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  • 10 1 TODAY Tuesday May 19, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    238 1 3 The boss of Sri Lanka's LTTE or Tamil Tigers has been shot dead, bringing a quarter century of violence to a close. 4 The '10-year itch' has hit parents and school children as publication of exam revision books is delayed. 6NMP Siew Kum Hong is under
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  • 981 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG NEOCHAICHIN PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS President S R Nathan calls for new ideas for a post-crisis world AND cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg CHANGE is in the air, even as Singapore stays true to the fundamentals that have brought it economic success so far. From capitalising on new markets
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  • 543 1 AGENCIES JAPAN yesterday confirmed more than 130 new cases of Influenza A HINI and closed more than 2,000 schools and kindergartens in a bid to slow the spread ofthe virus, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) prepared to raise its alert to the maximum
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    • 338 2  - President Nathan on ALICIAWONG STRENGTHENING SOCIALCOHESION Recent events have tested Singapore's social cohesion. The Aware episode highlighted the need for all religious groups entering the secular domain and secular groups wanting to change social norms to "practise tolerance, restraint and mutual respect". The escape and recent recapture of terrorist Mas
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    • 483 3 AGENCIES photos; SRI LANKACONFLICT Tamil Tigers chief Prabhakaran and son gunned down in army blitz COLOMBO Velupillai Prabhakaran, the man who lived by the bullet, died under a hail of gunfire, bringing to a horrific close a 25-year civil war that has fractured Sri Lanka and
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    • 445 4  -  TEOXUANWEI EXAMINATION WOES Parents, students panic as publication of past-year exam papers held up; educators say stay cool xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg STUDENTS have sworn by them to ace their exams for the past four decades, but copyright problems mean that the wildly popular Ten-Year Series (TVS) have, so far,
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    • 100 6  -  TEOXUANWEI Four foreign workers were killed early yesterday morning after the lorry they were in collided with a trailer along Gul Road. Three Bangladeshis died on the spot while another a 31-year-old Indian national later succumbed to spinal and head injuries at National University Hospital (NUH).
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    • 320 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG SIEW KUM HONG cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg ONLINE allegations that he is funded by a Swedish politician and is a "mole" ofthe Singapore Democratic Party have led Nominated Member of Parliament Siew Kum Hong to file a police report for criminal defamation. The first-term NMP revealed this on his
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    • 80 8 001 BOON KEONG RAdm (NS) Lvi Tuck Yew (second from left), Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, visited MediaCorp yesterday and held a dialogue on the latest developments in the media industry with senior management and editors. Seen here with him at the Digital
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    • 433 8  -  TIMOTHY OUYANG CHANNEL NEWSASIA ART SERVICES Christie's to build a Fort Knox-1 ike vault in Changi timothyouyang@mediacorp. com.sg SINGAPORE will be home to luxury auctioneer Christie's International's first fine art storage facility in Asia. The Christie's Fine Art Storage Services facility will be located at
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    • 222 10  -  TEOXUANWEI OVERSEAS STUDENTS xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg HOW do you celebrate Singapore Day? You eat, of course, and that is what the 100 or so people who turned up last Friday at Northwestern University (NU) in Illinois to celebrate Singapore Day, did. They savoured popular fare like chicken
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      • 103 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE A tobacco retailer at Admiralty MRT station has had his retail licence suspended for six months after his employee was caught selling cigarettes to underaged youths for the second time. The Health Sciences Authority said the licence of Hub Seng Huat Newspapers Agency at
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      • 96 10 Students from the National University of Singapore engineering faculty were the only team from Asia to be placed in the top 20 in a three-day intervarsity competition in the United States last week. The Formula Society of Automotive Engineers intervarsity competition at Michigan International Speedway
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      • 90 10 938 LIVE Water industry players will get to hear first-hand the latest projects and business opportunities in the booming Middle East and North Africa (Mena) market at this year's Singapore International Water Week. The Mena water market is expected to growto US$lB3
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      • 112 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Selangor's chief minister is in Singapore to study how the Republic cleans up its rivers. After visiting the Marina Barrage and being briefed on the Singapore River Development Guide Plan, Mr Abdul Khalid Ibrahim yesterday called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana.
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    • 164 12 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's ruling coalition decided yesterday not to contest a special election triggered by an opposition lawmaker's resignation. Prime Minister Najib Razak said his Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition will sit out the May 31 by-election for a seat in Penang's legislature. The
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    • 522 12 DPA AUNG SAN SUU KYI YANGON Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday refused to take the stand in a prison court that has accused her of breaking her detention terms by allowing a United States national to swim to her home-cum-prison this month.
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  • WORLD
    • 165 14 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistani newspapers expressed hope yesterday for peace with arch-rival India after the moderate Congress-led alliance won elections in the nuclear-armed rising power. India's election commission said the Congress alliance won 261 seats and the party itself 206 its best performance
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    • 481 14 AGENCIES TERRORTHREAT More urban battles against Taliban lie ahead for Pakistan ISLAMABAD Pakistani troops were fighting street by street yesterday to gain control of a key Taliban bastion in the embattled Swat valley, where an intense onslaught has uprooted more than one million civilians. It foreshadows
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    • 545 15 THENEWYORKTIMES NUCLEAR WEAPONS WASHINGTON Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to
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    • 164 15 .AFP KABUL A younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he survived an attack yesterday when gunmen opened fire on his convoy and killed one of his bodyguards. Mr Ahmad Wali Karzai who heads the provincial council in troubled southern Kandahar said the attackers
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    • 180 16 AFP JAKARTA The United Nations and the World Bank yesterday pledged closer coordination with South-east Asia in tackling the rising threat of natural disasters in the region. The World Bank and United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction signed the agreement for technical
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    • 273 16 AFP ACID ATTACK SYDNEY A Sri Lankan student in Sydney had acid thrown on his face and was in an induced coma after a home invasion yesterday sparked by the conflict in his troubled homeland. The police in Sydney appealed for calm among the Sinhalese
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 69 18 AFP China Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for a crackdown on graft and extravagance in the military, kicking off a campaign to bring discipline to the world's largest army, state press said yesterday. The circular was aimed at ending "luxury and hedonism" in
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      • 79 18 AFP The looting of Chinese-owned shops has spread across Papua New Guinea over the weekend. This follows attacks on Chinese-owned shops in the capital last week. Looters said the businesses should be run by locals and that the Chinese owners were overcharging. The violence followed a rampage by
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    • 153 18 AGENCIES DHAKA Unlawful killings by security forces are routine in Bangladesh and detainees are regularly subjected to severe beatings, sexual violence and electric shocks, said Human Rights Watch yesterday. The New York-based rights watchdog called for Bangladesh to end what it calls a "pervasive culture of
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    • 269 18 AGENCIES TAIWAN POLITICS Opposition asks questions over police car incident TAIPEI Taiwan's main opposition party demonstrated against President Ma Ying-jeou for a second day yesterday and demanded that municipal officials investigate why a police car crashed into two protesters, leaving one critically injured. Mr
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    • 357 19 AP MIDDLE EAST Top adviser suggests patience with Iran is wearing thin WASHINGTON A top adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Sunday that there were likely to be disagreements with the Obama administration over the creation of a Palestinian state. Israeli national
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    • 237 19 AP NEW YORK Columnist for The New York Times Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution. Ms Dowd acknowledged the error in an email to the Huffington Post on Sunday, the website reported. The NYTcorrected her
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    • 187 19 AP WASHINGTON Republican lawmakers said on Sunday they expect President Barack Obama to extend his "arbitrary" January deadline for closing the Guantanamo military prison as he finds it difficult to relocate the suspected terrorists held there. Officials say there are 241 detainees at
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    • 795 20  -  AGATHA KOH BRAZIL COFFEEWITH voices editor agatha@mediacorp.com.sg SURE, a couple of romps at 35,000 feet feature in the book, but there is nothing in The Mile Hi! Club that Janet Chew (picture) would not want her family to know about. After all, family was the reason
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    • 190 21  -  Benjamin Wong PROPERTYTAX REBATES If the Government won't compel landlords, who will? Letter from I REFER to "Pass it on, say tenants" (May 13). I rent a home from the Singapore Land Authority (SIA) in Seletar Camp. The estate is managed by Premas,
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    • 182 21  -  Goh Kian Huat Letter from THE national examinations, namely the GCE N-, 0- and A-level as well as the Primary School Leaving Examination are about six months away. I have been looking for the 10-year series of past O-level questions for my son at
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    • 186 21  -  BY DR BILL MAIER CURING SLEEPYHEAD SYNDROME "Just five more minutes. Mum, please?" How many times have you heard that from one of your "sleepyhead" schoolaged kids? Mornings have become the new battle zone in a lot of houses. But here's one surefire way to put
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    • 111 22  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE ARTS FEST We pick some oftheArtsFest's quirkier shows mayo@mediacorp.com.sg A MAN performing a pas de deux with a mechanical digger, aerial dancers floating in mid-air, a play where the actors keep their mouths shut, performers playing kids running around huge blocks
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    • 232 22 Jecko Siompo, one of Indonesia s contemporary hip-hop choreographers, is a certified "kampung boy". As the Papua-born, Jakarta-based Siompo recalled: "I was born in a village near a jungle where I could play with birds and kangaroos. I would also practise Papua's traditional dance such as
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    • 211 23 In 1998, David Cassel came to Singapore as The Space Commander, a one-man street show as part ofthe Arts Fest. Eleven years later, he's back with The Agency, a show featuring a covert group clad in suits, shades and some nifty briefcases with "top secret" contents.
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    • 222 23 To sayYukinko Akira's method of creating art is unique is an understatement. The 34-year-old artist from Japan is what you may call a "rhythm painter": He puts on his headphones, switches on his music player and proceeds to paint based on the music he listens to. You'll
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    • 469 24  -  MAYO MARTIN IN CANNES PLUS POINT (LESS) Warning: Staring at movie posters is not good for your health mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WALKING along Cannes' main artery, the Boulevard de la Croissette, is the film buffs equivalent of someone with a sweet tooth entering a candy store. Left and right, you're
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      343 25  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH EMERGING WRITERS christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN a priceless artefact goes missing from a museum, it's up to five young friends who call themselves the Mystery Investigators Five (or MI-V for short) to find it. That's the premise the new graphic novel Mystery Investigators Five and the Case ofthe Missing
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    • 817 26  -  EVELINE GAN EARLY PUBERTY Consult a doctor to rule out problems that could be linked to early puberty eveline@mediacorp.com.sg AT AN age when most kids' worries rarely go beyond homework and playtime, nine-year-old Liza Ang has to grapple with a very different set of
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    • 670 27 Managing diabetes also calls for a healthy diet and regular exercise MDM Tan Kirn Wahy's idea of exercise used to be a leisurely walk to the market, or a marathon mahjong session. Fried food was also a common feature during mealtimes. But Mdm Tan
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    • 163 28 BABY'S BOWEL MOVEMENT QUESTION BY CLAUDIA KOH I've been breastfeeding my two-month-old baby since birth and she has been passing stool frequently. However, she suddenly stopped doing so for three days. Is this a cause for concern? REPLY FROM MS CYNTHIA PANG SENIOR LACTATION CONSULTANT, XX WOMEN'S
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    • 545 28  -  EVELINE GAN SCAR ISSUE To heal wounds need proper nourishment eveline@mediacorp.com.sg FOR those who think that good care and time are the main things that help heal wounds, think again. According to American surgeon Dr Annabel Barber, who specialises in hard-to-heal wounds, successful healing requires plenty of
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    • 244 30 ON MEDIACORP FIGHTING SPIDERS Channel 5, 8.30pm A nervous wreck in front ofYi Ling, Soon Lee is ecstatic when she suggests a trip out of Singapore to catch crabs, until Charlie and Peter decide to tag along. Midway, they lose their boat and are stranded. Annie decides to give Tony
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    • 689 30 TV LISTINGS CHANNEL 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Life Is Wild 11.00 CSI Miami V 5.30 Prime Time Morning 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI Bloodline (Available In True 9.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI 6.00 Entertainment Tonight HDOn HDS) 10.30 The Martha Stewart Show 111 6.30 The Price Is
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    • 78 30 ON MEDIACORP MUDHALPAYANAM Vasantham, 9.30pm This new season packs more of punch than ever before and extend its reach by exploring all of South Asia from where the forefathers of the Singaporean Indians came from years ago in search of a better life. DESIGN A-Z Channel News Asia, 8.31pm 11.31pm
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    • 753 31  -  SHAMIR OSMAN LIVERPOOL INTHE LION CITY Reds Asian fan clubs will get tickets, and organisers claim prices for the game are fair shamir@mediacorp.com.sg "HELLO Singapore," said Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard, in a greeting via video yesterday at Liverpool's Asian Tour press conference at Mandarin Oriental.
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    • 482 32  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE SPORT Three bidders compete to turn heart ofthe city into celebration site for 2010 Youth Games yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg A GRAND fireworks display, appearances by Olympic greats, and a store selling official Games merchandise. These are some ofthe attractions and activities being lined up for
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    • 400 33  -  LOW LIN FHOONG MEN'S JUNIOR HOCKEY WORLD CUP StanChart bankroll World Cup co-hosted by Malaysia and Singapore linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg STANDARD Chartered Bank have signed on as title sponsors of the International Hockey Federation Men's Junior World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by Singapore and Johor
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    • 66 31 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 6.25pm Football AFC Champions League: Suwon v SAFFC, Ch 24 7pm Tennis WTA Tour: Warsaw, Ch 113 7.25pm Football AFC Cup: Home Utd v Provincial Electrical Authority, Ch 27 9.15pm Cycling Giro d'ltalia, Ch 113 10.30pm IPL Delhi v Bangalore, Ch 111 TOMORROW gam NBA Lakers
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    • 293 35 TAX AVOIDANCE Mainland authorities target firms using foreign-registered entities to avoid paying taxes COMPANIES in China using foreign-regis-tered entities to minimise their onshore tax exposure may soon have to pay more taxes as mainland authorities scrutinise these structures in a move to boost revenue, London's Financial
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    • 225 35 DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHINA'S sovereign wealth fund plans to sign several deals this year that may approach the size of its earlier investments in Morgan Stanley and Blackstone Group, and it is also looking at buying distressed assets from Deutsche Bank in Singapore,
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    • 168 35 BLOOMBERG VOLKSWAGEN AG, Europe's largest car maker, called off talks with Porsche SE about a merger less than two weeks after the sports-car manufacturer's controlling families agreed to explore a merger. "There is currently no atmosphere for constructive talks," a Volkswagen spokeswoman said on
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    • 147 36 WELL-KNOWN hotelier Jennie Chua (picture) was yesterday appointed the first female chairperson ofthe Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC), the oldest business chamber in Asia. Ms Chua, who was elected for a two-year term, succeeded Mr Lee Tzu Yang, chairman of Shell Companies in
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    • 300 36 AGENCIES SINGAPORE ECONOMY SINGAPORE'S non-oil exports plunged in April, suggesting a severe recession in Asia's export-dependent economies may extend into the second quarter. Exports in April fell 19 per cent from a year earlier to $11.3 billion, following a 17-per-cent drop in March, according to Ministry of
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    • 224 36 BLOOMBERG AMERICAN International Group (AIG), the insurer bailed out four times by the United States government, plans to sell shares in its Asian life unit to raise funds to repay taxpayer loans. It had hired Blackstone Group to advise on American International Assurance's
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    • 78 37  -  TAN HUI LENG YANLORD Land yesterday said it had set up an investment holding company with Surbana Land and Sembcorp Industrial Parks. The joint venture company, Singapore Intelligent Eco Island Development, is doing a feasibility study on a property development project in Nanjing, China.
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    • 339 37  -  TAN HUI LENG STOCK ACTIVITY huileng@mediacorp.com.sg AS NAYSAYERS scoff at the stock market's recent rally, Mr Bob Doll is taking a more sanguine stance. "In our view, we have had five rallies since the bear market started and this one is different," Blackßock's vice-chairman
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    • 304 37 WHILE the prices of luxury private homes are heading south, DBS Vickers foresees that those of mass-market projects may start rising by the second half of the year. In a property research report yesterday, the brokerage said of the mass-market residential segment: "We
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      • 66 38 52 cents I Hold DBS Vickers upgrades the luxury resort operator from "Fully Valued" and raises target price to 53 cents from 36 cents. Expects Banyan Tree to incur a loss in Q2 '09 due to the political unrest in Thailand, but says that "notwithstanding shortterm operational challenges,
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      • 52 38 83 cents I Buy RBS keeps rating but slashes target price to $1.70 from $3.50 to reflect lower longterm margin assumptions for its engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning segment.Notes that Swiber is well-positioned "with a sizable fleet of offshore support vessels, a strong order book and good
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      • 92 38 $2.98 I Outperform Daiwa upgrades telco from "Hold" and raises target price to $3.26 from $2.32, saying "we like Sing Tel for its defensiveness and a growth element that offers investors a chance to capitalise on an economic recovery". Says forecasts of a weaker Singapore dollar versus reporting currencies
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      • 71 38 I 5-DAY STI CLOSING I I MARKETS CLOSE I FOREIGN EXCHANGE US$l $1,468 £1 $2,241 1 euro $1,978 Asi $1,112 RMi $0,413 YlOO 5i.532 HKsioo $18.94 RMBIOO $21.51 RSIOO $3,064 RPio,ooo $1,414 E Friday 2,139.78 Thursday 2,122.11 Wednesday 2,185.29 Tuesday 2,178.13 A 0.83% T 2.89% A 0.33% A
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    • 282 38  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SEMBCORP Marine, the world's second largest builder of offshore rigs after Keppel Corp, is proceeding with the sale of a US$454-million ($668-million) rig despite being sued in the United States by the original buyers. According
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