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  • 43 1 TODAY MICA A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 Thursday July 01, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Thursday July 1, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking JULY 1, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF
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  • 352 2  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH hetty@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Land Transport Authority is calling for a tender for proposals that can offer an alternative to the current Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry system. Revealing this at the World Urban Transport Leaders Summit, Transport Minister Raymond Lim says one
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  • 522 2  -  From July 1 to Sept 30, electricity will cost 2.42% more TEO XUANWEI AND S MUSTAFA xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE During the day, her four-room flat is empty as Mdm Lim P G, her husband and children are out at work. She only flicks the switches on at
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  • NEWS
    • 347 5  -  ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Property developer Far East Organization yesterday introduced its luxury brand Inessence, which is made up of exclusive condominiums in prime locations in the Orchard Road area. However, they don’t come cheap: Prices for a residence at Skyline@Orchard Boulevard at Angullia Park
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    • 274 5 SINGAPORE Three Build-To-Order (BTO) projects in Punggol and Sengkang were launched yesterday the largest number of such projects offered by the HDB in a single launch so far. Out of the nearly 2,700 flats to be built, about 1,600 will be
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    • 263 5 SINGAPORE The national water agency, PUB, is calling for an open tender for the second and largest desalination plant to be built at Tuas. To be completed by 2013, the plant will add close to 320,000 cubic metres of desalinated water a day
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    • 418 6  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was “healthy tension” with Malaysia that spurred Singapore to seek water self-suffi-ciency, and nations are better off if they are able to stand on their own when it comes to water needs, said national water agency PUB chairman
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    • 156 6 SINGAPORE Five water companies will receive about $1 million worth of research funds each to carry out research and development on improving their product offerings to the global water industry. This was announced by the Environment and Water Industry Programme Office yesterday. Technology
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    • 239 6 HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE The Republic is now one step closer to going electric, with the creation of an Electric Vehicle (EV) Taskforce, said Transport Minister Raymond Lim yesterday. The taskforce, co-chaired by the Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Land Transport
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    • 89 6 The Formula One levy on hotel room revenues for this year’s race remains at four nights, the SingaporeTourism Board announced yesterday. The levy 30 per cent for trackside hotels and 20 per cent for other hotels will be in effect from
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    • 424 7  -  Clerical, sales and service workers paid less: MOM report S MUSTAFA mustafa@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Managers took home the highest median monthly gross salaries $6,300 as of end June last year. After them, came the professionals ($4,375) and associate professionals and technicians ($2,940), according to the
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    • 212 7 S MUSTAFA SINGAPORE The year 2009 saw a large majority of employees in Singapore working in establishments that had adopted some form of flexible wage system. Due to the difficult economic conditions, loss-making and less profitable establishments cut wages, while more profitable outfits
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    • 350 9  -  TV host refutes cabby's taxi rage' allegations ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Television host Quan Yifeng (picture), who is embroiled in a “taxi rage” incident, has undergone a medical checkup on the advice of her lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan. Quan, 36, who was abroad, returned to
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    • 79 9 A teenager has pleaded guilty to three counts of molestation with one of the victims an 11-year-old girl. The court heard that Muhammad Sadiq Syed Kadir, 18, had also molested a 19-year-old girl in a lift in Block 19, Chai Chee Road, at around 11.45pm on
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    • 111 9 NG JING YNG A man who caused the death of a transvestite has been jailed seven years and ordered to be given eight strokes of the cane for culpable homicide. Astro Jakaria, a Malaysian, is the first to be caned afterthe Penal Code was amended
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    • 41 9 A 51-year-old man, Tan Mui Ping, was yesterday charged with the murder of 45-year-old Lim Chin Leong at Block 19, Marsiling Lane, on the night of June 27. If convicted, he will face the death sentence.
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    • 82 9 Police have arrested eight Vietnamese nationals believed to be part of a shop lifting syndicate responsible for a series of cases in various shopping centres in Singapore. The four men and four women were caught on Tuesday after the police mounted an operation in the Orchard
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    • 70 9 A former employee of a real estate company has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for withdrawing more than half a million dollars from the bank accounts of a condominium management committee. Chew Swee Siong, 31, who has a gambling habit, committed the offences
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    • 69 9 A Singapore Permanent Resident has been sentenced to 12 months in jail for hurting his former wife with a chopper. Shaiful Islam Sobuj, 38, a Bangladeshi, used it to slash her on the legs on Feb 26 this year in Block 10, Marsiling Drive. The
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    • 403 11  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From providing medical services and reconstructing buildings, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will be moving into new territory. From September, they will train the army of another country to use artillery weapons. Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo
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    • 295 11 LEONG WEE KEAT SINGAPORE With the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) relying less on the total number of troops and becoming an increasingly modernised force, could the duration of National Service (NS) be further reduced? No, said Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister
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    • 94 11 The National Day Parade goodie bags, or ‘Fun Totes’, will come in seven designs this year. Several local designers played a hand in creating the looks for this year’s bags. They will contain the usual items like snacks, noise makers and the National Flag. Most of the items will be
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  • VOICES
    • 317 13  -  An HDB flat should be a home, not a source of income Letter from Vincent Kang WORKING as a real estate agent has provided me with an insight into the red-hot Housing and Development Board resale market. Resale HDB prices have hit some amazing highs some
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    • 112 13  -  Letter from S Satish Appoo, Director, Environmental Health Department, National Environment Agency WE REFER to the letter “Dirty after dark, says expat couple” (June 21). The Clarke Quay area is maintained by the landlord who has put in place a 24-hour cleaning regime. This
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    • 173 17  -  BY DR BILL MAIER MOVING PAST POOR SELF-IMAGE Are you constantly unhappy with the way you look? Maybe you need a change and I’m not talking about a makeover. Self-image is a strange thing. Many people you would consider handsome or pretty actually struggle to accept
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    • 348 17  -  Incidents suggest complacency may have set in Letter from James Ang THREE recent incidents the fatal accident involving a lorry ferrying workers on the expressway, the flash flood at Orchard Road and the security lapse at the SMRT depot have left me wondering if complacency
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    • 133 17  -  Letter from Tan Chai Ying Press Liaison Officer Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau I REFER to the report “CPIB investigation took too long, so (June 30). I would like to point out that investigations into the case started in March 2006 and was completed in December 2007. It
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    • 43 17 In our report, “No plans for consolidation” (June 29), we said that “The Monetary Authority of Singapore says it has no plans for bank consolidation in Singapore”. This is incorrect as the MAS did not say that. We apologise for the error.
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    • 32 13 VOICES ON RADIO Isthere an increasing problem of noise pollution in residential neighbourhoods? Tune in to TalkBack on 938Live from 8.15am to 8.45am tomorrow. Call us at 6691 1938 and share your
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    • 52 18 Litter cigarette butts and you could end up paying a $300 fine. So let's make it our responsibility to bin all litter and keep Singapore clean. For more information, please call the NEA hotline at 1800-2255 632. DO THE RIGHT EHIN(j LET'S BIN IT/ National Environment Agency Our Environment Sustain
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 790 19  -  Watch for the looming spectre of rising wages as China's labour market moves towards full employment ANDY XIE The writer is an independent economist based in Shanghai and was formerly Morgan Stanley’s chief economist for the Asia-Pacific region. The opinions expressed are his own.
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    • 1046 21  -  But plan on reckoning with an economic hangover if things don't cool down soon FAN GANG The writer is Professor of Economics at Beijing University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of China’s National Economic Research Institute, Secretary-General of the China Reform Foundation,
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    • 1380 23  -  ANALYSIS TOM LEONARD The writer is the New York correspondent at The Daily Telegraph. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH IN NEWYORK They are said to have communicated with invisible ink and code-worded meetings, passing money inside folded newspapers or while passing on subway staircases. Once
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    • 390 24  -  ANALYSIS ANDREWOSBORN The writer is the Moscow correspondent at The Daily Telegraph. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH IN MOSCOW Russia prides itself on its spying prowess like few other nations on earth. Its Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is famously a former KGB spy and many serving government ministers
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    • 329 23 HOW PROFESSIONAL TRADERS TRADE AND WHAT THEY KNOW AND WHY AMATEUR TRADERS ALWAYS GET BEATEN As a frustrated trader, I suffered from inconsistent results for 2 years. For every few winning trades, I would suffer one large losing trade that always wiped out my accumulated profits. Attending Conrad's Wealth Academy
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  • WORLD
    • 177 25 AGENCIES Russia and the United States sought yesterday to cool a heated scandal sparked by the arrest of 11 suspected Kremlin spies. The White House declined to explicitly condemn Russia after the arrests, while Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin refrained from any sabre-rattling
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    • 336 25 Aquino takes power, pledges to fight poverty, end corruption AGENCIES MANILA Mr Benigno Aquino (picture) took over as President of the Philippines yesterday with a vow to lift his nation out of poverty and wipe out crippling corruption that he said thrived under his predecessor. In
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    • 367 25 Longest-running CNN show ends after 25 years AP NEW YORK United States talkshow host Larry King, who interviewed statesmen and stars from a prime-time perch at CNN for 25 years, said on Tuesday that he will step down
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    • 205 26 AGENCIES KABUL Gunmen set off a car bomb and fired rocket propelled grenades at one of the biggest Nato bases in Afghanistan yesterday in a brazen daylight attack claimed by the Taliban. Eight insurgents died and two service personnel were injured
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    • 219 26 AFP SYDNEY Talks on ending a row over a mining tax that helped trigger Australia’s dramatic change of leadership were constructive, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said yesterday, amid reports of a watershed compromise. She made no mention of a watered-down proposal reported by
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    • 328 26 AFP JAKARTA An Indonesian lawmaker yesterday accused the security forces of secretly supporting militant vigilantes as a kind of paramilitary force to intimidate opponents and commercial rivals. Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle lawmaker Eva Kusuma Sundari said extremist vigilantes known for violent attacks
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    • 173 31 AFP Amid escalating protests in Indian Kashmir, Bollywood is set to step into highly sensitive territory with a promise to tell the story of violence in the region “as never seen before” on the big screen. Lamhaa (The Moment), which opens in
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    • 357 31 AFP SRINAGAR Thousands of Indian troops put new areas of Kashmir under curfew yesterday, after three teenagers were shot dead by security forces, sparking arson and rioting. Six people have been killed in the last four days and 11 in less than
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    • 184 31 THE GUARDIAN Police in Kashmir are investigating a series of incidents in which Indian soldiers are accused of killing civilians who they subsequently claimed were Islamic militants. In one case, exposed this month, three labourers were allegedly murdered in an attempt to boost
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    • 115 33 AP ParkYong Ha (picture), 33, a popular South Korean actor and singer, killed himself yesterday in distress over career pressures while caring for his terminally ill father, police said. He is believed to have “impulsively’’ hanged himself while intoxicated. South Korea has the highest
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    • 111 33 Australia’s biggest cities shivered yesterday through an Antarctic cold front which has brought some of the lowest temperatures in years. Sydney awoke to rare frost and temperatures of 4.3 degrees Celsius, its coldest June morning since 1983. Capital city Canberra was carpeted in frost while Ballarat
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    • 117 33 AP A 90-year-old Australian was arrested and charged with raping four young sisters whom he allegedly lured to his home in Thailand with imported chocolates and English lessons, police said yesterday. One girl was five when the alleged abuse began. Karl Joseph
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    • 106 33 AFP Tens of thousands in Hong Kong are expected to join an annual pro-democracy march today amid tension over the pace of political reform. Some politicians fear it will be a “chaotic” protest with campaigners directing their anger not only at the government, but
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    • 156 35 THE NEW YORK TIMES BERLIN Airports in Germany have come up with an unusual approach to monitoring air quality. The Dusseldorf International Airport and seven other airports are using bees as “bio-detectives”, their honey regularly tested for toxins. The first batch of this year’s
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    • 322 35 48% of Germans want her to step down if her partyman is not selected AGENCIES BERLIN A special assembly was voting by secret ballot yesterday for Germany’s new President in what analysts describe as a crucial test for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s troubled government. The
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    • 201 35 AFP COLOMBO The Maldives was without an effective government yesterday, after the Cabinet resigned en masse amid a power struggle between President Mohamed Nasheed and the oppositioncontrolled Parliament. The 13-member Cabinet quit on Tuesday, saying the majlis, or Parliament, was blocking all its
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    • 89 39 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Terrorism suspects could receive compensation if they have been tortured overseas with the complicity of the British security services. The British government is ironing out the details of a planned judicial inquiry into the behaviour of MI5 and MI6 but sources said
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    • 94 39 AFP United States President Barack Obama might have sacked him as the US commander in Afghanistan but he will allow General Stanley McChrystal the honour of retiring as a fourstar general. The White House said on Tuesday that the President had intervened to ensure
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    • 207 39 AFP TEHRAN A man claiming to be an Iranian nuclear scientist, whom Tehran alleges the United States kidnapped, said he had escaped from US agents, in a video screened on Tuesday on Iranian television. “I am Shahram Amiri, a citizen of
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    • 322 39 Help for victims of domestic violence THE NEW YORK TIMES PARIS The French Parliament gave final and unanimous approval on Tuesday to a law that makes “psychological violence” a criminal offence, as part of a law intended to help victims of physical violence
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    • 148 26 ment to ban the organisation. On Sunday, it threatened “war” against the Christian minority in the Jakarta fence,” he said. He did not renounce violence and when a journalist asked him to respond to community concerns about violence, he accused him of being a communist. The Indonesian military and the
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    • 197 31 0 BEIJING 101 Hair Consultants Male-pattern Hair Loss Which Pattern do you Belong to? O-Shaped Hair Loss M-Shaped Hair Loss O+M-Shaped Hair Loss Male-pattern baldness is the most common type of hair loss in men. It usually follows a typical pattern of receding hairline and hair thinning on the crown.
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    • 726 32 ELECTRICITY TARIFF REVISION The electricity tariff for households will increase by 2.42% or 0.57 cent per kWh to 24.13 cents per kWh for the quarter 1 Jul to 30 Sep 10. On average, families in four-room HDB flats will see a $2.33 increase in their monthly electricity bill for the
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      534 41 Berdych's victory leaves questions about defending champion's hunger AFP TENNIS Wimbledon LONDON Roger Federer crashed out of Wimbledon yesterday as Czech 12th seed Tomas Berdych clinched a stunning 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory over the defending champion in the quarter-finals. Federer has been almost untouchable at Wimbledon for
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    • 208 41 AFP Defending champions Venus and Serena Williams were knocked out of the women’s doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon yesterday, piling on the misery forVenus. While Serena progressed to the singles semi-finals on Tuesday, fivetime Wimbledon champion Venus was knocked out by the unseeded BulgarianTsvetana Pironkova. Winning
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    • 315 41 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Liverpool are understood to be extremely close to agreeing terms with Roy Hodgson (picture) to become their new manager. However Hodgson is still seeking assurances from the club’s owners over what proportion of funds from player sales will be
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    • 378 43 AGENCIES MANCHESTER Spain winger David Silva (picture) has joined Manchester City on a fouryear deal from cash-strapped Valencia. “The player’s advisors and officials from both clubs have finalised the details over a fouryear contract,” City said yesterday on their website. No financial details were
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    • 533 43  -  It's time for the S'pore Olympic Foundation to identify deserving athletes IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Peter Lim’s (picture) $10 million scholarship to fund promising talent received the thumbs-up from the sports fraternity, who said it is a giant step towards building a sporting culture in
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    • 491 44 Officials defend their conduct, saying gifts a 'common practice' AFP SYDNEY Australian football officials had approved a secret, multi-million-dollar payout to two European lobbyists and gifts of jewellery and free travel in a bid to win hosting rights for an upcoming World Cup,
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    • 378 44 AGENCIES SINGAPORE A revolt by Asian and African nations has foiled former Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s bid to become vice-president of the International Cricket Council (ICC). A statement from the ICC board at a meeting in Singapore yesterday said the right-wing former leader’s nomination
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    • 154 44 SY rj »j .nHmn; Emotional Awareness: Cultivating Mental Balance and A Good Life Date Thursday, 15 July 2010 Time 7.00pm Venue SUNTEC Convention Centre Gallery West Level 3 Guest-of-Honour Honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr George Yeo Chairman for Panel Discussion Mr. Sat Pal Khattar w BROUGHT TO YOU BY
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    • 372 47 ULIE QUEK SINGAPORE The Securities Investors Association Singapore (Sias) has stepped in to help address concerns of minority shareholders who are troubled by the ongoing developments over the partial offer by Khazanah Holding for Singaporelisted health care group Parkway Holdings. In a statement yesterday,
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    • 56 47 WEDNESDAY CLOSE 2,835.51 (+0.18%) Tuesday Monday Friday Thursday 2,830.34 2,869.99 2,851.64 2,847.61 q p p q 1.38% 0.64% 0.14% 0.82% TOP 5 BY VOLUME NAME VOL PRICE CHANGE Genting SP GoldenAgr Noble Grp Z-Obee K-Green 128,539 68,067 45,692 38,049 36,253 1.170 0.530 1.710 0.410 1.050 p p q p
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      • 59 47 Buy $1.73 Shares move up 1.2 per cent at $1.74, recouping part of yesterday’s 5-per-cent loss triggered by concerns of slowdown in China’s economy, which would imply reduced demand for high-end developer’s homes. CLSA has “Buy” call with $2.00 target, says property developer’s fundamentals remain sound, with net gearing,
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      • 61 47 Buy $2.68 Phillip Securities upgrades to “Buy” from “Hold” to reflect improved outlook as tourist arrivals to Singapore continue to increase. Notes that with the opening of the two integrated resorts, “Singapore has entered into a new phase of growth as a tourism hub”. Lifts target to $3.28 from
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    • 475 47  -  Will stock market end flat again at year-end? MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A reprieve for the Singapore stock market may be in sight in the second half of the year as market experts said local shares could rebound following the somewhat dismal showing in the first
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    • 262 48 SINGAPORE In a move to expand its operations in Asia’s fastgrowing markets, Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (SWF) Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has opened an investment office here. Speaking at the firm’s opening ceremony yesterday, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang
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    • 304 48  -  JULIE QUEK JULIE QUEK juliequek@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Mapletree Investments, the real estate unit of Singapore’s investment firm Temasek Holdings, plans to list two real estate investment trusts, one of which is the Mapletree Industrial Trust portfolio, an industrial Reit with $1.73 billion in assets. The
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    • 249 49  -  Buying interest remains keen as liquidity in market is high JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore property auction market saw a 20-per-cent rise on-year in the first half of this year to $87 million, according to property consultants Colliers International. A total of 440
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    • 72 49 CAN’T PRINT MONEY, BUT MediaCorp Radio’s 938Live presenters Keith de Souza (left) and Bharati Jagdish (centre) with representatives from Magnetone, developer of printing solutions, collecting used toner cartridges as part of a ‘trash for cash’ project. Yesterday more than 500 cartridges, which will be recycled, were collected in support of
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    • 251 49 SINGAPORE A former reserve goalkeeper for Singapore’s football team pleaded not guilty in Malaysian courts yesterday to conspiring to cheat and commit criminal breach of trust (CBT) involving 9 million shares worth more than RM23 million ($9.9 million), said Malaysian media reports.
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  • WORLD CUP 2010
    • 865 53 World Cup fantasy four now down to two, with just a goal between them THE DAILY TELEGRAPH CAPE TOWN First Wayne Rooney, now Cristiano Ronaldo. The poster boys of this World Cup are leaving us without saying goodbye. Fernando Torres is still here but you wouldn’t
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    • 483 54 AFP CAPE TOWN Portuguese captain Cristiano Ronaldo confessed to being a broken man yesterday after his side’s crushing 1-0 World Cup defeat to Iberian rivals Spain the night before. The 25-year-old Real Madrid star said he felt a deep sadness at their exit
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    • 378 54 AFP MADRID Spain’s hopes of lifting their first World Cup and adding it to their European crown gained all round approval from the previously sceptical Spanish media yesterday following the 1-0 win over Iberian rivals Portugal in their Round of 16 match
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    • 571 55 It's simply 'their mentality', says Germany's Schweinsteiger ahead of last-eight clash AP ERASMIA Germany midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger has accused World Cup quarter-final rivals Argentina of showing no respect for opponents and referees, and urged his team-mates not to be provoked. Germany eliminated Argentina on penalties four
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    • 454 55 AP JOHANNESBURG A quick look. A pass. A goal. Another assist from Kaka and another goal by Luis Fabiano for Brazil. The pair have been key for the five-time champions at the World Cup, teaming up perfectly just as they did when
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    • 679 56 Holland united and quietly confident of winning the World Cup THE DAILY TELEGRAPH DURBAN There is only one European team at this World Cup with a perfect record but, amid the fanfare about Germany and the inquest surrounding England, Holland’s slick progress continues to
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    • 441 56 AP Maarten Stekelenburg (picture) never doubted he would be back in goal for the Netherlands, even when repeated injuries sidelined him and he was left out of the team by club side Ajax. The Dutch goalkeeping crisis was so acute last year with Stekelenburg on the
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    • 778 58  -  COMMENTARY South Korea and Japan come so close to dining at the main table LEONARD THOMAS in Johannesburg, South Africa leonard@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is executive sports editor at MediaCorp NewsHub. I’m sure Argentina enjoyed their clash with South Korea the most so far as their dizzying tango
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    • 173 58 AP Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said the United States, England and France deserved to be eliminated in the World Cup for imposing nuclear sanctions on Tehran. France went down in the group stages, while England and the United States were eliminated
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    • 162 58 AP Lawmakers involved in a closed-door hearing about France’s World Cup fiasco grumbled that coach Raymond Domenech refused to take any responsibility for his team’s misbehaviour and offered no real explanations yesterday. Lawmakers said Domenech tried to pin blame on the press during the
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    • 351 59 AFP MOGWASE Ghana, uplifted by the enthusiasm of an entire one billion-strong continent, will be bidding to become the first African nation to reach the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup when they play Uruguay at Soccer City here tomorrow. Ghana are
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    • 716 59  -  Sleeping giant stirring though Ghana will have a continent’s backing LEONARD THOMAS in Johannesburg, South Africa leonard@mediacorp.com.sg JOHANNESBURG It is a disservice to Uruguay striker Diego Forlan to say he failed at Manchester United. He struggled early on to find the net, but he
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    • 55 61 JULY 1, 2010 A PUBLICATION OF MORE MAGIC THE ANALOG GIRL MAKES MAGIC AT THE IGNITE! MUSIC FESTIVAL. >> T8 ABBA CADABRA! THE MAGIC OF ABBA COMES ALIVE ONCE AGAIN. >> T10 SCISSOR SISTERS FRONTMAN TELLS US HOW THE GROUP STILL MAKES THE CUT. >> T2 MAGICAL JORDAN: STUCK HAPPILY
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  • 1138 62  -  MUSIC Scissor Sisters on sexy music, You Tube and how red carpet parties are hell CHRISTOPHER TOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg COURTESY UNIVERSAL MUSIC SIX years ago, a group from the United States called Scissor Sisters released a club remake of one of Pink Floyd’s seminal hits, Comfortably Numb. Although
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    • 411 68 Sound artiste The Analog Girl among line-up for Ignite! Music Festival IN 2008, Singapore electronic musician The Analog Girl was picked by Time magazine as one of the five Asian artistes to look out for. Some might call such tags a source of pressure, but for The
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    • 363 70  -  Genevieve Loh genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg ABBA is one of the world’s most popular bands, selling more than 370 million records with hits like Dancing Queen and Mamma Mia standing the test of time long after their split in 1982. Despite lucrative offers to reunite, including a US$1
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    • 377 71 Lymbyc System and Lite This double bill features two progressive instrumental bands on the scene. July 2, 7.30pm, Home Club.Tickets $30 ($40 at the door) or from www.kittywurecords.com. The Cotton Island featuring Eunice Keitan Acoustic tunes from Taiwan’s David Lin and Canadian Eunice Keitan. July 2,9pm, Going Om, 63
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    • CD REVIEWS
      • 83 72 RENE Liu has always been one of those Chinese artistes who often tends to get marginalised as a singer, mostly because of her strong presence as an actress. However, despite the slew of cutesy, cuddly, almost vacuous chicky pop that’s invading the airwaves these days, this album
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      • 240 72  -  BY CHRISTOPHER TOH TAKE TWO SEZAIRI SEZALI I have to say that Sezairi Sezali’s album is probably the best debut album by a Singapore Idol winner. Ever.The album kicks off with a slightly dramatic take of Don Henley’s Heart OfThe Matter, which, truth be told,
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      • 82 72 Kicking off with the dramatic and rocking ballad of an opener Close Eyes, Princess Ai (no, not the anime character) sets the tone of her latest album, um, also called Tone. And there are several different tonal aspects to the album, although it seems like she’ll be
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        252 72 Relooking a classic record CHRISTOPHER TOH THE BEATLES ATTHE HOLLYWOOD BOWL THE BEATLES (1977) DESPITE being probably the biggest band in the world ever,The Beatles had never issued any live recordings during their tenure as a working band. But seven years after their breakup in 1977, producer
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    340 75 THINGS TO DO 1 Singapore International Water Festival 2010 Take part in dragon-boating and canoeing competitions and enjoy water sport demonstrations and cultural performances. Date: Till Sunday Time: 9am to 5pm Venue: Marina Barrage Admission: Free Enquiries: www.siwf.sg 2 The 75 Hours Movie Marathon @The Cathay Try
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    • 96 76 AP EVERY summer, a Puccini Festival is held next-door to the composer’s Tuscan home by Lake Massaciuccoli where he penned some of his most famous arias. To listen to Nessun Dorma, one of the world’s most recognisable songs from Puccini’s Turandot, not indoors but in an
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    870 78  -  Wadi Rum’s Bedouins make a trip to the Jordan desert a heart-warming one Nellie Huang travel@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE rose-red desert, a Bedouin in a full-length tunic and a red-and-white checked headscarf ambled on camel. As we drove past, he waved languidly, a big smile on his weathered face.
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