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    20 1 TODAY Tuesday March 17, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Tuesday March 17, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    WORLD
    27 1 Election season Campaigning for Indonesia's third general elections gets underway, as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono requests political parties conduct an "orderly and well-mannered" campaign. Page 3
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    SPORTS
    31 1 Moving on up With three national records under her belt, swim star Quah Ting Wen sets her sights on the 2010 Asian Games and the 2012 Olympic Games. Page 34
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    BUSINESS
    22 1 A short-term blip? Private property transaction volume surges in February, but analysts question if such levels can be sustained. Page Bl
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    Reaping dividends
    32 1 DBS hopes to conserve cash and also provide investors with a choice in how they receive their dividends, as the bank seeks approval for a scrip dividend scheme. Page Bl
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    Heat on PMETs
    753 1  -  LINYANQIN 2008 LABOUR MARKET REPORT They account for one in two resident workers retrenched yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg TEN years ago during the Asian financial crisis, they made up barely two in every 10 workers laid off. Last year, the proportion of professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) in
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    Get a refund if you get retrenched
    400 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg IN WHAT seems like a move to prevent job insecurity from stifling spending, at least two companies have rolled out measures to ease consumers' fear of making long-term financial commitments. AXA Life Insurance yesterday offered new regular premium policy holders the
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      Lock icon Weak upturn by Q4?
      236 2  -  CHEOWXINYI AGENCIES, SINGAPORE is expected to stage a weak recovery in the final quarter and then register mild growth of 3.3 per cent next year, according to a survey of 20 private-sector economists. For the whole of this year, they expect, on average, a contraction of
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      Lock icon Govt reinstates top judge, defusing crisis
      510 3 'AGENCIES PAKISTAN UNREST PM also announces an end to the crackdown on activists ISLAMABAD The Pakistan government relented in a major confrontation with the opposition yesterday, agreeing to reinstate a fired Supreme Court chief justice whose fate had sparked street fights and raised fears
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      Lock icon Indonesia kicks off election campaign
      259 3 .AFP JAKARTA Campaigning for Indonesia's third general elections since 1998 got underway yesterday, with representatives from all 38 parties signing a joint declaration promising a peaceful campaign period leading up to the April 9 polls. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is well placed at this
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      Lock icon FairPrice opens 24-hour hypermart
      410 4  -  ESTHER NG EXPANSION PLANS It will also pump $z>om into upgrading and expanding stores and on training estherng@mediacorp.com.sg A RECESSION is as good as any time to spend and invest. At the launch yesterday at Jurong Point mall of NTUC Fair Price's first 24-hour hypermart, chairman
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      Gadgets galore at security exhibition
      308 4  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SECURITY experts and government officials gathering for the Global Security Asia 2009 conference at the Singapore Expo today will get a sneak peek at a gadget that could very well be from a James Bond movie. Developed by American company Motorola, the TCRIOOO
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      JB HOMES: FOR S'POREANS TO DECIDE
      216 6  -  ESTHER NG To send or not to send our elderly parents to nursing homes in Johor Baru? The issue has sparked debate since it was raised in Parliament and it is a choice purely for Singaporeans to decide, Minister-in-charge of ageing issues Lim Boon
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      Lock icon A headstart for students
      331 6  -  CLAIRE HUANG 938 LIVE CREDIT MANAGEMENT Peer-to-peer youth programme to boost credit knowledge dairehuang@mediacorp.com.sg YOUNG adults in Singapore seem to have very little knowledge of good credit management. A study by a group of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) students found that eight in 10 of their
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      Lock icon Security industry tweaks hours to attract more women
      227 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE security industry in Singapore seems to be booming despite the current economic downturn. Industry players said as many as 15,000 security officers will be needed over the next five years and more female officers are expected to join the
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      Lock icon Amutha to pay $372,000 in costs
      387 8  -  ZULOTHMAN Court orders her to bear disbursement by church members and priest THE High Court has ordered Madam Amutha Valli Krishnan, who lost her suit in the "exorcism case" against the Novena Church, to pay costs and disbursements amounting to some $372,000. And she
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      A hungry man is an angry man: Accused
      237 8  -  LEONGWEE KEAT HE HAD insisted repeatedly on wanting to meet the Reach feedback officers in person. And when he was refused, Ng Kirn Ngweng got even more unhappy, reportedly calling the officers "cowards" and "dogs". During the same phone conversation in which
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        Lock icon PUMP PRICES DIP IN PRICE WAR
        115 10 .TEOXUANWEI Pump prices were slashed across the board yesterday as Caltex's new pricing structure in the morning sparked a price war. After Caltex reintroduced 92-octane fuel after a nine-year absence in the morning at $1,536 a litre before discount, Shell, ExxonMobil and SPC responded
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        MYANMAR PM ARRIVES TODAY
        66 10 The Prime Minister of MyanmarThein Sein will arrive in Singapore today, accompanied by a delegation of senior officials and ministers for a two-day official visit. He will meet with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. General Them Sein will also call on Senior Minister GohChokTong and Acting
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      $80k fund for green efforts
      311 10  -  ONG DAI LIN ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION Marsiling Secondary School to expand programmes dailin@mediacorp.com.sg IT HAS gotten a bit greener at Marsiling Secondary School, thanks to an $80,000 financial boost that will help enhance its environment education. The money, donated by electronics company Hitachi, will be used
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      123 2 KlTl\« 1 fi^ Ik A N T I Bk. POLI T A N Today's challenges call for a university of true substance a research-intensive, talent-rich institution with B deep roots in Asia, globally-relevant programmes, and strong ties with the world's most dynamic economies. Jft That's why we choose NTU. In
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      351 3 Creating Learning Opportunities since 1947 HfcipijSSlM^SH^^^ > 5 Star rating for education experience by »#i4»V4>xn a Good University Guide 2005 2006 VIVTUKIA >■ Mnmber of SAP University Alliance and UNIVERSITY Association of CommonweaHh Universities (ACU) >• Member of New Generation Universities BACHELOR OF BUSINESS (INFORMATION SYSTEMS) This course aims to
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      176 4 Everyday is a kids' weekend ,^>. 7-31 March 2009 Escape the city and bring your family m/ISmSSiSu down for a fun filled island resort experience. Mfcfotn£ W^i FREE admission for kids* via Sentosa Express (Vivo City Lobby L, Level 3) FREE entry for kids* to Fort Siloso FREE entry for
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      137 10 A member of ra H iAcader P^^R American Degree Program Leading to Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (International Business) Wonder how you can benefit from an American undergraduate experience right here in Singapore? PSB's General Education program leads to the California State University, Long Beach degree in Business Administration
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      74 11 I Perfection. It's all about striking the right balance. p^..^ Promotion L^inurto«irLgpi[^~: valid in March 2009* —(IJK+PHigh in calcium and protein and low in fat and lactose, its unique Bone Plus formulation with vitamins X and D helps you absorb calcium better and improves bone strength. LMil_L^__J MARIGOLD HL Milk.
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Fritzl denies murder
      355 12 AGENCIES AUSTRIA INCESTTRIAL Suspect admits rape, says he was abused as a child ST POELTEN (Austria) -Josef Fritzl admitted to imprisoning his daughter Elisabeth in a secret underground bunker for 24 years and forcing her to bear seven children as his trial started yesterday. The white-haired, grey-suited
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      Lock icon Lawmaker gets the boot
      379 14 AGENCIES, THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS Gobind Singh Deo barred for one year, his father also faces sedition charge MALAYSIA An opposition lawmaker has been barred for one year in Parliament yesterday after he accused incoming Prime Minister Najib Razak of an involvement in a sensational
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        INTERNAL PROBE IN ANTI-CORRUPTION BODY
        89 14 MALAYSIA The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (Mace) is believed to be investigating one of its officers for corruption. The superintendent who is in his mid^os, was considered a "rising star" and was involved in several high-profile cases, said a NewStraitsTimes report. He allegedly received money from
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        Lock icon EX-THAI PRIME MINISTER COULD FACE PROTEST CHARGES: INVESTIGATORS
        132 14 AFP THAILAND Thailand investigators said yesterday there were grounds to charge former Premier Somchai Wongsawat and other top officials over a violent crackdown on anti-government protests last year. The National Counter Corruption Commission said Mr Somchai and his then-deputy Prime Minister Chavalit
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      Lock icon Skilled workers intake slashed
      296 15 AGENCIES AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION SYDNEY Australia will cut its annual skilled worker migrant intake by 14 per cent in an effort to preserve jobs for Australians after a spike in unemployment, the government announced yesterday. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the skilled migration visa programme, under which
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      Lock icon SAILING TO A BRIGHTER SIDE
      73 15 AP A group of 1,600 Chinese tourists arrived in Taiwan's northern Keelung harbour yesterday on the first luxury cruise ship to sail directly from China, boosting prospects for expanded economic and tourism ties between the two rivals. The tourists will be the first of several
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        Lock icon HANSON SUES OVER RAUNCHY PHOTO CLAIMS
        108 15 AFP Far-right Australian politician Pauline Hanson said yesterday she was suing newspapers that published raunchy photos supposedly showing her partially nude, saying the pictures were not of her. Ms Hanson, who sparked international outrage with a campaign against Asian immigration in the '90s, is
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        Lock icon N KOREA PARTIALLY REOPENS S KOREA BORDER: MINISTRY
        92 15 AFP North Korea yesterday partially reopened its border to let hundreds of stranded South Koreans travel home from a joint industrial estate but traffic the other way remains blocked. Seoul's Unification Ministry said the North's military had authorised border crossings southwards by
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        Lock icon S KOREAN TOURISTS KILLED INYEMEN BLAST
        126 16 AFP Four South Korean tourists and their guide were killed by a bomb on Sunday while watching the sunset at a historic desert city in Yemen, officials said yesterday. The bomb killed two men and two women who were among a group of South
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        Lock icon SCIENTISTS DEVELOP 'WMD' FOR BUGS
        125 16 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH Scientists behind the 1980s anti-missile programme in the United States have helped to develop a laser that locks onto and kills airborne insects, in a bid to tackle the scourge of malaria. It is thought that the device, dubbed the Weapon of Mosquito
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      Lock icon Step in right-wing direction
      348 16 AFP ISRAELI POLITICS JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu inked his first coalition deal with an ultra-nationalist party yesterday, in the first step towards a right-wing government. Mr Netanyahu's Likud signed an agreement with the Yisrael Beitenu party of Mr Avigdor Lieberman (picture), the controversial
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      Lock icon North Koreans get their first taste of pizza
      264 16 THEGUARDIAN PYONGYANG For millions of undernourished North Koreans, the notion of eating at a restaurant belongs strictly to fantasy. And so there is only the grimmest humour that Pyongyang's dining options just got a little more impressive: The country now has its
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      120 18  -  Tay Ai Cheng Letter from Senior Director, Public Library Services National Library Board I REFER to the letter "Be quiet already!" (March 12) from Mr Roger Poh. We agree with him that inconsiderate behaviour by library patrons can spoil the conducive reading environment of the Yishun Public
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      An alien in school
      414 18  -  Name withheld STRESS ANDTHE FOREIGN STUDENT THE Weekend Xtra piece "Stress and the foreign student" (March 14-15) almost reads like the tale of the heartache and emotional upheaval my 21-year-old undergraduate son faces for three hours in class every day. We are expats, now Singapore Permanent
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      235 22  -  DRJAMES DOBSON BY BUILD THE FIRE OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP Jack London, in his wonderful short story entitled To Build a Fire, tells of a man caught in a freezing blizzard. The temperature dropped to minus 24° C, and he tried to build a fire to save
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      Lock icon AN ADVOCATE OF FUN
      783 22  -  AGATHA KOH BRAZIL COFFEEWITH voices editor agatha@mediacorp.com.sg It's the key to early learning, says this pre-school owner UNLIKE in medieval times when the award meant privileges and rights, such as being able to earn money and to drive cattle over the London Bridge, receiving the Freedom
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      45 21 l I Jfl T C'l''C' W'lo 9'ves 'ier 'Des*> fights for the team and strives to complete the race needs you to egg her on so that she makes progress with each stride, every step of the way. i Ministry of Education umgugA A|A|A|AiiL^j^LA^||y|L|||ji|jg SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon The importance of being Glen
      1036 26  -  MAYO MARTIN Glen Goei returns with a new play and a possible remake of Forever Fever LOCAL THEATRE mayo@mediacorp. com.sg OKAY, you can strike Glen Goei off the missing persons list. After being in absentia for a year in the local theatre scene, he's wearing
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        Lock icon TWINS FORCHARLIE SHEEN
        88 28 AP Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller Sheen are the proud parents of twin boys. His publicist said the babies, Bob and Max, were born on Saturday night in Los Angeles, adding that Mueller Sheen is "doing great" and that
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        Lock icon HARD-BOILED CONFUCIUS
        79 28 AP Denounced as a feudal thinker just decades ago, Confucius is getting the star treatment in communist China, with Chow Yun Fat cast as the ancient philosopher in a US$22-million ($34-million) governmentbacked biopic. The movie is part of a recent revival of Confucius, whose teachings Mao Zedong had
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      Lock icon West Wing actor Ron Silver dead at 62
      287 28 AP ACTOR Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-pris-oners Hollywood producer in David Mamet's Speed-the-P/ow (1988) and did a political about-face from loyal Democrat to Republican activist after the Sept 11 attacks, died Sunday at the age of 62.
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        Take the weight off your back
        604 30  -  EVELINE GAN BACK PAIN It affects lifestyle and increases likelihood of other conditions developing eveline@mediacorp.com.sg THE next time you complain about a bad back, take a good look at yourself in the mirror. The extra fat around your stomach could be the culprit. According
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      93 32 ON MEDIACORP ITHU ENNAPAATU Vasantham, 10pm This game is open to everyone. It is a fun competition all about songs that will test your knowledge of music. No matter your age group, if you love music, it will keep you glued to the television. Each week, two teams of three
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      681 32 TV LISTINGS CHANNEL S.ooAM Entertainment Tonight 2.30 Style Her Famous 9.30 News 5 Tonight 6.30 Prime Time Morning 3.00 New Adventures of Robin 10.00 Tuesday Night Movie 9.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI Hood II V For Vendetta (Available in 10.30 The Martha Stewart Show 111 4.00 Psych True HD
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      77 32 ON MEDIACORP OKTORIGINAL oktoLIVE! okto, 8.30pm Remember when you were in school there was a teacher who was, without a doubt, the coolest teacher you had ever met? Well in this episode of oktoLIVE! we like to announce Singapore's very own coolest teacher! DAD HOME Channel 8, Bpm Hosted by
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      610 33  -  LEONARD THOMAS ENGLISH FOOTBALL After Liverpool's romp Ferguson fights to ensure there is no mortal wound sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg FIRST, Sir Alex Ferguson sounded the cry. Then Rio Ferdinand got in on the act and yesterday, Bobby Charlton echoed their sentiments. It was as if
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      443 34  -  lANDECOTTA SINGAPORE SWIMMING After 3 national records, Ting Wen eyes 2010 Asian Games and 2012 Olympics ian@mediacorp.com. sg IT'S been a stunning past three days for swimmer Quah Ting Wen (picture). On Saturday, she captured the under--17 50m freestyle at the National Age Group Swimming
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      434 35 THENEWYORKTIMES WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS Mickelson battles nausea to win Watney garners a legion of new fans DORAL( Florida) Both golfers in the final pairing on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) played with chills: Phil Mickelson because he was ill, Nick Watney because he was
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      83 34 SPORTS ON TV TODAY Bam Baseball World Classic, Ch 23 10.30 am Cricket Sheffield Shield, Ch 110 10.45 am Cricket Women's World Cup, Ch 111 11am Baseball World Classic, Ch 23 9.30pm Baseball Women's World Cup, Ch 110 TOMORROW 3.45 am FA Cup Arsenal v Hull, Ch 24 4am Tennis
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      76 35 SPORTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER Asian Champ Seoul Camba Osaka Tue, 17/03/09 7.00pm Asian FC Cup Thai Prov Auth Home United Tue, 17/03/09 B.oopm ECup Arsenal Hull City Wed, 18/03/09 3.45 am Asian Champ Kashima Antlers Shenhua Wed, 18/03/09 6.00pm Asian Champ Pohang Ksaki Frontale Wed, 18/03/09 6.30pm
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      110 36 Tips according to Ms Ann Mack, director of trendspotting atJWT. No longer a case of Brand A versus Brand B: It's now more of a fight between product categories. With limited spending power, customers will ponder over buying a luxury watch or a flat-screen TV instead
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      304 36  -  PEARLYNTHAM CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR New site tracks how customers think during this recession peartyn@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE current recession, marketers have more than just customer satisfaction to comprehend. They have to gauge consumer anxiety, too. This is why advertising agency J Walter Thompson (JWT) has launched Anxietylndex.com, an
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      422 38 AP US ECONOMY AMERICA'S recession "probably" would end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system, said Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. In carefully hedged remarks in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes programme on Sunday, Mr Bernanke seemed to express a
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      320 38 AP AMERICAN International Group (AIG) used more than US$9O billion ($l3B billion) in federal aid to pay out foreign and domestic banks, some of whom had received their own multi-billion-dollar bailouts from the United States government. Some of the biggest recipients of the AIG
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      269 39 AP FOREIGN direct investment in China fell last month, but the decline was less severe than in previous months. The Commerce Ministry said yesterday that foreign companies invested US$5.B billion ($8.9 billion) in China last month, down 15.8 per cent from the same month last
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      467 39 AFP CRUDE OIL WORLD oil prices tumbled in Asian trade yesterday following the decision on Sunday by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) not to cut crude output further. New York Mercantile Exchange crude for April delivery was down US$l.9l ($2.93) at U5544.34 a
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      281 40  -  CHEOWXINYI FINANCIALCRISIS Carrier is having an even harder time selling freight space cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IN ITS third consecutive month of falling load factors, Singapore Airlines' (SIA) passenger and cargo business have fallen below profitable levels. The carrier yesterday said its passenger load factor fell in February
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      262 40  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IN A move that may impact the plans of other real estate investment trusts (Reit) here, mainboard-listed Saizen has abruptly scrapped a plan to pay out dividends in shares instead of cash. Yesterday, the manager of Saizen Reit the first Reit here to propose
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      288 40  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN markets turn, fraudsters have a greater habit of getting caught out. Hence, Singapore's Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra) has issued a checklist to help auditors prevent themselves from getting hoodwinked by fraudulent reports. It has highlighted 10 areas where
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        86 40 Loss-making Jade Technologies plans to pay 36 million yuan ($7.8 million) for 20 per cent of Daqing XinLong Chemical, a Chinese maker of titanium dioxide products. This will reduce its reliance on coal mining, in which it has faced difficulties. To pay for the
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        71 40 Mr Clement Lee, current chief executive officer (CEO) of mainboard-listed Lifeßrandz, will step down next month, but remain executive chairman. The new CEO will be Mr Bernard Lim, who is currently executive vice-president. Independent director Lee Soon Kie quit last week. MrThomasCarlton Thompson 111, currently non-executive
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        61 42 $2.44 Buy Deutsche Bank cuts the target price to $3.00 from $3.27 after lowering FYO9-11 earnings estimates by 4.4, 7.5 and 7.7 per cent, respectively, to factor in the deteriorating economic outlook. But Deutsche reiterates its rating given "the ongoing net asset value discount, trading liquidity, clear evidence of
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        55 42 51.5 cents I Buy OCBC Investment Research cuts the target price for the trust to 80 cents from 90 cents, based on a 15-per-cent discount to its sum-of-parts valuation, after lowering FYO9-10 earnings forecasts and valuation assumptions to reflect worsening conditions. But it keeps its "Buy" rating, citing
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        83 42 27 cents I Buy Citigroup reiterates its rating and raises the target price to 30 cents from 24 cents, citing Epure's "undemanding valuation, more than 3-per-cent yield, steady 14 per cent earnings-per-share three-year compounded annual growth rate over FYO9-11 and exposure to the relatively resilient China environmental sector".
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      63 42 Friday 1,577-52 A 5-62% Thursday 1,493-53 0.79% Wednesday 1,505.51 A 1.33% Tuesday 1,485.75 A 1.98% Hang Seng 12,976.71 A 3.60% Nikkei 7,704.15 A 1.78% Shanghai 2,153.29 A 1.15% Seoul 1,125.46 T 0.05% Mumbai 8,943-54 A 2.13% KLComp 840.88 T 0.30% US$1 £1 $1,534 ¥100 $1,563 $2,171 HK$ioo $19.79
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      450 42  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg IN A move that will conserve cash for the bank, DBS Group Holdings is planning to offer shareholders the option of receiving dividends in the form of stock. If given the green light, DBS would be the second bank after OCBC to
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      545 42  - A short-term blip or TAN HUI LENG REAL ESTATE Property transaction volumes rebound in Feb, but analysts warn surge may not last huileng@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER almost half a year of dismal sales, the private property market staged a rebound last month with 1,323 new units sold about 10 times the 108
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