Today, 8 December 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    21 1 TODAY Tuesday December 8, 2009 www.todayonline.com i we set you thinking TODAY Tuesday December 8, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      Lock icon LAHORE UP IN FLAMES
      87 1 THE NEWYORKTIMES Militants set off two bombs last night in one of the busiest markets of Lahore j in Pakistan, then sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing at least 30 and wounding more than 100 others. The attack struck at a corner of the Moon Market
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      Lock icon American charged for role in Mumbai attacks
      866 1 THE NEWYORKTIMES AFTERNOON LATEST WASHINGTON The Chicago man with roots in Pakistan who was arrested two months ago for planning to attack a Danish newspaper now faces the much more serious charge that he was deeply involved in planning the 2008 massacre in
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      Employer optimism: Real or inflated?
      495 1  -  TEOXUANWEI, SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL AND xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The numbers paint a rosy picture: Just over one in four employers here are looking to hire in the first quarter next year, according to a survey released yesterday by recruitment firm Manpower Inc. The optimism seems to infect
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      Copenhagen scientists, negotiators slam 'Climategate'
      233 2 COPENHAGEN Negotiators and top scientists yesterday slammed the theft of emails from experts at a British university as a bid to discredit overwhelming opinion about man-made global warming. At ceremonies opening the United Nations climate talks, the head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
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      Lock icon The best last chance
      540 2 UN CLIMATE CONFERENCE! COPENHAGEN The largest and most important United Nations climate change conference in history opened yesterday, with organisers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best last chance fora deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming. The conference, a
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    • S'PORE ROUNDUP
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        VICTORIA STREET WHOLESALE CENTRE TO MOVE BY 2012
        157 4 The Victoria Street Wholesale Centre will relocate by 2012, and its merchant association hopes the move will help revamp the image of the market known for its dry food stalls. Construction of the new one-stop wholesale centre will start in April and
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        SIGNIFICANT HIKE IN FIRE HAZARD WARNINGS: SCDF
        74 4 In the first half of the year, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) served 1,700 fire hazard warnings, an 80 per cent jump from the same period a year ago. Going in to the festive season, the SCDF will step up checks to
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      Doing what's right even more important now: DPM Wong
      289 4  -  LOHCHEE KONG SINGAPORE The mantra of "doing what is right, not what is popular" was vindicated during the economic crisis, as governments rejected calls for costly policies with arguable benefits such as a GST cut, in Singapore's case while companies resisted
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      Phone fight: It's on
      727 6  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN IPHONE IN SINGAPORE hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From tomorrow, iPhone fans will have a smorgasbord of pricing plans to choose from, when Star Hub and Ml launch sales of the iconic Apple smartphone. Within hours of each other, both released details of their plans yesterday though
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      MediaCorp to restore full pay
      124 8 MediaCorp yesterday said it would phase out its cost-cutting measures and restore full pay for its staff due to improving business conditions. For the first quarter next year, MediaCorp staff will not need to work on alternate short weeks under the MediaCorp Day-Off (MDO) scheme.
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      A festive lifeline for charities?
      440 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT SPIRITOFGIVING Funds shortfall this year sees them banking on donors' Christmas spirit weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE This time last year, the re-cession-hit festive season held gloom for charities as donations dropped. This year, charities hope the year-end season, on the back of an economic recovery, will
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      Sharity Gift Box: 85 per cent more wishes to go
      226 8  -  DYLAN LOH SINGAPORE A week since donations to the Boys' Brigade Sharity Gift Box were opened to the public, 85 per cent of beneficiaries' wishes still remain to be fulfilled. With two weeks left to its Dec 21 deadline, project
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    • Article
      I'll get you a prostitute for $25: Teen told man
      181 10  -  ONG DAI LIN SINGAPORE A 17-year-old told an unemployed man that he would find him a prostitute for $25. After being paid, however, Raguvaren Bala told the man that the prostitute had refused to provide any service. Mr Sng Meng
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      They're greener than you think
      385 10  -  NEOCHAICHIN YOUTH SURVEY Nine in 10 teens in Habbo #s survey are concerned about the environment chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE If the findings of the latest survey by a teenagecentric company are an indication, young Singaporeans are keeping abreast of developments at the ongoing Copenhagen climate change
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      Lock icon FROM THE SURVEY...
      50 10 :HABBOSINGAPORE How teens help to save the Earth Recycle 42% Save water 29% Walk instead of being driven around 13% Plant trees 10% Issues they are most concerned about Ozone layer reduction 21% Air pollution 13% Climate change 13% Animal extinction 11% Floods 9% Deforestation 6% SOURCE:!
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    • Article, Illustration
      CHARITY CASH INJECTION BY EUYAN SANG
      90 12  -  EU VAN SANG It was a (double) shot in the arm for three charities Bethany Methodist Nursing Home, High Point Community Services Association, and Life! Community Development Ltd as their representatives received a cheque for $448,888.88 from Eu Van Sang's group CEO Richard Eu
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      SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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      NEW TOP APPOINTMENTS AT NUS
      169 12 Besides a new Vice-Provost, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is getting two new female deans including the first woman to head its dentistry faculty in its 80-year history. From Jan 1, Associate Professor Grace Ong (picture, left) will become the new dean of dentistry.
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      A SHORTER WAIT FOR CABS AT AIRPORT
      151 12 With electronic signboards to nowtell cabbies about flight arrivals and the number of taxis in the queue at each terminal, Changi Airport visitors should have a shorter wait for cabs. The new Taxi Management System is to help cabbies gauge demand at the
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  • WORLD
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      Clansmen ready to fight
      299 14 PHILIPPINES MASSACRE SHARIFF AGUAK The Philippine police said yesterday that militiamen loyal to the Ampatuan clan attacked security forces after martial law was imposed in a southern province following a massacre. More than 3,000 armed followers of the powerful Muslim clan whose leaders are suspects in
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    • Article
      Anti-SBY plot prompts meeting
      289 14 JAKARTA —Indonesia's top brass met yesterday to discuss a supposed threat to the country after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned that unnamed forces were planning to use an anti-graft rally to topple him. The heads of the armed forces, the police and the intelligence agency were
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      EYE ON ASIA
      248 16 Malaysia WEAKWALLCAUSEOFMALLACCIDENT A Kota Bahru mall accident involving a car which plunged from the third storey car park onto an escalator in the concourse, killing two people, has been blamed on a weak retaining wall. Sunday's incident would not have occurred if the brick wall had been
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      US, S Korea hold meeting
      238 16 US-NORTH KOREA TALKS SEOUL President Baracl Obama's special envoy nek last-minute discussions on hi: upcoming trip to North Korea huddling yesterday with Soutl Korean officials over how besi to bring Pyongyang back tc international nuclear talks, Seoul official said. Mr Stephen Bosworth': three-day visit to
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      Lock icon Lethal candidate
      340 18 AFP ELECTIONVIOLENCE Drunk loser in Taiwan vote shoots, injures rival's sister TAIPEI A defeated candidate in Taiwan's local elections turned up drunk and armed with a handgun at his opponent's camp before shooting and injuring his rival's sister, police said yesterday. Mr Chen Chen-hui, 56, who lost his
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      Lock icon Deployment 'can be for long term'
      394 21 AGENCIES USTROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's administration sent a forceful public message on Sunday that American military forces could remain in Afghanistan for a long time, seeking to blunt criticism that Mr Obama had sent the wrong signal in his war-strategy speech
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      Lock icon Approval at last for Iraqi polls
      205 21 AGENCIES BAGHDAD Iraq's electoral authorities have begun preparations for parliamentary polls early next year, after Members of Parliament finally approved a law governing the vote just before a midnight deadline. The vote, during an emergency session, followed marathon talks by political leaders to break
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      Lock icon Chaos erupts
      291 23 AFP IRANIAN STUDENT PROTESTS TEHRAN Iranian police firing tear gas clashed with protesters in central Tehran yesterday as opposition supporters used the occasion of the annual Students Day to stage fresh anti-govern-ment demonstrations. Witnesses said the clashes took place at several universities and in prominent districts of the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Russia holds day of mourning for nightclub blaze dead
      195 23 AFP PERM Flags flew at half-mast yesterday as Russia held a day of mourning to commemorate the victims of a nightclub blaze that killed 112 people, one of the country's worst recent tragedies. Major TV channels said they would suspend entertainment
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    • Article
      Lock icon Pakistan Supreme Court considers graft amnesty
      164 23 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday began hearing arguments to invalidate a controversial corruption amnesty, which could open the door for cases to be brought against the President and key aides. The so-called National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was passed in October 2007 by then-military
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    • Article
      Lock icon World's papers unite to urge climate change action
      186 24 AFP LONDON Newspapers in 45 countries will urge world leaders to take decisive action at the Copenhagen climate change talks, warning failure will bring calamity, the London-based Guardian said on Sunday. Fifty-six newspapers, including he Monde in France, the Miami Herald in
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      Lock icon Silver lining for vineyards
      433 24 AFP CLIMATE CHANGE Winegrowers in England say global warming suits them LONDON As world leaders grapple with how to tackle climate change in Copenhagen, England's winegrowers are embarrassed to admit that global warming is suiting them rather well. This year's crop has been one of the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Brown takes on public sector
      334 25  -  Gordon Brown AGENCIES CUTTING SALARIES LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has admitted there is a "culture of excess" in the public sector and promised to curb the salaries paid to civil servants, council leaders and BBC executives. The Prime Minister said yesterday that any
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    • Article
      Lock icon Palin on the campaign trail?
      188 25 AP SIOUX CITY Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palm greeted hundreds of admirers in Sioux City on Sunday, fuelling speculation she may run for president in 2012. lowa's caucuses traditionally kick off the presidential nominating season, and Republican strategists saw the stop in Mrs Palm's
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      Lock icon FIERY PROTESTS CONTINUE
      105 25 AP Riot police in Greece fired tear gas canisters at youths yesterday during a second day of protests to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, whose death sparked widespread riots. Some of the 3,000 demonstrators, most of them high school students,
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      264 23 Everybody Needs A Holiday Even You. a well-deserved break from a maddening work schedule. Or a quiet, romantic time for two. Who needs an excuse to enjoy THE FINER THINGS IN LIFE? LUXURIATE AT THE FuLLERTON HOTEL FOR A TRUE FEAST FOR THE SENSES. Gourmet Treasures Time For Two A
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      Singapore's emission levels 'disturbing'
      110 26  -  John Lucas Letter from THERE has been a lot of talk about going green, and the only real outcome has been more finger pointing by almost every country and even more confusion. A chart listing carbon emissions per capita (www.guardian. co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/ sep/02/carbon-emissions-per-per-son-capita) shows that Singapore has
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      WORLD CO2 EMISSIONS
      95 26 .Million metric tonnes of CO2) Country Emissions °/o per capita change* 1 Gibraltar 160.22 38% 2 Virgin Islands 118.3 5l0/° 3 Qatar 61.19 75% 4 Netherlands 49.13 -4% Antilles 5 Trinidad and 44.32 95% Tobago 6 Bahrain 38.44 69% 7 UAE 35-05 44% 8 Singapore 31-41 43%
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      HR managers can do more
      175 26  -  Ginny Leow-Guerville NATURE CONSERVATION Letter from I HAVE learnt that the trees along the canal on Bukit Timah Road, which I was fighting to protect, will be cut down to make way for a new MRT line. I find that a top-down approach to conservation
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      250 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY SPENDING ON CHILDREN... SAYING NO! It's not easy saying "no" to our children in a society that seems to say "yes" to everything. Perhaps one of the most difficult problems for today's parents to face is learning not to give our children
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      A boon for terrorists?
      210 28  -  Brandon Lee GOOGLE STREET VIEW Letter from IF I were a terrorist, Google Street View would be a godsend. With a click of the mouse, I can now view all angles of the roads, buildings and structures in Singapore. I can even zoom in fora close-up
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      Time needed for special request
      140 28  -  Gregory Gerald Danker Letter from Vice-president, Marketing and communications, EZ-Link Pte Ltd WE REFER to the letter "The weakest link?" by Ms Vivienne Lim(Decl). We would like to clarify that Ms Lim's colleague had initially enquired if a single-day unlimited public transport travel pass could
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      SHORT TAKES
      122 28 POSTED ON WWW.TODAYONLINE.COM LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT IS 'PREJUDICIAL' Letter from 'Robert' (The) suggestion by the reader requiring all foreign workers to take an English language proficiency test is rather prejudicial. It implies that it is only foreigners who are unable to speak English, while the reality is there are
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  • plus MOVIES
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      Lock icon The future of film
      1073 30 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH 12 YEARS AFTER TITANIC James Cameron had to wait 14 years to make the sci-fi film Avatar— and he #s got Gollum to thank for it LONG before James Cameron shot a frame of Titanic he was working on a movie so ambitious and
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      Lock icon Kennedy Centre Honours for Springsteen, De Niro, others
      238 34 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH VETERAN rocker Bruce Springsteen, acclaimed actor Robert De Niro and comic genius Mcl Brooks have been awarded this year's Kennedy Centre Honours at a starstudded ceremony in Washington. The honours recognise individuals who have helped define American culture through the
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      PLUS IN ADDITION
      85 34 STUDIO GHIBLI FESTIVAL Fans of anime movies like Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle will want to head to the inaugural Studio Ghibli Film Festival, which runs from Dec 17 to 23 at the Picturehouse. You can catch all the classics either directed by Japanese anime hero
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      Lock icon Meghan, Cheyne win the Race
      360 36 AP REALITY SHOW COOL thinking at the craps table won a San Diego couple USsl million ($1.36 million) on the reality television show The Amazing Race. Meghan Rickey and her boyfriend, Cheyne Whitney (picture), prevailed in the 15th edition of the Emmy Award-win-ning game show,
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      795 38  -  EVELINE GAN URINARY INCONTINENCE It doesn't only affect the elderly or very young eveline@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE most people kick start their day with a tummy-warming breakfast, Jia Hao's (not his real name) daily morning ritual involved laundering the bed sheets. That was because he used to
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      218 40 HEALTH LISTINGS INSIDE A DEPRESSED MIND Learn to recognise the signs and symptoms of elder depression and why seeking help early is important. This roving exhibition also features free daily talks (until Thursday) on various mental health topics. For details, visit www.ttsh.com.sg or www.healthymind.sg. Date: Until Dec 18 Time: Ipm
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      805 41 oclf riontiot a public education project supported by the rTT 1 Systema doMIICUGIIIIM Singapore Dental Health Foundation (www.dentalhealth.org.sg) and Lion Corporation Ki'JSia "on ml suffer from gum problems, tooth kVII^^IV VlH^^^ft WffcV Habitual use of antiseptic mouthwashes decay and, sometimes, bad breath |l l^%| I I^%IS that contain very high
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      588 43  -  TANYO-HINN 2011 Games could see new format for men's waterpolo, as Singapore emerge champs again yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTIANE When Singapore defend their men's waterpolo crown at the 2011 SEA Games, it could be in an under-23 format. Yesterday, the Republic clinched its
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      352 44 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian football officials yesterday defended their team after a scuffle at the 25th SEA Games which saw angry players chase the referee, who fled the pitch under police escort. The Malaysian under-23 players let loose after suffering a 3-1 loss
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      572 44  -  SHAMIR OSMAN Under- 23 footballers now one point away from the semi-finals FOOTBALL, GROUP B Singapore 2 Myanmar 1 shamir@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTAINE After the hard-fought win over Myanmar yesterday, goalkeeper Hyrulnizam Juma'at was a bit of a star. Five Laotian girls queued up to pose for
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      471 45  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Singapore's crack table tennis squad hits the competition tables today linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg VIENTIANE Singapore's 10-strong table tennis squad have been hard at work at the Laos National University Convention Hall since they arrived in Vientiane last Friday. The outfit became the first team in history
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      492 45 SINGAPORE Traditionally, their strengths lie in their speed and agility. But yesterday, the Singapore netball team also showed off their grit, when they stopped an aggressive Malaysia dead in their tracks to post a 39-33 win in the Nations Cup at
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        102 46 AFP Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid have swept the list of five nominees for the 2009 Fifa World Player of the Year award. Barcelona are represented by Spanish midfielders Andres Iniesta and Xavi along with Argentine playmaker Lionel Messi, the strong favourite for the award
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        105 46 AFP Raymond Domenech was in line to receive €826,222 euros ($1.7 million) in bonuses as a result of France's successful World Cup qualifying campaign, according to a report to be published in Le Monde today. The magazine France Football claimed on Nov 20 that Domenech would receive
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        118 46 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH Wayne Rooney has revealed he only found out about England's World Cup opponents five hours after the draw because he had fallen asleep on his hotel bed. The Manchester United striker has been suffering sleepless nights since the birth of his first child, Kai. And
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      267 46 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST Blows exchanged at Stoke —over their Christmas Party LONDON -James Beattie (picture) is believed to be considering his future at Stoke City after an alleged dressing-room confrontation with his manager, Tony Pulis. The club masseur allegedly had to intervene in
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      274 46 AFP COPENHAGEN The 2010 football World Cup in South Africa will pollute the planet nine times more than the 2006 edition in Germany because of teams' and fans' long flights, officials said yesterday. The total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caused by South Africa's World Cup
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      428 47 THEGUARDIAN AFTERNOON LATEST Someone in the Drogba mould would be nice, says Arsenal captain LONDON Cesc Fabregas (picture) has told Arsene Wenger that Arsenal require "a different kind of option" up front as the squad lacks variation in attack. Wenger has promised to scour the
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      198 47 AGENCIES LONDON The protracted negotiations to secure the future of the British Grand Prix ended in success yesterday when the British Racing Drivers' Club secured a 17-year deal to stage the race at Silverstone, the former airfield which has been used
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      709 48  -  SHERMAINEWONG CLUB ROMANCE New cheeky campaign targets couples planning to conceive shermainewong@niediacorp.com.sg COUPLES planning to have children next year may want to consider heading to a Club Mcd resort to conceive. Besides the obvious fact that its resorts there are 80 in
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      289 49 SHERMAINEWONG THE results of what has been billed Asia-Pacific's first research project revealing the most discussed technology brands online are out. From July to September this year, public relations firm Edelman partnered online intelligence services company Brandtology to work on the Digital Brand Index (DBI)
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      164 50 THE NEWYORKTIMES WASHINGTON The United States Treasury Department expects to recover all but US$42 billion ($54.4 billion) of the US$37O billion it has lent to ailing companies since the financial crisis began last year, with the portion lent to banks actually showing a small profit. The new
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      180 50 AGENCIES DUBAI Dubai World, the indebted conglomerate at the heart of the sheikdom's credit problems, may sell off assets it acquired during a multi-year building and buying spree to raise cash, a senior government official said yesterday. Dubai Finance Department directorgeneral Abdul Rahman Al-Saleh did
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      363 50 GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS Asian sovereign wealth funds are refocusing their energies after some blunders HONG KONG Burnt by the global financial crisis, Asia's sovereign wealth funds appear to be taking some lessons from bad investments to heart and reshaping their strategies. They are focusing on markets where they
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      191 51 BLOOMBERG LOCAL-CURRENCY BONDS 20-year and 30-year notes are part of its medium-term note programme SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government-owned investment company, completed a sale of local-curren-cy bonds maturing in 2029 and 2039 that were intended to set a price benchmark for long-dated notes. The $300
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      123 51 SINGAPORE The Central Bank of Bahrain and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have signed an agreement that provides a formal basis for supervisory cooperation and mutual support. It paves the way for sharing of information between the two central banks to strengthen the
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      230 51 JONATHAN PEERIS SINGAPORE Marina Bay Sands announced yesterday that it has signed some 30 deals for premier events at its new Expo and Convention Centre. These are expected to draw more than 150,000 people to the integrated resort when it opens next year.
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      123 51 SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed Soilbuild Group has been appointed by Kolette, a subsidiary of CSC Holdings, to develop and market a $51.7 million industrial space project in Tuas. The development will consist of 70 single, double and three-storey terrace factory units, ranging from 3,000 to 6,000
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      139 51 SINGAPORE Singapore-based real estate investment house Pacific Star announced the successful completion of its refinancing programme for Capital Square yesterday. The $549 million facility included the issuance of $320 million senior notes the largest Singapore dollar corporate bond issue so far this year. The firm said
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          76 52 Barely budge US stocks closed narrowly mixed after comments by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke signalled extra-low interest rates would be held for some time amid a feeble economic recovery. After opening lower, the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up a scant 1.21 points (0.01 per cent) to
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          83 52 Slide below US$74 World oil prices sank as traders worried about oversupply in the US and weak demand among developed countries as the global economy claws out of recession. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for January delivery, dropped US$l.54 to U5573.93 a barrel. The New York
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          73 52 Dip on profit-taking European stock markets faded, dragged down by profit-taking. London's FTSE 100 index fell 0.22 per cent to 5,310.66 points, Paris' CAC 40 shed 0.17 percent to reach 3,840.05 and the Frankfurt Dax lost 0.57 per cent to finish at 5,784.75. Elsewhere there were losses of
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        570 52 BLOOMBERG I AFTERNOON LATEST Labour, credit fears could hamper recovery: Bernanke WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chairman Ben S Bernanke (picture) said the United States economy faces "formidable headwinds", including a weak labour market and tight credit that are likely to produce a "moderate" pace of expansion. Mr Bernanke,
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        180 52 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Mr Kenneth Feinberg, the United States' paymaster for rescued companies, will exempt some executives at American International Group (AIG) from a US$5OO,OOO ($695,000) salary cap after at least five employees threatened to quit because of the limits, people familiar with the
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        86 52 NYT WASHINGTON President Barack Obama said yesterday that he would consider using money from the government's bank bailout package to reduce the deficit and to create jobs. He said that the government's US$7OO-billion Troubled Asset Relief Programme (Tarp) had cost the Treasury less than expected,
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