Today, 24 January 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 39 2 AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE Monday January 24, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Tbiw MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday January 24, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 987 2  -  CHEOW XIN YI CHEOW XIN YI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Just days after Foreign Minister George Yeo said he expected the Government to call for polls before the Presidential Election, another Minister has
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  • 997 2  -  Extra funds to ensure ‘schools have resources when inflation goes up’: Dr Ng Extra funds to ensure ‘schools have resources when inflation goes up’: Dr Ng TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As the rising cost of living shows
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    • 52 2 NEWS. YOUR TODAY. Monday NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 SPORTS LATEST BENZEMA SPARES REAL THE BLUSHES BUSINESS B1 HIS $128M HANDSHAKE WHY EX-GOOGLE CEO SCHMIDT IS SMILING COMMENT&ANALYSIS YURIKO KOIKE PEACE PLEASE, NOT A PEACE OFFENSIVE 12 DON’T MISS 16 PAGES OF T RICHARD HARTUNG MAKE WORKFARE WORK FOR THE NEXT
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    • 46 1 NEWS 2 FOOD PRICES EXPECTED TO STABILISE: PM LEE COMMENTARY 14 BEEFING UP WORKFARE ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING WORKFARE WORK BUT DON’T MISS 16 PAGES OF T COMMENT&ANALYSIS YURIKO KOIKE PEACE PLEASE, NOT A PEACE OFFENSIVE 12 RICHARD HARTUNG MAKE WORKFARE WORK FOR THE NEXT GENERATION 15
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  • NEWS
    • 405 2  -  DYLAN LOH dylanloh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Allaying concerns over the rising food prices, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday that he expects prices to stabilise in the next “few months”. Mr Lee, who was giving out $44,000 worth of grocery
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    • 369 2 BEIJING China has issued new rules aimed at ending illegal forced demolitions in an attempt to quell what has become the nation’s biggest source of unrest. Xinhua news agency reported over the weekend that the regulations which were issued last Friday
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    • 174 3 BEIJING China is reportedly expanding its limits on property purchases to second- and thirdtier cities. The Chongqing Evening News reported yesterday quoting an unnamed official at China’s Ministry of Housing and UrbanRural Development that the authorities have drawn up a list of cities that
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    • 284 3 TOKYO Japanese Hepatitis B patients who sued the government after they supposedly caught the disease during a vaccination exercise have agreed to accept a settlement, which will cost the state up to ¥3.2 trillion ($49.7 billion). The plaintiffs agreed to the plan
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    • 427 4  -  NG JING YNG, TEO XUANWEI jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is doubling its intake for its second cohort this year to give diploma holders a better chance to obtain a degree, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen announced yesterday. The school will
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    • 280 4  -  TEO XUANWEI SINGAPORE —With recent changes announced to the teaching of Mother Tongue, residents at a BukitTimah dialogue session yesterday voiced some of their concerns on the issue. One resident wondered if primary school students can learn a second language like Mandarin well, given that
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    • Article, Illustration
      64 4 More than 100 women cooked pongal rice, a sweet sticky rice consisting of a boiled mixture of milk, rice and sugar to symbolise a good harvest at the Bukit Panjang Pongal Festival yesterday. Pongal has its origins in South India and is a joyous festival which represents
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    • 433 6  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The housing deal was almost completed when a misunderstanding arose. The buyer wanted to fix an appointment with the HDB so that he could move in soon as possible. But the seller was not ready to move out yet. When
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    • 241 6 SINGAPORE The Government has formed a Ministerial Committee to enhance the coordination and support among government agencies for the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city project. The Ministry of National Development said yesterday the formation of the Committee reflects the importance Singapore attaches to this joint project,
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    • 344 6  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE Once a warehouse site, the Woodlands Waterfront was officially opened yesterday providing residents in the north with a scenic nine-hectare coastal park with a 1.5-km-long waterfront. Visitors will be treated to the sight of rolling greenery and a panoramic view of Johor Baru’s skyline,
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  • VOICES
    • 312 8  -  Letter from Liew Kai Khiun FROM the lucrative tuition industry where an average household spends about $800 per month to the recent changes in the syllabus of Mother Tongue Languages (MTL) that would cost the Ministry of Education about $45 million, Singapore invests substantially in the
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    • 103 8  -  Letter from Jeffrey Law Lee Beng AS expected, some stalls are taking advantage of the festive season to charge exorbitant prices for essential food items. Besides bak kwa, which is traditionally priced much higher every year during this period, the prices of other essential items such as
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    • 521 10  -  Letter from Tan Boon Kwang RECENTLY, adult shops and suggestive trailers on television have mushroomed. I applaud the Government for its greater tolerance of such shops and rated films because they give me, as an adult, options that I would not have
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    • 291 10  -  Letter from John Lim Boon Seng I REFER to the letter by Jacinta Lee “Tax en bloc speculators too” (Jan 21). I can empathise with her feelings on the “family of speculators” that bought seven units in her condominium. However,
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    • 244 8 have your say email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg join the community www.todayonline.com/voices New "Currency Wars" Could Massively Multiply Your $10,000 into $1.3 Million starting 2011... Huge market waves triggered by Currency Wars have generated gains of 875%... 1,345%... even 2,163% for a small group of smart FOREX traders Hidden in
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    • 151 8 WHAT’S YOUR VIEW? Are the authorities looking into the outrageous price increases recently? I sincerely doubt the authenticity of the various ‘reasons’ given for raising prices on even non-perishables like canned drinks and preserved foods. LETTER FROM CHAN CHI JOIN THE DISCUSSION AT TODAYONLINE.COM OR EMAIL VOICES@MEDIACORP.COM.SG THE SLOWEST WAY
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    • 177 9 PICTURE HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE AT WORK. ENTER THE TAFEP FAIR EMPLOYMENT PHOTO CONTEST TODAY. Little things that we can do make a big difference at work. So individuals should be assessed on their skills and ability to do the job well. It is not about
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  • 506 10  -  Find out what sets this special group apart from the rest and learn how you can also develop these habits yourself SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING BY ADAM KHOO We live in a time of tremendous opportunity. In such a meritocratic society, everyone has the ability
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 914 12  -  Despite holding out an olive branch, North Korea’s behaviour and motivations are suspect YURIKO KOIKE Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former Minister of Defence and National Security Adviser, is Chairman of the Executive Council of the Liberal Democratic Party. PROJECT SYNDICATE When a North Korean dove
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    • 910 14  -  The economic principles underlying Workfare work but more has to be done for it to deliver help SIEW KUM HONG Siew Kum Hong is a corporate counsel and a former Nominated Member of Parliament. In the past few months, various eminent persons have weighed in on the
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    • 767 15  -  RICHARD HARTUNG Richard Hartung is a consultant who has lived in Singapore since 1992. In extensive debate earlier this month, it was readily apparent that policymakers believe Workfare works well and is a preferred option to a minimum wage. Interestingly, an impressive approach
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  • WORLD
    • 341 16 Inspired protesters in Yemen, neighbouring Algeria, take to streets AP ADEN Drawing inspiration from the revolt in Tunisia, thousands of Yemenis fed up with their president’s 32-year rule, demanded his ouster on Saturday in a noisy demonstration that appeared to be the first large-scale public challenge to
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    • 210 16 REUTERS BANGKOK About 30,000 antigovernment Red Shirts rallied in Thailand’s capital yesterday in another show of strength that heralds a rocky run-up to an election due this year. It was the second big rally this month by the United Front for Democracy Against
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    • 214 18 AP KUALA LUMPUR Lawmakers in Malaysia may soon be required to undergo annual health checks after 11 elected politicians died of wide-ranging illnesses in less than three years, a news report said yesterday. The deaths have triggered a string of by-elections to fill the
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    • 383 18 AP NAIROBI Despite successful raids by Malaysian and South Korean navies that rescued two ships and their crew members from Somali pirates, the European Union Naval Force said it would not follow suit because such raids could further endanger hostages. Malaysia’s navy was
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    • 176 18 REUTERS Somali pirates threatened yesterday to kill any South Korean seamen that they take hostage in future in revenge for the killing of eight pirates by South Korean troops who stormed a hijacked vessel. Pirates from two bases on the Somali coast said
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    • 458 19 AP BRUSSELS Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, hightech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the United States itself. Balkan military officials and
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    • 149 19 AP BEIJING President Hu Jintao’s recently concluded state visit to the United States was “fruitful” but the two countries need to work on increasing trust and communication, China’s Foreign Minister said in comments published yesterday Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Mr Hu’s
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    • 384 20 THE NEW YORK TIMES KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai backed down on Saturday from his plan to put off the inauguration of a new Parliament by another month, agreeing to convene it this week after intense pressure from legislators and the international community.
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    • 143 21 REUTERS A woman suspected in the kidnapping of a baby from a New York hospital 23 years ago is in custody after turning herself in to the FBI office in Bridgeport, Connecticut, law enforcement officials said yesterday. The authorities had been looking
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    • 518 21 Al Jazeera leaks are ‘lies’, claim THE NEW YORK TIMES AFTERNOON LATEST JERUSALEM Palestinians were prepared to compromise over two of the toughest issues, Jerusalem and refugees, during peace talks in 2008, the AlJazeera TV channel reported yesterday, quoting from documents it said came
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    • 133 21 REUTERS Mexican federal police have arrested seven drug gang members in the Pacific port of Acapulco, including the man behind the murders of 22 people in the resort this month, the government said yesterday. The group is a splinter faction of the Beltran Leyva cartel,
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    • 313 22 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Britain’s tabloid newspapers are now facing a major crisis after being drawn into a phone-hack-ing scandal involving the Prime Minister’s former communications chief. Mr Andy Coulson was forced to resign on Friday amid claims that he sanctioned widespread illegal phone hacking against politicians,
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    • 198 22 REUTERS BERLIN Thousands of German protesters marched in Berlin on Saturday to demand a change in farming methods and vent their anger at a food scandal in which cancer-causing dioxin was found in some eggs, poultry and pork. The scandal caused by contaminated animal feed
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    • 198 22 REUTERS Provisional results from South Sudan’s referendum show that almost 99 per cent of voters have chosen independence, the referendum commission’s website said yesterday after 98.7 per cent of the votes had been counted. The referendum was promised under a 2005 north-south peace deal
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    • 420 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH DUBAI The islands were intended as the ultimate luxury possession, even for Dubai. But The World, the ambi-tiously-constructed archipelago of islands shaped like the countries of the globe, is sinking back into the sea, according to evidence cited before
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    • 176 23 AP MELBOURNE Rural Australian towns braced for another week of flooding yesterday as a vast inland sea of floodwater continued to spread across the country’s south-east Victoria state and a potential tropical storm threatened the north-east. The flooding began more than a month ago
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    • 161 23 AP Workers at a Ukrainian aquarium did not believe it when a visitor said a crocodile swallowed her mobile phone. Then the reptile started ringing. The accident in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk sounds a bit like “Peter Pan”, in which a crocodile happily went
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  • SPORTS
    • 687 24  -  A creative force who has generated much chatter at age-group level, Shahfiq hopes to step up SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg FOOTBALL FRIENDLY S’pore under-21s v M’sian under-21s Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm SINGAPORE His left-footed corner dipped and swerved through the air, landing plum on the head of
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    • 314 24 SINGAPORE Football has been in the news here recently and it has spiced up tonight’s under-21 friendly between Singapore and Malaysia. Malaysia’s coach Ong Kim Swee (picture) hopes Singapore’s youngsters are not put under any pressure as they strive to develop into inter-national-calibre
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    • 238 24 REUTERS ABU DHABI German golfer Martin Kaymer leapfrogged Tiger Woods to become the world No 2 when he stormed to an eight-shot victory in the Abu Dhabi Championship yesterday. Kaymer, 26, relegated Woods to No 3 in a successful defence of his title, capturing the
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    • 502 25 Italian veteran wins a record-breaking match with Kuznetsova AP TENNIS Australian Open MELBOURNE Defending champion Roger Federer matched a Grand Slam mark that magnified his extraordinary consistency over eight years, while Francesca Schiavone (picture) established a record for endurance in a women’s singles
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    • 288 25 AP WELLINGTON The International Rugby Board (IRB) have threatened to expel Fiji and prevent their participation at this year’s World Cup, because the nation’s military regime have attempted to depose the country’s Rugby Union. The government of military leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama
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    • 302 25 AP MELBOURNE Turns out it was not a kangaroo that gave Caroline Wozniacki (picture) her biggest scare so far at the Australian Open. The world No 1 decided earlier this week that she wanted to overturn a perception held by some critics that her interviews
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    • 162 25 REUTERS A member of French player Aravane Rezai’s family has been banned from WTA events and is under investigation because of a “serious safety matter” affecting her “health and well being”, the tour said. Rezai, who was seeded 17th, went out 6-0, 3-6,
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    • 391 26 Brazilian’s perfect start at Inter comes to a sudden end AP MANCHESTER Udinese rallied to beat Inter Milan 3-1, inflicting coach Leonardo’s first loss and leaving the defending champions nine points behind its city rival in fifth place after Serie A leaders AC Milan eked out
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    • 484 26 Rovers now 7th, their highest since May 2008 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST LONDON Blackburn moved into seventh place in the Premier League by beating West Bromwich Albion 2-0 in last night’s late match, courtesy of two goals in a sev-en-minute spell either side of half-time. A spectacular
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    • 196 26 Glazers deny rumoured $3.08-billion Mideast bid THE GUARDIAN MANCHESTER A Qatari consortium is reported to have offered £1.5-billion ($3.08-billion) to buy Manchester United from its current owners, the Glazer brothers, after holding secret talks. But the club yesterday denied that there has been any
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    • 359 26 REUTERS MADRID Karim Benzema went some way to justifying the €35 million ($61 million) Real Madrid paid to sign him when his goal secured a scrappy 1-0 home win over Real Mallorca in La Liga yesterday. Under coach Jose Mourinho, the France international
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    • 571 27 Reds’ revival picks up pace with a first win as fans wait to hail new signings AGENCIES LONDON Starting the day equidistant from a Europa League berth and the relegation zone, Liverpool finished it closer to the happier place after easing to a first victory of
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    • 400 27 AP DOHA They were favoured to make the last four, although many predicted tough quarterfinal match-ups for both of them. Sure enough, Australia and South Korea were made to sweat in the last eight of the 2011 Asian Cup finals but,
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    • 160 27 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Sky Sports was under pressure last night to discipline its top football presenting team, Richard Keys and Andy Gray, after they were recorded making sexist remarks about two female match officials and a leading female football executive. In off-camera remarks, the pair
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • BUSINESS
    • 97 83 BLOOMBERG Australia’s coal exports are likely to be one of the “biggest casualties” of the worst flooding in the north-eastern state of Queensland for almost 40 years, Treasurer Wayne Swan said. “Mines shut down in big coal mining regions like the Bowen Basin
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    • 88 83 BLOOMBERG Weekend transactions of used homes in some of Hong Kong’s biggest private housing projects fell by as much as 20.5 per cent as the government boosts housing supply. The number of deals recorded over the weekend dropped to 81 from 102 a
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    • 367 83 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The economy in the United States probably grew at a faster pace in the fourth quarter, driven by the biggest gain in consumer spending in four years, economists projected a report this week will show. Gross domestic
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    • 141 82  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ SINGAPORE Keppel FELS, a unit of conglomerate Keppel Group, has secured two new contracts worth US$360 million ($462 million) from Clearwater Capital Partners to build KFELS B Class jack-up rigs. The jack-ups, which are able to operate in deep waters of 400 feet
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    • 230 82  -  TRAVIS TEO SINGAPORE More Singapore Food and Beverage (F&B) companies are expected to head to China as rising affluence and changing lifestyles on the mainland have raised consumer demand for international food varieties. IE Singapore estimates there are currently about 40 Singapore F&B companies
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    • 424 82  -  New cluster groups part of succession planning RACHEL KELLY Rachel@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Passing the stewardship of a company is never easy, especially when you have been at the helm for almost 40 years. But the head of energy and construction specialist Rotary Engineering, Mr Roger Chia Kim
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    • 191 81 REUTERS LONDON Barclays is planning a radical pay overhaul as part of a strategic review that could also see the group shed staff, the Financial Times reported yesterday. Barclays’ incoming chief executive Bob Diamond aims to use contingent convertible bonds so-called CoCos to pay
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    • 99 81 REUTERS Sara Lee received a takeover bid from Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital and TPG Capital that is higher than the food company’s current share price of US$18.70, said three people with knowledge of the matter. The offer gets close to the US$20 a share
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (JAN 17 TO 21)
      • 49 81 FRIDAY CLOSE 11,871.80 (+0.41%) THE WEEKTHATWAS GE’s strong earnings lifted the Dow, which rose 0.7% over the week, but the S&P500 snapped a seven-week streak of gains, falling 0.8%, with analysts expecting a pullback. Thursday 11,822.80 q 0.02% Wednesday 11,825.30 q 0.11% Tuesday 11,755.40 p 0.43% Monday CLOSED
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      • 9 81 NASDAQ 2,689.54 (-0.55%) È S&P500 1,283.35 (+0.24%) Ç
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      • 13 81 Ç FTSE100 5,896.25 (+0.48%) Ç Ç DAX 5,896.25 (+0.48%) CAC40 4,017.45 (+1.33%)
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      • 9 81 Ç Ç OIL US$89.22 (+US$0.11) GOLD US$1,345.30 (+US$4.30)
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      • 19 81 US$1 $1.283 US$1 £0.625 US$1 €0.735 US$1 ¥82.599 US$1 A$1.011 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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      • STOCK CALLS
        • 70 81 Neutral $2.46 UBS raises M1’s target to $2.48 from $2.17, and keeps its Neutral rating. It says 4Q10 results were in line with expectations, with operating profit at $47 million and net profit at $38 million. “While revenue was higher than expected due to higher handset sales, this was
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        • 75 81 Buy $1.91 Kim Eng reiterates CapitaMall Trust at a Buy with a target of $2.32 after the REIT declared a FY10 DPU of 9.24 cents on the back of 5.9 per cent on-year growth in net property income. “With forward yields of at least 5.2 per cent and
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    • 282 81 REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO —Google is set to give Eric Schmidt a US$100-million ($128-million) equity award as he hands over the chief executive officer job to co-founder Larry Page. The award, which will include stock units and options will vest over four years and is Mr Schmidt’s
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