Today, 5 August 2009

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    9 1 TODAY Wednesday August 5/2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    151 1 1 C Two former public servants 1 \J are facing corruption charges in court. J\ China is introducing tougher laws to protect trade secrets in a bit to boost the competitiveness of its firms, says East Asia Bureau Chief Maria Siow. Of~\ Barack Obama receives JU more
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    Lock icon Bill Clinton: Building bridges to N Korea
    405 1 AGENCIES SEOUL Former President Bill Clinton yesterday met with North Korean leader Kirn Jong II on the first day of a surprise visit to Pyongyang, with the "exhaustive" talks covering a wide range of topics, state-run media said. The White House denied a
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    Time for a long, hard look
    679 1  -  KELVIN CHOW ELECTRONICS SECTOR kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg Forcing Singapore's electronics manufacturing sector to once again take a long, hard look at its survival strategy, Seagate Technology yesterday said the world's biggest hard-disk-drive maker would shut down its factory in Ang Mo Kio by the end
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      Lock icon Four arrested in Australia
      412 2 AGENCIES FOILED TERROR ATTACK MELBOURNE Australian police yesterday arrested four people after foiling a Somali-linked suicide plot to storm a military base in what would have been the country's worst extremist attack. About 400 police officers swooped on homes around Melbourne, netting four Australian men of
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      Lock icon Singapore GP v2.0
      626 3  -  LAN DE COTTA IN LONDON CHRISTOPHERTOH FORMULAi ian@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN the Formula 1 world championships returns to Singapore this year, it won't just be about the racing. Think entertainment. Singaporeans with a mind to party will have every chance as the race machines and bright lights of being
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      Lock icon Chief pilot dies, seven hurt
      376 4 AGENCIES SAMUI PLANE CRASH BANGKOK A passenger plane carrying international tourists to the Thai resort island of Samui skidded off a runway while landing, killing the chief pilot and injuring at least seven people. The Bangkok Airways flight landed in stormy weather and hit the
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      Lock icon More officers for unit
      124 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT WITH more MRT lines coming up, the Police MRT Unit will be beefed up to oversee all policing efforts on the public transport network. Known as the Public Transport Security Command (TransCom), the specialised police unit will ensure the safety and security of the public
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      Security cannot take a back seat
      627 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT LEONGWEE KEAT NATIONAL DIALOGUE SM Jayakumar urges businesses to stay vigilant weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg THE chief executive of one small business, which deals with fuel products says security and contingency planning needs do not feature highly on his company's agenda. "We are trying to
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      Some are called back
      536 8  -  LINYANQIN RE-EMPLOYMENT yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg AMID the debate over whether a recovery is underway, some laid-off employees are finding themselves employed once again by the same companies which let them go when the recession started late last year, say recruitment firms. According to recruitment firm Ambition's latest monthly
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      DON'T BET ON Fls TO FOLLOW GE'S LEAD
      654 10  -  CONRAD RAJ POINTOFVIEW editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg THE decision by Great Eastern Life to return the entire premium paid, less annual payouts, to those who bought its Great Link Choice policies was nothing short of a public relations coup. The "goodwill gesture" has brought
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      Lock icon DBS speaks out about GE move
      244 10 CHEOWXINYI Watching the positive reactions to insurer Great Eastern Holdings' blanket redemption offer for a structured product, do the financial institutions that sold Lehman Brothers-linked structured notes feel pressured to likewise? DBS Bank, which sold the now-worth-less DBS High Notes 5, said the comparison
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      Working towards '2nd hump'
      475 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN 14TH APEC WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK MEETING Getting women to rejoin workforce after having children is an uphill battle chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN it comes to getting older or married women to rejoin the workforce, government agencies and other stakeholders should take a leaf from the Health and
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      GENDER BIAS IN STIMULUS PACKAGES?
      294 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN Economic stimulus packages rolled out by many countries in the past year can have a gender bias. For example, when investments are made in infrastructure and public works, it is likely men who directly benefit in terms of jobs created. And if help is
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        H1N1:TWO MORE PATIENTS IN ICU
        90 14 Two more HINI flu patients have been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. The first case is a 70-year-old woman in Singapore General Hospital with a medical history of diabetes and who has had a kidney transplant. The second case is a 23-year-old man in
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        Lock icon HIKE IN PETROL PRICES
        92 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Petrol pump prices at Shell, Caltex and ExxonMobil increased yesterday by five to seven cents. The hike, the second in barely a week, brings prices close to pre-crisis levels. Shell was the first to move at 1.30pm, followed by Caltex at 3pm and ExxonMobil
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        COVE DEVELOPMENT GETS EXTENSION
        86 14 Cove Development has been granted close to a fourweek extension to complete the demolition of unauthorised partitions at The Grangeford condominium in Orchard Road. The appeal last month to the National Development Ministry came after Cove had to resort to a court order to evict tenants
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      Lock icon Resorts World on a fast track?
      455 14 AGENCIES INTEGRATED RESORTS CIMB tips resort to open before 2010 ARE the chips falling in place for Resorts World at Sentosa to open before Marina Bay Sands does? In what would be a reversal of sorts, CIMB Investment Bank has tipped the familythemed resort
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      Lock icon Former public servants charged with graft
      344 16 INTHECOURTS TWO former public servants were in court yesterday to face corruption charges in two separate cases. The first case involves Gordon Tan Hock Lye, a former Senior Investigation Officer at the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). Injanuary 2006, Gordon, 33, had corruptly obtained $1,000
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      127 2 LASIK Forum The Lasik Surgery Clinic speakers: Dr Marc Tay Dr Jon Goh (Senior Eye Consultants] Subject to rotation Dates: 6 Aug 2009 (Thurs) 7pm 8 Aug 2009 (Sat) 4pm Venue: The Lasik Surgery Clinic Paragon Medical 13-01/06 Refreshments will be served Agenda: 1. Are you a suitable candidate for
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      119 3 SINGAPORE EXPERIENCE AWA R D S WE'VE RESERVED ONLY THE BEST FOR THE BEST J f Introducing the inaugural Singapore Experience Awards An exquisite gourmet dinner by a two-star Michelin chef. A global business conference for international leaders. An all-night dance fest on a beach. The new Singapore Experience Awards
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      Lock icon CLINTON, THE SPOUSAL ENVOY
      562 18  -  DERRICK HENRY THE NEWYORKTIMES NEWS ANALYSIS FOR all Bill Clinton's experience sitting down with world leaders, his trip to North Korea to negotiate the release of two Americanjournalists is an intriguing deployment of the spouse of a sitting Cabinet member. But it is not without precedent
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      Lock icon US warns of more sanctions on Iran
      198 18 AFP WASHINGTON The United States warned on Monday it may seek tough new sanctions on Iran if the Islamic republic misses a September deadline for agreeing to hold talks on its suspect nuclear programme. US lawmakers have been pushing President Barack Obama to
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      Lock icon 3 Americans detained in Iran
      185 18 AGENCIES TEHRAN An Iranian security official confirmed yesterday the arrest of three Americans for "illegal entry" into Iran near the border with Iraq and said they are being interrogated. US media have identified the trio who went missing on Saturday while backpacking in the rugged
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      Lock icon Rockets rock Kabul
      326 22 AGENCIES,THE NEWYORKTIMES AFGHANISTAN POLITICS Afghan capital hit in rare pre-election attack KABUL At least eight rockets slammed into Kabul yesterday in the first major attack on the relatively calm Afghan capital in the run-up to this month's presidential election. The attack wounded a child and a man,
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      STRENGTHEN ECONOMIC SECURITY
      631 24  -  MARIASIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg THE Rio Tinto incident has forced China to review and strengthen its laws on protecting the country's sensitive economic information and data that it considers vital to its national interests. Four employees of the Australian mining giant were
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      Selangor PAS: Ban alcohol in Muslim areas
      169 26 SHAH ALAM Selangor's Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) wants the Pakatan Rakyat state government to ban the sale of beer in all Muslim-majority areas, on top of a present ban on other types of alcohol, Malaysian newspapers reported yesterday. Selangor PAS commissioner Hassan Ali
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      Lock icon 'Don't be cowards'
      282 26 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS Umno-owned daily tells Malays to face up to challenge KUALA LUMPUR The Utusan Malaysia daily, which is owned by the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno), appeared set to raise the temperature on the race debate when it published an opinion piece
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      Lock icon Malaysia's first SEZ launched
      160 26 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PEKAN Malaysia yesterday launched its first special economic zone (SEZ) and will feature customised incentives aimed at attracting RM9O billion ($4O billion) in investments and creating some 220,000 jobs by 2020. The 3,875-sq-km SEZ stretches from Kerteh in Terengganu to Pekan in Pahang.
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      Lock icon EXTRA TAJ MAHAL ATTRACTIONS CALLED'INSENSITIVE'
      150 30 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Officials in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have drawn up the plans for additional attractions to get more tourists to the Taj Mahal (picture). They claim the plan to bring in ropewalks, cable cars and a Ferris wheel dubbed the Agra Eye will
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      Lock icon Obama gets 30 every day
      312 30 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH DEATH THREATS WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched Secret Service, according to a new book. Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of
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      Lock icon Michael Jackson's mother wins custody of his children
      196 30 AP LOS ANGELES The wishes Michael Jackson expressed in his will became reality on Monday during a lengthy court hearing, with his mother placed firmly in charge of rearing his children and the two men he designated still at the reins of
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      Lock icon POWERED FOR PERFORMAN
      752 31 Whether it's for work or play, HP's 2.66 GHz Pavilion m9698d Elite PC meets users' every need SALES manager Duane Ang expects a lot from his personal computer (PC). Every day after work, he spends a few hours on it to work on important documents and prepare
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  • voices
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      No change in requirement
      334 32  -  Anu Radha Muniandy BANKRUPTCY Letter from Manager (Debt Repayment Scheme), Insolvency Public Trustee's Office, Ministry of Law WE refer to "Surely not a sign of the times?" (July 25-26). The article has several inaccuracies. The article states that the Debt Repayment Scheme (DRS) will "raise the
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      Before land is farmed...
      106 32  -  Teo Kueh Liang Letter from I REFER to "More local fish, eggs and veggies" (Aug 1 and 2). Although it is gratifying to know that the Government is taking the lead and encouraging the private sector to explore ways in managing supply shortages of identified foods,
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      173 34  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY RISKS OF COMPULSIVE PARENTING We've spoken on several occasions about parents who couldn't care less about their children but today I want to address those at the other end of the continuum, referring to mothers and fathers for whom the kids are
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      Lock icon A FLOOD OF MEMORIES
      419 34  -  Mayo Martin MYLIFE:THEN&NOW Where Pasir Panjang and rural Philippines collide mayo@mediacorp.com. sg I'M A sucker for old photographs. I love looking at black-and-white or sepia snapshots of bygone days. It doesn't even have to be taken by someone I know. It could be anyone's picture that,
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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      Lock icon The great S'pore movie pitch
      1141 36  -  GENEVIEVELOH HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SINGAPORE A Plus reporter pitches her ideas for the (not so) great untold Singapore story genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg WITH Aug 9 just around the corner, we can think of no better way to celebrate our nation's birthday besides a grand parade at Marina barrage
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      257 41  -  MAYO MARTIN MOVIE REVIEW UP A soaring tale about a grumpy old man! mayo@mediacorp.com.sg UP IS one heck of a breathtaking adventure. It's bloody hilarious. It's tenderly moving and thoroughly entertaining. That's amazing, considering it's an animated movie about a grumpy geriatric who hardly says anything and,
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      397 43  -  PHILIPGOH CIMB SINGAPORE WOMEN'S SQUASH MASTERS First 2016 Olympics, then 2010 Youth Games philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SQUASH fans could see the sport enter the programme for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, which Singapore will host from Aug 14-26 next year. Squash is making a second bid for inclusion
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      294 43  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg LAST Sunday, two of the Great EasternYeo's S-League's top sides made headlines for the wrong reasons. Playing at home, Tampines Rovers' clash with champions SAFFC ended with match officials being escorted off the pitch after Tampines officials and a section of the fans
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      120 43 THE upcoming Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon is proving popular not only with adults. All 2,000 places for the 750 m Standard Chartered Kids Dash have been taken up since registration opened on July 16. More than 38,000 runners have signed up for the race during the
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      402 44  -  LOW LIN FHOONG, 12TH THAILAND SPORTS SCHOOL GAMES Thailand's 20 sports schools feed their national teams IN NAKHON SI THAMMARAT linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg ALMOST 18 years to the day and some 300 million baht ($12.6 million) later, there's no looking back for Thailand's 11 provincial and nine municipal sports
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      469 45  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Warriors not thinking about title yet as Balestier beckon GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Balestier Khalsa vSAFFC Toa Payoh Stadium, j.^spm yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg THIS season's Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League title appears headed to SAFFC for a fourth successive year. If the Warriors beat bottom side Balestier
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      314 46 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Wenger says his team are good enough, but wants depth LONDON Three days after saying that he was "nowhere near to signing anybody at the moment", Arsene Wenger was reportedly eyeing a double swoop. The Arsenal boss apparently wants Chelsea's Salomon Kalou and could
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      356 47 THE GUARDIAN ps!^g Man City will have to raise offer to secure defender LONDON Joleon Lescott's hopes of securing a lucrative move to Manchester City have receded after Everton manager David Moyes rejected a verbal transfer request from the England international. The defender told Moyes
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      155 47 DPA KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have found the body of a marathon runner a day after he completed the race. Gary Leon Robert, 22, was found sprawled in a pedestrian tunnel at a stadium in Selangor early on Monday, the New Straits Times reported yesterday.
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      560 48  -  KELVIN CHOW SME FUNDING The International Accounting Standards Board introduces new standards to help SMEs kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg SMALL-AND-MEDIUM sized enterprises (SMEs) can soon find an easier way out to end their funding woes thanks to a new set of international accounting standards introduced recently.
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        98 49 Watsons has announced the launch of its loyalty programme with the Watsons Card (above), targeted at Watsons' customers and personal care consumers. They can accumulate points with the card and redeem it against anything in all Watsons stores. Cardholders will also receive exclusive invites to sales events,
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        79 49 BQ Mart is Singapore's one-stop barbecue mart, specialising the retail of all kinds of charcoal and gas grills, as well as a wide range of barbecue accessories, picnic and party items, outdoor and gardening products. Delivery and installation of barbecue stands are offered free of charge.
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        112 49 Visit the Omni-Theatre and catch the movie Van Gogh, Brush with Genius. Travel with Vincent Van Gogh on a colourful, cinematic journey through his life and great works. For the first time, you can discover in Imaxthe fantastic colours and passionate brushwork of one of the world's
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        105 49 Toshiba has recently launched the ultraportable PORTEGE M9OO PC notebook. Part of the Signature series and powered by Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology, the 13.3" PORTEGE M9OO offers an optimal balance of size, weight and performance that comes in a stylish, eye-catching textured finishing available in
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      637 50 THE GUARDIAN BIG BONUSES Barclays and HSBC chiefs compare bankers to top footballers, Hollywood stars BANKING giants Barclays and HSBC have made a passionate defence of the City's bonus culture amid a growing public backlash about the return to a big pay bonanza barely a year
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        97 52 AGENCIES ÜBS, Switzerland's biggest bank by assets, yesterday reported it lost 1.4 billion Swiss francs ($1.9 billion) in the second quarter, widening from the deficit of 358 million francs it suffered in the corresponding period a year earlier. The bank said its second-quarter earnings were
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        111 52 AGENCIES Toyota yesterday reported a 77.8 billion yen ($1.2 billion) loss in its fiscal first quarter to June, compared with a profit of 353.7 billion yen in the same period a year earlier, as it battled plunging sales amid the global recession. The
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        113 52 AGENCIES Billionaire gaming tycoon Stanley Ho has been hospitalised in intensive care in Hong Kong's Adventist Hospital after he was treated for a head injury suffered from a fall at home last week, according to local media reports. The 87-year-old, who has dominated gambling in
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      380 52 AGENCIES GLOBAL BANKS HONG KONG Standard Chartered plans to raise £1 billion ($2.4 billion) in new shares for potential acquisitions in Asia, the United Kingdom-based lender said yesterday after it reported a 5.5-per-cent rise in first-half net profit from increased trading and financing activity
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        116 53 AGENCIES Sembcorp Marine, the world's second-biggest oil-rig maker, reported its smallest profit gain in six quarters due to currency losses and lower contributions from associate companies. Second-quarter net income rose 8 per cent to $138.1 million in the three months ended June, while sales
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        98 53 AGENCIES While its net income declined 9 per cent from a year earlier to $108.7 million in the quarter ended June on lower contributions from the aerospace and land systems businesses, Singapore Technologies Engineering said it expected revenue and pre-tax profit in the second
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        89 53  -  CHEOWXINYI Following new Chinese rules allowing the country's firms to settle trades with overseas parties in yuan, DBS Bank said it would offer cross-border yuan settlement services in Hong Kong and Singapore. It has already completed its first pilot transaction in Hong Kong, while it will
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      336 53  -  JONATHAN PEERIS 938 LIVE ANZ IN SINGAPORE Can banking group give local banks a run for their money? jonathanpeeris@mediacorp.com.sg THE Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), which has acquired the operations of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in six Asian countries, said it will use
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      154 53 IN A major reshuffle of its management team, Mainboard-list-ed rubber components maker HLN Technologies yesterday appointed 28-year-old Jeff Cheong Weixiong as its chief executive officer, replacing Mr Leslie Wa. Mr Cheong was last employed at Kirn Eng Securities as senior vice-president from Oct 2007 to July
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        46 54 26.5 cents I Buy Westcomb maintains rating, raising target price to 37 cents. The brokerage increases sales volume forecast for the firm for FYO9, FYIO on back of a gradual return of demand, especially in China, which has been boosted by Beijing's stimulus package.
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        93 54 18 cents I Buy DBS starts coverage with 27-cents target price, based on 10 times FYIO price-to-earnings. It says the firm is first non state-owned enterprise to produce vaccine for animals against hand-foot-mouth disease and expects it to grab 20 per cent of Chinese market when its
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        64 54 Monday 2,681.64 A 0.84% Friday 2,659.20 A 0.87% Thursday 2,636.19 A 1.23% Wednesday 2,604.06 T Closed Hang Seng 20,796.43 T 0.05% Nikkei 10,375.01 A 0.22% Shanghai 3,471.44 A 0.26% Seoul 1,566.37 A 0.09% Mumbai 15,830.98 T 0.59% Malaysia 1,179.88 A 0.73% US$1 £1 1 euro A$i $1,434 ¥100
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      347 54  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg WITH National Day less than a week away, POSB, the homegrown bank which generations of Singaporeans grew up with, has launched a new product for retail investors to not only participate in the nation's growth story but also invest in its
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      379 54 PURCHASING MANAGERS INDEX Latest figures show employment expansion for the first time in 19 months FOR economy-watchers in the optimists camp, fresh data yesterday gave more reason to believe they're not grasping at straws. Hiring sentiment in Singapore's core manufacturing engine is improving, as employment in
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