Today, 15 April 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Wednesday April 15, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    215 1 2 Rebuffed by the United Nations, North Korea has quit the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and has threatened to restart its atomic weapons programme. 3 Tourists can now enjoy one night in Singapore for just USsi as SIA and partners woo travellers with 'fabulous' package. 4 Some
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    Talk of ´green shoots´ wilts
    734 1  - Talk of ´green shoots wilts CHEOWXINYI GDP FORECAST: MINUS 6%T0 MINUS 9% Analysts divided on whether there's reason to be so bearish cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN leaders of the United States and China spoke recently of seeing signs of improvement in the global economy, many in the rattled financial markets tasted Spring.
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    Lock icon KNOWING THE ANGRY YOUNG MAN
    524 1  -  TULSATHITTAPTIM THE NATION THE close call could not have been closer. But having relied on miracles to get back from the brink, Thailand now has to muster every ounce of collective determination to forgive the last few days and move on as a nation. It
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      Lock icon No more talks, says Pyongyang
      449 2 AFP NORTH KOREA ROCKET LAUNCH Rebuffed by the United Nations, N Korea threatens to restart nuclear programme SEOUL North Korea said yesterday it will quit six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and restart its atomic weapons programme in protest at the United Nation's condemnation of its rocket
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      Lock icon WARRANT OUT FOR THAKSIN
      252 2 AGENCIES AThai court has issued arrest warrants for exiled former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra and 12 supporters, after the "Red Shirts" abandoned their three-week rally yesterday under threat of a further army crackdown. The warrant said: "Thaksin and his allies were charged for illegal assembly of more
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      Lock icon MORE FLIGHTS
      116 3 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore has expanded its bilateral air services pact with Malaysia, allowing carriers from both countries to operate between the Republic and six new destinations. Singapore carriers will have the right to operate 21 weekly services to Ipoh and 14 weekly services each to Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan,
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      A night in S'pore for US$1
      411 3  -  NEOCHAICHIN WOOINGTOURISTS chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg A ONE-NIGHT stopover in Singapore for just US$l ($1.50), with $10 vouchers to shop at Changi Airport and free admissions to Sentosa, the zoo and other tourist attractions to boot. As the economic crisis takes its toll on air traffic, Singapore
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      Old guard calls for meeting
      484 4  -  ESTHERNG AWARE estherng@mediacorp.com. sg THE old guard is fighting back. After a leadership grab by new faces, the abrupt resignation of the new president and rumours of hidden agendas swirling on the Internet, some 150 longstanding members of the women's advocacy group Aware have called
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      Rojak stall owner to be charged
      260 4  -  ZULOTHMAN THE rojak stallholder at the centre of one of Singapore's worst food-poisoning cases will be charged under the Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) Regulations. No date has been fixed, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) and National Environment Agency (NEA) in a joint
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      Lock icon More take a stand on piracy
      465 6  -  ALICIA WONG SOURCE IPOS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS But IP rights owners face challenges during recession alida@mediacorp.com.sg MORE people are going for the real deal but more are also not deterred from buying pirated products or downloading material from dubious sources. The second biennial Intellectual
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      Lock icon NUH automates drug dispensation
      201 6 938 LIVE THE traditional way of preparing medication for in-patients will soon be phased out at the National University Hospital, and with it, some of the administrative workload on nurses. A new $4-million automated system, which will be fully implemented by the third quarter, is set
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      Lock icon Exams aren't everything
      508 8  -  LINYANQIN PRIMARY EDUCATION Govt accepts recommendations to gradually introduce other forms of assessment yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg IT HAS been a proposal some parents have welcomed, and others worried about. Having alternative modes of assessments in Primary 1 and 2 to the traditional twice-a-year examinations were among recommended changes
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      Lock icon BUS-TED
      162 9 ALICIA WONG Thirty-two people were injured when two buses collided at the junction of Selegie and Mackenzie roads early yesterday morning, said the police. The accident involved a tour coach carrying Chinese nationals and an SBS bus, Service Number 56. The injured passengers were sent to three public hospitals
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      He's off to jail for 12 months
      248 9  -  TEOXUANWEI PHANTOM WORKERS Manufacturing firm chief paid CPF for workers not on payroll xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg THE boss of a company who falsely declared the number of local employees he had in order to inflate his foreign worker entitlement was yesterday jailed for 12 months.
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      Lock icon Capitalising on HR
      374 10  -  NEOCHAICHIN CONTINUING EDUCATION chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THE retail sector has it, so does the food and beverage industry. Yesterday, the human resource (HR) sector became the latest to get a continuing education and training centre (CET), which will help 4,500 workers over the next three years. Called the Human
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Bracing for world's biggest vote
      479 12 AGENCIES INDIAN ELECTIONS NEW DELHI India heads to the polls tomorrow, kicking off the world's larg-est-ever democratic exercise to usher in a period of fragile coalition government. Tomorrow's vote will take in large swathes of northern and eastern India, including areas beset by a range
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      Lock icon Thai tourism could lose 200,000 jobs
      234 12 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's battered tourism sector could shed up to 200,000 jobs this year, industry experts warned, as violent street battles in Bangkok on Monday and the political instability triggered mass cancellations. Mr Apichart Sankary, president of the Association of Thai Travel Agents, said
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      Lock icon PLAGUED BY POLLEN
      48 13 AFP A cyclist makes his way along a street filled with white pollen falling from trees in Beijing on Monday. Each spring, the tiny particles blanket the city, causing sneezing, eyes to tear and runny noses in those who suffer from asthma and pollen allergies
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      Lock icon Trouble in Terengganu
      234 13 AP,THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's ruling coalition was rocked by fresh political turmoil yesterday amid suspicions that its legislators were trying to oust an unpopular leader in the oil-rich state of Terengganu. The apparent revolt is the latest headache for new Prime Minister Najib
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      Lock icon Selangor council may allow Elizabeth Wong to quit
      220 13 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER SHAH ALAM The Selangor Pakatan Rakyat government is likely to allow Ms Elizabeth Wong to resign from her state executive councillor post, but it may ask her to stay on as Bukit Lanjan representative to solve the imbroglio over
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      Lock icon Govt rejects Tamil Tigers' call for truce, talks
      178 14 AGENCIES COLOMBO Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said yesterday they were ready to negotiate a ceasefire with government forces and restart peace talks to halt decades of ethnic bloodshed. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, cornered in a narrow strip of jungle
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      Lock icon Politicians: Polls marred by fraud
      313 14 AFP INDONESIAN ELECTIONS JAKARTA The Indonesian general election last week was marred by widespread fraud and disorganisation, a group of political leaders led by presidential hopeful Megawati Sukarnoputri said yesterday. More than a dozen top leaders and political parties, including former presidents Megawati and Abdurrahman
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      SPRUCING UP TO BOOST IMAGE
      716 15  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg JIAOZUO in Henan province was recently named one of China's "most sanitary" cities. But days later, the title was revoked, thanks to netizens. With photographic evidence, they revealed that prior to the arrival of the
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      Lock icon US court halts alleged Nazi guard's deportation
      181 16 AP CLEVELAND The return of alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to Germany for trial on war crimes was delayed again yesterday by a federal court, shortly after six immigration officers removed the retired autoworker, who was in a wheelchair, from his
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      Lock icon Pirates seize 4 more vessels
      367 16 AP SOMALI PIRACY MOMBASA (Kenya) Somali pirates captured four ships and took more than 60 crew members hostage in a brazen hijacking spree, while the American captain freed from their grip planned to reunite with his crew and fly home today to the United States.
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      Lock icon THE AGE OF MIGHT IS ON THE WANE
      713 17 THE GUARDIAN NEWS COMMENT Western societies no longer have an appetite for sacrifice GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT FOR the family of Mr Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama, his rescue by special forces was the best possible Easter present. For Americans, it
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      Lock icon US looks for ways to not let the bed bugs bite
      271 19 AP WASHINGTON The federal government is waking up to what has become a growing nightmare in many parts of the country a bed bug outbreak. The tiny reddish-brown insects, last seen in great numbers prior to World War 11,
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      Lock icon From music producer to killer
      411 19 AP, THE GUARDIAN MURDER OF US ACTRESS Phil Spector convicted of murdering Lana Clarkson in a round of Russian roulette MUSIC producer Phil Spector is likely to die in prison after the legendary music producer was convicted of murder for shooting the actress Lana Clarkson
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      Lock icon DUBAI CLONES WORLD'S FIRST CAMEL
      71 20 The United Arab Emirates claimed yesterday to have cloned a camel, the world's first, in Dubai. Injaz, a female one-humped camel, was born on April 8 after more than five years of work by scientists at the Camel Reproduction Centre and the Central Veterinary Research
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      Lock icon Reporter's trial begins
      318 20 AFP ROXANA SABERI TEHRAN US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been detained in a Tehran jail since January, has been put on trial on charges of spying for Iran's arch-foe the United States. "Yesterday, the first session of the trial was held and she was given an
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      Lock icon A deadly alliance
      432 21 THENEWYORKTIMES TERRORTHREAT Taliban tie-up with militants threatens Pakistan's stability DERA GHAZI KHAN, (Pakistan) Taliban insurgents are teaming up with local militant groups to make inroads in Punjab, the province that is home to more than half of Pakistanis, reinvigorating an alliance that the Pakistani and American authorities
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon AFTERSHOCK RATTLES ITALY
        76 21 AGENCIES A new aftershock rattled central Italy and could be felt as far as Rome late on Monday, one week after a strong earthquake killed nearly 300 people. The aftershock, one of the strongest since the April 6 earthquake, measured 4.8 on the Richter scale. The head
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        Lock icon 'MIRACLE' CHILD BORN
        86 21 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH An American man who had his sperm frozen while suffering leukaemia as a teenager has fathered a child after doctors successfully thawed his sample 22 years later. Mr Chris Biblis was advised to have his sperm frozen before undergoing radiotherapy that would have left him
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      158 21 Give up the ghost. Turn up our toes. Pass away. Push up daisies. Croak. Kick the bucket. Cross over. Take the final bow. The lengths we go to avoid saying death. We have so many ways to avoid saying it, you'd think that talking about death could kill us. But
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  • voices
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      Lock icon Don't get mad, get your house in order
      238 24  -  GanSuYi AWARE EXCO ELECTIONS Letter from I READ with concern Mr P N Balji's commentary, "Ladies, have you forgotten your narrative?" (April 13). Indeed, as Mr Balji points out, the veterans of Aware and for that matter, any organisation should welcome fresh
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      MRT interchanges just too sprawling
      179 24  -  Tan Kin Lian Letter from THE interchange stations serving the North East Line and the North South Line at Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station are too far apart. The same thing applies to Outram Park, which serves the East West and North East Lines. I believe
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      240 26  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON MYEUNISATION Have you wondered why an infant is unable to reach out and take hold of an object or control the movement of his hands or feet? It's because the human nervous system is inadequately insulated at birth, and the electrical impulses
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      I SAY THE BIG CLEAN-UP
      552 26  -  Liang Dingzi Not just hygiene, mindsets need an overhaul, too IN LIGHT of the recent Geylang Serai food poisoning tragedy which has claimed two lives and made more than 150 people ill, I recalled how my colleagues used to joke about favouring one stall over
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  • plus MOVIES
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      SAVE THE EARTH WHILE YOU CAN
      169 28 HBO Asia presents free public screenings of The nth Hour at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, The nth Hour describes how humanity has arrived at a crucial ecological moment, and explores how we impact the earth's ecosystems and what we can
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    • PLUS ROUNDUP
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        TALK TO OLIVER STONE
        81 28 Thanks to New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia and the 22nd Singapore International Film Festival, fans of classics such Platoon and Wall Street will be happy to know that director Oliver Stone is in town and will be answering all pressing questions after
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        BUTTER ME UP
        79 28 The Butter Factory is kicking off the move to One Fullerton with a host of parties and events, including their regular Butter Cookies (aka ladies' nights, every Wednesday), Boogie Down Butter (Thursdays) and Butterfly (Fridays and Saturdays). On Saturdays in May, Butter Factor offers special theme nights
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      972 28  -  TEEN KING GENEVIEVE LOH Waiting for 27 Again star Zac Efron to call made this reporter feel... well, 17 again j^^PPl^l^Pl^PJJ^Pl^Ji^lJl^^lJl^jj^^ IT WAS like I was 17 all over again. Two Saturday mornings ago at 7.15 am, to be exact I was sitting anxiously by the
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      108 29 .A3"; i l^\ Jl What's on your checklist this Secretaries' Week? From 20 to 24 April 2009, reward your secretary with a gourmet experience and she will be pampered with an exclusive bvlgari glft set. Town Restaurant International Lunch Buffet: $48 per person For reservations, please call (65) 6877 8128
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      288 30  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW I 17 AGAIN THE best piece of advice I have for you if you're intending to make a trip to the cinema to catch Zac Efron's (picture) rockhard abs in his first non-musical film: Be sure you catch a screening when school is in
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      232 30  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW NOTORIOUS NOTORIOUS doesn't break any new ground in the music biopic genre, but it does hit all the necessary high points you want from the life story of one of hip hop's biggest losses the beloved rapper named Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious
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      287 31  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Leo and Kate in perfect sync going down the road again genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg NO OTHER movie better captures the malaise of middle-class American suburban society in the 1950s than Revolutionary Road. Right from the very first scene, it hurtles forward like
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      174 31  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW I TAKEN DIVORCE Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson, picture) reluctantly agrees to let his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) take a European summer holiday in a bid to hopefully repair their strained relationship. However, soon after her arrival, she is kidnapped by Euro
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      261 32  -  GENEVIEVELOH LAST year's Silver Screen Awards jury panellist Indonesian film star Nicolas Saputra is thrilled to be back this time with a film of his own at the Singapore International Film Festival (Siff), which began yesterday. His movie love Potpourri, directed by
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      150 32 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH MEL GIBSON'S WIFE FILES FOR DIVORCE The wife of actor Mcl Gibson, Robyn Gibson, filed for divorce on Monday after 28 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple, who have seven children, asked for privacy in a joint statement. It was not clear how
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      1105 33 TV LISTINGS ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL ON MEDIACORP RED THREAD 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 3.00 VolvoOcean Race MN Boston Legal IV AHAKZ Channel 5, Bpm 6.30 Prime Time Morning 4.00 Kyle XVII I.OOAM Entertainment Tonight Suria, qpm 9.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI 1.30 30
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      448 34 DPA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Quarter-final, Second Leg Chelsea 4 Liverpool 4 (Chelsea progress to semi-finals j-5 on aggregate) LONDON Chelsea beat off a valiant Liverpool fightback, drawing 4^l but progressing to a semi-final date with Barcelona by a 7-5 aggregate, in their quarter-final second-leg clash here yesterday (this
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      476 35 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Quarter-final, Second Leg Bayern Munich 1 Barcelona 1 (Barcelona progress 5-1 on aggregate) MUNICH French playmaker Franck Ribery (picture) ensured Bayern Munich exited the Champions League with at least some dignity as the German giants held Barcelona 1-1 in their
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      428 36  -  ASDWIGHT SCHOOL NATIONALS No coach, no problem for Woodlands Secondary's sepak takraw VB' division champs sports@newstoday.com.sg OF THE last 16 teams in this year's "B" division sepak takraw school nationals, only one did not have a coach. Nevertheless, the Woodlands Secondary School team went all
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      511 37  -  LAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Protectors struggling but Sivaji is confident their fortunes will turn around GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Home United v Sengkang Punggol dementi Stadium, 7.45pm ian@mediacorp.com.sg THEY are one of the giants of local football, two-time winners of the S-League who usually make most
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      120 37 The RHB Singapore Cup and SAFFC captain Aleksandar Duric made an appearance at the Coffee Club's Raffles Place outlet yesterday during lunch hour, and they drew quite a crowd thanks to the company of four FHM girls. The photo call was organised ahead of today's Singapore
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      62 34 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 4.30pm Tennis Monte Carlo Masters, Ch 22 TOMORROW 2.30 am Football Champions League: Arsenal vVillarreal, Ch 24 3am Golf Verizon Heritage, Ch 304 3am Softball Northwestern v lowa, Ch 117 7.30 am NHL Playoffs, Ch 117 gam Football Independiente Medellin v Sao Paulo, Ch 27 SPORTS
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      466 38  -  VALARIETAN CHANNEL NEWSASIA EXPANSION PLANS It aims to open two new outlets and invest in training and upgrading equipment valarie@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE the recession, something's brewing at Han's Cafe and Cake House. The 28-year-old chain is investing over $900,000 to expand its operations. This includes
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      480 40 DOWJONES QANTAS EARNINGS FORECAST SYDNEY Qantas Airways expects its earnings to fall up to 93 per cent this year. It has announced further deep cuts in capacity, expenditure and up to 1,750 job losses as demand for air travel continues to decline and price-discounting
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      145 40 Raffles City is the first shopping mall that allows complimentary ticket holders to make their redemptions via SMS to avoid congestion at the car park exit. Ticket holders need only follow these easy steps for a seamless exit: Key in the
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      147 40 Look out for Marigold Milk's latest offer customers are entitled to a free clip-on container with every two packs of Marigold Milk (Plain or Multigrain) purchased. This functional container is not only microwave-safe; it is also safe for use in a dishwasher or freezer.
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      192 40 After last year's Christmas Carnival held at the James Cook University Australia's Singapore Campus to raise funds, chief executive officer Dr Dale Anderson presented a cheque to Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centres and Child@streetll this month. The beneficiaries were 60 children from the needy families
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      264 41 BLOOMBERG CHINA'S economic growth probably cooled to its slowest in almost 10 years in the first quarter, marking the trough of a slump brought on by a collapse in exports amid a global recession. Gross domestic product likely grew 6.3 per cent
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      487 41 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST Obama: Stimulus package working WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama said yesterday that his economic stimulus package and plans to rescue banks and bolster housing were starting to "generate signs of economic progress", although he warned of "pitfalls" ahead. Local and state governments
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      274 42 ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY MAINBOARD-LISTED Lifebrandz's near-two year legal dispute with a famous London nightspot operator has drawn to a close. The Singapore company yesterday said Ministry of Sound International (MoS) had discontinued all lawsuits and that both settled out of court a fourth claim. Ties between
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      150 42  -  TAN HUI LENG A NEW mall at Serangoon Central has secured 30-per-cent commitment rate for its food and beverage outlets and speciality shops more than four months after it broke ground. Expected to open by the end of next year, the mall christened "nex" will
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      236 43 JURONG SHIPYARD'S CLIENTTO BE LIQUIDATED Mainboard-listed Sembcorp Marine yesterday said its whollyowned subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has been informed that a key customer will be placed under provisional liquidation. The customer in question is Petroprod, the parent company of Petroprod D&P I, which had asked Jurong Shipyard to build
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          90 44 Rally fizzles out US stocks retreated, halting a three-day advance, after the government reported unexpected declines in retail sales and producer prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 137.63 points to 7,920.18, the Standard Poor's 500 index fell 17.23 points to 841.50 and the Nasdaq composite index
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          51 44 Down 64 US cents Crude prices fell after a report showed that retail sales in the US declined unexpectedly last month. Crude for delivery next month fell 64 US cents to settle at U5549.41 a barrel. An Energy Department report due today may also show a decline in
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          64 44 Mostly higher European stocks rose as earnings from Goldman Sachs beat the estimates of analysts and as raw material shares rallied with those for metals. Britain's FTSE rose 5.28 points to 3,988.99, Germany's DAK index gained 65.89 points to 4,557.21.5 and France's CAC 40 added 26.04 points to
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        627 44  -  MARKCRANFIELD DOW JONES BLOOMBERG BUSINESSCOMMENT MAS makes it clear that there is no reason for the currency to go through devaluation WHAT ails Singapore, the country's monetary policymakers can't do much about. So, they are doing the next best thing ensuring that they don't
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        231 44 AGENCIES EFFORTS to further trim costs have led Swiss bank ÜBS to cut 100 jobs in Singapore, representing under 5 per cent of its workforce of 2,300 here. The layoffs, revealed yesterday, will take place across various functions of the wealth management business, including
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        236 44  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg ALL five executive directors of Mainboard-listed Li Heng Chemical Fibre Technologies have decided to forgo their combined performance bonuses of under $1 million for the year ended December 2008. The decision was made "in the interest of maximising the return to shareholders
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