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  • 20 1 TODAY Thursday October 23, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday October 23, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 251 1 AGENCIES 4AM LATEST US stocks sank yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) and the Standard Poor's 500 Index dropped to the lowest level since April 2003 on concern a worsening global economic slump will damp corporate profits. The S&P 500 Index
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  • 791 1  -  CHEOWXINYI FINANCIAL FALLOUT •Admits standards not followed Offers compensation HSBC Trustee gets restructuring proposals cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg FOUR financial institutions involved in the structured products controversy have thrown a lifeline to some investors scarred by a chain reaction that started with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Their actions
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  • NEWS
    • 728 2  -  ZULOTHMAN EDUCATION ACCREDITATION Deterrent penalties, fines against poor standards being considered zul@mediacorp.com.sg FROM inadequate standards, to questionable courses, to poorly-trained teachers such complaints, which have been dominating the headlines of late, have put the lucrative private education industry here under the microscope.
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    • 454 3 MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL Education, healthcare and housing subsidies will help manage political friction THERE is a political cost to bring in foreign workers, and Singapore is facing a dilemma of either going for maximum growth or accepting slower growth in order to slow down the
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    • 209 3 938 LIVE At least four leading human resource consulting firms will soon set up centres here, in line with Singapore's vision to be a centre for leading human capital practices and capabilities. Senior Minister Goh ChokTong announced the plans at the inaugural three-day Singapore Human Capital Summit,
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    • 421 3  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg THE talent might be available to meet the shortage of labour in certain sectors, but Asean needs to do a better job of capturing and sharing this information in order to be more productive and grow as a region.
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    • 559 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT AIRLINE INDUSTRY Slowdown in global economy has led budget carrier Jetstar to target this group weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg AS AIRLINES around the world brace themselves for more turbulence, one budget carrier has found comfort from an unlikely source: Business travellers. And Jetstar Asia's efforts at targeting
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    • 472 4  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg PRIVATE school Stansfield College has won an appeal to include NTUC Income in the former's court case against the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). A statement released by the school yesterday said High Court Justice Woo Bih Li had overturned
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    • 86 6 TREVOR TAN Guide dogs for the visually-handicapped may be a more common sight in Singapore soon, thanks to an agreement signed yesterday between Singapore's Guide Dogs Association of the Blind and its United States counterpart. Pictured here is Kendra the dog, who came to
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    • 664 6  -  ALICIA WONG ANDTEOXUANWEI RECESSION PREPARATION alicia@mediacorp.com.sg MORE rebates, tax incentives and subsidies these are some of the initiatives that are likely to be rolled out in the coming year. However, direct cash handouts are unlikely to constitute a key component of any Government help package,
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    • 237 8 Bill Gates is paying him to catch a virus 5 A RESEARCHER from the National University of Singapore has become the first in Singapore to receive a direct grant from the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. Assistant Professor Tong Yen Wah has received a US$lOO,OOO ($150,000) grant for a project that
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    • 482 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG PM LEEON CHINA cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S economy has already been hurt by the Wall Street mess. Now, with China's economy slowing down, the Republic is facing further bad news. Noting that China's exports are "already slowing", Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong expects Singapore's al-ready-weakened exports to
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    • 369 10 BLOODTRANSFUSION Minister responds to query on dengue that came with transfusion IF YOU contract an infection because of a blood transfusion, and there was negligence involved, you will be compensated, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said yesterday. But there would
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    • PARLIAMENT ROUNDUP
      • 142 10 With more special needs pupils studying in mainstream schools, physical education (PE) and co-curricular activities (CCAs) are being customised for them to participate, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said in reply to a question from Nominated MP Eunice Olsen. For example, simple visual cues are used
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      • 135 10 The number of employers of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) who have to forfeit their security bond is "very low", Acting Manpower Minister Gan KimYong said in reply to a question by MP Zaqy Mohamad (Hong Kah GRC). In 2007, there were 60 such cases arising
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    • 255 10 A TRIAL at Choa Chu Kang showed that people are motivated to recycle more waste if it is made more convenient. After a block of HDB flats in the estate had been retrofitted to convert an unused refuse chute into a chute for
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    • 197 10 THE number of loansharking and related harassment reports is down by 9.3 per cent to 4,755 cases in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year. At the same time, the number of arrests for loansharking activities has
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    • 62 7 Singapore's prudent financial approach has made us strong. Together, we will weather this storm. With a continued 'AA' rating by Standard Poor's, NTUC Income remains your solid partner. As part of NTUC, we are people focused, not profit focused. Serving 2 million Singaporeans, we have earned the trust of the
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    • 240 10 WHY WE LOVE f*S MARKET CRASHES AW YOU SHOUU) TOO! a jj^A BW may sound crazy, but most people do not realise m k—^AW Bk that economic slowdowns and financial crises are i^Bl Ba '^B#l k where fortunes are really made. Biiiwlttiißi r tMA It was the last two crashes
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  • WORLD
    • 279 12 JAKARTA —Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) lodged a protest yesterday against Malaysia's armed forces for the alleged violation of territorial borders, particularly in Ambalat, off East Kalimantan's coast. DPR chairman Agung Laksono confirmed to the Antara news agency that the lawmakers had
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    • 453 12 AFP WAR AGAINST TERROR Police: Terror groups have joined forces in Indonesia JAKARTA A terror cell discovered in Jakarta this week was planning to bomb the Indonesian capital's main fuel depot and had links to some of the region's most wanted extremists, police said yesterday.
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    • 245 14 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has scrapped an invitation for Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi (picture) to deliver a speech about Islam because of pressure from Iranian diplomats who warned the event could hurt bilateral ties, an official said yesterday. Ms Ebadi who won the
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    • 443 14 AGENCIES MALAYSIA'S JUDICIARY M #sia #s opposition slams appointment of ex-Umno lawyer as chief justice KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's opposition has questioned the independence of the judiciary by criticising the appointment of a former Umno lawyer as the chief justice, following his rapid rise through
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    • 411 16 AGENCIES THAILAND INTURMOIL BANGKOK A crowd of angry protesters threw shoes and plastic bottles at the Thai Prime Minister's entourage after cornering him in an underground parking lot yesterday. He escaped unharmed. The protest was staged by more than 100 employees of the state-owned
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    • 250 16 AFP BANGKOK Thai prosecutors yesterday began gathering evidence to submit to Britain asking for the extradition of ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra, after he was sentenced in absentia to two years in jail. The Supreme Court on Tuesday found Mr Thaksin guilty of violating corruption laws when
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    • AMERICA VOTES
      • 266 18 WASHINGTON Financial records show that the Republican National Committee (RNC) 88-j_B-j_B-j_B-j_Bß appears to have paid more than B US$l5O,OOO ($225,000) on makeup ft accessories for presidential Hpick Bind her An on reported on TuesI day that U5549,425 I was Saks I Fifth Avenue I
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      • 350 18 AP TAKING ONTHE US Online message claims 'impetuous' candidate is the better choice WASHINGTON Al Qaeda supporters suggested in a website message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the United States as a way to usher in a McCain presidency. The message,
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      • 264 18 AFP MOON TOWNSHIP (Pennsylvania) Mr John McCain raised the spectre of nuclear war as he struggled to overcome Mr Barack Obama's widening lead in the polls with just 14 days left in the race to the White House. Warning voters that the United States faces
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    • 251 20 AGENCIES TOKYO Japan has signed its biggest loan deal for an overseas project ever to help India build a major railway between New Delhi and Mumbai. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso (picture) signed the deal at a
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    • 429 20 AGENCIES INDIA'S LUNAR MISSION Mission's goals to map surface of the moon and what lies beneath NEW DELHI India launched its first mission to the moon yesterday, rocketing a satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission to redraw maps of the lunar
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 133 22 AP A federal judge has ordered a payday for 36 immigrant delivery workers who toiled for years at New York City restaurants with substandard wages. On Tuesday, Judge Michael Dolinger ordered Mr Simon Nget, the owner of a chain of Vietnamese cafes, to pay more than
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      • 131 22 \FP Peeling a roll of Scotch tape releases tiny bursts of X-rays that are powerful enough to take images of bones in fingers and hands, researchers have found. The unusual discovery was made by a University of California at Los Angeles team, who had heard
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    • 270 22 AFP UNDER FIRE Japan's PM defends nightly trips to bars despite nation's economic woes TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has hit back at critics who questioned his nightly ventures to high-end bars and restaurants when the country is on the verge of
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    • 223 22 French workers exposed to radioactive lift buttons AFP GRENOBLE French elevator maker Otis said yesterday it would remove the buttons from hundreds of lifts it has installed after a radioactivity scare over materials supplied from India. The company made the announcement after France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said 20 French
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    • 151 24 TAIPEI A top Chinese negotiator assaulted by proindependence protesters in Taiwan left for home ahead of schedule yesterday for medical treatment. Mr Zhang Mingqing, vicepresident of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, told reporters he was flying back to Beijing for
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    • 276 24 AFP SUSPECTED DEFECTION He did not return from visit to Paris BEIJING A middle-ranking Chinese communist party official has not returned from an official visit to Paris, state media reported yesterday amid increasing speculation that he has defected to France. Mr YangXianghong, a party official in
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    • 271 29 AFP TAINTED PRODUCTS BEIJING A company in southwest China has recalled a skin cream after a potentially dangerous steroid hormone was found in it, state media said yesterday. The Miaoling Medical Technology Group, based in Guizhou province, also said it had stopped production and sales of the
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    • 277 29 AP STRASBOURG (France) European Union (EU) lawmakers have criticised a new scanner technology that allows airport security staff to see through passengers' clothes, calling it a virtual strip search that should only be used as a last resort. "Many travellers will consider these
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    • 263 29 AFP BEIJING China must modernise its food safety system, the United Nations (UN) said yesterday, arguing that an outdated and disjointed approach may have worsened a crisis over contaminated milk that killed four babies. In a new report on food safety
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    • 445 30  -  JOHN KWOK Idea of floating dormitories smacks of segregation I REFER to the report, "Floating Dormitories?" (Oct 20). The news report could well have been published in late 18th-century London. After the American war of independence in 1775, Britain could no longer
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    • 129 30  -  Steve X Ngo Letter from I REFER to the article, "Floating dormitories?" (Oct 20) by Ms Imelda Saad. Ouch! I think this subject is just too close to the bone. After the furore over the foreign workers dormitory in Serangoon Gardens, we are now even
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    • 82 30  -  TimmyTng Letter from IF JAPAN could build a floating airport in the middle of the sea, we can also build a selfcontained floating island to house foreign workers. It can be linked with a bridge to the mainland. The benefits are: Free up land on
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    • 162 32  -  DR BILL MAIER ....BY DOCTOR PHOBIA The only thing worse than going to the doctor is taking your toddler to the doctor! What child wouldn't be afraid of an examination room with all those mirrors and needles and rubber gloves? Most two-year-olds don't even have nightmares
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    • 282 32  -  Goh Syh Leh SEX EDUCATION Irresponsible to push condom usage in schools Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Let's talk about sex" (Oct 21) by Ms Silvia Cormont-Ku. She recommends that youth be taught how to use condoms, as she felt that urging abstinence
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    • 206 32  -  Jonathan Loke Letter from I REFER to Silvia Cormont-Ku's letter, "Let's talk about sex" (Oct 21). There is a misconception that the abstinence message is only about saying "no" to premarital sex. I think Ms Cormont-Ku might be reassured to know that abstinence education
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    • 85 30 VOICES ON RADIO The message is as simple as ABC J "J II -Abstain from casual *1 111 sex, Be faithful to your UUU partner and Consistent use of condom. Yet, young Singaporeans' knowledge of the three-step method to safe sex is still lacking. The incidence rate of sexuallytransmitted infections
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    • 1424 34  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH TUNESTO GO Music is really going mobile on mobile phones, that is christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THE world is set for a new music revolution. And it's happening right in your pocket. The mobile phone is fast becoming the receptacle of portable music. Already, mobile phone companies
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    • 854 38  -  MAY SEAH TODAY EXCLUSIVE Just how does Heroes star Ah Larter keep track of all heron-screen personalities? may@mediacorp.com.sg ALI Larter has to be the hottest schizophrenic on television Of course, she really doesn't have that much competition, but still, her talents are nothing to sneeze at. The
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      652 40 ONTHE SHELVES Stereophonies release a vbest of album next month, with two new tracks IF YOU were at the Stereophonies concert earlier this year, you'd have realised what a powerful live band the trio from Wales is. "We're a rock 'n' roll extravaganza show," said drummer Javier
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    • 249 42 AP BRITNEY Spears has a licence to go free. On Tuesday, jurors remained deadlocked 10-2 on whether she was guilty of driving without a valid California licence. A mistrial was declared, prosecutors said they wouldn't pursue the matter further —and Spears was spared a criminal record
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    • 427 44  -  MAYO MARTIN LOCALTHEATRE TIMS' new play tackles the sensitive topic of political detainees mayo@mediacorp.com.sg THE Necessary Stage is staging yet another thought-provok-ing piece. This time, it's about political detainees. Gemuk Girls, which opens next Wednesday, tells the story of an overbearing mother and her idealistic daughter who's about
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      • 286 45 LIVE UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY U2 ■Twenty-five years ago, when U2 were younglings attempting to break into America, they recorded and released this "mini-LP" ion video, Live at Red Rocks) as a taster to let people feel the excitement of their live shows.
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      • 60 45 She's graced the pages of fashion magazines, but now Filipina model-turned-singer Julia Duncan hopes to grace the pop charts with loungey chill versions of pop and R&B tunes like Swing Out Sister's Breakout, Anita Baker's Sweet Love and Christopher Cross' Sailing. Yes, it's "easy listening",
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      • 75 45 Lea Salonga's latest features 14 love songs that still bear the drama of the stage musicals that she's known for, but are intimate enough for a private listen. Her voice is lush and evocative in songs like To Hear You Say You Love Me, but the album is
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      • 73 45 The song Part of the List is, in my opinion, the reason to buy this album. It's not the only reason, of course. Miss Independent moves and grooves with an irresistible backbeat rhythm, while Back to What You Know shows why this album shot to
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      • 71 45 LANG LANG There's no disputing Chinese pianist Lang Lang's skill. No, it's the "feel" with which these concertos for piano and orchestra No 2 in F Minor Op 21 and No 1 in E Minor, Op 11 are performed that you can tell that Lang Lang has
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        66 45 THEDEY Take Black Eye Peas, add a Latino bent, apply more grit and spunky sass, and you get The Dey. This debut isn't quite the eye-opener it ought to be, but the songs themselves aren't half bad. My only beef is that since mi no habla espanyol, I'm
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        76 45 ZHUOYIFENG Taiwanese singer Zhuo Vi Feng's initial claim to fame was being on the variety programme Happy Sunday's singing contest. This, his debut album, shows how far he has come. Vi Feng's performance is expressive enough on the ballads, but his mellow voice lacks the verve required
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    • 154 45 THE gossip world is buzzing with news that former Friends star Jennifer Aniston is pregnant with John Mayer's child. According to Australia's New Weekly magazine, Aniston, 39, decided to give her relationship with the 31-year-old singer another chance when she realised she was expecting her first
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  • 189 46 What better snack than murukuto herald Deepavali? MINE is a brain that makes food associations naturally. Say "movie" and I'll think"salt and vinegar potato crisps"; say "Sunday" and I'll think "buffet dinner''And when the word "Deepavali" comes up, I invariably think "muruku" Muruku is sine qua
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      799 48  -  NORM GOLDSTEIN AP Find serenity and poetry in the literary 1 pockets of Wales ;.:'-j.■*»':■ .■„•.■■•.;■■•;::;^-;"'-->.v-;;••■>, J- ■■-:;•< traveller@newstoday.com. sg HERE, amid and around the ruins of the medieval Tintern Abbey, the solace and serenity recalled so poetically by William Wordsworth is almost palpable to 21st-century visitors. "Once
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    • QUICK TOURS
      • 98 48 A tight budget doesn't mean that travel needs to be cut out altogether. Check out the Chan Brothers Travel's one-day fair this Sunday for their new range of value-for-money tours. Last minute holiday seekers will also be happy to know that the travel agency has chartered
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      • 91 48  -  AARON CHONG Travel like Indiana Jones on a 15-day trip to discover Rajasthan's natural and cultur- al heritage. The trip includes a three-day cycling tour to see historic temples and forts; an elephant ride in Jaipur, a rickshaw ride to the Taj Mahal in Agra, a two-day trekking
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      • 41 48  -  AARON CHONG Fly to the East Malaysian cities of Kuching and Kota Kinabalu on Jet Star Asia for $o, excluding taxes and fees. Book before Sunday on www.jetstar. com for fares that are valid for travel until next year.
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      782 50  -  ELISABETH LEE COMMENT A recent clean-up of reefs in Redang provides lessons on how not to dive elisabeth@mediacorp.com.sg IMAGINE a powder-white sandy beach fringed with clear, electric blue water. Under the surface, out on the edge of the reef, schools of tiny, fluorescent anthias swim over a
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    • 162 51  -  ELISABETH LEE DIVERS As a diver, ensure that you practise good buoyancy control. Avoid touching the reef with your hands and kicking the reef or disturbing the sediment. The best advice is to "take only pictures, leave only bubbles". If you think you need extra coaching underwater—
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    • 1180 52 TV LISTINGS ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL ON MEDIACORP I SURVIVED A JAPANESE GAME SCOOPS SHOW 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 6.00 Entertainment Tonight Even Designers Get The Blues okto 8 30Drm 6.00 Prime Time Morning 6.30 The Price Is Right MN Janice Dickinson Modelling Channel 5, Bpm g3O T!ne E en Degeneres
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    • 807 53  -  LEONARD THOMAS SPORTS MATTERS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Those on the pitch must play their part to ensure the S-League does not slip AS THE 13th season of the S-League reaches a climax, only a point separates leaders SAFFC from the Super Reds and Home
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    • 432 53  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SHE has starred in the national women's hockey team for the last 10 years, winning bronze at the SEA Games in 2001. She played in the 2007 Games as well, and is hoping to don
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    • 930 54  -  shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE FOOTBALL S-League clubs get to work to ensure they are able to cope with downturn in 2009 SHAMIR OSMAN IT'S already shaping up to be a rough financial year ahead as the current global economic downturn worsens. Formula 1 bosses are currently
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    • 241 54  -  LOW LIN FHOONG TWO days ago, the Singapore woodball men's team missed out on a bronze medal at the Asian Beach Games in Bali, Indonesia, after finishing fourth. Ng Yeow Gim made up for the disappointment yesterday in the men's final, winning Singapore's first
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    • 130 54 AFP NEW DELHI Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar yesterday accused referees of singling out Asians, after Zaheer Khan was fined at the end of the second Test against Australia. Khan was docked 80 per cent of his match fee by referee Chris Broad for an outburst against outgoing
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    • 430 55  -  MILTON TAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Lim plots Geylang's final push, as Gombak expect tough fight for fifth spot NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Gombak United v Geylang United Jurong West Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg GEYLANG United team manager Lim Tong Hai is back as coach of the Bedok-based team,
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    • 334 55  -  MILTON TAN IN JUNE, Gombak United won their first piece of silverware when they beat the Super Reds 2-1 in the final of the Avaya-J&J League Cup 2008. While the senior squad have been pushing for fifth spot in the NTUC IncomeYeo's S-League 2008,
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    • 530 56 AGENCIES EUROPEAN CLUB FOOTBALL r »l Berbatov shines, Rooney scores and even Strachan #s purring about the Devils Champions League, Group E Manchester United 3 Celtic o MANCHESTER It is a curious experience to be both outplayed and wronged. A wry Celtic supporter struck the
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    • 463 56 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Champions League, Group G Fenerbahce 2 Arsenal 5 ISTANBUL Arsene Wenger insisted his belief in the future of Arsenal was vindicated in the cauldron of Fenerbahce's Sukru Saracoglu Stadium on Tuesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time). He preferred to focus on the positives
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    • 253 57 ROME Italian giants AC Milan confirmed yesterday that former England captain David Beckham will join the club on loan during the January transfer window. Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti and vicepresident Adriano Galliani revealed the news at Milan's Malpensa Airport before the team set off for Holland, where
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    • 485 57 BLOOMBERG THE RACE IS ON Next season will see some changes to engines introduced and testing limits LONDON Formula 1 teams and ruling body the Federation Internationale de PAutomobile (FIA), bracing for the fallout of the global financial crisis, agreed yesterday to "significant" cost
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    • 350 57 AP World Series, Game 1 Tampa Bay v Philadephia ST PETERSBURG (Florida) Forthe first time, two starting pitchers younger than 25 will open Major League Baseball's (MLB) World Series: the Philadelphia Phillies' Cole Hamels, and Scott Kazmir of the Tampa Bay Rays. "If
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    • 70 57 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 7.55 am Football Copa Sudamericana: Internacional v Boca Juniors, Ch 27 Bam Baseball World Series Game 1, Phillies v Tampa Bay Rays, Ch 23 10pm Tennis WTATour Linz, Ch 113 gpm Golf Castello Masters Costa Azahar, Ch 26 TOMORROW 12.10 am Football UEFACup: Schalke 04 vPSG,
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    • 597 58  -  CHEOWXINYI SUBURBAN MALL Far East's West Coast Plaza 70 per cent leased before launch cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg NEVER mind the news about consumers tightening their belts or forgoing frills in the face of an economic downturn. As far as developer Far East Organization is concerned, tenants of
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    • 644 58  -  LOHCHEEKONG cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg CAUGHT in between a sluggish economy and sticky office rents, many business owners are feeling squeezed. Many are trying to cut costs while looking for new opportunities. But Regus Group's country general manager (South-east Asia) William Willems has little doubt that serviced
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    • 512 60 BLOOMBERG GLOBAL DEBT MARKET HONG KONG Merrill Lynch, ÜBS AG and JPMorgan Chase are telling senior bankers in Asia to fly coach on short-haul flights and reduce non-essential travel as they step up cost cuts, officials at the firms said. ÜBS advised bankers this
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    • 495 62 DAILYTELEGRAPH TECH STOCKS IT firms learn the hard way that their stocks are not recession proof AS THE global economy teeters on the edge of recession, technology and Web companies, which had until this week believed they were immune to the unfolding financial crisis, have begun
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    • 285 62 AP THE leaders at Yahoo! still have jobs despite investor misgivings, but at least 1,500 workers will be laid off after the slumping Internet company's profits tumbled yet again in the third quarter. The 10-per-cent reduction in Yahoo's payroll of 15,000 employees served
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      • 90 64 Thailand, as chair of the Asean group of nations, is proposing that Asian countries pool US$35O billion ($525 billion), or 10 per cent of their foreign-exchange reserves, to help protect financial systems from a looming global recession. Underthe plan, Asean and Japan, China and
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      • 99 64 DOW JONES Keppel Land said yesterday its third-quarter net profit fell 43.6 percent as sales halved. Net profit for the three months ended Sept 30 was $46.2 million, down from $81.8 million a year ago, the unit of Singapore conglomerate Keppel Corp said in a statement.
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      • 166 64 Brunei said yesterdaythat it would join other Asian countries to guarantee all bank deposits for the next two years, and urged financial institutions to manage risks more responsibly amid the global economic crisis. The Ministry of Finance said banks and other finan- cial institutions in
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    • 233 64 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE ECONOMY Right in time for the Youth Olympics, says Trade and Industry Minister SINGAPORE'S tourism industry will recover by 2010, in time for the opening of the two ca-sino-resorts and its hosting of the first Youth Olympic Games, Trade and Industry Minister
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    • 53 64 3CBCBANK Students cheering the opening yesterday of the Shi He Primary School in Mianzhu City in Sichuan Province. The school was rebuilt following the devastating earthquake in Sichuan earlier this year with funding from OCBC Bank (China), staff from the bank as well as Yang Di Gang
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    • 397 66 HONG KONG Authorities launched investigations yesterday into Citic Pacific after the conglomerate warned of almost US$2 billion ($3 billion) in losses stemming from unauthorised currency bets by a senior executive. The territory's securities watchdog, the Securities and Futures Commission, said it was
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    • 342 66 AGENCIES FINANCIAL CRISIS STI hits lowest level in four years, mirroring declines in Asia WORRIES about poor corporate earnings and fears of a global recession dragged shares to their lowest level in over four years in Singapore yesterday. And analysts are warning that the
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    • 441 67  -  KELVIN CHOW TOP ENTREPRENEUR AWARDS Businesswoman wins innovation prize for use of technology and green materials kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg SPOTTING wastage in the bulk packaging business, Ms Susan Chong set up a companies that offers environmentally-friendly solutions for firms. The managing director of Greenpac (S) looked around
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      • 60 68 49 cents Buy OCBC cuts target to $1.20 from $3.30 to reflect lower valuations, but keeps call. Forecasts recurring earnings to grow in high-teens for FYO9, 28 per cent for FYIO due to more vessels for charter. Offshore vessel supplier could be affected by potential delays in vessel delivery
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      • 54 68 58 cents I Underperform CIMB cuts Petra Foods target to $0.40 from $0.65; reiterates rating. Broker says the lower target price reflects reduced assumed PE multiple to six times FYIO earnings from previous 15 times FYO9 earnings. Adds company is well run, credit lines secure, higher borrowing costs
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      • 93 68 12 cents I Hold Standard Poor's downgrades vehicle parts maker from Buy, cuts target price to 12 cents from 21 cents, after lowering earnings forecast to reflect weaker consumer sentiment, worsening global economic outlook. Notes net loss of $400,000 for fiscal first half of 2009 due to impairment losses
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    • 292 68  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg QUESTIONS have been raised about the health of United States gaming company Las Vegas Sands, which is building Marina Bay Sands resort here. The company's share price has plunged from a 52-week high of U*****.15 to Tuesday's price of U5512.43
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    • 497 68 THE SILVER LINING Amid the gloom, here is a company that is smiling ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg THE credit crunch may be hurting the economy and financial businesses, but for firms in the chemical processes supporting industry, there is a different kind of problem. Mr Chow Sow Foong,
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