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    19 1 TODAY Friday August i, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday August 1,2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    63 1 PHINWONG It's tough to be a girl celebrity, really. Only the boys are allowed to live it up. Nobody bats an eye. When the girls get arrested, there's plenty of public outrage. This double standard applies to just about everything. And there's nothing the girls can do about it.
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    COMMENT
    43 1 CONCERTED PUSH To up Singapore's birth rate, the mindsets of society and employers must be re-programmed to adopt family-friendly practices. The onus is not just on the Government, but all individuals, communities and employers, says deputy editorial director Chitra Rajaram. Page 12
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    SINGAPORE
    82 1 INSURANCE HIKE Faced with higher fuel and ERP costs, car owners could soon have to pay 5 to 30 per cent more on premiums over the next six months, insurance officials say. The hike could depend on driver profile and claims history. Page 3 FAREWELL TOUCH Tampines food-seller Shajahan
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    BUSINESS
    38 1 ROGUE AGENTS If you are fed up dealing with housing agents who act against your interest, you may be cheered to know that property agencies like PropNex are taking action to weed out bad practices. Page Bl
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    Lock icon VIP wives making waves ...
    615 1  - VIP wives making waves Wan Azizah makes way for Anwar KUALA LUMPUR Amid speculation he might be arrested in the next 48 hours, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim announced yesterday he would contest a by-election for a parliamentary seat vacated by his i wife, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (left). I
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    Lock icon Three years' jail for Mrs Thaksin
    401 1 AGENCIES BANGKOK Dressed in a pale blue suit and wearing a strand of pearls, Ms Pojaman Shinawatra (right), 51, looked stunned as the Thai judge pronounced her guilty of evading millions of dollars in taxes and sentenced her to three years'jail. Yesterday's ruling against
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Q2 JOB SCENE
      64 2 MANPOWER MINISTRY Employment grew: 70,600 found jobs (but down from 73,200 in Qi) Biggest growth from construction sector: A record 22,100 jobs Retrenchment eased: 1,900 in Q2, down from 2,274 in Q1 Unemployment, seasonally adjusted, rose: 2.3 per cent (up from 2 per cent in March) Resident
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      A matter of mismatch
      605 2  -  LINYANQIN EMPLOYMENT Unemployment vp but vacancies in services, IT sectors still hard to fill yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE overall unemployment rising to 2.3 per cent in the second quarter, and slightly more retrenchments in the services sector than in the first three months, things ahead are still looking
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      Motor premiums could rise 5 to 30%
      699 3  -  CHEOWXINYI INSURANCE Could health, workers compensation premiums also increase? cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg FACED with higher fuel and Electronic Road Pricing costs, car-owners could soon have to fork out 5 to 30 per cent more on insurance premiums as well. This is the possible increase that
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      Lock icon A final show of defiance
      422 4  -  ONG DAI LIN ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KOH MUIFONG RENTAL DISPUTE Free nasi briyani as a farewell touch dailin@mediacorp.com.sg FOR the past two days, one hawker has attracted thousands of Singaporeans to his stall by giving away free briyani. And it may seem like great marketing
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      Lock icon Wheel of fortune?
      421 6  -  TEOXUANWEI SINGAPORE FLYER EARNINGS i ooo 000 rides sold, and tenants' business picking up slowly xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg TWO months ago, some retail and restaurant tenants at the Singapore Flyer were negotiating with the management to lower rents because of the slow business. Now, the slump seems to
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      Lock icon Editor jailed 18 months
      403 8  -  ANSLEYNG DANGEROUS DRIVING Mr KShanmugam, her MP asks for leniency in a letter ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE editor who ran a red light on Christmas Eve two years ago, resulting in the death of a maid, has been jailed for 18 months. Mdm Lim Hong Eng, an executive
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      Lock icon Chikungunya case detected in Holland area
      172 8 ALICIAWONG SIX weeks after the last case of locally transmitted chikungunya fever was detected, a 60-year-old housewife living in Jalan Jelita has become the 48th person here to come down with the infectious disease. She is believed to be a case of local transmission
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      Lock icon JBJ's party may have to resort to Dr Chee's style of politics
      282 8 AFP SINGAPORE'S newest political party, led by veteran Opposition figure J B Jeyaretnam, may have to resort to "civil disobedience" the style of politics espoused by Dr Chee Soon Juan to get its message across. But the Reform
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon ROAD CLOSURES FOR NDP SHOWS
        151 10 938 LIVE Motorists travelling to the Marina Bay area during the coming two Saturdays can expect traffic congestion and delays due to road closures for the National Day Parade preview and the actual show. Roads will be progressively closed to all vehicles. Starting at Bam,
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        MORETHAN $1M WORTH OF CIGARETTES SEIZED
        99 10 Singapore Customs seized duty-unpaid cigarettes worth more than $1 million in raids on two syndicates last week. It said the duty and GST evaded totalled more than $740,000. Close to 97,000 packets of duty-unpaid cigarettes were seized in the operations in the Aljunied and
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      Lock icon Mr CEO, here's how you can help...
      441 10  -  SHERALYNTAY SCHOOL FUNDS Consultant helps students develop the right pitch for a new running track sheratyn@mediacorp.com.sg NO FUNFAIRS for them. To raise funds for a new running track, Northbrooks Secondary School has a consultant training its students on how to pitch the idea
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      Lock icon THAT CRITICAL PUSH...
      767 12  -  CHITRARAJARAM NEWS COMMENT To up the birthrate, society's and employers' mindsets must be re-programmed deputy editorial director chitra@mediacorp.com.sg THE great baby debate has resurfaced. This month, a new set of measures is expected to be rolled out by the Government to help couples with work and family,
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 'Don't buy people'
      365 14 AP MALAYSIAN POLITICS Abdullah reminds Anwar not to use money to coerce lawmakers to defect PUTRAJAYA Malaysia's Prime Minister has warned his rival Anwar Ibrahim not to bribe lawmakers to defect to the opposition. But he has also ruled out imposing emergency measures if street violence breaks
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      No coalition with Umno, says PAS chief
      346 14 KUALA LUMPUR After all the talk of an alliance being hatched with the ruling party, Malaysia's Islamic party has finally ruled out any coalition or form of cooperation with the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) or the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, local media
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      Lock icon Residents told: No white socks with black shoes
      266 16 AP BEIJING Polishing up Beijing for the Olympics has extended to telling residents what not to wear, with the city government advising against too many colours, white socks with black shoes, and parading in pajamas. The advice, on top of campaigns to
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      Lock icon Stop interfering, China tells US
      278 16 AFP RIGHTS CRITICISM Washington urged to take action against "odious 7 lawmakers BEIJING A defiant China stood firm on controversies swirling around the Olympics yesterday, hitting back at the United States over human rights criticism and insisting Internet censorship would remain. China's communist rulers responded
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      Lock icon BACK-UP POLLUTION PLAN UNVEILED
      125 16 AFP After two days of marked improvement in the air, Beijing was once again blighted by a thick haze yesterday, suggesting draconian measures to curb car use had not been enough. The Environment Ministry yesterday unveiled a string of potential last-ditch measures that would be enacted
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      Lock icon Latest bomb-threat email warns of New Delhi blast
      284 18 AP NEW DELHI The Japanese Embassy has received an email warning of a bomb in a New Delhi market, and has warned its citizens to stay away from crowded public places, a notice posted on its website said yesterday. The warning came
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      Lock icon Letters target school children
      226 18 AFP DEATH THREATS IN JAPAN British Embassy issues warning to nationals studying in centra I Tokyo TOKYO The Japanese authorities said yesterday they were investigating threats to kill young children in central Tokyo, which led the British Embassy to issue a warning to its nationals. Six
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      Lock icon Japan PM to reshuffle Cabinet today: TV reports
      171 18 AFP TOKYO Japan's embattled Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda plans to reshuffle his Cabinet today in a bid to revive sagging approval ratings, television reports said yesterday. The private Asahi and NTV networks, quoting unidentified sources, said that Mr Fukuda would announce the
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      Personality counts more
      390 20  -  NAZRY BAHRAWI INDONESIAN POLITICS "Voters less influenced by party loyalty but value charisma' nazry@mediacorp.com. sg OPINION polls suggest she is ahead of her competitors, but Mrs Megawati Sukarnoputri has still a long way to go before she can realise her dream of becoming Indonesia's President for the
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      Lock icon Singapore dean makes an impact at Jakarta Presidential Lecture
      367 20  -  SUJADISISWO CHANNEL NEWSASIA sujadi@mediacorp.com.sg JAKARTA Indonesia will be part of the great transformation that is taking place in Asia, according to Professor Kishore Mahbubani, who is the Dean of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,. He added that Indonesia's
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon UNGOES GREEN
        125 22 AFP The United Nations has announced a drastic cut of air-conditioning usage at its New York headquarters for this month that will raise the temperature from a crisp 22 degrees Celsius to a balmy 25 degrees Celsius. Under a directive from UN chief Ban Xi Moon, the air-conditioning
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        Lock icon ZIMBABWE DROPS 10 ZEROS FROM INFLATED CURRENCY
        87 22 AP Zimbabwe is knocking 10 zeros off its hyperinflated currency-a move that turns $10 billion dollars into $1 effective today. President Robert Mugabe (picture) threatened a state of emergency if businesses profiteer from the country's economic crisis, a move that could give him
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      Lock icon Turmoil ahead after PM resigns
      416 22 AFP, BLOOMBERG ISRAELI POLITICS Renewed calls for snap polls JERUSALEM Israel was bracing yesterday for weeks of political turmoil after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's (picture) shock announcement he would step down in September, casting a shadow over the peacemaking process in the Middle East. Wednesday's
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      Lock icon S Korea hails US decision
      340 25 AFP ISLETS DISPUTE Bush says country will be relisted as owners of islands SEOUL A United States decision to relist South Korea as owners of a group of tiny islands, amid a simmering dispute with Japan over claims to the territory was hailed by Seoul
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      Lock icon Coalition partner backtracks stays with Thai govt
      238 25 AFP BANGKOK Members of a key party in Thai Premier Samak Sundaravej's ruling coalition have rejected their leader's decision to withdraw from the government. MrSuwit Khunkitti, head of the Puea Pandin Party, had announced on Tuesday that his party would back out because
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      Lock icon No more dangerous duckies
      269 26 AP TOYS IN AMERICA US House bans toys with harmful chemical content WASHINGTON Alarmed by a year of recalls involving millions of tainted toys, the United States House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to ban lead and other dangerous chemicals from items such as jewellery and
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      Lock icon NEVER MINDTHE BULLOCK
      58 26 EPA A Peta activist dressed as a horror movie character holds a placard during a demonstration in Mumbai, yesterday. Peta staged a demonstration in which the 'angel of death'whipped a 'bullock. Peta says that kerosene carts are a deadly business, and is demanding a ban on the
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      Lock icon McCain vs Obama: The Britney Spears-Paris connection
      319 26 AP WASHINGTON Mr John McCain suggested that Mr Barack Obama is a lightweight celebrity who isn't ready to lead the country by releasing a commercial comparing the Democrat to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Mr McCain wants the presidential campaign to be about
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      Lock icon What about the water quality?
      338 28  -  John Lucas BEACH SAFETY Trash left by visitors and waste from ships must surely cause pollution Letter from WITH regard to the article "Swim at your own risk" (July 31), I feel that the National Environmental Agency (NEA) needs to elaborate on their remark that
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      179 30  -  DR BILL MAIER BY TAKE CARE OF YOUR BACK I'll bet that before you had children, you didn't know about all the heavy lifting parenthood requires! Between carrying junior, the car seat and the diaper bag, you probably feel more like a weightlifter than a new
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      Lock icon I SAY BRINGING THE ROAR BACK
      539 30  -  M Lukshumayeh Getting people interested in local sports again has to be a concerted effort Letter from IN HIS column, "Sports needs to come alive again" (July 31), Sports Editor Leonard Thomas raises a pertinent concern the general absence of spectator interest at sporting
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      The key is to learn to talk to strangers
      246 32  -  Benjamin Gan Letter from I REFER to, "Don't fret, love comes eventually" (July 31), in which Mr Ansley Ng highlighted the suggestions, disagreements and proposals he had received over a report he had written earlier about the need to help singles
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      Lock icon Encourage the spirit of participation
      259 32  -  Steve Haynes SPORT IN SINGAPORE Letter from I REFER to "Sports needs to come alive again" (July 31). Surely, encouraging "the current generation to ditch their Play Station Portables and DVDs to go out and watch sport," is not the sports goal Singapore should be
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      TO THE POINT
      60 32  -  MrYongYeng San I don't wish to rake up the past, but interest in local sports died when we walked away from the Malaysia Cup, when our athletes turned spectators in regional arenas, when hockey lost its verve, when badminton loosened its grip on the All England, when
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      864 48  -  LEONARD THOMAS ROADTO BEIJING Singapore expects a medal and table tennis queen Li leads the charge sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg SHE will be on the same stage in just over eight days' time, but this time it will feel so much different from 2004. At these Games Singapore
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      644 49  -  LOWLINFHOONG ALLTHATGLITTERS Jing says women have 70-80 chance of striking metal linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg THE atmosphere was frenzied and Li Jiawei could barely hear herself think. All she knew was she faced a mountain to climb. At the 49th World Team Table Tennis
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      647 50  -  TANYO-HINN OLYMPIC SAILS UP After three major meets, Koh #s still chasing the elusive gold medal yohinn@mediacorp.com. sg WHEN it comes to major Games, Koh Seng Leong's (picture) story has so far been one of near misses. He has battled the waves and various opponents in
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      627 51  -  LOWLINFHOONG THE PRESSURE'S OFF Badminton fraternity back S #pore #s No 1 shuttlerto pull off another Olympic-sized surprise linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg FOUR years ago, Ronald Susilo was at the top of his game. Then ranked ninth in the world, the Singaporean shuttler registered a stunning upset in his
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      138 51  -  rANYO-HINN The first of Team Singapore's 25 athletes left for the Olympic Games yesterday morning. The Republic's six Olympic sailors and their coaches (from left) Xv Yuanzhen (men's 470), Koh Seng Leong (Laser Standard), Lo Man Vi (Laser Radial), Brett Beyer (national Laser coach), Terence Koh (men's
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      659 52  -  TANYO-HINN SHOTGUN HOTSHOT Lee will test his new style on Beijing's ultimate stage yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg J:E Wung Yew has been shooting for gold for Singapore since the 1980s. He turned 42 in March, but age does not seem to have affected his marksmanship. Last December,
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      580 53  -  TANYO-HINN PROS AT WORK Ang #s former star pupil has pulled out all the stops to be ready for Beijing yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg FOUR years' ago, the Singapore swimming team of Joscelin Yeo, Christel Bouvron, Nicolette Teo, Gary Tan and Mark Chay left for the Athens Olympics
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      363 53  -  TANYO-HINN With eight days to the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, leading swim guru Bill Sweetenham (picture) believes the current Beijing-bound squad is possibly one of the best in the history of the sport in Singapore. The Aussie, a consultant with the Singapore
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      545 54  -  LOW LIN FHOONG REDEMPTION SONG Although training hard, shot put star sets a modest target for Beijing Games linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg ZHANG Guirong was a bundle of nerves in Athens. Making her Olympic debut in 2004, the thrower failed to reach the shot put final.
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      490 55 AGENCIES BEIJING BUILD-UP S Korean TV station leaks footage of secret opening ceremony BEIJING The secret's out about next week's Beijing Olympics opening ceremony: Be ready for a dramatic countdown, giant whales, an illuminated globe and performers flying above the audience. A South Korean television crew from
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      645 56  -  LOW LIN FHOONG ROADTO BEIJING American swimming ace eyes one last gold rush in Beijing before taking a break Mnfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg AT JUST five years of age, Natalie Coughlin found inspiration through her family's television set. It was 20 years ago that young Coughlin was glued
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      320 56  -  SHAMIR OSMAN PHOTO COURTESY OF in Khon Kaen, Thailand shamir@mediacorp.com.sg THE Singapore Sports School made overall top spot their own at the 11th Thailand Sports School Games yesterday, with assured performances in the pool, on the track and the football pitch, and in the
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      639 57  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Home, SAFFC gear up for a clash of the giants at Jalan Besar tonight sports@newstoday.com. sg NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Home United v SAFFC Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm IN THE white corner, defending S-League champions SAFFC, who've won half the titles
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      410 58  -  TREVORTAN XBOX 360 GAME REVIEW ELEMENTS OF DESTRUCTION trevor@mediacorp.com. sg NO ONE messes with Mother Nature, and no one should mess with a mad scientist who can control Mother Nature. In the Xbox Live Arcade game, Elements of Destruction, you are Dr Edgar Herbert, a
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      605 60  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN ONLINE ENGINES New tool lets you change results, edit text, add comments hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg WE'RE all familiar with Wikipedia, the Internet's biggest free encyclopedia. Online collaboration with the masses has fuelled the growth of 7 million articles in more than 200 languages on the encyclopedia. Now Wikipedia's founder
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      193 63 AFP AS TIES between Taipei and Beijing continue to thaw, Taiwan said yesterday that companies which are more than 20-per-cent-owned by Chinese shareholders will no longer be banned from listing on the island's bourse. Also, firms that are more than 20-per-cent Chinese-owned but
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      316 65 AGENCIES CREDIT CRUNCH CASUALTIES MELBOURNE ABC Learning Centres, the world's biggest publicly-listed owner of child-care centres, said yesterday it made a pre-tax loss of A 5437 million ($563 million) for the fiscal year ended June 30 because of additional writedowns and provisions. The company, one of
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        81 69 DOWJONES Keppel Corp said its second-quarter net profit jumped 16 per cent from a year ago to $299.3 million. This is due to strong results from its marine division, which is expected to remain a key earnings contributor. Revenue in the three months ended June
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        83 69 DOW JONES Allgreen Properties posted a 36.5-per-cent fall in second-quarter net profit to $17.2 million on lower revenue from development properties. Net profit for the quarter ended June 30 was down from $27.1 million a year ago. Revenue fell 39.1 per cent to $74.1 million. Allgreen
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        64 69 DOW JONES Parkway Holdings has secured $850 million in credit facilities to finance the building of a hospital project in Singapore. The syndicated loan facilities were subscribed by 13 banks including Calyon, DBS Bank and The Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corp. Proceeds will be
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