Today, 29 July 2009

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    10 1 TODAY Wednesday July 29, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    207 1 Two militants arrested last month were preparing to attack Changi Airport, said The Jakarta Globe, in a report that created a stir on the Internet. A Suicide rates fall to a 10-year low but cases among men in their 40s spike, perhaps due to economic worries. ■"I
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    Lock icon Indonesia to enhance social safety net
    608 1  -  RACHEL LIM rachell@mediacorp.com. sg BUOYED by a robust domestic economy and anticipating a recovery in exports, Indonesia plans to enhance the social safety net for the poor as part of three key priorities for the Yudhoyono administration, Vice-President designate Boediono said yesterday. The other
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    Lock icon Fugitive's double life
    531 1 AGENCIES TERROR IN INDONESIA Police find a vital link to Noordin a woman believed to be his wife JAKARTA For six years, alleged bomb mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top has managed to elude a massive dragnet, using his connections in Indonesia to stay one step ahead of his
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    Lock icon Oz terrorist changes plea, admits to plot
    285 1 AGENCIES MELBOURNE He had earlier pleaded not guilty to terrorrelated charges. But yesterday, just moments before his trial, the Australian convert to Islam admitted to being part of a terror cell that plotted to kill thousands of people by bombing major sports events.
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    Lock icon 'Target was Changi Airport'
    291 2  -  VENESSALEE ALLEGEDTERROR PLOT assistant foreign editor venessa@mediacorp.com.sg A REPORT claiming that Indonesian police foiled an alleged recent terrorist plot on Changi Airport has made some ripples online. According to The Jakarta Globe newspaper's website, two militants arrested last month one a Singaporean were preparing to attack
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    Lock icon BOMB SCARE ON SILKAIR FLIGHT
    227 3 AGENCIES, VENESSA LEE A Singapore-bound SilkAir flight was held up for five hours at Cebu airport in the Philippines yesterday after a bomb threat. Ml 541 was due to depart at 1.30pm, but airport authorities got news of the suspected bomb minutes before take-off. The
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    Lock icon A NEW CONNECTION
    83 4 938LIVE, PHOTO COURTESY SENTOS^ LEISURE GROUP From November next year, visitors will have yet another mode of entry to Sentosa a 620--metre boardwalk. Linking VivoCity Promenade and Sentosa, the $70--million project is touted as South-east Asia's largest thematic walkway, featuring five garden themes depicting different landscapes of
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    Suicide rates lowest in decade but...
    589 4  -  LEONGWEEKEAT MENTAL HEALTH Cases among men in their 40s spike, could be due to economy, retrenchments weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg THE figures point to some worrying trends, even as the overall suicide rate here fell to a 10-year low last year. Suicides involving men in their
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    H1N1: Two more people in ICU
    152 4 TWO more people warded in intensive care have been diagnosed with the HINI virus. One, a 45-year-old woman with a history of myasthenia gravis (a neuromuscular disease), went to the National University Hospital emergency department on Monday after experiencing breathing difficulty and four days
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    He said one thing on citizenship forms...
    758 6  -  ESTHER FUNG IN COURT But in practice, he "waived' $isk salary, was not really executive director of local firm esther@mediacorp.com.sg IN HIS application for Singapore citizenship, Mr Dafni Igal stated that he was drawing a monthly salary of $15,000 as an executive director
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    Jobs, but no locals
    390 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Businesses in Little India find it tough to hire Singaporeans weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg BESIDES overseas training and a $1,500 monthly salary, he even threw in a guarantee that the job would be for five years. Yet the owner of a restaurant in Little India
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    Lock icon Erasing the past
    417 11  -  ZULOTHMAN DON WONG STARTING AFRESH New Singapore Prison Service initiative is aimed at helping inmates clean up their act zul@mediacorp.com.sg HE GOT his first tattoos when he was just 11 that was when Ahmad (not his real name) entered the world of gangs. Pretty soon, the markings
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    Man charged with giving bribes
    260 11  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg A COFFEESHOP owner had allegedly given loans and cash to two Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers in return for their agreement to conduct less stringent checks on female Chinese nationals entering Singapore. Yesterday, Chia Ngee Seng, who owns a coffeeshop at Geylang
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    Wipo to set up arbitration centre in Singapore
    125 11 SINGAPORE'S quest to be a leading regional legal hub received another boost yesterday. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) is setting up an Arbitration and Mediation Centre here. It will be the first such centre located outside the organisation's base in Geneva,
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    'I had every intention of paying back'
    573 12  -  ONG DAI LIN MINGYITRIAL dailin@mediacorp.com. sg HE WAS using supplementary credit cards from former Ren Ci founder Ming Yi to buy himself luxury items. At the same time, he was also not making any repayments for a $50,000 loan he had taken from
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      Lock icon VISITING THE DOCTOR THROUGH I-REACH
      108 12 938LIVE Elderly patients with chronic diseases living in nursing homes can save up to $300 a month and the hassle of travelling to hospitals-with a new tele-conferencing system. The I-Reach system was designed by Singapore Polytechnic students and lecturers. It allows hospital and nursing home
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      Lock icon VIETNAM'S DEPUTY PM HERE ON A VISIT
      85 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister, Hoang Trung Hai, is in Singapore today for a four-day official visit at the invitation of Foreign Minister George Yeo. Mr Hai will attend a meeting at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy's Asia Competitiveness
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    Most prefer to stay on
    379 14  -  KIERSTENOW USUNDERGRADS kierstenow@mediacorp.com.sg THEY will stay and rough it out, Singaporean students from some top universities in the United States say. Despite the gloomyjob market, almost eight out of 10 undergrads said in an online survey that they prefer to stay on in the US
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    Lock icon Tour de Timor attracts Singapore women
    234 15 KIERSTENOW ALL SHE knows about Timor Leste is that the roads in the capital Dili are well-paved, but that other roads are full of pot holes. But that did not stop Jasmine Wong, and three other Singaporean women none of whom have been to
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    Second centre at $360m campus
    436 15  -  LINYANQIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Tie-up with Israeli institute is latest facility to come under Create yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg A SECOND research centre with a focus on regenerative medicine has been established by the National Research Foundation (NRF), even as six other universities have submitted their proposals
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    Lock icon NDP ROAD CLOSURES
    148 16 938LIVE Roads around the Marina Bay area including Republic Boulevard, Raffles Avenue and Esplanade Drive-will be closed to traffic to facilitate the preview show this Saturday, as well as the National Day Parade on Aug 9. This year's city march-past will happen between 7pm and gpm. Police
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    Lock icon A show just for them
    320 16  -  ESTHER NG NATIONAL DAY PARADE estherng@mediacorp.com.sg FOR many of them, it would probably be the first and last time they watched a National Day Parade (NDP) drill segment live and performed just for them. Sixty patients from Dover Park Hospice, Assisi Hospice, Bright Vision Hospital
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    S'pore to gear up for growing need for 'green-collar' jobs
    289 17 IT'S bright. And it's green. That is the outlook for the construction sector, with total construction demand over the next three years estimated to be between $18 billion and $27 billion annually. Senior Minister of State for National Development and
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    Lock icon More agents join the fray
    432 17  -  NG BAOYING CHANNEL NEWSASIA HOT JOB baoying@mediacorp.com.sg THE buoyant property market of the past six months has attracted not just buyers, but also mid-career professionals who have made the switch to become property agents. Industry watchers said there are about 26,000 housing agents here, and
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      Lock icon A PEAK INTO THE PLA
      58 18 PHOTOS EPA China allowed foreign journalists a rare glimpse inside a People's Liberation Army division in Beijing yesterday. Members of the media were given a tour of their living quarters and a display of artillery fire power, marksmanship and fighting ability (right). China has long
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      Lock icon Visit to Japan sparks furore in China
      365 18 AGENCIES UIGHUR LEADER TOKYO The exiled leader of China's Uighur minority arrived in Japan yesterday for a visit that has angered Beijing, which accuses her of masterminding recent ethnic violence in China's north-west. Ms Rebiya Kadeer (picture), the United States-based head of the
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      PRESERVE LOCAL DIALECTS
      633 19  -  MARIA SIOW TODAY IN CHINA east asia bureau chief mariasiow@mediacorp.com. sg IMAGINE the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong declaring that the Chinese people had stood up, not in his signature Hunanese accent, but in Putonghua, or standard Mandarin. Or former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping spouting exhortations, not
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      Lock icon BATTLE TO MAKE THE NEW CABINET
      885 20 NEWS ANALYSIS BERNHARD PLATZDASCH IT IS often said that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's landslide victory (60 per cent) will give him the mandate to find the right mix of politicians and professionals for his next Cabinet. He will certainly move to ensure that parties
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      Lock icon Megawati challenges vote results
      176 21 AFP JAKARTA Indonesian opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri has launched a Constitutional Court challenge to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's re-election landslide victory. The ex-President has refused to accept the results of the July 8 polls. She lost the previous election to him in 2004 as well. Ms
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      Lock icon US envoy presses Israel on settlements
      155 22 AP JERUSALEM Israel's Prime Minister and the top United States envoy to the Middle East said yesterday they made progress on the issue of West Bank settlements, but offered no sign of a breakthrough at a meeting in Jerusalem. Mr George Mitchell has been
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      416 22 AP JACKSON INVESTIGATION Doc regularly drugged singer to sleep: Official LOS ANGELES Michael Jackson's personal doctor gave him a powerful anaesthetic through an intravenous drip to help him sleep, and the authorities believe the drug caused the pop singer's death, a law enforcement official told The
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      Lock icon How to rip off students
      373 23 AFP MIGRATION SCAMS TV show exposes exploitation of Indian students MELBOURNE Australia yesterday vowed to crack down on migration scams targeting Indian students and condemned a "cowardly" attack on a female reporter who blew the lid on the shady practices. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said
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      Lock icon Trapped in toilet for a week
      158 23 AFP MELBOURNE An Australian woman was stuck in her toilet for a week before neighbours heard her cries for help, officials said yesterday. The 67-year-old Queensland woman was found on Sunday, seven days after she became trapped, said the state community safety department. A
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      Lock icon Australia to consider giving vote to 16-year-olds
      181 23 AP CANBERRA At 16, Australian youths cannot hold driving licences or, in some states, drop out of school. They could in future, however, make or break governments in knife-edge elections under a draft proposal to lower the voting age from 18 years. The
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      Lock icon China bans violent online games
      164 24 AGENCIES BEIJING China has banned websites from advertising or linking to games that glamorise violence, as part of a campaign to ensure social stability ahead of the 60th anniversary of communist rule on Oct 1. The Culture Ministry said games that promote drug use, obscenities,
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      Lock icon Friday is D-Day
      294 24 AGENCIES AUNG SAN SUU KYI Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst: Lawyer YANGON The high-profile trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended yesterday with the court announcing it will deliver its verdict on Friday. "We are hoping for the best but preparing
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      Lock icon The average American is now 11kg overweight
      276 25 AFP WASHINGTON Childhood obesity is now the United States' worst health crisis, experts said, urging parents to ban television in kids' rooms and lawmakers to slap a tax on sugar-laden sodas. Two-thirds of United States adults and around 20 per cent of American
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      Lock icon 'The devil made me slay my boy'
      463 25 AP CANNIBAL MUM Woman who ate newborn's brain, innards charged SAN ANTONIO The scene was so gruesome investigators could barely speak: A three-week-old boy lay dismembered in the bedroom of a single-storey house, three of his tiny toes chewed off, his face torn
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      Lock icon Boy, 12, nabbed with drug stash
      112 26 AFP BERLIN German police said yesterday that they had caught a 12-year-old boy in possession of more than 150 doses of heroin and hundreds of US dollars in cash. "The boy came to the attention of the officers... because he was burying something in
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      Lock icon MPs quietly ink new deal
      427 26 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH UK EXPENSE CLAIMS New rules venable them to get more LONDON British lawmakers have ignored public anger at an expenses scandal by quietly introducing new rules which allow them to claim up to £9,125 ($21,680) a year without producing any receipts. The Daily Telegraph
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      Lock icon More volunteer despite slump
      93 26 AP WASHINGTON A million more Americans volunteered last year than they did in 2007 despite the economic downturn. A government study showed that 61.8 million Americans volunteered last year, spending around 8.1 billion volunteer hours. The top volunteer activity was fundraising, with food collecting and distributing
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      Lock icon Floods bring Dhaka to a standstill
      110 27 AP DHAKA —Heavy monsoon rains have battered Bangladesh's capital, flooding streets and homes, stranding thousands and forcing businesses and schools to close. The National Weather Office said over 333mm of rain was recorded over 12 hours yesterday in the capital city of about 10
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      Lock icon Pakistan calls it 'detrimental'
      247 27 AFP INDIA'S NUCLEAR SUBMARINE Islamabad vows to maintain strategic balance ISLAMABAD Pakistan hit out at India yesterday, branding its first nuclear-powered submarine "detrimental" to the region's peace and vowing to take "appropriate steps" in response. The statement comes amid lingering tensions between the two nuclear powers
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      Lock icon Toxic chemical in medicine
      154 27 AFP DHAKA The Bangladeshi authorities yesterday said that they had found traces of a toxic chemical in paracetamol syrup believed to have killed two dozen children in the past six weeks. Health Minister AFM Ruhul Haq said investigators had found diethyl glycol in the lo-cally-produced syrup.
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      Lock icon Post-war clan wars
      318 28 AFP JAPANESE POLITICS YOKOSUKA In Japan's election next month, the two candidates for the Prime Minister's post are carrying on a family battle that started in the 1950s when their grandfathers were premiers. The clash of the political bluebloods incumbent Taro Aso and his rival Yukio Hatoyama
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      Lock icon Return of the geisha?
      565 29 THENEWYORKTIMES JAPAN HOT JOB Young women vie for a once-scorned but well-paying job TOKYO The women who pour drinks in Japan's sleek gentlemen's clubs were once shunned because their duties were considered immodest: Lavishing adoring (albeit nonsexual) attention on men for a hefty fee. But with
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      Lock icon New Zealand woos wealthy business migrants
      178 29 AFP WELLINGTON New Zealand announced yesterday that it has relaxed the rules on immigration in a bid to attract more wealthy entrepreneurs as the government tries to boost the local economy. The government said previous rules had failed to attract enough well-heeled foreigners to
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      453 32 THE GUARDIAN KENYA Herders won over by project to meet rising demand and to end blackouts NAIROBI One of the hottest places in the world is to become the site of Africa's most ambitious venture in the battle against global warming. Some 365 giant wind
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      Lock icon Khamenei orders closure of jail holding protesters
      184 33 AFP TEHRAN Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the closure of a jail holding protesters detained after last month's election, a top official said yesterday. "The supreme leader has issued a strict order to ensure there is no injustice committed... he
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      Lock icon Curfews, troops quell violence
      449 33 AGENCIES MILITANT ATTACKS IN NIGERIA Two days of battles in the north leave more than 150 dead ABUJA (Nigeria) A two-day wave of Islamic militant attacks in Nigeria appeared to ease yesterday, as the authorities imposed curfews and poured security forces into northern towns. Nigeria's President
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      490 38  -  GENEVIEVE LOH TODAY EXCLUSIVE Heather Graham and gang on one Hangover they didn't want to end genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg w NEVER did I think I'd see the day when anyone, let alone everyone, loved a hangover. But, hey, let's face it there isn't a more
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      556 39 Lucky for us, some people just don't know when to say stop. We hazily (hid) list ourTop 5 favourite movie drunks. GEDDE WATANABE SIXTEEN CANDLES \sthe scene-stealing foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong in John Hughes' iconic 1984 com- ing-of-agefilm starring Molly Ringwald, Watanabe had
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      1604 40 Three students spent an afternoon with nurses and got an in-depth look into the profession. Chanel Lam who has completed her A levels and will be starting the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) programme at National University of Singapore next month Kwek Puay Ec Director
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      231 42  -  MAY SEAH MOVIE REVIEW FOOD, INC. may@mediacorp.com.sg YOU would be ill-advised to watch this movie toting your usual hotdog, soda and chips, because it won't be long before you come to view them with some degree of revulsion. Food, Inc. is pretty much Fast Food Nation
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      251 43 GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW PERSONAL EFFECTS A CHEESY movie poster of Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher lying in bed facing each other may make Personal Effects seem like a corny Cougar melodrama but, as with most misguided pre-conceptions, it is a surprising gem of a film which sadly
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      168 43 GENEVIEVELOH MOVIE REVIEW THE HANGOVER IT'S crass. It's inane. It's sporadically politically incorrect and more than often idiotically offensive. It's pretty much Dude, Where's My Groom?, but The Hangover is also laugh-out-loud funny with hilariously ridiculous set-pieces that will undoubtedly cement its position as a minor
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      970 44 TV LISTINGS ON MEpJACORP ....™.™.__™....g.... AMERICA'S GOT TALENT IV DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS S6BSOn Pr6mi6r6 6.00AM Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Guinness World Records I.OOAM Entertainment Tonight D6BClli6St Sr*)Bl<6S r 1 6.30 Prime Time Morning 5.00 The Rachael Ray Show 111 1.30 The New Adventures Of Old Channels, 10pm g3O T h e Rachael
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      571 45  -  TANYO-HINN 13TH FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS Swimmers will compete at SEA Games in hi-tech suits that will be banned next year yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINCE its launch in February last year, Speedo's LZR Racer suit has helped the performances of top national swimmers such as Tao
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      208 45 AFP Australian swimming legend Grant Hackett has branded the sport's governing body an "absolute disgrace" after their decision to allow bodysuits at the World Championships triggered a glut of new records. Hackett called for Fina's leadership to be sacked after seeing fellow Australian lan Thorpe's
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      409 46  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE SPORT 20ig Rugby World Cup goes to Japan, Republic keen to host some matches yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINCE its inception in 1987, the quadrennial Rugby World Cup the sport's biggest event has been staged in just eight countries, all outside Asia. Now, Singapore
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      645 47  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Champions out to beat Brunei outfit ahead of Sunday's crunch tie GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE2OO9 SAFFC vDPMM Choa Chu Kang Stadium, 7.45pm yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S crunch time for leaders SAFFC with 13 matches remaining in the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009. The champions, who are
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      296 47 LOW LIN FHOONG THERE may be 13 games to go in the Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009, but Home United are effectively out of the title race. Home lie fifth in the standings, 14 points between them and league leaders SAFFC. But the Protectors
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      354 48 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH FOOTBALL Jose Mourinho's batting eyelids at United again LONDON Jose Mourinho has said he would jump at the chance of managing Manchester United should the Old Trafford hierarchy decide he is the right man to replace Sir Alex Ferguson. At 67, Ferguson
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      447 50 AGENCIES ENGLISH FOOTBALL Hi m m LONDON Jermain Defoe has welcomed the chance to re-form his successful strike partnership with England international Peter Crouch, after Tottenham Hotspur concluded a £9 million ($21.4 million) deal with Portsmouth for the 2-metre-tall striker. The 28-year-old's arrival at
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        141 57 AFP Malaysia Airlines (MAS) yesterday launched a South-east Asian regional travel pass, offering passengers discounted trips in a move to boost travel on its planes. The national carrier said the "Asean Pass" will allow travellers to take four flights around the 10-nation
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        139 57 AFP Long-haul budget airline AirAsia X has been denied permission by the Malaysian government to fly to Sydney and Seoul, due to a row over its sister carrier AirAsia, TheStar newspaper reported yesterday. The move has forced AirAsiaXto scramble to make plans to utilise the three
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        75 58 938 LIVE Singapore-listed Fortune Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns shopping malls in Hong Kong, yesterday said its distributable income for the second quarter ended June dipped 0.7 per cent to HKs7B.g million ($14.6 million). Net property income edged up slightly by 0.3
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        CITI BANK SETS UP HOTLINE FOR CREDIT ADVICE
        129 58 Under wide-ranging efforts to educate people on credit management, Citibank has set up a hotline for customers having difficulty meeting repayments for Citibank credit cards, lines of credit or other loans. "Citibank is the first bank in Singapore to offer such a
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        DBS SPEEDS UPGIRO APPLICATION PROCESS
        133 58 Planning to pay your income tax via Giro? If you're a DBS or POSB customer, your application for Giro payments can now be processed as quickly as one day instead of the typical three weeks. In an "industry-first", DBS yesterday said its new service, xDDA,
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        88 58 938LIVE The electronics arm of Mainboard-listed ST Engineering has won a new project worth $11.7 million in Guangzhou, China. The unit, ST Electronics, will provide platform screen doors for the Guangzhou-Foshan Line. The screen door system will span 21 stations and include 42 sets of doors. The
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      Lock icon StanChart to boost pool of relationship managers to 300
      227 59  -  RYAN HUANG CHANNEL NEWSASIA RyanHuang@mediacorp.com.sg AS AFFLUENCE in Asia rises, Standard Chartered Bank is ramping up its wealth management business in Singapore. In an expansion of its priority banking business here, the foreign bank yesterday said it planned to hire 300
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      Lock icon Optus in legal wrangle
      257 59 DOWJONES AUSTRALIAN TELECOMS Prepaid card services not what they seem, alleges ACCC AUSTRALIA'S competition regulator has launched legal action against SingTel's Australian unit, Optus, for allegedly misleading consumers about its prepaid phone cards. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleges that Prepaid Services, a subsidiary
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      Westcomb in the red
      164 59 MAINBOARD-LISTED Westcomb Financial Group slipped into the red for its fiscal half year ended June 30 with a $1.34-million loss as deals to launch initial public offerings (IPOs) almost came to a standstill amid the economic downturn. In contrast, the company enjoyed a net profit of
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        SIA ENGINEERING
        49 60 $2.84 I Buy Nomura reiterates rating and raises target price to $3.28 from $2.18 on higher earnings forecasts and a roll-forward of valuation year post-Q.l'lo results. It says while Ql'lo profit fell 23 per cent year-on-year, this is usually the weakest quarter and notes financials remain solid.
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        GENTING S'PORE
        86 60 86.5 cents I Buy DBS Vickers restarts coverage with a 98-cents target price. It tips a 2009 deficit of $298 million on initial operating losses from Sentosa IR and weak UK casino business, but expects profit of $92 million for 2010 and $344 million for 2011 as Singapore
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        5-DAY STI CLOSING
        23 60 TUES 2,624.04 A 1.84% Monday 2,576.66 A 1-71°/° Friday 2,533.43 Thursday 2,484.90 Wednesday 2,450.83 A 1-95°/° A 1-39°/° T 0.14%
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        26 60 iang Seng 20,624.54 A 1.84% Jikkei 10,087.26 v 0.01% lhanghai 3,438.37 A 0.09% ieoul 1,526.03 A 0.13% /lumbai 15,331.94 T 0.28% Malaysia 1,172.38 1.38%
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        22 60 JS$i :i euro k$i !Mi $1,439 ¥100 *i-523 $2,373 HK$ioo $18.58 $2,049 RMB100 $21.08 $1,194 RS100 $2,986 $0,410 RPio,ooo $1,451
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      Rolls-Royce revs up its Singapore plans
      24 60 ■mmlm HapMjl|H{|i|U|pH BBBfIBHEB Rolls-Royce's upcoming Seletar Campus will test and assemble Trent aero engines, like the one above.
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      Singapore's financial focus
      432 60  -  TANHUILENG OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS huileng@mediacorp.com.sg AS SINGAPORE positions itself as a banking hub, it's also channelling most of its overseas direct investments into the financial and insurance services sectors of other countries. According to a report released yesterday by the Department of Statistics, Singaporeregistered enterprises pumped $168 billion
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