INVESTMENT OUTLOOK FINANCIAL markets may weaken further over the next 12 to 18 months, according to an official of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). Mr Yeoh Lam Keong, director of economics and strategy at GIC, reportedly said there was "systemic capital inadequacy globally" and the
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      248 50  -  YASMINEYAHYA yasmineyahya@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE the downturn, Natural Cool, a Sin-gapore-listed airconditionerand switchgear maker, is opening a new $30-million corporate headquarters. It is also hiring during the recession to position itself for growth. The firm's new headquarters at Tai Seng Avenue, officially opened yesterday, brings together the
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      334 50 BLOOMBERG CITIGROUP PERFORMANCE Citigroup chief Vikram Pandit writes a positive internal memo CITIGROUP chief Vikram Pandit said his bank is enjoying its best quarter since 2007, when it last posted a profit. "I am most encouraged with the strength of our business so far in 2009,"
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      347 51  -  ESTHER FUNG AIRPORT TERMINAL SERVICES Sats sets up a low-cost ground-handling unit esther@mediacorp.com.sg SHORTLY after a Swiss player cut short its venture to break into Singapore's ground handling market, Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) has set up a unit to offer low-cost ground handling services. Under
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        68 52 54.5 cents I Buy DBS Vickers starts call with target of 75 cents, based on price/ earnings ratio of 7 times for FY2OIO. Says producer's integrated business model ensures it captures margins at every step of the value chain. Adds that recent concerns over debt servicing are
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        56 52 $4.15 I Sell Kirn Eng Securities downgrades from "Hold", cuts target price to $3.75 from $4.50 to account for reduced valuation for offshore and marine business. Says oil refining associate likely to suffer from lower throughput of refined products due to weak end-demand, while depressed crude prices will
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        81 52 $2.45 I Neutral Goldman Sachs maintains rating, but cuts target price to $2.43 from $2.67 to reflect revised valuation for Indian associate Bharti. But raises earnings estimates for FYO9-11 to factor in lower forecasted depreciation expenses for Australian business Optus, following the decline in the Australian dollar. FROM BROKERAGE
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        21 52 E E Monday 1,456.95 Friday 1,513.12 Thursday 1,518.64 Wednesday 1,544.34 T -3-71°/° T 0.4% T -1.7% A 1.04%
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        26 52 lang Seng Jikkei lhanghai ieoul /lumbai I 11,694.05 A 3.08% 7,054.98 T 0.44% 2,158.57 A 1.88% 1,092.20 A 1.91% Closed ;LComp 855.25 T 0.35%
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        22 52 JS$i :i euro k$i !Mi $1,538 ¥100 Si.565 $2,127 HKSioo $19.83 $1,954 RMB100 $22.49 $0,984 RS100 $2,966 $0,417 RPio,ooo $1,284
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      623 52 AGENCIES MALAYSIA'S SECOND STIMULUS PACKAGE MALAYSIA'S government yesterday unveiled a big-ger-than-expected stimulus plan worth RM6O billion ($25 billion), which will put a heavy strain on its finances yet possibly fail to prevent the country from entering its first economic contraction in a decade. To be spent over
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      403 52 RUMOURS of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) undertaking a rights issue spooked investors yesterday, as the shipping stock slumped to close down 8.3 per cent at 93.5 cents. Already, the market had difficulty digesting Monday's news of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing another Temasek-linked company planning a US$3OO-million ($465-million)
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      237 52 BLOOMBERG FEDERAL Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke urged a sweeping overhaul of United States financial regulations, in an effort to smooth out the boom-and-bust cycles in financial markets. "We should review regulatory policies and accounting rules to ensure that they do not induce excessive" swings in the
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