Today, 6 October 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Tuesday October 6, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    153 1 4 A pay freeze for civil servants has been mooted by the British government, with those at the top the hardest-hit. M Deadly bathroom break: Asuicide bomber got access to a UN agency office in Islamabad, Pakistan, by saying he needed to use the toilet. Five people died
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    Lock icon America gets its jabs
    367 1 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST US among first nations to roll out mass vaccination against HINI NEW YORK The United States began to vaccinate its citizens against swine flu yesterday, one of the first countries to roll out its portion of what may be an unprecedented effort to
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    Lock icon Dollah still in critical condition
    489 1  -  LAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Family members of former Singapore captain Dollah Kassim kept a bedside vigil at Tan Tock Seng Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) yesterday, as the football legend remained in a critical condition. Dollah suffered a heart attack on Sunday night after
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon 'A common treasure'
      417 2 A common treasure' AGENCIES CHINA-N KOREATIES SEOUL China and North Korea vowed yesterday to strengthen a friendship which they said preserved regional peace, as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pressed on with a mission to bring Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks. "History has proven that developing China-North Korea relations is
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      Lock icon North has 100 sites linked to nuclear programme: Seoul
      203 2 AFP SEOUL South Korea knows of about 100 sites linked to North Korea's nuclear programme and has the capacity to strike them if necessary, its Defence Minister Kirn Tae Young said yesterday. Mr Kirn, who said his ministry has a complete
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      Lock icon I won't go to the finals
      451 3  -  TEOXUANWEI MISS SINGAPORE RUNNER-UP xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE She may be the prime candidate to replace dethroned beauty queen Ris Low, but unless she is threatened with a lawsuit by the contest organisers, Ms Claire Lee (picture), the first run-ner-up in this year's beleaguered Miss
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      Lock icon Yudhoyono calls for rapid response teams
      341 4 AGENCIES INDONESIAN EARTHQUAKE PADANG (Indonesia) Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday called on the Indonesian military (TNI) to prepare rapid response teams to deal with natural disasters, as health officials raced against time to prevent outbreaks of disease caused by decomposing bodies and a
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      Lock icon UK govt moots pay freeze for civil servants
      153 4 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The government yesterday announced it was recommending either a pay freeze or a 1 -per-cent increase next year for 750,000 public sector workers, including doctors, prison officers, dentists and civil servants. A total freeze is being recommended for 40,000
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      SAF MEDICALTEAM WORKSTHROUGHTHE NIGHT
      177 4 The SAF medical team has treated 99 accident and emergency cases and performed 14 surgeries at the Pariaman Public Hospital since starting operations on Sunday. Together with staff from the Indonesian hospital, the team worked through the night to treat quake victims. "There were several emergency
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      She returns to Mum and Dad
      576 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT CHILD CUSTODY CASE But parents have to work with Child Protection Services; review in two months weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A seven-year-old girl who was removed from the care of her mother has been returned for the time being to her parents after the case
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      Monster dad gets 14 years and 20 strokes
      315 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT IN COURT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE What this father did to his two daughters were not only "terrible", but "absolutely disgusting" said a District Judge yesterday. Over a 12-year period, the -49-year-old committed 15 acts of outrage of modesty and two acts of
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      Playing the silver card
      426 8  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The idea of casinos channelling funds to help the aged might raise a few eyebrows. But this could be a way for charities to seek an additional source of funding without depending too much on the government, said Ms Teresa Tsien, co-director
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      Beep beep! Its time for a blood check
      453 10  -  NEOCHAICHIN REDUCING DOCTORS'VISITS Remote monitoring of patients by hospital a first in Singapore chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former stroke patient Elisabet Ramadihardja takes a blood thinning drug. If she takes an overdose, it can cause internal bleeding. To have her blood tested, she used
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon BUDGET HOTELS USED TO PEDDLE ILLEGAL CIGARETTES
        156 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Syndicates have been making use of budget hotels to store and sell illegal cigarettes to other distributors, peddlers and, at times, the man on the street. According to Singapore Customs, 50 people were caught in 20 budget hotels for offences related
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        Lock icon NTU EXPLORES SIMPLER WASTE RECOVERY PROCESS
        125 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Waste collection could become a simpler process if a new research centre at Nanyang Technological University succeeds in one of its projects. The Residues and Resource Reclamation Centre has submitted a proposal for government agencies and industries to fund community resource recovery
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE TO BROADEN FILM DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS
        144 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore and Western Australia have extended an initiative to encourage jointly-produced television programmes. For the second year, up to three co-productions will receive up to US$3O,OOO ($42,000) in development funding each underthe Media Development Authority (MDA) Screen West CrossMedia Development Initiative. This
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      A 'wise, professional' leader for Golkar
      219 12 JAKARTA Hundreds of Golkar party delegates met in Riau yesterday to begin the process of deciding who will become their next leader. The four-day meeting was to be opened by the party's outgoing chairman, Vice-Presi-dent JusufKalla, who has been criticised for Golkar's poor performance
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      Termination of military businesses
      116 12 JAKARTA President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said yesterday that he would soon issue a presidential regulation on the transfer of the Indonesian military's (TNI) businesses to state enterprises. Last year, a national task force recommended that the military hand over its businesses worth 3.1 trillion rupiah ($457
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      Lock icon Train jumps tracks in heavy rains
      361 12 AGENCIES ACCIDENT NEAR HUA HIN BANGKOK A train derailed during heavy rains yesterday near Thailand's coastal city of Hua Hin, killing at least 10 people, including a two-year-old girl, and injuring 88 others, officials said. The train jumped the tracks as it approached a
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      Lock icon Afghan election recount begins
      263 12 AP KABUL Election workers in Afghanistan began recounting ballots yesterday from the disputed Aug 20 presidential election. An announcement on whether President Hamid Karzai wins or faces a runoff with his main rival should be expected late next week, said a senior official. A United Nations-backed
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      Lock icon I'm sorry, Letterman says on-air to wife and staff
      157 14 fHE NEWYORKTIMES NEW YORK David Letterman apologised on the air yesterday to his wife Regina for his revelation last week of his sexual relationships with staff members, saying she had been "horribly hurt" and adding, "I've got my work cut out
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      Lock icon Bathroom break a deadly ruse
      299 14 AGENCIES PAKISTAN SUICIDE BOMBING How terrorist slipped into UN food office ISLAMABAD A suicide bomber who killed five staffers at the United Nations food agency's headquarters in Pakistan yesterday was dressed as a security officer and allowed to enter the heavily-guarded building after he asked
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      Lock icon Taiwan on rain alert
      331 15 AFP AFP TYPHOON PARMA More than 6,000 villagers evacuated as authorities expect more downpours TUNGSHAN Taiwan had evacuated more than 6,000 villagers yesterday as Typhoon Parma brought heavy rains and caused landslides. The evacuations, some of them forced, were concentrated in south Taiwan, which saw the
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      Lock icon Jon takes cash, Kate's broke
      132 15 AGENCIES NEW YORK Mrs Kate Gosselin of the reality show Jon Kate Plus 8 said she is broke and can't pay her bills after her husband Jon emptied their joint back account of U*****,000 ($325,000) leaving her with only US$l,OOO. "I have a stack of
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      Lock icon Samoans join in prayer after tsunami
      171 15 AFP LALOMANU Grief-stricken Samoans poured into churches on Sunday to mourn the victims of the devastating tsunami that killed more than 170 people in their nation and surrounding Pacific islands. About 600 people packed into a church in Lalomanu, one of the worst-hit villages
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon DID HE SWAP SEX FOR SENTENCING?
        93 16 THEGUARDIAN A former judge was to go on trial in the United States yesterday, charged with having sex with male prisoners in exchange for lenient sentences. Mr Herman Thomas was the Democratic Party's choice to be the first black federal judge in southern Alabama
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        Lock icon MERKEL BEGINS COALITION TALKS
        100 16 BLOOMBERG, AP German Chancellor Angela Merkel led a negotiating team into talks with her would-be coalition partners from the Free Democrats yesterday, as she sought to restrain their push for tax cuts and repeal of minimum-wage deals. Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, along with the Christian
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        Lock icon USTRIO SHARE 2009 NOBEL MEDICINE PRIZE
        54 16 AP The 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded yesterday to Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, for their discovery of an enzyme which helps chromosomes stay eternally young. The award includes a 10-million kronor(s2 million) purse, a diploma and an invitation
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        Lock icon CALIFORNIA FIRES FORCE THOUSANDS OUT
        86 16 AFP Some 4,500 residents of the southern California town of Wrightwood, 75km east of Los Angeles, were forced to evacuate on Sunday due to a racing wildfire. The blaze, only 10 per cent contained, broke out on Saturday in the nearby San Bernardino National Forest.
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      Lock icon Grim reality for India
      362 17 AFP INFANT MORTALITY It makes up a fifth of 2m newborn deaths worldwide NEW DELHI More than 400,000 Indian babies die every year from preventable causes within 24 hours of their birth, despite the country's recent rapid economic development, a report said yesterday. India accounts fora
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      Lock icon RUSSIA MUST REDUCE MORTALITY RATE, SAYS UN
      123 17 AP Russia's population has fallen by 6.6 million since 1993 despite an influx of millions of immigrants, a United Nations (UN) report said yesterday. Russia's current population is around 142 million. By 2025, it could lose another 11 million people. By 2050, the
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      Lock icon Spore is 23rd most developed country
      202 17 AFP PARIS Norway took the top spot in the annual United Nations (UN) human development index released yesterday, but China has made the biggest strides in improving the well-being of its citizens. The index, compiled by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), ranks 182 countries
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      Lock icon Air France crash could have been avoided, says report
      252 18 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH PARIS The recent Air France crash over the Atlantic could have been avoided if the crew had access to more recent weather maps, according to the Air France pilot's union, Spaf whose president, Mr Gerard Arnoux, co-wrote the report.
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      Lock icon Stepping into dad's, grandad's shoes
      296 18 AGENCIES GREECE ELECTIONS ATHENS Greece's Socialist leader George Papandreou (picture) trounced the governing conservatives in a landslide election victory after a campaign focused on dramatically different visions of how to dig the country out of its worst economic crisis in years. Mr Papandreou, a 57-year-old
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      Lock icon Police surround holy site
      106 18 AP JERUSALEM Israel deployed thousands of policemen in and around Jerusalem's Old City yesterday to prevent a new round of disturbances around a tense site holy to Jews and Muslims. The police have been clashing for several days with Muslim protesters in the compound known to
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      Lock icon Obama delays meeting with Dalai Lama
      186 21 DPA WASHINGTON The White House has postponed a meeting between the Dalai Lama and American President Barack Obama. The meet will now be held after Mr Obama's meeting with Chinese leader Hu Jintao next month. The Washington Post reported it would be the first
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      Lock icon A Chinese media empire soon?
      546 21 THE NEWYORKTIMES CHINA'S GLOBAL EXPANSION SHANGHAI China plans to spend billions of dollars over the next few years to develop media and entertainment companies that it hopes can compete with global giants like the News Corp and Time Warner, and will in the process loosen
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      477 20 Can earthquakes hit Singapore? Will buildings collapse because of tremors? Singapore is not located within an earthquake zone. The Buildings in Singapore are designed with in-built strength nearest earthquake belts are about 400-600 km away in and are unlikely to collapse because of tremors caused by Sumatra. Strong earthquakes in
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      Perhaps it's the PRs ...
      499 22  - Perhaps it's the PRs Chong Lee Ming SINGAPORE'S DECLINING BIRTHRATE Letter from AS REPORTED recently, Singapore's total fertility rate remains one of the lowest in the world, at 1.28 last year. While most attribute the low rate to social-economic factors, I believe that the large number of permanent residents (PRs)
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      Motorists suffer as quest for online speed goes on
      152 22  -  Ho Kong Loon Letter from SINGAPORE was ranked seventh in Asia for Internet broadband quality, according to a recent Oxford University survey. We were behind South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong, which ranked first to third, respectively, for Web access speed.
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      184 24  -  DR BILL MAIER BY.... PREVENTING TEEN BURNOUT Just looking at a secondary school student's schedule book makes me tired. Secondary school students today are busier than ever. Not only does school start early, but after school there's soccer, tuition, piano lessons, gymnastics, events and homework that
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      Buses, trains, ERP and...
      235 24  -  Gregory Gerald Danker EZ-LINK: MULTIPLE USES Letter from VP, Marketing Communications EZ-Link Pte Ltd WE REFER to the letter "Find more uses for ez-link cards", (Sept 29) and would like to thank the writer for the feedback on how the ez-link card should be used more
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      CARS: THE WOODLANDS BOTTLENECK
      127 24  -  Chua KhengYeow Letter from I returned from Johor Bahru at about midnight on Saturday, and met with the expected jam leading up to the Woodlands Checkpoint. On this occasion, the movement of vehicles was unusually slow. When I finally reached the area where cars are searched,
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      PARKING: WHEN 5 X $2 DOES NOT EQUAL $10
      105 24  -  Kent Tan Letter from I had to park for a whole day at a HDB car park, but as the $10 full-day coupon is not so readily available, I displayed five $2 parking coupons instead. I was issued a summons for
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      BUSES: DISPLAY STAGE NUMBERS, PLEASE
      66 24  -  Ong LS Letter from The new signs installed on upgraded bus stops around the island do not displaythe corresponding stage numberforthe buses plying those routes. Without this information, passengers are unable to check the fare they have to pay, or whether the sum deducted from
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      826 33  -  EVELINE GAN CERVICAL CANCER The lack of early-stage symptoms makes health checks, vaccinations vital eveline@mediacorp.com.sg AT 28, radio deejay Rosalyn Lee (picture) thought she was in the pink of health. So, when she bumped into an old friend who insisted she went fora women's health check, Rosalyn
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        52 34 Learn how to exercise safely from the experts at Singapore General Hospital. This event includes free health screening activities (on a first-come-first-served basis), health talks, exercise demonstrations and performances. Date: Sunday Time: nam to 7pm Venue: Toa Payoh HDB Hub Atrium Fee/Registration: Free. Call 6321 4132 for
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        61 34 Renew your understanding of healthy eating and fitness at this health event organised by 938 LIVE. The event includes a health talk by a nutritional therapist, a cooking demonstration featuring organic ingredients and fitness assessments. Date: Saturday Time: 10am to 12.30pm Venue: 8A Biopolis Grove,
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        283 34 I suffer from gout. The only medication I can take to relieve the pain is Colchicine as I seem to be allergic to the new drugs. My face will swell up after I take Synflex. That said, how risky is it for me to take
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      642 35  -  Eu Van Sang adds a floral touch to its latest range of bottled bird's nest HE PEIWEN hepeiwen@media corp.com.sg IT IS said that in the Middle Ages, chamomile was stuffed into pillows to enhance sleep. The belief that the herb has calming and relaxing properties continues till today,
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      115 35 EUYAN SANG has its beginnings in the tin mines in Gopeng, Perak, Malaysia, 130 years ago, when its Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) remedies were offered to coolies. It now has an extensive retail network all over Asia, including more than 30 outlets in Singapore. adopts a scientific approach in the
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      710 38  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Liverpool's first stop during their pre-season tour of Asia was Thailand, and the English giants were given a fright as the home side turned in an impressive performance in the July 22 friendly, holding the visitors 1-1 in Bangkok. Four
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      201 40 MILO WHIPS UP A VSUPPORTTEAM SINGAPORE' FRENZY To whip up support for Team Singapore at the Laos SEA Games from Dec 9 to 18, Milo launched its 'True Colours of a Champion Nation' campaign over the weekend, a partnership with photographic and digital imaging provider Canon, which aims to present
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      618 40 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Liverpool boss will have to solve a defensive crisis to keep title dream alive LONDON No team have lost three of their opening eight league games and gone on to win English club football's biggest prize since Manchester United some 42
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      240 41 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The Football Association has written to the Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson to ask him to explain his comments about referee Alan Wiley. Ferguson questioned the 49--year-old official's fitness afterthe 2-2 draw with Sunderland at Old Trafford on Saturday. Having
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      251 41 AGENCIES LONDON Saudi Arabian property tycoon Ali Al Faraj has completed his takeover of Portsmouth, sources close to the club indicated last night (this morning, Singapore time). Al Faraj and the previous owner Sulaiman Al Fahim have been meeting in London, according to their
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      602 42  -  SHERMAINEWONG BEST OF SEPT AIA Fair Price score with clean visuals and messages shermainewong@mediacorp.com.sg BOTH ads were visually strong, featured bold colour palettes and the advertising copy was simple and easily understood by readers. These factors, according to the panel of judges for Today's Ad of the
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      394 43 BLOOMBERG FOREXTRADING German banker's small team tops larger competitors STUTTGART During the most volatile period for global foreign exchange in more than 15 years, a state-owned bank in southern Germany bested the currency forecasters at the biggest banks and trading firms. Mr Gernot Griebling, head of
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      182 43 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Treasury two-year notes are poised to lead the market for United States debt as the government curbs sales of shortermaturity securities and the recovering economy keeps central bankers from raising interest rates. Demand for this year's bestperforming Treasuries will
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      191 44 AP LONDON The United Kingdom financial sector reported higher business volumes last month for the first time in two years though levels remain well below normal, according to a survey released yesterday. The report by the Confederation of British Industry and PricewaterhouseCoopers found that 32
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      581 44  -  CONRAD RAJ POINTOFVIEW editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com. sg IN A big, bold and innovative move, Capita Land, South-east Asia's largest property developer is cashing in on its malls by listing its wholly-owned subsidiary, Capita Land Retail, on the Singapore bourse. Capita Land Retail will be renamed Capita Malls Asia (CMA)
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      209 45  -  DESMONDWONG CHANNEL NEWSASIA desmondwong@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The risk appetites of private banking clients in Asia are returning as signs of a sustained economic recovery begin to grow. This means that these high net worth individuals are targeting traditional asset classes like equities, commodities and high-yielding corporate
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      355 45  -  MAYWONG CHANNEL NEWSASIA Q3 GROWTH maywong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The contraction in the key manufacturing sector is easing and that will help give Singapore's economic growth in the third quarter a leg up after shrinking for three consecutive quarters since the fourth quarter of 2008.
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          57 46 Marginally higher European share prices edged higher in hesitant trading, in line with a positive opening on Wall Street. London's FTSE 100 index closed 0.71 per cent higher at 5,024.33 points while Paris' CAC 40 index added 0.69 per cent to finish at 3,675.01 points. The Frankfurt Dax
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