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    20 1 TODAY Thursday October 8, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday October 8, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    in the news
    88 1 3 There have been calls for doctors to be trained to detect, as well as be able to help, victims of spousal abuse. ■"I A Scientists are warning of l^rthe possibility of more earthquakes in other parts of Indonesia. £T F7 Tennis fans here can •J expect
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    Fussy or a real need?
    714 1  -  ESTHER NG BUYERS OF PUBLIC HOUSING 8 in 10 get a home on first try says HDB in response to gripes estherng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Do Singaporeans have an urgent housing need that the authorities are unable to meet, or do home seekers not know what they
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    Vietnam halts sand exports to Singapore
    740 1  -  TAN HUI LENG NAZRY BAHRAWI AND huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was deja vu for the building industry here, as Vietnam suspended sand exports to Singapore on worries that the pace of extraction would damage the Mekong Delta. The move comes just months after Cambodia banned
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  • NEWS
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      'He had a guilty mind'
      558 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT RENCI FOUNDER MingYi's purchases make his charity contributions seem Mess compelling 7: Judge weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS a criminal trial that spanned 21 days, and there was an air of expectancy yesterday in Court 19 that a suspense-filled verdict was imminent. In less than five
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      Lock icon ABOUT THE CASE
      133 2 LEONGWEE KEAT At the heart of the case is a $50,000 sum, recorded as a loan from Ren Ci Hospital to Mandala Buddhist Cultural Centre. This sum in fact went to Raymond Yeung, even though he was not an employee of Ren Ci or Mandala MingYi and
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      Doc, it's me again ... and again
      670 3  - Doc, it's me again and again ALICIA WONG SPOUSAL VIOLENCE Call for doctors to be trained to detect, help victims of abuse alicia@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It was her third or fourth trip to the emergency department for minor injuries, and while being tended to, the patient burst into tears. Concerned she
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      Playing the waiting game
      291 4 JAKARTA An outgoing minister, a media magnate, the youngest son of former President Suharto and a lawmaker were last night waiting to see who would come out tops in the race for the top post in Golkar, Indonesia's onetime powerful political party. Some analysts and critics
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      Lock icon Japan on high alert
      308 4 AGENCIES TYPHOON MELOR TOKYO —Japan is bracing for a direct hit from one of its strongest typhoons in years, as heavy rain and strong winds cut power to thousands of homes and tore roofs from buildings on its southern islands. Typhoon Melor, which is expected to
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      Lock icon Damage of at least $1m
      395 6  -  LEONGWEEKEAT SIGLAP MOSQUE FIRE Teen suspect charged with arson, family in shock weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE The family of the 14-year-old boy suspected of arson at a Siglap mosque on Tuesday was still in shock when he was produced in the Juvenile Court yesterday. When asked
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      New ranks, pay benchmark in SAF career scheme overhaul
      546 6  -  ANSLEYNG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When it was announced in May, details were scant. Yesterday, the Ministry of Defence revealed more about a new military career scheme possibly the first of its kind in the world that would see service personnel drawing salaries
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      Feer's appeal dismissed
      356 8  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal by the now-defunct Far Eastern Economic Review (Feer) in its defamation lawsuit involving Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. In a 204-page judgment released yesterday, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong said
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      Still fighting on
      406 8  -  LAN DE COTTA DOLLAH KASSIM ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Doctors treating Dollah Kassim revealed yesterday that the football legend suffered "some degree of brain injury" and is in a coma, following a heart attack at a veteran's match at Jalan Besar Stadium on Sunday. He also has pneumonia. The
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      Lock icon SAF team will help 'as long as there is demand'
      354 10  -  ZULOTHMAN IN PARIAMAN, WEST SUMATRA zul@mediacorp.com.sg IN THE town closest to the epicentre of the earthquake that rocked Western Sumatra last week, it would seem there is no end to the injuries that need tending. As early as Bam yesterday,
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      Lock icon Vendors to be vetted vigorously
      278 10  -  JEREMY KOH 938 LIVE SEX EDUCATION MOE invites applications from external providers jeremykoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Education Ministry (MOE) has released guidelines which external vendors conducting sexuality education programmes in schools will have to adhere to. Among other things, vendors must ensure that the teaching of
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      Include more sales points?
      394 12  -  ALICIA WONG SMOKING BAN alicia@mediacorp.com. ag SINGAPORE Supermarkets and places near schools and eateries are some outlets members of the public would like to see banned from selling cigarettes. And, if most of the respondents to a public consultation had their way, the smoking ban should
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        Lock icon COE PRICES UP FOR MOST VEHICLES
        97 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices ended higher for all categories except for big cars. The premium for goods vehicles and buses saw the sharpest rise of $6,692 to $21,692. The COE price for smaller cars, i,6oocc and below, rose by $612 to
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        GO GREEN, BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH BOX
        64 12 Take your own lunch boxto work every Wednesday that's a movement a group of undergraduates are trying to start. The nine Singapore Management University students visited food centres in the CBD yesterday to get vendors to take part. Participating outlets will sport a
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        Lock icon DUTY-UNPAID CIGARETTES FOUND ON BOAT
        134 12 938 LIVE It was a routine inspection, but when Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers tried to search the space behind him, the man yelled about the pain in his left leg. The craft on which the man, 44, and his 22-year-old female passenger had arrived
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        Lock icon PAS MAY SEEKTO POSTPONE BY-ELECTION
        141 14 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER The opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) said it may seek a court order to postpone polling for the Bagan Pinang by-elec-tion scheduled for this Sunday. PAS vice-president Salahuddin Ayub said yesterday the party has discovered the existence of what he described as
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        Lock icon US THREATENS TO DERAIL CLIMATE TALKS
        163 14 THE GUARDIAN The United States threatened to derail a deal on global climate change yesterday in a public showdown with China by expressing deep opposition to the existing Kyoto protocol. The US team also urged other rich countries to join it in setting up
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        Lock icon SOMALI PIRATES ATTACK FRENCH NAVY SHIP
        157 14 AFP Somali pirates attempted to storm the French Navy's 18,000 tonne flagship in the Indian Ocean after mistaking it for a cargo vessel, the French military said yesterday. The crew of La Somme, a 160-metre command vessel and fuel tanker, easily saw off the
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        Lock icon NEW RING DISCOVERED AROUND SATURN
        170 14 AFP Astronomers have discovered a new mega-ring around Saturn and believe it was formed from debris of the planet's small, distant moon. The largest ring identified so far in the solar system, the circle starts about 6 million km from Saturn and extends out by
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      Lock icon More quakes predicted
      342 14 AGENCIES INDONESIA AFTERSHOCKS JAKARTA Indonesia's leading scientific institute has warned that more earthquakes could hit Lampung, Bengkulu and South Sumatra, after last week's quakes in West Sumatra. "We are not trying to scare people. We are saying this so that people are alert and are prepared for
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      Lock icon 'YELLOW SHIRTS' MARK ANNIVERSARY
      99 14 AFP Thousands of Thailand's 'Yellow Shirt' protesters rallied peacefully in Bangkok yesterday, a year after violent clashes with police that rocked the capital, leaving two dead and hundreds injured. On Oct 7 last year, police fired tear gas into crowds of demonstrators from the People's Alliance
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      Lock icon Hacked Hotmail passwords: As simple as *****6
      257 14 AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO Some surprisingly simple passwords were found in Hotmail's stolen account data, which were published online last week. Two of the most popular were *****67 and *****6789. Mr Bogdan Calm, a security researcher who obtained a copy of the 10,000 stolen
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      Lock icon US aid package sparks criticism in Pakistan
      172 16 AFP ISLAMABAD Pakistan's Parliament will debate a US$7.5 billion ($10.6 billion) US aid Bill as criticism mounts that money aimed at helping the nation battle Islamist extremism comes with too many strings attached. US Congress last week voted to triple aid to Pakistan
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      Lock icon Villagers begin to return home
      420 16 AGENCIES SOUTH INDIA FLOODS TALAMARI (India) -Thousands of southern Indians displaced by a week of flooding have trickled back to their homes and farms to survey the damage left by a natural disaster that killed more than 300 people, officials said yesterday. The floods in
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      Lock icon Power from the dead
      200 19 AFP RECYCLING PROJECT TAIPEI A Taiwan crematorium plans to use exhaust from its ovens to power its air-conditioning system, officials said yesterday, in a move critics blasted as insensitive to mourning relatives. The Taipei Mortuary Services Office has invested U*****,000 ($336,000) on technology that recycles exhaust
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      Lock icon 'Greater Paris' on track
      127 19 AFP PARIS The French Cabinet gave the green light yesterday for a 40-station train line connecting Paris to the suburbs, setting in motion President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to create a "Greater Paris". The US$29-billion ($40.6-billion) project is scheduled to open in 2023. Government spokesman Luc Chatel
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      Lock icon Three win Nobel chemistry prize
      212 21 AP STOCKHOLM Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work on ribosomes has been fundamental to the
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      Lock icon EU's secret plans
      294 21 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH GLOBAL POWER AMBITIONS BRUSSELS The European Union (EU) has drawn up secret plans to establish itself as a global power in its own right with the authority to sign international agreements on behalf of member states. Confidential negotiations on how to implement the Lisbon Treaty
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      Lock icon Saudi man gets 5 years' jail for sex talk
      161 21 AP RIYADH The lawyer of a Saudi man who appeared to be bragging about his sex life on a television talk show says his client has been sentenced to five years in jail for his frankness. Mazen Abdul Jawad was convicted
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      Lock icon Is a 35-hour work week so hard?
      376 24 AFP FRANCE PARIS Short work weeks, enviably long lunches and vacations their American or Japanese counterparts can only dream of French labour conditions are well-known to be among the most generous in the world. But a string of suicides at France Telecom has
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      Lock icon The Carla effect has them on their toes
      316 24 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH PARIS French ministers are vying to keep up with President Nicolas Sarkozy's (picture) weight loss programme following reports that one Member of Parliament was told to shed weight if he wanted a top job. Under the influence of his wife, Ms
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      Lock icon Holidays are happy days, in the US at least
      188 26 AFP FACEBOOK'S GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS INDEX SAN FRANCISCO Social networking site Facebook is tracking how happy people are in the United States. Mother's Day was predictably upbeat, according to a Gross National Happiness (GNH) index graph on the popular social networking
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      Lock icon FOOTPRINT THAT DWARFS ALL OTHERS
      46 26 AFP French researchers said they had uncovered the biggest dinosaur footprints in the world, left by giant sauropods that may have weighed 40 tonnes or more. The prints, reaching 1.20 to 1.50 m across, were found in Plagne, near Lyon city.
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      Lock icon Website lets you play cop
      201 28 THE GUARDIAN LONDON Three men two IT professionals and a former restaurateur had an idea. There are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain. The average Briton is filmed 300 times a day, yet overall crime rates are rising. But what if the whole nation were
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      Lock icon WHERE CHINA LEADS, THE US FOLLOWS
      583 28  -  SIMON TISDALL THE GUARDIAN ANALYSIS Some fear Barack Obama is being too accommodating towards China CHINA did the Obama administration a noteworthy favour this week, persuading North Korea's eccentric godfather Kirn Jong II to cool it after months of name-call-ing, missile firings and a
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      Lock icon US 'making progress towards defeating terror'
      181 30 AP WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is touting the case of an Al Qaeda-linked Afghan immigrant who allegedly plotted an attack in New York as proof that the US intelligence community is making progress in their efforts to defeat the terrorist group. According to officials,
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      Lock icon Obamas' not cutting down
      538 30 THE NEWYORKTIMES USTROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN President said to be searching for a middle ground WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama told Congressional leaders on Tuesday that he would not substantially reduce American forces in Afghanistan or shift the mission to just hunting terrorists there, however he
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      412 36  -  Victor Sng Hoe Peng DECLINING STANDARDS OF ENGLISH Letter from THE controversy over former Miss Singapore World Ris Low's English has inevitably brought into focus the fact that schools here are not entirely blameless for the deterioration of Singaporeans' standard of English. In the education system
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      186 38  -  DR BILL MAIER BY NATURAL POTTY TRAINING Don't you love people who brag about how their little one was potty trained at 10 months, while your two-year-old is still in diapers? I've never understood why there's so much competition among parents to rush their toddlers along
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      219 38  -  Mary Tan PUBLIC ETIQUETTE Letter from I WAS at the food court in Raffles City Shopping Centre when I saw four well-dressed women casually tossing packets of tissue paper onto a table before heading off to get their lunch. Soon, two European tourists who had
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      135 38  -  Virdi Bhupinder Letter from I AM baffled by the lack of a state-of-the-art coach terminus in Singapore. The present start-off point for most overseas coach trips, just outside Golden Mile Complex, resembles a Third-World setup. You can even smell the stench of urine in
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        65 38 Today reader John Yap says the ships anchored off the East Coast pollute the air by frequently spewing black smoke. 'When the wind carries the smoke towards my apartment on the 15th floor of Laguna Park, I feel giddy and have to quickly close my windows,' he wrote.
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        595 40  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH ifc^ LIFE IMITATES ART Today's hottest acts tell us why they have loved Spinal Tap for 25 years christophertoh@mediacorp.com.sg THIS year, rock band Spinal Tap celebrated their 25th anniversary with a performance at the Glastonbury Festival and the release of their third alburn, Back From The
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      337 42 MEETTHE BAND Newbie Taiwanese duo could be the next big thing THE chaps who form Taiwanese rock duo Color Cola and Xiao Gang (picture) might be new to the scene, but they're not letting their relative greenhorn status stop them from taking over the world. Just
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      96 44 JAM HSIAO ACCORDING to the Mandopop singer, the title reflects his allconquering ambition in music, while at the same time expressing the unyielding love for the destined lover in one's life. But it's no namby-pamby album. The title track opens with its Bon Joviesque riff and chorus a la
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      180 44  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH CD REVIEWS SUMMER: FEVER I SODAGREEN THIS, the second act of Taiwanese rock band Sodagreen's "Project Vivaldi" a planned series of four season-themed albums a la Vivaldi's The Four Seasons builds on the sound of the band. While the previous album, Daylight Of Spring, borrowed heavily from
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      94 44 EASONCHAN IT'S remarkable how Eason Chan can just churn out the songs on this primarily Mandarin album with seeming effortlessness. Although ballads dominate the album only the guitar-driven Trouble Like This and the soul-funk of Why Are You Crying stay clear of that category Eason still manages
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      95 44 ANGELACHANG THANKS to the recent scandals and reports, Taiwanese singer Angela Chang's return to the music scene after two years has made her paparazzi fodder, but that shouldn't distract you from her new album, which for all intents and purposes, is a pop gem that offers something
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      322 46  -  GENEVIEVELOH CONCERT REVIEW STOMP 09: FRESHER FASTER FUNNIER! Stomp #s ingenious, slickly executed and irresistible concept never grows old genevieveloh@mediacorp.com.sg WHO would have thought that banging on pots, pans, rubbish bins and pretty much anything else you can get your hands on could
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      182 46 AFP CANNES (France) Reality television has grown steadily over the last decade, according to production companies and market watchers attending the MIPCOM entertainment industry fair here this week. But while contestants a few years back saw the shows as a springboard to fame,
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      867 48  -  SIMON TAN KENYA Go eco in safari country for a visceral, intimate view of animal drama traveller@mediacorp.com.sg MY PERCEPTION of Kenya as a quintessentially wild and untamed African country was reinforced the moment I was picked up from Jomo Kenyetta International Airport in Nairobi. "The journey to
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      230 51 AP A TOUR of the Capuchin catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, may be creepier than any story you may hear this Halloween. The 400 sq m underground cemetery houses some 8,000 exposed mummies, stacked ceiling-high in the corridors. Some lie in open niches while others are propped
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      585 52  -  MEIMEI LIN CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA Activities galore from sunrise to sunset traveller@newstoday.com.sg DONE all that has to be done in Sydney and Melbourne with a couple of days to spare? Venture on to the Australian capital of Canberra, a three-hour drive or 30-minute flight from Sydney, and a
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      356 53  -  ANNETTE TAN Fair Price now offers a quick fix for chicken rice, however you like it food@newstoday.com.sg Who doesn't love chicken rice? It's the quintessential Singaporean dish that's a familiar taste of home, no matter which part of the world you're in. And Fair Price
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      72 54 ON MEDIACORP PROJECT RUNWAY Channel 5,10pm In this fourth episode of the highly-anticipated Project Runway, designers have to create an eye-catching look for an industry event with guest Jennifer Rade, Marc Bouwer and Zoe Glassner. FOOD HOMETOWN Channel 8, 8.30pm With a list of top-rated artistes, this inspiring travelogue describes
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      568 56  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE FOOTBALL Ball is in Brunei FA's court as AFC say they have done all they can shamir@mediacorp.com.sg DPMM became the first foreign team to win domestic silverware when they lifted the League Cup in June, but just five games shy of
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      314 58 AGENCIES BUENOS AIRES Diego Maradona (picture), unhappy with interference in his job as Argentina coach, says he will review his position after their final World Cup qualifier away to Uruguay in Montevideo next week. Maradona said his appointment a year ago
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      228 58 AGENCIES PARIS Renault announced yesterday that Robert Kubica will join the Formula 1 team next year. The Polish driver will replace Ferrari-bound Fernando Alonso and partner Romain Grosjean of France. Terms of the deal and the length of the contract were not released. "I have a
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      248 59 AFP SAN FRANCISCO Michael Jordan will give world No 1 Tiger Woods his own space this week at the Presidents Cup golf matches, but the 14-time major champion has been able to rely upon his pal Jordan when needed. Jordan will serve as a
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      998 60 GLOBAL EQUITIES ASIA, with its relatively strong economic fundamentals, is likely to offer better investment opportunities following the larger selldown in global equity markets. In this article, UOB Asset Management's MARK TAN sheds light on investing in Asia: Asian stock markets have made
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      185 62 THEGUARDIAN LONDON The price of sugar on global markets has doubled since the beginning of the year and is close to a 28-year high as hedge funds and speculators jostle to bet on the possibility of an international shortage. For financiers seeking
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      519 62  -  WILLIAM PESEK ANALYSIS Gangsters point to how well the economy is doing JAPAN'S underworld can tell you a lot about what's happening in the legitimate economy. Gangsters are on the run as growth wanes and deflation worsens. Yet the oddest development by far involves yakuza members sitting
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      195 64 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Singapore dollar hit a one year high against the US dollar in late Asian trade yesterday, continuing its rise over the past eight months due to an overall weakness in the greenback. Analysts said the Sing dollar may
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      304 64 BLOOMBERG BANKING JOBS GENEVA EFG International, the Swiss private bank that culled 7 per cent of its wealth managers in the first half of this year, plans to keep hiring in Asia as rivals from Zurich and Geneva target the region. EFG will increase its 160-memberteamby as
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      180 64 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Urban Redevelopment Authority received 15 bids at the close of the tender for a 99-year leasehold residential site at Serangoon Avenue 3 yesterday. Intrepid Investments' bid was the highest at $221.2 million for the 13,877-sqm site, which was originally on the
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      365 66  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Company owners who wish to raise money from the public but do not wish to dilute their shareholdings may consider a dual-class share model which gives investors different voting rights. This was one suggestion put forth by Singapore Exchange (SGX)
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      303 65  -  RYAN HUANG CHANNEL NEWSASIA SIAS 10TH ANNIVERSARY Firms could do better in corporate governance: Minister ryanhuang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said that there is a need for investment product retailers to be more transparent. Investors should also be guided by the simple and universal
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      223 65  - They're hiring, but in HK CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Recruitment consultancy Robert Walters said that some financial institutions forced to consolidate their Asia-Pacific businesses have chosen to reduce their presence in Singapore. Such companies prefer Hong Kong because of its larger capital market and the benefit of having China nearby, the
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      84 65 SC Global Developments announced the debut of Seven Palms Sentosa Cove yesterday. With an average selling price of $3,300 per square foot, it is the priciest property in the district to date. The upscale beachfront project features 41 units I ranging from 2,700 to I 6,800 sq
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        54 66 34 cents Buy DMG starts call with 52 cents target price, based on 8.2 X FYIO price-to-earnings ratio. Says information and communication technology specialist and water treatment firm well-positioned to capitalise on increasing demand for integrated control, automation systems in buildings. Adds CNA may spin off water treatment
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        56 66 32.5 cents I Buy Kirn Eng Securities upgrades call from "Hold", raises target price to 38 cents from 24 cents after noting fashion retailer's improving free cash flow. Notes acute inventory, working capital management helped generate operating cash flow of $21.8 million in fiscal FYO9, with gearing reduced
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        81 66 $1.02 Buy OCBC Investment Research upgrades call from "Hold", citing emergence of value after stock's 20 per cent decline over last two months. Says entry of private equity fund AIF Capital as strategic investor bodes well for crane company. Raises target price to $1.15 from $1.13. FROM BROKERAGE
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        20 66 H Tuesday 2,611.89 A 1.09% Monday Friday Thursday 2,583-73 2,604.53 2,657.44 T 0.80% T 1.99% T 0.57%
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        22 66 JS$i :i $1,401 ¥100 Si.571 $2,228 HK$ioo $18.08 euro k$i !Mi $2,057 RMB100 $20.53 $1,245 RS100 $3,003 $0,410 RPio,ooo $1,487
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      478 66  -  CONRAD RAJ EXPANDING EMPIRES Millennium Copthorne plans rapid expansion for Middle East hotel business editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the area soaking in oil money, the Middle East has become the fastest growing region for Singapore property tycoon Kwek Leng Beng's Millennium Copthorne Group (M&C) hotel empire. Mr
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