Today, 4 May 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Monday May 4, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    219 1 A After the Saturday vote, the old-guard executive committee sets out its priorities to extend the use of new media and engage younger people. 6 Did new guard's lack of savvy and inexperience do them in, asks Alicia Wong. Log on to Channel News Asia for all
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    Lock icon Flu leaps from human to pigs
    451 1 AGENCIES OTTAWA Canada has reported the world's first case of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus jumping to pigs from a human, probably after a farm worker in the province of Alberta became ill during a trip to Mexico. But officials were quick to point
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    MOM sharpens Spur
    723 1  -  TEOXUANWEI CREATING JOBS 2,500 traineeships for new grads, axed PMETs; firms get up to $s ooo a worker under Spur-Jobs xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg THE bleak horizon on the job market for fresh graduates and retrenched professionals just got a little brighter with the roll-out of new schemes that
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    If you stayed at HK's Metropark ...
    732 1  - If you stayed at HK's Metropark TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg IFYOU stayedatthe Metropark Hotel Wanchai in Hong Kong on April 30 and have since returned to Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) would like to get in touch with you. It would like you to call the MOH hotline on 1800--333
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Americans are 'cautiously optimistic'
      335 3 AP HINIINTHEUS WASHINGTON United States health officials are cautiously optimistic that Influenza A (H1N1) is not as dangerous as first feared, but urged people to keep taking commonsense precautions. "We're not out of the woods yet," said Dr Richard Besser, acting chief of the Centers for
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      Lock icon Old guard makes new Wood a priority
      926 4  -  ONG DAI LIN AWARE POST-EGM It also plans to continue direction, be more vigilant dailin@mediacorp.com.sg NO MEETING date has been set, but the old guard Aware executive committee voted back into power two days ago has set out its priorities. Top of which
      DON WONG I  -  926 words
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      Lock icon HOW TO LOSE AN EGM VOTE
      550 6  -  ALICIA WONG POINTOFVIEW ilicia@mediacorp.com.sg DID their inexperience and naiveness, or perhaps their underestimation of the competition, contribute to the downfall of Aware's new guard team on Saturday night? The first time round, the old guard and their supporters were caught sleeping, but at Saturday's
      . don wong  -  550 words
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      Lock icon Can cope — but for only eight-and-a-half months
      596 8  - Can cope but for only eight-and-a-half months LINYANQIN SURVEYON RESILIENCE S #poreans would take 42% pay cut and would not rely on Government help: Survey yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IF THEY lost their jobs, Singaporeans on average think they would be able to cope without their main source of income for eight and
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      Lock icon Looking for love – why not?
      688 10  - Looking for love why not? NEOCHAICHIN OVER FORTYSINGLES CLUB Those who join Dr Liv Weiying #s club for singles are not letting a few grey hairs get in their way chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg MAN with a few grey hairs meets woman. But instead of asking for her number, quietly hopes to
      NEOCHAICHIN  -  688 words
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      Lock icon Moving around Pasir Ris gets easier
      240 11  -  ONGDAILIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg TRAFFIC flow just got a little bit better at Pasir Ris a new 180-metre road now provides an exit from retail mall White Sands to Pasir Ris Central. Previously, a road with two lanes served cars coming in and out of the
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      Lock icon Troops kill young girl
      382 11 AFP NATO SHOOTING 12-year-old was shot in the face while en route to party HERAT (Afghanistan) Nato-led troops shot and killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded two other civilians in western Afghanistan yesterday when they opened fire at a vehicle close to a convoy, the police
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  • WORLD
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        Lock icon Did HK govt 'over-reac'?
        466 12 AFP CNA HONG KONG Hong Kong's sevenday quarantine of 300 guests and staff in a hotel over Influenza A (H1N1) fears has sparked anger among those detained. One expert called the move "pointless". The lock-in, which even officials have called "draconian", was enforced after a Mexican
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        Lock icon Mexico bitter over detention of 70 nationals
        156 12 AFP BEIJING Mexican diplomats spoke bitterly to China yesterday saying over 70 of their countrymen had been placed under quarantine despite showing no signs of Influenza A(HlNl)flu. Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa called the action "unjustified" and warned Mexicans against visiting China. Ambassador Jorge
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        Lock icon Mystery flummoxes doctors
        489 13 AP NEW YORK When a team of medical detectives from New York City's health department first arrived at a school in Queens stricken by Influenza A (HI Nl) on April 24, the situation looked bad. Within days, nearly 660 kids at St Francis Preparatory School had developed
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        Lock icon Flu outbreak could have started in US
        206 13 AFP WASHINGTON A United States health official on Saturday did not rule out the possibility that the Influenza A (HI Nl) virus outbreak may have originated in California. "As we do our investigations here in the US, we may find that there were
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      Lock icon 'It was soldiers who attacked me'
      449 15 AGENCIES THAI PROTEST LEADER They knew senior officials would turn blind eye: Sondhi BANGKOK A Thai protest leader who survived an assassination attempt said yesterday he believes he was attacked by soldiers who were assigned to silence him because he knows too much about
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      Lock icon Umno reins in Malaysian media
      227 15 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUALA LUMPUR The mood in newsrooms across Malaysia has become more cautious since Mr Najib Razak became the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Publicly, the PM said recently he wants to build a free press that will "report what they see, without fear
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      Lock icon Efforts to help pregnant Briton facing death penalty in Laos
      157 16 AFP LONDON The British foreign ministry said on Saturday it was trying to ensure lawyers can gain access to a pregnant Briton who faces the death penalty in Laos if she is found guilty of drug trafficking. Ms Samantha Orobator,
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      Lock icon Govt may pardon surrendering rebels
      264 16 AP SRI LANKAN CONFLICT COLOMBO -The Sri Lankan government is considering an amnesty for Tamil rebel fighters who surrender, a Cabinet minister said yesterday, as the separatists appeared on the verge of defeat in the island's civil war. Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said officials
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      Lock icon Turmoil feared as Nepal sacks army chief
      249 16 AFP KATHMANDU Nepal's Maoist government yesterday fired the country's army chief for failing to comply with orders, raising fears of a showdown between the prime minister and the military. The sacking three years after the end of the Himalayan nation's civil war is
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      Lock icon Gitmo court system likely to continue
      211 17 AP WASHINGTON The Obama administration may revamp and restart the Bush-era military trial system for suspected terrorists, as it struggles to determine the fate of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and fulfil a pledge to close the prison by January. The revamp, coupled with
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      Lock icon Islamic appeal court formed in north-west
      476 17 AP PAKISTAN UNREST Govt forges ahead with a severely strained peace deal with Taliban militants ISLAMABAD Pakistan forged ahead with a severely strained peace deal with Taliban militants, announcing a new Islamic appellate court for part of its north-west. But a cleric mediating the
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      Lock icon Japan following jailed reporter's case with 'concern'
      174 18 AGENCIES TEHRAN Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone expressed concern on Saturday over the fate of American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi who was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran. "Since her mother is Japanese from a humanitarian perspective, we are following the case
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      Lock icon Iran earns ire of rights groups
      469 18 AP," fHEDAILYTELEGRAPH CONTROVERSIAL EXECUTION Court hangs woman convicted of murder as a minor without lawyer's knowledge TEHRAN Iran has hanged a young artist who was convicted of murder when she was a minor, drawing condemnation from international human rights groups. The authorities executed Delara
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      Lock icon More torture tapes emerge
      525 19 THE GUARDIAN ROYAL ALLEGATIONS Abu Dhabi prince accused of 25 more brutal attacks ABU DHABI Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, a wealthy Gulf prince at the centre of a "torture tape" scandal, has been accused of attacking another 25 other people in incidents that have
      THE GUARDIAN  -  525 words
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      Lock icon Years after 9/11, FBI-Muslim relations sour
      184 19 AFP WASHINGTON When a cordial exchange of emails with a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent turned into a request to inform on other Muslims on campus, a Michigan college student was shocked. "When I got the email, I was angry; I was upset...
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      197 19 rj-un y Photo Hunt I Bring along your camera, coupled with a fun-loving personality and join us at this Photo Hunt event. You will be teamed up randomly and given clues to find the 10 HOT SPOTS injurong Bird Park. Complete various tasks, take group pictures and race against other
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      Stricter criteria needed
      257 20  -  Arthur Lim AWARE OFFICE HOLDERS Letter from I REFER to "New Aware exco of fresh and old faces vows safeguards" (Today Online, May 3). Finally, it is over. It is good to note that the majority of Aware members stand up for what they believe in. It
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      Lock icon Why were student temperature-takers not wearing masks?
      165 20  -  Wong Bung Wai Letter from I REFER to "To go or not to go?" (May 2-3) which reported that 12,371 visitors to the Istana Open house on Friday had their temperatures taken before they were allowed onto the premises. I applaud the authorities
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      Domestic violence: Real men seek help
      375 21  -  Michael Gray, Letter from President, PAVe I REFER to "When men get abused" (April 30). Mr Terrance Ang mentioned men requiring a platform to address vulnerable issues and also highlighted the need for men who are victims of spousal violence to attend counselling sessions.
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      Get rid of gender bias
      198 21  -  Wong Hoong Hooi Letter from "WHEN men get abused" (April 30) repeated the stock assumption that "domestic violence remains mainly a crime by men against women." Other social problems like alcoholism, are approached without a divisive gender dichotomy. A re-examination of this assumption is also
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      FOCUS® ON THE FAMILY
      180 21  -  DR BILL MAIER BY A SUPPORTIVE HOUSEHOLD People who grow up happy and successful often credit their achievements to a supportive family. So how do we develop that kind of encouraging environment in our home? One good way is to quickly acknowledge positive behavior in our
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      Lock icon Hunks in trunks
      809 22  -  MAY SEAH FLASHY BUSINESS It's the boys who are showing skin these days but who's complaining? may@mediacorp. cotn.sg WHAT is it about a sporty guy who jogs past you, flaunting his taut muscles and smelling faintly of fresh, vigorous sweat? Whatever it is, it's what the producers
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      Lock icon An ultra-stylish winner for Samsung
      483 23  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER much deliberation, Haikal Mohamed was picked from an initial field of 91 applicants to be the brand ambassador for Samsung's UItraTOUCH mobile phone. He was one of three shortlisted finalists in Samsung's Ultra Style Search competition. According to the judges fashion lecturer,
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      Harper's bizarre
      550 24  -  MAYSEAH ISLAND INTRIGUE Not even the cast knew vwhodunnit in this breakout hit show may@mediacorp.com.sg AS MURDER-MYSTERY whodunits go, Harper's Island has all the requisite elements for drama and suspense. A wedding is being held on Harper's Island. Unsuspecting crowd and festive atmosphere? Check. The island witnessed a
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    • PLUS ROUNDUP
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        SHE'S ON DAILYMOTION
        43 24 Local electronic musician and DJ CC Sound Factory has just released her series of videos for her song Crazy Nasty, which recently was featured on popular British site Dailymotion. You can check out those videos and more here: www.dailymotion.com/ CCSOUNDFACTORY.
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        BUDDING WRITERS: LITERARY MENTORS AT YOUR SERVICE
        129 24 The seventh Mentor Access Project, an annual 18-month mentorship programme organised by the National Arts Council, is still looking for applications until May 15. Managed by Mediaexodus LLP, the programme countsYayAikWee and Jackie Chye as a couple of their successful graduates. Yay's 10-minute
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        AH KUA SHOW TIX OUT
        90 24 Tickets for Leona Lo's new play Ah KuaShow, directed by Emerich Lav, is now currently on sale at The Substation in Armenian Road and Food #03, beside Post Museum, 109 Rowell Road in Little India. Early bird prices at $20 and $25 from June 1.
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      The return of Rosli
      282 25  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH LOCAL MUSIC Guitarist back on the scene after a year of setbacks christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg SETBACKS can only make you stronger, goes the old adage, and that seems to be the case for Singaporean guitarist Rosli Mansor. "It's been awhile," he said in a video post on
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      Lock icon PLUS IN ADDITION
      110 25 AP FREE CDS FROM COLDPLAY Singapore fans will probably be thinking "Damn, they should have thought of this earlier", when Coldplay members recently announced they will reward recessionweary fans by giving away a free CD at all their shows this year. The band says it will give
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      204 26 ON MEDIACORP MEGA MONDAY MOVIE Catwoman Channel 5, 6.30pm Mi Catwoman is the story of a shy woman who finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. In a twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the ultra-keen senses of a cat, a creature balancing on
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      694 26 TV LISTINGS CHANNEL JJ 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 12.30PM Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels 10.00 Desperate Housewives V 5.30 Prime Time Morning 1.00 My Secret Sports Identity 10.45 Just For Laughs 8.00 The Amazing Race XIV 1.30 Bo's Rewind 11.00 America's Next Top Model XI He Made Me Look Like Alice
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      103 26 ON MEDIACORP NAERUKKUNAER Vasantham, gpm It is about a young beautiful damsel who contemplates to avenqethe death of her father and jtm the atrocities JS done by her maternal uncle to her mother in an attempt to win over their wealth. She masterminds a plan to foil their success and
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  • sports
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      Lock icon Reds keep up the pace
      692 27 ENGLISH FOOTBALL Liverpool's slim title hopes still alive as Newcastle's relegation worries grow ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool 3 Newcastle United o LIVERPOOL Rafael Benitez' men overcame the absence of Fernando Torres to keep alive their Premier League title hopes with a 3-0 victory over relegation-threat-ened Newcastle
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      Lock icon Wayne Rooney pledges to see out his career at Old Trafford
      240 27 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Manchester United supporters rejoiced in another superb victory for their side as they cruised to a 2-0 win at Middlesbrough on Saturday, a result that makes them 1-20 favourites for the title. And they will be
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      488 28 AGENCIES SPANISH FOOTBALL Spanish champs humbled at home as irrepressible Barca put Chelsea on notice PRIMERALIGA Real Madrid 2 Barcelona 6 MADRID Real Madrid's pursuit was for nothing. Even 17 victories in 18 unbeaten matches were not enough. In the 19th match, Barcelona,
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      387 28 .AFP LONDON Guvs Hiddink has warned Chelsea they cannot afford "the slightest error" when they confront Barcelona on Wednesday in their Champions League semi-final decider. The two teams played out a tense 0-0 draw in the first leg at the Nou Camp last week and,
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      413 29  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL After a year on the sidelines, Young Lions star is set to return RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2009 PRELIMINARY ROUND Phnom Penh Crown v Young Lions Jurong West Stadium, j.^spm yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg THE Young Lions, who face Cambodian champions Phnom Penh Crown tonight in the
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      418 29  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg RAFFLES Girls' School secondary 3 student NajwaJumali was given a tough assignment by her sailing coach earlier this year: Gain skg. "I've had to put on weight to sail in the Byte CII class," she said. "It's
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      Feng Tianwei bows out
      175 29  -  TANYO-HINN FENG Tianwei's bid for a podium finish at the World Table Tennis Championship has ended. At the Yokohama Arena in Japan yesterday, the 22-year-old Singaporean lost 4-1 to China's second seed Guo Yue in the last eight of the women's singles. Feng was Singapore's sole
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      398 30  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE SPORTS World hockey head sings praises of brand new Sengkang facility yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg LEANDRO Negre was a happy man yesterday morning, and it wasn't just because his hometown side Barcelona had just thrashed arch-rivals Real Madrid 6-2 just hours before. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) president liked
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      478 31 'AGENCIES BOXING Pacquiao knocks out Hatton for historic win LAS VEGAS Filipino southpaw Manny Pacquiao flattened Ricky Hatton in the second round on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), winning the International Boxing Organisation junior welterweight title with a devastating left to the chin that hospitalised the
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      72 27 SPORTS ON TV TODAY 8.45 am T tennis World Championships semi-finals #1, Ch 22 1.45pm T tennis World Championships semi-finals #2, Ch 22 5.43pm Cricket Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire, Ch 110 9.45pm Cricket Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire, Ch 110 10.30pm Cricket Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers, Ch 110 TOMORROW 2.55 am
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      382 30 UE CHAMPIONS SEMIFINALS G£. n LIVE AT SPORTSBUZZ@PARADIZ (%W7 6 May 2.45 am Arsenal vs Manchester Utd /^7iK> 7 May 2.45 am Chelsea vs Barcelona Ck_, H k Doors open Sam. y&)e&d^ Singapore Cup Phnom Penh FC Young Lions Mon, 04/05/09 7.45pm Asian Champ Kashima Antlers Suwon Tue, 05/05/09 2.00pm
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      654 32  -  JOHN BITTLESTON TAKING CHARGE succeed@mediacorp.com.sg WHAT is most important in your life: Health, love, money, security, happiness? All are important, but before you can acquire any of these, you must have freedom from fear. Fear of rejection, of failure, of loss, of self-dislike they all
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      347 33  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg AT A time when upgrading is important to keep up with changes, in comes a university with courses flexible enough to accommodate the schedules of busy executives. At the Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), an Australian institution which launched five business degree programmes
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      745 34  -  CONRAD RAJ MONDAY BLUES editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg Line between an executive chairman and a non-executive one is blurring LAST week, shareholders of United Overseas Bank (UOB) approved the payment of an additional $2.5 million to its non-executive chairman Wee Cho Yaw for last year's performance. The bank's
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      391 35 AGENCIES CURRENCY SWAP Initiative will address short-term liquidity squeeze BALI Finance ministers from the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) and the plus-three countries China, Japan and South Korea agreed yesterday to implement a US$l2O-billion ($177-billion) currency swap agreement by year's end. "We are
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      292 35 BLOOMBERG THE United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should be given authority to regulate what hedge funds can buy and how much money they can borrow to maximise bets because registration falls short of what is needed to police the US$l.33-trillion ($2-trillion) industry,
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        113 35 KELVIN CHOW Catalist-listed Armada Group, an IT firm, has entered into a share placement agreement with a group of investors. Armada said in a filing to the stock exchange on Saturday that six investors had agreed to subscribe about 123 million shares at the price of 3.2
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        94 35 BLOOMBERG Former American International Group (AIG) chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg has agreed to sell about 12.9 million of his shares in the insurer to an investment firm he controls. Starr International, the largest private shareholder of New York-based AIG, may buy Mr
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        65 36 $2.111 Neutral DMG raises target to $2.07 from $1.62 but maintains its call pending Ql '09 results. It is concerned over the fate of two existing rigs ordered by PetroMena following the cancellation of contract for Petroßig I after client's default on final payment. "We remain concerned over
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        65 36 9 cents Buy UOB Kayhian keeps its call and 22 cents target after the leather products maker issues a Ql'o9 profit warning. Sinotech says customers continue to ask for lower prices and downturn has hit demand for pattern moulding paper (PMP). Broker says loss likely not big surprise
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        52 36 80.5 cents I Buy OCBC Investment Research reinitiates KS Energy at "Buy" and sets $0.93 target. Says oil field supply and services provider cushioned from downturn by contracts already secured. Notes company has secured contracts for its entire fleet save for 1 rig that will be delivered later
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        19 36 Thursday 1,920.28 Wednesday 1,849.57 Tuesday 1,808.41 Monday 1,818.61 A 3-82% A 2.28% T 0.56% T 1.85%
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        18 36 Jang Seng Closed Jikkei 8,977.37 A 1.69 0/ ihanghai Closed ieoul Closed /lumbai Closed ;LComp Closed
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        22 36 JS$i :i euro k$i !Mi $1,483 ¥100 $1,496 $2,212 HK$loo $19.13 $1,967 RMB100 $21.73 $1,083 RS100 $2,956 $0,415 RPio,ooo $1,399
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      472 36 BLOOMBERG CHRYSLER'S WOES UNITED States car-maker Chrysler, under orders by President Barack Obama to conduct a quick bankruptcy, will seek court approval to auction most of its assets in three weeks, a person familiar with the matter said. In a motion filed with the US Bankruptcy
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      352 36 AGENCIES BILLIONAIRE investor Warren Buffett, one of the world's richest men, told a record crowd at an annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway group that first-quar-ter operating profit fell and the company's book value declined 6 per cent this year. A crowd estimated at 35,000
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