Today, 7 July 2008, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Monday July 7 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • ERP
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        NO CHANGE
        41 1 Revised Electronic Road Pricing rates take effect today, with more gantries and higher ERP rates kicking in. But in a Today straw poll of 50 motorists, 36 drivers said they would not drive less or take more public transport.
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        SAVE $2
        66 1 FOR drivers who have lost track of changes to the ERP system and are clueless about new gantry locations and their graduated charges, help is at hand. Online driving guide Oneshift.com has come up with an interactive map (which can be seen at www. oneshift.com/erp) displaying the ERP
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        PHOTOS NO USE
        52 1 In the six years he has been working there, marketing manager Murray Lim has not seen much traffic congestion next to Boat Quay. So, when the authorities released details last month of the ERP gantries along the Singapore River, the 43-year-old decided to act. For full reports,
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      Lock icon At last, Nadal ends Federer's reign
      630 1 AFP WIMBLEDON Spanish No 2 dethrones world No 1 in epic Wimbledon final LONDON Rafael Nadal dethroned five-time champion Roger Federer as king of Wimbledon yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) with an epic 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-7 (8/10), 9-7 win in one of
      AFP; EPA  -  630 words
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      A letter to our readers
      311 1  -  WALTER FERNANDEZ managing editor walter@media.corp. com.sg WELCOME to the redesigned Today. Many things in the paper have changed. The most obvious is its look a more dynamic page design with better navigation, a more readable typeface and a cleaner look. The more important change is
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      Lock icon Calderon admits Ronaldo defeat
      620 2 AGENCIES TRANSFERTALK Winger likely staying at Man United: Real boss MADRID Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo will likely stay at Manchester United next season because the English champions are not willing to let him go, Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon said yesterday. "Ronaldo has said he would
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      Lock icon M'sia seeks Interpol help to find Bala
      604 3 AGENCIES MISSING INVESTIGATOR XL tells US to stop meddling in its internal affairs KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police launched an international manhunt yesterday for a private investigator who went missing after retracting a claim suggesting links between the Deputy Prime Minister and a slain
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      Lock icon I'm not afraid of facing slander, says Mr Najib
      255 3 MALAYSIAN INSIDER PEKAN Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak says that the flurry of recent accusations by the opposition has not shaken his confidence. Addressing party faithful in Pekan, Mr Najib said he and his wife, Ms Rosmah Mansor would face
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      Lock icon Anniversary attack on Red Mosque
      338 4 AFP ISLAMABAD On the first anniversary of the bloody storming of Pakistan's Red Mosque, a suspected suicide attack targeting police forces deployed at a rally has killed 11 officers. The explosion happened just after thousands of Islamist hardliners called for the public hanging of President
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      Lock icon Teary tributes pour in at church wake
      636 4  -  ZULOTHMAN DROWNED SMU STUDENT Sister of Levin Angsana says more precautions should have been taken zul@mediacorp. com.sg BY ALL accounts, he was a hardworking student and a fashionable young man. Others said he had a passion for racing cars and was looking forward
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      Lock icon Making a splash up north
      251 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A NEW People's Association (PA) water sports club has opened in Sembawang, giving residents in the north of Singapore a taste of seasports. Anyone can take part in the activities at the new Water-Venture centre at Sembawang Beach, which include kayaking, windsurfing, sailing
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      Lock icon HIGH ON MILK
      143 6 001 BOON KEONG MrTeo Ser Luck (jumping), Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and Ministry of Transport, as well as several big corporate names, took part in a novelty CEO relay race yesterday as part of the Citi-Milk Run, held in conjunction with
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      PHARMACISTS, STEP UP
      617 6  -  TAN HUI LENG NEWS COMMENT 'Neglected' group can take lead in warning consumers about buying fake medicine huileng@mediacorp. com.sg "IT'S probably harmless," you tell yourself. "It's not like I have a lifethreatening condition. I'm still young." That was possibly what two persons in their 20s were thinking
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      Lock icon Newcomers get some help settling in
      463 8  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI MIGRANT ISSUES More self-help groups in place to focus on new communities in S #pore nazry@mediacorp. com.sg WITH Singapore's changing demographics, thanks to increasing immigration, more community groups are beginning to spring up on top of the four main ethnic selfhelp groups
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        JUMP IF YOU WANT TO HELP
        106 8  -  001 BOON KEONG Dairy Farm Group's community event "My Neighbours, My Friends", which was held on Saturday, included a mass skipping relay (picture), with 500 people skipping for rice. Dairy Farm has pledged to give one bowl (loomg) of rice for every 10 skips
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        Lock icon ON LEGS AND WHEELS FOR CHARITY
        142 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA About 2,000 people, including some in wheelchairs, turned up for the Handicaps Welfare Association's fundraising 3-km "Wheel, Walk or Jog" event that was held at the Botanic Gardens yesterday morning. Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo, the guest-of-honour, said: "As we were climbing
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      Lock icon NightRider and Nite Owls – where to next?
      886 9  - NightRider and Nite Owls where to next? LEONG WEE KEAT TRANSPORT More people are taking night buses, but extending operations is unlikely weekeat(3>mediacorp. com.sg FOR the past eight years, they have rescued nightbirds and provided party-goers and nightshift workers a cheaper alternative to get home after hours. Now, while demand
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Mixed causes fighting for attention
      578 10 AFP AP GBSUMMIT Not just world leaders, summit draws activist groups spanning all interests TOYAKO Battling maternal mortality, demanding clean water and urging the destruction of capitalism might not seem to have much in common, unless you are at a summit of the world's top
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      Lock icon Poverty, joblessness main causes for protests in Mongolia
      406 10 AFP ULAN BATOR Ms Tmujiin Bayaraa came to Ulan Bator from the countryside seeking a better life but found herself selling trash from a festering rubbish tip in Mongolia's capital to make ends meet. Her story is common in this vast but
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      Lock icon First panda cubs born after Sichuan shocks
      211 10 AFP BEIJING A panda who was relocated following China's deadly earthquake in May gave birth yesterday morning to twin cubs, a state news agency said. Guo Guo was the first panda to give birth since the 7.9-magnitude quake that rocked Sichuan province on
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      Lock icon Bush to meet Medvedev
      380 11 AFP On the agenda: US missile plans, rule of law and democracy in Russia TOYAKO US President George W Bush will hold his first face-to-face talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today, a chance to weigh up Vladimir Putin's heir and tackle outstanding disputes. Moscow's opposition
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      Lock icon One dead as US plane crashes in Mexico
      203 11 AFP MEXICO CITY A US cargo plane crashed yesterday onto a roadway as it approached an airport in northern Mexico, killing the pilot and wounding the copilot, local police and the airline said. "The captain was killed, while the copilot was seriously
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon 8 DIEAS BUILDING COLLAPSES
        99 11 AP CHINA Xinhua news agency says eight people have been killed in the collapse of a four-story building under construction in Wuhan city in central China. A hundred rescuers were searching for missing workers yesterday. Xinhua says 13 people have been rescued from the rubble and
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        Lock icon SUU KYI WIN 'NO LONGER LEGAL'
        191 11 AFP MYANMAR The victory by democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party in 1990 elections is "no longer legal", Myanmar state media said yesterday, urging her supporters to prepare for new polls. The official New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a government mouthpiece, ran a
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      Lock icon Smuggling tunnel unearthed
      110 11 AFP THE Hong Kong authorities said yesterday they had smashed a cross-border smuggling network that ferried electronic goods to mainland China through a 600m-long tunnel using high-tech equipment. The city's customs department said that 12 people had been arrested in connection with the operation. Police and customs
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      Lock icon A lucky date for love and country
      268 12 AFP 08.08.08 Thousands of Chinese couples plan to marry on the day Beijing Olympics begin Chinese couples getting married at the start of the Olympics, despite a series of disasters that have cast doubt over the auspicious day. The opening of the Beijing
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      Lock icon Parents urge son's killers to surrender
      329 14 AP LONDON The parents of a French student savagely stabbed to death in London called for his killer or killers to turn themselves in and urged the British people to help the police solve the crime. Francoise and Olivier Ferez said their son's attackers
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      Lock icon Freed hostage to pen play on saga
      310 14 .AFP COLOMBIAN DRAMA PARIS Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt said in an interview she would return to Colombia "in a few days" to write a play about her experience after being held in the jungle for six years. Earlier, the 46-year-old former hostage, who
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      Lock icon WATERS OF DESTRUCTION
      112 16 .AP Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have washed away thousands or homes and displaced more than 50,000 people in Assam, India. Officials said the Brahmaputra river, which flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh before emptying in the Bay of Bengal, and its tributaries were flowing
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      Lock icon 'Everyone spies on everyone else'
      509 16 SUNDAYTELEGRAPH WAR ON TERROR Activities of Russian spies pose threat to UK more likely terror plot may succeed LONDON The activities of Russian spies in Britain are seriously undermining the fight against terrorism, UK security sources have disclosed. The distraction of combating espionage by President
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        The pain of a patient is the debate's forgotten angle
        427 18  -  Yap Eng Hok Letter from I REFER to "If doctors and patients gain, why not the donor?" (July 4). Although I appreciate the arguments, the debate continues without much thought for the kidney patient. Allow me to cover the routine
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        The problem with the price mechanism...
        168 18  -  Teo Kueh Liang Letter from I REFER to "Does Hota need to be revised?" (July 5). Once The Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota) is revised because of the element of price mechanism being instituted into the system or policy, there will be immoral and
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        FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
        182 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... MOTHERS AND SONS Many women these days express a sense of anxiety about dealing with their own sons. A friend of mine, Ms Jean Lush, has written a wonderful book on the subject called, Mothers and Sons. She says that mothers should
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        I SAY A MODERN AUTHORITARIANISM
        570 20  -  John Kampfner The free market does not require a free society WHY is it that a growing number of highlyeducated and well-travelled people are willing to hand over several of their freedoms in return for prosperity or security? This question has been exercising me for
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      5 18 HAVE YOUR SAY. news@ newstoday.com.sg
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      508 21 *I^S»fflfe Thursdays, 12 June-31 July J 8 30pm on Channel o y Firm Up Your Skin Naturally jpppppm^ Li Hua shaved years off her age without going under the needle Tan Li Hua, 56 years old FACE-TO-FACE M Homemaker with New York's Skincare Professional Enjoys watching TV and shopping Suffered
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      Lock icon Meet the marrying man
      1289 22  -  KARMAN TSE Q+A Christopher Lee on his wedding and honeymoon plans as well as life with his vmother-in-law David Gan. karman@mediacorp.com.sg IT MUST have been the 3,618th time that Christopher Lee had been cajoled into talking about his wedding by friends, family, colleagues and the press
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      MEET THE WEDDING PLANNER
      239 23 David Gan (picture) is like an ibu (mother) to Caldecott darlings Christopher Lee and Fann Wong. Now that the couple are finally getting hitched, you can expect him to be seriously busy and seriously involved. Need a hair cut, Zoe? Take a number, David's hands are
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      PLUS PICKS CHRIS ON YOUTUBE
      246 23 TYPE: FANN, CHRIS, LUST Remember that notorious kiss Chris planted on Fann's flushed cheek at last year's Star Awards? What you didn't see was a very giggly and embarrassed Fann talking about it backstage like a love-struck teenager. "Aiyoh, (sigh)... er... If he wants to
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      How to survive a disaster movie
      661 24 The Guardian weighs in on how to survive car chases and alien invasions REELLIFEVS REAL LIFE Terminator's John Connor should have painted his house in stripes. According to robots expert Dr Robert Richardson of Leeds University, the best way to survive a robot uprising
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      Lock icon Never say Abba again
      220 26 AFP MAMMA MIA! No chance of an ABBA comeback, despite the success of Mamma Mia! SWEDISH pop group ABBA will never reform despite the success of Mamma Mia!, the musical and film based on their hits, former member and songwriter Bjoern Ulvaeus said in an interview.
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      Lock icon Crikey, mate! It's a Bindi doll!
      221 26 THE Emmy-winning daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, is getting her own doll (picture). The 10-inch Bindi Irwin doll sports khakis, puffy pigtails and hiking boots, and comes with binoculars, a camera and other outback gear, as well as a cockatoo, wombat
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      393 30 AGENCIES World 100m, 200m champion won't repeat his golden double in Beijing ROADTO BEIJING EUGENE (Oregon) Tyson Gay accelerated through the first curve. Then, he started flying. Not in the figurative sense, but in an all-too-real way a shocking sprawl to the ground that cost America's
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      285 30 AGENCIES The Olympic movement has a long history of loveable underdogs. Despite the misgivings of Games officials, the wildcard system that has allowed some of the worst performers in Olympic history to compete remains in place for Beijing, and speculation has already begun about flops in
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      542 30  -  TANYO-HINN KOH MUI FONG RHB Singapore Cup 2008 Woodlands vTobacco Monopoly (first-leg: 1-1) yohinn@media.corp. com.sg WOODLANDS Wellington have reached the semi-finals of each of the last three RHB Singapore Cups. Their chances of a fourth successive semi-final appearance were boosted by news that
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      217 31  -  TANYO-HINN NATIONAL sailor Rachel Lee has clinched second spot at the justconcluded lODA Optimist North American Championship (June 28-July 6) in Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The 14-year-old finished joint-first in the 204-strong fleet with Puerto Rico's
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      285 31  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp. com.sg THE past 12 months have been both thrilling and sobering for Singapore and Home United skipper Indra Sahdan. The Protectors travel to Tampines Rovers on Wednesday, for the first-leg of their RHB Singapore
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      591 31 SINGAPORE FOOTBALL "model professional", the American side decided that "his style of play wasn't what they were looking for", according to his agent Dave Roberts. "Naturally, I was disappointed that I wasn't offered a contract to play in the United States, but it was an excellent
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      573 32  -  lAN DE COTTA BRITISH GP Hamilton masters the rain and Silverstone to race into drivers' championship lead at silverstone ian@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS your typically rainy English Sunday. And it suited local hero Lewis Hamilton, and the hordes of British fans who turned out at Silverstone here yesterday,
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      114 32 EPA Russia's Nikolay Sazhin, 19, celebrates his victory over Germany riot policeman Frank "Anti Terror" Stoldt, 37, in the light-heavyweight world championship bout of the Chess-Boxing championships in Berlin on Saturday (yesterday morning Singapore time). Matches alternate between five two-minute bouts of boxing
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      290 32 THE GUARDIAN LONDON AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani claims Ronaldinho (picture) has rejected a lucrative offer from Manchester City, despite the English club offering twice what the Italian giants can. Milan and City have both vigorously pursued the signature of Ronaldinho this
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      375 33 AFP LONDON Serena Williams shrugged off her heartbreaking Wimbledon defeat to big sister Venus to predict that the two Americans are far from finished as Grand Slam winners. Venus clinched her fifth Wimbledon title with a 7-5, 6-4 win on Saturday and
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      477 33 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea end interest in Russian playmaker, who wants his kids to learn English LONDON Arsenal have emerged as favourites to sign Andrei Arshavin after Chelsea ended their interest in the Russian playmaker yesterday. Arshavin has his heart set on a move to
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      172 33 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Chelsea's players could be in for a shock today when they start training under new manager, Luiz Felipe Scolari (picture). It was widely perceived that the players were effectively running team affairs during Avram Grant's nine months in charge, and a number
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      29 33 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 11.55pm Cricket Twenty2oCup: Quarter-final, Ch 110 SPORTS ON RADIO 6.35am 11.35pm SportsZone Minutes Hourly Sports updates on g3Blive g.ioam 9.30am SportsZone Wrap (encore at g.iopm)
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      649 34  -  JOHN BITTLESTON TAKING CHARGE A list of improvements that should be made by the finance industry succeed@newstoday.com.sg NOT as important as your health or your soul, looking after your money is still high on the list of things you want to get right. That
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      318 34  -  LOH CHEE KONG LEADERSHIP WITHOUT BORDERS ED COHEN From personal leadership style to knowing the intricacies of the markets, running a business in a foreign land can be a daunting prospect forthe faint-hearted. Through extensive one-on-one interviews with the best in the business, including the Singapore heads of
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      615 35  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@mediacorp. com.sg FROM handling bulky lighting equipment to tossing pots and pans, Mr Andrew Ng (picture) took to his career switch from being a stage manager to a full-fledged professional chef like fish to water. And he has
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          88 36 Jade Technologies is calling an extraordinary general meeting on July 21 to ask shareholders to approve special share payments to two executive directors. Sam Chong Keen joined Jade as group president on a salary of just $1 a year after Dr Anthony Soh stood down following his
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          91 36 BLOOMBERG Toppan Printing, Japan's biggest publicly traded printing firm by sales, said it received acceptances from 61.2 per cent of SNP Corp shareholders to sell their shares. Toppan said on June 10 it intends to buy Singapore-based SNP for $208 million. Its cash offer
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        431 36 BLOOMBERG IPO WATCH Adaro gets clearing to raise $1.8 billion in listing PT ADARO Energy, the holding company of Indonesia's second-largest coal producer, won approval to raise 12.3 trillion rupiah ($l.B billion) in the nation's biggest initial public offering since 1995. The Capital Market and
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        789 38  -  CONRAD RAJ MONDAY BLUES editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg In these times, SIA should seize the opportunity to expand IF THERE is one airline that can emerge from the economic storm the least bruised, it must be Singapore Airlines (SIA). Its success, especially during bad times, boils down to
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        453 39  -  LOHCHEEKONG ENTREPRENEUR Winner used her prize money to set up organisation for plus-sized women cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg HER dream came true and she decided to make others' dreams come true too in a big way. In December, Ms Sharmilah Begum Mehmood walked away with $33,000 after taking part in
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          87 40 CIMB-GK has retained its recommendation but cut its price target to $2.09 from $2.32, as net profit projections are reduced in light of soaring diesel prices. It notes that public transport ridership is up as rising petrol prices, more Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries and higher ERP
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          First Ship Lease Trust ($1.24) Buy
          72 40 DBS Vickers has initiated coverage on FSLT with a price target of $1.65. This is a business trust formed to own and lease vessels on an exclusively bareboat charter basis. DBS says the trust's exposure to shipping cycle volatility is mitigated by its staggered
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          FerroChina ($1.07) Buy
          56 40 DMG has a $2.30 price target even as weakness in the Chinese market and lingering concerns about high iron ore prices eat into the galvanised steel-coil maker's margins. DMG says the impact of high iron ore prices may not be as severe as feared and it has
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          Olam ($4.00) Outperform
          111 40 Cazenove has upped its fair value for the share price to $4.00 from $3.40, maintaining its outperform call on the stock. It says Olam's latest joint venture with Wilmar to buy 20 per cent of natural sweetener maker Pure Circle shows its ability to think "outside the
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        574 40  -  CHEOWXINYI TODAY EXCLUSIVE SGX chief Hsieh's mission: To remove barriers to trade here for international brokers cheowxinyi(3>mediacorp. com.sg SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) is exploring ways to allow offshore brokerages to directly trade on the Singapore bourse without having a physical presence here. This would mean offering
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        130 40 BLOOMBERG PARIS French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial nations meeting in Japan should encourage oilproducing countries to boost output to prevent an oil-driv-en economic slowdown. "The G-8 should encourage producers to increase production to avert
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        430 40 .AFP PROPERTY analysts say prices are likely to fall further in the third quarter, but experts rule out massive declines because of the multiplier effect from Singapore's two multi-billion-dollar integrated resorts (IR) now under construction. Housing demand is expected to pick up when
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