Today, 9 July 2008

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  • 20 1 TODAY Wednesday July 9 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Wednesday July 9 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 34 1 YENYOK MARIA SIOW China's citizens are achieving some success in taming the faceless behemoth of provincial authoritarianism in a push for social justice but there is a limit to this tolerance. Page 20
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  • 49 1 DEADLY SCHOOLS More than 7,000 schools collapsed during the recent Sichuan quake and it's clear shoddy construction was to blame. It's crucial to get to the bottom of the problem as we need to restore our faith in civil engineers, says NUS Prof Kog Yue Choong. Page 21
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  • 28 1 HERITAGE STATUS Great news for two historic Malaysian cities. Melaka and Penang's Georgetown will be recognised as Unesco's World Heritage sites after a sevenyear campaign. Page 12
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  • 27 1 STORE UNFAZED China has promised a 'clean' Olympics but Singapore is leaving no stone unturned to ensure the health of our 25-strong athletic contingent. Page 33
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  • 22 1 SMELLING GOOD Guidelines to make SWFs more palatable will be discussed at an IMF meeting here, today and tomorrow. Page Bl
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  • 1101 1  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI POLITICS ONLINE Ministers and MPs step up presence with online profiles nazry@mediacorp.com.sg HE FIRST used Facebook to gauge public support for Singapore's bid to host the Youth Olympics Games in 2010, and was impressed that within a few crucial weeks, membership for the group
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  • 484 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg THE bushes surrounding a PUB substation at Blk 154, Ang Mo Kio Aye 5, was the scene of a gruesome find yesterday: The body of an 18-year-old female face-up in a pool of blood. The victim, known only as Jeevitha,
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  • 485 1  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com. sg FIRST, he said he wanted to leave the aircraft because his friend was not on board. Then, he said he needed to leave to settle personal matters. In the end, the insistence of a Tiger Airways passenger to get
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    • 552 3  -  ZULOTHMAN CAPTURED BYATODAY READER OPPOSITION ONLINE zul@mediacorp.com.sg THE main Opposition party in Parliament, the Workers' Party, is turning to cyberspace's most popular social tool to engage voters. While its monthly walkabouts and discussion forums remain a priority, a website like Facebook provides an instant link to
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    • 416 4  -  TEOXUANWEI DSTA SCHOLARSHIPS Jump in number of students opting for R&D work xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN when then-Defence Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee was orchestrating the set-up of Singapore's own defence forces over 35 years ago, the vision was clear: To gain an edge on the battlefields, having
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    • 289 4 TRAFFIC flow and speeds on roads along the Singapore River improved with the introduction of five new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries there on Monday. Although the Youth Day school holiday could have been a factor, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) took the
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    • 410 6  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE video of a "distressed" Amutha Valli Krishnan going about various daily activities such as window shopping, tucking in at coffeeshops and working out in a gym was shown again in court yesterday, this time to another
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    • 411 6 938 LIVE DUNEARN ROAD ACCIDENT Shin Mm executive editor faces up to five years'jail for fatal collision A 56-year-old journalist has been found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving and grievously hurting a motorcyclist on Christmas Eve two years ago. Lim Hong Eng (picture),
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    • 480 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN EDUCATION Temasek Poly students' winning design idea beats more than 23,000 entries chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg THEY are the brightest up-and-coming talents in the world of advertising and design, not just in Singapore but in the world. Two design graduates from Temasek Polytechnic beat more than 23,000 entries
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    • 194 8 n&AD Student of the Year 2UU» The Design Singapore Council is in talks with Britain's D&AD to run some of the latter's training programmes in Singapore. D&AD, set up by a group of art directors and designers in 1962 as the British Design and Art Direction,
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    • 420 8 THE world may know only one Carlos Santana the guitarist and rock musician but at Mayflower Primary, there are quite a few of him, so to speak. Thanks to "Project Carlos Santana", conceptualised by Mr Melvin Cher, the school's acting subject head of art and
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    • 355 10 PICTURE COURTESY SEMBCORP 938 LIVE JUST nine weeks after opening its doors to the public on April 26, the Peranakan Museum has seen more than 50,000 visitors. Dr Kenson Kwok, director of the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) which manages the Peranakan Museum, called the
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    • 386 10 PIRATED DVDS Singapore and Malaysian authorities join forces on crackdown for the first time FOUR Malaysians supplying pirated movie DVDs to customers in Singapore have been arrested in the first joint operation between law enforcement agencies in the two countries. Acting on intelligence gathered by the Motion
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    • 465 12 INDONESIAN POLITICS Poorly represented in Parliament, they still have a say in government policies JAKARTA They may have little political support but careful lobbying by hardline Muslim groups is giving them a greater role in Indonesia's politics, says a study. The latest sign of
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    • 243 12 AGENCIES QUEBEC CITY Two historic Malaysian cities, Melaka and Georgetown, have been added to Unesco's World Heritage List after seven years of campaigning for their recognition. The Paris-based World Heritage Council met in Quebec, Canada and confirmed the listings on Monday. Penang Chief
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  • WORLD
    • 193 14 AFP TOYAKO (Japan) The world's most powerful leaders put aside the debate on tackling global food shortages to enjoy a banquet (picture) of delicacies ranging from caviar to cold Kyoto beef. United States President George W Bush and other G8 leaders slipped off their
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    • 474 14 AFP G8 SUMMIT G8 says nations must be prepared to release food stocks to those in need TOYAKO (Japan) The Group of Eight (G8) powers yesterday called on nations with sufficient food stocks to release some of their reserves to countries in need to help them
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    • 422 17 AGENCIES DBSUMMIT KUALA LUMPUR The "D 8" group of developing nations yesterday resolved to boost food production to combat shortages that it said threaten to trigger widespread political unrest. "We want to cooperate in areas of food production, we want to
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    • 198 17 AP KUALA LUMPUR Robbers have reportedly fled with RMI million ($418,000) in a brazen bank heist just 100 m from a Malaysian police station. Police and news reports said yesterday that four men pulled up in a car outside the bank in Segamat district in
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    • 360 18 INDONESIAN ELECTIONS Party of former military chief Wiranto among 18 newcomers to be cleare< JAKARTA Indonesia's legislative election next year will see 34 political parties vying for seats in the House of Representatives. Eighteen of these are new parties that cleared the verification checks of the
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    • 185 18 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said his mission in Kuala Lumpur gave refuge to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim last week based on humanitarian grounds. Mr Ali said that Mr Anwar was at the ambassador's residence and not at the embassy, as was
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    • 320 18 AFP BANGKOK—Thailand put billionaire former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra on trial for corruption yesterday, almost two years after he was toppled from power in a military coup. Mr Thaksin and his wife Pojaman were not on hand at the Supreme Court for the
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    • 674 20  -  MARIASIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg TWO recent incidents in China have served as clear indications that popular anger and resentment can force the government to retract from its earlier positions and even fire its errant officials. The first involved 54-year-old farmer Zhou
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    • 760 21  -  KOGYUECHOONG NEWS COMMENT We need to identify the culprits and restore our faith in civil engineers THE earthquake in China's Sichuan province is an important reminder to civil engineers, particularly in Asia, to be faithful to their profession and to conduct themselves according to the highest
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    • 627 22 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH UK POLITICS Conservative leader fires "moral neutrality' attack on obese, idle and poor LONDON Mr David Cameron has launched an attack on Britain's culture of "moral neutrality", saying the obese, the idle and the poor have no one to blame but themselves. It is
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    • 329 22 AP CHICAGO For the first time, an influential United States doctors group is recommending that some children as young as eight be given cholesterol-fighting drugs to ward off future heart problems. It is the strongest guidance ever given on the issue by the American Academy
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    • 175 23 SIX-PARTY NUCLEARTALKSTO RESUME Six-party talks on scrapping North Korea's nuclear programmes will resume tomorrow in Beijing after a nine-month break, South Korea's chief negotiator Kirn Sook said. "The chief delegates of the six-party talks will meet forthe first time in nine months," Mr Kirn told reporters en route
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    • 276 23 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH THE Church of England looked set for a damaging split last night after its ruling body agreed to press ahead with the introduction of women bishops without any compromise measures for opponents of the controversial move. After six hours of emotional debate, one
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    • 252 24  -  Johnny Koh Hong Wah Motorists at mercy ofCNG suppliers Letter from NOW that petrol prices are so high, many motorists must be considering making the switch to cheaper and "greener" compressed natural gas (CNG). I have made the switch myself. About two months ago I
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    • 75 24  -  Lim Boon Hee SP Services (SP) increases consumer deposits once average power usage increases over a period of three to four months. When usage drops again, SP does not automatically return any excess deposit. It also loads the increased deposit onto the bill and charges late payment
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    • 196 25  -  Letter from Jolovan Wham Executive Director, Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home) I REFER to the report "Newcomers get some help settling in" (July 7). The formation of more self-help groups catering to new migrants' needs is a welcome development. However, apart from highly-skilled
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    • 299 25  -  MOM should give employers leeway in deciding to pay for maids' passage Letter from LeeSiewThye I REFER to the letter "Maid repatriation rule not fair" (July 5-6). I have employed maids for the last 25 years and have experienced many employeremployee issues. No matter what
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    • 255 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY HOME: A SAFE HAVEN Most of us have become acquainted with the term "friendly fire", where soldiers are inadvertently killed or wounded by their own troops. This phenomenon doesn't just occur on the battlefield; it happens at home. In the frazzled and
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    • 789 26  -  Subana Hall I SAY Domestic helpers should not be substitute parents TWO children are playing. One falls and the other shouts: "Mci Mci has fallen down!" A woman runs towards the little girl, looking worried. She pacifies the crying child. What a loving mum, I think.
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  • plus MOVIES
    • 480 28  -  GENEVIEVE LOH HOLY SEQUELS, BATMAN! Hollywood misadventures with the Batmobile, the Bal cast, and a batty mission to take a picture with Batman. in los angeles genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg THE man behind the counter was impeccably polite. Dressed in a suit accessorised with a shiny gold Beverly Wilshire Four
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    • 229 28 READ: BATMAN THE COMPLETE HISTORY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE DARK KNIGHT Author Les Daniels covers Batman's creation and runaway success in 1939, to the campy antics of the Adam West TV show, to the emergence of Frank Miller's very disturbed and very dark Dark
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    • 321 29 CHRISTIAN Bale is remarkably like his Batman/ Bruce Wayne character in almost every sense. He's ruggedly good-looking, frighteningly intense, and answers questions staring straight into your eyes. He's also a charmer. "Which is the latest and greatest gadget here?" he asked with a smile, perusing the
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    • 252 29 IT'S hard to believe Aaron Eckhart when he goes on about how sick to the stomach the audience will be when his good-guy character district attorney Harvey Dent turns into the villainous Two-Face. It's just that Eckhart has such a pretty face. Of course, it
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    • 278 29 GARY Oldman is a really good actor. But don't quote us quote the guy himself. "I've done more acting this entire weekend than I did in the movie! And I just love it!" he exclaimed in mock exaggeration, big plastic smile plastered on his face,
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    • 353 30  -  KARMANTSE MOVIE REVIEW RED CLIFF John Woo #s epic is Chinese blockbuster of the year karman@mediacorp.com.sg THEY say slow and steady wins the race. To director John Woo, it seems that is how to win a battle, too. Red Cliff, Woo's latest masterpiece, took three
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    • 298 30  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW HELLBOY II WATCHING Hellboy II: The Golden Army is like stuffing your face at an all-you-can-eat buffet. To ride Guillermo del Toro's {Pan's Labrynith) fantastical gravy train, complete with big studio money stirred in, is to get your fill of every bizarre
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    • 146 30 $2oK REWARD FOR LOST HARD DISK In another effort to retrieve a lost hard disk of unreleased music and images, M 5 Royal Music is offering a reward of $20,000, raised by family, friends and supporters, said M 5 artiste manager William Soh. As long as it's returned
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    • 265 31  -  MAYO MARTIN MOVIE REVIEW HELP ME EROS HELP Me Eros doesn't need Cupid to come to its rescue. But it does need its director to sober up. Throughout this heartfelt but meandering erotica film, you'll see Taiwanese actor-turned-di-rector Lee Kang-sheng smoking weed on screen. He plays
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  • sports
    • 388 33 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON According to Luiz Felipe Scolari, Frank Lampard wants to stay at Chelsea despite Italian giants Inter Milan continuing their pursuit of the midfielder. Chelsea released a statement on their website yesterday revealing they had received and rejected an
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    • 629 33  -  LOW LIN FHOONG ROAD TO BEIJING Olympic athletes will be screened by doctors and medical team at the Games linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE is confident China will live up to their promise and put on a "clean" Olympic Games, but at the same time the team will
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    • 123 33  -  KENNETHGOH THE Young Lions grabbed an injury time winner to beat favourites Bangkok University 1 -0 last night in the first-leg of their RHB Singapore Cup 2008 quarter-final at the Jurong East Stadium. With their second-leg scheduled to be played at Jalan Besar Stadium on Friday, the
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    • 81 33  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE clinched the bronze medal in the men's trios event at the 20th Asian Tenpin Bowling Championship in Hong Kong. At the Hong Kong Bowling City yesterday, the trio of Eugene Low, Jason YeongNathan and Shaun Ng totalled 3,898 pinfalls to finish behind champions Chester King,
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    • 510 34  -  KENNETH GOH CUP FOOTBALL So many talented players on show, a spark of inspiration will seperate the sides QUARTER-FINAL, FIRST-LEG Tampines Rovers v Home United Tampines Stadium, 7.45pm kenneth@mediacorp.com.sg A MOMENT of individual skill may just decide tonight's RHB Singapore Cup 2008 first leg
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    • 477 34 AFP OMAHA Katie Hoff s ambitious programme at the 2008 Olympics has earned her the tag of the female Michael Phelps, but the swimmer Phelps calls his "little sister" can't quite see it that way. "I saw an article asking,
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    • 248 35 AFP RIO DE JANERIO Brazil coach Dunga has included Real Madrid's Robinho and Barcelona's Ronaldinho who is set to leave the Nou Camp over the summer in his squad for the Olympic Games. In a move that will surely rankle English Premier League bosses Alex
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    • 753 35 THENEWYORKTIMES I TENNIS Nadal's has Federer #s No 1 status in his sights, as Centre Court gets ready for a roof WIMBLEDON (England) There will be other great men's finals at Wimbledon, quite possibly another between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. But it seems safe to
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    • 258 36 AFP SEOUL Guvs Hiddink, christened the "wizard" by grateful Russian media, said yesterday there was no magic to his giantkilling exploits as a coach in big international tournaments. "There's no recipe, there's no secret, there's no magic," he said during a visit to South Korea,
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    • 232 36 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH AMSTERDAM Holland and Hamburg midfielder Rafael van der Vaart yesterday dismissed speculation linking him with a move to Tottenham Hotspur. The Dutch playmaker has been linked with a move to the Premier League after an impressive season in the Bundesliga and then at
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    • 607 36 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH TRANSFER TALK Real Madrid chief stokes the flames with Manchester United over Ronaldo LONDON According to Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon, Manchester United should be "happy and proud" to facilitate in the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo to the Santiago Bernabeu. In an interview with
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    • 377 37 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Midfielder is trying his best to get away from The Emirates LONDON Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb has launched an astonishing attack on manager Arsene Wengerand team-mate Cesc Fabregas, as he attempts to engineer a move to Barcelona. The Belarus international has been seemingly on
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    • 437 37 AGENCIES LIVERPOOL Rafael Benitez hopes the departure of Peter Crouch will signal the start of serious business in the transfer market at Anfield, although the long-run-ning saga over Gareth Barry's future looks set to continue. Crouch's three-year career on Merseyside is
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    • 150 37 AFP MADRID Mallorca striker Daniel Guiza, top scorer in the Primera Liga last season, is on the verge of joining his former Spain coach Luis Aragones at Turkish giants Fenerbahce, it was reported here yesterday. The two sides have already reached an agreement and only the
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    • 26 37 SPORTS ON TV TOMORROW 12.30 am Cricket Twenty2o Cup 2008, quarter-final, Chuo spo^ls .9.5 M?. I(? 6.35am-n.3spm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on g3BLive
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  • enterprise
    • 631 38  -  LOH CHEE KONG GOGREEN 25-year-old has plans for made-in-S #pore electric car cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg IF BUDDING enterpreneur Clarence Tan gets his way, Singapore would be mass producing electric cars within two years. And Mr Tan, 25, who had started a robotics company with friends in 2003, already has plans
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    • 480 39  -  VENTURINGABROAD Companies can join forces and apply for subsidies ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg FED-UP with getting lousy booth positions at overseas trade fairs, Ewins decided to join forces with other furniture firms to exhibit in a pavilion for the first time last November.
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    • 333 39  -  ESTHER FUNG THOSE that exhibit together can make money together. That's the experience of John While Springs, a Singapore precision engineering firm that manufactures metal coil springs. This company has found through experience that it makes sense when exhibiting overseas to share a pavilion with other companies
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    • 100 39 WHAT IS IMAP?: A programme that aims to help Singapore-incorporated companies organise overseas missions or participate in Singapore pavilions at international trade fairs. WHO IS ELIGIBLETO APPLY FORGRANTS?: All trade associations and chambers of commerce in Singapore. WHATARETHE BENEFITS?: Successful applicants receive a reimbursement of up to 70
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  • BUSINESS
    • 140 40 Frasers Centrepoint is acquiring a 17.7-per-cent stake in Singapore-listed Allco Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) and all of its manager Allco (Singapore) for $180 million. It is paying 83 cents for each Allco Reit unit, which represents a 16.9-per-cent premium against its last traded price
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    • 278 40 BLOOMBERG DAIRYTRUST $io3m deal makes commodities firm second-largest shareholder SINGAPORE commodities firm 01am International has agreed to buy 25 per cent of New Zealand's Dairy Trust for NZ$lOl.l million ($lO3 million) to gain access to growing milk demand in Asia and the Middle
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    • 514 42  -  BARRY PORTER RETAIL SPACE Will landlords face a possible over-supply? barryporter@mediacorp.com.sg 4.3 per cent year-on-year. "With a fast-rising population, coupled with strong visitor arrivals, growth in retail space is imperative to sustain the quality of the shopping experience," said Mr Mak. Nominal retail
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    • 91 42 The Hamilton Scotts, on the 35,880-sq-ft Scotts Road site of the former Asia Hotel, is Asia's first high-end residential apartment block, where its owners will be able to park their cars right inside their flats. The 30-storey block, with 56 units and developed by Hayden Properties, is scheduled
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    • 72 42 HSBC has come up with a unique home loan package which is Siborpegged, but features a decreasing interest rate spread. Currently, all Sibor-pegged loans in the market have either a flat or increasing interest rate spreads. HSBC believes the decreasing interest spread will serve to benefit customers
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    • 70 42 Crocodile leather firm Heng Long International has seen its initial public share offer fully subscribed, despite the current challenging market conditions. The firm is one of the five top-tier tanneries of crocodile leather in the world. It plans to use part of its IPO net proceeds
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    • 273 42  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg THE Economic Development Board has found its first participant fora programme encouraging building owners to tap energy from the sun a development that will house Singapore's largest solar installation to date. Applied Materials, which makes equipment for the semiconductor and solar
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    • STOCK CALLS
      • 96 44 $1.60 Outperform CIMB cuts its price target to $2.90 from $3.30, but keeps its rating for China Fishery following the fishing group's purchase of three ships in Peru for US$ll.7 million ($15.9 million), in a move that should increase its catch of Peruvian anchovies. While CIMB has increased
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      • 100 44 U554.36 I Outperform Credit Suisse maintains its rating on Hongkong Land but cuts its price target for the developer to US$4.BO from US$5.5O, as it tips the Hong Kong property market to correct by 10 per cent for the rest of the year. Still, Credit Suisse remains positive
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      • 123 44 55.5 cents I Buy UOB KayHian keeps its rating on Hi-P International and lifts the target price for the plastics component maker to 83 cents from 65 cents. It expects Hi-P to report a record net profit for FY2OOB after a successful alliance with smart-phone giant Research In Motion.
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    • 447 44  -  ESTHER FUNG ASME looking to help members survive the wave of rising costs esther@mediacorp.com.sg LEARN from the Japanese. That's the advice from Mr Kurt Wee, vice-president of the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME), when asked for tips for small companies struggling to survive as
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    • 420 44  -  CHRISTIE LOH christie@mediacorp.com.sg THE smell of big bucks is winning over more fans by the day for the US$3-trillion ($4.08-trillion) club of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). But those who have joined the fanbase the latest being Australia and Japan seem to have an eye
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    • 123 44 AN ARM of Auric Pacific Investment is making a conditional cash offer to buy another 35 per cent of Food Junction at 55 cents a share. This represents a 26-per-cent premium over Food Junction's last traded share price of 43.5 cents. Auric Pacific,
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