Today, 26 September 2008, Afternoon Edition

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  • 10 1 TODAY Friday September 26, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      206 1 Bailout on hold United States' lawmakers and George W Bush's administration appeared on the verge of a historic deal yesterday to shore up the battered financial system yesterday, only to be undermined by a proposal offered by Republicans. Page Bl $Bobfor Main St Top Democrats yesterday unveiled a
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    • 9 1 Breakfast tonight 7.00PM Start fast tomorrow 5.26 AM
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    • 916 1  -  ESTHER FUNG BANK OF EAST ASIA MAS gives advice as hundreds descend on Singapore branch esther@mediacorp.com.sg THERE were cakes and cups of water, handed out to the hundreds of worried customers by smiling staff who answered their flood of questions. Just days after scenes of alarm
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      71 1 Villa shines Spanish international David Villa continues his hot scoring form, bagging a double to send Valencia top of the Primera Liga. Page 64 Ronaldinho snubbed Out-of-sorts AC Milan star Ronaldinho has been dropped from Brazil's squad for their World Cup qualifiers next month. Page 64 Monty flops
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  • NEWS
    • 434 2  -  LINYANQIN IN TIANJIN, CHINA SM INTIANJIN Senior Minister Goh sees eco-city as financial, R&D and training hub yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg BEFORE the first spade goes into the ground at the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong already has his eye on the economic
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    • 310 3 AFP AFTERNOON UPDATE LONDON Thousands of air passengers in Britain faced travel chaos yesterday after a computer fault at the main air traffic control centre caused delays and cancellations. Nearly 100 flights were cancelled, with Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton the worst hit airports. Some flights
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    • 267 3 AP KABUL (Afghanistan) Pakistani troops fired at American reconnaissance helicopters near the Afghan-Pakistan border yesterday, and ground troops then exchanged fire, the United States military said. No injuries were reported, but the incident heightened tensions as the US steps up cross-border operations in a
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    • 575 4  -  TANHUILENG SINGAPOREGRAND PRIX Race infrastructure, business continuity its biggest challenges huileng@mediacorp.com.sg PUTTING in place the infrastructure for the race circuit and managing business continuity in the area these have been the two major challenges the Singapore Tourism Board has had to face in setting up
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    • 132 4 ESTHER NG Need a pair of grandstand tickets to the Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix? ONE Singapore, an organisation dedicated to eradicating world poverty, is taking bids on two tickets for grandstand seats at Turn 1, near the Paddock Club, with access
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    • 91 4 A leisure boat is hoisted on the barrage at Marina Reservoir. Capable of hoisting a variety of vessels including river taxis, police coast guard patrol boats and yachts, the hoist has been in operation since March 1 last year. Keeping in line with the Marina Barrage's 3-in-i
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    • 377 6  -  SINGAPORE-XL ROUTE Airlines offer free seats ahead of December's open skies LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg COME December, travellers between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur will see at least nine more budget flights a day on that route, when air travel between the two cities is finally fully
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    • 336 6  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE thousands of tourists are flying into town for the Formula One race, some Singaporeans are beating a hasty retreat —jetting off to nearby holiday destinations to get away from the fanfare. At least two such holidaymakers Today spoke
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    • 365 8  -  ESTHER NG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg DIFFICULT customers, long working hours, poaching among competitors. These are some of the reasons why staff retention and high employee turnover are perennial problems in the tourism industry here. "Singaporeans are very demanding. They plan their holidays at
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    • 414 8  -  ALICIA WONG CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER alida@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS yet another update in a series, with the Health Ministry having released fresh statistics at least once a week since August, and this frequency is almost startling, considering the sporadic news on chikungunya earlier this year. In
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    • 206 10 SO YOU'VE bought tickets for next month's Singapore Beer Festival or The Vagina Monologues play. But nearer the date, a last-minute business trip crops up, or sudden illness strikes. Now, you can get refunds in scenarios such as these, if you have bought your tickets
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    • 530 10  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ELDERLY MAN'S DEATH Possible that victim was not abk to smell the gas coroner's inquiry weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg NOTHING seemed to be amiss as Mr Chan Fook Seng, 72, woke up in the morning of Aug 3, last year. But unknown to him, liquefied petroleum
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    • 766 12  -  JOHNKWOK NEWS COMMENT Despite its initial appeal, segregation is fraught with hidden pitfalls RECENTLY, there was the issue of housing foreign workers in purpose-built dormitories. Some Singaporeans even suggested building townships around these dorms, enough for 20,000 workers each. It starts
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    • 383 12 SINGAPORE'S first Women Against Cancer campaign has a target to raise $100,000. And lending their weight to this cause are 10 female Members of Parliament (MPs), some of whom have been brushed by the disease in one way or another. In next month's popular
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  • WORLD
    • 856 14  -  TERENCE HUNT NEWS ANALYSIS Borrowers and lenders get presidential spotlight; govt accountability off the hook HOW did it happen, America's grave financial crisis? President George W Bush offered a bunch of explanations but held Washington completely blameless, painting a picture of a government standing innocently on
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    • 356 16 AGENCIES PROTEST ANNIVERSARY YANGON An explosion in Myanmar's main city yesterday wounded at least seven people amid tight security marking the first anniversary of the junta's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. The blast occurred at a bus stop outside City Hall in the downtown area and was
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    • 115 16 AFP Chinese astronauts (from left) Jing Haipeng, Zhai Zhigang and Liv Boming bid farewell as they prepare to enter the launch pad of the Shenzhou-VII manned spaceship yesterday. China yesterday launched its third manned space flight, carrying the three astronauts on a 68-hour mission that
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    • 143 16 Ready, jet set, go if the weather holds AP LONDON Swiss pilot Yves Rossy is set to cross the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing today. Weather permitting, Mr Rossy plans to leap from a plane more than 2,500 m off the ground, fire up his jets and
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    • 274 18 AP BANGKOK Thailand's Appeals Court upheld a two-year jail sentence for libel yesterday against former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who was recently forced to resign for violating the Constitution. The court said it saw no reason to suspend the jail term handed down
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    • 422 18 FHEDAILYTELEGRAPH TAINTED MILK SCANDAL Fears that vbad news' could have caused social unrest BEIJING The Chinese authorities ordered a cover-up of a tainted milk scandal that has poisoned tens of thousands of babies because they feared social unrest if the news was made public, The
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    • 267 20 AGENCIES SHANGHAI China's milk crisis apparently has spread to animals. Two orangutans and a lion cub at the Hangzhou Safari Park near Shanghai have kidney stones after being fed milk powder for more than a year, said Mr Zhang Xv, a veterinarian with
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    • 458 20 AP TAINTED FOOD As China grapples with milk scandal, political leaders get organic supply BEIJING While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the best, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, organic tea
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    • 381 22 MALAYSIAN POLITICS Ruling party's urgent talks trigger speculation over Premier's fate KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's ruling party is to hold high-level talks today, in a hastily arranged meeting that has triggered fresh speculation on the future of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Mr Abdullah was reportedly hit with
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    • 225 22 PUTRAJAYA Prominent Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin will have to undergo religious rehabilitation at the Kamunting Detention Centre in northern Perak state, reported The New Straits Times (NST). Mr Raja Petra, founder of the website Malaysia Today, has been ordered to spend two years in
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    • 198 22 KUALA LUMPUR Four passengers onboard two Light Rail Transit (LRT) trains were reportedly injured, one critically, when the trains collided in the Malaysian capital on Wednesday evening. The New Straits Times (NST) daily reported that one of the trains stalled before reaching the station
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    • 298 25 AFP SYDNEY Australia's exclusive men's clubs are coming under pressure as they shun an increasing number of the country's elite they would normally court as members because they are women. For the first time in the nation's history, the governor-general,
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    • 345 25 HEALINGTHE PAST Tribes become largest private forestry land owners WELLINGTON New Zealand's Parliament yesterday passed legislation to settle the largest claim ever by indigenous Maori over lost lands and resources. The deal worth nearly NZ$42O million ($4OB million) will give seven Maori tribes in the
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    • 407 27 AFP NUCLEARTHREAT? YOKOSUKA (Japan) A giant United States aircraft carrier docked here yesterday, becoming the first US nuclear-powered vessel based overseas. It also set off protests in the only nation to have suffered atomic attack. The 97,000-ton USS George Washington, which can carry more than
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    • 235 27 AP WASHINGTON Eight generals, ranging in rank from one to three stars, have been disciplined as a result of a mistaken shipment of fuses for nuclear warheads to Taiwan. Defence officials said on Wednesday that six Air Force and two Army generals were given
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    • 241 28 AGENCIES KAUHAJOKI (Finland) Detectives have revealed that the two gunmen who carried out school massacres a year apart in Finland bought their weapons from the same store, The Daily Telegraph reported. Matti Saari, 22, a trainee chef who killed 10 people and
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    • 417 28 BLOOMBERG DANES IN A DITHER COPENHAGEN The bronze mermaid (picture), Denmark's 95-year-old national monument that has suffered graffiti, severed limbs and decapitation, is causing another fuss in Denmark. The city plans to attract tourists by exporting the 1.25-metre mermaid from her home rock in the
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      • 114 30 AFP Pakistani authorities put the country's airports on "red alert" yesterday after Islamabad's international terminal received a telephone threat warning of a possible bomb attack. The security boost comes five days after a massive suicide truck bombing at the Marriott Hotel in the capital left
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      • 126 30 AP Indian police have arrested the founder of a littleknown Islamic militant group that has claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings that killed more than 120 people in India this year, the authorities said. Mr Mohammed Arif Shaikh, who co-founded Indian
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    • 385 30 AGENCIES INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS NEW YORK Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari agreed here on Wednesday to kickstart an embattled peace dialogue between the two nucleararmed rivals, with new talks to be scheduled by year's end. The leaders agreed that their
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      • 83 32 AP State governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a law making it illegal to read or send text messages while driving in California. The bill imposes a US$2O ($29) fine for a first offence and US$5O for repeat offenders using any electronic devices
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      • 157 32 South Africa's parliament elected deputy leader of the governing African National Congress (ANC) Kgalema Motlanthe, 59, as the nation's third post-apartheid president yesterday after the dramatic ouster of former President Thabo Mbeki by his own party. Mr Motlanthe won 269 of the 360
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    • 285 32 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH RETURNTO INDOCTRINATION? Replacement shows to revolve around patriotism, filial piety: Parliament MOSCOW The Kremlin has been accused of a return to Soviet-style indoctrination after Russia moved to ban United States cartoons like The Simpsons and replace them with programmes teaching children to be patriotic.
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    • 417 34  -  Deepak Gurnani BANKS Letter from I REFER to the report, "Mini-bonds, major headaches" (Sept 25). While much has been said about the possible misrepresentation by vendor banks marketing these products, I feel we are missing another point here. No matter how careful an investor
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    • 311 34  -  DrChua Boon Ling Letter from I HAVE been reading newspaper articles about doctors who over-prescribe addictive sleeping pills and get disciplined by the authorities as a result. Even though I do not condone the careless prescription of such pills, I believe that
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    • 177 36  -  Lionel DeSouza Letter from THERE have been a number of fatalities on roads as the result of passengers being thrown out of goods vehicles. The root cause of such fatal accidents can be attributed to drivers of these vehicles ferrying passengers about in a
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    • 170 36  -  David Kwok Ng Kan SPACES LEFT EMPTY Why not open some HDB season parking lots for the public? Letter from THE multi-storey Housing and Development Board (HDB) car park at Block 28A Beo Crescent is rather unique. This four-storey car park is next to Beo
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    • 96 36 CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS Email us an interesting picture you have taken in Singapore. Give your full name, age, occupation, address and phone number and send a 300 dpi, <3M jpg file to: seen@newstoday.com.sg. Include a 50-word caption. German Torro Rosso Fomula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel (right) and
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    • 154 36  -  Micheal Chiam Letter from MONDAY was Car-Free Day in Seoul, during which vehicles were restricted to certain roads only, and residents of the city enjoyed photo exhibitions and other recreational activities. This weekend, Singapore, in its push to be a global city, will be hosting
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    • 193 38  -  DR BILL MAIER I BY DEALING WITH AN EMPTY NEST We hear a lot about mothers who struggle with depression when kids leave home, but what about dads? Dads may not always show their emotions as mothers do, but don't let that tough exterior fool you.
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    • 722 38  -  TABITHAWANG Once proud to sell China products, shopkeepers now shun them BUDGETTAITAI MY CANTONESE teacher volunteers in China as a way of giving back to her less-fortunate countrymen. The last time she flew to the mainland, it was to help the survivors of the deadly
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    • 11 34 HAVE YOUR SAY. news@ newstoday.com.sg FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2008 34 TODAY
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    • 707 60  -  LEONARDTHOMAS THE RACE IS ON Hamilton charms, as he predicts an exciting, fast race on Marina Bay sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com. sg NEARLY two weeks ago he hurtled over fabled Italian roads at Monza at top speeds of more than 300kmh. He rested at
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    • 786 61  -  SHAMIR OSMAN THE RACE IS ON Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza doesn't know Massa from Kubica but she can't wait to meet them all shamir@mediacorp.com.sg BEAUTIFUL women and fast cars go hand in hand. It's a fact. We're not talking about just McLarenMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton
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    • 420 62  -  LAN DECOTTA WHILE Singapore is bracing itself for a spectacular show at the 2008 Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix, starting with the practice sessions tonight, Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports Ministry of
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    • 598 62  -  LAN DECOTTA THE RACE IS ON His star's spluttered, and BMW Sauber have yet to name their drivers for 2009 formula 1 correspondent ian@mediacorp.com.sg WITH four races left on the 2008 Formula 1 calendar, most of the top drivers would have an idea which team colours
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    • 700 63  -  TANYO-HINN THE RACE IS ON Ferrari chief rubbishes talk they are favoured by motor racing body yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg CONSPIRACY theorists and many Lewis Hamilton fans think Ferrari receive preferential treatment from motorsports' world governing body, the FIA. British racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart thinks it could simply be a
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    • 256 63  - Rain, rain, come this way SHAMIROSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg TORO Rosso's Sebastien Bourdais (picture) could be the only Formula 1 driver who will be praying for rain at this weekend's 2008 Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix. That's because Bourdais, the only one of 20 Formula 1 drivers who wears spectacles
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    • 483 64 AFP AFTERNOON UPDATE But hard-to-please coach Emery demands more MADRID Valencia supplanted Villarreal at the summit of the Spanish first division with David Villa scoring both goals in a 2--0 win at promoted Malaga yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Spanish international Villa continued his fabulous summer
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    • 223 64 GETTY IMAGES PARIS There is no place for AC Milan's out-of-sorts forward Ronaldinho in the Brazil squad. Brazil coach Dunga yesterday named his 22-man squad for next month's 2010 World Cup qualifiers against Venezuela and Colombia. Dunga called on Ronaldinho's clubmate Kaka, whose last game
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    • 300 64 AFP SUTTON COLDFIELD (England) Australia's Marcus Fraser was the joint leader after the first round of the British Masters at the Belfry yesterday as he battled to keep his tour card on a day Colin Montgomerie (picture) would rather forget. Fraser posted a five-under 67,
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    • 128 64 AFP BORDEAUX The European football championships in 2016 will be expanded from 16 teams to 24, Fifa's European executive committee member Franz Beckenbauer said yesterday. Uefa sources said that the proposed expansion would be voted on by the body's 13-man executive committee today.
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    • 614 65  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Coach Jeon admits the pressure of the title chase is creeping up on Super Reds NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Super Reds v Gombak United Yishun Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg THE Super Reds cut it real close in their last match against Geylang United
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    • 255 65  -  MILTON TAN RUNNING concurrently with the NTUC In-come-Yeo's S-League 2008 season is the Prime League, a reserve-cum-youth league competition with sides from the nine local S-League clubs. With three games remaining in the 24-match Prime League season, Gombak United are just
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      • 101 66 Microsoft has announced that it is lowering the price of Xbox 360 Arcade in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan from Oct 1. Starting at $339 (previous price: $399), the Xbox 360 Arcade includes an Xbox 360 console, a wireless controller, five Xbox LIVE Arcade games
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      • 92 66 IT security firm Sophos has warned Internet users of downloading fake antivirus products, following the discovery of a malicious Trojan horse that is posing as a free copy of Norton Anti Virus 2008. Advertisements are being presented to Internet users who search for "free antivirus", leading them to
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      • 103 66 Sony Ericsson has launched a line of Bluetooth watches targeted at ladies. Scheduled to ship here in the fourth quarter of the year, the MBW-200 series (picture) displays the caller ID on itsOLED screen and vibrates as your phone rings or when 7 j you receive
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      • 126 66 AP Oracle is selling computer hardware for the first time in its 31-year history, signalling an ambition to become more than a one-stop shop for business software. The expansion announced on Wednesday by chief executive Larry Ellison calls for Oracle's sales team to peddle a database
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    • 599 66  -  HEDIRMANSUPIAN A FORMULA FOR FUN hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg FORMULA 1 fans, what would your fandom be without the joy of merchandise? We pick out four gadgets A that'll help you live and /■gjj breathe Fl in your dig- /l ital life. i% LOGITECH MOMO RACING FORCE FEEDBACK WHEEL i
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    • 117 68 JUICED 2: HOT IMPORT NIGHTS NEED FOR SPEED: PRO STREET Is it just me or has there been way too many games cashing in on the Fast and the Furious phenomenon? Sure, the street racing scene was all the rage with Yin Diesel behind the wheel of the
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      • 99 68 ALL PLATFORMS After a disappointing outing with Weed For Speed (NFS): Pro Street, Electronic Arts has decided to drive down memory lane for a well-received formula along the lines of NFS: Hot Pursuit or Most Wanted. NFS: Undercover will be out in November. The game features
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      • 72 68 P53,X80X360 The team behind GrandTheftAuto IV has brought its expertise to the racing genre with Midnight Club: Los Angeles, slated for launch late October. Illegal street racers will find themselves chased by cops in what is arguably the most accurate representation of the City of Angels.
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    • 665 72  -  AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD THE DAILYTELEGRAPH BUSINESS ANALYSIS Europe rebuffs calls for fiscal rescue as German exports collapse and Nordic central banks face squeeze THE European Union has no plans yet for a rescue package along the lines of the Paulson plan despite severe
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    • 283 74 BLOOMBERG BRIBERY CASE Apartment sale to official was legal: Yanlord Land YANLORD Land Group yesterday denied allegations that it had received assistance from a former Chinese government official for its land purchase, saying it had acquired the sites legally. The luxury-home developer sold two units at its
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    • 305 74 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) last night set out what third parties have to do when they are hired by financial institutions to review their complaintshandling processes. The MAS originally announced late on Wednesday that the financial institutions which sold DBS High Notes
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    • 440 74 ONE of the chief concerns about the US Treasury Department's US$7OO billion bailout plan is that the same Wall Street firms that helped create the crisis could make a killing cleaning it up. Mr William Gross (picture), manager of the US' largest
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    • 312 74 CHANNEL NEWSASIA HIGH oil prices are pushing Singapore power suppliers to embrace more efficient energy generation technologies, in order to help industries cut costs. Tuas Power, for one, is investing $2 billion to build a state-of-the-art complex on Jurong Island featuring three different plants, which
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    • 804 76  -  CHEOWXINYI INVESTMENT MELTDOWN It is time to relook the way investments are bought and sold: Financial experts cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg FOR three days in a row, press announcements from the Monetary Authority of Singapore have been streaming into newsroom mailboxes each one seemingly more anxious to
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    • 239 77 BLOOMBERG GRAND PRIX Study's findings bode well for S #pore race this weekend SINGAPORE'S US$6O-million ($B5-million) investment to host Formula l's first night race this weekend is likely to return a profit from economic spin-offs, going by other races, a report by ING Groep and
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    • 153 77 AGENCIES »CONTINUED FROM PAGE Bi Earlier, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority injected liquidity into the local banking system, buying HK53.883 billion ($7lO million) worth of USD. "The smaller local banks are all having liquidity pressure as the bigger lenders aren't offering lending, particularly after the BEA rumours,"
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    • 136 77 ASIA Capital Reinsurance Group (ACR) yesterday said it has no material exposure to American International Group (AIG) or Lehman Brothers. "The company has no equity exposure to either entity and has no investment in derivative or sub-prime products," ACR said in a statement.
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      • 100 78 US MARKETS Wall Street rises Wall Street shares vaulted higher yesterday, boosted by optimism that Congress was on the verge of a deal on a massive rescue plan for the troubled financial sector. Traders focused on the news from Washington, largely brushing off weak economic data and a profit
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      • 67 78 Oil climbs Oil prices gained yesterday on signs a massive US government financial bailout was nearing approval, diminishing the risk of an economic collapse of the world's biggest energy consumer. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for November delivery, climbed U552.29 a barrel to close at US$lOB.O2.
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      • 45 78 NEWTOWER A 38-storey office tower will be built beside the OUB Centre in Raffles Place. The new $540--million tower is slated for completion in 2011 and will complement the present OUB building. Together they will be rebranded as One Raffles Place.
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        64 78 Tycoon Li Ka-Shing has once again shown why he is called the Warren Buffett of Asia. Just as Mr Buffett plonked US$5 billion ($7.1 billion) into investment bank Goldman Sachs this week, Hong Kong multibillionaire Li has stepped in to back Bank of East Asia as investors and
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