Today, 24 March 2009

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    34 1 TODAY Tuesday March 24, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY 3 out of 5 Singaporean women* suffer from oily skin blemishes. Source Research International Tuesday March 24, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COMMENT
    36 1 Cash call complaints A slew of rights issuance has strengthened balance sheets but also left investors frustrated as the cash calls weigh on the market, says Kirsty Green in a Dow Jones comment. Page B3
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    NEWS
    35 1 Set that alarm While ticket prices to the Sing Tel Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix have gone up this year, early bird pricing gives fans who plan ahead something to smile about. Page 4
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    WORLD
    24 1 Up inflames Japan's Narita Airport saw its first fatality as a FedEx cargo aircraft smashed into a runway, killing its crew. Page 12
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    PLUS
    26 1 A Spacey oddity Known for playing the bad guy, Kevin Spacey tells Today about his one "good guy" role organising The Bridge Project. Page 22
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    SPORTS
    29 1 Another splash Swimming icon Ang Peng Siong is set to make another splash as Singapore's first national head coach, and he'll be heading a high-powered team. Page 30
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    Lock icon Tim's $1.5t antidote
    603 1  -  DOW SOARS AGENCIES FINANCIALCRISIS US unveils public-private plan to help banks toss out toxic assets IN A long-awaited move to lift the United States out of its worst financial crisis in 70 years, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled yesterday the details of a US$l-trillion ($1.5-trillion) plan to
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    A debate on political space
    894 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG IT WAS a rare move by a Nominated Member of Parliament. As the vote was called, Mr Siew Kum Hong specifically asked Deputy Speaker Matthias Yao to place his "No" vote on record. His strong feelings on the proposed changes to the Films Act
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  • NEWS
    • PARLIAMENT
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        A new public order
        536 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO deputy news editor derrick@mediacorp.com. sg NEW realities have prompted Singapore's homeland security agencies to push for tighter control on the filming of law enforcement activities. For instance, the kind of control that was lacking when the masterminds of the terror attacks in Mumbai
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      • PARLIAMENT ROUNDUP
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          Lock icon GOVTAPPROVEDS3OOMOF LOANS PER MONTH IN Q1
          86 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The amount of loans approved underthe various Government schemes in the first quarter more than tripled from a year ago, said Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang. On average, the Government approved more than $300 million of loans per month in
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          79% OFTHOSE OFFERED DEAL ACCEPTED: MAS
          98 3  -  CHEOWXINYI Some 79 per cent of investors who were offered settlement for disastrous Lehman-linked structured products sold by banks have accepted the offers as of March 15, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore's deputy chairman Lim Hng Kiang. Another 1.5 per cent rejected the
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          MAS MADE CHANGES 'AS A RESPONSIBLE REGULATOR'
          93 3  -  Are the proposed changes by the MAS to how financial products are sold an implicit admission that the central bank was lax in regulating those products in the first place, asked Nominated Member of Parliament Siew Kum Hong? "No," said MAS deputy chairman
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          $4B MORE SPENDING POWER FOR YEAR: GOVT
          84 3  -  Since the Government changed the framework on spending of reserves in the GIC and MAS to include long-term expected total returns instead of just interest and dividends, it will have additional spending power of $4 billion for the year ending March next year,
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        Drop not unlike its peers'
        439 3 GIC PERFORMANCE CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com. sg IN A defence of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation's (GIC) performance over the past two years, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday produced data to show that the sovereign wealth fund's drop in assets was not unlike that of its
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        Lock icon Early birds get the turns
        411 4  -  LAN DE COTTA SINGTEL FORMULAi ian@mediacorp.com.sg SOME prices have increased, but fans who are speedy in getting their Sing Tel Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix tickets will have something to smile about. Organiser Singapore GP is launching early bird packages next month for this year's
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        Not all smooth sailing, but...
        373 4  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg CUSTOMERS may be opting for cheaper tour packages but the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) is not hitting the panic button yet. Pay cuts, unpaid leave and small-scale retrenchments have been implemented by some member agencies, but Natas chief executive Robert
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        HELPINGTOKEEP FOOD ON THE TABLE
        74 4 The Restaurant Association of Singapore is planning a promotion package designed to keep restaurants in business, with Singaporeans eating out less often. The association represents 400 of the 2,000 restaurants here. President Ang Kiam Meng said the package could take the form of giveaways and
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        Figures with a pinch of salt
        309 6  -  LINYANQIN FOREIGN WORKER RETRENCHMENTS yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg FOREIGNERS' share of redundancies here last year was "roughly in line" with the proportion of foreigners in the workforce, Acting Minister Gan Kirn Yong told Parliament. But, given that hard-hit sectors like manufacturing hire far more foreigners than locals,
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        Social service jobs for PMETs, grads
        209 6 WITH an anticipated shortage of about 100 social workers per year for the next five years, a Professional Conversion Programme is on the way for those with first degrees in other disciplines but are keen on new careers in the social service sector. Up
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        Lock icon No decision on boundaries committee
        204 6 LOHCHEE KONG ITS setting up is seen by observers as a sign that a General Election is near. Yesterday, Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim asked if the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee had been appointed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong "and, if not, whether he intends
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      • PARLIAMENT ROUNDUP
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          1 IN 5 TOP PSLE STUDENTS ARE LESS WELL-TO-DO
          108 8 Of the top third of PSLE pupils, one in five comes from the lowerthird of households and have less-educated parents. The proportion is one in five of the top third of students at the O Levels. Such figures have remained stable
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          1 IN 2 DON'T QUALIFY FOR PA
          85 8 About one in two applicants for Public Assistance do not qualify-usually because they have a regular income, personal savings or support from families and friends, said Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports. Every year, 200 Public Assistance applications are
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        'Put it off for now'
        340 8  -  alicia@mediacorp.com.sg ORGAN DONOR COMPENSATION ALICIA WONG FOREIGN workers affected by the downturn could end up as "a really vulnerable pool of organ donors to be exploited", said Madam Halimah Yacob, chair of the Government Parliament Committee for Health, at yesterday's second reading of the Human
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      • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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          NO ACCESS TO LAWYERS
          115 10 Investigations are not complete so Tan Peck Soon, who has been remanded and charged with the murder of Ms Chong KarYan, 20, cannot meet his lawyers. At the Subordinate Courts yesterday, lawyers SubhasAnandan andSunil Sudheesan were denied access to the 19-year-old welder after the prosecutor objected.
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          MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE
          70 10 By the middle of this year, Web-enabled mobile phone users in Singapore will be able to access timely weather information through a new service offered by the National Environment Agency (NEA). Called weather@SG, this first mobile weather service will offer information like temperature, wind speed, and three-day
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          Lock icon NTU IN RESEARCH TIE UP
          87 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Nanyang Technological University and the University of California, Berkeley have begun collaborating on three globally significant areas of scientific research. They are holding a two-day workshop hereto discuss the latest research and explore partnership possibilities in stem cells, energy efficiency and synthetic
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        End of spending spree
        316 10  -  ZULOTHMAN STOLEN CARDS ANDCHEQUES zul@mediacorp.com.sg MOHAMMAD Khalid bin Khamis (picture) lived it up with stolen credit cards and cheques but the long arm of the law soon caught up with him. His crime spree began on Aug 2, 2007, when he treated himself to ice cream
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Crew killed as jet crashes at Narita
      269 12 FEDEX CRASH Wind shear may have been a factor TOKYO A FedEx cargo aircraft en route from China smashed into a runway and burst into a ball of flames while attempting to land at Tokyo's Narita airport on Monday, killing the American pilot
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      Lock icon 2 opposition newspapers banned for 3 months
      202 14 AGENCIES MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's opposition said yesterday that two of its newspapers have been banned for three months, just before Mr Najib Razak takes office as Prime Minister. Malaysia is entering a period of intense political activity, with a leadership transition,
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      Lock icon Mumbai attack suspect tells court he is from Pakistan
      185 14 AFP MUMBAI The lone militant suspect captured by police during the Mumbai attacks told an Indian court yesterday he was from Pakistan and would accept a court-appointed lawyer to defend him. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, also known as Kasab, appeared before
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      Lock icon US mulls new figure to helm Kabul govt
      377 16 THEGUARDIAN CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN WASHINGTON The United States and its European allies are preparing to plant a high-profile figure in the heart of the Kabul government in a direct challenge to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The creation of a new chief executive
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon INDIRA'S GRANDSON CENSURED
        88 18 AGENCIES India's Election Commission found the grandson of former Premier Indira Gandhi guilty of hate speech and inciting violence against Muslims, and urged the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to drop him as a candidate in the upcoming elections, officials said yesterday. The decision came after footage
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        Lock icon ETHNIC DATA PLAN CAUSES UPROAR
        86 18 THEGUARDIAN France is embroiled in a bitter row after President Nicolas Sarkozy's new diversity tsar suggested legalising the counting of ethnic minorities. MrYazid Sabeg, a businessman of Algerian-Berber origin, was set yesterday to launch a commission to examine collecting statistics on France's ethnic make-up. In
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      Lock icon Some get to stay
      239 18 THEGUARDIAN,AP RELEASED GITMO INMATES WASHINGTON The White House is likely to reverse a key Bush administration policy by allowing some of the 240 remaining Guantanamo Bay inmates to be resettled in America. Washington has told European officials that once a review of the Guantanamo cases is
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      Not all contracts are equal: SGX
      117 20  -  Chew Sutat Letter from Executive Vice-President; Head, Market Development, Singapore Exchange (SGX) WE REFER to the letter by Mr Narayana Narayana, "Has SGX forgotten lessons of the past?" (March 23). In his letter, Mr Narayana mentions the DIM and D6W (delayed one moon and
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      Lock icon I SAY TO CANE OR NOT TO CANE?
      456 20  -  Dr RachelS Kraut ONE night, over dinner, my 11-year-old daughter whispered something in my ear: One of her Primary 6 classmates had been publicly caned that day, in the classroom, in front of all the other students. His offence was apparently compu-ter-game
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      175 21  -  DR BILL MAIER BY PEER PRESSURE Peer pressure is a powerful force in a teen's life. But not all peer pressure is bad for them. Almost all teens get to an age where they pull away from mum and dad and lookto their friends for acceptance
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      SINGAPORE SEEN
      58 21 HARD AT WORK Today reader Lionnel Lim saw this NEA employee picking up litter and trying to clean up roadside drains in the pouring rain at lunchtime last week. The worker would not give his name when asked. 'I wish I was half as hardworking as he, and
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      So, is there a claims cap or not?
      88 21  -  Lim Boon Lee at Posted by www.todayonline.com/voices IN HIS letter "No cap for most Shield plans" (March 19), Ms Lee How Teck of NTUC Income says that among Enhanced Incomeshield, Standard Incomeshield and Incomeshield M Plans, "only Standard Incomeshield has a monthly
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      Only on how much is paid per cycle: Income
      180 21 Reply from Lee HowTeck Senior Vice-President General Manager, Group Health Insurance, NTUC Income WE CONFIRM there is no monthly cap for chemotherapy claims under Incomeshield M plans, as they follow MediShield's practice of paying claims by the cycle. There is, however,
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  • THE ARTS
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      Lock icon A Spacey ody
      1148 22  -  MAYO MARTIN THE BRIDGE PROJECT mayo@mediacorp. com.sg PLAYING snarky, sneaky bad guys seems to be what Kevin Spacey does best: From Superman Returns' baldie megalomaniac Lex Luthor to Se7en's poker-faced psycho John Doe to The Usual Suspects' infamous criminal mastermind Keyser Soze. (Oops, forgot to put a
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      No Haka here
      372 24  -  MAYO MARTIN MAORI THEATRE Leave your stereotypes at the door for this New Zealand production mayo@mediacorp.com.sg NEW Zealand is known for a few things: The All-Blacks, Peter Jackson, and sheep. How about adding Maori theatre to the list? Taki Rua Productions, the country's only national, professional Maori
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      Lock icon A flawless performance
      467 25  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH CONCERT REVIEW| DUFFY —LIVE IN SINGAPORE Pity there was no party at the concert christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg FROM Tom Jones to Shirley Bassey to Manic Street Preachers to Stereophonies, the Welsh have often shown us that, given a chance, they can and will kick serious butt on stage
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      Lock icon Baby blues or boon?
      794 26  -  EVELINE GAN MULTIPLE-BIRTH PREGNANCY It could mean a double, or triple, dose of joy and stress for mums eveline@mediacorp.com.sg A NIGHTMARE. That's what first-time mum Wendy Cheong, who gave birth to triplets two years ago, remembered of her pregnancy. "It was so stressful. No one in
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      How to make bath time fun for baby
      433 27 m My three-month-old baby cries and throws a tantrum every time I bathe him. Is there anything I can do about it? How often should I bathe him? Alt is not unusual for some babies to get upset and throw tantrums during
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      369 29  -  LAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg ORGANISERS of the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore event said they will be making a police report by the end of the week, after they have completed their own internal investigations. Sunday's race was marred during the 30km
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      600 29 ENGLISH FOOTBALL Surging Liverpool run riot to deliver a chilling message to Ferguson's champions ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool s Aston Villa o LIVERPOOL Both Rafael Benitez and Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard were keen not to get carried away after the Reds' 5-0
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      Tottenham to star in Singapore
      219 30  -  PHILIPGOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com. sg ENGLISH Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur will be in Singapore in just under 10 weeks. It is believed the 2008 League Cup champions will be here for a match against a Singapore Selection at the end of May as part of a two-match
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      729 30  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE SPORT Swimming icon is Singapore's first national head coach and heads a high-powered new team linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg HE IS one of the biggest names in Singapore sport, swimmer Ang Peng Siong looms large in the country's Hall of Fame. The three-time
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      Lock icon DPMM nurse a nose bleed
      617 31  -  ASDWIGHT SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Once labelled a whipping boy, Brunei club could now go top with a win GREAT EASTERN YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 DPMM FC vSengkang Punggol B S Begawan, 8.15pm sports@newstoday.com.sg THEY came into the S-League as an unknown quantity, but after five matches, Brunei
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      218 31 THE annual Mayor's Challenge Shield was held on Sunday at SAFRA Tampines and approximately 500 aspiring footballers under the Free Kicks programme turned up for the event, accompanied by their families and friends. Guest-of-honour Zainudin Nordin, Mayor, Central Singapore District and deputy president, Football
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      38 29 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am NHL Philadelphia vNJ Devils, Ch 117 9.30am Baseball World Baseball Classic, Ch 23 TOMORROW 8.30am NHL Dallas v Vancouver, Ch 117 SPORTS ON RADIO 6.35am-11.35pm SportsZone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on gj8Live
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      64 32 ify Available on Android-Powered Phone. along Tibet border China said Monday it had deployed international border as part of ramped-up security measures ahead of the 50th anniversary of a failed anti-Chinese uprisinH. Sing Tel Dream is avaliable only at Sing Tel retail shops. For the latest news on the go.
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        566 32  -  SHERMAINEWONG SHOCKTACTICS HPB #s series of clever ads have no difficulty attracting attention shermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg YOU might have seen them in the local media, including this newspaper, and thought they were fashion spreads, magazine covers or even slimming advertisements. On closer inspection, they turned out to
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        Lock icon China, Indonesia ink $22-billion swap deal
        198 33 AFP BEIJING China yesterday signed a three-year currency swap agreement with Indonesia worth 100 billion yuan ($22.1 billion), the People's Bank of China said. The deal is aimed at bolstering bilateral trade and investment to promote economic growth and providing short-term liquidity to stabilise
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        433 33 AGENCIES BONUSTAX WASHINGTON President Barack Obama wagered significant political capital on Sunday, signalling opposition to a highly popular Congressional drive to slap a punitive 90-per-cent tax on bonuses to big earners at financial institutions already deeply in debt to taxpayers. He defended his stand by
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        579 34  -  KIRSTYGREEN DOW JONES BUSINESS COMMENT A SLEW of rights issuance has plumped up Singapore's corporate balance sheets but also frustrated fund managers and left the stock market lagging in Asia. According to CLSA, Singaporean companies have raised $12.6 billion in fresh equity in
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        202 34 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S inflation slowed more than expected last month, reaching a 20-month low and giving the central bank room to allow the currency to depreciate further to support a weakening economy. The consumer price index rose 1.9 per cent from a year earlier, after gaining
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        'Resilient' supply is crucial
        273 35  -  LINYANQIN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION yanqing@mediacorp.com.sg TO ENSURE a reliable supply of essential building materials like sand and granite, importers will have to submit a business continuity plan that puts in place measures to mitigate any supply disruption. This is one of the conditions for material importers
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        208 35  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg SMALL and medium sized enterprises (SME) are finding more free-of-charge professional business advice at their disposal. Yesterday, the non-profit Institute of Management Consultants Singapore (IMCS) launched a free diagnostic consultancy service, where volunteer consultants will try to diagnose, within an hour, the problems
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        56 36 $9.64 I Underweight Morgan Stanley downgrades its rating from "Equal-weight" to reflect concerns over the outlook for the dry bulk shipping market, and cuts the target price to $6.70 from $8.00. The brokerage expects STX Pan Ocean to post losses in FYO9, saying it is stuck with
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        70 36 13 cents I Buy Westcomb starts with a 15 cents target price, based on a sum-of-parts valuation. It says Koh Bros' order book is still healthy, noting its recent $582-million contract win via a joint venture to build six rail stations in Singapore, as well as a $144-million
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        90 36 $4.95 I Sell ABN Amro initiates coverage with a $3.80 target price, saying that "current valuations look rich, trading activity is depressed and consensus forecasts carry downside risks" if weak trends in equity and derivatives volumes persist. It says that the stock's premium valuation versus its peers is
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        64 36 Friday 1,596.92 A 0.76% Thursday 1,584.86 A 0.57% Wednesday 1,575.94 A 1.08% Tuesday 1,559.03 T 1.72% Hang Seng 13,447.42 A 4.78% Nikkei 8,215.53 A 3-39% Shanghai 2,325.48 A 1.95% Seoul 1,199.50 A 2.44% Mumbai 9,424.02 A 5.10% KLComp 878.30 A 2.51% US$1 £1 1 euro A$i RMi $1,512
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      102 36 A PRE-OPENING DISCOUNT TANHUI LENG But this time, the offer is for retailers, not shoppers. Set to open in July, lON Orchard is offering tenants a discount of up to 30 per cent off contracted base rentals until October. The high-end mall —which has 80 percent of tenancy commitment so
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      799 36 THENEWYORKTIMES But the real problem with this plan is that it won't work. Yes, troubled assets may be somewhat undervalued. But the fact is that financial executives literally bet their banks on the belief that there was no housing bubble, and the related belief that unprecedented levels
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      Citi remains committed to expansion
      279 36 LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg NOT content to rest on its laurels in the retailing banking sector here, Citibank has its sights set on making further inroads into wealth management and the area of small and medium enterprises (SME) in Singapore. These are the two areas where the
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