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  • 13 1 TODAY /A^diaCorp MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Wednesday October 31, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 871 1  -  LIN YANQIN SINGAPORE'S famous penchant for efficiency is about to take on a green twist. It could mean that any elec-tricity-guzzling household appliances that do not meet certain standards could one day disappear from shop shelves here. When you next shop for a car, it might
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  • 678 1  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@media corp.com.sg EARLIER this year, the asset markets, namely those related to property and stocks, were among the star performers of the Singapore economy. But the outlook for these markets is less clear in the coming months as risk aversion
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    • 47 1 WILL NMP SUE POET? PROF THIO, ALFIAN IN WAR OF WORDS LOCAL PAGE 4 THE CHERRY-SEXY GIRLS OF YANGON CHILD PROSTITUTION PLAGUES MYANMAR WORLD PAGE 20 Q3 RESULTS IN STORE: $501 M PROFIT FOR UOB BUSINESS PAGE 30 IN EUROPE: $1B LOSS FOR ÜBS BUSINESS PAGE 33
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    • 596 2  -  LEE U-WEN Nine left in race after Algiers drops bid to host Youth Olympics u-wen@media corp.com.sg SINGAPORE has to beat eight other cities to win the bid to host the inaugural Youth Olympics in 2010. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday said that Algiers the capital
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    • 344 2  -  ESTHER FUNG With the job market expected to remain tight in the near term, wage pressures are likely to persist and add to inflation risks, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday. It forecast nominal wage growth at between 6 and 7
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    • 108 3 AFP Pakistani investigators gather evidence at the site of a suicide attack in the garrison city of Rawalpindi yesterday that killed seven people. A suicide bomber blew himself up close to where Pakistani President Petvez Musharraf was holding a meeting at army
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    • 367 3  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS an enticing idea: A United StatesAsia "decoupling". This would suggest that the Asian economy with its more diversified export markets and robust domestic and intra-regional drivers is now less dependent on the world's largest economy. But in a research paper
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  • Singapore news
    • 635 4  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg HE THOUGHT she had made the police report which led to the cancellation of the "Pink Picnic", a public event that had been planned by gay activists. In his "flash of anger", poet and playwright Alfian Sa'at shot off
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    • 723 6  -  TAN HUI LENG Land rights, coordination and inflation are problems welfare organisations cite huileng@media corp. com. sg IT isn't just construction projects in Singapore that have been hit by inflation in material costs tsunami-torn areas such as Indonesia and Sri Lanka, where reconstruction
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 118 8 The dispute between Singapore and Malaysia over the sovereignty of Pedra Branca, Middle Rocks and South Ledge will be go before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from Nov 6 to 23 in The Hague. The ICJ hearings come
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      • 102 8 More than 800 jobs in the service industry will be on offer today during the North West Community Development Council's (CDC) job fair at Fuchun Community Club from 9.30 am to 4.30pm. The fair offers employment opportunities in sectors including food and beverage, security, healthcare, hospitality, retail,
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      • 115 8 Are you game? If you are, you'll love this year's Speak Mandarin Campaign, which kicks off on Novs. Sports, culture and the arts, design and lifestyle will be some of the activities used to show Chinese Singaporeans how they can embrace Mandarin in their
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      • 69 8 If you're headed for the curry houses along Race Course Road (between Hampshire Road and Race Course Lane), take note that the road will be closed to all vehicles between 3pm and 10pm on Saturday for the Deepavali celebrations organised by the Hindu Endowment Board. Auxiliary police
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    • 525 8  -  SHERALYNTAY 'Single-minded' giving does nothing to help the needy sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg IT SEEMS natural: When someone is in need, you give him or her money. But can the act of giving cause even more problems, trapping the poor in their poverty? Tackling this question yesterday at the second
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    • 272 8  -  TANHUILENG TO HELP Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs) overcome problems in recruiting board members, the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) has set up a scheme to match organisations and interested volunteers. Board Match helps non-profit organisations identify appropriate individuals for voluntary leadership positions on their
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    • 236 10  -  ZUL OTHMAN Company allowed to present evidence to obtain identities of downloaders zul@mediacorp.com.sg ANIME distributor Odex is not letting up in its quest to bring illegal anime downloaders to book. At a closed-door hearing yesterday in the High Court, Justice Woo Bih Li allowed Odex to
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    • 337 10 A WEALTHY Indonesian woman who sued American Express to recover US$l7.5 million ($25.4 million) that the bank had deducted from her account due to foreign exchange losses has lost her case in the High Court here. Housewife Madam Susilawati, 58 whose late husband owned the
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    • 91 11 International garden and floral designers from 13 countries at a nursery tour hosted by Far East Flora yesterday. Come July next year, these designers will return to Singapore to showcase their creations at the Singapore Garden Festival (SGF), a biennial event organised by the National
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    • 201 11 IN A move to promote public discussion on new developments in contemporary art in Singapore and internationally, the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will be setting up the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize with a $2.25-million donation from the AsiaPacific Breweries Foundation. "We aim
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    • 420 11  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Flat owner who backed en bloc move challenges legality of sale in court weekeat@media corp.com.sg THERE was none of the sparks, spats and conspiracy theories that characterised the High Court hearing last month. Still, the Horizon Towers saga returned yesterday with
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  • world news
    • 327 12 ■AP EU should not postpone signing FTA with Asean due to Myanmar issue: Rafidah KUALA LUMPUR Myanmar's political crisis should not be used as an excuse to hold up a proposed free trade pact between Europe and the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean), said Malaysia's
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    • 260 12 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has warned the country's lawyers that their demands for judicial reforms could clash with national interests and send foreign investors fleeing. Speaking at a conference organised by the 12,000-member Bar Council on Monday, Mr
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    • 258 12 -AFP BANGKOK France and Thailand yesterday said that immediate radical change in Myanmar was impossible and the world had to work more closely together to bring democracy to the military-run country. "We don't want to change the regime immediately, overnight. This is impossible, ridiculous and counter-productive,"
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    • 397 14 -AFP TOKYO Japan's two largest parties failed to agree yesterday on continuing a naval mission in the Indian Ocean, meaning the close United States ally will at least temporarily end its support for the "war on terror". Because the legislation allowing
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    • 307 14 -AFP TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda reprimanded Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama (picture) yesterday for saying he knew an Al Qaeda member involved in the Bali bombing. "It was a totally inappropriate comment, considering both the place where he said it and the content,"
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    • 238 16 -AFP PHNOM PENH Cambodia has convicted its first adulterer under a controversial monogamy law that was passed to curb the practice of keeping mistresses, court officials said yesterday. Mr Kek Ravy, vice-president of Cambodia's football federation and a nephew of disgraced
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    • 300 16 -AP BANGKOK One-time drug warlord Khun Sa (picture), variously described as among the world's most wanted men and a great liberation fighter, has died in Myanmar at the age of 74, an associate said yesterday. Mr Khuensai Jaiyen, a former secretary of Khun
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    • 246 18 -AP US Embassy in Azerbaijan was one target of attack BAKU (Azerbaijan) The National Security Ministry said on Monday it had thwarted a terror attack plan by a radical Islamic group against the United States Embassy and government buildings in oil-rich Azerbaijan. Group members included army lieutenant Kamran
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    • 179 18 ■AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan's top judge yesterday ordered the government to allow Mr Nawaz Sharif to return home, saying its deportation of the former Prime Minister in September violated an earlier court ruling. Hundreds of Sharif supporters clapped and shouted slogans against military ruler
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    • 272 18 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MUMBAI Besides intensifying business links between Singapore and India, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew also focussed on the potential of Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) as a regional business hub during his six-day visit to India. He said: "I
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    • 730 20 -THE GUARDIAN Poverty and corruption drive Myanmar's child prostitution industry YANGON This is a side of life the Myanmar junta might prefer you did not see: Girls who appeared to be 13 and 14 years old paraded in front of customers at a nightclub where a beauty
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    • 271 22 -AFP BEIJING Birth defects in heavily polluted China have risen by nearly 40 per cent since 2001, with a deformed baby being born every 30 seconds, state media reported yesterday. The rate of defects appeared to rise in areas near the country's countless coal
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    • 258 22 ■AFP HONG KONG A leading Asian security expert warned yesterday of endemic corruption in Macau, saying that triads had become part of mainstream society in the booming gambling centre. Mr Steve Vickers, president of security consultants International Risk, said the scale of
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  • Voices
    • 369 26  -  HUI CHI SHING More supervision of agencies needed to curb property speculation Letter from I REFER to the article "Upbeat on Singapore economy" (Oct 30). As a foreigner who has been working in Singapore for nine years, I regret to say that Singapore is gradually
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    • 176 26  -  WALTER LEONG Letter from 1 I REFER to recent reports about SembCorp Marine's former director of group finance who allegedly racked up as much as $364 million in losses from unauthorised foreign exchange transactions. Recently, we have seen repeated cases of company directors
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    • 261 28  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY WHEN FRIENDS' MARRIAGES BREAK UP Divorce may be more common these days, but there's still something about it that shocks us when we hear that close friends are separating; and we say to ourselves, "I wish there were something I could do."
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    • 385 28  -  KUEKCHORUNG Fare discounts for elderly S'poreans area balancing act Letter from Manager, Corporate Marketing and Communications, SMRT Corporation I REFER to the letter "What this poster has to do with SMRT Fares" by Chong Chee Han (Oct 20-21). He wrote that senior citizens should
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    • 258 29  -  DENIS DISTANT Letter from A FEW years ago, when banks realised they could not meet the deadline to dispose of their noncore assets, they appealed to the Monetary Authority of Singapore for an extension of the deadline. Their request was granted. In view of that
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    • 155 29  -  EDMUND LIM Cleanest estate contest should include those in opposition wards too Letter from THE Island-wide Cleanest Estate Competition is back after a fiveyear hiatus and it involves 14 People's Action Party (PAP) Town Councils. I find it rather amusing that it is called "Island-wide" when
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  • Business
    • 515 30  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN hedirman@media corp. com. sg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) reported a net profit of $501 million for the third quarter, an 8.2-per-cent increase from the previous year's $463 million. But compared to the second quarter, its profit after tax was down 14.3 per
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    • BUSINESSBRIEFS
      • 100 30 Singapore Post reported a net profit of $39.7 million for the quarter ended Sept 30, up 9.8 per cent, from that of a year earlier, due to organic growth, productivity improvements and price adjustments. Excluding one-time gains from the disposal of non-core properties, its second-quarter profit
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      • 68 30 Real estate developer Wing Tai Holdings reported a doubling in net profits to $61.8 million for its first quarter ended Sept 30, due to an increase in its share of profits in joint venture projects. Revenue was 39 per cent down from a year earlier, to
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      • 65 30  -  CHEOWXINYI Robinson and Company posted a net profit of $6.5 million for its first quarter ended Sept 30, or an increase of 50.7 per cent from a year earlier, on the back of strong sales by Marks and Spencer in Singapore and Malaysia. It achieved
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    • business news
      • 439 32  -  WILLIAM PESEK Greenback's reign as the world's reserve currency may be over WHILE buying trinkets in the Maldives recently, I heard the most unexpected words: "You can keep your dollars." This tiny nation of 1,200 islands has long accepted US dollars out of convenience for visitors and
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      • 313 33 -AGENCIES ÜBS, Europe's largest bank, yesterday announced a third-quarter net loss of 830 million Swiss francs ($1 billion) the first loss that the 145-year-old Swiss icon has suffered in five years. Not only was this higher than the market had expected, but the
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      • 307 33  -  CHEOWXINYI Doubts surface over extent of rate cut cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SHARES pulled back yesterday after three days of gains as investor sentiment turned cautious before the US Federal Reserve's policy meeting, with doubts surfacing that interest rates will be cut as widely expected. The Straits Times
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      • 328 34  -  DOWJONES HIGH passenger capacity utilisation and a "disciplined" fuel hedging policy will likely boost Singapore Airlines' fiscal secondquarter net profit by about 50 per cent, analysts said. The average forecast from a Dow Jones poll of analysts showed that later today, SIA
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      • 495 35  -  JOSEPH YADAO Hellgate's developers praise Govt initiatives to push games into the mainstream joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg TWO video-game big wigs have given the thumbs-up to Government initiatives to develop Singapore into a major gaming hub. Speaking to Today prior to the launch of Hellgate: London today, brothers
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