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    20 1 TODAY Tuesday February io, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Tuesday February io, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    HOT NEWS
    26 1 Perak in chaos PAS MP's sudden death and Kedah assemblyman's resignation prompts Malaysia to hold two by-elections in the next two months. Page 3
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    WORLD
    30 1 What scares Obama US President Obama sends a diplomatic troubleshooter to Pakistan to tackle what could be his administration's greatest challenge a nucleararmed country descending into chaos. Page 27
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    SINGAPORE
    19 1 Litterbugs beware The penalty for first-time offenders will increase from $200 to $300 from April 1. Page 10
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    PLUS
    23 1 Staging a comeback Vernetta Lopez tells all about being drunk and her marital "affairs". Oh, and returning to the stage. Page 34
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    SPORTS
    28 1 Bye, bye Scolari Luiz Felipe Scolari has been sacked as manager of Chelsea with immediate effect. Bookies are favouring Frank Rijkaard as Scolari's potential replacement. Page 41
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    BUSINESS
    31 1 Financial muscle Property giant Capita Land is looking to raise $1.84 billion in a rights issue that could be used to position itself for "opportunities in distressed assets". Page Bl
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    Lock icon Bumps get minimised
    831 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN CHAICHIN ELECTRICITY PRICES Less volatility with new tariff formula; lower prices expected for next quarter chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg HAD a different formula been used in calculating electricity tariffs then, the shocking 21 per cent increase would have been a less painful 12 per cent. Change is on
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    More leeway for Medisave
    847 1  -  ALICIA WONG ALICIA WONG alicia@mediacorp.cpm.sg PATIENTS who stay in Class A/Bl and private hospitals will get more help with the raised Medisave withdrawal limits, while those seeking cheaper treatment overseas might soon be able to draw on their Medisave to do so. The mentally ill, too,
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      Lock icon 'Drafting flaw' behind saga
      463 2  -  TEOXUANWEI GILLMAN HEIGHTS EN BLOC SALE xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg IN DISMISSING yesterday the lastditch appeal by 10 minority owners against the collective sale of Gillman Heights (picture), Singapore's highest court has set down the clear criteria, going forward, for all other privatised HUDC estates that wish to go
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      Lock icon Two by-elections in next two months
      491 3 AGENCIES,THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS Perak MP dies; Kedah assemblyman quits state seat KUALA LUMPUR In a surprising turn of events, Malaysia will hold two by-elections in the next two months, after an opposition MP died suddenly and an assemblyman resigned from his executive
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      Stake out leads to arrest of alleged cheat
      245 3 HE APPARENTLY preyed on unsuspecting tenants in search of rental units. Over a period of 10 months, he was said to have cheated them of more than $100,000 in more than 50 cases island-wide. On the run since last year, the 33-year-old
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      A carrot to save patients' money
      309 4  -  ALICIA WONG MEDICAL COSTS MOH will use reward and pressure approach with hospitals alicia@mediacorp.com.sg HOSPITALS that offer competent surgeries at a lower cost will be rewarded; those that charge more will feel the heat. The aim? To get hospitals to "work harder to save
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      Lock icon Facilities geared up for the 'silver tsunami'
      341 4 TO PREPARE for the second and third wave of the "silver tsunami" in 10 to 15 years, the Government is expanding its step-down care facilities. By 2016, two new community hospitals with 200 beds each will make an appearance: One next to the
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      Lock icon A $90-million boost
      513 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT LEONGWEEKEAT TOURISM SECTOR weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg AGAINST the backdrop of a projected slide in visitor arrivals, the Government will roll out a $90-million boost literally to the tourism sector. The initiative "Building On Opportunities to Strengthen Tourism" (Boost) aims to stimulate demand in the immediate and short term,
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      Stronger shield for timeshare consumers
      255 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT CONSUMERS will be given slightly more protection with respect to timeshare contracts. The Government will stipulate a 60-day refund period for timeshare contracts cancelled within the mandatory cooling-off period for such sales, Minister of State (Trade and Industry) Lee Vi Shyan said yesterday. This
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      Trimming staff even when doing well?
      609 8  -  NEOCHAICHIN JOB REDUNDANCY Redundancies can arise through restructuring or cost control, companies say chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg YOUR company may be expanding, but your job might still not be safe. In one instance, three staff from Parkroyal Hotels and Resorts found this out when they lost their
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      366 Criminal Law detentions in five years
      166 8 OVER the past five years, 366 people have been detained, and 272 released, under Singapore's Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act. Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng gave the figures in a written reply to a question from Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong, who
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      Lock icon Biting where it hurts
      314 10  -  ESTHERNG LITTERBUGS Penalty up by $100 for firsttime offenders as number of litterbugs snowballs estherng@mediacorp.com.sg BE PREPARED to pay more if you are caught littering. From April 1, the fine for first-time offenders will increase from $200 to $300. The hike comes amid rising complaints about
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      $8 million for 3Rs
      223 10  -  'ESTHERNG THE Government is launching an $8 million 3R Fund to get companies to reduce, reuse and recycle. It will co-fund projects up to 80 per cent, subject to a $1 million cap per project. In addition, recycling companies located at Sarimbun Recycling Park will enjoy
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        MORE STAFFTO COMBAT DENGUE AND CHIKUNGUNYA
        113 10 Singapore saw a 20-per-cent decline in dengue cases last year. There were just over 7,000 reported cases last year, down from about 8,800 in 2007. Asforchikungunya, a total of 728 cases were reported last year, 75 per cent of which were locally acquired. Last
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        REBATES FOR HAWKERS
        50 10 To help hawkers cope with the downturn, the NEA will provide a monthly 15-per-cent rental rebate to market-rent paying stallholders in NEA-managed markets and food centres from January to December this year. Some 5,300 stallholders will qualify for the rebates which will amount to about $5.6 million.
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        MORE ENERGY-EFFICIENT HOUSEHOLD ITEMS BY 2011
        128 10 NEA will implement minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) for household air-conditioners and refrigerators by 2011 to remove the least efficient models from the market, giving suppliers a two-year lead time to clear existing stocks and bring in new models. The minimum standards will be
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        EFFICIENCY LABEL A MUST FROM JULY FORTAPS, CISTERNS
        120 10  -  ESTHER NG From July, water efficiency labelling will apply to all taps, dual-flush low capacity flushing cisterns (LCFCs) and urinals, so that consumers can make smart purchasing decisions and conserve water. All such devices installed in new developments and existing premises undergoing
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      22 government buildings get energy efficient
      256 12  -  NEOCHAICHIN THE Ministry of Manpower (MOM) last year put in place measures that trim annual energy costs by about $150,000 in its premises. It was the first public building to do so under the Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance (GESP) contract, which assures savings over
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      Ex-teacher pleads guilty
      346 12  -  TEOXUANWEI SEX WITH STUDENT She is first woman to be charged under revised laws protecting minors xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg FOLLOWING a school trip to China in 2007, a female teacher chatted with a Primary 6 pupil frequently. Slowly, she began treating him as a godson, showering him with
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      Lock icon Anwar rejects his alliances call to quit
      371 14 AFP, THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has dismissed a call from within his Pakatan Rakyat (PR) alliance to resign, after the alliance was shaken by the loss of a key state last week. The call to
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      Lock icon TOWERING INFERNO
      83 14 AFP A huge fire engulfed a hotel being constructed close to Beijing's CCTV tower last night. Xinhua news agency said the blaze was in a Mandarin Oriental Hotel being built within the television complex, future headquarters of China's state television broadcaster. Police cordoned off streets leading to the
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      Lock icon Thai academic flees lese majeste trial
      208 14 AP BANGKOK —A prominent academic facing 15 years in prison for allegedly insulting Thailand's monarchy fled to England, saying he does not believe he will receive a fair trial. In the latest of prosecutions and increased censorship of websites allegedly critical of the royal
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      Lock icon Noordin Top's aides sent to jail
      247 16 AFP JAKARTA An Indonesian court yesterday sentenced three militants to up to nine years' jail for a range of terror offences, including assisting top leaders of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network. Abu Husna, Agus Purwanto and Parmin were found guilty of aiding senior JI
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      Lock icon Wen wants shoe-thrower to stay in school
      152 16 DPA BEIJING Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged Britain's Cambridge University not to expel a German student who threw a shoe at him during a speech at the university last week, China's Foreign Ministry said yesterday. "Education is the best help for a
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      Lock icon THE TIPPING POINT
      450 16  -  LESLIE LAU THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER NEWS COMMENT SOMEDAY, historians may look back on the events in Perak in the past few weeks and see the death yesterday of Parti islam SeMalaysia (PAS) MP for Bukit Gantang Roslan Shaharum as a tipping point which eventually decides the fortunes
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      Lock icon Fire zone a crime scene
      716 19 AGENCIES AUSTRALIAN WILDFIRES Authorities launch review of fatally flawed wildfire advice WHITTLESEA Suspicions that arsonists started some of the wildfires that has killed more than 130 people in Australia has led fire zones to be declared crime scenes, as authorities yesterday launched a review into
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      Lock icon Indonesia jails ex-central bank chief for graft
      195 20 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia jailed a former central bank governor for five-and-a-half years yesterday for embezzling US$lO.3 million ($15.4 million) in bank funds. Burhanuddin Abdullah was found guilty in the anti-corruption court of embezzling the money to bribe lawmakers and hire lawyers to defend
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      Lock icon Suicide attack kills 28
      405 20 AGENCIES SRI LANKA CONFLICT Some 22,000 have fled northern war zone COLOMBO A female suicide bomber posing as a civilian entered a government-con-trolled area in northern Sri Lanka yesterday and blew herself up at a camp for civilians fleeing the war, killing at least 28 people
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    • EYE ON ASIA
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        Lock icon READY FOR N KOREAN TALKS
        108 20 AP S Korea President Lee Myung-bak said yesterday he was ready for dialogue with North Korea, though he vowed not to veer from the hard-line principles that have angered the communist state and strained ties over the past year. Tension between the two Koreas has
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        Lock icon 'FIRST' HUMAN RIGHTS PLAN
        122 20 AFP China China is preparing a human rights action plan that would set targets for all government departments, Beijing's envoy to the United Nations said during a UN examination of its human rights record yesterday. "At this moment, about 50 governmental agencies are working on a
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        Lock icon FLOODS FORCE AIRPORT SHUT
        108 20 AP Indonesia Seasonal flooding in Indonesia has inundated hundreds of houses, forced the closure of a regional airport and triggered landslides that killed at least two people, officials said yesterday. Dozens of flights to Semarang in central Java were cancelled yesterday after the main runway was
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      Lock icon It's Bibi against Tzipi
      312 22 DPA TEL AVIV The Israeli elections are crucial for the Middle East peace process. Yet that process, revived little more than one year ago after a seven-year freeze, is hardly on the mind of the average Israeli voter. With today's poll scheduled less than one month
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      Lock icon Ex-Iranian President Khatami wants to be President again
      255 22 AP TEHRAN Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami declared on Sunday he would run again for President, setting the stage for a major political showdown pitting the popular reformist leader who made dialogue with the West a centrepiece of his eight years in
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      Lock icon US using UK factory to research nuclear warheads
      343 26 THE GUARDIAN LONDON The United States military has been using Britain's atomic weapons factory to carry out research into its own nuclear warhead programme, according to evidence seen by The Guardian. US defence officials said that "very valuable" warhead research has taken
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        Lock icon EGYPT'S BIRD FLU BOY STABLE
        88 26 AFP Egypt's health ministry announced on Sunday that an 18-month-old boy has contracted the bird flu virus. The boy, Suleiman Abul Wafa, is in a stable condition, after being exposed to dead birds. The case is the 55th reported since the first outbreak of the
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        Lock icon NO SWISSTAX BREAKS FOR FOREIGNERS
        86 26 AFP Voters in the region of Zurich, the home of Swiss banking, sprang a surprise on Sunday by deciding to abolish tax breaks for rich foreigners living there. Some 52.9 per cent of voters-more than 216,000 people backed an initiative launched by the left-wing Alternative
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      Lock icon Severe weather grips Europe
      272 26 BLOOMBERG WINTER STORMS LONDON Parts of Britain, France and Spain are facing galeforce winds and rain, as a new band of wintry weather pushes in from the Atlantic Ocean. The UK's Met Office issued a severe-weather warning for the southern half of Britain, beginning in England's
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      Lock icon Pakistan scares Obama
      697 27 THE GUARDIAN THE GUARDIAN US FOREIGN POLICY WASHINGTON Mr Barack Obama's administration tackles what may turn out to be its greatest foreign policy challenge: A nuclear-armed country hurtling towards chaos. According to Mr Obama's aides, Pakistan is the nation that really "scares" him. The country is threatened
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      Everyone's to blame
      503 28  -  BenoitValin ROAD SAFETY vßlur pedestrians, feckless cyclists, rude drivers make roads dangerous to be on Letter from I'M A cyclist. I cycle to work every day and cycle around Singapore every weekend. I'm writing out of concern for the pedestrians, cyclists and motorists of Singapore. I'm outraged
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    • SHORT TAKES
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        HOW CAN WE HELP POLICE?
        109 28  -  LiewKai Khiun Letter from Law Minister Mr Shanmugan urged "the public not to treat the Police as a free resource which can deal with any complaint just because it is convenient to call them at anytime round the clock" ("Police beefing up resources", Feb 6),
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        A SECOND CHANCE AT HOME
        143 28  -  QuekSoo Beng Letter from The HDB's Leaseback scheme for senior citizen lessees is a well-intentioned one, providing cashflow needed by certain poor HDB flat-owners to make ends meet, where no other avenues are available to them. But "pawning" or selling one's home under dire circumstances
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      263 28  -  Ng Lee Huang Letter from I APPLAUD the Government's moves to push up the birth rate, especially the new measures which took effect last August. Last August, I engaged a foreign domestic worker (FDW) to take care of my
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      175 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... SETTING RULES WITH LOVE How do you handle a rebellious teenager? I recently received an email from a frustrated mother of two teenage girls. Her daughters were angry that they couldn't attend some of their friends' parties. The mother was aware that
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      876 34  -  MAYO MARTIN THEATRE DJ INTHE SPOTLIGHT Vernetta Lopez tells all about being drunk and her marital "affairs'. Oh and returning to the stage mayo@mediacorp.com.sg THE last time Vernetta Lopez stepped on stage to do a theatre piece was for Johnny Lav's Who ShotMrKiasu in 1994. It was
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      695 36 AP THE GRAMMY AWARDS 2009 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss win Album of the Year, while Chris Brown lands in custody for assault ROBERT Plant and Alison Krauss' unorthodox partnership yielded rich rewards on Grammy night, as the pair nabbed five Grammys for their haunting CD Raising
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      576 38  -  EVELINE GAN HEART ATTACK SYMPTOMS eveline@mediacorp.com.sg FOR most patients, chest pain is a classic sign of a heart attack. But when Madam Lee suffered a heart attack last year, she did not experience this typical symptom. Instead, the homemaker who is in her 70s recalled
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      638 39  -  EVELINE GAN FOR several years, mealtimes with Muhammed Aidiel Fidaie were a recurring nightmare for his caregivers. The fussy four-year-old would turn his nose at almost any kind of food that was offered to him. "He only ate whipped potato and chicken porridge. If
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      1073 40 TV LISTINGS O N ME DI AC OR P ...._—.—™....g.... DRAMASUTRA BAR BENDER (DEBUT) Istri Ufltuk SuBmiku 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 3.00 New Adventures of Robin 9.30 News 5 Tonight (Followed by Channel 8 7Dm 5.30 Prime Time Morning Hood II: Robinville Highlights from Parliament) th" f buna, 9.30pm g3O
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      569 41 .AGENCIES ENGLISH CLUB FOOTBALL World Cup-winning manager booted from Stamford Bridge after 'deteriorating' results LONDON Chelsea have sacked their manager Luiz Felipe Scolari "with immediate effect" after just seven months in the job, according to a statement on the Premiership giants' website last night (this morning, Singapore
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      298 41 AFP English Premiership West Ham o Manchester United 1 LONDON Alex Ferguson saluted Manchester United's old stagers after his side returned to the top of the Premier League with a 1-0 win at West Ham on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Ferguson picked veteran midfielders
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      355 41 AP LONDON Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Eboue pledged to control his temper in future after being sent off in Sunday's North London derby at Tottenham Hotspur, which ended in a 0-0 draw. The result saw fifth-placed Arsenal fail to close the gap with
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      256 42 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Fabio Capello's (picture) England squad gathered for training at London Colney ground yesterday missing Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard, but they were buoyed by their manager's belief that his team "will be stronger than Spain" in tomorrow's Seville friendly. English spirits are
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      680 42 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH FOOTBALL Relegation-threatened club banking on new manager to steady ship PORTSMOUTH Premiership strugglers Portsmouth yesterday confirmed the sacking of Tony Adams and admitted that they believe a new manager will improve their chances of surviving in the top flight. Adams took the reins in October
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      408 43  -  TANYO-HINN BARELY after recovering from a broken metatarsal in his left foot, Tampines Rovers and Singapore striker Khairul Amri is facing another three-month lay-off from a similar injury. This time, it's his right foot. Khairul, who turns 24 next month, sustained the
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      483 43  -  TANYO-HINN THE BIG KICK-OFF After 100 S-League goals, new SAFFC signing dreams of a first winner's medal yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg THE 14th edition of the S-League kicks off next Monday, and already new SAFFC player Park Tae Won can't wait for the year to end. The former Woodlands
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      350 44 'AP CLEVELAND They lost their starting centre to injury and traded a versatile forward. They beat the NBA champions and ended the league's longest home winning streak while their superstar battled the flu. The Los Angeles Lakers had a road trip they
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      509 44 AGENCIES ASIAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Japan can't wait to make Australia coach Verbeek eat his words tomorrow TOKYO —Japan midfielder Daisuke Matsui says he is ready to prove Australia coach and his former J-League mentor Pirn Verbeek wrong in a World Cup qualifier between the rival Asian
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      185 42 SPURTS BET ING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER International Football Slovakia Ukraine Wed, 11/02/09 I.ooam International Football Brazil Italy Wed, 11/02/09 3.45 am World Cup Korea DPR Saudi Arabia Wed, 11/02/09 2.00pm World Cup Japan Australia Wed, 11/02/09 6.20pm World Cup Uzbekistan Bahrain Wed, 11/02/09 7.00pm World Cup Iran Korea Republic
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      649 45  -  PEARLYNTHAM SENSORY CONSUMER RESEARCH New technology helps marketeers learn how people take in still visuals pearlyn@mediacorp.com. sg IT'S in your eyes that is how you view an advertisement or a website, and what you see in it. And that is what eye tracking technology aims
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      180 45 ■■■HU Heriot-Watt University, often referred to as Scotland's CTDir*TI Vdv international university, is a vibrant, forward looking ainlV/ILT DT University offering a high quality learning experience APPniNTMFNT DNI V and a welcoming and friendly environment. Mrrwin i mtn i vsmi-i Recognised internationally as a centre of high calibre °ate l^^ebmar^
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      268 46 BLOOMBERG THE 83-per-cent drubbing China took on its US$3-billion ($4.49 billion) investment in Blackstone Group is good news for the United States Treasury. China's loss of more than US$5 billion on the US$lO.5 billion invested in New York-based Blackstone, Morgan Stanley and TPG Inc
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      447 46 THENEWYORKTIMES BANK BAIL-OUT Revised strategy ropes in the very institutions that caused the crisis WALL Street helped produce the global financial and economic crisis. Now, as the Obama administration prepares to unveil a revised bail-out plan for the United States' banking system, policy makers hope
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      228 47 AGENCIES LONDON British bank Barclays reported a £6.1 billion ($13.5 billion) profit last year and is reviewing how it pays bonuses in light of the current financial crisis. While Barclays, one of the United Kingdom's banks to resist taking money from the government, remained
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      385 47 J BLOOMBERG FINANCIALCRISIS Japanese car-maker predicts huge losses as sales dry up NISSAN, Japan's third-larg-est car-maker, said it will cut 20,000 jobs and post its first loss in nine years, blaming the global economic recession for crippling car demand and a stronger yen for ravaging the
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      249 48  -  ESTHER FUNG MEDIATIE-UP esther@mediacorp.com.sg IN A coup for MediaCorp's interactive media division, the company has secured a deal to be the exclusive seller of LiveJournal's advertising space in Singapore. Livejournal is a popular online social networking platform and is well known in Singapore as a host to
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      215 49  -  TAN HUI LENG HARD-DISK MANUFACTURER Global downturn causes fall in profits for last two quarters SEAGATE Technology, the world's largest hard-disk drive marker, laid off Singapore workers last week, under a plan to cut 2,950 jobs or 6 per cent of its global workforce. Sources
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      163 49  -  KELVIN CHOW MORE creditors are hounding debt-laden electronics company Jurong Technologies Industrial Corporation. The company yesterday said it had received a statutory letter of demand on Feb 6 from Rabobank International's Singapore branch, asking for payments of US$l4.6 million ($21.8 million) and US$7.7 million
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      227 49  -  ESTHER FUNG DESPITE the finandal turmoil, Temasek Foundation has no plans to cut back on its funding for its philanthropic activities in Asia, its chairman Goh Geok Khim said yesterday. "The world has changed quite a bit last year, with disastrous effects but the foundation
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        70 50 $2.60 I Sell Goldman Sachs downgrades SPC from "neutral", as it expect Singapore complex gross refining margins to fall from the current US$9.9/bbl to an average US$2.5O/bbl this year. "SPC is vulnerable to the downturn, given its relatively low complexity and that if s operating in a deregulated market
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        79 50 46.5 cents I Underperform CIMB maintains "underperform" rating, as the luxury hotelier is expected to be affected by the global slowdown and Thailand's political uncertainties. Forecasts occupancy rates of 40-45 per cent and substantial Rev Par declines for 4QOB, due to airport sieges in Bangkok. Said CIMB: "Sales
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        105 50 8.5 cents I Outperform CIMB keeps its rating as it expects foundation and geotechnical engineering company to clinch new public-sector projects, whose tenders should begin from second half of 2009. CSC should be a beneficiary of these projects. While CIMB cut its FYO9-11 forecasts by 25-39 per cent
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        18 50 Friday 1,715.35 A 0.63% Thursday 1,704.60 T 0.16% Wednesday 1,707.39 v 0.26% Tuesday 1,711.92 Ao.39%
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        25 50 iang Seng 13,769.06 A 0.84% Jikkei 7,969.03 T 1.33% lhanghai 2,224.71 A 1.99% ieoul 1,202.69 0.60% /lumbai 9,583.89 A 3.04% [L Comp Closed
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        22 50 JS$i :i euro k$i !Mi $1,492 ¥100 $1,628 $2,228 HK$ioo $19.24 $1,947 RMB100 $21.81 $1,014 RS100 $3,074 $0,415 RPio,ooo $1,300
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      720 50  -  CHEOWXINYI CHEOWXINYI RIGHTS ISSUE Property giant seeks $3.07 billion from existing shareholders cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IN A move to position itself for "opportunities in distressed assets", property giant Capita Land is looking to raise $1.84 billion in a rights issue that analysts say could be a
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      729 50  -  LEONGWEEKEAT LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE financing and cost-cut-ting are the bywords for businesses during the economic downturn, the Government also wants to ensure companies do not neglect efforts to expand and innovate. To that end, the Government is rolling out measures worth a combined $660 million over
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      317 50 .DOW JONES VODAFONE and Hutchison Whampoa are merging their Australian mobile telecommunications businesses in an equal joint venture to be renamed VHA Pty Ltd, the companies said yesterday. Analysts say the move will give the market's No 3 and No 4 telco both already fast-growing innovators
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