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    10 1 TODAY Monday June i, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    198 1 Myanmar defended its prosecution of Aung San Suu Kyi, saying she is not above the law, and warned other countries not to meddle in its affairs. 3 Pakistan's Secretary of Defence told delegates at the Shangri-La Dialogue that the offensive to crush Taliban militants could end within
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    It's not about the numbers
    512 1  -  ONGDAI LIN HINI FLU IN SINGAPORE Health Minister Khaw says focus should be on the virus' severity dailin@mediacorp.com.sg AS SINGAPORE confirmed its fifth HINI case on Sunday a 22-year-old woman who had returned from the United States Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said Singapore will
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    A new look at military transparency
    580 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WITH countries keen to protect their national interests, does military transparency among states exist? After all, some governments may classify some military projects as "black programmes" or secret strategic programmes because they give states technological or operational advantages. Yet, merely "bean-count-ing", or
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Myanmar defends trial
      391 2 AGENCIES AUNG SAN SUU KYI MYANMAR yesterday defended its prosecution of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, saying she is not above the law, and warned other countries not to meddle in its internal affairs. The comments by Myanmar's Deputy Defence Minister, Major General Aye Myint, at
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      Lock icon IN UNITY FOR HER LIBERTY
      74 2 DON WONG In Singapore yesterday, 500 people gathered at the Speakers' Corner to observe a minute of silence at 6pm at a vigil for Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's release. The event, 'In Unity For Her Liberty', was organised by the Singapore Working Group forAsean
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      Lock icon 'Victory is near'
      303 3 AGENCIES PAKISTAN UNREST Offensive to crush Taliban fighters could end within days: Defence Secretary PAKISTAN'S Defence Secretary said yesterday that a month-long offensive to crush Taliban fighters in the north-west could end within days, as fierce fighting spilled into a nearby tribal area. Swat Valley's main town
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      Less cash to fork out
      356 4  -  NEOCHAICHIN SURGERY BILLS Raises to Medisave withdrawal limits kick in from today chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg FROM today, you could pay $1,950 less fora knee replacement surgery and a six-day hospital stay in a Class A ward thanks to the increase in Medisave withdrawal limits for surgeries, which
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      Sending youth anti- smoke signals
      217 4 TO ENCOURAGE the youth to adopt a smokefree lifestyle, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) held a three-day event over the weekend, in line with World No Tobacco Day. Activities to demonstrate how a smokefree lifestyle can be hip and cool included a freestyle football demonstration,
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon CAKES FROM THE ROYALS RECALLED
        84 6 ONG DAI LIN The Agri-Food Veterinary Authority (AVA) has ordered the recall of confectionery products manufactured by The Royals (Premium Cakes) at Bedok from its six retail outlets The Royals Premium Cakes Pies, due to a chemical contamination suspected to be from a bleaching agent
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        NTU'S 2 NEW CHINA ALUMNI CHAPTERS
        91 6 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has set up two new alumni chapters in Sichuan and Hunan to cater to the growing number of alumni members in China. The two chapters have more than 250 members so far. More than 10,000 of NTU's 120,000 alumni are
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      Lock icon Calculator for carbon footprint
      307 6 938 LIVE SAVING THE EARTH IF YOU don't know how much carbon emissions your daily activities add to the atmosphere, you can now work that out. This is with Singapore's first carbon footprint online calculator, which was launched yesterday. At www.mycarbonfootprint. sg, you will be asked
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      Lock icon Wallaby to go on at Shoalwater
      152 6 THE Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) can continue to train at Australia's Shoalwater Bay Training Area till 2019. The Memorandum of Agreement for this was signed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean and the Australian Minister for Defence Joel Fitzgibbon
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      Lock icon THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL...
      35 8 CelestinaTiew, winner of the FHM Girl Next Door 2009, at the finals on Friday night. The 19-year-old student will be the cover model in next month's issue of FHM WEETECKHIAN
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      Lock icon Private ambulances take to S'pore roads
      350 8 EMERGENCY SERVICES THE next time you dial 995, be prepared to be picked up by a private ambulance operator. Starting today, 10 private ambulances and crew will team up with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to meet the increasing demand for emergency ambulance
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      102 4 PSYCHOLOGY JCU I^Bfß!Bl!!TlCTßfff?f!!Hi?Prai Date: B-ifiiiiiii|i g MKi^iiiiii|Miii g |iii g Mia 3rd j une 2009 (Wednesday) J mfuff Professor Joachim Diederich lime: ■lull Jnn^^^ ffilitt "Psychol°gyinAction" 7pm ~9pm M Venue Dr FOO Koong Hean James Cook University, m Psychology Course Structure Singapore Campus m 600 Upper Thomson Road, Testimonial Singapore
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      347 6 1 on T Mummy, MU ST &0 EAST! Must meet Transformers. Can play at and *Y««« too! Foam Pit is back at s?p% jm'tK?^ A You can go LJLww with Papa? How about we just stay thereat /«^Jf ~^y V e*£sLu *w? Please? I wanna go East! Jw I 1^
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Opposition members in sedition probe
      232 10 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police are probing three opposition members for alleged sedition and slander against Prime Minister Najib Razak, amid allegations of a mounting crackdown on dissent. Police questioned Democratic Action Party's Lim Kit Siang for his criticisms of Mr Najib over the Perak
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      Lock icon Model flees, claiming sex abuse by prince
      145 10 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER JAKARTA Indonesian model Manohara Odelia Pinot, whose family claimed she was abused by her Kelantan prince husband, fled for Indonesia yesterday from Singapore, where the royal family was accompanying the Kelantan sultan for medical treatment. Indonesian media reports said that
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      Lock icon Mansor wins big in Penanti
      369 10 AP,THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER w^pjwws^w^jw^BCg^wyw PKR man wins 6,052 out of 7 ioo votes PENANTI Malaysia's opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) celebrated an easy victory in the Penanti state by-election yesterday after ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) declined to contest. Penang PKR deputy chairman Mansor Othman,
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon 2 DEAD IN TEMPLE COLLAPSE
        101 12 AGENCIES Myanmar A 2,300-year-old Myanmar temple pagoda collapsed while workers were attempting to repair it, killing at least two people and injuring 45, the police said yesterday. The tall, bell-shaped structure, called a stupa, collapsed because of age and deterioration, said a temple official. Rescuers
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      Lock icon S Korea, Thailand criticise North over tests
      144 12 AP SEOGWIPO (South Korea) South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday criticised North Korea, saying the country's nuclear tests "undermines peace and stability not only in East Asia but also in the whole world". The two leaders
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      Lock icon TALIBAN TAKE WAR TO PAKISTAN CITIES
      466 12 AFP ISLAMABAD Taliban rebels in Pakistan are taking their war to the cities, honing terror tactics to maximise civilian carnage after suffering heavy losses in a blistering military offensive, analysts say. Pakistan has been rocked by 14 bomb blasts that have killed more than
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      Lock icon THOUSANDS IN HK PROTESTTO MARKTIANANMEN
      89 12 AP Thousands of protesters marched through Hong Kong yesterday to commemorate the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing 20 years ago, including one of the leaders from Tiananmen Square. Organisers said around 5,000 people rallied through the streets in the city. The military crackdown followed
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon BOMB ON IRANIAN PLANE DEFUSED
        99 14 AFP Iranian security officials have defused a bomb planted in a domestic passenger plane's toilet, the latest incident of violence in the run-up to the June 12 presidential election. The attempted attack occurred on Saturday on a Kish Air flight headed to Tehran from the
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        Lock icon FATE OF TIGERS' SPY CHIEF UNCLEAR
        90 14 AFP The Sri Lankan military is probing the possibility that the Tamil Tigers' spy chief Pottu Amman may still be alive, despite testimony that he was killed with the rest of the rebel leadership. "The military is still investigating Tiger intelligence wing leader Pottu
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      Lock icon Call to stop 'curry bashings'
      431 14 AFP MELBOURNE ATTACKS MELBOURNE Indian students rallied in Melbourne yesterday as Australia scrambled to contain outrage over a wave of attacks that has seen it labelled racist and strained diplomatic relations with New Delhi. What began as a local policing issue in Australia's second largest
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      Lock icon INDIA'S AMITABH SNUBS AUSTRALIA
      73 14 AFP Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, 66, has rejected an honorary doctorate from Brisbane Queensland University of Technology to protest against attacks on Indian students in Australia. "Under the prevailing circumstances I find it inappropriate at this juncture to accept this decoration," he said in a letter
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      Lock icon OBAMA KEEPS NEWYORK DATE
      77 15 AFP, AP United States President Barack Obama swept his wife Michelle off to a Broadway show on Saturday night to honour a promise made during his 2008 presidential campaign. The Obamasflewto New York for a meal in Manhattan's West Village before heading to the Belasco Theatre
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      Lock icon Obama seeks fresh start
      396 15 AFP US-ARAB-MUSLIM TIES WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will journey to the centre of Arab-Muslim civilisation this week to begin the daunting task of draining deep mistrust of the United States felt across the Islamic world. In Egypt on Thursday, Mr Obama will make a personal address
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon ITALIAN PM BLOCKS PAPARAZZI SHOTS
        74 15 AGENCIES Italian prosecutors on Saturday ordered the seizure of several hundred photographs, whose publication Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is trying to block, taken at his Sardinia villa and reportedly featuring topless young women. Mr Berlusconi's lawyer alleged a violation of privacy and filed a complaint
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        Lock icon HOLD-UP AT PARIS CHOPARD STORE
        93 15 AFP A lone robber armed with a handgun on Saturday got away with jewellery worth around €6.6 million ($13.5 million) in a hold-up at the exclusive Chopard store in central Paris, police said. The man, in his 50s, dressed in a suit and wearing a
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      CLARIFICATION
      128 16 In the story "Govt debunks'losing path'theory" (May 29), it was reported that "Temasek Holdings saw a net gain of $56 billion over the boom-and-bust years from 2003 to November 2008. This is after factoring in capital injections into the firm, its dividends payments to the sole shareholder, the Finance
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    • Letter
      Road users' responsibility, too
      396 16  -  DSP Paul Tay ROAD SAFETY Letter from Assistant Director, Media Relations Public Affairs Department Singapore Police Force THE police share Mr Chen Khin Wee's concerns ("Jaywalking Deaths: Road to a solution", May 14) and would like to take the opportunity to share some of our outreach
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      157 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON I BY FAMILY DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS When it comes to our jobs or our personal lives, many of us have specific goals regarding where we'd like to be in 10 or 20 years. But have we put that same thought into our family's
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      'Cannot drive below 90kmh'
      274 18  -  Dinakar Sethuraman RECKLESS CABBY Letter from I HAD an unfortunate incident when I went to receive five friends from India who were visiting Singapore on May 24. We booked an SMRT limousine at Terminal 3 and paid $16 as limo charge. My wife has a neck
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    • Letter
      Why items still in system
      283 18  -  TayAi Cheng Letter from Senior Director, Public Library Services National Library Board (NLB) WE REFER to the letter by Mr Darren Chong ("Audiovisual materials at library not available to all", www.todayonline.com/voices, May 19) and regret the unpleasant experiences he had while using the services at
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      11 16 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices )RCHESTRA fcx^ I
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      Lock icon That sassy girl
      1343 20  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH TODAY EXCLUSIVE Which is more fun: Taiwan, or the host of TV series Fun Taiwan? in Taipei christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THE brief was simple: Go to Taiwan, hang out with the host of Discovery Travel and Living's Fun Taiwan, and come back and write a story about
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      PLUS PICK JANET'S GLOBAL GUIDE
      282 21 Machu Picchu is a must. Don't take the train unless you just broke your leg. Take the five-day hike. It's challenging but you see all these ruins and when you get there, the view is so intense, it makes you question what humans are capable
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        Lock icon BATMAN'S SPANISH VACATION
        165 22 AFP He has fought Japanese gangs, battled a huge lizard and defeatec an alien invasion of earth and now, Batman can be seen probing a series of mysterious murders in Barcelona in a new comic book. Batman in Barcelona: Dragon's Knight, which went on sale at a
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      Lock icon Dream over for Susan Boyle
      489 22 AP BRITAIN'S GOTTALENT Singer outvoted as dance troupe steals the top prize SHE gave a final curtsey, a shimmy of her hips, and walked off stage, leaving the winners to perform an encore. But it's unlikely that finishing second on Britain's Got Talent on Saturday
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      Lock icon Should Holden muse again?
      609 24 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH 60YEARS LATER: COMING THROUGH THE RYE J D Salinger considers legal action to stop sequel AGENTS for Jerome David "J D" Salinger, the famously reclusive and litigious author, are consulting lawyers about the publication in Britain next month of an unauthorised sequel to The
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      1030 25 TV LISTINGS ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL S ON MEDIACORP MEGA MONDAY MOVIE HUMAN SPIRIT 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI 11.00 America's Next Top Model XI Daredevil 6 30 Prime Time Morning 6.00 Entertainment Tonight (Season Finale) Virtual Adultery And Cyberspace Love Channel 5,7.30pm 9.30 The Ellen
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  • sports
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      214 26  -  SHAMIR OSMAN DONWONG JUST past the hour mark in last night's friendly match between Tampines Rovers and Australian side North Queensland Fury, Robbie Fowler took to the pitch. But the former Liverpool favourite, who fans dubbed "God", only stepped inside the touchline to throw a water
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      630 26 AFP FRENCH OPEN orld No i PARIS Rafael Nadal's hopes of a record fifth successive French Open title were crushed into the Roland Garros red dust by Robin Soderling's Swedish sledgehammer yesterday. In one of the greatest upsets in the tournament's history, the Spanish king
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      497 27  -  TANYO-HINN ADIDAS SUNDOWN MARATHON Benny Goh nearly misses flag-off but goes on to win ultra-marathon yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg BENNY Goh spent months training to run the 84km ultra-marathon at the adidas Sundown Marathon 2009 last Saturday, and everything went according to plan. Right up until
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      157 27 DONWONG Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was in town over the weekend to conduct a coaching clinic as RBS Bank's brand ambassador, and he was impressed with the Singapore Cricket Club's youth team at the Padang on Saturday. 'There are some talented cricketers here,
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      125 28 AGENCIES ORLANDO The Orlando Magic will battle the Los Angeles Lakers for the National Basketball Association title after defeating Cleveland 103-90 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Orlando's "Superman" Dwight Howard (picture) poured in a
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      405 28 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH FOOTBALL Stability now the key for Chelsea, says outgoing manager Guvs Hiddink LONDON Chelsea's departing manager Guvs Hiddink believes the club must return to the more stable and consistent atmosphere they enjoyed under Jose Mourinho if they are to continue to enjoy success.
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      561 29  -  SHAMIROSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Gombak #s depth set to be tested in League Cup SINGAPORE LEAGUE CUP 2009, GROUPC Gombak United v Balestier Khalsa Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.45pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg GOMBAK United open the defence of their League Cup tonight, when they take on Balestier Khalsa at
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      234 29  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE LEAGUE CUP 2009, GROUP D Sengkang Punggol v Woodlands Jurong East Stadium, j.^spm WOODLANDS Wellington have claimed some big scalps this season. The resurgent Super Reds, DPMM and even seven-time SLeague champions SAFFC have fallen to the
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      68 26 SPORTS ON TV TODAY Bam NHL Pittsburg v Detroit, Ch 117,305 8.30 am NBA Western Conference Finals, Ch 23 spm Tennis Roland Garros French Open Day 9, Ch 22 7.45pm Football Gombak Utd v Balestier Khalsa, Ch 27 8.28pm Cricket Ireland v Holland, Ch 110 TOMORROW 12.30 am Cricket India
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      658 30  -  JOHN BITTLESTON TAKING CHARGE succeed@mediacorp.com.sg I HAD never thought of an email as a weapon of mass destruction. Not, that is, until I received a couple from different sources, both of which had me smoking from the ears. They were abrupt, rude, insensitive and totally lacking in
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      124 30 WHAT IS THE IMPACT OFTHECURRENT ECONOMIC SITUATION ONYOUR PRO-FAMILY HR POLICIES? MR LIM CHENG TECK, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, SINGAPORE Standard Chartered has in place strong pro-family policies and practices. In difficult times, it is more important than ever to focus on our employees. However, these initiatives
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      203 31  -  STEPHENVINES ZULOTHMAN MARKET PANIC: WILD GYRATIONS, RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN STOCK MARKETS Should investors be dumping stocks just because it's a recession? No, as there are always chances to take advantage of the downturn, says author and successful businessman Stephen Vines. In Market Panic, Vines, a former journalist
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      762 32 BUSINESS COMMENT CARL STICK ACCORDING to Chinese philosophy, yin (shadow) and yang (light) are complementary energies that form a universe. It is a convenient mythology that has, overtime, been used to help smooth the many paradoxes associated with modern life. In recent years, it
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      256 33 AFP BORDEAUX After months of gloom, Bordeaux wine traders are hoping the 2008 vintage will revive the market after price cuts and rave reviews from the world's most influential connoisseur. The south-western French region's rarest wines are sold every spring
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      456 33 AFP GENERAL MOTORS Plans to ship 50,000 cars from China to the US by 2014 SHANGHAI GM's overall future may look grim, but half a world away from Detroit, in Shanghai, business has never been better. The American car giant is beating sales
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      736 34  -  CONRAD RAJ MONDAY BLUES editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg What matters is that Temasek makes money for the country and explains major investment decisions TEMASEK Holdings has done remarkably well since its inception in 1974, growing a portfolio of less than $350 million of assets in an "eclectic" mix of
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      233 34 DOWJONES SHANGHAI China will continue to encourage foreign investments into the country despite uncertainties in the global economy, the Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) said yesterday. The statement was published on its website ahead of United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's meeting with Chinese authorities today.
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      252 35 DPA NEW DELHI India is set to sign a longawaited free trade agreement (FTA) with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) by October. Reports said FTAs with the Asean nations and South Korea is on the 100-day agenda of the
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      406 35 AGENCIES TRADE AGREEMENTS JEJU South Korea and the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) plan to boost their annual trade to US$l5O billion ($216.6 billion) by 2015 from US$9O billion last year, in a move that will help speed up the recovery from
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        59 36 66.5 cents Sell DMG downgrades rating from "Neutral" and cuts target price to 55 cents from 59.5 cents, citing an uncertain outlook for the China-based steel coil maker. It says Delong is facing steel oversupply in China and falling prices, even as it deals with high debt levels,
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        74 36 85 cents Buy Goldman Sachs maintains call but trims target price to $1.00 from $1.07 due to the roll-for-ward of its valuation approach by one year. It says Sing Post's acquisition of a 30-per-cent stake in American postal technology firm Postea points to its ambition to drive growth
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        99 36 $1.111 Fully Valued DBS Vickers retains call on the view that valuation is rich but raises the target price to 91 cents from 46 cents, based on 1.2 times price-to-net tangible assets versus 0.6 times previously, after rolling over valuation to FYIO starting March. Says the outlook remains
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        20 36 E Thursday 2,292.97 Wednesday 2,306.08 T 0.57% A 3.01% Tuesday 2,238.79 Monday 2,267.46 T 1.26% A 0.99%
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        25 36 J XO,±/±.UU 1.0U70 Jikkei ihanghai ieoul "umbai ;LComp 9,522-5° A 0.75% 2,632.93 A 1.71% i,395-89 A 0.27% 14,625.25 A 2.30% 1,044.11 A 0.28%
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        22 36 JS$i :i euro „i !Mi $1,444 Y100 Si.507 $2,332 HKSioo $18.62 $2,036 RMB100 $21.14 $1,153 RS100 $3,059 $0,414 RPio,ooo $1,400
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      105 36 "iFP Nintendo will release a new version of its hitWii Fit video game this autumn, The Nikkei reported. "Wii Fit plus" will enable users to compete with each other over the Internet, offers gentle exercises for the elderly and will respond to player inputs more precisely than
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      447 36 THE NEWYORKTIMES.AFP AUTO INDUSTRY After deal with bondholders, GM poised to file for bankruptcy DETROIT General Motors' road to an orderly bankruptcy cleared its final hurdle on Saturday in this auto manufacturing heartland as bondholders finished voting on the plan to exchange their debt for a stake
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      282 36  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com. sg WHILE a number of investment and private banks have either shut down or scaled back their operations here amid the global financial turmoil, EFG Bank, the private banking arm of Switzerland's EFG International, is continuing to expand and increase
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