Today, 20 March 2009

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    20 1 TODAY Friday March 20, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday March 20, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    34 1 Phin Wong Twitter is for twits, says our Plus Editor. If you have nothing to say, then why say anything at all? Some things are just better left to the birds Page 38
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    COMMENT
    36 1 Getting tough The SGX's recent reprimand of shipping giant NOL demonstrates the need for the Exchange to be given real powers to punish listed firms, or for a single body with real teeth. Page Bl
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    PLUS
    46 1 'We're the best' Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher tells Today he's "not interested in anything that's not Oasis". In fact, the laddish Mancunian insists: "I was born to be in Oasis. I was born to make Oasis the best. That's what my goal is." Page 36
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    Primed for a cut
    821 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG CIVIL SERVICE PAY ANDCHEOWXINYI cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the dismal economy showing few signs of recovery, civil servants can expect their pay package to shrink in the year ahead. Today has learnt that civil servants who are awaiting news on their annual performance bonuses and pay increments
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    When better results mean lower rates
    483 1  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg AS MORE people consider returning to business school during the downturn, one bank is offering an unusual carrot to this pool of postgraduate and students at private institutions. Introducing its new education loan yesterday, Citibank Singapore is offering top performers lower
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      153 2 Save for a ra Because that's when you'd want to sink deeper in bed. But otherwise, you'd find setting aside time for rest easier with our affordable portfolio of quilts that fits the way you sleep, with its variety of materials and warmth ratings. And if you fancy some really
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      Lock icon The buck stops with me: Obama
      546 3 AGENCIES AIG BONUSES Some executives return bonuses as role of Obama administration surfaces AS ANGER over the huge bonuses at American International Group (AIG) snowballed into an avalanche of fury, some of the insurance company's executives have begun returning all or part of their
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      Loke and Lee face 245 charges
      552 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT 60 charges for failure to pay salary 20 for abetting Mr Lee in illegal employment, and 20 for abetting Mr Uthayanan in illegal employment 45 for providing false information for the purpose of hiring phantom workers PAUL LEE CHIANGTHENG* 20 for illegal employment
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      Fined, but keeps pension
      364 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT FORMER CIVIL SERVANT Man who caused pedestrian's death escapes a jail term weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg AT STAKE for retired civil servant Tan Heng Piu was more than his liberty. He had pleaded guilty to causing the death of a pedestrian through a negligent act. Should the court
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      Lock icon Mum charged for murdering teen
      235 6 1938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was found stabbed to death in her one-room rental unit in Woodlands at about 3am yesterday, and her mother Goh Hai Eng, 51 has been charged with murder. Just after 2am, neighbours of the fifthfloor flat at Block
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      For better not worse with Marriage Central
      186 6  -  LINYANQIN LONG before you allow your marriage to become strained to the brink of divorce because of stress from work, child-rais-ing and caring for your parents, Marriage Central wants to point you in the right direction for help. In fact, it hopes to
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      Lock icon 'I just like to scold'
      557 8  -  ONG DAI LIN My goodness, there's no such thing. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet because people can write whatever they want We're not out to fail the students and that's why I'm laughing at the suggestion that I wanted to give David
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      Lock icon WSJ deputy editor fined $10,000
      474 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT AFP CONTEMPT OF COURT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg AS A features editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal, she was fined $4,000 for contempt of court in 1985. Twenty-four years on, Ms Melanie Kirkpatrick—now a deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page was fined $10,000
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      'The way things work here'
      403 12 BBC INTERVIEWWITH PM LEE PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke to BBC's South-east Asia correspondent Jonathan Head about the impact of the world's economic slowdown on Singapore, in an interview which aired yesterday. Here is an extract: Has the region been too complacent about its
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      Lock icon S'poreans do not need A*s
      170 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN CAMBRIDGE University's new admission standards of one A* and two As for British students, expected next year, will not apply to aspiring Singapore students. The Singapore-Cambridge GCE A-level exams are "separate and different" from the British Alevel exams, said the Ministry of Education, and
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        MAN CHARGED FORTRAFFIC POLICE BRIBE
        92 12 A motorist who allegedly tried to bribe a traffic marshal was charged yesterday with corruption. Restaurant manager Ng Kok Chye, 33, had stopped his vehicle last October on the shoulder of the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway. A Land Transport Authority marshal spotted him and called the
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        NUS, GETO INVEST IN WATER TECHNOLOGY
        81 12 The National University of Singapore (NUS) and General Electric will invest $150 million in a water technology centre to alleviate the lack of access to safe drinking water, which 1.1 billion people face. The facility, fully operational by the middle of this year, will
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      Lock icon Wilting under economic pressure
      194 14 938 LIVE SOME men can't get it up, and it seems because of the recession, they aren't doing anything about it. A recent poll of more than 40 doctors has found that up to half of their patients with sexual problems have cut down on their
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      No need to worry about the stigma
      461 14  -  ALICIA WONG MENTAL WELLNESS alicia@mediacorp.com.sg FOR those suffering from mild to moderate cases of mental illness, a unit at the Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic is a godsend for them. By going to the Health and Mind Clinic (HMC), such patients will not have
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      106 6 ttSSISPd Education Innovative. Individual. Inspirational. Get a UK qualification in Singapore Meet representatives from local institutions offering over 200 programmes at our Education Fair Saturday 21 March 2009, 11.00 a.m. 6.00 p.m. British Council Napier Road •AECEdu Group Lasalle College of the Arts Auston Institute of Management Management Development Institute
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      138 10 .Singapore SWoman Award O f\ Channel News Asia salutes /^W^ the Singapore Woman! M U W < She is an outstanding individual with personal strength and courage whose positive actions have impacted the lives of many. It is time to celebrate the ordinary woman who does the extraordinary! II A
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 'I was voted in by MPs'
      378 17 AGENCIES CENSURE DEBATE Abhisit defends govt #s rise to power and rejects allegations of corruption BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejected allegations of corruption and draft-dodging yesterday as the opposition launched a two-day heated censure debate against the government. The move, led by
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      Lock icon Melaka Chief Minister not a scapegoat: Najib
      248 17 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PUTRAJAYA Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak has denied that Melaka Chief Minister Ali Rustam, who has been banned from contesting in the United Malays National Organisation's (Umno) upcoming polls, was being made a scapegoat in the party's attempt to
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      Lock icon China tests baby products for unsafe chemicals
      183 18 AP SHANGHAI Shanghai's food and drug safety agency says it is testing Johnson and Johnson baby products following a string of allegations that they contain potential carcinogens. An official at the Shanghai Food and Drug Safety Administration confirmed the agency was conducting tests
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      Lock icon A BIG SPLASH
      44 18 AFP Plumes of steam, smoke and ash are seen after an underwater volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga's capital of Nukualofa on Wednesday. Scientists sailed to inspect the volcano near the twin volcanic islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai.
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      Lock icon Two detained in North Korea
      279 18 AGENCIES US JOURNALISTS SEOUL North Korean border guards have detained two United States reporters who crossed a river into the reclusive state. The New York Times identified the detained journalists as Laura Ling, a Chinese-American, and Euna Lee, a Korean-Ameri-can. A Korean-Chinese guide was detained
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      Lock icon Vatican defends pope on condom statement
      165 20 AGENCIES YAOUNDE (Cameroon) The Vatican defended Pope Benedict XVl's rejection of condoms as a way to stop HIV after international criticism that he was weakening the fight against the disease. France and Germany sharply criticised the pope's declaration that distributing condoms "increases" the AIDS
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      Lock icon Josef Fritzl jailed for life
      456 20 AGENCIES HOUSE OF HORRORTRIAL SANKT POELTEN A jury yesterday ordered Josef Fritzl jailed for life for treating his daughter as a sex slave in the cellar of his home during a 24-year orgy of depravity in which he fathered seven children. The court in the
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      Lock icon German gunman did it 'for fun': Hostage
      196 22 AGENCIES BERLIN A man who was taken hostage by German gunman Tim Kretschmer broke his silence on Wednesday, telling a magazine that the teenager had told him it was "for fun" and that he wanted to attack another school. Mr Igor Wolf was
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      Lock icon FREE AS A BALLOON
      43 22 EPA Hot air balloons dot the sky during the Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2009 in Kuala Lumpur. Ten countries including Belgium, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United States and host Malaysia are participating in the four-day inaugural event.
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      Lock icon Britain plans to share its secrets
      260 22 AGENCIES TREATMENT OF DETAINEES LONDON Britain will release secret rules governing the treatment of overseas detainees, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday, in an attempt to bolster public faith after a string of allegations that the government colluded in torture. A former senior
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      Lock icon To check or not?
      363 24 AGENCIES CANCER SCREENING US, European studies differ on whether prostate cancer tests reduce mortality rates NEW YORK Screening for prostate cancer doesn't necessarily save lives, and any benefits can come at a high price, according to two, big long-awaited studies. The two studies one in Europe
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      Lock icon DARTH VADER ACTOR BATTLING PROSTATE CANCER
      251 24 The man behind the mask of Darth Vader has revealed he is battling prostate cancer, according to the Daily Mail. Actor David Prowse (picture), who appeared as the Dark Lord in the original Star Wars films, revealed his illness during an interview with a
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      Lock icon IRAQ'S SHAKY FUTURE
      761 26  -  ROBERT H REID 'AP NEWS COMMENT SIX years after the United States invaded Iraq, the end of America's costly mission is in sight, but the future of this tortured country is much less clear. With violence down sharply, most Iraqis feel more secure than at nearly any
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      227 17 I -I I Wf r***" I I "^^^^^sl I This famous Buddhist temple, dating from the Bth and 9th centuries, is located in central Java. The first archeological study of the site was initiated in 1814 by Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore. First restored in 1907, the monument suffered
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      94 20 riobsDß.com I 'Career Expo 20 09 Looking for jobs or training opportunities? Singapore's only paperless career and education expo is back! At JobsDß.com Career Expo 2009, you get to meet recruiters from prestigious companies, or sign up for valuable training courses to upgrade yourself. This could be your best career
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  • voices
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      A port of call for all announcements
      109 30  -  Denis Distant Letter from I REFER to the report "Cruising onto the World Wide Web" (March 19) and suggest that if Singapore Exchange consents to the request of Star Cruises, it should stipulate that annual reports and so on should be posted also
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    • SHORT TAKE
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        REDEMPTION FRUSTRATION
        84 30 Letter from Tan Lean Chin My parents went down to their bank and asked for information on how to redeem their home loan. They were told by the officers that the process will take at least three months. The bank, the officers added, can try to process it
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      Graciousness survey was sound, thank you
      333 30  -  TehThienYew KINDNESS MOVEMENT Surprising though results may have been, there's much to be encouraged by Letter from General Manager Singapore Kindness Movement Secretariat I WRITE in response to Ms Subana Hall's letter, "Goodness gracious, no" (March 14-15). We are heartened by the public interest
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      167 32  -  DR JAMES DOBSON I BY RAISE YOUR CHILD'S IQ According to Dr Burton White at Harvard University, there are six factors that contribute to the intellectual capacity of a child, and we discussed the first three helpful environmental factors yesterday. Here are the remaining factors: Children
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      Lock icon COMMUNITY ZEST
      745 32  -  Tabitha Wang BUDGETTAI-TAI How I long for the times when people used to look out for each other out of sheer neighbourly love voices@mediacorp.com.sg AS I'M still subscribed to many Singapore e-newsletters, I often get emails telling me about this concert or that exhibition happening back home. So
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      23 30 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices SEMBAWANG MUSIC CENTRE Junction 8 #04-02A MOVING OUT SALES STOREWIDE CD/VCD/DVD PRICE Terms Conditions applies.
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      800 36  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH COMINGTO SINGAPORE Oasis will never split up, says Liam Gallagher christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THE last time we spoke to Oasis, Liam Gallagher said he'd come up with a perfume called Mad Ferret if there was new line of work he could do. But some
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      877 38  -  PHINWONG MALADJUSTED plus editor phin@mediacorp.com.sg If youVe got nothing to say why say anything at all? I SPENT a night in a bar with a friend this week. He, however, spent the night in the bar bathing his dog. On his phone. Who needs four horsemen,
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      454 40  -  MAYSEAH ANIMATEDTV Heart-throb ditches F4 to pursue his first love manga may@mediacorp.com. sg HIS long, floppy rebonded hair sparked a trend among Asian guys who couldn't carry off the look. Best known for being one-quarter of once phenomenally popular Taiwanese boyband F4 (which has since been
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      405 42 AGENCIES CELEBTRAGEDY Husband Liam Neeson mother Vanessa Redgrave, sister Joely by her side ACTRESS Natasha Richardson has died in a New York hospital surrounded by her mother Vanessa Redgrave, husband Liam Neeson and sister Joely Richardson following her skiing accident at Mont Tremblant in Canada. She was
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      384 42  -  MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg TO SEE first-hand the legacy of certain Chinese emperors like The Great Wall or the Forbidden City you'd have to fly all the way to Beijing. But for the Kangxi Emperor, you can just head for the nearest Popular or
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      637 45  -  LOWLINFHOONG ASIAN YOUTH GAMES There could be a room crunch with more than double the estimated athletes headed here linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg THE Asian Youth Games are just over three months away, and organisers had planned for about 1,100 athletes and 200 officials from 45 countries descending
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      299 45 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LIVERPOOL Rafael Benitez (picture) says passionate demonstrations of support from Liverpool fans convinced him to remain at Anfield. On Wednesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time), the Spaniard has finally signed a four-year contract extension worth around £20 million ($43.8 million) that will keep him
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      445 46  -  LOW LIN FHOONG ASIAN YOUTH GAMES Tickets for Singapore's biggest multi-sports event go on sale today linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg TICKETS to the Asian Youth Games, the biggest multi-sport games on these shores since the 1993 SEA Games and this region's first large-scale youth sports event,
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      STAND UP FORAYG, GIVE THE BEST YOU CAN
      228 46  -  LOW LIN FHOONG The Singapore Asian Youth Games Organising Committee (Saygoc) unveiled the Games' official mascot and theme song, Asia's Youth, Our Future, at Velocity yesterday. Representing the values of friendship, respect and excellence, the mascot a young Singapore lion will be
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      402 46  -  LOW LIN FHOONG GREGORY Sin is a self-confessed geek. But this school holiday, the 11-year-old who is a member of the Edison's science club at his school is trading his beakers for a badminton racket. The bespectacled youngster was among 40 aspiring shuttlers
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      791 47  -  lANDECOTTA SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Captain Fahrudin returns from suspension ready to fire up sluggish Tampines GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Geylang United vTampines Rovers Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm ian@mediacorp.com.sg SITTING in the stands, watching his teammates play without him, has been frustrating for Tampines Rovers captain
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      49 45 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am Basketball March Madness, Ch 117 gam Baseball World Baseball Classic, Ch 23 10am NHL Phoenix v Anaheim, Ch 117 10.30 am Tennis Indian Wells Open, Ch 22 7pm Football Champions League draw, Ch 23 6.35am-n.3spm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on g3BLive
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      177 48  -  TREVORTAN THE sale of digital cameras seems hardly affected by the global recession, and manufacturers are still happily rolling out new models. On Tuesday, Canon Singapore took the wraps off its latest slate of IXUS and Power Shot digital compact cameras. The four additions
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      386 48  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN NETBOOK REVIEW SONY VAIO P hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg ULTRA-THIN laptops are common these days but none sports the small footprint of the Sony Vaio P. With a thickness of 20mm, you can easily fit the eight-inch device into a handbag. It weighs a mere 594g when fitted
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      405 48  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH MOBILE PHONE REVIEW NOKIA 5800 XPRESSMUSIC christophertoh@mediacorp.com. sg I HAVE to admit I've never been one for touchscreen phones. Mostly because until recently, the Apple iPhone was the only model I found vaguely interesting. But I've since changed my mind now that Nokia has
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      707 50  -  TREVORTAN TECH COMMENT A great way to increase game longevity, but there's always a potential for abuse trevor@mediacorp.com.sg "ERROR. A problem has occurred with this request. Please try again later." This message greeted me for the zillionth time as I tried to download Fallout
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      390 50 AP SEATTLE Microsoft has released a new version of Internet Explorer, adding features meant to speed up Web surfing tasks and bringing the browser's security measures in line with those of competitors such as Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. Internet Explorer
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      392 52  -  ROLAND LIM i\ Channel News Asia MONEY MIND Prices may be looking attractive, but some uncertainty still lurks Hong Kong Bureau Chief rolandlim@channelnewsasia.com THE prices of some banking shares may be starting to look attractive due to declines in global markets in recent weeks, but
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      305 52 .AGENCIES AUSTRALIA'S government announced curbs on executive payouts on Wednesday, denouncing a system that has seen "the retirement gold watch replaced by a truckload of gold bullion". Treasurer Wayne Swan said shareholders will get more power to vote down termination payments and to increase the
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        155 52 In celebration of its 28th anniversary, Gain City has recently transformed its showrooms into bustling carnivals for the whole family. Shoppers get to pose at its mobile photo studio and receive a free instant print-out with any purchase during the weekends at Gain City's three main showrooms: Ang
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        130 52 Club Mcd Singapore has found the winner for its "Find Happiness" contest, conducted online from 23 February to 1 March this year on www.clubmed.com.sg. Ms Loretta Song beat more than 1,000 contestants to claim the prize of a 5-day 4-night stay for 2 adults at Kani Resort in
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      273 55  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as mainboard-listed Beauty China Holdings announced a collapse in talks for a substantial stake sale, the cosmetics company revealed a boo-boo concerning the identity of the potential buyer. Chairman Wong Hon Wai, who owns a
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      425 55  -  ESTHER FUNG MARKETTALK Listed companies stepping up efforts to address rumours esther@mediacorp.com.sg FOLLOWING the Singapore Exchange's public reprimand of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) earlier this week, listed companies appear to be stepping up in their efforts to address price-sensitive market talk. Yesterday morning, Sembcorp Industries
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      655 56  -  JACKIE CALMES THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS COMMENT ALL three of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers were on message when they appeared last Sunday on separate television talk shows. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, they said, had concluded, based on lawyers' advice, that he could not stop
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      465 57 AGENCIES US ECONOMY Move slashes costs of borrowing money, may help to reassure China BY COMMITTING US$l trillion ($1.5 trillion) to buy Treasuries and additional purchases of mortgage debt, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has signalled his determination to avoid a repeat of the 1930s Great
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        45 58 38 cents Neutral Credit Suisse cuts earnings forecasts, maintains rating with 30-cent target price unchanged. Says shipping firm executing delivery schedule well. Expects lower steel prices and construction of higher-value ships to boost profitability. But adds that provisioning is likely to hit reported profits.
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        67 58 $9.49 I Underperform Merrill Lynch maintains call, but says 17-per-cent passenger traffic decline in February suggests SIA is losing money for the first time since Sars. Expects asset write-downs in the March quarter as it seeks to dispose of Boeing 747s and 777s and sees further downside risks in
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        104 58 $2.08 I Buy Goldman Sachs upgrades call from "Neutral". Sees discount to NAY of 38 per cent as attractive, given diversified business model and strong balance sheet. Says the decision to step up efforts to dispose of investments to raise cash has positioned firm well to reinvest for the
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      485 58  -  CONRAD RAJ BUSINESS COMMENT editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com. sg THE recent reprimand of local shipping giant Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) by the Singapore Exchange (SGX) for inadequate disclosure standards once again brings to the fore the need for jSGX to be given real powers "to punish listed
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      603 58  -  CHRISTIE LOH BOOSTING INVESTOR CONFIDENCE deputy business editor christie@mediacorp.com.sg IN AN attempt to weed out fraud risks and assurejittery investors, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) has made an unprecedented call for all 768 listed firms to take a closer look at their financials and keep shareholders
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