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    20 1 TODAY Wednesday August 26, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday August 26, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    197 1 6 Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a car bomb outside a restaurant packed with governments officials and civilians in southern Thailand yesterday, njuring 26 people. A caning sentence £1 \J handed down to a Muslim woman for drinking beer would be reviewed because it was 'too harsh' and
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    Lock icon A NEW ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT, A NEW CHARTER FOR TEMASEK
    209 1 938 LIVE Temasek Holdings yesterday released an updated charter that reaffirms its role as an investment company managed on commercial principles, whose mission is to create and deliver sustainable long-term value for its stake holders. The charter also said that Temasek
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    WILL PERCEPTIONS CHANGE?
    790 1  -  ESTHER FUNG NEWS ANALYSIS: TEMASEK CHARTER esther@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE words of its chief executive Ho Ching, the updating of its Charter is not a public relations exercise not for an investmentholding firm which measures itself against performance, instead of image. But even the head honchos at Temasek
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      DOING MORE FOR THE COMMUNITY
      197 2 Two years after it set up a trust to support a range of philanthropic organisations, Temasek's role in the community will be pushed further to the forefront under its revised charter. Temasek says it is "committed to contributing part of its returns to encourage the
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      UNVEILING THE NEW TEMASEK
      522 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT NEWS ANALYSIS weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg IN the past, Temasek Holdings had identified itself as the holding company and manager ofthe Singapore Government's investments in various companies with the aim "to broaden and deepen Singapore's economic base". But under its revised charter, released yesterday, Temasek, one of the
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      Temasek wants investors to co-invest
      229 3  -  ESTHER FUNG TEMASEK Holdings is exploring options such as forming and listing business trusts here as part of its new charter that seeks to "pioneer innovative products or businesses". This is in line with Temasek's plans, announced earlier, to invite retail investors to co-invest with
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      Lock icon Big win for PAS
      310 4 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PERMATANG PASIR BY-ELECTION PERMATANG PASIR The opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) retained its Permatang Pasir state seat yesterday, with candidate Mohd Salleh Man winning with a big majority of 4,551 votes in the by-election. Official results show that Mr Mohd Salleh polled 9,618
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      Lock icon Bomb attack in southern Thailand injures 26
      304 4 AGENCIES PATTANI (Thailand) Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a car bomb outside a restaurant packed with governments officials and civilians in southern Thailand yesterday, wounding 26 people, officials said. The 50-kilogramme device, which was hidden inside a stolen Toyota pick-up truck, exploded during the
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      Help for investors is at hand
      393 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN FINANCIAL SERVICES CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg IT AIMS to educate long-term investors and eventually help those with troubled investments to seek redress. The man behind the Financial Services Consumers Association (Fisca) believes that its niche focus and understanding of financial laws, for example, helps
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      Lock icon Still not good enough for a dip
      535 8  -  LINYANQIN ENVIRONMENT MATTERS PUB extension plans in Pasir Ris mean that water quality will improve yanqin@mediacorp.com MINOR leaks from older sewers and moored vessels, as well as discharge from small-scale Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) these are affecting water quality at Pasir Ris beach.
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      Lock icon Shedding more light on 'lights'
      478 10  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacor.com.sg IT HAS been at least a decade since research found that smoking cigarettes labelled light or mild may not necessarily be less harmful than puffing on regular cigarettes. Yet, some consumers still hold on to such misconceptions. A study published in the
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      Lock icon Bursting the bubble rumours
      662 10  -  TAN HUI LENG PROPERTY EXUBERANCE huileng@mediacorp.com.sg OVERNIGHT queues, balloting, midnight crowds these dramatic scenes at the Optima (picture) condominium at Tanah Merah recently were precursors to the 270 apartments selling out in three days, and fuelling concerns that a property bubble may be brewing in Singapore.
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      Lock icon MediaCorp sues MediaBanc in KL
      143 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE media company, MediaCorp, has taken a Malaysian company to court for selling content recorded off its radio and television channels. The Malaysian company, Mediaßanc, is alleged to have compiled, sold and distributed MediaCorp news and radio programmes, without licence. The acts were
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      Lock icon 18 years jail, 24 strokes for raping Indon maid
      450 12  -  ANSLEYNG IN COURT ansley@mediacorp.com.sg IT HAD been barely a week since she started her first job as a maid here in Singapore, when late one night a monster struck. Sensing someone beside her, the Indonesian maid was roused from her sleep.
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      Jailed again for the same crime
      196 12  -  A BUSINESSMAN who forged documents to evade customs duty on alcohol while he was on home detention for the same offences has been jailed for two years. Situan Singh, 55, had been was slapped with 150 charges, after he was said to have evaded
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      A drive into history
      348 14  -  DAVID CHRISTIE MODELCAR EXHIBITION davidc@mediacorp.com.sg DO you remember the cars of past decades classics like the Ford Escort, Morris 1100 or the iconic Mini and Volkswagen Beetle? If you do or even if you don't you will soon have a rare opportunity to experience five decades
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      A temporary relief measure
      292 15  -  LEONGWEEKEAT COE BIDS weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg FOLLOWING feedback from motor traders that companies are still facing some cash flow problems, the Land Transport Authority has decided to halve the bid deposits for Certificate of Entitlements for cars, goods vehicles and buses. From Oct 5, motor dealers and the
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      Lock icon The otah that chirped
      165 15 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A 58-year-old Indonesian man has been caught trying to smuggle Mata Puteh birds into Singapore in a box of otah. The seemingly ordinary box of otah, or barbequed fish cakes, aroused the suspicions of officers at the Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal when they heard
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        Lock icon FUEL PRICES UP AGAIN
        107 15 CNA Pump prices were up again yesterday, for the third time in a month. At Caltex and ExxonMobil, prices of petrol and diesel were raised by 5 cents a litre. Premium 95 grade now stands at $1,867 a litre, while diesel is up at $1,343. And
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        Lock icon ROAD CONVERSION ON THURSDAY
        96 15 938 LIVE The short stretch of Handy Road, between Orchard Road and Penang Road, will be converted to two-way traffic from 10am on Thursday. Currently, motorists travelling along Stamford Road have to make a longer detour via Buyong Road and Orchard Road before they are able
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      Lock icon Packages and promotions boost tourism sector
      186 16 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE numbers were still down, but attractive holiday packages and promotions helped cushion the buffeting to Singapore's tourism sector last month. The 4.5-per-cent fall in visitor arrivals from a year ago to 881,000 was the smallest decline for any month this year.
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      Lock icon A boost for dance and music
      298 16 938 LIVE MICA SCHOLARSHIPS CHINESE dance and music these are just two areas in the creative industries that will get a boost with a specific scholarship awarded for the first time by the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts (Mica). With these inclusions
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      Lock icon More Passion in the card
      230 16 938 LIVE THAT People's Association (PA) Passion card can soon be used for more than just getting discounts to community club courses and activities. By the end of the year, a new generation Passion card will allow members to make payments for bus and train
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      Lock icon Caning to be reviewed
      535 18 AGENCIES BEER-DRINKING CASE KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said yesterday that a caning sentence handed down to a Muslim woman for drinking beer would be reviewed because it was "too harsh" and could damage the nation's reputation. Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, was found guilty of drinking in
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      Lock icon Failing student hurls acid, stabs professor
      239 18 .AGENCIES HANOI A university student angry about flunking his English classes barged into a lecture, threw a bucket of acid at a professor and then stabbed him in the back as he tried to flee, a university official said yesterday. Students later overpowered the
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      Lock icon UP UP AND AWAY
      26 19 AFP South Korea's first space rocket blasted off yesterday successfully, six days after a last-minute software glitch had halted a previoi": launch
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      Lock icon Nuclear talks to resume
      393 19 AFP N KOREA-USTIES SEOUL North Korea has invited a United States special envoy to visit Pyongyang for talks on ending the standoff over its nuclear weapons programme, South Korean media reports said yesterday. Seoul's Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the reports but such an invitation
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      Lock icon Testy times for US-Japan relations ahead?
      176 19 .AFP WASHINGTON Widely regarded as the staunchest American ally in Asia, Japan looks set this Sunday for an electoral tremor that experts predict could shake up but not break its relationship with Washington. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has for years sought
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      Lock icon Did diet drug damage liver?
      442 20  -  ALICIA WONG .AGENCIES DRUG INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON Health officials in the United States are investigating reports of liver injury in patients who took weight-loss drug Xenical and its over-the-counter version Alii. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Monday they have received more than 30
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      Lock icon Group crippled by leader's capture
      249 22 AP TERROR INTHE PHILIPPINES MANILA The recent capture of a Filipino terror suspect long sought by American and Philippine security officials has crippled his violent Al Qaeda-linked group, police said yesterday. Dinno-Amor Rosalejos Pareja (picture) allegedly headed the Rajah Solaiman Movement a group of Christian
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      Lock icon Hunt on for second man who funded Jakarta hotel bombings
      222 22 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian police said yesterday they were seeking a second man suspected of arranging funds for the twin hotel suicide bombings in Jakarta last month. Indonesian national Muhamad Jibril Abdurahman, alias Muhamad Ricky Ardan bin Mohammad Iqbal, was linked
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      Lock icon 'I have 106 students in my class'
      698 23 THENEWYORKTIMES PHILIPPINES SCHOOL WOES Budget limitations force teacher to student ratios through the roof MANILA When high school English teacher Irene Mendevil shouts at her students, she gets a sore throat. So she has begun to use an amplifier. "I had the experience
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      Lock icon 'We will kill your kids'
      518 24 AGENCIES PRISONERABUSE 'Inhumane 7 CIA terror tactics spur criminal investigation WASHINGTON -The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation on Monday into the harsh questioning of detainees during former United States President George W Bush's war on terrorism, revealing that CIA interrogators threatened to kill one
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      Lock icon Libya broke pledge for quiet welcome
      496 25 AGENCIES LOCKERBIE BOMBER EDINBURGH Libya broke a pledge to give the Lockerbie bomber a "low key" reception after his release from jail last week, Scotland's justice minister said Monday, while defending the decision to free him. In a stormy grilling at an emergency session
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      Lock icon US town makes no room for Gaddafi
      182 25 AP ENGLEWOOD (New Jersey) Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will set foot on American soil for the first time next month when he comes to address the United Nations General Assembly and now he wants to put down stakes in the middle of American
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      Lock icon LOCKERBIE DECISION: BY THE BOOK
      841 26  -  lAIN MACWHIRTER THE GUARDIAN NEWS COMMENT IT WAS a grim, dogged, desperate defence by the Scottish Justice Minister, Kenny MacAskill, of his decision to release the Lockerbie bomber, Adelbaset al Megrahi, in order to let him die in Libya with his family. The anguish of
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      Lock icon Indonesia upset over Malaysia tourism campaign
      172 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA JAKARTA Indonesia has sent a protest note to Malaysia, asking for clarification overthe use of a traditional Balinese dance, the pendet, in a Malaysian tourism campaign advertisement aired on television. Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on Malaysia to be sensitive to
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      Lock icon Abhisit invokes Security Act
      223 28 AP THAI POLITICS Thai Prime Minister on the alert for protests on Sunday BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva invoked special security powers yesterday ahead of a major antigovernment rally this weekend that he warned could turn chaotic and plunge the country back into turmoil. Mr
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      Lock icon Chinglish busters scour the streets
      374 29 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO SHANGHAI China's most cosmopolitan city Shanghai does not want to be embarrassed by poor translations and mistakes when thousands of visitors arrive for the World Expo next year. Teams of student volunteers have been assembled to scour the city for Chinglish
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      Lock icon Gritty Chinese city seeks to shed 'spitting' image
      176 29 AP GUANGZHOU Governmentbacked neighbourhood groups are going door-to-door in south China's business capital with a set of simple requests: Please stop spitting in public, cutting queues in bus lines and talking loudly in the streets. It's all part of a campaign in
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      Lock icon Xinjiang government denies state media report
      187 30 .AFP BEIJING On Tuesday, the government in north-west China's Xinjiang region denied a report in the state media that more than 200 people would be put on trial this week over recent deadly ethnic unrest in the area. The China Daily reported that the
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      Lock icon Solar panels, made in China
      425 30 THE NEWYORKTIMES NEW US-CHINA RACE US can't compete on costs,will end up a consumer WUXI President Obama wants to make the United States "the world's leading exporter of renewable energy," but in his seven months in office, it is China that has stepped on the
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      Lock icon Pakistan urges release of aid cashpile
      275 31 AFP ISTANBUL Pakistan yesterday urged the release of billions of dollars of promised international aid for development projects as it argued that economic prosperity was the best way to counter extremism. Speaking at an international gathering on ways to stabilise the nuclear-armed country, Pakistani
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      Lock icon Karzai ahead in early results
      312 31 AGENCIES AFGHAN ELECTIONS KABUL Incumbent Hamid Karzai narrowly led the race for the Afghan presidency with just 2 per cent more votes than his closest rival, the election commission announced yesterday. The partial results amount to about 10 per cent of the total ballots cast
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      Lock icon Suspected militant arrested
      134 31 AFP NEW DELHI Indian police said they had arrested a suspected member ofthe Pakistan-based Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group in New Delhi yesterday. He was reportedly carrying explosives. "Police have arrested one terrorist," police sub-inspector MP Singh said without giving details. The Press Trust of India said the
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      Lock icon 1,000 cameras to solve one case
      394 32 DAILYTELEGRAPH CRIME IN BRITAIN Met Police admits CCTVs have been of little use against criminals LONDON Fewer than one crime is solved by every 1,000 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, the Metropolitan Police, Britain's biggest police force, has admitted. Each case helped by the use
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      Lock icon Top Khatami aides on trial for masterminding post-election riots
      267 33 AFP TEHRAN Several top reformists and aides to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami were put on trial yesterday for masterminding the post-election unrest which rocked the Islamic republic. "The fourth session ofthe revolutionary court dealing with masterminds ofthe recent incidents has
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      Lock icon Shia alliance dumps Maliki
      426 33 AP IRAQI ELECTIONS Differences separate Iraqi Prime Minister from new alliance BAGHDAD The Iranianbacked Shia parties that helped propel Iraq's Prime Minister into power three years ago dumped him on Monday as their candidate for re-election, forming a new alliance to contest the January vote. The
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      Lock icon Actress Biel 'most dangerous'
      105 34 AP NEW YORK -Jessica Biel is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web. Security technology company McAfee yesterday reported that searches for the 27-year-old actress are more likely to lead to online threats such as spyware and viruses than searches for any other celebrity. It's the
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      436 32 People are still suffering from dengue despite available preventive measures. You probably know someone who knows them. No dengue vaccine is commercially available yet. Now there is a clinical trial in Singapore investigating a potential vaccine that may help to protect against dengue. To volunteer and take part in this
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      170 49 SIM POH HUAT QIGONG Grand Master Sim Poh Huat receiving commendation award from Guinness World Record Manager Ms Lee Ping Ping in 1991 Topic highlight: Body purification that removes impurities naturally and effectively from your body through twelve acupressure points. Complete Qigong breakthrough with medical evidence. Demonstration highlight: Live demonstration
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      886 50 TV LISTINGS ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL S ON MEDIACORP SINGAPORE IDOL 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Are You Smarter than a sth 11.30 The Moment of Truth KALAKKAL 10 Channel 5, Bpm 6.30 Prime Time Morning Grader? 12.30 AM The Bachelor IX Vasantham, Bpm 9.30 The Rachael Ray Show 111 5.00
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      539 51  -  TANYO-HINN 25TH SEA GAMES Decision on use of high-tech wear for SEA Games will be made in November yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg IT CAUSED a huge uproar at the recent 13th Fina World Swimming Championships. Now, the high-tech synthetic swimsuits which contributed to an unprecedented 43 world records
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      350 51  -  SHAMIROSMAN shamir@mcdiacorp.com.sg THE Asian Football Confederation sanctioned 2009 as Asian Referees' Year, but it has not exactly been a smooth season for S-League officials with many clubs reacting strongly to a number of their decisions over the course ofthe campaign so far. In an
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      125 51 SINGAPORESAILING Singapore's sailors are dominating the Byte CM World Sailing Championships in Kingston, Canada. The top seven positions are currently occupied by the Republic's sailors after six races over two days. Terence Choo (picture) leads the 39-strong field with 11 points, followed by Asian Youth
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      551 52  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE TABLE TENNIS linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SHE'S just a year shy of adulthood, having celebrated her 20th birthday last Tuesday, but paddler Yu Mengyu is already serving notice of her prodigious talent. The Singaporean lifted her first senior ITTF Pro Tour title
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      276 52  -  TANYO-HINN THE last time they represented Singapore in a World Cup qualifier was in 2006, and it proved a productive outing in Malaysia for Mardan Mamat and Lam Chih Bing, when they topped the final leaderboard and went on to play in Barbados
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      459 53  -  LAN DE COTTA SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Excitement back home is mounting as Cambodian club blaze a trail in Singapore RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2009 Phnom Penh Crown v Bangkok Glass Jalan Besar Stadium, j._spm ian@mediacorp.com.sg PHNOM Penh Crown have come a long way since making their debut
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      413 54 AGENCIES I.THLETICS (South Africa rolls out red carpet for champ Semenya JOHANNESBURG Thousands welcomed South African runner Caster Semenya on her return home yesterday, despite a controversy over her gender that marred her victory at the recent World Athletics Championships. A police guard of honour collapsed
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      601 55 ENGLISH FOOTBALL Manager Benitez puts on a brave face as talk of a crisis surfaces at Anfield ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool 1 Aston Villa 3 LIVERPOOL Three games played, one win, and fortress Anfield, erstwhile home of the English Premier League's longest unbeaten record, breached. Liverpool were
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      519 56 AGENCIES rOTO] W mW-W I Arab owners offering Man City manager extra $236 m war chest LONDON Manchester City's capture of England defender Joleon Lescott for a reported £24 million ($56.7 million) took the club's spending over the summer to around £122 million.
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      439 57 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Vidic refutes reports he wants a move away from Old Trafford LONDON Serbian international Nemanja Vidic yesterday played down lingering speculation that he's keen on leaving Old Trafford for Barcelona's Nou Camp. The Manchester United centre-back's agent, Paolo Fabbri, was quoted last week as
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      526 58 AGENCIES EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Arsenal boss busy keeping his players focused on finishing off Glasgow club CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUALIFYING PLAY-OFF, SECOND LEG Arsenal vCeltic (Arsenal lead 2-0) LONDON Arsene Wenger has warned his Arsenal stars not to let complacency hand Celtic a European lifeline in the second
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      509 59 'AFP THEASHES They've been team-mates, now Ponting and Warne could go head-to-head LONDON Former Australia captain lan Chappell has come out in support of current skipper Ricky Ponting despite the Ashes series loss in England. But former Test batsman Dean Jones believes leg-spin great Shane Warne,
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      203 59 AP VERONA (New York)-Tiger Woods edged defending champion Camilo Villegas to win the Notah Begay 111 Foundation Challenge skins tournament at Turning Stone Resort's Atunyote Golf Club on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). After Villegas won US$lBO,OOO ($259,720) with a birdie at the
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      507 60  -  ESTHER FUNG TEXTILE INDUSTRY esther@mediacorp.com. sg BACK in the 1980s, the shophouses at Circular Road used to house bustling textile merchants and traders. However, globalisation and information technology has weighed down on the fortunes of these textile traders and they are fast becoming a
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      379 60 Advertising Feature by Mohamed Hairul Borhan Exporting With Confidence IE Singapore's Exporter Development Programme helps lift SMEs' export potential Exporting overseas can be a daunting and risky task, especially for the uninitiated. To guide companies through this _^RApWto> process. International Enterprise m >v (IE) Singapore launched the y^ mm^^R Exporter
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        78 61 Fujifilm's Super CCD EXR sensor recently won the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) European Digital Imaging Innovation 2009-2010 Award. EISA judges were impressed with the level of innovation and multiple application of the new technology. The EISA jury said: "Fujifilm's new Super CCD EXR sensor
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        62 61 Audio House is holding a pre-Comex sale from Aug 29 to Sept 5, and boosts of prices lower than at the upcoming IT exhibition. Expect to see the latest models of LCD TVs, sound systems, cameras, video camcorders at rock bottom prices. The best thing is, there's
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        239 61 Students and National Service men now have more things to look forward to when they sign up for any Sing Tel Mobile Youth Plan. Besides free unlimited SMS, campus/ camps calls, incoming calls and broadband on mobile service, Sing Tel
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        166 61 For a limited period only, every 1 -for-1 EZ-link card exchange made at any Sing Post outlet (Post Office) or Transit Link Ticket Office will entitle the card owner to a limited edition Singapore Grand Prix card sleeve, limited
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        BEYOND BEAUTY, A NEW OPENING
        89 61 Beyond Beauty International recently opened their sixth outlet at Orchard Central. At 2,300 sq ft, it houses 11 treatment rooms. During the grand opening celebration, cast of Perfect Cut Edmund Chen and Thomas Ong shared their views on its new Power Shape slimming machine, which
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      525 63 AGENCIES US ECONOMY World's largest economy to shrink 2.8% this year, says White House WASHINGTON The United States will rack up larger-than-previously-project-ed budget deficits over the next decade, the White House said yesterday in a report that shows the recession's stark toll on the nation's finances and
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      236 63 938 LIVE AN A*STAR unit has received a shot in the arm from United States-based nanotechnology firm, Applied Materials. Applied Materials is investing in Tera-Barrier Films, which is a newly incorporated spin-off from A*Star's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) through its
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      166 64 AGENCIES OIL prices fell below US$74 a barrel yesterday in late Asian trading, retreating from a 10-month high on profit taking amid expectations the end of the summer driving season in the United States will sap already weak demand. Benchmark crude was 53 cents lower
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      373 64 AGENCIES MAYBANK KUALA LUMPUR Maybank, Malaysia's largest lender by asset size, swung into the red in its fiscal fourth quarter primarily due to a RM1.62 billion ($664 million) impairment from its investment in Bank Internasional Indonesia (BN). Maybank said yesterday that it recorded a loss
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      190 64 AFP OAK BLUFFS (Massachusetts) The White House has refused to intervene to select a buyer for General Motors' European unit Opel after Germany pressed Washington for a decision. President Barack Obama's "view is that decisions made about the day-to-day operations at GM should be made
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      625 65 DOWJONES ASIAN STOCK MARKETS Bull run could fizzle out on profit-taking and fund reallocation HONG KONG The bull run in Asian stock markets could be winding down, fund managers say, as investors start taking profits and move money into developed markets and fixed income funds. The
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      109 65 AGENCIES Chinese stocks fell 2.6 per cent yesterday in cautious trade, a day after Premier Wen Jiabao said the country's economic situation was "still very grave 7 The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed down 77.63 points at 2,915.80. "There are still a lot
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      156 66 938 LIVE A CONSUMER survey has highlighted that confidence in an economic recovery are growing among Singapore consumers. The latest Nielsen global consumer confidence survey released yesterday showed that optimism in Singapore has improved in recent months. Its consumer confidence index rose to 87 in
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      240 66 938 LIVE UOB ASSET MANAGEMENT Tie-up with UTI Int'l will open up opportunities UOB Asset Management, a unit of United Overseas Bank, has forged a strategic alliance with UTI International, the Singapore unit of India-based fund management group that will open up its reach into the
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      197 66 938 LIVE RATINGS agency Moody's said that the ratings outlook for Singapore banks remain negative despite their better-than-ex-pected second quarter financial results. In its latest report, Moody's pointed out that while the banks' profits improved in the second quarter, the increase was primarily due to
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        103 67 938 LIVE Mainboard-listed commodities group Wilmar said yesterday that one of its joint venture firm is acquiring an Australian port facility. Wilmar Gavilon, a 50-50 joint venture between Wilmar and The Gavilon Group, will buy the Brisbane sugarterminal. Constructed in 1985, the facility
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        113 67 938 LIVE Sunny Vista Developments and Hong Realty have won the bid for a land parcel at Chestnut Avenue, just off Bukit Panjang estate. They were awarded the gg-year condominium housing site by HDB after putting in the top bid of $143.7 million.
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      363 67  -  TAN HUI LENG REAL ESTATE But developer will still market its residential projects huileng@mediacorp.com.sg THE current exuberance in the property market may be fuelling optimism among property buyers but real estate giant Wing Tai Holdings may not be popping the champagne bottle just yet
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        77 68 $7.92 I Buy Citigroup maintains its rating for the conglomerate and raises price target to $9.15 from $7.60. It increases Keppel's FYO9-11 earnings forecasts by 9 to 34 per cent to factor in higher margins, an increased order book assumption to between $3 billion and $4 billion from
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        33 68 Disclaimer: Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. Today cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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        20 68 RlS^R\\BSmmmnWmmmmmmm Monday 2,612.33 A 2.65% Friday 2,544.86 T 0.57% Thursday 2,559.57 A 1.46% Wednesday 2,522.78 T 1.75%
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        24 68 tang Seng 20,435.24 T 0.49% Jikkei 10,497.36 0.79% lhanghai 2,915.80 T 2.59% ieoul 1,601.38 0.67% flumbai 15,688.47 A 0.38% Malaysia 1,171.09 0.29%
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        22 68 US$1 £1 €1 $1,442 ¥100 $1,529 $2,363 HK$ioo $18.61 $2,066 RMB100 $21.11 A$i RMi $1,211 RS100 $2,957 $0,410 RPio,ooo $1,438
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      503 68 AGENCIES US ECONOMY Obama praises Bernanke, picks him for second term OAK BLUFFS (Massachusetts) United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, widely credited with taking aggressive action to avert an economic catastrophe after the financial meltdown last autumn, has been nominated by President Barack Obama
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      168 67 NOT ALL OF THE I AUTUMN FESTIVAL IS I MERE LEGEND. 1 _____________________________________r A Wr ______MtEf ___f_\ WW WW ______^_k_. v^^^^J* wa m »1 ma W *dL^-^-W n _^H____ter- 1 BS I?- -k f__________________Rßr___k B^-- .^___________________________a _____________________K____i _i On this auspicious occasion when families gather to celebrate the symbolism of
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