Today, 20 January 2009, Afternoon Edition

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  • 10 1 TODAY Tuesday January 20, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • 43 1 RBSonthe brink Shares in RBS plunged almost 70 per cent after it announced the biggest loss in UK corporate history. Page Bl Chrysler's saviour? Italian carmaker Fiat has an in-principle agreement to take a 35-per-cent stake in ailing Chrysler. Page B4
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      48 1 He's going nowhere AC Milan superstar Kaka, in a moving show of loyalty, showed 'money isn't everything' in rejecting Manchester City's bumper bid. Page 28 Derby honours even Tim Cahill's late, late equaliser cancelled out Steven Gerrard's 30m screamer to dent Liverpool's title hopes. Page 28
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    • 567 1  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg HIS five-week family trip to Paris to learn cooking at the famed Le Cordon Bleu culinary school appeared as a self-penned travelogue in The Straits Times on Jan 6. Soon, Mr Tan Yong Soon's article was re-appearing in blogs and Internet forums
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    • 610 1  -  ESTHER FUNG FRESH GRADS' PROSPECTS Some growth sectors, but will losses outstrip creation: esther@mediacorp.com.sg GIVEN the worsening news each day in the papers, it's no wonder some final-year undergraduates are having sleepless nights over their job prospects. Mr Wong Tsz Ming, 25, is one of
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    • 303 2 TWO months after it announced hefty reductions in the 2009 pay for Ministers and top civil servants, the Government said the cuts will be a little deeper than expected, as the speed of the downward economic spiral took policymakers by surprise. And
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    • 415 2  -  ANSLEYNG Law Minister responds to comments by Law Society president ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE lacks detailed statistics on crime and punishment? How about the recidivism, or crime relapse, rate of 24.2 percent "one of the lowest in the world" Law Minister X Shanmugam offered yesterday in Parliament. It is
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    • 643 3  -  ESTHER FUNG BUDGET 2009 Farsighted steps to save jobs, investments in R&D and education remain key say analysts esther@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE Thursday's Budget is likely to include a slew of measures to help businesses cope with the current tough times, industry experts also expect the
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    • 376 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT TODAY IN PARLIAMENT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the resolution of investors' complaints now moving into its final phase, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) which is reviewing the way structured investment products are marketed and sold to retail investors will issue a public consultation on the
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    • IN PARLIAMENT
      • 97 4 Despite rising tariffs, the number of electricity accounts disconnected remained stable between December 2007 and last November. Overall, 29,225 households had their power disconnected and 29,133 accounts were reconnected, according to SP Services data. For October and November, after fourth quarter tariffs rose about 21 per cent,
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      • 118 4 The Attorney-General's Chambers handled 241 "serious" public liability claims over the last three years. Of these, 125 cases were settled out of court with payment and 81 with no payment, said Law Minister X Shanmugam. "Of the 35 cases that went to court, payments
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    • 307 4  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg A NEW scheme to help debtors avoid bankruptcy while assuring creditors of repayment got Parliament's vote of approval yesterday. But why open this scheme only to those employed with a regular income stream, omitting debtors who are sole proprietors or partners
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    • 111 4  -  LINYANQIN Eighteen-year-olds can now serve as directors of companies and start legal proceedings or defend against lawsuits in their own names but they will still not be able to vote in elections, as such personal choices require "necessary maturity", said Senior Minister
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    • 161 6 IT SHOULDN'T come as a surprise that more and more people are switching to house brands, but what is telling about these times is that an increasing number of middle- and high-income households are also doing so. They are now buying, in particular, no-frills rice,
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 96 6 ONG DAI LIN A nine-year-old boy crossing the road at Clementi Avenue 4 died yesterday following an accident involving a lorry. The Singapore Civil Defence Force was alerted at 4.48pm. The boy, a Singaporean Chinese, was sent to the National University Hospital where he was
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      • 72 6 The Indian High Commission in Singapore is outsourcing its passport collection service from Thursday, appointing two centres forthis: Quoprro Global Services Pte Ltd (www.ihc-sing-quoprro.sg) and Mustafa Air Travel (www.mustafa.com.sg). It has also added three more centres for visa collection, a service outsourced since 2007. These are
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    • 416 6  -  SUFIANSUDERMAN FACE-TO-FACE WITH NOBEL LAUREATES Curiosity is key to success, says this Nobel Laureate sufian@mediacorp.com. sg SIR Anthony Leggett had no background in science during his school days. And it did not surprise anyone that he chose to do Latin and Greek for his undergraduate studies because
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 109 8 With the Ministry of Education stepping up its recruitment efforts over the past year, there has been almost a three-fold increase in the number of students enrolled for the Bachelor of Art/Bachelor of Science in Education at the National Institute of Education: 470 students for the
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      • 99 8 Oil, rice, canned food, and a red packet too. These were what 1,000 needy families found in their goodie bags yesterday when they received $40,000 worth of Chinese New Year goodies as part of a food distribution programme by voluntary welfare organisation Food From The Heart.
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    • 431 8  -  TEOXUANWEI SINGAPORE PERSPECTIVES SEMINAR Forum speakers urge Govt to lead charge in reducing costs xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE the Government's "grow-at-all-cost" policy has brought Singapore from third-world to first in one generation, it could be time to change tack, said speakers at an Institute of Policy Studies
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    • 448 8  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com. sg EVEN as Singapore inches closer to its goal of being a world-class city, and its citizens are exhorted to think globally, what efforts have been made to get cosmopolitan Singaporeans aware of opportunities elsewhere to remain rooted to their homeland? Besides, won't
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  • WORLD
    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 101 10 AFP Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian, who has been in jail for more than two months awaiting trial on corruption charges, published a prison diary yesterday that proclaims his innocence. Publication of the 246-page Taiwan's Cross coincided with Mr Chen's first court appearance
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      • 98 10 AFP An Australian writer was sentenced to three years in jail by a Thai court yesterday after he pleaded guilty to insulting Thailand's revered royal family in his novel, Verisimilitude. Mr Harry Nicolaides, 41, appeared in court looking gaunt, with his limbs
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      • 106 10 AFP A massive fire at a fuel depot on Sunday was not the result of a terrorist attack, said Indonesian President Susilo BambangYudhoyono. A senior official for Pertamina, the state oil and gas company which owns the depot, said the fire began as
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    • 333 10 AGENCIES AVIAN FLU Second fatality in a month rings alarms as Lunar New Year looms BEIJING China warned yesterday of a rising bird flu risk after a second person died of the virus in less than a month, and said it could be especially
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    • 264 10 AGENCIES SHANGHAI More than 1,000 applicants were caught cheating on China's civil servant exams, with some using spy technology such as micro-earpieces and wireless transmitters. More than 300 were caught in the act during the Nov 30 exam, while about 700 others were
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    • 160 10 AGENCIES SEOUL —South Korean President Lee Myung Bak replaced two key Cabinet ministers for finance and North Korean affairs in a shakeup yesterday as Seoul copes with its gravest economic crisis in a decade and the heightened tensions with North Korea. With Asia's fourth-largest
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    • 358 14 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST EU holding meetings with Israel and other parties BRUSSELS Foreign ministers from the European Union and Israel have been invited to talks in Brussels tomorrow to try to bolster the ceasefire in Gaza, the EU's Czech presidency has announced. "On Wednesday, the
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    • 218 14 AP BERN A German woman missing for 12 years has been found living in the woods on the outskirts of the Swiss capital with nothing more than an umbrella and tarpaulin for shelter, police said yesterday. The 52-year-old woman, whose
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    • 210 14 AP MOSCOW Russia and Ukraine pledged to restore natural gas supplies to Europe after signing deals yesterday to end a bitter dispute that led to a chilling two-week cutoff of shipments. Europeans, who normally get about one-fifth of their gas from Russia via Ukrainian
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    • 398 15 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH US PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION Call to Americans to replace "anything goes' culture with vera of responsibility' WASHINGTON Mr Barack Obama's aides said the President-Elect's first words as President would hark back to late President John F Kennedy's plea to "ask not what your country can
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    • 232 15 AP New York —When Barack Obama was born in 1961, the marriage of his black father and white mother would have been illegal in half the United States, and blacks across the South were virtually barred from voting. As Mr Obama becomes the first black
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    • 217 16  -  Leong Sze Hian TOXIC NOTES COMPENSATION Letter from I REFER to the report "Toxic notes: 58% to be compensated" (Jan 17). The high percentage of complainants being offered full or partial compensation puts Singapore well ahead of Hong Kong, and also in terms of the
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    • 273 16  -  Ng Mie Ling Letter from Coordinating Director Family Development Group Ministry Of Community Development, Youth And Sports WE REFER to the letter, "Non-citi-zens need childcare leave, too", by Mr Edwin Regio (Jan 15). The 2008 Marriage and Parenthood (M&P) package, including the recently-implemented enhanced childcare
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    • 236 18  -  DRJAMES DOBSON BY NO TWO CHILDREN ARE ALIKE If every grain of sand at the seashore is unique, and every snowflake that falls is different, how simplistic to think that human beings are identical at the moment of birth that they come into the world as
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    • 897 18  -  AGATHA KOH BRAZIL COFFEEWITH voices editor agatha@mediacorp.com.sg From strays to the elderly, this healthcare physician isn't afraid to air his views KEEPING yoga free of religious bias, subsidised healthcare for foreign workers, showing gratitude to nursing home staff these are some subjects Dr Tan Chek Wee has
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  • plus THE ARTS
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      833 20  -  MAYO MARTIN FRINGE FESTO9 Family theme makes this edition of the Fest a hit "ART and Family" was the theme for the recently concluded Ml Singapore Fringe Festival '09. So it was quite apt that a family of five trooped down to The Substation on Saturday to watch
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    • 389 22 AP US PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION CONCERT An A-list party for Obama, led by Beyonce, Bono UNDER the gaze of Abraham Lincoln's statue, Bruce Springsteen and a red-robed gospel choir kicked off a spirited inaugural concert on Sunday before tens of thousands on the National Mall in Washington. The
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    • 352 23  -  MAYSEAH NEW GAME SHOW Fiona Xie and Zhang Yao Dong share travel tips on Channel B#s8 #s Want a Holiday may@mediacorp.com. sg WANT a Holiday is a new travelogue game show on Channel 8 that's all about getting around. At the first taping session
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    • PLUS ROUNDUP
      • 49 23 The first of the Esplanade's popular Late Nite concert series kicks off with Daphne Khoo. The singer-songwriter's 2007 debut album, Desperate, won her the Best Breakout Solo Artist award at the 2008 Singapore Music Awards. Friday, 9.30pm at the Esplanade Studio. Tickets at $25 from Sistic.
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      • 63 23 The cast of The Little Nyonya are having their Chinese New Year reunion dinner at a Peranakan restaurant, and you're invited. In a one-hour special, they'll share their most memorable moments and bloopers from the filming process and explaining the fates of their characters. Catch The
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      • 61 23 If you've always wanted a helmet that makes your voice sound like a Clone Trooper's, then the universe loves you. This month, Channel 5 is giving away $4,500 worth of Clone Wars merchandise, including said headgear. Catch Clone Wars on Saturdays at gpm on MediaCorp TV Channel
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  • health
    • 739 24  -  EVELINE GAN FOOD-DRUG HAZARD Mixing certain foods, drugs can be harmful to the body eveline@mediacorp.com. sg BELINDA (not her real name) used to love drinking star fruit juice. Now, she avoids it like the plague. The 29-year-old, who has leukaemia, is currently on an anti-cancer
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    • 315 24 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ROUTINE makes life easier, but it also makes it less challenging. Keep your brain on its toes by getting it to do something new today. On your journey home, why not read a book or magazine from a genre you don't usually choose, to
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      158 24  -  You've done your mental exercises. Now find out which nutrients help to keep our brains in tip-top condition. Ms Serene Tay, a dietitian at Alexandra Hospital, dishes out some useful advice. Take omega 6 fatty acids which contain DHA and other fatty acids Low levels of DHA have
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  • sports
    • 341 27  -  RAJ KUMAR IN KUALA LUMPUR rajkumar@mediacorp.com.sg THE Asean Basketball League (ABL) will kick off in September with at least eight teams from around the region, including the Singapore Slingers. In a huge boost for the game here, the Slingers have committed to
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    • 534 27  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Lions coach angry after team's capitulation against Iran shamir@mediacorp.com. sg RADOJKO Avramovic is not a happy man. After Singapore's 6-0 drubbing at the hands of Iran last Wednesday in their opening Group E 2011 Asian Cup qualifier, it is no surprise that
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    • 273 28 AP MILAN AC Milan playmaker Kaka has decided to stay with the Italian club, ending talk of a record-break-ing transfer to Manchester City. Italian Prime Minister and AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi said late yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) that Kaka, 26, had decided to
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    • 406 28 DPA AFTERNOON LATEST Tim Cahill's equaliser cancels out Gerrard #s trademark screamer ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool 1 Everton i LONDON Liverpool's title challenge suffered a serious blow as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Everton yesterday (this morning, Singapore time). Tim Cahill glanced in the
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    • 380 29  -  Vijay Amritraj AUSTRALIAN OPEN Amritraj says Federer could benefit from lack of expectation FOR THE first time in a long while, a tennis year will start with Roger Federer not the favourite in the men's draw for the opening Grand Slam of the season. The Australian
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    • 256 29 The 55-year-old believes poor form and the pressure of defending the title could hinder Djokovic. Fitness will be the worry for Nadal, especially with his knee injuries, and that could open the door for Murray to continue his phenomenal season last year. Amritraj has been impressed with
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    • 661 30  -  PEARLYNTHAM NEW MEDIA peartyn@mediacorp.com.sg AS A veteran marketing strategist, Mr Rishad Tobaccowala's job scope involves advising firms on how to call out to potential customers. But ask him what he would invent if he could create a device and the answer is, ironically: "Something that can
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    • 90 30 A WEALTH OF AUSPICIOUS CUISINE Hai Tien Lo Celebrate Chinese New Year in traditional culinary splendour at Pan Pacific Singapore. From imperial Lunch dinner menus, takeaway Cantonese feasts at Hai Tien Lo, Champagne-paired all-you-can-eat at Global Kitchen to exquisite ary y; Japanese ju sheng at Keyaki and sumptuous barbecue platters
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  • 322 31 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST Italian carmaker could take 35-per-cent stake in ailing US giant DETROIT Fiat SpA, the Italian car-maker that sells only Ferraris and Maseratis in the United States, may be close to a deal to acquire a stake in Chrysler to expand in the world's
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  • 153 31 THEGUARDIAN Efforts to persuade the government to help Britain's struggling car industry are intensifying amid further production cuts. Jaguar Land Rover's plant at Castle Bromwich, which employs around 2,000 people, began a two-week shutdown yesterday— having just restarted production after the Christmas break. MrTony
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  • 202 31 BLOOMBERG MADRID Spain had its AAA sovereign credit rating removed by Standard Poor's in the second downgrade of a euro-region government in five days, as the country's first recession in 15 years swelled the budget deficit. The risk of losses on Spanish government debt rose to
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  • 126 31 Lehman Bros fell because BLOOMBERG NEW YORK- Lehman Brothers Holdings's rescue failed when United States officials couldn't find a bank to provide the same trading guarantees that Bear Steams received, the New York Federal Reserve's general counsel said yesterday. "Plan A was to prepare a Bear Steams-style rescue, Plan B
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  • 561 32  -  COLIN TAN SHOW ME THE MONEY IT IS unfortunate that even while the economy was already showing signs of slowing in the second quarter of last year, property markets were still rising for at least another quarter, especially the industrial sector which peaked only in the
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    • 133 33  -  KELVIN CHOW Companies will now be liable if any of their employees are found guilty of market misconduct, under an amendment passed yesterday to the Securities and Futures Act. Previously, a company will be held responsible if its employees
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    • 113 33 In an extension of its emergency powers, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) can now appoint "statutory advisors" to "provide advice to an approved exchange or designated clearing house on the proper management of its business". Emergency situations include the likely insolvency of the exchange or
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    • 135 33  -  ESTHER FUNG Approved Government-backed loans rose 30 per cent last month to $80 million, compared to $62 million in the same period a year ago, said Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang. The month saw almost 500 applications, he added. But Mr
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    • 111 33 The overall value of investments by Temasek Holdings and the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has fallen by less than the decline in global equity markets for two reasons, Finance MinisterTharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday in response to a question from Non-Constituency Member
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      • 81 34 Sharp fall below US$35 Oil prices fell sharply on fresh fears that the worst global slowdown in years will undercut energy demand. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery next month, dropped US$2.21 to US$34.30 a barrel. One analyst said that the Martin Luther King Jr
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      • 74 34 Down across board The European stock markets closed lower yesterday. In Britain, the FTSE 100 Index dropped 38.59 points to 4,108.47. Stocks retreated as banks shares tumbled the most since 1985 on concern the government's second financial bailout in three months will fail to reignite lending. France's CAC
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        85 34 Lower by US$10.70 Gold fell in London as crude oil slumped and the US dollar gained against the euro, reducing the metal's appeal as an inflation hedge and alternative investment. Gold for immediate delivery lost as much as US$10.70 to US$832.45 an ounce at one point yesterday. Prices may
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    • 456 34 .AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST RBS shares lose two-thirds of value after record UK losses LONDON The Royal Bank of Scotland was on the brink last night after the biggest loss in British corporate history sparked a collapse in its shares. Billions of pounds were wiped from its
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    • 128 34 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH Anger over the "irresponsible" lending of Britain's banks intensified as MPs and unions criticised their conduct as the latest bail-out package was announced. As the rescue package was unveiled in the Commons, MPs from across the House condemned their excesses and called for "strict national
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    • 353 34  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg COMPANIES may have to apply for a slew of permits before they can bring in "essential" building materials such as sand, under proposed new laws. The aim is to ensure a "secure and reliable supply in Singapore of such materials of
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    • 179 34 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH PARIS The French government is to take a direct stake in the country's car industry in the latest sign Europe's rescue packages are spreading into core manufacturing. Industry Minister Luc Chatel told newspaper he Figaro that Paris will demand an equity stake
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