Today, 19 June 2009, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 TODAY Friday June ig, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday June ig, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 128 1 O (2 A pilot of a commercial -J \J jetliner flying over the Atlantic died, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. CQ Formula One was thrown JJ into disarrayjust a few days ahead of the British Grand Prix with the announcement of a breakaway race
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    • 660 1  - Sultan of Johor rejects 3rd bridge but why? rZULOTHMAN IN WHAT some see as a renewed show of royal power in the game of Malaysian politics, the Sultan of Johor has rejected the proposal for a third bridge with Singapore. Sultan Iskandar Ismail did not give a reason for doing
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    • 753 1  -  TANYO-HINN HINI IN SINGAPORE Authorities determined to show Singapore can hold big events, such as AYG safely yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg AS SINGAPORE reported the first sign of a possible community transmission here a new HINI patient who may have come into contact with an earlier confirmed case plans
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    • 69 2 AFP (From left) Activists of various non-government organisations disguised as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Jose LuisZapatero demonstrating on the sidelines of the two-day European Union summit beginning yesterday in Brussels. EU leaders are set to back new measures
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    • 387 2  -  DRFARISH ANOOR POINTOFVIEW THE timing of the statement, delivered by the Tengku Mahkota at the opening of the state legislature, is interesting. It comes at a time when there has been a lot of positive feedback in the Malaysian media following Prime Minister Najib
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    • 499 3 AGENCIES IRAN POLITICS Thousands defy Supreme Leader, rallying on the streets for day of mourning TEHRAN Iran's authoritative Guardian Council said yesterday that it had invited the three candidates challenging the official election results to a meeting, as supporters of opposition leader Mir Hussein Mousavi staged
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    • 325 3 AGENCIES TOKYO North Korea may be planning to fire a long-range missile towards Hawaii early next month and put "enormous military pressure on the United States", a Japanese daily said yesterday, citing an analysis by the Japanese Defence Ministry. The Yomiuri Shimbun published
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    • 433 4  -  ALICIA WONG HINI IN SINGAPORE alicia@mediacorp.com. sg A 26-YEAR-OLD man infected with the Influenza A (H1N1) virus may signal the start of a community spread in Singapore. According to the Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday, the permanent resident who is Singapore's 73rd case has no
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    • 282 4 WITH just two of the 113 cases confirmed since Wednesday involving people who have caught it abroad, Thai officials are warning that domestic infections of Influenza A (H1N1) are soaring in Thailand the number of cases had jumped nearly 40-fold from just eight days earlier.
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    • 751 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT EXPAT-LOCAL DIVORCES Abductions, relocation issues need attention as number of divorces increase weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THREE years ago, they appeared as small blips on the Family Court's radar. Now, divorces between Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans are on the rise doubling from 165 in 2006 to 313 a year
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    • 192 6 THE Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are conducting their first joint counter-terror-ism (CT) training exercise in Guilin, China till June 26. Codenamed Cooperation 2009, it will involve about 60 troops each from the SAF and the PLA. The SAF's troops are
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    • 343 8  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg COME 2010, the Singapore Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will be the first Olympics ever to boast of having a virtual world. The three-dimensional online platform will contain engaging and interactive games and sports activities, promising an "in-world" experience for users,
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    • 575 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT SIM SURVEY weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THEY are not just pessimistic about the global and Singapore economies managers here also appear to have little confidence when it comes to keeping their jobs. A Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) survey conducted in April showed that only
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    • 384 10  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS a gesture that has raised money for programmes that help children suffering from cancer. But for some of the staff of DBS who shaved their heads for the annual Hair for Hope event, it's also a personal mark of
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    • 590 10  -  HOEYEEN NIE CHANNEL NEWSASIA EXPATRIATES IN SINGAPORE AmCham survey shows most MNCs choose not to send staff back yeennie@mediacorp.com.sg THE conventional wisdom is that when a recession hits, the expatriate is the first to pack up and leave. But that has not necessarily been the
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    • 149 10 WHILE governments worldwide are now wondering how to unwind the huge stimulus measures introduced to fight the credit crunch and recession, Singapore officials may have less to worry about. Said Second Minister for Finance Lim Hwee Hua: "One concern is with weaning businesses and households
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    • 181 12 938 LIVE THIS year's Night Festival, organised by the National Museum, will put the spotlight on local performers. More than 80 will be showcased at the nocturnal extravaganza which takes place on July 10 and 11 at locations in and around the Bras
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    • 263 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE AS SHE was in financial difficulties, an associate director of a property firm agreed to take the rap for another woman's traffic offence. But Leung Man Kwan ended up on the wrong side of the law herself and was
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    • 281 12  -  TEOXUANWEI TWO of the nine people the Widjaja family requested to be called as witnesses took the stand yesterday. At the coroner's inquiry into David Widjaja's death, Indonesians Nolang Fanani and Edwin Lesmana Tjiong said they knew him from a national Mathematics Olympiad training course
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    • 366 14 AGENCIES OUTRAGE OF MODESTY Despite confrontation with first victim and her friends, he molested another NOT only did he deny outraging the modesty of his first victim when her friends confronted him, Chhuon Ratana then committed a second and more serious offence he slipped his
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    • 474 17  -  ESTHERNG NDP 2009 Presidential Gun Salute will be fired from the middle of Marina Bay, but getting the guns there will be tough estherng@mediacorp.com.sg NOT ON land, but on water. For the first time, the Presidential Gun Salute a highlight of the National Day Parade (NDP)
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    • 214 19 THE National Day Parade 2009 first combined rehearsal will be held tomorrow at The Floating Platform located along Marina Bay off Raffles Avenue. To facilitate the event, some roads will be closed from 9am to 10.30pm. They are: Republic Boulevard (towards the direction of
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    • 254 19  -  JEREMY KOH 938 LIVE PATIENT DATA Technology should reduce system errors: SinqHealth COO jeremykoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S largest healthcare group, Sing Health, is promising better safety and a shorter waiting time for patients as it prepares to establish an integrated radiology management system across its institutions. The
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    • 154 19 Time to redeem vouchers CHANNEL NEWSASIA THOSE holding public transport vouchers are reminded to redeem them by the end of this month. The vouchers can be redeemed at any of the 42 TransitLink ticket offices or the six Transit Link card replacement offices around Singapore. The vouchers can be used
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    • 186 20 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia shift to a system in which students are continuously assessed, instead of one purely based on centralised exams, in two years' time. The proposal to introduce other methods of assessment has been on trial for two years, it was
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    • 429 20 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS Tension shows no signs of abating, Nik Aziz calls for meeting KUALA LUMPUR Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa continued to come under pressure as 10 PAS lawmakers yesterday pledged their support for spiritual adviser Nik Abdul Aziz Nik
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    • 300 20 AP KUALA LUMPUR Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (picture) has asked a Malaysian court to throw out a sodomy charge against him, two weeks before the start of a trial that he maintains is politically motivated. Mr Anwar submitted a petition to the High Court
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    • 231 22 AFP SYDNEY Indonesia's devastating "mud volcano" could keep spewing for the next 30 years, filling the equivalent of 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools every day, a top Australian expert warned yesterday. Curtin University of Technology's Dr Mark Tingay, who has just returned from
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    • 256 22 TAIPEI The main opposition party said yesterday its senior members will need its approval to meet officials in China. The new regulation comes amid heated internal debate over how the pro-independ-ence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) should deal with the mainland while overall ChinaTaiwan ties
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    • 411 22 AFP CHILD ORGAN DONATION If approved, law will also do away with need for written consent TOKYO —Japan's lower house yesterday voted to scrap a ban on child organ donations, paving the way for patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving transplants here for the
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 97 24 AP Australia Police in Queensland state are reviewing their use of Tasers in connection with the death of a man last week who was stunned up to 28 times during a standoff with police. Police initially said 39-year-old Antonio Galeano received three electrical
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      • 114 24 AFP Malaysia The Malaysian authorities said yesterday they had seized 2,900 turtles eggs and detained a Filipino who tried to sell them in a market on the island of Borneo, where they are considered a delicacy. The eggs were worth around RM5,200 ($2,150) and were smuggled
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    • 356 24 AGENCIES SOMALI ATTACKS MOGADISHU Somalia's Internal Security Minister was among 20 people killed yesterday in a suicide bombing at a hotel in Beledweyne, north of the capital. Hotel worker Ahmed Abdi said a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden Toyota saloon car up to the Medina
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    • 344 26 AFP DISCRIMINATION IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY Job seekers in Australia face a tougher time finding work if they have nonEnglish sounding names, with Chinese and Middle Eastern applicants facing the worst discrimination, a study has found. Researchers from Canberra's Australian National University (ANU) sent
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    • 667 28  -  GORDON BROWN NEWS COMMENT Junta stands alone in scale of misrule, indifference to suffering of its people British Prime Minister TODAY, June 19, is the 64th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi. The fact that she remains under arrest is tragic for Burma and for
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 90 30 AFP Pakistan A suspected United States missile strike killed nine people in Pakistan's north-west tribal belt yesterday, where the military is to attack a feared Taliban commander. The attack hit 20km from the main town of Wana in South Waziristan, where Washington says Al
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      • 89 30 AFP Nepal Nepal's Supreme Court has ordered a school for Hindu priests to accept students from all castes, ending an old practice of admitting only high-caste Brahmins. Caste discrimination is outlawed in Nepal, but in many areas, people from the lowest Dalit caste are
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    • 49 30 An Irrawaddy dolphin on the Mekong River photographed during a dolphin population research project conducted by the World Wildlife Fund. The group said yesterday that pollution in South-east Asia's Mekong River has pushed freshwater dolphins in Cambodia and Laos to the brink of extinction.
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    • 401 30 AP MYANMAR STRIFE BANGKOK Ethnic Karen rebels will withdraw from their stronghold near Thailand's border following weeks of fighting with Myanmar government troops, a Thai military official said yesterday. Myanmar troops and their allies in the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, a local militia, launched an
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    • 105 32 WASHINGTON United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (picture) fell and fractured her elbow as she was going to the White House on Wednesday. Mrs Clinton, 61, was treated at nearby George Washington hospital and is expecting to undergo surgery on her right elbow "in the coming
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    • 446 32 THE NEWYORKTIMES BLOOMBERG EXTENDED BENEFITS WASHINGTON The package of domestic partnership benefits that United States President Barack Obama established for Federal workers on Wednesday drew the loudest protests from some of those it was intended to help, gay men and lesbians who criticised the move as too
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    • 134 32 AP WASHINGTON A rising conservative Republican mentioned as a possible presidential contender in 2012 has stepped down from his Senate leadership post, one day after admitting to an extramarital affair. Mr John Ensign conveyed his decision in a phone call on Wednesday to Republican leader Mitch McConnell,
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    • 241 36 AP AFTERNOON LATEST But Continental flight lands safely 60-year-old captain had died of a suspected heart attack and two co-pilots took over the controls. The 247 passengers aboard did not learn what had happened until the flight from Brussels landed safely yesterday and was met by fire
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    • 791 39  -  CHRIS EMERY THEGUARDIAN NEWS COMMENT His early endorsement of Ahmadinejad left him with little room to manoeuvre AS THE Islamic Republic continues to enter uncharted waters, the political authorities seem to have no idea how to react to an unprecedented challenge to its legitimacy. The response so
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    • 398 40 AFP EUROPEAN UNION EU to grant Ireland reform guarantees, back Barroso BRUSSELS European Union (EU) leaders began a two-day summit yesterday to chart out the bloc's future by granting Ireland guarantees on the stalled Lisbon treaty, backing commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso for a second term
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    • 34 40 EPA The ancient Caryatids on display in the Archaic Hall in the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, during a press preview on Wednesday. The new museum will open its gates tomorrow.
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    • 171 40 AFP BRASILIA Brazilian and French officials on Wednesday denied that a rift had opened between their teams examining bodies recovered from an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic, as the search for answers to the disaster continued. A spokesman for
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    • 247 44 .AFP LOS ANGELES Five clones of a search and rescue dog which helped locate people trapped in the rubble of the 9/11 attacks were formally presented on Wednesday to their ancestor's former handler. Mr James Symington, a former Canadian police officer, choked back
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    • 379 44 AFP BIOCOMMERCE IN COLOMBIA BOGOTA Colombia, one of the world's most biologically diverse countries, has begun selling rare animals to other countries, a type of "biocommerce" viewed with unease by environmentalists. The fledgling exports of exotic local fauna especially butterflies, beetles, fish and frogs to countries like
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  • voices
    • 360 46  -  Dr Bill Durodie Loke Chee Kheong HINIFLU Now is not the time for panic, calls to name and shame Letter from Senior Fellow, Coordinator Homeland Defence Research Programme Centre of Excellence for National Security S Rajaratnam School of International Studies FOR a country that
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    • 206 46  -  John Lucas Letter from THE comment on yesterday's Voices pages, "Perhaps it is time we think of quarantining everyone who comes to Singapore from places known to be affected", completely ignores the reality of the Singapore economy. The tourism industry last year posted $14.8 billion
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    • 287 46  -  Michelle Jean Yeang Letter from RECENT HINI cases have highlighted the need for Singaporeans to take the pandemic seriously, and reminded us of our responsibility to sound the alarm if feeling unwell. However, this social responsibility falls not just on individuals, but companies, too.
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    • 159 48  -  DR BILL MAIER BY ARE YOU READY FOR PARENTHOOD? Not all new parents are prepared for the changes that a baby will bring into their lives. Before having children, couples are free to go out to dinner at a moment's notice, or watch a movie. They
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    • 743 48  -  TabithaWang BUDGETTAI-TAI Namely, the Singaporean love affair with food voices@mediacorp.com.sg I WAS back in Singapore recently. It was my husband's last work trip before he lost his job and seeing as it was home, how could I not tag along? Besides, since my last column was
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    • 684 50  -  LOW LIN FHOONG MEN'S JUNIOR HOCKEY WORLD CUP Germans could meet arch-rivals tomorrow, but Aussies loom large linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg THE rivalry is so intense it induced a game of spit volleyball between Rudi Voller and Frank Rijkaard, when the two countries' football teams clashed
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    • 281 50  -  LOW LIN FHOONG OF THE four semi-finalists at the Standard Chartered BankFlH Men's Junior World Cup, New Zealand stand out because they are not giants of hockey like the other three contenders, the Netherlands, Germany or Australia. The Kiwis have a long tradition in
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    • 567 51  -  SHAMIR OSMAN ISTASIANYOUTH GAMES Other sides mix work and play but the North Korean football team is hard to spot shamir@mediacorp.com. sg NORTH Korea became the fourth Asian team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa on Wednesday along
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    • 430 51  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg HE WON Asian Games gold in Hiroshima in 1994, capturing the Laser title. Now, former national sailor Dr Ben Tan will spearhead Singapore Sailing's drive towards achieving Olympic glory as part of the national body's new
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    • 905 52  -  ASDWIGHT SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Brunei outfit wary of champions SAFFC's ability to rise to the occasion 2009 LEAGUE CUP FINAL DPMMvSAFFC Jalan Besar Stadium, j.^spm sports@newstoday.com.sg THEY have been on quite a ride so far in their first season of club football in Singapore. Few knew
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    • 194 53 AFP LONDON Spain's world No 1 Rafael Nadal (picture) struggled yesterday as he lost 6-4,6-3 to Australian Lleyton Hewitt to cast further doubt on whether he will be able to defend his Wimbledon title. The 23-year-old would be the first Wimbledon champion
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    • 273 53 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST Formula One teams to launch alternative championship SILVERSTONE (England) Formula One was thrown into disarray yesterday, just days ahead of the British Grand Prix, as the Formula One Teams Association (Fota) announced they would be setting up a rival championship to that organised
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    • 360 53 AFP FARMINGDALE (New York) Heavy rains brought an early end to firstround play yesterday in the 109 th United States Open as water-logged Bethpage Black became unplayable and stars such as Tiger Woods (picture) battled through a deluge. Soaked spectators braved intense showers
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    • 509 54 THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH FOOTBALL Liverpool face fight to keep hold of midfield lynchpin and defender Arbeloa LONDON Rafael Benitez' insistence that Liverpool will not countenance the sale of Javier Mascherano is likely to be tested after the Argentina captain's agent held talks with Barcelona officials over
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    • 335 54 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Chelsea are likely to appeal after being handed a €100,000 fine ($203,000) by Uefa and longer than expected bans for Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa for the fracas at the end of the Champions League exit to Barcelona. Discussions with both players
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    • 488 55 AGENCIES ASIAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS N Korea qualify for 2010 World Cup after battle in Riyadh SYDNEY Isolated on the global stage, North Korea will pit their wits against football's heavyweights when they play in their first World Cup in 44 years next year.
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    • 173 55 AFP LONDON Up to 12 players due to compete in the men's singles at Wimbledon this month have been placed under observation by the ATP in an attempt to quell increasing concerns over match-fixing, according to reports yesterday. The Independent newspaper claims
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    • 89 51 r DPMM CHASE SILVERWARE, AND HISTORY. 52 A SPORTS ON TV TODAY 8.55 am Copa Sao Paulo v Cruzeiro, Ch 27 2.15pm Golf US Open, Ch 26 6.30pm Tennis WTA: Eastbourne, Ch 113 7.45pm LCup Final: DPMM vSAFFC, Ch 27 9.30pm Tennis Aegon C'ships, Ch 24 10pm Euro U2l Sweden
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  • TECH
    • 270 56  -  TREVORTAN OLYMPUS PEN E-Pi trevor@mediacorp.com.sg MY PERSONAL search for that elusive digital rangefinder might finally end with the Olympus PEN E-Pl. The bad news is: I just bought a digital compact camera. Adopting the Micro Four Thirds (MFT) System means the E-Pl is an interchangeable
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    • 206 56 TREVORTAN WITH the inconvenient truth ringing in everyone's ears, Sony has signalled its intention to go greener, with its latest line of Bravia LCD TVs. The full high-definition Bravia WES series (picture) features the Hot Cathode Fluorescent Lamp Backlight Panel that uses up to 40 per cent
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      • 139 56 Yahoo has revamped its mobile portal, allowing you to aggregate news updates and different Web services onto a single site. The new Yahoo Mobile {new.myahoo.com) can display updates from your friends on social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Friendster. Video clips from You Tube
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      • 116 56  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN If you like the feeling of something wrig- i gling in your ear, you might fancy this pair of vibrating earphones we chanced upon atCommunicAsia 2009. Made by Korean companyYeil Electronic;., the earphones (YVE-01A-01, picture) vibrate when the volume of the music is too loud
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      • 125 56 TREVOR TAN Gaming aficionados, mark your calendars! On July 4 and 5, the World Cyber Games (WCG) 2009 Asian Championship will take place at Suntec City Convention and Exhibition Centre Hall 404. More than 100 national champions from 14 countries across Asia,
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    • 330 58  -  TREVORTAN MOBILE PHONES trevor@mediacorp.com.sg CommunicAsia 2009 ends today, and mobile phone vendors even those not involved in the infocomm event have been going all out to outshine one another, trotting out shiny handsets that sport supersonic processors, transparent multi-touch trackpads and fullfledged satellite navigation systems.
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      240 58  -  ARIELTAM Hot on the heels of the posh LG Arena smartphone launched just a month ago comes another touchscreen beauty called the LG-GDgoo Crystal. What's unique about the Crystal is its slide-down transparent alphanumeric keypad constructed of tempered glass and framed by a shock- and vibration-resistant composite
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    • 252 58  -  TREVORTAN Navigation specialist Garmin has partnered ASUSTeK Computer to create the Garmin-Asus nuvifone series to ease your directional woes. First announced at the Mobile World Congress in February, the tri-band 3G M2O is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with enterprise email. Available in
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    • 222 58  -  I HEDIRMAN SUPIAN If you walk around Raffles Place during lunch time often enough, I reckon you'll see more than your fair share of the Nokia E7l, the smartphone favoured by many corporate types. It's shiny, it's lithe and it boasts the ease of use you've come
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      92 58  -  TREVORTAN Shutterbugs need to wait a few more months to get their paws on the Sony Ericsson Satio, a 3.5G smartphone featuring an amazing 12-megapixel auto-focus CyberShot camera with Xenon flash. You can view your photographic masterpieces and watch HD movies on its 3.5-inch 16:9 ninth high-definition (nHD)
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    • 97 58  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN It seems like every company's starting to trumpet its Android-based smartphone. Chinese mobile phone vendor Huawei'sthe latest, with the U8230 smartphone. Huawei claims that the U8230 is fitted with a battery that has the highest capacity (1,500 mAH) among the Androidpowered handsets available. The phone has
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    • 374 60  -  FREDERICK LIM MONEY MIND With a new leadership, Malaysia seems set to draw more foreign investments frederickl@mediacorp.com.sg MALAYSIAN stocks have rallied in recent months along with the strong run-up in global equity markets, but analysts say there is little concrete evidence that the rally is
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    • 222 60 MAINBOARD-LISTED Yanlord Land Group is seeking to raise up to $625 million, in the largest dual offering of shares and convertible bonds in Singapore this year, the property developer announced yesterday. It plans to sell 120 million shares at $2.08 each for a
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    • 422 64 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended the Obama administration's proposal to give the Federal Reserve increased powers in his first public tussle with lawmakers sceptical whether the central bank is up to the job. Advocating for President Barack Obama's regulatory overhaul on
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    • 333 66 DOW JONES SHANGHAI China is poised to resume suspended initial public offerings (IPO) as early as next week after a nine-month moratorium, although the authorities are likely to initially test investor appetite in a notoriously volatile market with a stack of small stocks. The
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    • 604 66 AGENCIES CHINA GROWTH But expects decline in exports for this year as global economy worsens BEIJING The World Bank has raised its forecast for China's economic growth this year to 7.2 per cent from 6.5 per cent, acknowledging the boost to the economy from
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    • 258 67 GIC RESHUFFLE UNDER a management reshuffling aimed at enabling the organisation to run "more effectively", the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has appointed Mr Lim Siong Guan to the newly-created post of group president. Formerly head of the civil service, Mr Lim,
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    • 194 67  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg THE financial crisis triggered off a series of events that undermined investor confidence. But the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) hopes to change that with its inaugural Asian Investment Conference and Exhibition next month. Sias president David Gerald told the media yesterday:
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      • 86 68 US MARKETS Climbing on optimism Major US stock indices made gains for the first time this week yesterday after a streak of reports suggested the country's recession may be ending. The US Labour Department said in a weekly report that claims for unemployment benefits fell for the first time
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      • 65 68 Optimism fuels rise Crude oil rose after reports signalled that the US economy will rebound later this year, prompting an increase in energy demand. Mr Peter Beutel, president of energy consulting company Cameron Hanover said: "Prices are up on expectations that the economy is recovering and demand will
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      • 79 68 US news brings hope European stock markets rose yesterday after a run of stronger-than-anticipated US economic data renewed investors' hopes of recovery from recession. Shares in Europe had been down as investors worried that a global economic recovery could be stemmed by rising interest rates and oil prices.
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      • 8 68 Read the full story at www.todayonline.com
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      • 90 68 Volunteers from the Singapore office of The Bank of New York Mellon supported the Very Special Arts Singapore last week to mark the company's 225 th anniversary. Bank volunteers helped VSA participants to create sculptures and decorate fans which will be sold to raise money for the
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      • 723 68  -  JOENOCERA THE NEWYORKTIMES BUSINESSCOMMENT Unlike Roosevelt's reforms, Obama's overhaul is not doing enough to anger Wall Street THREE quarters of a century ago, United States President Franklin Roosevelt earned the undying enmity of Wall Street when he used his enormous popularity to push through a
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      • 77 68 AP A key government effort to ease the credit crisis reached a milestone Wednesday, as 10 large banks said they had repaid a total of US$6B billion ($99 billion) in bailout funds. The 10 included JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, The Bank of New
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      • 216 68  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg AN EXECUTIVE director of Mainboard-listed Yongnam Holdings is "assisting" the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) with possible insider trading infringements, the company announced after trading hours yesterday. It said Mr Chia Sin Cheng, 54, the finance director and executive director, was helping the
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      • 310 68  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg MINORITY shareholders have complained to the Securities Investors Association Singapore (Sias) about the terms of the exit offer from the two Tang brothers wanting to delist Mainboard-listed C X Tang. This may spell some difficulties for the family that is trying
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