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    27 1 TODAY /A=diaCorp fresfsf share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Friday September 29, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY share your free newspaper Friday September 29, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006 /V\EJDJACORP
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
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      Lock icon Dow index crosses briefly over all-time high, oil ends lower
      192 1 BLOOMBERG US stocks rallied for a fourth day yesterday, briefly pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average above its record closing level, as falling oil prices and slowing economic growth signalled that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates this
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      No streaming, no stigma
      894 1  -  Classrooms will also offer late-bloomers a chance DERRICK A PAULO derrick@newstoday.com.sg A KEY feature of the education system, one with its fair share of critics, has reached the end of its shelf life. After 29 years, streaming in primary schools will be scrapped. From 2008, the
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      Lock icon KL summons Singapore envoy
      306 2 —AFP He is asked to explain MM Lee's recent remarks KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday summoned Singapore's ambassador over remarks by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on the alleged marginalisation of ethnic Chinese here, officials said yesterday. Singapore High Commissioner T Jasudasen met with the highest-ranking civil
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      Lock icon Highest haze levels this year
      130 2 CHANNEL NEWSASIA AS of 4pm yesterday, the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) stood at 66 the highest recorded this year. The previous highest PSI reading of 60 was recorded, earlier this month. Satellite images of south Sumatra showed burning forests, and the smoke is being blown
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      Schools to get up to $30k to grow niches
      276 2 TO HELP more secondary schools develop niche programmes, the Ministry of Education (MOE) will extend funding support of up to $30,000 per school over three years. This is even if the schools have not built up a track record in areas
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      Lock icon S Korean favourite to be UN chief
      193 2 —AFP UNITED NATIONS South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon yesterday emerged as the clear favourite to succeed Mr Kofi Annan as Secretary-General after winning his third informal straw poll in the Security Council. The career diplomat finished ahead of India's Shashi Tharoor,
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      CAN ASEAN BECOME COLOUR-BLIND?
      779 3  -  South-east Asian nations need to put aside race-based policies to be truly integrated NAZRYBAHRAWI FOR believers in political stability, recent controversies must make 2006 seem like a year of living dangerously for the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean). The recent bloodless coup in Thailand did
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      13 2 RAMADAN FAST TIMES today: tomorrow: break of fast start of fast 6.59PM 5.26AM*
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      HK magazine loses permit to sell
      291 4  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@newstoday.com.sg THE Far Eastern Economic Review (Feer) can no longer be sold or distributed in Singapore as it has failed to comply with two conditions required for its circulation licence. The magazine had been asked to appoint a legal representative here and
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      Lock icon Ex-director SGX rules'
      128 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA FIRSTLINK Investments plans to file a complaint against one of its former directors, Ngu Tieng Ung. It is accusing Ngu of breaching Singapore Exchange's listing rules and the Singapore Code on Takeovers and Mergers. The move follows a verdict by the High Court that Ngu
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      Lock icon 'IR' just for heartlanders
      850 4  -  LEE U-WEN LEE U WEN NTUC Club aims to provide world-class facilities at local prices, minus the gambling u-wen@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU cannot afford to visit the upcoming integrated resorts (IR) in Marina Bay and Sentosa, fret not A heartland version of the IR is being constructed
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      A Sexpo wilder than before
      383 6  -  -CL£MENTMESENAS IF SINGAPORE S first sex exhibitions staged last year were rather tame affairs, with less-than-memorable displays of sex toys, the likes of which could be bought in any shopping mall, this year's Zestra Sexpo promises to be a much more exciting event, if a
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      Lock icon Seagate to hire up to 3,000
      359 6 —AGENCIES Firm will also invest $1.3b, making Spore world's largest producer of hard disk media SEAGATE Technology will be investing $1.3 billion and hiring as many as 3,000 workers for a new plant in Singapore to meet the demand for data-storage devices. The new
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      Lock icon Students in food poisoning case return to school
      182 6 -938 LIVE ABOUT half the 290 students who fell ill with food poisoning at Ang Mo Kio Secondary on Tuesday have returned to school. Investigations are still underway about the cause of the mass poisoning. The school has ruled out water as
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      Ngoi not embarrassed, said prosecutor
      290 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT NTI DON weekeat@newstoday.com.sg HE HAD no qualms about going into detail on his sexual exploits but Bryan Ngoi Kok Ann shied away from revealing that the "informant" he had concocted for investigators was, in fact, himself. This, charged Deputy Public Prosecutor David
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      Investigator's flip-flops and missing photos
      647 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG OAXEMAILCAS Under grilling, officer says sorry for deleting pictures, contradicts himself cheekong@newstoday.com. sg RATHER than the accused, it was investigating officer Andy Ong who spent an uncomfortable day on the stand yesterday, as District Judge Bala Reddy chided him for giving contradictory
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    • SINGAPORESNIPETS
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        Lock icon BARRIER-FREE HOSPITAL ROADS, FACILITIES
        71 8 -938UVE Roads and facilities surrounding major public hospitals will be made barrier-free by next year. This is part of the Land Transport Authority's five-year plan to make the streets elderly-friendly. Also given top priority in the barrier-free plan are elderly homes and dialysis centres. The first
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        HARD LINE FOR HARDCORE SUBUTEX ABUSERS
        92 8 The gloves are off for repeat Subutex abusers from Sunday, when they will be under the long-term imprisonment regime. Instead of rehabilitation, third-time offenders will be given three strokes of the cane and sent to least five years' jail. The maximum sentence is seven
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        Lock icon THAI HOLIDAYS STILL TOPS FOR SINGAPOREANS
        107 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Year-end holiday bookings to Thailand are not expected to drop at the biggest annual travel fair happening this weekend, despite its military rule. The National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) said Thailand will remain one of the top three most popular
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        STORE CHILDREN'S BOOKS AT FRANKFURT FAIR
        57 8 The works of 14 local writers and more than 60 illustrators of children's books will be showcased at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's biggest book fair. The Media Development Authority of Singapore, Popular and YoungJin Singapore will promote fresh talents and new book
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      Bone marrow all the way from China
      484 10  -  SHERALYN TAY Donor programme extends search to registries abroad for the same price shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg WHEN 21-year-old literature undergraduate Sarah Lim could not find a suitable bone marrow match among the 38,000 potential donors in Singapore, her father was disappointed but not discouraged.
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      How NUH battled the ICU bug
      320 10  -  -TANHUILENG USING simple protocols, the National University Hospital (NUH) has managed to cut down the rate of a common Intensive Care Unit (ICU) infection to almost zero. "When you have an infection, it delays your discharge and you will need to stay in hospital
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      Lock icon Love in black and white
      557 12  -  SHERALYN TAY Local facility mates Zebrafish to unravel human cell development mysteries shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg IN THE clinical laboratories at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in Biopolis, love is blooming among Zebrafish. While their environment is an unromantic 6,000-square-foot room containing rows of
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      Lock icon Doctor suspended
      120 12 938 LIVE A GENERAL practitioner has had his medical registration suspended for six months by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC). The decision was reached after a disciplinary inquiry against Dr Fong Seng Yew, who practices at Fong Clinic at Mci Ling Street, said SMC in a statement yesterday.
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      Lock icon An international women's award for Dr Aline Wong
      368 12 TODAY FILE PHOTO 938 LIVE MARKING an achievement for Asian women in the world, Singapore's Dr Aline Wong will receive an international award in the United States today. A sociologist by training, Dr Wong was the first batch of three women to
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Mozart opera must go on ...
      253 14 Mozart opera must go on -AFP BERLIN German ministers and Muslim leaders issued a joint call on Wednesday supporting the staging of a Mozart opera featuring the severed heads of the Prophet Mohammed and Jesus. The show, Idomeneo, was cancelled over fears of violent protests from Islamic radicals, but the
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      Lock icon Typhoon hits Philippines
      317 14 -AGENCIES Xangsane cuts off Manila, leaves 43 million people without power MANILA Typhoon Xangsane wrought destruction as it slammed into the Philippines yesterday, killing at least 11 people and leaving 43 million without power. Torrential rain caused widespread flooding throughout central and northern parts of the country,
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      Lock icon US terror report: JI likely to 'expand their reach'
      189 14 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON According to a partly classified and controversial United States intelligence document, terrorist groups, such as South-east Asia-based Jemaah Islamiyah, are likely to "expand their reach" and become more "capable of mass-casualty attacks outside their traditional areas of operation". These
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      Lock icon 4 busted for exporting nuke-related devices
      248 14 —AP TOKYO Four people in Japan were served arrest warrants for illegally exporting to Singapore measuring devices that can be converted for use in producing nuclear weapons, the Kyodo news agency said. They include the former vice-chairman Norio Takatsuji and president Kazusaku Tezuka of
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      Lock icon Gunman kills hostage, then himself at US high school
      234 16 —AFP DENVER (Colorado) A gunman fatally wounded a schoolgirl hostage before killing himself as armed police stormed a high school in Colorado, police said on Wednesday. Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener said the unidentified gunman, believed to be in his 30s,
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      Lock icon Controversial Bill's fate to be finalised
      393 16 -AFP Law would violate detainees' rights: Critics WASHINGTON A controversial bill setting out rules for the detention and prosecution of "war on terror" suspects headed for Senate approval yesterday, giving President George W Bush's Republicans a boost six weeks ahead of legislative elections. The
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      Lock icon British deputy PM to stand down, along with Blair
      198 18 -AFP 1 MANCHESTER Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott (picture) said yesterday that he will be leaving office within the next year, along with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Mr Prescott told delegates during his speech in Manchester, north-west England, that it
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      Lock icon US cuts military aid toThailand
      377 18 -AFP Junta has decided on Premier WASHINGTON The United States has cut millions of dollars in military assistance to its ally Thailand in response to the military coup that ousted civilian Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, according to the State Department late yesterday (early today, Singapore
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      Lock icon Shanghai pension scandal widens
      431 19 —AGENCIES Senior municipal and HR officer busted SHANGHAI Another senior Shanghai official has been implicated in a major corruption scandal, which has already led to the sacking of the city's top politician. Vice-secretary general of the Shanghai municipal committee, Ms Sun Luyi, had "seriously violated party
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      Women are welcome but would Confucius approve?
      224 19 BEIJING Women are now welcome in the family tree of the ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius, the BBC reported. Women descendants related to the Chinese sage will feature in his family lineage for the first time in more than 2,500 years. A descendant who
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      Lock icon President Bush the mediator
      348 20 -AGENCIES US President urges Pakistan and Afghanistan to cooperate on terrorism WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush urged the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday to end their war of words and unite, with US help, to battle the common threat of Islamist "extremists
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      Lock icon Pick Annan's successor by next month: Diplomats
      199 20 —AP UNITED NATIONS United Nations (UN) Security Council members agree that Secretary-General Kofi Annan's successor should be selected by the end of next month, a timetable that would give an advantage to the current front-runner, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon, said diplomats.
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      Lock icon Israel does not expect another fight with Hezbollah
      255 21 -AFP JERUSALEM Israel's prime minister yesterday said he did not expect another fight with Hezbollah soon, amid stalled talks on a timetable for the Jewish state to withdraw its remaining troops from Lebanon. "The chances that Hezbollah would be persuaded to mount
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      Lock icon Abe, Roh to hold summit
      287 21 —AFP Move comes as new Japanese PM tries to mend ties with S Korea, China TOKYO Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday agreed to hold a summit soon with South Korea as he works to patch up strained ties with Seoul and Beijing, officials
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon QUAKE CAUSES RIPPLES
        35 21 —AFP A strong earthquake with a magnitude of up to 7.0 struck nearthe Pacific's Samoa islands yesterday, sparking a brief tsunami threat that sent ripples but no big waves across the region.
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        Lock icon NATO TAKES OVER
        50 21 -AFP Nato ambassadors yesterday agreed to extend military operations into eastern Afghanistan by the end of the year, thereby taking responsibility for the whole country. diplomats said. The move comes as the alliance struggles to fend off an insurgency in southern Afghanistan and a lack of reinforcements.
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        Lock icon DRUGS KILLED SON
        39 21 AP Model Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of drugs, an autopsy report showed. Tests showed Daniel Smith had methadone, and two anti-depressants in his system when he died on Sept 10.
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      Lock icon SYRIA ON THE SIDELINES
      806 22  -  EMANUELSHAHAF IN JERUSALEM Damascus'weak leadership is not doing anyone any favours news*views*analysis Palestinian groups like Hamas' military wing and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is based in Damascus. Thus, Syria remains on Washington's list of terrorism sponsors. Mr Assad keeps flaunting Syria's alliance with Iran, its allegiance
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        Are $80-$100 utility bills possible for 4-, 5-rm homes?
        142 24  -  LIM BOON HEE Letter from I READ with resignation that electricity prices will again go up by 2.3 per cent from Sunday. But I find it hard to believe SP Services figures that show that a four-room-flat household pays only about
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        Shrinking household but bills keep growing
        250 24  -  MUMTAZAWAHAB Letter from I AM an owner of a five-room flat in the east and have lived for the past six years in a six-member household. Although we are now a four-member household, consisting of a working couple and two schoolchildren, I notice the
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        How is expected increase in fuel oil costs derived?
        96 24  -  LEE HWAN MENG Letter from I REFER to the report, "Electricity rates to rise from next month" (Sept 28). It states that fuel oil prices are "expected" to rise in the next quarter and that fuel prices are adjusted every quarter.
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      Join me in starting discounts website for the elderly, others
      225 24  -  JOHN YAP Letter from I REFER to Lim Poh Seng's excellent proposal that the "authorities or a group take up the task" of collating information on discounts for seniors and put them on a website (Sept 27). Our Prime Minister
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      WHAT FREE TIME? I'M A TAI TAI
      761 26  -  Tabitha Wang I've been busier since I quit my job no wonder a housewife's work is worth $214,000 a year WHEN one of my colleagues quit her job, I asked her: "What are you going to do with all that free time?" "What
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      334 28  -  SEAH LEONG KHAI Letter from I REFER to the latest figures on divorces released by the Department of Statistics ("Divorce, inter-racial marriages on the rise", Sept 26). The 6,909 divorce cases in 2005 in Singapore is an alarming
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      Marriage licence is cheap, divorce is expensive – so don't take it lightly
      261 28  - Marriage licence is cheap, divorce is expensive so don't take it lightly DANNYCHUA Letter from THE divorce rate is rising and wives initiated most of the divorces. This could be due to emotional poverty, post-pregnancy depression, unhappy childhood, and so on. About four per cent of the adult population here
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      921 29  -  YVONNE LIM Voices commentary editor AS A parent, you feel you've done all you could for your child, filling her life with family-filled activities and not nagging her too much. So what happens when you find out she's been making friends with a
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      291 30  -  JACOB TAN Letter from I REFER to Tham Chen Fye's "Why this coup is different" (Sept 27). While I agree with some points he raised indicating that this coup is distinctive from the other coups in Thailand's history, I believe the dangers that this coup
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        150 30  -  NALEEZAEBRAHIM Letter from Deputy Director, Media Relations Land Transport Authority (LTA) I REFER to Mr Chiang Pak Chien's letter "Install speed humps at Tanjong Rhu Road to curb speeding" (Sept 26). We sympathise with the family of the cyclist
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        161 30  -  CHUAKIMCHOO Letter from THE pedestrian crossing in front of Block 644 along Yishun Street 61 is a busy and dangerous crossing. Many cars do not stop for pedestrians. I saw many old folk waiting for cars to stop in order to cross, and
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        81 36  -  MOHAMAD NURHAFIZ MOHDNOOR: With regards to the letters "Extending the Islam welcome" (Sept 27) and "Mosques in town can deliver Friday sermons in English" (Sept 28), I would like to offer a suggestion. If lam not wrong, most mosques are equipped with television sets placed
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        121 36  -  STACEYEIHPYOWLWIN: I am a Nanyang Technological University undergraduate. On Sunday night, I hailed Mr Tan Kirn Hua's taxi from Parkway Parade shopping centre to Raffles City at 7.15pm. Exhausted after a day's work, I dropped my wallet. I had my IC, important documents and $90 in
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      553 36  - To know a friend, visit his house VASANTHAN GOVINDASAMY And religious leaders can show the way Letter from I REFER to the News Comment "Firing up the post-65ers" (Sept 28) about Mr Lee Hsien Loong's dialogue with young Singaporeans. I was particularly interested in the Prime Minister's comment on the
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      256 40  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY THE HALLWAY OF DOORS Let's talktoday about lifelong addictions which often begin during the adolescent years. Imagine, if you will, a long, dark hallway with doors on either side, and written on each door is the name of an addiction, such as
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      246 40  -  MOHAMAD NOOR ABDULLAH Letter from THE Land Transport Authority is adamant about reinforcing the deadline for implementation of Euro IV diesel vehicles and has previously said the industry has been given sufficient time to comply. This has upset members of the public and the Motor Traders
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      335 40  -  DAWN LOW Letter from Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications SMRT Corporation Ltd I REFER to the letter, "Deploy security staff at platforms" by Ace Kindred Cheong (Sept 19). SMRT takes a serious view on safety in our network, as our business is
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      734 42  -  HO KONG LOON CHILDREN'S Day on Oct 1 reminds me of the marvellous times I spent with the young ones in years past. There were moments of ecstasy, periods of anxiety, glimpses of innocence, episodes of agony. 1983 was a particularly unforgettable year.
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      Lock icon Two more Chinese companies seeking to list on the SGX
      243 44 -DOW JONES CHINA Kangda Food Co said yesterday it was issuing 100 million new shares at 46 cents each in its initial public offering on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), raising $46 million in gross proceeds. The offer, which will close
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      Lock icon Ascott adds three new luxury residences in S'pore
      508 44  -  MIRAKASHINATH Capita Land unit launches its European Citadines brand in Singapore mira@mediacorp.com.sg THE former Hotel Asia along Scotts Road and a serviced-residences apartment block under development at the former Selegie Complex site will be among the first few properties launched by The
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      Lock icon SERVICED-RESIDENCES OPERATORS EYE DAILY-LET MARKET TO COMPETE DIRECTLY WITH HOTELS
      221 44 -DOW JONES OPERATORS of serviced residences in Singapore are seeking regulatory approval to let them lease out units on a daily basis in a move that will result in more direct competition with hoteliers here. Revealing this yesterday, Ascott Group
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        Teo leaves EDB for a new post
        230 46  -  LEECHINGWERN Lim Siong Guan to be board's new chairman chingwern@newstoday.com. sg PROMINENT civil servant Teo Ming Kian will be stepping down as the chairman of the Economic Development Board (EDB) and moving to the Ministry of Finance as its Permanent Secretary from next
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          88 46 -DOW JONES SHARE prices sustained gains after hitting a fourmonth high in the previous session, with investors buying blue chips including property and bank stocks following Wall Street's strong overnight performance. "There was some consolidation following yesterday's strong gains. Unless Wall Street climbs even higher, I expect a slight
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          ST Index — 2,567.97 +10.07
          4 46 ST Index 2,567.97 +10.07
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          Your S$1 buys
          36 46 US$ 0.6298 UK£ 0.3334 Yen 73.992 HKS 4.9060 RM 2.3189 Euro 0.4959 Rupiah 5797.6 Baht 23.643 Peso 31.607 AS 0.8387 Indian Rs 28.826 Won 594.28 C$ 0.6997 Yuan 4.9767 NZ$ 0.9600 NT$ 20.758
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          52 46 Nikkei 225 *****.85 +76.98 +0.48 Hang Seng *****.57 +9.06 +0.05 ASX 5113.90 +20.70 +0.41 Taiwan Wtd 6885.12 -61.15 -0.88 Korea Comp 1371.43 +11.40 +0.84 KLCI 968.88 +2.56 +0.26 SET Index 687.90 -5.13 -0.74 Jakarta Comp 1533.80 +10.74 +0.71 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 315.85 +5.59 +1.80 Mumbai Sensex *****.74
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          Lock icon Commodities
          26 46 Gold US$/oz 603.30 Silver US$/oz 11.70 Platinum US$/0z1,147.00 Rubber cents/kg 290.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,01.00 Brent USS/barrel 63.34 Information provided by Dow Jones, Bloomberg SGX,
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          SGX most active
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          SGX top rises
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          SGX top falls
          68 46 Jardine C8C 12.000 -0.400 SIA 14.600 -0.300 SIA 200 14.600 -0.300 Venture 12.700 -0.200 ChinaFishBNP***** 0.430 -0.155 CapitaComm APB 1.980 15.200 -0.130 -0.100 Fortune Reit HK$ 5.900 -0.100 KepCorp CapitaMall 14.800 2.400 -0.100 -0.090 STEnggSGAeCW*****3 0.010 RolyW*****8 0.005 SingTel BNPeCW***** 0.010 -66.7 -50.0 -33.3 SupeibowlR OHIO ClinanshBNPeCW*****
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        Vestas investment blows this way
        375 47  -  VALERIE LAW Wind turbine maker to invest $500 million in Singapore valerie@newstoday.com.sg WIND turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems will invest $500 million over the next 10 years in its research and development (R&D) centre to be set up in Singapore. The Denmark-based firm announced this
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        Lock icon Keppel wins China incineration plant deal
        107 47 DOW JONES KEPPEL Corp said yesterday that its environmental-technology division won a $13.3-million contract to design an incineration plant in Jiangsu province in China. In a statement, Keppel said that the waste-to-energy plant, to be de- signed by Keppel Seghers, will be completed in
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        Lock icon Derivatives need borderless regulation
        259 47 -BLOOMBERG THE Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority (FSA) warned that risks posed by the credit derivatives market demand "borderless" solutions. Individual nations do not have the capacity to contain the
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        Lock icon CapitaLand buys Silver Tower for $161 million
        207 48 BLOOMBERG Building to be converted into a 20-storey condominium CAPITALAND, South-east Asia's biggest developer, said that it would pay $161 million for a building in the Cairnhill residential enclave near the Orchard Road shopping belt The building, called Silver Tower, will be converted
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          V.HIVE OPENS MEGA SHOWROOM
          113 48 V.HIVE recently opened a 22,000-square-foot mega showroom in Jurong where customers can find wide collections ranging from office to home furnishing and European designer furniture. The European designer furniture is displayed exclusively at this mega showroom, making it one of the largest collections of imported European-made
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          PAY YOUR BILLS WITH YOUR DINERS CLUB CARD AT AXS STATIONS
          191 48 DINERS Club boasts a wide range of services to meet the consumer's demand for convenience and simplicity. The Diners Club Card is the first and only credit card to be accepted at more than 370 AXS stations island-wide for
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          49 48 IN LINE FOR TASTY TREATS: People were queuing at Raffles Place Park on Wednesday to get a free pack of Maggi Healthier Choice Less Salt noodles at the redemption exercise. The Maggi Healthier Choice Less Salt noodles come in five flavours curry, chicken, assam laksa, prawn and torn yam.
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        Lock icon Bursa Malaysia delays lifting of short-selling ban
        195 50 BLOOMBERG MALAYSIA has delayed a plan to lift a nine-year ban on the shortselling of securities by a month to October, its stock exchange Bursa Malaysia said yesterday. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said in March that Malaysia would lift a ban on
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        Lock icon From container ships to tankers and bulk carriers
        387 50 BLOOMBERG Pacific Shipping Trust may diversify fleet PACIFIC Shipping Trust Co, the first business trust in Southeast Asia that owns shipping vessels, said it might add tankers and bulk carriers to meet the growing demand to move oil, gas and commodities including
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        Lock icon For the richest people in Asia
        780 52 BLOOMBERG StanChart returns to private banking in region STANDARD Chartered is re-en-tering the market for managing the wealth of Asia's richest people, a business it exited a decade ago, to boost revenue at its consumer banking unit The bank, which makes twothirds of its
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        Lock icon S'pore manages India's risk
        832 54  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE BLOOMBERG City-state positions itself as a premier business-continuity services hub news@newstoday.com.sg SATYAM Computer Services, the fourth-biggest Indian computer-soft-ware company, simulated a tsunami this week. No, the company did not recreate giant ocean waves in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, where it is based. The
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      612 56  -  BERNADETTE CHONG H KRT Tips on how to make your home comfortable and safe for your pets bernadette@newstoday.com.sg SO YOU'RE preparing for a new pet to come live with you. You have the best food and the most comfortable bedding picked out, and
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      631 59 What now, TO suicide? —AP It was just an allergic reaction. Ifs very unfortunate r for the reports to go from an allergic reaction to a definite suicide attempt Owens insists that it was all a misunderstanding Cowboys' superstar insists he did not try to kill himself, but there's much
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      584 60  -  TANYO-HINN SWWF to fund young wakeboard star's training stint with top coach Ferraro WATERSPORTS HSBC Wakeboard World Cup 2006 yohinn@newstoday.com.sg WAKEBOARDING star Sasha Christian's dream is to turn professional in five years' time. Next year, the 13-year-old will move a little closer to achieving the goal
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      120 60  -  -TANYOHINN WOODLANDS Wellington were held to a 1-1 draw by cellar-dwellers Sengkang Punggol in an NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League match at the Woodlands Stadium last night The visitors took a surprise lead after 20 minutes through Haris Sumri. But Woodlands got back on level terms four minutes before the
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      414 61  -  Tan Yo-Hinn [TOnillhTlciSnttffKi THESE days football stars earn fortunes. Spanish giants Real Madrid pay David Beckham an estimated £13.2 million ($39.2 million) annually. Frank Lampard collects £5.4 million a year from Chelsea, while Manchester United pay Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand £6 million and £7
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      184 61 -AFP KARACHI Pakistan captain In-zamam-ul-Haq (picture) said yesterday he was unlikely to appeal against a four-match ban for bringing the game into disrepute, effectively ruling him out of next month's Champions Trophy. But the master batsman said his young team had been vindicated, after the International
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      756 61 Special feature on the Coach Recognition Awards 2006 brought to you by Singapore Sports Council For many, the personal time they have at the end of each work day is extremely precious. However, for Coach Recognition Awards (CRA) 2006 Winner Tan Wei Leong, the development
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      806 62  - The jury's still out on JOSE RAYMOND ON MONDAY, Today highlighted four young S-League products whose stock is on the rise. In the final part of "Off the production line", Today highlights two talented footballers born of the 11-year-old S-League who are struggling to fulfil their promise. jose@newstoday.com.sg SHAHRILISHAK He
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      514 64 Football agent considers game in England to be the 'dirty man of Europe' LONDON England manager Steve McClaren's agent Colin Gordon believes bungtaking is rife in football. Gordon estimates tens of millions of pounds have gone out of the game in recent years,
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      404 64 -AFP MANCHESTER Rio Ferdinand admits his career will remain unfulfilled if he fails to add to his solitary Premiership title triumph with Manchester United. The centre-back joined United in a £30-million ($89.4 million) move from Leeds United four years ago but, after winning the title in
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      193 64 -DPA LONDON The controversy surrounding the proposed takeover of West Ham took a new twist yesterday when Eli Papouchado, a 69-year-old Israeli billionaire who has confirmed he is backing Kia Joorabchian's consortium, admitted his prime motivation is "real estate". Joorabchian, who brokered the deal that took Argentina's Carlos
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      905 65 -AFP Goals have been a problem all season butatleastteamhasa place in Uefa Cup group stages UEFA CUP Tottenham Hotspur 1 Slavia Prague 0 Spurs win 2-0 on aggregate LONDON Robbie Keane grabbed the only goal as Tottenham beat Slavia Prague 1-0 for a 2-0 aggregate
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      420 65 -AFP GOLF American Express Championship TIGER Woods, undefeated in his past five stroke-play events, eagled the last hole to take a one-shot first-round lead over Padraig Harrington and lan Poulter at golf's American Express Championship yesterday (early today, Singapore time). Woods,
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      1181 69 Advertising feature The faces of Discovery Atlas The spine of each Discovery Atlas show is a series of real-life 3^s^^*^^ characters, whose individual stories together form the story of the country. Here are a few of those characters: jlNi! mm DISCOVERY ATLAS: carried on a boat out to sea to
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      1435 72  -  JeanineTan FOCUS: CINEMA/2 MICHAEL HUI /4 DISCOVERY AILAS/6 JOI CHUA/8 For a while, I didn't see any future in the industry WHERE once the Hong Kong film industry was in the doldrums, lately things have been slowly but surely looking up. These days, Hong Kong
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      578 74  -  Felix Cheong BEEN there, done that. Not interested in repeating it So declared Hong Kong actor and director Michael Hui about working with his brothers, Ricky and Samuel. The trio was notable for a string of satirical comedies in the 1970s revolving around the working class,
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      435 74  -  GRACE YAP gra ce@newstoday.com. sg IF PHOTOS like the one at right have made her the talk of the town, at least Carrie Chong (picture) has the means to add her own voice to the conversation. After all, she is a nine-year
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      71 75 HONG KONG FILMS GALORE: RobßHood direc tor Benny Chan (picture) kickstarted i weekly's Best of Hong Kong Cinema last Friday at the Shaw Lido. The four-day movie marathon —featuring popular titles such as Infernal Affairs, SPL and Yesterday Once More drew 1,500 movie enthusiasts. The event was held in conjunction
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      605 75  -  ANITAKAPOOR plus@newstoday.com.sg THE fans have spoken and a new Singapore Idol has been crowned. That 26-year-old Hady Mirza won is not a surprise. His voice, performance maturity and stage presence make for a tight package. He's a little underwhelming in the personality department but
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      459 76  -  ELI SA CHI A New Discovery Channel series takes its director and crew to new heights elisa@newstoday.com.sg FILM-MAKER Cassian Harrison knows what it's like to have his head in the clouds. Not that he's a dreamer. Not when he had the mammoth task of making a bigbudget, epic
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        106 76 THEY got married in prison and withstood the test of time and distance, only to be reunited after five years. Now, they are among the five extraordinary married couples who have been shortlisted as finalists for The Wedding Story on MediaCorp Radio Gold 90.5FM. The latest
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        75 76 Catch classic movies Some Like It //offstarring Marilyn Monroe) (picture). Dial M For Murder (Grace Kelly), DrNo (Scan Connery) and Viva Las Vegas (Elvis Presley) for a limited screening at The Picturehouse. For $25 each, ticketholders to the film series will receive a glass of Moet
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      342 78  -  GRACEYAP Singer's latest album has plenty of songs thatfans can sing along to gra ce@newstoday.com. sg CELEBRITY activism works like a double-edged sword. Which may explain why homegrown singer Joi Chua shies away from trumpeting her humanitarian efforts, which include serving as ambassador for World Vision Singapore.
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      313 78  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR ashraf@newstoday.com.sg WITH Cheek, local playwright-di-rector Natalie Hennedige draws on a Greek play written in 441 BC to tell, what she calls "a story about us and our beliefs as humans today". The work is Sophocles' Antigone and, loosely put, it is Jerry Springer for
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      570 80  -  LORRAINE LIM Writer Marisha Pessl defends herself against critics accusing her of misusing her good looks plus@newstoday.com.sg BEAUTY, brains, youth and talent. It seems writer Marisha Pessl has everything anyone could hope for. Combine that with the positive reviews for her debut novel, Special Topics in
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      526 82  -  JEANINETAN No noble sacrifices, no solutions, just a sizzling tale about human desperation jea nine@newstoday.com.sg SEX scenes are easy to film, claimed Sergio Machado, the director of the gritty and critically acclaimed Brazilian film Lower City. While getting naked with your co-star may be
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        261 84  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW Fl by REMEMBER the whimsical Amelie (2001), which launched the career of gamine actress Audrey Tautou? How would you like a Thai version? Offbeat comic and so gentle in its satire it's almost apologetic, Citizen Dog shows off all the visual tricks that Thai director
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        311 88  -  helix uneong Little Miss Sunshine's dysfunctional characters, clever direction make it a film to watch F by FILMREVIEW Little Miss Sunshine IF THERE were any doubts that Steve Carrell is a comedian with serious acting chops, his performance in Little Miss Sunshine should put them
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        352 88  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW h by FOR a film packed with such powerful performances, The Night Listener doesn't impress quite enough. There is Robin Williams playing against type as an ageing homosexual radio show host, Toni Colette as the blind foster mother of a dying boy and Sandra
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        250 90  -  Jeanine Tan FILMREVIEW Iby THERE can be only so much sex in a film before the frolicking flesh fest becomes a blur of mundane onscreen activity. That's a pity, especially in the case of Lower City, because the film has a raw energy and morally ambiguous tone that
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        364 90  -  Zul Ottoman Actors make pitch-play exciting, entertaining F by FILMREVIEW The Game of their Lives SOCCER films tend to to be the least appealing entries in celluloid history. For that reputation, we have the 1981 Michael Came and Sylvester Stallone World War II caper Escape to Victory to
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