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    20 1 TODAY Friday October 30, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday October 30, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    95 1 6 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says conditions are now ripe for nuclear cooperation with the major powers. A The late Michael Jackson's T Z* This Is It gets a cool US reception, but is expected to be a bigger hit in overseas markets. CC Englishman lan Poulter
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    'Slower and steadier'
    755 1  -  ESTHER FUNG MAS MACROECONOMIC REVIEW Growth to be led by services; analysts forecast 4-6.5% in 2010 esther@mediacorp.com.sg MAS MACRO ECO NO MIC REVIEW SINGAPORE As the United States economy posted its strongest expansion in two years with 3.5 per cent third-quarter growth, and the International Monetary Fund
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    What you'll pay more for
    462 1  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Consumers and businesses here can expect to pay more next year for electricity, food and raw materials and transport, due to rising global oil and commodity prices. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has forecasted inflation to rise from zero this
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      Lock icon $5,000 to secure special kids' future
      463 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT SPECIAL NEEDS TRUST COMPANY weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Sarah-Jane Joseph appears like any bubbly five-year-old: She is articulate, loves cartoons and is fond of toy trains. But she has Autism Spectrum Disorder and her father, general practitioner Sunil Joseph, is worried if Sarah-Jane will
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      NCSS would rather be a motivator
      240 2  -  LEONGWEE KEAT SINGAPORE Is the National Council of Social Service the umbrella body for about 400 voluntary welfare organisations (VWO) a disciplinarian or a motivator? Due to this "confusion", it will relinquish its regulator role to the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports'
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    • SECTOR OUTLOOKS:
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        INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
        66 3 Two things could be the sector's boon: Pentup demand from firms that put off upgrading their PCs because of the recession, and Microsoft's release this month of Windows 7. These could see corporates replacing their computers around mid-next year. For now, momentum in global IT activity largely driven
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        MANUFACTURING
        74 3 Seagate's closure of a hard-disk drive facility next year (with 2,000 workers shed) will be offset by new capacity additions; for example biologies facilities by Genentech and Roche. But a global supply glut will see a downshift in prospects for the chemicals, marine and offshore engineering, and container shipping
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        FINANCIAL SERVICES
        84 3 Demand for wealth service set to rise further, as middle-class grows and high net-worth individuals regain appetite for risk. Domestic banking to be boosted by the surge of new mortgages taken up this year, and huge number of new housing loans booked over last three years that will
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        TOURISM
        27 3 Resilience of regional economies augurs well, as these markets contribute bulk of visitor arrivals. The integrated resorts and 6,000 new hotel rooms will bump up capacity.
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        CONSTRUCTION
        52 3 Activity to weaken, with several mega commercial and industrial projects reaching completion. New contracts for malls and offices dried up; private sector contracts awarded in first eight months this year sank 81 per cent on-year. Sector unlikely to maintain momentum of being a key source of job growth in
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        MODEST JOB GROWTH
        45 3 "Weak hiring expectations could be a consequence of the relatively mild adjustment in the labour market during this downturn, as it means firms are ferrying surplus labour which they could call on to meet any initial increase in output," said the MAS.
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        SUBDUED WAGE GROWTH
        32 3 Wage growth likely but subdued: Projected average of 1.6 per cent (according to Singapore Human Resources Institute survey) is far lower than 4.9-per-cent average increment in 2007 and 2008.
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      Lock icon And the name is ....
      636 4  - And the name is ONG DAI LIN ONG DAI LIN FOURTH PUBLIC UNIVERSITY dailin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Two years after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong unveiled plans for a fourth public university, it has gotten a name and appointed its founding president. Called the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SU),
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      Lock icon Afghan, Pakistan carnage raises heat on Obama
      272 6 AFP WASHINGTON Carnage in Pakistan and America's bloodiest month in Afghanistan are sharpening United States President Barack Obama's dilemma on troop deployment while stoking political demands for swifter action. "We watch this situation continue to deteriorate while this long protracted process of decision
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      Lock icon Is Iran ready for a deal?
      447 6 AGENCIES IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME TEHRAN Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that conditions were now ripe for nuclear cooperation with the major powers as Iran handed over its long-await-ed response to a draft agreement drawn up by the United Nations (UN) watchdog. Breaking with
      AGENCIES  -  447 words
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      Pilot worries about his orphanage
      482 8  -  TEOXUANWEI GOOD SAMARITAN xucmwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He's been busy hunting for jobs with other airlines as well as looking for buyers for one of his properties in Jakarta, but to no avail. With less than two weeks to go before his contract with Singapore Airlines (SIA)
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      Lock icon A FOUNTAIN OF MAGIC AT SUNTEC
      86 8 ERNESTCHUA Street illusionist Cyril, also known as the world's first 'CyberMagician', was in Singapore on Tuesday to film his first international TV special Cyril: Simply Magic for AXN's Original Production. The winner of the prestigious 'Olympics of Magic' award also charmed audiences at the
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      Lock icon Asean states agree to annual haze prevention forum
      296 10 938 LIVE SINGAPORE The 10 members of the Association of South-east Asian nations (Asean) have agreed to hold a haze prevention forum annually to address the continued problem of land and forest fires. Singapore introduced the forum this year, bringing together heads
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      Lock icon Water mishap that never was?
      322 10  -  NEOCHAI CHIN SINGAPORE Did a few boys playing in a Bukit Panjang canal meet with a water mishap yesterday? A woman thought so and called the police at 3.50pm, triggering a four-hour Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) search, involving 20 personnel, that eventually yielded nothing.
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      A wary eye on civil groups
      429 10  -  ANSLEYNG APEC SUMMIT ansley@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE With two weeks to go before heads of state gather for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit here, Singapore is wary about allowing the entry of well-organised civil groups and disruptive individuals bent on derailing the talks or
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      Lock icon ICA officer in dock over bribes
      202 12 938 LIVE SINGAPORE A senior immigration officer was charged in court yesterday with accepting more than $1,550 in bribes. Mah Chin Phock, 54, faced eight charges of taking bribes in the form of cash and loans between June and Nov 2007. Mah (picture) was
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      Dads motives under scrutiny
      381 12  -  ZULOTHMAN TODDLER'S DEATH zul@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE A day after he implicated his wife for the murder of their two-year-old daughter, Sallehan Alauddin's motives came under scrutiny. His claims on Wednesday, his first day on the stand in his ongoing murder trial, contrasted with the night of
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      Lock icon Traveller raped by free-lodging host
      223 14 AFP LONDON She wanted to see Europe, and visited a popular travellers' website called Couch Surfing which links travellers with local people willing to give them a place to stay for free. On the website, the 29-year-old woman from Hong Kong hooked up with Moroccan
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      Lock icon Clusters of green
      351 14 BCAGREEN MARK Resorts World at Sentosa and NUS University Town first districts to earn the green mark of approval from BCA SINGAPORE One boasts Singapore's largest installation of photovoltaic or solar energy cells, able to power the equivalent of 108 four-room flats. The other encourages people to
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      Pedal on the safe side with your motorised bicycle
      204 16 SINGAPORE Overtwo weeks, 310 summonses have been issued to errant cyclists particularly those using unapproved motorised bicycles or not wearing suitable protective helmets. The Traffic Police and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) conducted a joint opera- tion targeting motorised 11 bicycles
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      For those with the nose
      310 16 SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC Singapore's first diploma course in perfumery among 5 new courses on offer SINGAPORE For students who fancy a whiff of this, the region's first Diploma in Perfumery and Cosmetic Science will be introduced at Singapore Polytechnic next year. With five of the world's
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      MEDIACORPTEES OFF FOR CHARITY
      110 18 MediaCorp held its second fund-raising event for the financial year its annual charity golf tournament, which is in its fourth year running, at the Raffles Country Club on Wednesday. From these two events, MediaCorp has collectively raised more than $270,000 to benefit its adopted charities, HCA
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      Lock icon Growing up with Gusto
      382 18 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA BIRTH COHORT STUDY $25m research project on childhood health to track 1,200 babies SINGAPORE Some 1,200 babies here will be tracked from the time they are foetuses, to when they reach three years of age, in a $25-million research project that aims
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Cut the red tape: SBY
      392 20 AFP INDONESIAN ECONOMY JAKARTA Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised yesterday to boost investment by removing the red tape blamed for slowing growth in South-east Asia's biggest economy. Mr Yudhoyono, who was sworn in for his second five-year term last week, said investment would rise
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    • EYE ON MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon BADRUL QUITS PKR, NOW BN-FRIENDLY
        124 20 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Port Klang assemblyman Badrul Hisham Abdullah has quit Parti Keadilan Rakyat, citing a loss of faith in the party leadership and unhappiness over financial allocations. Mr Badrul Hisham said he would now be a Barisan Nasionalfriendly independent, but asserted that he would
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        Lock icon MALAYSIA SEIZES 15,000 COPIES OFTHE BIBLE: CHURCH LEADER
        121 20 AFP The Malaysian authorities have seized some 15,000 Bibles imported from Indonesia because they use the word "Allah" as a translation for "God" which is banned in Malaysia, a church leader said yesterday. Reverend Hermen Shastri, general-secretary of the Council of Churches
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        Lock icon PAS TELLS MEN TO MARRY SINGLE MUMS
        110 20 AFP Parti Islam SeMalaysia has urged Muslim men to marry single mothers as additional wives. Ms Wan Übaidah Omar, a Cabinet Minister from Kelantan, which the party controls, said the proposal aired in the state Parliament this week was needed to help single
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      Lock icon PAS resolves leadership feud
      267 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) said yesterday it has ruled out forming a pact with the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), a proposal that caused a leadership crisis and undermined the opposition alliance. PAS has been beset by infighting after several top
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      Lock icon Four charged over Thai King health rumours
      155 22 AFP BANGKOK The Thai authorities will charge four people with spreading rumours about the health of the country's King which sent stock markets plunging earlier this month, the Prime Minister said yesterday. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 81, has been in hospital since mid-Septem-ber with
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      Lock icon Li mending fences in Oz
      256 22 AGENCIES SINO-AUSTRALIA RELATIONS SYDNEY China's Vice-Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Australia yesterday for a fence-mending visit following months of trade and diplomatic tension. Mr Li will touch down for talks with Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister Kevin Rudd seeking an upturn in relations which plummeted after China's
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon LATEST MISSILE TESTS A FLOP
        102 22 AFP NORTH KOREA North Korea's short-range missile tests earlier this month were a failure, with none of the five projectiles reaching its target, a report said yesterday. The North test-fired five KN-02 missiles with a range of 120 km from mobile launchers off its east
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        Lock icon NEW TYPHOON TO HIT LUZON
        94 22 AFP THE PHILIPPINES Storm-weary Filipinos were told yesterday to prepare for another typhoon to hit the main island of Luzon during the upcoming weekend holiday for All Soul's Day. Typhoon Mirinae, already packing gusts of up to iBskmh, was expected to become stronger before it
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        Lock icon NO MONEY-FOR-ASYLUM-SEEKERS DEAL
        85 22 AFP INDONESIA Indonesia has firmly denied reaching a deal with Australia to receive money in return for temporarily accepting boatloads of asylum seekers intercepted at sea. The two countries had reached no definite agreement on dealing with a recent rash of asylum seekers, despite talk in Australia
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      Lock icon Jail sentence 'unjustified': UK
      191 25 AFP LONDON British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said yesterday a reported jail sentence handed to an embassy worker in Iran was "wholly unjustified". He urged the authorities to overturn it. British Embassy worker Hossein Rassam was sentenced to four years in prison this week after being
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      Lock icon 61 held over Baghdad bombs
      102 25 AFP BAGHDAD More than 60 security force members, including 11 officers, have been arrested over twin bombings in Baghdad that killed 153 people and wounded over 500, said army spokesman General Qasim Atta yesterday. Those arrested were deployed in the Salhiya section of the capital
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      Lock icon Focusing on aid
      407 25 AP EU SUMMIT Leaders face talks on how much to offer developing nations BRUSSELS European Union leaders meeting in Belgium are facing tough talks about how much aid to offer developing nations to bring them into a new global climate change pact. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
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      Lock icon OBAMA VISITS RETURNING WAR DEAD
      106 26 US President Barack Obama travelled to Dover Air Force Base yesterday morning, where he was to meet with family members and pay his respects as the bodies of 18 American troops killed this week in Afghanistan were returned to the United States. It was the
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      Lock icon The quiet rush of American aid
      414 26 THE NEWYORKTIMES FIGHTINGTHETALIBAN US extends military assistance towards Pakistani forces WASHINGTON Even as the Pakistani government plays down the American role in its military operations in Taliban-control-led areas along the border with Afghanistan, the United States has quietly rushed hundreds of millions of dollars
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      Lock icon Sperm, egg precursors made from stem cells
      189 28 AGENCIES WASHINGTON Stem cells were changed to form early stage sperm and eggs in a research advance that may lead to better ways of treating infertility. By manipulating genes, researchers were able to make germ cells, the forerunners of eggs and sperm, said
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      Lock icon No easy way out
      409 28 AFP EUTHANASIA Swiss government plans to tighten rules; groups that assist suicide protest GENEVA The Swiss government laid out proposals on Wednesday to tighten rules on assisted suicide in a bid to prevent abuse by organisations offering euthanasia. In one of two options suggested, it tabled
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon NO WEB ACCESS FOR FILE SHARERS
        90 30 AP The British government says it will lock persistent illegal file sharers out of the Internet by forcing service providers to pull the plug on their lawbreaking customers. British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said that Britons who repeatedly download music or films illegally would
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        Lock icon OBAMA'S ONE UNHAPPY MOMENT
        96 30 AP United States President Barack Obama says only once since his first day in office has White House life annoyed him. It was the Saturday in May when he kept a campaign promise to take his wife, Michelle, to New York after the election for one
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      Lock icon Captured: Somali pirates who may be pair's captors
      239 30 AGENCIES MOGADISHU The ordeal of a seafaring British couple thought to have been seized by Somali pirates took a new turn on Wednesday after European Union (EU) naval officials announced that they had captured seven pirates who attacked a fishing ship a
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      Lock icon A step forward for civil rights
      285 30 AFP US HATE CRIMES LAW WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama condemned crimes meant not to break only bones "but to break spirits" as he celebrated a landmark hate crimes law as a new step forward for US civil rights on Wednesday. Mr Obama signed
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      H1N1 prompts hundreds of US schools to close
      195 34 CHICAGO Schools in the United States are closing by the dozens as officials say they are being hit hard and fast by the HINI virus that they feel shutting down for a few days is the only feasible option. At least 351
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      Lock icon WORLD'S BIGGEST MONA LISA
      60 34 HEDAILYTELEGRAPH The world's biggest Mona Lisa has been unveiled in a shopping centre in Wrexham, England. It measures 17.5 m, covers 240 sq m and is 50 times bigger than the original masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. Artist Katy Webster led the project, which was painted
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      Lock icon Radical Islamic leader killed
      199 34 AP FBI RAID CHICAGO The leader of a radical Islamic group who allegedly preached violence against the government to his mostly Af-rican-American followers was shot and killed on Wednesday in a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid near Detroit. The FBI said it employed "special safeguards"
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      472 36  -  ChuaMT FEWERTAKING PUBLICTRANSPORT Letter from I READ with interest the articles by Mr Leong Wee Keat ("Uneasy riders", Oct 27, and "Drivers' compromise", Oct 29) on the inability to get more Singaporeans to switch to taking the bus or the train. I have been taking
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      845 42 LIFE AFTER DEATH Michael Jackson's This Is It expected to be a bigger hit in foreign markets IS THIS it? That's what Gregory Parrott, 62, was wondering on Tuesday night as he waited at the head of a short line for a midnight screening of the
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      676 46 A J AND HOWIE D The pop foursome say getting older has not mellowed them at all ONE minute into our interview and A J McLean of the American pop group Backstreet Boys is already enthusing about why he loves Singapore. "I love Singapore! It's one
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      205 46 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH THE Shining, the claustrophobic Stanley Kubrick classic from 1980, has been named the scariest film of all time, according to a poll of movie-goers. The film, based on the Stephen King novel, tells the story of a frustrated writer, played by Jack
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      273 48  -  GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW JENNIFER'S BODY Hokey teen horror schlock —ooh, fun! genevievdoh@mediacorp.com.sg SO IN one unfortunate night, your best friend goes from gorgeous mean queen man-eater to, well, literally a gorgeous mean queen man-eater all because some stupid rock star wannabe's virgin sacrifice plan goes wrong. What's
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      239 52  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH MOVIE REVIEW |THIS IS IT Few insights from Michael Jackson documentary christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THE last days of Michael Jackson are ably captured in this documentary that's more like one of those "making-of' featurettes you find under the "bonus features" section of a concert DVD. This Is
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      223 53  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW LOVE HAPPENS AARON Eckhart is a reluctant, deeply-hurting motivational speaker who's built a highprofile, self-help cash cow on overcoming grief thanks to the best-seller he wrote after the tragic death of his wife. Jennifer Aniston is an unlucky-in-love florist he meets with
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      234 57 AFP LEAGUE CUP, FOURTH ROUND Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1 LONDON Arsene Wenger predicted his crop of Arsenal youngsters would reach "the top level in the game" after they scalped Liverpool in the League Cup fourth round. The Frenchman did not pick
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      52 57 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7am NHL Senators v Lightning, Ch 117 10.30 am NHL Canucks v Kings, Ch 117 9.15pm Golf Volvo Match Play C'ship, Ch 26 spm Tennis French Open, Ch 22 10.05pm Tennis WTATour: Doha, Ch 113 SPORTS ON RADIO 6.35am-n.3spm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live
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      771 58  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN REINVENTING THE WHEEL hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg REALITY check, people. Email sucks. Our perpetually flooded electronic inboxes are starting to be a drain on productivity. I'm sure you've been there. You spend a whole day clearing your inbox, deleting and responding to emails and yet, get little to
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      414 58  -  TREVORTAN DIGITAL CAMERA PREVIEW FUJIFILM FINEPIXREAL3DWI trevor@mediacorp.com.sg LAST November, Fujifilm showed us its three-dimensional (3D) consumer digital compact camera prototype. Recently, we got our hands on the preview product the FinePix Real 3D Wl. The 3D camera is part of Fujifilm's "FinePix
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      142 58 AFP GOOGLE GETS ITS GROOVE ON WITH MUSIC SEARCH Google stepped onto the online music stage earlier this week, unveiling Oneßox, a new service for finding, listening to or buying songs online that could cut down on the number of mouse clicks it takes to sample or
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      289 63 AGENCIES HANGZHOU Trade negotiations between top Chinese and United States officials opened on a discordant note yesterday as fresh friction surfaced over American car exports. The talks started two hours late and officials addressing the opening session referred
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      487 63 AGENCIES IMF REPORT Asian economies fast rebounding but need structural adjustments SEOUL Asian economies are leading the way out of the global economic slump but they must adapt to a "new world" of softer demand in the major Western markets to which they export, the International
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      154 64 938 LIVE SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed traditional Chinese medidne firm Eu Van Sang posted an 11 -per-cent rise in its first-quarter net profit to $3.6 million buoyed by improved retail revenue and better inventory management. The higher net profit also came on the
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      134 64 938 LIVE SINGAPORE Singapore Post (Sing Post) has recorded second-quarter net profit of $40.5 million, up 8.3 per cent from a year earlier, thanks to newly-acquired Quantium Solutions and property-related income. Group revenue for the three months ended September increased by 7.9
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      314 64  -  RYAN HUANG CHANNEL NEWSASIA GREAT SINGAPORE SALE ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Retail Association (SRA) disclosed yesterday that the total sales chalked up during the Great Singapore Sale hit $5.3 billion this year. Although it was down 1.9 per cent from last year, it came amid a
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      224 64  -  TANHUILENG SINGAPORE An industrial site at the corner of Pioneer Road North and Soon Lee Drive has been earmarked for public tender. This is the third such site under the Urban Redevelopment Authority (LIRA) that has been triggered off in the Government Land Sales
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      299 65 AGENCIES OIL INDUSTRY IRVING (Texas) Profits at the world's biggest oil companies fell sharply in the third quarter, as weakness in the global economy pushed oil prices and refining margins down. Texas-based Exxon Mobil, the world's largest company by market capitalisation, reported yesterday a fourth
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      275 65 JONATHAN PEERIS, 938 LIVE SINGAPORE An urgent need for more revenue has led many governments to hasten moves to boost tax collections through indirect taxes and broadening the tax base for corporate income taxes. These are among the findings from KPMG International's latest annual survey of
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      148 65 938 LIVE SINGAPORE Singapore-listed China Animal Healthcare said its third quarter net profit rose 25.2 percent to about $10.5 million from a year ago. Group revenue for the three months ended September rose 10.1 per cent to about $26.6 million. The China-based animal drugs company said
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        47 66 $2.96 I Outperform Credit Suisse keeps rating but raises price target to $4.10 from $2.33. It says water treatment firm's earnings profile will change from being dependent on engineering, procurement and construction to one driven by higher-quality earnings from recurring tariffs and operations and maintenance business.
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        66 66 46 cents Buy RBS upgrades rating from Hold and raises price target to 50 cents from 40 cents on a better earnings growth outlook from improved asset quality and a lower risk of a highly dilutive rights issue. It says the trust's plans to divest non-core assets
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        89 66 58 cents I Hold DBS Vickers downgrades rating from Buy on the view the prospective yield of 6 per cent in FYIO-11 is not compelling vs 7.5-per-cent yield from its SReit peers. It trims price target to 63 cents from 65 cents after lowering FYIO-11 DPU forecasts
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        19 66 Wednesday 2,648.98 T 1.69% Tuesday 2,694.50 T 0.81% Monday 2,716.62 A 0.05% Friday 2,715.34 A 1.24%
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        22 66 Jikkei lhanghai ieoul /lumbai Malaysia 9,891.10 T 1.83% 2,960.47 T 2.34% 1,585-85 T 1.48% 16,052.72 T 1.42% 1,241.75 T 0.58%
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        22 66 JS$i :i euro k$i !Mi $1,400 ¥100 Si.542 $2,305 HK$ioo $18.06 $2,062 RMB100 $20.50 $1,264 RS100 $2,962 $0,408 RPio,ooo $1,459
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      398 66  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite the recent frenzy in the local property sector, the value of new home sales this year is still far from the levels seen at the height of the property boom in 2007. New residential home sales raised $11.2 billion
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      529 66 AGENCIES US ECONOMY Expansion is first in a year, unofficially ends recession WASHINGTON -The United States economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year, thanks to a bounce back in consumer spending, but a weak labour market
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