Today, 4 August 2009

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    19 1 TODAY Tuesday August 4, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Tuesday August 4/2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    216 1 ""1 A Malaysian court has 1 \J charged 2g people, including a teenage boy, with taking part in a massive weekend protest against the Internal Security Act. ""1 Thousands of mourners 1 £j lined Manila's streets as former President Corazon Aquino's body was escorted yesterday to Manila
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    Lock icon NIGHT OF SHAME
    725 1  -  LEONARDTHOMAS NEWS COMMENT FAS chief must show leadership, referee abuse mustn't be tolerated sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg I HAVE never known anything like it in the history of the S-League. On Sunday night, two matches kicked off, one at Tampines Stadium at 7.45pm, the other in Brunei at
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    S-League's black Sunday
    190 1 TROUBLE INTAMPINES In the 69th minute, Tampines Rovers' star striker Noh Alam Shah is red-carded by referee Muhd Taqi for a lunge at the SAFFC keeper. The player heads for the dressing room, but Tampines chairmanTeo Hock Seng moves towards referee's assistant Jeffrey Goh and is restrained.
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      164 1 ADVERTISEMENT Floating House Spot fed in Singapore! ***** l IUE^HSP T '^^M^^^^EfSi -f" -i 1 fAugust, Entertainment News) A house seemingly airlifted by thousands of colourful balloons coming out of its chimney has been spotted making the rounds in Singapore in the last three weeks. The house, owned by 78-
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      Lock icon Ahmadinejad gets key endorsement
      394 2 AGENCIES IRAN'S PRESIDENT TEHRAN Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a new four-year term as President yesterday, in a ceremony that sought to portray unity among the country's leadership but was snubbed by prominent critics of the disputed election. Mr
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      H1N1: Girl, 6, among five new ICU cases
      292 2 FIVE more HINI patients, all female, have been warded in intensive care since Friday, including a six-year-old girl. The child, who was warded at the National University Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) on Friday, has a history of asthma. Two were warded
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      Israeli shipping firm countersued
      302 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THE Israeli shipping company suing a former manager was yesterday back in court this time fending off a countersuit by two men. Singaporean Benedict Ng and Malaysian Rajathurai Suppiah are suing Zim Integrated Shipping Services over an allegedly defamatory statement it had sent to
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      Lock icon It s how you train
      655 3  -  TANYO-HINN TANYO-HINN TRIATHLON DEATH yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg IS TWO weeks of intensive pool training enough preparation for the swim leg in a triathlon relay? It's more complicated than that, according to sports professionals. The myriad questions surrounding the death of Deutsche Telekom Asia CEO Calvin Lee Wee
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      Six reasons and more why Singaporeans should buy locally-farmed fish
      193 4 NTUC Fair Price aims to get local consumers to buy more locally-farmed fish. Singapore's leading supermarket chain is partnering the local fish farmers' cooperative in a locally-farmed fish and seafood fair on Thursday. Six varieties of such fish will be
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      Lock icon More forest, even night tours
      406 4  -  KIERSTENOW BOTANIC GARDENS kierstenow@mediacorp.com.sg COME 2012, nature lovers will have a much bigger Botanic Gardens to look forward to, and it will be one with a new forested area that could include night tours. This with the addition of 9.8-hectares of parkland in Tyersall Avenue
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      Lock icon EXPANDING THEIR BUSINESS HORIZONS AT MDIS
      885 5  -  MELODYTAN Two professionals firmed up their grasp of the global marketwithSCU'sßßAin international business If you're planning to take your career to greater heights, having a business degree that is designed for busy working professionals can boost your career. For two professionals Serene Lim (above),
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      Soon, at Orchard
      251 6 PARKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM RUSHING for a movie or a sale at Orchard Road, and need to know in a hurry where to find a parking space? Come Aug 31, the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) parking guidance system will be extended to the area, following positive feedback on
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      Be ICE-y and win prizes
      130 6 HENCEFORTH, you may be labelled as ICEwife on your husband's list of mobile phone contacts, or ICE-mummy on your child's. The National Fire and Civil Emergency Preparedness Council is conducting a month-long campaign with the Singapore Civil Defence Force to get mobile phone users to
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon $2.8 MILLION TO DEVELOP UNCONVENTIONAL RESEARCH
        137 6 938 LIVE A $2.8 million kitty has been set aside by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) to take paradigmchanging research ideas further and step up their development. NUS President Professor Tan Chorh Chuan said high-risk, high-impact research
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        SOME F1 TICKETS SOLD OUT
        91 6 All single-day Walkabout tickets for Sunday —the highlight of the 2009 Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix —have been sold out. Limited Saturday single-day Walkabout tickets are left, said organisers in an update on ticket sales. Sales of early bird tickets expired last Friday
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        ON THE HUNT FOR A SCAMMER
        187 6 The first man would drop his wallet near their victim, typically an elderly person. His accomplice would then pretend to spot the wallet, picking it up and offering to split the money inside with the victim. He would pass the wallet to the victim
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        Lock icon EU VAN SENG AND NYP DOTCM
        73 6 938 LIVE Red yeast rice is set to be the first focus of a collaborative laboratory set up by Nanyang Polytechnic and EuYan Sang —the first time a local educational institute has jointly set up a traditional Chinese medicine lab. The rice, commonly used
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      More questions arise
      463 8  -  ONGDAI LIN MINGYI TRIAL Trial of former Ren Ci chiefthrowsupyet more inconsistencies 7 dailin@mediacorp.com.sg AS THE last of the witnesses testified yesterday in the criminal hearing against former Ren Ci Hospital chief Ming Vi, more not fewer questions remained about his former aide's work application. Two Ministry
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      178 7 Enjoy potential savings of up to 5512,977 for the first 3 years. UOB EXPRESS HDB HOME LOAN 1 This information is for illustration only. This interest savings is derived when a *****,000 HDB home loan with a 30 year loan tenor is refinanced with UOB, assuming a loan interest rate
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      158 8 AAo A/ly Bo by... A Seminar for Parents-to-be Date 15 August 2009 (Registration starts at 1.30pm) Time 2pm to 5.30pm Venue Inland Revenue House (55 Newton Road, Revenue House, Speakers: Dr. Peter Chew Senior Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Gleneagles Hospital Ms Wong Boh Boi Senior Parent-Craft Educator and Lactation Consultant,
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Anwar suing for $82 million
      170 10 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday demanded Utusan Malaysia retract its frontpage report calling him a traitor to Malays. He is also seeking an apology from Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for his remarks made on Sunday that became the
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      Lock icon Rally to save 150-year-old village
      196 10 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Ethnic Indian Malaysians rallied yesterday to defend a 150-year-old village of cowherds from being razed to build homes, witnesses said. Yesterday was the deadline given by developer Nusmetro Venture for villagers to vacate Kampung Buah Pala, home to some 300 ethnic Indians.
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      Lock icon 29 charged, including boy, 16
      316 10 AGENCIES ISA PROTESTS PKR vice-president vshocked that 40 minors were remanded KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian court yesterday charged 29 people, including a teenage boy, for taking part in a massive weekend protest against the Internal Security Act (ISA). Five women, including Norlaila Othman whose husband
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      Lock icon Indonesia's budget sees 5-per-cent growth next year
      225 10 AGENCIES JAKARTA South-east Asia's biggest economy will grow at 5 per cent next year after more stimulus spending worth more than US$6 billion ($8.6 billion), according to a draft budget released yesterday by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Mr Yudhoyono proposed a deficit of
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      Lock icon New HIV strain discovered in Cameroon woman
      172 11 AP WASHINGTON A new strain of the virus that causes Aids has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and appears to be closely related to a
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      Lock icon Fears of unrest widen
      431 11 HENEWYORK I IMLb, AfcibNUES PAKISTAN UNREST Christian schools close in protest against killings KARACHI Christian schools and colleges went on strike in Pakistan yesterday to protest against the killing of seven Christians in bloody riots that heightened fears of widening unrest, officials said. Hundreds of Muslims,
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      Lock icon Massive turnout for cortege
      301 12 AGENCIES CORAZON AQUINO 1933-2009 MANILA Masses of mourners yelled her name as former Philippine President Corazon Aquino's body was escorted yesterday through rain-soaked streets to Manila Cathedral, along a historic avenue that 23 years ago became the site of a "People Power" revolt. Tens of thousands
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      LETTERS OF CONDOLENCES
      188 12 To Mrs Aquino's son, Senator Benigno Aquino III: After the fall of the Marcos Government, President Aquino restored democracy to the Philippines and became a beacon of hope for the people. She did her best for the Philippines to carry out what she believed your late father
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      Lock icon It's all her fault, say her kids
      306 13 AGENCIES XINJIANG RIOTS BEIJING Two children of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer (picture) have blamed her for deadly ethnic unrest in Xinjiang. Ms Kadeer's son Khaharand daughter Roxingul, as well as her younger brother Memet, reportedly wrote two letters, one to her and
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      Lock icon Plague kills another man, town closed
      212 13 AP BEIJING A second man has died of pneumonic plague in north-west China, in an outbreak that prompted the authorities to lock down a town where about a dozen people were infected with the highly-con-tagious and deadly lung disease, a state news agency said.
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      Lock icon Hundreds fall ill at chemical plant
      154 13 AFP BEIJING More than 500 people have been sickened by pollution from a chemical plant in central China that has also been blamed for two deaths, state media reported yesterday. Health checks on nearly 3,000 people living near the plant in Hunan province revealed
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      Lock icon Enough of sons, parents now want daughters
      411 14 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH CHINA SHANGHAI China's one-child policy has produced more men than women. But families are now hoping their only child is a girl. The country has 32 million more young men than women, a situation that is already leading to an increase
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      Lock icon Call to indict FM stokes instability fears in Israel
      189 15 AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday vowed to stand down if indicted on graft charges, raising the spectre of disarray in the four-month-old right-wing coalition government. But the Jerusalem Post said an indictment would have little direct impact on
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      Lock icon Target was police chief
      462 15 AGENCIES AFGHANISTAN BOMB BLAST Ten people killed, many more injured ahead of elections KABUL A remote-control-led bomb exploded yesterday in Herat, killing 10 people and critically wounding a district police chief. It injured 30 people, said Mr Raouf Ahmedi, the top police spokesperson in western Afghanistan.
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  • voices
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      Lock icon THE NDP CHAIRMAN
      827 16  -  AGATHA KOH BRAZIL COFFEEWITH voices editor agatha@mediacorp.com.sg HE WROTE on his blog that he soon realised the National Day Parade (NDP) was "a huge complex operation that needed to be effectively and efficiently run", and that he understood the reasons, all of which he believed in and
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      183 18  -  DRJAMES DOBSON BY TOUGH TIMES BUILD STRENGTH The ideal environment for your child is not one devoid of problems and trials. Your child needs the minor setbacks and disappointments which come his way. A tree which is planted in a rain forest is never forced to
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      THANK GOD FOR MODERN LOOS
      434 18  -  Elisabeth Lee MYLIFE:THEN&NOW How did we survive before the flush was invented? elisabeth@mediacorp.com.sg TO LEAF through the submissions to Today's My Life: Then Now photo contest is to take a stroll down Singapore's memory lane. Some photos are a game of spot-the-difference. Queenstown Bowl hasn't
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      8 16 HAVE YOUR SAY. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices
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  • plusTHEATRE
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      Be kind, rewind
      1059 19  -  MAYO MARTIN HAPPY B'DAY, SINGAPORE Theatre folk take a look back at the best of Singapore theatre mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S ONLY a matter of days before the fighter jets go zooming by, the fireworks light up the sky and every tot at Marina Bay will be sporting a
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      Lock icon Cage 'owes over US$6m in taxes'
      128 22 AGENCIES THE United States Internal Revenue Service is apparently seeking more than US$6.2 million ($8.9 million) from actor Nicolas Cage. According to the Detroit News, a U556,257,005 tax lien was filed against the 45-year-old film star on July 14. Public records reportedly show that
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      Lock icon Jude baby's mum a model
      234 22 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH SHOWBIZ The British actor's child is due on Oct 6 THE mystery woman carrying Jude Law's fourth child was named yesterday as American model Samantha Burke. The 24-year-old is due to give birth to the actor's daughter on Oct 6 and her lawyers
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      236 21 W^TT waging Money Can Be A BIG Challenge Ek In Times Like Thisl/% "Prospects for an imminent rebound of economic activity are weak," fl W^ (Source: Yahoo Finance) ■£> "r I React Or Respond, Which One Are You? In times like this, we can either react or respond to the
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      28 21 ~^^^^^^^M sm/A fcfc-SL BUILDING FUTURES One success story at a time j^F^ Can a global degree give me m^ the local edge? I jit* WE HAVE THE PLAN
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  • health
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      Lock icon Every day is a struggle
      1006 23  -  EVELINE GAN EPILEPSY Unpredictable symptoms can manifest in many ways eveline@mediacorp.com. sg ARTICULATE, affable and happily married, Mary-Anne (not her real name) looks like a carefree middle-aged woman. But appearances can be deceiving. Beneath her upbeat exterior, Mary-Anne struggles with epilepsy. The neurological disorder came
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  • sports
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      Lock icon Nicol's primed to go
      662 25  -  LAN DE COTTA World No 1 David set to wow Singapore, as she eyes Olympic glory ian@mediacorp.com.sg SHE was due to play her semi-final against world No 3 Natalie Gringham just a few hours later at Malaysia's National Squash Centre in Bukit Jalil, but Nicol David
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      Japan's 'Flying Fish' dies, S'pore swimmers pay tribute
      157 25 ROME The world swimming championships in Rome ended on a sad note with the death of Fina vicepresident Hironoshin Furuhashi in the Italian capital on Sunday. Furuhashi, who was 81, was Japan's "Flying Fish" of the *****, regularly setting world records in
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      513 26  -  EWAN MAH SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Sengkang in the way as Bulls eye second spot GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Sengkang Punggol v Gombak United Hougang Stadium, 7.45pm ewanmah@mediacorp.com.sg THIRD-PLACED Gombak United will be looking to keep pace with the S-League leaders when they take on third-from-bottom Sengkang Punggol
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      385 27 AFP 13TH WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 43 world records fall in battle of swimsuits grousing he was, after all, just following the rules after a series of flip-flops by world swimming's governing body, Fina. "Yes, it makes me faster, of course, but what can I do?" Biedermann said.
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      231 27 EPA AP ROME Even coming off his longest layoff and the embarrassment of being photographed inhaling from a marijuana pipe, Michael Phelps turned in another remarkable performance over the eight days of the world swimming championships at the Foro Italico. The American completed it on Sunday night
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      603 28 AP GOLF In possibly the final Buick Open, golfs phenomenon stands tallest of them all GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP (Michigan) Tiger Woods won the Buick Open for a third time and claimed his 69th PGA Tour victory. Ho hum. Not quite. Woods shot a 3-under
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      44 25 GOMBAK SETTO GORE. 26 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 11.38pm Cricket Northamptonshire v Lancashire, Ch 110 TOMORROW 2.40 am Cricket Northamptonshire v Lancashire, Ch 110 7.30 am Basketball WNBA: New York v Detroit, Ch 23 6.35am-n.3spm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on g3BLive
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      605 29  -  SHERMAINEWONG BEST OF JULY Firefly, HPB ads score with their visual appeal shermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS all about good visual presentation. The July winners of Today's ad of the month contest used simple pictures to effectively convey their messages to readers. Firefly, a subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines
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        105 30 BLOOMBERG Japan's wages fell at the fastest pace on record in June as companies cut bonuses to protect dwindling profits, adding to evidence that consumer demand would not be able to contribute to an economic recovery. Monthly wages including overtime and bonuses dropped 7.1 per
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        87 30  -  DOWJONES Two gauges of China's manufacturing activity showed further expansion last month, as the recovery in the world's third-largest economy appeared to gain a surer footing supported by domestic demand. The CLSA China Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to a 12-month high of 52.8 last month from
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        101 30 AGENCIES HSBC Holdings, the world's fifth-largest bank in terms of assets, reported a 57 per cent fall in first-half profit as provisions for bad loans increased. The bank said first-half net profit was U553.35 billion ($4.8 billion), compared to US$7.7 billion in the corresponding period
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      363 30  -  DOW JONES WORLD ECONOMY Roubini warns of deflation risk, dubs recent stock market gains excessive KALGOORLIE Many economies may be showing signs of bottoming in response to massive government stimulus but the world will stay in recession until the end of the year, prominent economist Nouriel Roubini
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      189 31 SHIPYARD SUES SOCGEN JURONG Shipyard Pte Ltd, a unit of Sembcorp Marine, has filed a High Court lawsuit against Societe Generale to recover U*****.9 million ($285 million) that it paid the French bank in 2007. The Singapore firm is alleging that some unauthorised foreign exchange transactions
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      185 31  -  CHEOWXINYI HOMEGROWN lifestyle and wellness service provider Mary Chia Holdings has launched its initial public offering (IPO) to raise $5.6 million through a listing on the Catalist board. The company is offering 24.6 million shares at 23 cents each entirely through placement and without a retail
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        75 31 Optima, a 99-year leasehold condominium next to the Tanah Merah MRT station, has sold out its 297 units since a preview last Thursday, developerTlD said yesterday. The average price was about $810 per square foot. Demand was so hot that there were two
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        98 31 With the residential market picking up strongly, Far East Organization yesterday said it had decided to launch Centra Residences in Ang Mo Kio in phases over the next three years. The reason, it said, was the Government's plan to rejuvenate Ang Mo Kio
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      195 31  -  CHEOWXINYI THERE were no long queues or investors anxious to cash in on day one of Great Eastern Holdings' offer to buy back an insurance product linked to collateralised debt obligations. The insurer has received redemption forms from about 10 policyholders since
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        53 32 ($1.72) I Buy OCBC keeps rating, raises fair value to $1.92 on higher dividend assumptions and lower equity cost. Says SMRT's fiscal Ql '10 results "sturdy" despite fare-reduction and smaller average hired-out taxi fleet, noting net profit rose 19.6 per cent onyear to $48.2 million while revenue was flat
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        84 32 ($1.06) I Sell ÜBS downgrades from "Buy" on valuation grounds and revised earnings forecasts. Says the trust's yield is not attractive versus peers and stock looks fully valued following recent share price outperformance. It raises target price to 94 cents after using lower rate for discounted cash flow
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        62 32 Friday 2,659.20 A 0.87% Thursday 2,636.19 A 1.23% Wednesday 2,604.06 T 0.76% Tuesday 2,624.04 A 1.84% Hang Seng 20,807.26 A 1.14% Nikkei 10,352.07 0.04% Shanghai 3,462.59 A 1.48% Seoul 1,564.98 A 0.49% Mumbai 15.924.23 A 1.62% Malaysia 1,171.31 0.31 US$1 £1 1 euro A$i RMi $1,434 ¥100 $1,510
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      219 32 AGENCIES Is entrepreneur Sim Wong Hoo crafting a new strategy for his company? Talk of such a shift seemed to prompt investors to pile into Creative Technology yesterday, as its share price vaulted to an 11--month high of $5.90. The surge of more than 30
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      479 32  -  KELVIN CHOW OCBCQ2 RESULTS Core loans business remains weak, suggesting economic recovery may not be imminent kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg DESPITE unveiling a second-quarter bottom line that beat analysts' expectations, OCBC's results showed its core loans business remained weak, suggesting that general economic activity had yet to return
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