Today, 21 July 2008

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    20 1 TODAY Monday July 21, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Monday July 21 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    45 1 CONRAD RAJ Following the rather abrupt departure of NOL chief Thomas Held, more effort should perhaps be placed by companies in going the oldfashioned way of grooming a successor rather than waste time, money and effort searching the world for a successor. Page B3
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    COMMENT
    24 1 CHITRA RAJARAM Women must take the lead to eradicate sexual harassment in the workplace and not wait for legislation or guidelines. Page 6
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    SINGAPORE
    27 1 PM LEE SAYS Singaporeans must make special effort to remind themselves that they are Singaporeans, even as the country is buffetted by external strife. Page 2
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    WORLD
    43 1 BONUS OUTCRY Outcry over proposal to peg UK surgeons' bonuses to their success rate on the operating table will high-risk patients be spurned? Page 4 OBAMA IN KABUL Presidential hopeful flexes foreign policy credentials with visit to the Middle East. Page 10
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    BUSINESS
    25 1 INTEREST RATES The US Fed shouldn't wait until the credit crisis stabilises to raise interest rates, central bank policymaker Gary Stern argues. Page Bl
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    SPORTS
    50 1 LAM UPBEAT Top Singapore golfer Lam Chi Beng says he will have to improve his game if he hopes to do better in next year's British Open. Lam, who finished with a disappointing 31-over-par 311, made history by being the first Singaporean player to make the cut. Page 25
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    Utmost efforts to end row
    552 1  -  ANSLEYNG THAI-CAMBODIA BORDER CONFLICT Both sides urged to resolve issue in spirit of Asean solidarity ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THAILAND and Cambodia have agreed to "exert utmost efforts" to find a peaceful solution to their border conflict at a disputed temple, Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo said yesterday.
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    Lock icon SUU KYI FREE IN SIX MONTHS?
    211 1 AGENCIES Foreign Minister George Yeo said his Myanmar counterpart has indicated that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi may be freed from house arrest in six months. MrYeo said this was suggested during a dinner meeting of Asean foreign ministers yesterday. He said Major-General
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    New rules for liposuction from Nov 1
    576 1  -  ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.com.sg INSTEAD of 15 days, those signing up for liposuction will only need to go through a coolingoff period of seven days, under a new regulatory framework released by the Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday. This cooling-off period will not apply
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      50 1 0 BACK ON TOP Hamilton ahead of *5 the pack after win at iv^S &£>■ German Grand Prix ts/^3 .j SPORTS 24 THOMAS ONG'STRUE COLOURS I I IWV $&rwrl HI iHL v^f j ■i id I Straight-talker on why he left, Felicia Chin and plastic surgery. Page 18 I AMM
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      Lock icon Internal peace amid external strife
      596 2  -  LINYANQIN RACIAL HARMONY DAY S #poreans must make effort to not let tensions elsewhere affect them: PM yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as Singaporeans live in a state of racial harmony in Singapore, tensions elsewhere in the world between races and religions will make their impact felt on
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      Lock icon A feast to strengthen the bonds
      450 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg OVER six hours yesterday, some 15,000 Singaporeans of all races and religions and tucked into Malay dishes in a tent next to the Geylang Serai Temporary Market. The occasion: A feast organised by community groups, including the Geylang Serai Business Community, to
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      $500,000 more in kitty for needy
      376 3  -  LINYANQIN NTUC FAIRPRICE FOUNDATION Relief in form of food vouchers, upped to $1.51x1 yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg MANY lower-income families feeling the pinch of rising prices can look forward to a little relief from the NTUC Fair Price Foundation soon. The foundation is giving out $1.5
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      Lock icon When disabilities are no obstacle
      454 3  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg READING this sentence should be easy for most readers, but not Mr Jeffrey Soh Jun Hong, for the 21-year-old has vision that is only 15 per cent normal. However, this was not the case for most of Mr Soh's life. One December
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      Lock icon The more lives they save, the more they earn
      518 4 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH UK HEALTHCARE But performance-pegged pay means surgeons could spurn high-risk operations LONDON In radical plans being drawn up by hospitals across Britain, National Health Service (NHS) surgeons are to be paid bonuses based on the number of lives they
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      Asean meet kicks off at the Shangri-La
      378 4  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THIS week, top leaders in the region will be congregating in Singapore to discuss some serious issues ranging from human rights, security and political developments in Myanmar, to denuclearisation talks in North Korea. The week-long Asean Ministerial Meeting (AMM) at Shangri-La
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      Lock icon Wanted: $250 million in 5 years
      267 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA AN ORGANISATION has been set up to help high-net-worth individuals in Singapore with a penchant for philanthropy realise their vision. The Community Foundation of Singapore, an initiative spearheaded by the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC), aims to provide a highly personalised
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      Lock icon IT'S IN HER HANDS
      814 6  -  CHITRA RAJARAM NEWS COMMENT Impetus is on women to stand up against sexual harassment deputy editorial director chitra@mediacorp.com.sg FIFTY per cent of respondents to a survey here said they have been sexually harassed at work. For a small country with a seemingly educated workforce, this is
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      113 3 BE PART OF THE FUTURE. TODAY is expanding. We are looking to hire experienced journalists. Copy Editor. Foreign Editor. Sub-Editors. To turn plain copy into a sparkling, To head a team of copy-tasters To design pages that grab refreshing read. Candidates must have and overseas writers. Candidates attention, write snappy
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      436 5 S\\jj ftj i ill It ''^£y m HE Credit-linked to two sovereigns and four corporations: Aviva PLC HSBC Bank PLC Malaysia People's Republic of China Prudential Public Limited Company Singapore Telecommunications Other important information The Base Prospectus dated 26 June 2008 and the Pricing Statement dated 27 June 2008 as
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      Lock icon S Korean PM accuses Japan of jeopardising peace over islands
      343 8 AFP SEOUL South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung Soo yesterday accused Japan of damaging bilateral ties and putting regional peace at risk with its renewed claim to a group of Seoulcontrolled islets. Mr Han, meeting with ruling party lawmakers, rejected
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon RALLIES IN PHNOM PENH
        83 8 AFP CAMBODIA Cambodian political parties are staging raucous rallies throughout the country ahead of next week's polls, but few expect voters to oust the party that has ruled for three decades. The Cambodian People's Party has undermined its political rivals and is expected to dominate Sunday's
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        FOUR ARRESTED FOR IMPERSONATING ROYALTY
        116 8 MALAYSIA Four men posing as Johor royalty were arrested for trying to hoodwink police into releasing a suspected drug trafficker, Malaysian press reported yesterday. The men, who later tested positive for drugs, approached a senior police officer in Johor Bahru and presented him with a
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      Lock icon Anwar's campaign back on despite arrest
      442 8 AFP MALAYSIA POLITICS Opposition leader travels to govt-held states, promising to contest by-election MALACCA Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim toured Malaysia over the weekend in a bid to revive his ambitions of seizing power despite his arrest on sodomy allegations. Mr Anwar travelled to the
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      Lock icon Obama at the frontline
      388 10 I Cj AGENCIES CAMPAIGN TRAIL Presidential hopeful flexes foreign policy credentials with visit to Afghanistan KABUL United States Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama yesterday met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom Mr Obama had recently chided for not doing enough to rebuild his war-torn country. The
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      Lock icon 'We are friends with the Israelis,' says Iranian VP
      263 10 AFP TEHRAN Iran is "friends with the Israeli people", a deputy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, in stark contrast to Tehran's usual verbal assaults against the Jewish state, local media reported yesterday. Mr Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, VicePresident in charge of tourism
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      Lock icon Beijing scrambles to clear the air
      304 10 I AP BEIJING The Chinese capital started its most drastic pollution-control plan yesterday, restricting car use and limiting factory emissions in a last-minute push to clear smogchoked skies for the August Olympics. Under the two-month plan, half of Beijing's 3.3 million cars will be
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      Lock icon Knife attacks in fashion in fear-stricken UK
      303 10 AFP LONDON Britain is struggling to get to grips with a surge of fatal knife attacks, which analysts say reflects a growing sense of insecurity on the country's streets. While some say young people are increasingly carrying knives as a fashion item, others
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      Lock icon Sick, jailed Indian MPs hauled in to vote
      437 12 AFP NEW DELHI India's Parliament could resemble a prison and hospital ward this week with rival parties ordering all Members of Parliament (MPs), including the seriously ill and the jailed, to show up for a key government confidence vote. Political analysts say
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      Lock icon Misplaced 'message of love' ?
      523 12 Misplaced 'message of love' AFP BENEDICT XVI DOWN UNDER Pope's call for spiritual renewal dismissed by some who say his apology over sex abuse rang hollow SYDNEY Pope Benedict XVI yesterday urged hundreds of thousands of young Catholics to beat back a "spiritual desert" spreading through the modern world as
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        Lock icon FIRST GUANTANAMO WAR CRIMES TRIAL OPENS TODAY
        109 12 AFP In a victory for the Bush administration, the first Guantanamo prison war crimes trial, against Osama bin Laden's former driver, will go ahead as scheduled today. Last Thursday, United States Judge James Robertson rejected the last-ditch attempt by the lawyers of Yemeni
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        Lock icon HE LOST WEIGHT, THEN ESCAPED THROUGH 30CM AIR-CON VENT
        96 12 AP A man charged with murder escaped from jail on Saturday by climbing through an air-conditioner vent, Texas authorities said. The vent was less than a 30cm wide. Prison officials said Darryl Layne Norris had been losing weight since arriving atWaller
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      452 11 _^^rifl yJSi B^. I I ZSSBfii^^J ti B Al &v l| FOOD" EDUCHTIOH t ~^^Hl PETROL* BEFORE I NOW HI BEFORE I NOW BEFORE I NOW S INFLATION GROWING FASTER THAN YOUR WEALTH? Prices are on the rise, fast. Which unfortunately also causes your wealth to erode. P[J C IVI
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      'Right call was made
      303 14  -  Lav Chee Kian HORIZONTOWERS RULING More factors to consider than just higher bid price Letter from I REFER to "Time to relook en bloc rules?" (Weekend Today, July 19-20). On the contrary to what the letter-writer said, there are already enough en bloc rules. Without being
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      No business at T3? Time for better viewing galleries
      144 14  -  Serene Ong Letter from I REFER to "T3 shops lose altitude" (Weekend Today, July 19-20), and would like to suggest that more pro-family facilities be set up. The unique feature of an airport is the sight of aeroplanes, but sadly the
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      218 16  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY REJ BEAUTY IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Have you ever stopped to consider just how effectively children's traditional literature teaches children, and especially little girls, that they must be beautiful or else? It's just amazing to see how many of the age-old stories centre
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      Lock icon We 11 smoke out offenders, says NEA
      201 16  -  SSatish Appoo SMOKING IN PUBLIC Feedback on smoking violations taken seriously, regular checks at restricted areas conducted Letter from Director, Environmental Health Department, National Environment Agency (NEA) WE REFER to the letters "Let's have booths for those who want a puff in public"
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      How about exempting dads from ICT?
      151 16  -  Oscar Lee Shing Kian Letter from I REFER to "Why daddy needs a month off (July 17), and the subsequent discussions on the issue. Responsible fatherhood is as important as National Service is for the defence of the country. In lieu of a month's
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      248 14 HAVE YOUR SAY. news@ newstoday.com.sg decide ta*o tvwcK -to If I can prof it from Forex C? DAILY, so can you! Jf I was searching for a 2nd career opportunity and decided to try out forex trading. FXI f program proves to be simple and consistent in execution. I can
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      500 17 H^+£?EZ Thursdays, 12 June -31 July fc 1 S.SOpmor^ChannelS JV FACE-TO-FACE witn New York's Skincare Professional I used to have very oily skin. My pores Ul ldl Yes, compared to when I was still were congested and my skin was "Shi Kin experienced excess facial sebum due to pimply and
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      Lock icon Tell-tale Thomas
      1624 18  -  KARMAN TSE karman@mediacorp.com.sg MEETING Thomas Ong was like a silly adolescent dream come true. Except, it came about 15 years too late. In the '90s, the actor tall, suave and broody (read: "Ohmygod, he's so cool!") was many a teenage girl's Prince Charming. Now that he is 39
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      PLUS PICKS TIT FOR TAT
      287 20 Now that Thomas Ong has had his fun spilling the beans, let's hear what his colleagues/friends have to say about him. FELICIA CHIN Worked with him on: Perfect Cut "Thomas Ong was my 'ou xiang' (idol), which is what I call him because he was
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        Lock icon THE DARK KNIGHT SOARS
        175 22 AP Batman's joust with the Joker has set a oneday box office record of U5566.4 million ($89.6 million) on opening day. The Dark Knight's haul on Friday surpassed the previous record of US$59.B million set last year by Spider-Man 3. It's set to break the opening-weekend
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        Lock icon ARRESTED FOR FAKIN' IT
        163 22 AP Rapper DMX was arrested at a mall in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday, on suspicion that he had given a false name and Social Security number to a hospital in order to get out of paying for medical expenses. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said that
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      Lock icon Watch out, California
      382 22 AGENCIES ROLE REPRISAL Shannen Doherty returns in Beverly Hills ***** spin-off BRENDA Walsh is all grown-up and returning to Beverly Hills, *****, in September. The CW TV network announced on Saturday that actress Shannen Doherty (picture) will reprise her famous role as one half of the Walsh
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      1287 23 TV LISTINGS JEMPUT! (DEBUT) XC THE MOVIES I SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE SERVING UP DESIGNS Suria, gprn Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever Top 18 Perform High Life with Choices Jemput! is a programme WL Kids Central, spm I'/A^S^^- J Channel 5,7.30pm Channel News Asia, 9.32pm they have to
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      Lock icon Springboks lick wounds after shock Tri-Nations loss
      274 24 AFP PERTH South Africa were left counting the cost of a bruising loss to Australia in their Tri-Na-tions Test at the Subiaco Oval here on Saturday. Unable to produce a try, the Springboks suffered a surprise 16-9 defeat at the hands of the
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      Lock icon Federer-Nadal rivalry resumes
      203 24 AFP TORONTO Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal resume their rivalry on the North American stage today as the summer crush of hardcourt tennis events begins with the Toronto Masters. With the Beijing Olympics starting Aug 8, the schedule is packed, with the Canadian event the first meeting
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      Lock icon Thrills, spills, as Hamilton goes in for the kill
      604 24 AFP FORMULAi McLaren ace pulls off two overtaking moves in last 10 laps to win in Germany HOCKENHEIM (Germany) McLaren-Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton delivered another massive endorsement of his great potential yesterday when he opened a clear lead in this year's drivers'
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      Lock icon Lam holds his head up high
      495 25 AFP GOLF After making history at the Open, S #pore golfer targets first Asian Tour win SOUTHPORT (England) Lam Chih Bing is determined to build on his achievement of becoming the first Singaporean to play all four rounds at the British Open by winning
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      Lock icon SUPER HARRINGTON MAKES HISTORY
      178 25 BLOOMBERG Ireland's Padraig Harrington won his second straight British Open last night, becoming the first European in 102 years to capture consecutive titles at golf's oldest major championship. The 36-year-old Harrington shot l-under 69 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, to finish at 3-over.
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      Lock icon SAND BLASTER
      47 25 AFP A photographer caught this dramatic shot of Camillo Villegas clearing a sand bunker on the 13th hole at the British Open, at the Royal Birkdale links in Southport, north-west England. At press time, the Colombian golfer was at 16-over-par, 11 shots behind the leader.
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      Golfer dies on Tanah Merah course
      122 25  -  TANYO-HINN A KOREAN golfer died during a golf game at the Tanah Merah Country Club (TMCC) on Saturday. According to sources, 49-year-old Mm Kyung Tae, a director with the South Korean travel agency Hana Tour's Singapore branch, suffered a heart attack during a round
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      Lock icon Bronze for Jasmine
      85 25  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE'S Jasmine YeongNathan (picture) clinched the bronze medal in the girls' singles at the 10th World Youth Bowling Championship yesterday. At the Broadwalk Entertainment Centre in Orlando, Florida, she totalled 1,279 pinfalls from six games to finish third in the 135-strong field. It was Singapore's first
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      Lock icon Dont embarrass yourselves: Fergie
      558 26 AGENCIES TRANSFERTALK United boss hits back at Spurs'complaint that Red Devils are tapping up Berbatov LONDON Alex Ferguson warned Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy he faces "embarrassment" for reporting Manchester United to the Premier League on the basis of quotes in an English newspaper suggesting that the
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      316 26 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The closest that any of the footballers at Chelsea Football Club are ever going to get to the dole queue will be if they happen to take a look at "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping", the Lucian Freud painting that
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      493 27  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Albirex Niigata v Balestier Khalsa Jurong East Stadium, j.^spm LAST Thursday, Balestier Khalsa were 15 minutes away from causing one of the biggest upsets of the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 season, on SAFFC's home turf no less. The Tigers,
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      633 28  -  JOHN BITTLESTON TAKING CHARGE Talent is scarce in this job market, but so are good employers succeed@mediacorp.com.sg TWO executive search firms recently declined to take an assignment to find a chief financial officer (CFO) for a small and medium enterprise (SME). One said it
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      163 28 GET READYTO SAMBA, SINGAPORE National Stadium to host Brazil next Monday, top European sides could follow next year 27 r a This program gives me a good job with high salary. With my employment pass, J» I can apply for PR status here in Singapore. it Kaythi Soe Myint >"*^
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      13 28 LESSONS FROM PRIVATE EQUITY ANY COMPANY CAN USE Orit Gadiesh Hugh Mac Arthur
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      389 30 Q+A Mr David Mackenzie (picture), product manager of Asia ex-Japan Equities from Schroder Investment Management, shares his outlook for the region. What are the opportunities you see in the markets in the coming year? Mr David Mackenzie: We are still cautiously positioned
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      49 32 KOH MUI FONG Twenty wheelchair-bound people from the Society for the Physically Disabled on Saturday watching a preview of the National Day Parade, accompanied by staff from Star Hub. They watched the ND^Nationa^ducation^^l show at a handicapped-friendly seating gallery on the Marina Bay floating platform. I
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