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  • 20 1 TODAY Thursday November 12, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday November 12, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    277 1 3 China will loan Singapore two baby pandas to mark the 20th anniversary of SinoSingapore relations. 5 Will cable-TV customers, caught in the Star Hub fray over football content, finally get their wish for a single box solution? Cl HINI vaccinations are in L/full swing at polyclinics
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  • 526 1 AGENCIES SINGAPORE There is a need for countries to resist "increasing protectionism" or it will lead to a more dire situation, said Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo yesterday. Protectionism was among the issues discussed by Apec's Foreign Ministers during a breakfast meeting, which
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  • 249 1  -  HOEYEEN-NIE CHINESE PRESIDENT'S VISIT yeennie@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A warm welcome awaited Chinese President Hu Jintao when he arrived at the Istana yesterday evening for a meeting with President S R Nathan. Mr Hu's trip to Singapore lacks off a series of events to mark the 20th
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  • NEWS
    • 192 2 SINGAPORE The Republic is on track to being removed from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development's grey list of financial jurisdictions. It is scheduled to sign its 12th Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement or DTA on Friday with France, according to an invitation from
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    • 53 2 Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew (left) having a laugh with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Istana before a state banquet hosted by President S R Nathan yesterday. Mr Hu is in Sinaaoore on a state visit and for the Aoec Economic Leaders Meeting, which ends
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    • 180 2  -  ANSLEYNG Starbucks shift manager David Lim is so used to having diplomats and officials order coffee at his Suntec outlet this week that he did not bat an eyelid when several beefy men in suits ordered coffee yesterday morning. But 30
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    • 324 2 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE United States' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has stressed the Obama administration's commitment to substantive cooperation with Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) economies. She made the point to the media after a day-long meeting with Apec trade and foreign ministers. Mrs Clinton's
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    • 347 3  -  ASHAPOPATLAL SINO-SINGAPORE FRIENDSHIP SINGAPORE Two China baby pandas will be doing their bit to promote Sino-Singa-pore friendship. To mark the 20th anniversary of the two countries' relations next year, China will be loaning the pandas to Singapore for 10 years, it was announced last night
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    • 223 3 SINGAPORE Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo (picture) met his counterparts from Canada and Papua New Guinea on the sidelines of the Apec ministerial meetings yesterday. Canada's Minister Lawrence Cannon and Mr Yeo discussed issues pertaining to the Group of 20 (G2O) including its future
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    • 220 3  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE With a week of intensive and high-powered meetings taking place at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, the host country is leaving nothing to chance. A medical centre and two medical posts have been set up within Suntec Singapore to
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    • 370 4 CROSS-STRAIT MOU Beijing ready to sign financial pact with Chinese Taipei: Official BEIJING China is ready to sign an agreement on financial cooperation with Chinese Taipei which would clear the way for each side to buy the other's banking assets, an official said yesterday. The two sides have
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    • 242 4  - She speaks five languages ESTHERNG SINGAPORE Ms Veronique Ah Sen speaks French, English, Cantonese, Hakka and Mandarin. Her linguistics skills will come in handy as an information officer at one of the booths at the Apec summit. The 26-year-old permanent resident from Mauritius came to Singapore in 2002 to do
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    • 210 4 SINGAPORE Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives today for an official visit prior to attending the Apec Leaders' Meeting this weekend. This is one of President Yudhoyono's first bilateral visits since his electoral victory and inauguration for a second five year term. Singapore's Foreign Ministry
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    • 548 5  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Who foots the bill for credit card payments the bank or cardholders when a service provider makes a sudden disppearance? The question is being asked after the shutdown of spa operator Wellness Village which was reported
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    • 362 5  -  ESTHER FUNG SATISH CHENEY EPL RIGHTS AND esther@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Football fans in Singapore who do not want to get an additional cableTV set-top box will still have to keep their fingers crossed. Star Hub has declared that if Sing Tel accepts its proposal to
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    • 592 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN LOCAL HINI VACCINATIONS chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At polyclinics and major clinic chains, the vaccinations for the Influenza A virus (H1N1) are in full swing. But walk into a Pandemic Preparedness Clinic (PPC) run by a sole proprietor, and you may find that
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    • 322 6  -  ONGDAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He had been "active" since he was a year old, and even needed to be tied with a rope to be kept in one place. In primary school, his teachers complained that he could not sit still for more than five
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    • 284 6  -  ONGDAILIN SINGAPORE It has been a costly three-year legal wrangle. But four general committee members of the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) told the High Court yesterday that they were "not remorseful" about how their suspension of Ms Kay Swee Pin's
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    • 312 8  -  WANG ENG NG SINGAPORE A group of trainee teachers from the National Institute of Education has been helping foreign workers learn English. They make their way to the workers' dormitory on Pulau Brani two nights a week. And one lesson, it seems, is
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      356 8 NATIONAL MONUMENTS LIST SINGAPORE Another six buildings will be preserved as national monuments. The Church of St Teresa, Command House, Keng Teck Whay temple, the former Raffles College, the former St James Power Station (picture) and Bowyer Block at Singapore General Hospital will be added to the
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    • 306 10 Where $150,000 buys a lot of bricks SINGAPORE What can you buy with $150,000? For the corporate social responsibility (CSR) project "We Are One," that translates to a whole lot of bricks. The initiative to help the needy in the economic downturn received its largest donation to date yesterday from
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    • 736 12  -  ZULOTHMAN PAP MAN IN POTONG PASIR He hopes to win over residents of Opposition ward with "personal touch' zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He may not be a visible fixture in the Potong Pasir district these days, but Mr Sitoh Yih Pin (picture), the People's Action
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    • 82 14 Students at Greenridge Primary School doing their bit for the less fortunate by folding paper hearts, using the Sing Tel advertisement published in Today, to support the telco's Touching Lives Fund. Sing Tel will donate $1 to the fund for every paper heart received, to help
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    • 334 14  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE It is a chronic pain condition that can be caused by work and emotional stress and it is something doctors in Singapore do not understand well. In the first Asian survey on the condition known as fibromyalgia, at least nine
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    • 182 14 SINGAPORE This is how you can live in an eco-friendly way along the waterfront in the north-east of Singapore. Residents can look forward to resortstyle housing, which will set the benchmark for the rest of the developments along the 4.2-km waterway. Architecture firm
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  • WORLD
    • 189 16 AP PUTRAJAYA Malaysia yesterday agreed to award a multi-billion-dollar rail project to a Chinese contractor as part of efforts to bolster business ties with its biggest trading partner, amid a visit by China's President Hujintao. Both countries also signed agreements to cooperate
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    • 234 16 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was given a red-carpet welcome in Malaysia yesterday during a visit aimed at smoothing over the latest spats between the neighbours. The Indonesian President will meet with Prime Minister Najib Razak today with a packed
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    • 431 16 AFP KPK CORRUPTION CASE JAKARTA Indonesia's police chief was on the defensive yesterday after a key state witness told a court that police had forced him to give false statements implicating the country's top graft fighter in murder. National Police Chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri admitted
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 97 18 AFP CAMBODIA Cambodia rejected a request by Thailand to extradite fugitive former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday, deepening a rift over Phnom Penh's appointment of the tycoon as an economic adviser. Thai diplomats handed over papers for the extradition of the billionaire, who was ousted
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      • 114 18 AP MALAYSIA A Malaysian court yesterday temporarily halted the sedition trial of a prominent anti-government blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin, because the authorities could not track him down. Raja Petra went into hiding in April, nearly a year after he was charged with sedition
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      • 118 18 AFP INDIA An Indian politician's son who murdered a fashion model was thrown back in jail on Tuesday after making rowdy appearances at nightclubs in New Delhi while out on parole, police said. Manu Sharma, son of senior Congress party figure Venod Sharma, was
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      • 74 18 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH CHINA The police have discovered underground workshops making counterfeit condoms. State media said that the condoms, packaged under the brand names of leading manufacturers, would provide little protection for users. The discovery in Hunan province led police to warn that they are
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    • 198 20 AFP HONG KONG Macau could run out of drinking water in a matter of weeks as the gambling haven's supply dries up due to a severe drought in southern China, officials said yesterday. Macau's emergency reservoir has supplies to
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    • 344 20 AGENCIES CROSS-BORDER TENSIONS SEOUL Hundreds of South Korean activists torched portraits of North Korean leader Kirn Jong II yesterday in protest against a naval clash near the disputed Yellow Sea border. Some 300 protesters rallied in Seoul, denouncing North Korea for Tuesday's clash, which raised
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    • 309 22 AGENCIES MURDEROF BRITISH TEACHER TOKYO -Japanese police said on Tuesday that they had arrested the only suspect in the murder of 22-year-old British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, more than two years after her death. Ms Hawker, an Englishlanguage teacher, was found dead in a sand-filled bathtub
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    • 107 22 AFP BEIJING Rising temperatures will expose China's Yangtze River basin to extreme weather such as severe floods, drought and storms that could threaten cities such as Shanghai, according to a new report. In the coming decades, global warming will increase glacier melt in the
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 70 24 DPA Thailand Hundreds of Thais protested yesterday outside a tobacco industry congress in Bangkok. "We would like the world to see we are opposed to the tobacco industry using Thailand as a base to promote and expand its markets in Asia," said MsChawala Pawaputanond, a coordinator
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      • 75 24 AFP Indonesia Rabies is on the rise on the resort island of Bali. Twelve people, all Indonesians, have died since the outbreak. The disease has spread to seven districts, 13 subdistricts and 39 villages, said provincial veterinary agency chief Ida Bagus Alit. It first appeared
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    • 273 24 AP TALIBAN DETAINEES TORONTO Taliban detainees in Canadian custody in Afghanistan will receive Influenza A (H1N1) vaccinations ahead of the majority of Canadians in Canada, where there is a shortage of the vaccine a move Canada's Health Minister called outrageous. Task Force Surgeon Commodore Rob
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    • 148 24 AFP WASHINGTON United States military personnel have filed 34 lawsuits against Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), accusing the defence contractor of incinerating and releasing toxic waste into the atmosphere in Iraq and Afghanistan. KBR and its former parent company Halliburton, which at one time
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    • 678 26  -  THOMAS L FRIEDMAN THENEWYORKTIMES POINTOFVIEW NO MATTER how many times you hear them, there are some statistics that just bowl you over. The one that always stuns me is this: Imagine if you took all the cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships in the world, and
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    • 394 28 THE NEWYORKTIMES FORT HOOD SHOOTING FORT HOOD (Texas) United States President Barack Obama took on the role of national eulogist on Tuesday for the first time since assuming office as he led the country in mourning 13 active and retired soldiers gunned down on their home post
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    • 139 28 AP ORLANDO (Florida) Former astronaut Lisa Nowak, who drove from Houston to Orlando to mount a bizarre attack on a romantic rival pleaded guilty on Tuesday to reduced charges and was sentenced to a year on probation. Nowak, 46, who flew on the space shuttle
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 82 30 AP Following investigations, the Iranian authorities have released a Danish student arrested on Nov 4 during an anti-government rally earlier this month in Tehran, the Isna news agency reported on Tuesday. Mr Niels Krogsgaard, 31, was detained during the protest, which was timed to coincide with
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      • 77 30 THE GUARDIAN A United Airlines pilot has been charged with being over the alcohol limit to fly a plane after police at Heathrow, London, arrested him just before takeoff with 124 passengers and 11 crew on board. Police arrested Erwin Vermont Washington, 51, on Monday "on
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    • 331 30 THE NEWYORKTIMES BLACKWATER BRIBES Security firm tried to buy their silence after Baghdad shooting WASHINGTON Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorised about USsl million ($1.38 million) in bribes to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007
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    • 212 30 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said President Barack Obama's administration will not sacrifice Israel's interests even as it works with the Arab world. There are some who believe "as this administration has sought to open
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    • 543 32  -  MICHAEL SLACKMAN THENEWYORKTIMES POINTOFVIEW WITH Israel having rebuffed American calls to freeze settlement-building, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are increasingly viewed in the region as diminished actors. They have been challenged by Iran, opposed by much smaller Arab neighbours, mocked by Syria, and defied by influential
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    • 192 34 .THENEWYORKTIMES CARACAS The country may be an energy colossus but that has not prevented Venezuela from enduring six nationwide blackouts in the last two years. President Hugo Chavez has had to endure a public outcry in recent weeks over power failures that are cutting electricity for hours
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    • 319 34 AGENCIES POWER FAILURE IN BRAZIL RIO DEJANEIRO Brazil emerged yesterday from a widespread power failure that plunged its major cities into darkness for hours, prompting concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. Power went out for more
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    • 200 34 AP BARENDRECHT (Netherlands) The people of the small Dutch town of Barendrecht are not against pumping tonnes of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming. They just wish it wasn't right beneath their houses. "Who wants to live in Barendrecht if one
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    • 545 36  -  DEBORAH SEWARD AP POINTOFVIEW THROUGHOUT the Cold War, Germany was the steadfast trans-At-lantic ally and France the perpetual sceptic. Paris snubbed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), booted allied soldiers off its soil and sought a privileged relationship with Moscow. Then one night the Berlin Wall fell
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    • 124 36 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Britain has become a nation of shoplifters, according to the Centre for Retail Research. In the 12 months to June this year, customers stole almost £5 billion ($11.6 billion) of goods more than in any other European country. The survey of 42,000
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      • 944 42  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH TODAY EXCLUSIVE Bon Joyi #s new album marks a new journey for the band christophertoh@mediacorp.com. sg TO SAY that rock band Bon Jovi is on a hig right now is an understatement. After all, 26 years is a long time to be in any job, let
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    • 89 51 APEC CEO SUMMIT 2009 Singapore plays host to 800 of the world's top business giants, Asia Pacific's most respected leaders and US President Barack Obama. From 12th to 14th November at the APEC CEO Summit they will discuss the future of a post crisis economy. How will it affect you?
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  • 378 53  -  ANNETTE TAN Fair Price's convenient packets of Sar Ho Fan make light work of a delicious dinner food@newstoday.com.sg MANY associate "sar ho fan" with the delicious Can-tonese-style fried noodles that are famous in the hawker centres of Penang. But "sar ho fan" refers to the noodles themselves
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    • QUICK TOURS
      • 129 60 Anyone who has been stuck in Singapore during the festive season will know that last-minute holiday bookings are costly. Enter the Silk Air roadshow, where aspiring travellers can have their pick of regional destinations for the Lunar New Year and more. Prices for all-in, 3D/2N packages start
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    • 1036 62  -  LEONARD THOMAS INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL Singapore coach Avramovic and his team have matured as Robson #sThais arrive ASIAN CUP QUALIFIER, GROUP E Singapore vThailand National Stadium, Saturday 7.30pm sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE I immediately noticed the flag on his chest when I met Radojko Avramovic yesterday.
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    • 759 63  -  SHAMIR OSMAN INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL Shaiful s come a long way since knocking the vno football' signs at void decks ASIAN CUP QUALIFIER, GROUP E Singapore vThailand National Stadium, Saturday 7.30pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As a rebellious teenager, Shaiful Esah used to spend hours kicking footballs at "No football" signs
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    • 502 65 AGENCIES EUROPEAN FOOTBALL National team goalkeeper's suicide stuns the country HANNOVER Germany was in shock yesterday after Hannover 96's national team goalkeeper Robert Enke committed suicide after a long battle with depression. He was 32 years old. Hundreds of fans queued at the club's AWD
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    • 164 65 &FP MADRID Real Madrid crashed out of the Spanish Cup on Tuesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), after their 1 -0 victory at the Bernabeu over Alcorcon was no enough to overturn the third division club's 4-0 win in the first leg. The loss
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    • 103 63 SPORTS ON RADIO SPORTSZONE GOES 'LIVE' FROM AMARA HOTEL Radojko Avramovic's Lions and Bryan Robson'sThais are based at Amara Hotel. Fans can tune in to g3BLIVE's Sports Zone on Saturday from nam to 12pm as The Philmeister and MediaCorp's Shamir Osman bring the atmosphere home from the Amara in a
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    • 446 71  -  CHEOWXINYI ECONOMY Apec economies urged to focus on growth strategies cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A new index launched by the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), the non-governmental observer of Apec, has placed Singapore at the top spot as Apec's most integrated economy. In fact, the Index of Economic Integration,
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    • 258 72  -  RYAN HUANG ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Construction works have begun on a multi-utilities plant in Jurong. The $2 billion dollar facility, called the Tembusu Multi-Utilities Complex on Jurong Island, will generate steam, chilled water, electricity and treat industrial waste. The move is in line with the
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      • 104 72 India's second-largest lender, ICICI Bank, has been appointed a clearing and settlement bank for the Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX). Under an agreement, ICICI will provide clearing and settlement processing services to facilitate settlement of transactions executed on SMX. The bank will also provide a platform to the
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      • 125 72 Mainboard-listed commodities player Noble Group said that its third quarter net profit dropped 11 per cent on-year to U*****.1 million ($lB3 million). The fall came as revenue dropped 11 per cent to US$B.36 billion. Excluding one-off gains, the firm said the reported third quarter net
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    • 352 73  -  JONATHAN PEERIS SINGAPORE Business leaders at the Global Entrepolis Summit held here yesterday urged fellow businessmen to explore Indochina if they are thinking of expanding into emerging markets. This is because countries such as Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, which is part of the Indochina
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    • 138 73  -  IRENECHAN SINGAPORE Real estate investment trusts (Reits) will be required to hold annual general meetings, or AGMs, once every calendar year with effect from next year. This is a new requirement introduced by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the revised Property Funds
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      • 69 74 DBS Vickers downgrades from Buy, cuts target price to $4.00 on concerns media group may have overpaid for mall in Singapore. Believes SPH has been overly optimistic in its bid that is far above next highest bidder. Notes SPH paying a higher implied value vis-a-vis existing suburban
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      • 56 74 $14.08 I Neutral OSK upgrades from Sell following Q2 '10 results. Raises target price to $13.13 from $11.98 on new valuation to reflect pick up in market risk appetite towards stock, thanks to market liquidity. Notes airline managed to halve losses onquarter in Q2, but is concerned that down-trading
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      • 89 74 $2.04 I Neutral CIMB upgrades call, raises target price to $2.15 from $1.76 to assume higher earnings for next two years based on absence of English Premier League costs. Also cites less bearish outlook over loss of EPL rights, attractive yield of 10 per cent and strong free cash
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    • 375 74  -  TAN HUI LENG FINANCIAL RECOVERY World Bank president Robert Zoellick warns of asset bubbles huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The rapid recovery in Asian economies from the financial crisis may have turned up the heat in certain sectors such as equities and properties, and this could lead to the formation
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    • 321 74  -  TAN HUI LENG There is a need for greater private sector participation in Asian infrastructural investments, said Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday. Currently, private investment accounts for only about 20 per cent of infrastructural investments. According to the Asian Development Bank,
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