Today, 6 June 2011, Afternoon Edition

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  • 42 1 TODAY MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF /\A=DIACORP NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday June 6, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking AFTERNOON EDITION MICA (P) 057/10/2010 A PUBLICATION OF NEWS HOTLINE 6822 2268 Monday June 6, 2011 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 840 1  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It looked like a scene straight from the movies. Water cascading down escalators, filling every nook and cranny, then pouring onto the floor below like a waterfall. By 10.30am yesterday, the basement and car parks of Tanglin Mall were in knee-deep
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 541 2  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan yesterday outlined five key areas that he will focus on in dealing with floods in Singapore. Speaking at a news conference after inspecting the flooded areas at Tanglin Mall,
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    • 492 4  -  CONRAD RAJ editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE This time last year, Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional was embroiled in a stiff tussle with India’s Fortis Healthcare for the control of Parkway Holdings. Now, as Today has learnt, Khazanah is on
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    • 222 4  - Lum wins Ernst Young World Entrepreneur award MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE The group CEO and president of Hyflux, Olivia Lum (picture), has been named the Ernst Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 at an awards ceremony held in Monte Carlo. She is the first woman and the first Singaporean to
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    • 361 6  -  TANYA FONG China’s Minister for National Defence, General Liang Guanglie, tackled a range of questions from the participants at the Shangri-La Dialogue. The first was whether China thought that the United States was trying to restrict its actions in Asia. This
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    • 635 6  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Peace was mentioned no less than 27 times in the 45-minute speech of China’s Minister for National Defence, General Liang Guanglie (picture), at the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday. He sought to reassure other countries that China’s growing economic and military
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    • 284 8 AGENCIES SINGAPORE NATO is “one step’’ from sending troops into Libya to help rebels remove Muammar Gaddafi from power, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said yesterday. British and French attack helicopters struck for the first time inside Libya on
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    • 399 8  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Practical defence cooperation is crucial in building up personal ties among regional militaries to reduce misunderstanding or miscalculation, said Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen at the close of the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday. Dr Ng, who was on the panel
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    • 281 10 REUTERS SINGAPORE India will feel pressured to retaliate if Pakistan-based militants launched an attack similar to the Mumbai assaults that killed more than 160 people, the Minister of State for Defence, Mr M M Pallam Raju, said on Saturday.
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    • 367 10  -  TANYA FONG tanyafong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite China’s general silence on the territorial dispute over the resource-rich South China Sea, it remained a hot topic at the Shangri-La Dialogue yesterday. Defence ministers from some of the claimant countries including Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam tackled the issue
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    • Article, Illustration
      140 12 By the end of the first Silver Tribute Charity Night yesterday, more than S$2.7 million was raised for more than 8,000 needy elderly and their caregivers from eight Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs). It is the first television fund-raising show solely for the needy elderly. Organised by SMRT,
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    • 442 12 JOHOR BARU The biometric fingerprint scanning system of the Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) checkpoint at the Sultan Iskandar Building (SIB) had problems coping with the huge number of tourists on Saturday. Tourists, who were travelling amid the weekend and school
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    • 312 12  -  MILLET ENRIQUEZ emelita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A sinking feeling may seep into the Singapore stock market this week as the recent weakness in investor sentiment is expected to continue for another week. Analysts expect markets to trend lower when trade opens today, dampened
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  • COMMENT&ANALYSIS
    • 1694 14  -  CHRISTIAN OLIVER, SONG JUNG-A THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED South Korean police identified the 35-year-old only as Mr Bang. He killed himself in the southern province of Jeolla on March 10 by locking himself in his car and lighting a brazier of charcoal briquettes. The note
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    • 1246 16  -  PANKAJ MISHRA Pankaj Mishra is a columnist for Bloomberg View. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG Are India and Pakistan likely to stumble into nuclear war? This appalling possibility has long been kept alive by conflicts between the
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    • 981 18  -  HARRIET ALEXANDER THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Ibrahim Al Khatib knew that his country was enduring dark days. But he only realised quite how appalling things were when his 13-year-old nephew returned to the family home in a body bag, horrifically mutilated and distorted. “God
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  • VOICES
    • 256 20  -  Letter from Kwee Chong Yeo I REFER to the letter “Victim of bike rage” (June 2) by Harshal Patil. My 63-year-old father was a victim of a bicycle accident on the morning of May 30. As a former stroke patient with renal failure,
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    • 193 20  - And then there is jogger rage Letter from Edwin James Fawcett IN RESPONSE to the letter on cyclist “road rage “(June 2). I would like to share my experience as a cyclist. Last month, while I was cycling home from work along the Bedok canal on the designated cycle path,
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    • 335 21  -  Letter from Lim Teck Koon IN RESPONSE to the letter “Surprise checks are conducted on operators” (June 3) by the Public Transport Council, my observation as a public transport user is that the priority given to public buses on the road and the roll-out
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    • 259 21  -  Letter from Danny G Tan MY CHILDREN’S teachers recently updated us on their progress in primary school. They had not been performing in some subjects and the teachers were justifiably concerned. They said that my children needed to improve or they would
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 351 22  -  MONICA KOTWANI Mr Raymond Ng was just 12 years old when he started smoking. The taxi driver, now 37, said he wanted to fit in with his peers. At home, his father was also a smoker. When he ran out of cigarettes, his father
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    • 691 22  -  HPB launches series of measures for National Smoking Control Campaign this year ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Workers wanting to kick their smoking habit can join programmes conducted at their workplace. Or a smoker seeking financial assistance at the Community Development Council (CDC)
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    • 442 24  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Passenger traffic at Changi Airport is expected to exceed 50 million by 2014 from 42 million last year, according to the Changi Airport Group. Passenger movement grew from 30 million to 42 million in the six years from 2004 to
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    • 215 25 Leaders from Singapore and Mauritius have affirmed their long-standing bilateral ties, and have given their support to businesses to use the two countries as springboards into Asia and Africa. These were discussed yesterday when President S R Nathan met Mauritian
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    • 129 25 What do break dancers, acrobats and contortionists have in common? They are all part of Cirque Eloize, a highenergy contemporary circus production from Montreal performing in Singapore for the first time. Cirque Eloize integrates different circus disciplines and art forms from acrobatics to theatre to dance and music.
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    • 236 25  -  LYNDA HONG SINGAPORE Sterilisation is just one of the many ways to curb the stray cat problem in HDB estates, Minister of State for National Development Tan Chuan-Jin said yesterday. Speaking on the sidelines of a community event, the MP for
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  • WORLD
    • 485 26 AGENCIES SANAA/RIYADH Protesters danced, sang and slaughtered cows in the central square of Yemen’s capital yesterday to celebrate the departure of the country’s authoritarian leader for medical treatment after he was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in
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    • 188 26 AGENCIES Israeli troops opened fire yesterday on Palestinian protesters in Syria who rushed towards a border fence. “Anyone who tries to cross the border will be killed,” Israeli soldiers shouted at the crowd of several hundred through loudspeakers on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Syrian
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    • 179 26 AGENCIES The Malaysian-made vaccine to combat the virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is set to undergo the first phase of clinical trials next year, The New Straits Times reported yesterday. The vaccine for the Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is developed by
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    • 99 28 A teenaged girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1,500 guests showed up and around 100 police officers, some on horses, were needed to keep the crowd under control. Eleven people were
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    • 235 28 AP TOKYO Nintendo was targeted in a recent online data attack but no personal or company information was lost, the Japanese maker of the Wii game console said yesterday. The server of an affiliate of Nintendo’s United States unit was accessed unlawfully a
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    • 244 28 AP MANILA The Philippine Vice-President has recommended that former dictator Ferdinand Marcos should not be buried at Manila’s Heroes’ Cemetery but that full military honours could be accorded if he is laid to rest in his northern political stronghold instead, officials said yesterday. Marcos was
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    • 245 28 AP TOKYO The Japanese utility battling to bring its radiation-spew-ing nuclear reactor under control said yesterday that 1,500 more tonnes of radioactive water will be moved into temporary storage the latest attempt to prevent a massive spill of contaminated water into the environment.
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    • 333 29 REUTERS AFTERNOON LATEST LISBON Portugal’s centre-right Social Democrats (PSD) scored a convincing win over the Socialists in an election yesterday, punishing the outgoing government for a €78-billion (S$140-billion) bailout that will bring deep austerity. The result should end months of political
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    • 270 29 REUTERS ATHENS Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou starts a campaign today to secure a new international bailout by imposing years of austerity on a nation already seething over corruption and economic mismanagement. Unease is growing within Mr Papandreou’s ranks about the consequences of waves
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    • 445 30 AGENCIES LONDON Food and drink sold in Britain is under a growing threat from terrorist groups which might try to poison supplies, the government’s security advisers have warned. Manufacturers and retailers have been told that their sector is vulnerable to attacks by ideologically and
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    • 478 30 THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH TOKYO The first Westerner to be admitted to the closed world of Japan’s geisha hostesses has left after being accused of bringing the movement into disrepute. Former Oxford University student Fiona Graham (picture), originally from Melbourne, Australia, was the first
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    • 321 31 AP BERLIN German-grown bean sprouts are the likely cause of the recent deadly E coli outbreak, the health authorities said yesterday. The news came as hospitals in northern Germany are being overwhelmed as they struggle to provide enough beds and medical care for
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    • 122 31 UP, UP AND AWAY Nine-year-old Bobby Bradley floated into history early on Saturday, taking off solo in a hot air balloon and landing perfectly about a half-hour later to become the youngest trained pilot to accomplish such a feat. Showing maturity and composure well beyond his years, Bradley proved any
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    • 222 31 AP LONDON A group of prominent British academics said yesterday that they are starting a private university in London to rival the country’s elite institutions in Oxford and Cambridge. The New College of the Humanities will be led
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  • BUSINESS
    • 277 32 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS CAIRO The International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to a US$3billion (S$3.7-billion) financing deal with Egypt yesterday and praised the policies of an interim government struggling to stabilise the economy after the popular uprising. Egypt has been seeking funds to plug an estimated US$11
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    • 131 32 REUTERS VIENNA Gulf Arab OPEC members led by Saudi Arabia will push for an increase in supplies at a meeting of the oil cartel this week in an effort to support flagging world economic growth by bringing crude prices back below US$100
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    • WEEKLY ROUNDUP (MAY 30 TO JUNE 3)
      • 49 32 FRIDAY CLOSE 12,151.30 (-0.79%) Thursday 12,248.55 q 0.34% Wednesday 12,290.14 q 2.22% Tuesday 12,569.79 p 1.03% Monday Closed THEWEEKTHATWAS US stocks fell last week, sending the Dow to its longest streak of losses since 2004, after lacklustre reports on jobs and manufacturing fuelled concern earnings growth will slow.
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      • 9 32 È NASDAQ 2,732.78 S&P500 S&P500 1,300.16 (-0.97%) È
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      • 13 32 Ç FTSE100 5,855.01 (+0.12%) Ç DAX Ç 7,109.03 (+0.49%) CAC40 3,890.68 (+0.02%)
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      • STOCK CALLS
        • 92 32 Neutral s$3.14 Credit Suisse downgrades from Outperform and maintains its target price of S$3.20. The house says the stock has risen to its target, “driven by the receipt of a forestry permit and expectations of rising coal prices driven by China’s power shortage”. It says the valuation
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        • 65 32 Hold s$0.25 OCBC initiates with S$0.31 fair value. It says the firm has a construction pipeline of seven projects valued at S$406 million (S$146 million already booked), as of March 31. “Its development portfolio has six projects in Singapore and one in China. We value KSH using a
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      • 9 32 Ç Ç OIL US$100.47 (+US$0.25) GOLD US$1,543.70 (+US$1.30)
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      • 19 32 US$1 s$1.228 US$1 £0.608 US$1 €0.683 US$1 ¥80.252 US$1 A$0.931 All figures correct as at 8am this morning
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    • 483 33  -  JO-ANN HUANG joannhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Sales of luxury properties have hit a sluggish patch in recent weeks. That is according to industry players who said that the segment has underperformed despite the overall property boom last year. Analysts said most buyers of
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    • 247 33  -  JO-ANN HUANG SINGAPORE Keppel Offshore Marine (O&M), a unit of Keppel Corp, is expected to deliver its first Floating Production Unit (FPU) which was wholly-built in Brazil to Petrobras Netherlands on time and within budget. Keppel O&M said in a statement yesterday that it achieved 9
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  • DIGITAL
    • 807 34  -  Bottomless memory card allows shutterbugs to upload photos to the Web within seconds COMMENTARY DAVID POGUE THE NEW YORK TIMES According to my Twitter followers, certain laws govern the consumer electronics industry. There’s @Slbrink’s Law: “The cheaper the printer, the more expensive the ink
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  • SPORTS
    • 432 36 AP BEIJING Once considered a rebel, Li Na’s landmark French Open victory has sparked celebrations, with state media now equating her with the likes of basketball giant Yao Ming and Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang and urging other athletes to learn from her as
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    • 365 36 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Samir Nasri (picture) has risked fracturing his relationship with Arsene Wenger by casting doubt over his readiness to sign a new contract at Arsenal this summer, with the France international suggesting he is also keen to discover whether Manchester United’s interest in him
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    • 652 36 AP PARIS Rafael Nadal (picture) is still better than the best player of all time, beating Roger Federer for the fourth occasion in the French Open final 7-5, 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-1 yesterday. Nadal, who equalled Bjorn Borg’s record of six French Open titles
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    • 506 37 Gay and Mullings grab Bolt’s attention with season’s best 100m times AGENCIES MIAMI If he was concerned, world record holder Usain Bolt was playing it cool as American Tyson Gay and his training partner Steve Mullings delivered sparkling 100m times at the weekend. American record holder Gay
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    • 320 38 REUTERS CHAGUANAS (Trinidad) Suspended FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has backed down for legal reasons from his threat to reveal the content of emails with the ruling body’s president Sepp Blatter. Warner had promised a “football tsunami” would follow his suspension by FIFA’s Ethics
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