Today, 2 July 2009

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    20 1 TODAY Thursday July 2, 2oog www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday July 2, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    154 1 O Prompt action by AYG -J organisers keeps Singapore's table tennis hopes alive. A The first mental health clinic for autistic youth offers more help for older children. ""1 North Korean ship Kang \.Z^ Nam is heading back the way it came, say US officials. ■"I O
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    Lock icon Govt's 'best move
    516 1  -  TEOXUANWEI AVIATION INDUSTRY was to write off $800m build Changi Airport, says MM. But S #pore must not rest on its laurels xuanwei@mediacorp.com. sg IT IS not often the Singapore Government is willing to write off $800 million, but in forsaking the money it had sunk into
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    The price of Champions League action
    434 1  -  LAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg IT WILL cost at least $15.90 more a month to watch topquality European football. That is the price of SingTel's Football Frenzy package, comprising the Champions League, the Uefa Europa League and Italy's Serie A. The package will be available
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      Lock icon Prompt action saves day
      685 3  -  LOWLINFHOONG HINIANDAYG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg CONCERNS over the global spread of the Influenza A (HI Nl) virus dogged the build-up to the opening of the inaugural Asian Youth Games here, and it nearly derailed Singapore's hopes on the first day of table tennis at the Toa Payoh Sports
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      Lock icon More help for older kids
      505 4  -  ALICIA WONG CHILDREN WITH AUTISM Mental health clinic for autistic youth the first of its kind here alicia@mediacorp.com.sg CARING for an autistic child can be like running a marathon, described one doctor, who joined the race three years ago by setting up Singapore's first, and
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      A leg up for knee replacement surgery
      309 4  -  ALICIAWONG IT WORKS for surgeons the way global positioning systems help to navigate drivers. And with the aid of computers that provide a "road map" of the knee, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) is now able to offer a new form of knee
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      Helping small shops keep up
      564 6  -  NEOCHAICHIN NEIGHBOURHOOD RETAILERS chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg ONE-STOP shopping versus individual retailers on the ground floor of HDB flats. Youth-oriented product offerings versus more mundane daily necessities. Heartland shopping malls have muscled into the turf of housing estate retailers in recent years. And at least 276 HDB retailers
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      They're young and inspiring
      204 6 YOUNG, distinctive, passionate and exemplary these are values shared by the winners of this year's Singapore Youth Awards, the country's highest national recognition for youth. For example, Clinton Ang is, in every sense of the word, an entrepreneur. Twelve years ago, he quit his bankingjob to
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      SAM's first leadership change
      362 6  -  MAYO MARTIN HE HAS been at the helm of the museum from its very start. After 16 years, Mr Kwok Kian Chow, the founding director of the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), will now hand over the reins to a new person. Starting next month, the museum's
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      An issue of who makes the recording
      685 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT RECORDTVTRIAL weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN recordings are made of free-to-air television programmes, just who was it who had made them was a key question which came up on the third day of a lawsuit between an internet start-up and national broadcaster Media Corp. The
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      Immunity Advisory
      537 10 Addressing concerns on immunity and gut health for your child Diarrhoea, constipation and food poisoning are common symptoms of poor gut health in your child, which might have an effect on the immune system. Paediatrician, Professor Quak Seng Hock (NUH) helps parents to answer their queries on the
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      CRA ups its game
      427 10  -  ZULOTHMAN CASINO REGULATORY AUTHORITY Gaming enforcers to learn from experts at symposium zul@mediacorp.com.sg THE casinos in Singapore's two integrated resorts are not the only ones busy preparing for their grand opening by the end of this year and early 2010. Their regulators are also stepping up
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      114 10 P Professor Quak Seng Hock is the head of the Division of Paediatric Castroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at the University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital (NUH). He has been practising as a paediatrician since 1979 and his special interests are in children with abdominal pain, diarrhoeal diseases and
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Food situation 'critical' says UN
      121 12 AFP BEIJING North Koreans, especially children, are facing a "critical" food situation as donations have dried up amid the country's nuclear standoff with the world, said the United Nations' food aid agency yesterday. MrTorben Due, the World Food Programme's (WFP's) country representative in North Korea,
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      Lock icon Ship makes U-turn
      319 12 AGENCIES KANG NAMi SEOUL A North Korean ship monitored for more than a week by the United States Navy has changed course and is heading back the way it came, said American officials, as Pyongyang warned yesterday it will take military action if anyone attempts to search
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      Lock icon TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR DEMOCRACY
      124 12 AFP Tens of thousands of people took to the sweltering streets of Hong Kong yesterday for an annual pro-democracy march, as the city marked the 12th anniversary of its return to China. Organisers said the major impetus for the turnout was a combination of
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      Lock icon Promise to Mumbai fulfilled
      368 13 AFP RESPONDING TO TERRORISM City gets India's first regional anti-terror base MUMBAI India's first regional unit for specialist anti-terror troops has opened in Mumbai, fulfilling a government pledge after criticisms of the military's slow response to last year's attacks on the city. The hub for some
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST-EVER LOTTERY WIN
        105 13 AFP Two Australian households were surprised yesterday after winning the nation's biggest-ever lottery jackpot, worth more than Asioo million ($ll7 million). An estimated 10 million people purchased tickets for Tuesday's much-anticipated Oz Lotto draw, with frenzied sales driving the scheduled Asgo-million top prize to more than
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        Lock icon SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT SEEKS LIMITS ON PRIVATE TEACHING
        125 13 AFP South Korean President Lee Myung Bak is pushing for curbs on the country's costly private cram schools, which are blamed for driving poor households into debt and stressing out young children, officials said yesterday. The Education Ministry said that its reform
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      Lock icon Another anti-Indian attack despite Australian crackdown
      279 13 AFP MELBOURNE An Indian student told yesterday how youth tore off his turban and tried to cut off his hair in Australia's latest race attack, which came despite an official crackdown on hate crimes. Mr Resham Singh said six youth racially taunted him and
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      Lock icon Embattled Aso reshuffles his pack
      236 13 AP TOKYO Japan's increasingly unpopular Prime Minister appointed two ruling party legislators to Cabinet posts yesterday in a largely cosmetic measure to relieve the burden on over-worked ministers and boost his ratings among voters. Mr Yoshimasa Hayashi (picture), 48, a Harvard-educated former defence minister, was
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    • EYE ON MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon HINDRAF FOUNDER TO LAUNCH NEW INDIAN PARTY
        93 14 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Hindraf founder Uthayakumar Ponnusamy is expected to launch a new political party called Parti HakAsasi Manusia (Paham) at a major gathering of his supporters in Klang on July 19. A close aide said the application was submitted on June 18
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        PENANG TO SET UP TOURISM, INVESTMENT OFFICE HERE
        85 14 The Penang state government will set up an investment and tourism office in Singapore, in a bid to attract more Singaporean investors to the Malaysian state, Bernama news agency reported yesterday. According to Bernama, Penang is the first state in Malaysia to
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        Lock icon SHORTER HOTELS KEEP PENANG ON UNESCO LIST
        88 14 AP The United Nations cultural agency will keep Georgetown, the capital of Penang, on its list of World Heritage Sites after government officials agreed not to allow high-rise hotels. Malaysian officials voiced fears last year that Georgetown could lose its status as a
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      Lock icon PAS faction determined to talk to Umno
      268 14 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIA POLITICS KUALA LUMPUR After failing to hold unity talks with the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), the conservative faction of Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) is now pushing for an "intellectual" discussion with Umno Youth, in a sign that the
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      Lock icon Anwar: PR will survive
      173 14 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who faces trial this month on sodomy charges, said that his opposition alliance Pakatan Rakyat (PR) will survive even if he is convicted and jailed. Mr Anwar has rejected the allegations levelled by a 23-year-old former aide as
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      Lock icon Iran militia wants Mousavi probe
      318 15 AGENCIES TEHRAN Iran's feared Basij militia asked the country's chief prosecutor yesterday to investigate embattled opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi for his role in violent protests that it said undermined national security in the aftermath of last month's presidential election. The semiofficial Fars news agency
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      Lock icon G8 to seek 80% cut in emissions by 2050
      232 15 AFP TOKYO The Group of Eight (G8) summit in Italy next week is likely to call on industrialised countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, a report said yesterday. The reduction target is in the draft
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      Lock icon H1N1 versus the haj...
      495 15 AGENCIES FLU OUTBREAK Experts urge elderly, kids to skip annual pilgrimage RIYADH Children, pregnant women, the elderly and those with chronic diseases should stay away from the annual haj in Saudi Arabia to prevent catching the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, said health experts. The recommendations come
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      Lock icon Kids not biologically his
      612 16 AGENCIES MICHAEL JACKSON LOS ANGELES Questions concerning the custody of Michael Jackson's children has taken a further twist. According to celebrity website TMZ.com, which broke the news of Mr Jackson's death, the King of Pop was not the biological father of any of his three children.
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      Lock icon Democrat prevails in Minnesota Senate seat fight
      309 16 AFP CHICAGO Comic Al Franken has formally won his battle for a United States Senate seat from Minnesota, a win that enhances the Democrats' ability to enact US President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda. Mr Franken's victory on Tuesday, quickly hailed by the White
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      Lock icon France wants to evacuate survivor of Yemeni plane crash
      223 19 AGENCIES MORONI The French government plans to evacuate the teenage girl who survived the Yemenia airline crash off the Comoros coast, said French Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet yesterday. Bahia Bakari, 14, is so far the only survivor among the 153 people
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      Lock icon 'Stay away or face arrest'
      429 19 AGENCIES HONDURAS CRISIS Ousted Zelaya threatened as he trie to engineer return TEGUCIGALPA An increas-ingly-isolated Honduras braced itself for more protests yesterday, with the authorities threatening to immediately arrest ousted President Manuel Zelaya if he dares to return. As tension rose in the polarised Central
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        Why host a mass event unless it's necessary?
        273 22  -  Khong Pui Mci Letter from IN LIGHT of the escalating number of HI Nl cases in Singapore, is there a pressing need to go ahead with this year's National Education (NE) Show meant for all Primary 5 students? On July 11, our
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        H1N1 test too expensive
        152 22  -  Soh Ah Yuen Letter from I WAS baffled to discover that getting tested for HINI in a hospital would cost me a whopping $85. While I do not expect it to be free, $85 is enough to cover an average household's marketing expenses for a week
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      160 24  -  DR BILL MAIER BY TALK AS YOU WALK You've heard that a brisk walk around the block is good for your heart, but did you know it can also be good for your marriage? Communication is critical to any relationship, and too many couples are so
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      WE'LL MISS THE OLD GUARD
      347 24  -  Kumar S I SAY Can educators of today match accomplishments of those from days of yore? THE recently-published memoirs of former Raffles Institution headmaster Eugene Wijeysingha, For A Better Age, brought back some memories of RI, of what I dare say was a better age.
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      I really wasn't trying to be rude
      194 24  -  from Atticus Si Letter 1 I WAS on the MRT during the morning peak hour and was occupying a "priority seat". I was busy flipping through my school notes when a lady said to me: "Excuse me, she's pregnant". She was pointing at
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      The truth is out there
      783 30 Marilyn Monroe The actress was found dead at her home in Los Angeles on Aug 5,1962. An autopsy found a cocktail of the drugs choral hydrate and Nembutal in her system and the county coroner recorded the cause of death as acute barbiturate poisoning by
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      DEATH IS NOT THE END
      543 31  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH PLUS POINT Why is it that dead pop icons sell more music than living ones? christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN news of Michael Jackson's passing was announced, a colleague cynically quipped that this was the best PR move he'd done in years. As we all know, being
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      Lock icon Farewell, Farrah
      348 32 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH DEATH OFAN ANGEL Family and friends attend actress' private funeral FARRAH Fawcett, the Charlie's Angels actress, has been laid to rest at a private funeral attended by her close friends and family. Her flower-covered coffin was met by long-time partner Ryan O'Neal at the gates of
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      MOTHER KNOWS BEST
      86 32  -  You know what they say you can always trust mum. MediaCorp artiste and LG Eco-mum Ivy Lee was at the launch of the LG Health* (pronounced Health Plus) collection yesterday at the Shangri-La Hotel. The LG Health* range boasts a comprehensive suite of home appliances aimed at
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      S'pore music Down Under?
      206 34  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH ONE MOVEMENT FOR MUSIC christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg COULD Singapore pop rock trio Electrico be heading to the land of the wallaby again? According to the band's manager, Marcia Tan, details are still being sorted out, but if things go according to plan, several Singaporean musicians and music
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      Lock icon GOOD BUTTER BEST
      504 35  -  ANNETTE TAN The secret to good cake is to use good butter. And the secret to bettering good butter is to brown it food@newstoday.com.sg It's almost impossible to write about madeleines and not mention Proust (the famed French novelist who had waxed lyrical about these treats, placing
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      985 36  -  JENNIFERCHEN HUAHIN Resorts in coastal Thailand worth the trip jennifer@mediacorp.com.sg "WHEN I go to Paris, I don't need to see the Eiffel Tower I know it's there. I just want to sit in the hotel terrace, sip my coffee and enjoy the vibe of the
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      890 38 TV LISTINGS ON MEpJACORP ....™.™.__™....g.... NINJA WARRIOR WORLD CAFE ASIA 6.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 3.00 The Doctors Singapore 2009 Daily Channel 5, Bpm 6. 3 0 Prime Time Morning 4.00 World's Most Amazing Highlights Jaipur 9.30 The Rachael Ray Show 111 Videos 111 11.30 Criminal Minds IV okto, 9pm IJ
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      595 39  -  TANYO-HINN IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES Bowler Hui Fen shows her mettle to grab hosts'first gold of the Games yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg A $4,000 cash reward was dangled to help spur Singapore's young bowlers to glory. New Hui Fen's mother Florence says her natural competitive streak means she does not
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      117 39 ATHLETICS (Bishan Stadium) Girls'triple jump final: 1 Kirn Jong Gum (Prk) 12.34 m 2Yang Xiuhong (Chn) 12.17 m 3 Alexandra Solovyeva (Kaz) n.gim 4Tsai Chia-Lun (Tpe) 11.73 m 5 Mohd Rahim Nurshaishireen (Sin) 11.08 m FIBA 3-ON-3 BASKETBALL (Anglican High School) Boys' Group D preliminary round: China 34
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      78 39 ATHLETICS (Bishan Stadium) Boys'long jump final: Syafiq Poh Shahabiddin; Boys'4oomfinal: Jared Lim BOWLING (Orchid Country Club) Boys' doubles: Christopher Hwang, Justin Lim, Brandon Lee, Basil Low; Girls'doubles: New Hui Fen, Darshini Krishna, Anthea Soh, lima Nur Jannah. SWIMMING (Singapore Sports School) Girls' 400 m freestyle heat 1:
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      839 40  -  LEONARD THOMAS SPORTS MATTERS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Such moments are so rare for Singapore, let's not miss the boys 100 m final ALL the athletes are either squat or tall, they wear chiselled muscles and ooze power. With the crack of a pistol
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      307 41  -  LOWLINFHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the HINI scare behind them, Singapore's Clarence Chew and Isabelle Li opened their Asian Youth Games mixed team competition with identical 3-0 routs of their rivals yesterday. After what seemed like an agonising wait for the all-clear from Ministry of Health
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      303 41 SHIFTING winds troubled Singapore's Najwa Jumali on the first day of the Asian Youth Games sailing competition on Tuesday, but it turned in her favour eventually yesterday, propelling the 15-year-old from third to second overall in the girls' Byte CII class after the
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      447 41  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg AT FIRST glance, Stephanie Au is very much like your typical teenage schoolgirl into shopping, movies and hanging out with friends. But beneath the Hong Kong swimmer's sweet looks resides a steely character, who once packed her bags and spent a year at an army sports
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      311 42 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH LONDON Manchester United have taken the first step towards replacing Cristiano Ronaldo by signing Antonio Valencia (picture) from Wigan for a fee believed to be in the region of £16 million ($3B million) on Tuesday evening (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The Ecuadorian
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      398 42  -  SHAMIROSMAN IST ASIAN YOUTH GAMES 2009 Despite loss to Spore, girls from landlocked Mongolia are all smiles shamir@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS hardly perfect weather for a day at the beach yesterday. The sun stayed hidden for the most part over Sentosa, on the first day of the Asian
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      261 42  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com. sg ACROWDof about lOOgathered outside thejalan Be sar Stadium yesterday to lift the spirits of the Singapore under-14 team, as they emerged after their 3-0 defeat to China in the final Group A encounter of the Asian
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      507 43 AFP WIMBLEDON Federer muzzles tennis' biggest server with ease to cruise into semi-finals LONDON Five-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer reached his 21st consecutive Grand Slam semifinal yesterday with a majestic 6-3, 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) dismantling of giant Croatian 22nd seed Ivo Karlovic. Federer, bidding for
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      555 43  -  ASDWIGHT GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Tampines Rovers v Super Reds Tampines Stadium, j.^spm sports@newstoday.com. sg IT HAS been an eventful Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 campaign so far for Super Reds striker Choi Dong Soo, for both the right and wrong reasons.
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      156 39 SPORTS ON TV TODAY B.loam Football Nacional v Estudiantes, Ch27 8.30 am AYG Table tennis mixed team, Ch 119 gam AYG Shooting: Air Rifle prelims, Ch 21 9.30 am AYG Swimming prelims, Ch 118/01 Noon AYG Fiba 33 prelims, Ch 118/01 2.30pm AYG Shooting: Air Rifle finals, Chi2i 4pm AYG
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      572 44  -  CHEOWXINYI HOME LOANS More banks here offering new competitive rates cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg A HOME loan war is hotting up among banks in Singapore, with new player the State Bank of India (SBI) and Standard Chartered Bank launching attractive home loan packages this week that could potentially stir other banks
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      169 44 The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will put an industrial site at Kaki Bukit up for sale through a public tender. It says it has accepted an application from a developer who has agreed to bid for the land parcel at or above the
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      183 46 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) board of directors plans to give the go-ahead for the issue of as much as US$l5O billion ($217 billion) of bonds. This is a first for the IMF as it seeks new sources of funds.
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      347 46 BLOOMBERG CHINA ECONOMY Stimulus measures lift economy BEIJING China's manufacturing expanded for a fourth month as a 4 trillion yuan ($847.8 billion) stimulus plan and record bank lending revive the world's third-largest economy. The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to a seasonally adjusted 53.2
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      390 47 DOWJONES CORPORATE JAPAN Companies in new moves to raise cash TOKYO Several big Japanese companies announced cash raising exercises yesterday. All Nippon Airways (ANA) unveiled several measures to deal with faltering travel demand, including its first equity financing in three years to promote
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      158 47 BLOOMBERG TOKYO Nomura Holdings, Japan's largest brokerage, said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire Citigroup's Japanese trust banking unit for 19 billion yen ($283 million) to boost its asset administration business. Nomura Trust and Banking will buy all shares in NikkoCiti Trust
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      215 48 DOWJONES PUTRAJAYA Malaysia does not plan to weaken the ringgit to boost its exports and will seek to avoid crafting another stimulus package to boost growth, according to Prime Minister Najib Razak (picture). "We do not want to manipulate the market
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      497 48 BLOOMBERG MALAYSIAN MARKET Exchange wants more shares to be available to public KUALA LUMPUR Bursa Malaysia, operator of the nation's exchange, said it will press publicly-traded companies to sell more shares to stay in a revamped benchmark stock index, a move aimed at making the
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      392 49  -  KELVIN CHOW IPO ON CATALIST BOARD Money to be used for expansion into new services kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg HOME-GROWN marine heat transfer and piping system specialist Heatec Jietong Holdings plans to raise about $3.7 million in net proceeds from an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on
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        104 49 DOWJONES Sino-SingaporeTianjin Eco-City Investment and Development (SSTEC) and Shimao Property Holdings will collaborate to develop Tianjin Eco-City in China, the two companies said in a joint statement yesterday. SSTEC is a 50-50 joint venture between a consortium led by Singapore's Keppel Corp and a consortium headed by China's
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        86 49 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Mainboard-listed Midas Holdings has made its foray into the downstream fabrication business by securing two contracts worth $15.6 million. Under the contracts, Midas will supply specialised fabricated aluminium alloy extrusion profiles for train car bodies and curved surface profiles for driver's cabins for China's
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        61 49 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Ascott Group has opened two new serviced residence apartments in China. The Somerset JieFangßei is in Chongqing, while another, Somerset Garden City, is located in Shenzhen. The properties are Ascott's first in each city. The Capita Land unit now has 26 properties in 12
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        73 50 36 cents I Buy Phillip Securities upgrades call from "Hold", raises target price to 44 cents from 31 cents. Notes trust has no near-term refinancing worries, with single loan of $390 million due only in 2012. Says trust's portfolio continues to perform within expectations with solid occupancy rate
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        46 50 97 cents Buy Nomura reiterates rating as it expects continued regional demand for private healthcare to support long-term prospects. Raises target price to $1.30 from $1.07 on valuation grounds, based on assumed 16.4 times FYIO P/E ratio, pegged at mean of historical trading range.
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        92 50 71.5 cents I Outperform CIMB keeps call, raises target price to 88 cents from 74 cents after raising FYO9-11 earnings forecasts to factor in contribution from JV firm Petrol Steel, which received contract to build part of oil refinery. Broker tips value of Rotary's portion at US$32O million
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        62 50 Tuesday 2,333.14 A 0.69% Monday 2,317.17 T 0.03% Friday 2,317.95 A 0.67% Thursday 2,302.46 A 1.03% Hang Seng Closed Nikkei 9,939-93 T 0.19% Shanghai 3,008.15 A 1.65% Seoul 1,411.66 A 1.55% Mumbai 14,645.47 A 1.05% KLComp 1,079.40 A 0.39% US$1 £1 1 euro A$i RMi $1,447 ¥100 $1-493
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      82 50 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Sembawang Engineers and Constructors has clinched a $378-million deal from the Land Transport Authority to build two train stations for the Downtown Line 2 (DTL2) project. The company, a unit of Indian conglomerate Punj Lloyd, will build the Botanic Gardens and Steven stations in
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      523 50  -  ESTHER FUNG SINGAPORE PROPERTY MARKET URA data shows private residential prices fall further esther@mediacorp.com.sg PUBLIC housing prices have staged a turnaround in the second quarter, even as prices of private homes continued to fall for the fourth straight quarter, albeit at a smaller pace. According to
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      290 50 TOKYO Sentiment among big Japanese manufacturers bounced back last month from a historical low as exports and production picked up, but the improvement was less than expected and the outlook for capital expenditure in particular was ominously weak, the Bank of Japan's (BoJ's) tankan
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