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  • 30 1 TODAY Friday September 4, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday September 4, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday September 4, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 114 1 C 2 AVA says pork sold here is safe L/ even after the authority detected the HINI virus in some pigs imported from Indonesia. 8 The rush to buy homes has spawned a record rush of complaints against agents, but buyers need to be more careful. ""1
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  • 988 1  -  ANSLEY NG, ZUL OTHMAN ANDLEONGWEEKEAT CHARGED WITH RIOTING CHARGEDWITH RIOTING 21 arrested; 1 in intensive care after fight among PKMS rivals ansley@mediacorp.com. sg THE hostility stretched back to 2006, as each faction sought to wrest control of the party from the other. At meetings of the
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  • 641 1  -  LOWLINFHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg THE management of one of Singapore's most storied national sports association (NSA) has come under fire from members of its own fraternity. Today has learnt that a petition expressing a loss of confidence in the current Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) management, which is
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  • NEWS
    • 338 3 AGENCIES TENSIONS INXINJIANG BEIJING Amid a spate of unexplained stabbings using hypodermic needles, crowds of angry Han Chinese protesters took to the streets of Urumqi to demand better security. The protests came less than two months after deadly unrest rocked the capital of mainly-Muslim Xinjiang,
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    • 564 4  -  ONG DAILIN SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS Unesco #s draft guidelines draw flak; MOEsays it will study their relevance dailin@mediacorp.com.sg A FOREIGN controversy, over a set of proposed international guidelines on sex education, threatens to reignite the debate that raged just six months ago over
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    • 304 4 AGENCIES CIKANGKARENG Rescue workers on Indonesia's Java island yesterday searched for dozens of people trapped by a major 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 57 people. The police and soldiers were called in to search for people buried in their homes by quake-trig-gered landslides, in a village
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    • 326 6  -  HINI AVA gives assurance, even as it finds pigs infected with virus TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg EVEN as a small number of pigs from Singapore's sole source of live pigs have been found to be infected with the pandemic HINI virus, the health authorities yesterday assured consumers that
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    • 198 6 AP NEBRASKA A HINI vaccine for pigs, which can contract the virus from people, is apparently in the works. The United States Department of Agriculture has given several animal vaccine manufacturers the "master seed virus" from the HINI flu strain now circulating among humans. And at
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    • 503 8  -  TAN HUI LENG REAL ESTATE AGENTS Feed back from public in past two months rivals two years' worth of cases huileng@mediacorp.com.sg THE recent rush to buy properties has spawned a record rush of complaints about housing agents but it has also become obvious that some
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    • 236 8 FOR what should be the last time, Central Provident Fund members will enjoy the guaranteed minimum4-per-cent interest on their Special, Medisave and Retirement Accounts (SMRA). And they are likely to see smaller returns on their savings come the new year. In its quarterly review,
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    • 627 10  -  LAN DE COTTA FiSINGTELSINGAPOREGRAND PRIX Singapore GP won't slash prices, is confident tourist turn-out will be good ian@mediacorp.com.sg THOUGH they have released 17,000 fewer tickets for the second Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix, organisers are confident that tourist numbers won't stray too
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    • 340 10  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg FIRST, the thieves scouted the Jurong Industrial Estate for prey. Then, when they decided on their prize a container of cosmetics from a renowned French brand, worth $1 million in all they sourced for overseas buyers for the
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    • 443 12  -  ALICIA WONG MCYS COMMERCIAL alicia@mediacorp.com.sg HIS FIRST thought, when he found out that the leading lady for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports' Funeral commercial was Indian: "Alamak, my Minister is Indian." His next thought, after he found out the lady's husband
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    • 124 12 ALICIA WONG A new commercial by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) is set to hit television screens in January. It will be helmed by Hong Kong director David Tsui and produced by advertising agency Leo Burnett, which developed the well-known
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    • 369 15  -  ZULOTHMAN SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY New institute, courses launched to encourage entrepreneurship zul@mediacorp.com.sg WOULD-BE student entrepreneurs at the Singapore Management University (SMU) got a giant helping hand yesterday when the university launched its latest venture the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HE) Aimed at
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    • 93 15 It was halted twice by civil unrest in 2007 and Cyclone Nargis last year—but the Singapore International Foundation's (SIF) Singapore Volunteers Overseas (SVO) project on early childhood care and development finally resumed in Myanmar in May. The SVO Specialist Team (Early Childhood Care and Development) Project,
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    • 86 15 Come Sept 14, Singaporeans can expect smoother traffic flow at the Second Link when a full electronic transaction toll payment system is implemented at Malaysia'sTanjung Kupang Toll Plaza from 10am. Cash payments will no longer be accepted. Only toll payments via Touch 'n Go
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    • 112 15 Non-profit welfare organisations and their beneficiaries will soon be better able to reduce their energy bills and create savings to meet other needs. As part of the 10% Energy Challenge, 60 volunteers and staff of the Singapore Red Cross Society will be trained by the
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    • 281 15 OVER three days of intensified checks, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) nabbed 202 lorry drivers and owners most of whom appeared confused as to why they were being pulled over. They had flouted new regulations aimed at reducing the risk of workers being thrown
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    • 428 17  -  NEOCHAICHIN ATTHE HOSPICES chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg FROM Oct 1, one in two subsidised patients in hospices will receive more help from the Ministry of Health (MOH) under its enhanced subsidy framework. No patient will be worse off, just as when the framework was rolled out at community
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    • 245 17 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A LAWYER who went missing more than six years ago has apparently surfaced in Germany. In February 2003, Mr Tan Cheng Yew a prominent lawyer who was also known as a prolific debater during his undergraduate days made headlines for all the wrong reasons
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    • 48 17 DONWONG MediaCorp Gaia Ambassador Jaclyn Ng with the winning team of the Hydroculture Challenge at the CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School in Ang Mo Kio yesterday. Ms Ng conducted a talk in which she shared tips on how to 'go green.
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  • WORLD
    • 209 18 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police will take action against a group of Muslims who paraded through the streets with a bloodied cow head to protest the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in their neighbourhood, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said. "(The) Police have identified
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    • 205 18 AP GELUGOR Demolition crew armed with sledgehammers tore down several houses in an ethnic Indian farming village in Penang yesterday following months of protests. About 100 residents and supporters tried to prevent a demolition team from pulling down their homes to make way for
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    • 254 18 .AFP MAIDS IN MALAYSIA A weekly day off, right to hold onto own passports part of agreement KUALA LUMPUR —Indonesian maids working in Malaysia will be given one day off a week and be allowed to hold onto their passports, the Home Ministry said
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    • 275 21 .AFP JAKARTA The mastermind behind the deadly July suicide bombings in Jakarta is probably hiding on Java, an Indonesian top anti-terrorism official said yesterday. Malaysian Noordin Mohammed Top, one of Asia's most-wanted militants, is believed to have chosen to stay on the
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    • 258 21 FIGHT AGAINST HiNi Chinese, Swiss unveil single-dose swine flu vaccines BEIJING China granted approval to its first home-grown one-dose A (H1N1) influenza vaccine as Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said yesterday it had tested a vaccine that may require only one dose. The clinical trials of the
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    • 83 21 AFP Malaysia's first submarine was delivered yesterday, in an acquisition that the government said 'completes' the country's navy. The European-made Scorpene submarine is the first of two commissioned from French contractor DCNS and Spain's Navantia for a total of RM3.^ billion. ($1.4 billion). The KDTunku
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    • 693 22  -  DANNY LEE NEWS COMMENT It will take more than a visit by the Dalai Lama to hurt Beijing-Taipei relations dannylee@mediacorp.com.sg AS YOU are reading this, the Dalai Lama should be on a flight out of Taiwan, ending a week-long visit to the typhoon-hit island. This
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    • 308 23 Time will tell if visit hurt ties Dalai Lama AFP TAIPEI The Dalai Lama (picture) said yesterday that it was too early to say if his visit to Taiwan had hurt the island's ties with China, but a survey nevertheless showed widespread support here for the trip. "We wait another
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    • 333 23 'AFP SOUTH KOREA CABINET RESHUFFLE SEOUL After a turbulent 18 months in office, South Korea's conservative President Lee Myung Bak yesterday announced his first major Cabinet reshuffle to pursue what his aides call "people-friendly" policies. Mr Lee, who promised to be the "economy first" President but then
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    • EYE ON ASIA
      • 92 24 AFP Myanmar Myanmar's detained pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday appealed against her conviction on charges of sheltering American JohnYettawwho swam to her house, her lawyers said The Nobel peace laureate was ordered to spend 18 more months under house arrest. The 64-year-old has
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      • 90 24 AFP Sri Lanka A group of former child soldiers from Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, now aged 19 to 21, have won jobs on construction sites in Malaysia after undergoing re-training, the government said yesterday. The government says it is helping the child soldiers
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    • 340 24 AGENCIES JAPAN-US RELATIONS TOKYO Japan's incoming Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama reassured the United States yesterday that their security alliance remains the foundation of its foreign policy, despite pre-election promises that Tokyo would seek a more independent path. Mr Hatoyama, to be installed as Prime Minister on Sept
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    • 109 24 AP CHINA'S staid cultural commissars have turned to the likes of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, hoping that an injection of star power into a state-funded movie about the Communist revolution will attract young Chinese normally turned off by government propaganda. Jian Guo Da Ye,
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    • 175 26 AP ISLAMABAD Two Pakistani students arrested on unproven terror allegations in England earlier this year returned to Pakistan yesterday. British High Commission spokeswoman Jennifer Wilkes said the pair agreed to leave Britain voluntarily and landed in Lahore in an overnight flight from
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    • 213 26 AP HELICOPTERACCIDENT HYDERABAD A powerful Indian politician and four other people were killed, when their helicopter crashed in a dense jungle in southern India during a pounding rainstorm. The helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh state Chief Minister, Mr V S R Reddy, lost contact with air
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    • 142 26 AP DHAKA Bangladesh has told officials to avoid wearing suits, jackets and ties during the sweltering summer to save electricity used on air conditioning. The Cabinet announced its decision on Tuesday, saying government officials should wear open-necked shirts and trousers changing a dress code that had
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    • 432 28 AGENCIES AHMADINEJAD CABINET But two other women fail to get majority to join Cabinet TEHRAN Iran's Parliament yesterday approved the appointment of the first woman Cabinet minister in the Islamic Republic's 30-year history and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 17 other choices for key Cabinet posts.
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    • 215 28 .AFP A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday Iran was ready for more sanctions and would not bow to pressure in meeting any deadline set by world powers over its nuclear programme. "No one can impose sanctions on Iran anymore. We welcome
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    • 148 30 AP BRASILIA The Brazilian Senate has approved a Bill that will allow consensual divorces to be filed and resolved on the Internet. The Senate's official news agency says the Bill will speed up divorce proceedings by allowing couples to split without lawyers or
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    • 334 30 AFP 24/7CHILDCARE JOHANNESBURG Romantic weekends away, an uninterrupted film or a guilt-free late night at work are no longer indulgent dreams for South African parents, as a new Baby Hotel seeks to ease their burden. Wealthy working or single parents with little time to
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 79 32 AP Levi Johnston, the father of Ms Sarah Palm's grandchild, said the former Republican vice-presidential candidate wanted to adopt his child so that people wouldn't know her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant In an interview with Vanity Fair, Mr Johnston said: "Sarah kept
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      • 96 32 AGENCIES The family and friends of Michael Jackson will bid a final farewell to him today as the singer is laid to rest in a private ceremony at a Los Angeles cemetery. More than two months after Jackson's sudden death from a drug overdose
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    • 70 32 AP The famous battleship where Japanese officials signed the surrender documents that officially ended World War II played host on Wednesday to about 20 ageing United States veterans and dozens of observers as they marked the 64th anniversary of the war's end. The USS Missouri, which was
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    • 346 32 AGENCIES WHAT'S IN A NAME? BERLIN A Berlin court has upheld rulings in favour of parents who sought to name their son Djehad, a variation on the Arabic word "jihad", which means holy struggle or war. This is despite the fact that the child's father,
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    • 266 38 AP LONDON Two British teenagers meticulously plotted "the greatest massacre ever", inspired by the Columbine killings in the United States, a prosecutor said as their trial opened. The two wrote up detailed plans for what they called "Project Rainbow", plotting to bomb a shopping centre
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    • 215 38 NEW YORK An unusual and yet strangely familiar image of life intruding into the Oval Office has been captured by a White House photographer. As United States President Barack Obama looks through papers, his eight-year-old daughter, Sasha, spies on him from behind a sofa. Mr
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    • 502 38 THE GUARDIAN PROFITTHROUGH FRAUD NEW YORK Pfizer, the world's largest drugs company, has been hit with the biggest criminal fine in United States history as part of a US$2.3 billion ($3.32 billion) settlement with federal prosecutors for mispromoting medicines and for paying kickbacks to compliant
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    • 162 40 THE GUARDIAN Doctors and psychologists the Central Intelligence Agency employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, medical ethics watchdog Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has alleged. The most incendiary accusation of
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    • 370 40 AP SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN AFGHANISTAN WASHINGTON A wide-ranging State Department inquiry into allegations of lewd behaviour and sexual misconduct among the private security contractors guarding the United States Embassy in Afghanistan could lead to the termination of the company's US$lB9 million ($273 million) contract,
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    • 169 40 AFP WASHINGTON Animal rights activists on Wednesday released a film in which thousands of discarded male chicks are shown being ground up while still alive cruel treatment which they said is typical of the modern poultry industry. "These young animals are sorted, discarded, and handled like
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      • 766 46  - Snow White and the seven X-Men? RYANGILBEY THE GUARDIAN YOU'VE BEEN DISNEY'D plus@mediacorp.com. sg FLAGS may soon be flying at half-mast at comic-book stores. The announcement on Monday that Marvel and the rights to its huge stable of fetchingly attired, furrowbrowed superheroes has been bought by Disney for US$4 billion
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    • 451 48  -  MAYO MARTIN BLOODTIES First-time director Chai Yee-Wei #s onscreen women play pivotal roles in this film mayo@mediacorpcomsg FILM-MAKER Chai Yee-Wei sure knows how to pick his women. For his debut feature film, Blood Ties, the 34-year-old local director enlisted the services of Crouching Tiger, Hidden
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    • 392 50 '.THEGUARDIAN 66TH VENICE FILM FESTIVAL THE 66th Venice film festival kicked off yesterday, and it looks to be a typically starry affair even if large parts of the festival area will resemble a building site. After last year's relatively lowkey edition (George Clooney and Brad
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    • 141 52 AGENCIES THE material Girl just got more, well, material. Madonna wrapped up her Sticky Sweet tour in Tel Aviv on Wednesday—the most successful tour by a solo artist ever. Since August last year, she has playe 85 shows in 32 countries and has grossed a whopping
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    • 227 54  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH MOVIE REVIEW G-FORCE christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg BEN Kendall (Zach Galifianakis), a scientist in charge of training animals for covert espionage operations with the FBI, is desperate for his little critters to prove themselves in action. So, he sends three guinea pigs, a mole and a fly armed
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    • 227 54  -  MAYSEAH MOVIE REVIEW |THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE NO, IT'S not a sci-fi movie. It's a love story about the bonds that get tried and strengthened through a difficult but worth-it-all relationship. Based on the best-seller by Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveller's Wife is about a
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    • 551 58 AGENCIES SLISH FOOTBALL Chelsea hit with severe transfer ban for inducing French teen to sign for them PARIS English Premier League giants Chelsea have been rocked, after being hit with a transfer ban by Fifa which will prevent the club from signing any new players
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    • 304 58 AP MARANELLO (Italy) Italian driver Giancarlo Fisichella left Force India yesterday to join Ferrari for the rest of the Formula 1 season. Ferrari has been anxious to find a better replacement for the injured Felipe Massa after the team's long-time test driver, Luca Badoer, qualified
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    • 271 58  -  SHAMIR OSMAN GEYLANG United are busy making up for their poor start to the season, after qualifying for the RHB Singapore Cup 2009 semifinals last night. Holding a 2-1 lead from the first leg of their 2009 RHB Singapore Cup last-eight tie with
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    • 543 59  -  SHAMIROSMAN BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN A tougher Serapong test awaits world's top golfers at this year's Singapore Open shamir@mediacorp.com.sg PADRAIG Harrington saw his hopes of a Barclays Singapore Open title dashed last year in the final round, after his approach shot on the 17th at
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    • 400 59 AGENCIES CRANS-SUR-SIERRE (Switzerland) After teaming up with Mardan Mamat in the Asian qualifiers last week to book Singapore's spot in November's World Cup, golf ace Lam Chih Bing continued his hot form yesterday when he carded a 3-under 68 in the first round
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    • 608 60  -  SHAMIROSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Tampines ace Khairul itching for action, but it could be risky RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2009 QUARTER-FINAL, 2ND LEG AlbirexNiigata vTampines Rovers (Tampines lead 1-0) Jurong East Stadium, 7.30pm Live on Channel 5 shamir@mediacorp.com.sg TIME is running out for Tampines Rovers striker Khairul Amri,
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    • 223 60  -  'lANDECOTTA DESPITE losing 1-0 to Tampines Rovers in the first leg of their RHB Singapore Cup 2009 quarter-final tie on Tuesday, Albirex Niigata head into tonight's return leg at their Jurong East Stadium full of confidence. After watching the White Swans put
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    • 636 62 AP USOPEN Nadal shows no signs of sluggishness after two-month injury layoff NEW YORK Everyone's been curious about the condition of Rafael Nadal's knees, so it made sense that his first Grand Slam opponent in three months would wonder as well. Which might explain why
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    • 287 62 'AFP Roger Federer is not accustomed to taking second billing to anyone in tennis, but he settled for being a world-class warm-up act for Serena Williams on Wednesday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time) at the US Open. USTennisAssociation officials switched the typical order of US
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    • 436 62 AGENCIES 2010 WORLD CUP QUALIFIER Argentina v Brazil BUENOS AIRES (Argentina) When the two biggest South American rivals meet in Argentina, the match is usually held here at the Estadio Monumental stadium. But after Diego Maradona complained
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    • 500 66  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN IN BERLIN LG AT I FA 20og hedirman@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S the start of autumn here in Berlin, bringing with it a mellowed summer sun, accompanied by balmy breezes. In other words, the weather's perfect... and right on time for this year's IFA, or the Internationale Funkausstellung,
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    • 517 66  -  TREVORTAN XBOX 360 GAME REVIEW: TOM CLANCY'S HAWK, WITH SAITEK AVIATOR AVBR-02 FLIGHT STICK trevor@mediacorp.com.sg IT IS every guy's childhood dream to become a fighter pilot. For the majority who can't live the dream, there is always HAWK (High Altitude Warfare experimental squadron)! If you think
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      • 115 88 TREVORTAN Have you been twiddling your thumbs waiting for the arrival of Windows Mobile 6.5? Sony Ericsson has just launched the first smartphone to run on the long-awaited mobile operating system —theXperiaX2. The quad-band 3.5G slider phone sports an improved touch interface and a new 3D
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      • 155 88 NEW YORK TIMES You Tube, the Internet's largest video site, is in negotiations with major Hollywood studios for a deal that would let visitors pay to watch full-length movies, according to two sources. If an agreement is reached, it would be a major change forYouTube, which
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    • 560 69 .THEGUARDIAN, AGENCIES REPORTON SEC CONDUCT Regulator caught Madoff's lies but failed to follow up THE regulator overseeing America's financial markets had been tipped off six times in 16 years of suspicions surrounding Bernard Madoff's fraudulent investment empire but investigators ignored red flags and mishandled
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    • 186 69 .AFP LONDON Curbing bankers' bonuses as part of tougher regulation to tackle systemic weaknesses that led to the global financial crisis will be on the table when the Group of 20 (G-20) finance ministers meet in the British capital from today. The
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    • 304 85 AGENCIES BEIJING China has agreed to buy the equivalent of US$5O billion ($72 billion) in notes from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a move that will help to strengthen the body's lending ability as well as diversify
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    • 445 85 AGENCIES EUROZONE ECONOMY Central bank leaves key rate unchanged FRANKFURT Improving consumer and business sentiment in countries that use the euro are sure signs of an economic rebound, European Central Bank (ECB) president JeanClaude Trichet said yesterday, although he warned that any recovery would be
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    • 399 72  -  CHEOWXINYI MASVS PHEIM cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg MORE developments in the landmark civil suit against Pheim Asset Management Malaysia (Pheim Malaysia) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for alleged market manipulation. Just a day after the defence lawyer Senior Counsel Michael Hwang had asked for a key witness,
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    • 190 72 )38LIVE WOORI Investment Securities, a unit of the South Korean financial giant Woori Financial Group, is aiming to attract more investors from Singapore to invest in Korean equities. The company, which opened an operational headquarters in Singapore last year, is also planning to expand its
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    • 161 72 938 live UNITED States-based mega gym operator California Fitness has trimmed its operations in Malaysia and sold three of its fitness clubs in Kuala Lumpur to Celebrity Fitness. While the company's move has raised concerns over the fate of its Singapore gyms, California Fitness
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    • 426 72  -  DOMINIQUE LOH dominique@mediacorp.com.sg GOLD prices are set to rise nearly threefold from their current levels to U552,600 ($3,700) an ounce by 2014, according to Mr David Bensimon, managing director of investment consultancy firm Polar Pacific. Mr Bensimon, who has been researching historical prices of gold
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      • 56 81 $1.29 I Outperform CIMB keeps its rating and raises the price target to $1.50 from $1.37 after increasing the FYIO-FYII earnings-per-share forecasts by 9 to 10 per cent. It says higher profits are possible over next two to three years from its South Pacific operations as there is
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      • 57 81 $2.g8 Buy DBS Vickers maintains its rating and raises the price target to $3.50 from $2.82 after increasing the FYO9-FYIO earnings forecasts by 5 to 12 per cent to account for higher margins, as well as higher valuations for the water treatment firm's China portfolio in light of recent
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      • 92 81 63 cents I Outperform CIMB restarts coverage with a 90 cents price target, saying water treatment firm's win of 19 municipal projects in China in recent years is paying off, accounting for 29 per cent of IHO9 revenue. It notes that stock is attractive, trading at 7.5 times
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      • 19 81 Wednesday 2,569.93 v 1.02% Tuesday 2,596.39 A 0.13% Monday 2,592.90 T 1.89% Friday 2,642.80 A 0.02%
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      • 23 81 US$1 £1 i euro A$i RMi $1,438 ¥100 $1,556 $2,360 HK$ioo $18.57 $2,063 RMB100 $21.07 $1,211 RS100 $2,941 $0,408 RPio,ooo $1,423
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    • 446 81  -  ESTHER FUNG UOBAM Economy in the doldrums, but UOBAM sees bright prospects esther@mediacorp.com.sg DESPITE the uncertainties facing the Japanese economy, UOB Asset Management (UOBAM) has taken the bold move of stepping up its presence in the country. While most foreign financial firms have either exited the Japanese
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    • 269 81  -  KELVIN CHOW kelvinc@mediacorp.com.sg NATIONAL carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) has agreed with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus to delay the delivery of eight A3BO aircraft. The new schedule could see deliveries taking place between six and 12 months later than originally planned. "The revised schedule
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