Today, 14 September 2006

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  • hot news
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      This will raise your spirits
      491 2  -  DERRICK A PAULO Workers here can expect to earn 4% more next year derrick@newstoday.com.sg SLOW and steady that is what Singaporeans can expect for their pay increases next year. The average pay packet is projected to rise by 4 per cent, the same as this
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      SINGAPORESEEN
      135 2 SUNDOWN IN SINGAPORE For Today reader Azmi Jaffar, a 33 year old producer, nothing could match the beautiful ocean sunsets he has seen in Bali, Mauritius and Cape Town, South Africa. And then he saw this one evening while at the Bedok jetty. "The golden sun in between the
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      Lock icon CAUGHT ON VIDEO
      897 3  -  BERNARD FOOKWENG LOQ Educate military personnel on ramifications of illegal sharing of images THERE has been a series of amateur videos involving personnel from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), apparently shot within military facilities using a video camera phone. Posted on www.youtube.com, the videos portray a variety
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        Lock icon MAN CAUGHT WITH DRUGS IN UNDERWEAR AND SHOE
        93 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A man was caught red-handed with drugs stashed in his underwear and right shoe. Immigration officers zoomed in on the Singaporean when he was spotted fidgeting nervously at Woodlands Checkpoint on Tuesday night. The 39-year-old was taken away from the
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        Lock icon PUBLIC WARNING SYSTEM TOMORROW
        78 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Singapore Civil Defence Force will be activating the Public Warning System tomorrow at 12.05pm to commemorate Civil Defence Day. The island-wide network of sirens will be blasting the "Important Message" signal for one minute. When the sirens are heard, members of the public
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      • Article
        CHECK TRAFFIC CONDITIONS WHILE ON THE MOVE
        129 4 For a trial period, motorists can find out about the latest traffic conditions via their mobile phone or PDA, thanks to an initiative by online motoring portal ONE.MOTORING. All they have to do is to enter the URL {http://wap.onemotoring.com.sg) into a mobile phone
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        Lock icon THARMAN IN HONG KONG FOR FINANCE SEMINAR
        110 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Second Minister for Finance will be in Hong Kong today to attend the 3rd Asean Finance Ministers' Investor Seminar. Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who is also the Minister for Education, will be accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Finance and
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      Lock icon A bigger, better Terminal Two
      505 4  -  TOR CHING LI $240-million airport facelift complete after three years chingli@newstoday.com. sg AFTER three years of discreet scaffolding surrounding it and staggered renovation works, a brighter and roomier Terminal Two (T2) was unveiled yesterday just in time to welcome international delegates for the International Monetary
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    • Article
      Curious love affair of NTU lecturer
      869 5  -  LOH CHEE KONG He accuses ex-lover of 'scam marriage', illegal work cheekong@newstoday.com. sg FIRST, he tried to nullify his ex-lover's "scam marriage". Then, as the two-year affair turned sour, he urged the authorities to prosecute her. This, and other embarrassing details, emerged yesterday, as
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        TWO PROSECUTED FOR PRACTISING CHINESE MEDICINE ILLEGALLY
        60 5 The TCM Practitioners Board has prosecuted two men for practising traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) illegally. Gan Lai Hing was fined $10,000 on Aug 23 for operating an illegal TCM practice in Bedok Reservoir Road. The other man, Jiang Yuanzheng, was fined $9,000 on
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE DETACHMENT TO AID RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS IN GULF
        85 5 938 LIVE The Singapore Air Force has deployed a 35-man KC-135 tanker aircraft detachment to the Gulf region. The Ministry of Defence said this is Singapore's latest contribution in support of multinational reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. During the three-month long
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        Lock icon POSSIBLE COLLABORATION BETWEEN S'PORE, CUBA FOR HEALTHCARE
        127 5 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo was in Havana, Cuba, from Sunday to Thursday this week. While he was there, he called on Transport Minister Carlos Manuel Pazo, Economy Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez and Foreign Trade Minister Raul de la Nuez. The
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        Lock icon BILATERAL EXERCISE ON
        108 5 -CHANNEL NEWS ASIA The Singapore and Indonesian armies are conducting their annual bilateral exercise, which is codenamed Safkar Indopura, in Indonesia. It will run until Saturday. The exercise involves about 2,000 soldiers from the 3rd Singapore Infantry Brigade, and from the 411 th and 413 th Infantry
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      Lock icon Shoe didn't fit but service did
      501 6  -  LEE U-WEN And if we can keep going the extra mile, Singapore could become the region's good service benchmark u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Mr Ong Ye Kung went shopping for shoes with his family last Sunday, he experienced a level of service he imagined only existed
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      9-year-old survives killer litter scare
      224 6  -  JASMINE YIN A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy was injured in the head after being hit by a metal shoe rack thrown from the 11th floor of Block 263 Boon Lay Drive yesterday. The incident took place at 6.40pm, soon after the Primary 3 student who attends an
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      Lock icon Asia plays a crucial role in IMF's operations
      289 8 BLOOMBERG, CHANNEL NEWSASIA MORE than 23,000 people have registered to attend the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's annual meetings in Singapore, and the IMF says this is one of the largest turnouts for its annual meetings held overseas. Of these, 15,976
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      More protests, now from World Bank
      505 8  -  ANSLEYNG It says Singapore's stand on activists breaches earlier understanding a nsley@newstoday.com.sg THE World Bank continued to press Singapore to allow accredited foreign activists into the country even as three uninvited ones were turned away from the airport Singapore has insisted so far that
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      With no big fuss, S'pores civil society organisations get to work
      616 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg WHILE some of their foreign counterparts are still up in arms over accreditation issues and the ban on outdoor protests, Singapore's civil society groups are working with little fuss to get their messages through to the
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      Lock icon Rectifying a 'mistake'
      552 10  -  SHERALYN TAY Extra care to be taken in works on historical sites: LTA shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg ADMITTING its "mistake" in tearing down part of the brick fencing surrounding the gazetted Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in 2002, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) has assured the public that more
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      Lock icon Heart Foundation calls for greater health awareness
      208 10 938 LIVE THE Singapore Heart Foundation expects about 300 participants for its first heart health survey, which will be held next weekend in conjunction with the National Heart Week. With heart disease as the No 1 killer in the country, the charity is
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      Retail concept stores hope to attract more traveller-shoppers
      369 10 RETAIL concept stores in Singapore are beginning to make their mark in an age when it is increasingly difficult to catch the attention of the traveller-shop-per. Although there are no exact figures on the number of concept stores here, the trend is
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      Lock icon Singapore eyes Asia's big bucks for charity
      501 12  -  CHRISTIE LOH Rising demand for philanthropic services from private bankers: MAS christie@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE wants to help Asia's super-wealthy help the poor. As the region's rich get richer and more open to the idea of giving, private bankers are staring at "tremendous opportunities", according
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      Lock icon Snatch thieves target women
      193 12 -938 LIVE WITHIN the past three days, snatch robbers have made off with valuables from women, presumably easy targets. On Monday, a 60-year-old woman entered a lift in Block 804 at Woodlands Street 81 at 11.30 am and was followed by a man. When she left
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      Lock icon Study at London U with NTE tie-up
      433 12 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE National Institute of Education (NIE), together with the University of London, is offering a Doctor of Education Dual Award programme, the first of its kind for the education sector here. The four-year course consists of four subjects, institutionfocused
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  • world news
    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        GANGSTER GIRLFRIENDS BAN SEX
        83 14 Concerned about the high level of crime, the girlfriends and wives of gang members in a Colombian city have called a ban on sexto persuade their men to renounce violence, Reuters reported. After meeting with the mayor, a group of women in the city of Pereira
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        Lock icon ACRID HAZE OVER M'SIA
        79 14 AFP Acrid haze thickened over Malaysia as smoke from a large number of forest fires in Indonesia shrouded the peninsula's west coast, officials said yesterday. The Department of Environment said the air pollution index yesterday morning in the town of Muar in Johor climbed to 84
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        Lock icon BOMB KILLS 10 IN TURKEY'S MAIN KURDISH CITY
        101 14 -AFP Ten people, including seven children, were killed and 14 injured when a powerful bomb rocked Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south-east. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast late on Tuesday, the deadliest in a
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      Malaysians held in maximum security at Guantanamo Bay
      205 14 WASHINGTON Two Malaysians are being held in a maximum detention facility at the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Bernama news agency said. The Malaysians had been recently transferred along with 12 other suspected terrorists to Guantanamo Bay from
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      Lock icon Weddings are good for networking, terrorists told
      539 14  -  FABIO SCARPELLO Manual being distributed across Indonesia shows how to form terror cells IN JAKARTA news@newstoday.com.sg A GUIDEBOOK urging jihad in the spirit of Osama bin Laden, "the conqueror of communist and American forces", is being distributed across Indonesia in an attempt to
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      Lock icon Top Israeli general resigns over Lebanon war
      265 14 AFP JERUSALEM A top general resigned yesterday, becoming the first Israeli official to quit over the Lebanon war and fuelling calls for further heads to roll over the war that failed to achieve its main aims. Major General Udi Adam, who led Israel's
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      Lock icon Crisis looms despite royal birth
      274 16 -AP TOKYO The birth of the first male heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne in four decades does not resolve the imperial family's looming succession crisis, Japan's palace chief said through a spokesman yesterday. The birth of Hisahito, hailed by royalists, forestalled the crisis in one
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      Indian deal may get nuked
      502 16 Experts want tighter conditions but India may not agree WASHINGTON United States weapons experts are calling on the US Senate to tighten provisions of a landmark civilian nuclear deal with India, despite warnings by New Delhi that it cannot accept any more restrictions. The experts
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      Lock icon PM orders probe into Mahathir's claims
      442 18 AGENCIES Allegations of bribery are 'serious', says Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has ordered an investigation into Dr Mahathir Mohamad's claims that members of the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) had accepted bribes in order not to elect him as
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      Lock icon Hezbollah slams Lebanon government
      252 18 AFP BEIRUT Lebanon's Hezbollah group has issued its strongest criticism of the government since the end of the war with Israel, prompting fears of political instability as the country struggles to recover from the devastating 34-day conflict The leader of the Shia militia on Tuesday slammed
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      Lock icon US embassy attacker providing information
      208 20 -AFP DAMASCUS Syria yesterday was investigating who was behind a bold but foiled attack on the United States embassy in Damascus in which Islamist gunmen used grenades, automatic weapons and two explosives-laden vehicles. Three assailants and a member of Syria's anti-terror squad were killed in
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      Lock icon New hope for Palestinians
      558 20 Fatah, Hamas unity government marks new era, but will landmark deal work? GAZA CITY A Palestinian national government uniting rivals Fatah and Hamas marks a new political era filled with uncertainty after six months of unprecedented crisis since the Islamist Hamas movement took office. President Mahmud
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      Lock icon CHING CHEONG MAY NOT HEAR APPEAL IN COURT
      239 22 —AFP Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong, jailed in China last month on charges of spying for Taiwan, may not hear his appeal in court, according to a media report yesterday quoting his lawyer. Lawyer He Peihua said the appeal to revoke Ching's
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      Lock icon China tightens grip on media
      384 22 AGENCIES It may punish court officials who talk to journalists without approval BEIJING China is asserting its control over courts' communication with the media, threatening severe punishment for officials who supply journalists with "improper" news, state media said yesterday. This is part of a system
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon US MOVIE STUDIOS SUE CHINA FIRM FOR PIRACY
        62 22 -AFP Five major United States motion picture companies are seeking 2.5 million yuan ($491,900) in damages from the Beijing Shiji Haihong Commerce and Trade Company that allegedly sold pirated copies of their movies, state press said yesterday. The studios behind the suit
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        CIVIL DEFENCE HOTLINE TURNS INTO CHAT LINE
        67 22 Widows and single mothers in Malaysia's Terengganu state are said to be hogging the State Civil Defence Department's emergency line for hours relating their sob stories to personnel manning the helpdesk, reported The Star. There are also those who propose rendezvous and even
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        Lock icon INDIA, PAKISTAN TALKS?
        64 22 -AFP The peace process between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan is likely to be revived following a meeting between Indian Premier Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the margins of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Cuba, media reports said yesterday. New Delhi called off talks
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      WHY M'SIA MAY BE THE BIGGEST LOSER
      890 23  -  JOSEPH CYLIOW The Mahathir-Abdullah rift may threaten national unity THE United Malays National Organisation (Umno) annual general assembly is scheduled for November. Barring major developments, all attention will be focused on the rift between Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and his predecessor Dr Mahathir
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      848 17 Timor's PM will quit if provoked j^|) Ramos-Horta says others can take his post and run the country if they can do a better job DILI Timor Leste's Prime Minister Jose The unrest was mostly be- had taken a swipe at Mr RamosGE Mon6U Ramos-Horta warned yesterday that he tween
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      Lock icon isay ILLNESS AND THE FINAL DIRECTIVE
      625 26  -  FRANCES ONG HOCK LIN LAST Monday, my dad died peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital. He was admitted on Aug 24; four days later, we were informed that he had end-stage kidney failure. We were given two options. If we took no action, he
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    • Letter
      Suntec security not meant to deter shoppers
      170 26  -  AUDREY ANG Letter from Assistant Director, Media Relations Singapore Police Force THE police would like to inform Mr Alvin Chan ("Security shouldn't keep shoppers away", Sept 13) that the security precautions in place at Suntec City are not intended to deter people from
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      Today's VOICES ON RADIO IN TALKBACK
      69 26 Should shopping centres be charging a hefty $3 for motorcyclists? Is free parking a thing of the past? Would the sky-high hotel rates driven by events like ***** erode Singapore's competitiveness? Tune in to 938Live's Talkback from 8.15 am to 8.45 am tomorrow for
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      239 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY..... GROWING UP WITH VALUES It's been said that values are nottaughtto children-they're caught by them. Children absorb what their mothers and fathers believe by watching them in everyday situations. Dr Kevin Leman relates the story of Manuel Pacheco, who was the first
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      2 x work, 0 x gratitude
      411 28  -  SHYAMANANDAKUMAR Working wives-cum-homemakers work doubly hard, husbands don't take this into account Letter from I WRITE this after reading a series of letters addressing the plight of working women, especially teachers. My mother is a teacher, and I feel that juggling home and work
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        PRICING AT SMALL STALLS SHOULD BE TRANSPARENT
        135 28  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Reading the report, "Fares up but not as much as last year" (Sept 13), I consider the hike of 1 to 3 cents quite rational. It is heartening to note the fare revision has an adjustment formula based on
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        CHARGE BY THE MINUTE
        110 28  -  MARKGOHHL On Tuesday, I was charged $5.40 for parking for an hour and 1 minute at the Golden Shoe Carpark. Based on my previous experiences, most car parks around Raffles Place charge about $4 per hour or part thereof for an incomplete hour of parking. What
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    • Letter
      Retirement villages: Don't put the cart before the horse
      297 28  -  HENG CHO CHOON Letter from CHARLES Tan's article "Protecting those golden years" (Sept 13) comes at a time when our Government is most concerned about the ageing population and the fragmentation of our long-cherished, erstwhile extended families. Today's senior citizens have
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      We can learn from our neighbours
      241 30  -  KHOO LIH-HAN Letter from I REFER to the letters "End of the road for free parking" (Sept 13) on the demise of free parking in Singapore. I am a frequent visitor to Johor Bahru's hypermarts such as Giant, Carrefour and Jusco. Those who frequent
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      Lock icon How do we deal with this ?
      450 30  - How do we deal with this JIMMY HO KWOKHOONG Get an impartial third party to clear up the issue of dual commission in real estate deals Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Dual commission does not mean conflict of interest", by Mr Low Swee Kirn of the Institute of
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      Lock icon Granite steps at Eunos station cordoned off for safety reasons
      198 34  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter, "Building designs that make no sense" by Lim Soon Heng (Aug 29). The granite steps at Eunos Station were constructed to facilitate
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      Tight squeeze and 'roadblocks' at S'pore Expo
      179 36  -  FYAP Letter from LAST Sunday afternoon, I took my family to the book sale at the Singapore Expo. From the MRT station, we had to navigate our way with a dense crowd along the narrow corridor that lines the entrances of the huge
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      341 36  - Calling all residents DANIELTOHYONGTAT It's time to unite to catch the cat abuser Letter from FOR TWO years now, my brother and I have been feeding a stray cat (we named it Garfield) near our block in Jurong. The news of the recent cat killer in Jurong East stuck us
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      278 37  -  ALVIN HANG MOHAMED MUZAMMIL Letter from Assistant Director (Group Communications) Communications Knowledge Group Singapore Sports Council Chairman Competitions Committee Football Association of Singapore WE REFER to the letter by Nur Azzahar Bin Buhari, ("Football fans' dampener",
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      169 38  -  -LEECH ING WERN SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) and Norway-based media company Schibsted announced yesterday that they had set up two joint venture companies to invest in online businesses in Singapore and the region. One is a regional joint venture called 701 Search, which will
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      131 38 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is putting up a hotel site at Bencoolen Street for sale by tender in two weeks. The move comes after it received an application from a developer to bid a minimum $36 million for the site. The 99-year
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        161 38 AS SINGAPORE hosts the annual International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, it will show the world the friendliness of its people. Nescafe Gold challenges Singaporeans to display the beauty of their smiles by inviting them to Marina Square to take part
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      253 39 BLOOMBERG FRASER Neave's property trust is raising $260 million by selling bonds backed by its three shopping malls in Singapore, a person involved in the transaction said. The funds raised from the bonds, issued in a deal known as commercial mortgage-backed securitisation (CMBS),
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        134 39 -DOW JONES SHARE prices ended higher, in line with the regional trend, as falling oil and commodity prices eased worries about inflation and slowing global economic growth. TheST Index (STI) rose 20.83 points, or 0.8 per cent, to close at 2,508.03. Gainers led decliners 425 to 162 as 1.06
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      363 40 -BLOOMBERG MR NICHOLAS Tan, a former ÜBS analyst who spent more than a year in a Hong Kong prison, has been freed after winning an appeal against a conviction for conspiracy to publish a favourable research report in 2004. "The evidence against him was unsound He
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      831 40  -  WILLIAM PESEK BLOOMBERG G-20 is a more representative organisation of the world's economy ***** news@newstoday.com.sg FINANCE ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States might be tempted to accuse their Australian counterpart of sour grapes. Mr Peter
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      643 41 DOW JONES It bids for several projects there worth at least $47m each DARCO Water Technologies is aiming to secure two to three new municipal water projects a year in Taiwan, and continues to have discussions for an international engineering company to take a minority stake, said
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      250 41 BLOOMBERG PSA International, the world's secondbiggest container port operator, and Jurong Port processed 11 per cent more containers last month in Singapore, the fastest pace of growth this year, as trade expanded. Singapore, the world's busiest container port, handled 2.27 million 20-foot
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      263 42 BLOOMBERG HEWLETT-Packard Co's legal problems escalated as California's Attorney General said that he had enough evidence to indict company officials over an investigation into news leaks by directors. "We currently have sufficient evidence to indict people, both within HewlettPackard, as
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      319 42 BLOOMBERG GLOBAL investment in real estate may increase 26 per cent to US$6OO billion ($947 billion) this year as investors chase stable returns, according to a report published by Jones Lang LaSalle. Investment in the first half amounted to US$29O billion, with
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      140 42 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is inviting feedback to its proposed amendments to the Banking Act. One amendment- the draft Notice on Exposures to Single Counterparty Groups sets out limits on exposures by a bank to single counter-party
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    279 44 FIVE social events will be held for the delegates to this week's International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank meetings. These range from a welcome reception at the Esplanade next Tuesday to a luncheon for the delegates' spouses on the previous day. The host country's welcome reception is standard practice at
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    1246 45  -  David Chew Line-up of arts and cultural events for the IMF-World Bank delegates looks anything but cliched but is that the whole story? IT'S A sight-and-sound extravaganza presented to welcome the more than 16,000 delegates who are coming here for the annual International Monetary Fund (IMF)World Bank meetings. Some
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    201 48 -AFP LOS ANGELES US pop princess Britney Spears (picture) gave birth to a second baby boy yesterday, American news media reported, just two days before her first child is to turn a year old. Spears, 24, and her husband Kevin Federline, 28, welcomed
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    293 48  -  DAVID CHEW Surrealist's works at Orchard, Boat Quay david. chew@newstoday.com. sg IF NON-native sunflowers are not enough to draw the attention of delegates to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank meetings, about 35 sculptures and paintings by celebrated surrealist master Salvador Dali are in town
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    197 50 ■AP NEW YORK The latest work by best-selling novelist Michael Crichton is a futuristic thriller set in the present. Next, to be released on Nov 28 by HarperCollins, has an announced first printing of two million and a storyline the publisher bills
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      235 54  -  PEARLYNTHAM TAKE the plunge literally with the new Carlos Coste limited edition diver's watch from Oris. You know it'll tide you over the rough conditions in the deep blue as Venezuelan Carlos Coste, the free-diving world record holder, wears it himself. The Oris Carlos Coste Limited Edition
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        124 58 Just when you thought you had had enough of idyllic afternoons on the beach, Javanese massages and water sports in Bintan, here is another reason to visit the island. Silk Bintan's first island party club -will open its doors at the end of this month.
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      338 60 AP Misplaced luggage? Don't let it happen to you (again) ARE you one of the many unlucky air travellers who have experienced losing their luggage? Most of those misplaced bags are eventually returned to their owners, on average 31 hours after being reported missing, according
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      578 64 —AGENCIES GOLF World Matchplay Championship WENTWORTH, England Tiger Woods will attempt to win his sixth straight title when he tees off in the HSBC World Matchplay Championship today. Woods, who last week added the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston to the British Open, Buick Open, USPGA
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      309 64 -AGENCIES WENTWORTH, England Colin Montgomerie has called on his Ryder Cup teammates to "have a go" at Tiger Woods in the World Matchplay Championship before Europe and the United States meet in Ireland next week. Woods opens today against fellow American Shaun Micheel, but it could
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      623 65 ■AFP Cricket is catching up in the country, which is the boost the sport needs KUALA LUMPUR China is the next frontier in cricket's expansion and the world's most populous country is ready to take a giant leap forward, according to Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chief executive
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      356 65 AFP LOS ANGELES Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong (picture) angrily dissociated himself from doping admissions by two former team-mates on Tuesday and called the article citing them "sensationalism". "Today's article in the New York Times was a blatant attempt to associate me and implicate
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      867 66  -  CUBBYLEONG Gombak still servicing debt, but chairman confident club heading for calmer shores cubby@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Gombak United left the S-League in 2002, a cloud of uncertainty was cast over the club's future as they faced debts of about $1 million. They returned to the S-League this
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      647 67  -  JOSE RAYMOND Clubs rue fixture pile-up, national team lacktime to prepare for Asian Games jose@newstoday.com.sg THE final round of S-League matches is set to be moved forward to help the national team's preparations for the Asian Games. The bad news is S-League clubs will have to play
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      344 67  -  JOSE RAYMOND THE Football Association of Singapore (FAS) are investigating claims by referee X Kalimuthu (picture) that he was abused by Woodlands Wellington's players after their 7-2 RHB Singapore Cup semi-final drubbing at Tampines Rovers last Saturday. On Sunday, a day after
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      375 67  -  CUBBYLEONG JAPAN have already qualified for next year's Fifa Under-17 World Cup (Aug 26-Sep 9) as one of the four semi-finalists of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-17 Championship. Now coach Hiroshi Jofuku believes they can concentrate on winning the AFC title at Jalan Besar
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      557 68 -AFP Poor weather fails to stop holders as they put five past hapless Bulgarians CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUPA Barcelona 5 Levski Sofia 0 BARCELONA A torrential downpour threatened to disrupt Barcelona's fluent passing game. No problem for the defending champions, as they produced a torrent of
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      307 68 ■AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP B Bayern Munich 4 Spartak Moscow 0 MUNICH German champions Bayern Munich got their Champions League campaign off to a flying start with four second-half goals helping them to a comfortable 4-0 group victory over Spartak Moscow at the Allianz Arena.
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      346 68 AGENCIES CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP D Olympiakos 2 Valencia 4 PARIS As Rafael Benitez reflects on Liverpool's goaUess draw at PSV Eindhoven, Fernando Morientes showed his former club what they have been missing. The Spaniard, who struggled for goals during his time at Anfield, scored
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      614 69 —AGENCIES Chelsea win, but Blues boss launches into another tirade CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUPA Chelsea 2 W Bremen 0 LONDON Another day, another Jose Mourinho conspiracy theory. On a day when Michael Ballack scored his first goal for Chelsea, the Blues manager chose to launch into another extraordinary
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      438 69 —AGENCIES CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP C PSV Eindhoven 0 Liverpool 0 EINDHOVEN Rafael Benitez hailed his new strike partnership of Craig Bellamy and Dirk Kuyt, despite the fact that both fired blanks in Liverpool's 0-0 draw at PSV Eindhoven in their opening Champions
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