Today, 15 July 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    10 1 TODAY Wednesday July 15, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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      144 1 "~)'~7 Garuda is no longer on a £1 I blacklist of banned carriers, the EU announced yesterday. O C\ A landmark healthcare JV_/ plan was unveiled by the US Democrats, which for the first time makes healthcare a right and responsibility for all Americans. 0"| The CIA will
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      Lock icon The storm's not over
      868 1  -  CHEOWXINYI LEONGWEEKEAT -4TO -6% FORECAST Warnings of risks ahead, despite upgraded GDP projection cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IF THE first instinct is to break out the champagne, the warning from both analysts and the Government is to keep it corked for now. Singapore has revised upwards its full-year gross
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda comes calling
      390 1 AGENCIES BEIJING Al Qaeda, long associated with attacks on Western or pro-Western interests, is threatening, for the first time, to attack Chinese interests overseas to avenge the deaths of Muslim Uighurs in the restive region of Xinjiang, said a risk analysis group. The call for reprisals
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      Lock icon MDA yet to refund $6m in unused or overpaid licences: AG report
      264 2 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Government owes some of you money. The Media Development Authority (MDA) has yet to refund $6 million in unused or overpaid radio and TV licences, according to the Auditor-General's report for financial year 2008/9. MDA
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      Lock icon CHINA REJECTS GENOCIDE CHARGE
      178 2 AGENCIES China appealed to the Muslim world for understanding over its handling of the deadly unrest in Xinjiang as it denied accusations from Turkey that it was guilty of genocide. The Xinjiang capital of Urumqi remained tense amid tight security yesterday, a day after police fatally
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      THE DANGER IN OVER-CONFIDENCE
      411 3  -  CHOYKEEN MENG POINTOFVIEW A new bubble could be in the making just as the old ones have burst UNLIKE the previous rounds of changes, the direction of the latest revision to the official GDP growth forecast is upward, not downward which, on the face of it,
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      Lock icon CHANGI NEEDS MORE BUZZ
      881 4  -  LIANG DINGZI NEWS COMMENT Perhaps it is time to also do things with gusto THE recent survey by British-based consultancy Skytrax placing Changi Airport third behind South Korea's Incheon International Airport and Hong Kong International Airport should set us wondering why. Many of us would have
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      Drop in number of aid seekers but economic recovery 'going to be very long'
      308 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg THE North East District has seen a "less than 20 per cent" drop in the number of residents seeking financial and employment assistance from May to June, said Mayor Teo Ser Luck. The
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      Lock icon PAS beats Umno by only 65 votes
      409 6 AGENCIES MANIK URAI BY-ELECTION Narrow margin seen as boost for Najib's leadership KUALA LUMPUR The opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) yesterday retained the Manik Urai state seat in Kelantan by a wafer-thin margin of 65 or 0.61 per cent of votes cast, in
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      MOE cancels registration after probe
      391 8  -  ONG DAI LIN BROOKES BUSINESS SCHOOL dailin@mediacorp.com.sg HE THOUGHT that obtaining a Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) business degree last July from Brookes Business School would help him secure a good job, when his contract with the navy ends next year. But Mr Joseph
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      Confusion gets in way of planning
      607 10  -  LINYANQIN HiNi AND COMPANIES i in 4 companies have pandemic measures in place: Survey yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg IT'S been more than two months since the outbreak of the HINI flu, but just a quarter of companies are all geared up with pandemic measures fully in
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      Cant get jobs, so they learn new skills
      681 12  -  LINYANQIN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATES Surge of interest in specialist diploma programmes yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg IN PREVIOUS years when the market was flush withjobs, Ms Nur Azizah Bte Abdul Wahab might have been able to enter the workplace right after she graduated from the polytechnic.
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      Lock icon Cloud computing, anyone?
      304 14  -  VALARIETAN CHANNEL NEWSASIA HELP WITH BUSINESSCOSTS Sing Tel service provides a cheaper alternative for business operations valarie@mediacorp.com.sg SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore are getting more help to cut costs and expand their customer base. Two Government agencies are partnering Sing Tel to roll out affordable
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      Resorts World curtain-raiser on Dec 19
      246 14  -  NEOCHAICHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg IT WILL open only early next year, but on Dec 19, Resorts World at Sentosa (RWS) will stage its inaugural show at its 1,600-seater Festive Grand Theatre for a good cause to raise funds for needy schoolchildren here. To get the venue
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      Attacker insists abuse was 'justified'
      294 16  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg IN HIS view, they were not attacking their former cellmate "for no reason". Because their alleged victim had failed to perform five "tasks" they had agreed upon as a way to settle their scores, they were justified to mete out "substitute" punishments, Iryan
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      Lock icon A service career? Not for me!
      399 16  -  ESTHER NG HANDS-ON SERVICE Students cite low wages, lack of prestige as deterrents estherng@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER two days of learning how to wait on tables, Ferdinand Aldo now knows that the correct way of serving a customer is from the right. The Victoria Junior College
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      Lock icon Tourism gets a boost
      237 18 938 LIVE SINGAPORE EXPERIENCE AWARDS DESPITE the HINI flu and the recession, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is still keeping its projection of 9 to 9.5 million visitor arrivals this year. And one of the ways to achieve the target is by launching the inaugural Singapore
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      Lock icon Haze unlikely these few days
      124 18 938 LIVE SINGAPORE is unlikely to experience transboundary smoke haze in the next few days, said the National Environment Agency (NEA), because of favourable winds blowing from the southeast or south. The NEA said a temporary shift in wind direction from the southwest last weekend
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      Lock icon Nurse accidentally kills H1N1 victim's infant in Spain
      283 20 THE GUARDIAN MADRID A wave of indignation swept though Spain on Monday after hospital negligence caused the death of a premature baby born to a woman who was the first person in the country to die of HINI. The baby, Rayan, died
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      Lock icon Australia orders 21m vaccines
      290 20 AFP BATTLE AGAINST HINI SYDNEY Australia ordered 21 million courses of HI Nl vaccine yesterday—enough to cover the country's entire population as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the pandemic was "unstoppable". With Australia already the worst-hit nation in the Asia-Pa-cific region, federal chief medical
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      Lock icon Ruling party rejects motion
      357 21 ,AP I JAPAN POLITICS TOKYO Japan's ruling party defeated a no-confidence motion yesterday against the Prime Minister's Cabinet, but an increasingly bold opposition used the occasion to heap criticism on the government it aims to oust in national elections next month. The powerful lower house of
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      Lock icon Futile for N Korea to attack
      275 21 AGENCIES SEOUL A senior United States military officer said yesterday that any North Korean attack on South Korea would be sudden and "extremely destructive", but would ultimately fail. Major-General Johnny A Weida, outgoing deputy chief of staff for the US Forces Korea, also said
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      SHOW THEM THE BENEFITS
      669 22  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com.sg Preferential policies for the minorities need more bite THE aftermath of the recent riots in China's north-western Xinjiang province has focused attention on the country's policies towards its ethnic minorities which at time have resulted in
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      Lock icon China coal miners rescued after 25-day ordeal
      191 23 THE GUARDIAN BEIJING When rainstorms halted rescue attempts at a flooded mine in south-west China, the families of the trapped men feared the worst. They had been underground for three days, and time was running out. But rescuers refused to admit defeat and
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      Lock icon Steel inquiry now beyond Rio Tinto
      456 23 THE NEWYORKTIMES CHINA CORRUPTION SHANGHAI The Chinese authorities have detained or questioned at least seven Chinese steel industry executives in a broadening corruption investigation connected to the detentions last week of four employees of the mining giant Rio Tinto, the media reported on Monday.
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      Lock icon Chinese appetites wiping out pangolins
      202 24 AFP CHINA'S insatiable demand for pangolins is threatening the survival of the vital pest eaters in South-east Asia and governments must do more to protect them, experts and activists warned yesterday. "Due to continual demand and the decreasing Chinese wild population, in the past few
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      231 24 AFP MYANMAR PRISONERS Suu Kyi #s party sceptical over amnesty claims YANGON Myanmar's opposition party yesterday said it was sceptical the military junta would release political prisoners including its leader Aung San Suu Kyi, despite new assurances given to the United Nations. The possible amnesty
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      Lock icon They posed as Christians
      436 25 AP RELIGIOUS DISHARMONY Two Malaysian Muslims stir anger with church article KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian authorities are investigating two Muslims who sparked complaints after they pretended to be Christians and took communion at a church service to research a magazine article, officials said yesterday. The investigation
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      Lock icon Thaksin: M'sians care about me
      198 25 DPA BANGKOK Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) got a special police escort when his private jet stopped over for refuelling in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month, media reports said yesterday, quoting Mr Thaksin. But Malaysia's InspectorGeneral of Police Musa Hassan said that
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      Lock icon MALAYSIA BUS CRASH
      70 26 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Twenty-eight commuters were injured when their bus crashed through steel guard rails in the Kerinchi Link and plunged onto a motorcycle lane below. The RapidKL bus was travelling from Shah Alam to Kuala Lumpur when the mishap occurred, causing a massive traffic jam along
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      Lock icon Duo receive arrest warrants
      208 26 AFP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT BANGKOK A Thai court yesterday issued arrest warrants for an army officer and a policeman as suspects in an assassination attempt on a leading political activist, a court official said. The pair, both of junior rank, will face police questioning over alleged involvement
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      Lock icon Emergency rule extended
      128 26 AFP BANGKOK The Thai government agreed yesterday to extend emergency rule for another three months over its restive southern region, where more than 3,700 people have died in a five-year insurgency. The decree, which covers the Muslim-majority provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala, and parts of Songkhla, gives
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      Lock icon Garuda off EU's blacklist of banned carriers
      293 27 BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG STRASBOURG The European Union removed a flight ban on four Indonesian carriers, including Garuda Indonesia, and eased restrictions on Angola Airlines under the latest changes to a list of unsafe carriers. But Kazakh and Zambian operators face new curbs. The EU
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      Lock icon DVD pirate ring smashed
      379 27 THEGUARDIAN UKCRIME It began in a street market stall and became a £5m business before police broke it up LONDON Hundreds of Chinese workers were kept in virtual slavery for years as part of a multimillion-dollar pirate DVD industry uncovered in the United Kingdom. The men
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      Lock icon Harry Potter film gets Vatican's praise
      186 28 AP VATICAN CITY The Vatican praised the latest Harry Potter film on Monday, saying Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince made the age-old debate over good versus evil crystal clear. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano even gave two thumbs up to the film's treatment
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      Lock icon The girl who had two hearts
      576 28 AGENCIES MIRACLE HEARTTRANSPLANT Once told she had 12 hours to live, Hannah, now 16, is living live like a normal teenager LONDON A British girl who had a donor heart grafted onto her own after suffering cardiac failure as a baby has had the
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      Lock icon Episcopal church to affirm gay clergy
      163 29 AP NEW YORK The Episcopal Church moved on Monday toward affirming their acceptance of gays and lesbians for all roles in the ministry, despite pressure from fellow Anglicans worldwide fora decisive moratorium on consecrating another openly gay bishop. Bishops at the Episcopal General Convention
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      194 29 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH EDINBURGH Lost wallets which contain a snapshot of a baby are more likely to be returned to their owners. Researchers left 240 wallets on the streets of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, last year to see how many were returned. Some of the wallets contained one
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      Lock icon America the medically insured
      413 30 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST Landmark plan could give all US citizens the right to healthcare WASHINGTON House Democrats on Tuesday rolled out a far-reaching US$l.5-trillion ($2.2-trillion) plan that for the first time would make healthcare a right and a responsibility for all Americans, with medical providers, employers
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      Lock icon I ask the tough questions, but fairly: Sotomayor
      225 31 AP AP WASHINGTON Ms Sonia Sotomayor kept her cool yesterday, even when she was being portrayed at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing as just the opposite a hotheaded judge who is sometimes mean to lawyers in her courtroom. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
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      Lock icon CIA to release secret documents
      477 31 AP AP SECRET CIA PLAN AFTERNOON LATEST House likely to launch full investigation WASHINGTON The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-cancelled programme to kill Al Qaeda leaders, congressional officials said yesterday. The agency spent at least US$l million
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      Lock icon CHENEY'S FANTASY WAR
      722 32  -  JOHN MCQUAID THE GUARDIAN WHEN the 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum debuted, critics viewed its plot as a metaphor for post-9/11 America's excesses. The movie features a CIA deputy director who oversees the agency's post-9/11 "black ops", casually ordering the killing of a reporter for The Guardian
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      Lock icon Honduras have 'right to insurrection': Zelaya
      296 33 AP GUATEMALA CITY Ousted President Manuel Zelaya says the Honduran people "have the right to insurrection" against the interim government that forced him out of the country. The remarks appeared to pave the way for a further escalation of the conflict in Honduras, where
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      387 33 AP CHARLES TAYLORTRIAL Former Libenan President denies he had led and armed rebel groups THE HAGUE (Netherlands) Former Liberian President Charles Taylor testified at his war crimes trial yesterday that the case against him was built on lies and misinformation. He denied he had
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      Lock icon 'He's stabbed me to death'
      420 34 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH UKMURDERTRIAL Teenage model's harrowing call to 999 operator after attack by boyfriend LONDON A teenage model and actress, Amy Leigh Barnes, made a harrowing 999 call as she lay dying and told the operator her boyfriend had just stabbed her 'to death', a
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      Lock icon German cook accidentally blows hands off
      174 35 AFP BERLIN An experimental German cook unintentionally blew off both his hands attempting to concoct a "molecular gastronomy" dish with liquid nitrogen. The 24-year-old man from Stahnsdorf near Berlin somehow obtained some of the dangerous chemical and was poised to try out a new
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      Lock icon Watch it online for the first time
      489 35 AGENCIES FIRST MOON LANDING SAN FRANCISCO Man's first trip to the moon is about to blast off anew in an online recreation intended to enthral an Internet generation not yet born when the United States mission made history 40 years ago. A virtual
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      306 36  -  John Yap Poon Ann STRUCTURED PRODUCTS We go to banks to save, so why do we find ourselves buying? Letter from I REFER to the Monetary Authority of Singapore's ban on certain banks selling minibonds ("Banned till they shape up", July 8).
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      153 36  -  Tan JackThian Letter from Chief Operating Officer XX Women's and Children's Hospital I REFER to the letter "Why is kid No 4 more expensive?" (July 10) from Ms Cai Lianchun. We would like to thank Ms Cai for having her children at XX
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      311 42 SIH Membership Services proudly presents the World's Best Management Thinkers to Singapore 12 August 2009 Fairmont Singapore Jf 28 th SIM Annual Management Lectun I Senior Management Seminar Jack Welch, former Chief Executive of General Electric, is a big admirer of Dr Charan. Welch wrote in his book Jack: Straight
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      193 48 HE ENDED the 2008 season on a high, winning his maiden Asian Tour title at the Volvo Masters of Asia in Thailand, pocketing the winner's cheque of U*****,000 ($197,000). Missing the cut on five Asian Tour events, Lam Chih Bing (picture) may not have had
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      439 48  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Liverpool can expect Kallang to roar on July 26 shamir@mediacorp.com. sg WITH just 10 days to go before 18-time English league champions Liverpool line up against the Republic's Lions at the National Stadium on July 26, tour organisers of the "Kop
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      501 49  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Rams eye 4th straight win as they look to confound their critics GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO9 Geylang United v Woodlands Bedok Stadium, j.^spm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg BEFORE the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009 kicked off, naysayers had already written off Woodlands Wellington, a club with a
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      310 49 THE GUARDIAN MADRID Xabi Alonso has told Rafa Benitez that he wants to leave Anfield. Real Madrid have made no secret of their desire to sign the midfielder and are hopeful that Alonso will be able to persuade the Liverpool manager to sell. Should that
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      159 50 AGENCIES BERLIN Bayern Munich manager Uli Hoeness insists that the haggling over the possible sale of Franck Ribery is over and the Frenchman will stay at the German club, IZ newspaper reported yesterday. Said Hoeness: "This is not a bazaar, he is going
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        195 57 James Cook University Australia's Singapore Campus hosted the Best Education Network Think Tank IX conference on "The Importance of Values in Sustainable Tourism" between June 15 and 18 at its campus on Upper Thomson Road. This international event was held in Asia for the first time
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        123 57 Borneo Motors (Singapore) recently launched the new IS-Convertible (IS-C) in the entry luxury segment. The IS-C combines the expressiveness of a convertible with the athletic styling of a coupe. It features a sophisticated retractable hardtop, excellent body rigidity, an elegant L-finesse exterior design, a unique interior
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      265 58 HONG KONG The booming southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has mapped out plans to allow companies to cross-list their shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The plan, which was proposed in May, is part of the city's
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      768 58  -  WILLIAM Bl BLOOMBERG BUSINESS A WORKER in China, Mr Jiang 80, claimed that he drove a cement truck for Shenzhen Antuoshan Investment Development 12 hours every day for seven years without overtime pay. A national labour contract law implemented on Jan 1 last year was
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      202 59  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com. sg THE board of Mainboard-listed CX Tang yesterday explained the reason for the method behind a recent valuation of its flagship Orchard Road premises. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange, the retailer's independent directors said: "Under Rule 26.2(a) of
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        131 60 BLOOMBERG Con man Bernard Madoff arrived at the federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, to begin serving his 150-year sentence for fraud and money laundering in a cell with two bunk beds, a toilet and a sink, a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman said. The disgraced
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        138 60 BLOOMBERG Job openings in London's financial-services industry rose in June to the highest level this year, according to a survey by recruitment firm Morgan McKinley. The number of job vacancies climbed 20 per cent last month from May, when openings were also up 14 per
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      493 60  -  CHEOWXINYI EQUITY RESEARCH SCHEME Some stocks will no longer receive investment ratings cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg UNDER a revamp of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) equity research scheme, some stocks will no longer receive investment ratings that investors tend to rely on in decisionmaking. Where seven local research
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      431 61  -  TANHUI LENG FAR EAST ORGANIZATION huileng@mediacorp.com.sg UNCERTAIN economic times may deter promising retailers from setting up shop, but Far East Organization (FEO) hopes to provide some support in the form of its Rental Space for Equity Programme which will see tenants issuing shares to FEO instead of
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          67 62 Inching upwards Investors got the solid results from Goldman Sachs they wanted, but the gains were modest after a big rally the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 27.81 points to close at 8,359.49, extending gains after a strong triple-digit rally on Monday. The tech-nology-heavy Nasdaq
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          69 62 Lacklustre trade Oil prices closed mixed as the latest data failed to generate confidence in an economic rebound in the US, the world's largest energy consumer. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in August, fell 17 US cents to finish at U5559.52 a barrel. In
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          82 62 Traders happy, but... Europe's leading stock markets rose after strong US bank earnings and economic data, but doubt crept in with investors already looking anxiously ahead for more indicators. Frankfurt's DAK rose 1.26 per cent to 4,781.69 points and in Paris the CAC 40 index rose 0.97 per
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        611 62  -  KELVIN CHOW EN BLOC SALE First site up for tender this year will be litmus test for market kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg THE upbeat sentiment in the property market seems to have breathed life back into the en bloc scene. Block 18 Dragon Mansion (picture), located along Spottiswoode Park
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        377 62  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg TELCO industry veteran Neil Montefiore, former Ml chief executive, is making a surprise comeback this time to helm former rival Star Hub. He is expected to join Star Hub in January, once approved by the regulatory authorities. Star Hub said in a
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