Today, 21 July 2008, Afternoon Edition

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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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  • afternoon edition
    • IN OUR MORNING PAPER
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        BORDER FEUD
        94 1 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. The armed standoff has overshadowed the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) foreign ministers' annual talks, which opened in
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        LIPOSUCTION
        64 1 Instead of 15 days, those signing up for liposuction will only need to go through a cooling-off period of seven days, under a new regulatory framework released by the Ministry of Health yesterday. This cooling-off period will not apply to foreigners who come here specifically for liposuction. During this
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        APB AWARD
        89 1 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 morning two years ago, he
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      Lock icon Lampard deal unlikely
      394 1 AGENCIES TRANSFER TALK Mourinho admits defeat in pursuit of Chelsea midfielder SAN SIRO Chelsea can breathe easy now, for this season at least. Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho has conceded that he might have to wait another season before he can be reunited with the Blues' star
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      Lock icon Chelsea, Inter want me: Eto'o
      117 1 AGENCIES MADRID Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o has revealed that Premiership duo Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as Serie A champions Inter Milan, are bidding for his services. The Cameroon international has been given the green light to leave the Nou Camp, and he is
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      Lock icon Fergie for Britain Utd?
      130 1 AFP LONDON London 2012 Organising Committee Chairman Lord Sebastian Coe revealed yesterday that he has had talks with Sir Alex Ferguson about leading a British football team during the London Games. Coe said the matter has already been discussed with the 66-year-old Scot, who guided Manchester
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      Lock icon Gunners reunion?
      522 2 AGENCIES TRANSFERTALK Fabregas may join Arsenal alumni at Barca, says Hleb MADRID Alexandr Hleb believes that Cesc Fabregas could one day rejoin Barcelona and play alongside him and Thierry Henry at the Catalan club. The Belarussian playmaker revealed that Fabregas, his good friend at Arsenal, showed him around
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      Lock icon Germans ready to defy club orders to play in Beijing
      327 2 AP BERLIN Some Bundesliga players are threatening to defy their clubs in a dispute over whether they can play in the Beijing Olympics, with Fifa and the lOC also stepping up pressure to force teams to back down. The International
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      Lock icon Internal peace amid external strife
      595 3  -  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
      449 3  -  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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      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
      376 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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      $500,000 more in kitty for needy
      359 4 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 million up from $1 million last year worth of food vouchers to the 84 grassroots
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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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  • WORLD
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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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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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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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      '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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    • Article
      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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      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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    • PLUS ROUNDUP
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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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      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 Irish eyes are smiling
      366 25 AFP GOLF Harrington claims 2nd Open title in style SOUTHPORT Padraig Harrington (picture) became the first European in over a century to retain the British Open title with a nerveless display down the stretch at Royal Birkdale yesterday. The Irishman, who came from six shots back
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      Lock icon LAM HOLDS HIS HEAD UP HIGH
      457 25 AFP SOUTHPORT (England) Lam Chih Bing (picture) is determined to build on his achievement of becoming the first Singaporean to play all four rounds at the British Open by winning his first Asian Tour title. He signed off his history-making campaign at the Royal
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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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      Lock icon Deco says he's not at Chelsea for the money
      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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      Lock icon Scolari wants Kaka at Chelsea
      347 26 AGENCIES LONDON Luiz Felipe Scolari (picture) has made "a personal request to Chelsea that they must sign Kaka", the AC Milan and Brazil playmaker who is the current World Footballer of the Year. Although the Blues denied having made a reported $100 million euro ($214
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      646 27  -  TANYO-HINN FANTASY FOOTBALL National Stadium will host Brazil next Monday, and Europe's top sides could follow next year yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg THE likes of Ronaldinho, Robinho, Pato and Anderson are arriving in Singapore on Wednesday, and they'll line up in Brazilian colours opposite a Singapore side
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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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      37 26 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 5.55pm Cricket England v South Africa, Ch 110 TOMORROW 12.30 am Tennis Rogers Cup, Ch 24 6.35am-n.3spm Sports Zone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on g3BLive g.ioam-g.3oam Sports Zone Wrap (encore at 9.10pm)
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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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      350 28  -  LINYANQIN LESSONS FROM PRIVATE EQUITY ANY COMPANYCAN USE By Orit Gadiesh and Hugh Mac Arthur For decision-makers looking to make a business more valuable, this book lays out the principles on how to go about doing so. In Lessons from private equity any company can use, two executives
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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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      813 30  -  CONRAD RAJ MONDAY BLUES editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg It could be a way to avoid costly disruptions in an age of constant change NOT so long ago, chief executives reigned for decades and when they left, they usually left a mark on the companies they ruled, often with
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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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          64 32 $2.62 HOLD DBS Vickers upgrades to "hold" from "fully valued" as recent price weakness improved upside to its unchanged $2.80 target price. It notes that stock lost 15 per cent to touch a low of $2.49 earlier this month following its last report the previous month. Prefers SIA
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          55 32 $3.07 NEUTRAL CIMB says second quarter earnings were in line with expectations. "We remain positive on CMT's ability to mitigate inflationary effects with the incorporation of stepup rentals and gross turnover rents for more than 85 per cent of its retail tenancies," it said. Maintains "neutral" rating with
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          67 32 73-5 cents NEUTRAL CIMB downgrades to "neutral" from "trading buy", cutting its target price to $0.94 from $1.55. It lowers its FY2OOB--2010 earnings estimates for Golden Agri by 6 per cent to 23 per cent to reflect higher prices for fertilisers and fuel, changes in export tax and
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          114 32 $i.si BUY DMG cuts its target price to $1.85 from $2.00 after lowering its FY2OOB earnings forecast by 14 per cent to reflect higher fuel costs. It is upping its forecast for ComfortDelGro's 2008 energy costs by 27 per cent to $320 million. That's 48 per cent higher than
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        48 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 show at a handicapped-friendly seating gallery on the Marina Bay floating platformH
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        202 32 BANGKOK One-Two-Go Airlines, one of Thailand's three main budget carriers, announced on Saturday that it was suspending its operations for eight weeks to allow time for financial restructuring. Services will stop from July 22 until Sept 15 as the impact of high fuel prices hits the no-frills
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        222 32  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg MAPLETREE Logistics Trust yesterday announced a higher distributable income of $22.6 million, or 2.04 cents a share, for the quarter ended June 30, due to additional income from the 18 properties acquired in the past year. The distribution per unit is 28.3-per-cent higher
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