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  • 27 1 TODAY /A=DiJ\CORP fresfsf share your free newspaper MICA(P) 192/07/2006 Wednesday November 1, 2006 todayonline.com TODAY share your free newspaper /A=diaCopp Wednesday November 1, 2006 todayonline.com MICA(P) 192/07/2006
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 620 1  -  TORCHING LI Economic growth and the IR effect are kicking in chingli@media corp.com.sg THE nudges to employers, the constant hunt for fresh investment and the retraining schemes have worked, of course, but it also appears that Singapore has got one major gamble right. The opening
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    • 464 1 -AFP PERRY (Georgia) US President George W Bush yesterday blasted Democratic Senator John Kerry for saying that those who neglect their education "get stuck in Iraq" and demanded that Mr Kerry apologise to US troops there. In a bruising throwback to
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  • hot news
    • 842 2  -  VALCHUA 'TORCHING LI Chairman unveils bold plans for Sentosa IR DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR val@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S a wonderland of sorts at least to its creator Mark Advent Showcasing what lies behind its $5.5-billion mega bid, Eighth Wonder unveiled an ambitious Sentosa concept built around a fictional character
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    • 101 2 -AFP NEW YORK The major US stock indexes closed narrowly mixed yesterday as investors appeared to be consolidating recent gains amid strong corporate earnings and higher crude prices. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 5.77 points at 12,080.73. The technology-weighted Nasdaq Composite Index
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    • 710 3 Moves in line with aim to become Asia's top media company AS THE world neatly folds into one long, connected information superhighway, homegrown media conglomerate MediaCorp yesterday announced key structural and management changes to position itself as Asia's top media company. Said Mr Lucas Chow, CEO
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    • 213 3 IN OTHER major changes MediaCorp announced that it has created a Corporate Marketing and Strategic Management division reporting directly to CEO Mr Lucas Chow. Ms Alice Tan, who leaves MediaCorp TVI2 to take up the new appointment of MediaCorp Chief Marketing Officer, will head this new
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    • 100 2 Introduction and opening address "conam"s^ Freely Time Squeeze Theory Fundamental, Technical and Gapping Analyses Portfolio Management for the modern investor Case studies of successful investing Witness graduates' testimonies a Dr. Clemen Chiang 'I Singapore's number one 1 J money stock options &^jgE *i»« *^"CT*f m "Freely is Asia's largest Options
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  • Singapore news
    • 380 4  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE will play host to the world's largest gathering of lottery operators later this month with a six-day event that is being held in Asia for the first time. More than 1,100 delegates from 66
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    • 398 4  -  TAN HUI LENG Smoking could be a bigger air pollutant than haze, says study huileng@media corp.com.sg THE haze may have subsided for now but cigarette smoke in an enclosed area could be far more dangerous to health than air quality in the "hazardous" range of the
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 97 4  -  MICHAEL WEE ATREE crashed onto a mini-bus that was carrying 15 children from Zulfa Kindergarten yesterday. The windscreen of the mini-bus was shattered, but no one was hurt. The accident happened along Yuan Ching Road around 4pm, during a heavy downpour. Eyewitnesses said
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      • 95 4 -938 LIVE THE wife of lawyer-on-the-run David Rasif has been accorded the couple's condominium in a closed-door hearing at the High Court. The hearing was to discuss matters relating to the divorce petition Ms Joyce Fong had filed earlier. Apart from the condominium, said
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      • 132 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) will be issuing a set of guidelines to ensure the safety of work ers in housing estates who provide cleaning or other custodial services. A 10-member workgroup has come up with three preliminary core procedures
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    • 365 6  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg IT SEEMS that Singapore's fledgling Budget Terminal is gaining altitude so much so that plans are in the works to scale it up. Six months after operations began in March, the number of passengers passing through each month has gone
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 107 6 938 LIVE Hotel room rates in Singapore rocketed to a record high of $190 on average in September. The Singapore Tourism Board attributed this to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meetings held here recently. But it added that there has also been
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      • 74 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A veteran plastic surgeon and a young volunteer group won this year's Singapore International Foundation (SIF) Awards. Prof Lee Seng Teik, Emeritus consultant at Singapore General Hospital, performed cleft lip and palate surgeries on more than 500 patients in four Asian countries. The Students'
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      • 97 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Sentosa Cove is launching six seafront bungalow land parcels for sale this Saturday, as part of its gated Southern Residential Precinct. The sites range from about 750 sq m to more than 1,700 sq m. Sentosa Cove has set the
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    • 332 6  -  TORCHING LI chingli@mediacorp.com.sg COME Christmas 2008, stepping out of Orchard MRT station will mean walking right into a world-class retail experience and we're not just talking about the Orchard Road stretch. Capita Land and its 50:50 partner, Hong Kong's Sun Hung Kai Properties, unveiled the concept
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    • 336 8  -  SHERALYN TAY Govt launches new water-efficiency labelling scheme sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THAT washing machine of yours uses 125 litres of water or 10 full buckets of water for every skg load of laundry. But not all washing machines have to guzzle that much water. When you next
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    • 323 8  -  -ANSLEYNG i CRIMINAL motions filed by Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan and party member Ghandi Ambalam were rejected by the High Court yesterday. Both men had filed the application to ask the higher court to abort a concurrent district court hearing, where they
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  • world news
    • 355 10 -AFP Pyongyang will also return to six-party talks as early as this month BEIJING North Korea reaffirmed during talks here yesterday a pledge made last year to scrap its nuclear weapons in return for concessions, United States negotiator Christopher Hill
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    • 274 10 -AFP HONG KONG Experts have renewed their warnings of a bird flu pandemic after a new resistant strain of the HSNI virus deadly to humans and poultry was found to have spread through Asia. Scientists in Hong Kong and America believe the new
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 76 12 AFP Eighteen people on their way to attend a funeral were killed when a train rammed into an auto-rickshaw at an unmanned crossing in southern India. The auto-rickshaw broke down on the rail tracks in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Press Trust of
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      • 88 12 AFP Indonesian aviation authorities have grounded 18 pilots for breaking safety regulations by landing in thick haze last month. Two pilots who were responsible for a Mandala Airlines jet that skid off the runway at a Borneo airport were slapped with a one-year
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      • 48 12 AFP Malaysia yesterday unveiled an ambitious RM2O million plan ($8.55 million) to help children below six years old develop their creativity. The pilot project will be implemented next year in every state. The government believes such programmes will help children achieve better academic results.
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    • 350 12 AGENCIES DPM warns about Mahathir row but Abdullah disagrees KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday warned the government must not alienate citizens by becoming distracted by its bitter feud with ex-Pre-mier Mahathir Mohamad. Mr Najib heir apparent to embattled Prime Minister
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    • 212 12 -AP BEIJING An appeal hearing for a Hong Kong reporter jailed by China on espionage charges in a case heavily criticised by rights groups has been postponed, his lawyer said yesterday. The Beijing High Court was to have finished hearing the appeal of
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    • 171 14 -AFP KHAR (Pakistan) More than 10,000 gun-wielding Pakistani tribesmen protested yesterday against a deadly air raid on an Al Qaeda-linked religious school that killed 80 people. The show of anger came ahead of rallies called by radical Islamists, triggering security fears that
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    • 197 14 -AFP Govt defeats bid for inquiry into how Britain joined war LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government scraped through a potentially damaging vote in Parliament yesterday on whether he should order an inquiry into how Britain joined the war in Iraq. The government defeated an
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    • 256 14 BLOOMBERG MOST of the candidates for next week's congressional elections are furiously debating Iraq, Medicare and extending tax cuts. Most are staying quiet about an imminent legislative challenge: How to stop a tax increase that will hit more than 20 million households next
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    • 101 14 DPA MIAMI An indignant concert-goer threw his beverage over singing legend Barbra Streisand after she criticised US President George W Bush during her Miami concert on Monday night, the Miami Herald reported yesterday. Streisand, 64, has been repeatedly heckled during her current tour, her first in
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    • 311 15 -AP Lieberman's party brought in to shore up ruling coalition JERUSALEM One of Israel's most divisive politicians has joined the government as a Deputy Premier following Cabinet and parliamentary approval. The move shores up Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ruling coalition but virtually ends
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
    • 265 15 -AFP JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned that the army is preparing an extensive operation in the Gaza Strip, according to a Member of Parliament. The government is set to make a decision on the offensive within days, the MP added. "The army
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  • Voices
    • 245 16  -  LIM TAT MING Letter from I REFER to the letters from Law Sin Ling and Chan Hean Boon ("Will they be fit to defend the nation?", Oct 28-29) on the newly launched IPPT (Individual Physical Proficiency Test) Preparatory Training (IPT) programme for
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    • 426 16  -  GOH KIAN HUAT Patients should be able to choose life-sustaining treatment, not just refuse it Letter from I REFER to the report "Lifting that deathly silence" (Oct 30). I applaud Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan's plan to start a national conversation on end-of-life care and
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    • 263 18  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY..... TALKING ABOUT SELF-ESTEEM If self-esteem is something we value for our sons and daughters, maybe it would be helpful to assist them in achieving it. It seems like every teenager has to come a long today and bump his head on the
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    • 282 18  -  TAY BOON SUN Letter from Senior Public Relations Officer for Director (Corporate Development) Housing Development Board PLEASE refer to the letter "HDB buyer not told of loan policy" by Ms Lim Le-Anne (Oct 16). Under the prevailing policy, flat owners are
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    • No big boost to charities' stock
      • 205 18  -  LEONG SZE HIAN Letter from YOUR front-page article "Charities miss out as their money sleeps in banks" (Oct 31) states that at least one charity is now in the process of hiring a fund manager, and that almost half of them do
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      • 232 18  -  LOWLEEMENG Letter from I DISAGREE with the idea of charities investing in stocks, even if it is only a small portion of their reserves. When a donor gives funds to a charity, he expects the money to go to help the needy. An investment bank
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    • 374 19  -  HASUNDASHAMSUDIN Teachers, like other employees, should be rewarded based on what matters Letter from I REFER to the letter from Mr Ho Kong Loon, "Give marks for care and dedication" (Oct 30). Based on my experience and what my children went through at school, often, the
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    • 145 19  -  JEREMY WONG Letter from ON SATURDAY, I went to pick up guests arriving from Batam at the Harbourfront ferry terminal. The ferry arrived at about 6.30pm and the guests came out slightly after 10.30pm. Apparently, they spent more than four hours queuing
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  • Businesstoday
    • 85 20 —AGENCIES SINGAPORE Post (Sing Post) said its fiscal second-quarter profit rose 20 per cent as it processed more mail and other services, and booked gains from the sale of a property. Its net income rose to $36.1 million, or 1.88 cents a share, in the three months
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    • 92 20 -DOWJONES CHINA Food Industries has been slapped with 32 lawsuits over unpaid debts and fears liquidation of its mainstay business after auditors uncovered overstated profits at the Singapore-listed company. The legal claims, which total about 16.4 million yuan ($3.25 million), have resulted in a China court freezing
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    • 507 20  -  JASMINE YIN IN SHANGHAI Small Singapore firms find opportunities in the country jasmine@newstoday.com.sg PASTRY chef and chief executive of homegrown Bakerzin, Mr Daniel Tay, has taken on a new mission: To promote eating dessert in Shanghai, where he setup shop two months ago. Other than
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    • 277 21 BLOOMBERG CREATIVE Technology reported a wider loss than analysts expected after its music players were outsold 23 to one by Apple Computer's iPods in the United States. The net loss was US$2l million ($32.8 million), or 25 US cents per share, in
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      • 141 21 DOW JONES THE stock market here edged higher, but gains were limited as investors continued to unload shares in local banks. The ST Index rose 10.2 points, or 0.4 per cent, to close at 2,701.8, marking a gain after two sessions of losses. On the broad market, gainers led
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      • 36 21 US$ 0.6404 UK£ 0.3369 Yen 75.241 HK$ 4.9802 RM 2.3328 Euro 0.5033 Rupiah 5829.5 Baht 23.555 Peso 31.890 A$ 0.8323 Indian Rs 28.803 Won 604.95 C$ 0.7209 Yuan 5.0426 NZ$ 0.9623 NT$ 21.276
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      • 19 21 ISGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 607.40 Sim 12.25 FhtiMi usl/oz 1,093.20 Rlbbir cents/kg 279.00 PllnoilßM/t0nnt582.50 tantaiiliiisS/tar«isB.6B Information provided by
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    • business news
      • 271 24  -  CHRISTIE LOH GES2OO6 HERE is more peace of mind for you if you are looking to invest in a technology startup. The Government will deduct any investment loss from your taxable income, if the young company that you support comes
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      • 358 24 DOW JONES Net interest income rises to $684 million UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) yesterday said that its thirdquarter net profit was flat as increased lending offset a fall in investment banking and fund management earnings. UOB's deputy chairman Wee Ec Cheong said the bank
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      • 125 24 -DOW JONES PACIFIC Century Regional Developments (PCRD) said yesterday that the Singapore Exchange (SGX) had required Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li to abstain from voting on its proposed sale of a 22.65-per-cent stake in PCCW. In a controversial move, Mr Li has been
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      • 239 26  -  —VALERIE LAW EXPENSIVE equipment for offshore oil and gas production requires careful handling and installation, and that is the core business of Swiber Holdings, which is seeking to list on the Singapore Exchange. Swiber is an integrated offshore engineering, procurement, construction,
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      • 391 26  -  CLEMENT MESENAS GES2OO6 Funds will go towards a single project in hotel and leisure sector EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@media corp.com.sg THE return on investment in the booming property development business in the Persian Gulf is very attractive, but a United Arab Emirates investment group has chosen
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    • growth the business of enterprise
      • 1026 28  -  MIRA KASHINATH Mother Nature gets a hand in efforts to boost the arowana fertility rate mira@media corp.com.sg NOT many of us get to combine our passion with work, but Mr Alex Chang, a research fellow currently pursuing his PhD with Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL), gets
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