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  • 20 1 TODAY Friday June 26, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday June 26, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 77 1 6Temasek Cares launched with an endowment of $100 million will focus on empowering the needy here. 1 Q We burned money for 1O fun, dead tycoon Nina Wang's feng shui master Tony Chan tells a Hong Kong court. CZC\ Medal hopeful Lynette •J\_/ Lim arrives in Singapore,
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  • 864 1  -  ESTHER NG HINI IN SINGAPORE Influenza virus shows no signs of becoming drug-resistant, but experts warn against complacency estherng@mediacorp.com.sg FIVE per cent of all flu cases here now involve the HI Nl virus. When the figure hits 10 to 15 per cent, likely within the
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  • 360 1 THE HINI tally in Singapore has jumped by nearly 45 per cent. Yesterday, 95 new cases were confirmed, bringing the total to 315. Of these cases, 48 were still being investigated as of press time, while 25 were established to be cases of local transmission and
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  • NEWS
    • 231 2 The family of Ms Neda Agha Soltan has been ordered out of their Tehran home after shocking images of her death were circulated around the world, reported British newspaper The Guardian yesterday. The neighbours said the police did not hand the body
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    • 421 2 AGENCIES IRAN POLITICS Cleric cautions suppression of protests could "possibly uproot foundations of the government' TEHRAN In a sign that dissent is growing among top figures in Iran, a top cleric warned the nation's rulers yesterday that their continued suppression of opposition protests over the disputed presidential election
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    • 549 3  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN he signed on 28 years ago with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), someone asked Colonel Ishak Ismail: "You sure you want to be an officer?" He replied: "Look, I'm naive. It doesn't matter. To me, this is a passion." The perception
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    • 545 3  -  ESTHER FUNG HELPINGTHE ECONOMY esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE mission of reviewing the Singapore economy and crafting ways to help it thrive has fallen on 25 individuals, half of whom are from the private sector. Releasing the names yesterday, the Ministry of Finance said the make-up would enable
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    • 80 4 PHOTO COURTESYTTSH Polyclinics are gearing up to cope with suspected HINI flu cases once Singapore enters the mitigation phase. This involves the setting up of special outdoor stations where patients with fever or flu symptoms will be treated. However, high-risk patients including pregnant women and children
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      493 6  -  ALICIA WONG LOCAL OUTREACH EFFORTS alicia@mediacorp.com.sg CEMENTING its on-going outreach to the local community, Temasek Holdings yesterday announced a new organisation that will focus on empowering the needy in Singapore. Temasek Cares which has Institute of PublicCharacter(lPC) status —was launched with an endowment of $100 million. The endowment,
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    • 370 8 IT IS a "medicine" that has been relatively lacking in Singapore's health system. But the health authorities are now planning to dispense it better for an ageing population. "Slow medicine" is coming in the form of "a new breed of community hospital", with facilities
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    • 453 8 CAR PARK RATES Still, it's cheaper in S #pore CBD than in many cities AVERAGE monthly car park rates in the central business district (CBD) edged up by a nominal 1.5 per cent last year, but Singapore remains one of the lower-priced cities around the world
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 120 10 The next Chingay Parade will have a new stage the Formula 1 pit and the Singapore Flyer and Resorts World at Sentosa will be roped in to play a key role. And as a build-up to Chingay 2010, banners created by students and individuals will
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      • 128 10 CCTV footage led to the arrest of a 41-year-old man who was nabbed on Wednesday for suspected loanshark harassment. On June 18, graffiti was found on walls in Serangoon Central Drive. Police officers obtained CCTV footage which captured an image of the suspect, which was
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      • 130 10 938 LIVE A $20-million facility to test the efficacy of new medicines, procedures and medical devices in people, has opened at the National University Health System (NUHS). The Investigational Medicine Unit (IMU) will focus on early research in humans, including studies to look at
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    • 335 10  -  TEOXUANWEI RESORTS WORLD AT SENTOSA xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE words of Resorts World at Sentosa's (RWS) Michael Chin, the "guts" are almost all in place, now for the final touches of "cosmetics". With all its structural buildings to be topped out by next month, 27 months after
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    • 250 10 SEVERAL changes to the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota), such as lifting the age cap for deceased organ donations, will take effect from November. Other amendments that will also kick in then include donor-recipient paired matching for organ exchange and transplant, allowing for
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    • Article, Illustration
      56 12 001 BOON KEONG Dr Iroshini Chua (centre, in black) was one of the six selected as Singapore's Most Stylish Women on Style magazine's The Style List 2009 at Palais Renaissance last night, where guests were entertained with a fashion show. With her here is MsZita Ong, MD,
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    • 784 12  -  LEONGWEEKEAT LEONGWEE KEAT WIDJAJA INQUIRY weekeat@mediacorp.com SINCE the incident happened, there have been contrasting accounts from both sides. And it was no different yesterday the final day of the Coroner's Inquiry into the death of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) student David Hartanto Widjaja. On one hand,
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    • 351 14 PUB DESIGNGUIDELINES How industry can help treat rainfall and beautify Singapore's urban scape PICTURE a slew of rain gardens, green roofs and man-made wetlands, that both capture and treat rainfall in our urban island. The resulting flow of water into Singapore's reservoirs would be
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    • 144 14 938 LIVE Three research groups will each get close to $2 million to carry out research and development on the rapid detection of the parasite Cryptosporidium —which can cause diarrhoea in drinking water worldwide. Two of the teams are from Nanyang Technological University
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    • 84 14 At the filming of the video segment for the television show, The Chinese Challenge, Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu (left) reads from a script prepared for her by Media Corp. Beside her, the chairperson of the Promote Mandarin Council, Ms Lim Sau
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    • 329 14 HE USED to work behind a desk doing administrative duties; these days, Mr Muhammad Nasir Mohd Amin pounds the streets checking households for mosquito breeding and advising families on the dengue danger. It's a different life altogether for the 26-year-old who joined the National
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    • 181 14 Job uncertainty is making some stay at their desks longer, no thanks to the recession. In an online survey, more than half of the Singaporeans polled claimed to be working between one and 10 hours more a week, with at least 23 per cent pulling in eight to 10 hours
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    • 221 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA KUALA LUMPUR Singapore's Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant leader Mas Selamat Kastari is still being detained in Malaysia for security reasons, Malaysian Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said yesterday. Mas Selamat, who once plotted to hijack a plane and crash it
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    • 224 16 .AFP JAKARTA Indonesia will suspend sending domestic helpers to Malaysia amid outrage over the abuse of its nationals by their employers, the Labour Minister said yesterday. "We will temporarily stop sending domestic helpers to Malaysia as we wait for the completion of a
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    • 715 16  -  CASSANDRA JARDINE THEDAILYTELEGRAPH NEWS COMMENT THE death of a young woman on the streets of Tehran is caught on camera and viewed by millions. But should we be watching? You tick the box saying you are over 18. You notice the warning that
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    • 368 18 AFP NINA WANG FORTUNE Alleged lover continues to back his claim in court HONG KONG A Hong Kong bartender-turned-feng shui master who is fighting for the US$l3-billion ($l9-billion) estate of Ms Nina Wang said in court yesterday that he and the eccentric tycoon burned money
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    • 525 18 THE NEWYORKTIMES YEONPYEONG ISLAND (South Korea) Sitting in front of his house, mending a fishing net, Mr Kirn Sang Jin recalled the last time the military of North and South Korea clashed in the nearby Yellow Sea. It was seven years ago,
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    • 357 20 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH TENSION IN SOUTH ASIA President Zardari says India no longer a military threat PRESIDENT Asif Zardari of Pakistan has said India no longer poses a military threat to Islamabad, and that his people's real enemy is terrorism. His comments, made during a visit to Brussels and
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    • 159 20 AP COLOMBO Sri Lanka has decided to re-establish a powerful council with the authority to jail journalists. The move, announced by a government official, prompted grave concern from media freedom groups. The restoration of the council, which had ceased operation in 2002,
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    • 198 20 AFP WASHINGTON The United States Senate on Wednesday approved a Bill to triple civilian US aid to Pakistan in a bid to cement a long-term partnership and defeat Islamist fighters threatening the nucleararmed ally's stability. American lawmakers unanimously approved the plan. The package provides
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    • 199 20 AP ISLAMABAD Pakistan has not received a formal request from India to hand over a group of suspects in last year's deadly Mumbai terrorist attacks and probably would not do so if it did, a government spokesman said. An Indian court on Tuesday issued
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    • 315 23 AGENCIES CHINA INTERNETCRACKDOWN BEIJING China's crackdown on Internet pornography will be extended to health-related sex information, according to new regulations that tighten supervision of such content. The authorities will monitor such information to prevent obscene content from slipping through and stop pornographic
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    • 201 23 AGENCIES BEIJING China yesterday rejected any foreign interference in its internal affairs after United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the arrest of prominent dissident Liv Xiaobo. "Foreign countries should respect China's judicial sovereignty," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang. "We firmly oppose anyone's
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    • 181 23 BEIJING China has reclaimed 26.77 billion yuan ($5.71 billion) of public money embezzled last year, Reuters reported yesterday. Thirty people involved in 116 cases had been arrested and sentenced, the news agency said, citing a Xinhua report that quoted Mr Liv Jiayi, head of
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    • 253 24 AFP TOKYO —Japan's Prime Minister yesterday sought to regain the political initiative amid a spate of scandals, party rifts and poor opinion polls, as he announced improved social welfare support. Prime Minister Taro Aso, who must call a general
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    • 360 24 AFP INDONESIA COURT Court throws out defamation case filed by hospital TANGERANG An Indonesian mother-of-two was cleared yesterday of defamation charges after emails she wrote about poor treatment at a local hospital appeared on social networking website Facebook. In a case that provoked outrage across
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 90 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH German scientists have devised a computer programme that predicts if and when men will go bald. The "baldness calculator" said to be the world's first reliable tool for predicting hair loss calculates the exact age at which someone will go bald or have
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      • 106 26 AFP Wallabies are getting "as high as a kite" on opium in Australian poppy fields and flattening crops as they hop round in circles, it was reported yesterday. The marsupials, which look like small kangaroos, have been getting into medical opium crops in Tasmania and chewing
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    • 363 26 AFP AUSTRALIA 12 per cent of Australians identify themselves as racist MELBOURNE Some 85 per cent of Australians believe the country has a racism problem, new research has shown following ethnic tensions in recent weeks. The study, led by University of Sydney social science
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    • 761 28  -  MICHAEL SLACKMAN THENEWYORKTIMES NEWS ANALYSIS CAIRO The rancorous dispute over Iran's presidential election could turn into a win-win for Arab leaders aligned with Washington who in the past have complained bitterly that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was destabilising the region and meddling in Arab affairs,
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    • 127 30 AFP WASHINGTON The United States has rescinded invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 parties at US embassies, following the violent suppression of protests in Iran. "Unfortunately, circumstances have changed and participation by Iranian diplomats would not be appropriate in light of the unjust
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    • 645 30  -  NEILMACFARQUHAR THE NEWYORKTIMES NEWS ANALYSIS The hidden messiah, the Rafsanjani factor, foreign policy unite these two men PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has maintained a markedly low profile since Iran's disputed presidential election erupted into bloody street protests. But analysts said the crackdown now taking place across
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    • 719 34 AFGHANISTAN ELECTIONS Karzai looks set to win a new term after getting rid of his opponents KABUL With a nationwide election only weeks away, the paradox of President Hamid Karzai has never seemed more apparent: He is at once deeply unpopular and likely to win.
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 80 36 AP The Bulgarian authorities have detained a former Kosovo Prime Minister on an Interpol arrest warrant, and Serbia sought his extradition on Wednesday. Mr Agim Ceku, Prime Minister between 2006 and 2008, was taken into custody while entering Bulgaria on Tuesday. The 48-year-old is wanted for
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      • 78 36 AP About 13,000 firefighters, police and soldiers struggled on Wednesday to contain flood waters (picture) in northern, central and eastern Austria after more than two days of heavy rain. Interior Minister Maria Fekter said the situation had improved in some areas. In Vienna, the Albertina museum home
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    • 498 36 AFP IRAQ SECURITY Violence intensifies as American troops prepare to pull out BAGHDAD Iraq's security forces faced criticism yesterday after a massive bomb in a crowded market in Baghdad left at least 62 dead, just days before United States troops must pull out of
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    • 546 38 ,AP EXTRA-MARITAL AFFAIR COLUMBIA (South Carolina) Mr Mark Sanford the Governor of South Carolina and potential 2012 presidential contender tearfully confessed on Wednesday to having an affair with a woman in Argentina, dealing the latest blow to a struggling Republican Party. Mr Sanford,
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    • 194 38 AP South Carolina's Republican Governor Mark Sanford is one of several Governors who have admitted to affairs while in office. Others include: Eliot Spitzer New York, 2007-2008, Democrat Elected on an anti-corruption platform, Mr Spitzer resigned after becoming embroiled in an investigation
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    • 610 38 AP NEWS ANALYSIS WASHINGTON What is it with philandering politicians? Why do men in power the ones on pedestals think they are above their constituents and can get away with cheating on their spouses, particularly these days amid intense media scrutiny and when
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    • 277 40 AP SANTA ANA (California) The fate of a Chinese-born engineer accused of passing critical trade secrets on the United States space programme to China for decades, was in the hands of a federal judge on Wednesday after closing arguments ended in the first
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    • 465 40 AP TENSETIES PARIS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting in Paris with a top United States Middle East envoy has been cancelled in an apparent sign of growing friction over President Barack Obama's call fora halt to construction in Jewish settlements. The US' position could spell
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    • 281 40 AP LONDON A British woman with a prosthetic arm has filed a discrimination claim against Abercrombie Fitch, alleging the United States retailer made her work in the stock room because she didn't conform to its "look policy". Ms Riam Dean is seeking
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    • 229 40 AGENCIES ROME Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces a lawsuit from the owners of the left-leaning La Repubblica daily after he urged entrepreneurs not to advertise in the newspaper. L'Espresso which has asked its lawyers to "take all the necessary steps to protect the company" said Mr
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    • 102 42  -  Chin KeeThou Letter from THE Lim Bo Seng Memorial grave at Macßitchie Reservoir Park (picture) is in a deplorable state. In 1946, the British brought MajorGeneral Lim's remains from Batu Gajahjail to Singapore and buried him with full military honours at Macßitchie Reservoir. Compared
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    • 252 44  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY LOVE IS A ROSE One of the great myths about love is that if a couple is genuinely in love, that condition is permanent and will last a lifetime. Love, even genuine love, is a fragile commodity. Like more than one popular
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    • 609 46  -  LAN DE COTTA IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES Situation at home is hot but team are focused on clash with Singapore tomorrow ian@mediacorp.com.sg THE political turmoil currently unfolding in Iran seems to be taking place in another world, at least for the country's football team here in
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    • 274 46  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg AIDE Iskandar cut a lonely figure in the Sengkang Punggol technical area at Hougang Stadium last night, during their Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 clash with Tampines Rovers. The former Singapore captain is now in sole charge of the
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    • 167 46 THERE was a stir last night over news reports from across the Causeway. Malaysian news agency Bernama and The Star reported that the Education Ministry had called for the withdrawal of students from all Asean and international sporting events and activities over the next two months to
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    • 588 48  -  LOW LIN FHOONG ISTASIANYOUTH GAMES Once the fastest man in Asia, he will oversee operations at the medical centre linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg ONCE dubbed the fastest man in Asia, Dr Mani Jegathesan, aka the "Flying Doctor", felt the memories rushing back on his visit to Singapore
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    • 322 48 AFP LONDON Defending champion Venus Williams (picture) breezed into the third round at Wimbledon yesterday despite playing with a heavily-bandaged knee in her 6-3, 6-2 victory over Kateryna Bondarenko. Williams, the third seed, arrived on Court One with her left knee protected by substantial
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    • 413 50  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Mnfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg THEY romped to victory in 2005, beating Malaysia 53-39 in the Asian Netball Championships Final to be crowned queens of Asia. Singapore's netball team are on course to defend their crown at this year's event, when they
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    • 595 50  -  TANYO-HINN IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES Lynette's excited, and a little nervous, as she arrives to compete at home yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SHE is California born and bred, but Singapore retains a special place in Lynette Lim's heart. Both here parents were born in Singapore
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    • 570 52  -  ASDWIGHT SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Coach Nasaruddin left in the dark as Australian striker quits Tigers GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Balestier Khalsa v Super Reds Toa Payoh Stadium, 7.30pm, live on Ch 5 sports@newstoday.com.sg LAST Thursday, Balestier Khalsa top scorer Bryan Soane left his club without informing
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    • 245 52  -  ASDWIGHT THE Super Reds resume their Great East-ern-Yeo's S-League 2009 campaign tonight with a visit to Balestier Khalsa's Toa Payoh Stadium, looking to get over their League Cup disappointment. On June 10, the Koreans were knocked out of the quarter-finals
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    • 634 53 AGENCIES CONFEDERATIONS CUP Unheralded Americans send world No 1 Spain into a spin CONFEDERATIONS CUP, SEMI-FINALS Spain o USA 2 BLOEMFONTEIN (South Africa) Brilliant tactics helped the United States pull off a stunning 2-0 win over Spain on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) and reach the
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    • 275 53 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BLOEMFONTEIN Cesc Fabregas has expressed his "anger" over Arsenal's lack of silverware, and said he is flattered by interest from Barcelona and Real Madrid. The Arsenal captain, who is with the Spain squad in South Africa, said the harmony in the
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      312 53 AGENCIES PEREZ MAKES SPANISH SIGNING Real Madrid has reached a deal to sign Spain defender Raul Albiol (picture) from Valencia. The club said on their website yesterday that the transfer will go through next week after Albiol has passed a medical and signed a five-year contract. It said
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    • 504 56  -  DIGITAL CAMERA REVIEW CANON POWERSHOT SX2OO IS Looking for a compact digicam with a monster zoom? You got it TREVORTAN trevor@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN you're travelling, don't you sometimes yearn for a small, light digital camera with a long zoom lens and high-definition (HD) video capability? Canon's Power
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    • 339 56  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN NOTEBOOK REVIEW DELLADAMO FEW laptops impress me with their looks, but Dell's Adamo has earned a place in my books for its brilliant aesthetics. While other reviewers might note how the Dell notebook tries to rival the svelte and minimalistic Apple Macßook Air, I
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  • BUSINESS
    • 572 60 AGENCIES SOUTH KOREA'S ECONOMY Seoul upgrades its 2009 GDP forecast SOUTH Korea said yesterday that the economic downturn had eased and the country would contract 1.5 per cent this year instead of 2 per cent as predicted earlier. "The economic downturn has eased, with some
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    • 226 60 AFP LONDON Standard Chartered, a British bank focused on emerging markets, yesterday said it enjoyed record revenues and profits during the first five months of this year. At the same time, the company revealed it had laid off around 2,500 staff so far this year, said
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    • 470 60  -  NG BAOYING MONEY MIND baoying@mediacorp.com.sg ORCHARD Road, Singapore's most famous retail belt, is set to be the densest shopping street in the region, according to the Orchard Road Business Association. With three new mega-malls scheduled to open for business by the end of
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    • 625 62 AFP MERRILL LYNCH'S TAKEOVER WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, facing fierce criticism over the rescue of investment giant Merrill Lynch, said yesterday that the central bank acted "with the highest integrity" on the matter. Mr Bernanke was summoned to a House
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    • BUSINESS ROUNDUP
      • 143 62 938 LIVE Activity in the property investment sales market increased during the second quarter this year, said consultancy CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). Total property investment sales have so far amounted to $954 million in the second quarter, a jump of 248 per cent from
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      • 104 62 938 LIVE Mainboard-listed alluminium alloy supplier Midas yesterday said it secured a new contract worth 70 million yuan ($l5 million) from China's CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles. Underthe deal, Midas will supply aluminium alloy extrusion profiles for a total of 240 train cars in an inter-city
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    • 432 62 AP MR AKIO Toyoda (picture) promised a nimbler Toyota that would be more responsive to regional needs, in his first public appearance as head of the Japanese auto-maker his grandfather founded. Mr Toyoda, the auto-maker's first president from the founding family in 14
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    • 187 62 AP ÜBS yesterday named former electrical engineer Chi-Won Yoon as chairman and chief executive of its Asia-Pacific business, in the latest top management change at the Swiss bank hard hit by the financial crisis. Korea-born Mr Yoon is also the first Asian
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    • 420 64  -  ESTHER FUNG WEALTH SURVEY Plunge in global stock markets and property values has hurt net worth esther@mediacorp.com.sg SOME 17,000 people in Singapore were booted out of the millionaire club last year, as the plunge in global stock markets and property prices
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    • 345 64 BLOOMBERG SINGTEL cut the pay of its group chief executive officer Chua Sock Koong by 5.3 per cent for the fiscal year ended March 31, after profits fell at South-east Asia's largest phone company. According to the annual report released yesterday, Ms Chua,
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    • 221 65 BLOOMBERG USGDP THE United States economy shrank at a 5.5-per-cent annual rate in the first quarter, reflecting declines in inventories, housing and business spending that have since eased. The contraction in gross domestic product, though smaller than estimated, capped the worst six-month showing in 50 years, revised
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    • 75 66 STARHUB $2.06 I Underperform CIMB maintains rating, keeps $1.58 target. Says telco's shares could come under pressure in run-up to competitive bidding for next two seasons of Premier League football rights. Says if firm loses rights, FY '10 earnings could see 7-per-cent uplift due to savings on content
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    • 58 66 $1.29 I Sell UOB KayHian raises target to 95 cents from 89 cents, based on higher P/B multiple of 0.7 X for dry bulk shipping business vs 0.4 X previously. But expects dry bulk freight rates to remain soft given huge industry-wide supply of vessels from H2 '09. Keeps
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    • 88 66 $2.241 Buy DBS Vickers upgrades from Hold; raises sum-of-parts target to $2.82 from $2.05 on optimism over water treatment firm's latest venture into Libya While financial details yet to be finalised, broker estimates projects could add $1 billion to Hyflux's current orderbook of about $700-800 million. Says funding structure
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    • 726 66  -  CHEOWXINYI NEWS ANALYSIS Queues forming at new luxury condo in Killiney area cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS mid-afternoon yesterday and more than 23 hours to go before today's scheduled preview launch of Residences@Killiney, one of the latest condominiums in the prime Somerset area to hit the market. But
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    • 451 66  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com. sg NIGHTLIFE entrepreneur Michael Ma, who runs the IndoChine group in Singapore and elsewhere, is going into hotel management with the setting up of a joint venture to be known as the LaTour IndoChine Hotel Group. It will be headquartered in
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    • 322 66  -  JONATHAN PEERIS '938 LIVE ASIAN banks need to brace for tough times ahead, as the severe and protracted nature of the global recession erodes earnings and leads to a rise in bad debts. That's the opinion of ratings agency Moody's, which yesterday released
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      • 147 84 Homegrown indie band Electrico have become the first Singapore band invited to play at the Hohaiyan Rock Festival in Taipei, touted as largest free outdoor music event in northern Taiwan. Now, into its 10th year, this year's line-up also includesA*mei and Stanley Huang from Taiwan, Clazziquai
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      554 86  -  GENEVIEVELOH HSBWIBRBHIRMH Taylor Kitsch wants to be more than just the shirtless guy on TV. Thank goodness he #s also Gambit genevieveloh@mediacorp.com. sg HE IS without a doubt one of Hollywood's hunks dv jour, especially after adding People magazine's Hottest Bachelors list, Rolling Stone's Hot 100 list, a
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    • 169 86 AP ELISABETH Hasselbeck(picture), a co-host of popular United States talkshow The View, has been accused of plagiarism. A lawsuit in federal court in Massachusetts alleges that Hasselbeck lifted "word for word" content from a book on celiac disease written by a self-published author
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