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    20 1 TODAY Friday October i, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Friday October 2, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon HE WAS TRAPPED BUT...
    111 1 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A Singaporean man who was trapped under the rubble of a hotel in Padang, Indonesia, has reportedly been rescued and taken to a medical centre. According to CNN journalist Mark Philips, the Singaporean was in the hotel foyer when the quake struck. A video
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    Lock icon Readily to the rescue
    599 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN DISASTER RESPONSE Singapore teams gear up to help out typhoon, quake victims chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE If it was not bad enough that disaster in the form of Typhoon Ketsana swept across three countries this week, the Sumatran earthquakes ofthe past two days compounded
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    Oh, it's solely mio for EPL
    703 1  -  lAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE -There will be no two ways about it, if you are an English Premier League (EPL) fan you will need to get a SingTel mio TV set-top box by next August, if you are not already a subscriber. In
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      Lock icon Their race against time
      695 2 AGENCIES SUMATRAN QUAKE RESCUE Workers battle fatigue, dig through rubble bare-handed to search for survivors PADANG —Exhausted rescue workers at Ground Zero of Wednesday's earthquake clawed through mountains of rubble with their bare hands in a race to find survivors as Indonesia said it feared thousands
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      PM hopes to reveal decision on Jobs Credit on Oct 13
      398 2  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The vaunted role of women in Singapore—to address its population shortfall and raise workforce productivity is not in doubt. But questions remain about the support they are getting, going by a onehour dialogue last
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      Lock icon Citi, Oei Hong Leong reach settlement
      180 4 ESTHER FUNG SINGAPORE The keenly-watched lawsuit between business tycoon Oei Hong Leong and American banking giant Citi has been dropped. Said a Citi spokesperson: "Citi and Mr Oei Hong Leong have reached an amicable settlement, as a result of which Mr Oei will be
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      7,000 on stream in next 3 months
      485 6 NEW HDB FLATS Analysts mixed on whether move will temper resale prices ESTHERNG estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the economy picking up, so too have both demand for HDB flats and worries about their affordability. To allay homebuyers' concerns even as flash estimates yesterday showed
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      Bishan Park undergoes $76m facelift
      313 6  -  ONG DAI LIN dailin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One of Singapore's most popular parks is about to blossom —with a river promenade, cafes, themed playgrounds and diverse wildlife to give it vibrancy. This will be the new face of Bishan Park after the 35-metre wide canal beside it
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      Lock icon Pride and glory
      518 8 .AGENCIES ASIAN GIANTTURNS6O China puts on lavish show to signal global rise BEIJING As China celebrated its 60th birthday with a massive military parade and a spectacular pageant yesterday, President Hu Jintao used the occasion to remind the world that the one-time "sick man of Asia" has
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      SKYPARK GETS OFF THE GROUND
      71 10 The building of Asia's largest SkyPark started yesterday when the first piece of the 7,000-tonne Sands SkyPark was lifted 200m into the air. The 330-tonne steel structure will form the bridge between two of the hotel towers. Over the next three months, 13 other pieces
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      Ready to plead guilty, then ...
      367 10  - Ready to plead guilty, then ANSLEYNG IN COURT ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Self-styled property investor Calisa Cheong Mei Ing was in court yesterday to plead guilty to cheating, and to be sentenced. But Cheong, who faces 74 counts of cheating tenants of rent money and obtaining credit as an undischarged bankrupt, did
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      Lock icon Akan datang ... in 2010
      624 12  - Akan datang in 2010 CHERYL LIM CHANNEL NEWSASIA MEDIACORP FESTIVAL cheryll@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE MediaCorp's various media platforms were brought to life on stage yesterday in a twohour trade show extravaganza which showcased the different content its audiences and advertisers can expect next year. At MediaCorp Festival 2009, its advertising clients were
      CHANNEL NEWSASIA; PHOTOS: WEETECK HIAN, ANGIE NG AND ANDREA LEONG  -  624 words
    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        DRUG-TRAFFICKING SUSPECTS NABBED
        75 14 A pair of siblings were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of drug trafficking. Central Narcotics Bureau officers raided a Serangoon apartment used as a drug store after learning that a Singaporean man, 43, and his sister, 38, had replenished a drug consignment from a supplier in a
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        Lock icon THE HAPPIEST EMPLOYEES ARE ...
        69 14 THE HAPPIEST EMPLOYEES ARE CHANNEL NEWSASIA Employees working for the Government are happier than those in the private sector, according to an online survey. Civil servants scored 58.5 on the JobsCentral Work Happiness Indicator higherthan the average 55.9 among private sector workers. In terms of job function, those in education
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        Lock icon MEDIACORP BAGS TWO AWARDS
        160 14 CHANNEL NEWSASIA MediaCorp has won two awards at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) meeting in Mongolia. One was the Engineering Industry Excellence Award, given to MrTay Joo Thong, chieftechnology officer of MediaCorp, for the most outstanding engineering contribution made by an individual to the broadcasting industry
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        FINANCIAL HELP FOR NEEDY STUDENTS
        108 14 Some 600 needy students from special schools will receive extra financial help to pay for their transport, meals, medicine, textbooks, stationery and uniforms, thanks to the National Council of Social Service (NCSS). Based on a survey it conducted in January, it was estimated that 11
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        EADS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR HIGH-FLYERS
        62 14 EADS and the Economic Development Board are offering scholarships to PhD students under the board's first Joint Industry Postgraduate Programme in a bid to develop talent for the aerospace industry. Six students from the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University will be supported,
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      267 6 I 3 PRESIDENTS DID YOU KNOW I that President's Challenge 2009 hopes to raise $8 million to benefit some 37 beneficiaries? Donate online at www.pc.org.sg or SMS ***** with $2 (PC2), $10 (PC10) or $20 (PC2O) donations by keying in SMS Code<space>NßlC, example PC2O *****567A 1 SINUS m' m mm
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      263 10 Come and see what's cooking! _i_'-^^_. Agri-Food Veterinary w Authority of Singapore 'Eat Well For Less, Choose Frozen Meat' Challenge iA\\ The Agri-Food Veterinary Authority of Singapore \m\ fc\ (AVA) and Radio 100.3FM have jointly organised an f Er_\ 1 islandwide cooking competition to showcase the many ""I W J
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      Lock icon Policeman pleads not guilty to brutality
      290 18 AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian police officer was charged yesterday with beating an ethnic Indian who later died in custody, in a case that sparked an uproar over alleged police brutality. Police constable Vivekanandan Navindran pleaded not guilty to two counts of causing grievous
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      Lock icon Experts get to the bottom of things
      419 18 .GENCIES NOORDIN TOP AUTOPSY JAKARTA Terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top may have tried to conceal explosives in his anus, according to some experts who said this has become a new strategy used by terrorists to elude detection. They were reacting to comments made
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      Lock icon 'It's hell on earth'
      444 20 AGENCIES SAMOANQUAKE APIA Samoans sifted through the wreckage of their flattened homes, and told of being flung inland by a tsunami that ravaged towns, killing at least 150 people in the South Pacific. Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele's village of Lesa was washed away, like many
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      Lock icon Toll from 3 tragedies rises as Asia counts its dead
      235 22 AP MANILA Asia had little respite yesterday from a brutal storm, with warnings that the next tempest was en route to the Philippines while three nations counted their dead the toll reaching 383. Officials were preparing evacuation plans for thousands
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      Lock icon Iran, US in rare official meeting
      362 22 AGENCIES NUCLEAR SANCTIONS GENEVA The United States envoy, William Burns, met separately with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, in a rare official encounter. The meeting was believed to be the highest level contact since the two countries broke off diplomatic relations 30 years
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      Lock icon Woman's suicide by living will
      316 24 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH RIGHTTO DIE Doctors allowed her to die as they feared saving her would be vassault' LONDON British doctors allowed a young woman to kill herself because she had signed a "living will" that meant that they could have been prosecuted if they had intervened
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      Lock icon TOO SHORT A REUNION
      57 24 AFP Bitter cries, wails and lamentations filled the air yesterday as North Koreans, stretching out from windows of departing buses, said goodbye to loved ones from the South. A resumed reunion programme allowed 195 North and South Koreans to reunite with their 656 relatives for three
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      Lock icon South Korea 'must keep its guard up'
      202 24 AP SEOUL President Lee Myung Bak yesterday said that South Korea should strengthen its armed forces to cope with a continuing nuclear threat from North Korea despite recent conciliatory gestures. After raising tensions with nuclear and missile tests earlier this year, North Korea
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      Lock icon Film saves port
      241 33 i.AFP HERITAGE PRESERVATION TOKYO In a rare win for heritage activists, a Japanese court yesterday halted plans for a road bridge over an ancient port that helped inspire the animation hit movie Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. The court ruled that the impact would have
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        Lock icon NEW EARLIEST HOMINID FOUND
        109 33 AP The story of humankind goes back another million years with the discovery of Ardi, a hominid who lived in Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago. The nearly so-kg, 1.2-m tall female provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some common ancestor, probably 6 to 7
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        Lock icon LA TIMES, WASHINGTON POST BREAKING UP NEWS SERVICE
        105 33 AP The LosAngelesTimes and The Washington Post are breaking up their news service after 47 years, making it the latest casualty of the media upheaval driven by the array of alternative information sources on the Internet. The divorce takes effect on Jan
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        Lock icon ALQAEDA'S YEMEN LAUNCHPAD
        85 33 AFP AlQaeda's presence inYementhreatenstoturn that country into a base for terrorist training, a top United States official said on Wednesday. Mr Michael Leiter, director ofthe National Counterterrorism Center, said the group's regional affiliates were a growing threat. The group's Saudi and Yemeni arms announced in January their
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        177 34  -  Koh KahTiong EPL BROADCASTS Letter from WHEN SingTel mio TV clinched the exclusive rights to broadcast the Uefa Champions League in Singapore this season, I thought about the sizeable population of football fans who would not be able to catch the European matches
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      185 36  -  DRJAMES DOBSON BY SECURITY IN DEFINED LIMITS Children feel more secure and therefore tend to flourish when they know where the boundaries are. Imagine you're driving a car over Royal Gorge bridge in Colorado. And as a first-time traveller, you're pretty tense as you drive across.
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        833 38  -  MAYO MARTIN AFP funny people mayo@mediacorp.com.sg KNOCK, knock. Who's there? Judd Apatow. Judd Apatow who? Judd Apatow, the director of serious movies. Cue canned laughter. I Actually that wasn't the punchline. I The punchline is that it's true. *^^m After helming movies about aft 40-year-old virgin and a
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        259 40  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW FUNNY PEOPLE Equal parts drama and comedy, Judd Apatow's latest effort delivers genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg COMEDY is serious business, say the funny people in and behind Funny People. Adam Sandler is a-hole comedian George Simmons rich, lonely and, according to his doctor, dying. Having nobody to
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        298 40 MOVIE REVIEW CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS AS A kid, I loved the book Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs by Judi Barrett. It is entirely probable, then, that this review is completely biased. Then again, I can't imagine how anyone could dislike a movie in
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        265 40 GENEVIEVE LOH 3-5/5 MOVIE REVIEW TAKING WOODSTOCK IF YOU'RE hoping for a history lesson on the legendary Woodstock Music Art Fair, rent Michael Wadleigh's seminal 1970 documentary. Because Lee Ang's Taking Woodstock is less about the iconic concert itself (you don't see it at all!)
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        222 42  -  GENEVIEVE LOH MOVIE REVIEW SURROGATES genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg IN A futuristic world, a large majority of us will be living and experiencing our lives via "surrogates" almost perfectlooking robotic versions of ourselves (ornot, if you prefer) that we are connected with, body and mind, from our homes. The result
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        82 42 WWW.TODAYONLINE.COM/BLOGS STARGAZING We all know people who like to go to Taiwan for fun, but some famous Taiwanese have been popping over here in recent weeks. Hello, Jolin Tsai (picture) and Janet Hsieh! POPARAZZI Essential Listening: Seminal and influential albums that have shaped our world.
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      535 47 AGENCIES EUROPEAN FOOTBALL After poor show in Europe, Blues and Reds desperate to rock the Bridge LONDON The captains of Chelsea and Liverpool are trying their best to rouse the troops, ahead of the tasty clash between the two giants on Sunday. The Premiership
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      422 47 "AFP MANCHESTER Michael Owen will be out of the Manchester United team for up to three weeks after aggravating a groin injury in the 2-1 Champions League victory over Germany's Vfl Wolfsburg on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), but his absence from the
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      390 48  -  SHAMIROSMAN SINGAPORE NETBALL Nations Cup event has a world-class feel about it shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore will host the World Netball Championships from July 1-10, 2011, and the national team, currently ranked 15th in the rankings, aim to finish in the top 10. They have been competing
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      200 48 AP PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth have confirmed that their first-team squad have not been paid, but insist the situation will be resolved in the next 48 hours. Paul Hart's players and the members ofthe club's board did not receive their wages for September as anticipated on Wednesday. In
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      373 48 "AGENCIES COPENHAGEN Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took a leaf out of Barack Obama's electioneering manual to plug Rio de Janeiro's bid to host the 2016 Olympics with an emphatic "Yes we can" rallying cry a day before the International Olympic Committee
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      618 49  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL If Brunei club's record in S-League is expunged, then title will go to Warriors shamir@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Right now, SAFFC are wondering if they have already won a record fourth successive S-League title, or if they have two rivals with
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      462 49  -  SHAMIR OSMAN GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Geylang United v Super Reds Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm, live on Chs shamir@mediacorp.com. sg WITH the first leg ofthe RHB Singapore Cup semi-finals on Monday and international fullback Baihakki Khaizan leaving today to link up with his new
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      305 50 AP FORMULAi 2007 world champ only wants to drive for a title challenger SUZUKA Kimi Raikkonen is unsure if he will continue in Formula 1 after being ousted as a Ferrari driver, saying yesterday that it would require an offer from a team capable of challenging for
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      459 51 ARIELTAM THE number of new cyber threats reached more than 1.6 million last year, compared to over 20,000 in 2002. In fact, 7 million people were tricked into giving personal information to cyber crooks over the past two years. To battle the rapidly increasing
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        Lock icon GLOBAL RECOVERY STRENGTHENING: IMF
        205 58 AP The global economy is recovering faster than expected, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday. According to its World Economic Outlook, the world is poised to grow by 3.1 per cent next year. That is up from the 2.5 percent in the IMF's previous set
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        88 58 THE GUARDIAN The United States' biggest bank announced on Wednesday evening that Mr Ken Lewis will retire as chief executive and as a director on Dec 31. No successor has been named. A veteran ofthe financial services industry, Mr Lewis, 62, has worked for
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      330 58  -  DOMINIQUE LOH Channel NewsAsia dominique@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The commercialisation of clean energy technology could present a big opportunity for Asia, said industry players. "The clean energy industry globally is going to be the largest growth sector going forward," said Mr Mumtaz Khan, CEO of Middle East and
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      423 58 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH UK BANKS LONDON—Britain's biggest banks have agreed to a string of reforms governing bonus payments hailed by Chancellor Alistair Darling as an example to countries the world over. The Treasury announced on Wednesday night that five major banks Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland and
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      435 59  -  ESTHER FUNG UNITTRUSTS esther@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Unit trusts are back in favour among investors and the recent stock market rally has just boosted confidence further in these funds. Experts said unit trust performance scaled higher in the last three months in line with the upbeat showing in
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        62 60 $4.99 Outperform CIMB upgrades the developer from "Neutral", saying "improved property demand and prices have made valuations attractive again". It raises the price target to $6.17 from $5.02 to reflect increased average selling price estimates, factoring in greater optimism of property price recovery. It also raises the company's
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        60 60 72 cents Outperform CIMB initiates coverage with a $1.08 price target. It says its broad range of services, presence on the ground in Australia means that it is better placed than SGX-listed peers to benefit from expanding LNG sector there. Adds that Ausgroup is trading below historic valuations, on
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        89 60 $1.17 I Hold UOB KayHian upgrades from "Sell" but maintains the 95 cents price target. It says Cosco is inching closer to winning a second contract from Sevan Marine but notes "the headwinds of poor shipbuilding execution, potentially more order cancellations/ delays and an uncertain dry bulk shipping outlook
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        5-DAY STI CLOSING
        18 60 Wednesday 2,672.57 0.35% Tuesday 2,663.31 A 1.30% Monday 2,629.25 w 1.26% Friday 2,662.82 w 0.17%
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        25 60 Hang Seng 20,955.25 w 0.28% Nikkei 9,978.64 w 1.53% Shanghai Closed Seoul 1,644.63 T 1.70% Mumbai 17,134-55 A 0.05% Malaysia 1,208.35 A 0.52%
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        23 60 US$1 £1 i euro A$i RMi $1,413 ¥100 $1,570 $2,255 HK$ioo $18.23 $2,054 RMB100 $20.69 $1,241 RS100 $2,959 $0,407 RPio,ooo $1,467
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      218 60 AFP,TELEGRAPH America's wealthiest are getting poorer, losing US$3OO billion ($423 billion) of their net worth over the past 12 months, according to Forbes magazine's annual ranking. The 400 wealthiest Americans had total net assets of US$l.27 trillion as of last month, down from US$l.57 trillion
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      459 60  -  TAN HUI LENG PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY But analysts expect sentiment to dampen in the current quarter as Govt measures take effect huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Private residential property prices posted their steepest quarterly increase in 28 years, as the Property Price Index rose 15.9 per cent in the third
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      476 60  -  MAY WONG maywong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Investors still holding on to the failed Lehman Brothers Minibond notes may soon get some money back. Receivers of the Minibonds, who are partners of Price waterhouse Coopers (PwC), said yesterday that they have gained control ofthe underlying collateral through an
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