The Straits Times, 29 April 2014

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    28 1 THE STRAITS TIMES SINCE 1845 TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014 82 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS TO SUBSCRIBE: 6388-3838 www.sphsubscription.com.sg 90 cents A Singapore Press Holdings publication MCI (P) 073/02/2014
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    Lock icon Justice V.K. Rajah to take over as A-G in June
    509 1  -  He will replace Steven Chong, who will return to the Bench By LIM YAN LIANG yanliang@sph.com.sg JUDGE of Appeal V.K. Rajah will be leaving the Bench in June to become Singapore’s eighth attor-ney-general since independence. The 57-year-old will take over
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    Lock icon Muslim Brotherhood leader, 682 others sentenced to death
    458 1 REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW YORK TIMES MINYA (Egypt) An Egyptian court has sentenced the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 682 of its supporters to death, intensifying a crackdown on the movement that could trigger protests and political violence ahead of an
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    Lock icon Slow car sales despite COE fall
    47 1 CAR sales stayed slow at the weekend despite a slew of promotions offered in the wake of falling certificate of entitlement (COE) prices. Sellers said many were holding back and hoping for COE prices to fall even more. L HOME B4
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    Lock icon S. Koreans ditch holiday plans
    50 1 THOUSANDS of South Koreans have been cancelling their holiday plans, as the country continues to mourn the sinking of the Sewol. Many in the travel industry are gearing up for a quiet “golden week” normally the peak season for hotels and retailers. L WORLD A10
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  • TOP OF THE NEWS
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      Lock icon US-Manila defence pact ‘not to curb China’
      682 2  -  Aim is to make sure international norms, rules are respected: Obama By RAUL DANCEL PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT IN MANILA rdancel@sph.com.sg UNITED States President Barack Obama said a 10-year defence pact that the Philippines and the United States signed yesterday is not meant to counter
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      Lock icon Agreement could ignite regional tensions: Chinese media
      343 2  -  By KOR KIAN BENG CHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN BEIJING kianbeng@sph.com.sg THE new US-Philippine defence pact is a “disturbing” move that would stoke regional tensions, China’s state media warned as its diplomats urged closer cooperation with the United States to maintain peace and stability.
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      Lock icon Private home resale prices fall again: Index
      511 3  -  Softness in market reflects broader weakening in housing sector in Q1 By MELISSA TAN melissat@sph.com.sg WEAK rental demand and tight loan curbs hammered private home resales again last month, deepening the gloom that has settled over the overall property market since the start
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      Lock icon 13 graduate from scheme to keep hawker heritage alive
      648 3  -  By GRACE CHUA caiwj@sph.com.sg A CAMPAIGN to preserve Singapore’s much-loved hawker heritage has taken an important step forward. After six months, the first batch of 13 trainee hawkers has graduated from a pilot scheme designed to ensure authentic traditional fare stays
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    • THE NEWS IN 5 MINUTES
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        Lock icon Justice Rajah to be next A-G
        44 4 JUDGE of Appeal V.K. Rajah will be leaving the Bench in June to become Singapore’s eighth Attorney-General. The 57-year-old will take over from Mr Steven Chong when the latter completes his two-year term as Attorney-General. TOP NEWS A1
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        Lock icon Private home resales hit
        35 4 WEAK rental demand and tight loan curbs dampened private home resales again last month, deepening the overall gloom in the property market since the start of the year. TOP NEWS A3
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      • WORLD
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          Lock icon Holiday plans shelved
          45 4 THOUSANDS of South Koreans have scrapped their holiday plans, as the grief-stricken country continued to mourn for the victims of a ferry disaster. The wave of tour cancellations is dealing a blow to travel agencies, transport companies and hotel chains. PAGE A10
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          Lock icon First-time voters
          81 4 ONE in five of India’s 814 million voters is a first-time voter, who analysts say will have common aspirations for change and development. They believe the Bharatiya Janata Party can fix the economic ills that characterise the Congress’ rule, a survey has revealed. PAGE A14 Indians with placards
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      • OPINION
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          Lock icon Market hollowing out?
          46 4 PRIVATISATION deals have overshadowed new listings on Singapore’s stock market this year. This has led to concern that the market may be “hollowing out”. Is this a structural problem or a case of bad timing? Jonathan Kwok looks at the issues. PAGE A20
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          Lock icon Curbing runaway prices
          66 4 CAN anything be done about the high prices Singaporeans have to pay to watch the 2014 World Cup? Writers Mabel Tan and Ang Peng Hwa say there is. Ms Tan is a former assistant vice-president of content at StarHub, while Professor Ang is director of the Singapore
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        Lock icon TIMING RIGHT FOR TELCO REFINEMENTS
        55 4 A move by the telco regulator to stimulate more competition in the mobile market should not be only to lower prices, which is what consumers think of first. It is just as important to ascertain how a market grown more varied can be served efficiently.
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      • HOME
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          Lock icon Reporting waste data
          73 4 ABOUT 250 shopping malls and hotels will need to report waste and recycling data to the National Environment Agency from next year. The amount of waste generated in Singapore has been rising, and the agency hopes to draw greater management attention on waste produced, and work with
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          Lock icon Accidental death
          63 4 A PEST control officer died after he was attacked by a swarm of furious giant honey bees. He suffered more than 100 stings all over his face and body last year. The attack was likely a protective response triggered by a single bee being killed. Yesterday, the death
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      • MONEY
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          Lock icon S’pore’s yuan achievement
          63 4 SINGAPORE has overtaken London as the world’s top offshore yuan clearing centre outside of Hong Kong and China. The value of yuan payments made through Singapore surged 375 per cent in March over the same month last year, making the Lion City No. 1 in terms of
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      • SPORT
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          Lock icon Women paddlers win
          52 4 SINGAPORE’S women’s table tennis team began their World Team Table Tennis Championships campaign by comfortably beating Luxembourg 3-0 yesterday in Tokyo. The team will play Russia and the Netherlands today, before meeting South Korea in what will be the most crucial tie of the group stages tomorrow.
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          Lock icon City hold advantage
          59 4 MANCHESTER City wrested back control of the English Premier League title race, after beating Crystal Palace 2-0 on Sunday. While the 2012 champions remain in third place behind Chelsea and Liverpool, they have a game in hand and a superior goal difference, and will clinch the title
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      • LIFE!
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          Lock icon First-time winners
          62 4 THREE of four acting honours at Sunday night’s Star Awards went to first-time winners: Pierre Png (right) won Best Actor, Guo Liang was named Best Supporting Actor and Rebecca Lim collected Best Supporting Actress. Png, who made his debut 15 years ago, said that he “screwed up” his
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          Lock icon Indian Oscars in US
          76 4 ACTORS Kevin Spacey and John Travolta were at last Saturday’s 15th International Indian Film Academy Awards to provide Hollywood glitter and merriment, at the first Bollywood Oscars held in the United States, in Florida. Travolta, 60, showed off his legendary Saturday Night Fever moves and also
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      • STRAITS TIMES DIGITAL
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          Lock icon Storm front
          30 4 TORNADO season has started in the United States. Check out footage of the wreckage and see our animated graphic on the deadly path of the tornado at bit.ly/1h68vj4.
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      • PHOTOS
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          Lock icon Best and worst dressed
          37 4 WE ROUND up the fashion winners and losers at the Star Awards ceremony. Rui En (left in picture) and Jeanette Aw were gorgeous but some were fashion victims. Find out more at bit.ly/1kkzviJ.
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      • VIDEOS
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          Lock icon Best of Imran Ajmain
          22 4 MUSIC correspondent Eddino Abdul Hadi picks three of the homegrown singer’s best music videos. Watch them at bit.ly/1kbSU3D.
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      • FEATURE
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          Lock icon Sushi master Jiro Ono
          33 4 US PRESIDENT Barack Obama dined at Sukiyabashi Jiro sushi bar last week, reigniting interest in the three Michelin-starred 88-year-old chef owner. Read a profile of the chef at bit.ly/1m0nP8z.
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      Lock icon Air, ship searches to end; focus turns underwater
      666 6  -  New phase of search to start as floating debris unlikely to be found MH370: DAY 53 By JONATHAN PEARLMAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES IN SYDNEY jonathanmpearlman@gmail.com THE authorities are cancelling air and ship searches for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane and have
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      Lock icon Tap women and seniors to beat labour crunch: SNEF
      483 6  -  By TOH YONG CHUAN MANPOWER CORRESPONDENT tohyc@sph.com.sg AN UNTAPPED pool of 375,000 women and older people could help ease the labour crunch here, Singapore’s largest employer group said yesterday. They could be coaxed back to work if companies adopt flexible work
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      Lock icon Foreign graduates on S’pore govt bonds finding job hunt tough
      838 6  -  By AMELIA TAN ameltan@sph.com.sg SOME foreign graduates on Singapore government grants and scholarships are finding it hard to find jobs here because of tighter labour rules. Despite signing agreements to work here for three or six years upon graduation, they
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      Lock icon Faster rotation of A-Gs in recent years
      708 8  -  Some worry that trend could make it harder for A-G to implement changes By K.C. VIJAYAN SENIOR LAW CORRESPONDENT vijayan@sph.com.sg WITH the arrival of yet another new face in June, Singapore would have had five attorneys-general (A-Gs) in the past eight years a
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      Lock icon CRACKDOWN ON TAIWAN PROTESTERS
      67 8 Police using water cannon yesterday in an effort to disperse Taiwanese demonstrators in front of the Taipei Railway Station protesting against the building of a fourth nuclear plant on the island. With opposition to the use of atomic energy mounting, the Taiwanese government said it will
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      Lock icon Record $420 million in CPF arrears recovered
      444 8  -  By TOH YONG CHUAN MANPOWER CORRESPONDENT tohyc@sph.com.sg THE Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board recovered a record $420 million in arrears from errant companies last year, and also secured more convictions. It was a big jump from the $293 million it recovered in 2012,
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      Lock icon KL arrests 9 suspected militants
      318 8  -  By CAROLYN HONG MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF IN KUALA LUMPUR carolynh@sph.com.sg MALAYSIAN police have arrested nine suspected militants with links to foreign terror groups, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said yesterday. He said in a statement that the nine, aged between 22 and 55, were picked
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      Lock icon MMA trio not likely to come to S’pore
      534 9  -  Organisers say they are no longer involved in event By SANJAY NAIR nsanjay@sph.com.sg MIXED martial arts (MMA) superstars Jon Jones, Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre are unlikely to be coming to Singapore after all. Nine days after organisers LAMC Productions and Ch’i
      PHOTOS: LAMC PRODUCTIONS  -  534 words
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      317 4 TOMORROW IN THE STRAITS TIMES PRINT ONLINE Andrew Garfield An odd choice for Spiderman? I have chosen B.Tech programme to further my undergraduate education because I believe NUS provides world-class education in engineering and the technological disciplines. The B.Tech degree is well recognized in Singapore and in other countries. Although
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon No cheer for Golden Week
      816 10 Schools and firms cancel holidays as country mourns tragic loss of lives SOUTH KOREAN FERRY DISASTER BLOOMBERG SEOUL Ms Lee Mi Ja and her 50-member hiking club are among thousands of South Koreans cancelling their holidays, as grief for the dead and missing from a
      BLOOMBERG; PHOTOS: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, SOUTH KOREA COAST GUARD  -  816 words
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      Lock icon Video of captain fleeing ship may seal crew’s fate
      394 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG SEOUL South Korea’s coastguard yesterday released a video showing the trouser-less captain of a sinking ferry scrambling to safety as hundreds remained trapped inside a move expected to intensify criticism of the crew over the disaster. The 10-minute
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      Lock icon Students’ last moments captured
      303 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL “Wow, it’s tilting a lot. We’re tilting to this side. Can’t move.” “You think I’m really gonna die?” “What’s going on?” These are the voices of some of the people on South Korea’s ill-fated ferry that capsized on April 16 with 476 people
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      Lock icon Sympathy for the passengers’ families starting to run out
      577 10  -  SEARCH FOR MH370: DAY 53 By RACHEL CHANG rchang@sph.com.sg IN BEIJING CARRYING the same signs, wearing the same T-shirts and taking the same 3.8km route to the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing, anguished families of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 passengers staged their
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    • ASIA
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        Lock icon Taipei protesters removed by force
        519 12 Some had stayed put even after govt halted the building of nuclear plant AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS BLOOMBERG TAIPEI Taiwan police yesterday used water cannon to dislodge hundreds of overnight sit-in demonstrators, just hours after the ruling Kuomintang agreed to opposition demands and halted the construction
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      • Article
        Lock icon China likely to miss 2030 nuke target
        317 12 REUTERS BEIJING China is likely to miss its 2030 target for nuclear power capacity, energy consultants Wood Mackenzie said in a report yesterday, even though its building programme is back on track after a slowdown following Japan’s Fukushima meltdown. China has emerged as
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        Lock icon Armed tribe gunning for tourists
        440 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BIASHA (China) A rifle shot tears the air of a mountain hamlet met not with terror but cries of delight in China’s only remaining village where the authorities encourage gun ownership. “We start carrying guns from about 15 years old,” said Mr Jia
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        Lock icon Two faces of Sister Ping
        874 13 Woman a ruthless snakehead to US prosecutors but ‘good and kind’ to Chinese illegal immigrants NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK To the authorities, Cheng Chui Ping was the “mother of all snakeheads”, a ruthless businesswoman who smuggled thousands of Chinese into the United States. Prosecutors
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        Lock icon India’s youth voting for change, firm leadership
        880 14  -  BJP, AAP targeting them with promises of jobs, economic growth By NIRMALA GANAPATHY INDIA CORRESPONDENT IN HAJIPUR (Bihar) gnirmala@sph.com.sg MR AMARENDRA Kumar Bhagat, 21, works in a restaurant during the day and spends a good deal of his leisure time tracking the Bharatiya
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        Lock icon Thai ‘red shirts’ sticking to non-violence
        505 14  -  By NIRMAL GHOSH INDOCHINA BUREAU CHIEF IN BANGKOK nirmal@sph.com.sg PRO-GOVERNMENT “red shirt” leaders see non-violence as the key to winning the “war” against Thailand’s old elites, but warn it is difficult to control different factions in the sprawling movement. Speaking at yesterday’s funeral of
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      • Article
        Lock icon Call to probe court official over iPod controversy
        369 14 JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK JAKARTA Indonesia Corruption Watch has called on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to launch an investigation into the wealth controlled by Supreme Court secretary Nurhadi, who recently made headlines for holding a lavish wedding reception for his daughter.
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        Lock icon HONOURING A WAR HERO
        72 14 A visitor admiring a silicone replica of the late General Vo Nguyen Giap at an exhibition at the Vietnam Military History Museum in Hanoi yesterday. One of Vietnam’s most respected heroes, the general died in October last year at the age of 102. The exhibition marks
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      • ASIA BRIEFS
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          Lock icon Jakarta frees man in hijack alert case
          82 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA An Australian who sparked a hijack alert on a plane heading for Bali when he banged on the cockpit door was released without charge by Indonesian police on Sunday, officials said. Matt Christopher Lockley, who said he mistook the cockpit
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        • Article
          Lock icon North Korea detains US tourist
          82 14 REUTERS NEW YORK A 24-year-old American man detained in North Korea had arranged a private tour of the country through a United States travel firm and gave no indication he might try to seek asylum upon arriving in Pyongyang, the company’s director said. Matthew Todd
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          Lock icon Briton’s body found in Delhi
          72 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI Indian police said yesterday that they found the body of a murdered Briton wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped outside shops in New Delhi. The 40-year-old man had a British passport in his pocket which police said bore the name
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        • Article
          Lock icon Cambodia garment workers on strike
          89 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PHNOM PENH About 20,000 Cambodian garment workers have joined a strike to demand a US$50 (S$63) bonus for shunning walkouts over the last three months, a union official said yesterday, in the latest labour dispute to rattle the kingdom’s lucrative but troubled garment
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        Lock icon Rice raises concerns over Anwar’s case
        498 15 Top US official meets Malaysian opposition leader KUALA LUMPUR US National Security Adviser Susan Rice yesterday met Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and expressed concern at a sodomy conviction against him that is widely seen as politically motivated. Wrapping up a US visit to
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        Lock icon Muslim doctors endorse hudud, slam medical body
        357 15 KUALA LUMPUR A Muslim medical practitioners’ group has accused the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) of disrespecting Muslims and Muslim doctors by threatening to axe professionals who perform amputations under hudud. The group, i-Medik, was reacting to MMA’s decision last week to seek disqualification
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      Lock icon Israel faces apartheid state risk: Kerry
      297 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON The United States Secretary of State John Kerry told a group of senior international officials that Israel risks becoming an “apartheid” state if it does not make peace soon, a US website has reported. Mr Kerry made the controversial remarks at
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      Lock icon US sanctions on officials, firms linked to Putin
      570 16 Aim is not to go after Russian leader but change his thinking, says Obama BLOOMBERG REUTERS WASHINGTON The Obama administration has imposed sanctions on seven Russian officials and 17 companies linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle involved in banking, energy
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    • WORLD BRIEFS
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        Lock icon China accessed Aussie govt mail?
        81 16 REUTERS SYDNEY A cyber attack on the Australian parliamentary computer network in 2011 may have given Chinese intelligence agencies access to lawmakers’ private e-mail messages for an entire year, the Australian Financial Review reported yesterday. The newspaper, citing government and security sources, said the access
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        Lock icon 20 killed in Iraq ahead of polls
        76 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE polls BAGHDAD Deadly attacks yesterday, including a spate of suicide bombings, left 20 soldiers and policemen dead as they cast their ballots ahead of Iraq’s first election since US troops withdrew. The bombings in Baghdad and north and west Iraq raise
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        Lock icon Publicist guilty of sexual assault
        74 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON Max Clifford, Britain’s top public relations guru, was found guilty yesterday of a string of sexual assault offences in the first conviction stemming from a police investigation launched after the scandal involving the late BBC presenter Jimmy Saville. Jurors found Clifford, 71,
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      Lock icon Loos-turned-cafes relieve Sydney’s hunger for eateries
      385 16 BLOOMBERG SYDNEY The Gardener’s Lodge Cafe in Sydney’s Victoria Park has polished wooden floors, Aboriginal art on the walls and customers tucking into kangaroostout pies and sipping on macchiatos. All this betrays none of its past: The 125-year-old sandstone structure used to be a
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      Lock icon 17 killed as tornado season hits US
      344 17 South-central states search for survivors as more twisters loom REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas) Tornadoes ripped through the south-central United States on Sunday, killing at least 17 people in Arkansas and Oklahoma and wiping out entire neighbourhoods, the authorities said as rescue
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      Lock icon 16 dead, homes destroyed in Bangladesh storm
      363 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE XINHUA DHAKA A severe storm has killed 16 people and destroyed 1,000 homes in northern Bangladesh, according to police and government officials. The storm tore through scores of villages overnight on Sunday, uprooting trees and electricity poles and derailing a train
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      Lock icon Fast-food jobs drive employment growth in US
      688 18 Report shows more gains in low-wage jobs than better paid ones NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON The deep recession wiped out primarily highwage and middle-wage jobs. Yet the strongest employment growth during the sluggish recovery has been in low-wage work, at places such as
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      Lock icon New York’s tech start-up scene still lacking breakout hit
      542 18 NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Predicting that your city will be the next Silicon Valley is simple. But actually making it the next Silicon Valley is something else entirely as New York is slowly finding out. A few years ago, officials
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      Lock icon Chinese workers end massive strike
      431 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE DONGGUAN (China) Tens of thousands of employees at a Chinese factory making shoes for Nike, Adidas and others returned to work yesterday after one of the country’s biggest recent strikes ended, following what campaigners called typical government intimidation. The Communist Party fears an
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      Lock icon Japan retail sales rise at fastest pace in 17 years before tax hike
      362 18 REUTERS TOKYO Japanese retail sales rose in March at their fastest pace in 17 years as consumers went on a shopping spree before a national sales tax hike kicked in on April 1, setting the stage for
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      Lock icon Drug giant Pfizer seeks merger with British rival
      514 19 Firms are looking to stay ahead in challenge-filled drug industry AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BLOOMBERG LONDON US drug giant Pfizer wants a blockbuster merger with British rival AstraZeneca that will fuel cancer research, revealing yesterday that an informal approach worth almost US$100 billion (S$125
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    • MONEY BRIEFS
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        Lock icon Microsoft races to fix Explorer bug
        118 19 REUTERS BOSTON Microsoft is rushing to fix a bug in its widely used Internet Explorer Web browser after a computer security firm disclosed the flaw at the weekend, saying hackers have already exploited it in attacks on some US companies. Microsoft disclosed last Saturday
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        Lock icon Alibaba to buy Youku Tudou stake
        88 19 REUTERS HONG KONG Alibaba and a private equity firm co-founded by its executive chairman Jack Ma have agreed to buy a US$1.22 billion (S$1.5 billion) stake in Youku Tudou, as China’s e-commerce giant intensifies its focus on online video business. The deal underscores the
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        Lock icon GE’s Alstom bid gathers steam
        121 19 BLOOMBERG PARIS General Electric (GE) chief executive officer Jeffrey Immelt may be moving closer to pulling off his largest-ever acquisition, even after French officials over the weekend urged Alstom to consider a rival offer from Germany’s Siemens. The government does not oppose GE’s proposal, and
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      115 19 the year, according to a report released on April 25 by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. On 59 of the 90 days from Jan 1 to March 31, the city’s air was moderately or heavily polluted. The other most polluted cities were Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Baoding,
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      393 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO Japanese electronics giant Panasonic booked its first annual net profit in three years and reversed a huge loss suffered in the previous 12 months as it presses on with a sweeping restructuring. The company yesterday said net profit hit
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      448 20 THERE are intricacies for the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) to chew on in its effort to stimulate more competition to shake up the cosy troika of SingTel, StarHub and M1. This is despite the fact a template already exists in the doz-en-odd bit players known
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      1538 20  -  A spate of privatisation deals, coinciding with few listings so far this year, has revived worries about the attractiveness of the Singapore bourse. But insiders say it may just be a case of bad timing. EYE ON THE ECONOMY By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg
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      982 21  -  By MABEL TAN, ANG PENG HWA FOR THE STRAITS TIMES stopinion@sph.com.sg Mabel Tan, a former assistant vice-president of content at StarHub, is pursuing her master’s degree by research at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU. Ang Peng
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      869 21  -  By KAVI CHONGKITTAVORN THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK THE fate of Laotian civil society activist Sombath Somphone will serve as a test case on whether the dictum of a people-oriented Asean community, expounded recently by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, or a people-centred
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      810 21  -  By AARON HURST NEW YORK TIMES LAST September, the networking site LinkedIn added a feature that allowed its members to say whether they wanted to volunteer or serve on the board of a non-profit. In just eight months, one million members raised their virtual
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        231 22  -  Delane Lim PART of my job as a management and service consultant involves visiting outlets in the food and beverage, retail and service sectors. I have noticed that a significant number of customers, especially the younger ones, are showing less empathy and graciousness
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        199 22  -  Virdi Bhupinder THERE has been a lot of talk recently about the shortage of skilled labour in the service industry, with no solution in the offing (“What ails the service industry?” by Miss Christine Chan Simin; last Wednesday). As a veteran in
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        253 22  -  Michael Leong THE manpower shortage in the service industry is biting really hard (“What ails the service industry?” by Miss Christine Chan Simin; last Wednesday). Retailers and food and beverage operators, in particular, are reluctant to expand not because of financial constraints but
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        223 22  -  Leong Choon Kit (Dr) OUR current traffic conditions and habits are undeniably bad (“Improving road safety: 3 areas to focus on” by Ms Lim Lih Mei; April 16). There are many aspects that we need to improve: L If common sense prevails,
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        307 22  -  Elaine Wong (Ms) MY MOTHER went through a rocky menopause a few years ago. She developed multiple joint pains and was diagnosed as having fibromyalgia. She began a battery of treatments, ranging from hormone replacement therapy to steroids, but often felt worse afterwards. Her body
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        73 22 1. MR JEFFREY LAW: Single out model customers as well. 2. MS LI DAN YUE: Lower student-teacher ratio for overseas trips. 3. MR HENRY ONG: Nothing done to ease motorcycle parking woes. 4. DR QUEK KOH CHOON: Hospices doing a great job. 5. MR CHUA GUAN CHYE: Can
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        184 22  -  Stella Kon (Ms) TWO years ago, I fell ill with continual weakness and fatigue, which confined me to bed for much of the time and prevented me from carrying out my daily activities. A range of local specialists and medical tests could not diagnose what was wrong.
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          120 22  -  Palaniappan Muthukumar WHEN a Central Provident Fund (CPF) member turns 55, a Retirement Account will be set up for him using funds from his Ordinary and Special accounts, to make up the minimum sum. Funds from the Special Account will be used first, and if
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          128 22  -  Rajasegaran Ramasamy THE assurance by the Ministry of Health and Health Promotion Board that there is no link between childhood vaccines and autism is timely (“Vaccines licensed here meet safety standards”; last Saturday). While the authorities have stated that it is compulsory for parents and
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          171 22  -  Pak Tung Sing SINGAPORE companies are still sending out their annual reports by mail. This practice is not only costly but also extremely damaging to the environment. I wonder how many shareholders, especially the retail investors, actually read these reports. Some responsible companies are
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          74 22  -  Quek Hong Choon IT IS good that a task force is encouraging companies to appoint more women on their boards (“Steps to put more women on company boards”; last Saturday). Besides companies, the non-profit and charity sector is another area where gender diversity could be
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          138 22  -  Goh Yang Miang THE article (“Lax regulation, poor safety standards blamed for sinking”; last Thursday) highlighted South Korea’s tendency to “overlook safety precautions in its quest for economic success”. This tendency is present in Singapore as well, and we have had our fair share
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          150 22  -  Woon Wee Min IT IS disturbing to know that we are wasting food at record levels (“More food going to waste”; March 19), even though we are aware that many in Singapore do not have enough to eat. It is high time that more food
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          103 22  -  Ng Kim Hiang (Madam) RECENTLY, when I tried to top up my Kopitiam Card, I was told it had expired and was asked to pay a $2 service charge to renew it. If the card has not been renewed for three years, an
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        423 23  -  Joy Quah (Dr) I THANK Dr Andy Ho for raising the pertinent issues of dying and death (“Better to die a good death at home”; last Friday). As a medical doctor, I know that most patients do not “go gentle into that good night”. Certain physiological
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        460 23  -  George Wong Seow Choon (Dr) I LIKE senior writer Andy Ho’s article (“Better to die a good death at home”; last Friday). I want to answer the question he posed: “Might not an earlier death be better than a drug-filled
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        190 23 Is it a good idea to have apprenticeships that combine classroom training with hands-on technical experience at workplaces? Are current work attachment programmes for polytechnic and ITE students too short? Employers must not treat interns as cheap labour performing mundane tasks such as filing, stapling and photocopying. Kok
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      27 23 PUNCHLINES Condo unit sizes shrinking to keep prices affordable t h e n show-flat n o w show-flat See! that’s our condo unit.. ST ILLUSTRATION ADAM LEE
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      763 1  -  From next year, they must also submit recycling information to NEA By WALTER SIM waltsim@sph.com.sg ABOUT 250 shopping malls and hotels will need to report waste and recycling data to the National Environment Agency (NEA) from next year. They must state the
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      647 2  -  Many list illegal rentals on websites as HDB, URA investigate more cases By YEO SAM JO yeosamjo@sph.com.sg MORE people are renting out their homes for short periods, despite the growing awareness that it is illegal. The Housing Board investigated 184 cases of short-term leasing
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      624 2  -  By ELENA CHONG COURT CORRESPONDENT elena@sph.com.sg A PEST control officer died after he was attacked by a swarm of furious giant honey bees, which stung him mercilessly over 100 times all over his face and body. The attack was likely a protective
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      492 2  -  By MARYAM MOKHTAR, RACHEL AU-YONG maryamm@sph.com.sg rachelay@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE Management University law don Eugene Tan is the first among nine Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) to confirm he will seek a second term in the House. Associate Professor Tan said he believes
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      276 3  -  JOYCE LIM MORE ex-offenders are facing accommodation problems upon their release, said Mr Teo Tze Fang of Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprise (Score). “We have seen an increasing number of cases of ex-offenders, usually repeat offenders, being rejected by their families at the last hour
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      427 3  -  More volunteers and professionals to be trained in specialised areas By JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg OFFENDERS released from prison are to be given more help with the essential skills needed to adjust to life on the outside and avoid the trap of re-offending.
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      280 3  -  By AMELIA TENG ateng@sph.com.sg ALL 300 places at The Straits Times Education Forum this weekend have been snapped up. Education Minister Heng Swee Keat will give the keynote address at the inaugural event this Sunday. He will touch on how parents can
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      Lock icon Bosses favouring foreigners still top employment grouse
      644 4  -  Call for progressive work practices as complaints against bosses rise by 57% By JOANNA SEOW joseow@sph.com.sg COMPLAINTS about preferential treatment of foreigners remain the No. 1 gripe Singaporeans have over unfair employment practices, for the third year running. They made up more than
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      Lock icon Pioneer navy unit marks 80th anniversary
      466 4  -  By K. C. VIJAYAN vijayan@sph.com.sg THEY are a dwindling group, but Singapore’s little-known naval volunteer reservists who saw action during Konfrontasi and World War II yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the unit’s inception. In attendance were representatives from the United Kingdom, New Zealand
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      469 4  -  By CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT christan@sph.com.sg DESPITE certificate of entitlement (COE) prices falling by as much as $10,000, and a slew of promotions over the weekend, car buyers were still slow in signing on the dotted line. Motor traders told
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      572 5  -  It’s fairer to patients in polyclinics, public hospitals, say many in ST poll By SALMA KHALIK SENIOR HEALTH CORRESPONDENT salma@sph.com.sg MOST people here want fees for subsidised patients to be standardised, rather than have each public hospital or polyclinic group set its own
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      386 5  -  By HOE PEI SHAN hpeishan@sph.com.sg AFTER heavy Web traffic temporarily paralysed online Hello Kitty orders last week, the quiet launch of in-store sales at McDonald’s outlets yesterday surprised many. The first of the sixweek in-store sales for individual toy characters began at 11am, but
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      357 5  -  By IAN POH pohian@sph.com.sg TUCKED away in Joel Ng Li Yi’s van last April was 235kg of contraband cigarettes. But the van in a Woodlands slip road leading to Kranji Expressway was surrounded by three cars from Singapore Customs. When the Customs
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      393 7  -  He was spared death penalty under laws allowing judges wider discretion By SELINA LUM selinal@sph.com.sg MALAYSIAN drug courier Yong Vui Kong, who had his death sentence commuted in November last year, is now challenging the caning regime here. Yong, 25, was re-sentenced to life in
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      94 7 Mr Michael Kusugak, an Inuit storyteller from Canada playing an ancient Inuit drum at a storytelling session last Friday at Child at Street 11, a daycare centre for children, many of whom come from low-income and broken homes. The Inuits are a group of
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      338 7  -  ONLINE VICE RING By IAN POH pohian@sph.com.sg A 23-YEAR-OLD man yesterday became the first in an online vice ring case to be given probation as punishment, rather than jail. Though the judge did not specify this, Kelvin Peck Yong Li may have escaped incarceration
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      377 7  -  By ELENA CHONG COURT CORRESPONDENT elena@sph.com.sg FOR mattress salesman Lawrence Teow Peng Law, a bump along a store’s narrow corridor was not something he could take lying down. When he and Mr Cheo Boon Choon knocked into each
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      659 8  -  It pips London with 6.8% share of global yuan payments outside of HK By CHIA YAN MIN chiaym@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE has overtaken London as the world’s top offshore yuan-clearing centre outside of Hong Kong and China. The value of yuan payments made through Singapore
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      697 8  -  By YASMINE YAHYA FINANCE CORRESPONDENT yasminey@sph.com.sg SHAREHOLDERS of DBS Group Holdings yesterday seized the chance to quiz its directors on issues ranging from directors’ pay to bank queuing times and the social role of DBS and POSB. About 200 shareholders turned
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      466 9  -  IMF: Countries’ economic reforms may have adverse impact on region By FIONA CHAN SENIOR ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT fiochan@sph.com.sg SLOWER growth than expected in China or Japan, both of which are undergoing economic restructuring, is among the key risks to Asia this year, according to
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      501 9  - Rohde Schwarz opens regional HQ here TEE ZHUO GERMAN radio technology firm Rohde Schwarz opened a $58 million centre to house its regional headquarters and research and development hub here yesterday. The new centre at Changi Business Park is the firm’s largest facility conducting engineering and R&D activities outside Germany.
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      448 10  -  Stability, strong IP laws a top draw, say Novartis and Stats ChipPac By IVAN TEO ivantyh@sph.com.sg TWO global businesses with a large Singapore presence said the country remains vital for their growth plans despite concerns over the tight labour market. Novartis
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      375 10  -  By AUDREY KANG audkang@sph.com.sg A SLOWING hospital services division affected the overall numbers at Raffles Medical Group in the first quarter. The unit recorded revenue expansion of 4.8 per cent in the three months to March 31, down from its usual double-digit
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      319 10  -  By GRACE LEONG gleong@sph.com.sg A UNIT of Singapore-listed Kingsmen Creatives has been ordered to pay 7.6 million yuan (S$1.5 million) in damages to a Chinese contractor over an accident that occurred when an exhibition booth was being built in Chengdu. The
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        634 11  -  HK port operator gained $39.5m from sale of 60% of Asia Container Terminal By JONATHAN KWOK jonkwok@sph.com.sg GAINS from paring its stake in a Hong Kong terminal helped Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) lift first-quarter net profit by 47 per
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        386 11  -  By MOK FEI FEI feimok@sph.com.sg KEPPEL Corp unit Keppel Fels has signed a partnership to study the construction of one of the world’s first jack-up rigs with the ability to seal wells that are no longer productive. Keppel Fels
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        437 12  -  STI down 0.76% as Wall Street losses, Ukraine crisis take a toll BULLS AND BEARS By GRACE LEONG gleong@sph.com.sg LOCAL shares started the week on the back foot in line with a broad regional sell-off, following losses on Wall Street and concerns over
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          85 12 Points Change Mid Cap Small Cap Fledgling Catalist China China Top Maritime 753.60 545.58 871.63 957.59 231.14 201.61 265.96 -2.38 -3.30 -3.79 -2.05 -1.63 -2.03 -3.22 Points Change Basic materials Consumer goods Consumer serv Financials Health care Industrials Oil and Gas 1.16 -5.20 -5.14 -6.19 -5.07 -7.05
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          21 12 Stock trading volume 1.67 billion shares worth $1.13 billion Up down Gainers: 137 Losers: 294 Unchanged: 355
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          55 12 Yesterday’s close Index Change -91 -141.03 -2.4 Hang Seng Nikkei 225 Seoul Kospi Shanghai Comp Shenzhen Comp Bursa KLCI 22,132.53 14,288.23 1,969.26 2,003.487 1,007.271 1,855.74 -33.032 -29.445 -5.24 Yesterday’s close Index Change Jakarta Comp SET Thailand Sydney ASX 200 Friday’s close Dow Nasdaq 4,818.758 1,411.23 5,536.073 -78.885 3.07
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          236 12 For a full list of SGX stocks, warrants and bonds, visit btstocks.asiaone.com TRANSACTION DATE: APRIL 28,2014 Top Rises Apr 28 CENTS DBXT iBoxxKR 5US$ ***** 138.0 0.7 (0) Lyxor ThaiSET 10US$ ***** 102.9 0.6 DBXT AUDCS 5US$ ***** 86.6 0.3 DBXT iBoxxSvEu 5US$ ***** 71.5 0.2 DBXT
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          163 12 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL COMPANY 245 176.5 CapitaMall Trust 198.5 cd +1 5485 198.5 196.5 5.2 6880.1 224 152.5 CapitaMalls Asia 222 cd unch ***** 224 222 1.6 14.4 8636.8
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          195 12 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL DAY GROSS NET M CAP HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 HIGH LOW YIELD P/E $MIL 197.5 126.4 ARA Asset Mgmt 182 cd -1.5 757 183 180 2.7 20.7 1538.2 CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +0R'VOL ‘000 DAY GROSS HIGH LOW YIELD
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          45 12 By Volume CENTS Vol CENTS Vol 1.3 158,427,000 SIIC Environment ..............16.8 53,636,000 TopGlobal W*****9 ............0.3 51,630,000 CapitaMalls Asia 222 43,826,000 Golden Agri-Res ...................60 34,138,000 Charisma Energy ................5.1 33,910,000 134,073,000 1.7 86^554^000 Global Logistic ..................275 16,135,000 Genting Sing ....................132.5 16,070,000 Slid Environment 16.8 53,636,000
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          465 12 52-Wk Last Vol High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) Company Last 114.4 94 CIMB APAC Div 100US$ US103.3 +0.5 1510 1192 CIMBASEAN40 100S$D 1314 -4 0 1300 927 CIMBAsean40 100US$ US1038 -2 ***** ***** DBXT AUD Bonds 5AU$ A***** +40 121 108.3 ABF SG Bond ETF 113 3096 2879 DBXT
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          76 12 Fraser Neave CONSUMER group Fraser Neave (F&N) has struck a deal to buy a 70 per cent stake in Malaysia-based Yoke Food Industries for RM54.6 million ($21 million). Yoke Food manufactures, markets and distributes canned beverages in Malaysia. It also exports its products to Singapore, Indonesia and Indochina under brands
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          75 12 JEWELLER and property player Aspial Corp is buying a property in Melbourne for A$26.8 million (S$31.2 million) as part of its continuing overseas expansion. The property in A’Beckett Street has a total land area of 1,295 sq m and planning permission for a 49-storey tower comprising residential apartments,
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          113 12 PROPERTY developer Ho Bee Land has reported a 92 per cent plunge in its first quarter net profit to $4.1 million. Earnings dived as revenue for the three months ended March 31 fell 72 per cent to $17.1 million due to an absence of revenue recognition for its
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      132 17 LOTTERY Draw No. 2948/2014 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 Results of Draw Winning No. Add. No. 04 06 13 17 32 35 I 11 Group 1 Prize $690,223 Next Draw No. 2949/2014 Thu, 1 May 2014 Group 1 Prize $600,000. Draw Venue: Singapore Pools (Private) Limited 210 Middle Road, #01-01 Singapore
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      1201 18 Kompany warns there have been many twists and turns in title race THE TIMES, LONDON REUTERS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS LONDON Ahead of their own date with destiny in south London, Manchester City players gathered to watch the drama unfold at Anfield. A slip by Steven Gerrard,
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      205 18 P W D L F A Pts 1 Liverpool 36 25 5 6 96 46 80 2 Chelsea 36 24 6 6 69 26 78 3 Man City 35 24 5 6 93 35 77 4 Arsenal 35 21 7 7 62 41 70 5 Everton 36 20 9
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      508 18  -  EYE ON EPL By ALEKSANDAR DURIC stsports@sph.com.sg LIVERPOOL fans may be calling Chelsea’s Sunday display negative football. Even Reds’ manager Brendan Rodgers moaned that the visitors “parked two buses” at Anfield. Ultra-defensive. A display which killed the spirit of sport. Call it what you want,
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      530 14 She fends off challenge from Lewis, set to be No. 2 in world ASIANS MAKING A MARK AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SAN FRANCISCO New Zealand teenager Lydia Ko captured her first professional title on Sunday, closing with a birdie to edge Stacy Lewis by one stroke and
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      337 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS MADRID Japan’s Kei Nishikori claimed his fifth career ATP title as he became the first Japanese to win the Barcelona Open on Sunday with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Santiago Giraldo. Nishikori, who was playing for the first
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      325 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW ORLEANS Noh Seung Yul claimed his first title on the US PGA Tour by firing a one-under 71 for a two-shot victory at the Zurich Classic on Sunday. The 22-year-old South Korean finished at 19-under 269 to edge out Americans
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      537 14 THE TIMES, LONDON LONDON Formula One is fearing a European Union investigation into a £74 million (S$156 million) pay gap that threatens the future of the sport’s smallest teams. Officials in the EU Competition Authority, which has sweeping
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      432 15  -  Isabelle lauded by coach for debut victory in world team championships By MAY CHEN maychen@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE got Luxembourg and their tournament jitters out of the way yesterday at the World Team Table Tennis Championships, beating their first opponents 3-0. World No. 7 and the Republic’s
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      867 15 NEW YORK TIMES OAKLAND The Los Angeles Clippers, reacting to recordings of racist remarks attributed to team owner Donald Sterling, took the court for their play-off game on Sunday with a statement, one of both fashion and politics. In a silent sign
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      430 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PORTLAND Nicolas Batum scored five of his 25 points in overtime to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a 123-120 overtime win over Houston in game four of their NBA play-off series. His overtime points came during a
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      595 15 Basketball NBA Conference play-offs 1st rd (best of 7) Eastern, Game 4: Brooklyn 79 Toronto 87 (series level at 2-2), Game 4: Washington 98 Chicago 89 (Washington lead series 3-1). Western, Game 4: Golden State 118 LA Clippers 97 (series is level at 2-2), Portland 123 120 (OT. Portland
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        48 16 PERTH (Scotland) Singapore’s Aizat Muhammad Jufrie won a bronze medal at the Artistic Celtic C up C ommonwealth Invitational on Sunday, scoring 13.900 points in the individual vault event. He finished behind Ashish Kumar of India (14.162) and Ryan McKee of Scotland (14.000).
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        49 16 REUTERS SYDNEY Former Italy and Juventus football great Alessandro del Piero has played his last match for Sydney FC and will not renew his contract, the A-League club announced yesterday. The 39-year-old striker’s two-year contract expired in the A-League elimination play-offs this month.
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        94 16 REUTERS BARCELONA A Raul Garcia header earned Spanish La Liga football league leaders Atletico Madrid a 1-0 win at Valencia that kept them in the driving seat as Barcelona stayed in the hunt with an emotional victory on Sunday. Garcia took Atletico to a
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        66 16 REUTERS MELBOURNE Former Australian Olympic swimmer Geoff Huegill has been charged with drug possession by police in Sydney after being arrested at a horse racing meeting at the weekend. Huegill, who won a medley relay silver and a 100m butterfly bronze for Australia at the 2000
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        76 16 REUTERS STUTTGART Sixth seed Maria Sharapova fought back from a set and a break down to beat Ana Ivanovic 3-6 6-4 6-1 and win her third consecutive Stuttgart title on Sunday. Former world No. 1 Ivanovic raced to a 5-0 lead before taking the first set
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        90 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LONDON Tiger Woods has stayed atop the world rankings despite his continued absence from competitive golf following back surgery. The 38-year-old US star was treated for a bulging disc in his spine last month and subsequently pulled out of the Masters, the
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      571 16 But Bayern must score at least twice and defend against Ronaldo and Bale REUTERS MUNICH Arjen Robben said Real Madrid could expect to feel the heat at Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena tonight, allowing the holders to make home advantage count in the second leg of
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      472 16  -  SCHOOL SPORTS By LIM CHING YING chingyl@sph.com.sg THIS year’s Schools National B Division rugby final began six days ago at the Home Team Academy, and ended yesterday at the Physical and Sports Education Branch after two bad-weather postponements. After all the delays, it was
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      382 16  -  By TOH TING WEI twtoh@sph.com.sg SHE was called upon to win the deciding match at last year’s Schools National A Division Squash Championships final but she fell short and her team lost 2-3. Yesterday, at Kallang Squash and Tennis Centre, Raffles Institution’s (RI)
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      539 17 Rodgers defends sterling contribution as Mourinho, Lampard sympathise LONDON It was the cruellest twist of fate. The hometown hero desperate to lift the league title with his boyhood club for the first time since 1990, ending up as the man who could possibly dash
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      840 17  -  SPORTING LIFE By ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg TODAY, almost nothing will make Steven Gerrard feel better. Not the memory of John Terry’s penalty slip and miss in the 2008 Champions League final. Not the backhand volley at set point that Andy Roddick missed in the 2009
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      475 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE REUTERS LONDON What a difference a year makes. Liverpool striker Luis Suarez won England’s Professional Footballers’ Association’s Player of the Year award on Sunday, capping a year of rehabilitation that saw him go from a pariah to the best footballer in England. This
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      13 18 B14 B15 Lydia Ko wins first professional title Paddlers off to good start
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      158 18 m us HERE’S YOUR CHANCE TO SAMBA AT THE MARACANA The Straits Times, in partnership with Komoco Motors, sole distributors of Hyundai vehicles in Singapore, are sending two readers to Brazil for a three-match, whirlwind experience during the World Cup. You will get to watch two Round of 16 matches
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      156 1 Swan Lake with male swans Matthew Bourne’s lauded ballet to be staged here C2 Prince Charming Kim Soo Hyun wows fans with jokes C15 Star Awards The bestand worstdressed C16 WOULD YOU GO ONLINE TO BUY ART? Four online art galleries here are banking that you would. HUANG LIJIE reports
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        628 2  -  Corrie Tan British choreographer Matthew Bourne’s groundbreaking and critically acclaimed interpretation of the classic ballet Swan Lake will be the opening show for this year’s da:ns Festival at the Esplanade. The dance, which is arguably best known for replacing all its
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        707 2 Acclaimed choreographer Scott Graham works on an updated Merchant Of Venice with the Singapore Repertory Theatre Lisabel Ting lting@sph.com.sg The artistic director of British physical theatre company Frantic Assembly, who was lauded for his choreography for the award-winning play he Curious Incident Of The Dog
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        368 2 Agence France-Presse Madrid Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica, one of the world’s most iconic paintings, on Sunday served as a backdrop to a dance performance for the first time in its 77-year history. About 80 people sat on the floor or stood
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        560 3  -  T.H.E Dance Company is restaging its 2011 work with new choreography that makes the piece less heavy Lisabel Ting lting@sph.com.sg If you missed the first run of T.H.E Dance Company’s As It Fades in 2011, catch it when it opens for the second time next month.
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        488 3 Washington Post Washington DC Blue Note Records was not the first record label dedicated to jazz. It did not always have the biggest stars or release the most significant recordings. But it was always cool. Since its founding by a jazz-loving immigrant from
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        623 3  -  Lisabel Ting A new classical and contemporary Indian dance company will be launched this week, with a performance at the Drama Centre Black Box. Chowk Productions is headed by classically trained dancer Raka Maitra (below) and was kickstarted by an $80,000 seed grant which the
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        2293 4 / 5  -  Online art galleries with a wide variety of pieces have sprung up to cater to tech-savvy art lovers Huang Lijie Arts Correspondent lijie@sph.com.sg At the recent opening of Gallery.sg, there was art on the walls, an endless flow of wine and more than 100 guests in attendance.
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        757 4 / 5  -  Akshita Nanda Arts Correspondent The new president of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa), Mr Chia Mia Chiang, is not afraid to get his hands dirty. An engineer turned academic administrator, he started his career 37 years ago designing sewers and overseeing night soil collectors
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        140 6 ‘I think it’s enough that I find my own man handsome. If everyone finds him handsome, that’s quite troublesome’ Chinese actress Bai Baihe, when asked whether she wants her husband, Chen Yufan (left) of pop duo Yu Quan to consider cosmetic surgery ‘One day she’d had
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          87 6 Award-winning pianist Tian-Yu Zhou, 20, performs for the first time in Singapore in a private fund-raiser for the Children’s Cancer Foundation. Tickets are available to donors. VIP passes will be given according to the donation categories, ranging from $1,000 to $30,000 and above. Where: School of
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        114 12 A deadly measles outbreak has killed at least 112 people in Vietnam this year. Thousands more have been infected and the death toll is expected to climb, warned the Ministry of Health. WHY IT MATTERS Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. It is particularly
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        141 12 Tens of thousands of Chinese tourists are cancelling their travel plans to South-east Asia. Chinese nationals like Ms Shao Tingting and Ms Xiao Hu said they cancelled their trips to Malaysia because they no longer feel safe after Malaysian Airlines MH370 disappeared. WHY IT MATTERS
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        444 20  -  An aeroplane is made of hundreds of thousands of components. Some of these parts are crucial to safety in the air. In the wake of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 incident, these parts of the plane were thrust into the limelight. Little Red Dot takes a closer look
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      223 4 1/’09 AUDI A4 1.8TFSI MU PA, low km, well kept by doctor owner. *****345 ’08 AUDI A4 1.8mu S-line, OMV $40k, high loan avail $67,800. Tel: *****786. MTHLY ONLY $1496! 2006 BMW 630 Cabriolet. OMV $*****. 19’ Bregton rims. Low mileage. 1 yr warranty. Immaculate cond. High trade-in. *****999 Neo
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      912 5 Land Rover for Sale Land Rover for Sale Land Rover for Sale Land Rover for Sale Results of April 2014 2nd Open Bidding Exercise For COE [i-ATS BUY IT-SELL IT-FIND IT COE price Quota Bids Cars (1600cc and below) $71,335 361 513 Cars (1601cc and above) $75,010 351 486 Goods
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      344 5 2014 E250 7G-TRONIC Avant-Garde. High loan leasing avail 3 day delivery. 9762-3411 Sing Wang IMMED REGN. LATEST Benz E220 CDI Sport 7G-tronic. 3 yrs warranty. In-house loan avail. Call *****302 REPUBLIC AUTO: *****206 Sep ’10 E200 CGi $139.8K! C&C maintained with 1 yr extended warranty. Hurry!! 4/12 BENZ VIANO CDI
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      380 5 4/’06 COLT PLUS 1.5A. A1 svc cond. Black. New tax OMV $15.8K. *****387 9/’07 LANCER M Sport. $33.8K. Full bodykit. Excellent cond. Tony *****920 $20,999 SEP/05 AIRTREK 2.0A, 2 Owners, done 145kkm, Owner 9622-2277 11/’06 LANCER SPORT 1.6M, 90K km, accident free. Inhouse loan. *****740 4/06 COLT-PLUS 1.5A Sport Grey.
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      247 5 7/’07 SWIFT 1.5A Black Agt maintained, $neg well kept mthly $580. 9853-1444 ***$163,800! NEW ESTIMA Aeras CarTimes. Award Winning Co. 80 units sold! 13 units avail. Don’t miss! Main 6744-5111 (CaseTrust) 9060-6808 9341-9060 4800 DOWNPAYMENT ONLY! GV inhse 1.99%. ’08 Altis 1.6A. 1 owner. Low mthly $698. Cashback $13K when
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      196 6 EARLY’08 TOYOTA RAV-4 Low downpayment! Testdrive avail. Ken *****186 END’2007 ESTIMA 2.4 Low downpayment! Test-drive avail. Call Sam *****342 END’2005 WISH 1.8. L o w downpayment! Test drive avail. Sam: 9182-0342 1/’09 CAMRY 2.0A S i lv e r High loan trade-in avail 9030-3900 9877-1838 3/06 FORTUNER 2.7 White Sell
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      127 6 ***WEARNES PRE-OWNED EOS 2.0L TSI Nov 2010 $116,000. Well maintained, 1 owner. Call 6430 4800. 2006 POLO 1.4A. Tip top! Full accessories. Low Km. Easy maintainance. Flexi loan avail. Call 9617 5705 11/’09 BLACK JETTA $79.8K. Good cond. Accident free. Tony *****920 4/’13 BLUE SCIROCCO 1.4. $125.8K. Good cond. Accident
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      209 6 10/07 1 OWNER Cherry QQ (M) Orig Yellow. Parf $3387. Sell $9K. *****532 12/06 OPTRA 1.6A Silv er. Low KM. Agent Kept. A1 Cond. $21,8k. *****212 ’06 KIA RIO 1.4M $3K Drive away 2007 Proton Savvy 1.2A Mthly $398 *****444 apply conditions “LABOUR DAY PACKAGE PACKAGE I Terms 6556 1777
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      531 6 EURO 5. MITSUBISHI Truck 10-25ft, all range (12) servicing, can loan up to 100% finance. 8661 2199 Mr Foo BRAND NEW TOYOTA Dyna 150 Diesel. Sell $102,800. 95% loan. San Hup Bee #04-20 AML HP *****717 2/’01 TOYOTA DYNA Freezer Truck COE 1/2016. New Tax. Still Can Renew another 5yrs.
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      559 6 95 NISSAN CABSTAR. Power steering. Selling cheap at $7000 neg. *****091 ALMOST 07 CABSTAR Diesel Sell $*****. Well kept. 1 Owner. Call HP *****420 8/03 ISUZU NHR69 10 f t COE paid, $29.7K, new paint, $35.8K *****900 3/04 TOYOTA DYNA 15 0 D 10ft vox, COE 3/19, low km, original
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      1064 7 Properties Residential Properties for Sale Houses for Sale 402 D02 Anson/ Tg Pagar 402 D03 Queenstown/Tiong Bahru 402 D04 Sentosa/ Telok Blangah 402 D05 Pasir Panjang/ West Coast/ ClementiTown 402 D06 High Street/ North Bridge Rd 402 D07 Rochor/ Bugis/ Beach Rd 402 D08 Little India 403 D09 Orchard/ Cairnhill
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      51 7 Check ThisOut BEST SENTOSA COVE Villas Ocean Drive. Land 7500 8600 sf. Berth. Pool. Wide frontage.Luxury.*****233 SANDY ISLAND VILLA 5rms Approx 8500/ 10,000 sf. Pte lift c/w berth pool. Price neg. 9009-0206 Agt NEW LAUNCH WATERFRONT Faber. 11 Strata Hses. 1 km Nan Hua/Clementi MRT 5-rm/lift/2 carparks. Book Now!!! Paew
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      132 7 GOOD CLASS BUNGLW BT SEDAP 20K sf elevated Panoromic view, good BT TUNGGAL 16ksf, hilltop GALLOP ***** sf tropical HOLLANDPK15ksf brand new MT ECHO ***** sf modern NASSIM 22K/16Ksfbrandnew PEEL RD *****/8300 sf park 10 cars, tasteful reno, quiet, priced to sell!! SWETTENHAM *****sf,Elevated,wide frontage,pk 10 car GCB LAND FOR
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      268 7 DALVEY RD *****/*****SF Tropical GCB Closing soon! Nassim ***** sf new TOP! Mt Echo *****sf Modern. Astrid, Cluny all hilltop, rebuild. *****780 John Goh BELMONT PK LARGE ***** sf.180 degree unblock view Lovely Outdoor. Sprawling garden, pool, pavilion.... PhilipNg *****038 Savills RARE HOLLAND NEW GCB! *****/*****sf wide frontage, featured in
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      251 7 VIEW TODAY! BEST Deal! FH Convenient. Namly semi-d 2-sty. Built 4200 sqft. Nice frontage. Irene *****836 TODAY 2-5PM HOLLAND Regular Elevated Land 4880 sf and 6200 sf Nice Call Bernard Wu *****139 PRIME 2½-STY BUNGLW. FH. *****/7000sf. 5+1 rms PR eligible.Motivated seller neg. Anthony 9099-1108 SEMI-D LAND FOR rebuild. Regular
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      232 7 JLN MULIA 2-STY inter terr. Rare! F’hold. 885 sf. Near MRT/ amenities. $1.78M neg. www.mnprop.com.sg OPEN HOUSE SUN 2-4pm. Wolskel Rd FH 3sty semi-d 6bdrm Reno NEX. $830 psf only! Titus 9749-0385 1)CORNER TERRACE, RARE gem! Lor Melayu, 3911 sf, 2Storey, Garden, Big bdrm 2)Semi-D Lor Marzuki land 2340 sf
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      250 7 SENNETT ELEVATED SEMI-D 2.5 sty, 3800/ 4500 sqft. Nicely Renovated, 4+2 rm, Pond. Call *****995 EW BALINESE DESIGN TERR! Katong 1990 2800 sqft 3 rms, lovely porch garden Quicj! Call *****000 now SPACIOUS 6+1 SEMI-D. FH. 1km to Tao Nan Sch 3.5 sty Approx 3400/ 5100 sf Sole Agt Sharon
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      294 7 DREAM HOME TOH DRIVE BUNGLW F’hold 5916 sf 2-sty. $6.5M neg. Sole agt Stella *****173. www.stellakonghomes.com POWERFUL NEGOTIATORS! HOW Sun Dr 2130 sf $3.xM Cowdray 3046 sf $4.xM Hythe Rd 3698 sf $4.xM Rosyth Rd 4306 sf $4.xM Surin Ave 4308 sf $5M. Tai Keng Gdn 5219sf $5.xM NO. 2B/2C
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      279 7 BANK’S SALE CHARTWELL Dr 2½ sty 6-bdrm ensuites with pool. Mins to Chomp Chomp, sch *****002 DK PUNGGOL BUNGLW 4500/ 4600 sf. $5.5M/ Chartwell. 6+1 $5.4M. HB *****927 PHILIP AVE 3-STY corner hse. 5+1. 3400 sf. Pool. FH $3.98M. Lynn 9799-9966 TAMAN PERMATA Thomson. 2 sty FH corner terr. Land
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      290 7 SELETAR CORNER TERR 5+1 2-sty, 3500sf, huge, park 2 cars. Serene yet near amenities. Thomas 9755 8998 NEW LIST! CORNER Terr Neram Rd. 4157 sf, 2-sty, 4 rms, quiet ambience, 999 yrs, near Greenwich Mall. BEST CHOICE SEMI-D! Reno. 3200/ 2400 sqft, Freehold Ideal for small family stay. Only $3.xM
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      250 8 YOUR LAST CHANCE to own Commonwealth Towers 1/2/3/4 bdrms. 441 sf up. $7xxK up!! VVIP preview!!! COMMONWEALTH TOWER Queenstown MRT/ amen ities 43 sty 1/ 2/ 3/ 4-rms. Call now for VVIP preview RIVER PL. 1335SF 3+1, high flr, f/facilities. Mins CBD/ River. Aspac 8383-2040 NEW LISTING INTERLACE 2-BDRM, 807
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      325 8 D05 WATERFRONT@FABER MOST Exciting Project now 2/3/4/5-rm 3/ 4-rm Dual Key. Register your interest HERITAGE VIEW 2RM 969sf Mid floor. Pool facing. Well kept. Near Int’l Schs MRT. Full facilities. Owner stay. SUNSHINE PLAZA. 3+1. Face pool. 1345sf. Good cond. MRT. Iris 9788-1800 NEAR MRT RANGOON 88 JUST TOP. FH
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      374 8 LAST FEW UNITS!! Freehold Liv on Wilkie 2rm dual key fr $1.35M Steps to Orchard MRT. 9431 2080 YKK WATERMARK ROBERTSON Quay. FH. 4+1. 1733sf. Vacant. Pool view. Pte Lift. Exclusive. *****049 VALLEY PARK 2RM, 1216 sf, spacious, panoramic view, 999 yrs leasehold, near Greatworld 9003-4002 DK Four Seasons Park
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      273 8 LOFT NATHAN 484sf, 1+1, $999k. 1% to agt/ Nathan Suites/ Montana 20% disc 1/2/3/4rm.Philip *****105 ***BEAUFORT ON NASSIM. Prestigious place for the selected few! 3079 sf. $9M only! For more infopls call ARDMORE PK CONDO. 2885 sqft, 4+1, high/low flr, full facilities. Steve 9617-0316 ALLSWORTH 1959 SF. Balcony. Quiet. Huge
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      244 8 URGENT SALE! TREVISTA 2+study 1012sqft. High Flr, Toa Payoh Ctrl/ MRT. Near City Don’t miss 9388 8897 BARTLEY RIDGE FINAL 1 2 3 Bdrm Fully Sold 2+Study 850 sqft $1.01m. 4 Bdrm 1302 sqft $1.55m. Dual Key 1550 sqft $1.78m BARTLEY RIDGE 22% Disc 1 min MRT/Maris Stella Sch 2+Study/
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      267 8 THE BAYSHORE 2RM 947 sf Low flr above #04. Quiet. Master rm pool view. Well kept. Original. Owner stay. CASA MERAH 3+1, 1238sf. Beautiful landed view. Full condo facilities MRT. $1.5M. Julie 9626 7250 $990K! 3+UTILITY NICE! Stratford Court 268units, Face N/S. Near MRT/Expo/ Airport. Mabel 9190-1688 EDELWEISS F’H $898PSF
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      253 8 THE MINTON S/STY penthse 4 bdrms, 1991sf. 3 bdrms, 1464, 1216sf, f/facilities. NS facing. Eileen *****681 CHOICE UNIT JEWEL BUANGKOK 3 mins to MRT amenities. Choice 1-4 bdrm unit. Fr $11xx psf. Melvin Pung 9067 8647 THE MINTON BRAND new!! 3 bdrm, 1335 sqft, $1.65m 2+study, 1496 sqft, $1.35m. 2
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      301 8 RARELY AVAILABLE EUNOSVILLE. PRIVATISED. 1700 sqft. 3+1 Mais. Mid flr, Well kept. MRT. Vacant. $1.4M. Joe 9278 8188 Don't Miss 3’NG’ BLK 156. Valued. High flr. Orig cond. Upgraded Near good sch/ amenities Call Agnes 9452-6032 3-RM+ UTILITY! 343 reno, 3-rm blk 213 mid/ lift floor, 3-rm blk 503 high/
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      354 8 CORNER 3½-RM BLK 64 T. Blangah Hgts. A1 decor. Upgraded +utility rm. Near MRT. Gary Go *****405 NEW LIST! 5RM 77A. Mid flr. Renovated. Good facing. 1237 sf. Opp Redhill MRT. $850K. LC 9455 9220 SELL BELOW $500K 3-rm Blk 26B, Jln Membina. Just Mins to MRT/ Schs /Amenities mkt*****136
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      276 8 3NG CORNER BLK 247. Mid /lift flr 82sqm. 100% move in. Lor Ah Soo Mkt/ MRT. Valued. Frankie *****233 4’A’ BLK 452 Hougang. Unblocked, windy. Face park. Nice layout. lift landing. Can contra.Call 9009-7912 4’S’ 636. HIGH flr, bright, windy. 84 sqm. Val $408K. Near Rosyth sch/amenities All races. Serious
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      466 10 The Glyndebourne, brand new, 1450sf, 3+1, balcony, facing greenery, quiet $8k nego Waterfall garden 1830sf, 3+1 high floor, Unblock, p/furn Immediate $10.5k The Interlace brand new 1733sf 3+1+big balcony,high floor, unblock $6.3k Sky@Eleven, 2713sf 4+1 high flr, Unblock, Avail July $11.5k Shelley 9675-7811 *****752 AMARYLLIS VILLES 985/ 1260 sqft. 3bdrms
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      422 10 1) TULIP GDN 2600 sf, 3+1+ patio, $5.6K, Farrer MRT. 2)Tessarina 3+1 Pool view 1300 sf $4.7K. 9889-8959 ONE CHATSWORTH 3400SF Duplex 5+1. P/furn $12.8K One Jervois 1700sqft 4+1 $7.5K David 9485-5236 LATITUDE. 1930 SF. High flr 3+1 rms. Excellent view! Spacious layout. Prime! Immed. 9851 2159 Clinton FULL COMM
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      302 10 NEWTON SUITES, 3-RM. F/furn. Designer Decor!!! 1min MRT, facilities, immed alankoh.com *****226 AMARYLLIS VILLE 3 bdrms 1259 sf. High flr. MRT/ amenities. Immed. Michael Ng *****623. mnprop.com.sg SOLEIL@ SINARAN. 2BDRM. 958 sf. High flr. F/furn. Novena MRT/ shpg mall. $5K neg. Ivy Leong 9144 2886 STUDIO NOVENA M R T
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      334 10 GOOD LOCATION DON’T Miss No Agent Fee on Tenant. Brand new Studio Kembangan.Free cleaning/ maintenance. Mins walk to MRT. 100% new furniture +free parking.$1350-2700. 9183-0615 8555-7476 CANNE LODGE 5-MIN walk to Kallang MRT, amenities, 1420 sqft, f/furn. 3 bdrms utility. Reno. Immed. Facilities. $4.4K. *****243 BRAND NEW! VACANZA East 600/
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      404 10 ONE AMBER. HIGH flr. Unblock pool view. 1389 sf. 3+ study+1, balcony. Tip top. P/furn. Immed. $5K. DREAM HOME LUXURY PENTHSE IN Siglap, Huge Roof Terrace, High Quality, Brand new. F/furn, Immed *****786 Hameed PARK EAST Siglap, 872 sf nicely reno, furn, immed Pomex Ct 872 sqft, furn Cosy. Yap
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      322 11 Don't Miss DAIRY FARM, 4BDRM. Reno 1950sf. High flr. Unblocked Face Greenery. Huge Size rm. $4.5k. Dave *****386 VALUE FOR MONEY HILLBROOKS 3+S 1098 sqft Fully furnished. Immediate Mid floor. Well kept. Call Reanne Leu *****547 MOVE IN CONDITION 3BDRM MAYSPRING HIGH flr 1346sf. Fully furn. Aircon. Avail May. Near
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      285 11 5-RM PT BLK 39 T. Blangah Rise. 3 bdrms. Newly reno/ aircon. Mins Harbourfront. Immed. Adeline *****244 2+1 UTILITY BLK 138, newly reno, f/furn, quiet, serene, nearby amenities, move in 1 May,call Ryan *****430 4-RM BLK 315 Clementi Ave 4. F/furn, aircon. Mins walk to MRT. All races. Avail 2
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      352 11 30 HOLLAND CL. 5’I’ p/furn high flr, bright $3.5K, start mid May, near Holland V/ MRT. Stanley 9819-1883 506A WELLINGTON EA. F/furn aircon mins to MRT Mall. High flr. Nicely reno. Bright windy Avail immed NEW LIST! 3+1 Blk 482 Sembawang High flr aircon f/furn, immed. 9092-0997 SEMBAWANG 325. 5-RM
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      357 11 5’I’ CORNER 176B Edgefield Plains (Punggol), Reno.. 3’I’ (2+1), Blk 1 Toa Payoh. 3’S’ 637A Yishun, immed. 4’A’ (3+1) blk 361 Tampines 3’NG’ (2+1) 146 Bt Merah. 2+1 BLK 495 Jurong West 2+1 Blk 9 Selegie near city 2+1+1 Blk 5 Marine terrace 3+1 Blk 801 Yishun, MRT 3+1 Blk
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      379 11 PRIVATE/ HDB COMMON Master rms urgently wanted in all areas, With ready clients. Nava 9010-4177 SERIOUS TENANT SEEK HDB PTE. Master/ Common/ Studio. All area Immed deposit.Call Jeff 8131 4612. HDB/ CONDO, MASTER/ com -mon rms/ studios wanted by Asian professionals students. 9165-3319 CJ. TENANTS, BUYERS WANTED Apt, condo, cluster
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      212 11 AZ@ PAYA LEBAR. Brand new 1195sf. Modern B1 office. Column free.Attached toilet.Good$.Foo-*****488 AZ PAYA Lebar. OneStop Solution. Many units avail, size fr 1000 to 5000 sf. Call 6100-9559 now! justtop OXLEY BIZ HUB 1335sf #08 Unblock, pool, gym view, with toilet, Tai Seng MRT $2XXX. Yuli 9795-9966 GRD FLR. ABOUT
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      401 11 JURONG (KIAN TECK) grd flr. 2280sf fty/ warehse. 6m ceiling. Avail immed $2 psf. Sherry *****339 PAYA LEBAR. CORP image 20/40ft accessible.Attach toilet. Mins walk to mrt/ amenities.Sharon*****063 WESTPOINT BIZ HUB,Tuas South Ave. 2, 7000 sf. 3sty B2 Industrial. Owner 9831-9551 agents welcome KAKI BUKIT RUBY Warehouse Level 4 With
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      253 11 A’POSH BIZ HUB, Yishun Ave 6.1281/1550/3843sqft Avail immed. 9139-0654 HENDERSON, BLK 217, 2000 /4000/6000sqft, ready to move-in. Owner 9139 0654 JURONG B1/B2 1700-4900 sf. High ceiling. *****720 www.mycommspace.com PAYA UBI Ind Pk ramp-up fty 1335sf, 1787sf, 4909sf, $2.4k-$9k, Bill *****937 PIONEER PT 1066SF x2 unit B2 ramp up. TOP soon.
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      191 11 Rare Opportunity TUAS 34,000SF PRODN/ B2/ High Ceiling Power Supply/ 12x Shutters 13 Lorry Lots 25 Carparks!! Priced to Sell!! *****747 CHANGI INTER TERR T8. B2 15,200/ 14,800 sf. 42 yrs Tuas view detached 45 yrs B2. 178,000/ 172,200 sq ft. Pls call Lee 9070-2213 DTZ *ZERVEX B1 RAMP up.
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      749 12 Factory/lndustrial Space for Sale Factory/lndustrial Space for Sale Factory/lndustrial Space for Sale Enterprise One along Eunos Link 1 No additional buyer's stamp duty 1 Tenanted units offering immediate rental income Sizes from 2,164 sq ft Near PIE KPE CTE Ramp-up vehicular access to all levels Completed project with a balance
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      212 12 20 COLLYER QUAY Excellent Seaview Next to Raffles Place MRT Station 700 sq ft 1,839 sq ft 6428 7864 884 853 I 6534 3132 Changi Business Park Retail, Hotel and Convention Centre Good Corporate Image OPP Expo MRT Mins to airport SUITS IT/ IT Related Cos 13,000 sf to 28,000
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      451 12 Prime Medical Suites Orchard Area μ Unit sizes from 539 sqft to 6,671 sqft μ Suitable for various medical professions μ Minutes walk to Orchard MRT Station μ Located near medical services and amenities μ Agents welcome Call Landlord at 9641 1622 Office Space at Central μ Above Clarke Quay
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      329 12 OXLEY BIZHUB 1/2 Premier B1 or glass frontage. High ceiling. Pool/ MRT *****00sf. Cynthia 9003 1418 ***MOHAMED SULTAN. FEW units. 800 1500sf. Nice conservation!Pantry/toilet Low rent! 9062 8333 Chris CENTRAL SOHO Clarke Quay MRT. 624 1248 sf. High ceiling. Fitted. Face MBS. $neg Vin 9006 8683 $6K! PARKWAY BUILDERS. 1098sf.
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      638 12 TELOK AYER ST Shophouse 3500 sf. Rarely avail Fitted Good layout. Tg Pagar MRT. Lionel *****807 FP CHEAPEST CENDEX. LIGHT Clean B1 1636 SF. W/ 2 carpark. Only $3998 W/O GST. Christina 8198 3010 TOA PAYOH CENTRAL 2,100 sqft office for rental. Immediate. Near MRT amenities. Call *****144 PARKWAY CENTRE.
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      498 12 PEACE CENTRE (ORCHARD) 215 sqft $15xx psf only Fook Hai 280 sqft. 3% yield Alvin Chua *****201 Grab or Regret BELOW $590K WHERE to get? Orchard Plaza. 226sf. Sq. layout. Good location rental yield! 9695-3743 GOOD INVESTMENT TEXTILE CTR OFFICE ***** sqft. Tenanted till 5/’2015 $110K. Good potential. No ABSD.
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      374 12 PRIME #02-64/ 69 Far East Plaza (grd flr) 624 sf. Face concourse. Heavy traffic. With water point. $12K neg 6235 1716 x 12 9818 8795 NEAR MRT JURONG East blk 130 300/1000sf, suits clinic, hair beauty, F&B, cakeshop, financial Institution. OngHS *****822 TOP PEOPLE’S PARK COMPLEX, grd flr shop facing
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      1276 13 67 Mr 167 Mr I 69 Mr Far East Organization INSPIRING BETTER LIVES W£5T COQ5T mm F&B and Retail Space for Lease Proximity to dementi, Dover and Circle Line MRT Stations Easy accessibility via AYE and West Coast Highway Free daily shuttle bus services at designated pick-up points Surrounded by
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      196 13 MACPHERSON MALL F’HOLD Shop Restns fr $1.68M. Anchor tenant NTUC, Ibis style Hotel, Mins MRT. Free shuttle bus *****080 YKK NEAR BOAT QUAY Land 2122sf, total area estimate 8000sf, 5sty,36yrs got 2yr wp change of use as back packer,sell vacant possible A* GEYLANG MAIN Rd Sale 2 sty FH shophouse.
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      332 13 D.15 EAST COAST FH Commercial Shophse F&B. No GST/ SSD. $1988 psf. Plot ratio 3. HL. Ong 9751 6892 KENSINGTON SQUARE MALL Retail Shops RestaUrant 527-969sf Wide Frontage! FH fr$1.99M 9767 6611 Mel Must Sell PRICED REDUCED 3-ADJOIN Shophse D08 2.5sty. 2550 5700 sqft. High upside. 3 MRTs. Lucas 9674-0095
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      365 13 jf Restaurant/Lounge .TTJj Restaurant/Lounge Space for Rent Space for Rent 10U'AT T0WERS Prime F&B Space Approx. 3,500 sqft Street level Prominent frontage 5 mins to Orchard MRT station Call Landlord at *****-784/ 785/ 776 *51 TELOK AYER St. Crowd, aircon. 1) Food Ct Stall 200 sf $5.4k +svc chg. 2)
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      252 13 VISION EXCHANGE. 24-HRS 527-2000sf, 1st flr, face rd, MRT, bus stop walkway. www.visionexchange.me Cheap B2 Industrial Office Space *Flexible Lease Jurong Tuas Eunos Kallang Bt Merah 5MT Overhead Crane Near Mrt Bus Stop 6578 9966 Call FACTORY/ WAREHOUSE 300,000 sf (West) 200,000 sf (Aircon, east) OPEN SPACE 50,000 sf Please
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      452 15 People's Association Tender Notice Yew Tee Community Club Tenderers are invited for the operation of 1) Education/Enrichment Centre or Office Space (Approx. 183 sqm) commencing Oct/Nov 2014 2) Education/Enrichment Centre or Office Space (Approx. 25 sqm) commencing Sep/Oct 2014 Tender No: YTCC 01/2014 $53.50 per set of tender documents for
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      806 16 >0 MATS RECRUIT Executive Appointments 1800-289-8822 Classified Jobs 1800-289-9988 www.cats.com.sg/recruit Classified Jobs Executive Appointments CATS Recruit Guide Classified Jobs 1800-289-9988 email: cats@sph.com.sg 706 Professionals/ Executives 709 Engineers 710 Building/Construction 711 Finance 712 IT/Infocomm 715 Lecturing/Teaching 718 Tutors 721 Nursing/Health Care 724 Art/ Creative 727 Marketing/Communications 730 Sales 731 Retail Sales
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      127 16 TEACHERS REQUIRED FOR KINDERGARTEN Near Bt. PanjangLRT, DPT Trained Interested pls call 6769 1888 Kindergarten along East Coast Rd requires English Teacher DPT trained with 3 years teaching experience S’poreans only Interested applicant pls email resume to kckids03@hotmail.com or call *****473 (after 5pm) An International Education Organization is Seeking Early
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      837 16 Nursing/ Health Care Nursing/ Health Care I Institute of Health Sciences I R, Q&M Train Work as Dental Surgery Assistants Clinic Admin Assistants 90% -100% funding for S'poreans Eligible Candidates No Experience Required! Job Opportunities/Sponsorship available! Documents to bring: Resume photocopied educational certificates Course Preview: 30 April 2014 1.00pm Venue:
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      549 16 NEW JOIN INCENTIVE $500! *(Must commit min 6mths) Students on vacation welcome! 24 hrs Supermkt various location CASHIER Full-time (8 hrs): 7am-3pm/ 3pm-11pm /11pm-7am/ Flexi-5hrs Full-time, 6 days GovtSchStudents/ Housewives/ Retirees S’porean are welcome Walk-in: 11am-5pm: 371 S’goon Rd (Near Farrer Park MRT Exit G) Call: *****383 TROPICAL FORESTRY VENTURE(S)
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      318 16 Ladies Fashion Boutique requires SALES MANAGER SALES ASST MANAGER μ 4 vacancies μ At least 1 yr experience μ Positive attitude μ Location: Raffles Place, Orchard, Somerset μ High basic+commission μ A Level O Level /SPM Call *****836 Walk in Far East Plaza #03-133 Full Part-time Sales Assistant for Ladies
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      504 16 TROLLEY RETRIEVER (Changi Airport) Gross upto $1048 Salary Incentives Bonus +Uniform Retrieving of trolleys, wheelchairs strollers Must work on shift Walk-in: Mondays Fridays, 9am-5pm Airport Terminal 2, Basement #B16-026 Please call 9645 0025 P-Serv Pte Ltd |EA Lic No. 90C3494 RCB N. *****2727Z CUSTOMER SERVICE PERSONNEL Handle airport information Provide
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      551 17 1. Pastry Cook Kitchen Cook (Full Part-Time) 2. Cleaner(Full Part-Time) Please call Mon Fri, 10am 6pm Alan 9669 7772 James 9669 7775 Italian Restaurant requires 1. WAITER/ WAITRESS 2. KITCHEN HELPER Min experience Salary $1800 p/mth 5.00 11.30pm S’porean only Limoncello Grill Pizza 95 Robertson Quay #01-18/19 Rivergate (Behind Riverview
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      297 17 Private Counselling Academy requires COURSE COORDINATOR Articulate and write well Confident to manage adult learners Work independently Able to work occasionally on evenings weekends Competent in MS Office S’poreans Only Office near Bugis/ Dhoby Ghaut MRT Interested call *****411μ *****191 or send CV to: eve@ecta.edu.sg Western Food Stall hiring 1.
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      226 17 TRAINEE MASSAGE THERAPIST required Raffles Place. Salary $2.2K-$2.4K. All welcome. 9488-1086 A well established Co of 30yrs Tuas requires the following )ACCOUNTS EXEC )ACCOUNTS/ADMIN ASSISTANT ù Singaporeans preferred ù Training provided ù Transport provided at designated locations Interested applicant email: hr@presco.com.sg PURCHASING ADMIN Experience in general procurement Provide admin support
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      365 17 ADMIN ASSISTANT Responsibilities Admin Duties Invoicing keep stocks/ attend to telephone calls Able to handle Mandarin speaking clients PC literate bilingual Singaporean only 5 days week Interested pls contact: 6745 1147 or Email job@azdigital.net SALES CO-ORDINATOR Requirements:- ’O’ levels or equivalent Preferably with Logistics experience Fluent in English able to
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      1243 17 ADMIN CLERK S’poreans Only Basic computer knowledge Answering calls for phone orders 15 Woodlands Loop #04-33 Call 8233-8845 1) ADMIN ASST 2) ACCOUNTS ASST Min 3 yrs experience PC literate Type Well Able to handle English and Mandarin speaking clients 5-day wk/ S’porean only *****188/ *****256 18 Kaki Bukit Rd
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      141 17 Import/ Export Company urgently requires: SHIPPING EXECUTIVE Can start work immed Have experience in handling import/ export duties Manage all locals overseas correspondence Motivated, matured responsible Singaporean only Walk in: No 2 Pandan Ave Call Serina 6278-2188 or email humanresource@ fohfoh.com LOGISTICS COMPANY REQUIRES Junior Customer Service Assistant. Only S’porean
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      377 18 WAREHOUSE ASSISTANT μ Assist Warehouse Supervisor in stocks picking μ Packaging updating of data into computer and manual recording systems μ Forklift licence μ Trust worthy, reliable and flexible μ Computer literate preferred μ Free shuttle from/ to Yew Tee MRT provided Interested applicants are invited to email your CV
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      267 18 SECURITY OFFICERS Jurong East, Changi, Tudor Court, Verge various locations DAY NIGHT SHIFT Salary $1700 $2000 Those without licence are also welcomed to apply Walk in: 1 Yishun Industrial St 1, #08-36, S(*****0) MON-FRI, 9.30am-5.30pm Suganya /Josephine 6883 2100 9690 8037 SingTec Security Security Officers Commercial Bldg: Ang Mo Kio,
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      296 19 SECURITY OFFICERS Event Security from 30th April to 4th May Toa Payoh (Day) $400.00 Expo (Day) $420.00 Night shifts also available Call 6253 5562after 10am 187AThomsonRd,GoldhillCentre<enquiry@securitypersonnel.com.sg> International Plaza has vacancies for: LIFT ATTENDANT •$850 upon confirmation •$60 fixed monthly shift allowance •$50 full attendance monthly allowance Requirements: •Able to speak
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      372 19 Site Security Executives Possess Security Sup Cert Good Spoken and Written English Computer Literate Committed and Dynamic Able to work on Weekends Class 3 licence is an advantage Starting salary: $2500/= Please call 9106 9106 for an appt or send Resume with recent photo to: gerald@henderson security.com.sg SECURITY OFFICER OFFICE
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      300 19 SECURITY OFFICER NEEDED Ubi/ Katong/ Lavender/ River Valley. *****499 $2.1K $2.3K Security Officer required at various location. Rusli 82 999 555. TANJUNG RHU $2K (D) Officer required for show flats Call: Tan 9880 1979 S$1.8K DAY/ NIGHT/ Perm Bugis/ AMK/ Bras Basah/ Orchard. Immed. 9139 3211 FLOATER FOR HUME A
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