Today, 8 September 2006

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    13 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper Friday September 8, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006
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    Mickey at Marina?
    757 1  -  VALCHUA Disney in talks with Singapore, sources say val@newstoday.com.sg ONE month before the four bidders for the Sentosa integrated resort (IR) put their cards on the table, comes a stunner: The winner could face a theme park rival, right here in Singapore. Mickey Mouse who has spurned
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    Mobile phone clip returns to haunt 5 national footballers
    520 1  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg IT IS one of the most popular clips on the video-sharing website Youtube.com, purportedly showing a group of soldiers holding a mock National Day parade in a locker room. But yesterday, there was a bigger shock in store
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      Batam officially bans anti-IMF protests
      418 2  -  LOHCHEEKONG Police cite security reasons; protesters plan to hold informal discussions instead cheekong@newstoday.com. sg A MOVE to protest International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank policies right at Singapore's doorstep has been officially banned by the Batam police. Unable to stage outdoor demonstrations in Singapore
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      VIGILANCE IS THE BEST MEDICINE
      786 3  -  CHARLES TAN Beware, Singapore is not immune to the fake drug invasion IF YOU find yourself tempted to stock up on Tamiflu or Cialis from overseas through an online deal, read this. Murder by medicine or, more specifically, fake medication is an insidious and growing
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon WHEN TWO PM'S MEET:
      92 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair shaking hands with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday, at the start of Mr Lee's three day visit. They met for about 15 minutes at Nolo, Downing Street and reaffirmed the strong and long-standing relations between Singapore and the
      – CHANNEL NEWSASIA; AFP  -  92 words
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      Lock icon Boy, 11, among those held in Subutex raids
      546 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg IN AN islandwide drug bust yesterday, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) nabbed another 52 suspected offenders including an 11-year-old boy. A total of 125 tablets believed to be controlled drugs were also seized by the authorities. Among
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      Sentosa Cove pitches to KL
      332 6  -  TORCHING LI Regional road shows start in Malaysia, and will go to Hong Kong and Indonesia chingli@newstoday.com.sg SENTOSA Cove will be showcasing 10 exclusive villa sites in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this weekend, following the successful launch of its South Cove collection here last month. Already,
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        Lock icon SLIGHTLY HAZY DAYS AHEAD
        128 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Slight hazy conditions are expected in Singapore over the next few days due to the accumulation of smoke haze particles under light wind conditions, said the National Environment Agency (NEA) yesterday. Diffused smoke haze particles have been carried over to Singapore by the prevailing
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        Lock icon IDA-UK ADVANCED SCHOOL TOOLS
        130 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is working with British company Futurelab to develop cutting-edge technology for the classroom of the future. Called iLAB 2015, they will work together and with industry partners to develop prototypes for new teaching and learning tools to be made
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        Lock icon FPDA IN LARGEST DRILL SO FAR
        116 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The largest and most complex exercise involving the army, navy and air forces of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) countries kicked off in Singapore yesterday. The exercise of the FPDA countries of Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom
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      Lock icon Warriors back to Perak – 129 years later
      358 8 Warriors back to Perak 129 years later -938 LIVE YESTERDAY spelt an end to the Singapore chapter of a century-old story mired in politics, murder and exile, as the graves of two 19th-century warriors buried in Singapore were exhumed and their remains shipped back to Perak. The tale dates to
      -938 LIVE; CHANNEL NEWSASIA SCREEN GRAB  -  358 words
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      Lock icon FIT TO FIGHT:
      54 8 KOH MUI FONG A team of fire-fighters, participating in the Singapore 2006 Readiness and Preparedness Exercise, enter a room to check for survivors in a mock drill held in conjunction with the upcoming IMF meetings at Suntec Singapore. The drill involved evacuating more than 1,000 staffers and
      KOH MUI FONG  -  54 words
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      2 boys crossing road hit by taxi
      341 8  -  UNYANQIN TWO brothers, said to be running across the road, were hit by a taxi at the junction of Toa Payoh Lorong 6 and Toa Payoh East yesterday afternoon. The boys, aged 10 and 13, had gone out to play and were on
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      Gloom in hotel lobbies
      733 10  -  JASMINE YIN Low room occupancy brings hype over meeting down to earth jasmine.yin@newstoday.com.sg WITH only a few days to go before Singapore 2006 kicks in, hoteliers are still rationally or not clinging to the hope of cashing in on the high profile meetings and the convergence
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      Lock icon This way to delicious food
      209 10 938 LIVE FANCY a tour guide at a food court? For the IMF and World Bank delegates in Singapore this month, bumping into a tour guide will mean a short cut to Singapore's gastronomical delights. Come next Tuesday, an experienced guide, certified by the Singapore
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      Lock icon RIDING IN STYLE:
      47 10 KOH MUI FONG Delegates at the IMF/World Bank meeting will be chauffeured in comfort thanks to the 545 gleaming limousines supplied by BMW Singapore and its distributor. Performance Motors. The cars were handed over to the ***** Transport Subcommittee in a simple ceremony yesterday.
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      Lock icon Teens & sex – the mistake parents make
      619 12  - Teens sex the mistake parents make SHERALYN TAY The all-or-nothing approach alienates kids and can backfire shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg THINK you've done your job if you have spoken to your teenage children about sex and advised them to avoid it? Then, something must be wrong if the number of sexually transmitted
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      Lock icon AMD common, largely undiagnosed among aged
      388 12  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@newstoday.com. sg IT IS the most common cause of blindness in developed countries and the second-most common eye disease in Singapore. Yet, few Singaporeans have heard of the condition called age-re-lated macular degeneration (AMD). With one in four Singaporeans aged 60
      PHOTOS COURTESY OF HEALTH PROMOTION [  -  388 words
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      Easy loans help poly kids pursue niche degrees abroad
      186 12 IN A first of its kind, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) will give interest-free study loans annually to about 10 top graduates pursuing niche degree programmes in good overseas universities. This is thanks to the establishment of a new $10.5 million endowmentfund
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Blair to go in 12 months
      506 14 -AGENCIES But British PM refuses to seta precise date amid pressure from within his ruling Labour Party LONDON- British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday said that he will leave office within 12 months, in a statement aimed at quelling an increasingly damaging row within
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      Lock icon Bush admits to CIA-run secret prisons
      295 14 -AFP WASHINGTON President George W Bush has acknowledged for the first time that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation forced militant leaders to reveal their terror plots. Mr Bush said 14 suspects who had been held in such prisons including
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      JB will be hit by S'pore-KL budget flights
      213 14 JOHOR BARU A Johor government official had spoken against allowing budget airlines to ply the Kuala Lumpur (KL)-Singa-pore route, The Star reported. State Tourism and Environment Committee chairman Freddie Long believed doing so would affect Johor Baru's tourism industry and its economy.
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      Lock icon Thai poll will be postponed, says official
      228 14 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand's general election, a re-run of polls held earlier in the year, will be postponed "for months" despite already having been scheduled for mid-October, a senior cabinet official said yesterday. The kingdom is without a functioning Election Commission, and although the
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      Lock icon A three-way fight for top post
      749 16  -  NG HUN WEI The battle for the leadership of Japan's ruling party kicks off with three front runners, but who will it be? hunwei@newstoday.com.sg THE race for the presidency of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) kicks off today. To punters, what will start
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      Lock icon Taiwan president, wife questioned
      263 16 -AGENCIES TAIPEI Taiwan prosecutors have questioned President Chen Shui-bian and First Lady Wu Shu-chen over corruption and embezzlement allegations, the Supreme Prosecutor's Office said yesterday. "Prosecutors questioned President Chen at the Presidential Office on Aug 7 and questioned First Lady Wu Shu-chen at the president's residence
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      Lock icon Aussie PM to appeal Indonesian death sentences
      211 18 -AFP SYDNEY Death sentences passed in Indonesia on six young Australians were a "brutal reminder" of the stupidity of smuggling drugs in Asia, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said. Mr Howard pledged to appeal to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to spare the
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      Lock icon More militants get jail for Bali blasts
      345 18 -DPA Two Indonesians dealt lengthy prison terms DENPASAR (Bali) Two Indonesian Muslim militants received lengthy prison sentences yesterday for their roles in suicide bombings on the resort island of Bali last year that killed 20 people. The guilty verdicts and sentences handed down
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      Garuda sued for $2.2 million
      247 18 JAKARTA A 13 billion rupiah ($2.2 million) lawsuit has been filed against Indonesian national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia over the death of leading rights activist Munir. As his supporters marked the second anniversary of his death aboard a flight from Holland yesterday, the lawsuit accused
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      Lock icon THE FORGOTTEN WAR IN GAZA
      797 20  -  EMANUELSHAHAF It's time to call in the UN peacekeeping troops IN JERUSALEM THE recent conflict in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, in case anybody does not remember, broke out two weeks after an attack by Hamas militants across Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in
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        Lock icon TWO AIRLINE TERROR SUSPECTS IN UK COURT
        91 22 -AFP Two suspects in the foiled alleged terror plot to blow up United States bound passenger jets from Britain, appeared in court to face charges yesterday. Donald Douglas Stewart-Whyte and Mohammed Usman Saddique have been charged with "the intention of committing acts of
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        NEW YORKERS STILL WORRIED ABOUT ATTACKS
        68 22 Five years after the Sept 11 attacks, two-thirds of New Yorkers say they are still "very concerned" about another attack on the city, revealed a recent poll reported in The New York Times. In the poll of 838 adults, nearly one-third of New Yorkers
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        Lock icon VIET DISSIDENT EXTRADITED TO FACE CHARGES
        82 22 -AFP Vietnamese dissident Ly Tong, who hijacked a plane from Thailand six years ago to drop anti-government pamphlets over Ho Chi Minh City, will be sent back to Vietnam to face criminal charges, a Thai court ruled yesterday. Hanoi wants Tong extradited to face
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      Kidnap victim dreamt of freedom
      620 22 Austrian teen says male kidnapper was paranoid, distrustful VIENNA Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch said yesterday that, while she constantly yearned for freedom during her eight-year captivity, she held off making an escape attempt because her "paranoid" abductor had threatened to go on a murderous binge.
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      Lock icon INDIA'S DIVISIVE NATIONAL SONG:
      78 24 Politicians and millions of school children sang out yesterday to celebrate the lOOth anniversary of a controversial national song. Here, activists from ShivSena Party are pictured singing the song, Vande Mataram. The song, about freedom from British rule, has unleashed a storm with Hindus and Muslims
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      Lock icon It's miserable and dangerous in Gaza: UN relief chief
      270 24 AFP GAZA CITY Life in the Gaza Strip has become "miserable and dangerous" after six months of fiscal and political crisis, according to Mr John Ging, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. "Every day seems to get
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      Lock icon Israel lifts blockade
      355 24 AGENCIES But it will strike at convoys smuggling arms to Lebanon BEIRUT Israel said it started to lift its eight-week air and sea blockade of Lebanon at 1500 GMT yesterday, three weeks after a ceasefire brought an end to its offensive against the Hezbollah. "It's now six
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      Timor rebel will shoot troops
      184 25 DILI Timor Leste rebel leader Alfredo Reinado has warned that he will shoot Australian troops if they tried to recapture him, the AAP reported. Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced that an extra infantry battalion of 120 soldiers would be sent to Timor Leste, saying
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      Lock icon No conspiracy
      419 25 Malaysia's No 2 says there is no attempt to silence Mahathir KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's No 2 leader yesterday rejected exPrime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's claim that there was a conspiracy to prevent him from speaking out against the government at the ruling party's annual congress. Dr Mahathir alleged earlier
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      Long-term stays for families of mature foreign students
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      isay JUDGING TEACHER? DON'T GO BY THE BOOK
      704 28  -  HO KONG LOON AN EX-COLLEAGUE had tried unsuccessfully to join the teaching profession for two years because he narrowly missed the entry requirements. He was an outstanding teacher when he finally made it to our ranks. What set him apart from many
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      A culture of mixes
      141 28  -  RAMCHAND RAMESH Letter from I AM concerned when it is lamented that Singaporeans do not have a culture. Perhaps the comparison is being made with China when we say we are not like them or to India or Japan or some other country that has deeprooted
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      Football fans' dampener
      252 30  -  NURAZZAHARBINBUHARI Many received tickets to Spore-China game at stadium well into the game Letter from ON WEDNESDAY, thousands of fans lined up to buy tickets at the National Stadium for the Singapore-China football game. My girlfriend and I reached the stadium at 6.50pm and we joined the
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      Dhoby Xchange? Never seen it
      168 30  -  UMBOONHEE Letter from I WAS surprised to learn that a mall such as Dhoby Xchange even existed, when I read the report "Shops open, where are the crowds?" (Sept 6) so unappreciated is the basic tenet of appropriately directing passenger traffic. Where is this 15,600
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      Laws, not residents' will, fall short
      295 30  -  TAN KENG ANN Letter from I REFER to the letter from Mr Andrew Lioe ("Owners and MCs need to stop sparring," Sept 6). Perhaps, Mr Lioe does not understand the context I am referring to at my Greenlodge condominium. There will always be conflicts
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      Punggol 21 still doesn't add up
      563 32  -  SELINAANG Like Marina Bay, Govt can also transform Punggol with a nine-month masterplan Letter from I REFER to the article "The green thumbsup" (Sept 7). It is nice to know that within just nine months, the Ministry of National Development (MND) has chosen the
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      Why parking allowed on roads
      289 32  -  LIMENGCHONG NALEEZAEBRAHIM Letter from Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority Deputy Director (Land Administration, Car Parks) Urban Redevelopment Authority WE REFER to Mr Su Kirn Teck's letter "When road markings become road hazards" (Aug 16). Generally, parking facilities would not be provided along narrow
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      Good cabbies are rewarded with cash
      97 32  -  TAMMY TAN Letter from Group Corporate Communications Officer ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited I REFER to the letter "Comfort cabbie to the rescue, twice" by Mr Mohamed Rizal Mohamed Yunos (Sept 1), commending Comfort taxi driver Francis Lim Chong Hian (5H*****T) for assisting him with his
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      Lock icon Claws out for cats
      842 34  -  VIDYAHEBLE She, and network volunteers, keep felines safe on the streets vidya@newstoday.com.sg SHE'S hailed by some as a champion of the under-cat, reviled by a few residents for feeding "pests". But there's no dispute in the eyes of the law that Madam Sharifah Khamis deserved a
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        139 35  -  IGNATIUS LEO Letter from I REFER to Benny Tan's letter, "In car limbo on Saturdays" (Sept 7). When I opted for a weekend car last year, I was prepared for the restrictions on car usage after enjoying rebates worth thousands of dollars. Clearly, Mr Tan is not.
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        Saturdays profitable for OPC scheme
        228 35  -  JIMMY HO KWOKHOONG Letter from Mr Tan made two reasonable suggestions to the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on the driving of Off-Peak Cars (OPCs) on Saturdays: Reduce the sup- plementary licence (SL) from $20 to $10 and end the restricted hours at 10am. However, I
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      Fussy to a fault about freebies
      192 35  -  ROYYONG Letter from I REFER to Ho Whei Chern's letter, "Good product but bad service? No deal" (Sept 5). As I work in the hospitality sales trade dealing with demanding corporate clients and wedding couples, I can understand the frustration encountered by the Comex
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      Resale valuation same as HDB's direct sale prices?
      239 35  -  GARY LI M GAY Letter from THERE seem to be disconnection between resale HDB prices and market reality, as well as with the prices of HDB flats sold direct to first-time homebuyers. If you bought a flat from the resale market during
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      Levelling the field for every kind of player
      769 36 Starting today, we bring you an occasional round-up of voices from beyond our shores discussing issues of the week, particularly those that resonate with our region and with Singaporeans. Readers are welcomed to alert us to interesting readers' letters they come across
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      Lock icon Temasek bullish on Asia
      652 42 BLOOMBERG Investment firm will continue to focus on China, India and other emerging economies to maximise returns TEMASEK Holdings, which spent $21 billion buying shares in businesses ranging from Chinese banks to Indian cinemas in the year through March, said it was "bullish" on Asia's investment
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      Lock icon Capita Land Reits in Singapore's largest CMBS deal
      241 42 -DOWJONES CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust and CapitaMall Trust have priced a three-class, $866-million deal in the largest-ever offering by a Singapore issuer of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), a person familiar with the sale said yesterday. The two Singapore real estate investment trusts are managed
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    • marketwatch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        147 42 -Agencies SHARES ended lower yesterday, with technology shares leading declines following a weak session overnight in the US on the tech-heavy Nasdaq. The benchmark ST Index fell 21.1 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 2,505.40. In the broad market, decliners outpaced advancers 339 to 180 as 869.1 million shares
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        ST Index — 2,505.40 -21.1
        4 42 ST Index 2,505.40 -21.1
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        Lock icon World markets
        66 42 SGX, Dow Jones and Bloomberg Information provided by Mikkei 225 16,012.41 -271.60 -1.67 -IK Hang Seng Australia ASX200 17,096.44 5,100.70 -162.07 -5.10 -0.94 -0.10 <orea Comp Fhailand SET 1,351.17 692.56 -5.04 -9.40 -0.43 -1.34 Jakarta Comp 1,470.47 -2.10 -0.14 Dhils Comp Shenzhen B 2,405.25 292.44 +9.05 -1.47 +0.30
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        SGX most active
        47 42 ChinaPDye ChinaMilk THBEV Inno-Pac China Sun Bio-Treat Synear ASL Marine GES SingTel 0.360 1.100 0.300 0.025 0.000 0.740 0.930 0.060 1.200 2.400 +0.000 -0.025 -0.030 -0.010 +0.070 -0.020 +7.0 -3.0 -3.9 -1.1 +0.9 -0.0 03,044 50,249 35,401 25,439 23,010 15,510 15,341 13,390 13,360 12,665
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 42 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6371 0.3399 74.106 4.9571 2.3248 0.5002 5,797.2 23.803 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 32.152 0.8368 29.455 609.59 0.7045 5.0615 0.9883 20.938
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        Commodities
        20 42 Gold US$/oz Silver US$/oz Platinum US$/oz 641.00 13.15 1,267.00 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brant US$/barrel 284.25 1,548.00 67.00
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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        Lock icon GDP to grow 7.1%: MAS survey
        477 44 -BLOOMBERG Economists confident of strong global demand, boosted by new consumer electronics products SINGAPORE'S economy will probably expand 7.1 per cent this year, faster than previously estimated, according to the median forecast of 19 economists in a central bank survey whose results were released
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        Lock icon Alliances to drive telcos' growth: SingTel's Lim
        249 44 -DOW JONES TELECOMMUNICATIONS companies in Asia face fewer investment opportunities and should look to mobile alliances for growth rather than acquisitions, said a top executive at Singapore Telecommunications (Sing Tel). "There are currently fewer possibilities and opportunities available to operators, with the remaining
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      • Article
        Access your credit record and payment history online
        147 44  -  CHOW PENN NEE FROM next month, consumers can view their personal credit records and payment histories online with the launch of My Credit File Online by the Credit Bureau Singapore (CBS). CBS provides credit-related information to banks for the purpose of checking
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        Lock icon JTC earns $1.1b in fiscal 2005
        162 44 CHANNEL NEWSASIA JTC Corp, Singapore's largest industrial landlord, has reported an 8.5-per-cent rise in operating income to $1.1 billion in fiscal 2005. It also awarded $1.05 billion worth of projects to the private sector, thanks to the buoyant industrial property sector and its closer
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        Lock icon China Printing closes at 33.3% premium to IPO
        157 44 -DOW JONES SHARES of China Printing and Dyeing Holding closed above their initial public offering price (IPO) on the Singapore Exchange yesterday but below their debut price. The shares closed at 36 cents, a 33.3-per-cent premium to the IPO price of 27
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        Lock icon Capita Land eyes Russian property projects
        610 46 BLOOMBERG Real estate developer to tap into booming economy and an abundance of liquidity CAPITALAND, South-east Asia's biggest real estate developer, plans to invest in projects in Russia and expects a contribution to earnings in five years, chief executive officer Liew Mun Leong said.
        — BLOOMBERG; BLOOMBERG  -  610 words
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        Dragon Land morphing into 'new animal'
        481 46  -  CHRISTIE LOH christi e@newstoday.com.sg THE "mother" of China-focused developer Dragon Land is beating it into shape. And it won't be long before the internal reform by parent Keppel Land produces some new stripes on its child. "We are in the process of developing a
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        Lock icon END THE CURRENCY IMPASSE
        911 48  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE US, China must back IMF as it seeks to balance flexible exchange rate system THE system of flexible exchange rates, with countries being free to choose their currency policies, is only a few months older than the actress Katie Holmes. And it's already looking worn.
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        marketbuzz
        138 48 LISTEN TO THE SWEET BEAT OF RICOLA ENJOY refreshing Ricola and you may just end up humming to songs from a brand new Creative ZEN V Plus mp3 player. To take part in the new Feel the Refreshing Beat of Ricola promotion, all consumers have to do is send
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        Lock icon A one-stop mall for the family
        758 49 LYNETTE KOH The fourth in a six-part series I on Pro-Family J Businesses A There's a good mix of retail stores, education centres and facilities that are family friendly at United Square yS A study conducted by MCYS showed that while most retailers knew
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        Lock icon Hutchison to spend $819m on Ecuador Terminal
        201 50 BLOOMBERG HUTCHISON Port Holdings, the world's largest port operator, said it will spend US$523 million ($Bl9 million) to build and operate a new container terminal in Ecuador as it seeks to tap Latin America's economic growth. The Hong Kong-based company received a 30-year
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        Lock icon More M'sian banks to merge
        438 50 BLOOMBERG Current 10 may go even lower, but now consolidation move not'govt-sponsored' MALAYSIA expects more mergers among the nation's nine local banks and plans to create bigger companies on the stock exchange to lure investors, Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed Yakcop said. "We expect that
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        Lock icon Apec push for freer global trade
        171 50 BLOOMBERG HANOI Pacific Rim finance chiefs opened a meeting here yesterday aiming to push for new talks to free up global trade and to discuss how to dry up money flows for terrorism and weapons proliferation. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum, which
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      HOME, BLEAK HOME
      1349 52  -  JeanineTan Incisive and realistic, Singapore Dreaming lays bare the discontentment of Singaporeans with pointless aspirations IN THE spectrum of movies in the second wave of Singapore film-making, Singapore Dreaming has staked out a place squarely in the middle. Directed by the hus-band-and-wife team of Colin Goh and
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      A brave depiction of social reality on screen
      824 53  -  Neil Humphreys FILMREVIEW by..... I Singapore Dreaming THERE has always been an inferiority complex surrounding the Singapore film industry. The popular maxim is: if it's local, it can't be very good. Cinemagoers will often queue up for the latest racist rubbish from
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      Dramatising the trauma
      889 54  -  Felix Cheong Although watching 911 -inspired films maybe cathartic, will we ever gain a true understanding of the events? "AFTER September 11, no more cinema." It might have seemed premature for Australian academic lan Buchanan to declare the end of movies at a symposium in November 2001.
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      Lock icon Dylan's new album at No 1
      278 56 -AGENCIES NEW YORK Bob Dylan is back at the top of the charts for the first time in 30 years. The 65-year-old rock poet's latest album, Modern Times, sold 192,000 copies last week, making it his best sales week since tracking firm Nielsen Sound
      -AGENCIES  -  278 words
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      BRING IT ON
      466 56  -  EUSACHIA On the Edge actor Nick Cheung is up for any challenge... even fatherhood elisa@newstoday.com.sg CALL it an irony of life. What Nick Cheung didn't achieve in real life, he got it in the reel world. The Hong Konger had joined the police force to realise his
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      Lock icon HAIR TODAY, GONE
      130 56 -EUSACHIA TOMORROW: Singapore Idol sprung no surprises yesterday, as Paul Twohill became the latest contestant to be eliminated. On Wednesday, the theme was Judges' Choice and Paul had delivered a lukewarm performance of Franz Ferdinand's Do You Want To and Adam SandleKs Grow Old With You. Paul
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      Lock icon PUSHING BOUNDARIES
      495 58  -  DAVID CHEW Familiar sights and sounds get a new twist from local audio-visual artist Zai Tang david. chew@newstoday.com. sg HIS father may be among the Singaporean artists to have broken into contemporary and performance art here and, in the process, narrowed the gap between traditional and contemporary art.
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      Lock icon Fancy a Gwen Stefani doll?
      146 60 —AP LOS ANGELES Gwen Stefani is no longer just a girl. Now she's a doll, too. The singer, actress and fashion designer announced Tuesday that she will bring her trademark rock 'n' roll style to the toy industry with a series of limited-edition dolls. There
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    • in cinemas
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        SOME KIND OF MONSTER
        558 62  -  Ross Wallace South Korea's The Host could give some Hollywood thrillers a run for their money FILMREVIEW by.... I The Host SOUTH Korean cinema has taken some flak in recent years for seeming to ape Hollywood's blockbuster mentality. While there's no denying that big-budget movies like
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        Lock icon Gromit creators given 'freedom of city'
        233 64 -AP LONDON Crackin' good job, Gromit! The creators of Oscar-winning animated duo Wallace and Gromit are to be awarded the freedom of their home city, officials said Wednesday. Nick Park, Peter Lord and Dave Sproxton, from Bristol-based Aardman Animations, will receive the honour at
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        Little Man. big mistake
        456 64  -  Neil Humphreys Wayans brothers' latest is demeaning and unfunny FILMREVIEW by.... I Little Man IF YOU'RE the kind of voyeuristic cinemagoer who enjoys watching women being molested, men being smacked in the testicles and, best of all, a "toddler" being kicked unconscious, then Little Man is
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        99 64 -AGENCIES LOS ANGELES On television, she's a desperate housewife. But in real life Marcia Cross (picture) is an expectant mother, her publicist confirmed on Wednesday. The redheaded actress who plays Bree Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives expects to give birth to her first child in April, just
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      530 71 —AFP American sprint M star's'B'sample 1 negative, as her lawyer slams the drug testers DENVER, Colorado Marion Jones is free to return to the track again, her record and reputation cleared after a backup drug test came up clean. The "B" sample taken from one of
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      213 72 —AFP MADRID Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has accused Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson of stabbing him in the back. Van Nistelrooy left Old Trafford for Real Madrid in the summer in a £10.5 million ($3l million) transfer following a high-ly-publicised rift
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      580 72 -AGENCIES Despite his international exploits, striker i&& may find himself on the bench at Liverpool! MERSEYSIDE Peter Crouch may be the hottest striker in the world right now, but this cuts no ice with Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez. The gangly striker could be dropped when the Reds take
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      326 72 AGENCIES LONDON Former England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson may replace Alan Pardew at West Ham, if Iran-born businessman Kia Joorabchian buys the London team, The Sun reported. Eriksson, who left his post with the national team after the World Cup, is close friends with Pini Zahavi, the
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      336 74 -AFP EURO 2008 QUALIFIER, GRPF Northern Ireland 3 Spain 2 BELFAST Spain coach Luis Aragones suggested he was expecting the sack, after his team slumped to a shock 3-2 defeat by minnows Northern Ireland in a Euro 2008 Group F qualifier here on Wednesday (yesterday
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      621 74 —AGENCIES Donadoni in the dock as Les Bleusgain revenge I EURO 2008 QUALIFIER, GRPB France 3 Italy 1 I PARIS This time there were no butts, nor ifs. France, playing superb football, produced a performance that could quite possibly have won them a second World Cup in
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      187 74 —AFP SERRAVALLE, San Marino World Cup semi-finalists Germany made San Marino look every bit the 191 st best team in the world with a shuddering 13-0 demolition here on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) in a Euro 2008 group D qualifier. Germany recorded
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      599 76  -  LAN DE COTTA Talented race driver keen to serve his country, in fatigues and on the track ia n@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S maiden season in the Al Grand Prix (AIGP) series could well produce fireworks, if discussions between the team and Christian Murchison prove successful. The second season of
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      357 76  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@newstoday.com.sg THE Singapore football team's task at the Doha Asian Games has suddenly become a lot harder. Yesterday, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) found out that the Young Lions and seven other countries will have to play in a qualifying
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      162 76  -  CUBBYLEONG 2006 Volkswagen Open Singapore ZHANG Xueling (picture) had luck on her side yesterday. She lost in the qualifying round of the 2006 Volkswagen Open Singapore, but will still feature in the main draw today. The Toa Payoh Sports Hall was stunned into silence
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      159 74 WOODLANDS IN STRONG POSITION! Need a draw for another Cup final berth! J League Yokohama FM Ksaki Frontale Sat, 09/09/06 3.00pm J League Gamba Osaka Cerezo Osaka Sat, 09/09/06 6.00pm Singapore Cup Tampines Woodlands Sat, 09/09/06 7.30pm E League Champ Derby Sunderland Sat 09/09/06 10.00pm E League Champ Ipswich Southampton
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      513 78  -  TANYO-HINN National bowler plunders in Busan once again to top singles and all-events BOWLING World Men's Tenpin Bowling Championships 2006 yohinn@newstoday.com.sg FOUR years ago in Busan, South Korea, national bowler Remy Ong enjoyed the greatest moment of his career when he won three gold medals
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      599 78  -  CUBBYLEONG cubby@newstoday.com.sg BY THE time the 2007 SEA Games kicks off in Bangkok, all elite athletes in Singapore would have signed an agreement with their respective national sports associations (NSA) to ensure their potential is fulfilled. Yesterday, Teo Ser Luck (picture), Parliamentary Secretary of
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      692 79  -  TANYO-HINN South African stays in touch with leaders Strange and Pagunsan GOLf Barclays Singapore Open 2006 yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IF ERNIE Els goes on to win the US$3 million ($4.79 million) Barclays Singapore Open 2006 crown, he will probably look back on his "hot" baptism in the opening
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      337 79 JUST nine months ago he was still an amateur. Yesterday, against a world-class field including Adam Scott and Ernie Els, reigning SEA Games champion Juvic Pagunsan announced his pro credentials, as the unheralded Filipino finished in joint-first place after the first round of the US$3 million
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      88 79 LAST year, registration for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon closed a month before the actual event due to overwhelming response. And despite the organisers increasing the number of spots for runners from 21,000 to 30,000 this year, only 5,000 places are left with nearly three months
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