Today, 21 October 2008, Afternoon Edition

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  • 10 1 TODAY Tuesday October 21, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      53 1 Bring on Celtic Man United's Sir Alex Ferguson is relishing the looming Champions League battle of Britain but he knows Celtic are dangerous opponents. Page 29 Drogba probe The English FA says it will look into Chelsea hitman's comments on punching Red Devil Nemanja Vidic "in their proper
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    • 707 1 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST Markets worldwide boosted by talk of further bailout moves by Fed White House NEW YORK Mr Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, fuelled a global fightback by battered stock markets yesterday, boosting hopes that Washington will soon order new tax
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      120 1 Poor, poor McCain A day after Barack Obama disclosed he raised record campaign funds last month, John McCain reveals he has less than US$47 million ($7O million) to campaign with. Page 4 $2ib French carrot To spur lending, France promises six major investment banks that it will invest
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    • 97 1 Pain-free spending New Scheme tO Use Capital gains the mtmirlv spends about IS per from Govt investments: Tharman of gdp.-Theseare^eta^aithougho^ I HlGHERpubliespending-butlowert^esThis^ to spending IKI TLJ C IMdeP^f lsfrZ WSin^re™wstme^r fromthe interest and dividend income oity II >l I FIL ,c higher spending is needed to help tail v eß
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  • NEWS
    • PARLIAMENT
      • 484 2  -  ESTHER FUNG BUILDINGTHE ECONOMY New scheme to use capital gains from Govt investments: Tharman estherf@mediacorp.com.sg HIGHER public spending but lower taxes. This is made possible by a new scheme to employ some of the capital gains from Singapore's investments. The higher spending is needed to help build the
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      • 320 2 CAPITAL gains from Temasek Holdings are to be excluded from the Government's new spending plans as the national investment company's strategy of taking concentrated stakes in companies means its long-term returns are not easy to forecast. Instead, the new Government spending framework
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      • 701 3  -  TAN HUI LENG AND LEONG WEE KEAT BUILDINGTHE ECONOMY MPs debate proposals to amend the Constitution huileng@mediacorp.com.sg WITH more returns from the reserves for the Government to draw from, is there any need to raise the Goods and Services Tax again? Can
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      • 689 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG DEPOSIT GUARANTEES It wasn't the right thing to do because your banks are stable' says MAS deputy chairman cheekong@mediacorp.com. sg IN TIMES of crisis, people instinctively yearn for assurance. So why did the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have to wait for not
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      • 365 6  -  LINYANQIN AS LAND-SCARCE Singapore becomes increasingly built up, it is likely that housing quarters for foreign workers will be located closer to residential areas over time. This is even as the Government tries to build worker dormitories as far away from residential areas as
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    • 353 4 AGENCIES WASHINGTON, DC The funding mismatch between Democrat Barack Obama and his opponent for the US presidency, Republicanjohn McCain, was starkly highlighted yesterday when the latter disclosed he had less than US$47 million ($7O million) available for the final stretch of
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    • 191 8 WITH citizens now comprising 65 per cent of the total population the proportion Singapore needs to be "born and bred" here to ensure new immigrants remain rooted, according to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will future immigration policies be tightened? According to Deputy Prime
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    • 181 8  -  LEONGWEE KEAT AMIDST the gloom, there is some respite for motorists. There will be no increase in Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) for 22 gantries just outside the city, according to the latest quarterly revision. Among them are the gantries at Thomson, Stevens and Bendeemeer
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    • 385 8  -  ESTHERNG MERCY RELIEF AFTER making its name in humanitarian relief efforts, Mercy Relief is widening its role to include reconstruction and long-term development. The Singapore-based non-governmen-tal organisation (NGO) is rolling out an international programme aimed at helping communities in the region break the cycle
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 91 8 The decomposed body of a woman was found at Lorong Sesuai in Bukit Batok yesterday morning. The body was found on a slope in the forested area, after police received a call at about 8.20 am. She was wearing a brown polo T-shirt and black pants. Police
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      • 129 8 Ten hot and cold packs sold here have been recalled after the Health Sciences Authority revealed they contained a toxic anti-freeze ingredient, ethylene glycol, instead of the non-toxic substance, propylene glycol. The products are marketed under the Surgipack, Soft R&R and Osim brands. These packs are
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    • 652 10  -  ESTHER NG SAVINGTHE ENVIRONMENT Alexandra Hospital, Senoko Power and South West CDC win environmental accolade estherng@mediacorp.com.sg THEY didn't deliberately set out to be green. Alexandra Hospital's green movement started when staff wanted to plant flowers to beautify the premises and create a warmer and
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  • WORLD
    • 368 12 AFP TURMOIL INTHAILAND Police accused of brutality, upping pressure on Thai PM BANGKOK About 2,000 anti-government protesters marched past Bangkok's upmarket shopping centres yesterday, accusing the Thai police of brutality and increasing the pressure on the embattled Prime Minister. In a repeat of a similar rally
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    • 308 12 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea said yesterday it was business as usual in North Korea, casting scepticism on media reports that Pyongyang was poised to make an announcement possibly concerning the health of its leader, Mr Kirn Jong 11. Japanese newspapers reported over
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 108 12 A motorist who fatally crashed into a father and son drove to a police station in Perak, Malaysia, with the body of the boy on the roof of his car, according to The Star, citing a Berita
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      • 101 12 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH Fraudsters siphoned money out of Mr Nicolas Sarkozy's bank account after obtaining the French President's username and password. Mr Sarkozy complained to police last month after "small amounts" began disappearing from the account. Police said financial thieves regularly make lots of small illegal
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    • Article, Illustration
      969 13 1/MDMAUMAH HASSAN When a 13-year-old left his student concession card behind at the Boon Lay MRT station Transit Link counter and no one could pick it up for him, customer service assistant Alimah Hassan decided to return the card to him instead. The 54-year-old, who has been
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    • 283 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak (picture) has secured enough endorsements to run for election as the ruling party's next president, according to an official count yesterday, moving him closer to succeeding the country's embattled leader. Sixty-four branches of the United Malays National
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    • 272 14 PARTY ELECTIONS 'Vote buying will destroy Umno' AFP Minister says most members more keen on making money KUALA LUMPUR A veteran leader of Malaysia's ruling party said yesterday he had been asked to pay for votes in an upcoming contest for top posts and warned that money politics would destroy
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    • 305 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR A prominent ethnic Indian activist went on trial for sedition yesterday for claiming that the Malay Muslimdominated government practised "ethnic cleansing" policies to persecute Malaysia's Indian minority. Mr P Uthayakumar, a top official in the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf)
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    • 242 14 AFP PARIS International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn only had a "one-night stand" with a member of the world finance body's staff, his wife said on Sunday. "We have moved on," said Mr StraussKahn's wife Anne Sinclair, insisting in her personal blog that
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    • 249 16 THE GUARDIAN LOS ANGELES Voters in key swing states from Colorado to Ohio have been targeted with automated phone calls from the McCain campaign seeking to portray Mr Barack Obama negatively. One call states: "You need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with
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    • 724 16  -  DAVID BROOKS THENEWYORKTIMES AtObama rallies, the candidate is the wooed not the wooer NEWS COMMENT AMERICA VOTES: WE'VE been watching Mr Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time, there hasn't been a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control. This has
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    • 182 17 AFP WASHINGTON Mrjohn McCain (picture), the Republican candidate who has been trailing his rival in the polls recently, has evoked the prospect of his own defeat but said he would not be "feeling sorry for himself if he lost. On Sunday, he was asked
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    • 296 17 AFP SYDNEY Australian fathers spend only six minutes alone with their children on weekdays, according to a new research that also found that Aussie dads leave most child-raising chores to their female partners. In a study which also looked at
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  • voices
    • 174 18  -  James Teng Letter from BEING a public transport user who makes multiple transfers, I welcome the increased rebates we're getting effective this month. However, I cannot reconcile the difference in rebates when boarding SBS Services No 97 and 166 from the Vivo City bus stop,
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    • 363 18  -  Silvia Cormont-Ku HIV AWARENESS At home, in school a change in attitude is urgently required Letter from I REFER to the report, "Gen V lacks HIV awareness" (Oct 17). This has been a hot topic since I was in secondary school some 10 years ago, yet
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    • 137 19  -  David Kwok Ng Kan Letter from VAN Kit swimming pool was built in 1951 and closed in 2000. Nearly a decade on, the pool has been left vacant with no activity nor any sign of redevelopment. Besides Van Kit pool, there are other public pools which
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    • 353 19  -  i John Gee Letter from President Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) ALTHOUGH I normally appreciate Neo Chai Chin's articles, I take issue with a statement that appeared in the report, "Funds, yes. Strings attached? No thanks" (Oct 17). The article states that "While ACMI
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    • 164 19  -  BY DR BILL MAIER MAKE YOUR MAN FEEL SPECIAL Hey ladies, get ready for the second instalment of "Top 10 ways to keep your husband happy": 4 Thank him often for the way he provides for the family. Most of us guys make a lot of
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  • Plus ARTS
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      199 20 (THE GRADUATE WITH A BAIN ENGLISH) Hi Prince can we call you Prince? Why? Because Princeton is too long? We're just being friendly here. So, what 1 have you heard about this lovely country of ours? I hear it's an easy place for fresh graduates to get a job,
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    • 183 20  -  MAYO MARTIN NOTTHE MUPPETSHOW mayo@mediacorp. com.sg THEY talk rubbish, they have serious "issues" and, if you must point out the obvious, they're also puppets. We're talking about the lovable if somewhat occasionally potty-mouthed cast of the much-awaited Broadway and West End
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    • 65 20 I Trekkie, we know you love pornography, I but we should tell you it's illegal in Singapore. I Me love porn! I Wo, seriously. It's illegal here. What E do you do with the rest of your time? Huh? When not surfing porn? I Right ...How many gigabytes
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      129 20 (THE TEACH ING ASSISTANT) Kate, what would the parents of your students think of you starring in one of the most controversial musicals ever staged? Name me one immoral or unethical thing in the musical. It is recommended that only those aged 16 and above attend the show
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    • 205 22 The kiddies won't be able to watch Avenue Q when it hits town, but they can certainly check out these Sesame Street classics. CIS FOR COOKIE This trademark song confirms that Cookie Monster should really have his own rock band. The lyrics are quite simple
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    • 198 22 (THE CABARET DANCER) Hi, Lucy. What have you heard about this manicured, überclean country of ours? Über-clean? Baby, you are living in the '80s. We hear Singapore has one of the best party scenes in this part of the world, and some delicious men to boot. We
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      151 22 (THE ROOMMATES) You know what, guys? You remind us of two other famous male puppets who live together—Bert and Ernie. What do you think of them? (In unison) We've never actually met but we receive fan mail from Bert and Ernie regularly. They want to be just like
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    • PLUS ROUNDUP
      • 109 24 Madonna's divorce settlement with her estranged husband Guy Ritchie has yet to be finalised, the singer's publicist said on Sunday. The Sun and The Mail on Sunday reported that the two had struck a deal over their finances and howto split their property. The couple are reportedly
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      • 121 24 AP Dee Dee Warwick (picture), a soul singer who won recognition for both her solo work and her performances with her older sister Dionne Warwick, died on Saturday. She was 63. She died at a nursing home in Essex County, said a family spokesman. She
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      • 97 24 AGENCIES First, her father-in-law, nowAishwarya Rai's dad. Just as Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan father of Rai's actor husband Abhishek was released from hospital on Friday a week after being admitted, Bollywood Mantra reported that Rai's own father was admitted to hospital on Thursday. According to the
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    • 336 24 THE GUARDIAN CINEMA ICON This defining scene wasn't meant to pan out this way if you believe Daniel Craig IT WAS a defining moment in Casino Royale: The scene which turned the latest Bond star into an international sex symbol. But Daniel Craig has admitted that
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    • 206 24 AP MR BLACKWELL, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86. He died on Sunday of complications from an intestinal infection, his publicist said. Blackwell, born Richard Sylvan
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    • 388 25  -  MAYSEAH NEW ON TV Okto and Vasantham are the new additions to ourTV line-ups may@mediacorp.com.sg SUNDAY was a beautiful day for TV junkies in Singapore. That's because it saw the launch of not one but two brand new MediaCorp channels: Okto and Vasantham. At the Launch
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 25 25 r GIRLS, STUB IT OUT RIGHT NOW. Women who smoke risk getting their first heart attack 15 years earlier than those who don't. 26 A
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  • health
    • 528 26  -  EVELINE GAN SMOKING ILLS Women who smoke risk getting their first heart attack 15 years earlier than those who don't eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SHE started smoking at 19. Almost three decades later, Mrs W H Seah has taken more than 102,000 puffs. Mrs Seah, who has
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    • HEALTH LISTINGS
      • 72 26 One in 100 people in Singapore are afflicted with psoriasis which causes red scaly patches to appear on the skin At this public forum, which will be conducted in English and Mandarin, find out more about this skin disorder, the latest medical treatment for it and
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      • 117 26 NUH is organising its first Speech Therapy Day on Nov 1. In conjunction with this event, the hospital is holding a series of talks by its speech therapists. Topics include enhancing speech, language and communication development in children, and how to take care of your
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    • 388 26 A HEALTHY MENOPAUSE QUESTION BY MDM FONG I am a mother of three who will turn 50 this November. I'm rather concerned about my overall health as I'll be approaching menopause soon. I have been falling ill (getting the flu and colds) rather often. My other problem
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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  • sports
    • 775 29 AP AFTERNOON LATEST Man United's defeat of two years ago still hurts, says Scotsman Champions League, Group E Manchester United v Celtic MANCHESTER The memories of Manchester United's defeat to Celtic are still fresh for Alex Ferguson. As the two sides prepare to meet in
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    • 124 29 AFP MANCHESTER Manchester United leftback Patrice Evra has pulled out of the Champions League home match tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) against Celtic with a hamstring strain, the Premiership club said yesterday. Frenchman Evra left the pitch holding his left leg in United's 4-0
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    • 116 29 AFP LONDON Arsenal central defender Kolo Toure has hurt shoulder ligaments and will miss the Champions League match at Fenerbahce tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). Arsenal skipper William Gallas, who has a hamstring problem, and Bacary Sagna, who has a knee injury, are still
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    • 230 30 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Former footballer Stan Collymore has won more than £1.5 million ($3.8 million) in damages from the financial advisers who invested his earnings from his playing career. Mr Collymore, who is now a sports pundit and occasional film actor, was not
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    • 264 30 AFP LONDON The English Football Association (FA) yesterday said they would launch an inquiry into Didier Drogba's comments in his autobiography that he should have punched Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic. In the book, the Chelsea striker said he wished he had punched
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    • 594 30 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST English Premiership Newcastle 2 Manchester City 2 NEWCASTLE Referee Rob Styles found himself embroiled in another controversial penalty decision as 10-man Newcastle drew 2-2 with Manchester City at St James Park last night (this morning, Singapore time). Styles, who late
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    • 528 31  -  SHAMIR OSMAN INTHESWING As S #pore gets set for Sorenstam's farewell, LPGA say the Lexus Cup's growing well shamir@mediacorp.com.sg THIS year's Lexus Cup will be the fourth meeting between Asia's best women golfers and their international counterparts. It still has some way to go to match the
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    • 243 31 AFP MOHALI (India) Australia were staring at defeat after losing their top five batsmen in just 10 runs on the fourth day of the second Test against India here yesterday. Chasing a daunting victory target of 516 after the Indians declared their second innings
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    • 522 32  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Balestier Khalsa vSAFFC Toa Payoh Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg SAFFC midfielder Mustaqim Manzur and defender Shaiful Esah have a little extra motivation tonight, when the Warriors travel to Toa Payoh Stadium to face bottomside Balestier Khalsa in an NTUC IncomeYeo's S-League
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    • 147 32 The Tampa Bay Rays reached the World Series for the first time on Sunday {yesterday morning, Singapore time), beating reigning champions the Boston Red Sox 3-1 to win the American League Championship series. Pitcher Matt Garza was outstanding over seven-plus innings and Willy Aybar homered
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    • 332 32  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE'S silat exponents Muhammad Razif Mokhlas and Saiedah Said came unstuck in their bid for gold on the third day of competition at the Ist Asian Beach Games in Bali, Indonesia, yesterday. Razif, last year's world champion, was gunning for a spot in
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    • 809 33  -  PEARLYNTHAM SPORTS MARKETING Brands should tie up with sports events that achieve marketing objectives pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg LUXURY lifestyle label Shanghai Tang may dress the likes of celebrities, socialites and fashionistas. But polo players? The brand, known for giving Chineseinspired designs a modern twist,
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    • 282 34 BLOOMBERG LAS Vegas Sands, the second-biggest casino operator by market value, is in talks with banks including Citigroup about revising terms of the HK540.95 billion ($7.8 billion) in loans it is seeking for Macau projects. Sands told lenders it would pay
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    • 290 34 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST FANNIE Mac, the mortgagefinance company seized by the United States government last month, has said that it is expanding its portfolio of assets and rethinking policies on pricing and other aid for the housing market. "I want to assure
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    • 443 35  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg FOREIGN BANKS IN SINGAPORE FOREIGN banks need to meet the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) high admission standards before they are allowed to operate here, but the MAS cannot guarantee that they will remain solvent. "Foreign banks maintain significant operations in their
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    • 143 35 »CONTINUED FROM PAGE Bi and still have credit available for lending. Nevertheless, banks have become more cautious." On the employment front, retrenchment has so far "stayed at roughly the same level as in previous quarters", said Mr Lim, "though this could go up
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    • 337 36 CNA FINANCIALCRISIS Standards council set to follow international lead SINGAPORE is set to make changes to its accounting standards that may dramatically alter the way firms account for financial instruments. The move follows measures taken by the International Accounting Standards Board last week in response to
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    • 346 36 AP MALAYSIA plans to prop up its stock market and seek more foreign investment, Finance Minister Najib Razak said yesterday, while announcing that the government will downgrade its growth forecasts. Mr Najib said the government will channel an additional RMS billion ($2 billion)
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    • 394 37 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH AFTERNOON LATEST Record borrowing figures by UK govt, but Britain is right to borrow, says PM Brown LONDON Mr Alistair Darling has become the first British Chancellor in history to borrow at a rate of £200 million ($505 million) a day as the economy heads into
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    • 165 37 BLOOMBERG AMEX EARNINGS OUTSHINE EXPECTATIONS American Express, the biggest United States credit-card company by purchases, rose 9 per cent in late trading after beating some analysts' estimates for third-quarter earnings. Profit from continuing operations declined 23 per cent to US$B6l million ($1.27 billion), or US$O.74 a share, beating
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    • 147 37 BLOOMBERG Merrill Lynch, the biggest United States brokerage, plans to cut about 500 jobs in its trading division as CEO John Thain shrinks the workforce to gird for a recession, three people with knowledge of the plan said. Merrill may notify affected employees as soon
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      • 106 38 US MARKETS Dow up 4.7 per cent Wall Street stocks rose sharply overnight amid indications that a second fiscal stimulus package could be on the way to boost the faltering US economy. The blue-chip Dow Jones index jumped 413.21 points, or 4.67 per cent, to 9,265.43. The broader Standard
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      • 76 38 Surge on cut whispers Crude oil surged more than US$2 overnight on growing signs that Opec will announce production cuts at a meeting this week in a bid to shore up falling prices amid a global financial crisis. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in
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      • 88 38 Match US gains European stock markets surged overnight on further government action to support banks and news of better-than-expect-ed US economic data, with London gaining 5.41 per cent. The London FTSE 100 index of leading shares finished at 4,282.67. In Paris, the CAC 40 jumped 3.56 per cent
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      • 224 38 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST France promises investment in major banks if they up loans PARIS The French government will invest 10.5 billion euros ($20.6 billion) in the country's six biggest banks by year-end on condition that they increase lending to companies and households. The
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        246 38 BLOOMBERG 'We're not immune' —^^m Google Inc. the owner of the world's most popular Internet search site, is pulling back spending on acquisitions and slowing hiring amid a global economic slump, CEO Eric Schmidt said. The slowdown has placed advertising budgets "under stress", he said yesterday (this morning, Singapore
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      • 173 38 BLOOMBERG SLOWING growth in Southeast Asian nations may boost unemployment and hurt the region's competitiveness, the International Labor Organisation (ILO) said. Unemployment in the 10--member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, may rise to 6.2 per cent in 2009, from 5.7
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      • 101 38 BLOOMBERG TEXAS Instruments, which makes chips for cellphones and other devices, warned yesterday that orders are slowing down rapidly, and said it would cut jobs to save money. The company said it would reduce its work force by 650 in six countries. The company
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