Today, 14 August 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    19 1 TODAY Friday August 14, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday August 14,2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      50 1 "I US President Barack 1 will be making his way to Singapore for the Apec Summit in November, the White House confirmed this morning. ■"1 '"jLes Paul, who invented l^ithe guitar used by The Edge, Jimmy Page, Slash and PeteTownshend, died this morning at the age of 94.
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      Lock icon Hotels up their guard
      743 1  -  ANSLEYNG (\NSLEYNG GUARDING AGAINST TERRORISM New security protocols, contingency planning here in wake of terror attacks abroad ansley@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN hotel security manager Lee Kwee Swung (picture) spotted a suspicious-looking man lurking outside guestrooms at the Marina Mandarin Singapore, he moved in to question the intruder and
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      Lock icon Wise to help them integrate
      617 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT LEONGWEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg HE HAS read and heard the complaints about new citizens and Permanent Residents taking away jobs from locals, and those in sales and services being unable to speak or grasp English. Last night, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew urged Singaporeans to
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      Lock icon After tears, delays and a lawsuit ...
      593 2  - After tears, delays and a lawsuit ESTHER NG WILDLIFE RESCUE Singapore's first wildlife rescue shelter opens estherng@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER five long and rocky years, the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) finally opened its rescue shelter yesterday, a mission its executive director and founder Louis Ng never expected would drive
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      Lock icon Stiff Morakot test for Taiwan's Ma
      444 2 AGENCIES TAIPEI The moment President Ma Yingjeou stepped onto a football field in Chishan on Wednesday, he was besieged by angry villagers who accused his administration of moving too slowly to help those still trapped in the mountains following last weekend's typhoons. "Save us,
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon WOMEN OF THE TIMES
        113 2 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Six women have been honoured in this year's Singapore Women's Weekly's Great Women of Our Time Awards. They were picked from the 18 nominated for their leadership and excellence in six categories. MediaCorp's Director of Newsplex and Chief Editor of Radio, Dr Chitra Rajaram,
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        ROADS CLOSED TODAY, SUNDAY
        133 2 If you usually drive down Fullerton Road, Connaught Drive, St Andrew's Road, Parliament Place, Old Parliament Lane and Empress Place, take note: Stretches will be closed today from spm to 10pm. This is to facilitate the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games One Year Countdown Event at
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      Lock icon MEET THE SINGTEL GRID GIRLS
      85 3  -  lANDECOTTA, (This year's crop of 21 girls, selected from over 300 applicants, have been boning up on Formula 1 after visiting races in Europe as part of the Sing Tel Grid Girls competition. (From left) Lim Weiliing, DesireeYong and Crystal Shong are among the women
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      Old Boys and the turf they guard
      684 4  -  LINYANQIN VICTORIAALUMNI yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg EDUCATION for all, regardless of exam results, and shared memories of a time when character development came first it is this sense of pride in their school, they say, that drives them. So, for the second time in three years,
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      Lock icon A new academic route for sports students
      376 4  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore Sports School (SSP) is introducing an academic programme that it hopes will benefit its incoming students, not just in the classroom but in various sporting arenas, be it the pool, the track or the field. From next year, SSP
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      Panel formed to advise on town council management
      152 6  -  LEONGWEE KEAT FOLLOWING public feedback, it is on to the next step: An expert resource panel has been formed to provide advice on the planned Town Council Management Report. The seven-member panel, with representatives from the private sector, national agencies and academia,
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      Lock icon Boon Lay's new $24m interchange
      334 6 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA PUBLICTRANSPORT COME December, the island's biggest integrated bus interchange will open at Boon Lay. The $24-million, air-con-ditioned public transport hub will be linked to the MRT station and Jurong Point 2 shopping complex. With capacity for 60 buses at any one
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      Lock icon All for a smoother commute
      241 6 938 LIVE NEW navigation systems that tell drivers where the traffic jams are. Traffic lights smart enough to adjust their frequencies based on the traffic. These are two of the cutting-edge technologies being developed by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the National University of
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      Lock icon Down memory lane with feeling
      252 8  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg BEYOND preserving buildings or holding on to policies, an important aspect of Singapore's national experience lies in people's memories, said Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lvi Tuck Yew. Rear-Admiral (NS) Lvi visited Today's My Life: Then Now photo exhibition
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      Director pleads guilty
      337 8  -  ONGDAI LIN PHANTOM WORKER SCAM Falsely inflated foreign worker entitlement dailin@mediacorp.com.sg AT first glance, the cleaning services group seemed to have a very liberal recruitment policy —with senior citizens in their 80s, young students and even dead people on its payroll. But it turned out that these
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      Lock icon Congolese arrested for using fake passport
      163 8  -  ONG DAI LIN IMMIGRATIONS CHECKPOINTS AUTHORITY THE 19-year-old Congolese girl said that she wanted to flee her wartorn homeland. So, she decided to use a fake French passport to enter Singapore illegally last month. Florida Luputu had obtained the passport from a person called
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      Want to stay ahead? Learn to work well together
      279 10  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg FOR businesses operating in a highly competitive environment, improving productivity and innovating to stay ahead is a must. And through a research project supported by the Government, one company has found that it could all start with learning to
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      Murder-suicide
      267 10  -  ONGDAILIN CORONER'S COURT Coroner rules on two deaths last year dailin@mediacorp.com.sg HE STABBED his former tenant to death, and two days later, he was found dead at the foot of a HDB block. Yesterday, the coroner's court ruled the cause of death for Khoo Quee Kee and Thang Thai
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      Lock icon Three charged with graft
      232 10 ONG DAI LIN, 938 LIVE SHE allegedly gave sexual favours and $7,000 in cash to a police officer from May to July last year for tip-offs on police raids on unlicensed massage parlours. ZhongXiaoqin, 36, a China national, has now been charged with 12 counts of
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      112 3 Positive Thinking fop a Healthy Mind _A_ il ~/T ~/T /I RELEASE YOUR l\ f N \(i f N \i S N 14 I INNER GIRAFFE 1 I did not receive any V f I think I'm 1 \l f Hj/. y«Jre rightl VI />• "^J I new projects all
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      255 4 IS THERE STILL TIME FOR YOU TO f W PROFIT FROM THE RECOVERY? 22 months after the Financial Crisis, the economy fc^^y is starting to show signs of recovery... LmL ih 1^ s tne Singapore Market went up more than 73%, ■l many people profited and made money. Question is...
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      272 5 I sT W mSi^Vw l^iP»O 5 1 Yio Chu Kang Yio Chu Kang Q Kan, .t aI&LT entre• Within the last few years, Ang Mo Kio has evolved J MRT Ande into an exciting hub. Situated right at the centre I f3 f j U nior"&iie°ge NanyangPolytechnic of this ever-changing
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      303 8 DID YOU KNOW that President's Challenge aims to mobilise the community to help the less fortunate and to raise funds for the social service sector? Donate online at www.pc.org.sg or SMS ***** with $2 (PC2), $10 (PC10) or $20 (PC2O) donations by keying in SMS Code<space>NßlC, example PC2O *****567 A
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Guitar hero dies
      563 12 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST Les Paul, guitar revolutionary who 'shaped rock vn roll', dies at 94 NEW YORK Les Paul, a virtuoso guitarist and inventor who shaped the sound of rock 'n roll, died Thursday in New York state, Gibson Guitar company said. He was 94. Paul "passed
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      Lock icon Obama's coming here
      138 12 AFP WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama will attend his first summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in Singapore and visit other countries in the region in November, the White House said yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). White House spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed that Obama
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      Lock icon Drug compound that kills cancer stem cells identified
      274 12 BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO A drug that can selectively target and 101 l the stem cells that drive the growth of tumours has been identified for the first time by scientists who searched more than 16,000 compounds to find it. Researchers at Massachusetts
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      Lock icon Apologise or I'll sue: MCA president
      250 12 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR Mr Tiong King Sing, chief executive of the main developer of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ), will not retract his statement that Malaysian Chinese Association president Ong Tee Keat had received an RMIO-million ($4-million) donation from him. Yesterday,
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      Lock icon FORTUNE FISH
      67 12 AFP Pet shops in a city in south-west China are offering fish tattooed with patterns and lucky characters intended to bring their owners good fortune and happiness. The Qingshiqiao pet market in Chengdu sells a variety of ornamental 'fortune fish', decorated with flowers, rainbows and characters, A dealer
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      Lock icon Senator set to meet Than Shwe
      493 15 AFP AGENCIES US-MYANMAR RELATIONS YANGON United States Senator Jim Webb (picture) plans to meet with Myanmar's junta leaders after his arrival today in the first visit by a US Congress member to the country in more than a decade. The visit follows Tuesday's conviction
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        Lock icon STRONG QUAKE STRIKES AGAIN
        76 15 AFP Japan A strong offshore earthquake jolted central Japan yesterday, just two days after a powerful tremor left one person dead and 120 injured. The 6.7-magnitude quake struck at 6:49 am Singapore time in the Pacific Ocean, 325 km south-east of Tokyo, according to the United
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        Lock icon PORN PIRATES SUED
        72 15 AFP Korea Foreign pornography producers are suing South Korean Internet users for breach of copyright by uploading their content onto local websites, police said yesterday. In an unusual case, a local law firm representing 50 American and Japanese porn producers has filed suit against some 10,000 heavy
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      Amnesty: Satellite images show Sri Lanka graves
      215 18 COLOMBO A series of satellite images taken over Sri Lanka's former war zone showed the existence of large grave sites and evidence of possible mortar positions near areas that had been packed with civilians, a human rights group said yesterday. The release of
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      Lock icon Ruling duo share male night out
      157 18 AFP MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, rarely seen in public together, have shared a typically male night out in the latest display of machismo from the two leaders. The pair, both holidaying in the Black Sea resort of Sochi,
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      Lock icon A 'slugfest' of bodies
      319 18 AP PHILIPPINE INSURGENCY Troops take militant camps; 23 soldiers, 31 militants dead MANILA Philippine troops overran two jungle camps of Al Qaedalinked militants in their deadliest clash in years, with 23 soldiers and 31 guerrillas killed in what a top commander described yesterday as a "slugfest".
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      Lock icon Families torn over Lockerbie bomber's likely release
      229 18 AGENCIES LONDON Two British broadcasters, Sky News and BBC, had reported yesterday that Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Al Megrahi would likely be freed from prison on compassionate grounds, but Scotland's government denied any such decision had been made. The former Libyan secret service
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      Lock icon Changes to come?
      421 20 AGENCIES AUSTRALIA'S COUNTER-TERRORISM LAWS Govt mulls ending indefinite detention of terror suspects SYDNEY The Australian government yesterday proposed ending the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects as part of a major overhaul to legislation brought in after the Sept 11,2001, attacks. The sweeping changes, put forward by Attorney-General
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      Lock icon Defeat won't stop minister from pushing bills
      316 20 AP AFP CANBERRA Australia's Senate voted yesterday to reject government legislation that would have curbed the amount of greenhouse gas pollution that the country emits. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said the government would try again to push the bills through the opposition-con-trolled
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      Lock icon Aussie infects 3,000 computers worldwide
      136 20 AP ADELAIDE A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said yesterday. The man, whose name will not be released until he appears in court
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      Lock icon A chocolate a day ...
      457 22 A chocolate a day AFP SWEETTREATS Eating chocolate regularly cuts death rate in heart attack survivors: Study PARIS Heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times a week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about three-fold compared to those who never touch the stuff, scientists have
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      Lock icon Britain lobbies for Musharraf pardon
      386 22 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Britain is lobbying Pakistani leaders to spare the former leader Pervez Musharraf from treason charges which carry the death penalty, claimed senior opposition figures. Sir Mark Lyall Grant, political director of the Foreign Office and a former High Commissioner in Islamabad, was reported
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      Lock icon H1N1 flu takes its toll on India
      168 22 AFP MUMBAI India's Influenza A (H1N1) flu death toll yesterday rose to 20, as thousands of schools, colleges and cinemas shut down in and around the country's financial capital of Mumbai to combat the spread of infection. The latest victim of the virus
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      Lock icon Afghans fear Iran-type unrest
      583 24 AFP PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HERAT In this Afghan cultural capital, less than two hours by road from the Iranian border, the influence of the country's western neighbour permeates the streets and cafes. Persian-style architecture is common. Many women wear the black, Iranian-style chador instead of the all-encompassing
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      Lock icon Iraq ban raises worries over freedom of speech
      447 24 AFP BAGHDAD Moves by Iraq's government to control the flow of information both in print and online have raised fears of a crackdown on free speech, reminiscent of the regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein. A decision to screen imported books and
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      Lock icon French 'burquini' suit opens new tussle
      427 26 AP PARIS A Muslim woman dressed in a head-to-toe swimsuit dubbed a "burquini" may have opened a new chapter in France's tussle between religious practices and its stern secular code. Officials insisted on Wednesday they banned the woman's use of the Islamfriendly suit at
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      Lock icon The mystery of the missing ship
      622 26 AGENCIES BIZARRE INCIDENT LONDON First the ship reported it had been attacked in waters off Sweden. Then it sailed with no apparent problems through one of the world's busiest shipping lanes and disappeared. The Arctic Sea, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship, was supposed to make
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      Lock icon We're sick of being lied about, says NHS
      549 28 AP UK HEALTH SERVICE LONDON Britain's health care service says it is sick of being lied about. Criticised by right-wing critics of President Barack Obama's health care plan, Britain's National Health Service (NHS), is fighting back. "People have been saying some untruths
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      Lock icon Dormant for a decade, US hate groups on the rise
      472 28 AFP WASHINGTON Incensed by the election of the first black United States President, right-wing militia groups are rising again in the US after lying dormant for nearly a decade, a study said on Wednesday. Ideologically driven by racism and a
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      Lock icon At 15 he wanted to join Taliban, today he faces 60 years in jail
      403 28 AFP WASHINGTON A 23-year-old man was found guilty on Wednesday by a United States federal jury in Atlanta, Georgia, of supporting terror groups by sending videos of US landmarks abroad and plotting "violent jihad" in Europe.
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      Lock icon It's better to take your insults lying down: Scientists
      170 30 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH TAKING insults lying down may hurt your pride but it is less likely to make you angry, claim scientists. The research, published in the journal Psychological Science, showed that those who took personal insults while upright exhibited brain activity
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      Bizarre requests flood British missions abroad
      227 30 LONDON "Help! I've just had my breasts enlarged and I don't like the new size. British embassy sort out my b**bs!" Along with tips on jammaking and how best to discipline naughty boys, these are just a few of the requests being fired at
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      Lock icon The magic of mature workers
      312 30 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BOOST FOR MCDONALD'S Outlets with staff aged 60 and above see more satisfied customers, nrofits LONDON McDonald's has discovered that employing staff over the age of 60 has made its restaurants more profitable. The fast food chain invited Lancaster University Management School to
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      Lock icon Clinton on gaffe-filled visit to Nigeria
      372 32 THE GUARDIAN ABUJA Mrs Hillary Clinton's troubleprone African odyssey threw up more controversy on Wednesday when she appeared to equate United States democracy with Nigeria's corrupt election system. Speaking in Nigeria, the latest stop on her multinational tour, the US Secretary of State said
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      Lock icon HILLARY HAS WORK CUT OUT FOR HER
      662 32  -  JUDITH WARNER THE NEWYORKTIMES NEWS COMMENT Clinton faces an uphill battle for more respect in a male-centric political arena THIS was supposed to be the trip that would show how Mrs Hillary Clinton would make good on her pledge to make women's issues
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        Lock icon PUTIN UPS TENSION WITH GEORGIA
        80 36 THE GUARDIAN Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stoked tensions in the tinderbox Caucasus region on Wednesday, saying Moscow will spend nearly half a billion dollars next year beefing up its military presence in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia. It raised the spectre of Russian and
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        Lock icon MAN GIVES ID BEFORE ROBBING BANK
        91 36 AP A 34-year-old man is in custody after he gave a teller his account number and an identification card with his photograph on it before robbing an Anchorage bank. The FBI alleges Jarell Paul Arnold walked into an Alaska USA Federal Credit Union branch
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      Lock icon Courting the United Nations
      543 36 AP GLOBAL SECURITY US sees global body as key after Bush era difficulties UNITED NATIONS In a not-so-subtle dig at the Bush administration, United States Ambassador Susan Rice (picture) said on Wednesday that the US has paid the price for "stiffarming the UN" and spurning international
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      504 44  -  MAYSEAH GHOSTLYTALES Director Jack Neo #s latest offering is a vhormedy may@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S reigning guru of local cinema, Jack Neo, is tackling local issues in a whole new way: Through a supernatural lens. The Not Stupid director's latest cinematic offering is Where Got Ghost, a collection of
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      404 51  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Defender Komar barred 15 months, penalised $3,000 for punching referee shamir@mediacorp.com.sg THREE DPMM players had the book thrown at them last night after they admitted to mandhandling and threatening a referee during an S-League match on Aug 2 in
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      450 51  -  SHAMIR OSMAN WITH just two months before the crucial home and away Asian Cup qualifiers against Thailand, it does not bode well for Singapore when the coach of the national team says that his talent pool lacks the type of player who could
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      597 52  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Lions skipper Indra and deputy Noh Rahman look to fire up Sengkang GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO9 Albirex Niigata v Sengkang Punggol Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm Live on Channel 5 shamir@mediacorp.com. sg NOH Rahman and Indra Sahdan left their former clubs to join Sengkang
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        94 60 DAILYTELEGRAPH Facebook appears to be upping the ante against Twitter with the launch of Facebook Lite, a simplified version of the site, which provides a stream of user updates and looks similarto the microblogging service. The site is undergoing beta testing. Some industry pundits believe Facebook is
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        100 60 DAILYTELEGRAPH ATexan court has granted an injunction against Microsoft, preventing it from selling copies of Word. Microsoft has been accused of infringing patents owned by another company, i4i. The legal dispute centres around the way Microsoft Word handles certain kinds of documents. i4i claimed Microsoft "willingly
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      677 62 THE NEWYORKTIMES US ECONOMY Central bank keeps near-zero interest rate, to end Treasury bond purchase programme in October WASHINGTON Almost exactly two years after it embarked on what was the biggest financial rescue in American history, the United States Federal Reserve said
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      359 62 AGENCIES BEIJING China may appeal a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that requires Beijing to ease restrictions on imported movies, music and books in its latest trade dispute with Washington. The Commerce Ministry insisted yesterday that Beijing did not hamperimports of media products, despite
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      278 62 AGENCIES MUMBAI India's wholesale prices fell the most in more than three decades, giving the central bank more time to keep interest rates at a record low before weak monsoon rains reduce harvests and stoke inflation. The benchmark wholesale price index declined
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      311 64 AP BEIJING China has affirmed its determination to tighten control over its huge steel industry and press foreign miners to cut iron ore prices as it announced a three-year ban on new mills and said it wanted more influence over costs. Industry Minister
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      466 64 AGENCIES EUROZONE ECONOMY GDP falls 0.1% in Q2 better than forecast LONDON The recession in the 16 countries that use the euro eased substantially between April and June after unexpected growth in Germany and France, the currency bloc's two largest economies. Eurozone gross domestic product
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      150 66 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Government has accepted and will implement nine out of 16 public suggestions received on the draft Goods and Services Tax or GST (Amendment) Bill. These include GST suspension for goods temporarily removed from Zero-GST or Licensed Warehouses for auctions and
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      209 67 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE economic slowdown has hit the resorts business. Luxury resorts operator Banyan Tree slipped into the red in the second quarter with a net loss of $4.2 million. This contrasts with $3.5 million net profit in the same
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      167 67 938 LIVE THE pace of decline in the Asian travel industry is expected to slow in the second half of this year as the global economy improves. Abacus International, a leading ticket reservations system provider, expects travel bookings in Asia to drop 4 to 6 per
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          71 68 Eurozone boost Oil prices rose as the market welcomed signs that the eurozone is emerging from recession more quickly than expected, raising the prospects of more growth in energy demand. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for September, climbed 36 US cents to close at U5570.52 a
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          82 68 London leads the way European stock markets advanced, with London reaching a 10-month high, after data showing an end to recession in France and Germany and better-than-expected results for the eurozone. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.82 per cent, the Paris CAC 40 gained 0.49 per cent
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          44 68 US dollar falls The US dollar dropped as Germany and France returned to economic growth and US retail sales slipped unexpectedly last month. The 16-nation euro rose to U551.4265 in late trading from U551.4214, while the British pound gained to U551.6556 from U551.6511.
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        67 68 ERNESTCHUA Mr Seah Kian Peng (right), managing director of NTUC Fair Price with Dr Moh Chong Tau, deputy president of Singapore Manufacturers Federation, showcasing some of the local food producst at the launch of 'Tasty Singapore Fair. 'Tasty Singapore' aims to showcase the diversity, innovation, quality and safety
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        476 68  -  ESTHER FUNG SINGTEL EARNINGS Earnings from telco's associates drive Qi earnings forward esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE worst may be over for regional telecom giant Sing Tel and its prospects ahead look bright. Analysts believe that with the regional economic recovery underway, this would mean customers would start consuming higher
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        283 68 BLOOMBERG VOLKSWAGEN AG, Europe's largest carmaker, will pay about 3.3 billion euros ($6.8 billion) for a 42 per cent stake in Porsche SE's automotive unit as it executes a gradual merger of the two manufacturers. Volkswagen will fully integrate the maker
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