Today, 3 February 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Tuesday February 3, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    COLUMN
    47 1 Agatha Koh Brazil Paige Parker may be the wife of veteran investor Jim Rogers, but she tells our Voices Editor that her main role is to be a home mum for her daughters who she would like to see grow up "positive and kind". Page 18
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  • COMMENT
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      Time for a rethink
      46 1 The United States' Iran policy is failing. Its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have let Iran extend its influence in the region. Now is the time to find a new approach that could end the three-decade impasse in US-Iranian ties. Page 15
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      More, please
      51 1 Mall landlords are passing on the full 40-per-cent rebate on property tax to their tenants. But is this enough to ensure tenants' survival? Given the 200- to 300-per-cent rental hikes of the last year or two, it's no wonder that tenants are still griping about rental costs. Page
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Cabby sues 3
      36 1 This former cabby was caught in the middle of a six-car pileup that left him a tetraplegic. Now, he's suing the three drivers who hit him from the rear for $800,000. Page 4
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  • WORLD
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      New by-elections
      48 1 Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday said his party was gearing up for two local by-elections in Perak, weeks after the opposition snatched a parliamentary seat from the ruling coalition. The catch? The two Perak assemblymen have denied stepping down in the first place. Page 10
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    Lock icon Tying the knot on a budget
    613 1  -  SUFIANSUDERMAN sufian@mediacorp.com.sg LIKE any bride, Cindy Tan, 32, a financial services executive, dreamed of a wedding to remember. She wanted a string quartet. A professional cartoon montage. Extra hands on deck to photograph and film the momentous day. But these are luxuries she must
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    The kitty isn't fully tapped
    864 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT CCC COMCARE FUND Lack of awareness, caution in doling out among reasons weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg THE mother of three had approached her Member of Parliament (MP) for aid in finding a job. What she didn't think to ask for, was help for another pressing need:
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    8 drop out of Bloggers Association
    482 1  -  ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg LESS than a month after the Bloggers Association (Singapore) was officially formed, eight founding members have stepped down, leaving president Jayne Goh and secretary Wilfrid Wong at the helm. The sudden departures mostly stem from the negative response to the association
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  • NEWS
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      MORE ABOUTCOMCARE
      90 2 No. of applications* No. of cases helped As at end FY 07 30,561 20,812 As at 31 Dec 08 40,681 23,531 Excludes figures for the Healthy Start Programme and Student Care Fee Assistance scheme. What Com Care can help you with: Rental, utilities and/or service and conservancy charges
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      Hopes for Plan B
      583 3  -  ESTHER FUNG 2009 BUDGET Off-Budget wish list includes GST cvt Govt bearing full risk of loans for companies esther@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as Parliament is set to debate the merits of the Budget, some are already looking at what a Plan B of further measures could constitute. The
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      Preparing for boom time
      380 4  -  NEOCHAICHIN SERVICES SECTOR SPRING Singapore pumps $ioom to boost service standards for the future chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg HERE'S an upside to the downturn in the service industry. If you work there at a supervisory or managerial level, but have time on your hands, you can now pick up
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      Lock icon EXPANDING IN A RECESSION: TWO COMPANIES SHOW THE WAY
      215 4 Good service by Metro has cushioned the impact of lower customer demand. Despite a lower number of transactions, average transaction value has gone up, said Mr Edward Tan, the retailer's director of human resources and administration and operations. "This is an
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      Lock icon Paralysed cabbie sues 3 for negligence
      406 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg TRAFFIC on the Central Expressway (CTE) was smooth and the road conditions were good. But in a matter of seconds, everything changed for ex-cabbie Ang Kirn Seng: Cars travelling in front of his taxi stopped suddenly, and those behind rear-ended him three
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      Lock icon OXPICIOUS' CALLIGRAPHY ON 'OXTION' AT CHARITY GALA
      49 6 ERNESTCHUA Master Calligrapher Ho Ngiap Poh gracing the Guardian Charity Gala dinner event with auspicious strokes in celebrating Chinese New Year at the Shangri-La hotel. The calligraphic works, done live on stage, will be auctioned at a minimum starting bid of $10,000.
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      Lock icon More signages needed?
      346 6  -  LINYANQIN SICCGOLFCOURSE yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the fenceless boundary between the Singapore Island Country Club's (SICC) golf course and Macßitchie Reservoir sometimes not apparent to the casual visitor, better markers could be put up, say some members of the public. The comments come following the spat on Sunday between
      MARIANN MAES  -  346 words
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      Lock icon Sharp rise in smuggled controlled drugs
      229 6 I CNA/938 LIVE LIFESTYLE drugs and aphrodisiac pills like Viagra were among the controlled drugs seized in 1,820 attempts to smuggle them into Singapore last year, a staggering rise of 470 per cent from the 320 cases in 2007. Most of the drugs, including
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        GOVT PLEDGES FUNDS FOR GAZA CIVILIANS
        162 8 The Singapore Government has pledged US$5O,OOO ($75,800) towards international efforts to provide emergency food, shelter, healthcare and protection needs of civilians affected by the recent conflict in Gaza. This is in response to the United Nations' Feb 2 emergency appeal, and is in addition
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        Lock icon NO CHEERS FOR THIS OUTLET
        78 8 938 LIVE The Health Sciences Authority has suspended for six months the tobacco retail licence of a Cheers outlet at ChoaChu Kang MRT Station for repeatedly selling cigarettes to minors -the first retailer to have its licence suspended this year. An employee was caught selling
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        RESILIENCE PROGRAMMES FOR KIDS
        156 8  -  TEOXUANWEI A girl loses her eyesight and both parents in a terrorist "bombing" at an MRT station here. But with the support of family and friends, she manages to overcome the psychological and emotional blow. This is the plot of a new short film, entitled "A
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      Lock icon Something to clap about
      444 8  -  LINYANQIN LAY-OFFS Retrenched workers get better deal, retraining help from union yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg THEY were being handed letters informing them they would be laid off, but the workers of Chin Heng Garments Factory still found something to clap about. Soon to be out of a job, some
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      147 3 $2,188 fo/TWO Eyes, w/o GST for TWO Eyes, w GST LASIK Forum The Lasik Surgery Clinic Dates: 5 February 2009 (Thurs) 7pm 6 February 2009 (Fri) 7pm 7 February 2009 (Sat) 4pm Venue: The Lasik Surgery Clinic 290 Orchard Road #13-01/06 Paragon Medical Singapore *****9 Refreshments will be served Speakers:
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      47 4 Mj IV I-H Preview details:- JIIjIn.C^Event: PMP® Certification Course Preview Date: sth5 th February 2009, Thursday mn^m S^> Time: 7.00pm 8.30pm Venue: ERC Institute (City Campus) 61, Robinson Road, Robinson Centre, p^jProject #17-01, Singapore *****3 BEST" ERC Institute, a Registered Education Provider with PMI USA(R.E.P ID: 2743)
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      629 5 X: W Sb 'V -1 Why DBS Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)? Why ABF Singapore Bond Index Fund? ETFs are efficient, transparent and flexible ETFs are efficient. In a volatile stock market, you may wish to consider investing into a low-expense instruments that provide you with liquid exposure to select basket
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  • WORLD
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      PKR prepares for new by-elections
      391 10 M'SIAN POLITICS But two Perak assemblymen deny stepping down KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday said his party was gearing up for two local by-elections seen as a further test of the political mood, weeks after the opposition snatched a parliamentary seat from
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka hospital hit by artillery shells
      267 10 AGENCIES COLOMBO Artillery shells slammed into an overcrowded hospital for the second day in Sri Lanka's northern war zone, bringing the death toll to at least 11 people, said officials yesterday. DrT Varatharajah, the regional director of health services stationed in the damaged
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      Lock icon 26m migrants jobless
      265 12 AP UNEMPLOYMENT IN CHINA BEIJING As many as 26 million migrant workers are unemployed in China as exporters reel from the effects of the global economic slowdown, a top rural affairs official said yesterday, noting that widespread unemployment could threaten the country's social stability. The figures were
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      Lock icon Military chief vows nuclear build-up in China
      176 12 AFP BEIJING China will accelerate the build-up of its nuclear and conventional arsenal to form a credible deterrent, the General in charge of its strategic missile force said. "We will accelerate the building of our nuclear and conventional combat strength," said Jing Zhiyuan,
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      Lock icon Volcano erupts near Tokyo raining ash down on city
      178 12 AGENCIES TOKYO Two volcanoes erupted near major cities in Japan yesterday, with one spewing white smoke and ash into the heart of Tokyo. Authorities advised residents to wear masks in the towns near Mount Asama, some 150 km north-west of Tokyo.
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon UN OFFICIAL KIDNAPPED IN PAKISTAN
        109 14 AFP Suspected Islamist militants yesterday kidnapped a senior American United Nations official and killed his driver in Pakistan, in the most high-profile recent Western abduction. Mr John Solecki, head of the UN refugee agency in Quetta, was abducted as he travelled to work in the
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        Lock icon ARMCHAIR DIVINGWITHGOOGLEOCEAN
        136 14 THE GUARDIAN First, there was Google Earth. Now, Google plans to take on the depths of the ocean. The Internet company is expected to announce the addition of vast amounts of underwater imagery and seabed maps to the Google Earth project, and will also provide detailed environmental data
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        Lock icon WRECKOF FAMOUS WARSHIP FOUND
        137 14 AP Deep-sea explorers who found US$5OO million ($757 million) in sunken treasure two years ago say they have discovered another prized shipwreck: A legendary British man-of-war that sank in the English Channel 264 years ago. The HMS Victory may be carrying 4 tonnes of gold coins
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      Lock icon Heavy snowfall plagues Europe
      217 14 AFP TRAVEL CHAOS LONDON A blanket of snow covered large parts of western Europe yesterday after some of the heaviest falls in nearly two decades, causing major flight delays, disrupting public transport and misery on the roads. London was covered in up to 10 cm of
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      Lock icon US anti-terror rendition to continue
      240 15 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH WASHINGTON The highly-controversial anti-terror practice of rendition will continue under United States President Barack Obama, despite his order to close the detention centre in Guantanamo Bay and end harsh interrogation techniques. In his first few days in office, Mr Obama was lauded for rejecting
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      Lock icon THE OTHER IRAN
      655 15  -  ROGER COHEN THE NEWYORKTIMES NEWS COMMENT It's time to reflect again to end the three-decade impasse in US-Iranian ties AT ONE of the embassies offering islands of peace from the gridlocked, grinding Iranian capital, a Western diplomat said this of United States and allied policy toward Iran:
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      POINT OF VIEW
      64 16  -  David Kwok Ng Kan I applaud the merger of the Social Development Unit and the Social Development Service into a single entity. The minimum qualifications and age limits of members have been lifted. Yet there is one group it has missed divorcees. They, too, need a helping
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      Transition will take 9 months
      629 16  -  Geoffrey Lim Gregory Gerald Danker NEW EZ-LINK CARDS Letter from Deputy Director Media Relations Land Transport Authority (LTA) and VP Marketing Communications El-Link Pte Ltd WE REFER to "Left frustrated by ez-link transition" (Jan 22). Mr M Lukshumayeh commented on the availability of top-up facilities
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      221 18  -  DRJAMES DOBSON BY THE VALUE OF ADVERSITY The self-doubt that typically accompanies adolescence, if experienced in small doses, may not be all that bad. When we see our children struggling with the conflicts associated with the teen years, especially low self-esteem, it's tempting to wish we
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      Lock icon THE HAPPY MUM
      943 18  -  AGATHA KOH BRAZIL COFFEEWITH voices editor agatha@mediacorp.com.sg BILLIONAIRE Jim Rogers has parked two precious investments in Singapore. One of them is even home grown. "Bee was made in Singapore, born in Singapore, (and) delivered by a Singaporean doctor," said his wife, Paige Parker, of their second daughter,
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      130 16 HAVE YOUR SAY. voices@mediacorp.com.sg Letters and extracts may appear online, on air and in print. CALLING ALL f^% 'Nyjd&fliND 'A' JL J Be the first to fast track to a «=^S^SX' Bachelor of Science in Business^ S|L£SS i I Administration from one of BS&s^^fl Daemen College is identified by U.S
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      284 19 bust. But after just 5 sessions at Slim Fit, the results are amazing! For the first time, I have a cleavage! 99 -Ms Lynn m v^^m w V Don't put up with your saggy, shapeless or unsatisfactory bust anymore! With Slim Fit, you can easily enhance your bust to a
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      It ain't easy being Chinese
      994 20  -  MAYO MARTIN CHINESETHEATRE Be honest now why won't you watch a Mandarin play? mayo@mediacorp.com.sg IN TAIWAN, there's a quip doing the rounds about the two hottest addresses of 2008. The first one is Cape No 7, the title of the island's most successful local movie
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      LAST CHANCE FOR WAKIN TICKETS
      77 22 If you're a Wakin Chau fan and still haven't bought tickets to the One Wakin Live In Singapore concert this Saturday, you'd better do so fast. Organisers Unusual Entertaiment said that the gig is 90 per cent sold out, and there are only limited $128
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      Lock icon JESSICA LOVES HER LADY LUMPS
      85 22 AGENCIES Days after facing criticism for gaining weight, Jessica Simpson told fans at a Kentucky concert last Friday that she turns to religion to get through hard times. "Because of my faith, I believe I can conquer the world and all its opinions, ideas and
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      Lock icon RECESSION-HIT RANKIN
      95 22 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH He is the darling of the fashion crowd and shot a portrait of the Queen for her Jubilee year before tactfully airbrushing out her wrinkles, but photographer Rankin has become the latest victim of the property market slump. He staked his entire fortune on a £2.5-million
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      The Boss and the Dreamgirl
      124 22 Ef¥i33»M^^^^HH'^^l^swE^^l Springsteen shows he #s still got it Hudson proves she's a survivor ONE was a 12-minute party, the other a two-minute proclamation. Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Hudson used the Super Bowl stage for two very different performances Sunday night: He proved he's still The
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      Lock icon I'll strip for Bertolucci: Hermione
      787 22 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH EMMA Watson says she is struggling to come to terms with being seen as a sex symbol after years of playing scholarly Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. The 18-year-old says stylists try to put her in mini-skirts and she has been
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      Shedding light on bone health
      684 24  -  EVELINE GAN VITAMIN D 15 to 20 minutes of sunlight a day will help your body better absorb and retain calcium eveline@mediacorp.com.sg LIKE many women concerned about their complexion, Karman Tse avoids sunlight like the plague. "I do not go out into the sun if
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      271 24 QUESTION FROM WORRIED PARENT My child is only nine-and-a-half years old, weighs 34kg and is 1.44 m tall, but she started her menstruation cycle last December. Is this normal and will she stop growing taller for the next three years? Should I be worried? REPLY FROM DR
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      141 24 CELEBRATING WELLNESS IN PARENTSAND BABY Maintaining emotional and physical wellness is the key to great bonding between parents and their baby. Get tips from experts from XX Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) at this public forum. Date: Sunday Time: 10am to 2pm Venue: KKH, 100 BukitTimah Road, The
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      412 25  -  LYNETTE KOH Ensure that the kids and you are in top form every day with this delicious soup Auditor Susan Leong and her business consultant husband, David Lim, often have jampacked workdays requiring them to be constantly on the move. When dinnertime rolls around, however, there is
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      1003 26 TV LISTINGS ON MEDIACORP CHANNEL S ON MEDIACORP LIVb l\l LUAUtL) 6.00 AM EnlertainmenlTonighl Midnight (Available in True MN Wilhoul ATrace V DRAMASUTRA Channel 5, 8.30pm 5.30 Prime Time Morning HDonHDs) Win Today (PG-Strong Istri Untuk Suamiku 9.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show VI Violence)
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      352 27  -  lANDECOTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg TICKET prices for this year's Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix will reflect the current economic climate. Singapore GP gave the assurance yesterday, and already in the pipeline are offerings like "early bird" packages, which will offer significant savings compared
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      895 27  -  LOW LIN FHOONG LOW LIN FHOONG YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES 2010 Deloitte Singapore the first official partner of the inaugural Youth Olympics linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN the inaugural Youth Olympics kicks off on Aug 14,2010 here in Singapore, they will not be instantly recognisable. But Deloitte Singapore will forever be
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      486 28 AFP I I^asa ajaai-BBBBBjj Under-fire Reds boss relieved, as his men send a warning to title rivals Man United LIVERPOOL Under pressure from even former players and some fans, Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez needed a victory over Chelsea badly on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), for
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      414 28 THENEWYORKTIMES NEW YORK Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps quickly acknowledged his poor judgment after a photograph showing him inhaling from a marijuana pipe was published on Sunday in a British tabloid. Although his admission is unlikely to affect his swimming eligibility, it could
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      161 28  -  LAN DECOTTA CANON Singapore honoured three bowling stars yesterday for doing the country proud last year. Jasmine Yeong Nathan, who became the first Singaporean to win the AMF World Cup when she lifted the woman's crown in Mexico, and Remy Ong and JazreelTan, winners of
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      541 29 MCT AMERICAN FOOTBALL Holmes' stunning catch wins the Super Bowl for the Steelers with seconds left Super Bowl XLIII Pittsburgh 27 Arizona 23 TAMPA (Florida) There was only one Lombardi Trophy to award on Sunday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time) at Raymond James Stadium, but two
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      535 30 THE NEWYORKTIMES EMPLOYMENT WEBSITE Monster Worldwide uses humour in new ad campaign to make people think about their ideal careers THERE are 11.1 million unemployed people in the United States. The unemployment rate is at a 16-year high. Those are bleak numbers. But
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        125 31 BLOOMBERG South Korea's exports tumbled by a record 32.8 per cent last month, foreshadowing a deepening slump in Asia's exportdriven economies. Shipments fell the most since figures were first compiled in 1957, and at almost twice the pace of December's 17.9-per-cent decline, the Ministry
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        134 31 AGENCIES Australia-listed Rio Tinto yesterday said it was talking with Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) about the Chinese company buying minority stakes in some of its operations a move that could provide a big capital injection for the mining giant struggling to pay its
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        125 31 AFP Taiwan will launch a USs2i-billion (s3i.B-billion) economic stimulus drive to create 150,000 new jobs and reduce unemployment to below 4.5 per cent this year. The four-year plan aims to cut the jobless rate by 1.5 percentage points, said a spokesperson yesterday. The money will be
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      384 31 BLOOMBERG AILING BANKS THE Swiss bank that received U5559.2 billion ($89.75 billion) in an unprecedented national bailout is facing growing pressure from government officials on both sides of the Atlantic to resolve a United States tax evasion investigation and restructure its loss-making investment bank. While the
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      370 32 BLOOMBERG OBAMA RESCUE PLAN UNITED States President Barack Obama will require banks to boost lending to consumers and companies in return for taxpayer aid from the US$7OO billion ($1.06 trillion) Troubled Assets Relief Program (Tarp). This is a departure from the policy of
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      720 32  -  PAULKRUGMAN THE NEWYORKTIMES BUSINESS COMMENT Is Obama's bank bailout plan trying to preserve the illusion of private ownership? QUESTION: What happens if you lose vast amounts of other people's money? Answer: You get a big gift from the federal government but the President says some very harsh
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      197 32 INVESTORS seeking compensation after having bought the soured Pinnacle Notes Series 9 and 10 now have "independent persons" to ensure the complaints resolution process is fair. Overseeing the process at Hong Leong Finance will be Professor Hans Tjio of the Law Faculty at National University
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      240 34 CHARTERED SEMICONDUCTOR 23 cents I Sell Deutsche Bank downgrades the chip-maker from "buy" and slashes target price to 18 cents from 33 cents. It says company is too weak to turn around and warns the foundry sector is facing a tough landscape. High capital expenditure requirement may lead
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        18 34 TBM—BBJIBRSI Friday 1,746.47 T 1.15% Thursday 1,766.72 A 0.04% Wednesday 1,766.08 A 4.80% Tuesday Closed
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        24 34 Hang Seng 12,861.49 3-14% Nikkei 7,873.98 T 1.50% Shanghai 2,011.68 A 1.06% Seoul 1,146.95 T 1.30% Mumbai 9,066.70 T 3-79% KLComp Closed
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        24 34 ussi si. 515 ¥100 $1,702 £1 $2,155 HKSioo $19.54 1 euro $1,930 RMBIOO $22.13 Asi $0,952 RSIOO $3,096 RMi $0,418 RPio,ooo $1,289
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      SKYLIGHT, SKY BRIGHT
      49 34 Singapore's first skylight glass dome covering the ballroom of the luxury hotel Capella in Sentosa is being dressed up by San Francisco-based glass artist Nikolas Weinstein. The installation, comprising more than 10,000 glass tubes, weighs 1 metric tonne and stretches some 3.5 km when placed end-to-end.
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      461 34  -  TAN HUI LENG PRIVATE HOUSING Analysts don't expect supply glut as developers likely to defer construction of housing projects huileng@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN long queues outside showflats disappeared overnight during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the poor demand combined with a supply glut to exacerbate the slump in
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      592 34  -  CONRAD RAJ BUSINESSCOMMENT editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg THE decision by the likes of Capita Land, Mapletree and Lend Lease, which run the various malls here, to pass on the full 40-per-cent rebate on property tax to their tenants, is laudable. But is this enough to
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